Shownotes Transcript
In this episode, Commissioner Johnston explores aspects of current world conflicts that are in fact directly related to the right to life.
The first part of the program is an interview with author Dr. Steven Mosher, whose most recent book, Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is The New Threat To World Order),) is now reaching best seller status.
As a graduate student at Stanford in the 1970s, Dr. Mosher was the first Western social scientist allowed access to observe and document Chinese rural life under Communism. He was deeply alarmed by the now infamous forced-abortion policies being used to control China’s population.
His writings were instrumental in bringing these policies to light and to the awareness of the world. Dr. Mosher is fluent in several languages and travelled to various parts of China. He has been one of the preeminent experts on actual life under the Chinese communist government. Ironically, China has paid a price for this one-child policy and has reversed course to allow two, and now three children. Tragically, the impact of the government policy has convinced Chinese citizens of childbearing age to not have children, as the now prosperous Chinese culture has become self-absorbed and having children requires a lifestyle of some self-sacrifice.
But the Chinese problems are not merely domestic. As with many aggressive Marxist governments, China views its assertion over world order as a duty and it does not merely view Asia as its sphere of influence. It now has clear designs on global hegemony.
As with all Marxist governments, human life is still viewed as a commodity, and wherever the heavy boot of its government has settled, innocent lives are disposed of without apology.
Brian ends the program with a brief discussion of the coming election year and the cultural significance of war itself, with lessons to be drawn from Clausewitz and the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
The right to life in every American election year is a central issue. It is essential that it be fully understood before and during each election.