Nearly 300 residents from Deerpark and surrounding communities learned about the widespread infiltration of American society by the Chinese Communist Party at an Oct. 27 seminar.
The infiltration is omnidirectional and at all levels, impacting even small towns like Deerpark and Mount Hope in western Orange County, New York, according to experts at the seminar.
Chris Chappell, host of the popular YouTube channel China Uncensored, told the audience that the clearest example of the broad reach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the cover-up of COVID-19, which significantly altered every American’s life.
He added that the Chinese regime was able to cover up the pandemic in the early stages because it had infiltrated influential health organizations, universities, think tanks, and political spheres in America and around the world.
“If we had known in December 2019 about the pandemic, there was a whole lot more we could have done,” Chappell said. “Lives would have been saved, we wouldn’t have had to go under lockdown, [and] jobs wouldn’t have been lost.”
Westtown resident Sonny Becker lost his job as a sanitation police officer in New York City after he refused to follow the pandemic vaccine mandate. He found the seminar eye-opening.
“It is important that they keep doing this, keep telling people about what’s going on and what to do about it,” Becker told The Epoch Times. “The infiltration is at every level. We have to fight.”
He bought the book “How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling our World” at a similar seminar in July and just finished volume one.
The book, authored by the editorial team of the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” maps out communism’s advance into all facets of American society and beyond.
“One of the interesting things I read in that book is how in China and other communist countries, the state supersedes all the laws, the courts—everything—and that really looks a lot like what New York City was doing with the vaccine mandate,” Becker said.
“The city just does what it wants. It is just that overarching governmental rule.”
Port Jervis resident Maria Esling has experienced firsthand the brutality of communism. Her family was persecuted under dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
TikTok and the CCP’s International Police
Simone Gao, an independent journalist and the host of the investigative reporting program “Zooming In,” warned the audience of the danger of Tiktok, a popular phone app owned by Chinese company ByteDance.She said the app collects user data for surveillance purposes and pushes communist propaganda in subtle ways.
“The Chinese way of collecting data is different from the American way. They collect every single [piece of] data, and there are no limitations,” Gao said.
Born and raised in China, Gao once interned at her home country’s largest state-run television station. Shortly before she left for the University of Southern California for further education, she was asked by a Chinese think tank to collect information about America; she refused.
Kay Rubacek, an award-winning film producer and author of “Who Are China’s Walking Dead?”, informed the audience about a CCP-operated police station in New York City.
“They require their police officers to follow the CCP law, which is not like our law here,” Rubacek said. “They‘ll say to [Chinese dissidents], ’If you don’t follow what we’ve asked you to do here—say in New York City—your child in China will not go to school, you will lose your medical benefits, or you won’t have your house.’
“Some of the people they target may be Chinese Americans. They are targeting American people on American soil.”
Port Jervis resident Kathy Riordan was shocked to learn about the CCP police station at the seminar.
Local Chinese Communities
Riordan said the event also helped her to get to know the growing Chinese community in her area.“I heard many of them came here to get away from the Chinese Communist Party. It makes me feel better that we are all on the same side,” she said.
Otisville resident Dan Hall echoed the sentiment.
Like Riordan, Hall has noticed over the past few years a growing number of Chinese residents moving to Otisville and Mount Hope.
Out of curiosity, he’s attended a few local events hosted by the Mount Hope Chinese Association, including the Oct. 27 seminar.
“It is kind of interesting to know their culture and why they are coming here,” Hall told The Epoch Times. “I know many of them are Falun Gong practitioners persecuted for their faith in China by the CCP.”
Strengthening Communities, Restoring Faith
Rubacek said that one way to counter infiltration is to strengthen local communities such as Deerpark.“The founding of ‘one nation under God’ happened here; it didn’t happen anywhere else,” she said. “It is really special. But we’ve been worn down and given everything away to big government, which is exactly what the CCP wants—they want us to feel we can’t do anything without the government.
“But if we strengthen our communities, our families, places like this, that is what the CCP doesn’t want us to do, and that’s what socialism doesn’t want us to do. Communities are their biggest roadblocks.”
Gao also said that restoring tradition and faith would counter the CCP’s infiltration of American society.
