HENRY WAXMAN: CHINA'S BIGGEST PAWN

Congressman Henry Waxman represents the 29th district of California. This district contains the second highest concentration of Democratic voters in the country. From the wealth and power of Beverly Hills to the semen stained sidewalks of Hollywood, everything that is wrong with America can be found within its seedy borders. The people here have a disdain for traditional moral values and their desire for fashionable new moral standards--promiscuous sex and drug use are OK, but smoking cigarettes and failing to exercise are wrong.

It takes a special person to represent this liberal cesspool of moral-less mass and the13th term Congressman fits the bill. His socialist and communist ideology is shamelessly flaunted wherever he casts his shadow. His Congressional District office is filled with drably dressed workers from his Chief of staff, right down to the secretaries who all make the same pay. Waxman, is one of a handful of Congressional members who has put his signature on the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America.

This far out wacko group takes on a Marxist flair and believes in economic redistribution in order to achieve social and environmental justice. Waxman is convinced that the free enterprise system is the root of all evil and that the government can only salvage man from his own evil until utopia is reached. Such philosophical overtones to his oath of office are rather comical until you realize that they come from a ranking member of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

Waxman's dirty little secret

Waxman is a Communist bent on social issues including clean air, gun control, patient rights, etc. Perhaps his most notable virtue has been his stance on big tobacco. Unless the reader has been comatose over the last couple years, one couldn't help but notice this bald headed little jackass carrying on in rancorous rantings about the evils of the tobacco industry from time to time. He reached hero status with the public health agencies several times during this period after digging up internal documents showing that the tobacco industry lied to the American people. He went on to denounce house Republican leaders for harming the public health in favor of their financial backers in the tobacco industry.

In reality however, Waxman's public crusade against tobacco was an extraordinary example of political doublespeak and out right hypocrisy. While demonizing anyone who took campaign contributions from US cigarette manufacturers, Waxman was benefiting from a Chinese government-owned tobacco company. Ted Sioeng, a Chinese intelligence operative, has the exclusive distribution rights to Pagoda Red Mountain cigarettes in the US. This Chinese government-owned cigarette company, is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world. Sioeng, who gave over $400,000 to the DNC, is known be friends with Mochtar and James Riady. The Riadys who are also part of Beijing's intelligence network, own the Lippo Group. The communist Chinese used Sioeng's cigarette distributorship as a conduit to funnel money into the 1996 elections. Are things starting to become clear here?

Sioeng is well known to Waxman and the surrounding southern California districts. Sioeng, went on to purchase a Chinese newspaper in Monterey Park that proliferates Beijing's propaganda and uses it as another intelligence gathering pipe line. In the1996 Buddhist temple affair with Al Gore, we see Ted Sioeng sitting beside his honor. Early on in the Chinagate investigation, Kent La, a close business associate of Sioeng, wanted tell all to the Burton committee. Waxman was the one who lead the way in successfully blocking any immunity agreement for this key witness thus keeping him from freely testifying. Why?

Obstruction of justice on behalf of the PRC

The above scenario is just one of a litany of obfuscations and stonewalling that Henry Waxman has created in order to block the Chinagate probe. Since 1997, he has been one of the main figures in intimidating witnesses who command little English from testifying. A Congressional probe into the matter is now being mobilized along with a complaint filed last week by Judicial Watch. Waxman ,along with his co-conspirators, is suspected of intimidating witnesses with a scheme to use the Internal Revenue Service to audit and harass those who speak out against the Democratic administration. Waxman is also suspected of being instrumental in the use of boogie-man tactics. Instructing aides to make uncomfortable suggestions to potential witnesses on Waxman's behalf to win their silence is also being probed.

Former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung told Fox News in interviews last week he was coached on how to plead the Fifth Amendment before a 1997 appearance before the committee. He said Democrats sent his attorney a package of materials explaining how he could avoid testifying. Investigators are trying to determine if the panel's Democratic lawyers were responsible for the 122 would-be witnesses who claimed their Fifth Amendment privilege or fled the country, along with the charges already leveled at Waxman.

Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, a public interest group dedicated to fighting government corruption, filed a complaint last week against Waxman. Klayman stated that if the allegations against Congressman Waxman are true, he has violated the code of ethics for Government employees. Klayman went on to state, "that Chairman Dan Burton of the Government Reform Committee has continuously complained about Democrat obstruction of his investigation into the campaign finance/Chinagate scandals." A copy of Klayman's complaint was also filed with the committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

What underlying motive does Henry Waxman have to continue to promote the interest of Communist China? While loyalty to the present administration is certainly a factor, Waxman's obvious and obsessive coddling of the PRC to protect their interest is more than suspect. What exactly is Waxman hiding that he doesn't want to become known? We think we have the answer, but are afraid our conclusions will not be confirmed anytime soon. He has done a marvelous job in tactical politics, legal or not. We can only hope for a new Republican administration that will place an ethical Attorney General in charge and re-open this investigation. We demand accountability and justice for all who have been involved in this sordid affair, Henry Waxman is only the tip of the iceberg.