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STATEMENT ON ENERGY INDEPENDENCE & DOMESTIC POLICY

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Statement on Energy Independence

 

STATEMENT ON ENERGY INDEPENDENCE & DOMESTIC POLICY

Dear Elected Officials,

I’m writing to you today to emphasize the need for American energy to be prioritized amidst exorbitant gas prices that have impacted all corners of California and the rest of the country. Now is the time for solutions that innovate and relieve the financial burdens that American workers, families, and businesses are all facing.

The White House, however, seems to have different ideas.

In a recent letter to America’s largest oil and gas companies, President Biden notes that “many factors contributed to the business decisions to reduce refinery capacity, which occurred before [he] took office.” While it is true that some of the factors influencing oil production are out of the President’s control, the levels of production we are seeing today come as a direct result of the administration’s domestic energy policies.

Since its implementation in January 2021, President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the aEnvironment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis has had lasting effects on the oil industry. The order banned all new drilling on federal lands, which left many U.S. oil producers with no other option but to curtail production and deplete their existing oil reserves.

Additionally, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with their plans to update and enact new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which are examined every five years. While the government is in charge of reviewing NAAQS, states and local communities are on the hook for the cost of implementing them. Given that our air quality has continued to improve annually under current NAAQS guidelines, forcing communities to new adopt new standards at this moment in time would do nothing short of bankrupting them and curtail future energy production.

Now, with talks of a windfall tax, America’s energy sector is also in danger. As we’ve seen with the Carter administration, windfall taxes will only further disincentivize domestic oil production and increase American reliance on volatile foreign oil producers. We should not be revisiting old ideas that are proven to be ineffective — we need tangible solutions to the energy crisis, not rehashed ideas that do not work. 

President Biden does have the power to incentivize domestic oil production, but his current proposals will only serve to weaken the American energy sector. I hope that we can come to a more ideal solution before Americans are completely priced out of the energy market.

Respectfully,

Marc Ang

President & Founder, Asian Industry B2B

President, Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Orange County

CDC Just Verified Trumpian Claim “Cure Is Worse Than COVID Itself”?

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CDC just verified Trumpian claim “Cure is worse than COVID itself”?

by Marc Ang

Based on the CDC’s latest data update into Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there are 79,844 total incidents out of 329,021 cases. That is over a 24 percent chance incident rate. Yes, there are overlaps, but this is no small number, overall.

From Health Impact News, “[r]ecorded deaths following the experimental COVID-19 injections soared this week as the CDC added more data yesterday into the [VAERS], a U.S. Government funded database that tracks injuries and deaths caused by vaccines. While the information contained in VAERS is publicly available information, the corporate media continues to censor it, and anyone who dares to publish publicly available information from the U.S. Government is labeled as “fake news” by the “fact checkers.”The data released, June 11, 2021, lists 5,888 deaths among 329,021 cases of injuries following COVID-19 shots. There are also another 5,884 life-threatening cases, 43,892 ER visits, 4,583 permanent disabilities, and 19,597 hospitalizations.”

Last night, NPR released a piece to explain away this update as “conspiracy theorist” nonsense. Amazing how slanted this article is, and how they desperately want to explain away truth and common sense. And paint those who share the truth to be crazy conspiracy theorists, with no real data to back up such character assassinations. Why have a database to report concerns or possible issues and then not investigate? The entire premise that the information is invalid is based on the Ostrich head in the sand approach the government takes towards its own “reporting system.”

When the CDC announced that Americans can resume pre-pandemic activities without a mask when fully vaccinated, President Joe Biden praised the Corona virus vaccine campaign and proclaimed “It is a great day in America.” At a press event in West Virginia, First Lady Jill Biden mingled with actress Jennifer Garner and engaged in chat with various reporters and officials – all maskless.  When asked what this meant for his area’s residents, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said, “It means get vaccinated.  We feel free!”

Well, here’s a report from California, one of the six states that is not yet free, with the Governor flip flopping on the extent of restrictions. Officials here in our heavily blue state, where we have been locked down and masked up since March 2020, are taking these new guidelines under careful consideration before lifting any sort of restrictions.  For now, we are still fully masked in public indoors (and often outdoors) and urged at every turn to vaccinate.  Even being bribed to vaccinate, with sweepstakes promising lottery-level cash prizes.  As I write this, 36% of the CA population has been fully vaccinated; 52% has received at least one dose.  What about the other half? I personally spent a recent weekend speaking at an anti-vaccine rally at Los Angeles City Hall. Let me tell you why.

I am no stranger to the vaccine issue; I have been working on it for nearly two decades.  When I was in college I worked as a behavioral therapist for autistic children. At this job I became close to many of the families and the community at large.  One thing I noticed immediately was the number of families who insisted to me they had a normal kid one day and an autistic child, presumably for life, the next. They could easily pinpoint the day and the reason for this devastating diagnosis.

My heart truly went out to these kids, all of whom were being raised by educated, well-meaning and loving parents. It was hard enough to deal with this new reality and resulting upheaval in not only their kid’s life, but the entire family’s. Worse was the media and majority of the population, who turned them into conspiracy kooks. How wrong that was, to vilify parents already dealing with the harsh reality of a special needs child, while being shunned by much of their own community for speaking up about why this happened to them. I have never forgotten that.

Of course there was a rise in autism, because that generation’s kids were getting overly drugged and overly vaccinated. A century ago one vaccine was given to children: for smallpox. Today the average child gets vaccines to prevent 14 different diseases, as much as 26 inoculations and up to five at one time. I shared the stage at City Hall with an activist who insisted she had seen children who were given up to 69 shots in their short lifetimes; supposedly all necessary and duly charted.  Polio was eliminated from the western hemisphere by 1991; our kids are still routinely vaccinated for it. Why?

I have been asking myself these questions since I was a college student.  Years later, when I was attending graduate school at Columbia, I posted some thoughts on social media about what I’d personally seen about the dangers of vaccines.  I was shocked at the mob, online and off, who came after me.  Many friends who were committed liberals, previously respectful to my conservative views on any other issue, went crazy.  This issue, apparently, was where they drew the line. This was where I crossed into crackpot fringe territory.

I attribute this backlash to the brainwashing that is taking place in today’s schools.  We now have a generation of young people who are told science is all and to revere it, but they have no idea how to understand it. …

However you want to spin facts and figures, the vast majority of those who died from COVID were elderly and/or suffering from serious underlying conditions.  271 American children have died from COVID, according to the CDC. In 1952 3,145 American kids died during a polio outbreak, while more than 20,000 experienced paralysis.  Their schools were not shut down during the epidemic, and polio was eventually eradicated. What about the 24% increase in ER visits for mental health crisis among kids ages 5-11in 2020 over 2019, per the CDC? We will have to wait a couple of years for true figures to be tallied. The spike in depression and suicide among young people will be staggering.  Is this a case where the cure is worse than the disease?

And yes, by the way, I myself came down with COVID-19 in 2020.  For me, the symptoms were mainly a bad cough and loss of taste and smell. The illness was like recovering from a bad flu.  After a couple online visits with a doctor – telemedicine that was less than helpful — I simply lay in bed for a for a few days, treated myself with rest and lots of Vitamin D outside, and recovered… like the other 98+ percent of Americans who test positive for COVID-19.  No hydroquinone needed!

I hope you’re still with me.  I have my own beliefs about vaccines; I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. Whatever choice a person makes about COVID vaccine, I won’t judge or shun them. However, let me share with you some facts:

∙The vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna are about 95% effective, we are told, in preventing symptomatic illness. Please let me assure you that both companies – all big pharmaceutical companies — paid a great deal of money for these studies. I went through a PhD program, so I know a thing or two about reaching the desired conclusion for studies and statistics. There is manipulation of the data — where researchers can come to a certain conclusion or a particular number. They’ll stretch something a tiny bit, add or take away to the sample size to extrapolate.

∙The injections that all Americans are being urged to take are not FDA-approved; they are experimental products that are being distributed through the “emergency use authorization.” That is a conditional marketing authorization, meaning the product was speedily put out there for use in a public health emergency.  Pfizer’s own EUA (Emergency Used Authorization) that all who take the shot are required to sign says:  The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. This is tentative stuff folks, granted in a hurry with no view to long-term safety.

∙So what, exactly, is in these vaccines? Many Catholics, in particular, are concerned because it contains “immortal cells,” meaning those that were taken from an aborted human embryo and cultured in a lab.  Though Pope Francis got the COVID-19 shot, the issues surrounding the role fetal cell lines played in the vaccine’s development remain quite murky.

∙There are numerous documented adverse effects from COVID-19 injections, which include anaphylaxis, neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders, and other long-term chronic disease. Let’s stop right there. A person took the shot and might be feeling fine right now… but the long-term effects of this vaccine have not been studied. How could they have been in the mad rush to get it out? The vaccines were shoved through the process due to a panic on the part of the citizens.  Most vaccines go through clinical trials for ten years before being offered on the market.

∙Here are some of the less-common reactions people have had to the vaccine: Blindness and deafness.  Infertility issues. Older women in menopause, some for many years, who suddenly spontaneously get their periods again after receiving the COVID vaccine.  Fetal damage. Miscarriages and stillbirth. This is beyond worrisome. We the people are guinea pigs right now. Why don’t we stop focusing on the death count and worry more about the future “living in misery” count?

∙There are no contraindications for getting the vaccine. How many treatments or medications – and I am talking about something as innocuous as taking an Advil – come without contraindications? None!  Yet the virus is approved for pregnant women and young adolescents. This is simply irresponsible. The Utah mom in perfect health, who worked at a plastic surgery practice, who simply dropped dead several days after her second Moderna injection?  I believe if doctors had been a little more careful with contraindications before shooting an experimental drug in her, she might still be alive today.

So… what does the future hold?  Ominously, I believe vaccine passports are on the horizon. At the moment, only New York offers digital proof of vaccination, while the governors of Florida and Texas have banned them entirely.  The federal government says there will be no national vaccine passport… for the moment.  We are skirting dangerous territory. Those of us who have been locked down for a year or more want to travel and mingle freely once again.  Will proof of vaccine – and the shredding of our personal privacy concerning health matters – be the price we pay?

There is a meme making the rounds right now on the internet, a cartoon showing a kindly doctor speaking to a young woman patient.

DOCTOR: I’m sure a bright person like you will be taking the vaccine.

MOM:  Because I’m bright, I will not be taking the vaccine.

When I started in this movement, it was left-leaning. Here I am today, with people of all stripes coming together. There is a universal truth here. The COVID-19 vaccine is not for everyone, for many reasons.  Let’s keep our personal freedoms out of this fight.

Marc Ang is a community organizer in Southern California and the founder of AsianIndustryB2B (aib2b.org). He offers a fresh voice for the conservative moment, focusing on race relations and keeping a check on the media and political establishment. 

OPPOSITION TO THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY’S PROPOSED MANDATED ETHNIC STUDIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

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SUBJECT: OPPOSITION TO THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY’S PROPOSED MANDATED ETHNIC STUDIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

As an Orange-County based community education activist for more than a decade, I have watched the California Department of Education grow increasingly more arrogant, ideological, and beholden to special interests with each passing year.

This year, they have chosen to exploit cultural and political challenges in the African-American and Asian communities to introduce an Ethnic Studies curriculum. The California Assembly has also introduced AB 101, a measure mandating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement for high school students in the state. 

The danger and insidiousness of such a graduation requirement are already widely apparent, as the Ethnic Studies curriculum has already been implemented in many schools. Here in Orange County, a seventh grader attending Oak Middle School in Los Alamitos came home with an assignment based on a Huffington Post op-ed titled “Why I’m a Racist.” 

Parents and concerned citizens are rightly angry and have expressed their outrage, including through protest rallies organized by our organization. 

While we have no issues with ethnic studies in general, the current Ethnic Studies mandates in California schools have become a vehicle for special interest groups to pursue fringe politics at the expense of our students’ education. In practice, the curriculum is taking valuable class time away from important subjects like math and science, in which kids are currently failing miserably. In Los Alamitos, once one of the best school districts in the state, only 45 percent of students are meeting grade-level standards in math.

Before such grave challenges, AB 101 asserts that race is the fundamental determinant in American life, and seeks to propagate ethnic studies teachings about discrimination and prejudice as dictated by the radical edicts of Critical Race Theory. Emphasizing equity for some over equality for all, this school of thought runs counter to the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and American history. This is not what we should be teaching our children.

Certainly, this country and California have made mistakes against racial minorities. We are not a perfect system or society. Throughout our history, we have failed, repeatedly, to treat all people as equals in all aspects of life.  

Our mistakes occurred when we failed to live up to the values and precepts embodied in the country’s founding documents, such as the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Those wrongs have been and will continued to be righted by returning to fundamental American principles.  

Our history teaches that this country, and its education of the next generation, should not be obsessed with race as the Ethnic Studies curriculum or AB 101 graduation requirement is, but should be focused on the concepts, values, and goals of the Founding Fathers who proclaimed that all are created equal. Americans of different racial and ethnic heritage have demonstrated that they can achieve success and equality if we uphold the U.S. Constitution. Those suffering hostile discrimination have used the U.S. Constitution, their rights, their character, and hard work to overcome bad laws and unfair treatment. That is the lesson we should impart to California’s students.

Therefore, we oppose AB101 unequivocally. It unnecessarily stokes racial divisions and conflicts and is based on a wrong-headed understanding of race, equality, and prejudice and ignores that Americans of all colors have fought to extend equal treatment and opportunity to all. 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Chinese American Citizens Alliance Orange County urges 

  1. California elected legislators to VOTE NO on AB101; and
  2. California voters REJECT AB101.
  3. We invite other organizations to sign on to this letter.

DATED: 6/4/21

C.A.C.A. Orange County

President

Marc Ang

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Petition to Focus FSD/FJUHSD Back on Academic Achievement Instead of Racial Divisions

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Sign On To Letter Opposing AB101
Petition summary and background:
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is opposed by 75% of people who learn about it. However, it has now become the foundation for recommended curriculum in many school districts through Sleeter’s and tolerance.org’s “Learning for Justice” guidelines. Ethnic studies curriculum and the state mandate should NOT be a vehicle for CRT, but it functionally is. The recommended curriculum undermines the stated goals of promoting ethnic studies and diversity, but instead fosters division and racial conflict, as well as promoting low self esteem by playing into victimhood and targeting whites, labeling kids as inherently racist.

Action petitioned for:

We, the undersigned, urge the legislature to oppose AB101 and present a better ethnic studies curriculum by first 1) observing school districts who have adopted the Sleeter curriculum and its negative effects, and to 2) focus back on academics, such as promoting Honors and AP Math and Sciences, to uplift our students’ self esteem through true merit-based achievement.

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Pragmatism vs. Ideology – Why Rule of Law Should Not Be Political

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Pragmatism vs. Ideology – Why Rule of Law Should Not Be Political

By Marc Ang

In 2016, I was a victim of crime. This came shortly after the passage of Prop 47 when , certain violent and property crimes increased due to lighter sentencing. For me, the result was having my  pickup truck stolen. Twelve days later it would be found stripped apart in Compton. Sadly, this was a statistic all too common in the city of Cerritos. Older vehicles were stolen due to the fact property crimes (especially those under a certain dollar amount) were hardly ever prosecuted. While thankful to not be the victim of a more serious crime, I can still clearly remember the pain I felt, losing some personal possessions, like my favorite pair of bowling shoes and snow boots and the cherished suit I had just picked up from the dry cleaners that was a treasured gift from my now deceased father.

While the loss I felt paled in comparison to those felt by those who have lost loved ones, the common denominator remains — rule of law must be enforced. Recently, there have been moves for a more “compassionate reform” to the prosecution of crime, but where is the compassion to victims of crime. Where is the notion of personal responsibility and holding habitual criminal offenders accountable for their actions?

In a Press Release issued by Criminal Justice Legal Foundation President Michael Rushford, he compared crimes reported in 1992 with 2011, when there was tougher sentencing for habitual felons.  There were 932,996 (45%) fewer of the seven major crimes, 190,681 (55%) fewer violent crimes, and 2,129 (54%) fewer murders. “That’s almost one million fewer victims when we were enforcing tough sentencing.” 2011 was also the year that repeat offenders did not receive increased sentences and “low level” crimes such as property theft or drug offenses had reduced sentences. This leniency extended to many theft and drug crimes not even being reported, creating a culture of fear and complacency in not only the inner cities but also suburban enclaves like Cerritos, which I personally experienced.

So why are we going backwards? Because we seem to forget about real data and results in this day and age. It is a well-documented fact that stronger sentencing deters crime. Isn’t prevention the best cure?

But we have an ideological District Attorney that is now refusing to prosecute crimes, especially misdemeanors. Some of these misdemeanors were felonies at one time, but now crimes just continue to redefined and the threshold for a felony only increasing to the benefit of the criminal. Not only are we experiencing lighter (or no) sentencing, but on his first day in office, Gascon went against the will of the voters, who voted to retain cash bail (No on 25), by a 56-44 landslide vote, just two months before.

The practical reality is sentencing now doesn’t fit the crime, especially with repeat offenders. This revolving door of criminals (who now get seen with “fresh eyes”) actually go out and commit more crimes, some not even reported, especially property crimes against businesses just forced to take the loss. This was only further compounded in the case of the inmates released into the streets due to coronavirus and were swiftly readmitted after they committed crimes once released. 

Rocky Lee Music was charged with carjacking a Prius about 40 minutes after he was released, and then abandoning it to carjack another person. Owen Aguilar set nine fires less than a week after his release, including setting fire to a homeless man’s tent. Another man who was charged with a series of school burglaries was released without bail, but was quickly rearrested after another series of crimes which included stealing 23 cars from a car rental agency.

Now, violent 17 year-old repeat offenders are tried as juveniles. At the same time, Gascon is encouraging motions to release any defendant that has served 15 years, regardless of the crime they committed. This cookie cutter approach, with an overarching leniency is advocating for the criminal.  Especially in light of how he treats victims, which he ignores, or downright insults, as is in the case of the mother of Joshua Rodriguez, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Instead of showing empathy, he removes sentence enhancements, ignoring the brutality of the crime, and complained that the victim’s family couldn’t “keep their mouth shut”.

Even the Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, a fellow Democrat, has come out to support the recall effort against Gascon. This is not a partisan issue. Republicans, Democrats. and Independents all deserve an equitable enforcement of the law and the safe in society —  that is peace through strength of law enforcement. Sheriffs  can make all the lawful arrests, but if the District Attorney is not prosecuting the criminals, they will be in jail and out the next minute, committing those crimes again. It’s really that simple.

Watching all the incidents of crime on Asians throughout the country, it is especially important for me that our Asian cities remain safe and we do everything we can to prevent any more attacks from happening. That is through strict consequences for criminal behavior. Cerritos, where I was a victim of crime, was an Asian city targeted by “systemic” incidents.  So are cities like Arcadia and Diamond Bar, where property crime and burglaries are so commonplace because many criminals target households where people are at work and know that cash is hidden under mattresses at times.  This is why neighborhood watches and community partnerships with law enforcement is key.

Can we put our partisan differences aside to work together on this common community issue to foster safety?  Leniency on crime never works. Gascon isn’t working for anyone but the criminals. It’s time for real solutions and real criminal justice reform, with a focus on results.

Marc Ang is the President of Asian Industry B2B (aib2b.org) and co-chair of the “Recall Gascon Now” campaign (recallgasconnow.com), a local Southern California conservative activist and is working on his book “The Minority Retort”. As a thought leader in the Asian community, he has been quoted extensively by national and local media outlets, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News, Redstate, Breitbart, CBS, NBC, ABC, One America News, and many more.