Colonialization as defined by Lexico: “The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.” The term derived from Latin by the Romans but the idea has existed from the beginning of time. The Egyptians often captured or enslaved surrounding nations or tribes 5000 years ago. The Israelites captured and took control of the Canaanites. The Greeks and Phoenicians took control of barbarian tribes for agricultural needs over 3000 years ago. Alexander the Great extended Greek authority to India 2500 years ago. The Romans subjugated the whole of the landmass surrounding the Mediterranean Sea 2000 years ago. The Muslims colonized large swaths of the Middle East beginning 1400 years ago and even crusaded into Spain. Let us not forget the actions of Great Britain, France, Portugal and Spain 500 years ago during their period of colonialism. These countries colonized much of the known world. The list of colonial possessions by these countries is excessively long for this article but can be viewed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism. Portugal subdued parts of South America, India and Africa. Spain conquered Mexico, central and south America and once controlled the Louisiana Purchase. The French formed the Louisiana Purchase, and Canada, and colonialized the Caribbean Islands, parts of Africa and parts of Asia. The main colonizer 500 years ago was Great Britain beginning with North America, Australia, large parts of Africa, the Caribbean Islands, India, and parts of Asia. China and Japan were never colonized; however, the British did control Hong Kong for approximately 100 years. China did colonize Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and Tibet. The United States was a late comer to the colonization phenomena. The United States colonized the American Indians with the help of the French and British, of course, but also Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam. Most nation states freed themselves of their imperialist colonizers by the end of World War II.
Why should we look at the history of colonialism? If colonialization of other peoples existed from the beginning of time, is it a “good” for humanity or an “evil”? Does colonialism still exist today? Let us examine the last question first. Most nation states have freed themselves from their colonizers but there are still countries colonized. Mainly, they are small islands. There are 61 colonies or territories in the world. Eight countries maintain them: Australia (6), Denmark (2), Netherlands (2), France (16), New Zealand (3), Norway (3), the United Kingdom (15), and the United States (14). https://www.infoplease.com/world/world-statistics/how-many-countries For example, the United States controls American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Wake Island. For the most part, world colonization has ended. Most peoples of the world refuse subjugation by foreign powers. The history of independence and freedom provided by the experiences of the United States has cemented the rights of life, liberty and happiness in the human psyche.
     Yet colonization has reared its ugly head again, just under another guise, economic colonization. Ironically, economics has always been the underlying reason behind colonization, but the exploitation was always done by physical occupation. Truthfully, colonization has always had economics as its main purpose. The imperialist powers overtook foreign peoples to drain their wealth and to capitalize on their human productive power. So let us examine the first question. Is colonization a good or an evil? The answer is simple. It is good for the colonizer but evil to those colonized. Traditional colonization always placed those subject to its dictates under some form of physical domination or subjugation. The American Indians are a prime example. Tribes were forced from their lands. Many were massacred. Eventually the Indian population of the United States was forced to live within reservations carved out of their previously owned lands. Colonialism produces humiliation and often a loss of identity. Economic subjugation was a given. Colonizers took land and goods and whatever else they wanted from the subjugated and often by force if necessary.
     The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is Chinese colonialism wrapped in economic warfare. This initiative is classic colonialism minus the physical subjugation. The nation states of the world and those subjugated will not stand for a military invasion and occupation by the Chinese as happened historically by colonizers. However, economic subjugation is more palatable and easily disguised. BRI’s objectives are officially to “promote the economic prosperity of the countries along the Belt and Road, promote regional economic cooperation, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations, and promote world peace and development.” https://www.nbr.org/publication/a-guide-to-the-belt-and-road-initiative/. Unofficially, the purpose of BRI is to colonize the entire world. China needs the resources of other countries to fuel its economy, to stabilize its businesses and to improve the livelihood of its people. The United States has been thoroughly colonized by China, economically. China has bought its way into US businesses and stole much of our technology. China allows our greedy corporations to move production overseas to provide wages for the Chinese. US consumers buy these Chinese produced products at elevated prices. The cycle feeds upon itself and perpetuates until whole segments of our manufacturing base is controlled by the CCP. But the Chinese colonization model of the United States, put in place by China for some 25 years now, does not work for smaller economies in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America, thus the need for the BRI. The United States only recently refused to surrender its natural resources, seaports and rail lines, but under-developed countries will eagerly mortgage these resources to China. These poor nations freely mortgage their minerals, fossil fuels, agricultural commodities, forestry and fisheries when enticed with large amounts of capital investment. The Chinese exploit local labor with cheap wages and dangerous working conditions. The Chinese disguise these “capital investments” in the form of loans with exorbitant interest rates. These poor countries are desperate for cash. For example, China lends the poor country hard cash in exchange for a seaport or bauxite mine. When the poor country cannot repay the loan, the Chinese government forecloses on the property and then becomes the owner of the asset. The process is a legal form of colonization. The CCP acquires prized assets within these countries and never has to fire a shot and never has to become burdened with the administration of a foreign government and its peoples. The United States cannot prevent this method of Chinese colonization but we can warn and advise these poorer nations of the intentions of the Chinese. Eventually, these poorer nations will realize that they have become colonized and will find the need to expel the colonizer by force. Of course, a quicker and much easier solution to current world colonization by the CCP is that the citizens of China rise up and shed their communist masters. And to think the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus has given many of us the time to ponder these things.
WRITTEN BY
Kent Anthony Mayeux
Kent is a husband, father, grandfather, retired attorney, writer and aspiring apologist. He wrote five self published books and wrote a blog.

Coronavirus Ramblings
Kent Anthony Mayeux
Apr 22, 2020·6 min readMy frequent bouts of melancholy locked between these four walls because of the pandemic allow my mind to relieve its boredom with thoughts one would usually never bring to fruition. Thoughts are things too and deserve our attention once and a while. If we paid more attention to our emotions (the area of our soul where thoughts derive), one might discover that problems, both mentally, physically and financially, are much more easily recognizable and eventually solvable than the burdens continually heaped upon ourselves while running around in this frantic work-a-day world. Coronavirus provides the time to dwell on these figments of our imagination, thoughts, thoughts of love and hate, thoughts of good and evil and thoughts of freedom and confinement. Thoughts materialize from facts, i.e., perceived reality, whether that reality is subjective or objective. Let us examine a few random facts for our reading pleasure, some real and quantifiable and some idiosyncratic and one-sided.
Philosophy was not my favorite class in college. The professor always started the semester from some obscure point within the lineal history of the development of the science of philosophy. The hundreds of years of philosophical thought were hidden from view and the class was lost within a huge dark forest the entire semester on a trail from which we were dropped. Many call philosophy a science but this branch of metaphysical though is more theory than mathematical certainty. In any event I was always more confused about my thoughts of “being” and “from which I came” at the end of the semester than the start. By the time the semester had ended, I was dumbfounded. Philosophy, I imagined, would not be a good major in college and there began my decline in thoughts.
Has anyone ever noticed the hair length of these politicians on TV during the coronavirus? I was recently tempted to get my wife to cut my hair but I remembered how I treasured my long locks to my shoulders in high school. The thought of barbers, back then, frightened me. By my twenties the length gradually grew shorter but with much disdain and trepidation. The older I got the more closely I conformed to societal norms and the barber was eventually trimming my hair above my ears. Now I only get to think about the increasing size of my bald spot and my receding hairline. Oh, how I long for the days of my youth, but the thoughts of those yearnings are for another day. We need to open salons and barbershops. One never appreciates the value of salons until your hair length is unmanageable and there is no one to offer a haircut.
Here is an intriguing thought, the death toll of the coronavirus in China. Trump, during his daily MAGA rally on April 18, 2020, cast doubt on official Chinese figures showing that China has suffered just 0.33 deaths per 100,000 people as a result of the coronavirus. “The number’s impossible,” he said. “It’s an impossible number to hit.” The United States, according to a chart displayed at the briefing, has 11.24 deaths per 100,000 people while France has 27.92 and Spain has 42.81 deaths per 100,000 people. Can China, the epicenter of the Wuhan virus with 1.8 billion people in the country, suffer a death rate of .33 per 100,000 people? That math equals to one person dead out of a group of every 300,000 people. The Chinese coronavirus numbers seem contrived and subjectively manipulated. Could it be possible that China manufactured the virus, and, before it was released, also manufactured a vaccination to keep its death toll low? What an evil thought.
How about this obscure thought. Don’t we always like to think that people are spying on us? Well not really. Such subjective thoughts might classify oneself as cuckoo. Nevertheless, I ponder these thoughts often. We are all familiar with the thought police- Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google (FAAMG). They track our every move and listen and record all of our conversations. These five companies track every step we take and place we visit. All of this gleaned information is stored in huge databases (the Cloud). They store our locations, our phone calls, our text messages, our email messages, our internet browsing histories, our instant messages, our pictures and recordings, our vacations, our shopping trends, our business travel and even the documents we create. On top of that, they create Apps that access this information and collect information that is even more detailed. At least these companies are “American” companies. In this age of information and disinformation, China and Russia lead the way in influence peddling and attempts at control of our thoughts. What evil thoughts when faced with such a stark reality.
Here is a thought about the internet. Has Information dissemination reached its peak? Unfortunately, for the baby boomer generation, it has only just begun. Tech is turning to 5G. Information will stream wirelessly at a much larger quantity and speed. Millennials and Gen X, Y and Z will experience an immediate future that took 100 years for the boomers to reach. What is next? AI will bring self-driving cars and planes, personal passenger drones, robots to wait on us and clean the house, Wi-Fi TVs connected to the net, phones and laptops connected by texts and more work from home. Thoughts, facts and information have become immediate. Information dissemination is good. But does it come with a cost? Tech has become a drug for our children and they will not live without it. We cannot even imagine what the 6th and 7th generations of wireless communication technology will bring. The Jetsons would be envious. “I’m home! What’s for dinner, honey?” Be grateful for the homes we do have to wait out this horrible invisible enemy. Stay-at-home orders have brought self-reflection and closeness of families and thoughts of love despite the internet.
How about a thought on economics? The coronavirus brought to the fore economic lessons I learned in college. China has gobbled up our entire manufacturing base, even Smithfield Foods, one of the largest meat packing plants in the USA. Moreover, China is closing the plants in the USA because of the coronavirus. Can you think of what China could have done to us if Trump was not as diligent? China stole all of our hi-tech knowledge, China makes all of our medicines and China controls our food supply. China controls just about every aspect of our life and we were completely unaware of the facts before the coronavirus. If our country had drifted into open insurrection and rebellion among our own citizens within our borders because of the Wuhan virus, we may have all been speaking Chinese within the next two years. The economic lesson we must learn from this disaster is that globalism is not the answer. Made in the USA must become more than a slogan but an economic reality. Buy American; avoid made in China, grown in China, raised in China or caught in China. Economic independence may be the difference between freedom and confinement.
A final thought. AOC and other alt left progressives are running around the country and celebrating the closure of businesses due to coronavirus, especially businesses in the oil and gas industry. I can never understand the hatred for United States corporations and small businesses by the left. These progressives deride “corporate greed” and “corporate welfare” as something to despise. I cannot understand the thinking of a liberal. Businesses and corporations provide millions of jobs to Americans. These jobs in turn allow Americans to provide a roof over their head and put food on the table. Who else will provide this sustenance, big government? Communism, where everything is owned and controlled by the government and its dictator, foments hate. Our free economic system allows us to become self-sufficient. It allows us to open our own businesses or seek jobs. In turn, large and small businesses alleviate the need for government handouts. If these progressive “government employees” ever personally created a job, they would understand the importance of the nature of the business employer- employee dynamic. The coronavirus should provide an economic lesson to the progressives, especially the Paycheck Protection Program, but Progressives will always believe in big government, no matter the benefits of American business. Thoughts of going back to my job ring freedom in my mind.
Coronavirus is a thought I would rather forget.
WRITTEN BY
Kent Anthony Mayeux
Kent is a husband, father, grandfather, retired attorney, writer and aspiring apologist. He wrote five self published books and writes a blog.

Kent Anthony Mayeux
Jun 23, 2020·3 min read
​Have you ever examined Ephesians with the distinction of Jew vs gentile in mind? The “saints” Paul addresses in the first chapter are the converted Jews for Christ, chosen “in Christ, before the foundation of the world.” The Jews were the chosen race of God, chosen by the Word at creation. The Jews were the chosen race per the Old Testament. God made covenants with the Jews. God chose the Jews to bring salvation to the gentiles in due time (during His history of the world). The saints in Ephesus and around the Mediterranean were the Jewish apostles and disciples of Christ, those Jews who accepted Christ as their savior. Then Paul distinguished the gentile Ephesians “13 in him you too were called, when you listened to the preaching of the truth, that gospel which is your salvation.” Christ first called the Jews and the Jews called the gentiles. Belief in the gospel and acceptance of the Holy Spirit was the salvation offered to the gentiles. The Jews were always “saved” yet the ones who do not believe in Christ are the remnant. The Holy Spirit was a pledged inheritance of the Jews from the beginning to time. The Jews redeemed their inheritance (Holy Spirit and salvation) by the conversion of the gentiles (the heathens in this world at that time in history.)
Ephesians 2 starts by saying that Christ found the gentiles as dead men, worshiping the devil. Paul says the Jews were also in the company of the evil one “bounded by natural appetites” with a disregard to their birthright i.e. the salvation that God had promised them. Paul acknowledges that God’s gift of Christ offered salvation to Jew and gentile alike. “It is his grace that has saved you; 6 raised us up too.” Paul continues to make distinctions between “us” and “you” i.e. Jew and Gentile. “11 Remember, then, what you once were, the Gentiles.” Before the appearance of Christ, the gentiles were “outlaws from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to every covenant 12.” Christ “is our bond of peace; he has made the two nations one, breaking down the wall that was a barrier between us.” Christ brought all of humanity into the fold of their creator, God. Both gentile and Jew now have access to God through Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 3 starts with Paul confessing that Christ Himself revealed this plan of salvation by God to Paul. In 4:17 Paul gives his message to the believing Gentiles “I call upon you in the Lord’s name not to live like the Gentiles, who make vain fancies their rule of life. 18 Their minds are clouded with darkness; the hardness of their hearts breeds in them an ignorance, which estranges them from the divine life;… 23 There must be a renewal in the inner life of your minds; 24 you must be clothed in the new self, which is created in God’s image, justified and sanctified through the truth.” “As for debauchery, and impurity of every kind, and covetousness, there must be no whisper of it among you;… no indecent behavior, no ribaldry or smartness in talk;” Paul finishes Ephesians with a command of love between husband and wife and between parents and children through the strength that the Spirit of God provides. Paul does not distinguish between the Jew and gentile of the love God has for them or the love that they must share among themselves.

(Warning-not for snowflakes)
Kent Anthony Mayeux
Published on Medium.com on Apr 5, 2020·5 min read 
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The coronavirus has really put me in a tailspin. I sometimes feel like a Kamikaze pilot in WWII. Every so often, I feel like crashing my car into a wall or something. This boredom is mind blowing. Moreover, to think we have another 25 days left of this misery to fuel my hopelessness. Pity the poor soul who lost his/her job and is wondering where the next rent payment will come. Depression can sure be a bitch. But President Trump can do miracles, so he says. Maybe he is our knight in shining armor and will rescue us from our melancholy. I am so much over this coronavirus. The more I see the news on TV, the more I fall into despair and want to go to combat…
What I really wanted to write about is economic warfare. Any time we use the word war, we are in for a dreary subject, but somehow I will try to tie in the coronavirus. (Sorry, my depression just keeps reappearing.) Did I tell you that I hate the Chinese Wuhan virus? (I apologize for the use of racial slurs and derogatory emotions in advance.) China is the country I would like to talk about in this short article. The more I suffer with my discontent between these four walls, the more time I have on hand to think about this pandemic. It rather blows my mind when I sit down and really start thinking about our current plight. The Chinese communist regime is responsible for my gloom. They stole everything else. They just as well steal my happiness too. Do we understand the gravity of the fact that the Chinese communist government controls every fabric of our society? They control our minds with bots on the internet and radio. They control the food we eat, the car we drive and the job we work. They control the drugs we take. We know that China provides the Mexican cartels with all of the ingredients for illegal opioids and fentanyl that kill 60,000 of our children, brothers, sisters, and mothers and fathers a year. We, that is our government, over the last 25 years, have turned a blind eye to their carnage. Maybe we were too caught up in our new houses, new cars, and high fashion romances. Our glitz and glamour probably came from China too.
We suffer from body blows now, but does time heal all transgressions? Probably not. This match is only in the first round. Many people do not like President Trump, but I have to say, he has been a good president, of course, when he is not on the golf course or in the tanning bed. No really, he works like 18 hours a day. Sometimes I wonder how he gives enough time to our first lady, the beautiful Melania. He has built some of the southern wall. He put tariffs on Chinese products and he had a roaring 20's economy. And do not forget the lowest unemployment numbers of all time. Its comparison measure even goes back to biblical time when the old phrase applied, “if you don’t work, you don’t eat.” Then here comes the communist strategists who hide the Wuhan virus from us for a month and a half. Some say the silent killer was manufactured by these schemers and unleashed on the world right during our Christmas holidays and their Chinese new year. Thousands of Chinese, unwittingly or not, were circulating around the globe and bringing the virus with them. Do not believe me, just perform a search on google. One even stood on the street corner in Italy and demanded, “Don’t discriminate.” Well this virus does not discriminate. Can we believe that 100 to 230 thousand people will die of this virus just in the United States alone?
The Chinese have long won economic warfare on our economy. We are now in military warfare. The communist regime cannot stand that President Trump threw a monkey wrench into their economic siege. Are they unleashing the next stage in their war -germ warfare — as revenge? Next, our computers will go down, then our electric grid and then our banking system. Sorry for those little checks we were expecting to mysteriously appear in our checking account. The Chinese will intercept them. We will be stealing for food and shelter. Who cares about money during Armageddon anyway? Do not believe me. I want to suggest that President Trump and his posse had better keep a good eye on that new Chinese aircraft carrier. Remember that little incident in Hawaii about 75 years ago by the Japanese. Eventually we nuked them. Well, this time around, the China commies will not blow us up with nukes because this greedy regime seeks world domination. But rest with peace, they will control our living quarters, our exercise and our sleep. Those five billion warriors of China will swarm on the United States like an angry hive of yellow jacks attacking an unsuspecting interloper. I have been listening to Trump for way to long on the TV. His name-calling is bringing me into the gutter, but those “little raw-frog eaters” pissed President Trump off for screwing with the best economy in all of history. Trump will not forget this mayhem caused by China. You multinational corporations, you are going to have to come home or else. We need to build our own things again, like guns and tanks and rockets and cars and TVs and cell phones (we couldn’t live without them) and computers and houses and just things.
The Chinese have won the warfare on economics. Do the Democrats realize that Trump’s military buildup came at just the right time? Brace for it. Our suffering is not complete. Things will become more disheartening. Moreover, we always thought it would be the Islamic jihadists from the Middle East who would be our final demise. Not to get religious on you here, but the Lord Jesus did tell us not to become complacent for we know not the day or the hour. Instead, we think we know it all yet we know nothing. Someone or something needed to warn us that the Chinese communists are on the march from the Far East. Our distracted attention focused on Clinton screwing an intern, Bush invading Iraq and Obama letting in the Mexicans and Latin Americans through our borders. For twenty-five years, while we have been living in our glass houses, the Chinese communist government has been secretly and intentional waging war upon the economy of the United States. They have won the battle but not the war. This virus has been mind boggling, a whole country’s economic engine on lock down for at least two or three months. Do not doubt American resolve though. The Chinese regime had better remember the fate of the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda and the Muslim ISIS jihadists. We will regain our economic sovereignty and remain the strongest military force in the world. Until then, my depression is now complete. I have ran out of names and must return to my isolation.
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