Steve Robinson

The other was a very nice BMW car.

Dexter is a poor town.

A BMW sticks out.

That vehicle's probably worth more than the median income of most people in that town.

And as I observed the vehicle, there were two T-shirts, bright red T-shirts strapped over the front driver's seat and the passenger seat, which is weird.

Who does that?

And as I looked closer at them,

They had Chinese script and Chinese logos on them.

And I photographed them, saved them for analysis later.

And those t-shirts turned to be out, turned to be logos for the Siju Association of New York, which is one of these Chinese benevolent associations.

They're technically often organized as 501 nonprofits, but they're front groups for the Chinese consulate in New York.

They're part of the United Front, which is the Chinese Communist Party's umbrella organization for their activities to infiltrate and conduct espionage on other countries.

So the Sisu Association has a presence in my hometown in Dexter.

Wow.

Right next, you know, I can't tell you how many times I've like chased my cocker spaniel when he got loose through the backyard of this house.

And here's this, you know, I guess, you know, communist party paraphernalia present there.

So we write a story about this.

I thought it was noteworthy in part because we were less than a mile away from a U.S.

Army Reserve garrison.

Maine does not have a lot of military facilities, but we do have one in Dexter.