About
Who we are
Li And Sun Private Foundation is a self-funded 501(c)(3) private foundation in Laguna Niguel, California. We are not a political organization, and this is not a fundraising site.
The foundation
Li And Sun Private Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation. This site is a public record of who we are. It is not a campaign page, and it is not a place to ask for money.
Why we exist
The organizers of this foundation are legal immigrants. We escaped a communist system in which there was no freedom of speech. In that order, an honest sentence is not a right. It is a risk. We did not leave because life was merely inconvenient. We left because a country that cannot tolerate free expression cannot be trusted with the rest of a person’s life.
We came to the United States to live in a country where speech is protected, government is limited by law, and people are treated as individuals. The law is supposed to see a person, not a racial, ethnic, or sexual category. Newcomers are expected to assimilate into that civic order rather than remake it. We come not to alter but to adapt and assimilate.
That is the honest bargain of legal immigration: learn the language of the law, the habits of self-government, and the limits a Constitution places on power. People who join this country should know that is what they joined. The foundation exists so they can.
Why those systems fail
We understand why socialism and communism are designed to fail. They are not accidents that went off course. They are built on a false picture of the person and of power, and then they run that picture to its conclusion.
There is no free speech, so error cannot be named in public and power cannot be checked by ordinary people. There is no real private property, so no one has a secure claim to the fruit of their work, and the state becomes the only landlord that matters. Power is concentrated in a party or a planning office. The few who hold it are not constrained by law; they are the law. Incentives then break. Work, thrift, and honesty stop paying in the ordinary way. Loyalty to the apparatus does. The person is no longer a citizen with rights. The person is subordinated to the party and the state, to be used, corrected, or discarded.
A republic under a Constitution is the opposite of that design. Power is split so that no office can do everything. The law binds the majority as well as the minority. Expression is protected even when it is inconvenient to those in charge. Private property is not a slogan. It is how a free person stands apart from the government. The person is not subordinated to a party. The government is subordinated to the law.
When Franklin left the Convention he was asked what they had made. A republic, he said, if you can keep it. We teach that contrast because we have lived the other arrangement, and we know what it costs. We do not teach it as a campaign.
Why this country
We chose the United States because it is a country in which a person may speak, own, work, and worship without first asking a party’s permission. Government here is limited by a written Constitution. Rights are not a 51 percent question. A majority does not get to vote away what the Constitution protects.
We also chose it because it treats people as individuals. We oppose sorting people by race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation instead of treating them equally under the Constitution. Equal protection, as it is written, is the opposite of administering people as members of a group. A color-blind republic is not a mood. It is the civic order this country claims, and legal immigrants should be taught that claim as it stands.
We did not come to import the politics we fled. We came to live as Americans under American law: to adapt, to assimilate, and to keep the republic we were allowed to join.
How we are funded
Li And Sun Private Foundation is entirely self-funded. We do not seek external funding. We do not ask for grants, donors, or public money, and we do not put a donation button on this site.
This is not a fundraising site. Independence of that kind is the point. A foundation that does not live on other people’s money does not have to tailor its teaching to a funder’s taste. Outgoing grants and scholarships, described under What we do, are how some of that self-funded work is spent.
What we are not
We are not a political organization. We do not run campaigns or endorse candidates. We do not support protests or movements. Our work is civic education, not activism. Understanding the country is not the same as trying to capture it.