July 3, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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In Congress, July 4, 1776, the unanimous declaration of the 13th Amendment, | |
| the Constitution of the United States of America, was signed by the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
| The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
| And time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream where seaward frees On this green bank by this soft stream We set today a whole tippet stone | ||
| Spirit that made those heroes dare to die and keep their children free. | ||
| In Congress, July 4, 1776. | ||
| In Congress, July 4, 1776, the unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume | ||
| among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| We hold these truths to be self-evident, That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. | ||
| That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. | ||
| Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. | ||
| And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | ||
| But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism. | ||
| It is their right. | ||
| It is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. | ||
| Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies. | ||
| And such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. | ||
| The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. | ||
| To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. | ||
| Out. | ||
| Should Europe empty, all her force will meet them in a ring, And fight and shout and shout and fight for free America. | ||
| We let fair freedom hither and lo, the desert smiled. | ||
| A paradise of pleasure was opened in the wild. | ||
| Your harvest, bold Americans, no power shall snatch away. | ||
| Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights in a free America. | ||
| We're torn from a world of tyrants beneath this western sky. | ||
| We've formed a new dominion, a land of liberty. | ||
| The world shall own we're freemen here and such will ever be. | ||
| Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah for free America. | ||
| Some future day shall crown us the masters of the main. | ||
| Our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France and Spain. | ||
| Nations o'er the ocean spread shall tremble and obey. | ||
| The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America. | ||
| Okay, welcome. | ||
| This is Saturday, the 3rd of July, the year of our Lord 2021. | ||
| It is Independence Day weekend. | ||
| We have an Independence Day special. | ||
| Very special today, and I couldn't think about starting off a show about our independence, what it means today, talk about Freedom Fighters. | ||
| We're going to have Mike Lindell join us in just a second, and of course, the great combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell, who helps us out on all these specials on Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veterans Day. | ||
| That is, the last song there was Diane Tara's, her fantastic voice. | ||
| She sings original compositions from, or sings her compositions from original songs from period. | ||
| That is from, I think, her Revolutionary War album. | ||
| Just incredible. | ||
| The actor Max McLean opened the Declaration of Independence and that preamble to the Declaration. | ||
| Of course, we started with The Concord, the Hymn to the Concord Bridge off the poem of Ralph Waldo Emerson. | ||
| It was done at the starting of the monument there. | ||
| I think it was in 1861, right before the Civil War, January of 1861. | ||
| And that is by the Concord First Parish Church Choir. | ||
| Just incredible. | ||
| So, very special day today. | ||
| We're going to go through the revolution. | ||
| Remember, tomorrow is really the Declaration of Independence, and one of the things I always bring Patrick K. O'Donnell here and we commemorate is actually the war that had to be fought to make sure that that declaration had some meaning to it. | ||
| So, I want to first start with bringing Mike Lindell in, and then we've got Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| Mike, thank you very much for joining us today on our July 4th special. | ||
| Well, thanks. | ||
| I'm having a great 4th of July weekend with my family. | ||
| Grandkids, nieces and nephews, but I'm glad to come on your show on this special weekend. | ||
| Listen, Mike, you're at the tip of the spear out there fighting for freedom. | ||
| Tie it back to the Revolutionary Generation. | ||
| Tie it back to the Declaration. | ||
| The Patriots have fought the Revolutionary Generation. | ||
| You're out there. | ||
| You've risked it all. | ||
| As Patrick A. O'Donnell is going to walk through later, these guys put up their sacred honor, but they also put up all their net worth, their lives, their prosperity, when they negotiated and actually Well, I don't know. | ||
| I didn't think of myself as that, but I guess it's kind of manifested into that. | ||
| Everybody, where I'm at right now, everybody's been coming up to me and going, you know, you're our hope, you know, and all these things. | ||
| are all hanged together. So what is it like being a modern-day patriot? Well I don't know I didn't think of myself as that but I guess it's kind of manifested into that everybody where I'm at right now everybody's been coming up to me and going you know you're a hope but what's you know and all these things and I'm saying you know God bless me with a big platform for such a time as this and that's the way I look at it | ||
| And it's interesting, tomorrow we're announcing the symposium, the Cyber Symposium, and I really believe it's so symbolic of going back in time to our Independence Day. | ||
| This is going to change the world. | ||
| It's going to change it, you know. | ||
| It's going to show everything and that this election was taken and where we're at, we're in this, we are in this battle with communism and the CCP and big government and everything. | ||
| You know, our founders today, if they came back and saw the mess we're in today, they'd be in absolute disgrace. | ||
| But I think the thing they'd be most disgusted about is how we allowed this last election to just, you know, fall apart. | ||
| And I think that's where we continue to press on the 3 November movement. | ||
| We've got to get to the bottom of what happened on 3 November. | ||
| There's no real going forward. | ||
| There's no 2022. | ||
| There's no 2024. | ||
| You know, all these new laws they're passing, it's all nice, but we've had plenty of laws. | ||
| All we had to do was, we didn't have the will to enforce the laws. | ||
| So give us your perspective of what you think our founders would think of the mess we're in now with these elections. | ||
| Well, I think they'd be in disbelief. | ||
| Because everything they set up, we just said, no, that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter. | ||
| This went on in November, December, and into January. | ||
| It's going on to this day, but it's getting better and better where they're, I think judges, everybody's coming forward going, Hey, we got to look at our constitution. | ||
| I mean, what happened in November and December, if they were looking at a time thing going, what did they care what we wrote? | ||
| Don't they care what we, uh, what our country stands on and stands for. | ||
| And, and it's, uh, I think they would be very much, uh, um, appalled. | ||
| I think they'd say, you know, it would be, you know, I don't know what else to say. | ||
| I think it's like the Twilight Zone. | ||
| Those two months were like the Twilight Zone where everybody's going, this isn't real, this isn't real, this can't be happening. | ||
| So tell us, give us the update. | ||
| I know that you've picked some dates. | ||
| I think it's the 10th, 11th and 12th of August is when you're going to do this? | ||
| Yeah, this is the Cyber Symposium and the reason I'm waiting till tomorrow to announce the location is because I went out the last few days and we have booked hundreds of hotel rooms. | ||
| I mean, we're upwards of, I think, a thousand now. | ||
| I want to make sure that there's no excuses of politicians not coming, of the media not coming, and And then the cyber forensic experts that are going to be there. | ||
| We're going to show it all. | ||
| We're going to show it all. | ||
| And, uh, uh, interesting enough, Steve, I got a message from, uh, from, uh, Alan Duke, uh, from Lead Stories and Alan can't make it, but his guy, his other guy overseas is going to make it because just yesterday, everybody, I want everybody to know what they did to this symposium already. | ||
| It went all over Facebook. | ||
| I was on OAN. | ||
| I was on a couple other stations. | ||
| I was on Frank's Beach. | ||
| And all these little clips went out all over Facebook that we were going to have this symposium. | ||
| And you know what Lead Stories and Alan Duke did? | ||
| They covered it up and said it contains false information. | ||
| Well, I'll tell you what, Alan Duke, we are having this. | ||
| And it is going to save this country. | ||
| We're going to show all the packet captures from the whole election. | ||
| And they're pulling this election down. | ||
| I think they put another thing out. | ||
| This election cannot be pulled down. | ||
| Well, fraud and crime overrides everything. | ||
| I hate to rain on your parade, Alan Duke. | ||
| This is, uh, it's disgusting that they're already attacking it. | ||
| You know, they're already attacking it before we, you know, saying it's false that we're having it. | ||
| Well, we're having it. | ||
| I put, uh, we got, we got transportation, hotels, uh, Steve, I'm going to cover everything. | ||
| So people don't have an excuse of not to come there. | ||
| The best security we've already hired the best security in the country. | ||
| And, uh, this is why I couldn't announce the location. | ||
| I didn't want them. | ||
| Uh, we're going to announce it tomorrow. | ||
| It'll be symbolic of our independence day. | ||
| And, uh, These three days in August are going to change history. | ||
| We're going to say, here it is, and now everybody look at it, and you see, and you tell me, you know, you can't change these packet captures. | ||
| They're forever captured in time. | ||
| You can't go back and alter them. | ||
| You can't go back and add to them. | ||
| You can't go back and change them. | ||
| These Americans, they're going to be heroes that captured these during the election, which our government should have been doing, by the way. | ||
| They should have captured it all, and this time we're in with computers and And with the internet and stuff, this should have been done to protect our country, but if they did it, they hid it, and it's shameful. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| And Steve, here's another thing, too. | ||
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The way this all went down, that God had his hand in all of this... I tell you what, Mike, hang on one second. | |
| If you can hold on for one second, I want to get into God's hand and divine providence and a couple more questions on the other side. | ||
| I know you've got to go, but just please bear with us. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return in a moment. | ||
| We've got Mike Lindell. | ||
| We've got Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| We've got all who are talking about the revolution. | ||
| We've got Joe Kent later, the combat veterans, Joe Kent. | ||
| We've got Captain Maureen Bannister talking about Bagram, about leaving Afghanistan. | ||
| The music we're going out with is by the composer Ben Sokol. | ||
| It's in honor of the Continental Army, 17,000 Americans who fought for eight years this Revolutionary War. | ||
| We're going to be back in a moment with our special edition of Independence Day weekend here in the War Room. | ||
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We're going to be back in a moment with our special edition of Independence Day weekend | |
| here in the War Room. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| You're in the War Room. | ||
| It's Saturday, the 3rd of July. | ||
| It's Independence Weekend 2021, the Year of Our Lord. | ||
| That is White Cockade from the Marine Corps Fife and Drum Corps. | ||
| We're going to celebrate the original music of America in the next two hours as we celebrate the Declaration, but we're here to talk about What actually effectuated the Declaration is not just a bunch of lawyers arguing over high concepts. | ||
| It took the deplorables. | ||
| It took an army of militia and volunteers and a Continental Army to win our freedom on a battlefield. | ||
| And we're going to talk about that with the great combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| I want to finish up, though, with an American patriot, a living American patriot, someone that's risked it all, just like our founders, Mike Lindell. | ||
| So, Mike, you were talking about divine providence and the hand of divine providence in your work. | ||
| Can you explore that a little bit, develop that for us? | ||
| Yeah, you know, I think with God having His hand in all this, this actually had to happen when our Constitution was completely ignored in November and December. | ||
| You get in, even like right now, everybody is seeing things, the loss of all our freedoms, so it's like everybody, it's uniting, it's going to unite our country against a common enemy, and the enemy that came into our country, communism. | ||
| Here's a good example, Steve, I'm in South Dakota. | ||
| One of the things they did was take away the fireworks at Mount Rushmore. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You take away one of our, you know, things that, uh, our great president Donald Trump got back with, uh, Kristi Noem's and, and they take that away for no reason other than to what, you know, and, uh, these are the things I think is showing by, by, by things waiting to unfold. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| The reason they do it is just like the reason we do this show in a certain way. | ||
| They want to break the ties that we have with the revolutionary generation. | ||
| They want to break the ties that we have with the Mount Rushmore, those great presidents. | ||
| This is what cultural Marxism is. | ||
| These guys are Bolsheviks. | ||
| They're Marxists. | ||
| This is what Mao Zedong did to the Chinese people. | ||
| You've got to break the family. | ||
| You have to break the institutions. | ||
| You have to mock and ridicule everything that's held sacred. | ||
| We counter-program to that. | ||
| We hold sacred. | ||
| our traditions and the patriots that came before us. | ||
| They're not dumb. | ||
| This is not random. | ||
| They're not randomly canceling the fireworks and the celebration of Mount Rushmore. | ||
| That's all part of their method. | ||
| And this method is the Bolsheviks. | ||
| It's the French Revolution. | ||
| This is what they're doing. | ||
| And by the way, to tear you apart and destroy your business and destroy the Christian network you have to help drug addicts, that's all part of the program too. | ||
| They're going to destroy that. | ||
| You're out in front. | ||
| They have to destroy you to send a signal to every other businessman. | ||
| out there that if you raise your voice, if you confront us, if you stand up and are relentless in the fight and not just mouthing, oh, we got it, we need better laws, we need, you know, voter ID and all this stuff, right, all this, which we need. | ||
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Right. | |
| But we had all those laws on November 3rd. | ||
| And I think that's the power of example, action, action, action. | ||
| So you're going to this, you're Alan Duke. | ||
| I don't know how Alan Duke trash talks. | ||
| You says you're an idiot says you don't know what you're doing. | ||
| Everything you say is a lie. | ||
| Everything is false. | ||
| And he's not accepting an invitation to come to August 10th, 11th and 12th, the three day symposium. | ||
| Well, I take it back. | ||
| One of his workers are. | ||
| They're coming from overseas, but apparently Alan's got something more important to do, he said. | ||
| That's not good enough. | ||
| Send in some Grundoon. | ||
| Send in some Grundoon. | ||
| We need Alan Dukes there. | ||
| We're going to get Rahim all over him. | ||
| He's the lead guy of saying that everything you said is false, everything you said is wrong. | ||
| He's got to represent that day, sir. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| And you know, how could he do what he did the last few days when I announced this symposium? | ||
| He's actually going to help, you know? | ||
| I think it's actually helping. | ||
| I thanked all the media the other day. | ||
| I said, I want to thank all you guys for at least letting me get the word out there. | ||
| By attacking me every day, people know I have something. | ||
| And Alan Duke's been the front, he's been the forefront of that. | ||
| Puts over Facebook that my cyber symposium is false information. | ||
| And I don't know why he did that. | ||
| If he did it because I'm waiting till tomorrow to announce where we're going to have it, which I had to do because I, you know, they would have went in, Steve, and got all the hotel rooms and probably kept them empty. | ||
| You know, I went out and got all the, all the hotels in the whole town that were available. | ||
| So we're going to have it all set up. | ||
| And yeah, everyone's got to be there. | ||
| We're going to have so much pressure from the public putting on these politicians to get there. | ||
| And once and for all, here it is. | ||
| And it's going to be amazing. | ||
| And I want to tell everyone, too, everybody keep the faith. | ||
| You can't live in fear anymore. | ||
| I've been saying this for five months now. | ||
| You can't live in fear. | ||
| It's like saving money for a rainy day. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| It's raining. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| And Steve, I want to thank you for having this great weekend here on your show. | ||
| You've been leading everything with getting the word out there and where we're at. | ||
| When we're in a time where the Constitution doesn't mean anything, or at least they say it doesn't, that's pretty bad. | ||
| Our forefathers looking back and going, you know, What happened? | ||
| Where did they go wrong? | ||
| Did it just happen overnight? | ||
| Well, I'll tell you what, I will say this. | ||
| They're just going for it right now. | ||
| They're not slow-boiling us like a frog. | ||
| They did that for decades. | ||
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They're just putting the hammer down. | |
| They are putting the hammer down. | ||
| That's why this is an inflection point in American history. | ||
| What time tomorrow are you going to make the announcement? | ||
| People want to get to Frank's speech. | ||
| What time tomorrow do you intend to make? | ||
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9 a.m. | |
| on Frank's speech, 9 a.m. | ||
| Central Time. | ||
| On Frank's speech, 10 a.m. | ||
| Eastern Time. | ||
| We will make the announcement and we'll have all the details. | ||
| It'll be a big symbolic announcement of our Independence Day. | ||
| And I will tell you this, it's all over the internet saying, oh, Donald Trump can't be put back in place. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| There's a lot of things we're going to bring out that will show you at least three ways he's going to get, not he will, he absolutely will be put back in. | ||
| Okay, 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow, you're going to make the announcement of the symposium. | ||
| I want to thank you. | ||
| I know you've got a very active Fourth of July going on, and God bless. | ||
| Don't ever stop the fight, Mike, because you're leading this patriot movement right now. | ||
| Well, thank you, and that's for everybody. | ||
| It's been easy to keep up the fight, because everybody out there, I've seen strangers now in this town coming up and going, keep going, keep going, and they're trying to break me, and they've been trying to break me for five months. | ||
| It's not going to work. | ||
| There's an old thing on the old days, Steve, when they attack me for being on Fox, they go, don't boycott Mike Lindell. | ||
| He'll double his ads. | ||
| We see enough of that guy. | ||
| Well, that's it. | ||
| Look, if God saw you through your crack cocaine addiction, he's got greater things for you. | ||
| So I don't think we're going to break anytime soon. | ||
| Mike Lindell, thank you very much. | ||
| We look forward to 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow in Frank's speech. | ||
| We'll all be there. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| So 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow, Mike Lindell is going to make the speech. | ||
| Also, Getter, I think, launches tomorrow, too. | ||
| I'll get the specific times on that. | ||
| I think they launch on the 4th of July. | ||
| Also, Frank's speech, Mike Lindell, 10 a.m. | ||
| tomorrow for the big announcement. | ||
| Okay, I want to bring in Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| Patrick, we've got a couple of minutes in this segment, then we're going to take the rest of the hour to go through this. | ||
| But I want to set the stage first. | ||
| About the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| The Declaration of Independence is obviously one of the most important documents in mankind's history. | ||
| The thinking behind it, the philosophy, the courage it took to do it. | ||
| But we do want to put it in perspective. | ||
| We had been in this war about a year against the British, and it continued on for many, many years after that. | ||
| And remember, this was not our independence. | ||
| This was a declaration of our independence. | ||
| It had to be won, and it had to be won on a battlefield, and that's where the experts set the stage I mean, this is eight years of bloody war, Steve. | ||
| It's also a civil war, where America was deeply divided. | ||
| It was our first civil war. | ||
| And it's frankly a miracle that we won the War of Independence. | ||
| I think so many people today take That war for granted, like it was preordained. | ||
| It wasn't. | ||
| It was all about action. | ||
| It was all about human agency. | ||
| It was all about small groups of people coming together to do the impossible against the greatest army in the world at the time, the British Army, as well as the British Navy, the greatest Navy in the world at the time. | ||
| And the British had crushed every rebellion before that. | ||
| And the men that signed the document of the Declaration of Independence knew that they were signing their own death warrants if they had been captured. | ||
| I think that's one of the things we want to develop in the next segment. | ||
| We're going to take a short break here in a moment, but I want to lay out, and you have a great story you're going to tell at the beginning of the next segment about, I think it's from 1769, about the impressment of Americans, but the Royal Navy and the British Army were the best of class really in the world, I think, arguably, right? | ||
| The British Army had been deployed all over the world. | ||
| The Royal Navy was just incredible. | ||
| The men that, for instance, if we go to Bunker Hill in June 1775, the men that the colonists were facing were in some cases veterans of 14, 15, 16 years that had fought all over the world. | ||
| These were experienced combat veterans. | ||
| They were going up against the best in the world. | ||
| They were also going up against the light infantry, a special ops, if you will, precursor. | ||
| Incredible story of how farmers, mechanics, tradesmen all come together. | ||
| Let's hang on. | ||
| We're in the next segment. | ||
| Talk about the opposition, the British Army, and what the Continental Army, the militia, and our Navy had to do to actually win our independence after it was declared. | ||
| All next in the war room, we're going to go out with Ben Sokol's great orchestration piece in honor of the Continental Army. | ||
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An American Flag. | |
| Frigate the Reishard by name Mounting guns 44, from New York she came. | ||
| Put a cruise in the channel of old England's fame. | ||
| With a noble commander, Paul Jones was his name. | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| Our country forever! | ||
| We had not sailed far before two sails we spied A stout 44 and a 20 like wise And 40-bolt ship and all laden with store As the convoy stood in for the old Yorkshire shore Hurrah! Our country forever! Hurrah! | ||
| Our brave Captain Jones to his men he did say Let every man fight a good battle today We'll take that bold convoy in the height of her pride, For the recharge shall found her and sink in the tide. | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| Our country forever! | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| The battle rolled on until Bold Pearson cried, Have you struck your colors? | ||
| Then come alongside. | ||
| But so far from thinking the battle was won, John Paul Jones replied, I have not yet begun. | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| Our country forever! | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| We fought them for glasses, for glasses so hot, Till fifty bold sailors lay dead on the spot, And fifty-five others lay stretched in their gore, While the thundering cannons most fiercely did roar, Hurrah! | ||
| Our country forever! | ||
| Hurrah! | ||
| The Alliance bore down and the Richard did rake, which caused the bold hearts of our seamen to ache. | ||
| But our shot flew so hot that they couldn't stand long, and the brave British colors came finally down. | ||
| Hurrah! Our country forever! Hurrah! | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| That's the great Diane Taraz. | ||
| We're going to put that into the live chat and up on the screen so you can get her album, Songs of the American Revolution. | ||
| That is about the battle with John Paul Jones when they asked him to strike his colors when the ship was all shot apart. | ||
| I have not yet begun to fight, and I think that's the motto of this Patriot Movement today. | ||
| When you think about what we've got to do on the 3 November Movement, what do you think we've got to do about the Wuhan Lab, about the Chinese Communist Party? | ||
| It's, we have not yet even begun to fight. | ||
| And so, for all the progressives, Marxists, cultural Marxists, and enemies of the Patriot movement, understand that this is a tough bunch of hombres, and we have not yet even begun to fight. | ||
| It's our Independence Day weekend special. | ||
| It is Saturday, the 3rd of July, Year of Our Lord 2021. | ||
| I want to thank Mike Lindell for joining us. | ||
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| Action, action, action. | ||
| That's what John Paul Jones is about. | ||
| I want to go back to the great combat historian, Patrick K. O'Donnell, who's covered all the wars, World War II, Korea War, Vietnam, the Iraq War, Fallujah, but he spent the last four or five years of his life on the American Revolution. | ||
| Our greatest combat historian has spent the last couple years on the American Revolution, telling the stories of the men and women of that revolution down in a micro, down the deck plates. | ||
| So Patrick, walk us through What was the road to the revolution? | ||
| What was the road to the Declaration? | ||
| How did this all come about? | ||
| It was about government interference, Steve, and the interference in the lives of the colonists. | ||
| And let me just take you to a scene, the opening scene of my book, The Indispensables. | ||
| And this is emblematic of that interference. | ||
| It's also one of the first documented cases of resistance, armed resistance. | ||
| And the pit packet is a ship that's returning from Spain with a load of salt back to Marblehead, Massachusetts, which is the origin of my story. | ||
| And they're boarded by the HMS Rose, and this isn't a friendly boarding. | ||
| They're there to impress the men of the pit packet. | ||
| An impressment in the 18th century is basically slavery. | ||
| You are going to be a member of the Royal Navy whether or not you like it or not. | ||
| It's a life of service, and you're paid a pittance. | ||
| Most men die at sea, and their bodies are tossed overboard like a bag of garbage. | ||
| So these men knew what was in for them, and they decide to fight back. | ||
| In the middle of the scuffle, one of the bags of salt breaks aboard the deck of the pit packet, and the Royal Navy tries to wrestle down several of the Marbleheaders. | ||
| Michael Kerbett says, Basically, he draws a line in the salt and says, if you cross it, and he says something quite dramatic, you were determined to deprive me of my liberty and I'm determined to defend it. | ||
| You have no right to be here. | ||
| You've retreated as far as we can. | ||
| We will go no further. | ||
| If you step over the line, you're a dead man. | ||
| And the British officer stepped over that line and he had a harpoon to the jugular vein and he started to bleed out right then and there. | ||
| These men were then tried for murder and it was America's first super lawyer, John Adams, that exonerates Michael Corbett. | ||
| But this Irishman is a first act of resistance. | ||
| But the Crown is continuing to level further taxes, as well as impose their will on the colonists. | ||
| And, you know, a number of atrocities take place. | ||
| We have the Boston Massacre, where a number of Americans are killed, including an African-American, Crispus Attucks. | ||
| And then these things continue to escalate. | ||
| And it's the lives of the Marbleheaders that are being controlled, you know, 3,000 miles away by the Crown, where they don't have any representation. | ||
| There's more taxes, there's more, their liberty is further declines, but in the midst of all of this, A virus hits the colonies and it begins in Marblehead, Massachusetts. | ||
| It's quite interesting, Steve. | ||
| This virus is smallpox. | ||
| Colonists try to contain it, the Marbleheaders try to contain it, but it divides the town politically between patriots and loyalists. | ||
| And the virus is actually weaponized in 1774. | ||
| And this causes a number of rifts. | ||
| The men in the book have their homes surrounded after an inoculation hospital. | ||
| Ho, ho, ho, hang on a second. | ||
| What do you mean it was weaponized? | ||
| And what do you mean between patriots and loyalists? | ||
| Smallpox was a terrible thing when it hit these villages in Europe. | ||
| So what happened with the smallpox? | ||
| What happened with the smallpox is the Patriots try to come up with a novel way of combating it. | ||
| They try to exclude people that have it in so-called pest houses. | ||
| That doesn't work. | ||
| But then they come up with this plan of an inoculation hospital where they inoculate people. | ||
| And this is before Jenner. | ||
| The science isn't known. | ||
| It's dangerous. | ||
| But you basically put a small portion of the virus in the body, create the antibodies. | ||
| It works most of the time. | ||
| Sometimes it doesn't. | ||
| But the loyalists in town see the inoculation hospital. | ||
| They burn it to the ground with people inside it. | ||
| And, miraculously, nobody dies. | ||
| But they use the virus as a wedge issue to gain power. | ||
| And after they burn it to the ground, the Patriots want to recover their money. | ||
| They have the local sheriff round up the perpetrators, which they do. | ||
| Perpetrators are put in the local jail. | ||
| But the Loyalists organize over a thousand people into a massive mob. | ||
| And they break into the jail with axes and crowbars. | ||
| They free the men. | ||
| And then they surround the homes of the main characters in my book. | ||
| John Glover, who's one of the principal characters that moves through the American Revolution as a decisive role in the Marblehead Regiment, has a novel way of combating it. | ||
| He takes a four-pound gun and wheels it into the foyer of his home, waits for the crowd to assemble on his front lawn, has the doors thrust open, and it's a get-off-your-lawn moment. | ||
| He has a torch in his hand, And says to disperse. | ||
| People do. | ||
| But this is a classic case of self-defense and resilience. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| That's an American patriot right there. | ||
| He's got the cannon in the hallway and the torch with the get off my lawn. | ||
| That's the grit and determination that made this nation. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| And he survives the American Revolution and he's there during all the inflection points. | ||
| But that's an example of his resilience. | ||
| Elbridge Gerry also has his home surrounded. | ||
| Initially this has an effect where some of the Patriots kind of go a little bit underground, but what happens next is the Boston Tea Party, and that's where the crown really throws down. | ||
| But hang on, before we get to the Tea Party, I want to take, I'm going to connect two dots. | ||
| One was the impressment of the American, of the guy at the very beginning, and then it's about the Loyalist. | ||
| This shows you that Britain said, hey, you're Englishman. | ||
| If we need you for the Navy, we're going to take you for the Navy, just like we impress people in Plymouth or impress people in the towns of England where they would just go through with press gangs and pick you up. | ||
| You're an Englishman. | ||
| You're living here. | ||
| You have no separate rights. | ||
| The same thing with the key thing is people don't realize that you said this was a civil war. | ||
| Remember, one third of the people were loyalists. | ||
| One-third at most were patriots or revolutionaries. | ||
| There's one-third in the middle figuring out how this thing's going to play out, right? | ||
| And people jump sides back and forth during the American Revolution. | ||
| It's the military wins that actually influence the political. | ||
| And this occurs over and over. | ||
| But the Crown really throws down after the Boston Tea Party. | ||
| They close the port. | ||
| The Marblehead men have something called the Fisheries Act, where their livelihood of the Grand Banks is removed. | ||
| They're all thrown out of work. | ||
| The Crown is basically going after everybody economically. | ||
| They take the judges that are there, and then they install only Crown judges. | ||
| The Massachusetts government is dissolved. | ||
| And then they go after the powder. | ||
| The English know that we have plenty of guns, but there's no powder in the colonies. | ||
| There's no organic manufacture of it. | ||
| So then they start to seize all the powder supplies. | ||
| And this is where you have something called the Somerville Powder Raid, where General Gage in September goes after a cache of powder outside of Boston. | ||
| And what happens is the political revolution that is going on in the colonies that begins in 1765 with the Stamp Act is then thrust into an arms race and military Revolution is at the beginning stages, and all of the Gage's operations are about disarmament. | ||
| He's trying to go after the powder supplies, and you've got something called the Salem Gunpowder Alarm. | ||
| You've got Fort William and Mary, where the colonists actually raid a fort. | ||
| There's shots fired in December 1774. | ||
| One man is wounded. | ||
| It's really a dramatic scene and it's all leading towards Lexington and Concord where Gage is going after the crucial supplies which, oh by the way, are gathered by the Marblehead Men. | ||
| They have the trading lines and shipping lanes and the relationship with Spain where they're bringing in a lot of the powder. | ||
| They convert their fishing boats and merchant craft into supply lines and they're bringing in our first arms and ammunition and it starts to go towards... | ||
| And the British know this by they have a great intelligence network. | ||
| In fact, they've got spies everywhere, right? | ||
| Some actually inside the movement to tip them off. | ||
| They know exactly where the arsenal is. | ||
| I'll tell you, short commercial break, we're going to return Lexington, Concord, the Boston Tea Party, everything that led up to the war, that the Declaration of Independence was the throwdown. | ||
| We said, we're not going to take this anymore. | ||
| We're going to form our own nation. | ||
| We're talking about The long bloody history, the combat history of the American Revolution today in our special here in the War Room. | ||
| Going out with Sokol's, this is an homage orchestration to the Continental Army, Rob Sokol. | ||
| We're gonna be back in just a moment | ||
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| Welcome back. | ||
| It is 3 July, the year of our Lord 2021. | ||
| It's Saturday. | ||
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| You know, most shows are pre-recorded. | ||
| We're live today, and that's because of the volunteers that gave up their time on Independence Day weekend to actually come in and help put this show together. | ||
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| Our producer Cameron Wallace, but working with a great team of the Real America Voice team, which is always cutting edge and helping us do very complicated shows. | ||
| We really want to thank that. | ||
| I want to turn back now to Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| So Patrick, continue to set the stage for us because people, you know, it's kind of like Memorial Day is now Veterans Day and people have kind of lost the idea that it's really to honor our war dead. | ||
| So that's why we try to do the Memorial Day special a little differently than everybody else. | ||
| We've got Veterans Day. | ||
| That's to honor the veterans. | ||
| It's like the 4th of July, the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| You know, a vast majority of Americans, particularly young Americans now, think we won our independence by declaring our independence. | ||
| Our declaring our independence was a throwdown to the British crown, to the greatest empire on earth at the time. | ||
| But it had been a real buildup over a number of years. | ||
| But I got to tell you, there was a tough, long fight ahead of these patriots. | ||
| And that's what people have to focus on today. | ||
| Your liberty is never given to you. | ||
| It's never granted to you. | ||
| And just by saying you're going to be free doesn't mean you're going to be free. | ||
| You can have a great Declaration of Independence, which is one of the most magnificent documents in mankind's history. | ||
| But at the end of the day, it's on a piece of paper that has to be backed up. | ||
| Those thoughts, those ideas, that culture, that civilization has to be backed up by grit, determination, and focus. | ||
| Patrick K. O'Donnell, take it away. | ||
| Yeah, freedom is never free, especially in this digital age, Dave, where it can be eliminated in an instant. | ||
| I mean, this is what the founders realized, too, is power and how to disperse it properly. | ||
| This is where, you know, the American Revolution is about freedom and liberty. | ||
| And, you know, going back to 1775, April, General Gage is is trying to disarm americans because he knows that you know no political revolution can survive if there's no armed rebellion to to accompany it and every other political revolution or revolution that the crown ever faced was crushed | ||
| And that's exactly what they were trying to do by, you know, they were a number of acts that forbid the importation of gunpowder and arms. | ||
| And then there was active missions to seize these powder supplies and arms. | ||
| and that's exactly where we're at with with lexington in concord recent seven hundred men under kernels lieutenant colonel smith to seize these this powder supply and general cages incredibly well-informed steve you mentioned this his intelligence his intelligence largely came from doctored benjamin church in doctor church sat on all of the committees of safety and supply he was at the very nerve center of the patriot movement but he was also general cages grisa uh... spy | ||
| and he was providing gauge with the exact information where the supplies were located who the patriot leaders were and how to crush the movement even giving him you know it's exactly how they did the patriots would fight him And that's exactly what he does on April 17th. | ||
| They go in and initially they land by boat, Smith's men, and they make their way towards Lexington and Concord. | ||
| And it's on the green that That Parker and his men assemble and the British demand that they stand down. | ||
| This is where Parker says, you know, stand your ground. | ||
| And if there's a war to be had, it's going to start here. | ||
| And the first shots are fired. | ||
| It's not known who exactly did it. | ||
| And, you know, several Americans are killed in this initial melee. | ||
| This is at Lexington Common. | ||
| This is at Lexington Green, right? | ||
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| Where they first confronted them. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I think it was Colonel John Parker, right? | ||
| Who said, by the way, he was dead. | ||
| Stand your ground. | ||
| Don't fire unless fired upon. | ||
| But if you want a war, let it begin here, is what he said. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And of course, they're fired. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Colonel Parker, I think, died of tuberculosis right before the Battle of... He does, only a few months later. | ||
| A few months later, yeah. | ||
| I want to go to, and then they went to Concord. | ||
| Talk to us about Concord Bridge. | ||
| We've got about a minute and a half. | ||
| Concord is where the Patriots have a number of supplies. | ||
| Many of them are We're furnished by the Marblehead Men. | ||
| This is gunpowder, which is extremely precious. | ||
| They also have cannons. | ||
| The British try to find some of those supplies. | ||
| They find a cannon or two in some supplies, but the powder still remains hidden. | ||
| It's at Concord North Bridge that the Shot Heard Round the World is fired by the British. | ||
| This time they fire first, and the Patriots stand their ground again. | ||
| And, you know, against these British regulars. | ||
| And it's here that they hold their ground. | ||
| And the British have to, they're many miles away from Boston, and they now have to fight their way back. | ||
| And they fight their way back along Battle Road, as it's called, all the way back towards Boston. | ||
| And it's a very close-in thing. | ||
| They barely make it back. | ||
| There are literally thousands. | ||
| Of militiamen and Minutemen. | ||
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We're fighting a guerrilla war. | |
| Look, the British understood to stop an insurrection, or to really make sure they kept control, they had to take the weapons away, right? | ||
| They had to get to the weapons. | ||
| Also, the guerrilla war that the Patriots fought on their way back to Boston, the British Army understood they had a very different fight on their hands at the end of this. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back for hour two. | ||
| Patrick K. O'Donnell. | ||
| Continue to join us. | ||
| We got Joe Kent, the combat veteran. | ||
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