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The David Knight Show - 08/31/2023

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	Transcription by CastingWords You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 31st of August.
	Dear of our Lord, 2023.
	Well, today, there's been a lot of talk about how this is a civil war that is developing.
	We've got John Voight saying that.
	We have Tucker Carlson now repeating Alex Jones are going to assassinate Trump.
	We have Tucker Carlson going to Hungary and Viktor Orban saying, Trump is the only one who can save us from world war.
	Or is it the other way around?
	Did he go to war with the world as a globalist fifth column in 2020?
	And of course today, I don't know if it's going to happen during the program or afterwards, Joe Biggs is going to be sentenced, perhaps to a life sentence, for his support of Trump.
	Is this going to happen to all of us?
	Well, it isn't going to happen to me, but it may happen to America.
	We'll be right back. Yeah, they may put me in prison, but it won't be for supporting Trump.
	That's for sure. Let's begin with some news.
	And, of course, the other big news that happened was some people calling it Glitch McConnell.
	He froze again for about 30 seconds.
	Had another one of these issues. Look, I'm not saying this to make fun of his old age.
	Old age, illness, and death are coming for us all.
	But this empire, this American empire, is now...
	Looking like a remake of A Weekend at Bernie's.
	We've got these people being propped up, like Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein, Fetterman.
	A lot of these people are there not because they see themselves as servants of the public.
	They're to do a very important job.
	They don't see themselves as that.
	We should not see them as that either.
	They're there for themselves.
	They're there because of their greed, their pride, their lust for power.
	And they're going to hang on to that until they die.
	You will carry them out feet first out of the Senate.
	People like Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein, Fetterman.
	There are people who are meeting with Mitch McConnell.
	Perhaps they will convince him to leave.
	They can't convince Feinstein.
	And of course, Fetterman was impaired before he ever ran.
	And so... It truly is amazing to watch this.
	But it is a metaphor for this corrupt, senile government that we have that hangs on to power as it is decaying and dying.
	It will do anything to hang on to power.
	The amazing thing about it, I'm not going to play it because it's 30 seconds of silence, essentially.
	But it came in response, he's having a press conference, and a reporter asked him, Will he run for re-election?
	And then he freezes before he can say anything.
	His assistant comes over.
	Are you okay? What's going on?
	Finally, he comes out of it after 30 seconds.
	And she says, next question.
	Because I guess he answered that, didn't he?
	One way or the other. I don't know when his re-election cycle is coming up.
	But it is sad to see that these people hang on to power.
	Regardless, they're not there as servants of the people, servants of the country.
	If they were, they would step aside and let somebody else do it.
	As I mentioned, Joe Biggs today will be the first of the Proud Boys to be sentenced.
	He's been found guilty by these juries, and of course it was a rigged process.
	It is an outrage. They're asking for 30 years.
	He's already been in jail for a couple of years.
	It's just such a tragedy to see this.
	And it's so unnecessary.
	What did anybody think they were going to accomplish on January the 6th?
	There's absolutely no way anything was going to be accomplished.
	It was a fool's errand.
	And I'm just sorry to see this.
	The judge, it was scheduled to have a couple of those, five of them have been convicted, the Proud Boys.
	Two of them were supposed to get their sentencing yesterday, but that was called off after the judge had a medical emergency.
	I don't know, did he freeze or something?
	I don't know what happened.
	Freeze up and they ask him a question.
	So the other ones have been moved to next week after the Labor Day holiday.
	And so Joe Biggs is on for today, and he will be the first one to be sentenced.
	It's such an amazing tragedy.
	He was not violent there.
	Well, they show all these pictures of him walking around and circled him during the congressional hearings.
	And you know that if he raised a hand against anybody, they would have featured that.
	But they're featuring Joe everywhere.
	And it just makes me sick to see our government so corrupt.
	But you know, when we look at the prisoners here, and we've just had, after this story was written two days ago, Harrison Lloyd, the only person to go to jail without bail, has been released.
	It was not because Trump helped him.
	It's because he put a crowdfunding thing up and he got money to get his bail and get out of jail.
	But the only person going to jail out of these 19 people, Trump plus 18 others, was a black man who was leading black voters for Trump.
	And could not make the bail.
	Doesn't have any money for a lawyer.
	Perhaps he does now after this fundraiser.
	I think he made $200,000.
	Half of it's going to go to his bail to get him out of jail.
	As I said before, it is not a wise strategy by Donald Trump to focus on himself only, but it is part of his Shakespearean character flaws.
	That he only acts out of revenge or what he thinks is his own self-interest.
	And he's not really very capable of even deciding what his own self-interests are, Ty Cobb said.
	A deeply wounded narcissist.
	His own self-interest would not be to abandon these other people who are being charged simply because of him.
	It is not a good strategy.
	It's one of the reasons why so many people were indicted.
	And if these people turn against him, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
	But that's not the way that the conservative press portrays it.
	You see, Joel Pollack, who's the editor at Breitbart, puts it this way.
	As Biden talks civil rights and Martin Luther King, Fulton County holds a black political prisoner.
	Well, I agree that that is hypocrisy on the side of Biden.
	And isn't it interesting that as we go into this civil war where the Mason-Dixon line is going to be Donald Trump, that everything that happens, you know, you don't see it when your guy does it.
	So the left doesn't see anything that Biden does.
	The right doesn't see anything that Trump does.
	And they're both doing the same thing, quite frankly.
	There's not a dime's worth of difference between Biden and Trump when it comes to the essential things.
	And of course, you know, he's completely forgotten by the me, me, me Trump.
	People used to make fun of Obama because he would say I, I, I, I. They'd count up the number of times they said I in a speech.
	Well, Trump is different only in the sense that he refers to himself by the royal we, we.
	Many Trump supporters feel that Trump and his co-defendants, including several lawyers, are political prisoners since they appear to have committed no crimes other than being associated with Trump's 2020 election challenges.
	I agree. I think Trump, out of the four indictments, I think only one of them, the document indictment, is legit and it is a solid case.
	However, it is even tainted by the fact that there isn't even an even application of the law.
	But just like January the 6th, this is all about Trump.
	It doesn't matter that people go to prison on his behalf.
	It's still about Trump.
	And they're coming after Trump because he's between us and them?
	No, no. This is a revenge game.
	It's Game of Thrones. The only one denied bail with no lawyer, no help from Trump, but they don't mention that.
	And so, again, it's going to be interesting to see what happens to the prisoners.
	But here's an example of, again, both Biden and Trump.
	You know, we could talk about the example of Julian Assange.
	Julian Assange, who is, you know, it's the indictment against him.
	Everything was rolled out by Bill Barr as soon as Trump made that Bush CIA agent attorney general.
	And Trump did nothing to pardon him.
	And then Biden has done nothing to pardon him.
	They're coming after him still.
	So again, Trump and Biden.
	Here's another one. Paul Whelan.
	Rare video footage has emerged of a detained American citizen and former Marine Paul Whelan inside a Russian penal colony where he's serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges.
	Now, one of the reasons this is happening, they speculate, is because, and this is RT, this is Russia Today running this report.
	Perhaps they want to escalate the visibility of this American prisoner who is being visited on a regular basis by high-ranking U.S. officials and British officials because he also has a British citizenship as well as an American citizenship.
	And so, you know, they say, well, he's not guilty of espionage, but they're going to leave him in jail.
	Even as Biden goes out of his way to cut prisoner deals for entertainers, he's completely forgotten this guy.
	And so he's being betrayed by Biden.
	But he was also betrayed by Trump.
	He was arrested in 2018.
	That was the middle of the Trump presidency.
	Trump left him to rot in jail, just like Julian Assange.
	Biden continues to do that.
	Here's the report from RT. The inmates of this maximum security prison are no ordinary hooligans.
	These walls, laced with barbed wire, secure a very different breed of criminals.
	Big shot drug dealers, murderers, rapists.
	To end up here, a person would have to take more than just one wrong turn in life.
	For the past couple of years, this penitentiary, hidden in the embrace of a thick and remote Russian woodland, has been the home of Paul Willen, a former U.S. Marine who was found guilty of espionage here in Russia and sentenced to 16 years behind bars.
	Paul struggles to hide his excitement as he sees our filming crew.
	Eventually he waves the cameraman over and asks to film him together with the deputy warden.
	What's your account for the day?
	He's making sewing stuff.
	He says 100. 100 units?
	What's the standard amount?
	Says 80. Great job, you're Worker of the Month.
	I approach Paul with the microphone.
	His attitude takes a 180 degree turn.
	His vocabulary shrinks to a handful of words.
	So you understand when I say that I can't do an interview, which means I can't answer any questions?
	Well, just a woman. It's not an interview.
	I think that's just a fact. If you're asking me questions, well, that's an interview.
	If you don't only ask me your questions, I could go speak to your store.
	Maybe final act?
	No, I can't do an interview.
	This is the letter of consent he had written and signed before our visit, agreeing to be filmed and answering a few questions.
	But a few days later, a British Embassy staffer paid Paul a visit, since he's also a citizen of the Crown.
	After that, he appears to have had a change of heart.
	Generally speaking, Paul routinely hosts diplomats.
	He is the U.S. ambassador to Russia visiting the penitentiary.
	It's almost as if the Western diplomatic corps doesn't want him to speak his mind in an interview to RT, an outlet they've been trying to gag for years.
	Yeah, well, it's not simply about RT. It's about the fact that they don't want to do anything evidently to help him.
	This might be an attempt by Russia to try to restart the case.
	But as Zero Hedge points out, the way they put this, Whelan has been deemed by Washington as, quote, wrongfully detained, unquote.
	But by all appearances, the Biden administration has done little to free him, even after his family and supporters expressed outrage about diplomatic efforts.
	Well, he was arrested five years ago, 2018, when Trump was president.
	Did Trump do anything at all?
	You see how this always works out?
	Well, it's Biden. It's Biden who's bad.
	Trump gets a pass from everybody on everything.
	It's absolutely amazing to me to see this.
	Again, both Trump and Biden doing the same thing over and over again.
	But in our...
	Our division, our polarization, our tribalism, we pretend that Trump is squeaky clean.
	He doesn't do the kind of stuff that Biden does.
	Yes, he does. He's controlled by the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex the same way that Biden is.
	So he said, yeah, I can't talk.
	I can't answer questions after he'd already agreed to the interview.
	Previous to that, he said, I'm greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release.
	Especially as the four-year anniversary of my arrest is coming up, he said in a phone interview a while back.
	I was arrested for a crime that never occurred.
	I don't understand why I'm still sitting here.
	I was led to believe that things were moving in the right direction and that governments were negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon.
	Well, again, this is what the politicians do.
	You're not their concern, as Pence said.
	He's not concerned about what happens to Americans or the American economy.
	He's got some geopolitical games to play.
	And they're all that way. They're all playing Games of Thrones.
	Geopolitical games are out for their own personal revenge.
	Here's an example out of Italy.
	This is a Politico article out of Politico EU. And you remember, it was less than a year ago that Italy got a new prime minister, Georgia Maloney.
	What did she campaign on?
	Uncontrolled immigration that was happening into Italy at the time.
	That was her central thing.
	And then when she becomes president, she does nothing about it.
	Does that ring a bell? Do you know anybody like that in the United States?
	See, when politicians go 180 degrees on their key issue, do you remember that?
	Do you remember Trump? Now, everybody was afraid of him.
	All the immigration stopped for the first four to six months or whatever it was.
	And then they realized he was a paper tiger.
	And it came back with a vengeance.
	Caravans and all the rest of this stuff.
	Trump never did anything about DACA. He never did anything about the wall.
	He built some 40 or 50 miles of wall, new wall.
	Repaired some other wall. He didn't need to do any of that.
	He could have...
	Done some of the other things that he talked about.
	And I said this in 2017.
	I said, why doesn't he end the war?
	Why doesn't he bring the troops home from Afghanistan?
	Put them on our border to protect our country.
	That'd be far more effective as a deterrent.
	But he didn't do any of that.
	And Biden was forced to withdraw.
	In a Chinese fire drill, if you will, out of Afghanistan.
	Getting people killed. Getting Marines killed.
	He was forced to do that.
	Trump didn't do it. But then everybody condemns, and rightfully so, Biden for the way that he pulled out.
	It was beyond stupid, the way it was done.
	Beyond stupid. But they had to leave.
	And Trump could have shut this thing down as he promised, but he didn't do it.
	So when you look at this Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney, she had proposed establishing a naval blockade of Italy's shores to deter boatloads of migrants and refugees coming from North Africa.
	She said, I admire Hungary's Viktor Orban.
	She said she believed that white Christian civilization was under threat.
	But that was September of last year.
	Here we are, 11 months later.
	And what is she doing?
	Nothing at all. As a matter of fact, you look at what has happened, and the reality has been very different.
	In 10 months, over 150,000 immigrants have been allowed in, and there's no effort to stop them.
	A ship with over 250 military-age illegals, all males, all young, from Africa, just arrived on the shores of Italy.
	No sane nation would allow this to go on, writes End Wokeness on Twitter, or X. And then this, on an island that had a population of 6,000 Italians, they just brought in a record 4,200 illegals from Africa and Middle East.
	You talk about a replacement.
	You talk about swamping people.
	A very small island that had been known for Stunning, pristine beaches.
	They bring in 4,200 immigrants, all young, military age, with the 6,000 Italians that are living there.
	This is the person who is going to go to the wall, fight the EU over this great replacement.
	You see, this is why I say...
	Listen to what the people have to say.
	Talk about these policies.
	But understand, it's going to be very, very rare if any of these politicians in any of these countries ever do what they say as a candidate.
	It's a lot of talk.
	And the beat goes on.
	And the same people who are running the government now will be the ones who will be running it before.
	Listen to the WHO, not the World Health Organization, but the original WHO. Don't get fooled again.
	Parting on the left is now parting on the right.
	Maloney is presiding over a country that is economically stagnant and in demographic decline.
	Over the last decade, Italy has shrunk by 1.5 million people, more than the entire population of Milan.
	In 39 of its 107 provinces, there are more retirees than workers.
	It's shrinking. It's dying.
	They're replacing it.
	It's numbers like these that prompted Italy's economy minister to warn earlier this month That there will be no reform of the pension system.
	Because these people coming in for free stuff, they're not really interested in going to work and paying for the pensions of the retiring Italians.
	Same thing is going to be happening all over the world.
	Maloney's government has been, quote, pushed to implement a more realistic policy by the entrepreneurial class.
	Isn't that nice? The entrepreneurial class.
	The billionaires who run everything, I guess.
	Maloney is also one of the biggest cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine.
	She threw a fit earlier this year after not being invited into one of Zelensky's ritzy dinner parties in Paris, and she went on an unhinged rant in March, screaming in Parliament at members of the Five Star Movement for calling for peace in Ukraine.
	Two months later, Zelensky threw the dog a bone and let her meet with him in Rome for a photo op, writes Information Liberation.
	That's exactly what is happening.
	Our civilization is dying.
	Because we don't like children.
	We want to kill them. We want to groom them.
	We want to use them. Don't want them around.
	Let's find some way that we can get them out of our lives even if we have them.
	Is there some school we can send them to or something like that?
	I don't want to have them around me, right?
	And this is all happening because culture is above politics and above culture is our moral foundation, really.
	Church of England. Priests are now saying that premarital sex is okay.
	Gay sex is okay.
	Gay marriage is okay.
	We were talking about this last night to my son.
	Well, Travis is doing the board. It was my other son.
	We're talking. And he said, you know, the Church of England didn't really have a good beginning.
	It began by the redefinition of marriage, if you will, with Henry VIII. He divorces his wife.
	Starts his own church because he wants to divorce his wife.
	He gets married another five times.
	I think he killed all... I don't know if he killed the last one.
	I think he did kill the last one.
	I'm not sure. But anyway, you know, I guess whenever he would take his marriage vows about till death do us part, probably had a gleam in his eye, don't you think, about that, when he would do that?
	Yeah, not an auspicious beginning for the Church of England.
	But now these priests...
	Want to divorce Christ from their church.
	Understand what's happening here?
	Get him out of the way.
	We want to be free to do whatever we wish.
	A majority of priests in the Church of England want the church to offer same-sex weddings and allow premarital and homosexual sex, according to a survey of Anglican priests.
	It's like family feud or something.
	Survey says you would not expect this, would you?
	Not even of the Church of England.
	Most Anglican priests think church teaching should be brought in line with public opinion.
	There you go. Here's the deal.
	The kingdom of God is not a democracy.
	God's the only one who gets a vote in election and choice.
	He's the only legislator.
	It's not a democracy.
	But that's the way they're treating it in the Church of England.
	Why? Because they've kicked God out a long time ago if he was ever there.
	Allow gay couples to get married in church.
	53.4% of the priests are in favor of that.
	They talk to 1,200 active Anglican priests.
	The Church of England currently allows blessings for gay couples, but only permits church weddings between a man and a woman.
	So there you go. They did blessings.
	Well, if you're going to call evil good and good evil...
	Why stop at that?
	62.6% said the church should change its teachings on the immorality of premarital sex.
	None of this stuff about flee youthful lust.
	No, none of that stuff.
	21% want to accept all fornication.
	41% say sex outside of marriage is fine for people, as long as it is a, quote, committed relationship.
	You know what you call a committed relationship?
	Marriage. That's what it used to be called.
	64.5% of the priests said the church should end its opposition to homosexual sex.
	Fewer than a third, 29.7%, said the church teachings should not change on the matter.
	In 1998, it was very different.
	25 years ago, Anglican bishops from around the globe passed a resolution declaring homosexual practice, quote, incompatible with Scripture as it is.
	It's incompatible. You don't get the opportunity to just pick and choose what you like out of it, right?
	You take it all or you take none of it, really.
	At the time, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, quote, I stand wholeheartedly with the traditional Anglican orthodoxy.
	I see no room in Holy Scripture or the entire Christian tradition for any sexual activity outside matrimony of husband and wife.
	That's exactly right.
	These people promise you freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin.
	Do not be conformed to this world.
	They want the church to be conformed to the culture.
	Let's be more in line with the culture.
	Well, you know, they're also told, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
	How? By actually picking up the Bible and looking at what it says.
	This is pretty obvious. This is basic.
	This is like the repudiation of the Constitution that we see in courts all the time.
	They swear to uphold the Constitution as a condition of their office, just like presumably these people swear to uphold the Bible.
	I don't know if that's what they do or not.
	But then they proceed to ignore it.
	They have no authority when they do that.
	So instead, they promise you that you can be transformed.
	You can transform your body. You can...
	Do all kinds of surgery to it and things like that.
	But look, it's not actually transformation.
	What these people are talking to and talking to kids about is conformation.
	Conforming to the world.
	Conforming to the insanity and the debauchery It's being pushed on people.
	Adults as well as children.
	That's what this is truly about.
	On Rockfin, Doug A. Lug.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	He thanks us. Well, thank you, Doug.
	I appreciate that. And on Rockfin, Mr.
	Goldfold. Thank you for the tip.
	He said, RT hired Rick Moranis.
	I didn't know they hired Rick Moranis.
	Oh, he looks... I get it.
	Okay. It takes me a while to catch on.
	He looks a bit like him.
	But... Yeah, it is.
	Yeah, honey, I shrunk the prison.
	So anyway, they said, when you look at this, though, this goes bigger than the Church of England.
	This is another survey.
	This was done of Americans who indicate that they are regular churchgoers.
	In this particular survey, they said a minority of American churchgoers strongly desire more education for adults.
	Those surveyed said their churches provide comprehensive and thorough amount of worldview training for children and for teenagers.
	They think there's plenty of education for kids.
	68% said that.
	74% thought everything was just fine with the teenagers.
	Are you looking around you?
	I don't see any evidence of that.
	I don't see any evidence of people being conformed to Christ.
	I see they're being conformed to the world.
	About a third of those who surveyed said they'd prefer their church preach or teach about abortion more often.
	Look, I understand there's a lot of people who've been lied to, and that's the key thing about this.
	And so I think there is a role for some discussion of that.
	The general principles are the key thing.
	But, you know, they need to There is a constant state of deception about this.
	And they need to also understand that if they have made a mistake, which they said a lot of them had abortions, they need to understand that there is forgiveness for that in Christ as well.
	Do they get that side of it either?
	Even regular attendees...
	Don't trust the Bible.
	I said 47% of regular church attendees believe they will live in eternity with God because they've confessed their sins and accepted Christ as their personal Savior.
	And I would say, as their Lord.
	Because otherwise, if you don't accept Him as your Lord, Jesus has already said, why do you call me Lord and you don't do the things I say?
	I never knew you.
	We didn't have a relationship that you went away from.
	If you don't submit, repent and submit, then there isn't any forgiveness there.
	About a third of those surveyed believe that the Bible is the actual true Word of God.
	Only about a third of the people go to church on a regular basis believe the Bible is the Word of God.
	Why on earth would you be going to church if you didn't actually believe it was from God?
	If you don't believe the Bible, why are you there?
	Ice cream socials.
	Making contact with...
	I don't know. Maybe you go because you like the music and the performance.
	They had big lights and stages and smoke machines and all these different places.
	I mean, you know, it's like a free concert.
	I actually don't know.
	I don't know. But that's what the biggest churches do.
	You know, it's like this entertainment thing for people.
	Maybe that's what it is.
	I don't understand. But only about a third of them believe that.
	And even churchgoers, they said, have a skewed idea of success.
	A study found only 39% believed that success was best defined as consistent obedience to God.
	Yeah. So when we look at what is happening with abortion, we have the D.C. jury has now found these pro-life activists guilty of violating the FACE Act.
	And this just reeks of total Democrat corruption.
	This is Biden alone.
	This is not anything that Trump ever did.
	This is the first one of these things we've gotten to.
	It's not Biden and Trump doing the same thing and Biden getting blamed and Trump getting excused.
	No, this is all Biden. A Washington, D.C. jury.
	Found five pro-life activists guilty of violating the FACE Act, the freedom of access to clinic entrances, which in and of itself is an abomination, that act.
	Oh, look, you just need to stay away from Washington, D.C. What a corrupt cesspool that place is.
	They'll charge you for things that are not crimes.
	They have kangaroo courts.
	These people are now facing up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $350,000 each.
	And this is something that is clearly an invention of the Biden administration's Justice Department and done in retaliation for their exposing what was being done in these abortion clinics.
	The alleged incident that they've been convicted of happened in October of 2020.
	Nothing happened for two years.
	In March of 2022, after the They had gone to a surgery clinic there in Washington.
	They discovered the remains of approximately 115 aborted babies in a waste box there at Surgy Clinic, five of whom, they said, may have been partially aborted or killed after birth in violation of federal law.
	So after they make that public, Then right after that, in the same month, they come after them for something that happened two years prior that they didn't do anything about.
	This Biden administration is unbelievably corrupt.
	Unbelievably corrupt.
	I'm telling you, based on what Trump said yesterday with Glenn Beck, it's not going to get any better if he gets it.
	He's now going to pursue revenge.
	His campaign is a campaign for revenge.
	And it is going to further polarize this country into a civil war over these two decrepit crooks.
	We want to rule the district of criminals.
	The Thomas More Society has noted that this Surgy Center has long been the subject of controversy, suspicion with reason to believe that late-term abortionist was leaving born-alive infants without care.
	This is integral to understanding Lauren's motive that day in October 2020.
	They were the people that were defending them.
	And so, you know, this is a political case.
	Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, released a statement slamming Judge Colleen Collar-Cotelli for refusing to admit that the investigation video of this abortionist into evidence.
	This is also the same judge she said who recently suggested that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution's ban on, quote, involuntary servitude may confer a right to abortion.
	She compared the beauty of pregnancy and motherhood with the horror of slavery, said Lila Rose.
	From the beginning, this trial has been a sham with a completely biased pro-abortion judge who has made a mockery of our justice system.
	This decision will be appealed.
	We demand it be overturned.
	These activists are heroes.
	The Department of Justice has acted capriciously, illegitimately.
	These charges stem from the Face Act, which exists to target and to chill the free speech of pro-life Americans.
	Well, that is absolutely true.
	And they point out how rigged this was.
	Donors to Planned Parenthood Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I got an email from Mateo, a listener.
	And he was talking about the abortion videos and also about COVID stuff and how it had affected him, what had happened during Trump's pandemic execution, his fifth column movement to do what the globalists wanted to do while posing as an anti-globalist.
	But anyway, he says, I particularly have very difficult time during COVID with the shutdown, causing me millions and lost business for which I had six years into a project.
	My faith and family and your show has helped me to keep positive looking to the future.
	My finances have dwindled to almost nothing.
	I will send a check when possible.
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	He goes on to say, in terms of abortion, he says, I have a very hard time reading and even listening to your show when abortion is discussed.
	I'm somewhat ashamed that I don't have the stomach.
	As I've traveled the world and witnessed death, destruction, war, and poverty, God does something to a man's heart when he becomes a father.
	And while I understand the need to discuss it and to stand for life, and I do any chance that I get, the horrific stories make me think of my two boys as babies, and I'm ashamed of this country and our people.
	Absolutely. And, you know, again, talking about the procedure that I played, it's such a powerful film.
	Every time I watch it, I can't speak right after it.
	And this is the truth of what is happening.
	And the truth is what needs to be unleashed.
	Politicians are not going to unleash the truth.
	They don't care about this.
	They want to please their donors.
	And we've seen with DeSantis, Mr.
	Sanctimonious, as Trump said, Because he signed on to stop abortion, essentially, by saying, you know, at six weeks, most people don't know that they're pregnant at six weeks.
	That's when the heartbeat begins and other things.
	But by signing that, it was essentially stopping abortion.
	Trump said that was too harsh.
	It was too sanctimonious.
	Because, you know, they don't want to have this albatross around their neck.
	Well, we need to release the truth.
	The politicians are not going to do it.
	So you need to pass that around.
	That's one of the most powerful things.
	If you just see what is being done, I don't think that most people in this country really understand what has happened.
	I think it's being done out of ignorance.
	I remember in 73 when they had Roe v.
	Wade, and I didn't understand either.
	Fortunately, I never was in a situation with an unwanted pregnancy.
	Karen and I were just the opposite.
	But we never had a decision like that to make.
	But I look back as to what we were told when I was in high school, early part of college, listening to mainstream media.
	I probably wouldn't have thought twice about an abortion.
	And even when I ran for Congress, it was while I was running for Congress in 1996, And I kept getting all these questions about partial birth abortion.
	At first I didn't know what it was.
	And when I looked up, and I was just going with a standard line, you know, of libertarians.
	Well, I want to get government out of the boardroom and out of the bedroom, right?
	We don't want government running the economy.
	We don't want government running our private lives.
	And that was my position on it.
	And I thought, that sounds reasonable.
	I don't think government needs to interject itself everywhere.
	But then when I saw what partial birth abortion was, taking a child able to survive at full term and executing them, literally executing them, pretending that because a foot or a hand or something is still inside the mother, that this baby is not separated.
	It was full execution.
	And I changed my position during that election cycle because of that.
	And I think they're preying on the ignorance of people.
	But the key thing is, is that if you have been deceived by that, you understand that there is forgiveness in Christ.
	And that he removes our sins as far as east is from the west.
	Because his mercy is as high as heaven above earth.
	He also talks about civil asset forfeiture.
	An example of this, reported by Real Clear Wire, picked up by Zero Hedge, about what is happening in Muskegee County, Oklahoma.
	You know the place where? Will and Jennings, I think it was.
	Was it Will? I don't know.
	I'm not a country western expert.
	I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee.
	We don't smoke marijuana.
	We don't take trips on LSD. But, you know, if you drive through our town, We're going to steal everything we see.
	That's why you would finish that today.
	Because it's yet another example of how civil asset forfeiture and the drug war have corrupted the police.
	You had a guy, his name is Eh Wah, E-H, W-A-H. And he was pulled over.
	Presumably because he had a brake light that was out.
	And then they started going through searching his car.
	They found $53,000 in cash and they said, oh, you obviously are a drug dealer.
	And they kept it. And the actuality was, was that he was not a drug dealer.
	He wasn't a drug lord.
	He wasn't even a low-level dealer.
	He was a volunteer manager for a Christian rock band.
	He was raising money for Thai orphans and Burmese refugees.
	That's why his name is so strange, because he's from there.
	Some of the cash belonged to him and to band members following months-long tour across several states, but the rest of it came from concert donations and belonged to the orphans and refugees.
	But they don't care.
	They never charged him with anything.
	They never looked to see if he had a legitimate reason for having this cash.
	It was available to them and they stole it.
	And this is the corruption that is happening to our police, to our courts, and everything else with this war on drugs.
	And this comes from Biden.
	I talked about this once before, the evolution of the war on drugs and of the RICO statutes.
	And, you know, Rudy Giuliani used the RICO statutes to come after the mob.
	But when you get rid of due process, you eventually come after other people.
	They then use the RICO statutes to come after abortion protesters.
	And then they modified the RICO statutes to go into civil asset forfeiture.
	So we will just confiscate the money first from people.
	We'll never even bother to charge them with a crime.
	We're not going to come after the mafia.
	We just come after everybody that way.
	And so this is something that It began under Reagan.
	And it was Joe Biden who had a great deal to do with it.
	And so you've got people like Reagan and Rudy on the Republican side.
	You've got people like Biden on the Democrat side.
	And they said the silence is strategic.
	You know, they're not making any statements when they asked the police department there in Muskegee about it.
	They said the more that people learn about civil asset forfeiture, the less they like it.
	But Oklahoma police and prosecutors have voiced opposition in recent weeks to reforming it.
	They don't want it reformed.
	They want to keep it quiet.
	They want to keep stealing the money.
	You know, that's the thing. When more people learn about civil asset forfeiture, the less they like it.
	I wonder if Megyn Kelly still knows or cares about it.
	You know, she didn't when I talked to her.
	When she went to InfoWars to interview Alex Jones, she had no idea what civil asset forfeiture was.
	She's a lawyer. And a highly paid opinion person.
	And now she has decided that she's going to be a female Alex Jones.
	She's going to rant and rave.
	And she's going to use profanity to sell the idea that she's legit.
	She's not legit. She doesn't care about you.
	She doesn't care about civil asset forfeiture.
	Everybody should care about this.
	Under this They can take everything we've got.
	It's turned our government into highway robbers and thieves.
	And they have each agreed to look the other way because they split the money between themselves.
	Same thing that Trump did with the RNC and the Save America grift running up to January the 6th.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back on Rockfin.
	Thank you very much, Beth Baldwin.
	I appreciate that tip. That's very kind.
	Appreciate that.
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	TheDavidKnightShow.com If you were in charge of NATO, if you were, say, Joe Biden, what would your next move be in the war in Ukraine?
	What would you do? Peace.
	Immediately. Call back Trump.
	That's the only way out.
	Call back Trump. Call back Trump.
	Because, you know, you can criticize him for many reasons.
	I understand all the discussion.
	But, you know, the best foreign policy of the recent several decades belonged to him.
	He did not initiate any new war.
	He treated nicely the North Koreans and Russia, even the Chinese.
	He delivered a policy which was the best one for Middle East, Abrahamic codes.
	So that was a very good foreign policy.
	He's criticized that he's not educated enough to understand the word.
	But this is not the case.
	Fact counts. And his foreign policy was the best form for the word in the last several decades I have seen.
	And if he would have been the president at the moment of the Russian invasion started, it would be not possible to do that by the Russians.
	So Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably the human beings in the globe as well.
	He didn't start any new wars?
	Yes, that's right, he didn't start any new wars.
	Okay, well, if that's your standard, Orban and Tucker, if that's your standard, what if Trump becomes president and just continues the Ukrainian war?
	Is that okay? Why not?
	That was your standard. He didn't start any new wars.
	Do you understand that Trump didn't end Obama's wars?
	Obama had seven wars going on.
	Trump didn't pull the troops back from Afghanistan.
	We lost that war.
	We were kicked out eventually. He didn't end any of those wars.
	He didn't pull people out of Syria.
	Oh, every once in a while, we thought, oh, look, had a bunch of American troops get killed in Syria because, you know, the Syrians...
	Trump shelled the Syrian oil fields where the Americans have taken over.
	As Trump was saying, just take the oil.
	Take the oil. So, did he end any of the wars?
	No. What makes you think, then, if he didn't end any of Obama's seven wars, that he would end this war, either?
	I've said for the longest time, and I stand by it, I've said the big difference between, in terms of foreign policy, the big difference between Trump and Biden, There's going to be war with China if it's Trump, war with Russia if it's Biden.
	And if we're unlucky, we'll have war with both of them.
	We may have a situation where we have war with both of them.
	Did Trump decide he was going to protect the border?
	Did he reduce NATO? Our contributions to NATO or to the UN? No, he didn't.
	Any of that. Did he do anything about the corrupt...
	DNC, Biden, Ukraine.
	See, that's the other part of it. You want to talk about Trump in Ukraine?
	It was Obama that created the coup, 2014.
	And then all of this Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate stuff was being done with people of the DNC, Andrea Chalupa and others, going to Ukraine and creating these lies about Donald Trump, not even to defend himself.
	Did he do anything to expose the crimes in Ukraine?
	That Biden was knee-deep in.
	That Obama was knee-deep in.
	That the DNC was knee-deep in.
	He didn't do anything about that.
	He couldn't care less about the people in Ukraine that were being shelled and bombed on a daily basis, civilians being killed, by continual shelling, by the Obama-installed government.
	Trump didn't care anything about that.
	Folks, this is a dangerous delusion.
	To make Trump the savior of the world.
	It is a dangerous thing.
	And... Again, Trump is the man who can save the Western world.
	And we see these headlines on Revolver.
	That's a headline from Revolver.
	We see Tucker saying that.
	We see Alex Jones saying that.
	All of them. Rockfin, SoloCat1980 says, Trump did initiate a war.
	That's right. Operation Warp Speed.
	That's what I was going to say. And I will say.
	That war has killed and continues to kill and harm millions.
	Plus, he launched the lockdown war on the economy.
	You're exactly right. Trump was the fifth column.
	For the globalists, portraying himself as being on our side, portraying himself as being against them.
	But he showed his true colors in 2020 when he went to war against us.
	And it's not just Trump.
	Every government on earth went to war with their own people in 2020.
	The most amazing thing.
	It truly was, we've already had a globalist coup.
	And if you don't think we've already had a globalist coup, just take a look at the debates and the fact that nobody wants to talk about this.
	The closest that they got was Ron DeSantis saying, well, you don't know where this economic mess came from?
	Well, it came from your policies, Pence.
	You and Trump did this.
	He didn't mention Trump. Can't talk about Trump.
	But he can criticize Pence because Pence was the vice president of Trump.
	So he criticizes Pence and he says it was your lockdown and other things like that that created this economic mess.
	But DeSantis doesn't talk about the murders.
	The millions, tens of millions of people who have been killed, who have been crippled with this vaccine.
	Nobody talks about that.
	But you got people like Darren Beatty at Revolver.
	Trump is a man who can save the world.
	That's the headline. Tucker, Alex Jones, all of them.
	You know, same as Breitbart, same type of thing.
	Breitbart says, there's their headline.
	Quote, call back Trump, unquote.
	Hungary's Orban tells Tucker that only Trump can end the Ukraine war and, quote, save the Western world.
	You see, Trump, all these people are preaching to the Trump choir.
	And as I put up some of this stuff yesterday on social media, on Twitter, And one of them was what I'm going to get to about what Trump said when he locked us all down.
	And one person doesn't respond to that.
	Instead, he says that Trump is the best president we've had in decades.
	Really? Really?
	After what he did with the lockdown and the masks and all the rest of the stuff?
	After medical martial law?
	After financially incentivized medical malpractice that killed so many people?
	People weren't dying from COVID. They were dying from his financially incentivized medical malpractice rules that he and Fauci put in.
	And that he paid people to do.
	The best president in decades?
	Same thing Ramaswamy says.
	He said, dude, give it a rest.
	COVID wasn't the only thing happening in the world.
	No, it was the only thing happening in the world.
	I don't know where this guy was in 2020, but COVID was the only thing happening in the world.
	It was the only thing we had to worry about.
	We didn't have to worry about how we're going to eat.
	We didn't have to worry about rule of law, nothing in our society.
	All we had to worry about was COVID. Wasn't that nice?
	They made it very simple for us.
	We just had to worry about COVID. It was the only thing happening in the world in 2020 as they took the world apart and created a new normal.
	Just as Davos and Bilderberg and the UN and all these globalist organizations had always said they were going to do, Trump did it for them.
	He took the lead in all that stuff.
	Yeah, hey dude, you give it a rest, I told him.
	I've had people criticizing Trump throughout 2020.
	I heard the same thing.
	Come on, man, he's on our side.
	Yeah, it was necessary to have Trump.
	Because no, these idiots, these fools would not have stood still for this if Hillary had been in charge.
	So, yeah, they're all saying he's going to save the world.
	Here's another one. This is on Zero Hedge.
	This is Zero Hedge's head. A very dangerous moment, quote-unquote.
	Hungary's Orban warns Tucker.
	A third world war is knocking on the door.
	Well, again, Trump is an intelligence community and the military-industrial complex is a puppet.
	Why do you think he had so many generals on there?
	Why do you think he left these intelligence people there and sucked up to them?
	Why do you think he promoted the woman who lied us into the Iraq War using torture?
	You don't think he's their puppet?
	You don't think they own him?
	Just look at what he did if you don't want to look at the personnel.
	Personnel is policy. And then we saw both the personnel and the policy.
	You still can't understand that at this point in time?
	Yeah, COVID was the world war.
	That's exactly right. And when Pence talks about this, everybody sees it with Pence because they don't like Pence.
	So Pence says, well, Americans are not my concern.
	We've got to escalate things.
	And Pence is out there. He says, on day one, it's still his priority.
	On day one, I'll take executive actions focusing on rebuilding the military.
	Rebuilding the military.
	And, of course, Biden wants to do that as well.
	Biden says he's making moves to prevent any future president from ending the Ukraine war.
	Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com points out the Biden administration is trying to reach a bipartisan security, mutual defense deal with Ukraine.
	See, if we get in trouble, the Ukrainians are going to come to our rescue.
	And if the Ukrainians get their tail beat, we're going to go to their rescue and we'll start a world war.
	That's what Biden wants. That's what Pence wants.
	And quite frankly, it's what Trump is going to do too.
	Just like you see these people, they say one thing and they do another.
	Just like Georgia Maloney, right?
	Georgia. This is exactly what these people...
	I can't understand why people can't see that they're not going to keep their campaign promises.
	Here's Andy Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly, writing on WND. Trump can and will pardon everybody.
	There you go. He's going to make everything better.
	He's going to save the world.
	He's going to free the prisoners.
	I mean, he's just like Jesus, isn't he?
	Just like Jesus.
	As a matter of fact, he's better than Jesus.
	These people don't pay any attention to Jesus.
	They focus on every move of Trump all day long.
	The question is, why didn't Trump pardon everybody before?
	Why didn't he pardon Julian Assange, who helped him become president by telling the truth about Hillary Clinton?
	And now they want to kill this guy for investigative journalism.
	Why didn't he free the people that gave him money and followed him to the Capitol on January the 6th?
	He had two weeks to do that.
	He didn't do that for anybody.
	Why did he not do that?
	Because... As a deeply wounded narcissist, he only acted in his own perceived self-interest, and he was worried that if he did something like that, that was going to get these people who are already furious with him, even more angry.
	And so to save himself, he ignored them.
	And then they came after him anyway.
	And so now he's out for revenge.
	It's war between him and these other guys.
	And as he's telling Glenn Beck yesterday, oh yeah, I'm going to lock up Biden for sure.
	Oh, you said that about Hillary Clinton.
	Oh yeah, I gave her a pass.
	I'm going to get Biden this time.
	I have to. I've got no choice.
	And they're escalating it to that.
	And all these people say, well, you know, Biden is going to assassinate Trump.
	That's what Tucker is now saying.
	It is Game of Thrones.
	You are not their concern.
	Just understand that.
	They're out for themselves.
	Just like, you know, Mitch McConnell.
	Glitch McConnell. He's going to stay there forever.
	Dianne Feinstein. Going to stay there forever.
	You are not their concern. They want to hang on to power and money as much as they can.
	And, you know, they...
	Don't see themselves as ever having to answer to God for anything.
	Just going to grab everything they can.
	You know, whoever dies with most power and toys wins, right?
	Conservative groups are drawing up a plan to dismantle the U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision.
	That sounds like a great idea, doesn't it?
	Now, L.A. Times doesn't like it, but I look at this and I say, well, that sounds really good.
	But if you read the details of what they're proposing, and this is a plan coming from the Heritage Foundation and some people who were part of the original Trump administration, this plan is not about reducing government.
	This plan is not about killing unconstitutional bureaucracies.
	Conservatives are getting real excited about this.
	And the LA Times is getting real concerned about it.
	And the Associated Press.
	And they're saying, well, you know, this is...
	This is really bad.
	These people are going to dismantle the U.S. government.
	No, they're not. They're going to keep it in place and put themselves in charge.
	The plan is to get rid of the current employees at the current institutions and to keep those institutions and to put their people in everywhere.
	In the past, what they have typically done is leave the permanent bureaucracy in, and that's the bulk of it, and change one or two people at the top.
	And now what they are talking about doing, the Heritage Foundation, what they're saying is we need to do away with what Republicans deride as a deep state bureaucracy.
	Yeah, exactly. But how would they do that?
	Well, they want to fire as many as 50,000 federal workers.
	Okay, good. Good.
	So far, good. And then replace them with their own people, conservatives.
	Ah, that's where I stop, you see.
	This is just a Game of Thrones.
	It's like, keep this whole thing, and let's just put our people in charge.
	And this is what has been going on for the longest time.
	I'm not surprised that conservatives have done.
	This is for the longest time what the Democrats would do.
	And the conservatives have now become Democrats as the Democrats have now become totalitarian Marxists.
	And the whole focus, this very, very narrow focus on the president.
	You know, whenever you criticize Trump, well, who do you want to be his president?
	The solution is not who's president.
	Do you understand that? That's not the solution.
	You've got to think bigger than this.
	You've got to make Washington irrelevant, not take over Washington and run it with your people.
	You've got to work locally to make it irrelevant.
	It's too far gone.
	And if you get conservatives in there, guess what?
	They're going to turn into the same kind of monsters.
	Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
	This is human nature.
	Lord Acton pointed that out.
	The founding fathers of this country understood that.
	They were realistic about this.
	That's why they gave us the structure of government that's now been completely eradicated.
	That's defined in the Constitution.
	But it shows what is wrong with this focus.
	So now, you know, they've always said, well, if you just get the right person in the Oval Office, that'd be great.
	Now it's like, if we can just get the right person and 50,000 other people...
	In this Leviathan thing, that'll be enough to turn the ship of state around.
	And we'll be benevolent dictators, you see.
	Now, when you've got organizations that are unconstitutional, they're unconstitutional for a reason.
	The wise people who created this government did not want to have institutions like that.
	It's the socialists.
	Who wanted it? And the conservatives come in.
	The thing about conservatives is, and who was it?
	It was Chesterton used to talk about that, how the conservatives would solidify the gains that the radicals had made.
	And that's what they do. It's like a ratcheting effect.
	These people come in and they ramp everything up and the conservatives put it in.
	Simplest case of that is a Minimum wage, right?
	Conservatives fight tooth and nail.
	Stop the minimum wage. It's going to create inflation.
	It's going to do this and that. And then when it gets in there, they say, okay, we accept it.
	Now, don't raise it again.
	A little later, they will have the Democrats out there trying to raise it and the conservatives will fight tooth and nail.
	They never say, well, there shouldn't be any such thing as a minimum wage.
	We ought to have a free market where we negotiate these things.
	No, no, we're not going to do that.
	So they buy into these parties.
	It is a ratcheting effect.
	This is going to be a clarion call to come to Washington, says the guy running this at the Heritage Foundation.
	People need to lay down their tools and step aside from their professional life and say, this is my lifetime moment to serve.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	Stop doing what you're doing in the real world.
	Stop making real contributions and come be a part of these unconstitutional bureaucracies.
	We're not going to eliminate the bureaucracies.
	We're going to tell people, put your stuff down and come here and be our political appointees.
	You see, the reason the Heritage Foundation and Republicans are joining onto this is because they know this is the game the Democrats have done.
	You come to Washington, you get a nice, cushy job, and they're now your patron, and you do whatever they want, and it empowers them.
	And so they don't want to fix the government.
	They want to take it over. In the same way that you see Trump saying, well, we need to do the ballot harvesting better than the Democrats.
	Glenn Youngkin is saying the same thing, too.
	You know, we need to extend these voting periods out.
	We need to get our people to go in and vote early and vote often, that type of stuff.
	The Republicans are just becoming carbon copies of the Democrats in all of the worst areas, in all the worst ways.
	Trump-era conservatives want to gut the administrative state from within, ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president's agenda and then replacing them with like-minded officials, more eager to fulfill a new executive's approach to governing.
	You see? That's the issue.
	That's the fundamental flaw with all of this.
	So, just one last thing here.
	And that is going to be a lead-in to what we're going to talk about coming up here with Trump.
	He's out there now saying he's getting ahead of this Alex Jones thing about do not comply, do not comply.
	And raising money off of that.
	Do you think Trump really means that?
	Don't comply. Don't do what I told you to do.
	Don't do what I paid the governors to do to you in 2020.
	Don't do that again. This is a person, Mary Talley Bowden.
	She said, a fragile elderly patient in rural Texas tried to get ivermectin that I prescribed from the local Walmart yesterday with no success.
	His condition has subsequently deteriorated.
	The pharmacist at Walmart has no accountability, yet is able to control the care of this patient of mine.
	The pharmacist didn't talk to the patient.
	The pharmacist won't know if the patient lives or dies.
	Enough is enough, said Mary Talley Bowden.
	And I agree. But look, that's the same thing that is happening with public health.
	They've never examined anybody.
	They have never looked at anything as to whether or not that is legitimate.
	She did an interview with a person.
	She said, here I am, a right-wing anti-vax conspiracy theorist.
	That's me, says the doctor.
	She's an MD. Talking with a former flaming leftist Bernie Sanders supporter about his vaccine injury.
	And he finally says, oh, now I see the light.
	Following what the CDC, the FDA says, they have no critical thinking skills and no reason to go off-label and off-the-book and try a different way.
	Do you think that's going to be a problem in society?
	I think it's already here, especially if you can set it up.
	Go ahead. Unfortunately, I think medicine has become politicized so that now, you know, I think a lot of people turned against hydroxychloroquine only because of Trump.
	I don't think it had anything to do with it.
	Well, listen, I got to interject here.
	I interviewed a woman that her husband got COVID back in April of 2020 in New York City before hydroxychloroquine, you know, the Trump stuff came out before it got banned.
	They treated him in a New York City hospital with hydroxychloroquine along with a couple other medications.
	He was out of the hospital in four days.
	This was a guy that was in a nursing home and he ended up dying after the shots, two weeks after the shots.
	Regardless of that, the hydroxychloroquine did save his life.
	They truly believe that.
	And then all of a sudden, Trump comes out, says his spiel.
	Trump says it. The Antichrist said it, so we've got to cut the can with that and just cut it off.
	And then you know the story as well as I do.
	But go ahead. I'm sorry. I think a lot of people are...
	Intellectually lazy.
	It's just easier just to go long, right?
	I think...
	A lot of people won't believe it until they see it firsthand.
	And then I think a lot of it is unfortunately now driven by politics.
	I mean, now I'm some right-wing anti-vax conspiracy theorist because I'm reporting about what I see every day.
	But apparently it's all driven by my devotion to Trump, who I'm actually mad at because I don't like the way he handled the whole vaccine or COVID shot.
	Good for her. But look, here's the thing.
	You want a conspiracy theory?
	Here's my conspiracy theory about this stuff.
	Hydroxychloroquine is being used.
	Ivermectin had been used.
	They've both been used for decades.
	Off-label use of a drug is no big deal.
	It happens all the time.
	You know, what that means is that the FDA has not evaluated whether or not it is effective for that particular condition and approved it as effective for that medical condition, right?
	But you've got something like ivermectin.
	Or hydroxychloroquine. They've been used for other things for a very long time.
	Everybody knows what their safety protocol is, and there's absolutely no reason for people to not be allowed to take it for something else.
	That's what she's talking about. I've got a patient here, and the pharmacist won't give him ivermectin.
	There was absolutely no reason for that.
	It was corrupt for the FDA to say, come on, y'all, this is horse medicine.
	Well, that's a bunch of horse excrement.
	But when you look at hydroxychloroquine, what that guy was saying was exactly right.
	He said, I know somebody, they were taking it, and it was working for them.
	And then we were talking about it, right?
	It wasn't first brought up by Trump.
	It was brought up by other people, and they were pointing out that it was working.
	And then what happened? Well, then Trump came out and he says, well, you know, they have this thing, it's HCQ or something like that.
	And I don't know, you know, we ought to try a lot of different things.
	You know, maybe we could even shine sunlight into our veins or something like that.
	And then Fauci comes out and goes, oh, you're so crazy.
	I'm the scientist. I'm the doctor here.
	It was like an Abbott and Costello act.
	Where, you know, Trump is the dunce and the straight man is Fauci who knows everything that's happening.
	And here's my conspiracy theory.
	They got Trump, that fifth columnist who did everything that the World Economic Forum and the UN and Bilderberg, all these people have been wanting and saying they're going to do for years.
	The things that they have been plotting to do since 2001, rehearsing on an annual basis with the Germ Games, they got him to do all that stuff.
	They get him to go on stage.
	And cheer this, and then it is immediately politicized and purged.
	That's the reality of all this.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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	to my show. Making
	sense. Common again.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	On Rockfin, Christy Rippertrith.
	Thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that.
	And she writes, And of course, you know, it was, you look at what Fauci did to animals as well as to humans, right?
	Tortures puppies for no reason except for his intellectual curiosity.
	And then we find out that it was Fauci and Francis Collins at the NIH that was ordering body parts from kids so that Planned Parenthood would do murder for hire, murder to order.
	What body parts do you need? Okay, we'll get those.
	We'll schedule that. And then selling them to the NIH, which then used them to create transhumanized mice.
	Again, for their intellectual curiosity and their tests, that type of thing.
	Let's talk a little bit about the other thing that came out with Trump.
	Not only is he going to bring peace to the world, But he is also going to be our champion to make sure that nothing like what he did to us in 2020 ever happens again.
	The left-wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fear-mongering...
	Your lockdowns and mandates that are coming.
	Gee whiz, you know what else is coming?
	An election. They want to restart the COVID hysteria so they can justify more lockdowns, more censorship.
	Is that why you did it? Drop boxes, more mail-in ballots.
	Is that why you did it? Dollars in payoffs.
	The election? Political allies heading into the 2024 election.
	Does that sound familiar? These are bad people.
	These are sick people we're dealing with.
	Takes one to know one, doesn't it? Every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words.
	We will not comply.
	So don't even think about it.
	We will not shut down our schools.
	We will not accept your lockdowns.
	We will not abide by your mask mandates.
	And we will not tolerate your vaccine mandates.
	They rigged the 2020 election and now they're trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election, even if it means trying to bring back COVID. But they will fail because we will not let it happen.
	When I'm back in the White House, I will use every available authority to cut federal funding to any school, college, airline, or public transportation system that imposes a mask mandate or a vaccine mandate.
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, so he knows how you stop this and how you start it, right?
	As I've said all along, Trump didn't do it.
	I said, no, he did it. He funded it, right?
	And if you don't like what somebody's doing as president, you stop the funding.
	Obama says, I don't like you kicking boys out of girls' bathrooms.
	I'm going to stop your funding, right?
	Trump does the same thing.
	And here he is. He says, well, if you do these mandates now, I'm going to stop your funding.
	Before what he says, if you don't do these mandates...
	I'll stop your funding. I'll give you money if you do it, but then I won't give you money if you don't do it.
	Now, he's reversed himself, but he understands that the way that presidents get this stuff done, because we have a Tenth Amendment, they can't just dictate some of these things.
	Yeah, they have to create a bureaucracy to pretend that they have the authority to dictate this stuff.
	And then they shower people with money if they do the right thing and take it away if they don't.
	It's bribing and blackmailing people.
	That's the way they do this stuff.
	Well, Trump actually did know what was going on.
	He was fully cognizant of it.
	As a matter of fact, look at this from April the 13th, 2020.
	He says for the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, the fake media are saying that it is the governor's decision to open up the states, not that of the president of the United States and the federal government.
	Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect.
	It is the decision of the president, and for many good reasons.
	With that being said, the administration and I are working closely.
	And we will continue.
	The decision by me in conjunction with the governors and input from others will be made shortly.
	I am the one in charge.
	I'm doing this to everybody.
	Trump bragged about that.
	Just like he's bragged about the vaccine.
	He bragged about his lockdowns.
	It's not the governors.
	They're doing what I tell them to do.
	And they're going to continue to do what I tell them to do.
	Stop making excuses for this guy.
	He owns the vaccine.
	He owns the lockdown.
	He owns the...
	Financial destruction of Main Street America for the benefit of Wall Street.
	The financial destruction of the middle class as non-essential.
	He owns all of that.
	As a matter of fact, the only person who pushed back against that was Thomas Massey.
	Remember what Trump said to him?
	We're going to get him out. You know, you don't want this three and a half trillion dollars that I'm going to put out there to model universal basic income and get everybody dependent on government while I shut down their way of working or having a business.
	You don't like that? I'm going to get you out of office.
	He owns it all.
	And yet here he is now.
	Do not comply.
	Do not comply. Alex has got to be on seventh heaven because Alex started all this stuff.
	Not the do not comply.
	He was scaring everybody into complying when this all happened in 2020.
	But he said, you know, oh, they're going to come back.
	Of course we know they're going to come back.
	But getting everybody afraid of all this stuff.
	And now Trump comes out and jumps on the train again.
	And it was always him from the very beginning.
	As a matter of fact, you know, Trump not only got all these people to comply with him, but Trump complied with Fauci.
	And there was a real love affair between these two guys.
	Listen to this. The president has listened to what I have said and what the other people on the task force have said.
	The first and only time that I went in and said we should do mitigation strongly, the response was yes, we'll do it.
	When he suggests, why don't we do this?
	And I say, no, that's really not a good idea from a scientific standpoint.
	He has never overruled me.
	The travel was another recommendation.
	When we went in and said, we probably should be doing that.
	And the answer was yes.
	When I've made recommendations, he's taken them.
	And then another time was we should do it with Europe.
	And the answer was yes.
	He's never countered or overridden me.
	And the next time we should do it with the UK. And the answer was yes.
	I never, in the multiple times that I've done that, where I said, for scientific reasons, we really should do this, that he hasn't said, let's do it.
	The first and only time that Dr.
	Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a, quote, shutdown.
	The president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation.
	This is a Trump commercial.
	This is Trump-Pence. They put that out in 2020.
	I hope you saw that. If you didn't see that, if you're listening to that, across the top of that commercial, put together by the Trump campaign in 2020, says, text, blah, blah, blah, to Trump, right?
	To donate. And at the end, it says Trump and Pence.
	That's the 2020 campaign commercial right there from Trump.
	Or Fauci. I just love Trump.
	Trump did everything I told him to do.
	And Trump is out there campaigning on that.
	Vote for me! I did everything that Fauci told me to do.
	He was going at the very end of the campaign when he finally got the courage to go out and campaign.
	People were yelling, fire Fauci!
	Well, we'll see. We'll see.
	Vote for me first. We'll see.
	He was bragging about how much Fauci loved him.
	Just like he ran campaign commercials about how much LGBT loved him and all that he had done for LGBT. He's doing commercials about all that he did for Fauci.
	And he has the audacity to say, don't comply with these dictatorial orders like I gave you back in 2020, right?
	Rockfin, Dickon Rockfin says, I have an extended family member who was treated for COVID-19 with HCQ in an Ohio hospital, March 2020.
	Right before it was basically outlawed.
	Why? Because Trump talked about it, right?
	Again, he and Fauci, partners in crime.
	He said it worked fast.
	So the CDC and the FDA knew.
	I know. I was talking about it at that point in time.
	I was talking about it before Trump talked about it.
	And then he poisoned the well by talking about it in a really stupid way.
	Fauci can come, oh, they can't talk like that about drugs.
	No, they can't. It's just amazing that people can't see this.
	Even looking at Trump's own tweets, Trump's own commercials, Trump's endless bragging about the vaccine until just a few months ago.
	And everybody did see it. People like Wayne Allen Root and Roger Stone and Alex Jones all said, he's got to stop bragging about the vaccine.
	The vaccine's killing people.
	Tell them to stop bragging about it.
	And finally he did. Finally he got the message.
	Rumble. Damage, thank you very much for the tip.
	It's interesting that the LGBT alphanumeric thing usurped the rainbow and called itself a pride movement.
	The bow in the cloud is God's standard.
	They've hijacked it, and pride was Lucifer's sin.
	Yeah, that is exactly right.
	And it was a promise from God that he would not destroy the earth by water again.
	And what Genesis says is that it was watered in a very different way prior to that.
	The world changed.
	God's going to change the world again.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	Well, as we've been saying for quite some time, and actually, Gerald Salenti has been saying this for a very long time, talking about commercial real estate.
	And also, for a very long time, it's been years now that Gerald's been talking about how The Chinese are just building and building and building with no purpose at all.
	Empty cities that are there and how that was going to come back and bite them.
	Well, it's now coming back and biting them.
	The question is, what is it going to do to the global economy?
	We've had Evergrande that has gone bankrupt in the past.
	It's trying to come back. The world's most indebted property firm, Evergrande, out of China.
	They have liabilities of $328 billion, and they've lost more than 99% of their share market value over the past three years.
	The company resumed trading on the Hong Kong Stock Market Exchange this Monday after having been suspended for 17 months.
	That's how bad this company is.
	Trying to restructure their offshore debt.
	And now we've got another sick man, another big company coming out of Chinese.
	This is a Chinese developer called Country Garden.
	They have a loss of $6.7 billion just for the first half of this year.
	So they're losing it at the clip of $13 billion a year.
	And they have also racked up big debts of $150 billion.
	So even Evergreen got $328 billion.
	These people are already half there.
	And they're losing money at the rate of $13 billion a year.
	They're unable to make interest payments on two loans as well.
	It's one of the few major homebuilders to have avoided default since Beijing introduced a three red lines policy in 2020 that aimed to reduce debt levels in the highly leveraged real estate sector in China.
	The red lines set limits on liabilities to asset ratios and ensured that companies hold cash reserves equivalent to at least 100% of their short-term debt.
	And if they don't meet this deadline for the bond payment, the beginning of September, let's see, when will that be?
	Oh, that's tomorrow. It could become the biggest Chinese real estate firm to crash since Evergrande did in 2021.
	It has fueled fears that it will spread turbulence throughout China's economy and financial system.
	The rise of the world's second largest economy has been largely founded on property and construction.
	It accounts for about a quarter of China's GDP. And it has been as high as a third of their GDP. And there was no reason for it.
	This is what Gerald Salenti has been talking about.
	He said, that combined with the actions taken by China...
	To essentially exercise control.
	I mean, we look at Mao's great leap forward and how he emptied the cities, killed all those people, create a system of starvation.
	It was all about him establishing his power.
	And that's what China did in 2020.
	And that's what the world did.
	That's what Trump and every other leader did, following China's lead.
	It was that same Maoist policy.
	Kick everybody out. You know, especially these people who know nothing about farming.
	If you go back and you look at the documentaries about what happened during the Great Leap Forward, they had everybody out there working and they gave them no training, no instruction.
	They had no idea how to do any farming.
	They had kids who were young and teenagers at the time and said, well, we thought, well, if we just took all the seeds and poured them into one big pit, that would be the best thing we could do.
	And so they did stuff like that.
	They had no idea what they were doing.
	Totally wasted resources.
	And people starved because of that.
	But it was all to establish the power of Chairman Mao.
	And this lockdown that we've seen with their zero COVID policy, the lockdown of Shanghai and other things like that, that was simply to assert their power and their authority.
	And so to continue with this article, it says Country Garden, the big real estate firm that's now about to go bankrupt, Provides works for tens of thousands of people, is ranked by Forbes as one of the world's 500 largest companies.
	Its boss was until recently the richest woman in Asia.
	And so just these two companies alone are a trend, and they by themselves could do a great deal of damage, but they're not the only ones.
	This is happening throughout China.
	They said major cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen are now taking steps to ease mortgage rules.
	Okay, because home prices are falling.
	So now they're going to open this up and they're going to let everybody, you know, buy property that they've got out there.
	I just saw that RFK Jr.
	is talking about, well, we need to make loans available at 3% to people again.
	I'm sure I haven't looked at the details of his plan, but let me just say that I think that you're going to look at this and he's going to say, we've got to do it for the people who don't have much money, and they're only going to be the ones who are going to get the 3%.
	And then you're going to find that they're going to also say, and we've got to waive any looking at their ability to pay this stuff back.
	I mean, what we do is just create another housing bubble.
	And it's the same type of thing that people have a mindset that government is going to solve every problem that we have and that the economy should be centrally planned and controlled.
	You know, that's the problem with all of this that is happening in China.
	That's a problem that's happening with us as well.
	And, you know, RFK Jr.'s approach is to always have government solve the problem.
	You never hear him say, well, government is the problem.
	Reagan said that, but then he grew the government.
	But at least he said that.
	You could say, well, I've got a reason to vote for him.
	Then you've got a reason to vote against him.
	Ron Paul supported him when he ran against Gerald Ford for the nomination and lost and then supported him again in 1980.
	And then he became one of Reagan's most vocal opponents when he said, look at what he did.
	It's just like Georgia Maloney in Italy completely goes against everything that he had to say.
	But China's economy, says the BBC, is a ticking time bomb.
	Joe Biden described it that way, and he can be right once or twice a year.
	It's obvious to everybody.
	By the way, Gerald Senti, if you get excellent trends journal, he'll give you 10% off if you use the code NIGHT. Gerald has been talking about this particular situation in China for a very long time, and now it's been compounded because of lockdown with commercial real estate here.
	And as big commercial real estate companies are unable to pay their loans, which are typically variable loans, because they have massive vacancy rates because nobody's going back to work.
	Nobody's going back to physical locations and all that kind of stuff after the pandemic.
	So they're circling the drain.
	When they go down, they're going to take a large part of the banking industry with it.
	And, of course, the big banks that are too big to fail, remember them?
	You know, they're still too big to fail.
	That wasn't just for that period of time.
	They're connected. They're politically connected.
	So the commercial real estate will be one of the ways that they take down the banking industry to help to usher in the Federal Reserve's CBDC. Well, now we'll be there.
	We'll have a coin. You don't need to have a bank.
	You can just deal directly with us.
	Just get this digital CBDC. And, you know, don't pay any attention to, you know, this FedNow thing that we got out there.
	That name doesn't mean anything.
	It doesn't mean that we've already initiated the kickoff of the CBDC. We just happen to call it FedNow.
	But it's not coming now.
	It's not ever going to come unless Congress tells us that they want to do it.
	What do you think? That they'll do what the central bank wants to do?
	What the big banks want them to do, of course they will.
	In the past six months, a stream of bad news for China's economy, slow growth, record youth unemployment, says the BBC, low foreign investment, weak exports and currency, and a property sector crisis.
	And so it is a ticking time bomb.
	Central to China's economic problems is its property market.
	Until recently, the real estate accounted for a third of its entire wealth.
	Now it's down to a quarter of its wealth because it's crashing.
	This made no sense, no sense at all, said a professor of economics in Singapore.
	For two decades, the sector boomed as developers rode a wave of privatization, but crisis struck in 2020.
	A global pandemic struck them.
	Yeah, no, it wasn't a global pandemic.
	It wasn't even an epidemic in China.
	They did this.
	It was a great leap forward into a new normal.
	The government, fearing U.S.-style 2008 meltdown, then put limits on how much developers could borrow.
	Soon they owed billions that they could not pay back because the government, then with that policy, created a cash crunch for these people.
	Now demand for housing has slumped and property prices have plunged and homeowners emerging after three years of tough coronavirus restrictions are now poor.
	In China, property is effectively your savings.
	Is that any different than the U.S.? Not for the middle class.
	It seemed better than putting your money into the crazy stock market or into a bank account with low interest rates.
	Well, you know, there is something else you can do.
	You go to davidknight.gold, I'll take you to Tony Arterman's Wise Wolf Gold.
	And you can put your money into something else.
	Start to do that. Put your money into gold or silver or something that you can actually hold that has real intrinsic value.
	And instead of something that is leveraged like your property, You know, have something that is...
	Don't be caught in this trap.
	They understand this is a trap.
	It's also a trap to control you.
	And having real money gives you also real privacy and real anonymity as well.
	And an opportunity to get out of the CBDC stuff.
	So, again, davidknight.gold.
	Tell Tony that you came through us.
	It'll take you to his wisewolf.gold.
	By the way, Tony's not going to be on today.
	He's going to be doing the show for us tomorrow.
	So, looking forward to seeing that show tomorrow.
	Tony always does a great job, so he'll be taking the show tomorrow.
	There was this notion that the Chinese people would spend like crazy after zero COVID. That they'd travel, they'd go to Paris, and they'd see the Eiffel Tower.
	But actually, they knew their savings were getting hammered by the fall and house prices, so they decided to hunker down and hold on to the cash that they have.
	The country's astonishing growth in the past 30 years has propelled by building everything.
	Roads, bridges, train lines to factories, airports, and houses.
	And the government did all this.
	And the government centrally decided what was going to be built.
	It wasn't any market influence.
	This is what is happening to our transportation industry right now.
	The government says, well, you're going to change all your appliances out.
	You're going to change out all your cars.
	You can't be driving around those clunkers anymore.
	You know, Obama, they always began by bribing you.
	You know, we had the cash for clunkers.
	Get rid of your older cars.
	We don't want those things around anymore.
	We don't get fix those, especially the older ones that were pre-computer controlled.
	Get rid of those things.
	We'll pay you to get rid of those things.
	Buy the newer ones.
	And now they're telling you that they're going to punish you if you hang on to those.
	So you go from bribery and rewards, you know, carrots.
	You go from carrots to sticks.
	You go from bribery to blackmail.
	In China, they said this year...
	Even though, you know, why is the Chinese government still building things, says the BBC? They can't figure this out.
	Here's a bizarre example, they said, of China's addiction to building.
	This year, officials are bafflingly confirmed that they will go ahead with plans to build a new multi-million dollar COVID-19 quarantine facility.
	What in the world are they doing that for, says the BBC? I can't imagine.
	It wouldn't be for the new prison camps that they want to do.
	For people who really push back against their open-air prisons, would it?
	Would it be that? Heavily indebted local governments are under so much pressure this year that some of them are found to be selling land to themselves to fund building programs.
	Yeah, their government is as crazy and detached from reality as we are.
	And even the BBC says the country needs to find another way of generating prosperity for its people.
	No, no, it's not that they need to figure out a way to control the economy better.
	See, that's the communist mindset there.
	No, they need to not have a centrally planned and controlled economy that's going to be run by this incompetent government.
	Same thing that we need now, as a matter of fact.
	They do talk to some professors who say, well, you know, we need to not have them.
	This is a testament to the rigid, centralized economy.
	And that's what we're creating here.
	An economy that is filled with rigor mortis because it's dying.
	On Rumble, Frank Neeb, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that. And on Rockfin, MJ, thank you very much for the tip.
	Hi, David. Just a little something for the end of the month.
	Fuel gauge. Has it gotten any easier to redeem contributions from Rockfin?
	No, it hasn't, because you still have to make a two-hop jump.
	You know, they have their currency, which has to be converted over to a Ethereum, and then converted from Ethereum to dollars and, you know, all of that kind of stuff.
	So it is very cumbersome and has a lot of fees attached with it.
	But I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
	We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about school.
	Don't Tread on Ed, on education.
	We'll give you an update to what happened with the Don't Tread on Me Kid.
	We'll be right back. In
	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, if you remember, yesterday I played a short clip for you.
	I'll just give you a reminder here because it is a lot of fun to watch this.
	This kid is now one big time.
	And he's got the school to back down, but I've got an update, not just about that, that he can go back to class.
	But there's something about this school that no one is talking about.
	I haven't seen anybody talk about this.
	As a matter of fact, on a hunch...
	Looked up something about the school, and I'll tell you about it.
	But first, this is what happened.
	This is the teacher who's telling him he can't come to class if he's got a backpack that has a Gadsden flag, don't tread on me thing on it.
	Oh, thank you.
	Do they know what the Gadsden flag is?
	Do you know what it is? So the reason that they do not want the flag, the reason we do not want the flag to say is...
	Due to its origins with slavery and slave trade.
	That is what was, that's the reasoning behind them.
	The Gadsdenberg. The Gadsdenberg.
	You're talking about the Gadsdenberg? Really?
	Which is the Gadsdenberg.
	Okay, so he...
	And he's smirking.
	Look at this. What's going to happen if he doesn't...
	The teacher is so stupid.
	I mean, he is able to go.
	I was actually just telling him, like, I was upset that he was missing so much school.
	I'm like, ah! So I asked if he could just take his stuff out of his bag and go back to class.
	Like, I just want him to go back to class.
	The bag can't go back.
	It's got a patch on it because we can't have that in and around other kids.
	So that's what I was trying. And then he said you were close.
	So I was like, oh. Okay.
	So here's this.
	And look at this kid.
	Look at the smirk that he's got.
	He's going to get rid of the Gadsden flag and this kid's biting his lip to keep from laughing out loud at this teacher.
	And I just have to wonder, why is the mother sending him back?
	I understand, you know, this is a point and he's scored some points and he got them to give up.
	We had two law firms that contacted him.
	They contacted the school board that runs this school, and when I was looking at this, Something occurred to me as I looked at them talking about this and their response.
	They said, yesterday, this is from the school, yesterday the student returned with a patch still visible on his backpack.
	Following the district's direction, Vanguard administrators pulled the student aside so that they could speak with his parents and the district.
	Upon learning of these events today, the Vanguard School Board of Directors called an emergency meeting.
	I thought, wait a minute. Board of Directors?
	This isn't like a regular school board.
	It's a school board of directors?
	Is this a charter school?
	Why, yes, it is a charter school.
	It's one of the reasons why, probably, this kid is clean-cut, and he knows what he's doing, and he's got a Gadsden flag.
	They went on to say, from Vanguard's founding, we have proudly supported our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, And the ordered liberty that all Americans have enjoyed for almost 250 years.
	The Vanguard School recognizes the historical significance of the Gadsden flag and its place in history.
	This incident is an occasion for us to reaffirm, listen to this, our deep commitment to a classical education in support of these American principles.
	Now, whoa, wait a minute. This is a charter school?
	And the kids choose to go here?
	And it is a classical education.
	And yet, how did they begin?
	Well, following the district's direction, vanguard administrators pulled the student aside so they could speak with the parents in the district.
	In other words, they're not going to blame or fire the teacher.
	They're going to embrace this person.
	And do you understand? This is a good example of what I say all the time.
	The school boards...
	People go down and they protest at the school boards like they have in Loudoun, Virginia.
	And of course now there's been a Christian school that has come online there and people are running to that school.
	But the reality is that even if you get the school board to agree with you, even if you get the state Department of Education to agree with you, even if you get the principal to agree with you, it's up to that particular teacher, that person that you just saw there in that meeting, that person who has stickers all over the back of her car, don't mess with trans kids, and I want to turn into moss, and all kinds of crazy environmental slogans, just plastered.
	All over the back of her car.
	Now this is a conservative classical education charter school.
	And when I looked them up, they bragged about the fact that they use the classical curriculum from Hillsdale.
	Hillsdale College. A very, very conservative college.
	They've been fighting this type of stuff for a very long time.
	I don't know what the situation is now, but they used to advertise that they would not Hillsdale College would not accept any federal money for scholarships from students because they didn't want to have any, you know, if they take those carrots, they're going to have sticks from the Department of Education and so forth.
	So I said, no, we're not going to take any federal money in any way, shape, or form.
	And so they have stood for conservative values.
	They've put together their own classical curriculum.
	When we talk about classical curriculum, things like, they call it the Trivium.
	Dorothy Sayers and other people have created, you know, so we need to go back to what has worked.
	We have grammar school where kids are just doing rote memorization, learning some facts.
	Then they go to the rhetoric stage where they start to use those facts.
	And you have critical thinking and debating that are taught and so forth and so on.
	But, you know, we're going to teach kids Latin and or Greek and things like that so they can recognize the roots and words and have a larger vocabulary, all that type of stuff.
	That's classical education.
	Trained on classical literature and all the rest of this stuff.
	That's why when you look at this, I kept scratching my head.
	It's like, what is a kid like that doing in school?
	Why didn't the parents do it? Well, they thought they were doing the right thing.
	They sent this kid to a charter school that was focused on a classical curriculum done by Hillsdale.
	But the weak link in all this is the teacher.
	If the teacher wants to do this stuff, the teacher will control the classroom.
	And if this is the quality of teacher they get at a charter school, just imagine how dumb and ill-informed the people teaching children at public school are.
	Yeah. Well, Colorado, by the way, Travis, Colorado has just had a former Marxist teacher who openly bragged about Marxism, openly talked about it, just like that clip we had about a month ago.
	We had that guy saying, okay, so I'm doing a summer camp.
	And in just a couple of days, I was able to change all the kids in our camp thing.
	He's a counselor in charge of a house or something where he's got like a dozen kids.
	I was able to change them all into Marxists in just three or four days.
	Well, this guy is openly avowed Marxist in Colorado.
	And they had somebody who just won election to go step up.
	And so he was appointed into this position by the Democrats in Colorado, just outside of Denver.
	Those are the types of people in the government school, openly avowed Marxists.
	But of course, you know, she's, I don't know where she's coming from.
	She's profoundly ignorant.
	New educational standards.
	Are forcing gay history, climate alarmism, and math identity rainbows on students.
	This is coming from the Federalist.
	That's what government school looks like.
	You know, we just saw there what a charter school using a classical curriculum from Hillsdale looks like.
	This is what government school looks like.
	While most schools are closed for summer break, several state education departments were hard at work crafting new curricular frameworks.
	Frameworks. That will shape what students learn, K-12, for years to come.
	The frameworks tell school districts and teachers what students ought to learn and when they ought to learn it.
	The sequence and the scope of your education.
	When we kind of unschooled our kids, what Karen and I would do is we'd go down to Barnes& Noble and we'd look at what your first grader needs to know, what your second grader needs to know, and we'd go through and it's like, Yeah, no, they don't need to know that.
	They need to know this, but they need to know more about this than they're telling them, you know, that type of thing.
	So we kind of use that as a reference, but in many ways we taught against it in some cases.
	Students should know enough about America to name the president and vice presidents in second grade.
	They give an example.
	They said, you know, wouldn't it be nice if this is what the state authorities said?
	Well, you know, we want you to know about the president, the vice president in second grade, about three branches of government in fifth grade, how a bill becomes law in eighth grade.
	This is the total political orientation of this, you know, article here, the Federalist.
	Do you really need to know that?
	You know, that was...
	Again, you see all these bumper stickers.
	I have an honor student at such and such a school.
	And I said, you know, we need to have...
	Karen, I said, we need to make up a custom bumper sticker for our kid.
	Say, you know, we have honorable students at the name of...
	Because we had to come up with a name for our school in North Carolina.
	So we have honorable students at such and such.
	Isn't that what you want to teach your kids?
	Don't you want to give them moral instruction, first and foremost?
	And don't you want them to be bonded to the family and the parents rather than to the school and the teachers?
	Don't you want them bonded to their brothers and sisters or siblings more than to the kids that they happen to be in a class with at school?
	Wouldn't that be an improvement?
	I think it is.
	Instead of learning about, you know, the president, the vice president, second grade, no, what they're learning is they're learning 72 genders and sexual fetishes by first grade.
	That's really what they're focusing on.
	In California, the new math framework encourages teaching towards social justice, quote-unquote.
	Sample classroom activities include, quote, math identity rainbows.
	So here you go. Let's fold in LGBT into math.
	And, you know, absolutely insane.
	Students choose colors that represent their individual strengths to create an image of mathematical community.
	This is the deliberate dumbing down of America that Charlotte Iserby wrote about in the 1980s, 40 years ago.
	It is deliberate.
	It is a dumbing down.
	And so as this framework is being put together, you've got 1,700 academics in STEM fields signed an open letter decrying the lack of option for even advanced students to receive advanced math instruction.
	Their letter also lamented that you've set aside algebra and geometry so that you can do this math identity rainbow.
	I mean, you talk about, you know, deliberately dumbing us down into a brave new world type of school.
	That is exactly what this is.
	Massachusetts has a framework for health.
	Its draft standards would have middle schoolers learn the difference between sex and so-called gender identity.
	The document describes sex as assigned rather than biological.
	Washington, D.C. has new standards, and theirs is about critical race theory and group this and group that.
	They're going to study the history of Latinx resistance.
	In fifth grade, the word resistance appears at least 40 times in the new document.
	Other historical evils are nearly ignored.
	The word communism or communist appears only eight times, and I'm sure that when they talk about it, they talk about it from a favorable standpoint, don't you think?
	And then this, math is not the only thing that's dying.
	How embracing diversity, equity, and inclusivity is causing classical music to D.I.E.? And this is in the outside of the schools.
	This is, when you look at classical music, you look at opera companies or symphony orchestras, they've always been struggling for quite some time.
	And so they decided in Philadelphia, the thing that was going to save them was to accelerate this going into diversity, inclusion, and equity.
	And what it did was it accelerated their death.
	They created Opera Philadelphia and Completely invested in woke saving of classical music.
	And, you know, it is...
	Here's the thing that's saving classical music.
	The movies.
	The movies saved it. The best composers, without a doubt, of the 20th century, all writing for films and TV. Whether you're talking about John Williams or, you know, you've got people like Bernard Herrmann, others. Very... Very amazing stuff.
	And it's very similar, but a lot more powerful than what, for example, Wagner would do.
	He'd have his Wagnerian operas and they would go on for days telling a story to music.
	It's one of the reasons why when they started with early Westerns, you know, as soon as they got sound, they started adding a lot of music to it.
	Because that really does push the emotions.
	And they used to refer to the Westerns as horse operas.
	Because, you know, they were adding music along to the story.
	It really became an opera.
	And that truly is what is happening with classical music.
	You know, jazz and other forms of music.
	We have a smaller group of people.
	They tend to be more spontaneous, improvisational and everything.
	But when we get an orchestra, that's a particular type of sound.
	And there are so many people involved in that.
	It has to be highly structured and highly organized.
	And it is something that is unique.
	To Western civilization.
	I've never had anything like that before.
	And I don't know what is happening to these operas.
	The ridiculous stuff that they're doing that's documented in this article is truly amazing, but it's not surprising.
	If there's an orchestra around it, especially if you're homeschooling your kids, one of the things that we did that we really enjoyed, one of my favorite things to do, I enjoyed it going to rehearsal, which was free.
	We would take the kids to rehearsal, and you can even quietly talk to the kids about what just happened.
	Why did he stop the orchestra?
	Why is he telling this group to do this or that now?
	But we'd listen to the rehearsal.
	And you could go there for free where it cost quite a bit of money to go to concerts.
	We took them to the concerts sometimes, but it was a lot more formal thing.
	And, you know, it's free.
	It's very informal, very educational.
	I'd highly recommend that if you are homeschooling your kids.
	But, you know, this was, they decided to go full on to this Black Lives Matter and everything else, and it's bankrupting the classical music, as you would expect.
	By the way, this Marxist teacher that's in Colorado has been appointed as a state legislator.
	Pictures not only of what he is saying in terms of pushing revolution, but also, he's Hispanic, pictures of him standing in front of his La Raza signs.
	La Raza means the race.
	And essentially their motto is, you know, the race, the Hispanic race, everything for the race, nothing for any other people.
	I mean, it is absolutely as racist as you can get.
	Hundreds of Christians flocked to a new school in Loudoun County.
	This is one of the places where the involvement in, you know, the school board meetings was very heavy because it was right there on the outskirts of D.C., And where this fight over parental rights was a big skirmish.
	And so this is a fight that has been there for a very long time.
	As I pointed out yesterday, I started reading articles about Michael Ferris.
	And there was a Washington Post article that was done on him.
	Simply because he's been at the center of parental rights.
	They talk about how he'd created all these different organizations like the Homeschool Legal Defense Association and the Alliance Defending Freedom and things like that.
	But they said his biggest effect has been outside the courtroom.
	They said, for example, he told Glenn Youngkin, he said, you just keep repeating parental rights and you'll be governor.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	He got elected, whatever Glenn Youngkin is about, and I'm not saying I trust him or support him.
	He's been a lot of concern that he is an establishment Republican, it appears to be.
	But it was his talking about parental rights.
	That really got him elected governor, and that's what people are very hungry for.
	We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk to Davis Yontz.
	We've talked to him as a lawyer.
	He works on homeschooling situations like that, as well as many other religious liberty issues, and he got involved as a military lawyer and as someone who has been a JAG officer and very successful in that.
	He got involved And defending the military against these Biden mandates.
	So when we come back, we're going to be talking to Davis Johns.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Yes. Thank you.
	Joining us now is Davis Yance, and I was just asking him his website.
	It is yancelaw.com.
	That's Y-O-U-N-T-S, yancelaw.com.
	And we've got so many things that have happened legally that I would like to talk to him about.
	He contacted me and said he'd like to talk about Trump's indictment and the GOP debate.
	But, of course, there's been a lot of things that have happened, Mr.
	Johnson, since we last talked about the military mandates.
	What is the current status, as far as you know, on that?
	Have they made anybody whole on this?
	We just had some whistleblowers talking about the DMED database and how many conditions have escalated, even after they went back and said, oh, well, you know, you're comparing this to the previous five years.
	Oh, the previous five years are all wrong.
	Even after they went back and manipulated the data, it's still a huge increase.
	What is happening in terms of the military and this vaccine?
	Yeah, so unfortunately, not a lot has changed when we look at trying to make military members whole as well as trying to get really solid military members back into the service.
	So you still have more than 12,000 military members that were kicked out.
	They were alleged to have committed misconduct because they had a religious accommodation that was unlawfully denied.
	Those individuals are still out there, still struggling with negative service connotation on their DD-214.
	And unfortunately, the decimation that happened, remember, at one point there were 264,000 members of the military that were not fully vaccinated.
	Many, many of those, and no one has accurate data on it, and there's reasons why they don't, I'm sure.
	But many, many thousands simply left the military.
	They either retired, retired early, didn't re-enlist or otherwise.
	So those folks are still out there.
	So a lot of the work I'm doing now is going to be based on trying to restore rights to military members who were persecuted for their religious faith, try to make them whole, as well as try to get others back into military service that were either kicked out or sidelined in some other way.
	And unfortunately, what we're hearing right now, what I've been hearing over the last couple of days, is that the mandate may be coming back.
	Wow. There's a lot of chatter about a new vaccine for the new COVID variant that's out there.
	And the military whistleblowers that I work with, some of my clients are telling me there's a lot of chatter from commanders from the Pentagon talking about what it would look like to bring a new mandate back.
	Yeah, we just had Biden say, yeah, we're going to have a new vaccine and this one's going to work.
	So, yeah, they're going to try.
	And, of course, they can force the people.
	Yeah. In the military, they can try to force the people without it.
	Jason Barker was a listener who was in the military at the time, and he wrote a great letter that we had on our website for quite some time outlining his religious objections to it.
	A lot of people used that that were in the military, but even people who were nurses and other things who were there were having that dictated by their employer.
	He hung in until he got up to his 20 years.
	He was getting pretty close to it.
	He's one of those people who left as he got to that point.
	And he's now a commentator with Knights of the Storm.
	So he's out there still doing good work telling people about this stuff.
	But, yeah, they've pushed so many people out.
	And as you pointed out last time we were talking, people who managed to remain in now that they've kind of paused this mandate, if you're still there, they're saying, well, you can't do this and you can't do that.
	and that's going to essentially drive them out of their career if they're blocked from being able to do certain things that they have to do in order to get a promotion, right?
	That's absolutely right.
	So the impact still exists.
	It's still there. It's still a problem.
	And again, nothing Congress has done so far prevents the DOD from issuing a new mandate.
	So if we look at the leadership in the White House, we look at the mentality of senior military leadership.
	We're looking at a real issue.
	Now, I think there's also a possibility of a budget fight, right?
	So if Congress does engage in a budget fight and starts talking about funding for the military and those things, it's possible they will hold off until some sort of a budget agreement is reached.
	But I am concerned we're going to see increasing chatter in September.
	And then if there's some sort of a budget deal that happens, I fear if there's going to be a new mandate, it will follow shortly on the heels of that.
	And since we've established with Warp Speed that they don't have to test any vaccines or anything like that anymore, this quote-unquote new vaccine, that could appear any day now as well.
	They don't have to do any testing whatsoever.
	We've established that as a precedent.
	That's going to stick with us.
	It's already sticking with one type of medication after the other, isn't it?
	Absolutely right. And remember, still to this day, they're not manufacturing the FDA-approved version of these vaccines for COVID. They're still not manufacturing the FDA-approved version, which is still an unresolved legal issue when we talk about the military and others.
	So tons of issues.
	And unfortunately, they're going to continue for our military members as well as anyone else, particularly those that work for, you know, liberal state governments or the federal government.
	And you're talking about the label specifically, right?
	The Corbinati issue, is that correct?
	That's absolutely right. Which the FDA said, look, these products are identical, but they're legally distinct.
	Well, if they're legally distinct and you haven't approved the one that's available in the United States, then how can you legally try to require people to have this?
	That's the fundamental issue.
	It's just this kind of double talk that we see happening all the time with all of these issues.
	That's what the government has become, isn't it?
	That's right, yeah. It's become more about political will than the rule of law, unfortunately.
	That's right, that's right. Well, when we talk about political will versus the rule of law, you want to talk about the indictments happening in Georgia.
	That is truly amazing.
	I think many people have talked about how this has criminalized free speech in the practice of law.
	What's your opinion of that?
	Yeah, I think that's the biggest concern I have as we try to look at this indictment, right?
	So Georgia is using sort of a very robust RICO statute, the Racketeer Influence Corrupt Organizations Act.
	This is something used to go after the mafia.
	And the reason that it's attractive to prosecutors is you can essentially...
	Group people together, say 20 people, 19 people are part of a conspiracy, and then try to hold each individual member responsible for all of the actions of everyone else in the conspiracy, right?
	So this is what was used to take down the mob.
	It's important to understand that.
	You don't have to get someone for murder.
	You just have to say that a murder happened and it was part of the organization.
	Well, now... What's interesting about what's happening in Georgia is they're bringing all of these other individuals in and they're arguing that things that were done after the election that dealt with trying to investigate and try to understand whether or not there was election fraud were election interference and that's being charged as a conspiracy.
	Yeah, it is amazing.
	So imagine, I mean, things like phone calls, things like phone calls to individuals responsible for ensuring a free and fair election and saying, hey, we're hearing concerns.
	We're hearing problems with drop boxes.
	We're hearing things like people are coming in the middle of the night and putting hundreds of ballots in a drop box.
	Can we look into that?
	Are you seeing these same concerns?
	Is there anything we can do to try to understand what happened?
	Right? So I haven't seen anything yet.
	And I'm a former federal prosecutor.
	I'm a former defense counsel.
	I still practice criminal law.
	I haven't seen anything that goes to this idea.
	What we are going to do is change the outcome of the election.
	Our intent is to change the outcome of the election.
	You don't see that.
	What you see is we don't agree with the outcome.
	We have concerns about the outcome.
	We think there may have been fraud.
	But the narrative that you hear in all of the media continues to be there was no fraud.
	It was a fair election.
	But look at 2016.
	The same media was saying there was Russian interference.
	It wasn't a federal election.
	You can see multiple times where Former presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton said, hey, the election was stolen.
	Right? Unproven interference there.
	So again, my big concern about what's happening in Georgia is you are using a county that is very, very, means heavily Democrat, right?
	70-75% of the voters in that county are registered Democrats.
	You're using an elected official, a DA, to bring a conspiracy charge against individuals who were, at worst, Trying to determine whether or not there was fraud and based on their belief that there was fraud in the election, figure out legal means with which to challenge the election and the outcome of the election.
	Very, very dangerous precedent.
	Now, there may be things that were done that were illegal, but it's very, very dangerous precedent to do that because now you're creating a scenario where, I mean, frankly, if we take If we take morality out of it, we take ethics out of it or anything else, you're creating more and more incentive for politicians to cheat in elections because if you lose, you're going to be criminally prosecuted.
	Is that really what we want going forward?
	Again, those are some of the things that I have concerns about when we look at these cases.
	I covered an op-ed piece that was on Brownstone from a lawyer, and he was essentially saying the same thing.
	He said, I've been amazed, he said, to see how mainstream media would just let Julian Assange twist in the wind for doing investigative journalism and wouldn't do anything about that.
	Do they realize that that's not going to come back to them?
	And he goes, and now when I look at what is happening here, he says, you don't have to agree with what they were saying.
	He says, I've looked at the legal briefs and I thought they were garbage.
	But he says they were still investigating this thing.
	If you're going to criminalize the practice of law, and he says most lawyers are being silent about this, just like most of the journalists are being silent about Julian Assange.
	If you're going to criminalize the practice of law and investigation around these cases and stuff like that, and he says that's an amazing precedent that's being set.
	And, you know, the mainstream media and the mainstream of the legal profession are not worried about these types of things.
	This really is the ground shifting under our feet, isn't it?
	It is, and one of the concerns I have is, you know, what attorney is going to want to go and work for President Trump in a future White House or is going to want to work with him when most of the attorneys that have worked with him, it seems more and more, are getting criminally charged?
	I mean, that's a very scary thing when we think about the practice of law.
	We want attorneys.
	We want a society where attorneys will represent individuals and advocate for a fair trial for anyone, regardless of their political affiliation, regardless of what they're alleged to be doing or their background.
	Everyone deserves a fair trial, but if we continue a process where we've decided we don't like President Trump, we're going to go after him by any means.
	Included in that is going to be coming after these attorneys.
	Just imagine this.
	These attorneys that were just involved in exploring and trying to figure out, can we file litigation?
	Is there something we can do within the legal process to challenge this election?
	Those attorneys are now being criminally charged.
	They're facing half a million dollars in legal fees just to defend themselves in a case like this.
	And quite frankly, I'm also hearing there are attorneys that are afraid to represent them.
	There are attorneys that are saying, I'm risking my license, my entire legal career in order to defend you.
	So it's going to be a half a million dollars or a million dollar bill because I'm risking everything.
	I'm risking my ability to make a living by doing this.
	And that bothers me.
	Much like it bothered me doctors that are losing their license because they recommended alternative treatments for COVID or they approved religious accommodations or recommended medical exemptions.
	So I just, again, I think those are the big picture concerns we have to recognize and deal with.
	Or you're making a situation like, you know, journalism, for example.
	You know how I get kicked off all these.
	I've had PayPal ban me and so forth because they don't like what I talk about.
	And so, you know, this is happening everywhere in our society.
	You know, this is taking it to a new level in terms of coming after the lawyers, and we should all be very concerned about that.
	But this is just in general the new totalitarian rules that they're imposing on everybody.
	Everybody feels the lash when it comes to social media to one degree or the other, don't they?
	No, they absolutely do.
	And I think we have to be wise.
	We have to be careful in how we evaluate this.
	And the last thing I'll say about these criminal cases is this.
	There's a subtle shift that's happened over, I would say, over the last hundred years in our legal system.
	Most people outside the legal system wouldn't recognize Yeah.
	The concept called jury nullification was part of our system.
	It was part of our system when our nation was founded.
	It was understood as critical.
	And jury nullification is this idea that when we take a criminal case and we put it in the hands of a jury, those 12 citizens can make a decision that say, we know that the law was violated technically here, but the right outcome is to find this individual not guilty and move on.
	The government's wrong to persecute this person for this violation of the law.
	This concept of jury nullification, that has fallen completely out of favor.
	Many states have laws on the books that you can't even argue for jury nullification as an attorney, that you can't stand up and say this is not the right thing to do in this case.
	I believe there's only one New England state that even has jury notification as a possibility on it.
	Now, why do I bring that up?
	It's just something to pay attention to and think about.
	Ultimately, the jury is supposed to be something critical in our system.
	Thomas Jefferson said the jury was the only anchor yet imagined by the mind of man through which a government could be held to the principles of its constitution.
	That's right. I mean, think about that.
	So, I pray, especially given what I do, but even for any case, I pray for juries, for citizens who are wise, who are discerning, who are clear-minded, and are willing to push back against totalitarianism and tyranny from the government.
	But I do think that concept of jury nullification...
	It's something we need to figure out how to bring back, whether it's through legislation or otherwise.
	It needs to be a part of our system because in some cases, and I have tried cases where we have won, my clients have been acquitted because of jury nullification, and we weren't allowed to argue it as you have the authority to do this under the law, but we were allowed to argue the right thing, the fair thing, the just thing, is to acquit in this case.
	So that's just an important principle we've lost sight of in the law.
	It needs to come back. Yes, that's how I got hired at Infowars.
	I was doing reports about Fully Informed Jury Association and some people who were standing up for it.
	And if you just hand out general literature about jury nullification downtown in front of the courthouse, not about any particular case or anything, they would come after them and try to get them in jail for jury tampering.
	That's how serious it was in terms of challenge.
	But it has always been a very important part.
	Trial by jury had Gilbert and Sullivan writing an opera about trial by jury because it was understood to be such a bedrock of a society that was going to have rule of law and individual liberty.
	And it goes back to William Penn's trial.
	I've talked about that many times, establishing jury nullification as well as habeas corpus.
	And so this is something that's always been there, but the way that they get around this is in many cases, you have the judge just lie to the jury and say, you're not here to judge the law or the punishment.
	You're here to just judge the facts of the case and nothing could be further from the truth.
	I had one person that I interviewed, uh, out of New Jersey and he, he called himself New Jersey weed man.
	He had Rastafarian dreadlocks and stuff, and he smoked pot a lot.
	And he got, they arrested him.
	He had quite a bit of marijuana for his own personal use.
	And if you talked to him, you'd realize that it really was for his own personal use.
	But he actually lit up when I was doing the interview with him over Zoom.
	But he looked at it and he said, I couldn't get a lawyer to argue this case, but I knew it was in the New Jersey Constitution.
	So I printed up that part of the Constitution.
	And when I was representing myself, he said, I knew that the majority of people did not support criminalization of marijuana in New Jersey.
	So I thought I could get off with jury nullification.
	So he puts up the sign and the judge immediately says, take that down.
	I'm going to hold you in contempt, throw you in jail.
	He said, but the problem is that the jury had already seen it, that it was in the New Jersey Constitution.
	And so they voted 7-5 to acquit him, but with a hung jury.
	So the DA came back after him again.
	And the next trial, he had a different judge, and he did the same thing, and that judge allowed him to put that up, showed the New Jersey Constitution, and that time they acquitted him 12-0.
	But we don't usually have jury trials anymore because they play this game.
	And this is another thing we've seen in these charges against Trump.
	They come in with so many trumped up charges that they try to get you to plea bargain out of it.
	That's the other issue.
	It seems to me like that's the really big issue, Davis.
	How do we break this cycle of people who, A, don't believe that their fellow citizens are really going to take a stand and are really going to judge the law or whatever.
	And the fact that they're so overcharged with the stuff because the game is they add all these additional charges and then say, well, we'll drop the additional charges if you plead guilty to what we really want to get you for in the first place.
	They don't present it that way, but that's essentially what's happening.
	How do we break that cycle?
	It's a hard challenge to break that cycle, but the reality is, just look at federal courts.
	98% of federal cases results in a plea agreement.
	98%, right?
	And there's this joke, we hear it all the time, it's become a trope, but it's scary to me how much of a trope it's become that we all commit violations of federal law unknowingly every day, right?
	Each citizen does that.
	There's something to that.
	So what happens is, especially with the way the federal guidelines work, And sentencing is all in the hands of the judge, not in the hands of the jury.
	So federal judges, appointed federal judges, are in charge of sentencing.
	And the issue is the way the guidelines work, many individuals face dozens and dozens, sometimes hundreds of years in prison.
	Yeah. Over the allegations.
	So they're sitting there going, okay, I'm looking at $25,000, $30,000, $50,000, $200,000 worth of legal fees, number one.
	And number two, I'm looking at the possibility, if this goes poorly, of doing decades in prison.
	Or I can take a deal.
	I can do two years of probation.
	I can save a lot of money on attorney's fees.
	And I can try and move past this.
	But there's no thought to the coercive nature of these charging decisions.
	So one answer is to take a hard look at how we pick, how we select, and how we use United States attorneys.
	That's on the federal level.
	On the state level, I would encourage people to be very, very cautious.
	If you have the ability to vote in an election for a district attorney in your county at the state and local level, take that very, very seriously.
	Look hard at those people and try to find other people that are willing to run for that office at that local level that have some control and discretion and can do the right things.
	Because these DAs and these US attorneys do have a great deal of discretion in charging, and that would be a great step.
	So there are political solutions to it.
	Unfortunately, we've created a system where there are so many people going through the process, they can't properly give everyone a jury trial.
	The system breaks down.
	And so the system is built on plea bargain.
	And, you know, it was – I remember in the transition period before Trump – after he got elected in 2016, before he was sworn in in 2017, Obama and Eric Holder talked about how they were going to focus on district attorney races and on state – Attorney's General.
	And they had a lot of money from Soros, as we've seen.
	And so we've seen that type of thing being done in all these different places.
	With Trump, we see it being put into practice.
	And I don't support Trump since he did what he did in 2020 with lockdowns and the vaccines.
	I think it's an outrage what is happening.
	This weaponization, as you were pointing out, is setting up some very, very dangerous precedents for so many different things.
	And people can see what this strategy of district attorneys and state attorneys, generals, they can see how dangerous that is and why that was so important To radical leftists like Obama, Eric Holder, and George Soros to spend lavishly on these races to put people on.
	I mean, they're spending millions of dollars on local district attorney races.
	So that tells you how important it is to them and that they're going to use this for something.
	So what you said is absolutely true.
	We have to look at the sheriff very carefully.
	We have to look at the local district attorney.
	We have to look at the state attorney general.
	Those are races that I think in many ways are far more important than even the president because the president is so insular from all these different concerns, and it really is the people who are closest to you that are going to have the biggest effect on you.
	They can make things better or they can make things much worse than whoever's in Washington, can't they?
	That's absolutely right.
	And whether or not you support President Trump running again, you have to look at the reality of the plan that was put in place with these prosecutors, with these DAs, with these elections, the importance of these U.S. attorneys.
	And now you have situations where the federal judge, the D.C. case, that judge has set the trial date for March 4th.
	That's the day before Super Tuesday.
	The DA in Georgia wants to set the trial for the same date.
	The day before Super Tuesday.
	So again, we should all just take pause, whether we are a Trump apologist or not.
	And I'm with you. I have great concerns about how COVID was handled and what happened there.
	But the reality is this is partiality.
	This is using the criminal justice system to political advantage.
	And when you start looking at trial dates, you just have to roll your eyes and go, wow, this feels a lot like election interference, doesn't it?
	They're doing that in our face, and they're doing it deliberately, and they're trying to escalate things into a civil war.
	And the thing that concerns me, I didn't get to the clips today to play them, but we've got people now openly talking about civil war and assassination of Trump.
	Tucker talking about the assassination of Trump.
	You've got John Voight, the actor, saying this is a civil war.
	And everybody, Trump is becoming the Mason-Dixon line.
	He pushes this stuff because he makes money from this stuff.
	And so he's taking the indictments to the bank and his poll numbers are going up.
	But the other people are doing the types of things like you talked about, the fact they're going to put the trial date the day before Super Tuesday and all the rest of this stuff.
	And it really is polarizing the country into a civil war.
	I think that is a very, very dangerous thing.
	And it looks like both sides want that to happen, seems like to me.
	I mean, again, we have to go there.
	We have to be wise, we have to be discerning, and we have to have those concerns.
	And then we have to look to things like, what will Congress do?
	The Republicans in Congress can vote to defund the DOJ, right?
	They can restrict the powers of the first.
	So there are political things that can be done, but if they're not done and we're not seeking political solutions...
	Then the divide gets greater, the differences get greater, and we reach into some very, very dangerous times.
	I pray that's not the direction this goes, but if political solutions aren't being sought, I agree with you.
	I have the same kind of concerns.
	Yeah, you know, when we look at this too, as soon as I saw the RICO statutes and I saw Rudy there, and he actually talked about this in his statements, the fact that he had used RICO so extensively as a prosecutor before he became mayor in New York.
	And, you know, when you look at the RICO statutes themselves, I've always had a big problem with the way they were organized.
	And it really was kind of an evolutionary path into civil asset forfeiture because the whole point of a big part of the RICO statute, besides making the prosecutor's job easier to come after organized crime, it was also to take away the money so they wouldn't have the money to hire the it was also to take away the money so they wouldn't have the money to hire the best lawyers and defend themselves and get
	And so that gradually evolved over a period of time with people like Rudy and, ironically, with people like Joe Biden into civil asset forfeiture, where they come in, they confiscate property from people and never even charge you with a crime, let alone find you guilty.
	And so I thought it was kind of ironic that Rudy is getting charged with the RICO statutes.
	What do you think about the RICO statutes in general?
	Yeah, I have grave concerns with them.
	You know, I'm a big believer in looking to the Bible as a foundation for how we approach our legal system.
	And one of the concerns I have with RICO statutes is just fundamentally it was designed to make prosecutions and getting convictions easier.
	That troubles me.
	Just notionally, whether it's my time as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney, anytime we're changing the law to try to get more convictions or make prosecution easier, I'm troubled by that because that's not supposed to be the point of our legal system.
	Our legal system is supposed to be designed to punish the evil and protect the innocent.
	It's not about numbers, prosecutions, or anything else.
	So RICO statutes have a troubled history.
	They were used with some effect against the mob, and you could see how you could bring down an organization by doing that.
	At the same time, whenever you have a conspiracy like that, whenever you have a RICO statute, the problem is I represent individuals.
	Sometimes I do court-appointed work in the federal system.
	So you'll have a very low-level I'm a drug dealer, right?
	So not the greatest human being in the world.
	I understand that. But very, very low level, minimally involved.
	But because they're charged under a conspiracy or under a RICO type statute, all of a sudden they're responsible for millions of dollars worth of drug trafficking over an entire region when all they were was a bag man or something else on a very low level, right?
	A user that sold a little bit and they're responsible for anything else.
	One of the things that bothers me about it is it does lead often to what I would consider unfair outcomes and really escalates the criminal liability for individuals who are just bit players in something or even just didn't fully understand the scope of what they were getting involved with when they did.
	Yeah, this whole civil asset forfeiture thing.
	I talked about a case that's getting some publicity now.
	It's several years old, about six years old, up in Muskegee, Oklahoma.
	And just, you know, pulling a guy over, going through his car.
	You know, he's got a taillight out or something like that.
	And just finding cash and taking all the cash.
	And it was cash that they'd been doing as a Christian band, concerts they were doing for people.
	And... And so it was their pay as well as donations that they had picked up, cash donations for an orphanage and all the rest of the stuff.
	But this has become kind of standard operating procedure and the police have been corrupted by this heavily because they get to participate in the booty.
	But it's, you know, just taking the stuff, never even charging the person, but charging...
	The object, the inanimate object, you know, they make a, it's like, you know, the government versus this car, serial number this, or a jet, or a house, or a stack of cash, or whatever.
	They don't even bother to charge a person, let alone find them guilty.
	That's the thing that I see just so amazing to me.
	And, you know, it's kind of another one, you know, with Trump, when he said about the red flag laws, you just take the gun and do the due process later.
	Due process later. I said, well, that's not due process if you don't do it when it's due, right?
	Right. It's going to be done beforehand.
	But this is a really dangerous thing that's happening, and it's been happening to ordinary people for a very long time.
	I was talking about civil asset forfeiture back in the 90s, and yet now that it has gotten to the point where they're coming after their political opponents using this type of tactic, RICO and civil asset forfeiture, That's still not really being talked about by either the left or the right press.
	They're still not talking about these injustices.
	It's still strictly about Trump versus Biden.
	They're not looking at the overarching issues and the precedents that are being set here, I'm afraid.
	Yeah, I agree with you. I think that's a grave concern and that's why we have to stay engaged.
	We have to stay alert. That's why I appreciate the work that you do in trying to help people understand and educate people because we have to pay attention to these things and we need to remember the law should be the law.
	It shouldn't matter. There shouldn't be partiality.
	There shouldn't be concerns.
	Justice is supposed to be blind for a reason.
	That's what we should fight for.
	We should live in a society and a system where it doesn't matter who is on trial or where in the nation they are.
	We should be able to count on our fellow citizens to do the right thing.
	We should be able to count on district attorneys.
	Now, we live in a fallen world.
	That's never going to happen.
	But if we go back to and we understand why we had things like jury nullification, that's a critically important thing.
	Why we gave Congress, why the founders gave Congress the power of the purse.
	They don't exercise it anymore because everybody feeds into the system, but there is so much power that comes from the ability of Congress to work on funding.
	I mean, look at simple things like what Senator Tuberville is doing in Alabama.
	I know very little about Senator Tuberville.
	I wasn't necessarily optimistic about him as a senator, but he has done so much to protect the military from woke ideology as well as to push back against the abortion policy by simply saying, I'm going to object to unanimous consent to these military nominees.
	We can either go and have a full hearing and have a floor vote.
	I'm going to keep my block in place and I'm going to object to this unless you change your illegal policy on funding abortions and unless you give us an opportunity to understand who it is, are these communists or not, that you're appointing to senior military positions.
	That's a really good example.
	Do they have the best interests of our country in mind or not?
	That's right. It's a really good example of what one person can do if they're committed to this.
	You can really be a fly in the ointment, and there's things that you can do to stop that instead of just rubber stamping everything that's going along.
	And that's typically what we have seen with Congress.
	The other part of it is, let's just kick it over to the bureaucracy and let them have the hot potato.
	Right. Fully Informed Jury Association.
	And that is not the association, but an informed jury.
	That is a key thing, I think, and it is something that is so vital that we have lost.
	And just to state it again, everybody needs to understand that if you're a juror, you're there to judge Not just the facts of the case, but you're there to judge the law and the penalties that will be applied.
	And if you think that the law is unjust or the penalties are going to be excessive, it is your right and your duty as a juror to oppose that, but you're told exactly the opposite by almost all these judges.
	And I guess, you know, what I've heard is that if you start talking about it to your fellow jurors, they'll kick you out of there and put in an alternate, right?
	Because that's typically what happens.
	That has happened.
	There's been documented cases of that happening.
	Absolutely. Truly amazing.
	Well, you know, when you look at these other cases, just real quickly, not just the one in Georgia, that's particularly egregious in terms of its politics.
	And before we leave it, let me just ask you your opinion about this.
	As I've looked at this and other people have looked at it, it looks like another part of the strategy was Is to have so many people that are there that they can get the lawyers to turn on Trump.
	And by charging the lawyers, she can break the attorney-client privilege.
	That's another important precedent that they're trying to get rid of.
	So by charging the lawyers, uh, then that breaks that makes them co-defendants and then hoping that they will turn on Trump.
	And then Trump is not paying for anybody's big legal fees.
	And that's kind of a dangerous thing for him as well.
	Even one guy who had to sit in jail for over a week because he couldn't make bail and couldn't afford a lawyer.
	He's now got online fundraising, uh, give, send, go, or something like that.
	But what do you think about that strategy?
	Do you think that's going to backfire on Trump and that some of these lawyers are going to flip?
	Is that what her ultimate strategy is, you think?
	In my opinion, the reason that you charge people under a RICO statute, the reason you bring in multiple defendants in these cases is because you are going to try to flip someone.
	I heard yesterday...
	I don't know how much of it is true, but I heard yesterday that in the Mar-a-Lago case, the classified documents case in Florida, that someone is already flipping.
	Someone's already cooperating, at least with regard to the obstruction, the destruction of video charges, things like that.
	It's a very common practice for prosecutors to use that.
	As far as what Trump does and how he approaches it, I do think there is a feeling among many that they can't possibly afford, many people associated with them, they can't possibly afford the legal fees that this requires to fight this, and he is raising unprecedented amounts of money for his campaign or through his campaign and His legal defense fund money isn't hurting.
	So there probably are some concerns about whether or not he can provide money to co-defendants and what that does if that looks like obstruction because they're not cooperating.
	But he could certainly go out and say...
	These people are patriots.
	You need to support them and help them, just like you're supporting and helping me.
	I do think there are things he could do to do that.
	It's dangerous.
	It's unprecedented legal issues we're dealing with.
	This idea of trying to pierce attorney-client privilege, very, very dangerous.
	But I do think he should be doing, at least to the extent he possibly can, everything he can for these other co-defendants, because they're just caught up in issues that That many of them have no control over.
	They're just trying to do the job, do a job the best of their ability.
	That's right. Yeah. And it's not good optics even for the politics to let these other guys go to jail because they can't afford a lawyer or bail.
	That's something that's not very wise.
	You know, when you talk about the documents case, I don't know.
	What is your general take on this?
	I'll tell you, I look at the documents case.
	To me, that seems like the only one where they have a clear violation.
	And yet again, You know, why it is selective prosecution.
	They don't appear to be interested in anybody else violating these laws.
	I mean, technically, he appears to have violated.
	I haven't seen any lawyers that came up with a plausible defense for it.
	Dershowitz, as hard as he tried, said, well, maybe the documents were already declassified and maybe he didn't know it.
	That's the best he could come up with.
	But, you know, what everybody sees is the fact that, no, they haven't come after Biden or Hillary or anybody else about these things.
	And so they still see it as a lawfare against him, you know, weaponized legal attack against him, even if he technically did violate it.
	But what is it from your position?
	Because you've been involved with military trials and things like that.
	I'm sure that, you know...
	Classified security and things like that have come up in the past.
	What is your opinion about that particular case?
	You know, I think my frustration with that case is it is an example, I think, of, you know, politically targeted and selective prosecution.
	Because here's the issue. You're really dealing with two different laws.
	You're dealing with the Espionage Act that goes all the way back to World War I, Woodrow Wilson, which is really what they're charging him under.
	But it was never designed, it was never intended to go after the President of the United States.
	There's another law called the Presidential Records Act, right?
	The Presidential Records Act, which really is what's supposed to apply to presidential documents and the requirement to archive these documents for historical purposes, but there are no criminal penalties in the Presidential Records Act.
	So in the past, with other presidents, everything's been handled.
	They've had to turn over documents under the Presidential Records Act, but they were allowed to keep things, again, under that act for personal historical reasons.
	So it really is a selective prosecution issue.
	So yes, technically, if things that That President Trump believed were covered under the Presidential Record Act or believed he was allowed to take, even maybe his attorneys advising him thought it was okay for him to take, but they weren't technically declassified yet.
	Yeah, there could be some technical violations to the law, but that again goes back to one of those issues of what was the intent of the law when Congress passed it, and is a prosecutor twisting the intent of the law and using essentially a technicality to try to come after a political opponent?
	And I think the answer to that is yes.
	Yes, and you go back to that Espionage Act that you talk about, you know, Woodrow Wilson, I think, the 1917 Espionage Act, and I remember very clearly talking about how the Obama cohorts, which are essentially, you know, what's around Biden at this point in time, running his administration, but during the Obama administration, they charged more people In his eight years, they charge more people with the 1917 Espionage Act than all of the previous administrations combined.
	And so it is a favorite tactic of theirs to use the 1917 Espionage Act.
	So it's got his fingerprints and that whole group all over that thing.
	But yeah, it truly is amazing that it's gotten to this point.
	But my big concern with it, again, as you pointed out, there's some very dangerous precedents that are being established.
	And it is also being used to intensify this tribalization and this polarization, and everybody's getting ready to fight over this stuff.
	And it is coming up to, I don't know if you pay attention to the fourth turning or not, but it's something Strauss and Howe talked about in the early 90s.
	The guys who came up with the names Millennial and everything, they looked at a cycle of about every 80 years, about every fourth generation, there'll be a turning in society.
	Where there would be a major restructuring of all the different institutions, usually accompanied by a financial crisis and or war, you know?
	And the previous ones were World War II and the Great Depression, prior to that Civil War, prior to that the American Revolutionary War.
	They went back 500 years in American and British history.
	And so we're at a time where the people are really kind of primed for this.
	And this seems to be the flashpoint, in my opinion, what they're doing here with Trump.
	It truly is amazing. But I don't know.
	It's great to talk to you.
	And is there anything else on your mind you'd like to talk about?
	Homeschooling, anything like that that's happening?
	Well, you know, I think one of the things that I think you would be interested in being aware of and I think something we need to keep an eye on is a trend we're seeing with regard to – it affects all parental rights, but in particular can affect homeschoolers.
	It's this. There was a story that came out this week where Pennsylvania – that's where I live, where I practice local law – They engaged in a training program.
	So the state of Pennsylvania created a training program in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh.
	And what they did is they put out training materials that say, essentially, if the parents are homophobic, if the parents are opposed to their child transitioning, that could be a danger, that could be a threat, and you should consider whether or not it's appropriate to remove a child from the home in Pennsylvania.
	Wow. Wow. Okay, so it's big news that I want people to see because there was a lot of attention that was paid to states on the West Coast like Washington who came out with laws that specifically had legislation on the books that says that's a reason not allowing a child to get an abortion or Or, you know, opposing an abortion or opposing, you know, medical treatment, so-called medical transgender treatment, child mutilation, puberty brokers, those things, that that could be a threat to the child.
	Well, other states now, and we're seeing this in Pennsylvania, the training materials have now been released.
	They're publicly available.
	Just no one was paying attention.
	You have your local county social workers being trained to look for people who have religious beliefs.
	It talks about traditional religious beliefs that oppose this and the danger and threat that may make to a child.
	So when we talk big picture about homeschooling, the biggest, you know, continued drum that I will beat is homeschool your children or get them into a really good small school.
	Christian, private school, do everything you can to do that.
	Because the cases we have seen in Pennsylvania, the cases we'll continue to see in Pennsylvania, will usually involve some sort of an interaction with a public school counselor, teacher, otherwise, that starts a child down the path of confusion that these individuals will play into their mental illness.
	They will drum that up, and then you will see this, and then all of a sudden...
	The county is knocking at your door and removing your children.
	So I'm not trying to be alarmist on that, but it's something we have to pay attention to.
	Yeah, as a matter of fact, that's another level up.
	I just talked about this week about Massachusetts where they had, I think it was yesterday I talked about it, They had a couple who wanted to adopt and so they were going to get into the foster care program and adoption program and as part of that they realized that they were Christians and that they were not going to go along with the LGBT agenda and that type of thing so they kicked them out of the program so there's a lawsuit happening there but what you're talking about there in Pennsylvania is even worse that's coming after people who are parents and taking the kids away from them simply
	because they don't go along with the LGBT agenda And as you point out, it's going to be the schools that are going to kind of act like the Stasi informants, you know, saying, well, this is what we see, you know, sending child protective services, so-called, and to attack the parents, isn't it?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely. So homeschool your kids, get them in a good private school, a good Christian school, a small one that you know what's being taught, that you understand what's happening.
	The other thing I tell parents all the time, particularly homeschool parents, is pay very careful attention to who your doctor is.
	Yes.
	Your primary care physician, people, people miss this completely, but your primary care physician, your doctor has a critical role in all of this because you have progressive doctors, you have clinics that won't take you as a patient.
	If your kids don't get every single vaccine, as soon as, you know, as soon as they're born or otherwise, but you also have, you know, these clinics that will push this medical mutilation of children and feed into these things.
	And so you need a really good primary care physician that at least understands and is sympathetic to your religious beliefs and basic parental rights.
	And that's a, that's a good buffer against the County, against the state or otherwise, when it comes to protecting your children and protecting your family.
	So that's the other note of encouragement I would have for folks that are out there is pay attention to who your doctor is.
	Be very careful about that.
	That's real important advice.
	Yeah, because they can become the informant to get you into trouble if you don't do the vaccines and that type of thing.
	And that is something a lot of people don't think about.
	And it's getting harder and hard to find doctors like that because they've taken over the institutions and they're the gatekeepers and they're looking for people who are going to go into their political side of things and then they heavily push this as part of the medical curriculum as well.
	It has always been about parental rights.
	I don't know if you saw the The article about Michael Ferris, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Washington posted a detailed article about him.
	And they focus on parental rights.
	And because he's understood that parental rights is at the essence of all this stuff, homeschooling and everything else.
	And so that is really going to be where the fight is going to be.
	It's going to be about parental rights.
	Well, it's always great talking to you.
	Again, Davis Yantz and his website is yantzlaw.com.
	And... It's great to have somebody, we talk about not just doctors, but to talk about lawyers who look at things from a Christian moral perspective, and therefore they're going to try to uphold the law as it is written.
	It is great to talk to you.
	Thank you so much for coming on.
	Hey, thank you, brother. God bless you.
	you.
	Thank you.
	God bless you.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back, folks.
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	As a matter of fact, let's talk a little bit about the parental rights thing.
	I think that is key. I think it's been key for a very long time.
	And I just started talking about this yesterday, and we ran out of time.
	And I want to pick it back up with this Washington Post article where they said...
	You know, here's Michael Ferris.
	He started a college, the Patrick Henry College or University or something.
	And he's also created the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, the Alliance Defending Freedom.
	But they said his big influence has been outside of the courtroom.
	And they pointed to the fact that he's been pushing with established Republicans the idea of parental rights.
	and it is something that is hugely successful.
	If you look at the success of Youngkin and Virginia running on that, regardless of whatever else Youngkin does and whether he really does walk the talk or whatever, and again with DeSantis, what these are ultimately about, DeSantis' popularity that he's called sanctimonious for by Trump, DeSantis' popularity that he's called sanctimonious for by Trump, that ultimately is about these parental right issues.
	They said Ferris told the Post that he supports the continued existence of public schools, abhorres the idea of using them or any other form of state power to impose his religious beliefs on others.
	He said, do I want as many people as possible in the country to come to Christ?
	Yes, I do, he said. Do I want to use the government to accomplish that?
	I would absolutely oppose that with everything in my being.
	His parental rights agenda, he said, reaches beyond creed, and as more people embrace those ideas, he believes his patient strategic mantra, take as much ground as you can at the moment, he believes that that is paying off.
	In 1980, the oldest of his ten children, Christy, Began attending a kindergarten and elementary school in eastern Washington State, giving he and his wife their first and only experience as parents of a public school student.
	And that lasted for only about two months.
	After that, they moved to a different part of the state, and they enrolled Christie at a private Christian school.
	But even there, he said, they became concerned that their daughter was being unduly influenced by other six-year-olds, and of course, you know, by teachers, like we just saw with this don't tread on me kid, right?
	I mean, he's at a classical education charter school, Hillsdale College, and all the rest of this stuff, and he gets a teacher like that?
	So in 1982, they began homeschooling part of the vanguard of evangelical Christians rejecting the secularization of American society.
	His wife, Vicki, the family's primary educator, would devote the next 33 years of her life to lessons at the dining room table.
	Let me interject here and say that I've never talked to anybody who has done that that regrets it.
	They regret that it's over.
	It's a real joy. You know, we're presented these things and we're told that children are a burden to us.
	Planned Parenthood, when they're counseling people, can you really afford this child?
	Do you know how much this is going to cost you to raise this kid to the age of 18?
	Yeah, it's going to cost, who knows, a million dollars or something, they tell them.
	As if they're going to pay it all right now, up front.
	You know, they scare people with this.
	They tell people, you won't have any life of your own.
	And the reality of this, and this is one of the reasons why so many Christians are doing it, is because they understand that the joy is in the journey.
	They understand that as you give of yourself, it comes back to you.
	And so that's the mindset that you need to have, especially towards your children.
	Homeschooling at the time was rare.
	And its legality was uncertain.
	The Ferris family, like many others, confronted suspicion.
	Ferris said a neighbor once asked one of his daughters, who was then about six, if she was learning how to read.
	In his telling, the girl responded by reading aloud from the front page of the newspaper.
	Well, we had the same type of thing happen.
	I remember, you know, Travis was, I mean, he was still like nine years old and he wasn't reading.
	We were reading. I was reading to him.
	You know, he enjoyed reading. Then one day he just picked up a book which would be junior high school level reading.
	It was G.A. Hinty novels.
	And he just started reading it.
	It's like, wow. You know, and I kept telling relatives who were pushing us on this, I said, it's no big deal.
	I said Woodrow Wilson didn't begin to read until he was nine.
	Albert Einstein didn't begin to read before he was nine.
	This is an arbitrary thing.
	Don't let people put pressure on you.
	The scope of the sequence is going to be different for all kids.
	The rest of our kids, I had to grab a book and cram it down their throat.
	I don't know how to read.
	But, you know, Travis just picked this thing up and ran with it.
	So everybody's going to be different, and everybody's going to have different things that they do really well, other things that they don't do really well.
	You know, some kids are going to read well, they're not going to do math well, and vice versa.
	Other things like that are going to happen.
	Anyway... As I point out, and they were talking about this because of the conference that had been given to them that he had a couple of years ago, talking about parental rights.
	Ferris' uncompromising positions gained him a following among conservative Christians who helped him win the Republican nomination for Virginia Lieutenant Governor in 1993.
	But because of his views on education, especially his assertion in a 1990 book that public schools are, quote, a godless monstrosity, unquote.
	Does anybody question that today?
	It became a drag on his general election campaign, and now we have drags who are drags on everything.
	The prominent Republicans refused to endorse him.
	Let me just say this.
	What he has done...
	In the last 33 years, I think is far better than anything that he could have done as lieutenant governor or governor in Virginia.
	God does work in different ways for us.
	Sometimes we follow a path and those doors are cut off.
	That doesn't mean that it's over for us.
	On an October morning in 1995, when he was 44, he sat before the House Judiciary Committee, and he urged legislators to pass the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act.
	The bill had been introduced by conservatives in Congress, but Ferris, as he acknowledged in his testimony, was one of its authors.
	He wanted Congress to decree that political rights are fundamental, according to them the same high level of deference that courts show to freedom of speech and to worship.
	Confusion abounded among judges over how they should balance the rights of parents against the duties of school officials and social workers, he contended.
	He said, we're simply clarifying a right that exists, a right that comes from God.
	Our children come from God.
	Our rights as parents come from God.
	And he's absolutely right about this.
	And one of the organizations that he created was parentalrights.org.
	And they had a briefly...
	It was very brief.
	It was only a few sentences long to establish the fact that parents, not the state, own the kids and make the decisions about them.
	And because we did not do this...
	He saw this coming. He knew it was happening.
	Why? Because the UN... Convention on the Rights of the Child that has now been signed by every nation on earth except for the United States.
	And yet in the United States, it's been done de facto by judges, typically.
	And now you see it being done by schools, by woke medical practitioners, as David Shantz was saying.
	Various things like that.
	It is this idea that they directly challenge...
	That children belong to the parents, those who can protect them.
	And I'm going to play for you again.
	This is one of a couple of commercials that I did about 15 years ago for parentalrights.org talking about the primacy of parental rights.
	It's called Self-Evident.
	Certain truths are self-evident.
	We're endowed by our Creator with rights.
	Certain relationships are also inalienable.
	Family was the first institution created by our Creator and the family is the fundamental building block of every healthy society and every just government.
	But government and family are two different authorities or spheres with different roles and different responsibilities.
	Each authority is uniquely suited for a particular task and doesn't do the task of the other well.
	Families have traditionally been assumed to be acting out of love in the best interest of its members and have been left alone unless proven to be abusive.
	But a new attitude has been cultivated by those that believe children should be raised by the village and not by their family.
	This approach to children and their families has been spelled out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
	The UN Convention assumes government responsibility for all the needs of children and transfers responsibilities and rights from parents to government.
	Government is seen as capable of providing every want to the child and as responsible for instilling correct values, their values, into children.
	Parents are mentioned in the UN Convention only as problems for children to be protected from, or as mere advisors to their children, so long as their advice is not too strong or coercive.
	Children are encouraged to form their values independent of their parents.
	But nowhere is there a sense that they would ever need protection from a government.
	This troubling document has been ratified as a treaty throughout the world, with the U.S. as virtually the only lone holdout.
	The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is about 16 pages.
	On the other hand, the Parental Rights Amendment is only three short paragraphs.
	is a simple restatement of what has until recently been what every culture, every government, except authoritarian governments, saw as the rights of parents.
	The parental rights amendment would strengthen the Constitution to protect the family by explicitly stating self-evident truths about an inalienable relationship.
	Find out what you can do at parentalrights.org.
	Well, I don't know if that's still a website.
	I can check it to see if it's still active or not.
	All I can say is that he was way ahead of his time.
	And he's done great work and this profile to attack him and to raise the alarm that parents actually think that they have rights that are superior to the state.
	This is where we are now. It is a full court press across this country.
	Okay, there it is. They're still there.
	Good. It is a full court press.
	Every institution now is coming after parental rights.
	And we have to be very careful about that.
	Again, you know, when we look at this rising push towards a civil war, they want us fighting over Trump.
	Let's fight over saving our kids and protecting our kids.
	If we're going to have a fight, let's start there.
	This is the guy who created the vaccine.
	This is the guy who locked us down, who shut up our kids, who put masks on our kids.
	Let's not have a civil war over this guy.
	And yet he goes on with Glenn Beck, a guy who, when he first ran for president, Glenn Beck was rolling his face in Cheetos, making fun of Trump.
	And you have people like Glenn Beck and people like Shapiro, Mark Levin.
	All of them hated Trump when he said he was going to do the right thing.
	And then when they realized that he wasn't going to do the right thing, and when they realized that if they would latch on to this MAGA demographic, they could become rich beyond their wildest dreams, they have now moved around.
	And so he's back on with Glenn Beck, even though Beck was making fun of him, what, eight years ago?
	And Beck says, well, you said about Hillary Clinton that you were going to lock her up, but you didn't do that.
	And so he said, when you became president, he said, we don't do that in America.
	It's just not the right thing to do.
	And he says, but that's what they're doing.
	So do you regret not locking her up?
	And if you're president again, will you lock people up?
	And he says, well, the answer is you have no choice.
	Because they're doing it to us.
	I never hit Biden as hard as I could have.
	But, you know, this is what they're laying this down for.
	And as we wait to see what is going to happen to Joe Biggs today, in terms of his prison sentence, I remember Joe Biggs wearing the Infowars t-shirt, Hillary for prison.
	And he was at a Trump rally, and he's opening it up, and Trump is like, eh, this guy and everything.
	But it was Joe who went to prison, not Hillary, for following Trump, for pushing this guy.
	Will we follow him to prison?
	Will we follow him into a civil war?
	This is my concern.
	So, again, they're trying to get 30 years on him.
	We'll have to see today what happens with Joe.
	But I pray that God will work in his life, will bless him, will protect him.
	Let me just say, Tony is going to be doing the show tomorrow.
	I'm very excited to have Tony doing that.
	We're going to have, on Labor Day, we're going to also take some time off.
	I need a break. And so, we're going to just do a replay on Monday, and tomorrow will be Tony, and it's going to be a great show.
	I just know it will be. But thank you so much, and I wish all of you a very happy and restful Labor Day weekend.
	We'll see you on Tuesday.
	Let me tell you, The David Knight Show, you can listen to with your ears.
	You can even watch it by using your eyes.
	In fact, if you can hear me, that means you're listening to The David Knight Show right now.
	Yeah, good job.
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