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	Using free speech to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, we get together on The David Knight Show.
	I'm Gardner Goldsmith.
	Great to be here with you on the program.
	Filling in for David today on this, the 20th day of June, 2025.
	Year of our Lord, 2025.
	and we're going to touch on biblical matters as well as many breaking, breaking news stories that might pertain to liberty.
	And hopefully we'll derive some Loved ones in our families, our friends, and pass on our love to the Knight family.
	Thanks for joining us, everyone.
	We'll be here until noon time.
	Please spread the word.
	Today we'll be joined by Eric Peters, as well as discussing possible war, undeclared war, and war on war.
	Freedom of Association.
	Music by Ben Thede.
	Welcome to the program, everyone.
	I'm Gardner Goldsmith, and thank you for joining The David Knight Show on this beautiful day.
	Wherever you are, I hope it is absolutely lovely, and we're going to have a terrific time today.
	Filling in for David Knight, I hope on any of the platforms you're watching, you'll share the links and head to thedavidknightshow.com.
	please keep it in mind, open up a tab, check out the store, and consider, while we're going live today, donating to The David Knight Show, because that's...
	If you drop your comments on X, since we are here in Russia spreading the Russian propaganda, Vladimir and the Russian team can get your comments right up there on the screen.
	Of course, we like to get the feedback as we go through the sound system, but we particularly like to get your feedback on issues, ideas, anything that is pertinent to you.
	Drop them in there.
	And inside Rumble, we can check out your chats.
	And I love to look at those colors in there.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	To get into every day today is one special day, in fact.
	I've got a little poll that I'm going to ask you about in a little while.
	And this being the 20th day of June and of Friday, we get to celebrate a lot today.
	It's Friday, so many people are finishing their work days, but also we get joined by Eric Peters today.
	So I've left it open-ended for him.
	He should be joining us at 11 o 'clock, but I said, you know what, Eric?
	Come on in any time, and the team here in Russia will bring you on.
	So he might even be a co-pilot for a little while today as I fill in for David Knight.
	You might know my work from MRCTV.
	That's the Media Research Center's arm for television analysis.
	I write on economics, constitutional issues, and I also write on matters of climate change, so-called the anthropogenic climate change canard, and I write about matters on immigration, all sorts of things like that.
	And I also have Liberty Conspiracy, which is my Monday through Friday, 6 p.m. evening show on the East Coast time zone time slot.
	And so I hope you'll join us over there at Rumble.
	And my X feed is at Guard Goldsmith.
	And also, if you want to, you can head over to my substack.
	That's the Gardner Goldsmith substack.
	And you can get every day at about midday the news notes if you're one of the paid subscribers.
	And there are a lot of folks who are paid subscribers there.
	Greatly appreciate it.
	So we try to put out additional work to the work that I'm doing for MRCTV.
	And then we bring it over here on the show and we expand on it and get your feedback.
	Looking really closely at principles and history and ethics.
	With that stated, I also want to mention, if you're not one of the paid subscribers at my Substack, you can get the Sunday News Assembly over there every Sunday.
	That's free.
	It's typically 20 stories that are breaking news stories plus additional context to help, again, derive intellectual ammunition from those things and carry away good long-standing lessons.
	Boy, are we going to have a great time today.
	We're already getting a lot of good feedback from folks on X. Please share and share alike.
	Great to see fellow conspirator.
	Absolutely.
	He also says, first my prayers, DK, speedy recovery.
	That is such the perfect sentiment for the day.
	And what a great person David Knight is.
	We also see Rattlesnake George.
	Hey, Rattlesnake.
	Good to see you.
	I love all these names.
	And he says, morning guard.
	And the little avatars are terrific.
	He says, second morning, G. If you see me or don't, it's always a pleasure.
	Isn't that great?
	You know, the sentiment comes through to me.
	You make a good day even better.
	A great day even better.
	And Jennifer Whitehouse is in the house as well.
	Jennifer, welcome to the program.
	And as you hear me, if you're listening or you're wondering about that, say, oh, he's saying hi to a lot of folks.
	Hop on in.
	Join in in any of the chats.
	Off your comments.
	And we've got a poll.
	We do something on my Liberty Conspiracy program called the Bad Attitude of the Week.
	It allows me to play one of Boston's greatest garage punk bands, DMZ, and their song, Bad Attitude, where the lead singer gets so verklempt and stressed out.
	He can't even complete.
	It's really funny.
	And so if you want to vote, we'll let you know what the nominees are.
	Nathan Cain says, oh, thank you.
	Nathan reposted the stream and he's got a Ron Paul for president sign from his yard, I assume, out there.
	Oh, boy.
	Wow, that's great.
	And what a good guy Ron Paul is.
	And finally, Martin Thorne.
	Martin, I salute you.
	And I love the cross.
	Good morning, comrades.
	Yes, comrade!
	We're going to get off the Russian bears and get started on the show.
	Let's see what's on tap for today's program, The David Knight Show.
	A great opportunity for us to get together on 6-20-25, this wonderful Friday.
	What are we looking at for today's program, everybody?
	Well, let's check it out, shall we?
	The David Knight Show, 6-20-25, looks like We want to check our audio, of course, by hearing Not Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, like Genesis sings for our program, and we have such great connections with them.
	Not Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, but instead, Smashing Pumpkins with Today.
	Let me know if you're hearing this or if you aren't one way or the other.
	Today is the greatest day I've ever known.
	Can't be awful tomorrow.
	Tomorrow's much tomorrow.
	I'll run my eyes out.
	Before I get out.
	I want it now.
	you All right.
	Yes, he wanted more as he traveled around in that ice cream truck in the video.
	Let's see what's on tap for the program, everybody.
	We're looking at this.
	First, the big story.
	Trump to wait two weeks to, quote, decide whether to unilaterally.
	Use your tax money to attack Iran?
	Hmm, I'm curious about that, aren't you?
	That's strange.
	Not only is it completely unethical, and not only is it based on a lie, but also it breaches the Constitution, and he should be impeached for that.
	But we'll continue.
	Then we've got Cory Booker exploding.
	Something I actually wanted to cover last night on Liberty Conspiracy, and I didn't get to do it.
	I covered part of this story on immigration.
	I mean, on the transmutilation story.
	Cory Booker explodes over the Supreme Court okaying the Tennessee ban on transmutations.
	Now, we discussed some of this when it comes to the dimension of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
	And if you look at the decision, they did discuss the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause in it.
	Very clear, pretty simple to understand, even for a kid, but Cory Booker doesn't seem to get it, even though he swears an oath to the Constitution.
	So we'll talk about that and how he freaked out on it.
	We'll also discuss one of the major breaking stories in California, ICE.
	Denies trying to gain access to Dodger Stadium while the L.A. Dodgers management actually proves that ICE lied about it.
	That's right.
	The L.A. Dodgers were approached, to use the passive voice, the ICE people approached the L.A. Dodgers trying to gain entrance to Dodger Stadium and to roam around the parking lot.
	And the Dodgers said, no, thank you.
	You can't come here.
	This is our property and you're not allowed here.
	You don't have a proper warrant.
	Because the ICE people don't use real warrants.
	They use these things called administrative warrants from their own ICE courts, which are not real courts.
	And again, the word immigration isn't in the Constitution.
	It's not a federal issue.
	It's a state issue.
	So as Gavin Newsom has said, you're not welcome here.
	So did the L.A. Dodgers.
	ICE denied that they tried to get in there, and guess what?
	About a minute after they said that, somebody posted video of them In their trucks, trying to get there.
	We'll show you what it looks like.
	Then we'll talk the climate cult crying over the collapse of solar and EVs after Fed subsidies are said to end.
	And our mind-meld guest, Eric Peters, is going to be with us, everybody.
	I can't wait to see Eric.
	Hey, Russians, you've got to fix one thing over there.
	Can you do that for me, guys?
	Thank you very much.
	Thanks, Russians.
	Yes!
	Excellent.
	Okay, so let's get into First off, if you get the opportunity, I welcome you to go to my XFeed.
	And this is what I've mentioned.
	First off, for something kind of fun, before we get into our newsflash.
	Here it is, everybody.
	There's my little XFeed with me holding up a book called Chiral Mad that contained one of my stories.
	Here is my poll for Liberty Conspiracy later tonight if you want to join us, or you can just vote in the poll over at Atgard Goldsmith.
	For our Bad Attitude Award tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at 6 on Rumble and here on X, whom would you pick?
	See, I even used the proper pronoun, and it's singular.
	It's not they.
	Donald Trump, although you'll see one of the options, is multiple people.
	Donald Trump for claiming he can unilaterally take our cash to bomb people.
	That's number one.
	Number two, the GOP majority in Congress for not co-sponsoring Thomas Massey's War Powers Resolution.
	Nobody in the GOP joined him.
	And by the way, he would not have supported military action.
	Good for him.
	Or number three, ICE for lying.
	About their unconstitutional and immoral attempt to root around Dodger Stadium.
	Right now, with five votes, Trumpola is way ahead with 80% of the vote.
	Or, as John Kerry would have said, 185,000% of the vote, Gardner, for John Kerry for being awesome.
	Then we've got the GOP majority at 20%.
	So right now, Donald Trump is in the lead at 80, and the GOP majority is Okay.
	So cast your votes and we'll check in during the program occasionally just to see what things look like.
	Now let's head over to, of all places, When I finished college, my friends and I did an independent film.
	I'm in the film as a master of disguise named Frank Harker, who has escaped from prison with his co-conspirator in crime, Alan Granny Liquor Spindle.
	And we approach a house.
	This literally was on Gardner Street because the Gardner family came over on the Mayflower.
	So they're all over the east coast of Massachusetts.
	And they helped found Salem.
	And we had nothing to do with the witch trials, I promise.
	Richard Gardner signed the Mayflower Compact and all that stuff.
	So they moved up in the Salem area.
	And Isabella Stewart Gardner is part of the Gardner family by marriage.
	So if you get to go to the museum, where as part of her will, she stipulated that this wonderful house that she populated with all sorts of fine art from Vermeer and Dutch realists and all sorts of folks, she said, you can turn this into a museum.
	But you can't change anything.
	She even had people doing gold scroll work on the doorknobs.
	She's got tapestries.
	It's a beautiful place.
	Amazing art.
	And for years, it was known as one of the best museums in the United States.
	Well, in the middle of the night, around 1990, some thieves broke in, and they literally cut with razor knives, cut the canvases out of three paintings, two large ones and a small one, and they took them away.
	So, for 30 plus years now, those frames are just hanging in the museum because they can't replace them.
	Now, they have made special areas.
	And like, you know, add it to the building to allow for rotating and changeable feature art exhibits so that that makes it always new and fresh.
	So, you know, people will be attracted to come back in and see whatever the new thing is.
	But they can't change those paintings inside the building.
	Otherwise, according to her will, it would have to shut down.
	And she was quite an interesting character.
	She had a pet panther and she'd walk down Boylston Street with her panther on a leash.
	This is for real.
	I sound like I'm from California.
	Hey, Ice, stay out of Dodger Stadium.
	This is real.
	When friends would come to the house, sometimes she would climb up, I think it was like an elm tree, and she'd be up in the branches, sitting in the branches, waving, greeting hello.
	Hello!
	I don't know.
	Again, we have no genetic ties to her.
	That's all I'll say.
	However, we did get to shoot this film on Gardner Street called Skippy Benderman.
	And my friend Carter Blanchard was one of the producers, writers, directors.
	And right around the corner on Gardner Street, on another street called Harvard Ave, was Blanchard's Liquors.
	Talk about interesting coincidences.
	Here we go.
	It's time for what we do on the program for Liberty Conspiracy, the News Flash.
	Yes?
	Oh, hello.
	Hello, we're Mary's parents.
	Oh, well, come on in, fellas.
	Hold it a second!
	Mary's parents burned to death last year!
	Wait a minute!
	I know you guys!
	You're from the News Flash.
	All right, everyone.
	Well, the first thing that I want to tell you is a bit of sad news.
	And I haven't gotten to respond to her yet.
	But Karen Carpenter let me know that in Tennessee, they lost a good man.
	And he has a connection to David Knight and the family.
	And a lot of good folks like Glenn Jacobs over in Knox County.
	Former Jefferson County Senator Frank Nicely.
	Has passed away, everybody.
	Want to let you know about that.
	Karen, thank you for the notation.
	78 years old, he had a heart attack.
	So he served in the Tennessee legislature, as you can see on the screen, for many years as both a representative and senator between 1988 and 2025.
	And as you can see there, he was taken to the hospital after his heart attack where he passed away.
	He lost his bid for re-election in 2024, which he attributed to a series of political ads.
	I think people are pretty clear on that.
	Came from outside the state, a lot of money.
	And he served nearly 12 years in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
	He attended the University of Tennessee, real local guy, where he received a bachelor's degree in soil science in 1969.
	Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally said Nicely had a great sense of humor, and boy, he sure did if you saw the interviews with David.
	In a statement, To 10 News, he served in both the Senate and the House.
	He said, Serving in the House was like being in junior high school, and serving in the Senate was like being in a nursing home.
	Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton, Representative Tim Burchett, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee released statements on X regarding the former senator's death.
	So there you go.
	And of course, he had locked horns with Bill Lee a number of times.
	But it seems like he made a lot of friends along the way.
	So just wanted to give you that.
	And boy, we've got so much to discuss.
	Let's get into our first story of the Newsflash.
	And it's really just going to be a quick one.
	And I covered this for Liberty Conspiracy last night.
	When I talk about freedom of speech on Liberty Conspiracy, I often play a theme.
	By one of my favorite bands.
	They're called the Psychedelic Furs.
	And they opened up very intensely with the first two to three albums.
	And then they got a little more poppy when the movie Pretty in Pink came out.
	And they redid one of their songs.
	And then they came back with an album that is a pure cacophony of intensity.
	This is one of those songs.
	It's called Entertain Me.
	It's actually about a singer not really understanding why people put so much stock in what he has to say.
	and they're not sort of living their own lives.
	I want to live it through you, through your celebrity and so on.
	He couldn't understand that.
	But at the beginning, he says, speak, talk to me.
	So let's see whether we can speak or talk without censorship, shall we?
	Thank you.
	Speak, talk to me.
	Show what I am and cannot be.
	Talk, entertain me.
	Why the wand for all that I can't touch and all that I can't see?
	Why the wand for all that I can't speak?
	And what is mine and all I see Speak to me and what is yours Entertain me For more information, visit www.fema.org So let's discuss this, everyone, because guess what?
	That's right.
	A judge has ruled that Donald Trump's executive department attempt to shut down the Global Engagement Center cannot move forward.
	That is according to a report from Reclaim the Net and also Mike Benz, interestingly enough.
	And I know a lot of people have wondered about Mike Benz.
	Where'd he come from?
	This guy's all over the place.
	Well, he's doing another good job here.
	Insanity, he says.
	A California district court judge just blocked the shutdown.
	Of the Global Engagement Center.
	Now, those of you who aren't familiar with my work at MRCTV, or if you're not familiar with Matt Taibbi's work on this, or Michael Schellenberger's work on this, the Global Engagement Center was funded through money from something I tried to alert people about,
	to leave a preposition dangling, about which I tried to alarm people in 2016, the Portman Murphy It was a two-year funding mechanism for propaganda that allowed $150 million split over the two years to be given to media groups.
	They opened up an office in the Pentagon and had this money that they sent out to organizations.
	Like NewsGuard, and as you know, if you've watched my program or if you've seen me filling in for David previously, I have had to deal with NewsGuard many times.
	So literally, they've used my tax money to have NewsGuard go after me at MRCTV.
	And they send you these emails that tell you, we're going to downgrade your reliability on our analysis chart, which would affect the ability to get spread onto websites for MRCTV unless you answer.
	So they give you busy work.
	They don't click on the hyperlinks.
	And you say, well, if you had clicked on this hyperlink, here's the evidence.
	If you clicked on this hyperlink, here's the evidence.
	They've never come back afterwards.
	They just give us this stuff.
	And I don't know.
	I can't even tell you how many hours I've had to spend doing that so that MRCTV won't get downgraded by this organization that different browsers recognize as authoritative.
	As a truth monitor.
	They also used a lot of that money to send it over to the Virality Project at Stanford in California.
	They've used it to censor people.
	And they've used it indirectly to censor people again.
	Through the Global Engagement Center.
	That was one of the ways they would target some of these organizations that they wanted to fund.
	Here is Reclaim the Net giving us the story.
	A federal judge just blocked President Trump's attempt to kill the State Department's RFIMI unit, a censorship office masquerading as an anti-disinformation program.
	Born as the Global Engagement Center, there you go, in 2016, to counter Russian propaganda, there you go, the agency quickly mission creeped into U.S. politics, leaning on tech firms to crush dissenting voices before the 2020 election.
	I tried to tell people what was going on before they And it was like whistling in the wind.
	And again, and I mentioned this on my program, I don't want to sound exclusive or anything, but hardly anybody was talking about this when it could have been stopped.
	You know, it's really frustrating.
	It's now a pillar of the censorship industrial complex, a sprawling fusion of federal money and narrative control ops.
	In April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the unit dead.
	But now Judge Susan Ilston says eliminating RFIMI violates her prior injunction against sweeping Trump-led agency cuts.
	So literally, even though there is the separation of powers and even though Not only all those things, he has a sworn oath to not fund it.
	It doesn't matter whether he chooses to fund it or not to fund it.
	If he swears an oath to the Constitution, the next factor is...
	Congress shall write no law abridging the freedom of speech.
	And yet, what were they doing?
	They were funding people through the GEC and various organizations like NewsGuard, and they were approaching people to say, you know what?
	We're going to suppress your reach.
	We're going to suppress your speech.
	That's in addition to giving money during the Biden administration to Twitter to silence people.
	They gave three and a half million dollars to them through the FBI.
	That's in addition to pressuring the people who are already willing to work with them.
	Facebook to crush people who were talking about the cowabunga 19 canard and the masks and the truth of the masks.
	That was one of the areas where we first got approached when I was trying to explain to people, hey, you know, these masks don't work.
	We got hit.
	Newsguards coming after us.
	Ridiculous.
	The court's latest order bars the State Department from touching the unit unless it asks the judge for permission.
	And there you can see the headline from Reclaim the Net.
	California judge blocks the Trump administration.
	Ridiculous.
	Any person who's dealing in jurisprudential logic, looking at the Constitution, and then taking the next steps, knows this is just offensive to logic.
	Not just ethics.
	The ethics of it should be supreme.
	To say it's just not right to take somebody's money to do this in the first place.
	Supposedly for your protection against people who might speak the truth about the fraud of the so-called pandemic or about speech suppression itself.
	You can't even talk about that because they'll go after you.
	Just astounding.
	So I wanted to make sure that I gave that to you because that is one of the areas where I would like to compliment Donald Trump.
	You know, I criticize Donald Trump a lot, and I'm going to do so even on our poll.
	We criticize Donald Trump for the liberty conspiracy.
	Now, let's take the opportunity to hear from a man who understands the big story, Joe Piscopo.
	The big story.
	The big story.
	That's right.
	The big story is...
	So let's hear from a great soul singer, Edwin Starr, and get your thoughts on Donald Trump.
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	listen to me good god All right.
	Thank you, Edwin.
	And let's get right to it.
	Right to the news.
	Here we go.
	Want to talk about Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump claims that he's going to wait two weeks before he decides to unilaterally attack Iran.
	That's right.
	You know, War Powers Act?
	Unconstitutional.
	I don't understand.
	There's a declaration of war or there is not a declaration of war.
	Well, Donald Trump seems to think that he can just do whatever he wants, just like Bill Clinton did when he went and bombed places, just like Donald Trump did earlier, just like Joe Biden has done, and funneling weapons, no problem.
	Trump says he will decide, according to Dave DeCamp at Antiwar.com, he will decide whether or not to bomb Iran within two weeks.
	President Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Thursday that he will make a decision on whether or not to directly enter the Israel-Iran war.
	He'll decide.
	Doesn't that make you feel good?
	By launching airstrikes within two weeks.
	So let me just mention this.
	Because a lot of people are saying, listen, there has to be a vote in Congress.
	The people have to speak.
	Let's draw it down a little deeper on an ethical level.
	That's the constitutional level.
	But it doesn't mean the people are speaking as if we're all one.
	Right?
	Even if the Congress votes for a declared war, no person has a right to make you pay for it.
	And that's one of the major problems when they talk about the U.S. Constitution.
	They assume that even if they go by the Constitution, somehow you agreed to it.
	You're an individual.
	You're a free individual.
	You didn't sign the Constitution.
	As much as people admire the Constitution for trying to at least put some barriers up against the people who assume that they're going to take power over you in certain ways, and it says you can only do it up to this point.
	Well, the assumption that they can do it in the first place is unethical.
	I can't just write up a piece of paper that says, hey, I've got 100 people in our neighborhood, and you will have to cough up money for what we want to do.
	But we'll restrict the amount that we take.
	We'll restrict the things that we do with your money.
	Because the predicate is immoral.
	And that's one of the major problems.
	I'll give you an example.
	I've got a t-shirt on underneath this right now.
	And this goes, I think, towards the sentiment that people often have about the Constitution.
	It says, taxation is theft.
	Now, I think I bought this from maybe Luke Rodowski's site years ago.
	The principle is correct.
	Taxation is theft, or some libertarians might argue, well, it's not really theft, it's more extortion.
	Either way, it's people who are not interested in being coerced into giving you their money, giving you their money, or giving the government their money.
	So they're complying to an order.
	It's not voluntary.
	But oftentimes when people see that shirt, I get a sense that...
	When you've got an image of what the reality of taxation actually is, there's this underlying current of, well, you're here, so clearly you accept it, and then we're going to put the limits up of the Constitution.
	No, sorry, it doesn't work that way.
	You don't have, or one does not have, The moral authority to tell somebody else, you accept my diktats.
	You accept my criteria for how your life will be led in a peaceful way.
	Because you have every right to lead your life in a peaceful way the way you want to.
	And you have every right to retain the fruits of your labor.
	As I mentioned, I thought it was immoral, anti-Christian, anti-biblical, for people who aren't Christians, But might be Jewish, to thirst for somebody else's property or steal.
	But evidently, when you put the artifice and the gloss of government over it, then it's okay.
	Well, practically, what does that do?
	It then gets everybody arguing over how that money is going to be spent.
	It causes dissension, argumentation, and the more government does, the more things about which they will argue.
	They use this.
	As the primary reason that the government exists for your defense.
	And yet, this has nothing to do with the Constitution and nothing to do with your defense.
	In fact, let's turn to Dave DeCamp, who covers this for Anti-War News.
	And then, we're going to be joined for a while today by Eric Peters.
	We want to invite him in.
	He's in the wings in just a second.
	He'll be joining us if he has the opportunity to be our co-pilot for a while.
	All right, the first story at the top of antiwar.com today.
	Trump says that he will decide on bombing Yemen within...
	I get confused by all these countries that the U.S. bombs.
	Trump says that he will decide on bombing Iran within two weeks.
	So President Trump said in a statement released by the White House on Thursday that he will make a decision on whether or not to directly enter the Israel-Iran war by launching airstrikes within two weeks.
	And White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt read this statement at a press briefing.
	So this is again a statement from Trump that she read, quote, based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place in the near future.
	I will make my decision of whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
	End quote.
	So when asked what Trump's demands were for a diplomatic solution with Iran, Levit said Tehran must give up its nuclear enrichment program, a condition that Tehran has made clear is a non-starter.
	They have said it's non-negotiable.
	And Iranian officials have also said they're not willing to negotiate while Israel is attacking Iran.
	Reuters reported on Thursday that U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff has spoken by phone with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi several times since Israel launched its attack.
	Diplomats told Reuters that Arakshi's message was that Iran could return to nuclear negotiations and show flexibility, but only if Israel's attacks come to an end.
	And the statement from Trump regarding the timeline on his decision came after the Wall Street Journal reported that the president has approved plans to attack Iran but is waiting to give the final order.
	Trump said on Thursday that the paper has no idea what his thoughts are concerning Iran.
	So there's also a report from Bloomberg that cited U.S. officials who said that they're preparing to launch strikes this weekend, in the coming days, and that they expected to see strikes on Iran-U.S.
	Airstrikes on Iran this weekend.
	I saw Seymour Hersh reported something similar, that the U.S. is planning a major bombing of Iran this weekend.
	I'm not really sure how clued in Seymour Hersh is, how good his sources are, but that is what he's reporting.
	So, you know, Trump saying he's going to wait two weeks during negotiations.
	It's really hard for me to believe that there's going to be any kind of real negotiations while Israel is still attacking Iran.
	As I said yesterday, my feeling yesterday was I was still still a doomer expecting the U.S. to inevitably launch airstrikes.
	Today, I'm still leaning in that direction, but I've been convinced that maybe President Trump will make...
	So I'll kind of explain why maybe there's a chance he's going to back down.
	I really appreciate what Dave does.
	If you get the opportunity, you can check out the Anti-War News with Dave DeCamp.
	Every Monday through Friday, essentially, at just about midnight, they release the new half-hour video, and antiwar.com is an essential, essential website, as Tony Arterber mentioned.
	I go there all day, every day, and into the night.
	I'm going to go back to Dave in just a minute because he has some other very salient comments here.
	But I want to mention that.
	And Trump might be hearing from some of his advisors that the only way that he could really take these things out would be with tactical nuclear weapons.
	As scary as that sounds for people, the fact that they're advising him on this, again, should, I hope, give a lesson to any of your friends who are out there to say, will you look in a stark way at the operationally immoral, unconstitutional fashion in which these people are proceeding?
	And over on Rumble, we had a great comment that said, let's see, in here.
	We had, let's see.
	Yeah, Sir Lenkoi says, maybe we'll get lucky.
	Trump's such an egomaniac, he'll stop war with Iran just to save his own reputation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And Ron Helton says, our ancestors were 100% against direct taxes because the power to tax is the power to destroy and control.
	Thank you, Ron.
	Appreciate it.
	Everybody in there.
	Thank you.
	And please spread the word.
	Now, I want to get back to Dave because he has some comments that he's such an expert on this.
	He does a great job.
	I don't know how he handles all these different avenues and areas where there are conflicts and battles.
	But anyway, so...
	So the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency has told U.S. officials that in order to destroy Iran's Fordow nuclear plant, which is buried deep underground, the U.S. may need to drop a nuclear weapon.
	And this was reported by The Guardian.
	So according to the report, Pentagon officials who received the briefing were told that dropping the GBU-57s, which are the conventional 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs, would not penetrate deep enough underground and that it would only do enough damage to collapse the tunnels and bury the facility under the rubble.
	So it would certainly do damage.
	But they're not confident that they will completely destroy the facility.
	The officials were told that in order to destroy Fordow completely, the U.S. would likely need to first soften the ground with conventional bombs and then ultimately drop a tactical nuclear weapon from a B-2 bomber.
	The report said that President Trump is not considering using a nuclear weapon and that the option was not presented to him by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
	According to another report from Axios, Trump is casting doubt on the idea that the GBU-57s could do enough damage to destroy the facility.
	These reports are saying that he's not sold on this idea.
	I've seen some U.S. officials deny these reports, but this is a reality of the situation.
	And one reason why maybe Trump is having second thoughts is I think...
	I mean, you've seen people say it publicly, the people that want the U.S. to bomb Iran.
	Oh, it'll just be one limited airstrike.
	It's not a war.
	We're just going to launch an airstrike.
	That'll be done.
	their nuclear programs destroyed.
	So we'll skip over there and go back to Dave right here to finish this.
	nuclear programs destroyed.
	And, you know, You also have Netanyahu who's also lying.
	And Israel is just pushing for the U.S. to intervene in this war.
	They clearly want regime change.
	But when you actually go to the military for the options of what to do, then you get a little more reality in that way.
	But, I mean, the fact that they're even having these conversations, you know, it says that it's not an option, that Trump isn't actually considering dropping a nuclear weapon, but the fact that these are discussions within the administration that, well, if you really want to do this, you've got to use a nuclear weapon.
	I mean, it's completely, completely crazy.
	Absolutely right.
	The entire system is completely crazy.
	And I, I, No one can actually say that Donald Trump is telling the truth.
	He's been repeatedly shown to be a liar over and over again to the detriment of many people's lives.
	So that's a big deal.
	And I want to mention this, if you get the opportunity, everybody.
	Here is what is part of the poll for that Liberty Conspiracy poll.
	And I say this with as much gravity as possible.
	Michael Tracy posted this.
	Zero GOP co-sponsors on Thomas Massey's War Powers Resolution regarding Iran.
	Zero.
	in the house.
	So that not only indicates...
	That they're in favor of an attack.
	I believe it insinuates that idea, but it also clearly shows us the prima facie fact that they don't want to conform to their constitution and what is required, which would be a declaration of war.
	So, the clear, positive one we can definitely say is that they don't support a declaration of war, and the one from which we can infer information is, or what we can infer, is that they also do support an attack on Iran.
	That one you can't necessarily be positive, but it seems pretty clear.
	Amazing.
	Well, thank you for all the great comments, and please continue spreading the word.
	I appreciate everyone being here.
	It's just terrific, and it's a tough time to be going through some of these things and thinking about the fact that the only way to extricate yourself from this is to leave the United States.
	It's really frustrating.
	But it's great to be here with everybody here together.
	And let's take the opportunity to take a break from some of the war coverage, get back with an extra opinion with co-pilot Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos.
	And as I did yesterday, I want to play some of David Knight's great music from Last of the Mohicans.
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	Making sense.
	Common again.
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	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could, if only David Knight could send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
	You should be able to buy me several hundred those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
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	I love how they have the MacGuffin logo on the back of the van.
	That's that extra touch.
	You can't go wrong.
	Thank you so much for being here with us on the David Knight Show, everyone.
	And now let's bring in a co-pilot.
	He was actually going to be on at 11 o 'clock, but I said, you know what?
	Let's free wheel it and have a great time.
	It's Friday.
	Eric Peters is going to be joining us in just a second.
	As you know, if you watch Liberty Conspiracy, I did some work at television script writing over at Star Trek Voyager and The Outer Limits.
	And so on my program, I like to do what's called the mind meld.
	So I like to be able to bring back the old mind meld from Star Trek as we bring guests on.
	So I'm going to transport that.
	Pun intended.
	Over from my show, onto the David Knight Show today.
	And welcome to the Mind Melt.
	Coming up, Eric Peters to give some comments on this.
	I must try to mind meld with it.
	Damn it!
	The community ends.
	The community ends.
	Our minds are merging, Doctor.
	Our minds are one.
	I feel what you feel.
	I know what you know.
	All right, and let's bring him right in right now.
	He is from Eric Peters Autos, and he is the man, Eric Peters.
	Eric, welcome to the program, my friend.
	How are you?
	Well, I'm good, Guard.
	I feel like I need to be channeling George Bush's I am the decider.
	Remember that?
	We've got another decider and another decision is about to be made.
	Unbelievable, isn't it?
	It's incredible.
	And that's one of the things people are looking at, the nuances of whether or not to be engaging this activity.
	And I understand that, but there's a big sector of this that's not being explored at all, not being addressed, which is that this is not proper the way they're going about it.
	You know, remember when the story of Cicero, Cicero, you know, from Rome.
	He was escaping Rome and he was being carried in his litter.
	He was elderly.
	And a Roman centurion was following for miles.
	Day after day as they were carrying him, he was sent to assassinate Cicero.
	And Cicero finally had the guys put the litter down.
	And he called the man up who was down sort of in a burrow beyond the road.
	And he said, come up here.
	Come on up.
	And he said, what you're about to do is not proper.
	He got down on his knees and he said, he showed him, he says, what you're about to do is not proper, but at least you can do it properly.
	And he showed him where he had to hit him to cut his head off.
	And this is what we're seeing.
	At least Thomas Massey is doing that.
	He's calling him out.
	What you're about to do is not proper, but at least you can try to do it properly.
	And they're not even doing that.
	Well, they haven't done it for decades.
	When was the last time that Congress exercised its constitutional duty to declare war?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Not at all.
	And even if we Again, if they declared war constitutionally, I would rather not have my money spent on it.
	And now I can see how so many of the people who opposed the Vietnam War, why they went to Canada or why they were conscientious objectors.
	I'd be in their same camp.
	When I was a kid, I didn't understand that sentiment.
	Well, sure.
	If we hewed to the constitutional requirement that Congress declare war before wars are engaged in, there would be fewer wars because that was deliberately put there as a check on the engaging in war.
	Congressmen, senators and congressmen would have to go back to their districts and explain why it is that they voted to send the sons and now daughters of their constituents to fight in some foreign war and to expropriate money from them to finance this sort of thing.
	It just wouldn't happen.
	So, you know, the federal government, the president, has arrogated to himself the power to unilaterally, on his own say-so, commit troops, drop bombs, in other words, to engage in acts of war without any constitutional authority, using this exigence.
	of war powers resolutions, whatever that means.
	It's contrary to the plain evident meaning of the Constitution.
	But I can't recall who it was who said this, but I agree with it, that we now live in a post-constitutional era.
	And it's not with regard to the declaration of war.
	Everything, the literal meaning of everything that's in the Bill of Rights is effectively null and void.
	It doesn't matter.
	You know, the Fourth Amendment, for example, says that you cannot be searched unless you have given probable cause to suspect a crime has been committed.
	Well, we can just be out driving, and we have to stop at a so-called sobriety checkpoint, notwithstanding that we haven't given any reason to suspect that we might have been drinking.
	And then it's our obligation to prove to the satisfaction of some roadside goon that, no, we're in fact not drunk.
	Meanwhile, he's searching our vehicle with his eyes, minimally.
	He's looking to see if he can find some other thing that he can extract money from us for.
	Exactly.
	This is the world that we live in now.
	And we sort of drifted along for a while on the fumes of living in a relatively ordered constitutional republic where sometimes the forms would be obeyed.
	But it's become explicit now that we're in a post-constitutional republic.
	And all that matters is the audacity of whoever has power to exercise it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The audacity of dopes.
	Right.
	You know, Eric, it is interesting because it allows us to look at history.
	And again, highly, highly recommended book, Tom DiLorenzo's How Capitalism Saved America.
	And I did a little more research for my Live Free or Die book about the thousands of miles.
	You and I have discussed this.
	thousands of miles of private roads that were created prior during the colonial period and during early America, prior to government getting involved with the roads.
	And some people might say, Sort of Barack Obama and Liz Warren's, well, you didn't build that.
	You rode on the backs of people who paid for that, so you've got to pay back, too.
	It's like, look, I had no choice in this.
	I have no moral culpability if I did not give my consent.
	If you're giving me some wonderful beneficence, if you're granting me some great thing that you're also mismanaging, like a road, then I don't have to pay for it.
	And second of all, you surrounded me with these roads.
	You have used improper, immoral means to create the roads now with government, and you're claiming now that I go on them that I have to give up a right?
	That you somehow don't have to conform to a proper search, which is to get a warrant from a judge.
	You can just claim you've got probable cause as a police officer walking around my Mazda.
	That's ridiculous.
	It's great, isn't it?
	As you say, they didn't ask us, and yet they compel us.
	There's that to consider.
	But there's also, I think, the foundational fatuity, which is that somehow this need would not be met by free enterprise.
	People like to travel.
	They need roads.
	People need to be able to get from A to B. So the idea that if it weren't for government, government provides us the mana.
	It's just so retarded, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	I often say to people, well, if that's the case, how do you get from the road to your front door?
	Do you have a driveway?
	Did you do that yourself?
	You need the government to do your driveway.
	Does Walmart do its own parking lots?
	Does the supermarket do its own parking lot?
	I don't know.
	How in the world do you get from your car into the meat shop?
	How does that work?
	It mystifies me.
	Somehow we need government to carry us like Cicero in a litter from our car to the place.
	Yeah, I mean, how does the food get in the supermarket?
	Why is there food in the supermarket?
	Exactly, exactly.
	Yeah, not only do they provide us with the parking lots to go there, and not only are they incentivized to give us, and this is the way that it did work in the early days when they would build the roads.
	People with business interests knew that if they could connect point A to point B, just like the early railroad people, like the Great Northern Railroad, they built a transcontinental railroad that was built.
	Yeah, and it went through different people's politicians, bought land, and then they sold it, and they steered the railroad towards that land so they could sell it to the government for money.
	That's what Abe Lincoln did, as you know.
	And one of the funny things is that, let's say people want a super secure road, right?
	Well, if you had a private system, you could see what people wanted and didn't want, and you'd have different variations of what people might want or might not want.
	Just like you have different books.
	There's romance novels for people who like romance.
	There's adventure novels.
	There's all sorts of different clubs that people can join.
	There's golf clubs.
	There's hunting clubs.
	There's basketball court places.
	There's all these things that arise.
	So if somebody wanted a road where it was only the highest performing You can get someplace without the tragedy of the commons throwing in an old driver in front of you as you're trying to get somewhere.
	People with very low skills compared to people with very high skills.
	You could have that differentiation.
	You could have the Autobahn and then you could have the slow person, old people road, right?
	With golf carts or something.
	And if you wanted high security to make sure that everybody would be inspected, you could have that or you could have something else.
	And then people's preferences would be reflected by their choices, right?
	It's almost an axiom that whatever government does, except killing people, it does worse than what the free enterprise system does.
	Right?
	This is heavy thinking.
	It's not a big lift, is it?
	No.
	We used to be able to have obvious points of comparison.
	You could compare life in the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union versus the way life was here in America, or even just literally across the Berlin Wall on the other side, on the west side of Berlin.
	And it was obvious that things were better on one side rather than the other, because When you have government in the picture, it's always one size fits all, and it's always coercive.
	So when there's coercion, you don't have alternatives.
	They tell you what you're going to get, and they decide what you're going to get, and they decide what you're going to pay for what you're going to get.
	Right, right, exactly.
	And it's all for your own good.
	You know, everything's got to be done.
	And as I said, you know, when I show that shirt, the taxationist theft shirt, I get a sense that even for some people who are pro-freedom, they feel a little uncomfortable when they see that.
	It's as if it's breaking the fourth wall, and that's uncouth.
	Wait a minute.
	I think is the problem.
	It's necessarily chaotic and that makes a lot of people...
	superficially chaotic, I should say, because you're dealing with millions of individuals, each one of them making a decision and choosing this or choosing that.
	And it's very, very hard to project and to...
	And some people don't like that.
	They like their plans.
	They like predictability.
	And when it becomes cancerous is when they decide that, well, we have to impose plans.
	It's not enough that the individual says, well, I'd like to make plans for myself going forward.
	I'd like to do this and that.
	It's that attitude of, well, I'm going to plan for everybody else.
	And bada bing, bada boom, you've got a politician.
	Absolutely right.
	Eric, since you're co-pilot here on the Good Ship Enterprise, the David Knight Show on a Friday, can I get your thoughts on something?
	I want to go back in time a little bit and continue, sort of round off this discussion about warfare and things.
	We talked a little bit about the roads, and I have a couple things on EVs and solar and so on that show the market is collapsing without the promise of federal subsidies.
	But I want to talk to you a little bit more about this warfare stuff and the idea of being labeled anti-Semitic when you don't seem to – It makes my teeth ache.
	I thought we finally got away from things like racist and anti-vax.
	This technique that they have of questioning your motives because they don't want to address the facts is this oily tactic that has been the speciality de la maison of the left, but unfortunately, now the right.
	is engaging in the same sort of behavior.
	So if you raise your hand and say, you know, I'm really not comfortable with the government of Israel, and I say that with deliberation, the government of the state of Israel, is doing in Gaza, or I don't like that the government of the state of Israel decided to preemptively assault another country and rain bombs on that city.
	Somehow that means you don't like Jewish people.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's, I like Skunk Hollis giving us the thumbs up.
	I like that.
	Yeah, it's incredible to think about that.
	And also the Christian Zionist aspect of this, which is that somehow there's this messianic determination from the Bible that they can read into it, which is completely, It's unbelievably alarming in that these people are like, they're Jim Jones-ian.
	They literally want to precipitate the Jesus Hoover, you know, the rapture.
	When everybody gets sucked, all the believers get sucked up into the sky to be with Jesus while the rest of us get nuked.
	And they can't wait for it to happen.
	And they're eager to make it happen.
	Because, I mean, it just makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
	That the creative intelligence, the designer of the universe, is literally just sort of up there somewhere waiting to be beckoned down by all sorts of acts of depravity, like slaughtering red hifers, for example.
	He's going to see that they killed the red hifers, and that's going to bring him back to rule for a thousand years.
	These people are out of their freaking minds.
	Absolutely right.
	In fact, we have a comment inside Rumble.
	Satanists do not obey.
	Satanists demonize those that reject Satanism, which is not only about child abuse, but money and finances.
	And a lot more.
	Taking your money for what they want.
	It's all about directing.
	The life essence of someone else and the way that you want it done.
	Or suborning someone's ethics or morality, which I think the devil gets a lot more satisfaction doing that.
	But if we don't resist, then at a certain point we're culpable.
	I think it's a threshold for each of us to try to decide, how long am I going to put up with this before I get out of here?
	I think we need to stop putting up with it sooner rather than later.
	I think there's a good...
	A lot of people, they didn't say anything about the masks.
	They figured, well, I don't want to upset people.
	I'm going to go along with this, even though I don't personally believe it.
	I think it's silly, but I'm not going to raise a fuss.
	I don't want to scare my family members who are upset about the whole thing.
	Well, look what that got us.
	You know, so it's important, I think, to raise questions when your brain tells you, you know, this is wrong.
	This is not good.
	We shouldn't be doing this.
	We shouldn't allow hysteria, fear, and all of this gaslighting, to use that overused term, to kind of stifle our ability to just legitimately discuss things, like legitimately discuss.
	Is it in the interest of humanity to potentially trigger a nuclear war in the Middle East?
	Is that a good idea?
	Is it a good idea to displace populations of people to make way for a state that seems to want to gobble up territory everywhere around it?
	Are these things decent?
	Are these things right?
	You know, it has nothing to do with, you know, shed this idea that you're somehow a Nazi and, you know, you want to persecute people who are Jewish because you question these things.
	That's perfectly stated.
	Let me run into the next part real quick on this because this is something that I wanted to bring up when we talk about this.
	Somehow, everybody's going to have to support Israel.
	Everybody's going to have to do what the United States did.
	You know, it's the Ukraine flag all over again, except it's been much longer term, and it is deeply embedded inside the United States.
	And as I mentioned before on David Knight's show, and as I mentioned on Liberty Conspiracy with the last name Goldsmith, when I went to Boston University, which is majority Jewish, a lot of the students thought that I was Jewish, so I would hear them say things about the Palestinians that I just couldn't believe.
	and it was all the Ashkenazi Jewish folks who were the pro-Zionists, the occupation supporters.
	Let me get your opinion on this, Eric.
	I want to turn to this.
	This is Kash Patel before Donald Trump got elected.
	This is Daniel McAdams offering this to us.
	Here it comes.
	He says, wake up, America.
	And he reminded us of this just last night.
	He brought this up and I said, you know, I want to bring this up again.
	I played this and I recorded it for my program and I want to bring it up again.
	Many people are familiar with it, but I think it's a very good reminder.
	As Kash Patel said, the first order of business, prioritize Israel.
	We will shut off the machinery that feeds money into Iran.
	We will no longer have a hundred hostages still in captivity, Israeli and American, and otherwise by Hamas and Iran's Hezbollah mercenary forces.
	We need America to wake up and prioritize Israel and bring home Israelis and make sure we stand by our number one ally in Israel.
	All right, so that was edited a little bit there, but the message is very, very clear, Eric, that he wants Israel prioritized.
	He's thinking of Israel first.
	He wants that first, and he doesn't describe, doesn't offer any information about how Israel holds hundreds of people every year and has done so for year after year after year, plucking them off the streets of Gaza without any trial, and that Benjamin Netanyahu was brought up.
	For war crimes, not because of events after October 7th.
	He had already been brought up on events prior to for what they did to some of the people that they kidnapped on the streets and raped and did terrible things to in their Israeli prisons.
	So when we look at this, I just say, why do I have to be part of this?
	Why can't I be left out of this?
	Constitutionally, I'm supposed to be, unless there's a declaration of war.
	And again, I didn't even sign on to the Constitution.
	Morally, I have no connection to this.
	I have not volunteered in any way to be part of this.
	And yet I'm roped in.
	I'm like Al Pacino.
	keep pulling me back in.
	And how about, you know, Trump talked about having had a mandate back in 2024 and was elected because the majority of people in this country.
	They voted against these kinds of things.
	That's why he was re-elected.
	He didn't run on Palantir.
	He didn't run on making Israel great again.
	He didn't run on imposing real ID on people and digital dollars, did he?
	All of a sudden, here we are.
	We're not even six months into this thing.
	And it's as if we might as well have voted for Kamala Harris because we would have gotten the same things.
	Eric, do you think that, um, But, you know, the classic term of the formative years, teenage years, the kids are experiencing a lot of stuff.
	And so I'd be in front of the board, and I would invite the students, if you want to get up to the board and offer something, if you want to get up in class, if you have some ideas, you know, just because I'm offering this information doesn't mean that I'm necessarily correct.
	Please question me.
	And I said, you know, you might have skills working on cars or going fishing where you could give a lecture on this stuff.
	It's just that I've been experiencing this and researching it for years.
	I have the advantage of years over you.
	So let me give you the information.
	Let's see what you think.
	And sometimes when I would cite progressives, And it's constantly being battled and fluctuations, people arguing over to do this or do that.
	And they're almost always missing the core, which is their constitution.
	And I would go deeper philosophically.
	But sometimes I got the sense that the students were encountering so many things that they didn't know.
	We're operationally wrong, that they were getting overwhelmed.
	And I think sometimes Americans, when they see these things, when they think about, well, what about the roads?
	What about immigration?
	And I bring up the immigration thing.
	That is clear, very, very easily provable that the federal government's not supposed to have anything to do with this in any way whatsoever.
	And yet you give this information to people and sometimes emotionally they'll resist.
	But then when you show them the information, it's like they're just getting overwhelmed.
	Because there are so many ways that the U.S. government is breaching things that sometimes I get the feeling that they don't want to actually address the deep problem.
	They just want to manage the problem if they can get power, it seems to me.
	Well, I think so.
	And I think thought is somewhat difficult, even though it's satisfying to think.
	But it does take the exercise of individuality in a way because you are a specific person.
	You have a specific brain.
	You don't have a collective brain.
	So you have to think about things as an individual, which runs contrary to this collective thing where everybody's supposed to rote regurgitate whatever they're told in class.
	What you were describing standing at the blackboard, that is completely contrary to what they do in the government schools.
	In the government schools, the kids sit there.
	You know, you can picture the Pink Floyd scene, right, from the wall.
	They just sit there, and their expectation is, and the way the performance is measured, who can best assimilate and regurgitate what they're told?
	Not think, not have a discussion, you know, not, well, let's look at this issue from various points of view, and let's examine it in relation to the facts, and then draw conclusions from that.
	It's literally robotic regurgitation on the Prussian school model.
	You know, they wanted people who were capable of operating the machines, but who didn't really have the habit of thinking developed.
	So if you go through that process and you get to be 18, 19, 20 years old and that's all you've known.
	It's kind of foreign and difficult and even fearful, isn't it, to start to talk independently because it's upsetting.
	You maybe start to realize that some of the things that you just sort of regurgitated and took as givens, maybe they're not right.
	And the more you invest in that, the harder it is to disinvest yourself.
	Right, right, right.
	Well, that perfectly addresses the psychology of it.
	And yet, on a positive side, I find there are figures.
	You think about David Crockett, you know?
	And they did come to realize the error of their ways.
	And how satisfying that is to me, not to be effusive about it or anything.
	But I really like...
	Congressional money to a bunch of families whose houses had burned in Georgetown.
	And when he went to campaign in Tennessee, a farmer spoke to him and he said, oh, I know who you are, Colonel Crockett.
	I know who you are, I can't vote for you because either your actions show that either you are I just can't give you my vote.
	And Crockett said, what do you mean?
	And he said, well, it was this vote on the fire.
	There's nothing in the Constitution that lets you do that sort of welfare, so-called faux charity thing.
	And Crockett, to his credit, said, you know, you're right.
	I was wrong.
	And then he asked the man, if you'll come campaign with me?
	I will go out and I will apologize in every one of my stops.
	And so he acted as an educator after that to tell people, listen, we've already strayed.
	And that was 1830 when he gave the speech.
	So I find when people do that or you hear someone like Thomas Massey in an interview saying, here, at least I'm going to put it up in front like Ron Paul did when they wanted to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Moment of clarity.
	You can get a lot of sucker from that, I think.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I think, and this is related to our discussion, that is why there is such pushback against homeschooling.
	Because homeschooling is at odds with this uniformity that is instilled in the government schools.
	And this idea of don't think, just regurgitate.
	Your excellence or lack thereof is determined by how well you repeat what we tell you.
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	It was deliberately imposed.
	The whole government school system was imposed to get rid of people like Crockett, to get rid of independent thinkers who were receptive to facts that disputed perhaps what they had thought to be the truth.
	And, you know, Eric, let me bring something else up.
	You know, we talked about Kash Patel and Israel.
	Let me dart back to that for a second.
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	Great, great people.
	And so let me dart back to that Israel thing.
	Christian Zionists.
	Now, Kash Patel, I don't know what his religion is, I don't know, but clearly, on a practical level, he wants to prioritize Israel, which has nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution, that he already had sworn an oath to uphold when he was in office before, and now he's back there, and he's breaching the Constitution again, and he already indicated that he was going to do that by prioritizing Israel.
	Christian Zionists like Mike Huckabee and what we saw with Ted Cruz and that incredibly illuminating back and forth in many segments that people have been seeing with Tucker Carlson.
	And again, kudos to Tucker Carlson for doing what he did and not relenting.
	He really did a great job there.
	That's a very important moment, I think, not only in our lifetimes, but in American history to really expose the Christian Zionist mentality.
	We have a lot of people.
	You mentioned homeschooling.
	We have a lot of people who are Christian Zionists who homeschool because they don't want their children to be exposed to the very bad collectivist government decides what is going to be taught pedagogy of public schools.
	So they remove their kids.
	They say, I don't want my child connected to this.
	I want to disconnect from the government with this.
	I'm going to get my child away from this collectivist moralizing and preaching what I think is immoral.
	And yet, on the flip side, what do they want to do?
	They want to rope in everybody for what they think is moral.
	So they're completely going against the very actions that they have taken in order to disconnect from an immoral system.
	They want to rope everybody in to what they think is a moral system by bombing Iran.
	And bringing about the second coming, as they think, by supporting the nation state, the political state of Israel, rather than looking at the New Testament and realizing that Israel becomes the followers of Christ with Christ's covenant.
	They don't even understand that.
	It's amazing to me.
	So their behavior shows a massive double standard on my part.
	And in this way, it's just as bad as if someone were trying to impose transgenderism on their kids, except in this case.
	We've got real lives on the balance immediately with warfare.
	Well, I agree.
	It's hearkening back to a kind of medieval fanaticism, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	where any person who doesn't hue to whatever the orthodoxy is, is somebody who basically should be burned at the stake for, you know, for, for their heretical views.
	You know, we are now living at the tail end of the Renaissance reformation, whatever word you want to use when, when tolerance and a respect for, you know, And we had this great flowering of civilization that ensued.
	And now we're going back in the other direction again, where not only should you believe, but you must believe.
	And if you don't believe, then you're a very, very bad person.
	And it's appropriate to do things to very bad people in the name of doing good.
	I mean, when they burned heretics hundreds of years ago, these people weren't thinking, ha ha ha, we're evil guys and we're having a fun time burning these people.
	They actually thought they were doing good.
	They thought that they were acting on behalf of the Lord.
	And here we are again.
	Let's nuke the Iranians because it's the will of the Lord, the God of Israel says.
	It's amazing.
	And just the blunt force of telling somebody, you better pay for what I want and what I think is moral.
	They don't even recognize the immorality of that because they're messianic about it.
	It's just nuts.
	Let me show you a great commentary from the founder of Gab, Andrew Torba, Eric.
	Eric Peters is our guest, folks, on The David Knight Show.
	Andrew Torba says, unless we break the grip of the Israel-first subversion on our political system, every attempt to repair our country will fail.
	There will be no border wall, no restored family.
	No revival of faith and no future left for our posterity.
	So you can see he has some assumptions in there about what you should be paying for, like the border wall and so on.
	But a nation that sells its soul for foreign blood money is a nation that will soon disappear from the earth.
	So he's got a full post right there.
	And he writes, for too long now, America has played the fool on the world stage, dragged From one bloody Middle Eastern disaster to the next, sacrificing our sons, our treasure, and our future for causes that, if we're honest, are not ours.
	As the drums beat once more for war in Israel, the time has come to raise our voices and declare this is not true.
	We are done being led to slaughter by the same cabal of foreign lobbyists, compromised politicians and sycophantic pastors who have sold out the soul of our nation for 30 pieces of silver.
	So I wouldn't anthropomorphize it that way, but I understand what he's saying.
	Let's shatter the biggest lie first.
	Christian Americans do not have any biblical obligation to the modern secular state of Israel.
	This is the foundational myth exploited by the war preachers and the Beltway Hawks that holds millions in spiritual and psychological.
	Are you listening, Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee?
	They want us to believe that opposing another war in the Middle East means betraying God's chosen people.
	But this is a grotesque distortion of Scripture, a blasphemous twisting of God's Holy Word.
	Christians are God's chosen people, called out from all nations to form a holy nation, a royal priesthood, and the true Israel of God, not by the flesh, but by the Spirit.
	Anyone telling you otherwise is contradicting the entirety of the New Testament.
	And I think that last part, especially when he says not by the flesh, but by the spirit, that really is...
	That entire state of Israel is entirely materialist.
	Political institutions are material-based.
	They extract your material wealth from you to create what they want in the world.
	And they think that they're gonna make a better world on earth by breaching the soul and breaching the tenets of Christianity.
	And so when we see what they're doing down there in Israel and how they might be roped in, Yeah, it's well said, and it brings to mind something I wrote about this morning, which has to do with this business of Israel being our greatest ally.
	There is no such thing.
	There are interests.
	Countries, states have interests.
	And I brought up the historical example of John Adams, who was not a fool.
	And who understood that the reason that the French backed the American colonies against the British wasn't out of love for the American colonies.
	It was because they were at war with Britain and they were vying for supremacy on the European continent and the world stage against the British Empire.
	And so they thought that it would help to undermine the British Empire by aligning themselves, or aligning themselves, I should say, with the colonies.
	You know, it's delusional thinking to think that, oh, we just love the American, we're doing this out of the goodness of our hearts.
	No, the French were doing it for very realpolitik reasons.
	You know, and you can go a little bit farther into the current era by reading Bismarck, who talked about the same things.
	So it's fatuous to talk about how Israel's our greatest ally.
	They're our bestest buddy.
	You know, we're just walking hand in hand together in common purpose.
	You know, America has its interests, and Israel has its interests, and these are not necessarily congruent.
	In fact, they're often incongruent.
	And it behooves us as Americans to think about whether it is in our interests as Americans.
	To just reflexively amen whatever the government of the state of Israel says it's going to do.
	Well stated.
	And, you know, there are a couple other things that I think are really important.
	I want to just touch on the mindset and how it connects to, of course, ericpetersautos.com.
	We showed that article, and I want to ask you a couple more questions about that, especially since you cite John Adams right at the start.
	But we had a comment over on Acts.
	That sort of gives us an idea about how they make decisions for us that supposedly are for our best interest, which is not in anybody's best interest for somebody else to impose his decision on another person.
	But I believe it's Skunk Hollow.
	Yeah, Skunk Hollow over in Michigan says the federal government knows airbags are moral.
	For us all.
	And, you know, you've written about the airbag problem going back with Liddy Dole and how many people were killed when they imposed those things.
	I've spoken with the students because they had normalcy bias.
	They didn't know why they were put in the backseat as kids, as younger kids.
	And I said, do you know why that is?
	Let's look at the history.
	And I think that that's a clear example on the domestic front of people saying, we know what's best for you.
	Now we're going to impose our will on you.
	And it manifests itself in so many ways.
	In fact, it's the very motif of government.
	That's what it is.
	That's what the political state is.
	We know better than you, so you're going to have to pay for the government.
	And then all the doors are open from there.
	Isn't that attitude just incredible when you think about it?
	I'm sure you probably agree with me, and a lot of the people who are listening agree with me.
	I would feel really strange, icky, weird, trying to impose.
	What I think should be done on anybody.
	I'm so adamant about myself.
	I'm very, very belligerently adamant about my own life and what I'm going to choose to do in my life.
	But at the same time, I'm extremely respectful to make decisions for themselves without any interference from me or any other person.
	Because who am I to tell somebody else whether they should wear a seatbelt, whether they should eat their veggies?
	Who thinks like that?
	I don't know.
	It's something I constantly ponder because I try to figure out the mentality of these people.
	And the only thing that I can come up with is that fundamentally, they're bullies.
	They can't abide the idea of somebody else being different.
	And so they're going to force you to be the same.
	That's perfectly stated.
	And, you know, I think about I think about my my father and my mother and how they fought and so on.
	What do you think?
	Absolutely.
	How else do we arrive at things?
	We struggle.
	You really lose your humanity.
	I remember as a kid, because the Soviet Union existed when I was a kid, and you would look at news coverage of these dreary, sad-looking people who were kind of just stooped over, and you could tell their vitality was just sapped from them.
	And why?
	Well, because they basically had no control over their lives.
	They were told what to do from the earliest days.
	You take away all agency from human beings, and what's the point to being alive anymore?
	You're just an automaton.
	And, you know, it's interesting when they talk about democracy, and I mentioned before how many people say America is not a democracy.
	That's right.
	Absolutely right.
	That's gang rule.
	It's two wolves and a sheep debating over who's going to have what's for lunch.
	And that's so true.
	And the sheep, they want us to be sheep.
	So it works both ways.
	And it's very interesting because I often say to people, look, even with a so-called constitutional representative republic, The so-called representation is a canard.
	You can't get mathematically.
	That's impossible.
	Temporally, it's impossible because they keep coming up with new things.
	It's not as if they come to you with everything on which they want to vote and say, what do you think?
	And even if you said what you thought, somebody else might say something different.
	So representation in a polis is impossible.
	You can only get it through voluntary contract, individually, with others who voluntarily agree.
	You represent yourself.
	That's it.
	Or if you have someone who...
	It has to be a voluntary situation, not applied to anybody else.
	Now, what I think is interesting is a constitutional republic is just democracy hiding behind the wings.
	Well, we voted for the representatives.
	Oh, and then what do they do?
	They vote.
	So it's democracy still, really.
	Democracy is fatuous, really, when you think about it, because it's a collective, and somebody has to lead the collective, right?
	Right, right.
	They try to put the barriers up.
	There's always force implicit in it, because whoever the chosen person or even the not chosen person, it's very anti-democratic, ultimately, because even if the 51% Vote for somebody.
	Well, there's one person or a handful of people who wind up effectively dictating to the majority.
	So I think the founders were well-intended in that they did their best.
	We have human nature to contend with.
	We have reality to contend with.
	So they did their best to try to stymie collectivism, to try to make it difficult for democracy to take hold.
	To make it, you know, so that any one person or even a group of people, it would be harder for them to obtain the kind of control that you see in a pure democracy or a dictatorship or something like that.
	But inevitably, we get to where we are because ultimately, once you admit a little bit of the principle of something, it gets expanded.
	And that's, you know, it happened very early on in our country and it just metastasized over time.
	You're right.
	And I do want to mention, if people have the chance, they can go over to Eric Peters' autos.
	I want to show the story again.
	And in this article, it's great.
	John Adams may have been his rotundity in the eyes of his critics, but he was no fool.
	He, unlike Jefferson, an admirable man in many respects, but a fool in this respect, did not believe France was America's ally.
	He understood that France had interests and that France's interests temporarily jived with those of the nascent United States.
	Plural then.
	As regards the latter's attempt to secede from the British Empire, France being at odds with the British Empire at the time.
	The Comte de Vergence, who was the French king's foreign minister, was also no fool.
	He, like Adams, also understood that the Franco-American alliance was one of interest rather than affection.
	Washington understood this too.
	He declined.
	The importunings of Citizen Genet, the new French emissary to the United States, still plural for the moment, after the French king lost his head to the Jacobins.
	And this man sought American involvement in France's side against the British on the basis of friendship with France.
	And there were a lot of machinations.
	As we know, Thomas Paine actually got involved in the French Revolution.
	He was almost beheaded, but they chose the wrong door.
	And then the next day, He would have been killed.
	Yep, and Washington didn't lift a finger to help him either.
	Yeah.
	The Marquis de Lafayette didn't do so well under the Jacobins either.
	Yeah, yeah, that's right.
	And it's interesting to think that, you know, Washington's admonition of getting too involved in foreign nations has long since passed, while those people ideologically, They recognized in the end that the French Revolution was a big error.
	And I have no problem with Thomas Paine individually wanting to go in and making an individual mistake.
	In fact, he was involved trying to foment Scottish rebellion and the Brits almost got him.
	But they were a few days late when they arrived in Scotland.
	He had just fled to France and then he got captured in France.
	But yeah, very interesting stuff to think that, OK, if you want to make your own.
	You go ahead and do it.
	But it's the height of immorality to tell someone else, you're going to do what I think is the proper thing to do.
	Particularly with regard to personal matters.
	That's the most, I think, grating form of tyranny, to dictate something to a man for his own good.
	You know, it's one thing to say, well, But we've gotten to the point now where these busybodies are micromanaging personal decisions, I mean, to the point where, you know, you have to buckle up like a little kid.
	In your car, in your own vehicle, you have to buckle up your sheet belt.
	I mean, it's infantilizing.
	It's effronterous.
	I'm waiting for them to start doing things like imposing taxes on people because they have a beer belly.
	Oh, you're imposing costs on society.
	Remember in 1984, in the movie adaptation of Orwell's 1984, where they have what they call the physical jerks, where Winston Smith has to get in front of the telescreen and do jumping jacks.
	Is it healthy for him?
	I foresee a time when we're going to get to that point.
	Yeah, it's amazing because they already over in the UK, they said that for elective surgeries, they were going to put obese people on the waiting list.
	So if you had a joint problem or anything like that, then the NHS was going to make you wait.
	And it's just amazing.
	over in, uh, the, uh, Canada, I meant to mention this to you before, Eric, when I was up at the outer limits in Vancouver, I heard a radio report saying, well, uh, the British Columbia health system, which of course, you know, they, they do it by province, but it's all under the giant umbrella from, from Ottawa.
	Um, they said the, uh, the British Columbia health system, uh, is getting some feedback, uh, because, um, uh,
	And so the British Columbia government is considering imposing regulations, I'm paraphrasing now, telling doctors how many patients they can see per day and which maladies take precedence.
	Yeah, it's very Soviet.
	Look, during the pandemic, remember when they were pushing the vaccines and there were people in the media, and I think also people in the medical community, as they call it, saying, oh, you didn't get your vaccine.
	Well, we're not going to admit you.
	We're going to make you sit over here.
	If you have a heart attack, you know, got a vaccine, oh, you get to the front of the line.
	This is what happens when you get coercion involved in the system.
	If it were free, it would be a matter between you and your doctor, period.
	That's it.
	Absolutely.
	And the doctor would give you as much time as you wanted because you're the one who's paying the bill, not the government or some HMO.
	And it would be the same thing back during the lockdown era if people recognized...
	Alabama decision was wrong and recognize that the public accommodations portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act also is wrong, that they destroy the principle of private property, then shop owners could decide what the safety protocols would be for their places.
	Do I want to have people wearing masks when they come in?
	And then the customers could decide, do I want to go to a place where they require masks?
	It's safer, or do I recognize that that's utterly fallacious?
	uh you know and then after that if you have more private property all the contacts between people occur on private property it's on the public property where of course So the roads.
	Are you going to have a protest march on the roads?
	Are you going to have a bike lane on the roads?
	A park?
	Is it going to be a baseball park?
	Is it going to be a football park?
	What are you going to do there?
	The library.
	What books are going to be in the library?
	Is it going to be trans ideology to cater to that minority?
	Or are Christians going to be upset about that?
	Or even people who aren't Christians, who don't want their kids exposed to it.
	How about just the concept of the library?
	Are you going to have Stephen King books there?
	Are you going to have other types of books?
	It's just ridiculous.
	It's unmanageable.
	And again, there's no way that anybody's preferences can actually be reflected because the market has not been allowed to operate.
	People can't show their choices.
	They're forced.
	In fact, let me go to your website again.
	Eric Peters is with us on The David Knight Show.
	Final one I want to get to on this right here, COVID and climate.
	Tell people about this, Eric.
	Well, I notice a common thread.
	We're living at a time where it seems there's just one crisis, one existential threat, one hysteria after the next.
	And with regard to COVID and with regard to what they present to us as climate change, I forgot to thinking about the adage attributed to Joseph Goebbels, who was Hitler's propaganda minister, that if you tell a lie often enough, that people will think it's the truth.
	But there's actually an other meaning to that, which is that if there's a kernel of truth to something, you can sell a lie.
	Yeah.
	Very effectively.
	So, you know, during the pandemic, it was true that there seemed to be at any rate that there was some kind of a bug going around, you know, and it's true that people do get sick.
	So it was very easy to hystericize that and to whip that up into something that it wasn't, i.e.
	some sort of a black, You remember, you know, they deliberately would talk about, on the hour, the cases.
	Remember the cases?
	The cases.
	How many cases we've got?
	And the implication was always...
	He was being rushed to a hospital for extravagant measures to preserve their life.
	When in fact, for the most part, these were people who tested positive on a dodgy PCR test and they were fine.
	They maybe had to cough or sneeze for a week or two and then they were fine.
	That was it.
	And they knew that.
	It was deliberate.
	And that's why it was so malicious.
	They were trying to foment a hysteria.
	For a different purpose.
	And the same with regard to the climate change thing.
	I mean, the term itself is fatuous.
	Climate change.
	It's as non-scientific a term as you can get.
	And yet they peddle this as science.
	Well, science is about specificity.
	Well, what exactly is changing?
	They don't say.
	It's just the climate is changing.
	And on sort of an intuitive level, people go, well, that's true.
	You know, the climate does change over time.
	There are small cycles and great cycles.
	You go from periods where it's significantly warmer, significantly cooler, more or less carbon dioxide.
	But, you know, those are questions that, oh, they're a little bit too complicated.
	We just have to accept the climate is changing.
	We're all going to die.
	You know, this fomented hysteria.
	And it's helped by, we live at a time with ubiquitous news coverage 24 seven.
	And so now it's, It's just that there's more coverage of these things worldwide.
	You know, if you went back 40 years ago, you didn't hear generally what was going on in the rest of the world because there were just three networks and they focused generally on what was going on locally, unless it was some massive thing nationally, and that was rare, so you generally didn't hear about it.
	But anyway, they manipulate people on purpose and they foment all of this fear.
	To sell you on something that isn't true.
	You have a quote from H.L. Mencken in the story, which is great, and he was just such a great acerbic wit.
	He says, All of them imaginary.
	And you write here, of course, it is more than just, well, you have here.
	In fact, I'll just go to the top.
	There's a common thread binding COVID and climate crisis.
	And you say in that the former wasn't and the latter isn't, at least not in the sense intended.
	There was and is a crisis, certainly a psychological one.
	And that's exactly it.
	It's the constant, the constant.
	An injection, you might say, of fear.
	And with the fear, they create a crisis.
	And as Robert Higgs wrote, the government comes in with the answer and the size of government ratchets up and it never ratchets down again.
	Yes.
	This ridiculous idea that this second world country When what we're talking about, I think, in my opinion, my analysis of the situation is that the Iranians understandably want a deterrent.
	They know that if they have a crude World War II-level fission bomb, that by itself is enough, probably, to prevent any regime changing from going on.
	That's what the North Koreans have wanted.
	It's ridiculous.
	If the Iranians were to detonate a single bomb somewhere, what do you suppose is going to happen to Iran?
	Everybody understands that.
	They're not out of their minds.
	They're not crazy people.
	What they want is to avoid being attacked, but everything has been inverted.
	And by the use of this ridiculous fear porn that this country Weapons of mass destruction.
	Mushroom clouds.
	We're going to see mushroom clouds.
	And they're doing it again.
	And the people are falling for it again.
	Absolutely right, Eric.
	No, no, no.
	In fact, I want to get your opinions on something.
	One more thing, if I can add to it and keep you here for just a second.
	I want to mention also, if people get the chance, head over to the Eric Peters shop.
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	Oh, this is cool.
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	I didn't see that before.
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	So Eric, talking about this...
	I was going to do this separate, but I want to open this up to you as co-pilot here on the show.
	So as we both get to sit in for David Knight right now, together now in the plane, I want to go to this story that I mentioned at the top of the program as I showed the billboard about ICE lying about going to Dodger Stadium.
	And so here's the story.
	As it first appears.
	Okay?
	So, we've got the Los Angeles Dodgers saying this.
	This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots.
	They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.
	Tonight's game will be played as scheduled.
	That was yesterday.
	Now, I say that as the first bookend.
	Then I want to go back a little bit here to just mention, We're talking about generating fear.
	And this is where conspiracy-minded people, I think, meet up with people who just look at the functional system and say the system always trends this way, either way, any way it goes.
	So because, as I mentioned yesterday, because this is a collectivist immigration control system unconstitutionally done by the federal government, we had years of Joe Biden bringing literally artificially increasing The number of people who normally would not have been here bringing them here.
	With the One app, the parole program, 300,000 people, as the Center for Immigration Studies noted the year before last.
	A lot of kids gone missing.
	So conservatives got very upset.
	We have the classic argument between the conservatives and the Democrats.
	Basically, I think correct saying Democrats, you really don't care that much about immigrants and migrants.
	Your heart on your sleeve is artificial itself.
	You want more voters and you want to get people on a welfare system.
	We have libertarians saying you can't have open borders and a government-run welfare system that will attract people because that makes the number of people who want to come in unnatural.
	It has to be based on what job opportunities are and what the expense for living in a place is.
	That should be how people move in and make their decisions.
	So we had that happen with Biden, and we had a lot of conservative people getting very, very upset.
	Now we're seeing the flip side, which is that the conservatives, whether it's due to machinations and plotting from one-worlders who want to upset people and disrupt things in the United States and gain more power over people and create a bigger security state or not, we're getting it.
	That's what's happening.
	With Donald Trump, they are imposing things.
	They're breaching the Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution.
	They're also breaching the Fourth Amendment by going into people's houses without warrants.
	They're using administrative warrants.
	They went into a court with an administrative warrant, not a real warrant, because they're coming from an unconstitutional agency in the first place.
	Now this Dodger Stadium thing is a perfect example.
	The feds not only have not been invited into California, Gavin Newsom has said, you are not welcome here.
	And there are other people, like police chiefs, who say, you're not welcome here.
	We're not going to work with you.
	And now we have Dodger Stadium.
	The ICE people wanted to gain entrance to Dodger Stadium according to the Dodgers.
	Let me show you the next part of this and then get your comments.
	And then I want to turn also to the audience of the David Knight Show and see what they have to say.
	Here's part two of this, Eric, because this is what happened afterwards.
	The ICE agents then said they denied it.
	False.
	We were never there.
	They denied it.
	Okay, that is official from ICE.
	Well, literally, within minutes, the proof on the video was released.
	And yes, they were there.
	Now, why would they even do something so dumb?
	Mika Erfan says, we have it on video.
	There they are, driving away.
	They tried to get in.
	So we'll do this again.
	Here we go.
	And that is one of the entrances.
	There you are.
	So Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently had that tete-a-tete between a senator from California and Kristi Noem.
	And now they've got this.
	They've got them driving away.
	And they were monitored with a helicopter.
	People know this.
	And yet they're not going to recognize this is a very strong insult.
	It shows that they were lying.
	But unfortunately, they won't take the extra step to look at this battle and this argumentation could serve as a great learning opportunity for people to look at what is the system for the Constitution?
	What does it actually say?
	Even if you can't win the argument, at least you could be aware of what the system is supposed to be.
	Well, you could, and I wish people would stop to think about the subtleties here, which to my mind are that they're once again leveraging, manipulating, and exploiting reasonable people's concerns.
	And I'll go back to the whole DWI checkpoint thing.
	You know, nobody is comfortable with the idea of some out-of-control drunk.
	Driving down the road, weaving through traffic, potentially going to kill somebody.
	Nobody likes that.
	So they leverage that to say, well, we've got to have these checkpoints because that's how we're going to catch these people.
	Of course, they're going to end up catching us all.
	You don't have to be drunk to get caught in a sobriety checkpoint.
	And I see the same sort of thing happening with these Gestapo-type tactics that are being deployed in the name of catching these immigrants.
	Let's define who these people are.
	Okay, if they're dangerous people, I don't have a problem with going after criminals.
	Most people don't have a problem with going after criminals.
	Now, yeah, technically it's against the law to have been here, contrary to the procedures and processes.
	But by and large, look, if these people are here just to work, if they're just trying to do their thing and earn a living, that doesn't really concern me nearly as much as having to walk around with a government-issued federal passport, the real ID, and possibly having to stop at checkpoints now for immigration.
	And I've been through one of those.
	ever been through one of those?
	You know, they have them within...
	I saw a press trip with a car company.
	We have these things called long leads, where they take journalists out to drive a car before it becomes available to the general public.
	So I think it was in Arizona.
	I can't remember.
	It might have been California.
	But anyway, we were well within the United States.
	And we're driving these manufacturers, vehicles, prototypes.
	And we get caught up in one of these checkpoint things.
	And here I am having to prove to this guy.
	That I'm an American citizen, you know, and answer his questions.
	And I'm nowhere near the border.
	I've not even come across the border.
	It's amazing to me that, you know, many people who are the descendants, the offspring of people who fought in World War II against the Nazis now support the concept of papers, please, right?
	Because it's our guys doing it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And again, you know, there's this normalcy bias problem.
	And in fact, let me bring up one more piece, Eric, over on your site, because you have the piece about safety belts here.
	And since, I believe it was Skunk Hollow brought up this, and in fact, it's interesting because he has here.
	We talked about the airbags, and I didn't really complete the thought on that.
	With the kids, they don't know that the reason they're in the back was because the airbags, when they were first imposed by the feds, as Eric has written about this many times, we've discussed it on the show before, they were breaking people's necks on very slow accidents.
	Little kids, older people.
	So instead of getting rid of the mandate for the airbags, they mandated that kids be put in the back seat.
	Again, just ridiculous.
	They're causing the cancer, and then they're saying, look, you know what?
	We cause the cancer.
	We could cure it by leaving you alone, but instead we're going to force you to cut that part of your body off.
	That's what they're doing.
	So let's, in fact, check this out.
	Skunk Hall over in Michigan says airbags are the exact problem.
	And he writes seatbelts should be optional too.
	So let's head over to this one as an added bonus here to talk about this.
	You've got this piece on meet the adaptive safety belt.
	Tell people about that one.
	Well, it's just the latest etoliation of this neurotic obsession with safety Uber Alice, but it's even worse than that.
	You know, it's presented as, and Volvo is trying to, you know, remember when Volvo was the safe car company?
	Right, right.
	They would drive off the cliff and the car would still be fine.
	The thing is, not that there's anything wrong with that.
	Volvo was instrumental in bringing out the, you know, the five-point safety belt, three-point safety belt, excuse me.
	You know, back when most cars, if they had a seatbelt, they had just the lap belt.
	So they had the shoulder harness.
	And, you know, they defined their brand as focusing principally on such things.
	We're making our cars extra heavy, extra sturdy.
	We have seatbelts on them and these other things.
	And that was great because at the time you had a choice.
	You didn't have to buy a Volvo.
	You could if you wanted to.
	And that's cool.
	You know, if that's the most important thing to you, you should have every right to buy it.
	Unfortunately, now every car is a Volvo because the federal government has decreed that every car has got to be a Volvo.
	So what's Volvo going to do?
	Well, Volvo comes up with an even more elaborate seatbelt.
	You know, one that has this Rube Goldberg-esque.
	Contraption within it to, you know, to cinch itself according to what your body type is.
	So, you know, if you're heavy or you're, you know, you're skinny or whatever it is, the thing is going to, you know, adjust to your particular body type.
	And they're heralding this as some kind of a great advance.
	And what's going to end up happening, of course, is that every other brand of car that doesn't have this is going to be tarred and feathered as being unsafe.
	Because look, they don't have that!
	And then they're going to bum rush over themselves to make sure that they have it in anticipation of the inevitable federal mandate that every car has got to have that too.
	And so that's my big beef.
	I don't have a problem with any of this stuff.
	I have a problem with it being forced on people.
	Offer it.
	Make it optional.
	If people want it, by all means, get it.
	But nobody should be forced to get it.
	That's my take on point.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I remember I experienced one of those safety belts, the three-point with the pullback thing.
	And it was one of the cruder ones.
	So we would just attach it behind our backs and then sit on it.
	That's what I would do.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Without any safety belt at all.
	So it actually, by putting it in there, it inspires some people to not even wear a seat belt at that point.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, I do it on principle because I figure, I'm a middle-aged man.
	I don't need to be parented by somebody else.
	I'm not a little kid.
	And it's insulting to be treated as if you're some kind of an idiot, slow kid who needs to have their hand held and told what to do by somebody who knows better.
	I mean, the principle of it is obnoxious.
	And not only is it that, most of the time, these people don't actually know better than you do.
	Most of the time, whatever they try to impose on you ends up, as you've just explained, having even worse consequences.
	And it's like that old thing about how the mafia enforcer comes and breaks your leg, and then he hands you a pair of crutches to help you.
	Well stated.
	Well stated.
	Eric, you know, yeah, I remember Harry Brown, when he was running for president, he used to say that.
	He was the first person I ever heard say that.
	I'm glad that's carrying on.
	Isn't it really fundamentally obnoxious to think that you're not allowed to learn from trial and error?
	You know, we were kids.
	Here's a really good example of it, at least in my memory, maybe yours as well.
	But kids were taught by their parents, hey, be careful around traffic.
	Don't run out in the road.
	You know, there are cars in the road.
	Don't play ball in the road because you might get run over.
	You know, and maybe you had a close call because you weren't thinking and you ran out on the road and you almost got hit by a car.
	And you had that come to Jesus moment when you realized, you know, I really need to be careful of where I'm running and walking.
	And so you grew mentally.
	You learned.
	Now, this presumption that, you know, you're just such a retard, you know, you can't figure things out for yourself.
	You're just too dumb.
	You have to be told what to do by somebody who knows best.
	And the ironic thing is that winds up raising a generation of retards.
	Who can't function, who can't think, who can't learn.
	Eric, I don't know if you heard about this one, but you got me thinking.
	Did you hear about this man?
	I think he might have been in Texas.
	No, I think he might have been in Georgia.
	Somewhere near Atlanta.
	And he was fined $2,500 for painting a crosswalk.
	I did see it.
	I did see it.
	And he and his neighbors said, look, this is a dangerous spot.
	And they had repeatedly, over years, gone to the government to say, you're running the streets.
	That's a dangerous spot.
	We are right here.
	We're local.
	Again, it just shows you the local people can manage it.
	They should, they have the...
	But they couldn't get the government to respond practically anyway.
	Somebody's got to be punished, first of all.
	And the one thing that can't be abided is people exercising sound judgment.
	We have to have crossing zones now.
	You know, because people can't go, hmm, let's see, I'm looking left, I'm looking right, the way is clear, I'm just going to walk across the street.
	You know, and if you do that in the sight of a cop, even if there was no problem, no cars were coming, but you didn't go in the authorized place, you know, and wait for the authorized green light before you walk across the street, then you'll get punished.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Because what they want are mindless, obedient, just drones, you know, who just, oh, well, it's the law, I've got to do it, got to do it.
	I'll do these monologues.
	You've probably seen my videos.
	I'll monologue while I'm driving.
	I live in a rural area, so there are a lot of stop signs where there's no traffic at all.
	I drive these roads every day.
	I'm very familiar with them.
	Some of them, you can see a quarter mile in either direction that there's no traffic coming.
	I don't come to a complete stop at the stop sign.
	Heaven forbid!
	You know, I go through the stop sign.
	And sometimes I'll get these comments from people that go, "Oh, you ran the stop sign!" Oh, the humanity.
	Cue that old film of the Hindenburg crashing.
	Oh, I know.
	I know.
	And that's one of the areas where my brother, an attorney, said, look, if you ever run into that situation or if you're caught for speeding or whatever, just plead no low contendere and say, please ask for it to be put on file without a finding if you have to go to court to say, I thought it was reasonable under the conditions of the day.
	And allow the judge to put it on file.
	And if you don't get another citation for like a year or two years or something like that, then they'll take it off your books.
	So that's always a positive.
	That's great.
	I don't want to be pedantic about it, but when it comes to these sorts of things, and I think traffic law is a really good way to understand it, why not encourage people to exercise judgment and be held accountable?
	Oh, that's right.
	If you are irresponsible and you don't look You should have looked.
	But on the other hand, you know, if you can clearly see and it's obviously safe, why not?
	Why should you be punished for that?
	Just because you violated the law?
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Eric, let me get a thought for you before we go.
	So, you know, I have that poll over on my X feed, not to, you know, Pull people over to the X feed or whatever.
	I want to show yours right off the bat here.
	Over at X, they can find you as at apostate 27832.
	27832.
	Or they can just look up Eric the Apostate.
	So check him out over there.
	And as he mentions, I'll be on David Knight's show shortly.
	Guard just invited me.
	Big thumbs up and thank you for going on the fly like this.
	This is terrific.
	Oh, it's great.
	Let me get your thoughts on For our Bad Attitude Award for Liberty Conspiracy tonight, for whom would you pick?
	Donald Trump for claiming he can unilaterally take our cash to bomb people.
	The GOP majority in Congress for not co-sponsoring Massey's War Powers Resolution, even though he wouldn't have actually supported it himself as a final vote, but at least to get it in there.
	And then, or three, ICE for lying about their unconstitutional and immoral attempt to root around Dodger Stadium.
	Obviously, I think, you know, one of these has a lot larger implications.
	Where would you cast your vote?
	Or would you like to comment on the choices?
	It's an easy decision.
	The reason I'm going to say Trump is because the gall of the man who ran for election on certain very clear definitive points, who is now betraying every single one of those points.
	Yeah.
	He tried to say, vote for me and we'll stop the wars.
	We're not going to have wars all the time.
	We're going to work on America.
	We're going to try to make this country a better place again for most people.
	Not make Israel great.
	Not make Palantir great.
	Not force real ID on people.
	Not push a digital dollar on people.
	So, yeah, it bothers me that Trump is betraying.
	I feel just like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
	Remember that one?
	I did it.
	I kicked the football.
	I voted for Trump.
	And I'm just really disappointed with the way things are headed right now.
	Yeah, I agree with you.
	Eric, it's been great to chat with you.
	And again, thanks for coming on.
	This is terrific.
	And I love being able to fill in for David and knowing the good people in the Knight family, knowing David brought us in contact with each other and so many of the other people in the David Knight chat rooms.
	And I want to get some final comments from people.
	Skunk Hollow says this, seatbelts were first, then drinking and driving, mothers against drunk driving.
	And he says, I was young when no seatbelt was required.
	Absolutely.
	And in fact, I got a ticket in New York State when I went to visit the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington when I was at a stoplight and diagonal to me at the intersection was a police car and I didn't have my seatbelt on.
	I just hadn't put it on at that point.
	You know, sometimes you drive for a little while before you get it on.
	And so the man pulled me over and he had me sit there.
	For probably a half hour in the heat.
	It was 90-something degrees.
	And he just sat.
	And then he gives me a ticket.
	And I said, how much is the ticket?
	He goes, I don't know.
	He says, I don't know.
	He didn't even say it kindly.
	He says, I don't know.
	I wrote a phone number there.
	You can call them to find out how much it is.
	I was like, well, you understand I'm from out of state, which is probably why you pulled me over.
	And so I'm going back to New Hampshire.
	I'd like to know because I want to know, you know, what the charge is because I could drive back here and take a day off of work, but I want to find out what's, you know, I don't want to waste my money.
	And, you know, one way or the other.
	So he says, call the number.
	So I called them and they said, I said, is there a way to find out how much this is?
	They said, oh, you won't know.
	What the fine is until you get here to court.
	You have to show up at court to find out what the fine is.
	I was like, what?
	That's ridiculous.
	I said, is there a way to contest this outside the court?
	They said, yeah.
	You can fax us a message to either have it put off or ask to have it pushed aside.
	And I said, great.
	They said, but you have to do it within the next hour'cause we're leaving and then we're going on vacation.
	They were coming back the day of my court appearance.
	Of course.
	And I was like, well, that doesn't work for me.
	So I wrote the email very, very quickly and I printed it up.
	Yeah, I printed it and faxed it.
	That's what I did.
	And I wrote in there and I said, listen, I come from New Hampshire.
	In New Hampshire, the government leans more towards statutes.
	It's not pure, but they lean towards statutes that are there to Punish people for harming other people.
	By not wearing a seatbelt, I'm not harming another person.
	I'm only putting myself in jeopardy.
	And to his credit, the judge actually wrote me back and said, I quoted John Locke.
	And the judge said, you're right.
	Thanks for quoting John Locke.
	And he waived everything except the court fees.
	So I was like, okay, well, at least I got to send it.
	They wonder why they're hated, why we just hate them so much.
	At least I'm speaking for myself here.
	And the reason that I hate them is because of this insouciant cruelty that they visit on people.
	I mean, here you are.
	You're just going about your business.
	And you get waylaid by this government goon who not only interrupts your travels with the implicit threats of murderous violence, if you didn't pull over, what would have happened, right?
	And makes you sit there in the sweltering heat and then just arrogantly hands you a piece of paper contemptuously and basically, here you go, dirtbag, hand over your money that you work hard for to the government for no reason other than we have authority and we're going to make you pay.
	Right, right.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And, you know, I think sometimes they just get into that pattern because it helps them get through the day more quickly.
	If they're more belligerent, they get something done.
	And, you know, to me, if I'm going out, I want to try to bring a smile to somebody.
	I want to, hopefully, I want to make sure that I've contributed something positive to somebody else's life for some split second, somehow.
	That's just sort of the way it makes me feel happy, too, you know?
	And government doesn't operate that way.
	Right?
	I mean, most people don't.
	We don't want to hurt anybody else, right?
	And sometimes we do through inadvertence or thoughtlessness, but we don't make it like conscious policy.
	Like, I'm going to go out today and do something to make somebody else miserable.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Well, listen, Eric, thanks for helping me today.
	On the David Knight Show, bolstering me with great logic and principles, too.
	Always, Amigo.
	Yeah, man.
	Amigo, I hope I can join you on my show some night.
	And we're going to talk fiction, also, because I've started up a YouTube channel called Former Star Trek Writing Fellow.
	And the YouTube channel is going to bring in guests and so on.
	We'll talk about favorite movies, like you and I talked about that chase scene from The Seven Ups and Bullet and stuff like that.
	So we'll talk about our favorite chase scenes and stuff.
	It'll be a lot of fun.
	Favorite short story writers, novelists, and so on.
	What if we could make the pilgrimage to see Shatner?
	We could do that and we could live stream it.
	Oh, man, that would be so great.
	That would be so much fun.
	I wish I had the proper connections with Star Trek to still get in touch with Shatner.
	That would be so much fun.
	Oh, man.
	If you can keep that happen, I'll owe you for the rest of my life.
	Okay, I'll ask a young woman I know if she can paint herself green and sort of walk out on the streets of L.A. and maybe Shatner will come out and be like, hey, I remember you!
	I'm like, hey, Shatner, we found him!
	Thanks, man.
	Eric, thank you so much.
	I'm going to play a little something from the David Knight Show to go out, a little advertisement for the David Knight Show.
	And I want to advertise your work as well.
	Well, and best to David and Travis if they're listening.
	I hope things are going well and I look forward to talking to both of them soon.
	Thanks, man.
	Eric Peters, love you, man.
	We'll talk to you soon.
	Yep.
	All right, take care.
	Wow, good guy.
	Eric Peters is one of the tops.
	You can't go wrong, man.
	Let's take an opportunity now, in fact, to touch base with some of the great material that David Knight has given to us.
	Let's discuss a little something from David when it comes to...
	Yeah.
	Let's go with...
	The Patriot.
	Great stuff.
	The End
	Liberty It's your move.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	Great comments.
	And Cecilia Inside Rumble was just commenting about David Knight's amazing talent and how majestic that music is.
	And yeah, John Williams, composer, of course known as Johnny Williams when he first started doing television themes, did a lot of the TV themes for the Irwin Allen television shows like Lost in Space, did two themes for that.
	Voyage to the bottom of the sea, the time tunnel.
	All those shows.
	He did the soundtracks for those.
	And then you've got Lalo Schifrin, who did the Mission Impossible theme, and Starsky& Hutch, the first season of Starsky& Hutch theme.
	That is the best theme that I've ever heard, I think, on television.
	Then you have other great musicians like Mike Post and so on.
	Really amazing talent.
	And when I was a child, my brother used to record the TV themes.
	And one of the things that I might have brought up on David's show, John Williams has been accused of lifting things from composers sometimes.
	If you listen to Darth Vader's theme, it's essentially a combination of Tchaikovsky's Slavic March, which is part of the 1812 Overture music, but it doesn't typically get played.
	It's that mixed with sort of Holtz's Mars bringer of war.
	And if you listen to the Jaws, that's But what's really curious is, I mentioned this a while back, is if you listen to the Schindler's List theme by John Williams, when I saw Schindler's List, I was with my mother and we were walking away, you know, very, very emotional as we walked out of the movie theater in a place called the Bedford Mall, Bedford, New Hampshire, next town over from where Ghislaine Maxwell was captured.
	And she was captured in Gostown.
	So there's Amherst.
	Bedford, Gostown, they're like right next to each other.
	I'm in Amherst.
	And so, I mean, Russia.
	So spreading the Amherst propaganda.
	So we're walking out and we went to a little CVS, which is all part of the interior of that mall.
	And the movie theater's entrance was inside the mall.
	And I said, Mom, you know, that music, it's in my head.
	I've heard that music before.
	And she said, no, you can't have heard that music before.
	John Williams composed it for the film, for Spielberg.
	You know, and Itzhak Perlman's playing it at the end.
	And I said, no, I have heard that music before.
	So I'll just tell you this.
	If you, and I won't do it now, but maybe on my Liberty Conspiracy show, I'll do it sometime.
	But if you want to get something kind of curious, very interesting, there's a TV show called The Strange Report that was put out by ITV for a few seasons.
	And one of the actresses in it is a woman named Annika Wills.
	I actually became friends with Annika.
	She was what they used to call a black and white babe from Doctor Who in the early years of Doctor Who with Patrick Troughton.
	And a very attractive woman, a great lady.
	We got along great when I was at a convention.
	We met and we exchanged phone numbers.
	It was just a terrific woman.
	And she was in The Strange Report.
	When I was like four, it was like, what?
	Now I'm friends with her in England.
	This is bizarre, right?
	It was just, it was crazy.
	But the theme for The Strange Report is essentially note for note, similar to the very opening of John Williams as Zach Perlman opens up for the Schindler's List theme.
	It's just done at a different tempo, in a different key.
	And it's very jazzy.
	So the Schindler's List theme, I'll whistle it just for a second.
	Like that, right?
	The strange report goes...
	Yeah.
	So no wonder when we went into CBS, I said, I've heard that before somewhere.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And one time I put on the Finlandia Symphony by Sibelius, and I put on the trash compactor section from Star Wars.
	I had one on a CD and one on vinyl, and I hit the selector switch on the stereo back and forth because the Finlandia thing has...
	...
	and then it takes off in a different direction and the trash compactor scene goes So you might consider some to be homages.
	Some people are a little bit more critical of John Williams.
	But amazing talent from John Williams and the man, And so it's always wonderful to know that David Knight appreciates his music as much as I do.
	And I also love Jerry Goldsmith.
	I think Jerry Goldsmith...
	I just love Jerry Goldsmith's stuff.
	He's amazing.
	Jerry Goldsmith is something else.
	And like I said, my dad sat next to Jerry Goldsmith on a plane.
	Paul Goldsmith sat next to Jerry Goldsmith.
	Interesting.
	Coming back from Las Vegas or California or something.
	Let's get into what I mentioned to Eric Peters right now on the David Knight Show, everybody.
	Remember, if you want to contribute to the David Knight Show now, that is a great way to really help the show.
	And hopefully David will be coming back soon.
	Travis will be back on Monday.
	Let's look at this.
	Solar stocks plunge on Senate Bill's tax credit phase-out, but analysts say investors should be happy.
	No.
	No, investors shouldn't be happy.
	That they're going under.
	Moral people should be happy that they're not getting a tax subsidy in a way.
	It's not a direct tax subsidy.
	It is a credit.
	Up to a certain amount.
	And I wrote about this in the news notes.
	It goes up to a certain amount that you can literally write off your taxes.
	People aren't physically getting, and they're not getting additional sums from the government the way the earned income tax credit works.
	They're not getting money from the government to buy their solar panels.
	But they are getting a tax credit, which is social manipulation through the stick approach.
	They're saying, we won't beat you if you act in this way.
	If you buy the solar panels, then you won't be punished some more.
	We'll let you keep more of your earnings.
	That's just unethical.
	That's not right.
	So, they say here that analysts at J.P. Morgan said that the Senate's version is better for shares of solar and other renewable companies than the version passed by the House in late May.
	At least one analyst had a more negative view of the situation and downgraded three of the solar stocks.
	Yeah.
	And they deserve to be downgraded because they're not really that feasible.
	And I want to give you an example.
	Here's this.
	A solar company.
	Rooftop solar industry is toast.
	Clean Energy Transition CEO says.
	So let's go with this.
	They are toast.
	I actually think, you know, there's already been one bankruptcy in Sunova.
	I think Sunrun is risking it.
	I think Enphase and SolarEdge would also.
	I think the whole sector could get wiped out.
	The rooftop solar business could get wiped out?
	Yeah.
	And whereas I think on the utility scale, it just means that Meta needs to pay 10% more for its power.
	I don't really think it matters much.
	So the big industrial corporates, you still think we're going to go ahead with their solar projects?
	So if you do a data setter, energy power is like 7% of cost.
	If 7% of cost goes to 9% of cost, do you think they will stop these projects?
	I do not think so.
	the case for the investment globally for these companies if they have these extra costs in the United States or certainly there is an extra cost of implementation?
	Well I think If we take solar as a case, fortunately, the US has kind of already built the big wall.
	That's why they can't compete.
	You know, no one can compete with China because South China is massively subsidized on all levels.
	And you see this in Europe, remember?
	Germany had the great solar industry.
	It all got wiped out.
	10 or 15 years ago.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the same will happen everywhere because, you know, zero cost of...
	But I thought that was valuable.
	Let me show you that headline once more since I didn't exactly bring that up on the screen.
	The solar stocks plunging.
	So here is that one there.
	So that's from MarketWatch.
	Solar stocks plunge as Senate bills tax credit phase out.
	Looks like that's definitely in the works.
	Solar is good for small things.
	And maybe for a house, people might think that that's about the limit.
	You can't do solar for really large things.
	It just doesn't work properly.
	It's okay to have something that can recharge your phone or a little solar-charged radio or something like that.
	Maybe a solar battery pack that you might want to get for emergencies, that sort of thing.
	But beyond that, it becomes really unfeasible, especially when they're trying to lock things in on a large city-wide.
	It's just ridiculous.
	It doesn't work at all.
	Of course, when you have the centralized systems, again, that tragedy of the commons comes in.
	So they're going to decide for you what is the best idea.
	Why don't you decide?
	Why don't you let the market decide?
	Don't subsidize these things.
	That would be a great idea.
	And finally, I want to get into a couple other items that I thought would be valuable for you that I want to cover just because we're talking about The major issues of the day when it comes to freedom.
	I want to go to my Liberty Conspiracy news notes for yesterday.
	And again, this is sort of going behind the veil for some of the paid subscribers.
	This, I think, is interesting.
	And I mentioned this yesterday on the David Knight Show.
	And so I put this in about midday today.
	As I got to mention on the David Knight Show this morning, that was yesterday when this was posted, the Trump administration will force student visa applicants to undergo social media screening, piling more injuries atop the unconstitutional and immoral federal claim to control immigration, and prompting concerns that political views and online speech could be used to deny entry to the U.S. And,
	you know, that's something I just wanted to make sure that I brought up because as we hear all about this sort of thing, again, they're pushing and pushing and pushing for more invasion of people's privacy.
	The E-Verify thing is looming and we are getting close to being in its shadow.
	It's coming on us.
	And all this debate about these things, hopefully people will get involved and talk to their various Congress people about this.
	Because this is something that shouldn't be handled on a national level at all.
	It's supposed to be left up to the states.
	There's not supposed to be a visa that you need to leave the country, get back in, or somebody else has to have to get back in the country.
	It's ridiculous.
	I also want to mention something that I brought up yesterday that I did not complete discussing.
	We mentioned the Supreme Court decision about the Tennessee ban on mutilating kids.
	For the trans ideology and trans psychopathology.
	So I want to go back to that because I mentioned Cory Booker yesterday and I didn't give the payoff.
	The Supreme Court Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender so-called affirming care, wink, wink, a lot of euphemisms there, misleading, for trans minors, as they say, in a blockbuster ruling.
	And as I mentioned yesterday, it's based on the 14th Amendment because if they have statutes that punish people, For harming children and brutalizing children, then they have to apply those statutes equally for the protection of all children.
	Now, I would argue that that also goes to fetuses because they are human, they are being, and if there are statutes that punish people for harming other human beings, then they have to apply equally to all human beings on that arc of life.
	So the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause requires that.
	And I've mentioned when I've been here before, it's not equal treatment under the law.
	As much as people might want that, that's not what the 14th Amendment says.
	So as a voluntarist anarchist, that's my sort of commentary about that.
	But I think that it is valid logically as well.
	But I didn't mention that Cory Booker freaked out about this.
	So let me give you a little bit more on this story.
	The court's majority opinion was penned by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the other five members of the conservative wing.
	The three liberals dissented.
	And Roberts wrote, this carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates.
	The voices in these debates raise sincere questions.
	The implications for all are profound.
	And he says the Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements because they have the statutes.
	And it has to go this way.
	If they've got the statutes against hurting children, this is what it is.
	And Sotomayor disagreed.
	She said the court abandons transgender children and their families for political whims.
	So again, she's not looking at it consistently.
	That's not a political whim to apply logic and consistent analysis.
	Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, in sadness, I dissent.
	And they also wrote here, the liberal wing argued that the court's conservative majority had tied itself in knots trying to avoid earlier precedents that said laws affecting transgender Americans necessarily discriminated on the basis of sex.
	So this was the argument of the plaintiffs.
	They were saying you're discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or sexual preference.
	That has nothing to do with it.
	They're minors.
	They can't make their own decisions.
	You can't even say that they have a preference, necessarily, under the statutes, as they're concerned.
	Again, if people don't like this, then at least we can have decentralization.
	If you're going to have statutes in your states, at least the 14th Amendment says, have the statutes be consistent.
	Or at least consistently applied.
	That's, you know, as far as the Constitution goes, that's a pretty good minimum, isn't it?
	And consistency of the thought that goes towards upon whom those statutes apply, right?
	That's why, if we looked at it properly, the 14th Amendment would be a ban of abortion in any states that have statutes that prohibit harming other people.
	Because it's equal protection for all human beings.
	And this, of course, brings us back to Tennessee.
	Where we opened up the program, of course, talking about the passage of a man who was pretty well known in Tennessee.
	Death of a man who'd been on the David Knight Show, Frank Nicely.
	So rest in peace, Frank.
	I didn't get to speak to Frank Nicely, but he seemed like quite a principled and intelligent, fair man.
	I hope his family is being comforted.
	At this moment.
	Let me tell you how Cory Booker responded to this Tennessee story.
	Because a lot of people worked very hard for this in Tennessee.
	Cory Booker's from New Jersey.
	Cory Booker got very angry.
	Let me give you an example.
	So here is what Booker had to say.
	And you let me know what you think about this.
	Today, the Supreme Court chose to abandon trans children in America, upholding the Tennessee ban on medical care for trans kids.
	Trans children, trans kids, he says, is heartless.
	This is a sad day.
	But I know I will never stop fighting to protect trans children everywhere.
	Now, here he is flipping out.
	I know trans children.
	I hear the fear.
	I hear the worry that they're not safe.
	Think about this for a second.
	The number one killer of children in America is gun violence.
	They talk about that, the threat there.
	Let's just pause that right now.
	I wanted to address this.
	If you hear people say that, you're probably aware of it.
	I'm probably not telling you anything new, but just in case.
	Maybe you've got a kid.
	You can show him this segment.
	There's just this guy.
	You can tell him yourself.
	Whoever wants to do it is great.
	The number one death by gun is suicide.
	When they include children in their statistics, they include 18-year-olds who are victims of gang violence.
	Why might they be victims of gang violence?
	Oh, that's right, because of the drug prohibitions, because of the bad education paradigms.
	Because these kids are released from schools being functionally illiterate and they don't have any skills because of minimum wage laws where they can't get into a workplace because their skills aren't sufficient to actually garner the new amount that has to be demanded from the final employer, the consumer.
	Cory Booker supports minimum wage laws.
	Cory Booker supports More federalizing of the education system, which has been proven to be an absolute, utter failure.
	In fact, when my father worked with Charlotte Iserbeet in Washington trying to dismantle the education department under Reagan, and they both left saying that they couldn't stop it and they didn't want to take people's tax money to continue doing something that they couldn't stop.
	My dad saw studies that showed You look at private charitable organizations, churches.
	They can educate kids in inner cities and get them to perform better on tests than the highly expensive $10,000, $12,000, $15,000 per child per year education systems.
	In the same neighborhoods that are run by the government.
	In New York, parents showed up at schools where they started to move migrants in so the government could house them in the schools.
	And a woman was there saying, that's my child's school.
	Well, ma 'am, no it's not.
	It's not your school either.
	It's everybody's school.
	So now you can try to fight to control it.
	Have fun.
	Try to get it to be responsive to your interests.
	And then, of course, there's the completely immoral and unethical idea that somebody who doesn't have kids should be forced to pay for an education system.
	I ran into the teacher who threw me in a closet in seventh grade, and I hadn't done anything.
	We were watching one of these dumb film strips.
	I've mentioned this before broadcasting.
	And I was in the front row.
	And I was so far to the edge that I couldn't see.
	I was trying to write and I couldn't take notes on the film strip for her dumb health class.
	and I wasn't able to keep up.
	So on the carpeting, I just angled my desk, which was attached to the seat I could just look up.
	I wouldn't have to keep turning like this, like this, like this.
	I could just look up, glance up.
	It was more efficient.
	She said, Gardner, get in the closet.
	That was her punishment.
	She had a little first grader chair in the darkness in the walk-in closet.
	So I said, what?
	She said, you heard me.
	Get in the closet.
	I hadn't done a thing.
	I was trying to do better in the class.
	I hadn't disrupted.
	I hadn't made any noise.
	She just saw the movement and threw me in there.
	Now, she already didn't like me because she wanted me to do more advanced mathematics stuff and changing base 10 numbers to base 2 numbers and base 8 numbers.
	She didn't know why she was having students do this.
	She was just told to have students do it.
	If she had told me it was because of binary code and computers and you had a whole way of translating stuff into a new language, I could have been interested in it.
	But as it was, I would finish my work for the class and then I'd have to do additional work for her math class.
	Not cool.
	So she didn't like me because I pushed back on her.
	And so I go into the closet and I'm sitting there.
	And sometimes I get choked up.
	I'm not going to get choked up this time.
	All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I hear the voice of Matt Van Cleet.
	Matt, as I've mentioned before, not only was the biggest kid in my grade, in seventh grade, he was the biggest kid in the entire middle school.
	He was the biggest human being in the school.
	He was bigger than the teachers.
	He had stayed back, I think, once or twice.
	He was huge.
	He wasn't a bad kid.
	He was gigantic.
	And he liked to, you know, minibikes, roughhousing, stuff like that.
	I had a good sense of humor.
	And the bad kids sort of circled around him as he was the alpha, in a way.
	All of a sudden, I hear Matt's voice.
	He said, what'd you do that for?
	He said, sit down, Matt.
	Quiet.
	He goes, I won't be quiet.
	He wasn't doing anything.
	The biggest kid in school is sticking up for me.
	Sitting there in the dark.
	And then I hear George.
	This guy George.
	I won't say his last name.
	He was a troublemaking kid.
	And he later went to prison for a little while.
	At heart, a good guy.
	An okay kid.
	I hear George's voice.
	He's right.
	He didn't do a thing.
	Sit down, George.
	You're going to go to the office.
	I won't sit down.
	Send me to the office for all you want.
	He didn't do a thing.
	I've got the toughest kid in school and one of the biggest troublemaking kids in school sticking up for me.
	And I was a very quiet kid.
	I had to work very hard to get out of that, to protect myself, to be friendly to people and joke and laugh and try to win people over.
	And I realized we had a common enemy, the bad teacher, the bad administrator.
	That way I was able to...
	I was okay.
	I'd be safe.
	I wouldn't get beat up because I knew we had a common enemy and I could joke and I could bring the tough kids over to my side too.
	It was all right.
	So, they got sent to the office.
	It took me a long time to forgive that woman.
	And as I mentioned, my running route used to be right in front of her house.
	I've been sick recently.
	I haven't been able to do it.
	I would spit across the road towards her drive.
	I'd never reach it.
	As I'd be blasting music.
	Because I couldn't forgive that woman.
	But I did.
	I did.
	In fact, I see her at the post office now.
	We have great conversations.
	I'm so glad that I forgave her.
	You know, it was a bad day for her.
	You know, who knows?
	Who knows what was going on, right?
	But when you're a kid and you're suffering like that, you don't know.
	You can't put yourself in the adult's place.
	The adult is supposed to control herself or himself.
	But she couldn't do it.
	So you've got to forgive that as much as you can.
	And so it was my place to forgive her, and I did.
	And unfortunately, as I've mentioned before, that kid, Matt, killed himself, which is really a shame.
	And he was a great, great guy.
	So I think about, you know, just a person.
	It brings it up because I'm thinking about Cory Booker and, you know, he's fighting for kids and he's using kids.
	He's using people.
	He's an abuser himself.
	And, you know, I don't think it's easy to forgive a guy like Cory Booker.
	He's had repeated opportunities to step down.
	fakery.
	And he doesn't do it.
	He doesn't acknowledge the Constitution.
	And he says he's going to fight for the trans rights.
	Really?
	You want to put kids in danger in schools to mix the boys and the girls?
	You want to have kids be permanently damaged for the rest of their lives when they're not even of age to make their own choices?
	You're going to support that and go further to have Insurance companies have to cover it?
	Because that's what he wants.
	That's sick.
	Let's continue.
	-Tingling out more than 1% of our population has the highest rates of bullying, threats of violence.
	Heck, about 30% of LGBTQ people report missing school because of fear, and they made them the center of their political campaign.
	Faith teaches me to love everyone.
	That means is you lead with a more courageous empathy for the struggles of trans children in America.
	Because he's great.
	He's telling you, I'm more ethical than you are.
	So you better cough up your money to pay for a health system that will pay for kids to get their bodies permanently mutilated.
	That's Cory Booker.
	That's Cory Booker.
	You better step it up right now.
	You better support Ukraine, right?
	Send some more weapons to Ukraine.
	Because that's the ethical thing, according to him.
	Him forcing you to pay for it.
	That's what's ethical.
	And don't forget, as we mentioned yesterday, Vladimir Zelensky wants another $40 billion a year from the United States.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	Finally, I want to finish off the program opening up some matters to you that I thought would be pertinent.
	I want to discuss the Federal Reserve and then go back to the war.
	As you see in my news notes yesterday, President Trump has publicly criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, claiming he could outperform Powell as Fed Chief.
	Trump's frustration stems from Powell's decision to maintain steady interest rates rather than cut them, as the president demanded.
	Remember I told you, he wants lower interest rates so the dollar is not as strong comparable to other currencies, which will then affect how many foreign products Americans are buying, which then will make him look like he has cut the so-called trade deficit.
	It's a trade.
	There is no deficit.
	Calling Powell a stupid person who is costing the country a fortune, Trump highlighted the burden of high-interest payments on the federal government's $37 trillion national debt.
	Well, you know how you could change that, Donald?
	Stop exploding the budget.
	Reducing the debt could lower these payments, but Trump's focus remains on Powell's refusal to bend.
	Has to refinance $9 trillion in U.S. bonds.
	He wants to refinance those at lower interest rates.
	That's the other reason why he wants low interest rates.
	It will help U.S. so-called trade deficit mirage to help that mirage look better because Americans will buy fewer foreign products.
	And it will allow the federal government to refinance at a lower rate.
	But what will that do to the money supply?
	Of course, it will increase the money supply.
	What is that called?
	That's called inflation.
	The inflation of the money supply is the inflation, and the price increases run after that.
	The people who get the money first get to utilize the money before it loses its buying power.
	By the time it reaches us, prices have been bid up inside that bidding room.
	Where Donald Trump wants Jerome Powell outside the room to shovel more people with more money into the room to bid up the prices on the items going up for auction, otherwise known as the items and services in the market.
	It's a very simple calculus.
	Donald Trump doesn't seem to understand it, or if he does understand it, he's being very deceitful and duplicitous.
	Reducing the debt could lower these payments, I wrote, but...
	Meanwhile, the Fed faces pressure to potentially fund a new war.
	Well, it's already funding the military actions.
	I should have written that.
	A role it has historically embraced.
	Former Congressman Ron Paul, in his book End the Fed, and Natalie Morris brought this up on Redacted later in the day.
	Ron Paul, in his book End the Fed, details how the Fed bankrolled World War I, 21% through taxation.
	56% via Fed-backed borrowing, and 23% by outright money creation.
	So you've got 79% backed by the Fed in one way or another.
	So again, if you didn't have the fiat currency, government control of money, whether it's from the central bank or it's from the Treasury Department printing its money, You'd have far fewer wars.
	So this pattern of war financing has only deepened over time, enabling conflicts the U.S. might otherwise avoid.
	Ron Paul argues that without the Fed's ability to print money and facilitate borrowing, the nation's capacity to wage war would be severely limited.
	With mounting debt and global tensions, the Fed's role as a war venture capitalist raises critical questions about fiscal responsibility and the true cost of military engagements.
	And as wrote, as Natalie Morris of Redacted has said, when it comes to war funding and more, the end of the Fed would be a big benefit.
	Now, I've got some links to the stories if you want to see some of these things here.
	So here we have this.
	Feds Powell keeps rates where they are, defying Trump.
	That one from the 18th.
	That's a good thing.
	That's not a bad thing.
	That's a very good thing.
	We dodged a bullet right there.
	And as I mentioned on Liberty Conspiracy last week, you can tell that Powell actually is concerned.
	He understands what will happen to prices if he lowers rates.
	He gets it.
	I'd rather not have any central bank.
	And again, if the Treasury were to do it rather than a government-created cartel called the Federal Reserve, the government would just print the money up itself.
	Just like ancient Rome brought in his coins, shaved the silver off the coins, reissued the old coins, saying they were worth just as much when they weren't, and then put out new coins with the silver they had shaved off.
	They do it all the time.
	Or they go buy metal.
	They'll claim it's something, but inside it, there's a secondary metal that's not as valuable.
	They do that all the time as well, because they had to fund their empire over in Rome.
	I want to go back to Dave DeCamp.
	An anti-war.
	To give you a little sample of something that is our, unfortunately, payoff.
	We are paying for not only attacks on Iran, a heavy water reactor that Israel has attacked, not only killing of civilians in Iran, but of course, The attacks on Gaza at food centers.
	So here's Dave.
	Dave is going to give us some of this information, and in it, he mentions, please be warned, there is an image that is a terrible image.
	But here's Dave DeCamp giving us this one.
	Four Palestinians in Gaza.
	So the next one here, Israeli attacks kill 84 Palestinians in Gaza.
	So Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 84 Palestinians on Thursday.
	This was reported by Al Jazeera, citing medical sources.
	And among those killed were 16 Palestinians who were waiting for aid near the Netzerim Corridor, which separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
	I should warn you that the picture in here, you can already see it, but it's of two girls who were killed, young girls who were killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
	The picture and the videos coming out of Gaza on Thursday were just especially...
	Lots of dead and wounded children.
	Very young children.
	And heavy Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza City and areas to the north, killing 59. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli planes bombed homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killing at least 16 people, including two children and one woman.
	WAFA also reported that strikes on tents in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City killed at least 12 people, including three children, and injured dozens.
	Four others were killed in strikes on tents near the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.
	And in Kan Yunis in the south, at least six were killed while waiting for aid.
	So just absolutely horrific every day.
	The slaughter goes on.
	And now with much less attention on it.
	Alright, so the next one here, Gaza's premature babies caught between siege and world apathy.
	This article's from the New Arab, sort of just about this horrific situation to be in for these mothers.
	And because of the malnutrition and everything, there's a lot more premature births.
	And they have shortage of baby formula because of the blockade.
	And essentially, this is a story about these tiny babies who are being fed through a tube.
	And the hospital workers are saying, we only have enough of this formula for another one to two days.
	And we don't know if we're going to get more.
	And I mean, I just can't imagine.
	It's stories like this that kind of make me feel like I can imagine how horrible it is just because I know my son, he wasn't born premature.
	But he had to go to the NICU just for a couple days.
	But we had to, like, move hospitals.
	And, you know, it was really scary.
	And, you know, that was here in the U.S. with no war going on.
	Like, I just can't imagine being in that situation, hearing bombs and drones.
	And they're just saying, we might not have enough of this formula to keep your baby alive.
	I mean, it's just the stuff of nightmares.
	And this is what the U.S. is helping Israel do in Gaza.
	Yeah, very tough stuff.
	And again, you know, I really like what they do.
	Obviously, you know how I feel about the folks over there.
	They're real good folks over at Anti-War.
	I want to give you a couple other items on the immigration front before we depart from the David Knight Show.
	Again, if you want to contribute while we're here, I'm so appreciative of being able to fill in for David.
	Please do so over at Rumble.
	That's always a great way to do it.
	And of course, go to thedavidknightshow.com.
	Visit the store.
	You'll find the links to contribute over there.
	You can do it by Zelle, that sort of thing.
	It's always a big benefit.
	And hopefully David is...
	So, you know, it is an amazing thing to be here connected with all of you and Eric and all the good people.
	That you get to meet.
	It's wild.
	And, you know, I don't know Dave DeCamp personally, but we sort of know each other.
	We communicate with each other on not even sending each other messages directly or anything on X. But we have a mutual friend in Angela Keaton.
	And Angela Keaton is at antiwar.news if you follow antiwar news.
	It's not antiwar.news.
	It's antiwar news on X. There's antiwar at antiwar com.
	On X, there's at DeCamp Dave for Dave himself, and there's at Anti-War News on X. So Angela Keaton runs that, and she's out on the West Coast.
	And Angela's just a terrific person.
	And I got to speak with her on the phone a little while ago.
	She gave me a call, and she thanked me for talking about what anti-war does.
	And that was so nice, incredibly nice.
	I thought, wow, that's really cool.
	So Dave and I have a mutual friend in Angela.
	You might hear him every once in a while mention Angela.
	And it's amazing to think how the United States will engage in these threats against us.
	And you know my perspective, obviously.
	I'm opposed to all forms of the political state because it's always imposed on people.
	That's why I'm an anarchist.
	No human ruler.
	for the etymology of it for the linguists out there.
	But I want to get back into that immigration story because I mentioned that...
	Let me just see if I've got this.
	Yeah, okay.
	So I want to go into this story out of New York again about this guy Lander, the comptroller for New York City.
	He's a mayoral candidate.
	And as I brought up, I've written about him for MRCTV a number of times because he's the one who wanted to pressure the credit card banks to have their credit cards apply the gun store purchase code that was developed over in Europe.
	And that would allow flagging of people who were making purchases at gun stores.
	So I'm not a big fan of Brad Lander, right?
	But he's right here, where he talked about, he literally was arrested at a court, an immigration court.
	As I mentioned, there's not supposed to be any such thing as an immigration court.
	You can see him there, getting manhandled.
	Mass federal officers took him away, and he said they accused Lander of assaulting and impeding an officer.
	Well, as I mentioned, they haven't been invited into New York State.
	They're not supposed to be there.
	There's nothing in the Constitution that allows them to police for immigration.
	So how is this supposed to be managed?
	And Mr. Lander is correct.
	He says nobody is safe now.
	People who came in under Biden with the belief that they were operating according to the rules now have seen the rules like a carpet pulled right out from under them.
	It's laudable to hear some of the people on the MAGA side say, well, those people should have known.
	They were told certain things.
	They were given certain promises by the Biden administration.
	Well, they should have known.
	They should have looked into it.
	Well, if they did look into it, then they'd see that the feds aren't supposed to be involved in the first place.
	So that's in New York City.
	And he is the comptroller.
	Of New York City.
	Now, the credit cards companies ended up not doing it because they get so much pushback, you know.
	But if he becomes mayor, I think he'll push for that again.
	So I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to.
	But there are other items when it comes to the immigration issue.
	Let's look at this one.
	The LA police chief is speaking up about Donald Trump.
	Because Donald Trump, again, lied.
	Just like ICE lied about the Dodger Stadium incident, so has Donald Trump lied about being requested to come in to California, specifically to Los Angeles.
	Here's that headline.
	You can see it.
	LA Police Chief did not ask for federal help.
	And this comes from, of all people, factcheck.org.
	I hardly ever checked them.
	But I was looking into this, and sure enough, here's the story.
	In defending his decision to deploy National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has distorted comments made by Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell.
	Trump claimed that the police chief said the situation with immigration protests had, quote, gotten away from them.
	On the third day of protests, McDonnell did say his city police officers were overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there are engaged in this type of activity and the type of things.
	That they're doing.
	That's a quote.
	Overwhelmed.
	But he also said that he didn't ask for federal assistance, which is what is required.
	And even if it were him, he can't do it.
	It has to be the legislature or the governor.
	Rather, McDonnell said the protocol is to first reach out for mutual aid assistance from local and state law enforcement officials.
	Right, conservatives?
	Local.
	The following day, McDonald's said that those partners have handled the situation effectively.
	The situation never reached a point where national help was needed, he said.
	Moreover, he said, the National Guard and Marine troops sent to Los Angeles have not been tasked with working with local police on the streets to maintain order, restore order, and keep everybody safe.
	And as factcheck.org wrote, As we've written, protests in Los Angeles began in response to the Trump administration ramping up immigration arrests, specifically after federal agents on June 6th rounded up day laborers who were waiting in a Home Depot parking lot to find work, and later that day, after federal agents served a warrant for employing illegal aliens at the headquarters of a clothing company called Ambience.
	You might remember that in Texas, they have a report where None of their farm workers have shown up.
	They're afraid to go.
	Parents are saying they're not going to have their kids go to the schools because they're afraid federal soldiers are going to go in there.
	They have a quota system.
	They have a quota.
	That was mentioned by Lander.
	Lander knows.
	He says they have a quota of 300.
	They're trying to get to 3,000 arrests per day.
	That's what the Trump administration wants.
	As I mentioned, I'm familiar with the quota system of the old Soviet system.
	Where a man named Tchaikovsky headed up the fishing industry, I think it was over Lake Baikal or something like that.
	And the story about this man Tchaikovsky was easy to remember because of his name, but also because he was told during the old Soviet days, and I believe it was even under Gorbachev, it might have been under Brezhnev, that they had to get a certain number of a certain type of fish out each week.
	Or each month.
	They had to reach a quota.
	And it might have been, you know, perch or mackerel, whatever, you know.
	Well, he said to the authorities in Moscow, are you aware that we don't have that type of fish in this lake?
	Forget the quota.
	We don't have those fish here.
	Well, guess what they did?
	Yes, they threw them in jail.
	They arrested him.
	They put him in a prison.
	Now, Brad Lander is in jail.
	And if he were interested in trying to educate people, my co-pilot is here, by the way, then he might bring up Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution.
	And so might the sheriff in Los Angeles, McDonnell.
	And Trump says, the head of the police in Los Angeles, a good man, I hear a good man, but he was actually saying...
	It had gotten away from them.
	It had long gotten away, and we gave it to him.
	No, that's not it.
	Not only do you not have any constitutional authority to do it, and there's really no such thing as constitutional authority anyway.
	I can't write a piece of paper up and say that it has authority over you.
	But if you want to play that game, you don't have that power, Donald.
	You swore an oath that you don't have that power.
	Let's not mince words.
	Let's not joke around.
	Okay?
	That would be cool.
	Oh, the co-pilot.
	Hey, co-pilot.
	I'm going to do something special for the co-pilot here.
	Let me help her out a little bit.
	And for those who are interested, let me just do this real quick for you as I take care of the co-pilot.
	Sort of like Beans the Brave when Tony fills in.
	I love it when Beans is there.
	Let me show you Article 4, Section 4. Okay.
	Alright.
	So, this is Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.
	We'll go with Article 4 right from the start.
	You can scroll down.
	Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion.
	Now, let's stop there.
	What does that mean?
	It doesn't mean that the United States can say, we're being invaded.
	The United States Congress can say, or an executive branch department can say, we're being invaded.
	We, to anthropomorphize it, are being invaded so we can go into a state.
	No.
	Logically speaking, an invasion with a capital I connotes what?
	An invasion by a nation state.
	By an enemy aggressor.
	In a state form.
	With uniformed combatants.
	What's the proper response to that?
	Of course, you go to Article I, a declaration of war.
	That's the only response.
	If they're non-uniform combatants, then you can't declare war against them because it's not nation against nation.
	The alternative that they put into the Constitution, the default switch goes to letters of mark and reprisal.
	Again, Article I. Letters of mark and reprisal permit the president to hire mercenaries to go after non-state enemies.
	If you have non-state enemies going into a state of the United States, the United States could, if they wanted to, hire mercenaries.
	But they have to be triggered by an invitation.
	That's not an invasion.
	An invasion connotes a nation-state.
	If you've got some sort of action, I should be very clear here, if you have some sort of action where non-uniform combatants are entering a state and being disrupted, that wouldn't technically be an invasion by a state, because that has to come from state plans and a state policy.
	You have to have the states, and here they say, and on application of the legislature, that's and, on application of the legislature, So, the legislature has to ask for the feds to come in.
	The feds have no policing control over immigration in the first place.
	They can't use that as an excuse.
	And again, that is why when George Washington marched on the whiskey makers, He was acting in an unconstitutional fashion.
	That's a history lesson that should never be forgotten.
	They did it improperly.
	They did it unconstitutionally.
	The whiskey makers were in the right.
	Pennsylvania had not invited George Washington to come in.
	They hadn't invited anybody to come in.
	The Washington, D.C. crowd wanted the money from the excise tax.
	That's why they went in.
	Alexander Hamilton knew that if they couldn't get that money, then he couldn't have the Central Bank of the United States pay off a bunch of his friends through congressional pork policies to have all sorts of projects done.
	Special projects in what he said was the American system, as Henry Clay brought it up.
	They knew if they couldn't get that money, then the federal government couldn't get the funds to hand it out for his pork projects to his friends.
	Which is one of the reasons why they wanted to usurp the Articles of Confederation.
	Because they wanted to have that power to give it to their friends, to employ all sorts of people.
	Now you've got how many thousands of people employed by ICE?
	How many people are going to build that border wall, taking land away?
	It's not the federal government's place.
	And it's certainly not their place to claim that it's an invasion when they're not members of a state.
	And then, on top of it, Claim the prerogative to just march into any state and arrest people and then not even give them due process.
	What is happening, what the Trump administration is doing in the United States right now is so off the rails from the constitutional conception of the founders that they might as well be playing in a fantasy world.
	And it's a dark fantasy.
	And unfortunately, we're part of the nightmare.
	That this educational information can get out to more people.
	Whether or not it changes anything, I can't say.
	But as Eric and I mentioned, I think it's worth the struggle.
	There's nobility in the struggle.
	Better get going, but thank you everyone for being here on the program.
	I really appreciate it.
	And Martin mentions Curtis Sleeve was running as a Republican for New York.
	He is a long shot.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely right.
	And he mentions those pictures in Gaza are due to U.S. funding.
	Thank you, Martin, for saying that.
	I'm sure Dave DeCamp, if you were here, would thank you as well.
	This is a big deal.
	And, you know, it's a black mark on all of us.
	It's forced on us.
	And it forces us to have to say, at what threshold do I say, I can't win fighting against this now?
	Are there other means to change this?
	I don't know.
	Or do I have to just get away?
	I don't know.
	And it sounds very fatalistic.
	As if you've lost the fight.
	But again, there's nobility in the struggle.
	That's a win itself.
	If we can communicate and commune with other folks and feel comfortable in that and have a smile afterwards, think that we've done something satisfying, breathe the air of truth, that's cool with me.
	That works for me, right?
	That's good stuff.
	So we'll see what happens over the weekend with Donald Trump.
	A lot of people don't trust him.
	Seymour Hersh thinks that he's going to have a hit on Iran this weekend, as Dave DeCamp mentioned.
	We'll see.
	If Donald Trump waits a couple weeks, what relevance is that?
	Again, he's acting as a tinpot dictator, as a god, like Zeus.
	Sorry, it's not supposed to work that way.
	Executive branch doesn't get to decide, and even if Congress does this, they're supposed to pass a declaration of war.
	They can't say authorization to use military force.
	It's not in the Constitution.
	War has certain parameters and rules.
	That's why they signed on to the Geneva Accords, which have been repeatedly broken by both the United States and Israel many, many times per week, per day, as Dave DeCamp brought up.
	Thanks for being here, everyone.
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