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Jan. 14, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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AAPS attorney Andy Schlafly is fighting to stop CTA / FinCEN insanity...
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Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, and we have a first-time guest, a very special guest.
This is a critical issue for our privacy and for the rule of law in our country.
You may be aware of something called the Corporate Transparency Act or FinCEN, and this CTA requires small companies, but not large corporations and not hedge funds and not banks and not accountant firms, but small companies.
To register with a financial crimes network run by the federal government, it is essentially allowing government surveillance over your small business entity, who owns it, who are the shareholders, what you do.
It's almost, I mean, it's a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and other provisions of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
And joining us today to talk about this is Andrew Schlafly.
He is the General Counsel of the AAPS, which is an Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which does outstanding work on medical freedom and many other topics.
Their website is aapsonline.org.
Welcome, Mr. Schlafly.
It's an honor to have you with us today, sir.
Oh, thank you, Mike.
It's an honor to be on your wonderful show, and you're so informative to the public, and I'm just thrilled to be here.
Well, we're thrilled to have you here, and this issue is so critical for our time.
And I gave a little bit of a background there in the intro, but honestly, relatively few Americans are fully aware of what the CTA is and how abusive it is.
It's a government surveillance program on small businesses.
Can you give us a little bit of background first of what this is and how dangerous it is to our liberties?
What this?
What law does and the regulation that implements it is to require tens of millions of Americans.
The estimates put it 32.6 million American businesses are affected by this.
And it's not just businesses.
It's also nonprofit entities, local soccer clubs, youth activities, civic organizations, religiously affiliated organizations, all these small.
Some of them don't have any money in them.
Some of them were just set up just to associate with other people, a chess club, things like that, that people who have set these up under state law now have to report to the federal government all sorts of personal information about themselves, driver's license numbers, birthdates, home addresses.
So can you imagine that?
You volunteer to...
Be a participant in the leadership of your little youth soccer club.
And it's incorporated because maybe there's an insurance policy you need.
And all of a sudden, you've got to report your home address to the federal government.
And the federal entity is the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
So all of a sudden, you're going into a database for law enforcement purposes.
They've used you as a potential criminal.
It's outrageous, Mike.
It's absolutely outrageous.
And two really important points in this.
Number one, we know that the federal government does not safeguard this information, even if they themselves did not abuse it or weaponize it, which they do.
We saw that under Biden, under Obama.
We saw the IRS weaponize against conservative nonprofits.
Anybody focused on teaching the Bible, for example.
Was audited or denied non-profit status.
So we've seen the weaponization.
But even aside from that, this information can be hacked.
We've seen hacks of the Department of Defense.
So Chinese cyber attackers can get all your information out of this database, right?
I mean, if they hack it.
Absolutely, Mike.
And it's funny you say that because just a few weeks ago, the Department of Treasury, that's the department in which FinCEN sits, they admitted.
That they were hacked in a severe hack of sensitive information.
And they said it was from China.
I don't know that they know it's from China.
That's what they say.
I don't know how they would know that because these hackers, Mike, as you probably have read about yourself or even experienced, I hope not, they use proxy IP addresses from all around the world.
They can be a hacker, a political hacker sitting in San Francisco.
Who goes through a China proxy service, gets a China IP address, and comes back into the United States and hacks somebody's computer here.
But whatever, the Department of Treasury, which is where this data is going, admits they were just hacked a few weeks ago.
A severe breach of security.
Who knows what was grabbed there.
They'll probably end up on the Internet one day.
So in other words, what they are doing, and this is blatantly unconstitutional, and I want you to give us...
A brief overview of the legal action that has been taken because there have been significant interim victories, I believe, and Ken Paxton, the AG of Texas, is part of this as well.
But this is insane that the government, the federal government, is demanding that we, small businesses, turn over information that could make us vulnerable to foreign hackers and could get us doxed online.
That is just unacceptable.
It certainly is not acceptable, as you say, Mike, and it violates multiple provisions of the Constitution.
So many of the legal decisions so far, and there have been multiple courts already that have ruled that this is unconstitutional, and they have said that it violates the enumerated powers in the Constitution, whereby Congress is limited to powers that are set forth in the Constitution, most notably the Commerce Clause power.
It gives Congress the ability to regulate business transactions between different states.
Business activity that's interstate in nature.
Well, that doesn't give Congress the power to regulate somebody's high school chess club or somebody's soccer club or a political group that was formed to fight a local ballot initiative.
These are not examples of interstate commerce that Congress has any authority over.
Some people set up little corporations to own a piece of property.
That's a very common practice, where if someone's going to buy property, maybe a business or maybe an individual, they'll set up an LLC to acquire that property.
And that unit, that home or warehouse or whatever, will sit in the LLC. And that's all the LLC be about.
Owning that piece of property.
That's not interstate commerce.
Right.
And importantly, these structures that you're mentioning, these examples, these are all set up in compliance with state law, correct?
So somebody in Wyoming sets it up with Wyoming.
Somebody in California sets it up with California.
And they're complying with those state requirements.
And they set their expectations based on the existing state law.
And they're not...
They're not violating that.
And then all of a sudden the federal government comes along and says, well, now we're going to impose this new burden on you that is going to put you in this law enforcement database and make you a suspect in financial crimes.
That just seems so un-American.
It is.
It's un-American and it's unexpected.
As you say, Mike, when you set up a new entity to do something beneficial, and 99% of these entities that are set up, Is for a beneficial purpose, a bowling league, a whatever, a parent organization to monitor what's happening in your schools.
These all have beneficial purposes.
And when you set that up under state law, you assume, as has been the case for 240 years.
That all you have to do is comply with the state regulations and setting that up.
And they're significant.
You've got to jump through some hoops.
You've got to file some forms.
You've got to pay some fees with the state.
But then for the federal government to say, oh, no, no, we need your home address and a photo of your driver's license, too, it's just so unexpected, Mike.
And if you don't do that, if you fail to do that, If you didn't update your address when you move, you're looking at a potential prison sentence of two years in jail.
Yeah, talk about the penalties for noncompliance because they are shockingly high.
Two years in jail, Mike, and enormous fines, $10,000, and it accrues as time goes by.
It can be more than that.
These are volunteers we're talking about, Mike.
You know, these are not the CEOs of Citibank and Facebook and Google who can afford to deal with this, who can hire the attorneys, and who always, you know, never end up with something severe.
We're talking about volunteers who volunteered to coach your kid's soccer league or who volunteered at a church activity.
And now they're looking at two years in jail, and they've got to hire an attorney and so on.
And so here's the other thing, Mike, if I could just digress a little bit.
But this is what happens when you get a federal prosecution.
First of all, the investigation will bankrupt most people, just investigating.
Even if you get a clean bill of health at the end, that's what we learned with the Mueller investigation and all this lawfare that's gone, the investigation.
That's right.
They did that to Roger Stone, too.
Yeah, exactly.
You're found not guilty.
You're bankrupt.
You're done.
Your life's ruined.
You lost your marriage.
You're done.
But in addition to that, what the federal government is doing is when they get a plea deal, a plea bargain, or get some sort of little conviction under a statute, if the statute theoretically Could have imposed a prison sentence of more than one year, theoretically.
And it didn't because it was just a minor infraction.
You got a little slap on the wrist.
But in theory, if there's a provision in the statute that you could have been sentenced to more than one year in jail, then you lose your right to own a gun.
Oh, no.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
And this is one of the most prosecuted federal statutes.
It's a gotcha.
Where it says, if you got any conviction on your record that could have sent you to jail for more than a year, you've lost your right to own a gun.
And if you own a gun in violation of that, you're looking at like 15 years in jail if they catch you.
So, if you volunteered for the local t-ball club to help kids play sports...
And then if you do not turn over your home address, your driver's license, all the personal identifying information, social security number, everything, to the government under this financial crimes situation here, this law, the CTA, Corporate Transparency Act, as it's called, which is misnamed, then you could be convicted.
You could go to prison for two years and lose your Second Amendment rights, is what you're saying.
That's exactly right.
And even if you don't go to prison for two years, if it's a warning, you know, slap on the wrist, it's a misdemeanor, whatever, you still lose your Second Amendment rights.
That's what I'm trying to explain, and it's hard to understand, and people don't get it, but this is one of the most prosecuted federal statutes, where they play a gotcha, they target somebody, and they find some conviction 15 years ago.
And it was just a little slap on the wrist.
The person pled guilty because he couldn't afford the legal fees.
And they find that and say, wait a minute, you're owning a gun now.
You're possessing a gun now.
That's a severe crime.
You're not allowed to possess a gun if you've got some obscure conviction under a crime that could have punished you for more than a year.
Alright, so let's follow the history of this.
How did this become law?
Because wasn't it Was it part of the NDAA or an omnibus spending bill?
I forgot how it got passed.
That's exactly right, Mike.
It was stuffed into some multi-thousand page NDA bill at the end of the year, at the end of 2000, where a lot of other stuff was going on.
This massive bill, I think it was 1,500 pages long, that nobody reads.
Nobody reads the bill, and somebody stuck this little provision in there.
And nobody noticed.
And it's part of a huge bill.
And actually, Trump vetoed the bill.
He vetoed it.
But Congress then overrode his veto at the end of 2000 because it had military authorizations and service members aren't going to get paid if we don't get this passed.
And we've got to defend our country and this and that.
So they enacted over his veto.
And it's got this little provision in there, a couple pages long.
It's a doozy.
And the timeline was, I mean, the deadline was the end of December 2024, correct?
To comply with the CTA. That was actually established by regulation.
I see.
So that deadline's actually artificial.
And you're right.
It's at the end of 2002. It was the end of last year, January 1st.
And that's when the regulators in D.C., now we're talking about the deep state.
And they say, we'll make this effective for most people on New Year's Day 2025. So just a couple weeks ago was the effective date of this thing.
New Year's Day.
Who makes the law effective on New Year's Day?
Right.
Well, this is the deep state, Mike.
And we don't live in D.C., but I did live in D.C. And there's a different mindset there, Mike.
There's a different mindset.
They don't care if they're going to interfere with your Christmas and your New Year's and stuff.
And they have fought with everything they can do in court to try to make that deadline stick of New Year's Day.
Now, we're past that now because there were some good court injunctions.
But they've gone back into court and they've taken this up to the Supreme Court.
It's some kind of emergency to get this back in place as soon as possible.
So tell us about the injunctions because I know that Paxton, his office in Texas, achieved a significant injunction.
Did that go through the Fifth Circuit?
I forgot the details.
It did.
So then that went up as a district court judge that went up to the Fifth Circuit.
It had it pretty interesting for those of us who work in this field as I do, particularly in the appellate law and appellate courts.
That doesn't happen every day.
In fact, I've never seen it happen before.
It goes up to the Fifth Circuit with the injunction in place.
Then the government, unbelievably, moves so aggressively to get this in place so it ruins everybody's holidays and so on.
They move on an emergency basis in the Fifth Circuit.
That's the U.S. Court of Appeals that presides over Texas.
Louisiana, Mississippi.
It actually sits in New Orleans, not in Texas, but Texas is the biggest state.
It's over.
And the government comes up with an emergency motion to lift the injunction, stay the injunction, so that the rule goes back into effect as soon as possible.
And it's not like the government said, well, we'll give people a couple more months.
No, no.
They want this back.
They put it back in effect January 13th.
They delayed it for 12 days because while this injunction was in effect.
So they go to a motions panel on the Fifth Circuit.
Now, that's a randomly assigned three-judge panel from that appellate court, which is generally conservative.
But I've learned, Mike, that the motions panels on that court are usually Democrat majority.
Wow.
I don't know how that's happening.
I need to...
Raise a ruckus about this.
It's not really random, baby.
Why this random assignment, in every case I've been involved in, it's been a Democrat majority on the motions panel.
So an emergency motion comes in.
Well, a lot of times those motions are just kind of, well, they're big nothing burgers, and maybe that's why Republicans, maybe they don't like to serve on them.
I don't know, because a lot of times it's just a...
Kind of an annoyance.
Here's a motion to do this.
Usually it can be by a prisoner or whatever, and they have rights, but these prisoners get in there representing themselves in court, and they can file a lot of things that just aren't going to win.
And so a motions panel would deal with that.
Well, a motions panel looked at this and said, yeah, government, you're right.
And they stayed the injunction and said, you can make this rule go back into effect immediately.
Wow.
And we're all looking at that and saying, I can't believe that.
I can't believe the government would do it.
I can't believe the motions panel allowed it.
So then, on our side, attorneys quickly moved for it to be heard by a merits panel on the Fifth Circuit.
I know this is kind of difficult to follow, but the merits panel is the panel that decides the case.
It's not a temporary motions panel.
It's the panel that really decides the case.
The attorneys on our side moved for an immediate assignment to the merits panel, and our side also moved for review by the full court, which overall is conservative.
Well, two days later, or three days later, this is over Christmas, so the motions panel ruled on Monday before Christmas.
And then on Thursday after Christmas, the merits panel was assigned to the case, looked at it immediately, and they said, The injunction is correct.
And so they reinstated the injunction.
So the mayor's panelists can hear the case, and they've assigned argument in March on an expedited basis for the government.
They reinstated the injunction the day after Christmas to protect all of us from having to file and spend our Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve.
Giving pictures of our driver's licenses to the federal government.
But is that current stay that is in effect right now, is that only through January 13th?
So, no, it extends beyond January 13th, but the government's been slow to sort of acknowledge this, and you will still see the January 13th day out there, and we're about to pass that.
But the injunction's in effect now, so...
No one has to do anything on January 13th.
This will extend past January 13th.
But, Mike, there's more to this story.
Unbelievably, the government, the deep state we're talking about here, this is really the deep state.
We're talking about inside the most powerful federal agencies there in the D.C. area.
And FinCEN is one of the most powerful of all.
They moved with an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court on New Year's Eve.
Oh, wow.
That's desperate.
Can you believe that?
With all we've got going on, I mean, we've got the Trump sentencing issue now.
We've got the TikTok issue that it's going to set to go off on, be taken down in January.
All these emergency cases.
The election certification, which went smoothly, but no one knew what would happen there.
And all the coordination of the Supreme Court, the deep state says this is as important as anything else.
Wow, while our border is wide open.
Right.
And we're still, and the human trafficking is off the charts.
So which justice on the bench is going to hear this?
Boy, you're sharp, Mike.
You're really sharp.
You know this process.
Not my first rodeo, that's for sure.
So these emergency applications go to one justice initially.
Because even though there are nine justices on the Supreme Court, each circuit, in this case we're talking about the Fifth Circuit, has one justice assigned to that circuit.
And the justice who's assigned permanently to preside over the Fifth Circuit is Sam Alito.
Well, I'm happy about that.
Maybe perhaps Thomas would be better, but Alito's also pretty awesome on a lot of issues.
That's right.
So he's one of the two best by far justices we have on the Supreme Court, by far.
Yes, I agree.
I agree.
And he presides over Texas, and so that's a godsend.
Sometimes...
Luck or Providence breaks in our favor, and it did right there.
So he got this emergency application on New Year's Eve from FinCEN.
It's an emergency.
It's an emergency.
We've got to have everybody's driver's licenses, home addresses, birthdates.
We've got to report now, and they're a criminal if they don't do it.
And we've got to do this right away.
Half of our country doesn't even know about this, Mike.
No, but let me add, though, every accountant in America...
Is screaming at their clients to comply.
They were doing that all through the month of December.
I know because our accountants were screaming at us.
Right.
And the accountants mostly just act as proxies for the IRS. Right.
And the accountants, a lot of them, won't do it, though.
They'll scream to comply, but they won't do it themselves because they can't figure it out.
This is so complicated, Mike.
You can't tell which organizations have to file and which ones don't.
The accountants are like, you have to do this, but don't ask us.
You need to hire.
Wow.
Well, now you're talking another thousand dollars to pay some attorney.
You don't know if the attorney is going to get it right and so on.
But FinCEN, it's their job, Mike, to inform people of what these legal requirements are.
That's their job.
You go out there, Mike, after our show is over, and you go there and think of the next little local club that you happen to...
Give money to or volunteer to or whatever.
You know, someone's having a potluck dinner.
And go and ask the person who's serving the soup there if they know about this FinCEN requirement.
I'm sure they'll look at you and say, what's FinCEN?
What are you talking about?
That's why it's critical that we cover this.
And let me just mention to our audience, this is a take-action moment.
I need you to call the Capital Switchboard number.
I'll put it on the screen here.
It's a 202 number.
Call the switchboard.
Talk to your senators in particular.
And talk to your governor.
Talk to your representatives in the House.
And urge them to get on board with eliminating this CTA. It's wildly unconstitutional.
We have got to raise our voices about this issue.
And Andy, you know what?
This reminds me of the ATF arm brace rule.
Remember that whole fiasco about the arm braces?
Right.
So at some point the ATF... They put out this point system.
You're supposed to score your AR-15 based on all these silly points.
I looked at it.
It's like, they can read this any way they want.
And at one point, they said arm braces are illegal.
Well, I have arm-braced AR-15s, so I took the arm braces off.
But I did not file with the ATF as they wanted everybody to do.
So all these people across America, they complied and they filed and they sent in.
Pictures of their firearms, which seems to me like an admission of guilt that could have been prosecuted based on the ATF's interpretation.
I'm like, I'm not doing any of that.
And I waited, and it got overturned, as it should have been, because, you know, we have a right.
We have a Second Amendment right, obviously, to own and bear arms that are in common use in the day here.
Which includes AR-15s with arm braces.
But this whole thing reminds me of that, Andy.
You're exactly right, Mike.
And some people say, well, the deep state's not going to prosecute 32.6 million Americans.
And that's right.
They're not going to prosecute everybody over this.
There'll be millions of violations.
This goes into effect.
There'll be millions of violations as they want.
But they won't prosecute every one of those violations.
It'll be selective.
Yeah.
If you speak out, if you run for office, if you're someone like Donald Trump, then all of a sudden, gotcha!
There's the prosecution.
They just exploit the law as much as they can to take down anybody they want.
So it basically makes a criminal out of every American.
That's right.
And they're not going to put every American in jail, but they're going to put those in jail who are the most courageous, the Patrick Henrys, the Sam Adams, the John Hancocks.
That's who they will prosecute and put them in jail or ruin them politically.
I mean, it's a miracle Trump was able to overcome all that warfare.
That's basically God's intervention, in my opinion.
But nobody else can overcome that.
You can prosecute, you get a felony, and you're done politically.
That's it.
Yeah.
And they unleashed everything to try to destroy Trump.
And like you said, I mean, Trump has an amazing team and a substantial amount of money to back his legal defense.
Most people don't have that.
But this whole thing, Andy, this just smacks of the weaponization of the government against the people and against businesses.
And this is why I've been speaking out against the FDA, the EPA, the ATF. Even I've had guests on that talk about the corruption of the DEA. I mean, you name the agency, the USDA, it's corrupt, and it's been weaponized against the American people.
The IRS, obviously, weaponized against the American people.
I've had, well, I'm not going to go into the stories, just insane things happening.
And all I'm trying to do is make clean food, do interviews and tell the truth, and we get targeted and harassed because we're pro-America.
That's why.
And I'm one among many, and I'm sick of it.
That's why I'm really happy that you're doing what you're doing.
We've got to fight back in the courts against this nonsense.
That's right.
New Year's Eve, they go running to Sam Alito, Justice Sam Alito.
Emergency, emergency, emergency.
You've got to reinstate this reporting obligation with a two-year incarceration penalty attached to it to burden 32.6 million American businesses, small business.
By the way, the large businesses are exempt, Mike.
The big businesses are exempt.
Who's ever heard of that, where there's a regulation?
That exempts the large companies but burdens the small volunteer organization.
No, I saw that.
That's part of what makes me so frustrated about this, Andy, is if you want to know where is the drug money being laundered, it's the big corporate banks.
It's not the small businesses.
You know, I mean, look at the history of corruption, and I mean internationally, not just in the U.S., but internationally, European banks.
Busted laundering drug cartel money, but they don't have to comply with this.
Small businesses do.
I don't know about you, Andy, but I've never been involved in narco money laundering.
I mean, come on!
It's just absurd.
We're selling food, you know?
These small entities, a lot of them are pro-life groups, and they're run by...
Women who raise children, and their children are out of the home now, and they start a little association or organization, and they're being targeted for money laundering?
It's incredible.
So what has happened since Alito got the emergency motion?
Thanks for asking that.
So he got this emergency, emergency from the Deep State, FinCEN, Department of Justice, on New Year's Eve.
And Sam Alito, to his credit, He did not jump immediately.
So, Justice Alito, I think he's been around the block a few times now.
And I think he knows that when the deep state comes running in and says, oh, you've got to do this, national security, national security, you know, and you look at it and you say, national security?
You know, we're talking about little mom-and-pop businesses and volunteer organizations.
You're talking about national security.
So he sat on it for a couple days.
Hopefully, he enjoyed his little New Year's break there.
Enjoyed that little holiday, hopefully.
And then he waited another day.
And then on Friday of last week, he said, okay, I want to hear the other side of this.
Mr. Government, you came in here.
I want to hear the other side.
Is there a wolf really here?
And so he gave our side until 4 p.m.
tomorrow to file briefs in opposition.
Oh, wow.
And when you say our side...
Can you please explain, are you working with Ken Paxton, or is it a separate effort?
What's going on?
A lot of us are in touch with each other, but they're separate efforts.
They're independent legal efforts, and we're aware that we're not alone.
Because we know in the Fifth Circuit, there was probably two or three dozen groups, Mike, that came in on our side.
Saying this is unconstitutional.
So there was an enormous, heartwarming outpouring of support on our side against this in the Fifth Circuit.
A flood of amicus briefs.
That's the term that's used for this.
When you're not a party in the case, you can file a brief as a friend of the court.
Can I mention, too, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really want to help support the AAPS here.
Because they're paying your salary to go in and fight for the rights of many physicians and surgeons, small doctors and complementary medicine doctors as well.
And folks, if you go to aapsonline.org, there's a donate button right here.
You can help support this effort.
And Andy, I also want to ask you before we wrap up today, eventually I want to get to tell us about the AAPS and the amazing work that it's doing.
But I'm sorry to interrupt.
I just want to help support.
Your organization there.
Oh, that's fine.
I appreciate that very much.
So the briefs have started to come in against the government on the Supreme Court docket.
And you all can go to the docket if you want and watch this.
It's kind of fun to watch.
The docket number that you type in to the Supreme Court docket to view the briefs as they're coming in is 24A. 653. The A stands for application.
And the 653 is sequential, so that means there have already been 653 applications to the Supreme Court in the last few months.
And when the government comes in with these applications, they usually win.
But this time, we've already had 22 states.
That's 22. That's half the country has come in.
Against the federal government on this and in favor of the people.
And so 22 states led by Chris Kobach, whom you may know, Mike, filed a brief just a few hours ago.
Oh, wow.
That said this is unconstitutional.
What FinCEN is doing here, Supreme Court, leave the injunction in place.
So I want to be clear, right now the injunction is in place.
Okay.
So we do not have to file.
According to this CTA requirement, because it is fully blocked.
And there's another development I want to tell you about.
Mike, if you have a few minutes, another judge.
Yes, please go ahead.
Yeah, another federal judge in Texas did something very courageous this week.
While this is pending in the Supreme Court, we got a second ruling out of federal court in Texas that blocks.
This FinCEN regulation and blocks it for everybody.
So we have another layer of protection here, even if the Supreme Court does the wrong thing and rolls over for the government here, there's another injunction in place that just came out of Texas that protects everybody against this.
Oh, wow.
So wait a minute.
So that's a district-level federal judge in Texas, and that applies to more than just Texans?
It does.
It protects everybody.
Wow.
So we've got a real struggle here.
Get your popcorn.
This is better than watching a football game, watching this thing play out.
Oh, yeah.
Because the beautiful thing, Mike, is many people and many judges now are aware of the tricks that the deep state is pulling here to grab more power.
Indeed.
And the old days where the federal government could just run in and say, terrorism, we need to guard against terrorism, or we need to monitor money laundering, or national security, national security, those days are gone.
And judges now look at that and say, yeah, we've heard that before.
We've heard that before.
Let's look at here, we don't suspend the Constitution because you declare I concur.
I think the COVID years really woke a lot of people up to the abuses of government and the invocation of an emergency to take away our civil liberties.
And that's simply not acceptable.
The real question for you, sir, is Donald Trump about to be sworn in?
And let us pray that that goes well and is not interfered with what have you.
I mean, we made it past January 6th, so that's a milestone.
But what's Trump's position on this?
I mean, I keep thinking Trump has said he's going to do a lot of things on day one, a lot of good things that I think are really critical, like we need a domestic energy supply.
You know, let's reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline.
I don't know how you feel about that, but I'm like, the more energy we have domestically, the better off we are.
But, and also there are J6 political prisoners that need to be pardoned on day one.
Has Trump mentioned anything about this CTA? He has not, Mike.
And I think if he knew about it, he would certainly stand against it and stand with the millions of Americans who are affected by this.
I mean, everything Trump said on the campaign trail, everything he stands for is against this type of suffocating regulation, is against expanding federal police power.
So there's no man in our country who has been more consistently, more courageously standing against this than Donald Trump.
It's just that I don't know that he's actually aware of this specific requirement.
He's a busy man.
Of course.
And apparently, he doesn't seem to sleep.
But even when you don't sleep, there's still only 24 hours in a day.
Well, and he's been dealing with lawfare attacks on himself.
And some of those have not even ended yet.
That's what's incredible.
But if, and we know, look, a lot of people that are going into Trump's cabinet have been guests on this show or watch the show.
So for all of you who have influence with Trump, This is a major victory opportunity for Trump to stop this obscene law and to say we protected small businesses in America.
We protected you against the deep state selective prosecution and surveillance grid.
And so this is like low-hanging fruit for Trump demonstrating that he's helping America if he opposes this.
That's exactly right.
And what he could do is suspend the effective date.
So the law, unfortunately, was passed over his veto, and that's the law.
But the effective date is up to the agency and ultimately up to the president.
So he could just do an executive order that suspends the effective date of this, and then it's gone.
It's not gone.
I have a suggestion.
That effective date could be the year 2599. Yeah.
How about that?
After the second coming of Jesus.
Right.
So when Jesus comes, it will become effective the day after Jesus returns.
Right, right.
And we won't have anything to worry about because all those who would enforce the law will be burning in hell at that moment.
So that's kind of a self-solving problem right there.
Okay.
So what do we need to do then?
Those watching the show, I already mentioned, you know, contact your senator, contact your representative.
Contact your governor.
Contact your state AG. You said 22 states are already on board here.
Right.
We can probably guess which states those are.
Are there other states that could be maybe swayed in the direction?
Well, there could be, and I was thinking about that.
This just came on the docket just a few hours ago, and there are actually about 26 or 27 red states, Mike, as you know.
It fluctuates depending on the elections, and there may be some seats that are still trying to call.
You know, who won this seat.
So Pennsylvania, Michigan, I'm not sure whether they're red or blue right now.
But I think there are a few more states that could come in.
22. We got more red states than 22, I'm sure of that.
The other thing is they had in the continuing resolution that you've all heard about that Mike Johnson prepared.
It was a stack about seven inches tall that they were going to do.
A couple weeks ago in December to keep the government turned on, keep the light switches turned on there.
And then Elon Musk came out against it, and he properly, in my opinion, got that thing pulled.
But in the big continuing resolution, it had an extension of the deadline from this January 1st to next January 1st.
Well, that would have helped a bit, but I mean...
Now that I've been in this so much, I'm like, you just extended the deadline and you didn't repeal this thing?
And so I'm like, you know, that's not really what we were looking for here to have to spend all year worrying about this to get it right next January 1st.
This is a form of psychological, this is my opinion, but this is a form of psychological terrorism against the American people by some rogue elements of...
Hopefully those elements are going to be running and hiding when Trump takes office.
Although it's going to take a long time to try to root out the real corrupt actors in the system.
And you'll never get rid of all of them.
But Trump and his cabinet can make a very positive difference starting on day one.
And like you said, he can extend this deadline on day one.
He can basically nullify this.
Into oblivion on day one.
But I would imagine Trump has probably got a stack of executive orders, you know, this tall that he's going to need to sign.
He's going to have a tired wrist and fingers on day one.
He's got to reverse all the Biden nonsense, for one thing.
Yeah, Mike, I've heard it may be as many as 100 executive orders.
Oh, I wouldn't be surprised.
On January 20th, 100. I mean, it's going to take us.
All day and evening just to read through that and see what he did.
And it's wonderful.
It's going to be a great day, though.
Winning, winning, winning.
Yeah.
It's just like bringing in fresh air after you've been stuck in the cellar for a couple years.
And then someone opens the door and brings in the fresh air.
That's what this is like.
And it's just fabulous.
Absolutely.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, Mike.
I just want to add about this.
One thing about this FinCEN is particularly...
Pernicious and harmful is it strikes right at the volunteerism in our country.
And Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America nearly 200 years ago, I guess 190 years ago, and he said one thing that's unique about America and very special about America is how people volunteer and associate with each other.
That's the backbone of everything that's good about our country, is the volunteerism, the small organizations, the small local associations, the churches, and all the organizations associated with our churches and activities and sports leagues and civic organizations and political organizations.
FinCEN regulation strikes right at the heart, right at the foundation of everything that's good about our country and makes a potential criminal out of the good people who volunteer their time to lead and manage and organize these entities.
That's right.
That's right.
And along those lines, I'll add to that, in terms of helping out the people of North Carolina, those great Americans who suffered, From those freak storms there, and FEMA was interfering.
They were interdicting supplies.
And it was organizations like us, and we have a church, and so our commercial side donates to our church.
Our church sent out truckloads of clean, organic food to the people of North Carolina.
And by the way, we're coordinating right now to see what we can do to respond to California, because we've got additional food supplies.
We had to work with Green Berets, I mean, former Green Beret team there, to bypass FEMA to get the food supplies and to get them to a church parking lot because FEMA's not allowed to mess with church's inventory.
But they could confiscate it from airport hangars, it turns out.
Well, we got it to the Pole Creek Baptist Church in Candler, North Carolina, and then FEMA couldn't touch it, and then the people...
Got the food.
See, we have to go through that.
We have to battle our own government to try to help the people.
That's how bad this has become, Andy.
It's crazy.
We shouldn't have to be fighting our own government.
I don't mean literally fighting, but I mean evading to get food to people who are in need.
It's crazy.
Right.
Well, in D.C., it's all about power.
It's all about power and control.
And the deep state mindset is that they want to expand their power and control as many people as possible so that when a Donald Trump comes along, the deep state can prosecute him, get him convicted, and then he won't be electable.
That's their whole game plan.
And these people in D.C., they're making lavish salaries.
They have pensions like you wouldn't believe, Mike.
They've got a healthcare plan that's just the best in the country, best in the world.
A recent study showed that 94% of them are working remotely.
They don't even show up at their offices.
One day a month.
They show up one day a month.
It's unbelievable.
When you pay people so much money to do nothing and and they know that they're as soon as somebody who's competent gets in charge, they're going to get fired.
They're going to do everything they can, Mike, to prevent a political change in this country that's going to get them fired as they should be fired.
They should be cleaned out at high percentage levels.
I hope Elon Musk and Vivek and Trump go in there and just start handing out pink slips by the tens of thousands across these agencies because...
It's not just that they're not working.
It's that when they do go to work, they're working against the American people.
That's the thing.
That's right.
We need small, small, small, so small government.
You know what I mean?
That's right.
And the immorality in D.C. I was just chatting with somebody the other day.
Apparently the Senate, U.S. Senate, is going to stay in session five days a week.
When the pattern for a long time has been that Congress adjourns on Thursday, people are able to get out for a three-day weekend.
We're talking about the elected officials now.
We're talking about the officials being able to get back to their district for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
And apparently, the Senate, in their wisdom, it's GOP-controlled, and maybe they felt five days a week of the senators being there is a better work ethic, maybe.
I don't know.
But what the comment from someone there in D.C. said to me, he said, the Republicans, they don't want to be in D.C. five days a week.
And that really struck home with me.
I work there.
I know what it's like there.
And it's a sick place.
D.C. is a sick place.
Let's just be candid about it.
And Justice Thomas was candid about it.
There's an interview Justice Clarence Thomas gave about six months ago where he got into a talkative mode with somebody, and he said he hates D.C. He said it's a terrible place.
And he's talking about spirituality and morality, and he said they've done some.
People there have done some bad things to good people there in D.C. And he's exactly right.
I had a member of Congress offered me two tickets to the inauguration.
And I said, thank you, but I'm not going to D.C. Not going.
I need to stay here in Texas and keep working on these projects for humanity.
I mean, I appreciate it, but nope.
I can't stand the energy there in D.C. personally.
And I don't mean to disparage a town that a lot of people enjoy, but I don't like Las Vegas either, frankly.
It's just trade shows there.
I fly into Vegas and I'm like, oh, really?
Prostitutes and gambling and cigarettes everywhere.
And I'm like, this is just not my town, you know?
Sorry.
And drinking everywhere?
No, that's just not my thing.
But the difference between Las Vegas and D.C., Mike, is that Las Vegas is transparent.
Yeah, and it's voluntary, right?
People are there because they want to be there.
You know what you're getting.
There are no secrets.
You go to D.C. and you watch your back.
Everybody is lying to everybody else.
Everybody is duplicious.
The game in D.C. is what can you lie about and get away with?
What can you fool somebody about?
That's sick.
It really is.
And we look at biblical examples of...
The Bible has multiple examples of where towns, cities, they become taken over by sickness and immorality.
And that's where D.C. is.
And I think we need to be candid by that.
I'll tell you, there are other people who feel that way.
I'm sure of it, Mike.
And it's not just you and me.
I mean, there are high officials who feel the same.
Well, as I said, the person just told me.
He said, these Republican senators, they don't want to be in D.C. They don't want to be there.
I mean, they want to represent us.
They want to do what's right, but they don't want to stick around there another day.
They look forward to getting out of D.C. They're still working for us.
They're working for us back in their districts and so on.
But some of the finest politicians, some of the finest Americans, don't want to be there.
All right, we've only got a couple minutes here left, and I want to give you an opportunity to tell us about AAPS because it's such a significant organization.
So go ahead.
Appreciate that, Mike.
So, AAPS, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, was founded in 1943. It really is the oldest conservative organization in our country and probably in the world.
There are a lot of fine conservative organizations, but the oldest is actually AAPS, 1943. No one can find one that's older than AAPS, and it's been continuously active since then.
On the frontier of medical freedom, and we're talking about ethical medical freedom here, I'm not talking about unethical medicine.
We're very much against that, and we file briefs against unethical medicine, and I include in that the transgender surgeries.
So we're at the forefront of opposing transgender surgeries.
That's terrible.
But for ethical medicine, we're at the forefront of defending and promoting The ethical practice of medicine, defending physicians.
Right now, we're defending physicians who spoke out during COVID and spoke out for the freedom of patients to be able to get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and so on.
And some of those physicians have paid a heavy price, Mike, in retaliation.
Yes, I think we have a common friend here in Texas.
Yes, we do.
He paid a heavy price for standing up for what's right.
God bless them.
They're heroes.
They're modern-day heroes.
The physicians who stood up for patients during COVID and their access to medication other than the vaccine that was rammed down everybody's throat.
But APAS has been on forefront of many other issues, too.
I know you've got a pro-life audience, and we're pro-life every opportunity we can to file briefs, to tell the court, no, no, the medical profession's not really in favor of these abortions.
We've been around since 1943 and we're pro-life and we're against these abortions.
And what else is happening though, you know, it's not just the abortions themselves, it's also the FDA organ harvesting from the aborted fetal tissue to have tissue to make vaccines.
And so they're taking the dead babies from one group of mothers and they're using those dead babies to inject other children.
Which I call medical cannibalism.
And it's sick and it's demonic in my opinion.
That's the word right there.
It's demonic.
Absolutely.
Yes, it is.
And then we have the whole euthanasia issue that Canada is all about now.
Like, oh, you have a migraine?
Well, have you thought about letting us kill you?
You know?
I mean, whoa, off the rails.
Maybe we can do a follow-up one day on that.
We do need to run today.
But Andy, thank you so much for your time.
You've been really helpful.
Thank you.
Well, thank you, Mike, for your show and for all your outspokenness.
You're a hero of ours and your courageous advocacy for all that's good and right.
Well, we 100% support what you're doing.
And thank you for all of your effort.
Let me give out the website one more time, aapsonline.org.
And folks, please consider making a donation to the AAPS. And Andy, please keep me posted so that we would love to have you back on.
This is a really important issue with the CTA, but also we need to explore these other issues of medical ethics in more detail on the lawfare side.
How do we establish a First Amendment for medicine?
You know, Dr. Benjamin Rush, remember?
The history of Dr. Rush, he tried to put in the Bill of Rights.
Medical freedom didn't make it.
Maybe we need that today.
So we can talk about that next time, okay?
Thank you.
God bless you, Mike, and all your listeners.
Thank you.
God bless you, too.
Take care.
And thank all of you for watching today.
Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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