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April 13, 2020 - American Countdown - Barnes

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	Welcome to American Countdown, April 13th, 2020.
	as we remain in this shutdown of American civil society.
	Tonight, resolve that Fauci's Faustian bargain of choosing fear over freedom will give us neither freedom nor safety.
	As Benjamin Franklin famously said a long time ago, if one of our core and key founding fathers, those who choose security over freedom will get neither security nor freedom.
	It is the nature of the state to steal both from you.
	And we live in a environment where, as the article today described, In four devastating weeks, Americans' fear of the coronavirus has exploded.
	So much fear that today we live in an environment where you are not free to leave your home without permission.
	You're not free to drive in your car without special permission.
	You're not free to go to church without permission.
	In fact, if you simply did, as many people did across the country on Easter Sunday, go to their church service, and instead of going inside the church, simply held it in the parking lot, inside their cars, with the windows rolled up, they were often cited and threatened with possible arrest, potentially fined, have potential forfeitures.
	That's what's happening.
	Even in places like Kentucky, in places like Tennessee, in places like Michigan, in places like Virginia, not to mention California or New York.
	Indeed, in my hometown in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the mayor threatened the citizens that if they simply peaceably assembled, that was his own words, peaceable assembly, in any way, shape or form that he didn't approve of on Easter Sunday, they would face penalties from a nondescript method of enforcement of his orders, orders that clearly flagrantly violated the First Amendment.
	So we live in a place where you cannot, right now in America, 90% of Americans, cannot go to church on Easter Sunday, even sitting in their own cars, without state permission.
	Cannot go to work without permission.
	Cannot leave their homes without permission.
	Cannot travel without permission.
	Cannot invite people over to their homes without permission.
	In Michigan, you cannot even buy the American flag currently.
	The governor of Michigan has banned people from buying seeds, buying child safety seats, and even banning buying the American flag.
	However, you can buy a lottery ticket and you can go to the liquor store.
	So we get a sense of what the Democratic priorities are by various governors and mayors across the country.
	But we live in a country where we have effectively forfeited in about two weeks what took two centuries to build.
	Core freedoms of peaceable assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of the public, freedom to purchase guns in your self-defense, freedom of privacy and protection from the invasion of privacy by the state.
	Freedom of being able to operate your business, pursuit of liberty, pursuit of happiness, which is protected in protection of property, protection in vocation, protection in profession, protection in occupation, all stripped without just compensation or due process of law.
	all contrary to the constitutional requirements in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
	Yet that is the country we live in today.
	And there are more and many more calling that it continue unabated, maybe for a year, maybe for 18 months.
	On the virus front, the data continues to show that those who propagated the fear machine, the Fauci sort of pitch of let's look at the models that are going to have these hundreds of thousands or millions dead unless we take these extreme actions, increasingly are being proven not the Fauci sort of pitch of let's look at the models Thank you.
	For example, take Ezekiel Emanuel, a long-standing, high-ranking Obama official who's been promoted repeatedly by the press.
	He said the U.S.
	will have 100 million cases of COVID-19 in just four weeks.
	It will be doubling every four days.
	There are going to be millions of deaths.
	He said that as recently as March 27th.
	He turned out to be completely false.
	We have, as one article aptly described, a competition between herd immunity and herd mentality.
	As Roger Kimball writes at American Greatness, the question is whether or not we are going to develop a herd immunity, as is commonly the mechanism that's effective and successful in dealing with viruses, or we're going to go with a herd mentality that capitulates to those in the white lab coats and the Bill Gates-driven agenda.
	That would sacrifice individual freedom for fear.
	That would sacrifice two centuries of constitutional liberty for the feeling of two weeks of safety that isn't really safety at all.
	And what's impressive in this context is I am repeatedly seeing a range of people get two basic things wrong.
	One is interpreting the modeling as somehow being successful despite its abject failure and overt failure and manifest failure over the last two weeks.
	Remember the last two weeks leading up to Easter.
	We're supposed to be the worst weeks of the virus.
	This is when we were supposed to be, our hospitals overrushed and flooded with too many patients to even take care of.
	We were going to have to be burying people in random places because we couldn't be able to handle the number of dead bodies.
	It was going to be such a disaster and debacle.
	It was going to make Northern Italy look like small change.
	That was what the prediction was.
	That is what the forecast was.
	It turned out all wrong.
	And so now there's people trying to justify this forecast on the guise that, oh, it must mean that the shutdown worked.
	Well, here's the core problem.
	The reason why the models assumed these record levels of deaths is because the shutdown could not impact most hospitalizations and almost any of the deaths due to the time lag between getting an infection and that infection becoming a disease, becoming hospitalization, leading to ICUs and ventilators and then mortality.
	So there's at least, according to the CDC, the shortest time period they've estimated is 21 days between the time of getting the infection, getting the virus, and mortality.
	And at least two weeks on average before getting the illness ever leads to hospitalization, as it often takes usually a week, four, five, to seven days to even have symptoms of the virus after getting it.
	So how could a shutdown that happened less than 21 days ago have impacted the mortality rate of this week, last week, or the week before even?
	That's just not possible.
	That is why the models presume this expansive, explosive, exponential, endless growth At the stage in which the shutdown could not have causatively have any relationship to the reduction of the virus.
	It could not have any meaningful material impact on the virus because the shutdown happened after those people who would be dying or needing hospitalization had already been infected due to the time frame and the time lag between infection and illness and hospitalization and death.
	So those people saying that somehow the shutdown is what led to this success simply cannot be true by the definition of the nature of the virus and by the admission and concession of the assumptions of the modelers themselves.
	The second aspect that's being preached out there is that all of the epidemiologists and all of the virologists and all of the people in microbiology all agree.
	And by the way, there are people who are epidemiologists who are, in fact, don't have any sort of medical degree.
	They don't have to.
	You can just be a public health government official for that.
	There are some that have a medical degree, but there are many who do not.
	Of those that do have a medical degree, the focal medical science is microbiology, and there have been many who have second-guessed and questioned the conventional narrative, the Fauci-driven narrative, that we're supposed to have this shutdown as the sole solution to this potential pandemic.
	Indeed, let's just go through a few of them.
	People from the Rockefeller Center, people from the Rockefeller University, people that were part of the German medical science system, people that are at Stanford, that are considered some of the most prominent people in this field.
	All of them were raising questions.
	Former Canadian public health officials who personally witnessed a version of this during SARS and after he looked at it said the quarantine, which was much more limited than this quarantine, but it was like a mini-me version of this quarantine, ended up putting 25 times more people under quarantine than should have been.
	So you had a number of people who are second-guessing this right out of the gate, doing so repeatedly, doing so in article after article after article, video after video after video.
	And let's just show what some of those are, because there are people, well-meaning, well-intended, like Scott Adams and others, who have said that they don't know of anyone who's contested the conventional wisdom on this.
	That they believe and assume that everybody is in accord and agreement within that field of virology, that by definition if we don't do a shutdown, there's going to be hospital overcapacity across the country, there's going to be mortality rates that are going to skyrocket into the hundreds of thousands or millions, when in fact, no such consensus exists.
	Indeed, there's not even consensus on whether or not The social distancing is necessarily the most effective means of achieving a virus reduction.
	There are those who believe that you should instead have people that develop herd immunity and only protect the vulnerable and not have those unlikely to suffer severe debilitating or disabling illness.
	Let them experience the illness so they can develop an immunity from it.
	That's where the phrase herd immunity originates from.
	There are others that suggest that it's the only mechanism because vaccines have not been successful against coronavirus in large part over the past 15 to 20 years.
	And there's a problematic history of forced vaccinations politically.
	And there's questions about vaccine safety in this context, which seems to be implicitly admitted by those now seeking vaccines, wanting immunity from liability in exchange for developing the vaccines, an immunity they would not need if they were not afraid of safety risks related to that.
	And we'll go back to an incident with President Ford in the 1970s that exposes the vulnerability of this exact risk.
	So in that context, there have been plenty of people questioning whether or not this is the appropriate mechanism or the appropriate remedy.
	And that is why the Swedish chief public health official has refused to follow this international panic and has instead followed historical methods of dealing with this, which is you quarantine the sick, not the healthy.
	You quarantine the ill.
	You don't quarantine the Constitution, which is what we've done in America and in large parts of the West.
	Let's just look at a few of those videos.
	of the various experts who have second-guessed and questioned this.
	Let's look first at video number one, which is a Hoover Institute interview, and we'll just give a sort of a summation of it.
	You'll see it at the top.
	Dealing with it, this is someone that comes from Stanford, from a prestigious university, from well-recognized, well-regarded, well-respected institution, second-guessing the institutional narrative on this exact issue.
	So let's show clip number one.
	Here's Dr. Anthony Fauci.
	We all know he's as famous as the president right now.
	He's the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and here he is in early March, just a couple of weeks ago.
	Quote, the flu has a mortality rate of 0.1 percent, one-tenth of one percent.
	This, meaning the coronavirus, has a mortality rate of 10 times that.
	Close quote.
	Here's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in his piece in the Wall Street Journal.
	Again, this is March 24th, just a couple of days ago.
	Quote, and you're talking about when you think the virus was first seeded in this country.
	Quote, an epidemic seed on January 1st implies that by March 9th, about 6 million people in the US would have been infected.
	As of March 23rd, It's that Monday of this week.
	There were 499 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.
	That's a mortality rate of 0.01%.
	In other words, a whole order of magnitude less than Dr. Fauci claimed just a couple of weeks earlier.
	I think the thing is, nobody knows the number.
	The numbers we've seen are consistent with a very, very wide range.
	From an epidemic that will kill 2 to 4 million people on one end and an epidemic that will kill 50,000 to 100,000 people on the other.
	That's an incredibly broad range and the policies you do to avoid 2 to 4 million deaths are very, very different than the policies you do to avoid 50,000 to 100,000.
	So there you have a Stanford scientist questioning the institutional narrative and noting, as the interviewer notes, that Fauci himself had second-guessed it and questioned it just a few weeks ago.
	Before Bill Gates put his sort of finger on the lever of how the institutional health experts should respond, people like Fauci had a very different opinion back in January and February.
	Here's a study from John Ioannidis, who's been issuing report after report after report.
	He's the co-director of Stanford University's Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, epidemiology, and population health.
	And he looked early on at one of the key Petri dishes for studying the nature of this infection.
	What is its contagion rate?
	What is its debilitating illness rate?
	What is its potential mortality rate?
	Using the Diamond Princess, which had an unusually high number of vulnerable and susceptible population because of its disproportionate elderly profile.
	In addition, the chefs who were cooking the food turned out to be infected.
	Many of the cleaners who were cleaning people's cabins turned out to be infected.
	The air that was recycled throughout the cruise ship was infected.
	So you had, for three weeks, people stuck in this environment, sleeping in sheets cleaned by infected people, eating food cooked by infected people, having air that came from infected people.
	And yet, what did he find?
	He found projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S.
	population, the death rate amongst people infected with COVID-19 would be 0.1%.
	And he noted there's very thin data.
	He said it could be as low as 0.02%.
	He said it's also possible that there's a range of data that can happen over time.
	But when you look at these sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S.
	population is from 0.05% to a high of 1% ultimately.
	He noted that in fact over 80% of the people on that chip never got infected.
	Many of the others were asymptomatic.
	Many of the others that did get it were simply had mild symptoms.
	The mortality rate simply did not justify the extreme millions dead, a hundred million going to be infected according to the Obama experts that have been on TV and being promoted by the press.
	And let us look at just the deaths per day in New York.
	Those of us who were skeptical, who were looking at what these dissident experts were pointing out, forecast that come late March and early April, that the death rate would start to flatten.
	Even in this, this death rate couldn't flatten Because of the shutdown.
	Because the shutdown wasn't gonna impact death rates.
	Shutdown's on March 23rd.
	Some aspect of it a few days before.
	But the full shutdown was on March 23rd.
	That's why the model suggested, hey, it's gonna take three weeks.
	For those people that would have been infected after the shutdown to face mortality.
	So in the interim time period, what we're going to see is we're going to see something different, which is we're going to have to see this explosion in deaths.
	It didn't happen.
	Instead, the rate started flattening, just as it had in Wuhan, just as it had in Iran, just as it had ultimately in Italy, just as it had in South Korea, just as it did on the Diamond Princess.
	So there were repeated examples that this death rate was not going to skyrocket in the way that was being predicted by the doomers and gloomers demanding a shutdown of our economy and a suspension of our constitutional liberties.
	There are additional charts.
	We can look at chart after chart after chart.
	If we look at this one, this was a prediction of what was going to be needed for ICUs and intensive care units.
	And first it was that big red.
	It was going to be 40,000 ICUs.
	They had to get the Javits Center ready.
	They had to get ships up there.
	They had to have extra hospital beds.
	What it turned out they're wrong by about a ratio between 8 to 1 in some jurisdictions and in Tennessee a ratio of 20 to 1.
	They got it completely wrong.
	They never ran out of ventilators.
	They never ran out of ICU beds.
	They never ran out of hospital beds.
	It was all one big Hoax to some extent.
	The virus itself is not a hoax.
	The pandemic's not a hoax.
	But the public policy reaction to it was based on a hoax in terms of what was going to happen.
	They exaggerated the consequences in order to induce people to do things they would never otherwise do.
	Let's look at just another example of various people who predicted this.
	People who are in the field, the medical science field, who were in fact challenging and questioning this.
	So to those people out there that think nobody's questioned this, all the experts agree, no they have not.
	Many experts have voiced their dissonance from day one.
	Let's look at video clip number two.
	Which involves an interview with Richard Chavez.
	Richard Chavez was the former health director in Canada.
	He was there.
	He was the health officer when SARS started to spread up there.
	He recognized in time that they overreacted.
	Printed medical articles about it.
	So when he saw them trying to repeat the mistakes that they had made, he went public and said this is a bad idea.
	Let's look at clip number two.
	But in fact, I have a very different feeling on what is going on.
	I realize I'm a minority, a very small minority.
	I think we have fundamentally overreacted to this problem.
	I think we have fundamentally misjudged the magnitude of the problem.
	The reality is that in no country, including Italy, has the death toll so far come anywhere close What we would expect from an average influenza year and I think there's no particular reason to expect that to happen here in Canada.
	There have been stresses on hospitals in the areas that this disease is concentrated because one of the key differences between COVID and influenza is that it is much more geographically concentrated for reasons we don't begin to understand.
	I mean we could talk Here we have John Ioannidis in Stat News talking in mid-March about how a fiasco in the making.
	In fact, for a health care system to react to it, it's not so much a question of total capacity.
	It's a question of distribution of capacity.
	And that's that, I think, is going to be the challenge.
	Here we have John Iannidis in Stat News talking in mid-March about how a fiasco in the making.
	As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.
	He warned again in an article printed in various medical literature publications, the coronavirus disease 2019, the harms of exaggerated information and non-evidence-based measures.
	He pointed out that there were exaggerated pandemic estimates in all of these models that were coming out.
	Exaggerated case fatality rate.
	Exaggerated exponential community spread.
	That the measures being taken were extreme and ahistorical and disproportionate and not even necessarily going to be helpful, meaningfully helpful, manifestly helpful in reducing the virus.
	And that there are harms from these non-evidence based measures and a misallocation of resources that could in fact be worse and had not even been measured than the virus that they were attempting to remedy.
	Here he is in video clip number four talking about how this is an overreaction.
	So this is a guy who's been screaming at the top of his lungs that this is wrong.
	So when you see people out there say, oh, there's no experts that disagree, you have people who are very smart, very sensible.
	Very sound in their policy approach and in their mindset.
	People like Scott Adams, who's an exceptionally bright individual and has been willing to forfeit financial reward for the purposes of participating in the public discussion and public debate and public dialogue.
	But who sincerely believe that there is nobody out there who disagreed on the issue of epidemiology or virology on this issue.
	There were many and they were trying to voice their concerns and they were some of the soundest, smartest minds out there.
	The fact that they were not a majority reflects the corrupting effect, the corrosively corrupting effect of the conformist culture that has taken over academia, taken over the media, taken over our intellectual world over the past half century.
	As detailed by people like Eric Weinstein when he talks about the gatekeeper institutional narrative or Peter Thiel talking about the uselessness of contemporary universities.
	That's what they're talking about.
	The reason why we haven't had meaningful inventiveness in a half a century, what we haven't had outside of the tech industry, where we haven't had scientific revolutions in the industry is because of this suppression of iconoclastic, independent, informed, inventive, creative, independent minds.
	But those independent minds still exist and they were expressing dissidence from the very beginning, warning like Paul Revere of the problem coming.
	So let's take a look at clip number four.
	So based on what we know now, many people who are infected with this coronavirus, they present with very little, either no symptoms or mild, moderate symptoms that are very difficult to distinguish from the common cold and common flu.
	And many of them apparently would not present for asking for health care and for being tested.
	So what we know is just the tip of the iceberg.
	And information from settings where we have more complete information about that denominator suggests that the infection fatality rate is much, much lower than 3.4%.
	It is actually probably much lower compared to the 0.9% that is the main figure that went into some influential calculations by a wonderful team of researchers in Imperial College, which probably overestimated the exact infection which probably overestimated the exact infection fatality risk.
	So he was warning about it in article after article after article, did interview after interview, taking a risk to his professional career by willing to contest and challenge this.
	While those under the influence of people like Bill Gates really couldn't afford to take any opinion that was different than Bill Gates, Who has long promoted pandemics as a policy prescription and political pretext for his desire for vaccination and population control.
	It is the Gates Foundation, after all, that has used the quantum tattoo technique to basically effectively digitally chip people.
	And Gates himself has called for digital certificates of immunity as maybe being a precondition for being able to participate in the public economy or civil society again.
	Those people under his influence, like Fauci, like Birx, like the prominent University of Washington-based study by Professor Murray, who's almost entirely backed by Bill Gates, all of those connections and correlations keep coming back to Bill Gates.
	Those people, frankly, their influence cannot be trusted because they're under the political patronage of a person who has a particular political agenda.
	In the same context, others have come forward and raised questions about whether or not social distancing will even be an effective mechanism to deal with this.
	Going back to that original question of whether herd immunity is a lot better than a herd mentality when it comes to defeating this virus.
	Let's look at video number three.
	And so what do you make of the policy that was enacted in the United States, in England, and most places throughout the world?
	This policy of containment, shelter in place, etc.
	What's your opinion of it?
	Well, what people are trying to do is to flatten the curve.
	I don't really know why.
	But what happens if you flatten the curve, you also prolong to widen it, and it takes more time.
	And I don't see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.
	And what do you say to people who say, we just didn't know about the lethality of this virus and, you know, it was the smartest thing to do was just to basically do what we did and contain everybody because we just didn't have the data?
	We had two other SARS viruses before.
	So, coronaviruses.
	It's not the first coronavirus that comes out and it won't be the last.
	And for all respiratory diseases, we have the same type of an epidemic.
	If you leave it alone, it comes for two weeks, it peaks, and it goes for two weeks, and it's gone.
	So there are multiple scientists, multiple professors who challenged and contested the conventional wisdom in this capacity.
	And this all goes back to whether the contagion rate and social distancing really works is about how the disease spreads.
	There's increasing evidence that, like SARS, this disease, a prior sort of influenza-like disease, spreads by being in close, continuous contact in confined quarters between family members, which is exactly what we're encouraging, incentivizing, and effectively compelling currently.
	Well, let's look at graph number one, which is a quote from a medical survey that studied on the issue of SARS and what they found.
	And what they found is that most of the people in whom SARS developed were household contacts of SARS cases or were infected in hospitals.
	Outside of those settings, with the exception of a few unusual circumstances, SARS was not found to be highly infectious.
	Well, now there is a study out of Germany that confirms the same thing is happening with COVID-19 and the coronavirus.
	That outside of households and hospitals, it is not something that spreads very easily at all.
	This makes all of some of the policies we've seen over this past weekend even more inane and insane.
	Up next, we'll be talking with Mindy Robinson, running for Congress in Nevada, where the Nevada governor has adopted some of the more inane and insane policies, like the governor of Michigan, like the governor of Virginia, like the beloved mayor of Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
	Policies such as, you can't buy an American flag now in Michigan.
	You can't go out and buy seeds for your garden or for food in Michigan.
	You can't drive your car and you might get arrested for t-ball with your daughter as has happened across the country over this past weekend.
	Incidents where people were cited for simply being in the parking lot of their church on Easter Sunday in Kentucky.
	People who were arrested or cited simply because they either prayed publicly or held a public protest.
	People arrested for paddle boarding.
	People arrested for attempting to surf in Malibu.
	People arrested or attempted arrest, as we will see, for simply jogging by themselves on the beach.
	English police bragging about how they were going to threaten and intimidate people individually based on what they considered simply standing or sitting in the park.
	So when we come back we'll talk to Mindy Robinson, talk about what's happening in Nevada, talk about efforts to resist this, talk about the resistance efforts that are coming up all across the country as people decide to bring back and reassert their fundamental liberties that have been stripped of them by Democratic politicians and power-hungry mayors and governors across the country.
	So come back and join us and we'll discuss it more with Mindy Robinson in the second half of the hour, second hour we'll take your calls.
	So come on back.
	Welcome back to American Countdown.
	There was a time when Easter Sunday in America was celebrated like this, a famous photo from New York and the Nathan in the 1950s, where they actually, a lot of the sky rises, the high rises throughout New York City, put up an image of the cross to celebrate Easter Sunday.
	We look at image number 58.
	Now, contrast that with what people were greeted at at Michigan grocery stores and Walmarts and Targets this past weekend.
	And look at that.
	Caution!
	Can't buy the American flag.
	Welcome to the new United States of America under this sort of purge politics of pandemic.
	So we welcome Mindy Robinson.
	Mindy is running for Congress in Nevada.
	She has been a longtime social political activist in various forms of social media, second-guessing and questioning the establishment and institutional narratives on this topic, which has been a particular topic in Nevada, which used to pride itself on liberty, independence, and freedom, but has a new state of mind with its Democratic governor.
	Welcome, Mindy.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	Good.
	So what are you seeing out in Nevada over the last several weeks with the dear Democratic governor in a state that I'm occasionally home to?
	I'm seeing a lot of frustration from their constituents.
	There's people that cannot get through to unemployment.
	They've tried hundreds of times.
	They actually post proof that they've been trying hundreds of times.
	None of their representatives are helping them.
	Obviously, I'm going against the Democratic incumbent, but they're asking important questions.
	They're not seeing anything.
	They're seeing politicians that are pushing the census, that are pushing around.
	Amazing that everyone's doing for all this, but they're not actually solving any of the problems.
	And I'm finding that the biggest issue with the quarantine here in Nevada is it seems very selective.
	I'm very in favor of the things that Democrats would like and the things that they support.
	Small businesses, regular people, not so much.
	Because, I mean, at this point, basically most of the Vegas Strip is shut down.
	I guess all the Vegas Strip is shut down.
	But not only that, most of the small businesses in Las Vegas are shut down, despite the mayor, or at least initially, pushing back.
	You can be cited for simply trying to operate your own business there.
	There are a lot of restrictions put in church.
	There are a lot of restrictions that he's gone back and forth on, in terms of what medical care and treatment he'll even allow people to get.
	And there doesn't seem to be much evidence of a true overcapacity of the hospital facilities there in Las Vegas.
	Or Nevada.
	Yeah, everyone's been sending me videos of an empty hospital.
	Even the people I know that work in the healthcare industry, yeah, if they're in, you know, an emergency ER kind of situation, they're going to be busy, but everything else is dead.
	And there's a lot of questions that don't make sense.
	You know, swine flu was much worse, had a lot more contagious, you know, people, and it didn't overload our hospital.
	So what are we really...
	So at this point, are most businesses in Nevada shut down at this juncture?
	Well, it's very convenient.
	The big businesses, the big grocery stores are open, Home Depot is open, and of course, Sysilac's construction on the stadium, and in fact, construction in general, seems to keep going.
	It's the small businesses, the mom and pops, They're suffering, and it seems really unfair and, like I said, selective about this quarantine.
	We're either going to do it or not.
	To have to do it and to just, you know, whatever, on a whim, sit still outside seems entirely unfair, and it has not gone unnoticed, I'll tell you what.
	And what sort of limits are there in terms of on gatherings?
	In other words, can people get together at people's houses or go to church, or has that too been limited in Nevada?
	That's all limited.
	Last I checked, because it changes like every day, I believe we're limited to no social gatherings of 10 or more.
	Which is ridiculous.
	Yesterday I actually participated in a safe legal protest.
	We rode with our flags down the strip for Easter because they weren't allowed to celebrate Easter service.
	Even though all they wanted to do was a drive-in service and everyone stay in their cars and everyone would be safe and it would all be regulation or whatever.
	The Syslack still didn't allow that.
	And I don't understand why people don't see the slippery slope we're going down.
	These Democrats are reaching for our constitutional rights.
	They're trampling the Constitution.
	And they're doing it in the name of, oh, you know, for the better good.
	Is it?
	Because it's not fair.
	It doesn't seem to be going down evenly across the board.
	There's a lot of big issues, and no one's answering anyone.
	I mean, last I checked, you can't stop someone from attending church.
	If I want to dance with rattlesnakes, that's freedom of religion.
	I get to do that.
	I don't understand why we can line up in a grocery store or Home Depot, but we can't just keep six feet apart at church and pray to God?
	I don't understand.
	It just seems really unfair.
	And nothing, no one's answering anyone about anything.
	It's really bizarre.
	So the governor in Nevada, like other states, did not provide for, did not say you could go to church or have a social gathering or have a political rally as long as you did certain social distancing procedures.
	In other words, if you were outdoors or if you weren't in a closed, confined space or if you were in a closed, confined space at least six feet apart with masks, that was not even made an option in Nevada.
	Not effectively, no.
	Like I said, there was that one group, they just wanted to do a drive-in service because it's Easter.
	It's the holiest week of the year for Christians and Jews when they go to their service, Passover.
	And it wasn't allowed.
	And so why?
	If we're going to abide by the rules and we're being safe and we're doing everything we're supposed to, why wouldn't it be allowed?
	It almost It just feels like it's an overreach of power just to do it and to see what they can get away with, which is why I think he's constantly pushing and pulling back and pushing and pulling back and seeing what, you know, people are going to be upset about and what people are going to protest, like they did yesterday.
	I think it's kind of like testing the waters, and I feel like they're abusing this crisis to do it, the Democrats in general.
	And in Nevada did too.
	My understanding is the governor has just made these unilateral decisions.
	That this has not been part of a public debate.
	It's not been part of the legislative process.
	It's not been part of judicial review.
	It's just on a given day he decides almost king-like what rights people in Nevada are going to have or not have on that given day.
	Is that how it's been?
	He's granted himself emergency powers.
	And if you could tell me why that's allowed to override the Bill of Rights.
	I'm like, this is what we grew up on.
	Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, right to assemble.
	These are all these constitutional American rights that we just grew up.
	People die to defend.
	You know, they put down their lives for this.
	And we're just stripping him away because the Democrats tell us it's for our good.
	And the minute the government tells you it's for your own good, it almost never is, really, historically.
	So yeah, he's just giving himself these powers.
	I don't think they're legal.
	I don't know what he would have the authority for.
	There's no What's he going on?
	You can't suspend the Constitution because of a virus, and a virus that's not as bad as previous viruses.
	It seems predator.
	I can't find a better word for it.
	And you see the stimulus bill, and you see what the Democrats put in it.
	Our backs are supposedly against the wall.
	We need this money.
	We're desperate.
	The country's stopped.
	We're trying not to kill Grandma, which is the guilt they've always put on us.
	And then you see what they put in that bill.
	It was selfish.
	It was greedy.
	It was poor.
	Solar tax credits, Kennedy Center, $4 billion to museums.
	It's a museum!
	The stuff will be there tomorrow, it'll be there years from now as well.
	You don't need to do anything with it, that's why it's in a museum.
	So, I think America's waking up, I think they're waking up to what the media's doing.
	We've seen mainstream networks use fake, manipulated footage.
	To make this crisis seem worse, which is number one, a sign that, hey, they needed to do that because maybe it's not as bad as they're playing out.
	Can't grab people's rights if they feel safe and that they don't need to do it.
	So there's something going on.
	People are noticing we're not getting questions.
	And I think average Americans like me are kind of like, hey, look, I'm healthy.
	I don't live with anyone at risk.
	Let me go to work.
	Let me have my rights back.
	Just the other day, the governor was bragging that they're using our phones to track us.
	And they're thinking of adding, this is my favorite part, of adding something that would tell strangers my health care, whether I'm sick or been sick or haven't been sick yet.
	You have no right to do that!
	I don't care what's happening.
	I don't care if it's Ebola.
	People are dying in five minutes of this disease, which they're not.
	Most people probably hadn't.
	I mean, who knows?
	We're not getting any truth about that.
	But what right does the government have to trap me and tell people my health history?
	I mean, last I checked, Beyond illegal, there's a reason our doctors can't do it.
	Why would our government be able to do it?
	So it's basically a double-layer Fourth Amendment violation because it's surveillance without probable cause of criminal conduct, without probable cause that a person is a threat in any meaningful manner, without their consent.
	And at the same time, it's a second-level invasion of privacy because it's sharing medically private information with the entire random public.
	Have you seen any pushback in Nevada yet in the sense of people filing suits?
	You mentioned that there are people starting to file protests, starting to talk about it.
	What other methods are people talking about to try to push back on this extraordinary power grab?
	Well, isn't it ironic that, you know, we're having our American rights crushed and protests are outlawed?
	Like, how convenient of CISLAC to make it so that, you know, 10 or more people can't meet.
	And I don't even know if the protest we did yesterday was technically legal.
	There were way more than 10 of us, but, you know, we're safe, reasonable people, we weren't You know, hugging each other.
	We were just keeping it reasonable.
	I think it'll be fine.
	But they've outlawed protests.
	How do we protest?
	They ignore us on social media and they ban and censor us.
	So how do we ask questions?
	The mainstream media isn't helping us.
	I think people are frustrated.
	And, you know, I don't know what we're going to do.
	I think the hardest thing we're going to have to do is get these rights back from the Democrats.
	I don't think they're going to give them back to us willingly.
	I think they're going to try to, you know, make the crisis longer, hype it up, scare us, you know, try to take care of us better, which they've obviously not done a good job of doing.
	I'm really worried about our country right now.
	This is nothing I saw when I went to college or grew up about.
	You would think every American would be screaming from the rooftops about how they want their rights and freedom back right now, but you still got a few leftists that are like, oh no, they should totally track us, and I want to know who's sick.
	Do you realize what you're asking for?
	Because I don't see that ending well.
	Let's see end of America as we know it if we go down that route.
	And I don't want to go down it, and I don't think most people do.
	What's interesting is Nevada always had this very independent, liberty-oriented streak.
	It was a strong libertarian party state, historically strong independent candidate support state, whether it was Ross Perot or others over the years.
	And it's been interesting that because the Democrats now have control of the House and the Senate there, the Democrats have control of the governorship, Democrats have control of both Senate seats, and I think it's all but one House seat, if I recall correctly.
	How much have Republicans who have any degree of elected position, how much have they stepped up to say something or how much of them have been either mute or muted by the more Democratic-leaning press throughout the country that's present in Nevada as well?
	If Republicans are standing up for our rights here in Nevada, I haven't seen it.
	I haven't seen it on my feet, I haven't heard about it, and I literally monitor this every single day.
	As you know, I'm running for Congress.
	I'm running against a Democrat that voted for impeachment in a Trump voting district.
	We have a lot of issues with voter fraud.
	It's one of the main things.
	I want voter ID.
	I want to clean up these polls.
	Right now, it's so easy to cheat in Nevada.
	I really don't think this is a blue state.
	I know it is blue, it has all these Democrats.
	That's kind of a recent thing, and everyone blames Californians moving in, but every Californian I know that moved here was a libertarian, or they were just tired, or California in general.
	They're not voting the same way.
	They were Trump supporters that felt like they were unsafe and couldn't have an opinion and were throwing their votes away.
	So I think we have a huge issue with voter fraud, and I think until we take care of that, Nevada isn't going to be red, it's not going to have strong Republicans that aren't rhinos, and it's not going to have... our voices aren't going to be heard.
	We're not actually making our own decisions right now, and I think it's pretty clear with a lot of the things that are going on.
	Cecil has barely won.
	You know, we've been trying to recall him, I think, since we put him in office.
	You know, all the things he's done are just...
	You could just Google it.
	You're like, how is this guy a governor?
	Like, it does not add up.
	He has dark history.
	Obviously, he was on the county commissioner board for 10 years.
	He just, it's too buddy-buddy, I don't know, there's a term I think my mom would use, where it's just two old-school mobster-type politicians.
	And so no one's doing anything here.
	I feel like we're kind of at a stalemate.
	And I've been vocal and I'm just a candidate, but I don't see, you know, my competing opponents standing up for anything.
	I didn't see them at the protest yesterday.
	And we know we're not going to see Susie Lee do anything.
	She barely responds to anyone.
	You know, I, I feel like patriots and a lot of citizens are the ones that are being vocal right now.
	We're kind of dead in the water when it comes to politics.
	And if they're being vocal about it, then there's sense of it, because I ain't saying it at all.
	And what's extraordinary is how do you think this will end up impacting elections?
	In other words, things like the petition for recall, I assume that's much harder to get done when you're not allowed to leave your home or gather in places with more than 10 people.
	And when they're putting additional restrictions on stores, you have to line up in a particular way, you can only go in in a certain way.
	So effectively, you're prohibited from the very mechanism and means of recalling the governor doing these things by the governor's own rules and policies.
	How do you also think it's going to impact getting access to the ballot?
	How do you think it's going to impact potential calls for just mass mail-in balloting and the kind of ballot harvesting that took place in California?
	As a candidate, what are some of your concerns in that regard?
	Well, like I said, I already think we have a huge issue with voter fraud.
	I could sign up 1,000 people.
	I don't need an ID.
	I don't need to prove I live here.
	I could sign up 1,000 people to an abandoned address.
	And now the governor has decided it will all be mail-in ballot.
	So I don't even have to show up to the polls to cheat.
	Anonymously just sending thousands of ballots however I want.
	No one's checking anything.
	It's completely unchecked.
	I could sign up the day of and do a mail-in ballot.
	So I wonder if it's even within his authority, number one, to do mail-in only ballots.
	Obviously that... I mean, I wouldn't vote for a prom queen that way.
	It seems pretty unsecure.
	I don't know why you would vote for politicians.
	I think the election, the primary, should be postponed.
	I mean, it's supposed to be June 9th.
	Postpone it one month.
	People will be fine.
	But instead, I'm campaigning.
	I haven't been able to canvass the neighborhood.
	I don't have signs made.
	I don't have mailers out.
	Every company I try to go through gets closed down.
	He closes them down, of all things.
	You know, I'm behind on my campaigning anyway.
	And now mail-out ballots go out in like 10 days.
	Everyone's getting them.
	You know, originally I didn't plan on that.
	I planned on, you know, appealing to the Republicans that voted in the last primary.
	I knew they were active.
	Now everyone's getting a mail-in ballot.
	They're probably going to look at them, mail them out, and effectively it ends my campaign two months early.
	It completely disenfranchises me as a real grassroots candidate.
	I don't have a half million dollars in a bank account like my opponent, you know, but I'm also not for pro-income tax and I'm not anti-assault.
	Like, I'm basically on a platform of common sense.
	But I'm fighting everything but common sense for this seat.
	So yeah, my campaign is prematurely ended.
	I don't know what I'm gonna do.
	I don't know how this affects my opponents.
	I at least have an online platform, so I've been able to continue with that.
	And I can't see my opponents really do.
	So that's the one good thing I got going for me.
	But that doesn't help me with a lot of the older crowd and people that just aren't on Twitter and stuff.
	I think this is a sham, man.
	I think the election should be postponed, and I don't think Cicillac has the right to do what he's doing right now with these forced mail-in ballots.
	It's one thing for the primary, but for the general election, you know the left's gonna cheat!
	We already do that.
	So how do you vote for someone like me or vote for change to clean up our election when the election itself is contaminated and there's no way to fix it?
	It seems kind of lose-lose unless Republicans go out in absolute full force and no one misses a beat and votes for the right things, which is Well, I mean, we've seen what's happened so far with mail-in balloting.
	It's helped establishment Democrats, and it's helped Democrats in general.
	So it helped Joe Biden force Bernie out by forcing people to the polls in Illinois, forcing the polls in Florida, then having a mail-in ballot election in Alaska, where it was a very strong Bernie state, ended up voting heavily for Biden.
	And in Wisconsin tonight, not only did Biden win again after, it didn't matter at this point, but Bernie didn't fold until after the ballots had been sent in.
	But notably, it elected a Democrat to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
	Again, showing that mail-in balloting disproportionately, there's a reason why Democrats love mail-in balloting.
	Going back to the registration issues, Nevada was one of the famous cases a long time ago where people they discovered that almost every sort of Disney character was registered to vote there.
	The entire offensive line for the Dallas Cowboys was once registered in the state of Nevada.
	So there's a history there.
	People don't put the words Nevada and clean elections and clean politics naturally in the same sentence.
	It's a bit like Chicago.
	So in this context it also sounds like so you can't go out and really gather signatures to support a recall effort that could in turn boost other campaign efforts that you have.
	You can't hold fundraisers in person if there's more than 10 people there.
	You can't do a political rally in support of your campaign.
	You can't go out and sort of do things with a group of volunteers.
	You can't really even go door-to-door for the most part because that can be considered a violation of stay-at-home order.
	So basically every mechanism of communicating to the 80% of the voters who aren't on social media on any regular basis basically are completely foreclosed to you.
	Is that what you're basically describing?
	Yeah!
	In a nutshell, um, like I said, I'm up against a grassroots campaign where half a million dollars is his own money, so it's so grassroots.
	He can afford to put all the, you know, TV commercials in the universe he wants, and to be fair, and I hate to, I'm allowed to talk bad about my opponent if it's issue-related, uh, Dan Schwartz is pro-corporate income tax, he's talked about knowing he's an assault rifle, you know, he's not even a real Republican.
	But he's the one with money, and he's the one that's going to put out these commercials.
	His name will be more familiar, and that's what people will vote for.
	Meanwhile, you know, I'm kind of limited to Twitter and Facebook, and whatever I can manage to get out, you know, like I said, all the signs, everything keeps getting postponed, and I'm just doing the best I can, but this wouldn't just be any candidate that is a real grassroots candidate is disenfranchised throughout this.
	Only the very rich and the people that are already established Uh, can really campaign effectively right now, which is why I think he needs to push those opponents.
	Because mail-in ballots and voter fraud always help Democrats.
	That really says something, doesn't it?
	Yeah, and I think the other aspects of this is just how this is effectively a pretext for preventing independent candidates, people who are challenging the establishment from even being heard, because they're denying you access to your audience by not being able to do fundraisers, not being able to do political rallies.
	The means that the anti-establishment candidate has is that they don't have money, so they can't just buy media access.
	But with social media ads, or news network ads, or radio ads, or the rest, their means of access is being able to get out and about, be seen, be connected.
	Whatever AOC's political viewpoints are, she was able to win only because she could have these means of campaigning against the Democratic political machine in New York.
	So even though she's an anti-establishment candidate on the left, and maybe the far left to some degree, she could only prevail and succeed because she could go door-to-door, because she could do political rallies, because her personality was very engaging in a way that drew people to crowds and audiences and group gatherings that were the old-school little-D democratic mechanism of getting elected, and that's precisely what the governor is denying, and it may explain why some of the establishment Republicans are strikingly moot and muted.
	In places like Nevada and elsewhere.
	Is that your takeaway from what you're experiencing?
	And what do you think the potential remedies will be?
	Well, I haven't seen the Republicans speak out.
	I mean, other than me and a few other people like me, they're still running.
	We're not established politicians.
	I'm not a politician.
	I'm a political commentator.
	But I, you know, I use my national platform.
	I highlight local issues and I kind of get things done through social pressure.
	Kind of the opposite of what the people that do, you know, do anything now.
	They just kind of make up something and if they get social pressure, they'll change their mind and do something about it.
	But this, every person running for any office in Nevada that isn't established or a multi-millionaire, this is not a fair race for us.
	It is absolutely not.
	And are we even a republic if we're just going to run really rich, established people?
	When does this even end?
	Like, there's nothing, there's no one to incite for this.
	I think we need to change what is happening with our election system right now.
	We need to make it fair.
	Really fair.
	Not like, you know, he just needs to postpone it.
	And I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't end up with a few lawsuits out of this.
	He's really doing a lot of things that are not On the Second Amendment issue, I knew I had people reach out to me from Las Vegas saying that they were worried about the gun store being shut down, worried about the various shooting ranges being shut down.
	I don't know, I mean, originally he didn't seem to exempt that.
	The president came in and put his stuff in about critical infrastructure to try to preclude governors and mayors from doing it.
	But I haven't heard a further update.
	I know at least originally people's Second Amendment rights were being denied.
	What's happening now on the ground in Nevada and Las Vegas?
	He was kind of, like I said, he was closing things down at whim.
	So one of the things he closed down was the Bass Pro Shop, I want to say.
	One of those camping stores.
	Now here's a store that sells camping gear, survival gear, and guns.
	Those are like pretty necessary things, I would think, in a situation like this.
	And it was closed down.
	That's unconstitutional.
	And the biggest issue were People can't get their background checked.
	I mean, no one can get through unemployment, but they can't get through background checks either.
	They could take a day, they could take several days.
	It's easier if you have your CCW now, but if you didn't already, you know, it's kind of an issue.
	So, it's kind of like every day it changes, and I do feel like they're kind of testing to see what they can get away with and what they absolutely can't, if that makes sense.
	Yeah, so I mean basically we're in a situation where the Nevada governor has effectively prevented people from disagreeing with him, prevented people with contesting and challenging not only him but the Republican establishment in Nevada, preventing people at various points from being able to have Second Amendment rights, preventing across the board any exercise of their First Amendment rights.
	So it's just, while he's invading people's privacy, denying people their own medical privacy, and denying them medical treatment, depending on the circumstances.
	He's been forced to fold at times, but then he'll come back and again try to be the universal doctor-in-chief, while he's being the corrupt captain-in-chief.
	So it's a sad day that the worst part of Nevada's history has come to fore, while its best history has been sort of relegated to the past.
	So where can people reach out to you and find you and support you in being able to move forward?
	You can find me on Twitter and Facebook, Mindy Robinson.
	I should be, I think I ruin it for all the other Mindy Robinsons in the world.
	Mindy Robinson for congress.com is the official site.
	I post all my Issues, how I vote and stuff like that.
	I think most politicians should, though they don't.
	And I think the only way we can save Nevada at this point, it's going to be, you know, everyone's getting a mail-in ballot.
	it so you don't have time look up every candidate welcome back to American countdown
	We're live with Mindy Robinson, a congressional candidate out in Nevada who's trying to sustain her congressional campaign despite the Democratic Governor Nevada's stripping people of their basic civil liberties and civil rights in ways that make elections effectively meaningless and a mockery of democracy.
	She's describing a Nevada where the economy is effectively dead, civil liberties denied, democracy destroyed, and defaced in a meaningful way from our constitutional history.
	And in the same way, but not with any empirically backed scientific studies and economic studies that justify it.
	No democratic process in how these rules came about, didn't go through a legislature, didn't get approved by a judicial branch, didn't get backed up with public debate, public dialogue, public participation, or public dissent or approval.
	Instead, it was the governor acting as a monarch, like a petty tyrant, like he was a prince or a duke from the ancient era that we were supposed to overthrow at the founding of our American history and American liberty, in this unique experiment of ordered liberty.
	So we are in this extraordinary times in an extraordinary way.
	And in that context, you have people like the press trying to blame the president for not panicking more for trying for where the president has tried to be a restraint on these extraordinary actions and reactions by Democratic politicians across the country.
	And we'll have Mindy comment on this and we'll talk.
	But let's first show the video of President Trump today going through how the press had a very different and divergent view that they're now being critical of him.
	Please, you can put it on.
	voicing earlier.
	So let's look at video clip number 13.
	Please, you could put it on.
	Thank you.
	People should be more concerned right now with the flu in this country.
	A lot of people are concerned about the coronavirus because they're hearing a lot of news about it right now.
	But the reality is, comparing it to the flu, for example, it's not even close to being at that stage.
	What if it is worse?
	Is this a moment where maybe countries put politics aside, a little bit of pride aside, and do we have U.S.
	officials?
	Should U.S.
	professionals such as yourself get involved?
	How worried should Americans be about coronavirus?
	Coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States.
	Well, we've asked them to accelerate whatever they're doing in terms of a vaccine.
	We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.
	To unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency.
	Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or video conference at no additional cost.
	The first 1 million masks will be available immediately.
	As there were more cases and it was clear that it was spreading out of China where it originated.
	The president took this move that he was widely criticized for by Democrats and even some Republicans at the time, which was he halted a number of flights from China into the U.S.
	The idea was to halt the spread of the disease, keep transmissions to a minimum.
	He was accused of xenophobia.
	He was accused of making a racist move.
	At the end of the day, it was probably effective because it did actually take a pretty aggressive measure against the spread of the virus.
	His team is on it.
	They've been responsive late at night, early in the morning.
	And they've thus far been doing everything that they can do.
	And I want to say thank you.
	And I want to say that I appreciate it.
	He returns calls.
	He reaches out.
	He's been proactive.
	We got that mercy ship down here in Los Angeles.
	That was directly because he sent it down here.
	2,000 medical units came to the state of California.
	These FMS, these field medical stations.
	And that's been very, very helpful.
	The president has been outstanding through all this.
	The vice president's been outstanding.
	Members of the Coronavirus Task Force, very responsive.
	asked if we could have New Jersey could have access to a piece of the beds that are on the USNS comfort.
	And the president came back, called me a short few minutes before I walked in here to say, indeed, they would grant that to New Jersey.
	So that's a big step for us, in addition to all the other capacity.
	That news is literally hot off the press.
	And I thank the president and vice president who are on the call together.
	President Trump approved Arizona's request for a presidential major disaster declaration.
	I want to thank the president for a quick turnaround.
	We requested this on a Wednesday, and we had approval by Saturday morning.
	And we are grateful to the administration for their continued support and responsiveness.
	Well, first of all, I want to thank the President and the Vice President for doing a really good job of communicating with all the governors.
	So, Mindy, you've been a longtime supporter of President Trump.
	President Trump's been willing to engage on this issue and tried to focus primarily on reducing issues related to immigration that could relate to the spread of this virus.
	And provide, make sure the health care that was needed in terms of hospital beds, in terms of ventilators, in terms of whatever else was needed, was present.
	Has refused to do a national lockdown.
	Has refused to suspend First or Second or Fourth or Fifth or Sixth Amendment remedies that the politicians have called for.
	What is your reaction to that video today where he went through how the press has attacked him no matter what his position was?
	I think most conservatives and Republicans already knew that no matter what Trump does, he's damned if he does, he's damned if he didn't.
	If he overreacted and went crazy, then he would be blamed for everything that would happen.
	If he didn't react fast enough, he was also going to be blamed for that.
	But this is one of the first instances where everyone else in America just saw the media and what they did to him.
	They called him a racist, they called him xenophobic.
	And then they complain that he didn't do enough.
	And meanwhile, they're doing that sham impeachment in their own pens.
	All of America, for probably one of the first times, saw what our media was doing to our president.
	They probably saw things here and there, but never was it so concentrated, like, how dare he close the border?
	He's being racist, typical Trump.
	And then flip it.
	And everyone who just watched him do that, like, we were here, we saw that.
	So, while we, it was something mean, you probably already knew and expected.
	I think for the first time, everyone else saw it too, and I think the Democrats did themselves a huge disservice.
	You know, between the stimulus bill and what they put in now, and between this flip on whether he's doing enough or not enough.
	America sees that, and like I said, I swear the Democrats are running the best pro-Trump campaign they can.
	They don't even mean to do it.
	And do you think that there's a lot of pressure on him currently?
	They really thought that they could continue to shut down the economy, blame him for any problems that come with the economy, without him being able to remedy that.
	He came out today and said, if I say the economy is going to reopen, I'm confident that the entire economy is going to reopen, which is within his constitutional power under the Commerce Clause and under the New Deal cases and civil rights cases.
	I've been reminding some of my quote-unquote constitutional conservative friends.
	That that issue got resolved a long time ago.
	George Wallace lost.
	States' rights are dead in that respect.
	There are places where states have protection, but not in terms of interstate commerce or an international economy.
	But there's going to be a lot of pressure on him not to reopen the economy.
	There's a lot of pressure on him not to intervene, even though the Attorney General has said he's going to start to be proactive in protecting people's First Amendment rights.
	The President's already been proactive in protecting people's Second Amendment rights.
	There's pressure on him to do something about the Fourth and Fifth Amendment implications of what's been happening.
	He has refused to take the national lockdown steps, refused to himself step on anyone's constitutional rights, explicitly said the Constitution is what required him to behave in that manner.
	But what steps do you think he'll take next and what steps would you recommend he take next in terms of reopening the economy and protecting people's civil liberties from some of the rogue governors and mayors like exist in Nevada?
	Well, I think Trump's absolutely handled this as best as he can, given the crazy, unprecedented situation.
	We've never been through this in our lifetime.
	I like that.
	If Trump tells me to stay home and to try to do different things to help America, I will do that.
	But he also knows his fan base, and he also knows Americans.
	He's not demanding we do this or else, which is what our governors and a lot of other people are doing.
	He's not trampling our rights.
	He's just telling us, and he's helping us, and he's doing everything we can But he's still keeping us Americans as we know it, and I think that's absolutely perfect.
	And I think he'll open up this economy when he feels that people want it to.
	You know, he listens to...
	As better than I think people give him credit for.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, there's been a few times where red flag laws will test something, and then immediately he's like, oh, they don't like this.
	The people don't like it.
	He doesn't really care so much what the Democrats think or anything else.
	He cares what we think.
	And I honestly believe that when Americans are like, okay, this is as flattening the curve as it's going to get.
	We need to stop this economy.
	Let's do it.
	I think he'll listen enough and do the right thing and open it up.
	And I hope he's there for us because we're going to be fighting all of our governors, at least the Democratic ones anyway, to Get it back to the way it was before all this.
	And so where can people go to support your campaign, but also support any efforts that are taking place in Nevada to push back against the Democratic governor's attempts to effectively rig the election in favor of establishment candidates, attempt to effectively curtail the exercise of meaningful civil liberties?
	Because he's shown the willingness to step back when there's political pushback.
	As there was on the issue of medical treatment, about whether patients could control their COVID-19 treatment or whether Keith Governor, not a doctor, could control their treatment.
	He stepped back on the Second Amendment issues when people pushed back.
	So there's been some willingness to get him to fall back into line when there's been pushback.
	So where and how can people support your efforts and your campaign and other efforts in Nevada to support civil liberties and civil rights in this extraordinary time?
	Well, you can find me online under Mindy Robinson under pretty much anything.
	Twitter and Facebook, Mindy Robinson.
	ForCongress.com is the official website.
	It's got all my issues.
	And if I had the best advice for Nevadans is, hey, if we're going to be forced to do this mail-in ballot voting, look up every candidate.
	Don't vote down the line because it's your party.
	Don't vote because you like the name or this sounds familiar.
	Look everyone up and look up everything while you have the opportunity and you're sitting at home.
	And let's see if we can get Nevada saved and turns red again, but at least turn free again.
	How about that?
	Exactly.
	Thanks, Mindy, for joining us.
	Thank you.
	We're going to take your calls in the bottom half of the hour and give out that number now.
	That is 877-789-2539.
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	That's 512-646-1776.
	We're seeing an extraordinary environment where not only are people's civil liberties being denied, the economy being depressed, But we're seeing an environment where it's done based on donor corrupted policies that are not empirically backed by any sort of unanimity of the either scientific or economic community.
	And definitely not the people being most affected businesses and workers and ordinary Americans trying to assert their liberties and protect their economic self-interest in this extraordinary time of expansive government power grabs being done unilaterally outside of the legislative judicial or tricameral process that our politicians are supposed to follow.
	While this is taking place, this effective medical martial law that's being imposed on us, let's just look at a few of the examples of what's taking place.
	There's a, let's look at video clip number seven, where an officer explains in Mississippi that his rights have been suspended by order of the governor.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	We're going to get tickets.
	Yes, sir.
	I'd like to give you a formal warning.
	Yes, sir.
	And we'll allow the, if you do have members come, we will allow them to leave before they're cited.
	Yes, sir.
	If they decide not to is when they will be.
	Yes, sir.
	Hey, I respect, I love authority.
	When you get an order from the government.
	Yeah.
	No right.
	No, the government, our right don't come from authority.
	It comes from the Bible.
	So the authority does not have the right over the constitution.
	We're talking about constitutional law, the first second amendment, the US constitution that was given to us by our forefather.
	Tate Reed can't take it away.
	Eric Simmons can't take it away, nor the police officer.
	It can't.
	No, it can't.
	Hey, look at this, y'all.
	I'm a good citizen here.
	I don't sell drugs.
	Look at the police.
	Unless I'm just a pastor, I got police officers here, y'all, like I'm committing, like I'm robbing or I can kill somebody.
	They don't have this when a murderer's in Greenville, y'all.
	That's the reality of Easter Sunday, even in southern states, due to the nature of this panic from this pandemic that has consumed our constitutional liberties in quick order.
	It took two weeks to sacrifice what it took two centuries to build.
	But there are other examples.
	Say that somebody wants to run along the beach.
	Well, watch as someone's just doing a nice little stroll along the beach by themselves, out in the air, where they pose no threat, and the virus poses no threat to them.
	And watch the police try to chase them down simply for taking a walk on the beach.
	Let's look at video clip number eight.
	Corridore con la maglia rossa va molto veloce.
	Non si ferma.
	That guy had the speed to escape the police officer.
	But can you imagine being a police officer today in America, and your main goal is to watch those people who want to stroll on the beach on a Saturday weekend.
	And the poor guy got tracked on tape, being unable to track down that independent freedom seeker, whose sole goal of civil disobedience was to listen to the water lap with the sand as he walked along on a leisurely Saturday afternoon.
	But that's the environment and culture in which we currently live, nor is it entirely new.
	Let's go back to for the late 1960s, where various hype and hysteria using Malthusian ideas, the kind of ideas that Planned Parenthood and others have propagated for decades, arguably for more than a century, in fact, goes back to a book called The Population Bomb.
	If we look at the graph number 12, it has part of the quote from the foundation of the population bomb in the late 1960s.
	And what it did is it said, by the way, there's this coming disaster and debacle that we're going to have that's going to show that if we don't substantially curtail the population dramatically now, then what's going to happen is we're going to have overpopulation.
	So, in fact, the Chinese one-child policy didn't arise out of a vacuum.
	It arose out of this paranoid fear pushed by high-ranking scientists who helped found a group called the Club of Rome in the late 1960s, early 1970s, to effectively suppress population growth around the world.
	Now, of course, it turned out, by the way, they were completely wrong.
	But before it was proven they were completely wrong, millions of people and babies died in China.
	Others died around the world that never got the opportunity to live.
	If we go to chart number 13, The history of the Club of Rome that describes that in some brief order.
	And that's what happened then.
	But it would be repeated again.
	Heads of state, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians, government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, business leaders said this was a critical issue.
	We have to limit growth.
	We have to restrain it.
	We have to restrict it.
	We have to enforce De facto sterilization policies.
	This is when abortion gets legalized in large parts of the West.
	This is when it's encouraged and incentivized around the world.
	Planned Parenthood was sort of at a political peak with the policy agenda of people like Club of Rome.
	The one baby, one child policy goes into effect in China, discriminates against girls who are disproportionately killed.
	They will find babies in the rivers and the streams of China in the 70s and 80s from this one-child policy.
	This was the horror of what took place when people became obsessed with population controls and got their models wrong.
	In the same context, this sort of vaccine panic, this sort of pandemic panic with a vaccine as the sole solution, was actually done in 1976.
	We go back and look.
	There was a panic in the 1970s, in 1976, when a virus surfaced at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
	And it was a form of swine flu, an influenza, much like this one.
	General, recalling 1918, the public health officials said, this is terrible.
	This is going to be disastrous.
	Maybe millions will die.
	President Ford, you must take action.
	You must rush a vaccine out there.
	You must force people to take it.
	You must compel that they take it.
	You must demand that they take it.
	And so he did.
	And fearing another plague, according to the world's leading experts, of course, once again, mass vaccinations were launched very quickly.
	But within weeks, and this is according to an article in Wired Magazine, so it's not like some unknown site.
	This is from an establishment publication.
	March 24th, 1976, Ford orders swine flu shots for all.
	And what does it go into detail?
	Max vaccination started in October that year, but within weeks, reports came flooding in of people developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease, almost right after they took the shot.
	Within months, 500 people affected and more than 30 died.
	It was only amid a popular uprising that the forced vaccination order did not continue into effect.
	So we have a history of getting this wrong.
	We have a history of experts in particular getting it wrong, getting it badly wrong, getting it woefully wrong, getting it dangerously wrong, getting it perilously wrong, and yet here we are again.
	Except, unlike 1976, Our constitutional liberties have been suspended and our economy suppressed in a way that has almost never, in fact has never, happened at this scope and scale before.
	And let's look at what's happening in terms of the economic effect throughout the country.
	Let's look at video clip number six, where an economist talking about the US and the UK, in this context the UK in part, talks about how this may be even greater than the Great Depression.
	Let's roll video number six.
	We're expecting at least 8 million job losses for April, possibly closer to 12 million for the entire second quarter.
	We're looking at 25 million job losses.
	And what is so especially sad about this is that once workers become separated from their employers, it makes it much harder to restart the economy.
	So it's just all around a very sad and unfortunate situation.
	Hey Constance, it's Adam.
	Good to see you.
	I want to broaden this out with these really none of us in our lifetime.
	It's been since the Great Depression we've seen these numbers.
	No, no, no.
	It's even worse because during the Great Depression we didn't have a sudden drop off the cliff like this.
	This is so unprecedented.
	We have more social safety nets in place than during the Great Depression, but this is way worse than anything we saw in the Great Depression.
	You heard that.
	Way worse than anything we've saw in the Great Depression.
	Way worse.
	And in this context, we have things like this article from USA Today.
	Coronavirus fallout.
	Amazon is placing new online grocery customers on a waiting list.
	So not only in certain cities and certain counties and certain states can you not even buy certain things that you want.
	Now you won't be even able to get the food that you want.
	It's only a matter of time before real rationing begins to occur.
	And while that is taking place, you have films like Hoaxed being banned from Amazon.
	Overnight under the guise that there's some sort of disagreement between the producers when there is no such disagreement.
	We'll have one of the producers on tomorrow night to discuss that.
	It's only in this context, in this environment, one of the only places that is still showing independent news and independent information is This platform and the sponsor of this platform.
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	Find the things that you like.
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	Whether it's vitamin supplements that have been identified as particularly good and healthy for you in this context of being effectively under house arrest and in closed, confined quarters.
	Things like the Fusion Project.
	Things like the Real Red Pill.
	A wide range of things that you can use for your benefit, for your life, for your well-being.
	Particularly to support this independent platform against this mass censorship that's so extensive, so expansive, they're now even removing movies like Hoaxed from Amazon Prime's presence, right while it was surging in public interest.
	At the same time that films like Out of Shadows is still available on YouTube.
	We'll see how long that lasts.
	Indeed, there was an article printed this weekend by eight doctors challenging the shutdown logic.
	Within hours that article was suppressed and removed from Medium.
	Zero Hedge has it up now, but if you try to get to that article through Twitter, Twitter will warn you that if you go to that Zero Hedge site, you might in fact have your email stolen from you or something else.
	That's the scope and scale of what's taking place, the degree of censorship, the degree of suppression of information that you see reflected in films like Hoax being removed from Amazon Prime, or like you see in Amazon now saying they're effectively going to start rationing food by putting you on a waiting list for when you can get whatever food items you like, while people like the governor in Michigan won't even let you buy an American flag.
	That's how insane the provisions have become.
	Let's look at what some of those other insanities of civil liberties are.
	We talked about the growing risk that would be present to people's children.
	We talked about how in fact parents who simply held an engagement party in their front yard in New Jersey were cited for child endangerment simply because they let their children participate in a family engagement party with their grandfather.
	Well now we have another example of that.
	A Miami ER doctor.
	Who's working to fight the virus in Miami, where it's had a slight outburst, largely because of the large travel and immigration population that goes through Miami, in all likelihood.
	Well, here's the headline.
	Miami ER doctor loses custody of her daughter over coronavirus fears.
	That's how insane the situation is getting.
	That now if you do something that they perceive as threatening to spread the infection in some way, in any way, no matter how minute, no matter how remote.
	For example, in this context, there's been no known examples of children dying from the virus.
	The children appear to be almost completely immune from the virus by all the available data to date, and yet here an ER doctor, because they're an ER doctor, Trying to save people's lives now has their child taken away from them.
	That's the mindset we are in in the country.
	A mindset that threatens people with arrest for playing t-ball with their daughter.
	A mindset that threatens people for simply weightlifting in their front yard.
	A mindset that threatens people for holding church services inside their cars with the windows rolled up on Easter Sunday.
	A mindset that arrests people for praying next to an abortion clinic in a political protest.
	That's the environment we live in today, an environment that a federal judge in Kentucky this past weekend said he never imagined could even be conceivable in America.
	He described it as being something out of a dystopia.
	A mayor banning, in that case in Louisville, banning someone for participating in religious services in a drive-up manner in their own church parking lot, at the same time where you can drive up to the local liquor store.
	So you can drive up to the liquor store, inmates can be released from jail and prison that pose an imminent risk to you, but you can't go to a drive-by religious service on Easter Sunday.
	And not only that, one of the worst instances that took place is that when some of the church members went to church after the federal judge said that they must be constitutionally protected in their activity, people decided to put Well, which was a good meme there.
	Decided to put nails in the parking lot.
	So that's the kind of effect of the situation that we're dealing with.
	That kind of mindset, that kind of environment.
	The popular meme now is Karen.
	The kind of people trying to do things like that.
	There you are.
	I mean, apparently someone didn't even recognize the irony of using nails on Easter Sunday.
	That's the kind of environment we are currently in.
	A panic-minded environment.
	A herd mentality of madness that has consumed us, that in the name of fear we have forfeited our freedom.
	Some of the popular memes in that regard, if we show image number 43, was thanking people in the same way that the dear mayor of Los Angeles thanked them, saying that the snitches no longer get stitches, instead snitches get riches.
	And that was describing sort of what people expected to see and instead what they're really getting.
	And in other contexts, there was a good meme that went around that to those turning in your neighbors and business, you did the right thing.
	Referring to the mindset mentality of sort of Nazi Germany and people surveilling and Spying on themselves, their friends, their family and their neighbors.
	Yeah, there it is.
	That's the mindset we have today, where snitches don't get stitches, snitches get riches.
	That's the sort of mentality of what's taking place.
	And we see additional articles that reference this sort of pattern, while other parts of the country and other parts of the world are talking about the necessity of reopening.
	Because the contrarian counter example of Sweden.
	So Sweden, for example, after we look at the lockdown period, Denmark, Finland, they locked down on March 13th.
	Sweden doesn't lock down at all.
	And we look at the 21 day time period for the lagging time period to evaporate or to expire relating to the mortality rate and to some degree the hospitalization rate and the ICU rate.
	We find that over the past 10 or 11 days, what has actually happened with Sweden is that Sweden has had as good a decline as anyone else.
	So when we come back into the bottom half of the hour, we'll take your calls from you, the jury, about the insanity gripping our country and whether constitutional liberty can once again return.
	Welcome back to American Countdown.
	We'll be taking your calls from the jury in the bottom half of the hour.
	You can call in at 877-789-2539.
	in at 877-789-2539.
	That's 877-789-2539.
	And if you're calling internationally, it's 1, have your country code 512-646-1776.
	That's 512-646-1776.
	So, uh, Have your question ready.
	Ideally have it in about a minute or so so that we can provide a meaningful and effective answer.
	Hopefully so.
	You may have seen this past weekend where a Philadelphia man was dragged off a bus for not wearing a face mask.
	The Ibero is receiving emails and direct messages from people all across the country about whether they as an employer can be forced to require their employees wear it.
	Employees wondering whether they have to wear it if their employer compels it or the government requires it.
	Can people be forced to wear this out in public when there continues to be a medical debate about precisely how beneficial it might be when various people find it intrusive and invasive and don't want a kind of Sharia type law about dress codes being imposed in the United States without clear medical certain evidences to its effectiveness and the contrary and contradictory messages we've received from even our own Surgeon General and the World Health Organization about its benefit and its utility.
	We have a case in Michigan where a legal team is challenging the Michigan Democratic governor whose order appears to ban many forms of homeschooling.
	So not only can you not buy gardening equipment, not buy seeds, you may not be able to buy child safety seats.
	Apparently you cannot buy the American flag.
	Now you may not even be able to engage in homeschooling, not be able to invite people over to your house or go over to someone else's house, or not even be able to travel to your own house if you happen to have more than one, like a vacation home or rental property.
	That's the scope of it and that of course triggered this reaction on Facebook.
	We look at graph number 11.
	We see that overnight a group on Facebook formed Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine.
	More than half a million people apparently have already joined it.
	Already trying to fight back, already trying to resist, already willing to challenge and contest the extraordinary petty tyrant actions of the would-be vice presidential nominee candidate and current Michigan governor for her orders.
	Orders again that Don't have any evidentiary empirical basis.
	No study or survey was released that showed why this was medically necessary.
	Nothing was released that showed that its economic consequences would not outweigh any potential benefits.
	Nothing was shown that showed why this restriction of civil liberties was narrowly tailored as the only available remedy to achieve the outcome of reduced deaths.
	Nobody was given informed consent part of this process.
	No legislature ever approved it.
	No judge ever vindicated it.
	The governor just sort of declared it into action, saying that her emergency powers basically allow her to be a monarch, and rule like a monarch, and to act like a sovereign, knowing that she can only be sued, and then she could claim sovereign immunity in response to the suit.
	That's the extraordinary situation we find ourselves in.
	Well, meanwhile, while people are worried about whether people are paddle boating or surfing correctly, as various articles talked about and discussed this weekend, where surfers are trying to dodge the police while they're watching them, seeing where they're surfing and trying to go and grab them, just like they're trying to monitor people walking down the beach or jogging down the beach or monitoring t-ball in people's backyards or monitoring people holding Easter service in their own cars in a parking lot.
	During that same time period, things are so bad in terms of what's happening and shutting down the public economy that the rats are turning into cannibals.
	As this article describes, cannibal rats taking over during coronavirus pandemic, experts say.
	Rats swarming through New Orleans, now empty streets.
	New York talking about seeing New York's always had this history of these huge rats.
	And now they're talking about gangs of rats, gangs of cannibalistic rats eating their own children.
	That's the kind of sick A disturbing atmosphere we're creating in our society where we have so suppressed the economy that that's what we can witness in our own city streets.
	Well, at the same time, you have, of course, Bill Gates, which, as this article describes, is by Robert Kennedy Jr.
	Gates' globalist vaccine agenda, a win-win for pharma and mandatory vaccine.
	Robert Kennedy Jr., of course, is the son of the famous senator and former attorney general, Robert Kennedy Sr.
	Who has often brought up the challenges that vaccines can pose, their risks can pose, and why people should be able to have informed consent before they have a chip in their finger or a needle in their arm, particularly in their baby or their children's arm or finger.
	And in that same context, if we look at Bill Gates, we should recognize that as we saw in 1976, when Gerald Ford overreacted, did this mandatory vaccine for something that turned out to be, the pandemic turned out to be more panic than plague.
	And it ended up leading to all kinds of nerve disorders and other deaths.
	More deaths than were caused by the pandemic was his mandatory vaccine.
	And but for the immediate reaction people had, it may have, the vaccine had it gone to more people.
	May have killed more people and paralyzed more people and given more people nerve disorders.
	There's been a long history of this having a problematic aspect.
	In particular risk being posed in the coronavirus context where we have very few successful vaccines.
	Where attempts to do SARS vaccines ran into all kinds of issues.
	We're questions about how could you have a vaccine that's good for children and the elderly and how there may be contraindicators in that context.
	So let's take a look at video clip number 11 that goes into some of these issues that have to be dealt with in the vaccine context with public consent and assent, particularly while people like Gates are lobbying for immunity for any vaccines that they create and try to force upon the public under the guise as being necessary to deal with this pandemic.
	Let's look at video clip number 11.
	Let's look at video clip number 11.
	Let's look at video clip number 11.
	Let's look at video clip number 11.
	Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor University went into detail right here.
	What we hear a lot about is the unique potential safety problem of coronavirus vaccines.
	With certain types of respiratory virus vaccines you get immunized and then when you get actually exposed to the virus you get this kind of paradoxical Immune enhancement phenomenon.
	We started developing coronavirus vaccines and our colleagues, we noticed in laboratory animals, that they started to show some of the same immune pathologies.
	We said, oh my god, this is going to be problematic.
	Doctor Paul Offit, Children's Hospital Philadelphia, has concerns that when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, no one knows what they're doing.
	What they were talking about there was we have any history of making a coronavirus vaccine.
	So how are we going to make it?
	Is it going to be an mRNA vaccine?
	Is it going to be a DNA vaccine?
	Is it going to be a purified protein vaccine?
	Is it going to be a vectored vaccine?
	Nobody knows.
	And certainly the FDA has got to regulate this product because right now, everybody in the United States will probably take it in a second, even if it wasn't tested.
	So you're a tough guy, like a really rough guy.
	You just can't get enough, guy.
	Coronavirus vaccines make binding antibodies You have the neutralizing antibodies and you have the binding antibodies.
	You want to make sure that the quantity of neutralizing antibodies that you have and the persistence of those antibodies is much greater than the binding antibodies because the binding antibodies can be dangerous and cause something called antibody-dependent enhancement.
	And we've seen that.
	I mean, we saw that with the dengue vaccine.
	But the dengue vaccine in children who'd never been exposed to dengue before actually made them worse when they were then exposed to the natural virus.
	Much worse.
	Vaccinated children who were less than nine years of age, who had never been exposed to dengue before, were more likely to die if they'd been vaccinated than if they hadn't been vaccinated.
	Oh, wow.
	Now, Anthony Fauci, who himself recognized the same risk.
	The issue of safety is something that I want to make sure the American public understands.
	There's safety associated.
	Does the vaccine make you worse?
	And there are diseases in which you vaccinate someone, they get infected with what you're trying to protect them with, and you actually enhance the infection.
	You can get a good feel for that in animal models.
	So that's going to be interspersed at the same time that we're testing.
	We're going to try and make sure we don't have enhancement.
	It's the worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate somebody to prevent infection and actually make them worse.
	I'm the bad guy.
	Duh.
	Then we have dear Bill Gates.
	We clearly need a vaccine that works in the upper age range because they're most at risk of that.
	and doing that so that you amp it up so it works in older people and yet you don't have side effects you know if we have you know one in ten thousand uh side effects that's you know way more 700 000 uh you know people who will suffer from that
	Look at how he can't help but smile during that.
	Tell me that, guys, is not weird.
	There's already requests to have complete immunity for anyone developing the vaccine.
	I like it when you take control.
	Even if you know that you don't owe me, I let you...
	Really understanding the safety at gigantic scale across all age ranges, you know, pregnant, male, female, undernourished, existing comorbidities, it's very, very hard.
	And that actual decision of, okay, let's go and give this vaccine to the entire world, governments will have to be involved because there will be some risk and indemnification needed before that can be decided on.
	Again, the guy just can't help but smile when he talks about morbidities and people dying.
	Nobody elected Bill Gates to anything, and there's good cause for that.
	Let's go to some of you, the jurors who have called in.
	Let's go to George in Florida.
	Hello, Mr. Barnes.
	Can you hear me?
	Yes, sir.
	I can hear you.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Whenever I call in, I always try and give credence to the general narrative that InfoWars has always tried to alert people of that.
	Basically, not necessarily our presidential administration at any given point in time, but smaller components of your local government have an agenda, and it may not necessarily be your safety.
	Now, I'm trying to be as vague as possible, and this may sound self-serving, but this is really a giant Warning for everyone who can hear this.
	Unfortunately, at one point in time, I had filed a report with the state that I believed my child was in danger with his mother.
	Well, unfortunately, the state didn't move fast enough, and the worst thing had happened.
	The worst had occurred.
	My child lost his life while in custody of his mother and my mother-in-law.
	Without question, she immediately filed for the Red Flag Law.
	The state gave it to her without question.
	Beyond that, they never brought her up on any forms of charges whatsoever.
	I guess, you know, because it's liberal, I suppose.
	And I did everything in my power to avoid the state for a year until eventually they got a hold of me.
	And when they did, when I finally saw the judge, they said, listen, You got one of two options.
	Either one, which is the most terrifying, is we can put you on an ankle monitor for an undefined amount of time, or two, we will release you for 24 hours and give you one last opportunity to surrender your weapons.
	These people have an agenda, and sometimes they're surreptitious about it, but be sure, everyone, it's not your safety.
	Well, I mean, that's why Ben Franklin said anyone who chooses security over liberty is unlikely to get either.
	Because the nature of the state is that when it seizes power, it will seize power for its own purposes.
	It'll be pretextual when it does so.
	That if you look at sort of Bill Gates, for example, I think there are people who really believe that he cares mostly about Children dying, and he cares mostly about global poverty.
	But by his own admission, he only came to those issues because he's obsessed with overpopulation, and particularly overpopulation in parts of the country and parts of the world, like Africa and Asia, which suggests a disturbing motivation or modus operandi behind his policies and politics.
	This is why he has called for various forms of birth control, namely abortion, in support of Planned Parenthood across the globe.
	So he doesn't have the sincere honest concern and let's help children avoid poverty as much as is evidenced by his own admissions that his focus is on his obsessive focus is on overpopulation like some sort of Bond villain from the 1960s.
	So there's no question that often the political class will use something that may be itself legitimate, but use it as a pretext, whether it's crime, whether it's a foreign enemy, whether it's a domestic trauma.
	Whatever the event may be, that event may be very real, but they may be misusing and abusing it to strike terror and fear into people in order to seize powers that do not belong to them by our constitutional republic or our constitutional heritage.
	So there's just a long history of that, whether it's the Patriot Act after 9-11.
	I mean, there's a reason why they always lie to get us into war, for example.
	If they could be honest, they know that if they were honest, they wouldn't be able to persuade us to go to war or to forfeit freedoms.
	That's why they do what they do.
	That's why they exaggerate risk.
	That's why they overstate them.
	Or they use them purely as a pretext to do something that has no correlation No causative relationship to the risk that's present.
	Nothing is more evident than that.
	And how is it you can go to the grocery store and stand in line in close confined quarters, but you cannot or and go to big sort of stores like Target and Walmart and stand in line that in close confined quarters on a daily or even weekly or even daily basis.
	But you can't go to church, even if you do social distancing, even if you're sitting in your own car with the windows rolled up.
	There's no correlation there.
	You can drive through the liquor store, but you can't drive through a church service?
	There's no correlation there.
	The only explanation is a power grab to be a petty tyrant who can dictate to people in the way that Mindy Robinson was describing Nevada, where the governor appears to be using it as a social experiment to see what he can get away with.
	That's why he switches from one day to the next, one day to the next.
	We definitely do not live in an environment right now where enough Americans, particularly those in positions of political power, have the sort of mindset or mentality of the legendary freedom fighters portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart, or as celebrated in our own American cinema in movies like Independence Day.
	But just as a sort of trip down memory lane, let's look at clip number 10.
	And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.
	You've come to fight as free men.
	And free men you are.
	What will you do without freedom?
	Will you fight?
	Against that?
	No!
	We will run!
	And we will live!
	Die?
	Fight and you may die.
	Run, and you'll live.
	At least a while.
	I'm dying in your beds, many years from now.
	Would you be willing?
	to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!
	Our ancestral
	forebears do not derive their sense of liberty or America's definition from the Chinese social credit system.
	They define their sense of perspective, their sense of quality of life, from a unique perspective that says it's better to be 77 years as an American free citizen than 78 years under a Cuban socialist-type control system.
	We care more about quality of life than we do about life expectancy.
	Doesn't mean we don't care about life expectancy, but it means we understand that the value and purpose of life is what gives it its meaning.
	Whether we see that through religious eyes or just through the ancestral forebears that gave us this inheritance of constitutional liberty centuries ago, that now politicians wish to forfeit in just a few weeks.
	Let's go to another one of your calls.
	Let's go to Robert from Texas.
	How are you doing, Robert?
	Hey, how are you?
	All right.
	Well, my question went from one thing to another after listening to you.
	The girl you had from Nevada, I think her name was Mindy?
	Yes, Mindy Robinson.
	Yeah, non-articulate, nervous, just a true patriot, just in the game, just trying to keep fighting and doing a good fight.
	Everybody has the good skills.
	But at the same time, I'm looking at this, I know this is only the first wave, but what's going to happen in the second wave, if this comes down?
	Trump's got to wrap these guys up, or you're going to see Braveheart.
	Or, well, actually I'm not even sure if you're going to see Braveheart, because right now we're all scared.
	And I'm living right here in conservative Texas, in a conservative area, and people are all scared.
	And it just sucks.
	Does that make sense?
	No doubt about it.
	I mean, it's the defining essence of what we talked about at the beginning of the show, which was sort of Fauci's Faustian bargain that he was promoting to the American public, was to choose fear over freedom.
	That we would have security and safety in lieu of freedom.
	You have people talking about that freedom is just a variable to analyze or assess, but it wasn't for our founders, it wasn't for the definition of American history.
	Our principle was predicated on who we are, our quality of life, our purpose was defined By the pursuit of freedom, by the definition of our quality of life was we're happy to sacrifice a year, two years, three years on our life expectancy to live free as Americans rather than live controlled in a Soviet type state as Cuban socialism does.
	That's why to this very day, you're not going to find Americans in plastic rafts trying to swim their way to Havana.
	You will find every day in some way, someplace, somebody in Cuba trying to find their way into the United States, even risking literally life or limb to get there.
	And yet, and so they are willing to forfeit that sense of safety, that sense of security, the sort of mediocrity that comes with having your life so controlled and surveilled and monitored for your own protection by this nurse nanny state ideology that the left is currently promoting that the public health officials want to impose.
	But there's always been a different definition of America, as used to be celebrated in American film.
	Let's look at video clip number nine.
	Pilot, you armed?
	Armed and ready, sir.
	I'm Packard.
	Who is that guy?
	I don't know how to speak.
	Pilot, identify yourself.
	It's me, Russell Case, sir.
	I told you I wouldn't let you down.
	Just keep those guys off me for a few more seconds, will ya?
	Okay, Echo 9 or Echo 7, take flanking positions.
	I want you to look after this guy, okay?
	Alright, boys.
	Let's give Mr. Case some cover.
	Gentlemen!
	Let's plow the road!
	We'll draw them off and it'll be all yours! - Ah-hoo!
	Look out!
	Driving through!
	I've got tone.
	Eagle 20.
	Eagle 20, box two.
	Eagle 20, box two.
	Fox 2!
	It's jammed!
	It won't fire!
	Damn it!
	Do me a favor.
	Damn it!
	Do me a favor.
	Tell my children I love them very much.
	All right, you alien a*****!
	In the words of my generation, up yours!
	That was once the idea of a sort of American independence, independent liberty, independent freedom, willing to risk life, liberty, or limb to achieve it.
	We've gone far from that, but we can yet reach back and achieve it and attain it.

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