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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Is America Headed For Totalitarian Darkness? America In Name Only!
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Rainbow Gestapo, the goose-stepping gay lobby, all of that stops right now.
People say we need to make America great again.
I completely agree.
We may need to make Gallows great again.
Literally so many people that need to have a millstone put around their neck and tossed into the sea.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to this evening's edition of the Millstone Report.
My name is Paul Harrell.
Thank you so much for being with us.
As always, we cannot do this program without you watching every single day.
Okay, so is America on the path to totalitarian darkness, and if so, how long will it last?
I know that's a big question.
So I highlight daily the descent into madness this country is experiencing as we careen down a slippery slope.
Last night we asked the question, is the Constitution dead?
How should we as Christians live going forward?
We've become a wicked nation that calls evil good and good evil.
As I've said before, God has a way of dealing with nations like this.
It's kind of built into his created order.
We murder babies, and if those babies survive a woman's right to murder and are allowed to be born, then the kids have the public schools to endure as they face teachers who view little girls and little boys as sexual objects who need a sexual identity forced on them.
If the kids survive public school with their genitals and optimal hormone levels still intact, they then have to compete with big pharma drug pushers who will offer them life-altering drugs to combat their depression.
This is assuming they survive the ADHD pill pushers in elementary school who just wanted normal, hyperactive boys to behave like docile girls as they're cooped up inside a fluorescent-lit building made out of the same cinder blocks used to construct prisons for 40 hours a week.
And that's just how we treat our own children.
How do we treat the children of other countries?
That's another can of worms.
So it's no surprise that in the midst of all of the evil, most sane people can look down the road and they can see that the bridge is out.
It's no surprise that our leaders have sold us out.
And it's no surprise our border is wide open and an invasion force of third world barbarians are flooding into our country to conquer it and officially make it the blood-soaked country it already is, the Blood spill will no longer be concealed inside the walls of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
That's why Michael Yon, who has watched this invasion firsthand at the Darien Gap, has repeatedly said that these invaders are not coming to take our jobs, they're coming to take our lives.
But, back to my initial question.
Is America on the path to totalitarian darkness?
That phrase, totalitarian darkness, sparks memories this former talk radio host just can't shake.
Remember when President Ronald Reagan said this about the Soviet Union?
But I had underestimated him.
He went on, I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God.
than have them grow up under communism and one day die no longer believing in God.
There were thousands of young people in that audience.
They came to their feet with shouts of joy.
They had instantly recognized the profound truth in what he had said with regard to the physical and the soul and what was truly important.
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness.
Pray they will discover the joy of knowing God.
But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, Declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth.
They are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Wow.
The question has to be asked, who exactly is the focus of evil in the modern world today?
Who preaches the supremacy of the state today?
Who are the godless communist Soviets today?
To help us better answer that question, I've invited author Charles Cole on this program.
Charles Cole has been a lifelong student of the Russian language and of Russian and Soviet culture, history, and politics.
He graduated from an intensive 18-month Russian course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, after which he served in signals intelligence with the Army Security Agency at a border listening post in West Germany, monitoring Soviet military radio communications.
In 1973, Cole returned to the Defense Language Institute to teach Russian to American military personnel and worked alongside hundreds of former Soviet citizens until retiring in 2002.
While in California, he also served six years as a warrant officer in a U.S. Army Reserve Psychological Operations Battalion, writing leaflets and broadcast materials targeted at Soviet forces in East Germany until 1991, at which time the Soviet Union dissolved.
After military service, he obtained a degree in Russian and German from Kent State University in 1972 and promptly joined a United States Information Agency cultural exchange exhibit, which traveled throughout the Soviet Union from July through December of 1972.
This experience provided Cole with a solid understanding of Soviet communism and its lasting impact on the lives of citizens forced to live under it.
In his first book, An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia, Cole wrote about his experiences during the six months he spent in the USSR from the viewpoint of a then young Russian-speaking American.
It gives Americans a bird's-eye view of life in a socialist communist society.
But Kohl's new book, published in 2023, is entitled America in Name Only, in which he uses what he calls societal fingerprints from a variety of utopian collectivist regimes throughout history to compare them with events, policies, and societal elements in vogue in our country today.
Charles Kohl, welcome to the Millstone Report, sir.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Well, thank you for inviting me.
I appreciate it.
Okay, so first of all, the initial question I ask at the top of the monologue, is America facing a totalitarian darkness?
I mean, what are your thoughts on that, sir?
Well, I think it's getting a little darker every day when we look around, and the news reports are harder and harder to watch every day because what we're seeing now is the difference between what we're seeing now and what we saw maybe 30, 40 years ago.
This stuff was all hidden behind a curtain long ago.
Now they're right straight up front and they're out in front for everybody to see and they just dare anybody to say anything or do anything about it.
So that in itself is a sign of darkness in the fact that When there is such corruption and such evil, I'll use the word evil, Ronald Reagan used it, he was right.
When it's on display like this, it makes time for people to stand and take a really sober look at what the country is becoming.
In some cases, what it has become in certain areas.
I just happened to have my TV tuned up.
I'm looking at the updates of it on the Trump trial in New York.
Well, here's a sign of darkness.
When the judicial system is, as the common vernacular puts it, weaponized in support of a regime, a government, or whatever, against any of its enemies, then someone will have to tell me how that's different from the Stalin show trials of the 1930s,
or Nazi Germany's trials of the of the various defendants that came before the the lunatic judge from Eisler Trump has been has been gagged and in those trials They assigned both the Soviets and the Germans the Nazis had assigned defense counsel to the accused but they were not allowed to say anything so It's a different form of gag order, but it's the same tactic involved.
It's the huge, overarching hand of government, and they're going to do what they're going to do because, you see, from their standpoint, the thinking has already been done.
The elite have figured all this out, and we rubes are just supposed to sit here and do our part, which is to silently obey Whatever they say.
And if it means that the borders are a thing of the past, well, just accept it.
If it means that children can now, regardless of what God taught for all these years, that he created the man and woman, no, no, no.
Maybe God made a mistake.
Maybe there's no God at all.
And so, therefore, these folks can decide which of, whatever, it's 58 genders or whatever they've Whatever they've come up with, these lunatics.
All this stuff now is supposed to be accepted as fact.
And if you disagree with it, if you try to say something about it, then you are singled out for special coverage.
You are labeled as a denier.
You're labeled as someone using, I think they've got three or four terms for it now.
Malinformation, misinformation, disinformation, whatever.
And so these are signs that we should see.
This is why in the book I try to cover, I go all the way back to the start of the modern era of this nonsense and it started in France with the Jacobins and the French Revolution days.
Interestingly, just to show you one example of societal fingerprints, some of the things that they did right away Leading to the great terror enforced by raw fear.
One of the first things they did is they tried to just start everything over, destroy everything that came before it.
Including anything to deal with the church, the monarchy, any of that stuff.
You're talking about the French Revolution?
Yes.
Okay, go ahead.
And so they destroyed all that, and they started everything over again.
They even started their calendars anew with year one.
They changed the names of the months of the year, the days of the week, etc.
Everything before had to be crushed.
Cancel culture?
Anyone?
So here's an example of a societal fingerprint that you can look at and compare it to something going on today and say, uh-oh.
They also began this business of, you know, one of the things that they have done Is to try to turn, for example, Biblical truth 180 degrees on its edge.
What is one of the foundational principles of the Christian religion?
That someone accepts Christ, they are a new man in Christ, right?
Okay, their term for that, they turned it 180 degrees and they said, we, we, humans, have to create a new man.
It's the perversion of the same idea.
And what they meant was, everything before has to go.
It was repeated by Lenin in Russia in 1917.
In Germany with the Nazis in the 1930s.
All of the post-war Eastern European communist-dominated satellite countries in Eastern Europe.
China in 1949 with Mao Zedong.
Fidel Castro in 1960.
It doesn't matter when or where it occurs.
It's the same disease.
I'm calling this a disease.
What I call it is the disease of utopian collectivism.
The idea that The individual has to become a cog in a great big wheel, a great big machine, and it is the collective, the common good.
How often do you hear that from some of these politicians today?
Well, we're doing it.
We did the COVID thing for the common good to protect everybody.
Really?
Is that why they sent COVID patients into nursing homes in New York?
Was that to protect the...
Whose common good are we protecting?
The border today.
They're saying, well, you know, their line now is that immigration is a very, very necessary thing for America.
Therefore, we don't dare say anything about the unbridled, they call it immigration.
One of the signs that you looked for, by the way, early on...
It's a heavy dose of propaganda.
It starts in a subtle fashion with the changing of terms, manipulation of vocabulary, things like that, and the exclusion of anything other than the party line.
Now, you can look for example at public education, what's happened over the last 40 years.
There's a classic example of how you promote propaganda.
You only allow those things to be taught and those viewpoints to be taught, which are approved, so to speak.
Now, we fast forward a little bit and we have two, I argue, maybe even three full generations of people in America who have been, quote unquote, educated to believe things like Cow flatulence can affect the climate of the earth.
Yeah, you know what that really goes to also?
It goes to the idea that we can control the weather, which again is a whole other can of worms which actually may be happening, but the idea that if we drive less, that there will be less tornadoes, or if we eat less meat, that there will be less cold snaps, right?
It's insane.
It's basically like doing an Indian rain dance.
You'd have better luck.
But the frightening part is you have people that now have been raised with this and they actually believe it.
That's the scary part.
Once you get to the part where they accept it and believe it, look at their reaction whenever anybody says, can we see some scientific So the same principles have applied now.
They have taught in the public schools for some time now that America was founded by evil slave-owning men and it was misogynistic, it was oppressive, etc.
You have a couple of generations now who have been brought up with this junk and they believe it.
Now, this explains how you end up seeing what you're seeing on college campuses today.
I mean, we oldsters saw it in the 1960s.
Vietnam War.
We can talk about that at another time, I suppose.
But one thing that has now come to light, the biggest sponsor financially of the gigantic war demonstration industry was the Soviet GRU, Military Intelligence.
There was a Soviet defector by the name of Stanislav Lunev.
He was a colonel in the GRU, and he wrote a book in which he said, look, we celebrated the whole Vietnam thing as our victory because we were there funding that, encouraging that, propping it up.
So you see these forces at work, but you don't see them right away.
They're often behind the curtain, as that one was.
Look today at the college campuses where they're rife with all these Free Palestine.
It's weird because they're also funded by Soros.
That's a huge contradiction.
Why would Soros be funding this?
It feels just like 2020.
Just to be real, I think the violence going on over in Israel is absolutely atrocious.
I'm very much disturbed by the images that I have seen of the women and children and everything else.
At the same time, I know that an average college protester A college campus protester would hate my guts and hate my politics and probably hate me just because I'm a white Christian man.
That is not gay.
The lines really continue to blur with that whole situation, in my opinion.
Yeah, and notice how they, again, they turn things 180 degrees.
They are calling Israel A genocidal nation.
When was it that Israel ever attacked, without a declaration of war, another country who hadn't attacked them first and started to slaughter innocent women and children?
When did that happen?
Well, the issue with that is that people still have questions about how October 7th was initiated, how the most secure country, how that was allowed to happen.
I mean, there's all kinds of questions about that, right?
So, I mean, just so you know, I think the ethnic cleansing narrative, I think that's a real thing that is actually going on.
And I think it's been essentially proven at this point.
I've seen the images.
Not every Palestinian child can be labeled as a human shield at this point.
I mean, come on.
Well again, back to our point, I think the major point here to understand is when they run around screaming from the river to the sea, that's been fed to them and they don't understand it, but that doesn't matter because it's the cause.
Now this whole idea of the cause This has been going on.
Again, we go back to France and just take it right forward through all those regimes, which I do in this book.
It's important to understand that and to look at some of those societal fingerprints that we can see and identify.
And then, and I'll put it up on the screen today, things that are happening here.
And does it remind you of anything?
Should it provide people With a cause to pause and say, wait a minute here, this doesn't seem to make any sense.
If you trace this all the way back to France, you will see that there were two revolutions, one in America, one in France, and they went in diametrically opposite directions.
Why do you think that is?
Why was the American Revolution, why did it have such a different outcome than the bloody French Revolution?
Why is that?
A couple of reasons.
Probably the most important reason, if you read the founding documents, if you read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, you will find quite a bit of biblical terminology.
That's not by accident.
And if you read the actual books of the history of what these men wrote, the founders, and why they set it up the way they set it up, these were people Who knew.
They believed in God, they believed in the supremacy of the deity, and they did not try to do things their own way at the expense of what God had said in the Bible.
That's just a fact.
There are many, many books that we could cite that clearly indicate this.
In France, however, no, no, no.
They linked the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church at the time.
They said, these are evil institutions.
Look at how hungry people are.
Look at all this dissolution.
The interesting thing to compare is to look at the founding documents, put the Constitution of the United States on one side of the equation, and then put the French Declaration of the Rights of Man together.
That's a beautiful document!
Well, the flaw that it had in it was, again, it was collective-based rather than individual liberty-based.
But still, the flowery words in there, my goodness, you'd read that and you'd think, wow, these guys are really special.
They just want a wonderful society.
Except for one little problem.
They didn't follow a single syllable of it.
Once they get into power, then they will do what they're going to do, and they will hide their original intent as long as they can.
And to be honest about it, in America, they have hidden this far-left cabal.
They've hidden their real agendas very, very well.
They've used phrases that sound very American.
They still talk about the rule of law.
Yeah.
And then you tune in and see what that means.
They'll still say things like, well, no one is above the law.
Really.
When I hear Hillary Clinton say those words, you just look and say, okay.
So they also pretend to be Christians.
I mean, you had Joe Biden the other day doing the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion event.
It's just insane what's going on.
I think for a long time they've used this cloak of decency.
One of the reasons why a lot of these people...
I had so many friends during the Trump administration who were all of a sudden, out of the blue, really concerned with the decency of Trump and how he's in the White House.
In the past, they didn't care at all because the media wasn't telling them to care.
And they don't realize that Obama's not a decent guy.
H.W., same thing.
It's all a cloak.
It's all been a mask of decency in a lot of ways.
To get the American people to sleep well.
At least we've got somebody with their head on straight in the White House.
And then Trump gets in there and they disseminate all this propaganda.
They get people to meltdown.
Entire families were separated over whether or not you support Donald Trump.
But back to the French versus the American Revolution.
I agree with you, and I'm glad you mentioned God.
Basically, that's what it was.
God was in one of those movements.
People who believed in God, people who believed that they were not supreme, that the supremacy of the state was subservient.
This country was founded in humility, recognizing the existence of God versus the French Revolution, which wasn't.
And so then it was just, hey, we're going to settle as many scores as we can as fast as we can.
Colonel Douglas McGregor, okay, so he, I believe, was an advisor in the Trump administration.
He's a retired colonel, Douglas McGregor.
He goes on a lot of different shows.
He tweeted a couple of months ago, maybe it was, I can't remember if it was a couple of months ago, but he tweeted that America is facing a revolution.
He said, the question is, will it be a Cromwellian revolution or a French revolution?
So he's referencing Oliver Cromwell, who just gets glossed over in the public school history books, like one page.
He was a dictator.
Oh, okay, never mind.
It's moving on.
What do you think about that statement?
America's facing a revolution.
Is it going to be a French-style revolution or more of a Cromwellian revolution?
Well, if we take that premise at face value and that is so, then the choice will come down to how much people are willing to tolerate.
I'd like to return for one second, though, to something you mentioned about God versus man.
Notice, I start my discussion in this book about with the French Revolution, but you can go all the way back if you'd like.
What was the first deception of the evil one?
What did he say?
He said, he questioned the Word of God.
Did God really say this, that, or the other?
And so the implication was, you don't need God.
You can become your own little small g God and do it your way.
As Frank Sinatra said, I did it my way.
Okay, you can take that.
That deception goes all the way back to the garden.
And if you look through the Old Testament of the Bible, you will see...
Over and over and over.
Every single time that God's people became lax, disobedient, rebellious, etc., what happened?
It brought his retribution.
Until the point where they couldn't stand the pain anymore and they went back to God.
They humbled themselves and they said, forgive us.
And he did.
So, if you really want to talk about what needs to be done as far as a revolution, I think probably the better word would be reawakening and revival because unless that happens, man is going to just...
Sometimes I watch these political...
I forced myself just the other day because they said Trump was going to appear at the Libertarian Convention and I forced myself to watch some of that stuff.
I did too.
Did you notice all the antics in that room?
This is not Ron Paul's Libertarian Party anymore.
No, they voted for basically a pro-transgender, pro-drag queen story hour guy.
Yeah, a former Democrat.
Now he has an L after his name.
But if you notice, I sat there and as I watched it, the thought came through my mind time and again, there is no spirit of God in this room.
None.
They are suffering from the same disease that the French did, that the Germans did, that the Russians did.
We're going to do it our way.
We have the answer, and we're going to fold our hands like this until you vote for us.
Well, you know, go ahead.
As Trump said, okay, if you're happy with getting 3% every year, okay, go ahead.
But back to the point of the deception, and this is a key word for people to understand.
Deception.
What does it scripture teach us about how Satan can appear?
Angel of light.
Yes.
It looks so great on the surface.
You read the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and you're almost in tears how wonderful this is.
I can show you versions of Soviet constitutions.
One of them was written in the Stalin era.
The other one was updated in the Brezhnev era in the 70s.
And they're fantastic pieces of paper.
But that's all they are.
They're pieces of paper.
Not one thing in those documents was real.
We've got to go to break here in just a minute, but last question before we do.
We've been talking about this the last several weeks.
Is our Constitution basically dead in a way, especially in its original form?
I mean, it's just a piece of paper right now that nobody...
It doesn't really protect our rights the way it used to because we've used this freedom.
Adam said, hey, it's for a moral and religious people.
We're not that people anymore, so it was written for a different people than we are.
What are your thoughts on that before we go to break?
Well, real quick, the only thing I would point out is that, notice, it used to be when the Supreme Court ruled on something, people would say, okay, we disagree with it or whatever, but we'll follow it.
This Supreme Court has told Joe Biden on two issues.
You can't do that.
One of them concerns killing the Trump policy of remaining in Mexico.
They said, you can't just do away with that.
The other one was, they said, you don't have the power to give away free money to these students in the form of canceling their debt.
You can't do it.
He did it anyway.
That tells you what's happening to the Constitution today.
Yeah, no consequences at all for that, right?
No accountability.
We're going to be right back with Charles Cole.
Again, he's the author of the book.
You see on your screen, America in Name Only.
He was in Signals Intelligence.
He was in West Germany, essentially listening in on East Germany.
This was back in the day.
He's very familiar with what it's like, what the Soviet Union was like versus what we're facing today, and that's why I wanted to have him on.
Is America facing totalitarian darkness?
Well...
We'll have more about that here in just a moment.
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Okay, so we've been talking with Charles Cole.
He is an author, an author of the book, America in Name Only.
Charles, welcome back to the Millstone Report.
How are you?
That break wasn't too long.
It wasn't too terrible, was it?
No, it was great.
I think I'll check out the coffee.
All right, so hear me out.
In my monologue at the top of the show, we played a little of Ronald Reagan.
We played him talking about totalitarian darkness, specifically, you know, basically labeling the Soviets as godless communists, okay?
Matter of fact, let's play this again for our listeners real quick.
We may even get to the C.S. Lewis quote as well.
Let me cue it up right here.
Okay, here we go.
But I had underestimated him.
He went on, I would rather see my little girls die now, still believing in God, than have them grow up under communism and one day die no longer believing in God.
There were thousands of young people in that audience.
They came to their feet with shouts of joy.
They had instantly recognized the profound truth in what he had said with regard to the physical and the soul and what was truly important.
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness.
Pray they will discover the joy of knowing God.
But until they do, Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
It was C.S. Lewis, who in his unforgettable screw-tape letters wrote, The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint, It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps.
In those, we see its final result.
But it is conceived and ordered, moved, seconded, carried, and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
So, let me ask you this, Charles Cole.
Again, you were in Signals Intelligence.
You were stationed in West Germany, listening on East Germany.
You speak Russian.
You speak German.
You also were part of a psychological operations battalion, sending messages, leaflets, and composing messages to people who were living in East Germany.
Was President Ronald Reagan's prayer answered?
When he said, let us pray that the Soviet Union will one day know God, was his prayer answered?
And also, follow-up question, where are we now?
Are we the godless communist Soviets of today?
Well, to answer the first part of that...
Unfortunately, Russia missed a once-in-a-millennium opportunity in 1991, when the Soviet Union, perforce, just collapsed on top of itself.
There was a famous Soviet dissident by the name of Vladimir Bukovsky.
He ended up in Great Britain.
They threw him out of the country because they couldn't torture him into changing his opinion.
But he said at that time, he said, what we, the Russian people, need now is an internal Russian-only, not international, Russian-only, Nuremberg-style trial.
We need to hold accountable those people.
And he was talking about the secret police guys, the KGB dudes.
He said, we need to hold them accountable and tell the world the entire truth about what this country did under their leadership.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen for a number of reasons.
And what happened?
Vladimir Putin happened eventually.
So there are churches now.
The churches are open in Russia.
Most of them were closed in our day.
And there is a much greater availability of the Bible in the Russian language now than there ever was in the old days.
So there is hope for at least a portion of that.
But as far as what we see here today, I don't write a whole lot about that in this book.
I wrote a different book.
We can talk about it at a different time as far as the churches.
I will say, Eric Metaxas wrote a very interesting book.
It's called Letter to the American Church, in which he notes what happened to the German church in the early 1930s.
They knew, they saw Adolf Hitler coming.
I mean, Mein Kampf was there for everybody to read.
It wasn't a secret.
And Dietrich Bonhoeffer and some of the other Lutheran pastors, He tried to get the attention of the pastor in West Germany, especially the Lutheran pastors.
That was the largest faith of the time.
There were about 18,000 Lutheran pastors at that time in Germany.
Unfortunately, he could only interest 3,000 of them.
3,000 of the pastors said, yes, you're right.
We need to oppose this.
This is evil.
We need to stand up and stand up now.
Another 3,000 said, oh no, no way.
We're Germans.
That's it.
We're never going to do anything against Germany.
The problem came, what about the other 12,000?
The remaining 12,000.
And the problem was they stayed silent.
They said, well, you know, whatever happens out there, that's not our business.
We have to stay within our recesses, within our churches.
And then they were picked off one by one by one.
Go ahead.
Well, I was going to say, the history of the church in Germany, you know, it's fascinating to me.
This is where in 1517, you know, this is where the Reformation, you know, took place.
This is where Luther was.
And it's fascinating to me that certainly it didn't happen overnight.
And I think we see, certainly in our own churches here, you look at mainline Protestant denominations, how they've capitulated.
They start with allowing women to be clergy, and now they say, hey, sodomy is perfectly fine.
We're seeing this really all across the Western world, and that brings me back to what I was saying about Russia.
You just said that they...
That the Bible's more available now in Russia than it ever was, right?
And I am not a Russian Orthodox person, right?
I'm a Presbyterian.
Look, I know I would have theological disagreements with the Russian Orthodox Church.
However, as a country, and this is what's fascinating to me, and I'd love to get your thoughts.
As a country, back in 2013...
They banned LGBT propaganda.
They held a practice up.
They held it up and they said, we think this is wrong.
We think this is wicked, evil.
We're going to ban it.
We can't do it.
Of course, a year later, we have the Maidan Revolution, Victoria Nuland in Ukraine.
We have the U.S.-backed coup.
And that really set us up over the last 10 years to where we are now.
A lot of people think, myself included, that when we say the West, we say we need to export democracy.
A lot of that, to me, just means the rainbow.
That's now our chief.
I mean, if you want to be a member of the European Union, you have to have a law in the books that says gay mirage or gay marriage is okay.
You have to legalize that.
I mean, the degeneracy.
And then you look at NATO in general.
It was created, my understanding, again, I'm a young guy, well, you know, younger than you, my understanding, NATO was created to protect Christian Europe from the godless, communist Soviets, right?
But now Europe's not really Christian, and all of our leaders, they're not Christian, right?
We push God out of public life as much as we can, and again, we export every kind of degeneracy.
You had that one African country that decided to ban sodomy and put the death penalty on for pedophiles, and you'd have thought Joe Biden was about to go to war with them because they had to come out and condemn.
Oh, you can't do that.
So you just, I mean, to me, when I asked, was Reagan's prayer answered?
I mean, I don't know if it was fully answered, but I certainly, where the moral high ground is right now, I don't think there's any question about what our leaders promote versus what Russia is promoting when it comes to the sin of our age, which is sexual perversion.
That is the sin of our age.
Feel free to respond, disagree, whatever.
Yeah, I think it's one of the vehicles by which the sin.
You can see the symptoms, but again, it's the same disease.
It's the sin disease, which man has always had through time from the Garden of Eden forward.
In the case of Russia, if you go back and you look at NATO and then you look at, even looking at our alliances in World War II, it's amazing to me how quickly Policy can turn on a dime.
In 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact.
They would not attack each other.
And part of that arrangement was, about a week later, Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939.
Two weeks after that, Stalin sent his forces in from the east, and they devoured up the eastern half of Poland.
Well, with that as a historical background, fast forward to 1941 when Hitler declared war in the United States.
He was already fighting against the Soviet Union.
So what did the United States government do?
Franklin Roosevelt then took the great leap of faith and he said, well, basically he said, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
How many times has that got the United States into amazing problems geopolitically?
So it's a matter of realizing there is a right, there is a wrong, and you're going to follow one of those two paths.
You start mixing darkness with light, and you end up with very, very bad results.
I mean, you could argue that because of what Roosevelt did and the amazing support that he sent to To the Soviets during the war, the Red Army was able to liberate all of Eastern Europe, about seven of those countries.
And Stalin turned them into communist dictatorships, puppet states.
So what did we accomplish with that?
This is why you can treat geopolitics over here, but you have to come back to the eternal truths.
Either God is sovereign in this world or man is.
You have to come down and believe one of those two things.
If you believe, That man is sovereign, that our ways, that man is perfectible in his nature.
Then you're going to be, of course, more receptive to the ideas that, oh, all we need is another government program, another piece of this, another piece of that, and pretty soon we can build our own little wonderful utopia.
And that's what my book, really, is all about, the utopian collectivism.
It's always sold.
and marketed to people under the guise of we're gonna create this heaven on earth and every single time from France right through till today look at Venezuela most recent example the creation what did they create they created an absolute hell on earth in the name of creating heaven on earth so my message to the American people primary in this book is Look,
you have to look at the signs, look what has happened before, and debunk this nonsense that's being pushed at you as if it were true.
Because a lot of times, all you have to do is go back to the old adage, you know, believe me or your lion eyes.
You look at the border, the Secretary of DHS says, It goes before Congress, raises his right hand and swears under oath that the border is secure.
Then you look at the videos of hundreds of thousands of people simply walking through the border.
And you also find out a little bit late that in 2022 and 2023, I believe it was, 38,000 Chinese military-age males crossed that border and are now in this country.
I don't think they came here for economic rescue.
So sooner or later, when you go back to the question about is it going to be a revolution or what is it going to be, I think probably it's going to be a realization On the part of more and more Americans, we're starting to see some of that now.
That, wait a minute, something is wrong.
Is it going to take a major catastrophic event?
It could.
Because America has been kind of too busy on its own little projects.
What was God's first commandment to man?
I shall have no other gods before me.
Correct?
Yes.
And that did not just mean, you know, golden calves and things.
That meant, I have to be first in your life.
Learn about me and my ways.
Now, what have we done?
We have put, I could list 500 things that we've put ahead of God in this country, from NFL football, to social media, to barbecues, picnics, this one, to soccer games.
When you get that distracted from reality, then you are opening yourself up to being lied to.
And when you're lied to, and then they expect you to say, yes, one of the evil features of the Soviet Union was, as I watched these people, I knew that they knew that a lot of the Soviet propaganda was absolute garbage.
But I also knew That they had absolutely no ability, by that time, because the disease was in stage four, or five in their case, they had absolutely no way to oppose it even.
They were expected To agree with it, applaud it, and sing the praises.
So a perfect parallel to what you described it now is when a man, clearly a man, lines up on the starting block next to all these women in a track meet, right?
And all these women go along with it.
Right.
And people celebrate it.
They all know that it's propaganda.
They all know that a man can't become a woman.
But they just don't say anything.
I mean, that sounds like we're in stage four, to me.
And where it really gets scary is there have been a few events recently where that happened and the girls then left the field and said, we're not going to play that game.
They were then censored.
That's true.
We need to do more of that.
There have been plenty of protests, and I think a lot of Christians know, hey, look, when that happens to your daughter, it's time to pull out.
It doesn't matter if, you know, come on, it's just a sport.
You've got to pull out of this stuff.
We can't participate.
We can't affirm lies.
That brings me to my next point.
You talk about being a cog in a machine.
You talk about this utopia, right?
This is what they're going to build.
And by the way, I call it the Tower of Babel 2.0 because that's exactly really what it is.
Right?
Like, go forth and multiply, spread across the face of the earth.
No, no, no.
We're not going to do that.
We're going to build a super city.
We're going to build a super state, and we're going to make these cogs.
And that's what the Tower of Babel was, right?
And then, of course, God stops it, confuses the languages, establishes the nations.
And, of course, we now know that Christ is going to inherit the nations.
We don't know which ones will be here when he returns.
That's the whole thing.
Will the United States be here?
That's my point.
I don't know.
My fear, and one of the reasons I do this show every day is because I'm trying to warn people, look, I think one of their solutions is to put Christians in boxcars.
I don't think that their utopia, their version of the utopia...
That has no room for us because we cannot affirm lies.
We will not affirm lies.
See Daniel chapter 3.
We're not going to bow down to the statue, okay?
And so this is where the rub is.
Christians, you know, people get all bent out of shape about this term, this phrase, Christian nationalism, which I'm not afraid of at all because it boils down to this.
If you love Jesus and you vote and you love your country, they're going to consider you a Christian nationalist.
They're going to consider you a threat, right?
And so this is where we are and people have to wake up.
Exactly.
And there are many, many very, very scary things starting to happen now.
Look at AI. Look at the potential of AI to make the unreal look real, to make the lie look true.
People now, perhaps more than any time in, well, certainly living memory, They need to be absolutely, solidly based in the truth so that they're not susceptible to these lies.
They can make completely evil things.
Again, just one example.
When they start calling what I call Infanticide, genocidal infanticide.
They call it women's health care.
Today, they mutilate young kids who are below the age of consent, by the way.
They can't legally consent to this stuff.
They mutilate them, and they call it gender-affirming care.
You know what that reminds me of?
In Nazi Germany, they were heavy proponents of eugenics.
They were going to clean up the human race, get rid of all the Jews and the other Human weeds as they call them.
And what do they call it?
They call it societal hygiene.
Okay.
Who could possibly be against the idea of societal hygiene?
Well, isn't that a wonderful sounding thing?
Yeah, until you look at what it actually produced.
You know, six million people being gassed to death.
Well, so again, the key moving forward, I think, is you must always look for the truth.
You have to test everything you hear.
Christians should test it against the Bible.
If it doesn't match up, then there's at least, you know, a problem.
Start looking at it more carefully.
The worst thing possible is to accept these things and say, well, you know, this too will pass, or it isn't my problem, or the government will solve it, or whatever.
That's exactly what the German church did in the 1930s.
And look.
Look what happened.
I think we each, well those of us who are Christians, certainly have a biblical duty, a faith duty, and I would say every American has a civic duty to Search the truth.
Search for the truth.
Try everything.
Try it against accepted standards.
Look at the Trump trials.
Compare those to anything else you've ever seen in the legal system in this country and say, does that add up or is there something rotten here?
The first thing you have to do is to realize that you have a problem.
Because if you don't realize you have a problem, you're not going to do it.
It will just metastasize on its own and it has.
I want to thank you for coming on the program, Charles Cole, and your book.
Again, America In Name Only.
AmericaInNameOnly.com is where people can go to get it.
I appreciate it, and I also appreciate your service to the country in doing everything that you did over there.
I mean, you have a context here.
Actually, you know, somebody who's been in Germany, and you remember the Berlin Wall, right?
I don't remember the Berlin Wall.
But I do really appreciate you coming on the program, spending some time with us, giving us your perspective on things, and I wish you the best, sir.
Thank you for having me.
I really appreciate it, and God bless, and just remember, folks, the truth.
Learn it and say it.
Absolutely.
Folks, that's all the time we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
We really appreciate you being with us, and unless I'm providentially hindered, we'll see you back here tomorrow night.
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