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April 15, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Wall Street SCAMS Americans & Steals Their Investments!
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So, today is...
April 15th.
This is tax day.
This is when we have to pony up to the federal government.
This is the day.
This is a different tax day, though.
This tax day feels much different.
In light of all of the waste, the fraud, the abuse that has been unveiled over the last four months in Donald Trump's second term, thanks to Elon Musk, thanks to Doge, in light of the USAID fund that's essentially been,
was... I think we'll find in both parties later in the program we'll actually get to that.
And what all of that means, the paper trail that people are talking about, the paper trail leading right back into the coffers of politicians' pockets or their girlfriends or mistresses or family members.
It just feels much different.
than a normal tax day because, you know, Americans are very much serfs.
I feel like a serf more than ever after seeing all of this money.
You realize it's just monopoly money and the joke's on us and we have a government that hates us.
Last week...
More Americans than probably any time in recent memory were looking into the stock market, right?
We had Trump's tariffs and the stock market reacting to it.
Then the stock market comes back up because of the 90-day pause.
But on this tax day, I wonder what would happen if we actually look into the whole system.
Wall Street, the big banks, all of that.
Thankfully, and really providentially on this day, we've got a great interview for you.
There's a new documentary out called Stop It!
The Great Taking.
And it details what I would describe as essentially a little-known law that was secretly or quietly amended in the mid-90s.
It's a phrase I love to use, legislative sleight of hand, that essentially means...
That all of the investments that you send the big banks or you send Wall Street, you don't technically own.
And these institutions are actually using your investments as collateral and all of your investments in a financial collapse can be taken from you and you actually don't own your own property.
It is quite literally theft.
Let me show you what I'm talking about.
I'm going to play just a little bit of this trailer here that's up at a website, thegreattakingreport.com, where you can actually watch the entire documentary for free.
I want you to take a listen to this.
For 400 years, securities were personal property.
If your account provider, your broker, or your custodian became insolvent You could take immediate return of your securities.
That is no longer the case.
America is in trouble.
The Federal Reserve can be summarized in three words.
It's a scam.
I never realized it was the most profoundly corrupt institution in the world pretending to be honorable.
Mr. Webb came out with his book and people began to read it and constituents started calling me and saying what are you going to do about it and I didn't realize this and I didn't realize that and I can lose everything that I own.
So I've written this book, The Great Taking, to put on the table a very sophisticated structure designed to take essentially all financial collateral globally.
In 1994, the UCC, which is the Uniform Commercial Code, changed wording regarding securities.
What it meant that the stocks that you and I purchase can be used as collateral to guarantee loans for that investment firm.
1994, Article 8 Revision.
They created, conjured, a new type of property ownership or property right called a securities entitlement.
That's a contract.
So it isn't security in the sense that you thought you used to own something on paper.
You own securities, you own the number that says on your brokerage statement, but securities are more fungible in that respect.
So there's a movement afoot to actually get local state governments to correct this obvious error that is essentially providing a pathway for theft.
And so joining us now to talk more about this, we've got the filmmaker.
We've got the actual filmmaker of that documentary.
Stop It, The Great Taking.
This is the director here.
He joins us now.
His name is James Patrick.
James, thank you so much for being a guest here on the Millstone Report.
We really do appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for having me on.
Absolutely. So when did you get into that?
I know you've made a lot of different documentary films.
When did you first hear about this particular issue and what made you want to get involved?
Well, I'd researched the history of money and banking and, you know, the history of bubbles and a formerly trained economist.
So when I met David Webb, we were both a year and a half ago, we were both speaking at a conference in Sweden, and I heard him give a two and a half hour presentation on the subject.
I was intrigued by it and asked if he wanted to make a film.
And so we became friends and kind of embarked on this film.
And he really helped me understand what's...
The real fundamental scams or inequities or these really systemic problems within the financial system.
Really, I've been trained on, you know, what's the problems of fractional reserve banking and the problems of the central banks and really kind of being from Washington, D.C., determine the guys behind the Federal Reserve and the central banks are really the...
The ones really controlling all these issues of war and foreign policy and debt and taxes like you're talking about.
So really, this film really documents the legislative efforts in 2024 to fix some of the laws that undermine our property rights to stocks and bonds.
Because now as it stands, when you buy a stock or a bond, You're not really the clear owner.
You just own a contractual claim on a stock or a bond called a securities entitlement, your securities entitlement holder.
And in the event the firms playing with your stocks and bonds as collateral fail, the secured creditors of the bets they were making on it have a right to take the collateral, your stocks, ahead of you in the event that they fail.
That's absolutely incredible.
I mean, it's nuts.
It just seems like, I mean, the guy at the beginning of the trailer there for the film is saying, like, the Federal Reserve is the...
The greatest scam.
But, I mean, it's not this institution that they purport to be.
Obviously, we all know this.
But it also is now trickled in.
It's corrupted the entire system, all of Wall Street.
I mean, this is shocking news to an average investor, somebody who's got their retirement, somebody who was maybe very upset last week, seeing the dip.
What's that going to mean for the security?
How they finish the rest of their life financially.
But what you're saying is...
It's much worse than that.
It's much more volatile than that.
And it's thanks to this Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
What is the Uniform Commercial Code, sir?
The UCC is really a body of commercial law that was started in the late 1800s.
It was really just to create consistent laws around commercial contracts throughout the U.S. So it's not a bad thing, but this is a clear abuse of the issue.
Just to give a little backstory, probably starting in the 60s or earlier, stockbrokers, custodians, big banks, any financial firm handling?
Client securities, client stocks and bonds.
They started really keeping them in pooled accounts and then using them as collateral, betting with them, posting them for their own bets, or renting those stocks and bonds out to other third parties to post as collateral on bets.
And then they would get a little interest.
That would be their profit.
But this is really fraud.
It was like embezzlement of client assets.
So their efforts were taken to legalize the practice and formalize it and illegally shield themselves from client claims if they go bankrupt.
The really biggest milestone in these legal changes were this 1994 revision of Article 8 of the UCC.
Article 8 really deals with securities.
And in that, they really had two big legal inventions.
One is substituting direct title with the client's real claim to a security with a contractual claim on a security.
You don't really own them anymore.
The second thing was that the secured creditors of the bets...
Your stocks are posted to.
The secured creditors have priority ahead of the entitlement holders.
So that's this foundational legal structure.
Now, later on in 2005 and'06, there were changes to the bankruptcy code because there's fraudulent transfer, constructive fraud.
The bankruptcy code was also a legal obstacle to the secured creditors taking your client's assets.
It's just, I mean, it's the first I've heard of it.
I mean, it's absolutely nuts.
You know, 1994, we're in the Clinton administration.
So, I mean, this is not, this was intentional.
I mean, do you think this was intentional?
This was, I think, you know, something that flew under the radar, legislative sleight of hand, like, you know, to benefit the big banks.
You know, we've got the stuff in the trailer.
We have the, you know, the state of Tennessee taking notice of this.
And one of the guys said, when I looked at the law, the way it was written, they have a point here.
It can be interpreted that, yeah, all of these people's assets actually are going to be given as collateral in the event of a financial collapse.
So what is the status in states like Tennessee?
Have they actually made the legislative changes to ensure the investments of Tennesseans?
No, I mean, to date, no states have successfully passed a bill fixing Article 8 to not allow, or really to allow contracts to be written where private property is respected.
So we really need to, I really encourage everyone, take 10 minutes.
If you own any stock or bond, take 10 minutes to look up your state legislator and call them up and tell them you need Article 8 revised to restore your property rights to your own life savings.
Everyone's pension funds, everyone's mutual funds, your IRAs, you know, 95% of the market is these massive funds where you can't get a real share certificate for your stocks.
They're all Kept in a pooled, fungible form in this massive system being used as collateral many, many times over.
So they call it a dematerialized form when your stocks and bonds are kept in a non-physical, non-certificated form.
So that effort really started earlier in the early 70s to dematerialize all the stocks and bonds.
So to get rid of these share certificates.
Which really assign clear title to your assets.
When you buy a stock or bond, it used to be your name was written on the record of the firm that issued the stock or bond.
The company issuing, the issuer would have a record of all the holders.
That was sort of phased out and now they've quote dematerialized all the stocks or bonds.
There's been initiatives throughout US and Europe for For many decades to get to fully dematerialize all securities.
And this allows the financial services industry to use this client assets more efficiently as collateral and then have a more efficient utilization of the stocks or bonds.
But just to tell you one scary statistic, a lot of people that buy, let's say, U.S. Treasury bonds as being the most secure Security they could buy.
Those are like the gold standard to use as collateral on these derivatives bets, on these financial bets.
And so those are getting used sometimes over 100 times over, leveraged up.
So this is really ripe for...
This really creates a lot of systemic instability.
It creates...
Likelihood of a collapse.
And what's different about this is if there is a collapse, you can really lose all of your stocks and bonds.
All stocks and bonds are at risk of loss in a systemic-wide downturn in the derivatives market, and then that would crash the market, and then there would be this sweeping of everyone's securities as collateral to undergird the system.
So this is something everyone needs to do.
Yeah, and as of right now, they've got the law on their side.
Yeah, right now there's a legal structure in place that allows the banks to take your stocks and bonds in the event of a bankruptcy.
So it's really important.
This first change of law happened at the state level with the UCC, and that's actually kind of like a good thing because this is something we can fix, and we have a better shot at...
At fixing that on the state level than we do, let's say, these other changes made to the bankruptcy code on the federal level.
So people really need to step up and do something about it.
Everyone just sits back and consumes all this scary information passively.
I think that's kind of a psychological strategy to get.
Immobilize people to make them passive.
So this is really an issue we can clearly see in the documents.
It's in the black and white.
And we need to all call our state representatives and ask them to...
To restore our property rights.
And we have a legal team in place who can write the bills for your state representatives.
But we need that kind of grassroots support to carry these things through the state legislators.
Because otherwise, like what happened in Tennessee, South Dakota, and in 2025, this year.
It was introduced in 10 states or more, and it was kicked out of all of them because the bank lobbyists showed up and citizens didn't.
So there's got to be an educational effort here.
And so, yeah, call your legislators.
But what you guys have put together, again, at thegreattakingreport.com, where they can go watch the trailer.
Especially if you know your state representative.
Or your state senator and send them that just so that they can get educated about, you know, what this issue even is.
Now, James, you mentioned derivatives, and I'm not an economist like you are.
I, you know, am not really, you know, extremely, I'm more of a practical guy.
But I do have this graphic here that I was sent.
Let me get rid of this lower third here so we can fully see this.
Derivatives complex, collateral base, the global derivatives market, and they mention this in the trailer, $2 quadrillion, which just seems like a made-up number.
And they've got the global securities market at $130 trillion.
Can you tell us about the derivatives market and what...
What does this mean?
Put it in layman's terms for us.
What does this chart mean?
Okay, so I don't know if you want to put it back up and I can talk about it, but it's basically all the stocks and bonds in the U.S. and Europe are valued at around $130 trillion.
And then off of that, now it's probably less than that that are being used as collateral, but that's just...
To give you an idea, everyone's stocks and bonds are posted as collateral for one bet.
So a derivative is just a speculative contract saying the price of a dollar, a euro, yen, or gold, or oil will go up or down over a certain time period.
So they call them derivatives because they're derived from a real thing, but they're not a contract promising to deliver a real thing.
They're derived from a real thing.
There's bets.
They're bets.
So you have to put down an initial margin or you have to put some money down to activate the deal.
And you say,"Hey, I want to bet the yen will go up next week 10% or whatever." And then you put down an initial margin.
If the contract goes in your favor.
Then the other guy on the other side of the contract has to put down more initial margin to keep it alive, or he gets that taken, wiped out.
Or if the contract moves against you, you got to put up more money, put up more collateral.
So there's 130 trillion of stocks and bonds in the US and Europe, and that's being used as collateral many times over to create a derivatives market of like two, some estimates are...
One and a half, two quadrillion or more dollars worth of these speculative contracts.
So is this next chart related to what you're talking about?
Yeah. So the Bank of International Settlements is the central bank of the central bank.
And this is a chart from a paper they put out.
So here's a...
Here they're showing kind of the flows of collateral through these collateral management systems.
I know there's a lot of jargon in here.
Well, in my general opinion, it all looks very, very complicated.
And any time you have a complex system and a small subset of people that understand it, the opportunity for corruption is gargantuan, in my opinion.
Correct, yeah.
Go ahead.
The long story short is like the financial industry at the highest level started committing these frauds, using client assets.
They legalized it in the law, this over 50, 60 year period.
I was told in the'80s, this became rampant.
The'90s, they had to legalize it.
And then in the 2000s, they legalized it in the EU.
And then in 2005 and'06, there were critical changes to the bankruptcy code that basically exempted fraudulent transfer.
In the Lehman Brothers case, for example, then you had the Lehman Brothers collapse since 2007-08.
And then they use that to set up even more scheming, like institutional changes within the way derivatives markets work.
I don't want to throw out more jargon.
Is it just so confusing?
No, no, no.
I get it.
I get it.
The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy proceeding works.
So Lehman Brothers was using all their client stocks and bonds as collateral on their speculative derivatives trades.
And then when they went bust.
So J.P. Morgan was the custodian for their client's securities and was a secured creditor of the derivatives bets Lehman was making with their client's securities.
So J.P. Morgan was like on both sides of the deal.
They were the custodian and the guy that took them, took the security, so took the client's assets.
So all these clients are pissed off after that.
They're suing Lehman Brothers, suing J.P. Morgan for fraud.
They're suing Lehman to get their money back, their securities back.
And then the decision, the judge breaks down all the laws that exempt fraud, allow these.
There was changes to safe harbor in the Bankruptcy Code and there was all these exceptions created that basically legalized fraudulent transfer and constructive fraud.
Now we're in a very bad environment as an investor of stocks and bonds because you don't have clear title to your stocks.
You have this tremendous risk.
And this isn't something like I'm telling you guys, like average people, like I'm saying, like heads of banks, huge funds have no idea about this.
This is really like such a massive, unrecognized risk in the markets.
It's really unbelievable.
I mean, the story is so big, you know.
It is a huge story.
And again, website, thegreattakingreport.com, the documentary, Stop It, The Great Taking.
We're talking with the director, James Patrick.
James, I didn't go over your full bio when I brought you on, but I want to do that now.
You're a film director, you're an economist, you're an investor.
And in the response to the global COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, you directed the international documentary, Planet Lockdown.
It was shot in nine countries, translated into 17 languages.
Recently, you've also released Nitrogen 2000, a documentary film based on Dutch farmers in the Netherlands and their government's attack on the local food supply and land grab schemes.
And currently, you have completed a production on two new films, CBDC, The End of Money with Martin Armstrong and Stop at the Great Taking featuring David Webb.
Again, that's based on the book, David Webb, former hedge fund manager, The Great Taking.
So, while I have you here, I'd like to ask you a question just from somebody, again, who's not an economist, but I've been in the media.
I've been covering the news for a long time.
I guess I started back in 2009 on talk radio.
And one of the things that I remember, it was the rise of the Tea Party.
And everybody was talking about the national debt, the national debt, the national debt.
And I have come to at least believe that clearly...
There's somebody that knows something that we don't.
Because back when I started on radio, national debt was $12 trillion.
And everybody said that the sky was falling and this is something we needed to fix.
Well, now it's $36 trillion and it's only going up.
And I guess at some point in the last 15 years or so, I realized that...
How much $1 trillion was?
At least I tried to conceptualize it.
I did the math, which I'm not great at, but I'm pretty sure $1 trillion is $27 million a day for 100 years with a little money left over.
So then when I started to imagine $1 trillion piles in a field with each pile representing $27 million a day for 100 years, I began to think that really there's not much difference than $12 trillion and $36 trillion.
And just in the gargantuan amount, and I guess I just don't know, does the national debt matter until somebody wants it to matter?
I guess I just feel like the whole thing is a scam, and we're just essentially waiting on a planned financial collapse so that people can preserve their power.
Because for the most part, aside from the average American, the elites...
I mean, they've spent $12 trillion.
Now they've spent $36 trillion.
Their lifestyles haven't changed.
Nothing really bad has happened to them.
So, I mean, if you can spend $12 trillion and nothing bad has happened, why not spend $36 trillion?
That seems to be the mentality, and I'm probably missing something, but again, none of this makes sense to me.
Can you just react to that?
Am I way off here?
About the budgets and...
Well, just that the whole thing seems fake.
I guess the national debt to me just doesn't seem...
People said it was a huge problem in 2010.
Nothing's been done about it.
So is it really a problem until somebody wants it to be a problem?
Well, the national debt is a problem.
I mean, you don't want to be spending all this money on stupid crap that doesn't help people.
I mean, so the government is wildly out of control.
But I think one big issue is that the financing of the government is so...
The amount that is paid with taxes is just so dwarfed by other means of paying for it that they put us through this tax payment thing that only contributes 20% of what they're spending.
Everything is so scammy and out of whack these days.
There's a lot to unravel.
You're right to think that everything's kind of a scam or tricky looking and doesn't really make sense.
Things aren't really made to be a problem unless there's some big interest making a publicity stunt and then putting a dog and pony show for us.
That's definitely the case.
Well, I want to throw this up one more time just so people can go there and they can check out the website.
We have it right here.
Stop It, The Great Taking.
People need to go to the website.
If they want to check out this full documentary, full movie for free, doesn't cost you anything, The Great Taking Report.
James Patrick, we appreciate it, sir.
Thank you for enlightening us on just how corrupt the whole system is.
As Americans today are supposed to pony up and pay the government what...
What we say we owe the government and then sign under penalty of perjury.
It's just a bunch of nonsense.
I really appreciate it.
It's great to meet you, sir.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me on.
All right, absolutely.
We really appreciate it.
Let's do it again soon.
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So, as we told you, it's tax day.
Nobody's excited about it.
I'm not excited about it.
Donald Trump, though.
I've been cautiously optimistic.
I'm only listening to what they're saying.
I'm listening to what Trump and people like Lucknick, Besant are saying.
About the tariffs and what they're predicting.
You know, they're predicting billions of dollars a year, trillions of dollars over several years of revenue that they're going to be able to get.
And the idea that they floated is they're going to turn the IRS into the ERS, the External Revenue Service.
Eric Daughtery posted this last night.
When he was asked a question about eliminating...
Donald Trump was actually asked a question about eliminating the IRS.
This is what it sounded like.
Okay, so will the tariffs...
I don't speak Spanish.
Will the tariffs replace the income tax?
You know, you're the only one that's asked me that.
I deal with all these big financial geniuses nobody ever...
There is a chance that the money from tariffs could be so great that it would replace.
You know, in the old days, about 1870 to 1913, the tariffs were the only form of money.
And that's when our nation was relatively the richest.
We were the richest.
I'm over here like Lloyd Christmas, so you're telling me there's a chance?
Every American.
It's like Lloyd Christmas.
So you're telling me there's a chance that the IRS could be eliminated, the income tax could be eliminated, one of the greatest expansions of the federal government into the homes, into the kitchens, at the kitchen table of every American.
You've got to tell us how much you think you owe us every year.
Then you're going to have to sign your name to a legal document.
Instead of all other taxes, by the way, we can even talk about how the income tax needs to go away.
Of course it does.
But all other local taxes, like your city, your county, they send you a bill in the mail for how much you owe.
Anyway, it's just ridiculous.
The whole thing is a scam.
The whole thing is a scam.
As we have evidence of the United States government just wasting, fleecing, Creating money out of thin air.
But no, they're going to have your income tax in order to make it all work.
And the fact is, they don't.
That's what I was trying to highlight there with James Patrick.
It's monopoly money.
They have magic money machines, as Musk has disclosed.
They don't even need your tax dollars.
So the only reason it's there, as far as I'm concerned, the way I see it, the only reason the income tax is there is to...
It's to be a burden on you.
Because they don't actually need it.
Because they just print money for all of their pet projects and their color revolutions and their promoting of the global home agenda, figuring out which country they're going to go to war with because they passed an anti-LGBTQRSTLNE woke sex religion propaganda law.
The whole thing is just nuts.
And yet we all, this is the day, we all owe money to the government or we owe them their document or an extension.
Extensions are also due.
Here we go.
Here is Elon Musk on Joe Rogan talking about the bureaucracy.
Let's talk about the bureaucracy taking our tax dollars to enrich themselves and become a permanent political class.
The real threat here is to the bureaucracy.
So, like, you probably saw, like, you know, let's say, like, Trump is a threat to our democracy, which is ironic since he was elected with the majority of the, you know, popular vote.
They started saying I was a threat to democracy.
But if you just replace threat to democracy with threat to bureaucracy, it makes total sense.
Right. I mean, the reality is that our elected officials have very little power relative to the bureaucracy until Doge.
So Doge is a threat to the bureaucracy.
It's the first threat to the bureaucracy.
But here's what we're finding out.
We're finding out that the bureaucracy and Congress, they work together to preserve their own power.
Because it's the bureaucracy that's sending all of this money everywhere with zero accountability.
Whether it's to non-profits or NGOs or what have you.
Whether it's to fund leases on government buildings that nobody needs.
And so the bureaucracy keeps the money flowing to all of these groups.
Then those groups tithe portions of that money.
Back into organizations that lead right back to Washington, D.C., right back to the pockets of politicians.
And this is why Congress doesn't like what Doge is doing.
Here is one congressman that, from what I can tell, is more honest about the situation than some of his other counterparts.
Congressman Tim Burchett from Tennessee.
How did we end up where we are?
Well, that's an excellent question.
And when you see people here in Tennessee paying 50% of their income to state, federal, and local taxes through everything else, fees and everything else, and then they see us sending literally billions overseas to our enemies.
You know, I've uncovered $40 million going to the Taliban.
A guy named Sean Ryan over in Middle Tennessee, former...
Navy SEAL, podcaster, he and another guy named Legend had brought this to my attention.
And, you know, last term, I could not even get the Democrats to bring it up in the Senate.
It passed unanimous in the House, not even a question, because they're going to have to admit they made a mistake.
And they've continuously made a mistake, and they did it on purpose, is the worst part about it.
And this graph that you're seeing, and that's 100% what it is, I think you're going to see a paper trail come back to Washington, D.C. And that's why I think a lot of people are nervous, and you'll see a lot of retirements, because they are stealing from the American taxpayer, and now they've got their hand caught in a cookie jar,
and all they can do is attack Elon Musk.
You know, instead of retirement, they should be let out in handcuffs.
I mean, is that really an option?
Hey, you've been caught.
Well, now I'm going to retire.
Where's the accountability?
Don't hold your breath.
Don't hold your breath.
Here is more.
So on Benny Johnson's show, he interviewed recently back on the 8th.
So that last post was a Fox News clip from the 1st of April.
Back on the 8th of April, Tim Burchent went on Benny's show, and I just want to play a portion of that.
You're on the Doge Subcommittee.
You just said that there might be some corruption inside of the government rentals of empty buildings.
Members of Congress owning those buildings.
So we played that for you last week, Burchett questioning this guy, or at least I may not have played it, I can't remember, but I know I had it pulled.
We may have run out of time.
But yeah, the question was asking this guy in the government, you know...
How much money are we spending on leases, you know, and leasing these government buildings and how many politician family members are the owners of those buildings?
Corruption. The head of Doge, Elon Musk, saying today to Chuck Schumer, I'm starting to think that you're getting a piece of the action with all the government fraud.
That couldn't possibly be true, could it?
Congressman, you must know something about this.
Has Elon discovered something about Chuck Schumer, his family?
I'd say he's probably...
Discovered something about everybody.
Elon's got that paper trail.
And he told us in the meeting, in our little private meeting, there's a paper trail and it's going back to Washington, D.C. And dadgummit, somebody better be let out of one of these buildings in handcuffs because this is real.
This is going on.
We've seen it all over.
We see it in California with some of the elected officials out there.
It's been documented in the past, and nobody's willing to say anything about it or do anything about it.
They get reelected, and they get put right back in leadership.
And that's why it's so important to have a Justice Department that's not weaponized against the people, but is weaponized against corruption.
But will that happen?
Will Pam Bondi, will Cash Patel weaponize the Justice Department against the government?
Because that's what desperately needs to happen.
Here's that tweet.
Chuck, I'm starting to think that you're getting a piece of the action with the government fraud, but no, that couldn't possibly be the reason.
Obviously, this is Musk intuiting, messing with him, trolling him.
I mean, come on.
It's a no-brainer.
Somebody that's been in Congress as long as Chuck Schumer is dirty in more ways than one.
Now, then you can go to Jasmine Crockett, okay?
Jasmine Crockett, who's not qualified to be up there at all.
Of course, I'm starting to think all of them are not.
But she says, Ann VanderSteel of Ann VanderSteel News, or Steel News, she says, let me see if I got this right.
Someone donated to Jasmine Crockett's campaign over 50 times to the tune of $870,000, and the donor didn't even know they were donating.
And now...
We have to, quote, investigate, end quote, to see if Jasmine should be expelled from Congress.
It's always the slow process, right?
It was nothing for them to arrest and charge.
You know how many J6ers had been charged at this point in the Biden administration?
A lot.
A whole lot.
And there were many more that came after that.
Everything is moving so incredibly fast.
Slow. We still don't have the Epstein docs.
We still don't have arrests.
And it's, you know, we need to be as vocal as you want to be about it.
Be as vocal as you want to be about it.
And the onus is on them, because the bottom line is, if those arrests don't come, or arrests like this don't come, or any of that, I mean, then they're in on it.
I mean, it's their legacy, right?
You know, they're going to be...
Think about it.
I mean, if you're Kash Patel or you're Pam Bondi, and we have all of this corruption that has been exposed, you know where to go look, you know what to tell the grand jury, you know all of the things to say to get your indictments.
If the indictments don't come, then we are well within our rights as Americans to assume that you're in on the global pedophile scandal.
That you're covering up for it.
And so that's what these people do have a lot of weight to carry in that regard.
I mean, I think put yourself into Akash Patel's shoes and what are people going to assume about me personally if I don't deliver what everybody knows is high treason,
vast felonious activity.
From the 2020 stolen election to Jeffrey Epstein to, you know, what are people going to think about me if I don't deliver on what I said I would deliver on when we went on all of these alternative podcasts to reach the American people,
to secure this political coalition, to give Trump his second term?
What are people going to think if you don't deliver?
They're going to think that you're in on it.
And maybe they don't care.
I know I would care.
You've only got one name.
She says, where are the...
So then we got Ag Blue money laundering scheme.
Democrats are a domestic terror group.
Jasmine Crockett is a criminal and a fraud.
Where are the arrests?
So many people need to be arrested.
And it's April the 15th.
It's April 15th, folks.
Uncle Sam wants your money for what?
It means nothing to them.
It means a lot to me, a lot to you, a lot, but it really means absolutely nothing to the people in the federal government.
In the words of James Carville, we're dying down here!
We're dying!
In a follow-up story, last broadcast we told you about the situation in Colorado, how Colorado parents need to brace for the anti-Christian laws that are coming for your kids.
If you don't use pronouns, the compelled speech, we did a whole show on it.
Got an update on that story here in just a minute.
But as a foreshadowing of what is to come in Colorado, we have this out of Massachusetts.
breaking Massachusetts Department of Children and Families reportedly took custody of five children after a pediatrician reported their parents for allegedly refusing to vaccinate their nine-month-old baby.
This is one of my absolute worst nightmares.
Any time I've thought about this as a parent, the absolute turmoil if the government came and took my kid.
The psychological...
I can't imagine.
Pray for this family in Massachusetts that clearly has their priorities in order, but their kids have been kidnapped by the Massachusetts government.
If you're a Christian in Massachusetts, you might want to think about fleeing immediately.
Immediately. Follow-up to the Colorado story.
William Wolfe...
Says the main sponsor of Colorado, HB 1312, has a crash couch for children whose parents are not affirming.
We have another word for that, he says.
It's called grooming.
Sick, sick stuff.
Listen to this testimony in Colorado about a bill that would force parents to use the pronouns of their kids or else their kids will be taken from them.
In my house...
We have something called the crash couch.
And for anyone that doesn't feel comfortable, any constituent, any non-constituent, any of my children's friends that feels put out by their family or is scared to talk to their family,
we have a crash couch for you.
And one of my children's friends came over to me about a year ago.
And said, I'm coming out to my parents, and I'm really scared, but knowing I have a safe place to live, just in case it doesn't go well, is giving me the courage to do that.
And as my co-prime sponsor stated, when we use the name that a child wants, that reduces suicide by 25%.
That's an actual life.
It's a child in our community.
It's a child that might be on my crash couch.
I think people are rightfully asking, what else might happen on the crash couch?
These people are religious fanatics.
They are pagan religious fanatics that so want...
A totalitarian...
They want tyranny enforced for anybody that disagrees with them.
Again, they're doing the complete opposite.
It's so evil what this bill in Colorado is doing.
Deadnaming a child, calling them by their given name instead of the name they want to be called, is now going to be considered child abuse if this passes.
Not using the pronouns.
Refusing to bear false witness and call somebody a girl when they're really a boy is going to be considered child abuse in the state of Colorado if this bill passes.
It really is religion versus religion.
It's paganism versus Christianity.
There is no neutrality.
You're going to worship something.
Are you going to worship the true God of heaven?
Or are you going to worship...
A crash couch.
Some sort of weird, I don't know, sofa altar.
We're here encouraging kids to have, you know, we're going to create a refuge and a safe space for you.
Violating family.
It's anti-family.
We've totally lost the plot with authority and hierarchy.
In the country.
And that's why Colorado is appealing to the states to enforce their tyranny, because people will not comply.
They will not comply.
But here's a good juxtaposition for you.
The Associated Press is reporting that the nation of Hungary has passed a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ plus public events seen as a major blow to rights.
What is the right?
Well, it seems like Hungary believes that this right to a public display of LGBTQ is the right to sexualize children or expose children to sexual lifestyles that the nation of Hungary apparently deems very harmful to them.
Budapest, Hungary.
Hungary's parliament on Monday According to Justin Spike of the Associated Press, passed an amendment to the Constitution that allows the government to ban public events by the LGBTQ RSTL and would-you-like-to-buy-a-vow-woke sex religion.
Listen to what they say here.
This is the editorialization of AP.
amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical, and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including that to peacefully assemble.
Hungary's contentious child protection legislation prohibits the depiction or promotion of homosexuality to minors aged under 18 years old.
So what they're saying is, actually, you say you have rights.
Okay, okay.
You have rights.
What about the children's right?
To grow up in a society that isn't promoting wicked things and wicked lifestyles and calling it good and ideal.
What about the child's right?
Children have rights too.
What a totally based law coming out of the nation of Hungary.
Saying that, okay, you've got a right to peacefully assemble, but we're going to weigh that against a child's right to grow up in a moral...
Physical and spiritual.
We're going to take into consideration the development of a child's moral compass.
Physical safety, because the physical safety of it is an aspect of this movement draws in pedophiles and starts us on the path to normalized pedophilia.
And then the spiritual development.
Hey, maybe the LGBTQ rainbow mafia And the path that sets children...
We don't want to set kids on a path to health.
That's what they're saying.
We don't think setting kids on a path, saying that this lifestyle is not only permissible, but it needs to be celebrated.
And it needs to be held up as good.
It's wild.
So this new law actually has gotten J.D. Hall to remark this.
J.D. Hall from the blog Insight to Insight says the world doesn't understand this but soon will.
The growing anti-gay movement is being called populist because it's a groundswell.
He says it's not inherently religious.
It is the result of normal, mostly secular people getting fed up with the filth and ugliness of homosexuality.
And if you think a Christian-based homophobia is harsh, you've not even begun to see what happens when the rest of the world has had its fill.
Our treatment of them will seem charitable by comparison.
He says, historically, sodomy in every once gay-friendly culture goes from the celebration phase to the culling phase almost overnight.
Now, we also have this, just in kind of keeping with the culture, that connects directly to this story.
Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live, Which is grasping at straws to remain relevant, did a sketch where they made fun and poked fun out of a gay couple, two dudes, with a new baby.
None of their friends knew about the baby.
And it's just cringe.
I know people have been sharing this story around.
As saying, hey, we're winning because Saturday Night Live is finally making fun of the absurdity that two gay men can be good parents or that two gay men can have a baby.
And that may be the case that they're trying to...
But these people hate you.
You need to remember, the Hollywood, New York theater scene...
They hate middle America, and they're doing this as a strategic political pivot to pretend to be normal, to pretend to be outraged by the same things that we are all outraged for, but they have very different goals.
They know that they're going to have to go back to pretending to be moderate, like Obama pretended to be moderate.
Remember, Obama, when he was first running for office, he was against gay marriage, and then he had his evolution.
He evolved on the issue.
Do you remember that?
The Democrats and Hillary Clinton were against gay marriage in 2008.
They're realizing now that they're going to have to go back to that to have it, and they're going to use platforms like SNL to do it.
He's exactly right.
He says this SNL skit is important.
The deep state has clearly advised its Hollywood elites to try to appear normal.
This isn't real progress.
It's a temporary pivot.
Stephen A. Smith is part of the normalcy campaign.
It's all coordinated.
Right. There's this new push to make Stephen A. Smith run for the presidency.
It's incredible.
We live in incredible times.
There's no doubt about that, and we're put here for a reason, for a time such as this.
My name is Paul Harrell.
That's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
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