March 21, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome, everyone, to tonight's live broadcast this Saturday evening, March the 21st.
I'm your host, James Edwards, Keith Alexander, in the studio with me as well, as he always is.
Let's give you a quick preview of what's coming your way tonight.
In the second hour, Mark Weber, the director for the Institute of Historical Review, will be back to discuss what happens when a society feels threatened.
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But first, our special series during the month of March, TPC's World Tour rolls on this evening as we now welcome to the show for the first time, Major General Zelsko Glasnovich.
After a highly decorated military career, our distinguished guest was elected into the Croatian parliament in 2015, where he has served ever since.
General, it's a high honor to have you on the broadcast tonight.
How are you?
Well, thank you very much, James, and greetings to you, to your staff and listeners, and all the veterans and their families.
Amen.
And thank you.
And thank you, sir, for your service to your nation and to our people worldwide.
And for staying up past midnight for this series we've had.
We've had people all over the world, Australia, the UK, Sweden, Canada, now Croatia.
And we appreciate everybody accommodating our live schedule and for staying up late with us.
Well, let's first talk, if you don't mind, General, about your military career.
I've read a story that you were severely wounded in battle, wounded near the heart, and that you were sent to the hospital, but escaped from the hospital so you could rejoin the front lines.
Is that true?
Well, more or less, I've been wounded several times, but this was the worst one.
I was shot through the lungs in 1992, and thank God I survived, made it back to the front line.
And I had a, you know, leadership, you have to lead from the front.
You can't take leadership.
My brother was captured not soon after that, and he was tortured for 15 months, but he, thank God, he survived.
And I think that's due to the prayer of my family, my grandmother especially, who was really a heroine in my eyes.
Well, what an example.
What a family.
My goodness, 15 months of torture, such a severe wound, leaving the hospital against orders to return to the front lines.
This was in the Croatian War for Independence, correct?
True, yes, yes.
Well, the war lasted for from 91 until 95.
And I'm honored to say that we had American veterans also fighting in my unit in Bosnia against the Abdamujahin, which we see today, that new incarnation of ISIS, Daesh.
We fought against them in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
I had a platoon of foreign volunteers that served within my unit.
I read also, General, that you were known for demanding, as a commander, a high level of discipline.
Now, do you think that even in society that this has become one of our banes, that men of the West lack discipline?
And has that contributed to where we stand currently as a people across Christendom, across the West?
Well, the first factor in any battle is decisive leadership.
We need that more than ever today because we're living in a world that's slowly committing the West, civilizational suicide.
And unless we have the courage to stand up for what we believe, we're facing moral extinction.
We're going to more or less moral capitulation.
We cannot let this happen.
I know that you retired from the military in 2000, if my notes are correct.
What led you to getting politically involved?
You were a war guy, war hero.
You got a department man.
A military man, correct.
But it's not unprecedented for men of your stature to go into politics, but it's also not necessarily the norm.
What led you to get active 15 years after retirement and run for a seat in the Croatian parliament?
Well, in 2000, the recycled communists came back to power in Croatia in 2000, and they basically retired all the old officers from the war.
And the people that I served with more or less pushed me into the political arena.
And I won the first election.
I got in on the Christian Democrat vote.
And the second time, I came in on an independent vote.
So I'm still there in parliament.
Who are the rulers?
What party is in charge in Croatia at the present time?
Well, I'm sorry to say that more or less that the old communist cadres were basically recycled communists that taken power.
And that's the problem with Croatia, that we're still waiting for an option.
We've got the same political class wearing new hats, in other words, is that right?
True, it's cryptists.
You know, the chameleon, political chameleons, basically, they were nowhere to be seen before the war, during the war.
Then they resurfaced because that doctrine is basically Luciferian and it's very, very perfidious.
And people sometimes lose the power of discernment.
And this is our problem in Croatia.
But I'm an optimist.
I think the right option will win soon enough.
Also in Europe in general, we see parties that are rising to power or getting into parliaments that are patriotic and they don't see the world as a sort of universal brotherhood of abstract nations, but nations based on identity, faith, and patriotism.
Well, excuse me.
Is that the problem with the old leadership then?
They were globalist in their orientation, communist, and people were voting basically for nationalism when they took arms.
It was a matter of survival.
You know, as you know, I think that we had our border is over a thousand kilometers of Bosnia, Herzegovina.
We fought first two enemies.
We fought greater Serbian imperialists, and then we fought the Mujahideen in Croatia.
I'm a Croatian general, but we have to have troops there because it was basically one battlefield.
You can't separate Croatia from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
And Croatians in Bosnia are under siege from more or less Islamic Unitarianism.
Well, General, this is a perfect opportunity for you to shed some light on something that we need to know about, and that is the political breakdown of the various parties and countries in the Balkans, which we will do, ladies and gentlemen, after this message from our sponsor.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is again our honor to be able to present to this audience a first-time guest on this radio program, even after all these years.
But we hope this will be the first of a continuing collaboration with a man who puts his people and his faith first, Major General Zelchko Glasnovich of Croatia, current member of parliament in Croatia.
We shared with you in the first segment that he was a hero in the Croatian War for Independence.
He had been injured, left the hospital, escaped from the hospital, as the story goes, to return to the front lines, known as a very strict commander who demanded a high level of discipline.
And don't we all need that right now?
In and out of war, the men of the West need discipline.
We have lost that, and we are losing our nations in part because of that.
The former president of Croatia retired, General Glasnovich, in 2000.
He was not politically active until 2015 when he sought a seat in the Croatian parliament.
And that's where this interview will resume.
And Keith, you had a great question right before the break.
We'll get back to that.
But first, General, I would like to ask you, what was the catalyst that led you to running for elected office?
Well, as the old saying goes, you're either part of the pollution or part of the problem.
Actually, veterans pushed me into the political arena, and I had a moral obligation to make the country better.
So that's basically it.
Well, what are the current issues?
Because we had last week on a former member of European Parliament.
Of course, tonight, you are a current member of the Croatian Parliament.
What are the current issues that Croatia is tackling and wrestling with?
Well, as you know, Croatia has joined the European Union.
And basically, the European Union is more or less a fiscal union.
It's not a union of nations.
As this coronavirus outbreak proved, it's every nation for itself, basically.
And it has a huge bureaucracy.
And basically, we're fighting the cultural battle that you're fighting in America is the same as the one we're fighting in Europe.
We're fighting, we're standing up to the culture of death, which is just listening to your program.
I see you're anti-abortion.
This is part of the culture of death.
And we're against social engineering.
I think the Frankfurt School and cultural Marxism has permeated every pore of our society, our school system.
Critical theories destroying the educational system in the West globally.
We have to stand up against this, as I say, this erosion of Western values and Western identity.
Okay, General, this is Keith Alexander again.
Balkans and Balkan politics is kind of like an enigma wrapped in a conundrum or something from people outside of the area.
Can you tell us how that plays, if at all, into the battles that you're fighting now against the halfway house to globalism called the European Union?
Well, actually, it's fairly simple.
Croats don't like to be called, see themselves as part of the Balkans.
They were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is basically the Holy Roman Empire.
Yugoslavia is a perfect example of a failed experiment where the idea of multiculturalism collapsed.
What held that country together, that artificial country, which fell apart twice.
As my grandfather said, it was born in blood and dissolved in blood.
First, it dissolved in the Second World War with the Axis invasion.
And in this last war, that led to the demise of the second Yugoslavia.
But Croatians are basically the capital.
And they've always been part of Central Europe.
Serbia has been part of the Orthodox, the Orthodox faith, Eastern Orthodox faith.
Plus, we have a large Muslim, well, actually, Bosnia has a large Muslim population that arrived there with the Turkish invasions during the after the fall of Constantinople.
And we know the Turks got to Vienna in the 17th century.
So this powder tag exploded.
The communists, basically, the Yugoslav army was basically a Serbian force.
And they disarmed all the...
It's actually a history lesson for Americans, because what happened was that the Yugoslav National Army, or the People's Army, basically disarmed all of the republics.
And we were basically defenseless.
We had hunting rifles and there was an arms embargo.
So we fought the war in the beginning with minimum of equipment, arms and equipment.
It took time to train and equip, but in the end, we formed an army, seven guards brigades, and we formed reserve unit, reserve units, and generally won the war in the battle.
We won the war, but we're somehow now losing the peace.
Well, General, what European nation do you think the Croatian people feel the most kinship to?
You said they were all part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Are they more like Austria?
Do they identify with that part?
Or with any other Balkan nation or Hungary?
In the First World War.
Yeah, my grandfather was on the Italian front in the First World War in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
My grandmother's brothers who were killed in the First World War also wearing the Austro-Hungarian uniform.
And I think we feel kinship to, say, the Baltic republics, we have a similar history because we were all threatened by the Soviet juggernaut.
And most Croatians in the diaspora were sort of similar to the Irish because we have a large, we have almost more people living outside the country from Australia to America than we have in the country.
And these people are basically, majority are Catholic and anti-communist.
Well, to the position of being anti-communist, I'd like to share with the audience.
And again, folks, our guest, retired Major General Zelchko Glasnovich, current member of parliament in Croatia.
I've read, General, that you've put it that you stand with people who fight for the values of the West, Christianity, moral integrity, working habits, and identity, patriotism, nation, religion, and shared European values.
You stand against communists who are under a mask of cosmopolitanism and democracy.
These are your words.
I want you to know, as you are a current sitting member of parliament, how much that inspires me, even as an American.
I don't think I can tell you how much I wish we had just one congressman or one senator who would speak truth to power as you did in just those two sentences.
Well, I think we have to find common ground in the West.
Because we have to remember all the time that the battle is being fought at three levels, not just the political level, but above all, the cultural and the metaphysical level.
Because I think Dostoevsky, he said once he mentioned that the human soul is like an arena in which God and Satan are fighting for supremacy.
So we have to stand up.
We cannot sit on two chairs at the same time.
We have to decide, speak the truth, and we have to act.
You know, Keith, just to reiterate the point, as we sit here and we listen, retired Major General, a war hero, member of parliament.
You know, compared to U.S. media and our elected so-called leaders over here, who's more in our corner?
The general.
To say the least.
And, you know, we were just reading a, I know we're about to come up on a break any second now, so we may have to follow this up in the next segment.
But Keith and I were just actually right before the show started tonight reading a speech that you gave very recently before the Croatian parliament in Zagreb.
And we'll talk about that when we come back.
We still have half an hour remaining with the general, retired Major General Zelchko Glasnovich.
We'll be right back, folks.
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I want to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that coming up in the next hour, we'll be rejoined by our good friend Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review.
He'll be talking to us about the new abnormal and what the coronavirus means for Americans and the West.
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We're looking forward to that, but he'll have to be good indeed to top our guest this hour, retired Major General Zelchko Glasnovic, current member of parliament in the nation of Croatia.
And we were talking in the last segment, Keith, about the way that this man stands up for the West, for our identity, for the faith of our fathers.
And he does it as an elected official.
And I was scouring the ranks of our congressmen and our senators.
And I cannot find one with the courage and the dedication of this man not here in this country.
And we were reading a speech that General Glasnovich gave to the Croatian parliament back in January about the psychotic left and how that is Croatia's greatest threat.
How would you break down that speech?
We have the transcript of it.
Well, I stand to be correct, but basically, some of the old players have found their way into the new government and they have not changed their ways.
Would that be a fair assessment, General?
Well, true.
They're really good at shapeshifting.
I think this is the problem.
We have politicians that are basically just the old guard.
The same thing happened in all the post-communist countries.
Well, you had laws passed after the fall of the Berlin Wall called Restriction Laws.
Restriction is basically from the Latin to light up, to cleanse, I think.
But a lot of these people basically shapeshifted and overnight, from party hacks, snitches that worked for the secret police, overnight they became cosmopolitans, progressives, liberals.
It's only an act, of course.
And I don't know if there's a similarity in America because you never had the one-party system there.
But I think we have to be very, it's always, my grandmother would always say, don't listen to what's being said, but who's saying?
So I think this is one of the basic rules we should follow when we're trying to.
I think we've lost generally in the West is losing the power of discernment, which is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
If we lose this, then we're open for manipulation.
I think we have a media filter generally in the West.
The media is basically, it survives, it feeds on fear and insecurity, and it only allows to filter what they wish us to see.
It's like an iceberg.
We see just the surface, but below the surface is kept from the public.
And we're living in a dystopia.
I think that 1984, I think we talk a lot about Orwell, but I think that dystopia is generally here now.
We're living it.
Well, General, I hate to come back to the same type of question, but it seems to crop up.
Is Jewish power and influence a problem in Croatian politics?
Are the old communists also like the Russian Bolsheviks were predominantly Jewish?
Does that dynamic play any part whatsoever in the politics?
Well, yeah, in Europe, people call Tauta the Jewish.
Of course, they call Tauto the Israeli lobby because, you know, that's where the brawl beaten with that in that cultural war.
We're beaten over the head all the time with the Second World War.
But I always say this: the truth is not an ideological preposition.
And history is not a suffering Olympics, and no one has a monopoly on suffering.
That's a great line.
Yeah, that's a great line.
Yeah.
Yeah, so the truth, the truth is the truth.
So I asked these people in parliament, these, I call them, excuse my crude language here, I call them anal alchemists, these people that I asked them, I said, listen, can you give me the name of one camp in the Gulag Archipelago where 18 million human beings passed through?
Of course, you know, Solsthenitsyn, the Russian writer that spent time in the Gulag, his famous book, The Gulag Archipelago, there were 200 camps where Bolshevik statists tortured and murdered people.
He couldn't name one camp.
So it's in the West, that filter only allows us, but we have to just see who owns the media.
When you look at the economist, foreign affairs, you have, of course, you have the Jewish lobby in their shelves.
People sell themselves cheaply.
But again, another proverb, a German proverb: a dead man's shirt has no pockets.
No one will remember what we took with us to the grave, but the legacy left behind that will follow us and our children and grandchildren.
So unless we stand up, speak the truth, and act, as I said before, we're facing this is basically a cultural war and a spiritual war.
So we must find common ground.
I mean, this radio program is part of this, that formula.
So we have.
And we have a saying over here, General, which is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
What is true?
What are the prospects?
Go ahead.
Yeah, I think that, but history is not horrible.
History is cyclical.
Empires rise and fall, but if we're students of history, we'll see that many of these empires.
I think if you number them from Egypt on, first were corrupted from the inside.
I think the enemy is always within the walls.
I think what Cicero said, the Roman order, that you can see when you're defending your city, you can see the banners of the enemy.
You can see his strength.
But the enemy inside the gates said he's more to be feared than the murderer because he's killing the soul and he's corrupting the body politic of the nation.
So this is a much more, it's a much tougher enemy to fight.
You know, General, so many people in America are so concerned with status and being pat on the head by the ruling elite.
And I mean, and willing to sell out their own kind in order to climb the societal ladder.
Whether it be an elected official, a head of business, look, they're more concerned with getting invited to the right cocktail parties than speaking the truth that you have spoken tonight.
And I say again, at the point of sounding repetitious, what I wouldn't give to have just one congressman or senator in this country to tell the truth in a lifetime that you've told in a 30-minute interview thus far.
You are an elected official, a member of parliament.
What is the response of your constituents to your truth?
Well, I think, you know, birds of a feather flop together.
Most of the soldiers are on my side.
These recycled communists in their kin are not.
But I think just a rhetorical question for you for Americans.
What do you think of the $34 billion loan over 10 years for military equipment to Israel?
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We don't like it.
I can tell you right now, we don't like it.
I wish we could claw that back.
What we say is, you know, Trump's program is supposedly MAGA, make America great again.
It's actually MIGA, make Israel great again.
Yeah, for the first time.
Yeah, well, I think that I flew to there, were several European parliament members with me from the so-called right.
I think we flew to Syria to see on the ground what was happening there.
And it was complete carnage.
And I think just for your listeners, we must be wary.
We're living in a world where perception is important, perception, not substance.
And we see the world in 10-second news bites, but the world is not like that.
I was in Damascus, and we walked the same route where St. Paul launched his mission to the West.
And there I saw a monument to half a million Assyrian Christians that were murdered in the 1920s by the Turks, the Chechens, and the Kurds.
We know of the Armenians, but who's heard of the Assyrian Christians?
Christianity is under assault.
And I think that European nations, America, the West, must stand up.
We must find common ground.
We cannot let remember the 30 years war that totally destroyed Europe, Central Europe.
We cannot let this happen again.
We must find common ground and fight for the values of the West.
Well, General, you mentioned cultural Marxism earlier, and you also mentioned perceptions are the ultimate reality for people.
Well, under cultural Marxism, they've taken all over all the institutions in America, at least, that basically established a culture.
They've taken over the churches and they take over the news media.
So consequently, you have to go to sources like us rather than the big media in order to get any information that doesn't follow the Jewish script.
I cannot believe how quickly this hour has flown by.
We have one more segment with retired Major General Zelchko Glasnovich, Member of Parliament in Croatia, staying up well past midnight to be your guest tonight, ladies and gentlemen, and what a guest he is.
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This is our 16th year on the air here, and when I started this show, it was nights like this that I had in mind.
It's interesting to me how kindred spirits find one another across the miles and across time.
And here we are tonight with retired Major General Zeljklo Glasnovich, member of parliament, currently sitting member of parliament in Croatia.
I have three important questions for you, General.
And let's start with the first one.
And by the way, I want to thank you again for being such a well-informed guest and a man so willing to speak the truth.
That puts you in very rare company indeed.
So my question for you now is: Does Croatia have a central bank?
And I ask you that in the context of this possible global economic collapse and if it will affect you as much as it may affect the United States.
We do have a central bank.
We have our own currency, the KUNA, and they're trying to get us to start issuing the Euro.
But I think we saw what the Euro did to Germany.
The spending power of Germans fell by 50%.
So we're trying to hold on to our own currency.
We're a small country, but it's been our currency for hundreds of years.
We don't want to let it go.
A great answer.
A great answer.
That's an informative answer.
So let me ask you this.
And this is something you've been touching on.
Let me just say this.
Sure, go ahead, Keith.
That's the background.
That's the advantage of being so-called backward.
You can learn from other people's mistakes like Germany's.
Well, that's right.
That's right.
Well, I think our salvation may lie in the east, you know, the east of the west, if that makes any sense.
The eastern frontier of Western civilization.
Parts that used to be part of the city.
Well, we must be, brethren.
I think that's also, I think both of you are friends of Pat Buchanan, I believe.
That's right.
Pat Buchanan has made several appearances on this program.
You are correct.
And I work for the guy.
Well, excellent.
I think he'd be interested to know that his book, The Death of the West, is a bestseller in Croatia.
We had it translated, and it's been sold in all the Christian bookshops here.
Yeah, and he has a follow-up on it called Suicide of a Superpower that came out about 15 years after Death of the West, which you ought to consult too to see it.
But anyways, the people here in Croatia, despite the aristocrat and the mass murder committed by the communists, they're still that noble part of the population that survived.
We had a referendum on marriage, and people decided the referendum is marriage is basically a union between a man and a woman.
They stay here, not union.
Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
Well, thank you for doing that.
I mean, and God bless the good people of Croatia, because even Donald Trump is pushing this population of 4.4 million people holding the line for Christendom and the West, our own president here in America, who is supposedly this populist.
Who is cowed by Jewish power and influence.
Let's call a spade a dirty shovel, as Brandeis used to say.
Terrible thing here.
Terrible things are happening.
For example, in Israel, they're all for open borders.
But if I ask them, where are their open borders?
They have a wall of 400 kilometers, whatever.
Well, they're special.
Abortion is abortion only in extreme cases.
What's frightening is that Canada basically, I lived there for I was in the Canadian Army, and it's basically their leader, Justin Trudeau, is a prototype of what a leader should not be.
In 10 years, Canada will not be a Western country.
Not just because of immigration, but because of this social anarchy.
I think they have 30 genders now.
You have an organization in Canada called, yeah, called.
I laugh only to keep from crying, General, because you're right.
I mean, this is the madness.
Well, this actually leads me to my next question.
And not to interrupt you, but this leads me to something so important that we have to touch on.
And that is the post-Christian West.
And you look at the nations that have re-embraced the faith of our fathers, places like Russia, Croatia, Hungary, and they are leading a nationalist revival.
And you look at the places where decadence has taken root and taken hold, like in the United States and Canada and Germany.
And the results have been predictable.
How important is it that for any of our nations to survive and much less thrive that we re-embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Well, the Ten Commandments are a good idea for the basis of any civilized society.
But Christ also said, I will come with a sword, I believe.
I'm not a theologian or a preacher, but I think that somewhere he said this.
And, you know, we don't always have to turn the other cheek.
We have to speak the truth.
We have to defend ourselves.
You know, we saw when the country was disarmed, we were almost, we were there for the slaughter.
Unless we thought, had we not fought back, I would not be on your radio program tonight.
Well, you know what they say in the Bible, it said, if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and get one.
That's what we need to do.
And the problem with our churches is that liberalism has taken over the church denominational headquarters.
We say that the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have been replaced with the Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
That is a folk-singing group that was so popular back in the days of the civil rights movement.
Well, I mean, all of the institutions here in America, whether it be academia, media, of course, government, and even the churches have been negatively affected by the societal trends.
But it is so refreshing.
Again, if we had you on, even as your capacity, in your capacity as just a Croatian citizen, this would have been a fantastic hour of radio.
But obviously, I must admit, it does carry more weight when you put your laurels out there because we just don't have that here in America.
You know, a retired major general, a current member of parliament, who is standing up for the values of our ancestors, standing up for our traditional faith, standing up for our identities as a unique people.
And our military is basically the police force for one world government now.
Nobody in America ever voted for that, but that's what it is.
And so with that being said, General, I would ask you this in closing as we begin to run out of time and it's been an hour that's gone by far too quickly.
I hope, I hope that we can continue to collaborate with you much more frequently going forward.
I hope this will be the first of many appearances you make on this show because I know this is going to get a tremendous amount of feedback from our audience.
But what parting shots would you leave with our listeners tonight?
What haven't we covered that perhaps you'd want to make mention of?
Well, I guess I go back to my grandmother.
She survived two world wars.
The communists killed her whole family, more or less.
But she never bowed under any of this.
She always went on.
She said, never give up.
Don't ever give up.
That's one thing.
Fight the good fight to keep the faith and everything will be in order.
Well, you bring up something important there, I think.
And we've talked about this before.
It's a familiar refrain that suffering bonds people together.
And that one of the effects of suffering is that you remember who you are.
I think here in the South, the South is distinct from the rest of the United States because of our war between the states and the suffering that we had during that war and through Reconstruction.
And because of that group suffering, we formed an identity that is different and distinct and separate from the other parts of the world.
We're the first people on earth to say, Yankee, go home.
But I mean, do you think it's important?
Do you think that we have been too comfortable as Westerners in that perhaps a little suffering will help temper us for the days to come and for the years to come if we are to reclaim our destiny?
Well, I think true enough.
Whether we like it or not, we're tribal.
We stick, let's say, birds of a feather fly together.
You have the same identity in the South.
I'm saddened to hear that they started tearing down some of the monuments to these Confederate work, Confederate heroes.
Memphis is ground zero for that, by the way.
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis statues went down.
Thank you for saying that, General.
That means a lot because it does, you know, that is something that's obviously very, very personal.
You have an organization, the veterans of Confederate, sons of Confederate veterans.
Confederate veterans.
And they fought and they fought these battles in courts.
But of course, you know, our courts are just another institution that is just as subservient to liberal orthodoxy as the rest.
And so it is very hard for traditionalists to get a fair shake in an American court.
And so most of these cases we lose.
Well, I think it's maybe in conclusion, not to terrorize you with my monologues anymore.
My brother says your monologues will put us tight asleep.
I hope not.
Not at all.
You have that Catholic, he's a theologian and a writer, Chesterton.
He wrote a poem called The Ballad of the Pale Horse.
It's about King Alfred, the Anglo-Saxon king that defeated the Danes, I believe, in the 9th century or the 8th century.
And in that ballot, he says that the barbarians will come.
They're at the gates, basically, the barbarians, just as they were before Rome.
And Chesterton says this in the ballot.
He says, they won't come with weapons and torches.
They'll come with ink and the ink on their hands.
So how did we get to this?
How did we let the minority terrorize the majority?
And if we remain silent, as I said before, we're going to commit civilizational suicide.
General, I want to thank you again.
And if you would accept a salute from two civilians, I can guarantee you that I, along with my co-host Keith Alexander, are saluting you right now.
We thank you for your truth.
We thank you for your service.
And we would love to work with you more closely going forward.
I hope we can have you back on the show soon.
Well, God bless you.
God bless you, your listeners, and I hope you weather this storm with the coronavirus.
We're going to do our best, and we'll be talking about that as this show continues.