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You're listening to radio looks listen, I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 70 The title of today's episode is school shootings and how to solve them crime prevention or crime punishment

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Well, thanks to everybody for joining the live stream day I'm actually coming to you at a much earlier time than I usually do

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It's a decent time the the Sun's still up which is kind of an amazing thing Usually I'm doing these things at 10 or 11 o 'clock or 12 o 'clock at night or some crazy thing like that but I'm got a few things going on and I wanted to go ahead and get this done early today and Probably the single biggest thing that I've got going on today is my

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UC Bearcats my University Cincinnati Bearcats Yes, I'm a graduate of University Cincinnati They're playing the football team is playing for the conference title today

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You see is 12 and O and I think they're ranked I think for nationally. So here's my UC UC sweatshirt go

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UC They're playing They're actually playing the University of Houston today and if they win that game

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There is a very high probability that they're gonna have a chance to play for the national championship

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And as I said this before on this podcast I'm just constantly amazed at UC is actually having a chance.

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Well, it has a legitimate shot to play for a national title I never would have thought that was possible and I've really enjoyed this year

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You know, some people have said this is the biggest game in UC history and and I think that's true and that's saying quite a lot too because They've been playing football since 1885.

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So, you know, this goes back a long way and but yes, this is a this is a big deal and I Wish them all the best of success and Houston's not a pushover by any means there.

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I believe they're 11 and 1 and they They're ranked 16 nationally.

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You don't get to be ranked 16 nationally by by being a slouch And so I mean they're not it's not a gimme that you see is gonna win this game but I'm gonna hope for the best outcome here and Hopefully we'll we'll have a shot here to play for a national title and I have some good news

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But anyway, that's why I'm wearing my UC sweatshirt today Gotta support my Bearcats anyway

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Hey, there's one one other thing I wanted to mention to you, you know, I mentioned that my neighbors have this giant frosty the snowman inflatable

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This is the biggest thing I've ever seen and I saw him they headed up for a test run this summer I told you I'd get you a picture of it when it when it was put up Well, they put it up this past week and and here's a picture of this thing

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This little tree here down in front is about six feet high now the the the inflatable

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It's up there on a bit of a hill so it's it's not even but I mean you can see the house behind there and in the the top of his his top hat and It You know, he's it's up to the second story of this building

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I mean, it's it's really really an amazing thing to see the biggest inflatable I've ever seen I showed a picture of this to one of my friends who's about my age.

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He said oh, that's the Stay Puft Marshmallow, man Yeah from Ghostbusters, you know, you remember that it's kind of funny.

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That's what I that's kind of what I thought too But whether it's for us to the Stay Puft Marshmallow, man

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It's it's quite impressive the size of this and I found out something too about better neighbors

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Is that last year? They they came in second in a contest

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I guess held by a local TV station here in Cincinnati and they they got second prize for best light display in the city so that's kind of a big deal for them and So who knows they've kind of raised their game this year.

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Maybe they're they're going for that. Number one spot I guess we'll we'll see if they get that or not. Oh goodness, anyway, so Yeah enough of that now one thing

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I wanted to talk about this is kind of the main main point that I wanted to talk About here today and that is you know school shootings and how to solve them because you know there was another terrible school shooting in Michigan this week and There's of course the usual kinds of rhetoric that you hear out in the in the press and and this is a very kind of thing that the

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Christians need to be talking about and so I thought I'd Bring a little bit of you know, try to try my best here to to bring some bring the scriptures to bear on this particular subject

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Now what I'm gonna do What I'm gonna do is I want to go back and cite something that John Robbins said now

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John Robbins said this somewhere in one of his lectures and I don't have the the reference immediately handy, so I don't know

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Offhand what it is, but I know that he talked about there being two basic approaches to criminal justice there's crime prevention and There's crime punishment now crime prevention is is the that's the method of tyrants

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Crime prevention is the is the biblical approach and with crime prevention What government's attempt to do is they want to regulate everybody in advance create this whole big body of regulations?

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With the idea that there prevents some kind of future wrongdoing So essentially what they do is they punish everyone

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In order to prevent some you punish innocent people in order to prevent some theoretical future wrongdoing

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Now, you know, that's that's condemning the you know, that's condemning the innocent that is that is unjust

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Excuse me and But that is that that is the position of crime prevention you know the other way that you can approach crime is crime punishment and that is where you

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After someone has been given due process gone through a trial this type of thing and in due process is a

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Christian concept as well That that person and that person alone is punished.

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You know, you don't punish the entirety of society For some individuals crime you punish the individual that that did the evil deed now

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Looking through some of this there was a story and this is from a paper. I'm gonna go ahead and Bring this up here in just a moment

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Get this so we can can view it together Hmm. It's like I've actually already got it up here.

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So we'll do that And we'll do that and just a moment. Sorry. I should have had this ready, but I didn't

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Okay, here we go All right. So sharing this side of the story here. This is a story from the hill and you know, that's your standard mainstream

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American press here and it's got a headline 15 year old, Michigan school shooting suspect to be charged as an adult and and you read through this and There's a statement by the prosecutor that I think is very telling.

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I mean the intention is of course to to Charge this this young man.

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This his name is Ethan Crumley to charge him as an adult, but she said let's see here

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The prosecutor said that there was no reason to be concerned about Crumley's mental stability at the time I mean an officer's response was executed perfectly, but the four students deaths indicated a need for more gun control

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So it appears that the the prosecutor says, okay What we need to do is we need more gun control

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In other words, what we need is we need more crime prevention or to put it another way We need to deprive innocent

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Americans of their God -given and constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms

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Because of a terrible deed that was done by this one individual or at least alleged to have been done by this one individual

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Let's let's stay in the the alleged category here because he has not been tried yet There's a lot of evidence to suggest that that this young man does

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Ethan Crumley did in fact commit the crime But I'm not going to pronounce on that right now.

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I'm not going to conclude whether he's guilty or not We'll let him have his his day in court as they say and and of course

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We know as I mentioned earlier the idea of due process that is also a Christian concept so the prosecutor believes that that this particular crime by by Ethan Crumley or alleged crime by leasing come

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Crumley Deserve requires that we have more gun control Now she's not the only one.

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Of course. There's a tweet here by David Hogg David Hogg is is a he was a became shot to national prominence back in Was that 2017 or 2018

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But he was at Parkland High School One Parkland, Florida, I guess there's no one called

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Parkland High School. I don't think but anyway He was it was that Florida school shooting and he became a very prominent activist

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For more gun control. And of course, he's constantly out there now advocating for all kinds of Progressive policies and he's a big advocate of gun control probably one of the better -known public

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Figures arguing for gun control and here's a tweet from him out there This one actually doesn't have any swear words, which is kind of rare for David Hogg because most of his his tweets do

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He says stop waiting for the next Parkland you can act now and prevent it So there's right there, you know

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The idea of crime prevention and he continues appointed national director of gun violence prevention

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Okay So there's more crime prevention and use the power of the bully pulpit to create a filibuster proof majority in the

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Senate You're great at working across aisles. He's apparently addressing this To to Joe Biden.

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He says prove it POTUS, of course POTUS. That's the abbreviation of President of the United States Sometimes people call the president

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POTUS. So yeah, he's he's tweeting at at Joe Biden and and he twice mentions Prevention so I mean he's very much an advocate of the crime prevention

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School of thought so let's let's talk a little bit about that So, you know, we we had this idea that that you know, according to David Hogg You know the government needs to act in order to prevent crime

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And of course that's supposed to make I guess apparently he doesn't go into detail You know, but but very obviously I mean he wants to make it harder and harder to get guns

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And and probably I mean if truth be told probably he and the other gun -grabbers out there would like to take them all together and completely void the

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The Second Amendment rights of the American people. They want to do that. They want to take your guns. I mean, there's no question about that I think better overwork

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You know made some comment about that wanting to take your your AR 15s during the

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During the last presidential campaign. So yeah, I mean these people want to take your take your guns now

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Let's talk a little bit more about about the regulatory state And I think we can see how the problem of crime prevention comes about by looking about looking at The way it's applied in another area and I wanted to talk to you about the regulatory state in kovat

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As of course when we think about kovat, you know There's all these countries out there that have been for almost the last two years now have been over backwards

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They've violated the civil rights of their citizens They have imposed really onerous mask requirements lockdowns in Some certain places.

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I think it's it's in Australia. They have Basically concentration camps in some cases.

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I think it's the Northern Territories. I think is one state that has that So, yeah, there's there is some very onerous mandates out there

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Austria Just recently They mandated that everybody all adults in the country are going to have to be vaccinated by some date early in the first It's in the first quarter of 2022.

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So just a few months away and there's big demonstrations over there So, I mean you you don't even have if you're in Austria and at least currently you don't even have control over what gets stuck in your body and I mean,

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I can hardly think of a more Substantial violation of one's personal rights and the mandate that somebody has to have a vaccine or I guess, you know

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You're gonna be put in jail and you're gonna be fined and you know, of course There are a lot of people in the

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United States, you know, Anthony Fauci and you know, Mayor of New York Mayor LA certain governors Probably our president

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There's lots of people in in very powerful places. It would like to see those kinds of policies here in the United States Praise the

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Lord they have not yet been able to do that. But I think that's certainly what what they're aiming for Now none of this is warranted by Scripture The Bible does speak about quarantines in in the

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Scriptures, you know There are some very clear passages to talk about quarantining people with leprosy. You can find those in Leviticus, I believe it's

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Leviticus 13, but there's significant differences between the Bible's leprosy

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Quarantine provisions and what's being done by by governments today in the first place

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There were no leprosy police police in ancient Israel going around forcing forcibly testing people and checking them to see if they had had accurately reported their leprosy if you read through the passage in Leviticus you see that it was up to the individual person to turn himself in so, you know, they didn't have a

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Leprosy police they didn't have a leprosy inspection I mean the expectation was is that if you saw something on yourself

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You would go to the priest and you would have the priest examine you Now only after a thorough examination by the police by the priest was anyone quarantined

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And people who showed no sign of quarantine were not quarantined for leprosy to quote slow the spread you know, there was that saying this was put out by Donald Trump in the

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It's like the first quarter I guess of 2020 or first or second quarter, but the the slogan was 15 days to slow the spread, you know

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So we were all gonna social distance and wear masks and you know work from home and do all this stuff for 15 days

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We're gonna slow the spread that everything go back to normal and boom, you know, we'd be back to Doing the normal things.

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Well here we are two years later You know and 15 days to slow the spread has turned into you know

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The authorities in the United States and in many other countries trying to jab everything that moves and if you don't agree to get the jab, you know, they they want to toss you in a in a concentration camp or toss you in jail or fine you out of house and home and It's it's a truly horrible situation that that has occurred

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But you can see with with this whole treatment of kovat how it's very similar to the idea of crime prevention

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You know what we're gonna do is we're gonna impose all these really draconian things such as lockdowns and mask requirements and vax requirements and masks and social distancing and all of this this terrible stuff and This is gonna prevent the spread of kovat

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Well, it hasn't prevented the spread of kovat and it's not surprising that none of its worked Because they're not approaching things from a biblical standpoint

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Now as I said There is a legitimate biblical case to make for quarantining people who are sick with infectious diseases and certainly dangerous ones

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You know leprosy was was one of those In fact, I think it was the only one if I recall correctly that in the

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Old Testament where where that occurred but there was no general provision in the law of Moses to just lock down Israel to prevent the spread of Of leprosy or of any other disease for that matter that that didn't exist

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It was the individual person who had the leprosy who was quarantined

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You know It wasn't there were no general lockdowns or mandates of one sort or another for the population as a whole who did not have leprosy

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You don't quarantine healthy people There's another way of saying that I've heard some people put it that way you don't quarantine healthy people

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And yet this has all been About quarantining that is to say punishing healthy people

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It's the same principle applied to managing disease as it is, you know with these people who want to grab everybody's guns

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You know, they want to grab everybody's guns in order to prevent some future wrongdoing Whereas the proper biblical approach to criminal justice is if somebody does something horrible

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Then that person bears the guilt that person is punished You don't destroy people's right to defend themselves because of what somebody else did in that case

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You know, you're you're punishing the innocent And you can see that in in both cases

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You know in both the the way government deals with kovat and the both in the way that you know The the gun grabbers want to deal with with with gun problems

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You know, whoever it is You know If somebody commits a school shooting or any other kind of shooting where you go in and murder somebody that person should be executed

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I mean, that is the the the biblical stance now I'm pretty sure I I'm not I haven't read this for sure.

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But I mean, I would be pretty shocked if the The young man who stands accused, you know, if he is found guilty of the the school shooting

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I would be very surprised if he's executed. He probably will not be But if he is guilty or if anyone's guilty of doing a crime like that, yes, those people should be executed

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That's the proper way of dealing with that You know, that's it's spelled out very clearly in in the

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Word of God now And in fact, you know, well, here's something that's interesting here.

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I was gonna point this out and I had forgotten about this Yeah, let's see here

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Oh The issue of a vaccine regulation in the

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United States. So, you know since we're talking some here about kovat In in America, the the pharmaceutical industry is is very heavily regulated by the

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FDA And I just listened to an interview with Robert F.

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Kennedy jr And one of the points that he was making in this interview is an interview He did with Tucker Carlson is a big big pharma companies essentially run the

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Food and Drug Administration now the Food and Drug Administration is the governmental body the federal governmental body that oversees the regulation of the of the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines and it's up to the

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FDA to either approve or Deny approval for any type of a of a vaccine and one of the things one of the problems with the regulatory state that that Robert Kennedy jr.

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Brought up is something that's called regulatory capture and he took and this is something that's not true just in The vaccine industry.

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It's also true in other industries as well So for example what's going on here within the

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FDA? You've got a lot of cross -pollination in other words a lot of the same people who sit on the

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FDA were either former board members of the companies they Supposedly regulate or some of the people that are on the boards or people who served in the

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FDA so you've got this this serious conflict of interest going on and You know many people have pointed this out about other regulatory bodies as well

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They talk about the revolving doors sometimes the way that's put well, you know, it is a problem But the reason it's a problem, you know it is, you know again

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And I don't know what Robert Kennedy jr. Stance is on this But many people when they see things like that as I say what we need is a better regulatory state, you know

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We need more honest regulators. We need less conflict of interest in it, etc, etc Well what that is that's actually a superficial way of approaching things

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That's a superficial way of dealing with the problem. I mean what what happens? Yeah You're not going to ever clear that up, you know the problem the way that you deal with regulatory capture the way that you solve that problem is you get rid of the regulatory bodies and you allow people to Through the court system to bring lawsuits against companies if they have been harmed

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Through I guess, you know through you know, in other words, you know If you've been harmed by a vaccine, you should have the right to sue the vaccine companies now

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Here's the thing in the United States, and I don't know if this is true in other countries It may well be but in the

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United States back in 1986 they passed something called the Vaccine Act that prevented people from suing

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Vaccine manufacturers are bringing class -action lawsuits against them. So something else that Robert Kennedy talked about Now what it did do is it did have a provision for people to set up what they call vaccine courts

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But from my understanding the vaccine courts are all run by the pharmaceutical companies So yeah, you can bring a complaint and maybe you can get a settlement.

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Although I understand that that's pretty rare But whatever settlement you may get it's going to be far less

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Than what you would have gotten if you had been able to sue these people in in court directly

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So you had that that Vaccine Act in 1986 that really substantially Insulated the pharmaceutical companies from from any

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Consequences of their they're bringing unsafe products to market if people were harmed they didn't have any recourse and You've got something even more even worse going on right now with these kovat vaccines

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These code vaccines are being put out under what's called emergency youth use authorization They haven't been approved by the

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FDA and as a result as I understand it these these pharmaceutical manufacturers

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I'm talking here about Pfizer. I'm talking about Moderna. I'm talking about Johnson and Johnson Principally, those are the three big

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American manufacturers of the the kovat vaccine what

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Since it's since these the their vaccines are being Allowed under the emerge under the emergency youth officer use authorization

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There is no ability for the American people to sue these to sue these vaccine manufacturers

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So if you get are maimed by these these vaccines or if you are killed by these vaccines, you have no recourse

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There's no way you or your family Can bring a lawsuit against any of these companies and and on top of that then the the use of these vaccines is mandated

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You know and they're making in obscene profits. This is not how capitalism is supposed to work

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You know what this is. This is a sort of crony capitalism. It's not capitalism at all It's actually more properly

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Called corporatism or if you want to be even more direct about it's actually called fascism.

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That is vaccine fascism fascism the definition of fascism is the merger of state and corporate powers and That's what you see going on here with with these vaccines.

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You know, a lot of times people say well this or that is is fascist and You know, they just they just apply that term fascist kind of loosely, you know, anything they don't like is fascist

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Well, that that's not true. There's a lot of different Terrible things out there fascism is the only one of them but that literally fits the definition of fascism when you talk about government and you know the in the form of the

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FDA and in an act of Congress when you talk about these these Government and these vaccine manufacturers getting together to essentially shield the vaccine manufacturers from nearly all

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Liability For for products for dangerous products that they put out, you know, that is fascism

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You know, they get a pocket the profits and you have no recourse You know when we talk about people being injured or maimed really by these vaccines some of these injuries are truly terrible

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I mean this myocarditis or pericarditis I believe and I'd have to go back and double -check this but from what

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I've read, you know, these are permanent injuries To people's hearts and many times these are young people, you know, these are teenagers

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You know, these are young men, especially young men seem to be Susceptible to this, you know who are having their health permanently damaged and they have no recourse to go back and Ensue these vaccine manufacturers for these these destructive vaccines

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So that's another thing another reason why you know, we should not have the regulatory state You know big government is is incredibly

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Beneficial for those who are for the rich and powerful Now the rule of law protects everyone it protects the rich and powerful, but it also protects regular people

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You think for example in the in the Bible in in the in biblical justice

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If if someone didn't take care of a problem that was was very obvious, you know, that person could be fined

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Or possibly even executed, you know, there's an example and this is from Exodus 21 And I'm just gonna read the the quote here and it's talking about an ox and It says here but but if the ox tended to thrust with its horn and times past and has been made known to his owner and He has not kept it contained so that it has killed a man or a woman the ox shall be stoned and its owner

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Also shall be put to death So if you own an ox and somebody comes to you one of your neighbors and says hey, you know

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This ox was was having a go at me It was trying to gore me the other day and maybe you get even multiple reports, you know

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He was says yeah, that's right that that ox really went after me. It tried to gore me I I escaped and you know,

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I'm thankful for being able to escape but but I barely got away with my wife You know, you know if the if the owner has been made aware by his neighbors that this has been a pattern of behavior with this particular ox

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That that owner has an obligation To keep that ox contained it says, you know

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You know If the ox has tended to thrust with the torn and time passing has been made known to its owner and the owner has not kept

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It contained so I mean, you know, it didn't say that You know If the the ox, you know tried to go after somebody unsuccessfully that the owner had to get rid of the ox

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But he does say the you know, the owner has to keep it contained And if the owner doesn't do that and that ox kill somebody that owner is to be put to death

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Now that's some serious liability You know, but right now we've got a situation here in the

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United States with these vaccine manufacturers Making billions of dollars in profit. And again,

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I'm a cap. I'm a capitalist. I got a degree from from business school So I'm not here to run down the idea of profit you know,

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I I love the idea of profit and of Free markets of capitalism, you know these sorts of things.

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This isn't an attack on capitalism in at all But you know if a business if a manufacturer vaccine manufacturer or any other kind of manufacturer puts out a product that is unsafe and harms people those

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Manufacturers need to be held accountable for that and that's done through the court system.

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It's done through lawsuits That's the way you handle these types of things not by setting up a huge Regulatory state that tries to to prevent wrongdoing to prevent injury going forward, you know

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And again, that's another example that that ties in with that whole idea of of crime crime punishment not crime prevention

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You know You don't punish all of these vaccine manufacturers by forcing them to jump through hoops if they haven't done anything that that deserves that but if a vaccine manufacturer puts out a vaccine that harms or kills people and these kovat vaccines from what

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I understand the The incidents the number of injuries and deaths that have resulted from kovat the kovat vaccines

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Exceed all of the the negative all of the injuries and deaths that were caused by all the vaccines

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Put together in the history of the recording system in America. It's called the vaccine adverse event reporting system

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VEARS VA ERS and There have been more injuries and deaths recorded as a result of the kovat vaccines than all of the other vaccines put together in the history of the

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VEARS system and I understand that the VEARS system goes back to 1980 So, you know you're going back over 40 years at this point

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And so all the other vaccines that have ever been rolled out Have not amounted to the same number of deaths and injuries as has occurred from this one single vaccine

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I mean that just screams that there's a major problem with this So in closing here,

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I wanted to just say, you know, the the regulatory state, you know that we currently have in America And not just in America, but you see this throughout the

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West Is is un -christian and it's unconstitutional and it serves elite interests it serves the interest of those who you know, have the money and have the power and insulates them from Having to to face their, you know the punishment for their own misdeeds

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You know, and this is why the regulatory state was banned by the law of Moses in ancient ancient Israel It was also prohibited in our

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Constitution in the the law of Moses. There was there were no regulatory police There are no regulatory cops out there telling people how they they had to run their farm or you know

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Had to build their house or had to do all these other various things now if somebody You know there are certain cases where somebody didn't take care of business

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That those people could be held liable and it's spelled out there very clearly in the law of Moses But there was no regulatory state just like there was no regulatory state

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At the time of the founding of the United States of America you know, there was a Which country was you know, the

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United States was founded largely on Christian principles There were there was a an author by who wrote a book called the

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Hebrew Republic. His name was E .C. Wines And I believe he's a congregationalist minister.

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This was in the 19th century and in what he showed was that It wasn't to Greece and Rome that America owed its founding principles it's actually to the

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Old Testament and the In Israel as it was set up originally in Canaan.

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I mean if you look at the law of Moses I mean Israel was not a a monarchy. It was not not a kingdom

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It was a republic You know, they had a written constitution, which was the law of Moses And it had judges that executed that made executed justice in in certain areas and also had local officials as well who had a responsibility for For punishing those who practiced evil and also praising those who did what was good

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But the rise of the regulatory state since the early 20th century is the collapse of the

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West You know that that is the collapse of the West, you know it's it's something where we have rejected our heritage of freedom and we are

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Forging our own chains once again to to be enslaved to this regulatory state

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Now there are of course there are many other examples of the collapse of the West I mean one of them is the you know, the the feminism homosexuality and transgenderism

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You know, there was a story that I happened to run across today in This was in the

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Daily Mail and Not not to pick on on Sydney, Australia I guess I'm gonna pick on him a little bit

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But of course we have the same problem here and in the United States as well So, I mean this is it's certainly not unique to Sydney or unique to Australia.

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I'm just using this as an example But it says here Clover Moore is set for her third decade in charge of Sydney And she shrugs off four women challengers for the

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Lord Mayor's role There's been a massive swing against her in kovat delayed and she's been forced to resign election so here we see someone who is

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In fact, it says here Clover Moore set for an historic fifth term after 17 years as Sydney's Lord Mayor So she's going for term number five and you know, it points out here that her four challengers

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There are also all four women now You know

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John Knox and this was back in the day This is back in the 1500s John Knox wrote a treatise it was called the first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women and It's kind of a funny title in some ways because he's using the term regiment in a sense different from what we're used to You know the the term regiment, you know when you usually hear it now we think of maybe a military unit

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But what he meant by regiment and the title of that that essay Was government, you know

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He meant the first blast of the trumpet against the government of women and one of the things that he wrote in that I'm just gonna quote this as a brief paragraph

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One of the things he wrote in that essay He said to promote a woman to bear rule superiority dominion or Empire above any realm nation or city is repugnant to nature contumelious to God a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance and Finally, it is a subversion of good order and of all equity and justice

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Well, you know and John Knox goes on he makes a devastating case For this directly from the scriptures

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John Knox was right You know, he called the state of affair women rule over empires realms nations and cities

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Sydney, for example He called it the monstrous regiment of women But yet there are very few

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Christians in our own time who have even heard of Knox's essay or if they have heard of it

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They don't believe it, you know, they just think oh, you know, that's just a lot of you know a lot of Thunder and fulmination from you know way back in the day and it has no application to our enlightened modern age

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Well, John Knox was right. He was arguing from the scriptures and he was right back in the 1500s and he is right today

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That is a monstrous thing Now, you know I mentioned here, of course, this is not a problem that that's in any way unique to to Sydney You know here in the

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United States. We have lots of women mayors I mean one of the the worst mayors in the country as Lori Lightfoot up there in Chicago.

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She is destroying that city just destroying it You know, there's the the governor up there in Michigan Megan Whitmer, she is destroying the state of Michigan, you know with her tyranny her kovat tyranny

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And I think there's a good chance that you're going to see sometime in the not -too -distant future both the

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Republicans and the Democrats running a Won't run women presidential candidates against one another.

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I think it could happen as early as 2024. And in fact in some ways I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet But I'm pretty sure it's coming and you know

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There are a number of people on a number of women on the Republican side that want to run. You know, there's

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Oh Christy gnome from out in in South Dakota.

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There's also Nikki Haley who's Also very much pushing for that as well and there are probably some others but those are two of the the top names and You know it is

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You know I think back on when when Sarah Palin ran as vice presidential candidate along with John McCain and there are lots and lots of Christians who came out in support of her because she she at least claims to be a

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Christian and You know There there was a lot of support for her from from people who are

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Christians and and they're making a a serious mistake In in supporting a woman for for president or for any other political office, you know, that is, you know

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That is something that was given to men and I know even by saying this I'm probably likely to get a lot of people riled up at me for for this but that is that is the

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Christian stance You know, the the government is probably something that's done by men You know, and I know a lot of people will they say will flip out when

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I say that But that is something that I believe you can prove that very well from Scripture and I believe

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John Knox did prove that And he's of course not the only one to believe that but he's probably the one that stated that the best and I really highly recommend you read his essay there's a a

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Version of that that was done by the Trinity Foundation a number of years ago. I think it was in 1990 I think at that time that was when no 19 1988

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I think is when that was put out and and I think the occasion I don't know this for sure But I think most likely that was done

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Because Michael Dukakis who is the the the Democratic candidate for president that year he ran against George Herbert Walker Bush and lost but the the

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Democratic candidate that year had selected Gerald Michael Dukakis had selected Geraldine Ferraro as His vice presidential running mate and that was the first time in American history.

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They a woman appeared on a major party ticket For for president and It's of course, it's occurred after that now, but that was the very first time and I think it's probably why they put that out there

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So, you know the feminism homosexuality and transgenderism, you know, those things actually all go together because essentially, you know feminism

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I Don't know if I think you could probably argue that it's certainly I don't know if necessarily that the homosexual and transgender movement arose from feminism directly.

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I I think I Think they certainly are influenced by it because if you look at feminism

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I mean feminism basically says that men and women are the same, you know that there's really no difference between the sexes

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Oh, yeah, you know, there's a few minor things here and there but basically, you know Women could do anything men can do and of course logically, you know

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I suppose they'd say that men can do anything that women can do and if you really want to push that I mean this is what you know, you're what you're saying is that there's no distinction between men and women and If there's no distinction between men and women then logically, you know, there's nothing wrong with homosexuality

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And if there's no distinction between men and women, well, then why can't a man become a woman? Okay, why can't a woman become a man?

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You know, why can't you say? Oh, well, you know I'm a man trapped in a woman's body or I'm a woman trapped in a man's body and you know

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And why why not accept the the arguments of the transgender? advocates

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I Really do believe that that all started with with feminism That it is a monstrous philosophy.

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It is a destructive philosophy. I don't think that it's a brutal philosophy It's a brutal way of thinking

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In fact, I think it's probably one of the most brutal philosophies one of those brutal systems of thought

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That's ever been foisted on any people it is it is thoroughly destructive and it's a great curse on the

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West and I think you can see it both as Both as sin and also as punishment for sin because we in the

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West have turned our backs on On the Lord, you know, we've gone away backward

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Yes, as Isaiah said about Judah in in Isaiah chapter 1 if children who've gone astray we've gone turned away backward

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I think is the way Isaiah phrased it. So I mean not only are we going the wrong way We're going 180 degrees the wrong way.

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We're not just veering off a little bit to one side or the other. We're we're going Completely backward completely the opposite direction of what we should be doing and then we wonder why we have all these these problems

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You know another source of corruption In the West, you know another source of collapse in the

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West. It was dishonest monetary system that we have, you know the the the debt -based central bank issued

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Currencies that we all have to use like for instance the US dollar and in these these currencies are used by the elite classes to manipulate

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Markets and to steal from ordinary people and basically funnel the wealth of the nation all the way up to the tippy -top

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So, I mean, that's why you have, you know The the billionaires and millionaires and especially the billionaires that sit at the top of the financial food chain

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They're raking it in they've never done better while ordinary Americans are having a hard time

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You know even filling up putting gas in their car right now Yeah, and this is happening by design it's not an accident, you know the the entire

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Federal Reserve system is immoral. It is unbiblical. It is un -christian and it is unconstitutional

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You know, the Constitution says the gold and silver only are to be money, but they have created these these fiat

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Fiat so -called dollars that that are destroying the the that are using to manipulate and destroy the financial system of the

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United States of America And again, it's not just the United States The Federal Reserve is the the central bank of the

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United States But all other countries have central banks are doing the same thing to them So whatever you say about the

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Fed is also true of what's going on it with these these other central banks And there's a whole thing with the toleration of of open corruption from government officials.

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I mean you think of the the obvious Open and unpunished corruption of Hunter Biden, you know, here's an article and this is from Politico, you know hiding the ball

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Hunter Biden complicates White House anti -corruption push Questions about the first son could detract from the president's efforts to position himself as a global good government crusader well, of course

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Joe Biden's not a global good government crusader What did it say crusader

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Of course, Joe Biden's not those things. I mean Joe Biden is an illegitimate president Joe Biden, you know, the election was stolen for Joe Biden by the party of rum

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Romanism and rebellion and You know his his corrupt son is Has been accused

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I think credibly of all kinds of terrible things like for here's here's this is one of the more recent ones here

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Let's see if we can find us That's a hundred Biden the great artist says most recently news broke this summer the hundred

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Biden would begin selling Paintings with initial prices as high as five hundred thousand dollars It was an extraordinary sum for a debut artist and immediately invited concerns of people who wanted to ingratiate themselves to the president would overpay

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For his son's art really? Yeah now keep in mind. This is in politico. And again politico is a mainstream paper

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It's it's you know, fully on board with the whole liberal Progressive ideas that are being pushed right now, but you know, even they hate, you know highlight this stuff say hey, you know

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Looks like there's some real problems here. So yeah, you got this guy. I mean apparently I guess he's he's our latest

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Rembrandt and He's out there creating these unbelievably awesome paintings and people are paying up to five hundred thousand dollars

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Or at least the the initial price on them is five hundred thousand dollars. I don't know what he actually got for them But yeah, that could be a bit of a conflict of interest

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You know, it could well be the people are paying these huge sums of money for these probably lousy paintings

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In order to ingratiate themselves with the president, you know, that's I think pretty obvious what's going on here

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And of course, there's lots of other stuff that's going on with hundred Biden That the mainstream media and the social media companies have worked to cover up you know, there's the the issue of you know, you talk about again the the issue of Of the collapse of the

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West, you know go back to the the mainstream media I mean you cannot trust anything that comes out of the mainstream media now

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I'm not saying every single thing that they say is a lie It isn't but they intentionally hide

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You know anything of any real importance they hide, you know Either they outright lie about it or what's even more frustrating in some ways.

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They simply don't talk about it You know like you think about that hundred Biden laptop story, you know where there's a laptop was found and it had all of this apparently child porn on and lots of horrible things on it and the

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Any of the main newspapers, I think the New York Post for example that reported on it. They had their Believe us

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Twitter. They banned their Twitter feed the all of the big social media companies YouTube Facebook probably others

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If you brought up anything about hundred Biden's laptop you were gone You couldn't even talk about it and and that was a big deal and they helped swing the election

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You know, that was part of the election rigging, you know In fact, that's another thing you can't talk about you can't talk about the the rigged election.

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I think there's massive evidence That the 2020 presidential election was rigged and was stolen

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By Joe Biden and by the Democrats, but you can't talk about that. You know, if you talk about that you're in big trouble

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You know that is not America and You know, oh and I haven't even gotten started you talk about the collapse of the

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West. Yeah. Well, what about the massive massive immigration? Fraud that's going on and how the wicked

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Biden regime's working overtime to implement the nation breaking scheme Immigration scheme of the of the

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Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic bishops and that scheme includes flooding America with Millions and millions and millions of illegal aliens and not only that but also paying them huge sum of money to these very same people

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Who violate our immigration laws all in a treasonous attempt to subvert the nation and fold us into their globalist nightmare?

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Well your own nothing and have no rights I mean, you know, they you know, they they want to be large and in charge, you know, the

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Pope, you know Antichrist He wants to be large and in charge just like he was back in a day, you know back back before that mean nasty

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Martin Luther Nailed his 95 thesis to the the Wittenberg door, you know, they want to go back to the the old -time religion

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You know where when the Pope said jump the only oblige the only option you have is to say how high your holiness

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They want to return to that and and they're they're working night and day to make that happen Now, you know, this is a very challenging time for for those of us who are

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Christians I'm speaking here, especially really directly to my my fellow reformed believers You know if you're a

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Christian You know, we need to be able we need to be on the front lines

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You know the the cure for all of this for the collapse of the West I mean if we're gonna preserve or enhance any part of of the the civilization of the

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West You know, that's not going to come From liberal Protestants.

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It's not going to come from Roman Catholics It's not going to come from the Orthodox. It's not going to come from the

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Jews It's not going to come from any of these other groups that lack the necessary ideas

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To create or to sustain a free society Now, I mean as believers,

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I mean, we don't we don't hate these people But we also know that They cannot

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Ultimately Restore In a sense really the the the dire position that the that the

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West is is in It's not even going to be something that can be done from the the truncated

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Christianity of the fundamentalists you know as reformed believers, you know, we believe in teaching and preaching and And living not just the gospel not just certain fundamentals as important as those are in the gospel of justification by faith alone is absolutely

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Essential, you know that that is how we are brought into a saving relationship is by believing that that gospel

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There's not any other way to get into a saving relationship With with the

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Lord than through faith in Christ alone and that faith is a gift It's by grace through faith alone in the finished work of Christ alone.

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There's not any other way to get into heaven There's not any other way to be saved.

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There's no other name under under heaven by which we must be saved And it's by faith alone it's by belief, you know by by understanding and accepting what the

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Bible teaches about Christ That he's the the sole mediator between God and man, you know that he fully paid for the sins of his people on the cross

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Let's see That's the only way you can get into heaven and in for my reform my fellow reformed believers

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You know who who accept this doctrine, you know the the job of Sustaining civilization really does fall to us and We need to stand up and we need to speak out.

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We need to be educated We need to be able to learn how to apply the Word of God to these different situations where we we find ourselves in whether it's it's school shootings whether it's feminism whether it's it's the

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Regulatory state whether it's flooding the country with with migrants whether it's the Roman Catholic Church state whether it's any of these these challenges

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I've thrown out a number of things here in this this particular podcast where I've given some examples

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It's certainly not exhaustive. You could find other things, but I've tried to hit on a few of the big things You know if you're a

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Christian, I mean, this is this is our job. This is your job. This is my job To refute these things

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Not only to refute the the evil systems and the evil ideas that we're confronted with every day But also to show what the scriptures teach and to work to Rebuild if we need to and we do need to to rebuild our civilization based upon biblical principles.

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That's our job That's a high calling. It's a big task and it's certainly not something that you or I can do on our own

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I can't do this on my own But it is something That by the

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Spirit of Christ We do have the power to stand and I don't know You know, we stand up we speak out, you know,

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I do a podcast here. Maybe you do something else I mean, there's different ways that we can do this that I'm saying that there's any one thing that that any of us are going

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To do that's going to going to change obviously change things But if we're faithful God's also faithful, you know, we don't know what he might do

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We really don't so I want to encourage you, you know, stand up, you know, speak out.

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Don't be afraid Now we have the right man on our side Luther would say the man of God's own choosing.

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So I want to leave you with that thought here today Thanks very much for your time. I really do appreciate that. I enjoyed doing this

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Once again doing the podcast and live stream for you here today and until next time we talk which