1 00:00:04,780 --> 00:00:10,400 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with the 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:16,660 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And 3 00:00:16,660 --> 00:00:23,820 today I want to continue to make my way through the Declaration of Independence with you and ask 4 00:00:23,820 --> 00:00:30,199 you whether the conditions under which our founding fathers declared their independence 5 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:38,200 from Great Britain are any way compatible with the conditions here in the United States of America 6 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:48,359 today that we should declare our independence not from the principles and constitution and 7 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:56,219 ways of life of the American way of life, especially the constitution, but rather from the deep state. 8 00:00:56,219 --> 00:01:04,420 Should we declare our independence from the awful monster that has grown up in the shadow of the 9 00:01:04,420 --> 00:01:10,299 constitution that has now become the deep state which has replaced and displaced a constitutional 10 00:01:10,299 --> 00:01:15,700 government? Should we declare our independence from it? And I would submit to you that yes we should. 11 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:21,680 Towards that end, we have been going through the particulars of the Declaration of Independence. 12 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:31,200 We have gone through the soaring and lofty declaration of our rights of man. That is, 13 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:37,939 we have all been endowed by our creator, which Joe Biden should probably brush up on, right? We have 14 00:01:37,939 --> 00:01:44,239 been endowed by our creator. He was afraid to say, creator, that is God of heaven. Indeed, 15 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:51,120 has endowed us with certain unalienable rights. That among these, not exclusive, not only, 16 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,340 and not just life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but also many, many other liberties, 17 00:01:56,959 --> 00:02:02,859 which the Crown and Parliament of Britain transgressed on a regular basis. And these are 18 00:02:02,859 --> 00:02:11,840 the gory details to which most do not go to in articulating why we are to declare our independence 19 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:18,120 from the deep state. But as we go into those particulars, over 30 of them, we find that there 20 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:24,379 is much overlap between the tyranny of Great Britain and the tyranny of the deep state. Oh, 21 00:02:24,699 --> 00:02:31,719 tyranny doesn't change. Times and faces change, but the nature, qualities, the attributes of tyranny 22 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:40,740 remain consistent. Ever since the fall in the garden, Satan was and remains a tyrant. And he tyrannized 23 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:48,240 over Adam and Eve. He's tyrannized over a portion of the human seed ever since. And not for those of us 24 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,800 that have been liberated in Christ, of course, and those of us who have been liberated in Christ 25 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:01,599 oftentimes transcend the government of tyranny in the political sphere as well. And our founding 26 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:08,639 fathers did, and they established a constitutional republic. It is my proposition that we should 27 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:18,199 indeed begin to establish Christian constitutional republics, overt, clear, explicit Christian 28 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:25,379 constitutional republics, and do this all over the world. This is Christ's ambition. This is gospel 29 00:03:25,379 --> 00:03:32,120 ambition. We should be establishing Christian constitutional republics all across the world. 30 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:40,800 There are over 130 million Christians in China alone. China could easily establish force of its will 31 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:47,719 and the force of its good and the force of its spirit could indeed establish a Christian constitutional 32 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:55,800 republic in China. That would go a long, long ways towards establishing a world congress of Christian 33 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,180 constitutional republics and constitutional republics thereafter. And this can and should be done across 34 00:04:01,180 --> 00:04:08,639 the globe. An ambitious project, an ambitious project for the millennium, I would assert to you. 35 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:15,139 Not in a few years, not in a hundred years, not in 200 years, but probably in the course of a thousand 36 00:04:15,139 --> 00:04:22,079 years this could be established. But it indeed is a vision for the future, a gospel vision for the future. 37 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:28,579 But before that happens, we have to reestablish a constitutional republic here and tweak it such that 38 00:04:28,579 --> 00:04:34,839 it is a Christian constitutional republic. And towards that end, we must go through Jefferson's 39 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:43,240 particulars, over 30 of them, as to why we must declare our independence from our present system, 40 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:49,639 which has become a deep state system, articulated very clearly for us by many commentators. 41 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:55,639 But I want to continue to go through the particulars of the Declaration of Independence. Now I have 42 00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:03,319 outlined them and I can send you my particular outline of these over 30 particulars into which 43 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:11,319 most commentators refuse to dissent because they're gory, because they're ad nauseum, but they are very 44 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:19,579 much applicable to our situation today. And let me go on now, begin to take up where I left off last 45 00:05:19,579 --> 00:05:31,740 week. And I am under G now, G under 0.5. And G reads this way. That is the particular of why, 46 00:05:31,819 --> 00:05:37,160 one of the particulars as to why the American colonists declared their independence from Great 47 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,879 Britain. And we'll see the tyranny has very many overlaps with the tyranny of the deep state today. 48 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:48,600 So let me read it. He, that is King George, has endeavored to prevent the population of these 49 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:57,139 states for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others 50 00:05:57,139 --> 00:06:07,240 to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands, 51 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:18,040 unquote. That's G particular under 0.5 of the, some of the particulars of why the founders declared 52 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:24,519 their independence from Britain. Well, the one I just read for you in an ironic twist of fate, 53 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:34,600 King George III manipulated the issue of immigration in exactly a 180 degree opposite direction of the 54 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:40,720 tyrants of the deep state today. But it had the same goal. That's the irony. It had the same goal. 55 00:06:41,019 --> 00:06:47,860 In our day, the deep state is attempting to flood and overwhelm the very integrity of what it means to 56 00:06:47,860 --> 00:06:56,139 be an American with hordes of undefined, unexamined immigrants who have nothing but antipathy for liberty 57 00:06:56,139 --> 00:07:05,000 and identity as Americans. It is an international strategy, which I have mentioned before, an international 58 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:13,079 strategy to degrade independence. Now, King George III sought to limit the immigration into the colonies 59 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:20,620 of those who eagerly labor to establish independence and prosperity. That is the prosperity and independence 60 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:28,379 of their own and that of the new nation. The tactics were polar opposites, but the goals were identical. 61 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:35,699 That is, thwart the independence of the Americans with the issue of immigration. One, by limiting 62 00:07:35,699 --> 00:07:44,199 immigrants who sought identity as free, independent men. That was the strategy of King George. And the 63 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:49,920 other, by flooding a country of free men with those who have no interest in being free, 64 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:55,839 independent and prosperous. Oh, tactics were different, but the goals were the same. The deep 65 00:07:55,839 --> 00:08:06,079 state today seeks to create a sea of slaves dependent upon the global elite and the other sought to create 66 00:08:06,079 --> 00:08:13,939 a sea of slaves dependent upon the King of England. Can you see why it is imperative to declare once again 67 00:08:13,939 --> 00:08:21,220 our independence from our independence from tyranny, from the tyranny of the deep state, the shadow government 68 00:08:21,220 --> 00:08:30,899 that now lords over us. Oh, the issue of immigration, always a tyrant's tool. Well, there was also then 69 00:08:30,899 --> 00:08:41,940 another point to which the column is protested. And let me read for you that one. It's H under my 70 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:48,899 construction here of the Declaration of Independence. He, that is King George, has obstructed the administration 71 00:08:48,899 --> 00:08:57,539 of justice by refusing his assent laws for establishing judiciary powers. Oh, no civilized 72 00:08:57,539 --> 00:09:03,899 people can exist without courts to minister justice. It's the prime directive of government. Oh, the Bible 73 00:09:03,899 --> 00:09:11,659 tells us, justice shalt thou do in the land I'm giving you. Justice and only justice shalt thou do, unquote. 74 00:09:12,220 --> 00:09:20,460 King George sought to administer justice, quote, unquote, preemptorily by adjudicating cases himself 75 00:09:20,460 --> 00:09:27,419 or through judges appointed by himself and often sent overseas to the colonies. The Americans, on the other 76 00:09:27,419 --> 00:09:34,539 hand, previous to George, they were accustomed for centuries as colonists to judging matters in colonial 77 00:09:34,539 --> 00:09:41,899 courts established by themselves. But now, under King George, they were forced to have any court they 78 00:09:41,899 --> 00:09:49,259 previously or newly established recognized by the crown before it became operational. And compounding this 79 00:09:49,259 --> 00:09:56,779 tyrannical imposition, the passive-aggressive King George refused to recognize the courts established by law 80 00:09:56,779 --> 00:10:05,820 by the colonial legislatures. Instead, he sought to micromanage his wards, the colonies and the colonists. 81 00:10:05,820 --> 00:10:13,740 Well, this has implication for the next point of contention, and it was, I, under my construction, 82 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:20,259 that he, that is King George, has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices 83 00:10:20,259 --> 00:10:26,720 and the amount and payment of their salaries, unquote. Oh, dear brothers and sisters, throughout history, 84 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:33,620 one of the most effective methods for gaining and securing power is to buy and control judges. 85 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:40,679 It happens in our land today. That's one of the treasonous and tyrannical points of the deep state, 86 00:10:40,759 --> 00:10:48,759 isn't it? Cash captures courts. Jingle jinxes judges. In establishing Israel's system of courts, 87 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:55,139 as she took possession of Canaan, God warned her judges. He said, you shall not pervert justice, 88 00:10:55,139 --> 00:11:02,159 you shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of 89 00:11:02,159 --> 00:11:08,600 the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous, unquote, from Deuteronomy chapter 16. And our founding 90 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:16,519 fathers as well knew this by hard experience. The judges presiding over colonial courts were hand-selected 91 00:11:16,519 --> 00:11:23,279 by the king, and they were not only predisposed to favor the crown, but were also entirely dependent 92 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:30,600 upon the king for the renewal of their term of office and the salary which they drew. This is one 93 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,299 reason why our founding fathers built into the Constitution the provision that federal judges 94 00:11:36,299 --> 00:11:41,759 are appointed to lifetime terms, so that their administration of justice, at least ostensibly, 95 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:52,480 can be free of influence of manipulative executives and legislatures. Well, then, as a corollary to 96 00:11:52,480 --> 00:12:00,740 this protest, to this redress of grievance, there was another corollary, and that is, 97 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:09,200 he, that is the king, has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers 98 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:18,679 to harass our people and eat up their substance, unquote. Do you recognize this tactic of tyranny, 99 00:12:18,919 --> 00:12:25,860 dear listener, this tactic tyranny? It's not new, it is old. It is the absolute pestilence 100 00:12:25,860 --> 00:12:34,080 of locusts and cockroaches, implied by that term swarms of officers, right? That is bureaucrats. 101 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:42,179 It is not new to us in the creaking, groaning vat of vermin that has burst upon us in the decades of 102 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:49,600 the deep state. Also, during the colonial period under King George III, the king's maniacal obsession 103 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:57,419 to control caused him to create new offices, as Jefferson put, that is, lots of bureaucracies to 104 00:12:57,419 --> 00:13:04,299 monitor and regulate the colonialists' trade and taxes and guns and churches and militias and press, 105 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:10,960 oh, every facet of the colonist's life. And, of course, to pay the salaries of all these hundreds 106 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:18,840 of bureaucrats swarming amongst them, the king raised taxes. These bureaucrats, always conscious that their 107 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:26,840 place and paycheck depended upon bleeding the colonists like leeches, these bureaucrats always sided with the 108 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:33,240 king against the colonists, kept them under their control as much as possible. Oh, dear listener, 109 00:13:33,419 --> 00:13:39,039 nothing has changed, has it? While we were looking at our devices and watching football and building our 110 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:45,379 stock portfolios, the deep state has been steadily building a multitude of new offices, that is, 111 00:13:45,779 --> 00:13:54,200 countless, useless bureaucracies, staffed with useless, numberless bureaucrats, who indeed are swarms of 112 00:13:54,200 --> 00:14:01,460 officers who harass our people. That is, they seize our bank accounts, like the IRS does, or they confiscate 113 00:14:01,460 --> 00:14:07,860 our land, like the Environmental Protection Agency does. They take our children, like Child Protective 114 00:14:07,860 --> 00:14:14,500 Services do, or the National Education Association, or Administration, excuse me. They appropriate our 115 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:21,460 property, like the Justice Department does under RICO statutes. They silence our voices, like media 116 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:27,059 censorship. They take away our guns with a myriad gun bills all across the country, like in Virginia, 117 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:34,059 or the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Firearms. They have strangled and stifled the traditional and 118 00:14:34,059 --> 00:14:40,600 natural medicine in favor of big pharma, like the Federal Drug Administration does. Or they make it 119 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:48,399 difficult or impossible for small family farms to produce or even exist in favor of big ag, like the 120 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:54,320 Department of Agriculture does. And they put alternative candidates and measures on the election ballot, 121 00:14:54,500 --> 00:15:02,139 like the Federal Election Administration refuses to let alternative candidates, alternative ballot 122 00:15:02,139 --> 00:15:09,919 measures originating amongst the people. They disallow them on our ballots. All of these, and so much, 123 00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:16,120 much more. All of these and all of this has eaten out our substance, as Jefferson puts it. That is, 124 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:24,600 they've caused us impossible costs to fight, and then burdensome costs to finance. This article alone 125 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:31,059 is reason enough to rebel against our present form of government and institute a new one. Our founding 126 00:15:31,059 --> 00:15:37,139 fathers would be impatiently exhorting us, what in the world are you waiting for? You already live under a 127 00:15:37,139 --> 00:15:45,080 tyranny worse than we did, right? In many ways, we do. In many ways, we are recalcitrant and lazy and brain 128 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:53,320 dead. Well, there was another factor here as well. We're not done. Far from over. These articles of 129 00:15:53,320 --> 00:16:01,080 declaration, indeed, are reason and grounds, then, for declaring one's independence from tyranny. And we 130 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:07,720 should use these articles as reason to declare our independence from the deep state. And this is K, 131 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:16,360 then, an article which reads, he, that is the king, has kept among us in times of peace standing armies 132 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:23,259 without the consent of our legislatures. Oh, colonists had to endure the indignity of a standing 133 00:16:23,259 --> 00:16:29,019 army in their midst. All of them, to a man, considered themselves good subjects of the British crown. 134 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:36,820 Why then the need for permanent, ever-present armies of foreign redcoats? It couldn't be for self-defense. 135 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:41,799 The colonists themselves had for centuries raised their own militias to defend themselves against 136 00:16:41,799 --> 00:16:47,139 the Indians and the French. The British were absent without leave when it came to defending the 137 00:16:47,139 --> 00:16:55,120 colonies. Presence of these surly, arrogant, abusive soldiers could only be for one reason, 138 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:02,120 to keep the colonists in subjection. Jefferson and the colonists chafed at this unnecessary measure. 139 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:07,420 While the necessities of our modern world may dictate the need for a permanent standing army 140 00:17:07,420 --> 00:17:14,460 in our country, there are several features that continue to match up with the abuses our founding 141 00:17:14,460 --> 00:17:22,880 fathers suffered. And that brings me to my next point, then, L under five. And that reads, 142 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:30,960 he, that is, King George, has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil 143 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:38,380 power. Oh, dear listener, since the days of decadent latter Roman Empire and the Praetorian Guard 144 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:45,400 effectively ruled Rome, tyranny is invariably recognized when the military is, as Jefferson puts 145 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:51,420 it, independent of and superior to the civil power. Armies are mobilized to defend the people against 146 00:17:51,420 --> 00:17:59,460 an external enemy, excuse me. Not, armies are not mobilized to oppress the people by an internal 147 00:17:59,460 --> 00:18:05,019 elite. But this is precisely what the British army did to the colonists and what the deep state is 148 00:18:05,019 --> 00:18:12,200 doing to us. They, under King George, were an authority under themselves, untethered from the local 149 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:18,240 colonial legislatures. And for this reason, our constitution provides for the elected civilian 150 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:24,859 president to be the commander in chief of the armed forces. Very wisely put by the founders. 151 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:31,240 The military power is therefore subject to the civilian power. The president is therefore ultimately 152 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,980 accountable to the people for decisions he makes about war and peace. Just as Lyndon Baines Johnson 153 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:43,880 left office in disgrace over the unpopular Vietnam War, which he vigorously pursued as commander in chief. 154 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:50,599 Well, so, all American presidents are accountable to the people for their conduct in military affairs. 155 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:56,920 But this aim has been frustrated by what President Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex. 156 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:03,980 It's the essence of the deep state. Military-industrial complex was Eisenhower's particular name for it 157 00:19:03,980 --> 00:19:11,119 as it was taking shape after World War II. Oh, if Eisenhower were alive today, he too would call what has 158 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:19,079 grown from a baby calamari into a monstrous giant squid. He would call it the deep state. So make no mistake, 159 00:19:19,420 --> 00:19:26,839 the vast military, the limitless bureaucracy, the unaccountable, nameless, faceless trolls in Washington, 160 00:19:27,019 --> 00:19:34,740 D.C., the bloated industry that supplies our military with beans, bullets, and bombs. All of this has morphed over 161 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:43,440 the last two centuries to become an independent, unaccountable entity unto itself. Jefferson and the founding fathers 162 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:50,039 would have recognized it immediately and identified it with the British army of their day. Oh, dear listener, 163 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:55,579 but the collusion did not end there. That brings me to M. And it reads, 164 00:19:55,579 --> 00:20:02,740 He, that is King George, has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our 165 00:20:02,740 --> 00:20:10,039 constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. 166 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:16,819 That is, King George III conspired with the British Parliament to oppress the American colonies. Not only 167 00:20:16,819 --> 00:20:22,640 did he marshal all the forces of the crown to oppress us, but he also then marshaled the forces of the 168 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:28,680 Parliament. And in collusion with Parliament, King George III continued to oppress the colonists. And 169 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:34,740 the rest of the articles declaring our independence from Great Britain stem, then, from this collusion 170 00:20:34,740 --> 00:20:42,339 with Parliament. So, M, number one, under M, let me read it for you. For quartering large bodies of 171 00:20:42,339 --> 00:20:52,299 armed troops among us. Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. Oh, the colonists, our brothers 172 00:20:52,299 --> 00:20:59,759 in time. The colonists had these standing armies in amongst them, not even quartered in bases far away. 173 00:21:00,180 --> 00:21:06,980 The insufferable indignities of these quarterings are difficult for us to imagine. Not only were the 174 00:21:06,980 --> 00:21:13,680 individual colonists expected to support foreign British soldiers at their own expense, feeding and 175 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:21,720 housing them, but also the colonists were expected to put up with these surly, rude, crude, and offensive 176 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:28,440 attitudes and behaviors of these belligerent hostiles. This policy also served the dual role 177 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:35,440 of keeping a watchful eye on the colonists and to control any rebellious attitude that might develop 178 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:42,039 a particular household in which the soldiers dwelt. Oh, it was not unknown to have these 179 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:49,339 soldiers seize property or rape and molest the wives and daughters of their hosts. And this issue 180 00:21:49,339 --> 00:21:56,680 was always near the top of the list of colonists' grievances. In fact, it is the third liberty listed 181 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:03,420 in the Bill of Rights, and it reads this way. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any 182 00:22:03,420 --> 00:22:10,359 house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law, 183 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:20,039 unquote. But this situation also led to an even more egregious abuse, a more egregious abuse of that 184 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:26,039 power that enraged the founding fathers. And that was number two. There developed a virtual two-tiered 185 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:32,200 system of justice. Listen to this. For protecting them, that is the soldiers quartered in homes, 186 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,619 for protecting them by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit 187 00:22:37,619 --> 00:22:43,579 on the inhabitants of these states. Oh, there developed in the colonies a virtual two-tiered 188 00:22:43,579 --> 00:22:50,240 system of justice. One level of justice for the general mass of the colony, and one level for just 189 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:58,559 us. Justice for just us. That is the British masters. To endure crude and coarse insults and 190 00:22:58,559 --> 00:23:04,359 demeanors of malevolent soldiers was one thing. But what were the colonists to do when these same 191 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:10,339 crude Brits stole the silver, molested your wife, raped your mother, or killed the master of the 192 00:23:10,339 --> 00:23:17,440 house? What recourse was there? They were immune from colonial courts. And the martial law courts of 193 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:23,740 the British army routinely exonerated these interlopers, and they went free to continue their 194 00:23:23,740 --> 00:23:29,160 predatory behavior unchecked. The same could be said for any bureaucrat of the British crown who 195 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:35,019 served in the colonies. They were of a class apart from the common rabble of colonists. They 196 00:23:35,019 --> 00:23:40,519 quartered soldiers. The quartered soldiers, excuse me, were only the most egregious and ubiquitous 197 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:45,940 examples. Any crimes committed by the functionaries of the crown were tried in England, if they were 198 00:23:45,940 --> 00:23:52,460 tried at all. Oh, isn't it so gladsome that things aren't that way anymore, dear listener? That there's a 199 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:57,220 two-tiered system of justice, one for the average American, which is strict and exact and weighted 200 00:23:57,220 --> 00:24:01,380 in favor of the deep state, and then another standard of justice for the privileged few, 201 00:24:01,779 --> 00:24:07,319 that is the bureaucrats and the political elite of the deep state. Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. Come to 202 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:12,400 think of it, there is a two-tiered system of justice, if we're honest with ourselves about the 203 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,680 last few decades of American history. And of course, there is the glaring example of Hillary Clinton, 204 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:25,660 whose abuse of her security clearance revealed by the disclosure of over 33,000 emails makes her worthy 205 00:24:25,660 --> 00:24:31,180 of wearing prison orange for the rest of her life. Oh, it's a flattering color for her anyway. She 206 00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:37,799 should submit to it. Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up goes cry, right? Well, the entire cast of 207 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:46,259 clandestine sewer rats who surrounded her exoneration like FBI director James Comey or Andrew McCabe, 208 00:24:46,259 --> 00:24:53,279 and then who executed the treasonous backup plan to frame Donald Trump for so-called Russian collusion, 209 00:24:53,720 --> 00:25:00,119 people like Peter Stroke or Lisa Page or Ron Rosenstein, they're all walking away scot-free. 210 00:25:00,579 --> 00:25:05,920 They should all be given swift trials and shot at dawn the next day for treason. But they're all 211 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:11,480 certified members of the deep state, paid off and privileged, and consequently, they suffer no 212 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:19,660 consequences. Examples of the strict justice for the but not for me syndrome could be multiplied on 213 00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:25,539 nauseam, right? Sleepy Joe Biden and his ne'er-do-well son Hunter, the Burisma scandal in 214 00:25:25,539 --> 00:25:32,019 Ukraine, right? Billions of dollars. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who harbored a spy on her staff for the 215 00:25:32,019 --> 00:25:38,700 Chinese Politburo for 20 years in exchange for lucrative business deals in China. All of these and 216 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:45,019 more demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the two-tiered system of justice present at the time 217 00:25:45,019 --> 00:25:52,380 of the Declaration of Independence has resurrected its ugly corpse like a zombie of tyranny, guaranteed to 218 00:25:52,380 --> 00:25:57,960 return when a people takes its liberties for granted, as we have. The British Crown and Parliament 219 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:04,980 embodied the corpse of tyranny in our founding Father's Day, and the deep state does so for us 220 00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:11,859 today. And it's time to withdraw our consent to be governed by them, even as our founding fathers 221 00:26:11,859 --> 00:26:18,000 did. Oh, dear listener, walk with me continuously through the Declaration of Independence. 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