1 00:00:04,690 --> 00:00:10,330 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:10,330 --> 00:00:15,330 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:15,750 --> 00:00:21,429 And today, I want to challenge you to think through the issue of how does the Declaration 4 00:00:21,429 --> 00:00:27,629 of Independence speak to the necessity of abolishing our present government, 5 00:00:27,629 --> 00:00:36,109 which is a deep state tyranny versus a constitutional republic, which is so destructive 6 00:00:36,109 --> 00:00:42,049 of our rights, and then instituting a new one, as Jefferson puts it, in the Declaration. 7 00:00:42,770 --> 00:00:47,070 Now, over the last few weeks, we have been carefully going through each clause of the 8 00:00:47,070 --> 00:00:53,689 Declaration to identify just what the founders faced in terms of their particular complaints 9 00:00:53,689 --> 00:01:01,390 against their liberties. And there are over 30 of them. And while most Americans are familiar with 10 00:01:01,390 --> 00:01:07,909 isolated portions of the Declaration, like we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable 11 00:01:07,909 --> 00:01:12,310 rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? Everybody seems to 12 00:01:12,310 --> 00:01:19,250 know that one, or at least has heard it often before. Most of us pass over the remainder of 13 00:01:19,250 --> 00:01:26,670 the Declaration as being, oh, maybe a bit tedious and archaic, right? It was written so long ago that, 14 00:01:26,950 --> 00:01:33,549 well, their reasons for declaring independence from England have no relevance to our situation today, 15 00:01:33,609 --> 00:01:40,650 right? And so we can ignore it. Well, I submit to you, au contraire. As we have seen, moving through 16 00:01:40,650 --> 00:01:47,769 the Declaration point by point, tyrants do not change any more than a leopard can change his spots. 17 00:01:47,769 --> 00:01:55,670 Most of the same reasons Jefferson articulated for separating from England are very much the same 18 00:01:55,670 --> 00:02:02,170 reasons for us separating from the current state of affairs in the deep states of America. Today, 19 00:02:02,730 --> 00:02:09,349 we have turned from the United States of America to the deep states of America. And only the times, 20 00:02:09,469 --> 00:02:15,650 the faces, and the particular circumstances have changed. Oh, and that tyranny of which we speak 21 00:02:15,650 --> 00:02:23,430 has just gotten a fresh injection of steroids with the onset of the China virus. It is not altogether 22 00:02:23,430 --> 00:02:33,150 inaccurate to call what is coming upon us now a full-blown medical tyranny. A medical tyranny, yes. 23 00:02:33,650 --> 00:02:40,889 One of my favorite commentators, a man named John Rappaport, and he has a, just a great website, 24 00:02:40,889 --> 00:02:49,270 nomorefakenews.com. Check out John Rappaport. And he calls the CDC director Fauci, President Fauci, 25 00:02:49,509 --> 00:02:56,009 since he seems to be calling the shots for the nation in place of President Trump. Now it seems 26 00:02:56,009 --> 00:03:00,969 that what the deep state with Robert Mueller and the Russian collusion delusion and the impeachment 27 00:03:00,969 --> 00:03:09,430 hoax of predatory Democrats could not achieve, oh, a microscopic, invisible, insidious virus like the 28 00:03:09,430 --> 00:03:19,250 China virus may be about to do, hopefully not, that is, drive President Trump from office. That indeed is 29 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:26,469 what his enemies are trying to do with this virus. The CDC may soon be able to offer America a vaccine 30 00:03:26,469 --> 00:03:33,270 for the virus, but where is the inoculation for the virus of tyranny in our body politic? At the same time 31 00:03:33,270 --> 00:03:39,750 that a relatively small number of us are coming down with the fever of the China virus, many millions 32 00:03:39,750 --> 00:03:47,250 more Americans are gripped by the fever of fear and hysteria. And it is always fear and panic that 33 00:03:47,250 --> 00:03:55,789 tyrants use to their advantage to stampede people into greater and greater control, like cattle drovers 34 00:03:55,789 --> 00:04:03,210 herd them into chutes to the cattle cars and then the butcher. And although Governor Gavin Grusom of 35 00:04:03,210 --> 00:04:10,310 California, that's what I call him, Gavin Grusom of California, and Governor Fredo Cuomo of New York, 36 00:04:10,810 --> 00:04:16,269 they're not calling what they're doing martial law, they don't do it by name, but it is in fact what 37 00:04:16,269 --> 00:04:24,290 they have done. Oh, and once indeed a tyrant gets a hold of power, he is very loath to let it go. 38 00:04:24,290 --> 00:04:32,910 And one of my favorite examples from the headlines recently of dictatorial powers of a tyrant who 39 00:04:32,910 --> 00:04:39,029 fortunately only has a small domain, but it comes from the mayor of Champaign, Illinois, 40 00:04:39,329 --> 00:04:47,290 the poor residents of Champaign, Illinois. Mayor Deborah Frank Finan signed an executive order. Now, 41 00:04:47,310 --> 00:04:51,970 I didn't know mayors could sign sweeping executive orders, but apparently she has. 42 00:04:51,970 --> 00:04:59,589 It hasn't been challenged it, but it should. Mayor Deborah Frank Finan signed an executive order 43 00:04:59,589 --> 00:05:08,829 giving herself the power to order the seizure of firearms, ammunition, alcohol, and gasoline 44 00:05:08,829 --> 00:05:17,329 during the coronavirus pandemic, or the China virus pandemic, as I like to call it, with President 45 00:05:17,329 --> 00:05:26,389 Trump. This executive order goes on to claim the extraordinary measure to seize private property 46 00:05:26,389 --> 00:05:33,430 and cut off citizens' access to gas, water, and electricity. Now, examples like this are descending 47 00:05:33,430 --> 00:05:39,290 upon us from across the country more than I can report at once. And once these powers are imposed, 48 00:05:39,490 --> 00:05:46,089 they will never go away, dear listener. Oh, tyrants are loath to give up power once they've grabbed it and 49 00:05:46,089 --> 00:05:52,670 seized it. In fact, the CDC has already proposed the idea that even when and if the ravages of the 50 00:05:52,670 --> 00:05:59,250 China virus are stemmed, America must be prepared to go into a virus lockdown every flu season. 51 00:05:59,930 --> 00:06:05,889 Oh, dear listener, we are being trained for tyranny. We are being conditioned for control, 52 00:06:05,990 --> 00:06:13,209 just as we have been trained and conditioned for the last 20 years now by the TSA. When we fly, 53 00:06:13,209 --> 00:06:19,050 we have been trained and conditioned to be groped and body scanned and probed and patted down in every 54 00:06:19,050 --> 00:06:26,329 body cavity and crevice if necessary. There is no humiliation, too degrading, but that your government 55 00:06:26,329 --> 00:06:35,410 cannot subject you to it. Brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, dear listener, America is changing 56 00:06:35,410 --> 00:06:42,529 forever. If you long for the days of yesteryear, they're not coming back. And America is changing 57 00:06:42,529 --> 00:06:50,170 forever and not for the good. This tyranny is claimed to be necessary for your good. Your government 58 00:06:50,170 --> 00:06:58,370 loves you. Yes, and what we're doing to you is necessary for you. It's required for you to be safe. 59 00:06:58,370 --> 00:07:04,529 Don't you want to be safe? Don't you want to feel safe? Oh, don't you want to feel good again? 60 00:07:05,370 --> 00:07:12,089 Well, take the thumb out of your mouth and realize, as what William Pitt said, who was the 61 00:07:12,089 --> 00:07:20,149 British philosopher and statesman and parliamentarian, he said, necessity is the plea for every infringement 62 00:07:20,149 --> 00:07:27,949 of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. Pitt was so right 63 00:07:27,949 --> 00:07:34,930 in his day and in ours. Tyrants don't change. The characteristics of tyranny do not change. We've been 64 00:07:34,930 --> 00:07:42,709 seeing this over the last few weeks. Necessity, and that's what your government is pleading for 65 00:07:42,709 --> 00:07:49,089 right now. They are making the plea, trying to make the case in hurting and stampeding the American 66 00:07:49,089 --> 00:07:57,009 people. Oh, it's necessary for us to do these things. And as Pitt said, necessity is the plea for every 67 00:07:57,009 --> 00:08:04,769 infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. And America 68 00:08:04,769 --> 00:08:10,370 is not requiting itself very well right now. Dear listener, especially those of you who are 69 00:08:10,370 --> 00:08:16,009 confessing Christians, we might as well exchange the apostles' creed for the creed of slaves. That is 70 00:08:16,009 --> 00:08:22,970 necessity. Oh, dear listener, it is necessary for our safety and security to submit to the shame and 71 00:08:22,970 --> 00:08:29,870 the indignities, excuse me, of the TSA. It is necessary for our health and well-being to huddle 72 00:08:29,870 --> 00:08:36,429 like moles in our homes for weeks on end, sacrificing our jobs and callings and businesses for the sake of an 73 00:08:36,429 --> 00:08:45,250 ephemeral virus. It is necessary to indulge in the collective hysteria and panic of a culture that obeys the 74 00:08:45,250 --> 00:08:53,289 herd mentality of lemmings hurtling over the cliff of China virus panic. Dear listener, it is your 75 00:08:53,289 --> 00:08:59,009 government that's telling you it's necessary for us to obey the dictates of an all-wise government 76 00:08:59,009 --> 00:09:07,769 who loves us. Yes, they only want a service. They want a service medium, rare, and well done. That's 77 00:09:07,769 --> 00:09:13,210 how they want a service. An all-wise government that loves us and has our best interest at heart. Yeah, 78 00:09:13,210 --> 00:09:19,830 right. Oh, dear listener, it is necessary for us to flatten the nation in order to flatten a curve. 79 00:09:20,230 --> 00:09:26,950 If you believe any of these propositions, then you deserve your slavery. As Benjamin Franklin so 80 00:09:26,950 --> 00:09:33,769 cogently put it, he said, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary 81 00:09:33,769 --> 00:09:41,950 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. We are being promised safety. We're being promised safety, 82 00:09:41,950 --> 00:09:48,090 safety from a deadly pestilence. We're being promised this by tyrants who can neither give us safety 83 00:09:48,090 --> 00:09:55,710 ultimately, nor can they help themselves from stealing our constitutional liberties. The measures 84 00:09:55,710 --> 00:10:03,090 being used presently, and you can look this up too, things like lockdowns or isolation, shutdown of the 85 00:10:03,090 --> 00:10:08,710 economy. These are the measures, heavy-handed measures being used by our government presently. 86 00:10:08,710 --> 00:10:14,649 They have not worked in places where they've been tried, like Iran and China and Italy. On the other 87 00:10:14,649 --> 00:10:22,129 hand, measures that have been successful, like extensive and accurate testing and quarantine of 88 00:10:22,129 --> 00:10:29,370 infected individuals, not the whole country, but quarantine of infected individuals that have been 89 00:10:29,370 --> 00:10:36,169 tested, and then stringent preventative practices. These have been effective in stemming the tide of the 90 00:10:36,169 --> 00:10:41,509 virus in places like Singapore and South Korea and Taiwan. Oh, dear listener, tyranny never changes. 91 00:10:42,149 --> 00:10:48,590 It has a default setting. Rob you of your free speech, which is being done, the practice of your 92 00:10:48,590 --> 00:10:54,750 religion. You can't meet on Sunday. You're non-essential churches, and your freedom to assemble 93 00:10:54,750 --> 00:11:02,750 peaceably on Sunday as churches. This is happening now in the streets of America, but it was not true. 94 00:11:02,750 --> 00:11:09,490 Only here, but also in the days of the colonies. Well, what were those particular complaints? I take 95 00:11:09,490 --> 00:11:22,169 up now a complaint about the tyranny of cutting off trade with America. That is complaint number three 96 00:11:22,169 --> 00:11:30,389 under M. Remember, M is the combined actions of parliament and crown. We saw a whole bunch of them 97 00:11:30,389 --> 00:11:36,909 under King George III, but then King George III also used parliament to tyrannize over the colonies, 98 00:11:37,129 --> 00:11:42,190 and we're at number three of those tyrannies of the combined forces of colony and king. 99 00:11:42,870 --> 00:11:49,590 And colony and king, according to the complaint in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, 100 00:11:49,769 --> 00:11:56,750 was cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. On cutting off our trade, the trade of the 101 00:11:56,750 --> 00:12:03,350 colonies with all parts of the world. The colonists, free, industrious, ambitious, energetic, 102 00:12:03,490 --> 00:12:09,289 and enterprising. They were competing across the world with the economy of Great Britain. That was 103 00:12:09,289 --> 00:12:16,950 what the British were trying to stem. Trade with Spain, the colonies, but especially France, 104 00:12:17,129 --> 00:12:23,190 flourished at the expense of Britain. In an effort to curtail and control these upstart capitalists, 105 00:12:23,190 --> 00:12:30,649 the crown and parliament established restrictive trade rules on the Americans. Heavy duties on rum 106 00:12:30,649 --> 00:12:37,029 and cotton and manufactured goods made our goods more expensive. Embargos on trade with certain 107 00:12:37,029 --> 00:12:42,629 regions meant that our goods couldn't gain access to those markets, and on and on the manipulative 108 00:12:42,629 --> 00:12:50,330 controls went. Our economy suffered, having one arm tied behind its back in the rustling match of 109 00:12:50,330 --> 00:12:56,549 international trade. Understandably, the founders wanted the kind of liberty to trade which Britain, 110 00:12:57,210 --> 00:13:02,529 British merchants and businessmen, excuse me, had. This is precisely the situation in the United 111 00:13:02,529 --> 00:13:09,269 States of America today. Ah, we have faced this for so long in the deep state's effort to make our 112 00:13:09,269 --> 00:13:15,830 trade policy subordinate to the interests of a global elite. And I've told you about this global 113 00:13:15,830 --> 00:13:22,990 elite in the past. Look to past messages to see the details there. And President Trump has ripped the 114 00:13:22,990 --> 00:13:30,549 mask off of this monster in renegotiating so many disadvantageous trade agreements, which were signed 115 00:13:30,549 --> 00:13:38,629 by his predecessors. That giant sucking sound that Ross Perot warned us of. And he was a prophet, 116 00:13:38,629 --> 00:13:47,590 wasn't he? Looking back, Ross Perot was very, very correct in how jobs and corporations would leave America 117 00:13:47,590 --> 00:13:55,110 for cheaper labor overseas. That giant sucking sound of jobs and manufacturing plants leaving our shores 118 00:13:55,110 --> 00:14:05,250 for places like Mexico and China became a reality under the unfair trade deals like NAFTA or separate deals 119 00:14:05,250 --> 00:14:12,450 with China. We were told then we would be prosperously integrated into a global economy and that every 120 00:14:12,450 --> 00:14:18,129 benefit. And of course, time told the tale. We discovered quickly that everything from wheat to 121 00:14:18,129 --> 00:14:23,450 widgets were either made or grown somewhere else or made so cheaply elsewhere that we could no longer 122 00:14:23,450 --> 00:14:30,450 compete. On top of this indignity, the creative genius of American innovation was stolen by the Chinese 123 00:14:30,450 --> 00:14:37,009 as our intellectual property became a hostage to entering their markets. And on and on we could go. 124 00:14:37,490 --> 00:14:42,769 Make no mistake about this point, dear listener. This article describing the cutting off of trade with all 125 00:14:42,769 --> 00:14:48,929 parts of the world applies with even greater impact today for us than it did for our colonial brethren 126 00:14:48,929 --> 00:14:56,049 then. We have as much reason, if not more, for withdrawing our consent to be governed by the deep state now 127 00:14:56,049 --> 00:15:01,809 than our colonial forebears did for withdrawing their consent to be governed by king and crown. 128 00:15:01,809 --> 00:15:10,289 Well, number four then. The fourth complaint under M is for imposing taxes on us without our consent. 129 00:15:10,889 --> 00:15:19,230 Yes, Jefferson and the founders complained that Great Britain imposed taxes on the colonies without our consent. 130 00:15:19,230 --> 00:15:27,789 That's the primal state of the parasite on its host. This is the primal state in nature. That is taxation 131 00:15:27,789 --> 00:15:36,110 without representation. The leech sucks blood from his host to its heart's content, never soliciting the 132 00:15:36,110 --> 00:15:43,269 needs and cares and concerns of its host. No, if it wants or needs more blood, it merely sucks more. In fact, in many 133 00:15:43,269 --> 00:15:49,509 cases, the parasite will end up killing the host if not abated and removed. That's what the colonists were 134 00:15:49,509 --> 00:15:55,669 trying to do to Great Britain. The polite term for this relationship between crown and colonies was 135 00:15:55,669 --> 00:16:02,309 taxation without representation. Great Britain could tax the colonies to its heart's content at will 136 00:16:02,309 --> 00:16:08,389 because the colonies could do nothing to stop them. They had no vote, no voice, no say in parliament 137 00:16:08,389 --> 00:16:15,509 thousands of miles away. Instead, what would happen is if the king and parliament determined that more 138 00:16:15,509 --> 00:16:22,389 revenue was needed for whatever reason, they would vote to raise taxes on the colonies, on the American 139 00:16:22,389 --> 00:16:29,669 colonies by whatever amount they saw fit. Then pestilential tax agents would be dispatched to the 140 00:16:29,669 --> 00:16:37,750 colonies to tyrannically impose the new increases upon them by force of arms, if necessary, without 141 00:16:37,750 --> 00:16:45,830 consultation or vote in the local legislature. The colonists were cows to be milked and even 142 00:16:45,830 --> 00:16:52,789 slaughtered, mere sheep to be shorn. Our founding fathers, accustomed to electing those who would tax 143 00:16:52,789 --> 00:16:59,830 them prior to King George, they steadfastly resisted this impulse in the fallen human condition. Well, 144 00:16:59,830 --> 00:17:07,670 how about us? We seem to have succumbed to the parasite syndrome where the host attempts to adapt 145 00:17:07,670 --> 00:17:13,029 and adjust to the conditions imposed upon it by the parasite rather than taking charge of the host 146 00:17:13,029 --> 00:17:21,670 and removing the parasite, the leech of taxes. Instead of a parliament thousands of miles away, however, we 147 00:17:21,670 --> 00:17:29,509 have a parasite deep state in our very midst that taxes us incessantly and does it indirectly through 148 00:17:29,509 --> 00:17:36,150 raising rates on the numberless agencies as it has created, like the EPA or the FDA, or maybe by 149 00:17:36,150 --> 00:17:42,789 deliberately inflating our currency as they're doing now, or by borrowing beyond our ability to pay. 150 00:17:43,670 --> 00:17:49,029 All of these measures are indirect taxation without representation because the American people were 151 00:17:49,029 --> 00:17:56,549 not consulted in their enactment, but we pay for it all. And on the surface, we have some representation 152 00:17:56,549 --> 00:18:03,430 in the elected officials who vote to raise our individual income taxes. We can vote Republican for lower 153 00:18:03,430 --> 00:18:10,230 taxes or Democrat for higher taxes generally, and we can perpetuate the illusion that we have taxation with 154 00:18:10,230 --> 00:18:19,269 representation, but it is only a dog and pony show. A magician's bauble in the left hand to distract, while the 155 00:18:19,269 --> 00:18:25,430 magician's right hand pulls the rabbit out of the hat. And that's all relative, of course, to the myriad of other 156 00:18:25,430 --> 00:18:32,789 measures that government uses functionally to raise our taxes without our consent. We have as much, if not more, 157 00:18:32,789 --> 00:18:40,710 reason to withdraw our consent to be governed by the deep state than did our founding fathers to withdraw 158 00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:47,589 their consent to be governed by king and parliament. Most Americans are just too ignorant to know or too 159 00:18:47,589 --> 00:18:53,990 busy to be bothered enough to do anything. Dear listener, it's time for us, though, for you and me to 160 00:18:53,990 --> 00:19:01,910 peacefully foster a revolution in this area that we should, again, not have taxation without representation. 161 00:19:01,910 --> 00:19:11,750 Well, then, number five under M, the combined efforts of king and parliament for depriving us, Jefferson says, 162 00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:20,710 in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. Oh, king and crown, parliament, we're endeavoring to deprive the 163 00:19:20,710 --> 00:19:29,049 colonists of the benefits of trial by jury. Listener, who knows the extreme value for justice and the guard against 164 00:19:29,049 --> 00:19:35,349 tyranny that a trial by jury does represent? We don't have them much anymore, but that is what was at stake in the 165 00:19:35,349 --> 00:19:43,269 colonies when Jefferson penned the declaration. Yes, ever since the days of Magna Carta in 1216. Freemen 166 00:19:43,269 --> 00:19:52,069 in England were accustomed to being tried for a crime before a jury of their peers versus a biased judge 167 00:19:52,069 --> 00:19:59,990 appointed by the king on whom said judge was dependent for his job and salary. Oh, how would you expect that 168 00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:06,230 judge to rule, of course, in favor of the crown? A jury of one's peers, however, would hear the case with 169 00:20:06,230 --> 00:20:14,109 two mutually balanced motives. Number one, as peers equals with understanding of the accused life 170 00:20:14,109 --> 00:20:21,990 situation. And then secondly, as a jury impaneled to administer justice, true justice in their own 171 00:20:21,990 --> 00:20:31,849 community to weigh the facts and the law fairly. Few Americans realize this precious liberty. A jury of 172 00:20:31,849 --> 00:20:37,549 one's peers, that is, his neighbors and colleagues who knew him in this character, they would hear both 173 00:20:37,549 --> 00:20:45,190 the facts surrounding the alleged crime and the law upon which its violation was based. And then they 174 00:20:45,190 --> 00:20:51,230 would decide guilt or innocence. Most Americans are utterly, completely ignorant of this lost gem. 175 00:20:51,230 --> 00:21:00,309 In our Western tradition. Yes. If an overzealous prosecutor wishing to pad his prosecutorial record, 176 00:21:00,309 --> 00:21:08,150 or maybe having a distinct bias against an accused, well, if he brings trumped up charges against someone, 177 00:21:08,329 --> 00:21:16,190 the jury is the last line of fence. Even if a law is on the books and the defendant has violated that law, 178 00:21:16,190 --> 00:21:23,990 but the jury feels the law is unjust, it can still acquit. Oh, very few people realize this. Who realizes 179 00:21:23,990 --> 00:21:31,789 this today? In the forest of unjust laws on our books, juries can and must judge both the facts of 180 00:21:31,789 --> 00:21:39,769 the case, that is, whether the guy did what he's accused of, and they must judge the law as well. That is, 181 00:21:39,769 --> 00:21:45,970 whether the very law he's alleged to have broken is a good law or not. So what if he's broken a lousy law? 182 00:21:45,970 --> 00:21:54,109 Let him go. Not guilty. Juries have this power. They have plenary power to do this, but no one tells them 183 00:21:54,109 --> 00:22:02,849 this anymore, especially judges. Dear listener, in his essay on the trial by jury, Judge Lysander Spooner 184 00:22:02,849 --> 00:22:08,710 wrote this, and I quote him, government is established for the protection of the weak against 185 00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:15,450 the strong. Unless the weaker party that is the accused in the face of the whole legislature and 186 00:22:15,450 --> 00:22:21,269 judicial system, that's the greater power, the stronger power. And so, Spooner goes on to say, 187 00:22:21,349 --> 00:22:28,170 unless the weaker party have a veto, they have no power whatever in the government and no liberties. 188 00:22:28,170 --> 00:22:36,089 The trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon the power 189 00:22:36,089 --> 00:22:41,990 of the stronger. Consequently, it is the only institution, and he's talking about trial by jury 190 00:22:41,990 --> 00:22:47,670 here, it is the only institution that gives them any effective voice in the government or any guarantee 191 00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:55,069 against oppression, unquote. That's pretty strongly stated, isn't it? But it is so, so true. Trial by jury. 192 00:22:55,069 --> 00:23:04,230 You need to apprise yourself of this right and this bastion, this last guard against tyranny, 193 00:23:04,789 --> 00:23:10,029 this bastion of liberty, the trial by jury. Come to understand this. Grow in your knowledge and 194 00:23:10,029 --> 00:23:17,069 application of this. This is a God-given right, trial by jury, that has almost completely disappeared 195 00:23:17,069 --> 00:23:25,430 from America. Oh, quickly. In the colonies, however, it became apparent in the crucible of history, 196 00:23:25,809 --> 00:23:31,910 ever since, especially ever since 1216, in the Magna Carta, in the crucible of history, 197 00:23:32,430 --> 00:23:39,410 more often than not, under the jury system, it was discovered that if the guy did it, he was convicted, 198 00:23:39,589 --> 00:23:44,930 but if he didn't, he was acquitted. That's the kernel of justice, isn't it? It wasn't a perfect 199 00:23:44,930 --> 00:23:51,970 system. No system is. But it was fair and it was effective. It had worked for centuries in England 200 00:23:51,970 --> 00:23:58,730 and for multiple decades in the colonies until the advent of George III. And for us, of course, 201 00:23:58,789 --> 00:24:04,750 it's the advent of the deep state. Poor Roger Stone. Look at the case of Roger Stone and you'll see the 202 00:24:04,750 --> 00:24:16,150 abuse, then, of trials and judges, the abuse of juries as well. That poor man should be retried and 203 00:24:16,150 --> 00:24:22,049 acquitted. Look into his case, the case of Roger Stone. But over the course of history, it became 204 00:24:22,049 --> 00:24:28,529 apparent in England that more often than not, under this jury, precious jury system, if the guy did it, 205 00:24:28,589 --> 00:24:34,049 he was convicted. If he didn't, he was acquitted. That's justice. It had worked for centuries in England 206 00:24:34,049 --> 00:24:42,670 and then in the colonies too until the advent of George III, a true tyrant. George began to drag 207 00:24:42,670 --> 00:24:50,650 accused colonists summarily before his hand-picked judges. And like a sausage factory, it turned out 208 00:24:50,650 --> 00:24:56,450 conviction after conviction. The only thing wrong was that not only many of the convictions were bogus, 209 00:24:56,450 --> 00:25:04,029 but most of the laws upon which the convictions were based were unjust. That's why a jury has 210 00:25:04,029 --> 00:25:11,809 the ironclad right to judge not only the facts of a case, but also the very law which underpins and 211 00:25:11,809 --> 00:25:23,150 underlies the prosecution of the accused. It is to this unjust system that the founders complained 212 00:25:23,150 --> 00:25:30,210 he deprives us in many cases of trial by jury. And it is to this unjust system of the deep state 213 00:25:30,210 --> 00:25:37,849 in our day that we complain, that we too are deprived of a trial by jury fully instructed in 214 00:25:37,849 --> 00:25:46,250 its rights. And consequently, dear listener, we must withdraw our consent to be governed by that system. 215 00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:53,849 And we must insist upon establishing a new one, as Jefferson puts it. We indeed have the right and we 216 00:25:53,849 --> 00:26:01,950 are compelled to, we must establish a new system that is a Christian constitutional republic to take the 217 00:26:01,950 --> 00:26:08,529 place of the deep states of America. Dear listener, this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva 218 00:26:08,529 --> 00:26:17,490 Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls. We are located on the corner then of 4th and Boulevard. 219 00:26:17,490 --> 00:26:24,150 We meet for holy worship at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. We hope to be 220 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:30,450 meeting soon again. I will alert you. I'll let you know when we are meeting formally in our building 221 00:26:30,450 --> 00:26:36,690 again at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Call me for feedback. Call me for more 222 00:26:36,690 --> 00:26:48,849 information on us and our church at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.