1 00:00:04,719 --> 00:00:10,160 Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,779 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And 3 00:00:14,779 --> 00:00:23,059 today, I want to continue asking you, how does the Declaration of Independence, that great 4 00:00:23,059 --> 00:00:30,100 statement of liberty and freedom for the American people, how does it speak to the necessity of 5 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:36,759 abolishing our present government, which is a deep state tyranny rather than a constitutional 6 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:44,079 republic, how does the Declaration of Independence today speak to the necessity of abolishing these 7 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:50,399 which are so destructive of our rights and then beginning to institute a new one, right, as 8 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:55,100 Jefferson puts it in the Declaration? Over the last few weeks, we have been carefully going through 9 00:00:55,100 --> 00:01:01,700 each clause of the Declaration to identify just what the founders faced in terms of their 10 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:09,900 particular complaints against their liberties. Now, Jefferson listed 29 particulars, though there 11 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:14,799 could have been more. Now, while most Americans are familiar with isolated portions of the 12 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:20,379 Declaration, like that soaring language, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable 13 00:01:20,379 --> 00:01:26,640 rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we passed over pretty 14 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,959 much the remainder of the Declaration as being a bit tedious and archaic. It was written so long ago 15 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:38,560 that their reasons for declaring independence from England have no relevance to our situation today, 16 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:46,819 right? Au contraire, I would say. As we have seen moving through the Declaration, point by point, 17 00:01:46,819 --> 00:01:53,480 complaint by complaint, tyrants do not change any more than a leopard can change his spots. Most of the 18 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,260 same reasons Jefferson articulated for separating from England are very much the same reasons for us 19 00:01:59,260 --> 00:02:06,040 separating from the current state of affairs in the deep states of America. Only the times, faces, 20 00:02:06,299 --> 00:02:12,599 and particular circumstances have changed. And that tyranny has just gotten a fresh injection of steroids 21 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:19,400 with the onset of the China virus. It is not altogether inaccurate to call what is coming 22 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:26,599 upon us now a full-blown medical tyranny. One of my favorite commentators, a man named John 23 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:33,699 Rappaport, who has a website, nomorefakenews.com. I urge you to check it out. John Rappaport calls 24 00:02:33,699 --> 00:02:42,259 CDC Director St. Anthony Fauci, President Fauci, since he seems to be calling the shots for the nation in 25 00:02:42,259 --> 00:02:48,240 place of President Trump. It seems that what the deep state with Robert Mueller and the Russian 26 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:54,259 collusion delusion and the impeachment hoax of predatory Democrats, what they could not achieve, 27 00:02:54,659 --> 00:03:00,780 a microscopic, invisible, insidious virus like the China virus may be about to do. And that is drive 28 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:07,580 President Trump from office, if we're not careful. The CDC may soon be able to offer America a vaccine 29 00:03:07,580 --> 00:03:15,439 for the virus. But where is the inoculation for the virus of tyranny in our body politic? That is the 30 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:22,419 more dangerous virus, the virus of tyranny. At the same time that a relatively small number of us are 31 00:03:22,419 --> 00:03:28,759 coming down with this fever of the China virus, many millions more are gripped by the fever of fear and 32 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:36,699 hysteria. And it is always fear and panic that tyrants use to their advantage to stampede people into 33 00:03:36,699 --> 00:03:44,159 greater and greater control. Like cattle drovers herd cattle into the chutes and then into the cars 34 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:51,439 and then on to the butcher. And although Governor Gavin Gruesome of California and Governor Fredo 35 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:57,719 Cuomo of New York are calling it martial law by name, they're not calling it martial law by name, 36 00:03:57,780 --> 00:04:04,719 excuse me. Well, it is that, in fact, which they've done, impose martial law on their states. 37 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:10,560 And one of the most egregious examples of dictatorial powers comes from the mayor of Champaign, 38 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:17,699 Illinois, Mayor Deborah Frank Finan. And she signed an executive order giving herself the power to 39 00:04:17,699 --> 00:04:24,339 order the seizure of firearms, ammunition, alcohol, and gasoline during the coronavirus pandemic. 40 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,620 Oh, it also goes on to claim the extraordinary measure to seize private property and cut off 41 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:37,240 citizens' access to gas, water, and electricity. Woe to those who live in Champaign, Illinois, 42 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:45,160 Illinois, excuse me, with Mayor Finan. Examples like this are descending upon us from across the 43 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:52,720 country. Once these powers are imposed, they will never go away, dear listener. In fact, the CDC has 44 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:59,819 already proposed that even when and if the ravages of China virus are stemmed, America must be prepared to 45 00:04:59,819 --> 00:05:06,300 go into a virus like lockdown, lockdown, excuse me, every flu season. I don't think we're going to 46 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:12,560 stand for that. Not even the most bovine cattle among us will stand for that. Dear listener, we're 47 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:18,319 being trained for tyranny. We're being conditioned for control, just as we have been trained and 48 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:26,379 conditioned for 20 years now by the TSA when we fly. Oh, conditioned to be groped and body scanned and 49 00:05:26,379 --> 00:05:32,759 probed and patted down in every body cavity and crevice if necessary. There is no humiliation to 50 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:38,540 degrading, but that your old government cannot subject you to it. America is changing forever, 51 00:05:38,660 --> 00:05:45,680 dear listener, and not for the good. This tyranny is claimed to be necessary for your good, required 52 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:52,399 for you to be safe. Let me just remind you of William Pitt's famous statement, prophetic. 53 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:58,459 It sounds like the voice of experience. William Pitt, the British philosopher and statesman said, 54 00:05:59,079 --> 00:06:04,920 necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. 55 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:12,120 It is the creed of slaves. Dear listener, are you a slave? Are you submitting to necessity? 56 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:17,279 Oh, the tyranny imposed upon us is so necessary for your own good, for your own safety. 57 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:24,560 Ah, but if that's the case, then you must know that your federal government is making the argument 58 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:31,540 of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves, if you believe it and abide by it. Dear listener, especially 59 00:06:31,540 --> 00:06:37,240 those of you who are confessing Christians, you might as well exchange the Apostles' Creed for the 60 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:43,220 creed of slaves. Necessity. It is necessity for our safety and security to submit to this 61 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:49,439 shame and indignity of the TSA. It is necessary for our health and well-being to huddle like moles in 62 00:06:49,439 --> 00:06:54,720 our homes for weeks on end, sacrificing our jobs and callings and businesses for the sake of an 63 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,279 ephemeral virus. It is necessary to indulge in the collective hysteria and panic of a culture that 64 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:08,600 obeys the herd mentality of lemmings hurtling over the cliff of China virus panic. It is so necessary 65 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:15,139 for us to obey the dictates of an all-wise government who loves us and has our best interest 66 00:07:15,139 --> 00:07:23,019 at heart. Oh, yes. It is necessary for us to flatten the nation in order to flatten a curve. 67 00:07:23,339 --> 00:07:30,319 If you believe any of these propositions, then you deserve your slavery. But it is not for me, 68 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:35,819 dear listener. Those of us who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary 69 00:07:35,819 --> 00:07:43,060 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety, says Benjamin Franklin. I quote him once again. 70 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,259 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither 71 00:07:49,259 --> 00:07:57,060 liberty nor safety. Americans deserve neither liberty nor safety if they are indeed willing to give up 72 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:03,240 essential liberty, which is essential to our existence, in order to purchase a little bit of 73 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:12,660 safety from the coronavirus. We are being promised safety from a deadly pestilence by tyrants who can 74 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:18,439 neither give us safety nor help themselves from stealing our constitutional liberties in the process. 75 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:25,399 The measures being used presently, that is lockdowns, isolation, the shutdown of an economy, 76 00:08:25,660 --> 00:08:31,899 they have not worked in places where they have been tried, like Iran or China or Italy. But on the 77 00:08:31,899 --> 00:08:38,059 other hand, measures which have been successful, things like extensive inaccurate testing, quarantine of 78 00:08:38,059 --> 00:08:44,159 infected individuals, and stringent preventative practices, these kinds of places have been effective 79 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:53,820 in stemming the tide of the virus. In places like Singapore or South Korea or Taiwan, tyranny never 80 00:08:53,820 --> 00:09:01,019 changes, dear listener. It has a default setting to rob you of your free speech, the practice of your 81 00:09:01,019 --> 00:09:07,820 religion and your freedom to assemble peaceably. This is happening now in the streets of America, 82 00:09:07,820 --> 00:09:15,740 but it was not true only here, but also in the days of the colonies. This is we we've been covering as 83 00:09:15,740 --> 00:09:20,500 we've been looking at the Declaration of Independence and what were those particular complaints? We've been 84 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:29,740 going through them and we left off covering number 16, which was the cutting off of our trade with all 85 00:09:29,740 --> 00:09:36,700 parts of the world. We covered that briefly last week when indeed Great Britain attempted to cut off 86 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:43,340 trade with the colonies so that they can only trade then with Great Britain. But we covered that in some 87 00:09:43,340 --> 00:09:49,419 pretty good detail then last week. So let's take up number 17, complaint number 17, which has 88 00:09:49,419 --> 00:09:56,779 application to us today too. And that is for imposing taxes on us without our consent. The colonists, 89 00:09:56,779 --> 00:10:04,379 Jefferson and Washington and the leaders of the revolution felt it necessary to separate 90 00:10:04,379 --> 00:10:11,419 from Great Britain for a variety of reasons. And number 17 was for imposing taxes on us without our 91 00:10:11,419 --> 00:10:19,500 consent. Behold the primal state of the parasite on its host in its very nature. That is taxation 92 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:27,340 without representation. We can tax you at will, whatever we want, for whatever amount. The leech, 93 00:10:28,220 --> 00:10:36,379 doesn't the parasite leech suck blood from its host to its very heart's content, never soliciting the 94 00:10:36,379 --> 00:10:43,179 needs or cares or concerns of its host? If that leech wants or needs more blood, it merely takes more. 95 00:10:43,179 --> 00:10:48,940 In fact, in many cases, the parasite will end up killing the host, if not abated and removed. 96 00:10:49,740 --> 00:10:55,820 The polite term for this relationship between crown and colonies was taxation without representation. 97 00:10:56,620 --> 00:11:01,899 Great Britain could tax the colonies to its heart's content, at will, because the colonies could do 98 00:11:01,899 --> 00:11:09,179 nothing to stop them. They had no vote, they had no voice, they had no say in parliament, thousands of 99 00:11:09,179 --> 00:11:17,820 miles away. Instead, what would happen is, if the king or parliament determined that more revenue needed 100 00:11:17,820 --> 00:11:24,700 to be raised for whatever reason, they would vote to raise taxes on the American colonies by whatever 101 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:32,220 amount they saw fit. Then, tax agents would be dispatched to the colonies to tyrannically impose 102 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:39,259 the new increases upon them by force of arms, if necessary, without consultation or vote in the 103 00:11:39,259 --> 00:11:46,299 local legislature. Oh, the colonists were cows to be milked in the eyes of King George III and the 104 00:11:46,299 --> 00:11:52,940 Parliament of Great Britain. The colonists were cows to be milked, slaughtered. They were mere sheep to be 105 00:11:52,940 --> 00:12:01,019 shorn. Oh, dear listener. But our founding fathers, accustomed to electing those who would tax them prior to 106 00:12:01,019 --> 00:12:08,059 to King George, our founding fathers steadfastly resisted this impulse in the fallen human condition. 107 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:15,019 How about us? How about us, dear listener? We seem to have succumbed to the parasite syndrome, 108 00:12:15,419 --> 00:12:22,220 where the host attempts to adapt and adjust to the conditions imposed upon it by the parasite, 109 00:12:22,220 --> 00:12:29,980 rather than the host taking charge as the host and removing the parasite. Oh, our founding fathers did, 110 00:12:29,980 --> 00:12:34,379 they removed the parasite of Great Britain, of Parliament and King George III from them, 111 00:12:34,940 --> 00:12:43,259 and then began to impose taxes as the United States of America with representation. Oh, 112 00:12:43,820 --> 00:12:51,500 instead of a Parliament thousands of miles away in the colonies, we have a parasite deep state in our 113 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:58,379 very midst. That's how it is today. Taxation without representation, virtual, instead of a 114 00:12:58,379 --> 00:13:05,580 thousands of miles away. We, in the contemporary United States of America, have a parasite deep state in 115 00:13:05,580 --> 00:13:13,019 our very midst that taxes us incessantly and indirectly, too, through raising rates, for example, 116 00:13:13,019 --> 00:13:20,059 in the numberless agencies that the deep state has created, like the Environmental Protection Agency, 117 00:13:20,059 --> 00:13:28,620 or the Federal Drug Administration, or by deliberately inflating our currency, for example. This is one of 118 00:13:28,620 --> 00:13:36,059 the ways government steals from you, by deliberately inflating our currency, or by borrowing beyond our 119 00:13:36,059 --> 00:13:43,740 ability to pay. All of these measures are indirect taxation without representation, because the American 120 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:50,220 people were not consulted were not consulted in their enactment, but nevertheless, we pay for it all. Now, 121 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:58,539 on the surface, we have some representation in the elected officials who vote to raise our individual 122 00:13:58,539 --> 00:14:06,620 income taxes. We can vote Republican, ostensibly for lower taxes, or Democrat, ostensibly for higher taxes, 123 00:14:06,620 --> 00:14:13,580 and we can perpetuate the illusion that we have taxation with representation. But it is only a dog 124 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:22,539 and pony show, a magician's bauble in the left hand to distract, while his right hand pulls the rabbit 125 00:14:22,539 --> 00:14:29,179 out of his hat, relative to the myriad of other measures government uses functionally to raise our taxes 126 00:14:29,179 --> 00:14:35,340 without our consent. So many ways that government functionally raises our taxes without our consent. 127 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:43,019 This is at the heart of the deep state. We have as much, if not more, reason to withdraw our consent 128 00:14:43,019 --> 00:14:49,740 to be governed by the deep state of America than did our Founding Fathers to withdraw their consent to 129 00:14:49,740 --> 00:14:58,700 be governed by King George III and Parliament. Most Americans are just too ignorant to know or too busy 130 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:06,940 working their devices to be bothered enough to do anything. It is time to be peacefully fostering 131 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:15,340 a revolution in this area that we should again not have taxation without representation. That is 132 00:15:15,340 --> 00:15:20,379 complaint number 17 from the Declaration of Independence, which is just as true today, 133 00:15:20,379 --> 00:15:26,620 ironically, over the centuries. It has morphed to being another reason why we should separate ours from 134 00:15:26,620 --> 00:15:34,379 the deep state of America, just as our Founding Fathers separated themselves from King and Parliament 135 00:15:34,379 --> 00:15:45,019 in their day. Well, number 18, the 18th reason for separating themselves then from the mother country was 136 00:15:45,019 --> 00:15:54,220 because England, and I quote, depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury. Oh, one of the 137 00:15:54,220 --> 00:16:04,220 most valuable elements of our liberties and freedom in the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights is a trial by 138 00:16:04,220 --> 00:16:11,820 jury. Many Americans don't realize how valuable this is in the life of every citizen, their right to be 139 00:16:12,539 --> 00:16:21,899 tried by a jury of your peers. Who knows the extreme value for justice and for the guard against tyranny 140 00:16:21,899 --> 00:16:28,460 that a trial by jury represents? Americans have forgotten this. We don't have them much anymore, 141 00:16:28,460 --> 00:16:34,379 trials by jury. But that is what was at stake in the colonies when Jefferson penned the Declaration. 142 00:16:35,179 --> 00:16:45,259 Ever since the days of the Magna Carta, which was composed in AD 1216, freemen in England ever since then, 143 00:16:45,259 --> 00:16:51,580 freemen in England were accustomed to being tried for a crime before a jury of their peers, 144 00:16:51,580 --> 00:17:00,059 rather than a biased judge appointed by the king on whom said judge was dependent for his job and salary. 145 00:17:00,779 --> 00:17:07,099 Well, how would you expect that judge to rule, right? In favor of the crown, of course. A jury of one's 146 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:15,259 peers, however, would rather hear the case with two mutually balanced motives. Two mutually balanced 147 00:17:15,259 --> 00:17:22,940 motives. Number one, as peers with understanding of the accused life situation. That would be one of the 148 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:30,220 things that a trial by jury of one's peers would bring because those peers, those fellow citizens, 149 00:17:30,220 --> 00:17:38,539 would understand the accused life situation. And then secondly, as a jury impaneled to administer justice 150 00:17:38,539 --> 00:17:45,819 in their own community, too, to weigh the facts and the law fairly. That would be the other mutually 151 00:17:45,819 --> 00:17:52,619 balanced motive. They would want justice, but they would also want mercy. Few Americans realize this 152 00:17:52,619 --> 00:17:59,500 precious liberty. A jury of one's peers, that is, his neighbors and colleagues who knew him and his 153 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:05,660 character. They would hear both the facts surrounding the alleged crime and, as well, 154 00:18:05,660 --> 00:18:13,420 the law upon which its violation was based, and then they would decide guilt or innocence. Most Americans 155 00:18:13,420 --> 00:18:21,980 are utterly, and I'm afraid, completely ignorant of this lost gem in our Western tradition, a trial by jury. 156 00:18:22,619 --> 00:18:29,819 If an overzealous prosecutor, wishing to pad his prosecutorial record, or maybe having a distinct 157 00:18:29,819 --> 00:18:37,259 bias against an accused, if such a prosecutor brings trumped-up charges against someone, the jury is the 158 00:18:37,259 --> 00:18:44,940 last line of defense. Even if a law is on the books and the defendant has violated that law, but the jury 159 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:52,859 feels that the law is unjust, that jury can still acquit the sovereignty of the jury. Who realizes this 160 00:18:52,859 --> 00:19:01,819 today, dear listener? In the forest of unjust laws on our books, juries can and must judge both the facts 161 00:19:01,819 --> 00:19:07,420 of the case, that is, whether the guy did what he's being accused of, but the jury must also decide the 162 00:19:07,420 --> 00:19:14,460 law, that is, whether the very law he's alleged to have broken is a good law or not. So what if he's 163 00:19:14,460 --> 00:19:21,019 broken a lousy law? Let him go. Not guilty. The jury can do this. Juries have plenary power, it's called. 164 00:19:21,019 --> 00:19:28,380 Juries have plenary power to do this. But no one tells them this anymore, especially the judges. 165 00:19:29,420 --> 00:19:35,740 In his essay on the trial by jury, it's a famous essay that all law students had to read, 166 00:19:36,140 --> 00:19:45,259 at least in the distant past, all law students had to read Judge Lysander Spooner's essay 167 00:19:45,259 --> 00:19:52,940 on a trial by jury. Even as Judge Lysander Spooner wrote, he said, government is established 168 00:19:52,940 --> 00:19:59,839 for the protection of the weak against the strong. Unless the weaker party, that is the accused in the 169 00:19:59,839 --> 00:20:07,259 face of the whole legislature and judicial system, unless the weaker party have a veto, they have no 170 00:20:07,259 --> 00:20:13,240 power whatever in the government and no liberties. The trial by jury, Spooner says, 171 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:20,000 the trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon the power 172 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,920 of the stronger. Consequently, it is the only institution that gives them any effective voice 173 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:32,980 in the government or any guarantee against oppression. Unquote, the trial by jury. Do you see how crucial 174 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:39,900 it is to our republic? This is a God-given right that has almost completely disappeared from America. 175 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:46,400 Quickly, it became apparent in the crucible of history that, more often than not, under the jury 176 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:52,759 system, if the guy did it, he was convicted, right? Yes, he was convicted. If he didn't, 177 00:20:53,039 --> 00:20:58,099 he was acquitted, and that's how it's supposed to operate. It's not a perfect system either, because 178 00:20:58,099 --> 00:21:06,440 that didn't always happen, but generally, it was fair and effective. It had worked for centuries in 179 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:11,640 England, and then for multiple decades in the colonies, too, until the advent of George III. 180 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:19,519 He began to drag accused colonists summarily before his hand-picked judges, and then, like a sausage 181 00:21:19,519 --> 00:21:26,660 factory, he turned out conviction after conviction. The only thing wrong was that not only many of the 182 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:33,500 convictions were bogus, but most of the laws upon which the convictions were based were also unjust. 183 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:40,819 It is to this unjust system that the founders complained he deprives us, in many cases, of trial 184 00:21:40,819 --> 00:21:49,079 by jury." It is to this unjust system of the deep state in our day that we complain that we, too, 185 00:21:49,180 --> 00:21:56,599 are deprived of a trial by jury fully instructed in its rights, and consequently, we withdraw our 186 00:21:56,599 --> 00:22:05,400 consent to be governed by that deep state system, and we insist upon establishing a new one, that is 187 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:12,240 a Christian constitutional republic to take the place of the deep states of America, and maybe then 188 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:25,660 we will once again see that indeed we have a trial by jury then again. And then we go on now to number 19 189 00:22:25,660 --> 00:22:34,059 for complaint number 19, which was, for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. 190 00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:42,539 Number 19, for transporting us, the complaint was against George, for transporting us beyond seas to be 191 00:22:42,539 --> 00:22:50,380 tried for pretended offenses. Ah, this was a complete captive change of venue. It's a corollary of a trial 192 00:22:50,380 --> 00:22:56,940 by jury. If you can't have a trial by jury, then you will be transported overseas in this change of 193 00:22:56,940 --> 00:23:03,579 venue. And we see this effectively done in our day, too, when in many federal cases where a trial is 194 00:23:03,579 --> 00:23:09,740 shopped for a friendly judge to the prosecution. And once more, this is precisely what happened most 195 00:23:09,740 --> 00:23:15,980 recently to Roger Stone. Examine this case and you'll see. Well, number 20, complaint number 20 in the 196 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:23,900 declaration of independence as we continue to move through them. Complaint number 20 involved abolishing 197 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:31,900 the free system of English laws, Jefferson says. He complains against King George and the parliament 198 00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:40,779 as a reason for separating from them because they abolished the free system of English laws in a 199 00:23:40,779 --> 00:23:48,460 neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to 200 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:54,700 render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these 201 00:23:54,700 --> 00:24:02,700 colonies. Unquote. Complaint number 20. Now, what King George's ministers did very cleverly was arbitrarily 202 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:08,519 enlarge the jurisdiction of a province in a state friendly to the king into the province of another 203 00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:15,000 resistant to the king. And they could then impose the tyranny from the former onto the latter. Our federal 204 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:21,640 system allows for much the same thing when a federal judge rules in one jurisdiction and then it goes on to 205 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:29,000 apply in every other federal jurisdiction, jurisdiction, excuse me, across the country. The attempt to upend 206 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,480 President Trump's building of a wall at the southern border is a good example. When opponents of President 207 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:42,119 Trump find a federal judge friendly to their case, they file it in whatever venue over which he presides. 208 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:48,440 But then it goes on to be binding over the rest of the country, not just his jurisdiction. And in this 209 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:54,359 manner, the Democrats have been effective in at least delaying many of the measures the president has 210 00:24:54,359 --> 00:25:02,039 enacted, regardless of how frivolous and absurd those measures and those attempts at delay may be 211 00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:11,480 constitutionally. Oh, then, dear listener, we will continue to move on through and complete the 212 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:19,079 complaints that have been lodged against King and Parliament in England and see, go on to see. Indeed, 213 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:24,519 there are specific applications in our own day to our own situation as we struggle to separate 214 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:30,039 ourselves from the deep state. It is time that we declare our independence from the deep states of America 215 00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:35,960 and establish a Christian constitutional republic in its place. This must be done. It's coming. The 216 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:42,119 destruction of the old is coming. So we must be prepared to institute the new. This has been Pastor 217 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:49,160 David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. And we meet for holy worship. I encourage you to visit 218 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:54,839 us, come and see us. Many of you have considered crossing our threshold. I would urge you to do so 219 00:25:54,839 --> 00:26:01,799 in the next few weeks. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 220 00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:11,160 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196. And you can 221 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:23,559 check out our website, newgenevaopc.org. Or check out our radio website, which chronicles and catalogs this 222 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:32,039 message, uh, among all the others that we've had. And you can check that out at omnispotestas.org. 223 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:43,880 That's O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org. Omnispotestas.org. And you can then call us once again 224 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:49,559 for further information at area code 208-523-0196.