3-22-25 The Weekend Hour 2: What Can We Learn From The United Kingdom’s Decline?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's at Michael Brown USA at Michael Brown USA. So
I want you to think about the United States, but
I want to talk about great Britain. So well, I'm
talking about great Britain. I want you to think about US.
I have several friends, close friends, as a matter of fact,

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who expats that are living in London, and you know
they've got husbands and wives that work there, and so
I have lots of text messages, oftentimes flying back and
forth about what life is like. And as I hear them,
because they all have an American point of view, they
have a US perspective, and it's good to hear from

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them living there as opposed to those who are from there.
It would be like it would be like me living
in this country trying to tell a brit what I
think is wrong or right. My viewpoint's going to be

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biased because of my upbringing, my background, all the environmental
social factors that go into who I am today, all
of my past experiences, my parents, my grandparents, everything. Whereas
they are living from an American point of view in
a foreign country and they describe. And the reason I

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want you to think about the US as I talk
about the UK is because I think you'll at times
be confused. You'll be confused US because you'll think, is
he talking about the US or the UK? Think about

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this a country. Think about a country that has more
regulations than it does, say constitutional rights or just broaden
it out legal rights, that has more hospital or medical
administrators than they do doctors. They've got more admirals in

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our country, generals then they do warships. They're more dependents
on their social welfare programs than the country can can manage.
And finally, there's more ideological bickering than there is common sense.

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Once the land of pioneers, industrial giants fearless explorers. No,
I'm not talking about us. I'm talking about them the UK.
If you look at the UK now, it resembles kind
of a bloated, decaying bureaucracy on the very verge of collapse,
kind of build Roman Empire. We're kind of able to

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look at the UK and looked over the shoulder of
the UK at the decline and follow the Roman Empire.
And if we fail to recognize that this as we
look over the shoulder of the United Kingdom, we're really
looking at us. We're looking at a mirror that we're

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not paying attention to. It a bloated, decaying bureaucracy. We
call it the deep state here on the vergiic collapse.
I think ours is collapsing and I think it needs
to collapse. And there's all the ideological INFI government overreach,

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economic stagnation. Now that's the UK. Could be US. But
as the UK right now, if you've ever studied British history,
you know that they have shifted from kind of a
pioneer nation to a bureaucratic state displagued by ideological infighting,
economic decline, excessive regulations. They've got economic stagnation, mass migration,

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illegal immigration, we call it here. Rising living costs is
leading to widespread poverty, homelessness, social fragmentation. I think about
my own household now. Fortunately I'm in a fairly financial
comfortable position. To some people, I'm not wealthy. To other people,

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I'm rich. I think I'm squarely in what's America's middle class.
But I look at some of my expenses. I look
at what like like, I know, my wife probably went
to the grocery store today. Now I don't know whether
today is like a big grocery day or we just

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need to get up a few things. But I can
tell you I dread looking at I dread opening my
account and looking to see how much she's spent. And
then I fear going home afterwards and looking in the
refrigerator of the cabinets and the pantry and realize, oh,
what'd you get? We have? You know, I've got this

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stupid app on my phone, and I have it because
I have a water leak detection system and it shows
how much water I use. And I know I become
obsessed with numbers and statistics and I you know, and
trying to account for stuff. But we recently got a
notice from our water supplier, our water distributor, because we're

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not on a well or anything. We're all municipal water.
And the rates are going through the roof, and I
look at how much water we use, because we do,
we do, we use a lot of water, and I think,
oh my god, I read this first BILLI based on
these new rates, and then I think, now, yeah, can
I afford it? Yes, I can afford it. But that's

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whatever money I spend on all that additional water is
money that I won't spend on eating out or traveling,
or buying a new shirt or a new pair of sneakers,
or buying, you know, a gift for my wife or
a gift for the grandkids or whatever else because I
gotta pay for the water. And then I think, but

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I'm lucky. What about people that can't afford that? In
the UK, law enforcement and the justice system, oh don't
even get me started. In hours has become politically biased.
It's even worse in the UK because they're prioritizing when

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it comes to law enforcement ideological policing over actually dealing
with violent crime. We haven't quite gotten to that point yet,
that we're pretty damn close. We watch what's going on
with Tesla, which we'll talk about later, But you look
at what's going on with Tesla right now, and you think,
is that really how we act as a society that

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we don't like? Because some guy by the name of
Elon Musk is exposing waste, fraud and abuse. And so
rather than going, oh, thank you, sir for exposing that,
let's figure out a way to fix that. Instead, let's
get mad at him and let's go burn cars that

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he's already sold. He's already made his money on those teslas,
those belonged to private individuals now because they did something
that I thought the left wanted us to do, was
to buy more evs, and so these people were on
the forefront of that supposed innovation. Not that I'm going

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to go buy one, certainly not now, but I wasn't
going to anyway. But Musk has already made his money
on those teslas that people are keying, scratching, burning, setting fire,
to damaging, whatever they're doing to it. He's already made
his money. And all you're doing is increasing insurance costs
for everybody by inflicting the vandalism and the terror that

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you're spreading everywhere. Well, and that's ideological. That's ideological criminals
going out wreaking their havoc. The problem in the UK
is the police enforce ideological crimes. The decline is a
deliberate dismantling in Britain of their traditional values and their

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economic strength. And that's a warning for other Western nations.
If I if I read you that note again and
didn't say Britain, if I said the decline is a
deliberate dismantling of the United States traditional values and our
economic strength, you would say, yeah, that is exactly what's

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going on in the UK, all these woke elites in Parliament.
And again when I say UK, I want you to
think us when when you think about what they're doing
in Parliament, it'll remind you of the US Congress. It's
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decline going on in the United Kingdom, because I've been
reading a lot of stories lately about the United Kingdom
and hearing from friends who live in London expats working there,
and I just keep hearing these parallels, and sometimes when
they describe to me the insanity going on, I think, ooh,
you need to come home, because not only is that

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dangerous over there, but you need to help stop it
over here. You know, all these woke elites in the
United Kingdom's Parliament, they continue to squabble over gender pronouns.
They are actually banning offensive speech. You can be arrested

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in the United Kingdom for saying or writing something that
offends somebody. Hells males, I'd be in jail every weekend.
I offend somebody every time I go on air, not
on purpose, but just because I tell you what I think,
Which means that if you tell people what you think,

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you have to be careful because of defend somebody and
they file it, you know, a complaint with the bobby somewhere,
then you're gonna be in trouble. You can actually be
arrested for it. You gotta be careful on social media,
not that you shouldn't, but you can't express yourself. They're
busy enforcing radical diversity quotas all the while. Well, economically

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the country is teetering on collapse. That's their focus. It's insane.
You know the country. You know Churchill, and you think
about Churchill of you know, fighting and we're going to
keep moving and don't stop. Today Britains are actually fleeing

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a country that they no longer recognize as their own.
The decline has been sudden and it's been relentless. And
the streets of downtown London while they gleam with some
of the world's richest elites, politicians, oligarchs, foreign investors, they
intend all these exclusive gallows in their flashy cars. The

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rest of the country continues to sink into economic despair.
At any given time, seven point two million people in
the United Kingdom struggle with food insecurity. More than twenty
two million live in inadequate housing. That's nearly one in
three citizens. That's the third of the people in that country.

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That's like one hundred million people in this country. And
homelessness continues to go to record levels. One story in
the Telegraph had a headline Homelessness jumps sixteen percent in England,
laying bare scale of housing crisis. Nearly forty five thousand
households had nowhere to live in three months to December

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last year, according to official figures. Now, if you exclude London,
take London out of the equation, you'll find a country
that has a gross domestic product per capita and living
standards not too different from that of Eastern Europe. And
yet while Eastern Europe rises after shedding the shackles of communism,
the UK sinks further and further into what I call

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managed decline. Since two thousand and seven, real wages have
remained stagnant, cost of housing, energy and essentials of all skyrocketed.
The dream of home ownership is dead for most young Britons,
who face an economy that once to do it favorite speculators.
It favors foreign investors over its own working in middle
class people like I said almost exactly the same thing

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about this country. And at the same time, the UK
faces unchecked waves of what they call mass migration we
would call illegal immigration in this country, and cities turned
into war zones. Criminal gang seized control of entire neighborhoods.

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So it's not just here it's also there a two
tiered system of justice has almost become a matter of
political allegiance, not a matter of law, nor not a
matter of the rule of law. Do you know that
in Britain you are more likely to be imprisoned for

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something they call a hate crime than for actually committing
murder or rape? So where did it all go wrong?
And this is where I think we need to pay
attention because, like the United States, the UK emerged from
the Cold War victorious, but they became, and I think

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we became two complacent, fat, dumb and happy. The battle
they thought was won, the end of history was declared,
the triumph of the free market over totalitarianism. Yet always
working from within, silently, progressively, quietly, while going back to

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the first hour, America continued to get dumbed down, so
did the UK. And as you get dumbed down, you
produce what more useful idiots? And so that means that
the Marxist, the globalists, the bureaucratic elites, well we would
call in this country the Marxists, the globalists, and the
deep state work behind the scenes to dismantle that country,

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just like they are this country from within, and the
goal to weaken and subjugate their country to a global
order that values equity over meritocracy, conformity over individuality, and
obedience over freedom. I know it's hard to distinguish, isn't it.

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When I think about these notes, I think it really
is am I talking about the United Kingdom, I talking
about the United States, unless you know, unlike I told you.
Maybe I didn't tell this audience. But I've been watching.
I don't watch and I have not watched Yellowstone, but
I've been watching the prequels. There was eighteen sixty three

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and now there's nineteen twenty three. I think is the
other one that I'm watching now. All of those people
that came to this country during that era came seeking work.
Most of them had a means of support. They had sponsors,
they had jobs they were going to. They knew they

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could find jobs and factories, on ranches, on farms. They
could find the work. Today, why do they come to
this country. Oh, you can make an argument they come
for the same thing, for a better life. But is
that better life through the toils with their hands, their
brains with labor. No, it's through a social welfare system.

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Over half a million new arrivals in a country the
size of Britain every year, and they don't share their values,
their history, of their traditions. Same things true in this
country the people that come here. I don't care if
they celebrate their culture. I don't care if they speak
whatever language they speak in their home, but I want

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them to speak English when they're out in the open.
Who do you blame. I think it's a natural course
and it's something that we in this country need to
watch what's going on, because it's happening in this country too.
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to have you with me. So you know that over
the past couple of days he throwed airport at outside London.
We're going to continue with the UK for a moment
was shut down and it was forced to shut down well,
let me back up. When I heard there was a

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fire at Heathrow. It's a nice airport. I think it's overcrowded.
It needs to be expanded, but they're having, you know,
the typical Nimby problems. Not in my backyard. They need
to add a few runways, but everybody's opposed to that.
So it's just going to continue to get more and
more crowded, and it's going to continue to deteriorate and

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get worse and worse. But when I heard there was
a fire that he throwed and then it shut down
the entire airport. In my mind, I can imagine, oh
my gosh, like the terminals on fire. There's been like
a crash of some sort and a jet has crashed

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into one of the gates or something, and so they're
having to evacuate. I mean, all these horrible things in
my head. Well, no, it shut down because there was
a fire in a substation on airport property. But the
fire required them to shut down everything, And I thought,

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hang on a minute, where where are your backup power sources.
You're one of the busiest airports in the entire freaking world,
and you let a fire shut you down. Yes, Indeed
they did more than thirteen hundred flights to and from

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the airport. It's the UK's busiest airport, were either canceled
or turned away after it was forced to shut down
because of this fire that knocked out a substation. Now
you can find some great like if you are if
you have an account on flight aware, other news sources
have put it up. You can find it online. It

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wasn't just that some flights were not allowed to land,
but many flights were required to turn around. Like you're
halfway over the Atlantic. You've left Kennedy or you've left
Dallas and you're on your way to London and there's
no way to go, so you go back to Kennedy,
you go back to Dulles. Other flights that were close

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in could land at Gatwick or somewhere else, or maybe
they could turn around and go back to Paris or
someplace that's not quite as bad as being halfway across
the Atlantic. See, it was an absolute cluster when you
think about everything going on. A guy blamed. Richard Tice,
who's the deputy leader of Reform UK, said he was

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told by an industry expert if the airport changed its
backup systems get ready from a diesel generator to environmentally
friendly biomass versions of generators. Now, every radio station, I

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think I can say this, every radio station that's in
the iHeart network that is particularly one of the legacy
stations that like in my cluster here in Denver, we
have a legacy station called KOA. Well, not just because
of KOA, but because of our FCC license, we're required

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to be able to stay on the air twenty four
hours a day, seven days a week. It's part of
our requirement. So we have not far from where I'm sitting,
I can walk out and look on the back patio
and I can see these gigantic diesel generators that occasionally
get tested, make a lot of noise, put a lot

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of carbon in the atmosphere, so that we can make
certain that if there's a power outage caused by oh,
I don't know, somebody running into a substation somewhere, or
a fire at a substation, or some other reason, that
we can stay on air. And we're a radio station
and we can do that. Now, think about one of
the world's busiest airports. I would say fairly important, not

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just to commerce, but for military reasons. Too to be
able to keep that airport open. I know it's not
a military base, but in case of you know, some
sort of you know, humongous catastrophic event might convert it
and use it for military purpose. Now, this biomass generator

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appears to have failed because it was designed only to
work alongside Britain's national grid, and not to be able
to work independently if the grid was shut off. So
the energy center at Heathrow, which opened back in twenty twelve,
heats terminals two and five using about twenty five thousand

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tons of wood chips source from of course, Sustainable for
US in the United Kingdom now sources that Heathrow insist
that it was not true that a traditional fossil fuel
system would have been able to keep the power on.
How do you make that claim? How can you make

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that claim? Because every fossil fuel system that I know,
like ours, which has the whole tanks plus also has
propane and natural gas lines feeding it, can stay on
as long as the supply is there, and could certainly

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provide backup until a fire could could be extinguished and
a substation repaired. But no, they can they continue to
claim that, oh no, a diesel backup would not have worked. Okay,
let's take that at face value. Clearly, woodchips don't keep

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a don't keep a generator running either, So your whole
idea of being environmental friendly by having woodchips failed, and
it failed huge. You know why they have wood chips
because a net zero because the United Kingdom and in
particular Heathrow are trying to be net zero compliant. Now

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it's a freaking airport, So so what do you do
to reach net zero? Because the last I checked, Oh,
I know people have experimented with biomass to fuel jets,
but it's not a mass production, and I'm not quite
certain that I want to fly a jet that's based
on burning wood chips, for example. So how would you

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for an airport that's using jet A for planes to
land taxi and then to taxi and takeoff again, or
is tied into the national grid which is using coal,
nuclear and other sources for energy. Why would you try
to convert an airport to that zero? Makes no sense whatsoever,

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but it shows the insanity of trying to do so.
Now it's power since been restored, But when all this
was going on, he Throw could not give any of
the news outlets, national or international any idea of when
the airport might reopen. A National Grid spokesman said a

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fire at our North Hyde substation in West London has
damaged equipment, leading to a loss of power supply in
the area. We're working at speed to restore power supplies
as quickly as possible. The point being if you think
that we can rely on this net zero idea for cheap,

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reliable energy, no, you cannot. You cannot do it. And
I think this is a great example. And you know
the BRIT's like to talk about how resilient they are.
I think this is truly not or is truly showing
how you're not resilient. Now we don't know, and I

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haven't seen anything new today, but as of last night,
it's not known whether sabotage or foul play, or terrorism
or anything else had a part to play in the
fire in the airport closure, and the government suggesting that
the fire started by accident. So at this point I
have no choice but to take them at face value
that indeed it was just some sort of accidental fire.

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But it's another grand example of how this idea of
rot relying on that zero and pursuing that zero is
a fool's errand you need cheap and reliable energy. Reliable
and cheap, cheap and reliable. I don't care what however
you use it, but that's what you need to make
the world go round. Go back to ein Rand and

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hearth whole theory about Jimmy Carter and the idea that, oh,
we got a gas shortage, so we got to sacrifice. No,
that's the wrong attitude to take. The attitude to take
is we have the ability to do everything that we
need to do and more. How are we going to
do AI with wood chips. No, you're going to expand
the use of fossil fuels, You're going to expand the

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use of nuclear energy. You're going to do whatever you
can to get cheap, reliable energy to fuel the world
of the future. And you can't do wood chips. I
find it. I find it absolutely hilarious to think that
that's exactly what you were going to do. You were
going to use woodchips to try to fuel an airport.
You're insane, utterly insane. Don't let anybody feed you the

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idea that net zero is compatible with a growing and
robust economy. It simply is not. It's the Weekend of
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(28:49):
we should all go to Kansas City next week. Welcome
back to the Weekend of Michael Brown. Glad to have
you with me or not Kansas City. But anyway, a
group of Satanists going to be a meeting. They're gonna
conduct a black Mass at the Kansas State Capitol on
March twenty eight. Now, the governor of Kansas, Lord Kelly,
and a group of bipartisan lawmakers on both sides of

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the aisle are trying to prevent the event. Now, I'm
not a Satanist. I'm a Christian, and I got a
problem with this. Now I think I might understand. Why
do you have a problem with the Satanist Yeah, I
got a problem with Satanists, but I have more of
a problem with them trying to prevent the event. The
Satanic Grotto and its leader, some Yahoo be named Michael Stewart,

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said the event had gained attention following allegations that he
stole a consecrated host from a local Catholic church. Well,
now I'm beginning to wonder. Okay, now, if you're stealing
stuff from Catholic churches and you're planning to take these
into the Kansas State House, and you're gonna set fire

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to them, then yeah, you probably could be banned from
your protest. Well, the Governor Kelly issued an order back
in March twelve, about ten days ago now, prohibiting the
Satanic grotto from accessing the state House. Now, the stories

(30:16):
I read say that that prohibition was supported by changes
that they had adopted in building in grounds policies. They
were initiated by both Democrats and Republicans. And she said,
the governor did that there are more respectful means to
express dissent than offending religious symbols. Yes, there probably are
more respectful means to express dissent than using or offending

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or desecrating religious symbols. But wait a minute, the last
I checked, the First Amendment still applies in Kansas. Now
listen closely, because many of you probably disagree with me.
In certain practices of this particular Satanic group. A black
mass involves desecrating the eucharists, which is deemed a distortion

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of the Catholic Mass. There's a lawsuit brought by Bishop
Joseph Naumann that accuses the leader of this particular group
of admitting to stealing the eucharists admitted on social media.
And then the lawsuit contends that the same y'all who
starts sending threatening letters to the lawmakers, Stuart, while acknowledging

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rude correspondence, denied all the accusations of theft and all
the threats. So the lawsuit ends up being dismissed after
a hearing. Although this guy, this Yahoo heads this group
pledged to continue with the demonstration, actually anticipating a possible arrest. Well,
of course he does. That's what they want. They want

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the attention. Earlier this month, the American Society for the
Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, which is a national
Catholic organization of some started a petition to have the
Black Mass banned from the Capitol, and they've gotten thousands
of signatures. Here's where I draw the line. They have

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the right just as the Catholics have the right. This
is the old US Supreme Court case going back to Skokie, Illinois,
where the Nazis used the ACLU when they actually were
concerned about civil liberties, actually defended Nazis being able to

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march in the streets of Skokie, Illinois, in the predominantly
Jewish area, as long as they conducted their protests within
the bounds of the law and conducted it peacefully. And
I do believe that people have the right to go protest.
Just look, if this group wants to go protest and

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they do it lawfully within the state Capitol, then they
can do that, and I think stopping them from doing
it is probably a violation of the constitution. So I
don't know who law I don't known think about the
law enforcements organizations in Topeka. I don't know whether or

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not they are good, bad, or indifferent, but they ought
to be called in. Whether it's the Kansas State Patrol,
whether it's to beek A police department, whether the capitol
has its own police force or an assignment from the
Kansas State Troopers. I don't know who it is, but
they ought to be able to protest. And I think

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when we so are so offended by something, which I'm
offended by these Satanists, I don't think they ought to
be allowed to steal a Eucharist. I don't think they
ought to be allowed to burn a eucharist. That's unless
it's their own that's breaking the law. And if they

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have a propensity, or if they've announced that they're going
to break the law, then yeah, you may be able
to prevent them from entering the state capital. But just
because they're Satanists. This is where I think the country
has a difficult problem. We find it and I know
that we feel like the left is always trampling over

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us and they are, But what we ought to learn
to do? And I what There was this crazy Baptist
group that used to always protest funerals of soldiers, particularly
if the soldiers were gay. I can't remember the name
of the group now, but I always thought they should

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have the right to protest. They didn't have the right
to disrupt the funeral. They didn't have the right to
interrupt the funeral procession. And so bikers started getting to
where the funeral was going to take place, where the
procession was going to take place, and they would line
their bikes up and they would like from block to block,

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blocked the view so that the protesters could not be
seen by the family or the members in the funeral procession,
so that horrid organization was still allowed to protest, but
a counter protest was the exact perfect thing to do.
Everyone got to exercise their First Amendment right Westborough Baptist Church,

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that's exactly who it is, the Westboro Baptist Church. So
they were allowed to protest, but the bikers prevented that
protest from being seen by the families of the deceased
gay soldiers. So it's like, Okay, that's a win win.
Everybody gets to exercise their First Amendment right. This Kansas
story bothers me simply because oh, they're Satanists, so we

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can't let them in. And I'm saying, as a Christian,
they're entitled to their First Amendment rights, unless of course
they're going to be violent, or unless, of course they've
engaged in violence of some sort and didn't know they're
not entitled to that. You see, living, as I try
to point out as often as I can, living under
our small r republican form of government, living in freedom

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and liberty, living under with these constitutional rights is sometimes
chaotic and sometimes uncomfortable, but we have to learn how
to counter it in ways that are still within our
rights and their rights. Governor, I think you're wrong on
this one. So we came with Michael Brown, hang tight,

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