This post is about the dangers of allowing the continued destruction of our American education sytem by leftist and progressives who want to use our upcoming generation to help over throw our way of life. There is one University Hillsdale College which is setting the example of how our education system should operate. I share some thoughts from the commencement address in May by Victor Davis Hanson. I have been following him for some time and he is one of the most informed voices speaking from his vast education on the history of America. If you don't know who he is after listening to this post I encourage you to check him out on the internet and I think you will come to the same conclusion as I have about his message.
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(00:05):
Hello, this is a PrivateInvestigator Experience podcast
and I'm your host, Phil Little.
In this podcast and channel, wetalk about the life in cases of
a private investigator andevents that are going on out
around the world as well asnationally that might affect us
here at home in our owncommunities.
(00:29):
I look at the world through thelens of my military law
enforcement, intelligenceservice, and global security
background.
Then I add just a touch of mybiblical worldview to come up
with solutions that will affectus for good in our homes and our
lives.
(00:50):
I believe for a long time thatif someone has information.
Will help the public good, theyshould share it.
And in the business I've beenin, I've had an opportunity to
travel out around the world, mycareer in intelligence and in
terrorism.
Started in Israel and southernLebanon in the seventies.
(01:11):
And here I am, a a committedChristian and a follower of
Jesus.
And I I'm joyful about that.
I was in immersed in Israel.
I have great friends andrelationships there, and many
people thought at times I wasJewish.
Why?
Because I was there so much.
And then later on I wound up outin the Arabian Gulf with an
(01:33):
office in Saudi Arabia and gotvery involved there at the seat
of Islam.
The Muslim world, developedgreat friends.
Have great relationships,respect for each other.
They know who I am, what I am,what I believe, and they still
embrace me because I came thereto help them as I helped the
(01:54):
United States fight terrorism.
We had a joint effort.
And in fact, in those days,after nine 11 in 2000 3, 4, 5
long in there, Saudi Arabiabecame probably the United
States.
Biggest friend and help onterrorism.
And obviously Saudi Arabia had areal onslaught of terrorism and
(02:18):
they began to understand that itwasn't just the United States
that Alqaeda was after and OsamaBin Laden, but it was after
them.
And of course there was a cobarmilitary barracks that was hit.
Many killed and all across theSaudi Arabia that was attacked
and in that day, haven't beenthere for a while, but you
(02:38):
would, all the buildings thatyou would go to in the hotels
everywhere had these concretebarriers, keeping people quite a
ways away.
Security was checking allvehicles and you had to go
around sharp little turns to getin.
So they took it seriously andthey went after stopping the
terrorists.
They did in their country andthey were a big help to the us.
(03:02):
So I've got some experiencesthat I draw upon and so I've
done a lot of digging deep diveinvestigations into what is
going on.
Excuse me.
In the world and in our country,I've alarmed by the patterns
that have developed.
And right under my nose, it'slike I was asleep.
(03:22):
I think I I just.
And it was a drift.
So many people busy doing my ownthing.
Trying to help save the worldand the United States was solid.
Of course, we're Americans.
We've got freedom.
We got our First Amendment andsecond Amendment and fourth
Amendment and hey, we're okay.
Nobody's going to affect that ortake that away from us.
(03:43):
Then I think it was a pandemicThat was a big wake up for me,
as it was for all so manypeople.
We found how fast our freedomsto disappear.
And I think the world in Chinawhere this virus came from and
the purpose of it was to testand see what how the world would
react.
And they were shocked and amazedat how fast the US sumbered how
(04:06):
fast did in America to cover thechurch In China, there's a vast
underground church with tens ofmillions of people went in, in
China and they.
They survive even in the midstof great persecution, prison,
sometimes death.
And here we are in America.
We just said, oh, okay, we don'tneed church.
(04:27):
We won't go to church, we'll goalong.
Everybody just crumbed.
And obviously then of course,after a while, there was those
that rose up that startedpushing back and we only got our
freedoms back.
But I realized that was a testthat we failed.
If we don't wake up from that,the next one will be worst.
(04:47):
I also understand there's twothings that totalitarian
leaders, whatever they callthemselves, whether they're
Marxist or communist, ordemocratic socialist or whatever
they might call themselves, theywill control and to do that,
excuse me, I've got a cough.
(05:08):
I don't know where this iscoming from.
All the travel I just got done.
Okay.
There's two things that goafter.
And when you look back inhistory and you see this happen
all the way up to Hitler andthey take away the guns.
If there's a country that theywant to take over that has
citizens with guns they firstset out to destroy that and take
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them away, and when theyaccomplish that, along those
same lines start the educationsystem and they start
brainwashing to young people.
And within a generation they'vegot them trained and brainwashed
who believe in the socialistmodel and that they government
will take care of and get themeverything free.
(05:51):
And all you have to do is keepus in power, the leaders say,
and then once they get in power,they take over and ultimately
those people become theirslaves.
We've had the two things happenhere.
Of course, they haven't got ourguns yet, but they've coming
after.
So remember people in theconstitution.
I posted this recently when Idid a deep dive investigation.
(06:14):
So many people say, Obama, saidas president, we're not a
Christian nation.
You better look at the factsbecause they were all there.
We were a Christian nation.
Every one of the 55 signers inthe Constitution, 50 two of them
were believers and in the, inJesus, the other three believed
in God and the Bible.
And the Bible was used as thefounding document for our
(06:36):
country.
We were found as a Christiannation, but the young people
today that we see now, this hashappened under our watch.
While we've been lazy and busyand distracted, and the schools
have been corrupted, now there'sa pushback.
We got a pushback.
We have an opportunity here.
I'm an optimist, but let me tellyou, my optimism was failing
(06:57):
after looking at the last fouryears.
November the fifth on, and inthese last six months of this
administration, we've hadchanges that shows that there
can be hope for us to get backin control of our country and
not allow the socialist Marxistto take over.
But the battle was not won.
We only won.
The wars not won.
We just won a battle.
(07:19):
The wars continue now, as youcan see with what's happening to
try to destroy and stop whatTrump is doing.
The administration is doing bythe left, supporting the
criminals by the current mayorcandidate that's running on the
Democratic side in New York andall of the sanctuary cities and
all that they've been done.
If we don't push back.
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Eliminate those.
They will all keep coming andthey will wear us out.
Part of the communist mentality,even back in the fifties,
sixties, seventies, whenKhrushchev and all those were
there, Khrushchev said The onlyway we can take over the US is
to destroy it from within.
And that's why they planted somany people here as the sleepers
I.
They got involved in politics,in schooling and education
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universities.
Their mold was to corrupt frominside and change this a
generation coming up that wouldbecome pro socialists.
There, but there's hope.
Quite a, I wanna share justbriefly from commencement
address that was at theHillsdale College commencement
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in May by Victor Davis Hanson.
If you, on the conservativeside, you might know him or
heard him, but if not, youshould be following him.
That's Victor Davis Hansen.
he's a farmer originally he wason a farm still in Fresno,
California, and he's a veryintelligent man.
I'll this share a few thingsabout his background, but he has
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a way about it.
He's no nonsense.
He's so quiet.
It's no, excuse me.
Doesn't get loud, doesn't getvocal.
This hammers out the facts insuch a way that, this man knows
what he's talking about.
Now, Victor Davis Hanson is justtell you what a few things here.
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He's a distinguished fellow inhistory at the Hillsdale College
and a senior fellow at theHoover Institute.
A professor of classics emeritusat California State University
Fresno.
He's a national nationalindicated comm columnist for
Caribbean media.
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He's written publications forthe Wall Street Journal.
The Claremont Review, the newcriterion, the Daily Telegraph,
and he's on the Daily Signal.
Which I think he normally hasevery day, and that's short in
something like 10 or 12 minutes.
But he covers what's happening.
Right at that time.
He's went written numerousbooks, a war like no other how
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the Athenians and the Spartansfought the War, the Second World
War, how the Global Conflict Warwas fought and won.
On and on the end of everything.
And you could find out moreabout him.
I'm gonna show this.
He.
Give the example here of a lighton a hill of Hillsdale College.
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And if you have young peoplecoming up going to college, you
might wanna consider thiscollege instead of Harvard or
Princeton or Columbia or mostothers that have been
indoctrinated and taken over.
If you want your kids to have aneducation and not just waste
money.
So he was speaking and he laidout why Hillsdale is on the city
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on the hill, a light, and it canbe a light to bring others and
have hope for a future thatcould turn the education system
back to what it was founded onto be, not what it's become.
It's become a disinformation,eliminating the past,
eliminating history and peopleand things that happened in our
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country.
Yes, our founders were human.
They weren't perfect.
None of us are, and I'm likethose that are taking shots at
the founders, he who was withoutsin when cast the first stone.
When you live in glass houses,you shouldn't be casting stone.
It's time that we starteddigging in for ourselves.
You like, I have to start doingyour deep dive investigations
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and you can do that.
I've got some resources youdon't have, but most everything
is on the internet and you canfind it out.
He said, but at theintroduction, this Victor Davis
Hansen, and he said before Ibegin, let me offer a brief
commentary.
Has anyone noticed how the eyesof the nation has turned the
Hillsdale, this recent innersurpasses, even the great, the
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past considerable in tensionthat Hillsdale has garnered.
One reason for this is thatHarvard University suddenly
wishes to be free in Washington,DC.
At least as long as the currentadministration remains in
office.
And yet in its confusion,Harvard still wishes.
Now listen to this.
I can't believe this$9 billionis going to Harvard every year
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in subsidies.
Oh my God.
And look at what we, thetaxpayers have paid for and out
of out of Harvard, and I thinkjust in the last few days.
If I recall properly thatHarvard has done a settlement to
change their policies and thatpaying a$200 million fine for
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violating Title IX in any waythat's, you can check that out.
Many of the public, he goes onto say Victor Davis has, Davis
goes on to say the trouble thepublic has been directing
Harvard to consult Hillsdale.
Whose model Disavows federalfunding.
And its longstanding inprinciple.
Hillsdale doesn't takegovernment money from either no
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matter who's in power, they wantto be free and independent.
And Harvard doesn't needgovernment money.
They've got, what?
$60 billion in a endowment.
Anyway, that's just and theother important thing that the
department of education has beenlooking at, Hillsdale.
Because as the Department ofEducation is seeking to restore
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civic and classical education,it looks in the hillsdale's
direction.
In the past hills Hillsdale wasa toll of a common sense, a
sanctuary of all that remainsgood in the largely lost and aim
aimless landscape of Americanhigher education.
And today.
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It's the nation's guide to therediscovery of personal
integrity.
Listen to that.
Personal integrity.
When I would hire people, thefirst thing I wanted to
determine, do they have personalintegrity?
And if they didn't, no matterhow well trained or maybe
suitable they were, I wouldusually pass on'em because I
knew that was going to beproblem be problems.
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And then there's happiness andthe hope about the future.
In other words.
Hillsdale College has become the21st century example of what
higher education should be.
And listen to this, it justdepends on you and me.
It might still become, we getinvolved in our local
communities.
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And I'm just going to touch onthe three virtues that he says
has been forgotten in Americaand it's honor.
Tradition and optimism, andwhich he says are abid.
On the Hillsdale campus.
He talked about the first day hegot there that he was moving
around, got so busy, he left thebicycle, bicycle stand.
And that night he realized itand he said, oh, that'll be gone
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tomorrow.
But when he went back to get it,the next day in the bicycle was
right there, right where he leftit.
And he commented, how manycampuses would that be?
Would that happen, He also wentto the bookstore and he found on
the bookshelves.
He didn't find a single courselistening.
The usual faddish studies liketherapeutic courses like he
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studies, environmentalenvironmental studies, leisure
studies, film studies, ethnicstudies, gender study studies,
or sexual studies.
Oh, yes we need all that stuff,don't we?
Instead.
There were courses listed in allthe classical aspects of
philosophy, literature,language, history, mathematics,
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and science.
What was that old saying?
Reading, writing, andarithmetic.
What I was taught started a oneroom schoolhouse back in
Missouri.
And this he goes on to say, whata strange thing I thought, given
the current landscape of highereducation.
For this contemporary Americancollege to trust in the
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brilliance of some 2,500 yearsold prior Western educators who
in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalemfounded the disciplines and
boundaries of their allcompassing knowledge.
Alright, we've bought theleaders of.
And the Marxist socialists havegotten involved and they're
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trying to bring a wholedifferent set of rules and
policies and change the courseof our country through our
education system.
So quickly, I'm gonna touch onhonor.
He talks about, he says, I quoteVictor Davis Hanson, you
students of the class of 2025have been instructed in.
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Have absorbed fully and willpass on a code of honorable
conduct that, has become a partof who you are and it will
remain with you on the long roadahead.
Hillsdale has taught you thestudent body, not the worry if
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you're not one of the currentmajority of youth, because you
are certainly one.
Of the most of, was the most ofthe past and future generations.
So he's encouraging them thatthey have a confidence in their
code of ethical comportment andstandard personal standards that
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will be your legacy to helpfuture cohorts in come in the
future.
Because your values now, listento this, to these college
students graduating are real.
Permanent and ancient, you willnot be won over by those who
justify their lapses of behaviorby situational ethics or
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feelings of of victim withoutsuch individual vows of honesty
and compassion for others.
Alright?
And he goes on to say, studentsat Hillsdale do not steal
bicycles because their personalcodes.
Their personal code of honorforbids it.
One of the things I found yearsago at Westco Detectives
international, which I own 103year old global security firm
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back in the seventies andeighties we saw in our
undercover operations internaltheft of pillage rise from a few
hundred million a year tobillions and billions.
And it was a breakdown ofpersonal ethics that.
The people coming, the youngpeople coming into the workforce
had, it was like what's mine ismine and what's yours is mine.
And anywhere I could get it,that's okay.
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That was a downfall of ourcountries.
Now we've lost the respect forothers properties, and it's a
time we bring that back.
And then Traditioning talkedabout the character of the
Hillsdale student is nurturedand sustained by tradition.
A word derived from the Latindown meaning a transmission or
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handing down.
Now we have a proof of that,don't we?
The Jewish nation?
Go to the Old Testament andyou'll find that God told him.
Train your children, pass thisinformation along.
They didn't have internets oremails or word processing.
They could write all this stuffup.
They had to do it word of mouth.
And they did century aftercentury.
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They told their children wherethey came from, who their God
was and how blessed they wereand what he had done for them.
That's something we need to beaware of.
We seem unaware.
Thinkers of the past.
He goes on to say, as early asGreek poets 2,700 years ago,
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worried about just the opposite.
They worried.
Now listen to this, thatmaterial progress and greater
wealth would result in moralregress, given the greater
opportunities to gratify theappetite, which perceive fewer
consequences.
And to use so sophistsophisticated to excuse the sin.
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Wow.
That's when personal integrityour morals decline.
And we become more interested inwhat we can gain, in what we can
get.
Then caring about others andliving an others' life.
And having deep personalintegrity that guides us in
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everything that we do.
Likewise he goes on to say,without traditional reverence
from the past, an ungratefulnation not only suffers a loss
of knowledge, but is plagued byhubris so often twin of
ignorance.
Believing that it alone hasdiscovered ideas and behaviors
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unique to itself in its own era,even when they are in fact aged
Its a kind of perfection, aheaven on earth instead of the
good.
And it ends up a paintingneither.
That is, something to reallythink about.
I hope you will go and GoogleVictor Davis Hanson and look up
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this commencement address thathe gave, read it for yourself.
And it's entirely, he goes on tosay, are we not in?
Instead, the sub, total of allthose who came before us, and
for the most part here inAmerica, west us, a
constitutional system andinfrastructure that allowed to
start our lives.
Both materially and civilly interms of freedom.
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And yes, also religiously, wedon't have to believe in God in
this country, but we have thefreedom to believe and the
freedom of each person who theyhave free will, they can believe
God or they don't believe, justdon't try to take God out of our
society when I still believe it.
And then he talks about also thefragment of the family.
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Then there's optimism and heends on this.
I wish you on this happy note inthe manner I first encountered
The Hillsdale College communitygoes on.
Your generation is now a witnessto a counter revolution of
sorts.
Millions of Americans are askingfor a reexamination of our
cultural and society with an eyeto restoring ancient decency and
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looking to the good of pastgenerations.
Critical to this restoration isyour optimism, and if you're
listening to me on this, you'rein this, your optimism, such
positivity is a child ofgratitude for all that we have
inherited and all that we wishto enhance and pass on to
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others.
Not yet.
born, I want to leave.
Something for my children andgrandchildren is totally
different than what the lastfour years has been and what the
country has become.
I hope now that in these nextfour years and even after that,
we will form a new America thatreturns to our roots that will
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be lasting so that mygrandchildren and
great-grandchildren, if thisworld still stands, will be able
to achieve their dreams worshipas they see fit, speak as they
see fit.
Be able to have the opportunityto create a life that honors
their God and gives them theability to own homes and live in
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a cost effective society.
Now, we remember he goes on tosay, but the strength of this
country.
Even in darkest days, like thoseof April the 12th, 1861 or
December the seventh, 1941 orSeptember the 11th, 2001 has
always been its singular abilityto remain not just unshaken, but
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confident in its values, itsresilience, and its inherent
strength to overcome allchallenges.
As he ends this, and there's alot more to this.
I hope you get into it and hesays, thank you.
And may God bless you all.
I would like your comments.
I would like your thoughts andyour opinions and read them on
any of the platforms.
(24:00):
Let me know what you think, whatyou would like to see happen.
And you might say what can I do?
You can start in your community,on your education system because
that's where our young peoplehave been corrupted, starting
even as low as kindergarten now.
And we know with the currentadministration, a lot of these
things of CRT and DEI have allbeen outlawed and, but there's
(24:23):
still kins in the country ofschools that are trying to keep
this kind of information.
So find out what's going on inyour schools.
Go to school board meetings andif necessary, get involved and
run for office across thecountry.
In these last few years, there'sbeen so many school boards
recalled by local citizens whowanted to take back the teaching
(24:44):
of proper education to the youngpeople.
So you can do that, search itout, get on the internet.
See what's going on.
Get involved, write letters,make phone calls, and show up
where you can step out of thecrowd.
Let your voice be heardtogether, we can make a
difference.
You can also email me at elittle ei777@gmail.com, and if
(25:08):
you have questions about what aPI does or did a PI help me with
the problem I have.
Send that information to me andI'll get back to you and let you
know how it might work.
p little pi777@gmail.com.
I'm want to thank you forlistening, considering sharing,
liking, and subscribing.
(25:29):
can together make a difference,one does make a difference.
You can start something in yourcommunity that can ignite others
to follow you and to getinvolved.
So until next time, may Godbless you.
May God bless your family andmay God bless America.
Stay safe.
Hello, this is a PrivateInvestigator Experience podcast
and I'm your host, Phil Little.
In this podcast and channel, wetalk about the life in cases of
a private investigator andevents that are going on out
around the world as well asnationally that might affect us
here at home in our owncommunities.
(00:29):
I look at the world through thelens of my military law
enforcement, intelligenceservice, and global security
background.
Then I add just a touch of mybiblical worldview to come up
with solutions that will affectus for good in our homes and our
lives.
(00:50):
I believe for a long time thatif someone has information.
Will help the public good, theyshould share it.
And in the business I've beenin, I've had an opportunity to
travel out around the world, mycareer in intelligence and in
terrorism.
Started in Israel and southernLebanon in the seventies.
(01:11):
And here I am, a a committedChristian and a follower of
Jesus.
And I I'm joyful about that.
I was in immersed in Israel.
I have great friends andrelationships there, and many
people thought at times I wasJewish.
Why?
Because I was there so much.
And then later on I wound up outin the Arabian Gulf with an
(01:33):
office in Saudi Arabia and gotvery involved there at the seat
of Islam.
The Muslim world, developedgreat friends.
Have great relationships,respect for each other.
They know who I am, what I am,what I believe, and they still
embrace me because I came thereto help them as I helped the
(01:54):
United States fight terrorism.
We had a joint effort.
And in fact, in those days,after nine 11 in 2000 3, 4, 5
long in there, Saudi Arabiabecame probably the United
States.
Biggest friend and help onterrorism.
And obviously Saudi Arabia had areal onslaught of terrorism and
(02:18):
they began to understand that itwasn't just the United States
that Alqaeda was after and OsamaBin Laden, but it was after
them.
And of course there was a cobarmilitary barracks that was hit.
Many killed and all across theSaudi Arabia that was attacked
and in that day, haven't beenthere for a while, but you
(02:38):
would, all the buildings thatyou would go to in the hotels
everywhere had these concretebarriers, keeping people quite a
ways away.
Security was checking allvehicles and you had to go
around sharp little turns to getin.
So they took it seriously andthey went after stopping the
terrorists.
They did in their country andthey were a big help to the us.
(03:02):
So I've got some experiencesthat I draw upon and so I've
done a lot of digging deep diveinvestigations into what is
going on.
Excuse me.
In the world and in our country,I've alarmed by the patterns
that have developed.
And right under my nose, it'slike I was asleep.
(03:22):
I think I I just.
And it was a drift.
So many people busy doing my ownthing.
Trying to help save the worldand the United States was solid.
Of course, we're Americans.
We've got freedom.
We got our First Amendment andsecond Amendment and fourth
Amendment and hey, we're okay.
Nobody's going to affect that ortake that away from us.
(03:43):
Then I think it was a pandemicThat was a big wake up for me,
as it was for all so manypeople.
We found how fast our freedomsto disappear.
And I think the world in Chinawhere this virus came from and
the purpose of it was to testand see what how the world would
react.
And they were shocked and amazedat how fast the US sumbered how
(04:06):
fast did in America to cover thechurch In China, there's a vast
underground church with tens ofmillions of people went in, in
China and they.
They survive even in the midstof great persecution, prison,
sometimes death.
And here we are in America.
We just said, oh, okay, we don'tneed church.
(04:27):
We won't go to church, we'll goalong.
Everybody just crumbed.
And obviously then of course,after a while, there was those
that rose up that startedpushing back and we only got our
freedoms back.
But I realized that was a testthat we failed.
If we don't wake up from that,the next one will be worst.
(04:47):
I also understand there's twothings that totalitarian
leaders, whatever they callthemselves, whether they're
Marxist or communist, ordemocratic socialist or whatever
they might call themselves, theywill control and to do that,
excuse me, I've got a cough.
(05:08):
I don't know where this iscoming from.
All the travel I just got done.
Okay.
There's two things that goafter.
And when you look back inhistory and you see this happen
all the way up to Hitler andthey take away the guns.
If there's a country that theywant to take over that has
citizens with guns they firstset out to destroy that and take
(05:28):
them away, and when theyaccomplish that, along those
same lines start the educationsystem and they start
brainwashing to young people.
And within a generation they'vegot them trained and brainwashed
who believe in the socialistmodel and that they government
will take care of and get themeverything free.
(05:51):
And all you have to do is keepus in power, the leaders say,
and then once they get in power,they take over and ultimately
those people become theirslaves.
We've had the two things happenhere.
Of course, they haven't got ourguns yet, but they've coming
after.
So remember people in theconstitution.
I posted this recently when Idid a deep dive investigation.
(06:14):
So many people say, Obama, saidas president, we're not a
Christian nation.
You better look at the factsbecause they were all there.
We were a Christian nation.
Every one of the 55 signers inthe Constitution, 50 two of them
were believers and in the, inJesus, the other three believed
in God and the Bible.
And the Bible was used as thefounding document for our
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country.
We were found as a Christiannation, but the young people
today that we see now, this hashappened under our watch.
While we've been lazy and busyand distracted, and the schools
have been corrupted, now there'sa pushback.
We got a pushback.
We have an opportunity here.
I'm an optimist, but let me tellyou, my optimism was failing
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after looking at the last fouryears.
November the fifth on, and inthese last six months of this
administration, we've hadchanges that shows that there
can be hope for us to get backin control of our country and
not allow the socialist Marxistto take over.
But the battle was not won.
We only won.
The wars not won.
We just won a battle.
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The wars continue now, as youcan see with what's happening to
try to destroy and stop whatTrump is doing.
The administration is doing bythe left, supporting the
criminals by the current mayorcandidate that's running on the
Democratic side in New York andall of the sanctuary cities and
all that they've been done.
If we don't push back.
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Eliminate those.
They will all keep coming andthey will wear us out.
Part of the communist mentality,even back in the fifties,
sixties, seventies, whenKhrushchev and all those were
there, Khrushchev said The onlyway we can take over the US is
to destroy it from within.
And that's why they planted somany people here as the sleepers
I.
They got involved in politics,in schooling and education
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universities.
Their mold was to corrupt frominside and change this a
generation coming up that wouldbecome pro socialists.
There, but there's hope.
Quite a, I wanna share justbriefly from commencement
address that was at theHillsdale College commencement
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in May by Victor Davis Hanson.
If you, on the conservativeside, you might know him or
heard him, but if not, youshould be following him.
That's Victor Davis Hansen.
he's a farmer originally he wason a farm still in Fresno,
California, and he's a veryintelligent man.
I'll this share a few thingsabout his background, but he has
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a way about it.
He's no nonsense.
He's so quiet.
It's no, excuse me.
Doesn't get loud, doesn't getvocal.
This hammers out the facts insuch a way that, this man knows
what he's talking about.
Now, Victor Davis Hanson is justtell you what a few things here.
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He's a distinguished fellow inhistory at the Hillsdale College
and a senior fellow at theHoover Institute.
A professor of classics emeritusat California State University
Fresno.
He's a national nationalindicated comm columnist for
Caribbean media.
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He's written publications forthe Wall Street Journal.
The Claremont Review, the newcriterion, the Daily Telegraph,
and he's on the Daily Signal.
Which I think he normally hasevery day, and that's short in
something like 10 or 12 minutes.
But he covers what's happening.
Right at that time.
He's went written numerousbooks, a war like no other how
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the Athenians and the Spartansfought the War, the Second World
War, how the Global Conflict Warwas fought and won.
On and on the end of everything.
And you could find out moreabout him.
I'm gonna show this.
He.
Give the example here of a lighton a hill of Hillsdale College.
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And if you have young peoplecoming up going to college, you
might wanna consider thiscollege instead of Harvard or
Princeton or Columbia or mostothers that have been
indoctrinated and taken over.
If you want your kids to have aneducation and not just waste
money.
So he was speaking and he laidout why Hillsdale is on the city
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on the hill, a light, and it canbe a light to bring others and
have hope for a future thatcould turn the education system
back to what it was founded onto be, not what it's become.
It's become a disinformation,eliminating the past,
eliminating history and peopleand things that happened in our
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country.
Yes, our founders were human.
They weren't perfect.
None of us are, and I'm likethose that are taking shots at
the founders, he who was withoutsin when cast the first stone.
When you live in glass houses,you shouldn't be casting stone.
It's time that we starteddigging in for ourselves.
You like, I have to start doingyour deep dive investigations
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and you can do that.
I've got some resources youdon't have, but most everything
is on the internet and you canfind it out.
He said, but at theintroduction, this Victor Davis
Hansen, and he said before Ibegin, let me offer a brief
commentary.
Has anyone noticed how the eyesof the nation has turned the
Hillsdale, this recent innersurpasses, even the great, the
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past considerable in tensionthat Hillsdale has garnered.
One reason for this is thatHarvard University suddenly
wishes to be free in Washington,DC.
At least as long as the currentadministration remains in
office.
And yet in its confusion,Harvard still wishes.
Now listen to this.
I can't believe this$9 billionis going to Harvard every year
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in subsidies.
Oh my God.
And look at what we, thetaxpayers have paid for and out
of out of Harvard, and I thinkjust in the last few days.
If I recall properly thatHarvard has done a settlement to
change their policies and thatpaying a$200 million fine for
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violating Title IX in any waythat's, you can check that out.
Many of the public, he goes onto say Victor Davis has, Davis
goes on to say the trouble thepublic has been directing
Harvard to consult Hillsdale.
Whose model Disavows federalfunding.
And its longstanding inprinciple.
Hillsdale doesn't takegovernment money from either no
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matter who's in power, they wantto be free and independent.
And Harvard doesn't needgovernment money.
They've got, what?
$60 billion in a endowment.
Anyway, that's just and theother important thing that the
department of education has beenlooking at, Hillsdale.
Because as the Department ofEducation is seeking to restore
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civic and classical education,it looks in the hillsdale's
direction.
In the past hills Hillsdale wasa toll of a common sense, a
sanctuary of all that remainsgood in the largely lost and aim
aimless landscape of Americanhigher education.
And today.
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It's the nation's guide to therediscovery of personal
integrity.
Listen to that.
Personal integrity.
When I would hire people, thefirst thing I wanted to
determine, do they have personalintegrity?
And if they didn't, no matterhow well trained or maybe
suitable they were, I wouldusually pass on'em because I
knew that was going to beproblem be problems.
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And then there's happiness andthe hope about the future.
In other words.
Hillsdale College has become the21st century example of what
higher education should be.
And listen to this, it justdepends on you and me.
It might still become, we getinvolved in our local
communities.
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And I'm just going to touch onthe three virtues that he says
has been forgotten in Americaand it's honor.
Tradition and optimism, andwhich he says are abid.
On the Hillsdale campus.
He talked about the first day hegot there that he was moving
around, got so busy, he left thebicycle, bicycle stand.
And that night he realized itand he said, oh, that'll be gone
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tomorrow.
But when he went back to get it,the next day in the bicycle was
right there, right where he leftit.
And he commented, how manycampuses would that be?
Would that happen, He also wentto the bookstore and he found on
the bookshelves.
He didn't find a single courselistening.
The usual faddish studies liketherapeutic courses like he
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studies, environmentalenvironmental studies, leisure
studies, film studies, ethnicstudies, gender study studies,
or sexual studies.
Oh, yes we need all that stuff,don't we?
Instead.
There were courses listed in allthe classical aspects of
philosophy, literature,language, history, mathematics,
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and science.
What was that old saying?
Reading, writing, andarithmetic.
What I was taught started a oneroom schoolhouse back in
Missouri.
And this he goes on to say, whata strange thing I thought, given
the current landscape of highereducation.
For this contemporary Americancollege to trust in the
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brilliance of some 2,500 yearsold prior Western educators who
in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalemfounded the disciplines and
boundaries of their allcompassing knowledge.
Alright, we've bought theleaders of.
And the Marxist socialists havegotten involved and they're
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trying to bring a wholedifferent set of rules and
policies and change the courseof our country through our
education system.
So quickly, I'm gonna touch onhonor.
He talks about, he says, I quoteVictor Davis Hanson, you
students of the class of 2025have been instructed in.
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Have absorbed fully and willpass on a code of honorable
conduct that, has become a partof who you are and it will
remain with you on the long roadahead.
Hillsdale has taught you thestudent body, not the worry if
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you're not one of the currentmajority of youth, because you
are certainly one.
Of the most of, was the most ofthe past and future generations.
So he's encouraging them thatthey have a confidence in their
code of ethical comportment andstandard personal standards that
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will be your legacy to helpfuture cohorts in come in the
future.
Because your values now, listento this, to these college
students graduating are real.
Permanent and ancient, you willnot be won over by those who
justify their lapses of behaviorby situational ethics or
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feelings of of victim withoutsuch individual vows of honesty
and compassion for others.
Alright?
And he goes on to say, studentsat Hillsdale do not steal
bicycles because their personalcodes.
Their personal code of honorforbids it.
One of the things I found yearsago at Westco Detectives
international, which I own 103year old global security firm
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back in the seventies andeighties we saw in our
undercover operations internaltheft of pillage rise from a few
hundred million a year tobillions and billions.
And it was a breakdown ofpersonal ethics that.
The people coming, the youngpeople coming into the workforce
had, it was like what's mine ismine and what's yours is mine.
And anywhere I could get it,that's okay.
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That was a downfall of ourcountries.
Now we've lost the respect forothers properties, and it's a
time we bring that back.
And then Traditioning talkedabout the character of the
Hillsdale student is nurturedand sustained by tradition.
A word derived from the Latindown meaning a transmission or
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handing down.
Now we have a proof of that,don't we?
The Jewish nation?
Go to the Old Testament andyou'll find that God told him.
Train your children, pass thisinformation along.
They didn't have internets oremails or word processing.
They could write all this stuffup.
They had to do it word of mouth.
And they did century aftercentury.
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They told their children wherethey came from, who their God
was and how blessed they wereand what he had done for them.
That's something we need to beaware of.
We seem unaware.
Thinkers of the past.
He goes on to say, as early asGreek poets 2,700 years ago,
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worried about just the opposite.
They worried.
Now listen to this, thatmaterial progress and greater
wealth would result in moralregress, given the greater
opportunities to gratify theappetite, which perceive fewer
consequences.
And to use so sophistsophisticated to excuse the sin.
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Wow.
That's when personal integrityour morals decline.
And we become more interested inwhat we can gain, in what we can
get.
Then caring about others andliving an others' life.
And having deep personalintegrity that guides us in
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everything that we do.
Likewise he goes on to say,without traditional reverence
from the past, an ungratefulnation not only suffers a loss
of knowledge, but is plagued byhubris so often twin of
ignorance.
Believing that it alone hasdiscovered ideas and behaviors
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unique to itself in its own era,even when they are in fact aged
Its a kind of perfection, aheaven on earth instead of the
good.
And it ends up a paintingneither.
That is, something to reallythink about.
I hope you will go and GoogleVictor Davis Hanson and look up
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this commencement address thathe gave, read it for yourself.
And it's entirely, he goes on tosay, are we not in?
Instead, the sub, total of allthose who came before us, and
for the most part here inAmerica, west us, a
constitutional system andinfrastructure that allowed to
start our lives.
Both materially and civilly interms of freedom.
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And yes, also religiously, wedon't have to believe in God in
this country, but we have thefreedom to believe and the
freedom of each person who theyhave free will, they can believe
God or they don't believe, justdon't try to take God out of our
society when I still believe it.
And then he talks about also thefragment of the family.
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Then there's optimism and heends on this.
I wish you on this happy note inthe manner I first encountered
The Hillsdale College communitygoes on.
Your generation is now a witnessto a counter revolution of
sorts.
Millions of Americans are askingfor a reexamination of our
cultural and society with an eyeto restoring ancient decency and
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looking to the good of pastgenerations.
Critical to this restoration isyour optimism, and if you're
listening to me on this, you'rein this, your optimism, such
positivity is a child ofgratitude for all that we have
inherited and all that we wishto enhance and pass on to
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others.
Not yet.
born, I want to leave.
Something for my children andgrandchildren is totally
different than what the lastfour years has been and what the
country has become.
I hope now that in these nextfour years and even after that,
we will form a new America thatreturns to our roots that will
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be lasting so that mygrandchildren and
great-grandchildren, if thisworld still stands, will be able
to achieve their dreams worshipas they see fit, speak as they
see fit.
Be able to have the opportunityto create a life that honors
their God and gives them theability to own homes and live in
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a cost effective society.
Now, we remember he goes on tosay, but the strength of this
country.
Even in darkest days, like thoseof April the 12th, 1861 or
December the seventh, 1941 orSeptember the 11th, 2001 has
always been its singular abilityto remain not just unshaken, but
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confident in its values, itsresilience, and its inherent
strength to overcome allchallenges.
As he ends this, and there's alot more to this.
I hope you get into it and hesays, thank you.
And may God bless you all.
I would like your comments.
I would like your thoughts andyour opinions and read them on
any of the platforms.
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Let me know what you think, whatyou would like to see happen.
And you might say what can I do?
You can start in your community,on your education system because
that's where our young peoplehave been corrupted, starting
even as low as kindergarten now.
And we know with the currentadministration, a lot of these
things of CRT and DEI have allbeen outlawed and, but there's
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still kins in the country ofschools that are trying to keep
this kind of information.
So find out what's going on inyour schools.
Go to school board meetings andif necessary, get involved and
run for office across thecountry.
In these last few years, there'sbeen so many school boards
recalled by local citizens whowanted to take back the teaching
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of proper education to the youngpeople.
So you can do that, search itout, get on the internet.
See what's going on.
Get involved, write letters,make phone calls, and show up
where you can step out of thecrowd.
Let your voice be heardtogether, we can make a
difference.
You can also email me at elittle ei777@gmail.com, and if
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you have questions about what aPI does or did a PI help me with
the problem I have.
Send that information to me andI'll get back to you and let you
know how it might work.
p little pi777@gmail.com.
I'm want to thank you forlistening, considering sharing,
liking, and subscribing.
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can together make a difference,one does make a difference.
You can start something in yourcommunity that can ignite others
to follow you and to getinvolved.
So until next time, may Godbless you.
May God bless your family andmay God bless America.
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