Radio Show Hour 2 – 05/05/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news the networks refuse to use, no doubt continues now. This, my fellow Americans, is broadcast for May 5th in the year of our Lord, 2025.

[00:00:40] This is Hour 202, the goal always to promote God, family, and country, to protect life, liberty, and property, to use the checks and balances brilliantly put in place by the Founding Fathers, to reject revolution unless it's a Jesus revolution. Then we're in because we follow the Prince of Peace. Lowell Nelson, CampaignForLiberty.org, back on your radio. He's the Utah State Director, if you will, Utah Coordinator. He was interim, but it's been a long time and he's staying there, so I'm calling it permanent. Welcome, Lowell. Lowell, thanks for having me.

[00:01:09] Sam, it's good to be with you. Man, there's so much to talk about, so little time. Let's just dig right in. Ron Paul hits it out of the park. Headline says this, The Empire Strikes Back. Amen to that. Lowell? Yeah, yeah, based on the famous Star Wars show, right? The Empire Strikes Back. Well, by the way, yesterday we had to walk around and tell people may the 4th be with you, right? So, there you go. That's right. May 4th.

[00:01:36] So, yeah, I mean, we should not be surprised about the Empire Strikes Back. I mean, you challenge the Empire and it's going to strike back at you. And that's kind of what happened with the creation of DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency came along. At first, they said, well, we're going to find $2 trillion that we can cut. And then it was $1 trillion, then half a trillion, whatever. But, you know, it got lots of really good publicity.

[00:02:01] And everybody, most everybody, was fooled into thinking that DOGE could actually make cuts, you know, in the federal budget. Well, you know, that just comes from a misunderstanding of the Constitution, right? The U.S. House is the one who makes all appropriations and they are the ones to make any cuts. Yeah, DOGE, they can make recommendations of what cuts to be made, but only Congress can make the cuts.

[00:02:29] You know, if they've already appropriated money, they can pass what they call a rescission, where they rescind the previous appropriation of money. And that's exactly what a number of us were asking Congress to do, is to pass rescissions, to get that money back out of the budget. Don't leave it there on the table to be paid out, but rescind those appropriations. And Congress, well, as Dr. Paul wrote here, has basically done nothing.

[00:02:59] Quote, unfortunately, after the photos were taken and the hoopla had died down, Congress returned to doing what it usually does, nothing. There is no way for a DOGE to succeed without the legislative branch enshrining those cuts in legislation. But when the massive, big, beautiful spending bill was introduced, the spending cuts were nowhere to be found. End of quote. Right?

[00:03:24] I mean, DOGE became so popular that politicians were climbing on board and, you know, taking, you know, photo op pictures with, you know, the popular DOGE themes, which is to cut, cut, cut. But, you know, they just love to talk about cutting the spending and reducing government. That's all they do. They give speeches. They make promises. But when the rubber really meets the road, what do you get? Crickets. Crickets.

[00:03:51] They always find excuses to keep spending your money. Well, the legislative branch has truly abdicated its constitutional role as the primary lawmaking body. They have ceded enormous power to the executive branch and its sprawling bureaucracies. These federal agencies operate as a fourth branch of government that the founders never intended. And then Dr. Paul identifies the biggest obstacle to reducing government.

[00:04:19] Now, you and I have talked about this before, Sam, but he says this, quote, in the end, it was the beltway addiction to global U.S. military empire that may have hammered the final nail in DOGE's coffin. That big, beautiful spending bill actually increased military spending even after President Trump hinted that a 50% cut was possible. End of quote.

[00:04:42] Well, this is precisely what Patrick Henry feared when he opposed the Constitution, that a powerful central government would inevitably use military spending as justification for expanded federal power. The $37 trillion debt Ron Paul references here in his column would have horrified the founding generation who understood that debt was a tool of enslavement.

[00:05:09] In fact, they would be hard-pressed to even think that it was possible because they'd be unconstitutional currency, gold and silver, and there's not that amount of gold and silver to even exist on the planet that's available to the people. And so they would be shocked until they heard that we had fiat money, and then they would be chagrined, but they would also understand how the propaganda and the dishonesty and the leaving of the constitutional currency really set the stage for this to happen. Okay?

[00:05:38] Once in 1913, we set the stage for fake money. This was only a matter of time. Let's be very clear. It's not like we're getting sideswiped by this right now, and we didn't know. We've known for more than 100 years what's going to happen, and we've warned against it, and we didn't know the exact timing of everything because, man, the amount of shenanigans they can bring to the table is shocking. But eventually, they will run out of a dishonest room. Eventually, there will be an accounting, Lowell. That's right.

[00:06:06] You can't escape the consequences of your actions forever. Yeah, so the point is you can rob Peter to pay Paul, but eventually Peter, Paul, and Mary are broke. That's right.

[00:06:22] It turns out that Roger Sherman would be one of the founders who would be most concerned and most aggravated by the current situation because he thought that they had locked and barred the door on paper money. And when they put those 17 most famous words in the Constitution, no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin, a tender and payment of debt.

[00:06:46] Those 17 words were, I would say, Roger Sherman's greatest contribution to the Constitution. And yet, when the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court case, but very early on in the life of our republic, they said that, well, the Constitution doesn't prohibit the use of fiat currency.

[00:07:16] All the other nations of the world are using it. Therefore, we are going to use it, too. But they lie. But they lie because the statement you just made from the Constitution, the quote you used, demands they shall use what? Nothing? Nothing? Mm-hmm. What does it say? Well, it barred the states from using anything but gold and silver coin as tender and payment of debt. But there was no similar bar on the feds, at least you'd argue that there was.

[00:07:45] And so it's a Juilliard case. And I argue that there was because you've got to understand you can't oftentimes just take the exact words and claim. You've got to understand the intent of the founding fathers. The general government had very limited responsibilities, and if you restrict the government to its limited responsibilities, hey, it can only get money in two ways, really, from the states via apportionment or tariffs.

[00:08:13] And so, again, when you put fake money in there and say, oh, well, it doesn't prohibit the federal government from doing so. Yeah, but it prohibits the federal government from spending all the money that it's spending on. War is a great example. Donald Trump said we could reduce the military-industrial complex spending from a trillion to half a trillion. Well, I don't know if you know, but in his latest big old beautiful bill, it increases spending on the military, lol. And so this is what I mean. This couldn't happen if they were chained down with honest money.

[00:08:41] And so by hook and by crook, did they manipulate this? And now they pretend that, hey, the Constitution doesn't prohibit it. It's a lie if you fundamentally understand the states were the ones that were in charge, and the general government had such a limited scope, they didn't think it was a worry. But now that the scope is not so limited, and now that they've dishonestly manipulated through this backdoor, this, you know, spend us into oblivion, and now that people are trying to challenge it, the empire strikes back. Right?

[00:09:10] Absolutely right, Sam. If you want to read a really interesting book, you need to read the book by George Bancroft. He was a contemporary of the founders, the framers, and he raised the alarm once the Juilliard decision was rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court. He wrote a little treatise, a little pamphlet that would take less than an hour for you to read. And you've probably already read it.

[00:09:35] I've read it a number of times, wherein he said that he talked about the Constitution of the United States wounded in the house of its guardians, referring directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. They have a duty to protect this Constitution, and they failed. They rendered the Juilliard decision, and they allowed for fiat currency, and that was the beginning of the end. We're now at the end, the tail end of this.

[00:10:01] 200 years later, at the tail end of this run of fiat currency, but it all began with the U.S. Supreme Court rendering the Juilliard decision way back, just a few years after the founding of our republic, Sam. And what was George Bancroft's book called? The Constitution of the United States Wounded in the House of Its Guardians. Wow, folks, that's really important. To think about.

[00:10:31] I want to skip the break, but I want Lowell to go ahead and talk about this. Everything Doge promised to do, Lowell. Start there. Go ahead and skip the break. Yeah, everything that Doge promised to do, you know, it can't be done by Doge. It has to be done by the Congress, because Congress is the one with the power.

[00:10:54] They're the ones that, they're the only ones that can cut the spending or increase the spending because that's, that, that, they're the, they're the ones with that authority. Doge does not have the authority to cut the funding. It only has permission to recommend the cuts. Only Congress and the president can make the cuts. And so this central government that we have inevitably grows and fiercely resists any attempt to constrain it.

[00:11:22] Both Jefferson and Madison warned us about this very phenomenon. And if you look at what Dr. Paul has written in his column, it was posted last week at CampaignForLiberty.org, you'll see a perfect illustration of how our modern administrative state operates in direct opposition to the limited government principles upon which this republic was founded. Sam? Sam? Understand, Alon's effort was noble.

[00:11:53] But folks, the real path forward is states using and reasserting their sovereignty. Okay, by Americans and governments at the state level just saying, look, we're not going to take your money and we're not going to basically use this stick and a carrot discussion anymore. We're in charge. You're not. And we're going to absolutely put you on. What's that diet drug everybody loves? Low, I hate it. But what's that thing called everybody loves? No, I have no idea. I don't follow those drugs.

[00:12:19] Anyway, there's a big old diet drug everybody's on and they look all skinny and weird and people wonder what the side effects and everything else. I just think we need to turn that on to government spending and leave the people out of that personally. Right? Yeah. Anyway, the effort was noble. We're not trying to down Elon Musk. We're not trying to down Doge. We're not trying to down the president. We are trying to tell you that Congress is derelict in their duty led by Mike Johnson, who claims that he's for Donald Trump, but he's slow walking everything. Look, they've been if it's the fifth today.

[00:12:46] Basically, it was January 4th when the Congress took control or January 3rd. I can't remember which one. Anyway, basically, it's been four months. They've had 120 days. They've accomplished nothing. And now they've slow walked everything Donald's tried to put in place. They've betrayed the president, in my opinion. They've betrayed the American people. And now what they want to do is run. They're starting to kick up their campaigns now for the next election cycle already, Lowell. Yeah, they sure are, Sam. And I want to make a correction. I told you the name of the book. It was slightly wrong.

[00:13:13] It's entitled A Plea for the Constitution of the United States of America Wounded in the House of Its Guardians. Right? So a plea. Yes. And I have this. Sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. In 1886. And so he wrote it pursuant to the Juilliard decision, which was passed in about 1850.

[00:13:36] So right, you know, just 50, 60, 70 years after the formation of our republic is when the U.S. Supreme Court made this horrible, horrible decision. And George Bancroft, who was born right there. Let's see. When was he born? He was born in 1800. Okay, born in the year 1800. He died in 91. And he served as Secretary of the Navy under President James K. Polk.

[00:14:05] So he wasn't a stranger to many of the framers and founders. I mean, they were getting old when he was just getting into politics. But his work, A Plea for the Constitution of the United States, Wounded in the House of Its Guardians, is a book. It's a must read if you really want to understand how we got on this horrible path of fiat currency down through the decades.

[00:14:32] Wounded in the House of Its Guardians, ladies and gentlemen, really highlighting what's happened here. And I just want to say this about George. What a hero. We're talking about George Bancroft, ladies and gentlemen. In my opinion, a huge patriot of the highest order. Really highlighting what's going on, right? I mean, he says basically good money must have intrinsic value. I mean, we can go on and on about this. But I'm telling you this.

[00:15:00] We have got to stand up for these things. I put this in the show notes, too, so you can find this. Wounded in the House of Its Guardians, George Bancroft. Great stuff. Yeah, good, good, good. The actual title, again, is A Plea for the Constitution of the United States of America, Wounded in the House of Its Guardians. So the Wounded in the House of Its Guardians is a byline. The actual title is A Plea for the Constitution.

[00:15:26] Because he's pleading, he's pleading with the judges to reconsider their decision in this treatise. He's asking them, please reconsider, because what you've done is you've killed the Constitution. You've killed our young republic. You've basically wounded our young republic by your terrible decision, the Juilliard decision. Sam? Amen, ladies and gentlemen. All I can tell you is that's good stuff.

[00:15:55] We've got to keep an eye on what's most important. George Bancroft doing a great job. Judge Napolitano, not a wit behind Ron Paul. Great stuff. We're arrested judges. Sounds good on the surface, folks, but listen up. Yeah, even Judge Andrew Napolitano even mentions Richard Mack's famous case, Prince v. United States. We'll get to that in just a moment.

[00:16:20] But last week, it's been probably a week and a half now, maybe two, the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge. And I emphasize, Sam, this is a state judge, not a federal judge. A Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media, but not the judge, of course. The feds had told the media what they were going to do.

[00:16:41] And so they were on hand, of course, to publicly humiliate this judge in being handcuffed, right, in front, right on the public street, handcuffed behind her back, which is really a practice reserved for the most dangerous or threatening individuals, by the way, but not a female judge. Certainly entirely, you know, and unnecessary in this case.

[00:17:04] And then within minutes, the new FBI director, Cash Patel himself, had posted still photos of this event on his ex account, which violates agency policy, by the way, right? So why was she arrested? Well, the feds were unhappy with her at the manner in which a criminal defendant before this judge was permitted to leave her courtroom. Can you believe that, Sam?

[00:17:27] The feds were unhappy because she allowed the – this was like an illegal immigrant case in front of her. And she somehow got tipped off that the feds were waiting to arrest him. And she let him go through the exit courtroom through a different door. And so this frustrated the feds, who apparently wanted the judge to work with them.

[00:17:55] And so they charged her with obstruction of justice, whereas the real true charge against her was failing to help the feds they wanted to help. You know, so Napolitano writes this, quote, The feds have grown accustomed to commandeering the states to provide assistance when needed, and many states routinely comply. They did so either out of a sense of common purpose or because the feds had bailed them out financially.

[00:18:23] Now, then Judge Knapp, he talks about two federal cases. The first is South Dakota v. Dole, decided in 1987, wherein the Supreme Court said if states take the money, they must do what the feds want them to do. Right? So if you take the money, you've got to dance to the tune of the people who give you the money. Right? In the Dole case, South Dakota took highway funds but refused to lower their speed limit to 55 miles per hour.

[00:18:53] Well, the Supreme Court ruled that as long as the strings attached to the financial grants are rationally related to the purpose of the grants, then the strings are lawful and enforceable. And so bottom line was South Dakota took the cash and reluctantly lowered its speed limits. Now, the second case Judge Knapp mentions is Prince v. United States. This is Richard Mack's famous case wherein the SCOTUS wrote that, quote, The states are still sovereign.

[00:19:20] They can reject federal cash and federal strings, and the feds cannot commandeer their officials, end of quote. In other words, the federal government is one of limited constitutional powers, and the power to commandeer state officials is not among them. Now, both of these opinions recognize the sovereignty of the states, right? The South Dakota case led to more federal bribery of the states, and the Prince case led to more frustration among the feds.

[00:19:50] And this frustration apparently boiled over a week or so ago in Wisconsin with the arrest of state circuit court judge Hannah Dugan, right? So basically, here's what happened. She was presiding over an arraignment for a non-incarcerated defendant when her court officers told her that the feds were in the courthouse hallway seeking to arrest the defendant in her courtroom. And the feds were growing impatient.

[00:20:20] When she asked to see their arrest warrant, they had none. Instead of an arrest warrant issued by a judge, as the Fourth Amendment requires, they presented an administrative warrant in which one federal agent authorizes another to arrest a person in a public place. Now, this is a key point here, Sam.

[00:20:40] The Fourth Amendment, right, you and I both know that due process requires that either you have probable cause of a crime being committed or you have a warrant based on probable cause and signed by a judge, right? That is an arrest warrant. Well, they didn't have one. These feds did not have an arrest warrant. They had an administrative warrant.

[00:21:07] And it turns out that Judge Dugan, the circuit court judge, she shares Napolitano's view that the Fourth Amendment means what it says and that administrative warrants are not constitutional. Well, the purpose of the amendment, this Fourth Amendment, in fact, is to ensure that only judges order arrests.

[00:21:28] So when her business with the defendant in her courtroom was completed, she asked him to leave through the exit used by jurors, which was not accessible to the feds. Judge Dugan did not inform the defendant that the feds were waiting for him, but he sensed that something was up. He took the elevator down from the sixth floor to the street level, raced away on foot, but was chased down and arrested by the feds. And a week later, here's payback.

[00:21:54] Judge Dugan got arrested for obstruction of justice, but really for failing to do what the feds wanted her to do. So considering the South Dakota case, you know, has Wisconsin agreed to cooperate with the feds in immigration enforcement in return for federal cash? The answer is no. So the South Dakota case does not apply. Does the Prince case apply? Can the feds commandeer Wisconsin officials to do their bidding? The answer is no.

[00:22:24] Well, so regardless of, Sam, of how you feel about the defendant in Judge Dugan's courtroom, the arrest and intimidation of Judge Dugan is outside the bounds of the Constitution. It's an irrigation. It's a usurpation of power by agents of the federal government. And state and local authorities must oppose such unconstitutional acts. Judge Andrew Napolitano puts it this way, quote,

[00:22:49] We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on a separation of powers and the concept of federalism by a White House, impatient with the constitutional process and largely indifferent to the role and function of the judiciary. The role of the judiciary is to be anti-democratic, to protect lives, liberties, and properties from the other two branches.

[00:23:12] If the feds succeed in intimidating judges and bending them to the presidential will, our liberties will have no protection. End of quote. Sam, that's the column. And Judge Nap is really alerting us to a serious threat to our liberties. Sam? Sam? It's amazing what goes on, lol. When you really look at this kind of stuff, you just go, wow.

[00:23:43] You know, we are witnessing an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers and the concept of federalism by a White House that's impatient with the process. I know you already said that, but I wanted to repeat that so people understand how critical this is. Look, on one hand, I support President Trump. I get his frustration. On the other hand, we're going to melt down if we don't follow the checks and balances, folks. Okay?

[00:24:10] You can't just ignore the checks and balances. The whole purpose is for each branch to jealously guard their authority and responsibilities and put in check the other two branches when they cross. All three of them are charged with that reality. None of them are doing it, and that's why we have the problems that we have today, ladies and gentlemen. Home invasions are on the rise. We're going to talk about that, too, coming up in seconds.

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[00:25:03] I'm Rich Thomason. It is a crucial week in efforts to win House approval of the Trump agenda, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. Correspondent Bernie Bennett says policy disputes could jeopardize the House leadership's timeline for getting the job done. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee, which has the arduous task of crafting the massive tax portion of the bill, had aimed to mark up this week, but that plan is on thin ice as the panel struggles to work through a series of hot-button issues.

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[00:30:24] Hey, thank you everybody. Welcome back. This is Lowell Nelson writing Shotgun this morning with Sam Bushman, your host right here on Liberty Roundtable Live. We are talking about home invasions on the rise. We turn now to a column posted at ronpaulinstitute.org by John Anisha Whitehead. Speaking about the writs of assistance in 1761, it was James Otis who said, quote,

[00:30:52] one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. End of quote. That's where we get the castle doctrine, right? It's from his quote. The founders rebuild against such tyranny, armed agents of the government barging into somebody's home without cause. But now in America, such practice is becoming more common, far more common and far more tolerated. So imagine this, folks. Here it is, the middle of the night.

[00:31:21] Your neighborhood is asleep, and suddenly your front door is splintered by battering rams. Shadowy figures fled to your home, screaming orders, pointing guns, threatening violence. You and your children are dragged out into the night, barefoot, in your underwear, in the rain. Your home is torn apart. Your valuables are seized. Your sense of safety demolished. End of quote. But, folks, this isn't a robbery by lawless criminals. This is a SWAT team raid on your home, your house, your family.

[00:31:51] And am I making this up? No. It turns out just two weeks ago, on April 24th of 2025 in Oklahoma City, where a family had just moved there two weeks before, 20 heavily armed federal agents from ICE, the FBI, and DHS kicked in the door of a home where a woman and her three daughters, all American citizens, by the way, were sleeping. Their husband hadn't quite left his job because they moved from somewhere up north,

[00:32:20] and he had to finish his work up north before he got to Oklahoma City. So his wife and three daughters had already made the move down to Oklahoma, and he just needed to work two more weeks before he could switch jobs and begin working in Oklahoma. So he wasn't there at the time. Anyway, the mother and their three daughters were forced out of bed at gunpoint,

[00:32:44] made to wait in the rain outside in their undergarments while agents ransacked the house and confiscated their belongings. All the money, laptops, phones, extra cash, whatever they had, all confiscated. Well, folks, it was the wrong house. It was the wrong family. There were no apologies, no compensation, no accountability.

[00:33:09] And so, you know, while you and I would agree that such abuse is flat-out wrong, this is unfortunately the police state in which we live nowadays, unless we object, of course. It turns out that Trump's latest executive order announced last Monday of April 28th, 2025, that's just one week ago, quote,

[00:33:44] Not good, folks. Yet this buildup of the police state did not begin with Trump's executive order of last week. It's been moving forward silently and steadily four decades. Quote, For years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, policing in America has grown more militarized, aggressive, and unaccountable. At times, there were modest attempts to rein in the worst excesses,

[00:34:12] like curbing the flow of military surplus equipment to local police. But these efforts were short-lived, inconsistent, and easily undone. What's the result? Well, it's not safety. It is state-sanctioned violence. It's a future in which no home is safe, no knock is required, and no officer is ever held accountable. You know, over 30 years ago, folks, the use of a SWAT team to raid a dwelling was extremely rare.

[00:34:39] But since then, over the past 30 years, their use has exploded and is used thousands of times each year, often for nonviolent offenses or mere suspicion. These raids leave behind broken doors, traumatized children, and too often, dead bodies. And yet, when families seek justice, they're met with a legal wall called qualified immunity. Federal agents can now destroy your home.

[00:35:08] They can traumatize your family, can violate your Fourth Amendment rights with impunity. And the courts, all they say, well, that's how it goes, folks. That's how it goes nowadays. Well, Whitehead writes this, quote, more than 80,000 SWAT raids now occur annually. That's like every year, folks, in the United States, most of them for nonviolent offenses like drug possession or administrative code violations, end of quote.

[00:35:37] And by the way, I just might add here really quick, oftentimes when people ask the government to document what they're doing, they again pull out the wrong documents. You mentioned earlier how they asked for a warrant and they didn't really give them the right warrant. They gave them kind of something else. And oftentimes, like my buddy Ken Cromar, for instance, hey, he asked for a warrant and they didn't even have one. But they still arrested him, threw him to the ground and arrested him, and then put him in prison. See, they don't have any rules, folks.

[00:36:03] And sadly, I don't mean to be rude to Trump, but Trump isn't dealing with this properly. Federal agents can now destroy your home, traumatize your family, violate your Fourth Amendment rights with impunity. And the courts say that's how it is these days, right? Yeah. It's like, what the heck is happening? So it's like a return to the days of James Otis in 1761, Sam, these writs of assistance, right? Administrative warrant is similar to a writ of assistance. And here we are, folks.

[00:36:34] What is it? 19, about 250 years later, 275 years later, we're right back to where we started. I don't know, Sam. There's got to be an answer to this. I know you know the answer. What is it? Well, there's only one answer. And this is really critical. And I know people don't want to listen to me on this. And I know people are like, la, la, la. They got their fingers in their ears. But listen up. It's really short. It's really easy. The founding fathers were asked what kind of a government we have. And they said, you have a constitutional republic if you can keep it.

[00:37:04] That means we have a role to play. And we can't idly sit on the sidelines and watch Congress and the courts and Donald and Doge and everybody else battle it out. We have got to get involved. And I know what people say. Well, let's create term limits. Let's do this. Let's do that. All they're trying to do is find ways that they don't have to take responsibility for their out-of-control government. And that will not work. There is no plan on the planet that will work like that.

[00:37:28] The founders understood, hey, we're trying to basically temper the reality here. How do we stop tyranny? And the answer is, well, the only way is put government in a defensive role and have government. That's the only organization that has enough authority to stop greater tyranny. The problem is when you put that in place, you've got to rely on the people. That's a republic form of government. The people and then they have representatives. So let me give you a quick example.

[00:37:54] If Congress doesn't pass the doge cuts and reduce spending, then all 435 members, maybe you could count one or two not, but need to go in 2026. And if Americans would deliver mandates like that, lol, we would win the game. But as long as we sit on the sidelines and pretend we're not in the culture war and say that's politics, that's for somebody else, or I voted and now I'm done. As long as we have that mentality, it's going to continue. Right?

[00:38:25] So there you have it. I'll give you an example. We have an opportunity to stand our ground. Standourground.watch is the website to make this point. Lowell? Absolutely right, Sam. An email from the New America magazine yesterday featured a documentary about a CO2 pipeline being laid in the ground here in America. It is entitled, quote, unearthing the CO2 pipeline, the time bomb in your backyard. End of quote. That's the name of the documentary, folks.

[00:38:54] It's less than an hour long. I watched it last night myself and I am appalled, Sam, at how many miles of pipe have already been laid? How many injection wells have already been drilled? I naively thought the globalists were simply pushing the idea but hadn't implemented it yet. Sam, they have begun implementation.

[00:39:15] There are 5,000 miles of underground pipeline, carbon capture pipelines in America today. That's what totally astounded me. You know, I'm not going to attempt a full review of this documentary. We just don't have time for it this morning. But I will invite our listeners, Sam, to visit standyourground.watch slash pipeline to watch this amazing story.

[00:39:44] That website, again, is standyourground.watch slash pipeline. You can also get there from jbs.org and the newamerican.org, the newamerican magazine. Several ways to get there but you need to watch this. I mean, I had no idea that they were this far down the road to this carbon capture, this idea.

[00:40:11] Basically, it's all based on this idea of climate change, right? You and I both know that's a farce. But globalists are using this idea as an excuse to force small farmers and small ranchers off of their land so that the land can be controlled by the minions of the globalists. Because why? Well, if they can control the land, they will control the food. And if they control the food, they will control the people. Sam?

[00:40:39] Hey, man, let's skip the break, ladies and gentlemen. And it's critical to understand that's why I say we've got to expose this farce. We, the people, need to shut down the mainstream press when they peddle this porn of climate change lie. We need to basically call a halt to the government and say, look, you're not going to do these things. You don't have authority at all, okay? And, you know, hey, the Trump administration is trying to do a good job in many ways, right? But it's not enough. We, the people, have got to engage. And you asked what the solution is.

[00:41:08] That's the only solution. A good, honest, moral people jealously guarding their liberty is the only real solution that will work, Lowell. Nothing else. I'm telling you, you can't write a book. You can't start a tea party. You can't, you know, build a better mousetrap. You can't jump in front of the train and pretend you're the leader. Okay, all those things are a farce. The only answer is for enough American people to demand change and peacefully using the high road, if you will, to demand that.

[00:41:37] And I'm telling you right now, I believe all 435 members of Congress, minus maybe Thomas Massey, need to go in 2026. They promised the world, and they've failed. I mean, Donald Trump did a lot of good things. But he's being shut down by his own party and his own Congress. That's why we need to say the party's over. That's why we need to basically let all these clowns go. You come in poor as church mice. You leave rich rock stars. That's going to stop. Until Americans get that through their thick skull, well, nothing's going to change, buddy. Nothing.

[00:42:08] Yeah, well, this documentary has certainly alerted me to a growing problem here. I already mentioned the 5,000 miles of carbon capture pipelines in the ground, right? And they have a 100-foot easement on the property over the pipe, okay? So if they're going to lay the pipe on your land, they will get an easement, a 100-foot easement right across your land. And they're crisscrossing land, good farmland, right?

[00:42:36] In the Midwest, this is where most of this is being laid. The documentary has a map that shows that Texas has the most of the pipe right now. Then they're in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Louisiana, Mississippi. Their plans are to lay pipe across another 96,000 miles, right? So I kind of think this is just a lowball estimate. But they're saying 100,000 miles of pipeline is what they really, really want. And they're 5% the way there.

[00:43:05] They hope to reach what they call net zero by the year 2050. That's 25 years now. And net zero is a propaganda lie as well. It just means you can basically be the offender but pay a big fee and pretend it doesn't exist. It's a lie straight from the pit of hell, people. Yeah. And the Wyoming pipeline, by the way, extends slightly into Utah's northeast corner. So don't – I mean, you Utahns think you're not immune to this.

[00:43:31] You better be aware that it's – you know, they have plans to lay this pipe in Utah as well. Now, a lot of the storage of this CO2, basically what they do, they take this carbon dioxide, which, by the way, is required by our plant life, right? So even the idea of capturing CO2 and pumping it underground to hide it is death to the planet. It's a death now, right? Well, it basically is like the Tower of Babel modern times. We think we can play God and manipulate things.

[00:44:00] And the fact is it's going to be a spectacular failure like it always is, ladies and gentlemen. But by the way, I mentioned we ought to vote these thugs out in 2026. Oh, boy. LewRockwell.com, you've got Alan basically over there speaking out about this, Lowell. Alan Stevo. You mean Alan Stevo at LewRock while talking about Real ID? Yes, sir. Yep.

[00:44:28] Yeah, some people think that Real ID will stop noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections. But this is simply a false claim. There are three ways you can get a Real ID. You can get one with a passport. You can get one with – or with a green card. Or if you have an employment authorization document, which is an EAD, right? Well, illegals have one or more of these three documents.

[00:44:52] So Stevo estimates 20 million illegal aliens with one of these three documents, which means that if we go and force Real ID, which, by the way, they're going to start enforcing an airport near you on Wednesday of this week because Congress doesn't have the backbone to stand up against the Real ID and throw that thing out, the 20 more million illegal aliens are going to be able to vote in upcoming elections

[00:45:22] if they start using Real ID in the name of election integrity. That's another story out there that you need to be aware of, and it's just not going to work. You can't secure elections when you allow non-resident illegal immigrants to vote in your elections. That's simply not fair. It's not right, Sam. You got that right, folks. We've got to be engaged.

[00:45:51] Like I say, I don't know any other solution that will deal with it. But there is good news. We do have liberty for one South Dakota family, not the B.com with the details, Lowell. Yeah, this will warm your heart a bit. But Charles and Heather Maude, fifth-generation ranchers in South Dakota, whom the Biden administration was hoping to put in prison for up to 10 years. But the Trump administration dropped the charges. Good. Thank goodness for that.

[00:46:17] What was the crime for which Biden was eager to imprison this hardworking couple and take away their family ranch? Well, the Maude's ranch abuts the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, and one of their fences extended into the National Park. The area has been contested for decades. Buffalo Gap became a national park. Now listen to this. In 1960, right, the year 1960 was when Buffalo Gap became a national park. Well after the Maude's families had moved there, as the neighbor said,

[00:46:47] quote, the fence that was there had been there since the 1950s. They didn't just move the fence yesterday, end of quote. But the Maude agreed to a survey of the land. The survey found that the fence did indeed extend into public lands. And so the Biden administration didn't do the rational thing and grandfathered the structure in, as is usually the case, nor did they ask the Maude's to move their fence. They simply indicted the couple, accusing them of stealing grass.

[00:47:16] I said, you can't make this stuff up, Sam. Not only did the Trump administration drop these ridiculous charges, but its Department of Agriculture set up a lawfare portal for other farmers and ranchers who were targeted by the Biden administration. Well, there's a small victory for the liberty-loving people of South Dakota, Sam. Well, and we look for every opportunity to, you know, hey, promote the truth.

[00:47:43] And when they stand for what's right, they deserve credit. Good for the Trump administration. I know it's a small win, but we'll take everything we can get and push for more. How's that? Absolutely right, Sam. Hey, and I want to say one more thing about that CO2, the carbon capture pipelines, because they'll compress the CO2 and basically liquefy it. They'll pump it through these pipelines and store it underground, right?

[00:48:10] Well, this pipeline, one of these pipelines failed near the town of Sartartia, Sartartia, I guess, in Mississippi. And so the carbon dioxide came out of the pipeline. It's a big, thick cloud of carbon dioxide. The reason I mention this is that if you live in an area of these pipelines and it ruptures, then you're going to get a cloud of carbon dioxide.

[00:48:36] Well, it turns out, folks, you cannot live if you succumb to carbon dioxide. Cars quit running. The people who were engulfed in the cloud lost consciousness. Dozens of people ended up in the hospital. Thankfully, there were no human fatalities. But you need to know that if you live near one of these pipelines and it ruptures, there's going to be carbon dioxide, which is heavier than air. And so it seeks the low land, right? It stays low to the ground. I mean, you could climb a tree and maybe get away from it.

[00:49:05] But if you don't act fast and you're deprived of the oxygen because of this cloud of carbon dioxide, you put your life at risk, Sam. And so I just wanted to mention that in case any of our listeners are living near these pipelines. And you can look at a map of where the pipelines currently are running by watching that documentary found at standyourground.watch. Sam. And it's all brought to you by the New American Magazine, John Birch Society, doing a phenomenal job. Check it out.

[00:49:36] They're not even charging any money to watch it. It's very, very, very good. Please get involved in meaningful ways. By the way, this is an example of propaganda. Where's RFKJR? They don't tell you the details about C-sections. LewRockwell.com with this piece is our final story of the hour. Lowell? It's a great article. It might be of value to young mothers. I hope it is. And if you're a young mother, expecting mother, then you need to know that there are many,

[00:50:05] not just a few, there are many physicians, nurses, and hospital personnel who are choosing to give birth in their own home rather than in the hospital. Why is that? Well, for a long time, it turns out doctors had no interest in delivering babies. But there was a leader in that profession who began to realize that if they would go ahead and deliver a baby for a young mother,

[00:50:34] then that mother would be so grateful that they would become a lifelong customer of the doctor. Right? And so the medical profession gradually displaced the midwives. They began handling the birth in the hospital. And, you know, today, 99 out of 100 births happens in a hospital. And it turns out that, however, that this is a natural place for increasing medicalization, right?

[00:51:02] Because if you're in the hospital, the doctors need to justify their existence. And so they will intervene in what is normally, you know, a natural and normal birthing process. They will intervene. And it turns out that one of my least favorite statistics, I'm quoting the author here of this article.

[00:51:22] He says, note, one of my least favorite statistics in medicine is that C-section rates dramatically rise at the times doctors typically want to go home. End of quote. Holy mackerel. In other words, the doctor, he's tired. He wants to go home. And so the woman still hasn't given birth. And so he says, well, we need to do a C-section. Things are looking bad here. Right?

[00:51:47] And so they intervene in what is normally a natural birthing process. Since the hospital birthing process does not try to augment the natural birthing process and instead tries to control and manage it, one of the most significant issues with many of its approaches to birth is that they frequently create complications that require more and more invasive methods to be implemented.

[00:52:12] In many cases, the end of this pipeline is the mother having to bypass the birthing process by cutting open the abdomen and directly extracting the baby via a costly C-section. And so there, end of quote. Sam, there it is. The HWO, the World Health Organization, made a good case that in 10% of births, they prevent maternal and infant mortality. But they are done far too frequently.

[00:52:39] In 2023, 33% of American births were C-sections. And by the way, sadly, Utah has swallowed this poison pill more than other states, too. In Utah, the numbers are even higher, Lowell. Wow. I believe it, man, because we're simply more like sheeple here. And we just accept the recommendations of the medical personnel. We also have a lot more babies than everybody else, too. And we believe the propaganda that these doctors are great and everything else.

[00:53:06] And I'm not saying once in a while a C-section doesn't make sense in those rescue situations. I applaud them. The problem is, when is it really a need, a rescue situation to preserve the life of the mother and to protect the life of the baby and have a great outcome? When is it really that? Versus when is it, hey, it's just Johnny Bench wants to go home. Or they make a lot more money from these kind of deliveries and stuff like that. When is it the big dollar?

[00:53:33] When is it self-interest or whatever you want to call it? And we see that on the altar of this. Anyway, Lou Rockwell has a great, great column about this on their website. Great stuff, Lowell. Yeah, it truly is, Sam. And notice it's for more money, right? C-sections are more expensive than natural birth. That's why doctors like to do them. They get paid more. And it's just a recipe for disaster. And the real key here, folks, is that the medical personnel, we're talking about doctors and nurses,

[00:54:03] more and more of them are choosing to have their baby at home. Sam? Now, that's the good news. And the best part is it provides a solution for you and your family, children, grandchildren, the list goes on and on. Educate yourself and act accordingly. Will you please? For Lowell Nelson, Dr. Scott Bradley, and yours truly, Sam Bushman, thanks so much for being alongside with the ride. Check out freedomsrisingsun.com.

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