Light power on the power, easy power on the time. Light power for the group of people who live on the season. Light power for the group of people who live on the season. Light power for the group of people who live on the season. Light power for the group of people who live on the season. Light power for the group of people that live on the season. so many people in this world who talk about freedom if they haven't got the slightest concept of what they're talking about. For instance, I can ask anybody in any high school graduating class in any high school in the nation to define freedom for me. And I'll get some weird off-the-wall statement, well, it means freedom of speech. Well, what does that mean? Well, it means I can say anything I want. Does it? Does it really? What is freedom and what does it really mean? And why should we be so concerned about the meaning of that word? So that's going to be the subject for the next hour and a half to two hours. I'm going to need some participation, some help from you. Because this is really important that you grasp the concept and the true meaning of the word freedom. Let's sort of go around the room. And folks, I'm not doing this to embarrass you. And it really isn't a right answer as you're going to find out. Because the definition or the meaning of freedom is subjective. When we talk about society as a whole, it has an objective meaning, a real, definite meaning, if you want to have a society that lives in peace with each other. But depending on who you are and where you're coming from and what your particular moral code is or lack of moral code or your system of ethics, if you will, your definition of freedom is going to be subjective. It's going to be based upon what you particularly have been taught to believe in your life. So I want to go around the room real quick and I want everybody to give me just a quick, simple definition of freedom. Don't be embarrassed. I'm not going to use you as an example or embarrass you or anything. I just want to get an idea. And I want you all to get an idea of the different concepts of the different people in this room which represents probably a segment of the very best of the population that really wants to have a good future and live in freedom. Even amongst this group, you can find that there's going to be some different answers. Pam, you want to start off? Well, I think that you can be able to do what I want to do without having to worry about that thing to make or just write through the book. To do what you want to do without having to worry about somebody putting restrictions on you. Yeah, you know, and being responsible and being responsible and being responsible with responsibility. Without infringing on other people. Okay, without infringing on other people. Okay, Jean? Thank you, sir. I would be able to do a choice. Choice. Okay. Principly the same as Pat, but you did a choice. Freedom is the word liberty. Freedom is the extension of the word liberty. Now, this is interesting because then to understand what he said, we have to define liberty. If we don't, we really don't know what he said, do we? Absolutely. Next. Next. It would be deciding what they said, as long as it doesn't harm my neighbors and I will go grab it and do what I want to do what I want to do what I want to do. There's no harm to no one else. I should be free to do that. Okay. So you think freedom is to do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn't harm anybody else? Okay. I've got to repeat that because the camera can't hear it and the other people back there can't hear it. Who's next? Real quick. Freedom is a universal right for everyone to grow, develop, as they choose. universal right for everyone to grow and develop as they choose. Next. I think freedom is like mind your own here. I have to go to do what I want to do in my home because they can raise their kids and do whatever they want to do their way. So freedom to you means mind your own business, don't judge other people. He can do what he wants in his home and you can do what you want in yours. Next. Freedom is being able to do what you want to do without ordering other people's person or property. Is that correct? Next. I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. Make your own decisions. Okay. Next. So you want to be able to make your own decisions but participate in decisions that other people make that might affect you. Okay. Patty? Freedom of choice. Okay. Jay? That was a key. would be somewhere between slavery and license. Between slavery and license. Yeah. It would be something similar to what he did. Now we have to define slavery and license before we really understand what he said. And if we don't, it would be total control. Pardon? Slavery is total control? It would be total freedom without moral or ethical concern at all. Okay. No restrictions whatsoever. No concerns either. Next. Yes. I think that being able to believe or read what you want to own property to keep profit from my work waiting to do or not do the thing is why you don't hurt the person or property of anyone else. Okay. Do what you want to do. Make the profit you want to make. Engage in the occupation you want to engage in. Read what you want to read. As long you don't hurt the person or property of anybody. Next. I didn't really hear all that you said. You have to do what you want to do about all kinds of rules and stuff. Right. Sure. the absence of controls placed upon majority by minority. Yeah. I think that's right. Did I say that right? Did I say what he said guys? Okay. Up front. Hello? Yes, sir. Truth is essential to freedom. Okay. Freedom in a nutshell is the responsibility and allowing persons the ability to make their own decisions and to allow them I have the word I'll set out here to do to do the to do the see I lost this turn that's okay can you sort of say in a nutshell well it's the it's allowing someone else to have an opinion and allowing them to express their opinion and allowing them the freedom to say what they need to say and you the freedom to do what you have to say because without being able to express your opinion you have no freedom to be able to live where I want to live participate in the type of activities or income earning situation that I choose to pursue as long as it doesn't increase upon the rights of anyone else okay next make all kinds of choices that you choose to make rich you freedom is based in the unalienable rights of right property granted to us by the creators i believe that we have the right to be protected and as long as they are protected using our system of the constitutional republican type system of constitutional laws as long as we don't hurt the property of a life the property of another that's what we aspire to be is free people ok so basically what you're saying is that freedom to you is based upon the unimmunable right to life liberty and property under the constitutional law that governs this country ok Dan the opportunity to live as you want and live as you want and live as you want live as you want believe as you want and live without fear nobody else said that did they next do your own things as long as you don't hurt anybody's person or property next I believe you are afraid of the way of life whereby I am able to choose to deal with others if I have a need for you and also that I have a deck involved well I can hear you say the deck of law right yeah that's the deck of law do I know that you would have them do anything is that what you believe next choose a responsible way of life without impeding on others while they do the same Irene responsibility and ability to do whatever you wish as long as it doesn't infringe upon anybody else's right to do the same thing John respect respect okay John right to defend yourself right to defend yourself okay next limited government without fear the right of property and what else did you say and liberty with responsibility and liberty with responsibility next freedom is our being allowed to live and have our certain rights most of which are I guess a lot of us don't have the Constitution ability to grow out and engage in the pursuit of life and liberty and pursuit of happiness but then again it can't work without the world in the world yeah pursuit of your rights as spelled out in the Constitution and everybody going to the world next could be a state of mind body or spirit in which you recognize that God has given you rights which may not be given and living to protect those rights for itself and for others state of mind body or spirit realizing that God gave you certain rights that he also gave others that you have to respect as mutually is that correct did I paraphrase what you said correctly I don't want to say I don't want to put words in anybody's name respect the rights of others okay if I get it wrong correct me because I want to make sure I say what you wanted to say next right to pursue your dream okay next do what you want to do and not get hassled and not hassle that's pretty simple next so it's a state of mind but you believe that the constitution the bill of rights define the limitations and the and the the rights that you believe that they were applied the way that they were written would represent freedom to you they didn't help money we gotta tell you now I believe freedom is like a gift from the creator and only through man does that gift encourage the time taken away regulated where freedom is the ultimate gift from the almighty so that you can make responsible choices without hurting anyone else okay I think you said that pretty good and I think that got on camera Denise ditto ditto is this a rush room do whatever you want as long as it doesn't interfere with anybody else okay all the way in the back Larry freedom what's freedom to you there's no right or wrong answers live and love live okay that's good travel wherever you want in pursuit of happiness Bruce god given rights what okay d responsible exercise of god given rights without infringing on anybody else's rights on their property okay diane homecoming queen this is a private joke between diane diane and i are great friends that go back quite a ways and she's helped us out an awful lot so if you don't understand leave it be yes ma'am well among other things i think it's the right to see or fail even if your standard of success or fail is not the same standard does it fail if your standard is not the same standard as everyone else's okay good dennis the right to homeschool your two sons the way to see fit live and breathe without asking anyone's approval what do you think don't you dare say you know okay so you basically agree with what cal said god made you live your life and people restrict you you can't live up to your expectations or potential right next you guys want to get in this no bob freedom is a price freedom is freedom to gain to make you wish but you also have to say that every other thing do you have five you have one degree that's what you mean you have to do so we have to agree on something we have to agree so we have to agree and then common law and common law two days first you do not encroach you have to agree all court laws criminal laws common law criminal laws and common law court laws all based on that basic premise secondly you have to agree that you have to do not agree with the process you have to do but all common law contract laws are based upon that so you have to come down now we all want to say we all do what do we want to do what the trouble is when we start hurting the ship it will work if I'm a king if I'm a king you have to take you have to do it man I feel like I have teachers it will have to be that in other words we can do anything we want as long as what they have said I hold up not hurt the process when I approach I heard the first verse about and do everything you want us to do so many trust good basically what he said is don't encroach upon other people on their property and do everything that you have promised to do and you know it would be a much better world if people did just is that one of the years don't do it because all the things are trouble who's next believe what you want to believe be what you want to be as long as you don't infringe upon the same rights of other people yes I'm sorry I can't hear you basically what you're saying is doing to others as you would have them do to you is that correct okay next God given right that no man or anybody else can take away from anyone gentlemen have two representatives here from XL who I invited to come and see what we do they'll be here for a couple hours I think this is Nolan this is a neighbor of mine and a good friend what's your definition of freedom Nolan to be able to dream accomplish those dreams and without and help other people without stepping on anybody along the way is that basically you want to be what saved from the good guys saved from the good guys saved from the good guys have the freedoms to be what he wants to be and do what he wants to do that's a I've heard that before be saved from the good guys but isn't that yeah but isn't that what they really believe about themselves they believe they're doing what's best for all humanity even if they're doing bad and they rationalize their actions the end justifies the means we gotta make a better world by killing everybody this far today it's okay to do it so you know basically what he said is right on the money saved from the good guys Carl where are you Carl what's your definition of freedom is you know you can't cop out at my seminar stand up and tell me what you really think freedom is okay wonderful okay Carl freedom is everything to him as long as he's not approaching anybody else yes sir freedom is a gift you give to others that's very good okay now the point I wanted to make by this is not pinpointing anybody and saying you're wrong and you're right what I wanted to for everybody to see is even in this group that's a pretty sophisticated group when you're talking about freedom there's some pretty different answers in this room isn't there yes sir no responsibility if you have no responsibility you're in an institution and you have no freedom there's no freedom you're in an institution and no liberty on the other side if you have total responsibility then you have total freedom so responsibility goes with freedom okay now let's explore this from a real world point of view let's look at freedom and let's look at it every way we possibly can because I think by applying it to the real world we can pretty much come to a real definition of freedom that everybody in this room can agree for now the reason that this has to be done is you look out across this country you read this newspaper as compared to this newspaper over here you listen to Ted Koppel Dan Rather you listen to a Sunday morning evangelist you listen to somebody who's a spokesperson for some group that calls itself a militia you listen to another group that says they're the constitutional rights activists of America you listen to the Greenpeace people and what you find is they're all trying to practice a form of freedom that only they understand okay so unless we all agree upon a definition of freedom and we find out what that is by applying to the real world then we really can't talk about freedom and when we say you know they're encroaching upon our freedom who are we talking about the Greenpeace people the Christians the Mormon church the Catholic church the Baptists are we talking about the atheists I mean what are we talking about when we say they're encroaching on our freedom and who's they okay if we can start with one premise we have to have a premise before we start that the founding fathers came to this country to escape religious persecution in the old world would everybody agree with on that is that pretty much a true statement and part of the great battle of building this country was people striving for religious freedom the founding fathers came from the old world to this country to escape religious persecution and then set up religious persecution of their own in the colonies right and then people striving for their own religious freedom were persecuted by the people who came here to escape from religious persecution and isn't it still going on today what happened to the branch of Indians did they have freedom why were they so vilified because they practiced a religion that was strange to everybody else so freedom has its roots basically connected to religion doesn't it or if you want to put it another way escape from some religions okay at least in the beginning you see in the beginning freedom was a concept that was strange to the world strange to the world and we find that all through the history of the world no matter which civilization you're talking about you'll find books that say that the Roman civilization or the Roman society was a democracy where everyone was free is that true you can accept that or reject it but when you actually examine the history of the Roman Empire you find that there was an elite group of people known as the original citizens of the city of Rome who were the only ones who were free and could participate in government and if you didn't belong to that particular group of people no matter where you lived in the Roman Empire you weren't really free were you weren't those people really free even the elite who belonged to that select group that were the original citizens who set up the empire the families were they really free did the government of Rome recognize unalienable rights and doubt upon individuals by their creator no so freedom was something that was granted by the state could be taken away by the state it was a capricious will of the senate that said whether you were free or not and how free you were is that correct in the Greek civilization were the people free no not on your life throughout the history of the world folks if you're really studying the history and you don't get caught up in all of these idealistic philosophical questions but look at the reality of the time you'll see that no people on the face of this earth ever were free until this country was founded and what was the premise that made people free in this country that had never existed before in the history of the world what is it just something has to go before that there is a God without God there are no unalienable creator endowed rights so if you reject God already you reject the freedom because God says you have unalienable rights if God is the ultimate authority in the universe who can take those rights away from you no one period no one that's the premise upon which this nation was founded one there's a God whether you believe in God or not it doesn't make any difference our founding fathers said for this to work there must be a higher law that man must answer to otherwise liberty and freedom is in the capricious will of whoever rules whoever is in office therefore there is a God without that there is nothing else I said it on my I said it on my radio show a million times how many of you have heard me say this before whether you believe in God or not you better start if you want to be free how many of you have heard me say that how many times about having man it's the truth isn't it you see man if he doesn't have to answer to a higher authority is subjective in everything that he does isn't it where does moral law come from that's from God without God there can be no moral law everything else is subjective you know me I'm a strict constitutionist I believe that you have the right to believe in whatever you want to believe and I'll fight for your right to do that I'll even die for your right to do that even if you believe in Satan or if you believe in nothing or if you believe that you have to chop down six trees a day to worship your God I'll fight and die for your right to do that and I'll do it the first moment that I'm called upon to do it without hesitation because I know that I have to do that in order for me to be free now that's a strange concept isn't it I can't free I can't be free unless I'm willing to die for your right to be something that I might hate how many people really understand that concept how many people out there in the world do you think really understand that concept not too many but that's exactly what this country was founded upon the founding fathers knew that they had to create a nation that recognized unalienable rights granted to each individual by his or her creator only by doing that they took the capricious will away from the man leaders and said hey you can't touch this area because you haven't got the authority to do so they established a limited government with limited powers they did not establish a democracy they established a constitutional republic part of the effort to destroy this country is to convince you that it's a democracy why do you think they want you to believe that this is a democracy if it's not why is that so important to these people rich you don't need god you don't need unalienable rights all you need is a majority vote right yeah now v.i. lenin the founder of the soviet union said democracy is indispensable to socialism because they know that the majority will always ultimately vote themselves everything everything which ultimately becomes communism okay so one of the first steps to destroying freedom is to destroy a constitutional republic by convincing you that it's really a democracy and then once you're convinced of that you will make it happen and you will slide into socialism and ultimately into enslavement under communism and that's what's happening in this country today so freedom basically based upon the reality of the history of the world depends upon whether or not you believe in god and you believe in god you believe that god gave man unalienable rights what's unalienable mean it comes from the root word lean cannot be leaned against now you hear people say all the time inalienable what does inalienable mean it means it can be lean see they're trying to fool you where is the definition spelled out where is the precedent set for which word you use the declaration of independence read the declaration of independence that is the first document at law in this country the very first as a nation there are documents that have effects that go back further but the first document at law in this country is the declaration of independence which says that man was endowed by his creator with unalienable rights is that correct so how come every time you see somebody on television or somewhere else they're talking about inalienable rights because if they convince you that that's true and you use the word inalienable what you're saying is your rights can be leaned against and taken away the correct word is unalienable cannot be leaned against cannot be taken away no one has the authority to do it so by the clever use of words they trick you into giving up your freedom first there must be a god second god must have granted man certain unalienable rights which can never be taken away and third the constitutional republic is set up to protect recognize and protect those rights those rights define freedom limit government and define freedom and basically what they set up was a place where people could live and do and flourish and reach the ultimate of their capabilities as long as they didn't hurt the person or property of any other human man now it was flawed in the beginning because here was the nation that first set man free in the entire history of the world and said there's a god and god gave man unalienable rights and at the same time turned around and said this man's my slave but it's that same document that allowed those slaves to ultimately be set free and granted the same privileges and rights because there are some privileges connected with this as every other person or every other living human man be careful with that word person no okay would everybody agree with what I just said okay so there was a lot of different definitions here and there were some that connected freedom to the creator and some that did not and some that went this way and some that went that way basically every one of you got it right in some aspect but you've got to understand this even though the founding father said there is a God who is indoubtable man certain unalienable rights which can never be taken away and created a constitution and a built rights that recognized that fact and protected those rights what is your ultimate freedom or imprisonment or enslavement depend upon who said the will to defend it because that's the right answer the will and more than the will the resolve to defend it because governments change bureaucrats come and go men are elected and leave office all the time don't they and what is the ultimate character of the government it's the character of the men who occupy the offices within that government that's why in the constitution and the built rights you will not see any reference to God anywhere or Jesus Christ or any other religious entity of any church whatsoever because they set the government up to recognize one thing only does a God and God endowed men with unalienable rights this constitution recognizes those rights and protects them and limits government even though God is not mentioned in there it is implied through the writings and the actions and the intent of the framers of the constitution but they were very careful to establish a secular government which because of the religion of the early enforcers of this government occupiers of government office bureaucrats presidents vice presidents senators representatives the government reflected the morals and the ethics of the Christian community but was the government itself Christian no the government never went to church did it the government didn't say prayers did it but the men who occupied the offices did now if you understand that fact you might understand now why things are changing are the people who occupy the offices of government Christian are they for the most part Mormon are they Buddhists what are they secular humans they're atheists aren't they so the reason you're seeing the government and the application of government taking the changes and doing the things that it is doing is because government always reflects the morals or lack thereof and the ethics and the beliefs and the attitudes of the men and women who occupy the offices of government if these people have no moral code and no ethical code they have no restraints everything becomes subjective doesn't it subjective is dangerous because in my subjective viewpoint you might be expendable and I really don't care what you think about it I'm in charge and I don't care what that 200 year old document that those old doddering old men wrote who didn't understand the modern complexities of the new age wrote you're out of here bud call him off and chop his head on that's what happened so folks when we talk about freedom these are the elementary things that we have to understand freedom did not exist for the common man in this world ever in the history of the world before this nation was created the only reason the common man became free is because the founding father said there's a God that God endowed upon man certain unalienable rights that no one can take away and we have set up a government and a constitution and a bill of rights that recognize this and protect those rights and limit the power of government so that our posterity may enjoy this freedom what's the difference let me ask you this is liberty freedom no why people are always talking about liberty when they should be talking about freedom freedom is too much and restrictions is too much liberty is somewhere in between is that correct liberty is within guidelines when I was in the navy I had to stand on board the ship unless the captain granted liberty liberty is a privilege granted by whoever is in charge so when you're talking about freedom don't get it mixed up with liberty liberty is good we should give people as much liberty as we possibly can if they can handle that liberty and they're not going to hurt anybody else by giving them some more other than what they have as the freedom that they've been granted by their creator and respected and honored and protected by the constitution and the bill of rights why can't we give them some liberty we can can't we sure we can and that's good but it is not the same as freedom is it see I was free before I joined the navy when I joined the navy I got liberty okay does everybody understand the difference and you don't really begin to appreciate that until you're in something like the navy and if you're a low man on the total boat you still may not appreciate it I didn't really appreciate it until I was made a patrol boat captain in Vietnam and given a crew and given this patrol boat that cost probably a million dollars and all these weapons that I could have destroyed any place I wanted to with and I was responsible for these men then I understood why there had to be liberty instead of freedom on that boat because if I gave those guys freedom instead of liberty I might have been on patrol by myself and things might not have worked see in his freedom the gunners may have decided not to clean the guns but in my saying you can't have liberty until the guns are cleaned I made sure that it got done so liberty is sort of a judicious responsibility if you're not a despot if you're a despot you can turn liberty into something horrible can't you something promised and never granted who saw Mr. Roberts I'm glad when I was in the Navy I wasn't on that ship because those guys didn't have any freedom and they never had any liberty and the only time they ever had any liberty all hell broke loose it was sort of a lesson in what can happen if you restrict the population too much when they finally went on the beach what did they do they tore the hell out of everything and left Mr. Roberts hold them bag because he was the good guy always sticking up for it right okay have we sort of clarified that word freedom does anybody in here have any questions because if you do if you think I'm wrong if you want to explore this a little more we can do that yes sir there's a there's a concept there's a doctrine that's slightly revealed in the letters to the churches about Nicolotanism generally not are filled by anyone and it's all about freedom and about liberty from the right hand to the separate the apostles and every man is a chapter by life every man is a chapter still what brought up down to Nicolotanism that is a permeate all those civilizations that are very basis of civilization that word that is a transliteration of a Greek word to the people it was religious the distinction between the third DLAD and it's in everything it's in government it's in business it's in commerce and that's the thing that's bad you just said that if you don't pay your dues the history of it you don't pay your dues you have to bring what you can believe or this and then after you take your dues and the t-shirt and the greed or whatever then you're better than those under you you're better than them and then because you're better than them you can make their decisions and they have to delegate and afford their responsibility and their authority to the leaders that's what's wrong with the world that's enough that's wrong with the world well I go a little bit farther than that I don't think that's what's wrong with the world devil and Satan all you want to or any kind of aspect of this evil entity tython step I don't care what you call it all you want to but you see I have a tendency to look at the real world and I have a tendency to test philosophy just like I would test anything else and if it doesn't stand up in the real world it goes out it goes out of my life and what I found out of the real world is this if you take man completely out of an area evil ceases to dwell there the laws of nature operate flawlessly the way God intended them to operate if you put man into that picture you bring evil into that picture because evil dwells in the heart of man and nowhere else and that's where evil must be confronted and controlled and good people confront evil within themselves on a daily basis and come out victorious if they're lucky and if they're diligent and even the best people are hiding some skeletons in their closet because somewhere along the line they gave in to temptation and committed some evil act either against themselves or someone else the best people in the world I don't care who they are have some of those skeletons in their closet because they're human beings and when they stand in front of me and tell me that they don't I know I'm talking to a liar same when I meet a couple tells you they never argue I'm talking to two liars somebody tells you their children never lie oh brother that's a real big liar and that's probably why their children don't lie you know what I'm talking about they taught their children to lie by lying like that the real world the real world if you look at it will point you in the right direction always when you get off these flights of fancy and all this kind of namby-pandy good stuff and nidly-didly airy flight philosophy crap you're going to get lost stick to the real world test what's right and what's wrong in the real world and you'll be pointed in the right direction and that's the truth how many people do you know say I don't have to get involved in real world things I'm going to be raptured how many people do you know say what kind of people what kind of people would allow evil to prevail without confronting it and battling evil when they have children or grandchildren and they know that if they don't confront us and defeat it their children would be subject to it what kind of people are those people no the truth is they're escapists they're escaping from the problem and having to confront the problem and solve the problem by convincing themselves or rationalizing or subscribing to a belief that someone else teaches that says it's okay for you not to be responsible you see it's a human thing for people to fall into that because we spend a good 20 years of our life trying to get to a position where we can be responsible leave home sign contracts get out of the real world make our mark and then when we find out how tough it is most people spend the rest of their life trying to find somebody that will relieve them of their responsibility and take care of them and that is the biggest attraction of socialism that's what socialism says to you I will take away the responsibility that you have I will put it on my shoulders the state will assume that responsibility now you have to give up your rights and liberties and freedoms you have to do what we say but we're going to take care of you we'll change your diaper we'll give you a job we'll give you an income we'll even tell you what job you're going to have and we'll give you that job and we'll furnish you with recreation and all kinds of stuff and we'll take care of your medical bills and a lot of people find that very attractive because it says I don't have to be an adult anymore I don't have to be responsible I don't have to look at the problems or solve them all I have to do is go along to get along right you know I went and talked to my father who'd been an air force officer all his life retired as a colonel he was a pilot and I was weird on an air force basis all over the world I looked up to my dad I thought my dad is defending freedom he's defending the constitution he's fighting for the underprivileged of the world my dad is a big hero then he retired and I went to recruit my dad to help me in what I'm doing I said dad you gotta help me I mean you you bring a lot of credibility with you when you stand up and you talk having you know done what you've done and being who you are people are gonna listen to you you can really be a great help in our crusade to keep this country on the right track my dad said son I've known about this all my life said but I can't help you because I get a retirement check from the government and if I help you they might take this check away and it's all in your middle of your hand you know it hurt me deeply but I told my father goodbye and I've never been back because my father betrayed me and my children he sold out for a measly fifteen hundred bucks a month you see freedom of my children his grandchildren you can't put a price on for me the government could come tomorrow and offer me five hundred million dollars and I was spitting it on before I would sell the freedom of my children and my grandchildren so I still love my father don't get me wrong but I can't go talk to my father anymore because he sold my children cheap okay and he did it because he's a human being and human beings are weak my father has a brain he's one of the most intelligent men I've ever met in my life he doesn't have to take that check and even at his age he could make a real good living doing anything that he decided to do because he's smart but he decided to sell my children and me his own children my brother and sister for their retirement check and all of a sudden I realized my father was not defending the constitution was not defending freedom was not standing up for the oppressed people of the world like I thought he was as a boy he was not the hero that I saw him as my father was sacrificing 20 years for that retirement check that was his whole goal and then I sat down and really looked at the military service and it suddenly dawned on me this is an indoctrination into socialism that anyone who stays in the military for 20 years and gets a retirement check is a socialist there's no doubt about it if they weren't how come the VFW and the American Legion and the veterans of foreign wars which is the VFW and the and vets and the Vietnam Veterans Association how come they're not all up in arms against what's going on in this country how come they're not up in arms against what's going on in this country they've been bought and paid for that's why bought and paid for I went to the VFW once I was going to join went for several days and I found out it was just a bunch of old guys sitting around getting drunk on beer and telling lies how great they were when they were in service now not all of them are like that but that's generally what goes on in most VFW halls and that's the truth so I left and I had never been back and they every once in a while would say hey you gotta come down and join the VFW I said no thanks if I want a beer I'll go down to State Wayne buy a six pack and drink at home with my family thank you and continue my work and I won't tell no lies because by and large from my experience of war there aren't any heroes war was not glorious it was a big rush sometimes that adrenaline can do strange things to your body and to your mind but it was a terrible thing and none of us ever ended up really fighting for what we thought we were fighting for anyone and in the heat of battle who you're really fighting for yourself and your buddies and you don't think about that flag or anything else all you think about getting yourself and your buddies out of there with an ass in one piece and that's the truth that is the truth it boils down to that it's me and these four guys against the world but we want to make ourselves feel good don't we so we invent all these other things that go on with if we really want to be honest what we should be saying to ourselves is we were silly and we ought to make sure this never happens to our children and if we've got to fight a war let's fight one last war for freedom and let's make sure that our children never have to fight another war ever again for anything goodnight folks and god bless each and every single one of you this is the voice of freedom the voice of freedom rejoicing convierte monsieur don know who wants to Zip and里面 came and come up to the he allowed to be easy to Thank you.