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Speaker 1: The following presentation is Del Marvis Studio's production.

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Speaker 2: Welcome a True Secrets from around the world. It's time

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for another edition of the fact Hunter podcast as we

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record on this Monday, June the first, twenty twenty six.

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Hope this podcast finds you well. And as we mentioned,

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it is June first, and you know what that means.

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Speaker 3: Ride is a celebration of community, of love, and of authenticity.

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Speaker 4: It's also the product of decades and decades of resistance,

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of people standing in defiance of hatred and in defiance

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of pigotry.

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Speaker 3: Again and again, we've seen people stand up when they're

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told to sit down, taking on systems that seemed impossible

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to change, and demanding better.

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Speaker 4: There has been so much progress made. It's another point

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of pride for this community. But the fight is still

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alive today. And know this, the state of California stands

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with you.

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Speaker 3: This community has never shied away from a challenge. So

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this month is a chance to recharge, to come together

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in unity and celebration of all of the joy this

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community brings.

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Speaker 4: This month, we celebrate all members of the LGBTQ community

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and all the many ways they've made California great.

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Speaker 3: No matter where you are or what your situation may be,

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no matter if you're out or not, or if you're

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still figuring things out, we are proud of you, and

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we hope that you are proud of who you are.

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Speaker 4: To Happy Pride California.

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Speaker 3: Happy Pride, California.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine something like that airing when I was

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in high school in the mid eighties. I mean, the

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churches would have gone up and just tossed these people

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out of office. But like everything else, they boil the frog,

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they normalize these things. We get tired, we give up,

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and here we are June first, twenty twenty six, I

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think twenty three of thirty two NFL teams, most baseball

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teams Sesame Street posted they said Happy Pride Month from

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Sesame Street. Join us in celebrating and uplifting the standby

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lgb t QIA plus members of our community. And again

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there's a Bible verse about a millstone and arming children,

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and we know that you know the Sesame Street has

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been used as a communist tool for many years, going

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back to twenty twenty one when you had Elmo pushing

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a vaccine, just deplorable stuff. But again we expect this nose,

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from Hollywood, from political folks, right, the debauchery is very

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mindful of nineteen twenties Wymar Germany the debauchery. And it's

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not a coincidence that the folks in Israel are doing

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this Sodom and Gomorrah festival where Sodom and gomorl once was.

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These people are testing the patients of our creator, and

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they should realize that every day they wake up, God

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has extended them with grace another day to repent and

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turn on their sins. And again we expect this from

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crummy politicians and Hollywood, but when it infiltrates quote unquote religion.

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And this is a prominent Roman Catholic priest urging churches

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to celebrate Pride months, and by.

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Speaker 5: Can Catholics celebrate Pride month when the LGBTQ community marks

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its place in society, especially since pride is, after all,

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one of the seven deadly sins. Well, first of all,

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remember that there are two definitions of pride. The first

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is satisfaction that comes from your own accomplishments, which can

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morph into vanity, which is bad. But the second kind

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of pride is a consciousness of your own dignity, and

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that's closer to what Pride month represents. A celebration of

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the human dignity of a group of people who have

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been for so long treated like dirt, and for the

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religious person, it's a celebration of them as beloved children

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of God. It's especially important for churches to celebrate Pride

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since a great deal of the rejection and even violence

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that the LGBTQ community has faced has been motivated by religion,

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or at least what people think religion teaches. The Catechism

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of the Catholic Church asks us to treat LGBTQ people

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with respect, compassion, and sensitivity, and participating in Pride events

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or at least supporting our lgbt friends, is one way

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to do this. And just because you celebrate Pride doesn't

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mean you have to agree with what every video, every article,

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or even every float in a parade has to say.

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It's more about supporting the fundamental human rights of this community,

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the right to live in safety, the right to be

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treated as equals, and the right to be fully welcomed

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into society. Besides, complaints about the use of the word

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pride don't seem to happen in other situations. People say,

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I'm proud to be Catholic, or I'm proud to be

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an American, and no one objects to it or says

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that it's vanity. Pride is not about vanity, but human dignity.

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Maybe the best way to think about pride is to

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imagine what you'd say to a young person who finally

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summoned up the courage to tell you that they were LGBTQ.

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You know that God created them, you know that God

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loves them, and you know that God wants them to

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accept who they are. So you would probably say, I

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am so proud of you for being able to say that.

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That's the kind of pride that we celebrate this month.

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So happy pride.

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Speaker 2: And again, this is someone who comes from a quote

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unquote religious background, in his Catholic Priests outfit saying let's

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celebrate with our LGBTQ, and which was, by the way,

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it was endorsed by Pope Francis, who personally hand picked

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this guy to be the Vatican's consultor for this this outreach,

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and what I posted today was a Covenant remembrance month.

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The real reason for that rainbow, when God promised to

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never to flood the earth again, that's the reason going

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back to Genesis six through nine, right, and everything that

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Satan does perverts, right, he can't create anything, so he

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perverts and deceives. So there you go. It's day one

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of thirty that we have to put up with this nonsense. However,

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I pray that each and every one of you have

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the courage to stand up to this nonsense, to the sin. Right,

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we simply can't champion sin. And it's just incredible to

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see how quickly I was just talking with my friend

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the other day, how quickly that this nation has fallen

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and the world as a whole, and a lot of

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it is because of you know, we talk about it

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all the time, the public education system, so many flawed

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churches who don't understand the role of the geopolitical nation

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of Israel, which I wrote about today in the sub stack,

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which most people slash. People who are stepping into to

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be a pastor will touch the subject. And you look

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at the likes of the John Hages, et cetera. It's

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just a lot of confusion in this world today, that's

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for sure. All right, let's get started on part four

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of exposing the matrix, and it's the government and political power,

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and you know, We kind of have covered some of

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this in the intro episode, how power expands during fear, crisis,

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division and those type of things. And in the first

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three layers of the matrix, it really shape what we think,

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you know, commercials, what we buy, how they have graded

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the line between wants and needs, what we believe right,

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all that, NASA, the education system, even the water down

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version of Christianity that we see in many churches today.

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And this layer determines who gets to enforce it, pardon me.

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And throughout history, governments have rarely surrendered power voluntarily.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: They expand wars, they expand during economic collapse, they expand

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during outbreaks social unrest, and as always, every crisis becomes

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an opportunity to centralize authority, increase surveillance. Sea flock area

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they posted on Facebook. Somebody got one of those flot cameras,

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yanked it off and threw it on the highway. They

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were cheered heavily by the people. But again, every crisis

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becomes an opportunity to centralize authority, increase the surveillance, restrict

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our freedoms. I always say, we live in an open

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air prison, and we convince citizens, or they convince citizens

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that security is more important than liberty. The formula is ancient,

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it goes back thousands of years. You create fear, you

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offer protection, and demand obedience. That's exactly what gangsters do.

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Speaker 6: They name.

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Speaker 2: The names, parties, and faces. They always change throughout history,

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but the pattern remains remarkably consistent. Most people have been

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conditioned to view politics as a battle between opposing teams right,

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and you have to pick a team otherwise you're not

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an American right. Republican versus Democrats, Conservatives versus liberals, lefties

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versus rightys, and election after election, you know, the people

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are encouraged to believe their salvation lives in voting for

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the correct candidate.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: We've heard that for years. Yet regardless of who occupies

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the White House, the wars continue, The debt devils every presidency,

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The surveillance programs expand, corporate interests remain protected, and ordinary

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citizens become increasingly dependent upon systems they do not control.

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The illusion of choice often proves more valuable than actual

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choice itself. Fear is the fuel that powers government expansion.

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And you know, after nine to eleven, or you could

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call ninety three, ninety five, whatever kind of major quote

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unquote terrorist attack happens, their surveillance increases. Look at all

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the economic crisis we've had, right, what happens emergency powers emerge?

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What did we see in twenty twenty health emergencies? And

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we saw restrictions appear overnight. We were told we were

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non essential. We were told these measures are temporary. Yet

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history shows that temporary powers have a tendency to become

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permanent institutions. The agencies grow, the budgets expand, and the

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databases remain. New precedents are established, and what begins as

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an emergency response often becomes the new normal. The modern people,

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you know, were monitored in ways that previous generations could

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scarcely imagine. Cameras watch intersections, businesses, neighborhoods. Right, we always

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say we fund our own demise. Smartphones track locations, our

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ring doorbells monitor us twenty four to seven, our debit

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cards you know, expose are purchasing, habits, communication, et cetera.

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You know, these financial transactions, they leave digital trails. Our

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social media profiles create detailed psychological portraits. Every click, purchase, search,

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and interaction contributes to a growing digital record. Governments and

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corporations alike have discovered that information is power, and the

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collection of information has become one of the most valuable

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industries on Earth. Now. Division is another powerful tool. A

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population united around common values is difficult to manipulate, so

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a population that is fragmented into competing tribes is far

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easier to manage. Right. Race against race, generation against generation,

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urban against rural, rich against poor. The more people focus

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on fighting one another, the less attention they pay to

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the institutions accumb mulating the power above them. Right, what

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do they say about a house divided? A house divided

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against itself spends little time questioning the architects of the division,

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and the Bible repeatedly warns about earthly power becoming corrupted.

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Human governments can serve legitimate purposes, but scripture never portrays

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political systems as mankind savior. From the tower builders of

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Babel to the empires of Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome,

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you know, the concentrated power repeatedly becomes a vehicle. Four.

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What's the word of the month? Pride, right, rebellion against God.

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The lesson is not one political party is evil and

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the other is righteous. Far from it. The lesson is

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that fallen men given unchecked power eventually behave like fallen men. Right,

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It's a rebellion against God. And many people are too

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afraid that to hurt someone else's feelings. And understand, one

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day you will stand in front of your creator and

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you will fall to your needs and have to answer

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for the things we did on this earth. Do not

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give in. Do not give in to this corrupt evil,

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whatever you want to call it. You know that is.

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It's worldwide, it's not just localized. You see it every

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day now. Again, this is why Christians have to remain

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careful not to place their faith in politicians, parties, courts, legislatures, elections. Listen,

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Governments are going to rise and fall. They always have

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for the last sixty five hundred years. Kingdoms appear, then

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they're gone. Political movements come and they go. Yet the

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desire to control populations remains constant. The matrix survives because

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people can continually look to earthly institutions for solutions that

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only God can provide. The danger is not merely political.

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This is spiritual warfare, and a lot of people don't

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get that. And when you begin trusting princes more than

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God himself. Freedom slowly gives way to dependence, and that

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gives way to obedience, and obedience eventually becomes submission. And listen.

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There's no coming back from the mark, there's no coming

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back from Read the Bible for yourself. Now, the real

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question is not whether governments seek more power. History has

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already answered that question. The real question is whether people

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recognize the pattern before the next crisis happens. Because every

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generation is told that this emergency is different, it's unique,

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it's not the same as the last one. We have

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to take these precautions this time they're necessary for your safety,

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and the outcome remains remarkably familiar. More authority concentrated at

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the top, less freedom at the bottom, and a population

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increasingly willing to accept it because they have been taught

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to fear the alternative. Now, let's kind of look into

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the scope of this expansion of surveillance, which really with

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the rise of technology and the attacks, will call them

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the attacks of September eleventh, two thousand and one. It

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happened one law, one agency, and one crisis at a time.

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George Bush signed the Patriot Act, one of the most

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sweeping expansions of government surveillance in the history of our country.

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Americans were told extraordinary measures were necessary to stop terrorism,

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but very few people asked how many of those powers

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would remain Twenty five years later. The answers, well, just

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about all of them. The surveillance apparatus expanded, and much

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of it never retreated. And then came the revelations of

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one Edward Snowden. Whether you liked him or loathed him,

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we learned that the National Security Agency was collecting massive

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amounts of communication data, phone records and Internet activity and

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anything the NSA gets, you can bet your bottom line

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the MESSADA has. Citizens who believed surveillance was aimed only

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at terrorists discovered that ordinary Americans were being swept into

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this enorma data collection program. The technology existed, the infrastructure

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was there, and the governments used it. And listen for

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these people who still buy into political parties. The Republicans

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didn't stop it, and the Democrats didn't stop it under Bush,

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under Obama, under Trump, under Biden, surveillance expanded. Elections changed

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the faces on television, but the machinery continued growing. That

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alone should cause people to ask whether the real power

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resides somewhere deeper than campaign slogans and election speeches. Look

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at the agencies that have accumulated extraordinary influence over the

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last fifty years. The NSA, pardon me, the FBI, CIA,

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Department of Homeland Security was born, the IRS, the TSA

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was born, and countless regulatory bodies operating with budgets measured

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in billions, billions. With a B, I sounded like doctor

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evil there, I was trying to say with a B

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and billions at the same time. But that's the beauty

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of the matrix. If you will, okay, if you give

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someone a title, a little bit of power and make

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their income depend on it, they will ninety nine percent

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of the people will say I'm just doing my job

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rather than actually look out for your quote unquote constitutional right.

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And that's a fact. When we say the government, when

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we say the IRS, when we say the sheriff, when

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we say the police, we are talking about our neighbors.

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And now again, most Americans couldn't name the officials running

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these institutions that I just named. Yet these agencies control

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extraordinary power to monitor, investigate, regulate, and influence daily life.

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Just six years ago, when the governors issued quote unquote

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emergency orders. Right. Businesses were closed, churches were closed. But

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what they let open the dispensaries and the liquor stores.

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And we were told where we could go, who they

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could visit, how we could work, under what conditions we

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could travel and participate in society. And again, whether you

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agreed for those measures or not, that was a precedent established.

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Just like in court, when a precedent is established, they

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will do it again and cite twenty twenty because we

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allowed it, and emergency powers again, once considered extraordinary, became ordinary.

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The lesson for government was simple. Populations will accept tremendous

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restrictions when sufficiently frightened. That's why if they do right.

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We had the World Games in twenty nineteen, and now

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we got the World Cup in the the Ebola and

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all these other things. The next time they pull this off,

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they'll have to have graven images to get people to

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buy into it. But if you provide enough fear, populations

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will accept it. And if enough of the population accepts it,

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most people will feel pressured. They don't want to be

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left out of society. That's why I think this may

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sound harsh, but I truly believe that You're going to

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be shocked if the b system does come in our lifetime,

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which it certainly could, that you're going to be shocked

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how many people bend the knee. There's a lot of

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people who talk.

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Speaker 6: A good game.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, we will see. And you know, we're distracted

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crisis after crisis, especially in this age of the internet.

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Just another thing. Iran threatens the Red Sea, the Iran

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Deal fell apart, and you know, this bureaucracy continues. It's

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just unbelievable expands. And when we went from the Articles

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of Confederation to the Constitution, it was supposed to be

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such a small you know, if there's a disagreement amongst

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the states to unify the you know, the military in

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case there's another threatened war, these type of things, and

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now it has become just a my goodness, gracious. You

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look at your paycheck and look at all the taxes

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and everything that comes out. And it's nothing new. That

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started in the thirties with FDR, the socialized country we

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live in, being assigned social security numbers and birth certificates,

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and you know, every single day we've seen more regulations

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in every sector of American life. Even if for phishing

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license and a driver's license, and to get your car inspected.

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It's And look at all the unelected administration, your Bill Gates,

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et cetera, Jeff Bezos, and all these people, the clown

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at SpaceX Elon Musk right carrying out, enforcing and threatening

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these laws despite neverving, ever receiving a single vote from

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the public, and entire industry spend fortunes complying with regulations

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created by officials that most citizens have never heard of. Right,

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if you believe the founder's story, right, they warned of

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concentrated power. There was a lot of anti federalists who

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were heroes. They knew what was coming, and they're laughing

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right now. If they could see the world today, I

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told you, but you didn't want to listen. Yet, modern

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America increasingly resembles a system where permanent institutions outlast elected leaders,

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where agencies accumulate authority regardless of election results, and where

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crises repeatedly serve as justification for expanding government outreach. That

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the question is no longer whether government grows during emergency.

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History has answered that question over and over. The question

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is is there any mechanism left to make it shrink? Afterward, Right,

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are we too far out of the box? Let's move

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to the next segment. And one of the most effective

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forms of control is convincing people that obedience and patriotism

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are the same thing. This is one of the more

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difficult things I had to write in the book, you know, patriotism,

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because it's one of those things. Yes, we're proud to

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be American, but you look at all the things that

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have happened in this country, most specifically since you know,

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over the last one hundred years. Or are we proud

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of many of those events? Allowing our government to lie

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about the Gulf of Tonkin and then sending fifty eight

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thousand young men to their death in Vietnam? Not proud

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of that? Invading Iraquips, no weapons of mass destruction? Oh well,

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we'll just hang out here. It's a very difficult thing

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to broach, especially for someone like myself and a lot

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of you all who have served in the military. You know,

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genuine patriotism, right, It's a love for one's country. It's people,

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our heritage, our communities, and not communitarianism. I'm talking about

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the local people, the principles upon which it was founded.

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If you believe the story again, right obedience is compliance

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with those currently exercising authority, and that's something that's difficult

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to wrestle with. Right. If you look throughout history, governments

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have worked tirelessly to blur the distinction. And you know,

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now we're having our big two hundred and fifty, you

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know year celebration coming up, and you know, God forbid

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if something happens with Iran and they use that patriotism

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to get all these people in the military we saw

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in nine to eleven. I had a lot of friends

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that I served with in Iraq who at that time,

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you know, September eleventh, two thousand and one and on,

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they were recruiters and they said, you know, they want

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to work on the twelfth or the thirteenth. Whenever they

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opened back up and the line was around the block.

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That's patriotism.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Again, if you believe the Founding Father's story, they were

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considered rebels, agitators, threats to the public order by the

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British Crown and again Americans in seventeen seventy six, had

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they accepted the idea that obedience to government was the

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highest form of patriotism, there would have been no declaration

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of independence. No revolutionary war and no United States. So again,

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the nation itself was born from men who believed there

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were times when government must be challenged rather than obeyed.

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And here we are today. They regulate who can have weapons,

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who cannot, what type of weapons, how many round magazines

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you're allowed to have. It's really unbelievable where we are today.

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And they still create an environment where you have to be,

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you know, team right or team left. If you question

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a war, you're accused of being unpatriotic. I've lost friends

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because of my stance. And then again, where they really

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are friends if they don't want to you know, you

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want me to lie? Do you want me to not

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be myself? If you question surveillance, well then you're accused

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of helping criminals if you question emergency powers. And a

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lot of us in this circle here, we were all

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accused of endangering public safety five or six years ago.

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We remember that, right, If you question government agencies, you're

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accused of undermining democracy itself. So the tactic is simple,

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shift the debate away from the issue and attack the

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character of those asking questions. Manufactured division serves this purpose perfectly.

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Americans are encouraged to see one another as enemies instead

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of recognizing how often they're being manipulated by the same institutions.

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Right after September eleventh, we were divided between those willing

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to surrender liberties for security and those raising concerns about

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the Patriot Act two thousand and seven. Two thousand and eight,

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we were divided. I remember watching this on I was

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the entire two thousand and eight. I was in Baghdad

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from November two thousand and seven to February two thousand

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and nine, so all of the stuff that unfolded at

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that time, I was gone for you know. We'd watch

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it in our makeshift chow haul in jss addle in

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downtown Baghdad, or when we were in Camp Liberty, you know.

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But I was going for four hundred and fifty five

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days gone, you know, eighteen hours a day. I didn't

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have the time to follow that. And but again if

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you question these things, you know, and then the pandemic again,

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we saw neighbors turn against neighbors, families turn against family, vaccines, lockdowns, restrictions,

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I know, you remember, people, there was arguments Thanksgiving twenty twenty.

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History has provided so many examples. During World War One,

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the Federal government passed the Espionage Act of nineteen seventeen

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the Sedition Act of nineteen eighteen, criminalizing certain forms of dissent. Right,

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they sound good, those espionage Yeah, we got to get them.

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Sedition Act, Yeah, we got to get them. But when

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you read the text, oh, a few descent against the government,

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We're going to lock you up. During later conflicts, critics

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of military intervention were portrayed as aiding the enemy. Following

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September eleventh, opposition to surveillance measures was frequent framed as

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a weakness on terrorism. Folks like yours truly during the

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pandemic or the scamdemic, questioning official narratives could result in censorship,

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which I saw, deplatforming, which I saw on more than

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one platform, including a banking platform. Of course, the public

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and private shaming and professional consequences. Fear creates conformity, and

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conformity creates obedience. This government wants an obedient population. And

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again I'm going to remind you that the danger is

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not merely political. This is spiritual warfare. Scripture never commands

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blind obedience to earthly authorities. The apostles themselves refuse government

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orders when those orders conflicted with God's commands. What did

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Peter say said we ought to obey God rather than

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man's Look at Psalm's one eighteen eighth the same That

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single statement demolishes the notion that government authority is absolute.

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A healthy nation requires patriots, A controlled population requires obedience.

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People like you and I patriots, You ask questions, defend liberty.

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And I'm not talking about going to bomb Iraq and Iran,

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right the narratives that they're pushing. No, I'm saying, to

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be honest with you, the United States government and those

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associated your carps and your thials and your gates, all

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of them are more of a threat than any other nation. Okay,

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Patriots defend liberty. They hold leaders accountable, and we understand

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that government official are public servants, not rulers. Obedience, on

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the other hand, demands compliance first, an s question later. Right.

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The matrix thrives when citizens confuse loyalty to a country

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with loyalty to those temporarily occupying positions of power. The moment,

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I should say, when people begin treating politicians and agencies

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and parties beyond criticism, that's when our freedom truly begins

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to erode. Real patriotism is not measured by how loudly

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someone cheers for the government. It's measured by how fiercely

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we defend the principles that keep the government from becoming

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the master instead of the servant. All right, moving on.

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If previous generations feared secret police, modern folks face something

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far more sophisticated, and that is mass data collection on

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a scale we've never seen. For you know, the rulers

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of ancient empires would have given anything for the ability

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to know where we traveled, what we purchased, who we

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communicated with, what we believed, and what they searched for

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and what opinions they expressed in private conversations. Today, much

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of that information is collected automatically. Every smartphone X is

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a censor, every credit card creates a record, and every

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Internet search leaves a trail. All of our social media

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posts contribute to a digital profile. Location history, purchasing, habits,

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browsing behavior, political interests, religious views, personal relationships, even psychological

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tendencies can be compiled into remarkably detailed portraits of individual people.

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Most people never see the files being created about them,

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and even more, most never know who has the access

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to that. And again, most people never really realize how

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valuable their data has become. Again, look back what we

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mentioned about Snowden that really shattered the belief that surveillance

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was directed only at criminals and terrorist regimes. Right we

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learned that the NSA possessed capabilities far beyond what most

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people imagined. Programs designed in the name of national security

475
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had grown into vast systems capable of collecting enormous quantities

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of information. And again, whether you agree with Snowde or not,

477
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his disclosures revealed something important. The surveillance apparatus was far

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larger than what the public had ever been led to believe.

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And remember that NSA just one piece of a much

480
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larger network, the FBI, the CIA, which has direct ties

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to Massad, five six dha us, on and on. It's

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again billions of dollars that continue to expand at our expense,

483
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not just fiscally, either our freedoms. Most Americans couldn't explain

484
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the specific functions of each of these agencies, yet their

485
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influence reaches deep into our society. Again, we were told

486
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that these intelligence agencies were created for foreign threats that

487
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are increasingly possessing capabilities affecting our everyday life. But the

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lines that separate foreign intelligence, domestic security, tech companies, and

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information management. They've become blurred. Look at we did a

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podcast on the FBI's Coontel pro operations. They targeted political activists, journalists,

491
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dissident groups. The CIA's mk Ultra experiments came synonymous with

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government secrecy and abuse, intelligence failures surrounding weapons of mass

493
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destructions right that justified the Iraq War. Time and time again,

494
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agencies presented as guardians of democracy have found themselves accused

495
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of deception, overreach, misconduct, or operating beyond meaningful public accountability.

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The most effective tool isn't surveillance itself. It's controlled opposition.

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And that doesn't require secret meetings in like a smoke

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filled room. It requires creating a proof channels through which

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public anger can be safely directed without threatening the underlying system.

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And I think people would be shocked if they actually knew,

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or I should say, if these controlled oppositions were publicly outed,

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you would be shocked. Obviously, you know all of the

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major networks. Sean Hannity's your Mark Levin's the biggest joke

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on news itself. And obviously I do believe that Alex

505
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Jones is again I'm not telling anybody who to listen

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to not to listen to, because even controlled opposition is

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also used in disclosure. But you have to believe that,

508
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or they're encouraged to believe that they're resisting power. But

509
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all the while, you remain trapped within boundaries that are

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established by power itself. Political parties become brands, media personalities

511
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become brands, activist movements, outrage, it all becomes a product.

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How many times have we been told that a particular

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politician was going to drain the swamp, was going to

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dismantle corruption, expose the files, restore accountability. How many times

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has a public anger been redirected into campaigns, election investsstigations

516
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and scandals that ultimately left the larger structure untouched. Right,

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administrations change, party control changes, but that same surveillance system

518
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not only remains, but it expands, the same with intelligence

519
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and debt, the bureaucracy, and of course the military industrial complex.

520
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And you know, the brilliance of controlled opposition is that

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it gives people the feeling of participation without necessarily producing

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any meaningful structural change. And I'm talking to you, the

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people of Qnin. That is the brilliance of controlled opposition

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that it gave you the feeling of being a part

525
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of something that didn't produce one meaningful structural change. The

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people became emotionally invested in personalities rather than principles. They

527
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defend political figures with the same zeal that sports fans

528
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,000
defend teams with, and that blows me away. Independent thinking

529
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becomes rare. The system does not fear citizens choosing between

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approved options. What the system fears is people stepping outside

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the approved options altogether. This this is why so many

532
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political battles feel repetitive every election. This is the year

533
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our country depends on this vote. Come on, man, you know,

534
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don't ask whether intelligence agencies perform legitimate functions that they

535
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do some sure, but the real question is who watches who,

536
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who audits the auditors, who was investigating the investigators, who

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was at the top of the food chain. And you know,

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we're taught that institutions operating in secrecy inevitably accumulate power,

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and power accumulated in darkness it remains limited for long.

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So a truly free society depends on transparency, accountability, and

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informed citizens. The matrix depends on secrecy, distraction, and dependence,

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and the more information governments and corporations possess about us

543
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while we know less and less about the institutions themselves,

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the more unbalanced that relationship becomes. And history suggests there

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is less or I should say, there is only one

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destination for that balance if it's left unchecked, and that

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is the concentrated power at the top in diminishing liberty

548
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everywhere else. Remember that old phrase, there's nothing new under

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the sun. Those words are from Ecclesiastes one to nine

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and might be one of the most important warnings ever

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written about human government technologies and empires and political parties.

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They all change, the names on the buildings change, but

553
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you know what human nature doesn't. And those same methods

554
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used by rulers thousands of years ago continue to be

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used today because fear still works, and people still surrender

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freedoms when they believe doing so we'll keep them safe.

557
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So again, crisis exploitation is not some sort of conspiracy theory.

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It is a historical reality. Again and again and again.

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Moments of fear become opportunities for expanding authority, and people

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who would normally resist government intrusion become willing participants when

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they believe the threat is great enough. Now, in times

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of calm, people demand liberty, but in times of fear,

563
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many demand protection. Again, all these things were concerned about,

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whether it was COVID or whether it was Iran or

565
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,199
Iraq were told about them. We were told to be

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afraid of them. If there was no such thing as

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the news, we would live such a peaceful life. But

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not only do we buy into it. You pay one

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hundred dollars a month to be propagandized. Stay away from

570
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that nonsense. Don't watch the news. You know what news

571
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,000
stands for, news north, east, west and south. It's meant

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to divide the people. You know all of this. The

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big lesson here is that all of this extends far

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beyond any single event that we have talked about today.

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Fear has become one of the most powerful currencies in

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modern day society. Whether it's the politicians, the media, the corporations,

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the activists, the powers that be, the hidden hand, every

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crisis becomes the most important crist every threat becomes an

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existential threat, and every emergency demands immediate action, and we

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are given little time to think, to question, to analyze

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or debate. We're throwing all the sphere on us, and

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they have to make an immediate decision, and we err

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on the side of safety. And remember, Benjamin Franklin not

584
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a morally good dude, but he's often credited with warning

585
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that those willing to surrender essential liberty for temporary safety

586
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deserve neither liberty nor safety. And again, whether one agrees

587
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,679
with every application of that statement or not, history repeatedly

588
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demonstrates its wisdom. Freedom surrendered during emergencies is rarely restored

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when the emergency ends. So again, look at that verse

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and incluse, he asked, is it reminds us that there's

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nothing new under the sun. Everything changes, but the pattern

592
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remains familiar. Powerful institutions promise safety, we surrender liberty, authority expands,

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and the new powers remain. So if you reflect, the

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greatest danger isn't the crisis itself. The greatest danger is

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forgetting the lesson once the crisis has ended, because another

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emergency is going to come, another threat will emerge, and

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another reason will be given for why freedom must be

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restricted just a little longer. Remember it was fifteen days

599
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to slow the curve and everybody said awesome. Two weeks Netflix,

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Joe the Tiger guy you know will work from home.

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The children are like two weeks plus spring break next month,

602
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let's go. And the next thing, you know, minimum wage

603
00:44:55,199 --> 00:45:00,199
has doubled. Nobody wants to work. Everything is done online.

604
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That they killed our society because we let them. The

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question that every generation must answer is the same, and

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that question is how much liberty are we willing to

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surrender for the promise of safety? And what happens if

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that promised safety never arise? And I'll read that verse

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for you Ecclesiastes one, verse nine. The thing that hath

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been seen, it is that which shall be. And that

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which is done is that which shall be done. And

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there is nothing new under the sun. So as we

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close this episode of the Fact Hunter, as we close

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this layer of the matrix, take a step back, turn

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off your television and your cell phone, and just think

616
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of the pattern. You know, we talk about the media

617
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monopolies that have shaped perception, fear cycles that keep populations anxious,

618
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and surveillance systems that monitor daily life, and intelligence agencies

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that are operating behind walls of secrecy emerging or i

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should say, emergency powers that expand during every crisis, political

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theater that keeps us fighting amongst each other, and a

622
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culture that increasingly confuses obedience with patriotism. The question isn't

623
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whether every politician is corrupt. The question isn't whether every

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government employee is malicious. The question isn't even whether every

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crisis is exploited. The real question is whether there's a pattern,

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And once you begin to look honestly, that pattern becomes

627
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difficult to ignore. The matrix and this open air prison.

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It doesn't require chains, it requires dependence, it doesn't require walls,

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It requires compliance, and it doesn't require force in all circumstances. Again,

630
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that's the financial aspect of it. Well, I'm just doing

631
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my job. If I don't, if I don't close your charts,

632
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I'm gonna get fired, I'm gonna lose my paycheck. And

633
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that requires a population that is conditioned to believe that

634
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safety is more important than liberty, that is, authority shouldn't

635
00:47:32,119 --> 00:47:37,840
be questioned, and that those who ask uncomfortable questions we're

636
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the problem rather than the solution. But you know, history

637
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,800
has taught us a different lesson. Freedom has never been

638
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preserved by passive people. Liberty has never survived because, pardon me,

639
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:57,360
people have blindly trusted those in power. Every right that

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we enjoy today exists because someone questioned authority, someone challenged abuses,

641
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someone resisted overreach, and someone refused to surrender. There God

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given freedoms to rulers, kings, bureaucrats, corporations, or even political parties.

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Now look, if you follow Christ, the issue goes even deeper.

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Scripture never teaches that government is mans savior. It never

645
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teaches that political leaders will establish paradise on earth. It

646
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never teaches that safety should come, or I should say

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safety should become our highest pursuit. Governments rise and governments fall.

648
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They always have this one will too, Same with empires,

649
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same with political movements. But throughout history, one truth remains unchanged,

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and that is fallen men continue seeking power over other

651
00:48:54,559 --> 00:48:59,960
fallen men. This is why if your believer remain alert,

652
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be fearful, don't be paranoid, don't place your trust in parties, politicians, media, personalities,

653
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and don't let yourselves be allowed to be manipulated by fear.

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You can observe fear, you can point it out or

655
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not fear. But corruption, right, these things we talk about

656
00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:19,880
doesn't mean we're afraid of it. Be aware, because all

657
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of this is leading to the mark. That's the whole point.

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There's going to be a time, possibly in our lifetime,

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when they're going to want you to bend your knee

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to man, and you have to think, critically, test everything,

661
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even what I say, Uh, test everything, hold fast to

662
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what's good, get rid of what isn't. Remember that our

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ultimate allegiance belongs to the Kingdom of God, not the

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kingdom of men. Because at the end of the day,

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the greatest threat to freedom isn't in Washington, corporate boardrooms,

666
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intelligence agencies, or media networks. The greatest threat to all

667
00:49:54,320 --> 00:50:00,000
population that willingly surrenders to truth for comfort, discernment for convenience,

668
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and liberty for the illusion of security. So again, the

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matrix survives only when people stop paying attention, stay vigilance,

670
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state discerning, keep your eyes wide open. You test every narrative,

671
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question every claim, and measure every institution against the truth.

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And above all, remember that no earthly power lasts forever.

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And remember Proverbs twenty one, verse thirty one. The horse

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is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is

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of the Lord. Thank you for listening to this edition

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of The Fact Hunter. Our email is the fact Hunter

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at mail dot com. Check out our website Foundations and

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faith dot Net. God bless you all. Keep your head

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on a swivel, in Christ in your heart. And until

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we meet again, my friends, we will see you.

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Speaker 7: I know it's been a struggle. I know you've had spain.

682
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I don't you feel tired, held down by all the way?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

684
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Speaker 7: Don't you feel.

685
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Speaker 6: You smile? Ain't the same?

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Speaker 7: That's all you will go from you.

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Speaker 6: I feel like you've lost your way.

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Speaker 8: Don't give up. No, don't give it. Never is home.

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Don't they call the primise? It ain't done yet.

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Speaker 2: He's got a planning.

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Speaker 6: Why it's a right time?

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Speaker 8: Got up? Let me come?

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Speaker 7: Why await?

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Speaker 8: God up?

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Speaker 6: Y came.

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Speaker 7: I can see the street beside you. Childs are putting

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up the five. Oh you're stronger than a thing.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're gonna be all right.

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Speaker 6: You're accepting a dead found beautiful.

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Speaker 7: You're shoving ride.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're live and breathing.

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Speaker 1: Move you can hold your.

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Speaker 7: Head a pie.

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Speaker 6: Don't give up.

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Speaker 1: No, don't give in, never lose home.

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Speaker 8: Don't let go on the primis and ain't done yet

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this God I play. Wat's a way tell the God

709
00:52:48,119 --> 00:52:52,880
of me, because don't give up. No, don't give in.

710
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: You never lose home, don't let go on the privince.

711
00:52:58,119 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 7: It ain't gone of life.

712
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 8: It's one live in. What's a play down? The God?

713
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:14,440
Evy call? What's a play down? The God? The Baby cor?

714
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:21,519
Oh yeah, what's the play down the God baby cor?

715
00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:39,079
Oh yeah? God a TV car? Oh, don't give up?

716
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: No, don't give in? Never so do they go off?

717
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:50,000
The primis? I mean and dos got a plane? Watch

718
00:53:50,079 --> 00:53:56,719
a kind of evy coat. Don't give no, dog giving,

719
00:53:58,119 --> 00:53:59,400
never sold.

720
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,679
Speaker 7: Don't get go love the primes getting done, lover is

721
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:04,639
worth living?

722
00:54:05,599 --> 00:54:22,159
Speaker 6: Whats God of NICs all the God of needles, white.

723
00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:25,599
Speaker 5: God of anas.

724
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:39,840
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