Faith, Freedom, And The Constitution

If you’ve ever looked at politics and thought, “How did we get this far off track?”, this conversation goes straight to the foundation. We sit down with John Diamond, a field representative for the John Birch Society, to talk about faith, freedom, and the idea that our rights are not granted by government but secured by it. That one distinction changes how you see everything from daily headlines to the choices made in your state capitol and county courthouse.

We dig into the Freedom Index, the John Birch Society’s vote-based scorecard that grades legislators on whether they actually uphold constitutional limits. Instead of voting on vibes, slogans, or party labels, we talk about tracking records, educating neighbors, and using primaries to reward courage and punish “go along to get along” politics. We also spend time on civic education, why so many Americans were never taught the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, and how that ignorance shows up in policy.

Then we tackle the heavy stuff: election integrity and public trust, questions about voter rolls and counting systems, and why local officials can matter more than national talking heads. We also connect constitutional rights to everyday life through the Second Amendment, taxes, government waste, NGO funding, and eminent domain after the Kelo decision, especially as pipelines and large projects push into rural land.

If you care about constitutional rights, election integrity, limited government, and practical steps you can take locally, listen through to the end. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s tired of party politics, and leave a review with the biggest issue you want your community to tackle next.

Transcript

Faith And Founding Principles

SPEAKER_04 0:28

Get my red neck, hit him wrong. Everyone these days is a ticking time bomb full of hate. For folks like me who don't agree and ain't ever gonna change. And it gets me thinking be long-haired country boys.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Tell you what, our nation's in a heap of trouble. And a lot of a lot of it comes from folks forgetting what this country was built on. Faith in God, freedom, and the Constitution of the United States. I think we ought to throw in the Declaration of Independence there. That's what started it all. The John Burch Society is an educational organization that's been working for years to help everyday Americans understand and defend those founding principles. Now today we're blessed to have John Dr. John Diamond with us, one of the one of the society's field representatives, a man who loves the Lord, loves this country, has been traveling across America teaching folks how to stand up for their God-given rights and push back against the gods that are trying to wash away our freedom. The Google tells us Blessed is a nation whose God is the Lord. That's in Psalms 3312. And I believe that with all my heart, Dr. Diamond is going to talk about how we can bring these truths back into our homes, our churches, and our local communities. So we can leave a free leave a freer, stronger America for children and ranchers. Support the chair. Open your heart and stay tuned as we visit with Dr. Diamond and we learn how faith, courage, and good old fight in America can make a difference right here. I want to thank you for coming in, John Dahmen. I really appreciate it. Uh I think we're we're having a little bit of an issue with the internet, so hopefully that'll get itself worked out. Um what I guess we need to start with is why don't you tell everybody what your role is with the John Burke Society? I know you've worked for them for about three years now, right? And uh guess exactly what your role is and where do you travel all around?

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Yeah, field uh field border is the actual title. Um my territory extends from uh western PA from Lake Erie down here to where you're at, the West Virginia border, uh, over in the wheeling a little bit. And then I have all of Ohio and western New York from Buffalo, all the way up from Syracuse.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

So he's like a weatherman with his hand there. He's showing us exactly where exactly.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

That's what I need is a map. I needed one of those green

What A JBS Field Rep Does

SPEAKER_01 3:05

screen weather maps showing where my territory is. But yeah, they had me in Michigan at one point, also, some whole southern tier of Michigan. So thankfully they took that from me.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

So I got quite a bit of traveling that I do, uh, you know, a couple couple weeks a month. You came back to Fed County for an event we had here, and we really appreciate you doing that. Uh, I know that uh put together, help put together some gang shows and things like that. And uh we're gonna put we're gonna put together we're gonna put a gang show together this October. I think that's fine and uh get some people to come in and do some things, uh maybe get um you know, trade buy a trade swap, uh, get some gun shops in there and do some things. And uh and uh he's agreed to help us with that. Um we're looking for another we're looking for another organization or two to help us out. So if anybody has any ideas, please get in touch with him. What I want to thank what I want to touch base on today is is uh and we we can go into this in great detail. The John Birch Society uh what it does is it puts scorecards together for different uh senators and uh state senators, and uh uh do you do US senators also?

SPEAKER_01 4:17

Everybody everybody from the state level up.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Okay, so so uh they they get scorecards and our illustrious senator here in uh 32nd district uh at Safano, um his score is 58%. And um so like we we got a graphic up there, and if you want to folks go ahead and take a look at it. But uh so what maybe you can give us an idea how you how you trade these people.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Well, they just um so they got we got what's called the freedom index. Um if you go to jbs.org and you know google it, you know, uh freedom index, it'll come up. Usually you just go down to your state and you'll see the map of the states, click on Pennsylvania, and every one of your legislators will come up. So we have a freedom index that comes out um twice a year, and that comes out in our new American magazine. It's available online, also, where you can look at all your federal federal reps, federal senators. Um those are the ones that we cover. Then we also cover every elected state representative. So you can just find out, find where your state rep is. Unfortunately, a lot of people with Yasm don't even know who their state rep is, so which kind of tells you, kind of tells you where we're at in the country, right? So, I mean, if people don't even know who their rep is, then they don't know how their rep is voting. Then we have what we talked about you know before the show people just voting for an R and a D, and that's pretty much it. Um, so we got to become much more educated than that. And that's what the John Burke Society does. We have we have several courses. Um, Constitution is the solution, that's an older version. We have uh Blue Print for Liberty, which is our newest one now. So we we first have to understand, you know, what this country was founded on, how much power was given to the federal government, how much was retained at the state level, and then we just need to grade our representatives based on the oath

The Freedom Index Scorecards

SPEAKER_01 6:10

that they took to support and defend the Constitution. Well, when you look at those freedom indexes, I mean, almost every Democrat is zero to eight. I mean, it it's horrible.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

I think you said that one of them in the state was 33. One. Yeah, that he was the highest, yeah. He was the highest, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

And I was scrolling through as we were working through the technical difficulties, and I found one Democrat had 33, every other one was almost all of them were zero, um, other than that they had like a three or an eight. The sad thing is is the Republicans. The Republicans, we have we have some good ones that are have 100%, but there are a lot of them in there that are just hovering around 50, 57. I saw 133, 127, you know, and people just go to the voting booth at election time and they see the D, they say they are, they they check the box and they go home, and then they don't understand, you know, why our country and our state is out of control.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Well, one of the things I believe is it's uh our our state out of control is uh the our our voting laws here in fact and uh that that can be attributed to the past 77. Uh we and uh I I really feel like that that's one of one of the main things that it that that we have to fix. We have to get we have to get people in there that are willing to make changes, um, not just go along and get a lot. Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Okay, one of the things John Birch Society does, we've got a lot of kind of initiatives that that we do, and one of them is restore election integrity. I had uh Dr. Douglas Frank on tour up to up and down Western PA, Ohio, and New York uh before the last election. And you know, he's showing he'll he'll come in and he'll pull your county up and he'll show how they're how they're adding people to the voter rules, and then they vote and then turn around and they take the people off afterwards. And um, I know I know one state he went to, they said they were talking about uh, well, you know, those are those are people that just moved away. And he was like, Yeah, they did 10 years ago. So they were taking dead people that are either taking dead people or people that moved away 10 years ago, bringing them back, putting them on the voter rules, voting, and then as soon as the election's over, taking them off. So the election system, the election system is pretty far gone in a lot of states, California, uh New York. If you remember back to the hanging Chad uh incident with the that was that was all staged. Every last I mean it was happened in a Democrat county, of course. They always happen in Democrat County. That whole thing was staged. And I spent eight years in the Air Force during the Cold War, and I knew I know that you know what they said, I don't care who counts the vote, or I don't care who votes, I care who counts the votes. And I tried to tell people back then, I said, guys, this is just a you know, a horse and pony show trying to get you to get away from paper ballots because these computers are much more reliable and secure, and everybody was like, Ah no, I'm like, that's exactly what's happening here. So here we go. If you look, if you look at the Reagan election, I forget who he who he beat, Dacas, maybe or somebody. He won 48 states. I think like Minnesota and Delaware were the only two states that were blue. That is a true representation of America. Um, but unfortunately, you know, they they they realized that the voter fraud was the only way that they were going to win this. So that's when they staged that whole hanging chad, and that's when all these states were convinced into bringing in computers. I mean, we used to know who the winner was at 11 o'clock at night. Now we don't know for four or five days. But this is a better system. I mean, it's it's all rigged, it every bit of it's rigged. Um, that's why they moved Hillary up to New York. She had no ties in New York, but they've already they already had the the voting you know rigged up there. They knew they could just basically hand her the election, and that and that's what they do. They've got California, they've got New York, you know, they're probably pretty close of not to having Pennsylvania. You saw what happened when Trump got robbed the first time, right? They're putting up papers in the pulling out boxes, and you know, U.S. mail trucks are backing in with ballots. I mean, yeah, you're absolutely right. That that is one of the major, major priorities because it is dis disenfranchising voters. There's a lot of people who are like, it don't matter, they're it's rigged anyway. So yeah, and that's that's why we work. So you can go to jbs.org.org and uh click on one of the tabs that says r restore election integrity, and that's one of the things we we're definitely fighting for.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Um, I know I know that uh there was there was so much went on with the 2020 election. And uh we know we know that there were we know that there was problems every county, not not just in here here's where a lot of people don't realize it, and uh I know you do. Uh this is where uh having uh good strong county commissioners makes a difference because uh you know they shouldn't have certified to vote. They should have said the the the the Republican counties, the red counties should have said, wait a minute here, we got a problem, we're not gonna certify our vote even. We're we need to we need to take another look at this, and that's what happened. And when you and you can say what people can say what they want, but it was actually the county commissioners that didn't stand up at the time when they needed to in the state of Pennsylvania. And because they were scared. They were they were scared. So anyways, uh let's let's get back. Uh let's get back uh let's get back to some other things. Uh one of the things that we were we were talking about gun rights, uh um I I know that the John Burns Society is definitely probably one of the strongest uh Second Amendment. Same way with the Pennsylvania State Constitution. One says one says uh the the Pennsylvania State Constitution says shall not be infringed upon. So I mean it w we have to think about that. The other the other and you know what it it it's it's not a right given by uh a lot of people are gonna criticize me for saying this, but uh I know that you're gonna take my side on this. It's not a right given uh by uh by the Constitution, it's a God-given right, right. I mean, and that that's where that's where the difference between John Birch and a lot of these two A groups are different. They they want to negotiate and try to try to say that this is the way we do it, but I I think that we just need to stand up and say, you know what, I'm allowed, I'm allowed to, I'm allowed to defend myself.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and I just talked this the other day. We don't we don't understand American history because we don't understand British history. I mean, we don't understand um that the Brit British had a revolution a hundred years before we did. It's called the glorious of the bloodless revolution. I mean, they they they've actually they've actually executed kings for violating um there was there was like two times uh there was I think there was eight times I showed from the time the Magna Carta was written up to right before the revolution, that they basically kicked their king out, they deposed their king for violating their rights. So when our founding fathers came along, hey, that we're just doing what all the other Britons had done for you know for 500 years. We have the right to depose a king that violates our our charters and and our uh you know sacred sacred charters. So um, but the right to bear arms was one of those things. And the Continental Congress actually, I only knew about one, but I did my research. The Continental Congress actually put out four resolutions saying that they have a right to defend themselves against Britain because Britain, Britain was the terrorists, Britain is what they were the lawbreakers, all right. The it wasn't the founding fathers. And I remember if you read uh Thomas Paine's Common Sense, he says, Um, he said, I would have never supported an offensive war, but because I think it's murder. He said, But if somebody comes in and breaks my house and attacks my children and burns my house and kills my family, I'm supposed to put up with it, you know. So, I mean, they knew they had a right of self-defense, and that's really all the revolutionary war was it was a it was a right of self-defense, the but it was done the right way, it was done through their representatives. You know, you got militia groups out there running around uh in and I'm I'm glad they're trained because I'm a former Air Force veteran, security police. But in in actuality, a militia has to be caught up by the state, other other

Restore Election Integrity Push

SPEAKER_01 14:40

than it just becomes vigilantes, you know. So the the right to bear arms is something that we, you know, you've got great organizations of gun owners of America, um, you know, the NRA, you've got these, but they're single issue, you know, single issue guys. You've got pro-life groups that are single issue, and that's the problem. We've got all these freedom groups, but they're all splintered, you know. The the pro-right people don't care about gun rights, the gun right people don't care about abortion, and we're so scattered. And and unless we kind of organize and just say, look, we're gonna defend all the rights, right? And that's what the John Byrd Society does. We defend everything that's in the constitution. We don't take, you know, what if if it's in there, we're defending it, and that's what we need to get back to to be a constitutional republic once again.

SPEAKER_03 15:29

Um we we get back to uh a lot of different things, but the uh what we're finding out is, and you realize this more and more, our our state representatives, uh state senators, uh even our Congress, they don't have no idea about the Declaration of Independence. They they don't they don't understand, they they they know it's there and it but they don't they don't follow it, they don't read it, and same way with the Constitution. So I I think one of the things uh that I've always proud pride myself is uh I I spoke at a a patriots group up in Indiana and um uh Pennsylvania. And I it was it was kind of it was kind of neat. And um when when I got done, that I I always do this. I said, and a lot of people say you shouldn't do it, but I I always do it. I said, anybody have any questions? There was a lady in the audience that was uh she stuck up her hand. I said, So what can I do? You have a question? She says, Yeah, she says, she says, uh what party do you represent? Or she says, uh what party are you are you registered with? And I said, Well, I am a republican. But she said, but uh I said, I said to her, uh I said, Well, while I am a Republican, I'm a Christian constitutionalist. And and she she sat back in her chair and didn't know what to say, but there was a gentleman in a couple of chairs over, he jumps up and he said, He gets it, he understands, he understands what America's about. And I said, I said, Well, I said, I said, I believe that. I really believe. I believe God gave us the rights. I said, uh, first, you know, faith, family, freedom. I mean, that's that's the most that's important. Um, but uh, I but God gave us the rights, but but it's up to us to stand up against tyranny. And and people don't realize what tyranny is, but right now we're we're under tyranny. All about I mean, every we we we got we got people, county commissioners, uh, and I and I don't keep saying county commissioners, but uh elected officials that just will not stand up for anything because they're more worried about getting re-elected than they are anything. We our state senator right now, Pat Stefano, is a perfect example of that. His his scorecard with you guys is 58. That should never ever be. He should be almost 100. Right. I mean, we our two representatives over here in Fayette County are almost at 100. But so how can our senator to be elect at the same time be so far off the off the mark?

SPEAKER_01 18:04

I mean, yeah, I I give at first, anyway, I give people the you know the benefit of the doubt because like I said, I'm 61. I graduated in 1983 um in Columbus, Ohio. Our 12th grade government class was called Problems of Democracy. We did not we did not teach government, we taught uh it was just psychology. It was a psychology class. It was some some blue, you know, if today she'd have blue hair, but just a Libertard um lady and uh she taught psychology. We didn't learn anything, we didn't learn the constitution, we didn't learn the declaration of independence. I went in the air force six days after I graduated high school and that took a note to support and defend the constitution. I never read it, I didn't read it until I got till I got out. I was like 27 years old before I ever read it first. So, I mean, first and foremost, it's our school system. You need to get the kids out of the school system. I mean, their their whole thing is to turn your kids into atheists, homosexual, leftists, communists. That's that's what the agenda is, that's what the curriculum is, right? And I've heard too many, too many parents say, oh, you know, my kids, you know, were raised good and now they turned into this, or I sent them off to some college, and within a semester they come back with blue hair and tattoos on their face. I mean, it's just insane what the educational institutions are doing, both at the at the elementary up to K12, K through 12 and the colleges. So I give them a little bit of the benefit of the doubt, the fact that they've never been taught. Um, but that's what my job is, and your job is. My job is to go in there and instruct them. Okay, here's the Declaration of Independence. What's it say? We hold these truths self-evident that all men are created equal and they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. And then it says this to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. All right. So when I go in and I say, What is your number one function? If the answer to protect your God-given rights does not come out of their mouth, which it probably won't, that's why they got a scorecard that they do, right? And then they take a they take an oath to support and defend the constitution, which is basically just a ribcage around the God-given rights, all right. That's I mean, that's what that's what the Bill of Rights is. Congress shall make no law against religion, speech, you know, right to break the bare arms, so on and so forth. So you go in and you educate them. That's where I give them the benefit of the doubt. Every last one of them. I understand I wasn't taught this stuff. You probably weren't either. Your number one job is to protect my God-given rights. That's what you've taken an oath to do. Now, if you don't do it, and I've got a report card showing where you're at now, I expect to see that thing up around 100, or we're gonna use that against you, you know, in primary. You so I understand this guy's running again for Senate, and you know, that's why I tell people anybody that wants to run against him, print off all these scorecards, hand them out, educate the people. This guy's not protecting your rights, he's not doing what he took an oath to do. And if the people don't kick him out, then you know you're reaping what you sow. We're getting we're getting what we asked for.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

And you know what? Uh uh, I'm a firm believer, and yeah, yeah, you you're in control of your destiny. So so if if we don't take time to to to evaluate what's going on and and change things, I mean the the go-along to get along stuff has to end. It has to end and has to end now. And if we and especially if it doesn't end, and I tell everybody this, if it doesn't end in the time of Trump, it's not gonna end. I mean, let's put it because the rest of these political people, they worry about the two percent. That's all they're worried about. And what I'm saying is they worry about the two percent that that they can and actually two percent controls the vote, uh the the the people that are so far left. They they worry about they worry about that two percent. They don't want it to get no bigger, they don't want

SPEAKER_01 22:00

to get to three and it won't but but uh they're worried about the left the far left and and i think about that that then that's what that's what's happened to the democrat party i mean the democrat party is left and then now now they're all they're they're cowtailing down the these wackadoodles yeah i mean they're far left and yeah and and

Second Amendment As Self Defense

SPEAKER_01 22:22

and that's the problem with the with just the d and the r because i mean the further the left goes being a conservative just means you're a little bit to the right of the left i mean the democratic party in the 1960s they would they would look like kennedy kennedy would be a right wing tea party and he was a democrat so that that's what happens and we keep sliding we keep sliding towards the left towards a communistic atheistic authoritarian government as long as the republicans stay on this side of it you know what what what's your choice what's your other option you know and it's not that and so you said a very good thing there at the beginning you know that's what I say I'm a Christian constitutionalist that that's it there are two lines in the sand god's law and constitutional law and if we if we use those as the plumb bobs then we don't you know we don't vote for anything that's a violation of God's law we don't vote for anything that's in violation of constitutional law then we have our constitutional republic that's what the founder said and I think it was Patrick Henry but uh don't quote me on this but he said I'm repeatedly asked whether or not I'm an aristocrat or a democrat which is basically the Democrat Republican day he said I'm a christocrat I believe he that created mankind is best qualified to govern him well you you think about I I I've read a lot about the revolution and different things about it um but one of the one of the people that I I really believe the level revolution and and he's been credited with with a lot of the a lot of the fire in the revolution is is uh Samuel Adams and uh but but he he told everybody he said if you're if if you're willing to put up with this then put up with it.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

If you're not it's time to make a change. And right now this is where our country is it's time to make a change. It is uh whether whether you whether you agree with uh all oh president trump's um uh philosophies that that that's here nor there but I mean uh um I I guess I'm I guess I borderline the rampaul and the thomas massey type of people I I I I I understand where they're coming from and I understand maybe uh I'm more like uh the the the crock at a Faya County or I don't get it but I don't get why people just don't get it. I just but the problem is is it's apathy and until we change that with people and tax you know right now they they don't see it. Anytime they s the anything they they see is tax increase yeah and they and they don't get why we have to increase taxes. Yeah inflation and it it yeah it's inflation but it's also it's also lack of a responsibility in using your tax money because it's it's it's a horrible thing. It's a horrible thing I mean I often get a kick about or off you often everybody laughs about it. But the hammer to cost three hundred dollars and the toilet seat it costs a thousand but but you know what well until I got involved in government I thought ah they're crazy but now I can see why yeah I mean government moves like molasses in February on everything because they're they're they're calculating how if I do this they're counting they're they're they're calculating the votes that they're gonna lose or they're gonna gain by doing it. That's all they care about. Yeah that's all they care about.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Yeah they know they what they realize they can vote money out of the public treasury and give it to groups of people then those people will keep voting for them. Exactly and that's what even a lot of the founders said once the people realize that they can vote for themselves money out of the public treasuries it's it's over and that's that's kind of where we're at so we need we need to get back to a correct tax um and and I was a theologian long before I was a constitutional scholar historical scholar and I rarely you know I'd say taxation is theft and they're like oh well Jesus said to pay taxes I'm like how much that's that's even where most pastors can't even answer you I said 10% God gets 10% from the tithe government's only entitled to 10% I go I say go back to 1 Samuel 8. They didn't have a king they didn't have a king they didn't have taxes and and they asked for a king and God's like okay but warn them this is what's going to happen he's gonna take a tenth of this tenth of this tenth of this tenth of this tenth of this so I mean would you rather live in a country that has no taxes or live in a country that has taxes but even then government's only entitled to a tenth so if this was running by constitutional law and biblical law then they would look at everything everybody makes and says I'm only entitled all taxes because you got gas taxes you got I mean you got taxes you don't even know you're paying well you live in the state of Pennsylvania and it in and gas tax is one of the worst things that I mean it it it's a it's a scourge on Pennsylvanians I mean anybody that lives in a borderline border state now I don't know about New York but if you live anywhere near you do live anywhere near Ohio or West Virginia even Virginia or Maryland you're you're buying gas there. You are you are and and I mean just think what that would do with the economy first off you live in a budget I have to live within a budget if the if the government only said we're only entitled to 10 of what you make to make government run. That's fine. We need roads we need snowplows you know we need stuff like that. If they only took 10 and they said okay here's what we got to work with in it doesn't matter what they want to fight over there between the Democrats and the Republicans now imagine how much money that would put back in the economy most people are paying like 35% minimum of their of their income in taxes and that needs to if it goes back to 10% now I have more money to buy TVs and buy this and buy boats and whatever all of this stuff just goes back into the economy. Right now it's going you know it all 35% of what you make goes into government probably closer to 40. And it probably is it is and and I just kind of looked that up not too long ago and it kind of gave me a window there. But still when it goes into government it just gets wasted because it isn't their money. So there you have a 300 hammer and a thousand dollar toilet seat and they're giving money to all these NGOs and Plan Parenthood and all these groups you know that shouldn't be getting tax dollars.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

And that's one of the things we have trouble with with Fayette County the we we have a we have an NGO that's just and what it's done is it's it's put money back into the into their own group it's it's like um we're gonna take tax money and they'll say well they got grants it doesn't matter it's still tax money and we're gonna give it the we're gonna give it the fake pen and then they turn around and they

Civics Illiteracy And School Influence

SPEAKER_03 29:10

the the the group that is fake pen ends up getting the money. I mean it it it at a rate of like 75%. Yeah they give some money out to some other people to make it look good but but most of it stays right into the group of people that so they're they're privatizing they're privatizing themselves with government money. Correct so it's easy to make money it's easy to stay in business if you know that well hey you know what I'm gonna go to go to the good old go to the boys club and say hey look uh I got a problem this year I I need to I need to I need a project that I can figure out how to how to how to profit uh a hundred thousand dollars or two hundred thousand dollars on so we can so I can keep my my business afloat or so I can keep all these people hired. Well then they find something yeah I mean we got a building that was built in Fayette County that has never that there's nothing in it. There's not even a floor and I'm talking a building you could play a football game in wow and it just sits there. It just sits there. I mean it it it it's it's supposed to be one of the it's supposed to be a building to showcase what we could do in Fayette County for other other businesses. Well you know it's been built for a good many years. And when you think about all the money that was put into that building it could have instead of raising taxes that could have been a tax reduction.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

Yeah yeah and and you hear the you'll hear the phrase uh government corporate partnerships you hear that a lot government corporate partnerships basically it's just the government taking your money the the you you know socialism is just a redistribution of wealth so they take it from you and they give it to other people right so you this is what you have with a lot of these NGOs um and and one of the ladies that was at the meet and greet today she was talking about the the the uh pipeline the transmission line that's coming through using eminent domain eminent domain from the founding of this country till 2005 there's one called the kilo case supreme court case uh eminent domain was just like hey yeah we can take your land but it's for something that everybody uses roads schools landfills all right in the kilo case now they basically just said um corporations can take your money that was that was the judge had ruled on that and then he turned around and retired. Yeah well you remember because they were talking about okay we're gonna put a Walmart on your house we're gonna take his house because there was a big but that was a big thing and it was like okay so now they can take through eminent domain you know the government can take your land and give it to a a solar farm yeah or anything. So the the argument was um let's say you got this blighted neighborhood and then Walmart wants to come in and put a store there that they could come in and take that and put a Walmart there and it's creating jobs right so it's good for the economy. And that well that's they're not taking blighted towns they're taking people's farms I mean they they're just taking it and giving it to these especially these energy companies with these solar farms and these CO2 pipelines and these transmission pipelines. I mean they're they're taking our tax money they're giving them to these energy groups and then these energy groups are going in and using our tax money to buy our farmland and take it I mean it's just insane so we've got it we've got a ton of work to do you got to get rid of like the kilo case I'm hoping somebody will get their farm property seized and they'll and they'll fight it and take it all the way back up and hopefully overturn that like they did with Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade was unconstitutional from the beginning and everybody knew it right but it's so I mean it's all unconstitutional but until you can get the government to say yeah what we've been doing is wrong it's not going to stop. They're just going to keep doing it.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Well I I think a lot of times um we do it and it goes all back to one thing it goes back to apathy and then and you know what um you you look at you look at how um uh how people do business in life and some in some of the people that are the most successful it isn't it isn't the amount of money that you're able to borrow borrow or spend it's the amount of money you're able to put to work for yourself. So I mean yeah I mean any good businessman will sit here and right across from me and tell me I like to work with other people's money and he does I mean he I mean he does he he wants he wants to buy whatever necessary if you're in the steel business you want to buy get the coat from somebody and you want you don't want to have to pay for it for 30 60 80 days but but and so that so you can make the steel to do whatever and then you sell the steel and then you're you're always you're always generating profits profits with with somebody else's money. Can't do that in government government is acting like a business more and more every every day corporation and uh go back the one thing the Maggie Thatcher said socialism only works until the money runs out and we're at it we're we're at the brink right now. Yeah we are because it the the 40 the 40 60 like you said we're paying 40% of taxes what happens when we get to 52 is people going to say you know what I'll I might as well just I might as well just why why work why kill myself why what the the the better myself I'll just let the government take care of me so and that's that's where we're at with this tax thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

Yep and that's why I got Kennedy killed that's not what you can your country can do for you but that's what you can do for your country. You shouldn't want to take anything from the government because the government's just got to take it from somebody else I mean if you go to if you go to Google and you and you go Google uh John Burke Society overview of America there's a 30 minute video that is the best video you'll absolutely ever see you can go to four years of a political science school you could go to four years of an economic school and never get the information you get in that 30 minute video. So again it's just about it's about training the youth and training the next generation and I don't know if we're gonna fix the apathy with the the generation that we're dealing with because there's just you know it I wrote two books. One's called Fighting the Next American Revolution the other one's called Appeal to Heaven and in both books I put a chart um and and history's just cyclical it's not linear it's cyclical that's what it says in Ecclesiastic there's

Taxes, Waste, NGOs, And Eminent Domain

SPEAKER_01 35:30

nothing new under the sun who can say this has never happened it's just over and over well it goes from uh bondage to courage and spiritual faith and then once you're broke free you got liberty and then liberty leads to abundance and then abundance leads to apathy and then apathy leads to dependence on government and then once you're dependent on governed again you're enslaved again and then the only thing that ever breaks it out is is freedom faith and courage and that's what the founding fathers did. They had great faith they had great courage they laid their lives on the line um if you've never seen the little nine minute video that Paul Harvey did about the signers of the declaration when they said our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor they met it because if you look at what happened to most of the men that signed that document it did not one end well for them.

SPEAKER_03 36:18

There was 56 men that signed the declaration of independence uh and out of the 56 men there not one of them not one of them ever broke and they never they never they never they stayed the course the whole time and and like you say they their families was killed their houses was burned yep I mean you think we think about Jefferson and Franklin and all of them but you know what the it was it was the ones that were on the outside in different parts of the country that took the brutal yeah and people don't realize that yeah and they were almost like the lightning rods that the government kind of went after and that allowed Jefferson and Washington and Madison and Hamilton and John Jay to do their do their stuff at the legislative level and they I mean they died destitute you know yeah lost their lost their wives and never saw them again lost their kids and never saw it's it's just google it Paul Harvey um the Declaration of Independence it if that doesn't change your life I don't know what will well uh I want to give uh well I want to we're gonna round this up because we're I mean I could go on and on we me and you can talk probably till till the cows come on till Tuesday till next Tuesday but I I really appreciate you being I really appreciate you calling me um I want to uh uh coming in I want to thank you for coming into the uh studio here with me um we're gonna get you back uh and like I said I definitely want to do a gun show this year so uh maybe over the next month or so we can plan to do that stuff and I'll go from there.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Yeah yeah I just encourage everybody you're a JBS member I'd encourage everybody just to join John Bird Society go to our website click join get plugged into a chapter we got chapters that meet we got one right here in Uniontown that meets um we got them all over the state got them all over the country actually but well I will make this offer to you uh if any of any of the people from John Bird Society here Fayette County or uh I don't think you have a chapter here in Green County in Green County.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

No. So maybe we can get some people to come and they want to I do a couple fairs every year so if they want to come they want to come and uh be part of be part of the we we definitely advertise and help I I really I really appreciate you coming in. So with all that we're gonna close up and I want to thank everybody so uh we'll be back at you again a couple at least a couple more times this week on this road called life you have to take the good with the bad smile with the sad love what you got and remember what you had always forgive but never forget people change things go wrong but just remember the ride goes on. God bless each and every one of you and God bless America I am John Marietta and I am the hillbilly on this road called life you have to take the good with the bad smile with the sad love what you got and remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget people change things go wrong but just remember the ride goes on. God bless each and every one of you and God bless America I am John Marietta and I am the hillbelly