Radio Show Hour 2 – 04/07/2025

[00:00:14] From atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right, happy to have you along my fellow Americans, Sam Bushman live on your radio, hard-hitting news that it refused to use, no doubt continues now. This is the broadcast for April the 7th in the year of our Lord, 2025, Hour 2 at 2, promoting God, family, country, protecting life, liberty, and property,

[00:00:40] using the supreme law of the land and the Constitution for the United States of America as our guide. After all, it is the supreme law of the land. And promoting God, family, and country. That means we look to God Almighty for the first solutions, then we look to family, and then we look to country. I believe that the Constitution should be the political religion of our nation. Welcome to the show. We reject revolution, lessons to Jesus' revolution, then we're in because we follow the Prince of Peace. Low Nelson, CampaignForLiberty.org. Welcome back, sir. Well, good to be back, Sam. Good morning.

[00:01:10] Man, you're sounding fantastic, my friend. I love it. Good. All right. So there's so much going on, so little time to discuss it. Let's kick in. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a general conference, which means it's worldwide to all 17 million-plus members of the church. And it happens semi-annually. So every six months, there's a Saturday and a Sunday. And you watch it on basically TV or over the Internet or on the radio, or there's a gazillion ways to watch it.

[00:01:38] You can go to the church buildings and watch it. You can – anyway, it's all over. And it's basically three two-hour sessions on Saturday and two two-hour sessions on Sunday. So it's 10 solid hours of instruction from the general leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We call it the April 2025. It's the 195th semiannual general conference. And the headline for it says, Feel the Savior's Greater Love.

[00:02:08] Churchofjesuschrist.org if anybody wants to watch it, check it out, et cetera. And before we go on, I just thought we'd have a quick kind of discussion about, you know, what we thought of it and everything else. And there's several different things. They announced a bunch of new temples. And they're approaching 400 temples being announced or in different stages of building and production, if you will. And there's about 200 temples that are already active.

[00:02:37] In other words, people are going to them and they've been dedicated and active. So that's kind of interesting, a lot more temples. The one in Utah that just got added is Spanish Fork, Utah. So that's kind of interesting. Anyway, so there's so much going on, it's hard to keep track of it all, really. But I would say this, the overarching focus to me was on the Savior Jesus Christ. And one of the questions that was asked really resonated with me.

[00:03:03] Lowell, and I'll lay it out for you and then we can get to some of the things that you may have. So first in my mind, the question was this. They talked about the apostles and they went with the Savior to the Garden of Gethsemane. And when they were there, the disciples were told to wait here. And then the Savior went off and prayed. And he prayed for them and he prayed for the people and he prayed for all kind of things. We don't know everything about the prayers, but we know that he suffered greatly.

[00:03:32] And anyway, so here's the point. We realize that Jesus Christ is the advocate for us with the Father. So he's our mediator. He's our advocate. He pleads our cause. Hey, these guys are sinners, but they're repenting and doing all that I asked. And his perfect, sinless life culminating on the cross and being resurrected. The suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane all leads to this.

[00:04:00] And so he prays for us and he advocates with our Heavenly Father for us to temper justice with mercy. That's the great atonement. Anyway, I'm going off on a rant a little bit, except I wanted to build the stage for the question. So then the question is, is this. Imagine if Jesus Christ was praying for you, Lowell. What would he be saying about Lowell?

[00:04:28] What would he be saying about Sam? And you can answer the question if you want a little bit or you don't have to. It's kind of a thought reflective question more than a Lowell should necessarily answer. But what would he pray for if he's praying for Sam? He's called me to come unto him. I'm his disciple. I'm his follower. What would he be praying for Sam? Or what would he be praying for Lowell? What would he be saying on our behalf? And it's kind of a very reflective, introspective question, Lowell. Well, it sure is, Sam.

[00:04:56] And it's revelatory is the word I would use for it. Because if you, in fact, one of the speakers asked us, suggested that, you know, next, that in the evening prayer tonight, we, well, she was talking about this yesterday. But it says, in your evening prayer, ask yourself that question and then just listen. Just shut up and listen.

[00:05:20] And in other words, listen to what your heart would tell you, what you think the Savior would be saying to the Father about you. And that's such a wonderful, introspective question. Because I think it would reveal ourself unto myself, right? It would tell a lot. It would tell me a lot about me, right? I mean, if there's things that I needed to correct in my life, it's going to tell me that.

[00:05:50] If there are things that maybe some good deed that I did, it's going to be appreciative of that. But, you know, it's just, and I didn't, you know, do that as fully as I want to. I think it's a great question. And I plan to think about that a whole lot more this week and ask that question.

[00:06:12] You know, what would the Savior be saying to the Father about me in my current situation, in my current challenges, current opportunities? Because it really is a great question, Sam. And right along with that, there was a lot of, a number of speakers talked about repentance. And I really liked, I really liked the focus on repentance. Because, you know, a lot of people grow up thinking that repentance is something that you only do occasionally,

[00:06:41] or that you only do if you do something grievously wrong. But that's not the case. You know, repentance is just another word for change. And we should be changing and progressing every day, every minute, every day. We should be getting better. You know, our thoughts should be higher. Our motives should be purer. Our intentions, our objectives, they should be nobler.

[00:07:06] And this is, it's an onward progression, an upward progression that occurs, really ought to be occurring constantly or continually in our lives. And so, you know, one speaker talked about, you know, what does the Savior think about you, about your repentance process? Well, do you think he gets angry with you?

[00:07:30] Do you think he is mad that you keep making the same mistakes over and over? Well, no. I mean, he's happy that you're trying to do better. That's, it's a delightful thing. It's a joyful thing for us to be changing and improving every day. Even if we make the same mistake today that we made yesterday.

[00:07:52] If we sincerely strive to change and to improve ourselves, even though it might be the same mistake, then he's happy. He's delighted. He's joyful about that. And I thought that was a pretty common theme too, Sam, that the Savior delights in our repenting every day. And he takes delight in us having faith and hope and trust in him as well.

[00:08:22] And I think that's, anyway, there was a lot said. There was a lot focused on the proper role of the family being in the fundamental unit of society. They actually stood nobly and boldly and independently for pro-life too, Lowell. That's exactly right. One of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, his name is Neil Anderson. He reminded us about the Proclamation on the Family, which was issued 1995.

[00:08:49] So that would be, what, 30 years ago, which iterates the church's position on the sanctity of life and on the proper role of each member of the family, fathers and mothers and children. And our expectations of one another. He said, I don't have the exact quote, Sam, but he said something like that we should treasure life once it is conceived.

[00:09:14] You know, and it just is a beautiful reminder that we should, you know, he was talking about abortion and about the importance of treasuring life, you know, once it is conceived. And I think that is pretty close to what he said. And it is so helpful. I mean, there are parents in this world who literally are starving for children to raise.

[00:09:42] You know, parents who aren't able to have children themselves, perhaps, or for one reason or another, don't have an opportunity to bear their own children. They would love to adopt children and raise them as their own. And yet we have still a lot of people who aren't aware of that fact. And so for one reason or another, they choose to abort the life of an unborn child.

[00:10:11] And it's truly sad to think that we have a lot of abortion going on when on the other side of the room, we have parents that would just love to raise an adopted child and, you know, give that child the opportunity of life.

[00:10:31] Because it is a great blessing from our creator to be born into this world and to experience this world and to grow through those experiences. Sam? Amen. Quick pause, take a break, come right back and dig in. You're listening to Lowell Nelson, Sam Bushman on Liberty Roundtable Live.

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[00:11:56] Question. Can a nation conceived in liberty carry its head high if it denies protection to the youngest and most vulnerable of its citizens? Can a country founded on God-given rights continue to thrive without understanding that life is a precious gift from our Creator?

[00:12:22] I believe that great nations and great civilizations spring from a people who have a moral compass. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I will be in earnest. I will not equivocate. And I will not excuse. I will not retreat an inch. And I will be heard.

[00:12:51] One thing I promise you, I will always take a stand for life. All right, back with you live. It's Sam Bushman with Lowell Nelson. Breaking it down like nobody's business. I'll tell you what. There's so much going on here. But I look at this, Lowell, and I say this general conference was just a blessing and a half.

[00:13:20] It was very, in my mind, spiritual, very helpful. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints president, Russell M. Nelson, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I'm one of them, consider him to be a prophet of God. And it says, President Nelson invites church members to increase their capacity for charity and virtue.

[00:13:45] One hundred-year-old prophet and church president tells Latter-day Saints that taking intentional steps to grow their confidence before the Lord will fill them with joy and will increase their faith in Jesus Christ. Very interesting guidance for the saints. It's very, very interesting. Basically just saying, hey, you know what?

[00:14:14] We've got to develop our relationship with the Lord. And to add to this, I basically am the, I don't know what you call myself. I am the, in my church congregation, I am the preparedness, emergency preparedness expert. I don't know that I'm an expert. That's just what I'm asked to do, right? But anyway, and so I put together a proposal for my award about preparedness, my congregation. And the top one is spiritual preparedness, Lowell.

[00:14:43] Encourage regular temple attendance. Promote daily prayer and scripture study. Support consistent participation in your church weekly. That's just on the spiritual side. Financial preparedness. Anyway, I've got a big old document that goes right on down the list for this. And he's basically talking about spiritual preparedness, saying, hey, we've got to build our confidence before God. How do we do that? We keep God's commandments and develop a relationship, a personal relationship with him.

[00:15:09] We pray, and that's how we communicate with God in the name of Jesus Christ, our mediator. And then he responds to us via the Holy Ghost and gives us revelatory guidance in our lives. It's something that we should really pay heed, Lowell. You're exactly right, Sam. And delighted to know that you're the preparedness coordinator there in your neighborhood. I think that's fantastic. We have a great one in our neighborhood as well.

[00:15:38] And it's a friendly and a very helpful reminder about the importance of being prepared every day, all the time, continually, basically. And a number of the speakers at the general conference talked about a particular parable. It's called the Parable of the Ten Virgins.

[00:15:58] And this is a particularly important parable because it talks about the five wise virgins who had their lamps filled with oil. And they were prepared for the bridegroom when the bridegroom arrived. They were able to go in and sup with the bridegroom at the marriage feast because they were prepared. And then you have the five foolish virgins who had not prepared. Their lamps were not trimmed with oil.

[00:16:27] And so when the bridegroom came and invited all of his guests into the wedding feast, the foolish virgins didn't have any oil in their lamps. And so they had to go and try to purchase oil. But, you know, the shops were closed and it was too late. They couldn't get into the wedding feast to celebrate the wedding, right? And so this parable is so important in today's world.

[00:16:55] It's becoming increasingly important to know the Savior Jesus Christ and to follow him. And of all the people who profess to know him, maybe half really do and maybe half really don't. You know, I wonder about this world in which we live when all we hear are wars and rumors of wars. You know, conflict in the Middle East, for example, conflict in Ukraine, conflict in Yemen.

[00:17:24] And, you know, we'll be talking about some of those things. But and then, of course, the news media, you were saturated with reports from from in the news media about about these wars and about the conflicts and about all the problems that go on. I tell you what, Sam, it was very interesting because, you know, I try to listen to to to news from from time to time. And it looks really gloomy, really dark.

[00:17:53] And yet yesterday, I think it was or Saturday, I can't remember which we were listening to to BYU TV. And and it was yesterday because they had the sound of music playing this the best wonder number one movie of all time. The sound of music with Julie Andrews, right? And the Von Trapp family. It's incredible. No doubt about it. That is my favorite number one movie. OK, just so you know, it was playing on BYU TV.

[00:18:21] And so as we came home from a family activity yesterday, we that was playing. And so we just sat down and just basked in the the warmth of that movie, the message of that movie about caring for each other. And, you know, striving to be free from the tyranny of the of the Nazi empire.

[00:18:48] I mean, and of course, the commercials that would play during the movie, they were all very uplifting and inspiring. And it's just a big, big contrast. I guess what I'm getting I'm saying is there's a big contrast between the what was being advertised and shown on BYU TV and what is being shown and advertised on the mainstream media, you know, television stations. And it's black and white, to say the least.

[00:19:15] I know that people look at the world in shades of gray, but this is pretty black and white when you dig into it. And what's interesting to me is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is able to have these semiannual general conferences, two days of worship, 10 hours of instruction from their leaders at the general headquarters of the church. The reason that I bring this up is because whether it's our free speech on the radio right now or the free speech to hold these general conferences, free speech is worth fighting for. And it's something that if we're not very careful, would be taken away.

[00:19:45] And it's something where I believe if the headquarters of the church were in a different area, we may not even have the ability to freely speak these days. Right. Well, we saw during COVID, during the lockdowns, that we weren't even supposed to to assemble ourselves to, you know, to gather, to have this kind of a conference.

[00:20:02] So, I mean, it is so easily curtailed once the wheels of government grind this type of assembly to a halt. I mean, it would be very difficult. And so, yeah, it was a great blessing to be able to assemble and to meet. And certainly free speech is worth fighting for. Ron Paul talks about this in his column posted last Monday at the campaignforliberty.org.

[00:20:29] Like, you know, our creator gave us life and then he gave us the agency, basically the power to choose good or evil. And the government should never curtail either one, you know, should not infringe upon life, liberty and property. That was my commentary. Getting back to the column, Ron Paul wrote this, quote,

[00:21:23] End quote. Well, unfortunately, Sam, as you know, the U.S. government has not consistently respected our rights to speak freely, particularly when it comes to criticism of the government. Ron Paul mentions the Alien and Sedition Acts. He mentioned Lincoln's imprisonment of his critics. He mentions a number of other cases where the U.S. government severely clamped down on this right, the freedom of speech.

[00:21:52] And now, even today, the federal government is making war on free speech. And then Ron Paul mentions the very same things that Andrew Napolitano has been talking about the last two or three weeks. He writes, quote, Recently, a new front has been opened in the war on free speech, and it is one that Americans must take seriously. On university campuses across the country, students, both American and foreign guests,

[00:22:17] have taken to protesting U.S. support for Israel's actions in Gaza, where tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed, end quote. Now, you know, we've discussed this in previous weeks with the Napolitano's columns, but I think back to the time when Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu, came to speak before Congress and was applauded like 65 times, 65 standing ovations or something.

[00:22:46] Well, and who's the clown that's going to meet with Donald today? Yeah, is he meeting with Donald today? I think so. I don't know, man. Benjamin. Benjamin Netanyahu, I think, is meeting with the president today, and why would we meet with this clown? Why would we meet with this war criminal? Now you can say, Sam, why are you on the side of Palestine? I'm not on anybody's side. But both the Palestinians and Israel have been committing atrocities for generations, people. I don't know why we're in the middle of it or involved at all, and I don't know why we need to pick sides.

[00:23:16] I say when both of them are war mentality, we reject that. You guys need to stand down, stand with the Prince of Peace. But it's just interesting to me. And I tie this into the free speech discussion that Ron Paul's highlighted, and it becomes even more poignant when you do that, right? Yeah, absolutely right, Sam.

[00:23:35] You know, this loss, well, I mean, Ron Paul talks about the loss of funds, where the government refuses to give funds, you know, to universities that don't crack down on these pro-Palestinian protesters. And for the most part, Sam, they're not stumping for Palestine as much as they're protesting the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza. Well, they should be. Yeah. We all should be up and orange about that.

[00:24:04] I don't know that protesting is the answer necessarily. I think there's better ways to advocate change. But there you have it. But anyway, we'll talk about Ron Paul's column because he speaks of our creator as well, by the way. Anyway, we'll talk about it. Lowell Nelson with me. CampaignforLiberty.org. LovingLiberty.net. Download our iPhone on our Android apps. You can listen anytime, anywhere, or online at LovingLiberty.net. Spread the word. Share the love. Hang tight. More in seconds.

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[00:25:00] News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Jason Walker. Even with the tariff news last week, at least one poll indicating a lot of popularity for President Trump, George Williams has the story. The results come from the Daily Mail surveying over 1,000 registered voters between March 31st and April 3rd, including the day after President Trump's Liberation Day announcement. The poll finds President Trump's approval at 53%, up 4% from the week prior.

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[00:30:14] From atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to Liberty Roundtable Live. Yes, this is Lowell Nelson, writing shotgun this morning with your host, Sam Bushman, who also is the preparedness coordinator in his neighborhood. Awesome news, Sam.

[00:30:39] We've been talking about this great column by Ron Paul about the freedom of speech and the importance of maintaining this freedom. We've been talking about the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the reception that he received in the United States last time he was here. This was several months ago. But, Sam, I wanted to emphasize this point.

[00:31:03] When he was here, he got something like 50 or 65 standing ovations from Congress, and yet the guy was bombing Gazans, killing Palestinians right and left. You know, thousands, tens of thousands of innocents have died now in this war on Gaza, and he is a war criminal. And yet, you know, our fellow American congressmen are applauding him

[00:31:32] and the damage that he's doing, wreaking there in Gaza. I just don't understand how members of Congress, not all of them, but most of them were applauding this horrible action and this horrible guy. And that's because we Americans are not standing up boldly and asserting loudly enough with our members, our U.S. representatives in Congress,

[00:32:02] that we need to stop this foolishness and stop the killing. These are our brothers and sisters over there in Gaza and in Iran. I mean, there's a big buildup of government warships and U.S. warships and so forth, military force in the region. And, you know, if we don't watch ourselves, we're going to be, you know,

[00:32:29] killing many more millions of people over there too. And this simply must stop. So Ron Paul in his column is talking about the freedom of speech. Okay, so we'll get back to that. But the real scandal, Sam, here is that the government is funding universities in the first place. That's a scandal that few people ever mention.

[00:32:50] You know, did the states grant to the general government any authority at all to give your tax dollars to universities across the country? Well, no, of course not. Well, and so that gets us back to a real basic principle that Ezra Taft Benson taught us years and years ago. One of the very best ways to judge whether a government action is lawful or unlawful

[00:33:15] is simply to ask yourself whether you as a person, whether you have the moral authority to do what the government is doing, right? So do you have the moral authority to take money from your neighbor and give it to a university, right? I mean, what gives you the moral authority to do that? I just don't – that would not be right.

[00:33:36] You don't have that moral authority to steal from your neighbor and even if you, you know, steal it for a so-called righteous purpose or a charitable purpose, you know, to give money to a poor man on the street or to give money to a university, you don't have the authority to do that because that infringes upon that person's right to keep the money that he earns, right? To keep the liberty that was given to him by his God, by his creator.

[00:34:06] So I think that's a really great test. We need to talk about that more with our congressmen, with our state representatives and make it really a common theme among – you know, in our conversations with our public servants, right? Do you have the moral authority to do something? Well, if you don't have that personally, if you don't have that moral authority personally,

[00:34:31] to do that thing, then neither does government because government derives its just powers from the people. So if the people don't have the power, then neither does government. I don't know what you think about that saying. Well, I agree 100%. And if you look at Bastiae's The Law, we do have an appropriate defensive government responsibility that we can delegate. I have the right to defensively delegate, you know, plenty of things and even fund government to do so. A lot of people don't believe that, but I do.

[00:34:59] Otherwise, a greater tyrannical force fills the vacuum. So, you know, how do you balance that? The founding fathers understood. And the guideline that you can use is what you mentioned. You know, hey, can you do it or do you have to steal to do it? If you have to steal to do it, you know, with rare exception, you shouldn't be doing it. Well, the other way you can know too is this. Ask yourself this question. When this happens, is that pulling the lever of government in the favor of the few at the expense of the rest of us? Or is it benefiting everyone equally?

[00:35:29] And that's really one of the ways that we could kind of understand it. Speaking of our creator, this is a line that you mentioned from the article that I think is really worth talking about. Speaking of our creator, he first gave us life. Then he gave us agency or the power to choose good or evil.

[00:35:51] And the government should never curtail either unless it infringes on somebody else's life, liberty, or property. That's a fundamental, important point. Did you make that or was that in the article? That was my point, yeah. That's Lowell's comment, ladies and gentlemen. But in my opinion, that point is the most salient of the whole article. Yes, free speech is worth fighting for, writes Ron Paul. But really, hey, God gave us life and agency.

[00:36:20] And we have the right to think and feel and believe as we choose. And so these people getting kicked out of the country, if they're illegal, that's fine. But a lot of them are getting kicked out for political reasons. Hey, you criticized Israel. You what kind of deal is that, folks? So, you know, if you say, well, government shouldn't be involved. I agree. We'll get the government out of the education plan. That's being battled. But I look at this and I say, wow, we've really got to think about this. These relate.

[00:36:47] You know, we're basically persecuting people in America for protesting the Gaza Strip or this or that or whatever. You know, I get the protests, why they want to protest. I've got a problem with the way they're being funded and carried out. I believe it's a domestic threat of great import. But I sidetrack. All I'm saying is we need to look at this and realize your free speech, your ability to think and believe and peacefully assemble. And those things should not be violated.

[00:37:12] And what we've got now is just a Trump centric, congressional centric, Israel backing Netanyahu funding, promoting literally murder around the world. And we pretend it's not war criminals and we pretend we have authority when we don't. Where did Congress give authority for this? So we've got a big problem, a fundamental constitutional violation problem. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're absolutely right. We really do have.

[00:37:42] And the big problem is, well, what Ron Paul talks about is that we're, you know, taking, we're deporting these students, right, for their political position. Right.

[00:37:58] This, this gal, he mentions a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University was arrested last week on the street by government agents for reportedly, simply writing an editorial in her university newspaper, expressing her views on the Israel-Palestine situation. Simply for taking a position in, you know, for writing, you know, and if it's writing today, it might be speaking tomorrow.

[00:38:25] And what's going to happen to Sam, you know, and other people who openly talk about freedom and liberty on the radio and on the Internet? I mean, it's very serious, right? You have to ask yourself, you know, whether you disagree, whether you agree or disagree with the genocide being wrought by the Israeli regime, you have the right to speak your mind about it, right? It's a God-given right. And it's supposed to be protected by government.

[00:38:55] That's the First Amendment. We have the right to talk about and to criticize the unlawful actions of our own government, of our own people, our own public servants. We have the right, and we should be critical of them when they ignore the Constitution and when they take unlawful actions, like killing people, right, without a declaration of war. Congress didn't declare war.

[00:39:16] The president has no authority to be waging war or to be delivering weapons of war to other governments, you know, without a declaration of war in Congress itself. So the moment you lose your own freedom, right? I mean, they're coming for the Palestinian students today, right? And if nobody stands up for them, they will be coming for you tomorrow. And that's just the natural course of things. That's what governments do.

[00:39:46] They tend to grow. They tend to expand. Their reach extends itself more and more until finally there's no one to stand up for you. And so we need to take alarm at the first encroachment upon our liberties. That's what the founders did. Because if we allow the first encroachment upon our liberties to occur, then it becomes a precedent. And then you can't stop the unlawful actions of the government after that when they're coming for you.

[00:40:51] And the headline basically talked about the war in Gaza. And what Dr. Bradley said is forget the war in. It's the war on. You change one letter, I do an O, and the headline becomes correct as all get out. You change that one letter and they've wordsmithed it into a whole different thought process or discussion. One suggests we have the authority to be there.

[00:41:21] Well, we don't have the authority to breach a sovereign nation. We don't have authority from Congress even if we want to say, so we're violating our own laws and their laws. It's work criminal stuff. But when you say it's the war in as opposed to the war on, you've changed the whole meaning, right? Yeah, I totally agree, Sam. And the same thing on Yemen, right? This daily airstrikes on Yemen that have been ordered by Trump.

[00:41:49] But there's no warrant for that either. Congress didn't declare war on Yemen. And so we're breaking our own constitution, the supreme law of the land, a blueprint for liberty. We break that and we kill innocents in Yemen. Well, ladies and gentlemen, all I can tell you is this. We are God's children. We do have our agency. We need to defend our right to free speech. That's for sure.

[00:42:19] But, you know, yet Netanyahu, I can't believe he's there today when he just came several months ago. And every time he comes, he makes incredible demands. And we increase our spending, both of which are foreign entanglements that our founding fathers would be turning their graves over. But you know what? Collateral murder style. This is a very serious article written by Caitlin Johnstone. This is interesting, too, Lowell. Yeah, it really is.

[00:42:46] Because, Sam, 15 years ago is when WikiLeaks, this very month, by the way, just like April 4th or April. Yeah, I think it was April 4th, you know, 15 years ago, 2010. WikiLeaks posted the collateral murder video.

[00:43:03] Now, our listeners will remember, I think, this video of a U.S. airship circling this one intersection in a Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. And this U.S. airship was just circling this intersection. There were some people walking along the intersection.

[00:43:26] And they were carrying what to – well, the people on the airship said they were carrying AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades, and stuff like that. When in reality, they were not, right? And so they requested permission to fire on these people. And they basically just killed them all, murdered them all. And they were gleeful about it, right?

[00:43:53] And this video went – it was called Collateral Murder. And it went viral. It was posted by WikiLeaks. It went viral. And so, okay, so that happened 15 years ago. Well, last Friday, Trump posted a video on social media of the killing of dozens of Yemeni people he claims were gathered for instructions on an attack. And these two videos are very, very similar, Sam.

[00:44:22] I watched both of them again last night. I watched the collateral murder video. And I watched the video that Trump posted on social media last Friday. And just, you know, the lives of dozens of citizens of Yemen were just snuffed out just instantaneously with the dropping of this huge bomb in their midst. And, you know, so John Stone writes this. He says, quote,

[00:44:49] This is just the latest disgusting act of warmongering Trump has inflicted on Yemen and, as always, is completely unjustifiable. It's obviously idiotic to think bombing Yemen again will bring peace to the region. Only a foam-brained moron would believe such a thing. Yemen is trying to stop an active genocide. See, Sam, they're doing the right thing. John Stone goes on here. She says, That's what its Red Sea blockade has always been about.

[00:45:18] That's the only reason Ansar Allah has ever attacked ships in the region. Their explicit and publicly stated goal is to exert pressure on Israel and its allies to halt the genocide in Gaza. Trump has no moral legitimacy in trying to stop Yemen from doing this. The New York Times reports that the Pentagon is telling Congress behind closed doors that Trump's costly war on Yemen is failing to achieve its objectives despite daily airstrikes.

[00:45:46] But even if Trump was successful in bombing Yemen into submission, all he'd be succeeding in doing is removing economic pressure on Israel to end its ongoing war. Trump is actually bombing Yemen to defend Israel's right to commit genocide, end of quote. And in another article, related article, which I did not provide for you, Sam,

[00:46:10] it turns out that 85% of the supplies to Israel were stopped by Yemen, by their blockade there of the Red Sea, you know, their activity in the Red Sea, stopped 85% of the armaments going to Israel. And so it actually did.

[00:46:30] Yemen was actually successful in slowing the genocide in Gaza because of what they were doing in the Red Sea. And I think that's why, you know, Israel asked Trump to bomb Yemen because it was hurting their efforts to commit genocide, you know, on the Gazan people.

[00:46:55] So, you know, my question for Trump, Sam, is why isn't the U.S. working to stop the genocide in Gaza? Right? I mean, that's a real question. So I beg you, my fellow Americans, please call Congress today. Beg them to stop the bombing in Yemen and to stop the genocide in Gaza. Sam? Yeah, and I would say this.

[00:47:23] Yes, it's important for us to kind of recognize or realize, lull, that we should not only be asking the president the questions that you mentioned, and I agree 100%, but we should also be asking Congress, though. And the reason that, you know, Congress is very, in my opinion, wise. What they do is they let everything be dealt with the courts or let everything be dealt with the president, and if things go good, they can take credit for it the next time. If things go bad, they act like they had nothing to do with it. But it's completely bogus. This is absolutely a congressional responsibility.

[00:47:52] And if you say, you know what, we do have a legitimacy to defend America, okay, but you don't have to go as far as war when there's no war mandate or war authority given by Congress. You know, Congress can look at mark and reprisal. They can look at letters of whatever. They can, okay, there's several ways short of war that we can stop some of the criminal activity if there is some.

[00:48:15] But I look at it and go, man, I don't really understand what we're doing because we, on one hand, want a full-scale, you know, no authorized war, but what about simple things? There's simple things that could literally stop all this, right? Anyway, we're ending up with a powerful government and a weak nation is what we're ending up with, Lowell.

[00:48:44] Am I connected still, Liz? Okay. We'll try to get Lowell back, ladies and gentlemen. I don't, I don't, there's very difficult. I'm back, though. Okay. Go ahead, Lowell. Sorry. Did you get my question? Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, repeat the question. Sorry.

[00:49:15] I don't want to go full-scale war or act like there's a war and breach the sovereignty of other nations and violate our own constitutional law. You know, Congress can do things short of war, letters of mark and reprisal, and all kinds of other ways to stop anybody who's really a criminal. We don't have to go to full scale or we don't have to ignore the principles. We can obey the Constitution and get the appropriate level authority to do what needs to be done. And I'm just providing the way forward, the solution, right? Yeah, absolutely right, Sam.

[00:49:44] Yeah, and that's why I recommended that we do call our congressmen about this and make sure they know that the American people do not want more people in Gaza killed. We do not want more people in Yemen killed, right? We want peace. That's what we really want. We want to follow the Prince of Peace. We will not receive heaven's blessings if we violate the laws of God. He is the one who said, thou shalt not kill, right? Amen.

[00:50:13] Yeah, it's okay to kill in defense of your own life. But this is not that. I mean, bombing people in Yemen is not a defensive action. And bombing the people in Gaza is not a defensive action. This is very offensive. It offends the God in heaven. And it violates the very commandment that he wants us to obey.

[00:50:41] And if we continue to walk down this path of violating God's commandments, then we are not worthy of his blessing us as a country. I mean, I think early in this country's history, we were greatly blessed as a country. You know, Jacob G. Hornberger points this out in his article where he talks about all of the characteristics or the hallmarks of this country from its beginning, right?

[00:51:07] We didn't have, even as late as the 1880s, no income taxation, no IRS, no Social Security, no Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, education grants, Federal Reserve, paper money, etc. I mean, the list goes on and on. We didn't have the NSA. And amen, by the way. The NSA. We didn't have torture. We didn't have indefinite detention. We didn't have compulsory school attendance laws, right? We didn't have the war on terrorism. We didn't have foreign aid.

[00:51:37] We didn't have state-sponsored assassination, right? I mean, all of these things were characteristics of this country for the first hundred years of its existence. What happened? Well, we changed. With the coming of the 20th century, we changed into a welfare state, right? And we became less free. We became more dependent on government.

[00:52:00] And so what we have today is really a weak people and a strong central government. That's a recipe for disaster, folks. And it's resulted in a current situation where our U.S. regime goes about in search of monsters to destroy around the planet. And the people here in this country are weak, right? We depend on the federal government for so much.

[00:52:29] We depend on all this welfare and warfare. And we're not looking to God anymore for help. It's just really sad. So I guess a bit of good news we ought to mention, Sam. Warfare, warfare, lawfare. It never ends, ladies and gentlemen. Let's just be fair and turn to God Almighty, shall we? But RFK JR is coming to the great Olympic state of Utah law. Yeah, that's a bit of fun news, Sam.

[00:52:56] He's coming to congratulate Utah lawmakers for three things. Banning fluoride in the water. Yeah, let's go. Banning soda from food stamp benefits. And also banning certain food additives. And so this is pretty exciting. Yeah, really, really, really good stuff. I mean, parents can still purchase fluoride from a pharmacy if they want.

[00:53:22] But, boy, get this hydrofluorosilic acid out of our water. It is toxic. Yeah, then pretty soon everybody's IQs are going to be going up. People are going to be standing for liberty, lol. I sure hope so. Well, Sam, that has been fun to be with you here on Liberty Roundtable. This morning, I just want to mention this. When you say fluoride in water, it's not really fluoride.

[00:53:50] It's a waste byproduct derived from phosphate mining operations that contains lead, chromium, and arsenic. That is what's in our water, Sam. And I'm so glad that legislation is banned. Yeah, the naturally occurring fluoride in many instances isn't the same discussion at all. Anyway, we play games with words. We manipulate science to our agenda. And we turn a waste product into a profit center. We've done it for decades. And thank heavens, people are trying to put a stop to it. Thank you, Lowell Nelson, CampaignForLiberty.org. Always do it a phenomenal job.

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