[00:00:04] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans, Sam Bushman live. We kick off with a bunch of good news today, Spam Dogs. You ever had one? Well, your times are coming, baby.
[00:00:27] Lowell Nelson, CampaignForLiberty.org with us today. 250, a jubilee of prayer. Gotta dig that. Also, Tina Peters, gonna be free. Gotta dig that. We ought to not go to war. We ought to find ways to get out of war. Happy to have you along. I'm Sam Bushman. Hard-hitting news, the network to use on Liberty Roundtable Live starts now. Lowell Nelson, CampaignForLiberty.org with me. Welcome to the show, sir.
[00:00:54] Wow. Thanks for having me, Sam. It's always a pleasure to join you on Liberty RoundTable Podcast. Let's kick it off. We're celebrating because yesterday, May the 17th, is a well-known day. It was the National Jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving. Freedom250.org with the details. They had a marvelous time yesterday, from what I understand, celebrating the Sabbath, right? Lowell.
[00:01:19] Yeah, I'll say they did. I was pleased to hear that two of our good friends, Sam, Chris Kimball and Delane England, they were back there in Washington, D.C., at the National Mall to witness the event in person. And I hadn't really known a lot of it before yesterday when reading about it. But I got some emails talking about it, and then I looked deeper into it.
[00:01:47] And it's really quite a fascinating day, Sam. The reason for the day is that yesterday was 250 years since the original day on May 17th of 1776, when Congress, by an act of Congress, they appointed that day to be set aside for fasting and prayer for the country.
[00:02:13] As you know, we were already engaged in a great war with Great Britain, right? I mean, that started at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Here it was almost a year later. Well, it was, yeah, a little more than a year later. And the colonial Congress said, you know, we really need to importune heaven for help in this battle.
[00:02:39] And so they passed an act of Congress, and I think it's fascinating to hear what they said. And so I just want to quote the first two paragraphs of their three-paragraph resolution, basically. And I'll just give you a, you know, quoting the first couple gives you an idea or a taste of what they were talking about.
[00:03:01] In times of impending calamity and distress, when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these hitherto free and happy colonies with true penitence of heart and the most reverent devotion publicly to acknowledge the overruling providence of God,
[00:03:29] to confess and deplore our offenses against him, and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of freedom, virtue, and posterity. The Congress, therefore, desires to have people of all ranks and degrees duly impressed with a solemn sense of God's superintending providence and of their duty devoutly to rely in all their lawful enterprises on his aid and direction,
[00:03:58] do earnestly recommend that Friday, the 17th day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere repentance and amendment of life appease his righteous displeasure,
[00:04:24] and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ obtain his pardon and forgiveness, humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies, and by inclining their hearts to justice and benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred blood. End of quote. You know, that's just the first two paragraphs. The third one is great as well, but for lack of time, we better not quote it also.
[00:04:53] But Sam, this was quite, I think, typical of the way the colonists felt, you know, 250 years ago. They felt like they were blessed with freedom in this country, but that they needed to implore God's help, implore for God's help if they expected to free themselves from the tyranny and the oppression
[00:05:21] of King George III in Parliament in the British Empire, right? I mean, we were just a little itty-bitty tiny fish up against the biggest, grandest, well-funded army in the world in 1750s and 60s and 70s. So it was awesome. It was the biggest funded army the world's ever known that we had to take on, and we were the teeniest upstart. They thought it was literally impossible and had to sing the world upside down when it turned.
[00:05:49] The interesting thing about this, though, you know, many people try to say we're not a religious or a Christian nation, and this example kicks off repeated evidences that we are a Christian nation, that we did turn to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Benjamin Franklin's call in 1787 when they were trying to get the, you know, Constitution put in place as the supreme law of the land, again said, hey, can a nation rise without his aid?
[00:06:18] And that was a man who was pretty hesitant to believe that God was involved in the affairs of man early in his life. But over time, he realized how critical that really was and called for that again. So we have these repeated references to the importance of, you know what, our nation is wholly inadequate for the governing of anybody that's not a religious and immoral people, and that's why religion and morality are the two great pillars George Washington spoke of. That's why Ben Franklin referred to it. That's why Congress referred to it in this example you gave,
[00:06:47] and that's why today, 250 years later, well, I should say literally yesterday, 250 years later, May 17th, was the 250th anniversary of the, quote, National Day of Fasting and Prayer, ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, they had an all-day event on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. It was incredible. We commend them for it, and we hope to continue that celebration on for days and weeks to come.
[00:07:13] You know, you got the 4th of July, then you got Constitution Day, September 17th. We've got all kinds of incredible opportunities on this 250th year anniversary to celebrate God, family, and country. Great news as well, the governor of Colorado, Jared Poli is his name. He's a Democrat from what I understand, but he realized the shenanigans that were going on for Tina Peters, and as far as I understand, he committed the sentence of Tina.
[00:07:41] He didn't give her a full pardon but a commuting of the sentence, which means what? She gets released June 1st, Lowell? That's right, Sam. That was really good news. Paulus, Governor Paulus, you know, he sort of towed the party line and said that, you know, she really deserved prison time for her crimes, but that nine years was way too long. You know, she deserved prison time, but not nine years. He said, quote,
[00:08:06] This is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first-time offender who committed nonviolent crimes, end of quote. So he's still towing the party line, which says she committed crimes. I don't believe she did, but that's what she was prosecuted for. And however, he commuted her sentence. So June 1st, she gets out of jail, and, you know, I think that's a win. I mean, she's 70 years old.
[00:08:35] She's a grandma, lots of family, and they're just praying for her release. And I am, too, every night praying that she'll be released. And so this is kind of an answer to a lot of prayers. A lot of people have been working and praying for her release. Now, Peters did thank the governor, saying, quote, I plan to do my best through legal means to support election integrity and, based on my own personal experience,
[00:09:02] to elevate the cause of prison reform, end of quote. I thought that was an interesting comment, too, coming from her. Now, she's been in prison for almost, what, two years, maybe over two years. I can't remember. Yeah, I have to think about that. A little over. Yep. A little over two years. And so her experiences in prison were, wow, I mean, pretty horrendous. And so, you know, that's why she made her comment about the cause of prison reform, because she wants to make it a little more humane, a little more fair.
[00:09:32] You know, if you're going to be in prison, you shouldn't be subjected to some of the things that she was subjected to, you know, simply because, you know, they didn't like her. Or she, I think she outed a prison guard for doing something bad. And in vengeance and retribution, you know, she had to spend like two weeks or four weeks in solitary confinement or something. I don't forget that. I don't remember the details.
[00:09:59] But anyway, it's just, I'm glad that she's going to be out, get back with her family, and continue her effort to support election integrity. All right. I just looked it up. It was 19 months in prison that she spent. The problem is that before that final time, she had been put in prison a little bit before that, too. And when you total up everything, it gets closer to the two-year mark. But this last kind of stint was 19 months from what I understand.
[00:10:28] And, you know, to me, the issue here is if the judge really did, you know, have this hostile agenda towards her, then it shouldn't have taken two years to figure that out and have the governor call a halt to that con game. So that's the point that we're talking about when we say prison reform. What about a speedy, fair, honest, open, transparent trial? It was a sham from the get-go. All right. Lowell Nelson with us. CampaignforLiberty.org continues in seconds.
[00:10:59] Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less? Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last? Anybody ever having a 1% pay cut? You deal with it. That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut. If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief. But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible. Who are they? Republicans. Who are they? Democrats. Who are they?
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[00:12:37] Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. This is Lowell Nelson, riding shotgun this morning with Sam Bushman, your host here on Liberty RoundTable Podcast. A few more stories to go this morning. We're talking about war. I just want to call your attention to a column by Caitlin Johnstone. I love the sentiment that she expressed in this column.
[00:12:58] She says, quote, rending Western war mongering should take priority over every other societal concern in the same way your husband, being a serial killer, would be a more urgent concern than his refusal to wash the dishes. It's a sign of... I don't mean to laugh. I'm just saying the comparison is funny. Yeah, it is.
[00:13:20] As she continues, it's a sign of deep sickness how much more political attention is given to domestic policy in our society than the fact that our governments are butchering human beings on other continents. End of quote. And so, yeah, I mean, I really don't need to spend any more time on her column. But this is a sentiment that I have felt for years, Sam, where why do we...
[00:13:44] Well, it's the same sentiment I felt when we were talking about abortion, the pro-deaf movement. You know, why do we spend a year and a half mourning the loss of 3,000 people in the trade towers, which I think is a huge loss. It's not that I don't mourn. I think it was a terrible happening. But at the same time, we're killing thousands more babies, right?
[00:14:12] I mean, why don't we have the same concern for the killing that goes on in abortion clinics as we do people in the world trade centers? And so similarly, Caitlin is pointing out that, I mean, we're butchering human beings in Ukraine and in Gaza and Sudan and Libya and Somalia and all these different places around the world. And yet we're concerned about domestic policy.
[00:14:40] I mean, it's just not congruent with what we really ought to be focused on. Sam, there is a spark of divinity in each one of us. Every single human being. But associating ourselves from the killing that our government is doing in other lands, I think that hurts us. It hurts this spark of divinity in us.
[00:15:05] And, I mean, Caitlin just asked the question, how could it not affect us, you and me, when our government goes on these killing rampages in other countries? It just doesn't make a lot of sense, Sam. Yeah, there you go. All I can tell you is this. I think she's spot on. And I think that you need to compile kind of a list of all pro-life issues, war being one of them. We seem to just love war and murder and destruction and everything else.
[00:15:34] But you've got to add the pro-life issue to this right now. You've got literally abortion pills, murder medication being shipped into states that have it as an illegal activity. But at the same time, you know, we go to the courts and the courts just drag their feet and kind of waffle and want to appease everyone. Anyway, so I don't mean to make it just a derail issue, but I do want to kind of highlight if we're really pro-life, it's from, you know, the beginning to the end. Okay, so we've got to talk about babies and we've got to talk about pro-life and we've got to talk about everything.
[00:16:05] And so I agree that warmongering should be one of our number one issues, but so should the right to life be one of the big issues, too. But you know what? When you put an incredible amount of money behind, in my opinion, criminal activity, what do you get? Criminal activity, lol. Yeah, like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. He was last week claiming that this 50% increase in the U.S. military budget is a fiscally responsible investment.
[00:16:35] His words, not mine. Quote, fiscally responsible investment. End of quote. I mean, that's going from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion fiat dollars. I mean, that's incredible. And, you know, he said this move is moving from department, moves his department from what he calls from bureaucracy to business. Whatever that means. But in a way, he's right, writes Ron Paul. But it's the wrong kind of business.
[00:17:04] It's transferring wealth from taxpayers, the middle class basically, to the well-connected elites in the Washington Beltway based on lies and scare tactics. Ron Paul writes, quote, the U.S. mainstream media is crucial in manufacturing the fairy tale that if we don't mortgage our children's and grandchildren's future to finance this obscene military budget, we will be attacked or invaded by some evil foreign power. End of quote.
[00:17:32] Well, these media arms are owned or funded by giant corporations with close ties to military contractors. Quote, the whole scam is not about protecting the citizens of the United States. It's about protecting the U.S. empire overseas, which actually harms the citizens of the United States. Our constant military interventions on virtually every continent of the globe only build resentment among the rest of the world's population. End of quote.
[00:18:01] Sam, Iran's military budget is less than 1% of the U.S. military budget. And yet Iran destroyed or disabled every U.S. military base in the Middle East. And they did it with less money than, you know, a lot less money than we put into our U.S. military. Well, and we really need a clarity statement on how much does it really take to defend the United States of America as the founders intended.
[00:18:27] Not an offensive war, but a defensive, hey, we'll make sure that if you're going to come to America and try to attack us, we'll stop you. What would that really take? And the answer is it would take probably less than a quarter of what we're allocating literally every year now. It's up to a trillion and a half dollars. Well, it's out of control. And Ron Paul speaks of that big time. Well, it's also related to this war and to killing and to the preservation of innocent lives.
[00:18:54] We have a primary in the Republican Party in Kentucky tomorrow. That's the big day. They've got this stuff suit Ed Galrain running against the patriot Thomas Massey for a seat in the U.S. House. Now, Trump hates Massey because Massey opposes this boondoggle war in Iran. Massey has also demanded the release of the Epstein files.
[00:19:21] Well, Galrain, his opponent, has received nearly $12 million from the Israeli lobby. So you know how important this election is to Israel, that's for sure. There is one issue at the top of Galrain's list, and he mentioned it during an interview with U.S. CARES, a veterans organization in Kentucky, the re-implementation of a military draft, Sam. Ed says we need it for national security.
[00:19:51] Well, considering the hefty sum donated by the lobby, the Israeli lobby, it's natural to conclude that much of that quote-unquote national security concerns Israel. In other words, folks, Galrain wants to return us to the days of the Vietnam War or to the present-day Ukraine where draft-age men are being chased down, kidnapped, and forced to the front lines to die while fighting the Russians.
[00:20:15] Well, Sam and folks listening, please pray for Massey's victory in the election tomorrow. It's going to be close. I guarantee it's going to be close. But, you know, like Ron Paul, Thomas Massey does not support our interventionist foreign policy. Defense, yes, but forceful aggression, no. And by the way, Thomas Massey's primary is coming up tomorrow, and we pray for Thomas that he'll win that thing. They're spending billions... Let me just say this.
[00:20:44] Tens of millions of dollars to try to turn Massey out, but I pray that the Kentuckians are smart enough to see through the smoke and mirrors and stand with Thomas. Absolutely right, Sam. Well, the last article I want to talk about, Sam, is this one by Andrew Napolitano entitled, When Killing Becomes Commonplace. And you can definitely say it has become commonplace, because I didn't even know this was still going on,
[00:21:11] but the military attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean is still going on. Last week, he says, the media barely noticed this. The U.S. military has now destroyed 56 vessels and killed 190 persons. The killings began in September 2025, that's last year, and have continued to this month. What are we, May of 26?
[00:21:40] That's about half a year right there. Quote, the attacks caused a stir a few months ago when one of the strikes disabled the boat at which the attack was aimed, but failed to kill all the passengers. When a follow-up strike was ordered, it succeeded where the initial strike had failed. The admiral, who ordered the murder of the survivors, told members of Congress in secret that he believed he was following orders.
[00:22:07] The Secretary of Defense denied that he ordered the survivors to be killed. End of quote. Well, Sam, I think this is appalling. I didn't know the attacks were still happening, but they are. And pursuant to that incident... Well, you don't know because the media doesn't want you to know, Lowell, and the Trump administration doesn't want you to know, and so you don't know, that's why. It just shows how much control they really have. Yeah. Well, in consequence of that failed attack, you know, where they murdered the survivors,
[00:22:36] the Pentagon made two changes, Sam. The Pentagon produced more lethal strikes, right? And so instead of just an ordinary strike on a boat, they strike the boats now in a way that there can be no survivors. I guess the bombs are bigger, or there's more of them, something like that. I don't know exactly, but that's apparently what they did. And they've either stopped killing survivors,
[00:23:04] or they've stopped revealing that they killed survivors. It could be either one. Or the bombs are so big that there are simply no survivors every time they attack. So anyway, the bottom line, Sam, in 56 attacks and in one follow-up attack, only three people have survived. Two of them have hired American lawyers and have served notice of their intention to sue the federal government for attempted murder. Now, Judge Napolitano writes, quote,
[00:23:48] End of quote. So then the White House called them enemy combatants, but of course failed to produce any evidence. And so then they justified it by calling it part of the war on drugs. And it's just a dog and pony show, Sam. That's what it is. Well, we've got to end Western warmongering, ladies and gentlemen. We've got to quit spending a trillion and a half on the war annually.
[00:24:14] We need to realize that we don't want the draft to be brought back, ladies and gentlemen. That just means they're gearing up for more war. Why? Because we've made killing commonplace, because we've become a warlike people. And we need to turn to God Almighty and repent. Thank you, Lil Nelson. My pleasure, Sam. Good to be with you. CampaignforLiberty.org, ladies and gentlemen, doing a phenomenal job. I'm Sam Bushman. God save the Republic of the United States of America.