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You're listening to the Ron Edwards American Experience. Prepare for launching three two one and away we go see see see see Ladies and gentlemen. It's the Ron Edwards American Experienced talk show where our unalienable rights are celebrated. And now your radio refreshment. Ron Edwards. Good day, good day, good day. Hello. I'm Ron Edwards and you are listening to the Ron Edwards American Experience. Thanks for tuning in this day. Lots of stuff to cover. Man, it's kind of heartbreaking to see what's going on with the Donald Trump. President Trump. That is four hundred and fifty four million dollar bond could force real estate fire sale. The man built a business empire of real estate not only in this country but around the world and has been very successful. And because he dared to do right by our republic, this is why they're trying to hang him out to dry right now. This is totally unprecedented in American history. This is the kind of stuff you would see in other lesser nations like Banana republics. They're trying to bankrupt their opponent because the Democrats and Rhinos cannot come up with any ideas that are better than those that not only were proposed by President Trump, but actually were and acted on. And we benefited as the American people. We benefited mightily. The border was being secured, our economy was stronger. Let's see, America was once again becoming respected around the world. Lots of good things, you understand what I'm saying. And we were even getting respectful relations with our enemies, people like Kim Jong Un, Xijing Ping, mister Putin, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. We were dealing from a position of strength. But here we are today. The United States is literally in a massive downward spiral, and we could end up going down the sewer of history if this is not brought to a halt in the near future. I believe in many, many millions of my fellow Americans agree that the November election will dictate which direction we take. But some other things are also dictating which direction our nation is or may go or may not go. One of them is what just recently happened the other day in California, Governor knew Some signed a bill intended to in so called discrimination against LGBTQ people in sex crime convictions, particularly with children. Discrimination against LGBTQ people and sex crime convictions will now be outlawed under a new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. Now what now, It depends on what you consider to be discrimination. If it means being punished for scenes that you did, I don't understand why that is considered to be discrimination. But people on the left now equate punishment for wrongdoing or immorality as being discriminatory. The measure. The measure is Sentate Bill one forty five, and it will amend existing state law that allows judges to decide whether an adult convicted of having sexual intercourse with a miner should register as a sex offender in case in cases rather in which the miner is fourteen years or older and the adult is not more than ten years older than the miner. So if you have a left judge, you know how they'll they'll rule. They'll say, ah, you don't have to be on this sexual offender list, go ahead and do your thing. So while that does not blatantly say well sex with minors is the law, but it does take one step closer to that, doesn't it. It helps decriminalize it, and they're trying to destigmatize it as well. And I think that some things like this are setting the United States for a big heap of heurt. You cannot continue to do wrong, legislate wrong, especially your moral acts like this, and expect to remain a great society. You can't do it because when you're making these kinds of decisions and they become a normal part of your lead system, which affects your judgment, which affects generationally how certain imoral acts are viewed by the people and the thinking processes, then the actions and the quality of actions continue to spiral downward, and that affects everything, not just this situation here with adults having sexual minors and being left up to a liberal judge whether as you should be on the sexual offender lists or not. That is some sick stuff. I believe in the biblical approach, of an adult has sex with a minor, something bad should happen to that adult. I mean real bad, permanently bad. But when you have a society that wants to decriminalize that gradually and legalize it and make it okay, that society is in big trouble. That society is cursing itself, and it is cursing its future generations. Because like I said, once you poison the water of the thinking processes in one area, it spreads like a disease. It's like putting a drop of bad of poison in a glass of water. It doesn't separate and you can drink one half of the glass of water. It's not like it's like it's a solid thing. But it impacts everything. And this is why I keep saying over and over again on this broadcast that we the people have to come together. It's time for us to get a little Craig Cray. If we are not for this evil, we have to start standing up in unison and speaking out against it. We cannot allow our children and our children's children to be harmed in such a way. We cannot allow that to be normalized. No, no, no, for the good of our nation. I'd like to know what you guys think about this, but it's horrible stuff. Got a great guest coming up today. Her name is Julie Kelly and she is a writer and a political commentator and author of January sixth Democrats used the Capital protest to launch a war on terror against the political right. We'll be talking with her, I believe right after this on the Urn Edwards American Experience. The Kid has Class Days. The Urn Edwards American Experience a charter member of the emerging new mainstream media. The best offense is a great defense. Clean Slate the Root Brands dot com forward slash niss any icy is a major move in the right direction. Detoxify safely and wisely remove metals and toxes that debilitate your body. The Root brand dot Com forward slash nisi any icy. Order clean Slate today and push those toxins away. Simply go to theep ron Edwards dot com to make your purchase. The Constitutional Grounds the hot air roasted coffee that produces a smoother, richer, healthier, and less assetic coffee. Our unique hot air roasted coffee has a most delicious taste that everyone is raving about. 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Eight hundred four five two one two seven eight. Eight hundred four five two one two seven eight. That's eight hundred four five two twelve seventy eight from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. This is Tom Caldwell, innocent January sixth, defendant and proud Navy veteran. You're listening to the voice of reason, Ron Edwards on the Ron Edwards American Experience. Yes you are, I'm Ron Edwards, Sanda, Welcome back and Today We've got a great guest. Her name is Julie Kelly. She is the author at The Federalist and she's a political commentator and senior contributor to American Greatness. Kelly covers political and policy issues, including the January sixth investigation and what has been going going on with that. Well, let's welcome our guest, Julie Kelly. Hello, and welcome to the Ron Edwards American Experience. Hey, Ron, thanks for having me on. I just want to let everyone know I'm not as a Federalist or American Greatness anymore. People can find my work at my substack declassify with Julie Kelly. Okay, I'm just going off the information I have here. I apologize for the mistake there. Okay, No, we just want to let people know where they can find my work also at Real Queer Investigations. Excellent, Thank you so much for that correction. Well, we both know one individual that, in my opinion, that has been wrongly treated in concerning the j six situation, Tom Caldwell, and there are many many others who have been brutalized in the American gulogs. Just before we get into details, I want your opinion on what this portends for our country, because this is something that you find in third world nations and banata republics and things of that nature, and this happening here in the great United States of America. What is this? How do you think of what do you think about this? Well? I've been covering the events of January sixth and the prosecution since really January twenty twenty one. I wrote a book on it January sixth. How Democrats use a capital protest to launch a warrant terror against the political right, which is of course what they've been doing. So the case of now is reaching one thousand, four hundred defendants. They're arresting people every day. The Department of Justice is on pace to arrest a person a day this year now, more than three years later. So it is a It is the sort of thing that you never expected to see in America where they're not just trying to imprison the former president and you know, Republican nominee for president this year, but his aide like Peter Nabarro, who had to report to Miami prison today for being convicted by DC jury of contempt of Congress for failing to turnover records to the illicit January sixth Democrat January sixth Committee, and as well as his voters. So I think most Americans are, at least the ones on the right recognize that this is a really slippery slope, dangerous descent into Banana Republic style territory that is not stopping. It's only going to get worse as twenty twenty four goes on and we approach election day, is there a way to really stop this? And the reason why I ask this is because, unlike other countries, we have written blocks to these kinds of activities. So it's called our constitution, it's called our building rights, and they're and they're in federalist papers. Everything is written out in detailed what the government should do, what it should not do, our unailable rights, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It seems as if that it the the the leftist have taken control of all the levers, of all the power leavers, and no matter what is written in our constitution, what, no matter what we the people know or care about, they're just saying yang yang and yang, Yeah, I'm doing what I want to and there's nothing you can do about it, what say you, Well, unfortunately, that's right. I mean I've been covering these core proceedings and trials and sentencings since you know, the prosecution started in the spring of twenty twenty one. And the real villains here are the federal judges in Washington, DC at the district court level. This includes Trump appointed judges all the way down to Reagan appointed judges, if you can believe it or not, and they are not fulfilling their oath of office, which is to protect the rights of the defendants and make sure that the government stays in line, that the Department of Justice is not abusing their authority and prosecutorial overreach, which is precisely what they have been doing since day one. So the problem is the judges are not respecting the constitutional rights the Bill of Rights defendants or first A for the fifty six stay eight eighth A protections. In fact, they are systematically disassembling those rights when it relates to Trump supporters or people who dare to protest on January sixth. So you know, the Constitution does not, for the most part exist in these courtrooms. I've seen it over and over, so you know, it's really something when I started covering these trials and court proceedings, was absolutely floored to hear these judges, what these judges and prosecutors were saying and doing so. Unfortunately, the Constitution is no bulwark as a defense for these really mostly helpless defendants viepers. Do you think that I know you said that things are going to get worse, but do you think that by getting worse that will create a ground swell finally from amongst the people of this country or will there be a large enough ground swell to force the government to back up, or is it just too late or we're just under the bootheel that will just finally crush us. I mean, this Department of Justice is not going to stop. As I said, They've accelerated the investigation and the prosecution, continuing to round up and arrest nonviolent offenders to add to this caseloads. So the DOJ and the judges are not going to stop. But I do think that they're one. I do think that there is, you know, definitely grassroots support to especially you see this support for Trump and for Republicans. They want the funding cut off to the DOJ into these offices and federal courts. They want this to stop. It doesn't mean the DOJ is going to do it, because they're not. But I think this will be part of Donald Trump's support. He's already said, there's reporting this week that he is going to make January sixth a cornerstone of his campaign. And so you really see, at least I see the tight attorney In terms of the narrative. The Democrats and regime media do not control the narrative of January sixth anymore like they used to. So that is one little delight of hope. Yeah, and that also gives me hope. And I think that I agree with you on that. I believe that is the days go on. Since the political left, and that includes the Rhinos, they don't have better ideas. The only thing they have in their favor is the powerful leavers of government. And I think that people are going to grow weary of that and increasing numbers, and that will be what will enact the turn against the turnaround, because the people will rise up in such a massive way because their decisions are not just affecting Donald Trump. They're affecting all of us in one way or another, indirectly or directly. And I think out of that misery will arise and awakened and strong people. What say you, I hope so I hope that you're right. As I said, I think the people on the right are starting to recognize this and become very set up and infuriated over it. But I also know that there's half of the country, or forty percent of the country Democrats who'd love to see us all in a gulag, regardless of our actions or whether it was justified, simply for the fact that we support, or people support Donald Trump or Republicans conservative viewpoints. That is who the left and the Democratic Party has turned into. Yeah, and you're right, though it's frightening that in fact, I can say that I have known people in my life that are more in favor and I know this is going to sound retarded, but they're more in favor of the destruction of the United States as we know, rather than Donald Trump being re elected, and they would rather live in misery because they hate that man, and they hate true liberty, they hate what's good about America. And these are people I'm talking about that were born in this country. What constitutes such a level of mental depravity? Where does that come from from? Your angle. I mean, I don't know, know. I mean a lot of it I think is like any leftist movement or a political party, it's born out of power and control over people. So I think that that's where a lot of it comes from. You know, it's hard to look into individual people, and I think it's beyond Trump. I think, you know, we saw this sort of contempt certainly for Ronald Reagan. We saw a lot of contempt for George W. Bush, especially after the two close call the two thousand election. So it's not necessarily new, but now that it's taken a new stage in terms of using the justice system, using the legal system in such an expansive way. Whether it's j sixers, whether it's pro lifers, whether it's someone who posted a joking meme about Hillary Clinton and how to vote. You know, this is or rounding up, you know, people who filed lawsuits or people who wanted to submit nothing unlawful, submit you know, an alternative state of electors to the National Archives or send them to Congress. There's nothing illegal about that, but it doesn't matter because this DOJ knows how to take big statutes in the law and weaponize them and criminalized political dissent in a way that we'll have that is already having, but we'll have very long lasting repercussions for the country. We're coming towards a heartbreak. Do you have a couple of minutes on the other side of the break, Ron, I actually don't. I'm sorry. I just got back to this side of Florida. I've got a couple of other interviews, so i apologize, but I've got to jump off. Thank you so much and for your time, and man, godspeed for what you're doing. Okay, take care on, thank you, take care By now you're listening to the Ron Edwards American experience. Are you enjoying a cup of tea and listening to the Ron Edwards American experience? Man, it doesn't get any better than that. Constitutional Grounds the hot air roasted coffee that produces a smoother, richer, healthier, and less assetic coffee. Our unique hot air roasted coffee has a most delicious taste that everyone is raving about. Because you want the best, Constitutional Grounds is the coffee you want in your cup. Simply go to Vron Edwards dot com and click on to the Constitutional Grounds Coffee display to make your purchase and to be sure to use the r TAD promo code and you will receive a ten percent discount. Remember Constitutional Grounds the coffee you want in your cup. 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I'm Ron Edwards, and you know I've always I learned a long time ago, even when I was just a lad growing up in Cleveland, that it's not what is done or what is said, but rather who does it or who says it. Over the past weekend, President Donald Trump was campaigning and near Dayton, Ohio, and he warned that without fierce new United States tariffs on China made evs, the American auto industry would face a bud bath for the country. Now when he said that the leftist media, gumps and rhinal Gumps went to Nutsville calling for his head basically because he dared to say that, and they were trying to infer that he met there would be blood in the streets. Ladi Dadi da right. Of course, anyone with common sense understood that he was talking about in economic blood letting. Well, guess what, my friends, guess what the CEO of x Ping Motors of China. His name is he Xiaping. Again, he's the CEO of Xping Motors. Guess what he did. He said, I predict a blood bath against America's auto industry with the help of cheap China made electric vehicles. Bamo. Now he said this today. Are you hearing the news media and other you know in talk show hosts on the left side, Are they going to Nutsville talking about the blood bath in America? No, because, like I said, it's not what said, but rather who says it. Donald Trump meant the same exact thing. And if the Republicans are smart, they will use this man's statement in some of their messaging. But now that remains to be seen how smart Republicans will become when it comes to messaging, because they have the better ideas. But boy, oh boy, have they've been lacking over the years when it comes to messaging, putting themselves behind the political eight ball. Well, it seems that the Supreme Court did lift a little bit of good news. There is a ray of good news, my friends. The Supreme Court lifts the stay on the Texas law that gives police powers to arrest illegal border crossers at the border. Isn't that nice? Yes? It is. A divided Supreme Court has lifted a stay on the Texas law that gives police brought powers to arrest illegal border crossers suspected of crossing the border illegally while a legal battle over immigration authority plays out. I'm so happy they did that because they've got to elect they. I'm sorry they have to arrest these individuals that are coming into our country illegally. I say, I say, put them on an island somewhere. You want to come on American soil, you you want to be here, Well, guess what you can have an island. And I'm not talking about a tropical island. I'm talking about an island off of the northern coast of California, which nice and Chile all the time. Alcatras and there's a few other islands out there. Yeah, and that's what we have to do. And then and you know, if it were up to me, you know what I would do. I would publicize all over the world via the Internet, print media, et cetera, et cetera, come to the United States illegally at your own risk. Yeah, Aleutian Islands, Allution Islands, that's perfect, Doug is my producer. That's a great place to put the illegals. But I would start with Alcatraz. I'd reopen that place. Hey, look, there's a building for you already. You have a nice place to live on American soil. But I would publicize to the entire world you're coming to the United States illegally at your own risk. They God have mercy on your souls if you come here illegally in your caught and that's it. And I would also have visitations with certain government leaders around the world and tell them it will go bad for you if you can send if you continue to send your vermin human debris to our republic, it will not be good. My friend, we can be friends or we can be enemies. It's up to you govern yourself accordingly, be wise. And I'm sure that if President Trump gets into office, returns officially. You know, those kinds of things will be said to foreign leaders. But I'm looking at these pictures here at the Texas border of my friends. It is heartbreaking. It is very, very heartbreaking. And so if you know, and you know, we can all say, we can all armchair quarterback. But see, here's the thing. I know. The Governor Abbot of Texas, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, Between the two of them, there's a lot of authority. And remember, let's not forget recently it was ruled in a court of law that Texas can go ahead and build a border. Remember that, so Governor Rabbit should be hard at work, or have others hard at work at building that border and making life very miserable for illegal border crosses. I would not offer them a bottle of water. I would let them know before they get here, you're not going to get water. No telephones, no nothing. If you want to hang out in Mexico, that's between you and Mexico. Trump did that, and things were getting better and better and better and better for our republic. And I was listening. I wasn't listening. I was watching a news talk show, A few days ago, I forget the name of the show was pretty forgettable because you had these Democrat oriented individuals arguing that because it wasn't basically perfect under the Trump regime, the situation was totally broken, and now Biden has improved it. And I'm thinking, my gosh, they must really believe that the American people are just totally retarded because the reality of their situation. You can now look at cities that I mean like Pittsburgh, where you're starting to see a block here, a block there, a believable border crosses home homeless, homeless people hanging out and building their tents. Payne Avenue in Cleveland, near downtown. They're starting to creep in there. No longer can we here in the North rely on a nice whole you know, nice cold winter to kind of thin the herd. Can't rely on that anymore. But we should rely on the law and common sense, and for the good of our own existence as a nation, we've got to have these people kicked out. They're bringing over all kinds of diseases. I mean, Polio was just about wiped out of the United States, wipe out. It's back. The plague, it's back leprosy. There are cases of leprosy. It's here, and it didn't those things did not start drawing among people born in this country. It was it's being brought in. And these people are being shuttled all over the United States at our risk, and now they're carting them out to the nice suburbs because this is part of the effort. My friends, I remember, gosh, I wish I could remember that. It was a Democrat politician. They're not in office anymore, but they used to talk about making life uncomfortable for Americans in general, just making it just unbearably uncomfortable because certain areas were bad, and they say, well, we're going to make it's going to be like that for everyone. That's that's part of the effort of Black Lives Matter Antifa, make life a pain in the backside to everyone spread the misery rather than coming together and get rid of the misery and the creation and the reason for misery in our country. They're all about this is what they talk about. When when they when they say equality, this is what I'm talking about. What they're what they they plan to do. They want to make everyone equally poor. They're not about equal opportunity for Americans. That is why Tyson Foods could lay off thousands and then turn around and say, you know what, We're going to build a larger plant in another state, and we're going to hire thousands and thousands of illegal border crossers. It's all about putting down Americans and bringing in our replacements. So I asked you, my friends in this country, what do you want to be done about that? What do you think should be done? I know what should be done, But the politically correct on our side, and you know, the squeamish, they would just rather oh no, oh, you can't do this, You can't do that, while they do everything to us. How crazy is that? And that's also steeped in Christianity too. Christians will have their little cliques and they'll attack each other and try to undermine one another like crabs in a bucket. But Lord have mercy when it comes to fighting evil and focusing on teaching children about real principles so that they can have a better life under the protection of our creator. Oh no, can't do that. And I'm speaking from observation, not imagination. It is what it is, but we talk about what it should be because it's about improving our quality of life in this republic. We don't stand or stick on the problems, but we the people need to come together and work on the solutions and stop the madness. And we'll continue when I return on the Ron Edwards American Experience. 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Right Well, we are in tax season and nobody really likes paying taxes, especially since most of our taxes are unconstitutional and at least in my opinion. But where do the federal income tax come from? How did it start? Now, we know that the sixteenth Amendment did not create the federal income tax, which is wrong. However, my friends, the sixteenth Amendment did fundamentally change our beloved Republic. As April fifteenth approaches in the not too distant future and people spend valuable time and money on filing their income tax returns, it is worth our time to look at the source of our paying Remember how Bill Clinton said, I feel your I feel your paying. Well. Plenty of people grouse and complain about paying income taxes. Most don't realize that the cause of their pain is the actions of the States back in nineteen thirteen. Yep. Woody Woodrow Wilson was in office at that time. He was a wicked soul, and when the States ratified the sixteenth Amended stupidly, they did more than just help the Feds collect income taxes. They fundamentally changed the Republic. Yep, they changed the Republic for the worst. Nobody I know likes overpaying taxes like we do today. They are necessary evil if we are to have a stable society. And yes, but we don't have to pay taxes at the level that we do just to feed the giant government, which just uses most of our tax dollars in a wasteful manner. So the most common questions debated are who pays taxes and how much. The more important decision is who decides those questions. Back in seventeen eighty seven, when the Constitution was drafted and it was ratified, the framers of this Republic understood the need to collect taxes, so they delegated the power to tax the Congress. They said, Congress, you shall be the ones to collect the taxes, but with some very specific restrictions. Aha, the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. But all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States US Constitution, Article one, Section eight, Clause one. Go check it out RNs. Yes, Congress can collect taxes. Duties, imposts, and excises are simply different types of taxes that Congress can collect. But notice how there are only three things Congress can collect taxes four three one two, three, one to pay the debts of the United States, two for the common defense of the United States, three and for the general welfare of the United States. That's it could put. Notice also that Congress can only collect taxes to be used for the United States. Capital U capital shh a proper noun for the entity known as the United States. This is the very same proper noun used in the Tenth Amendment to say the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibit by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, meaning you and I, uh oh, what about Amendment ten of the United States Constitution. Now there we see that our first big heaphn problem. We the people have not held Congress to collecting taxes only for constitutionally authorized purposes. As Alex Diteufel said long ago, the American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Congress has discovered how to bribe the public, and oh how they have used it. However, for the first century or so, there was a serious impediment to Congress's ability to overtax the people. It was the Constitution, then you have direct taxes. Also, representatives was established in Article one, Section two. An important little phrase was included. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers. US Constitution Article one, Section two, Class three. Not only were the seats in the House to be apportioned to the states by population, but so were direct taxes. Uh oh. A direct tax is usually a property tax or add velorum by value. Now that tax has opposed to an indirect tax imposed upon some right or privileged such as a franchise tax. Or how about let's see property taxes, now direct tax It's not that Congress couldn't impose any direct taxes, only that they had to apportion those taxes to the states. If Congress were to pass a tax on the value of your property, your estate, or even your income, they had to divide the tax up amongst the states based on their population and have the states collected as we will see in what we have seen. This is extremely important since it places the states between the people and the United States federal government. Now, the income tax did not start with the sixteenth Amendment. It started in eighteen sixty two to fund the Civil War. Since it was consistent revenue streams, the income tax was sold to the people with the warning that it was necessary, the promise that it would be limited by a person's income, and were scheduled to expire in eighteen seventy. However, that did not make it constitutional, most likely due to the urgencies of the war. Though this tax was never challenged in court. And see, that's one of the things that government does to day. They either create or utilize a catastrophe, a bad event, et cetera, to bring up more regulations, more taxes, and then sell it as a necessity, and then the people buy into it as if, oh my god, we'll follow off the face of the earth if we don't adopt this new rate. Allow them to adopt this new regulation or new tax, and the only thing that has happened is now we have what thirty four thirty five trillion dollars in debt because all they wanted to do is taxes to the gills. The way the tax system is set up, it is guaranteed to literally economic economically destroy this country and keep us in such straits that now both adults in a household, they've got to work just to keep the roof going, just to keep everyone their bellies fall, keep the lights on, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Originally, it was meant that only one person needed to go out and work, the father, Mom stay home take care of the children. The leftist and government rubbed their little chiny chin chins and said, hey, you know what, we can start whittling away the unity of the family by producing a situation where it is a necessity and it becomes accepted by mom and pop for both having to go and work. And at the same time, you decrease the value and the spending power of the dollar. Ah, so you need many more dollars just to buy the same thing that you could buy in nineteen sixty four. And it just goes on and on and on and on, and we keep putting up with this over and over again, and every administration, even the good ones, continue to allow this debt system to pile up on who not only just us, but our future generations. And now it has gotten to a point where, hey, we could be facing the last generation of American greatness. There's a lot more that I like to share about this sixteenth Amendment and the man the ongoing problems, but I don't have time right now. Now that I see that my time is up, thank you so much for your time, and as I always say, this time, remember to pray for your nation, she needs it. Pray for your family, your friends, you're in enemies and make sure they get it right and treat others the way you would want to be treated. My friends, I'm Ron Edwards. 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