1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,000 Some people might be here out of a devotion to the cause of 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,080 health freedom in various forms, whether it's freedom from the 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,880 so-called Obamacare. I hate that word by the way. 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,800 You know, various other forms of health freedom. 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,560 There could be people who are devoted to the 10th amendment to 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,800 the Constitution. There could be people who are 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,040 just dedicated to the principle that it's, it's better for there 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,560 to be multiple power centers in society, for people to have 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,440 greater voice in the regime they live under, Whatever. 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,400 There are all different reasons, but I want to spend my last few 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,760 moments just sharing with you what my own are and my own 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,920 basically are. These are both domestic and 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,240 foreign. Domestically, I've come to the 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,560 conclusion that the federal government has sold us a bill of 15 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,080 goods and they've brainwashed us into believing it. 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,840 Ever since we were sitting in their crummy schools, they fed 17 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,800 us this line that without them we'd be totally lost. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,640 We'd be pathetic boobs. We'd all be eating poison food. 19 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,040 We would with all our technological advances we 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,080 wouldn't have thought of any way to come up with a a non lethal 21 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,400 sandwich. Our kids would all be working in 22 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,000 a mine for a dollar a day. We'd all be getting our limbs 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,800 blown off because our computer monitors would be exploding. 24 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,680 Everybody would earn $0.03 an hour. 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,080 There'd be no science, there'd be no art, and on and on and on, 26 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,040 right? Everybody would be an ignoramus 27 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,560 and this and that, right? I mean, everybody, everybody was 28 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,960 taught this. I understand why people believe 29 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:34,080 this. There's a superficial 30 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,680 plausibility to it because you say, well before we had a lot of 31 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,160 government intervention, people lived in terrible conditions. 32 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,360 Now they live in better conditions. 33 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,040 So the one must have caused the other. 34 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,400 That's completely illegitimate reasoning. 35 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,320 And I think I could I demon try to demonstrate that in my newer 36 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,880 book rollback. But the point is that if we were 37 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,760 educated in this is my new analogy. 38 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,800 I I kind of like I'm kind of fond of I'm very bad at 39 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,760 analogies. I'm the anti Peter Schiff when 40 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,640 it comes to analogies. I'm so bad at he he thinks of 41 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,320 analogies in his sleep. You know, he could be drunk, you 42 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,360 know, in car accident. He's coming up with analogies. 43 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,560 I can't think of anything but imagine you were educated in 44 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,160 Walmart schools. Schools run and funded by 45 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,040 Walmart. Well, the kids now as close in 46 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:13,720 these schools. Every every day the kid goes to 47 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,400 this classroom and the classroom up on the wall, it's all 48 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,880 pictures of Walmart CEOs looking down upon the kids wisely. 49 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,120 And the kids are taught to sing songs. 50 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,480 Oh how great the Walmart CEOs are. 51 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,600 Oh God bless the Walmart CEOs. We'd all be pathetic boobs 52 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,000 without them. So on and on and on. 53 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,720 They cut out little pictures of the Walmart CEOs. 54 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,320 And then one day a year they get to stay home from school and 55 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,520 meditate on the great contributions of the Walmart 56 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,000 CEOs. Whatever, wouldn't we in that 57 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,800 situation? Wouldn't we say, now that's a 58 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,560 little bit creepy, You know, like, I mean, come on. 59 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,400 I mean, maybe there were a couple of good Walmart CEOs, but 60 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,320 I mean, I, I refuse to believe that all good things of 61 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,760 civilization came from these people. 62 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,560 Like we would say that yet when it's US presidents up on that 63 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,360 wall, we accept everything they say. 64 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,200 Oh my gosh, heaven forbid. What kind of a caveman are you? 65 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,200 You mean you don't want the great innovations of president? 66 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,560 So and so where would we be? We'd all be dead in a ditch and 67 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,960 have no limbs and three cents an hour. 68 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,880 It's like a mental disorder and like somehow it's been talked 69 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,240 to. I don't know how it's it's an 70 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,960 incredible racket. It is an unbelievable racket. 71 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,400 I mean, in a way I almost wish I was clever enough to a thought 72 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,920 that I would loot you people. I would loot and. 73 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,040 Expropriate you people, and then to add insult to injury, I 74 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,360 would. Train your kids to. 75 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,360 Cheer what I'm doing. I mean, man, I mean, that is 76 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,240 serious, serious, sociopathic cleverness. 77 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,200 How do they think of this stuff? So I don't believe it. 78 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,480 I believe this institution has held back human progress. 79 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,480 I believe it pits us all against each other in a civil war of 80 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,880 everybody grabbing and every one of us has been sucked into some 81 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,040 kind of interest group, whether it's our occupation or our age 82 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,520 or our race or our class, everybody wants to grab and grab 83 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:03,720 and grab and grab. It's what Frederick Bastiat 84 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,840 said. The state is the great fiction 85 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,600 by which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone 86 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,000 else. And look at where it's got. 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,520 However, my last section here is something that maybe not all of 88 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,960 you are going to receive well, but you know, I, I can't, I got 89 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,280 to be me, you know, OK, I got to tell you. 90 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,760 And the other thing, the other thing is so so in other words, 91 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,160 because of this, I believe this institution is like a 92 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:41,160 decivilization agent. So at every turn I want to try 93 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,520 and stop it. And if this is a tool for doing 94 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,000 it, then I'm all for it. But it's worse than that 95 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,080 because, you know, I let me start off by saying giving my my 96 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,920 right wing credentials here. I was the vice president of the 97 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Harvard College Republicans. And I know you're all thinking, 98 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,920 yeah, that's some right wing credentials. 99 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,600 Wow. So you supported Walter Mondale. 100 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Great. OK, the older crowd remembers 101 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:05,880 Walter Mondale. Good. 102 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,440 That joke wasn't lost. OK, My Politically Incorrect 103 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,600 Guide to American History is one of the best selling books in the 104 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,520 history of the Conservative Book Club. 105 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:16,520 I mean like, so I'm not some left. 106 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,040 I'm not a commie. I I'm not a, you know, pinko or 107 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,960 anything like that. I'm the least commie guy you'll 108 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:23,960 ever meet. Although there are a lot of 109 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,520 pretty non common people in this room. 110 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,280 But having said that, I also came to the conclusion that I 111 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:33,000 don't believe the foreign policy either. 112 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,600 I just don't believe them. I don't believe the word is 113 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:42,600 wrong. And I say this to people knowing 114 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,800 again that some of you are going to disagree with me, but I'm 115 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,840 telling you, I'm not a leftist in any way. 116 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,240 And I came to the conclusion that they're lying sociopaths 117 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,280 domestically, and they don't magically transform into angelic 118 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:57,240 beings when it comes to foreign policy. 119 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:03,200 They're also lying to us. Now, that's not to say that 120 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,880 there aren't some nasty people around the world. 121 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,040 I mean, there's no need to caricature what I'm saying, but 122 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,880 I think back to the 1990s when I was, you know, well, younger 123 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,440 than I am now. And, and, and I, I basically 124 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,480 believe that, well, I'm a good little conservative. 125 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,080 And so, you know, when, when the authorities tell me that 126 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,120 military action is necessary, only a pinko comedy would 127 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,040 question that. Now that was a big, big moral 128 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,560 mistake. I made an intellectual mistake, 129 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,360 and I'm sorry I made it. And I think back to the 130 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,400 disgraceful ways I used to make up excuses to these people. 131 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,600 They would do commit horrific atrocities, and they would do it 132 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,960 on the most flimsy pretext. I mean, the arguments they made 133 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,000 for some of these wars were so transparent. 134 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,160 I thought, how could I begin to think, how can a conservative, 135 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,840 like, who's supposed to be dedicated to Western 136 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,840 civilization and reason and be swept up in this? 137 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:57,320 I mean, it's so beneath us to fall for some of this stuff. 138 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,600 And yet I fell for it. And, and I would go around 139 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,640 searching for corroborating evidence to support their lives. 140 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,040 And if if I had seen a poor Russian in the Soviet Union 141 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,680 doing the same thing, saying, Oh no, saying to his neighbors 142 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,360 don't know what Prav is telling us is true. 143 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,200 Look, I've been looking it up and I've looked at all this 144 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,800 evidence I've found. I would have treated that person 145 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,640 with contempt. But for some reason, when it was 146 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,880 my looting expropriators, it was OK for me to make excuses for 147 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,840 them and to search out corroborating evidence for 148 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,320 arguments that they can abandoned. 149 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,000 They themselves said if they weren't even making these 150 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,680 arguments anymore. And I was still looking for ways 151 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,520 to defend them. And I finally just decided, and 152 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,920 this was back in the early 1990s after the first Persian Gulf 153 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,000 War. And this is a war a lot of 154 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,680 people thought was just nothing wrong with it. 155 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,400 You know, Saddam's a bad guy. He's massing his troops on the 156 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,120 Saudi border and so on and on. But I remember hearing about 157 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,000 people, hundreds of thousands of people retreating, being 158 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,760 incinerated. And I'm being asked to have a 159 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,720 Bob Hope special to celebrate this some some backward country, 160 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,520 some backwater, which actually by regional standards was 161 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,120 relatively advanced, hardly, but relatively stupid modern 162 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,560 healthcare system and so on and so forth. 163 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,640 So I thought to myself, what's happening to me? 164 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,000 What have I allowed this institution to do to me that I 165 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,920 could look so callously on these poor people? 166 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,880 I don't care if they were conscripted into an army. 167 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:19,920 They were conscripted, most of them. 168 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,760 And I don't. I don't care that the sociopaths 169 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,840 in DC have told me I'm supposed to hate these people, because I 170 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,760 don't hate them. And when I saw that I was 171 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,400 supposed to, If there had been an earthquake over there, we 172 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,840 would all be tears and pity about it. 173 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,400 But when they're incinerated alive, nothing. 174 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:49,120 These people are human guard. And I just decided at that 175 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,520 point, I'm not doing this anymore. 176 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:52,680 I don't believe what you people are telling me. 177 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,160 I don't believe your phony baloney reasons for your war is 178 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,880 that all you care about is democracy so that therefore you 179 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,800 can put the Emir of Kuwait back on his throat. 180 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:03,040 I mean, come on, you know I'm not 7 years old. 181 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,800 In fact, that's an insult because my 7 year old is smarter 182 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,560 than that. I have sometimes said, by the 183 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,720 way, that I, I managed to explain to my 7 year old what 184 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,240 nullification meant and it made me conclude that a panel of 185 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,760 seven-year olds would be better than the Supreme Court and the 186 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,200 Federal Reserve Board put together. 187 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,280 So let me finish because I know I'm, I'm way, way, way over. 188 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,320 Way, way over. But also also as the 1990s 189 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,400 progressed. OK, so then we put the sanctions 190 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,800 regime on Saddam and the UN, OK, We don't, we don't like the UN, 191 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,600 Neither do I. The UN says 500,000 children 192 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,640 have died of malnutrition because of the the sanctions. 193 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,720 And then the usual response is, well, that's a phony statistic. 194 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,240 Or if Saddam had to spend all his money on palaces, the kids 195 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,640 to the beaten or whatever. That's neither here. 196 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,560 The point is, U.S. officials Madeleine Albright and Bill 197 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,600 Richardson both said they did not question that figure. 198 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,800 They said that price was worth it. 199 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,520 They didn't say the UN is lying. They didn't say this is awful. 200 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,960 They said that price is worth it. 201 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,520 Now I am sorry. There is impossible for a 202 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,840 conservative who's supposed to lectures the world about moral 203 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,200 relativism to say what we are better than this. 204 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,200 How can we allow ourselves to be so dehumanized that we sit here 205 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:22,560 and allow ourselves to be called extremists when people who make 206 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:26,800 excuses for, for the killing of half a million children to go 207 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,800 about their business and, and we, we defend this, this is 208 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,560 public policy. No, I can't do this. 209 00:10:51,030 --> 00:10:53,750 Now. Incidentally, incidentally, 210 00:10:53,750 --> 00:10:57,510 Russell Kirk is considered by some to be the founder of modern 211 00:10:57,510 --> 00:10:59,390 American conservatism. His classic book, The 212 00:10:59,390 --> 00:11:02,760 Conservative Mind is probably in like a 9th edition by now, a 213 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,480 very significant figure. And we look at Kirk's foreign 214 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,920 policy. It has nothing in common with 215 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,480 the teenage laptop bombardiers who run our foreign policy 216 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,920 today. Has nothing to do with the neo 217 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,120 Con Bill Kristol, nothing. You look at you look at Russell 218 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,360 Kirk, who's a real conservative who hasn't had his brainwashed 219 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,440 by these phonies on the radio. Kirk said that military 220 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,440 conscription is akin to slavery. This is a this is the most 221 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,840 significant conservative paper of the 20th century. 222 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,720 In his book 1954, called A Program for Conservatives, he 223 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,240 laid out a foreign policy that bears 0 resemblance to the 224 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,720 interventionism that we have now. 225 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,080 And at the end of the Persian Gulf War, at the end of the 226 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,360 Persian Gulf War, he said that George HW Bush, now this is the 227 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,560 most significant conservative thinker of the 20th century. 228 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,040 He said George HW Bush should be strung up on the White House 229 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,360 lawn for war crimes. Was he a pinko commie? 230 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,000 Russell Turner? Is that what we're going to? 231 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,800 Is that what we're reduced to? No. 232 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,080 Now, finally, therefore, my conclusion is it is not enough 233 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,680 to say that in Washington we've got some bumblers and boy, 234 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:11,280 they're inefficient. And there are some libertarians 235 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,720 who sort of take that tack that, gosh, you know, government's 236 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,360 just full of these people who have they, they have these 237 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,920 programs with all these crazy unintended consequences. 238 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,480 What a bunch of jokers. I don't go for them. 239 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,880 It it's not that they're jokers, it's that they are raving 240 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,800 sociopaths whom I don't want have exercise in any power over 241 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:40,680 me. And if we at the state level, if 242 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,920 we in our own communities, if we can't solve our problems face to 243 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,360 face with each other without the intervention of these people, 244 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,560 then heaven help us, the state, but especially these modern mega 245 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:55,280 states, have been a moral and material disaster. 246 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,200 Now. Being here and of course, you 247 00:12:58,200 --> 00:12:59,800 know, in this type of room, there are people of all 248 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,680 different points of view. And sometimes people wonder, you 249 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:05,360 know, well, maybe there are some people on the left who are so 250 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,480 disaffected on some critical issues that maybe they'll join 251 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,520 with us and in some areas, and here I am, I'm the squariest of 252 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,600 the square. I've never smoked pot. 253 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:15,840 I've never done any of this stuff. 254 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,080 No, I, you know, I got 4 kids. We do all, I got a minivan. 255 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,160 You know, I, I'm not part of this, but I feel like I have 256 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,480 more in common with somebody like in the 60s of Carl Ogles, 257 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,520 who said that the old right, which is the right wing that 258 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,200 I've talked about, has been totally decimated. 259 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:34,400 And the new left are in many ways morally and politically 260 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,680 coordinate. I'm sympathetic to the New Left 261 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:40,680 historian William Appleman Williams, who said that the best 262 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:43,440 approximation we ever came in this country to have in truly 263 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,480 humane communities was under the Articles of Confederation. 264 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:52,120 Now you utter these words, you say something like that to Bill 265 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,440 Kristol. You may as well be holding a 266 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:58,760 crucifix in front of directive. Now, are there alliances that 267 00:13:58,760 --> 00:13:59,800 are possible? Maybe. 268 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,280 I mean, I did a book that I've got out there with a friend, 269 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,760 friend Murray Polner, and he and I disagree on almost everything. 270 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,040 But on critical things, we came together and we we produced, I 271 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,400 think, a nice little, little product. 272 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,000 I don't know what types of alliances are possible. 273 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,640 All we can do is to hold the law, the banner of justice and 274 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,960 humanity and see who rallies to it. 275 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,760 And no matter who joins us, fight we must. 276 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,320 For as Ludwig von Mises said, everyone carries a part of 277 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,040 society on his shoulders. No one is relieved of his share 278 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,240 of responsibility by others, and no one can find a Safeway out 279 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,680 for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. 280 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,560 Therefore, everyone in his own interests must thrust himself 281 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,000 vigorously into the intellectual battle. 282 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,480 None can stand aside with unconcern. 283 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,000 The interest of everyone hangs on the result. 284 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,680 Let's all stand together. Thank you very much. 285 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,440 War is a euphemism for theft, funded mass murder based on 286 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,360 lies, often involving slaves, known as conscripts. 287 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,080 Almost every Democrat and Republican hold 2 contradictory 288 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,840 beliefs. 1 If our domestic government violates our 289 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,520 freedoms, we must embrace calm disagreement, but never resist. 290 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,200 When officers give you an order, you must obey them lest we get 291 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,680 killed like Ashley Babbitt 2. When any foreign politician 292 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,680 potentially or hypothetically violates your freedom, you must 293 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,880 go to war and advocate the mass murder of civilians. 294 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,240 Since the costs of violence are extremely high, often immoral, 295 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,640 and outcomes very uncertain, I suggest we take the peaceful 296 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,000 route as often as possible regarding warfare. 297 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,640 Here are 12 facts the fake news and fake historians have omitted 298 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,920 one. the US government supported al Qaeda in Syria to fight 299 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,080 Bashar al-Assad Sea Operation Timber Sycamore 2. 300 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,560 The US government sided with al Qaeda in Libya, the Libyan 301 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,120 Islamic Fighting group 2 oppose Muammar Gaddafi 3 the US 302 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,080 government fought alongside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 303 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:19,400 against the houthi government in Yemen #4 on September 20th of 304 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,680 2001, President Bush said they hate us for our freedom and 305 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,520 democracy. Yet in Al Qaeda in Its Own 306 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,800 Words, published by Harvard University Press, bin Laden's 307 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:34,160 grievances consisted of US deadly sanctions on Iraq, US 308 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,320 support for Israeli crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, and U.S. 309 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,640 military occupation of Saudi Arabia. 310 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,480 This live led to NATO's first ever declaration of war and 311 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,160 after 20 years 10s of thousands of civilian and military deaths, 312 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:56,880 the Taliban seized Kabul in 11 days #5 Page 177 of the 1946 313 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,880 Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation sites. 314 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:05,160 Secretary of War Henry Stimson's diary dated November 25th, 1941, 315 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,800 saying the President brought up the event that we were likely to 316 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,720 be attacked perhaps as soon as next Monday, for the Japanese 317 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,240 are notorious for making an attack without warning. 318 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,440 And the question was what we should do. 319 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,839 The question was how we should maneuver them into the position 320 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,319 of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to 321 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,119 ourselves. Number six in the First World 322 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,200 War, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill said in his 323 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,160 book The World Crisis, 1911 to 1918. 324 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,960 The British blockade treated the whole of Germany as if it were a 325 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,720 beleaguered fortress and avowedly sought to starve the 326 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,000 whole population, men, women and children, old and young, wounded 327 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,400 and sound into submission. Not Kaiser Wilhelm, but the 328 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:55,360 German civilian population. And these are the good guys #7 329 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,400 it was Neville Chamberlain who declared war against Germany on 330 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,120 September 3rd, 1939, after the National Socialists invaded 331 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,640 Danzig, Poland, a town which was roughly 95% German. 332 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,920 And it was Winston Churchill who initiated the terror bombings of 333 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,480 civilians in May of 1940. Chamberlain and Churchill's war 334 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,640 for Polish independence resulted in 7 million dead Poles and 335 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:24,720 Poland occupied by the Bolshevik regime #8 Former Secretary of 336 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,640 Defense Robert McNamara, in his book Argument without End claims 337 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:34,000 the August 4th, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident never took 338 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,960 place, meaning the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964 and mass 339 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,600 murder campaign of Vietnam was based on a lie. 340 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,520 This resolution passed the US Senate 88 votes to two and 341 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:53,960 passed the House 416 votes to 0 #9 Vice President said on Meet 342 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,360 the Press. It's been pretty well confirmed 343 00:18:56,360 --> 00:19:00,240 that he, Muhammad Atta, did go to Prague and he did meet with a 344 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,920 senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service. 345 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:08,280 Fake news #10 We're told that we must bear the costs of hundreds 346 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,240 of thousands of lives in Ukraine for the benefit of democracy. 347 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,360 Yet Zelensky did not hold his March 31st election of this 348 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,320 year. His military bombed NATO ally 349 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:25,440 Poland on November 15th of 2022. He conscripts in slaves men to 350 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,440 fight in his war just so he could stay on the throne in Kiev 351 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:34,360 #11 The real aim behind our current Russia policy is the 352 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:39,040 Pentagon's February 1992 Defense Planning Guidance draft stating 353 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,560 our first objective is to prevent the re emergence of a 354 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,720 new rival. We must maintain the mechanisms 355 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,200 for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring 356 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:55,240 to a larger regional or global role #12 The origins of the 357 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,360 Russia Ukraine conflict were explained by President Obama in 358 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,760 his book A Promised Land, Reading from page 464. 359 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,920 The US decision seven years earlier to pull out of the Anti 360 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,720 Ballistic Missile Treaty and it's plans to house missile 361 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,920 defense systems on Russia's border continue to be a source 362 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,440 of strategic instability. The admission of former Warsaw 363 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,680 Pact countries into NATO during both the Clinton and Bush 364 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,240 administrations had steadily encroached on Russia's sphere of 365 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,680 influence, while US support for the color revolutions in 366 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,480 Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan under the specious guise of 367 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,160 democracy promotion had turned Russia's once friendly neighbors 368 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,000 into governments hostile to Moscow. 369 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,520 This is isolationism. Provoking enemies is isolating, 370 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,880 not seeking friendship and free trade. 371 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,160 The national security elites in every country since the 372 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,720 beginning of time must lie and sensationalize potential foreign 373 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,560 threats in order to get their domestic populations to 374 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,160 surrender their freedoms and bear the high cost of dying and 375 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,440 getting their limbs blown off. To. 376 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,240 Secretary of State Blanken and National Security Advisor 377 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,480 Sullivan don't just avoid war because it's the right thing to 378 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,640 do. Do it for yourself over 379 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,240 expansion and engagement in unnecessary wars. 380 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,480 Brought down Napoleon's French Empire, Czar Nicholas's Russian 381 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,240 Empire, Kaiser Wilhelm's German Empire, the Austro Hungarian 382 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,720 Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Hirohito's Japanese 383 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,280 Empire, Hitler's Third Reich, the British Empire, and the 384 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,480 Soviet Empire. Those idiots got bogged down in 385 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,640 an unwinnable conflict in Afghanistan. 386 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,640 What kind of an empire would do such a thing with a state having 387 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,080 a monopoly on the money supply, the right to take money without 388 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,440 consent, taxation, and the right to conscript? 389 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,240 Politicians seldom have an incentive to consider obvious 390 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,480 peaceful alternatives to war. Consider the comment by 391 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,160 Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts. 392 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,360 The US should make it very clear to the Chinese that if you 393 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:05,640 invade Taiwan, we're going to blow up TSMC, Taiwan 394 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,880 Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. 395 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,800 Hello Attorney General, if inciting a riot can get someone 396 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,200 arrested, what should happen to politicians who incite war? 397 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,960 Instead of war with China over Taiwan, Let's decriminalize all 398 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,120 economic activity between consenting adults here and 399 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,840 abroad to make sure our economy out competes all other 400 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,440 countries. This is the true way to empower 401 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,960 Americans. One question we need to ask 402 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,760 ourselves to practice basic empathy. 403 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,400 When would another country be justified in invading America, 404 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,920 killing civilians, bombing cities, blockading ports, and 405 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,760 installing a new government? If the answer is basically 406 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,480 never, we should reject moral double standards and have the 407 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,880 same principle for other countries. 408 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,640 History shows we can talk to our enemies. 409 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,800 Eisenhower shook hands with Khrushchev in America in 1959. 410 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,880 Kennedy wrote letters to Khrushchev to avoid nuclear 411 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,480 exchange over Cuba. Nixon shook hands with Mao in 412 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,780 Beijing. Trump shook hands with Kim Jong 413 00:23:08,780 --> 00:23:11,960 Un in Singapore. Roosevelt and Truman had a 414 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,840 formal alliance with Joseph Stalin. 415 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,520 We can be friends with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin for 416 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,640 the sake of avoiding a nuclear exchange, which would make the 417 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,800 crimes of the Third Reich seem minuscule by comparison. 418 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,440 My friends on the right, the pro-life pro family position is 419 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,280 anti war. When God says thou shalt not 420 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,160 murder. There were no exceptions for 421 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:39,200 politicians and soldiers. My friends on the left, the 422 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,680 biggest inequality is when one person takes the life of another 423 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,240 unjustly, which in war occurs on a massive scale. 424 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,120 Nothing is more exploitative to the average person than watching 425 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,480 cities which took centuries to construct be blown to bits while 426 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,280 getting conscripted into war. Watching your loved ones get 427 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,800 murdered by bombs. My friends in the military. 428 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,040 I was asked in grade school if someone told you to jump off a 429 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,160 bridge, would you do it? The point was you are directly 430 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,200 responsible for the actions you take. 431 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,240 I was told so, or I was just following orders is not a valid 432 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,240 excuse for school children or members of the military. 433 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,680 We don't have to admire psychopaths. 434 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,240 We can admire Cornelius Vanderbilt for lowering the cost 435 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,880 of steamship travel from 7 dollars to six cents. 436 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,080 The Wright Brothers for giving the gift of flight to the common 437 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,600 American. Henry Ford and the Ford Auto 438 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,120 Workers for making the automobile accessible to the 439 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,880 masses. Rosa Parks for disobeying unjust 440 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,920 laws. Martin Luther King for holding 441 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,280 us Americans to the very standards we claim to uphold. 442 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,280 Steve Jobs and the Apple employees for giving people 443 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,560 access to phones and computers on a scale never imagined. 444 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,680 The great crimes of history, slavery, Genghis Khan, genocide, 445 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,840 Jim Crow, et cetera, all had one thing in common. 446 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,600 They involved some people initiating violence against 447 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,680 peaceful people. Americans must lead the world in 448 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,320 rejecting war, recognizing it for what it is. 449 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,120 Theft funded mass murder based on lies, often involving slaves 450 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,840 known as conscripts. My name is Keith Knight, 451 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,280 managing editor at the Libertarian Institute.