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#386 Stolen Innocence: The Annihilation of Childhood is a National Disgrace · Claymore: Become Who You Are

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Become who you Are podcast, the production of the John Paul 2 renewal center.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Jack Rigert, your host, and, yes, you know it.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here with me.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: There is a lot of crazy stuff going on, isn't there?
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: You know it's, it's.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I probably could come out and just spend an hour every day just going through the crazy things that I just read today or watched today or saw today.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: What we're doing to each other as human beings is we've totally lost it and, and it's a very interesting time to be alive and thank goodness and thank God, we have, with John Paul, the Seconds, theology, the body.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: We have church teaching before the Vatican went crazy and we have all this came down to us and of course we have.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: We have Jesus Christ himself and and the encounters we actually have in our own hearts with them, and so, with all of that said, I want to give you a little taste of a talk that I just gave last night to a group of politicians.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I call it stolen innocence, the annihilation of childhood, and it's a national disgrace.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Now, in reality, you can probably guess which, which political party of the two main political parties invited me to speak.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: I don't get invited to the to the donkey side much anymore.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: In fact, I never do.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: It's always going to be to the elephant side.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Now, now, what's the Republicans?
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Of course, now, at the end of the day, this should never have been, and when my talks and my presentations never started out to be a left to right, a conservative or progressive issues, it's never been about worshiping a donkey or worshiping the elephant.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a human rights issue, it's a human dignity issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's, it's a, an idea of what it means to be human.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: And we have two different views on that and unfortunately, the the Democrats and I'm not just downing Democrats to say they're Democrats, but they've accepted this platform.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: It's a Neil Marxist platform and basically it says this you know there is no meaning or purpose to to life and what it means to be human.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: We make this up.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: They basically say this you know, forget about God, the church, the Bible, marriage it's meaningless.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: The family, we just make it up.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Our human sexuality is just arbitrary.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: You know, you can get assigned at birth and we can change it as we go along.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: So, in essence, you know you're here by accident.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: There's no creative purpose, no meaning and purpose to your life.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: You're here, just by accident, just Adams hitting Adams hitting Adams, and because there's no meaning and purpose to your life.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want with your life.
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  Speaker 1: You can trash it, you can indulge it, you can use others for your own personal satisfaction, as long as they in quote consent, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day you can even end it, and many people are so the the the problem with that is this I speak to a lot of young people and the human heart doesn't function very well in a world without meaning or purpose.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I see it all the time.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: So I I start to unpack some of those things and, as I did with these people last night, I I started to unpack and got deeper and deeper and deeper, and I think it's important to to to talk about some of the issues or share some of the issues with you that I shared with them.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Because when you see the problems in young people today and what they're going through today, you see that the annihilation of childhood, taking away childhood innocence, twisting and distorting their, their hearts, their minds, to the point where they don't think there's any meaning and purpose anymore there, and so many of them are lost and it's sad to see.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: So buckle up and get ready for today's episode.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm asked, often by those who have any common sense at all, you know, why is there so much dysfunction going on in our country between marriages and families?
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: Why have church leaders either gone woke or gone broke, in other words, silence, you know, or even their ideologues themselves?
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Why is the United States then, as a country, crumbling before our eyes and changing?
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: You know, you would think, by with so many Americans hurt by this president administration and their policies, that they said that the Republicans.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: And again, I just doesn't start out as a left or right issue, but you would think, when you elect a socialist and neo-Marxist and and morally corrupt people, you wonder first of all, who did that right?
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Who, who elects these people?
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I live in Illinois.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing, the people that we elect, the government, and I'll get to that and as I go on here.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: But you wonder, with all of the different things, with inflation and all the lockdowns and taking away our, our rights and trying to censor so many people and the forced vaccines, and you know, just on and on, and in a potential war we're going to get into or we're already in the war.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, they really can escalate and pull us directly with soldiers and bombs and and not just selling bombs but actually sending bombs over there and sending planes over there.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: And look at, this can really escalate, with Russia and Ukraine, of course, and then with China backing Russia right now.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: I mean this could really escalate very, very quickly.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: So, anyways, we all know all this was going on.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: So what the Republicans that I talked to expected was, with the last midterm elections, they were to ushered in at a red wave, but it didn't happen.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: So you think about why, when a country can elect someone like Joe Biden, who was just obviously mentally incapacitated, morally bankrupt, like I said, and and you can go back two or three years in these podcasts and when I wrote to to be able to identify all this stuff this is nothing new and but people voted for him.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: It's.
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  Speaker 1: It's really something how can they elect a man like Pritzker here who is just twisting and distorting you know the truth so much and really so many people get hurt, how many people.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: How can people vote for somebody like John Fetterman from Pennsylvania?
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: I mean the obvious, you know the obvious problems and stuff he was having.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: How could, here in the city of Chicago, a mayor be elected that's arguably more progressive and is going to double down on the failed policies of the last mayor, lori Lightfoot?
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: And you have to ask yourself why?
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Why do we do this?
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  Speaker 1: Why are not more people waking up to this purse?
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Purposeful, purposeful destruction of the family, the middle class and then, ultimately, the United States of America.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Right, build back better the great reset, tear it down.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: That's the old Marxist story, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: You got to tear it down and build the utopia and, and they just continue to do that.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: And this is really part of what they do.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: They're going to continue to tear things down and build them back up until they get it perfect.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: And, of course, utopia, the etymology of that word, that the.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: The Greek etymology of that word is what?
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: It literally means no place, nowhere.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: So we're going, we're building a utopia to nowhere and it means no place.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if, if people today get it.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: You know we are in the kind in the United States of America, the most diverse, homogenous country in all of history and the most successful country in all of history, at the same time, a literal melting pot.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: You know the American dream that many of your parents and grandparents had, mine, where my grandparents came from four different countries.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: They came here penniless, three of them were orphans and they were able to make a life.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: They were able to get along, because I grew up in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: We got along with every race and religion.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: We never thought to cut any of those people down, believing that the same opportunities and freedoms that my grandparents would tell us that were afforded to them should be extended to every citizen.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: And so, through hard work, property rights, a belief in marriage and the family, a faith in God that extended out to the culture Right.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: We brought these, this faith, so the faith in God, from the church, belief in marriage and the family, and these, these beliefs are linked together, of course, and we bring these values Into the culture, and politics is downstream from culture.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: So there was a time we elected politicians who, for the most part, for the most part, believed in a moral foundation.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Of course, you know from Chicago we We've been corrupt for a long, long time, but this didn't go.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: This was not in rural Illinois and and so many other places you could visit.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: We had at least a moral idea, and the and the American middle class Understood that they were going to church, they believed in God when I was a kid, and they believed in marriage and the family With these three.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: These are the three necessary societies that would build a life and and our forefathers knew this, my grandparents knew this, and you could say whatever you want with the United States.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: The problem with the United States is not that it's built on a the Judeo Christian Values that came from our family and our church, and it got pushed out into the culture and then got pushed out into the country and and, of course, our, our whole country was based on that, our Constitutions based on that.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: And the problem isn't with the country per se and the structure.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: The problem is that we have people that are sinners within that country and and, of course, when you look at slavery in the old South and and you know in in, you know Racists and whatever just morally corrupt people in any Avenue, you know, when it comes to money, power, what that, whatever that is, it's it's always sinful.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, the biggest liberation we always need is liberation from sin, liberation from sin.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: So that's a big problem when you throw God out right, so you have these three necessary societies and Everything is built.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: If you think about a triangle in front of you, a Triangle with a, with a, with a pretty broad base, and that base one corner of that triangle Sits marriage in the family, the nuclear family.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: The other side sits God, right and in the moral foundations, and they're linked to get together that you bring God and his commandments and the Judeo Christian principles into your life and then you live that out through your family, and then those get pushed out into the culture, get pushed out into what we call polity.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: You know the way we organize and structure ourselves, which are based on a constitution here in the United States, and then they go out.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: But but when you take the moral aspect out of this, out of our own hearts, out of our families and marriages and out of the church, it becomes silent.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Then there's no hope for the rest of the country, it's going to collapse and that's what you're seeing right now, right.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: So again, the bedrock of any civil and moral society throughout history is first marriage in the family and that that becomes a humane society.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: This is how then it moves out to love of neighbor.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Because you come from a stable home, there's love in the home you learn your values and stuff from these again, these Judeo Christian principles, of course you can use.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: You can learn that from Confucius.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I've heard Hindus and and Buddhists that were living these things out correctly to at least trying to.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: But here in the United States, it's Judeo Christian Principles and morals and values that actually built this country to be the most powerful, homogenized, diverse, again country in the world, more than more than Any other system right throughout history.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: And so this love goes out then to our neighbor, and how we treat the most Vulnerable among us, the elderly, that disabled, the very poor especially, especially especially how we treat the most vulnerable and innocent among us, who was that?
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: It's our children, our children.
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  Speaker 1: So this is very much connected to the church.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: They're linked together.
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  Speaker 1: The Judeo Christian Values and principles that are taught in the church were passed down from generation to generation.
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  Speaker 1: When I was growing up in the home, parents and children would learn and we take these things and we would pass these on, and then we would be kind to our neighbor and we visit them and we brought them eggs when they're in and soup when they're sick and whatever right, and and our constitution is based on.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: All of this was made only for a moral and religious people.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: So that's again the faint marriage and the family in one corner of this triangle, the church and the other one, and then we build it out right to this peak that will call the, the, the culture, and then goes out to politics, economics, in and builds up the country you know, based on this constitution.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Well, one of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, john Adams, observed what one of our founding fathers said our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't the only founding father who holds his view.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: James Madison wrote that our constitution requires sufficient virtue among men for self-government.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise, he noted, nothing less than the change of depotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Many of our founders were men of faith or were influenced strongly, like I said, by the Jew Judeo-Christian tradition.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: They accepted the premise of mankind's imperfect nature, and so they knew they had to come up with a system of government that said okay, in, these imperfect people were gonna have to have what checks and balances.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: See, they had experienced firsthand the oppressive dictates of a parliament and the crown that led them to the American Revolution and the American Experiments right.
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  Speaker 1: And they were rightly suspicious of the Accumulation of governmental power by one person or a small body.
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  Speaker 1: That's the very definition of tyranny, according to Madison.
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  Speaker 1: So, consistent with these experiences and beliefs, the founding fathers imbued liberty Preserving principles into the very structure of the new government.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Was that is amazing document right?
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: They divided power between the federal and state governments, a Portioned federal power among three branches of government, and limited that power of the federal government to certain delegated functions.
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  Speaker 1: But the founders also knew that these devices alone were inadequate to preserve and sustain our nation.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Why did they believe that the success of the Union ultimately defended on the virtue of people.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Simply put, the founders knew that the government was downstream from culture.
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  Speaker 1: A virtuous people would can Courageously defend the rights endowed by their creator.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Listen, here's God coming back in, restored by the blood of what?
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Of Patriots, but a fearful people who readily see these rights, which we see in today, in exchange for a fleeting sense of security.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: As Princeton's Robbie George explains, people lacking in virtue could be counted on to trade liberty, for protection, for financial or personal security, for comfort, for having their problems solved quickly, and there will always be people occupying or standing for office will be happy to offer that deal to them.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: But what is government itself?
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  Speaker 1: But the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: James Madison wrote.
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  Speaker 1: So how do we cultivate the virtue needed to sustain a republic?
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  Speaker 1: It is, after all, contrary to the founding premise of man's Imperfection, and to entrust the government with this task is to invite the fox into the proverbial henhouse.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Indeed, madison observed.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: What is government itself, with the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: It falls then to the family, to the church and the educational institutions to transmit, to teach each new generation the virtues without which free societies cannot survive.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: We get this now right.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: These values and virtues are instilled in the family, they come from the church, they are linked together and the parents have the primary duty to educate their children.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Now, when we abdicated that responsibility to these so-called experts, like we did some years ago with the public school system, which we were finding out is a big mistake, but we did that while we tasked them, we were giving them these educational institutions we said okay, we want you to bring these down to a new generation.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Teach them about the country, teach them about God, teach them about the family, marriage and the family and at least bring these values into the school, bring this as a foundation into the school.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: This is what Catholic schools, of course, were frowned on.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Right Is to bring virtues in and to teach young people how to be good citizens of a nation.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So basic integrity, self-restraint, concern for others, respect for their dignity and rights, civic-mindedness and the like, those things right, all those other things, even the structural constraints of our constitution will fail without institutions that teach people how those constraints protect liberty, to explain why that liberty is vital to the success of our country and to inculcate that virtue and those virtues needed to resist a culture of immediate gratification.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So the biggest threat to our constitutional order and the biggest reason, of course, that you see our country coming apart is what it's the failure to pass to subsequent generations the character, the virtue, the knowledge required to protect the constitutional safeguards.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Kids today have no idea what this country is all about, what marriage and the family is all about, what God brings into this.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: John Paul II said this so well.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: He said you know, john Paul was born at a time when Poland was free, and Poland wasn't free for much of its history, but he had a little window there and then the Nazis came in and he writes about this.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And, of course, he lived fairly close to Auschwitz and he had Jewish friends that were sent there and burned up.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: He had friends of his that died in the concentration camps and friends they got out.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But he said this what the Communists could not do in Poland, what did they try to do in Poland?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: What are the Communists in the neo-Marxists?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And this is very important to remember they always attack in order to get power.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So it starts out let me back up a little bit starts out with an economic model oppressor versus the oppressed.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So you have the bourgeois, the people that own the businesses, the people that have some income.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Right, these aren't all rich people, the bourgeois.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: This doesn't mean super rich, right?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: This isn't the Rockefellers, this could be just guys with a little restaurant chain or something, right, but they employed people.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And then you had the proletariat, the laborers, the people that work for them.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what the reality is.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That's a good model, right in the United States.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: You know, we, we, we love that model because the proletariat, the guys, work and said, hey, someday I'll own his business or I'll own a business, right?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: So what he said was this.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: You know that model didn't work in in western democracies.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It shouldn't.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It didn't work in the united states.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: For just those reasons we came here with the american dream that we could become the business owner we could do well.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And so what john paul saw in poland, though.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: He said that he saw this attack on marriage and the family and the attack on the church.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So they had to go underground.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Right, marriage is rendered meaningless, abortions are on demand, divorce is easy to get In communist countries and of course, they take out god to the best of their ability.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: So it all goes underground.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: But they weren't be, they weren't able to destroy that in poland.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And when you saw, in 1989, the walk I came down with john paul the second and reagan and thatcher working together without a shot fired, it was the good huh to know the truth, to bring the good in and in a free of populace.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It was amazing what happened, right.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: So he saw marriage and the family and the church bubble back up again, because their culture Was what kept those people together through a history of Dictators and tyrants coming in and taking away their, their freedom.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So again, he said what the communists could not do in, in the united states for an example, which is which is, you know, put the proletariat and a bourgeois together, use this economic model.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: He said the sexual revolution that was coming and the techno economic revolution Would be able to take down that country.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And what does that mean?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Right, when, when you break down marriage and the family again, it gets back to my original Uh opener here and you take god out, what happens?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Marriage and the family crumbles.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Those values are not instilled anymore in the church.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You know, the church feeds from marriage and the family.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Marriage and the family feeds from the church, and then those values go out and those are the values that we bring into the culture and then ultimately into politics and into economics and into businesses.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: When people are out there with any, without any of these values, what happens?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Right, that's how you start to take it out.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: So no, god, dysfunction, and families told.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Then we're told to abdicate the education of our own children to experts, to these phd types.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Look at a little side note.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I'm meeting a lot of phds in the work that I do Uh in education, you know, and so I've come to learn that the acronym phd in education, so, like dr Joe biden or dr Smith or whatever phd in education, the phd stands stands for psychological head disorder.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I mean that they really have a psychological head disorder.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I you know what I'm talking to some of these people.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that these, these are human beings that have not been programmed like somebody put a computer chip into their brains.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm at school board meetings all the time.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You know these people.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I was just at one this week.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: These people have no clue what they're saying.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: They stand up there and they give this babble of why, that the, the school and the kids are failing, uh to to educate our kids, and they come up with this cycle babble using s, el, and and castle, uh, I've talked about those things before and and and how they're gonna take care of the education.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Go and and they, they, they'll throw this out for half an hour to answer a question from somebody and at the end you go.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: What did they just say?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And the reality is they don't know either.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So the crisis we face is not whether neomarkis and the deep state will take control of our country.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: They already have.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: While everyone was arguing over the finer points of higher taxes, government intrusion into our daily lives, inflation, the national debt, the border crisis amazing stuff and even something as sacred to our country as free speech being taken away and censored.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: We just saw that and we've been seeing it for years.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Now there's so much more.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: These neomarkis, with the help of the deep state, have been winning the bigger battle.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: They have methodically captured the hearts and minds of the young, and many of those young are not so young now are having children of their own.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So they became.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: These neomarkis began by filtering our nation's colleges and university decades ago, and, as professors with high-sounding titles like dr Smith or dr Joe biden, they went about systematically infecting the hearts and minds of their students with another vaccine that also made them sick With the case of what they gave them, an injection of Marxism, and they developed a hate for traditional marriage, family, or at least a lack of understanding of what that means, a disdain for objective truth and morality and a word, a hatred for god, or at least an under, not an understanding of who god is, and a hatred for our country.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: So we see that and this is what's going on.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So, as these young people now affirmed Socialists and marxists, they line up somewhere on that woke scale.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Right, we always are woke as a spectrum or lgbtq is a spectrum?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Well, it is a spectrum.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: It just depends where they line up on this socialist, marxist, neomarkis line, right?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Well, they all graduate it Now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: They've taken their place now, after two generations and three generations, in big tech and mainstream media, in the government.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They've gained control of our largest corporations, and these institutions in turn manifest what the hearts of minds of those people who are whoa, their neomarkis and socialists and and that that that have been indoctrinated and they so these corporations I said say you know, take on the character that people run in.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Look at bud light.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, why does somebody, a company like bud light, why does anhyzer bush do that and lose millions of dollars and have to lay off people?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: They don't care.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: These people are ideologues.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Target.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: The largest banks are doing this.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: The largest banks are deep platforming people around the world.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Along with big tech, we got the medical industrial complex doing the same thing, the, the military industrial complex, big pharma, big financial institutions, the biggest ones in the world like black rock.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And then who should be standing up for us?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: The Vatican, the pope, the bishops?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Ah, we got a deep church going on too, and we have that evil within the church, and the list goes on.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: But in spite of all this, in spite of all these things would caught many by surprise during covid and they watch this on zoom and they've seen what happened is how quickly they have taken control of the local public school systems around the country.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So it seems.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But now this has been going on for a while.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the only good thing that came out of covid pandemic Was the parents saw on zoom for the first time what was really being taught in their schools and many of them were aghast.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: While schools added layer after layer of administration, cost right to implement things like dei, crt, scl and help children do the literally impossible To help them transition and become the opposite sex, the reading and math science proficiency scores plummeted.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: The only sharp rise in our nation's public schools scores Is mental illness among the student body.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So this is a human issue, it's a vision for what it means to be a human being.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: The culture is pulverizing our children.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: So while so many parents have been and they continue to sit with that frog in that proverbial pot that has begun to boil and it's destroyed the dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that's going forward for so many of our own kids and grandkids if we don't get this thing turned around and it's not going to be easy All those things life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that brought our ancestors here to be free to pursue huh, the twisted irony.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And all this.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I paid for those college educations.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: We all are funding the bill and ever increasing taxes to pay for all this garbage.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We are paying for our children to be sexually exploited, groomed and indoctrinated in our schools.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So I started out saying just now that the culture is all overizing our children too.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So you add this grooming and sexual exploitation from the culture going on in our schools.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Couple that with the kids they're allowed to see now by their parents stewing in this and really have lost their minds sitting in this toxic sewage for so long watching Netflix and Disney, the porn industry you know so many porn addicts today the social media addictions, right, and the government pushing all of this from the very top.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It's a national disgrace.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You know I spoke about this before, but I have quite a few grandchildren and most of them are girls, and when I see these little girls going off the school, their innocence is going to be stripped.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So beautiful, so loving, everything about them is just incredibly beautiful.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And then I think, oh my gosh, they're gonna be indoctrinated.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: My oldest granddaughter is going to high school now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You know it's almost 100% exposure to young boys in high school.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Now to hardcore porn, not some, you know, beauty queen so-called beauty queen of Pamela Anderson types or something, sitting on a motorcycle, you know, in a sexy pose or whatever.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: This is hardcore, disgusting porn where their eyes and their hearts are gonna be twisted and distorted, where boys are gonna be looking at them not because they want to, but they've been programmed to do this as body parts.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And you try to get to those kids and you try to tell them that they miss the meaning and purpose of life.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Kind of from my opener Forget about God, the church and the Bible.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: There is no meaning and purpose to your life, so you can do whatever you want with your life and people are being used and abused, but their hearts are not functioning well.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: It's amazing when I go in to talk to young people.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You know I was in a class talking about love and what love is, and it was a retreat, so we were gonna come back for four sessions that day.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: So after the first session I said, okay, you know I have a game planned to come in and speak with you on the next session, but is there anything particular throughout the day here you want us to address?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And some hands went up and I said yes, and the first young girl said mental illness.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I said what do you want me to do?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Address mental illness?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Anxiety, depression, why so many of our peers are talking about a suicide, why suicide has happened in our school.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And I looked around I said is there anybody else that wants to talk about these things?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And almost everybody's hand went up and I looked at the school counselors and I said okay, well, I'm gonna talk to your school counselors and teachers and see if they want me to unpack this a little bit, right?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So it's amazing what's goes on.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I was talking to 16 year old boys during this time.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: We split up the boys and the girls, and after I talked about how a young man would treat a woman if he really loved her, and he realized how difficult it is for these young boys to see into a woman's heart and look into her eyes and see into her heart and not see her as body parts.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: With this pornographic culture.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: It's very difficult for them and when you talk about the truth and you challenge them, it's amazing.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They start with all these questions.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And one boy's hand went up and he said Mr Rigard, so what you're saying is sex is not just sex.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: And I said, duh, yes, yes, sex is not just sex.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I laugh, you know, and I laughed with them so that we can all kind of relax into this as we start to get into it and speak about it more, right?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So anyways, at lunchtime that day, the boys told the girls what I told the boys about love and how a young man would treat them if he really loved them.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: And they asked the teacher and the counselor if I could tell them what I told the boys.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: So I did, and when I did about 15, 20 minutes into this talk with the girls, a young girl started to cry.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And we asked her later on and she said what made you cry, as we're talking about love and how they should be treated if a young man really loved them?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: And the girl said you know, I don't have a father in my home.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: That's the first man that ever stood up and explained what love is, what the meaning and purpose behind love and sexuality is and it's so beautiful that I started to cry.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: See, they're so thirsty for more.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: They're hearts and minds.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: They know this deep inside, but the culture and the schools and everybody's beaten up on them, right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: This cognitive dissonance, then, between what they feel inside and their experience of life?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Right, and their consciences something's not jiving.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Well, what does the school do?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: They bring in SEL, right, social emotional learning, and they teach them that this might be because of race, or this might be because of diversity, equity and inclusion ideas, but especially social emotional learning, you know, and they tell them don't worry, you know, we'll settle you down here, you'll be able to understand that, that this warped, distorted, twisted culture is normal now.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And of course it is normal now We've normalized the fall, we've normalized sin.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: But the idea is here is we have to put a stop to this.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: We have to give the kids a chance.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We have to say look at, you cannot just annihilate and pulverize these kids, because not only do we lose the kids, we lose marriages and families, because they get in between the parents and oppose this.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You see, the FBI right.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Until everybody started to push back, the FBI was going after parents at school board meetings.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't make this kind of stuff up being pushed all the way from the top right.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: The church leaders where are they?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: They're all woke or fearful or quiet, for whatever reason, you know.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: And so who's responsible to do this?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Then we are, I am, you are.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: This is all about a citizen.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: This is all grassroots to restore marriage and the family, to push our priests and our pastors to speak out and teach the truth and then to bring this into our culture.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: This is a real battle now, because we let it go on for so long.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Look, this isn't brain surgery either, is it?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Two thirds of our nation's children can no longer read at grade level.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: So here's what we're telling.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Look, first of all, I'd get kids out of a public school system if you can, but not everybody can.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And even if they could, even if most people could, we still can't just leave those kids that are in the public school system there to suffer all of this.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So we have to still try to bring the truth into the culture, right?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So here's what we propose always is educate, don't indoctrinate.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: If the public school is not educating our children, why do we bring them there?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Why are we bringing them to you if you're not educating our kids?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: You said that the experts were gonna make them smarter and being able to read and write, math, science, all these things they're gonna excel because you guys are so smart.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know, give me $17,000 a student here in Illinois I believe it is $17,000 or $18,000 a student, maybe more, in Chicago and so give me 10 of those kids.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Pay me almost $200,000 a year for 10 kids and look it, I'll figure out how to get those kids.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: You know the proficiency standards.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: It's amazing that we can't do it, you know, but why?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Because we're indoctrinating them.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Socialists would reply this to save your children.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: This is why we're doing this, because we have to save your children from the oppression of you, you parents, from the oppression of God and the few church leaders who had that moral fortitude and courage to proclaim the gospel.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: We have to save them from them.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: So ask your fellow citizens Are you aware of the national sex ed standards that Governor Pritzker is pushing on us here in Illinois and and and it's being pushed all over the the country that, while your children may not be able to read, write or work out, a math problem there's, they'll get plenty of pictures to look at that will teach them about non binary sex, queer sex, gay sex and even throw in a little graphic straight pornography, in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: So don't confuse here what I'm saying with you know adult lifestyles and different things like that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: You may agree or disagree, but you're going to have to get your head in the game to focus on something that most people will find despicable is what we're doing.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It's a national disgrace what we're doing to children.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: We should be able to agree on that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Unless you're a pervert, unless you're twisted and distorted yourself, unless you're after those kids for some reason, or you're a pervert, unless you're twisted and distorted yourself, unless you're after those kids for some reason, or you're just under after.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: You know you're the Bidens of the world.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: You know they, just after money and power, the Pritzkers of the world, or these idealogs that just want to take down the country, because that's that's who they are.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: This is a battle between good and evil here, and you can see it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: You can see it's more distinctly in the innocence of children being stolen than anywhere else.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I think and that's why I like to stay with this theme because I know gay men who are patriotic gay men, that that are friends of mine, who I don't agree with their lifestyle.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: They know I don't agree with their lifestyle, but we can still love one another.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: And why can we do that?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Because this is the gospel Love God and then love your neighbor.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Jesus said right.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: They are also against this trans ideology, this movement that's so often vulgar, it's hateful, it's in your face, it's being rammed down everybody's throat.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: They're also against the sexual exploitation and grooming in that's going on in the schools and in the culture.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Because they often suffered the same abuse and I'm going to kind of wrap up today's session and I'll continue this in the next session but they suffered the same abuse, so many of the 60 million.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: So listen to this.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: There are 60 million adult survivors of child sex abuse walking around in the United States today.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: One in four women and one in six men were sexually abused before the age of 18.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Our society has become widely sexualized and the more sexualized the environment, the more dangerous it becomes for children.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: So so many of these walking wounded, so many of these who are living alternative lifestyles, have been used and abused as children and we have to be cognizant of that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: We have to keep them at our purrs, we have to have respect for them, but we can't allow the twisting and distortion in our school systems anymore.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: You got to stand up, see.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: There's no saving the country while our children are being indoctrinated in in filth and our rights as parents, as the primary educators of our children, is being what is being censored, is being canceled, undermined by a morally corrupt school system and a morally corrupt a polity or political system, economic system.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: We're seeing all this stuff come down.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: There is no saving anybody until you save your own children, until we save our own kids and our own communities.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: And where are the school unions and all this?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: They're the worst, as any good teacher will tell you.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: The union does nothing to protect teachers who want to push back and in fact they do the opposite.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: They have the same neo Marxist ideologies going on that that they have in the, in the school system itself.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: You know, as the, as the indoctrinated teachers and administrators.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: So, anyways, I will go on and I'm going to unpack a little bit more of this in the next session.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: You know we have a new program.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'll just mention this.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Today, too, is a real practical thing that you can do is called love ed.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Love ed, if you get our newsletter, was the focus of our newsletter that just went out this past Tuesday, and the focus of that is really parents and kids coming together and we unpack a biblical, christian biblical worldview.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: So we're talking about the science of their bodies, what's going on with their bodies, but we're also talking about the meaning and purpose of that.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And it's a program already where we show it's done by a friend of ours, colleen Kelly mask.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: It's published with through tan books and Saint Benedict press.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: The books are.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: So we get, we get the books, we've got streaming coming in and we help parents unpack the talk we used to call the birds and the beat talk, you know.
• 40:58
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• 41:02
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• 41:09
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• 41:12
  Speaker 1: We're bringing on some new people to help get this love ed program and other programs out into the communities, into the schools, into the parishes, and give parents a way to be able to take their own families back, to fortify their own marriages and to maybe fortify their pastors and their priests on the stick up and start to be a voice so we can start to build this, this whole country in the culture, back up.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And it's going to be a battle.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a battle because there's a lot of forces are ready against us.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: We know that.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: But just go back and read Jesus and Matthew when he gives the analogy the weeds and the wheat.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: So they grow together and God says, right in there, don't pull all the weeds out, you just do your thing.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: You bring the, you become the wheat and bring that into your own families.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: You do the good.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: You know evil is going to be around and the way we fight evil as we become the good, we do the good.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I am good.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, god bless.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You talk to you soon, everybody, bye, bye.