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Jim Lewis - Constitutional Boot Camp · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 3: Eight o five Here fifty five KRCD talk station. Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: He's got a lot going on in this world. Addition
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  Speaker 3: to the fifty five KRC Morning Show lineup. In this hour,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna get to Jim Lewis next year. He's waiting
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  Speaker 3: patiently for me to shut up so we can talk
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  Speaker 3: about Constitution boot camp. Well here from judg Entita Polaton
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  Speaker 3: Ennita Polatana the meantime. Welcome back Jim Lewis. You can
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  Speaker 3: find him online building Blocks for Liberty dot org or
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  Speaker 3: empower You America dot org. He works with every body
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  Speaker 3: who's willing to help him get the word out about
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  Speaker 3: Constitution boot camps. Jim, welcome back, my friend. Pleasure to
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  Speaker 3: have you back on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Brian's always good to be on with you.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, It's a say I will tell you, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a sad thing that we even need a
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  Speaker 3: Building Blocks for Liberty site. Because you're a five o'
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  Speaker 3: one c three nonprofit. You are dedicated to well preservation
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  Speaker 3: of the US Constitution by teaching others the importance of
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  Speaker 3: this historical document, which doesn't apparently happen in schools anymore. Jim,
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  Speaker 3: is this what prompted you to get on this, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've dedicated so much of your time in
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  Speaker 3: resources to training people and teaching people something that should
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  Speaker 3: be quite literally a fundamental part of our education system.
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  Speaker 3: But sadly they can't even teach reading or mathematics. And
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  Speaker 3: I think I have to observe you need to be
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  Speaker 3: able to read in order to read the Constitution.
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  Speaker 4: Duh, Yeah, that's true. Actually this started for me back
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  Speaker 4: in two thousand and nine when I was attending a
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  Speaker 4: lot of liberty events point and listening to people talk
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  Speaker 4: about the Constitution. And I'm sitting to going these these
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  Speaker 4: guys are are well intended, but they really don't understand
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  Speaker 4: what it is. So that prompted me to get started
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  Speaker 4: in it. And as I got started in it, the
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  Speaker 4: I got to get to the kids. That became the
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  Speaker 4: most important focal point for us is trying to educate
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  Speaker 4: kids on this because that's the next generation coming up
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  Speaker 4: that's going to, you know, save our nation or not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hopefully it will save our nation. I just we
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  Speaker 3: take I just jim, I just have to observe maybe
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  Speaker 3: state in the obvious. We just take so damn much
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  Speaker 3: for granted in this country, just so much. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I it's just so troubling. And I look
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  Speaker 3: at New York City and Zorhan Mamdami, the Communist and
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  Speaker 3: you know, now they're going to raise property taxes another
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  Speaker 3: ten percent on people that actually own money. They're driving
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  Speaker 3: people who actually earn out of the state. Why we're
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  Speaker 3: at wealth redistribution which never works. Find me a country
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  Speaker 3: where it's worked successfully over the years and has them
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  Speaker 3: imployed and collapsed upon itself. The idea of the European
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  Speaker 3: Union won't even let you utter certain words. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they have speech police over there, quite literally. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we at least have freedom of speech in this country,
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  Speaker 3: among other freedoms and liberties that nobody else in the
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  Speaker 3: world enjoys, and yet people are quick to want to
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  Speaker 3: eradicate and eliminate them in the name of I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: controlling discourse. That is the worst possible road we can
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  Speaker 3: travel down.
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  Speaker 4: Jim, Yeah, you are exactly right. We need to we
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  Speaker 4: need to bring back more manufacturing into this country, become
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  Speaker 4: self sufficient again so that we don't have to depend
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  Speaker 4: on other countries and get in all this international mix
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  Speaker 4: up with them over free speech and things that we
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  Speaker 4: here take for granted and we still have here. But
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  Speaker 4: people are going to have to start getting up and
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  Speaker 4: going out and you know, protests in the other way
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  Speaker 4: to make sure we keep it well.
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  Speaker 3: Protests is quite often predicated on an understanding of what
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  Speaker 3: exactly you're protesting. I think that's reflected in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of ignorance out of the street these days, with leftist
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  Speaker 3: protesters protesting for seemingly unknown reasons. If you have a clear,
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  Speaker 3: strong understanding of the Constitution, you at least know what
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to protect. The freedoms and liberties that are
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  Speaker 3: enshrined in and our liberties that are protected by the Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: It takes knowledge to be able to do that successfully
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  Speaker 3: when you're dealing with it a crazy, screaming left wing lunatic.
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  Speaker 3: That's the point of the Constitution boot Camp, at least
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  Speaker 3: one of them. You're doing another one coming up. I
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  Speaker 3: know you are, Jim. This one's that I understand. Right
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  Speaker 3: State University.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've had a couple of misfortunes here. Our Right State.
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  Speaker 4: One, they want to postpone until the April because they
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  Speaker 4: don't have the people on board to promote it the
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  Speaker 4: way they want.
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  Speaker 1: To promote it.
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  Speaker 4: This is a new civics unit that's getting started at
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  Speaker 4: Right State and they're tasked with providing an alternative voice
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  Speaker 4: on campus, and so they wanted to bring us in
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  Speaker 4: to provide that alternative voice on some issues. And so
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  Speaker 4: we're going to be doing that probably the first of
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  Speaker 4: April now and then our March seventh one. The host
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  Speaker 4: is undergoing triple bypass surgery this week, so we've got
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  Speaker 4: to put that one off for a little while too,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 3: In prayers to him and a successful surgery, of course,
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  Speaker 3: we're all hoping for that.
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  Speaker 2: What you just frightened me? Uh a?
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  Speaker 3: You are the alternative voice constitutional scholar.
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  Speaker 4: So recognizes that the voice on campus is not doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have any conservative elopment in it, So they want to
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  Speaker 4: bring a conservative voice onto campus so kids can hear
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  Speaker 4: both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Basically.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I understand constitutional interpretation depends on who
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  Speaker 3: the judge is, and there are different philosophies, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the living, breathing constitution versus strict constructionalists. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if they're advocating for an alternative, are they suggesting that
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution should be eliminated, eradicated, or otherwise replaced with something, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: in their mind that's better, Jim.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, most of the people we talked to the leftist
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  Speaker 4: or like the constitution. It's just like you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the judge Charles Evans Hughes said back in nineteen oh seven, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: we live under a constitution, but the constitution is what
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  Speaker 4: the judge you say.
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  Speaker 3: It is, or I know what the analysis is going
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  Speaker 3: to be from judge ant Apoloton at the bottom they are,
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  Speaker 3: or if you know, people just ignore it exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going back to talking about bombing your wrong.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting ready to bomb a run. Isn't that an
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  Speaker 3: act of war they want to get in regime change?
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  Speaker 3: Shouldn't Congress be involved in that? And yet the silence
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  Speaker 3: seems to be deafening. You get your occasional note of criticism,
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  Speaker 3: But I think both sides of the political ledger do
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  Speaker 3: not like the obligation to actually, as the Constitution requires,
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  Speaker 3: make a declaration of war. The will of the people
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  Speaker 3: thereby is expressed by their representatives elected accordingly. They said it,
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  Speaker 3: We're then going to do it. That is a nice
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  Speaker 3: hurdle to a rogue imperial president who might just go
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  Speaker 3: willingly putting this in conflict around the world and putting
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  Speaker 3: lives in danger and jeopardy. But they don't push for
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  Speaker 3: the interpretation. They don't hang their hat on the declaration
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  Speaker 3: of war. They ignore it and twiddle their thumbs and off.
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  Speaker 3: Presidents of different political stripes go and do their own way.
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  Speaker 3: It happens across the board, and let's face all our Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: government is great about violating our Fourth Amendment rights regularly.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we are our four what Fourth Amendment? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we're recorded. You look at all the automated license plate
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  Speaker 4: readers out there, all these block systems that are out there.
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  Speaker 4: There's thousands and thousands just in southwest Ohio. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's over sixty six thousand cameras in Ohio recording license plates.
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  Speaker 4: And they also record the color, the make, the model
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  Speaker 4: of your vehicle. And if they want to do facial recognition,
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  Speaker 4: all they have to.
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  Speaker 1: Do is add the software.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and part of me struggles with that
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  Speaker 3: one because we don't have any inherent right to privacy
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  Speaker 3: the things that go on out outside in the world.
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  Speaker 3: In our house, yes, of course, but you know, once
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  Speaker 3: you're outside, you give up the right to privacy and
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  Speaker 3: welcome to.
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  Speaker 4: Orwell, if I'm then if I'm in my possession, which
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  Speaker 4: is my vehicle, I have you know, under the Fourth Amendment,
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  Speaker 4: I have the right to be feel safe and secure
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  Speaker 4: in my you know, in my with my possessions in it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm in my possession.
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  Speaker 4: And judges are starting to see that because in Virginia
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  Speaker 4: they are allowing a case to go forward against a town,
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  Speaker 4: a city, and flock systems really out, you know, violating
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  Speaker 4: Fourth Amendment rights.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very curious to see how that one shakes out, because, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, what's in your car, they may
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  Speaker 3: have to have a warrant to search your car unless
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  Speaker 3: there's exitgen circumstances, But outside of the car, I can
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  Speaker 3: see it with my own eyes. So that's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: an interesting challenge right there. It is very pivoting back
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  Speaker 3: to the boot camp. This is an abbreviated class. When
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  Speaker 3: you started out, wasn't this like a ten week class?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we started out doing one night a week for
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  Speaker 4: ten weeks, and it ended up being like two and
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  Speaker 4: a half hours each night. And then we had so
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  Speaker 4: many folks say, hey, I can't do ten weeks. If
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  Speaker 4: you can cram this all into one day, we'll come
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  Speaker 4: And so we John Hendry and myself sat down and
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  Speaker 4: crammed it all into one day and we had held
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  Speaker 4: our first boot camp and we had like eighty people
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  Speaker 4: show up. That's beautiful. And then and just you know,
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  Speaker 4: for the first couple of years, I mean, we never
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  Speaker 4: had less than fifty people show up for a class.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the pent up demand.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm so happy to bring on leting people
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  Speaker 3: know that this actually exists as a concept out there,
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  Speaker 3: and I understand Jim Lewis from Building Blocks for Liberty
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  Speaker 3: dot org. You you'll do a presentation if you're invited,
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  Speaker 3: like say, if a school wants to have you in,
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  Speaker 3: or an organization, a church, whatever'll you'll show up and
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  Speaker 3: do this this presentation.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'll go to any lady launchings. We don't care.
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  Speaker 4: We'll show up and we'll do whatever type of presentation
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  Speaker 4: they want, however long they want. We can tailor our presentations.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had those liberty lessons and that's what
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  Speaker 4: we use now. We just tailor those to what the
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  Speaker 4: group wants and how much time they're giving us.
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  Speaker 3: And it also along with materials that people will be
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  Speaker 3: will have available to them, including the Constitution itself. You
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  Speaker 3: get a copy of that, yep.
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  Speaker 4: You get presentation copy of what we what we talked about,
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  Speaker 4: so you can take notes on it. Ferst try to
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  Speaker 4: provide all kinds of nice things for people.
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  Speaker 2: Federalist papers part of it as well.
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  Speaker 4: That's part of the boot camp class. Yes, if you
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  Speaker 4: come to the boot camp. You get a.
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  Speaker 1: Handbook for We the People, which is a textbook.
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  Speaker 4: You get a copy of the Federalist papers, a pocket Constitution,
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  Speaker 4: an American Liberty Primer, and a citizenship primer, and then
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  Speaker 4: you also get a copy of the presentation and lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you mentioned citizenship, and I have to glom onto
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  Speaker 3: that momentarily. If you become a legal, lawful resident of
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America, this is exactly the type
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  Speaker 3: of stuff you have to know and learn. Right should
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  Speaker 3: be Yes, well, I thought I was part of the
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  Speaker 3: citizenship requirements. You need to be able to pass basically
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  Speaker 3: a fundamental civics test, which is more than it is
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  Speaker 3: if you.
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  Speaker 1: Do it the right If you do it the right way,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 4: But if Congress just comes out and passes along gives
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  Speaker 4: your citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: You don't well of right.
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  Speaker 3: But we would like to have people embrace, understand, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, you know, assimilate under the constitutional principles
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  Speaker 3: that made our country so great. That seems to be
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  Speaker 3: critically important. We don't have that safeguard in place. You
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch of people coming in from foreign lands
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  Speaker 3: where they do not know anything but corruption, and they're
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  Speaker 3: inclined to just go along their their merry ways the
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  Speaker 3: way they did it in their their their prior country
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  Speaker 3: of residence exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I understand you want to get out
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  Speaker 4: of a country that's not very good back once you're
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  Speaker 4: coming here, making my country the same way. Assimilate, become
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  Speaker 4: an American first, and then whatever you wherever you came
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  Speaker 4: from second. And that's you know, part of the founder's
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  Speaker 4: vision too. Let people in that will add value. You
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  Speaker 4: don't just let everybody in you're supposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: vet people and letting people that are going to add
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  Speaker 4: value to your country.
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  Speaker 3: Jim lewis spelling it out like it is. Building Blocks
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  Speaker 3: Forliberty dot org. You'll have a regular list of classes
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  Speaker 3: and there is a link there where people can reach
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  Speaker 3: out to you to have you do a presentation at
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  Speaker 3: their forum exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Building Blocks Forliberty dot Org is a our website.
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  Speaker 4: Rock Sanna ro x A and A at building Boxerliberty
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  Speaker 4: dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Contact her and she will set.
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  Speaker 4: Up us a speaking engagement or liberty lesson or whatever
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  Speaker 4: you want to do.
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  Speaker 3: I see your email address at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 3: page as well. Jim, can they reach out to YouTube
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  Speaker 3: surely can Jim at Building Blocks Forliberty dot org. Jim Lewis,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from the bottom of my heart and I truly
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  Speaker 3: mean this. I can't thank you enough for you know,
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  Speaker 3: this concept and what you've been doing for hundreds and
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  Speaker 3: hundreds of people over the years, making better citizens out
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  Speaker 3: of all of us, and of course hammering home something
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  Speaker 3: we take for granted too often in this country, the
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  Speaker 3: freedoms and liberties enshrined in our Constitution. Jim Lewis, thanks again,
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  Speaker 3: my friend. I wish you all the success in the
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  Speaker 3: world getting at the kinksironed out of Wright State, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you were there, sadly as an alternative voice
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  Speaker 3: to what's being presented on campus.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take you anyway I can get it right.
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  Speaker 2: I know you will.