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- 0:11Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
- 0:15This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
- 0:31In a republic, the people elect others to represent them.
- 0:35Now, for that to be legitimate, those elections must be free, fair, and transparent.
- 0:41That's why every so often it's a good idea to look at the state of our elections.
- 0:48Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study where we read and study the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
- 0:55I'm glad you could join me today.
- 1:03Not the outcomes, but how they're being handled, how they're being processed, and uh, well, what's being done to ensure they are free, fair, and transparent.
- 1:14Now, what do I mean by that?
- 1:16Well, free means everybody who's legally allowed to is allowed to vote.
- 1:21Right?
- 1:22The the, you know, according to every state constitution I've checked, in order to be eligible to vote in that state, you must be a citizen of the United States.
- 1:33So we have to make sure that you know every citizen who's not lost that right due to some legitimate reason has the capability of voting.
- 1:41Not that it should be necessarily accommodate the every whim or their their desires to make it easier, but that they have a reasonable eligibility to vote.
- 1:52That also leads into fair, right?
- 1:54Do you have the opportunity to vote?
- 1:56Is the process of voting made so difficult that um people stop voting or people can't vote?
- 2:05Is it fair?
- 2:06Are the processes ensuring that we have a a for now?
- 2:09We examine we have the the secret ballot where nobody knows who you voted for for but you.
- 2:15That wasn't always the case in this country, but that's what we have now.
- 2:19So are we ensuring that the your right to vote, your elections are fair, that your vote counts the same as everybody else's, that uh your information is is kept secret, and uh that um, you know, the general idea of what's fair and just in other words, so that the outcome of the election matches the will expressed by the people in the ballot box.
- 2:46And third, it must be transparent.
- 2:49So I know you say sunlight is the best disinfectant.
- 2:53Uh politically that's true, which means the election process must be open to investigation, to criticism.
- 3:02It must be exposed.
- 3:03The ballot collection should be done in a way where people can can observe it and report any problems or concerns.
- 3:11The same with the counting, the same with the ballot storage.
- 3:14There must be a transparent process for voting, collecting the ballots, counting the ballots, and reporting the ballots so that people can not only see if there's a problem, but it also instills faith in the process.
- 3:28If you know, listen, it's been open to the public, people have been keeping an eye on it.
- 3:32So understanding that we want, at least I want elections to be free, fair, and transparent.
- 3:37Let's take a look at um at what's been going on lately.
- 3:41And I've talked a bit about this.
- 3:43This Department of Justice request, or they claim it's demand for state's voter roll information.
- 3:51Now, then Attorney General Pam Bondi requested this information last July as part of an effort to check if states were filing federal election laws.
- 4:00Now, I got a lot of problems with this, right?
- 4:03First of all, voter registration, who is the list of who is eligible to vote, is none of the federal government's business.
- 4:11It is not a power delegated to the United States.
- 4:14Therefore, it's none of the federal government's business who's eligible to vote.
- 4:18The only business they have is has someone been denied the right to vote in a way protected by the Constitution.
- 4:24In other words, age, uh, race, sex, right?
- 4:28Unless you've got a violation.
- 4:29But here's the other thing.
- 4:31This is a fishing expedition.
- 4:33Understand, the DOJ is searching, it's making an unreasonable search of state records to see if the people have been following the law.
- 4:42This viol, the one of the primary premises of our judicial system is that you're assumed innocent until proven guilty, that the state has the burden of proof, but the government has the burden of proof.
- 4:55Ms.
- 4:56Bondi provided no probable cause that there was a problem, which is why she couldn't get a warrant for this data.
- 5:04This is a fishing.
- 5:06This is no different than a police officer knocking on your door and saying, I need to come in and make sure you're following all of our laws.
- 5:16So again, this is a a complete violation of um, well, it's not technically the Fourth Amendment because the states aren't actually the people, but their data is being searched without reasonable cause.
- 5:31If the state were a person, this would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment, a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- 5:37Now, the last time I checked, I think 27 states refuse to hand over this information.
- 5:43It doesn't belong to the federal government.
- 5:44They have no legal authority to the federal government, and they have no probable cause of a crime to warrant the searching of this data.
- 5:53Well, they say, well, wait a second, uh, Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 um claims that the attorney general can demand this information.
- 6:02I don't care.
- 6:04Remember the supremacy clause.
- 6:06This constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof.
- 6:16If it demands that states hand over data the federal government isn't legally entitled to, then that's made there that the Constitution doesn't grant the federal government title to, then that's a law made not pursuant of the Constitution.
- 6:28It is not the Supreme Law of the Land.
- 6:30And in fact, it is null and void.
- 6:33Now, back on April 9th, a federal judge in Massachusetts is another one of the judges that have thrown out the DOJ's lawsuit.
- 6:41The DOJ sued to get these records.
- 6:45And uh Judge Leo Sorg Sorokin said the suit was deficient.
- 6:50In his uh opinion, he writes, the United States complaint fails for the simple reason that the attorney general's demand did not comply with Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the statute on which it purportedly relies.
- 7:04Because the court concludes the attorney general's letter fails to contain a statement on the base of the basis for the demand as required by law, the court did not reach the party's other argument.
- 7:13Meaning the attorney general demanded it but didn't give a reason for it.
- 7:19Reasonableness.
- 7:21Now, every suit I'm aware of that that the DOJ has filed, they've lost.
- 7:26And this to me is good news.
- 7:28This is this is good.
- 7:29They should lose.
- 7:31Now, I know people have a lot of concerns with elections, but the question is, are we going to hand over the state election process to the federal government because we don't like the way it's being done?
- 7:42Or are we going to work within our states to fix the problems we have within our states?
- 7:47Problems that we know have been going on.
- 7:51Now, there's another example of this.
- 7:52It goes up into state of Washington, where again, Washington, the DOJ filed suit against the state of Washington to get access to the state's voter rolls.
- 8:02However, it is taken them until recently to actually just properly serve the attorneys for the state of Washington to actually have this the suit move forward.
- 8:13Now, the Secretary of State, uh Steve Hobbs told the Trump administration last year that he would provide public information from voter records, but he would not hand over dates of birth, driver's license number, or the last four digits of Social Security.
- 8:30That is protected under Washington law.
- 8:33And again, just because it's the federal government doesn't mean they they can run roughshod.
- 8:39They have to have a constitutional authority for it.
- 8:42He went on to say the DOJ has not specified what voters' private data will be used for, how the data will be kept secure, or whether that data will be shared with other federal agencies.
- 8:52How about the fact that the federal government has no legitimate reason for that data?
- 8:58None whatsoever.
- 9:00As I've repeatedly pointed out, the part of the SAVE Act that deals with proof of citizenship to register is unconstitutional because that's not a power delegated to the United States.
- 9:13Those two are together, the Save Act and this D these DOJ lawsuits are an attempt by the federal government to take over voter registration.
- 9:21Now you may look at it and say, well, yeah, states haven't been doing their jobs.
- 9:25Does that mean it's legal for the federal government to simply take over?
- 9:28Because when you do that, you're not simply handing over voter registration data.
- 9:33You're handing over the rule of law, you're handing over the power of the constitution.
- 9:37You're handing over your rights, liberties, and freedoms when you do that.
- 9:41And I'm not being hyperbolic.
- 9:43If the federal government can simply demand data that they don't have legal access to because they want to go fishing, well, what's the difference between doing that for a state or a business or you individually?
- 9:57Why shouldn't the federal government be able to go into your bank and say,
- 10:00Give me all of this person your bank records because I'm looking to see if you're complying with the law.
- 10:06Well, this is the same thing, just writ large.
- 10:09Why is this?
- 10:10Why is this really any different?
- 10:12The answer is it's not.
- 10:14But most Americans don't see that because, well, um, they're not happy with the way things are being done.
- 10:21And they just they're willing to give up their rights in order to uh to to control their own state in order for the promise that someone will look at these election problems.
- 10:31Why does that remind me of uh Benjamin Franklin?
- 10:34Those who would give up essential liberty for the promise of temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- 10:42That's what you're talking about here.
- 10:45Now, I agree.
- 10:46There are states that have problems.
- 10:48Um, for example, the California Supreme Court back on April 8th, ordered Riverside County Sheriff uh Chad Bianco to stop his investigation into uh allegations of fraud in the 2025 elections, so that the judges can review the legal challenges that his probe faces.
- 11:10Now, Sheriff Bianco, who is a Republican and is running for the governor of California, sees more than half a million 2025 ballots after allegedly receiving complaints from locals.
- 11:23Now, local election officials told the county board of supervisors that his decision to take the ballots was unfounded.
- 11:31California Attorney General Bonta uh has asked the court to step in and stop the investigation, saying that Bianco did not have the authority to take the ballots.
- 11:41And the state's top court told the Beyond Mr.
- 11:45Serv Bianco and his team to pause the investigation into the special election and preserve all seized items.
- 11:52Now, here is an interesting conundrum.
- 11:54And I want to think about this for a second.
- 11:56Because on the one hand, you have a sheriff who's running for governor who claims people have complained about uh problems in the election, and he's trying to gather and preserve evidence.
- 12:09You have the state attorney general, who is a member of the opposing party that's asked a court to stop this investigation, claiming that the sheriff did not have the authority to take the balance.
- 12:22Who's right?
- 12:24Could it be the both of them are right?
- 12:26Could it be their allegations that there are valid allegations of fraud, but the law of California doesn't allow the sheriff to actually do this?
- 12:34Could this be a political party pissing match?
- 12:38You have a Republican sheriff and a Democratic uh attorney general on opposite sides of a case.
- 12:46Go figure.
- 12:48But there's a third body to this problem, and that is the California Supreme Court, which, from what history I'm aware of, is not exactly known for actually uh following their own constitution all the time.
- 13:04I don't know how again, I'm not an expert.
- 13:07I don't do that much.
- 13:08I don't look at that many cases from the California Supreme Court.
- 13:11I have seen issues where the court places politics above the their oath of office.
- 13:17Could this happen here?
- 13:19Who do you trust?
- 13:21Which gets back to the question of transparency.
- 13:24Has the sheriff hidden these these half a million ballots?
- 13:30Is their investigation open and transparent, open to scrutiny?
- 13:33Can people look at what's going on?
- 13:35Or is he doing it behind closed doors?
- 13:37And what is Mr.
- 13:38Bonta actually doing?
- 13:39Is he saying, listen, we need to investigate because that's our power, or is he just saying I don't want a Republican snooping too closely to what's going on?
- 13:49This is again where the transparency comes out, because it comes down to who do you trust.
- 13:54My guess is if you're a Republican, you trust the uh uh the sheriff.
- 13:59If you're a Democrat, you trust the attorney general.
- 14:02But we need to get beyond that.
- 14:04We need to get transparency to see, okay, these half a million ballots or however many they've collected so far need to be need to be held where they can, we can make sure they're not being tampered with.
- 14:15The investigation needs to be open and transparent so that not only other officials, but we the people can see what's going on and look at what's what's what's happening.
- 14:25And uh if the courts come in and effectively place their thumb on the scales, is what they're doing, the application of the law, or is it more political gamesmanship?
- 14:39We're gonna have to see.
- 14:42But it's up to the people of California to demand, to tell the governor, the AG, the sheriff, the courts.
- 14:49Wait a second.
- 14:50You're dealing with, you know, we're looking at, we need evidence, and we need transparency.
- 14:56And if you mess with the evidence or transparency, then that then we have to question the legitimacy of that election, which means do you really hold office?
- 15:07I know that sounds like a civil war.
- 15:10It could be within the state.
- 15:14Could it grow beyond the state?
- 15:16Possibly.
- 15:17But since the most foundational aspect of a republic are our elections, they are that important.
- 15:25And we need to see them as that important.
- 15:27And we need to treat them as that important, and we need to make sure that anybody that messes with them.
- 15:35Well, that we treat that that uh that work as just as important as the uh um the election itself.
- 15:45See, that's what I keep coming back to.
- 15:48Free, fair, and transparent.
- 15:51Was the election free and fair?
- 15:53How do we know if uh an audit of the ballots is not conducted?
- 15:59If that audit is not transparent, how do we know the audit was free and fair?
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- 20:16And today we're talking about the state of our elections.
- 20:21A little while ago, the Supreme Court heard the case Watson versus RNC, which challenges Mississippi's law that allow mail-in ballots that are received up to five days after election day, as long as the ballot was postmarked by election day.
- 20:37Now, as I understand it, there are 14 states plus the District of Columbia that allow mail-in ballots to be received after election day, which is really the root of this.
- 20:46I I listened to the oral arguments, I've done my analysis, it should probably be published in a week or two.
- 20:53And it really comes down to what do we mean by election day?
- 20:58Is election day the day you cast the vote, or is election day the day you submit your vote?
- 21:05When do you cash your ballot or when you submit your ballot?
- 21:10And that really is, or when it when it's collected for counting, I guess it would be a better term.
- 21:14And that's the question.
- 21:16See if I fill out a mail-in ballot and I mail it election day.
- 21:23Well, it can't be received until at least a few days later, which is what these laws are designed to deal with.
- 21:30But if election day is the day that the ballot is received by a government official for processing and counting, well, then that that ballot has not been cast by election day.
- 21:40And this actually gets into a couple of real constitutional issues.
- 21:44Um part of the problem is uh most people don't realize that the federal government, Congress can only pass laws about the time, place, and manner of elections for House and Senate.
- 21:54They have no authority over state elections, over primaries, or anything like that.
- 22:01But there's also a requirement that certain dates be met.
- 22:04For example, when it comes to presidential elections, which Congress has an already to oversee.
- 22:09The Constitution does require that election day is the day the uh um presidential electors are announced, right?
- 22:20That's when they're assigned, when they're appointed.
- 22:23See, we don't elect people don't elect the president.
- 22:25We're telling our state who's which parties presidential electors we want to represent, we want to make the vote, and that day that they're supposed to be appointed on election day based on federal law, which is based on the constitution of the United States.
- 22:40But if you're accepting ballots up to five days after election day to be counted, well, then there's no way for you to um uh actually appoint electors on election day unless your state wins, you know, one part one party wins by a sufficient margin that the outstanding mail in ballots could not possibly affect the outcome, you can't do it, which means you can't fulfill the const the federal law and fulfill the constitution, makes a whole lot of issues.
- 23:09And here's the other thing I'm trying to figure out.
- 23:11So let's say I've only used mail in balloting once.
- 23:14There was one election, happened to be a presidential election, but there was one election where I was going to be out of the state on election day.
- 23:22Uh, this is decades ago, right?
- 23:24Before early balloting or anything like that.
- 23:26So I asked for a mail in ballot, and I cast my ballot and I I filled out my ballot where I was and I mailed it in.
- 23:36And you know what I didn't do?
- 23:37I didn't wait to the last minute to get it to submit it.
- 23:42In other words, I didn't play chicken with my ballot.
- 23:45It was too important to take the the chance that it didn't arrive in time for election day.
- 23:53Now, I'm I'm sorry, but if you can't make up your mind until a couple of days before the if if something your preferred candidate does in the last couple of days of an election make you change your mind, you haven't vetted your candidate very well.
- 24:07And that's important.
- 24:08But that to me was an interesting question.
- 24:10Again, I've written an article and record a video about it.
- 24:13It should be out, I think, in a couple of days in a couple weeks.
- 24:16And you can look at the details.
- 24:17And this looks at the um the oral arguments and some of the arguments which I think maybe had merit, others which were let's just face it, they were kind of kind of goofy.
- 24:28But you have to remember that Congress, no matter what law they pass, it only affects House and Senate.
- 24:36Now, normally they word it is uh for uh elections for federal office, but the only federal offices the American people actually vote for are House and Senate.
- 24:46We don't vote for president, we vote for electors that will eventually elect the president.
- 24:50That's what the Constitution says.
- 24:52That's what the federal law says.
- 24:54And oh, by the way, um, if you wonder why why I'm not on Facebook, I believe this is the reason.
- 25:00Because I was educating the American people about how we elect a president, and that's when Facebook not only suspended me but deactivated my account.
- 25:11Because that is that that's the level of confusion we have that most people don't even realize, even though all of my sources were the constitution and federal law.
- 25:19It's important that we understand this, because how can we have a free election if we don't understand the electoral process?
- 25:27And how can you appoint presidential electors if you don't have all the ballots by election day?
- 25:35Here's another one.
- 25:36There's a document that's been uh obtained by the Tennessee Star that shows that Kansas Attorney General Phil Klein was among 430 individuals and organizations that were subpoenaed by then uh special prosecutor Jack Smith as part of his Arctic Frost probe.
- 25:57What this reveals is that that the the questions about the 2020 election were not just the the investigation didn't just involve the president and the White House.
- 26:08It looked at anybody outside the White House or up to 430 people outside the White House who questioned, who sought to contest the results of the 2020 election.
- 26:20Now, what does that say for the fairness of our elections?
- 26:24If questioning the outcome leads to a well, uh some would say criminal, it's really a political investigation.
- 26:33According to the documents that star received, they have correspondence from Verizon notifying the Klein family back on February 25th that its records had been subpoenaed by the U.S.
- 26:45Senate.
- 26:46The records request related to an earlier subpoena obtained by Mr.
- 26:50Smith and Verizon attached to records revealing the special prosecutor's office contacted the company on August 1st, 2023 to inform them of their obligation to produce clients' records to comply with a grand jury subpoena.
- 27:05Now, here's what I'm concerned.
- 27:08So what this shows is regardless of your opinion about the the the 2020 election.
- 27:15What we really see here is a is more is lawfair.
- 27:20You question the election, so now you have a prosecutor convincing a grand jury that your correspondence is now fodder for a federal investigation because you questioned the outcome of an election.
- 27:36Because what the what Jack Smith subpoena sought was the subscriber information, names, address, records for both inbound and outbound calls, text messages and voice with voicemails, as well as the means and source of payment.
- 27:53Ladies and gentlemen, this was not a and this was not limited.
- 27:57Just send us all that data.
- 27:59This is a fishing expedition.
- 28:02And uh, you know, Mr.
- 28:04Smith convinced the grand jury, remember, a good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
- 28:10He convinced the grand jury that they needed all this information about Klein because he contested, he sought to contest the results of the one.
- 28:20He he sought to petition the government for a redress of grievance.
- 28:25He thought he had a grievance with how the uh presidential election in 2020 was handled, and for doing that, he is now he wasn't made subject of a secret investigation.
- 28:37Now, look again, how fair can election be if you know that if you question it, well, now you could be subject to an investigation.
- 28:47Would it be, you know, and again, we're talking about Jack Smith, a Democrat going after Republicans?
- 28:53Would it really surprise you all that much that of a Republican going after a Democrat if they questioned an investigation?
- 29:02Have I seen evidence of it?
- 29:03No.
- 29:04Would it surprise me?
- 29:05No.
- 29:06Because we're dealing with politicians.
- 29:09But there's even more of this, because these are our subpoenas, they were issued by a grand jury, but they were signed by a judge.
- 29:17District Court Judge James Boseberg.
- 29:21Does that name sound familiar?
- 29:23Because it was Judge Z Judge Bosberg that prohibited Verizon from informing the subject of the subpoena from actually notifying the subject.
- 29:38You have a judge.
- 29:40Well, he calls himself a judge, who says, I'm going to issue a subpoena, but you're not allowed to tell the person whose data I'm subpoenaing that you're actually that that you know that they're being the data is being subpoenaed.
- 29:53What reason do they have that?
- 29:54Do they think he was going to flee?
- 29:56Do they think he was going to interfere with the investigation?
- 29:59Or is it
- 30:00Simply, we want to do this in secret, and we got the judge to conspire with Mr.
- 30:09Smith on a secret investigation.
- 30:13Yes, conspire to deprive the client of Mr.
- 30:18Klein of his rights without due process of law.
- 30:21To be notified that the federal government is investigating him.
- 30:25To be notified that they a subpoena has been issued.
- 30:30For again, it can't be to destroy evidence because this is none of this evidence was in Klein's possession.
- 30:35No, ladies and gentlemen, this this stinks to high heaven.
- 30:40Because when Judge Bozeburg said there were reasonable grounds to believe that such a disclosure would result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, how?
- 30:47These are all records in the possession of Verizon, not Mr.
- 30:50Klein.
- 30:52Intimidation of potential witnesses.
- 30:54Where?
- 30:54What evidence do you have of that?
- 30:56And serious jeopardy the investigation.
- 30:58That is true because it would have exposed back in 2023 the law fair that was being conducted.
- 31:06It would have been another brick in the wall showing the criminal activity, how the FBI and special prosecutors were being used to investigate people who were political opponents of the president.
- 31:19That's only valid.
- 31:20That's the only reason he came up with it.
- 31:21And I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that is not a valid reason.
- 31:26Now, again, we're talking elections, and sometimes you look at an election, and there's something there that just shows there's just something wrong with the way the system is currently being run.
- 31:39And to get this, I take us to Vermont, where we have a Dean Roy.
- 31:45Um he is running for governor because he is sick of the people in charge right now.
- 31:51In fact, he is so sick.
- 31:53He created his own party along with a with a high school friend.
- 31:58They founded the Freedom and Unity Party to run for governor.
- 32:04Well, okay, Paul, what's so crazy about that?
- 32:07Dean is 14 years old.
- 32:10He posted on next.
- 32:12I know it sounds crazy.
- 32:13A 14-year-old running for governor.
- 32:15But honestly, look at the people in charge right now.
- 32:18They've been doing this forever, and things are things still aren't working.
- 32:23Vermont's Democratic controlled legislature just spent years driving property taxes through the roof and chasing young people out of the state.
- 32:31We seriously need new young people in Vermont.
- 32:34Our population is aging out.
- 32:36We are a dying state.
- 32:39Now, okay, you got a 14-year-old kid.
- 32:42He thinks he can fix the world.
- 32:45Okay.
- 32:46Um the interesting thing is under the Vermont Constitution, a candidate for governor must have been a resident of the state for four years before the day of election.
- 32:57But there's no minimum age requirement.
- 32:59Which technically means I guess a four-year-old or a five-year-old could run for governor.
- 33:05As long as he turns turns four, um, you know, before before election day.
- 33:12Now, again, posting on X, Dean gave a policy position.
- 33:15He says, I'm running to build a fairer, freer Vermont for everyone.
- 33:19I'll lower property taxes by taxing short-term rentals and large corporations, saving working families up to 14%.
- 33:26My platform supports education reform, cutting 100 plus school districts down to five to save 100 million dollars.
- 33:34Okay, it sounds like an interesting platform, and I probably would like to hear more of it.
- 33:37But uh, as one person said, usually I tell kids his age to either get off my lawn or mow it.
- 33:43But a 14-year-old who might cut my property taxes, bring them on.
- 33:49So apparently there are people looking going, hey, we can't do worse than the adults in the room.
- 33:54Wouldn't that be interesting if the the most adult person in the room was a teenager?
- 34:02But again, free, fair, and transparent.
- 34:04If the if he makes a policy and the people of Vermont want him thinking, hey, maybe he'll do better than the idiots we have in charge.
- 34:12Great.
- 34:13You know, you you think about it.
- 34:15Uh, how old was um John Quincy Adams when he drilled with the Massachusetts militia?
- 34:21How old was he when he went to uh uh France with his uh with his father when he became a when he was sent to to Russia as a translator for the for the ambassador because the ambassador didn't speak French.
- 34:37I think he was younger than this boy.
- 34:40Maybe our problem isn't uh uh you know, young people, it's the qual is what we're teaching the young people to do.
- 34:46And I'm curious if if if this young man would like to come talk to us about running for governor 14, reach out.
- 34:52I'll put you on the on the program because I think it's interesting, and I'd love to see what your positions are.
- 34:58But it really, you know, again, if we're looking at the quality of our elections, what does it say about the people we're electing when they look at a 14-year-old and says, you know what?
- 35:07That's not a half-bad idea.
- 35:09At least some people are.
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- 39:14Today we've been talking about the state of our elections.
- 39:20We live in a republic.
- 39:22We hire people to represent us via elections.
- 39:27So the people in government, most of them, at least the elected officials are our choices.
- 39:32We we choose them.
- 39:34The people they hire are hired by people that we've chosen.
- 39:38We are responsible for what's going on, which brings me to uh, well, the latest update of what's been going on in Minnesota.
- 39:48See, seven years ago, a lady by the name of Faye Bernstein blew the whistle on the waste for uh fraud and abuse concerns with within the Minnesota Department.
- 40:00Department of Human Services.
- 40:02Seven years.
- 40:04She told lawmakers during a recent uh hearing on the state capitol seven years ago.
- 40:10And she said nothing happened.
- 40:12Nothing has changed at uh uh uh DHS.
- 40:16Again, she was she was a 20-year employee.
- 40:19She still works for DHS.
- 40:21Well, she's facing not only demotion but retaliation for her comments.
- 40:27She goes, I still see a reckless disregard for compliance uh according to her testimony to the fraud prevention and state agency oversight policy committee.
- 40:36Now, as if seven years of, hey, there's problems and nobody doing anything.
- 40:41She recently, she well, about a year ago, she found out that someone actually falsified the audit tracker.
- 40:47Now, this is important.
- 40:48This is part of those internal record keeping to ensure that the data can be audited and to remedy any problems that an audit identifies.
- 41:01She testified when I when I heard that, I thought, my gosh, someone's getting fired for that.
- 41:06And based on her other testimony, maybe that person would be her for reporting the problem.
- 41:14Now, of course, the the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been under scrutiny lately when it was found that there were billions of dollars in fraud going on within that community, especially within within Minneapolis.
- 41:27And of course, a lot of people pointed to the Somali community, a lot of people pointed to the Democrats.
- 41:32But let's face it, seven years of problems mean the people that were hired to oversee the state functions were not doing their job.
- 41:42That includes not just the people in DHS, but the people in the state legislature that are supposed to oversee what's going on there that are supposed to make sure that the executive branch is overseeing what's being done, that things are being audited.
- 41:54I know a lot of people think audits a bad word.
- 41:56Audit is a good thing.
- 41:58They've told you before, I'm on the board of a not-for-profit here, and uh every year we have our books and processes ordered audited.
- 42:07And every year in our January meeting, we get a report from an external auditing company that comes in and looks at it and tells us if there are any problems, maybe makes a suggestion or two of what we can change.
- 42:19That is that's very refreshing to somebody on the board to know someone's looking at this and and things are going well, which apparently is not what's happening in the Minnesota DHS and has not been going on for several years.
- 42:35It's not just DHS.
- 42:36Remember, uh we are our school, 90% of our children go to public schools.
- 42:43They go to schools that are covered, they are govern, well, they're government schools.
- 42:47We call them public schools, but they're really government schools because they're they're paid for by our tax dollars.
- 42:53They're supposedly regulated by our tax dollars.
- 42:56I say supposedly because there's more and more evidence that they're actually being regulated by teachers' union.
- 43:02Uh at this point, according to reports, nearly half of high school seniors are not provision in reading or math.
- 43:10And one third of eighth graders cannot read at a basic level.
- 43:14Now, again, 90% of our cool students are going to these schools, and half of the high school seniors are not can't read or write properly, and a third of eighth graders can't read at a basic level.
- 43:24And you think of how important.
- 43:25I'm old enough to remember, we used to have these commercials.
- 43:28Reading is fundamental.
- 43:30If you can't read, it truly limits your ability to survive, much less thrive in any scenario in any economy.
- 43:39If you can't do basic math, I it I I laughed.
- 43:42I I've worked with people who were mathematically illiterate.
- 43:45They couldn't do basic math, and yeah, it made their lives more difficult.
- 43:49But in the middle of all this, we have to go back to the the COVID scandemic.
- 43:54Because remember, when COVID was found not to be dangerous to children, uh, not uh uh again, uh transmission was more limited than we had been told.
- 44:06And uh they yet the the teachers union kept pushing for schools to remain closed, meaning a lot of students were not getting taught.
- 44:16Well, they were they were teaching at home, yeah.
- 44:18Uh, you have it's a student at home, um, you know, with a parent that's doing something else.
- 44:24How much is is teaching?
- 44:26I mean, again, granted, we homeschooled our daughter, but you know what?
- 44:29My wife made sure the work got done.
- 44:31That was her, that was that was the task she took on when my daughter was really little.
- 44:36She would teach her as my daughter got older, more and more time with my daughter was teaching herself, and my mother, my wife was helping.
- 44:44But that didn't happen in these public schools.
- 44:46We simply sent them home with the kids home with a Zoom account and said, here, join us at school.
- 44:51And that just didn't work.
- 44:53In fact, uh students uh reading and math scores have regressed to levels not seen in more than 25 years.
- 45:03And in fact, now as many as one in four are chronically absent from the classroom.
- 45:09This over reliance on technology, on policies and personnels that are more interested in making the teacher comfortable than teaching the children, not only has become a problem in our education, but eroded accountability and real learning.
- 45:25At the same time, polls show that as many as eight in 10 teachers say they considered leaving teaching because of burnout and and the fact that their pay continues to fall behind other educators, like uh uh uh uh other college educated workers.
- 45:42But who is at the center of all this?
- 45:45Teachers' unions.
- 45:48Student scores slipped to historically low levels because in many cases the American Federation of Teachers pushed hard to prevent uh schools from reopening.
- 45:59They seem to be pouring their time, money, and muscle into ideological conflicts rather than uh fixing basic schools and basic education.
- 46:10I mean, Randy Weingarden of the AFT, she's used their resources not for improving teacher conditions, not improving education, not improving student outcomes.
- 46:20No, no, no.
- 46:22Funding no kings rallies.
- 46:25It's like the American Federation teachers as a a it should be the Americans for a guy attacking Trump.
- 46:33I mean, that that just seems to be what they're focused on.
- 46:37And it's one of the reasons why we didn't send our daughter our daughter to public school was because you know I always laugh, people would always ask, well, Paul, aren't you concerned about socialization?
- 46:48And we used to reply, yes, we're very concerned about socialization.
- 46:51That's why we're not putting her in public schools.
- 46:54Look at what our kids are being taught.
- 46:56There weren't they aren't being taught reading, writing arithmetic.
- 46:59They're being taught socialism, Marxism, and and uh, you know, uh political demonstration rather than that.
- 47:06They're being taught, you know, sexual perversion rather than the basics needed to certainly not civics.
- 47:13We're very concerned.
- 47:15And again, in many cases, the contracts that these teachers' unions have made with our government entities are being used to help the teachers' union politically, but not actually help teach our children.
- 47:32And there's one other thing I want to consider.
- 47:33Like I said, we hire people to represent us.
- 47:36They work for us, although they seem to forget that.
- 47:39And I want to bring it back to something that I haven't dealt with in many, many decades.
- 47:43The Selective Service system.
- 47:46See, I was told when I was 18 years old that I had to register with a selective service because I was a man.
- 47:53I was a boy.
- 47:54I was male.
- 47:55And that I had to do this because if our government if the federal government ever needed to reinstate the draft, well, they needed to know be able to find me so that they could draft me.
- 48:06Now, I I had a problem with that for a couple of reasons, although I've refined them over the years.
- 48:12The basic idea is it's a deprivation of liberty without due process of law.
- 48:17It's a deprivation of property, the property I have my own body without due process of law.
- 48:23The draft is not about the protecting the rights of the individual, it's about protecting the nation.
- 48:32Now, that's not to say that if something happened, I would not volunteer, but it came to be a question of do I have rights or not?
- 48:40Am I my own person or my property of the federal government?
- 48:44Should I be walking around with those years?
- 48:45Property of the United States.
- 48:48Well, this, of course, this always becomes a twist because every so often uh when you know people aren't happy with the the military escapades of a particular administration, all of a sudden, well, we should call a draft because that would be fair because somehow they think uh people volunteering just isn't isn't right, which is ridiculous.
- 49:07I mean, they volunteered.
- 49:08I think a voluntary military is not only the right way to do it, I think it's uh you end up with a better class of people because most of the people there are true volunteers.
- 49:17Sure, some were given a difficult choice, join the military or go to jail.
- 49:22That's not exactly a free choice, but it is still a choice.
- 49:25You can pick.
- 49:27But what happens when we turn into a draft when we treat the people of the United States not as individuals, not as even as citizens, but as property of the federal government.
- 49:39And now the the Office of Information Registry plans to begin automatically registering eligible men for military draft beginning this December.
- 49:54This is a rule that they they've they've proposed, a rule, not a law, a rule to start doing.
- 50:00Doing this to deprive men of their uh liberty and property without due process of law.
- 50:10Lady Joe, where are all the feminists out there saying, well, why aren't you registering women?
- 50:14Oh, that's a whole nother debate.
- 50:17Now, it does appear that Congress did approve the deprivation of rights under color of law when they approved the National Defense Authorization Act that that must pass legislation that everybody likes to hide their dirty laundry in.
- 50:32Apparently, they also included the automatic registration for the draft.
- 50:36Is it the automatic registration that's a problem?
- 50:39Or is it the potential draft that's a problem?
- 50:42See, I look at the potential draft that's a problem.
- 50:45Automatic registration is simply uh the, you know, the the icing on the on the nasty cake that is the draft.
- 50:54Now, I've actually done a little bit of research this, and the idea that that 15, 18 to 25 year olds are required to register is because the the they assume the federal law assumes that if you're 18 to 25 years old, you're a potential member of the militia.
- 51:09That's the the little, well, you know, we can regulate the militia.
- 51:13But I thought the militia was volunteer.
- 51:15Nope, not according to Congress, not according to the federal law.
- 51:19And again, we the people hired the members of Congress that said, yeah, not only is registration for the elective service selective service mandatory, we're going to make it automatic because we own you.
- 51:33Now, again, I'm far beyond draft age, right?
- 51:36No one's coming and drafting, you know, 60 plus year old dude to join the military.
- 51:40If you're if you're trying to draft me, man, we are in deep trouble.
- 51:44And I I don't know.
- 51:45If there were a situation where the nation was in danger, would I consider volunteering?
- 51:50However, I might.
- 51:51I I it depends.
- 51:53I don't know.
- 51:54I don't, I don't, you know, make decisions based on hypotheticals, but I could foresee a situation where in order to free up younger, more fit men to go off do things.
- 52:04I might be, I'd be willing to volunteer to help in the back end, depending on the situation.
- 52:10But that's my point.
- 52:11It's voluntary.
- 52:13I choose.
- 52:15I'm a free person.
- 52:16I get to choose.
- 52:18When the government comes in and says you're not a free person, we get to choose.
- 52:24Well, then we're not free.
- 52:28And when Congress comes along and says, I can, we can, I know the Constitution says you can't be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
- 52:35But we well, we say different because we're worried about a uh war and we want need to make sure that we can draft you.
- 52:41We can deprive you of your life, your liberty, and your property on our own whim.
- 52:46Not based on a process designed to protect the rights of the individual, which is what due process of law is.
- 52:51No, no, no, based on our collective, our decision of what is collectively the best.
- 52:57See, this is the consequence of those elections.
- 52:59It's why they must be free, fair, and transparent.
- 53:03We need to make sure that we the people are choosing them, that they are there to represent us under their oath to the constitution, not the political parties.
- 53:13But we've allowed those political parties to hold such a stranglehold on our state election laws that uh I think we've lost a lot of that.
- 53:20It's something we should be working toward regaining, whether it's by state legislation or just by figuring out how to choose better people to represent us.
- 53:31That's what I think is we need best.
- 53:33Now, how do you do that?
- 53:35Well, I'm gonna always fall back to John Jay, right?
- 53:38Every member of the state ought diligently to read and study the constitution of his country.
- 53:42It starts there because he said by knowing your rights, they'll sooner perceive when they're violated and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.
- 53:48That's where it starts.
- 53:50But where do you start reading and studying the Constitution?
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