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Congressional RINOs, along with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, need to go! · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Born in the grip of oppression.
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  I fought for my liberty.
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  I paid with the blood of my people.
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  Freedom has never been free.
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  Now my doors always open.
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  To dreamers and Prince.
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  I protect and defend.
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  Because my name is America.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome.
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  This is Karen Shone.
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  Today I want to talk about some history, because America is 250 years old, and most people have no idea what America is all about, which is very sad because we don't teach about America anymore.
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  When I went to school in the month of February, we celebrated Lincoln's birthday, which was the 12th of February, and George Washington's birthday, which was the 22nd of February.
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  And we had a whole discussion about the importance of things that Lincoln had brought us.
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  And uh we had the same discussion on George Washington.
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  So our kids and my kids, when I was teaching, knew exactly who these amazing men were and how they contributed to America.
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  And without them, we wouldn't have the America that we have today.
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  But of course, like everything, this has been changed.
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  And sadly, it has been changed, it morphed into something that is almost unrecognizable as we took away Lincoln and Washington and created President's Day, and we took away the historical time sensitive areas of black Americans as they participated in American history, because each time they had a birthday.
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  And to talk about Black History Month, how we got it, and President's Day.
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  Bill, thank you so much for joining me today.
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  Appreciate it.
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  And time to give Americans a little bit of history.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Well, great to be with you.
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  And it's a very important, you know, President's Day was uh, as you mentioned, uh George Washington's birthday, and he was the first president.
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  Uh a couple interesting things about him.
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  Uh, he was unanimously chosen as the army's commander in chief.
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  He was unanimously chosen as the president of the constitutional convention.
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  He was unanimously chosen as the first U.S.
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  president and unanimously re-elected to his second term.
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  And when you look at his life, um, he did not lust for power.
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  And uh that was something that several people have noticed throughout the years.
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  Robert Frost was a poet, and he said, I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few men in the whole history of the world who was not carried away with power.
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  And he uh said that the sword is the last thing to pick up and first thing to put down, and one of the stories that I love is uh in 1783, at the end of the war, the king of England was having his portrait painted, and he's standing there for hours, and the painters is named his Benjamin West, and he had been born in England, but he had moved back to uh or in America, then moved back to England, and so he's in England, but he's still keeping you know connections with his relatives in America.
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  So during the portrait painting process, they're uh killing time, and the king asks Benjamin West, what is the word of what George Washington is planning to do now that he has won the war?
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  And Wes replied, they say he will return to his farm.
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  King George exclaimed, if he does that, he'll be the greatest man in the world.
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  So from the beginning of time, men killed to get power, men killed to keep power.
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  Washington had power and he gave it up, and he defeated the most powerful empire in the world, the king of France.
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  Um, and then he went back to his farm.
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  One of the Charles Francis Adams, he's the grandson of John Adams, and he gave an interesting statement.
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  More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.
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  If there be one quality more than another in his character, which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
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  He was praising George Washington for not, you know.
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  You see these congressmen that go in poor, and then within a few years, they're multi-millionaires.
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  Um that was uh the opposite of George Washington.
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  He didn't use his position to benefit himself.
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  Uh, one of the things I think is uh overlooked is his Christian fate.
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  So uh George Washington was Anglican.
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  Uh matter of fact, you could not even hold office in Virginia unless you were an Anglican.
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  You had to take the oath of supremacy, acknowledging the king as the head of the church, and so you had to be a member of the Anglican church.
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  His grandfather, well, actually, his George's great-great-grandfather was an Anglican minister in England, who was Reverend Lawrence Washington, and then there was an English Civil War, 1751.
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  The Anglicans lost, and the Puritans took power for about 15 years.
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  His Anglican great-great-grandfather was demoted to being an assistant minister, a vicar at an impoverished, impoverished parish in Essex, England.
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  And so that's the time that George Washington's great-grandfather, John Washington, decides to be a merchant, right?
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  No longer going to be an Anglican minister, he's going to be a merchant.
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  This is John Washington.
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  And he is uh on a ship going to Virginia to purchase tobacco.
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  And in 1757, there's a storm that partially sinks the vessel in the Potomac River.
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  John Washington swims ashore.
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  The ship is being repaired.
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  John Washington is staying at the home of a planter, Colonel Nathaniel Pope, and John Washington falls in love with Pope's daughter Ann.
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  And he never returned to England.
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  And John and Ann Washington married.
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  And the wedding, they were given 700 acres in Westmoreland County.
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  John became a successful planter, member of the House of Burgess's militia leader during Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion, and a local Anglican church is named in his in his honor.
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  And so it's a Washington Anglican church named after John Washington, George Washington's grandfather.
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  Then you have uh George Washington, his grandfather, so not his great-great-grandfather Lawrence and not his great-grandfather John.
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  Now we have George Washington's grandfather, and he's also named Lawrence.
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  And he marries um Mildred Warner, uh, who was related to Queen Elizabeth II.
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  And so Lawrence and Mildred have three kids, the second one being Augustine, who's George Washington's father.
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  It gets a little bit tricky here.
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  Uh, but when Lawrence, the grandfather died, Mildred, uh, the wife married a guy named George Gale, and she moved back to England with her children, and then Mildred dies in England, and a relative in America petitions to get custody of her children, including Augustine, and their return to Virginia, that the children are.
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  Uh, Augustine is George's father.
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  He's a vestryman, which means he's involved in the Anglican Truro Parish Church, and he has uh a wife, Jane Butler, and then two sons, Lawrence and Augustine.
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  So that name Lawrence gets repeated for the third time, and then Augustine is uh his name.
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  So Lawrence and Augustine, they go back to England, they study at a prestigious Appleby grammar school.
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  Jane dies, and so Augustine marries Mary Ball, Washington, 1731, and they have six children, the oldest being George, who's born February 22nd, 1732.
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  And so Augustine dies when George is only 11.
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  George has his two older half brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, but then he's got uh five younger siblings.
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  He he copies the
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  The rules of civility.
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  So it's sort of homeschooled back then, and they had 110 rules of how you act in public.
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  And he hand copies them.
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  They didn't have copy machines.
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  And one of the lines in rule number 110 is uh labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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  Now, George's older half-brother Lawrence fights in the British Navy under Admiral Admiral Edward Vernon, and they capture Portobello Panama from the Spanish.
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  It was the big gold silver port uh in Latin America.
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  And they tried taking Columbia and they're not able to.
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  And so uh lots of people die on the ships from scurvy and and diseases uh on um the ships, the vitamin C was needed for the soldiers, and so they figured out that lime had vitamin C, so they'd make the soldiers eat limes from the British Navy or called Limeys, but it didn't taste really good.
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  And so Admiral Edward Vernon decided to pour some rum in the lime and had the soldiers drink it.
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  And uh it got called grog.
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  And so Admiral Admiral Edward Vernon's nickname was Old Grog.
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  Lawrence comes back to Virginia, he's a war hero.
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  He names his estate, his farm after his admiral Mount Vernon.
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  So Mount Vernon is named after Admiral Edward Vernon, old Grog, who was the British Admiral that Lawrence Washington sailed under when he was um in this war for Portobello, Panama.
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  Um, interestingly enough, uh Lawrence pulls some strings to get George to be a cabin boy on a British ship in the Navy.
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  And he's about to, he has his stuff stowed on the ship.
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  They're about to go to sea.
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  And the mom, Mary Ball, Washington, put your foot down.
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  Uh, she talks to some people, and and they say, you don't want uh the kid to be uh uh cabin boy on a ship uh because they die so much.
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  David Barton and I led a tour of Boston a couple months ago, and we went on to the USS Constitution and uh in the between deck where the cannons are.
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  The tour guide was explaining that they would have the little boys taking these packets of gunpowder and running through the ship and you know, giving it to the uh the men that would stuff it in the cannon.
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  And you know, you're running around with a bag of gunpowder, it was like dangerous.
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  And so the the boys were considered expendable.
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  Uh, and so they were often killed.
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  And anyway, so George obeys his mom and takes his stuff off the ship.
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  Had he not obeyed, he would have been, if he didn't die, he would have had a career in the British Navy.
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  Uh, we never would have heard of him.
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  He never would have been the George Washington that led independence.
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  Lawrence gets tuberculosis and the um uh his uh doctor tells him to go to Barbados uh or to uh to recover and uh the Bahamas and he uh does not recover, but George goes with him and catches uh the illness and recovers.
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  And that's really important because more people died of illness during the revolutionary war um of smallpox than um died in battle.
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  So George Washington contracted smallpox in Barbados, but recovered, so he was immune.
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  Lawrence dies, gives George's estate, and George becomes a vesterman in the parish.
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  He's the godfather for a half a dozen relatives.
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  He serves in the French and Indian War.
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  Um, when Braddock, who's the commander of the British Army in America dies, George Washington takes command, and uh he talks about how they're fire bullets at him and he was not uh killed.
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  He marries Martha Washington, and she has a lot of land.
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  She's a wealthy widow, she's got two kids.
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  One of them, uh Patsy, uh dies of epilepsy at 16 years old in George Washington's arm.
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  She had an epileptic seizure, and Washington wrote the sweet innocent girl, entered into a more happy state and so forth.
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  And the son, um, uh John Park Custis.
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  Um, George never adopted him, but then um he uh was a cabin, he was an aide-de-camp when George was general, and he died uh at Yorktown, so that was a bittersweet victory.
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  But George gives orders to his troops to live and act as become Christian soldiers, defending the dearest rights and liberties of their country.
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  Uh, George tells his troops the fate of unborn millions now depends under God on the courage of this army.
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  We have to resolve to conquer or die.
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  He is uh, you know, goes on to to to win the battle.
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  Uh, I love the one at Valley Forge.
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  Washington said to the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to Laud, the more distinguished character of Christian.
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  Uh, some Delaware Indians bring their youth to be trained in American schools.
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  Washington writes, you do well to wish to learn our arts, and we have life and above all the religion of Jesus Christ.
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  And um, so uh that's a little bit about George Washington.
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  Um, since Lincoln was born in February, and he was the president that got us through the Civil War.
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  Um, and he the month of February got uh could called uh President's uh day, uh you know, February um 22nd, but but it were now represents Washington and Lincoln, and uh, and then eventually they say, well, it's just gonna represent all the presidents, but but actually, when it comes down to the legal uh documents, it is uh just George Washington's birthday.
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  This is quite a history lesson.
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  And when you close your eyes and listening to you speak, which is what I did, and you envision what Washington went through.
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  Thank God he came out and became the father of our country because this is one man that should be revered, just incredible man, and the things that he brought our country we should be following instead of ignoring and pushing him aside and pretending that his whole history did not exist.
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  Bill, thank you so much.
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  It is always wonderful to be able to talk with you and to share and learn a bit of history.
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  Folks, this is the 250th birthday of America.
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  This is the time that you should be talking to your children and your family about what America is about, what America represents, and the wonderful leaders that enabled us to have the country that we have today, and throwing it away is not an option.
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  Bill, tell everybody about American Minute and the wonderful books that you wrote.
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  Sure.
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  Um, American Minute.com is my website.
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  Uh uh for Black History Month.
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  We have two books, one on George Washington Carver, and then another one on Booker T.
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  Washington.
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  And uh there's a lot of history.
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  There's a the uh YMCA in Chicago.
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  Carter Woodson was an instructor, and he's the one that came up with the idea of Negro History Week that turned into Black History Month, which uh Gerald Ford designated in 1976.
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  And uh, so I have uh lots of books that uh include lots of famous black leaders that most people don't know about.
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  Um, and uh we need to learn about them because they created and gave us an incredible history and incredible part of America, and without them, we wouldn't be where we are today as well.
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  Bill, thank you so much for joining me.
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  It is always wonderful to have you on the show.
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  And you will have to come back so we can have another lesson.
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  Thank you.
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  Amen.
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  Well, I look forward to it.
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  Hello, everyone.
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  Welcome back.
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  This is Karen Schoen.
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  You're listening to the Prism of America's Education brought to you on the America Outloud.news network.
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  We just spent some time talking about George Washington and his importance of how he made this country great the way that it is today, which is fantastic.
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  Unfortunately, we have a group of legislators that want to undo most of the wonderful things that we have in America.
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  And I am so tired of hearing about the quote free state of Florida as our legislators are trying to take our freedoms away.
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  So I have asked Dave Cowan, who has done an amazing job investigating, researching some of the bills that are in Tallahassee.
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  And the reason why I want to talk about them is if they are in Tallahassee, you can bet that they will show up in your state as well.
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  So what happens in Florida happens in the rest of the country, and we have to be aware of the verbiage and how they hide things and how most bills are not as they appear.
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  So let's get right to it, Dave.
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  Thank you so much for joining me today.
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  And I know that you've got a lot of information, so I'm going to let you talk about the bills.
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  Please go right ahead.
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  Thank you, Karen.
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  It's a privilege to be here today.
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  I want to start out before we get into the legislative side, talk about something that is of utmost urgency.
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  And I've been on here before talking about the RPOF, the Republican Party of Florida and their overreaching control.
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  What we've got is they are currently trying to pull together an emergency meeting to allow Evan Power, who is the chairman of the party, uh, who is running for Congress in District 2 to remain as the chairman and then create special committees uh for fundraising and other things uh for the finance so that he can remain the chairman, which is it's really a conflict of interest, which is why the Federal Elections Commission put out a very lengthy um law and opinion as to the dangers of that.
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  So they're trying to subvert it and basically come into compliance with some crazy little rules, uh, which would be rule 33.
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  Um, additionally, scheduled for tomorrow evening, February 10th at 6 p.m.
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  is a teleconference where Evan Power, the RPOF, is looking to endorse a candidate, Wilton Simpson for agricultural commissioner.
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  Keep in mind Wilton Simpson has not filed to run yet.
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  He's not just gonna say he's not even on anything.
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  And also, please, folks, remember Evan Powell is a lobbyist, and he works for a lobby firm, and they vote for their donors, not for we the people.
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  Absolutely.
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  Follow the money, follow who's funding these folks.
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  You should be afraid, you should be very afraid.
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  So file a complaint with the RPOF, pick up the phone, make the phone calls, uh, call your state reps, uh, your state senators and say enough is enough and stop this uh uh coercion into election processes, which is gonna run me into uh a couple of the bills that are being proposed out there.
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  We'll start with since we're talking about elections.
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  We're gonna start with House Bill for 2026 uh 991.
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  It's supposed to be an election integrity bill.
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  Um, it no longer says recount, but rather manual review.
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  And it can be by a canvasing board member, not the entire canvassing board.
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  It's an audit system to look at the audit, not the actual ballots based on the verbiage in there.
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  It also limits the prosecution for election crimes to a maximum of a five-year uh term to go after these folks with the statute of limitations, which is absolutely nuts.
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  When you look what happened with 2020, whether you would believe it was stolen, not stolen.
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  We are more than five years out from what went down in Georgia and New Mexico and other states.
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  That now that data is finally coming out with proof of what has happened.
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  You wouldn't be able to prosecute these people under Florida's bill.
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  They need to extend that time out.
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  Um any kind of advertising for uh your canvassing board historically is done at the uh on the website on the front page, and it actually spelled out on the main page, home page of the SOE's website, as well as a local newspaper and posted to the doors.
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  It is now just somewhere on an SOE's website, somewhere.
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  You know where that's gonna be.
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  It's gonna be on file six in the trash at the back where nobody sees it, you gotta hunt for it.
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  Um, no more requiring it to be in the newspaper.
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  Um they have removed the error reporting requirements.
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  If you've got an error coming up in a machine, and you're no longer required to report it, maybe I'm reading this totally wrong.
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  That's a scary proposition that we're going to accept uh ballot uh numbers out of a machine that may have been an error.
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  So this this whole bill 991, they need to go back to uh the drawing board and get real election tagged in here.
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  But when you realize, just like the folks we just talked about, Evan Power, uh Dave Ramba, they run Florida Supervisors of Elections Incorporated, and they steer all election legislation to protect their SOEs and their cabal they have built to keep their folks in office.
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  Next, we're gonna jump into um House Bill 479, which is a water bill.
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  People should be very afraid of what this bill does.
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  It takes full control of our water, rainwater, groundwater, well water away from the citizens and municipalities, and puts it with the state.
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  So Cape Coral has done something similar to this in the past.
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  You can't even put rain barrels out and collect rainwater, or you can be charged with a crime.
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  It is something that naturally occurs.
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  The groundwater, the rainwater, we need to be good stewards of it.
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  However, no state owns the water.
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  That is a right of every living being and creature we have in this state and on this planet to have that water.
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  And when you have states trying to take control of that, and the only reason I can surmise as to why they're doing this is to allow them to put a meter on your well and bill you for the water you pump from the well you paid for to have dug.
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  So I encourage folks to start really looking at this and get involved in that.
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  Start looking at that uh 479 in the water bill and to who's taking control over your drinking water.
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  Yeah, also remember uh that this is the same state that thought it was a great idea to straighten out the Kissimmee River to control the water that goes into Lake Okeechobee, and now the water goes in so fast that it gets pumped out right into the Gulf.
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  So, how does that help anybody?
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  And then they say.
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  We made a mistake.
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  So let's put the uh curves back in the lake.
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  Uh this is insane that these people think that they should be able to control our water.
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  Absolutely.
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  When you look at any time that they have tried to uh control the water, move the water, uh, withhold water, you've got a a large swath of the Everglades that are currently dying for lack of water.
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  Now they're scrambling to figure out how do we get it back in there.
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  You've got Lake Okechobee, that is probably one of the most unhealthy lakes around.
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  Uh, at point at times the water is all but to the point of being toxic that you wouldn't want to be in it or touch it.
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  Um, on top of it, you've got the Department of Agriculture through fish and wildlife, spraying paracat, you know, round up the stuff that everybody's getting sued for because it causes cancer into all our waterways, destroying any of the aquatic life, the the vegetation, so they claim, without any regard to it going into the fish, the wildlife, the water, the drinking water into the systems.
• 31:04
  So if it's bad for us to be around it, why are we putting it in our waterways?
• 31:09
  And that is a serious question I have for Wilton Simpson and his five developer friends that sit on the uh uh on the FWC board as to why are you dumping toxic chemicals to control plants into our water?
• 31:23
  It's the thing you don't want to do.
• 31:26
  No, and also let us remember that South Florida does not have enough water to support the people that are living there.
• 31:33
  So they also want to pipe the water from North Florida where the wells are, where the springs are, down to South Florida so they can develop more.
• 31:42
  How does that make sense?
• 31:44
  Absolutely.
• 31:44
  And when you look at it, you realize who these FWC uh board members are and realize that they are developers themselves.
• 31:51
  Wilton Simpson is also a developer.
• 31:53
  And what we have seen over the past couple of years here since uh COVID struck, the absolute out of control development in our state.
• 32:02
  Uh, we've even got our local commissioners here in Charlotte County screaming, oh, we have plenty of water.
• 32:06
  We do not have plenty of water.
• 32:08
  We have the ability to purify that much water, but we do not have that much water in reserve resource to pull from our reservoir or our wells to service the existing customers, let alone the tens of thousands of homes they have already approved for development here in Charlotte County alone.
• 32:28
  So South Florida should be paying attention to what's going on with your water.
• 32:33
  Your wells are going to go saltwater or they're going to go dry or contaminated.
• 32:39
  You've got to step in, you've got to be vocal, you've got to get involved as citizens if you want to keep Florida clean and pristine.
• 32:49
  It is it is quickly going away.
• 32:51
  It is sad to see what our lawmakers are doing.
• 32:53
  And when you realize the bulk of our lawmakers are developers.
• 32:58
  So I heard a good friend the other night joke about Wilton Simpson saying uh he's a developer that uh identifies as a chicken farmer.
• 33:06
  Um it's absolutely true.
• 33:09
  Well, what are they trying to do to the farmers, Dave?
• 33:12
  So the farmers, we're gonna get into House Bill 433.
• 33:16
  It starts out great, where it's talking about how no county or municipality can dictate what motorized equipment is farm equipment.
• 33:24
  And I wholeheartedly support that.
• 33:25
  I've got a board of commissioners here in Charlotte County and a code enforcement board that is totally out of control.
• 33:31
  I work for some other uh firms as a agricultural uh advisor uh through numerous counties uh interfacing with government agencies as well as the farmer.
• 33:41
  And it is an all-out war on farmers.
• 33:44
  And the first thing that is usually brought up is their trucks, their skid loaders, their equipment that are all necessary in a farming operation.
• 33:51
  I know this firsthand because I run a farming operation myself.
• 33:56
  And for these counties to try to shut these farms down in order to uh develop them, but they say, Oh, you don't need code, so we're gonna fine you right out of existence.
• 34:07
  Um, this bill actually solved that portion of the equation.
• 34:11
  It did some other things protecting farmers when they have events on their farms or these rural properties that they no longer need an event license or permit.
• 34:19
  That is great.
• 34:21
  But some of the other things it does in here is it strikes down your first amendment right to free speech on our food products in some of our uh large companies, say mosaic or big sugar.
• 34:36
  So when you look at mosaic and the amount of destruction they're doing to our environment.
• 34:40
  And I I previously worked for an airline.
• 34:42
  I flew in over mosaics uh uh pits on a regular basis, it was daily.
• 34:46
  You can see the changing color, the acid water, um, the the settling pods, the total destruction to our environment, offer a product, which is the phosphate mining.
• 35:00
  And in Florida, our gypsum layer is radioactive.
• 35:03
  So they make these massive stacks of gypsum that is highly radioactive.
• 35:07
  They want to turn it into road surfaces, but what it does is I can no longer speak out against them.
• 35:13
  Farmers can't speak out against them.
• 35:16
  The journalists cannot speak out against them.
• 35:18
  If they pass this bill, which it just I just got noticed that it passed in the Senate or in the House.
• 35:23
  Um, what we're looking to do is get folks involved because the Senate is going to be looking at Senate Bill 290, which is the the uh mirror bill for the Senate.
• 35:35
  Uh, we want to strike Section 48.
• 35:37
  We're also demanding that House Bill 433, they go back and strike Section 47.
• 35:42
  And that is where you can't speak against these big corporations.
• 35:46
  It is very reminiscent of what Congress did for Monsano, Bear, uh, these big pharmaceutical companies that you can't go after them and sue them.
• 35:55
  Now, what the serious problem here is not only they can they come after you, even if you're telling the truth for liable slander and defamation, but they can come after you for attorney fees.
• 36:05
  And if they lose, you still have to pay your own attorney fees, but if they win, you have to pay their attorney fees.
• 36:13
  So that's a little bit one-sided, isn't it?
• 36:16
  Absolutely.
• 36:17
  So you have to question what the heck is going through the heads of our lawmakers.
• 36:22
  So I encourage everybody, as this heads into the Senate on the 10th, somewhere between 9 and 11 a.m., please call the president of the Senate, Ben Albritton.
• 36:33
  His number is 850487529.
• 36:40
  Please express your displeasure with the protections of this and ask them to uh strike Section 48 of Senate Bill 290.
• 36:49
  It is imperative because free speech in Florida will be gone.
• 36:54
  And you know, everybody else in the nation looks at us because we tout ourselves as the gold standard for elections and integrity.
• 37:01
  Yeah, we're fools gold.
• 37:03
  Absolutely fools gold.
• 37:04
  And what we're putting out there is the next set of shackles on every Florida resident.
• 37:10
  It seems as though uh our legislators no longer have their citizens in mind when they are passing these bills.
• 37:18
  It seems as though they are favoring their donors rather than we the people.
• 37:23
  And that's a lot of it is our fault, Dave.
• 37:26
  Don't you think uh people really need to get more involved?
• 37:31
  Most people sit by the sidelines and goes, oh, there's people that will handle that.
• 37:34
  You know what?
• 37:35
  It's the same two percent that are always out there on the front lines.
• 37:41
  It's exhausting.
• 37:42
  I've been doing this for a lot of years, and it becomes exhausting.
• 37:46
  And then when these kind of bills pass, then everybody's up in arms.
• 37:51
  Why didn't somebody do something about it?
• 37:53
  We asked people to get involved and do something about it.
• 37:57
  So please don't let this be another one of those bills that we just sit by and hope doesn't pass.
• 38:04
  And be active.
• 38:07
  Go and speak to your county commissioners and tell them what's going on.
• 38:11
  For the most part, they have no idea what's going on in Tallahassee, and that's probably by design.
• 38:17
  Uh, we went to our commissioners and told them about um Bill 479, and the answer was staggering.
• 38:26
  No, they didn't know, they had no clue.
• 38:28
  But worse than that, they were sitting and waiting for the Florida Association of Counties to make a decision.
• 38:36
  I don't know about you, Dave, but I did not vote for the Florida Association of Counties.
• 38:42
  I voted for a county commissioner who is supposed to be paying attention to our county and making lots of noise when things go awry with our county.
• 38:54
  Um, and then I asked them, well, if you're waiting for the county for the association of counties, what do we need you for?
• 39:01
  Why are we paying them these ridiculous salaries if they're going to sit and wait for somebody else to make their decisions?
• 39:08
  Absolutely.
• 39:09
  And we're dealing with that with our state representative herself right now, where we have been engaged with our uh county commissioners uh as well as our city council.
• 39:19
  And uh one of our state reps, Vanessa Oliver put forward a bill, uh Charlotte County's utilities bill, basically trying to strip the city of their water treatment plant and their sewer plant because it wasn't within the city limits, requiring the city and the county to separate their systems for service with absolutely no funding requirement, no deadlines, no nothing.
• 39:41
  It is such an ambiguous bill.
• 39:43
  And when she was met with unbelievable opposition, we are talking overwhelming opposition right down to our county commissioners opposing it, our city council opposing it, and the citizenry opposing it.
• 39:58
  She didn't care.
• 39:58
  She went right ahead.
• 40:00
  And our other state rep, Danny Nix hopped right on board to support her.
• 40:06
  And it is really sad what you see going on with our state reps and our local representatives are our county officials.
• 40:13
  It's no longer about what the people they represent want.
• 40:18
  It's about what they and their developers want.
• 40:21
  And they apparently want more housing, which does not pay the bills, by the way.
• 40:25
  Businesses pay the bills.
• 40:27
  Housing does not.
• 40:28
  Housing is a burden on your system, more septic, more water, more schools, more police, fire, EMS.
• 40:36
  It gets ridiculous to what goes on when you start putting in these eight, 10,000 home neighborhoods to the infrastructure requirements, and none of them are listening.
• 40:45
  We have a republic, not a democracy.
• 40:48
  And I want to remind people of that, because with a republic, those representatives are supposed to be representatives of the will of the people.
• 40:57
  And unfortunately, they have all forgotten that.
• 41:01
  You are so right.
• 41:02
  And Dave, I want to thank you so much for bringing us this information.
• 41:06
  I'm going to ask you to come back again because this is not going to be over tomorrow.
• 41:11
  This is uh they vote in March, they'll vote for these bills.
• 41:17
  And folks, it's up to us.
• 41:20
  Uh, nobody is going to come on the white horse.
• 41:23
  We don't have a George Washington anymore.
• 41:25
  Uh, we don't have somebody that's standing up for we the people, it's up to us.
• 41:29
  Thank you so much, Dave.
• 41:30
  How do people reach you if they have any questions?
• 41:33
  I'm gonna give you an email and a phone number.
• 41:36
  They're direct contact with me.
• 41:37
  My email is Kalen, K-A-L-I-N Enterprise, E-N-T-E-R-P-R-S E at Yahoo.com.
• 41:45
  Okay, 6610741740.
• 41:51
  Reach out to me directly.
• 41:52
  You will get me on the phone.
• 41:54
  You're not going to get an operator.
• 41:55
  You're not going to get some other system.
• 41:57
  You're going to get me, and we're going to get you involved.
• 42:00
  Well, folks, that was quite interesting and what our legislators have in store for us.
• 42:06
  We've got to be in contact with them.
• 42:08
  And I would be remiss if I did not bring in Ryan Kennedy to tell us what's going on in education.
• 42:15
  Because if we do not educate our children properly, um, and they don't know about America, and they don't know about the constitution, they certainly will not be fighting for it.
• 42:27
  And if we believe the children are our future, we've got to get involved.
• 42:31
  Sitting on the sidelines does not help.
• 42:34
  So thank you, Ryan.
• 42:35
  Thank you for joining me.
• 42:36
  And what do we have to look forward to to this uh legislative season and what can we, the people, do to help?
• 42:44
  Yep.
• 42:44
  So uh the biggest bill that we're tracking right now and involved with is uh HB 1071, is what it is in the house side.
• 42:53
  And that bill does a number of things related to education.
• 42:57
  First off, it requires every single public and charter school in Florida to teach fetal development education.
• 43:05
  You may remember this from last year when I was on your show.
• 43:08
  Uh, this is the second year of this bill has been brought back.
• 43:11
  Um, fetal development, of course, is very important because it teaches students what is going on uh with their body once they get pregnant, or in the case of a male, teaches them what to expect when you know they become fathers, watching your spouses and such um go through the pregnancy.
• 43:31
  And so this bill is very important.
• 43:32
  Uh, we do not teach this at all currently in Florida.
• 43:36
  We obviously have uh and we've had problematic teachings related to reproductive health and um you know all those sexual uh classes.
• 43:46
  However, we've never actually taught about well, what happens when someone gets pregnant?
• 43:50
  What is that process looks like and what and what is a big how does a baby grow in the womb?
• 43:55
  So that's important.
• 43:57
  It's also very important because it calls causes attention to the fact that it is a baby, not a just a group of cells.
• 44:06
  And if we don't understand that uh baby is growing inside the woman's body, um, and an abortion is murder, then how do we expect our kids to understand that?
• 44:20
  So this is very important bill.
• 44:22
  Yep, yep.
• 44:23
  The bill actually does a couple other things I'd like to point out as well.
• 44:26
  Um it it does away with any state funding that goes to a DEI program.
• 44:31
  Now we've kind of done this uh we've done this at the college level.
• 44:37
  Um, and the federal government, obviously, President Trump put out an executive order that did it with federal funds.
• 44:44
  Um, however, at the direction of President Trump and through the federal DOE, they a course encouraged the states to do the same.
• 44:52
  This bill is what that uh is about.
• 44:54
  So it gets rid of DEI funding towards these DEI programs.
• 44:59
  Um, and and it also, along with that, does away with any funding to be used towards political activities.
• 45:06
  So I'd like to just mention, I'm sure some of your listeners may have seen the walkouts about ice at public schools here in Florida.
• 45:14
  And some of your listeners might be wondering, well, I thought we did away with that in Florida.
• 45:18
  Well, that's because uh there's essentially a loophole in the law that you know, obviously we have to respect people's First Amendment rights, but at the same time, the a lot of these um are orchestrated, a lot of these are being driven by teachers, and so you know, they're telling students you have to participate.
• 45:36
  So this bill is trying to address that issue.
• 45:39
  And this recent string of walkouts is just a perfect example of why this bill needs to pass.
• 45:45
  That is a good one, folks.
• 45:47
  Make sure you get the number that is 1071, and that is House Bill 1071.
• 45:53
  Yep, correct.
• 45:55
  No, the next bill that we're working on is one that we've been obviously dealing with for multiple years now, which is HB 11.
• 46:03
  Uh, so 1119, HB 1119, that bill deals with uh the pornography in schools and trying to close the loophole, which that loophole is there because of the Miller test.
• 46:13
  I won't spend too much time on it because I've I've talked to your audience before about this bill, but this is back now for the second time.
• 46:21
  And uh this bill is very important because again, it closes the loophole.
• 46:25
  We saw over the summer, uh, this past summer, I should say, um, that there were uh tons of books that the school, the DOE had to go to the school districts and say you have to remove because it violates law.
• 46:38
  These school districts were using the Miller test to keep those books on the shelf for now essentially two years past when we got our original bill passed.
• 46:46
  So this is very important.
• 46:47
  This bill needs to pass, and it closes the loophole to be able to make sure that school districts interpret the law correctly.
• 46:54
  Okay, um, can you just give a very brief review for the Miller test for those people that are new to the show?
• 47:01
  Yes, of course.
• 47:02
  So the Miller test is a Supreme Court case uh that was decided in the late 70s, and and largely you'll remember uh people will remember uh I see pornography when I know it when I see it.
• 47:13
  I see I know pornography when I see it.
• 47:16
  Uh, that was a very famous line that was written out in the the opinion uh within that decision.
• 47:23
  But what the decision did is it created a three-prong approach, and it said that the material has to be um uh essentially appeal to uh a sexual desire.
• 47:33
  Uh, it has to be um it has to be uh considered explicit for uh the standards of the audience in question in this particular case, it was adult standards.
• 47:44
  And then the last prong is that if it has any literary artistic or political value, then none of the other things matter at protected speech.
• 47:52
  And what school districts have done and what states have done is two issues.
• 47:57
  One is they've put a decision that had to deal with adults into the statute related to minors.
• 48:03
  So that's the first issue.
• 48:05
  And there's tons of Supreme Court cases all around it, both before and after that say, well, no, actually, in fact, minors are treated to a different standard with what's considered obscene and what's considered not obscene.
• 48:17
  And the last issue is that every school district has figured out that if a book has won an award, if a book's written by a certain person, if a book's about a certain topic, then no matter what the content is of that book, it can stay on the shelf because it has literary value.
• 48:35
  That's a big stretch on a lot of the books that I have seen.
• 48:39
  And I am glad that they are gonna be closing that loophole because uh that is disgraceful.
• 48:45
  We all know what's going on, folks.
• 48:47
  And the sad part is too often you are not you are denied access to uh the literary information that your kids see in the media center.
• 48:58
  You can demand it, you can make sure that you see it, and you can make sure that you get the list of books that are uh that are exposed to your children.
• 49:07
  Yeah.
• 49:08
  And then so yes, very important bill.
• 49:11
  Uh, the next bill I'll mention, uh and it's a it's it's the two obviously the the bill on the house, and then it's companion bill in the Senate, but is HB 659 and SB 482.
• 49:24
  And this bill is the artificial intelligence bill of rights.
• 49:27
  Uh, your some of your listeners may have heard Governor DeSantis talking about how he wanted a bill of rights for artificial intelligence.
• 49:35
  And obviously, with all the talk at the federal level about AI, it's been all over the news.
• 49:40
  What this bill does is it it lays out essentially parental rights when it comes to AI, allowing parents to determine what AI content our child can engage with, uh, ensuring data privacy protections for all users, no matter what their age are.
• 49:57
  And then
• 50:00
  Requiring to make sure that some of these things like suicides, uh, some of this um very uh obscene content that we're seeing coming out of AI is not being able to be uh put in front of users and children.
• 50:13
  That's what this bill is about.
• 50:15
  Uh the bill has has flown through the Senate side.
• 50:19
  Uh, it has essentially gone nowhere on the house side.
• 50:23
  And so I encourage everybody, especially with this bill.
• 50:26
  This bill is so important.
• 50:27
  I told people in committee that a one-third of children would rather talk to an artificial intelligence chat bot than to engage with the human.
• 50:38
  That doesn't even mean just their parents, that includes their own peers.
• 50:43
  They would rather talk to a chat bot about serious issues than their own peers.
• 50:47
  Uh that's frightening.
• 50:49
  Yes.
• 50:50
  Yes.
• 50:51
  That is really frightening.
• 50:52
  Think about that, folks.
• 50:54
  Where is the human interaction?
• 50:56
  Where is the empathy?
• 50:58
  Where do the feelings go when you're talking to something that is incapable of any of that production?
• 51:07
  Um, that really slants a child's development.
• 51:11
  My gosh, that's really bad.
• 51:14
  Correct.
• 51:14
  Yes.
• 51:15
  And we've seen with AI in particular that school districts are implementing AI into their schools.
• 51:20
  We we know, especially if school districts have done what are called one-to-one devices, those are those tablets, Chromebooks, laptops.
• 51:28
  Uh, AI has already been integrated into it.
• 51:31
  And so the best thing that we can do is to put guardrails in place.
• 51:36
  We're not trying to stop AI.
• 51:37
  We're not trying to say, oh, there can be no use of AI by any children.
• 51:42
  But what we are trying to do is make sure that if AI is used by a child, it's done appropriately based on their age and based on their development, and that parents have a say.
• 51:51
  That's also very important as well.
• 51:53
  That is extremely important, folks.
• 51:57
  The part that says parents have a say, but you're not going to have a say if you don't monitor what your child is paying attention to, what they're viewing, who they're who they're listening to.
• 52:09
  Do you want them to listen to you as the parent or some robot that all of a sudden uh they think is wonderful?
• 52:18
  The important thing with AI is that we up front right now must teach our children that AI is a tool to help them learn.
• 52:28
  It is not a lifestyle that they have to participate in.
• 52:32
  They should want to use AI, check your information, write your paragraph, write your uh synopsis, write what your theme is, write what you feel.
• 52:42
  And then if you want AI to check your spelling or your paragraph structure or something that's different.
• 52:48
  But allowing AI to take over your thinking is how we produce the kids that we have today that blatantly follow any path because somebody else said it and they are incapable of making decisions.
• 53:04
  That's a really bad bill.
• 53:06
  Um, that must be corrected, yes.
• 53:09
  Wow.
• 53:09
  Yep.
• 53:10
  Well, I uh we're running out of time, so I want to make sure that I get uh a chance to say if if any of these bills uh interest any of your uh listeners, please go to our website, go fca.org and sign up for our action alerts.
• 53:24
  This is the time we're in legislative session to contact your representative and your senator about the bills you care about.
• 53:31
  And our website is a good place to get all those resources on how to do that.
• 53:36
  Oh, that is absolutely important, folks.
• 53:39
  Uh, the Florida Citizens Alliance has done an amazing job.
• 53:44
  Brian has done an amazing job as a citizen lobbyist, and I'm sure that you could use help of some people that would be able to even go to Tallahassee, but you don't have to go to Tallahassee, folks.
• 53:57
  Your representative has a home office, which is very near you, and that's what you should be paying attention to.
• 54:05
  Make sure you visit them, make sure they know who you are, make sure they know where you stand when it comes to education of our children.
• 54:14
  Um, it's just as important that you visit them in Tallahassee as it is that you visit them in their home office.
• 54:22
  And that is really the same thing.
• 54:24
  It doesn't make a difference to them where you see them.
• 54:27
  It the fact is you had better see them in.
• 54:30
  This is an election year, right, Ryan.
• 54:32
  So this is a good time for them to go and knock on the door of their representatives and tell them, what are you doing to my kids?
• 54:41
  Yes, correct.
• 54:42
  It is, and this is the best time to get involved.
• 54:44
  So please do.
• 54:46
  Yes.
• 54:46
  Well, Ryan, I want to thank you as always for bringing us up to the minute information on education.
• 54:54
  Uh Florida is doing a tad better uh in educating our children.
• 55:02
  We also see a lot of charter schools that are popping up.
• 55:06
  Pay attention to what your kids read and write and their math.
• 55:12
  Ask them to read to you.
• 55:13
  Ask them to write something for you.
• 55:16
  Just because they're in school doesn't mean that when they get home, they should forget.
• 55:21
  You want to talk to them.
• 55:22
  You want to see how they think.
• 55:24
  You want to make sure that you are the parent.
• 55:28
  You don't have to be their friend.
• 55:30
  You are the parent that's supposed to be able to make the right appropriate decisions for your children.
• 55:36
  But if you're not paying attention and you're allowing somebody else to do that, you have a problem.
• 55:43
  And that's how we're creating problem kids.
• 55:46
  And we we're smarter than that now.
• 55:48
  So we want to make sure that uh we know in advance what's happening and what we can do to bring in the good parts and get rid of the bad parts.
• 55:58
  Ryan, tell everyone where they can find you.
• 56:00
  Yep.
• 56:01
  Go to go to go fca.org.
• 56:04
  That is our website.
• 56:05
  That's where you can connect with us.
• 56:06
  We have all of our links of social media there, and we have a place to sign up for newsletters and action alerts.
• 56:12
  Yes, and the newsletters are great and the action alerts are even better because they say action.
• 56:19
  Remember what I say.
• 56:22
  Knowledge doesn't help unless you apply it, unless you share it.
• 56:27
  If you keep it to yourself and you know something, so what?
• 56:30
  You're not doing anything that's of any good.
• 56:33
  You've got to be able to share the good information.
• 56:36
  Well, thank you.
• 56:37
  Thank you all for listening.
• 56:39
  This is Karen Schoen.
• 56:40
  You have been listening to the Prism of America's Education brought to you on the America Outloud dot news network.
• 56:47
  Folks, I will see you again next week.
• 56:50
  Pay attention, especially if you're in Florida.
• 56:53
  We are in session now, and now is the time to make your input.
• 56:58
  See you next week.