Birthright Citizenship and Congressional Debate

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I will be on Hannity tonight and I wanted to wait. that appearing here and there this afternoon So I could consume it all and break it all down lot of people say, well, now we go to the Cstitutional system, the amendment process When's the last time the Constitution has actually been amended It's been a long time, hasn't it Go ahead and Google that, Mr P prodducer, you'll be surprised. When is the last time? Now Well,ll go ahead and Google You're about to find out.'s not not recently, I tell you that You see, ladies and gentlemen In order to have a constitutional amendment, and then I'll circle back As you know, from listening to this program, there are two methods. Number one The only method that's ever actually been used You need two thirds of both houses of Congress. to adopt language for an amendment They post have to agree on it Then it goes to the states with the legislatures of the conventions thereof. requires thirty states to approve Three fourth of the states Now how many of you think that you're even going to get anything close to two thirds of the House or Senate to change birthright citizenship. None of you, I assume because it's never going to happen Then we have Convention of States, which is really a fantastic organization. I'm strongly behind it The problem is we don't have thirty four states that have signed on yet. I think we've twenty or twenty two, which is remarkable under the circumstances sllow but sure process isn't ready either And then on top of that, look how everything is switched The court just went ahead and constitutionalized something that's not in the Constitution, has never been in the Constitution And now it's up to you and me to undo it while getting a constitutional amendment passed So you're going to have a lot of u A lot of these senators, these Don Quote types were basically fraudulent I introduced an amendment to the Constitution to do this or that And unfortunately, it's not going to go anywhere. What we need to do Is said there are vacancies on the court, put constitutionalists on the court And that's how row was reversed. That's what's going to have to happen I'm not talking about packing the ct We don't do that I want to briefly go through some of the points that I made online As I went through this, I try to put it in very plain English and very concisely birthright citizenship issue, but there's something fundamentally shocking Let's start Chief Justice Roberts begins his opinion arguing that the states and their framers relied on English common law in writing the fourourteenth Amendment. But that isn't the whole story They used it as a guide but rejected it when they felt it conflicted with our constitutional system certainly is not a sound argument to use it as a basis for the fourteenth Amendment to the Civil Rights Act that preceded it. They were addressing specifically the problem of some formly Confederate states fter the Civil War to recognize freed black slaves and their children as citizens with the full and equal rights enjoyed by all other citizens. Now what am I talking about there Early on in the opinion is the foundational basis. for his approach to the language in the fourteenth Amendment And he returns to it later in his opinion as well He emphasizes English common law from the sixteen hundreds English common law, he argues, incorrectly. When you were born in the sovereign territory of the king of the monarchy You were automatically a citizen for most. situations, okay A citizen of what a citizen to the sovereign That is a citizen to the king That was your sovereign And so of course, the King viewed Anybody born in my kingdom As allegiance to me, the king Now what's the problem with that? That's not what the founders of our country, the framers of the Constitution said Obviously English common law from time to time is I've wrote here a had a guiding impact on what they might do, but they abandoned it often. And they certainly didn't adopt this viewpoint When constructing the fourteenth Amendment in eighteen sixty eight or the Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty six that preceded it That's not how they viewed things And so the entirety of this opinion that Roberts puts out that the majority has signed ono is based on a false premise And yet he needs to do this Be what the hell else is he going to base it on? I'll explain it. Let me go on Now, he references interestingly, Thomas Payne and some of the others. And I say I'm a huge fan of Thomas Painne But his powers of persuasion during the Revolutionary War had little to nothing to do with the formulation of the fourteenth Amendment Roberts creates a hodgepodge of references to make what is basically an argument looking for founding principles He must For the truth is this case was so straightforward the facts and history so clear The majority had to do what lawyers do when the facts and the history are against them, create contrivances Now this part of Robert's opinion is especially absurd. the dominable Dred Scott decision, the abominable Dred Scott decision had nothing to do with immigration, let alone illegal immigration. It held that Freed blacks and black slaves were not citizens And Congress could not even ban slavery in federal territories. thereby uppeending the Missouri compromise. This would lead in great part to the Civil War, which also had nothing to do with immigration, let alone illegal immigration. And I write as I continue reading the Roberts opinion, that is the court's decision. It does a grave injustice purpose of all constitutional, legal, political, and ultimately military conflict aimed at dealing with and then ending the enslavement of black people Instead it attempts to grate generalized policy and legal arguments. that are simply deceiving The terrible wrong was the enslavement of black people, not some immigration policy What was that issue The only purpose of the Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty six was to use the power of the federal government confr all former black slaves and their progeny the same rights that applied to all other citizens because of continuing resistance in the former Confederate states That's why it was called a civil rightights Act, not an immigration actct When President Andrew Johnson vetoed it It was clear to the Republicans that they needed to enshrine it into the Constitution. Thus was born the fourteenth Amendment As Roberts continues moving through his decision Heain appeals to English common law as the basis for the fourteenth Amendment. but notice what's missing. Where all these stirring speeches by members of Congress? and the state ratifiers supporting Robert's proposition Keep something in mind. Listen, this is important Two thirds of both houses of Congress Propose amendments to the states turn Three force must ratify amendments That means despite all the debates and speeches that occurred around this amendment, Roberts and the proponents could not find support for their position You get my point, Mrter Perducer If he is taking the position that the framers embraced English common law. That this is how they view jurisdiction The one once born in the sovereign of the king Th you were a citizen to the king that that applied to our country when it surely did not Where all the great talkers, all the great speech makers, all the great Dclarations For meembers of Congress, sen it in the House from legislators where some of the greatest orators existed. Where were they standing up and saying This was their position. O birthright citizenship. there's not one. There's none They don't exist Because the focus was the terrible problems that arose in the South after the Civil War, the rise of the Kan The horrendous violence and the lynchings against blacks. The overall difficulty with reconstruction Congress and the states we're not thinking about birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens They weren't glued the ideas of English common law. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments were about creating the constitutional protections for freed black slaves throughout the nation, not citizens of other countries who hadn't even arrived on our shores, legally or illegally The extent to which Roberts and the majority have to rewrite our history to reach a decision is an ugly business And we come back to this word jurisdiction, where Roberts makes the same argument as those who've always supported birthright citizenship make That is jurisdiction means physical jurisdiction. a pregnant mother is in our country illegally and has her baby in our country, the baby is granted immediate citizenship according to this argument because he goes back to sixteen hundreds English common law where if you're born in the land of a monarchy Then you are a servant, a citizen, an automatic citizen to the monarchy. Think about this for a as a matter of logic Does it make sense to you Does it make sense to you pregnant woman comes into our country and confer jurisdiction on her baby simply on her own. Does that make any sense? Do you think that's what the framers had in mind Wherever the country from where the parent comes continues to treat that baby as a citizen of their country So that's not exactly allegiance to our country. And how can the baby have an allegiance to anything? Be the baby doesn't even know what's going on? And why are these exceptions for babies born of of diplomats and so forth. Do the fourteenth Amendment, if it's interpreted as Robert insists Great exceptions of any kind Now we're going to continue I happen to think the Roberts opinion is absurd. Very. Result oriented, very activist But he gets that fundamental issue wrong as I posted what an hour or two ago. That is, excuse me English common law iss a guide, sure But they didn't abide by it like it's the Bible and they rejected aspects of it like this one I'll be right back. What? Then. If you missed out on gold in twenty twenty, if you missed the rally in twenty twenty five, it's not too late. Right now gold is sitting about twenty percent off its all time high earlier this year, so you could buy it at a discount. The fundamentals that drove gold over five thousand dollars an ounce, they're still strong. It's a limited commodity. You can't just print more of it. Gold often remains your hedge in times of inflation war and political uncertainty D diversified and add gold with monetary gold. For twenty six years, monetary gold has helped Americans own gold and silver in a tax sheltered retirement account like an IRA or a four hundred one K. fiveive stars of the Better Business Bureau and consumer affairs. Visit marklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation That's eight seven seven six six nine. fourour, six, five, three. pllus, get a free guide to owning gold at markarklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may very consult your tax and financial professional You're listening to the best of the Mark LeVinch show. Happy Independence dayay. Welcome back to America Shall we continue? I think we shall Now this language is important, jurisdiction. Go back to this word jurisdiction there Listen to me. I'm walking you through it come back to the word jurisdiction where Roberts makes the same argument as those who've always supported birthright citizen makeake. That is Jurisdiction means physical jurisdiction You're here, That's it. pregnant mother is in our country illegally and has her baby in our country. The baby is granted immediate citizenship according to this argument for two reasons. Number one, under British common law, the subjects born. in the king's kingdom are subjects? Well, that's ridiculous. That's not what the framers believe, but that's that. Number two It's the plain language. It says jurisdiction. What else could it possibly mean? Now as I said, does that make sense to anybody So a foreigner can unilaterally confer jurisdiction on herself I'illll legally, I guess by conferring then jurisdiction on her soon to be born baby by coming into the United States illegally That defies simple logic So Is that? What the framers of the fourourteenth Amendment meant? Of course not. And they never said that And meanwhile, the country from where the parent comes continues to treat the baby as a citizen of their country. China does this now The language states the following in the amendment All persons born are naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens, notice The authors did not leave it at all persons born. were naturalized in the United States Our citizens They didn't say that They added language. That would have been enough So why did they add superfluous language superfluous lang because the rest of the sentence is key to what they intended sububject to the jurisdiction though So all persons born are naturalized to the United States They didn't say are citizens They said subject to the jurisdiction thereof It means subject to the political allegiance to our country and no other a fundamental duty of loyalty to our country, patriotism art of this civil society, illegal bonds Societal ties exchange for which you receivive the legal rights and protections afforded all citizens Somebody who just walks into the country, none of that applies If you missed out on gold in twenty twenty, if you missed the rally in twenty twenty five, it's not too late. Right now gold is sitting about twenty percent off its all time high earlier this year, so you could buy it at a discount. The fundamentals that drove gold over five thousand dollars an ounce, they're still strong. 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Let me go on And they point to this eighteen ninety eight case Supreme Court case, United States versus Wang Kim Ark. case is totally irrelevant has nothing to do with babies of illegal aliens. That case involved the birth of a baby from lawful permanent residence. Hello Lawful permanent residence notot the baby of an illegal alien But the language in that opinion was so broad and so Over the top that Roberts used it as do others in the birthright legal world, by the way, to apply to babies born of illegal aliens. But that has no No relevance. So you can see that Roberts and the court majority were looking for an outcome and dressing it up as a constitutional decision And in doing so, they've taken judicial activism to new heights The decision will have enormously detrimental cultural, societal, legal, economic, and national security consequences And now we are told that we, you and me, we must amend the Constitution if we wish to change what a rogue chief justustice in court majority did in abusing our cononstitution Knowing fullw wellell Two thirds of members of Congress will never vote to send any amendment to the states that alters what half of Congress intentionally did to our country and that there are not enough states evenven with a Cvention of states to ratify an amendment thirty eight states. When and if we get to the magic number of thirty four states supporting a convention in time to stop the ongoing damage So you and I are supposed to have a discussion with each other on how to fix this The way we fix it is More serious constitutional conservatives on the court. Roberts and Baron severely undermine us I know I have a friend out there online who tell it's all the wonderful things Barret has voted for and so forth and so on. That doesn't fix this It doesn't change this There's some decisions that are of much more importance than others. This is a huge deal. This is a big, big deal to constitutionalize something that's not in the Constitution, the claim that it is too rewrite American history, as a Republican opponent, chief justustice is appalling. Following We use British common law as a guide from time to time. but have never been wedded to it. Never. We're a constitutional republic That's what we are. Now Robertson has majority twisted the history of the fourteenth Amendment. and just constitutionalized birthright citizenship, knowing full well that our nation, like Europe facing this grave threat from within. Now Clarence Thomas' descent is long and absolutely brilliant And he gets into this issue of jurisdiction. He says, wait a minute. Let me tell you what jurisdiction means in America page after page after page Excuse me, he points out in American history. Jurisdiction means domicile. Where you domiciled? E today I'm in this state. I'm in that state. Great. whereere are you domiciled where you're domiled you get the vote whereere you're domiciled you pay your taxes. whereere you're domiciled, the law applies to you. Where are you domiciled That's how Americans view jurisdiction, he points out Where are you domiciled? And he does more than that. step by step history and constitutional brilliantly methodically unravels every aspect of Robert's argument Alito the same thing, another brilliant descent The brutal takown of Roberts in the majority And he hits too at this constant reframe about British common law being the basis of our understanding of citizenship No, it's not talking about allegiance to a king Even Britain abandoned that And yet that's the entire basis for jurisdiction pretty much And in the Thomas decision, which is also cited the dissent, Fally quote after quote after quote of the of the authors of the Civil Rights of eighteen sixty six as well as the eighteen sixty eight fourteenth amendment to the Constitution But everything I've just told you hasn't been told to you by a single lawyer on television. byy a single legal reporter on television. Be this is what I've done all my life. take court decisions, especially these important court decisions and break them down and break them down In eighteen sixty six, they weren't trying to preserve English common law, they were dealing with a real problem. In eighteen sixty eight. eighteen sixty six, they still had rebel states They refuse to acknowledge or recognize The legitimacy of Black citizens And the Kan was started. The lynchings were horrendous. The beatings, the rapes just disgusting. Horrendous and they needed to deal with it. They weren't thinking about immigration for God's skes, let alone aliens and illegal aliens and their children If I'm wrong, prove it Show me where. Show me anywhere A constitutional amendment, that's not a little thing. Super majority of the House and the Senate super duper majority of the state legislatures They're all debating, they're all talking, they're giving speeches, their' newspaper reports. S me, showh me, They can't show us. So they rewrite American history. That's what they did They rewrite American history Now let me tell you something else that bothers me about all this By trying to expand what took place in eighteen sixty six in eighteen sixty eight, by trying to expand and that whole notion. that this was directed specifically A getting square, getting it right, getting it straight with our fellow black human beings to make sure that their lives to be free and equal and participate in this country We're toking about illegal aliens now the children of illegal aliens. that was one of the purposes of the fourteenth Amendment In other words, we're we're dumbing down. We're dumbing down the purpose of all these actions that took place It had nothing to do with British common law. It had nothing to do with immigration. It had nothing to do with the children of illegal aliens We were trying to get square with Slaves, former slaves and their children. The thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery officially. The fourteenth Amendment Equal rights due process That freed Black slaves and their progeny We're to be treated as other Americans. And then the fifteenth Amendment, the right to vote H nothing to do with the children of illegal aliens Then you read these comments online And read dis comments on r What did you expect? We have one hundred and fifty years of this. What are we going to do? reverse it right away You know what's interesting about that comment? Just as Kavanagh wrote something in his decision which was very technical Oh He voted that the The executive order violated a federal statute. He didn't really take a big position on the Constitution So people are saying it was a five four decision. It was a six three decision. No, it's a six three decision because he voted down the executive order for whatever the reason It doesn't matter. he voted it down but not on constitutional grounds. But he said along the lines of the compromise that I was even thinking they might do which is We're not going to constitutionalize birthright citizenship. It's not in the fourteenth Amendment. I don't care if they've been practicing it for one hundred and fifty years or not. And by the way, that's not correct for forty years after the fourteenth Amendment My view, the president's view. The view of other solid constitutional conservatives Our view was the view that was upheld and followed for forty years after the adoption of the fourteenth Amendment So it wasn't one hundred and fifty years That said Congress could do is the following The fourourteenth Amendment does not say that just because you're born in America of illegal aliens, you're a citizen Congress that the fourourteenth Amendment does not say Congress can't Grandfather in all those people who are already treated as if they were birthright citizens. So in other words, you have somebody here who's eighty three years old Okay They've been here since they were fourteen years old. And so what he's saying is Congress can still pass a statute and say, look cutting off birthright citizenship on this date, anything forward, no good. whichich is the point I made. I thought the Supreme Court might actually do that But no Bidge too far Am I making sense? You understand my point, Rich? If not I want to repeat it So there is a fix quote unquote If Congress wanted to do that kind of a fix, It doesn't have to apply to everybody going back. God knows how long But that said What this court did was You want to open the floodgates, Democrats. You want to break existing immigration law, Democrats. You want to fail to uphold the law, which by the way, is a violation of the Constitution. Democrats, well, you're gonna to be rewarded. Your party's going to be rewarded. The illegal alien's going to be rewarded Everybody's going to be rewarded no matter who's coming in. So if you have a terrorist a female terrorist who comes into the United States And she comes into the United States, let's say from Qatar. She has a baby in America baby is a citizen of Qatar and the United States of America. Then she takes him back to Qatar raaises the little bastard as a terrorist. then that citizen can come back to the United States. 'cause he's American citizen folks This has son Pier born in America, taken back to Turkey, radicalized Pro terror back And you see what happens Communist Chinese. why do you think that they're pushing for hundreds of thousands birthright babies in our country , they've set up a hole Assembly line, massive system whereere these pregnant Chinese women come here from commommunist China, they have their babies and they immediately take them and go home They're creating spies Saboteurs peopleople who will be loyal to China, not to the United States This is what the framers of the fourourteenth Amendment were talking about. They didn't have China in mind, obviously But there needs to be a political allegiance, a loyalty or as Clarence Thomas puts it, some kind of Domasire relationship with the country. You don't just walk in and have a baby And you confer citizenship on that baby by giving them birth That's insanity. And the idea that in the middle of reconstruction and all the hell that was taking place immediately after the Civil War But that's what these men were thinking. I was discussing shame on John Roberts It's an appalling decision. It's a rewrite of American history. We're not subjects to a king. We are a constitutional repepublic And no, the word jurisdiction does not mean What he says it means and the basis for what he says it means I'll be right back. What? With Donald Trump back in office as one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal strong security, but Senator Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity, and your financial future. 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Rewriting American history, basing it on the power of the king ignoring how we constitutionalists, But even more than that, the framers, including the framers of the fourourteenth Amendment thought and what they said is unacceptable to me. and I am prepared to debate. I saw the vice presresident Did an interview I forget who with Knowles is the guy's name Michael knows. But I could be wrong about that where he said it's time to abon Milton Freeman for Hamilton or something to that effect I think what he meant was it's time to abandon Jefferson and Madison for Hamilton since Jefferson and Madison. were really the adversaries to Hamilton Obviously Nilt Freeman was a free market Austrian school economist, among other things, a great, great man But the original relative free marketers where Madison and Jefferson and their lk Hamilton is loved by the left Do I owe you something? Is that what you're trying to say I can get back into this a little bit later That's a debate I'd love to have Love the hf because Hamilton you know, these are my areas of expertise where I have a lot of fun. Hamilton was more than about centralized big government He also rejected major aspects of the Constitution after it was adopted even though he argued for it. I'd love to get into that I'm not done. I shall return. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by PureTalk. PureTalk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to pureTalk d. com to find the plan that's right for you Thank you again for listening and thank you so much for this sponsorship, your talk He's here Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle, deep in the vowels of a hidden bunker. someomewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader ator M. Len This is the Fest of the Mark Linchh, Happy Independence Day. I'm watching something that's very important More and more TV hosts, radio hosts Good podcasters are talking about this fusion of Marxism and Islamism and How this is a cancer on society. The president's talking about the communists. And what's interesting is we've been talking about this a very long time you and I Now this book I wrote American Marxism It came out I'm trying to remember. I think it was during COVID. It came out twenty twenty one. It's not that long ago, What? five years ago. Sold one point three million copies, which means many of you bought and read it And yet most of the people talking to us today on TV and radio and podcasts have not They act like there was no warning ever given evenven talk about things that are straight out of the book Everything the Democrats do is about power. Where have you heard that before Power, they want power My God, we spent months and months on that and an entire book on that. In fact, I think I called it on power And that book came out. justust a couple of years ago Early last year or mid last year. If you read American Marxism and on power You will know everything that's going on You will understand everything that's going on, more so than the people who are talking to you about it today No, I've spent a lot of time on the internet over the last. I guess it's been six months, right, mister Berdus or would you say That's going to slow down I don't think there's as much benefit in that But I wanted to explore it I don't find that there's a whole lot of Profundity sububstance There's a lot of bickering. Let of child play There is some Good information there with some good people But it's the exception, not the rule I'm not putting anybody down. I'm just explaining it And so You only have so much time in the day, and I'm spending twenty hours a day on these things wororking harder than I ever have and I want to But it has to be time well spent It has to be time well spent And I think my best time spent is right here on radio onn my TV show into my books. But it troubles me immensely that individuals who are talking about current events are not that well Sch. And I don't mean by teachers. I mean by themselves They don't spend a lot of time. really digging in on the subject And so now we're talking about the red, green, green, Red Alliance I don't like that because it confuses people. Why don't we be blunt about it The Marxist Islamist Alliance And they talk about the woke Reich. It's the woke REICH. I coin that phrase. People say they did it. We know what we do here because it is a quasi, if not full blown neo fascist movement that was gaining a foothold in the Republican Party I took it on. You were with me every step of the way About fourteen months ago That whole element now has been exposed Now they want to create a third party or a opppposition party to the Conservative Republicans And so their goal now is to defeat us and to elect radical Marxist Islamist Democrats. because these alliances are about power That's what they're about And if they can't find power in one place, they'll look in another place. Now I think it's important that we actually dig into this. You know, a good friend of mine, Jeffrey Lord It's been a friend of mine a very long time Pennsylvania as well When American Marxism came out, He wrote about it. Almost a year ago to the day, july eighth, twenty twenty one Excuse me, twenty twenty one, not a year ago, five years ago to the day He says, as usual, Mark Levin pulls no punches His very first chapter in his new book American Marxism, it's here opens with a seriously precise description of the challenge America faces The Ven writes the counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force can no longer be dismissed or ignored for it' devouring our society and culture swelling around our everyday lives and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media and entertainment Once a mostly unrelatable French and subterranean movement, it is here and it is everywhere The counter revolution movement of which she speaks is Marxism He says it's Markx Communist manifesto, recall that famously divided the world into oppressor and oppressed Leavin astutely notes that the use of this formula in today's America by the left means that either you are part of the righteous revolution for liberation and transformation or you are not This explains, but only in part the cowardice of corporatists, I wrote prorofessional athletes, broadcasters, artists, actors, writers, journalists who in the face of such tmals under the pressure seek to avoid the mob's notice through various forms of appeasement and capitulation and in some cases participate in their own transfiguration and even disembowment. Lord writes, no more pressent description could be made of an event that occurred before American Marxisms' released. its official published dat is next week And he goes into what happened in Atlanta Coca Cola, Delta Airlines and all that He says this was a vivid example of Levin's description of corporations buckling under the pressure to avoid the mo's notice Discussing the role of the mob, Mark Zero in a Marxist anarchist ideology of Antif and Black Lives Matter In fact, well after Black Lives Matters, popularity had surged in twenty twenty, a twenty fifteen video surface They revealed the BLM co founder, Patrice Colliers is describing herself and her fellow BLM organizers as quote, trarained Marxist unquote. Truth counts. Mass movements, Mark also notes. relies significantly on indoctrination and brainwashing, which is exactly the case with BLM and AntifFA. now we can add the so called Democratic Socialist movement American Marxism and its entire chapter devoted to Hate America Inc And in it, Mark explains the long history of those who have openly pushed the Marxist agenda at America's colleges and universities The Ven writes that progressive intellectuals of the late eighteen hundreds were hostile toward capitalism and constitutional Republican systems that establish barriers against tyrannies of various kinds including that which is born from the mob or centralized autocracy. And of course, That would become known as progressivism. On the eve of American Marxism publicationublic publication, America had passast the through the traditional July fourth holiday Mark's description of the results generated by Hate America Inc was in vivid display. The headline on july sixth, New York Post was nothing, if not confirmation of Mark's point. It read Red, white and woke july fourth week and became Liberal Bashfest of America The New York Post reported liberal politicians and commentators took special joy in celebrating july fourth by announcing America. Statue of Liberty was not a symbol freom but a symbol of hypocrisy. The flag was polarizing. The National anthem doesn't speak for everyone or anyone. Among the remarks by these Hate America Marxist was this jewel of a tweet from Democrat congressman. Corey Bush of Missouri She said, when they say that The fourourth of July is about American freedom. Remember this, the freedom they're referring to is for white people This land is stolen land and bllack people still aren't free And then it goes on. American Marxism also lasers in on critical race theory, correctly calling it what so many outraged parents The land and throughout the land have seen As it has taught to their school aged children, Mark writes in short, CRT is an insidious and racist Marxist ideology spreading throughout our culture and society. He cites George Lenu. Research professor of public pololicy and political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore He writes The two best selling proponents of CRT Robin D'Aangelo and Abraham X Kendy CRT begins with the presumption that race is the primary way to identify and analyze people and consequently posits a racial hierarchy that supposedly exists with whites on top, blacks on bottom indndividual behavior is insignificant Be everyone in America functions within the Society of systemic racism structural racism, institutional racism. Not only is this correct, writes Lord, but in fact, the Angelo and Kendy and CRT itself are nothing more than recycled George Wallaceiss Wallace For those who came in late was the nineteen sixties era Democrat governor. Alabama proudly proclaimed he supported segregation today tomorrow and forever In other words, Wallace As was CRT proponents believe that race is the primary way to identify. and it goes on And the important part of American Marxism is I was laying out in this book the revolution and the transformation that was taking place Much of it right before our eyes, but much of it under the radar. In our classrooms, I pointed out the Marxist books that were being used to teach history, that were being teached to use political science and how American Marxism Was an Americanized form, a customized, a tailored form of Marxism applicable to the United States? where they were using race Chest Well and anti capitalism, but race and ethnicity. You can see it now. the so called Palestinian cause These are key to who they are and what they are And that's why there's a marriage between the Islamists and the Marxists in the United States And I watched our friend Will Caine just do an interview on Fox of the leader The democratic socialists of America And he was asked flat out Are you a communist He said, L, going on like like in Russiaian and so forth. and so he said,, you know, Soviet Union He said, no, no, no, the Soviet Union's dead and so forth and so on But the follow up was That was a head fake He's an American Marxist, an American communist. that again, they are customizing and Make and tailoring The Marx so ideology for the American culture and the American society This is what's been going on. For more than twenty years But it really came to a height five years ago And of course is in full display right now The reason why october seventh and the slaughter of Jews On october seventh, twenty twenty three For many people seem like, wow, automatically and unbelievably Revolutionary movements came to the fore is it because they were You know, doing so out of nowhere planned They're systemic Palestinian cause On october eighth, even before the Israelis responded, they were talking about genocide in Gaza. They were ready to go funded again by foreign governments as well Qatar among others Iran funded in our country byy billions and billions flowing into our schools There's a reason why Qatar is the number one fnder of terrorism and terror front groups and ideology in America And communist China is number two because they have the same objective. American Marxis Now, what does that have to do with on power? Stick with me We'll be right back. M. 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Again, that's pureTalk dot com slash LEVIN. makeake the switch to pure Talk a wireless company that actually lives up to your expectations This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy fourourth of July. Now back to the best of me No no, a lot of you may not read. mayaybe you want to listen to an audio version. I don't even know if they're available. I checked Amazon. These books are all heavily discounted because Amazon is about moving as many products as they can. I amm not pushing this to make money. It's not about making money I'm not going to make a lot of money off this. It's about You being The spokesman, the activist, the person at the dinner table, the breakfast table, at church or synagogue or wherever you are explaining things to people. Explaining things to people. now it's a very short segment now and I want to extend this obviously well beyond the bottom of the hour, but now the book on power which is the last book I wrote. which came out about this time last year About eleven months ago, give her a take I want to get into this with you too because Those of you who are really, really smart and been with me a long time, you understand each one of these books really is a chapter A chapter, a chapter, a chapter in a series of books These ten books These ten books starting with the Supreme Court book Men in black all the way up to on power I suspect most of this will be viewed as wow, this is good stuff when I'm dead and gone, and that's fine, but I'm worried about the here and now and what's going on in our country. So stick with me. It's all very important. We'll be right back Consumer Reports just did a massive survey of all the wireless brands in America. 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What about this power issue You know, when I write a book as you know, I spend four, five, six months explaining it TV on radio person to a number of people because I think it's very important When power begins, many have written about and debated the issue of power, including the ancients and modern philosophers, scholars, and statesmen alike Stick with me, this is important Why? Because power determines your social arrangements, quality of life, and more to the point of this book. whether you are free or enslaved or some degree of either in sure it determines your personal fate The the fate of your community and the fate of a nation There are infinite ways to view power, innumerable contexts and circumstances in which to apply it There's truly no simple, concise all purpose definition for what is meant by power. Clearly, however, it's more than a mere word To spend time thinking, talking or writing about it It's not a mere abstraction, a useless amorphism or an elitist and so terrorism Power is a term meant to describe some kind of force or energy that surrounds us all the time is both ubiquitous in your life. into the life of an entire society and is consequential in every way O is a core reality and characteristic of human existence. yet without more to go on such as context and circumstance it can be ambiguous and elusive. and all human pursuits, including personal pursuits and life events. Power matters The macro level power shapes economies, politics and governments Moreover, there are many variations, implied powers, necessary powers, assumed powers, granted powers, defined powers and on and on. For most people These are unstated and often unnoticed or obscure kinds of power But they exist and they matter. Indeed power is inextricably linked to liberty Alough it's not to be confused with Liberty itself Power determines if there's too much liberty like anarchy, or too little, like tyranny Depending on how power is exercised, who exercises And if it is bound by human rights The American Revolution is an important and obvious example of power properly pursued and exercise the point of which to promote individual and societal liberty includluding by means of representative limited divided government That is ordered liberty Conversely, autocrats of every stripe and in all ages have exploited liberty. to empower themselves at the expense of the liberty of others. fact One's use of liberty this way to expand one's own power to diminish, if not denw the liberty of others is in a real sense of paradox It is a cancer that apparently metastasizes over time within democracies Of course, there are democracies that have lasted several centuries, but in the end all succumbed to the steady increase in the centralization of power in a decline an individual in societal liberty Sadly, this appears to be the nature of things now to To be clear then, even the most widely conceived nation states Mindful of man's abuses of power and established with the intent of curbing and restraining that power seem to fail in the end. Goner, Athens, Rome and numerous lesser societies Democracies struggle against the centralization of power almost from the moment they're established Now keepep in mind the first book, American Marxism I go into incredible comprehensive detail about what is happening in our culture and our society in our educational system. in school boards to parenting in our culture And what is Marxism? what is it? It's obviously a defective form of a philosophy and ideology, but it is tyranny dressed up as Humane Fairness In a word It's emotional When you listen to the Marxist speak, it's all about emotion. You deserve this and you should get that, but let's go on with power because they're related in a big damn way. History is replete with examples of tyrants grabbing power in the name of liberty. The Prime example exists in Marxist regimes where liberation through revolution, class warfare with the masses, the so called oppressed I said the revolt against the powerful few, the so called oppressors the promise of liberty through community and collectivism results in hellish genocidal police states ruling over the people in their name. but without their consent And with an iron fist Again, this is not only a phenomenon of tyrannies. As I noted in my first book I mean, Liberty and Tyranny, not my first book, but an early book, Liberty and Tyranny. In her own country, President Abraham Lincoln observed that slave owners and abolitionists all claim to stand for liberty. Like liberty in the context of power, democracy is another word that is used by the power of Hungary to deceive and disarm. you know, like the democratic socialists of America Chrissy That's right. Democracy is often alluded to by those who reject it is they reject universal individual liberty and where democracies exist would destroy them In his book Politics in the English language, George Orwell writes about the perversion of political words used in a consciously dishonest way Coting him. That is the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows us here to think he means something quite different It's almost universally felt, writes Orwell that when we call a country democratic, we are praising it consequently The defenders of every kind of regime claim that it's a democracy and fear that they They might. to stop using the word if it were tied down to anyone meeting Now me, the word democracy like the word liberty is frequently used as a rhetorical weapon to deceive the true intentions and conceal the real nature of the abusers Again, these behaviors and tactics are not exclusive to tyrants and and autocracies. It's a real and growing threat in Western societies as they increasingly centralize power in the name of unlimited egalitarian and so called righteous causes Environmental justice, economic justice, social justice, equity, reparations, nationalized health carere, the existential threat of climate change and so forth which require and in fact demand the centralization of power to supposedly ameliorate the perceived claimed in some cases, manufactured Societal maladies The final resolutions of which are not only impossible but are not necessarily intended to be solvable. The agitations, demands, and related propaganda are sledgehammers. which to pummel the limited and divided institutional barriers to centralized power in democratic governments. That's exactly what's going on right now So when you read American Marxism, you will understand the forces behind that. Some of them are ethnic, someome of them are race related, some of them are economic related. Some of them are sex and gender related, someome of them are all of them and the use pursuit Let us narrow the focus I start with the observation, which I believe is historically indisputable, yet potentially controversial which you can infer from what I've already written that over the millennia, mankind has generally suffered more from the abuse of power and the concomited diminution of liberty than from its humane and righteous application They're important exceptions, of course, in the individual's everyday life and society generally but narrowing the focus even further in the long history of mankind And even in modern times The most pervasive form of governance under which most human beings live and have lived is authoritarian Today one need look only at the membership of the United Nations to prove the point Some seventy percent of the world's population currently lives under brutal autocratic regimes This raises an unpleasant question Is this the natural state of mankind At least in the communal sense. Even if individuals themselves wish for and seek liberty I term this negative power So I'm creating a new philosophical framework here term this negative power And I discuss that more fully in a later chapter called Negative power That said in a democratic negative power typ in a democracy, negative power typically takes the form of a steadily increasing centralization of authority that starts slowly but eventually spreads more quickly to cover all corners of the nation moving closer toward a quasi autocratic model It occurs primarily in three general ways. position by the few, for example, the judiciary peeaceful vote of the many, where the people willingly vote for their own demise or the slow institutionalization of and acquiescence to. As Thomas Hobbs characterized it a Leviathan, that is a dominating and domineering army of nonrepresentative bureaucrats Of course, there are degrees to which centralization develops and occurs. someome more aggressive and honest than others. This is happening right now That's why I'm taking the time to go through this 's happening right in front of your ey centralization in moderation which is intended to secure a liberty that does not exist or undergird existing liberty, that is threatened or diminished by factionalism Marb Ra O anarchy is of a different character than power secured for power's sake or with a tyrannical mindset or purpose And again, looking at our own history in the early days of our Republic The Articles of Confederation banded because the national government lack the power to do much And it's explained by the National Archives just a few years after the Revolutionary War Madison, Hamilton and Washington feared their young country was on the brink of financial collapse America's first Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, gave the Confederate Congress power to make rules and request funds from the states, but it had no power to enforce them and they go on That's not the point right now. I just was explaining the point of neegative power Obviously, human beings are imperfect. This is not much of a revelation yet it seems downplayed or ignored by too many in democracies who acquiesced to or even Cheer for governmental centralization when wrapped in promises of larger welfare state, ethnic racial economic empowerment godlike fixes to natural disasters and climate events But the idea that the centralization of power, which necessarily concentrates authority in the hands of fewer imperfect individuals whose base of knowledge is naturally narrow. It's a receipt for societal improvement, progress, stability and wellbeing' not only counterintuitive but contrary to everyday human experience of mankind's history Indeed, what makes the individuals more perfect as decision makers, more moral as people or more informed, wise or prudential than anyone else Nothing Autocrats are not known to possess such qualities or demonstrate them when exercising power. Most excel at acquiring power, but not much else. Indeed, those who achieve such a station exhibit a greater affinity for the darker side of human behavior. including corruption and dishonesty, immorality and hubris Anger Vinglory, egom maniacal, and so forth and so on Although a rare good or perceived benefit may come from this wielding of power suchuch as the claim that the Italian fascist Benito Muszolini made the trains went on time. by the way, it's a myth It's a it's farcical and awfully deadly delusion. Is this interesting to you, mister Redus Keep going, I will Moreover Where's the evidence that concentrated power in the hands of administrative state? withith a bureaucrat Yeah, Arc. consist of specially trained experts and societal organizers Wh know what is best for the people and know how best to achieve those ends, supposedly. Where is this ever existed anywhere? Certainly not in America as will be discussed later Contrarily from Aristotle and Cicero to John Locke and Monesue and numerous others, philosophers and scholars have argued for the wisdom. of diversified, dispersed, mixed power within governments. That is where power checks and balances power which provides a greater likelihood of enlightened leadership and administration Greater respect and appreciation for the civil society and non governmental parts of society, and more protection of individual sovereignty and free will, in essence positive power A positive power structure attempts to contain and control the dark side of the human character experience and emphasizes the capacity phrase civilized in just society I'm just gonna to read a little bit more But you can see, I spent a lot of time. digging into this issue, and there's very few footnotes in this book or end nototes, I guess they call them. Be these are my own thoughts. Excuse me They're my own thoughts. Think about this I think we better take a break actually And then I' want to get back to this because There's just a few more paragraphs I'm going to read you and then we will sum up because a lot of people are anxious right now, including me. worried about what's happening to the country. You see the enemy within, you see the Supreme Court ruling yesterday You're very, very concerned about these elections. You see what's happening to the Democrat Party? What are Republicans going to do? What if the Democrats take over There's a lot of tumult going on. It's all intentional We are in fact under attack by the enemy within More the reason to understand what I'm trying to portray. We'll be right back. Consumer Reports just did a massive survey of all the wireless brands in America. Only one company received five out of five stars in every single category, and it should be a surprise that the honor goes to PRTalk, coverage five stars, support five stars, value five stars, data five stars. Need one more reason? Right now through the end of July, PureTalk is matching donations dollar for dollar until they hit a quarter of a million dollars for America's warrior partartnership. That is on the front lines of supporting our veterans. Go to pureTalk dot com slash levin switched the only wireless company awarded five stars in every single category by consumer reports. That's pure talkalk. No service contract, no cancellation fees, just phenomenal US customer service on the five G network that powers America. Again, that's pureTalk dot com slash LEVIN. makeake the switch to pure Talk a wireless company that actually lives up to your expectations This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy fourourth of July. Now back to the best of me There's a whole lot more stick with me. I wantanna put a bow on this point about power as it relates to Marxism and then get into this Islamism aspect I hope I'm not going too far too fast, but this is the way it works. We'll be right back. 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Visit Levinf thefellowship. org. That's LvIN for thefellowship d. org to request your US Israel flagpin today. That's Levin for thefellowship. org, LvN for the feellowship dot org 's here Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle. Dep in the fouls of a hidden bunker. someomewhere under the brick and steel of a nond descript building, we've once again made contact with our leaded edit Mg. Lved N This is the bestest of the Mark Linch show, Happy Independence Day. I wanted to get through a little bit more, highlight a few things this on power issue. I hope you're enjoying it. Oh Look, I'm here. you're out there. I can't be certain But I think it's certainly important to give it a shot, right The first thing I have to do, mister Pue is I found out where I left off here. It's not essential But one of the things I found I start to talk about here is this issue of virtue because you can hear The left The left wants you to believe that what there' for is virtuous Here we are That's very dangerous. Montesquieue One of the great enlightenment philosophers who certainly influenced our constitutional period, separation of powers was most widely read and cited philosopher during America's constitutional period. He's referred to directly in the federalist papers multiple times in his really quite Inredible book, The Spirit of the Laws Montes Hue explained that democracy and aristocracy are not free states by their nature political liberttyies found only in moderate governments. But it is not always in moderate states. It is present, only when power is not abused But it has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it He continues until he finds limits Ready? Who would have thought it, he writes Even virtue has need of limits So the one cannot abuse power. powerower must be checked. Let me repeat that So one does not abuse power Power must check power. by the arrangement of things Power must check power by the arrangement of things. That one sentence explains your constitution. That's why it's not a democracy. That's why it's not an ocracy it is a representative Constitutional Republic He said a Cstitution could be such that no one will be constrained to do the things the law does not oblige him to do or be kept from doing the things the law permits him to do Now hundreds of years later British Christian Theologian and scholar Brilliant man, author, C.S. Lewis underscored Montescu's point about the abuse of power disguised as virtue Lewis famously wrote the following of all Trannies Tierny exercise for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under the robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy bodies The robber barons Their cruelty may sometimes sleep their cubidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good willill erm on us without end Could they do it do it so with the approval of their own conscience They may be more likely to go to heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a hell on earth They're very Kindness stings with intolerable insult cured quote unquote against one's will. and curredative states which we may not regard as as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will be classed with infants, imbeciles in domestic animals. Does that not defined the CS Lewis not defined Mandami and all these other comi pinkos And Montesquue further warned that Should the distinct nature of these Various branches of government dissolve. onene into the other, you will not haveave anything but tyranny any longer? So much in life orbits around this word, this idea, this belief of power Most of the discussion to the extent it exists at all in an honest or coherent fashion is in the form of generality, sloganeering, demagoguy and the like. used by politicians, media, ideologues and academicians to manipulate confound and deceive Which case power is used to control thought and discussion and language What I'm seeking to provoke is a better comprehension of what is meant by power, its impact on the individual and mankind generally. to stimulate a broader examination and dialogue about its applications you read the book Again, I'm not out here pointing books These are so far discounted. It's pennies on the dollar. But if you take the time To read American Marxism and on power Doesn't matter which order you read them in American Marxism is the second longest book I've ever written. On Power is the shortest book I've ever written and it boasts Both are power packs I think with with knowledge and I hope wisdom You will have a comprehension of what is swirling around you right now in this country like you've never had before likeike you've never had before. far beyond surface level. far beyond surface level. And when I get into something else that's a little heavy I've been Wanting to do this for a while, it's been on my desk If you saw my house, we don't even have enough bookshelves and I you know, we go into home goods and buy some of these bookshelves things I mean, I got books stacked everywhere And before I got married and I had a wife that set me straight, she does. She's something else. Very lucky used to spread my books out on the dinner table. R rememember that, Mr. prodroucer up on the floor and so that's how I do my research Now I have basically two offices one on what I call the basement, she calls the den and then one on the first floor And I go between them when I'm writing a book because there's books in both places just stacked up I gather more information, but I gather mostly from original writings I'm not really interested in other sorts of things. That's why I have the Ayatlla Khamini's Mind Komf right here on the desk Islamic government And I'll read some of this to you one day soon. But I wanted to tell you why historically Persian people And the Jewish people have A bond of sorts I want to tell you why And you don't have to be Persian or Jewish or anything I think to find this interesting because this is ancient history Fr five hundred fifty nine to five twenty nine BC. a long time ago And in the The most influential figures of ancient history from their national geographic was actually quite Look at a wonderful magazine. this particular one Like many ancient rulers Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great Cyrus the Great and he was Uh, the Emperor From five ninety to five twenty nine So a fairly long period of time, almost forty years He's also known as Cyrus II. He was born of royalty the death of his father Cyrus ruled the Aamenian dynasty and expanded his ancestral realm into a mighty empire He triumphed not just through conquest, but also by showing singular tolerance and mercy to those he defeated. This was a very, very unique warrior Brilliant military strategist, Cyrus vanquished The King of the Meties. then integrated all the Iranian tribes whose skill at fighting on horseback gave his army great mobility H triumph over Lydia Asia mininor You're the Ageian sea filled his treasury with that country's tremendous wealth A conquering those lands and the land surrounding Mesopotamia Cyrus closed it on Babylon. disgrruntled over imposed forced labor and the demotion of their city's patron deity. Marduke. Babylonians turned against their king and saw no reason to oppose Cyrus. Cyrus was known to spare those who yielded to him In fifteen thirty nine BC, they opened their gates Persians who entered the city in peace amidst joy and jubilation, according to an inscription couting Cyrus's triumph But lerillant nature of Cyrus's reign took many forms. He placated the formally powerful Medis by involving them in government He adopted habits of dress and ornamentation from the Elemites across his conquered lands, he returned images of gods that have been seized in battle and orded in Babylon And in Babylon itself, he publicly worshiped the cities revered Cyrus' most renowned act of mercy Ready for this? was to free the captive Jews We neb when Nbac Kadnezer had forced into exile in Babylon Cyrus allowed them to return Promised land D Jeruslem if the Babylonians destroyed the first temple and forced them out The Jews praiseed the Persian emperor in Scriptor as a savior whom God gave power over other kingdoms so that he would restore them to Jerusalem and allow them to rebuild their temple Cyrus the Great died around five twenty nine BC while campaigning against defiant nomadic tribes around the Caspian Sea The one measure of his greatness wasas the steam in which it was held in later years by the Greeks. Despite the bitter wars, they waged against the Persian successors Within one hundred and fifty years after Cyrus' death The Greek author, Xenophon Memorialized the ruler in his work He said he honored his subjects and cared for them as if they were his own children He wrote, and they, on their part revered Cyrus as a father Those words served as an inspiration for at least one of America's founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson Oh, not one, but two copies. of this book equally high braise for Cyrus's legacy is found in modern times at the United Nations headquarters and so forth. And he not only helped the Jews, and freedom turnurn to their homeland, the Holy land but he assisted them in the early days of beginning the building of the second temple Cyrus the Great was truly a great emperor A Persian emmperor. and This is one of the reasons There is this bond and there's connection And you can see it Persians all over the world and particularly Those are stuck in the concentration camp Thanks to the Iranian Nazi Islamist regime They talk about Netanyahu. great Jew That's what they call them Netanyahu the greatreat Jew And Netanyahu has an affinity for these people too And now you know more than I bet you ever knew before, mrter prodroducer Isn't that amazing? I'll be right back. Mark, Lin What would you do if your online store converted thirty six percent more shoppers? You could take thirty six percent more vacation, another pina Corato? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. with thirty six percent more square feet. Fantastic. Hire thirty six percent more help. You're hired, and you're hired. Shopifuy has the world's best converting checkout up to thirty six percent better than other e commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at shhopify d. com slash listen and get a one dollar trial shhopify d. com slash listen This is Mark Levin wishing you a happy fourourth of July. Now back to the best of me. Islam is the Only of the major face that combine Faith with governance in Sharia la You won't find that In the Torah, you won't find it in the Bible generally. The New Testament Many have noticed that Many When you're familiar with Alexis D Toqufile, his two books, really two volumes, One book on democracy in America points out how Islam is wholly unfit for the American system or most democratic systems because it's Obviously the imposition of a fundamentalist religious ideology. or into a political system Now in his book, I won't read a whole lot to you because we're giing you a lot so far today, and we'll do this another day Islamic government, which has been called the Ayatollah's Mind compf. He was a big Ahereing of Hitler and Lenin and Mao Excuse me, and markarks. And in this he explains in terms of Islam, Sharia and politics Ne for executive agencies, methods of great profit neede for continued implementation of laws Truth of Islamic laws in finances in defense Blood money, penalties for blood money They had a form a government and Hadith Distinction from other political systems that the rulers must be immersed An Islamic law talks about what jurisprudence is about, subjective law, nascent rules Sublime goals, qualities of a ruler The rule of jurispr prrudence It's very intimate, very, very exacting. It's also blood curdling when I'll get into this another day goes on in exquisite detail purging Religious centers that is those or non conformists reforming those who who claim holiness, but don't really embrace it. eliminating traces of intellectual and moral colonialist aggression. This is where his brutality really kicks in Long range resistance And much, much more Extraordinary detail. difference between Christianity in this form of Islam and Judaism in this is that our laws and our beliefs do not provide compomrehensive and detailed governing principlple. Your team just added its sixty seventh AI toool And also your sixty seven security blind spot The good news, the Vanta agent works like a GRC engineer in the background, finding every app your team uses, scoring the risk, and drafting fixes for you Avanta is the platform used by over sixteen thousand fast moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey who are shaping the future with AI and staying ahead of AI risks. Get started at Vanta. com You're listening to the Best of the Mark Levin S showow. Happy Independence Day Let's keep going, shall we Birthright citizenship. You know more about that than anybody on the face of the earth But let's hear what the Speaker of the House had to say about this, Mike Johnson. He's a good man. by the way, he's also a constitutional lawyer who was a lawyer a litigator in the conservative legal community for many years Cut one, go. I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay? And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case. and we're very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem. We have you it's become a tourism birthing tourism, they call it, you know, a trend where people would just come and you just come onto the soil H your child and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else. It's been abused. It's one of those things that was intended to serve a noble important purpose and has been thwarted and and overused and abused. And so I'm sure that we'll continue to look at that. I mean, I'm sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be that you got to have Youve got to amend the Constitution to fix that. As we all know, it's a big challenge to amend the Constitution. It's only happened twenty seven times in our whole nation's history. And the reason is because youve got to have two thirds of both chambers of Congress and three fourths of the states to ratify. It's usually at least a many years long process and very complicated. We'll see. I'm sure there's going to be lots of discussion about that. I will say I'm very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we'll have to deal with it as a Congress difficult to deal. I can tell that right now They constitutionalize this. You hear people making stupid comments. Let's amend the Constitution. Okay As long as you have Democrats in the House and Senate, you're not going to get two thirds votes of the House or the Senate, plus the rhino Republicans to do anything As for a statute, the statute can't change the core fact now. This has been constitutionalized. Statutes don't change the Constitution as you well know. So we'll see what It can be done on the periphery on the fringe, but the heart of it is the heart of it Hassan Piker is a low life. He's a Jew hater. He is a terror supporter. is He' supported these Islamist Marxist movements. He was born in the United States. He is a birthright. maybe or was brought to Turkey where he was radicalized and then brought back to the United States and uh He's just a little example of what's going to happen and is happening to our country with this nonsense And here he is on this issue as well. cut five go. This is such an insane And fundamentally un American comies. I really get sick and tired of Islamist comies whoo tell us what is un American Don't you They hate America They hate our Constitution. This is what I always talk about. Yet now they're going to wave around the fourteenth Amendment, the ruling by Roberts and his ellk on the court Wave it around as some great victory when in fact, their whole goal is to burn down The entire constitutional crone start of the country. Go ahead I cannot begin to explain this to you, okay. Ellis shut up. I don't only wantan to hear your stupid voice You make me sick to my stomach Mhm I don't know, by now you probably saw this hearing Michael Aller. I like Mike Lawler a lot. You don't have to agree with him on everything, but I agree with him on a lot. He's just a good guy. He's in a Marginally Blue Democrat district We have to carry districts like his in New York and other places or we can't win. Oh But he's a smart guy. He's a principle guy. He's a fighter And there he is. they're on this committee They have The Gorn family, Gorman family there, among others And you have this low life Jayapa. This is our fourth hearing on the subject of these of these families and what took place or. We could be focused on other things like, you know, health carere and food. and there's the poor woman sitting there and you probably saw this on Fox and elsewhere They lost their beautiful daughter She was shot in the head She literally Ran for forty feet while this animal chased her and executed her And she's saying what could she have said in the forty feet? callalling out to her mommy, calling out to her daddy, calling out for help, knowing that she was going to be gunned down. Can you imagine? Ladies and gentlemen, can you imagine this happening to your family? Can you imagine going through this nightmare every damn second of every day Without your baby anymore The inhumanity of the Democrats. They don't want to talk about it. It's the fourth time. We're not going to talk about this. And by the way, one of the things that's never been said about this birthright crack And these open borders The inhumanity that that has involved in all these years. with hundreds of thousands of missing Children and women sold into sex slavery. Cut seven go, Mike Lwler. So while some of my colleagues may not want to hear the truth, The same outrage you feel about Renee Good and Alex Pre sh about Sharon Gorman and L stop right here. So this is Jayiaaal trying to shut them down. She's the head of the comi. wing of the Democrat, but they call themselves progressive. That's comommy. He hear progressive, it's comommy And then Raskin Wh's whose father was a big time stalinist and started the Institute for Policy Studies. Go ahead and Google it G and Google These are two big time comies, two big time comies. Go ahead very anual family in this country. I do tell you that outrage. You do not do you Be if you did, do you support you feel be outrage about Ax should beate yourself. You should you should be ashamed. You don't belong this committee. You should get the hell out of disgrace. You don't understand thege committace. You don't understand the conseitration mister of mister R an of disace supporting the whole.ake one word about. get rid of wor about Alex did I wrote a whole New York Times op et about it. You should be absolutely yourself imposing sanctuary policies that resulted in their going. The committee will be in order. mis. Chairman, I just want to say we will shut up. Shut up you Jckas. Y have victims family members testifying on sanctuary policies he's whining about This is the fourth hearing. Go ahead on that one. Cutache, please go. Unfortunately, this hearing is's the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. the fourth time And there's many other things that we could be doing other than this I would have loved to have had some hearings on the unconstitutionality of the president's executive order on eliminating birthright citizenship This is something that the Supreme Court just ruled today in a six three majority. So why would you need a hearing, genenius Go ahead. Wh. And yet this was understand Understand Jessica Gorman, the mom of Sherid and Gorman, who was executed by this animal is sitting there with her husband and her other daughter, her younger daughter. as are other individuals whose children were murdered due to sanctuary city policies in blue cities and states And she's listening to this woman complain. This is our fourth hearing. Go ahead that caused so much fear and trauma across the country. We could have been discussing that Well, here's the response from Jessica Gorman, this poor mother is going through Unimaginable hell. had nine go And in what world does the child who spent her life making sure no one was lonely? I terrified and alone on a per in Chicago? In what world does the girl who saw everyone become invisible to the people in power responsible for protecting her? This cannot be explained away, and it cannot be buried beneath the list of unrelated issues that you all paraded before us. Thanks for telling me without telling me that You know, you're here, but you don't want to be. This is theth this is the fourth time you had Angel famamilies. Thanks for telling me you don't care This cannot be buried under your slogans, your statistics or excuses, and this just can't stand You feel the agony and you share it, don't you? teear up just listening to this poor mother The family's been destroyed All over the country this takes place all over the country And the Democrats are nominating and electing in their primaries Communists Islamist with ties to Hamas indndividuals who are talking about destroying the state of Israel, Individuals who are talking about nine eleven is a good thing Our country The Democrat Party is nominating these people. They're going to be serving in your United States ongress We have got to inform ourselves. That's why I spent an hour and a half at the beginning of this program. We've got to be the beacons here We've got to help Talk to our family and friends and acquaintances If we don't push back, it's over. This is our country. We can't rely on other people to do all of our are talking and battling on these things We have to do it Now you and I right here We help strengthen and give birth to the tea Party movement. You and I right here Help get Birt to with Mark Meler in the folks The Convention of States movement You and I right here. after the The early primers in twenty sixteen, we all pulled together when we got behind our president now, Donald Trump And we fought for him We fought against the lawfare they were using and the impeachments they were using to try and destroy them And you and I and certainly he and others. We were involved in his reelection And we're going to have to defend him again because they're coming after him and we'll do what we have to do you and I are uniquely positioned. Not the internet, not the podcasters. They can pat themselves on their ass all they want Right here, Cervative talk radio You and I are the ones who are positioned to do something about this By God, we will I'll be right back. M love in. This is the bestest of the Mark Levin showow, Happy Independence Day We go to America every Friday In honor of you, Here we go It s. is officially over the week and begins now. We saer arrmed Forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel and ice and our truckers We salute the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in in Pge the men and women in Israel and you, the American people, thank God for you Goodnight Spry and Griffy and Pepsi and Smokey, Gnight Zelda and Gigi and Indian Patton and Rory Good night, Marty and little Barney. Good night dad, good night momom. Good night Leo Goodnight, Joe Good night big, Eric. 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