Member training from June 30th 2025.

This week, we covered the principles behind the real American Revolution was not the war, but a change in the minds and hearts of the people that took place for 15 years before any blood was shed. The Founding Fathers worked to expose the satanic conspiracy of their day through pamphlets, articles, and speeches, warning that submission to the tyrannical perversion of government power is not a duty, but a crime against God and mankind. We must recognize the same tactics today—and go on the offense by building our own understanding and organizing opposition, so we too can apply these principles and restore the freedoms for which the founders pledged their lives.

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Dear Kind and Most Loving Father in Heaven, we thy sons and daughters in service
come before thee at this hour to be instructed on the principles and articles and
responsibilities of liberty and freedom. We ask a special blessing tonight upon our
hearts and minds that they will be open to messages that will be presented and that
we cannot only be hearers of the word but doers as well. We ask that blessings be
with the little commas of the anxieties that we may have
and bring enlightenment to our hearts and minds to find other resources that we’ll
verify and confirm the truth is a little re -taught. We ask that blessings will be
peace to be upon ourselves this night and that the words coming from Ben and his
team will be inspired from on high, that they will be thy I will. It will be
shown forward to us and taught to us in a manner that will pierce us and enlighten
us and strengthen us. If these things be thine will, Father, we pray for them,
according to our faith in the sacred and holy name of Jesus Christ. For a reminder,
and this week is going over what we’re going to be covering today, just part of
the member manual. And So this coming week between now and next Monday, we’ll be
covering the laws of nature and of nature’s God, also known as natural law. So I
encourage you to do that this week for the reading to make sure you ask, you know,
write down any questions you have or ideas on implementing it. So if nobody has any
comments or anything like they’d like to share on the conspiracy section,
Feel free to raise your hand if you do. But we’ll go ahead and talk about this
week’s reading for the member manual.
I’ll
share my screen.
Okay. So for some reason the recording last week had like all of the video on the
recorded screen.
States of America, when the course of human events it becomes necessary, when in the
course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s
God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. So very interesting
timing, very grateful for the timing on this because this is the week that we
celebrate the events that occurred in this Declaration of Independence.
And it talks about the laws of nature and of nature is God. And so as we go over
in the battle plan, right, in the member manual, under the Understanding of God’s
law is the foundation that was necessary for the founders to have To be able to do
what they did if they did not understand this They could not nor would they have
done what they did. It’s an important thing to understand So if we want to be able
to
Accomplish or we want to be able to have the benefits and the blessings that the
founding fathers had, we need to be able to understand and do the things that the
founders did and as they apply to us today.
And so it’s as a part of that those things that are laid out right as a few it’s
impossible to name all of the laws of nature and of nature’s god but the ones that
they do list it’s important to understand is that our rights come from god. If we
do not understand that our rights come from God, then we will think that anybody
else that tries to limit them are legitimate. And it will make an idol out of
another party that you decide to give the ability to give and take away rights.
As you allow others to give or take away your rights, you are placing them in the
position of God.
Some of those rights are life, liberty, and property, and that government was created
to protect not to give those rights, right? First Amendment provides for,
says that the government is prevented from limiting your speech, limiting your
practice and exercise of religion, from limiting your ability to be able
them away from you legitimately right and government gets its authority from the
people everything that they do is authorized from the people so that’s an essential
thing to understand that if they get their their their power from us that means
that they can only have power that we have to give them so if they are doing
something that we don’t have the authority to do as individuals That means they are
thieves and robbers. They are stealing power and authority that they cannot have
because we cannot give it to them and In addition to if we haven’t given them
permission to do that thing, they can’t do that either So if the government does
things that they’re not allowed to do it is our job. It is our responsibility To
get rid of that government or to fix it if we can’t fix it we gotta get rid of
it Okay,
So I guess before I go to there does anybody have any comments questions on what
we’ve covered so far on this?
Give you a chance to raise your hand or make a comment Put some in chat Okay
So these are some important books on “Understand the Godly Role of Government” under
law.
– I do have a comment. Can you go back to the last screen? – Yeah, here we go.
Oops, yeah. – Who’s talking? – Rod. – Who’s talking? Okay,
thank you. – Rod. Hold on. – Yeah, right here, here you go. So just that last line
there, I think that’s what people don’t understand is that We all came to an
agreement about how the ship is supposed to be run and we have to keep in mind
that we as a people came to that agreement and if the people that are being
charged to represent us are no longer running the ship according to our agreement
then we have to do something about it. And if we can’t change it by voting,
which should be obvious to everybody by now, then we’re going to have to do
something different, right? And I just feel like too many of us don’t understand
that that’s the situation. We like to say we the people, you know,
people like to march around and wave their banners and their flags and say, you
know, you worked for us, But do you really believe it? Because if you believed it,
you would be willing to do something about it. And I hate to say it, but that’s
pretty much where we’re at right now. We have to do something about it. Yeah. And
I think people don’t want to do it because that’s a much harder job than punching
a hole on a ballot, you know, every four years.
People like the path of least But you’re yeah, you’re absolutely right.
Okay So some points that we learn under the godly role of government is that
government gets its authority from God So these are two different way ways that
government gets authority, right? Well that to exist not the job that they have so
they get their authority to exist from direct revelation, right? Moses Joshua those
are examples that we covered last week of direct revelation, appointing those
individuals to be in government. But if there is not a revelation appointing someone
to be the head of the government, or to, you know, to be in government, then a
legitimate election will be given with its sole duty of go and then government’s job
is the sole duty of glorifying God and they glorify God by protecting your life,
liberty and property and punishing evil, right? As we read in Romans 13,
their job is to bless those that do good and to punish those that do evil. So
they bless those that do good by protecting their life, liberty and property.
Godly governments have laws which punish crimes such as adultery, sodomy, theft,
murder, lying, kidnapping, bestiality, rape, et cetera. Those things that, you know,
if somebody is violating your life, liberty or property, in those ways, then they of
course are,
the government is duty bound to punish them. And these, you know, there are a lot
of people that are in the libertine movement of, you know, there’s no victim, no
crime type of a thing where they say, you know, things like adultery, claiming that
there’s no victim or bestiality, claiming there’s no victim, issues of morality,
they will say that there is no victim. But God has declared otherwise, and so we
need to make sure that we understand what has been laid out by the Lord as what
is the revealed authority of government in their job and punishing evil in addition
to blessing good.
And what what happens to a society that allows those things.
So going to the the whole duty of man by Samuel Poofendorf talking about natural
law, he says that it must be supposed to be the will of God that man should make
use of those faculties with which he is peculiarly endowed beyond the brutes beyond
right just the animals To the preservation of his own nature and consequently that
the life of man should be different from the lawless life of the irrational
creatures Right animals don’t care about your life your property.
They’ll they just do whatever pleases them But because we are in creating in God’s
image. We have a higher standard and Since this cannot otherwise be achieved,
but by and observance of the law natural, it must be understood that there is from
God an obligation laid upon man to pay obedience here too as a means not invented
by the wit or imposed by the will of men nor capable of being changed by their
humors and inclinations, but expressly ordained by God Himself in order to the
accomplishing this end. So essentially what it’s saying is you can’t change God’s
laws. You can’t change law of nature.
Yes, Amy.
We got to unmute Amy, I’m not sure if you’re talking, but we got your hand raised.
Okay. Feel free to raise your hand again if you are able to mute.
So it’s important for us to understand this that these things don’t change with time
or location that these principles apply no matter what. Yes,
Amy, go ahead.
Okay, so sorry about that.
Can you talk a little bit about how it applies to like sharing
So they’re like if there’s a national park national park or water shares,
you know, we have water shares where I live stuff like that So how that well,
I would say that nationally like so if property is yeah, yeah like government’s role
in
Well, if we have to share the river right like so I mean if someone’s putting the
river you punish crime that’s kind of obvious
but um like is there a share or ungodly then no so that’s a great question so you
go back to again one of the the first governments that we have where god reveals
his will on these things He he laid out the rules for where you know,
you put your death, you know, your defecation, right? Those things are laid out
because if you put them in an area where it’s going to poison everyone’s water
That’s that hurts everyone and so that’s why we have to to know those things to be
able to understand What is legitimate because you know, and that’s something that the
conspiracy likes to do is to And that’s why they’re pushing us into these like 15
minute cities high density housing agenda 2030 is because they want to have this
forced idea of there’s no private property because you’re all sharing the space and
so we get to tell you what to do with it and whether that’s limiting how many
people you have in your home you know controlling your water those types of things
where as if we look at the scriptures and how it lays it out it’s It’s very much
clear in a way that protects everybody’s individual liberty and from those that would
damage everyone’s water supply as well as making it and so one individual doesn’t
control everyone’s water, you know, your ability to provide yourself with life
-sustaining water. – Right, so that’s where it’s, right, right. So that’s where it’s
polluting the water. So is the water share ungodly. I mean, by and large, they’re
making up how, you know, this, the water scare, right? But is,
is there, I mean, there is truth to sometimes scarcity and resources. So,
like, where would that is ungodly for a government to
intervene in scarcity of resources, right? Right. That had to be under,
again, a godly government, as we talked about last week, and we’ve kind of
introduced here, where is that government actually, you know, are they legitimate?
Are they there by revelation, or are they there legitimately by the voice of the
people? Are they part of the conspiracy? Are they acting as? Oh, you’re cutting out
for me. Yeah, Ben, you’re cutting out really bad.
Yeah. Okay. I don’t know if you can hear us, but you’re cutting out for us. Okay.
Yeah. I hear you. I am trying to solve that. What’s that?
Is that better? Okay. I can hear you now. I can hear you now. Okay, good. Sorry
about that. That’s better for me. Okay. So what I was saying was, as we look at
the proper, a godly government, they are put there by, by the, by God, or they put
there by the people legitimately. And once they are there legitimately, are they
acting legitimately? Or are they part of the conspiracy? And should they then be
treated as invaders? And so it’s essential that the people are vigilant in that case
by case basis. Well, yeah, so if that person, if that, if that government is
legitimate, and they are not acting as a conspiracy to deprive the people of their
resources, then yeah, that’s definitely would be something as we see in the
scriptures, an example of the government making sure that everyone’s ability to have
life is protected. I’m sorry. That’s a good enough answer.
That’s good. Alan and then Micah, go ahead. I’ll go Alan first.
Water. When I took we just we studied Utah water law when i moved back home to
ask glanney i had a rude awakening towards the people that are elected on the
irrigation board water board or whatever they make up their own rules they don’t pay
they’re the perfect example of nullification of law yes they make the stuff as they
go. And it’s usually local people, local leaders, and they take the attitude,
well, we’ve got to share it for everybody.
But growing up, I grew up in Kerns. When Kerns left being a military camp,
some important guy bought the water rights and so everyone bought their drinking
water and that from the guy that owns it
it was I was a young kid it seems like everything was fair but going to Escalani
where the water should be First time,
first serve, and I’d like to let you know what our law is. They didn’t want people
to move up above the water thing when you shut it down. They don’t care about your
rights of owning a water right. They escalate,
I think we used a half to a quarter of our water rights that they paid for.
so everyone would have some. It’s one of the crookedest, socialist things in Utah.
– Yep. That’d be an example of that illegitimate government. Okay, thanks, Allen.
Micah, go ahead.
– I would say water rights is, It falls in the same category of,
you know, real estate, property rights.
So like,
and it should be, I think it should be thought of as,
you know, like in the,
in that book, Economic Order,
like God’s Economic Order or whatever, I can’t remember what the book is called, it
may have been, it’ll remind me afterwards, but economic order of heaven, right? I
think that’s it. So basically a lot of the concept for
so let’s say you go to New York and you go to Times Square and you go,
I want to buy
this piece of property right here in the middle of Times Square.
And I don’t know what the going rate is there. It’s probably like a million dollars
a square foot or something obscenely absurd.
And the reality is, is that the reason why it’s more expensive isn’t because of any
value that the property owner has put into that property. In that particular case,
it’s really only more valuable because of all the other people around it. And so
people get stuff and then like it gets in value because of all the other people
around it. And then they’re like, Oh, I’ve made a good investment. I own this. I
deserve these benefits. And that’s not yeah. And that’s not that’s not God’s economy.
That’s that’s totally improper. That’s totally evil There’s a whole myriad of ways to
Manufacture and make these things synthetic or force people to make the property more
valuable by making sure people can’t go anywhere else
And so I would say water rights are very similar
That they have this inflation and there’s always enough water You just have to drill
for it So and sometimes there are places where people they pump so much water. They
drive everyone else as well out I don’t think that’s I don’t think that’s right but
you can always get more water and
I would think that as far as water rights concerned if the water isn’t being used
to
Serve God’s children, then I think whatever is going on with the value or the
holding thereof would definitely be illegitimate. Yeah.
Yep. Great. Thank you.
Okay. So as we look at, right, as with anything else, effective application starts
with understanding. And so these are the, you know, these are a few books that help
you understand what God’s law is and and what it’s how to apply it so you have of
course the scriptures we have and the other books are listed in the manual as well
but these are the things to help us these are the you know people that have gone
through and shown the application of it and what is the
indisputable obvious self -evident application of these things so highly encourage us
to all go through these books and
through that this week and bring some good questions or some good thoughts on it as
we follow up with it next week. So let’s get into tonight’s training as we prepare
this week as we honor and celebrate what occurred on July 3rd and 4th 1776.
I’m going to this isn’t going to be your typical rah, rah, rah, you know, it’s you
know, Independence Day and isn’t everything great. I really want to go through and
cover some things that you don’t typically hear about when people talk about the
Declaration of Independence. What is the history of it? What are the principles that
they followed? Because this is actually going to make it more, it’s not just I feel
good, but this is like, oh, this is how we apply principles as they would be
applied in a modern setting.
I don’t know why my internet’s so slow today, okay?
So of course as always to the thought process as we’re going over these things
We’re not just here just to have our ears tickled but to build our understanding
and adherence to these principles These principles that have built free nations to
expose the conspiracy and to build an effective resistance to that satanic conspiracy,
okay? So again, this isn’t just history for the sake of history, it is for
understanding and a modern application of these ideas, right? So we have the
Declaration of Independence, this is the Betsy Ross flag, but this is not, you know,
this is sometimes what we think of as the birth day of America, but this is not
the birth birthday of America. The Constitution was formed.
That would be the birthday of America as we think of it because that is when the
Constitution was formed. But at the point of the Declaration of Independence, we were
13 independent nations. England signed a treaty at the end of the war with 13
independent nations. They did not sign a treaty with one nation, they signed it with
13 independent nations. So this is an important thing because that we’ve been
brainwashed into this idea of one nation under God, right, indivisible as an idea to
be able to destroy what it was that the Founding Fathers set up into this monarchy
that they want us to believe that we’re under today.
And so I want to talk about some little concepts that little known concepts that
led to independence this letter between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson We read what
to John Adams talked about what led to these things. He says what do we mean by
the revolution the war? That was no part of the revolution It was only an effect
and Consequence of it. So the war was was not the part of the revolution. It was
just what the result of the revolution Which might seem strange to a lot of us the
revolution was in the minds of the people and This was affected from 1760 to 1775
in the course of 15 years before the before a drop of blood Was shed at Lexington
That’s where the revolution was, was in the minds of the people, getting them to
accept new ideas and then to apply those ideas. The records of the 13 legislatures,
the pamphlets, newspapers, and all the colonies ought to be consulted during that
period to ascertain the steps by which the public opinion was enlightened and
informed concerning the authority of Parliament over the colonies. So this is really
really an important principle for us to understand and I hope we will internalize
this because so often you know and and I talk about it I don’t want to be an
information junkie I’m not here just to learn something of course we want to apply
what we learned but You cannot act effectively or appropriately without first learning
and that’s what they did, right? That that was where the revolution was he says
looking at the records. What did the legislature? What did people talk about in in
these groups and the pamphlets and the posters that they printed? What were the
newspaper articles and the newsletters to the editor in the colonies? What what were
they talking about? these were the tools that were used to implement the revolution
as as mentioned here by John and not my favorite way to refer to the war for
independence but this is you know too often we think of the war like all of a
sudden we didn’t like being taxed and so we started shooting at the British that’s
kind of like how it’s that’s thought of generally it’s really
understanding amongst the people by an Andrew Elliot. He was a pastor and he was
speaking to an official, you know, governor from that was appointed by England and
putting out these ideas to the people and so that they could start to apply them,
but they would write them, especially in the beginning, right in the 1760s, they
weren’t out in their face saying, yeah, we want Revolute, we want to leave and have
independence. No, they were laying the groundwork before they got to independence. You
couldn’t go from, hey, you know what? High taxes are lame, let’s go have a new
country. No, they had to build the understanding of principles before they could even
get to that point. And so in this sermon that was given to the governor,
he says, but where men are grossly of a contrary character contrary to liberty and
pervert their power to tyrannical purposes So right the power of government is not
for tyranny, but that’s a perversion of their power Submission if it can be avoided
is so far from being a duty that it is a crime So he’s saying that if we have
tyranny Going on around us Submission to it is a crime That was a very bold thing
to say and very much, um, you know controversy Because it is an offense against the
state of which we are members and whose happiness we ought to prefer to our chief
joy It is an offense against mankind whose rights we merely betray It is an offense
against God who is good to all and who has appointed government for the welfare and
happiness and not the destruction of his creatures. So we are offending God,
we are offending our neighbor, and we are offending the society we want to be a
part of when we allow and when we avoid, when we allow tyranny, when we avoid
standing up to tyranny, we are offending every, you know, from God down to our
neighbor when we do that. And they were, you know, That is a principle that they
were laying out that they were helping to remind the people and instill in them
these principles so that then they could start to act because before that they’re
like, they were just of the idea we just have to submit to government no matter
what. So another example of an article in a pamphlet that was used to rally the
people.
Oh, thank you. I was looking at the chat. Sorry.
So this is a, it was an, it was a article in the paper that was written by
Samuel Adams at the time. It was written under a pen name. So I think this is an
important thing for people to understand as well today. It’s, you know, people will
say, oh, what are you hiding? If you, You know, is your idea really good if you
have to hide it? You know, hide your name. Shouldn’t you be proud of it and stand
in front of it? Well, you know, when you’re, when what you say is going to lead
to your death, you know, it may be some wisdom and not advertising who you are
might be in play. And that’s what Samuel Adams and others of the founders really
explained and taught. And so in this article, the rights of the colonists, he says,
“If men through fear, fraud, or mistake should in terms renounce and give up any
essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society
would absolutely vacate such renunciation.” So if you give up one of your rights,
if you give up one of these rights that are given to you from God because you’re
afraid of the government, Because you were tricked by someone or because you made a
mistake You giving up that right is invalid Because it you can’t give up something
God gave you it’s not your it’s not your right to do that So natural law says
that it’s it’s an invalid Renunciation of your rights Says the conspirators so he
was not afraid to call it a conspiracy the conspirators against our liberties are
employing all their influence to divide the people. Partly by intimidating them for
which purpose a fleet of ships lies within gunshot of the town and the capital fort
within three miles of it, it is garrisoned by the king’s troops and partly by arts
and intrigue, by flattering those who are pleased with flattery, forming connections
with them, introducing levity, luxury and indolence and assuring them that if they
are quiet, the ministry will alter their measures. This is a trick that is used to
this day where they get, you know, depending on who you are, they’re either going
to get you and to not fight them through making you afraid of fighting them,
or they will, which is usually the first thing that they try to do is to try and
flatter you give you things offer you a station or give you offer you money or
offer you title or position or property or make sure that your life is comfortable
if you just you know hey we get it just here’s some things to make your life a
little more comfortable just leave us alone and we’ll take care of this for you
don’t worry about it Okay, if you don’t see how that applies today, I you’re not
paying attention. I’m surprised you’re here because this is clearly These are clearly
principles that are used today to get people to not fight For the things that God
gave them
so the founders warn of the conspiracy they again We’re not afraid to do so and
one of these pamphlets they talk about The acts that might by themselves have been
upon many considerations excused or Extinuated derived a contagious malign malignancy
and odium from other acts which they are were connected They were not regarded
according to the simple force of each but as parts of a system of oppression So
you know if these things were just done and onesies and twosies You know You would
give them an excuse and you would give them a pass and say it’s all an accident
But as these things accumulate it is clear that they are part of a system of
oppression Meaning people are working together on purpose to take away your liberty
So that was one of the founders John Dickinson and he was famous for his farmers
letters Another maybe lesser known founding father said the influence of the crown
was being used to staff the administration with new favorites and King’s friends who
formed a secret closet party beyond the control of Parliament and guided behind the
scenes by the sinister combination of the Earl of Butte and the Princess Dowager of
Wales. Mr. George Rude, Wilkes, and Libbert. So these are pamphlets that were
published and sent abroad and letters to the editor that were helping to build the
understanding, not just of natural law, but of the threats to freedom, that there
was a conspiracy that was trying to take away their liberty, that it wasn’t happened
by accident, but there was a concerted effort to do so.
And they were not afraid to call it what it is. And these were the pamphlets that
were going around and helping to build the understanding of the people so that they
could take effective action leading to the declaration. But of course, those either
in the establishment or those that accepted those things that Sam Adams talked about
of those positions or the money and the luxury of life, They wanted to defend that
and so you had people here called Tories people that were defending the The British
crown and their actions This one says the sophisticated members of political society
Rightly dismissed as rubbish the misconceived but genuine radical fear that the
triumph of British arms and authority in America Would be followed by the extinction
of British liberties at home. I do not quite credit the ministry with endeavoring to
enslave the colonists by system. I believe they are very happy if they can find
expedience for the present moment. So of course, you know, he’s a negotiator for the
British. And so he’s trying to convince them, the colonists that hey, this stuff,
this is not, you know, there’s no, there’s no plot. They’re not working to try and
take away your liberties. If these, they want everybody happy. So, you know,
we’re going to find a way to get around these things because it’s not on purpose,
trust us.
And we have another example of a prominent lawyer in the colonies that defended the
British against the idea of a conspiracy going on. He says,
“I know the good disposition of the ministry towards you.” How often do we hear
this today of oh, you know this this leg is he’s he’s nice, you know He was my
religious leader. He was my bishop. He was a state president and he was just really
nice And you know he he is not evil. How dare you accuse him of being evil,
right? I Know there is no disposition either in the king the ministry or the
parliament to oppress America in any shape You guys are just paranoid you know how
dare you accuse these good men of trying to hurt you so you know these are the
same things that that we see today are the same tactics that were going on back
then to get people to not listen to the writings and warnings of the of those that
were working for independence. We have another example This one was I’m sorry.
Oh, so no, I’m sorry. He wasn’t a prominent lawyer He was a member of the House
of Commons This was our our lawyer prominent lawyer He says that taking the whole
of the acts complained up together. They do not I think Manifest a system of
slavery but may fairly be imputed to human frailty and the difficulty of the subject
So he’s saying you know all of these things. Yeah, there’s lots of different
examples of our rights being taken away, but it’s not a system. They’re not doing
it on purpose. It’s just because they’re stupid. And it’s just really hard for them
to understand how to solve these issues. Most of them seem to have sprung out of
particular occasions or are unconnected with each other, right? This is the accidental
theory of history. It’s not a conspiracy. These things are totally unconnected. In
short, I think those acts may have been passed without a preconcerted plan of
enslaving us, and it appears to me that the more favorable construction ought ever
to be put on the conduct of our rulers. I cannot therefore think the government to
dissolve. He’s saying, you know, I’m never going to support the idea of independence.
All right, the Declaration of Independence is a bad idea because They are not
working. We have to not you know, we can’t give Malice to stupidity.
We can’t assign malice to stupidity, right? These guys are just dumb. They’re well
-meaning They just need to have another sternly written letter explaining to them
what’s really going on and Then we’ll be able to fix this, you know, we just need
to vote harder next time We just need to you know be more engaged with with these
guys and these guys and we’ll be able to fix this. How often do we hear these
arguments today?
And so not only do they try to poo -poo the idea that there is a conspiracy to
take away their freedom, but they want to go after the character of those that are
of the revolutionary mindset to get people not to believe them, which is another
tactic that is used regularly. So So James Murray was a loyalist and wrote letters
to individuals trying to counteract what Samuel Adams and others were doing. He says,
“When in 1765 a crowd surrounded the elegant house of Massachusetts customs officer
tore down his fences, broke his windows, and at last forced the door, destroying his
furniture, stealing his honey, scattering his books and papers, and drinking the wines
in his seller to drunkenness then for the moment the Tory shuddered at the power of
the enraged democracy. So he’s he’s saying that the you know the colonists they’re
just a mob and they’re they’re not actually trying to do freedom you know trying to
implement freedom they’re just a mob that is working to destroy people’s private
property and to get drunk off of the spoils of their mobocracy.
I’m In another series of letters in local newspapers, we see this article that says,
“Will not posterity be amazed,” cried a Tory writer when they were told that the
present distraction took its rise from a three -penny duty on tea.
Will they not call it a most unaccountable frenzy and more disgraceful to the annals
of America than that of witchcraft. So essentially he’s calling the colonists engaging
in things and crimes that are worse than witchcraft. So going after their integrity,
right? Because of course this is a time where witchcraft is illegal and it is
something that everybody recognizes as a crime that should be punished by law. And
so if what the colonists are doing is not defending their God -given rights,
but are engaged in basically a temper tantrum over three pennies,
over three cents, then what they’re doing is worse than witchcraft. That’s another
one of the attacks that was on, that was against the movement for independence.
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against people that are promoting nullification and promoting independence that defend
those like you know the founding fathers or defend those like those that in the
southern states that said you know what we don’t want to be a part of this anymore
we want to separate ourselves or you have the the saints the Latter -day Saints as
they leave the United States right they’re just anybody that wants to separate
themselves. They’re just anarchists that want to just have total chaos and are
against order. They were the illegal creations of a junctu to serve particular
designs and purposes of their own, tending directly to sedition, civil war,
and rebellion.
Okay, another example, we have Peter Oliver, who is another Tory who was an American
colonist that defended the the British he said the authors and promoters of this
desperate conspiracy so those that claim that the king and parliament are involved in
the conspiracy to destroy liberty have in the conduct of it derived great advantage
from the difference of our intentions and theirs so they’re explaining that they’re
trying to claim that You know, we’re just out here minding our own business and
these colonists are out there trying to cause trouble They meant only to amuse by
vague expressions of attachment to the parent state and the strongest Protestations of
loyalty to me whilst they were preparing for a general revolt So they were lying
about loyalty While they were preparing for revolt the religious war now levied is
manifestly carried on for the purpose of establishing an independent empire. So,
you know, it’s, they’re not against tyranny, they’re just against this tyranny. And
so, you know, and just, if you guys remember about a year or two ago, the Utah
governor Cox said that the, the, the complaints against him are just because these
people just have too much time on their hands. They have too much liberty. And so
because when you have too much liberty, you want to complain about everything same
basically the same argument that’s going on here.
And so the establishment, of course, they, they have to respond as well. So they,
they poop will conspiracy. They attack the character of the colonists. And now they
want to say, okay, here’s your complaints. Let’s, let’s, let’s go through the
complaints of the colonists and see if they’re legitimate. They said that when
Americans objected to taxation without representation, the English answered that the
colonies were represented because the merchants interested in colonial trade were
represented as a class in the House of Commons. So they’re like, what are you
talking about? You do have representation. If a loyalist understood the American
doctrine, he only conceded that reform was necessary in England, he was opposed to
nullification and wished to harmonize, not to disrupt the empire. So if they,
basically what they’re saying here is that if they acquiesced, if they accepted the
complaint of not having representation, they believed that this could be fixed through
some more sternly written letters and We can pass some little tweaks and we can fix
the situation with England. There’s no reason to have independence. Parliament was
subject to the limitations of conscience and of public opinion. The instincts of the
English race would prevent oppression. So they were trying to say that, A,
not only do you not have oppression now, but there is no chance of having
oppression in the future. So your complaints are completely illegitimate because it’s
impossible for our type of people to be oppressed. It just isn’t within our nature.
And so again, talking about how the Founding Fathers, because they hadn’t organized,
can you because so you’ve got these, right? You’ve got Sam Adams, who was a poor
man and literally subsided on, he subsisted on the generosity of others to allow him
to be able to promote the cause of liberty. He couldn’t have done it without the
help of others.
But you have the entire money system of the British Empire and its agents in
government to be able to counteract the complaints of the American colonists but they
were able to do it of course and this is something again John Adams in another
letter explains that the revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people a
change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations that’s where it
was they were working to change these things change the minds of the people, not
just take over a government. This radical change in the principles, opinions,
sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. So he
repeats to Hezekiah the same thing that he said to Thomas Jefferson,
that it was the change in the opinions and sentiments changing the minds of the
people That was really what led to the declaration of independence and the people
surrendering, you know the people Separating themselves from England.
It was not just going to you know, they didn’t just go from I don’t like taxes to
shooting redcoats and so of course to be able to do this they had to go on the
offense they weren’t defending themselves against the Accusations of the the king,
they went on the offense. So we have this example of another speech by Samuel
Adams, where he says, “If we take a retrospect of two or three years past, we
shall find that what our pretended patriots, as they were styled in the court
gazette, so zealously forewarned us of, has since turned out to be a fact.” So
presented patriots. So there were people that would pretend, right? They would say,
“Oh, I sympathize with you, but you guys are just going too far.” He says that
every art would be made use of to lull the people of this province and continent
into security in order that the conspirators against our rights and liberties might
carry on their schemes and complete their system of tyranny without opposition or
molestation. So So saying that there were people that were pretending to be friends
of ours while the entire time, their entire goal, they were conspirators, right? They
were saying one thing and they were involved in the conspiracy to do something
different. We sympathize with you, but hey, we need to make sure that we don’t do
anything that will actually work. That’s what we were talking about when we talk
about false in the Liberty Boot Camp, right? Talking about how we have these Wolves
and Sheeps clothing where they’re pretending and they’re saying all these good things,
but then when it comes to the solution, it’s always to empower the conspiracy.
And that’s exactly what Sam Adams was warning here in 1773, right? Just three years
leading up to the Declaration of Independence that we have these Wolves and Sheeps
clothing with their direct purpose of ensuring that the people that were upset with
the government were not doing anything to actually be effective in opposing them.
And so what did the crown do? They issued a, you know, they wanted to stop and
they wanted to silence Sam Adams and his friends. And so we have a proclamation
explaining that, hey, guys, we’re going to help you out if you will just help us
out. Whereas the infatuated multitudes who have long suffered themselves to be
conducted by certain well -known incendiaries and traitors in a fatal progression of
crimes against the constitutional authority of the state have at length proceeded to
avow rebellion and the good effects which were expected to arise from the patience
and leniency of the king’s government. So the king is just so, you know, very
lenient and he is very kind to the people. He’s very patient with them have been
often frustrated and are now rendered hopeless by the influence of the same evil
councils. It only remains for those who are entrusted with supreme rule as well as
for as well for the punishment of the guilty as the protection of the well affected
To prove they do not bear the sword in vain. It is ex in his exigency of
complicated calamities I avail myself of the last effort within the bounds of my
duty to spare the effusion of blood to offer and I do hereby in His Majesty’s name
offer and promise his most gracious pardon to all Hursons who shall forthwith lay
down their arms and turned to the duties of peaceable subjects, accepting only the
benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offenses are too
flogacious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of consign
punishment. So everybody gets a pardon. If you just lay down your opposition and go
back to being a peaceful and obedient subject, except for Sam Adams and John
Hancock. Now were they engaged in open fire against the government?
Were they killing anybody? No. It was because the government was afraid of them and
their words, the things that they were saying because they knew the importance of
building understanding. They knew that if they could stop, you know,
through these things. This isn’t just history for history’s sake. It’s to understand
how do we have a modern application for this. So what did they do?
They built their own understanding. They spoke publicly. They wrote public letters.
They produced and distributed pamphlets and posters. They organized opposition to
specific government officials and they rallied support for specific causes and actions.
So with modern technology, we can apply what they did with the tools that we have
today. We don’t have to only produce pamphlets and just produce posters and just
give talks in town square. There are ways that we can do this with modern
technology. But these are the principles that we follow To be able to do what the
Founding Fathers did to be able to preserve our liberties because they are deathly
afraid of us Doing those things and so we look at these as calls to action of
applying what they did and Being weary of the excuses that we will hear from those
that pretend to be our friends or are actually in application our enemies So I hope
that this was a beneficial and this was something that was something new to you and
some principles that we can start to apply in our efforts to be able to defend and
restore liberty as we are now going into this week preparing for the celebrations of
Independence Day. We can really understand what led to July 4th 1776 with much
better understanding and so that we can actually live according to those principles
and not just have them be something that we don’t even understand as a past
something that, you know, these romanticized images that we see in movies today.
So with that, we can talk about some more in the open forum. Let’s go ahead and
close up for the night, but Brittany, would you give us the closing prayer? Are you
available? Yep, I got you. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, can. Okay.
Our Congress just had my father, we’re grateful for the opportunity to meet together
as a group and to be able to discuss our sovereignty and our liberties and for all
the efforts that all of us are making to progress towards that. We ask that that
may be with each of us as we go about our weeks that we might be able to find
those that are like -minded and willing to to be open to the ideas that we discuss
at the Tree of Liberty Society and we ask that that may bless each of us this
week that we might be able to feel that spirit in our everyday lives and be able
to uplift and uphold the principles that we talk about in our group and we ask
that that may be with us tonight and help that we may be able to continue to
share our thoughts and feelings and that all may be able to come to a place where
we feel safe and we ask that that may be with us and we say these things humbly
in the name of thy Son Jesus Christ, amen. Amen.