What's it like living in the freest state in the freest country？
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While here in Canada, Conservative leaders are basically indistinguishable from the worst Liberal or New Democrat politicians in the United States, Conservative Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is holding the line on freedom and civil liberties during the time of the coronavirus scare.
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Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my weekly Wednesday night show,
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Tonight my guest is my friend Alex Newman of The New American and The Epoch Times, and
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he lives in Florida where things are free and open and the conservative governor, Ron
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He will not bend to pressure from the media or the left or the cancel culture mob.
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What's it like living in the freest state, in the freest country that has ever existed
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on the face of the earth, in all of human history?
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My guest tonight explains what it's like to live in beautiful Florida.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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While here in Canada, Conservative leaders are basically indistinguishable from the worst
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Liberal or New Democrat politicians in the United States, Conservative Republican governors
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are holding the line on freedom and civil liberties during the time of the coronavirus,
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and they're being led by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Now, DeSantis has been under attack for his approach to the coronavirus
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since the very beginning of the coronavirus scare way back in March.
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Mainstream media and the left, but I'm kind of repeating myself there,
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all predicted some sort of mass casualty event because he didn't cancel spring break on the beach.
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The mass casualty event never actually materialized, but instead of using that approach
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that DeSantis took to spring break as a learning situation, a teachable moment,
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as the left says for how to deal with the coronavirus going forward,
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the left and the media predictably doubled down, ignoring catastrophes unfolding in strict
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Democrat lockdown states like New York to focus their attention on DeSantis,
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and cheer for the failure of DeSantis and predict the deaths of Floridians at his hands.
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But some 15 months later, DeSantis and his approach have been proven right.
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That lockdowns don't work, that life never should have been disrupted,
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and that businesses and schools should have remained open from the very beginning.
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But it's not just on the coronavirus where DeSantis shines,
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where he's the torchbearer of true conservative values right now in the United States.
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He's refusing to bow to mainstream media and lefty pressure,
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again, I'm repeating myself there, on issues of vaccine passports,
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critical race theory, the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis,
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and he's even brought in a new law that prevents big tech companies from deplatforming
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political candidates, something President Trump should have done in his four years in power.
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while conservative leaders in the rest of the world,
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well, they haven't taken their boot off the neck of normal in nearly a year and a half.
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So joining me now to discuss what it's like to live in the beautiful Ron DeSantis utopia
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is my friend Alex Newman of the New American Magazine and the Epoch Times.
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Joining me now is Alex Newman from the New American and a host of other publications,
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and I wanted to have Alex on the show to talk about what could have been in Alberta
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if our conservative leader was actually conservative, because Alex lives in Florida,
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I think probably the freest jurisdiction in the world right now is going to say the free world,
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but I think Florida is truly the freest place in the world right now.
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And you guys in Florida, you're living your best life.
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You haven't had coronavirus restrictions really ever.
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But what were left, those are all gone too, right?
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Most of the restrictions that we did have came from local tyrants in left-wing jurisdictions.
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So we actually had the very first pastor arrested was here in Florida.
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It was a pastor out in Tampa, a very well-known pastor, Pastor Howard.
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They even brought out another pastor to say why this pastor that they were arresting was wrong.
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But then our dear governor, Ron DeSantis, stepped in and said,
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And that set the tone for the rest of the pandemic.
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We did have a handful of left-wing jurisdictions that mandated the face diapers.
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But even those, our governor said anybody who violated one of the local restrictions,
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And our governor does have in our state constitution the authority to pardon people.
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So basically, we've been living as normal here.
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I mean, you know, the sensible people have been at least.
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There's, of course, the people that watch CNN that walk around with a face diaper of their own free will.
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But no, Florida is really an amazing place to be.
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And I travel a lot, you know, even around the United States.
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The United States is by far, or the state of Florida is by far the freest jurisdiction in the United States.
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And therefore, I think by extension, it's the freest jurisdiction in the world.
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And I can promise you, we don't have people dropping dead out in the streets from lack of,
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you know, face diaper protection and all the rest of it.
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In fact, if you look at our numbers, they're significantly better than all the states that did the tyranny,
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Yeah, it's funny because a lot of Canadian snowbirds were far more likely to be vaccinated
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if that's what they want to do, if they were in Florida, as opposed to if they were at home
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And Governor DeSantis really has set the tone for the entire state.
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And I think he is, you know, CNN will tell you that Cuomo,
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But I think DeSantis, if you are a freedom-minded American who believes in the Constitution,
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then Governor DeSantis truly is America's governor.
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And I think setting the tone with pardoning people who were being ticketed and hammered
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that's something that I wish I would see from a conservative leader here in Canada.
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I mean, as you know, we've set up an entire civil liberties charity called Fight the Fines,
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just helping normal people fight their lockdown tickets.
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And the majority of those tickets, I'm ashamed to say, are coming from conservative-led jurisdictions
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like Ontario, like Manitoba, like my home province of Alberta, where we've now imprisoned
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three pastors for the crime of holding unconstrained church services during the pandemic.
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Now, I wanted to talk to you about one thing that I think is so indicative of Governor DeSantis's
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And this is the one thing that I was highly critical of Trump,
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because he had the power to do something about big tech,
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and he just never seemed to get there, but not Governor DeSantis.
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Yeah, so we did get an excellent new law here in the state of Florida that will try to hold
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So if they censor a political candidate who's running for state or even for local office,
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Because we don't want the tech companies interfering in our elections.
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They also will have to disclose if they're giving people a boost, right?
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If their favorite candidate is getting shown up in everybody's news feeds,
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They'll have to report that as an in-kind donation.
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I hope this will be just the first step in trying to sort this out.
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There's a lot of things at work here, you know, and I'm the first one to say,
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yeah, companies should have freedom to do what they want.
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What we're talking about here with the social media companies,
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and even companies like Google, is an effort to deceive people.
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Project Veritas just revealed, just in the last few days,
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an incredibly explosive story out of Facebook that naturally is being censored,
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where they're actually assigning a score to people's comments,
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And the more vaccine-hesitant it is, the lower score it gets,
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Nobody can see it, whereas it's opposed to pro-vaccine nonsense.
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but this sounds a lot like a social credit score that you would see from the CCP.
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And so actually, I wrote an article in the Epoch Times probably a couple months ago now
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about legislation that was being pursued in Montana.
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I think this was a really, really good model as well.
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A couple of the rhino Republicans, we call them the Republicans in name only,
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But what it would have done is put the social media companies under the Montana has what
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And this would have put them under the authority of the public service commission.
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So under the legislation, if these companies were discriminating against people based on
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their political views, based on their religious views, if you're a Christian, for example,
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You could have gone to the public service commission and said, look, this company is discriminating
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And then the public service commission would offer the company the opportunity to make it right.
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And if they refuse, then they would pay massive fines.
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And so I interviewed a lot of people involved from the state senate, from the state house,
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And I said, look, this is the same thing as saying, like, you know, if you're a black
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person or a Muslim, you got to ride at the back of the bus, right?
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I mean, it's not acceptable in our society anymore.
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And then you add to the fact, add to this, the fact that these social media companies were
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stood up with help from our government, with help from taxpayer money.
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In-Q-Tel is always right there behind the scenes, the investment arm of the intelligence
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And you realize these are not just independent companies.
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I'm very proud of our legislature for taking these actions to try to hold these people
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And again, hopefully it'll just be the first step among many in bringing these wicked,
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Yeah, I mean, when you think about the size of these companies and the information that
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they control, and in the case of PayPal, which has been problematic, to use the language of
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the left for us here at Rebel News, but also for you, you told me, you know, they really
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With the amount of, again, information they control and finance they control, they really
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And it's really interesting to see the people who would not shut up about Russian collusion
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for years and years and years defend social media and big tech collusion, working to silence
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Just a couple of days after I had you on my program to talk about how PayPal banned Rebel
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But, frankly, I think in a real way, this is opening up a space for competition, and
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If I was a shareholder of PayPal, I'd probably be filing a lawsuit, because this is obviously
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They're, I think, flagrantly violating their fiduciary obligation to the people who invested
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in this company and expect this company to make business decisions based on what's going
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to make profit, not based on pursuing their insane hatred and bigotry against Christians
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But, you know, be that as it may, these social media companies, they really, they've gotten
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so much power now to the point where they're influencing elections.
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They're manipulating people to make certain medical decisions without fully understanding
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And so, you know, I'm glad that so many American states are now working on this.
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He had a good understanding of what was happening and how they were all working against him.
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But we really do need to bring these companies under control.
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The consequences for self-government, for individual liberty, even for proper understanding.
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Our governor here, Ron DeSantis, convened a panel of scientists.
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It was really some of the top scientists in the world.
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He had scientists from Oxford, from Stanford, from Harvard University on the coronavirus
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restrictions, the face mask mandates, the shutdowns, lockdowns.
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And he actually asked them, well, what about this censorship that we're seeing now from
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OK, the way you pursue science is people have a discussion and you present your evidence
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and then people have a chance to say, no, that evidence is wrong for this reason.
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That's how we move forward with scientific knowledge, with medical knowledge.
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And yet when you have an entire side of the conversation or multiple sides of the conversation
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just being squashed in silence, you run the risk of making some very, very serious mistakes.
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And when you're talking about public health, we're talking about the lives of millions
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Dr. Scott Atlas said this is a dangerous phenomenon.
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And unless these social media companies want to be held personally liable for some of these
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kinds of mistakes that result from their censorship.
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Like, you know, this thing where they said that the Wuhan virus was totally naturally.
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They actually censored us for suggesting that it might have come out of this Institute of
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Now, Dr. Fauci says, well, maybe that happened.
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Are they going to go back and remove all those strikes?
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So we have a real problem here with, you know, some some geeks in Silicon Valley with, you
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know, purple hair and transgender, you know, trying to decide what medical information
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And even if they were, they don't know everything.
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And I think somebody needs to be held responsible.
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And again, this goes back to how you and I first met at the UN climate change conferences.
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You see a lot of the same attitude being applied to the coronavirus as you see applied to climate
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Anybody who talks about maybe there's a different way to do things.
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Um, and even when the doomsday predictions don't manifest, which they haven't in either circumstance,
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everybody just pretends like they didn't make those doomsday predictions and that they weren't
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And then they just keep moving forward because they're the same people with the power to
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Uh, and you, you know, Sheila, this is a hallmark of people who are wrong.
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Um, if their arguments were good, if their evidence was strong, if their predictions were
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credible, there would be absolutely no need to censor people, to shadow ban people, to
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have Google write the algorithms to, you know, not return news from rebel news or whatever.
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Um, it, it really is, uh, evidence, I think clear evidence that these people understand
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that in a free marketplace of ideas, their lies and their propaganda are going to lose.
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You know, that's when in, in the 2016 election, I think they had this realization that, oh my
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goodness, our propaganda is not working anymore.
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Uh, you know, if people have, and it was still a rigged marketplace of ideas, there were still
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It wasn't quite, you know, banning completely, but you know, now we see why if people have the
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I mean, all, all the big media companies together on YouTube, we're getting less views
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than just some, the handful of alternative voices.
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And I think this is in a way an admission that they realize, uh, their narrative is losing.
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So it's encouraging in one way, but we do need to have our States, uh, and maybe even, uh,
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federal governments step into this and say, look, this is inappropriate.
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Most people who sign up to Facebook or who use Google, they assume that this is an honest,
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even playing field that when they search for something in Google, they're going to get
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results based on some objective criteria, not based on the personal preferences of some
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Uh, plus you add to that, the data gathering, the data, my, who gave Google permission to save
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And I think we need to have a broad national and really international discussion about the
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power that these corporations have usurped, the deceptive business practices they're using.
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And I think we ought to start with Michael Crow in the state of Arizona, uh, who his cover
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job is a president of Arizona state university, but his real job is chairman of Inc.
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You tell the CIA NSA investment company that's standing up all these companies and then weaponizing
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It's scary when you realize the power these people have, and then all the things they know
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about you and you, and that you let them know about you because you just signed up for this
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stuff thinking, as you say, that these are just ways to connect with people instead of
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ways to mine every little bit about who you are and what you like and who your friends are.
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I mean, it's just, yeah, it's creepy when you think about it.
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Um, now I wanted to ask you about another thing that Ron DeSantis has done, and it's again,
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completely opposite of what's happening here in some of the more conservative jurisdictions
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Right now in Alberta, our reopening is tied to our vaccination rate.
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Basically, if we aren't strong armed into getting a vaccine, well then our neighbors who run
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a small business, they may never get to open their restaurant again or that kind of thing.
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You're, you're being coerced through guilt, uh, and into, you know, taking, um, a vaccine
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and whatever you feel about the efficacies of this vaccine or these vaccines or not, I'm
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strongly against coercion and tying the reopening of the economy to these things.
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And on the flip side, in the freest place in the world, in Florida, you've got a governor
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Again, we, we are just so blessed to be here in Florida and, you know, in church and in
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community meetings, everybody's just so thankful for our governor, uh, for having the foresight
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He was, you know, one of the first to speak out against this.
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Uh, and then he said, and I just, I love this about him.
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We need to put this in our laws because I'm not going to be governor forever.
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We need to make sure that there is a law in place.
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He convinced the legislature that we needed an actual law on the books that would make this
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Uh, and so they did, uh, the, the legislature passed the law, the governor signed that.
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And so we are now the first and maybe the only jurisdiction on planet or, you know, some
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of the other governors have taken action, but we actually have a law in place so that
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the next governor can't come in and say, just kidding.
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Uh, and so God bless Ron DeSantis, God bless our legislature for this.
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Uh, and you know, because Florida did this, everybody else almost in the world is going
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Florida is one of the top tourism destinations on planet earth.
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I mean, we've got Orlando, we've got Miami, we've got, we've got people from all over
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And, um, and this is, I think a real strong message and we've had some of the big crony
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companies that, you know, the cruise lines, Norwegian cruise lines, remember that name.
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They're trying to bully our legislature right now into overturning those restrictions so
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that they can mandate vaccines and mandate vaccine passports to go on their cruises.
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And again, regardless of what you think of these experimental shots that are not even FDA
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approved, by the way, they're only approved for emergency use authorization, regardless
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And I encourage you to go listen to some of the doctors who are being censored and find
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out why they're being censored, but regardless of what you think of these things, it is immoral
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to make people have to carry their papers and prove their health status and their vaccination
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status to be able to participate in everyday life.
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Um, you know, this is one of the reasons why the Nazis got in so much trouble at the Nuremberg,
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You're going to subject people to medical experimentation against their will without informed consent.
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I mean, these principles have been enshrined in Western law and American law for many
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And yet now we're just throwing that all out the window.
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So Ron DeSantis and our governor, our legislature have done a very, very important thing here.
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I hope this will inspire other states to follow suit.
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I know Canada is not quite as fortunate, but hey, it's never too late to turn around, walk
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back from the cliff and use some common sense here.
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Yeah, it's really something to see Ron DeSantis, not only protecting people's rights, but I
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mean, he's preserving human dignity and privacy.
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You do not have to disclose your private medical information to complete and total strangers on
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Do you have a right to hold your private medical information private or do you have to give it
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to everybody just so that you can participate in society and, you know, good for Governor
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He also has banned critical race theory in school and or is it in school or is it in government
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What a protection for parents, by the way, to do that for them.
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I want to say one more thing about the vaccine passports, you know, even for the people who
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think maybe this vaccine passport might be a good idea because I don't trust the vaccine
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enough to trust that after I've gotten it, I'm going to be protected.
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Even if you believe that, what happens when they start mandating the next one and then
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the next one after that and then they start adding other stuff to it.
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You know, maybe you need to prove this status or that status and then they turn it into a
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Chinese social credit system where, well, you've got a score and you haven't had all
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Plus, you've expressed unpopular opinions on Facebook.
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Well, you know, we probably can't let you on this airplane.
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Even if you're okay with it where it is right now, you've got to realize this is just the
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As for the critical race theory issues, yes, Ron DeSantis did issue an order making this
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prohibited in government indoctrination centers posing as schools.
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Unfortunately, I've heard from all across the state that even though the governor has banned
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You know, the critical race theory, unfortunately, this has been around for a long time and only
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just recently kind of bubbled into public view.
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In fact, I just finished reading an incredible book by Votie Baucom, one of the best known
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But he wrote this incredible book called Fault Lines and he calls this a demonic cult.
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Um, you know, and this is a mainstream, very well-known pastor.
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And the problem is many of our teachers have been infected.
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Um, I interviewed a wonderful lady from China, uh, Lily Tang Williams.
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I serve on a board with her and she said, this is exactly the same kind of stuff that Chairman
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He forced them all into these indoctrination centers called public schools.
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They were the ones who were counter-revolutionaries, landowners, business owners, middle-class people,
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These were the landless peasants, the revolutionary soldiers, the communist party members.
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Uh, and so you divide the kids up into two classes.
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They actually would force the kids in the black classes to stand up in front of the class.
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We're seeing the exact same kind of stuff here.
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They're forcing, uh, children of European heritage or even Christian children to stand
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up in front of the class and apologize for their privilege.
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Uh, and what, uh, Lily said is look, you know, it didn't happen right away, but within
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You divide people up into oppressed and oppressors.
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And it's of course a Marxist way of looking at things.
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So Trump did try to get a handle on this at the federal level.
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He banned a critical race theory trainings and indoctrination of federal employees.
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I'm very glad that Ron DeSantis has, has started the process here in Florida, but this is going
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to be a very, very tough issue to crack because when a large segment of your teachers and a
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large segment of your textbooks use critical race theory as the lens through which they
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Um, it's not like you could just wave a magic wand and get rid of it.
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Um, I'm glad now that parents are speaking out.
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I'm glad now that other governors have followed Ron DeSantis's lead and are speaking out as well,
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but this is going to be a very long, very difficult, very arduous process to get this
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out, assuming it's even possible at this point.
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Now, I think that brings me to, um, something that you are doing outside of your journalism
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Um, because as you rightly point out, this is so entrenched in the school system.
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So, you know, why send your kids every day to some sort of Marxist struggle section, session
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So why don't you tell us a little bit about your, the work that you do in, uh, helping
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parents understand that they are able to homeschool their kids and, and do it well.
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Well, thank you so much, Sheila, for the, for the opportunity.
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And, uh, there's some really good news on that front.
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Our census bureau just released some data, uh, very recently, and they found that the
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number of homeschool families has more than doubled since the pandemic started.
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We've now, we've gone from like 5.6% of families with school-aged children to now approaching
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Plus we see, uh, enrollment in private schools picking up, uh, meanwhile, enrollment in these
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government indoctrination centers is collapsing.
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And so this has been a passion of mine for a long time.
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Uh, I started writing about common core when they tried to nationalize our education standards
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back in 2012, 2013, uh, 2014 and 15, we wrote a book called crimes of the educators.
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Uh, and that's when it really hit me that all these other issues that people are concerned
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about, that people care about, um, education runs through all of them.
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Uh, and if we continue allowing the overwhelming majority of our children to be indoctrinated,
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to hate their parents, hate America, hate our constitution, hate their church, hate God.
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Uh, we are going to lose these battles in the longterm.
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And so, uh, to that end, uh, we've, we've done a lot of different things.
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We've now produced a special report in the new American magazine called rescuing our children.
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I did a speaking tour through the United States, basically just showing parents what's going
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on in the public school system and showing them that homeschooling is it works.
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Homeschool kids are just running circles around the victims of government schools.
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And now we've finally started a, uh, an organization to raise awareness about this, to work with
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And our goal is to show parents and to show pastors what's happening in the public schools
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and show them that there are great alternatives out there that don't involve government.
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You don't need to hand your children over to the government for 12 years, for five days
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In fact, just the opposite is happening and you don't have to believe me.
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They'll proudly tell you that less than one third of the children in government schools are
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And, you know, that's why parents think they're sending their kids to learn how to read, write,
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And the government itself admits they don't know how to do those things.
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They do know man-made global warming hypothesis inside and out.
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Uh, they know that, uh, uh, people are oppressors and people are oppressed.
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Uh, but when it comes to the actual things, parents expect their children to learn, they're not
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So for me, it's a big passion and I hope parents, you know, I'm a parent, I've got five children.
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Um, I, I think it's critical that parents understand, um, there are other options out
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You don't have to sacrifice your children on the altar of convenience.
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You don't have to follow the lemmings over the cliff.
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Start by protecting your own children and then sound the alarm.
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I think that's one of the things that might come out of this pandemic besides, you know,
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economic devastation and the stripping of civil liberties.
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And, uh, you know, um, that parents now realize that you don't have to be, uh, you know, a
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The times in which your child is making the greatest strides in their development, you
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And, you know, I think that convenience argument now can also go out the window because parents,
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a lot of parents who've had their kids out of school because of the pandemic, um, they've
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realized that, you know what, we can sort of structure our children's learning around
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everything else that we're doing and what could be more convenient than that.
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Instead of stopping what we're doing, sending the kid to school, coming home and then planning
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Education and school fit to like education and life fit together when you're homeschooling
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And that's what a lot of parents have realized.
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I've gotten so many emails from, you know, moms and dads who say, you know, I saw what
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A lot of kids did government school at home for a time.
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And so we started homeschooling and we realized, Hey, we can do it.
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And our family's stronger and our children are happier and they're learning more and they're
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And so now they've got lots of new friends and these friends are a positive influence.
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They're not pestering them to, to go, uh, you know, take drugs and fornicate and,
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you know, whatever, uh, so it's just, there, there's so many benefits to this, uh, not just
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I tell you, when you look at homeschool families, they tend to be some of the strongest, happiest
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I, so I just can't encourage people strongly enough to, to look into this, look into your
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I know you went to government school and you think you came out fine back in the 1970s
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Uh, critical race theory is just the tip of the iceberg.
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And again, you don't have to believe, uh, Sheila and I just look at the government's
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own data on what this public school system is doing to our kids and recognize that there
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are other options and, and maybe homeschooling is right for you.
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Maybe there's a good private school in your neighborhood, but there's gotta be some sort
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of non-government option where your children can do much better and actually thrive and
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Alex, why don't you give us, uh, some of the other places where people can find the work
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So, uh, my personal website is liberty sentinel.org.
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Uh, that's kind of my blog and that's my company where I do different things.
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Uh, then, uh, I'm a senior editor at the new American.
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If you want that special report, I mentioned on education is the new American.com forward
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Uh, you can get it in PDF if you live in Canada, so you don't have to worry about shipping.
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Uh, we have a sequel that'll be coming out this summer.
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We're actually just wrapping it up right now because things got so much crazier in the
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Uh, I've done a whole series over at the Epic times on the history of the public school
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You can find those there and, uh, yeah, it's kind of a good start.
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And thank you so much for having me on, Sheila.
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Uh, you know, the, the reporting you guys are doing at rebel media and, and especially focusing
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on what's happening with these pastors, you know, the world thanks you, you know, everybody
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And the fact that PayPal has now banned you speaks volumes as to how effective you are
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Well, Alex, thank you so much for your kind words.
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Thank you so much for being so generous with your time.
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And we'll have you back on again, on again, very, very soon.
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You're always very popular with, uh, rebel viewers.
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You know, I'm so happy for Florida that they have somebody like DeSantis who is carrying
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on that Trump-ish legacy of not being scared of the mainstream media and instead doing what's
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And now with Florida as a case study, conservative politicians around the world, and especially
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here in Canada, in Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, well, they all owe their citizens
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an apology for what they've done to our lives, to our businesses, to our children, and to our
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Because these politicians allowed themselves to be manipulated by fear and public pressure
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from every special interest group, except the people who voted them into power.
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I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
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And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.