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00:02:40.000Hey, everybody, welcome to this Ask Me Anything episode here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:44.000It's been a couple weeks since we have done one of these, mostly because we have been on top of the election coverage, the exposing of fraud, and all the questions that are around what exactly happened on election night and the days that have followed.
00:02:59.000We have been on top of that story more so than almost any other podcast, program, activist, relentlessly searching for the truth and covering all of the discrepancies and the irregularities.
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00:03:20.000And so this is an Ask Me Anything episode for all of you that have just started listening to us and have not really listened to one of these before.
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00:03:41.000Let's get Gene's question, who says, can you explain what you mean by civil disobedience?
00:04:17.000For those of you that are in literature class in college, many of you are not even learning about Henry David Thoreau because he was actually, in a lot of different ways, a pro-liberty, pro-individual author and writer.
00:04:33.000It was a series of essays under a header, Resistance to Civil Government, Civil Disobedience.
00:04:45.000And Thoreau basically was arguing that governments should not be able to tyrannically rule the citizenry.
00:04:55.000Now, in Greece, citizen meant co-ruler, meaning that we have just as much say in the process and in the implementation of how government works as a politician or as an autocrat does.
00:05:09.000And so Henry David Thoreau argued that people have a duty to civilly disobey their government when their natural rights are violated.
00:05:21.000Now, I encourage all of you to check out this essay, Civil Disobedience.
00:05:25.000It's one of the most influential pieces of writing in American history.
00:05:29.000Henry David Thoreau also wrote Walden.
00:05:32.000He wrote Hearts of Freedom and many other amazing pieces of literature that highly influenced the transcendentalist movement in this country.
00:05:39.000Now, his influences were, of course, mostly Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
00:05:43.000Those are the two most famous people that employed the writings and the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau.
00:05:51.000Of course, Gandhi in India, he was very impressed by Thoreau's arguments.
00:05:56.000And he in India implemented massive pieces of resistance.
00:06:03.000And part of civil disobedience is being willing to accept the punishment for the crime, not fleeing, not trying to be physically or violently in retaliation against tyranny, but instead accepting punishment.
00:06:23.000Martin Luther King was also very influenced by Henry David Thoreau.
00:06:30.000During my student days, I read Henry David Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience for the first term.
00:06:36.000Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery throughout Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.
00:06:49.000Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times.
00:06:57.000Martin Luther King Jr. continued by saying, I became convinced that non-cooperation with evil is as such a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
00:07:06.000No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau.
00:07:12.000As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
00:07:18.000The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement.
00:07:21.000Indeed, they are more alive than ever before, whether expressed in a sit-in lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest than Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
00:07:32.000These are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.
00:07:39.000The autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:07:42.000Now, here's where the left does not employ the tactics of Henry David Thoreau.
00:07:50.000Never did Henry David Thoreau argue for violent riots or physical destruction of the world around us.
00:07:59.000Never did Henry David Thoreau support massed vigilantes, criminals, and thugs burning down downtown Portland, Minneapolis, or urban metropolises.
00:08:10.000Instead, Henry David Thoreau would say, you're mad about racial injustice.
00:08:17.000Then you should peacefully disobey and be willing to accept the consequence of it, not protest it, not claim that you're innocent like many of the people on the left do, but instead be willing to pay a criminal price.
00:08:35.000Now, so I am calling for the largest act of civil disobedience against our government since the civil rights era in defiance to these draconian anti-science lockdowns.
00:08:46.000And incredibly, these conversations around the Chinese coronavirus happen in waves.
00:08:52.000I thought that we were done with this back in June, then it came back in July.
00:08:56.000I thought we were done with this again, and now we are here again, where I have to remind people that the left does not follow the science.
00:09:02.000They follow the scientists that they like.
00:09:05.000That Democrats are using the lockdown as a gateway drug to the great reset.
00:09:11.000That Democrats are using lockdowns as a draconian, one-size-fits-all measure to punish small businesses, to evaporate the muscular class, usher in mandatory vaccinations, open borders, China appeasement, gun confiscation, and the shredding of the United States Constitution.
00:09:28.000The only thing that will prevent the left, the central planners, and the statists from implementing this radical reset is civil disobedience and reopening our country immediately.
00:09:44.000If we reopen our country, reopen our schools, reopen our businesses, capital flows will intensify, money velocity will increase, and a return to normal will happen quicker than the central planners would be comfortable with, and all of a sudden their plans would be thwarted.
00:10:01.000It is not the role of government, especially when we know how this virus acts epidemiologically, to start coming in and saying, I know what is best for your life and for what you are doing when it comes to the spread of a virus.
00:10:17.000Instead, government should be coming in and educating the population based on all available data, providing testing where necessary if people so choose, and say, I trust your right to make stupid decisions or make good decisions.
00:10:53.000If church can go virtual, why can't strip clubs go virtual?
00:10:57.000Cannabis dispensaries and abortion factories have remained open, yet churches shuttered and closed.
00:11:04.000We put infected and sick patients in nursing home wards, but we decided to close our schools.
00:11:12.000More young people died of suicide than of the Chinese coronavirus in the state of California.
00:11:16.000The human cost of lockdowns is absolutely unacceptable.
00:11:21.000And yet, we conveniently ignore that the WHO on October 13th issued a warning about lockdowns, where they said lockdowns have a very serious human cost.
00:13:12.000A core aspect of civil disobedience is showing the tyrants and the autocrats that you are willing to go all the way because they can't arrest all of us.
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00:15:02.000If we don't, then the great reset that has been talked about in the World Economic Forum of mandatory vaccinations, of open borders, the destruction of America, the erosion of any sort of sovereignty will happen quicker than you can imagine.
00:15:16.000The lockdowns, as Justin Trudeau said, is the greatest opportunity to bring in a new world order.
00:15:25.000Let's play tape of Justin Trudeau saying exactly that.
00:15:29.000Building back better means giving support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.
00:15:43.000This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.
00:15:46.000This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
00:15:59.000Don't believe me on the New World Order part?
00:16:01.000Play tape of Lori Lightfoot literally saying new world order.
00:16:06.000With the executive branch, because otherwise it doesn't work.
00:16:10.000So you got to eliminate that compliance and you make it a mandate.
00:16:14.000And then you do training, particularly in the city, I'll call them licensing departments, whether it's zoning, buildings, housing will be impacted by it, planning, certainly.
00:16:27.000And you pick the people that run those agencies and the deputies that are pledging allegiance to the new world order and good governance.
00:16:36.000And then I think you have the inspector general do some spylines to make sure that these politicians are half-baked philosophers that got lost in some form of a social justice warrior training camp in college and never left.
00:16:53.000They have never worked with their hands.
00:17:21.000And this is a small price to pay versus the 3,500 American troops that died at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in Belgium when evil decided to have one last gasp against the Allied forces in December of 1944.
00:17:41.000When 3,500 Americans in the Ardennes thought they were going to have a nice, quiet Christmas, because no way would the Germans be so stupid and foolish to advance the 6th Division of Panzer tanks in Northwest Germany to Belgium.
00:17:57.000No way would they do that because they were getting pressure from both the East and the West.
00:18:03.000And tens of thousands of American troops, as the calendar started to get towards early January, early December, and then December 10th rolled around.
00:18:17.000They thought that they were going to kind of get lucky.
00:18:22.000And then Hitler, who was a drug addict, decided to deploy his panzer division in the middle of winter.
00:18:32.000In a surprise and stunning move of events, aided by air cover, he was actually immediately very successful.
00:18:39.000His strategy was to try to go and reclaim Antwerp, which was a critical port for the Allied forces.
00:18:48.000At the Battle of the Bulge, the 101st American Division of the U.S. Army held the line.
00:18:55.000400 incredible heroes held the line against pure evil.
00:19:39.000I'm not asking you to go to the Ardennes and to hold down a city against the most sophisticated, mechanically advanced army that's pathologically driven.
00:20:02.000Because we were protected and given a gift by a generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy that did bombing raids all across continental Europe, where 60% of British expeditionary force bombers never saw a return.
00:20:26.000And if you don't understand the significance of it, then spend your Christmas and spend your Thanksgiving sitting down instead of watching the latest comedy that has no value whatsoever, go through Hulu or Netflix or whatever your provider is on YouTube or whatever, and go watch a couple hours of the actual footage of what the heroes of World War II did to face absolute evil and win.
00:20:48.000So we were given a gift by all of them.
00:20:49.000And that gift was civil society, that natural rights would be protected, that we wouldn't be lied to by a political class.
00:20:56.000And over the last couple decades, we got very lazy and sloppy.
00:21:15.000I'm not asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy, nor am I making a moral equivalency to it, nor am I making a moral equivalency to the type of heroism that that would be.
00:21:25.000I'm simply asking you: if you're a small business owner, open your small business.
00:22:04.000Don't let them tell you how to live your life.
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00:23:33.000Hey, Charlie, Christmas is coming up, and I'm going to help some of my more left-leaning family members become more enlightened on conservative values and why they're right for America.
00:23:41.000What are five books you would recommend?
00:23:43.000I could give them for Christmas to help them see the light.
00:23:58.000I would recommend The Coddling of the American Mind is a phenomenal book.
00:24:02.000I would recommend Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Soule.
00:24:06.000I would recommend Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.
00:24:09.000And then a more heady one that, quite honestly, is one that can kind of show you what happens if we don't confront evil is The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Soshonitsyn.
00:24:20.000It's more philosophical, but it's critically important.
00:24:25.000Saw other books as well that I would recommend, kind of more in the modern era.
00:24:30.000I love the book That Built Your World by Vishal Mengal Waldi.
00:24:34.000It's a phenomenal book that I highly, highly recommend.
00:24:37.000I always mention this book, and no, he does not pay me royalties because he's an absolute jerk to me.
00:24:43.000But despite him actually being a jerk, despite him being a very nasty person, I'm going to keep on plugging his book because it's actually a really good piece of literature.
00:24:52.000Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg is one of the best pieces of literature in the modern era.
00:24:58.000I have to say, Ben Shapiro's Right Side of History is just a well-crafted piece of literature for those of you that might be in the middle.
00:25:54.000The more you learn, the deeper that you dive into literature and into lectures, the more clarity you will be presented with in a sea of confusion.
00:28:27.000If you study the Civil War, critically important to the history of what a Yankee is in our country, I could go chapter and verse through exactly how teams got their names.
00:29:03.000By the way, I'm doing this all on the cuff.
00:29:04.000For those of you that might think I'm reading some sort of screen, I'm literally looking at my Apple maps and just going through kind of, I'm just super interested in sports names and how they came about.
00:29:12.000Portland Trailblazers, of course, Lewis and Clark and Trailblazers that went west on the Oregon Trail.
00:30:13.000It depends if I could come back because I would actually rather live in the present.
00:30:17.000Probably if I could come back, I would be either fascinated or horrified to see the future, to be honest with you, to see what America and what the world looks like in the next hundred years.
00:30:29.000I'm actually thinking about for my next book, I'm wrestling around.
00:30:32.000It's either going to be a book indicting college, Don't Go, The Case Against Going to College, which is a book that needs to be written.
00:30:38.000But very similar to the treatise of, or the book, The Last of the Mohicans, I was thinking of writing The Last Americans.
00:30:46.000Now, it's super provocative, obviously, to see Media Matters scrambling on their Thanksgiving Day weekend, writing about how I dare compare Native American slaughter to The Last of the Americans, which I actually think works.
00:30:58.000The reason that I think it's interesting is: will the American experiment continue?
00:31:04.000And for those of you that are 13, 14, 15, 16, listening to this podcast right now, and our generation that are millennials and Gen Z, it is entirely possible that we might be the last generation that calls ourselves Americans.
00:31:28.000The question of would I rather go in the future or the past, the past, I think, would be kind of meaningless, quite honestly, unless I could impact it, unless it was some form of a Terminator scene where I could go back and prevent John Connor from being murdered.
00:31:42.000By the way, I saw the most recent Terminator movie and not a fan.
00:31:50.000Love Terminator 1 and I love Terminator 2 because I think Terminator 2 is actually where we're headed.
00:31:56.000And so going in the past, going in the future, I'd like to see what's coming next, but it would actually kind of horrify me.
00:32:03.000I would much rather go hundreds and hundreds of years in the past before that.
00:32:07.000If I could just be a witness to one period of time, it's when Julius Caesar transitioned the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, had a relationship with Cleopatra, won the Roman Civil War, unified the Roman Empire, and really laid the groundwork for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, from coming here on earth.
00:32:28.000I think that would be a fascinating time to actually see.