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00:01:05.000There's a name that has been discussed more and more.
00:01:08.000I don't want to say it's a household name, but it needs to be.
00:01:11.000If you're looking for something to do this weekend, do some reading, some reflecting, some researching, some listening about the name Alexander Solshenitsyn.
00:01:21.000Many of you in the audience say, yeah, I know who Alexander Solshenitsyn is.
00:01:24.000I wonder, even at our nation's quote-unquote elite schools, if I went to Harvard, if I went to Yale and I asked how many of them knew who Alexander Solshenitsyn was and a single thing that he wrote, I wonder what percentage that would be.
00:01:54.000Solzhenitsyn was one of the most influential people of the 20th century.
00:01:59.000Solzhenitsyn was born and raised in Russia.
00:02:03.000He actually served in the Red Army, and then he was arrested by the Soviet police, otherwise known as SMERSH, an umbrella organization, counterintelligence, because the Soviet Union was more focused on what was happening domestically when it came towards dissidents than anything else.
00:02:28.000If you spoke against the regime, so Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a private letter just being critical of Joseph Stalin, and he was sent to a gulag.
00:02:37.000Solzhenitsyn then was let out of the gulag eight years later in something that was then known as the Khrushchev Thaw.
00:02:46.000He was a very, very gifted author, publish and publish and write and write.
00:02:50.000He started to push the regime more and more.
00:02:52.000And then eventually, his magnum opus was the Gulag Archipelago in 1973.
00:03:01.000If I could have my way and I could have every single young person in America read, study, and understand the Gulag Archipelago, we would not be in the mess that we are in.
00:03:26.000But to have a piece of literature that talks about how the Soviet Union went after its own citizens, how Marxism leads to outright totalitarianism and authoritarianism doesn't find its way into American schools.
00:03:38.000How long till that book is memory hold?
00:03:42.000Some people say that this book, the Gulag Archipelago, was actually one of the most influential books that took down the Soviet Union because it pierced the consciousness of the West.
00:03:53.000What's so amazing about this story is that Solshenitsyn writes the book.
00:03:59.000The Soviet Union had a lot of explaining to do about how they were sending their citizens out for death at the gulags, work camps.
00:04:07.000And then Solzhenitsyn did a series of speeches.
00:04:10.000He started to travel the West, and the West thought he was going to come and speak about how amazing Western values are.
00:04:22.000He gave a famous speech in 1978 at Harvard, and the Harvard elite thought that Sol Shenitsyn was going to come and talk about the inevitable victory of liberalism.
00:04:33.000Instead, Solzhenitsyn had a different tone.
00:04:36.000Solzhenitsyn was not there to pat the elites of the West on the back.
00:04:42.000Instead, the man who was imprisoned by the Soviets, who wrote a book that eventually brought down the Soviet Union, spoke to the West and said, You guys are headed in the wrong direction.
00:04:56.000Quote: Solzhenitsyn said to the people at Harvard, the speech was originally given in Russian, humanism, which has lost its Christian heritage, cannot prevail in this competition.
00:05:05.000Thus, during the past centuries, and especially in recent decades, as the process becomes more acute, the alignment of forces was as follows: Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism.
00:05:16.000Radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.
00:05:21.000The communist regime in the East could endure and grow due to enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals, refused to see communism's crimes when they no longer could do so.
00:05:43.000And yet, Western intellectuals still look at it with considerable interest and empathy.
00:05:51.000He said that at a Harvard commencement address, saying, You intellectuals are just going to bring the very same Marxist idea toxins that we have ideologically defeated.
00:06:05.000His Nobel acceptance speech: quote, over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the disasters that have befallen Russia.
00:06:16.000Men have forgotten God, and this is why all of this has happened.
00:06:22.000Since then, I, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, spent 50 years working on history of revolutions.
00:06:27.000In the process, I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own towards the effort of clearing away the rubble left by the upheaval.
00:06:37.000But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause for the ruinous revolution that swallowed up 60 million of our own people, I will say again: men have forgotten God, and that is why all of this happened.
00:06:51.000He started as Russian Orthodox, became a Marxist-Leninist, and later went back to Russian Christian Orthodox.
00:06:57.000Solzhenitsyn was warning us in the 70s: be very careful.
00:07:00.000The very beast that you say that you have defeated is coming here and coming here soon.
00:07:05.000Hear it in his own words: PlayCut 119.
00:07:09.000The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately in each country, each government, each political party force in the United Nations.
00:07:28.000Should one point out that from ancient times, decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end.
00:07:38.000Newsweek.com breaking in the last couple of days.
00:07:43.000Exclusive Donald Trump followers targeted by FBI as 2024 election nears.
00:07:48.000The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.
00:08:32.000They said, Charlie, how long until we become socialist or become Marxist?
00:08:36.000I hate to say, but this is Marxism, beer and simple.
00:08:39.000It's not a matter of if they are coming or when it takes over.
00:08:43.000The FBI, despite the fact that there has been a 35% increase in murders since 2019, despite the fact that we have increases in arson and rape and looting, random acts of violence.
00:08:56.000No, your own government is following the Solshenitsyn playbook he warned us about, which is that you, the American right, are the enemy.
00:09:06.000Your tax dollars that you work so hard, when you send them to DC, you are creating a bullet bureau.
00:09:13.000You are creating the American equivalent of SMURSH, the secret police that are going to try to drag Americans to the gulags of their own making.
00:09:23.000And people that are in the leadership of the Democrat Party are openly talking about re-education camps.
00:12:42.000There wasn't this little tale of extremism waving, you know, wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today.
00:12:51.000And sadly, so many of those extremists, those mega extremists, take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure.
00:13:11.000You know, because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen.
00:14:58.000There are a series of stories, one in particular, that shows how the ideology that we can call woke, communist, Marxist, whatever you want to call it, totalitarian, authoritarian, anti-American, and it pushes back on this narrative I hear all the time from Vichy French Republicans.
00:15:19.000Oh, it's going to get so bad and then we're going to win.
00:15:39.000When the government used emergency edicts during COVID to restrict the gathering and worship of churches, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, and their own churches being ripped apart took a courageous stand and reopened their doors in the face of a world that chose to comply.
00:15:54.000The Essential Church is a feature-length documentary that explores the struggle between the church and government throughout history.
00:16:01.000The story uncovers those who have sacrificed their lives throughout history for what they believe in.
00:16:06.000Rediscover why the church is essential and how we prove this stand remains true from a scientific, legal, and most importantly, a theological and biblical perspective.
00:17:21.000So there's a belief out there that if things get bad enough, eventually people will wake up.
00:17:27.000I don't think those of us that live in reality, and even I, I'll be honest, I fall victim to this.
00:17:34.000Sometimes, you know, if I'm doing a speech, I say, you know, things are falling apart and eventually we're going to be able to wake people up to it.
00:18:32.000Remember, they've done defund the police, BLM, all that stuff.
00:18:36.000And there were a boyfriend, girlfriend sitting on a park bench.
00:18:39.000You might have heard this story, but you probably haven't heard it really articulated thoroughly because the media is ignoring it.
00:18:46.000Okay, so there's two young people sitting on a boyfriend, girlfriend, sitting on a park bench, and they're both incredibly far left-wing, incredibly far left-wing.
00:19:06.000If not, I don't want to show it on the screen because honestly, it's really sad.
00:19:10.000A black guy walks by them, and these are two white liberals.
00:19:14.000And the black guy gets into an argument with the white liberal and ends up slitting his throat and killing him.
00:19:21.000The girlfriend acts very weird in all this, like very strange in the video.
00:19:26.000And so this activist, Ryan Carson, who is all about defund the police and marginalized communities, he ends up getting killed by a black, random black person, side of the street, slits his throat, kills him.
00:19:39.000The young girlfriend who witnessed it is as left-wing and Tifa as you could possibly imagine.
00:21:14.000And she's more worried about protecting the black thug who just murdered her boyfriend than telling the police that a black thug just murdered her boyfriend.
00:21:28.000Ryan Carson, who was murdered by a black criminal at 3:51 a.m. in Brooklyn, his friends have now spoken out.
00:21:38.000And his friends have said, quote, Ryan Carson would feel bad for his murderer because he would believe that his murderer did not have adequate resources.
00:21:52.000His social justice warrior gang issued a statement saying we need to feel sorry for the young black man who slit the throat of their friend.
00:22:05.000I'm going to play some in the news tape here, but I hear all the time from conservatives, Charlie, all we have to do is have things get worse.
00:22:12.000It's this inevitability of turnaround and people will wake up.
00:23:05.000This is footage of the man police say they were looking for.
00:23:09.000He has not yet been identified, but we are blurring his face at the moment while charges are pending.
00:23:14.000We watched, again, as all of this went down, more than a dozen officers were around when it happened before entering a home here on Lafayette Avenue.
00:23:23.000So they blur out the face of the black criminal.
00:23:26.000You know whose face they didn't blur out?
00:23:27.000Remember Daniel Penny, who did the restraining of, yep, there it is.
00:23:34.000So they blur out the face of the black guy, but the white guy, boom, let's put it on TV.
00:23:50.000This is now happening time and time again.
00:23:54.000Tragically, in Baltimore, a young tech executive who is an enthusiastic believer in BLM, was a cheerleader for every type of race politics thing.
00:24:05.000She was in her apartment, or she was in the lobby or the vestibule of the apartment.
00:24:09.000And a black criminal who is out of prison, should be in prison, tried to come into her building and she let him in.
00:24:17.000That criminal then raped and murdered her after she let him into the building.
00:24:24.000You can show that picture up on screen.
00:24:25.000This has all happened in like the last week.
00:24:27.000White liberals are getting hunted down by blacks at rates that we've never seen.
00:24:48.000The real takeaway is that their friends, their circle, remember the Molly Tibbetts example in Iowa, where the young lady was murdered by an illegal and her family says, well, we don't want to try to make it about illegals.
00:25:06.000Remember that clip we showed you in Atlanta of a white liberal who called the police on a black homeless guy that was harassing his family with a weapon?
00:25:16.000And then he started crying on the police body cam because he said, I don't want the black guy to get arrested.
00:25:24.000In Philadelphia, a left-wing blogger by the name of John Kruger, Josh Kruger, I'm sorry, Josh Krueger, who has been praising the Soros-funded DA over and over and over again, saying that it's not wrong to punch Nazis, talking about how terrible conservatives are.
00:25:43.000Well, Josh Krueger was at his apartment and a black criminal came in and murdered him.
00:25:59.000This is one of the stories you're not going to hear on the rest of the media, by the way, because it's black criminals killing white people.
00:26:04.000That stuff doesn't get on the mainstream media.
00:26:05.000Look, it's lawless lands of liberals in Philly, where shootings are dropping to levels not seen in years.
00:26:13.000Some idiot just said you're more likely to get shot and killed than die of COVID in Philly to make some insertive rhetorical point for his side.
00:26:20.000Folks, four times many Philadelphians have died of COVID than gunshots this year.
00:26:23.000I understand math is hard, but do better.
00:26:35.000They're devotes to the ideological revolution, even when they get killed, even when their friends get killed, even when the boyfriend's throat gets slit in front of them.
00:26:46.000They're not convinced that maybe they believe something that is dreadful.
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00:28:05.000And by the way, the race thing is irrelevant there, right?
00:28:09.000I mean, look, 3% of the population does commit 60% of the murders.
00:28:13.000I mean, black men kill 60% of the people in the country.
00:28:28.000Any dude late at night who you don't know, you have to wonder.
00:28:33.000Again, the color, I'm not making a point of the color, but the stats are pretty overwhelming that blacks commit almost all the 60% of the murders.
00:28:39.000That's not the point I'm making, though.
00:29:54.000They've done a GoFundMe raising $70,000 for their own trauma that they lost their friend.
00:30:01.000Not for the funeral, not for the costs.
00:30:04.000They look at the black criminal who slit the throat of their friend as the victim.
00:30:11.000That is the Marxist worldview: that you are not responsible for your own actions, that it's not a matter of values, it's a matter of stuff.
00:30:19.000The reason he slit his throat is that he did not have a penthouse apartment and a credit card that had unlimited amounts and a Rolls-Royce.
00:30:29.000That's why he slit the throat because he was really angry that he didn't have stuff.
00:30:39.000That's what Marxists believe, that it is a material explanation for all behavior, and that it is society's fault for not adequately providing the material, the stuff, the resources, the rent, the food, the water, whatever.
00:30:55.000That's why that guy took out a knife and just slit a throat while his girlfriend stands there and does nothing.
00:31:04.000So to tie it back to Sol Sha Nitson, Sol Sha Nitsen famously said, it's thanks to ideology.
00:31:12.000Can we put that screen up there, Ryan?
00:31:14.000And by the way, here's the killer now crying in the back of the car.
00:31:18.000How long until this guy gets back on the streets?
00:31:20.000Five years, 10 years, 15 years, considering it's Brooklyn and everything is systemically racist.
00:31:27.000And by the way, they blurred out his face so you didn't see him crying.
00:31:31.000I bet he's back on the streets in a decade.
00:31:34.000Back to prowl the streets to go kill more white people.
00:31:37.000Letitia James is going to get Trump, though.