Happy 4th of July! This is not the time for cookouts and fireworks and long summer nights, but this is the time to remember the incredible sacrifice our forefathers made for this country. Glenn Beck explains why.
00:00:00.000Thank you very much. Appreciate it. A lot of things to cover.
00:00:03.380We have some things for Independence Day and things that I think we should remember, including our founding documents.
00:00:09.260We'll go into here in just a second. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.
00:00:14.260You know, if you feel a little powerless, don't feel powerless.
00:00:17.460We have to build the infrastructure that the left built long ago.
00:00:22.080And that is, you know, they can boycott when you can, you know, when you can replace it with something.
00:00:26.720Well, how are you going to boycott these people who are running cell phone companies like, you know, Verizon and AT&T that are giving money to Planned Parenthood?
00:00:36.220How are you going to boycott that? You need a great service that has the same great service that you have now, the same coverage.
00:00:45.380And to really get you to switch, you also need a better price.
00:00:48.740You need to be able to save money and it needs to be easy.
00:00:51.160Patriot Mobile has all of that. On top of it, they are not giving money to Planned Parenthood.
00:00:59.380There are millions of dollars from Verizon and AT&T are going to causes that you are absolutely against.
00:04:42.280We have been done such a great disservice by our educational system because it does not teach the principles of our country.
00:05:04.940In fact, it maligns them and undermines them every step of the way.
00:05:11.860It teaches our children and it taught many of us things that just are not true or they admitted there is the sin of omission.
00:05:22.220For my whole life, I've wondered how could Thomas Jefferson, and this is one of the reasons why he's called the American Sphinx.
00:05:30.540How could Thomas Jefferson write the words that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and then have slaves?
00:05:42.120Well, part of that is understandable by saying, well, in his day.
00:05:53.380Not everybody was considered equal or even men, and it got worse after Origin of the Species.
00:06:04.380Origin of the Species, the subtitle is something along the lines.
00:06:08.920I wish I would have written it down so I had it here.
00:06:10.880Something along the lines of origin of the species or survival of the superior races.
00:09:42.740Again, that's why at the very beginning of the Declaration of Independence, it says in Congress, July 4th, 1776, the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States.
00:09:59.520When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
00:10:16.600which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal stations to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.
00:10:30.840A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
00:10:41.260We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
00:10:57.700That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:11:04.360That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:11:15.700That when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,
00:11:25.660and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
00:11:34.360as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
00:11:41.100Prudence, indeed, would dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
00:11:49.640And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable
00:11:57.760than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
00:12:02.420But when a long train of abuses and usurptations, pursuing invariably the same object,
00:12:10.360convinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
00:12:14.480it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.
00:12:23.100Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies,
00:12:28.360and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
00:12:35.500The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurptations,
00:12:44.040all having a direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
00:12:51.320And to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
00:12:58.480This king has refused to assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
00:13:17.380He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance,
00:13:22.620unless suspended in their operation, till his assent should be obtained.
00:13:27.060And when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend them.
00:13:32.920He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people,
00:13:37.420unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature,
00:13:42.380a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
00:13:46.640He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant,
00:13:53.700for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
00:13:59.040He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
00:14:07.940He has refused for a long time after such disillusions to cause others to be elected,
00:14:14.600whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise,
00:14:22.620the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
00:14:30.040He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states for that purpose,
00:14:36.680obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners,
00:14:40.100refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations thither,
00:14:44.260and raising the conditions of new appropriation of lands.
00:14:47.580He's effected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
00:14:55.800He's combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution,
01:36:57.320He's refused for a long time after such disillusions to cause
01:37:01.800others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable of
01:37:06.280annihilation have returned to the people at large for their
01:37:09.740exercise. The state remaining in the meantime, exposed to all the
01:37:14.340dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
01:37:20.140He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states for
01:37:24.160that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of
01:37:27.620foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations
01:37:31.840thither and raising the conditions of new appropriation of lands.
01:37:35.860He's affected to render the military independent of and superior to the
01:37:43.140civil power. He's combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
01:37:46.940foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his
01:37:52.360assent to their acts of pretended legislation for quartering large bodies of
01:37:57.920armed troops among us for protecting them by mock trial from a punishment of
01:38:02.640any murders, which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states, for
01:38:07.720cutting off all of our trade with parts of the world, for imposing taxes on us
01:38:12.020without consent, for depriving us in many cases of the benefit of trial by jury, for
01:38:19.180transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses, for abolishing the
01:38:24.620free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an
01:38:29.580arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an
01:38:34.360example and fit instrument for inducing the same absolute rule into these
01:38:40.280colonies, for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
01:38:47.400on altering fundamentally the forms of government.
01:38:50.760He has plundered our seas, he has ravaged our coasts, he has burnt our towns, and he has
01:38:58.960destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of
01:39:04.640foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already
01:39:09.920begun with the circumstances of cruelty unworthy, the head of a civilized nation.
01:39:16.180He has incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow subjects, with the allurements of
01:39:24.720forfeiture and confiscation of our property. He has waged cruel war against human nature
01:39:32.400itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant
01:39:40.900people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere
01:39:48.100or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
01:39:53.940This warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of a Christian king of Great Britain
01:40:02.120determined to keep an open market where men should be bought and sold. He has prostituted
01:40:08.860his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this commerce,
01:40:14.780and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die. He is now
01:40:19.580exciting those very people to rise in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he has
01:40:26.200deprived them by murdering the people upon whom he has also obtruded them, thus paying off former crimes
01:40:34.120committed against the liberties of one people with crimes in which he urges them to commit against
01:40:39.000the lives of another. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in most
01:40:46.080humble terms, and our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose
01:40:52.140character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a man to be free.
01:41:00.040Future ages will scarcely believe the hardiness of one man.
01:41:09.960We have not been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren.
01:41:14.880We have warned them from time to time of the attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
01:41:21.640jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our immigration and settlement
01:41:27.000here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity. We have conjured them by the ties of our
01:41:32.760common kindred to disavow these usurpedations, which they would inevitably interrupt our connections
01:41:39.640and correspondence, but they too have been death to the voice of justice. We must therefore acquiesce in
01:41:48.120the necessity, which denounces our separation and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.
01:41:59.400We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in general Congress assembled,
01:42:04.200appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the recessitude of our intentions,
01:42:08.760due in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies,
01:42:13.260solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies and of right ought to be free and
01:42:19.900independent states, and that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown,
01:42:25.660and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally
01:42:31.260dissolved, and that as free and independent states, they have the full power to levy war, conclude peace,
01:42:37.740contract alliances, establish Congress, and do all other acts and things which independent states may write to do.
01:42:45.820And for support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence,
01:42:54.380we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
01:43:01.580The first draft of the Declaration of Independence includes the paragraph on slavery that Thomas Jefferson
01:43:12.780wrote and was only rejected by three states, which the declaration had to be unanimous.
01:43:21.340It says at the top of the page, the unanimous declaration, because he knew that they all did,
01:43:29.220that the king would separate them if it disagreed on anything.
01:43:34.420Charlie Kirk is coming up in just a second. By the way, you can see that declaration at our museum
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01:43:59.540All right. Charlie Kirk is coming up next with a look at the news of the week.
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01:45:36.240Charlie Kirk is joining us now. Charlie Kirk is a truly amazing, amazing individual. He's the founder and president of Turning Point USA.
01:45:48.200He's the host of the Charlie Kirk Show. You can find him at tpusa.com, and we welcome him to the program today.
01:45:58.180Charlie, I want to start with, I want to cover, if I can, if I have time, three different things with you.
01:46:03.140The first one is the 4th of July celebration.
01:46:06.600The 4th of July celebration, the Democrats are now saying this is a partisan thing.
01:46:11.160He's taken over the mall celebration, America's celebration, and Donald Trump is doing, you know, just a partisan thing.
01:46:17.940Well, I would normally say that wasn't true, but I believe if the other party, now their stance is that America is a bad place, and many are even saying that they hate America, don't tell me that it's good.
01:46:57.100This has been 40 and 50 years in the making.
01:47:00.280And five or six years ago, as I really started to get our work going at Turning Point USA, I started to see measures on college campuses, such as American flags being banned from dormitory rooms in the University of California system.
01:47:18.060And I started to see not just left-wing students talk about their radical ideology, but instead just be so outwardly anti-American.
01:47:27.720And now this has metastasized into the top levels of Democrat leadership.
01:47:35.100I mean, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not just come out of nowhere.
01:47:38.400She was created and incubated in colleges.
01:47:43.040She's a prototype of the radical left.
01:48:51.920Well, the good thing about being at 28% is you got almost nowhere to go but up.
01:48:56.220And the best thing about being surrounded is you can shoot in any direction.
01:49:00.280But, look, I do believe that those polls are a little bit misrepresentative.
01:49:05.180There are far more students that have a positive perspective of the president than I think those polls will reflect.
01:49:14.740But make no mistake, the road to the White House goes straight through college campuses.
01:49:19.280And not to oversimplify 2020, but the Democrats have very specific, I call them policy bribes almost, targeting young people.
01:49:28.880Student loan forgiveness, almost their entire climate agenda is catering towards younger coastal voters that have no connection to the heartland of our country.
01:49:40.980Malibu and Manhattan is the extent of their worldview, not Missouri, Michigan, or Montana.
01:49:46.260And so it's up to us, our effort going into 2020 through our Students for Trump vehicle, to add a little sobriety, add a little realism and truth.
01:49:58.180If we're going to say, wait a second, you say you don't trust the government, because a lot of these students say they don't trust the government, then why on earth would you want to make government bigger and more powerful and give more of your money and give more of your freedom to that government?
01:50:13.360Because a lot of these students say, well, our government is bought and paid for by the corporations and the special interests.
01:50:18.940Say, all right, that's a reasonable approach.
01:50:22.420Then why on earth would you want to give that very same government control over your health care and of your decisions?
01:50:28.220And so, look, it's an uphill battle, to say the least, Glenn, but it's a clash that we're going to embrace.
01:50:34.600Because in order for Donald Trump to get reelected, he needs to exceed expectations on college campuses.
01:50:42.180And the Democrats right now and the radical left are not expecting any sort of obstacle on college campuses.
01:50:49.860And we hope to at least make it competitive again, not just allow the left to have a monopoly over the next generation.
01:50:57.900So, Charlie, the other thing that is really concerned me is the arrogance of Silicon Valley.
01:51:08.340They we know through through studies that are done at Harvard that Google is changing results for their search and and stacking things for the Democrats.
01:51:26.280We also know that they're conservative, you know, they're they're de-platforming or just changing their algorithms to make sure that they're not highlighting people.
01:51:35.180I mean, me, when I search and I watch something of me on YouTube, I can't get them to to recommend another video by me.
01:52:05.920And so there's a social media summit next week at the White House and I will be there.
01:52:10.460And to kind of extrapolate that point a little more, Glenn, which is a brilliant one, the Silicon Valley elites, they look at themselves as philosopher kings, as the as the philosopher king that Plato talked about thousands of years ago.
01:52:51.300Ninety two percent of all search results go through Google.
01:52:54.840And so, look, I applaud the president for having some sort of a forum to at least cross examine and hopefully challenge Silicon Valley.
01:53:05.220And I think an important thing to note here, Glenn, is we as free market people and as followers of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, we're very we should be very cautious and careful to ever call for government regulation.
01:53:19.800However, when these big tech companies are sometimes using government contracts and taxpayer funding to to advance their agenda, that should be discontinued.
01:53:32.380So, for example, Amazon is on the verge of signing a 10 billion dollar taxpayer funded contract through Amazon Web Services to house all the Pentagon and cloud data.
01:54:29.040And while and while most of our movement has been very focused, rightfully so, on the deep state within Washington, there is a deep state built in Silicon Valley.
01:55:08.420But just last year, you had one of the Google employees who dared send a memo about pushing back against gender stereotypes, something of that nature, which was not a controversial memo when you read it.
01:55:20.380And he was fired almost instantaneously.
01:55:23.180Ted Cruz brilliantly cross-examined the head of user experience at Google and asked her how many political contributions went to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump.
01:55:32.880Zero dollars to Donald Trump and over 1.2 million to Hillary Clinton.
01:55:36.700And so we have to continue to signal the alarm against this.
01:56:41.640We'll give that coming up in just a second.
01:56:43.940The USCCA would like to remind you that that Second Amendment is that protected right, constitutionally protected right to bear arms.
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01:57:55.580And looked at it and tore it apart and looked at what they really meant.
01:58:07.080Once you really understand the Declaration of Independence and you see that as our mission statement and our constitution as our, you know, I don't know, our instruction guide.
01:58:16.000You begin to understand how this country was put together and why it was.
01:58:49.140Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty
01:59:09.880and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
01:59:16.000Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
01:59:34.220We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
01:59:37.560We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
01:59:52.300It's altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, but in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate.
02:00:00.200We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
02:00:05.840The brave men living and dead who struggled here, they have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
02:00:15.560The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
02:00:29.180It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated.
02:00:33.860To be dedicated here to the unfinished work which those who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
02:00:41.560It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
02:00:49.700That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion.
02:00:59.760That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
02:01:04.680That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
02:01:18.320I think that that is as relevant today as the day it first escaped Abraham Lincoln's lips.
02:01:26.440It was something, as he said, people will make little note of what we said here, but we have now kind of all decided that it is one of the greatest speeches any American president has ever given.
02:01:40.440It lasted about two and a half minutes.
02:01:42.940We don't have the original because the original was thrown away.
02:01:46.340But we do have, in Lincoln's own handwriting, the Gettysburg Address that he rewrote to be able to raise funds to help heal the wounded and the veteran.
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