Alan West joins us to talk about the Supreme Court and why we should secede from the United States. We also discuss the best history book to buy this holiday season, The American Story: The Beginnings by David Barton.
00:12:56.900But the idea that it's going to sit there for five hours or sit in the air for five hours and infect someone is beyond the scope of likely.
00:13:07.260So don't you think changing the doorknobs seems a little odd, doesn't it?
00:13:14.540First of all, I mean, even if you believed and you were legitimately worried about it, you would just spray down the doorknobs or clean them with disinfectant.
00:13:22.720And it's not like you're going to, you know, Home Depot and buying a bunch of cheap doorknobs.
00:15:51.740They are truly, truly beautiful doorknobs and totally appropriate.
00:15:56.360And I wouldn't I mean, most people would walk by and they would never notice unless you grab the door of, you know, and open up one of the doors, which I wasn't.
00:16:14.740But I think that's absolutely what it is.
00:16:19.060Now, President Trump says he is going to declassified everything with the lying and the treason, you know, in his words, the Democrat lying and treason.
00:16:33.920I think he should go further than that.
00:16:37.160I think he should declassify a lot of stuff, especially the alien.
00:17:25.380Every couple of days there'd be a new person I'd be pardoning.
00:17:28.360I would find out people that I didn't like that were in legal disputes with someone else.
00:17:34.420And then I would find that third party, even if they were guilty, and I'd pardon them anyway, just to piss off the people that I didn't like.
00:18:06.300Pardoning, I mean, would be the greatest thing.
00:18:07.940I would like, if I was angry at a sports team, I would pardon, like if one team won, the other team lost, I would pardon everyone on the losing team if I was mad at the winning team.
00:19:10.740So you said something this weekend, if I may quote, Supreme Court in tossing Texas lawsuit that was joined by 17 states.
00:19:20.740A hundred and six U.S. congressman has decreed the state can take an unconstitutional action and violate its own election law, resulting in damaging effects on the other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequence.
00:19:34.660This decision establishes as a president precedent that says states can violate the U.S. Constitution and not be held accountable.
00:19:42.220This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic.
00:19:47.700Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the Constitution.
00:19:57.640I'd like to know what you mean by that.
00:19:59.500Well, it's very simple, Glenn, and I know that there are some people that have shown their ignorance and incompetence saying that I'm calling for secession, when actually the people that are violating and not following the Constitution are the seditionists and those that are advocating secession.
00:20:15.260The bottom line is that how will states be able to protect themselves if, by our Constitution, if states have a grievance and they do have a First Amendment right to petition their government for a registered grievance, if they have a grievance against another state, the original jurisdiction of that by the Constitution goes to the Supreme Court.
00:20:35.040But yet the Supreme Court just said in their decision last week of Friday that they're not going to hear it.
00:20:42.340So how do we make sure that states who are following the law and they are receiving damages because of states that did illegal activities, unconstitutional actions, violating their own election law by having courts, by having secretaries of state, by having governors change election law, where do they go to redress their grievances?
00:21:03.280And so I think it is very important, very imperative that we do start looking at how these states, if we're going to have a more perfect union, which is what the preamble of the Constitution said, and abide by the Constitution, they have to look at how they combine together and have a strong voice.
00:21:19.240If the Supreme Court is going to continue to take this stance of not protecting law-abiding states, which under the 14th Amendment, there is an equal protection under the law clause.
00:21:29.020So let's stick with the Supreme Court decision first, and then we'll get to the rest of this.
00:21:36.020The Supreme Court did reject hearing it.
00:21:40.380I think that was a massive mistake, especially when half the country feels like nobody's listening to us.
00:22:17.300Well, it tells me that I am very concerned that the Article III of the Constitution says that courts are supposed to interpret law.
00:22:27.540Now, if all of a sudden we have justices that decide, you know, that they're not going to interpret the law, they have actually abdicated one of their enumerated duties and responsibilities.
00:22:38.060So they should have at least heard the case, should have allowed the evidence to come forward and make a decision on it, and not just simply say, we're not going to accept the case.
00:22:47.560And so, therefore, it comes back to my statement.
00:22:50.620What protection do law-abiding states have against states that are going out there and violating the Constitution and violating law?
00:22:59.800You cannot have states that all of a sudden decide, well, we're going to have this universal mail-in ballot thing.
00:23:05.540You don't have to have signature verifications.
00:23:07.740We'll accept these ballots any time after the November the 3rd election.
00:23:12.780And look at what has happened in New York.
00:23:14.660Claudia Tenney is supposedly up by 12 ballots, and then guess what happens?
00:23:20.040So if you want to talk about disenfranchising legal voters, it's these unconstitutional acts that are doing it, but like you just said, where do people go, where do states go to have their voices heard?
00:23:32.960The right to petition their government for redress of grievances, that is the foundation of our Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson wrote.
00:23:40.920So what do, I would imagine, the AGs would need to get together and do this together to make sure that they are blocking unconstitutional rulings, et cetera, et cetera.
00:23:54.940What does that mean to you in your eyes?
00:24:18.840If you are a state legislator in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin, you need to rise up.
00:24:25.660You need to stand up and say that we cannot allow the judicial branch in our state or the executive branch in our state to supersede and to usurp.
00:24:36.840Our duties and our responsibilities, they cannot change law.
00:24:41.900We're the ones that have been duly elected by the people to do such.
00:24:45.860So I think another thing that needs to happen, these state legislatures need to bond together.
00:24:50.400And I would hope that the state legislatures in these respective four states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, will take an action and take a stand today.
00:25:06.420And it just goes back to me asking the question is the courage that it took back in 1776 for those 56 men to stand up and establish the United States of America.
00:25:19.280I am really concerned that we still have that courage in this country.
00:25:22.460I have often thought of the only words that were spoken by George Washington during the actual Constitutional Convention.
00:25:32.040Of course, New York was looking for special exceptions and handouts, as usual.
00:25:36.680And Ben Franklin had fought and fought and fought against it.
00:25:41.420And they were starting to get, you know, starting to enter into really horse trading and it was getting ugly.
00:25:47.500And the whole room stopped and Ben Franklin looked at George Washington and he he stood up.
00:25:54.240And the only thing he really said during the convention were these words.
00:25:58.860Let us raise a banner that the wise and the honest can repair.
00:26:08.040And what he meant by that was do the right thing.
00:26:13.340We haven't come this far to screw it up.
00:26:16.200Just do the right thing and it will be repairable in the future because they'll see that we tried to do the right thing and they'll want to do the right thing.
00:26:26.060But also, when you do the right thing, God's going to do what God's going to do and just accept the consequences one way or another.
00:27:30.600That is your responsibility by the Constitution.
00:27:33.680And now states have to be concerned, where do we go to redress our grievances if the highest court in the land, which by original jurisdiction, that's the only court we could go to, decided to not listen to us.
00:27:46.240So, Alan, let me ask you a difficult question.
00:27:53.060Say all of these things fail, and on the 20th of January, or whatever it is, Joe Biden is sworn in, and that's just the ruling of the courts and the system and the legislatures and all of that.
00:28:13.380But what is it going to take to get people to come back into the fold and not split apart?
00:28:26.780Well, I think when you just said the ruling of the courts, first and foremost, the courts need to hear the people.
00:28:31.920And if the courts refuse to hear the people, then you're going to have an issue come January the 20th.
00:28:37.440And we cannot live in a country where every single time there is a Republican that is elected, George W. Bush, he's illegitimate.
00:28:44.660When Donald Trump is elected, he's illegitimate.
00:28:55.640We cannot have progressive socialists that believe that they can rule by absolutism and totalitarianism and everything that doesn't agree with them is illegitimate.
00:29:03.600So I think that the first and foremost, the American people need to go by the electoral process, the ballot process.
00:29:10.600But if you start to have mandates, edicts, orders, and decrees that are handed down, such as red flag laws, such as mandatory gun buybacks, these things, I believe that the American people have a right to say no.
00:29:24.780Thank you very much, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West.
00:29:29.100Thanks for your stand and your time this morning.
00:29:38.940This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:29:42.620So the number one question I am asked online, in person, skywriting.
00:29:56.420I'm expecting skywriters to say, what do we do?
00:30:00.840That is a topic, I think, for the first of the year, because it requires much more prayer than I have afforded it at this point.
00:30:11.200The thing that I know we must do is recognize that much of what's going on is our fault, because we didn't educate ourselves, and we didn't educate our children.
00:30:26.000We thought we were, because we put them, think of how stupid this is.
00:30:30.140We put them in a state-run school and expected that state-run school that was getting federal funding to teach our children never trust the state or the federal government.
00:30:51.060So the first thing we have to do is re-educate ourselves.
00:30:54.760And if you are looking for a Christmas gift, or if you are just, if you just want to make sure that you know the American story, I want you to buy the new book called, and I have nothing to do with this, The American Story, The Beginnings.
00:31:14.940It is the best book that they have ever read, that they have ever written.
00:31:20.560It tells our story in very short chapters and really takes you from just before the pilgrims and takes you through the founding and the separation of church and state and everything else.
00:31:35.600And the great thing is, it has like, gosh, what is this, 50-page footnotes in the back, so you don't have to trust David Barton.
00:32:32.600I started to read it, and David, I think I finished the first, I sat down to read it, and I ended up at the Boston Massacre, which is page 129, before I got up and I was like, oh my gosh, the time has flown.
00:33:03.260And that's what we've gotten away from in recent decades, and even the past century since progressives have come in.
00:33:09.280We just don't tell stories well anymore.
00:33:11.640And when you look at the stories, and, you know, whether it be the Boston Massacre, or whether it be back to the Pilgrims, or back to even Columbus, who's got to be the greatest villain in the world today.
00:33:21.400And that's simply because we no longer know the story.
00:33:24.240We just know the narrative that groups like 1619 and others would push on us, and we just don't know the stories anymore.
00:33:30.540So that's what we felt was really important to get out, was to go back to the people, find out who they are, and tell the story of what occurred.
00:33:40.160Our objective is to document truth, and so we've gone back to original sources that we've been collecting for years, and that's really the basis of telling the American story.
00:34:05.96010 pages, everything you need to know about Christopher Columbus, at least just to get a handle on who he really was and what really happened.
00:34:16.160And so you start there, then you go through the Reformation, which is, what, three or four pages?
00:34:21.260You tell them in such a clear and concise way, and you don't get bogged down in all of the stuff that usually is on your history test that doesn't mean anything.
00:34:54.080Never heard of a Wentworth Cheswell and never heard of a Jack Suss and all these black heroes that suddenly started popping up in the American Revolution.
00:35:02.700You go, we wouldn't be America without these black heroes.
00:35:07.540And so that's what got me into history was finding out all this stuff that I had never been exposed to and what was considered to be a fairly rigorous educational training that I had.
00:35:41.620The Pilgrims, as it turns out, and this is – let me back up to say one of the things that we've done over the years is we've seen the attacks on different aspects of history.
00:35:50.880And not knowing if they're true or not, we go back and say, well, is that accurate?
00:35:54.840And let's go back and see what the truth is.