The John-Henry Westen Show - LGBT Empire Spreads But Grassroots Pro-Lifers Take Charge ｜ Jason Jones

00:00:00.000 I'm not going to grab somebody who's fleeing extremist ideology and then like a fireman as

00:00:06.020 he's trying to save somebody say, you know, can you say the Nicene Creed for me before I carry

00:00:10.200 you out of this burning building? We don't do that. But the State Department does that. 0.97

00:00:16.000 USAID does that. Before we are going to give you aid, you must accept this radical ideology that

00:00:23.140 is totally alien to your culture. It's alien to our culture. It's alien to every culture, 1.00

00:00:27.340 but especially in like Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East.

00:00:37.380 On this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show, it's going to be lots of fun. We're doing it,

00:00:41.180 as you can see right here in front of the White House, with someone who I'm sure you all know.

00:00:45.920 Jason Jones is a famous character, not only at Layside News, but everywhere else. He runs the

00:00:51.940 Vulnerable People Project. You might know him from movie to movement. You remember Bella.

00:00:55.380 I want to talk to him, though, about his being a soldier fighting for this very nation where we

00:01:01.320 stand right now and what that means today. Stay tuned for this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show.

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00:01:53.820 Jason Jones, welcome to the program.

00:01:55.420 John Henry, it's good. It's been a long time. I haven't seen you since the China virus. Can I say

00:01:59.540 that?

00:01:59.840 Yeah, you can. We're not on YouTube. You can say anything you want.

00:02:02.680 That's right.

00:02:04.040 So let's begin as we always do. Let's say the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son,

00:02:08.940 and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. It's so great to do that right in front of this. That's just amazing.

00:02:14.760 So Jason, you fought for this country as a soldier. You risked your life. You put your

00:02:19.720 life on the line for America. And yet in America today, we're living in the land that seems to be

00:02:27.060 very far from a land of the free and the home of the brave, especially under President Biden.

00:02:34.480 Tell us about that.

00:02:35.820 Yeah, well, you know, first of all, John Henry, I had the privilege of serving as United States Army

00:02:39.960 infantryman. My father was an infantryman, as was my grandfather. But the real, to me,

00:02:44.040 that's a privilege to serve. But the sacrifice that I really made was my son served. And he fought

00:02:49.620 in Syria, and he fought in Iraq against ISIS. And so when you see today that our recruitment

00:02:54.420 numbers are plummeting, that the world is collapsing into catastrophe from Nigeria to Ukraine to, of 0.96

00:03:03.220 course, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen. The world is really unraveling. The Army and the Navy and the Air Force

00:03:09.820 are not meeting their recruitment goals. And then the Navy's plan, I don't know if you've heard this,

00:03:14.100 their plan to meet their recruitment goals is to hire a transgender or have a transgender sailor become

00:03:19.620 the face of Navy recruitment. And I say that America is still the city on the hill. Unfortunately, we've

00:03:25.640 turned the lights off. And the world has become a very dark place. And then what makes matters even more

00:03:31.880 sorrowful is that the rainbow flag has become really a flag of imperialism, of colonialism,

00:03:39.460 of disrupting and undermining traditional cultures around the world, cultures that are already falling

00:03:45.900 apart, countries that are already suffering famine and violence. Then the United States shows up flying

00:03:52.380 this rainbow flag. Then you have companies like BlackRock that are profiting off of war,

00:03:59.080 sort of like the English East Indies company. And so we see today sorrowfully that we are on sort of a

00:04:08.200 reprobate crusade into a dark and unraveling world. And then at home, it's unraveling too. So, you know,

00:04:16.700 LifeSite viewers are, and subscribers, they are suffering themselves. We have fentanyl pouring into our

00:04:23.120 communities. Almost every family in America has been touched by a fentanyl death. The mental health crisis in

00:04:28.680 this country in the wake of COVID policy that brutalized the nation. Our inner cities across

00:04:34.580 the country are really in collapse. So it is really quite a sorrowful thing. But the darker the world

00:04:42.780 becomes, the further our light will shine. And really, what will save the world, what will save our

00:04:47.520 country is the gospel of Jesus Christ. I just had the privilege of speaking to a university in Nevada.

00:04:52.540 And someone asked me, well, how do I order my life? It seems like your life is very much ordered. I

00:04:57.380 said, I was privileged to be able to say this at a secular university. They asked the question.

00:05:01.300 I said, I know my mission statement. It's to love God and love my neighbor. It's my mission statement.

00:05:06.260 It's very simple. Once you know, now I don't live up to it, especially if you cut me off in traffic.

00:05:10.560 You can, didn't I just see him say, love God and love your neighbor? You know, it's hard,

00:05:13.880 but we know what our mission statement is. And so we are paramedics in a society that's in triage.

00:05:22.580 And so all Christians, all of us right now are called to get on our knees and tend to the broken

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00:05:56.700 It is something that America has such a reputation for freedom. We've seen it crushed, particularly

00:06:04.640 over the last little while. Do you know, until May 11th, non-vax, non-Americans couldn't even get 0.95

00:06:11.440 into the country. It was one of the last countries on earth with that restriction, other than China

00:06:15.020 and things like that. But that was stunning for much of the world. Now, I think many Americans didn't

00:06:19.640 even know that was the reality, but it was nonetheless the reality. And that which you just said about

00:06:25.120 colonialism based on the LGBT agenda. I'm ignorant of a lot of history, but that's just so stunning that 1.00

00:06:33.080 they would put this perverted agenda ahead of caring for people in dire poverty. And as a carrot,

00:06:44.000 before they would feed them, they would say, ah, ah, ah, ah, but you have to adopt this kind of

00:06:50.180 perverse religious motto that we now have, this new religion of LGBT. And the poor countries are, 1.00

00:06:57.260 you know, I watched in, in Kenya and in Uganda, where we just were, they said, keep your money.

00:07:04.760 We would rather starve than go down that road.

00:07:07.640 You know, it's really quite sorrowful. When I was in Iraq, when, in the war against ISIS,

00:07:11.580 when the U.S. had left in the wake of Obama's withdrawal, it was just as catastrophic in Iraq

00:07:17.860 after the U.S. withdraw as it was in Afghanistan. It's just, there was even less media, if you could

00:07:22.140 imagine. And I met with a prominent young woman from an ethnic community in Iraq that was a minority

00:07:28.900 ethnic community. And I asked if she met with the U.S. State Department. And she was of an embattled

00:07:33.100 ethnic minority facing genocide. She said, I did. I met with them once and they sat across from me and

00:07:38.540 said, we're focused on LGBT issues right now, not ethnic issues. It doesn't seem like religious

00:07:46.380 freedom is a value anymore. The Newseum just closed in Washington, D.C. when we needed it more than ever.

00:07:52.140 The museum in Washington, D.C. committed to the First Amendment has recently closed. It's as if we

00:07:57.980 no longer believe in freedom of speech. We no longer believe in freedom of religion. So then what are we

00:08:03.520 carrying around the world? It's that rainbow flag. And I've really come to see that the damage that

00:08:09.220 that ideology does at home, it's collateral damage. I really believe that the agenda of the rainbow flag

00:08:16.340 is to disrupt communities around the world for exploitation. When you look at what's happening in

00:08:22.420 Central Asia, when you look at what's happening in Africa and how disruptive it is, it seems to be as 1.00

00:08:28.220 if it is by design, it is by design to disrupt and bring collapse to these societies that makes them

00:08:36.720 more vulnerable for exploitation. You know, our organization, the Vulnerable People Project, I think

00:08:41.340 this is a propos back here. I don't understand what's happening right now. You know, the Vulnerable

00:08:45.980 People Project, sometimes people criticize us for not proselytizing in Afghanistan. I say, I proselytize

00:08:51.540 and my team proselytizes by showing radical love to vulnerable people. I'm not going to grab somebody

00:08:56.440 who's fleeing extremist ideology and then like a fireman as he's trying to save somebody say, you know,

00:09:03.380 can you say the Nicene Creed for me before I carry you out of this burning building? We don't do that.

00:09:08.000 But the State Department does that. USAID does that. Before we are going to give you aid,

00:09:15.860 you must accept this radical ideology that is totally alien to your culture. It's alien to our

00:09:21.000 culture. It's alien to every culture, but especially in like Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East.

00:09:26.380 And so you have to ask yourself, that's what this is. So it's really up to the church. The secular world,

00:09:31.480 the secular media cannot even comprehend Christian suffering. If anything, I think they see it as

00:09:37.720 some sort of retribution that they want to see Christians suffer. The crisis in Nigeria,

00:09:42.120 the LifeSite News is one of the, I was just meeting with a reporter from another news organization,

00:09:46.520 told him I was coming to meet with you. He said, you're meeting with John Henry. Tell him,

00:09:50.100 thank you for their coverage of Nigeria. Thank you for what you've done in Afghanistan. Thank you for

00:09:53.380 what you've done in Iraq and around the world. The secular media will never comprehend the suffering

00:09:59.560 of Christians. So when the Christians are being brutalized in Nigeria, nine out of 10 Christians

00:10:04.600 in the world who are killed are killed in Nigeria, but the media will never cover it. When Christian 1.00

00:10:09.240 school children were killed in Tennessee recently, the media saw the perpetrator as the victim. In fact,

00:10:15.820 the State Department recently said the Fulani tribesmen who are killing peaceful Christians are the

00:10:22.160 victims in this struggle. And none of this makes sense. It's incomprehensible. So what does that mean?

00:10:28.080 That means Christians partner with other people who are just sensible. We need a battle through the 1.00

00:10:33.620 institutions. We need to win elections. We need to put people in those administrations who their policy

00:10:41.580 will reflect people who share our values. But beyond that, we didn't wait at the Vulnerable People

00:10:46.060 Project. We evacuated U.S. citizens. We're evacuating U.S. citizens now from Sudan. We're not going to wait 1.00

00:10:51.660 on the government to do this. We cannot wait on the U.S. State Department because, again, they're spilling

00:10:57.220 poison into the water. We can't count on them to help us deliver clean water when they're polluting

00:11:01.180 water, so ideologically speaking. So it's a great struggle. But I would say that every generation has

00:11:08.160 its struggles, right? Our grandparents had World War II and the Depression and the rise of Nazism and

00:11:13.040 Communism. And, you know, you can look at every generation and they have earth-shattering changes.

00:11:20.120 We have, we're living through a great struggle right now. I think what's, it's for those of us in

00:11:25.160 the Anglosphere, in the English-speaking world, like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,

00:11:30.520 and the U.K., just what happened just in Ireland recently, basically criminalizing LifeSite News. Now,

00:11:35.800 I guess you guys are criminalized in Ireland. Can you believe this? So to see this happen in the

00:11:41.040 English-speaking world, which has been the beacon of liberty around the world, just not the United

00:11:45.980 States, is what's disheartening. And imagine how hopeless the world is going to seem to people

00:11:55.240 when there's nowhere to look up to. It will be as if hope has left the world. Well, then they have to

00:12:02.700 see the church. And then we as Christians need to be this light in this dark world because people are

00:12:08.060 no longer able to look to the United States. We were so proud and pleased to be some small part

00:12:14.800 in supporting your work with Vulnerable People Project, with rescuing people from Afghanistan and

00:12:20.940 all over the place. You've got a new project, the Vulnerable Paris Project. What's that?

00:12:25.260 And I credit LifeSite News for that. Like, you guys don't really begin to understand what you did

00:12:28.980 for us. At VPP, prior to the fall of Afghanistan, we did some work delivering aid in Iraq in that

00:12:35.260 crisis and in Sudan during the genocide. But we're not a relief organization. That's not really what

00:12:39.680 we do. We try to harness influence and communicate to the world the suffering that's happening when

00:12:44.820 the world is left in dark places in the world. But through LifeFunder, what happened almost overnight

00:12:50.560 is that we had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in a bank account, which is,

00:12:56.280 for our little organization, was an immense thing. And then we were able to, with that money,

00:13:00.420 build the most successful evacuation and resettlement effort in the world. And then beyond that,

00:13:05.100 we've delivered now almost 3 million meals since the fall of Afghanistan. 2 million meals just this

00:13:09.420 Christmas, a million meals the year before. And beyond that, then we got a reputation of people

00:13:14.980 who can do things others can't. And we were asked to evacuate people from Ukraine. We were able to do 0.83

00:13:20.140 that and set up shelters in Ukraine. And now we're being inundated with help in Sudan. Well,

00:13:24.820 we've sort of figured this out. This was all built off of LifeFunder. If not for LifeFunder,

00:13:30.740 the people that we had in safe houses would have stayed there or been let out. If not for LifeFunder,

00:13:35.620 you know, through LifeFunder, you introduced us to donors. They now participate with us. We built

00:13:42.040 medical centers. We have, for women, we have, we're supporting three schools and a university.

00:13:48.560 We've taken over safe houses that very large organizations in Pakistan had to abandon.

00:13:52.760 We quadrupled their caloric intake every day. We started school programs in those safe houses.

00:13:58.460 And you might have recently heard that we partnered with another organization, a Jewish aid

00:14:02.780 organization, to resettle 20 girls that were wounded by ISIS and through our Catholic community,

00:14:07.420 get them not only free health care, but free university education in Spain.

00:14:10.720 And I really credit that with LifeFunder. You helped us grow from an organization that tried to

00:14:15.120 harness influence to an organization that we found that we can do something that other groups haven't

00:14:19.360 kind of figured out yet, which is how to serve people in these sort of dangerous and tragic

00:14:25.000 situations. And I'll tell you what our secret is. It's we're Catholic. That's our secret.

00:14:29.880 And that we know how to persevere. We can work in the dark with no light around, like GK Chesterton

00:14:35.900 said. It can be pitch black and we'll just kind of keep walking. And so the secret to Vulnerable People

00:14:42.300 Project Success in Ukraine, in Afghanistan, now in Sudan, is that we know that the apostolate of 1.00

00:14:50.180 serving the vulnerable is Good Friday. And it means you're going to be lonely. It's going to be

00:14:55.960 challenging. But there's always the resurrection. We have that. We know that and we have the hope of

00:15:00.180 that. But you did not play a small part. We were privileged. You weren't able to come to the country

00:15:05.520 at the time. But we were honored to give LifeSite News one of our two awards of the year, our hero awards.

00:15:11.460 And the other was to EWTN. And another was to a human rights attorney. And so between EWTN,

00:15:18.640 LifeSite News, you are our two greatest partners that have allowed us to serve people when even

00:15:24.920 governments have found it impossible to do. Beautiful. Jason Jones, thank you so much for

00:15:30.180 being with us. Thank you, brother. It's so good to see you in person again. Amen to that.

00:15:32.860 Thank you. And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - May 18, 2023

LGBT Empire Spreads But Grassroots Pro-Lifers Take Charge ｜ Jason Jones

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