Learning The Constitution | Article 5 Part 2

➡ The speaker is waiting for Doug, who is late. He talks about his time in the Navy and shows a silhouette of his ship. He also mentions some technical difficulties with his camera and lighting. He then shares that he recently attended a family funeral after his wife’s father passed away. The event brought together family members he hadn’t seen in a long time.
➡ The speaker shares his experiences of long drives, adjusting to different climates, and his time on two Navy ships, the USS Chandler and the USS Peoria. He also talks about his father-in-law, an immigrant who loved America and encouraged his family to take advantage of the opportunities it offered. The speaker also mentions his father-in-law’s recent passing and the emotional impact it had on him.
➡ The text discusses the features and functions of different types of military ships, particularly those with flat bottoms that can get close to the shore. These ships are designed to transport Marines and equipment directly onto the beach, rather than being heavily armed for combat. The text also shares personal experiences and anecdotes from military service, including deployments and interactions with other service members. It ends with a discussion about the constitutionality of deporting illegal alien criminals.
➡ The speaker discusses the experiences of military personnel, emphasizing that those who have truly been involved in significant military operations often don’t talk about it. They suggest that people who openly share detailed military stories may not be telling the truth. The speaker also shares their discomfort with being thanked for their service, feeling it has become an insincere societal norm rather than a genuine expression of gratitude. They end by sharing a touching story about their father, a veteran, being moved by a heartfelt “welcome home” from a Vietnam orphan.
➡ The speaker discusses their feelings about societal obligations to thank military personnel for their service, expressing mixed feelings about it. They also talk about the rights and privileges of citizens versus non-citizens, emphasizing that while everyone has natural rights, the privileges and immunities of a country are reserved for its citizens. They argue that non-citizens, including those who are in the country legally, do not have the same rights and privileges as citizens, especially if they violate the conditions of their stay. The speaker also mentions the importance of understanding the Constitution and the rights it provides to citizens.
➡ The speaker discusses various topics, including the treatment of immigrants, the concept of law and order, and the evolution of societal values. They argue that people should face consequences for breaking laws, regardless of their background or identity. They also mention the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche’s writings on communism and the idea of transcending traditional moral values. The speaker believes that we are witnessing this shift in societal values today.
➡ The discussion revolves around the balance between liberty and government, with the belief that some form of government is necessary for true freedom. It also touches on the idea that certain ideologies aim to destroy liberty due to its godly foundation. The conversation further explores the concept of a voluntary society, comparing it to a communist utopia, and concludes that both are theoretical and unattainable due to human nature. Lastly, it delves into the topic of sports teams’ names, arguing that changing them might erase important cultural references.

He Rampart the untold history. I’m waiting on Doug. I don’t know where the heck he is. I have no idea. He’s. He hadn’t responded to my texts. It looks like he’s actually starting to come in right now, so we will see. I know I don’t have a boat, but I was on the Navy, or was on the Navy. I was in the navy on the New Jersey, so. And you can see kind of a silhouette of my ship up here that’s I had made recently. It’s kind of cool, actually. It’s. It didn’t turn out the way I wanted to.

I wanted to have it be a. I wanted to have it be, like, black with. And I put, like, LEDs behind it and have it, like, be a silhouette, but I couldn’t get the lights bright enough. So anyway. But. But. So I just kind of made white. But it’s. The angle that it’s at right now can’t really tell because it’s. I’ve got that shelf up there, and I don’t know if you guys can see, but Winchester is up there by the board. I put up. I put a shelf up there so that they could kind of roam around, up.

Up on top. And he is up there chilling, so. But it looks like Doug is sort of here. I don’t know why the camera is not working. It says it’s working. Everything’s working. But I don’t understand why it’s not, so. Well, I mean, we don’t necessarily need to see your face to hear your voice. You do do radio, so this is true, but. Yeah. I just don’t know why so. Well, could be because you’re an angel fan. No. No. Although I have to admit, it was sad that my Arkansas Razorback sit and pull it off. Oh, well, come on now.

They got to the Sweet 16, though. What’s that? They did get the Sweet 16, but they lost in the final seconds. Yeah. I don’t know why the camera is not working. Oh, okay. So the reason that you’re seeing that is because. Here, I’ll do this. You’ll see that it’s. It’s not that. It’s just the angle of the camera. So I’m actually. I’m actually so my way that I have my. My thing set up here. It’s not really the way that I want it to be. Oh. I’ve actually. I got a. I’ve ordered a thing so that it’s.

I can mount the cameras, and it’ll be a lot more Stable. Oh, shoot. I should have done that. But okay, there we go. That’s a little better still. Yeah, yeah. The I, I, in fact, while Doug is trying to figure his thing out, I’ll sh. I, I will play you guys a quick video. I know, Val. It’s okay. It is all good. I knew you’re playing. Let me see if I can find. Yeah, the camera’s not working. I don’t understand. I have no clue what’s going on with the camera. I’ve done nothing different. Oh, I bet I know why.

Oh, that was actually kind of massive. Right. This. Let me share this here and I’ll add it to the screen, make it big. And I’m probably going to toggle between a few. But you guys can. So you guys will be able to get, get a, get a good idea. So this, this is like only an 8 second video, but let me change the audio settings. Yeah, okay. That’s massive now. So this is. I don’t know which ship this is because it, you can’t tell. It doesn’t have the it. Normally what they’ll do is they’ll put the markings of the ship on the top of the turret.

On top of turret two, like the number of the vessel so that you know what ship it is. That was pretty massive. It’s pretty awesome actually. Let me go back and see if I can. So this, this, this wasn’t really my angle to view. That wasn’t either. Let’s see. This is. Let me see if I can find one that gives me a, gives you a good angle of kind of how what my field of view was when the, when the guns were firing. See, there was one up here. This is, this is a little bit more.

This is the 08 actually now that I think it. That was a very good possibility that I was there when this happened. And who knows? That could be one. That actually could be me right there. I don’t know. It’s. But that actually could have been me. Let me see here. If I can find a, A picture may do a picture. That’s not what I want. Let me share the screen instead. Sorry. This is actually a picture of the ship. Oh, this is actually a good one. This is actually a big picture of the ship. Okay. So I don’t know if you all can see that.

So I, When I was stationed on this ship, my duty station was up here. I don’t want to write on it, but I was, I was up here. So looking down. When you were looking down on the, at the guns, you Were looking kind of through basically from that vantage point right there. So, anyway. All right, enough. Mr. Gibbs is back, it looks like. So now we’re focused on the Constitution instead of the guns. Yeah. For whatever reason, I was having technical difficulties and I don’t understand why. In fact, would you do me a favor and take that light and turn it this way? Because my lighting was horrible.

So busy trying to get the camera to work, I couldn’t figure out why. And so I’ve been spending all this time trying to get the camera to. You got to pull it up and then twist it so it locks into place. Thank you, sweetie. Tell me. Grab that. Yeah, I, There we go. That good? Yeah. Kind of on the bright side, but it’ll work. There we go. Now it’s good. But anyway, yeah, I, I, I, I couldn’t figure out what the heck. I’m getting no camera. I’m getting no camera. And, and, and I’m working on settings.

I’m trying to get things to work. And then I realized I was gonna do a video this morning and I had my obs on and the camera was on that, and I can’t do two things at once and so I had to turn off the. Yeah, you can only, it only, it only works with, with one platform at a time. Yeah. So I had to turn off the obs so I could. Yeah, it’s fine. Sorry. A little late. Makes perfect sense. Yeah. Yeah. Every once in a while they confuse the monkeys at the zoo and we don’t know what to do.

So. No, that’s your, that’s your problem. Well, usually, usually of late, it’s been you, it’s admin happening. It’s usually an audio thing, but, you know, well, I figured out that I, I feel that’s setting out. So. Yeah, I don’t have that problem anymore. But yeah, that was, there was a setting that. It was just driving me batshit crazy. I could not figure it out. So I got home yesterday evening. It went well. My, I’m glad to see you guys and Melvin and, and real special ad. Looking forward because I’m gonna get a chance to see them.

Looks like either May 21, May 22, depending on when we set something up. I’ve got your email, uh, and all that. But, uh, anyway, uh, so, uh, my wife’s dad passed away. Uh, he, uh, had been in hospice. This was something we knew was coming. Still made it hard when it happened. And so we had to take a trip down over the weekend for the funeral and, and my mother in law Was concerned that there might be fireworks with the drama between all the. My wife’s the oldest of seven girls and plus there’s other individuals and everything went swimmingly and it was first time I’d seen a lot of these people in a long time.

I mean some of these young men and young women I hadn’t seen since they were like five or four or something like that. But, but sometimes it takes the death of the family for the family to get together. Sometimes that’s just the way it is. But yeah, when you get older, when you get older the only time you guys get together to see each other is at funerals. Yeah, pretty much. But we all and had a nice dinner and then you know, drove back and my wife, we took our time. But for those of you who are not familiar, I used to live in Southern California about hour, hour and a half north of San Diego.

For those of you who know nothing about Southern California, for the rest of you who do know something about Southern Southern California, I lived in Temecula Valley and the drive between here where my house is here in Brookings, Oregon and Murrieta, Temecula Valley. If you moved and groove didn’t hit traffic and you really didn’t stop to eat, you just drove and stopped to get gas and you know, eat on the way and all that 15 hour drive. And my wife and I used to do that. Sometimes we just drive the whole thing. Yeah, not doing that anymore.

So we took a couple days to get down there and then we spent the, the, the. You know they got those. Do you stop someplace in the middle and, and catch some sleep Z’s or do you just like. Well when we drove throat straight usually what would happen is I would drive straight. It’s funny because like I would be so excited about coming up here this, before we moved up here, I could drive the straight 15, no problem. And I just, I get up like it four in the morning, you know and get, get here up here about 9 or 10 at night or something like that.

That’s, that’s what I would do, just drive and you know, get gas and maybe grab some food and eat while you’re driving, all that. And then whenever I had to go back to Southern California it was like descending into the pit of hell. And so suddenly I didn’t want to drive. I’d get tired so I would drive so far in the Virginia was my wife would start driving and I’d sleep while she drove and then I’d take over again, that kind of stuff. But. And Then what we’ve been doing the last, I don’t know, half dozen times.

This will. We’ll drive about halfway, get a hotel, finish the drive next day. And that way you do kind of like a eight or nine hours at a time or, or. And actually what we do is a little bit more the first day, so we have a little bit less the second day. But so we got back safely and just in time for this. And then I can’t figure out what the heck’s going on my camera now. I know. But, uh, anyway, so. But we’re back. And it was funny because we get. Because now that I’ve lived here since July, we get down there and I’m like, it’s hot down here.

Yeah. And you guys are. It’s, it’s funny that you say that because I have a friend, friend of. Who lives in Phoenix. Right. And he’ll come over to, like, he’ll come over and we’ll go to a game and you know, in, in la, the game, you know, it. In. In the summertime, in the evenings it gets like, you know, 75, maybe, you know, maybe high 70s. And. And he’s putting a jacket on because he’s accustomed to like 110. Yeah. So. And yeah, I mean, that’s a significant. That’s a 40 degree difference. Yeah. So. So we’re there and I’m.

I’m in a T shirt with short sleeves and everybody’s like bundling up and you know, but because I’m used to it being a little bit cooler up here. Plus rain, you know, we were getting all kinds of rain and we get down there, there’s no rain. I hear you guys might be getting like, you know, you know, enough to sprinkle a little bit on the ground for a moment on Wednesday. But basically. Yeah, but we get more over the weekend than they get all year long. Then we get back up here and it’s raining and stuff.

As they say, it only rains twice a year up there. Like September to January and February to like June. Yeah, well, it’s like there’s a lot of construction we need to do and we can’t do it until June because it’s. It’s like I. I’ve been working on this pad because I’m put in a metal building and just, you know, and you get a few days and then it’s raining again and it’s just, you know, haven’t been able to work on it. So it’ll be June before we can get that thing up. But I Was watching, I was watching.

I’ve never heard this before. And maybe you guys, if any of you guys who live up near kind of like Montana, Wyoming, that, that area or somewhere in the Rockies, they said, I was watching 1923. And the, well, the guy said, yeah, there’s only three seasons up here. June, July and winter. Yeah, I used to say in California that, that people say, well, you know, I like having the four seasons. And I, I would respond out of California and I’d say, well, we have four seasons. We have mudslide season, earthquake season, fire season, construction season. But so true, so true.

But thank you for the. So two things before we get started here. Yarn addict says. No, I’m sorry, not Yarn addict, Melvin says, you know, sorry to hear that. Never easy. My father in law is one of my heroes. Absolutely adore him. I, I’ve, you know, he’s been having health issues and like I said, he was in hospice and all sort of stuff. But I’ve pretty much not been emotional until, you know, I was during the wake and I’m, you know, right there and I’m looking at him and you know, tear pump number one turns on.

Cheer pump number two turns on. Before we know, we get a flash flood. And, and, and because one of the reasons he is my heroes, because he’s an, he was, he immigrated here and the Becerra program was what he used to kind of, you know, he’d come here for a couple weeks, make some money, go back home. He just saved his money until he could afford to immigrate legally here. And the man loved this country, absolutely adored this country. You know, he taught his daughters. I brought you here to take advantage of the American opportunities. You know, don’t, don’t, don’t slack off, don’t be, you know, bums, you know, you take advantage.

I, I came here for you so that you guys could be Americans. And my wife was born in Mexico, but her sister, six sisters were all born here and my wife’s the only conservative of the group and her dad was quite conservative actually in his thinking. And, and he was the one who took me to speaking of Navy ships and I was on two of them. Mine weren’t quite as big and impressive as, you know, the New Jersey, but they were impressive in different ways. Especially the first one, the USS Chandler was pretty awesome missile, you know, missile system that, you know, we had, you know, the, the torpedoes of the guided new guidance and all sort of stuff.

And it was, but anyway, get back to the story. So when he was Taking me. What was it? What was a Chandler? DDG got a missile destroyer 996. You know, basically it was a kid class, but they were on a spruence class hole. They were originally actually made for the Shah of Iran. So when Khomeini took over, we kept them, jacked him up with all the weapons and then parked him in the Persian Gulf, which I thought was ironic. Yeah. So it was 1982 when it was commissioned. Oopsy. That wasn’t supposed to happen. There we go.

That. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Let’s do. Yeah, I already disappeared on. Oh, there you go. Yeah, there you go. There’s the chamber. I was aboard that ship first and. And that thing was a pretty awesome ship. I enjoyed it. Yeah, that does look like a Spruce class. Yeah, it’s basically a spruce hole, but they jacked it up. But Spruce was just a regular destroyer. It didn’t have missile systems, basically folks. And they added missiles. You didn’t, you didn’t have the vls. You had the rails like right here. Yeah, yeah, I saw like right here. Right.

This thing didn’t work. Yeah, I’m trying to remember. I had the information the other day on my head because I was looking it up. But we had a couple of phalanxes. You can see the phalanx systems there right here and right here. Yeah. But anyway, and, and then my second ship was a USS Peoria LST 1183, if you want to pull that one up. And so the first one, just to tell a story real quick. So my father in law, that was the ship used to. 1183. Yeah. LST 1183, Peoria was my second ship. But anyway, that.

The first one, Chandler, when he was. He took me because my parents on vacation or something like that. And, and the man who’s originally from Mexico, love America, and he’s like watching these ships that were going by. He’s like, dog, dog, it’s beautiful. You know, he just absolutely loved it. But anyway, that ship was, you know, had. We went to general quarters and we played war. You know, you fire, you get hit. Repair lockers are in play. I was in D.C. central, damage control central. I worked with the damage control officer. Then I get on the USS Peoria, which he’s pulling up here, and it’s a tank landing ship.

It’s flat bottom, basically it’s a troop carrier and tank carrier. They. They would carry tanks and troops basically. And, and you see that, that square kind of in the middle of the, the superstructure there. That’s a, that’s a, that’s basically a corridor for, you know, parking tanks and stuff. And then underneath that main deck, there’s, you could, you know, there’s an elevator down there. And they start. This whole area right in here is where they store tanks. And then what happens? And also just assault vehicles, sometimes the AVs. Yep. It’s a flat bottom. It’s a flat bottom ship so that it can come really, really close to the shore.

We get right up on that baby. Big thing right here, right here with the front of the ship opens up. It kind of opens up. And then the, there’s a, there’s like a railing. This thing right here comes up. And then it, it’s like a ramp. It gets, that will latch onto the, it’ll catch the beach and then the tanks and everything can just go right from the ship right onto the beach. And you’ll notice there’s not a whole lot of weapon systems on this thing. There’s, there’s, you know, smaller guns and, you know, turret and things like that.

But it’s not necessarily jacked up with weapon systems. Its job is not to fight like the, the Chandler or the New Jersey. This thing’s job was to deliver the Marines. And so therefore, I get on this ship and I’m used to, on the Chandler, you know, all my hands, manual battle stations during general quarters man, I’m a damage control central. And, you know, we’re doing our thing. I get on board this ship and I’m an exo. I wind up the EXO phone talker. And the general quarters drill basically went, get hit, get hit, get hit. And then all of the drills would end in an abandoned ship drill.

This concerned me. So what? And so I had to, so I talked the XO about. He says, we gotta understand, after dropping off the Marines, the average life expectancy of a LST is about nine seconds. Yeah. Now this right here, this right here is the, is an lha. And this would be, this would be a ship that would have been in the, in the same battle group as, as an lst. Because this is also a flat bottom ship, as they call it. Right. So what this does is this. You, you have a, it’s a flat top, but primarily for helicopters, but it does launch Harriers or vertical takeoff aircraft.

And then, and the rear end of the, of the ship will, it’ll open up. The ship will sink down into the water and you’ll have, it’s called the well deck. And then you’ll have, you have like four LCACs in there and the LCAC and if I remember the LSDS also had a well deck. Right. I think. I don’t. The Ltds and the LH LHAs I think were the ones that had the. I could have sworn an LSD did too. But anyway. Go ahead. Yeah. Anyway, the point of this is. I mean there was only about probably 800 ships company on here, but we could carry about 25 to 20, 2500 to 3000 Marines on this when we were under underway on a deployment.

So the Marines would. This. This would essentially be the house of the Marines because what they would do. So you were gator Navy also then? Well, for. Yeah, well I finished. So when I got to the fleet in, in 89 they. I would got to the New Jersey. Well they had. After the curtain fell then they’re like okay, well we don’t necessarily need all the battleships anymore so we’re going to decommission them. Well they took all our ordinance off. They took off all our ordinance the week. The last week of July of 1890 and then August 1st is when Saddam invaded Kuwait.

And then they put us on about a. It was about a 10 day hold and then they’re like now just go ahead and continue decommissioning. And then they sent the Wisconsin and the Missouri over to, to the Gulf and I had an opportunity to go to the, to the, to the Missouri. I I opted to stay on the, on the Palau because it was you know, it was. It you know wasn’t going on deployment and then we went on deployment and you know I probably. I wish I kind of would have gone on on the Missouri because they got all kinds of really cool battle ribbons.

They were actually in combat so I would have got like combat and all kinds of cool stuff. So but you know, it is what it is. I was as. As it was. We got. When I was on the Polo on our way over we. You had the Mount Mount Pinatubo erupted and Pinatubo was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the. In the 20th century. And as it was erupting there was basically a hurricane coming through the the Philippines. So it was raining mud. It was insane. So we rescued. We rescued about 2,000 people off of.

From like basically Kiwi Point, that whole area and that they’re in the Philippines and took him down to an island called Cebu. So Interesting interesting times. What was tackle Berry in the Marine Corps? I’m not sure. He says pretty pretty boats. Yeah. He got clearly he’s not in the Marine. Clearly he was in something. If he’s gonna call them boats, because the Navy doesn’t refer to them as boats. Oh, you were Army. Well, that, that explains the disrespect. You know. Yeah, the Navy does have boats, but those are called submarines. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the reason I was asking about if he was a Marine, because Marines are funny.

Marines give Navy guys a hard time until they serve or should I say deploy on like an LST or something like that. And then they, and then they have to go through the trip and then watch us work and then they go, okay, I respect the Navy. Well, and it’s, you know, it’s a whole lot different in the Navy now than, you know, if you’d have been in World War II. If you would have been in, I guarantee you you may have wanted to be on, been on land as opposed to being in the Navy in World War II in the South Pacific, because there was, there was submarines out there and there was.

Yeah, I mean, if you got hit, if you hit with a, with a missile or, or, or a bomb or whatever, I mean, you know, you’re there, there’s no place to go. So the, you know, the bravery of the men who fought in World War II in the Navy in the South Pacific was quite something. Yeah. I talked to a guy who was a, was on, on a ship in the Pacific during World War II, and he was talking about the guns and stuff and he was on a carrier. He’s talking about the planes and the guns and all sort of stuff.

He was a gunner on one of the planes. Yeah. And he and his stories, I mean just know or wild not to another one time who’s a sub guy in the Pacific mid year. And I mean, these guys from World War II were interesting to talk to. I, I been in the VA system since 88 and so the World War II guys were still around back then. So I got a chance to talk to a lot of them when I was sitting there waiting at the va. But, but anyway, all right, so now that we’ve spent half this the show making fun of each other’s baseball teams and talking about the Navy.

Oh, I, I, I do have to say this real quick. So I have a friend of mine who was in the Marine Corps and one time I asked him, you know, or no, we were just talking military and I told him I was on LST says, oh yeah, I deployed on one of those, you know, LSTs. One time I said, oh, you did? What’d you Think. And he said, yeah, when I. After we were out to sea for a while, my first thought was, thank God I joined the Marine Corps. I thought that was a great response.

So, anyway, all Right, now, Article 5, which is a long show. And now here we are halfway. Yeah. And I really apologize for being a little late there. And like I said, we couldn’t get the camera, and it wound up being a conflict of platforms battling for control of my. But it’s good to be here. Now, one of the other things I wanted to mention before we get started is we were in Article 4 a couple weeks ago, and. And it. Article 4 is applicable to something that’s going on right now. So I want to mention this real quick.

Okay, people are. One of the arguments right now is over these illegal alien criminals and Mumad Khalil and, you know, this Muslim activist who’s, you know, being deported. And the left is screaming, oh, it’s unconstitutional. They have a right to due process. They have a right to this. They have a right to that, and they have a right to free speech and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I’m here to tell you, the Constitution says otherwise. So real quick, one second. I’m just curious because Gus said that his dad. Well, I presume it’s him. His dad was in World War II in the Pacific as a Marine, but he never talked about it.

Did he at least say where he was? Well, my dad was in my stepdad. Dad. He’s been my dad since 3. He was in Vietnam as a Marine. Never talked about it until after I was in the Navy. And then I’m the only person he’s talked about it, too. My dad was. My dad was MACV and in charge of. Of a small Vietnamese platoon down in the Delta. So. So. So I’m gonna give you guys a little bit of a. Of a tip if you. If you’ve never been in the Navy or you’ve never been in the military, typically guys.

Oh, wow. If he’s a Guadalcanal, that’s. That. That. That tells me everything I need to know. Why you didn’t talk about it? Yeah, that’s. That was. Man, those guys. Those guys were brave. But, you know, guys. Guys that are in the military and anybody who’s been. Anybody who’s done anything in the military, and they talk about a lot. It’s one for us to talk about. I mean, we talk about C stories. We don’t necessarily talk about anything that we’ve done. And we’re not. We don’t really over Embellish. We just kind of just talk about, hey, this is what we did.

Maybe this is where we served. This is where, you know, this is the location of what we did. But we never really talk about the specific instances of what we did or elaborate. And the vast majority of time, if you have, you see somebody out there who is, who’s saying, you know, whether they were in the military or intelligence or whatever, and they’re giving you all kinds of information, you can best almost take it to the bank that that’s not what they did. Because anybody who did those sorts of things, they don’t talk about it. Right? They just don’t.

And the ones that do talk about it, the ones that talk about it the most are the ones who never did a damn thing. Right. Because if you did do it, you don’t talk about it. I mean, the guys that are in intel, guys that are in, guys that do those sorts of things, they’re wired not to talk. That’s how they are. They’re already secretive as it is. Well, it’s not just that, but some of the situations that some of these guys may encounter, and I can speak sort of on one of them myself without really getting into it is situations kind of change you to.

And you really don’t want to talk about because it’s, I, I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just something that you don’t want to get into. But, you know, and, and, and, and understand this. All the services have all of their different idiosyncrasies. Not everybody’s kicking indoors and, you know, in the desert or, or, or, or in the bush, in the, in the, in the jungle or something. But then, and 60 to 80% of the personnel are actually support personnel anyway. But that doesn’t make their service any less. We all signed on the same dotted line.

Yes, right. But, and some guys, you know, they’ve, they’ve seen more than others. And some of, it’s just a matter of the geography, timing. But all of us signed up to do whatever it took to defend this country. That’s right. And, and I just, you know, I’m, I’m not going to mention any names. I’m not going to say anything about any. I don’t want to disparage anybody, but I, you know, you know, I have, there, there are, there are, there are people who come into my chat in the live stream and they tell, they, they say 100.

You know, they say, oh, yeah, I did this and this, this is, this be Very wary of anybody who is very open about things that they’ve done, especially considering the, what claim they’ve done, where they’ve been is that, is anybody who does what he says, things like that, that’s, they’re probably not, that’s, that’s probably not legitimate. So, you know, I’m saying that across the board, anytime you guys are looking at times you’re seeing people. It’s one thing if you got to get, if you get a bunch of guys that are talking who are okay, so Tackleberry, you can probably, you can probably relate to this.

You get together with a bunch of army buddies who know maybe you weren’t in the exact area or the same sort of area of operation, but you guys were in similar things or you did similar, you saw similar things or maybe maybe treaded some of the same ground at different times. You get together with those guys and it’s online and you’re talking about it, you’ll, you’ll go into a little bit more deep, you’ll go into a little deeper conversation about things that you’ve seen and done. But you’re still, you know, the thing, there’s a lot of stuff that we saw that is still technically classified we can’t talk about.

True. And you know, I mean, I had a, I had a, I had a top secret clearance because I did, because I did the weather. The, whenever I would send a report out to the fleet and actually had to, it had, we had to ship. I had the ship’s position because I have to tell the weather. You were a sonar guy, right, at that point? What’s that? Were you a sonar guy? Was it. No, I was a weather guy. I was a weather guesser. So. Yeah. Why, why had the top secret. But that’s only because I, I dealt with the Radio Shack a lot because of what I did.

Right. Yeah. But, you know, and, and in my case, I didn’t have a top secret because I was handling top secret because I had to be in the rooms where those people were basically. Yeah, you guys. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I, I, I’m just, I just want to just, I, I say that about, because I don’t, I don’t want to, you know, I don’t disparage anybody, but there are people that come into my chat and they talk about a lot of things that they’ve done and things and just you just, I, I just, I would encourage you all to just take it with a grain of salt.

So. And now, now. And everybody who has served is proud of the fact they serve. And I’m, and I’m more than happy, I, you know, to say, you know, thanks for your service or whatever, somebody. But it’s a weird thing because, and let me tell this story real quick. When we get started here. I can remember the first time someone thanked me for my service. I was wearing, I think, my Peoria hat, and I wasn’t even thinking about. I just like that hat. I wear it a lot. But. And they said, thank you for your service.

And I literally, I was so humbled by it. I didn’t, I choked up. I didn’t, I couldn’t answer. And so the reason why I tell that story is because it, when you see someone be, do that, that’s okay. They’re not gonna get sick of it. It’s, it’s, it’s a big deal. But I didn’t know how to answer. I didn’t know how to respond. I’ll tell you this. I’ll tell you this. And, and I’m curious, I’m curious about some of the guys that, that are, that are here in the group. And I don’t mean. I, I don’t, I don’t mean this for me, like to be like a military conversation, but I don’t like being told thank you for my service.

Really? Oh, yeah. I don’t like it. I, I, it’s, to me, because I, I think what it has. That really didn’t start until, until the war on terror. This is true. Yeah. It didn’t happen to me until. I think it was around until after, until after the, until after the, the pen or the 9, 11. And, and, and so it’s like what, it’s, what it’s become is. It’s almost become like a kind of a, it’s, it’s like a, it’s almost like a, A. What’s the word I’m looking for? It’s like, it’s like an obligatory, oh, yeah, thank you for your service.

You know, it’s. And, and, and I just, you know, I, I mean, I’m, I’m humble about it, but I’m just, I’m being honest. I, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t like that because I don’t think it’s coming from a, from a place of genuine appreciation. I think it’s become, I think it’s become of a societal norm to, to do that. I, I think I appreciate. Because of who my dad is. He was 100 and he came back and, you know, you know, and, and it really, it’s funny because my dad, Tough guy. Maybe twice in my life I saw him drop a tear.

But one, one of those times is once when someone didn’t say thank you for your service, but they said welcome home. And that’s different. And, but the thing is he, he never got that. And it was from a, it was from Vietnam or it was actually from a Vietnam orphan that gave him the welcome home. And it was many, many, many, many, you know, years later, you know, a couple of decades, three decades later. But, but anyway, and so I do feel like early on there was so much that the military personnel were getting cracked on so much.

It’s kind of nice to see that. And that’s the reason why I think I appreciate it. But, you know, and everybody to their own. And I’m not, I’m, I’m not trying to be, I’m, I’m, I’m literally not trying to be, you know, like, like respectful to anybody who says it. But I just, you know, I, I think that it’s just, I, I just, I, I look at it as, as a. After what happened on 911 and kind of how I feel about that event and how society changed and we became, you know, almost very, very, you know, celebratory of the military.

I think, I think this is that. I think that was kind of like some, some programming there. So I, like I said, I just, I just, to me, it’s, it. I, I really don’t feel like it just came from a, comes from, from, from a position of genuine appreciation, as much of it is like a societal obligation to, to thank somebody for their service. So. But I suppose it depends, it depends on the person. And I, and I have said, and I’ve talked to many, many veterans who kind of feel the same way, and I talk to others who don’t.

So, you know, it’s personal preference. And I, I, when people say thank you for your service, I’m. You’re welcome, you know, no problem. You know, I, I’m not, I’m never rude to anybody, but I’m just, I’m, I’m just, you know, hey, you guys are my, the guys who come to this class. The guys who come to this class. You know, the, the. It’s a small, It’s. This is probably the smallest class or the smallest show that I have of audience, but you guys are like the hardcore ones. And so I appreciate you guys, you know, very much.

So I’m, I’ll be honest with you about that. I probably wouldn’t say that on, on a, on, on one of the bigger shows or with, with a show with a bigger audience. So, and, and I, I don’t mean, I don’t say that to be disrespectful to anybody. Not at all. I’m just giving you my own personal feelings on the matter. So almost not like you were saying these, this chat room is almost like family or something. Oh, well, yeah, I, I appreciate, you know, I, I appreciate the people that come to the class probably more than most, just because these are like the hardcore people, especially with the fact that they want to learn the Constitution though.

And since they want to learn the Constitution, maybe we should talk about the Constitution. Which gets me back to what I was gonna talk about. So you’ve been hearing a lot, folks, about how the left is arguing at these criminal aliens or these Islamic activists are here on a, either a, a visa or a residency card or something like that. And they deserve due process and the rights to this, rights that and all that. And it is true that our rights are God given and that God gave natural rights to everyone. Everyone has natural rights. But in some countries the natural rights are blocked.

You don’t have access or something like that. But everybody around the world has a right to keep a bear arms. Now that said, your rights are, are going to be available to you in your country. For example, I have a right keeping bear arms. But if I go to France and I’m kid toting a gun and I’m saying, hey, I got a right, probably not gonna go over too well because our rules are different. And so when it comes to your rights, it’s really about where you live and who, where your citizenship and, and the founding fathers, what they called that, those privileges and immunities, your privileges, immunities are your rights and the things that come along with being a citizen, you know, you’re voting and your driver’s license and all the other stuff that you get being a citizen of this country, those are your privileges and immunities.

And privileges and immunities are only for citizens. Some of those privileges, immunities may be afforded to people who have established a permanent residency, but not all of them, but all of the privileges and immunities citizens are entitled to all of them. And they’re to be treated equally in every state. So our, among our privileges and immunities is our due process and our system of due process. But if you’re here on a, a resident alien id Resident alien, or you’re here on a visa or, or student or something, you’re here under conditions. There are conditions for you to visit.

It’s just like your own house. You know, the people who live in your house have all the rights and privileges. Use the restroom when you want, get into the refrigerator and grab a beer if you want or whatever. If someone’s visiting your house, they don’t have the right and privilege suddenly say, you know what, I’m gonna go jump the shower. I’ll be right back. It’s not their house. They are a visitor. Same thing with our country. So while everybody has rights, the, your rights and your, and your privileges and humanities and all that is at for the citizens of a country, I’m not going to have rights and privileges in other countries and they’re not going to have them here.

And so for the Democrats going to be screaming, oh well, these poor people, they got they’re right in the Constitution, not giving their. They don’t have those rights and privileges. The idea of due process in the manner that it is extended to citizens doesn’t belong to them. They’re visitors. And it is up to Congress or up to our laws or up to our president or the judicial system, depending on what the situation is, to handle it. In Article 1, Section 8, if you remember, when it comes to it says that Congress makes the rules for captures on land and sea, for example.

That’s up to Congress. They don’t have due process. They don’t have any of that stuff. If you’re, if you’re here as a visitor, you don’t have all that stuff. You don’t have. So in Article 4, beginning of Article 4, Section 2, it says the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges immunities of citizens in several states. In other words, a citizen of the country. And you’re also a citizen in your state. But, but you’re a citizen. You have all those rights and privileges if you’re a visitor. So now to get back to this.

Well, those illegal, they didn’t get their due process. Do I, I was watching them question Caroline Levit this morning. So what? Is there any evidence those criminal aliens were. Doesn’t matter if it is believed. Well, first of all, they broke the law to get here, so they’re already subject to deportation. And, and you don’t need a court of law to prove it. They’re not supposed, they’re not citizens. Secondly, you don’t need evidence. If we believe, if the Secretary of State believes that an illegal alien or a resident alien or a person on visa has violated their, their condition to be here, then their condition then, then there, should I say, their opportunity to be here is taken away.

You heard about that. You heard about that family that was here, that they were from Colombia, they’d been here for like three years and had kids and have grandkids and they got deported. No, I didn’t hear about that. But you know what? You know, if you violate the conditions that you’re welcomed here or if you came here illegally in the first place, you broke a law to be here, you’re not entitled to the same privileges, immunities, the same due process, all of that, that citizens are. That’s just. And, and once again, if you, if you were, if you were in Mexico.

Yeah. And you were violating. Guess what? They’re not going to tolerate that. They’re not going to be like, oh well, we need to treat them fairly. Nuts. You’re either in a Mexican prison or you’re out of the country. And to be honest with you, you’d prefer to be out of the country. Don’t, definitely don’t want to go the Mexican prison route. But anyway, so I wanted to make sure that even if you come here legally, but you are not a citizen. And you are, and here’s the thing, you’re an addict. Is saying even if they come here legally and if they protest us and try to change us, they need to remove.

That’s true, but it’s not just about the protest. You know, like Mahmoud Khalil and everybody says, oh well, so you know, he’s. Just because he has a different opinion, they’re gonna throw him out. No, it’s not just because of his opinion. It’s because of his conduct. His conduct and who he is associated with. Enemies of this country. Enemies who want to destroy people. And he’s, and, and he’s not only an activist, but he’s operating in a manner, his. With his conduct. Bye bye, you’re gone. And the Secretary of State can make that decision because you’re here under conditions.

I don’t care if you have a permanent resident id. Real special ad. I do think the government’s going a little farther, flying folks around the world to support them. Let’s see here. Yeah, yeah. Boat riding. A boat ride mile offshore and an energy might be cheaper. Yeah. Well, it could be, it could be work. It could be from the, you could do like they did in Argentina and just, you know, know, take you out in a helicopter and drop you out. I would just say the same thing except for what they, what they did in Vietnam.

You Know, take him out. Lloyd’s. Yeah. Well, I actually had a friend of mine who was in the sheriff’s department down there in San Diego, and he was telling me what they would do every once while with some of these criminal aliens because of the problems they were having with the left and all that is they would just take them to the border. Whoops. Push them through. You know, it just. But anyway, have you ever heard. Have you ever. Plane. Are you familiar with. Are you familiar with the song Start up the Rotors? No. Oh, yeah.

But I’m sure it’s along the lines of what we’re saying. Sounds like it. I’m resident of Mexico and I don’t have the same rights as a citizen. I can vote, carry a gun and do many other things, but you have to respect the rules and experience the consequences. Well, pretty much, yeah. But once again, privileges and immunities are going to be afforded to you where your country is, where you are, have allegiance, where you are a citizen. And that’s what Article 4 is really all about. All right, now with five minutes left, let’s talk about Article 5.

Wow. Well. Well, since. Since. Since we’re like so, like so into this, let’s. Here you go. Watch this. So, yeah, start up the rotors, take them over the ocean, leave nobody alive. And you can see here the. This is a hammer sickle. And this is what they. This they did down in Argentina. So interesting. Venezuela there. Well, I’m sure they’ve done it in multiple countries. School the Americas teaches them how to do all kinds of things. Yeah. So, well. Oh, and here’s the thing. And then, of course, then you get the. Well, you’re a racist. Well, no, I’m not racist.

I, I don’t care who you are. If you broke in from Scotland and you’re causing all kinds of trouble and you’re violated the law to get here, I don’t care who you are, you’re gone. And the other thing. And see, here’s the thing, you know, and let me. Since, since we’re not going to get an Article 5, I might as well say this. So my wife and I watched an interesting movie this morning. It’s called the Long Game and it’s got Dennis Quaid in it. And it’s about a, A, A school, San Felipe High School in Texas, Mexican high school, who decides to have a golf team.

And back then, and we’re talking like 1957 and, you know, Mexicans weren’t, you know, unless they were caddies, they weren’t allowed on the course, you know, and stuff like that. And, and it’s, and it’s a very good movie. And, and it is a true story. And, and you know, be it you’re Mexican or black or whatever, there was prejudice. There were really bad things that went on in the history of this country. And that’s the reality. And it has you crying because, you know, these, these five Mexican kids who just want to play golf and be accepted and so on and so forth.

And of course, they wind up, wind up winning the state championship and then, but they won’t even do an award ceremony because they’re Mexican. And there’s all kinds of interesting stuff. Right? So, but, and here’s the reason why. And here’s why I told my wife after the movie is over. It’s a good movie, sad movie, and it was a reality. That’s the way it was in some places, this type of treatment of people who are of a different group, regardless of what that group is. But here’s, here’s the thing, and this is what I was telling my wife.

The Democrats want you to believe that this is 1957 right now, that that still goes on, and that’s the way it is. Yeah. And, and so that’s what we’re dealing with. And so when I. And that’s the reason why they start making their arguments with this, because they can’t argue it among citizens, because citizens aren’t treating citizens that way for the most part. So therefore, now they got to take their argument to another group that they are, you know, can claim as being discriminated against. And so I got told Virginia, my wife, in our country, opportunity is available to everyone.

People like Ben Carson, people like Byron Donald, people like Ted Cruz has proven that. People like Barack Obama has proven that we live in a country where we’ve gotten, we’ve gone beyond all that stuff for the most part. Is there personal prejudices by certain people in certain places? Sure. And you know that that’s a part of being human. And you know, you know, you’ll probably never totally get rid of certain aspects of it, but they want you to believe that that is rampant and this is 1957 is out of control. But since they can’t find examples of it in American society, they want to point racism, racism, racism at some, the guy.

Because they got to use something. And the reality is the, the, the people that are being deported, the people that are facing the consequences of law, it’s not because of where they come from or who they are or the tint of their skin. It’s because they broke the law. Simple as that. If you break the law and you pose a harm to the citizenry of the United States or you’re associated with those who pose a harm, you’re going to be dealt with because that’s the law. It’s just like these Tesla people that are going after the Teslas now.

They used to demand that you have a Tesla. Now they want you to burn you or scratch your car or whatever it was like, oh, it’s, you know, we’re just protesting and government’s coming. No, it’s a crime what you’re doing. You’re. It’s property destruction, property damage. It’s a crime. There is, from the government’s point of view, maybe individuals, there might be some prejudices, but from the point of view of our laws, there are no discriminatory laws, but there are laws against breaking laws. And you’re going to face the consequences of breaking certain laws. You’re going to face the consequences of, for violating immigration law, violating the terms and conditions of your stay here if you’re not a citizen or the, the, the violating the law when it comes to property destruction and so on and so forth, period.

That’s what, that’s what this is. And so if we want to get into, you know, all of these emotional arguments, spare me. Laws are being broken and laws have been put there for a reason. And I get it that some, some laws are not the greatest laws and we should work change. But the laws that are being broken, they are good laws and the people who are breaking them are violating them frequently. Deal with them. We’re going to deal with them. Can’t run, can’t hide. You will be arrested. You will serve your time. Don’t do it.

So there you go. It’s. Yeah, we are in for some. I think we’re in for a very interesting, very, very interesting times. Here. Here, I’ll, I’ll share this here. And we’ve got it. Well, we’ve got a radical segment of the society now who has, is pushing the Marxist, you know, niche type of thinking. Let’s see. There you go. Watching bureaucrats you fire. Drive away in cars you hate. I love that meme. Well, you know, you know, it’s funny because. Let’s see if I can find these notes that I, that I had done. Okay, here we go.

So Fred, Friedrich Nietzsche. And you know who I’m talking about, Frederick. Okay. And, and, and understand that his, his writings were considered inspirational by purveyors of Utopianism, communism. And he had this notion of the Ubermensch, which was the communist. It was a concept, should I say, of humanistic evolution, that someday that, that individuals would transcend traditional moral values, society. Now remember this back in the 1800s, transcend traditional moral values and societal constraints and create their own pluralistic purpose and meaning in life. He viewed the concept as being the natural progression of humanity that would follow the death of God, allowing humans to redefine their values, grow beyond the religious concept of good and evil.

And that such an aspirational vision may only be achieved in the absence of traditional certainty certainties. Now, the reason why I bring this up is that’s what we’re seeing. That’s exactly what we’re seeing. This is nothing new. It’s just they’ve been waiting to finally launch this and it really is spiritual warfare, in my opinion. And, and the communists admired the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. And, and he’s, you know, and the idea is get rid of God and then we’re going to transcend morality and boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and you can be, you know, whatever else you want to be.

All that comes from that stuff. Nietzsche believed, he foresaw exactly what we’re experiencing, but that would result in the death of God or after the death of God, whatever, because God in, in the mind of people like him is just a, a social construct. And, and, and whether or not he, he really believed that it was possible to sign, stigmatize and destroy religion and Christianity in particular, and other political, you know, and that was, and there was other political writers that actually, you know, wrote about these things. George Orwell, Richard Rubenstein. There’s, you know, and, and this is nothing.

This is not a surprise. And so I just wanted to, to kind of, you know, get people to think about this, that we’ve got an idea that’s out there that is determined to destroy liberty. Why? Because liberty has a godly foundation. Well, it’s interesting, you know, you, you, we, we played that one video last week about the, you know, talking about, you know, the true. Where the sweet spot is in terms of balance, of how much government do you need to have. Freedom? Because you have to have. Without government, you can’t truly be free. You have to have some sort of a structure.

And, you know, there’s a, you know, you’ve got the anarchists out there who think that, oh, well, yeah, well, if we don’t have any government, then that’s when we’re really free. Yeah, well, that video you played One of the people that’s in that video is so long. The Greek philosopher says, without law there is no liberty. You know, if there’s anarchy and there’s no law, you’re on your front porch with your rifle because you got. Protect your home because there’s no law enforcement. So, well, the. It comes down to balance the right amount of government. There’s.

There’s a group of people out there, they’re. I think they call themselves volunteers. And it’s just a. Voluntarist is essentially just a fancy word for saying anarchist. You know, no government because you live in a voluntary society. And you know, that is. To me, living in a voluntary society is just about as much of a pipe dream as the communist utopia because it’s, it’s, it’s. It’s theoretical in nature only it never exists either way. Human nature will never allow for it. Correct. And there’s an old joke, you know, socialism can only work in two places. Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.

Right. I would say the closest place. I would say the closest place on the planet where socialism actually works in a functioning manner is in the militaries. Even then, though, you gotta earn your way, so you do. But I’m just saying, because when you’re in the military, you know, military doesn’t produce anything provided for, but it’s all provided for you. Yeah, well. Well, one of the things I said about going in the Navy, for me it was. It was perfect because I was quite the rebellious young man and naive, rebellious attitude, cocky, you know. You know, in other words, I was a typical young male.

But anyway, and it went from, you know, mama to mama Navy before I went to big bad world. It was a good transition for me and I needed it. Shook me up, shake me out a little bit. Put me on my feet the way I’m supposed to be on. But anyway. All right, so article five next week, I guess. But. Yeah, article five next week. Sorry, guys. I see a little bit of a late. I see a furry invader at the top of your. Oh, yeah. I. So I put in. I put in shelves. I put, I put in a shelf all the way around.

Well, halfway around the room so that they. And. And so they can climb up there and. And they like. Yeah, they like it. They like being up high. So if you guys can’t see. Hi, buddy, what you doing up there? Hi. See, my dogs are where. My dogs are where animals are supposed to be at my feet. I love it when I love It. When they crawl up there and they get up and they just, like, kill. It’s. I love. I love watching them. It’s so much fun. So you see the shelves right there? So I have, like.

I have like a. I mean, they literally can go around my room like that, around the. The. The perimeter of my room on the inside. You know, somewhere between 12 to 18 inches from the ceiling. Yeah. Without. Without. Without coming down. They just. And, oh, my God, sometimes at night, they just. They go crazy. They just start. It’s like they get. You know, the zoomies, they just go. And it’s. It’s. It’s funny. Two more things. Two more things before we go. So in the chat room, they’re talking about Doge. And, you know, Doge is in the money trail.

Perhaps they’re going to find the. The politicians behind a lot of this stuff. There’s going to be some orange jumpsuits and. And someone even said at one point, I. I want them to televise the address, the arrests. Yeah, I. You know, we’ll see. I. I do think they’re finding things that we would be appalled about, and it. It may destroy the Democratic Party, and they know that. That’s the reason why they’re freaking out, and they’re fighting against it because once those exposure happens. Secondly, I wanted to. I just wanted to show you that I. I’m ready for baseball season.

I have MP20. I have five Bengals. I have five bangles. Hold on one second. Yeah, so. So for those who didn’t. Didn’t catch on what that was. Angels, man. I refuse to call them the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, though. I don’t know why Artie, the owner, did that. They’re the Anaheim Angels. They’re in Anaheim. They’re not in Los Angeles. Anyway, so Liberation Day is tomorrow. Yeah. Hey, you know, April Fools, I guess, you know, you thought you were gonna get Article 5, and you didn’t today, but that’s okay. So. So, Ron, what I just said was April Fool’s.

Apparently they thought they were getting Article five. Yeah. April Fools. But tomorrow’s Liberation Day. We’ll see what happens. So, yeah, Winchester. Winchester is voicing his opinion on the matter. Yeah. Petey, do you want to have any opinion? Come here. Come here. So. So. So. All right, guys, if you want to. There’s the good guy right there. See, I have Mike. I have Mike down here. Mike will be here in about 20 minutes, and he actually sent me. He’s gonna. He wants to do like, a four to maybe five part series on the. On World War II.

So that’s gonna be. That’s gonna be interesting and chat. You’re awesome, Jay Figs. I still call them the California Angels. Cool. But my favorite is real special. I still call the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland Indians Guardians. My ace. I will never call them the G word ever. They are the Indians. Just like I think, I think, I think Washington is going to be going back to the Redskins, hopefully. Well, I know they’re. I know they retained ownership of the logo and the logo was actually designed by an Indian. Oh, yeah. Well, and see, the Native American population loves the fact that sports teams use Indians.

And well, it’s like I was telling the libtards who are all for this stuff. So what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to stamp out any evidence about the Indians by getting rid of all the names of the streets, the names of the. So that now it’s all white for sure. Right. You’re doing the exact opposite of what you say you believe in. Yeah. I mean, there are multiple sports teams that, you know, they didn’t. That didn’t match with that. You get the. Well, in. In baseball you have the Indians. You had the Braves. The Indians used to be the Cleveland Spiders long ago.

Then they were the Cleveland Naps after Nap Laoy. And then they had like two Indians on the team. So they decided to honor them by changing a name to the Indians. It was honor, not a mocking. Yeah. Yes, he did get big J. Figs. He got big. He got real big and he. He wants to go out. He doesn’t like my other ones, so I kind of keep him segregated. He just, he gets pissed, so. But he’s a. He’s a good. He’s a. I love this one. He’s my boy. Well, it stopped raining and we don’t have any rain till Sunday, so I’m gonna take the dogs outside.

So good night y’all and we’ll see you next week. All right, y’all. Yeah, Finally. Alrighty. Take care, everybody. We’ll see you here and I’ll. I’ll see you here in about, about 15 minutes, alright?
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