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>> Rick Green: Welcome to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green I'm Rick Green America's Constitution coach. Appreciate you joining me on this wonderful Thursday. I say it's wonderful because any day above ground is a good day, right? I mean, come on. Amen, folks. I mean, I was just listening to the, to the intro there and the whole idea of actually celebrating or being joyful about our trials and our suffering because we know what God's using that for. To make us, be able to persevere, to give us hope, to give us what we need for what he knows is coming. We don't know what's coming, but he knows exactly what's coming. And so a lot of times he's got to put us through some tough times to prepare us for that. I can't even remember who I was. It might have just been, Who was it? I was watching a video the other day as I was scrolling through X. You know, I know I waste way too much time doing that, but it's become kind of like my news source. I follow all these people that, that I. When I say trust, believe me, it's trust but verify. I don't trust anybody completely anymore. but anyway, I'm scrolling through it and this Guy was talking about how, it was actually a Catholic priest. I remember At least he had a collar on. Maybe some other, you know, Presbyterian or something, I don't know. But anyway, the guy was saying, you know, I prayed for, you know, whatever it was, and God gave me tough times instead because it prepared me for that thing that he was going to give me. In other words, God answers our prayers sometimes in ways that we don't want, but he knows that that's what we need. And I think as a nation, that's exactly what happened to us over the last four or five years. We, you know, we want prosperity, we want freedom, we want, we want liberty, we want good laws, we want good leaders. We pray for those things. And sometimes God has to give us tough times in order for us to be ready for the good times. Sometimes he has to give us the trial in order to make us learn and then appreciate the good times when they come. And, boy, it sure feels like that right now. You know, the four years of the, of the Biden administration, or I should say the auto pen administration run by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, was, was as bad as I've seen in my lifetime. I mean, way worse than even Barack Obama and even worse than Jimmy Carter. I didn't think it could get worse. I thought Jimmy Carter was the worst, and then I thought Barack Obama was the worst. But, wow, the auto pen administration took it to a new level and we saw this just Marxist agenda march across our nation. And we, you know, we lamented it and we talked about it, but we also worked to change it. We didn't just complain. you know, and I don't even think what we did was, could be labeled as complaining. I think what we did here on At the Core and Wall Builders, Patriot Academy, American Family Radio, all these entities, we brought attention to it, but we always did the good, the bad, and the ugly. We always said, okay, look, these policies are terrible, what these people are doing is wrong, and here's how you fix it. I think that's one thing that made us different. I think that's why our audiences grew. Because people don't just want to hear people complain about things. They want to hear solutions. They want to know that there's an alternative to that. And one of the beauties of being biblical Christians is that you have the alternative. You have the answer book. You have not just a Christian ethos that's passed down by how you worship At church or how you gather or how you acknowledge God. And how you pray, all those things very important, but also an actual law book, an actual book of answers, an actual life plan, if you will. And God's Word gives you all of that if you're not just a Christian, but a biblical Christian. And so I'm just kind of today wanting to stop for a second and celebrate the fact that, that biblical application leaders that were willing to say there are things that work and things that don't work. And the way, you know, is of course practically looking in history and seeing what worked and what didn't work, but more importantly looking into God's Word for the principles and for the truths by which you can govern your life. And biblical Christians stepped up over the last couple years. I don't think they would have done that without the pain. I think we had to go through the suffering and the tough times to wake up enough pastors and Christians and churches and organizations and people to say, you know what, we got to stop hiding our light under a bushel. We got to stop, you know, just kind of having our little, you know, wonderful weekends together in our local church body, but not going out into the world and being salt and light. And so that pain of the worst administration maybe in history woke up a ton of people in the church to say, I'm not just going to be a professing Christian, I'm going to be a biblical Christian. I'm going to live this thing out according to God's law. I'm going to live my life that way. I'm going to raise my family that way. I'm going to look to God's law for how I run my business. I'm going to look to his book for how I vote and how I choose my leaders. And if I am a leader, if I'm a, a school board member or legislator or a governor, I'm going to govern according to what he tells me works and doesn't work and what God's word clearly shows as the right path on those things. And because enough people did that, folks, every day is victory. I mean, we're watching Ten Commandments go back into schools. We're watching the Bible curriculum get out there. We're watching, you know, people govern with, with, with integrity and with backbone. We're watching people that I criticized during COVID and during their tyrannical rule of COVID completely change and become, pro self government and become champions of liberty. So it's just a beautiful, wonderful time to be alive and to celebrate the fact that we are now At that point where the suffering has produced so much of the, hope and the, and the perseverance and the. I forget which translation it is that says, in that same, chapter and verse in James, that he'll use that to make us quote, perfect and complete, lacking nothing. And I just, I mean obviously we're not going to become absolutely 100% perfect. But just like our preamble to our Constitution says, a more perfect union means we're constantly getting better. And it takes tough times sometimes to do that. So anyway, just more of the evidence of that. Let's hit a few of these headlines and then when we come back from the break, be glad to take some phone calls. But 8, 885-898-8840 is the phone number. I know I should slow down when I say that. 888-589-8840. And you might have comments, questions, insults, whatever, about anything we've talked about over the last few weeks or any of the headlines that you see that I haven't mentioned on the program lately or maybe even some of the things going on with Patriot Academy and Constitution City and the military veterans, leadership, Congress that we've got going right now. In fact, I just ran down here to fire up the microphone, just in time, coming straight from the legislative session that's happening right now in our house chamber At the legislative hall of Patriot Academy. And it's all these military veterans and Constitution coaches from across the country. And it's just, man, it's awesome. It's just so cool to see what they're doing. And we're gonna take them out in the morning, do some flood relief, you know, clean up and help with some of the folks, as well. And then we'll, we'll do more debating tomorrow afternoon in the, in the legislative hall and, and we'll graduate them on Saturday, send them back home, many of them running for office, many of them grassroots leaders getting involved. So that's, that's a hopeful, awesome, incredible fruit of the labor that has been put in in the previous years and, and glad to see that. But let's hit a couple of these headlines before, before we run out of time in this first segment. First one, I, I think, I think the Donald Trump effect just continues. And you look At all these peace deals. We talked about this a little bit on Tuesday and last week. But these you know, conflicts, some of which I didn't even know were occurring that have Been going on for years and years and years. Forgive me for not being a world scholar, but I, mean peace here, peace there, here, peace there, peace deal everywhere, a peace deal. I mean, Donald Trump is the old McDonald of peace deals. It's happening all over the place. And of course, the creme de la creme, the absolute crown jewel of peace deals for this moment in time anyway, would be a Russia, Ukraine peace deal. And this is the one Trump talked about the most on the campaign trail. This is the one he said he thought he could deliver on. I think Monday or Tuesday this week. He set expectations low. You know, he said, I think we can make this happen. We might can make this happen. And of course some of those things are outside his control. And this is a conflict that while this, this armed conflict that, that we have unfortunately been way too involved in may be more recent in years, this is a land and people with a whole lot of history that did not involve us, and conflict between them. And so, there's some of this, that's completely outside President Trump's control. But it's a very different, different day than when, you know, the auto pin in chief was in charge because, you know, when Joe Biden was in the White House, I mean everybody knew, that, you know, the adults were no longer in the room so the kids could play and be crazy and hang from the chandeliers and run out into the streets and do whatever they want. And that's what happened all over the world as a result of the auto pen administration. Donald Trump, as soon as he sworn in, things changed. Actually as soon as the election was over and ah, everybody knew he was about to be sworn in, things started changing. And we've seen that of course with all of these peace deals, Russia, Ukraine, I think, I mean, look, Putin just said today, this is remarkable. I mean, he's actually going into the peace talks already saying, that he's thankful that, that Trump is doing this peace push, are already saying that he thinks a US Russia nuclear arms deal could come out of this thing. I mean, I, I'm like, is he capitulating before he even gets there? Is, is he setting expectations, already that, that some good things are going to come out of this. I actually thought, I mean, look, I'm not a, I am not a foreign policy expert. That's not my, area of, you know, most study. Most of what I say about foreign policy is, is, is, is you know, based on what little bit I study it. I'm. That's not my area of expertise. I just want to say that up front, but I thought what was about to happen would be basically Trump's version of Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev At Reykjavik. I thought this would probably be a situation where Trump has to go in here, have the meeting, you know, push for whatever. Whatever he thinks is the right outcome, and then have to walk away from the table. Like. Like, I'm. I'm expecting there not to be a deal tomorrow. and that he'll have to, you know, do exactly what Ronald Reagan did At Reykjavik, where he basically pushed Gorbachev to the brink and then walked away and then came back and was able to get in the next meeting, virtually everything that he had been shooting for. I kind of feel think that's what Trump's gonna have to do here. But then I look At this headline that came out today, and it looks like Putin is already saying going into the meeting that some of these things are possible. And I just didn't expect that. So that could mean that Trump's on this roll of peace deals, and it may continue through tomorrow. So I don't want to set expectations too high. But this guy, there's nothing like him, man. There's been no one, there's been no president in history as good At bringing people to the table and closing the deal. Not just having a picture opportunity, not just a photo opportunity, not just bragging about. I brought, Remember, Bill Clinton, and I forget who it was. Ruben, I think, was the Israeli prime minister At the time, and, Yasser Arafat a terrorist. and I think that's who it was. And Clinton, Senate, holding both hands and holding them up and, you know, basically proclaiming victory, for. For a peace deal. That, of course, didn't last because you can't make peace with terrorists. And so, you know, that's usually what happens. And frankly, with Republican presidents, too, it's not just a Democrat president. That's usually what happens, is they're just going for the photo op. They want everybody to think that they're this. This great bringer together of. Of people. Leader, Donald Trump just does it, man. I mean, he doesn't just talk about it. He does it, and he's gotten the results. It's just absolutely remarkable. The art of the deal is happening right before us, in this case, the deal between nations. So let's be thankful that he's the guy in the chair. Let's be thankful that he's the one in the room negotiating these things. He's proven himself to get results. expectations I still think should be low, regardless of what Putin says going into this thing. but I think we should be praying. I think, you know, I was doing Flashpoint, the other night and Lance Walnut was talking about that. I'm, sorry, not Lance. It was, Dutch Sheets was talking about, you know, that we need to be covering this thing in prayer and we need to be, you know, absolutely. We know that God holds the king's heart in his hand and so, you know, there's no telling what could come out of this. We obviously would prefer to have peace between Ukraine, and Russia where At least we're not spending our money anymore. I mean, Trump has made that clear. We're not giving cash to these, these folks. We're not, I don't think we're even giving weapons anymore. They're having to buy them. that's what should have happened from the beginning. But the, you know, the auto pin in chief was writing check blank checks to this poser Zelinsky, who's just an absolute joke, which is, makes Trump's, you know, job here much more difficult to get a deal done. but it could happen. It could absolutely happen. So we got the right guy in the room negotiating it. Love to hear your thoughts on it. 888-589-8840 when we come back, I also want to talk a little bit today about self government. What do we do to be better At self governing our, not only ourselves, but our neighborhoods, our communities and our states and of course our nation? Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, with you. We'll be back. You're listening to At the Core with Walker Waldman and Rick Green.
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>> Rick Green: And we're back here on At the Core with Rick Green. Thanks for staying with us on this Thursday talking about President Trump and his incredible peace deals. I think I mentioned this Tuesday, you know, I don't care much about the, the titles and awards and so the whole Nobel Prize thing is not, you know, not a, I guess it's just lost its value in my mind. They, you know, when you give it out to a guy like Barack Obama for doing nothing, you completely devalue it and essentially, you know, it's hard to recover from that sort of thing. So I don't really care whether or not the world recognizes him for the things that he's done. It's the results that matter. And it's kind of the American way. Like you, you know, you shouldn't care about the credit. You just want the results. You want people to leave you alone and and let you do your job. And that's, that's part of the whole self governance thing that I think is all the comeback. You know, there's always been this diverging paths whenever someone is given freedom and the ability to, to choose what their, you know, world is going to look like, what is their neighborhood, their community, their state or their nation going to look like. And when you, when you have that choice, which is rare in the history of mankind, most people have had to live under tyranny where somebody else made all the decisions and had all the power. But when a people has been given the opportunity to make that choice, they have to choose between self governance or you know, basically control of some. Oh, I'm trying to think of the fancy philosophical words, you know, like Plato, you know, called him as philosopher kings or maybe that was Aristotle. Get them all mixed up. Anyway, you know, basically your elites, you're either going to be governed by elites that are supposedly smarter and better equipped to make decisions for you than you are equipped to make decisions for yourself or you're going to be self governed. And as a self governing people, we have to be responsible. We have to, you know, be able to take care of ourselves, to make good decisions, be willing to live with the consequences of our bad decisions, embrace the failure that we have in life so that we can learn from it and get better. I tell the Patriot Academy students all the time, I am really good At failure and bring it on, you know, the more, the more, you know, fail, quick fail often. Somebody was just telling me yesterday, when you do that, you learn from, as long as you're learning from it, then you get to the point of success. In most business people it's six, seven, eight failures before they have a success. Or for every success it's probably been about by average in both politics and business is, you know, several failures for every success. Because you learn from those and, and get better. And that's part of self governance. What we've tended to do the last 50, 60 years in America is shift from self governing to elite governing because we didn't want to have to live with the consequences of our failure. We were so afraid of tough times and so afraid of, the consequences of our decisions are the negative side of freedom, that we preferred to just go ahead and live in slavery, just give it up to somebody else, Let somebody else be the decision maker, make them live with the consequences, not realizing we're actually gonna have to be the ones to live with the consequences. But At least I didn't make the decision. At least some I saw I can blame somebody else. And we got into this blame game society. Instead of saying, I would prefer to decide, you know, what I'm gonna do for a living. I would prefer to decide what time I'm gonna get up in the morning, how hard I'm gonna work. And then I had to live with the results of that, right? If I, if I get lazy and I don't work hard, you know, if I spend my twenties in the basement of mom or grandma's house playing video games, I have to live with the consequence of that. I miss out on those 10 years of starting a family and having kids and making money to support them and all of those things. So that's just an example of kind of the self governing dilemma that we've been in for the last 50 years. And giving all those decisions to the, you know, elites came in the form of an expanded federal government, an expanded nanny state, an expanded health government. You know, this whole concept of public health is, is giving the decision making to the elites rather than self governing. It should be private health. It isn't public health, it's private health. You are the one that should make the decisions about your body and the things that you eat and the things that the medical procedures that you're okay with or not okay. With so all of this sort of nanny state thing has bled over into even our land control and our ability to have private property and make the decisions about what we do with our property. And I would make that a broad statement from the standpoint of the decisions about not only are literally the dirt, the land that we own and work and sweat for, but also our physical possessions, that's our property, our inventions and our, our creations, our speech, all of those things, that's our, that's our property, that's, that's what we produce as an individual and our ability to control that and benefit from that and decide how it's going to be used. If we're in a self governing nation, then we get to choose how that's going to be done and we have to live with the consequences or the benefits of how we chose to do that, in an elite governing situation. Well then we give all that decision making power to someone else. And so when it comes to our business, for instance, we allow government to micromanage how our business is going to be run, how much we pay employees, how much our employees can work. when we decide to go to work for somebody, we have the government telling us how many hours is okay and how many hours is not okay and how much pay. instead of us negotiating with them, we have the government telling us what we can drive and where we can park and you know, all of these things, we basically hand it over to some unnamed bureaucrat to decide those things. And then even for our own home and our little piece of, heaven, you know, wherever you live, I consider owning a piece of Texas, owning a piece of heaven. And you know, we've allowed the self governance of, okay, I'm going to have a driveway this long or this wide. I'm going to build a house this big or this small. I'm going to have this many bathrooms or you know, my doors are going to be this wide. I'm going to have, build a guest house for grandma or mother in law or my kids. what if I want to build three of those little guest house so that my kids can live close by and while they're in their 20s starting their families, we can have our own little family compound here and do life together and the grandkids can be right next door. It's what we had. And it is heaven to be able to do that. that's kind of nice if you get to make those decisions. That's called freedom. There's very Few places in America left where you get to do that now. It's. You got to go ask permission of the city or the county or whoever. And, and they're going to tell you how many houses you can have on your property and, how much, water you can use. And they're going to tell you, how wide your doors are going to be and how many bathrooms you can have and, you know, how much, how much quote unquote impervious coverage you can have on your property. And it becomes this micromanaging nightmare that absolutely kills the American dream. It really does. I mean, it is literally murder of the American dream. And, and I just, I've had enough of it. I am, I am, At a point where I've made this one of our top 12 priorities for restoring the nation. It's one of our 12 rebuilding steps, or what we call our, our 12 step recovery program. Our book, Rebuilding Liberty, the blueprint for Rebuilding Liberty. Just in time for the 250th. I felt like, you know, the property rights thing had gone so far and we'd gotten so far off track with regard to who gets to decide. Who decides, where that, you know, driveway, is going to go, who decides, how much, you know, how many of your family members are going to get to live on your property. It should be you. But unfortunately we've moved into this thing where it's, it's now the government and some micromanaging official, that makes that decision. So we actually, what we're doing here At the Patriot Academy campus is we declared our independence back on July 4th. And I wrote a modified Declaration of Independence to point some of these things out. And, we're creating our own city. We're literally building a city. City on a hill, if you will. Might have to do a statue of John Winthrop, but, it's Constitution City. That's the name of it. I think that's appropriate since our focus is teaching the Constitution and people are going to be able to come from all over and come to our city, Constitution City, Texas, just outside of San Antonio, between Fredericksburg and San Antonio, and study the Constitution in Constitution City in Independence hall in Constitution City, Texas. and I think it's, you know, I think it's sort of throwing the gauntlet down and saying, self government is better than government by bureaucrats. Self governance allows us to dictate, our future and live with the consequences of that. And we're going to do it in a very Small way. I like things to be a little bit poetic. And I love nodding to history. I love nodding to those who came before us, giving them a nod, sort of a hat tip, to the greats that we stand on the shoulders of. And so our acreage here At Constitution City is 177.6 acres. 177.6. How about that for poetic, huh? 1776. and so it's small. Look, we're going to be a small city, but it's going to be the newest city in Texas and it's going to be the place where constitutional principles are revived. So I just want to read to you a couple of these lines out of our Declaration of Independence. And I see those phone calls, folks. Sorry, I know I said I'd get to them in the second segment. If you hang on, I. I'll get to you as quick as I can. I do want to share a couple of these principles out of our Declaration because, I think it's kind of cool. I think it definitely is a nod to the ones that came before us, but making it a little bit more applicable to exactly what we're facing today. So, this is Constitution City, Texas. And it's a little bit different than the original Constitution. I, mean Declaration Ah. Of Independence. It's not a lot different, but it's, it's a little bit more applicable to to what we, what we're doing here. Okay, so the Declaration of Independence actually says At the top, it says in Congress July 4, 1776. So our says At Patriot Academy, July 4, 2025. Because we declared our independence four weeks ago on July 4th. And our says the unanimous declaration of the inhabitants of the Patriot Academy campus. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to establish laws modifying the political bands which have connected them with another. So that's what we' and we're establishing laws through a new city that is modifying our political bands with the people that we're connected to. And I added, everybody knows this part of the original Declaration. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their Creator with certain amiable rights. And among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, including private property ownership, a fundamental tenet of freedom. And then of course the Declaration says that when, That to secure these rights, governments are suit among men deriving their just powers from the consider the governed. That when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as shall to them seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. So that's what we're doing. We're implementing a new form of government. We're not getting rid of our state or our county or any of that. They're all still there. We're still subject to them. We're still living in the same county. We're still living in the same state. We still have to follow all those state laws and county laws. But as a city, we get to take some of that decision making power and govern ourselves. Some of that decision making power that had been given over to local government, where you're letting people that don't even live on this land tell you what to do with your land. M they live miles and miles away and yet they get to tell us what to do. So we're taking that power, that power back and being able to decide that ourselves. So actually, modified declaration says the history of the present king of Britain, or king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation. So I modified that to say the history of the present would be kings. Would be kings, some elected and many unelected. Is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having indirect object the establishment of a. And I added this. Micromanaging death by a thousand cuts, tyranny over property owned not by these would be kings, but by the property owners who rightfully paid for their property with their time, toil and treasure and all of that. I really wanted to get to this line because I was talking about how, you know, when you get to the point where you can't even live out the American dream, that you got a real problem. And so in the Declaration of independence, there's 27 grievances that the founding fathers listed that the king of Great Britain had, caused them to want to, to separate for. And one of those, he said, see if I can find it here. Here we go. the Declaration of Independence. The original says he has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all, ages, sexes and conditions. Okay, so I modified that, and here's what the modification says. They have excited domestic unrest amongst us by stoking fear between neighbors and have endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless worshipers of the creation rather than the Creator whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all property owner rights in favor of the unelected regulatory bureaucrat with endless measures of control that. Come on folks, that's pretty poetic. You got it like that. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. and then the last one I was going to read to you. Let's see if I can find it here. At the very end. we therefore the inhabitants of the 177.6 acre Patriot Academy campus assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions due in the name and by the authority of the good people of these lands, solemnly publish and declare that these lands are and of right ought to be free and an independent city operating under the laws of the great state of Texas. it just goes on and on. It's good stuff. Alright folks, if you want to follow that, make sure you're following me on, on Facebook. you can find me there under Patriot Rick Green. And of course always listening to At the Core for updates. But here's why we're doing this. First of all so that we have the coolest address on the planet. 1776 Patriot Way. That's right, 1776 Patriot Way, Constitution City, Texas. And then secondly, so that as we're teaching civics here to students and to you know, doing all the things we do with Patriot Academy that we can experience civics. So these young people will be able to help run a city. They'll be part of self governing. And then that's the real crux right there. Establishing, re establishing self governance and the proper balance between individual and group governance, individual and neighborly governance. Making sure that the answer to the question who decides? Is properly assigned. And sometimes government should decide. Sometimes your local government should make a decision. Sometimes it should be state government, sometimes it should be the federal government's president, sometimes it should be the courts, sometimes it should be congress. But most of the time it should be you. Most of the time the answer to the question who decides? Ought to be you. And so we're just shifting some of that decision making power back to the individual, back to the landowner in this case and back to the local city instead of the broader context of a county or the state. And that's the way it's always worked. That's, that's why cities are formed. Communities come together and say we want to govern ourselves, we want to have more of that self governing happen here. All right, I promise I, will get to the phone calls when we come back. Got a lot of you in queue and I apologize for making you wait. 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. And probably Mark from Kentucky will be up first when we come back. So Mark, hang in there. We'll be right back. You're listening to At the Corner Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.
>> Jeff Chamblee: This is At the Core on American Family Radio with your host Rick Green.
>> Rick Green: Welcome back to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm a Green American Constitution coach. Thanks for staying with me. Phone numbers 8885-8988-3888-8589-8840. Let's go to Mark in Kentucky. Mark, you're up first man. What's your comment, question or insult today? Oh yeah, Senior Chief Green, great to talk to you again, sir.
>> Rick Green: you're.
>> Caroline: Sir. So the you know, senior chief on say a submarine which I served was At the privilege of serving on during the Reagan era. You know, the most senior enlisted man, probably knows most. The only thing he doesn't know is exactly where we're going, but can pretty much run the ship. And you sir, are such a great example of a man that, I mean my goodness, you served in elected positions there in the state of Texas. You're doing this At Compatriot Academy. You got on all these different shows. You're just a great, I'm not puffing you up, you're just an amazing example. And so is the man, the real man in the White House. The thing that I don't. That I wanted to call and it's hard, it's very difficult to articulate this in a simple form. But these amazing things, God gave us back the playing field. A real man in charge who that in and of itself is amazing thing to watch a billionaire get his attention gotten by the Almighty. Oh yeah. That thing would have taken out my cranium had I turned it a little bit more Right. And so he's a work in process. He's not raised up in church kind of Christian guy.
>> Rick Green: And are we all though, right, Mark? We're all a work in progress. Just, just saying absolutely. Yeah. I'll slow down here a little bit. But m. My point is like what is this propensity of full of faith? Call it that. Like they like to hear but they get to a point where And I, really hesitate to do this. You brought it up already. But you're on another show. I used to watch that show regularly. It's gotten diluted down. Let's all sit around and chew the fat instead of talking about the news. There's so much news every day, and they increase that show to four days a week. But frankly, it's kind of boring. I mean, there's the antics. That's fun, but let's get on nitty gritty, the dark and dirty. What's really going on? Where is Trump? And what is our role? To support the bringing back of freedom in America, One nation under God.
>> Rick Green: Well, what I would recommend, Mark, big time, is, for you to sign up to take our Rebuilding Liberty course. Because I give you 12 specific roles, 12 specific things you can do in your community. You don't have to do all 12, but you got to pick At least one or two. So there will be no excuse of not knowing. What is our role? to make a difference. I give you some easy ones in there and some hard ones, and some of them are gonna take years to do, but some of them you can do in 15 minutes. so my recommendation is go to patriotacademy.com, sign up as a host or a coach today, and get that Rebuilding Liberty course that we just released. It's four weeks long. It's 45 minutes of, roughly 45 to 55 minutes of video each week, and, then tons of action steps, and we're still rolling out. We got the workbook and all that and the blueprint book, coming in the next few weeks. the big launch on that is going to be Constitution day next month, September 17th. So we're still a few weeks away from launching it. But you, you sound like you're chomping At the bit to be a part of it. So I would love for you to become one of our coaches and do that. If you don't think we're talking about enough specifics on, I think I know which show you're talking about. I do five different shows a week. So just so you know, I think I know what you're talking about. but I think we still get a lot of meat on all the shows that, that we're doing. But if it's not enough for you, man, go take Rebuilding Liberty. Highly recommend it. All right, let's go to that. was Kentucky. Let's go to Arkansas. Alan in Arkansas is up next. Allen, you still with us? Yeah, I'm here. Quick Way to end the war over Ukraine.
>> Rick Green: What's that? Putin and Zelinsky having a duel At the border.
>> Rick Green: You know what, hey, here's what would happen. Here's my prediction. If that, if they did that, Zelinsky would try some goofy ballerina move and and, and, and Putin would probably end it in about two seconds if his if his presentation is fast enough. I, you know, you got a warrior versus a, ah, comedian, actor. And it would, it would be over too quick actually. but, but yes, it would be, it would be interesting if duels were brought back. You know, I was surprised to find out, you know, everybody knows about, Alexander Hamilton and Burrs, you know, duel back in whatever year that was 1790, whatever it was, everybody knows about that one, the one that most people don't know about, that we found out about. And I did a show about it, oh, years ago, 10 years ago, was, was a signer of the Declaration from Georgia named, Bunton Gwinnett. And he had a duel with this guy that was Governor of Georgia. and it was all over this military expedition where they were trying to rescue the three signers of the Declaration from South Carolina that were being held in the northwest corner of Florida by the British. And it was a debacle. And, and one of them, I can't remember which one, called the other one a scoundrel. But that was enough for them to have a duel and the signer of the Declaration died as a result. They both matched the trigger, which in, in firearms training, that means you're, you're, you're, you're pressing the trigger too hard and it's causing your barrel to think about it. If you're right handed, if you can picture this, I know you're listening on radio, but if you're right handed and you press the trigger too hard and you, what we call, mash the trigger, then what happens is just imagine the barrel of your gun now going down into the left of where it should be. So if you're on target, if you're pointed right in to center mass, or what we would call the thoracic cavity, if you're pointed in and you mash the trigger, now all of a sudden your barrel is going down into the left. And both of these guys must have done that because both of them were shot in the leg, the duel. And apparently Gwinnett, got infected and died. Now why am I telling you that story? I don't know. I guess because duels were mentioned by the caller and it brought to mind this signer of the Declaration dying within a year of the signing of the Declaration. Which takes me back to. I think it was not Mark, but, Oh, sorry, I forgot who that first caller was. his comment about we're all a work in progress. We are. We're all a work in progress, including the founding Fathers. So all these people that think the founding fathers were some kind of saints, you know, and they say, oh, we can't do an amendment to the Constitution. There's no Adams, there's no Washington, there's no Madison. We don't have anybody like that today. They were not saints. They were sinners, just like you and me. They were flawed men that God used in a mighty way. Now were they educated? Absolutely, man. Some of those. Brilliant in history, they were well read. We have a lot of good people like that today. Not, not everybody. And and there'll be some people At the convention that to amend the Constitution that are not, you know, good people and not brilliant people. That's what happens when you live in freedom. Yeah, that's what. Now, I would be for a rictatorship if y'. All, if everybody out there was okay with a rictatorship and I could be the dictator and and, and write the laws. It'd be great for a little while, but believe me, that evil in my heart would come out too, just like Jeremiah 17:9 says. So anyway, all that to say the founders were flawed men and God used them to, produce this incredible nation. And I believe there are good people in our nation today that could win the day At a convention of states and get some good amendments to the Constitution to restore what those founding fathers put in place. Alright, don't know why I got off on that, but let's go to Tommy in Ohio. Tommy, you're up next, man. Go ahead. And by the way, the phone number out there. 8885-8988-4088-8589-8880. Tommy, you're up. Can you hear me? Might have lost. Tommy. Oh no, there he is. Tommy, you getting off mute there? Okay, I guess not. Can't hear you. Thanks for trying. 888-589-8840. I've heard this a lot. This whole excuse of, we can't do a convention of states because, you know, I don't trust the people in the state legislature. Well, neither do I. I don't trust any politician. And it's like my friend Bob McEwen says never trust any politician any further. Then you can throw them over your shoulder left handed. So it's not just how far you can throw them, it's how far you can throw them over your shoulder left handed. That's Bob McEwen. love him. anyway, I don't trust him. What I trust is the process and the ability for us to come together and give the people a chance to self govern. And a convention of states is self governance. It's the people closer to us, our state legislators, not our congressman and not the President and not the Supreme Court. It's the people closest to us being the ones that can make the final decision on how our government's gonna look and what the, what the guardrails are gonna be on. Who gets to decide everything. I was talking about the last segment. Who decides? And according to the Constitution, the answer to who decides is usually we, the people or the states. And sometimes rarely, in fact, in only 17 specific areas of power is the answer to the question who decides? The federal government. And who should declare war? The federal government. Who should set up post offices and post roads? The federal government. Who should set up our system for protecting your invention or your creation. Patents, copyrights, trademarks, the federal government, all of those types of things are listed in the constitution in Article 1, Section 8 as part of those 17 enumerated powers for the federal government. Everything else, and the 10th amendment is just a, basically a rubber, you know, a reminder, an exclamation point, a stamp on the idea that if it's not listed in here, if it's not in the Constitution, that was originally understood with the original Constitution, but even in the Bill of Rights they said, you know what, let's just remind Everybody with the 10th Amendment that anything not listed in the Constitution is left to the states and the people. And restoring that requires the states and the people to come together and do new constitutional amendments. Once again, just like with the Bill of Rights, had to remind Everybody with the 10th Amendment. And that was only a couple of years in, we're only been around a couple years. And they said, you know, we need to remind everybody that if it's not listed here, they don't get to do it. Well, my goodness folks, it's been 200 years. We need to remind everybody if it's not listed in here, you don't get to do it At the federal level. If it's not in the Constitution, it goes back to the states and the people. That's why we Need a convention of states for the very same reason we did the Bill of Rights. Remind everybody, here's what the feds get to do, here's what they don't get to do. We need to do that again. And, we're. We're about 200 years overdue for doing that again. So that's why I support a convention of states. Convention of states dot com, by the way, if you want to learn more about that and get signed up there in your local community to help. Help make that happen. Absolutely needs to happen. All right. I get. I get off on these subjects. I rant a little bit. Let's go to Jeremiah in Mississippi. Jeremiah, go ahead, man. You are up next on At the Core with Walker Walmart. Go ahead. Thank you for taking the call.
>> Rick Green: You bet. I got a question about, far as freedom go, how is it that if you. In your land taxes, you get evicted? Where does land taxes fall? In there somewhere. That. That you. Is something that must be paid. And how is that not considered not free? I guess I would say.
>> Rick Green: Yeah, man. No, brother, you're asking a very important question, Jeremiah. That. That is actually why. That's why I've said for 30 years, you don't own your property. You rent it from the government. You are a serf on feudal land. And if you don't believe me, try not paying those property taxes. Try not paying those land taxes. And actually, I think your language is good. I think saying land tax, is a great way to remind people property taxes are punishing you for owning your own piece of land. And I've been against it from day one. I tried to abolish land taxes, property taxes here in Texas back when I was a legislator. And now Governor DeSantis is trying to do it in Florida and setting an example for it. And now there are some legislators in Texas and some think tanks and even the governor and lieutenant governor say that they want to get rid of property taxes. Now, back when I was pushing for it 25 years ago, oh, my goodness, it was like people would look At me like I had three heads. But it absolutely can be done. It absolutely should be done. You should not have to rent your property from government. The only fair moral tax is a transaction tax, a sales tax. You should only have to pay money to the government when you spend your money, not just for owning a piece of land, not just for making money. Income tax is wrong. You should not be. Government, should not be able to take out money, part of your income, before you even get it. Or punish you later and make you give back, or give to. Not give back. They didn't earn it. Give to government part of your income. That's immoral as well. Paying property taxes and income taxes is, in my opinion, absolutely immoral. And the worst way to tax, because it punishes progress, it punishes investment, it punishes, you know, improving your land. You got to pay more to the government because you put a little porch on your house and they raise the value of the property, let alone raise the rate. so the only proper way to tax in a fair and moral way is a transaction tax. And that means when you go buy groceries, or you go buy land, or you go buy clothes, or you go buy a car, you go buy whatever you buy. When you buy it, you can make an informed decision that I'm going to pay for this item, and then I'm also going to pay for my taxes as I buy this item. And so I may not be ready to buy that car, or I may not be able to buy as much of a car because I'm gonna have to pay whatever it is, 6, 8, 10% sales tax on that item. But At least once I pay that, I'm done. I don't get punished for owning that car and get taxed every year for it. I don't get punished for owning that land or that house and get taxed every year for it. I pay one time, and if it's your house, you pay one time and you roll it into your mortgage, and once you pay off that mortgage, you're done. It's yours from then on, as it should be. You can pass it down to your kids and it's theirs from then on, as it should be. So, yeah. That's a big one, brother. I'm glad you raised that. I don't know if we can get this in before, we, we go. But Brian in Georgia. Let's try it, man. Ask real quick and I'll try to answer real quick. It's real quick. I appreciate your, show.
>> Rick Green: You bet.
>> Caroline: My question is if you have already found you've been on your properties 18 years, and then one of your relatives came by and said, man, there's a graveyard on your property. And I found that is a graveyard on, my property. Three bodies are in it.
>> Rick Green: Wow. But they said you cannot be tax exempt on this, and that's a story. I need to find out where the law is.
>> Rick Green: I don't. I don't know the answer to that specific scenario, but. But I would argue that if the government is telling you you can't use that part of your property and they're not willing to exhume those bodies and move them somewhere else, or not allowing you to exhume those bodies and move them to a graveyard and say now you've got this half acre area or whatever that you can't use, you certainly should not have to pay property taxes on it and somebody ought to have to buy it from you. Is it would be my view on that. It's the same with a, you know, an endangered species or whatever. It's crazy when government comes to you and says you can no longer use this piece of your property because there's some maggot or beetle or warbler or rat and now you just have to hold on to your property and everybody else gets to enjoy it but not you. That's insane. All right. All right. Gotta go. Out of time, folks. Thanks so much for listening. You've been listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.
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