May 21, 2015
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1h 1m
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2015
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Don (filling in for Mark Koernke) discussed military preparedness, tactical retreat strategy, and lessons from Iraq and ISIS, contrasting proper equipment destruction protocols with abandonment of weapons. The show covered the Waco Twin Peaks biker incident, media manipulation and deepfakes, and the franchise's response to the incident. Don also discussed his travels through Texas, documenting decay in small towns, wind farms in the panhandle, alternative heating systems, and infrastructure vulnerabilities. The latter half featured detailed discussion of the Barrett Wind Runner .50 caliber rifle, its modular design, pricing, and comparison to other precision rifles.
- tactical retreat
- isis
- iraq
- waco twin peaks
- bikers
- media manipulation
- deepfakes
- texas
- wind farms
- infrastructure
- barrett wind runner
- .50 caliber
- night vision
- preparedness
- mark koernke
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If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Yeah, I think so. I can barely hear you, Don. Okay. I think that's on my end, though. I'm trying not to put out an echo and I got fans going behind me. Let me dig out my headset and I'll let you take it away. Okay. Again, like he said, hey, you're tuned to Liberty Tree Radio and oh, how about that Indiana Freedom Talk Radio or Live 365 or PBN dot 4 mg or many of the various ways you might be listening on you know, you might be listening on a one of them read broadcasters I call you guys the short Rangers, you know, it's read broadcaster, you know an AM or FM radio in your neck of the woods or neighborhood your side of the creek or Again, it is the 21st day of May 2015 and it's a beautiful day, it's a wonderful day, it's sunny, a little breezy, it could be warmer for this time of year but, you know, hey, liberty tree radio and the intelligence rep. I'm not certain if I'll have Mark with us but hey, run along, we'll talk about, you know, this crisis. It's lousy that they're destroying them and it is lousy that they're destroying them. What's even worse is years and generations just ran. That's just Don's opinion on that. Between tactical retreat and just throwing down your arms and running, not more of a, instead of a former, because you know, during a tactical retreat you burn what you can't carry away. And you carry away most certainly as much as you can. And then you carry away more. And then you come back and when it looks like it's about time to be overrun, you burn what you cannot carry away, the remnant of. But I guess all of those Iraqi soldiers trained by Americans never got that far into the training manual. Because, well, one of the things they talk about is when ISIS overruns the city, they get all of these aisles of ammunition and guns and rocket launchers and all kinds of other things and vehicles and armored and wheeled and all kinds of good stuff left behind by the people who just did that. run away a little more because this is an example of like when you look at it like that, it's a learning, your whole life is a learning experience if you allow it to be. Those people who ran back to Baghdad because you got to understand ISIS in Baghdad are like a moth to the flame, right? Those people who left this city and that and ran back toward Baghdad realized that, well gee, maybe I should have left that stuff there because maybe tomorrow, that big pile of bullets that I left, there's going to be a bunch of people out there shooting that big pile of bullets that I left back there at me. Other people, it's one of the basic, you know, most basic reasons you don't leave things for the enemy to overrun. It just basically, it works like that, doesn't it? But this goes back over to mindset. We saw this in the Vietnam War too. There were people who would be on one side of the war in the daytime and another side of the war at night and then just sit well and see what's going on. Then they'd fight some more with whichever side they chose. We saw that in the Civil War too. I like the movie Josie Will. It shows a good example of it with the ferry boat crosser. Singing Dixie, Wally, Fairies, one group across and whistling the Battle Hymn of the Republic going the other way. On the way back, yeah. That's true, isn't it? My point here, and all of these things that you see, see war has a lot of commonalities. It brings out, you know, that old phrase, the best and the worst in people. And this is an example of a soldier not doing his best and most certainly not exactly his worst. His worst could have been running over to the other side and fighting with them. And we've seen an example of that, even on this continent. But again, you guys, you can pick things apart and you can learn from them. But in a lot of manuals for electronics, Eddie, you've seen some of these. They've gone through your hands. If you see a manual for a PBS2 or a PBS4 or a PVS-7. Well, it talks about how to destroy the device so it's not captured by the enemy. Now granted, you know, that's a high-value device, a piece of night vision, and you know, there was a good long time when not every soldier had one. So it was, you know, protected technology. It was top secret, deployed to the battlefield, you know, much like F-117s were flying over America only at night. for a good long time before they ever showed the public a picture of one. Hey, did you see that triangular shaped flying saucer? Looked like an arrowhead just going through the sky. I could never, didn't have no wings or nothing. But again, oh, profiled against the night, oh, you should have seen it, Frank. Or as a barrier. It didn't fly like a jet. Yeah, exactly. It would be impossible for us to do that with anything other than anti-grav technology. Has everybody forgotten about the Harrier jet? It just kind of hovers there. Yeah, running a whole bunch of different directions, but you guys, boy oh boy, it's coming to the point. We've talked about this. We haven't brought this exact thought to the hour in a good long time, so we need to do it again. When we talk along the lines of believing what you see, a lot of people stare at that in their hand or that screen in their living room or the screen on the backs of the chairs in their cars now to keep their children mesmerized in the back seat for a while. We're trained to stare at that screen from a very young age, aren't we? It goes back over to if you're looking at that screen, you wonder what's real and what isn't. We've talked along the lines of, you know, many times we'll ask you to compare an inch to a mile and this is one of those way, way out there thought lines, but hey, they could, they, being the Op Force, the other side, those who, you know, well, those who don't like Don could make a film of Don shooting Abraham Lincoln. and they could show it this coming Saturday night on America's Most Wanted or the Cop Channel or Justice Network or whatever and before Monday morning for certain there would be thousands of calls saying, I saw that guy that shot Abraham Lincoln. And again, there are people who would, oh, I know, I know, he lives right over there. Well he may fall for that stupidity because, well, they saw it on TV. And you know we've brought that scenario before but it's not beyond belief, it's not beyond credibility. Well, what's coming out now is well, it's been out for a few days is that the rally was actually supposed to be a At there was a not really a rally was a meeting at the I don't know if it was at that Twin Peaks place or if it was someplace else in that shopping mall, but there was supposed to be a meeting there For the bikers to discuss their rights on Texas roads Yeah, well a cop who here's the other cute thing according to the police reports the cops were set out in the parking lot not trying to hide anything and Still somebody started that BS Supposedly, you know it is kind of hard to hide in m-rap and all the other fun toys that they brought to the table. Oh Yeah, think about it. Yeah, I just thought you would find that interesting because I know you're a writer. What? Thank you Again, we've touched on that and I thought from different circles I'd hear more about that, but I really haven't. I'm down here, it's ways north of me still, it's on the other side of Houston. Actually, I drove past Waco, I didn't actually drive through Waco a couple weekends ago, going up north into the desert. But yeah beautiful country up there. I've seen more than one of those places on the side of the road I can tell you that in fact a lot of the little towns down here are Just they're run down and that's one of the few businesses It seems to be doing any business when you get to a smaller town even around the bigger towns Which is true say it's kind of sad to say you know It's a sign of the times also, you know, I'm not certain exactly what what that title you know could be a the uh... competitor of hooters it is it's a uh... it's it's another franchise along the same lines as hooters yeah so again they're the uh... servers are dressed uh... so this is good scantily so yeah yeah i like hooters yeah i've never been in the hooters most i know about hooters is their commercials are on the other key thing that this is that they uh... Oh, come on, I'm trying to think. Okay, the franchise has pulled the franchise from the people who were running the restaurant, saying that, you know, well, they're trying to keep... The reputation clean? Yeah, keep the reputation. It's like we don't, we only stand for law abiding stuff. We would never want to see anything like this in the community. By the way, I'm sure none of our waitresses have ever been harassed or you know, followed home or stocked by any of the people who come in and get drunk. Not one, never. Never, that would never happen. We're all about safety. Or even handled on the floor. They have bouncers there like they do in bars, don't they? I don't know, I've never been in one. Well, neither of I, that's why I posed the question in order to fill out. Well, if they're serving alcohol, they probably shouldn't have bouncers there. Yeah, you would think that the bouncer is at least a doorman. Yeah. You would think. Yeah. You know, a bouncer in disguise, though. I'm curious about that because, you know, when 20 or 30 or 3 or 4, in this instance, mentioned 5 clubs come into a place, you guys, how many people do they arrest? Almost 200 people. Two or three bouncers are kind of overwhelmed, you know, to to I've heard the guys talk about some of the other mutations on how it's being reported away and I gotta say that probably the most credible sources to look at are the Waitresses blogs that are actually accessible where they talk about what happened. But again, that's if you can trust that that's actually the Waitresses blogging. you know, anything online you gotta take with a grain of salt. If it was a little closer, I would go up and personally ask people, you know, on a whim, but I've gotta be conservative with my funds to keep the station running, so that's not a trip I'm necessarily gonna make. I might shoot through there if I have to go back up to the desert sometime soon. And if I do, I might ask around, but I'm not in a position where I can do that right now. I've already been asked, you know, I would love to be able to do it, but I just can't get up there. Funds are limited and time is, you know, continually flowing. Is that the time the funds do to? Well, it would be not. Well, I got Spike who can fill in for me, but you know, it's like even when everybody else steps away from doing the programming, usually I still got to be sitting here to make sure everything's running right. A lot of people don't realize if we go to a rebroadcast or something, it's not something where I can just walk away from it most of the time. I have to plan in advance. Well, along that subject, I'm certain that there are people wondering because, you know, everybody's noticed that Mark isn't here. Everything's okay at that home front, right? Yeah, he is doing a little more traveling, Don. And I can't say where to. Okay. Well, I just thought I'd say... But he said I talked to Mom on the phone. just not where they can stop to do the program right now. Right, I understand. I just thought I'd mention that just to ease everybody's mind, you know, because you guys, it goes like this. Mark isn't on the program. I do the program in the morning or in the afternoon and I get calls. Is Mark okay? Where's Mark? That happens to me too. Yep. I did make a point of coming up on every program and letting them know, Dad. It's okay, he's just not going to be here. I don't know though, are you going to be here for the full hour? I'm here till the top. I figured as much and I'm not really prepared to run an hour by myself so I've got a rebroadcast set up for the hour after this one. And BC will not be live either so I'm going to have two hours of rebroadcast. Will you be back at 8? I'll be here at 8. Okay, I'll be here with you. Yeah, cool. And we should have Randy tonight. I know he missed Mondays. I think he's back in town. Well, he told me what he missed. Yeah, I know but just making sure he's okay Yeah again, okay, that's good. Just making sure that everything's okay with his wife and everything right I know I've been having a hard time there. Yeah. Well, we've been keeping him in our prayers I've tried to mention it every time we come up on the militia town hall meeting in prayer if not in person and just talking about it on air But I know that's personal life and a lot of people don't necessarily like that put out there for everybody. Yeah, some people, you know, they'll do what needs to be done as far as, you know, up on the air and they want to have that. And I can't blame them, I understand that. Yeah, to a degree. Yeah. In this day and age it's kind of hard to remain private about anything. with everybody having a camera someplace. I'm sure somebody had a picture of his kids beforehand and paparazzi and all that other fun stuff going on and about, but that's being in the public limelight. If you didn't understand that when you get into that situation, you got a problem. And they made fun of Michael when he brought his children. along that lines, those tactical cameras you got, have you had a chance to ask them about those? Or have you had a chance to play with one yet? I haven't had one in my hand. I know, I fully understand that. Mine are too. Otherwise it'd be... Actually, that is one thing I miss being down here, is they don't have a bottle return. Yeah. You gotta take it, you gotta take the pop cans into the metal recycler for a wait, which the exchange ain't all that terribly good there right now. Right. Well, if you're walking around and or riding a bike from place to place, it can be. Right. But if you're using a car, no. Yeah, you negate the gas. Yeah, I immediately step on the gas to get to the next one. It's not very efficient, you're right. The water and the floods, all we see up here is the talk about, you know, the floods in Texas. Just north of me, there was a house that was washed away. I'm actually down close to Galveston, you know that place it gets flattery than a pancake when a tornado, not tornado, whenever a hurricane moves through. Hurricane comes in, yeah. I'm just a couple of miles from the coast. In an apartment, so. Not the best place to be, but it's where we could get down here, so. Over your head is good. And fortunately since I've been down here, we haven't really had any problem. There was flooding here, The first year being down here, there was flooding here and the downstairs apartments got it, but fortunately we're on the second floor. Good too. Also negates some of the problems like we were just talking about, the flooding. So, yeah, there's been flooding all around us. I've seen the parking lot flood that bad maybe twice since I've been here, but most of the flooding is in other parts around us. We're like on a little high spot. And when I say hi, it's still flat as a pancake, though. Oh, I know. We've talked about even Nebraska that they talk about is flat, so gently. But it rolls to the extent that there are places where you could be 50 or 100 yards from someone and lift your head. I need to take some pictures. I talked about this on the town hall meeting, but we went up to meet with some people in the panhandle of Texas. We drove through a section of desert up by Sweetwater, actually from Sweetwater North. I'm not sure how far we went, but as far as the eye could see, Don, nothing but industrial wind generators, like what they've got up by Mackinac. You know the wind generators that they have there the windmills Probably I would say hundreds, but it was more like thousands as far as the eye can see I'm not kidding I was shocked to see how many of them they actually already had in place and running down here I am but for all of that with all the Sun and everything we've got down here in Texas Which would be a great place for one. I did not see one solar farm No solar generator power plants anywhere along that stretch, but it would have been perfect for it But no just wind farms and oil derricks You know it seems to me that the to commit that type of land that technology granted if it comes apart You could ruin a whole lot of some of the area underneath was farmland and being farmed The desert area though was a lot of rocks. I don't know if you'd be able to get that to where you'd be able to have flat land for the solar panels. Yeah, but they worked the land enough to... I know to bring in the towers. Yeah, bring in the towers. The roots or the foundations for the towers. Yeah. A key thing about that is Shelley worked at the ports and that was one of the things that they would see coming off the ships and she was wondering where they were all going and well now she knows. Yeah, electrical tower running all the way all the way there. It leads me to another point. Be of mine and a number of people if I drive down the road here in the country I look over there I look over here and you don't have to sometimes drive three miles to see You know, they plumb water into the house or they plumb hot air into the house from the outside wood stuff. That's cool. Is it wood or is it like, I know they make the cherry pit slash wood chip burners and they also make the corn burners like that up there in Michigan and they're very popular actually up in your area Don. Oh, a lot of them just the great big ones, they're hunks or they're wood, you know, they eat up, you know. No wonder then that should be able to burn corn cob then. Oh, probably, if it worked dried long enough. You're getting ready to make those illegal, I'm told. Have you heard about that, Eddie? No, I haven't heard about that, but I can believe that it gets you off of their power grid. Right. It gets you out of the gas company's control area, it gets you out of the control realm of the power company and it saves you money so of course you know they're not gonna be happy until more people in Michigan die from lack of heat in the winter like that marine did in Flint yeah who had the money to pay the bill on his table and froze to death right that's just the vulnerability of the you know all infrastruct areas were attacked multitudes of people would be without heat Even if nobody died, just the property damage of frozen pipes and whatnot. One person died. Imagine, you know, all of it. If three quarters of the houses, their pipes are... I actually, northern Texas still gets snow, and one of the places that we stopped at while we were up there, the house was acquired because nobody had been there for a long time, and the city shut off the power, so it was, the pipes burst. Up there and it may not be cold all year round But it was enough to do mold damage and cause all all kinds of other things Which is good for us when we're filming you know it looks like it's Decayed and lived in but I got to tell you man it like I was telling dad in my trip I got to send him some of the pictures well I need to take pictures of some of the places I went through because These little historical towns all down through here the only thing that looks like it's got any money going through it is a courthouse in the lawyer's office as you roll through them Yeah, exactly. Everything else is boarded up or unless it's got a little hooters or titty bar or whatever, then that might be active. But for the most part, that's it. And maybe a Walmart in between two small towns and that's it for shops or stores or places to work other than on the ranches. Even though they have full downtown areas, most of the downtown areas are boarded up. Some really cool very nice well-done monuments though because of the path I picked is a historical trail and Just a whole bunch of stuff I want to go back through and record do a little music video put it up on the website and everything for everybody to see I'm gonna have fun with it when I get the time but It just amazes me the the amount of decay because it's it's not like these towns aren't being lived in but nobody's doing anything about it or they've been regulated out of doing anything about it because you're downtown and you got a home that's got a house collapsed forward into the yard Don and this is right in between all the businesses and everything and nobody's doing anything about it the grass has grown up around it's obviously been sitting there a long time You know, there's no money to find its way to be in the ghost town Yeah, there's no money to deal with it and nobody either. Nobody wants to deal with it or you know, they've been Like I said regulated or pushed Away from doing anything with the land because they need the permits and everything else and the lawyers doing good And you know in the one horse town a lawyer moved come to the point where all you need is one lawyer in town and he can prosper me Well I'm sure there's probably more than one lawyer in town because there's court houses but just in the downtown area by the courthouse. I mean it looks like Adrian in Michigan does or did when I left where my brother lives you know. Yeah. Adrian Michigan a college town right there in Michigan you know they're so poor because of the way they've regulated everything out and Pushed every people every all the people away by tat literally we're in debt. We've spent too much Let's tax the people more you know yeah They did it to such a point Adrian was removed had removed their stoplights when I had last time I've been to my brothers and they were talking about removing other public services from Adrian, Michigan before I left. Now I don't know what other public services they could be removing other than the stoplights, the streetlights. They'd already taken those out, so God knows what else they were going to cut from. Well, the county scrapes the main roads. In theory, remember Granholm, well the county, yeah, but Granholm fired a lot of the state road workers and mandated when she was in office that we didn't need to be spending that money in the counties, so they, what did they do? They regulated the amount of time that they could work the plow trucks statewide, which really messed everything up. I remember that point. Yeah, you weren't kidding. She wasn't very efficient yeah before she left she tried to get she tried to get the a lot of the side roads tore up and turned to dirt roads because it'd be easier to maintain which is BS if anybody who lives on a dirt road in Michigan knows if you don't maintain it three times a year it becomes a washboard or washes out oh this this road here gets so much traffic I live on a dirt road if they don't do it three times a month it scales man I know many truckers who would do that. Yeah, I know. So that's what I mean, a rum runner road. The guy who's coming home from the car who doesn't want to take the expressway home, or the other old highway, the old two-lane surface road that used to be the main north and south road in this area. So he comes up the dirt road fast as he can. There are not to be complaining or whatnot. About every Friday night, about a quarter till three, it's up and they don't stop. Don, give me just a second, I've got to step away. Oh, no problem there. You know, they're real pretty wood, real pretty laminate, target, and then real wide base. You might be able to say that it didn't take long for a machinist to know about bleeding. You look at, you know, some guns are bemoaned for being so big, and even when you remove the stock from the, you know, the receiver barrel group, well, it's still big. Some guns, you can't even take them apart because, well, they're already a bull barrel and, or rather a bullpup setup and they're welded together that way. That looks interesting. Have you fired one of those before, Don? I've never shot that gun, but I've seen a number of people. I've stood and watched that gun in action. It doesn't look like it's a real hard recoil and gun. The other point to be made, you might notice it's a magazine fed bolt action gun. Yeah, I was looking at that I was trying to tell if that was a coiled spring I was looking at but then I realized that's the ejector Windrunner you guys for an assembled gun that that's quite the gun to the fact that It'll come apart so small and go back together in a matter of moments for those that would say oh, well Why would you need to take the gun apart? How about packing it in on a hunt? How about you know basic transportation? You know you can generally AR you know your m16 case lay it in the back of your trunk of your car. It's 50's that men, unless you take them apart, you can't hardly get them in the trunk of your car, even going in diagonally and tucking the barrel in first, or trying to get a piece of furniture around the corner. This one looks like it's got an easy release on the barrel. Oh, again, in a matter of moments. It's got a twist grip. Yeah, and then it's positively head spaced. Everything's in the right place. The buttstock is collapsible and on the center piece? Yes, it extends. Except for the barrel, the primary part of the weapon would fit in a suitcase. Oh yeah, again, it'll go in a tennis racket case for certain. Or maybe not a violin case, the classic what you got in there. Or it may be a viola case, you know, larger than a violin. It might go in there. But the fact that it can be broken down so small is pretty neat unto itself. You can't say it's unique. Well, it looks like it collapses in on itself and the only part that you really need to break down is the barrel, maybe the scope. If you had the right type of storage container once the thing's folded up, The only thing you'd probably have to take off is the barrel. I wouldn't want to touch my scope anyway. Once I get that set, I would like it. Once it's set on a zero, yeah. Unless it's mounted on us. The only downside I see to it is that it's only got a picatinny rail on top. It doesn't have any iron sights. Yeah, this is true, but top of the gun. It's, you know, competitively priced for almost any repeater. For the price on the website. I'm not finding it. How much is it? Oh, I'm thinking it's... Oh, Christ, there it is. How much? Which one is this again? This is the Wind Runner? Wind Runner, $7,500. Okay, I was a little behind the times on that price, but again, Tsingon, it is... The only reason why it costs so much on the website, Don, is they have to ship it in the hard case, and the hard case is $450. and shipping is $110,000 so take that off of the price there. That's about $560,000 off of that $7,500,000. That's not much, but I guess if you could go buy it in person it might not cost that much. Right. What he did was alter the case and you could still get the velocity, still get the volume of powder into the case and still send 50s down range, but you couldn't chamber that into a 50-caliber BMG gun. I can answer a couple more questions. We're getting right to the top. We talked about Ronnie and his kits, you know, Mr. Barrett. Hope he'll sell you on top of, as an example, that bullpup M99, which is a very light, I'm certain it's less than 17 pounds. To buy that from a kit from Ronnie, you would get that Bushnell Elite 3200. answers the question, I don't remember if it's Bush, you might have heard that, but that answers that question. It's a Bushnell Elite, B200, 10x40. Hey, the service department over there, Barrett says they've never seen one of these fail on top of one of them. Never is a real strong word and I find that, you know, if that's true, that's a tremendous statement. That really is. That's Bushnell, that's a feather in their cap. But look at that, Bushnell Elite, 3200, 10x40. that's going to live on top of it. We've talked about this. I don't know what that Scopes retail price for is out in the world right now. I'm so behind the times I missed that. Complete contrast from Ronnie because the M82 is a heavy gun from Ronnie. It would be a lot of fun to fire Don, but we are getting close to the top of the hour. Dad would be mad at me if I didn't have you give out your night vision information before we hit the top. Thank you for reminding me. Hey, if you're looking for night vision goggles, gunsights, green screens, or thermal, my number is 231-796-8458. Again, 231-796-buse.org. There is going to be a rebroadcast. And of course, BC is going to be on a rebroadcast, you guys. So we've got two hours of rebroadcast coming up next. Stay tuned. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the most day and night. Hoorah. Thank you, God bless America. Talk to you at 8. Yup. Gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. 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For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom is gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in jail. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children are people. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of plan, preserve our great Republic and each God given right. You pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, is to still the land of the free?