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Well, if you missed any part of our first hour, I do truly hope that you will tune it in. Don Jans opened up and he is our first guest. And you can find Don Jans at mygrandchildrensamerica.com, mygrandchildrensamerica.com, followed by Larry Klayman, Freedom Watch USA, Freedom Watch USA.
And Larry has a brand new book out. It takes a counter-revolution. It takes a counter-revolution, Wake Up America, a peaceful means, a peaceful means by which to take back our country. And so I encourage you to check it out. And if you're going to pick up, It Takes a Counter-Revolution, please use Amazon Smile and choose Faith Harvest Church as your charity.
Faith Harvest Church as your charity. We'll greatly appreciate that. Well, I've got several things that I want to bring to your attention and go over with you in this segment. And folks, this is.
No, I'm not going to. Look, we have a moral problem in this nation. America has a moral issue, a moral problem, and it begins at the church.
The Word of God tells us that judgment will begin and it will begin at the house of God. And I'm going to share with you about the true root of conservatism and what that is in this half hour. But I need to start by talking about an issue that has been deteriorating that.
Root. And so let's start with this. There is a document that was introduced in the United States Congress in 1963, and it is called the old the 45 goals of the Communist Party. It was actually entered into the congressional record. It was mentioned earlier this week in a segment that I did with Claire Lopez.
She brought it up. And there is a book called The Naked Communist that I would encourage you to get again. You can get that at Amazon, use Amazon Smile and use Faith Harvest Church as your as your charity to support this program and our outreach to the people in India.
It helps with both. But it's called The Naked Communist. And within that, he spells these things out. And here's a pretty good size chunk of it. Let me read this to you. Number twenty three, control all art critics and directors of museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling censorship and a violation of free speech. Or I'm sorry, eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy, infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a religious crutch. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Discredit the American founding fathers, present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.
Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture. Does that not sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen? Now I want to read another piece of propaganda to you. Protege gays as victims, not aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined to by reflex to assume the role of protector. If gays are presented instead as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly nonconformist and defiant lifestyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public menace that justifies resistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the temptation to strut our gay pride publicly when it conflicts with the gay victim image and we must walk the fine line between impressing straights with our great numbers on the one hand and sparking their hostile paranoia.
They are all around us on the other. Listen to what that just said. If gays are presented instead as a strong and prideful tribe, they must forego the temptation so in the early days they didn't strut around like they do today with their gay pride parades. Now listen to this. A media campaign to promote gay victim image should make use of symbols which reduce the mainstream sense of threat, which lower its guard and which enhance the plausibility of victimization. Plausibility. They're not victims.
That's the thing to remember. In practical terms, this means that jaunty mustachioed muscled men would keep very low profile in gay commercials and other public presentations, while sympathetic figures of nice young people, old people and attractive women would be featured. And here's what it says. It almost goes without saying that groups on the farthest margin of acceptability, on the farthest margin of acceptability such as NAMBLA, that folks is the North American Man Boy Love Association, must play no part at all in such campaigns. Suspected child molesters will never look like victims. They have now gone so far. This was written in 1989 as to convince the general public that pedophiles are not pedophiles anymore. No, no, no. They are now minor attracted persons.
That's right. Minor attracted persons. Oh, and, and, you know, transgenderism? No, no, no, they're not transgenders. People who are born like Rachel, who was Rachel Richard Leland Levin, yes, Richard Leland Levin, who now is a part of the cabinet, I believe the secretary, one of the secretaries of health is, is, is the current position. She is hang on.
Yeah, she she is, she's a secretary of health assistant secretary of the Department of Health. And not she, he, Richard Leland, who is claimed the name of Rachel Levin. And, and this is now changing their definition of pedophilia. So now let me go to a document that I just recently wrote, and it is called the true root of American conservatism. Our founders understood the role the government was to play was to secure the rights of the people. Having broken free from an oppressive authoritarian ruler, they wrote out a constitution based on the Declaration of Independence, that it outlined what they did not want in a government. They established this United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for themselves and their posterity. They also understood that a right granted by men or a group of men could be taken by those same men, but a right granted by God that was literally a part of who we are, could never be taken away and was worth dying for. During their deliberation to produce this constitution they had reached an impasse.
They were tired and they were near surrender on the issue when Benjamin Franklin rose and gave his famous admonition. He said, Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks in close attendance and in continual reasonings with each other with different sentiments on almost every question is melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. Our deeds seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We've gone back to ancient history for models of government and examine the different forms of those republics, which having been formed with the seeds of their own constitution now no longer exist.
And we've viewed modern states all around Europe but find none of their constitutions suitable for our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. How has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings in the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed the frequent instances of a super intending Providence in our favor. That kind of Providence to that kind of Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity, and we have now for him, and have we now forgotten that powerful friend, or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance. I've lived sir a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proves I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice. Is it probable than an empire can rise without his aid. We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings in Psalm 127 one that except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it, I firmly believe this. And I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building. No better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests our projects will be confounded and we ourselves shall be a reproach and by word to the future generations.
And what is worse mankind may hither after may hereafter from this unfortunate instance despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance war and conquer. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. Thus upon meeting several days later the atmosphere had been changed, and the formation of the documents upon which this nation stands were formed, I would suggest that the pillars of conservatism in American politics were laid in this speech, and I share the entire video below which I'll share so Greg goes to the children generation radio show, if you follow my program you know I'm a miracle survivor of a catastrophic car accident, where I say my daughter's life spent six weeks on life support died four times and broke bones in my head, neck, back, ribs, arms, pelvis and both legs. That was in 2017 in 2004 I was given three to six months to live as my pituitary gland and adrenal gland shut down in both instances, God and his natural cures saved and preserved my life. Recently I was introduced to a product that has taken my healing to a whole nother level. If you want to know more, go to CGR wellness calm and sign up for an account. It's free to sign up that CGR wellness calm and sign up for your free account.
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The Constitution and our Bill of Rights. And here's how he closed it he talked about that it must be laid upon a foundation he quoted Psalm 127 which says, except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it except the Lord keep the city. The watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows, for so he giveth his beloved sleep low children are in heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so our children of the youth, happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them, they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate Listen carefully.
This is talking about how you build a community how you build up a nation, and within the song that begins with the Lord building the house. Make sure that we understand how important our children are. Unfortunately, conservatives in recent memory have not heeded this admonition and wisdom below is a common refrain which reflects the very issue to which Franklin was speaking its roots, its roots are founded in the present condition of our education or indoctrination system, a system I address below using the following quote as a point of entry. There are more important things to worry about in this world than giving eight year olds access to pornography and the in the school library, far more important, wouldn't you say no.
In all due respect, I would not. Sadly, eight year olds in public school have seen more porn at that age than many of their grandparents desensitizing the children through porn and grooming them for sexual predators. PC for minor attracted persons, so they grow up with no concept of right and wrong believing murder as the answer to unwanted babies murder as the answer to old people euthanasia and murder as an answer to settle an argument over whatever they have been told is emotionally important and expedient to them. This is the problem with today's conservatism, it has no morals is God's priority Russia or China or the threat of a world war.
What should conservatives really care about. Matthew 18 tells us at the same time came the disciples and the Jesus saying who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and Jesus called a little child unto him and said him in the midst of them and said verily I say be good and become as little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and who so who so shall receive such one such child in my name receives me, but who so shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea for 73 one puts it this way this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good work, a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behavior, given to hospitality apt to teach, not given to wine. No striker, not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler but not covetous, one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity for a man know not how to rule his own house How shall we take care of the church of God, not a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. For America to lead the world her house needs to be in order, what made America great was the Christian heritage and the Americas, and America's moral compass, both Russia and China as well as Islam know that our immorality is what will destroy us from within. Eliminating God by entering the seminaries in the 60s was a top priority of the subversives that stayed behind during the Vietnam War, removing prayer, the Bible and the Pledge of Allegiance are key components of the 45 goals of the Communist Party, infiltrating the schools perverting the minds of our children and traumatizing them so they have so that we have no next generation to lead. We are well down that road Kinsey's influence on our education system is generations old. The new afters life was held up as some great example of his contributions to our culture that should tell you the condition of the soul of America. Are there more important things than to protect and defend the most vulnerable in our own nation so there is a future in our nation. The liberal schools know the answer to that and they know that a morally bankrupt conservative movement has signed on to the mantra.
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Thirty nine of them, in fact, mistakes that changed the world forever. And I can't wait to have this conversation. I want to welcome Jared Knott to the program. Jared, welcome. Good to have you. Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to be here. Appreciate it very much.
Absolutely. Well, it's my honor to have you. So thirty nine blunders.
Man, I'll be 60 next week. I've made a few of those in my day. Made a couple of my own little blunders along the way. I call it the school of hard knocks and incremental tribulations. Talk to me about the the blunders that that that literally changed the world.
Yes. A lot of these mistakes are mistakes that all of us make every day, but every week or every month. It's just that so often they come at a very critical time.
And it's just a kind of dominoes in motion, which can lead to incredible, incredible disasters. The inspiration for the book comes from the old adage coming down from Benjamin Franklin that for one of the nail, the shoe was lost. For one of the shoe, the rider was lost. For one of the rider, the battle was lost. For one of the battle, the empire was lost.
The empire was lost all for the want of a nail. Well, that's a nice old saying. But how often does that really happen?
A single tiny mistake causes a huge disaster to take place. Well, I say thirty nine times. Actually, it's about forty three or forty four stories in the book.
And there are another four or five chapters that are written so we could have hit forty five or fifty without even breaking a sweat. Wow. Wow. So give me a couple of well and you write this kind of and you're speaking, you're talking to folks, having conversations with people in the context of what's happening between Russia and Ukraine and that conflict and Vladimir Zelensky's role in really, you know, fighting back. Look, I was a I was a Cold War Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.
So I'm I'm I am very familiar with communist disinformation and with the dangers of the KGB, Putin and Russia, very familiar with it. So talk to me about how how that conversation perhaps has a lead into what we're seeing today and to your book. Yes, we're talking about the current conflict. If you were looking for a principle in history that might apply, I think it's the old saying, of course, peace through strength and that weakness invites attack and its strength strongly discourages attack. Nobody starts a war expecting to lose that. So only when they see weakness, are they willing to take aggressive action, go back to World War Two. George Marshall, who was the Army chief of staff, was very concerned that we were spending far, far too little money building up our national defenses.
This was encouraging to both the Japanese and the Germans to be adventurous and aggressive. And he was saying that we are carrying the treasure and freedom of this great nation in a paperback. And that, of course, is taking just like one fifth of the amount of money spent in World War Two. It had been spent in building up our defense in the 1930s.
It couldn't be that the entire both wars might have been avoided altogether. Also, I point out to people that Eisenhower blamed Truman for the Korean War. He let the spending, saying that the minimum amount we should spend on the defenses by 1950 was like 15 billion dollars. That's when a billion was real money.
And Truman allowed it to go down to 13 billion. Also, they were communicating to the world in a way that our defensive lines were not necessarily going to include South Korea. Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State there, communicated a way that was not strong enough in maintaining our position, and that encouraged the adventurism on the part of the North Koreans and the Chinese. So you come up to our current day situation, I think we were slow and fumbling. The sanctions maybe should have been imposed earlier, and we should have been building up the defenses of the Ukraine much, much earlier. We should have been sending in the JAVA missiles and also the VIGs, also even tanks and other defense, also the harpoons that can sink the ships. We should have had a major build up in the Ukraine militarily. And then when Mr. Putin saw the situation, he might have avoided the war altogether. Donald Trump said that he told Putin that if he had invaded the Ukraine, that he was going to bomb Moscow.
And regardless of what you think about Donald Trump, a strong position oftentimes discourages aggression, and weakness and a slowness act encourages aggression. Brother, you're talking to the choir right here, let me tell you. Man, you were talking to the choir right here. And you saw up close and personal, I know that your background is as an officer in Vietnam, and I want to thank you for your service to our country. Well, thank you, sir. Thank you. You were the rock upon which my generation stands. I was born in 62, I'm sure you were born a few years before that.
So I again, my sincere appreciation for your service. And I think that, you know, the disinformation campaign, and the revisionist historians have made us forget the enemy that we were truly fighting in Southeast Asia, which was communism. And if if Patton had been allowed, I'm wondering if that's not one of your blunders, if Patton had been allowed to go in and free the communists, or the the Russian people from Stalin's communism, you know, even even Communist China wouldn't be around today.
I think that's a difficult thing. A war with Russia at the end of World War Two would have been a huge, huge, huge, bloody affair. We have too bad that we are not have a position of being the world policeman that we could go into countries that are governing the people improperly and straighten it out.
But we have limits to our resources and limits to what we're able to do. There are some wars that we could prevent. There's some wars that we don't have to fight. I'll make this point is that I'm from Texas.
I'm very proud to be from Texas. And part of the reason I volunteered way back then during the Vietnam War was that sense about the I don't know, the whole business about the Texas technique and our whole attitude. But I think the war in Vietnam could have been avoided if we just did a strong build up, which we actually did in Thailand. Then, of course, the dominoes stopped there. I call Thailand sort of the iron domino.
The dominoes did not go all the way to Paris, the way some people said. We could have avoided the war in Vietnam and also the war in Iraq, I think could have been avoided. We had a Texan who was president of the United States, George Bush, the son, for the Iraq War. And of course, Lyndon Johnson from Texas in the Vietnam War, two Texans. And there's a quotation that's reported in the conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara.
He's saying to him, I want you to have somebody put a plan together talking about Vietnam and go over there and put the hell out of it. Well, that's something that a Texan would say if the president of the United States had been from Vermont or Wisconsin or Nebraska or someplace might have avoided that war altogether. So we can be too aggressive to get ourselves involved in something we shouldn't.
We also be too weak and encourage aggressors to start a war that otherwise could have been prevented, my humble opinion. I think there's a lot of wisdom in what you're saying. Certainly scripture talks to us about having temperance, right?
Temperance in all things. And I think that Roosevelt's statement, you know, walk softly and carry a big stick. I mean, that was really, you know, that was the Reagan policy. And I think that Trump was following that policy. And it worked quite well, by the way. We were we were entertaining peace in the Middle East, which is a huge undertaking, as you and I both know. And he had Putin in check and he was making Xi reevaluate, you know, what he was doing until he, of course, launched the, you know, bio weapon attack against us using the SARS virus. That's a whole big thing right there.
Yes. But Donald Trump, regardless of what you think about it, he's putting together a good coalition, including the Israelis, as well as the Egyptians and the Saudis, kind of surrounding and encircling the Iranians and putting them in a compromised position. That's been partially frittered away. The sanctions are effective against the Iranians and also that circle of the alliance was going to be very, very effective. I think he was handling that situation well. I think he was also handling the situation with Putin.
Well, and also China with Xi. And I think I think it's been the current administration just totally, totally blundered the situation with Afghanistan, which communicates with the world. We have people who are fumblers who don't really know what they're doing.
I just completely botched. You have to give him a Republican, Democrat vote, an F, F minus. I don't think even we get a D minus of how badly it was handled. Well, that's how the people were dealing with. Of course, we can invade the Ukraine and we're not going to have him fall in with Putin.
He doesn't know what he's doing. That kind of thing. And that encouraged aggressiveness.
And here we are in the middle of a war that might have been prevented. No doubt, sir. No doubt. All right. Don't go anywhere. We'll be back. Jared, not as my guest. The Web site, by the way, tiny blunders, big disasters dot com, tiny blunders, big disasters dot com.
If you go over to Amazon and you use Amazon Smile, choose Faith Harvest Church as your donation to donate charity and pick up the book. Tiny blunders, big disasters. We'll talk more about that when we come back right after this brief break. You're listening to Children Generation Radio. We believe in the sanctity of our Constitution. So if you're 50 or over and hold to traditional American values, you no longer have to feel alone. Call the Association for Mature American Citizens, AMAC, and get great discounts and support your values. Call today.
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Use the code CHOSEN. PatriotMobile.com forward slash chosen. Our founders understood the role the government was to play was to secure the rights of the people. Having broken free from an oppressive authoritarian ruler, they wrote out a constitution based on a declaration of independence that had outlined what they did not want in a government. They established this United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for themselves and their posterity. They also understood that a right granted by men or a group of men could be taken by those same men.
But a right granted by God that was literally a part of who we are could never be taken away and was worth dying for. During their deliberation to produce this constitution, they had reached an impasse. They were tired and they were near surrender on the issue when Ben Franklin rose and gave his famous admonition. Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks in close attendance and in continual reasonings with each other with different sentiments on almost every question is melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms of those republics which have been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist.
And we viewed modern states all around Europe but find none of their constitutions suitable for our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have been hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed the frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity, and have now forgotten that power of friend and that powerful friend?
How do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men, and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings in Psalm 127 one, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and byward down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers employing the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Thus, upon meeting several days later, the atmosphere had been changed and the formation of the documents upon which this nation stands were formed. I would suggest that the pillars of conservatism in American politics were laid in this speech. I share the entire scripture reference below Psalm 127 says, except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it, except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows, so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children are in an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They are not to be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. We've got several more minutes of precious time here we're going to spend with our guest, author Jared Knott, but I just want to encourage you that, and as I've been sharing through our program today, we had Larry Klayman on talking about citizen grand juries and what's taking place there. I was writing reading to you out of my article, true conservatism true American conservatism the root of it. And I just want to encourage you, God is still on the throne. God is still on the throne, and he's looking for a remnant in America that will rise up and, and choose to follow his path for this nation. The seed of the word has gone into the ground in America, and the Word of God does not return void but prospers in everything that it is sent out to do.
We need to pray that God will add his Holy Spirit, the water to that seed for it to rise up in Americans, and that they will turn to him. As we turn our nation back to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the constitutional republic for which our founders and many of my friends and I'm sure friends of my author friend my new friend Jared died and shed their blood on behalf of the freedoms and the liberties that we must not fritter away. Jared I want to give you an opportunity to speak to that as much as you would like and then I would like you to tell our audience what they can expect to find in your book so I give you the floor my friend.
Thank you, I appreciate it. I'll make this one point regarding the war in Ukraine, and just kind of draw from my experience in Vietnam but if you were to raise the courage and determination and grit of the Ukrainian fighters, it would be, gosh, 97, 98, 99, they want freedom, they want the same things that we have here in the United States. Democracy, liberty, freedom, a chance to pursue happiness, a chance to prosper under free enterprise. If you were to raise the grit and determination and courage of the Russian soldiers, they may be very courageous personally, but they've been lied to, they don't want to be there, they don't know why they're there, they probably understand that what they're doing is that when they have the civilians coming out and yelling at them and telling them to go home, they can understand that what they're doing has an evil purpose behind it. Their determination, their grit, and their willingness to sacrifice themselves might be at the level of 35 or 40, but that's, whatever, that is one of the reasons why the Ukrainians are doing so well. They're fighting a force that doesn't want to be there, doesn't believe in what they're doing, and they're actually losing on the ground on the mano a mano battles that are taking place. But of course, everybody sees that Mr. Putin is doing, he can't win on the ground, so what he's doing is firing his artillery, firing his cruise missiles into apartment buildings, churches, and schools, school buses, and killing children. Of course, he's guilty of war crimes of the worst kind, but that's where the battle is being fought and being won. That's not to say that they're necessarily going to win the war because he has 6,000 nuclear weapons, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, they're very much larger than Ukrainians.
I don't know how it's going to end over there, it's going to be an ugly situation that may go on for months and months, but I'm just going to put that in there. And let me, if I may pivot to a separate subject on my book there, let me give you a couple of examples from my book of tiny blunders that led to big disasters. The teaser on this one is a single piece of tape rotated several inches the wrong direction changed the outcome of the Vietnam War. The United States might very well have won except for this single tiny mistake, which doesn't make any sense, does it?
What the heck are we talking about? Well, that has to do with the Watergate break-in. And when the burglars were jimmying the lock for the parking garage into the office building, they were told to hold the striker and the door down with a piece of tape in the vertical position. But they made a mistake and they put it in the horizontal position so it could be on the door face, it could be seen by the night watchman.
So when Frank Wills, the night watchman, comes walking down the hallway because the door has a piece of tape on it, what's this? And the door has been jimmied and he calls the Washington DC police. He had to call them twice, by the way. And the strong rumor that indicates that the uniformed officer who was on duty in that area of the city that night was intoxicated in a local bar. So they couldn't use him, so they sent instead the bomb patrol, three officers dressed as hobos in a jalopy car. Well, they pulled up to the Watergate complex, they look out, it's not recognized them as police officers. They come in, they arrest James LaPorte and the Cuban burglars. Watergate began one level after another, another turns into one of the biggest scandals in American history. Henry Kissinger said later that the North Vietnamese had signed a treaty, but they began violating the treaties and they knew that they would. And the plan was to go back in and bomb living daylights, began to get them back in compliance with the treaty. They were so weak politically they could not, the Ford administration, Nixon administration, again, politically so weak.
So South Vietnam collapses, Nixon administration collapses, it all falls apart because a piece of tape turns several inches the wrong direction and a drunk cop. Wow. Wow. Yeah, well, and it didn't help, of course, you know, that McCain came home with 300 POWs and lied about leaving 300 POWs behind. And that John Kerry gave false testimony about, you know, American soldiers being, you know, rapists and child killers, which was all part of the, you know, communist disinformation plan.
That Pachepo actually was the one who outed in the late 1980s when he defected to the United States and shared both in Red Horizon as well as in the book Disinformation. Hmm. Wow.
Now, again, more. Yes. Yes. No doubt.
No doubt. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Well, those are some of the kinds of things that you can read about and learn about and understand. And I think, you know, there's a lesson to be learned there. Right. You know, that that details matter. Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. In the book, I talk about a naval flyer. He won the Navy Cross from actions at Midway. And he talked about the details preparation goes through the headgear, the two different pencils that he had, the wool cloth he needed to wipe off the plastic sheets that he was involved with, all these different steps he went through to make sure every single detail was exactly tight and exactly correct.
And now he's ready for battle. And he was extremely successful. People were just a little bit loose, a little bit sloppy. Again, it can lead to disasters. And I also talk about the book, a book by all the checklist that checklist manifesto. But I told the one day a doctor who revolutionized the way we pursue operations and reduce the fatalities in operations across the world with the checklist manifesto philosophy. Details are very important. Preparation is very important. And follow through reports are extremely critical to make sure tiny mistakes do not happen.
Sterilization, you know, is dependent on that, I would think, right? Yes. And we got a minute. I'll tell you the story quickly. He was saying, I told the one day that the way we did our operations was he had 6, 7, 8 years of experience underneath your belt.
Then you go in there at the operating room and just go by gut instinct and do what was appropriate. Well, but he said, we're human. We miss things. Mistakes were happening that could have been prevented. He said, I wonder how they did it over the airline industry.
They also had human beings dealing with great complexity. So we talked to the people over there at Boeing and went back to a famous airline accident back in 1935. It was a forerunner of the flying fortress and it was a beautifully built airplane. But there was a mistake. Boeing, two of its very best pilots, had a crash as the two pilots were killed. They investigated it and they said that the cause of the accident was a very tiny thing. They forgot to turn off the elevator yoke, which caused the nose of the airplane to go up, it stalled, it pancaked down and the two pilots were killed. And these were not the best pilots that Boeing had, but they said, what can we do to prevent it? They said, well, let's go back to an ancient tool, the humble checklist.
So remember your checklist. At the end of the day, when I stand before my God, I do not want him to ask me, what did you do with the world that I sent my son to die for and redeem? How did you fight the good fight to share the good news and keep evil in check?
How did you shine your light and be a beacon of truth in the darkness? Did you shrink back in fear when they demanded you change my message? Did you call evil good and good evil? Did you forsake my love for that of another, lying with the adulterer and setting up a new idol in your life? Have you defiled yourself through compromise and tolerance of that which I call an abomination? Have you innocent blood on your hands for the children murdered on your watch and the young ones perverted in their way by evil men, seeking their own comfort and reviling me?
No. At the end of the day, I want him to simply say, the evidence is in. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. I love my God and I love his creation and I will go to my grave telling the world that evil is evil and only God is good. And Jesus came to save the world. That no matter the evil in the world, I will never give up and in spite of the hate, I will love in truth. God bless you all and may love remove the veil so you all might enter into his rest. Thank you.
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