Member Training – Little Known Principles Behind the War For Independence

Member training from June 30th, 2025.

This week, we covered the principles behind the real American Revolution was not the war, but a change in the minds and hearts of the people that took place for 15 years before any blood was shed. The Founding Fathers worked to expose the satanic conspiracy of their day through pamphlets, articles, and speeches, warning that submission to the tyrannical perversion of government power is not a duty, but a crime against God and mankind. We must recognize the same tactics today—and go on the offense by building our own understanding and organizing opposition, so we too can apply these principles and restore the freedoms for which the founders pledged their lives.

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Dear kind and most loving Father in heaven, we thy sons and daughters and servants come before thee at this hour to be instructed on the principles and articles and responsibilities of liberty and freedom. We ask a special blessing tonight upon our hearts and minds that they will be open to messages that will be presented and that we can not only be hearers of the word but doers as well. We ask light blessings, Father, that will calm us of the anxieties that we may have and bring enlightenment to our hearts and minds to find other resources that will verify and confirm the truths that will be taught. We ask light blessings of peace to be upon our souls this night and that the words coming from Ben and his team will be inspired from on high and that they will be by will that will be shown forward to us and taught to us in a manner that will pierce us. and enlighten us and strengthen us if these things be thy will father we pray for them according to our faith in the sacred and holy name of jesus christ amen

for a reminder and this week is going over what we're going to be covering today um just part of the member manual and uh so this coming week between now and next monday we'll be covering the laws of nature and of nature's god also known as natural law so encourage you to do that this week for the reading to make sure you ask you know write down any questions you have or ideas on implementing it um so if nobody has any comments or anything like they'd like to share on the conspiracy section uh feel free to raise your hand if you do um but we'll go ahead and and talk about this week's uh reading for the member manual and share my screen okay so for some reason the recording last week had like all of the video on the uh the recorded screen so oh yeah you they can't hear you on from there to here so you just have to sit here if you want to have your mic so remember manual this week's reading is law of nature nature's god natural law referring to the declaration of independence it says the unanimous declaration of the 13 united states of america when the course of human events it becomes necessary when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitled them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation so very interesting timing very grateful for the timing on this because This is the week that we celebrate the events that occurred in this Declaration of Independence. And it talks about the laws of nature and of nature's God.

And so as we go over in the battle plan, right, in the member manual, under the understanding of God's law is the foundation that was necessary for the founders to have to be able to do what they did. If they did not understand this, They could not, nor would they have done what they did. It's an important thing to understand. So if we want to be able to accomplish or we want to be able to have the benefits and the blessings that the founding fathers had, we need to be able to understand and do the things that the founders did and as they apply to us today. And so it's as a part of that, those things that are laid out. right as a few it's impossible to name all of the laws of nature and of nature's god but the ones that they do list it's important to understand is that our rights come from god if we do not understand that our rights come from god then we will think that anybody else that tries to limit them are legitimate and we will give somebody it will it will make an idol out of another party that you decide to give the ability to give and take away rights. As you allow others to give or take away your rights, you are placing them in the position of God.

Some of those rights are life, liberty, and property. And that government was created to protect, not to give those rights, right? First Amendment says that the government is prevented from limiting your speech, limiting your practice and exercise of religion, from limiting your ability to be able to report on your opinions or events that are going on with the government. The Second Amendment prevents the government from taking away your right of defending yourself against them. That doesn't mean that they provide you with a church. They don't provide you with a website or a printing press. They don't provide you with weapons.

It just means they can't take them away from you. legitimately right and government gets its authority from the people everything that they do is authorized from the people so that's an essential thing to understand that if they get their their their power from us that means that they can only have power that we have to give them so if they are doing something that we don't have the authority to do as individuals that means they are thieves and robbers they are stealing power and authority that they cannot have because we cannot give it to them. And in addition to if we haven't given them permission to do that thing, they can't do that either. So if the government does things that they're not allowed to do, it is our job. It is our responsibility to get rid of that government or to fix it. If we can't fix it, we got to get rid of it.

Okay. So I guess before I go to there, does anybody have any comments, questions on what we've covered so far on this? Give you a chance to raise your hand or make a comment. Put some in chat. Okay. So these are some important books on understand the godly role of government under law. I do have a comment. Can you go back to the last screen? Yeah, here we go. Oops. Yeah. Who's talking? Rod. Who's talking? Okay, thank you. Rod. Hold on. Yeah, right here. Here you go. So just that last line there, I think that's what people don't understand. is that we all came to an agreement about how the ship is supposed to be run. And we have to keep in mind that we as a people came to that agreement. And if the people that are being charged to represent us are no longer running the ship according to our agreement, then we have to do something about it. And if we can't change it by voting, which should be obvious to everybody by now, then we're going to have to do something different. Right. Right.

And I just feel like too many of us don't understand that that's the situation. We like to say, we, the people, you know, people like to march around and wave their banners and their flags and say, you know, you work for us, but do you really believe it? Because if you believed it, you would be willing. to do something about it and i hate to say it but that's pretty much where we're at right now we have to do something about it yeah and i think people don't want to do it because that's a much harder job than punching a hole on a ballot you know every four years people like the path of least resistance but you're yeah you're absolutely right okay so some points that we learn under the godly role of government is that government gets its authority from God. So these are two different ways that government gets authority, right?

Well, to exist, not the job that they have. So they get their authority to exist from direct revelation, right? Moses, Joshua, those are examples that we covered last week of direct revelation, appointing those individuals to be in government. But if there is not a revelation appointing someone to be the head of the government or to be in government, then a legitimate... election will be given with its sole duty of glory and then government's job is the sole duty of glorifying god and they glorify god by protecting your life liberty and property and punishing evil right as we read in romans 13 their job is to bless those that do good and to punish those that do evil so they bless those that do good by protecting their life liberty and property Godly governments have laws which punish crimes such as adultery, sodomy, theft, murder, lying, kidnapping, bestiality, rape, etc. Those things that, you know, if somebody is violating your life, liberty, or property in those ways, then they, of course, are, the government is duty-bound to punish them. And these, you know, there are a lot of people that are in the libertine movement.

You know, there's no victim, no crime type of a thing where they say, you know, things like adultery, claiming that there's no victim or bestiality, claiming there's no victim. Things in morality, issues of morality, they will say that there is no victim. But God has declared otherwise. And so we need to make sure that we understand what has been laid out by the Lord as what is the revealed authority of government in their job and punishing evil in addition to. blessing good and what what happens to a society that allows those things so going to uh the the whole duty of man by samuel poofendorf talking about natural law he says that it must be supposed to be the will of god that man should make use of those faculties with which he is peculiarly endowed beyond the brutes beyond right just the animals to the preservation of his own nature and consequently that the life of man should be different from the lawless life of the irrational creatures right animals don't care about your life your property they'll they just do whatever pleases them but because we are in created in god's image we have a higher standard and since this cannot otherwise be achieved but by an observance of the law natural it must be understood that there is from god an obligation laid upon man to pay obedience here too as a means not invented by the wit or imposed by the will of men, nor capable of being changed by their humors and inclinations, but expressly ordained by God himself in order to the accomplishing this end.

So essentially what it's saying is you can't change God's laws. You can't change law of nature. I throw a ball up in the air, it's going to come down. If we allow evil to exist in a society, that society will fall down, will fall apart. And so those things are not changed by their inclinations, by their desires, by their general feelings or emotions of the time. Yes, Amy. We got to unmute, Amy. I'm not sure if you're talking, but you got your hand raised. Okay. Feel free to raise your hand again if you are able to unmute. So it's important for us to understand this, that these things don't change with time or location, that these principles apply no matter what. Yes, Amy, go ahead. Okay, so sorry about that. You're good. Can you talk a little bit about how it applies to, like, sharing resources? So, like, if there's a national park or water shares, you know, we have water shares where I live, stuff like that. So how that, well, I would say that national, you know, government owning a property.

Yeah, like government's role in. Well, if we have to share the river, right? So, I mean, if someone's polluting the river, you punish crimes. That's kind of obvious. But is our share ungodly then? So that's a great question. So you go back to, again, one of the first governments that we have where God reveals his will on these things. where you put your defecation. Those things are laid out because if you put them in an area where it's going to poison everyone's water, that hurts everyone. And so that's why we have to know those things to be able to understand what is legitimate. And that's something that the conspiracy likes to do. And that's why they're pushing us into these 15-minute cities, high-density housing, Agenda 2030, is because they want to have this forced idea of, There's no private property because you're all sharing the space.

And so we get to tell you what to do with it and whether that's limiting how many people you have in your home, you know, controlling your water, those types of things where as if we look at the scriptures and how it lays it out, it's very much clear in a way that protects everybody's individual liberty and from those that would damage everyone's water supply as well as making it. And so one individual doesn't control. everyone's waters you know your ability to provide yourself with life-sustaining water right so that's where it's right right so that's where it's polluting the water so is a water share ungodly i mean by and large they're making up how you know this the water scare right um but is is there i mean there is truth to sometimes scarcity and resources so like where would that is it ungodly for a government to um intervene in scarcity of resources right right that'd have to be under again a godly government as we talked about last week and we've kind of introduced here where is that government actually you know are they legitimate are they there by revelation or are they there legitimately by the voice of the people?

Are they part of the conspiracy? Are they acting as... Oh, you're cutting out for me. Yeah, Ben, you're cutting out really bad. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you can hear us, but you're cutting out for us. Okay. Yeah, I hear you. I am trying to solve that. What's that? Is that better? Okay. I can hear you now. Okay, good. Sorry about that. That's better for me. Okay. So what I was saying was, as we look at the proper godly government, they are put there by God or they are put there by the people legitimately. And once they are there legitimately, are they acting legitimately or are they part of the conspiracy? And should they then be treated as invaders? And so it's essential that the people are vigilant.

So case by case basis. Well, yeah. So if that person, if that... that government is legitimate and they are not acting as a conspiracy to deprive the the people of their resources then yeah that's that's definitely would be something as we see in the scriptures an example of the government making sure that everyone's ability to have life is protected okay so that's a good enough answer that's good alan and then micah go ahead i'll go alan first uh water When I took real estate, we studied Utah water law. When I moved back home to Escalante, I had a rude awakening where the people that are elected on the irrigation board, water board, or whatever, they make up their own rules. They're the perfect example of nullification of law. They make things up as they go. And it's usually local people, local leaders.

And they take the attitude, well, we've got to share for everybody. But growing up, I grew up in Kearns. When Kearns left being a military camp, some important guy bought the water rights. And so everyone bought their drinking water and that. the guy that owned it. I was a young kid. It seems like everything was fair. But going to Escalante, where the water should be first come, first served, like what Utah water law is, they didn't want people to move up above the water thing and shut it down. They don't care about your rights of owning a water right. The Escalade, I think we used a half to a quarter of our water rights that we paid for so everyone would have some. It's one of the crookedest socialist things in Utah. Yep. That would be an example of that illegitimate government. Okay, thanks, Alan. Micah, go ahead.

I would say water rights falls in the same category of real estate, property rights. So like, and it should be, I think it should be thought of as, you know, like in the, in that book, economic order, like God's economic order, whatever. I can't remember what the book is called. It may have been to remind me afterwards, but economic order of heaven, right? I think that's it. So basically a lot of the concept for, so let's say you go to New York. and you go to times square and you and you go i want to buy this piece of property right here in the middle of time square and i don't know what the going rate is there it's probably like a million dollars a square foot or something obscenely absurd and the reality is is that the reason why it's more expensive It isn't because of any value that the property owner has put into that property.

In that particular case, it's really only more valuable because of all the other people around it. And so people get stuff and then it gets in value because of all the other people around it. And then they're like, oh, I've made a good investment. I own this. I deserve these benefits. And that's not God's. economy right that's that's totally improper that's totally evil um there's a whole myriad of ways to manufacture and make these things synthetic or force people to make the property more valuable by making sure people can't go anywhere else um and so i would say water rights are very similar that they have this inflation and there's always enough water You just have to drill for it. And sometimes there are places where people, they pump so much water, they dry everyone else's well out. I don't think that's right.

But you can always get more water. And I would think that as far as water right is concerned, if the water isn't being used to serve God's children, then I think... whatever is going on with the value or the holding thereof would definitely be illegitimate. Yeah. Yep. Right. Thank you. Okay. So as we look at, right, as with anything else, effective application starts with understanding. And so these are the, you know, these are a few books that will help you understand what God's law is and, and, and what it, how to apply it. So you have, of course, the scriptures we have, and the other books are listed in the manual as well. But these are the things to help us. These are the people that have gone through and shown the application of it. And what is the indisputable, obvious, self-evident application of these things.

So highly encourage us to all go through these books and really start to have it as your study with your commonplace book, as mentioned in the manual. to go through and maybe even as you're highlighting your scriptures you have a certain color for what is god's law when they when we have a godly government so appreciate your time on this please uh go through that uh this week and bring some good questions or some good thoughts on it as we follow up with it next week so let's get into tonight's training as we prepare this week as we honor and celebrate what occurred on july 3rd and 4th 1776 I'm going to, this isn't going to be your typical rah, rah, rah. You know, it's, you know, Independence Day and isn't everything great. I really want to go through and cover some things that you don't typically hear about when people talk about the Declaration of Independence. What is the history of it? What are the principles that they followed? Because this is actually going to make it more. It's not just, I feel good, but this is like, oh, this is how we apply principles. as they would be applied in a modern setting.

I don't know why my internet's so slow today. Okay. So of course, as always to the thought process, as we're going over these things, we're not just here. just to have our ears tickled, but to build our understanding and adherence to these principles. These principles that have built free nations to expose the conspiracy and to build an effective resistance to that satanic conspiracy, okay? So again, this isn't just history for the sake of history. It is for understanding and a modern application of these ideas, right? So we have the Declaration of Independence. This is the Betsy Ross flag, but this is not, you know, this is sometimes what we think of as the birthday of America. But this is not the birthday of America. The Constitution was formed. That would be the birthday of America, as we think of it, because that is when the Constitution was formed. But at the point of the Declaration of Independence, we were 13 independent nations.

13 independent nations they did not sign a treaty with one nation they signed it with 13 independent nations so this is an important thing because we've been brainwashed into this idea of one nation under god right indivisible as an idea to be able to destroy what it was the founding fathers set up into this monarchy that they want us to believe that we're under today And so I want to talk about some little concepts, little known concepts that led to independence. This letter between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, we read what John Adams talked about, what led to these things. He says, what do we mean by the revolution, the war? That was no part of the revolution.

It was only an effect and consequence of it. So the war was... was not the part of the revolution it was just what the result of the revolution which might seem strange to a lot of us the revolution was in the minds of the people and this was affected from 1760 to 1775 in the course of 15 years before the before a drop of blood was shed at lexington that's where the revolution was was in the minds of the people getting them to accept new ideas and then to apply those ideas. The records of the 13 legislatures, the pamphlets, newspapers, and all the colonies ought to be consulted during that period to ascertain the steps by which the public opinion was enlightened and informed concerning the authority of parliament over the colonies. So this is really, really an important principle for us to understand. And I hope we will internalize this because so often, you know, and I talk about it. I don't want to be an information junkie. I'm not here just to learn something. Of course, we want to apply what we learn, but you cannot act effectively or appropriately without first learning. And that's what they did, right?

That was where the revolution was, he says. Looking at the records, what did the legislature, what did people talk about? in in these groups and the pamphlets and the posters that they printed um what were the newspaper articles and the news letters to the editor in the colonies what what were they talking about the these were the tools that were used to implement the revolution as as mentioned here by john not my favorite way to refer to the war for independence but This is, you know, too often we think of the war, like all of a sudden we didn't like being taxed. And so we started shooting at the British. That's kind of like how it's thought of generally. It's really on basic layman term. That's not what it was. We were building, they were building the understanding of the masses.

And the masses were able to act accordingly and effectively because of the understanding that was built through their speeches, through their... writings and uh through the the public meetings and then the application of it and so we we can't underestimate the importance of education and and too often we want to skip the step of education but education is vital to being able to have appropriate action this is an example of one of the famous pamphlet in the 1760s starting to build this understanding amongst the people by an Andrew Elliott. He was a pastor and he was speaking to an official governor that was appointed by England and putting out these ideas to the people so that they could start to apply them. But they would write them, especially in the beginning, right?

In the 1760s, they weren't out in their face saying, yeah, we want to leave and have independence. No, they were laying the groundwork before they got to independence. You couldn't go from, hey, you know what? High taxes are lame. Let's go have a new country. They had to build the understanding of principles before they could even get to that point. And so in this sermon that was given to the governor, he says, but where men are grossly of a contrary character, contrary to liberty, and pervert their power to tyrannical purposes, So, right, the power of government is not for tyranny, but that's a perversion of their power. Submission, if it can be avoided, is so far from being a duty that it is a crime. So he's saying that if we have tyranny going on around us, submission to it is a crime. That was a very bold thing to say and very much, you know, controversy. Because it is an offense against the state of which we are members. and whose happiness we ought to prefer to our chief joy.

It is an offense against mankind whose rights we meanly betray. It is an offense against God who is good to all and who has appointed government for the welfare and happiness and not the destruction of his creatures. So we are offending God, we are offending our neighbor, and we are offending the society we want to be a part of when we allow and when we... avoid when we allow tyranny when we avoid standing up to tyranny we are offending every you know from god down to our neighbor when we do that and they were you know that that is a principle that they were laying out that they were helping to remind the people and instill in them these principles so that then they could start to act because before that they're like they were just of the idea we just have to submit to government no matter what So another example of an article in a pamphlet that was used to rally the people. Oh, thank you. I'm just looking at the chat. Sorry.

So this is a, it was an, it was a article in the paper that was written by Samuel Adams at the time it was written under a pen name. So I think this is an important thing for people to understand as well today. It's, you know, people will say, Oh, what are you hiding? If you, you know, is your idea really good? If you have to hide it, you know, hide your name. Shouldn't you be proud of it and stand in front of it? Well, you know, when you're when what you say is going to lead to your death, you know, it may be some wisdom and not advertising who you are might be in play. And that's what Samuel Adams and others of the founders. really explained and taught. And so in this article, The Rights of the Colonists, he says, if men through fear, fraud, or mistake should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. So if you say, if you give up one of your rights, you know, if you give up one of your, these rights that are given to you from God because you're afraid of the government, because you were tricked by someone or because you made a mistake, you giving up that right is invalid because you can't give up something God gave you. It's not your right to do that.

So natural law says that it's an invalid renunciation of your rights. It says the conspirators, so he was not afraid to call it a conspiracy, the conspirators against our liberties are employing all their influence to divide the people, partly by intimidating them, for which purpose a fleet of ships lies within gunshot of the town and the capital fort within three miles of it. It is garrisoned by the king's troops and partly by arts and intrigue by flattering those who are pleased with flattery, forming connections with them, introducing levity, luxury, and indolence, and assuring them that if they are quiet, the ministry will alter their measures. This is a trick that is used to this day where they get, you know, depending on who you are, they're either going to get you and to not fight them through making you afraid of fighting them.

Or they will, which is usually the first thing that they try to do is to try and flatter you, give you things, offer you a station or give you, offer you money or offer you title or position or property. or make sure that your life is comfortable. If you just, you know, hey, we get it. Just here's some things to make your life a little more comfortable. Just leave us alone and we'll take care of this for you. Don't worry about it. Okay. If you don't see how that applies today, you're not paying attention. I'm surprised you're here because this is clearly, these are clearly principles that are used today to get people to not fight for the things that God gave them. So. The founders warn of the conspiracy.

They, again, were not afraid to do so. And one of these pamphlets, they talk about the acts that might by themselves have been upon many considerations, excused or extenuated, derived a contagious malignancy and odium from other acts which they were connected. They were not regarded according to the simple force of each, but as parts of a system of oppression. So, you know, if these things were just done in onesies and twosies, you know, you would give them an excuse and you would give them a pass and say, it's all an accident. But as these things accumulate, it is clear they are part of a system of oppression, meaning people are working together on purpose to take away your liberty. So that was one of the founders, John Dickinson, and he was famous for his farmer's letters. maybe lesser known founding fathers, said the influence of the crown was being used to staff the administration with new favorites and King's friends who formed a secret closet party beyond the control of Parliament and guided behind the scenes by the sinister combination of the Earl of Butte and the Princess Dowager of Wales.

Mr. George Rood, Wilkes and Lippert. So these are pamphlets though. that were published and sent abroad and letters to the editor that were helping to build the understanding, not just of natural law, but of the threats to freedom, that there was a conspiracy that was trying to take away their liberty, that it wasn't happening by accident, but there was a concerted effort to do so. And they were not afraid to call it what it is. And these were the pamphlets that were going around and helping to build the understanding of the people so that they could take effective action. leading to the declaration. But of course, those either in the establishment or those that accepted those things that Sam Adams talked about, those positions or the money, the luxury of life, they wanted to defend that. And so you had people here called Tories, people that were defending the British crown and their actions.

This one says the sophisticated members of political society. rightly dismissed as rubbish, the misconceived but genuine radical fear that the triumph of British arms and authority in America would be followed by the extinction of British liberties at home. I do not quite credit the ministry with endeavoring to enslave the colonists by system. I believe they are very happy if they can find expedience for the present moment. So, of course, you know, he's a negotiator for the British, and so he's trying to convince them. the colonists that, hey, this stuff, this is not, you know, there's no plot. They're not working to try and take away your liberties. They want everybody happy. So, you know, we're going to find a way to get around these things because it's not on purpose. Trust us. And we have another example of a prominent lawyer in the colonies that defended the British against the idea of a conspiracy going on. He says, I know the good disposition of the ministry towards you.

How often do we hear this today of, oh, you know, he's nice. You know, he was my religious leader. He was my bishop. He was a stake president. And he was just really nice. And, you know, he is not evil. How dare you accuse him of being evil, right? I know there is no disposition either in the king, the ministry, or the parliament to oppress America in any shape. You guys are just paranoid. You know, how dare you accuse these good men of trying to hurt you? So, you know, these are the same things that we see today are the same tactics that were going on back then to get people to not listen to the writings and warnings of those that were working for independence. We have another example. This one was, I'm sorry. Oh, so no, I'm sorry. He wasn't a prominent lawyer. He was a member of the House of Commons.

This was our our lawyer, prominent lawyer. He says that taking the whole of the acts complained of together, they do not, I think, manifest a system of slavery, but may fairly be imputed to human frailty and the difficulty of the subject. So he's saying, you know, all of these things. Yeah, there's lots of different examples of our rights being taken away, but it's not a system. We're not doing it on purpose. It's just because they're stupid. And it's just really hard for them to understand how to solve these issues. Most of them seem to have sprung out of particular occasions or are unconnected with each other, right? This is the accidental theory of history. It's not a conspiracy. These things are totally unconnected. In short, I think those acts may have been passed without a preconcerted plan of enslaving us. And it appears to me that the more favorable construction... whatever to be put on the conduct of our rulers. I cannot therefore think the government to dissolve. He's saying, you know, I'm never going to support the idea of independence. All right. The Declaration of Independence is a bad idea because.

They are not working. We have to not, you know, we can't give malice to stupidity. We can't assign malice to stupidity, right? These guys are just dumb. They're well-meaning. They just need to have another sternly written letter explaining to them what's really going on. And then we'll be able to fix this. You know, we just need to vote harder next time. We just need to, you know, be more engaged with these guys. And we'll be able to fix this. How often do we hear these arguments today? And so not only do they try to poo-poo the idea that there is a conspiracy to take away their freedom, but they want to go after the character of those that are of the revolutionary mindset to get people not to believe them, which is another tactic that is used regularly. So James Murray, who was a loyalist and wrote letters to individuals trying to counteract. what samuel adams and others were doing he says when in 1765 a crowd surrounded the elegant house of massachusetts customs officer tore down his fences broke his windows and at last forced the door destroying his furniture stealing his honey scattering his books and papers and drinking the wines in his cellar to drunkenness then for the moment the tory shuddered at the power of the enraged democracy so he's he's saying that the you know the colonists are just a mob And they're not actually trying to do freedom, you know, trying to implement freedom.

They're just a mob that is working to destroy people's private property and to get drunk off of the spoils of their mobocracy. In another series of letters in local newspapers, we see this article that says, will not posterity be amazed, cried a Tory writer when they are told that the present distraction took its rise. from a three penny duty on T will they not call it a most unaccountable frenzy and more disgraceful to the animals of America than that of witchcraft so essentially he's calling the colonists engaging in things and crimes that are worse than witchcraft so going after their integrity right because of course that this this is a time where witchcraft is illegal and it is It is something that everybody recognizes as a crime that should be punished by law. And so if what the colonists are doing is not defending their God-given rights, but are engaged in basically a temper tantrum over three pennies, over three cents, then what they're doing is worse than witchcraft.

That's another one of the attacks that was against the movement for independence. Again, in another account, it says the committees of correspondence were dismissed as artful, crafty and insidious practices of some evil minded and ill disposed persons who intend to reduce all things to a state of tumult, discord and confusion. We see that accusation against people that are promoting nullification and promoting independence. that defend those like, you know, the founding fathers or defend those like those that in the southern states that said, you know what, we don't want to be a part of this anymore. We want to separate ourselves.

Or you have the saints, the Latter-day Saints as they leave the United States, right? They're just anybody that wants to separate themselves. They're just anarchists that want to just have total chaos and are against order. They were the illegal creations of a junto to to serve particular designs and purposes of their own, tending directly to sedition, civil war and rebellion. OK, another example, we have Peter Oliver, who is another Tory who was an American colonist that defended the British. He said the authors and promoters of this desperate conspiracy. So those that claim that the king in parliament. are involved in the conspiracy to destroy liberty having the conduct of it derived great advantage from the difference of our intentions and theirs so they're explaining that they're trying to claim that you know we're just out here minding our own business and these colonists are out there trying to cause trouble they meant only to amuse by vague expressions of attachment to the parent state and the strongest protestations of loyalty to me whilst they were preparing for a general revolt So they were lying about loyalty while they were preparing for revolt.

The religious war now levied is manifestly carried on for the purpose of establishing an independent empire. So, you know, they're not against tyranny. They're just against this tyranny. And so, you know, and just if you guys remember about a year or two ago, the Utah governor, Cox, said that the... the complaints against him are just because these people just have too much time on their hands they have too much liberty and so because when you have too much liberty you want to complain about everything same basically the same argument that's going on here and so the establishment of course they they have to respond as well so they they pooh-pooh conspiracy they attack the character of the colonists and now they want to say okay here's your complaints let's let's let's go through the complaints of the colonists and see if they're legitimate. They said that when Americans objected to taxation without representation, the English answered that the colonies were represented because the merchants interested in colonial trade were represented as a class in the House of Commons.

So they're like, what are you talking about? You do have representation. If a loyalist understood the American doctrine, he only conceded that reform was necessary in England. He was opposed to nullification and wished to harmonize, not to disrupt the empire. So basically what they're saying here is that if they acquiesced, if they accepted the complaint of not having representation, they believe that this could be fixed through some more sternly written letters and we can pass some little tweaks and we can fix the situation with England. There's no reason. to have independence. Parliament was subject to the limitations of conscience and of public opinion. The instincts of the English race would prevent oppression. So they were trying to say that A, not only do you not have oppression now, but there is no chance of having oppression in the future. So your complaints are completely illegitimate because it's impossible for our type of people. to be oppressed. It just isn't within our nature. And so again, talking about how the founding fathers, because they had an organized, can you, so you've got these, right?

You've got Sam Adams, who was a poor man and literally subsided on, he subsisted on the generosity of others to allow him to be able to promote the cause of liberty. He couldn't have done it without the help of others. And so, but you have the the entire money system of the British Empire and its agents in government to be able to counteract the complaints of the American. colonists but they were able to do it of course and this is something again John Adams in another letter explains that the revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations that's where it was they were working to change these things change the minds of the people not just take over a government this radical change in the principles opinions sentiments and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. So he repeats to Hezekiah the same thing that he said to Thomas Jefferson, that it was the change in the opinions and sentiments, changing the minds of the people. That was really what led to the Declaration of Independence and the people surrendering, you know, the people separating themselves from England. It was not just going to They didn't just go from I don't like taxes to shooting redcoats.

And so, of course, to be able to do this, they had to go on the offense. They weren't defending themselves against the accusations of the king. They went on the offense. So we have this example of another speech by Samuel Adams where he says, if we take a retrospective two or three years past, we shall find that what our pretended patriots, as they were styled in the court gazette, so zealously forewarned us of has since turned out to be a fact so presented patriots so there were people that would pretend right they would say oh i sympathize with you but you guys are just going too far he says that every art would be made use of to lull the people of this province and continent into security in order that the conspirators against our rights and liberties might carry on their schemes and complete their system of tyranny without opposition or molestation. So he's saying that there were people that were pretending to be friends of ours while the entire time, their entire goal, they were conspirators, right? They were saying one thing and they were involved in the conspiracy to do something different.

We sympathize with you, but hey, we need to make sure that we don't do anything that will actually work. That's what we're talking about when we talk about false opposition in the Liberty Boot Camp, right? Talking about how we have these wolves and sheep's clothing where they're pretending and they're saying all these good things. But then when it comes to the solution, it's always to empower the conspiracy. And that's exactly what Sam Adams was warning here in 1773, right? Just three years leading up to the Declaration of Independence that we have these wolves and sheep's clothing. with their direct purpose of ensuring that the people that were upset with the government were not doing anything to actually be effective in opposing them. And so what did the Crown do? They issued a, you know, they wanted to stop and they wanted to silence Sam Adams and his friends. And so we have a proclamation explaining that, hey, guys, we're going to help you out if you will just help us out.

Whereas the infatuated multitudes who have long suffered themselves to be conducted by certain well-known incendiaries and traitors in a fatal progression of crimes against the constitutional authority of the state have at length proceeded to avow rebellion and the good effects which were expected to arise from the patience and leniency of the king's government. So the king is just so, you know, very lenient and he is very kind to the people. He's very patient with them. have been often frustrated and are now rendered hopeless by the influence of the same evil counsels it only remains for those who are entrusted with supreme rule as well as for as well for the punishment of the guilty as the protection of the well-affected to prove they do not bear the sword in vain it is ex in his exigency of complicated calamities i avail myself of the last effort within the bounds of my duty to spare the effusion of blood to offer and i do hereby in his majesty's name offer and promise his most gracious pardon to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms and return to the duties of peaceable peaceable subjects accepting only the benefit of such pardon samuel adams and john hancock whose offenses are too flagacious, a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of consigned punishment. So everybody gets a pardon. If you just lay down your opposition and go back to being a peaceful and obedient subject, except for Sam Adams and John Hancock. Now, were they engaged in open fire against the government?

Were they killing anybody? No. It was because the government was afraid of them and their words, the things that they were saying, because they knew the importance of building understanding. They knew that if they could stop, you know, the people in jail that were giving these talks, that were writing these pamphlets, that were leading the cause, if they could put them in jail and silence them, then the rest of the people would go back to their lives and they could be bought with fear or with comfort and luxury. And so, again, we go through these things. This isn't just history for history's sake. It's to understand how do we have a modern application for this. So what did they do? They built their own understanding. They spoke publicly. They wrote public letters. They produced and distributed pamphlets and posters. They organized opposition to specific government officials. And they rallied support for specific. causes and actions so with modern technology we can apply what they did with what we the tools that we have today we don't have to only produce pamphlets and just produce posters and just give talks in you know town square there are ways that we can you know do this in um with modern technology but these are the principles that we follow to be able to do what the founding fathers did to be able to preserve our liberties because they are deathly afraid of us doing those things.

And so we look at these as calls to action of applying what they did and being weary of the excuses that we will hear from those that pretend to be our friends but are actually, in application, our enemies. So I hope that this was beneficial and this was something that was something new to you and some principles that we can start to apply. in our efforts to be able to defend and restore liberty as we are now going into this week preparing for the celebrations of independence day we can really understand what led to july 4th 1776 with much better understanding and so that we can actually live according to those principles and not just have them be something that we don't even understand as a past Something that, you know, these romanticized images that we see in movies today. So with that, we can talk about some more in the open forum. Let's go ahead and close up for the night. But Brittany, would you give us the closing prayer? Are you available? I got you. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. OK.

Our kind, gracious Heavenly Father, we're grateful for the opportunity to meet together as a group and to be able to discuss our sovereignty and our liberties and for all the efforts that all of us are making to progress towards that. We ask that that may be with each of us as we go about our weeks, that we might be able to find those that are like-minded and willing to be open to... the ideas that we discuss at the Tree of Liberty Society. And we ask that thou may bless each of us this week that we might be able to feel thy spirit in our everyday lives and be able to uplift and uphold the principles that we talk about in our group. And we ask that thou may be with us tonight and hope that we may be able to continue to share our thoughts and feelings and that all may be able to come to a place where we feel safe. And we ask that thou may be with us and we say these things humbly in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.