Member Training – History of Controlled Opposition

Member training from December 8th, 2025.

Tonight’s meeting focused on helping us better understand and recognize the long-standing tactic of false or controlled opposition so that we are not deceived, ensnared, or diverted from effective action. We emphasized that controlled opposition is not an exception but a historical rule, used repeatedly by governments and conspiratorial powers to identify dissenters, neutralize real resistance, and steer sincere people into ineffective or counterproductive efforts. Through allegories, scriptural principles, and historical examples—from ancient empires to modern political figures—we were reminded that we must judge not by words, appearances, or media narratives, but by fruits, actions, and outcomes. The purpose of this discussion was to sharpen our discernment, protect our time, resources, and credibility, and help us avoid supporting personalities, movements, or causes that merely appear to oppose tyranny while ultimately serving it.

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TRANSCRIPT

our father in heaven we're here to start our tree of liberty society for this monday night and we're grateful that we can be here and and ask thy guidance to be with ben and to be with us that we may internalize what we hear tonight and apply it to ourselves father we ask a special blessing on the technology that all will function exactly as it ought, that anybody who might be logging into the other one will realize it and come over here, so they don't miss anything. Father, please bless each of our individual computers, that they will stay connected and function properly. We pray now, Father, that thou would Bless us to think of things that we can do and become aware of those things that we ought to do to be in the way of truth and spread it to our family and friends. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

And I want to mention the book available in the three different formats. Audiobook is only available on the website. But the paperback and e-book are available both on our website and on Amazon and on Barnes & Noble. Encourage folks to get copies for themselves and to give it out as gifts. And it's a really important book that we really want to get out there. We want to make it a household name in Liberty Circles. And then again, remind everyone that we do have the two options available for membership. 30 days free, and we have also the yearly, the annual membership, which also saves money. So if you'd like to switch your membership over from a monthly over to annual, it can save you some money there as well. So tonight we're going to be talking about the history of false or controlled opposition. We've talked about the principle of... controlled opposition. And we'll cover it again, kind of, we'll give some new examples that we haven't covered before, but I want to show the history of it, uh, in, in the, in the, uh, idea, um, of so that we can better understand it so that we can better identify it. We can better warn others about it. We can, um, better, um, uh, avoided ourselves. So we don't fall for those traps.

And, um, and so that's really the, uh, the, The push of tonight is to be able to better avoid being ensnared by the trap of false and controlled opposition and the different effects that it has on us. Also making sure that we are doing everything we can during the week to increase our knowledge and that everything that we do is for the purpose of understanding and adhering to the principles that have built free nations. to expose the satanic conspiracy that we face and, of course, build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. Hey, Ben. Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry. Some people in the chat are saying that they cannot see the screen. I wanted to tell everybody at the top of your screen there should be a view button. I think Ben pointed that out earlier. If you click on that, you may have the option of presentation.

See if you can click on that and see if it will show you the PowerPoint. and then speak up or chat again please so is it not showing is it showing to you um okay so i'm the one that said something um i clicked on view and i i clicked on presentation because it went to that at the beginning and now i still haven't seen anything like it's just like all these blurred lines i don't know like it's like loading almost and i don't know if that's me i'm sure it's me because i don't know like i don't know if it's our internet or what i see nothing are you seeing it Rod? Yeah, it looks perfectly flat on my end. I see your PowerPoint. Okay, maybe I'll just exit and come back in then. Okay. Anybody else having an issue? Doesn't seem like it. So I'm going to exit. I'll come back in. Okay. Mark, do you see it? Yes, I do. The volume is lower, but I can still hear you.

The volume is lower. Okay. I'm going to go over. Okay. all my volume should be good i just adjusted a little bit and we'll see make sure that doesn't i don't want it to redline and give distortion but that's much better thank you oh good okay that looks like it's redlining on on my thing though so anyways okay well let's get back to what we're covering tonight and uh there's there's of course additional purposes behind false or controlled opposition. But these are the two angles that I'm going to be focusing on tonight. And the first one is so that the conspiracy can identify who is opposing them. That's one of the reasons why they create groups that pretend to oppose them.

And then also is the other main reason to me is, and that we face the most, is to make sure that those of us that oppose the New World Order is as ineffective as possible. And so that's really the parts that we're going to cover today. And being ineffective has multiple angles to it where you're ineffective because you're doing the wrong thing. You're supporting the wrong people. You, there's, you know, there's, you're, you're not, you're trusting someone else to do something for you. Right. And so you don't take the action yourself. So there's just, there's lots of different ways that we can be ineffective. We can trust the wrong sources of information. Right. Lots of different ways for us to be ineffective. And we have to understand that. So also another part of it is that we have to understand. We can't stick our head in the sand. We have to realize that people are going to lie to us to accomplish their agenda. And they're going to tell us what we want to hear.

So often, you know, we come across a certain demographic of people that just assume that no one would ever lie to them that, you know, unless there's something that, you know, unless they've got like a twirly, you know, supervillain mustache. or they're a raging Democrat, you know, liberal communist. But if they say that they're for liberty, if they say they're for doing something that we agree with, all of a sudden our guard goes down and we trust everything that they say. And so we really have to start to put our guard up and say, okay. You know, I like what he's saying. Let me let me dig a little bit further, because I know that people are going to try to lie to me. They're going to try and they're going to tell me something that they think I want to hear so that I believe them and that I follow what they're. saying is the solution, the things that we need to do, or we support them because that they're claiming to do something that we support.

And so we need to make sure that we are not just being Pollyanna about stuff and just taking people at their word in this movement. So there's a couple of allegories that I want to share with you that will illustrate the principle. These aren't, of course, historical. situations that I'm going to share with you. But they are allegories. They are stories that help us to better understand the principle because it's done in such an obvious way to get over the subtleness of it so that we can say, okay, now I get it. So I'm going to play this short clip from Song of the South on Br'er Rabbit. How did Br'er Rabbit get away, Uncle Remus? Who say he get away? Bird Rabbit always gets away. Don't you be too sure. Ain't I done told you? That Bird Rabbit being little without much strength, he's supposed to use his head instead of his foot. Did he? Join me. Now who's telling this your tale? You are. Then you just sit and do the listening. Well, sir, there he was. Sitting in the middle of the road.

Just like you sitting in that chair. Only he's all mixed up with that tall baby. And it sure looked like the end of the finish for poor little Brittle Rabbit. Cause old Brittle Fox was fixing a barbecue here for dinner. Right then and there. Yes sir, yes sir. Just in a minute now. Won't be long now. Dinner's gonna be ready in a minute now. All you have to do is put a few more sticks on fire. It's fire going good. Oh, excuse me. You just wanna stay finished, Brittle Rabbit. We ain't gonna take no excuses now. We just love to have you for dinner. Wouldn't we just love to have him with his blood back? Ain't that just what you've been saying? No, sir. What I said was, I'm gonna knock his head clean off. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, she's mine. I caught him and you keep your hands off. But look, I'm gonna knock his head clean off. No, no, no, no, that's too quick. but please don't flame me in that That's it, I'll hang it. Hang him by the neck till he's dead. Hang me if you like, Brother Fox. Go ahead. But don't fling me in that bribe, Pat. Well, I ain't got no room for to hang me, so I specs. I specs I'll have to skin you.

Yeah, sure. I said I'm gonna skin. Skin me? me oh no Okay, so that really, you know, from this... cartoon kid you know telling a story it teaches us a valuable lesson that too many of us in the liberty battle don't grasp and don't see where you have the conspiracy where they set up a group of people to say oh no you better don't elect that guy that guy's a danger to us he's anti-establishment he's against what we're doing don't don't vote for him That's the worst thing you could do. And so they believe they have all these different people that, you know, they'll attack somebody that's, you know, either in power or in media. And they'll say, oh, that guy, you know, he's he's a real threat to us. We hate him. And then and people say, well, look at all of the people that I disagree with and they hate him. That must mean that guy's a good guy. But what are we doing? We're falling for the falling for the same trick. that we we learn about here we say oh they don't like them they must be good instead of actually looking at the bigger picture looking beyond the obvious looking at you know beyond what's on the surface level uh that not only people that are trying to trick us to think that they're our friend but people that trick us to think that their friend is is they're actually their enemy and so We see that same thing with the Trojan horse, where you have these people that have been fighting and at war with each other.

And one of the sides that wants to win the battle, they pretend to give up. And then they present the opposing side with this gift. And everybody's like, oh, that's so nice of them. It's a gift. They're being nice. And that's what I... I just did a podcast this last week and I said that people that claim to be nice or that people say, oh, they're the nicest person is usually, especially in government, the person that's one of the most pushing the New World Order agenda. And so they get tricked by niceness. They get tricked by gifts. They get tricked by, you know, the flattering ear and they bring this enemy into their. you know into their proverbial gates and now we've left enemy in thinking that they were our friend and so these are these are allegories these are important principles these are that we can that we need to learn i think that's why you really don't see these things taught you know um in government schools we don't we don't learn allegories anymore that and if we do they are saying that they're you know teaching the wrong the opposite lesson than they're actually teaching And so these help us understand greater issues.

But let's get into specifics and how we judge. In the scriptures, the Savior taught us that we are to beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing or Trojan horse clothing. But inwardly, they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? OK, so he doesn't say judge them by their nice words, doesn't say judge them by the, you know, by the speeches that they give or the things that they are claiming. He says, no, judge them by the things that they're producing. Judge them by the things that they're doing. What is their what is it that their actions and their words are producing as opposed to, oh, I like what he said. It made me feel good or it was nice. You know, it's flattering. We need to learn that lesson.

They are ravening wolves that when we just judge them by their words, really what they probably are are ravening wolves. And so as to be able to do this, as Vladimir Lenin said, he says, the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. So I gave our boot camp presentation a couple of weeks ago in Utah County and I brought this point up, right? And a few people were like, oh my goodness. Why would you create a group that opposed yourself, that opposes you and your agenda? And this is an important thing for why would they do that? Well, because if they created it, then is it going to actually effectively oppose them? Of course not. And so to make sure they know that there are people out there that oppose what their agenda is and what their activities are. And so they will. And so they will create an organization that caters to the people that are opposing them. And so that way they can ensure that those people opposing them are as ineffective as possible.

And so in the Soviet Union, they created, there's a couple of programs that they created. But the first one I want to talk about is Operation Trust. In Operation Trust, it was an operation in the Soviet Union, their secret police, that lasted officially from 1921 to 1926. Now, I would be shocked and baffled and confused if they didn't have another program that did the same thing after this time period. But this specific Operation Trust officially existed for those five years. And it was set up as a fake. Well, it wasn't set up as fake, but it was fake. It was set up to be seen as. a anti-Bolshevik, anti-communist organization. And they named it the Monarchist Union of Central Russia. Therefore, oh, they are pro-monarchist. That means they're not for these Bolshevik revolutionaries. Otherwise, why would they call themselves monarchists?

So they must be on my side because I'm against the Bolshevik revolution. I like the old czar. And so these guys must be on my side because they said they are. And it was led by one of the czar government officials. It gave the movement credibility. And it continued on with the perception in the mind of the people or the public that this organization was truly anti-Bolshevik because it had a member of the previous regime as the leader of this organization. And it gave credibility to them. But it was co-opted. He was there. He was sent there. by the bolsheviks to make sure that other anti-communist organizations that were ineffective so they would draw because this was getting support from the government not knowingly not openly of course but it was gaining support and so it was kind of propped up people's people have heard of this organization they knew about it and so it drew those people to it to make sure that they were not effective in their anti-communist efforts. And another thing that it did was it also identified supporters of the monarchy so that they could get rid of them.

And the people were convinced, most importantly, not to engage in violent acts against the Soviets because they convinced them that a plan was underway within the government that would topple the regime from within, right? They were told by their, you know, their leaders like Alexander Yukoshev that don't worry about it. We've got, you know, trust this plan that we're working on. We have key people in government positions. We have, you know, what would be referred to today as white hats in the military and in government that are going to take care of things from within. And so you don't have to do anything. You're just here to make sure to help us, you know, with... material afterwards or, you know, to help support the program and the agenda. Oh, Mark, go ahead. Yes, I don't know why they had to pretend to be monarchs when they were already pretending to be a republic. It's in their name. What is it? Soviet Union Republic.

These people were pretending to be supporters of the czarist regime, the monarchists before the Soviet Republic. right but the republic is supposed to be a good thing right and they weren't any republic in any fashion right yeah so that there's again one related point on this really i think important stalin you know one of the greatest murders of all uh in the history of mankind uh was asked uh reportedly what how were you able to conquer uh All these nations, you know, after World War II and during World War II, including Red China and so forth. Why was the communist revolution so successful? He cited three reasons. And two of them were deception. One was outright deception, he said. And the other one was treachery. Well, treachery is betrayal of the people that are put in power. They've betrayed the people.

And so wherever you look, you see. deception by these people. And the point you made about trusting them, we've got to look and see their character and not just briefly, but go through their entire history. But I won't delay the point anymore. But deception is their middle name. Absolutely. Thank you, Mark. So I want to give you an example of false opposition, creating false opposition. We have the case of Alger Hiss versus Richard Nixon. So I think most of us have heard of Richard Nixon, but maybe some of us haven't heard of Alger Hiss. I want to give you a little bit of history. Alger Hiss was a high-ranking State Department official and a former advisor at the Yalta Conference. In 1948, Whitaker Chambers is a former... Time Magazine editor, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Hiss had been a secret member of a communist underground network in the 30s and had passed information to him. So you have this guy, right?

He's the editor for a major magazine, especially at the time, huge magazine in the 40s, of course, saying that I was a communist and this guy over here, Alger Hiss, who's at the State Department, He's a communist too. And so what was the reaction of most people at the time? Most of the establishment especially said that these accusations were unbelievable. And they promoted that in the media. His was a polished and he was an elite and he was well connected. But Chambers himself was not very well presented. He was nervous and he was easy. He was somebody that was easy to dismiss. And many assumed that Hiss was actually innocent of the accusations. And so then Richard Nixon was a brand new congressman from California, a junior member of the committee, and he took Chambers' allegations supposedly, right, seriously when others didn't. So his assignment was to treat Whitaker Chambers' accusations against Hiss seriously.

Nixon's persistence then kept the case alive. And senior members of the committee wanted to drop the matter because their view was that Chambers was unreliable. But Nixon furthered the investigation and questioned both his and Chambers. This is a part of the public hearings. This is what everybody saw. This wasn't like behind the scenes and he was actually doing this. This was the public perception, the program, the... the character that was being created for the public. Nixon then managed to uncover contradictions in his testimony, particularly about or he brought to light those contradictions, particularly whether he knew Chambers under another name, which was George Crosley. Nixon uncovered the pumpkin papers. As tension escalated, Chambers produced physical evidence from the 30s. a microfilm hidden in a pumpkin in his Maryland farm and type state department documents allegedly passed to him by his as a member of the communist party.

So his was not prosecuted for espionage because the statute of limitations had expired, but he was convicted of perjury. So of course the conspiracy still protected him, but they gave it, you know, they, they, they did keep a charge. against him so that way they could build their character, their anti-communist character. So we have Richard Nixon, and Nixon was seen as the man who exposed a communist spy in high government office. And it was a time when many Americans feared communist infiltrators in government. Exposing his made Nixon look like a vigilante, a vigilant defender of national security. And Nixon appeared to stand up against the Eastern establishment. The establishment was saying, oh, there's nothing to this, his stuff. Let's ignore it unless you're a wacko. But Nixon is standing up against the Eastern establishment.

And so much of those establishment defended his. And then Nixon, as an outsider, was praised, a supposed outsider, was praised for not being intimidated by that social pressure, right? He's really standing up against the elites. And this built his image as someone is willing to challenge the establishment in defense of the country against the communists. So there were this character that they were building that he was saying, you know, I am going to dig no matter what the establishment says and we're going to expose these communists and I'm an anti-communist. But the real Nixon paints a different picture that this was just a character that was created. So in 1961. He is there at the Bohemian Grove with George Martin and Herbert Hoover. There's other pictures of him with Ronald Reagan.

o, you know, he's he is the establishment. He is not anti-establishment. This is before he's even president. Right. And this is he is a part of the conspiracy and the conspiracy network. He attended the Bohemian Grove several times in 1971 as president. He abandoned the gold standard. He increased the power of the International Monetary Fund, gave them authority to intervene in currency markets, stabilizing or destabilizing nations, depending on that nation's cooperation with the conspiracy. Nixon increased involvement of the United States with the United Nations. He mandated wage and price controls, which is obviously a part of the communist manifesto and program. increased the use of executive order, increased welfare programs, increasing the debt more than anyone prior. He created the Environmental Protection Agency, which of course is a major plank of the communists as well as the newer order, to be able to increase the power of government under the guise of earth worship.

The expansion more on this environmentalism of the Clean Air Act. And in 1972, He went to a meeting in China and met with the murderous Mao Zedong. So China was, in fact, on the verge of collapse. And so what Nixon did was he normalized relations between the United States and China, giving China, communist China, credibility and saving the murderous regime from collapse at that time. which was a betrayal of anti-communist Taiwanese and other anti-communist allies, legitimized the communist nation, and opened the floodgate for U.S. taxpayer subsidization of the communist dictatorship. Just making sure. Mark, go ahead. A couple things.

One of the most important things is he had, he and Kissinger, his secretary of state and also national security advisor, Basically, more than any other Americans, lost the Vietnam War intentionally. One of the major ways he did that is when the Americans, we were winning the war because we had prevented the Soviets, the Russians, and the Red Chinese from bringing in weapons to Haiphong Harbor. And then they put a boycott, not a boycott, an embargo on it and not allowed any of those ships in. and the u.s was winning the war and then he with no explanation at all they've removed that embargo so the communists could bring the weapons in and which eventually led to the loss of war and and and also kissinger did several other things to aid in bed the communists so i i think that's as about as important as all the other list items on your list there thank you rod go ahead Yeah. Along the same lines as Mark, I was just going to point out, number one, it was Kissinger.

When he was in the State Department, one of the things he was doing was they mandated that none. of our soldiers in Vietnam could fight back. Even when they were under attack, they couldn't return fire until they had permission directly from the State Department. So they had to call them and speak to somebody, and it would take so long. that they weren't ever able to return fire on people at a certain point, at that turning point that Mark was talking about, where they decided they were going to make us lose. And the other thing is that, yeah, he was pretending here to fight communists again here in Vietnam. And then you're looking at 1972. So you're right at the end of the Vietnam War. And here he's going in and now he's buddy-buddy with the Chinese, which is very strange. Very strange if... you don't understand what's going on, yes. If you take things at service level. Correct. Mark, real quick. Yeah, there were many rules of engagement that led to the loss as well.

You couldn't follow the enemy across borders. They had certain sanctuary locations. And so if they ran into sanctuary areas, you can't follow them in. There were many rules of engagement to lose the war. But one of the most important things about Nixon... was a member of the Treasonous Council on Foreign Relations. They openly say America must be abolished. All nations must be abolished. Thank you. Brittany? I was just curious, what was the reason that the media said that he was even going to China in the first place? Basically, just to bring peace to the world. It's like the United Nations mumbo-jumbo. Being peaceful and being friends with the communists will actually be more effective than in getting rid of them. Opening up trade with them will get them rich and then they'll want to be capitalists instead of communists.

Got it. I'm just curious. Micah? I just wanted to lay on the Vietnam thing because it's fashionable all of a sudden. also some of the rules they had was um you couldn't they prohibited any of anyway the administration prohibited um any of the air force or or other airplanes u.s planes from attacking any uh anti-air defenses and then also said that they couldn't engage any planes enemy planes until they could physically see them which at that time the whole air force had been basically turned over to missiles and they weren't set up for direct engagements so everything was set up to just like blow up planes out of the sky before you could even see them so they basically made it so they couldn't attack any planes and then they also the rule was um planes couldn't attack anything uh on the Ho Chi Minh Trail which was basically the supply line for the Vietnamese and the communist Vietnamese and Chinese sending them supplies so they would just drive off of the trail all the time and whenever they wanted and the planes were not allowed to attack them cool okay yeah lots lots and lots of things that Nixon did that was against the character that was created for him Additionally, he was sold as anti-establishment, right?

A staunch anti-communist. But his record was expanding the New World Order and propping up communist regimes. So I really highly recommend this book, The Man Behind the Mask by Gary Allen. Gary Allen was the author of the book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy. He really understands this whole scenario. So there's lots of things that we've talked about, other things that we did not. cover that is in this book. And so if you can grab a copy of it, I encourage you to do so because what we see right now is a resurgence.

There's been a lot of amongst these controlled so-called conservative organizations is a resurrection or I don't know what you call it, a saving of Nixon's image where you have a lot of information coming out now that is trying to say that, oh, All of the impeachment stuff against Nixon was set up by the CIA because he was anti -establishment. Again, painting that picture, ignoring all of the pro-establishment stuff that he did, all of the, you know, the part of the fact that he was a part of the Bohemian Grove CFR, all that kind of stuff. And so it's important for us to be able to understand because if we are fooled by these people trying to resurrect old... you know, personalities, we're going to be fooled into them propping up new personalities. So I want to go over some historical controlled opposition.

There is a program by the FBI called Operation Countelpro, Counterintelligence Program. And what it did was it neutralized opposition to the government by Putting people into these organizations that were against what the government was doing. They sowed internal conflict in the organization. They spread disinformation within the organization. And they made sure to steer groups into the directions that the government wanted these organizations to go into. So they were ineffective. Another one is PACOM. We've talked about this in previous trainings, the Patriot Conspiracy. And what the FBI would do is they would infiltrate and they would take over. patriotic groups to entrap members to do things that those individuals wouldn't do on their own. And then the FBI could use that to discredit the movement in general.

It was something, you know, they would say, oh, look at them. We, you know, these guys are, are whack jobs and these guys are stupid. And, and it, it, they create this caricature of patriots and because of the things that they were able to get them to do that they wouldn't normally do if these infiltrators hadn't joined their group. Let me go back. Yeah. Mark. A really good example of them doing that was with the Ku Klux Klan. Not to say the Klan was any good, but the Klan was dying out. We're talking about 60, 70 years ago. It was about to disappear. So their members joined the Klan. And it was an old joke. If you're ever at a Ku Klux Klan meeting and somebody sneezes. it's probably an fbi uh agent uh so uh same thing nowadays with like militia groups yeah so they were full of uh membership they would have died out if it wasn't for the fbi joining the kugler's class yep then we have in the national socialist germany uh the green border this is during the 30s and 40s uh so not 130s this i missed the nine it's the 1930s it was a german intelligence that was created they've created fake underground networks in these occupied territories.

And then what they did was they lured resistance fighters and they arrested them. And then we have the Stasi front groups from communist Germany in the 1950s all the way to 1989. And what they did was they created fake dissident groups and fake church groups to make sure they would monitor people. They would identify dissidents and then steer, again, steer activities to things that would not actually threaten the government. they not only is this to identify people but to make sure that everybody that is involved in this program is doing things that is ineffective. Then we have the Committee of Union and Progress, the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. The Young Turks were created or they co-opted opposition groups to control and neutralize opposition. So they didn't just create groups to draw people away from other groups, but then they would also send their members into these other organizations to make sure that those other organizations were ineffective. Then we have Operation Red Room, which was in Italy in the 1920s and 30s. This was Mussolini's secret police and they manufactured fake anti-fascist groups to redirect them towards harmless activities. Again, making sure that they're as ineffective as possible. They can say, oh, we hate Mussolini all day long, but what are they going to do about it? They're going to make sure that they are as harmless, as ineffective as possible.

And then they created them as well. And so that, right, all these examples of when they create these groups, what are they going to do? When they create the group, they're going to make sure that the opposition people are aware of the group. They're not going to direct you to groups that were actually opposing them. They were going to say, oh, look at that horrible group over there. They're anti-government. Even though it was seen as an attack or, you know, by many people, what it was doing, it was advertising that group. You're like, oh, I don't like fascism. I'm going to go join this group that the fascists told me were bad to make sure that I didn't join any organization that was actually doing something effective against them. Then you have, they also justified government power. So they use the actions that they got their people to do to say, oh, we need to stomp that out. And so it excused government power. Then you have going back in ancient history in the 100s, in ancient Rome, you had the Roman de la Torres. And under Tiberius, Nero, and Domitian, they created movements of Senate opposition circles to direct ineffective actions and identify opposition. And then you have the false friends in Persia during the 500s.

This is BC, so even before the Roman group. So this is over 2000 years ago. And in Persia, what they did was they created, again, fake dissident groups to direct ineffective opposition actions and then find out when revolts might happen so they could make sure and do something about it. And then we have the Ptolemyk, which was Egypt's loyal opposition priesthood. This is 300 to 100 BC. And they supported priestly factions critical of their policy to give them the appearance of independence and finance them to draw support away from real opposition groups. The Black Hundreds in the Russian Empire in the 1900s, these groups were funded by the monarchy to give citizens a place to go and vent, but not do anything against the regime. Then you have the Patriotic Societies of Louis and Philip in France in the 1800s.

And they created to mimic reform movements, but were designed to split the opposition, to make sure that there was no strong opposition. They absorbed opposition groups. And so when they did kind of conglomerate things, it was into ineffective action because it was by a group they controlled. They got support for fake reforms that did actually nothing to challenge the government. Then you have the tribal sheik councils in Iraq in the 1990s, where Saddam's government funded and created tribal councils and political societies to draw people away from real opposition groups, make co-opted groups dependent on funding from the government outlets, stifling opposition. So we actually saw this with the Tea Party groups specifically. In the state of Utah, Orrin Hatch hired the head of the Tea Party group to be on his staff.

So now, A, you know, he's on, he's co-opted completely because he is on, he's not going to do anything and he's going to endorse, you know, Orrin Hatch as a Tea Party candidate. And he's going to make sure that anybody that thinks that the Tea Party groups are still independent are listening to him and are supporting establishment types like your Orrin Hatches. And then we see here, so this is the bottom line, is that controlled opposition is not the exception to the rule. So when we talk about controlled opposition, this is not just like, oh, there's a one-off over there. No, controlled opposition is the rule. And I gave several pages of examples. But I could have given, you know, numberless pages of examples of governments and the conspiracy and when they use this tactic. It is the rule, not the exception. Also, what we've done tonight is we've exposed the lie that real resistance just dustifies government tyranny. We'll see that all the time.

You'll have controlled opposition individuals that will say, oh, we can't do anything because if we actually resist. That's just going to give the government excuse to increase their tyranny. Because the fact is, is if you don't do it, what are they going to do? They're going to create groups that will do it. And then they're going to blame you for doing it. Or they're going to trick your members into doing it. And so, you know, whether you do it or you don't do it, it doesn't matter because they're going to blame you for doing it. And also the conspiracy, I'm going to ask the question, ask ourselves, is the conspiracy going to allow real opposition groups to be mainstream? Are they going to allow those kind of groups to be talked about and mentioned and other people being made aware of it? No, of course not. Is the conspiracy going to allow real topics and solutions to become normalized? Of course not. The conspiracy is going to ignore, not attack real opposition. Attacking is advertising. You are not going to hear about real opposition groups on controlled media. They don't want you to know about them. And so that tells us that if a personality is talked about by conspiracy controlled media, they are controlled opposition. Okay. So those are some principles that are important for us to understand. We see how the conspiracy works. And we see the examples over and over again that these aren't just one-offs.

These aren't exceptions to the rules. This is how the conspiracy operates. And the more that we understand that, the better we will be at identifying it, not being fooled by it, and help others not to be fooled by it. And in turn, that will save us money because we're not donating. We're not supporting causes. We're not buying. socks and calendars and videos from fake groups. We're not sending checks to support fake candidates that are actually a part of the conspiracy, right? We're saving time because we're not volunteering for these groups. And we're saving our credibility once these people are exposed. And so these are very important principles to understand. And so I hope that we will really start to, as we've gone over these different principles of false opposition, these ideas will start to stick with us and we'll start to better say, okay, two and two equals four. I can connect these dots. I can do the right thing. I can help others do the right thing. So we are out of time. We'll answer questions and have specific comments in the open forum again. But let's go ahead and have a closing prayer. Rod, would you give us that closing prayer? Absolutely.

Heavenly Father, we are grateful for the discussion that we've had tonight, this lesson, and all the things that we've been able to learn tonight. And we ask you to help us to avoid the deceptions that are all around us and to do what we can to bring the hidden things of darkness to light. Go with us now and help us to find ways to do better, to be better, and to spread this information far and wide. We say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.