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So now let’s look at another organization, one of these, you know, people, the
National Rifle Association that states that it’s there to protect your Second
Amendment rights. What, I mean, I think it’s known, but I think it’s good to
illustrate what is the public image of the National Rifle Association? In a recent
closed door speech to donors, politicians, and media, Bill Clinton spoke about
American gun owners. Quote, A lot of these people, all they’ve got is they’re
hunting, then they’re fishing, or they’ve been listening to this stuff for so long
that they believe it all, unquote. And we all remember Barack Obama’s 2008 comments
to a room of San Francisco elites. Quote, it’s not surprising then they get bitter.
They cling to guns or religion, unquote. The arrogance in their superiority requires
this reminder. They don’t rule us. They don’t give us rights. We grant them power.
They don’t make us safe. We pay to protect them. They don’t make us free. We’re
free already. And as long as we have the Second Amendment, we always will be.
We are America. And our politicians are only as powerful as we, the people,
allow them to be.
In an effort to energize the gun rights activists, he released this incendiary
fundraising letter. That the semi -auto ban gives jackbooted government thugs more
power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns,
destroy our property, and even injure or kill us. Aren’t you concerned when you say
Nazi bucket helmets, government thugs, kicking down doors,
killing maiming people?
your God -given rights. And that, oh my, look at, look at, he is, you know, calling
out the government for being the jackbooted thugs that they are. And he is standing
up to that liberal Tim Russert, man, he is going to show him what’s up. That’s the
public image. Again, words versus fruits. So we look at the real NRA,
according to their own records, their own words. They received government funding From
their inception in the 1800s, all the way up until the 1970s. In the 1920s,
they actually pushed for gun control measures in nine states requiring a permit to
carry a gun. The NRA, before the NRA gets involved, there’s no permit.
You don’t have to get government permission to carry a gun. NRA gets involved, and
they push a bill that says, you need government permission to carry a gun. and a
waiting period in a record of purchase going to the government. So because the NRA,
we now have records of who purchases guns. They lobbied to ban mail order sales of
guns in 1967. Prior to 1967 and the NRA’s pushing of a bill,
you could buy a gun just right over the mail. In the 1968, they lobbied for
tracking of guns and banning the shipment across state lines unless you were
licensed. You’ve got government permission to do so.
In their own publication, the American Rifleman in 1968, they bragged about their
involvement of pushing more government intrusion into your right of self -defense,
saying, the NRA supported the National Firearms Act of 1934, which taxes and requires
registration of such firearms as machine guns, sought off rifles, and shot off
shotguns. NRA’s support of federal gun legislation did not stop with the earlier Dodd
bills. It currently backs several Senate and House bills, which through amendment,
would put new teeth into the National and Federal Firearms Acts, bragging about their
taking away
zones and now the NRA who is supposed to be supporting your Second Amendment is
saying, we want you to have Second Amendment free zones where you’re not allowed to
be able to protect yourself. We think it’s reasonable to expect full enforcement of
federal firearms laws by the federal government. That’s why we support Project Exile,
providing five years federal prison for violations such as having a folding stock or
bayonet. The NRA wants you to spend five years in federal prison for simply having
a stock that folds or a knife at the end of your gun. This is the guys standing
up against Jack Boot Thugs. The Constitution authorizes zero restrictions on your
right of self -defense. But the NRA promoting themselves as defending the Second
Amendment, wants to destroy the Second Amendment and is working to destroy it. Now
they’re actually, you know, back after the Patriot Act, after the 9 -11 attack on
the Twin Towers, the demolition of the Twin Towers, they actually opposed gun owners
and expanding the government’s powers in the unconstitutional Patriot Act. You had
Rand Paul actually introduced legislation to stop this, and the NRA opposed Rand
Paul’s amendment, saying there have been no reports of the current Patriot Act being
abused, being abused. The whole thing’s an abuse. With respect to firearms records,
however, supporters suggest a far -fetched scenario in which every firearm sales record
in the country, tens or hundreds of millions of documents dating back to 1968 could
be sought. Of course, it’s being put into databases at this time. And so they
opposed actually preserving your right to privacy and your right to defend yourself.
They backed language that allows the BATF now to get access to every gun owner’s
purchase going back decades.

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Only later did the truth come out: tens of millions would perish under communist rule. But by then it was too late. “China was lost in Washington, not in Peking or Shanghai,” critics said, and they were right.

It wasn’t the last time Americans would be misled. In the 1950s, the press swooned over Fidel Castro, calling him the “George Washington of Cuba.” Some knew better and sounded the alarm, but Washington repeated the same tragic pattern. Before long, Castro had Cuba in a chokehold and was exporting communist revolution across Latin America.

Why did our government keep making the same “mistakes”? Were America’s leaders simply gullible? Or was something deeper at work?

The Businessmen Who Weren’t Anti-Communist

Most Americans still hold on to a comfortable assumption: wealthy businessmen—our so-called capitalists—must be the natural enemies of communism. After all, don’t they have the most to lose under socialism? Yet reality tells a different story.

Take David Rockefeller. His Chase Manhattan Bank was the first American bank welcomed into Moscow and Peking. It financed a Soviet truck plant on the Kama River, the largest of its kind in history. Instead of fighting communism, Rockefeller was doing business with it.

This wasn’t charity. It wasn’t idealism. It was power. Some businessmen seek not freedom, but control—and communism offers the ultimate prize: political power over all.

Meet the Insiders

Who are these people? President Jimmy Carter had a name for them: the insiders. On the campaign trail in 1976, Carter promised to drive them out of Washington. Voters cheered. Yet once in office, he surrounded himself with the very men he had railed against.

Two names stood out: Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Both men were not only establishment veterans; they were pillars of two little-known organizations that have shaped U.S. policy for decades—the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission.

The Council on Foreign Relations

Headquartered in a Rockefeller-donated building on Park Avenue, the CFR has quietly dominated American political life since 1921. Its founder, Edward Mandell House, was no ordinary adviser. He was President Woodrow Wilson’s “alter ego,” a Marxist at heart who openly wrote about creating socialism in America “as dreamed of by Karl Marx.”

House plotted to control both political parties, establish a central bank, and force the United States into world government. When his League of Nations scheme faltered, he built the CFR as a vehicle for the long game.

By the 1940s, the CFR had taken over the State Department. Soon, its members were running the New York Times, CBS, NBC, Time, Newsweek—you name it. Its influence stretched into universities, foundations, labor unions, and the military. Today, it counts hundreds of U.S. officials among its ranks, though most Americans have never even heard of it. And that’s no accident: nearly two hundred journalists are CFR members themselves, and they don’t write about the organization.

At the top sits David Rockefeller.

The Trilateral Commission

If the CFR is the old guard, the Trilateral Commission is its younger partner. Conceived by Rockefeller in 1973 after reading Brzezinski’s book Between Two Ages, the Commission set out to link North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Its goal? Nothing less than world government, with “advanced communist states” eventually joining the fold.

Brzezinski himself praised Marxism as “a major advance” in human thought. He declared America “obsolete.” And yet, he became Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor.

Carter wasn’t the only insider. His administration teemed with trilateralists: Vance, Mondale, Blumenthal, Brown, Andrew Young—the list goes on. And when Carter fell, others picked up the torch. Reagan denounced the insiders on the campaign trail, but then tapped George Bush, a member of both CFR and the Trilateral Commission, as his running mate. The faces changed. The policies didn’t.

The Consequences

Look around: wars without victory, allies abandoned, communists embraced. Trade deals that send American wealth overseas. Domestic policies that inflate the dollar, bury the nation in debt, and tie down industry in red tape.

This is not drift. It is design. Rowan Gaither, president of the Ford Foundation, admitted as much in 1953 when he told a congressional investigator that he and others were working “to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union.”

The ultimate goal is world government. What would that mean for ordinary Americans? A forced redistribution of wealth. Regimentation in daily life. No private property, no free speech, no independent press. A socialist nightmare enforced by global power.

What Now?

The insiders count on one thing: that you will do nothing. That you’ll dismiss this as paranoia, flip the page, and get back to your routine.

But history has shown what happens when Americans are misled. China fell. Cuba fell. Vietnam fell. How many more losses can freedom endure?

The John Birch Society believes the answer is education. Tell the truth. Expose the insiders. Show Americans who really holds the levers of power. If enough people know, the insiders’ grip can be broken.

The question is whether enough will act in time.

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Invasion was banned by Amazon almost immediately after publication, what don’t they want you to know?

The Alfalfa Club, a highly secretive and exclusive organization, is often dismissed as an elite social gathering. However, its history and membership suggest a deeper influence. Founded under the guise of celebrating Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s birthday, the club includes high-profile politicians, business moguls, and judicial figures, such as Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, John Roberts, and several former U.S. presidents. Membership is invitation-only, with new members selected upon the death of an existing one.

Despite its claimed frivolity, the club operates under strict secrecy. Media portrayals suggest it is merely a setting for elite networking and humor, yet its long-standing tradition, selective membership, and media blackout raise questions.
According to the Washington Post,

“The Alfalfa Club is more exclusive than most of Washington’s social organizations, and unlike, say, the Gridiron (which is all journalists), the members come from all sectors. Among the some 200 members, there’s a good contingent of political types (from both parties, but mostly senators; House members are kind of considered plebs in this crowd), and a heavy presence from the corporate world.

To name a few: Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Marriott, Steve Case, Chief Justice John Roberts, White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Vernon Jordan.” (What’s the Deal With The Alfalfa Club, Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2015)

Most of the articles try to dismiss it as a place where elites can let their hair down, get drunk and act silly,

“Described by members as a reunion, a party a chance to enjoy a few laughs and silly speeches. ‘It is an occasion for old friends to get together and where new friends can be made,’ said incoming president Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). ‘The evening is filled with humor — some good and some not so good.’” (The Alfalfa Club: still a place for the powerful to see and be seen, Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2014)

Why is this a secret society? Why limit it to 200 elites, invitation only, with a media blackout, if it is simply to celebrate a dead “racist” and be goofy?
When they are speaking to each other about themselves, what do they say? We’ve uncovered a rare autobiography about the club and have discovered that the public image is not what they think about themselves.

Now whether it’s accurate or not, this is what they believe about themselves. This autobiography was published in 1917 written by club member, H. Ralph Burton. Burton was an insider with lots of Insider connections being:

• Special Investigator for the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (1938-39, 1940-41)
• Special Investigator for the House Appropriations Committee in charge of NYC
and State (1939-40)
• General Counsel to the House Military Affairs Committee (1941-47)
• Chief Investigator for the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (1947-48)
• General Counsel for the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials (1952-53)
• Founding Member of National Press Club
• Head of the National Union for Social Justice

In this biography, Burton reveals that,

“The Honorable John Sharp Williams, in speaking to the Alfalfa Club on January 19, 1917, stated that to his knowledge the origin of the Alfalfa Club was indicated on the Rosetta Stone, with regard to which he elaborated at length. This proved of great interest to the members, because it is a subject about which there has always been great uncertainty. It may be of interest to the entire Club that there has been brought to my attention a manuscript which would not only corroborate Senator Williams, but which has at last given to the world information with regard to this renowned organization… Now, however, there is to be presented to those persons such historical facts with regard to this, the oldest club in existence.” (The Origin, History and Object of the Alfalfa Club, Burton, 1917, pg. 3)

Their claim is to be the “oldest club in existence”!

Burton then goes on to describe the club’s origins,

“When the first known king of the human race, Menes, united the two kingdoms of Egypt under one crown, which epoch is placed by various historians from 2717 B.C. to 5867 B.C., he found it necessary to gather about him a number of real good friends, who would not mix up with the barbarians to his detriment. To this association was intrusted the great royal secrets. It was called by the king, himself, “The Alfalfa Club,” which name has remained to the present day.” (Ibid. pg. 5, non-standard spellings in the original.)

Burton then goes on to recount the power and influence of the club throughout history saying,

“Upon the founding of the City of Memphis, and the building of the great temple of Pta, the royal archives were deposited with this organization. Mesilim, King of Kish, E-Anna-Tum, Queen Nictocrosis, Asshurbanipal, King of Ninevah, Cyrus, King of Elam, and their successors, turned to this Club for pleasure, assistance, and protection. It was guardian of the royal archives. Although little known in history, it was the power behind the throne through the generations of dynasties. It was the Colonel E. M. House of the olden days.” (Ibid)

It was an open secret among the establishment that House was the “power behind the throne”, referred to as “Wilson’s [President Woodrow Wilson] brain” (The Strangest Friendship in History: Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House by George Sylvester Viereck, New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932, pg. 10) This fact is manifest in Wilson’s comment,

“I have an intimate personal matter to discuss with you… You are the only person in the world with whom I can discuss everything.” (The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, Behind the Political Curtain, Charles Seymore, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926, Vol. 1 pg.120)

The Alfalfa Club claims to be THE power behind every major power for the last 5,000 years and that the then current war, World War I, was being fought over control of these secrets.

The Alfalfa Club is another establishment secret society whose members and leaders are consistently pushing for the anti-Christ New World Order.

From this partial compiled list of historical members, you can see the reach they have in all aspects of society:

Joseph Biden – U.S. Senator, Vice President and then President of the United States
George H.W. Bush – CIA, Skull & Bones, U.S. Vice President and then President
George W. Bush – Texas Governor, U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower – U.S. President, 1953-61
Gerald Ford – U.S. President, 1974-77
Lyndon B. Johnson – U.S. President, 1963-69
Harry S. Truman – 33rd U.S. President, 1945-53
John F. Kennedy – 35th U.S. President, 1961-63
Richard M. Nixon – 37th U.S. President, 1969-74
Ronald Reagan – 40th U.S. President, 1981-89
Dick Cheney – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Vice President
Walter Mondale – U.S. Vice President under Jimmy Carter
Spiro T. Agnew – U.S. Vice President, 1969-73
Nelson Rockefeller – Ford’s Vice President
Dan Quayle – Vice President under George H.W. Bush

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There’s a couple of different things—mindsets—that you hear a lot, excusing either themselves or others for doing something that is really not appropriate, not good. It’s unprincipled. And, you know, you’ll see officer excuses, either for themselves or for others, about officers—“they’re just following orders.”

And this was actually, you know, it’s—I don’t know, ironic might be the wrong word—but I find it interesting when I hear people use this for excusing police and other government officials for doing something wrong. The excuse that they were given was that they were just following orders, when that was the exact excuse that was given during the Nuremberg trials for the Nazi soldiers. And it was said that that’s not an acceptable excuse to do something wrong.

And so that’s something that I still hear on a regular basis for why people do things that are wrong. We heard this at our meeting that we reported on a few weeks ago, where the cop was talking about himself—or he was talking about a different officer—where they had to take the vaccine or they had to enforce something they knew was wrong to protect their job, so that they could provide for their family.

Or the other ones that I’ve heard before are that, you know, “If I didn’t do that thing, it didn’t matter because someone else would do it anyway.” So why—you know—it wouldn’t make a difference anyway. “Why put my neck out there? Why bother if it’s not going to make a difference anyways?”

And so this is kind of the mindset that I find to be very cowardly and helps to perpetuate the situation that we’re in. And we need to—if there’s any part of us that has this mindset—you know, I’m hoping that, you know, of course, if we’re here, that the majority of our mindset is outside of this. But if there’s any of that, you know, hidden away somewhere, I’m hoping to purge any of that that we might have left in our minds, because it’s wrong. And it helps to make things worse. And we need to really show ourselves as being principled and standing for what’s right no matter what.

Founding fathers—

Can I make one brief comment there?

Yeah, go ahead.

I was just going to say, it’s so interesting because I work with other professionals, right? So if you have, say, an electrician come to your home—like, I am not your boss. You are at my home. You will wire it this way, right? And what does the electrician say? “You’re an idiot. I can’t do it that way. And I won’t do it that way. Goodbye.” No.

And literally any other profession—you know, whether it’s a mechanic, electrician, you name it—other than government-run institutions, who will just flat deny anything—someone else’s orders on top of their own. And it doesn’t matter. Right?

People will come that I’ve worked with, and you’ll get a bid for one thing. The person will show up to actually do it. They’ll look at it and say, “Well, I don’t care what my supervisor said or what the guy giving you the bid said. That does not work.”

And so it’s strange to me that there is that, you know, that disconnect. That with government, that is absolutely 100% good. And in fact, it’s a badge of honor to just go along with what someone else is telling you to do. But, you know, then with every other profession we interact with, they’d never let that happen.

Yeah.

Even at Chick-fil-A—you go there, you forget your wallet—what do the people say? “Oh hey, just pay us next time.” It’s just—every other profession other than government allows individuals to use their moral free agency and their professional training to make decisions.

So anyway, I just thought that was interesting as I’ve compared and contrasted this. And I don’t know what the cognitive dissonance or the disconnect is in all of us, you know—and especially those officers perpetrating this, you know—and, you know, like Dan McKay when he, you know, had the guy gagged and thrown out of the Utah Capitol for wearing a “We the People” shirt. “Oh, this is just going along with what the other guys told me to do.”

But I think you make a good point too, Nate, that it’s only acceptable in certain criteria. We only let certain professions get away with that. You mentioned electricians, right? I mean, there’s just different things out there that—they’re just going to not do it because it’s wrong. And the fact that other people—

All of a sudden you’re in government, and you don’t have to follow your conscience anymore. It’s bizarre.

I appreciate you chiming in. The Founding Fathers at the end of the Declaration of Independence—they stated that:

“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

So they were putting their sacred honor—their reputations—on the line. Their fortunes—they were willing to put their resources on the line to get the job done. They were willing to put their lives on the line.

So was this just a platitude? Was this just a, you know, a figure of speech? Or did they actually implement this? Did they show in their daily lives after they signed the Declaration of Independence that that’s what they would actually do?

And I say that yes—they actually proved that they did pledge their lives—their actual lives, their actual fortunes, and their actual honor to get the job done.

So I just want to kind of go over some of the examples of that. There were five of the signers that were captured by the British during the war, and they were brutally tortured. So they were willing to be tortured for the cause.

Nine of them fought in the war, and they died from their wounds or from hardships because of it.

Four of them had their sons captured or even killed. So not only—you know, sometimes we’re like, “Yeah, okay, I’m willing to sacrifice for myself, but you involve my kids in this thing…” That’s a whole other story. You know, I’m not—you know…

These guys were willing to put their own children on the line for the cause. Not in a cowardly way, where they’re like pushing their kids in the forefront so they didn’t have to suffer—but no, there was this actual sacrifice. And I think that that’s—you know, sometimes children and families are used as a leverage against people to do the wrong things, to violate their conscience. But these men said, “No, I’m willing to do that.”

Yeah.

Twelve or more had their homes destroyed due to their efforts—their farms, their lands—destroyed because of their involvement in the Declaration of Independence.

All of them gave up hundreds of thousands of what would be dollars today—it wasn’t the money they used back then—but what would be hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cause. They were giving up their riches to be able to support what was needed, to provide the support that was needed in the field to get the job done.

And they had their businesses destroyed. There were shipping companies—they were owners of shipping companies—that had their ships confiscated and destroyed and their businesses.

They didn’t say, “Oh, you know, if I stand up for this, it might hurt my business.” They were willing to sacrifice their very livelihood. So not just giving up their money—meaning “Here is some money, get this done”—but they sacrificed their ability to provide for their families to make sure that the cause was supported.

And so we can see that these are people that put their money where their mouth is, so to say. That there was nothing—there was no part of their life—that they weren’t willing to put on the line. There was no excuse of, “Oh, I’ve got to support my family,” or “I don’t want to lose my job,” or “I don’t…” You know—whatever it was. “Oh, yes, I’m willing to sacrifice my life, but not my kids.” There was no part of their life that they weren’t willing to put on the line to consecrate to the cause of liberty.

Right.

And this isn’t just the Founding Fathers. But we go throughout time—those that understand these principles. These are the principles I’m going to go over and show—how what we’re talking about right here and what we do at Tree of Liberty is the cause of Christ.

And so I want to show what the early Christian leaders—what did they do? What did they sacrifice for the cause?

You had Zacharias, who was the father of John the Baptist. He was killed in the temple for not disclosing his son’s hiding place. John the Baptist—he was in hiding, and they wanted to know where he was, and Zacharias didn’t tell them. And so they killed him for it.

You had the apostle Paul—he was beheaded. Peter was hung upside down. Andrew himself was crucified. Thomas was killed by the spears of four Roman soldiers. Philip was tortured to death. James was stoned and clubbed to death.

And then later on—even so, it wasn’t just the Christians right around the time of Christ—but even a couple of hundred years after the time of Christ, you had St. Lawrence, who was grilled to death, because Christianity was deemed by the Roman government “the hatred of the human race.” So it wasn’t just like, “Oh, it was your religion.” It was—Christianity was deemed just a threat to humanity in general.

And so they grilled him—they barbecued him to death—because of that. And he was willing to put his life and be tortured in that way to support the cause of Christ.

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