Member training from July 28th 2025.
In this presentation, I walk through the foundational principles that guide our mission to restore integrity and purpose in American governance. I emphasize the urgent need to reconnect with the moral and constitutional roots that once defined our national character, drawing from historical precedent and biblical insight to challenge the prevailing narratives of compromise and complacency. Throughout, I highlight the dangers of forgetting our covenantal responsibilities and the consequences of abandoning truth for political expediency. My goal is to provoke reflection, stir conviction, and inspire principled action—calling each listener to rise above partisan distractions and recommit to the enduring values that secure liberty and justice for all.
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TRANSCRIPT
Our Father who art in heaven, we are grateful for this opportunity to come together
tonight and ask for Thy Spirit to guide and direct, bend in all those who
participate in the instructions and receiving the instructions as given. We are
desirous that our minds would be enlightened and that we may be able to receive
instruction to help us grow in our capacities and understanding.
Please protect and watch over Ben and his family as well as each one in this
organization and guide and direct those who would be a help and assistance in this
organization to become a part of it.
We ask for Thy Spirit and protection to be over us each one and ask in the name
of thy Son, Jesus Christ, amen.
So tonight we’re going to talk about what we don’t want to hear, but we must hear
it.
These are important things that we want to cover that people don’t want to talk
about, but of course, as always, everything we do is to build understanding and
adherence to principles that have built free nations and societies, expose the satanic
conspiracy and build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. So everything in
tonight’s training will be to that end. So going over the member manual,
there’s those last section in the member manual, and I’m going to kind of merge
together tonight’s entire training with this section. So of comments and suggestions.
It’s one of the shortest, if not the shortest section in the manual, but I am
going to expand it to include the entire training because I don’t think we’ve,
you know, I think it matters. This is needed tonight. So, right,
restoring liberty is hard work, and we must work to build a culture of liberty even
after the material is produced and the material doesn’t create itself spontaneously.
So, Right, so what I’m saying is that we build in the Tree of Liberty Society. We
have materials we produce books We produce videos we produce pamphlets
Pass along cards slim gyms Facebook posts memes all kinds of different things But it
doesn’t do us any good if we produce it and nobody distributes what’s been produced
So even after we as an organization have done the hard work of producing it, it
needs to go somewhere from there. That’s where the hard work comes in. And so
asking the question, how are others going to understand these truths, and then act
on them if we don’t share them, right? It’s important. We are not information
junkies where we are only here to learn. We are here to learn as a recipe,
as part of it, as one of the in effective action. Okay,
so if we are just here to just learn and do nothing else, this is the wrong place
to be. We are here to learn and then act upon that knowledge.
And so in the member manual, in the section on comments and suggestions, talking
about building understanding of yourself and others is, in the number one, And others
is the most the number one most important piece of the solution Because you can’t
do anything else if you’re if you’re not building understanding But and then building
the understanding of yourself and others is also the number one most hated solution
It’s the most dismissed solution. It’s the most rolled your eyes out solution And I
think it’s because they don’t have the understanding because if they did have the
understanding, they would recognize how important understanding was. And so too often,
right, we say, well, you know, and I like to quote what Joyce said in her report
on going through the boot camp was she thought she knew,
right, and then realized going through it that, you know, this is stuff she didn’t
know. And so we never know what we don’t know. And So it’s,
and that’s why we think because we think we know things, we’ve gone through other
organizations, boot camps, we’ve read other books on things. And so we think we have
enough detail, but frankly, the fact is that we’ve all been brainwashed through
media, through government schools, through the books and boot camps we’ve gone
through. And so we think we’re ready to go do something, but It’s based on faulty
and really bad information that the conspiracy has put out there to make sure that
we are in as ineffective as possible. And so it’s really a kind of almost a start
over point where we’re like, okay, we need to forget what we’ve learned before and
come here with just look at the raw data. And that’s something that I focus a lot
on is, hey, I am saying something that is not something that people are used to
and so I need to show the receipts and So that you can really have a a place
where you can be at a place where you’re like, okay I can trust that what was
being shared. It’s true because they’re showing me the receipts right there and
And so we need to start building the understanding and that’s really where the hard
work is Because too often we we have an easy solution that is really pawning it
off to somebody else. And that’s what really all of these solutions are, whether
it’s religious neutralism through, oh, it’s the rapture, nothing we can do about it.
So why try? Meaning you’re not gonna do anything or we have a political solution.
So we’re gonna get the right guy elected and he’s gonna solve all the problems from
us. Which means what? You don’t have to do anything. Or you have courts, which
means what? You don’t have to do anything. So, every solution the conspiracy puts
out there gives the government more power and takes responsibility away from us as
individuals, which is the exact opposite, the inverse of what is needed and
necessary, is personal responsibility. All of us need to be working hard. All of us
need to be actively engaged, and that begins with proper understanding. Because
really, do we find anyone that wants to understand the general principles stood and
used to build free societies. They want to go out there and just go try to get
something elected. They want to go do a rally and talk about a principle that they
heard on conspiracy radio or saw on conspiracy television. They don’t want to go
back and look at the details and find out what are the raw principles behind what’s
going on and actually finding out. They’re just stuck in this left, right– oh,
Democrats said this, so I need you to do the opposite. And so they don’t want to
take the time and invest the time to find out the the principles and finding out
if what they’re doing is actually effective or right. So most people right they want
to react to the hot issue of the day and that is exactly how the conspiracy
manipulates you into working on solutions that can’t work. It’s not like oh if we
just worked on it a little bit harder if we just did this you You know, we just
got to know more people in Congress, you know, we got to get yeah We have a
majority Republicans, but they’re too many right now So we just got to work harder
and go harder. You know, it’s designed to get you did to to focus on things that
can’t work Nothing that they just they’re not working that just there and it’s
impossible to work They are trying to defy gravity
And then I want to give an example of one of our members, Simon, he’s a member in
Joab County, and he went door to door in his small town passing out flyers for our
monthly class, inviting them out to it, explaining what it is, and he got it out
to the people in his small town. He knocked on their door, and when someone was
home, he talked to them, and he personally invited them to the class. This is, this
principle is in the member manual. So I’m giving you a real -life example of someone
following what’s in the manual. It usually takes seven impressions before someone
interested in something in that thing will take action, right? You see an ad for a
new food and even on the first ad you’re like that looks interesting but usually
takes about seven impressions on average study show before you actually take action
on that thing. And so even though it was just a one flyer, attendance increased and
will exponentially increase as the people in this community are exposed to our
material through his efforts, through the flyers, through the announcements, through
the classes themselves. Okay, so this is some of the work that he did. I’m not
sure if he’s come on my, maybe you can add to this, but these are the things that
he did. He read the book Invasion. He attended and or watched afterwards if in the
10 live are trainings. He does it all regularly, very religiously. He went through
the boot camp, and then he wanted to have, I asked him if he would organize
classes in his area. And so he went and he put forth the effort and he found a
location for the boot camp. So just kind of back up a little bit. Simon, it’s not
like he’s a college student or he’s Somebody that’s on disability and has all the
time in the world to do something. He has a family. He’s married kids owns his own
company Right. He’s active in his community. It’s not like he has no time and not
like he has all the time in the world This is somebody that said I am going to
sacrifice and I’m going to put forth the effort that is needed to Make this a
success. So we found a location. He scheduled the room and he did it several months
several months for several months in advance. Then he went through and decided what
topics he wanted to cover. He became familiar with the presentation, and then he
made the first two presentations on his own. He did it himself, but he utilizes the
tools that we provided, right? We went through the effort. We provided the tools for
him, but he made the effort of studying it, getting to know it, making it his own,
and then giving the presentation. and he posted flyers in the community building,
made public announcements, asked for help from the Tree of Liberty Society to produce
a local flyer. He distributed the flyer to his community personally, and then he
showed up, right? That’s the key, but doesn’t do a lot of good to do all that
work and not show up, but he showed up and he did it, he presented. And he’s not
He says that, you know, he doesn’t like speaking in public. He doesn’t do it often.
And this, I think he said it was his first time he ever did public speaking. And
so he overcame that one of the most common fears that almost everyone has and did
it. And then he talked to people after the class and in between the weeks that
followed. And so these are things that, you know, he saw what needed to be done
and he did the work. And so this is a great example of something that we all
should follow. This is an example that we can do, and whether it’s in application,
the specific application, or we can follow this concept and do it in an area that
we’re more excited about, which is fine. But I wanted to show you an example of
yes, there are people doing this, and it did produce fruit, which was which was
fantastic.
So just I want to you know in all the things that he did imagine what he’ll be
able to do as the Tree of Liberty site grows in his area because of his efforts
and he has more people than helping his efforts so if he was able to do all of
that by himself just magnify that per person and it’s going to have just just huge
huge impact in that area and the same thing about what what imagine what will
happen when you do that same thing and put similar effort in your areas of interest
whether that’s presentations whether that’s book distribution whether that’s in
organizing you know a speaker to come to a group that you know of whatever your
interests are you put that much effort into it you’re not going to be able to help
but have positive and growing fruits from that. And so this outline is in the
manual and is available for you to follow, and I’m here for to help you every step
of the way to fill the gaps where maybe you don’t feel comfortable or you’ve got a
question, you need help, I’m here to fill the gap for you in that. And so
sometimes I think when I produce something, whether it’s a video, a pamphlet,
a trifold, a sum gem, a pass -along card, or a book, or whatever it is,
it might come across, and I know this myself. This isn’t a criticism, this is just,
I’m noticing it in myself when I see these things. We just, this thought comes in
my head, I want to book the documents, how the international conspiracy has
infiltrated our communities, And what effective strategies have been used throughout
time to combat such a threat? And so I had that thought in my head and all of a
sudden, there’s the book, right? No effort was put into it. Nobody designed the
cover. Nobody edited the content. It just all of a sudden, I wanted it to happen.
And there it was because, you know, when I see these things happen with other
people, I’m not involved in the day -to -day process of all of the effort to make
that thing come into be. And so it feels like it just was there one day.
And so I wanted to kind of go over the things that the effort that it goes into
making this organization and so in seeing how that effort needs to be supported and
magnified.
The work of building understanding, understanding, right? Of course, as I often say,
effective application starts with understanding.
And so to create understanding, the information, of course, has to be researched. It
doesn’t just pop up all of a sudden, and it’s not just there in front of me,
we’ve got to go digging. And then that information has to be organized. A lot of
this stuff is just all over the place, and it has to be designated to certain
topics in certain areas and put together so that it can be found later on to be
put in the relevant areas and used in relevant videos or relevant chapters or
relevant sections of training, whatever the case may be. And then it needs to be
collated to be found and then compiled into the right place and then written in a
coherent narrative. If I just, And I’ve done this before in certain things where I
just had a couple hundred pages of documents, just raw documents, and I just said,
“Here you go,” and it never got read because it didn’t, you know, like, “What’s the
background? What is the context? Why does this matter? Why is this important? Why am
I going to read through all these pages when maybe the only relevant data is on a
couple of pages or maybe even only on one page. And so it needs to once the
research has been done, organized and correlated, it needs to be put into a
narrative where people understand the context. And like last week with the training,
I think with the release of the document by itself, you know, without understanding
the narrative, the document all by itself was irrelevant. It didn’t matter. Nobody,
you know, who cares. But when you understand the background and the context,
then all of a sudden feel like, oh, okay, this is pretty big.
Whether it is in a book cover, or whether it’s in a thumbnail for a video or an
article, and the very beginning of the video needs to grab people,
or the thumbnail needs to grab people. It needs to be presented in a manner where
people are like, “Why am I going to read this 300 -page book? Why am I going to
watch this 30 -minute video?”
Sorry, I’m just going to
mute as it’s going.
Okay, so again, for a video, a script has to be written. A video filmed,
relevant b -roll collected, bind appropriate video, and audio elements to enhance the
experience and edit it all together, creating an attractive thumbnail to attract
interest. It takes a minimum of eight to 12 hours or a basic 15 minute video,
right? We’re talking about all the things that go into it and it might seem like,
“Oh, that’s just 15 minutes.” He just rattles off the top of his head. But the
amount of preparation, the amount of back, you know, the amount of behind the scenes
work that has to be done, it leads to many, many, many, many hours invested to be
able to produce this, you know, 15 minute video and then if it’s not utilized then
that 8 to 12 hours could have been maybe used in a different way and so it’s
important that if it’s a that these things are used because of the amount of time
and resources that are invested into producing them. And we have articles or
pamphlets, booklets, books, it’s got to be written in a coherent narrative, it’s got
to be edited for grammar and clarity, and rewritten and edited again. Relevant images
are then curated, thumbnails designed. Flyer is then designed to present written
information in a tractive manner. And so it takes five to seven hours after all the
research has been compiled and organized. And so that’s not including the research
time. We’re just talking about, and this isn’t the book, of course. The book took
countless hours to put together. We’re just talking about booklets,
pamphlets, you know, past along materials. The amount of time that goes into
producing them is massive. So, and so that’s,
those are the tools in building the work of building awareness.
And so I want to talk about each section because even with the overview that I
just gave it really doesn’t give the big picture of every level that is needed and
necessary to make all of these happen. And so even with this I’ve left some things
out but I think it’ll start to give you a picture of the resources and time that
and necessary to be able to do what it is that we do. And so just looking at the
section of building of education development, okay? The education development side of
the Tree of Liberty Society, we provide members with tools to build members
understanding and provide members with action items. And so we create and maintain
educational and training materials, including dossiers. You can find that in the
member portal, establishing an onboarding process, assessing the need for new member
tools, and then work with the technology team to implement and maintain member tools,
the technology on the website, and how one little update that happens with the
developer changes the access and the availability of certain parts of the website.
With that, you know, we didn’t even do anything. It was just an update that was
automatically done and all of a sudden we have to go in and fix all of the bugs
that that created on the website. And so we’ve got to be able to work together
with them to make sure that it all operates smoothly.
Okay, and the next thing is publications. We have content creation, primarily for the
public. I forgot the F, for the public. And so a lot of times they use transcripts
from presentations and trainings, and and turn them into flyers, pamphlets, bulletin
articles, articles on the website, and then format those things.
And then they publish the articles or the books that I’ve written. And then they
create artwork for the books or other publications for the article or the pamphlet
for the Slim Jim. And then of course, editing, making sure that my horrible grammar
skills are presented in a way that doesn’t make us look stupid. And then ensuring
the research is accurate and the sources are clear. And so we have a process where
we go through, I’ll be going through the research and I’ll say, okay, here’s the
book, here’s the publisher, here’s the page number, and then somebody else goes and
looks up that source on their own, independent, and so that they can say, okay,
Yes. If I were to go research this on my own, I would be able to find it and
it’s accurate. It’s giving the information exactly as Ben said it would be in the
footnote. So that way you can trust it and then you can use it for your own
research as well.
Additionally, we have the social media area and it’s a convenient way for the public
to share links to the Tree of Liberty Society content and then of course engage,
interact with their own comments and then talk to other people, ask questions,
that kind of a thing. And so we have, of course, we’re managing those social media
channels where we have X and Facebook and Instagram and Telegram and our YouTube
community. And so YouTube doesn’t just have videos but they have an area where you
can post articles, post -means, post -links,
and that’s all available on our YouTube channel as well. And then we post links to
events, articles, videos, classes, and announcements in all these other areas.
And then, of course, engaging with visitors. People have questions or comments or
something they want to discuss. And so being able to answer them in a way that
represents the position of the Tree of Liberty Society and is accurate and helpful.
That’s something that takes a lot of time with that engagement.
Another thing we work on is of course community engagement, where we have social
events to build camaraderie and culture. We’re putting names to faces and giving
members an opportunity to know one another in a more personal way. So we organize
monthly luncheons or partners, working on that, and then our annual barbecue,
develop and maintain social elements such as our members only Facebook pages on
Facebook and Telegram, but gather and relay feedback to improve community offerings as
well. And so you can see because, so these are all the things that we have and
that we have goals to do, but because of limited resources and a bit, you know,
some of These things don’t get implemented as perfectly as we would like them to,
ocean. So there’s a technology side I mentioned a little bit and I’m going to get
a little bit more and do it as improve, streamline and automate as many processes
as possible because we know that most people out there are not, you know,
computer savvy. And so we want to make getting on our website as easy as possible.
I remember we got some feedback on logging into the member portal. It was at the
bottom of the site and so it wasn’t obvious, it wasn’t intuitive. And so we added
it to the very top bar and so that hopefully it made it easier to be able to
find and access and be able to get into the member portal. So we want to make it
automated and streamlined as much as possible. We want to maintain and improve
internal systems and content delivery platforms, troubleshoot and support tech for
content creation or those member tools.
And then the next section is the finance department. We couldn’t exist without this.
We ensure that the Tree of Liberty Society has the resources needed to operate. And
there’s operation and there’s thriving. And so there’s, depending on the resources,
it depends on what that is. And so, of course, forecasting expenses, establishing a
budget, website hosting and maintenance, subscriptions for research, editing, production,
automation, work to raise funds to maintain and grow operations. So there’s a lot of
different things that we spend money on just to keep going every month, that it
might not be obvious. There are a lot of different, you know, fees involved in, you
know,
for editing images, for editing videos, for hosting, for not only hosting the
website, but hosting podcasts and the different subscriptions that we have for making
sure that we just provide you the things that everybody just gets for free and that
they are accustomed to and used to. And so it’s because of members that allow us
to provide these tools to the public to be able to benefit from.
And so we also, of course, our video production, what that takes and entails. We
create videos that build understanding and motivate viewers to action. Again, as I
said earlier, it’s vital that we don’t just give you the latest and greatest gossip,
but we show you why action needs to be taken. So we create the scripts that then
will help with our mission, and then we’ll film based on that original footage, and
then using the scripts, the scripts will add b -roll to the images,
we’ll find audio to company that original video that was filmed to be able to meet
with the script and be able to be produced in a way that is something that you’re
pleased with and happy to be able to share with others. And then after we put that
together we combine the content and do a format we edit it, edit the final video
and then create promotional images such as thumbnails and then of course publishing
the content, working with the social media and the so that it can be embedded on
the website, that it can be put on the different platforms, and so that we can
reach as many people as possible, taking hours upon hours to get that done.
And of course, research, what does it take to do the research that we do? I’ve
said before in training that it takes, you know, roughly three months of research to
get one little nugget of information that can be shared because of how much data
has to be gone through. We have to find and curate relevant data for original
content such as our videos or articles in our books. We do this through coming
through online archives such as archive .org we’ll find we’ll be reading one document
and it’ll reference another document and so the first thing and easiest thing of
course instead of traveling around everywhere, we’ll go to archive .org and say, “Is
that document online?” Either it’s at archive .org or on another website that has
data. Mentioned last week, the LDS Church’s history website that has a document scan
so that you go there to see it. You go to a special collections library at
different universities and see if they stand it yet and put it up there. And so
going to all these different websites to be able to see if a document is available
out there somewhere. And if it’s not, right, well, and we’ll get to that in a
second, but we also find video footage to document the relevant facts.
We network with other researchers that may have documents that we’re looking for. So
a lot of times what we’ll find is someone else had connections to somebody and they
have a document in their personal collection and And so trying to work with them
and a lot of times especially in the document community they don’t you know people
will they they guard these these documents and They don’t want to just give them
out because they went through a lot of effort and time to to collect them and so
they either want you know they they’re either you they’re not going to want to
share if they don’t know you and they’re not friends with you or they’re gonna want
to trade and so our accumulation of hard to find documents actually helps us find
or acts get access to other people’s documents that they have and so being able to
make trades with people to be able to get access and get get our own copies of
hard -to -find documents. And then sometimes you just have to go somewhere. You just
have to travel to and go through institutional archives such as state or university
or religious institutions records and scanning for use. And so you know it takes
them time and to be able to scan things and put them on their websites and so
sometimes you just got to travel and go and dig through all of the stuff that they
have and find the thing that you’re looking for. And then there’s a lot of
institutions out of travel range and then so you need to work with them through
electronic communications to obtain needed materials, emails, phone calls, and hey Yale
we’ve got this thing from James Strange, James Strang that he talks about being a
member of the Luminati, can you send me the papers that you guys have? And so they
scan them, and then they send them to you. And a lot of times that’s cost money.
There was some documents that I had to get from a university that I had to spend
$200 to get the documents to be able to say, okay, I know that it says what
people are saying it says, and that I can use that as a reliable source that you
can depend on and then put them on the archives so that then you can research them
yourself.
And so just all the things that I’ve talked about other organizations do those
things. And so I want to give you an idea of what not we’re not talking like
we’re not talking huge organizations.
These two organizations I’m going to give examples of what they spend what are their
it’s to be able to do what I just talked about. And so the first one I’ll talk
about is the John Berg Society. They spent $7 to $10 million a year to be able to
do the things that they do, which covers most of what I just talked about. And
then another organization we talk about, or not enough, but I’m bringing up here, is
Libertas. Utah based, you go outside of Utah, most people have never you’ve heard of
them and they spend 14 million dollars a year to do what it is that they do.
So the amount of money that the average organization, the ones that you’ve heard of
out there, you know, Freedom Works, all these kind of things, this is a small
change compared to those organizations and their operations budgets and what they
spend. And so, right, so even if you don’t see the unique nature of the Tree of
Liberty Society, I hope that you recognize that the other organizations, they’re doing
just fine. And maybe the priority could be shifted over to what we’re doing at the
Tree of Liberty Society. I do hope that we’ve done a good job in showing you the
unique nature of the Tree of Liberty Society and how important it is, the work that
we do. But you know, if you still think that we’re just another one of the same
thing. Hopefully you can see that, hey, maybe we can help a tree of liberty society
since these other organizations are obviously doing okay.
So, I’m giving an example of what’s led to some of the situation that we’re in.
Several years ago, the head, the CEO of an influential company connected to key
financial institutions in Utah, also across the country, came to me and said that
he’ll ensure that I’m homeless for what I’m doing, okay, using his influence to
ensure that we have no way either blocking financial institutions or making it and
so getting resources doesn’t happen. He said that his job, his goal is to ensure
that I’m homeless because of what I do.
And so another example of what’s happened is I was blackballed in 2012 with an FBI
Federal Criminal Record, even though I’ve never been charged or convicted of a crime,
and which, you know, was as a result kind of a good thing. It forced me to go
into business over my own and start these organizations where I wasn’t distracted by
just trying to quote to feed my family, but to create these things that would
actually go on the offense against these people. And so I wanted to find out what
criminal background I had that every, you know, I was getting back saying, no, you
have a FBI, you have a federal criminal record, we can’t work with you. And so I
issued a FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, to see what crime they said I had
committed, And the FBI sent a letter saying that it would violate national security
to release that information. We can either confirm or deny, but if we were to tell
you what it was, it would be a threat to national security. And so compared to
those other organizations, our revenue is, and that’s something we don’t really talk
about a lot, just for, I think, obvious reasons. We don’t want to let our enemies
know what’s going on, but we only get about $2 ,000 a month to cover all of our
costs. All of those things that I talked about to be able to do all those things,
those subscriptions, in addition to being able to provide so that I can do this.
And then we would like to be able to get more people to do that. But of course,
with that kind of resources, being able to even do what we do with the resources
that we have is impossible.
And so, right, to do what we do, it takes time and money. And so, in the eight
outlined areas of responsibilities that I talked about above, it takes time and
volunteers with the talent and ability to accomplish. So, to be able to do those
things, we need to find people that have time and are willing to volunteer their
talent, right? We don’t want somebody that only knows how to use Microsoft Paint to
create a thumbnail or to create a book cover. We want somebody that has the ability
and the talent to do those types of things and to volunteer for that. Or for any
of these types of jobs that I mentioned above, we just have to get the resources
to hire somebody to do those things for us. Those are the only two ways to make
those things happen. They don’t happen any other way. If we don’t have time, we
have to have money. And so not all of those things do we have people that have
the talent and the ability to volunteer their time to help out. And so to be able
to accomplish it, we have to be able to have the resources to find someone that
will do it or can do it. And so, right, if we don’t have the time, which costs
money, and we don’t have the materials, which also costs money to produce, everything
that we do disappears. So just think of the things that we produce and have
published and have put out there that are exclusive to us, that nobody else talks
about, that you found out because it was something that we talked about and we’re
out there talking about, right? We don’t have the time, we don’t have the money,
then everything that we do and have published goes away, it just can’t exist.
And so also recognizing that if we weren’t being attacked, right,
if we were not accomplishing anything, if we’re not a threat to the conspiracy, we
wouldn’t be attacked. And we wouldn’t be banned on Amazon. We wouldn’t be banned on
YouTube. We wouldn’t have a team raid into my home in an attempt to kill me.
We wouldn’t have my home burnt down and have the fire department refuse to
investigate the cause of the fire and refuse to put out the fire. You don’t have
the state kidnapping you if you’re not trying to kidnap your child. That’s my
daughter when she was in the hospital and the state threatened to kidnap her and
steal her from us. You don’t have these things happen to you if you’re not a
threat and if you’re not accomplishing anything. And so even with the resources,
right, you look at the resources we have, that I just laid out for you versus the
resources of other organizations that really aren’t that big either. And we are
having a bigger impact as measured by attacks on us than other organizations are.
And so can you just imagine what we’d be able to accomplish if we had the budget
that these other even smaller organizations had
So, right, we want to talk about, of course, the things that don’t work, as always,
is courts. Right? This just came out earlier this year where a judge lets a guy
off more child porn because he was — because of his privilege.
Voting harder doesn’t work. Political heroes, depending on them, doesn’t work. but
what’s proven to work throughout history, throughout time, are the things that we
cover in our member manual. And so I’m hoping that you will invest your time and
resources with conviction so that when the story is told, you can say without
hesitation, “I did all I could. I stood against tyranny and then let your efforts
become a legacy of courage, not a regret of missed opportunities.” And so,
that’s it. I was able to actually finish this. Maybe I went through it too fast. I
don’t know, we’re basically at the end of our meeting, but I wanted to share that
with us, and so that we could start to understand and recognize, maybe even more
distinguish how we’re special, how we’re different than everybody else, Also,
understand what’s at stake and understand the importance of following the pattern that
is in the member manual of growth, of making sure and helping that the Tree of
Liberty Society grow and have new members grow in finances, you know, find things
that maybe if you if you feel like you just like, I don’t want to just throw
money at an organization. I want to fund a specific project or a specific item, you
know, that’s, that’s fine. But resources are vital. Time is vital. And so I’m
interested in encouraging and asking you to spend that time that’s necessary to make
these things happen so that we can grow so that we can stay and be here for the
long term. Yes, Joyce.
– I think that you ending on time like that is just symbolic of how hard you’ve
been working with so little resources and made such a huge difference. I,
it’s just interesting. You didn’t think you would end on time, but there it is.
– There it is. Thank you. – And it does make, your presentation does make me want
to do more. – Well, – Thank you, good, appreciate it. Okay, well, it is 10 o ‘clock,
so let’s go ahead and close with a prayer, and then we can have open forum and
ask questions, have comments, whatever you guys wanna talk about.
But I’m gonna ask Pam, if you would give the closing prayer for us,
are you available?
– What’s her last name?
I think this is Pan Klinch.
Are you there Pan?
Oh no, Mike, sorry, okay. Then
Mark, would you say the closing prayer for us? Sure.
Thank you. Our Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity tonight to better
ourselves so we can do a better job of serving you Lord. Thank you for all this
knowledge that been shared with us tonight. Help us to take it seriously. Please use
your spirit God to help us learn how we can carry this message in our lives to
others so we can grow this organization for the purpose of Serving you God and we
can ask you for your blessing on our organization and our leader and Jesus’ name.
I pray we pray and amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Mark.
