The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture
Jeff Chamblee The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture to show their pride in something God calls an abomination. When you support afr, you help us continue to stand for godly values and provide the resources for you to stay in the know about the enemy's tactics. To say thank you for your gift this month we'll give you the booklet Inside the LGBTQ push of the 1990s. To help strengthen your convictions, just go to afr.netoffers afr.net offers we inform religious.
Rick Green Freedom is about people of faith being able to live out their faith, live out their convictions no matter where they are.
Jeff Chamblee We equip
Rick Green Sacred honor is the courage to speak truth, to live out your free speech. We also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope.
Jeff Chamblee This is At the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green: At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green
Rick Green Welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, coming to you from the Florida Leadership Congress at the state Capitol. We had such a good time with the students yesterday that we're knocking out an extra program to air on American Family Radio again. So, by the way, thank you, students. You did a fantastic job on the House floor today. Loved watching you debate. Got to visit most of your committee rooms for at least a little bit and see how well you were doing in there as well. So anyway, God bless you and thanks for joining me here on the radio again today. Patriot Academy, that's where you cheer. That's where you're supposed to. Yeah, thank you. That's good. See, we don't have it a. You know, it's not like a studio where we have the applause, lights and like in the 50s, you know, and I need to cue you guys when I say something funny, so you know when to laugh. Can somebody. Yeah, that's good. That's pretty good. We should just record that right there and I'll just play that back anytime. I have a good. I just rarely have a good joke, so it wouldn't be very often that we play. Anyway, I thought it went fantastic when we recorded, yesterday.
Join us for a question-and-answer session about leadership
So I want to do another program with you guys today, so be thinking about your questions and what you'd like to ask and maybe even want to talk about, you know, some of the things that are happening in the news today or even some of your bills that you're hearing on, or here at the, at the Florida capital. So we do this all over the country. We just did Colorado and Idaho, we're in Florida. We're going to be headed to Delaware and Texas and Indiana. And we do this throughout the summer. So if you're listening right now and you've never heard of Patriot Academy or the Leadership congresses, go to patriotacademy.com click on Leadership Congress. Whether you're a young leader or wanting to learn, or maybe you never thought about yourself as a leader before, but you would like to find out if you've got those leadership skills within you. I guarantee you you do. Then come to Leadership Congress 16 to 25 year olds in state capitals across the country throughout the summer. And then if you're not 16 to 25, then you need to sign up as a constitution coach, start teaching our constitution classes and come to our Constitution coach Congress, which we do in August, as well as our military veterans Leadership Congress. So everybody has an opportunity to do this, whatever your age. And then we started doing a new thing at Patriot Academy called the Patriot Experience. We actually built our own house chamber, our own legislative hall at the Patriot Academy campus. It's a replica of the Texas house and it's an opportunity for people of all ages to come in. We've had people, you know, grandparents coming with their grandkids and actually having, having the opportunity to go through the program together. So very, very cool. A lot of that's growing. Go check it [email protected] patriotacademy.com all right, so our students here, 16 to 25 from across the nation, some from as far away as California. Yesterday we heard from a student from North Carolina, a lot of the students from Florida and then our governor is from Missouri. So we've got a really good mix here and having a great time. So y' all be thinking of some really good questions, comments, insults, whatever you got, bring them and we'll let you drive the conversation. We'll go to whatever topic that you guys want to go to.
Our patriot Institute is an opportunity to learn at the Patriot Academy campus
we've had a couple of interesting things happen at Patriot Academy over the last few months because of our campus that we started, which we wanted to do for years. Many of the students that are seated in front of me right now, they have only experienced a regional Patriot Academy which is essentially three days. Some of them have been to our National Leadership Congress which is a full seven days. Even better. And this year for the first time we're doing a full 30 days. Our patriot Institute is an opportunity to learn at the Patriot Academy campus in full time residence. And it's basically Your option, you can do one month, one semester, or a whole year. And this summer in July will be the first opportunity to do one month. So it'll be 30 days from July 2 to August 2. A phenomenal, phenomenal opportunity to learn from people like Adam Curry. He's the guy that actually invented the podcast with Steve Jobs all those years ago. He's, going to be teaching on podcasting and media. And what he sees next. What is the next level of communication, especially for y' all, that are here at Patriot Academy for your generation? How is technology going to change even in the next few years and determine how you're going to be able to communicate with your colleagues, with your generation? How can you be an influencer in your generation and actually be a positive. Have a positive impact on what's happening? So Adam's going to talk about that and just his story. He was. He goes all the way back to the 80s and being a, you know, not VH1. What was the other one? MTV. Being a MTV. What they call that. VJ being a VJ back then. The big hair like Jon Bon Jovi. Anyway, Adam's going to be a blast. Y' all are going to have fun learning from him. Laura Logan, I call her the last living journalist, actual journalist on the planet. She's amazing. She lives right there by our campus, and she's going to come out and teach on journalism. I don't know if any. Does anybody in here have any? Has that been a tug at your heart at all to be in media or journalism? Everybody's got kind of a different thing that they might be interested. Business, politics, whatever. Does anybody out there as haven't seen? We don't have enough good constitutional Christian conservatives going into journalism. So I'm hoping maybe somehow, some way that becomes something that you guys see as a future for you. We need more going into that field. Who, else. Let's see. We got, let's see. Jimmy Prude, of course. My pastor will be there to do some teaching. Chris Dunham, who's the most popular speaker at Patriot Academy every year. and then we'll probably pipe in a lot of our friends from Daily Wire and all the other folks around the country that are a part of this movement. all right, so no questions. Nobody's come forward. this is great. That means I've taught you so much in the last 24 hours. I have solved all your problems. You have no questions about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness? None of it. Okay, we got one here. We Go. So we're gonna do it. We're not gonna take phone calls today. So, you know, 888-589-8840, write it down. You can do that at our next program, but no calls today. We're going to do all of our questions directly here with the Patriot Academy students.
Elijah: Penumbra theory establishes right to privacy in Constitution
Go ahead. Your question today, or comment or insult.
Elijah My name is Elijah. I'm Land o Lakes, Florida. Since no one volunteered, I wanted to ask you about what your thoughts on the penumbra theory and the right to privacy.
Rick Green What is the penumbra theory?
Elijah As decided in Griswold vs Connecticut, it establishes the right to privacy in the Constitution.
Rick Green Okay, so Griswold is the one that outlawed or, kept, you from being able to outlaw birth control, right? When that. The one with this. Yeah. Okay, And what was the second half of the question? Say it again.
Elijah And the right to privacy found in the Constitution.
Rick Green Okay. Yeah. So this is one of those where I really do think that the Supreme Court essentially made this up out of thin air, which they do a lot. It's essentially the same argument for abortion. There's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees abortion. But the Supreme Court, you know, if they stood just right and, you know, held out their arms just right and balanced themselves, they could see this new thing in the Constitution. The problem with that is that then the next Supreme Court doesn't see it, and they outlaw whatever that thing is. And so you end up with this, you know, literally, having whiplash about what the law should actually be. Perfect example of that would be. And, I'll come back to right to privacy in just a second. But perfect example of that would be, Justice Kennedy when it came to gay marriage. So he first said, no, gay marriage was not guaranteed in the Constitution. And it really just depends on what he has for serial that day. Because then just a couple of years later, he completely reversed and overfilled and said, yeah, somehow, you know, the kind of sex that you have and wanting to have sex with someone other than the opposite sex is somehow guaranteed in the Constitution. Something the founders would have been appalled at. And, if, you know, look, if you want. If you think you can get the majority of the country to do a constitutional amendment to require gay marriage, then go for it. but that's not what happened. What happened was one Supreme Court justice changed his opinion, and by changing his opinion, that switched to a 5, 4. And now we have homosexual marriage in this country that literally degrades what actual marriage is. And, that's not just me saying that. That's every religion, every country in the history of mankind until about 15 minutes ago. Okay, maybe 15 years ago, but still, same thing. Anyway, so right to privacy depends on what you mean by that. And that's why it shouldn't be something that the Supreme Court gets to decide. What do you mean by that? Because that's what actually allows for saying you have a right to an abortion as well. so I'm a, I'm a strict constructionist. So my position is James Madison's position that if the Constitution doesn't actually say it, then it doesn't exist. Now, granted, and I bet you'll probably go here next, the ninth Amendment does say that all of your rights are not listed in the Constitution. So you would have to argue for a right to privacy from the ninth Amendment. All of the government's power is listed in the Constitution, but our freedoms and our rights are not exhausted in the Constitution. The question is whether or not it's a constitutional right that the government must enforce or protect. And I think that's where the whole right to privacy thing becomes, in my opinion, abused. I think a society should be able to come together. You ought to be able to come together with your neighbors in your neighborhood, in your community, in your state, and be able to say some things are not going to be allowed. Now, I would not personally support a ban on birth control. Like, I think that is a personal decision that you ought to be able to make. Vote for that. But should a society be able to say no to that and not allow that in their particular society? Yeah, I think they should be able to do that. And then if you don't like that, you move to the next society over, whether that's a state or, or a, community or whatever. It might be muddy enough. Yes, close. And you need to come this summer to the Patriot Institute. So I know you're thinking about it.
Elijah I'm thinking about it.
Rick Green All right, I hope you come.
What are your thoughts on private citizens owning modern military class and quality weapons
All right, next up, go ahead, tell us your name, where you're from and your comment. Question or insult? Hey, I'm Joshua Stuckey. I'm from Gainesville, Georgia. And I wanted to ask, what are your thoughts on private citizens owning modern military class and quality weapons? So give us an example of what you would want us to consider letting modern citizens have. well, I'm mainly, asking like, do you think that citizens, could own military, vehicles or tanks or other large bore weapons? Yes, 100%. I want one. I want a tank I want surface to air missiles. I want all of it. look, here's the deal. If you believe in the second amendment and the actual history of the second Amendment. Second Amendment, the whole point of the second amendment was that the citizenry would have the same ability to wage war as the government so that you could actually fight government. Second amendment is not for hunting, and it is not only for your ability to defend yourself in the moment. That is part of it, no question about it, but it is also for being able to fight back against the government. And don't take my word for it, go read literally, every single founding father read what they said about how important arms are and the ability of the citizen to be able to have those arms. Go look at what the militia was. So when you, you know, when you read the second Amendment, a lot of people, they get hung up on a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. They get hung up on militia and they think, oh well, that means only National Guard or police or you know, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of, was mayor of New York years ago, he said, you know, citizens should not be allowed to have guns because they won't know when to use them or when to fire them. And the police know best. And so just leave it to the police to decide whenever it's necessary to do that. Lots of problems with that. Least of which is, not least of which is when you need police in seconds, they're minutes away. There's no way, way for the police to be in every situation and prevent that you know, maniac or dirtbag from coming in and murdering people or committing other crimes. But also just the fact that if only the police had guns, you would virtually guarantee tyranny. I mean it just always ends up emanating from that. So the ability to defend ourselves in war against any other entity is essential now to today's technology. It's a lot harder than in the founding era. And for those poorly informed or willing to lie, individuals like Joe Biden, who would used to run around all the time and say, you couldn't have a cannon in the founding era. He's absolutely wrong about that. You could absolutely have a cannon in the founding era. And in fact the only ordinance that we can find did not outlaw you from having a cannon, just simply said, please stop firing your cannon in the middle of the night. You're waking people up. So that, that would be the closest thing A cannon at that time would be the closest thing to what you just described, tanks and that and that sort of thing. So I absolutely think you should be allowed to have a tank. And I'm not kidding when I say I want one. now. Now I will say biological weapons and nuclear weapons is a much tougher question, right? That, number one, it's almost impossible to develop and be able to have. But even if you could do that, I probably would support a line at that point and saying, that's a weapon of mass destruction that we wouldn't want just anybody to be able to have. Now, I realize that sounds hypocritical and that sounds like, okay, well, if I draw the line there, then somebody could argue, well, then why should you be able to have a fully automatic rifle that can kill, you know, 50 people if you're able to change out your 30 round mag fast enough or whatever, they're going to make that same argument for that. The difference is that I can fight back against that person that has a fully automatic weapon. I can't really fight back against a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon. So it really does completely decimate without the ability to actually wage war. So that'd be a good one for us to philosophically think through, like, even at that extreme. But most people today would probably have draw the line a lot different than I would. I want it way out there. Like, I'm totally for every weapon that you mentioned and a lot of other ones as well. And yes, I would like to have an F35. So if anybody has an extra billion dollars laying around and you could buy one for me from, you know, I don't know, the U.S. israel, somebody that we've given one to. Anyway, great question.
Trevor Waller asks whether voting is a right or a privilege
All right, wait, let me look at my clock here. Okay, we got two minutes before break, so we might m not get done answering your question, but let's please get it. All right, my name's Trevor Waller. I'm from Tallahassee, Florida. And my question is, is voting a right or a privilege? Is voting a right or a privilege? And you're from right here in Tallahassee. You traveled the least far of everyone here. That's true. Did you grow up here in Tallahassee? yeah, basically. All right, okay. So Tallahassee, resident wants to know whether or not voting is a right or a privilege. I would argue. Well, it depends. If you're talking about a citizen that is, that has the right to vote, then, I would even argue it's not a Privilege, it is a duty. So it's not just that you have the right to vote. If you don't vote, I would argue that you're the wicked and slothful servant that has buried the talent that God gave you, that talent of freedom and that talent of responsibility. So I'm not sure if that quite answers your question because it goes to a third option of it being a duty. But, can it. And maybe the next question would be, can it be taken away then? And you know, can. If I'm one of these people that thinks that if, even if you're a felon, if you did your time, then when you come home, you should be able to have a firearm, you should be able to vote. You should, you should be able to do those things. So that's probably controversial. Maybe somebody wants to debate me on that one today. But, excellent question. We can do follow ups on that if you want, but I gotta take a quick break. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. You're listening to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. We're actually coming to you from Florida. We're doing the Leadership Congress here. So Leadership Congress is a youth leadership program that we do 16 to 25 year olds. We do this around the country in state capitals across the nation and then we also have versions for adults. The military veterans, Leadership Congress and the Constitution Coach Leadership Congress. Learn more about all of [email protected] patriotacademy.com and by the way, especially if you're in the Midwest or actually anywhere in the country, it's not too late to sign up for the Indiana one. The Midwest Leadership Congress is not until August, so check that [email protected] we'll be right back on that. Corps.
Jeff Chamblee At the Core podcast are [email protected] now back to at the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green: Why is the state capitol in Florida up in the Panhandle
Rick Green We're back here on at the Core with Walker wobbling a Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. Thanks for staying with me. Coming to you from the Florida state capital of Tallahassee. I actually did not stop and read all the signage over in the old supreme or old, House and Senate Chamber. That probably would give me the good reasons. But why in the world is the state capitol in Florida up here in the Panhandle and not in the middle of Florida? Makes no sense to me. It's hard to fly in here. Sorry, Mr. Tallahassee, that just asked a question. Yes, I'm dissing on Your city.
In conservative circles, there is a divide on opinions about the pharmaceutical industry
Okay, next question from. All right, students here at the Leadership Congress are asking questions for us. And our next question is going to.
Nyla Rios Be from Nyla Rios. I'm from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. All right, so in conservative circles, there seems to be a divide on opinions about the pharmaceutical industry. Some view the industry as filled with corporate greed and corruption and a danger to public health, especially in the case of vaccines. Others oppose things like Medicare, drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction act, and want more policies to benefit the industry in order to promote your innovation. What are your thoughts on the pharmaceutical industry?
Rick Green Excellent question. Okay. I actually can sum up my thoughts about the pharmaceutical industry by simply calling them what I normally call them, the medical industrial complex. I'm a free market guy, so I do not like government involvement in the market. but unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry has been propped up by government so long that it became so wealthy that then it turned around and bought government. So the fact that we allowed the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industrial complex to essentially take over our government and call the shots, and that's through the fda, through the center for Demented Confusion, known as the cdc, or you might want to call them the center for Disease Creation instead of Disease Control. I know I'm sounding very cynical and sarcastic right now, but it's because I've been shocked at how much power they've been able to wield and the fact that we pay for their advertising, we pay for their research and development, and then they turn around and make all these profits and they end up with special protections. I'm a Reagan guy. Look, I named a kid Reagan. I got another kid born on Ronald Reagan's birthday. Used to have a dog named Dutch. Okay? I've done a documentary on Ronald Reagan. I got Reagan street cred. Ronald Reagan was 100% wrong to give vaccine manufacturers immunity. There is no one that should have absolute immunity for their product. You should be held accountable if your product harms someone. And once we did that, it caused those companies to no longer be honest, to no longer actually do the research and development to make sure that the product's actually safe. They have no longer the incentive to do that. So we've allowed them to foist upon us a money making machine. It's a golden goose for them. And back when I was fighting for parental rights and vaccine choice. Just not. I'm not, I'm not. I'm actually not an anti vaxxer. I think vaccines have some vaccines have been absolute miracles, medical miracles that have saved millions and Millions of lives, eradicated some diseases. amazing. What I'm against is the government forcing you to get a vaccine through a schedule that you are not allowed to go to school or end up in public, places unless you follow that entire schedule. And at the time, I was, working to give parental choice in this. There were only 32 doses that children were getting in about the first five years. And that was enough for me to say, that's way too much. And even at that time, there was no study on the combination of all 32 doses and what it did to the human body. Now it's 72 doses, and there's still not a study, not a single study to tell us what happens when you actually put that much of these foreign substances into the human body, especially at two days old, six months old, two years old. So it's become an absolute travesty. And I think it's because of the political power that we've allowed the pharmaceutical companies to have. The harder part is, I don't know, the solution. I don't know. Because of being a free marketer, I'm very hesitant about some of the ideas that, for instance, RFK has about limiting their advertising and that sort of thing. And it's tough because I've never. I never supported the. You remember, there's certain bans in some states on attorneys being able to advertise, and I've never thought that was. Should be allowed. I think if you, you know, if you advertise, and as long as you're being honest and you're out lying in your advertising. Oh, that's why attorneys can't advertise. That was funny, man. I don't care who. That was a. I'm an attorney, and that was a good joke. Ah. man. Bill, I think I'm gonna have to give up the comedian routine. It's not working. It's not working. All right, anyway, but. But I just don't think the state should be able to tell you that. However, I totally get what RFK saying about the fact that you literally have all of the news outlets bought and paid for by, you know, whether it's, certain, big pharma companies or other major industries, it's become a major, major problem. So anyway, I don't know what the right solution is, except starting with government not trying, not government not having any force, and government not having any say in what you inject into your body. There is nothing about the people in Washington, D.C. at the center for Disease Control or FDA or the NIH or any of that. There is no reason that we should think that they are such experts that they know better than we do about what's best for our child. And too many American people have bought that lie. And so they think if Pope Fauci comes on TV and says, you need to get this vaccine, that everybody should get it. No, what you should do is say, thank you for the advice. Now I'm going to go research what the pros and cons are. I'm going to do the cost benefit analysis just like I would if you came to me and said, if you were my doctor and you, and you said you need to have, you know, open heart surgery or you need to do, you know, whatever other routine. I'm going to research that and I'm going to get other opinions and I'm going to find out. The American people, too many of the American people have bought the lie, hook, line and sinker, that the supposed experts are always right. Well, if, if anything came out of COVID I hope it proved that the experts can be flat wrong. And whenever they are the only ones that are allowed, to have an opinion, millions of people can end up, being harmed. So, yeah, great question. I'm very passionate about this particular issue. I don't, what I don't want to do, and I think your question actually raised this, in a way. I don't want to shut down research and I don't want to prevent what our free market economy created. There's a reason that the American health system is the best in the world and why socialized medicine ends up making our system worse and cost more and all of those things. competition works. And so I'm all for people being able to bring things to market and us being able to try it. And if it doesn't work or people get harmed, you're allowed to sue them. And, and, and that, that chaos of the market, it's no different than Adam Smith's invisible hand that he talked about. It will make our, our, we'll end up with more inventions and we'll end up with, with better health care. But when government says you have to do this company's vaccine or this company's treatment, or even like with Medicare and Medicaid, that these are the only options that you have. Biggest problem with that is government should have never been involved in health care at all. There shouldn't be a Medicare or Medicaid at the federal level. There's nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to have a single say about health care. All right, I'll stop filibustering. I'll tell one more, one more story, and then I'll shut up.
If you go back 100 years to Spanish flu, very similar perceived danger here
No, I won't shut up, but I will let you ask a question. the, best example of this is in fact Covid compared to Spanish flu. So if you go back 100 years to Spanish flu, very similar perceived danger here. But Spanish flu is actually 25 times worse than Covid. Not twice as bad, not 10 times as bad, 25 times more deadly than Covid. Covid turned out to be a 0.1 case fatality rate. Okay? That means you had a 99.9 chance of survival. anybody remember whenever all the media was saying at the beginning of COVID it's going to be a 3.4% case fatality rate. Same report from every news outlet, 3.A, 3.4% case fatality Rate would have been a massacre. I mean, it would have devastated the world and America. That would have truly been a black plague type situation. Which is why when this all happened initially, everybody canceled everything and we shut down. We stayed home for two weeks. And, you know, because if it's going to be 3.4, you really do have a black plague on your hand. Anybody remember Donald Trump coming out and saying, actually, I think it's probably not going to be worse than a really bad flu year. In a bad, bad flu year, you end up with, I forget the numbers. I used to have all this memorized four years ago. But how many people die from the flu every year? Which miraculously nobody died from the flu during COVID Imagine that. But his whole point was we're going to have, probably have a pretty decent death rate here, but it's not going to be any worse than a really bad flu year. And that's exactly what ended up happening. So I don't know how he knew that. I don't know who was telling him that. Whenever, you know, Pope Fauci and Dr. Burke's wanting everybody to wear goggles and four masks and shields and everything else, in line to the American people about it. I don't know where he got that idea, but he was absolutely right about it. Spanish flu was not like that Spanish flu. Children were getting Spanish flu in the morning and they were dead by midnight. And it was bad. Even in that environment with it, with a literal, like a black plague like situation on our hands, the federal government did nothing, absolutely nothing, didn't spend a penny. I don't know how the world survived without the little six foot sticker. You know, stay away, six feet away from each other and humanity still here. And they didn't have those stickers in 1917 and 18. they didn't spend a penny, didn't pay people to stay home, didn't quarantine healthy people. We have never quarantined healthy people in history. This was the first time we did that. we didn't do any of that nonsense. They did masks in some of the, public transit areas. In San Francisco and a couple other big cities, nobody had a mask mandate or a stay at home mandate for six months or a year or whatever it was. People asked churches and theaters to close for. the most I could find looking in everywhere was six weeks was the most that any government asked anybody to stay closed. And even then it was an ask, it was not a demand. So there wasn't this, you know, martial law type situation that they did. So just know that, just know how bad Spanish flu was. And without the government, the federal government doing anything. We won World War I and survived Spanish flu at the same time. And now state governments should be involved in healthcare. I think, I think that's a proper role to state and local government. But federal government should have nothing to do with it. And that's why the pharmaceutical industry has become so powerful, because they've been able to collude with the federal government. That's not free market, that's crony capitalism. so anyway, I didn't mean to get. So thank you. That was a great question. I used up half our program on that one question. What's your opinion? I should have asked you, what do you think? After my tirade, she's like, oh my goodness, I better not say anything nice about Pfizer.
Nyla Rios I just finished a season of healthcare policy debate in Team Policy. So, this was actually a prominent case is to repeal the Medicare drug price negotiations. So that was, I think it was a good case. But there are also different things like patent strategies that companies currently use. And so they're kind of, bypassing the free market system and they're using anti competitive practices. So it's not truly a free market. I'm not entirely sure still on my opinions of the Medicare drug price negotiations. I think we should balance innovation with protecting public health.
Rick Green That was good. Give her a hand. That was. It is. It is painfully obvious that the students at Patriot Academy are way smarter than the founder of Patriot Academy. I mean, she used a lot bigger words with more syllables Some of them I didn't even understand and, obviously knew a lot more about the subject as well, so. Well done. Well done.
Caleb Dowd: Does using military against its own people violate Constitution
All right, next question.
Caleb Dowd Hi, my name is Caleb Dowd. I'm from Charleston, South Carolina. And my question is about, So what do you think about Trump sending, Marines to help with the protests in Los Angeles? And does that violate, using the military against its people?
Rick Green First of all, I want to know, Caleb, how in the world you're from South Carolina, and you didn't say, I'm from South Carolina. Have you been there your whole life?
Caleb Dowd No, I was. I grew up in, Washington State.
Rick Green There you go. See, he talks. He doesn't talk. Right. So you got to move to the south to learn how to talk. Right. How long you been in South Carolina?
Caleb Dowd Four years.
Rick Green Four years. You should be talking right by now. We're going to. You say y' all okay. At least you say y' all okay. well, we did. We talked about this some yesterday, so I'm going to do it in summary fashion. he absolutely has the right to do so. Constitutional, power to do so, and, congressionally delegated authority to do so. I think it should always be done. I mean, in only the rarest of circumstances where the state is not taking care of the situation, which clearly California was not. Or. And. Or you have the concern that this is going to spread like wildfire all over the country, like it did in 2020. And so the president, 100% has the power to do it. 20 times presidents have invoked the Insurrection act to do what he's doing. Twelve different presidents have done it prior to President Trump. Democrat, Republican, Federalist, Anti Federalist. George Washington did it. He was the first one to do it. And so, yes, absolutely, he should be able to do it. I, actually think he should do it with a heavy hand. Like, I think he should not only be protecting the federal buildings, I think he should go in and say, if they're doing violence, stop them. Now, if they're just protesting, then, hey, he's all for it. Just like I'm all for it. But if they're blocking, you know, if you block the streets, then, hey, Florida. I know we've been having this debate between Texas and Florida, and who's better? Thank you, Ron DeSantis, for basically saying, if they block the streets, run them over. I mean, you're impeding commerce, you're preventing ambulances from being able to get people to the hospital. You're preventing pregnant people from pregnant people. I Sound like a liberal. Pregnant women. Wow. They even changed my terminology. That's terrible. anyway, so, yeah, I think, I think. I think he should do it fast and do it hard so that it stops it and. Or at least says, if you do violence, we're absolutely going to arrest you. And I think that's kind of happened because I think it prevented the no Kings rallies from getting out of control. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Follow up question.
Caleb Dowd So if that's the case, I understand that with like, the National Guard, but he specifically sent the Marines to help. And so. So if he can send the Marines, then why does the Constitution say that you can't use the military against its own people?
Rick Green So, yeah, potato, potato for me. Because if once you call forth the militia, which is what arc, section eight, paragraph 15 allows you to do, once you call forth the National Guard, it's the same as having the Marines or the army. They're now federalized. It's no. They're absolutely no different. So it's not. It's not that Posse Comitat is. The whole thing about you can never use the military is. Is, is misunderstood. You can actually use the military, just like George Washington did to stop the Whiskey Rebellion. what that's generally, used to prevent is it's got to only be under an Insurrection Act. There are only three exceptions. You're doing it to, prevent an invasion, an insurrection, or to enforce the laws. So it's a rare, rare, rare situation. I think it's also proper and right to say that the border was invaded and that we had a literal invasion in the country. It's also why. It's a little bit of a segue here, but it's also why you should. States should constitutionally be able to enforce the border. So under Article 1, Section 10, if the. If the, federal government's not doing it under Article 4, Section 4, like they're supposed to, governors can do it. It's one reason I was always very disappointed in Governor Abbott is that he didn't. He didn't do everything that he could have done. even from the beginning, at the end, he made. He did a lot of show and finally started doing a little bit of what he could have done, but it was too little, too late. So, anyway, great question.
Levi Seibert: President Trump should shut down Department of Education
All right. I think I have two minutes till break, so let's try to get one more in or at least get the question. Sure. I'm Levi Seibert from Huntsville, Alabama. My question is, what's your thoughts on higher Education and should government pay for it? First of all, where is Ponceville? Huntsville. Sorry? Oh, Huntsville. Okay, so I know where Huntsville is. same thing. Man, you don't sound like my mama. My mama's from Mobile, and she talks like she's from Alabama. Why don't you talk like you're from Alabama? Are you. Did you grow up there? yeah. Man, I bet you use big syllable words, too. Okay, you asked me about, education. Should the federal government be doing anything with it? Was that. Was that specifically federal government? That's an easy one. Absolutely not. Zero, zilch, nada. they should have nothing to do with education. Didn't have anything to do with education for most of our country's history. Right. There's nothing in the Constitution that allows for the federal government to do education. Jimmy Carter is the one that created this Department of Education. So just think about how. How much better our education system has become since the 1970s. That was a joke. Thank you for being one. Thank you, Representative Stuckey, for laughing. Only it was just not enough. Anyway, yes, of course it's gotten worse because the federal government does nothing but muck up the works. 300 billion bucks a year right now that we're spending through the Department of Education. I think President Trump should not only shut down the Department of Education. Education. Actually, he shouldn't shut it down. What he should do is keep 10 employees. Let's just go with 50. Keep 50 employees. One employee directed to each state, and take all 300, $300 billion and make it block grants to parents as a child tax as a, as a voucher system from the federal government. It'd be about five grand a student across the country. I'd be for that anyway. Yeah. So that's about all. Honestly, they shouldn't be doing anything. They shouldn't be spending any money. But if you can't shut it down, then at least redirect the money. Thank you. Good question. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. You are listening to at the Core with Waha Waldman and Rick Green.
Jeff Chamblee At the Core podcast are [email protected] now back to at the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green answers questions from students about concealed carry
Rick Green Welcome back at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, coming to you from Tallahassee, Florida. We're doing our Leadership Congress in Florida, and we shared one program with you last week with the students from the Leadership Congress. Got another one for you. Today and we've been getting questions from the students. If you'd like to learn more about Leadership Congress, go to patriotacademy.com send your young people to a 16 to 25. I promise you we'll send you home. Leaders, come here and learn how to do public speaking, how to work our room, how to do better in terms of just making your life plan, figuring out what your purpose is, finding out what God's called you to find that purpose and that passion. And we'll come alongside you at Patriot Academy. So 16 to 25 year olds, you have the opportunity still come to the National Patriot Academy Leadership Congress, which is the last week of July. Or you can go to the Midwest, which will be at the, at the Indiana capital, which is in Indianapolis. And I believe it's the middle of August or right towards the end of August. And then if you're a military veteran, check out our Military Veterans Leadership Congress. That one will be the second week of August in Texas at the Patriot Academy campus, along with our Constitution coaches. In other words, there's a program for you, whatever your age is, go check it out. Patriotacademy.com okay, we got, more questions coming from the students here at Patriot Academy. Name where you're from and then your comment, question, insult or testimonial, whatever. I'm Edward Sager. I'm originally from Sebring, Florida. I'm in Atlanta for right now. And you sound more like you're from Alabama than all those other posers that just came up here. anyways, my question is going to sound a lot less smart than everybody else's, but I'm just curious what your preferred concealed carry setup is. Oh, that's a great, that's a very smart question. Are you kidding? Hey, I don't care how smart you are. If you're dead, you're not going to be very smart, right? So you got to have a sidearm to protect yourself. so my, my EDC is, is a, is a 1911. I'm a 1911 guy. Used to be a Glock guy. All my boys and I trained on Glocks forever. And then, we, I was able to hold a 1911 and take headshots for the first time. And I said, oh my goodness, I'm home. And so I've never stopped, with the 1911. Now my boys went back to Glock. So all my boys are now Glock, guys. But yeah, 1911 is my preferred. I actually have a, I have a lot of different 1911's but my, My normal carry when I'm traveling is a sig Sauer C3, which is a little smaller than full size, and it's a.45. Most 1911s are.45. For those of you that aren't shooters. and, but my. My favorite carry gun is a Gun Crafter, which is made by the same guys up in Northwest Arkansas that all the engineers that did Wilson Combat and Nighthawk. And it's. It's a sweet, sweet gun. That gun is. Oh, I usually. I pack that gun and then ask my wife if she wants to go. That was another joke. Come on. What is with this group, man? Not one laugh out of that. We're tired. They're already tired. We still got a whole day to go.
Elijah: So, actually, the capital of Florida was St. Augustine
Okay, next up. You're back.
Elijah Hello, it's me again. Elijah. Yes, I am back. I did have a question for you, but first I want to actually answer one of yours from earlier in the segment, if you don't mind, which is why Tallahassee is the cap. This capital of Florida.
Rick Green And these Floridians are awfully defensive. I mean, if you say anything bad about Florida, they are. Y' all are like Texans.
Elijah So, actually, the capital of Florida was St. Augustine when it was under Spanish control. But there was a brief period in time where the Spanish sold Florida to the French, and they established community in what was known as West Florida and made Pensacola the capital and divided Florida into two states, really West Florida and Florida. Once it became a, single state again, once Spain again bought it, they combined the capitals. They thought it wasn't. It was pointless to have two capitals, so they moved. Met M in the middle in Tallahassee.
Rick Green Not good enough. Because I still object to Tallahassee being the capital because it's still a pain to get here and you don't have enough good flights, so. Nice explanation, but, you know, it's still difficult. No, my favorite part of what you just described was, I forgot all about the St. Augustine thing, because the St. Augustine is also where three of the signers of the Declaration were captured by the British and held there throughout the Revolution. and there was actually a mission from some of the Georgia folks to come try to rescue them, and they lost the battle and weren't able to rescue the guys. And, I forget the guy's name. I think it was Bunton Gwinnett or Gwenton. Yeah, Button Gwinnett. He ends up getting so mad, he had, got into a big fight with the guy that Was governor. He, demanded a duel, and he ends up dying in the duel less than a year after the Declaration of Independence. I can't remember all the details of it, but I remember it happened in St. Augustine because I went out there and made a little video and there was a sign explaining the whole story and. Pretty cool. Hey, good stuff. Thank you for the history lesson.
Florida had an amendment recently about having partisan school board elections
Did you have another question, too? Oh, okay, go ahead.
Elijah So my question for you is one that kind of. My household voted differently in the election on. So Florida had an amendment recently about having partisan school board elections. What would your take on partisan elections in smaller offices such as school board or mosquito control, which we have in Pasco County?
Rick Green Yeah, I'm actually a fan of that at city council, school board, whatever it is. Just simply because it's really hard to tell what somebody's philosophy is. And it's no guarantee. Right. Just because they have an R or a D or whatever other party beside their name is not a guarantee that they're going to represent your values and what you see as an R or D or whatever. but it at least gives you an idea, and they have to. And I actually prefer always having a primary so that you have an opportunity to get the best candidate for each party. Now, that would be hard in school board and city council because it's hard enough just to get people to show up for the general election in those. But from a just hypothetical, you know, theoretical, what would be best kind of thing? In my mind, definitely having a party that you have to affiliate with so that there's at least some hint of what your. Your governing philosophy is going to be. And then I also am a big fan of having some sort primary or caucus in order to weed out the ones that are, you know, not really of that party or they're. They're posing. It's also why I'm a fan of caucuses, even over primaries. I love what Iowa and these other states do. I think the fact that you have to show up, no matter how much snow there is, no matter how bad the weather is, you got to show up in person and hang out for a couple hours to be able to cast your vote, I think it's good. I think that way you have people that are actually paying attention, that actually care the most about the system showing up.
Elijah Thank you.
Rick Green You bet. Good question. Okay, who's next? Are you getting coaching over there? Are y' all just trying to decide which question to ask? Ah, okay. All right, Go for it.
Adeline Aust: Should right to vote be regulated by the federal government
Adeline Aust My question. So I'm Adeline Aust. I'm from Orlando, Florida. And my question is, would you vote in favor of repealing the 19th Amendment? Should the right to vote be regulated by the federal government? And what are your reasons?
Rick Green Oh, man. No, I would not. I would not support a repeal of the 19th Amendment. Oh, boy, I'm gonna get myself in trouble. No, I'm not gonna say so. So I, I would not. I would not support repeal of the 19th Amendment. I, I do think that there should be, some federal guidelines on voting for federal office, but not necessarily for state office. So I think you. And that's what the Constitution actually says. So I, I think if you're going to have any kind of a, trustworthy system, it's got to be uniform. And so you got to know that when you're doing your choosing your electors or you're voting for Congress, that it's somewhat the same across the country. Now, the Constitution does allow for somewhat not, not the day can't be different, but there can be different qualifications based on what the state qualifications are for the lower house and the. In the legislature. But I am all for, and I don't know if this is what you were getting at or not, but I am all for a federal requirement, literally in the Constitution, that only legal citizens can vote and that we have to have paper ballots that can actually be counted, hand counted. If there's any question of integrity or any question about what happened. I went through my first election in 1998. I, know that was before any of you were born, but in 1998, I ran for the state house. 30,000 people voted, and I lost by 20 votes. We had a recount. We put our hands on every single ballot. We counted them together. My opponent and me, our teams, we all went through every single one of those 30,000 ballots, and I won by 36 votes. I look at my opponent, I said, you can have a second recount. Texas law allows you to. Just to make sure we got it right. He says, we just looked at every ballot. I don't want to. You won. I don't like the fact that you won, but you won. Nobody claimed cheating. Nobody, you know, said the system was rigged because we had transparency. Everybody could come and watch that recount. Anybody that wanted to have the recount could have the recount. We had verification, just the ability to do a recount, and then we had legal remedies. So if anybody, if the. For instance, if the county judge or whoever had refused to open the ballots and allow us to do that, we could have sued them and had a legal outcome. If you look back at 2020, it wasn't just the machines. It was people changing the law without constitutional authority. So you had state legislatures not involved. You had a governor, for instance, in, in, Pennsylvania and other states, it was the state supreme court. In Georgia, it was the Secretary of State changing the law without the legislature changing how the election was going to take place. And so that was unconstitutional. Those states should have been thrown out from, the beginning, or it should have gone back to their legislature and the legislature could have chosen the electors, which the Constitution does allow for. And the Supreme Court has ruled on that multiple times. but anyway, I think that the idea is that we should be able to put our hands on it, recount it. And I think the feds, I think that should actually be in the Constitution, so it's guaranteed to everybody. And the other thing I think I mentioned yesterday, I also think as a part of that amendment to the Constitution, we should add, add an amendment that says you can only count legal citizens in the enumeration so that we get the, get the numbers right in Congress. Does that make sense? What would be, what would be your preferred change at the federal level on elections? Because you wouldn't be asking that question if you hadn't already thought something should be done at the, at the federal level or whether or not the federal feds should have any say. Or is this based on the fact that, President Trump has been talking about requiring paper ballots?
Adeline Aust This is because.
Rick Green Go ahead and come over and talk.
Adeline Aust About this is because somebody, filed a bill that repealed the seven in the yes At Patriot Academy, and he wanted to repeal the 19th Amendment. And so I was wondering if that was something that the federal government should regulate.
Rick Green Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I got you now. I totally understand. and yes, the same thing applies to, you know, the 15th amendment, making sure you can't discriminate in voting, based on race. So the 19th is. Can't discriminate in voting based on sex. The 26th, you can't discriminate based on age down to 18. 24th, you can't discriminate based on money. So no poll tax. So all four of those are protections to make sure that the citizen is allowed to, participate and vote. And yeah, I would, I do support the idea that that would be something that we could enforce at the, at the federal level. Yeah, go for it.
Adeline Aust Okay, this one is like, a little bit, more not young kid friendly.
What do you think about life imprisonment versus the death penalty
Okay, so what do you Think life imprisonment versus the death penalty. Do you think that the sword of the government extends to, rape circumstances? Do you think it would be better for a grapist for life imprisonment or the death row? Because I think they are. I think it's better for life imprisonment for almost all circumstances, if not all.
Rick Green And, and is your reason for being for life imprisonment instead of the death sentence is just not just to not end that life? To allow that life to end naturally?
Adeline Aust Yes, mainly for that. And so for the person who committed the crime, I would assume they're not a Christian, and so maybe they could get saved.
Rick Green So, yeah, so if you, if you take their life, electric chair, whatever. If you give, if you give the death penalty, Death penalty, you're ending their chance of coming, to the gospel. Now, as a Calvinist, that doesn't bother me one bit. that was a joke, too. Come on, man, I am losing. Thank you. Only the hyper theologians in the room, are laughing. Okay, I get what you're saying. And you could even argue, what was the lady's name in Texas? The axe murderer that, that everybody tried to get Bush to pardon because she had become a Christian and she was actually, you know, spreading the gospel in the prisons. And, he said, you know, I'm glad she became a Christian, but the law has a requirement. And, you know, this is the punishment, and we can't lift that punishment just based on what somebody says after they did the law. We should apply the law. So I am a fan of the death penalty. I think, the idea that we would spend millions of dollars to keep someone alive for the rest of their life, in a, situation like a child rape or a murder. Well, let me back up. If society has said that that particular crime is so heinous that it deserves the death penalty or life in prison. And we're trying to choose between one of the two. In that case, I would choose the death penalty so that there's not a financial burden on society also so that there is, you know, quite literally, a deterrent. I'm all for public hangings and, and, going back to, you know, people literally seeing this is the punishment. Whenever you do this thing in our society, this is the punishment. And that's not going to stop all of them. If somebody's on psychotropic drugs was. Almost all mass murderers are. When they go shoot up a school or something, they're on some sort of psychotropic drug. deterrence is not going to work with that particular murderer. But it does decrease the number of murders and crime because it elevates the culture of life and the culture of consequence and, and protection. So anyway, that would be my, my long winded answer to that. This would be a fun one to actually have a extended conversation on. because I, you know, I'm not even sure, I'm not even sure that, I'm not even sure you couldn't change my mind on, on some of that.
Adeline Aust Such a serious.
Rick Green Yeah, it's such a serious subject. There's such, such huge repercussions and, and obviously eternal repercussions that, that it is, that's why as lawmakers, y' all are getting a little taste of this, over these few days in the legislature. It's a, it's a big deal. When you cast that vote, you, you know that your vote for what the law is going to be in your state is going to impact lives. It may end lives. It will certainly determine justice in your state. you're going to, you're, you're going to pass, or defeat laws that, that impact how, how, how easily someone can seek justice or how they can fight back against injustice. What's your ability to fight against a bad DA that's coming after you or your family? what's your ability to be able to live out your Bill of Rights and actually get due process? So when you guys vote on this stuff here, it's not totally for real, but it feels like it when you're voting on it because you're taking it serious, because you know that these are in some cases life or death situations.
Solomon Stiles: Could you explain what poll tax is
Okay, let's see if we can squeeze in one more before we run out of time. My name is Solomon Stiles. I live in Monticello, Florida, about 40 minutes east of central Tallahassee. And my question is a little bit more of a simple one. Could you explain what poll tax is? so basically a, ah, poll tax is basically where you would have to go in and it wouldn't necessarily be super expensive, but you might have to pay $5 to offset the cost of putting on that election. And we've never had, we haven't had them for years. I think 24th Amendment was passed. Let's see, 20, 23 would have been 25th was late 60s, would have been probably 50s. Whenever, whenever we did it. Most places didn't have it anyway by that time. And the whole idea is that even if you allowed for a little one, that eventually somebody could ramp that sucker up to where, if you got to pay a thousand dollars to vote, then very few people are going to vote. So it's just to prevent people from being excluded from the process based on how much money they got? Good question, man.
Rick Green: Satanists have a bloodlust for the innocents
All right, we're out of time for today, Patriots. Thank you for joining me here on At the Core folks Listening. Thank you for listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.
Rick Green Have you ever wondered why our society is so ravenous to abort babies? Well, according to a former Satanist, the demonic forces have a bloodlust for the innocents. They sickly believe that the blood sacrifice empowers evil. Make no mistake, we are fighting a spiritual battle as we protect the most innocent among us. Babies in their mother's womb. PreBorn stands on the front lines of this battle. Their network of clinics are positioned in the highest abortion areas, often next to abortion mills where unspeakable evil takes place every day. PreBorn offers God's love and life to protect hurting women and precious preborn babies. Please make your most generous gift to empower good and rescue precious souls. Every time a baby is Saved, which happens 200 times a day, good conquers evil. For just $28, you can sponsor an ultrasound that doubles a baby's chance at life. Donate securely today. Dial pound250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound250, or go to preborn.com preborn.com.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture
Jeff Chamblee The month of June has been hijacked by the anti Christian culture to show their pride in something God calls an abomination. When you support afr, you help us continue to stand for godly values and provide the resources for you to stay in the know about the enemy's tactics. To say thank you for your gift this month we'll give you the booklet Inside the LGBTQ push of the 1990s. To help strengthen your convictions, just go to afr.netoffers afr.net offers we inform religious.
Rick Green Freedom is about people of faith being able to live out their faith, live out their convictions no matter where they are.
Jeff Chamblee We equip
Rick Green Sacred honor is the courage to speak truth, to live out your free speech. We also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope.
Jeff Chamblee This is At the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green: At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green
Rick Green Welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, coming to you from the Florida Leadership Congress at the state Capitol. We had such a good time with the students yesterday that we're knocking out an extra program to air on American Family Radio again. So, by the way, thank you, students. You did a fantastic job on the House floor today. Loved watching you debate. Got to visit most of your committee rooms for at least a little bit and see how well you were doing in there as well. So anyway, God bless you and thanks for joining me here on the radio again today. Patriot Academy, that's where you cheer. That's where you're supposed to. Yeah, thank you. That's good. See, we don't have it a. You know, it's not like a studio where we have the applause, lights and like in the 50s, you know, and I need to cue you guys when I say something funny, so you know when to laugh. Can somebody. Yeah, that's good. That's pretty good. We should just record that right there and I'll just play that back anytime. I have a good. I just rarely have a good joke, so it wouldn't be very often that we play. Anyway, I thought it went fantastic when we recorded, yesterday.
Join us for a question-and-answer session about leadership
So I want to do another program with you guys today, so be thinking about your questions and what you'd like to ask and maybe even want to talk about, you know, some of the things that are happening in the news today or even some of your bills that you're hearing on, or here at the, at the Florida capital. So we do this all over the country. We just did Colorado and Idaho, we're in Florida. We're going to be headed to Delaware and Texas and Indiana. And we do this throughout the summer. So if you're listening right now and you've never heard of Patriot Academy or the Leadership congresses, go to patriotacademy.com click on Leadership Congress. Whether you're a young leader or wanting to learn, or maybe you never thought about yourself as a leader before, but you would like to find out if you've got those leadership skills within you. I guarantee you you do. Then come to Leadership Congress 16 to 25 year olds in state capitals across the country throughout the summer. And then if you're not 16 to 25, then you need to sign up as a constitution coach, start teaching our constitution classes and come to our Constitution coach Congress, which we do in August, as well as our military veterans Leadership Congress. So everybody has an opportunity to do this, whatever your age. And then we started doing a new thing at Patriot Academy called the Patriot Experience. We actually built our own house chamber, our own legislative hall at the Patriot Academy campus. It's a replica of the Texas house and it's an opportunity for people of all ages to come in. We've had people, you know, grandparents coming with their grandkids and actually having, having the opportunity to go through the program together. So very, very cool. A lot of that's growing. Go check it [email protected] patriotacademy.com all right, so our students here, 16 to 25 from across the nation, some from as far away as California. Yesterday we heard from a student from North Carolina, a lot of the students from Florida and then our governor is from Missouri. So we've got a really good mix here and having a great time. So y' all be thinking of some really good questions, comments, insults, whatever you got, bring them and we'll let you drive the conversation. We'll go to whatever topic that you guys want to go to.
Our patriot Institute is an opportunity to learn at the Patriot Academy campus
we've had a couple of interesting things happen at Patriot Academy over the last few months because of our campus that we started, which we wanted to do for years. Many of the students that are seated in front of me right now, they have only experienced a regional Patriot Academy which is essentially three days. Some of them have been to our National Leadership Congress which is a full seven days. Even better. And this year for the first time we're doing a full 30 days. Our patriot Institute is an opportunity to learn at the Patriot Academy campus in full time residence. And it's basically Your option, you can do one month, one semester, or a whole year. And this summer in July will be the first opportunity to do one month. So it'll be 30 days from July 2 to August 2. A phenomenal, phenomenal opportunity to learn from people like Adam Curry. He's the guy that actually invented the podcast with Steve Jobs all those years ago. He's, going to be teaching on podcasting and media. And what he sees next. What is the next level of communication, especially for y' all, that are here at Patriot Academy for your generation? How is technology going to change even in the next few years and determine how you're going to be able to communicate with your colleagues, with your generation? How can you be an influencer in your generation and actually be a positive. Have a positive impact on what's happening? So Adam's going to talk about that and just his story. He was. He goes all the way back to the 80s and being a, you know, not VH1. What was the other one? MTV. Being a MTV. What they call that. VJ being a VJ back then. The big hair like Jon Bon Jovi. Anyway, Adam's going to be a blast. Y' all are going to have fun learning from him. Laura Logan, I call her the last living journalist, actual journalist on the planet. She's amazing. She lives right there by our campus, and she's going to come out and teach on journalism. I don't know if any. Does anybody in here have any? Has that been a tug at your heart at all to be in media or journalism? Everybody's got kind of a different thing that they might be interested. Business, politics, whatever. Does anybody out there as haven't seen? We don't have enough good constitutional Christian conservatives going into journalism. So I'm hoping maybe somehow, some way that becomes something that you guys see as a future for you. We need more going into that field. Who, else. Let's see. We got, let's see. Jimmy Prude, of course. My pastor will be there to do some teaching. Chris Dunham, who's the most popular speaker at Patriot Academy every year. and then we'll probably pipe in a lot of our friends from Daily Wire and all the other folks around the country that are a part of this movement. all right, so no questions. Nobody's come forward. this is great. That means I've taught you so much in the last 24 hours. I have solved all your problems. You have no questions about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness? None of it. Okay, we got one here. We Go. So we're gonna do it. We're not gonna take phone calls today. So, you know, 888-589-8840, write it down. You can do that at our next program, but no calls today. We're going to do all of our questions directly here with the Patriot Academy students.
Elijah: Penumbra theory establishes right to privacy in Constitution
Go ahead. Your question today, or comment or insult.
Elijah My name is Elijah. I'm Land o Lakes, Florida. Since no one volunteered, I wanted to ask you about what your thoughts on the penumbra theory and the right to privacy.
Rick Green What is the penumbra theory?
Elijah As decided in Griswold vs Connecticut, it establishes the right to privacy in the Constitution.
Rick Green Okay, so Griswold is the one that outlawed or, kept, you from being able to outlaw birth control, right? When that. The one with this. Yeah. Okay, And what was the second half of the question? Say it again.
Elijah And the right to privacy found in the Constitution.
Rick Green Okay. Yeah. So this is one of those where I really do think that the Supreme Court essentially made this up out of thin air, which they do a lot. It's essentially the same argument for abortion. There's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees abortion. But the Supreme Court, you know, if they stood just right and, you know, held out their arms just right and balanced themselves, they could see this new thing in the Constitution. The problem with that is that then the next Supreme Court doesn't see it, and they outlaw whatever that thing is. And so you end up with this, you know, literally, having whiplash about what the law should actually be. Perfect example of that would be. And, I'll come back to right to privacy in just a second. But perfect example of that would be, Justice Kennedy when it came to gay marriage. So he first said, no, gay marriage was not guaranteed in the Constitution. And it really just depends on what he has for serial that day. Because then just a couple of years later, he completely reversed and overfilled and said, yeah, somehow, you know, the kind of sex that you have and wanting to have sex with someone other than the opposite sex is somehow guaranteed in the Constitution. Something the founders would have been appalled at. And, if, you know, look, if you want. If you think you can get the majority of the country to do a constitutional amendment to require gay marriage, then go for it. but that's not what happened. What happened was one Supreme Court justice changed his opinion, and by changing his opinion, that switched to a 5, 4. And now we have homosexual marriage in this country that literally degrades what actual marriage is. And, that's not just me saying that. That's every religion, every country in the history of mankind until about 15 minutes ago. Okay, maybe 15 years ago, but still, same thing. Anyway, so right to privacy depends on what you mean by that. And that's why it shouldn't be something that the Supreme Court gets to decide. What do you mean by that? Because that's what actually allows for saying you have a right to an abortion as well. so I'm a, I'm a strict constructionist. So my position is James Madison's position that if the Constitution doesn't actually say it, then it doesn't exist. Now, granted, and I bet you'll probably go here next, the ninth Amendment does say that all of your rights are not listed in the Constitution. So you would have to argue for a right to privacy from the ninth Amendment. All of the government's power is listed in the Constitution, but our freedoms and our rights are not exhausted in the Constitution. The question is whether or not it's a constitutional right that the government must enforce or protect. And I think that's where the whole right to privacy thing becomes, in my opinion, abused. I think a society should be able to come together. You ought to be able to come together with your neighbors in your neighborhood, in your community, in your state, and be able to say some things are not going to be allowed. Now, I would not personally support a ban on birth control. Like, I think that is a personal decision that you ought to be able to make. Vote for that. But should a society be able to say no to that and not allow that in their particular society? Yeah, I think they should be able to do that. And then if you don't like that, you move to the next society over, whether that's a state or, or a, community or whatever. It might be muddy enough. Yes, close. And you need to come this summer to the Patriot Institute. So I know you're thinking about it.
Elijah I'm thinking about it.
Rick Green All right, I hope you come.
What are your thoughts on private citizens owning modern military class and quality weapons
All right, next up, go ahead, tell us your name, where you're from and your comment. Question or insult? Hey, I'm Joshua Stuckey. I'm from Gainesville, Georgia. And I wanted to ask, what are your thoughts on private citizens owning modern military class and quality weapons? So give us an example of what you would want us to consider letting modern citizens have. well, I'm mainly, asking like, do you think that citizens, could own military, vehicles or tanks or other large bore weapons? Yes, 100%. I want one. I want a tank I want surface to air missiles. I want all of it. look, here's the deal. If you believe in the second amendment and the actual history of the second Amendment. Second Amendment, the whole point of the second amendment was that the citizenry would have the same ability to wage war as the government so that you could actually fight government. Second amendment is not for hunting, and it is not only for your ability to defend yourself in the moment. That is part of it, no question about it, but it is also for being able to fight back against the government. And don't take my word for it, go read literally, every single founding father read what they said about how important arms are and the ability of the citizen to be able to have those arms. Go look at what the militia was. So when you, you know, when you read the second Amendment, a lot of people, they get hung up on a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. They get hung up on militia and they think, oh well, that means only National Guard or police or you know, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of, was mayor of New York years ago, he said, you know, citizens should not be allowed to have guns because they won't know when to use them or when to fire them. And the police know best. And so just leave it to the police to decide whenever it's necessary to do that. Lots of problems with that. Least of which is, not least of which is when you need police in seconds, they're minutes away. There's no way, way for the police to be in every situation and prevent that you know, maniac or dirtbag from coming in and murdering people or committing other crimes. But also just the fact that if only the police had guns, you would virtually guarantee tyranny. I mean it just always ends up emanating from that. So the ability to defend ourselves in war against any other entity is essential now to today's technology. It's a lot harder than in the founding era. And for those poorly informed or willing to lie, individuals like Joe Biden, who would used to run around all the time and say, you couldn't have a cannon in the founding era. He's absolutely wrong about that. You could absolutely have a cannon in the founding era. And in fact the only ordinance that we can find did not outlaw you from having a cannon, just simply said, please stop firing your cannon in the middle of the night. You're waking people up. So that, that would be the closest thing A cannon at that time would be the closest thing to what you just described, tanks and that and that sort of thing. So I absolutely think you should be allowed to have a tank. And I'm not kidding when I say I want one. now. Now I will say biological weapons and nuclear weapons is a much tougher question, right? That, number one, it's almost impossible to develop and be able to have. But even if you could do that, I probably would support a line at that point and saying, that's a weapon of mass destruction that we wouldn't want just anybody to be able to have. Now, I realize that sounds hypocritical and that sounds like, okay, well, if I draw the line there, then somebody could argue, well, then why should you be able to have a fully automatic rifle that can kill, you know, 50 people if you're able to change out your 30 round mag fast enough or whatever, they're going to make that same argument for that. The difference is that I can fight back against that person that has a fully automatic weapon. I can't really fight back against a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon. So it really does completely decimate without the ability to actually wage war. So that'd be a good one for us to philosophically think through, like, even at that extreme. But most people today would probably have draw the line a lot different than I would. I want it way out there. Like, I'm totally for every weapon that you mentioned and a lot of other ones as well. And yes, I would like to have an F35. So if anybody has an extra billion dollars laying around and you could buy one for me from, you know, I don't know, the U.S. israel, somebody that we've given one to. Anyway, great question.
Trevor Waller asks whether voting is a right or a privilege
All right, wait, let me look at my clock here. Okay, we got two minutes before break, so we might m not get done answering your question, but let's please get it. All right, my name's Trevor Waller. I'm from Tallahassee, Florida. And my question is, is voting a right or a privilege? Is voting a right or a privilege? And you're from right here in Tallahassee. You traveled the least far of everyone here. That's true. Did you grow up here in Tallahassee? yeah, basically. All right, okay. So Tallahassee, resident wants to know whether or not voting is a right or a privilege. I would argue. Well, it depends. If you're talking about a citizen that is, that has the right to vote, then, I would even argue it's not a Privilege, it is a duty. So it's not just that you have the right to vote. If you don't vote, I would argue that you're the wicked and slothful servant that has buried the talent that God gave you, that talent of freedom and that talent of responsibility. So I'm not sure if that quite answers your question because it goes to a third option of it being a duty. But, can it. And maybe the next question would be, can it be taken away then? And you know, can. If I'm one of these people that thinks that if, even if you're a felon, if you did your time, then when you come home, you should be able to have a firearm, you should be able to vote. You should, you should be able to do those things. So that's probably controversial. Maybe somebody wants to debate me on that one today. But, excellent question. We can do follow ups on that if you want, but I gotta take a quick break. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. You're listening to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. We're actually coming to you from Florida. We're doing the Leadership Congress here. So Leadership Congress is a youth leadership program that we do 16 to 25 year olds. We do this around the country in state capitals across the nation and then we also have versions for adults. The military veterans, Leadership Congress and the Constitution Coach Leadership Congress. Learn more about all of [email protected] patriotacademy.com and by the way, especially if you're in the Midwest or actually anywhere in the country, it's not too late to sign up for the Indiana one. The Midwest Leadership Congress is not until August, so check that [email protected] we'll be right back on that. Corps.
Jeff Chamblee At the Core podcast are [email protected] now back to at the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green: Why is the state capitol in Florida up in the Panhandle
Rick Green We're back here on at the Core with Walker wobbling a Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. Thanks for staying with me. Coming to you from the Florida state capital of Tallahassee. I actually did not stop and read all the signage over in the old supreme or old, House and Senate Chamber. That probably would give me the good reasons. But why in the world is the state capitol in Florida up here in the Panhandle and not in the middle of Florida? Makes no sense to me. It's hard to fly in here. Sorry, Mr. Tallahassee, that just asked a question. Yes, I'm dissing on Your city.
In conservative circles, there is a divide on opinions about the pharmaceutical industry
Okay, next question from. All right, students here at the Leadership Congress are asking questions for us. And our next question is going to.
Nyla Rios Be from Nyla Rios. I'm from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. All right, so in conservative circles, there seems to be a divide on opinions about the pharmaceutical industry. Some view the industry as filled with corporate greed and corruption and a danger to public health, especially in the case of vaccines. Others oppose things like Medicare, drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction act, and want more policies to benefit the industry in order to promote your innovation. What are your thoughts on the pharmaceutical industry?
Rick Green Excellent question. Okay. I actually can sum up my thoughts about the pharmaceutical industry by simply calling them what I normally call them, the medical industrial complex. I'm a free market guy, so I do not like government involvement in the market. but unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry has been propped up by government so long that it became so wealthy that then it turned around and bought government. So the fact that we allowed the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industrial complex to essentially take over our government and call the shots, and that's through the fda, through the center for Demented Confusion, known as the cdc, or you might want to call them the center for Disease Creation instead of Disease Control. I know I'm sounding very cynical and sarcastic right now, but it's because I've been shocked at how much power they've been able to wield and the fact that we pay for their advertising, we pay for their research and development, and then they turn around and make all these profits and they end up with special protections. I'm a Reagan guy. Look, I named a kid Reagan. I got another kid born on Ronald Reagan's birthday. Used to have a dog named Dutch. Okay? I've done a documentary on Ronald Reagan. I got Reagan street cred. Ronald Reagan was 100% wrong to give vaccine manufacturers immunity. There is no one that should have absolute immunity for their product. You should be held accountable if your product harms someone. And once we did that, it caused those companies to no longer be honest, to no longer actually do the research and development to make sure that the product's actually safe. They have no longer the incentive to do that. So we've allowed them to foist upon us a money making machine. It's a golden goose for them. And back when I was fighting for parental rights and vaccine choice. Just not. I'm not, I'm not. I'm actually not an anti vaxxer. I think vaccines have some vaccines have been absolute miracles, medical miracles that have saved millions and Millions of lives, eradicated some diseases. amazing. What I'm against is the government forcing you to get a vaccine through a schedule that you are not allowed to go to school or end up in public, places unless you follow that entire schedule. And at the time, I was, working to give parental choice in this. There were only 32 doses that children were getting in about the first five years. And that was enough for me to say, that's way too much. And even at that time, there was no study on the combination of all 32 doses and what it did to the human body. Now it's 72 doses, and there's still not a study, not a single study to tell us what happens when you actually put that much of these foreign substances into the human body, especially at two days old, six months old, two years old. So it's become an absolute travesty. And I think it's because of the political power that we've allowed the pharmaceutical companies to have. The harder part is, I don't know, the solution. I don't know. Because of being a free marketer, I'm very hesitant about some of the ideas that, for instance, RFK has about limiting their advertising and that sort of thing. And it's tough because I've never. I never supported the. You remember, there's certain bans in some states on attorneys being able to advertise, and I've never thought that was. Should be allowed. I think if you, you know, if you advertise, and as long as you're being honest and you're out lying in your advertising. Oh, that's why attorneys can't advertise. That was funny, man. I don't care who. That was a. I'm an attorney, and that was a good joke. Ah. man. Bill, I think I'm gonna have to give up the comedian routine. It's not working. It's not working. All right, anyway, but. But I just don't think the state should be able to tell you that. However, I totally get what RFK saying about the fact that you literally have all of the news outlets bought and paid for by, you know, whether it's, certain, big pharma companies or other major industries, it's become a major, major problem. So anyway, I don't know what the right solution is, except starting with government not trying, not government not having any force, and government not having any say in what you inject into your body. There is nothing about the people in Washington, D.C. at the center for Disease Control or FDA or the NIH or any of that. There is no reason that we should think that they are such experts that they know better than we do about what's best for our child. And too many American people have bought that lie. And so they think if Pope Fauci comes on TV and says, you need to get this vaccine, that everybody should get it. No, what you should do is say, thank you for the advice. Now I'm going to go research what the pros and cons are. I'm going to do the cost benefit analysis just like I would if you came to me and said, if you were my doctor and you, and you said you need to have, you know, open heart surgery or you need to do, you know, whatever other routine. I'm going to research that and I'm going to get other opinions and I'm going to find out. The American people, too many of the American people have bought the lie, hook, line and sinker, that the supposed experts are always right. Well, if, if anything came out of COVID I hope it proved that the experts can be flat wrong. And whenever they are the only ones that are allowed, to have an opinion, millions of people can end up, being harmed. So, yeah, great question. I'm very passionate about this particular issue. I don't, what I don't want to do, and I think your question actually raised this, in a way. I don't want to shut down research and I don't want to prevent what our free market economy created. There's a reason that the American health system is the best in the world and why socialized medicine ends up making our system worse and cost more and all of those things. competition works. And so I'm all for people being able to bring things to market and us being able to try it. And if it doesn't work or people get harmed, you're allowed to sue them. And, and, and that, that chaos of the market, it's no different than Adam Smith's invisible hand that he talked about. It will make our, our, we'll end up with more inventions and we'll end up with, with better health care. But when government says you have to do this company's vaccine or this company's treatment, or even like with Medicare and Medicaid, that these are the only options that you have. Biggest problem with that is government should have never been involved in health care at all. There shouldn't be a Medicare or Medicaid at the federal level. There's nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to have a single say about health care. All right, I'll stop filibustering. I'll tell one more, one more story, and then I'll shut up.
If you go back 100 years to Spanish flu, very similar perceived danger here
No, I won't shut up, but I will let you ask a question. the, best example of this is in fact Covid compared to Spanish flu. So if you go back 100 years to Spanish flu, very similar perceived danger here. But Spanish flu is actually 25 times worse than Covid. Not twice as bad, not 10 times as bad, 25 times more deadly than Covid. Covid turned out to be a 0.1 case fatality rate. Okay? That means you had a 99.9 chance of survival. anybody remember whenever all the media was saying at the beginning of COVID it's going to be a 3.4% case fatality rate. Same report from every news outlet, 3.A, 3.4% case fatality Rate would have been a massacre. I mean, it would have devastated the world and America. That would have truly been a black plague type situation. Which is why when this all happened initially, everybody canceled everything and we shut down. We stayed home for two weeks. And, you know, because if it's going to be 3.4, you really do have a black plague on your hand. Anybody remember Donald Trump coming out and saying, actually, I think it's probably not going to be worse than a really bad flu year. In a bad, bad flu year, you end up with, I forget the numbers. I used to have all this memorized four years ago. But how many people die from the flu every year? Which miraculously nobody died from the flu during COVID Imagine that. But his whole point was we're going to have, probably have a pretty decent death rate here, but it's not going to be any worse than a really bad flu year. And that's exactly what ended up happening. So I don't know how he knew that. I don't know who was telling him that. Whenever, you know, Pope Fauci and Dr. Burke's wanting everybody to wear goggles and four masks and shields and everything else, in line to the American people about it. I don't know where he got that idea, but he was absolutely right about it. Spanish flu was not like that Spanish flu. Children were getting Spanish flu in the morning and they were dead by midnight. And it was bad. Even in that environment with it, with a literal, like a black plague like situation on our hands, the federal government did nothing, absolutely nothing, didn't spend a penny. I don't know how the world survived without the little six foot sticker. You know, stay away, six feet away from each other and humanity still here. And they didn't have those stickers in 1917 and 18. they didn't spend a penny, didn't pay people to stay home, didn't quarantine healthy people. We have never quarantined healthy people in history. This was the first time we did that. we didn't do any of that nonsense. They did masks in some of the, public transit areas. In San Francisco and a couple other big cities, nobody had a mask mandate or a stay at home mandate for six months or a year or whatever it was. People asked churches and theaters to close for. the most I could find looking in everywhere was six weeks was the most that any government asked anybody to stay closed. And even then it was an ask, it was not a demand. So there wasn't this, you know, martial law type situation that they did. So just know that, just know how bad Spanish flu was. And without the government, the federal government doing anything. We won World War I and survived Spanish flu at the same time. And now state governments should be involved in healthcare. I think, I think that's a proper role to state and local government. But federal government should have nothing to do with it. And that's why the pharmaceutical industry has become so powerful, because they've been able to collude with the federal government. That's not free market, that's crony capitalism. so anyway, I didn't mean to get. So thank you. That was a great question. I used up half our program on that one question. What's your opinion? I should have asked you, what do you think? After my tirade, she's like, oh my goodness, I better not say anything nice about Pfizer.
Nyla Rios I just finished a season of healthcare policy debate in Team Policy. So, this was actually a prominent case is to repeal the Medicare drug price negotiations. So that was, I think it was a good case. But there are also different things like patent strategies that companies currently use. And so they're kind of, bypassing the free market system and they're using anti competitive practices. So it's not truly a free market. I'm not entirely sure still on my opinions of the Medicare drug price negotiations. I think we should balance innovation with protecting public health.
Rick Green That was good. Give her a hand. That was. It is. It is painfully obvious that the students at Patriot Academy are way smarter than the founder of Patriot Academy. I mean, she used a lot bigger words with more syllables Some of them I didn't even understand and, obviously knew a lot more about the subject as well, so. Well done. Well done.
Caleb Dowd: Does using military against its own people violate Constitution
All right, next question.
Caleb Dowd Hi, my name is Caleb Dowd. I'm from Charleston, South Carolina. And my question is about, So what do you think about Trump sending, Marines to help with the protests in Los Angeles? And does that violate, using the military against its people?
Rick Green First of all, I want to know, Caleb, how in the world you're from South Carolina, and you didn't say, I'm from South Carolina. Have you been there your whole life?
Caleb Dowd No, I was. I grew up in, Washington State.
Rick Green There you go. See, he talks. He doesn't talk. Right. So you got to move to the south to learn how to talk. Right. How long you been in South Carolina?
Caleb Dowd Four years.
Rick Green Four years. You should be talking right by now. We're going to. You say y' all okay. At least you say y' all okay. well, we did. We talked about this some yesterday, so I'm going to do it in summary fashion. he absolutely has the right to do so. Constitutional, power to do so, and, congressionally delegated authority to do so. I think it should always be done. I mean, in only the rarest of circumstances where the state is not taking care of the situation, which clearly California was not. Or. And. Or you have the concern that this is going to spread like wildfire all over the country, like it did in 2020. And so the president, 100% has the power to do it. 20 times presidents have invoked the Insurrection act to do what he's doing. Twelve different presidents have done it prior to President Trump. Democrat, Republican, Federalist, Anti Federalist. George Washington did it. He was the first one to do it. And so, yes, absolutely, he should be able to do it. I, actually think he should do it with a heavy hand. Like, I think he should not only be protecting the federal buildings, I think he should go in and say, if they're doing violence, stop them. Now, if they're just protesting, then, hey, he's all for it. Just like I'm all for it. But if they're blocking, you know, if you block the streets, then, hey, Florida. I know we've been having this debate between Texas and Florida, and who's better? Thank you, Ron DeSantis, for basically saying, if they block the streets, run them over. I mean, you're impeding commerce, you're preventing ambulances from being able to get people to the hospital. You're preventing pregnant people from pregnant people. I Sound like a liberal. Pregnant women. Wow. They even changed my terminology. That's terrible. anyway, so, yeah, I think, I think. I think he should do it fast and do it hard so that it stops it and. Or at least says, if you do violence, we're absolutely going to arrest you. And I think that's kind of happened because I think it prevented the no Kings rallies from getting out of control. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Follow up question.
Caleb Dowd So if that's the case, I understand that with like, the National Guard, but he specifically sent the Marines to help. And so. So if he can send the Marines, then why does the Constitution say that you can't use the military against its own people?
Rick Green So, yeah, potato, potato for me. Because if once you call forth the militia, which is what arc, section eight, paragraph 15 allows you to do, once you call forth the National Guard, it's the same as having the Marines or the army. They're now federalized. It's no. They're absolutely no different. So it's not. It's not that Posse Comitat is. The whole thing about you can never use the military is. Is, is misunderstood. You can actually use the military, just like George Washington did to stop the Whiskey Rebellion. what that's generally, used to prevent is it's got to only be under an Insurrection Act. There are only three exceptions. You're doing it to, prevent an invasion, an insurrection, or to enforce the laws. So it's a rare, rare, rare situation. I think it's also proper and right to say that the border was invaded and that we had a literal invasion in the country. It's also why. It's a little bit of a segue here, but it's also why you should. States should constitutionally be able to enforce the border. So under Article 1, Section 10, if the. If the, federal government's not doing it under Article 4, Section 4, like they're supposed to, governors can do it. It's one reason I was always very disappointed in Governor Abbott is that he didn't. He didn't do everything that he could have done. even from the beginning, at the end, he made. He did a lot of show and finally started doing a little bit of what he could have done, but it was too little, too late. So, anyway, great question.
Levi Seibert: President Trump should shut down Department of Education
All right. I think I have two minutes till break, so let's try to get one more in or at least get the question. Sure. I'm Levi Seibert from Huntsville, Alabama. My question is, what's your thoughts on higher Education and should government pay for it? First of all, where is Ponceville? Huntsville. Sorry? Oh, Huntsville. Okay, so I know where Huntsville is. same thing. Man, you don't sound like my mama. My mama's from Mobile, and she talks like she's from Alabama. Why don't you talk like you're from Alabama? Are you. Did you grow up there? yeah. Man, I bet you use big syllable words, too. Okay, you asked me about, education. Should the federal government be doing anything with it? Was that. Was that specifically federal government? That's an easy one. Absolutely not. Zero, zilch, nada. they should have nothing to do with education. Didn't have anything to do with education for most of our country's history. Right. There's nothing in the Constitution that allows for the federal government to do education. Jimmy Carter is the one that created this Department of Education. So just think about how. How much better our education system has become since the 1970s. That was a joke. Thank you for being one. Thank you, Representative Stuckey, for laughing. Only it was just not enough. Anyway, yes, of course it's gotten worse because the federal government does nothing but muck up the works. 300 billion bucks a year right now that we're spending through the Department of Education. I think President Trump should not only shut down the Department of Education. Education. Actually, he shouldn't shut it down. What he should do is keep 10 employees. Let's just go with 50. Keep 50 employees. One employee directed to each state, and take all 300, $300 billion and make it block grants to parents as a child tax as a, as a voucher system from the federal government. It'd be about five grand a student across the country. I'd be for that anyway. Yeah. So that's about all. Honestly, they shouldn't be doing anything. They shouldn't be spending any money. But if you can't shut it down, then at least redirect the money. Thank you. Good question. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. You are listening to at the Core with Waha Waldman and Rick Green.
Jeff Chamblee At the Core podcast are [email protected] now back to at the Core on American Family Radio.
Rick Green answers questions from students about concealed carry
Rick Green Welcome back at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach, coming to you from Tallahassee, Florida. We're doing our Leadership Congress in Florida, and we shared one program with you last week with the students from the Leadership Congress. Got another one for you. Today and we've been getting questions from the students. If you'd like to learn more about Leadership Congress, go to patriotacademy.com send your young people to a 16 to 25. I promise you we'll send you home. Leaders, come here and learn how to do public speaking, how to work our room, how to do better in terms of just making your life plan, figuring out what your purpose is, finding out what God's called you to find that purpose and that passion. And we'll come alongside you at Patriot Academy. So 16 to 25 year olds, you have the opportunity still come to the National Patriot Academy Leadership Congress, which is the last week of July. Or you can go to the Midwest, which will be at the, at the Indiana capital, which is in Indianapolis. And I believe it's the middle of August or right towards the end of August. And then if you're a military veteran, check out our Military Veterans Leadership Congress. That one will be the second week of August in Texas at the Patriot Academy campus, along with our Constitution coaches. In other words, there's a program for you, whatever your age is, go check it out. Patriotacademy.com okay, we got, more questions coming from the students here at Patriot Academy. Name where you're from and then your comment, question, insult or testimonial, whatever. I'm Edward Sager. I'm originally from Sebring, Florida. I'm in Atlanta for right now. And you sound more like you're from Alabama than all those other posers that just came up here. anyways, my question is going to sound a lot less smart than everybody else's, but I'm just curious what your preferred concealed carry setup is. Oh, that's a great, that's a very smart question. Are you kidding? Hey, I don't care how smart you are. If you're dead, you're not going to be very smart, right? So you got to have a sidearm to protect yourself. so my, my EDC is, is a, is a 1911. I'm a 1911 guy. Used to be a Glock guy. All my boys and I trained on Glocks forever. And then, we, I was able to hold a 1911 and take headshots for the first time. And I said, oh my goodness, I'm home. And so I've never stopped, with the 1911. Now my boys went back to Glock. So all my boys are now Glock, guys. But yeah, 1911 is my preferred. I actually have a, I have a lot of different 1911's but my, My normal carry when I'm traveling is a sig Sauer C3, which is a little smaller than full size, and it's a.45. Most 1911s are.45. For those of you that aren't shooters. and, but my. My favorite carry gun is a Gun Crafter, which is made by the same guys up in Northwest Arkansas that all the engineers that did Wilson Combat and Nighthawk. And it's. It's a sweet, sweet gun. That gun is. Oh, I usually. I pack that gun and then ask my wife if she wants to go. That was another joke. Come on. What is with this group, man? Not one laugh out of that. We're tired. They're already tired. We still got a whole day to go.
Elijah: So, actually, the capital of Florida was St. Augustine
Okay, next up. You're back.
Elijah Hello, it's me again. Elijah. Yes, I am back. I did have a question for you, but first I want to actually answer one of yours from earlier in the segment, if you don't mind, which is why Tallahassee is the cap. This capital of Florida.
Rick Green And these Floridians are awfully defensive. I mean, if you say anything bad about Florida, they are. Y' all are like Texans.
Elijah So, actually, the capital of Florida was St. Augustine when it was under Spanish control. But there was a brief period in time where the Spanish sold Florida to the French, and they established community in what was known as West Florida and made Pensacola the capital and divided Florida into two states, really West Florida and Florida. Once it became a, single state again, once Spain again bought it, they combined the capitals. They thought it wasn't. It was pointless to have two capitals, so they moved. Met M in the middle in Tallahassee.
Rick Green Not good enough. Because I still object to Tallahassee being the capital because it's still a pain to get here and you don't have enough good flights, so. Nice explanation, but, you know, it's still difficult. No, my favorite part of what you just described was, I forgot all about the St. Augustine thing, because the St. Augustine is also where three of the signers of the Declaration were captured by the British and held there throughout the Revolution. and there was actually a mission from some of the Georgia folks to come try to rescue them, and they lost the battle and weren't able to rescue the guys. And, I forget the guy's name. I think it was Bunton Gwinnett or Gwenton. Yeah, Button Gwinnett. He ends up getting so mad, he had, got into a big fight with the guy that Was governor. He, demanded a duel, and he ends up dying in the duel less than a year after the Declaration of Independence. I can't remember all the details of it, but I remember it happened in St. Augustine because I went out there and made a little video and there was a sign explaining the whole story and. Pretty cool. Hey, good stuff. Thank you for the history lesson.
Florida had an amendment recently about having partisan school board elections
Did you have another question, too? Oh, okay, go ahead.
Elijah So my question for you is one that kind of. My household voted differently in the election on. So Florida had an amendment recently about having partisan school board elections. What would your take on partisan elections in smaller offices such as school board or mosquito control, which we have in Pasco County?
Rick Green Yeah, I'm actually a fan of that at city council, school board, whatever it is. Just simply because it's really hard to tell what somebody's philosophy is. And it's no guarantee. Right. Just because they have an R or a D or whatever other party beside their name is not a guarantee that they're going to represent your values and what you see as an R or D or whatever. but it at least gives you an idea, and they have to. And I actually prefer always having a primary so that you have an opportunity to get the best candidate for each party. Now, that would be hard in school board and city council because it's hard enough just to get people to show up for the general election in those. But from a just hypothetical, you know, theoretical, what would be best kind of thing? In my mind, definitely having a party that you have to affiliate with so that there's at least some hint of what your. Your governing philosophy is going to be. And then I also am a big fan of having some sort primary or caucus in order to weed out the ones that are, you know, not really of that party or they're. They're posing. It's also why I'm a fan of caucuses, even over primaries. I love what Iowa and these other states do. I think the fact that you have to show up, no matter how much snow there is, no matter how bad the weather is, you got to show up in person and hang out for a couple hours to be able to cast your vote, I think it's good. I think that way you have people that are actually paying attention, that actually care the most about the system showing up.
Elijah Thank you.
Rick Green You bet. Good question. Okay, who's next? Are you getting coaching over there? Are y' all just trying to decide which question to ask? Ah, okay. All right, Go for it.
Adeline Aust: Should right to vote be regulated by the federal government
Adeline Aust My question. So I'm Adeline Aust. I'm from Orlando, Florida. And my question is, would you vote in favor of repealing the 19th Amendment? Should the right to vote be regulated by the federal government? And what are your reasons?
Rick Green Oh, man. No, I would not. I would not support a repeal of the 19th Amendment. Oh, boy, I'm gonna get myself in trouble. No, I'm not gonna say so. So I, I would not. I would not support repeal of the 19th Amendment. I, I do think that there should be, some federal guidelines on voting for federal office, but not necessarily for state office. So I think you. And that's what the Constitution actually says. So I, I think if you're going to have any kind of a, trustworthy system, it's got to be uniform. And so you got to know that when you're doing your choosing your electors or you're voting for Congress, that it's somewhat the same across the country. Now, the Constitution does allow for somewhat not, not the day can't be different, but there can be different qualifications based on what the state qualifications are for the lower house and the. In the legislature. But I am all for, and I don't know if this is what you were getting at or not, but I am all for a federal requirement, literally in the Constitution, that only legal citizens can vote and that we have to have paper ballots that can actually be counted, hand counted. If there's any question of integrity or any question about what happened. I went through my first election in 1998. I, know that was before any of you were born, but in 1998, I ran for the state house. 30,000 people voted, and I lost by 20 votes. We had a recount. We put our hands on every single ballot. We counted them together. My opponent and me, our teams, we all went through every single one of those 30,000 ballots, and I won by 36 votes. I look at my opponent, I said, you can have a second recount. Texas law allows you to. Just to make sure we got it right. He says, we just looked at every ballot. I don't want to. You won. I don't like the fact that you won, but you won. Nobody claimed cheating. Nobody, you know, said the system was rigged because we had transparency. Everybody could come and watch that recount. Anybody that wanted to have the recount could have the recount. We had verification, just the ability to do a recount, and then we had legal remedies. So if anybody, if the. For instance, if the county judge or whoever had refused to open the ballots and allow us to do that, we could have sued them and had a legal outcome. If you look back at 2020, it wasn't just the machines. It was people changing the law without constitutional authority. So you had state legislatures not involved. You had a governor, for instance, in, in, Pennsylvania and other states, it was the state supreme court. In Georgia, it was the Secretary of State changing the law without the legislature changing how the election was going to take place. And so that was unconstitutional. Those states should have been thrown out from, the beginning, or it should have gone back to their legislature and the legislature could have chosen the electors, which the Constitution does allow for. And the Supreme Court has ruled on that multiple times. but anyway, I think that the idea is that we should be able to put our hands on it, recount it. And I think the feds, I think that should actually be in the Constitution, so it's guaranteed to everybody. And the other thing I think I mentioned yesterday, I also think as a part of that amendment to the Constitution, we should add, add an amendment that says you can only count legal citizens in the enumeration so that we get the, get the numbers right in Congress. Does that make sense? What would be, what would be your preferred change at the federal level on elections? Because you wouldn't be asking that question if you hadn't already thought something should be done at the, at the federal level or whether or not the federal feds should have any say. Or is this based on the fact that, President Trump has been talking about requiring paper ballots?
Adeline Aust This is because.
Rick Green Go ahead and come over and talk.
Adeline Aust About this is because somebody, filed a bill that repealed the seven in the yes At Patriot Academy, and he wanted to repeal the 19th Amendment. And so I was wondering if that was something that the federal government should regulate.
Rick Green Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I got you now. I totally understand. and yes, the same thing applies to, you know, the 15th amendment, making sure you can't discriminate in voting, based on race. So the 19th is. Can't discriminate in voting based on sex. The 26th, you can't discriminate based on age down to 18. 24th, you can't discriminate based on money. So no poll tax. So all four of those are protections to make sure that the citizen is allowed to, participate and vote. And yeah, I would, I do support the idea that that would be something that we could enforce at the, at the federal level. Yeah, go for it.
Adeline Aust Okay, this one is like, a little bit, more not young kid friendly.
What do you think about life imprisonment versus the death penalty
Okay, so what do you Think life imprisonment versus the death penalty. Do you think that the sword of the government extends to, rape circumstances? Do you think it would be better for a grapist for life imprisonment or the death row? Because I think they are. I think it's better for life imprisonment for almost all circumstances, if not all.
Rick Green And, and is your reason for being for life imprisonment instead of the death sentence is just not just to not end that life? To allow that life to end naturally?
Adeline Aust Yes, mainly for that. And so for the person who committed the crime, I would assume they're not a Christian, and so maybe they could get saved.
Rick Green So, yeah, so if you, if you take their life, electric chair, whatever. If you give, if you give the death penalty, Death penalty, you're ending their chance of coming, to the gospel. Now, as a Calvinist, that doesn't bother me one bit. that was a joke, too. Come on, man, I am losing. Thank you. Only the hyper theologians in the room, are laughing. Okay, I get what you're saying. And you could even argue, what was the lady's name in Texas? The axe murderer that, that everybody tried to get Bush to pardon because she had become a Christian and she was actually, you know, spreading the gospel in the prisons. And, he said, you know, I'm glad she became a Christian, but the law has a requirement. And, you know, this is the punishment, and we can't lift that punishment just based on what somebody says after they did the law. We should apply the law. So I am a fan of the death penalty. I think, the idea that we would spend millions of dollars to keep someone alive for the rest of their life, in a, situation like a child rape or a murder. Well, let me back up. If society has said that that particular crime is so heinous that it deserves the death penalty or life in prison. And we're trying to choose between one of the two. In that case, I would choose the death penalty so that there's not a financial burden on society also so that there is, you know, quite literally, a deterrent. I'm all for public hangings and, and, going back to, you know, people literally seeing this is the punishment. Whenever you do this thing in our society, this is the punishment. And that's not going to stop all of them. If somebody's on psychotropic drugs was. Almost all mass murderers are. When they go shoot up a school or something, they're on some sort of psychotropic drug. deterrence is not going to work with that particular murderer. But it does decrease the number of murders and crime because it elevates the culture of life and the culture of consequence and, and protection. So anyway, that would be my, my long winded answer to that. This would be a fun one to actually have a extended conversation on. because I, you know, I'm not even sure, I'm not even sure that, I'm not even sure you couldn't change my mind on, on some of that.
Adeline Aust Such a serious.
Rick Green Yeah, it's such a serious subject. There's such, such huge repercussions and, and obviously eternal repercussions that, that it is, that's why as lawmakers, y' all are getting a little taste of this, over these few days in the legislature. It's a, it's a big deal. When you cast that vote, you, you know that your vote for what the law is going to be in your state is going to impact lives. It may end lives. It will certainly determine justice in your state. you're going to, you're, you're going to pass, or defeat laws that, that impact how, how, how easily someone can seek justice or how they can fight back against injustice. What's your ability to fight against a bad DA that's coming after you or your family? what's your ability to be able to live out your Bill of Rights and actually get due process? So when you guys vote on this stuff here, it's not totally for real, but it feels like it when you're voting on it because you're taking it serious, because you know that these are in some cases life or death situations.
Solomon Stiles: Could you explain what poll tax is
Okay, let's see if we can squeeze in one more before we run out of time. My name is Solomon Stiles. I live in Monticello, Florida, about 40 minutes east of central Tallahassee. And my question is a little bit more of a simple one. Could you explain what poll tax is? so basically a, ah, poll tax is basically where you would have to go in and it wouldn't necessarily be super expensive, but you might have to pay $5 to offset the cost of putting on that election. And we've never had, we haven't had them for years. I think 24th Amendment was passed. Let's see, 20, 23 would have been 25th was late 60s, would have been probably 50s. Whenever, whenever we did it. Most places didn't have it anyway by that time. And the whole idea is that even if you allowed for a little one, that eventually somebody could ramp that sucker up to where, if you got to pay a thousand dollars to vote, then very few people are going to vote. So it's just to prevent people from being excluded from the process based on how much money they got? Good question, man.
Rick Green: Satanists have a bloodlust for the innocents
All right, we're out of time for today, Patriots. Thank you for joining me here on At the Core folks Listening. Thank you for listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.
Rick Green Have you ever wondered why our society is so ravenous to abort babies? Well, according to a former Satanist, the demonic forces have a bloodlust for the innocents. They sickly believe that the blood sacrifice empowers evil. Make no mistake, we are fighting a spiritual battle as we protect the most innocent among us. Babies in their mother's womb. PreBorn stands on the front lines of this battle. Their network of clinics are positioned in the highest abortion areas, often next to abortion mills where unspeakable evil takes place every day. PreBorn offers God's love and life to protect hurting women and precious preborn babies. Please make your most generous gift to empower good and rescue precious souls. Every time a baby is Saved, which happens 200 times a day, good conquers evil. For just $28, you can sponsor an ultrasound that doubles a baby's chance at life. Donate securely today. Dial pound250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound250, or go to preborn.com preborn.com.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
afr.net/tencommandments…cutoff is June 30
https://www.patriotacademy.com/institute/
https://www.patriotacademy.com/build/
https://www.patriotacademy.com/constitution-coach/
https://www.patriotu.com/pages/home/d/home
https://www.patriotacademy.com/the-patriot-experience/
https://freespeechdefender.com/
https://www.patriotacademy.com/
Live
Did you know American Family Radio is listener-supported? Your monthly financial support will allow us to continue upholding Godly values through our numerous channels, like American Family Radio, One Million Moms, The Stand magazine, and many more.
Become a Great Commission Partner TODAY to help AFR transform culture by rebuilding the family. When you donate today, you’ll get access to:
