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Walker Wildmon This is at the core on American Family Radio. Welcome to the core here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon, here on this brand new edition, this Monday edition of today's program and this program. Rick Greene and I were your host each week. And so it's good to be with you today on this edition. I did spend some time on Thursday of last week with our listeners and supporters in the Houston, Texas area, specifically the Woodlands, and we had a great lunch and dinner with about 80 of our listeners and financial supporters there. So we enjoyed being with you, those of you who are there with us. And it's good to be home and back on the air.
Jesus performed the ultimate miracle by speaking, bringing Lazarus back from the dead
John, chapter 11 is where we are this week. John, chapter 11 is where we are this week. Looking at, down towards verses, 40, 38, really through, let's say, 44. this is the testimony of Lazarus rising from the dead. And, looking at verse 43, it says, now, when he had said these things, talking about Jesus, he cried with a loud voice, lazarus, come forth. And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave cloths, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, loose him and let him go. That's verses 43 and 44. And what I want to point out this week in this specific passage is that Jesus miracles that he performs, and in fact, the miracles and the things that the Lord God himself, the Father, does is simply by speech. Simply by speech. now there were some, miracles that were performed with mud, and saliva, such as the blind man being made to see. there's the, washing with water, performing miracles. Jesus did it that way. But here in this instance, Jesus simply spoke and it came to pass. And so this really, is the ultimate miracle performing when Jesus is able to simply speak things into existence. That is how you know he is truly the Son of God. God himself spoke creation into existence, and Jesus, the Son of God, spoke life into existence with Lazarus. And this is the ultimate, characteristic of Jesus, in that he can speak miracles into existence and speak, life from death. And as humans, we understand the kind of exertion it takes to perform work. I mean, we're not able to perform miracles in the way that Jesus does. We can. We can petition Jesus and God to perform miracles today, but we ourselves are not, gifted with any special powers. Any special powers. the power of miracle working is reserved to Jesus and God. but my point is that we humans, we exert all of this energy on this earth to do basic things, and here. And so as humans, we understand the exertion that is required to just perform basic functions of daily life. And here we have Jesus performing the ultimate miracle, which is bringing a dead man to life in Lazarus simply by speaking. So the power of God and the power of Jesus, is not bound by any physical limitations. That's John, chapter 11, looking towards the latter part 43 and 44.
This situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is completely avoidable, right
All right, what I want to talk about this segment is what's going on in Minneapolis. And then we've got a couple guests the rest of the show. But, this situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is completely avoidable. Completely avoidable. And this is what I want to address today. I want to address this notion, this thought that's out there even amongst conservative circles of, well, you know, what if. Maybe. Maybe President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, maybe they ought to just get out of Minneapolis, right? I mean, it's a Democrat stronghold. What business are we doing there? Just let them, if they want to be, you know, if they want to be taken over by illegal immigrants and rapists and murderers from other countries, then just let them have at it, right? That's kind of the offhanded statements that are made when you run into opposition like this. But I want to directly dispel that notion and tell you why that's a completely bad idea. All right? So the first thing is that it's only a problem because the Democrats make it a problem. All right? What President Trump's Department of Homeland Security, through Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is nothing novel. All right? And I know, I know people don't want to hear this. They think that President Trump is doing these Superman hero things, when in reality, he's just doing what they're supposed to be doing. ICE is supposed to be going after people who are in our country, illegal, illegally. So there's nothing magical about what President Trump's doing here. There's really nothing like superhero ish about what President Trump is doing here. President Obama did this. President Biden did this. President Trump 1.0 did this. President Obama was actually the best at it, if we want to be honest. He deported the most people in the last, actually, in modern American presidencies. He deported the most people, over 5 million deportations. It's amazing. I think the number is actually higher than that. But the last I recall, at least 5 million deportations. So. But this is only a problem and only newsworthy because the Democrats are making it that. All right, and so the Democrats have forced the hand of the Trump administration to surge in more resources. And the Democrats are incentivizing and inciting these riots and these impeding federal investigations. The Democrats are spurring this all along. This is what the Democrats want. You know, the Democrats say this is what President Trump wants. He wants a confrontation in the streets, he wants to deploy the military, blah, blah, blah. No, this is what the Democrats want. This is what they signed up for and this is what they asked for. And I want to play this clip here. This is, the, director of ICE talking about how if the, if the local officials would simply cooperate like they're supposed to do and like they do under normal circumstances when Donald Trump's not in the White House, then this would be a non story, this would be a boring news story that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is actually driving around doing their job. Clip 5 and the one thing we say all the time is, you know, these sanctuary jurisdictions, you would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street focused on the criminal illegal alien mission if they would just turn people over to us. That's the key. These local law enforcement agencies have already deemed these individuals a public safety threat and arrested them. Why not work with federal partners, turn them over to us and let us get them out of our communities? there you have it. That's the ASH director saying the simple thing out loud that we all, that we all should be reminded of. And that is if local officials would simply cooperate with federal officials. And that is when you have a, convicted rapist from Guatemala in a prison in a jail in Minneapolis and ICE has a detainer on him, then you call ICE and say, hey guys, come pick this dude up. And then ICE with like three agents drives over to the jail, backs up to the loading dock, they get the, the criminal and they put him in the car and they take him to the airport and they fly him back to his home country. And guess who, guess who sees or knows about that? Nobody, except for the judge that issued the detainer order and the removal order, by the way, which we've got over a million and a half removal orders that have been ordered by judges. And it wouldn't this no problem. Who's got a problem with deporting the rapist from Guatemala. Like, if somebody wants to petition for that dude to stay here, please raise your hand. And, the reality is that actually, if Democrats were here in the studio, some of them would be raising their hand talking about how we ought to keep rapists in our country. It's weird. It's quite weird. I can't figure it out. But there's no other justification for this. And so Democrats have provoked this standoff, if you will, in Minneapolis. And then, so that leaves us with the question, well, what should the Trump administration do? Okay. And if the answer to that is, well, they ought to just leave, ah, maybe they should just work in states where they have a cooperating local government. Oh, okay, so that's where we are now. So this is where we are where if Democrats decide they want anarchy, that they want to protect the rapist, that they want to harbor illegal alien invaders, that the federal government should just be okay with that, that we should just pull all resources out, because under this theory, you can't leave any resources there. It doesn't make any sense. If we should just give over blue states to the criminals and really the criminal enablers in the governors and the mayors, is that really how we should do this? So not only would President Trump be in violation of his oath of office m but so would every other federal official that swore to protect the homeland. So exiting the blue states and not enforcing federal law in Democrat states would in and of itself be a violation of the law and a violation of their oath of office. So you can't do that. So you're left to enforce the laws. This is why President Trump and Secretary Noem are having to surge in resources into Minnesota, because leaving isn't an option. Leaving isn't an option. And I'll guarantee you, if Democrats were in the White House and they were trying to do, you know, like they did last time, where they go in and arrest a bunch of pro lifers in conservative states, I'll guarantee you that if we put up a resistance, they wouldn't just go, yeah, we're just going to pull out of red states. We're just going to let the red states do their thing. No, they wouldn't do that. They would surge in more resources. They would get their way because they're the federal government. And so in this instance, we're dealing with enforcing the law and protecting the homeland and protecting American citizens. And so leaving isn't an option. Giving the state over to anarchy and foreigners is just not an option. It's not a card on the table to play. So that leaves President Trump to do what he has to do, and that is surge in more resources. But all of this, let me remind you, is brought to you by the Democrats. This is what they've been planning the entire time since 2024. They've been planning, confrontations with the Trump administration to try to provoke some incident or some tragedy that gets headlines and makes the Trump administration look bad. This is. This is how we got the tragedy of Renee Good. That should have never happened. That should have never happened. Renee Goode and her girlfriend should have never been driving around Minneapolis all day long, putting their car in front of federal officers. Not only is that just moronic, but it serves no purpose.
Democrats are provoking their followers to the streets
It serves. No. Even if you think their cause is just and that what ICE is doing is wrong, driving your car in front of a federal officer and blocking them and putting their life in danger, how do you think that's going to go? You think ICE is just going to say, you know what, Renee Good, we don't even know who you are, but we think you're right, and we're going to defy our commander and we're going to break our own oath of office, and we're just going to leave Minneapolis, and you goons can just have at it. No, that's not going to happen. That's not how the system works. And so the Democrats are provoking their followers to the streets. And guess what? The followers are the ones going to get hurt. The Renee Goods are the one hurt from this. And, you know, Frey and Walls, they're all standing behind the podium. They're protected, they're good. They're putting their followers around risk, and it's very dangerous what they're doing. M. I was afraid. I was scared what to do? Everybody wanted me to have an abortion.
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American Family Radio welcomes Pastor Akil Pano from Albania
Walker Wildmon Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. Well, each, program, or at least each week at a minimum, we like to bring in special guests to bring some insight into their specific area of expertise. And, today we have Pastor Akil Pano, Gospel of Christ Church. He's pastor there in, Albania, Tyranna, Albania. And he's here to talk about some of the, politics and what's going on in Albania and Europe and how that syncs up or doesn't with what's going on here in the U.S. Pastor Akil, welcome to the program.
Pastor Akil Pano Thank you so much. Greetings from Tirana, the capital of Albania. it's an honor to be with you.
Walker Wildmon Well, what's the time difference, with the U.S. seven hours.
Pastor Akil Pano We are seven hours ahead of him. M. So it's like, 248 here.
Walker Wildmon Excellent. Excellent. Well, we appreciate you being on the program, Pastor, give us a little backgrounder about your church and a little bit about your testimony and your story.
Pastor Akil Pano Well, I mean, Albania. First, let me share a couple of minutes about Albania. Albania is the ancient Illyricum of the Bible. In the book of Romans 15:19, Paul the Apostle speaks about the country of the Illyricum. How from Jerusalem to around about Illyricum, he preached full the gospel of Christ with mighty signs and wonders. So from the very first century, we have inherited the apostolic faith. We have evidences of Christian churches in this region of the Balkans. Albania stands on the west side of Italy, Northern part of Greece, southern part of Croatia, Montenegro. So it stands in the most beautiful part of the Mediterranean. And, so for the 15 first centuries, Albanian population used to be Christians. During the 15th century, the Ottoman armies, the Ottoman Empire, they invaded the entire countries of the Balkans. So with high taxes and, force, they converted the populations in these regions. Today, Albania would be around 70% Muslim. They would be around 12% Roman Catholics, 6% Christian Orthodox, and, around 0.5%, 0.5% evangelical believers all over the country of Albania. So that's the reality. After the Second World War in Albania, the communist government, they took, over. They. They ruled the country from 1945 up to 1991. Albania is a very, very interesting, study case because only in Albania, by law, in our constitution, it was decreed that God doesn't exist. So during the communist era, Albania declared that God doesn't exist by constitution. The people of Albania didn't, believe in God. We didn't have Bibles. We didn't have underground churches. People were forbidden to pray in secret. I mean, it was the most severe communist regime in the entire, world. We had priests and pastors. They were sent to jail. The ones that they didn't renounce their faith, they were, not just persecuted, but they were executed. Some of them, they were put inside of wooden barrels. And they were thrown alive in the sea before they were executed. Their final words were long live to Christ the King and long live Albania. So we have this great heritage of martyrs and heroes of faith during even the communist time in Albania. But the situation, today after the fall of communism in 1991. Missionaries from United States, Great Britain, Europe, they came to evangelize our country. The Bibles, they were reprinted. So we have a rise of a new generation of Christian leaders. I am, I'm blessed to be, saved. From the very early beginnings in 1991 in Albania when the first missionaries came and they were delivering, distributing gospel literature materials. And the early Christian evangelical churches were shaped. I started to attend one of these little small, you know, congregations in My. My hometown, Tirana, the capital of Albania. So in the last 35 years, the past by very, very quick. There is an evangelical community in Albania with Albanian native evangelical leaders. So I am one of them, one of the early converts to Christ. but in the last, in the last, In the last 13 years, Albania is being ruled by a very woke socialist government. So the most tendencies are to go backwards to our dark history, of communism denying of God. Not like the priests and the pastors. They were forced to do it during the communist era. But through the modern, so called council culture. Like you guys in the United States, you know this, You know better. But we know this story in Albania, maybe in a little bit of a different personal, personal way. Albania is a small country. Sadly, in the last 13 years during this socialist, government, we have lost the third of the population due to the political, economical. laws that are discouraging the young people to live in Albania. non pro life and pro family. proposals from the government and our majority in our parliament. So many people are losing their hope to live here. Many are living, are leaving Albania. It's very sad. I mean, to see that the young people of Albania are leaving the country. I'm teaching his, philosophy of the state university in the meantime. And I see that 85% of our, class would be like, telling us, the professors that they are hoping to get a degree and leave, Albania. So we, we see the entire thing connected with the policies of this left government, that we have in Albania that is connected to George Soros and Open Society foundation, strongly connected to the previous administration in the United States, you know, Biden Harris administration, forcing LGBTQ plus laws. And very, very recently there was a bill, that our Pro Life and Family Coalition, we were standing against this bill, the equality bill that against the will of the people of Albania, which for the matter of fact would be very strong in tradition, would be very conservative, country, the left government, the left majority, they voted against the will of the people. So the bill is passed.
Walker Wildmon Now that's what I wanted to get to. We've got about six or seven minutes left.
George Soros through his Open Society foundation influence in Albania is well documented
but the. It seems like everywhere we turn, whether in America or abroad, George Soros, his name comes up. And sometimes you, you think to yourself, is George Soros really behind all of this? the reality is, in many cases, yes, just because of the sheer amount of wealth that he has, he's able to exert influence all around the world. But when you look at George Soros through his Open Society foundation influence in Albania, this is very well documented, the fact that George Soros has been investing in schools, health facilities, infrastructure, even scholarships for students there, and even influencing media in Albania. So give us a little background as far as how long, George Soros has been meddling around in Albanian politics. And the ultimate effect that it's had had.
Pastor Akil Pano Well, when we talk about George Soros in Albania, this is not a, the theoretical or an, abstract debate. It is a concrete political, institutional and cultural reality with, with measurable, consequences. the entire state has been captured by Open Society Foundation. So we have evidences that in 2016, Albania, underwent a radical justice reform that was designed, funded and promoted primarily by Soros foundation, especially through the Open Society foundation and its partners. This is not speculation. The Open Society foundation itself publicly acknowledged that it was the main founder of the reform process. But what was this reformed injustice system, about? The reform was presented in the beginning as an anti corruption project, but in practice it collapsed the judiciary system entirely, removed more than half of judges and prosecutors from the entire system in Albania, and centralized enormous power in new institutions that are politically Captured. What followed was not independent justice, but selective justice. It's a very interesting, study case. Now to see Albania, how deep in our, system George Soros foundation went today. Opposition leaders are prosecuted, investigated. I'm talking about the previous president of Albania. They are being persecuted, politically neutralized. While no senior figures from the ruling Socialist Party face comparable accountability.
Walker Wildmon Ah.
Pastor Akil Pano Despite well documented corruption scandals that this government is being recognized, and known for. That is not a rule of law. This is weaponized justice. This is what is happening in Albania. It's exactly the same manual that we have seen the stories about arresting President Trump before the election. And everything happened in Albania with our, previous presidents. This reform in the justice system did not strengthen democracy in Albania, but it removed check and balances and subordinated the judiciary to the executive, which is handled by the hands of the Prime Minister of Albania. Second, the operation was deep into the media and to the society. So the media and the society is captured. Over the last 30 years, Soros founded NGOs and media platforms that created an, ecosystem of influence in the entire nation. Journalists, activists, opinion makers, founded or trained by Open Society foundation in and outside of Albania. they presented the, so called the independent discourse in the public, square. So the pattern is clear. Government corruption is minimized or reframed. Opposition voices are delegitimized. Anyone who challenges the system is labeled anti European, a populist, a fascist or an extremist. I, as a pastor, I've been a pastor in Albania for the last 30 years and I'm a public speaker. I've had the opportunity to debate the prime minister of Albania in the largest talk shows, political talk shows in our country. I have had three court cases with the state commissioner against discrimination. criminal charges were, raised against me on no basis at all. So I had to go through, courts and I had to go through all these struggles only because I was one of the strong conservative voices in the country. One other aspect is the social and the cultural agenda, especially LGBTQ gender ideology. Albania is a social conservative country with strong family, religious and cultural traditions. All these, laws are not Albanian laws like gender equality laws. This should be cultural imperialism forced to be, placed and make a surgery in our culture, in our tradition. These initiatives are openly supported by George Soros organizations and promoted through government channels without public consent. Now when Albanian Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox and Evangelicals unite in the opposition, it expose the core problem. This agenda is not organic, it's not native, it's not agriculture, It's a Foreign thing, it's a cancer, it's a disease that tries to transform the entire cultural body of our, of our nation. Even surveys show overwhelming public rejection of these policies. Yet they continue to be pushed. Which raises a serious democratic question. Who is governing elected institutions in Albania or foreign founded networks? Finally, what we see in Albania and in Europe is elite engineering. Soros long term strategy in Albania has been the creation of, of a new political and institutional elite. Trained, founded, promoted and protected through the NGOs, the scholarships. I mean the billions of dollars that the taxpayers, because this is one of the issues now in United States, in our country, through USAID were sent, they were controlled by Open Society foundation in Albania, at least in Albania. So they were spreading the funds, the finances to promote scholarship, international platforms and civic society pipelines. Many senior officials today in government, justice institutions, media and international representations come directly from Soros life institutions linked institutions. So this creates a closed system of power where advance depends not on merit or public trust but on ideological alignment. I mean I don't want to I don't want to go deeper in the, in the issue because it may be deeper than what we, what we may ever think. We as a pro life and family coalition in Albania. We, we have had meetings in the American Embassy.
Walker Wildmon Yeah.
Pastor Akil Pano In Tirana in our country. And we asked them, we asked the officials of the State Department in American Embassy in Albania to come publicly clear with a statement that the American Embassy in Albania stands on alignment with the President Trump policies. So we hope that the embassies in Albania and in Europe, they'll be a little bit more clear on standing on the same alignment with the State Department.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely.
Pastor Akil Pano This will help a lot our battle.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely. I mean the Trump administration and the State Department, including the Secretary of State should really pay attention to what's going on in Albania from a pro family and a pro life standpoint. Not to mention the fight against Marxism and socialism and communism that's going on there. Hey, Reverend Akil, Pano. Thanks so much for coming on the program. We appreciate your story. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. That's Reverend Akil Akil, last name P A N O, from Albania. He's founder of the pro family and life coalition there, also a pastor and has spoken out extensively on what's going on there culturally and politically. And the George Soros fingerprints are all over Albania and hundreds of millions of dollars, billions poured into Albania to unorganically influence their elections and their policies there domestically. Very unfortunate situation, but glad that we could highlight it today. We'll be back in a. This is at the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
Walker Wildmon welcomes Ohio Value Voters President John Stover to the program
Welcome back to the program. Walker Wildmon here on this last segment of today's edition of at the Core. And as a reminder, we would greatly appreciate it if those of you who enjoy the program and listen each week would just simply go and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we've got the video up on Facebook and stream.aca.net you can watch the program live on those two platforms, stream.aca.net and on at the course Facebook page, along with all of the AFR handles on social media. We've got the video up live on all the major platforms. I do want to introduce our next guest. Coming back, domestic on the political front, John Stover is with us. He's president of Ohio Value Voters. John's also a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University with a master's degree in business administration, and he's been very involved in Ohio politics for some time now. John, welcome to the program.
John Stover Well, thank you very much, Walker. Glad, to be with you today.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. We've got a pretty big listening audience there in the state of Ohio. So this is a very relevant discussion for a listening audience. tell us a little bit about Ohio Value voters and then we'll jump into what's going on with the election there.
John Stover Well, ah, Ohio Value Borders we've been around since 2007, and, the thing that we in fact are, involved with at this point in time is, dealing with legislators. in Columbus. We do, get involved in some federal legislation, but primarily we deal with our legislators in the House and Senate. we certainly, pursue good legislation that, you know, for family. we have our pro life organization, traditional, marriage between one man and one woman. Something else that we embrace and you know, our organization, we endorse candidates. And the largest organization in the state of Ohio that gets involved with the endorsement process of candidates. they, you know, we have sat down with Vivek, Ramaswamy, which we did, last year, for a good hour, hour and a half covering a number of, state issues. Oh, and by the way, for your, for your, listeners, we have, 357 days until Mike DeWine is out of office. Not that anybody's counting.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, yeah, nobody's keeping up. Right. I like the specificity. yeah, he's been, he's been I don't want to spend too much time, you know, whining about the past. But he's been very weak. Very weak. Let me just put it that way. John, tell us what this gubernatorial race is shaping up to be, who some of the leading candidates are and what your viewpoint is.
John Stover Well, you know, once again we as I mentioned, we have sat down with Vivek, Ramaswamy. He came to our home and had a good discussion regarding the issues facing our state and many of the issues that the current administration has not addressed. So we have endorsed Vivek for governor. His primary opposition is going to be Dr. Amy Acton, where she was the health director under DeWine, until she decided to resign. She quit her job during COVID And she was responsible for shutting the state down. Basically it was her decision. She shut the election down, et cetera. that's where we're at as far as the Governor's race is concerned. you know, there are a number of other races that were involved in but concentrating on that along with the race as it relates to Sherrod Brown attempting to come back. You know, there was an old cliche statement made Walker regarding Hillary Clinton. And that statement was well, is Hillary running for president? And the que. And the answer was always well, is she breathing? You know, the same thing holds true with Sherrod Brown. You know, I mean this guy, I think he's going to run up until he's 85, 90 years old.
Walker Wildmon Yeah.
John Walker: Two bills to eliminate DEI K12 in Ohio schools
Let's talk about some of the other things going on in Ohio. the legislatively, that is what's going on at least this session in Ohio, that maybe our listeners would be interested in.
John Stover Well, a couple of actually two bills. And there was information that came out reported by Fox News and a number of other medias today relative to the national Education association, which is just a very radical left wing group as far as the monies that they have spent in these elections and the fact that they're promoting DEI and you know we have a couple of bills, one in the House, one in the Senate. House Bill 158 and Senate Bill 113 are two bills that our organization's behind to eliminate DEI K12 in Ohio schools. And we're urging the General assembly to pass those two bills immediately and get it on the governor's desk. I should mention that early last year we had Senate Bill 1 that passed the General assembly, which eliminated, the DEI and the woke nonsense in higher education. It was a very good bill that was, The primary sponsor, of that bill was Senator Jerry Serino. We got behind that bill and, we're glad to see that became law. you know, the big $64,000. And everyone's mind is anytime the governor receives a bill, Walker is what will the governor do with it? You know, you may remember, two sessions ago, 134th General Assembly House Bill 68, which was a very good bill by Representative Gary Klick that, would save, women's sports, keep biological men from competing. And also, it kept children from being mutilated because of the gender dysphoria in the state of Ohio. That went to the governor's desk. He vetoed it. The General assembly did have the votes necessary to, override that veto, which was good to see. So, you know, there are a number of other bills I know time would not permit us to get into them. But, you know, also, you know, another. Another law that's on the books that we are dealing with, I have to mention, is, Ohio Revised code section 5122.04. That's the current law. So your listeners, they go up, it's very easy to read, section. Why Revised code section 5122.04 has to do with, children 14 years of age and older they can keep from their parents medical consultation. The governor is even using this in his, 988 mobile response suicide program in the state of Ohio. And basically it's unfathomable to think that you could have a parent not knowing that their child was suicidal, after contacting the state, Department of health, dialing 988. But that's what that law would permit. So we're working with, Representative Jonathan Newman. We have some amendments and we really believe that that is, ultimately going to be changed to see to it that one of two things happens if a child approaches the state health department, they call 988. That, once a professional hears the situation with any minor, That one, of two things would happen. And that would be either you report it to the parents or if the parents are involved with some type of abuse, law enforcement, under mandatory Requirements under section 2151.42, one is evoked and law, enforcement is notified.
Walker Wildmon John, tell our folks, about your website, where they can find more information about your work.
John Stover Yeah. Ohiovaluevoters.org is a, website for Ohio value voters. You know, a few years ago my wife, she decided we needed to have a separate, website also, which is protectohiochildren.net and Walker, on that website we're doing something that no other state in Ohio is doing right now. That is there's a grid map out there for, tips that come in from various school districts. And you know, we put that information out there for parents of that district, all 600 plus districts in the state. And it's worked out extremely well. So it's you know, Those are the two sites, ProtectOhioChildren.net and OhioValueVoters.org Excellent.
Walker Wildmon Hey John, appreciate you coming on the program and we'll catch up, as this governor's race progresses.
John Stover Excellent, Walker, thank you. Once again, God bless.
Walker Wildmon Appreciate that. That's, John Stover, president of Ohio Values Voters, talking about the gubernatorial race there and how they and de facto have a Democrat governor at the moment in DeWine and how that needs to change. Couldn't agree more.
Left wing mob should be prosecuted for storming Minneapolis church
All right, let's wrap up the program talking more about what happened in Minneapolis over the weekend, specifically yesterday when you had a left wing mob storm a church and disrupt their church services. AFA just put out a statement within the last minute or two, from yours truly. Every American has the First Amendment right to gather and worship God without fear and intimidation. What happened to Christians in Minneapolis is unacceptable. And the left wing mob that trespassed and stormed the church service should be prosecuted to the full, full extent of the law, both federal and state. That's the latest statement out from AFA just a few minutes ago. And this, I've got a clip from the, let's see, let me get my clips in order. Clips straight. Okay. This is from the, Associate Attorney General for Civil Rights, Herme Dillon, her office. This would fall under their purview, the Civil Rights Division, that is, this would fall under her purview on prosecuting. And what's quite ironic is one of the statutes that would be deployed here is the FACE Act. And as we all know, the FACE act was deployed and used against pro lifers, hundreds of them, over the course of the Biden administration for praying peacefully outside of abortion clinics. And so this same, tool, this same statute could actually be deployed against this left wing mobile. And the irony is very, very deep, very thick irony here. And this might actually lead folks to the repeal of the Face act, which I've been petitioning for for the last year or so. And so maybe if we deploy this legal statute against the left wing mob, then all of the Democrats will come out against the Face act and then we can all get together and sing Kumbaya and repeal it. But before I get over my skis, let's play a clip here of Harmeet Dhillon, the Associate Attorney General over civil rights, talking about the different tools at her disposal to prosecute the left wing mob. Let's listen.
Harmeet Dillon The Attorney General has been on this from the moment it happened. There are already two prosecutors from my office on their way to Minneapolis, and they'll be there this morning. We have an FBI team assembled and local prosecutors as well. This is going to get the highest attention from the Department of Justice because there is no more sacred right in our Constitution than the right to assemble and pray to God. And there are federal laws that protect that right. And what happened here was a shameful exercise of virtue, signaling disruption, fear, terror. You can see children in this video being ushered out the back by their terrorized mothers. And this is illegal. And I want to add that the Biden administration prosecuted people peacefully praying outside abortion clinics, for much, much less.
Walker Wildmon There you have it. President, Biden prosecuted pro lifers outside of abortion clinics for, quote, much, much less. Couldn't agree with that more. You know, this, this is where, this is where we have to bring down the full force of the law enforcement part, arm of the Department of Justice. And we have to bring it down hard on these Democrat goons is effectively what they are. They thought they were going to be cute and they thought there would be no repercussions to teaming up with none other than Don Lemon and storming a church service, actually a Southern Baptist Church service in Minneapolis. And so they thought they were going to go in. They thought it was going to be nice and cute. They were going to get all the attention, they were going to intimidate the Christians and then they were going to leave. And then they were going to be heroes of the left. Right? This is what the Democrats are inciting. This is what the Democrat leaders are inciting. This is what they are leading people to do because they can't for the life of them tone down the rhetoric. I told you guys this, leading up to the 2024 election and after I told you that they have no ability to self correct. The left has no ability to rein it in. Why? Because primarily they don't have the Holy Spirit. Secondly, they don't even believe in God at that, so there's no outside force to rein them in. And so here we are, and you've got Tim Walz talking about how, we're at war with the federal government. Those are his words. He said, quote, quote, I don't remember the last time that a state was at war with the federal government. I do. It's called the Civil War. So that's the last time that a state was at war with the federal government. And it did not end very well. And so he's admitting that his state is at war with the federal government. Those are, quote, his words. Jacob Fry, the disgraced governor of Minneapolis, far left radical, by the way, came out in front of his police chief, by the way, which I thought was quite bizarre. And you should have seen the look on his police chief's face. He said, that, he's being asked by voters, by citizens, if he can deploy the police to go to war with the federal government. That's what he said at a press conference. If you haven't seen this stuff, then you should get on Elon Musk, Platform X and you should listen to this stuff for yourself. And so we've got, we're borderline, these are borderline, some type of federal conspiracy crimes that these officials are engaging in. But they're getting right up to the line and they're intentionally not going over the line because they don't want to end up in handcuffs. Instead, they're dispatching their voters to go out to the streets and get put in handcuffs. And so Pam Bondi needs to get out of her chair. And if I don't see these ladies, left wing goons, handcuffed and pert walked within the next, I'll give them 72 hours. I know that you got to file the paperwork, you got to get the judge to sign off on the warrant, but I'll give them about 72 hours because right now Pam Bondi really hasn't performed. She really hasn't produced much results. And so now you have on camera Don Lemon and the left violating the Face Act. Let's see what happens.
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Jesus performed the ultimate miracle by speaking, bringing Lazarus back from the dead
John, chapter 11 is where we are this week. John, chapter 11 is where we are this week. Looking at, down towards verses, 40, 38, really through, let's say, 44. this is the testimony of Lazarus rising from the dead. And, looking at verse 43, it says, now, when he had said these things, talking about Jesus, he cried with a loud voice, lazarus, come forth. And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave cloths, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, loose him and let him go. That's verses 43 and 44. And what I want to point out this week in this specific passage is that Jesus miracles that he performs, and in fact, the miracles and the things that the Lord God himself, the Father, does is simply by speech. Simply by speech. now there were some, miracles that were performed with mud, and saliva, such as the blind man being made to see. there's the, washing with water, performing miracles. Jesus did it that way. But here in this instance, Jesus simply spoke and it came to pass. And so this really, is the ultimate miracle performing when Jesus is able to simply speak things into existence. That is how you know he is truly the Son of God. God himself spoke creation into existence, and Jesus, the Son of God, spoke life into existence with Lazarus. And this is the ultimate, characteristic of Jesus, in that he can speak miracles into existence and speak, life from death. And as humans, we understand the kind of exertion it takes to perform work. I mean, we're not able to perform miracles in the way that Jesus does. We can. We can petition Jesus and God to perform miracles today, but we ourselves are not, gifted with any special powers. Any special powers. the power of miracle working is reserved to Jesus and God. but my point is that we humans, we exert all of this energy on this earth to do basic things, and here. And so as humans, we understand the exertion that is required to just perform basic functions of daily life. And here we have Jesus performing the ultimate miracle, which is bringing a dead man to life in Lazarus simply by speaking. So the power of God and the power of Jesus, is not bound by any physical limitations. That's John, chapter 11, looking towards the latter part 43 and 44.
This situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is completely avoidable, right
All right, what I want to talk about this segment is what's going on in Minneapolis. And then we've got a couple guests the rest of the show. But, this situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is completely avoidable. Completely avoidable. And this is what I want to address today. I want to address this notion, this thought that's out there even amongst conservative circles of, well, you know, what if. Maybe. Maybe President Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, maybe they ought to just get out of Minneapolis, right? I mean, it's a Democrat stronghold. What business are we doing there? Just let them, if they want to be, you know, if they want to be taken over by illegal immigrants and rapists and murderers from other countries, then just let them have at it, right? That's kind of the offhanded statements that are made when you run into opposition like this. But I want to directly dispel that notion and tell you why that's a completely bad idea. All right? So the first thing is that it's only a problem because the Democrats make it a problem. All right? What President Trump's Department of Homeland Security, through Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing in Minneapolis is nothing novel. All right? And I know, I know people don't want to hear this. They think that President Trump is doing these Superman hero things, when in reality, he's just doing what they're supposed to be doing. ICE is supposed to be going after people who are in our country, illegal, illegally. So there's nothing magical about what President Trump's doing here. There's really nothing like superhero ish about what President Trump is doing here. President Obama did this. President Biden did this. President Trump 1.0 did this. President Obama was actually the best at it, if we want to be honest. He deported the most people in the last, actually, in modern American presidencies. He deported the most people, over 5 million deportations. It's amazing. I think the number is actually higher than that. But the last I recall, at least 5 million deportations. So. But this is only a problem and only newsworthy because the Democrats are making it that. All right, and so the Democrats have forced the hand of the Trump administration to surge in more resources. And the Democrats are incentivizing and inciting these riots and these impeding federal investigations. The Democrats are spurring this all along. This is what the Democrats want. You know, the Democrats say this is what President Trump wants. He wants a confrontation in the streets, he wants to deploy the military, blah, blah, blah. No, this is what the Democrats want. This is what they signed up for and this is what they asked for. And I want to play this clip here. This is, the, director of ICE talking about how if the, if the local officials would simply cooperate like they're supposed to do and like they do under normal circumstances when Donald Trump's not in the White House, then this would be a non story, this would be a boring news story that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is actually driving around doing their job. Clip 5 and the one thing we say all the time is, you know, these sanctuary jurisdictions, you would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street focused on the criminal illegal alien mission if they would just turn people over to us. That's the key. These local law enforcement agencies have already deemed these individuals a public safety threat and arrested them. Why not work with federal partners, turn them over to us and let us get them out of our communities? there you have it. That's the ASH director saying the simple thing out loud that we all, that we all should be reminded of. And that is if local officials would simply cooperate with federal officials. And that is when you have a, convicted rapist from Guatemala in a prison in a jail in Minneapolis and ICE has a detainer on him, then you call ICE and say, hey guys, come pick this dude up. And then ICE with like three agents drives over to the jail, backs up to the loading dock, they get the, the criminal and they put him in the car and they take him to the airport and they fly him back to his home country. And guess who, guess who sees or knows about that? Nobody, except for the judge that issued the detainer order and the removal order, by the way, which we've got over a million and a half removal orders that have been ordered by judges. And it wouldn't this no problem. Who's got a problem with deporting the rapist from Guatemala. Like, if somebody wants to petition for that dude to stay here, please raise your hand. And, the reality is that actually, if Democrats were here in the studio, some of them would be raising their hand talking about how we ought to keep rapists in our country. It's weird. It's quite weird. I can't figure it out. But there's no other justification for this. And so Democrats have provoked this standoff, if you will, in Minneapolis. And then, so that leaves us with the question, well, what should the Trump administration do? Okay. And if the answer to that is, well, they ought to just leave, ah, maybe they should just work in states where they have a cooperating local government. Oh, okay, so that's where we are now. So this is where we are where if Democrats decide they want anarchy, that they want to protect the rapist, that they want to harbor illegal alien invaders, that the federal government should just be okay with that, that we should just pull all resources out, because under this theory, you can't leave any resources there. It doesn't make any sense. If we should just give over blue states to the criminals and really the criminal enablers in the governors and the mayors, is that really how we should do this? So not only would President Trump be in violation of his oath of office m but so would every other federal official that swore to protect the homeland. So exiting the blue states and not enforcing federal law in Democrat states would in and of itself be a violation of the law and a violation of their oath of office. So you can't do that. So you're left to enforce the laws. This is why President Trump and Secretary Noem are having to surge in resources into Minnesota, because leaving isn't an option. Leaving isn't an option. And I'll guarantee you, if Democrats were in the White House and they were trying to do, you know, like they did last time, where they go in and arrest a bunch of pro lifers in conservative states, I'll guarantee you that if we put up a resistance, they wouldn't just go, yeah, we're just going to pull out of red states. We're just going to let the red states do their thing. No, they wouldn't do that. They would surge in more resources. They would get their way because they're the federal government. And so in this instance, we're dealing with enforcing the law and protecting the homeland and protecting American citizens. And so leaving isn't an option. Giving the state over to anarchy and foreigners is just not an option. It's not a card on the table to play. So that leaves President Trump to do what he has to do, and that is surge in more resources. But all of this, let me remind you, is brought to you by the Democrats. This is what they've been planning the entire time since 2024. They've been planning, confrontations with the Trump administration to try to provoke some incident or some tragedy that gets headlines and makes the Trump administration look bad. This is. This is how we got the tragedy of Renee Good. That should have never happened. That should have never happened. Renee Goode and her girlfriend should have never been driving around Minneapolis all day long, putting their car in front of federal officers. Not only is that just moronic, but it serves no purpose.
Democrats are provoking their followers to the streets
It serves. No. Even if you think their cause is just and that what ICE is doing is wrong, driving your car in front of a federal officer and blocking them and putting their life in danger, how do you think that's going to go? You think ICE is just going to say, you know what, Renee Good, we don't even know who you are, but we think you're right, and we're going to defy our commander and we're going to break our own oath of office, and we're just going to leave Minneapolis, and you goons can just have at it. No, that's not going to happen. That's not how the system works. And so the Democrats are provoking their followers to the streets. And guess what? The followers are the ones going to get hurt. The Renee Goods are the one hurt from this. And, you know, Frey and Walls, they're all standing behind the podium. They're protected, they're good. They're putting their followers around risk, and it's very dangerous what they're doing. M. I was afraid. I was scared what to do? Everybody wanted me to have an abortion.
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American Family Radio welcomes Pastor Akil Pano from Albania
Walker Wildmon Welcome back to the program here on American Family Radio. Well, each, program, or at least each week at a minimum, we like to bring in special guests to bring some insight into their specific area of expertise. And, today we have Pastor Akil Pano, Gospel of Christ Church. He's pastor there in, Albania, Tyranna, Albania. And he's here to talk about some of the, politics and what's going on in Albania and Europe and how that syncs up or doesn't with what's going on here in the U.S. Pastor Akil, welcome to the program.
Pastor Akil Pano Thank you so much. Greetings from Tirana, the capital of Albania. it's an honor to be with you.
Walker Wildmon Well, what's the time difference, with the U.S. seven hours.
Pastor Akil Pano We are seven hours ahead of him. M. So it's like, 248 here.
Walker Wildmon Excellent. Excellent. Well, we appreciate you being on the program, Pastor, give us a little backgrounder about your church and a little bit about your testimony and your story.
Pastor Akil Pano Well, I mean, Albania. First, let me share a couple of minutes about Albania. Albania is the ancient Illyricum of the Bible. In the book of Romans 15:19, Paul the Apostle speaks about the country of the Illyricum. How from Jerusalem to around about Illyricum, he preached full the gospel of Christ with mighty signs and wonders. So from the very first century, we have inherited the apostolic faith. We have evidences of Christian churches in this region of the Balkans. Albania stands on the west side of Italy, Northern part of Greece, southern part of Croatia, Montenegro. So it stands in the most beautiful part of the Mediterranean. And, so for the 15 first centuries, Albanian population used to be Christians. During the 15th century, the Ottoman armies, the Ottoman Empire, they invaded the entire countries of the Balkans. So with high taxes and, force, they converted the populations in these regions. Today, Albania would be around 70% Muslim. They would be around 12% Roman Catholics, 6% Christian Orthodox, and, around 0.5%, 0.5% evangelical believers all over the country of Albania. So that's the reality. After the Second World War in Albania, the communist government, they took, over. They. They ruled the country from 1945 up to 1991. Albania is a very, very interesting, study case because only in Albania, by law, in our constitution, it was decreed that God doesn't exist. So during the communist era, Albania declared that God doesn't exist by constitution. The people of Albania didn't, believe in God. We didn't have Bibles. We didn't have underground churches. People were forbidden to pray in secret. I mean, it was the most severe communist regime in the entire, world. We had priests and pastors. They were sent to jail. The ones that they didn't renounce their faith, they were, not just persecuted, but they were executed. Some of them, they were put inside of wooden barrels. And they were thrown alive in the sea before they were executed. Their final words were long live to Christ the King and long live Albania. So we have this great heritage of martyrs and heroes of faith during even the communist time in Albania. But the situation, today after the fall of communism in 1991. Missionaries from United States, Great Britain, Europe, they came to evangelize our country. The Bibles, they were reprinted. So we have a rise of a new generation of Christian leaders. I am, I'm blessed to be, saved. From the very early beginnings in 1991 in Albania when the first missionaries came and they were delivering, distributing gospel literature materials. And the early Christian evangelical churches were shaped. I started to attend one of these little small, you know, congregations in My. My hometown, Tirana, the capital of Albania. So in the last 35 years, the past by very, very quick. There is an evangelical community in Albania with Albanian native evangelical leaders. So I am one of them, one of the early converts to Christ. but in the last, in the last, In the last 13 years, Albania is being ruled by a very woke socialist government. So the most tendencies are to go backwards to our dark history, of communism denying of God. Not like the priests and the pastors. They were forced to do it during the communist era. But through the modern, so called council culture. Like you guys in the United States, you know this, You know better. But we know this story in Albania, maybe in a little bit of a different personal, personal way. Albania is a small country. Sadly, in the last 13 years during this socialist, government, we have lost the third of the population due to the political, economical. laws that are discouraging the young people to live in Albania. non pro life and pro family. proposals from the government and our majority in our parliament. So many people are losing their hope to live here. Many are living, are leaving Albania. It's very sad. I mean, to see that the young people of Albania are leaving the country. I'm teaching his, philosophy of the state university in the meantime. And I see that 85% of our, class would be like, telling us, the professors that they are hoping to get a degree and leave, Albania. So we, we see the entire thing connected with the policies of this left government, that we have in Albania that is connected to George Soros and Open Society foundation, strongly connected to the previous administration in the United States, you know, Biden Harris administration, forcing LGBTQ plus laws. And very, very recently there was a bill, that our Pro Life and Family Coalition, we were standing against this bill, the equality bill that against the will of the people of Albania, which for the matter of fact would be very strong in tradition, would be very conservative, country, the left government, the left majority, they voted against the will of the people. So the bill is passed.
Walker Wildmon Now that's what I wanted to get to. We've got about six or seven minutes left.
George Soros through his Open Society foundation influence in Albania is well documented
but the. It seems like everywhere we turn, whether in America or abroad, George Soros, his name comes up. And sometimes you, you think to yourself, is George Soros really behind all of this? the reality is, in many cases, yes, just because of the sheer amount of wealth that he has, he's able to exert influence all around the world. But when you look at George Soros through his Open Society foundation influence in Albania, this is very well documented, the fact that George Soros has been investing in schools, health facilities, infrastructure, even scholarships for students there, and even influencing media in Albania. So give us a little background as far as how long, George Soros has been meddling around in Albanian politics. And the ultimate effect that it's had had.
Pastor Akil Pano Well, when we talk about George Soros in Albania, this is not a, the theoretical or an, abstract debate. It is a concrete political, institutional and cultural reality with, with measurable, consequences. the entire state has been captured by Open Society Foundation. So we have evidences that in 2016, Albania, underwent a radical justice reform that was designed, funded and promoted primarily by Soros foundation, especially through the Open Society foundation and its partners. This is not speculation. The Open Society foundation itself publicly acknowledged that it was the main founder of the reform process. But what was this reformed injustice system, about? The reform was presented in the beginning as an anti corruption project, but in practice it collapsed the judiciary system entirely, removed more than half of judges and prosecutors from the entire system in Albania, and centralized enormous power in new institutions that are politically Captured. What followed was not independent justice, but selective justice. It's a very interesting, study case. Now to see Albania, how deep in our, system George Soros foundation went today. Opposition leaders are prosecuted, investigated. I'm talking about the previous president of Albania. They are being persecuted, politically neutralized. While no senior figures from the ruling Socialist Party face comparable accountability.
Walker Wildmon Ah.
Pastor Akil Pano Despite well documented corruption scandals that this government is being recognized, and known for. That is not a rule of law. This is weaponized justice. This is what is happening in Albania. It's exactly the same manual that we have seen the stories about arresting President Trump before the election. And everything happened in Albania with our, previous presidents. This reform in the justice system did not strengthen democracy in Albania, but it removed check and balances and subordinated the judiciary to the executive, which is handled by the hands of the Prime Minister of Albania. Second, the operation was deep into the media and to the society. So the media and the society is captured. Over the last 30 years, Soros founded NGOs and media platforms that created an, ecosystem of influence in the entire nation. Journalists, activists, opinion makers, founded or trained by Open Society foundation in and outside of Albania. they presented the, so called the independent discourse in the public, square. So the pattern is clear. Government corruption is minimized or reframed. Opposition voices are delegitimized. Anyone who challenges the system is labeled anti European, a populist, a fascist or an extremist. I, as a pastor, I've been a pastor in Albania for the last 30 years and I'm a public speaker. I've had the opportunity to debate the prime minister of Albania in the largest talk shows, political talk shows in our country. I have had three court cases with the state commissioner against discrimination. criminal charges were, raised against me on no basis at all. So I had to go through, courts and I had to go through all these struggles only because I was one of the strong conservative voices in the country. One other aspect is the social and the cultural agenda, especially LGBTQ gender ideology. Albania is a social conservative country with strong family, religious and cultural traditions. All these, laws are not Albanian laws like gender equality laws. This should be cultural imperialism forced to be, placed and make a surgery in our culture, in our tradition. These initiatives are openly supported by George Soros organizations and promoted through government channels without public consent. Now when Albanian Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox and Evangelicals unite in the opposition, it expose the core problem. This agenda is not organic, it's not native, it's not agriculture, It's a Foreign thing, it's a cancer, it's a disease that tries to transform the entire cultural body of our, of our nation. Even surveys show overwhelming public rejection of these policies. Yet they continue to be pushed. Which raises a serious democratic question. Who is governing elected institutions in Albania or foreign founded networks? Finally, what we see in Albania and in Europe is elite engineering. Soros long term strategy in Albania has been the creation of, of a new political and institutional elite. Trained, founded, promoted and protected through the NGOs, the scholarships. I mean the billions of dollars that the taxpayers, because this is one of the issues now in United States, in our country, through USAID were sent, they were controlled by Open Society foundation in Albania, at least in Albania. So they were spreading the funds, the finances to promote scholarship, international platforms and civic society pipelines. Many senior officials today in government, justice institutions, media and international representations come directly from Soros life institutions linked institutions. So this creates a closed system of power where advance depends not on merit or public trust but on ideological alignment. I mean I don't want to I don't want to go deeper in the, in the issue because it may be deeper than what we, what we may ever think. We as a pro life and family coalition in Albania. We, we have had meetings in the American Embassy.
Walker Wildmon Yeah.
Pastor Akil Pano In Tirana in our country. And we asked them, we asked the officials of the State Department in American Embassy in Albania to come publicly clear with a statement that the American Embassy in Albania stands on alignment with the President Trump policies. So we hope that the embassies in Albania and in Europe, they'll be a little bit more clear on standing on the same alignment with the State Department.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely.
Pastor Akil Pano This will help a lot our battle.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, absolutely. I mean the Trump administration and the State Department, including the Secretary of State should really pay attention to what's going on in Albania from a pro family and a pro life standpoint. Not to mention the fight against Marxism and socialism and communism that's going on there. Hey, Reverend Akil, Pano. Thanks so much for coming on the program. We appreciate your story. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. That's Reverend Akil Akil, last name P A N O, from Albania. He's founder of the pro family and life coalition there, also a pastor and has spoken out extensively on what's going on there culturally and politically. And the George Soros fingerprints are all over Albania and hundreds of millions of dollars, billions poured into Albania to unorganically influence their elections and their policies there domestically. Very unfortunate situation, but glad that we could highlight it today. We'll be back in a. This is at the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
Walker Wildmon welcomes Ohio Value Voters President John Stover to the program
Welcome back to the program. Walker Wildmon here on this last segment of today's edition of at the Core. And as a reminder, we would greatly appreciate it if those of you who enjoy the program and listen each week would just simply go and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we've got the video up on Facebook and stream.aca.net you can watch the program live on those two platforms, stream.aca.net and on at the course Facebook page, along with all of the AFR handles on social media. We've got the video up live on all the major platforms. I do want to introduce our next guest. Coming back, domestic on the political front, John Stover is with us. He's president of Ohio Value Voters. John's also a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University with a master's degree in business administration, and he's been very involved in Ohio politics for some time now. John, welcome to the program.
John Stover Well, thank you very much, Walker. Glad, to be with you today.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. We've got a pretty big listening audience there in the state of Ohio. So this is a very relevant discussion for a listening audience. tell us a little bit about Ohio Value voters and then we'll jump into what's going on with the election there.
John Stover Well, ah, Ohio Value Borders we've been around since 2007, and, the thing that we in fact are, involved with at this point in time is, dealing with legislators. in Columbus. We do, get involved in some federal legislation, but primarily we deal with our legislators in the House and Senate. we certainly, pursue good legislation that, you know, for family. we have our pro life organization, traditional, marriage between one man and one woman. Something else that we embrace and you know, our organization, we endorse candidates. And the largest organization in the state of Ohio that gets involved with the endorsement process of candidates. they, you know, we have sat down with Vivek, Ramaswamy, which we did, last year, for a good hour, hour and a half covering a number of, state issues. Oh, and by the way, for your, for your, listeners, we have, 357 days until Mike DeWine is out of office. Not that anybody's counting.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, yeah, nobody's keeping up. Right. I like the specificity. yeah, he's been, he's been I don't want to spend too much time, you know, whining about the past. But he's been very weak. Very weak. Let me just put it that way. John, tell us what this gubernatorial race is shaping up to be, who some of the leading candidates are and what your viewpoint is.
John Stover Well, you know, once again we as I mentioned, we have sat down with Vivek, Ramaswamy. He came to our home and had a good discussion regarding the issues facing our state and many of the issues that the current administration has not addressed. So we have endorsed Vivek for governor. His primary opposition is going to be Dr. Amy Acton, where she was the health director under DeWine, until she decided to resign. She quit her job during COVID And she was responsible for shutting the state down. Basically it was her decision. She shut the election down, et cetera. that's where we're at as far as the Governor's race is concerned. you know, there are a number of other races that were involved in but concentrating on that along with the race as it relates to Sherrod Brown attempting to come back. You know, there was an old cliche statement made Walker regarding Hillary Clinton. And that statement was well, is Hillary running for president? And the que. And the answer was always well, is she breathing? You know, the same thing holds true with Sherrod Brown. You know, I mean this guy, I think he's going to run up until he's 85, 90 years old.
Walker Wildmon Yeah.
John Walker: Two bills to eliminate DEI K12 in Ohio schools
Let's talk about some of the other things going on in Ohio. the legislatively, that is what's going on at least this session in Ohio, that maybe our listeners would be interested in.
John Stover Well, a couple of actually two bills. And there was information that came out reported by Fox News and a number of other medias today relative to the national Education association, which is just a very radical left wing group as far as the monies that they have spent in these elections and the fact that they're promoting DEI and you know we have a couple of bills, one in the House, one in the Senate. House Bill 158 and Senate Bill 113 are two bills that our organization's behind to eliminate DEI K12 in Ohio schools. And we're urging the General assembly to pass those two bills immediately and get it on the governor's desk. I should mention that early last year we had Senate Bill 1 that passed the General assembly, which eliminated, the DEI and the woke nonsense in higher education. It was a very good bill that was, The primary sponsor, of that bill was Senator Jerry Serino. We got behind that bill and, we're glad to see that became law. you know, the big $64,000. And everyone's mind is anytime the governor receives a bill, Walker is what will the governor do with it? You know, you may remember, two sessions ago, 134th General Assembly House Bill 68, which was a very good bill by Representative Gary Klick that, would save, women's sports, keep biological men from competing. And also, it kept children from being mutilated because of the gender dysphoria in the state of Ohio. That went to the governor's desk. He vetoed it. The General assembly did have the votes necessary to, override that veto, which was good to see. So, you know, there are a number of other bills I know time would not permit us to get into them. But, you know, also, you know, another. Another law that's on the books that we are dealing with, I have to mention, is, Ohio Revised code section 5122.04. That's the current law. So your listeners, they go up, it's very easy to read, section. Why Revised code section 5122.04 has to do with, children 14 years of age and older they can keep from their parents medical consultation. The governor is even using this in his, 988 mobile response suicide program in the state of Ohio. And basically it's unfathomable to think that you could have a parent not knowing that their child was suicidal, after contacting the state, Department of health, dialing 988. But that's what that law would permit. So we're working with, Representative Jonathan Newman. We have some amendments and we really believe that that is, ultimately going to be changed to see to it that one of two things happens if a child approaches the state health department, they call 988. That, once a professional hears the situation with any minor, That one, of two things would happen. And that would be either you report it to the parents or if the parents are involved with some type of abuse, law enforcement, under mandatory Requirements under section 2151.42, one is evoked and law, enforcement is notified.
Walker Wildmon John, tell our folks, about your website, where they can find more information about your work.
John Stover Yeah. Ohiovaluevoters.org is a, website for Ohio value voters. You know, a few years ago my wife, she decided we needed to have a separate, website also, which is protectohiochildren.net and Walker, on that website we're doing something that no other state in Ohio is doing right now. That is there's a grid map out there for, tips that come in from various school districts. And you know, we put that information out there for parents of that district, all 600 plus districts in the state. And it's worked out extremely well. So it's you know, Those are the two sites, ProtectOhioChildren.net and OhioValueVoters.org Excellent.
Walker Wildmon Hey John, appreciate you coming on the program and we'll catch up, as this governor's race progresses.
John Stover Excellent, Walker, thank you. Once again, God bless.
Walker Wildmon Appreciate that. That's, John Stover, president of Ohio Values Voters, talking about the gubernatorial race there and how they and de facto have a Democrat governor at the moment in DeWine and how that needs to change. Couldn't agree more.
Left wing mob should be prosecuted for storming Minneapolis church
All right, let's wrap up the program talking more about what happened in Minneapolis over the weekend, specifically yesterday when you had a left wing mob storm a church and disrupt their church services. AFA just put out a statement within the last minute or two, from yours truly. Every American has the First Amendment right to gather and worship God without fear and intimidation. What happened to Christians in Minneapolis is unacceptable. And the left wing mob that trespassed and stormed the church service should be prosecuted to the full, full extent of the law, both federal and state. That's the latest statement out from AFA just a few minutes ago. And this, I've got a clip from the, let's see, let me get my clips in order. Clips straight. Okay. This is from the, Associate Attorney General for Civil Rights, Herme Dillon, her office. This would fall under their purview, the Civil Rights Division, that is, this would fall under her purview on prosecuting. And what's quite ironic is one of the statutes that would be deployed here is the FACE Act. And as we all know, the FACE act was deployed and used against pro lifers, hundreds of them, over the course of the Biden administration for praying peacefully outside of abortion clinics. And so this same, tool, this same statute could actually be deployed against this left wing mobile. And the irony is very, very deep, very thick irony here. And this might actually lead folks to the repeal of the Face act, which I've been petitioning for for the last year or so. And so maybe if we deploy this legal statute against the left wing mob, then all of the Democrats will come out against the Face act and then we can all get together and sing Kumbaya and repeal it. But before I get over my skis, let's play a clip here of Harmeet Dhillon, the Associate Attorney General over civil rights, talking about the different tools at her disposal to prosecute the left wing mob. Let's listen.
Harmeet Dillon The Attorney General has been on this from the moment it happened. There are already two prosecutors from my office on their way to Minneapolis, and they'll be there this morning. We have an FBI team assembled and local prosecutors as well. This is going to get the highest attention from the Department of Justice because there is no more sacred right in our Constitution than the right to assemble and pray to God. And there are federal laws that protect that right. And what happened here was a shameful exercise of virtue, signaling disruption, fear, terror. You can see children in this video being ushered out the back by their terrorized mothers. And this is illegal. And I want to add that the Biden administration prosecuted people peacefully praying outside abortion clinics, for much, much less.
Walker Wildmon There you have it. President, Biden prosecuted pro lifers outside of abortion clinics for, quote, much, much less. Couldn't agree with that more. You know, this, this is where, this is where we have to bring down the full force of the law enforcement part, arm of the Department of Justice. And we have to bring it down hard on these Democrat goons is effectively what they are. They thought they were going to be cute and they thought there would be no repercussions to teaming up with none other than Don Lemon and storming a church service, actually a Southern Baptist Church service in Minneapolis. And so they thought they were going to go in. They thought it was going to be nice and cute. They were going to get all the attention, they were going to intimidate the Christians and then they were going to leave. And then they were going to be heroes of the left. Right? This is what the Democrats are inciting. This is what the Democrat leaders are inciting. This is what they are leading people to do because they can't for the life of them tone down the rhetoric. I told you guys this, leading up to the 2024 election and after I told you that they have no ability to self correct. The left has no ability to rein it in. Why? Because primarily they don't have the Holy Spirit. Secondly, they don't even believe in God at that, so there's no outside force to rein them in. And so here we are, and you've got Tim Walz talking about how, we're at war with the federal government. Those are his words. He said, quote, quote, I don't remember the last time that a state was at war with the federal government. I do. It's called the Civil War. So that's the last time that a state was at war with the federal government. And it did not end very well. And so he's admitting that his state is at war with the federal government. Those are, quote, his words. Jacob Fry, the disgraced governor of Minneapolis, far left radical, by the way, came out in front of his police chief, by the way, which I thought was quite bizarre. And you should have seen the look on his police chief's face. He said, that, he's being asked by voters, by citizens, if he can deploy the police to go to war with the federal government. That's what he said at a press conference. If you haven't seen this stuff, then you should get on Elon Musk, Platform X and you should listen to this stuff for yourself. And so we've got, we're borderline, these are borderline, some type of federal conspiracy crimes that these officials are engaging in. But they're getting right up to the line and they're intentionally not going over the line because they don't want to end up in handcuffs. Instead, they're dispatching their voters to go out to the streets and get put in handcuffs. And so Pam Bondi needs to get out of her chair. And if I don't see these ladies, left wing goons, handcuffed and pert walked within the next, I'll give them 72 hours. I know that you got to file the paperwork, you got to get the judge to sign off on the warrant, but I'll give them about 72 hours because right now Pam Bondi really hasn't performed. She really hasn't produced much results. And so now you have on camera Don Lemon and the left violating the Face Act. Let's see what happens.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this. Broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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