when it comes to tyranny you have to draw a firm line in the sand and say here are my values here's what's right and i will not back off even an inch because if you're not careful what happens is tyrants will take our values and they push them back just a little bit and then a little bit more and a little bit more until we're so boxed in we don't actually have a we don't have footing sufficient enough to actually launch a defense it becomes too late right what's happening folks i am john level warrior poet society we've got an important subject today we're talking about how america is just careening toward authoritarianism tyranny it's been bad before other nations have experienced it before we've had it in microcosms as well but it seems to be heating up and getting worse and worse and worse and what i wanted to arrive at today is something that you and i can do that would absolutely make a huge difference it may be the only way to actually stave off the death of the republic and i don't think i'm being over sensationless i think it'll just literally come down to this one thing that we've got to do and it's actually attainable it's something you leave today with an action point you're like yeah i need to do that and so that's what i wanted to arrive at but i wanted to build up and make a case for it before we jumped in though i don't have a big video sponsor i just asked you guys if you wouldn't mind supporting our society would really appreciate it we have a full commerce store that's just goodie land for dudes it's belts and knives and gun holsters war belts body armor packs apparel i don't know if i said apparel already all the things it's really cool stuff so make sure you check it out really helps us out a lot and helps fund the whole movement all right guys jumping back in i was thinking about heroes that still speak to me i've been shaped by heroes i was thinking about corey ten boom and anne frank who were both instrumental in hiding jews from nazis that were seeking to kill them big deal i was thinking about dietrich bonhoeffer who was a german pastor turned spy against the third reich i was thinking about the tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of christians that the roman empire was butchering trying to get him to denounce jesus in the first second third and fourth centuries a.d i was also thinking about the tiananmen square massacre specifically the tank man there's this real iconic picture where there's these chinese tanks rolling through tiananmen square in beijing and as they're rolling through this just lone man walks up and he keeps shuffling to get in front of the tanks it's basically like i'm protesting run over me if you must and so there's this showdown where they you know you basically stop the tanks for a short while until the chinese communist party did what they do best and that's you know made him disappear forever we have no idea who he is or his legacy but he still speaks there's
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN before we jumped in though i don't have a big video sponsor i just asked you guys if you wouldn't mind supporting our society would really appreciate it we have a full commerce store that's just goodie land for dudes it's belts and knives and gun holsters war belts body armor packs apparel i don't know if i said apparel already all the things it's really cool stuff so make sure you check it out really helps us out a lot and helps fund the whole movement all END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN