 First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew and then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. If you're not familiar with Martin I think it's pronounced neemerler. You should do some quick research on that. My general understanding is he was kind of a supporter, go-along to get along kind of guy with the Nazis in the 30s and then at some point a post started to a post Hitler and be like wait a second this is not good he was a he was a pastor I believe was his profession and ended up getting put in prison and wrote that very very famous poem to kind of express his regret and mistakes that he made along the way. I read that poem because I think it really embodies and encapsulates and is very salient to the current zeitgeist of America. If you remember back when President Trump became president he made this claim that he just found out I think it was the FBI. The FBI had been spying on his campaign prior to becoming president and I remember when he made that claim and I was like okay buddy like unless you're gonna back that up like you're you're way off your rocker here. Turns out though he was actually right that is that is what happened. The problem is is then he was president and he proceeded to do nothing to really affect that long term. So now you fast forward and we have Tucker Carlson who is now being spied on by the NSA as he revealed in this little clip here. But it's not just political protesters the government is spying on. Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA the National Security Agency is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air. Now that's a shocking claim and ordinarily would be skeptical of it is illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens. It's a crime it's not a third world country things like that should not happen in America. But unfortunately they do happen and in this case they did happen. The whistleblower who is in a position to know repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There's no other possible source for that information period. The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed a FOIA request a freedom of information act request asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show. We did it mostly as a formality. We've also contacted the press office at both NSA and the FBI. We don't expect to hear much back. That's the way that usually goes. Only Congress can force transparency on the intelligence agencies and they should do that immediately. Spying on opposition journalists is incompatible with democracy. If they are doing it to us and again they are definitely doing it to us. They are almost certainly doing it to others. This is scary and we need to stop it right away. If that doesn't get you super hot like if that doesn't make you mad and angry. I don't know what to tell you. This is scary stuff. This is communist level China type stuff. The government exists to protect your rights. That is why we institute governments among men as the Declaration of Independence says. That is one of the founding principles of the American Republic that we have made the government to protect our rights to life-liberating the pursuit of happiness. What could possibly be protecting your right to life-liberating the pursuit of happiness which pursuit of happiness just means like free enterprise different to video. What could possibly be protecting that by the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson in order to discredit him get him off the air make him look bad like what could possibly be the purpose is there any legitimate government purpose that and the answer is no and I would say the same if the government was spying on CNN even though it's a House of Lies and I hate CNN. We cannot have the government just spying on people at random with no purpose and no legitimate crime being committed. This is a gross gross violation of at least one probably more like three of your rights. I like to say kudos to Tucker Carlson here for just going straight public with it. It's a top dog alpha move. I appreciate your Tucker Carlson. Please keep doing what you're doing. If they can do it to Tucker what makes you think they can't do it to you or aren't already doing it to you. If we have any hope of this turning around and of this not going bad we need to start speaking loudly and often about this now. There's always of course going to be people that are like oh yeah well they should be investigating Tucker Carlson. He's a white supremacist and all you know whatever that's always going to happen but if we accept that the government can just spy on people to discredit them that is the end of the government having really any legitimate purpose in America. If we're going to accept that as American citizens that's that's it that's the end of the country as we know it. You can say goodbye. I'd say it's the beginning of the end but I don't really know when the beginning was and it was probably before this if we're if we're really honest. The point here is that we need to speak now while we can and say something before there's no one left. Now is the time to speak loudly and often about how horrendous and egregious this is. The longer President Trump is out of office the more I realize the kind of mistakes he made and the things he didn't do that he should have done namely like pardoning Edward Snowden and Julian Assange right. I say that because if he really cared about liberty and really cared about dismantling the the deep state he would have one tried to eliminate these organizations entirely the NSA does nothing to protect your freedom whatsoever and two he would have pardoned the people then that pointed out how terrible those organizations are but he didn't he didn't do any of that which is deeply deeply disappointing I've done another video about how Trump really didn't do anything to advance liberty and that's a different topic. My point here being that as an American you need to demand justice from your representatives and your senators and you should do that now. This is how republics die of course it's when the government becomes something that encroaches and crushes over people much like in communism rather than something that is there to protect the rights of the people. We elect these leaders to supposedly do that and they're not they're continuing to grow the size of government and a large government is incompatible with individual liberty. You cannot have a large government and large government apparatuses and have individual liberty those those are mutually exclusive and as the government continues to grow and the republicans are just as bad as the democrats in this in this arena we're going to continue to have these problems until we're able to shrink and control these organizations and in some cases like in the case of the NSA eliminate them entirely we are going to continue to have these kinds of problems and it's only going to get worse. I continue to fear more and more that this is building somewhere bad. However if again if we hope to avoid that now is the time to say something before there's no one left to say anything at all. We live in a scary time where the republic is seemingly disintegrating and tyranny is seemingly advancing and this is the time when we need men and women to be brave and endure it so that in hopes that our future generations may live in liberty. Do brave deeds and endure.