 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're gonna talk about government agents. So I have been rolling this around in my brain for a couple weeks on and off, and you know, every so often, you'll hear someone say something to the effect of, as a veteran, you know, I know that the AR-15 should be banned, or as a police officer of X-Amona Years, I know that these weapons are too dangerous to be held by civilians, or something to the effect of that. And you know, right now, David Shipman is getting voted in tomorrow, or the day after, as the director of the ATF, they're gonna vote on him to see if that's a thing, and you know, he's a gun control advocate and has been for a long time, was a former ATF agent, and so these people will keep popping up periodically. And then, you know, this works itself out to a lesser degree in things like the Dakota Meyer fiasco that happened, God, it must have been a week or two, maybe three ago now, something like that, where Dakota Meyer, who is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, which if you don't know, that is the highest military achievement award you can get. I mean, it's the highest medal in the land. Often it is awarded post-humously, after you die, I don't know how to say that word, because it's that great of an award. Usually people have to die to get it, so which is an amazing accomplishment to get that medal. Let's just say that ground floor. But he's posting this video about how, you know, he sees people who weren't in the military wearing their kit and how that's basically this plain dress up and you're just pretending. You know, it's the same kind of attitude. It's the same kind of attitude. It's certainly to a lesser degree, but the same baseline assumption or lack thereof is there. And so as I've been thinking about this, basically what this boils down to is something like, I, as an agent of the state, have this secret knowledge, I have this gnosis, and I have this special super training that gives me the right, the skills, the status, whatever, in order to use this special equipment. And you, as just a person, don't have those rights or skills or secret knowledge or whatever, and you shouldn't have them. The problem with that is that it's not American, right? We have long recognized in this country that arms are necessary to secure liberty, right? We arms are necessary to secure liberty. We've long recognized that since the founding of this nation. That's one of the reasons we have the Second Amendment. In government, we have instituted government to protect and secure our rights. Now if you're like, well, who made that? I'm dealing with where'd you get that? I have that from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, that governments are instituted among men to secure these rights, right? So in the opening paragraph of the Constitution, they lay out that one of the means of government is to procure liberty for ourselves and our posterity. So the purpose of government in America is to secure our rights. That's what we have. So I find it very, very ironic. When we have government agents of the state, you know, be it police officers or sheriffs, sheriffs always make me the most mad because they're in an elected position. I don't know why, or military members or whatever, agents of the state, whose job is to protect my rights. Then we'll get up there and say, no, no, no, no, these rights, these ones here around guns and stuff, these are mine, you don't get them. So one, they're breaking their oath. Two, of course, they're just denying your natural rights, right? Rights come from God. We recognize that in America and long have since the beginning, not government. They're just denying your natural rights. And then, of course, they are using those rights for themselves to then oppress you and keep you from those very same rights. I get guns, you don't. And I'm gonna use my guns to make sure you don't have any. So on one hand, it's deeply ironic, kind of funny almost, it's kind of satirical. Like if you wrote this in a book, it'd be like, oh man, these people are like raging hypocrites. And on the other hand, of course, it's deeply, deeply enraging. This is also one of the reasons I don't back the blue, right? I don't like that phrase in general. And I don't think it's a good idea to just blanket back a group of people based on occupation or race or gender or whatever, right? I'm never gonna just blanket back a group of people because people are individuals. And police officers are just like any other group of people who work at a job, right? A small percent of them belong in jail. A large percent of them are just there. They're just everyday people. They work a job to make money to provide for their family. And then some of them, of course, are really, really good at it and really actually care about your liberty and care about protecting your rights and are on your team. And I think this especially became clear once we had the lockdowns this past year in America. You had American police officers arresting people for having too many people in their house. You had American police officers going to churches and arresting pastors for holding services. You had American police officers saying who you couldn't, couldn't gather with at your house. Who you couldn't, couldn't stand next to in public. What you did and did not have to wear on your face. You had American police officers continually across the nation in mass violating your rights. Oathbreakers, a lot of them, they should never work in police again. And so I don't understand this fascination that we have in the gun world with people that are police or are military and how they're on our team. And some of them are, let's be very clear. Some of them very much are, but not all of them. And I think it's silly to try to assume that all of them are. Who's gonna come kicking your door to confiscate your guns? Those same police officers who went to church and arrested a pastor for holding a church service. You can try to sugarcoat it in all the odds of pandemic and whatever stuff you want, but rights don't end just because there's a cough. I do not believe that people are suddenly become this special class of person because they chose a certain profession. I think that's a silly idea. And I don't think that we should subscribe to it. To all of my police officer friends and military friends who are out there who care about liberty and care about America, thank you. We need you. Please keep doing what you're doing. To all of you people who are out there who are oathbreakers, I don't care what medals you won. I don't care how long you've been a police officer. You don't get to deny my rights, period. I think a lot of this problem stems from the fact that people don't read or think about the Constitution. If you think that's kind of crazy, when was the last time you read it? Chances are, if you're watching this video, you probably value liberty more, but you probably haven't read our founding document recently and I would encourage you to do so. I would encourage you after this video to read through the Declaration of Independence. It'll take you five or eight minutes to read through the Constitution. We have to review these documents. If you're a person who cares about liberty, I am telling you, there is no greater expounding of the principles of liberty than of the founding documents of this nation. This nation was built on the idea that liberty exists and it is instituted among men and it is supposed to be protected by the government. The government is supposed to be a guardian of liberty. That is an idea that is anathema to 99.9% of other governments ever formed in humankind. And yet that's the founding basis of American government. So again, if you're like, yeah, I'm pro-liberty, I would encourage you to read those documents. The Constitution is the founding legal document of the land and all the laws are supposed to be subservient to it. Yes, there's a lot of debate and frustration about why they're not and all this other stuff, but that's not my point right now. My point right now is you should read those documents because at the very least, they will inflame your heart with a love of liberty. So to all my Americans out there, continue to ignore bad government agents. They don't have some secret knowledge. I guarantee you that I can out-shoot almost any police officer you want to put in front of me with some small exceptions of people who love liberty and are really good at shooting. So I don't think that they have some secret knowledge that I don't have. I don't think they have some secret skills that I don't have or you don't have. Continue to love your liberty, continue to wear your kit, continue to own your guns. And remember, nobody gets to tell you what rights you don't have just because they get a paycheck from your tax dollars. Do brave deeds and endure.