Published July 2, 2025, 9:01 a.m.
9am Liberty Essentials - Bill Mohr, Karen the Riveter and Ralph the IT Guy will be teaching the perspective on religion in government. This is a continuance of study of the Constitution and lawful self governance. We will be learning together the relevance of current issues and apply the Constitution for guidance. X/Twitter: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaKbWzqNEXGX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/636616148890812/videos/1243811970558002 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6vm26d-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-722025-liberty-essentials-bill-ralph-and-karen.html https://rumble.com/v6vm28v-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-722025-liberty-essentials-bill-ralph-and-karen.html Odysee: https://odysee.com/@BrandenburgNewsNetwork:d/bnn-2025-07-02-liberty-essentials-bill-ralph-and-karen:3 BNN Live: https://Live.BrandenburgNewsNetwork.com Guests: Donna Brandenburg, Bill Mohr, Ralph the IT Guy, Karen the Riveter
Good morning and welcome to Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg and it is the second day of July, twenty twenty five. Welcome to our show today. We're going to get right into this because it's going to be a short show today because I've got a law group, a quasi law group that I'm meeting with and we're going to we're working on holding. the public functionaries accountable and I think today they just want to really hear about my lawsuits and what's going on and it's actually kind of kind of epic and glorious all at the same time so good morning bill ralph karen how you guys doing all right good morning okay clock clock's ticking so I've got my work glasses on ready to go here and get to work on something so so uh what are we talking about today guys Well, I want to bring this whole idea of division back. Christ was clear when he said that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Two men cannot walk together unless they be agreed. What fellowship does light have with darkness? I mean, it's all throughout Scripture when you see the divisions happen. And you can see the results of it all throughout the Old and the New Testament. You can see the destruction that happened because of it, the wars that happened because of it. When men allow their own wicked desires and wicked hearts to take rule and precedence over what the law condemns, you end up with the same thing every time, right? So I urge everybody to learn from history and not repeat the same thing, because you've heard me say it before. I am not a warmonger. I do not want war. I have children that I do not want to have to have see that nor partake in it by any means. But if it must come, let it come in my lifetime that my children can live in peace, right? So we talk about the federal government a lot, a lot. But it's not just at the federal level. We deal with this at state levels. We deal with it at county levels. And we deal with it at local levels, let alone in our own households and our own communities. So this is not just a big, big issue. It is a local issue. And if we can get people undivided at the local issue, then we will be able to unite at larger levels. I'm sorry, at the local level, we'll be able to unite at larger levels and be able to start the restoration of this country. As long as we're united on the same path, going the same direction. My face just got horribly huge. Because Karen jumped out because I know she's in the car right now. So I want to start. I got a couple of emails. I don't know if everybody's on the governor's email list. in the state of Michigan? If you aren't, you ought to be, because it's humorous, some of the things that get put out, some of the lawlessness that gets promoted just in email, right? They admit to what they do. What's that? Gretsch the Rats. Yeah. Yeah. But they admit to what they do. I mean, you can see it in text format. They're not hiding anything. And it's very easy to see this now. And you have all the evidence that we need to hold everybody accountable. It's just what steps are you going to take to do it? You can't just sit on the couch and not do anything about it. Right. Because then you're just playing into the whole division game. You keep the people divided and they fight against each other instead of the actual enemy that we see. But one of the things I got, this is from June twenty seven. She sent out an email specifically regarding Medicaid. So I asked everybody, I was like, where in our federal constitution or our state constitution did we delegate the authority to steal from the people to give to those who didn't work for it through Medicaid and insurance and such? Because I don't see it. I don't see where they have that authority. I'd love for somebody to show me. But she sent this out, once again, promoting the fear of division. She said over the last several weeks, nearly fifteen thousand Michiganders have written into my office about losing how losing access to Medicaid would be detrimental to themselves and their family. The key word that you said there was self. And that is the biggest problem we're facing right now. is people trying to claw power, money, and advantage over everyone else. And it's all me, me, me, me. I mean, the Toby Keith song comes to my mind, you know? Yep. Yep. The issue with that statement is that the American people have bought into this Medicare system. They bought into it and believe it's okay. And I, for one, despite, I don't want it. I haven't used it, let alone gone to see a doctor. And I couldn't tell you how long now. Well, it's crappy. It's not even a good plan. I mean, anybody that's on, you know, with the VA or Medicare, Medicaid, you're basically put in a line and you get the crumbs left over from people that are paying because these are for-profit situations. That's right. And the very next thing she says is under a bill passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives, Medicaid could be cut by eight hundred and eighty billion and hundreds of thousands of Michiganders could lose access to their Medicare. Look, look how immediately these people start the division. Right. Paragraph number two, immediate. Oh, now it's all the Republicans fault. Right. You get the same thing from the conservative media. Oh, it's all the Democrats fault. There's always a divide. As long as the people are divided, they won't fight the real enemy. right but she goes on uh later on in the email right and this this goes back to the whole prop three that came through right that got enshrined into our michigan constitution still unlawful whether it's there or not but she goes back and talks about pregnant women right how medicaid covers forty five percent of birth statewide and provides thousands of pregnant women access to critical prenatal care prescriptions procedures blah blah blah blah blah oh wait a minute it's forty forty five percent is all that medicare covers Where's the other fifty-five percent? I'm sure there's private insurance as well. But let me tell you, there are people that use no insurance at all, and they birth their own children, right? The way we used to do things, the way that it worked back then. The very next section talks about rural areas. Now understand that you also have a divide between rural and urban, between city and country, right? She was on to say that Medicaid cuts would have a disproportionate impact. I'd like somebody to show that to me, prove that to me, but have a disproportionate impact on Michigan's rural areas where over sixty percent of births are covered by Medicaid. I don't know about you. You really don't live in the city. You're closer to the city than I am down there. But to my understanding, rural people, They more out of the system than the urban people do. And I'm not trying to. No, it's just because we're not dependent. People live out in the country typically are a little bit more independent. They want to typically grow their own food. They don't they're not so dependent on the social constructs. that go with a large city and I've lived in both places and I don't I do not like living in the city it's it's way too congested there's too many there's there's there's too much how do I say this um there's too much dependency for me and I just I just don't like that I'm way too independent Yeah, we talked about that. We had a study, when was it? Last Thursday. And we had mentioned the differences between urban and rural living, right? And a lot of people said how even the churches back a decade ago or so were warning people about living in the city, but trying to force people to go to the city to evangelize. And I don't know where the facts he was talking about was coming from, but nonetheless, that's what he was promoting. And I had to remind people, right? We have several of us from a local area here in Michigan near Grand Rapids. It wasn't that long ago Grand Rapids was the central hub for the state, almost the central hub for the United States in sending missionaries out across the world. We were known as the furniture manufacturer. We were the creators here in Grand Rapids. We made all sorts of brilliant things. And now we're known for beer. That's how far we've come, right? Yeah, yeah, but that's just on Medicaid, right? She was talking about that and how it plays a key role in supporting the health of Michigan's economy. I'm not sure that the economy has its own health. If they do, they're probably decaying and almost on their deathbed right now, right? Individuals have health. The economy is the abstract thought process that they use to try to promote them. There was another one that I received two days earlier, right? This goes right back to gun control. It says, let's work together to stop gun violence, right? Store your firearms securely. It's the law, she said. Well, show me the authority where you have the ability to write legislation based on storing firearms. Because I can't find that one either. Well, and you're creating legislation from the bench. The judges are too. So, I mean, the whole thing is convoluted. Yeah, but notice how they spin things, right? You have lawful gun owners. All of our founding fathers spoke about that. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were two of the huge proponents for that. And they said that no lawful abiding citizens should ever be despaired from their right to own firearms. It's as simple as that. And there's a section in this book that I'm going to read in a minute that actually talked about what happened after the dissolution of the War of Northern Aggression, I like to call it, the War of the States, because there was nothing civil about it. where they, through court order, had called for all of the supplies and such that were used in war to be consolidated, put under officers, and then redistributed back to the United States, to their proper location. However, that did not include the private ownership of any arms or horses, or houses or effects of the people who actually fought against the Union at the time, who fought against the North as it was Union. Now think about that. That's people's personal firearms, their personal horses, think about that, personal vehicles now we have today, automobiles, their houses, none of that could be taken after that. I'm not saying that some of it wasn't during, but that was the start of the end. I forget the court that actually, I might find it here while we read. But that was a legitimized pact between the North and South to try to end the war. But look at the way they spin even gun control. Immediately, they always go to talk about the children. I don't know about everybody else's children. My children, I have watched safely use firearms. I've got children from, uh, fifteen years old down to, you know, five months old. We were using, we were playing with BB guns and such and we knew how to, we knew how to safely use them because our dads spent time with us when we were kids. My mom didn't, but my dad did, to show us how to safely use a firearm. And so by the time you were by the time you were fourteen or fifteen years old, you were almost an expert marksman. Right. And the same when you look at all the best military sharpshooters and and that sort of thing over history, they all ultimately most of them started out, you know, in the woods with a gun. As a child, like eight years old, they were they were out there target practicing and and bringing home food. Yeah, and think about this. The United States purposely tries to keep firearms out of the hands of our youth when, twenty years ago, it was promoted that firearms be in the hands of youth, that we learn how to safely and properly use them. In the meanwhile, you have other countries, China is a prime example, who in their fourth and fifth grade classes are teaching the youth all about firearms, not just how to use them, but how to disassemble, how to clean, how to assemble, right? How to properly load. They're doing this in their classroom. What are we teaching our kids in our class? I don't even wanna go there, right? But that's the way they spin it. They spin this emotional division to say, oh, yeah, we got to protect the children. You know, screw the adults who have the absolute right to do this. The state doesn't own your kids, people. They do not own your children. They don't own your baby goats either. But they do not own your children. Quit putting them in the hands of them and quit taking dictates by the state on what you're teaching your kids. Well, that goes back to the difference, honestly, between a lot of people who are rural and people who are from the city. There's a psychological division there. And yes, I'm going to go there because people from the country were like, yeah, that seems like a dumb idea. And just kind of like bites an apple, turns their back and walks away. Right. Yep. I know, Ralph, you had just posted that the IRC just passed something allowing high school firearm programs again here in Michigan, right? And I'm glad to see it. I know, I think it was the state of Wyoming, Wyoming or Oregon, one of them northwestern states, they were back into using the gyms for target practice. right but let me tell you they never banned it the people just allowed it not to exist anymore I was still trying to promote uh proper firearm use even in our homeschool community right I stood up and said hey this needs to be done nobody's doing it I'm here I will willingly do it now nobody's really taken that up yet but hey I'm still here I'm willing to teach that class um So it's just something that needs to be done. So I'm glad to see that they're actually moving in that direction. Do they need to write any legislation or policy about it? No, it already exists. Just nullify what's already there. Let's go back to the original way of doing it. So I have this lovely book. I'll hold it up. It's called The History of the United States. This was published by the Jones Brothers Company in Philadelphia. I think Philadelphia. It was one of their locations there in eighteen seventy six. So it's we're talking after the War of Northern Aggression. So I'm not going to say it's one hundred percent accurate, but this is very close. It was within the generation. And I would assume that at that time the people would have stood against it if it was horribly misconstrued in the book. And I've read a lot of this. And it's not the way it gets depict. It's not the way it gets taught nowadays. And it's important that we understand the history because we know that the victors write the history books. It's a dangerous situation to be in. In the War of Northern Aggression, there were godly men on both sides of that war. We have to understand that as well. The problem is they were divided in how to properly govern. That was the biggest issue. And I'll read that in just a moment. But when the division got so strong and the South could not take the aggression of the federal government any longer, What was the first thing they attacked? Did they go after the other people? I mean, there were some books written and such where they were kind of slandering each other back and forth. But when it came to actual force, when they started making a true attempt, did they go after the people of the northern states or the people of the federal government? I would say no. No. And the reason why, I'll read this to you. One of their first acts from the south was Charleston Harbor. It's written here that the defenses of Charleston Harbor were held by Major Robert Anderson. His entire force amounted to seventy-nine men. Owing for the weakness of his garrison, he deemed it prudent to evacuate Fort Maltier and retire to Sumter. Meanwhile, Confederate volunteers had flocked to the city and powerful batteries had been built against the harbor. When it became known that the federal government would reinforce the forts, their military authority in the States, the authorities of the Confederate States determined to anticipate the movement by compelling Anderson to surrender. Accordingly, on the eleventh of April, General P.T. Beauregard, Commandant of Charleston, sent a flag to Fort Sumter demanding an evacuation. He's ready to give up. Major Anderson replied that he should hold the fortress and defend the flat. On the following morning, at half past four o'clock, the first gun was fired from a Confederate battery. A terrific bombardment of thirty-four hours duration followed. The fort was reduced to ruins, set on fire, and obliged to capitulate. The honors of war were granted to Anderson and his men, who had made a brave and obstinate resistance. Although the cannonade had been long continued and severe, no lives were lost, either in the fort or on the shore. Thus, the defenses of Charleston Harbor were secured by the Federals. One of the first things they went after, it's the standing military force that the federal government had put in their states. You hear me talk about it all the time. I am one hundred percent against standing armies. And it irritates me to no end that we somehow believe that the National Guard is not a standing army in the states, especially when their titles confederalize a lot of them, not all of them. There's a big issue there. But this book goes on and talks about the causes of the war. And this is what I found interesting. Because the way it's spun nowadays, for the most part, is that the main cause of the Civil War was to attempt to free the slaves. And I believe everybody on this video right now and the majority of people listening understand that that's not accurate, right? Well, absolutely. There you go. It's another way forward for them to divide us. even though, you know, I don't support slavery in any way, shape or form. None of us do. But that was the it was not the core issue. Yeah. The Confederate Constitution was very similar to the US Constitution, with a few changes, one of them being that they actually took steps to eliminate slavery before the North did. Yeah, the Northwest Ordinance is a perfect example of that. A lot of that was enshrined into our Michigan Constitution as well. By the way, Ralph, you're really quiet on my end. I don't know if that's me or not. I'm looking up that book, The History of America. Who is it written by or what's the year? It's the history of the United States, It was written by John Clark Rippeth. He was the professor at Bell Listeris in history of Indiana Asbury University. John what? John Clark? John Clark Riddhath. Riddhath. And spell the last name. R-I-D-D-P-A-T-H. Okay. There we go. All right. Continue, please. So you're right when you say that, Ralph, because slavery was supposedly abolished before the war had started. As the states became admitted to the Union, they started to see that as a potential problem. They started to see that as a great evil. And even in our Michigan Constitution, Article I, Section IX, It says, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever be tolerated in this state. Hold on a minute, because I skipped you a portion there. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state. Does slavery still exist in Michigan? It absolutely does for the punishment of crime. You can't say slavery is ever abolished. Because go tell somebody that is put in prison held in prison for even a pretended crime and not given a right to a swift and speedy trial, tell me they're not a slave to the state government. The state is one hundred percent allowed to own slaves by their own admission. You're not. Well, look at how they privatized the the prison system right now. So there's all sorts of stuff that needs to be addressed there in the state. The state is rubber stamping it. Absolutely. Because it's a quote. People's lives become a quote at that point. So let's see what John Rigpath here says were the causes of this war. And I think you'll find the connection here where I'm going. He says the first and most general cause of the Civil War in the U.S. was the different construction put upon the national constitution by the people of the North and South. They were divided on their own constitutions. A difference of opinion had always existed as to how that instrument was to be understood. The question at issue was as to the relation between the states and the general government. One party, understand this, you already got party division here. This is eighteen seventy six. Right. One party held that under the Constitution of the Union of the States is indissoluble, that the sovereignty of the nation is lodged in its central government. Right. Federalist, anti-federalist, all the way back in the beginning of this nation. That the states are subordinate, that the acts of Congress, until they are repealed or pronounced unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, are binding on the states. Read the Declaration of Independence. They bound us in all cases whatsoever by legislation. That the highest allegiance of the citizen is due to the general government. and not to his own state, and that all attempts at nullification and disunion are in their nature disloyal and treasonable. The other party held that the national constitution is a compact between sovereign states, that for certain reasons the union may be dissolved, that the sovereignty of the nation is lodged in the individual states and not in the central government." Read the Second Amendment, the second article to our Bill of Rights, and you'll understand that clause. It is necessary to the security of what, a free government? No, a free state. So that Congress can exercise no other delegated powers that a state feeling aggrieved may annul an act of Congress that the highest allegiance of the citizen is due to his own state and afterward the general government. Then that acts of nullification and disunion are justifiable, revolutionary, and honorable. Here is an issue, in its consequence, the most fearful that ever disturbed a nation. It struck right at the vitals of the government. It threatened with each renewal of the agitation to undo the whole civil structure of the United States. For a long time, the parties who disputed about the meaning of the Constitution were scattered in various sections. In the early history of the country, the doctrine of state sovereignty was most advocated in New England. With the rise of the tariff question, the position of parties changed. Since the tariff, a congressional measure, right, we talked about this a few weeks ago, favored the eastern states at the expense of the south, it came to pass naturally that the people of New England passed over the... advocacy of national sovereignty while the people of the South took up the doctrine of states' rights. It's whoever benefited them, whoever gave them the most, that's who they wanted to hold to, whether the federal government or the state government. Thus it happened that as early as XVIII, the right of nullifying an act of Congress was openly advocated for in South Carolina. You talk about that all the time, Debra. Nullification is the only way to fix the United States at this point in time to get rid of it because we have to nullify. I'd say probably ninety five percent of the federal government and about eighty five to ninety percent of the state governments need the and the junk on the books. It needs to be nullified. They were talking about that two hundred years ago. Two hundred years ago, they were saying the same thing, having the same discussion. Right. And it's lawful. It's lawful to do so. And it's really, we've got to clean house before we can go forward. You cannot go forward with as much criminality on the books. They've written the laws in in order to cheat and commit crimes and say, well, it's perfectly legal because, see, it's right here. Well, just because it's right there doesn't mean that that right there was legal or lawfully installed. Yep. He went on to say that these facts tended powerfully to produce sectional parties and to bring them into conflict. We read all about what our founding fathers had written regarding conflict. Political party spirit, right? Greatest evil under the Constitution that was allowed. It is become go sports team go. And they've even got their own colors. And they don't care if they cheat because nobody's going to call fouls on them because the justice system is like a referee that's been paid off. to make sure that whoever paid them the most is going to get the judgment in that favor. It's like Caitlin Clark all over the place, only with an R and a D on it. Yep. Ralph just beat me to it in the chat. That was my next point, Ralph. The preamble to the Confederate Constitution. When they reorganized and seceded from the Union one at a time, they created this Constitution very closely resembling what we have. But their preamble, listen to it. It says, we the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, "...in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America." It's very closely related to what forty-eight of our states have in their preamble. Forty-eight states in this union... specifically mention invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God. In one form or another, they do. Only two states don't, and that's Oregon and Virginia. Virginia uses almost verbatim the Declaration of Independence, and Oregon doesn't mention it in their preamble, but later on mentions it in other points in their constitution. Okay, time out a second here because I've got to go. But how about we do this? I'm going to leave this in you guys' capable hands, and you can go on and talk for a little bit unless you want to end it and then start up again next week, which I would love because I'd like to hear this. I'm okay with that because that was just the first cut. Understand that same division with the Constitution mentality, federal, state, happens now. Two hundred years later, we're still talking about the same thing. And the division is still there, and people still are rooting for their own self-gain instead of the good of our nation as a people. And more importantly, the whole world would work better if we were actually following the rules that God set down before us. It's his sandbox. It's his world. He's like a mechanic that knows how the car works. If we stop listening to what he tells us is going to work, guess what? That car isn't going to start. And it's just the way it is. We're going to have to start listening to him and get rid of these divisions between people and stop seeing people as the enemy. I mean, there are people that are enemies, but we've got to be clear on who those people are. And it's pretty much not we the people against each other. What's that? It could be people on the same team. And we've got to have that discernment. And that only comes from God. I wrote a post on that this morning about there is a clear division going on. Dark and light cannot coexist. It just doesn't work that way. When people say, oh, there's got to be a balance. It's like, you know what? That's a construct of the material world and completely in the antithesis of what God has always talked about. That's where the confusion comes in. It's the gray in the middle. Instead of going, you got light and you got dark and you're going to have to make a choice or you're always in the middle and you're going to never get it figured out and you won't have discernment. So there you go. Well, let's quick say a prayer and I got to go because I've got to fix things. And then let's pick this up next week. Okay. I thought this was wonderful, Bill. Sound like a good plan. And let's say it's going to be really quick and then I'm giving you each ten seconds. Okay. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us this wonderful day today. And I pray that you would draw close to all of us and that we would keep our focus, our focus on you, on doing your will here, doing your work here. your sandbox, your rules, and we're willing to submit to that and submit to each other and truly live in service to each other and to you. Thank you so much for being with us today and for being a friend to us. We love you so very much. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. All right. Thirty seconds. Last, let's say, ten seconds. Bill, Karen, Ralph. Remember, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. If you want liberty, you have to meet God on his terms, not ours. Karen. I want everybody to consider regarding this big, beautiful bill of Trump that it might be a trap, so to speak, just as it was when he was promoting the vaccine. Take a closer look at it because not everything in there is anything close to what we want. I think you want them to be very loud in rejecting it. I think we're being put to the test. I do. Ralph? I think pertaining to the conversation today, everyone should go read the Confederate Constitution and compare and contrast, see what the differences were. Like I said, they started taking the first steps to eliminate slavery before the North did. Not all of it is toward that goal, but they were starting. Well, they're certainly crafting the narrative. I mean, they have been forever. Somebody is crafting a narrative and we have to question all of it. I liked what Curtis said. When was the national government renamed the federal government? That's a really good point because we weren't properly federated just like Canada wasn't. And so you go back to the Articles of Confederation and there were some big problems out there. And I think there's a compelling argument that we've never really been in a country. And so that that's a That's something that we can get into next week is the problem with Confederation. And with that said, I'm going to go to, let's see, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, go to brandenburgforgovernment.com because I'm the best non-conceder who's ever not conceded in the history of the United States of America. I'd like to have a discussion with the rightful president of the United States, President Donald J. Trump about this. In Cowboy Boots, I wear it better. We talk about real stuff and that's the way it goes. So guys, have a great day today. I love you all. I love you guys here so much. And we'll see you next Wednesday. And we're going to continue on this next Wednesday. It may be a longer discussion. which it merits. It truly merits. So God bless you all. God bless all those whom you love and God bless America. Make it a great day. Make this day count. This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. No matter what comes, God's in control. Have a great day. Are you going to be on tomorrow on a show tomorrow? I really haven't decided if you guys want to come on tomorrow, I can probably do another one tomorrow, but I'll let you know. How's that? That's fine. I was just curious. I think other people might want to know too. Okay. I will post it on my Telegram channel. Likely I will be on at nine o'clock. If you guys want to come on tomorrow, that would be yes. So I'll say ninety percent we're on tomorrow. Okay. So check back. All right. Thanks, guys. Bye.