We say the truth lives here, but what does that even mean? Where does the truth really live? That’s all that matters is truth. When all is said and done, everything, everything that is outside of truth will be swept away, and everything that is truth will stand. That’s it.
So when you see all the news and all the lies, I know it’s hard, but we really shouldn’t get even angry, because the lies are great teachers, and it won’t last. Today, this morning, I got up, and I read the story on TheBlaze about the jobs numbers. Just before the 2012 election, they now say oh, it looks like those were fabricated. Really?
Unemployment dipped below 8%. All indicators for the economy pointed to bad news, and I remember we talked about it – that’s not true. That’s not possible. How did that happen? There are some other things you know to know about when it comes to truth. Last night in a phone conference, the president said 100 million Americans had signed up at Healthcare.gov in the first month. Listen.
VIDEOPresident Obama: In the first month alone, we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.
Okay, not true, and it wouldn’t have been like 100,000 people. The actual number is 26,000. Where did that number come from? The press isn’t too upset. The just say he flubbed. Did he? So far, there’s no effort by the White House to correct the so-called mistake, so he can just say it, and everybody just says oh well, he just flubbed.
Last month there was another flub. The president read a letter from a 48-year-old single mom, and he held her up as an ObamaCare success story but apparently not so much. She’s saying that she received a letter of her own. It was from the state exchange, notifying her that her tax credit was reduced. A few days later, another letter came, said her tax credit was completely taken away, so now she can’t afford health care and health insurance at all.
Predictably over the coming weeks, the spin masters are going to try to find ways to explain things away or get you to lose, you know, attention, whatever. I want you to remember one thing. It’s really straightforward, and it’s not just to you and me but a lot of people. They’re beginning to realize they’re not being told the truth. But I’d like to change that.
It’s not that you haven’t been told the truth. You are being lied to. And I want you to ask your friends and neighbors if we use the same ethics in parenting as we do in politics, would everybody be okay? I mean, you catch your kid lying. Would it be okay for somebody to say, “Oh, did you just make a little flub? Oh, you don’t need to correct that. Did you just misspeak?”
I have never, ever asked my kids if they have misspoken. “Did you misspeak? Was that a misspeak? Was that a flub?” I always say, “Did you lie to me? Did you lie to your mother?” Why? Because we know that lying is wrong. Why is it wrong? We teach our kids you have to own up to whatever it is you did. Don’t ever lie. Why? Because it makes a difference. Why? Because lying makes everything 100 times worse, and you have no trust in the family. You have no trust of everybody if you start to lie.
That’s why we put such an emphasis on truth, because we know lying leads to another lie and another lie, and it all causes pain, pain to the person on the receiving end and ultimately sooner or later even greater pain to the one dishing out the lies and everyone along the line. But what defeats lie? Truth, the truth sets you free. It’s the most powerful weapon you have. Empower the truth.
Play your cards face up on the table, and you’ll be able to stand with courage. Keep things hidden, and you will cower in constant fear of being exposed. How many of us don’t actually believe, you know, we can do anything great because we believe the lie that maybe this is as good as it gets, maybe that’s the best I can do? It’s a lie. It’s a lie. Lies hold us hostage. Lies keep us enslaved. Lies tear us apart.
We have been lied to about almost everything by both sides. America, you don’t even know who you are. I didn’t. I didn’t. I wrote this book, Miracles and Massacres, and when I say I, it’s the collective I. I picked all the stories. I found the stories with my team, and then we wrote it together, because it’s 12 stories.
We spent a lot of time researching these 12 stories to make sure that it’s all right, and you will see that it has the, you know, it has all that you need here, all of the footnotes and everything else so you can see where we got it because miracles and massacres, that’s what this country is, miracles and massacres.
You have to know the worst of our country and the best. What can you possibly learn from the worst of America? How is it possibly relevant to today? Well, if I said what day did Pearl Harbor happen, you’d say December 7, 1941, a date which would live in infamy. Great, that’s a speech, but tell me about the ramifications of Pearl Harbor and how does the war with Japan relate to any news happening today? I’ll show you.
I want to tell you about a 25-year-old daughter of a Japanese American immigrant. She had set sail for her homeland of Japan. She was born here, but she was going to go see a sick relative. Well, then December 7, 1941 happened, and now she was trapped there, because the war happened, and we’re not going to bring in people from Japan, especially while we’re putting people up in internment camps. We’re not going to bring this, you know, 20-something back into the United States.
She was steadfast in her patriotism. She loved the country. She declared at one point, “A tiger doesn’t change its stripes.” Now, who did she declare that to? The Japanese government, because the Japanese government told her she had to renounce her American citizenship, and she said a tiger does not change its stripes.
Well, she took a typing job. She was actually friendly with the American POWs, and she had access to them. And it came out later that she had smuggled food and medicine to the POWs. She eventually found work as a typist to make ends meet while she was on the outs, and she ended up at a place called Radio Tokyo.
She was first recruited by Australian POW Major Charles Cousins, and he said you should be a host. It wasn’t a huge role. There were 20 minutes here and there. The Japanese had wanted her to broadcast American propaganda and use the POWs to do it to demoralize American troops, but she said no, she wouldn’t do it.
She actually devised a plan of sending messages to our troops to help our troops. The Japanese didn’t catch her. Her stage name was Ann, and it was just short for announcer, but everybody knows her by the nickname Tokyo Rose, Tokyo Rose. That’s what she use on the air, and after the war ended, she was anxious to come back home. She was really excited to not only come back home but to tell the story.
A reporter reached out to her, promising her $2,000 for an interview to tell her story. Well, she wanted to go home. Two thousand dollars, she didn’t have the money to go home, and that was it. It was her ticket home. So she agreed to the interview because after all, she’s an American citizen. She told her story. She said the POWs and me, we didn’t go along with the Japanese propaganda plan. She was proud of it. She left the interview thinking this is going to be great, but when the story publication was released, she realized she had been lied to.
It was titled “Traitor’s Pay: Tokyo Rose got 100 Yen a Month…$6.60.” As soon as that happened, there was a knock on her door from three officers and a master sergeant from the Army Counterintelligence Corps. She was under arrest. She was deemed a traitor to her country. A traitor? There was evidence. The POWs knew, right?
It didn’t stop anybody. The prosecution plowed forward. It was the most expensive trial in the United States history up until that time, and why was it so expensive? Because they had to bribe people and get them to shut up. She was sentenced to ten years in prison. She served six years of a ten-year sentence before the witnesses, the POWs, began to admit they were lying during the trial, and this was wrong.
But the damage was already done. You know Tokyo Rose. Tokyo Rose was a traitor, right? You know that. We all know that. While she was in prison and torn away from her family, her mother died in a Japanese internment camp. She had her country stolen from her, both her homeland and her home of America, both of them. She wasn’t wanted in any place, and it all started with a lie and furthered by lies on top of lies.
How did she possibly go to prison? Why? Why did they do that to her? Well, because the press thought it was a good story. It was a great story. Everybody knows Tokyo Rose. We’re going to get that story, and they already had it written before they ever met her. And the administration needed good headlines. There was an election, so putting her behind bars, getting the real bad Tokyo Rose, that worked.
The two groups separately or together, I’m not really sure, they just decided it’s okay to destroy somebody’s life because they knew the truth anyway, and the truth, you know, doesn’t really matter. The ends justify the means. So why did I put that story in this book, and how is that relevant to today? Well, let me show you. If you know history, you know that it repeats itself.
Do you remember the unemployment story right before the election, just talked about it with Jack Welch? This is what happened. Jack Welch, when he saw those numbers, he tweeted this. He said, “Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.” He explained his position in an interview. Listen.
VIDEOJack Welch: Chris, these numbers are all a series of assumptions, tons of assumptions, and it just seems somewhat coincidental that the month before the election, the numbers go 1/10 of a point below where they were when the president started, although I don’t see anything in the economy that says these surges are true.
As it turns out, they weren’t. People dog piled. People in the press, they called him a crazy old man, an unemployment rate truther, an insane crabby lesbian, and then they labeled him finally Conspiracy Jack. So you know, Jack Welch is one of the most respected men, one of the most respected businessman in American history. But not anymore.
Just like Tokyo Rose, where does Tokyo Rose go? Where did Jack Welch go to get his reputation back? Where does he go? You see, the media, those people in power, the administration and the media, feel it’s okay. You can destroy a man’s reputation because it serves a purpose just like Tokyo Rose.
Maybe years from now Jack Welch will be long dead, and nobody will really remember who he was. And maybe a president of the day will recognize him and say hey, you know, he was right about that, but don’t hold your breath. It wasn’t until 1976 that Gerald Ford recognized Tokyo Rose and pardoned her, but everybody still thinks of Tokyo Rose as a traitor.
This, this is her microphone that was used to help the Americans and to warn them. This was taken by somebody who tried to burn Radio Tokyo down. See, there were five Tokyo Roses, but the one that went to prison was on our side. History tells a truth.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President couldn’t show up, and when he did, Ken Burns is now saying that he specifically asked him to drop the “under God” out from the address. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t. I don’t know. I would’ve never accused him of lying, but I don’t know what the truth is anymore.
Lincoln spoke these words. This is the Gettysburg Address, spoke these words on these two pieces of paper. This is a very old copy, by the way, obviously not the real Gettysburg Address. But he spoke these words. That’s it. At a time when America was at its breaking point, America literally hung in the balance, they didn’t know what was true.
He united the country by reaffirming America’s virtues and her commitment to the idea that all men are created equal, that we now here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that governments of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. Lincoln spoke the truth.
Today, we’re lied to. He died because of that truth. This is a piece of his bed sheet, and you can see the faded bloodstains here as they took the bed sheet and actually pushed it into his skull trying to stop the bleeding. People die for the truth, so why don’t we value the truth anymore? Why don’t people just give you the truth? Why don’t you say the truth no matter how ugly or scary it is?
Because people are afraid or they don’t have the spine to deal with the problem. They don’t have the spine to tell their kids you can’t sing. They don’t know what to do, and so they kick the can down the road. And some people do it because they can get what they want. I’ll get free healthcare, doesn’t matter. We’ll have a nice jobs report. It doesn’t matter and crush Jack Welch.
Progressives lie because they are taught the ends justify the means. Hey, ObamaCare is going to be great. We’ve been trying to get it the right way. We’ve been trying to convince people. We can’t convince people. It’s okay to lie. You’re going to have to pass it to see what’s in it. And people are stupid enough to buy it.
Prosecuting Tokyo Rose, it will make America feel good. It doesn’t matter. Okay, it’s one person, but it will make the collective feel good. If we just lie on this one jobs report, we’ll get reelected, and we’ll be able to help people. The ends justify the means. This is the book that teaches this. This is the book that the president taught when he was in college. They say he was a constitutional scholar, my hat. He taught this.
This is Saul Alinsky. This is a copy that was signed by Saul Alinsky. This is a copy I want to show you right here, the dedication page. By the way, there’s a reason people don’t use fountain pens anymore, as you can see right here, although it has been freaking people out as I’ve been saying that that’s the sheet from Lincoln all day.
But here he says, “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical, from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.”
I’m sorry, Lucifer is the father of all lies, so if you know that, and you’re still doing this, I know who your father is. The truth shall set you free, and you know, that’s not actually what was said. I mean, that’s part of it, but that’s not the entire phrase, the truth shall set you free. That’s only part of it.
The first part of that line is you will know the truth. You will know the truth, and everybody does. Everybody does. You just have to stop and think about it. You will know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. When that was first uttered, the guys standing around the guy who said that said we’re are not slaves. We came from Abraham, and we were freed by Moses. What are you even talking about?
Anybody who lies, cheats, steals, tell this to your children. I know you already do. Anyone who hurts someone else is a slave. We already fought to set men free, died to set men free. One died to make men holy. Only the truth works. Only goodness prevails. In the end, it does. Jesus said I just do what I’ve seen my father do, and that’s how you will know me. And I know you because I know who your father is. I know you’re only doing what you’ve seen your father do.
It is the choice between good and evil, and it all starts with the simple truth. It all starts with just doing the right thing. So the job numbers came out, and they sucked, oh well, that’s the way it is. There was the lie, the job numbers is down, and then they had to pile another one on, and they destroyed a man.
Don’t be a part of that at all, ever, ever, ever, ever. Let the chips fall where they may. The right path is here. Choose the right path. The time to choose it is now. And only the truth leads to freedom.
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