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Comping in for a land in your host, Mark Anderson, with Stop the Press's Live today, yes, you heard me correct. You did not try to adjust your television set live today. On 3rd of September, 2026, that was the great Chicago band, the great singer, Dennis D. Young, up sticks. Boy, what a band they were. My very first concert, St. Jill Michigan, what was called the Shadow Land Ballroom, 1974. I was a wheelad, and the original sticks band played back when they had that hit song, Lady. First song, Born for Adventure. John Panoso on drums, his brother Chuck Panoso on bass. James Young on guitar. They were way beyond good. It was a heyday for live concerts that you could afford to go to. There's the other catch. Anyway, I'm joined by Ron Avery as per usual, Ron, are you breathing? Yes, I am. Thank goodness.
What the pilot did some quake in their boots another day? High on the Richter scale. That's right. I'm not a fan of the original sticks, but anyway, much tumult is coming out of Royal Oak, Michigan, a kind of suburb in Detroit on the east side there. 2026, it's 100 years since Fr. Charles Edward Codland founded the original parish there, where there was no parish before. And there was an original church bill that church after some time burnt down and beginning in 1931 or so and ending 90 years ago this year. In 1936, he built the amazing national shrine of the little flower. And the Catholic church recognized it as a minor basilica, as they call it, about 11 years ago. And the Jewish community in Detroit is always nervous
and nervous provosts that Fr. Codland's church is even there. And I think a lot of them would like to see this amazing octagonal structure torn right down because their bath water might grow tepid. They might have a little nervous feeling, always so sensitive, always something of finding them, nothing ever there falls. At any rate, the latest controversy is that, and I'll be getting into some other matters, driverless semi-trucks and some more concrete practical matters, a little later in the show. And that's an outgrowth of the free trade system that's part of what's wrong with it, that's where it comes from. At any rate, back to the church topic, the 24th to 25 comes around and the local Jewish community in an around Detroit. They know that this centennial of that church and parish's establishment is coming up.
So the church acquiesce, at least at the local diocese to Detroit diocese level, and that's a shrine basilica itself in nearby Royal Oak, the house that Codland built. They acquiesce, and the display that's in the foyer or entry hallway, the main hallway, in that great church, the display on Father Cogland, the founder, they changed it to where it used to say in the display, he was accused or his radio show brought accusations. There's the word of anti-Semitism, but the local Jewish community, led by Wayne University graduate, and he's kind of an accountant, I guess, led by Levi Smith. They changed it to the church putting in its own display about its founder that he was a genuine, great, absolute anti-Semite. He was not merely accused of it.
Wow, how did they get away with doing that? And somebody else's monument. Wouldn't they be required to put up their own monument somewhere saying, we don't really like that guy, he's an anti-Semite? But how do you get into actually going to the actual, how do they have any force to do that with Catholics? I mean, is everybody, is all the Christians asleep at the wheel? I mean, I can't believe this stuff. That is an excellent question, and it brings about a similar argument, Matt Truella, the noted Lutheran pastor, Adav Wiscansen, gave a very impassioned speech about the evils of the abortion industry, but he was harder on the pro-life organizations and Republicans
that take money, but don't, in the long run, do enough to stop the abortion industry. He was much harder on them than he was on the pro-abortion organizations, though he didn't let them off the hook. It's a similar thing. The Catholic Church, in as much as the Jewish community, is perfidious and is engaged in a culture war that the church is scarcely aware of. See, that's what this is. This is a culture war from the Jewish perspective. They want to overturn and always gain ground and always move the needle and move the levers in their favor. They're not simply asking for different wording. They want cultural hegemony. And if they can get the church to acquiesce, that's an example of that. So the real fault lies with the diocese and the very church where this physical change took place. I'm sorry, but they should have simply said we're not going to change it. Use the door. Absolutely.
They owed their founder, Father Cogland that much. Again, it's such a multi-layered thing. What is a Semitic person if you can't define Semitism or what is Semitic? And how can you say someone or something is anti-Semitism or anti-Semitic? There's those definitions. And then even if you get past that threshold, then you have to find passages in Father Cogland's works. They can be objectively, not just according to the Jewish community's point of view, but some third party, some impartial party that can be objectively said. Yes, there's an example of anti-Semitism, but first you have to define what a Semite is. And then you have to define what an opposition to that is or an anti-Semite. And then only then would you have to find some passage in Cogland's works where you can objectively and impartially say,
yes, that's an example of genuine anti-Semitism or some anti-Semitic slur or remark. Otherwise, it's all subjective. It's all in the eye to be holder. So then the church, you see, would have had a perfect rationale to say, one reason we're not going to honor your request, Mr. Levi Smith, is because you're not passing these criteria. You don't even really have a case. And that's all they would have had to say. Nothing personal. You just haven't made your case. And what's more, there's really no way for you to make your case, because it's all too subjective anyway. And the additional thing of that is, even if they had made an objective case, that would somehow justify making a change by the Catholic Church that they were by no means obligated to make,
then you're accepting the premise that if Father Cogland was somehow in some way anti-Semitic, then the premise is that anything and everything he ever said or did is rendered worthless, it's rendered irrelevant, because he said one thing maybe, maybe two things, that were deemed however subjectively to be anti-Semitic, then that means everything he ever did or ever said is supposedly invalid. In other words, well, it's so outrageous. That's like saying a doctor who cured 10 million people of cancer is a nobody and is rendered a non-person, and all his accomplishments are moved, because he might have said one anti-Semitic slur, somewhere somehow, maybe, maybe not. This is the thing that's so outrageous.
It's supposedly then Cogland is just a non-person. All it is is a post-tumus persecution of a priest that hit the truth right on the head and they can't handle it. That's what's going on here. Well, sure, but I'm going to plug my new book that's out now, Evangelicals declare war on the Gospel. And in there, I do define anti-Semitism as being anti-Jewish. Now, that's the modern definition of it, and it has evolved from other things, including a lot more people, different types of people. But it is now simply anti-Jewish. That's what it means. And I've also proven, according to the New Testament, that it's impossible for Christians or Christian church to be or act anti-Semitic,
because they are now the true Jews and the true heirs of Abraham to the promises to Abraham by God. So none of this anti-Semitism could be applied to any Christian, including Martin Luther, including Father Cogland, you and I. It's impossible for us to be anti-Semitic because we are the new Jews, the new creatures in the new world, thanks to Christ Jesus. And that's just the, I mean, that's it, and a nutshell. And here the church is actually shooting itself in their foot, denying the Gospel, denying the works of Christ in order to comply with people that are of the synagogue of Satan.
I mean, it truly means the church has lost the New Testament. They can't find the New Testament. Somehow they've misplaced it. Yeah, yeah, they can't find their arse with both hands. It's just a blunt truth. And we're being very blunt here, ladies and gentlemen, live and on the archive. It's just one of those grave injustices that needs to be very passionately called out here. I mean, I'm reading Father Cogland's works for a book I'm working on, Cogland Christian Soldier. And I'm reading it A to Z. I've read almost everything he's ever said or done. And he was such a brilliant and iridite analyst in his own right. He didn't just retail what others wrote, retail what others said. If he did, he was very selective and very careful. He wrote original works of sheer eloquence and a body of work that cannot be allowed to be artificially and improperly and inaccurately carnished by some faction over and Detroit.
It's just that simple and hungry. It cuts to the heart of the Baxter rule. And Father Cogland was very, very cognizant of what labor went through during his heyday. His heyday was between 1930 and 1942 in the wake of the Great Depression. He had brilliant and realistic suggestions where the workers in a given company, rather than just being people that signed the back of the paycheck. And if they were needed, they would work. If they weren't needed, they'd sit on the sidelines or on the dole. And they wouldn't make enough money to feed their families. Some of them will resort to crime, suicide, alcoholism, and whatnot. And he said, let the employees become shareholders in the company. And even when they're idle, let them get a share of the company's dividends and the dispute and the standoff between labor and management.
Let's do this according to the master, Christ the King, how he'd want it. And it was so eloquent to bring you to tears. And his church now is overlooking that and acting like it never happened. In fact, when you go there, they honor him more for founding the church and overseeing the construction of it. And that's fine. That's a big part of this. But there's only the dimest acknowledgement that he was a radio priest at all, even though he used to give the broadcast right out of the tower that's part of the church, he named it crucifixion tower. They changed the name to charity tower. And it's got the Archangel's carved into it. It is the most breathtaking piece of art deco architecture and you're an architect, Ron, that you could ever imagine. I mean, it's done with such, such precision and such artistry. Okay. Yeah. I've been there. I've been there.
Yeah, they're doing all that to the guy, even even in his own church. Instead of really talking about what he said, I mean, looks like in this day and time, they would be bringing back up what he said in similar times earlier. All right. 2026 is the 110th year since he was ordained as a priest, which was 1916. It's the 100th year since that parish in rural Oklahoma founded. And it's the 90th year since Cogling created the magazine, social justice and 1936. The 90th year anniversary was when he hit his peak and gave this speech in Cleveland, Ohio with a level of passion that you can scarcely imagine. I mean, this guy was a, he was a fireball. There's no one, no one has ever been like him. That's why the name of my book is called Cogling Christian soldier. That's exactly what he was. He wasn't an anti-Semite crank. He was a soldier. He was a warrior.
Yeah, I hear you. I think, I think you're, and I'm not Catholic, but I really do appreciate this guy. And I think the Catholic Church is really not doing him justice and they're diminishing him when they should be elevating him in this day and age. And the Senegalans are have pretty much trashed the country and they're a busy trash in the Middle East and other nations. I mean, looks like we ought to be talking about them, not, not, not, not, not, dispatching a father, Cogling. Exactly. I mean, at least be somewhat more even handed and bold about it. You know, this idea that you can't offend anyone. Well, what I found out in the, in the second half of the day show here on Stop the Pressors will get into some totally different matters about our highways and byways. But just to wind up this segment and the first half of the show overall about this topic, what I found out in my research was there was one particular speech that Cogling gave November 20th, 1938.
It seems to be the real rub. It seems to be where the Jewish community really came unglued and they claim and it's all over AI. If you talk to AI about it, it gives you the same old line. They claim that there was an incident over in Germany involving Jews living in Germany called Crystal Locked or Crystal. It was the night of broken glass. Supposedly, oh, there was this some act of terrorism or a bunch of Jewish businesses were destroyed or maybe there was arson involved. I would have to look it up again to see exactly what allegedly happened and keeping in mind too that initial reports when things like that happen, the initial reports back in the late 1930s. People should not have been so quick to believe what they heard. Right. I'm not saying that it was wrong. I'm not saying what they heard was a lie. All I'm saying is whenever you hear about a sudden event, even up to this day.
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We're going to be joining by Ron Avery, joining up a discussion on the injustices and outrageous activities and decisions being made over in Royal Oak, Michigan in this 2026, the 100th year since Father Charles Cogland founded that Catholic parish 110 years since his ordination is prized in 90 years since arguably what was his peak year in 1936 in his overall ministry and crusade. And that he mentioned this quote a little bit out of one of his books, which is a compilation of his radio speeches, is this country for the people or for the favored few? Never before has any generation been confronted by the basic principle of Christianity as has this generation. Is my fellow citizen my brother? Should I love him as myself? A soft words and idle promises must give way to direct action and Christian principles.
This is a moment when each citizen must lend his every effort, let the labor leaders put aside all their passions and bitterness, let the employers realize that upon them we rely for the soundness of their judgment. It is only the privilege of the pulpit to warrant and to encourage, but in this crisis it is the duty of government to determine and to act. Wow, it's good stuff. Yeah, and that's the thing, you know, it wasn't just a bunch of man'sy, pamsy, emotionalism and whimsy. Everything he talked about had some precedent. In other words, one principle was rooted in something else, which was rooted in something else. Another quick example is the banker run privatized government version that we have now where the financial powers have overcome and basically overthrown state power.
That gives way to radicalism. Some people react by rushing into the arms of communism because the system we have now monopoly capitalism is so corrupt and only serves the chosen few. So they run to the arms of communism as a reflex or if you're in high places already you you bear down and and and double down and you keep the system we have now in place. And so people run they they're vulnerable to the appeal of radicalism of radical knee jerk responses to the current monopoly system or people will degenerate into suicide alcoholism or they'll adopt a cry for a life of crime themselves. So what caught my thing is so many of the problems now are rooted in the basic system we have. So that way he he wasn't just swatting at branches he was getting to the root.
Right and and that is replete it is hard wired into everything virtually everything he said and did. And so there there's structure there there's logic there's reasoning there's soundness in what he said and yet his home church that he helped build practically with his own hands this amazing large hub the basilica over there in royal oak. And they just don't see it they don't want to see it they want to hold him at arms length and acquiescent and capitulate to everybody who's goldfish dies. I mean you know every little tiny complaint is somehow treated as this admonition that the church must cave in even more. And father Carglin passed away in 1979 he was born in 1891 and so it then some 45 years ish going on that anyway since his passing and all it is is a post humus persecution of a long dead priest who doesn't deserve and never deserved any of this.
And this is something that isn't going to make headlines generally speaking except mostly in the Jewish press I might add the Jerusalem post and the Jewish telegraph wire Jewish telegraph agency whatever is called they carried stories about these changes they made in royal oak that I mentioned earlier describing called as a real NSM item not someone accused of one. And they were all written by the same person Andrew lapen who did a podcast audio only called radio active and after all his so called scholarly research and you lay in the big scholar the big academic his conclusion was. Carglin was an anti semi in a demagogue that's his academic conclusion. Wow well and yeah the other wrote that was he a synagogue or did he claim to be a Christian.
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Was a dark of the moon on the sixth of June in a Kenworth pulling logs cab over Pete with a reefer on and a Jimmy Holland hogs we is heading for bear on I10 about a mile out of shaky town I says pig pen this here's a rubber duck and I'm about to put the hammer down. Because we are little gone for the rocket through the night. We are little gone for it should be for sight. Come on join our car for 8 that's going to get no way. We don't know this thing. Come on for us to my side. Now three pig pen this year's a drop in now you were back off him logs. We had to get a 10 for a five mile or so 10 or under them all just getting intense up here. By the time we got into Tulsa town we had 85 trucks and all but these are root block up on the clover leaf and then bears as walled wall. He had him smokies as thick as bugs on the bumper they even had a bear in the air.
I says calling all trucks this here is the duck we about to go a hunting bear. Because we got bring me come for the rocket through the night. We got great big time for it should be for sight. Come on join our car for 8 that's going to get no way. We don't know. Come on for us to my side. I want to give me a 10 9 on that thing. Is there a mark? Yeah that was fun. For those listening live and on the archive if you're just tuning in. This is your host Mark Anderson will stop the press this year at the Republic Broadcasting Network. I appreciate that studio launched segment of breaker one nine trucker music. And before the break that was a nice surprise every man of king. And then we got a couple of questions. The first one is probably to Huey Long the Louisiana king fish the one time senator in representing the Louisiana and the US Senate who was assassinated.
Possibly over his part in taking on the banking cartel and him and father Cogland would sometimes partner on the road and give speeches Huey Long and father Charles Cogland. One of Huey Long's slogans every man of king. Anyway and again hats off to our BN for giving us that segment of trucker music. Many of us might remember a movie I think you might remember it Ron and for some reason the name of the movies not jumping out at me. Dennis Weaver was followed by a semi in this movie. And it was one of those edge of your feet nail biters and I happened to see that movie about a month ago. I didn't know what it was. It was pretty weird. I only caught part of it, but I know exactly the movie you're talking about. Yes, I only to find out that there was no one in the truck behind him that had been chasing him and putting him.
Yeah, so it was by all appearances a driver was truck. That's right. That was that was fiction right came out in the 70s. Nothing to worry about long lost. Max a mover drives what Mike said. No, that's not it. Okay, no, we'll get that in a minute. Let's get Dennis Weaver was the main character being followed. Yeah, he just couldn't shake what amounted to a ghost truck. And I think that's even cool. That's that. And think to even King movie Christine. That came out years later, the Stephen King movie Christine about the murdering power that would come alive. And when you crushed it, he would uncrush itself and straighten itself back out. I have a feeling that Stephen Spielberg, who wrote the movie based on the Stephen King novel, if I'm not mistaken, he might have gotten that idea from dual and large part of it.
But anyway, the point is that that was fiction. But now the fact is, is that there are corporations and truck manufacturing companies that want the national legislature and Texas and several other state legislatures to approve 18 wheel, 80 or 85,000 pound semi's driverless. That's crazy. Let that let that sink in for a moment. I talked to Terry Hall recently of Texans uniting for a reform and freedom, a well known activist from San Antonio, a lot of us know Terry. A very busy lady, very good at what she does. She lobbies in Washington. She goes to Austin. She's a homeschool, mother of 10. How she does it is amazing. But I talked to her just today. And recently for an article that came out in American free press issue number 3536. The most recently printed edition. If you don't get it already call 888699 news or 202-544-5977, leave your name and number.
And you can get that individual edition or you can contact me through the station. And I can get you a copy electronic or hard copy just to sample it, get a whiff of it. But I did an article there on the driverless rigs. It also includes issuing commercial drivers licenses to illegal aliens. And Texas has been caught getting getting away with that. Although we're told that there's some pushback in the legislature. But getting with the driverless thing first, there's two levels, level four and level five. Now, there's a company, I think it's called, or WAMCO, WAMCO. At the level four tier, at that tier, the, if it's a taxi-like service that follows predictable routes and limited routes.
And the automated taxi gets to know the neighborhood. So the level of peril, the level of hazard, the level of danger is somewhat appreciably lower. But level five includes 18-wheel rigs whereby there's no limit to where and when they can travel. And according to Terry Hall, again, Terry's with Texans United for Reform and Freedom and Texans for toll free highways. According to Herb, the level five would mean no drivers whatsoever in an 18-wheeler going down our highways and byways. And it may or may not include an externalized supervisor who might be able to remote control the truck. And only if there's indications that the truck is in trouble.
And it's so obviously a bad idea that one almost doesn't even know where to begin. Now, as Terry explains it, just the road hazards alone, a fallen branch, a fallen tree, a dead deer, a idle vehicle that all of a sudden has a breakdown right in front of one of these rigs. And you name a hundred other scenarios and it's easy for the rigs to lose orientation with its sensors and all this stuff using the Internet of Things. It's exceedingly easy for it to misinterpret its surroundings and keep right on going and in fact, Terry outlined instances where some eyes and experiments with these sorts of experiments have already killed people. Wow, that's amazing. I just can't imagine why anybody would even entertain that. If it doesn't have a person in it, it should be, I mean, not ought to be the requirement for getting on our highways because other people are driving.
Now, if there's some kind of train, I mean, you know, if they're going to set up a special highway for these trucks where there's nothing out there on them, but these trucks, that might be one thing. But where you have people, you know, living people driving next to them and coming towards them on the same highway, that's insane. It's totally insane. And you just hit the nail on the head and this isn't in the article. I don't believe that I wrote for American pre-press, but there's follow-up something to be doing. And that is all this really means is that we should be beefing up our substandard railroad system. These things should be on rail, on dedicated routes, not on individually steerable or individually controlled remote control trucks. All this stuff should be on rail or most of it and the rest of it should be simply 10 for good buddy, American truckers driving these rigs.
Absolutely. And so the total failure of our governments to maintain and improve our rail system is part of the cause of this. And just like with Father Cogland, if you go upstream or downstream or up the hill or down the hill, you find that the larger causes have secondary effects and those effects in turn have more effects. So starting with the free trade system. Okay. Why do we have to deliver goods in such long routes to get them to market? The answer is because so much of what we consume isn't produced here. And so therefore a lot of the goods can come over from the from the Pacific Rim, let's say, and they come into the Long Beach and LA ports. And if you haven't seen the Long Beach, California or Los Angeles ports, no amount of verbiage, no amount of explanation, not even photographs can begin to convey the monumental amount of stuff that comes in overseas into our ports.
You have to see it to deliver. The magnitude is being any photograph is beyond any video you have to see it in 2009. I went to the port of Los Angeles administrative building and the guy, the manager guy and Asian guy, he said we're going to step out on the roof and we're going to look at this thing and I think you need to sit down. Really? Really? That was maybe some hyperbole. I didn't sit down because it turned out there was no place to sit. But when I looked out from that roof over at the expanse of the port of LA and Long Beach, which kind of blend together, it was so colossal that words literally failed me. Yeah, where they have those big old huge cranes that lift all these containers off of ships and everything. They just lined up one after another.
As far as the eye can see, as high in the air as it can go in a map. It literally defies words. I stood there speechless for about 10 minutes looking at it almost like I'm at the top of Mount Everest looking down. It's almost that emotional. It's like you just have to see it and I'm not exaggerating. It's only a well-bought note. Yeah, and so all that stuff is coming in and then we're coming back from California at that year 2009. And I kind of picked up on all the rail lines and there are many of them that leave that area. And as we drove toward Arizona on I can and made the route back to Texas. I kind of picked up on all these rail lines that went out like an octopus or a spider from Southern California. And then eventually you would see the huge Walmart warehouses or the huge warehouses that are for some other retailer or group of retailers.
And also closer by in California like in Irvine and whatnot, which is Orange County. There are colossal industrial parks full of some of the biggest warehouses you have ever seen. And so all of this is open parcel of the idea that so much of what we buy and purchase and consume in terms of durable goods and other products doesn't come from here. So that necessitates extremely long distance deliveries. You know, Mark, I've got to add something here too because it's kind of mind blowing and contradictory to one of the main pushes in architecture. In architecture, we're supposed to be saving the carbon footprint, reducing the carbon footprint in the car. And a lot of this carbon footprint is coming from transportation, from moving materials from one place to the other.
So if you want to have a building that's registered as one of these reducers of carbon, then that has to, you have to take into account that the materials were produced nearby. You're not bringing them from China or some other way far in country and bringing them in. And so this, they're saying one thing and then doing another thing and then making us try to do things when they're doing the opposite, the very ones that are promoting this stuff. That's a great point. And so long story short, keeping in mind what you said. Or conversely, there's the word conversely. If you go back 1930s, 1920s to Troy, they say that you could stand up on some perch somewhere and you could look at Ford Motor Company, for example.
And you would see piles of raw materials, just literal coal, maganese, iron ore, whatever it might have been. Those are the three ingredients to steal, by the way. And you would, and out the other end, as you looked across the vista, came the Model T's and the Model A's coming off the assembly line. In other words, with probably painful, painfully few exceptions, everything in those Ford cars was made right there. So all those components granted, not as many components as a modern car, but all those components didn't have to be transported much if at all. There might have been a few machine shops that made a few parts, but those machine shops were probably within a hundred mile radius of the Ford plant. And they, they would have brought their stuff in on smaller trucks. And even if they were larger trucks, the distance and the stress on the driver would have been far less. So, right, these ones to apply chains and these pre-traders are directly responsible for the need for these massive pleats of trucks.
And it's only, it only stands to reason that eventually they're going to want to cut their transportation costs and what better way than to get rid of the driver. Yeah, I just now noticed this note too from Mike, which is amazing to me too, about driverless cabs. Now, would you get into, I just got to ask the listeners, would you really get in a cab that doesn't have a driver and get out on the highway doing 65 miles an hour or 70 or 75 on these freeways with people that are driving and crazy people. And you're in a vehicle that doesn't have a driver. I mean, I just, I can't imagine doing that. I think, I think we ought to have pitch forks and torches at the legislature that they would allow that even. They're supposed to be protecting the public, not subjecting it to more and more hazards.
Exactly. And looking up the name of a company while I'm talking, WAMO, W-A-Y-M-O, W-A-Y-M-O, Terry Hall was telling me the last time I talked to her that a couple or some passengers, one or more people, I believe more than one, was in a WAMO taxi. And it happened to drive where there was a local, local rail, one of those, you know, like San Francisco has, you know, local, local, oh, a tralies. Trollies, thank you. Thank you for that. There was a local trolley of the WAMO vehicle misinterpreted the tracks and got right squarely on the tracks as the train was coming. Oh, gosh. And the plot?
I don't know exactly what happened except that I believe, and I need to double check this, the passengers in sheer fright emerged from the vehicle and wrapped out of it. I mean, literally just fled the vehicle, whether the vehicle got out of the way in time, I need to double check. But WAMO also has been known and has been proven and cited in Austin with CITING with going around school buses. The school buses would stop and either pick up or let off the students and the WAMO taxis would ignore the warning lights and go right around the school buses while they were picking up or dropping off kids. Oh, man, I'm telling you that. I just stopped that just one of all the damn things our legislature could be doing. That's what it does. That's the kind of crap it lets through. And then it's always clamping down on the citizens and then allowing corporate structures and money boys to just do any damn thing they want to.
I mean, I'm sick of that stuff. Exactly, government by corporation, which is essentially an overthrow of government because a corporation and a government are not the same thing. But anyway, the other thing is if it couldn't get worse, there's kill switches that Ford Ford Motor Company and other companies have been looking at amid the possibility of government mandates whereby a switch could be installed in your vehicle if you buy a new vehicle. That is with a switch in it to turn your vehicle off whenever some government entity or foreign or excuse me or private company hired or contracted by a government entity would be tracking your vehicle. And if you're swarving a little, they might assume you're drunk and just shut your vehicle off or they might wait till you stop and they'll shut it off so you can't restart it. But like Kerry Hall pointed out, what if you swore because you missed a branch? What if you swore because there was debris in the road? What if you swore because of heavy rain and you can't see?
Yeah, see all of this all of this comes from this technology. They just can't they just can't have technology in the right place. They got to put it in the wrong place and I don't believe anything ought to be operating on the highways that is that is not directly controlled by the driver. If there's no driver human driver on board that's in control of every facet of that car at all vehicle at all times, it should not be permitted on the highway. Oh, that's absolutely right. And here's a real good question that I don't know the answer to yet. When you drive and there's a student driver, it's common sense that they label the car student drivers. So other drivers know that that particular driver is not experienced. But are these are these corporations also going to skirt the idea and get around the idea of labeling driverless truck driverless.
Some I don't see other drivers, the human drivers have the right to know. Hell, I don't want to I don't want that either. I don't even want them on the highways. I think the American public, if they ever find out one of these, they ought to trash the truck, shoot the tires out tear the tear, knock the windows out of it, set it on fire. I mean, these things are dangerous to human life and they're allowing it to happen. And I think they ought to pay a price for it. I think just like cutting down these these cameras will to just we every time we find a driverless vehicle just trash the hell out of it. It would be within our right in my opinion because if we human drivers were to commit any kind of those roadway, you know, were to speed or swerve or any kind of violations of the traffic code violations of driving laws, we have to go to jail.
We have to lose our car. We have to pay big fines. So these same companies could have, you know, fatal crashes where entire families can and have been killed by the way. And they should just they should just skirt, whereas if it's a real driver, they have to pay all the fines and jail time to the full extent of the law. Yeah, it's yeah, it's absolutely crazy. But the corporateization and the digitization on all of this stems from initially the banker control of our money, where the control of it in its issuance and its value and all that was handed over from there. They bought the media. And once you have that monetary power. You you establish these trade systems and you simply buy your influence wherever you want it. And politicians are nothing more than heads on your wall. Sure, go ahead, Mike.
Oh, James. How to be glad. Hello. Yeah, that was the 1955 Peter built. I looked it up. I thought it was a diamond tea, but it was a Peter built in that movie. It was rusty too. Why didn't what a real rusted out? Oh, yeah, it was the real oil tanker. I my father had a buddy that was a heavy duty mechanic used to work on them. Okay, so I grew up around that stuff. All right, thank you guys later. Yeah, thank you. Again, that's a reference to the movie dual. And we wish everything will just remain fiction, ladies and gentlemen. Well, thanks for listening today. Thanks Ron for joining me. A bit of a present talk, but I will keep people posted very closely. And I'll have Terry Hall on the show soon to talk about some legislative things that can be done. Right now, the legislature is not in full session. That's not until next year. They're out of full session. They're actually more accessible in their personal offices because they're not so busy.
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