After publishing two first rate essays this week on the need for Americans to resist tyranny, Dr. Lawrence Sellin joined the The Two Mikes to discuss them and the republic's future.
Dr. Sellin started by explaining that the U.S. government is irretrievably corrupt and tyrannical, and cannot be reformed. It must be rebuilt from the ground up. He pointed to the intertwined corruption of the two parties, as in McConnell, McCarthy, other Republican Rinos supporting Democrat plans for red-flag laws, which have already been declared unconstitutional.
Such bilateral cooperation can mean nothing other than both parties have agreed to ignore the Supreme Court's decisions. Those bipartisan creatures want to destroy constitutional government and leave Americans as serfs, valuable only as targets -- with their property -- for exploitation.
Dr. Sellin said that Americans must keep voting, but they must expect that their vote will leave the kleptocracy in charge. In both of his most recent articles, Dr. Sellin contends that (a) Americans must stand up for themselves; (b) that Americans are already standing on the hill to die for; and (c) that everyday Americans must defend themselves against tyranny; and (d) there is no cavalry coming to their rescue.
Dr. Sellin asserts that Americans must recall -- or learn for the first time -- that the 2nd Amendment is in the Constitution to allow them to defend their lives and family, their property, and their republic from either criminals or the criminal tyranny of elected politicians. That is why the 2nd Amendment exists, nothing in the Bill of Rights can be expected to survive if the people are not armed and willing to keep what is theirs against all comers.
The time has come, Dr. Sellin argues, for communities -- especially rural ones -- to prepare their own defense by organizing militia groups than can ally themselves with and be trained by local pro-constitutional sheriffs and his or her officers. Push is very near shove.
Today, The Two Mikes spoke with West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore who reported that the West VA legislature has passed a law that creates a "denied financial list" on which any financial institution that discriminates -- using ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Score) -- in its lending decisions against the fossil-fuel industry will be placed.
Once placed on that list, financial companies will be unable to bid for West VA government contracts.
Mr. Moore noted that an increasing number of states are working toward the same arrangement for protecting their fossil-fuel industries.
He also made clear that W VA did not start its list with small-fish targets, saying that the first six financial institutions that will be put on the list are: BlackRock Inc., Wells Fargo&Co., JP MorganChase &Co, Morgan Stanley, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and U.S. Bancorp.
Mr. Moore said that many companies are eager to use the ESG scoring method because asset managers can make twice as much profit when the score is applied against loan applicants.
It is interesting to note that just after our conversation, the governments of Germany and Greece announced they were reopening coal-fired plants to replace the energy shortages they have suffered because of U.S.-EU sanctions on Russia.
Col. Mike said "It's time for anyone with the credit cards from those banks to cut them up. It's suicide to continue to use them!"
He also said it's time to enjoy the Mountain Stage:
