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Best of the Program | Guests: Peter Mcilvenna & Ezra Levant | 5/15/26

41 min
May 15, 202615 days ago
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Summary

Glenn Beck broadcasts from London ahead of a major rally at Parliament, discussing the decline of Christian values and free speech in the UK with guests Peter McIlvenna and Ezra Levant. The episode contrasts Britain's cultural transformation with America's constitutional protections, warning that the US faces similar threats if current trends continue. A 16-year-old Texas student also testifies about discrimination against conservative clubs in schools.

Insights
  • Western nations that have experienced prosperity and security are vulnerable to rapid cultural decline because they lack institutional memory of tyranny, unlike Eastern European countries that lived under communism
  • Religious institutional collapse creates a vacuum that alternative ideologies (particularly Islam) fill by offering confident identity and belonging, which secular societies struggle to provide
  • Two-tier justice systems are emerging in Western democracies where government selectively enforces laws against political opponents while ignoring similar violations by favored groups
  • Educational institutions are systematically suppressing conservative and Christian expression while actively promoting alternative ideologies, creating asymmetrical treatment of student organizations
  • Free speech protections in the US Constitution are increasingly recognized as exceptional and essential; comparable protections in Commonwealth nations are eroding through enforcement rather than law changes
Trends
Decline of institutional Christianity in Western Europe correlating with rise of Islam as dominant identity frameworkGovernment weaponization of law enforcement and legal systems against political speech and dissentDemographic and cultural transformation of major Western cities through immigration and housing policyEducational institutions adopting ideological gatekeeping against conservative and religious viewpointsEmergence of generational divide where younger people seek strong ideological frameworks after traditional religion is removedTwo-tier justice systems targeting political speech while ignoring hate speech from protected groupsInternational coordination to suppress speakers and journalists critical of immigration and IslamizationErosion of free speech norms in Commonwealth democracies through enforcement rather than legislative changeConservative and Christian student organizations facing systematic institutional discriminationMigration of religious practitioners from Global South to Western nations as counter-trend to secularization
Topics
Free Speech Erosion in Commonwealth NationsChristian Institutional Decline in Western EuropeTwo-Tier Justice Systems and Political EnforcementImmigration Policy and Cultural TransformationIslamic Identity and Ideological VacuumEducational Institutional Bias Against Conservative GroupsSharia Law and Constitutional IncompatibilityGovernment Suppression of Political RalliesStudent Organization Discrimination in SchoolsReligious Heritage in Public InstitutionsDemographic Change in Major Western CitiesLawfare Against Political OpponentsFirst Amendment Protections vs Commonwealth AlternativesInstitutional Capture by Ideological OrganizationsReligious Revival Among Immigrant Communities
Companies
Gigaclear
Broadband provider advertising fiber internet service in rural Britain at 19 pounds per month
Relief Factor
Pain relief supplement company featured in sponsored segment; Glenn Beck testimonial about inflammation reduction
People
Peter McIlvenna
UK-based freedom of speech alliance host discussing decline of Christian values and free speech in Britain
Ezra Levant
Canadian journalist banned from UK entry; discusses two-tier justice system and government suppression of speech
Marco Hunter
16-year-old Texas high school student who testified to Congress about discrimination against conservative student clubs
Glenn Beck
Host broadcasting from London before Parliament rally; warns America faces UK's fate without course correction
Tommy Robinson
Organizer of London Parliament rally; subject of government targeting and lawfare; mentioned throughout episode
Keir Starmer
UK Prime Minister who banned Ezra Levant from entry and warned against tomorrow's rally
Jamie Raskin
Democratic congressman who confronted Marco Hunter during congressional testimony about Sharia law
Lord Pearson
Last person appointed by Margaret Thatcher; Peter McIlvenna served as his chief of staff
King Charles III
Current UK head of state; discussed as non-Christian leader contrasting with Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II
Praised as last Christian head of state; her death marked shift in UK spiritual leadership
Quotes
"If what I have to say tomorrow can't be said in England, England's already been lost."
Glenn BeckOpening segment
"The vacuum hasn't stayed there and the vacuum is going Islam and Islam presents itself as dominant and gives an identity"
Peter McIlvennaMid-episode discussion
"On any given day on average 30 people are arrested for what they post on social media. I'm not a fan of Russia but even they don't arrest 30 people a day for word crimes."
Ezra LevantFree speech discussion
"I'm asking for a double standard not to be in place. I'm asking for equal treatment across the board."
Marco HunterCongressional testimony segment
"When you lose Texas you will lose the republic. Wake up."
Glenn BeckMarco Hunter interview
Full Transcript
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But also join me tomorrow at glimbic.com slash torch that Saturday. The coverage will begin at 9 a.m. Eastern. I'll speak around 10 o'clock after a salute to Charlie Kirk. Live from London, England. And here's the shortened version of today's podcast all the best. Let me tell you about relief factor. What have I told you it's not only possible to get rid of the pain that you've been living with, but potentially you could go back to feeling the way you used to back when you didn't have to check in with your body before you, you know, before everything you did, you just, you just make sure that, you know, it's not going to betray you and then do it. Used to suffer from horrible pain in my hands all the time. I've said this before, one of the most emasculating things a man has ever have to do and I did this every day for a while was I'd wake up my wife early in the morning and I'd ask her if she could button I almost cry every time I think about this button my shirts or tie my shoes. 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This is a movement and you're part of it a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing you want more people to wake up help us push this podcast to the top rate review share together we'll make a difference and thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. Peter Macklumena is with us. He is the host of Hearts of Oak which is a U.S. a U.K. based freedom of speech alliance. He's had 300 different people on 800 different shows. His articles are on Newsmax and Max and the Daily Signal Washington Times Federalist. He is also the guy who has served as the chief of staff to Lord Pearson. I don't know who Lord Pearson is except he is the last person left that was appointed by Margaret Thatcher right. 1990. What is that? What is that like? That's a different era. He she actually wanted him to be his her education secretary and she appointed him because of his work in the insurance industry actually getting rid of some fraud which was Lloyd's of London and she wanted him to actually be education secretary and then she got stabbed in the back months later and the rest is history. Wow it would have been nice to have somebody take care of education the way they have they've destroyed her. There's nobody likes her and you almost took down the statue of Winston Churchill. It's crazy you ask people in this country in England who Winston Churchill is I don't know how is that possible? Well we I mean big Winston Churchill statue right in the centre of parliament and yet kids actually connect Churchill to an insurance company because we have a core insurance company called Churchill and kids actually think the name Churchill represents core insurance and not the great wartime leader that saved the west from being overwhelmed by the Nazis. So Peter I wanted you on because I want people to see where England is now America will be if we don't continue down the road we're on. I'm telling you if we don't get a Marco Rubio or whoever is you know is running and is the candidate in line with what Donald Trump is doing right now if we don't get that we're going to be back here with a vengeance we'll be right behind you with a vengeance it will come back and you guys are in deep, deep trouble. I mean I know I'm preaching to the choir here you're from Northern Ireland is it true I have seen videos where they say the Irish are not in the cities anymore it's they're out in the countryside but it's not Ireland anymore. It's not and when you look at Ireland I grew up in Northern Ireland also grew up in the Republic in Dublin and Limerick and you go further west from the capital from Dublin and it becomes more Irish so Dublin is an international city it's not Irish at all it's in British London London is lost when I came to London 24 years ago I thought I was coming to England this is not England it's everything but any sense of Englishness and Dublin has actually had the same transformation and I first noticed it 20 years ago a member being in Dublin and walking one of the high streets I'm just thinking I haven't actually heard English for a while wasn't a criticism it was an observation and then you start looking into actually the change and Ireland said huge change the waves of immigration a lot of it is actually the house building I remember looking back 25 years ago and the rate of house building in Ireland was 10 times the rate of the United Kingdom per head of population and a lot of that was going to international so the whole country was being changed through that but also mass immigration and you now go the further west you go the more Irish it is you still got those Irish speaking areas on the west coast on the Atlantic way but the closer you get to Dublin all the Irish traditions the sense of Irishness that tens of millions not hundreds of millions of people around the world have a connection to that's gone I have to tell you I went to Catholic I went to Catholic school Father O'Brien sister Chavon I mean it was Irish Irish Irish the churches are gone explain that how does that happen this fast so the Ireland is an interesting test case going from probably the most staunchly Christian Catholic country to now the most liberal country what happened on the abortion laws is unbelievable the rush the same-sex marriage so quick but the the destruction of that identity and part of that was the the sex scandals that were in the Catholic church were then used to destroy any remnant of Christianity within the country instead of saying this is happening in parts of church we need to address it the church was decimated imagine you took that to the grooming gangs happening in Islam today but of course they say that's just a few hands that's bad a few bad apples it's not Islam as such so how can you attack the church for a number of individuals and yet don't take the same perspective and understanding to another ideology but that was it was a concerted attack on the church destroying the church's role as a guiding light for our society to now being dismissed and ridiculed and rejected so is there is this a Christian country anymore great Britain is there is is Christianity alive here because honestly I have heard from the what is it the Archbishop of Canterbury and it's like I I mean what is that Canterbury tales more than the Bible you have to go back we've had elements where we've seen Christianity disappear in the country and the last stronghold I think was Queen Elizabeth the second who was a strong Christian and for 70 plus years she would talk about her faith in a gentle very very English way yeah never not wearing your faith on your sleep but in a gentle way but she would always say that she was a Christian and it was because of Jesus and she would talk about it now her death has meant King Charles comes in and so we now have no head of state who follows the Bible the same in the church the church of England is an apostate church utterly collapsed has adopted every woke ideology from the world wanting to be liked instead of being a voice of reason so the church of England has gone if you look at parliament Westminster the members of parliament politicians I don't think any of them anymore on either the front benches and the government or the opposition talk about faith talk about going to church I don't know when I actually last heard a member of parliament talk about going to church on a Sunday and what they learned I mean in the US it's kind of the norm in some ways yeah where you talk about your faith because that's important that defines you that makes you who you are that's your worldview in the UK it's a fear of being attacked by the media and being mocked because you claim to be a Christian and that's so dumb and so last century and so it is that attack and I think the church has replaced truth with this a dogma of doubt it doesn't know what it believes and it celebrates this confusion instead of saying you know Jesus I am the way the truth of the life you could absolute certainty there and then the church takes that and says you know we can't be so certain we can't we need to reevaluate these stories and contextualize them and look at them today and all of that means the church is seen as weak and actually the flip side the danger is we are seeing young people we are seeing the silent revival amongst Gen Zers yes we are seeing that but the other side is we are seeing Islam and Crucifix because Islam offers itself as confident as bold as knowing what it believes and everyone wants everyone wants to believe something everyone wants to hold something everyone wants to identify it's Nietzsche you will serve God be careful kill the God and be very careful because another God is going to appear and you will follow it and the vacuum hasn't stayed there and the vacuum is going Islam and Islam presents itself as dominant and gives in an identity and I think that's the thing we are lacking as a nation we don't know our identity we we have ripped out Christianity from the nation and therefore what does it make Britain British or English Englishness what is it is a cup of tea is it pomp and ceremony is it the royal family what is it that makes us who we are and that's an existential question and we don't really know how to answer it and there are no leaders again it is based on Christianity it is based on 1400 1500 years of Christianity in this country and you can look at the the rises and falls of acceptance of that but that has always been the bedrock of our society to tell you I was walking through with you parliament buildings today Jesus and God is everywhere on the wall I mean it's I mean you you go to Washington we look like absolute atheists compared to what's happening in parliament it's everywhere and yet there's not a word spoken I don't know but that image we saw of moses getting the 10 commandments yes it is there right there image and yet I'm sure you would have a debate about it in the US whether you know we can have this mix but we have it but we have it in there's a face of moses you know above the house of representatives but all other law givers and then over the supreme court is moses and the 10 commandments and that one's still argued about it's not but it's not like it's not like what I saw today it was everywhere and doesn't seem to be recognized by anybody do you do what because I mean Tommy was just in he showed me a video of somebody just a half an hour ago on the streets of London talking about beheading all the Jews what is what is if this doesn't work if this doesn't turn around what is England look like in 10 years well and you're right we you're maybe 10 years behind us in terms of especially in terms of Islamization but um what it means is we we collapse further and further I mean we we were the British Empire for over 200 years we ruled a fifth or sixth of the world's population now I've got Kier Sturmer and look how the mighty have fallen so it's it's kind of a warning to us that you should never rest back I think it's also warning to America in your 250th year that just because you've had 250 years doesn't mean you're guaranteed tomorrow or the day after and unless we change course we we're actually seeing some kind of revival with um Christians coming from abroad especially from Africa and Asia and I think we are maybe reaping some of the benefits of the missionary work that happened out of the UK to the world I think we are now seeing some of that coming back I mean the church I go to is a majority black church and people from all over the world and they're coming to the UK and they're passionate about their faith and maybe they can ignite the indigenous spirits they are going to be the ones that will be able to explain Sharia law to people who have never lived under it because they have and it's most likely why they're here because people are getting killed yeah all over Africa yeah they want the Nigerians I know and my church shall be with loaded them tomorrow and exactly they're aware of what's happening they are so aware they talk to family members especially in the north of Nigeria and they hear what happens and they are it is a warning to us but but sadly I think in England the UK I think probably in the US you kind of think well that's somewhere else that wouldn't happen here surely it wouldn't happen here that's in a country that may be different laws and maybe a bit more back backward but no if it happens there to human being to can happen here and it's just a lack of authority and government and it's why I'm afraid of of what's happening in the United States and especially Texas I mean I'm going next week I'm taking a vacation and I'm going to Hungary and Czechoslovakia and Austria and you know especially Hungary and Czechoslovakia they're not having a problem with this you know they're wide awake because they just experienced it and they're like no no no we're not going down that road with you this is insane what are you doing it's it's the countries like yours and mine that have never experienced this and I mean you guys have an actual communist party that is that has representation in parliament I don't know how you fought the Soviet Union for so long and you let communist in but you did I mean it's it's it's insane how we have both I mean you really have forgotten but we're right behind you no we are and and you have protections your constitution we don't have but yeah you look at your right you go from the east of Europe and you realize they remember the tyranny that they were under under communism they realized what they had to fight for even something like Bulgaria 500 years under the Turks under the Ottoman Empire I mean there's a long history of opposition and they kept their history their heritage their traditions and push back we in the west we have become weak we have completely forgotten the first world war the second world war and we now I think we're untouchable we're we're great but as we have thought that a belief in our self-importance that we have waned and waned in terms of military power economic power and spiritual might that's completely gone I mean if you look back in the second world war CS Lewis used to do the weekly radio shows on the BBC giving hope to the nation imagine that happening on the never happened never happened they might run something and mock it they would not have him do it seriously it is so good to see you and thank you for all your I know you're with us on our exposing the Islamist blueprint and conquering the west and thank you for all the work you do thank you appreciate it God bless you this is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening so I was looking forward to seeing you tomorrow Ezra but you've been banned and you are a can you know I'm in the Commonwealth yeah you're exactly right I mean King Charles is the king of Canada also and I want to let you know that a few years ago the late queen she had her diamond jubilee that was her 60th anniversary of being queen and I received a very special thing I don't have it right here at my desk but I received a medal the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal for defending freedom of expression it's one of the most important and meaningful mementos I have in my whole life and I I got that specifically because about 20 years ago I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed and I didn't bend the knee and I was very touched to receive this medal and I don't wear the medal often I mean it's you know I just don't do that but to have the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ban me a journalist I wasn't even scheduled to speak I just want to go and witness this and observe it and record it I've never done anything illegal in my life I've never been even had a parking ticket in the UK when I go there it's to do journalism and remember the UK is really where a lot of our freedoms were encoded in the Magna Carta they really they were the crucible for free speech I'm shocked by what's happening Glenn you like radio and you would be shut down within a week I'm sorry to say it your first amendment in America is more important than almost anything else because with that you can fight for all your other freedoms never give it up your first amendment never never never defend it in the first stitch so as we do me a favor because you as an I think as an outsider you can probably explain it better than an insider you're from Canada everyone says will you have freedom of speech England has freedom of speech they have this the same as America no the first amendment is different explain how here let me give you an example in the United Kingdom according to the Times of London a very prestigious newspaper on any given day on average 30 people are arrested for what they post on social media 30 a day I'm not a fan of Russia but even they don't arrest 30 people a day for word crimes it's it's crazy and and there's all sorts of extreme orders they can give you a dispersal order and if you don't leave immediately from a pub from a street you that's an offense too you can be arrested I have a number of friends who do nothing more than you know citizen journalism they're arrested and held overnight in jail sometimes just to give them a good scare to deter them and they really focus on particular issues that the government is afraid of so this is not they're not targeting gangs or violent people they're targeting people who criticize the government especially on the issue of mass immigration and the number one thing that they're scared about talking about is the rape gangs of largely Pakistani Muslim men targeting white girls and I'm you can see it's even hard to talk about those things well when people have a march or a rally against these rapes the government goes into freak out mode because it challenges the entire multiculturalism and immigration structure of the UK so never give up your free speech gland because you can see it in real time in the UK I want to play just a little bit of what Kier Starmer the the prime minister said today the guy who just banned you what he said today in London about tomorrow's rally and I want to get your reaction to a couple of lines go ahead roll this please tomorrow's march in London is a reminder of what we're up against in the battle of our values the organisers including convicted thugs and racists are peddling hatred and division plain and simple their goal is to convince people that Britain's problems are caused by those living alongside them but that is not the Britain that I know this is a country built on decency fairness and respect a country that is at its best when people from different backgrounds come together in common purpose this is our country with a majority who share those values a majority who may not always be as loud but must always define who we are so my government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest but we will act decisively against hatred we will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violence okay and we will ban those so Ezra what does we will act decisively and use the full force of law what is he setting up for tomorrow what is he expecting tomorrow that is to me that's bone chilling and and you'll notice that he went and instructed the police that even he was boasting about it they published photos and video clips of him sitting down with the police chief and basically giving him orders we don't know what the orders were and what was the police response to the orders in the united states and even in canada and the uk policing is supposed to be politically independent you don't have police running errands arrest this guy arrest that guy but sometimes that happens in a more corrupt place in canada you might recall all the truckers had their bank accounts seized because the government was embarrassed by the trucker convoy i think that kirsten starmer who was the most unpopular prime minister ever recorded he just lost 1500 uh council seats in a massive electoral wipeout i think he's trying to set up some event to manufacture some false flag events some right stag fire and this has not been speaking as a conspiracy theorist it's me observing this is a man who has had more than 100 of his mps call for him to resign and he's trying to distract by demonizing i'm not a racist nazi activist agitator i'm a citizen journalist who's been to the uk more than 20 times he's lashing out he's trying to help tommy robinson is some ogre i don't think it's working but i'm scared of what he's up to glenn i will tell you as or i heard about this rally i don't know four i mean eight or ten weeks ago and i just immediately felt this is history i want to be there just for history i wasn't even invited to speak at the time i just wanted to go witness it for history um and then i was invited to speak um and as i got here and i've been praying about exactly what i should be saying yada yada um i knew exactly what i was going to say um this has only made me more bold i've added stuff to my speech tomorrow um because i think they it must be said now um but i i find that absolutely bone-shoulding i have i've worried about it the whole time we've worried i mean i have more security with me this week than i've had in years i mean i i mean it's crazy the amount of security um but uh when i heard that i thought i don't know what comes tomorrow i mean this is yes this is frightening you know it's funny that you say you have security and i think that's very wise for you to have security especially in a big city where there's antifa and other people who might take a run at you but the problem at this big march on tomorrow is not antifa it's the police themselves and of course private security will stand down in the face of police and that's the the the scary part is in the uk the police are being transformed into a political force and even the courts tommy robinson is perpetually being charged with nuisance lawfare not from private citizens but from the government itself recently he was charged because he wouldn't give them the passcode for his iphone without a court order so he was charged under the terrorism act if you can believe it now he was acquitted in that case but do you see what i mean about lawfare they don't actually charge the real terrorists they use the anti-terrorism laws to go after tommy so you've got 4 000 police that are being dispatched to this rally you're going to be amazed with this rally if it's anything like the ones in the past glenn it's mums and kids and grandmas and grandpas and veterans i know i know no one wearing a mask no one having hateful signs so much love and and yet that's the target of the prime minister's ire whereas for weeks every for two years every week there was a massive anti-semitic march sometimes with a hundred thousand people and the police wouldn't even show themselves they they didn't even want to antagonize the hamas supporters so this is a two-tier justice system and the united kingdom is two tier in many ways now there's a sectarian divide if you remember a generation ago there were some battles between protestants and catholics in northern ireland well now you're seeing a sectarian divide but it's islam that is one of the divisive issues and it's not hateful to point out and talk about these things but there's written there's definitely two different standards of policing i have never been charged with a crime in my life and yet i'm banned whereas hate preachers are welcome to roam around the uk at liberty get free stuff there's a guy two two two hours ago there was a guy on the streets of london the video is out of him saying he wants to behead all the jews and he's screaming at it at somebody it's absolute hate speech no it's gonna happen to that guy nobody's reporting on that nothing nothing nothing is gonna happen you're listening to the best of the glenn beck podcast hear more of this interview and others with the full show podcast available wherever you get podcasts welcome to a 16 year old high school sophomore from wiley texas he is the republican student club founder and he testified to congress on sharia free america his name is marco hunter low pass marco how are you great how are you doing it's a it's great to talk to you i tell you you're a much more impressive 16 year old kid than i was yes sir thank you so much uh it was we were not expecting that to go down but he challenged me he called me out by name so i took the fight i want to play a little bit here's about a minute of you and raskin uh listen america proclaimed the separation of church and state what thomas jefferson described in his famous letter to the danbury baptist as a wall of separation that was a letter not a law okay so your position is that america is a theocracy what i you didn't let me finish my original statement and i understand you have limited time but what i was gonna say is i'm not suggesting me to go back to anything that's in writing but what i am saying is we need to acknowledge well i think we should go back to something in writing i think we should go back to the first amendment yes the constitution yes obviously but what i'm saying is that you know how i said original colonies were requiring declaration of uh faith to run for office i'm not saying we have that's why we have a first amendment what i'm saying is that we do that's precisely why jefferson wrote you need to acknowledge our christian heritage and i can't take it anymore here's a here's a what a 65 year old bully picking on a 16 year old i mean it is i mean you want to talk about uh what did they call that with the power dynamics you know the reversal of the power dynamic and how you know that is just so offensive the power dynamic here what about that i mean it's just despicable if i were your dad marco i would have been i would have been so pissed anyway yeah you you actually said in your testimony before this um you you said um the contrast with my own club could not be clear while republican student club faced denial censorship poster removal and hostile oversight an outside organization would give an easy access to distribute surreal related materials directly to students administrators not only allowed it they actively promoted islumic events the principal has enthusiastically participated in world hijab day two years in a row that we are aware of and when she wore a hijab and promoted it on social media she stated i loved this experience the district now offers halal meals dedicated prayer room for islamic services and place the quran in at least one middle school library while no bible is offered conservative and christian student groups have never received comparable accommodation i urge this committee and lawmakers across the country to demand full investigations into these organizations and reject any ideology or political system that is at odds with american law parents and students deserve transparency and protection from ideological capture what began as my effort to start a simple conservative club has revealed how institutions can be compromised when we remain silent you are not asking for any kind of you know stifling of religion what are you asking for i'm asking for a double standard not to be in place i'm asking for equal treatment across the board um you know the left is the first people to claim that they're all for acceptance and all for love but once it's somebody that disagrees with them they want to push you off to the side how did you feel um on how raskin was treating you did you expect a moment no i was not expecting that to go down at all uh the funny thing is before i took off the flight my mom said promise me you're not going to go viral and you're not going to uh be the democrat and i said i'm sorry i can't make any promises i love your mom i think that's exactly what i would have said to my kids i love yeah i love that so you know i was i was not expecting that to go down but he challenged me i took the fight he wasn't ready for what i had uh all the knowledge i had for him so that's why he kept trying to cut me off um but in the end i proved him wrong so so you were when you tried to start your republican club at your school tell me what you had what you went through yes so on august 16th of 2024 we met all the requirements to be a club we had 10 members we had a teacher sponsor and we had a room to um to meet they came and said that we can't have the club because of political nature even though they approved the muslim student association and they also approved another club that had gender affirming ideology in the curriculum so we pointed that out and they said we still couldn't have it we asked for the district policy they referenced after a month about a month of emails they came back and said it wasn't district policy but just just the way they felt so that's what we were up against when we yeah and so did you tell jimmy raskin that because that that would be kind of important i thought he said he wanted things written down there you go exactly and the funny thing is that we kept fighting for about a month to gain access and once we are finally approved we're the only club that couldn't have guest speakers the only club that couldn't have social media page the only club that couldn't have posters and we had to keep fighting little many battles and we won them when we finally got the posters approved i put them up and i was out of town in florida for my sister's wedding and my friends were texting me that they were gone and the principals were taking down our posters because they had an issue with the american flag on it i'd like to remind this audience that this happened in texas texas you better wake up all texas that i know that grew up in texas they all say the same thing ah it's texas it'll always be this way it is not going to be this way it is not there is a massive influx of people coming from california and all over and there is a concerted effort to change texas and to co-opt texas and make it deep deep blue i'm telling you you're going to lose texas and when you lose texas you will lose the republic wake up this story is in texas um your father you in your testimony you said my father even had to help create a guest speaker form to protect me as a minor what does that mean so um i had hosted after like i said we kept fighting those many battles to gain just simple recognition that other clubs automatically had uh like i said we didn't we weren't able to have guest speakers but we fought that battle and won it had two guest speakers and the principal in the hallway pulled me in the office with another assistant principal and was talking down to me was cornering me and was saying that she was going to start putting new policies on the fly on the day getting on to me about how i didn't know about a new policy that was going in effect that second and so my dad was not okay with that so he reached out to the district and he met with district personnel to make a guest speaker form so nothing like that would happen again you've been an amazing uh family i hope you appreciate your mom and dad uh marco i wanted to get you on because i thought i thought you um you handled yourself really really well and i remember the last time i had somebody your age on literally your age uh he did an uh he did an interview from his house and he sat on his mom's washer and dryer he said i had to turn the dryer off because it was making tumbling noises and my sister was um making noises on the in the hallway and he said it was one of those old cord phones and he said i had dragged it in and i was sitting on the washer and dryer and my sister kept bugging me and i'm like i'm on the phone with clen back uh as he was waiting to come on with me that kid was ben shapiro and i i really i saw your uh i saw your story and i thought man this kid could be another ben shapiro this kid could be another really smart voice in the future so i wanted to get you on i also wanted to offer you a slot in our american journey experience we do a summer class uh for a couple of weeks uh it is really hard to get in um and it's four eighteen year olds but i'd like to see if we can make an exception uh for you um and get you in and we'll teach you american history from the american the original documents so you can have the strongest case wherever you might go wow thank you so much you're welcome marco best of luck um we'll be in touch ricky can you pass them on to jp and see if we can make that exception uh if not it'll it'll be a couple of years but we will we i want you in that class marco thank you so much god bless you thank you you bet bye bye say hi to your parents i i i saw that story yesterday with jayme raskin and i thought what a dirt bag i mean you can't even let you i mean first of all you obviously didn't listen to his testimony because all he was saying he wasn't saying anything about sharia acceptable it is it goes against you cannot have a parallel law system that is absolutely true and there is no first amendment protection for any religion that wants to have a parallel system of law it doesn't exist it cannot exist do not buy in to the first amendment argument on sharia law on being a muslim absolutely first amendment being an islamist it is not first amendment it is against the constitution it is an overthrow of everything that we hold sacred and dear in our constitution that is not a first amendment right but that's something we all need to learn and something that has to be learned here honestly in england as well tomi rovinson is going to join me in about an hour he's got a rally that is happening here supposed to be the biggest rally ever in the streets of london we'll see they're doing everything they can to suppress it and i was told that the reason why i was allowed in is because tomi has not announced his speakers this year so they went after the speakers that were here the last time he did a rally and that's how they got the list of who wasn't allowed to come in uh and i was told this morning that if i speak tomorrow i will never be allowed to come in to england again and that almost took my breath away uh because i know what i'm going to say and uh i'm here for a reason um and i'm going to talk about that coming up in in just a minute but i urge you to watch the rally because what's happening here is going to happen in america so i urge you to watch this tomorrow you can you can gain access to it at glendek.com slash torch glendek.com slash torch we begin coverage i guess tomi is coverage at 9 a.m eastern time here uh and i'll be speaking i think about 10 a.m for a few minutes in front of um you know parliament in front of west minster uh palace or castle or whatever the hell they call it over here um that'll be tomorrow don't miss it glendek.com slash torch