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Official immunity as seen in Buehler v. Austin
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Ed Heimlich of Honorquest.org discusses official immunity as seen in the recent magistrate opinion in the federal case of Antonio Buehler v. The City of Austin, et. al., that arose from a arrest by Austin police for video recording them. The opinion is at http://cloudfront-assets.reason.com/assets/db/14063077544714.pdf Talk to the 7/28/14 meeting of Texans for Accountable Government at Sherlock's in Austin, Texas.
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talking about sovereign immunity and uh
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just the the the the way the state has
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uh the legal the the esoteric legal
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nature of why the state can uh move past
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its constitutional boundaries so uh
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without further further Ado here is Ed
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heck thank
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you hello fell ters and friends I'm Ed
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heck I'm leading the honor Quest
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initiative Antonio ber who here is
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familiar with his
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name and did you see this news about his
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case yes Y and before you get too
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excited about that I suggest you
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carefully read the judges ruling in that
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case fellow citizens do your right come
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from a judge or from government no as
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stated in our organic law July 4th
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1776 a free people instinctively know
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that we hold these truths to be
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self-evident that people are endowed by
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their
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creator with unalienable rights in
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organic law of
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1836 the founders referred to these
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rights as inherent in other words they
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existed before
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government government does not create
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rights
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government does not create people to the
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contrary people create
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government but there's a strong
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tendency among
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those who have been trusted with
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positions in government to forget
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self-evident
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truths I call it Amnesia induced by
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arrogance
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a constitution and law secures rights
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for those who become afflicted by
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arrogant Amnesia when entrusted with
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positions in
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government I have read the 36 pages of
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the ruling in the ber
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case it is additional proof of the need
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for our honor
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Quest the suspension of our Texas
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Constitution is confirmed in in that
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opinion in that ruling on page 32 and I
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quote Jeweler who asserts violations of
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the search and seizure and due process
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sections of the Texas
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Constitution these sections do not
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mention compensation or damages in any
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respect and therefore do not provide a
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private right of action for
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damages did you get that the judge is
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saying that the government can violate
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the law found in our Texas Bill of
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Rights
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and there will be no consequences for
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the
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government he is saying the victim of
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violations of fundamental
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constitutionally secured human rights
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has no right to
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restitution and finally there's that
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phrase private right of action for
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damages it simply means a lawsuit in
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violation of the open course provision
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of our Texas Bill of Rights he's saying
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that the court is
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closed on those issues
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it
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continues the first the court First
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turns to bu's claim for damages under
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the Bill of Rights to the Texas
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Constitution in light of the foregoing
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the only viable damages claim he has
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alleged is for the taking of his camera
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in order to be compensated for a taking
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under the Bill of Rights to the Texas
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Constitution the taking must be for
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public
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use so you see the government does not
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deny that it took bu's camera and did
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not return it but the government
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attorneys
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say with the judge agreeed that bu has
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no right to his camera or its return or
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compensation for his property because
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the camera was not taken for public
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use when you see this ruling in Antonio
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bu's case you see the reason honquest is
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sounding the
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alarm and giving notice that our Texas
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Constitution has been
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suspended many don't want to believe it
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they refuse to believe it or simply
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don't understand it here's what to tell
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them all of you are familiar with
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traffic laws you're reminded of them
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every day you see speed limit signs you
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see stop
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signs now suppose the government decides
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that violations of traffic laws
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may not may not be prosecuted in our
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courts the courts are closed what would
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you say about the traffic law you'd say
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they've been
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suspended for all practical purposes
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they have the laws and signs remain but
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they're now just suggestions that
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drivers can disregard with impunity
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cause damage
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injury and uh no one can get any
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restitution Justice for them
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that is what our legislature has done
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with our Texas
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Constitution we have a Bill of Rights
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it's a big red stop
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sign our constitution is a stop sign it
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tells government to
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stop when they want to search you or
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search your
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property it tells the government to
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stop when they want to arrest you
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without probable cause
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it also mandates due process of law in
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other words the sign says stop when they
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want to subject you to a trial that's
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just for show to get the appearance that
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you had a fair trial when you did not to
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give the appearance of guilt when you
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were innocent now all these stop signs
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remain in our
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Constitution and in other laws but as
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with the Antonio buer ruling our Texas
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legislature has said it would cost too
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much for the government to allow you to
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do to the government what the government
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does to
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you you cannot prosecute or in other
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words bring a
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lawsuit against the government for
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running any of these stop signs as a
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result our government has become
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Lawless and those who act in the name of
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our government have become
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dangerous what is most amazing
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about what the legislature did in
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2001 is that they also took away their
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own
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power when it
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comes they're the ones that are supposed
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to make laws that provide us with
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additional protections but now their
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laws have become just suggestions that
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the executive and judicial division can
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disre guard with
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impunity
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now
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our of course when it comes to you and
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your actions now they're going to hold
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you accountable to the legislature
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suggestions and on top of that if that's
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not good enough the executive and
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judicial division will create some of
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their own to hold you accounted to even
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though our constitution explicitly does
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not give any lawmaking power to the
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judge Judes the judicial division or the
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executive
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division the result of all this has been
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billions in wasted
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expenditures waste and LW from fraud and
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Corruption that never appears in the
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media worse than this is thousands of
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lives destroyed by government free to
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act without any consequences for
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violating
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inherent unalienable fundamental human
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rights our Constitution and laws were
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created to secure Michael Mor spent 25
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years in prison because a prosecutor did
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evidence of his innocence so that
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prosecutor could Advance his career for
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every Michael Morton you hear about
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there's thousands maybe tens of
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thousands that you will never hear
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about you your tax dollars are paid for
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the prosecution and incarceration of
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your innocent fellow Texans and fellow
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Americans ters and guest there is no
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excuse for us to allow this to continue
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those who established our first
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constitutions did the hard
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part there was no such thing as a
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constitution and a Bill of
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Rights binding the king of England and
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those who acted in his name as
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Government of our colonies they shed
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blood to give us that
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now we all we have to do is ask our
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public servants to honor their oath to
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preserve protect and defend our
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Constitution and they can do
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that by first of all repealing that
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statute of 2001 that says that the
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government of Texas is The Sovereign not
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us the people and that the government of
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Texas is
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immune from suit or liability for any of
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its wrongdoings its violation of our
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constitutional law because it would cost
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too
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much so I'm asking you to join me in
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this quest for
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Honor do it for
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yourself and visit our website honor
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quest.org and send me an email with any
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questions you
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have thank you so
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much one final thing please vote for me
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to be on the steering committee at our
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uh next meeting our anniversary party
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thank you
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so if you had any questions regarding
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everything that was covered here at the
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end of towards the end of our meeting
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we're going to break out into micr
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groups again if you were here at the
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last meeting you could see it was the
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first time we had ever done that and
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they're going to be working sessions
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around issues that you care about issues
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that you're ready to get active with so
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if you look on the agenda you'll see
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that Ed is representing honor Quest so
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at the end towards the end of our
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meeting you can actually meet Ed and uh
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do a working session with him so now I'm
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so honored to
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