3/17/23 Eric Brakey on Monday's Defend the Guard Hearing in Maine

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Scott talks with Eric Brakey, now serving in the Maine Senate, about the Defend the Guard hearing scheduled for Monday at 1 PM EST. Scott and Brakey discuss the nationwide effort to pass the legislation, which would block Congress from deploying State National Guard troops to foreign combat operations unless war is formally declared. They then zoom into what’s happening in Maine and explain how you can help. Discussed on the show: DefendTheGuard.us BringOurTroopsHome.us legislature.maine.gov/testimony Eric Brakey is a State Senator from Maine. He has been instrumental in pushing for pro-liberty legislation like Constitutional Carry and Defend the Guard. Follow him on Twitter @SenatorBrakey This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. of Maine, Eric Brake. Hi Eric, how are you? Hey Scott, I'm I'm gearing up for a
0:56.0	fight on Defend the Guard, so I'm doing well. Great, all right, so we're recording
1:00.6	this on Friday afternoon and you're going to need help come Monday.
1:04.7	Is that right?
1:06.5	That's right.
1:07.5	Monday, the main Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee will be hearing my bill for defend the guard legislation
1:16.1	to which I'm sure your audience is very familiar with but in case there's one or two people out
1:20.8	there who aren't it would just enforce the terms of the Constitution
1:24.5	to say that the men and women of our main National Guard
1:27.8	will not be authorized by our state
1:30.6	to be deployed overseas into foreign wars unless the members of Congress vote to
1:37.0	vote to declare the wars and sign their names to it as the Constitution
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