Death of the West - Heroic Pat Tillman vs the Cowardly Antiquarian Bookseller (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_867)

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is God Sad for the Sad Truth. I hope that you are all having a good Labor Day Monday.
0:07.7	I wanted to discuss with you an anecdote that transpired yesterday and demonstrate how it is a perfect exemplar of why the West is finding itself in the difficult position
0:26.9	that it's in.
0:27.8	Some of you might remember that I've long said that the seven deadly sins should have another
0:34.0	sin added to them, cowardice.
0:37.1	Because again, as the old adage, I believe it was Edmund Burke who said it, the Scottish
0:42.7	philosopher, you know, all that needs to happen for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
0:49.9	I'm paraphrasing.
0:51.3	So let me first begin by mentioning Pat Tillman.
0:56.9	Do you know who Pat Tillman is?
0:58.3	Let me just pull out some of his details.
1:02.0	So Pat Tillman was an NFL star who in 2001 after the 9-11 attacks happened, was offered a contract then to continue playing for
1:15.3	$3.6 million, which is $6 million in 2024.
1:20.1	And he walked away from his entire NFL career because he wanted to sign up to go and fight against those who had done what they did
1:34.6	on 9-11.
1:36.7	So this is a guy who's living the luxurious life.
1:41.3	He's living the life of a star athlete.
1:44.0	He's a star in the NFL. He's making
1:46.1	millions of dollar. He says, F it. I'm walking away from all that because the calling to go and
1:55.0	serve in the military is greater than any pecuniary desires that I might have. That's why he's Pat Tillman.
2:05.5	Now, I want to contrast this with something that happened yesterday. So I'm a huge, as you know,
2:14.0	many of you know, a huge book file. I love books. I collect books. I love antiquarian
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