Episode 352: 5 Days of Christmas Immortals – John Wilkes
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In 1760s London, John Wilkes was a champion of liberty and an advocate for free speech and freedom of the press. He was an outspoken member of Parliament and in 1764 the House of Commons expelled him, but he was reelected. The Founding Fathers of the United States were deeply shaped by Great Britain’s Parliamentary oppression of Wilkes. Part of the Immortals leadership series.
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| 0:30.7 | On this episode of Newt's World, I want to put our current challenges. |
| 0:38.0 | The current difficulties we're having in defining freedom, the current threats to our |
| 0:43.1 | freedom in context. I want to remind people that there's |
| 0:46.4 | been a long struggle in the English speaking world |
| 0:49.9 | to define our ability to be free from tyranny and at the same time to have responsible |
| 0:58.8 | citizenship based on the votes and the voices of the people. |
| 1:03.8 | And the person I want to use to start this conversation is John Wilkes, an Englishman |
| 1:10.2 | who became one of the great advocates of free speech, one of the great advocates of freedom |
| 1:16.7 | of the press and one of the great advocates that it is the people, not the politicians, |
| 1:21.7 | who get to pick who serves in the parliament or in our case in the Congress. |
| 1:26.1 | I think it's particularly important at the present time because we're faced with the |
| 1:30.2 | spectacle this week of politicians in Washington deciding that they have the power to say to |
| 1:38.6 | 74 or 75 million Americans that the politicians in Washington will define for them who they |
| 1:45.0 | are allowed to send to be president or any other job. |
| 1:49.3 | It's an extraordinarily dangerous precedent. |
| 1:52.2 | It's something we've never seen before in America and it carries us right back to the world |
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