free talk live this is free talk live a fourth of july an independence day a what for many

americans is a celebration of this wonderful country.

I'm going to put a different spin on it tonight, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't feel like celebrating.

It's not that I don't enjoy this place on earth that I live,

that my family has grown up in,

that I enjoy a number of things that a lot of people

in other countries don't, but I'm going to call it, and I'm going to say that what began

is the greatest experiment in representative government on the face of the planet at that time 250 years ago, ballpark,

however long it's been. I'm going to call it and say that the ideals and the vision that they

had is gone.

It is no more.

And I'm going to say that the failure of this system began shortly after its inception.

In studio tonight, it's myself.

And the nobody formerly known as Rich Paul.

And I'm Ian.

All right. I wasn't,

Ian is also playing tech support, something you can do in a free country. But we're going to

discuss how free we are and whether it is proper to celebrate what I consider a somber occasion.

Why do I consider it somber, you may ask?

I think that we have to look back through history.

We have to look at where the world was in the 1770s, you know, in 1776 when

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