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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

Hello, America. Mark Levin. Our numbers, 87, 7, 381, 381. This is radio free America. Two arrests.

An attack on a Capitol Hill police officer who later died under reasons that the FBI won't tell us.

Who's been arrested for the murders and attacks all last summer? On police officers, on private citizens, and so do we know of their names? No, we don't know anything about them. Just so I'd point that out.

But that's not the subject of my top of the program here.

We live in a republic. This nation was founded as a republic. It was not founded as a pure democracy. It was not founded as a parliament.

It was not founded as a monarchy. It was not founded as an autocracy.

There's a big difference between the American revolution and the French revolution.

The American revolution was a revolution against governmental tyranny. The French revolution was a revolution against French society.

That is the French revolution took up pretty much the ideology of Rousseau,

where the society must be focused all the time, not on the needs of the individual, not on protecting the individual, not on individual sovereignty, but on the general will and the common good.

The problem is the general will and the common would have different definitions for different people.

And yet they all think they're righteous.

And putting down the individual and putting down the individual's freedom and free will for the general will and the common good. That was the French revolution. They destroyed their own society.

That was not the American revolution. Again, the American revolution wasn't about destroying the American society. It was about defending it.

Ujjly different revolution. But what you see going on today is a form of the French revolution against the American revolution.

What you see happening today, and I'll continue to say this until the backbenchers on cable TV and radio begin to regurgitate it, is a form of a Marxist autocracy.

Now, our Constitution was set up a certain way for a reason, which is exactly why it's

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