Hello everyone, I am honored to be presenting today to the Dean's lecture series of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Today, October 11th, we celebrate the Indigenous People's Day, the long overdue acknowledgment of the damage of colonialism around the world and here in the United States. Though we are dispersed virtually today, we gather in Lenape Kohokin, the unceded ancestral homeland of the Lenape peoples. I ask you to join me in acknowledging that the Lenape community, their traditional territory, elders, ancestors, and future generations, and in acknowledging as a school that Columbia, like New York City and the United States as a nation, was violently founded upon the exclusions and erosions of many Indigenous peoples. This app is committed to addressing the deep history of erasure of Indigenous knowledge, sensing enactments, ecologies, ethics, histories. In the profession of the built environment generally and in the Western tradition of architectural education specifically. With this, GESAP commits to confronting these institutional legacies as agents of colonialism and to honoring Indigenous knowledge and its curricula in its curricula. Architect and artist Bunser Prentada is assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Chula Longhorn University and the founder of Bangkok Project Studio. Bunser Prentada argues that architecture is the physical creation of an atmosphere serving to heighten our awareness of our natural surroundings. In this lecture, he discusses a variety of his work, considering the manipulation of light, shadow, wind, sound, and smell alongside the socio-economic and cultural agenda with many of his projects. All this as means for architecture to contribute to the improvement of equality. Bunser's work has won many international awards, including the AR Plus D Award for Emerging Architecture in 2011. He has also been shortlisted for the Agakan Awards for Architecture in 2013, to the Grand Prix Prize International Break Architecture in 2014, the overall winner, the Plan Awards 2017, Acknowledgement Prize Regional Africa Holstein Awards 2017 in the Asia Pacific, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2018, and the Royal Academy Dorfman Awards in 2019. Bunser has lectured and exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIVA, at La Cité d'Architecture du Patrimon à Paris, the Venice Biennale 2018 in Hong Kong, the Cold Polytechnique Federal de Loshan, the University of Tokyo, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the UCL, and several other international universities. This year, his pavilion, The House for Human and The House for Elephants, represents Thailand at the Biennale Architectura 2021. And with all these, please join me in welcoming Professor Bunser Prentada today at this Gisab Dean's lecture series. Thank you so much, Andes, and good evening to everyone. And I'm Bunser Prentada and from the Bangkok Project Studio from Thailand. And thank you so much for and Columbia Gisab for a lecture series in this fall at the Columbia University. And firstly, and it's my studio, it's focused on sustainability and social environmental and the we try to and make the architecture or the landscape or and the environmental to relate that to light and the atmosphere and light and the sense of the human. So and my is most of my work is located in the local area. In my black cow, it's about the center. I can hear it on the left side, I can hear only the 30% and the right side, I cannot hear anything. And this is my example work is about and the first project that we start with my studio with completing in 2011. And we call drive and the Cantonese film and animation in Sisu. Extreme school, this is an undergraduate school and graduate school set up it for fly and make the new generation for light and a film director and filmmaker or an animator. It's my space and I interested about and the style in the open area, the pathway is like and the two wall is like an undulating wall. I call it and the south upside them. The south is and they're very important for me because it's and light and I lost it the one thing, but I have that the other thing to do for and the design. Especially if this place, I would like to design this place like and the same object human, the student should learn and how to be a human before he study and all the things. So and this place is like and stimulated and by using and the same thing, light and the same material, smelling, temperature and spirit. So and I'm not I'm not only decide with the architect there, but I decide the wind, the diner, the silent and the title.  So it's my architecture is the one master that sent to and the student to and to set that you are still a human if you have the sense. It's like and this subject. After the finish and this project is 2011. The last project is like and the elephant world. We start to decide in 2015 and finish the project in 2020. The project is and after we understand about how to be a human after we understand about and the human. Most of the design we talking about and the human, the human in the center. And the nature and the animal, it follows the human. What is a non human center? No, I think it's and everything like a human nature and animal or the towel is equal. My question is about and how the human, the nature and the outer living space is together. Especially is that this project is I, I take a non human center approach like amplify the humanity and empathy for the elephant. The site is located in and north eastern of the Thailand. This is on the village. The village is and very long time we call Bandakang village and this village because the village is helped and the people and the elephant lives together and visit and the main river of the north eastern. And the village is situated in and national reserve forest. And the red one is an elephant world project is built by and the village. You have the temple and graveyard and the hospital for the elephant. The elephant and the people what we call and the fully people and live together with the modern 400 years old. In Thailand, you know, and the elephant is not our slum or forced labor. Elephants in this village is a part of the community. They are family. Sometimes it's like the elephant lives and in the same house with and the human that we see in this is sometime and he's hungry. So it's tied to storing the banana in the house. And the atmosphere and environmental like and the graveyard, the temple, the elephant pool and the elephant pathway and elephant is and slum and the photo over the time the urban urbanization have taken over the forest. So and the credit and the general way of the news. So the fall is what they tried to have no food for the elephant. So and the owner and the elephant, we have to go to the tourist city for back the money. Sometimes we have the accident. Sometimes they died. This is under the use of an elephant and a manhole in the present day. When the forest was destroyed, we have no food, we have no planted. We cannot plant anything. The elephant and the owner, we have to go to the city or and buy the money. And sometimes we have to deal. Sometimes they sit.  And so and we have we have the elephant doctor. So the government is and the help is the law to and prohibit the elephant can walking on the street. The project was commissioned by a local government to create a new home and suitable living conditions for the forest species and lost all the destroy for it and bring the forest come back again. I study is about and the the everything is about the elephant. This is my drawing that we draw you about and how the elephant is related to the design. It's like in the body. It's like and we call like an elephant bingy. And we study about the elephant anatomy.  We study from an a baby elephant to an old elephant. And characteristic of him like and the north and the back and the trunk. We have to and observe about and the movement of the elephant and the trunk to cut the something and thread something and study about the distance of the elephant and compare between the elephant and the human and study about and the vision of the elephant to understand about how the elephant is perception by vision. Like and the human perception. Let's see at the picture like at the color but the elephant let's see and the picture is light and black and white and elephant is very special animal because they can smell and form and about nineteen five two kilometer away. So and to find it and the water that is wide the elephant it looks like the umbrella species. They protect the other species like and they are and generated like and the ecosystem through being the conserve and the protect if the small animal. This is and the wider biodiversity conservation. And we saw and like and the elephant food. The elephant is like and the plant bed. So they eat like and the nepiakas, the banana, the sugarcane. This is an activity of the elephant when they eat. When the elephant sits, we have a doctor we call him the elephant doctor that we and have to and the mobile when the elephant would have to sit that we drive the car and to and how of the elephant to have the elephant fly and this picture we show light and when the elephant has a participation the elephant if we get an animal so and the owner it helps him and to and to and put the inside and helping to and feel the happy. So and we see light and the the elephant down. It's made light and happy so and when the elephant dies so we we have and the craft yard it's very big craft yard when for and put the elephant after they die. I'm interested in the something is about and from the elephant light and the certainable products like the car light and the elephant down. It's made light and I feel live and I see elephant and it's made light and the happy of and the elephant when we release it. So I like and when we study about and the color and we study about and let it all and the wet and after the wet when it dies and bring the elephant down because to and a new product like and a paper with a plant prop or and use the elephant down to fertilize it or the biogas. It's my the new project and we study and and experiment about the elephant bleep. Elephant drunk bleep is for and study for the new project for the next year. This is and the elephant down can be a construction material also. Elephant is live in the one house with and the kui the kui people. This is and the kui's house. It's have no architecture and I call light and a non-architecture that's very interesting for me. This is and the old map 400 years ago that we show that and in Thailand it's not interesting we have to and the picture is like the elephant. It's made light in this land. It's an elephant land. This is and the picture it shows about and the ancestor of the kui people and now we have the two generations. The old generation and the young generation. The old generation is still and the fit the elephant but the young just and the the social media to broadcast the elephant to the world. The house I study is the house of and the village people. It's very simple. The view light and the the house is it. It's come from a necessary or necessity material. It's have to decide if light is very very simple and extension with light and a canopy if you have the more elephant. Using and a simple material and raw material right and the wood or and a character essentially. This is an instruction to show about an activity of an elephant and a human that is and living together in the one house. This is and the house of an elephant. You have to only one column and you have to double roofed it so elephants can move around and this one. The project is not the tree building. The tree facility like the big observation tower is a courtyard and the museum. The tree facility were integrated in everything the village. The first building and like a big observation tower. I want to design this big tower by step. This is my first step to understand and I try to decide to apply and how to and make the building it look like and the ventilation. So we study about and we study with the surrounding of the tree high and study it about and visual when and the people and living in it for they can see and the shape of the tree is different and the structure and integrated with and the surrounding when we lift the inside we look at the outside you will see light and the tree is a different shape from the idea into the real this is an under construction picture. The tower is not the vertical building but I want to and connected like to the sky and the cloud. This is not the vertical if correlation will in this place. In fact the section the tower is about 28 meters and made and trialed from the building. This tower we connected by the structure. The structure is different direction and when we combine it the shape of the different direction make it the people can move with every side every inside of the place and make it look like a time-talented structure. More tower is like and being the people to come to the top that but it's my idea I want to the people to enjoy the every floor because it's and the floor have two different view so and different is like the structure it's opening so and they have to take time to slow down and see the atmosphere in the different day and feel relifted by wind flow to inside and so and I decide light in the wall or the structure it's like and have to and the opening and the fall also and the make and the rhythm of the column like and I decide with one column the one column the structure and architecture and the interior is the landscape that is all in one the orientation of the building when it's in the sunlight on the building you see light and the different shape and different color that makes it a feeling with light and the part of the landscape I use if the bridge it look like in the formwork and pour the concrete to inside this building to try to restore the foliage the first tree the first tree in this place after it's the fall of the death driving I using and the wind is about 25 to and 30 kilometers per hour it's used in the wind speed to and blow the seed from the top and then the tree the seed it grow up become tree and make it and the saluting is more and more and more tree from the image it become almost almost the tree is starting to grow and combine with the context the elephant is walking every day in and part in this building the building is not the landmark it a part of the elephant we are the player and not a building it be we and we decide like and the cultural hot yard it's for the radiation it's cultural event and religious ceremony my idea is it was inspired by in the taking the great house it's like and the good thing and the devil look it's very very simple architecture is the louder I study it's about of how the elephant and human will look together in the same place if you see this this irreversent or a section you will see light and the elephant is very big scale the human is very small so the elephant is walking the loud and the color is very interesting because it's actually and the food thing it's like an important food thing I try to and see the food thing and imagine the food thing it's like the money food thing I call it like a food thing how start to the get and look at the cable roof that scale of the human at the path of the house and the elephant also and the cable roof and the food thing it's become to the new building and the landscape so I want to make and this building is like and the landscape from the cable roof we cut in the middle it's like the hot yard and then make and cut the small hole on the roof this is and the real picture on the bird eye view I want to make it the landscape for the inside architecture it's like and make and the cheaper or and when and the sunlight it's full through and the cloud you make it the roof it's like and the landscape and look up the ceiling and see and the ceiling and the sky the whole head is and the ventilation for the inside this is and why you ask dimension up and the small hole on the roof this is and the last kid and a place from the inside and situated it under the roof and the elephant is come to inside walk it's like and the borderless the left line is mean and the safety zone is four and the two ceiling and make it the more the four and the contour and the light and the we have a stick more and the drawing and under the construction you see light and the light and true in the roof make it and the light and the gentle slope in in this area it looks like in the room and the ceiling is different this time so it's still light and we have to the room but no wall and the safety zone is too much for between and the elephant and the human by using the rock to and light at the bottom the rock is come from and the nearby the place you and the plant plot and the bus stop and the start you come to and the last step and the architecture when the tree go up to the plant plot and make with the thickness it's about 1.5 meters thickness up and the look it helps to reduce and the heat transfer from the top into and the building you use and telekata to cover it from the model it's true and the real one it's like and little by little it's very very big scale with the pressure created for the unexpected phenomena like and the human scale like and the space of and the human scale and the place is called the elephant scale between and the column and the plant plot and the plan to show is the direction and the orientation of the plant plot with the the column is surrounded and the plant plot is inside to help the the star is more the stronger with it and while you ask dimension of and the plant plot and the food thing it helps if you see in this picture the elephant is a tree and a column when the elephant is itchy it's like and use and this part is to lie and flat it on and the column you will see light and texture on the column this is my inspiration for make this building lie and the foundation lie and the wooden column also and I intimated and the splashes and the quality of by using the hammer it's like that it's made from the handmade it for the texture for the food thing visit and the texture up and the column the elephant come inside even if the under construction the elephant will come to and to join with and this construction after the finish and when the the courtyard is open and this is and the people to come to join and to see and like and like creation space up and the elephant by using a natural earth and the stone the water is very important for and in this village every year and we showcase the water so I would like to make it only the one thing but we got to money thing like and I did the size it's nearby the building and boom boom to make it for the light and the theater because it's an elephant is green and 200 liter and check about it's 1100 liter up and we have to an elephant and 207 elements right now with and more and more so and we dig the side and then we cut it on the pond 8600 cubic meters next the only one and get the mall and we have to and after the finish the project we have to and the two pond nearby and the project the pond is like a legislation place for the elephant it takes about using the bridge the bridge is very simple the bridge is come from and the earth is near the building it's very cheap material so I collaborated with a local to make with a handmade beach from the side visit and the the bridge is very important because with it and the process is like and to create the job and the income to the community I think it and because they are not the the skilled worker it's like and they are skilled workers so we we think about and we just depicted we understand when we when we make it the bridge to the water the first bit that related it's not good but it and 400,000 one it I'm I'm sure that it's better and we make them to be an artisan it's created with the same of the prize for the local it's like an elephant museum the elephant museum it's like in the past of a village exactly the museum is not this building also but with the overall like at the village at the tower with the cultural courtyard and the museum is there it's it's it's the museum what happened is the museum what is my idea why I make this and the model like this it's related to and the style and the voice the people in this village it cannot stay in it the people in this village they don't know it's about and what is unfortunate from an outsider they said that if you use this elephant in this if you see the elephant it looks like it's slanted but in fact it's not the elephant it's like and our kids it's our children and the plant would lie and make it lie and the gentle slope will make it look like it's and the voice it has noise and the sound in the place the different side is it and the section and the the museum is hiding inside the wall and we have and the gap and make it there and the sunlight come through cut on the water outside the people who live in in the room but the exhibition is outside the room this is an outdoor exhibition this is my my purpose is I want to empower the people of the solution to take and hide in that culture and homeland the museum is like and the place is for the the place is for the elephant like and the good house is my version the house without the door the function inside we have to and the yellow one is an exhibition area at the pond and the start area and a technical room toilet and I make it a walkway for the elephant like and the outdoor museum when the elephant walk to inside and make the people would feel like and surprising and the big fall and the chair the elephant walking from the idea it become the rule it makes the elephant make the space it have to valuable like and make the wall from and hide with to touch the cloud I use in the sun and the soil to explain about and the living outdoor of and the living lifestyle of and the we will leave it the sun this means the hot the sun is the lifestyle and the the the elephant visit and the life museum the people come to inside and look at the wall the wall is mutual it's about and the story of and the good people and the elephant visit and the uncle and he gets lost and his son by and the elephant is and kill his son he visit and the elephant also so and I asked him about and how do you feel that and he said that are you angry he said that and no and we choose to have to know the better and give him in his spare this hand then him for being who he is he is still a part of the our family I inverted the exhibition the spirit we have no technology inside I just want to show you about a real life of the people and come to inside and talk about and their story to the world sometimes you come to inside you feel like and the the new accident is like an unexpected moment sometimes the mother by it come to inside and I want to show that how how we co-exist with love it's very important because it this community have to money story the museum we want to communicate communicated the story about the happiness suffering darker for the survival and the color unfair association from the outsiders the new sky walking the new wall make it a roof trip and the new sky line for the related like in the water when we pour the water in the closet I usually pour the water it's just a half that's full it's like my design I only decided only the 50 percent for the architecture and the 50 percent it's fulfilled by the nature it's not me in this project I have learned that is it sometimes the local the local spirituality is like an arctic river that as long as in perfection misted and sometimes it makes me the price this is our life my tree building it performs with the tree function to serve the culture in life revising for the forest and build a certain harmony the project is taught in the first day the first day is transformed the focus and relate by using the local worker the local people to make it the building until the project is completed during the COVID-19 pandemic in our country the architecture is worth them home the pool it put down the sticker and start the whole food and the everything to bought car to the one story to the world no matter who you are different species we respect each other in this project I have learned that it's sometimes the animal can transform the city they will bring hope and pride to the human humanity is not that about the human relationship we are there our humanity through our relationship with other living creatures on the planet the respect and content we show toward the animal research the value of human wealth thank you so much fascinating lecture of issues that we can now discuss such a beautifully both the work and beautifully presented I would like to encourage the audience to start posting their questions in the q&a we will be reading it but before that I'd like to uh I see you something that has to do with this this basically this possibility of understanding architecture not that much as an activity that caters to human centrality but but not only catering to more than human forms of life but actually redefining what architecture can be uh as an assemblage or alliance maybe better between bricks soil saddle air with humans and more than humans uh and this notion of architecture uh that you presented uh some alliance uh or interspecies alliance even which in my opinion is so beautiful so challenging and so needed in many ways also I guess presents some let's say methodological adjustments to the way architects work and I would like to ask you about this what's the way that you work when the when your architecture is really mediating or or or consolidating or intervening or reinforcing or empowering these relationships between for instance humans of different nature also and elephants what is the way for instance you are rolling the process the elephants or or the quiz uh the quick peoples uh in a process that in the past in modern times it was mostly human sector and where the conversation was just uh between the architect the human and the customers clients uh promoters how the process changes when you're catering you're providing to more than humans that have not that easy to to have a conversation with you or or to to tell tell you easily two words what they need the what they the method of and uh my design and uh we start to lie and uh we put it and uh the human in myself to out so check out that is my safe check it's my safe to and check out so and uh we look like and uh we feel like and what the elephant is feel reply and when you have and the pet like and the dog right so and we we try to understand so elephant it cannot speak it like the animal cannot speak in a human language and so and uh this project I want to bring it to white form and the elephant and what happens and elephant behavior is very important it lies with the basic like architecture standard that we study lie and uh and the building criteria we study lie and the dimension of and the human so it is the same but it's a different because and this project is like it located in the middle of nowhere I have to go and that play and have to try to and lie and make and lie and familiar with and the people that elephant because the elephant it it when you see and the people look like the outsider you lie and feel unhappy you know so it means you have to go to it and uh it's a lot of money time to go to see that and the project the first the project that we start to find in the government so and uh and uh yeah and the local people eat and afraid they will and destroy the money thing or the build the thing that is not related not supported for and the people so I try to and talk with them so and the the try to and explain about and after and the project if the project it will set up and finish it make and the people it have to better life and basically especially elephants you have to and the new place before the light and the legislation uh I think it's and uh the one thing that I have to do and this project is like and the truth take forward talking about the real not fair so that is and the the process of the design maybe yeah I really like the way that you you started also talking about census and also the variability of census the diversity within the way human sense and these are connected to your uh discourse on uh more than human relationships makes me think of this question that rosy bright dot erased when she said uh who was the antropo of the antropo center or anthropocentrician who's this antro that is in the anthropocentrician because it's definitely not me she would say and this makes me think that the modern culture of human hegemony is not only about exploiting animals but it's also about exploiting humans and characterizing humans as a standardized as equal and as uh as a mean to to uh to eliminate and to flatten diversity with him within human sensitivities I really like the way that you're connecting uh human bodily diversity with the need to move to a culture in which architecture provides alliance and opportunities for trans species relationships because I I agree with you that that's also a project that has to do with how humans behave with fellow humans and how we acknowledge that our sensing capacities are sensing cultures are sensing uh uh let's say spiritualisms are different and that architecture has a great capacity to mediating this difference and and my question would be uh because my feeling is that you're moving to a notion of architecture that is not really about sheltering for instance but rather about producing opportunities for architecture or for humans to attune with other humans and to attune with other forms of life more to understand how our sensitivities require calibrations uh and how we need to do an effort to make our life something that supports other lives and that makes itself available to be supported by others I love the way for instance the tower instigates seeds to travel as a way for human slowness in moving upwards in the tower a mean for contribute to the reconstruction of the forest I have the feeling that your your architecture is not about program neither about sheltering it's more about this attunement this possibility of tunes among different or kind of mediate in the attuning of different forms of sensing am I do you think do you do you recognize yourself in this this effort for attuning sensitivities it and in this project it's like uh you know if you're talking about and the program in fact it and uh the project it has and uh program itself it's like and uh the program it it's very important I think the program is very important but the program it must be very good for the program every program it comes from the my research and that is the book it's part of research and to send it to and the board of the local government with it and my research the research it's not come from the top down but it comes from the bottom up a different from the research from a top down from the local government because with a lot of from a local government it it has to they have the different image for me they want its life and the Disney world but I it's for me I I I did agree this the idea why we have to make and the 400 will let you come to and the the show we'd like to show so and uh so I think it and uh it's about the culture it's about the nature this is and the program it's about and uh life it's about the traditional not only that it's about and that innovation also that is hiding inside this is and the program if you're talking about and my building it took life no function don't have one firm your building don't have the function I said that no no no no function it means money function life and the cultural culture it's not only it's one function I'm graduated in the program of the innovation we try to my question is about and why we when we renovate that is the old building if I my question is about why did building it decide for only one function in the future in our generation we can do and this and 100 year function ago so and I think it and and we have to try to and make it the building it have to no function it's money function the function is just it's for and it depends on and the situation my architecture it reflected the function that reflected to the social situation at that time the problem the issue if you are the happiness you will feel like and come to inside you will feel like an atmosphere the function is the atmosphere is the one of the my function the feeling and the same is the one of the my function function it doesn't mean you use and this and this one is not only function is money function it depends on and the people it's my architecture it's for the public it's for the social for the people by the people it's made from the people yes made for and the elephant that they respect long time ago so and uh did it and the function it looked like and the material that I show in the first and the first project that the material people ask me about and the material why you do and the picture you like pictures you love pictures I said that no and the spiritual you know and lie and not if you see my building use and the material is a big building it's no not not at all I the wind is my material the style is my material the template is my material we have to and maybe I definition is the material or definition of and the function in different form and the design criteria in the program to ask you about the way that this you were referring to your research how these projects start with them bottom up learning or knowledge that is produced collectively and I want to watch the way that a project like these relates to a larger political context the people have been struggling for a long time with the exploitation and the development and how that affects their forest and their relationship with the forest mining infrastructures have been harassing the the habitat of the of the queer peoples and and the form of life it's really can be seen and can be understood as a form of resistance and I wonder what's the in the details of how this project happened that was reflected what is the way that you see this project operating at the larger political scale that has to do with the with the quiz struggle or the queer people's struggle to resist development mining exploitation and after the project it's needed and first and that we show in the slides it and the first the first construction is and we employ and the queer people to make the building because it and the basic of and the construction is not even of Thailand is that area you have to really steal something a long time ago we have to if you if you see it like and PMI temple it and like and uncle temple the queer people not only in Thailand but the queer people it's like an ancestor it lives it's like in Cambodia it's loud also so it and that area and in between the area it's like and this is and like and like I tried it so and and after the the the project it's needed the the query it has to and you know and the elephant you have and the whole because it and right now the elephant not only in that place this place it we have to and the the most elephant the number of the elephant is a lot is the most so and in the tourist city like and so be the patya and the tourist city in in Thailand so we have the elephant also but elephant is not like and the queer related it's like and that you call like a sanctuary that you call like and the tourist spot so and after the COVID-19 pandemic it the the elephant that it come from and the queer related it go back home because if the tourist city have no story so the elephant has no job so we come back home when we come back home that this place it did come to and the tourist come here the elephant don't come to and the tourist city that's why you have to accident and sit elephant a lot in the past so and this area is like and then the place it far and the visitor and the elephant and the queer people to come together the culture that for the 400 year ago if still there will be the the people will preserve and the traditional until the present day you will see like and it look like and the parallel world you live like and the the world like it's very modernity like it's very technology it's very social social media but in this life the adapted heat like it's not like and the youth is like that social media if you see in the video it's like and they put down and the sickle with you and the the heat and the elephant head they put down so the youth and the selfie stick like and watch the lifestyle of the elephant to the world because they cannot go anywhere so they use and YouTube and Facebook or Instagram to help them to explain about the daily life because it's the real it's not the face it's not the movie you can see that every time if you wonder you see this but what happened is like when when the elephant it's cannot it's cannot the poo poo so and you will see it's a life it's an how the people will love it if the celebrity it changes the house is not changed but the celebrity change the first tip the forest is come back it we have the big thorn poo big thorn before and he served the water and the restaurant at first that we come to and decide that the person does not do at that time you have no restaurant right now we open the restaurant around the time so and right now I have the picture that we show that that we cannot show to you right and we have and three pizza hut that is and the people that come see they was born in in in this play and they we have when we have no job to go to and Bangkok in and the capital and to find the job to reply and cook reply a chef in an Italian chef and after it has to the problem in the crisis economy or something unlike and the COVID pandemic they go back home and open with a small restaurant if it plays it's not only and job opportunity but bring the people from the city come back home with it and new urbanization from the local people you can move and work in the city but if it's not your home our home is our best of both Jennifer is saying what a beautiful project it gives me hope for our humanity thanks especially Bonser for emphasizing respect for one another including nature and animals and along these lines I wonder what's the way that you see the evolution of this project we are the images that you served with us are showing the beginning somehow of a project that in the way that you explain it was meant to have an evolution you're talking for instance of a tower that is contributing to to the reparation of the forest and to funding fresh infrastructure that is re-channeling the way elephants move in the territory and so I wonder what's the way that you would imagine and you would also you want to to deal with the evolution of this project in time would you like to follow it would you like to keep intervening in it or would you like to detach yourself from it and see if things happening without your intervention uh the 50 the 50 percent had demanded that I talked with decide by nature and you asked me power and I after that I involved and and uh 50 percent demanded I think that I know I don't want to involve it we clocked it and light and the water light and the water light and drink the water it's not full when you pour the water so and drink just only the half and the half left the people and pour so and left there's something to put inside the air or and there's something like and if you want to make coffee it to put the coffee inside it makes it the new way of and thinking about and why we have to make it the perfect because I learned from a non-architect like and really people that their life is adjusted they're adjusting situation care care by care so and light and the nature also and uh light and uh we let it the nature is full we let and the people think about that place if you see this place can you take the advantage for this place or you left it and gone and ruined light in the parcel I think and I want to make the something the people think about which you have there's something to play and very interesting it's something to play and the architecture is for and everyone my architecture is that people can take advantage from my reading not one but for the public no one can take advantage from this reading this is and very important it's like when you come in the the place it's like it's the forest or and and the pond I cannot control the water in the pond but I can make the pond by using the soil pick the soil and burn using the soil and the berm to be and the new place when we have to add a hole on the cloud the water is calm the water is come from the nature come from the sky the cloud or the come from the underground this is not my design it's full filled it's so beautiful it's full filled it's so so beautiful when the elephant come to use it it's more beautiful it's very beautiful up and down the place the water from the pond we feed to the forest or we feed to an elephant food plant the soil we have to wet it we have to moisture so understood with clothes that's why we use it like and the cycle understand about the sustainability if for me it's a sustainability it's not about and something is permanent there's something is sustainability it can disappear or appear sometimes maybe it's temporary people see that oh this is and the temporary why the function is called that is life and sustainability I think that I said that no my definition of in the term of the sustainability it may lie and I certainly sustainability in my the process is very important that you ask me the process of the sustainability when the people come to see that oh I understand I it limit it reminds us to see that work and make me remember our life when we go to another building or the other building that we feel like oh wow this is and the sustainability in my it's not the visual sustainability in the stand when you come to the place that you feel like and it's like and the woman left the long that I did I didn't show it in this in this work life when you eat you have the food it's from and the old grandmother it's very beautiful that you feel like oh when you didn't see it it looked like my mother when I was young when I was a baby my mother cooked that food to me so and I think wow this is and there's sustainability in my it's my definition and because maybe this is a final question to wrap up that but you you're in a space of meditation and I want you to raise a question that is crucial in a day like today and I'm kind of thinking of Marisol de la Cadena's analysis of the of a big conflict between modern humans and many indigenous cultures in which whereas modern humans were very much based in the existence on the separation of the technical world the political world and the spiritual world like if they were different realms that didn't touch each other Marisol de la Cadena refers to a large number of indigenous peoples as a huge possibility to we to understand technology and architecture being a technology in a way politics and spiritualism let's say spiritual dimensions as mutually interdependent and actually entangled and implicated I want to ask you about this because I think that your spirituality it's quite important in your practice right and the notions of spirituality are also informing your vision of ecology politics and architecture in a way this is something that of course has been hugely repressed in architecture through its more modern engagement and I would like to know how you see these even in the place from the position and place from which you are where you are now right yeah and talking about and the the technology and in our lives we cannot avoid the technology so and we use and but the technology is fly and instrument but spiritual spirituality is very important because it's fly and it's feel like an abstract not concrete but the spirituality is like and the feeling but if you see fly and the AI or the high technology it's no lifetime I feel with my work it it feel like and the living place a place is for everything living if you use and the technology maybe it's very good it's very neat very clear but it has no feeling my feeling it's made from hand by hand and use and the power both is it and another technology it is hand technology so and I think it and the technology is fly and I don't want to make it my building it look like and use technology as and the whole building if you feel warm if you feel remember spiritual it means remember if you feel that you go back to home if you feel you remember when you go to everywhere it's remind me it's remind us it's about and once we have have been that way it look like that way it doesn't mean copy but it means like and impression the human is and really very special species is about and they can adapt to everything so and when someone created and high technology so human is adapted like and but the technology cannot adapt to the human so and everything that it makes it like and the technology it means like you make it for and the human it's true it's too hard it it my feeling it look like it's too hard it so and I live in the global South our country our country our our our places this in and a place in the global South it's very least in natural resources which you see in the picture it human can place it have to money animal that grow up we have in the water river now we can take and and benefit from and natural resources and to make the something it benefit it from and every species and use and make it for every species it can use it not only the human the global South in especially in Thailand we are thinking about and this one especially me is and we we decide if everything is around me not far from me it's difficult because it I don't understand what is fun so and that's why and I think about and because of my my my best my basic education I started only in in domestic university in Thailand I never started on brought it so and this one is your university in one of the my team when I was young but it cannot be that I think it's and this is it's about and when I I I never started on board it but I try to understand by reading the book or listening try to listen but my ear is not not function is for the missing in the past that we have to we don't have to really advance with social media so and cry too and listen form and the tape it so and I I understand the language by leaving your lipstick so and I I think it's and this one is very it's important for me because it's and the people we think about and when someone cannot go to study on the board but for me if I think maybe it advantage it makes me feel it's like an orchid in the forest so and we understand about and the theory from the master we understand about and the process from the master of architecture and when we go back and we live here we can understand and adapt it and so and we we think it and we can adapt it some theory not at all don't try to learn from the village people that is near me learn from other people who didn't architect like my wife she's a lawyer she can her way is different from me you know her viewpoint is different from me she's always the comment is my worst your worst I don't understand what is your worst what you do that with it and that but it and this comment is very important because it at a real point it comes from the people who are not architect who are not related about the design but it comes from the common people that's why when I teach that the the students when and I I invite the the the reviewer to come to it sometimes I invite the the boy and the girl to comment it because the children it's very clear it's a very clear idea so and they they are not lying yes they say that they lie or they dislike so I think it's very important uh my meaning it doesn't mean it and you you I think it's an uh study on the board it's very good if I can choose that I choose to study on the board but if I have that I have no opportunity so I have to learn to form the language the environmental the people that excuse me a lot Mr thank you so much uh for sharing your beautiful and important work with us it's been a pleasure to be with you here tonight


Coming into the season, the biggest question for the BSU men's hockey team is who would replace Mike Bitzer and Nett. After employing a goalie by committee approach for the first half of the season, the Beavers seem to have found their guy in Zach Driscoll. After splitting time with Hank Johnson in the first half of the season, Driscoll has started every game in 2019, leading the team to a 6-3-1 record, with Driscoll posting a 2.07 goals against Average over that time period. We just think he's playing very consistent and, you know, he's in a pretty good rhythm right now. Just having some troubles there in the first half of the year, seeing the puck a little bit. Did some stuff over break. Saw one of my trainers from back home that I've been working with for a few years. He helped me out a lot, so been doing some stuff with that over Christmas break and so do it before every game in practice here now. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


So I'm going to ask Helen, if you wouldn't mind to introduce Mark, our speaker, and we'll get going. Thank you guys for coming. Thank you. Helen, I'm sorry. Go hot. Go hot. That's it. Great woman. Thank you. Okay. Hi. Thank you all for coming tonight, and it's so exciting especially to see a surprise, surprise visitors from the Pachyderms and especially our Central Committee folks here. That is really exciting because that does mean that we do have a chance to take Missouri back. So I'm just thrilled to death. Thank you for being here, everyone. I want to introduce Mark Her this evening, our keynote speaker from Center for Self-Governance. Mark is probably the only national speaker you'll ever meet who draws no salary for what he does. He's a retired Air Force, and because of that, we're fortunate he's a Gulf War vet, third generation Air Force guy, Air Force brat, too. And because of that, it allows him to be able to do what he loves, and that's work for his country, Gratis. So he is president and co-founder of Center for Self-Governance. And Mark shared the stage with Senators Palin and Cruz at the Veterans Million Vets March this past October. And it was real, if you would have seen, and you can still see Mark on YouTube, it'll bring a tear to even the toughest guy's eyes, I promise you, when Mark speaks on that stage today. It was an amazing speech, so we're really grateful for everything that he does. He does travel coast to coast, and he travels from one border to the other. And his message is simple. We shared it with Phyllis Schlafly. A few weeks ago, we met with Mrs. Schlafly in her office here in town. We spent over two and a half hours with Phyllis in her office, and we brought her the materials that Mark teaches.  My heart was beating, and I thought, oh, what is she going to say? And she studied everything that he brought and showed her what he's been doing, what he's created. And she finally looked up, and she had this gleam in her eye like it was Christmas. And she said, where on God's earth did you get this marvelous material? So I was just, we were so excited. And she thought it was also appropriate for homeschooling use. So anyone can understand it. It's very simple. Center for self-governance has absolutely zero agenda. No agenda of their own. The only thing is they give us, citizens, the tools to be able to do the work that we need to do to take our country back. Thank you, Marker. So I'm trying to figure out why there's a table full of young guys here. It's Valentine's Day. I'm really shocked that you guys are here on a Valentine's Day evening. When it's icy outside, thank goodness that Pat put stuff down so people wouldn't go flying all over the place. Thank you for opening the venue to us. We're very, very grateful. Thanks to Helen and her husband, Paul, for a day of their so hospitable coming to St. Louis. Every time I come to St. Louis, there's always a place to stay. And Helen becomes, she like, turns into this superwoman. Save the Republic, superwoman. It's amazing. So they always ask for, like, your background. They want to know how special you are and how awesome your background is and what's your pedigree and all this other stuff. And I don't have one. I really, I honestly don't have one. I just started four years ago asking a simple question. How do I keep the Republic? I just kept asking it over and over every single day. I still ask the question today, how do I keep the Republic? Am I keeping the Republic? What steps do I need to take to keep the Republic? How many of you guys feel like you're losing the Republic? How many of you feel like you're keeping it? Okay. Well, for those of you who raised your hands, how do we keep it? People involved. Okay. Remind them where we came from. Remind them where we came from? Understand how it works. Understand how it works? Yeah. Night at brush fire. Right. There you go. Yeah. This is a very, very difficult question to answer because the founders who created this society created something very unique in mankind's history. So I'm, don't, please don't think that I'm some expert, special, whatever. I'm just here trying to explore with you how to keep our Republic. I don't have any other agenda. So that's what we've been doing for four years. We have been exploring how do you keep the Republic? What are the ingredients to actually keeping this Republic? If you want to lose it, you're already on that pathway. Right?  Right? I'm just saying, if you feel like you're losing the Republic, okay, 98% of the people in this room feel like they're losing the Republic. That's what we're doing to keep it's not working. Right?  That's what they'll say.  They'll throw it on the floor. They'll probably step on it. And they'll say, okay, go make a new one. All right? So you have to answer that question every day. How do you keep the Republic for yourself? Because again, it's something very unique. For the first time in man's kind's history, this philosophy of something called self-government came into being. The terminology is in the writings and in the speeches and in the inaugural addresses of all of the framers. If you read their history and their letters to one another, they mentioned this thing called self-governance. So I was like wondering, well, what is that? Because that was the first time you started hearing about this concept, something called self-governance. And today you have people trying to define self-governance. Our name is called Center for Self-governance. There's organizations that say self-governance is making the most decisions for yourself, doing what's best for you. Well, that's what we've been doing for the last 236 years and we're still losing the Republic. So it probably doesn't have anything to do with that definition when it comes down to keeping a Republic. So there are some key points that I want to point out tonight for your sake, to make the case that there is a paradigm shift that you have to experience personally in order to keep your Republic. So we don't drive your issues, we don't drive your candidates. We're only focused on you. Why? Because Barack Obama is not the solution to keeping the Republic. He's the solution to losing it. Well, so is John McCain. And quite frankly, every government official is not the solution to keeping the Republic. The solution is like watching the movie National Treasure. All you have to do is find it in the writings of the Framers. You can find the solution. It's like a treasure map. And so we've been researching, asking a lot of questions. I'm telling you the truth. From the bottom of my heart, that's all I ask every day. How do I keep my Republic? So last week we met in Texas and we sat down for six hours with David Barton. And it was just a phenomenal experience. He downloaded so much information about self-governance and the role of citizens in keeping the Republic. He talked about the biblical context by which Christians are obligated biblically from this golden thread from Genesis to Revelation with regards to what is your role as a human being in your society? What is your purpose? What's your function? What do you do? How do you function? It's not just about breathing, right? You're alive. You exist. What do you do? It's like the human condition, right? As we ask that question every day, well, what am I supposed to do? Why am I here? There's a gold thread of governance from a biblical perspective from Genesis to Revelation. There's also a gold thread in the Bible regarding something that the founders referred to often, the sacred fire of liberty, the fire in your bosom, the lamp of liberty and the bosom of man's soul, the brush fires of freedom. They referred to this a lot in their writings. They were referring to this golden thread, the struggle that mankind has had since we've recorded history, the struggle that we have between you and your government. It's a historical struggle. As a matter of fact, it's never ending, right? It's a struggle between your opinion about how government should control me and my opinion about how government should control you. And it's historical and it's not going to end. The key is how do you participate in maintaining the balance of that struggle? It's out of control right now, right? That's why you feel like you're losing it. It's out of balance. The reason it's out of balance is because of this little known secret solution. I call it the super simple secret sauce solution found in the framers' writings and speeches. Don't worry about that stuff. It doesn't distract me at all. Ladies, I got a question for you. So in 1787, what didn't you have? The right to vote, property. It depended on which state you lived in, which colony. And the third most important one. No, no, they were your children. It was your political rights. You didn't have the right to vote in certain states and in certain states you didn't have the right to own property. And what else? Just the ladies, just the ladies. Probably speech. You could not hold office. Ladies, so what can you hold today? If you wanted to, you can hold office, right? And you also have the right to vote. Well, there's a little known, there's a little studied interaction between a woman with no political rights in 1787 and one of the framers of the Constitution is that most of the concentration is on him and his response to this woman. But little concentration is spent on this woman with no political rights. It's like watching the movie National Treasure, except you're not finding a bunch of gold, you're like finding the solution to keeping a republic. In this exchange, she approaches him just as he's walking out of the Constitutional Convention and she asks him a very important question. She says, doctor, what have you given us, a monarchy or a republic? Do you know what his answer's response was? Well, if you're as rebellious as I am in inquiring mine, because I just ask the same question every day, right? How do I keep a republic? Wouldn't you, without your political rights, wouldn't you ask this great doctor who just signed this new social contract that created this new awesome country? How? I can't vote. I can't hold office. How am I supposed to keep a republic, fine doctor? That's a great rhetorical question, but how? How do you keep a republic, right? The ones who said we're keeping it, the women got it now. You've got the vote, right? You've got the office. The majority of your fellow citizens were losing it. I thought it had everything to do with voting and holding office. So maybe his response should have been to this woman, it's a republic if your legislator can keep it. Or maybe you keep the republic if you win your issue, right? Maybe you abolish the Fed and we'll keep the republic. Maybe you get rid of Obamacare and you'll keep the republic. Which issue? Which candidate is going to help you keep the republic? It's a legitimate question and it's never been explored. So you've got this woman with no political rights asking a doctor who signed the constitution, so what'd you give us a republic? And his response to her, it's a republic if you can keep it. The answer to this question comes in 1820 from Thomas Jefferson. And he's six years away from dying. It's 46 years since he wrote the Declaration of Independence. And he... You guys all know about the Declaration of Independence, right? So it's basically the preamble to self-governance. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, right? And to secure rights, these unalienable rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just... What's that? Powers from the consent of the government. Eventually talks about these instituted governments, right? They derive their powers, the laws of nature assume among the powers of the earth, and eventually we organize these powers. Here in America we've organized them into local, state, and federal government, yes? Yes. Yeah. So, it's interesting. It's interesting that even in your constitution, the Missouri Constitution, the very first sentence, in the Missouri Constitution, it doesn't talk about political rights. The very first thing it talks about is that all political power is vested in and derived from the people. And this is important. It's the solution. It's like this little... It's like the map was sitting on the wall, like on national treasures, like it's engraved in the stuff. You know what I mean? It's just sitting there and everybody's been walking by it for 100 years. You know? The solution is in this little lady with no political rights. If you study her, you'll find out how much power she wielded. You ever, guys... Now it's to the guys.  Ain't nobody happy. All the ladies are like, uh-huh. That's right. They invented the phrase. Yeah. They invented the phrase. They didn't just invent it. They carried it out. So, here you have this woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And she and her husband own this bed and breakfast there. The framers are coming in and out of their house because they have a bed and breakfast. And it's just a couple blocks from the convention hall there in Philadelphia. And so they're entertaining the founders and the framers and she ends up building a very strong friendship with George and Martha Washington. So much to the point that she directly influences him to run for a second term as president in the United States. So ladies, what's your influence with Barack Obama? Right? Abigail Adams. She's married to the second president of the United States and she writes him a letter in which she says, John, arbitrary power is hard enough as most things are but we have it within our power to subdue our masters and to throw all your natural and legal authority at your feet. It's a pretty powerful statement coming from a woman in 1776, three weeks before he joins the committee to write the Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson. And if you guys know the story, he ends up stepping aside and Thomas ends up writing it instead. And if you read the letter, carefully you'll find that she's essentially excoriating her husband for spending so much time in all of his high-mindedness and neglecting her and her family. It's pretty powerful. It was very powerful. So this whole thing has nothing to do with political rights.  Eventually the whole country is completely divided into all these sectarian rights groups and we end up losing the republic. The premise that the founders established the United States on was the premise that individuals, human beings, are the source of power. And if you don't wield it, eventually all of your power gets controlled by those who will control your power. It's the repetition of history. You guys are passing through, we all are passing through the repetition of history. There's nothing new under the sun where there's no vision that people perish. What's the vision? The vision was clear. Elizabeth Powell with 1L wielded her power. Abigail Adams, the wife of the second president of the United States, wait for her political rights. She wielded her power as an individual. Where did that come from? It came from the thoughts, the vision articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The laws of nature and of nature's God assume among the powers of the earth our separate and equal station. So you've got this vision. You have this people, they weren't waiting for political rights, they were just wielding power. They didn't need self-governance training, they just did it. You guys heard of a guy named Levi Preston. Levi Preston said in three sentences what Thomas Jefferson took five weeks to write in the Declaration of Independence. And not even the same intellect level at all. Thomas Jefferson intellect Levi Preston. Keep going. This is what he said. He was being interviewed at the age of 91, 1843. He says to his interviewer, we always governed ourselves. We always meant to. Redcoats didn't mean we should. Right? Thomas Jefferson took five weeks to write two paragraphs to say the same thing. The reason why Levi Preston and Elizabeth Powell and Abigail Adams, people of not such great prominence as you would think like Jefferson or Franklin or Washington, you have these individual human beings who understood intrinsically what it meant to wield their power. And as a people today, we've lost that vision. We've lost the vision that the citizens can actually wield power. They just don't know how. So our training program. I'll just, all I can do is tell you the results and then I can answer some questions. In Washington state, we've graduated some level five students and we have quite a number of classes throughout the state there.  And so our students are inside the legislature in Olympia. And you guys are familiar with Washington to a little bit of a degree. It's pretty nuts there. Well, it's kind of nuts everywhere in it right now. It's just a different nut. It's the same nut. So anyway, now they show up and you're with the Center for Self-Governance? Well, come into the office. So now these students, regular citizens, they're not paid lobbyists. They're just learning how to wield their power as a citizen. Legislators, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, it's a very purple state, are now recognizing these students for the credibility they have because the quality of our training teaches citizens how to interact with their government. Not just respectfully, but appropriately. The founders had a vision with regards to self-governance. Arizona. Right now it's a highly divided state between, I guess, I don't know all the dynamics. I just know it's divided within the Republican Party there. There's a lot of division. And they just censured John McCain. And the Maricopa County GOP, it's the largest county GOP in the nation, 3.4 million people in that one county. It's just huge, huge. So they just censured John McCain and they have just basically said, look, we're not going to have any more candidates to speak to us until we get our act together as citizens. Which is astounding for, because the GOP, I mean, the whole purpose of a political party is to find candidates, right? But here they are saying, we're not going to hear from them until we get our act together. And so for their Lincoln Day dinner on March 8, their first keynote speaker is going to be the Center for Self-Governance. Which is really cool. That's a big deal. I mean, it's a big deal for our organization, but it's also a big deal because the solution to keeping the Republic is not the issue or the candidate. The solution of keeping the Republic is Mrs. Powell and we are Mrs. Powell. I'll give you an example. Right here in Missouri, you have a level five team down in Cape County and for their level five homework, they simply introduced a single policy change to put the superintendent, not on notice, but in the uncomfortable position of exposing the fact that he could care less that you are a parent. That's simple. And so now what's happening is she's starting to expose herself yesterday, or excuse me, the day before yesterday, she flipped off this entire team. Flip them off in a public meeting. So the point here is that what's going on is citizens are learning how to self-govern. The definition of self-governance is not what you may think it is. It's not the conventional wisdom making the most decisions for yourself. Self-governance from the founder's perspective was you controlling your instituted government. So let me just ask you guys a couple questions and then I'll wrap up. You can ask some questions. Are you in control of your school board? Are you in control of your city council? Your county commission. Is it Board of Supervisors here? Your county councils. Are you in control? Are you controlling your state legislature? Are you controlling your federal delegation? So when it comes to your old relationship with your government, this inheritance given to you by people who created this new type of government, it's not Plato's Republic. It's a different type of Republic. In your relationship with those five levels of government, who is in control of whom? Who's the master? And who's the Rottweiler? Who's the rancher? And who's the cowherd? Who is in control of whom?  It's a Republic, madam. Not if I can keep it. Not if George Washington, the potential monarch can keep it. It's not in the stroke of a pen because that's all I need. No? It's if you can keep it. So self-governance is your self-determination to control your instituted government. It's really that simple, but let me tell you, it's very, very difficult. It's like being a Navy SEAL.  It's a lot like that. That's why the end of the Declaration of Independence is just as great as the first two paragraphs. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. They meant it. The problem is, because the vision's not there today, in most cases we look to someone else who means it, right? That's why I hesitate when people introduce me and say all these accolades because I am mutually pledged. I can say it. But I'm here to train citizens who also want to mutually pledge their life, their fortune, their sacred honor to keep the Republic. I have no other agenda.  I'm not here to create parties. We're not here to do any of that stuff. We're simply here to fulfill the vision that the Founders had with regards to a self-governing society, in which James Madison said every honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, we based all of our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. Our training program is profound, exhausting. It's about $325 for five levels, seven to nine months of torture from us. There's homework involved. You build relationships.  You'll write things. You'll be speaking. You'll be building relationships inside the legislatures of various levels of government. You'll be forging relationships with people you never thought possible. I did a class in Sacramento, California that was 26 atheists and I was in Texas just a few weeks ago with 26 Christians all speaking the same language of self-governance. I did a class in Gig Harbor, Washington that had a Democrat representative with the Republican chairman, the Libertarian party, atheists, Christians, college student, elderly, and two candidates running against each other in the same race. We are nonpartisan. We're only focused on teaching citizens how to keep a republic and exploring that with you. We have a safe training environment to explore, innovate, and do the same thing that Elizabeth Powell did. She explored. She innovated despite not having political rights. She stood up, wielded her power, and because of it you had a president who ran for a second term of office. You ended up with John Adams who steps aside because of the influence of his wife's words when she says we have it within our power to subdue our masters all your natural and legal authority at your feet. As a result you have one of the greatest documents ever written with regards to mankind's self-government. The founders were in harmony because they shared the same vision and so they actually pledged life, fortune, and sacred honor. They did it. They didn't just talk about it. Our training program is not just a talk about it program. We're not going to talk to you about the Constitution and make you feel good, right? I don't want you to leave this presentation tonight feeling great. I light your pilot light of liberty in your soul but the bottom line is that pilot light is lit with the sacred fire of liberty that George Washington referred to in his first inaugural address and it should spread from your soul into your mind as a brush fire of freedom but that's not where it ends. Eventually metaphorically you become a human torch of liberty and freedom. You want to talk about getting rid of the plastic fire of fear and tyranny? Like this fire.  It's unstoppable. It is. It literally is. The more contact I have with citizens and our instructors and our organization has with regular citizens across the country I feel like I'm literally living national treasure of the movie. You guys are the best. You are the treasure. The national treasure is not in the White House or in the Capitol building or in the Supreme Court. That's not where America's treasure is. America's treasure in the founding father's mind. That's why George Washington after he said the sacred fire of liberty he said the destiny of the Republican model of government is state on the experiment entrusted into the hands of the American people.  They were on the same page. They're not on the same page today. Because we've lost the vision we've lost the solution but actually it's right in front it's sitting right here. It's kind of it's kind of it feels weird saying that the solution is sitting here so I have utmost respect for the citizens of this country because in the end it's ours to lose our keep. I hope you'll check out our website. You can coordinate with Helen. We have classes all over the freaking country. I'm flying all over the place. We're building instructors as fast as we can. We've started an Inferno of Liberty. There's a level one class in Benton on Sunday. I don't know where that's at but I know it's here somewhere. There'll be more classes throughout the year. It takes you seven and nine months to complete our training program. It's intense. It requires a lot of you but if you really want to keep the Republic you have to ask yourself the question every day how and I can say from myself I see it it's not with the issues and the candidates it's with you. Does anybody have any questions? Yes ma'am. I would ask if you are also approaching some of the politicians because they are also citizens they are also human beings. Maybe they're misguided. Maybe they haven't the flame they haven't the understanding. Maybe they're trying. Do you have any? We do. We have a Democrat Charles Curtis from Tennessee who is going through our training program. We have a Democrat from Washington who's passing through our program. We have Democrats and senators but none of the federal delegations are willing to take the class so far. We're open to anybody. It's non-partisan. I had a male prostitute in a class in California. We'll take anybody. Anybody. Yes sir. What have I heard since you where have the people gone that have taken some or all of the classes as far as I believe a number go on into representation of the people of us. What is the rate on that? It's kind of funny. The majority of our students after they find out how much power they actually have as a citizen I'll tell you a story of one young lady. Her name's Yvonne. She's from Tennessee and she would make a great politician. And then she took our training program was offered to join the county commission and just the communication got flubbed up and so she ended up not meeting the filing deadline and she called me up and she says I missed the deadline but she said I have way too much more power as a citizen. Guys, I mean it's phenomenal how much power you have the founders created a country where you have all the inherent power we just don't know how to wield it. So the ratio is actually very small. What we're doing right now is we're creating farm teams of citizens across the country who are working together to wield their collective power to drive self-governance in their community. And what I'm seeing what I'm observing is that naturally in that team things happen, school, city, county, state, or federal because it's all districted right here. I'm in the school district here city? There's no city district here? Just a county. Pat Mill and Parkway split up. This is hilarious. So unincorporated, so county there's a state rep, state senator congressional district so all the districts are right here. So that farm team naturally some people will rise up and positions will open up and they just step up to the plate but ultimately if you're not controlling the ones who are there you're spending all of your time trying to get rid of the ones you don't like. It's kind of like master with their dog and having a debate with the dog about following the rules of the household. When really all you want the dog to do is sit, stay, lie down come inside or go attack. Right? Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. You're absolutely right. The representatives are human beings but the institution itself the senator's view was that it was something created by man. So it should remain subservient to man. Azar Taff Benson said this in the 1950s he says, if God created man and man created government and government, man should remain master over government. Other questions? Yeah, I wanted to find out Brian Bollinger, is he St. Genevieve or Kate? Brian Bollman? He lives in Cape and he travels he works in St. Louis. But I wanted to find out where at is he in starting the Missouri to start teaching people throughout Missouri? Sure. This is a good segue actually to tell you about what's happening in Missouri. Here we are. So Brian is from Cape. They were the original class in January 5th of last year. They graduated in September and now they've formed a couple of teams in Cape. One's called paper people paper, paper, paper. People it's not against. It's people for government and education reform. It's a really cool thing that they've created. And he is now level one certified to teach so tomorrow he and I are joint teaching I'm teaching a level two and a level one in Cape. The other thing is we're working towards forming a Missouri Center for Self Governance and we've had classes all along I-55 down to Sexton all the way up to Hannibal as of right now nothing has happened west far too far west Jefferson City, Kansas City, that region and then south what I got the report today from those folks is that there's about 130 level one students that have gone through the training and what's awesome, can I tell you guys about Sexton, Missouri? Sexton, Missouri is a Democrat controlled area of Missouri and so the people there were really demoralized after the election they're just we're done we're not going to participate in government anymore we don't have any impact all this stuff the 2012 what's that? I was surprised because you said that they were demoralized and they were demoralized I'm sorry there's different groups that are there that were not Democrat that were not happy with the outcome and so they were demoralized and so the Cape team they called us up and said hey can we do a presentation there and so there's like eight people showed up for this presentation which is what I kind of thought was going to happen tonight because it was Valentine's Day guys and so we go there and eight people show up and we did this presentation the Memphis team came up the Cape County team came up and then CSG was there and we did this joint presentation for the Sexton 8 and they're going to do level three they're going to have their level three training in a couple weeks and it's packed out it's a packed out class 20 people they're on fire in Sexton because they realize it doesn't have anything to do with the issue or the candidate it had everything to do with them wielding their power Memphis, Tennessee for the first time it's crazy there guys there's a council woman named Janice Fuller Love literally Janice Fuller Love and she sits on the Memphis City Council and she cannot stand the tea party that is in Memphis, Tennessee until recently and so she called into the Blaze Radio you guys familiar with the Blaze Radio it's a Glenbeck there's a guy named Glenbeck he has this radio station and so I mean your mind is there's just this kind of huge Grand Canyon golf between this person and somebody like a Glenbeck you just think right but what's happening because of the training these citizens in Memphis have been going into places you would totally think are not worth going to don't vote and not trying to get them to vote but convincing them to participate in government and so what's happening is the residual their focus has changed and so the residual impact is now these people are registering to vote and so Janice Fuller Love is now starting to sing the praises of these citizens and you're starting to hear the words the language it's crazy guys they don't even realize they're speaking the language of the framers they're speaking the same language there's two languages you can hear it in your meetings the language of fear and tyranny centralized governance right you know what it smells like right but the language we speak when you pay attention it's a casserole of liberty it smells great right young guys we'd like home cooked meals right yeah so if you learn how to speak the language of self-governance and burn burn the sacred fire of liberty you can bake a casserole of liberty and serve it to your fellow citizens and guys I mean if either one of these political parties figures out what we're doing they'll be in power for a thousand years I'm serious no we're taking notes your city SEAL teams that you go around different states and create for a visual do you have that one slide with that SEAL team and there's a legislator there then instructing him it's just amazing so she's referring to SEAL team that's not what we officially call them someone said you guys are like the SEALs because it's difficult training but the teams that come out of the training are let me ask you guys a question I want you guys to rank these real quick and then I'll pull this picture up I'm not trying to I'm really curious what you think in terms of keeping the Republic and killing Osama bin Laden which one's more important okay so don't misunderstand what I'm saying I have the utmost respect for the Navy SEALs because the training they go through is phenomenal they are America's greatest warriors but in terms of keeping the Republic right so someone said so you guys are like citizen SEALs I'm like you know what in terms of degrees of importance we need some training don't we we need to learn how to keep the Republic we need to learn how to keep it so when it comes to I mean in terms of importance the importance of being well trained well oiled machine it's like a bazillion times more I don't know what the right words are I'm getting there I'll figure it out someday by the way this is the diary of Dr. James McHenry and right here is where he talks about this exchange between Benjamin Franklin and Mrs. Powell let me get there let me get there do-do-do do-do-do power as you can see I use the power I use the presentation but I just don't show it do-dee alright that's all stuff in the class okay this is what she wants all of you guys vote very good I don't want you to forget what I told you tonight though about Elizabeth Powell who couldn't vote there's a huge distinction between civic responsibility exercising your moral obligation to participate in government because in America you don't have to vote right and some of you would even probably agree with me or Mark Levin and say some people shouldn't vote but how many of you know what that word means exercising your civic authority so Helen is referring no this doesn't work on there I don't know if you guys can see this picture very well or not but essentially this is some constituents this is someone who is designated to hand his representative his instructions and his instructions were simply sit now they had some other words in there but bottom line was sit on your committee chair and when this bill comes up vote why? because of the shenanigans behind the scenes the only way we knew the shenanigans because you had citizen SEAL teams inside there right? and then they were coming back and this was going into that district and Mrs. Powell informing the discretion of her fellow Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Powell going are you joking he did what? here let me I'll sign that thing it's not a petition there's a difference between a petition and instructing your representatives by address of remonstrance did you guys know that you guys I've studied all the constitutions with regards to several different things regarding instructing representatives you guys have the strongest language of all the states with regard to instructing your representatives listen to this and then I'll read you mine because I think mine's pretty cool too the people of this this is Missouri so this you it's not me I'm from Tennessee right so the people of this state have the inherent soul and exclusive right to regulate internal government I'll read you mine article one section 23 R says that the people have the right to instruct their representatives by address of remonstrance that word address of remonstrance is the same thing that mommies do their children say take a bath no take a bath last time take a bath you know what I'm talking about brush your teeth go to bed that's what address of remonstrance means in Tennessee article one section 23 the citizens have the right to instruct their representatives by address of remonstrance you guys have the strongest language Texas probably has the third strongest language but the bottom line is as citizens the first thing is you have power but it's also enumerated that you have the right to instruct we don't know how to do that we don't know how to instruct what we do is we show up when it's too late and then we call that instruction so we spend no time training the Rottweiler sit and we show up when we want them to sit and they've never been trained to sit and so when we say sit it attacks right then we say stop and it keeps chewing and then we call the dog down right and guess what eventually you're sitting right the Rottweiler has become the alpha male of the pack it's human nature that's the tendency of centralized governance throughout mankind's history if the citizens do not wield their power their control over the power and their right to instruct sit in this case the instruction was sit and I mean it as a metaphor we don't teach our citizens to be disrespectful at all there's a high degree of respect that the representatives deserve at all five levels of government they're sacrificing a lot to have their essentially their metaphoric naked body for public review you know what I mean so as citizens though you have more power than they do matter of fact the reps don't have power they have only control we talk about this in level one about this stuff they told him to get up and walk out of a vote along with three other freshmen and just being we don't know anything about what's going on here house leadership they know what they're doing right people elected them they must know what's going on so they got up and walked out right so now we're on the verge of HB 2869 sponsored by the number six republican in the state of Tennessee entitled the implementation of the patient protection affordability care act so shocker it means so shocker for us in Tennessee it's actually not so shocking shocking to most people because they don't understand this this dynamic right here exercising your civic authority has to do with instructing your representatives at the school city county state and federal level that's why I asked you are you in control when you say sit do they sit when you say go do they go so now he's in the committee room and house leadership walks up to him and says hey you might want to walk out of this bill you tell me what he does now he says so on one ear go other ear stay right who is in control of whom ultimately has to be you have to answer that question so you answer the question every day how do I keep the republic answer the second question who's in control of whom until you're in control and mark your teams are pretty successful like they do yes we don't measure success the way you guys conventionally measure it did we win the issue did we lose the issue did we win the candidate did we lose the candidate we measure success by how many teams are actually observing collecting intelligence within the various levels of government the strategies that they're crafting regarding their various issue policies and informing the discretion of their fellow citizens in their particular community based on the districts of the legislatures that they're focused on and then finally collectively as mrs. powell are they are they instructing their legislative their delegated authority so we have teams at the county level and below that have 100% success the state level in Tennessee we have it's down a little bit because because the governor's fighting back pretty intense we don't measure success in terms of whether we lost the issue we don't we measured in terms of can we actually prove to our fellow mrs. powells that the governor of the state of Tennessee is an obstacle of your self-governance not according to our emotion not according to my speculation but based on the evidence what are his actions and he's proving it right now on various issues it comes to education health care gun control property rights you name it yeah the key is as citizens you have to have that in the intel that you can transfer to the mrs. powells so that can happen when that happens 100% of the time they will sit their butts in the chair if that doesn't happen won't happen won't happen so our goal is there's 114 counties in Missouri we'll build a citizen seal teams across this whole state that know how to observe collect and tell craft strategy inform discretion and instruct delegated authority anybody have any other questions yes sir you mentioned homework can you give us an example of homework in the program? sure so this whole thing has to do with communication if we don't communicate with each other we cannot keep the republic we will not build our relationships that we need and ultimately you're incapable of capturing the intel you need to drive the discussion and that requires communication so our homework has two pathways from level one to five the spoken word and the written word spoken is verbal written is also verbal so the written the written communications ultimately ends up whatever you're passionate about whatever issue you're passionate about by the time you graduate level five there's a lady named Barbara Bernard she's a grandma in Cape and she is the lady who discovered that there's actually statutory code that defines marriage between a man and a woman hidden in a healthcare title of the what's it called here revised Missouri statutes right so her research her passion was married between a man and a woman right so she drove the issue with her writing and she drove the issue with her speaking and then by the end of her level five she had a policy paper that she wrote you'll meet with up to 14 different types of government officials both elected and unelected bureaucrats and you eventually will write policy that sounds crazy because they have think tanks that take a lot of your money to write policy but actually in the United States of America the citizens have the right to write policy and it's not as complicated as you think oh absolutely the team and Kate they wrote joint policy for the superintendent based on their strategy based on the intelligence they gathered and now their superintendent is absolutely so I encourage you guys check out our website coordinate with Helen find out how to keep the Republic if anything ask the question every day and look forward to working with you guys thank you guys so much thank you


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