Liberty RoundTable, Monday, November 9, 2026
By Sam Bushman
My fellow Americans, happy to have you along. I was live today with Lowell Nelson from CampaignForLiberty.org, riding shotgun with me, and we covered some hard-hitting news the networks refuse to use. We started with a question that really frames the whole hour: Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? From Ken Cromar in prison, to immigration, to Utah taxpayers being fleeced by these quasi-government agencies, that question kept coming back.
Ken Cromar, Prison Reform, and Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
Lowell got to visit our dear friend Ken Cromar in prison. Ken is hoping to get to a halfway house in about 23 days, and I think now it is 22 days and counting. We want to welcome him back, bring him back into society, and hopefully he can return to being a filmmaker where he belongs instead of in prison.
I said Ken is a believer in God, family, and country without a doubt. He has been true to his cause. It is just sad that we decide guys like him belong behind bars, and we let criminal aliens run around free. It is insanity. Lowell compared him to Joseph in Egypt, thrown into Pharaoh's prison and coming out on top. Ken helps everybody there, picks up the downtrodden, encourages sad hearts, and Lowell said they are going to miss him sorely.
In my humble opinion, Ken was wrongfully put in prison. Even if you say he is guilty of the crimes they claim, which I disagree with completely, a guy like that belongs at most with an ankle monitor. There is no threat to society of any kind. Why should we all pay for him to be there for four years when he could be making a living and contributing to society?
The Brotherhood Musical and Mercy and Justice on Immigration
Lowell told us about a new cinematic musical called Brotherhood, made in 2026 and released just a couple of weeks ago. It is the story of two next-door neighbors, John and his family, white U.S. citizens, and Fabian, a Mexican immigrant with his family. Lowell said it was not an open-border propaganda movie, and it was not a hardcore "kick the bums out" type of film either. It pushed understanding, because our immigration system is sadly, sorely lacking.
If you are a hardcore criminal, a rapist, or a murderer, we need hardcore justice, because the government's primary responsibility is to protect our lives, liberty, and property. But on the mercy side, if you are a DACA child, or came here as a little kid through no fault of your own, and all you know is America, and you are not a criminal, and you are willing to work, then we need to roll out the mercy plan.
I asked Lowell honestly: if you were in a country where it was dangerous and you wanted a better life for your family, or maybe there was no food, would you come into this country illegally? He said he thought he would. I said I would too. That is where it starts. I am not defending all illegals. I am not defending breaking the law. I am saying there has to be a healthy balance.
Transparent Utah, PIDs, and Taxpayers on the Hook
One big agency is MIDA, the Military Installation Development Authority. It created one of Utah's first public infrastructure districts, a PID, in 2020. PIDs were authorized by the legislature in 2019. Since 2020, nearly 250 PIDs and infrastructure financing districts, IFDs, have been formed in Utah. They have issued more than $5 billion in debt, overseen by boards of unelected developers and private citizens.
That means if you live in a PID or IFD, you get hit with more taxes. Lowell said buyers often do not really learn about the additional tax burden until closing time. Instead of $1,000 or $2,000 a year in property taxes, it might be twice that. In some cases it is equal to another mortgage. One homeowner at the Black Desert Resort in St. George pays $10,000 a year in property taxes due to PIDs.
I said the taxpayers are the third party being betrayed in these contracts. There cannot be hidden language where people do not know what they are being put on the hook for. These PIDs are popping up all over the country, and everybody needs to learn that term: Public Infrastructure District. If the 150 not-yet-bonded PIDs get financed, Lowell said the debt could rise to $13.8 billion. Another figure he shared was that they could issue about $45 billion in debt over the next 10 years. Nobody can pay that.
Judge Napolitano's Question and Government Surveillance
Judge Napolitano asks the right question: Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Right now, sadly, we work for the government when they should be working for us. His other question was, what has the government done to our freedoms?
The Fourth Amendment plainly protects us from surveillance without a lawful warrant. Yet Lowell said the NSA captures every keystroke, every social media post, every telephone conversation of every person in America, stores it in data centers, and uses bots to search it. Privacy is a natural right protected by the Constitution. When people fear being heard by the government, they begin to self-censor. That is how surveillance destroys freedom without prosecuting anybody.
Murray Sabrin and the Abolition Manifesto
Murray argues we need to abolish government powers, institutions, and expenditures that have no legitimate constitutional foundation and that have transformed our limited republic into a vast welfare-warfare state. The question is not whether programs are popular. The question is whether they are constitutional and consistent with 1776.
I said we need to ask every official, from Congress to the state legislature to county commissions: have we delegated authority for you to do that? If the answer is no, and they still do it, we need to remove them and find somebody who will obey their delegated mandate, nothing more, nothing less.
God, family and country. Protect Life, Liberty and Property! News The Networks Refuse To Use in the Media and Our Lives!
God save our constitutional republic.
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