The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. We have much to talk about much. To talk about today.
We’ll visit with our old friend Mark Schneider, Mark Schneider, who is of course the one of the, I I I was thinking about this, one of the people that for about three or four years had been the leader on talking about Generation 4 nuclear power, nuclear power in general. And he’s been busy. He’s doing a lot of things, so we haven’t heard from on the radio we own today. We’ll talk about nuclear energy and what Europe’s doing and other things.
And we also visit with Michael Volpe, Michael Volpe is a investigative journalist. He does a heck of a job digging into some of the toughest sets of issues and talking about them, especially when it comes to the court system around families and children and the Department of Child Protective Services. Those places, really interesting man. Michael Volpe has got a substack. We’ll talk with him, but first.
We have to talk about the the slurs and the smears, the slurs and the smears and sovereignty. So what you need to know right now is that Poland is being roiled by an ongoing scandal. That is the creation of the left-leaning press. And it is the creation of an American company that has a, it’s called Discovery and has its own channel in in Poland. It has its own network in Poland. It’s able to be in Poland and they have done what can only be described as a hit job hit job TVN. It’s called. That’s the broadcaster in Poland, but it’s owned by the Discovery Channel and not discovery. It’s Discovery company. And they did a hit job on John Paul the second. Now John Paul II, St. John Paul the Great is probably the most prominent Pole, Polish person in history. I mean, there’s some debate you could do, some others up there, but he’s an extraordinary story having been a young priest during World War Two and then living through the communist regime that had seized Poland and then becoming Pope.
And there’s nobody. There’s nobody that has come forward with any kind of a a Slur like we’re seeing now and it’s the Pelosi, you know, smear and slur. The smear is you float this story, you get coverage of it, and then you cover the coverage. And it’s about when he was back in Krakow. As the Archbishop there, it’s there. They’re alleging that he moved priests around that had had a problem with abuse, sexual abuse, children. Here’s the problem. The the the what they’re relying on.
And they’re not even covering this – you see this how the smear was, that if you go to the documentary itself and the book that came out, you look and you say, wait, they’re relying on the Communist secret police’s records, which are notoriously lies. In other words, if you’re the Communist secret police, you lied about anybody who was a Threat to you. And so they’ve gone to those records and they say, oh, look, there’s something in the records. That’s not reliable. But here’s a here’s an article in Politico, a full 2, two and a half three days later, four days later, and the whole article is not about the truth of the documentary. It’s about the coverage and it’s about the politics and it’s about the ruling party, the nationalist Law and Justice Party, which objects to this. It’s it’s a, it’s a it’s story about the Catholic Church and in Poland. It’s a story about process. Instead of about the truth. And it’s a classic move to smear and slur someone, and it’s it’s an outrage. It’s an outrage.
Now I have told you, you’ve heard me talk about it, but I could say a little more in a little more depth. I worked for John Paul II. When he was the Pope in 1997 I was invited by him. To go to the Vatican during a a meeting of the bishops of North and South America, and I was asked to be an expert for youth. I was then in my 20s and I went and I spent just about just under 5 weeks in the Vatican in Rome working for John Paul II. I saw him every day, I saw his assistants and others, and I did translation work. I participated in the discussion. It led ultimately to a document that was called Ecclesia in America that he promulgated about a year Later. It led to him visiting St. Louis, MO, while I was living there and working for the Church about a year and two months later, and in fact the document of Ecclesia in America was released in Mexico City on his way back from Mexico City to his home in Italy, he stopped by St. Louis and I hope, I was a part of the team that hosted him. So I knew him Very well. I mean, I knew him to say hello and talk and he would ask about me and ask about my family and different things. At that time, I was unmarried, so he’d ask about my brother and my family, my sister, my dad and mom and all. And so I have some sense up close of the guy and then I watched his papacy very closely and I happen to be a lifelong Catholic.
It is the ultimate slur and smear to do this, and it’s being done purely because the success of John Paul the 2nd and his positions on life and on abortion and on family and on everything – his his sense of philosophy on on human person. I mean just an extraordinary success, but it’s political.
It’s a smear and a slur meant to damage the Polish ruling party, which is up for reelection in this coming fall. And so you sully the Conservatives. In this case, John Paul II and the ruling party, and your hope like like Biden did to turn out younger people. The people that will fall for this are the TikTok generation. And so the TikTok generation is who they’re targeting. You know, it’s the same game that Biden did.
What you need to know is when you do this hysteria that is unfounded and ungrounded. For example, Joe Biden spending his time talking about democracy on the ballot. What nonsense. And yet it works for a certain number of people.
Why? Because the media joins in, the media and the narrative machine kicks in hard. With big government big. Excuse me, big government, big media and big tech working together. In this case, it’s not the big government, it’s it’s other aspects of the government and this of, the communist the Communist secret police records are being cited. So that’s a little bit of residual big government, but big tech and big media are mobilizing it in Poland to damage the Ruling party in Poland.
In America, you just pick a topic. You could do the the Donald Trump how he was treated, you could do the Russia fraud and how that was done, you could do any of the hoaxes that are done,, January 6th and you watch the narrative machine weaponized against we the people. But back to my point, the TikTok generation. The younger people who are being inundated by the messaging. From TikTok and by the way TikTok IS communist.
Do you think TikTok has an interest in denigrating John Paul the second who was a communist fighter? Do you think TikTok has an interest in denigrating and stopping Donald Trump, who stood up to China? Sure seems like it sure seems like it, and the TikTok generation will be will be inundated and flooded and not be able to have a grounding and founding in the Truth of what happened.
It’s hard for a 60 year old to forget the Communist Soviet regime and what they had done to Poland, but it’s not hard for a 16 year old. To not even know what that was, to not even feel what that was.
This slur and smear campaign, what you need to know is it was orchestrated by an American company. It was managed by the western left wing elites in the American company and in the, in Europe who are sympathetic to the destruction of people who believe in God and family and life. An anti communism and they are either communists themselves or their dupes. Idiotic dupes for the communist regime in China, which is happy to destabilize the the image and and reputation of of John Paul II. And it’s happy to make our kids crazy and damage America.
You talk about democracy on the ballot. Joe Biden is a threat. In his attitude and his positions. To the success of the American Republic. There’s no doubt about that now. But this slur and smear in, and I, look if I’m Poland the the steps I would take and you know what you need to know is we have to think about them here. You gotta silence these things you got. If I’m Poland, I don’t let this entity keep running a station. It’s not about it’s. It’s not about censoring speech, it’s about a foreign nation influencing our lives. In Poland, a foreign -American – nation doing this smear and slur. In America, Chinese regime, Chinese Communist regime, TikTok, influencing our kids. It’s crazy to allow it. It’s insanity to allow it. It should be stopped. We’ll see if it is, but I can tell you, you know what?
I’ll tell you something. The Poles are not gonna mess around. The Poles Don’t mess around, like Americans where there are ohh maybe TikTok. We like TikTok, whatever, the Poles are not messing around, they are. I guarantee you they’re going to deal with what the threats are and then they’re gonna Be clear eyed. You know why? Because they were wiped off the map 60 years ago by the Soviets. They know what it means to lose your nation. Or at least be beleaguered.
All right, we’ll take a break, be right back. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report, back in a moment.
