I am so happy and thrilled to be here today with your book. This is one of the most extraordinary memoirs i have ever read. I am honored to be here with you today. And meeting at the second time made my experience. So thank you so much. You are welcome so if you could read from the preface. Turning toward the house on the hillside tall shadows pushing to the currents. And by picture my father by the back door with his steel toed boots. On the highway below the school bus went past without stopping. I am only seven but i understand what makes my family different that we dont go to school debt is where the government will force us to go but cant because it does not know about us children dont have birth certificates with no medical records because we are born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse. We have no School Records because we have never set in the classroom and i am nine but at this moment i do not exist. In preparing for the days of abomination and i spend my winters rotating supplies and then continue on an affected. And in but peak idaho. And what it was like as a ten yearold version of themselves it was really beautiful it was my grandfathers farm with wheat fields it was a Beautiful Mountain it came up out of the earth and formed into a perfect spire that i was always told every spring when the snow melted it would be an image of a womans body my dad called her the Indian Princess and had a story that the indians will look for her coming as a sign that spring had ended and winter was over. It was a very beautiful place. My dad owned a junkyard we played in it as well as an exotic playground. So in my childhood i think it took me a long time to realize that it wasnt completely normal. Now i can see there were elements that were unusual like my dad was opposed to institutions and most just take for granted like education, doctors or hospitals or government. I was never allowed to go to school and a birth certificate not until i was nine years old. And with that environment and then on the other side. It with that childhood experience the mountain was beautiful so my mother was a midwife and she spent these hours went on the Mountain Gathering rose hip and herbs for tinctures but there was also another side the junkyard was the exotic playground but we got hurt quite a bit there were a lot of injuries like the time he was covered in burns because my father did not believe in doctors or hospitals. Even like herbalism which was wonderful my mother was very talented at that dealing with the real injury there is more than maybe should have done. Talk about your fathers philosophy they did share the philosophy but it does seem that it came mostly from your father quick. It is complicated maybe a spiritual doctrine or he had this theory of the Public Education they had been infiltrated. And the reason for opposing these things it was a real conviction so what was he afraid of really cracks but i think he was concerned of the medical establishment and he believed that things that people take like drugs or pharmaceuticals would damage your body and that could last for years and also damages spiritually you should use natural healing. And Public Education and then try to lead us away from god. And a complicated person in brainwashing a big part of the illuminati coming in. Part of that is the fear to come in and change i guess. I think he was worried we might go to a doctor and then the path would narrow and to be igood standing with god and then to be sucked into the world but then with my father just included doctors. But this is not a mormon discussion at all. Most almost all they support education, they go to school or believe in homeschool but they definitely believe in doctors. I found that interesting in your preface that you made that point. I did because right now the political environment is so polarized and people will latch on to anything they can with their own preconceptions. I think that my dad has some irregular ideas. The way his mind works im not a medical professional i dont know what it was but i felt maybe he had a mental irregularity. But in my mind that religious extremism there was a vehicle for that so whatever was happening in his mind cause the religious extremism. I dont want people to take the story and say all religious people are like this. Its really easy when people are different to make them into a caricature and i did not want that. This is a foreign land for me. And that is not that take away at all see you can be sure. But what is interesting is you have people taking the news and applying it to their worldview and there is an example of first memory that is not a memory of the ruby ridge massacre. Talk about that and shape those beliefs. Yes he did have these ideas of the government especially around the ruby ridge incident that we were not so different from the Weaver Family in the way that we lived and to be isolated but what happened to them there is a period where my dad was quite worried it could happen to anyone that was completely irrational. But i was about five when that happened so we went into this. Where we were preparing to have bags in case we had to run and hide in the mountains. And then i documented the contents and here for emergency food and water purifier and internet and all the things you need to go live on a mountain. I dont know how long that lasted for my dad but in my mind it is very frightening that the government could come at any moment and he never told us the end of the story. They lived in idaho and it began with the conflict over a rifle with the atf agent. And then the fbi learned that dog was shot and that he was shot i think he was 11 but then it escalated quickly and then randy weaver was shot and the agent surrounded the cabin and ultimately she was hold while holding the baby and was killed by a sniper. That is the version i was told and that my dad told us. I would have dreams we were crawling on the floor with the snipers he did not tell us the end of the story so i was 17 i heard the end of the story and i heard it with those inquiries with every major newspaper covered the story and it was a different story as a child that was the government and something i thought i only we knew about that then obviously i realized it was a terrible thing that happened but there were checks on that and that is how democracy works and was not kept a secret it was very much public and Massive Public outcry. So as a five yearold in your fear especially in the situation you were in and the fact you are not even alone in that knowledge. And how they responded that it wasnt even though holy evil force that abuse of power and a callous disregard for human life and that might be the congressional report. That there is a free press and there are checks and balances i didnt just learn the end of the story but how the constitution works and the checks and balances and the free press. So that is with your education and as you talk about the education that you learned with your family that isnt a traditional education so that most people have learned. When my older brothers were younger i think my mother did a pretty good job of homeschooling but by the time i came along she had kids and was an herbalist and the farm there wasnt a lot of schooling going on. I never took an exam or no lecture or nothing like that so my schooling was limited in formal education but one thing i really value with my parents the way that they raised us they had a philosophy you can teach yourself anything better than somebody else can teach it to you. And thats the principle i really agree with talking about education this country it is very passive and i think there should be an individual component if it is social it is a bit propaganda they need to feel actively engaged with their own curriculum i hate the word disempowered because it sounds like a cliche but i do worry that people take it to heart that to learn something you have to have a degree or whole institution in place to teach it to you. I was not raised to think thats when i said i wanted to go to college and 16 it felt like something i could do not because i didnt have any former or education so if i have to learn algebra i will buy a book and learned it i barely got in but i kept going with that but i really went to university underprepared i raised my hand asking what the holocaust was a thought i was being antisemitic but i wasnt i never heard of that. But about people feeling ownership over what they learn people talk about as an education for money but for me its about making a person and everybody should have that opportunity to participate in making up their own mind and people need to be more involved in their education. And ten minutes. [applause] thank you, good evening and thank you for coming. Its wonderful to see so many of you here. Id like to welcome our friends from book aimed over here to my lifetime and after the qanda they will be something of a new book and then he will be signing them for you. So thats an advanced announcement for that. Some of you may remember that he was here three years ago, and invective isus
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