Independent families following their own cheerful customs only from centralized control. Who knows . But whatever it is, the impulse has been around for a long time. 100 years ago, america faced on another global pandemic, the spanish flu. Then, there was never any evidence that christian holidays played a significant factor in the virus. Troop movements around the world but the authorities attack christmas anyway. Be aware of the mistletoe, wrote the director of the ohio state n december of 1918. Itll show your love for dad and mother, brother and sister, and to stick to your own homes instead of paying annual christmas visits Holding Family reunions and parties generally. No celebrating, they said, science has spoken. But people celebrated anyway. The human spirit persisted and sustained by the very human need for fellowship and warmth. The familiar touch of the human being. Stories in 1918 remained packed with christmas shoppers. As one newspaper reported at the time to the churches were especially well attended this year by worshipers thankful for the safety of love ones. Public officials at the time he did all of this, they wanted lockdowns. But the public wanted to live and so they did. 100 years later, not much changed. The one thing thats very different is democracy itself. Leaders no longer pander to the public, they no longer feel the obligation to convince the rest of us of much of anything. They ignore their own rules and when they are caught they feel no shame. They tell halfhearted lies, they dont even expect you to believe. They dont care. This summer, the federal government released a video bragging about how much they have lied to you. Remember those ventilators that we urgently needed here in this country that people would die without . Of the ventilators, remember those . What happened to them . Heres where they went. When a crisis arises, america acts. You can see the guitar riffs. Not acting in our own interest, that was flying 1,000 ventilators to indonesia, a faraway country. Average cost per ventilator, 20,000. Up to our elected leaders it was a bargain because the indonesians when taking the ventilators off her hands, they were erasing evidence of our leaders and competence. Ventilators work in there in indonesia. This kind of thing is so, now that nobody notices. The video you just i was uploaded to youtube back in september by the u. S. Air force. The grand total of 75 views. Two of them from the producers. The rest are probably from indonesians wondering what the big cargo plane was doing unloading medical equipment they did not need. No one thought it was remarkable. But it was remarkable. A few months ago the political leaders who united on one point and it turned out to be wrong, the point was we dont have enough ventilators and tens of thousands of people are going to die unless we pay for more ventilators right now. We are sending 400 ventilators. Really . When am i going to do with 400 ventilators . When i need 30,000 . You pick 20,000 people were going to die. Tucker well, thousands of people did die in new york. That they died in Nursing Homes because of the man you just saw, governor andrew cuomo. But not a Single Person died because we did not have enough ventilators, not in new york, not anywhere. But forget that. Its not important, they will tell you, think about the indonesians we are saving despite the fact they dont need the ventilators either. Why did they tell us things like this . Because if they never tell the truth, its hard to tell when they are lying. Remember when we learned about the medical shipment in new york city back in march, the comforts, wasnt exactly a subtle arrival. Were told we needed it desperately and every member of the 1200 member crew, every one of the thousand hospital beds. This was a crisis, the experts told us, we had to bring out the big guns. Where expecting up to 50 patients a day to be admitted on board the comfort. Were talking about some 1,000 hospital beds, but the greatest ad sites are the 1200 medical personnel. Of nurses surgeons, doctors all up and down the east coast. Tucker okay, we knew much less then we know now but whats infuriating nobody ever goes back and compare his reality. You heard the estimates, 50 patients a day. By the time the ship left, four months later, the comfort traded 182 people in a month. Not 50 a day. Just on the street from the comforts of the army corps of engineers converted the Convention Center into a hospital. Thousands of the beds went unused. How much did that cost you . Has anyone bothered to ask the question . No, no ones ever asked because no one cares. For the last half of the year, the government did more to help indonesians then Small Business owners in the country, the ones actually paying their taxes. At a certain point, the question becomes why are they still paying their taxes . Is there a reason why any Small Business owner, any Restaurant Owner, and would send a single dime to the eternal revenue . There praying property tax, paying police who cant do their jobs, and theyre doing it for the benefit of politicians who explicitly hate them. Theyre getting nothing in return. Why are they paying their taxes . People like her are beginning to ask the question. If shes a single mother who owns a bar and restaurant in minnesota, a small town with a total population 448. At times, she also opens her restaurant for Nondenominational Church services. Those are two mortal sins in modern minnesota. Allowing people to eat and allowing people to worship. For doing those things, the state of minnesota is finding her hundreds of dollars a day. They suspended her Liquor License. Meanwhile, indian casinos which are not paying the taxes that she is, are allowed to operate like theres no pandemic at all. How is this happening . Whats the scene inside havens garden, this dangerous restaurant . Wire officials in minnesota so determined to destroy it and her . We took a look around and theres no violence inside, no ones throwing rocks spray painting buildings, or chanting blm slogans, maybe if they were the place would stay open. This is what minnesota officials consider it clear and present danger to the safety of their state. That case is not unusual, weve talked to many Business Owners. All over the country and they told us the same story. Dave moore in the upper midwest for example tried for months to keep his business open. Its called dnrs daily cafe. Hes got no help from the government and instead government officials worked overtime to destroy him. Hes had it. Watch. Several months of frustration and i think im speaking for a whole lot of millions and millions of americans, im speaking for here. Our socalled leaders using our tax money to pay themselves while their instilling policy to ruin our businesses and lives. Not making much sense to me and after months and months of watching this, they put me in a position where you know you can only be backed in a corner so far, weve got to come out and find a little bit. Tucker that man was calmer than he probably is inside, and he put it crisply. You can only be backed in the corner so far. In some cases, thats literally true. True in september when the School Resource officer tasered a woman ohio for the crime of watching her sons middle School Football game in the stands. She wasnt wearing a mask, now she wasnt sitting near anyone. If she hurting anyone. But the authorities decided the safest course of action was to assault her violently in front of her child. Get off of me it off of me im not doing anything wrong get off of me what the [bleep] is wrong with you get off of me youre not arresting me for nothing come on taser, wow. Teasing this lady over and over. Tucker noticed none of the other men in the stands did anything to stop it. Now we try to suspend judgment in moments like this, people make mistakes under pressure and week of the benefit of the doubt particular to malt Law Enforcement but theres no way to watch the video and be appalled because its disgustin. Authorities elected leaders in the state of ohio were not embarrassed when the video came to light and in fact they went ahead and pressed charges against alicia kit. The crime of watching a Football Game sitting alone without wearing a mask. The Pretrial Hearing last month, to her great credit she refused to a plea deal. She knows she did nothing wrong, she didnt topple a statue, she didnt loot a store, torch wendys. She believes this country she ought to watch her son play football. Her trials and parenting my january come i hope shell come on the show its infuriating. Its not sustainable over time. Tonight, we will devote most of the hour to highlighting the story so people like alicia and dave morris, people wouldnt go along with this. Who stood up for their freedom even in the face of profound personal and financial cost. These people would not have been lawbreaker six months ago, we force them to become that. But before we get to their story, we want to take it back to christmas 1918. Many ways, 1918 was a very different time, in harsher world back then. No internet to entertain us, huber eats her door to bring us food. Modern medicine was a long way off and people died of minor infections. At the same time, millions of americans were confronting the very same things today. A global pandemic, government imposed lock downs, financial ruins and then sometimes death. This is why the british newspaper said to its audience at the time. For life on this old planet will always be a struggle and for most of us, a bitter and triumphant struggle. To all our readers, a happy christmas and a bright and hopeful new year. Well put. We send the same wishes to you tonight. Adam corolla is the author of im your emotional support animal. We thought a lot about the effects of the lockdowns and weve been talking to you, adam corolla, since the first day these went into effect an hour at the end of the year, nine months later. Whats your assessment . It said Small Business owners have to become essentially the french underground. Because big business and big attack and Big Government are all sort of colluding to squash Small Businesses. I think our last chance for Small Businesses and Small Business standing up. Tucker the french underground. How long did it take you to connect those dots . So many things have been that once. We had the arrival of the coronavirus, the lockdowns, the blm riots. How long did it take you to kind of figure out that this was the big against the small, the powerful against the week . I didnt think about it until last night when i was watching an episode of hogan heroes and then it came together for me. Tucker [laughs] im glad i asked you that question, what a great show. How do you think were going to come out of this . Well, people are going to have to stop apologizing and people have to stop apologizing in this country for everything. Somebody figured out on the left if you accused people of endangering other people by being selfish, by opening your business for Outdoor Dining, if we call everyone a racist or xenophobic, homophobic, we can get everyone to shut up. And it worked for a long time. But at some point, the people who were getting their finger wag at them constantly come on talking about taxpayers, parents, Business Owners, these people got to stand up and go, fine. Call me a racist, call me xenophobic. Sam endangering people. Im no longer apologizing, i dont care what the twitter mob says anymore. Youre the boy who called wolf who called racism, who called everything. At some point, were going to hit a saturation point and the people, the honest people, the hardworking people in the Business Owners are just going to have to rise up and go i dont care what you call me. Tucker thats right. Thi was getting emotional listening to say that. I hope you have a Merry Christmas, thank you. Thanks, tucker, Merry Christmas. Tucker back in april, we did a unexpectedly remarkable interview and talk to a man called rick savage, the owner of the Brewing Company in western maine. At times, state officials told rick savage he needs to close his business for health and safety reasons. Of course, walmart and home depot another Big Box Stores were allowed to remain open because they were the ones who send money to politician. Its how science works. But rick savage, alone among Business Owners did not go along with it and he came on this show and announced he planned to defy the orders. So, weve had enough of it come over encouraging all businesses to open up. We should never have been shot down in the first place. We need to open back up or were going to lose a third of our restaurants. Who knows how many motels and other businesses. If you were advocating for everybody, not just my restaurant, its time to go back to work. Tucker for the crime of saying that in public, for complaining, and means incompetent governor shannon mills made it her mission to destroy rick savages life. She took away his liquor licen license, reopen the courts so they could find rick savage. Eventually, she had the restaurant shut down completely. Rick savage still lives in mai maine. He still standing, joining us tonight with an update on where his life is now. Thank you so much for coming on. Where is your life now . You really, really took a lot of abuse for that episode on the show. Where are you tonight . Well, tucker, we dont have any licenses, we got shot down for two weeks for the food license and a month for a Liquor License. A day before we were going to open back up and start food, the Human Health Services sent us an email that they were never going to give us our license back again which expired december 19th. Weve been in court over that. Right after that, a Liquor License at theyre not going to give us the license again and stated that it was because of our character. We are in court and the judge asked the assistant District Attorney with the merit was behind on giving us the license back on the health side and she said because they think were going to violate it in the future. Tucker your character. If they dont like you, you can operate a business in the state. Looking back on this and back to april, if you had taken the course so many others took witches sort of eat the bullet and go along with it and take the orders, not respectfully to the authoritarian in charge of the state, you would have your restaurant open right now. Do you regret telling the truth in public . Not at all. We are standing strong and were going to open back out. We are actually opening going to run back. Were not going to serve alcohol until the 30th of december because thats what the court order was and then were going full force business as usual. Actually going to put the pandemic behind us and try to do business as normal. Tucker it seems like they had to crush you, they had to try to wreck your life because if they allowed you to complain in public, maybe others would do the same thing. Do you feel singled out . No delaware singled out, we had 35, 40 inspections, undercover agents, now theres a 9 00 curfew theyve been outside my restaurant to see if are going to close at 9 00. I havent been there but there watching my stuff come out of the kitchen to make sure they have masks on. Its out of control and everybody in the state of maine is ready to go back to work and move on in the future and get covid behind us and honestly, this lockdown is just killing the state of maine. Tucker if you can survive this, man, it will be an inspiration i think not just to your state but to the rest of the country. Were rooting for you, rick savage, Merry Christmas and thank you. Thank you, tucker. Tucker earlier this year, the people in charge decided to nullify every part of the bill of rights, freedom of assembly, the right to defend yourself, freedom of speech. It just amount of time before religious liberty was eliminated and has been. Threatened if he had mass at church, he did not obey and he fought back. We will tell you how he did. Next. Fighting cancer doesnt start here. Not in tubes or bags. Not in scans or scribbles. Fighting cancer doesnt even start in a lab. The truth is, fighting cancer starts with you. Covid has devastated our funding for lifesaving research. Help us help patients. Donate today. People are saving hundreds in a land not so far away,ients. On the most Reliable Network with xfinity mobile. They can choose from the latest phones or bring their own. And because they get nationwide 5g at no extra cost, they live happily ever after. Again again your wireless. Your rules. Your way to stay closer together this Holiday Season. Switch and save up to 400 a year on your wireless bill. And get 150 off when you buy a samsung a series phone. Learn more at xfinitymobile. Com. Tucker welcome back to a special edition of Tucker Carlson tonight. Again, its hard to believe this can happen in this country but it has. Earlier this year, officials in new jersey threatened a priest with jail if he held mass in his church. The priest was kevin robinson, Catholic Priest at the st. Anthony church. Robinson responded by filing a lawsuit against the governor in jersey, phil murphy. He joins us tonight with a update on where things stand. And thank you so much for coming on. Youre a priest and part of your job is to help people worship their god and you try to do it in the state threatened to arrest you any filed suit. Where are you now . Well, thank you for having me back on and i appreciate everything you said. So, we shut down for two months, but i went on saturdays to confessions, counseling. Harassment for many local authorities. If we pentecost at the met end of may ends of the outd