Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean Hour 1: Where Is It That We The People Are To Submit To Tyranny Hour 2: WE Do Not Have a Monarchial System of Government We Are Not a Monarchy: The Magna Carta, 1 Samuel 8, and Why Scripture Never Commands Submission to Tyranny In a solo broadcast, Bradlee Dean argues that America has never been a monarchy and that scripture never commands believers to submit to tyranny, tracing his case through the Mayflower Compact, the Magna Carta, 1 Samuel 8, the Great Seal, and Daniel's fiery furnace. Sons Of Liberty History And A Monarchy Rebuttal Bradlee Dean opens the broadcast alone with a recorded history of the original Sons of Liberty, recalling the Liberty Tree in Boston, the Liberty Pole in New York, the fight against the Stamp Act, and the Boston Tea Party, quoting John Adams's praise for its order and "sublimity." After the show's theme and a station identification describing Sons of Liberty as grounded in a Christian biblical worldview, Dean greets listeners and lays out his thesis: Americans wrongly believe the United States operates as a monarchy. He reads Romans 12:21 and 1 Peter 2:14 on government's purpose to punish evildoers, pairs that with the Constitution's opening words, "We the people," and argues the people are the government. He quotes John F. Kennedy on rights coming from God rather than the state, and Abraham Lincoln on overthrowing corrupt men rather than the Constitution itself, setting up the day's argument that America is not ruled by kings. The Mayflower Compact As America's First Charter Dean tells listeners he was taping television the previous day with Perry Atkinson, out of Oregon, who asked why young people today do not know where the nation came from, and Dean uses that exchange as a bridge into the Mayflower Compact. He reads the 1620 document in full, noting its signers covenant together for the "advancement of the Christian faith" and consent to "just and equal laws," and calls it the real seedbed of the Declaration of Independence, three-quarters of which, he says, simply listed grievances the colonists were throwing off. He repeats his opening theme, that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, found nowhere commanding believers to disobey God in order to obey man, and gives out the call-in number, inviting any disagreeing listener to test their case on air. He reminds new listeners that Sons of Liberty Radio exists so people think for themselves rather than making others the measure of their conduct. Caleb Collier, An Atheist Caller, And The Magna Carta After the show's theme and a station identification, a female announcer invites churchless listeners to Dean's Sunday service, and Caleb Collier, host of Church and State, introduces himself and calls Dean one of the greatest theologians and patriots of the era. Dean jokes about a replaced studio clock, then recalls a radio exchange years earlier with an atheist caller who agreed that lying, stealing, coveting, and murder are against the law yet could not say who established it, a story he uses to argue America's legal conscience is inescapably Christian. He accuses most pulpits of revising that history, then recalls seeing the Magna Carta parchment at the Library of Congress and later explaining it during one of dozens of trips to Michigan. Dean walks through its 1215 signing at Runnymede, where rebellious barons forced King John to stop taxing and ruling arbitrarily, and lists rights it recorded, from no taxation without consent to required witnesses for indictments, citing scholar Helen Silving's argument that the charter subjects the king to God and the law rather than Greek or Roman philosophy. 1 Samuel 8 And America's Political Idols Dean reads passages on grace from R.W. Barbour and Adam Clarke's catechism, then turns to 1 Samuel 8, where Israel's elders demand a king "like all nations" and the Lord tells Samuel the people have rejected him, not Samuel. He walks through Samuel's warning that such a king will take sons for armies and chariots, daughters for his kitchens, and fields and flocks through taxation, and Israel's insistence anyway. Dean applies the passage to the present, arguing Americans have made idols of politicians, contrasting a president's dozens of protective vehicles with Harry Truman walking the streets shaking hands. He connects the Declaration of Independence's four references to the Creator with the Statue of Liberty's broken chain and tablet, a Woodrow Wilson quotation calling America a Christian nation, and a Minnesota Supreme Court mural of Moses. He contrasts a biblical view of limited, God-ordained government, which he says produces patriotism, with a pagan view of unlimited state authority rooted in evolution, which produces state worship and tyranny, before closing the hour with a meditation on God's sovereignty. Romans 13, John Hancock, And Attacks On Pastors Returning for a second hour, Dean takes up Romans 13, asking whether Christians who cite it to demand blind obedience would really submit if a president revived the medieval custom of prima nocta, and argues all human authority, from fathers to employers to civil magistrates, is limited by its purpose. He retells John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence in oversized letters so the British crown would not need spectacles to read his name, quoting Hancock's call that resistance to tyranny is a Christian duty. Dean contrasts that with Franklin Graham, claiming Graham urged Donald Trump to delay acting on abortion while funding for it rose past six hundred million dollars, a figure Dean does not source. A caller named Carl, from Delano, Minnesota, phones in to praise the ministry's content as truthful guidance through disinformation. Dean then names Mark Driscoll and John Hagee alongside Graham, calling them Zionists and controlled opposition who teach congregations to hide behind prayer, reading Jeremiah 23:14 and Revelation 2:9 to argue, without citing supporting scholarship, that Zionists are not actually Jewish. The Great Seal, William Blackstone, And The Fiery Furnace Dean turns to the Great Seal of the United States, describing Thomas Jefferson's edit of a design by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams: Pharaoh's chariot pursuing the Israelites through the parted Red Sea while Moses, lit by a pillar of fire, extends his hand over the waters beneath the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." He introduces William Blackstone's commentaries on English common law, built, he says, on the Torah, and reads Patrick Henry's warning that forgetting God forges tyrants' chains. After an endorsement from Perry Atkinson of Dove Radio and TV, Dean quotes John Wycliffe and Senator John Glenn, laments that the church has lost its love for truth, citing Charles Spurgeon's lines about dust-covered Bibles and clowns entertaining goats, and retells Frederick Douglass praying twenty years for freedom before putting his own feet to his prayers. He closes with Patrick Henry's "Caesar had his Brutus" treason speech and Daniel's fiery furnace, where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to bow and emerge unsinged, telling listeners he is only halfway through his material before signing off.
