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Speaker 2: I usually have the clarity and conviction of the English language,
command of the words to use, the proper utterances and
verb tenses and things and ways to communicate, but the
Panthers games leave me stuttering. It's like, wait, what you know?
Inability to know where the first down is, inability to
make a pass. Just watching that game last night was painful.
I'm not trying to be judgmentally here. I would love
I'm shocked that the Panthers are doing that as well
this season as they are, But when you watch them
sometimes it looks like a high school team could beat them. Now, Nick, Nick,
are you over there? Are you are you listening to this?
Did you guys?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: What did you you listen to some of it is
it just me or is it just painful sometimes to
listen to her watch? Well, first of all, the radio
broadcast is excellent. But beyond that, yeah, it was tough
for us. I agree, but it's just yuah, it sounds well,
it sounded like we started off but then it just
it was one of those nights again. It was right,
the defense had three intersept they intercepted San Francisco three times.
The Panthers couldn't turn that into any points. It was embarrassing.
It was just like, oh, but anyway, twenty to nine
last night, and yet and yet they're you know, only
like a half game out of first place in their division,
which says a lot about how bad the division because
the Bugs lost the night before. Anyway, this is a
political talk show, and yet we're endeavoring to entertain you
with regale you with tales of Panthers gone wayward. And
Christian McCaffrey just single handedly destroyed the Panthers. It must
have been an interesting revenge grim. He said, yeah, you guys,
you could have kept me, could have built a better
team around me, but I'm just gonna run all over you.
So anyway, chat Adam sitting in for Pete Calender. The
boy sounds a little different. It's me, it's not he.
He is hopefully enjoying his time off as I take
hold of the microphone here and have a great time
at News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WPT. If
you would like to get in on the conversation, because
we will cover a number of topics, you're welcome to
do so seven oh four five, seven oh eleven ten,
or maybe you have one on your own. We had
a caller yesterday, Ernest talking about the the military with
these ex military or people in Congress that had made
a video kind of alluding to the fact that troops
should disobey their commanders and like Mark Kelly had, you know,
and he was in it, slucking a bunch of six
of them total. And you have to wonder his questions
were germane. He's asked who was behind the video? Who
there had to be. They didn't just come to this
on their own. It was organized. It was structured who
turned it down because I'm sure other people were approached
about it in Congress, but these Democrats just went and
led you to believe that there was some kind of
illegal commands that were taking place. Now that in and
of itself accomplished the propaganda they wanted to. It got
out there, and so it leaves in people's minds this
thing that illegal commands are coming down the pipe. And
when they were interviewed about it, are you aware of
any illegal commands? No, they're not. They just believe it
could happen. They believe it it could not that it is.
And then they tried to turn their attention to the
domestic front. Well, you know, deploying US troops on our soil.
That's bad. They don't put context. They don't have any context.
The thing. It's like when you see somebody driving slowly
your neighborhood. You're mad, You've got to be somewhere, you
got an appointment, and then you get around them and
you realize, you know, hey, they're like, just I'm glad
they were able to drive. They were driving safely, they
were just driving the speed limit. Context, but these Democrats
had no context for their assertion that the US military
was used in some kind of surreptitious way, The camp
commander in chief was doing something unconstitutional. But they wanted
to leave that image in your head. And Ernest was
great to point that out and ask very difficult questions
that now other people are asking. So we'll see how
that ends up. Now, I want to kind of start
there going into this, we talked about, you know, the
socialist the Mundani thing. Not to belabor it, but just
as you watch the Democratic Party the non Democratic Party,
I guess I should say Democrats are not very democratic.
You saw that last year. It's not hard to say
they weren't democratic. They didn't even have a primary. They
threw their one guy under the bus, and then they
handpicked the successor to be the person having not received
any votes during a primary, to be their standard bearer
into the election. So they weren't democratic at all about that.
But having said all that, and there's a story about
the Biden administration that we'll get into later about immigrants
and airports, and it's just the more we learn, the
worse it looks, and the Trump durand syndrome behind a
lot of the actions of the left right now. But
this all kind of come comes home to roost here
in Charlotte because you have a mayor that doesn't seem
to care about the law, that that hand picks what
she thinks the law should be. And the sad reality
about that, and we'll get especially as we get after
the brank is what does that mean? I mean, if
you're a Charlotte tean, or even if you're in the
ancillary areas, if you're in Huntersville or mint Hill or Matthews, whatever,
if you're in these other areas in and around Charlotte,
or even in Union County or Gas or Coberras, and
you look inward, you look at where the city of
Charlotte is heading. Okay, let's just say, what is the
course that's being charted by the leadership of those running
the city vilials being the mayor, and it's a mayor,
it's it's a mayor manager form of government for most
the word Dylan Rual state the mayor doesn't have a
lot of power, but it certainly set a tone and
she makes comments. And remember how they kind of covered
up the death of the young lady on the on
the light rail, not covered ups too strong, but didn't
far from that, they withheld information from the public about
that death, an unnecessary death, someone who had been through
the system multiple times. But if you were to look
just objectively, I don't care if you're a Democrat or
Republican or unaffiliated, and you were to look at the
direction Charlotte is headed. So Charlotte has many wonderful things, banking,
It's got so many things going for it. But remember
the HP two situation started in Charlotte, the men and
women's restroom. That issue really kind of started germinated in Charlotte.
It's laughable to look back on, but remember how big
an issue that became from Pat McCrory. But if you're
looking at Charlotte and where it's headed politically, do you
believe the city is headed toward the right, toward fewer regulations,
more efficiencies lower? Do you believe that's the direction that
has been charted? Or do you believe it has the
aspirations to be more like Chicago or Memphis? Do you
believe that it seems to be turning its back on
law abiding citizens and picking and choosing other political issues
rather than legal ones. In other words, is it is
aspiring to be a Seattle? Is it aspiring to be
a Mom Donnie kind of New York? Now I'm not
saying that Vililes is like Mumdanni, but you certainly need
to question the direction that and I'll get into that
after the break. We will talk about some of the
statements the mayor's made. What the question why? I would
ask that, and many of you who listen to this
kind of broadcast or listen to Peter or Vins or
any the other people. But you know, these are issues
that come up frequently, and then you have to wonder.
You can't blame the mayor entirely for this, because you
have to wonder, what are the citizens? Why do the
citizens not seem to care the people who live in Charlotte.
I mean, many of the other areas around Charlet there
very conservative, and maybe that's it. Maybe that those who
can leave and those who do have the option they
leave Charlotte. It leaves everyone behind that thinks that they
are owed something by town officials, that they are owed
something by the government. And so you end up heading
in that leftist way, that more socialist way of thinking
that you can just redistribute, you can just redistribute.
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Speaker 2: We do get phone calls if you're interested in being
on the in on the conversation seven O four five,
seven oh eleven ten. And with that being said, CJ,
I appreciate you calling in. How are you today?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, well I haven't talked to you in a while.
Appreciate you. But I've concerned about this raid thing. And
when they just it was told that if you have
a criminal record, you could be arrested. But apparently they
said today three hundred were arrested, but not all of
them are criminals. Now that is concerning to all of it.
They can just sit and rest arrest anybody. I thought
it was only criminals like from.
Speaker 2: These jaels and the CJJ CJ. Hold on, CJJ, CJ, CJ, CJ. Well,
let me just correct one thing. They didn't arrest them.
They detain people and determine what their status is. And
that even the gentleman Generaldo Heraldo Ortiz Puerto Rican that
was pulled out, he's been detained twice and released. They
didn't even take him. They didn't process him in jail
or anything like that. So yes, that does if you're
in certain groups and they bring them in that does
that make it great?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is that a great thing?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: So I can't disagree with you there, But do you
are you interested in any of these people that are
here illegally and have been arrested, released by Charlotte and
not complying with immigration officials? Are you interested in those
people being left on the streets.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm having trouble and having trouble hearing you, honey,
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well I pause. What I was asking is
do you think that the people that are being arrested
that are criminals should be arrested and deported?
Speaker 3: Well, I would say that someone that has serious credentials.
You know, there have been murders of rapist, this type
of thing. They're the ones I thought they were going
to try to get off the street.
Speaker 2: Basically, Well, CJ, let me read you a couple. Let
me let me read you. CJ. Let me read you, CJ,
let me read you a couple. Okay, So these are
people that were arrested in Charlotte and released with not complying.
Hordan Renaldo Chavez, criminal alien from Costa Rica arrested for
indecentelebrities with the children, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor,
attempted statutories, sexual offense with a child, solicitation of a
child by He was released after authorities in Charlotte failed
to honor the ICE detainer. Then you have Osmond Ornando
Pia's order Ties, a criminal illegal alien from Hondoras statutory
sex offense with a child in decent liberties with a
child sex sex by a substitute parent. Costume was released
by Charlotte officials after he failed they failed to honor
the ICE detainer so he could be deported. Jefferson Mooyse
Modatina Sorto, a criminal alien from Hondora's sexual battery resisting
an officer, fleeing, eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, also
held by Charlotte, released without honoring the ICE detainer. So
Charlotte is processing people and releasing child sex offenders into
the streets, multiple people. And I've got lists and list
of these people, and these are also being arrested. I
don't hear you saying you're concerned about that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I am concerned very much. So that doesn't make
any sense either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why would Charlotte be releasing these people back in
verify what exactly who they're arresting, why type of thing,
So you can look at that.
Speaker 3: You can go to that what's going on.
Speaker 2: You can go to DHS dot gov. They have all
the list of people who have been arrested, and there's
over three hundred of them now three fifty I believe
in counting that. You can look at their criminal you
can look at their criminal records. But this happened. I mean,
I just want you to understand the context. The reason
this happened is because Charlotte officials, for whatever reason being
a sanctuary city I don't know, will arrest people that
do have criminal backgrounds and do have crimes and then
releasing them and not cooperating with the government. Now, the
mayor of this city has said she took an oath
to defend the constitution, to defend the laws of the country,
and she isn't interested in doing that, And I think
that's problematic. I mean, would you think it's problematic if
you have groups of individuals that are leading a great
city like Charlotte that don't want to comply with the law.
Speaker 3: That's definitely our mayor is I think is corrupt my
personal opinion, okay, and I wish they'd gotten a new
mayor in and clean things up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'm not going to get into that one.
I'm not as profoundly knowledgeable about whether she's corrupt or not.
I know some other Charlotte officials that have gone down
that path and left for those reasons. But I do
I really agree with you on this. I don't want
Americans Puerto Rican citizens are American citizens. I don't want
them arrested. I don't want them to be deporting willy nilly.
I want them to verify who they're getting, and if
they're finding criminals and people who are illegal, get those
It is an almost a herculean impossible task. I think
they're doing the best they can. I wish that Charlotte
would stop trying to harbor and release criminals and start
at least cooperating so that this didn't have to take place.
So that would be my take on it. Fair enough, fair.
Speaker 3: Enough, I agree, Thank you very much. I enjoy hearing you.
I wish you could be on all the time.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well that is that is high praise indeed, CJ.
And thank you for calling in and being part of
the broadcast. Okay, you're welcome. So and again I would
agree with her this. It is a Being an American
means you you believe everyone has the right. Meaning you're
an American. You don't have the right to not be processed.
They can't just arrest you willy nilly, and so detaining
someone and determining status happens. Heck, it happens on college
campuses when copsule detained students, you know, and they're drunken, disorderly,
or maybe they're not, or maybe they suspect them of
underage drinking. It happens. It doesn't make things right. They
didn't mirandize them. They're not arresting them. They're detaining and
finding out status. So that's suspicion. So if there is
reasonable suspicion, they do. But this whole website about people
who have been arrested that Charlotte Charlotte's I don't know
law enforcement, you know, due to sanctuaries, I don't know.
But when you have someone that's another vehicle, theft, larceny, trespassing, burglary,
forced entry, property damaged possession of stolen property, in drug possession,
that's one person was released after authorities failed to honor
the ICE detainer in Charlotte. And then you wonder how
someone gets killed on a light rail when they've been
through the system, And that was someone who was a
legal citizen, but it was a criminal that was released
back into the streets. So there are serious questions that
Charlotte needs to answer for. There are serious questions that
either the council, the mayor law enforcement. I don't know,
but if law enforcement were actually working with the US
government rather than against the US government, then this wouldn't happen.
But our operation, Charlotte's Web is certainly delivering. And the
list of criminals is I was just reading you the
list of criminals that had been detained from Charlotte and
then released back into the public. These these sex offenders
with miners and stuff that have been released back into
the public and not detained. And so ICE has a
list of those, and it also has the list of
people that have been arrested, and it it is, oh,
there's some bad there's some bad ones out there all right.
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Speaker 2: You can just like Trump all you well, sometimes he's
just hilarious, and the pardoning of the turkeys today has
become kind of a stand up routine and before I
get into Mayor Lyles, which I wish she could be funny,
but I found her to have that great sense of humor,
so and I'm not going to play the closer. It
was kind of read, they're funny enough if I've kind
of tried to give you context of the tradition of
pardoning two turkeys. By the way, they're going back to
Raleigh to live this wonderful life of turkey whatever, like
as if the turkey would know. In a hilarious moment,
Trump declares last year's Biden turkey pardens to be null
and void. The turkeys were about to be processed. That
Trump has saved them. Everyone's cracking up, he used, But
he said, Biden used an auto pen for the turkey
pardons last year, so I have the official duty to determine,
and I have determined it. Last year's turkey partons are invalid,
and are the pardons of about every other person that
was pardoned after the Where's Hunter. The turkey's known as
Peach and Blossom last year have been located and they
were on their way to be processed. But I have
stopped that journey and I'm officially parting them as well.
They will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner. He went
on to say that our Secretary RFK Junior has certified
that the turkeys Turkey's being pardoned today are the first
ever Maha turkeys make America healthy again turkey weighing over
fifty pounds each, these are two of the largest turkeys
ever presented. In other words, they could be fat, but
they're still healthy turkeys. Hen says, there were about the
turkeys that I'm partying were about to be sent to
President Naive bukelis Secot in El Salvador, but he stopped it.
I'd like to thank the president of that country, he said, Goblin, wallll.
We're going straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador.
Even those birds don't want to be there. He's just
having so much fun with this, and he says President
Trump was about to name the turkeys he's partnering Chuck,
and but then I realized, he said, I wouldn't be
partoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I
wouldn't care what Malania told me. So it's just become
kind of a comedic and this is just happening in
the fast like thirty minutes or so that that this
is going on. It is kind of funny just to
add some levity to you know, kind of It's so
easy to get this, uh, to get overly toxic. You know,
it's so easy even I try every day to not
be toxic. I profoundly disagree with the political left. I
think they're going down the socialist strain. It's it's almost
as if they have no read on history whatsoever. When
when their party continues to track to the left, I
know many rank and file Democrats that are friends of
mine that are very concerned about this issue. And I
know many of you in the audience, because I know
this audience is very diverse politically and every other way imaginable.
And it's got to disconcerting to watch it tack toward
AOC Bernie Sanders Mandani, you know, to see it move,
and it's it's got to be difficult for mainstream Democrats
to celebrate those victories say, look, our party is doing great,
because many of those Democrats back almost half of them,
and this is this is also disconcerting. Almost half of
them in Congress voted for or just over half voted
for a condemnation of socialism. The more alarming component to
this is last week's resolution one hundred plus Democrats voted
against condemning socialism. That is alarming on yourself that people
believe that that in any way, that but for tweaking
it here and there, that somehow the results of socialism
would be different. It never is. It always ends up
in people starving, people being killed, political enemies being hunted down.
It always ends up up. And there's probably never been
a system of government that has killed more humans anywhere
on the planet. If you add them up over time,
it's just astounding. So but I want to get back
to the Charlotte situation as we get you know, as
we wrap up our first hour year, and anyone who
wants to get in on the conversation, by the way,
Chat Adam sitting in for Pete Callender here on News
Talk eleven ten ninety nine to three seven oh four
five seven zero eleven ten, five seven eleven ten, you
can get into the conversation. Is that the story I
think the Charlotte media, and I don't want to be
disrespectful to them, you know, it's it's kind of disappointing
that they choose to be so political, And what I
mean by that is, rather than really digging into this issue,
it's more important to them to like show Operations Charlotte's
Web from only one perspective that somehow it's bad, without
trying to provide context. Why did Operation Charlotte's Web come about?
What was the City of Charlotte doing that led to
the decision to do this and expand it's now expanding
toward Raleigh, another city that's decided to go left and
asking tough questions. So I want to read to you what, Well,
maybe I'll get this right. But the oath that she
took when she took office, So the oath that Mayor
Lyles took is that that she did solemnly Well, here
we go, I, Mayor lyle By Lyles, do solemnly swear
affirm that I will support and maintain the Constitution and
laws of the United States and the Constitution in laws
of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith, and I will faithfully
discharge the dues of my office as Mayor of the
City of Charlotte. So help me God, she took that oath,
she didn't take sit and say, well, I'm going to
take this oath sept for immigration laws because I don't
like immigration laws. So she took the oath to defend
and support the laws of the United States. So when
she decides to hand pick and to oppose that, she
she has technically violated her oath of office. Now that
may not matter to many people. It should, it should
matter to her, but it doesn't seem to. And I
say that because there's there's a story over at Fox News.
It makes it's a national story, and and I think
it's a good one. It says that, you know, violent
crime in Charlotte has ignited a political storm, with Republican
lawmakers pointing to the city's rising homicide rate. As mayor
Villiles leadership has faltered. Quote, when you're in charge of
a city, it's your job to put the best possible
foot forward and create as best of a perception as
you can. Now that that perception may or may not
match reality. In the case of Charlotte, the perception does
not match the reality. Abdul Ali, North Carolina twelve geopchair
person told Fox News Digital. Now, granted that's going to
be a political perspective. Recent federal immigration raids in Charlotte
area and lawmakers calling for National Guard deployments have complicated
City Hall's messaging on public safety success. The Charlotte Meckelburg
Police Department's third quarter report shows overall crime down eight
percent from January through September compared with a year earlier.
Lyles's point of those numbers to argue that investments in recruiting, pay,
and target enforcement are working. However, the message comes in
Charlotte faces intensifying scrutiny over violent crime, showing how much
homicides have gone up truly violent crime.
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Speaker 2: I do want to go back to the story I
was talking about with it Charlotte Mayer Viylyiles and talking
about the crime rate that is ongoing, and the fact
that you know, this isn't easy, This isn't this should
be a no brainer. But for the hatred, the hatred
of one person is really pushing those on the left
into these I don't know, seven levels of hell. I
don't Dante, I don't know what it is that these
people want to do. But they're rather than just say
you know what, we all, regardless of party, have a
vested interest in making our community safer, would rather say
we're just going to oppose. We're going to create a
sanctuary city, which is not an American thing. It's it's not.
It's there's nothing, there's nothing, nothing American about creating a
sanctuary city. It is a political statement that is anathema
to the laws of the United States about our sovereignty.
It is absolutely anathema to those who have worked to
become sentiment citizens. It is absolutely a horrific person. I
don't care in regards to your political party, all of
you should be against sanctuary cities because it's a false premise.
It's not. It means you have to commit you have
to commit multiple crime shift to get across the border.
You have to travel into our country illegally with no documentation,
no no regard to what your past record had been,
whether you've been a criminal or time or escape from
a prison, doesn't matter. Once you get to the city
of Charlotte. If you're in a sanctuary city, you can
reside there, and if you don't break any laws while
you're there, it's okay, or maybe they don't know you
broke them. But what you've done is you've created an
unsafe environment. But for the fact that you either hate Republicans,
or hate Conservatives, or hate Trump, whatever it is, it
does not serve the public interest to have that perspective.
So this operation Charlotte's Web could easily have been avoided
had the leaders in Charlotte said, you know what, I
don't care who you are. If you're here illegally, we're
going to work with immigration officials and you're going to
go back to the country where you belong. And if
you have a criminal record, you're going to move to
the front of the line. But you're not going to
come to our city, use our resources and take advantage
of our system and move ahead of other people who
are working very hard to become citizens and are playing
by the rules. You're not going to do it. We
have enough criminals here without adding to them. But that's
not what happened. So, you know, the mayor may want
to say, hey, things are down and better, but the
rise in violent crime in charlill I go back through
the story a little bit. It's on Fox News, then
you have be oh, fox News a bunch of conservative news. No,
it's a story, it's a genuine story. The messaging comes
as Charlotte faces intensifying scrutiny over violent crime, with Republican
lawmakers pointing to the sharp rise in homicides and assaults
in the Queen cities bustling downtown. It's almost weekly daily
at this point that we're hearing about the homicides in Charlotte.
We've averaged about one hundred or so annually on this
Mayor's watch. Ali's the twelfth District GP guy sharing his
recent attendance of multiple vigils for young children killed. I
think the perception that we're trying to create is one thing,
but the reality is different. And obviously there's an epidemic
of underreporting of certain crimes to gen statistics. We've seen this.
We've had the FBI even tell us that cities do
under report things or don't fly reports to make their
stats look better, but that doesn't mean it's better. The
rise in violent crimes prompted Republican lawmakers to urge Democratic
Governor Josh Stein to deploy the National Guard. For now,
the governor has resisted that call, and local officials have
argued that public safety is a local responsibility. Fine, local responsibility,
then enforce the laws and prosecute criminals. Just do it,
and then you can resist those calls all you want.
But you guys are acting like there's not a problem
when there is. The city faced eight homicides in seven days. Recently,
the murder rateing uptown Charlotte is now two hundred percent
higher than it was a year ago, set a letter
from a trio of Republican lawmakers. According to the Fraternal
Order of Police, aggravated assaults involving knives or guns I
presented from eighty six in twenty twenty four to one
hundred and eleven and twenty twenty five, and personal strong
arm robberies have increased from twenty six to thirty one
in the same period. Lyle was most recently re elected
when he a fifth term. Her reelection came after her
leadership was scrutinized for her response to Arena Zarutzka's violence
stabbing in August. Again, there's no reason, there's no reason
that this can't be bipartisan, except for the fact that
the Democrats are afraid that Trump will get credit.
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