1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,559 Speaker 1: What's going on. 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,839 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,160 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, I daily 6 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:19,480 show prep with all the links, become a patron, go 7 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:23,399 to thepeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,320 Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. 9 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:29,559 And again, thank you so much for your support. So 10 00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:32,840 apparently we have a leak problem inside the Department of 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:41,960 Homeland Security. Somebody is leaking right about the locations of 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,359 ICE operations. 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: So this is the resistance. 14 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security as a leak problem. It 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,079 marks now the second time might actually even be the 16 00:00:54,119 --> 00:00:58,960 third that an ICE raid has been revealed to the 17 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:07,519 public beforehand. So there was first an ICE raid in Colorado, Aurora, 18 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:13,400 Colorado that was leaked last week. Now the Los Angeles 19 00:01:13,439 --> 00:01:20,200 Times is reporting on another operation that is in the 20 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:26,840 works for Los Angeles and they got the documentation to 21 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:33,120 prove it. So somebody has leaked the operational documents to 22 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:40,280 the LA Times and they published them. So this gets 23 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,359 into a lot of different things. But like the the 24 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,760 media side of this, like, what is the news value 25 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,640 of reporting that an ice operation is going to occur? See, 26 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,599 that's the kind of discussion that would occur, and I 27 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,680 would like to believe did occur, but I have no 28 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:05,920 idea if it did or not. And if it did, 29 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:10,560 how long did it occur? Was there anybody taking a 30 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:14,840 position that said, no, we should not publish this right 31 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,080 just like, and this may come as a surprise to you, 32 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:22,039 but we get informed in the media. We get informed 33 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:29,039 a lot of times in advance of a traffic enforcement operation. 34 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:32,840 So if they're going to be running dui checks or 35 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:34,719 something like that used to happen a lot more. 36 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do so much. 37 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: I don't like I don't get a lot of the 38 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,319 emails on this stuff from law enforcement agencies and the like, 39 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,240 but they used to keep like we would get regular 40 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:53,639 bulletins basically, and they would be embargoed. You know, Hey, 41 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,919 here's some information, there's going to be this checkpoint. It's 42 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,159 going to be set up here at this day in time. 43 00:03:02,039 --> 00:03:05,479 Do not publicize and you would not publicize. And then 44 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,319 I think at one point some outlet did publicize it. 45 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,840 And maybe that's why they quit doing it or something, 46 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,479 but they used to do it all the time, and 47 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,240 there was always this understanding that they are letting us 48 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,360 know ahead of time. So when we in the newsroom 49 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,719 are sitting there monitoring radio traffic and we start hearing 50 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:27,439 all of the you know, people talking over the walkie 51 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,840 talkies on the channels about whatever's going on out there, 52 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,840 we don't dispatch seven different news vans to the scene 53 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:39,319 to find out what's going on, and you know, police 54 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,080 don't have to take a dozen calls from all these 55 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,439 different you know, assignment desk editors and news reporters trying 56 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:47,319 to find out what's going on. Why are we hearing 57 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,879 all this scanner traffic. So they just tell you ahead 58 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:52,439 of time, Hey, we're doing this thing. It happens a 59 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:54,879 lot with training as well, right if they're going to 60 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,360 be running some sort of a training thing, you know, 61 00:03:57,479 --> 00:03:59,680 kicking in fake doors and that kind of stuff. 62 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,759 Speaker 1: They don't want people to freak out. They will tell 63 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,840 media ahead. 64 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 2: Of time because we sitting back listening to the scanner 65 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:10,960 won't know that it's not real. So, and this has 66 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:13,759 you've probably heard stories about this where you know, there's 67 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,319 some sort of police incident and then maybe a little 68 00:04:16,319 --> 00:04:18,319 bit later, like within an hour, it's like, oh, it's 69 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:20,839 a training operation, and then it doesn't get reported on anymore. 70 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,240 There are reasons why you don't do those things. Also, 71 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:32,879 media doesn't generally report on suicides unless they impact people 72 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,639 in some way, Like if somebody were to commit suicide 73 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,519 in a way that you know, impedes traffic and now 74 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,519 there's a big traffic jam. That's why you'll hear sometimes 75 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,040 on the traffic reports it'll be something like, you know, 76 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,639 a police situation, and they won't say what it is. 77 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:57,040 Why because there are copycats and people will then try 78 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,519 to get their own fame. So we rob that of 79 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,319 that in order to I don't say we rob them, 80 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:06,839 but we withhold that kind of publicity so as to 81 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,560 not encourage more people to do it. 82 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: Right. 83 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,879 Speaker 2: So those are the kinds of ethical questions that these 84 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,879 newsrooms la times in this case, are supposed to be undertaking. 85 00:05:17,319 --> 00:05:20,319 They're supposed to be talking about, Okay, what is the 86 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,360 impact of us reporting this story? So what is the 87 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,800 news value? Is it news? 88 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: Okay? Yes? 89 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,439 Speaker 2: I think it does count as news that ICE is 90 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:34,839 going to be doing these operations. I don't know who 91 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,519 they're targeting. I don't know if it's an industry or 92 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,399 a business or people's homes or whatever. But what is 93 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,160 the impact of us reporting this? And one of the 94 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:56,600 big impacts is officer safety, agent safety, innocent bystander safety. 95 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,720 So when you report that this thing is going to 96 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,120 have and if ICE carries out the raids or the 97 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,839 operations or whatever they may be, if people know they 98 00:06:07,879 --> 00:06:11,759 can arm up, they can flee, they can take hostages, 99 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,519 they can do all sorts of things that jeopardize a 100 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,480 lot of people's lives. And so you don't report on that. 101 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,040 It would be like saying, hey, the you know, Violent 102 00:06:23,079 --> 00:06:26,519 Criminal Task Force is about to go serve a warrant 103 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,519 on Joe Smith living at this address at two o'clock 104 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:32,160 in the afternoon. Here are the orders. You would not 105 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,360 report that. You would not report that. This is why 106 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,519 you don't. Also, you know, show images when you're flying 107 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,439 overhead in a chopper or you've got a drone over 108 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,560 a hostage standoff situation. So you don't show police positions, 109 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,040 right because it gets people killed. That's why you don't 110 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:55,439 do that. So why are you reporting this ahead of time? Well, 111 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,920 precedent now has been set after the Aurora, Colorado won 112 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,879 because what happened in Aurora they called off the operation. 113 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:13,680 Think about that, they called off the operation in Aurora, Colorado. 114 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,240 What happened in Aurora immigration related? What was the deal 115 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:21,399 with Aurora, Colorado? 116 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: That's right. 117 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 2: It was where trend de Arawah went and took over 118 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,279 an apartment building. There's not that many, right, according to 119 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,839 one of those who was that Margaret Brennan. Was that 120 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:38,360 Margaret Brennan, I forget who it was, Leslie Stall maybe, Oh, 121 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:40,639 it's not that many apartment buildings. 122 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Vice President Vance remember that. Yeah. 123 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: So you leak the information, it gets publicized, and then 124 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:54,839 the operation gets called off, and so what does that 125 00:07:54,959 --> 00:08:03,160 mean the result is that violent gangbangers get away. That's 126 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:06,480 what you've done by reporting this, That's what you've done 127 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,120 because the agents can't very well go carry out the operation. 128 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:13,120 And so now the media knows, and the people who 129 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,240 are leaking the information, they know that if I inside 130 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:22,519 Department of Homeland Security, if I leak the orders and 131 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,560 the battle plans, basically, if I give them to a 132 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,519 media outlet, they also know if they report it, then 133 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,039 it short circuits the operation from occurring. So that is 134 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,679 a politically motivated thing to do. There's only one reason 135 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,360 why you would be publicizing this information ahead of time. 136 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:41,840 It's to stop the operation from happening, which means you 137 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:46,039 have people inside DHS that are acting in subordination and 138 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,200 or in in subordination, and you have media that are 139 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:55,399 acting with a political agenda to thwart immigration enforcement law enforcement. 140 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,399 You're aiding and abtting criminal activity, gang, criminal life activity. 141 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:04,440 By the way, home invasions, robberies, and such. You are 142 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,519 an accomplice to that stuff. 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Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 164 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,320 but it also supports Ground News as they make the 165 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,559 media landscape more transparent. So the Department of Homeland Security 166 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:20,840 has a leak problem leaking information about operations for ICE. 167 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,879 Speaker 1: First it was Aurora, Colorado. 168 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:27,159 Speaker 2: Now the latest is Los Angeles County, home to more 169 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:34,000 than eight hundred thousand undocumented residents. All their lacking is documents. 170 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: People. 171 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:39,279 Speaker 2: That's the only thing. Federal law enforcement agents were planning 172 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,399 a large scale immigration enforcement action by the end of 173 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:48,519 the month. LA Times reporting the operation would be spearheaded 174 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:51,639 by ICE and would focus on people who do not 175 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:56,639 have legal status or who already have pending orders of removal. 176 00:10:57,039 --> 00:11:00,799 So again, think about that. The LA Time is telling 177 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,519 people who have been told to leave the country. They're 178 00:11:04,519 --> 00:11:07,080 giving them a heads up that hey, they're going to 179 00:11:07,159 --> 00:11:08,720 come and try to get you to leave the country, 180 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,519 which is what a court told you to do. A 181 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,919 federal law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of 182 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:21,759 anonymity for fear of you know, being fired, or as 183 00:11:21,799 --> 00:11:25,840 the LA Times calls it, reprisals, said, agents, look, this 184 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:31,799 is not whistleblower stuff. Okay, this is not whistleblower stuff. 185 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:39,240 This is insubordination at minimum, and this is a fireable 186 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:45,960 offense and quite possibly criminal. You have access to information 187 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:51,679 about an operation that is going to put people's lives 188 00:11:51,759 --> 00:11:56,200 in jeopardy. Whenever you're going after people, especially like the 189 00:11:56,279 --> 00:11:59,879 hardcore criminals that have been ordered to be removed, and 190 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:08,200 you start alerting those criminals, that's like conspiracy. No agents 191 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,480 with the FBI and the DEA, LA Field offices are 192 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:17,039 also being called in to assist. According to Matt Vespa's 193 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,039 article at town hall dot com, most federal law enforcement 194 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:28,639 agencies have deportation powers. The US Marshall Service for example, 195 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:31,440 the DEA, the ATF, they all have the power to 196 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,200 deport illegal aliens along with ICE, and soon local law 197 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:39,240 enforcement through their agreements with the Department of Homeland Security 198 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:43,320 will also have that same power. Right and this is 199 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:49,639 necessary because the number of illegal aliens allowed to enter 200 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:55,919 the country under the Biden administration is so large that 201 00:12:56,159 --> 00:13:00,279 ICE cannot possibly do it all by themselves. They need 202 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:05,120 the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies to help them 203 00:13:05,519 --> 00:13:09,879 on these operations. They need the manpower. And so because 204 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:12,639 you don't need, we don't need to staff up ICE 205 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,840 to some you know, massive bloated agency that like, you know, 206 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,279 you think it through, you game it all out and say, okay, 207 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,600 let's say they they complete the mission, they they get 208 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,399 rid of everybody they're supposed to get rid of. Then 209 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,919 you can't then you can't ever downsize ICE again, right 210 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,240 because now you're going to have an entrenched employee base 211 00:13:35,639 --> 00:13:37,559 that's not going to want to get fired. 212 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:40,399 Speaker 1: So you don't want to, you don't want to, you know. 213 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,159 Speaker 2: Staff up this agency to the to the point where 214 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:47,759 it becomes a behemoth. You just because for normal circumstances, 215 00:13:47,759 --> 00:13:49,720 you don't need as many agents as we need we 216 00:13:49,759 --> 00:13:51,679 need right now. So the idea is you bring in 217 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,159 the other agencies, You get these other officials to help, 218 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:57,320 and then once the mission is accomplished, everybody goes back 219 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,600 to doing what they were doing before. They're just there 220 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,879 as a port function, and so maybe some of these 221 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:07,759 people are leaking the information. So now you're going to 222 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,639 have to run sort of a counterintelligence operation inside Department 223 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:14,840 of Homeland Security. You're going to have to put out 224 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,919 some you know, fake orders basically like we did with 225 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:22,519 D Day, right where you create all these maps and 226 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:25,200 plans and some of them are fake, and you do 227 00:14:25,279 --> 00:14:29,279 that so not only if it gets into the enemy's hands, 228 00:14:29,919 --> 00:14:33,039 they're planning for an operation that's actually not going to happen, 229 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,480 and you're able to identify people that had that information, 230 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,440 you can narrow the search down to the people that 231 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:46,360 had those maps those orders, right. So, like to me, 232 00:14:47,039 --> 00:14:50,120 that's a way to get at the mole, because that's 233 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,200 what you got. You've got a mole inside the government 234 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,399 that's giving this information to a complicit media that sees 235 00:14:57,679 --> 00:15:01,720 its role apparently in Aurora and in Los Angeles as 236 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,440 to aid and debt people who have been ordered out 237 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:14,080 of the country to evade removal. The La Times. This 238 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,519 is from Bill Malugin. He's a Fox Local reporter in 239 00:15:17,519 --> 00:15:21,000 Los Angeles and he's done a ton of work on 240 00:15:21,759 --> 00:15:26,519 the immigrations situation. He says the Aurora operation was leaked 241 00:15:26,559 --> 00:15:30,519 with CBS and NBC and that forced ICE to reschedule 242 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,279 it last week, and when they rescheduled it, the op 243 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:40,759 was a failure. A large scale Chicago operation was also 244 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,879 leaked to the media during Trump's first week in office, 245 00:15:44,159 --> 00:15:47,840 leading to a canceling and rescheduling of that op as well. 246 00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:51,639 It is extremely dangerous for ICE officers to have their 247 00:15:51,679 --> 00:15:54,960 plans leaked and for their targets to know they are coming. 248 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,240 Malujian says somebody either does not want these operations to 249 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,879 succeed or is over zealous in sharing operational details that 250 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:07,519 should be kept under wraps. An early issue for this 251 00:16:07,639 --> 00:16:11,840 new Trump administration to face. Here's a great idea. How 252 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:14,960 about making an escape to a really special and secluded 253 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,799 getaway in western North Carolina. 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I mentioned Bill Malugin. 274 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,599 Here was another tweet that he sent. I believe this 275 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:34,240 was not last night, maybe like two nights ago, he said. 276 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:37,799 In response to Trump's executive orders, the Coast Guard announces 277 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:42,640 it'll immediately surge boats, cutters, aircraft. Sorry, no, this is 278 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,119 actually from like two weeks ago, a week or so ago, 279 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:49,279 But the Coastguard is going to be surging boats, cutters, 280 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,960 aircraft and specialized forces to the southeast border around Florida 281 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:59,039 to prevent mass illegal migration from Haiti and Cuba, and 282 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,799 will also urge resources to the maritime border around Alaska, Hawaii, 283 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,839 and the US territories of Guam Wait has that not 284 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,680 capsized yet, Also the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 285 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:17,559 American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The 286 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:20,599 maritime border is well between the Bahamas and South Florida, 287 00:18:20,839 --> 00:18:23,680 the southwest maritime border between the US and Mexico in 288 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,039 the Pacific, the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in 289 00:18:27,079 --> 00:18:31,960 the Gulf of America. So that's the thing now, and 290 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,599 support to customs and border protection on maritime portions of 291 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,319 the southwest US border. Coast Guard says quote, together, in 292 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,240 coordination with our Department of Homeland Security and Department of 293 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,200 Defense teammates, we will detect, deter and interdict illegal migration, 294 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:51,079 drug smuggling, and other terrorist or hostile activity before it 295 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:56,960 reaches our borders. Luke Rosiac an investigative reporter for The 296 00:18:57,079 --> 00:19:03,720 Daily Wire reported also that Fairfax County, Virginia, is facing 297 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:11,000 a three hundred million dollar budget deficit, right for its schools. 298 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:17,559 Three hundred million dollar deficit for schools Fairfax County. They 299 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,480 spent one hundred and forty two million teaching migrant children 300 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,960 English last year. So they're running a three hundred million 301 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,160 dollar deficit and almost half of it could be attributed 302 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:35,559 to speak to teaching migrant children English. Consultants have now 303 00:19:35,599 --> 00:19:37,880 been hired to ask if people would rather have police, 304 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:44,559 fire or parks cut to resolve the county deficit. These 305 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:49,599 are the real world implications, right, These are the trade offs. 306 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:53,960 As you know, Thomas soul has said, I quote them frequently. 307 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:57,759 There are no solutions, There are only trade offs. And 308 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,799 you have a county three hundred million dollars budget deficit. 309 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,759 And so now they're going to people and saying which 310 00:20:04,799 --> 00:20:09,720 do you want cut? Police, fire or parks. I have 311 00:20:09,799 --> 00:20:14,519 talked about this tactic many, many times. The core functions 312 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:19,920 of government, police and fire. I'm not so sure about 313 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:26,359 the parks, but police and fire are core functions, and 314 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,279 that's what they lured over people. That's the thing that 315 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:34,599 they use to get people to acquiesce, to surrender to 316 00:20:34,839 --> 00:20:41,519 tax increases, like, we can't possibly keep funding the local government, 317 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:43,759 and so we're going to have to make cuts. So 318 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:45,720 where do you want it to get cut? There, you 319 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,680 stingy taxpayers. Huh huh, No, no, no, these are your options, police, fire, 320 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,079 and parks. 321 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: That's it. 322 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 2: Those are the only very options because we just cut 323 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,000 to the bone on everything else, and everything else is 324 00:20:59,039 --> 00:21:01,640 not actually cut to the bone. Cutting to the bone 325 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,799 would mean getting rid of some of those other expenditures. 326 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,200 But they don't want to do that, so they offer 327 00:21:09,279 --> 00:21:12,480 you this quote choice, a false choice, that it's either 328 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:20,799 tax rate increases or no police. There's an email from Kevin. 329 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,759 He says, I sent you the below comments a little 330 00:21:24,759 --> 00:21:28,519 while back, but I didn't get a counter argument from 331 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,559 you on why it would be a bad thing. Well, 332 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:35,480 I don't know if I said, I don't know if 333 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,240 I've read this or not, So I don't know if 334 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,319 I don't. Necessarily I don't counter every argument. I mean, 335 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,839 I can offer you some ideas about what others may think. 336 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,799 I haven't even read the idea yet. Thinking along the 337 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:48,720 lines of those who once or who one second say 338 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:51,279 defund the police until they get robbed and then they say, 339 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:55,839 where are the police when we need them. Kevin's idea 340 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,920 is to not go into cities and states that say 341 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,400 they will not cooperate with ICE, being sure to make 342 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:12,279 it public knowledge you are doing this, so like visiting. 343 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: Hang on, there's more. 344 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 2: This will encourage all those illegal immigrants with a criminal 345 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,200 record to go to those places. Then just give it 346 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:25,720 time and let that work. It's magic on those cities, drugs, crime, 347 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,799 et cetera. And then see how long it takes for 348 00:22:27,839 --> 00:22:30,359 them to say, well, maybe this wasn't such a good idea, 349 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:35,079 like what happened with Oregon making illegal drugs legal and 350 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:42,119 then saying, oh crap, we made a mistake. So maybe 351 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,200 you're talking about ICE going. 352 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,319 Speaker 1: Into those states. Is that? 353 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 2: So if a city, let's say a city, because a 354 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,599 state is a harder thing because you've got people in 355 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:57,039 different parts of the state that you know may be 356 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:01,279 supportive of what you want as far as enforcement, but 357 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:04,960 they don't live in the city, and the cities dictate 358 00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:09,160 the legislative outcomes, and so these people they have no say, 359 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,359 so they want increased enforcement, but they're not getting it. 360 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,839 So let's go like sanctuary city. So if you have 361 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,759 a sanctuary city, you're saying, don't do any raids in 362 00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:20,720 those cities, and then the word goes out that these 363 00:23:20,759 --> 00:23:23,599 are sanctuary cities, and then all of the criminal elements 364 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,599 will basically go into those cities, turn them into hell holes, 365 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,200 and then people will be like, all right, let's stop 366 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,440 the madness. I mean, you could do that, I guess sure, 367 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:35,480 But I don't think the criminals just stay in those 368 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:40,359 sanctuary cities, right, I think they I think they also 369 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,160 would leave the city confines, right, they would go outside 370 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,440 city limits victimize a bunch of people out in the 371 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:51,480 surrounding areas, and so you're forcing them to live under 372 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,359 that kind of policy as well. I mean, if ICE 373 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,599 is going to get thwarted every single time they try 374 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:06,079 to do these operations sanctuary city, you know, and agents 375 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,519 or officials are leaking this stuff to the media to 376 00:24:09,599 --> 00:24:12,640 thwart the operations, then maybe that's the way to go. 377 00:24:13,759 --> 00:24:17,480 I don't know, apply a bunch of pressure. I still 378 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,880 think that it should be enforcement by you know, the 379 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,119 proper authorities to actually enforce the laws. All right, I 380 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,759 hope you had a happy holiday season, but tell me 381 00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,559 if something like this happened at your house, Your family 382 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:33,839 and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the 383 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:39,039 living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, 384 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,640 remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 385 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,720 And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are 386 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,519 on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been 387 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:51,400 meaning to but I just having gotten around to it. 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So do what I did. 399 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,279 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in mint 400 00:25:26,319 --> 00:25:29,160 Hill right off I four eighty five and online at 401 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,559 create avideo dot com. Let me get to a couple 402 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:35,880 of messages here, But first let me get to the 403 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,079 phones and I'll talk with Steve. 404 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: Hello, Steve, welcome to the show. 405 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Yes, sir, so, my call is 406 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,799 in regard to USAID and the discovery that they've been 407 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:55,440 funding NGOs to destabilize governments that are friendly to the 408 00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:58,839 United States. 409 00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no, yeah, we've been covering that story in 410 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:04,039 depth all last week. 411 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:09,519 Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, as you usually do. So my question 412 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,079 really is along the lines of we cannot keep flip 413 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:20,839 flopping between Marxist leadership and free capital Marcus leadership. This 414 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,000 country will never prosper in that way. Any comments you 415 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,880 have to make on that, and what are we going 416 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,400 to start seeing, in your opinion, some arrest with charges 417 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,240 for treason. 418 00:26:34,519 --> 00:26:37,599 Speaker 2: So on the treason thing, I doubt we'll see anything 419 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,880 like that. It's such a it's a shock to the system, 420 00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:45,279 you know, because of the penalties involved. So I would 421 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:49,359 be surprised if we see actual trees and charges. Now, 422 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,440 there could be other lower offenses that get charged, depending 423 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,880 on what people did and what they could prove and 424 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,000 that sort of thing, but I think it's a pretty 425 00:26:57,079 --> 00:27:02,839 high bar for treason. The although, like I have heard 426 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,559 people make arguments that are compelling to me at least 427 00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:09,160 that certain actions by certain people over the last. 428 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:11,079 Speaker 1: Decade do rise to that level. 429 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: But but I just I think it's so rare because 430 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,039 it's such a like I said, a shock to the 431 00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:21,920 system regarding the the flip flopping and the Marxists, the 432 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,839 funding of you know, that that comes out of a 433 00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:27,119 Marxist ideo ideology. I would I would simply say that 434 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,240 us A I D has been funding these types of 435 00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:34,960 color revolutions, which, like I am convinced that us A 436 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:37,599 I D has been operating at the very least in 437 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:43,440 cooperation with, if not as an outright covert cover for 438 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:49,359 the CIA, in destabilizing some of these countries with their 439 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:53,039 you know, with their propaganda efforts and their mobilization efforts 440 00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:55,640 and that sort of stuff. And so I think that 441 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,880 that has been going on for a long time, and 442 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,359 I don't think that there is ever been USAID operating 443 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,519 in a pro free market way with these countries, at 444 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:09,160 least probably for the last twenty or thirty years, right, 445 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,319 I think that this has been corrupted by the left 446 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:17,720 in America to act as essentially a jobs program and 447 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:24,960 to foment upheaval with an eye towards creating more left 448 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,759 wing countries and governments in those countries. So I'm not 449 00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:31,119 sure that there's a flip flop going on. You know, 450 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:34,599 I think it's all been I think the politicization has 451 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:35,559 been in one direction. 452 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: Does that make sense, Well, yeah. 453 00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 3: It does. Accept Its kind of like saying there's a 454 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:48,759 snake without a head and somebody, certainly. I don't think 455 00:28:49,799 --> 00:28:56,279 a free market, capitalist system and leadership would tolerate anybody 456 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,440 doing that. And if we've known about it, they must 457 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,200 have not out for a very long time. And I 458 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,839 suspect that all that stuff is primarily driven by Marxist 459 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:13,960 ideology and a desire to flip this country. So you know, 460 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,119 there there's a problem to be dealt with there somewhere, 461 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,160 and oh yeah, oh. 462 00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:21,519 Speaker 2: Well so see if I think, yeah, I think part 463 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:24,039 of the issue, and I think it was I think 464 00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:26,880 it was Musk who said this a couple of days ago, 465 00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:32,640 that the technology was not sufficient for them, even going 466 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,920 back like two or three years ago. Is really when 467 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:38,720 this tech became available for them to essentially collect and 468 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:43,400 scrape all this data about where the where the grants 469 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,079 are going and to track all of this money. They 470 00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:49,119 were not able to do it because the computing systems 471 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,839 whatever weren't advanced enough at that time in order to 472 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:58,000 make it a rapid process. You know. Just keep in mind, 473 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,400 USAID was, you know, dolling out the money to these 474 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:07,400 non governmental organizations who would then distribute below them to 475 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:12,039 other groups. And so USAID was never was never tracking 476 00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,519 what they call the sub awardes once they gave it 477 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:17,240 to like if you ran an NGO, they would give 478 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,119 it to you and then that was it. That's as 479 00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:21,440 far as USAID would track it. And then you would 480 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,400 turn around and hand it off to you know, a 481 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,839 dozen other agencies or groups or nonprofits and there was 482 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,839 no tracking of that. But now with the tech, they 483 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:31,759 were able to track it. 484 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: So I don't know. 485 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that leads yeah, no, go ahead, No, I 486 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:39,720 was done, all. 487 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,839 Speaker 3: Right, So that leads Okay, I understand what you're saying, 488 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:46,359 and I appreciate that that view. But that leads a 489 00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:50,440 little bit into the conversation about China and AI and 490 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:53,599 the products they have in the market are coming soon. 491 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,720 And my comment there is I cannot imagine any software 492 00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:02,920 product that China would bring to the world that doesn't 493 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,519 also spy on the user. 494 00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: I agree, I completely agree. I don't trust China or 495 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,599 any of their products at all. Don't want any of 496 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,279 them on any phones. Steve, I appreciate the call because 497 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:17,920 rule number one about communists commis lie. Rule number one 498 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,599 they lie about everything. You can't trust them. All right, 499 00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:23,960 that'll do it for this episode. 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