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watching the live press conference that was held in Dallas, Texas.
After I guess it was probably about three and a
half hours ago, a shooter opened fire on an ice facility,
killing two injuring a third before turning the gun on
himself as agents approached the building upon the roof of
which he took the shots. According to reports, there is
at this point it's unconfirmed. I saw Carol Markowitz I
think is her name, at the New York Post. She
had gotten this from a source that the shooter has
been identified as a twenty nine year old. And I
don't name these people, so I mean obviously they've you know,
they're going to be able to identify him. They have
identified them, according to Markowitz's or Mankowitz Markowitz anyway, I
closed out her tweet about the topic. At the press conference,
they said that this was targeted violence and that bullets
found on the rooftop. This was a picture that FBI
Director Cash Patel tweeted out. There was a photo of
I think about eight rounds and they had anti ICE
messages written on the casings. Yeah, so we may never
know what motivated this shooter. The three that were shot, well,
two that were killed, one that was injured, were all
ICE detainees. They were either I'm unclear if they were
in a transport van and being unloaded, if they were
outside of the van or what. Here's the associated press.
Three people, including detainees, have been shot at an ICE
Immigration Customs enforcement facility in Dallas, and the shooter is
dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Homeland Security spokesperson
Tricia McLaughlin later told Fox News no ICE agents were injured.
The FBI said during a news conference that it was
investigating the shooting as an act of targeted violence. Officers
respond to a call to assist an officer on North
Stemmens Freeway around six forty am Local time, and the
preliminary investigation determined that a person opened fire at a
government building from an adjacent building. Dallas Fire Rescue Department
was also dispatched after a call reporting a shooting. Parkland
Hospital received two patients from the shooting. The third person
was dead at the scene. Dozens of emergency vehicles seen
along the highway near the facility. It's along I thirty
five east, just southwest of Dallas love Field, large commercial
airports serving Dallas Fort Worth metro area. Traffic cameras near
the scene showed six lanes of a normally busy freeway
empty with cars in semi trailers ground to a halt
on an interstate exit. At this point, they say motive
remains unclear, because of course it does. We have I mean,
this is just three hours, three and a half hours
after the shooting, and so, as I do in all
of these types of events, we should just wait a
little bit. We don't need to rush in and make
predictions and say, oh, I know what happened. I have
a pretty look to me, like I have some ideas
about what we just saw, too. I have some pretty
solid guesses. I think that doesn't make them anything more
than that they are guesses. I do note the silence
coming from the experts in stochastic terrorism. This is not
the first ICE facility that has been targeted. There was
another shooting that occurred at a different ICE facility, I believe,
yeah this one. So it is mentioned in the AP
story that there was a July fourth attack at a
Texas immigration detention center. It injured a police officer who
was shot in the neck. Attackers dressed in black military
style clothing who dresses like that, opened fire outside the
Prairie Land Detention Center in Alvarado, which is southwest of Dallas.
Eleven people charged in connection with that attack Antifa. They
were ANTIFA. A man with an assault rifle fired dozens
of rounds at federal agents as they were leaving a
US Border Patrol facility in McCallan, Texas on July seventh.
That man identified injured a police officer who responded to
the scene before authority shot and killed him. So that
guy's dead. That shooter was dead. Police later found weaponry, ammunition,
and backpacks inside of his car. So the evidence that
we know right now, the fact that somebody would gain
access to a rooftop across the street or across a freeway,
maybe from or an adjacent building at the least of
an ICE facility and open fire on personnel at the facility.
But more importantly, it's the writing on the bullet casings,
making sure everybody knows why the assassin did this. They
are opposed to ICE or were They were obviously not
happy about immigration Customs Enforcement removing people from the country,
and to show his contempt and disdain for ICE, he
murdered two detainees to illegal immigrants injured a third. There
was a piece at the Washington Examiner by John Schindler,
and he served with the NSSAY, the National Security Agency,
and as a senior intelligence analyst and a counterintelligence officer.
He writes, I think it's a blog called twenty Committee,
and I forget what the meaning of that is. But
he had a write up at the Washington Examiner after,
you know, Donald Trump announced the other day that he
was going to designate Antifa as a what do they
call it, like a dangerous terrorist organization or a major
terrorist organization, something like that. And at the time when
I relayed that information to you, I said, like, I'm
not really sure what this designation means. Because there isn't
an official designation that he is citing. And what Shindler
is recommending is that Trump go ahead and name it
as a foreign terrorist organization because that is what it is.
And if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the
European nations that have been banning Antifa in their countries
because they know the history of Antifa. You may not
the people who sign up for this and get radicalized
by they may not, but the Europeans know, they remember
what antifa is all about. So Shindler writes that much
of this ideology falls under the rubric of antifa or
quote anti fascism, a loose anti capitalist movement possessing cells
against the West that agitates for quote unquote woke Bolshevism.
There's a clue in there. It's not the woke word,
it's the other one, Bolshevism. While it's increasing amalgamation with
the extremist LGBT activists has been termed trantifa. The White
House has already promised to ban Antifa as a terrorist organization,
with the President castigating it as a terrorist group. Executing
a ban presents legal challenges, though, although the government has
banned certain foreign terrorist organizations since nineteen ninety seven, including
Al Qaeda, Hamas Hezbala. The challenge is that, as the
name implies, foreign terrorist organizations must be foreign. At present,
there exists no mechanism to ban domestic groups that embrace
violence to further their political aims. But what if Antifa
is a foreign terrorist organization? And he says there's solid
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to these incidents is that it makes it so much
harder to say, hey, this totally proves my preconceived notions
when you have to make actual evidence support your claims.
That's true, that's fair, that's true. However, on the upside,
you don't get locked into a position before you know
all the facts, right because like, for example, if I
were to, I don't know, make a guess, if I
were to articulate my guess, I'm going to say, radicalized leftist,
twenty nine year old white dude, loser at life, hooked
up to an online culture that told him his anger
and rage directed outward at their perceived enemies, gave him
the permission structure to go and try to kill a
bunch of ICE agents. He is a terrible shot, missed
and hit three illegal immigrants who were in the process
of being deported, thereby murdering two and injuring a third
the people that he was supposed to be protecting, once
again proving he was a loser. So like that would
be my guess. And if I were to take another
guess at it, and again this is just coming from
you know, twenty five years of experience in covering these
types of events, I would have to guess that probably
the permission structure that was erected over the last oh,
I don't know, eight years or so about how ICE
is a bunch of fascists, Gestapo Nazis. SS officers just
following orders probably helped, you know, give him the assurances,
the permission to go about this attack because he felt
like everybody was encouraging him to do so and he
would be remembered as a martyr for the court, for
the cause just a guess. See, Now here's the thing.
If I were to actually articulate this, if I were
to say this, like on the radio or something, then
if it came out that, you know, evidence presented otherwise
it turned out he was not all of that stuff,
and he was not radicalized, and he wasn't hooked up
with these leftists online and stuff, then it would be
you know, I'd have to admit that. Okay, I was
wrong in my speculation in the immediate aftermath of the
of the attack. But luckily I have not articulated this
kind of a thing. I've not planted a flag here,
you know, which brings me back to Antifa. On John
Schindler's piece at the Washington Examiner, what if Antifa is
a foreign terrorist organization? There's actually solid evidence for this assertion.
Born in the nineteen thirties Germany on the orders of
the fiery but mostly peaceful Joseph Stalin, did you know
that about Antifa? On the orders of Stalin under the
leadership of the German Communist Party, Antifa, in its DNA,
is a violent revolutionary organization. With good reason. Berlin deems
Antifa an extremist threat to democracy. Germany's domestic intelligence agency
recently noted a sharp rise in Antifa related violence, observing
that the potential threat posed by violent left wing extremism
remains high. American liberals, including top Democrats, habitually pretend that
Antifa is a myth or as Joe Biden called it,
I believe it's an idea. It's just an idea. There's
no organized group. It's not an organization. I mean, yes, fine,
they have websites and Twitter handles, and they do meetups
and print out materials and recruit people and give action
plans and assemble and do direct action and dress alike
and coordinate. But that doesn't make an organization. It's an idea. People. Yeah, Berlin,
where Antifa was born, They're not so easily fooled by
this crap. Okay, I'm not either. Anybody who has paid
any attention to antifah and has done any modicum of
research knows that it is in fact an organization. Just
because some of the local cells aren't as organized as
others doesn't make it just an idea. Right. This is
not some myth cooked up by overheated Republican imaginations. Schindler
says there are demonstrable connections between Antifa cells in the
US and those in Western countries. Democrats have poo pooed
Trump's push against Antifa as mere political theater, but multiple
NATO partners agree with the White House. Hungary and the
Netherlands are following Trump's lead, and other US allies are
expected to do the same. Antifa is a transnational extremist
group that endorses terrorism, and it's time we confronted it.
I'm not gas lit on this. I refuse to be.
Don't whiz on my boots and tell me it's raining.
The financial and look, anybody who spends any bit of
time in the political milieu up in Ashville knows Antifa exists.
The financial dimension is key, however, because however much Antifa
activists hate capitalism, the revolution requires cash. Oh irony of ironies,
Trump has promised to pursue left wing donors, including famous
ones like George and Alex Soros. That Alex is George's
son who's taken over the criminal opera. I mean the
organization even looking with looking at criminal charges under the
RICO Act, the Racketeer, Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which
is employed by the FBI against gangsters, terrorists, and money launderers.
RICO is a powerful tool for the Justice Department, but
the drag net must be extended beyond just the Soroses.
You have an entire web of NGOs that have been
funding this stuff. See this is why Democrats want to
just dismiss it as merely an idea. It's because they
benefit from the radical street troops, the quote direct action, right.
They benefit from the at least they think they did.
They may not so much anymore. They may be waking
up and realizing this is actually not helping us. There's
convincing evidence. Also, get this that Cuban intelligence is materially
supporting Trantifa radicalism in the US. That I did not
know that, Schindler says. It's not surprising since Havana essentially
created the Black Lives Matter movement a decade ago. One
Utah trantifa extremist group called Armed Queer's Salt Lake City,
which by the way, scrubbed its social media after the
Kirk assassination, was openly affiliated with the Cuban regime, including
its enthusiastic participation in Havana led activities known to be
controlled by Cuban intelligence. I've said this for a while,
the Left has a violence problem. Democrats need to police themselves.
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jump over to the phones. We'll chat with Frank. Hello, Frank,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Hey man, Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm all right. How are you so?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: So you know I'm a longtime listener. I don't call
it a lot, but I called Vince a couple of times.
We're good.
Speaker 1: It's not a contest, Frank, it's not a contest. You
can call both of us.
Speaker 2: I know you all are beautiful. Hey, listen. Uh, you
know they're gonna bust or Jimmy Kimmel's gonna bust this
person for being such a big as shot, so he
must be on our shot.
Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, I mean they could make that argument
or something. Yeah, I don't know. I doubt they'll even
pay any attention to crazy.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the information that has come out so
quickly about the messages that were written on the bullets,
I'm thinking it's going to short circuit any kind of
preempt preemptive sort of offensive from the left on.
Speaker 3: The exactly because antifa means anti fata or anti fascists,
whatever you want. To call it, it's all hate. So
we're going to leave it that way and we'll take
care of the hate.
Speaker 2: Thank you sir.
Speaker 1: All right, Frank, I appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean
it's it's there is always a race to set in
place the narrative. And this is why you ended up
with Jimmy Kimmel, as Frank just mentioned him saying what
he said a week ago that got him indefinitely suspended
for five days, which back in my day, an indefinite
suspension lasted more than half a scaramoucci. But whatever, I know,
I'm old, I guess. But antifa is a thing. It
is an organization. They do organize, They have meetings, they
do planning stuff. They give each other tips, and they
share strategies and tactics and calls to arms and such.
And when you have an institutional media apparatus that amplifies
things like this. The accusation that Ice used a five
year old girl as bait in order to capture a
criminal illegal alien, and that wasn't true, but NBC News
reported it is true. And what the actual story, according
to Homeland Security, was that the criminal illegal alien was
the target of an operation with previous arrests for domestic abuse, strangulation,
vandalizing property, and he abandoned his own child in the car.
The kid was not used as bait. The guy left
the kid, left the baby, and ran out of the car.
He was from Guatemala. He ignored law enforcement emergency lights
darted inside of his house, abandoning his five year old
daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and
called local police to report the abandonment. But the way
NBC News reported it, headline ice held five year old
autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, according
to his family, and then a day later you get
an attack on an ICE facility. Back to the John
Schindler piece at the Washington Examiner, he says it is
best to think of ANTIFA as the armed wing of
the Democratic Socialists of America, the left wing group that's
successfully taken over much of the Democrat Party. The time
to confront this difficult reality is now. The Trump administration
must declare Antifa a foreign terrorist organization, cutting off its
funding at home and abroad via sanctions before this crisis
gets worse. May jump over to the WBT text line
Driven by Liberty Buick gmc anonymous says, does anybody remember
Occupy Wall Street whatever happened to them? Well, yeah, it's
the same. It's what we're seeing was just a different
iteration of that same ideology, right, the tenttifada that occurred
on the college campuses against Israel, you know, the you know,
pro Hamas Holais and such. The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution, right, and so that's
why it's like they just swap out whatever the issue
of the day is because it doesn't matter. The issue
is actually the revolution. That's why Antifa with roots and
communists Russia, right, that's why they lend themselves their services
to whatever the what Ben Shapiro calls the omni cause,
just you know, whatever they need to protest. They're down
with Black Lives Matter, We're there, Queers for Palestine, We're
totally there. Doesn't because it doesn't matter. The only point
is to sow chaos and tear down Western civilization and
the evil capitalist society and replace it with the utopia.
Mark says, all protests seem to be organized. I say,
we need to follow the money. George s I'm sure
they can show that he funded a lot of organizations
for protesters. They could charge him with RICO. A lot
of the protests are violent. Rico would be perfect for
charging him. Joseph says, if we went broken windows and
locked them up for attacking government facilities or assaulting federal agents,
we wouldn't have to wait until they started shooting. The
same people protesting ice facilities are the same ones who
rioted in twenty twenty, and are the same ones who
attacked Atlanta's Cop City and then assassinated Charlie Kirk. They're
all the same. So it's funny you mentioned the broken
windows idea because I came across a piece I had
it in the show prep stack for today. It's over
at the Civitas Institute Civitas Institute dot org, written by
tal Fort Gang who who is a legal policy fellow
at the Manhattan Institute, and the headline is the broken
Windows in American higher education. But it does have a
more far reaching impact than just the university.
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a little known Jewish sage called ben assea as i anyway,
he challenged his students in a message memorialized in the
Ancient Ethical Guide known as something I cannot pronounce per
ki avot anyway. He said, be quick in performing a
minor commandment, as in the case of a major one.
Fallible human beings cannot know which obligations are small and
which are large, both in God's eyes and in the
greater scheme of human events. What appears trivial may hold
a community together. What seems like a minor failure may
open the way to collapse. The sociologists James Q. Wilson
and George Kelling gave that ancient lesson a modern expression
in their famous yet widely misunderstood nineteen eighty two article
Broken Windows. They argued that small signs of disorder, like graffiti, vandalism,
public intoxication, those small signs signal a lack of enforcement,
which in turn invites greater violations. When norms are not upheld,
the boundaries of acceptable behavior blur, and soon serious crime follows.
Many commentators have noted that the assassination of Charlie Kirk
is a massive escalation in our simmering culture war and
another in a rapidly growing pattern of political violence. But
because the escalation was so enormous, many have lost sight
of the fact that his murder is also the last
of a pattern of lawless attempts to prevent Kirk and
similar figures from sharing their mesas messages. In that light,
it is a stark demonstration of the broken windows principle.
Kirk had a long record of making appearances in contentious settings.
He had been targeted with hostility for years. His events
drew heckling and organized attempts to shut him down. His
organization regularly had its campus booths defaced, ambassadors harassed, and
events canceled because the university could not guarantee security. Charlie
Kirk and Turning Point USA were hardly the first to
suffer such mistreatment on campus. Charles Murray, Alison Stanger, David Horowitz,
and Colter Bill Crystal EO. Wilson. I would add Ben Shapiro,
dozens of Israeli diplomats can all attest to the harassment
and violence that heterodox speakers endured. None of those acts
of opposition was ever acceptable, but they were accepted rarely,
if ever, faced expulsion or social sanction. I've been talking
about this for a while. This is the permission structure
that has been built up over years. He points out
in this piece that the guilt obviously belongs to Charlie
Kirk's killer, but it would also be willful blindness to
fail to note that this was yet another attempt to
shut him up. And some significant portion of a portion
of young people think that violence is an acceptable means
to do so when more common forms of lawless disruption fail.
A college that tolerates harassment signals to students that harassment
is within the bounds of acceptable behavior. A university that
treats vandalism as minor signals that property rights are not
worth defending. Over time, students learn that certain rules are
not enforced. That knowledge then alters their expectations, but more importantly,
it molds their character. It frames the moral universe they inhabit.
See rules, whether they are imposed by law or the
Office of Student Life, rules are formative. They teach us
what is expected of us. A well run institution does
not simply prohibit extremes of behavior. It inculcates habits of
self control, restraint, mutual respect. When administrators fail to enforce
those rules, institutions fail in their formative role because they
fail to communicate that they think living by the rules
really matters, that being the kind of person that the
rules expect is really any better than being the kind
that flouts expectations. They do not produce responsible citizens, but
permissive ones who assume norms are optional. This is exactly
the same problem. Writ large. It's not just on the
college CAMPI, it's through society, it is through our criminal
justice system. In the next hour, I'm going to get
into the debate that occurred in the North Carolina House
over Arena's Law, named after Arena Zarutzka. Right, The shards
of broken windows are also present in the cycle of
demonstrations and doubtrage since October seventh, twenty twenty three. Occupations
of administrative offices, vandalism of buildings, disruptions of lectures, harassment
of faculty members. These are all violations of school rules,
and they have been met with little more than slaps
on the wrist. Students student groups vow then to escalate.
They know full well that the rules are optional. What
constrains them? What distinctions do they make between breaking rules,
destroying your property, or destroying your body? Right? Hopefully it's
something more than an internal moral code, because like they
say that violence against political opponents is acceptable, So we
can't trust that moral code. Broken windows at a societal scale,
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