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All righty, so just got through 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,880 watching the live press conference that was held in Dallas, Texas. 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,840 After I guess it was probably about three and a 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,359 half hours ago, a shooter opened fire on an ice facility, 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,799 killing two injuring a third before turning the gun on 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:56,799 himself as agents approached the building upon the roof of 15 00:00:56,799 --> 00:01:03,320 which he took the shots. According to reports, there is 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,560 at this point it's unconfirmed. I saw Carol Markowitz I 17 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:10,879 think is her name, at the New York Post. She 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,560 had gotten this from a source that the shooter has 19 00:01:13,599 --> 00:01:18,480 been identified as a twenty nine year old. And I 20 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:24,439 don't name these people, so I mean obviously they've you know, 21 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,760 they're going to be able to identify him. They have 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:32,480 identified them, according to Markowitz's or Mankowitz Markowitz anyway, I 23 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,439 closed out her tweet about the topic. At the press conference, 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,319 they said that this was targeted violence and that bullets 25 00:01:42,359 --> 00:01:46,359 found on the rooftop. This was a picture that FBI 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,400 Director Cash Patel tweeted out. There was a photo of 27 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:56,040 I think about eight rounds and they had anti ICE 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:03,599 messages written on the casings. Yeah, so we may never 29 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:12,360 know what motivated this shooter. The three that were shot, well, 30 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:15,039 two that were killed, one that was injured, were all 31 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:20,439 ICE detainees. They were either I'm unclear if they were 32 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,759 in a transport van and being unloaded, if they were 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,120 outside of the van or what. Here's the associated press. 34 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:32,680 Three people, including detainees, have been shot at an ICE 35 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,000 Immigration Customs enforcement facility in Dallas, and the shooter is 36 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:43,319 dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Homeland Security spokesperson 37 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,000 Tricia McLaughlin later told Fox News no ICE agents were injured. 38 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,759 The FBI said during a news conference that it was 39 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:59,560 investigating the shooting as an act of targeted violence. Officers 40 00:02:59,599 --> 00:03:02,159 respond to a call to assist an officer on North 41 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:06,400 Stemmens Freeway around six forty am Local time, and the 42 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:09,400 preliminary investigation determined that a person opened fire at a 43 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:14,199 government building from an adjacent building. Dallas Fire Rescue Department 44 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,520 was also dispatched after a call reporting a shooting. Parkland 45 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:25,560 Hospital received two patients from the shooting. The third person 46 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:29,919 was dead at the scene. Dozens of emergency vehicles seen 47 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,960 along the highway near the facility. It's along I thirty 48 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,479 five east, just southwest of Dallas love Field, large commercial 49 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,639 airports serving Dallas Fort Worth metro area. Traffic cameras near 50 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,000 the scene showed six lanes of a normally busy freeway 51 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,560 empty with cars in semi trailers ground to a halt 52 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,199 on an interstate exit. At this point, they say motive 53 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:56,080 remains unclear, because of course it does. We have I mean, 54 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,199 this is just three hours, three and a half hours 55 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,800 after the shooting, and so, as I do in all 56 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:08,120 of these types of events, we should just wait a 57 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:13,479 little bit. We don't need to rush in and make 58 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,240 predictions and say, oh, I know what happened. I have 59 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,000 a pretty look to me, like I have some ideas 60 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,720 about what we just saw, too. I have some pretty 61 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:28,279 solid guesses. I think that doesn't make them anything more 62 00:04:28,319 --> 00:04:33,839 than that they are guesses. I do note the silence 63 00:04:33,879 --> 00:04:37,879 coming from the experts in stochastic terrorism. This is not 64 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,000 the first ICE facility that has been targeted. There was 65 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,759 another shooting that occurred at a different ICE facility, I believe, 66 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,720 yeah this one. So it is mentioned in the AP 67 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:53,680 story that there was a July fourth attack at a 68 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,959 Texas immigration detention center. It injured a police officer who 69 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,519 was shot in the neck. Attackers dressed in black military 70 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:04,920 style clothing who dresses like that, opened fire outside the 71 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:09,240 Prairie Land Detention Center in Alvarado, which is southwest of Dallas. 72 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:17,160 Eleven people charged in connection with that attack Antifa. They 73 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,959 were ANTIFA. A man with an assault rifle fired dozens 74 00:05:22,959 --> 00:05:25,480 of rounds at federal agents as they were leaving a 75 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,120 US Border Patrol facility in McCallan, Texas on July seventh. 76 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,040 That man identified injured a police officer who responded to 77 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:37,600 the scene before authority shot and killed him. So that 78 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:41,319 guy's dead. That shooter was dead. Police later found weaponry, ammunition, 79 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:49,319 and backpacks inside of his car. So the evidence that 80 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,879 we know right now, the fact that somebody would gain 81 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,959 access to a rooftop across the street or across a freeway, 82 00:05:56,959 --> 00:06:00,759 maybe from or an adjacent building at the least of 83 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,800 an ICE facility and open fire on personnel at the facility. 84 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:12,360 But more importantly, it's the writing on the bullet casings, 85 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:20,319 making sure everybody knows why the assassin did this. They 86 00:06:20,439 --> 00:06:27,240 are opposed to ICE or were They were obviously not 87 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:33,759 happy about immigration Customs Enforcement removing people from the country, 88 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,360 and to show his contempt and disdain for ICE, he 89 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:48,800 murdered two detainees to illegal immigrants injured a third. There 90 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:52,600 was a piece at the Washington Examiner by John Schindler, 91 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:58,319 and he served with the NSSAY, the National Security Agency, 92 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:02,839 and as a senior intelligence analyst and a counterintelligence officer. 93 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:07,680 He writes, I think it's a blog called twenty Committee, 94 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:10,439 and I forget what the meaning of that is. But 95 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,959 he had a write up at the Washington Examiner after, 96 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:19,399 you know, Donald Trump announced the other day that he 97 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,439 was going to designate Antifa as a what do they 98 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,120 call it, like a dangerous terrorist organization or a major 99 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,920 terrorist organization, something like that. And at the time when 100 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:34,439 I relayed that information to you, I said, like, I'm 101 00:07:34,439 --> 00:07:37,480 not really sure what this designation means. Because there isn't 102 00:07:37,519 --> 00:07:43,319 an official designation that he is citing. And what Shindler 103 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,639 is recommending is that Trump go ahead and name it 104 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,079 as a foreign terrorist organization because that is what it is. 105 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,240 And if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe the 106 00:07:56,439 --> 00:08:00,839 European nations that have been banning Antifa in their countries 107 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,360 because they know the history of Antifa. You may not 108 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,120 the people who sign up for this and get radicalized 109 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,920 by they may not, but the Europeans know, they remember 110 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:16,800 what antifa is all about. So Shindler writes that much 111 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:20,600 of this ideology falls under the rubric of antifa or 112 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,680 quote anti fascism, a loose anti capitalist movement possessing cells 113 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:31,680 against the West that agitates for quote unquote woke Bolshevism. 114 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:36,320 There's a clue in there. It's not the woke word, 115 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:42,639 it's the other one, Bolshevism. While it's increasing amalgamation with 116 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:48,000 the extremist LGBT activists has been termed trantifa. The White 117 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:51,720 House has already promised to ban Antifa as a terrorist organization, 118 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,360 with the President castigating it as a terrorist group. Executing 119 00:08:56,519 --> 00:09:00,639 a ban presents legal challenges, though, although the government has 120 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,240 banned certain foreign terrorist organizations since nineteen ninety seven, including 121 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,919 Al Qaeda, Hamas Hezbala. The challenge is that, as the 122 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,159 name implies, foreign terrorist organizations must be foreign. At present, 123 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,519 there exists no mechanism to ban domestic groups that embrace 124 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:20,440 violence to further their political aims. But what if Antifa 125 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:27,559 is a foreign terrorist organization? And he says there's solid 126 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,440 evidence for the assertion. So when I was a kid, 127 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,279 my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my 128 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,200 mom and my dad took care of him as he 129 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,039 got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and 130 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,240 not much support for caregivers and family. But things are 131 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,879 different today because of the work of so many people, 132 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,440 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great 133 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,799 organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a 134 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,759 supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot 135 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,120 to me. 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Russ in a message on Twitter, says, 154 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:56,279 the biggest problem with your wait a while approach Pete 155 00:10:56,759 --> 00:10:59,279 to these incidents is that it makes it so much 156 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:03,360 harder to say, hey, this totally proves my preconceived notions 157 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:06,360 when you have to make actual evidence support your claims. 158 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:12,080 That's true, that's fair, that's true. However, on the upside, 159 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:15,240 you don't get locked into a position before you know 160 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,720 all the facts, right because like, for example, if I 161 00:11:19,799 --> 00:11:22,240 were to, I don't know, make a guess, if I 162 00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:28,000 were to articulate my guess, I'm going to say, radicalized leftist, 163 00:11:28,519 --> 00:11:33,639 twenty nine year old white dude, loser at life, hooked 164 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,639 up to an online culture that told him his anger 165 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:43,720 and rage directed outward at their perceived enemies, gave him 166 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,240 the permission structure to go and try to kill a 167 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,080 bunch of ICE agents. He is a terrible shot, missed 168 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:54,879 and hit three illegal immigrants who were in the process 169 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:59,480 of being deported, thereby murdering two and injuring a third 170 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,960 the people that he was supposed to be protecting, once 171 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,320 again proving he was a loser. So like that would 172 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,799 be my guess. And if I were to take another 173 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,120 guess at it, and again this is just coming from 174 00:12:12,279 --> 00:12:15,600 you know, twenty five years of experience in covering these 175 00:12:15,639 --> 00:12:20,120 types of events, I would have to guess that probably 176 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:24,120 the permission structure that was erected over the last oh, 177 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:28,840 I don't know, eight years or so about how ICE 178 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:35,240 is a bunch of fascists, Gestapo Nazis. SS officers just 179 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:43,559 following orders probably helped, you know, give him the assurances, 180 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:49,519 the permission to go about this attack because he felt 181 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,039 like everybody was encouraging him to do so and he 182 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,159 would be remembered as a martyr for the court, for 183 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,960 the cause just a guess. See, Now here's the thing. 184 00:12:57,519 --> 00:13:01,480 If I were to actually articulate this, if I were 185 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:06,240 to say this, like on the radio or something, then 186 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:08,720 if it came out that, you know, evidence presented otherwise 187 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,720 it turned out he was not all of that stuff, 188 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,919 and he was not radicalized, and he wasn't hooked up 189 00:13:12,919 --> 00:13:16,440 with these leftists online and stuff, then it would be 190 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:18,480 you know, I'd have to admit that. Okay, I was 191 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,279 wrong in my speculation in the immediate aftermath of the 192 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,399 of the attack. But luckily I have not articulated this 193 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,080 kind of a thing. I've not planted a flag here, 194 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,720 you know, which brings me back to Antifa. On John 195 00:13:34,759 --> 00:13:38,159 Schindler's piece at the Washington Examiner, what if Antifa is 196 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,960 a foreign terrorist organization? There's actually solid evidence for this assertion. 197 00:13:45,399 --> 00:13:49,759 Born in the nineteen thirties Germany on the orders of 198 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,559 the fiery but mostly peaceful Joseph Stalin, did you know 199 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:01,320 that about Antifa? On the orders of Stalin under the 200 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:06,360 leadership of the German Communist Party, Antifa, in its DNA, 201 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:14,480 is a violent revolutionary organization. With good reason. Berlin deems 202 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:20,120 Antifa an extremist threat to democracy. Germany's domestic intelligence agency 203 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,120 recently noted a sharp rise in Antifa related violence, observing 204 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:27,360 that the potential threat posed by violent left wing extremism 205 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:33,039 remains high. American liberals, including top Democrats, habitually pretend that 206 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,720 Antifa is a myth or as Joe Biden called it, 207 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:39,960 I believe it's an idea. It's just an idea. There's 208 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:46,200 no organized group. It's not an organization. I mean, yes, fine, 209 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:50,440 they have websites and Twitter handles, and they do meetups 210 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,879 and print out materials and recruit people and give action 211 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:57,759 plans and assemble and do direct action and dress alike 212 00:14:57,879 --> 00:15:08,600 and coordinate. But that doesn't make an organization. It's an idea. People. Yeah, Berlin, 213 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,759 where Antifa was born, They're not so easily fooled by 214 00:15:12,799 --> 00:15:16,799 this crap. Okay, I'm not either. Anybody who has paid 215 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,360 any attention to antifah and has done any modicum of 216 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,559 research knows that it is in fact an organization. Just 217 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:28,159 because some of the local cells aren't as organized as 218 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,039 others doesn't make it just an idea. Right. This is 219 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:39,799 not some myth cooked up by overheated Republican imaginations. Schindler 220 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,360 says there are demonstrable connections between Antifa cells in the 221 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:48,080 US and those in Western countries. Democrats have poo pooed 222 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,159 Trump's push against Antifa as mere political theater, but multiple 223 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,080 NATO partners agree with the White House. Hungary and the 224 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,720 Netherlands are following Trump's lead, and other US allies are 225 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:05,480 expected to do the same. Antifa is a transnational extremist 226 00:16:05,559 --> 00:16:10,120 group that endorses terrorism, and it's time we confronted it. 227 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,720 I'm not gas lit on this. I refuse to be. 228 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,679 Don't whiz on my boots and tell me it's raining. 229 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,159 The financial and look, anybody who spends any bit of 230 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:29,879 time in the political milieu up in Ashville knows Antifa exists. 231 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,080 The financial dimension is key, however, because however much Antifa 232 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:44,600 activists hate capitalism, the revolution requires cash. Oh irony of ironies, 233 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,120 Trump has promised to pursue left wing donors, including famous 234 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,480 ones like George and Alex Soros. That Alex is George's 235 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,039 son who's taken over the criminal opera. I mean the 236 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:01,759 organization even looking with looking at criminal charges under the 237 00:17:01,919 --> 00:17:06,079 RICO Act, the Racketeer, Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which 238 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:10,119 is employed by the FBI against gangsters, terrorists, and money launderers. 239 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,480 RICO is a powerful tool for the Justice Department, but 240 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,599 the drag net must be extended beyond just the Soroses. 241 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,839 You have an entire web of NGOs that have been 242 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,000 funding this stuff. See this is why Democrats want to 243 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,480 just dismiss it as merely an idea. It's because they 244 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:39,880 benefit from the radical street troops, the quote direct action, right. 245 00:17:40,079 --> 00:17:42,640 They benefit from the at least they think they did. 246 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,160 They may not so much anymore. They may be waking 247 00:17:46,279 --> 00:17:51,440 up and realizing this is actually not helping us. There's 248 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:56,400 convincing evidence. Also, get this that Cuban intelligence is materially 249 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:02,400 supporting Trantifa radicalism in the US. That I did not 250 00:18:02,519 --> 00:18:07,640 know that, Schindler says. It's not surprising since Havana essentially 251 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,160 created the Black Lives Matter movement a decade ago. One 252 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,200 Utah trantifa extremist group called Armed Queer's Salt Lake City, 253 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:20,799 which by the way, scrubbed its social media after the 254 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:25,839 Kirk assassination, was openly affiliated with the Cuban regime, including 255 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:30,599 its enthusiastic participation in Havana led activities known to be 256 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:36,880 controlled by Cuban intelligence. I've said this for a while, 257 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:43,680 the Left has a violence problem. Democrats need to police themselves. 258 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,759 They need to expel these elements from their political party 259 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,480 or they will go down with them. Game on Week 260 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:54,200 one starts now, and every touchdown brings you closer to 261 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,000 a payout. 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Restrictions apply additional NFL 288 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,880 Sunday Ticket terms or at YouTube dot com slash go 289 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:29,240 slash NFL Sunday tickets slash terms limited time offer. Let's 290 00:20:29,279 --> 00:20:31,920 jump over to the phones. We'll chat with Frank. Hello, Frank, 291 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,000 welcome to the program. 292 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 2: Hey man, Hey, how are you doing today? 293 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: I'm all right. How are you so? 294 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 3: I'm good? 295 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: Good. 296 00:20:39,519 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 2: So you know I'm a longtime listener. I don't call 297 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,799 it a lot, but I called Vince a couple of times. 298 00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:45,319 We're good. 299 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,599 Speaker 1: It's not a contest, Frank, it's not a contest. You 300 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:49,839 can call both of us. 301 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 2: I know you all are beautiful. Hey, listen. Uh, you 302 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,039 know they're gonna bust or Jimmy Kimmel's gonna bust this 303 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,119 person for being such a big as shot, so he 304 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,279 must be on our shot. 305 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:06,759 Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, I mean they could make that argument 306 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,200 or something. Yeah, I don't know. I doubt they'll even 307 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,799 pay any attention to crazy. 308 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 2: It's so crazy. 309 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the information that has come out so 310 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:21,119 quickly about the messages that were written on the bullets, 311 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:25,519 I'm thinking it's going to short circuit any kind of 312 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,720 preempt preemptive sort of offensive from the left on. 313 00:21:29,759 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 3: The exactly because antifa means anti fata or anti fascists, 314 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,240 whatever you want. To call it, it's all hate. So 315 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:44,799 we're going to leave it that way and we'll take 316 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:45,640 care of the hate. 317 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 2: Thank you sir. 318 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: All right, Frank, I appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean 319 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:56,319 it's it's there is always a race to set in 320 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,720 place the narrative. And this is why you ended up 321 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:05,440 with Jimmy Kimmel, as Frank just mentioned him saying what 322 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,000 he said a week ago that got him indefinitely suspended 323 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,000 for five days, which back in my day, an indefinite 324 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,359 suspension lasted more than half a scaramoucci. But whatever, I know, 325 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:26,480 I'm old, I guess. But antifa is a thing. It 326 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,880 is an organization. They do organize, They have meetings, they 327 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,440 do planning stuff. They give each other tips, and they 328 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,119 share strategies and tactics and calls to arms and such. 329 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:51,759 And when you have an institutional media apparatus that amplifies 330 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:58,759 things like this. The accusation that Ice used a five 331 00:22:58,839 --> 00:23:03,400 year old girl as bait in order to capture a 332 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:09,039 criminal illegal alien, and that wasn't true, but NBC News 333 00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:14,519 reported it is true. And what the actual story, according 334 00:23:14,519 --> 00:23:18,599 to Homeland Security, was that the criminal illegal alien was 335 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,160 the target of an operation with previous arrests for domestic abuse, strangulation, 336 00:23:23,559 --> 00:23:29,319 vandalizing property, and he abandoned his own child in the car. 337 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,599 The kid was not used as bait. The guy left 338 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:37,400 the kid, left the baby, and ran out of the car. 339 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,920 He was from Guatemala. He ignored law enforcement emergency lights 340 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,079 darted inside of his house, abandoning his five year old 341 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,839 daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and 342 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,920 called local police to report the abandonment. But the way 343 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,960 NBC News reported it, headline ice held five year old 344 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:05,319 autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, according 345 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:11,480 to his family, and then a day later you get 346 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:15,079 an attack on an ICE facility. Back to the John 347 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,279 Schindler piece at the Washington Examiner, he says it is 348 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:21,920 best to think of ANTIFA as the armed wing of 349 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,480 the Democratic Socialists of America, the left wing group that's 350 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:29,440 successfully taken over much of the Democrat Party. The time 351 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,039 to confront this difficult reality is now. The Trump administration 352 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,920 must declare Antifa a foreign terrorist organization, cutting off its 353 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:41,319 funding at home and abroad via sanctions before this crisis 354 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,960 gets worse. May jump over to the WBT text line 355 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:53,200 Driven by Liberty Buick gmc anonymous says, does anybody remember 356 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,039 Occupy Wall Street whatever happened to them? Well, yeah, it's 357 00:24:57,079 --> 00:25:01,039 the same. It's what we're seeing was just a different 358 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:07,039 iteration of that same ideology, right, the tenttifada that occurred 359 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:11,559 on the college campuses against Israel, you know, the you know, 360 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,599 pro Hamas Holais and such. The issue is never the issue. 361 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:21,119 The issue is always the revolution, right, and so that's 362 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,119 why it's like they just swap out whatever the issue 363 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:26,920 of the day is because it doesn't matter. The issue 364 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,519 is actually the revolution. That's why Antifa with roots and 365 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:38,759 communists Russia, right, that's why they lend themselves their services 366 00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:43,079 to whatever the what Ben Shapiro calls the omni cause, 367 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,079 just you know, whatever they need to protest. They're down 368 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,000 with Black Lives Matter, We're there, Queers for Palestine, We're 369 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,599 totally there. Doesn't because it doesn't matter. The only point 370 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,119 is to sow chaos and tear down Western civilization and 371 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,720 the evil capitalist society and replace it with the utopia. 372 00:26:05,279 --> 00:26:09,880 Mark says, all protests seem to be organized. I say, 373 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,759 we need to follow the money. George s I'm sure 374 00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:15,000 they can show that he funded a lot of organizations 375 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,960 for protesters. They could charge him with RICO. A lot 376 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,799 of the protests are violent. Rico would be perfect for 377 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:26,119 charging him. Joseph says, if we went broken windows and 378 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,839 locked them up for attacking government facilities or assaulting federal agents, 379 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,799 we wouldn't have to wait until they started shooting. The 380 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:35,400 same people protesting ice facilities are the same ones who 381 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,480 rioted in twenty twenty, and are the same ones who 382 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,240 attacked Atlanta's Cop City and then assassinated Charlie Kirk. They're 383 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:46,079 all the same. So it's funny you mentioned the broken 384 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,359 windows idea because I came across a piece I had 385 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,079 it in the show prep stack for today. It's over 386 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,400 at the Civitas Institute Civitas Institute dot org, written by 387 00:26:57,519 --> 00:27:01,279 tal Fort Gang who who is a legal policy fellow 388 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:06,000 at the Manhattan Institute, and the headline is the broken 389 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:14,400 Windows in American higher education. But it does have a 390 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,640 more far reaching impact than just the university. 391 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 3: You know. 392 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:21,079 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 393 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,559 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 394 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:27,920 our past while transcending generations. 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Talford Gang at Civitasinstitute dot org writing that 411 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:31,720 a little known Jewish sage called ben assea as i anyway, 412 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,200 he challenged his students in a message memorialized in the 413 00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:39,440 Ancient Ethical Guide known as something I cannot pronounce per 414 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:44,079 ki avot anyway. He said, be quick in performing a 415 00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:46,720 minor commandment, as in the case of a major one. 416 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:51,119 Fallible human beings cannot know which obligations are small and 417 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,240 which are large, both in God's eyes and in the 418 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:56,559 greater scheme of human events. What appears trivial may hold 419 00:28:56,599 --> 00:29:00,079 a community together. What seems like a minor failure may 420 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:04,960 open the way to collapse. The sociologists James Q. Wilson 421 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,400 and George Kelling gave that ancient lesson a modern expression 422 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,000 in their famous yet widely misunderstood nineteen eighty two article 423 00:29:13,079 --> 00:29:18,559 Broken Windows. They argued that small signs of disorder, like graffiti, vandalism, 424 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,920 public intoxication, those small signs signal a lack of enforcement, 425 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:28,759 which in turn invites greater violations. When norms are not upheld, 426 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,400 the boundaries of acceptable behavior blur, and soon serious crime follows. 427 00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:38,240 Many commentators have noted that the assassination of Charlie Kirk 428 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,799 is a massive escalation in our simmering culture war and 429 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,759 another in a rapidly growing pattern of political violence. But 430 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,319 because the escalation was so enormous, many have lost sight 431 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,359 of the fact that his murder is also the last 432 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,359 of a pattern of lawless attempts to prevent Kirk and 433 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:01,920 similar figures from sharing their mesas messages. In that light, 434 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,119 it is a stark demonstration of the broken windows principle. 435 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,319 Kirk had a long record of making appearances in contentious settings. 436 00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:16,319 He had been targeted with hostility for years. His events 437 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,119 drew heckling and organized attempts to shut him down. His 438 00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:25,640 organization regularly had its campus booths defaced, ambassadors harassed, and 439 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,759 events canceled because the university could not guarantee security. Charlie 440 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:33,480 Kirk and Turning Point USA were hardly the first to 441 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:39,839 suffer such mistreatment on campus. Charles Murray, Alison Stanger, David Horowitz, 442 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:45,279 and Colter Bill Crystal EO. Wilson. I would add Ben Shapiro, 443 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,359 dozens of Israeli diplomats can all attest to the harassment 444 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,079 and violence that heterodox speakers endured. None of those acts 445 00:30:55,079 --> 00:31:00,559 of opposition was ever acceptable, but they were accepted rarely, 446 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,000 if ever, faced expulsion or social sanction. I've been talking 447 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,359 about this for a while. This is the permission structure 448 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:13,000 that has been built up over years. He points out 449 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:16,200 in this piece that the guilt obviously belongs to Charlie 450 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,440 Kirk's killer, but it would also be willful blindness to 451 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:22,519 fail to note that this was yet another attempt to 452 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,200 shut him up. And some significant portion of a portion 453 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:29,759 of young people think that violence is an acceptable means 454 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:34,319 to do so when more common forms of lawless disruption fail. 455 00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:40,319 A college that tolerates harassment signals to students that harassment 456 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:44,240 is within the bounds of acceptable behavior. A university that 457 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:48,319 treats vandalism as minor signals that property rights are not 458 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:54,240 worth defending. Over time, students learn that certain rules are 459 00:31:54,279 --> 00:32:00,400 not enforced. That knowledge then alters their expectations, but more importantly, 460 00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:06,720 it molds their character. It frames the moral universe they inhabit. 461 00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:14,359 See rules, whether they are imposed by law or the 462 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,640 Office of Student Life, rules are formative. They teach us 463 00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:24,000 what is expected of us. A well run institution does 464 00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:27,599 not simply prohibit extremes of behavior. It inculcates habits of 465 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,559 self control, restraint, mutual respect. When administrators fail to enforce 466 00:32:33,599 --> 00:32:38,720 those rules, institutions fail in their formative role because they 467 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,319 fail to communicate that they think living by the rules 468 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,400 really matters, that being the kind of person that the 469 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,279 rules expect is really any better than being the kind 470 00:32:50,279 --> 00:32:54,119 that flouts expectations. They do not produce responsible citizens, but 471 00:32:54,240 --> 00:33:00,000 permissive ones who assume norms are optional. This is exactly 472 00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:04,880 the same problem. Writ large. It's not just on the 473 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:10,119 college CAMPI, it's through society, it is through our criminal 474 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:12,920 justice system. In the next hour, I'm going to get 475 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,559 into the debate that occurred in the North Carolina House 476 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,480 over Arena's Law, named after Arena Zarutzka. Right, The shards 477 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,480 of broken windows are also present in the cycle of 478 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:29,279 demonstrations and doubtrage since October seventh, twenty twenty three. Occupations 479 00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:34,400 of administrative offices, vandalism of buildings, disruptions of lectures, harassment 480 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,920 of faculty members. These are all violations of school rules, 481 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,160 and they have been met with little more than slaps 482 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,559 on the wrist. Students student groups vow then to escalate. 483 00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:49,279 They know full well that the rules are optional. What 484 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,000 constrains them? What distinctions do they make between breaking rules, 485 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:58,799 destroying your property, or destroying your body? Right? Hopefully it's 486 00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:03,720 something more than an internal moral code, because like they 487 00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:08,559 say that violence against political opponents is acceptable, So we 488 00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:17,639 can't trust that moral code. Broken windows at a societal scale, 489 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,559 all right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 490 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,639 so much for listening. I could not do the show 491 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,159 without your support and the support of the businesses that 492 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,320 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 493 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,039 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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