Speaker 1: Free speech is officially dead in California, as the state
Speaker 1: legislature this week passed the Stop Nick Shirley Act and
Speaker 1: made it a crime for investigative journalists to post video
Speaker 1: evidence of fraud on the Internet, and they even amended the.
Speaker 2: Bill to target journalists.
Speaker 1: All this went down as a Democratic staffer to a
Speaker 1: state Assembly member viciously attacked Nick Shirley outside of the Capitol.
Speaker 1: We've got the video to show you, and we're going
Speaker 1: to walk through just how bad this bill is. But
Speaker 1: we also need your help to fight to block this bill.
Speaker 1: All that and more coming up. But the problem I'm
Speaker 1: having with this is that this is conduct unbecoming of
Speaker 1: a representative of the state legislature. This is a government
Speaker 1: employee paid for by your taxpayer money. I'm Carl Demo,
Speaker 1: chairman of Reform California and California State legislator, and for
Speaker 1: months I've been warning about a really bad bill in
Speaker 1: the State Assembly Assembly, Bill twenty six twenty four from
Speaker 1: Mia Banta, the wife of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Speaker 2: This bill I nicknamed the Stop Nick Shirley Act.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I nicknamed it the Stop Nick
Speaker 1: Shirley act is that it was inspired by him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: After Nick Shirley captured video evidence of all sorts of
Speaker 1: fraud happening by government contractors and grantees in other states
Speaker 1: and came to California and did the same thing, Mia
Speaker 1: Banta decided, you know, we don't want these citizen journalists
Speaker 1: showing up and going into our contractors and our grantees,
Speaker 1: most of whom are campaign contributors, by the way, or
Speaker 1: political organizations that helped turn out the Democrat vote. We
Speaker 1: don't want them showing up and realizing that the contracts
Speaker 1: in grants were giving them are phony and they were
Speaker 1: just basically funding politics. So we need to make it
Speaker 1: illegal to show up and record evidence of fraud. We're
Speaker 1: going to make it illegal for them to post these
Speaker 1: videos on the internet to create a public uproar and
Speaker 1: to shine a light on what is actually happening with
Speaker 1: taxpayer money.
Speaker 2: That is, in essence, what Assembly Built twenty six twenty
Speaker 2: four does. Makes it a crime for.
Speaker 1: Anyone to take a video of these contractors getting your
Speaker 1: taxpayer money, take a video of any activity that they're
Speaker 1: engaged in in public. Okay, it's not like you're going
Speaker 1: inside their private home and videotaping them in their shower. No,
Speaker 1: it's what they're doing in public, whether it's they're running
Speaker 1: a daycare with no kids, or operating hospices in a
Speaker 1: building with no patients, or organizing.
Speaker 2: Political rallies with taxpayer money. If you capture any of
Speaker 2: that on video.
Speaker 1: And post it to the internet, you've broken the law.
Speaker 1: And that's the requirements the new provisions under AB twenty
Speaker 1: six twenty four. So I nicknamed it the stop Nick
Speaker 1: Surely Act. And Democrats are furious because when we are
Speaker 1: able to brand a bill in the most simple terms
Speaker 1: and bring public outrage in controversy to a bill that
Speaker 1: they're trying to ram through the process, they say that
Speaker 1: we are doing something wrong, that we're not operating with decorum.
Speaker 2: Decorum, are you joking me? So let me walk through
Speaker 2: two video clips.
Speaker 1: When the Democrats passed the stop Nick Surely Act, first
Speaker 1: and foremost, they said that my nickname for the bill,
Speaker 1: the stop Nick Surely Act, was not speaking with decorum,
Speaker 1: and so while they were standing on the floor saying
Speaker 1: we're not limiting free speech, they decided to.
Speaker 2: Cut off my microphone.
Speaker 1: I was arguing against the bill, walking through various provisions,
Speaker 1: making my case as to why they should vote no,
Speaker 1: why this was a bad bill.
Speaker 2: That's my job.
Speaker 1: I'm the state legislature. I'm elected by five hundred thousand residents.
Speaker 1: My job is to be their voice. And what the
Speaker 1: Democrats did on the floor when I rose in opposition
Speaker 1: to AB twenty six twenty four is they violated my
Speaker 1: free speech rights, my duty to speak on behalf of
Speaker 1: my constituents as to why we don't support this bill.
Speaker 2: They cut off my microphone when they did this.
Speaker 1: Democrats did this to a main state representative because the
Speaker 1: state representative didn't want to use personal pronouns of another
Speaker 1: legislator that were not biologically correct.
Speaker 2: She sued, and the Supreme Court sided.
Speaker 1: With the Republican legislature legislator and told them, Democrats, you
Speaker 1: are violating free speech rules. And I'm just going to
Speaker 1: tell you right now, if they keep this bad behavior
Speaker 1: up on the floor, I will sue the Democrats supermajority
Speaker 1: in the state Legislature because I have a job to do.
Speaker 2: I have to be their voice.
Speaker 1: But here's the clip of them cutting me off repeatedly,
Speaker 1: or or she's misrepresenting.
Speaker 2: Decorum. This bill came about in response me, mister Demyo,
Speaker 2: you may continue, mister Demio, as I was saying, as
Speaker 2: nicknamed the Nick Shirley.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, mister Demayo is not nickname that has not
Speaker 3: been Excuse me, mister Mayo, just wait a moment.
Speaker 2: Thank you as something. Remember Wilson, your point is well taken.
Speaker 2: We're gonna move on now.
Speaker 1: I got my you know, my my basic message out
Speaker 1: uh in in my speech, but they still did limit
Speaker 1: my time and they shut down debate.
Speaker 2: Uh. And that is the violation.
Speaker 1: And these are the same people clutching their pearls saying,
Speaker 1: Heaven forbid, we're not trying to stop free speech.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The backers of the bill say that the Stop Nick
Speaker 1: Shirley Act is designed to stop people from threatening various
Speaker 1: employees of a government contractor.
Speaker 2: Well, let me share with you the.
Speaker 1: Final version of the bill, and there's an amendment here.
Speaker 1: They say that section two says that a person who
Speaker 1: puts a video up with the intent to incite a
Speaker 1: third person to cause imminent bodily harm or threaten a
Speaker 1: program participant. That that's what the bill is all about,
Speaker 1: Section two right here. And they put this language in
Speaker 1: because that's what they were verbally saying the whole time,
Speaker 1: and it's good that they put that language in because
Speaker 1: nobody should be threatened. And by the way, we already
Speaker 1: have laws on the books in California.
Speaker 2: You don't need AB.
Speaker 1: Twenty six twenty four to stop make sure Lyact to
Speaker 1: stop people from threatening someone.
Speaker 2: Else with violence.
Speaker 1: They're ample laws to allow people to go and get
Speaker 1: a restraining order and protect themselves. You don't need this
Speaker 1: language because it's already in state law. But that's what
Speaker 1: they amended the bill to say. See, this is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Well, actually not, that's what they're putting
Speaker 1: in the bill to show the media. Let's look at
Speaker 1: the actual sanction on a citizen journalist in court. It
Speaker 1: starts with Section one. A program participant or individual organization
Speaker 1: in other words, one of these left wing political groups
Speaker 1: can make a written demand to a person Nick Shirley
Speaker 1: not to take their video and publicly post or display
Speaker 1: it or distribute it or disclose.
Speaker 2: It on the Internet. Okay, that is.
Speaker 1: Section one basically says if you have an NGO, a
Speaker 1: Somali leering center, a daycare center that's not actually providing
Speaker 1: childcare services, he captures Nick Sualley captures this video. If
Speaker 1: that participant says, don't post that video, and that's what
Speaker 1: they all say.
Speaker 2: They say, get out of here.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to tape record, when in fact, if
Speaker 1: it's a public space, you're absolutely allowed to tape record.
Speaker 2: That's what citizen journalism is all about. That's what Nick
Speaker 2: Surley is doing.
Speaker 1: He's showing up at their place of business these tape
Speaker 1: recording the fact.
Speaker 2: That there are no kids at the daycare.
Speaker 1: If the scammer, the fraudster says, you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: post that video. You got me dead to rights, dude,
Speaker 1: But you're not allowed if you post that video, if
Speaker 1: you blow the whistle, if you show the evidence to
Speaker 1: the public and create public outcry.
Speaker 2: I'm suing you.
Speaker 1: Item one says not anything about a threat. It's just
Speaker 1: posting a video with the fraudster saying don't do it.
Speaker 2: Guess what.
Speaker 1: Item four is the sanction a program participant whose personal
Speaker 1: information or image video is made public as a result
Speaker 1: of a failure to honor the demand made pursuant to
Speaker 1: paragraph one. Okay, so paragraph one is this. It's just
Speaker 1: the fraudster saying don't post it. Has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with paragraph two the threats. It all relates to the
Speaker 1: fraudster saying don't post the video.
Speaker 2: Paragraph one, No threats have to be made.
Speaker 1: In order for the citizen journalists to be barred under
Speaker 1: the Stop Nick Shirley Act from posting a video online.
Speaker 1: Any individual is authorized to.
Speaker 2: Seek conjuncture and injunctive relief in court against Nick Shirley.
Speaker 1: Or another citizen journalist, and then they are going to
Speaker 1: be charged all these fees penalties.
Speaker 2: That's the language.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is not a debate about what the bill does.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you word for word what it does.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with making threats against people. Again,
Speaker 1: all of us agree no one should be threatened with
Speaker 1: physical violence. That's not what section B one and section
Speaker 1: four of the Stop Nick Shirley Act under Statute six'
Speaker 1: two one eight.
Speaker 2: Nine that's not what this bill.
Speaker 1: Does it Stops Nick shirley from posting video evidence of,
Speaker 1: fraud right there in Plain. English now here's the even
Speaker 1: worst part about. This see this little line here that
Speaker 1: they struck this. Subdivision you, know penalizing people for posting
Speaker 1: videos shall not apply to a person or entity defined
Speaker 1: in section ten to seventy of The Evidence.
Speaker 2: Code what is section ten seventy of The Evidence.
Speaker 1: Code it's something called The California Shield. Act it protects
Speaker 1: journalists from being hauled into court and ordered to do
Speaker 1: things like reveal their. Sources by striking this line, out
Speaker 1: The Stop Nick Shirley act actually got worse in the
Speaker 1: final moments of passage because now they're saying even journalists
Speaker 1: are not given the shield against this. Law and The
Speaker 1: democrats literally made the bill worse against.
Speaker 2: Free speech in the freedom of the. Press this is. Bad.
Speaker 2: Now as this all went down.
Speaker 1: Outside The, Capitol Nick shirley was trying to interview, people, saying,
Speaker 1: hey what's your view on The Stop Nick Shirley. Act
Speaker 1: he was trying to talk to, legislators and A democratic
Speaker 1: staffer Named Terry schantz who works For democrat extremist Member tina.
Speaker 2: Mckinner, boy she is a looney.
Speaker 1: Tune he came out and Accosted Nick.
Speaker 2: Shirley And i'm just going to play a little sample
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Clip the full harassment Against Nick shirley, was you, know
Speaker 1: three four minutes. Long, Now Nick sureley is a big, Guy,
Speaker 1: okay he Can he's got tough, Skin he's not phased by.
Speaker 1: This but the Problem i'm having with this is that
Speaker 1: this is conduct unbecoming of a representative of the state.
Speaker 1: Legislature this is a government employee paid for by your taxpayer,
Speaker 1: money during the work hours of the, day coming up
Speaker 1: interrupting another legislator's comments or interview with a, journalist which
Speaker 1: is never. Done you don't go as a staff, member
Speaker 1: you don't interrupt a. Legislator the legislator that you're going
Speaker 1: to see in just a moment Is Joe, patterson great,
Speaker 1: guy by the, way very common, sense A republican being
Speaker 1: interviewed on The Nick Shirley. Act this democratic aff for
Speaker 1: interrupts the, interview starts harassing even the legislator, uh and
Speaker 1: acts like a complete.
Speaker 2: Moron.
Speaker 1: Uh and this is conduct unbecoming that he should be,
Speaker 1: reprimanded if not terminated from his.
Speaker 2: Job watch This nick for. You do you think her
Speaker 2: creating a bill that.
Speaker 1: This Is Joe patterson being interviewed by a journalist right outside.
Speaker 2: The capitol basically?
Speaker 3: Illegal give someone a four thousand dollars fine for looking
Speaker 3: at immigration supports service?
Speaker 2: Riders do you.
Speaker 3: Guys hear That Nick shirley has a small piece Allegedly.
Speaker 1: Okay so he's saying That Nick shirley has a small
Speaker 1: anatomical part in the lower, region but a. Child just
Speaker 1: it's so. Embarrassing come, on your taxpayer money is paying
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 2: Crap that's so adult of.
Speaker 3: You did you hear about this has a Small, WELL
Speaker 3: i don't.
Speaker 2: KNOW i just this is what they're. Reporting have you seen?
Speaker 2: This the reports are.
Speaker 3: Reporting, well we don't.
Speaker 2: Know prove me.
Speaker 3: Wrong i'm.
Speaker 2: NOT i don't do that. Wrong it's good to The Charlie.
Speaker 2: KIRK i don't want to do. That well you.
Speaker 3: CONSENT i mean we are In. California they do SUPPORT
Speaker 3: i think you're over. Eighteen so there are news reports
Speaker 3: happening That Nick suirley has a small. Piece do you
Speaker 3: have any comment On Nick SUIRLEY'S i think allegedly allegedly here.
Speaker 2: It's risky for him to be out. Here he could
Speaker 2: be banned or. Criminalized you, know actually.
Speaker 3: Having a small, piece is that a? Criminal you're gonna
Speaker 3: introduce that legislation and. Something, remember, hey look at you
Speaker 3: to live at fat they even look at, It so
Speaker 3: you should work on that before you alege somebody else
Speaker 3: about Your, hey, gentlemen have you guys heard these public
Speaker 3: Reports nick surely allegedly has a small there's an investigation going.
Speaker 3: On if you like, there you, go thank you so.
Speaker 2: Much i'm doing just. Fine to see years you have
Speaker 2: to literally look at a flag of. FAT i don't
Speaker 2: know what you're talking.
Speaker 3: About, nick you literally have you literally have to go
Speaker 3: like this at your change look at.
Speaker 1: You, well it's a grown.
Speaker 2: MAN i MEAN i don't have.
Speaker 3: This i'm not the recording on me having a small. Oy.
Speaker 1: Okay so so this altercation occurs outside the. CAPITOL i
Speaker 1: want to introduce you to another element of attack on free.
Speaker 1: Speech so, first the bill ITSELF abe twenty six to
Speaker 1: twenty four is a complete attack on free speech because,
Speaker 1: well it makes it a crime for a citizen journalist
Speaker 1: to post video online of.
Speaker 2: Bad activity and let the people decide that is.
Speaker 1: Attacking free. Speech it goes after journalists now by removing
Speaker 1: the shield law provision from The Evidence code as it
Speaker 1: relates to enforceability of The Nick Shirly.
Speaker 2: Act so it goes after the freedom of the. Press
Speaker 2: then they.
Speaker 1: Censor my comments on the, floor not allowing me to
Speaker 1: speak in opposition to a, bill and they don't like
Speaker 1: WHAT i have to, say so they're just gonna trump my.
Speaker 1: Microphone but there's another element of attack on free speech
Speaker 1: that democrats engage in all the, time and that is
Speaker 1: what we call The heckler's. Veto Heckler, so when you
Speaker 1: show up and you don't want someone to, speak so
Speaker 1: you scream them, down you shout them, down you interrupt,
Speaker 1: them you interfere with their ability to give their. Comments that,
Speaker 1: is you, know it's not illegal from the standpoint of you,
Speaker 1: know someone can show up and yell and, scream but
Speaker 1: it certainly limits someone else's ability to express themselves and be.
Speaker 2: Heard The heckler's. Veto and by the, way The heckler's
Speaker 2: veto and.
Speaker 1: Free speech is used to remove people from public hearings
Speaker 1: when they disrupt the. Hearings so if you go to
Speaker 1: a city council meeting and people are like acting poorly
Speaker 1: and they're yelling and screaming and drowning out the council
Speaker 1: members or drowning out of their public, testimony they can
Speaker 1: legally be removed from a public hearing that everyone has
Speaker 1: a right to attend.
Speaker 2: Because, they in essence are infringing on the free speech
Speaker 2: rights of.
Speaker 1: Others and so when you go out to a street
Speaker 1: corner and you start screaming and yelling at.
Speaker 2: Someone it's a gray.
Speaker 1: Area BUT i would consider this again not respecting free speech.
Speaker 1: Rights i've always told my, supporters If democrats want to
Speaker 1: have a press, conference don't show up and crash. It
Speaker 1: don't show up and scream and yell in front of.
Speaker 1: Them let them say their, piece and then you can
Speaker 1: hold your own press. Conference that's how free speech. Works
Speaker 1: someone gets to say one, thing another person gets to
Speaker 1: say another. Thing but not in The Democrat party Of.
Speaker 1: California these people are. Extremists they do not want you
Speaker 1: to have freedom of. Speech, AGAIN i can disagree with
Speaker 1: what someone is going to, say BUT i will defend
Speaker 1: their right to say. It one last POINT i want to,
Speaker 1: make and this is for any of My assembly colleagues
Speaker 1: that might be watching this, video because many of them,
Speaker 1: do because they complain on the floor ABOUT i saw
Speaker 1: a podcaster the other day say. This i'm, like, oh
Speaker 1: she watches my.
Speaker 2: Podcast how INTERESTING i live rent. Free in some of their,
Speaker 2: minds it's so. Sad BUT i will tell you.
Speaker 1: THIS i do not interrupt my colleagues with parliamentary procedures
Speaker 1: and motions while they're. SPEAKING i might make emotion after
Speaker 1: they're done, speaking BECAUSE i find it absolutely abhorrent and,
Speaker 1: unacceptable unprofessional and in violation of our decorum to interrupt,
Speaker 1: someone even if you disagree with what they're, saying and
Speaker 1: even if they're attacking someone. Else you know, what let
Speaker 1: them say they're a piece and then make your point
Speaker 1: of order, afterwards because you can make the point that
Speaker 1: what they said about another colleague was lacking, decorum and
Speaker 1: then you put, it you, know you, know you put it.
Speaker 2: On record and you admonish the. Person but every member.
Speaker 1: Of the, legislature even IF i disagree with, them they
Speaker 1: have a right to represent their five hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: Constituents The democrats have the votes in the.
Speaker 1: Legislature now they're trying to deprive us of our voice
Speaker 1: by stopping us in the middle of our, speeches or
Speaker 1: by heckling someone on a street corner just trying to do,
Speaker 1: interviews or even, worse by passing The Stop Nick Shirley
Speaker 1: Act Ab twenty six twenty four to make it illegal
Speaker 1: for them to post video content on the. INTERNET i
Speaker 1: want to let you know real, quick before our time is.
Speaker 2: Up how do we stop To Stop Nick Shirley. Act
Speaker 2: how do we block.
Speaker 1: It, well now it goes to the governor And newsom
Speaker 1: has Until october first to sign or veto the.
Speaker 2: Legislation this is so. Repugnant this bill is so. Illegal
Speaker 2: it's an.
Speaker 1: Unconstitutional bill THAT i Think newsom might not sign it
Speaker 1: because he's running for.
Speaker 2: President it's.
Speaker 1: Embarrassing so we need to raise the public outcry even higher. Nationally,
Speaker 1: now we got to spread the word that The Stop
Speaker 1: Nick Shirley act is On newsom's DESK ab twenty, six
Speaker 1: twenty four and that we're urging him to veto.
Speaker 2: It we need to make it painful For newsom to
Speaker 2: even try to sign this. Legislation make it.
Speaker 1: Messy and that's Why i'm urging you like this, video
Speaker 1: share this video so we can expand the reach of
Speaker 1: this controversy because people need to know what's been going
Speaker 1: on and why this is not just About Stop Nick.
Speaker 1: Shirley this is About democrats do not, do not respect
Speaker 1: or want to defend your free speech. Rights all their
Speaker 1: bad behavior on display is quite. Clear there's a pattern
Speaker 1: of abuse.
Speaker 2: Here but we need to.
Speaker 1: Raise our voices and Pressure newsome to not sign the,
Speaker 1: bill and, then if, necessary if he signs, It we're
Speaker 1: going to, court, baby because this is.
Speaker 2: A blatantly unconstitutional. Law it needs to be challenged and.
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