WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.000 After the New Orleans attacks attack, there was this absurd 2 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:13.560 little moment of questioning where the FBI was. They had 3 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:18.640 a local agent, sort of the local field office person 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:25.920 in New Orleans who rushed to the microphone to try 5 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.079 to assert to everybody that this was not a terrorist attack, 6 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:39.240 which is which was an unbelievably baldly stupid thing to 7 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:44.520 have claimed at that point, and was made even more 8 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:51.880 insanely stupid the further we got away from it. Pretty 9 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.840 immediately they determined that the guy who drove his truck 10 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:03.079 into the crowd of people in New Orleans, which by 11 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:10.200 the way, is a repeated Islamic terrorist strategy that they've 12 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.000 done this same exact thing multiple times, where they take 13 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:18.400 a truck, they drive it into some super crowded gathering 14 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.519 of people, just like a month ago, an attack like 15 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:28.519 that happened in a German Christmas market. I guess we'll 16 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:33.200 take a wild guess about the racial, ethnic, whatever profile 17 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:39.040 of the person who did that attack. And yet, as 18 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.439 Annie McCarthy writes a National Review about this, he has 19 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:50.480 a very good piece about this. Basically, here's what he writes. 20 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.280 A top official in the New Orleans Field Office leading 21 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.120 the investigation so this is one of their geniuses we 22 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:01.719 have leading the investigation. The Assistant Special Agent in charge, ALTHEA. 23 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.439 Duncan could not get to a microphone fast enough to 24 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:11.639 state emphatically quote, this was not a terrorist attack, mind you. 25 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:14.879 Jabbar had just flown from the rear hitch of his 26 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.680 rented pickup truck. The black J Hottest flag of isis 27 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.240 made notorious by terrorist organizations and terrorist organizations that are 28 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.919 designated as such under the very laws that the FBI enforces. 29 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.400 He had just employed a classic, oft repeated g Hottest 30 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.199 tactic of driving a vehicle into a crowd gathered for 31 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.360 a public celebration offensive to fundamentalist Islam, in this instance, 32 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.479 an observance of the new year, the hallmark of time 33 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:52.159 measured from the birth of Jesus Christ, not the Hidra, 34 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:59.439 the Hidra, which is the way of measuring time from 35 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:04.159 the offh at Mohammad's migration from Mecca to Yathrib, which 36 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.360 happened in the year six twenty two. So they don't 37 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.120 like the Western New Year because it's like it's basically 38 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.560 designating time has centered around Jesus Christ rather than Muhammad. 39 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.360 In some Jabbar had just quote cast terror into the 40 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.599 hearts of the unbelievers, as the Quran instructs in Surah 41 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.400 three one fifty one, an injunction the fundamentalist Muslims take 42 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.039 literally and regard as immutable one that enables terrorism by 43 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:41.159 dehumanizing non believers in Sharia's supremacist eyes, because as verse 44 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.159 one fifty one continues, their abode will be the fire 45 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.000 and evil is the home of the wrong doers in 46 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.919 what realm? Again, This is Andy McCarthy writing at National Review, 47 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.360 and McCarthy was for those who don't know his background. 48 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:56.400 If you listen to John Jolready show long enough, I'm 49 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.719 gonna read something by Andy McCarthy, who I think is great. 50 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.360 He was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of 51 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.000 New York for many years and did a lot of 52 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:13.080 stuff with terrorism. He prosecuted the first World Trade Center bombers, 53 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.719 the guys who detonated actual bombs in the World Trade 54 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.040 Center in the early nineties, and as a result got 55 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:23.519 a lot of expertise in international terrorism and has been 56 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:29.240 a big critic of particularly Obama era policies and attitudes 57 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:33.279 towards international terrorism and the sort of willful PC blinders 58 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:40.199 that federal counter terrorism has taken with regards to well, 59 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:45.399 what is real is the role influence of Islam, the 60 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:52.000 nature of Islam within as a motivator of Islamic terrorism. 61 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.240 And that was one of the things he had a 62 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.879 problem with during the First World Trade Center bombing was 63 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:03.319 he was trying to show, oh, no, their religious ideology 64 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:08.639 is specifically what pushed what motivated these guys to do 65 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.439 this attack. And he was having some problems during that 66 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.120 First World Trade Center trial with getting some of that 67 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.360 evidence in on the grounds, well it's inappropriate to bring 68 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:21.879 in their religious background. He said, well, no, it's very 69 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:32.040 distinctly relevant here. So he writes about this fundamentalist Islam, 70 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:39.079 which is better described as sharia supremacism, is an authoritative 71 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:46.680 interpretation of Islam. It may not be the authoritative interpretation. 72 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:52.560 Islamic practice and belief is diverse, so the authoritative version 73 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:58.920 really doesn't exist. And this plays off a thing that 74 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.680 was a problem even in the Bush era, where Bush 75 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:05.600 was sort of saying, well, Islam is a religion of 76 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.120 peace and that this is a perversion of Islam, which 77 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.879 I always sort of thought like, is it are we 78 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.360 actually the right people to be judging what is and 79 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.439 is not authoritative Islam because a lot of aspects of 80 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.680 Islam that we would view as out of bounds that 81 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.680 most Americans with views out of bounds are accepted and 82 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:35.439 practiced by large swaths of the Middle Eastern world. And 83 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:44.160 McCarthy's sort of making this point, fundamentalist Islam, Sharia premisism 84 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.199 whatever is undoubtedly an authoritative interpretation of Islam. It is 85 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.800 so dominant, So dominant is it in the Muslim Middle 86 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.160 East that it is accepted as authoritative even by Muslims who, 87 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.639 in their private thoughts and lives do not necessarily believe 88 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.079 or practice it. That is because it is an Islam 89 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.279 supported by more than a millennium of scholarship and championed 90 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.680 by some of the world's most influential Muslim nations such 91 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:13.160 as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, some of the world's most 92 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:18.160 prominent Muslim establishments such as Al Ajar University in Cairo, 93 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.920 organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its global tentacles 94 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:25.120 and figures such as the late Shikh use of Karadawi 95 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.560 and Turkey strongman Receptayep Erduan, a key backer of the 96 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.040 Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Sunni Jihatis tied to such groups 97 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.600 as al Qaida and ISIS. Under this fundamentalist interpretation, it 98 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.240 is the duty of Muslims to spread Islam by implementing Sharia, 99 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:46.079 Allah's law and societal framework. This can be done in 100 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.040 many ways. One of those ways undeniably endorsed by scripture 101 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.040 is jihad or struggle in Allah's cause, which is the 102 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.439 spread of Islam. In its classic understanding, jihad is a 103 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:02.800 military struggle. Jihad is cons disidered defensive when Muslims deem 104 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.639 themselves under attack, in which case all Muslims are obliged 105 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:10.040 to support. The jihad under attack is in the eye 106 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.639 of the beholder. Sharia supremacists perceive Islam to be under attack, 107 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:17.199 for example, if a territory that was once under Muslim 108 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.399 rule falls under the control of non Muslims, or if 109 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.240 Muslims form an enclave in the West and the local 110 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:26.399 government interferes with their determination to live under Sharia's struct 111 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.839 strictures rather than the jurisdiction's laws, or if Muslims are 112 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.879 aggressors and the aggrieved people dare to fight back. Western 113 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.600 progressives because they tend to be hostile to religion in 114 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.399 general see religion as outdated superstition and can't fathom the 115 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.080 centrality of religion to others when it is avoid in 116 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.960 their own lives. They do not take Sharia supremacism seriously 117 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.519 as an ideology. For them, Muslims are just an oppressed 118 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.320 other resisting their oppressors and the white male Judaeo Christian 119 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.679 power structure. In this way of thinking, why Muslims themselves 120 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.120 may believe they must resist is beside the point. This 121 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:06.440 is the silly thing about the sort of bizarre alliance 122 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.440 between the modern left and the pro Palestine movement of 123 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:19.759 the Middle East. The Hamas led anti Israeli movement in 124 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:23.679 the Middle East is based on all kinds of Sharia 125 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:28.480 inspired hatred of the Jews and this notion that basically 126 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:33.159 the Jewish state was created in nineteen forty eight on 127 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:40.039 land that Muslims had controlled, and therefore it's inherently wrong. 128 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.559 It violates this Sharia supremacist view of the world, and 129 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:52.000 so all military violence, etc. Is justified to push them out. 130 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:59.840 Modern day liberals in America support this cause because they 131 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.080 somehow have it in their heads that the Israelis are 132 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.879 white and the Muslims are brown. And that this is 133 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.159 Western colonialism, and that that's what this struggle is, which 134 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.720 couldn't be absolutely nothing to do with what's going on. 135 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.240 Since progressives don't take religious beliefs seriously, McCarthy writes, they 136 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:30.840 regard religion as an abstraction that, though obsolescent, has certain universal, 137 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.960 well meaning attributes. In the case of Islam, the relevant 138 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:38.320 one is peace. People who study sharia supremacism forthrightly note 139 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.960 its propensity toward militant jihad when Muslims become a critical 140 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:45.519 mass of the population in a given place. Progressives reject this, 141 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:50.120 demagoguing it as Islamophobia, as if critical examination were the 142 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:55.159 equivalent of racism. Ergo the regnant syllogism. Religion is peace. 143 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:57.840 Islam is one of the world's great religions, with close 144 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:02.240 to two billion adherents. Therefore, is Islam is altogether now 145 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.120 a religion of peace? What to do about? What then, 146 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.440 do we do about fundamentalist Muslims and the inconvenience that 147 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.120 some of them routinely engage in violent attacks easy people 148 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.200 who claim religious justification for brutality are simply said to 149 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.600 be engaged in false religion. After all, true religion is 150 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.600 inherently peaceful. Indeed, to hear progressives describe the Islam of 151 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.519 their very own that they've fashioned, you'd think peace might 152 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:35.919 be Islam's only tenant. Consequently, another syllogism, religion is peaceful. 153 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.600 Al Qaeda and ISIS, among other jihadist groups, unabashedly claim 154 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.679 Islamic tenets as justification for committing violence. Therefore, al Qaida 155 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.440 and Isis represent false Islam. And this is the thing 156 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.000 I've always thought was stupid. Well, they're just al qaida Is. 157 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.960 This is a perversion of Islam, perversion of the one 158 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.519 of the world's great religions. Well, it's a version of 159 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.080 it that has a pretty long standing track record in 160 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:05.559 the Middle East. Again, this rationalization is at war with reality, 161 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.600 McCarthy writes, in which there is an authentic Islam that 162 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.600 summons Muslims to wage jihad and Allah's cause and has 163 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.399 been doing so for centuries. But onreality is where the 164 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.559 FBI dwells. And don't blame the FBI for that. While 165 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.559 I have no doubt that asak Alathea, Duncan and other 166 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.360 agents recruited and promoted since the Obama era are perfectly 167 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.440 comfortable spouting the party line. It is the party line 168 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:34.039 imposed on the Bureau by its superiors. McCarthy continues, I 169 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.039 used to feel confident, saying that most agents doing actual 170 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.480 investigations don't buy into this nonsense. But fifteen years is 171 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.559 a long time enough to change in agency's culture, which 172 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.840 Obama undertook to do. Recall the purging of such terms 173 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.639 as jihad, the termination of instructors versed in Sharia supremacism, 174 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.440 and the instructions that agents should avoid noticing any nexus 175 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.240 between ideology and violence, a core principle in the transformation 176 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.879 of counter terrorism into what Obama fileds dubbed countering violent extremism. 177 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:10.320 So basically, what the upshot of all this is when 178 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:14.440 a terrorist. When an obvious Muslim terrorist attack happens, the 179 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.960 FBI starts from the premise that it is not terrorism 180 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.360 unless agents can establish a solid operational tie between the 181 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.039 Muslim who committed the attack and a group designated as 182 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.080 a foreign terrorist organization under federal law, such as Al 183 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:32.639 Qaeda or ISIS. The Bureau has no problem labeling such 184 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.399 an incident a terrorist attack because the government's official position 185 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.799 is that those groups are driven by false Islam i e. 186 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.679 Their claim to be faithful Muslims is deemed false. There's 187 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.759 no danger then that the FBI in the US government 188 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.600 will be perceived as linking terrorism to Islam because that's 189 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:55.360 a religion of peace, or so they tell themselves. Now 190 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.919 it also just sort of seems just my comment to 191 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:04.480 in here, the rush to say it's not terrorism when 192 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:12.039 what you of course it's terroristic. He he killed a 193 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:16.360 whole group of people in this bizarre fashion. You don't 194 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.639 do that if it's not terrorism. That that you can't 195 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.360 kill a large crowd of people celebrating at a party 196 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:27.759 without it being terrorism. That that's just what I don't know. 197 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.879 It's it's like, I don't know, it's like beating up 198 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.919 your wife without unkindness. There's no way to beat up 199 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:42.480 your wife that isn't unkind Obviously it's terroristic, that the 200 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:51.279 fact of it happening is terroristic. I guess it's questionable 201 00:14:51.519 --> 00:15:00.039 whether this guy had set up formal operational connections and 202 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:06.480 coordination with ISIS or al Qaeda, or some international terrorist 203 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:11.039 group designated as a terrorist group by our US government, 204 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.440 even though he was flying an ISIS flag at the time. 205 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:17.720 Maybe it was was he inspired by or actually coordinating 206 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:25.279 with Probably at that very early stage when that special 207 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.720 agent ran to the microphone and declared it's not a 208 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.759 terrorist attack. Probably at that point it was not clear 209 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.759 whether the guy was in coordination with an international terrorist group. 210 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.240 Maybe he just did it on his own, inspired by 211 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.399 isis okay say that, but don't tell me it's not terroristic? 212 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.320 All right? When we return. A great question that was 213 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.919 asked of Joe Biden regarding terrorism, whether he still thinks 214 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.960 white supremacy terrorism is the most imminent threat to the 215 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:06.000 United States. Next on the John Girardi Show, President Biden 216 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.639 had a little press conference at some point after the 217 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.559 terrorist attack. It actually wasn't President Biden, it was just 218 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:19.080 a one of It was the January third Daily Press 219 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:29.559 briefing with Karine Jean Pierre, the President's press secretary, and 220 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:35.720 she ducked this question that was asked by Lucas Fox 221 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.639 Lucas Tomlinson, Sorry, Lucas Tomlinson from Fox News. He was 222 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.679 reported there as she was leaving the briefing room. He 223 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.000 asked out loud, didn't look at him, didn't address it. 224 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.879 Does the President still consider white supremacy the greatest terrorist 225 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:56.080 threat to the United States? Let's talk about that. Now. 226 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:07.680 Some of you may recall, after January sixth, the Attorney 227 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.519 General Merrick Garland, President Biden, everyone in the Biden administration 228 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.720 solemnly stood there and declared to us all that white 229 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:23.400 supremacy was the greatest terrorist threat facing the United States 230 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:30.920 of America. White supremacist white supremacist terrorism, home grown white 231 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:39.640 supremacy terrorism, the greatest threat facing the country, and that 232 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.559 January sixth of twenty twenty one was an example of this. Now, 233 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:50.240 I'm not here to say January sixth was good, and 234 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.480 I hate that I have to do. 235 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:53.519 All these bowing and scraping every time you bring up 236 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.359 January sixth, and God knows, I'm we have to do 237 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.920 it again. January six was bad. January six was a riot. Yes, 238 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.680 I've said it over and over all undred million times. 239 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.400 January sixth was bad. January six was stupid. January six 240 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.039 was a riot. People who did violence on January six 241 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.440 should be prosecuted. People who committed nonviolent crimes I really 242 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:11.559 don't think need to be prosecuted. The idea that this 243 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.839 became the largest criminal investigation in the history of the 244 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:23.640 FBI is an absolute, absolute idiocy and obviously smacks of 245 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:29.240 political retribution, the fact that people, some of whom were 246 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.240 just waved in, who committed crimes no worse than trespass. 247 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.640 Basically that the full resources of the federal government are 248 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.559 used to prosecute people far flung all over the United 249 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.359 States who were there, happened to be there at January sixth, 250 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.839 happened to walk through the barrier at some point, are 251 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.759 being prosecuted. Look the guys who were punching police officers 252 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:50.519 or breaking windows or whatever. 253 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:56.119 Yeah, okay, arrest those guys. Prosecute those guys. Not Mema 254 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:02.240 who walked through at various points because people were waving 255 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:07.400 her through, someone who committed some trespass level crime. Absolutely not. 256 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.799 But after January sixth, white supremacist terrorism was deemed the 257 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:18.079 worst threat to our country, even though January sixth wasn't 258 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.920 motivated by what you and I would think of as 259 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:28.200 white supremacy. It was just Trump supporters. It was Trump 260 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:33.839 supporters who thought the election had been stolen. Some of 261 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.720 them were black, probably not most of them, certainly not 262 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.839 most of them, but some of them were black. I'd 263 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:45.960 be curious to hear how many African Americans were prosecuted 264 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:56.119 as part of the January sixth prosecutions. So, but why 265 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.519 was the FBI able to cast this as white supremacy. 266 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.079 I think it's because of the way in which academic 267 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:07.079 liberals have recast the whole notion of white supremacy into 268 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:14.440 this far broader category. That basically they have expanded the 269 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:19.200 notion of white supremacy into just basically anyone who favors 270 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:26.960 sort of policy prescriptions that liberals don't like, people who 271 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:31.559 don't like equity as a measure of who don't like 272 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:38.119 equity and favor equality, the idea of someone who favors 273 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:43.480 the oppressive patriarchal norms, or I don't know, the basically 274 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:47.400 white supremacy got so wildly expanded as to be an 275 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:54.079 almost meaningless label that the left and the FBI, the 276 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:57.200 Department of Justice started to apply to basically anyone they disliked. 277 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.920 Now the question gets raised, is white supremacist terrorism really 278 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.200 the chief terrorist threat facing the country? Because last I checked, 279 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:12.119 there what white supremacist terrorism has actually happened in this 280 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:18.680 country since January sixth, Which, even if if you want 281 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.319 to go so far as to call it a white 282 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:28.079 supremacist event, which I think is ridiculous, I'm sorry, I 283 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:31.759 haven't heard of any. Look, actual, honest to god, white 284 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:35.319 supremacism bad thing. Don't like it. If you know of 285 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:39.000 any white supremacist committing crimes, let's prosecute them, put them 286 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.319 in jail. I don't like neo Nazis. I don't like 287 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:47.119 non neo Nazis any all stripes of Nazis, Illinois Nazis. 288 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:51.880 I hate Illinois Nazis. If you've got some white supremacists 289 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.799 out there committing you know, driving pickup trucks and killing 290 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.440 ten people during parties in New Orleans, or planting bombs 291 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.640 around the French Quarter near the cathedral down there, if 292 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.880 you've got white supremacists doing that kind of stuff, please 293 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:09.799 let me know. I'll be first in line to say 294 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:17.119 that they need to be prosecuted. It's not happening. I 295 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.880 think there are other kinds of terrorism that are still 296 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:25.799 pretty serious threats. By the way, I feel like it's 297 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:28.640 been pretty quiet the investigation into the terrorist attack in 298 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:30.480 New Orleans, by the way, other than this one guy 299 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.119 that they killed, and clearly he wasn't acting alone. He 300 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.519 had put bombs around different parts of the French Quarter 301 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:44.279 that were found and safely detonated. Feels odd we haven't 302 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.440 heard more about all this anyway. When we return, a 303 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:50.200 Republican member of the House calls for the stupidest idea 304 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.559 I've heard in a while, mandating independent redistricting commissions in 305 00:22:55.720 --> 00:23:01.079 every state. Next on the John Girardi Show, So I 306 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:06.880 saw a little little quickie news story. Republicans just desperate 307 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:14.079 to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, 308 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:18.880 a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, is introducing a bill to 309 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.920 mandate one of the dumber ideas I've ever heard. Or 310 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:27.000 I don't know, maybe I'm being too harsh, but and 311 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:32.400 maybe it's a thing where in one maybe it's a 312 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:36.799 thing where it just won't really change anything more so 313 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:39.519 than it's going to do something actively bad. But let's 314 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:44.480 let's talk it through. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick has introduced a 315 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:54.880 bill to mandate independent redistricting commissions in every state. The 316 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.680 people who recommend independent redistricting commissions, it's people who get 317 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:07.559 real upset over jerrymandering. Jerrymandering is the practice where the 318 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.160 what is the the what are the boundary lines of 319 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:14.240 the congressional district you live in? How did those boundary 320 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:18.559 lines come to be drawn? Well, for most states and 321 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:20.960 most of American history, it happens like this. Every ten 322 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:26.720 years in America, we have a census nineteen ninety two, ten, 323 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:35.960 twenty twenty. Based off that census data, different states are 324 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.559 allocated a different number of seats in the House of 325 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:46.000 Representatives in Congress. So, oh, okay, California's population jumped by 326 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.319 this is not true. I'm just making this up as 327 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:53.000 an example. Okay, if California's population jump by a million people, 328 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.480 they get two more members of the House of Representatives. Okay, 329 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.359 brings their total account of congressmen from forty eight to 330 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.240 fifty or something like that. All right, Oh, Wyoming's population 331 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.640 jumped big time. They may move up from having only 332 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:09.799 one member of the House of Representatives now they have two. Hey, 333 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:13.680 what do you know? So every ten years, the census happens, 334 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:19.480 and reapportionment happens. As a result, changes the number of 335 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.559 members of the House of Representatives that a state has. 336 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.319 It thus changes the number of Electoral College votes that 337 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:28.960 a state has. The number of Electoral College votes your 338 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.519 state has, it's the combined number of how many House 339 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:36.720 seats you have plus your two Senate seats. So Wyoming 340 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:42.759 only has Wyoming and Alaska only have one member of 341 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:47.599 the House of Representatives and they have two senators. So 342 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:53.000 Wyoming and Alaska each have three electoral College votes. California, though, 343 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:55.480 has I forget what it is. California has like something 344 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:57.359 like I think like forty eight members of the House 345 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.799 Representatives represent California plus the two senators. California gets a 346 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.680 total of like fifty electoral College votes somewhere around that ballpark. 347 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.119 Now you get apportioned all these House seats, Well, how 348 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:15.680 do you draw the map of the specific regions that 349 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.559 these individual members of the House Representatives will represent. Furthermore, 350 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:24.720 for state legislators, how do you draw their district lines? Well, again, 351 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:27.640 it's based off of the census data. So every ten 352 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.119 years you have a census and somehow you've got to 353 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.839 draw all the lines. For Okay, we have eighty members 354 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:36.000 of the California State Assembly. We got forty members of 355 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:39.720 the state Senate. How do we draw their lines? Well, historically, 356 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.480 the way this was done and the way it's done 357 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:46.559 in most states is the state legislatures draw the lines. 358 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:48.839 The state legislators draw the lines for members of the 359 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:51.960 House representatives and they draw the lines for members of 360 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:58.440 the state legislature, and political parties being aggressive towards their 361 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:03.799 own self interest. When one political party is in power 362 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.880 in a state legislature, they try their best to draw 363 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.519 the maps in a way that's advantageous to them, and 364 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:14.839 this might result in districts drawn that looked weird. And 365 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:26.240 we call this process jerry mandering. The term came from 366 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:33.960 an eighteen twelve political cartoon. This was a state Senate election, 367 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:39.000 and the governor of Massachusetts at the time was this 368 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.960 guy named Elbridge Gary spelled g r ry, even though 369 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.680 it was pronounced Gary with a hard G. But over 370 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.359 time it started to be pronounced as jerry jerry mandering. 371 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:53.319 And this political cartoon showed this one state Senate district 372 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:56.880 that was drawn in this really weird fashion. They drew 373 00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.160 it to it looked like a monster, so they drew 374 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:05.799 it almost looks like a dragon. And this bizarrely shaped 375 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:08.759 district that was clearly drawn to benefit the Democratic Republicans. 376 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:11.480 Elbridge Gary, by the way, would go on to be 377 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:16.640 a Vice President of the United States. Now so ever, 378 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:26.480 since that time, ever since that event, advantageously drawing weirdly shaped, 379 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:33.559 non naturally shaped districts for the political advantage of one 380 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.839 side over another has been referred to as jerry mandering, 381 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:42.759 and basically, and then people took the term jerry mandering 382 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:45.559 and started to apply it to other specific politicians. In 383 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:51.400 eighteen fifty, jerry mandering was sometimes used in reference to 384 00:28:52.799 --> 00:29:01.000 California Governor Jerry Brown Perry mandering was used for Texas 385 00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:04.559 Governor Rick Perry and some Texas electoral maps that were 386 00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:11.839 drawn under him, et cetera, et cetera. Now people get 387 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.240 all bent out of shape about jerry mandering. They really do. 388 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.119 There's a certain class of people who just think that 389 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:23.000 it's the worst thing ever. I sort of accept it 390 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.519 as Look, this is governed by the political process. It's 391 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:30.480 a political thing. The framers of the Constitution surely understood 392 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:35.720 that politicians would try to advantageously draw these districts. It 393 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:38.480 was put in the hands of the political process, political players, 394 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:42.799 political actors making their political coalitions. We're going to advantageously 395 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:47.279 do this. So I've never really cared about jerry mandering. 396 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:53.359 It's sort of what I dislike are people who pretend 397 00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:56.319 like jerry mandering is so awful and then engage in 398 00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.319 it anyway, and that's basically precisely what we have in California. 399 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.680 So there are people who get so angry about jerrymandering, 400 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.680 and particularly they get angry about it when Republicans do it. 401 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:08.920