Should police bow down to anyone？
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The mayor of Minneapolis bow to Black Lives Matter, but it's not enough. Do you think police should physically bow down to anyone? And for what reason would it make them less than neutrally deferential to the protesters?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through the crazy footage of the weekend.
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Riots bowing down to rioters, defunding police. We got it all. Just incredible.
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You know, there's some really good clips. I invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber
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because that gives you the video version of this podcast. I just want to show you some of the
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there's a struggle session where the mayor of Minneapolis bends the knee to Black Lives Matter,
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but it's not enough. And it's such a powerful, powerful video. Please consider becoming a
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Tonight, do you think police should physically bow down to anyone? It's June 8th and this is the
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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bloody right to do so. Did you see this image the other day? It's from Toronto. It's Toronto's
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black police chief, Mark Saunders, bending the knee, submitting at a Black Lives Matter protest
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and there are white activists holding their fists up. White activists making the black power
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fist salute. So a successful black man, the man in charge of policing for Canada's biggest city,
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Canada's blackest city, he's being shamed and degraded by, amongst others, some white leftists
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and he's doing it. He's actually doing it. Well, that's nothing. Saunders was at least upright.
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But look at this guy. He's the police chief of the second largest city in all of New England
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called Worcester. His face is on the ground. His hands are behind his back. What on earth is he
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doing? What would make him do that? And for what? How do you feel about a policeman doing that?
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What compelled him to do that? Whatever it was, would it stop him from enforcing the law of that
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same power? Would it make him act less than neutrally? He's wearing the uniform of the city. He's a
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representative of the city. This isn't him doing something weird in his private life. He's a symbol of
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the city. He's a symbol of the city's authority. So he's not just denigrating and belittling
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himself. He's denigrating and belittling everything he's a part of. The city, its police force, its
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election officials who oversee the police, the people of Worcester who rely on him to impartially
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uphold the law and protect them, the law itself. Have you in your entire life ever seen anyone just
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lie down, face down like that, who wasn't bowing down to God? I've seen deep bowing from religious
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people of various stripes when they're talking to their gods. I've seen Muslims, Jews, Christians, each
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in their own way and their own manner bow, but nothing like this. And to whom? And for what? Who's he
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bound to? It looks like what Mao Zedong called a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution in
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China. Millions murdered, but that wasn't the salient feature. It was the denunciation, the
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self-denunciation that really told the tale. Look at this. Someone, a capitalist, a professor with the
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wrong ideas, a personal rival of some communist local boss, wearing a huge dunce cap with his crimes
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written on them. He's covered in blood. He's obviously been beaten. He's being jeered and denounced
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by the mob. And here's a man who, in a show trial, just wouldn't go along with it. He refused to
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take a knee, so to speak. He kept professing his innocence at a communist show trial, so they literally
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stuffed a cloth in his mouth to shut him up. These are from a staggering book called Red China News
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Soldier. A photo was taken by a Chinese army photographer in the 60s at the mass purge of anyone,
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everyone for wrong think in China. Why, that girl looks a little bit like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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with a Greta Thunberg scowl. Oh, by the way, you can denounce yourself to save your life, but
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you will not be forgiven. You will not spare yourself anything more than maybe just your life itself.
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Do you want to see a struggle session in color TV, not just black and white? Look at this. First,
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a reminder of who we're dealing with. This young hipster, Jacob Fry, who bears a resemblance to
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Justin Trudeau. He's the mayor of Minneapolis, where the riots began. Here he is responding to
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Donald Trump's obvious and accurate tweet that night that Fry is weak. Of course he's weak. He's
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the one who ordered the police to surrender, including to surrender their police station.
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Weakness is refusing to take responsibility for your own actions. Weakness is pointing your finger
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at somebody else during a time of crisis. Donald Trump knows nothing about the strength of Minneapolis.
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We are strong as hell. Is this a difficult time period? Yes. But you better be damn sure that
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we're going to get through this. The danger became necessary, and I made the decision to evacuate the
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dirt precinct. Yeah, so pretty much doing whatever the rioting mob wanted him to do. This is Fry trying
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to act cool and hip, sort of like Trudeau in a way. He's dancing here with Black Lives Matter activists,
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I think. I think that's who those are. So he's showing that he really gets black people. You might
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think that's condescending. You might think that black people have similar concerns to white people
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and brown people and red people and green people, and that simply dancing with them for five minutes
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is not a substitute to a grown-up conversation. But you would be forgetting that our own prime minister
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is precisely the same way. Here's Jacob Fry crying at George Floyd's funeral. Gee, I wonder if he knows
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he's on camera. Have you cried that way for anyone other than perhaps your own mother or father
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or spouse or perhaps, God forbid, a child? If you express this emotion for a stranger who was in
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fact a criminal himself, though he surely didn't deserve to be killed, you're false by definition.
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You cannot care this much about a stranger. You cannot. And if you do, your feelings are worthless
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and fake, and nothing you say or do can ever be taken at face value again. Again, I think he and
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Trudeau went to the same drama class. Oh, and here's Trudeau taking a knee.
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He's been hiding in his house for two months, won't go to work, won't go to Parliament, won't
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have a proper press conference or question period, says it's because of the pandemic, social distancing,
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all that. But there he is, and he always knows where the camera is, doesn't he? And he always waits
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for it, and then he takes a knee. What exactly is Trudeau taking a knee for? Is it to stand up to Trump,
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as the shouters there said? Or is it something in Canada he's apologizing for? If so, what is he
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apologizing for? And what does it mean? He's been prime minister for five years. All I can think of
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that he's done on race relations is call a lot of people racist all the time. He spent a lot of
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money on the missing and murdered indigenous women's report, but that's just money going to
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lawyers and lobbies. He didn't actually do anything. He wore blackface so many times he couldn't remember
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how many. Oh, and he fired Canada's first indigenous justice minister, that too. So what exactly is he
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taking a knee for other than doing whatever the mob tells them to do, just like the media is doing
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whatever the mob tells them to do? There haven't been riots in Canada, thank God. There was some
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looting in Montreal the other day, but I think most Canadians are pretty happy with how we get along
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with each other. Sure, there are some anti-Trump crackpots, but I just don't think that they've been
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weaponized in Canada yet. Not sure why. Maybe Trudeau would worry that could actually cost him
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re-election. I doubt it. Have you seen any conservative politicians speak out strongly
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against these riots and looting? Yeah, me neither. In fact, all I've seen in Stockwell Day get fired
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from the CBC and various lobbying jobs because he was insufficiently reverential towards Black Lives
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Matter. And they're trying to fire Rex Murphy from the National Post too. So yeah, Trudeau doesn't
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have to worry about any law and order or racial equality candidate on the right, does he? There are none.
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But here's how it's going for Jacob Fry down in Minneapolis, the one who ordered the police to
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surrender and abandon the post, the one who does the awkward dancing. He was summoned to a struggle
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session and he was asked, get this, if he would abolish the police. I'm serious, I'm deadly serious.
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And he's crazy, this Jacob Fry, but he's only about 90% crazy. He's not 100% crazy. And so watch this.
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My own shortcomings, and I know there needs to be deep-seated structural report in terms of how the
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department operates. A systemically racist system needs to be revamped. The police union needs to be put
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in its place. We need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way that the
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arbitration functions can be made. You have to pay!
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Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.
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Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.
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Yes or no, will you commit to defunding Minneapolis Police Department?
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toting around in our community, shooting us down.
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Will you defund the Minneapolis Police Department?
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Be quiet, because it's important that we actually hear this.
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It's important that we hear this, because if y'all don't know,
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And if he says no, guess what the fuck we going to do next year?
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Go home Jacob, go home! Go home Jacob, go home!
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that's a struggle session not sure if you heard him he he said he wasn't for the
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total abolition of the police just cutting it down to size and humiliating it that wasn't enough
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though go home jacob go home well the rest of minneapolis the city council saw that and they
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didn't need to be asked twice they didn't need to step under the guillotine so um here's the story
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in the new york times majority of the minneapolis city council pledges to dismantle the police
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department nine members a veto-proof majority of the minneapolis city council pledged on sunday
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to dismantle the city's police department promising to create a new system of public safety
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in a city where law enforcement has long been accused of racism saying that the city's current
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policing system could not be reformed the council members stood before hundreds of people who
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gathered late in the day on a grassy hill and signed a pledge to begin the process of taking apart the
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police department as it now exists so that's how lawmaking goes in burnt out riot stricken
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minneapolis once a jewel of the midwest just mobs on the street abolishing police yeah that'll work
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rich liberals like the idea because they live in white suburbs or live in gated communities or if
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they're in new york they have a doorman in their apartment they don't live in the ghetto i mean if
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you were a cop and you received a 9-1-1 call in a rough part of minneapolis today would you really go
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in to help knowing that you'd probably be videotaped and screamed at at the very least and possibly
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assaulted even murdered here's a black retired cop david doorn who was murdered in the riots in st louis
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by a black looter as it so happens would you go in and and uh and answer a 9-1-1 call if it's dangerous
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why here's new york's bill de blasio announcing a cut in new york's police budget to punish the police he's
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going to give the money to social workers and youth workers instead so that's who you call i guess
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if you have a bank robbery or a mugging call a social worker 300 nypd cops were injured in the
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riots would you keep working for de blasio in the uk they had massive protests over the weekend too
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which is odd in the entire united kingdom last year a country more than 65 million people
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there were a total of two unarmed black men who were killed at the hands of police and one of them
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was a terrorist so so that's not good but that's not a crisis in fact if there is a racial crisis
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it's that pakistani muslim men commit more than 80 percent of the child rapes against indigenous white
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girls thousands and thousands of them not really a black lives matter situation more of a white
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girls lives matter situation but no protest for them but big protest for george floyd in the uk
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or was it floyd george they don't really know they just know they want to riot for black rights they
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say against fascism they say you know right outside britain's parliament uh is a big square there's a
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statue of abraham lincoln the great emancipator the u.s president who freed the slaves who put america
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into the bloodiest war of its history over the slavery issue and they defaced his statue
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and who actually defeated fascism actually defeated literally hitler well it was winston
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churchill and look at how his statue was desecrated and listen to the police
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he's got officers look he's got fans and fans though we haven't strictly in the whole time
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i'm sorry no don't tell us right we haven't seen him do it all right you know we haven't
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it's disgusting it's been dead it's been put over so why aren't you lot guarding it now
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we have got officers here shall i get all the football lads to be right now
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that's not a good idea that's not what we want you to do well i will
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wait boys start guarding that good boys around that and guard that
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so what's this about this isn't about black rights it's not about anti-fascism
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it's about terrorism that's what political violence is and there are different ways to
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react to terrorism the way of the coward is to bend the knee to submit to surrender like jacob fry
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bow down low to the mob of course it's never low enough it's not enough they take what you give
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for free and then that's the new front line that's a new starting point you can hide and hope it
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doesn't happen to you that's a rational approach move out of minneapolis i mean seriously if you can
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poor black people won't be able to leave of course but others will
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move to somewhere else not just to live but businesses too
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why don't you say that i've worked here hard time plus i'm a part owner of this store
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you said black lives matter why don't you choke me i'm black
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tell him sister look look what you did to my store
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tell him sister that's why because i got they back these are my dudes right here
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good names you've done good names look for black lives matter we've been here all night cleaning up
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all night cleaning because you got black people standing right here with them
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tell me black lives matter you lied you wanted to loot at a store
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why would you invest your life savings in a small corner shop
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when it'll get looted or burnt one day why bother
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but let me leave you with some good news i'm serious i have some good news
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and it's in the form of a large public opinion poll that's ordinary americans
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not the media not politicians not people on twitter ordinary americans
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what they think the response to these riots should be it asked blacks and whites
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what they said and this was a week old so this was a week ago
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before this weekend's insanity of defunding or abolishing police
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sample size over 1600 reputable pollster called morning consult
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look at this question would you support or oppose
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cities taking the following measures to address protests and demonstrations
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in dozens of u.s cities in response to the death of george floyd
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calling in the national guard to supplement city police forces
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now you'll notice they didn't use the words looting or riots just protests
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but still 42 of americans strongly support the national guard
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another 29 somewhat supported that's 71 71 look at this african americans
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42 support 63 of hillary clinton voters 65 of those who voted democrat in the
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2018 midterm elections people want not just police they want the national guard
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and i say again the question didn't even have the word riot or loot in it
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americans don't want defunding of police they want safety and security they want an end to
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this madness the struggle sessions the cowardice the madness of the french revolution and its guillotines
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here's another one calling in the u.s military to supplement city police that's pretty pretty heavy
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duty 58 of americans actually support bringing in the full-out military not just the national guard but the
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actual army navy air force marines including 37 of african americans yeah don't believe the media
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don't believe the drama teachers jacob fry and justin trudeau don't bow down to anyone other than
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your god and if you're a canadian monarchist bow to the queen as our head of state but don't
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battle them all never never ever stay with us for more
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well the riot started in minneapolis minnesota a place that i always thought was pretty friendly it
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reminded me of an american version of friendly manitoba it's not too far away from winnipeg
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actually well what went wrong in that city and i was reminded that minneapolis minnesota that is where
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ilhan omar is from and then i started to think well hang on like so many of these riot zones looting
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zones places where racism is in the air they say haven't they all been run by democrats for decades
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or even generations look at all the cities racked by riots from washington dc to chicago to la to
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manhattan minneapolis detroit even in the past they're all democrat cities so who exactly are they
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blaming well joining us now to talk about all these things including ilhan omar
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is our friend ben weingarten who wrote the book american ingrate the best biography out there about
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ilhan omar been great to see again welcome back to the show thanks so much for having me ezra i want
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to start with a crazy question and i just you're the only person who i trust to answer it i had a
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shocking uh wave crash over me when i saw jacob fry the hapless mayor of minneapolis
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basically combust when he went down to the struggle session in the streets and he couldn't go a hundred
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percent of the way to crazy and say yes i'll abolish the police and they shouted shame shame go home jacob
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go home that was an incredible moment and i thought who's going to be the next next mayor and i thought
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i wonder if ilhan omar will be the next mayor of minneapolis what do you think
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huh that that's that's an interesting question i think if i'm looking at this from a purely
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political perspective it just so happens that keith ellison the attorney general who had previously
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served in ilhan omar's seat in congress his son serves on the minneapolis city council his son is
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one of those who actually tweeted in support of antifa before it was designated as a terrorist organization
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and who was of course a supporter of this effort to defund and actually disband the police in
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minneapolis so i suspect that keith ellison's son is probably more woke than ilhan omar and maybe he's
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the man for this moment in minneapolis but i have to say i was so struck by that scene of the mayor
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prostrating himself even he couldn't get extreme enough for the mob and i think what you're seeing
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is essentially a marxian mob eating its own the progressives have been in control of cities like
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minneapolis for decades and it's still not progressive enough for them and so even someone
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like jacob fry who comes off as so earnest and wanting to express how sorrowful he is and trying to
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meet the demands of the mob even he learned the lesson that you can never concede enough to the mob
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they want it all they want total power and so it's a lesson for those who think of themselves
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as liberals or progressives that you'll never get radical enough for the mob but i don't think
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many of them will take that lesson to heart yeah it's incredible um i thought that this defund police
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or abolish police was just a shock and awe statement uh uh conversation starter but it looks like
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at least in some ways they're serious about now i see that same idea has spread here to toronto
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where we have a city councilor for one of the wealthier neighborhoods uh where people pay a lot
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of taxes and they have a lot of um valuable houses they wouldn't want torched he's talking about trimming
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back toronto's police even though we haven't had anywhere near the the problems they've had in various
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american cities i are can these people be serious about de-policing i've seen so many comments about
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turning uh minneapolis into mogadishu somalia um it's almost too ridiculous to be true but aren't we
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moving towards anarchy if we actually disband police forces well it's actually amazing on that last point
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there was an article in the new york times profiling several somali americans some of whom lived in
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minneapolis saying that they didn't think minneapolis could actually turn out like mogadishu but it
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actually has and again you have to ask the question how did that happen when you had these progressives
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running minneapolis for all of these many decades i think that the notion of disbanding police i'm glad
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actually that the radical marxist revolutionaries who are really behind this sort of view i'm glad they're
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on record because they're exposing themselves for who they really are and look if you follow their line
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of thinking and you accept the proposition that criminals are essentially the core victims and
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their victimizers the police are really the criminals then of course you have to disband police departments
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by the way it flows from the same viewpoint as the notion of abolish ice they want to abolish all
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authorities essentially that maintain law and order at least as traditionally understood so they can impose
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their own law on anyone who dares dissent from their prevailing orthodoxy and one of the things that's really ironic in
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this i would say is that if we were to accept that systemic racism were policies and practices that ultimately led to
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disproportionate victimization of people of color the idea of defunding police departments or getting rid of police in
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particular from the highest crime areas of cities with large members of minorities well you are going
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to disproportionately victimize people of color so i have to have to ask what is systemically racist i think
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this policy is systemically racist yeah well i mean i think that i mean ann coulter uh who is very
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aggressive on these subjects she tweeted there's going to be a white flight from these cities in a way we
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haven't seen in decades and i think not just white flight but any black people of means will want to
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get the heck out of these neighborhoods that are being de-policed and basically thrown to the wolves
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of anarchy i um joel pollack who i respect very much has said that he believes this will set back not only
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the economic prosperity of many black american cities by decades but i also think it'll set back race
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relations because it has so branded riding and looting as a black thing and not necessarily
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because it's black people doing it but it's called a black lives matter protest it's in the name of
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george floyd so i i don't know i think this is the worst of all outcomes for african americans that how
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that's how it looks like from up here in canada i don't know what it looks like in the states
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i i wholeheartedly agree and my heart in particular goes out to all the people who are law abiding that
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are caught up in this many of whom have been locked down for weeks some of whom have seen loved ones
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perish without being able to say goodbye in person on the on the contrary on the other hand you have
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people who are the most lawless in society destroying businesses that have sat idle for weeks some of which
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have gone under and they get to act with total impunity and there have been some great profiles
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out there in a few different publications speaking with people who own this is in any of these areas
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that have been destroyed essentially by the mob by rioters and looters and it's just heartbreaking
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because you see people who pursued the american dream did everything right and then law enforcement
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basically was forced to stand down or maybe in some cases stood down to own accord understandably
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given the circumstances but nevertheless in contravention of the fundamental principle of
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law and order and the fact that you need to have protection of life liberty and property if you're
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going to have a functioning society it's really the basis of the american system absolutely those who
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are going to be most hurt are the law abiding people who live in the areas that are going to be
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hollowed out destroyed and left defenseless and by the way of course many of the american cities
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with the greatest crime problems also have the harshest strictures on gun ownership so not only
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are you going to have less policing or maybe no policing in certain cities but then if you're living
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in a high crime neighborhood and you can't afford to get out of it you're not going to be able to defend
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yourself from the uh from the lawless anarchy that you described so it's absolutely disastrous and it's
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just it it it really puts civilization into question itself if you don't have law and order and people
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aren't able to defend themselves and then you're going to victimize the people that if you're on the left
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you claim to care about most you claim to care about those who are living in the poorest neighborhoods
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in high crime neighborhoods and the like you really are proving that you don't believe at all in your
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principles you just believe in the revolution at the end of the day i saw pardon me i saw a poll last
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week uh sample size about 1600 morning calls consult i think was the polling company that showed 71 of
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americans supported the national car guard being deployed in support of local police now this was a week
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ago and things have gotten i think worse in the last week um including a majority of democrats and a
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large number of african americans i find this hopeful because it suggests that the uh anarchy lawless mania
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has not uh infected to use the word everybody and i think those numbers are probably tougher now
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instead of tacking back towards the rule of law this move further down the road to defund
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and abolish police sounds nuts politically but who knows maybe it'll pay off look at this interview
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here's a clip from cnn where a city councilor in minneapolis says yeah we absolutely do mean it when
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we say remove policing because the idea of police being available on 9-1-1 to make you feel secure
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that's white privilege and we all have to imagine what it's like to be terrified take a look at this
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do you understand that the word dismantle or police free also makes some people nervous for instance
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what if in the middle of the night my home is broken into who do i call
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yes i mean i i hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors and i know and myself too and i know
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that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working i think
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we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where
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calling the police may mean more harm is done that's lisa bender the top city councilor in
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minneapolis it looks like they have a veto-proof majority she's saying that that feeling of security
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that we have that the police are out there they're on our side they're a 911 call away that's white
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privilege and we should imagine what it's like without that but she doesn't want to just imagine she
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wants to go there ben she wants to make us all insecure this is some sort of racial rebalancing
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or something she is effectively saying that prioritizes politically correct principles
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over preservation in other words she's idle and if that is really the way that she feels
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then i suggest that she move to the highest crime neighborhood in minneapolis after there are no
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police not to hire any private security force not have a firearm to defend herself and then
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let's see if she still really clings to that perspective and i think that particular line
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of argumentation is something that really has to be posed all the people who are on the side of
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reduce policing is okay if that's what you believe then you move to a neighborhood that doesn't have
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police and you leave yourself defenseless and then let's see how you feel about it yeah it's crazy now
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there are some people crazy enough to do that we've all heard these anecdotal stories of you know
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someone who uh you know women who want a bicycle or hitchhike around the world including the most
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dangerous parts of you know the stands to prove that it's safe and then they god forbid they get
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attacked killed raped um there are some people who are so naive and reckless that they wind up killing
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themselves but this woman wants to do it to the whole city a great mighty city of minneapolis it's
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possible though i mean detroit used to be the motor city used to have the highest wage in america it was
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the jobs magnet the factory magnet and now it's a it's a burnt out husk i think they are destroying a
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great city in real time it makes me extremely sad but how can anything come back from this i don't see it
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it yeah bad ideas have bad consequences and i see it in new york i grew up in the new york area i've
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lived in new york for over a decade since being in college and graduating from college and what i can
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say is that new york didn't become this bastion of security and prosperity by magic it was a disaster of
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a city in the 60s 70s and even 80s and it had to be cleaned up during the 90s precisely because there
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was for example broken windows policing where the police department did not let minor infractions
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go unnoticed and corrected them immediately and those policies and many other policies as well led
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new york to become i believe the safest big city in america certainly and probably one of the safest in
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the world and we're seeing in new york right now that we are heading in a regressive direction
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under the banner of progressivism under what i like to call who i like to call mayor de cameo but mayor
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de blasio and what you're going to see is as the police even if there is no defunding or disbanding of
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police and many of these cities have pledged to at a minimum defund including new york city regardless
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police are absolutely going to back off relative to the way they were policing before consequently
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you're going to see a rise in crime as you noted you're going to see anyone with means that wants
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to be secure and can't hire a private security force or hold a gun themselves get out of the city which
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is going to further erode the tax base of the city and lead the worst neighborhoods to crumble even
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further so again it's the law-abiding citizens many of them defenseless who are going to be most hurt by
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this and i think you're going to see it around the country if this trend continues and consequently
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you're going to see ironically even greater so-called inequality in this case of outcomes in that the
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suburbs to which people who can afford it will flee will have their own private security if they need
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it and probably be policed just fine regardless and the highest crime neighborhoods will descend into
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further violence chaos and antisocial behavior so it's really a disaster and again proves the hypocrisy
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and the irony really of these people who claim to care about justice who are going to in effect lead
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to the perpetration of even further injustice against the people again who they claim to most care
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about yeah you know i i know a few years ago when there were the black lives matter riots under obama
00:34:53.460
those cities that came down the hardest on their own police that indicated they don't like the police
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well the police well the police listened and what policeman would risk going into a dangerous
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neighborhood in a dangerous situation where at best he would be shouted at and filmed on videotape
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for any real or perceived moment of indiscretion and at worst he would get in in physical danger
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why even bother and and i think i mean you saw a crime boom because the cops said oh they don't
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want us fine feelings mutual and it and you can't even blame a cop when there's when the entire chain
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of command from the top down is anti-cop i'm surprised that there is still police working in minneapolis
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giving how how defamatory their own city council is towards them i don't know i find it deeply sad and the
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thing is this this vicious cycle you've described it only strengthens the hand of the ilhan omars
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and and the radicals like her that's what's sad about it the worse it gets the better for an ilhan omar
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it's absolutely right and this is the world that she and her ilk want us to live in at the end of the
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day and there and this is why i wrote that book american ingrate ilhan omar and the progressive islamist
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takeover of the democratic party because it's leading democrats it is the woke executives in
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hundreds of leading corporations in the country who are at minimum standing by and at least cheering on
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in part what we're seeing in the streets today and in some cases are going much further than that so when
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you have kind of the elite cadre of society pushing down and seeking to impose this on us it is ultimately
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going to lead to calamity i am hardened like you are by uh the polls that show that this is really
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kind of out of line with where the american people broadly are and i think it illustrates
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this chasm that we've seen play itself out in any number of policy contexts in recent years of the of
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the fact that what the elite believe is to be mainstream is actually radical and what they believe
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is radical is actually mainstream among uh broad cross sections of society but again i i wholeheartedly
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agree with you and we've really taken for granted in particular in america the fact that over the last
00:37:19.540
three or four decades violent crime has dramatically fallen and again that that didn't happen by magic
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that happened as a result of conscious policies that really did result in positive results in terms of
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more peace and more prosperity on our streets and i think we're seeing in real time the reversal of
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that with disastrous consequences for millions of americans of all colors and creeds well i tell you
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we're five months away from the presidential elections i can't think of higher stakes than we're in ben
00:37:47.780
weingartner the federalist great to see you again once again let me mention ben's book the best book on
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ilhan omar rather prophetic and a great title i just can't get over that sums her up so perfectly american
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ingrate and you can get that at the amazon link under this video ben great to see you thanks for your time
00:38:06.900
thanks so much for having me all right there you have it go ahead and pick up that book
00:38:21.860
hey welcome back on my monologue friday about racists getting mad at rex murphy for saying canada
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isn't racist john writes perhaps van malis supermanium would like to debate rex live now
00:38:32.340
that's something i'd love to see yeah me too i i don't think van malis would be up for it really
00:38:37.620
billy writes i hope the leftist media banishes rex and he comes to rebel news he'll always have a
00:38:41.860
voice with those who believe in freedom of speech and thought yeah i wonder how long national post will
00:38:48.340
keep them uh i hope they do but um boy there's a mob out there on my interview with tarifata paul writes
00:38:56.740
great to hear from tarik i have had to take action on the hair front as well would far rather deal with
00:39:02.580
india than communist china me too it was so good to see him i just knew he needed a haircut he sort of
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always does and so he came back we had a good chat well my friends that's the show for today until
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tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep