In this episode, we cover a story about a city council member who is trying to get a neighbor s lawn ripped up, and the hypocrisy behind it. Also, we take a look at the hypocrisy that surrounds environmentalism, and how it relates to our own property rights.
00:00:33.000And I literally fell out of my vehicle almost when I drove by on West 37th because it's right off there and there's no problem.
00:00:42.000And then you go by the council member's house, and I heard some other council members are even worse.
00:00:47.000We're going to go by those later, but I'm sure they'll have it all cut by then.
00:00:49.000And literally it looks like Tarzan lives there.
00:00:51.000You'll see swarming mosquitoes that were biting me and your producer who did an excellent job.
00:00:57.000And then we were told by neighbors who had nice homes.
00:01:00.000This is a nice neighborhood that this council member lives in.
00:01:01.000Very pretty little neighborhood with birds flying around and stuff.
00:01:04.000But it was like all the homes were nice and pretty except for the council member's home and her rent house across the street had a tarp on the roof that the neighbors pointed out.
00:01:33.000Now keep in mind, folks, what's important about this is the people that are mandating the laws, supposedly...
00:01:41.000And I think there's some questions to all this.
00:01:43.000Environmentalism is all about taking private property.
00:01:45.000I mean, the establishment line of environmentalism, which isn't environmentalism, it's an excuse to usurp private property rights and make despotic inroads into private property.
00:01:56.000And now Clinton's having this hate speech summit, which is attacking the First Amendment.
00:03:11.000When you allow huge bureaucracies to dictate what goes on with what our retirement should be, what our livelihood should be, how we should control our private property, how we should drive our cars, own our cars.
00:03:26.000These are the problems, the hypocrisies.
00:03:29.000And the problems that you deal with when you allow this type of environment to thrive.
00:03:35.000Just like when Stalin marched 50 million...
00:03:39.000Peasant farmers who've been living good lives off their land and 40 million of them starved to death and 10 million were killed in gulags and the academia around here will still not really own up to it because they were all running around during Khrushchev's time and Clinton was flying over to Russia in 67 and 68 for communists down with America victory summits.
00:03:55.000It was fine to protest the Vietnam War.
00:03:58.000But what's not good is that there's so much of the so-called intelligentsia in this country just thinks it's okay to take people's private property because they know best.
00:04:10.000Once again folks, the essence is not focused upon, and we've kind of got this going on down here in ACAC. Okay, let me just make this point.
00:04:24.000It's kind of like what's going on down here at ACAC. We're seeing this business with this commercialism deal.
00:04:30.000Now where everybody's watching everybody's show and, hey, he's doing commercialism.
00:04:46.000Right, and this is what they're doing.
00:04:47.000In fact, they're going so far now, and this is going to be the third time I say this, because this is one of the very key elements to all of this.
00:04:53.000They are now encouraging folks to go out and tattle on everybody, whether it be you see somebody throwing something out your window, whether their grass is too high, whether they're watering their grass.
00:05:16.000Technology can either free us or destroy us.
00:05:18.000And I'm ready to move out of this weird industrialization.
00:05:20.000I'm ready to move into the information age with new clean burning systems and get rid of fossil fuels and have, you know, solar power and hydroelectric power.
00:05:31.000And I'm ready for people to have self-sufficient farms if they want them.
00:05:37.000People on the street will just, everybody that I've talked to, if they do have something to say political, either it's, I don't know nothing about anything and I don't care, or it's...
00:06:13.000The fact is, folks, if there is an environmental problem, the last people you want to entrust to fix it are the same ones that have been in control of the system for the last 70, 80 years.
00:06:47.000These nice little goody-two-shoe bureaucrats that really believe in what they're doing, these upper-level ones, they'll be brushed aside once they usher in this utopia.
00:06:57.000Then the gangsters that they've employed to push us into submission will turn to them and say, now that we're in control, by the way, I'm in control.
00:07:43.000It's a known fact that the Rockefeller Foundation and all these foundations are funding and have created and financed In fact, the World Wildlife Fund is linked to Prince Bernhard out of the Netherlands.
00:07:55.000And then the Dutch Royal Shell Company.
00:08:05.000He's a Malthusian and believes all the dark and brown people should die, but then he funds all these so-called liberal environmentalist groups like Green Shield with Gorbachev running it, and they've been given a naval base at Presidio in San Francisco.
00:08:32.000The bottom line is this, folks, and you have to repeat yourself so many times, Alex, because the enemy repeats their brainwashing so many times.
00:08:39.000The fact is, folks, all the issues that are coming to you.
00:08:56.000It's about international bankers who are in control through the IMF, through the World Bank, the International Bank of Settlements, who create finance governments, who are financing governments, devising ways to conquer and control the masses.
00:09:16.000And that's why they're in power, because they're ruthless, they're bloodthirsty, they have propaganda ministers, they pay off the university heads with hundreds of millions of dollars of grant money to individual big-time universities from Harvard to UT, and they're just spouting a lot of slavery and socialism.
00:09:31.000And there's always, you can always jump on the bad wagon, just submit, just jump on the government tip, be a good bureaucrat, and you'll go to the top.
00:09:36.000But the problem is, at a certain point, it gets out of kilter.
00:09:39.000And the government right now is 52% of everything.
00:09:41.000So imagine a dog and a tick that it's dragging along beside it.
00:10:43.000You know, they're hidden under rocks, and the thing that's going to defeat them is continue to move that rock.
00:10:51.000It's just like they said on Discovery Channel on a show about these conspiracy theorists that are all in the Ku Klux Klan.
00:10:57.000You know, and blue M&Ms have uranium in them, we think.
00:11:00.000You know, that's what we, I mean, you think, according to the media, the Osperger Statesman and Discovery Channel.
00:11:04.000Something that was on there is this professor, this lady from Georgetown, I forget her name on there, your producer, Mike, shut up to me and I'm going to put it on sometime, or he may.
00:11:11.000She goes, with these militias and people, these right-wingers, well, not right-wingers, that's just a term they throw out, like Hitler said, Jews.
00:13:26.000And then we'll go film Mr. Ellington's house, the guy who's been threatened with $2,000 a day, leans on his home if he doesn't cut his 3-inch grass, remove objectionable material, whatever that is.
00:13:36.000And then we'll show you a council member's house.
00:14:38.000People like myself and others to get out and do this kind of stuff.
00:14:43.000I guess the city and state governments are totally left unchecked by the media here in town while there's never any investigative reporting that goes on.
00:15:39.000We're out for a little wake-up call for the city council and let them see how it is to have people come unannounced for no reason and pride in their lives.
00:15:47.000But don't worry, we're not going to try to put a $2,000 fine a day on her house for her grass being uncut.
00:15:54.000We're not even going to try to fine her, because we don't have the power, but we wouldn't anyways, for the...
00:15:59.000Oh, 15, 20-foot vines that hang out of the trees and run across the ground, and they've broken down a truck in her yard.
00:16:05.000And we also found out from the neighbors next door that she owns the rent house right across the street from her house with a tarp on the roof.
00:16:44.000The story is, is this isn't the city's job to prime people's lives.
00:16:48.000And also, this Thursday, the Austin-American statesman did a story.
00:16:53.000Three days after, or less than three days after, we aired.
00:16:56.000The original story about Mr. Ellingson being harassed by the City Health Department and Environmental Services Division.
00:17:02.000Less than two days after, they did a front page article saying it was because of crime and high weeds and the $2,000 a day fines must be levied against people's homes and the liens against homes must be done.
00:17:59.000If you go down and you check out the Health Department and Environmental Services on 15th Waller Street, I heard they cleaned it up now, but when we went down that Sunday before Monday when we did the story, there was falling down walls, there was six-foot weeds, there was six-inch grass everywhere, trash, cigarette butts, fire ant beds.
00:18:40.000That is the essence of hypocrisy and bureaucracy out of control.
00:18:45.000And also, the neighbors came up to us when we went out to this council member's neighborhood, and they said over and over, yeah, we have nothing against her, but that's ridiculous.
00:18:54.000You know, her rent house across the street that she rents out has a blue tarp on the roof, and we'll show you a cut of that, and it looks like a jungle, can't even see the front door.
00:19:02.000You know, criminals could hide in there, just like the statesman said, you know, last Thursday.
00:19:08.000And then you actually see her home, and it's just atrocious, and there are mosquitoes flying around everywhere.
00:20:41.000Then I got a hot tip, and we're just going out here to check it out, that a city council member out here in South Austin lives in a house that doesn't look bad, but it's overgrown.
00:20:51.000And we don't contend that that's even our business or that that's a bad thing.
00:20:59.000Not that the city council member, and we're not going to say her name, Is engaged in hypocrisy, but that she might need to know about the hypocrisy that's going on with the health department, which everyone who saw the show last week saw they had walls falling down, overgrown six-foot weeds, six-inch grass everywhere, cigarette butts and garbage.
00:21:17.000So right now we're going out to this city council member's house just to check on their report.
00:21:23.000So we don't go check things out first.
00:21:24.000We just go check it out in the story, and if it doesn't look like a good story, we don't do it.
00:21:47.000And, again, this is no attack on the person themselves.
00:21:51.000It's just to let them see how it feels.
00:21:54.000We're not coming to levy $2,000 a day fines like the city does, the Human Health Service.
00:22:00.000Environmental Services Department, Environmental Services, Human Health and Environmental Services Department, like they levy $2,000 a day according to the last 30s of the Austin American Statesman.
00:22:20.000If the grass is over three inches or any little dead spots, we're going to immediately call the health department and notify them of the evil that's going on.
00:22:28.000So again, we're out here ferreting out dangerous criminals, thought crimes, brain crimes, and environmental crimes.
00:23:38.000I think it makes me the maddest is how the paper countered with that story.
00:23:44.000We came out and did a story about Mr. Ellingson being harassed by the Health Department and Environmental Services, and two days later, there was a front page...
00:23:53.000The thing on the health department is saying how wonderful they are.
00:23:56.000Stopping crime, sewage, and helping the children in East Austin.
00:24:12.000Now, we should probably slap up some footage later of Mr. Ellington's and show you that this is ten times more overgrown than his property.
00:24:23.000And we're not attacking this council member.
00:24:25.000We're just saying, hey, maybe they should know about the hypocrisy in the city that they run, that we've elected them to protect us from their own minions.
00:27:08.000I mean, so, you know, I try to make jokes out of it and make it so we can handle it, but really, it's scary.
00:27:14.000And then to see the Austin-American statesman, you know, two days after we did the story Monday on Thursday, because we did it Monday night, so really that's two business days, come out with a front-page story on the cover saying, tall weeds cause crime, you know, East Austin, all these buzzwords.
00:27:58.000Standing water, just like the, there was lots of standing water, just like the letter that Mr. Ellington got said, remove objectionable material.
00:29:32.000And see the difference between her properties and the council member's properties and his property, where he's lived since 1947. Here's his property there, and he did nothing to it.
00:32:34.000And there's the letter he got on July 17th.
00:32:37.000We were on the story by the 25th, by the 26th, and the statesman had countered by the 31st with a story about how, you know, it was all East Austin.
00:32:55.000But there's the little citation threatening liens on his house at $2,000 a day fines, which they do routinely.
00:33:03.000In fact, I just heard of a story we're fixing to do of a guy who's been charged $500 a day, and he's going to fight them.
00:33:08.000And you see where the city's involved and environmental services involved, the Constitution ends, because it's always an emergency.
00:33:15.000And everyone agrees in town, and our consciousness has been raised about ozone days, and it's just, we've just got to do it, it's an emergency, it's a crusade against evil, it's got to be done.
00:33:25.000I'm here with Charles Roland Ellington, over here in central Austin.
00:33:58.000And later he faxed me some information that the city is harassing him, the Austin Health and Human Services Travis County Health Department, Environmental Health Services Division.
00:34:08.000They have piles of junk in their backyard.
00:34:10.000We went in his backyard, and there's nothing but a stack of lumber covered with a tarp.
00:34:52.000That Mr. Ellington, Mr. Charles Roland Ellington, has, in the past, gotten onto the city about some of its out-of-control spending and has been an involved citizen.
00:35:06.000And so that's something that I find to be very shocking.
00:35:22.000In your opinion, why are they doing this?
00:35:24.000And if you'll note that the expansion in the blue pages will give you the blues by the volume of increasing phone numbers supplied for city services.
00:35:42.000So, you exercised your constitutional right, you've gone to city council, you've written letters, you've made phone calls, and now you're being singled out and being harassed for no reason?
00:35:54.000That does seem to be, I mean, cause and effect a reason, it does seem to be prudent.
00:36:00.000Well, we're not going to invade the privacy of inside your home, but I was just inside there with you.
00:36:05.000It's a very nice place, no big deal, almost like a little country house.
00:37:17.000And their fax is 469-2030, and we'll get that out later.
00:37:21.000Now, it says, this is to inform you that a condition in violation of ordinance or state law exists on property located at 407 West 37th Street.
00:37:32.000And you've said you're a tough guy, you're willing, you don't mind people knowing where you live.
00:37:35.000If they want to come by and see the evil property that you live on...
00:37:39.000See, I came by when you first faxed me this.
00:37:42.000And you told me that since then you raked up a few leaves.
00:37:46.000That's all you've done to straighten up the property.
00:37:53.000You should be able to do what you want on your property unless you've signed a homeowner's clause.
00:37:57.000And as far as I know, over here on 37th, there is no homeowner's clause, is there?
00:38:02.000To my knowledge, I don't want to call one.
00:38:05.000Well, again, Why are they singling you out?
00:38:12.000for selective enforcement as we know the socialists do.
00:38:15.000My verbal voice sounds like a frog done at a deep well and it carries so well they remember it.
00:38:22.000Now don't forget folks that we did this story filmed it Sunday, played it that Monday and then by the 31st I didn't see that around Mr. Ellington's.
00:38:38.000I don't think his three-inch grasp was causing a problem.
00:38:41.000And I think him not watering helps conserve water.
00:38:43.000But past that, so the footage you saw at the first was when we went out to a well-known council person that's been re-elected.
00:38:52.000And they had tarp on the roof, vines, grass everywhere, mosquitoes flying around, 15 times worse than his, Mr. Ellingson's property.
00:39:00.000Now I'm going to show you the footage that we went and got that Monday of the health department.
00:39:05.000And again, we didn't go check this out at first.
00:39:07.000We just went right out to the health department and checked it out.
00:39:10.000So what we found is all these bureaucrats that are out telling us how to live, they're all 10 times worse than the most average home in central Austin on West 37th.
00:39:21.000Stay tuned for this and then in a few minutes we'll be back to the main program.
00:39:24.000Hi Mr. Ellington, I could see that you've lived here what since 1947 you said?
00:39:34.000They were real small when I first came.
00:39:36.000Yeah, and there's pretty English ivy growing here in the trees and you've got a nice shield around your tree over there to keep it healthy.
00:40:22.000Well, we were leaving Mr. Ellingson's place in less than 150 feet from where he lives, right in the middle of the street, some giant potholes.
00:40:32.000There's some behind us and some in front of us.
00:40:34.000Let's drive up here back and look at them.
00:40:36.000See, the city won't even wipe its own nose, but it'll abuse older people in town and force them, terrorize them into giving them more money for their bureaucrat behavior.
00:40:45.000See, all the money is going for bureaucrat salaries.
00:40:48.000It's not going to actually do the work of the city.
00:40:50.000Now they have to force us to do everything.
00:40:55.000Right here, folks, on the Jeff Davis Show.
00:41:00.000Here we are, just right down the road again.
00:41:03.000And look, they're telling him to mow his yard.
00:41:06.000When his grass is three inches high and he hasn't mowed it, when this kind of stuff's going on, about a six inch deep pothole, and there's more down here.
00:41:17.000So ask yourselves, what kind of country is this?
00:41:22.000All they do is harass the citizens, push the people around.
00:41:25.000We're losing more and more of our personal rights, and they're making despotic inroads into private property, while at the same time not taking care of the essential services.
00:41:33.000You see, they dangle essential services in front of your head.
00:42:58.000You can always trust government buildings to be built nice.
00:43:01.000Yes, I don't see any flowers growing like there are at Mr. Ellingson's.
00:43:06.000Here we are, 15th Waller Street, at the Health Building.
00:43:11.000Yes, this is where little terrorist activities are launched from in abusing the citizens of Austin, people that pay for their homes, like Mr. Ellingson, who's had his home since 1947, owns his home outright.
00:43:38.000You have to be out there at the health department and just see how run down and messed up it was with trash on the ground and thousands of cigarette butts and weeds growing up everywhere and walls falling down.
00:43:50.000And again, from council members to the health department that does the citations, $2,000 a day for not having your grass cut of it's over three inches.
00:44:04.000And something scary about that letter was it said, Objectional Material.
00:44:08.000Well, I mean, they had trash all over the place and cans laying around the ground and just piles of cigarette butts and diseased-looking birds hopping around.
00:44:16.000I mean, that's not, and I don't, nobody's faulting them.
00:46:26.000This is something we've been talking about for a long time now.
00:46:29.000Now keep in mind, with the piece that we just showed, this relates to the piece that we just showed with the hypocrisy and allowing bureaucrats to dictate how we control our lives, how they perceive that we should control our lives.
00:46:45.000This is a new system that we've been talking about on this program for at least the last two years.
00:46:59.000But this is presented to us as good, folks.
00:47:02.000Now, the key to understanding this is if we allow them, and Alex, you can comment on this, but if we allow them the opportunity to dictate to us...
00:47:14.000How we spend our retirements like they do with Social Security.
00:47:17.000You can only work so many hours when you get Social Security.
00:47:19.000Well, now they're talking about going after the pension funds for our best interest.
00:47:21.000They've been such good stewards of the Social Security fund, raiding it and blowing it out.
00:47:37.000They track our financial transactions with the IRS through smart cards, and now our mobility through busing, high-speed rail, and smart highway.
00:47:49.000Three pieces ago, me and your producer showed the telephoto cameras they're putting up all over Mopac.
00:47:53.000Now, do you not think, folks, that they will take this technology and accelerate...
00:49:01.000They shut it down, and they're doing nothing over there.
00:49:06.000And it's not really relevant to what you've discussed tonight, but I want to tell you that pay-as-you-throw bullshit is bullshit because I'm out over at Farm Road 969, and my recycling doesn't get picked up.
00:49:39.000What I want to tell you is that, you know, I talk to the people at the recycling office, and I have some schmuck over there telling me that he doesn't want to talk to me anymore about it.
00:49:49.000And I'm telling him, well, I'm one of the first founders.
00:50:09.000I'm going to start doing stories every week on Jeff's show and on my show.
00:50:11.000I mean, my show's on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
00:50:13.000I'm not sure if I'm going to get my series.
00:50:15.000If I get a good series slot, I may get a good series slot down here.
00:50:18.000The only other point I want to make is that only when I call the mayor's office, and that's been through two mayors.
00:50:24.000You know, we're in the second mayor now in the last five years.
00:50:29.000Well, as soon as I called them, I mean, they got out here real fast, but it really sucks that I should have to call the mayor's office for them to do their job out here.
00:50:38.000Well, see, let me just mention something to you, Chloe.
00:50:40.000All these companies that the city hires to cut trees and things, it's a scam, too.
00:52:07.000This is why I think it's an important story because it's a local issue that people can grab onto and they can see how we're being bullied by these mechanisms.