GUN CONFISCATION IMMINENT??? Visa and Mastercard To TRACK ALL GUN PURCHASES | America First Ep. 1059GUN CONFISCATION IMMINENT??? Visa and Mastercard To TRACK ALL GUN PURCHASES | America First Ep. 1059
Visa and Mastercard are creating a soft gun registry of all gun owners in America by tracking every single purchase of a firearm using a credit or debit card in the U.S. And this is part of a long, ongoing trend of private sector companies working with the public sector to create massive tranches of data which will ultimately be used by federal law enforcement in the event of totalitarian control. Simple as that. What other purpose would it serve other than to eventually give it to law enforcement when the time comes? There's no other explanation. And we'll talk about that tonight. We'll also be talking about those illegal immigrants that we covered two or three weeks ago in which the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, began shipping illegal immigrants up to Chicago. Starting last month, he began sending busloads of illegal immigrants. And now we've learned, just as I predicted, that the fate of those immigrants that he shipped to Chicago last month. They were sent to the suburbs, to the white suburbs outside of Chicago. And they're now living in a hotel in the suburb of Elk Grove, Wisconsin. And I think it's safe to say that they didn't anticipate that they would be sent to a suburb where they had no documentation, no background check, no health screening, and no other option but to live in a nice, quiet, safe neighborhood in the suburbs. It's not surprising that they were sent there. It should be pretty good, huh? It's what we all need to be thinking about, right? And it's happening to all of us, everywhere, all of the time, all the time. And that's not a national issue, right across the country, not just in our streets, our parks, your schools, your parks, and the streets, your workplaces, your streets, etc., etc. It s happening to us all the place...it's all the places, right here in the workplace, right in the streets...it s not a place that we think we're supposed to care about it? I mean, it's your neighborhood, it s your neighborhood. It's your community, your downtown, your park, your workplace, your school, your home, your college, your playground, your social life, etc. it's not your home? I don't mind too much, I mean it's a pretty good show, right, I think that's pretty good right here? -- ENJOYING IT? -- TRITE? --
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00:03:05.000Our featured story is about Visa and MasterCard.
00:03:09.000Who are creating a soft gun registry of all gun owners in America by tracking every single purchase of a firearm using a credit or debit card in the United States.
00:03:23.000And this is part of a long ongoing trend of private sector working together with the public sector.
00:03:31.000to create these massive tranches of data which will ultimately be used by federal law enforcement in the event of totalitarian control.
00:03:44.000What other purpose would it serve for Visa and MasterCard to collect that kind of information other than to eventually give it to law enforcement when the time comes?
00:04:26.000Which he undertook earlier this year to ship busloads, not tons, but hundreds of illegal immigrants from the southern border in Texas up to northern Democrat-controlled cities.
00:04:39.000And so first he sent a few coach buses full of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C.
00:04:46.000because that's the source of the federal immigration open borders policy.
00:04:52.000And then he sent a few more busloads up to New York City, because that's just a liberal Democrat city.
00:04:59.000Starting last month, he began sending busloads of illegal immigrants up to Chicago.
00:05:06.000Except now we've learned, just as I predicted, we've learned the fate of those illegal immigrants that he shipped to Chicago last month, and it turns out that the governor of the state
00:05:19.000Pritzker sent those illegal immigrants from Chicago to the suburbs.
00:05:25.000To the white suburbs outside the city.
00:05:30.000And so apparently they were supposed to be held at a hotel in Chicago but you see the Chicago Marathon is going on and so they couldn't keep them at hotels during the Chicago Marathon in Chicago.
00:05:43.000So they sent them out to a suburb called Elk Grove
00:05:47.000Where they're being put up at a La Quinta hotel in the suburbs and now the mayor of that city and the mayor of that village
00:05:56.000And the mayor of the city of Chicago are working together to find jobs for those illegal immigrants out in the suburbs.
00:06:04.000So congratulations to the residents of Elk Grove.
00:06:07.000You've just gotten a hundred new illegal immigrant residents that have no documentation, no background check, no health screening, nothing.
00:06:16.000They're just out there at a hotel and now in the community.
00:07:00.000Illegal immigration is happening to everybody, everywhere, all the time.
00:07:06.000And so I'm sure all the liberals in Elk Grove didn't anticipate when they voted for Joe Biden that they would be getting sent busloads of hundreds of illegal immigrants to live down the block from them at the Budget Hotel.
00:08:35.000Just so we're all clear, I hope that there's no narrative cucks watching the show still.
00:08:40.000People that still believe that it was...
00:08:44.00019, you know, Muslims in towels hijacking planes and flying them into the buildings and put up to do it by Osama Bin Laden because that is not what happened, okay?
00:10:06.000Never forget, of course, but also understand what really happened.
00:10:13.000And I said, the one thing I said on Telegram the other day, which I actually stole from somebody in a group chat, is that, and this is interesting, and this is the interesting part of it that I'll talk about briefly, and then we'll get on into the news.
00:10:30.000With every conspiracy, there are at least two layers of deception.
00:11:02.000Well, the official narrative, according to the Warren Commission, is that a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald got a job at the Book Depository and waited for JFK to make the pass in front of that building on, what is it, Houston in Dallas, and shot him and killed him.
00:11:25.000And he did that because he was a, some say he was a communist, some say he was an anti-communist.
00:11:30.000I actually don't even know the official story on the motive.
00:11:34.000And then he was killed by a gangster called Jack Ruby and case closed.
00:11:39.000And so the first layer of the deception is that.
00:11:49.000People got together in secret and conspired to kill him, and blame it on somebody else, and then covered it up.
00:11:55.000So that's the first level of deception, and everybody is aware of that general idea, that the official narrative about that, or about 9-11, or about the war in Iraq, or about any number of things, Oklahoma City bombing, Ruby Ridge, you name it,
00:12:15.000Everybody is aware of the possibility of an initial deception, which is that maybe the official story is not the real story.
00:12:24.000That the people telling the official story are the ones responsible.
00:12:28.000And they got together and carried something out for their own clandestine, covert purpose, and then created a story to sell it to people.
00:12:40.000Created an alibi and an alternative narrative.
00:12:45.000The second layer of deception is concerning who exactly is part of that conspiracy.
00:12:51.000Because you know in all these cases, when it involves these large-scale or very significant crimes, naturally the facts will begin to come out.
00:13:15.000And even if there weren't anything like that, with any kind of large-scale event, people will doubt the official narrative.
00:13:24.000The second level of the deception happens here.
00:13:28.000Assuming that there will always be, and this is a heuristic, assuming that there will always be a group of people, there will always be those that are unconvinced by the official narrative, true or false, whatever it is, if it's a significant enough event, the second layer of deception happens among those people where the kinds of ideas that are promulgated by the conspiracy theorists, by those that doubt the narrative,
00:13:59.000That constitutes a second false narrative.
00:14:19.000The second layer, and that's promulgated by the government, and the Warren Commission, and by the media, and the literature, and so on.
00:14:27.000The second layer is people among people who say that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone gunman, that in fact there was maybe another gunman, or maybe three gunmen.
00:14:39.000And it was not Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, but at the minimum there were more people working with him.
00:14:44.000Maybe the president, maybe other people.
00:14:47.000And the second layer of deception is to run a narrative which is still not true.
00:14:52.000A conspiracy narrative that it was not the official story, it was a conspiracy, but a fake conspiracy.
00:15:00.000And you see this crop up in all the conspiracy literature is there will be these mainstream narratives which are still alternative, but considered mainstream alternative, considered mainstream conspiracy.
00:15:16.000And these are the kinds of conspiracies that you can hear in comedy specials, and on network TV, and on the surface level internet.
00:16:04.000You can say we don't accept the official narrative, but then the next natural question is, well then what is the narrative?
00:16:11.000What is the interpretation of events that explains it?
00:16:15.000If it's not Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda putting up 19 hijackers from Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslims to fly planes into the building because they hate our freedom or something.
00:16:27.000Well, we need to know what the alternative is.
00:16:29.000And that's where the next layer of deception happens.
00:16:31.000And you'll hear all kinds of things about 9-11 which are conspiratorial, but still not true.
00:17:56.000Am I going to be considered a political extremist?
00:17:58.000Am I even going to be considered really out there at all?
00:18:03.000If I say, yeah, I think the JFK was killed by someone, no.
00:18:08.000But that is what crops up in the literature.
00:18:11.000There was a very famous film made in the 1990s called JFK directed by Oliver Stone starring Kevin Costner and it goes into all the details of the conspiracy and you might think
00:18:25.000A major Hollywood motion picture by a major director with a mainstream actor and it's a blockbuster film about how there was a conspiracy by the powerful to kill the president.
00:18:39.000Would that not almost by itself negate the possibility that there was a conspiracy?
00:18:45.000If there are people powerful enough to kill the president, cover it up,
00:18:51.000Would they not be powerful enough then to stop a major motion picture from coming out covering all of that?
00:18:59.000It would almost be enough to say that the existence of such a film proves that there was no conspiracy.
00:19:04.000Because the same powerful people that killed Kennedy, you know, would they kill Oliver Stone?
00:19:10.000Would they shut down the production of the film?
00:19:14.000And of course the film points the finger at the CIA.
00:19:18.000And it points the finger at US intelligence.
00:19:21.000Well, wouldn't you be interested to know that the man that produced that film was later revealed to be a Mossad agent?
00:19:33.000An agent of Israeli intelligence working in the United States
00:19:39.000A Jewish, Zionist, Israeli spy produced the film, which if you go back and watch it, it's scandalous and outrageous and it proves that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy, but it points the blame at the CIA, which is what they've been doing with that for 60 years.
00:20:42.000What did the 9-11 attack... What were the major effects?
00:20:48.000Well, if Muslim fundamentalists flew planes into our buildings, the initial response is for widespread animosity and resentment towards Muslims, particularly towards Muslims in the Middle East.
00:21:03.000Where there really wasn't anything like that in the United States before.
00:22:18.000As if Muslims flew the planes into the buildings, we gotta get the military together and send them over to the Middle East and find those Muslims and get them.
00:22:27.000What wound up happening was of course much more significant than that.
00:22:31.000We went over to the Middle East and we didn't just go to Afghanistan and eliminate the Taliban.
00:22:36.000Which Afghanistan is conveniently situated right between China and Iran and south of Russia, a very geo-strategically important place.
00:22:48.000But then we also went out in 2003 into Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein.
00:22:55.000And it just so happened that because we went after Saddam Hussein in Iraq, connecting him to 9-11,
00:23:02.000And because of the Casus Belli for that war, which is that he was procuring nuclear weapons, the effect of the Iraq war was not just to destroy Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime, but also to put a freeze on all the other nuclear programs going on in the region at the time, which were ongoing in Iran, in Libya, and elsewhere.
00:23:30.000It also helped open up the gates for not just those major ground wars, but also U.S.
00:23:35.000intervention across North Africa, West Africa, on the Arabian Peninsula, throughout the Middle East.
00:23:43.000And so, who would benefit from these two major wars?
00:24:39.000People point towards the Pentagon and U.S.
00:24:42.000intelligence and, you know, broadly speaking that if we have wars, we have jobs, we have budgets, we have money flowing to the military-industrial complex and that's also the MIC is who they point the finger at.
00:24:57.000Well, consider that just less than a decade before the 9-11 attacks, a memo was written
00:25:05.000By people that later went on to author the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the Bush Defense Department and the Bush State Department.
00:25:14.000They wrote 10 years prior in 1993 a memo for the Israeli government for the then Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu called the Clean Break Memo.
00:25:26.000And it talked about how the main strategic priorities of the State of Israel were these.
00:25:31.000Destroy the Saddam Hussein regime, destroy the regime of Bashar al-Assad, weaken Iran, and all of that in the quest of securing Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
00:25:46.000Well, it just so happens that almost all of those objectives were achieved by the same people that wrote that memo who then worked in the Bush administration that carried out those wars that accomplished those things.
00:26:03.000Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Wormser, and others, Richard Perle, they wrote the memo, I think it was actually in 1994 for the Netanyahu government, and then they went on and took up positions in George W. Bush's State Department and his Defense Department, and they drew up the plans for the wars in Iraq and the wars in Afghanistan that fulfilled the strategic objectives that they laid out and wrote
00:26:31.000When they were contracted by the Israeli government less than 10 years before.
00:26:38.000On September 10th, 2001, September 10th, 2001, a day before the attacks, The Washington Times, coincidentally, and I do believe this is a coincidence by the way, but it does tell you something, The Washington Times, which was then a very prestigious paper, now not so much,
00:26:58.000They published a report from the US military which had 65 signatories from the military.
00:27:07.000Generals, high-ranking officials, and they were talking about a planned US military presence in Palestine.
00:27:18.000And they said that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was a true force in the world that would make American efforts look like Palestinian efforts by comparison.
00:27:30.000They said that Israeli intelligence was so sophisticated it would make American efforts look like the efforts of poor Arab countries.
00:27:40.000It also said that the Israeli intelligence power is so sophisticated
00:28:01.000According to this, I think it's School of Military Strategy, something like that, report in the Washington Times, they say that in fact the Israeli intelligence is so sophisticated
00:28:45.000And blame it on Palestinian or Muslim fundamentalists.
00:28:51.000And what do I always say about conspiracy?
00:28:55.000Most people don't believe in conspiracies not because they've looked into the facts, not because they looked at the data, not because they looked at the theories, not because they read the books, not because they did their due diligence.
00:29:12.000But most people say something like this, the government is neither willing nor able to carry out attacks of that scale, and then cover them up.
00:29:22.000Groups within the government or groups within the American regime either lack the logistical ability to do these things, plain and simple, they couldn't if they wanted to, couldn't carry it out and cover it up.
00:29:33.000Or, if they are, no one would do that, they're not willing to do that.
00:29:39.000Well, when, a day before 9-11, the military with 65 signatories comes out with a report saying that Israeli intelligence is so sophisticated they would possess the ability, and we know they possess the willingness because they invented the false flag attack in the Middle East, Jewish terror groups like Ergun, the original Zionists, back in the 10s, 20s, 30s, and 40s, they pioneered the false flag.
00:30:07.000At the King David Hotel and in the Lavon Affair, they pioneered this.
00:30:12.000We know, based on these pieces of information, that they had the willingness and the ability, the willingness to create false flag terror in the pursuit of their national and strategic goals, as well as the ability, as evidenced by the military report the day before, which is pretty current, that they would be, at the least, a suspect.
00:30:58.000And we've heard about oil, and we've heard about Bush, and we've heard about the military-industrial complex.
00:31:05.000And we've heard about jet fuel and steel beams, and we've even heard things like that there were planes that never hit the building, that they were a hologram, and that introduces a whole other idea which comes to us from Lee Sunstein in 2008 who co-wrote a paper.
00:31:21.000With the Catholic pundit at the New York Times, whose name I forget right now, talking about how you have to introduce wildly ridiculous conspiracy narratives to obscure the real ones, to obfuscate and obscure the real and legitimate narratives.
00:31:42.000We've heard every story from ones that are more plausible, like Oil or Dick Cheney or something, to ones that are completely out there, like that there were holograms doctored into the footage.
00:31:56.000Everything other than the one that WILL get you banned from Twitter.
00:32:01.000Everything but the one that WILL ruin your political career.
00:32:05.000Everything but the one that probably actually makes the most sense.
00:32:35.000Even though I said I wasn't going to do the 9-11 show, I wound up doing the show anyway.
00:32:40.000But but I see that, you know, it's it's the day and and even the even the edgy people I saw some post on true social the other day I'm not gonna say who it was cuz I like them, but it was about like, you know Oh 9-11 the truth will be revealed.
00:33:15.000And you know, look, if that's going on, then how can you say you're a patriot if you're not working overtly or covertly to achieve justice?
00:33:37.000How can you say you're America first if you're not working every day, either overtly or covertly, to achieve justice for the fact that they killed our president, they killed his brother, the next would-be president, they flew planes into our buildings, they sent us to war for 20 years at our expense,
00:34:00.000How can you call yourself a patriot if you don't dedicate yourself in politics?
00:34:05.000You don't even have to talk about it openly.
00:34:09.000But at the end of the day, that's in the back of your mind.
00:34:11.000How can you call yourself a patriot if you're not doing that?
00:34:31.000And it's a big story about Nazis, and it's a story about democracy, and it's a story about Muslims, and about communism, and you know, all these things are going on in Rio, but there's a missing piece of the puzzle there.
00:34:49.000And that missing piece of the puzzle is why we're not a free nation.
00:36:15.000He's the governor of Texas and a Republican.
00:36:18.000He's been doing this ridiculous gimmick where you know, and I covered it last time I'm not gonna go all the way into it But the southern border is right now worse than ever you can look into the data.
00:36:31.000I don't want to get all into it, but We've had five million illegal border apprehensions
00:36:39.000Or stated another way, Border Patrol has apprehended 5 million people attempting to cross illegally into America at the southern border since Biden's inauguration last January.
00:37:21.000Everybody that's showing up at the border, for the most part, they're either getting past Border Patrol, or they're being apprehended, detained, and then released into America.
00:37:31.000Now, the governors on the border states, they actually have constitutional authority to close the border.
00:38:44.000Instead, what he's done, and we covered this the last time, is this political gimmick, this cute little marketing campaign, where he said that if Joe Biden is not going to secure the border, then he's going to just bust the illegals to D.C.
00:39:01.000So he's letting the border crisis go on.
00:39:04.000The Republican state government is letting the border crisis continue to happen.
00:39:09.000It's just that Governor Greg Abbott is collecting 100 of them or 200 of them every now and again and putting them on a bus that the Texas taxpayer pays for and sending it to D.C.
00:40:25.000And when all is said and done, he's not bringing nearly enough illegals.
00:40:28.000If the goal is to change policy by sending so many illegals that it makes a difference, you're not sending enough illegals to make a difference.
00:41:07.000And what's more, you're just shipping, to the extent that you are making a difference, you're just shipping these illegals further into the interior of the country.
00:41:14.000They were on the border, now they're in New York.
00:41:19.000Now they're a thousand miles away on the East Coast, and they're on the Great Lakes in Chicago.
00:41:42.000If there's illegals arrested in Texas and shipped to Chicago, you can place a $1 billion bet that those people are never going back involuntarily.
00:41:55.000They may go back for vacation, which they often do.
00:41:59.000And that is a very well-known phenomenon.
00:42:01.000A lot of people don't even realize that, but they taunt us.
00:42:23.000They'll come and work here for 20 years and make their money and go back.
00:42:26.000They'll come here and earn a lot of money and then they'll go back for a vacation and give their family in Mexico some of the money they earned and spend some time there and then they'll come back.
00:42:37.000And so they really don't even have nationality in a meaningful way.
00:42:40.000That's why they call them ampersands, because they're Mexico and America.
00:42:46.000So anyway, so they go and they stay, and predictably they move.
00:42:50.000And this is what brings us up to today.
00:42:53.000There's a new report, a Fox News exclusive, which says that those immigrants
00:42:59.000That particular busload, because you can track these people, that busload of immigrants that Greg Abbott sent to Chicago for the first time ever, they were shipped by Chicago to the western white suburbs of Chicago in Illinois.
00:43:17.000It says, quote, the mayor of a suburban Chicago town in Illinois is demanding an apology from Governor J.B.
00:43:23.000Pritzker after 90 illegal immigrants were bused to a hotel in his town with little notice or planning.
00:43:31.000Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson told Fox News Digital that he received a phone call from Pritzker's office on September 9th informing him that a migrant bus would be arriving in his town that same evening.
00:43:45.000So the governor calls up the mayor of a small suburban town and says, hey, 90 illegal immigrants coming your way tonight.
00:43:53.000However, when Johnson pressed the governor's office for details, such as how many migrants are coming and what hotel they were going to, no details were available.
00:44:03.000When asked if the migrants had gone through health screenings and background checks, the governor's office also had no answer.
00:44:13.000The governor's office called back on the evening of September 9th around 5 p.m.
00:44:18.000and said that it would be 90 immigrants arriving in 90 minutes at 630.
00:44:24.000When asked if the migrants went through background checks and health screenings, the governor's office said, well, we don't have those.
00:44:30.000Without background checks and health screenings, Johnson said that the migrants wouldn't be getting off the bus, but said he would provide them with food and water.
00:44:39.000He said, I'm sworn to protect the health, safety, and welfare of this community.
00:44:44.000Until those questions are answered, I will not allow them to get off the bus here.
00:45:02.000or anything it's sad you know Mexico was destroyed by NAFTA and the Mexico the people in Mexico have no opportunity and the Mexican government and NGOs are sponsoring them to come to America and you know if you were in those situations you would probably take a chance and come to America maybe
00:46:49.000They said that we can't put up hotels in Chicago because the hotels are full because of the marathon, which is in a month.
00:46:56.000Which means that these migrants are going to be staying in a hotel for at least a month, probably longer.
00:47:03.000It says during a conference call with representatives of the federal government and the state of Illinois, Johnson said that federal government employees from FEMA and other agencies assured him that the migrants had gone through security and health checks.
00:47:19.000When the migrants arrived on September 10th, they came on Chicago Transit Authority buses and were dropped off at La Quinta Hotel.
00:47:28.000So, in other words, they were shipped from Texas to Chicago on one bus and then the Illinois government took them off that bus and put them on a Chicago bus and shipped them?
00:48:18.000It says, when the migrants arrived on September 10th, they came on Chicago Transit Authority.
00:48:23.000Johnson initially said that he was upset with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's perceived involvement.
00:48:29.000Johnson said that he offered to work with Lightfoot on a plan to help out the migrants and offer them jobs.
00:48:36.000This isn't the first time the migrants were bused from the city of Chicago to an Illinois suburb.
00:48:42.000147 migrants were bused from Texas to Chicago on September 7th and 64 of them were then taken to a Hampton Inn Hotel in Burr Ridge which is outside Chicago.
00:48:53.000Burr Ridge is far from Chicago and Burr Ridge is a very affluent suburb.
00:48:58.000If you've ever been to Burr Ridge, it's one of the richest zip codes in America.
00:49:03.000So, as I said at the top of the show, this is an issue which will affect you.
00:49:07.000These immigrants are coming to your neighborhood.
00:49:22.000And they're either going to come there on their own, you know, because they're going to move to Texas and then move somewhere else, or they're going to move to Texas or California and then go somewhere else, or the government is literally going to send them to your house.
00:49:38.000If the illegals don't get to Texas and then get a job and then move somewhere of their own accord, if they're not doing that, which they are doing, and they're all over, they're in Kansas, they're in
00:49:50.000Connecticut, they're in Georgia, they're everywhere.
00:49:53.000Everywhere where there are people, there are Hispanic immigrants moving in.
00:49:59.000Even in the farm land, even in the interior, even in these so-called flyover states, they're everywhere.
00:50:06.000And if they're not coming to a city near you of their own accord, the government will literally get them on a bus and tell the bus driver to come to your neighborhood, come to a Holiday Inn near you.
00:51:33.000And as far as immigration is concerned, now you know.
00:51:37.000It's not just affecting people in the border states, it's affecting us too.
00:51:40.000These people came all the way up here, where I live, in the suburbs of Chicago, from Texas.
00:51:47.000They put them on a bus and sent them here.
00:51:50.000And if they could get to Chicago, they're gonna get everywhere else.
00:51:53.000And they're gonna get to Wisconsin and Michigan and they're gonna vote.
00:51:57.000And that's maybe the way that they'll be most impactful, is by swinging elections.
00:52:03.000100 illegals at a time by being bused there or flown there or moving there.
00:52:07.000It's been going on since Biden got in office.
00:52:09.000They'll put these illegals, the Biden administration will do this.
00:52:12.000They'll put them on planes and send them to Michigan and Minnesota where they're going to vote and they're going to have kids that are going to vote.
00:52:20.000And they're going to, while they're voting, they're going to receive free education, free health care, free housing, food stamps, disability, Social Security, Medicare,
00:52:34.000Thank you to the Republican Governor of Texas for giving the white suburbs in the North
00:53:32.000The big story today is that, not the banks, but the credit cards, the credit card companies are now going to track every purchase of a firearm in the United States that is made with a, made with plastic, made with a credit or a debit card.
00:53:52.000Because they say that every purchase made in the United States already has a particular code for the kind of thing that's being bought and they're saying well the guns should be no different so they're gonna they're gonna track everybody and every purchase where they buy a gun and you know and so we'll get into this and I'll get my reaction I think it's pretty obvious though.
00:54:13.000It says, quote, three major payment processors, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, have announced they will put all gun store sales into a separate category of purchases from now on.
00:54:25.000The move, which was met with criticism by weapons rights advocates, follows a decision by an international standards body to introduce a separate merchant code for firearms retailers.
00:54:37.000Visa, the world's largest payments processor, was the last to announce its decision on Saturday.
00:54:42.000MasterCard and American Express had both previously said they would start using the new code.
00:54:48.000The International Organization for Standardization, a Swiss-based body, announced its decision to introduce a new merchant category code on Friday.
00:54:59.000Until Friday, gun store sales were labeled as general merchandise.
00:55:03.000The move was made in response to a request by the New York-based Amalgamated Bank.
00:55:09.000The measure has long been demanded by advocates of tighter gun regulation who say it will help track suspicious weapons purchases.
00:55:16.000The move allows banks and payment processors to assign a new code to payments made to gun retailers, but will not show which specific items were purchased.
00:55:26.000So yeah, it's not gonna tell you what specifically people bought at the gun store.
00:55:30.000They're just gonna tell you that a purchase was made at the gun store.
00:56:45.000The New York City Mayor Eric Adams said, quote, when you buy an airline ticket or pay for your groceries, your credit card company has a special code for those retailers.
00:56:54.000It's just common sense that we have the same policies for gun and ammunition stores.
00:57:00.000The new system would be, quote, an important step towards ending financial system support for gun trafficking, gun violence, and domestic terrorism, said Elizabeth Warren.
00:57:10.000The news provoked the ire of gun advocates, however.
00:57:14.000The NRA said, quote, this is not about tracking or prevention or any virtuous motivation.
00:57:19.000It's about creating a national registry of gun owners.
00:57:23.000In August, anti-gun lobbyists from Guns Down America and Kathy Lee Giffords called on credit card companies to flag legal purchases of guns and ammunition as suspicious.
00:57:40.000So there is an obvious angle here which is uh yeah like of course this is creating a national gun registry that's what it is like by definition at the end of the day they're gonna have a list of everybody that bought a gun and where they bought it and who they bought it from and we're gonna know who bought it
00:58:04.000That's the list that's being generated.
00:58:07.000It didn't exist before, but now it is.
00:58:09.000Before, the government couldn't do that.
00:58:12.000Necessarily, because the purchase information is a private affair.
00:58:17.000You know, when you go to a gun store, and you know, I haven't done this, but when you go to the gun store and swipe your card and buy a gun, you know, who has that information first?
00:58:27.000It's Visa and Mastercard and the bank, because they're gonna transfer the funds, they know the merchant, they know the customer, right?
00:58:37.000By creating a special code, they're going to be able to do command find and say, and they're going to be able to generate, here are all the purchases of guns that happen in the United States, and this is who made the purchases, and this is their name, and this is where they made the purchase, this is the address of the business, and this is the business in question, and this is who runs the business, and this is the amount,
00:59:04.000And so, as long as this is going on, as time goes on, after 20 years, you'll have every new gun purchased in the United States for decades, and all those who sold them, and names of all the people that had them, and you'll have a reasonable idea of every gun owner in America.
00:59:27.000Why did Visa and MasterCard introduce this new code?
00:59:31.000They didn't introduce this new merchant code so that they could just achieve a better level of specificity for their records.
00:59:39.000You know, they're not going to go to the grocery store and introduce a special code for Captain Crunch and AR-15s.
00:59:47.000They introduced this special code for this purpose!
00:59:52.000For a surveillance law enforcement purpose.
00:59:56.000The mayor of New York and the body that requested this, the bank, requested this so that they could have supervision over who's buying guns.
01:00:07.000So, in other words, the point is not just to make the database.
01:00:10.000The point is to make the database for law enforcement.
01:00:16.000That is, in effect, what they've made.
01:00:18.000That is what they've generated with this new code, is a list of every person and their identity and where they bought it, who bought a gun, and who they bought it from.
01:01:01.000So, when federal law enforcement is looking into a person for some other purpose, like, you know, they're a Trump supporter, or they're pushing so-called disinformation online, or they didn't get their vaccine, or they're somebody that the FBI just doesn't like, they can pull up, they can make a phone call, hey, we need the list, boom, we can get that entry, and that person, we can find all their gun purchases.
01:01:46.000Control-Find everyone that donated to Candidate X, Control-Find our database for all the people that were in this group or this militia, and then cross... What is it?
01:01:58.000Cross-check that with the Visa MasterCard database of gun purchases, and you've found your list of people the government is going to disarm.
01:02:11.000What is less obvious is the fact that it's just ignored, that now there is this open, shameless collaboration between the government and the private sector.
01:02:22.000Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have created a new rule that governs all plastic purchases in the United States
01:02:33.000And that rule came from an international body in Switzerland, and Switzerland made that change at the behest of a bank in New York.
01:02:44.000And they did this to aid federal law enforcement.
01:03:47.000It means that all of that is being recorded.
01:03:51.000It's all being recorded and it's all being sent to the government.
01:03:54.000There is not one penny that is going to be moved in the United States without the approval of the government, without the approval of international
01:04:04.000Payment processors and banks without the surveillance of those entities, without that being logged with all of the relevant metadata, such as the time of the purchase, the location of the purchase, the location of the merchant, the amount, the thing purchased, the name, social address of the person that made it.
01:05:16.000That's coming from the Department of Homeland Security.
01:05:19.000And it's not about making sure that, you know, I remember this was a big scandal with OnlyFans where people reporting OnlyFans stars to the IRS and saying, hey, they're running a business on Cash App.
01:05:35.000You know, that was, they're not, they're not cracking down on that so that they could get their, their income from the, you know, e-beggars and e-whores and e-prostitutes and whatever.
01:05:46.000That's not why they're coming after it.
01:05:48.000They're coming after it so that they can monitor and prevent the the licit but clandestine transfers of money between political dissidents and in purchasing firearms.
01:06:02.000Just like they did the same thing to speech, the government and big tech got together to control speech and make sure that nothing is said, no ideas and no words are transmitted without the government seeing it, hearing it,
01:06:38.000Firearms and weapons cannot be transmitted without the government seeing it, watching it, recording it, and being able to access it at all times.
01:06:50.000Used to be the case, but you could have a conversation privately.
01:06:54.000Now you can't, because your phone is listening to you all the time.
01:06:58.000And even if it's off, it's recording you.
01:07:01.000Your phone's camera, your phone's microphone is running all of the time.
01:08:29.000But what happens when it becomes impossible for anyone or any entity to say anything, move money, or move weapons without the government seeing or hearing it?
01:08:42.000Are we comfortable with that level of control?