Vacation canceled for Chicago Police Department after nearly 1,000 cops quit last year. Second, the Biden administration cancels Alaskan oil and gas lease sales. Third, Rep. Kamek states that illegal migrants are receiving pallets of baby formula but American people can t find them. And finally, Elon Musk s Twitter deal temporarily on hold over allegations of fraud. All this and more on today s Human Events Daily with Chae Jones ( )!
00:01:38.100Crime is actually down, according to our statistics that we made up based on what we want the headline to be, rather than what's actually happening on the ground in the streets of Chicago.
00:01:49.240Well, that's interesting, because if crime is down, then why do I see headlines like this at Zero Hedge?
00:01:54.240Vacation canceled for Chicago PD after nearly a thousand cops quit last year.
00:02:02.280The defund the police movement has led to two things.
00:02:05.740Number one, the persecution of police in this country.
00:02:10.420People whose jobs is to enforce the law and then go out on a regular basis, go into the streets to fight crime, right, and then are demonized for it.
00:02:24.360They know that one wrong move, and if you get caught on a deceptively edited viral video, that's the end of your job.
00:02:33.960It might even be the end of your freedom.
00:02:35.860If some trumped-up DA wants to throw you behind bars for doing your job or for following your standard protocol and standard issue, your SOP, standard procedures, understand.
00:02:51.360This situation is going to lead to more crime.
00:02:55.040It's very obvious what Mayor Lightfoot is doing here.
00:02:58.540She is what they call juke in the stats, right?
00:03:01.020She's juke in the stats, and she's making a situation where they're claiming crime is down because they're finding, you know, they're classifying more things as crime, and then they say that comes down, or they change the definition of what's a crime and what isn't.
00:03:20.980According to local ABC7, CPD has increased staffing levels at times in recent years after especially high crime weekends, but typically canceling just one day off across ranks.
00:03:31.920According to the police department order, the upcoming holiday will require that officers work straight through their regularly scheduled days off.
00:03:39.480John Costanza, president of the Chicago Fraternity Roller of Police, said,
00:03:42.780The escape from this job and the tragic things we see on a daily basis to be able to go on vacation or even just spend time with your family at a barbecue, it's a decompression time that is sorely needed.
00:03:53.700The notice comes as data reveals more officers left the Chicago Police Department than joined in 2019 and 2020, with 900 leaving last year versus just 51 who joined the force.
00:04:09.200This is the wages of the defund the police movement.
00:04:18.820You're going to get more less cops who are more overworked, which means if you do end up having mistakes, if you do end up having issues, it's because the force is being stretched thin.
00:04:30.060And this ain't just going on in Chicago.
00:04:32.000It's across the country in every major city.
00:04:36.560Can you blame them for leaving the force when they see mayors like this and they see DAs like that who are trying to go after you to make their career off of putting you behind bars for doing your job?
00:05:02.940The violence is completely, I saw a video from Philadelphia the other day, only about 10 miles from where my parents live, right, right down the street.
00:05:13.920There's a gas station, guys going up, 30 years old, father, filling his car up with gas.
00:05:20.780Another car pulls up behind them at the gas station.
00:05:23.480Two guys pop out with guns, one with a handgun, one with, hard to tell in the video, but it looks almost like an AK-47, and just start open firing at the guy.
00:05:33.640Start open firing, guy goes down dead.
00:07:59.300The Biden administration has just canceled the sale, the lease of a one million acre property of federal land in Alaska to be used for oil, gas and energy exploration and drilling.
00:08:12.720This is the same administration, and Postmillennial has a story, that signed an executive order shortly after taking office directing the Department of the Interior to pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands and offshore waters concurrent with a comprehensive review on the federal oil and gas program.
00:08:31.240Furthermore, President Biden suggested on Monday that oil companies should be taxed on leases on federal land that they are not using to presently drill for oil.
00:08:39.740They're blaming oil companies for the rise in gas prices, which is ridiculous because it's very clear what's going on.
00:08:48.540And there's one thing that you'll never hear from the mainstream media.
00:08:52.500You'll never hear this from the Biden administration.
00:08:55.320But we'll tell you because this is how it works.
00:08:57.560So they'll come out and say, well, the issue is supply, right?
00:09:00.800The issue is these gas companies and they're they're gouging and they're raising the prices and they could be doing this.
00:09:05.960But no, no, no, no, no, no, not what's happening.
00:09:49.140You have to go through the EPA and then you better believe that you're going to get sued by whatever green group is out there that's trying to stop you from doing what you're doing.
00:09:58.340If you want to talk about Russia, by the way, we know we've seen this in the reporting that Russian gas companies were funding green groups here in the United States and across the West.
00:10:08.900And that is in their interest, isn't it?
00:10:10.920Because they want Russian gas to be sold on the open market, the world market, at a higher rate.
00:10:17.340And they want to prevent the United States from coming online as an energy exporter like we were under the previous administration.
00:10:25.320Basic supply and demand stuff is really, really simple.
00:10:28.760So if you're someone out there that doesn't like what you're seeing in Ukraine right now, which obviously we don't like what we're seeing in Ukraine, understand that the financing for that comes from the sale of oil and the sale of gas to Europe and the fact that they're able to sell it at confiscatory rates.
00:10:49.620Well, if we've got a situation right here in Alaska where we can go and drill our own oil and drill our own gas in these lands and look, I think Alaska is beautiful.
00:11:00.000Alaska has amazing natural parks, national parks.
00:11:06.340But not all of Alaska looks like that.
00:11:08.660A lot of these areas that they're talking about, you're talking about muddy, oily, greasy, you know, acres and acres of land that does not look like, you know, something that would be in a nature documentary, right?
00:11:25.800And what's crazy to me, too, is that when we went up there last year and I forget this, we're driving around and we see the pipelines.
00:11:32.540We see the Trans-Alaska pipeline and then as we're going, we see caribou, we see caribou and muskox just walking around the pipeline, grazing, having a good time.
00:11:45.360Did you guys know that Posobiec was going to be coming by and you've got them in like the back of a van or something and you're pushing them out saying, hey, let him see some of the animals.
00:12:14.420Don't worry about invading the rest of the world or getting involved in these foreign wars, the bloodlands of Eurasia.
00:12:20.220You don't need to be sending $40 billion over there.
00:12:22.580We could be making billions of dollars right here in our own country, a little area called Alaska.
00:12:29.700And while we're at it, while we're at it, I wouldn't mind looking at Greenland as well.
00:12:33.640However, it may be that you shop and you are seeing bare shelves and you are seeing signs that you are not able to get baby formula.
00:12:46.580And then you see the American government sending by the pallet thousands and thousands of containers of baby formula to the border.
00:12:57.540Crazy story from my friend, Congresswoman Kat Kamek, also a friend of Turning Point USA, of course, where she's gone down to, and I guess it's this border migrant processing facility near the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:13:19.360So we're all sitting around trying to figure out what's going on with the baby formula.
00:13:27.360Why is it that we're sending $40 billion to the war machine as opposed to feeding our own children here in the United States?
00:13:37.740And Congresswoman Kamek has made an incredible discovery.
00:13:40.820She says, and she's got pictures of this, pallets upon pallets of baby formula at the Ursula Migrant Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, and she's posting it to her Facebook and her Twitter.
00:13:55.880Why is this that we're sending baby formula to illegal migrants rather than make it available for the people here in our own country where we live?
00:14:26.640But the social contract becomes broken when your government exists to enrich the people who are in the government itself or their family members.
00:16:37.700What's going to happen specifically as relates to the border?
00:16:41.020You cannot have both open borders and a welfare state.
00:16:45.560You can really only do one or the other.
00:16:48.040Because if you have a welfare state, everybody's going to want to get in.
00:16:52.160And then you're going to go broke trying to be everything for everyone.
00:16:55.640But if you have open borders, what's going to happen?
00:17:01.280You're creating a false negative incentive structure.
00:17:05.100People are going to be flooding across.
00:17:07.300And then you've got outside groups that are also making money off of that.
00:17:11.780This NGO archipelago, as Dave Reboi talks about it, the corruption that goes in through there, the corruption of the border cartels that are bringing people across, trafficking children, trafficking women.
00:18:41.900All of the places within the country, within the world, where we used to have those meaningful moments of community, whether they be at a pizza parlor or a video game arcade or a main street or a shopping mall back in the 80s and 90s, those are all online now.
00:18:59.940All of those places where you used to have that meaningful connection with people, they don't exist in the real world because we've been so atomized by consumerism, by multinationals, by the Internet, whether you want to call it the Great Reset.
00:19:15.380That's something really – I think the Great Reset is actually a symptom of the information age, and it's something that people are trying to do to exploit the information age rather than move us towards a more humanity-first, people-first approach.
00:19:28.880But the Internet is here to stay as the new public square.
00:19:34.620And Twitter, for better or worse, is the public square in terms of the marketplace of ideas and the marketplace of freedom of speech.
00:19:43.500The problem is the company of Twitter.com, Twitter Inc., has destroyed freedom of speech, not just in the United States but everywhere that Twitter operates.
00:20:52.160Now, Elon Musk has come out and said, we are temporarily putting on hold the deal, pending details, supporting calculation that spam or fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users, Musk wrote.
00:21:24.660But if there's any indication, we are in for more of a roller coaster, a lot more ups and downs before this deal is going through.
00:21:32.620And we have freedom of speech restored.
00:21:37.380And that is it for this week of Human Events Daily.
00:21:40.820This has been an incredible week for us.
00:21:42.920I want to let you guys know, I'm very sad to say that today, for those of you watching on the video, this will be the last day that you get to see the Communist Cures mug.