Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - SUNDAY SPECIAL WITH RAHEEM KASSAM

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00:00:30.000 ladies and gentlemen michael board today's sunday special here we are returning with the editor-in-chief

00:00:43.740 of the national pulse mr rahim kasam rahim thanks for returning to us thank you for having me back

00:00:50.560 so one of the original things that i knew of rahim kasam before you and i got to know each other

00:00:57.460 unfortunately much to both of our chagrins is that um even i mean i knew about brexit i knew

00:01:04.720 about nigel and and ukip but you had a book in i believe it was 2017 called no-go zones and and this

00:01:14.360 was all about europe and the rise of european no-go zones and i've been thinking recently about the

00:01:19.800 and and particularly so i actually went over myself to uh malbo malmo sweden and we went into it was

00:01:25.880 called roderberg inside um inside malmo and this was sort of the no-go zone oh tanya i believe you're

00:01:32.040 not um inside there and it was terrible it was i mean drive-by shooting happened the night before

00:01:37.540 we landed um all the taxi drivers were talking about everything that was going on they said it

00:01:42.820 was a lot of uh somali gangs versus the more established arab gangs that had been there so it's

00:01:48.120 really gang violence that was coming up and you know which is not something you think of when you

00:01:53.200 think of sweden you know you think of you know uh you know i know what i think of open open sandwiches

00:01:59.260 and open-faced sandwiches and and smorgasbord and meatballs yeah meatballs you know and leggy blondes 1.00

00:02:08.260 yeah blondes vikings etc so that was very eye-opening and i remember this was a huge a huge story and a huge

00:02:17.460 narrative for so many years and and of course uh trump get made his famous uh statement about it

00:02:22.800 which really set off a lot of this you know you remember what happened in sweden last night you know

00:02:26.820 and i noticed though that here we are five years later and it feels like the same type of thing

00:02:35.860 is happening again but it's not necessarily or at least we're not hearing about it as much

00:02:41.260 in europe but it's happening in america so this is my thesis that a lot of american inner cities

00:02:49.940 and in some cases cities themselves inside america major cities every major city is becoming a no-go

00:02:58.880 zone and it's because this of this massive rise of violent crime uh you've been in washington dc for

00:03:05.360 about as many years as i have and we know there's certain parts of the city that you just don't go to

00:03:11.060 uh there have always been anacostia was a huge one of these when i was when i was in a dia unit and

00:03:16.720 uh or even when i was at navy intelligence navy intelligence is located in suitland maryland

00:03:21.340 that's prince george's county um that's like ms 13 capital um that was if you get you get off work

00:03:28.100 you do you drive you just drive straight out you do not stop you know we had a guy we had an e3 that

00:03:33.340 came into our uh our units and he had just been transferred in and he thought it would be really smart to

00:03:39.860 get to get himself off base housing at at like some apartment down the street and we basically had to

00:03:45.280 we we basically forced him to move within the end of the first week that he was there and apartment

00:03:51.080 building he was at oh i'm gonna save some money it'd be great yeah there was a shooting like the day

00:03:55.080 after he left right there and so the fact that all of this is going on um and and balling air force

00:04:02.360 base where the dia is it's also the home of marine one the entire marine one fleet that the president

00:04:07.580 uses and you can go within a stone's throw of there and you're in one of the most violent

00:04:14.980 neighborhoods in america and it blows my mind do you or or give me your take on my thesis here

00:04:23.680 has america seen the rise of no-go zones yeah i think i think we're living the rise of american

00:04:32.160 no-go zones right now and and you know i'll i'll coin i'll coin this phrase for the sake of the

00:04:38.660 conversation as well as the subtitle of my book is how sharia is coming to a neighborhood near you

00:04:44.280 um and i suppose that still remains the case except for the fact that it's a sharia of the left of the

00:04:50.120 political left rather than a sharia of radical islam that you're seeing taking root in so many

00:04:55.260 cities across the united states at the moment i think it was accelerated in large part by

00:05:00.760 covid and and the movement away from downtown office buildings um the downtown of washington dc

00:05:08.460 itself became you know the entirety became a no-go zone for a couple of days um when the blm marches

00:05:14.120 were taking place and i went out there with my uh camera and and documented what had happened uh there

00:05:20.000 and and started to see how it was taking root in in lots of american cities and i've worked on this

00:05:25.460 thesis for a while now is that as you see uh you know downtowns like houston and dallas and and this

00:05:35.580 is going on all over the country but these two really stick in my head from recent visits they are not just

00:05:41.140 empty but they're effectively becoming shanty towns the office block buildings are obviously empty and they

00:05:47.380 are in the process of converting those into residential areas but they're not going to be

00:05:52.700 high-end residential areas they're not going to be places that people want to live because there's

00:05:56.700 nothing really there anymore you know in places like dallas you don't go downtown you go to highland

00:06:01.420 park um houston has its own they're building these kind of rich little areas on in in the suburbs and

00:06:07.960 outside of the downtown areas that typically hosted the types of places that i like to go to right the

00:06:13.380 steakhouses and the fancy restaurants and all of that stuff was downtown not the case anymore and i

00:06:18.900 think we're living that moment where these things are changing right now and my prediction is this

00:06:23.520 um within three to four years uh maybe i'll go maybe i'll go as high as five but not much longer than

00:06:29.680 that um you're going to see all of these downtown areas in what used to be you know proud you know

00:06:36.340 prideful american cities um turn into turn into shanty towns well i mean uh uh uh chicago of course

00:06:46.260 the magnificent mile right uh you have they they're beset now with these what they call them teen

00:06:52.520 takeovers where one of the recent and and this girl and she she was on she's been on fox she's been

00:06:59.400 everywhere was just surrounded uh this young white girl um who was surrounded but the fact of matter is

00:07:07.180 that was in one of the most one of the richest neighborhoods of chicago and i was actually on

00:07:14.000 with charlie um charlie kirk talking about this and i'm i'm more of a philly guy he's from chicago though

00:07:19.720 and so he when he saw the address of where the you know the intersection where this took place

00:07:23.800 it blew his mind he said how could there be something like this going on in one of the

00:07:30.540 ritziest downtown areas of chicago a place where you know now in philadelphia so we've already gone

00:07:37.340 through this um i've already had that sort of process of shock where you knew that it used to be

00:07:44.160 that if you know you know so will smith the fresh prince right you knew if you went to west philly

00:07:48.600 things were you know things were going to be trouble if you which is interesting too because in

00:07:52.040 philadelphia it goes um university city which is has the houses the university of pennsylvania

00:07:58.320 and the university of pennsylvania there are the children of world leaders who go there

00:08:02.640 there are the i mean this is ivy league there are professionals going there etc etc and then if you go

00:08:08.840 four or five blocks up if you continue west up the same street um you immediately get into

00:08:17.720 run down row houses you get into areas where the move bombing took place in the 1980s believe it or

00:08:23.800 not and it isn't even too far to the intersection where kermit gosnell's house of horrors took place

00:08:30.060 the abortionist it's it's within walking distance of the university of pennsylvania but i think for

00:08:36.020 people if you're not from the area you think of all these narratives as totally separate things you

00:08:40.120 wouldn't realize that they're in that proximity and so the university of pennsylvania

00:08:44.060 pennsylvania dealt with this by having one of the largest i believe um the largest private police

00:08:49.920 force in the entire state of pennsylvania is right there and one of the only private police forces

00:08:54.960 that is armed in the state of pennsylvania because of this again you you've got millions of billions

00:09:01.180 of dollars right this is the biden penn center etc is there um and their office in dc as well but this

00:09:07.580 is this is a huge huge place um that's directly tied to all of this crime and they used to do the

00:09:14.300 teen takeovers there even when i was living in philly i remember this and so then i was at temple

00:09:19.380 university when i was in school and this was this 20 years ago but temple was in north philly and we

00:09:25.940 knew that the campus itself was safe but if you did something off campus you went off campus into north

00:09:32.120 philly up north broad street and you were out there at two in the morning three in the morning you were

00:09:37.720 asking for trouble and every single one of the stories that i ever heard of someone being mugged or

00:09:43.040 something bad happening again this is 20 years ago was it was always that situation i was walking home

00:09:48.520 from the party by myself at three in the morning and right um that's no longer the case now when i hear

00:09:56.920 stories about my alma mater it's oh there was a student who got an apartment right off of campus

00:10:03.100 and someone carjacked them and then uh and then shot him in the head because he fought back uh which

00:10:09.420 is something that happened or oh there was somebody who he was it seemed like an attempted carjacking

00:10:15.920 at first but then he ordered him into his apartment and started actually taking everything from inside the

00:10:22.620 apartment while they were there this just steps from campus just steps away and as well there was

00:10:28.420 a story of uh the killing of a temple university police officer just not too long ago that really

00:10:34.540 resonated with me because this happened right outside the student center right outside the student center

00:10:40.040 uh within within view of the campus itself and so one thing that i tell people now i used to say you

00:10:45.700 could go but just stay on campus not just i'll never bring my children anywhere near there anywhere near

00:10:50.120 there whatsoever um it the city of philadelphia is a no-go zone at this point as far as i'm concerned

00:10:56.920 um every neighborhood in the entire city has become this way the the people keep voting for it so

00:11:03.220 there's not really much you can do at that level other than get your family out and get them out as

00:11:07.400 fast as possible and so i see other cities and people who are from those cities going through this

00:11:12.740 process which you have really documented quite well i think on washington dc in fact just before the

00:11:20.620 interview here there were sirens you know going on and uh because i think dc they have the citizen app

00:11:26.140 right not every city has it but dc does yeah yeah what are some of the things that you've seen on there

00:11:31.620 since since 2020 and now that you never used to see before well look i live in a pretty affluent

00:11:39.180 part of washington dc and yet there are two three blocks away from where i sit regular uh reports of

00:11:49.620 assaults and carjackings and you could probably hear the sirens there's another one right now there's

00:11:55.460 another one right now right now on you know you can't script it right um and and you know around

00:12:02.740 here we have multiple police we don't have just the dc metropolitan police we have capitol hill police you

00:12:07.960 have secret service that comes around here all of that and yet it remains you know i wouldn't i

00:12:12.980 wouldn't take i've lived in some dangerous places and i've been to some really dangerous places i went

00:12:16.880 to some extremely dangerous places as you say for that 2017 book um no-go zones but it's going that way

00:12:24.460 um for somebody like you i.e somebody with a family i wouldn't recommend going around here taking the

00:12:31.260 family taking the kids taking the wife letting the wife go around here with the kids by themselves 0.95

00:12:35.960 absolutely not i mean absolutely not under no circumstances um i say it to the women that work

00:12:41.980 around here that are my friends i always say please you know make sure you're home by the time uh you

00:12:47.800 know darkness hits it's it's fundamentally unsafe and again look a lot of people hear this and go well

00:12:54.140 of course it's a city high concentrations of people living together those things you know those things

00:13:00.100 can happen right but that's that's a cop-out and it's especially a cop-out when you think about

00:13:05.640 the the the leaps that were made uh you only have to go back and watch you know on fire the vanities

00:13:12.980 movie watch taxi driver yep and watch the leaps that were made after those things came out that people

00:13:20.760 turned around and go actually you know what we actually don't like our cities to be that way we don't

00:13:26.000 want the house next door being a brothel we don't want the underpass under the highway being somewhere 0.99

00:13:31.560 but you can't you can't turn around and drive if you got on the highway incorrectly without fear of

00:13:35.940 getting your tires stolen off your cars and and so on and so forth and you talked about you know

00:13:41.540 how close it is to the rich people georgetown university in washington dc um there is this spate right

00:13:49.300 now of wealthy kids going to college who are having their expensive puffer jackets they have

00:13:57.100 these expensive like five thousand dollar puffer jackets that is some kind of fashion statement i

00:14:02.300 guess nowadays pope francis has one too yeah that's right and it's like a deep fake they made of him

00:14:07.820 and those are being targeted in midtown manhattan uh if you wear the apple pro max headphones out of

00:14:15.320 your house you aren't likely walking back into your house with them it's you know they're being

00:14:19.760 ripped off your head it's it's a spate of things and and you know you can see the targeting going on

00:14:25.220 here um you add to that the reluctance to really properly police any of these areas by by the you

00:14:33.140 know the liberal left city councils and the muriel bowser in washington dc and so on and so forth um you

00:14:39.040 end up with the perfect storm and the perfect storm is this i'm sorry i said this i said this years ago

00:14:44.080 about london under sadiq khan uh and i'll say it now about so many american cities they're turning

00:14:49.880 into it's it's sad right it's really so actually um we were we were looking at some travel plans

00:15:02.880 for a uh this conference that's going on in europe and we're bringing the kids and so typically you

00:15:09.480 know when you fly over there's direct flights but then there's also transfers and one thing tanya

00:15:13.440 i'll do to um you know save some money but it's also can be kind of fun is you you do like a like

00:15:21.120 a one-day transfer city one-day transfer stop so you'll you'll do a stopover but just stay there for

00:15:26.720 a day so you know last year when we were on the way to poland we did we did it in rome and it was

00:15:31.240 amazing right um so just one you know one night essentially 24 hours but you know how much of rome can

00:15:37.120 you see in 24 hours and sort of becomes a you know a catch-all and um so you you see so many of

00:15:43.980 the ones through london um and even though the airports are all outside the city you know it's

00:15:48.420 about an hour give or take you can get in and um yeah i said no to all of them i said i i said even

00:15:56.480 though it was it was cheaper to go through london i said absolutely not i'm i'm not interested it's not

00:16:02.660 worth it it's not um it's not something that i i feel we got another we got it whatsoever

00:16:07.700 we got another another siren that's and that's distinctly a police siren it's just unbelievable

00:16:14.720 like you know this is the middle of the day you know you can see by the lighting in this room

00:16:19.720 um middle of a middle of a a work day and and this is what you have it's interesting that you say

00:16:25.180 that because we did that as kids uh ourselves you know my first trip ever to washington dc

00:16:30.700 was when we were taking a uh layover uh from london and we i think we were going to orlando and

00:16:38.460 florida to visit family um but my parents decided to surprise us with i think we did two days in

00:16:44.600 manhattan and and half a day uh in dc and and back back then you would think like yeah those cities

00:16:54.580 had had improved it was post um giuliani in new york and and a lot of gentrification was going on

00:17:01.720 in washington dc i mean people from dc will know what i mean when i say this um you wouldn't you

00:17:07.820 certainly wouldn't have gone to the navy yard back then no the first time i went to dc it was like that

00:17:13.120 i remember going there on a field trip when i was in grade school number three by the way yeah this

00:17:18.780 sounds like it's a soundtrack that we're laying over this that's a cop car right there

00:17:22.720 wow i don't know what to tell you so i remember maybe i should check the citizen app

00:17:30.320 oh you just check this isn't enough yeah this is real time so no but i i remember um going to

00:17:35.100 visit to see the smithsonian and do some field trip type stuff as you do growing up in philly area

00:17:40.280 um not far we also used to go to the march for life so that was something because we're catholic

00:17:44.060 so that was something that you you know you get a day off you go do the march for life etc it's

00:17:48.220 great and uh it's only a couple hours by bus and i remember though you know we were told very

00:17:55.520 specifically that you do not leave the hotel you do not go into navy yard you do not go anywhere

00:18:01.760 that's not you know i mean it was drilled into us now you look at navy yard and this is like one of

00:18:08.980 the most boom for folks who don't understand what we're saying this is the the area around the

00:18:12.480 neighborhood around the navy yard in dc on the river um and then the wharf which is a bit down from

00:18:17.760 there these are some of the most uh gentrified areas of dc over the last decade there's been

00:18:24.120 tens of millions of dollars poured into these areas under muriel bowser um this and and by the

00:18:32.000 way to to her you know something for when you're on the left you're supposed to be against gentrification

00:18:37.960 because what have they been doing they've been taking the families that have lived there for so

00:18:41.240 long and they're kicking them they're pricing them well and kicked them into pg county yes but the

00:18:45.540 chinese investors are getting visas and that's what's important that's what's so important db db5

00:18:49.860 baby you might get a visa so as we're as we're talking right now i look up the uh there's a

00:18:56.060 twitter account called um at real time news 10 dc real time news um i won't give away you know my

00:19:03.200 exact location by talking about this but 10 blocks away um shooting uh on the scene dc police department

00:19:12.640 shooting with one individual gunshot wound injuries middle of the day wait wait you know

00:19:18.800 wait in broad daylight you're serious there's actually a shooting that went on just a few

00:19:24.320 blocks from your apartment 24 minutes ago according to that as we were recording this episode yeah that

00:19:31.480 just happened yeah you got to get out of there man you got to you have to get out of there well

00:19:38.380 somebody has to stay here and hold the fort down you know we're gonna have to make american cities

00:19:43.360 great again at some point um and i i think that's something worth mentioning as well is credit to these

00:19:50.640 people because even the dc local media doesn't cover give this the coverage that it should get and there

00:19:56.520 are all these little um former corporate media people that have gone um independent and they spend

00:20:03.580 all day long tracking down you know these shootings and these carjackings because there's a guy who

00:20:09.060 doesn't get out of it's phenomenal yeah yeah and and otherwise you'd never hear about them i think

00:20:15.720 there was something like 12 shootings this weekend alone in washington dc um but you don't you know

00:20:21.560 when do you see flash of that on the chyron on on cnn or fox news or anything you have to rely

00:20:27.400 on these now the great thing about them is they always provide source material so you can go back to

00:20:31.680 the dc metropolitan police department's website and cross-reference though that information but

00:20:36.440 i'll tell you if somebody wants to make a living out of running a news site you know a dc crime news

00:20:40.420 site you have no shortage of news no honestly i mean you could it would be a billion dollar idea

00:20:46.900 probably a billion dollar idea if you just did a essentially a crime blotter and then you had

00:20:52.780 specific ones you remember gothamists you remember when gothamists used to be around it was like the

00:20:56.700 cool stuff to do and they had dc they had gotham they had shanghai because when i lived there i read

00:21:02.620 shanghaiist was one of the ones they had uh i believe the whole thing was shuttered yeah um but

00:21:08.120 you'd basically do that but for crime and then run each city a billion dollar idea right there yeah i

00:21:14.660 think i think yeah but you'd you'd be targeted so quickly oh yeah because because the regime does

00:21:19.960 not want that information out there um it is it is to the extent where you'd need a pretty significant

00:21:25.760 newsroom actually to to put that to put all of that information together it's happening all over

00:21:30.540 the place all the time in all major american cities um if somebody wants to bankroll it you and i can put

00:21:36.780 it together but let me ask you but let me ask you and there are some chicago ones out there and

00:21:40.880 there's some philly ones at least twitter account level that have that have started to come up but

00:21:44.460 but let me ask you why does it seem that these stories or this narrative that america has become

00:21:53.440 so violent that it doesn't sort of gain any traction at all whatsoever that are americans just immune to

00:22:02.200 it i mean the wire came out what almost 25 years ago that showed the violence of baltimore and that

00:22:09.200 hasn't changed if anything it's increased uh thanks to the freddie gray riots which were one of the first

00:22:14.200 riots that i ever covered uh on on the ground in person in 2015 um the response to george floyd

00:22:20.300 obviously we have to talk about the george floyd effect here and the overall so uh the left will

00:22:26.280 make this this argument that they'll say well there you know there hasn't been a defunding of the police

00:22:31.120 yes maybe but there's been depolicing right so there's been depolicing in these areas depolicing in

00:22:36.680 the cities depolicing on the highways which is something that nobody talks about um that's led to

00:22:41.560 massive um reckless driving deaths and and why if you're the police officer are you putting your life

00:22:48.160 in danger if you know you arrest this person and there's not going to be any significant charges

00:22:53.780 you'll be right next to derek chauvin right and but they're not going to be charged you know the the

00:22:59.060 the the da's are not even the criminals right right right right it's just it's not worth putting them in 1.00

00:23:05.040 cuffs it's not worth the paperwork it's not worth the risk to your life it's not worth any of it it's

00:23:10.280 not worth even if they go again it's not worth it even for your boss's um you know umbrage that will

00:23:19.940 be targeted in your direction if you make that arrest if you intervene in that incident so they

00:23:25.620 just forget about it and and here's the answer to your question right we have to we have to realize

00:23:29.720 that uh on this on this matter um kanye west was correct you know george bush doesn't care about 0.97

00:23:35.640 black people barack obama didn't care about black people joe biden doesn't care about black people 0.98

00:23:41.000 muriel bowser doesn't care about black people a lot of these things are happening to black people 0.99

00:23:45.820 in predominantly black neighborhoods and so why would they do anything about it right like they see 1.00

00:23:51.560 those people as you know remaining on their plantations on their democrat left plantations they

00:23:57.340 don't think they're going to move off them uh you know in any significant way anytime soon what's the

00:24:03.040 point leave them to it that's that's what they think well and you and you made the point before about

00:24:08.720 you know pre-giuliani new york and post-giuliani but people need to understand that that's sort of the

00:24:14.380 the scorsese taxi driver in new york um versus the new york of the 90s and really the 2000s especially

00:24:21.080 when times square became the amusement park that it is now um this was because a massive increase in

00:24:28.420 policing a massive increase in arrests it was because of policies like stop and frisk was because

00:24:33.740 of prosecutions and it was because of a a very proactive um stance on policing directly target and

00:24:42.760 this is what i love and this was that that uh was it leaked audio the hot mic on um on michael bloomberg

00:24:49.740 from from some fundraiser when he was trying to run for president in 2020 where he said well we send

00:24:54.740 police to the minority neighborhoods and people and and the entire media tried to frame it as

00:25:00.680 we're sending them there because we want to arrest more minorities and he came i'll give him credit for 1.00

00:25:06.600 a guy who's on the left uh you know nominally he said you're looking at it all backwards i'm not

00:25:12.700 sending police to minority neighborhoods to arrest minorities i'm sending the police there to protect 1.00

00:25:17.840 the minorities that's the point of police and we've we've gotten so far in this country with this 1.00

00:25:24.680 massive i call it a psychological operation against police the demonization of police that's been going

00:25:29.920 on really kicking off with ferguson um the original blm hashtag whichever forgets that started as a hashtag

00:25:36.500 on twitter that has done more to increase the deaths of black americans since it began than anything else

00:25:48.100 and yet they'll find some viral video and they'll decide that that's exactly what's going on because

00:25:52.260 you have these politicians who don't understand statistics or people who um just don't care about

00:25:57.780 statistics and know better and they'll go on and lie about it and it's you know i'll put it this way

00:26:04.200 for some of the cities it's very hard to see what you do with this um obviously you've seen the

00:26:08.280 success in new york and and maybe they can get back to that philadelphia i don't know um at least for dc

00:26:13.920 there is an option and it's called takeaway home rule because dc is not a it is not a municipal city

00:26:21.200 it's not a municipality it is a federal territory um it is it is very similar under federal law to say

00:26:28.420 guam or puerto rico in this sense because it doesn't have statehood nor should it receive statehood

00:26:33.220 and by the way i'll go a step further not only should dc um lose its home rule status and go

00:26:38.920 directly back to the congress but if those parts of dc want to have representation etc like they all

00:26:46.380 call for that's perfectly fine because you i'm sure you know that on you know your u.s history

00:26:50.800 that alexandria and arlington used to be part of washington dc because in the constitution d if you

00:26:57.480 read the dimensions dc is a square right well a diamond i guess and uh they were de-annexed i guess

00:27:05.040 you could say or re-annexed by virginia at one point for these very same reasons in the 1800s to receive

00:27:10.620 their their um their representation back and i say that's fine if you want to return to us if you want

00:27:16.060 to retain statehood that's absolutely fine the name of that state is maryland you will become part of it

00:27:21.120 and you'll receive all the representation you want yeah it it it's going to stick in the craw of

00:27:27.000 virginia voters if if they are made to subsume more dc residents into their voting um whatever but but

00:27:34.720 but that's true it's actually factually correct that um the federal side of washington dc must be

00:27:41.980 you know the you know capitol hill down to the white house surrounding areas that sort of thing

00:27:47.500 and the rest the rest can go and join the states that already have representation i think there is

00:27:53.000 a huge case for that um i'd like to talk about taxi driver more because i really funny enough you know

00:28:02.240 i i didn't even know we were going to get this far into this sort of conversation but i was i was

00:28:06.060 actually re-watching it um just last night and oh really yeah and that scene that i'd forgotten

00:28:13.280 about when the uh when the political candidate is in the back seat of his cab yeah and he's saying

00:28:19.660 to him so what do you know i i he goes i learned more from taxi drivers than i learned from everybody

00:28:24.780 you know he's pandering and he says well what do you think should be done and and de Niro's character

00:28:29.340 turns around and goes well you know i just i just think somebody needs to just get in here and and clean

00:28:34.820 it all up you know flush it down the toilet and it's remember that same attitude and it's that same

00:28:41.360 realization and also also that same frustration that you see in a movie like falling down right

00:28:47.580 where where city city doesn't work man who is paid into city and served his city in in whatever way

00:28:56.000 all of his life suddenly finds out nothing around it works and i understand that these aren't supposed

00:29:00.360 to be protagonists in the strictest sense um in these movies but but those movies are what led to

00:29:07.280 people like mr giuliani coming along becoming the mayor and going you know what somebody does really

00:29:12.460 need to clean this up and flush it down the toilet you know and i think you're going to start seeing

00:29:17.960 more of that in popular culture now as as american no-go zones proliferate across the united states you'll

00:29:25.100 probably see a lot more of that reflected in common culture when i was in new york uh covering the uh the

00:29:31.160 arrest of president trump uh i had a taxi driver tell me and we were staying in the east village

00:29:36.520 and i had a taxi driver tell me that he thought that the city was as bad as dinkins as it was on

00:29:42.580 dinkins which is you know immediately prior to um uh to giuliani oh producer angelo is is sending me

00:29:49.940 the the great quote from from the immortal travis bickle someday a real rain will come and wash all 0.72

00:29:56.540 this scum off the streets yeah that's right and then actually believe it or not though um totally

00:30:02.800 separate case but my the driver that picked me up at the arrest of trump so it's amazing right right 0.99

00:30:09.800 all of this is going on in new york they'll you'll get you'll get stuck up for wearing a pair of apple

00:30:15.360 maxes and and donald trump is the one getting arrested for some paycheck thing the discrepancy that

00:30:21.500 they claim exists um but the driver who picked me up from there and that was taking me back to the

00:30:27.020 hotel um uh he asked me if i had been uh at the thing i said yeah because he knew where he's picking

00:30:32.440 me up from which is yeah i saw that and he goes and it turns out that he was armenian and he goes

00:30:37.320 you know you know the person they should be really arresting i said who's that he goes he goes they

00:30:41.140 should be arresting that effing victorian newland that's the one they should be arresting wow i was

00:30:47.280 like and then immediately i immediately turned my phone on hit record go on so you were saying about

00:30:53.660 victorian newlands and then i didn't actually release it because it just i don't know it didn't feel

00:30:57.560 like one of those things to release but uh it was it was amazing to me that the taxi drivers know man

00:31:03.360 the taxi you can't you can't hide that stuff from the people that live on the ground you just you

00:31:08.960 can't do it yeah i was thinking about this a moment ago um because you know taxi drivers

00:31:17.260 and taxi driver he goes and he puts the suit and tie on and he takes the girl out for a

00:31:21.900 a slice of by the way a slice of apple pie with cheddar cheese melted on top which is something

00:31:28.940 we don't do enough nowadays i'm gonna i'm gonna bring bring you're not gonna have cheese back

00:31:33.840 you're not gonna have that oh apple pie with cheese is amazing it's amazing terrible yeah i know

00:31:39.520 this is listen i know this is worse than your pizza appetites now listen we'll talk about that

00:31:44.400 another time but but you know you find me a taxi driver in new york city today that that owns a 0.51

00:31:50.000 shirt and tie let alone is walking into a political campaign office and chatting up you know the girl 0.99

00:31:56.160 at the desk in in proficient english a lot has changed in that regard as well and i think one of

00:32:02.720 the things yes you can still find them every every so often um by the way do we have to call it the

00:32:07.660 king's english now yeah you do oh that's right oh i was mortified this morning i picked up the

00:32:13.180 the telegraph app on my phone and they some somebody had passed away you know one of these

00:32:19.320 sort of x factor america's got talent hosts and it says queen sends condolences and i thought to

00:32:27.520 myself what and you open the article and it's queen camilla and i was like no no no no no no no we're not

00:32:34.060 doing that yeah yeah no i don't well of course older people will remember the queen mother was

00:32:42.040 the queen once upon a time you know before the queen became the queen so that's the way it works

00:32:47.600 was the queen mother but that would that would be until someone came of age right that was before she 1.00

00:32:52.680 took the throne before before elizabeth took the throne the queen mother her mother was the queen

00:32:56.960 i suppose but yeah strange isn't it no no no i don't accept that no i thought i was having a

00:33:04.920 stroke or something you know i thought maybe i imagined that queen elizabeth had passed away and

00:33:10.200 she didn't and i got very excited for a moment and then i realized that talking about camilla this is

00:33:14.820 dreadful um even even even even worse as as as the uk slumps into a a clown show version of itself

00:33:22.940 and it's yeah and you want to talk about world you want to talk about cities that haven't been

00:33:27.560 the same in a long time i mean london um uh look if you hang out in mayfair if you hang out in

00:33:32.940 westminster fine you're broadly going to be left unaccosted um and and they're very nice places

00:33:38.820 to hang out make sure to keep your narwhal tusk nearby just yeah yeah yeah that's right that's right 0.85

00:33:44.100 that was that was london bridge um but but if you and the polish chef that's right but if you start

00:33:51.500 venturing out into the brixtons and the camberwells and the um tower hamlets and and so on and so forth

00:33:59.680 my goodness you know you better have your head on a swivel in those in those areas really now that now

00:34:05.980 would those be considered suburbs yeah yeah but they're boroughs you know london's massive it has

00:34:11.080 32 constituent boroughs right but so what i mean by that is i mean are they are they analogous to

00:34:16.920 american suburbs because unfortunately what we've seen and what i've seen in in the philadelphia

00:34:24.280 area my parents still live in philadelphia suburbs um that you see it in dc as well that this crime is

00:34:33.260 not static it is not stationary and that it is spreading out into the suburbs it is going out

00:34:39.700 further um we just had a shooting a couple of weeks ago here that took place right outside of disney world

00:34:46.920 so this was you know orlando and this was this was the one where if you remember his name was keith

00:34:51.880 moses where this guy was so crazy that he actually went back to the scene of the crime and shot the

00:34:58.600 reporter who was reporting on his earlier shooting yeah you remember this and this was within so they

00:35:05.400 called it an orlando shooting but if you actually again because orlando sort of has the the you know

00:35:10.260 sort of the main city part but then the most of it most of orlando is it's the theme parks and then

00:35:15.960 it's the it's either the resort hotels or the off resort hotels where you know if you if you're

00:35:21.140 looking to save a couple of bucks and you get your family in you know that's where you stay this was

00:35:25.440 right down the street from the hotels this was not in some inner city area killed killed a nine-year-old

00:35:31.280 with the initial um the initial killing and then came back around and was like dating the mother or

00:35:36.300 something like that and shoot the reporter and so i mean i use that example just because it was so

00:35:40.340 heinous but we've seen it again and again um actually at the uh i'll just say it at the bowling 0.51

00:35:45.760 alley near where my parents live the bowling alley that where i learned how to bowl there was a you

00:35:50.820 know like a gang shooting from philadelphia it's like why are philadelphia gangs coming out to the burbs

00:35:55.360 and you know settling beefs at a suburban bowling it makes no sense right um but it's also it just

00:36:02.260 speaks to this wider de-policing that i feel like that's going on and i think in any of these states

00:36:06.700 that if you've got an ability to um you know because some of these states like you know

00:36:11.040 pennsylvania is kind of a purple state or you know st louis is a great example where ferguson took place

00:36:15.820 that's a red state okay that's a red state where the crime in st louis particularly east st louis

00:36:21.340 is absolutely horrific um in terms of homicides and yet you don't uh new orleans is another example

00:36:28.760 it's a red state that has an or excuse me louisiana is a red state but new orleans has an incredible

00:36:34.940 homicide problem and they don't seem to be dealing with this at the state i think you have to take

00:36:41.260 state action i think you just have to take state action where you have the ability and of course the

00:36:47.100 media is going to lose their minds over this but what else would you do yeah and and if anything

00:36:52.720 we need to be making the argument for the fact that look you'll forgive me for this because i'm a

00:36:57.460 city boy right like i was born in a city raised in a city i love cities i travel to cities all the

00:37:03.220 time um and and and and and genuinely enjoy ambling aimlessly around a new city i was in

00:37:11.320 seattle a couple of weeks ago did it there i was in st louis last summer uh did it there and and you

00:37:17.300 start can i can i speak to something there's there's a huge difference between and this is why where i

00:37:23.300 think you would have in common that we're not country boys and there's a huge difference between

00:37:27.100 sort of like your your country boy which is a cultural conservative i think you grow up with

00:37:32.480 conservatism um that it's all around you but but being a city concert an urban conservative

00:37:38.160 it's it's much more reactive i feel like it's it's just much more react because the culture is quite

00:37:42.880 different yeah and we're we're the renegades in our towns you know we're the ones pointing at the

00:37:48.600 at the street corners going remember what that was like five years ago why isn't it like that anymore

00:37:53.440 you know um and there is this research i have letter i have letters to my old uh my old local paper

00:37:58.540 talking about how we shouldn't make the town a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants from mexico

00:38:03.900 because it's going to increase crime and it's going to shut down the hospitals guess what all the

00:38:08.440 hospitals are shut down the crime isn't completely insane the hospital where i was born i talk about

00:38:12.920 this all the time the hospital where i was born has been raised there is an empty lot in its place

00:38:17.400 and across the street is a planned parenthood clinic that's that's where i was born well look i mean

00:38:22.560 the resurgence of gang culture um is absolutely massive now and it's and it's the thing that

00:38:27.600 nobody's talking about um there were these conversations that happened in the early 90s

00:38:31.400 remember i think it was tipper gore wanted to ban rat um as a you know hillary clinton the super 1.00

00:38:37.700 predators comment joe biden coming out with the uh the crime bill i mean this this was a a democrat

00:38:44.440 left-wing mainstream centrist position in the 1990s yeah yeah tough on crime tough on the causes

00:38:52.180 of crime and um you know like your solution like your state-led solution there it is going to take

00:38:58.300 some a radical conversation um about what's going on in these areas because look i could probably you

00:39:05.720 know touch wood probably go through my life in washington dc without necessarily seeing anything

00:39:10.840 firsthand like that right like like somebody being shot in front of me right touch wood um but on the

00:39:17.700 other hand um like you say these aren't static problems and and these gangs that that for instance

00:39:24.580 you want to take anacostia or you want to take that area down by the wharf uh you want to take the

00:39:29.220 old navy yard you can go up to eckington in northeast dc just north of union station by the way

00:39:34.280 literally like five minutes walk north of catholic university catholic university absolutely um those

00:39:40.840 you're starting to see this encirclement now of gang warfare around the city yeah and now that

00:39:47.060 certain gangs and certain groups of people from like you know these ghettos have established control 1.00

00:39:52.820 over their local neighborhoods now they're pushing out and having confrontations with with rival gangs

00:39:58.600 and that that is becoming a real thing here now this is why by the way these 12 shootings take place

00:40:04.340 over the weekend it's not it's not people necessarily getting mugged when they come out of union station

00:40:09.780 and and then being shot they're just being mugged and maybe kicked in the backside um but it's the

00:40:16.060 gang members well this is why you get the the birthday party shootings indiscriminately you know

00:40:21.500 driving past funeral homes driving to birthday parties and lighting each other up and of course

00:40:27.800 it's you know every so often unrelated civilian catches astray and that's getting more and more

00:40:33.240 common right so this is this is that you probably the policy that you can tie this directly to

00:40:39.360 it's it's and i we need to emphasize the deep policing because that is a huge part of this

00:40:44.560 um but obviously no cash bail is is this policy that you can probably most directly tie to this bail

00:40:53.160 reform in general um but i do think it's both i think it's i think it's no cash bail and deep policing

00:40:59.080 you're you're taking off the brakes you're taking off all the brakes on the system and and the

00:41:05.380 amazing thing is the system was working dc was cleaned up uh new york was cleaned up do you think

00:41:12.160 anyone would be investing in dc if it wasn't for um the fact that the crime was down of course not

00:41:18.320 the same with new york that's when the investment was in that's that's how donald trump made his money

00:41:22.420 um by believing in manhattan and starting to go in in the 1970s when it was still taxi driver time

00:41:29.360 people call him crazy um but he said i believe in manhattan and i think manhattan can come back he tried to do

00:41:35.380 remember trump world was going to be if their trump city was going to be a thing on the um

00:41:39.740 what was that on the uh on the hudson and there were there was this this whole bit he never quite

00:41:45.540 got all the way there with it but he believed in this idea that you could bring the cities back

00:41:49.760 and under giuliani it was the two of them from an economic and a a criminal perspective the broken

00:41:55.920 windows policy and every almost every time that i do one of these with uh with mayor giuliani i always

00:42:00.980 bring that up to say i say mr mayor you know you were the man who fixed this you were the one who

00:42:07.100 had the right answer and part of not the only reason but part of the reason i think they demonize

00:42:12.100 him is because they don't want anyone considering doing that again yeah i was reminded i was just

00:42:18.480 looking up um i was reminded when i went there's a little um town in the south of france called

00:42:24.980 bezier and bezier you know being in the south of france a lot of people can imagine the types of

00:42:31.400 migrant crime that that were going on there is extremely gang related arab dominated um crime 1.00

00:42:39.960 that was going on down there and and the mayor he was actually his chap called robert menard he um

00:42:46.240 he was of the left defected to the right but not to any right political party just sort of said like

00:42:53.980 you know i don't associate with the left anymore and by the way we're going to clean up this city

00:42:58.680 now it's a small it's a small city but what he did was obviously massive you know policing presence

00:43:04.560 physically cleaning up the neighborhoods he says that did a huge amount uh for for for stopping crime

00:43:10.980 yeah broken windows policy yeah i mean literally cleaning grime off the buildings he said you know just

00:43:17.120 changed people's um interpretations of where they were and what they were doing there um and then he

00:43:22.380 instituted this thing called called the big brother program where he actually went into these

00:43:26.940 communities and recruited from within these communities people who acted as police liaison

00:43:32.080 officers to the leading gang members and so every time that there was a big bust up big shooting

00:43:37.840 whatever they would have this community come together with the police the big brothers and the gangs

00:43:44.080 themselves right because a lot of these gang members right remember are teenagers still

00:43:48.860 so they don't necessarily and their families live there too right and and he credited that and i know

00:43:56.060 it's a little bit more of a softer touch and it's a little bit like negotiating with the taliban 0.98

00:44:01.500 right but at the end of the day the the taliban taking over well you've also got you've also got el

00:44:09.420 presidente down there in el salvador who's who's got a little bit of a different approach um but again

00:44:15.180 that's that's because in his situation i mean the gangs had become uh institutions

00:44:21.760 they were taking over the country they were taking over the entire country becoming the government

00:44:27.400 right they were they were effectively the government in certain areas if you wore the wrong

00:44:31.360 number on your shoes or your shirt or you or you run wore the wrong uh brand of shoes in a certain

00:44:36.540 area oh that's a ravel brand so you're gonna doesn't matter how old you are you're shot up

00:44:39.700 right we're we're down to our last five minutes but there's this policy that president trump has

00:44:46.180 called for where he it i don't know if it sounds like he's abandoning the cities or what but he said

00:44:52.440 you know let's let's let's let's um let's go there let's say he's talked about creating 10 american

00:44:59.100 freedom cities brand new cities from scratch and i get the impression that in him saying that

00:45:07.680 he's referring to all of these issues that we're talking about of the current cities

00:45:12.280 and i have to give him credit for having a forward look i don't know anyone else out in the playing

00:45:17.180 field right now who's who's suggested any kind of futuristic vision for america uh other than

00:45:22.620 simply like like you and i've been saying just reacting to all of it um which are things that can

00:45:26.940 be done but what do you think of that of that idea what do you think does it appeal to you do you

00:45:31.340 think it's charismatic this idea that we can create new cities and hopefully avoid these pitfalls

00:45:36.540 yeah it is weird that that in a lot of places we've given up creating new polices throughout

00:45:44.440 human history there hasn't really been the relent on on the development of of of new um urban and

00:45:52.280 suburban areas as there has been in in recent decades so i think even just from a planning perspective

00:45:58.900 right a developmental perspective a futurist perspective this is one of the problems i always

00:46:04.160 have with my own side is that we all we conservatives are always so easy and quick to to lament the

00:46:10.000 problems with today but never never that quick to suggest the solutions and i i do like that solution

00:46:14.740 for that reason i like that solution also because it serves to underscore some of the other points that

00:46:19.480 we've been making about architecture and beauty and aesthetics and city planning and all of this

00:46:25.200 stuff where we can actually do this and start from scratch and go like okay let's take the best of this

00:46:30.760 this and this and the best of this this and this and we put that all together new city great fine

00:46:35.680 well by the way if you know donald trump that that's i mean he's he's he's a builder he's a real

00:46:40.480 estate developer that's kind of the whole point of donald trump right before all the rest of everything

00:46:45.320 else what i'm still unsure of is what he's talking about when he talks about tent cities and he talks

00:46:51.260 about taking taking a lot of the homeless out of current existing american cities and moving them to tent

00:46:57.080 cities you know effectively in the suburbs right he's talking about he's talking about doing this

00:47:02.000 just outside of and i just think that hasn't fully been fleshed out yet it sounds to me like one of

00:47:06.420 these right right you've got to find some kind of ideas that remote well actually i used to be at fort

00:47:11.800 mead and there's a uh down the way from there is actually where the dc juvenile hall is so it's it's

00:47:18.800 it's physically in maryland but um it's actually land that's not owned by the federal government it's just

00:47:25.540 it's immediately adjacent to fort mead but it's where nsa is but it's actually owned by the city

00:47:32.740 of dc and it's where they held their juvenile hall so i mean or you know atlanta is kind of doing their

00:47:37.680 um remember they were having that that uh treehouse antifa um situation and the and that so there

00:47:45.280 there are areas outside of cities that are underdeveloped or undeveloped i i think could be

00:47:50.020 used but yeah i would obviously hope that they're not going into the suburbs i could have a nimby problem

00:47:54.700 not call them tent cities like because you know we all remember hoovervilles or you know not not

00:48:01.100 firsthand but we know what hoovervilles were and you you know as soon as these things are developed

00:48:05.960 they're going to use it against him whether or not it improves the cities or not um but it does i think

00:48:11.180 what it does is give him the ability to have a solution it's like the wall right it's it starts a

00:48:16.840 conversation it starts the conversation but it also it's also very clearly donald trump the real the real

00:48:23.740 estate guy who's looking at major american cities and going i wouldn't invest there you know and he's

00:48:30.080 trying to think of like what would make you invest there again like how would you rejuvenate these

00:48:35.700 places that took hundreds of years to build up because you you wouldn't want to lose them right you

00:48:40.540 don't really want to lose downtown dallas you don't really want to lose midtown manhattan um i i'm shocked

00:48:47.900 when i go out to to the west coast of what you see in la what you see in seattle what you see in

00:48:53.200 portland and so i think it's coming from a good place i just think it needs a little bit more

00:48:57.720 fleshing out than just saying we're going to build 10 cities on the edge of cities like you're doing

00:49:01.720 what we are we are we're just up against time here rahim kassam final thoughts on the issue

00:49:07.320 american no-go zones what do we do it's a fantastic thing that we're having this conversation because it

00:49:12.440 means that some some forward progress is is you know within within sight um these are the positive

00:49:18.680 kinds of conversations that you need to have about how you improve and look i always say this um

00:49:23.820 cities can be great places i understand it's not for everybody it's definitely for me um i like

00:49:29.340 everything on my doorstep i'm a walker i'm not a driver you know i don't do manual labor um and so

00:49:34.260 i think i think it's a good conversation to have because maybe it will mean that certain people who

00:49:40.180 might have spent some time in cities before but have been put off from it for a long time

00:49:43.900 might start thinking about oh okay well if we're going to improve them we're going to zhuzh them up

00:49:48.140 we're going to reintroduce real policing into these areas then american cities can be great again

00:49:52.420 they should be amen you know a funny note on that um so of course you know you and my wife what you

00:49:58.660 have in common is that you're both from europe um europe is designed for walking uh the very

00:50:03.580 so tanya drives here but um usually like you know she calls when you're drunk and you know she'll 0.73

00:50:10.520 come pick you up as as happens um and the very first time she ever drove a car in europe was last

00:50:19.180 year she's never driven a car in europe her entire life before she moved to america when she was 18 so

00:50:26.600 that it it blew my mind because she's why would i would i have to you walk around town then you take 1.00

00:50:30.940 the train to the next town and that's all you have to do ways public transportation in major built-up

00:50:36.620 areas is not a bad thing like i i'm not a bus guy um frankly nowadays i'm not a train i'm not a you

00:50:43.700 know a tube guy either i did the tube a lot growing up but um it can be very good it can be very very

00:50:50.660 effective um it can't be rotting tin cans being dragged down the street like some kind of you know

00:50:56.940 like the h street sidecar or whatever it's called streetcar in washington dc that the government is

00:51:02.180 now paying people to ride because nobody wants to take it because h street is a hole so can be done

00:51:07.760 major walking american cities coming to a future near you amazing raheem kassam national polls and

00:51:14.060 the substack make sure to check out the substack and friend always a pleasure ladies and gentlemen

00:51:18.200 gentlemen as always you have for my permission

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Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - May 14, 2023

SUNDAY SPECIAL WITH RAHEEM KASSAM

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