What Happened In Charlottesville - Jason Kessler
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Jason Kessler joins us to update us on the events of August 9th, 2017 in the streets of Charlottesville, VA. We discuss the events that transpired that day and the court cases that have been ongoing since.
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welcome ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for joining us today it was a pleasure seeing you
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as usual of course thank you for joining us we are doing an interview today and i think i still
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might do no goes on after this still but we have an important show for you guys we want to give you
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guys an update on charlottesville on basically what happened during the day a little bit but we're
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also going to talk about the court cases because they are coming up and of course with us today to
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do that we have jason kessler good to see you again jason was a while ago how are you doing
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hey i'm doing well thanks for having me on you bet you bet lots to get into and i kind of i'll leave
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it up to you in terms of where where you would like to begin because i gather that you have uh as you've
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been part of these court cases and things like that and tell us you know are there multiple what's
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happening with those we'll get into that but have you gotten any more clarity on what happened on the
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day of because that's obviously very been the most tumultuous thing for most people that both were
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there but also from the outside look if you just look looked at this uh in the media as with most
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things these days you're not going to get an accurate uh description you're not going to get
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an accurate reflection of what actually happened that day so is there i'm not sure if you want to
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do this but is there a way you can like summarize to us kind of what what you see happened on that day
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in august 2017 so the essential elements are that um there was a black supremacist city counselor
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named west bellamy who'd made a lot of uh racist statements about white people that made it his
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mission to tear down a statue to robert e lee in downtown charlottesville uh i saw this as being a
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part of a larger attack on white people in our history and so i uh got a permit for a rally which
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was to feature a number of speakers with uh what was then the alt-right movement that we're going to
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speak in support of american history and uh white civil rights and that kind of thing uh the city
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tried to cancel the permit and with the help of the aclu i was able to beat them in federal court
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and get that permit reinstated uh we thought everything was going to be good the police had a
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duty to protect us but it turned out that uh it became a trap uh because the police stood down while
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these uh really uh extreme uh anarchists and blm militants attacked the event uh while this was
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going on and we know this because of an independent review that was actually conducted by the city
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itself the police chief told his subordinates let them fight it will make it easier to declare an
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unlawful assembly and so that's exactly what they did the charlottesville police didn't even show up
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until uh long after antifa had been attacking the demonstrators using tear gas clubs um improvised
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flamethrowers all kinds of weapons then they pushed the alt-right protesters out of the park into the
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antifa which really uh exploded the violence even further yeah so um that is what happened at the
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after at the actual event itself yes it was instigated violence it was uh how would you frame
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that was that uh in your view hindsight being 2020 the intention we we've heard a lot of rumors and
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it's still somewhat difficult to confirm but you know we heard that there was a lot of of course
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intelligence that day probably a lot of feds fbi agents and things like that maybe maybe even part
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of some of the groups we you know there these are some of the things we're still speculating at but
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regardless being just actually there maybe maybe not even as undercover that were there
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they wanted to instigate violence because i don't know how you would frame that but do you think that
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was part of the whole like anti-trump thing as well that we have to try to associate these people with
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trump and these people they're there these are all the bad people that showed up and we need some kind
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of event uh we need something to you know turn it into violence or something so we can then hinge it or
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blaming on i'm not saying it's all about trump but i'm sure that's kind of part of what the
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establishment were uh viewing this at the time but what do you see yeah i think that that's
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absolutely a part of it i think that regardless of whether there was any violence or not the event
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was supposed to be turned into a psyop by the media essentially where they were going to use it as a
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cudgel to attack the right and trump specifically and we've seen that with subsequent events like january
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6 where uh even just one person who uh has quote unquote bad optics or is an anomaly like uh at
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charlesville we had a guy a random guy with a swastika flag that no one seemed to know with a crease
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still on the flag jason right that his amazon basic nazi flag pack was just unfolded you know five
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minutes before basically right yeah and he became representative of the event not only that there
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was a totally separate event not charlesville august 12th where the klu klux klan came in their hollywood
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robes and everything and probably 50 or more of the mainstream media articles about charlesville showed
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people in those clan roads which wasn't our event yeah but they used that as a psyop it's very similar to
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with january 6 how you had the one guy with the camp auschwitz shirt who became one of the faces of that
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event for the media yeah that's right uh and of course again coincidentally here uh just a couple
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of days what is it a week maybe even less ago now uh the uh the statue did uh did come down right there
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was a lot of controversy around this then for a while it was covered up i know then they took down
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they had some just black tarp around it or whatever then they took that off or whatever
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uh what what do you feel about seeing this i mean again it's what is it four four years later now
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there's been court cases back and forth and all that stuff and of course again a lot of the people
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that went to charlottesville that day this is it was not only i feel about the robert e lee statue
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it was an overarching thing that you're gonna see it doesn't stop with you know robert e lee right
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this can this gonna continue to statue after statue after statue and i'd say jason after 2020 and all
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the crazy blm and tifa riots that we've seen uh the people that went there have kind of been vindicated
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as we said like yeah we we told you this was going to happen and we've seen myriads of statues
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all around the u.s even in the uk that have been coming down right yeah i think so absolutely and
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if you recall we actually had a torch vigil on august 11th the day earlier which was to the
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thomas jefferson monument at the uva rotunda and that event was attacked by antifa as well you had
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extremely violent people from philly antifa you had um a convicted domestic terrorist brent betterly with
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them you had a guy paul menton from philly antifa who's been convicted of disposing of the dead bodies
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of murder victims these weren't uh peaceful protesters as uh the media has portrayed it but
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yeah the part of the concept for the unite the right rally for me was that i saw that it uh the tearing
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down of our history and the attack on european american history in particular seemed to be like a frog
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slowly boiling in water and i saw where it was going i saw that they were attacking robert e lee in new
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orleans for instance and then they were moving on to george washington and the other founding fathers
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and i wanted to point that out and get ahead of the game and um it's a shame about the robert e lee
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monument in charlesville coming down but isn't it amazing that with all the statues that were torn down
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during the blm and antifa riots of 2020 that statue made it through that summer which is basically
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because of the judicial activism of groups that were suing to say no you can't tear down this statue
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so there was actually a judicial order uh saying no this is illegal and so they were afraid to tear
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down that statue in a way that they weren't afraid to tear down other statues and and finally i would
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just say to the protesters who went to charlesville don't blame yourself for that statue coming down
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they as we saw with these riots they were going to tear down these statues either way yeah at least
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we got ahead of the game and called them out for what they were doing what was it was it 2016 the first
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time you heard about uh some a group trying to take that particular robert e lee statue down in
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charlesville yeah i believe that was the time yeah uh and i think i even had a clip in here of one of the
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activists who were behind it was was speaking uh let me see if i can find her right here she was so
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happy and of course and they and they said that too that this is it's not going to end with this uh
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it's just a small step in their view right i think everything anything that is uh in some way
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significant of uh european american achievements are going to be attacked it's going to be torn down
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it has to be replaced and all that kind of stuff and again hindsight regardless of what happened that day
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i think people that that that understood where this was going have been have been vindicated and
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and i think a lot of maybe and i don't know if this is true but if we talk about january 6 for a
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moment too right i see that as kind of the bigger like it's a bigger updated version of what happened
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in charlottesville in a way right now it's like federal and all that kind of stuff um but a lot of
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the potential you know mega people and things people that were like critical of those that were showing up
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uh at charlottesville that they they kind of got their own during the january 6th right and and so
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much material now too jason has actually been coming out just how many feds that were embedded in their
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informants there were people that were intentionally causing violence they were breaking windows they
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were busting open things and they were kind of ramping up uh the violence really on on january 6th in
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order to get the masses to become angry and and you know hyped up basically and i think it was probably
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for them i would assume it was very hard to to keep that at bay considering what happened during
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the during the election but what else do you see in terms of overlap is it is it good in your view
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that people are a lot of at least conservatives are beginning to see that like yeah feds are doing
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these kinds of things that they're setting people up they're doing sting operations they nestle their
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way into groups they maybe even set up and create groups at time uh in order to reflect negatively
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on what they consider to be i don't know a problem group right yeah i mean it's it's
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just a shame that the broader conservative movement threw us under the bus after charlesville
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in particular people like uh alex jones i can think of but um you know they and a lot of people who
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were even at the rally threw us under the bus and they said that we had bad optics and how you know
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you should have known but there's no way that anybody could have known that they would have
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done what they did i mean historically there has always been a right for even unpopular dissidents
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to protest in the public square and the police keep the sides separated yeah for them to spring this
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kind of trap onto uh legal protesters was pretty uh unprecedented and i think a lot of the people
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who threw us under the bus and were throwing all these conspiracy theories oh they got off the bus
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the same bus as the antifa and blah blah blah you know they really missed an opportunity to learn
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from us because i mean a lot of us made mistakes i made mistakes myself uh but we've learned from
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those and we could have shared that with people right uh what they did on january 6 uh in some ways was
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was very similar with the you know in charlottesville the police stood down and uh they allowed the antifa
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to attack people in some cases people fought back and then were prosecuted viciously while the uh antifa
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weren't charged at all yeah uh and then on january 6th you know you had uh some people like you were
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saying some of whom were uh federal agents that were committing violent acts breaking windows and so
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forth and then you had other people who the police just opened the door for and let in and you can
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obviously understand why people would think that it was totally okay for them to do that and yet they're
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prosecuting these people at uh record levels hundreds of people many of whom who are detained in conditions
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that uh we would normally consider to be like second world or third world um not given bail not given
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proper treatment being held detained for non-violent offenses so it's easy to see that the police being used
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uh as pawns basically to to lure uh right-wing protesters into these kinds of entrapments you
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know there's been discussions a broader discussion and and especially happened you know after 9-11 there
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was a lot of uh you know fbi uh you know operations basically trying to entrap like young you know muslim
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men and things like that when that when that was the big issue and of course we had a lot of the
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draconian measures coming in after 9-11 too such as the patriot act and the before that we had the project
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for the new american century and these kinds of things right but it somewhere along the line it
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it shifted and it shifted away from muslims being the big bad boogeyman to basically uh white right
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wingers right conservatives uh in america they're the problem now they're the terrorists right and the
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fbi have of course continued and ramped up i'd say the many of these operations where they try to
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entrap you know young men they try to uh instigate violence they're trying to get them to do certain
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things and the question is too jason how much of the supposed you know violence that we've seen
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actually at all would be taking place if it wasn't for intelligence services butting in and and
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basically instigating and drawing this out and and at the time that it happened to the muslims it was
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kind of this in the media at least it was a little bit of this soul searching there was like is this
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really right to do this and should they should they should they be allowed to do these kinds of
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things i was hoping that it would be a thorough examination of that tactic by federal law
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enforcement that that it should be in my view illegal to do these kinds of things and i've i've not heard
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anything about that uh but i think if january 6th should bring something good of it good out of it that
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would be one of the things what do you think yeah i think you're spot on with the comparison to what
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happened with the muslims during uh the war on terror i think once the the the publicity and the money
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gets pumped into these uh counter-terrorism uh research operations including in the universities
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people are looking for a problem even where one doesn't exist and sometimes they have to create it
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and regardless of what you think of you know there were actual legitimate terrorist attack by muslims
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during the war on terror that were vicious and bloody but you know there is a concept known as low base
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rate in the actual research literature that is you know a very small percentage of the people who
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subscribed even to the radical muslim ideology uh were violent people and the the reason that those
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kinds of terms and that kind of thinking is out there is because there were people who uh you know
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because they're muslims many of whom were non-white would step in and say well these are human beings
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too maybe we need to think about this and and not allow them all to be stereotyped and have their civil
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rights violated but we don't see that same type of research uh being conducted on white nationalists
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who i would say also have a low base rate i mean come on how many people out there are advocating for
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white identity issues white nationalists or not and how many people are committing terror attacks a
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tiny tiny amount and yet you have people like merit garland going out there and comparing all white
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people uh all white nationalists to domestic terrorists yeah they're conflating radical ideas
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with violence which is wrong yeah yeah exactly no the the stage is set so to speak they know what
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they're doing here they're trying to rope in i mean we've seen articles like this again whether
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even if people are today trump supporters or not or don't support trump or whatever from from their
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perspective as i feel they see that the people who voted for trump both in 2016 but also in 2020 as a
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as a big problem group right we've seen articles like what do we do about the 70 million or 74
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million however many it actually was now in 2020 right but uh that they're and i mean that's basically
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like 50 percent of the voter base almost right that they're trying to rope in and say that your ideas
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are dangerous your ideas are equates to terrorism now like this is any this is an insane strategy that
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will do nothing else but to tear the country apart but as i saw you were tweeting about this too
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maybe that's a good idea maybe maybe separation to a certain degree uh secession uh is one way out
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of this because this seems like a a just a gordian knot i don't know how you're going to solve this
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you have people on both ends that say that hate hate each other and they're unwilling to listen to
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each other too jason yeah i mean look the left hates the right so much why not just let them
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peacefully secede why do we need to make a big deal about it you know they have their vision of the
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world you know and we have ours uh we should go our separate ways uh i think that anybody should
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look at what's going on in this country right now and have some major alarms going off i mean when you
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see things like the government going to social media and saying we want these posts taken down
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that's soviet bolshevik style censorship yeah yeah it's crazy the uh i was just looking at some of
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the material to uh the uh the disinformation dozen and look at also as well how how it just and this
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was was one of the things that i was talking about you know way back way back then in 2015-16 that like
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the the the corridor if you will of of accepted opinion will just narrow and narrow or if you will
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they will expand what's considered to be dangerous material now it's like if you don't trust the people
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uh who are uh selling us this uh the the vaccine for example you're you're almost a terrorist now
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right you're if you don't believe in this if you don't accept it and take it you're basically you
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know killing people that's how insane it's gotten and and more and more of these topics are being
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uh thrown under the under the bus so to speak and there's fewer and fewer things that we actually
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can talk about and these are like like big big deal topics like you know that it could be life
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altering you know i mean you can have uh potential consequences of some of these decisions
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that might alter your life you could even actually end up dead from it but you know we're not here to
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talk about the vaccines but the point is there's so many things now that it's just like completely off
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limits and instead of moving in direction where more and more becomes you know acceptable to talk
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about it's more and more that that's being limited and the establishment of the ruling class is
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basically driving a strategy that if you counteract us if you are a dissident effectively whatever the
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topic is you are a terrorist and we're going to treat you as one this is insane jason yeah i mean
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there's a a very big shift towards left-wing authoritarianism the left uh of old that were
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liberals and believed in free speech and public debate and uh due process rights for dissident groups
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is the thing of the past and what you have now is a lot of these journalists who are antifa activists
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and they're very uh thinly veiling that and they're pushing for uh radical censorship authoritarianism
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i think what happened in charlottesville is part of the um the founding mythology of this new
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censorship censorship regime and this push to identify rural uh blue-collar white people trump
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supporters as the new domestic terrorists yeah and that's part of why i think that these court cases
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are so important is because we have a chance even though this thing was four years ago to go back
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and if we can beat them right at the very beginning where this thing started i think it'll humiliate
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them and uh start to unravel the whole yarn now going back to charlottesville again if you if you
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would have done it today with what you all the things you know would you have let's say uh limited it
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to certain uh groups or people or or like an approved checklist because again of course that's just
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and again i'm not blaming you for that but i'm just saying that was simply kind of evident part
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of the issue that anybody could show up which we which we didn't know and i think someone in chat
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pointed out too by the way the guy with the the swastika flag was never dogged we never found out
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really who that was while some people that were just like in an obscure picture somewhere you know
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that the reuters or ap took had their whole life destroyed just because they showed up and protesting
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that the removal of the statue that day which is crazy but would you have done it differently
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uh if you would have done it today uh yeah absolutely you know i i i put so much into
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the event uh being allowed to be controversial uh you know which added sort of a unique chaos energy
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to it that made it interesting uh but so much of the order and stability of the event was predicated on
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uh me having a permit winning that uh case in federal court and you know having the police enforce the
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safety of the event it was uh beyond my wildest imagination that the police would be uh the most
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uh chaotic and disruptive element of the uh entire situation uh uh but you know there was so much
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distrust amongst the participants and the speakers and and so many chaotic personalities involved in that
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too uh i i i was just trying to have a spectacle you know to be an interesting uh speech event but um for
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anybody that was thinking about doing a speech event in the future i would definitely uh focus less on
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you know trying to find internet celebrities necessarily and uh focus more on your your group of
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friends you know who are okay with the idea of doing public protest and and are insulated from some of the
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the pressures and blowback that comes with that find people that you can trust because it's important
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that people aren't making you look bad that that you're with people who can show restraint because
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uh more than anything else you have to understand that you have to be non-violent uh and you have to um
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you have to speak uh about uh standing up for white people you don't need to be getting into all this
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stuff about you know uh other groups it's you need to focus on a positive message
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and um yeah and and so many people were uh distrusting each other and and the egos were out of control
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trying to grab the spotlight i didn't even know that the antifa were outside of the venue blocking the
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entrance i didn't know that the police stood down that was just a very nasty surprise that i had to run into
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that day yeah exactly here's a npr article i'm showing on the screen here but uh for those
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podcast audience joining us later on here it says what went wrong in charlottesville almost
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everything says a report right so they they uh reference some of these things independent it was
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this the um let me see here the city commission the report which was prepared by timothy hippies and
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i pronounce it uh a former u.s attorney in virginia uh in conducting the investigation he said the team
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poured through hundreds and uh thousands of documents interviewed hundreds of witnesses
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and reviewed counted hours of video and audio the resulting 220 page report is detailed record
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of the chaos and conflict that unspooled is that the word uh in virginia uh in the virginia
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college town it is unsparingly in identifying the errors authorities made that day in the preceding
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um and sorry in the preceding months is that let me click in on that real quick to see if i recognize
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the oh that's taken down now that's a shame okay there you go was that the um the i remember one of the
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reports and this probably that this one then but they were even talking about if we go over to
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well uh the the car accident right that happened after the event uh was closed off right that there
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were they were questioning in the report why certain roads had been blocked off and there was like a lot
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of inconsistencies with that i'm not sure if you want to you know address that or talk about that at all
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yeah it's just a shame you know i think that uh no one would have died at the event if the police had
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done their jobs i this silly uh game that they thought they were going to get into if you can
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just stand down and allow the protesters to be attacked it's not a game and i think they found
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that out with regards to the the car situation you know there was supposed to be uh barricades closing
00:24:53.260
that street off and uh there was a police officer who was supposed to be guarding that um that street
00:25:00.120
and she abandoned her post i mean the police just were not enforced the way they needed to be there
00:25:05.240
i mean that that um that police chief and the city manager of charlesville who i'm suing in a separate
00:25:12.540
lawsuit um you know they had the authority to bring in the national guard and they didn't do it until it
00:25:18.980
was too late until somebody had already died uh they they had uh they had promised me so much they
00:25:25.880
promised me they were going to have uh uh that i think it was like eight squadrons of police officers
00:25:31.480
police embedded throughout the uh the event you know uh de-escalating and arresting arresting violent
00:25:38.240
actors um they said they were going to have maybe like 800 police officers in the back of the park
00:25:44.620
so many things were promised and not delivered um and then finally you know that there was uneven
00:25:52.460
enforcement of the uh unlawful assembly and the state of emergency because they you know the right
00:25:59.060
wing people they left immediately and i did my best to try and get people out of the area of the park
00:26:04.340
but the uh the left wing protesters you know the communists and uh socialists and so forth they were
00:26:11.220
allowed to just roam freely and uh it created a very very volatile situation yeah and i'm showing some
00:26:18.840
of the drone footage here again for the podcast audience but you guys joining us over video you'll
00:26:22.200
see this here too that there's no clear line there was no delineation of like where we're
00:26:27.260
team team blue versus team red are um it was just who's what's going on here and and again
00:26:33.280
usually at these kinds of things it's a clear like no you stand you can be there and counter
00:26:37.960
protest the protesters but you got to be over here kind of thing and even from like you know from
00:26:41.780
first minute it's just completely chaos and people have to walk through you know communists and
00:26:47.860
antifa people you know the the right wingers have to walk through uh commies and stuff like that
00:26:52.380
antifa um pro antifa people and and if in fact it's remarkable that it wasn't more violence that
00:26:59.460
that happened it was i think it was a lot of restraint especially and i'm not saying from the left
00:27:04.120
but from the right wingers uh the only thing in hindsight i said basically you can't you can't
00:27:09.200
defend yourself it's like if you defend yourself you might be going to jail because you're like
00:27:13.280
you're seen as an aggressor right they were building all these conspiracy uh cases too right
00:27:19.020
by going through people's uh you know chat messages and you know various forums people were in and so
00:27:24.080
forth where basically people were concerned with like can we defend how do we defend ourselves if
00:27:29.560
they attack us what can we go there with and again i haven't poured through everything so i'm not
00:27:33.500
saying i can't say that someone didn't say yeah let's go go there and beat these people up or
00:27:38.540
something like that but it was this like uh as usual they're they're skewing things they're using
00:27:44.620
legalese and they're squirming their way out of a very obvious situation remember the whole
00:27:50.000
2016 lead up to the trump election we'd seen tremendous violence from the from the far left
00:27:55.220
right against against the trump supporters against conservatives against nationalists and things like
00:27:59.120
this and so that was a very reasonable position to take like how can we bring a shield you know
00:28:04.780
what i mean to or something to you know break uh or block if they're throwing things at us can we
00:28:09.960
you know what can we do but then they try to rope in people that it's like no they came there to
00:28:14.260
with the intent to do violence um should we go into a little bit other court cases now and how you see
00:28:20.340
that and and what they've been trying to what they've been trying to do um i mean just give us an
00:28:25.880
overview first of all how many how many cases are we talking about what's happened this is just going
00:28:29.700
it's been going for years and years now right some of them yeah so uh a few of the cases have already
00:28:35.440
resolved themselves with settlements and so forth uh the the two main cases that are still out there
00:28:41.340
is the one that's coming up in october october 25th and that's signs v kessler and that's the one
00:28:47.920
we're really defending against and it is uh based on what you say they take uh messages from a chat room
00:28:55.420
that are talking about self-defense and then they're trying to construe that it's a conspiracy
00:28:59.900
to commit offensive violence and so without a doubt you know there was an expectation that antifa was
00:29:06.760
going to attack and with uh events in berkeley where uh right-wing protesters had been attacked by
00:29:13.640
antifa there are people that if they're attacked are going to look forward to being able to fight back
00:29:19.460
against antifa but it didn't go anywhere beyond that you know like to say um people are prepared
00:29:28.720
to fight if they get attacked first is not a conspiracy no matter how that they uh try to spin
00:29:34.900
that uh and to be clear this is not a criminal case uh for a civil case the evidence can be very thin
00:29:41.780
it can be very weak and they can put something in a document that says so and so conspired with so and
00:29:48.860
so and then that's basically enough to get them past a motion to dismiss and into trial uh so for
00:29:55.900
instance you know the heart of this thing i mean just to cut through all the noise is they're trying
00:30:01.000
to say that the uh organizers of charlottesville conspired with james fields to run over uh protesters
00:30:07.320
which is just hogwash we have uh transcripts uh under oath from the investigating officers like uh
00:30:15.120
steve young of the charlottesville police department where he's saying they looked for
00:30:19.680
and did not find any evidence on james fields phone of um of conspiracy uh to kill heather hire run over
00:30:28.780
protesters there was not even any communication period with any of the organizers and it wasn't just
00:30:36.580
his phone the uh fbi out of louisville had gone into fields home in ohio and they took all of his
00:30:44.700
other devices and searched those and there was absolutely no communication with the organizers
00:30:50.660
whatsoever i mean for me i saw what happened in that street on tv like everybody else did uh i didn't
00:30:57.940
have anything to do with it and yet there you have basically some very uh rich and politically
00:31:04.980
connected groups that are trying to hurt us with this lawsuit uh it's run the the lead attorney is a
00:31:12.080
woman named roberta kaplan who um is a uh identitarian jewish lesbian activist who uh won a supreme court case
00:31:22.100
legalizing gay marriage and that's her claim to fame and she's just absolutely obsessed with um white
00:31:29.820
identity activist um and she has a uh non-profit called integrity first for america behind her uh
00:31:39.740
they're funded by some of the the wealthiest um tech titans and um other uh wealthy elite jewish people
00:31:50.320
that share her um her view that uh the the charlottesville protesters are a grave threat
00:31:57.880
um for instance uh they're funded by the co-founder of linkedin reed hoffman he's one of their primary
00:32:05.620
fundraisers uh reed hoffman uh is a major funder of disinformation campaigns like the uh the uh
00:32:14.020
disinformation campaign that was run against uh judge roy moore in alabama uh they're funded by uh or at
00:32:21.200
least supported by other notable um uh jewish individuals like natalie portman and uh craig newmark
00:32:29.520
from craigslist and i just want to clarify that i am not an enemy to the jewish people that these
00:32:36.300
folks are making it out to be far from it i am just a guy who was trying to hold a protest uh for the
00:32:42.820
last four years since this event i've done my best to try and separate myself from uh the the rhetoric
00:32:50.160
that was hostile towards other groups but nevertheless you know these people have uh whipped
00:32:55.740
up a frenzy you know taking a tiny clip of you know on august 11th when people were protesting and
00:33:03.180
they chanted you will not replace us you had maybe five or six people who chanted jews will not replace
00:33:08.760
us and that's their money maker stuff like that where they can uh take the the clips that were filmed by
00:33:15.640
antifa journalists like unicorn riot and uh pump up the gain and and put scary music behind it and scare
00:33:23.820
some grandmothers some jewish grandmothers out of their retirement savings and um and then you have
00:33:29.660
this uh abomination of a case that's against us yeah yeah it's been it's been it's been a circus
00:33:36.880
right and uh and as usual with the media you just never you never get uh an an honest uh take on
00:33:42.740
these things there's always an objective everything is political and of course this is uh as as far
00:33:49.160
away from them uh so to speak uh possible ideologically speaking that they would go
00:33:53.660
and they see this as an opportunity to uh to create this narrative where basically like yeah but you
00:33:58.980
know right people are nationalists are they're dangerous they're violent and they every time they
00:34:03.460
meet or do things it always leads to violence and things like this why they just look the other way
00:34:07.820
for all the left-wing uh communist uh activities and and what they're involved in and doing and again
00:34:13.940
i mean if if if it would have been a the cops as you said just return to that point and and underline
00:34:19.700
that that if the police would have kept these groups separate uh the speeches would have been held
00:34:25.140
and then you know you know the group could leave and clear out and then you know the police let's go
00:34:32.200
the other group or whatever as far as nothing would have happened right it would have been fine
00:34:35.300
but it would have been fine mostly for the most part uh most likely i should say right um has there
00:34:41.220
been anything that's come up uh that you like like during the the years i guess of you know going
00:34:47.480
through the material or as you're involved in these lawsuits that's that's popped up they're like you
00:34:52.900
there was a revelation that maybe is a is a key to why things turned out the way they did or
00:34:57.320
something i don't know if there's is there anything like that you want to talk about i know we're
00:35:00.160
showing some of this drone footage there in the beginning that wasn't available
00:35:03.320
uh it was very hard to get that and get it like an overview of of uh you know what actually
00:35:08.560
happened i think a lot of the the journalists on the other side as well uh didn't you know didn't
00:35:13.240
get an opportunity to to uh to film and and and kind of lay out the scope of the thing right it's
00:35:18.840
if it if it can be this is what i'm trying to say if it can be if it's as chaotic as possible
00:35:25.000
then it's much more easy for the media to slice together an image of what happened versus
00:35:31.360
to present what actually happened that day i mean if you turn into a news report you think it was
00:35:35.580
just like murder like for hours and and then that's it you know kind of thing uh when it was
00:35:41.480
like fairly fairly calm at least initially but anyway any any big revelations that uh that come to
00:35:46.860
you over over the years yeah i mean uh it was mostly calm and and you can see that when you're
00:35:52.640
watching the drone footage the uh the clips that they put together for the news and for the
00:35:57.500
documentaries are supposed to sensationalize the event and and in reality what happened was
00:36:02.620
the actual protesters the permitted protesters were peacefully gathering and uh the antifa came out and
00:36:10.060
they uh started with small acts of violence like throwing rocks and projectiles and they looked to see if
00:36:16.600
there was going to be any pushback from the police and when there wasn't they escalated if you watch
00:36:21.800
the live video feeds all the way through that's what it is it's a story about uh incremental escalation
00:36:28.560
of violence from the left-wing protesters who are watching for the police for a signal of whether
00:36:34.040
they're going to uh rein it in or not and they never do so things just uh spiral out of control
00:36:39.560
um so a lot of what came out was immediate because of the um the uh the independent review
00:36:47.800
but over the last uh four years i've been uh dogged in trying to uh get as much additional
00:36:55.320
information out of the charlottesville government as possible through freedom of information act
00:37:00.120
requests and in fact i've uh filed several different uh additional lawsuits against them some of which
00:37:07.140
i've already won and some of which are pending uh seeking additional information so um some of the
00:37:13.580
things that i've found uh for instance uh just a few days before the event itself the uh the police
00:37:21.460
chief had sent to the city manager who is the top the head of the charlottesville government an article
00:37:26.920
from willamette week about the uh portland uh protest which was titled as police stand by alt-right
00:37:35.760
and antifa protesters beat each other bloody which is very interesting thing you know very uh prescient
00:37:42.780
kind of thing for him to send um considering five days later he was saying let them fight it'll
00:37:51.060
make it easier to declare an unlawful assembly yeah um there's kernels in the report that i was able
00:37:57.640
to tease out very interesting information like the the report says that the police chief was actually
00:38:03.560
uh destroying his text messages uh having to do with the rally so those text messages were never
00:38:11.380
analyzed for the report which could be even more explosive than anything that's come out so far
00:38:17.660
and uh he was creating phony documents and backdating them to to make it seem like he'd done
00:38:24.800
preparations which he hadn't done so after the fact i found out first of all that that's a that's a
00:38:30.560
misdemeanor offense which would bar a public official in virginia from ever holding office again
00:38:36.280
of course no one ever pursued charges like that but uh i i tried to get it those text messages
00:38:42.560
through foia requests uh of the police chief's phone then i asked for the text messages from the city
00:38:49.720
manager's phone and uh at first they didn't want to give them to me then when i filed a lawsuit
00:38:56.600
they said the phone had been wiped so that was a major revelation yeah that wasn't including in
00:39:03.820
in the hayfield report very funny that the police chief destroyed his text messages then the city
00:39:09.700
manager wiped his phone so after i won that lawsuit i filed a new lawsuit when did that conclude by the
00:39:17.800
way just for a timeline here when did that the first lawsuit conclude that was uh in 2020 i don't
00:39:23.720
remember the exact month okay no it's okay all right just just get an idea of like how long this
00:39:28.640
we know it's like you know the the legal system takes a long time it's a long grinding process and
00:39:33.900
stuff like that but it's just incredible that it just yeah anyway go go on jason so that was pro se
00:39:39.820
like we've already spent so much money to defend ourselves against the the big finance lawsuit we we
00:39:46.640
have our lawsuit that's the offensive one for uh for free speech and civil rights violations and so uh
00:39:53.820
rather than wasting any more money that needed to go towards those operations i argued those cases
00:39:59.200
myself and i got thousands of documents in emails that the city was withholding from me and i got
00:40:05.700
this admission that they'd wipe the phone uh then i filed a new lawsuit using the virginia public records
00:40:11.940
act basically which says that they're not supposed to destroy public documents there's this funny loophole
00:40:18.440
where you know they have to have the documents uh in order to um respond to your foyer request so
00:40:26.080
for instance if they just destroyed uh an incriminating public document they could legitimately
00:40:32.600
supposedly according to their theory say uh oh sorry we don't have any documents like that bye
00:40:39.140
so um the the reason i filed the public records act is it say no the public records act and the freedom
00:40:46.880
of information act are uh inextricably intertwined as part of the same body of rights you know if the
00:40:55.160
public records act isn't enforced then uh then i how can i uh enforce my freedom of information rights
00:41:02.920
so i i thanks to a generous uh donation from uh attorney sam dixon i was able to get actually
00:41:10.560
the uh the primary freedom of information act uh attorney in virginia that is uh mr uh
00:41:18.780
uh andrew bodo who's literally written the virginian guide to freedom of information act
00:41:25.100
and so when they saw that we had a real attorney working on it they got scared and they they changed
00:41:31.720
their story then they said well we didn't wipe the phone it was damaged and we found it in some warehouse
00:41:37.500
now so now the the question is how is this phone damaged did they smash it with a hammer did they
00:41:45.420
drop it in a toilet did they hit it with bleach like hillary clinton uh but we're finally getting
00:41:51.300
to the point where we're uh going to hire a um an independent uh electronic forensics team to look at it
00:41:59.880
and do an analysis of what kind of physical damage was done to this phone and whether these documents
00:42:05.800
these uh text messages can finally be recovered interesting yeah that's very interesting um hey
00:42:12.220
there was something i always wanted to ask you about and it has to do with uh i forget how many
00:42:16.360
days after it was but alex jones brought you on and i and i it was just a shame it took this and i know
00:42:22.920
there's a lot of a lot of people have you know problems with alex or whatever but he seemed to have
00:42:27.600
kind of taken this view that just because you uh were you know a democrat before this is a big
00:42:33.280
conspiracy uh by a democrat by you to kind of get all these guys roped in and then set them up and
00:42:39.160
all this kind of stuff and and he didn't even really let you speak i was trying to find a copy
00:42:42.780
earlier but you know with all the censorship and stuff it's actually hard to find um uh but but what
00:42:48.060
would you say to that like the way he i mean from my point of view it's clear that it's like
00:42:52.300
yeah there's i mean people are come from being leftists all the time and and they open their eyes
00:42:58.280
they understand things they shift and they change their political affiliation they uh they realize
00:43:03.280
that the other things matter to them etc um why did he do that do you think why couldn't he it was like
00:43:09.040
almost he couldn't just accept that it was like yeah it was a setup it was a get mostly a gay op
00:43:13.840
right and and and that where the pressure should have lied at the time i think but he was like he
00:43:17.880
couldn't even see that what what do you uh what was your response to to that whole thing yeah it's it's
00:43:22.340
a shame and it really hurt me at the time because a lot of the platforms that i'd started to
00:43:27.220
uh really become known for appearing on you know i was a journalist with daily caller i just started
00:43:33.660
out with that uh project and i'd appeared on gavin mcinnis's show i'd appeared on info wars with paul
00:43:40.480
joseph watson and then uh leanne mcadoo and uh both the the gavin mcinnis and uh and alex jones really
00:43:48.640
threw me under the bus the hardest you know i guess they they felt like they needed to save their own
00:43:53.540
behinds because of their association with me but you know there's uh of course people can change
00:44:00.640
their ideology they can go from any one thing to another thing you know if they hear a compelling
00:44:05.640
argument or just changes in their life as they get older or whatever but uh in particular i mean for me
00:44:13.020
i don't really think that i changed that much it was the world around me that changed during that period
00:44:18.220
uh preceding trump's election um there was a a major change from the left being the party of the the
00:44:27.480
working class and uh being for free speech and individual liberty and and then uh making this
00:44:35.560
transition to just hating white people and i was never about that i mean i guess that i i uh i tolerated
00:44:42.500
uh reading like uh chomsky or howard zinn and like talking about well let's relearn the history of the
00:44:49.500
native americans and the blacks and so forth you know i i'm open to being empathetic to other groups
00:44:55.180
of people but i've i've never really uh been on board with anti-white hate so when they started uh going
00:45:01.940
over the deep end with that stuff i i just you know i flipped and i've always been a free speech guy
00:45:07.460
uh i was against the war in iraq uh from what i saw president trump was also against the war in iraq
00:45:14.000
so uh i think that there was a major uh switch for a lot of people who uh went from being uh democrats
00:45:21.720
to being republicans because trump changed the republican party so uh that's where i was with that
00:45:29.240
with uh alex jones you know a lot of the things that he said are nonsensical and he's hit me with so
00:45:36.900
many things over the years we're all tuned in and uh i think when he started out in that initial
00:45:41.900
interview he was accusing me of being jewish which is uh funny because you know uh he i guess at that
00:45:48.740
time he was trying to uh insinuate that i was a nazi or something and yet he's he's got this
00:45:54.380
conspiracy theory about like the nazi protests being uh orchestrated by jews at other times he said
00:46:01.760
that uh i was a hillary clinton supporter also yeah i remember that yeah it's very clear that i was uh
00:46:08.340
supporting trump uh as a candidate the entire way through um it's true that i voted for democrats at
00:46:16.160
a certain point but i never supported uh hillary clinton right and then and then he's moved on to
00:46:21.440
like accusing uh the charlottesville protesters of being uh gay theater uh actors and just totally
00:46:29.040
outrageous things so he gave me the full uh sandy hook treatment basically uh that's uh that's a
00:46:34.340
shame yeah and then of course to uh circle back around to uh january 6th that then uh then it
00:46:40.180
happened to him right because he was part of that and now they're trying to rope it for a while there
00:46:44.540
at least i think there are actually lawsuits but they're trying to say that he was the ringleader
00:46:47.740
of it they they were using some clips out of context where he said like yeah i got the phone from
00:46:51.640
the white house and they tell they told me to lead the march right remember and now they're
00:46:56.480
piecing that together to say oh he's he instigated the violence when it's like well no they didn't
00:47:02.580
intend to commit violence they were just going to march up to uh you know to the capital and
00:47:06.440
legally protest right you know basically shouting outside uh and then all these other gay ops happen
00:47:12.280
so it it shows you these uh you know yeah i don't know it's just i guess ironic is the is the word
00:47:17.920
uh choice where it's just like you you you you throw someone under the bus and you think you you'd you
00:47:23.000
know get away from it or whatever but then like you're roped up in just a bigger a bigger gay op
00:47:27.060
essentially right but uh anyway what what um what about heimbach right he kind of turned uh
00:47:32.600
bolshevik here was it was that last year or earlier this year i forget when it was uh i saw you're
00:47:38.100
tweeting a little bit about uh him but what do you make about the the twd the the traditional
00:47:42.600
workers party their their um presence there and so forth have you have you uh speculated about
00:47:49.220
anything um if you know what i mean after that there's so much uh that was going on behind the
00:47:56.620
scenes that people don't know about i had no control over what heimbach and his group um and the groups
00:48:02.700
that they marched with were doing they had split off from me and you know were bad mouthing me and all
00:48:08.840
kinds of stuff uh and uh come to find out what i've found out and we're going to present evidence
00:48:16.700
to attest to at this trial in october is that heimbach when he was going through his uh brief
00:48:23.000
period claiming to be a reformed extremist and uh anti-racist uh you know was basically bragging
00:48:31.540
about his involvement with the fbi in order to bolster his credentials as somebody who was you know
00:48:37.700
okay working with the man basically and and working against the quote-unquote racist
00:48:42.840
racist and um what he was saying essentially is that the fbi bought the the twp shields that he
00:48:50.920
brought with him maybe other people brought other stuff but he claims that they bought his shields
00:48:55.700
uh he said that he was he didn't even want to go to charlottesville but the fbi talked him into going
00:49:00.780
and they also encouraged him to split off from what i was doing they told him to go and do his own
00:49:07.360
thing uh which really to me uh had the impact of causing more chaos and and that that has to be
00:49:15.340
the reason that they decided to do that and when i see this performance that he did yesterday where
00:49:21.220
i mean it almost seems like an actor who's been uh you know given a paycheck or something to to go and
00:49:27.780
say convenient lines which bolster the uh the the war on domestic terror you know and he he's going to go
00:49:36.980
out there he has no supporters but he's going to claim that you know that people are going to go
00:49:41.340
to the homes of presidents and and and they know where their children live it just um reeks to me
00:49:48.660
of somebody who is uh still under the sway of federal agents yeah exactly it does right uh it's
00:49:54.940
very suspicious in a way here there's what was this again it was a um in dc march for medicare for
00:50:00.940
all is that what it was and he did a speech there he'll be bringing so much needed levity on saturday
00:50:04.880
uh lee camp and then is that photoshopped is that actually heimbach doing i think i think it's a
00:50:11.200
joke yeah it's gotta be right apparently heimbach was you know they have these medicare for all
00:50:18.100
uh rallies and uh they've got all these uh celebrities and left-wing pundits attending them
00:50:23.780
and i mean technically speaking i think heimbach is a left-wing pundit now he's very much uh he he's
00:50:30.980
a self-described bolshevik and so uh there was a a rally planned in muncie indiana and the headline
00:50:38.600
speakers were supposed to be jim davis the creator of garfield and matt h bach
00:50:44.200
oh boy what a what a what a thing that's that's funny though um okay so um okay we've covered some
00:50:53.600
of that let's see what else there is we're going to talk about the uh you know the fundraising the
00:50:57.640
websites where people can go to help you guys because of course all of these cases and shit
00:51:01.320
like that costs money like are there other back to the cases lawsuits again are there other things
00:51:08.540
happening independent of the ones that you're involved in as well that you're aware of i think
00:51:13.680
most of them have been wrapped up there was one that was it was a wild uh concept you know most of
00:51:20.040
these lawsuits have been filed in charlottesville because that's where the proper venue is there was
00:51:24.920
one that was filed in ohio and uh they never actually served me with the lawsuit and i guess
00:51:31.000
they just gave up and dropped me from the lawsuit but then they got um they got some people to settle
00:51:37.440
with them like twp itself had settled um and the concept for this lawsuit was i guess that james fields
00:51:44.980
is from ohio and uh andrew anglin's and his father are from ohio and uh twp i guess
00:51:54.800
had a branch in ohio so they're saying well this quote unquote conspiracy was hatched in ohio and
00:52:01.160
that's how they got um their venue for that and they were able to get some really ridiculous uh
00:52:06.680
settlements like they got i think five thousand dollars after david uh from david duke i mean
00:52:12.300
david duke wasn't even a speaker at the event he basically showed up and you know said a few things
00:52:18.060
in front of cameras i don't know how he conspired to do violence with anybody but the problem uh with
00:52:24.160
these types of lawsuits are that uh it's so prohibitively expensive to defend yourself
00:52:30.160
and and it's important as that is to clear your name some people are looking at it and they're
00:52:35.460
like yeah you know i'm spending whatever thousands of dollars per month uh to keep these attorneys
00:52:41.260
retained and uh it costs maybe five thousand dollars in duke's case to settle out of it i think
00:52:47.080
i'm just going to pay the five thousand dollars and be done with it all right interesting um
00:52:52.980
here's one super chat i guess i'll read the other ones later guys uh after we let jason go here we
00:52:58.060
have a little bit more to talk about here but uh yeah nathaniel westman's i'm sorry for the spicy
00:53:01.940
question but i'm not sure if he's asking me or you i guess i can ask you first then do you think
00:53:05.940
that richard spencer is or have ever been a federal informant be honest uh do you want to comment on
00:53:11.040
that well i have no evidence of that at all right also you know i would only say the heimbach thing
00:53:16.860
because i have evidence of it a lot of people put uh accusations out there and but it's kind of a
00:53:23.200
problem that there are so many accusations without any evidence backed up i have evidence with the
00:53:28.520
heimbach thing that we're going to present in court i have no evidence uh to that effect with uh spencer
00:53:34.220
yeah i think it was what was it uh it was funny it was like something uh uh i was a ralph was a
00:53:40.880
yeah ralph um ethan ralph had uh milo on on the show at some point and milo was going on off and
00:53:47.960
off about how spencer is a fed or some something to that effect and i sent a super chat and asked
00:53:52.080
what's your what's your evidence that he's like i wanted to hear more kind of thing right
00:53:55.540
uh and of course in my view he didn't provide any good answer i can't even remember what he said
00:54:00.540
but it was basically oh well basically i know so so so trust me to that effect kind of thing
00:54:05.120
but then there was something that was like taken out of context like like i believe that like yeah
00:54:10.820
i'm certain of like no i want to get more information you dumbass you know but anyway
00:54:14.220
yeah there's a lot of these uh things flying around and um it's just it's just a travesty that uh you
00:54:20.220
know just a bigger picture view here and then we'll talk about the uh the websites you have and
00:54:23.860
things like that where people can go but um that you know people uh you know came from all over
00:54:30.080
the world to to america to enjoy you know free speech and you can believe whatever you want to
00:54:35.300
believe and these kinds of things right and even if you look at the uh united nations uh charter of
00:54:40.460
human rights right article 18 and 19 they talk about this thing that you there should be no
00:54:44.640
interference with you having the beliefs that you want you should be able to share information
00:54:49.100
i forget the exact wording but it's basically no one can come in and tell you you know what you
00:54:54.200
should uh believe or what you what religion uh you know you you want to have or anything like that
00:54:59.700
right and now we live in a time where all of these things have just been thrown out the window you
00:55:05.440
know and whether it's coronavirus or it's uh or if it's so-called uh you know homegrown you know
00:55:11.300
domestic terrorism that's the boogeyman at the time uh they have used these excuses to just utterly
00:55:17.100
destroy uh the values that uh you know this country was founded on when it comes to uh free speech and
00:55:23.840
being able to um uh to say what you want to say believe what you want to believe um is there any
00:55:29.140
coming back from this or is that it again it feels like the country's being torn apart and it's hard
00:55:33.440
to come back from something like this no i don't think there's any coming back from it i think we
00:55:37.780
need to move away and go our separate ways from uh the left hopefully with a peaceful secession
00:55:43.780
but uh yeah some of these uh violations of our free speech rights are serious human rights abuse
00:55:50.140
i mean we we we have a right to say even inane or stupid things you know offensive jokes or whatever
00:55:57.860
but uh we're not just talking about that you know when when a lot of the uh people in the the right
00:56:03.520
wing will talk about things like the great replacement and they'll refer to it as uh white
00:56:09.080
genocide or they'll talk about a genocide uh that it might be occurring against white farmers in south
00:56:15.620
africa and then you you see these leftists saying that that should be censored because it's disrespectful
00:56:21.400
to the holocaust or whatever else like that like they say that it's a conspiracy theory
00:56:29.060
uh i mean even if they were right about that which i don't think that they are uh because there is a lot
00:56:37.800
of violence is being done towards white people and there is uh great changes uh in demographics through
00:56:43.600
immigration that are currently ongoing that's not a conspiracy but even if it was a conspiracy let's say
00:56:49.640
you have to protect the right of people to say hey we're afraid of violence we're afraid of the
00:56:55.540
threat of genocide against our people because uh do you really trust the government to to say
00:57:01.280
oh no uh don't listen to them we're not doing a genocide you know uh they're just uh giving
00:57:07.340
disinformation trust us when we censor them no that's not going to work that's a major
00:57:13.400
human rights violation yeah exactly uh no it is it is and that was was that part of uh the case
00:57:21.340
kind of that you're um involved in one of them right now tell us more about that
00:57:25.680
um the um well the free speech aspect of it is uh that there was a heckler's veto that was uh done to
00:57:36.260
the charlottesville protesters uh what heckler's veto means is basically that the government uses uh a
00:57:44.340
an anticipated uh violent reaction from counter protesters to shut down uh free speech rights in
00:57:53.820
um in the name of public safety and that's been constantly ruled to to be uh illegal and um and we're
00:58:02.540
fighting that right now there's uh enormous prejudice against us where where uh precedents that have
00:58:08.440
applied to other people for for uh decades maybe even centuries in some cases are being questioned
00:58:17.260
you know just because uh we're unpopular uh with you know the establishment and uh there's a lot of
00:58:25.200
rethinking our basic civil liberties among the left right now as they make this uh shift towards
00:58:30.740
authoritarianism but that's why these cases are so important even though it's been four years since
00:58:36.920
charlottesville people some people might say it's over why are we talking about this trust me the major
00:58:42.880
impacts are still happening because this is the one of the founding myths of the censorship regime
00:58:49.160
and they're trying to ram through really dangerous uh precedents in the court saying anytime you
00:58:55.080
defend yourself that you don't have defense there's no such as defense for uh quote unquote uh nazis
00:59:00.720
or quote unquote racist and um and it's just too uh dangerous there's too much civil disorder to
00:59:07.480
allow these people to speak uh etc etc so uh what they want is for people to take their eye off the
00:59:14.560
ball on this stuff yeah they're taking this very very very interesting uh view on this that basically
00:59:19.920
if you it's the issue of incitement right where basically i mean potentially anybody could be
00:59:27.840
angered by anything that anybody says right it's all that's very uh subjective right it has to do
00:59:33.660
with your what you would you believe or whatever right and it's this impossibility that they're
00:59:37.900
and but it that doesn't stop them they're they're moving ahead with this that basically like if someone
00:59:42.580
says something which could reflect negatively on somebody or whatever then that is basically
00:59:46.980
equated to uh incitement and that means uh it could lead to a real world harm it could lead to
00:59:52.640
violence being done and therefore all these people that say things that we disagree with
00:59:56.660
uh the things that we hate to hear that should be dubbed hate speech and therefore be silenced and
01:00:01.820
and shut down but it's like again no functioning society can can operate like that for for very long
01:00:07.860
because again it's just going to be broader and broader definitions of this and anybody that that
01:00:12.600
opposes uh the regime whenever it's uh shifting its strategy or or seeking to do no new draconian
01:00:19.220
things are going to be roped up in into that and that's why it is important for people if they
01:00:23.540
truly are you know free speech advocates if they still believe that people do have rights you know
01:00:28.280
that they must look at cases like this and like the one you're involved in and others as well
01:00:32.560
especially after january 6th right um that it they're going to come for everybody eventually in
01:00:39.280
one way or another like if if you're you you have to have total obedience and maybe not even that
01:00:44.460
there's still no guarantee even if you obey everything to do every uh thing that they tell you to do
01:00:48.740
and you submit to that it still doesn't guarantee that they won't come for you at the end of the
01:00:53.160
day but they're seeking to begin with these outliers so to speak because they think that that that's
01:00:57.900
where the most um i guess support for for censorship lies uh but as usual jason it never ends there it
01:01:06.400
never stops and and if a government if a ruling class enters onto this path and realize that this
01:01:11.900
is actually something that's working we we can silence our opposition we can silence unpopular ideas
01:01:18.080
uh they will never seize on this they will never end on that they will continue and it will
01:01:23.920
take more and more and more right right and so the specific issue that's at play in our offensive
01:01:30.340
case against charlottesville is whether police have a duty to protect protesters from a violent
01:01:36.380
reaction or whether they can just stand down and mill about and as you can tell that could have
01:01:42.920
wide-reaching ramifications not just for the alt-right but uh for any protesters anywhere uh including
01:01:52.420
you know milk a toast republicans rhinos whatever because uh even they are considered nazis and are
01:01:59.200
going to have uh violent um anti-speech extremists uh coming to attack their events so um what what the
01:02:08.040
deal is is that there is case law that says police don't have a duty to protect like they don't have
01:02:15.780
a duty to go to somebody's house and and stop a woman from being murdered by her abusive boyfriend
01:02:20.940
or something like the family can't then sue the police and say well why didn't you come but the
01:02:27.080
exception that has always been carved out is for the first amendment particularly if the police are
01:02:33.360
there you know so the police can't just stand and watch as a violent mob attacks the speaker and then
01:02:40.380
say and then wait and use that as an excuse to uh uh to muzzle the speaker um so the the police in
01:02:49.920
charlottesville were not just uh across town and we called them up and said hey can you come and protect
01:02:56.900
our speech and they said no thanks they were there watching it happen and that should have implicated
01:03:02.300
them uh to have a duty to protect and that's the issue that we're trying to tease out right here
01:03:08.300
and that is basically going to have uh a major major historical impact um you know if america
01:03:17.380
continues as a country that is uh because forevermore after this case basically there's going to be a
01:03:25.000
precedent of either people are going to be scared to leave their homes they're not going to want to do
01:03:29.520
uh protest anymore uh unless they have a popular uh uh point of view that's protected by the regime
01:03:36.960
uh because they don't really need the protest the police can entrap them whereas if we win the police
01:03:44.000
are going to have uh precedent on the book saying no you have to show up you cannot ever do what you
01:03:50.080
did in charlottesville again right and again uh if it is a popular opinion or if it's endorsed by the
01:03:56.320
regime you don't really need the protest it's you know it's like it's represented by the highest halls
01:04:01.020
of power anyways what does it matter right so you need the very point of of something like the first
01:04:06.320
amendment or your right to protest uh is to protect the the opinions that are not popular right that's
01:04:13.060
the very very reason for it otherwise what you don't need it kind of thing right but so um so again
01:04:19.100
tell us uh you know what you what you're what you're doing with the legal defense fund and all that
01:04:22.820
stuff and we'll talk about the websites where people can go to help uh you guys out uh but also
01:04:27.480
do what do you feel about this thing then that um there is no do obviously you think it's worth it so
01:04:33.980
i'm not uh saying that you don't but what do you think about this idea that the legal system is also
01:04:38.780
part of this it's also part of the system right it's part of the corruption uh if you try to do
01:04:43.360
something legally it's very hard to get honest people honest judges etc uh that actually are looking
01:04:49.960
objectively at these things as opposed to just being politically motivated what would you say to
01:04:54.320
that well um i i mean we've faced substantial challenges in the charlesville case uh you know
01:05:01.440
i've exposed several of the law clerks working with the judge who um in some cases uh were friends of
01:05:08.540
the plaintiff uh elizabeth signs they took a photo where they're saying we're best of friends
01:05:14.800
i've had um you know other you know some of these people who are charlesville protesters uh were some
01:05:20.840
of the uh most prominent anti uh israel critics you know in the country and yet you have uh clerks
01:05:29.040
working for the judge who represented israel in major cases you know like his career law clerk uh robert
01:05:36.720
de rise uh represented uh the israeli ministry of defense in a case where uh the israeli military
01:05:43.560
boarded a uh uh flotilla that was full of aid workers bound for gaza and shot a bunch of people
01:05:51.460
killed uh 10 or more people uh another one of the activists who helped the judge when he was ruling
01:05:57.920
on whether to dismiss the case outright uh was actually in israel working on um whatever the
01:06:05.820
repatriation uh trips that they have and she was posting uh images of the rally saying we have to
01:06:12.280
stand against these people no matter what so i'm not saying that we're not uh uh encountering
01:06:17.640
significant challenges but if you look at my record that has been uh silenced by the media in a lot of
01:06:23.800
cases i've won a lot of things right you know in the aftermath of charlottesville i didn't do anything
01:06:28.800
wrong so i've never been charged with a single crime to do with the rally but i was charged with like
01:06:34.200
five different uh crimes you know like bs stuff brought by antifa activists or biased prosecutors
01:06:42.100
but i beat every one of them i beat every one of them i've gone and i've represented myself uh suing
01:06:49.240
antifa activists uh for uh for a fighting word statute i won that i represented myself in this freedom of
01:06:56.780
information act case i won that in our current uh public records act case uh even though that's uh
01:07:03.820
still being resolved we've gotten all these admissions about the phone being wiped or damaged
01:07:08.760
or whatever uh i've gotten a uh preliminary order from the judge ordering the city of charlottesville not
01:07:15.720
to destroy any more of this evidence i mean we are quietly racking up a laundry list of victories
01:07:22.920
victories so this is the big enchilada i think for people to decide whether or not the legal system
01:07:30.280
still represents us because i you know i know i'm biased here but we did not do anything wrong in
01:07:37.480
charlottesville not criminally not civilly and uh we should win this case by all uh rights and i think
01:07:45.280
that um it's going to be a bellwether for for uh how things are going to be in the country because
01:07:51.240
but i want to give 100 effort and i and i'm asking for other people's help in helping to get us across
01:07:59.480
that uh finish line from the financial standpoint because we have to know we can't have any regrets
01:08:05.060
we can't uh allow it to be like well we're just going to be okay with um with uh commenting on social
01:08:13.960
media until we get deplatformed and then oh well and we also can't allow it to be like the heimbox of
01:08:20.220
this world they're going to make us resort to violence this is our pathway uh is to try and beat
01:08:26.640
them in court and i think we have a damn good chance of winning this in an environment where we are
01:08:32.580
constantly losing because we're represented by fair weather friends and people with weak knees
01:08:39.060
who don't really represent us and give in we're not going to give in i'm not going to give in i've
01:08:44.840
been fighting i've been putting my own money into this for four years uh i've been doing my own
01:08:50.220
research we have an attorney that is tough and represents our interests and um and we can get
01:08:57.340
a real substantial victory against the activist left with this case uh i mean we we're so used to
01:09:04.920
getting uh vicarious victories uh like trump you know his uh electoral victory felt good but then he
01:09:13.220
put all these cronies in office and really didn't get much done this can be our victory really us not
01:09:20.120
some vicarious you know um avatar like trump um and so in order to do that we're up against the
01:09:29.340
substantial challenge of these uh this integrity first to give you an idea of how much money they
01:09:35.440
have yeah it's probably uh 20 million dollars by now they had nine million dollars as of 2018 which
01:09:42.960
is the last time they released their financials um they put down a deposit just a deposit of two
01:09:50.240
hundred thousand dollars uh for uh a hotel like a whole like level of the hotel where they can put
01:09:57.440
their legal team and basically all the most demonic uh left-wing authoritarian uh pro censorship anti-white
01:10:05.680
people spLC adl msnbc journalists uh all of the worst people that you can think of are going to be
01:10:14.180
there and they're going to be like uh demons about to come out of the gates of hell uh before the you
01:10:21.360
know the the the the the book of revelations or something and we have a chance to put them back
01:10:29.220
in their hole uh by defeating them uh we don't need even a we only need a fraction of the money that
01:10:35.940
they have but it's still a substantial burden because like i'm saying just me individually i'm
01:10:42.580
paying thousands of dollars per month and i do that because this is my mission but uh we do need some
01:10:48.840
help when it comes to the trial because this is going to be a four-week trial uh they're going to
01:10:53.720
try to make charlottesville the trial into a propaganda event and this is your chance to try and uh
01:10:59.680
uh and head that off before it's too late and you're like wow this is a big deal it's going to be a big
01:11:07.840
deal and and the way that you can help us prepare is by going to give send go dot com forward slash utr
01:11:17.120
um or it and you can make a donation there anonymously if you want or you can put your name on it
01:11:24.000
whatever is your preference uh that money is not being held and and you don't know whether it's going
01:11:29.980
to go to the attorney it is going directly to our attorney james clinic in the clinic uh law firm and he
01:11:36.920
gets that immediately they send the money the gives and go is a christian fundraising site that has been
01:11:42.200
very strong uh raising money for dissonance um it raises money for little girls with cancer but it
01:11:48.780
also raises money for uh proud boys and uh january 6 protesters and and now i've seen it attacked
01:11:55.680
heavily jason heavily attacked in the media for uh again for just enabling people to raise funds for
01:12:01.480
their cases it's it's insane uh the the how dirty and the the tricks that they pull to to basically
01:12:07.900
uh if there ever was like a david versus goliath kind of you know scenario that would be there
01:12:13.140
would be something like this right because you have the biggest most well-funded uh you know
01:12:17.700
machines when it comes to uh fighting back against people both after charlottesville but also after
01:12:22.740
january 6th they don't want these people at all to be able to defend defend themselves they just want
01:12:27.400
to go straight to jail and just like you know rot in solitary confinement for uh 20 years or something
01:12:33.060
like that that's how nuts it is that's exactly right and when we we're so lucky to have this
01:12:38.160
website and that's why people should take advantage of this you know like right now in case something
01:12:43.140
changes because you never know what's gonna happen tomorrow but uh when we first put up this website
01:12:48.820
you know the uh the opposition integrity first and their executive director uh amy spitalnik were
01:12:55.500
tweeting about it how is how horrible it is that we had a fundraising site yeah and and basically
01:13:00.720
creating fake disinfo themselves she was um claiming that uh our greatest supporter our greatest
01:13:09.000
supporter was at 1480 uh 14 hh which she said means the 14 words plus heil hitler but if you actually
01:13:18.140
click on who that twitter user is and anybody can go to it themselves at 14 hh it's 14 holy helpers
01:13:25.300
a catholic death ministry for children and so like she's totally making up this info um and and she
01:13:33.420
had reporters that were responding to her like uh will carlis from usa today right out in the open on
01:13:39.540
our twitter feed uh and he was saying show it to me right but so so far you know i mean it's been a few
01:13:45.440
weeks since that and they haven't been able to de-platform us good and uh we've been steadily raising the
01:13:50.720
funds that we need for this case perfect yeah imagine my shock they're seeing uh uh nazis and
01:13:56.460
and hitler things everywhere and everything is a code and a yeah wow crazy uh all right so it's the
01:14:02.580
charlottesville legal defense fund it's uh give send go.com forward slash utr and then you set up i
01:14:08.740
guess a website that it gives a little bit more uh info as well uh yes give us our own website which is
01:14:15.600
uh utrdefense.org and with that website you can find a variety of options to donate not just to
01:14:23.800
give send go you can send through venmo cash app there's a bitcoin address there's also the physical
01:14:30.720
mailing address for our attorney's law firm if you want to uh mail a check or cash and that's uh
01:14:38.160
um utr like unite the right utrdefense.org all right very good and and again clarified this was
01:14:48.820
the um so this is the kind of offensive lawsuit right is is there any uh like defensive lawsuit
01:14:54.660
still uh happening as far as you know well this is the defensive lawsuit we're fighting against this
01:15:00.840
uh major uh 20 million dollar or whatever okay apologies that's my fault i thought it was so fast
01:15:06.740
okay never mind uh okay the offensive case is still ongoing but that is on appeal in the fourth
01:15:12.680
circuit court okay basically the the precedent is on our side we should win that but we have to win
01:15:19.040
the defensive case first if we if we beat the the defensive case we're going to win the offensive case
01:15:25.600
all right very good all right guys so that's the website right there if you want to help out
01:15:30.060
definitely check it out uh gives and go.com slash utr or if you want to go to the website and again
01:15:34.540
a couple of different options right there in the top right hand side corner utrdefense.org
01:15:39.680
and i have them down in the lower third as well under jason's name let me pull that up real quick
01:15:44.920
so you guys can see what else uh jason is worth talking about here right at the end before we wrap
01:15:50.520
up um well anything personally you want to talk about how things have changed for you or how it's been
01:15:57.040
like again if you don't want to share any of that that's totally fine but uh anything left here we
01:16:02.020
should uh go over before we wrap up well there's so much that i can't talk about about my how my life
01:16:08.240
has been over the last four years and and it's probably better that there is so much uh misinformation
01:16:13.960
you know like my wikipedia profile is totally fake uh all you know yeah me yeah uh and and that
01:16:22.180
everybody knows they're run by left-wing people but yes you know that that's given me a little bit of
01:16:27.360
space to try and re-establish my life because i was just uh shattered after the event but i think
01:16:33.100
i would like to give people a little bit of hope um you know as far as for people who are doxed i
01:16:38.880
wasn't doxed but i had the the full weight of the media and their disinformation campaign coming after
01:16:45.740
me but i i took that pressure that was on me and i knew that i either had to be strong and fight like
01:16:54.800
i'd never fought before and do better in my life than i'd ever done before or just collapse and maybe
01:17:00.000
become a homeless person or a drug addict or something and drown my sorrows and that's not
01:17:05.400
what i'm interested in i'm not interested in giving up this fight uh somebody had to uh hold the line
01:17:11.500
and i want to be the person do it these uh these left-wing uh sickos you know they've made me stronger
01:17:19.900
than i've ever ever been in my life and i'm very proud of that and hopefully i can share that story
01:17:25.000
which might be useful to people one day after this is all over yeah no definitely it's not the end
01:17:31.140
of your life you you have to be strong you have to be creative yeah exactly and again i mean keep in
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mind of again the people that are attacking you on this level and why why would anybody care what
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these people think right they're they're the worst of the worst right completely just uh uh you know
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at every turn it's just it's lies and it's propaganda it's subversive it's uh underhanded
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tactics and you know i mean it's like it's nothing uh should get you down about if there's someone in
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the establishment that are like you know throwing shade your way i'd say actually the opposite that if
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they do attack you that means you're over the target and actually means something good it means
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you're doing you're doing the right thing pushing back against this because if these people if these
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people get their way uh that that'd be it i mean that'd be it uh that that imprison everyone that
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they uh disagree with and and people that they think are repulsive or something i mean that go after
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them they put them in you know gitmo type camps or something um but yeah no it's good to see
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still going strong and uh and fighting back and pushing back against this and and as you said you
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know kind of what doesn't what doesn't kill you uh needs to make you stronger and and stuff like
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that so that's very good uh so one once more here givecentgo.com slash utr down in the lower third
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right there you have uh the websites utrdefense.org as well um thank you jason appreciate your time
01:18:50.860
uh good luck with the case please keep me updated and we can have you back if there's updates or
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something like that too absolutely and thank you so much for having me on we really appreciate it
01:18:59.620
awesome thank you jason take care all right there we go folks thank you to jason for joining us we're
01:19:05.400
going to wrap up here shortly i just wanted to let you know that we are doing a no-go zone today as
01:19:10.780
well um we will it will be a little bit delayed though what are we here we're uh almost 30 minutes
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away from normal start time i i am going to need a couple of hours uh to just uh collect some stuff
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but so most likely what eight eight p.m eastern something like that uh i would assume uh i'll keep
01:19:30.600
you guys updated uh might even take longer than that but i might have built the startup sooner as
01:19:34.640
well we might not do a full two-hour one but but i do have some uh important stories to talk about so
01:19:39.500
i will do that uh but yeah otherwise uh help the guys out if you feel that this is a worthy cause and
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i think it is i think that uh it's good that people are fighting back against this and these
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organizations that have targeted people and people have gotten their lives ruined in the
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wake of this uh people have killed themselves they've committed suicide uh after all the pressure
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that they were subjected to after all the media campaigns and all that uh stuff that we talked
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about right so um websites gives and go.com slash utr head on over there and then of course again
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the main website uh that jason set up here is utrdefense.org uh check those out if you feel
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inclined definitely help out and it's for a good cause i believe all right boys and girls uh thank
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you so much again for joining us here live uh we will be back here shortly then uh or probably in
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a couple of hours or so uh i'll give you guys a little ping on our telegram our twitter and our gab
01:20:31.920
account a little bit before we go live with the no-go zone but i thank you for your time uh pleasure
01:20:38.660
actually let me do there was a couple of uh other super chats let me just do those real quick
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here uh two more imminent rain promethean hailed so hard thank you imminent rain good to see you
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uh thank you for joining us niefelheim as well with uh a comment gut moose gut moose it's um
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uh it's a slang in gothenburg uh where i'm from for uh for for for good stuff it literally means uh
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good mashed potatoes there you go it's actually a true true story gut moose all right boys and girls
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