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00:00:38.000forces that the Pentagon doesn't acknowledge as part of the Iraq force.
00:00:41.000We actually have 6,400 people in Iraq.
00:00:44.000In July 2011, it's worth remembering, the L.A.
00:00:46.000Times reported the White House was considering keeping 10,000 troops in Iraq after the end of the war.
00:00:51.000in order to prevent terrorist uprisings.
00:00:53.000The White House obviously ended up rejecting that plan, and ISIS used the vacuum in order to overrun Iraq's borders.
00:00:59.000If Obama had implemented that plan, as The Wall Street Journal's Brett Stevens pointed out today, the U.S.
00:01:04.000would likely have about, like, 6,400 troops in Iraq today, and no ISIS.
00:01:09.000And by the way, those ISIS troops, it was reported, are now using mustard gas, that's weapons of mass destruction, against American troops.
00:01:16.000But that's been Obama's presidency in a nutshell.
00:01:18.000You promise something undoable, you try to do it, you fail,
00:01:21.000And then you watch as circumstances force you to embrace the plan you rejected, while you still pay for the consequences of your failure.
00:01:27.000That's what happened in Syria, where Obama once wanted Assad gone, then back down from his red line, then had to embrace a let Assad kill them position, all the while accepting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
00:01:37.000It happened in Iran too, where Obama wanted to make Iran part of the global community, and people said this is going to fail.
00:01:42.000And then he signed a deal to legitimize them.
00:01:44.000And now he's going to escape office just in time to avoid watching the Iranians thwart the deal utterly under his watch.
00:01:52.000Obama promised universal health care, and then he delivered the Obamacare failure, and now he has to beg states to expand Medicaid to fulfill his promises.
00:01:59.000Obama's policies have been a giant, massive, undeniable failure.
00:02:06.000Now, he's trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
00:02:08.000And it's worth pointing out that if he hadn't been such a stubborn leftist fool, the world would have been a far more peaceful place in the first place.
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00:04:39.000He did not put down the gun, and so we shot him, and he was raising the gun, and he was an imminent threat.
00:04:45.000Okay, here is a picture, and police have confirmed that this is indeed a picture of his body, and you will notice an object that is lying near his body.
00:04:55.000Now, I understand that President Obama thinks that it's easier to get a gun than a book, but in this particular picture, it was easier to have a gun than a book, apparently.
00:05:02.000There is a gun next to his body because he did, in fact, have a gun.
00:05:05.000And the family, you know, they lied about it.
00:05:07.000They said that there was no gun present, that he was completely unarmed, that he was just an innocent guy shot by the evil white police force, that the officer who shot him was black.
00:05:15.000Facts don't matter at all in these situations anymore.
00:05:18.000And when the tape comes out, they still won't matter because you can have tape that completely exonerates officers, and people still come up with a twisted way of interpreting the tape so that it's the officer's fault that somebody gets shot.
00:05:29.000Naturally, because facts have no relation to the case, because people like Hillary Clinton pretend that this fellow, this Keith Scott guy, was completely innocent, didn't do anything wrong.
00:05:41.000I mean, we have tons of video from the riots.
00:05:43.000So here is video from what the riots looked like.
00:06:15.000And then there was another tape that showed a white guy just getting the absolute crap beat out of him.
00:06:22.000He was unlucky enough to be in a parking lot and a bunch of black kids, I don't know if they're kids, I mean black teenagers, young adults, start beating the living crap out of him just because he's white and he's there.
00:07:13.000You know, we're used to protests like this.
00:07:15.000I mean, these are these are the kind of protests I'm sure Martin Luther King would have known these were necessary in order to forward the social good.
00:07:23.000And then there and then there was a and then there was a
00:08:08.000Okay, so you have this girl screaming that she, we don't want any video.
00:08:11.000Video would show that we might be wrong.
00:08:13.000So, no, we don't have video because video would show that we might actually not be telling the truth about what happened in this particular shooting.
00:08:19.000There was also a CNN protester screaming to CNN about Trump.
00:09:50.000The fallout is the North Carolina governor, Pat McCrory, he's now declared a state of emergency.
00:09:55.000He says he hasn't heard from President Obama, who's just absent all the time.
00:09:58.000President Obama's not even, he's not even present.
00:10:00.000He's not even a person in all of this.
00:10:02.000Here's the North Carolina governor talking about it.
00:10:05.000I've just declared a state of emergency.
00:10:08.000We're going to be bringing in National Guard right now to help the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and we're also going to be bringing in State Highway Troopers to supplement their needs, primarily to protect buildings so the police can arrest those necessary, these people who are causing damage to buildings and also trying to harm people in the great city of Charlotte.
00:10:29.000Have you heard from the President of the United States yet?
00:12:56.000And they've got all of their, all of their
00:12:59.000Ridiculous racial arsonists like Al Sharpton out there making this case.
00:13:02.000Al Sharpton, of course, needs to be part of any racial story because what you really need when you're trying to calm racial tensions is a guy who helped instigate race riots in Crown Heights in 1991 and helped instigate the burning down of a store owned by Jews, Freddy's Fashion Mart in New York in the mid-90s.
00:13:45.000So, I think the one thing you're seeing is that the protests that are going on around the country, many of which we've been involved in the National Action Network, is not an anti-white on anti-police, it's anti-accountability.
00:14:03.000It's not anti-white, it's not anti-police, except for the fact that people are running around screaming about white people, attacking white people in their cars, dragging them down in parking lots.
00:14:12.000And the brother of the guy who was shot is going around saying white people are all devils.
00:14:17.000And you have, you know, people like Whoopi Goldberg, and this is where the cultural part of this comes into play.
00:14:21.000Whoopi Goldberg, she says that anybody who says that white lives matter is just ignorant.
00:14:25.000And I don't know what Whoopi did to her hair here.
00:14:27.000I don't know if she got in a fight with a Black and Decker or what.
00:14:29.000I mean, she looks like something terrible happened.
00:14:32.000But in any case, here's Whoopi Goldberg.
00:14:34.000I think when, you know, when the Black Lives Matter thing goes out there, and then what the people say, White Lives Matter, that that shows an insensitivity to the African-American community.
00:15:24.000Cops shoot white people in the same circumstances as black people more often than they shoot black people.
00:15:30.000And when she gives that example, I assume that she's talking about the Philando Castile case up in Minnesota, when she says, somebody says to the officer, I have a gun.
00:15:37.000That's, there's no evidence that that happened.
00:15:50.000It may be wrong, but that's all that she's saying there.
00:15:52.000But again, all this just generates a narrative that is not true, that black people,
00:15:57.000are being victimized by the police on a routine basis, and that's not true, statistically speaking, but it does serve the Democratic agenda.
00:16:05.000And in just a minute, I'm gonna explain to you what that Democratic agenda is.
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00:17:27.000So before we before we break here, I'll make one more quick point.
00:17:31.000And that is Instapundit, who's Glenn Reynolds, a professor at University of Tennessee Law School.
00:17:36.000He was briefly suspended this morning from Twitter and he was suspended from Twitter this morning after he after he tweeted
00:17:43.000The video that he's linking to there, you can see it in the tweet.
00:17:46.000The video that he's linking to there looks like this.
00:18:11.000You can see this large group of people rushing the car, and then the car takes off.
00:18:16.000So the idea here, presumably, apparently, the idea here is that the driver's just supposed to sit there and wait for the protesters to crack his windshield and drag him out of the car.
00:18:29.000He tweeted, run them over, meaning keep going, and Twitter suspended him.
00:18:41.000Okay, Twitter suspends Glenn Reynolds for saying, run them over.
00:18:45.000DeRay McKesson, who is one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, this extremist radical movement that lies to people and incentivizes people to commit violence against the police, the guy who spoke at Yale and lectured at Yale and wrote an essay and recommended an essay called In Defense of Looting, that guy does seminars with the head of Twitter, the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
00:19:05.000He's been upheld by Jack Dorsey as an example of social activism.
00:19:10.000Twitter now has this logo, right, where if you type in Black Lives Matter with a hashtag, they give you a bunch of fists upraised like this, right?
00:19:19.000So Black Lives Matter can say whatever crazy, insane, anti-civilization things they wanna say about violence, nothing.
00:19:26.000Glenn Reynolds says, if somebody approaches your car, keep going, run them down, and he's suspended from Twitter, and he's suspended from Twitter, because that's the way this goes.
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00:21:07.000All of this leads up to the real agenda for the Democrats.
00:21:10.000So the Democratic agenda here is one, one, we are going to jack up the black vote by threatening black people that everything is terrible and they better get out there and vote.
00:21:19.000And the second thing that we are going to do is we are going to send the DOJ down there.
00:21:23.000So Loretta Lynch, who's the head of the DOJ, as Clavin calls her, the blandly sinister attorney general of the United States, she says to the protesters, meaning the rioters, quote, we hear your voices and we feel your pain.
00:21:35.000Now, this is a game we've heard before.
00:21:37.000We heard this at one point from the district attorney in Baltimore when she was pledging that she was going to prosecute a bunch of non-guilty people in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray.
00:21:47.000And then she falsified a bunch of evidence, and she lied about what was going on, and now she's being sued.
00:21:56.000This is the game that Obama and his DOJ want to play.
00:22:02.000The game they want to play is telling black people all over America that they are victims.
00:22:06.000So what's happening is the DOJ is sending members of the Community Relations Service, the CRS, to the city of Charlotte.
00:22:14.000Four members, plus they're going to do a DOJ investigation of the shoot and of the police department.
00:22:20.000If you think this is going to ease tensions, ease stressors, you have to be out of your mind.
00:22:24.000The DOJ has a grand history of using taxpayer money to do terrible things.
00:22:28.000When they went down to Florida during the Trayvon Martin situation, they actually used federal government money, your taxpayer money.
00:22:33.000To facilitate busing people to Trayvon Martin protests.
00:22:36.000That's what the DOJ Community Relations Service did.
00:22:39.000And they lectured the residents of Ferguson, Missouri about white privilege and racism after thug Michael Brown tried to kill a cop and got shot for his trouble.
00:22:46.000So all this is clearly gonna make things better.
00:22:48.000But this is what really is, and I think this is something more nefarious, and that's what I'll call the inside-outside game.
00:22:54.000This is something Democrats have been playing in major cities for a very, very long time.
00:23:41.000You complain, you whine about the situation when somebody is apparently shot justifiably by a black cop.
00:23:46.000And we're supposed to now believe, we're now supposed to be concerned because you're going to come in with the full power of law enforcement and you're going to crack down on the local police.
00:23:54.000You're going to federalize the police, essentially.
00:23:57.000I mean, it's an amazing thing, but they've been doing this for decades.
00:24:00.000So Marion Barry used to do this in Washington, D.C.
00:24:03.000It's called riot politics, and the idea is you riot to get attention, and then the politicians pay you off by threatening the general public.
00:24:09.000If you don't want riots like this, you need more welfare.
00:24:12.000If you don't want riots like this, you need more police oversight.
00:24:15.000If you don't want more riots like this, you need whatever is the latest governmental program of the day that you wish to promote.
00:24:20.000So now the DOJ is doing that routine, which is really disgusting.
00:24:23.000The DOJ is going to go down to Charlotte,
00:24:26.000No matter what the situation is in Charlotte, it could be the greatest police force in the world.
00:24:29.000It could be a wonderful, wonderful police force.
00:24:36.000And the reason it doesn't matter is because the DOJ will find some reason, some excuse to cram down a consent decree on the police department.
00:25:01.000They said, but the community feels there is, and therefore we're going to come in and we're going to fix it with the power of the federal government.
00:25:08.000Now notice, again, no evidence, no need for any of this, but there is a need for the left to do this stuff.
00:25:14.000So the left has an interest in this sort of political polarization.
00:25:17.000Police shoot suspects in America every day, but only the shootings that prompt riots prompt DOJ attention.
00:25:23.000Like 1,000 shootings by the police every year in which people are killed.
00:26:09.000So if you wonder why the left seems so sanguine about people running around, beating up random folks and breaking windows and looting stores and burning things
00:27:54.000She's not saying, because of me, because I suck at my job, because I'm super corrupt, because the FBI almost indicted me, because I almost collapsed in the middle of the public square, because I may be dying and nobody knows about it.
00:28:04.000That's not why I'm losing by a couple of points, or why I'm in a close race.
00:28:08.000The reason I'm down, or the reason I'm running even, and I'm not up by 50 points, is because of you, because you haven't been getting out the word
00:28:16.000Lady, everybody knows Donald Trump stinks, right?
00:28:19.000I mean, even the people who like Donald Trump know that Trump isn't an ideal candidate.
00:28:23.000His unpopular ratings are just as high as yours.
00:28:26.000The reason that you're losing right now is because of you.
00:28:28.000The reason you're losing is because you're terrible at this.
00:28:30.000And that's why she has to go to these more extreme tactics of now trying to equate justified police shootings with unjustified police shootings and saying everything is racism.
00:28:41.000And so now she's going to do her racial pander.
00:28:43.000Basically, Hillary Clinton's strategy in this election cycle is she wants to win minorities, she wants to win women, she wants to win college-educated whites.
00:28:50.000Trump's strategy, which complements this strategy, is he only wants to win high school-educated whites, apparently.
00:28:56.000I mean, he's not doing well among any of the other groups.
00:28:59.000He's doing very, very well among non-college-educated whites.
00:29:02.000In North Carolina, Hillary Clinton is up by like one point, or it's very close in a couple of the polls, pretty much all the polls, it's within a point or two, either way.
00:29:54.000Why I care so much about supporting working parents.
00:29:58.000It's one reason why I'm such a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, because bringing millions of undocumented workers into the formal economy will decrease abuse and exploitation, and it will increase our economic growth and our tax base.
00:30:18.000Okay, she's such, she's so terrible at this.
00:30:20.000So she's making the case that minority voters should show up to the polls.
00:30:22.000By the way, she does look healthier here.
00:30:25.000She looks like the Grim Reaper, but she doesn't look like deaf.
00:30:28.000I mean, there's, there's sometimes she looks like she's going to die.
00:30:31.000And other times she looks like she's going to be the one who carries you off to hell on the wings of her, on the wings that are upon her back.
00:30:36.000But that said, you know, Hillary Clinton doing this, doing this routine, it's all about driving out the vote, but she's desperate at this point.
00:30:42.000She literally does not understand how she could possibly be running in a competitive race with Trump.
00:30:47.000Because she's the best person she knows.
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00:31:48.000Okay, so in the face of all of this democratic incompetence, in the face of the fact that Hillary Clinton
00:32:18.000Can't win for losing, but she's awful, awful, awful at this.
00:32:21.000In the face of the fact that the Democrats are racially desperate, Donald Trump continues to campaign.
00:32:27.000And so now it's time for our Daily Dose.
00:32:29.000Thank you to Brandon Snipes for the theme.
00:32:31.000Our Daily Dose of Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:32:44.000We will begin, let's see, let's begin with bad Trump, because there's actually more good Trump than bad Trump today, although it's a little bit close.
00:32:52.000So, Trump is asked why he changed his mind about birtherism, and this should be dead at this point, right?
00:32:58.000I mean, he should just say, I changed my mind about birtherism because Obama released his birth certificate.
00:33:03.000The problem for him is that he said after Obama released his birth certificate that he thought it was a fake.
00:33:07.000So he sort of told the truth, and this is the problem, is that Trump tells the truth when it is least politically viable to do so, and he lies the rest of the time.
00:33:14.000So here is Trump on why he changed on birtherism.
00:33:18.000After all the years where you've expressed some doubt, what changed?
00:33:21.000Well, I just want to get on with, you know, we want to get on with the case.
00:33:29.000Okay, so he says that he just wants to change the subject.
00:33:32.000This is bad, Trump, because that doesn't change the subject.
00:33:35.000Now everybody thinks that you're actually still a birther, so that doesn't help you very much.
00:33:58.000Again, not the world's smartest response.
00:34:01.000If somebody says, why did you want to change the subject?
00:34:03.000Why did you change your mind on the birther issue?
00:34:06.000You just say, I believe President Obama was born in America.
00:35:29.000Until he got to the car, at which point his hands were not raised anymore.
00:35:32.000So again, it's like, I'm glad that Trump said that he's troubled when the tape is troubling, but Trump has no capacity to rein it in.
00:35:40.000He has to turn it into a black and white moral scenario, which it probably is not, meaning that she probably did something wrong because other people with her were tasing the guy.
00:35:50.000But the idea that this guy was a model citizen, both things can be true at once.
00:36:15.000You look at what's going on with Libya, and you look at the surge, and you look at all of her decisions, and you look at the Iran deal, which is one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen, which she started.
00:36:28.000Yeah, well, that would be it right there.
00:36:29.000And then he's exactly right, of course.
00:36:31.000And then he says, you know what we need to fix all of the problems that we have right now with regard to race relations?
00:37:16.000And then Trump says something that's more controversial for a lot of conservatives.
00:37:19.000He says that he would do stop and frisk.
00:37:21.000Now, I think this is good Trump, and I'll explain why in just a second, why I think that the civil libertarians are misinterpreting what he's saying.
00:37:28.000I want to know, what would you do to help stop that violence?
00:38:24.000So in a concealed carry state, how do you even do stop-and-frisk?
00:38:26.000I don't think that's what Trump means.
00:38:27.000I don't think Trump thinks it through, but what he really means is, I'm not going to use the federal government to cram down
00:38:33.000An anti-stop-and-frisk leftist position on cities like New York, where guns are already essentially illegal.
00:38:40.000And we're just not going to crack down on New York for actually policing the laws that are on the books.
00:38:44.000I don't think that he means that everybody in the middle of Vermont suddenly has to be worried the police are going to show up and start frisking them.
00:38:50.000What this has also led to is a second criticism, which is it sounds like Trump is saying that he only wants to do stop-and-frisk in black communities.
00:38:57.000Again, I don't think that that's really what he's saying.
00:38:58.000I think he's saying in black communities,
00:39:00.000These places are typically in inner cities, which are in Democrat-controlled areas, where the Democrats have already instituted large-scale gun control.
00:39:08.000And so if you're actually going to enforce a law with regard to gun control, then stop-and-frisk isn't a bad way to do it.
00:39:13.000Now, the realistic answer, again, I don't think this is terrible Trump.
00:39:30.000Got rid of a lot of the gun control laws, but there was still heavy police presence and people were allowed to carry guns.
00:39:35.000What you'd see is a lot fewer people shooting each other in some of these areas because people could defend themselves.
00:39:41.000So again, I'm not in favor of gun control, but the point that Trump is making, I think, is that in major cities where there already is gun control, if you're going to enforce the law, enforce the law.
00:39:51.000Okay, time for some things that I like, some things I hate, and then we'll get to the mailbag.
00:40:02.000This is the Philadelphia story with Katharine Hepburn.
00:40:05.000Katharine Hepburn had had a string of bombs in the theaters, and they had actually stopped using her in films before the Philadelphia story because every time she was on screen, it was a bomb.
00:40:15.000And of course, this is people don't remember this because she's, of course, maybe the most iconic actress in Hollywood history.
00:40:21.000She actually bought the rights to the play, the Philadelphia story herself, and then she got the studio to produce it.
00:40:29.000Her, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, kind of a screwball comedy in which she is getting divorced from Cary Grant, and she decides that she's going to marry this other kind of smooth-talking guy.
00:40:40.000And Jimmy Stewart is the society reporter who shows up to report on this wedding, and her ex-husband introduces Jimmy Stewart as his long-lost friend so that he can get in and report on this.
00:40:51.000And that's the setup for the Philadelphia story.
00:42:20.000It obviously is filmed in 1940, so nowadays you couldn't have that opening shot of Cary Grant pushing Katherine Hepburn down because it would be the end of the world because obviously nobody's in favor of female abuse.
00:43:52.000We all know that they want to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:43:55.000I don't know why they think, in the world, that if they cut an ad against Trump, that people are going to go out and vote against Trump, that suddenly people are convinced, ooh, Don Cheadle doesn't like Trump.
00:44:03.000But Josh Whedon, who's the guy who did Firefly, and now he directs the Avengers films, he created the Save America pack, and he said that he had to stop the orange Hitler.
00:44:16.000Everybody's got a Hitler reference these days for Donald Trump.
00:44:19.000And so he had all of these celebrities cut this anti-Trump ad.
00:44:21.000Apparently, one of the celebrities that you're about to see said that he was not aware this was going to be quite so partisan.
00:44:26.000He was afraid of alienating half of his audience.
00:44:29.000It didn't stop him from being part of the ad, though.
00:44:32.000On Tuesday, November 8th, this country will make one of the most important, the most important, the most important decisions in its history.
00:44:40.000You have a chance, you have an obligation, to be a part of that decision.
00:44:45.000You might think it's not important, you might think you're not important, but that's not true.
00:44:50.000And the only way we can prove that to you is by having lots of famous people.
00:45:59.000Okay, so at least there's a little bit of self-effacing humor there, the idea that they understand they're celebrities, but that defeats the purpose of the commercial, because obviously we know that they're celebrities.
00:46:11.000We already know they hate Donald Trump.
00:46:13.000In fact, this is going to provoke exactly the sort of response they don't want, which is people like me saying, God, maybe I'll vote for Trump just to stop these jerks.
00:46:20.000Why would I possibly want to be on the same side of any issue, of any issue, as some of these celebrities who are there?
00:46:27.000Why would I possibly give a crap what all the Avengers, what Mark Ruffalo has to say about politics?
00:46:35.000Now I just want to go to vote just to spite him.
00:48:51.000I think that if Trump gets into office, he doesn't care about small government, but I also don't think that he's somebody who has the sort of world-beating ambition of a Mussolini or a Hitler.
00:49:00.000Somebody who says, give me all the power in the world and I will wield it.
00:49:03.000I don't think that Trump, honestly, I think he's lazier than that.
00:49:07.000But beyond that, if you look at the philosophy of Mussolini or Hitler, they were both devotees of Marxist philosophy.
00:49:13.000Mussolini actually edited a Marxist journal.
00:49:15.000Hitler's party was the National Socialist Party, and he believed very strongly
00:49:20.000In the power of centralized government, looking much more like Hillary Clinton in policy than Donald Trump.
00:49:26.000Steven Crowder has a new video about this that's pretty funny and very good with regard to the content, looking at sort of the issues and where Trump versus Hillary stands, much more in line with Hillary than with Trump.
00:49:37.000James Wright, hey Ben, recently in my AP U.S.
00:49:39.000History course, my teacher, a self-proclaimed social democrat, insisted that Judeo-Christian founding principles of the country
00:49:47.000I have to admit, I am a latecomer to the Harambee game, and therefore I will take your word for it that it is in fact Harambee and not Harambee.
00:49:53.000And mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
00:50:15.000The idea that Judeo-Christian values are in opposition to the golden rule, or are in opposition to the every-man-for-himself idea of capitalism.
00:50:26.000If you read the Bible, there's nothing in the Bible that suggests socialism.
00:50:29.000The only part of the New Testament that suggests anything remotely like that is it says the apostles shared all they had amongst them.
00:50:34.000That's because they all had a common purpose, and they all were basically a religious society, a religious order.
00:50:41.000Not because all of civil society should be ordered along those lines,
00:50:44.000If you look at the Old Testament, which is the one I care about, it has essentially a 22.5% flat tax.
00:50:49.000When you calculate all the truma and the maser, the tithing and the secondary tithing and the first fruits and all this stuff, you end up with somewhere between a 17 and a 22% flat tax, depending on the year.
00:50:59.000So the idea that the Bible is anti-capitalism, the Bible explicitly says you're not allowed to steal other people's property many, many, many times.
00:51:07.000And you're not allowed to do it just because you're poor.
00:51:09.000There are specific laws with what you're allowed to give to the poor in Judaism
00:51:12.000The idea is you're supposed to give 10% to the poor, which is something I need to be better about, but you're actually not supposed to give more than 20% of your wealth away because you're supposed to make sure that you have enough for your family.
00:51:24.000So the idea that capitalism and the values of capitalism are anti-golden rule.
00:51:28.000Capitalism is all about the golden rule.
00:52:23.000Richard writes, Hey, Ben, as a high school student, I feel I should ask your take in this.
00:52:28.000My school announced it would interfere and take action in bullying incidents that occur outside of the school campus and outside school hours.
00:52:34.000Do you think high schools should intervene in the lives of students outside of school grounds?
00:52:44.000And I think that if you have good parents and another kid is bothering you outside of school, you should call up that kid's parents.
00:52:50.000The schools can't handle this stuff anyway.
00:52:51.000I mean, the idea that school is going to take any sort of measure that is going to shut down bullying off hours.
00:52:57.000I mean, I assume they're talking about online bullying.
00:52:59.000I assume they're talking about the idea that somebody posts on Facebook stuff like, go die somewhere, you know, that kind of thing, nastiness.
00:53:45.000OK, so when it comes to children's rights, this is the last question, unfortunately, even though we have lots of questions.
00:53:51.000So some of them will wait till next week.
00:53:53.000The extent of children's rights, I think that rights are closely related to responsibility.
00:53:57.000So if you're talking about legal rights, when legal rights should accrue to a child,
00:54:01.000I think 18 is probably right in today's society, given that we have kids until they're 27 now.
00:54:07.000I mean, basically, people who are my age are still acting like small children.
00:54:10.000The cast of Friends, they were 40 and living in apartments, acting like high school students.
00:54:14.000But, as far as how you bring up your own children, the sort of rights that you should grant your own children before they're 18, every kid is different.
00:54:21.000Some kids are more responsible, some kids are less responsible.
00:54:24.000The more responsible they are, the more rights they should have is my basic view of this.