22 years post 9/11, are we freer, happier, and a stronger country? We re in a sad state of affairs right now, as we walk through the events of September 11th, 2001, and how we reacted.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:56.000Being in second grade, you just kind of see everyone else being afraid and you're trying to configure yourself.
00:03:02.000But from that moment forward to today, it is not unfair to say that that was one of the most, if not the most, consequential moment post the Berlin Wall falling, certainly of the new millennium.
00:03:18.000It set a cause set in motion, 9-11, that has made America profoundly less free.
00:09:15.000I want to reiterate, this was not as much an intelligence failure.
00:09:18.000It was partly an intelligence failure, no doubt, but it was largely an immigration failure.
00:09:23.000Instead of addressing the root cause, we've opened our borders wide open to foreigners we know nothing about.
00:09:30.000Do you know that in 2023, this last fiscal year, 149 people on the FBI's terror watch list have been arrested at ports of entry, a new record.
00:09:39.000How many gotaways on the terror watch list are coming into America?
00:09:43.000You know that zero people on the terror watch list were apprehended in 2020 because there were just none.
00:09:49.000They didn't dare to come into the country when President Trump was president.
00:09:55.000So instead of getting serious about our immigration policies post 9-11, we've kept our borders completely and totally wide open.
00:10:05.000In the months that followed 9-11, America was looking for answers.
00:10:09.000And instead of saying we need to have closed borders and deport illegals and not allow flight students from adversarial countries, we decided to go all in on two failed projects.
00:10:24.000Invade the world and spy on American citizens.
00:10:30.000Very bad actors that have wanted to go after the Constitution for decades saw 9-11 as an opportunity.
00:10:37.000This is why I really hesitate to say that, you know, some people tell me, Charlie, it's the Democrat Party that has destroyed America the last 20 or 30 years.
00:10:48.000But I have to be honest, the Republican Party did just as much, if not more damage in the early 2000s as the Democrat Party.
00:10:57.000In fact, it was Democrats, to their credit, honest Democrats like Dennis Kucinich, who were fighting against the Patriot Act in the early 2000s.
00:11:06.000You had a uniparty insider oligarchy of moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats like Hillary Rodham Clinton and George W. Bush that found agreement that this constitutional order must be destroyed.
00:11:20.000Said differently, 9-11 presented an opportunity to create a permanent oligarchy, an oligarchy we are still living under today.
00:11:33.000And boy, is this a lesson for those of us.
00:12:31.000The Homeland Security Act of 2002 takes the next critical steps in defending our country.
00:12:39.000The continuing threat of terrorism, the threat of mass murder on our own soil will be met with a unified, effective response.
00:12:50.000America will be better able to respond to any future attacks.
00:12:54.000The Department of Homeland Security will have nearly 170,000 employees who will wake up each morning with the overriding duty of protecting their fellow citizens.
00:13:05.000170,000 shock troops, not to go after cartel members coming into America, not to go after jihadists.
00:13:12.000Now it's 260,000, by the way, that Republican George W. Bush started to go after people that go to Latin Mass, to go after moms and dads to go to school boards.
00:13:21.000We create this leviathan under going after terrorists.
00:13:24.000But it's just imagine who are the terrorists?
00:15:37.000Give me power, and I'm going to keep you safe.
00:15:41.000The good news is many of you have now woken up to this.
00:15:46.000But if we're honest, probably many of us in the audience, I was only in second grade, so I wasn't really able to vote, were enthusiastic George W. Bush supporters.
00:15:57.000George W. Bush, as a Republican, did more damage to the constitutional order than Bill Clinton probably did.
00:16:06.000And Bill Clinton was a terrible president.
00:16:08.000George W. Bush gave us DHS, TSA, gave us 170,000-person standing army, gave us the FISA courts because of our reaction to 9-11.
00:16:21.000They spied on Donald Trump's campaign.
00:16:23.000All they had to do was label somebody a terrorist, and they'd be able to do whatever they want.
00:16:30.000So you create this now 260,000-person standing army, and they can spy on your communications.
00:16:37.000They turned the intelligence apparatus domestically on you.
00:16:43.000Here's George W. Bush, Republican George W. Bush, announcing the Patriot Act.
00:16:51.000This Patriot Act is still being used to this day, 22 years later, to spy on political groups.
00:16:59.000It was used in the dragnet post-January 6.
00:17:02.000The Patriot Act used against moms and dads showing up to school board meetings, people going to Latin Mass.
00:17:12.000Our reaction to 9-11 is we allowed the Constitution to be shredded because we are in a place of fear, play cut 16.
00:17:21.000The changes affected today will help counter a threat like no other our nation has ever faced.
00:17:29.000As of today, we're changing the laws governing information sharing.
00:17:34.000And as importantly, we're changing the culture of our various agencies.
00:17:39.000Countering and investigating terrorist activity is the number one priority for both law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
00:17:50.000Surveillance of communications is another essential tool to pursue and stop terrorists.
00:17:54.000This new law that I signed today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including emails, the internet, and cell phones.
00:18:04.000Investigations are often slowed by a limit on the reach of federal search warrants.
00:18:11.000This bill was carefully drafted and considered.
00:18:16.000This bill was carefully drafted and considered.
00:18:20.000And then we did 20 years in Afghanistan.
00:18:43.000On our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
00:18:48.000December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.
00:18:59.000See, you build the Leviathan, you build the deep state.
00:19:03.000Republicans have done nothing to check and balance it.
00:19:06.000And then you have January 6th and they seize.
00:19:09.00022 years later, if you walk the halls of the FBI and you walk the halls of the DHS and you say, what does a terrorist look like?
00:19:18.000If you would have asked that question 15 years ago, they'd said, well, a terrorist would be a Middle Eastern jihadist, theocratic Islamic extremist.
00:19:30.000Now you walk the halls of the FBI, you say, what does a terrorist look like?
00:19:34.000Oh, a white Christian who owns guns, who doesn't trust the government.
00:19:38.000The FBI says that the don't tread on me symbol is a hate symbol.
00:19:44.000The same one that Jaden wasn't allowed to bring to the school in Colorado.
00:19:48.000FBI whistleblower says that that is considered to be a symbol of white supremacy and domestic violent extremism.
00:19:55.000Part of the narrative now is to take away our rights.
00:19:59.000And we have to look honestly back at 9-11 and the years of reaction, the quagmire and the no-win war in Iraq.
00:20:07.000Do you feel safer because of what happened in Iraq?
00:20:10.000Because of what we did, we displaced Saddam Hussein and then ISIS rose up.
00:20:14.000Do you feel safer because we got nothing, no accomplishment because of our time in Afghanistan?
00:20:21.000But at the baseline of all this is that we were a high trust society back in 2001.
00:20:28.000It was hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that the government was lying to you, the government was making money off of you.
00:20:36.000It was hard for people to wrap their head around the fact that George W. Bush might have had another agenda, that he wasn't telling the truth, that Dick Cheney wanted perpetual war.
00:20:48.000If 9-11 happened again today, I think the country would actually be very divided, not united.
00:20:54.000They might have been like a couple hours of unification.
00:20:57.000And, you know, somebody sent us an email.
00:20:59.000They said, Charlie, the best part of 9-11 is how united the country came together.
00:21:16.000Our largely Republican leaders threw it all away.
00:21:20.000They had a mandate from the country to be united, and we said, ah, we're going to get rid of the Bill of Rights, basically.
00:21:25.000We're going to keep our borders wide open, and we're going to go start no-win wars in theaters thousands of miles away that do not impact United States national security.
00:21:33.000We're going to tell them that the Taliban attacked us.
00:21:44.000Instead, we could have got really strict with our immigration.
00:21:46.000And then the other part of this is we decided to create a prerequisite.
00:21:51.000We turned on the guzzle of deficit spending.
00:21:56.000This is a huge component of this that doesn't get covered.
00:21:59.000But because of 9-11, you needed to finance all these foreign wars, need to finance the Leviathan, the deep state, the unelected, the insiders.
00:22:08.000So we got used to a $300 billion deficit, $800 billion deficit, trillion dollar deficit, $2 trillion deficit.
00:22:20.000The hyperinflation that you are feeling right now at the grocery store is because we reacted cowardly post-9-11.
00:22:33.000And 22 years later, while we handed over all of our freedoms and liberties to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton, who are the terrorists?
00:22:43.000Well, Joe Biden tells you who the terrorists are.
00:22:48.000To stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did in my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
00:23:08.000And I'm not saying this because I'm at a black HBCU.
00:23:54.000Staff of bureaucrats that don't share your worldview, that want to see you in prison or with less freedom, less liberty, they have a completely different worldview and they have contempt for your values.
00:24:03.000The second of which is, how do you react when there's panic?
00:24:10.000We have failed that test and we failed it again with the lockdowns.
00:24:14.000Oh, there is an invisible virus that doesn't kill that many people, but it could potentially kill some people.
00:24:20.000Let's lock down the schools and created the most suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-added generation in history.
00:24:26.000When there's alarm, when there's fear, when there's panic, when there's horror, how do we react?
00:24:31.000The old reflex is, government, come save me.
00:24:35.000And we're going to then now tie this all together to something happening right now in New Mexico.
00:25:00.000Usually a sense of panic makes you want somebody to come in and solve the problem for you.
00:25:06.000The United States Constitution does not stop being the law of the land just when there's alarm, just when a leader decides to get rid of it.
00:25:17.000Now, some of you might say, oh, that was, you know, 9-11.
00:25:22.000Well, just this last weekend, the governor of New Mexico is telling you your free speech rights and your ability to own a firearm does not exist because of an emergency.
00:26:10.000And that is, if there's an emergency and I've declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers.
00:26:19.000No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.
00:26:26.000There are restrictions on free speech.
00:26:28.000There are restrictions on my freedoms.
00:26:30.000In this emergency, this 11-year-old and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not in an emergency we can create a safer environment.
00:26:46.000She can just suspend constitutional rights because she wants to.
00:27:34.000Ted Liu, congressman, Democrat congressman, has come out and he says, I support gun safety, but there's no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.
00:27:46.000The Democrat mayor has come out against it.
00:27:54.000However, this order from the governor of Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution.
00:27:56.000No state in the Union can suspend the federal Constitution.
00:28:00.000There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.
00:28:06.000The DA, the county appointed by the mayor, also opposes this.
00:28:10.000The police chief says he won't enforce it.
00:28:13.000Elon Musk has come out and has said, how soon can we get rid of this governor?
00:28:18.000But it's telling that she even attempted it.
00:28:21.000For the autocratic left, the state of emergency is an increasingly catch-all excuse for the left to try and do whatever it wants, whenever they want.
00:28:32.000They're going to do this with climate emergency and many others.
00:28:36.000Boy, we only have a minute to do this.
00:28:38.000I do want to remember, though, the other tragedy that happened at 9-11, Benghazi, which is a lesson to show how inept Republicans were at holding the Democrats accountable for what happened at Benghazi.
00:28:52.000But as we look back, 22 years later, now in 2023, our government treats us like al-Qaeda.
00:29:01.000Our government thinks this program, the Charlie Kirk Show, is an informational broadcasting time for the moral equivalent of Osama bin Laden.