00:01:26.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:32.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:54.000I was in a second grade classroom, September 11th, 2001.
00:01:59.000I remember exactly where I was sitting when all of a sudden someone came storming into the room and said, the two towers, the twin towers have been hit.
00:02:07.000Now, when you're in second grade, you don't quite understand the enormity of what that means.
00:02:13.000You don't quite process and internalize what it was to say Flight 93 goes down, Pentagon was attacked, the Twin Towers were attacked.
00:02:27.000Now, what happened afterwards was a unanimous, overwhelming groundswell of support for law enforcement, for police officers, for firefighters, all obviously warranted and still warranted to this day.
00:02:43.000But unfortunately, what ended up happening after 9-11 was the worst aspects of the American government seized on a tragedy and they saw it as an opportunity to create a massive, unchecked federal security state bureaucracy.
00:03:04.000In addition, the warmongers and defense industry saw it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to go invade sovereign country of Iraq, to go wage nation-building wars that cost over $8 trillion.
00:03:20.000I asked the question: is America freer, safer, wealthier, more prosperous, happier because of how we reacted to 9-11?
00:03:35.000It was a mandate no different than after the financial crisis.
00:03:38.000It was a mandate no different than after COVID, which is something terrible and awful has happened.
00:03:44.000We must do something big and bold and ambitious.
00:03:48.000And the something that ended up happening was now 21 years later, we look back and we see it was putting the United States Constitution through the shredder.
00:04:00.000Patriot Act, the launching of the Department of Homeland Security, FISA courts, spying on Americans without their consent.
00:04:13.000You see, after 9-11, The worst aspects of the American government seized on the fear and they said, if we do not pass this bill, another 9-11 could be right around the corner.
00:04:26.000Now, in my personal opinion, I don't think the politicians or the people in charge actually properly told the story of how 9-11 happened.
00:04:35.000For example, it was an immigration problem.
00:04:39.000You could put all the other theories around 9-11 aside.
00:04:42.000Everything that happened there from laxed airport security to all of it and instead asked the question, why were they allowed in the country?
00:04:52.000Why were the terrorists and the hijackers allowed into the country?
00:04:57.000And you look at it, there was some very suspicious entrance and kind of immigration flaws and issues of allowing these hijackers to come in without any sort of idea.
00:05:09.000So because of that, they said, well, we have to start the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, an entire new branch of government that is dedicated just towards domestic surveillance that was basically focused on your activities, your language.
00:05:30.000More than 263 government organizations were either created or reorganized following the 9-11 attacks.
00:05:42.000Now, 21 years later, we're actually able to look at things with a cool and very prudent and calculated approach.
00:05:55.000But in the heat of it, I want to be very clear, in the heat of 9-11, after it happened, you wouldn't dare oppose this sort of expansion of the government.
00:06:14.000We were one of the few programs that said, this is a bad idea because we learned our lesson post-9-11.
00:06:19.000When people are clamoring and the bullets are firing and people say, you must pass this bill, that is exactly when you should slow down and not pass the bill.
00:06:28.000But Republicans, every single Republican voted for the COVID bailout packages that gave NPR money and fraudulently pumped money we didn't have into the economy that contributed to inflation.
00:06:41.000The same way Republicans voted for the Iraq war, voted for the expansion of the Department of Homeland Security, the same way Republicans voted for the creation of the TSA.
00:06:54.000Now, I have to say, there's a lot of people that listen to the Charlie Kirkster that work in the TSA, actually a pretty impressive amount.
00:06:59.000But the TSA should be completely abolished.
00:07:01.000It is totally and completely unnecessary.
00:07:04.000There's some wonderful people that work in the TSA, but the TSA is a widely incompetent government agency that makes airline travel harder, that infringes on our civil liberties.
00:07:26.000You can figure it out a different way.
00:07:27.000By the way, the TSA is not even good at their job.
00:07:30.000Study shows that TSA misses a fair amount of weapons.
00:07:33.000In fact, the TSA fails most tests in latest undercover operation in U.S. airports, according to ABC News.
00:07:41.000Source said the results were an improvement from two years ago.
00:07:44.000But in recent undercover tests at multiple airport security checkpoints, DHS inspectors said screeners of their equipment failed more than half the time.
00:07:54.000So all those lines at airports, the 6 a.m. flights where you have to take off your shoes and repeatedly go through it.
00:08:27.000And the TSA never should have been created.
00:08:32.000But again, in the fog of tragedy, in the fog of 9-11, DHS, FISA courts, invading sovereign countries that never attacked us like Iraq, it all sounds popular.
00:08:48.000Over 1,200 government organizations and 1,900 private companies now do work related to counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence.
00:08:59.000Budgets for defense-related agencies also rose.
00:09:02.000The Coast Guard, TSA, and Border Patrol, the one that actually should get more funding, has seen more funding since 2001.
00:09:10.000Department of Homeland Security's budget started with $13 billion in 2001.
00:10:18.000And I'm going to walk through exactly what has been happening in the last recent years because they built something so big, so wide, so powerful that it turns out there weren't enough terrorists to justify their size.
00:10:32.000So they had to go find some or create some.
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00:13:18.000This will be used against foreign terrorist and domestic extremists.
00:13:24.000And so what ended up happening, we passed the bill, Department of Homeland Security gets founded.
00:13:30.000And around 2009, around 2008, 2009, a problem started to emerge, which is, okay, they indicted a bunch of foreign Middle Eastern terrorists that were floating through the country and they did huge dragnets, but they kind of ran out of people to arrest.
00:13:51.000Department of Justice had a separate desk just committed to American National Security.
00:13:56.000Department of Homeland Security had an entire operation dedicated to it.
00:14:02.000And right around 2009, something very important happened, which is there was a shift.
00:14:13.000In 2009, Obama took office and then released the DHS memo on right-wing extremism in 2009.
00:14:24.000This memo, which was put forward, showed that right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first black president and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members and mobilize existing supporters and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but have not yet turned to attack planning.
00:14:46.000In 2009, DHS was slightly moved and no one really noticed it from worrying about the Taliban, ISIS, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda.
00:14:56.000ISIS didn't exist yet, but it was a variation of the same blend.
00:15:02.000Now, most of us didn't notice this in 2009.
00:15:04.000We were too worried about the financial crisis, too worried about Obama's health care takeover, too worried about trying to win the Massachusetts special election with Ted Kennedy, who passed away, and winning it with Scott Brown.
00:15:15.000We were not focused on the pivot to the mass security state.
00:16:50.000And in panic, we did not think clearly.
00:16:54.000In the panic, we were not able to calm down and remember this quote from Benjamin Franklin.
00:17:02.000Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
00:17:11.000After 9-11, we create this mass leviathan and security state, thinking, oh, that'll never be used against us.
00:17:18.000But it turns out there is a supply and demand problem with Middle Eastern terrorists.
00:17:23.000There just aren't that many crossing through America.
00:17:25.000And every single one of them should obviously be arrested and deported.
00:17:29.000We don't even find them on our southern border, by the way.
00:17:32.000But now that very same monster we voted for is being used against us.
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00:19:29.000It's no longer against the Taliban, no longer against al-Qaeda.
00:19:33.000No, they are now convinced that the war is here.
00:19:38.000You see, the 21-year leadup, they used the power of the government and the will of the people at the time to give themselves all the domestic political power to be able to imprison, infiltrate, smear political dissidents.
00:19:59.000Cut six, Senator Mark Warner says that we beat terrorism because of the intelligence community, but then compares January 6th to 9-11 yesterday.
00:20:42.000The stunning thing to me is here we are 20 years later, and the attack on the symbol of our democracy was not coming from terrorists, but it came from literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on January 6th.
00:22:21.000Is it without the $180 billion we spend on DHS alone?
00:22:28.000Is that going to prevent another 9-11?
00:22:32.000But now they're conflating intentionally January 6th, where the only people who died were killed by the government to 9-11.
00:22:43.000Kamala Harris doing just that, play cut 30.
00:22:45.000Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.
00:23:03.000Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
00:23:12.000December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.
00:24:02.000The wealthiest counties in America are all around Washington, D.C. There is a political war raging in America.
00:24:10.000And the way that we acted after 9-11, which was with panic, totally okay.
00:24:15.000It's okay to panic when your country gets attacked.
00:24:17.000We green lit every single project of the police state.
00:24:25.000John Brennan, who used to run the police state, said that if you're a libertarian, if you're someone that has libertarian leanings, you're an enemy of the state.
00:24:36.000Members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,
00:24:51.000where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
00:25:07.000Even libertarians with laser-like focus.
00:25:12.000Laser-like focus that they're coming after you.
00:25:19.000That you're an insurgent against America for believing that the government is not being run properly, that you have disagreements in policy.
00:25:28.000You are now an insurgent in your own country.
00:25:32.000The lesson from here, from this, there's a lot of lessons, but what's important to recognize is we can't blame Democrats for this.
00:25:40.000This was a creation largely of Republicans and of the establishment in Washington, D.C.
00:25:47.000The Uniparty does not want to be disrupted.
00:26:14.000Meanwhile, the Biden regime is releasing the 20th hijacker from Gitmo, a Saudi prisoner at Gitmo who is suspected of trying to join the 9-11 hijackers has been sent home to country for treatment for mental illness, the DOD has said.
00:26:32.000So they attack domestic violent extremists at home, but the actual people who were hijacking, they release them from Gitmo.
00:26:40.000That is the priority of the Biden regime.
00:26:44.000So Chuck Todd asked Kamala Harris, we're now battling a threat from within.
00:28:36.000Do you see how all of a sudden it goes from, oh, there might be some problems to we're going to ask the vice president of the United States, and she gives this non-answer.
00:28:44.000Oh, yes, you know, that's a very good question.
00:28:47.000She can't even give a straight question of what is a bigger threat to the United States, China or a plumber from Athens, Ohio.
00:29:42.000They used elements of the Patriot Act to spy on Trump, to infiltrate his campaign, or to attempt to.
00:29:48.000They used elements of the Patriot Act, still to this day.
00:29:52.000What phone calls are they listening to?
00:29:54.000What text message are they intercepting?
00:29:57.000As we reflect back on the tragedy of 9-11, 21 years later, we are now living in a police state, in a security state, that was made possible thanks to our imprudent and rushed reaction to the tragedy.
00:30:15.000They said it was our generation's Pearl Harbor.
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00:31:32.000Well, before I go any further, let's just make the argument stronger.
00:31:38.000And I hope everyone understands the significance of what we're talking about here.
00:31:41.000What we're talking about is the federal government that is being used as an extension of the regime, extension of the political aims and ambitions of the Democrat Party, made possible thanks to the Uniparty in the Republican Party, Dick Cheney, Lindsey Graham.
00:31:57.000They were the big authors and sponsors of the Patriot Act.
00:32:00.000Do you feel safer because the Patriot Act, does the Patriot Act make you sleep better at night?
00:32:12.000But there was one figure to his great credit who was consistent and was clairvoyant when it came to the topic of the Patriot Act, and that is Ron Paul.
00:32:23.000Many people in this audience probably used to laugh at Ron Paul.
00:33:54.000Ron Paul, again, there's plenty of things I disagree with Ron Paul on drug policy immigration, but he was so consistent on how the government will be weaponized against the thought criminals, weaponized against the people that might be able to create a political movement.
00:34:38.000And we have also, I think, been reminded about how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.
00:35:00.000So I'm one who thinks that there are lessons still to be learned from what happened to us on 9-11 that we should be very aware of during this time in our country and the world's history.
00:35:13.000I'm so exhausted with hearing, especially violence.
00:35:17.000We have denounced any form of political violence, whether it would be January 6th or whether it be any other day, repeatedly.
00:35:26.000Who exactly is endorsing political violence?
00:35:28.000Oh, you were, and your entire political party in the summer of 2020 was.
00:35:53.000They took advantage of our solidarity.
00:35:56.000The sinister forces of the American federal government saw an opportunity to create new departments, 263 of them, to give themselves more funding.
00:36:07.000And we are now living in that post-9-11 security state, police state world where they deem you, the American Patriot, a dissident.