The Charlie Kirk Show - Murder In Memphis & Illinois Insanity—How to Reclaim Our Country from Violent Crime

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, crime.

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00:01:35.000 There is a $1 trillion bill laying on the sidewalk right now for Republicans.

00:01:41.000 I got a phone call the other day from a Republican running for the U.S. Senate, let's just say in a very competitive race, and he was asking for my advice.

00:01:50.000 I get phone calls like this all the time.

00:01:51.000 I told you about a call like this last week.

00:01:53.000 This is a different call.

00:01:54.000 And he said, Charlie, you know, we're not doing too great.

00:01:56.000 We're trying to do better.

00:01:57.000 We got some momentum.

00:01:59.000 What do you think I should be talking about?

00:02:01.000 What do you think I'm missing?

00:02:03.000 And I said, what's your message on crime?

00:02:06.000 And he said, oh, you know, we're talking about inflation and we're talking.

00:02:10.000 I said, hold on.

00:02:12.000 I said, what's your message on crime?

00:02:14.000 What are you talking about when it comes to the fundamental bedrock issue where the entire civilization is determined?

00:02:20.000 It is the civilizational defining issue.

00:02:24.000 Law and order are the issues, is the issue of which all other issues stem from.

00:02:29.000 You can't get this right.

00:02:30.000 Inflation, private property rights, stock market, forget it.

00:02:35.000 If you're afraid you are going to be murdered on the way to school, kidnapped, jogging in the morning before, as a teacher, are going to go teach your students, you're not living in a free country anymore.

00:02:47.000 And we've been warning against the bubbling up of this crime wave in America for quite some time.

00:02:51.000 It just seems right now as summer is ending and we're entering fall, it's hitting a crescendo.

00:02:57.000 It's hitting a climax, you could say.

00:02:59.000 Republicans out there are saying, How do we jumpstart our campaigns?

00:03:03.000 Well, you got to start to recognize and realize that the media is going to call you racist no matter what you do.

00:03:10.000 And that there is anxiety in all communities, black community, Latino community, the Asian community, every community, about what's happening with crime in America.

00:03:21.000 We're going to do an overview of what is driving the crime wave because I think there's a missing piece, which is the why.

00:03:27.000 What is the why?

00:03:28.000 Why are they doing this?

00:03:30.000 Then we're going to talk about what's happening in my home state of Illinois.

00:03:35.000 And for those of you nationally, you got to listen carefully.

00:03:38.000 It is the most extreme and outrageous no-bail policies, no cash bail policies that you could imagine.

00:03:47.000 America is becoming a very dangerous country.

00:03:51.000 And it's because of the intentional decisions of politicians that are deciding to make America more dangerous.

00:03:58.000 We've already decided to no longer be energy independent.

00:04:01.000 We've decided to no longer be wealthy.

00:04:03.000 We've decided to be poor.

00:04:04.000 And now we're deciding to live in a very dangerous country. 0.98

00:04:08.000 We are prioritizing foreigners over Americans, prioritizing criminals over law-abiding citizens. 0.85

00:04:15.000 And I had a phone call with someone who was running for the U.S. Senate in a very competitive race, and he asked me for advice.

00:04:22.000 I said, every time you get up on the stump, you need to be the harshest on crime of everybody.

00:04:27.000 This criminal justice reform movement is something at times I thought I could get along with.

00:04:32.000 It is all a bunch of nonsense. 0.92

00:04:34.000 It is horsepucky. 1.00

00:04:35.000 It is garbage. 1.00

00:04:37.000 Well, we have too many people in prison in America. 1.00

00:04:40.000 No, we don't have enough people in prison, actually.

00:04:43.000 The average rapist serves anywhere between five to seven years.

00:04:46.000 If you're a convicted rapist, you should serve a lot more than five to seven years.

00:04:50.000 Try 30 to 40.

00:04:52.000 No, the criminal justice reform movement has now taken over entire city, local, state governments.

00:05:00.000 The first example that we should zero in on is Memphis.

00:05:05.000 Memphis has already ranked among the most violent cities in America.

00:05:09.000 It's a very corrupt city.

00:05:10.000 It's a beautiful city.

00:05:11.000 I know a lot of people from Memphis, great people, but it's a very dangerous city.

00:05:15.000 I'm going to tell you about the story, the just awful story of what happened in Memphis recently.

00:05:23.000 You may have heard about it.

00:05:25.000 Of a teacher and a mom of two.

00:05:29.000 It's such a tragedy of what's happened here.

00:05:34.000 And of course, it is the story of Eliza or Liza Fletcher, a kindergarten teacher and a mother of two, went for a jog at 4:30 in the morning.

00:05:46.000 She was kidnapped last week while running near the University of Memphis.

00:05:51.000 She was kidnapped, forced into a van, and then murdered by a thug, Cleotha Abstin-Henderson, served already 20 years of a 24-year sentence for kidnapping another victim at gunpoint before he was released in 2020.

00:06:09.000 Did not serve his entire prison sentence.

00:06:12.000 Surveillance footage has shown Fletcher, a teacher and granddaughter of late billionaire, being violently forced into a GMC SUV while she was jogging at 4 a.m. on Friday.

00:06:23.000 We are now living in a country where if you are a woman, I would not leave the house alone at night or in the morning.

00:06:30.000 I'm not, this is the country you grew up in is over, and we're going to tell you why.

00:06:34.000 It's not just because criminals feel more emboldened, but the policies themselves have changed.

00:06:40.000 Abstin, the thug, was busted the next day after DNA linked him to a pair of slides left near the kidnapping scene.

00:06:48.000 To lose someone so young and vital is a tragedy, but to have it result from a senseless act of violence is unimaginable, the DA said.

00:06:56.000 Any murder is a tragedy.

00:06:58.000 Any murder in our jurisdiction is a high priority.

00:07:00.000 All deserve our care and best efforts, blah, But it doesn't stop there.

00:07:06.000 Just days later, a mass shooting happens in Memphis, where seven people are shot and four are killed.

00:07:14.000 Play cut 77.

00:07:16.000 I welcome being held primarily responsible for lowering violent crime, but I do not have the authority over bonds, over state sentencing laws, over rehabilitation of people in prison.

00:07:33.000 I need the public to hold other people accountable.

00:07:37.000 Because I'm tired of our police officers arresting the same people over and over and over, and those people committing violent acts.

00:07:47.000 I think the public's fed up with it too, but they need to let their voice be heard.

00:07:53.000 So that's the Democrat mayor of Memphis who's just trying his best to save his job.

00:07:58.000 Now he's blaming the state legislature and state sentencing laws.

00:08:03.000 That's strange.

00:08:04.000 Memphis is not in New York.

00:08:06.000 It's not in Massachusetts.

00:08:07.000 It's not in Washington.

00:08:09.000 Well, last year, and no one is talking about this, but we dug it up, I don't know, with one Google search.

00:08:14.000 And we don't know if this specific law impacted this, but it's interesting.

00:08:19.000 Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, who I've met and is a nice person, last May signed criminal justice reform, calling it monumental, monumental criminal justice reform.

00:08:36.000 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee celebrated what he called a monumental day for his state and his term, signing two bills tied to his signature cause of criminal justice reform.

00:08:48.000 Flanked by supporters, Lee formally signed into law measures to divert more people away from state prisons and to expand support services for people who are leaving prisons after serving their sentences.

00:09:02.000 So I have a question, Governor Bill Lee.

00:09:05.000 Did your support services and your help make this guy less likely to go kidnap and murder a teacher and a mother going for a job at 4 o'clock in the morning?

00:09:17.000 The governor, when signing the criminal justice bill, struck a triumphant tone.

00:09:21.000 Remember, this is a Republican governor with the Republican legislature, saying the new laws would help generations of Tennesseans.

00:09:28.000 He predicted it would break cycles of crime and punishment and keep families intact.

00:09:34.000 Quote, people given a chance can turn their lives around only if we have a system and a process that allows them to have that chance.

00:09:42.000 Now, we don't know the intricacies of this particular release, but we do know this.

00:09:46.000 The governor of Tennessee was going in the direction of trying to make it easier where criminals like him can get out.

00:09:54.000 And then days later, mass shooting spree happens in Memphis.

00:09:59.000 So in a state like Tennessee, where the governor should be tough on crime, Republican legislature, he's doing the opposite.

00:10:05.000 Why?

00:10:06.000 Well, criminal justice reform has been very well funded by many different groups, left-wing groups, Soros, and others, to try to get a jailbreak operation, and Republicans are far too on board with it.

00:10:22.000 Now, is our prison system broken?

00:10:23.000 Of course, there's all sorts of things broken.

00:10:26.000 But you're going to make it easier for people to get out of prison so this guy can go kidnap a mother and a teacher. 0.94

00:10:33.000 Cut 80, this lunatic, is driving around Memphis just randomly shooting people. 0.96

00:10:38.000 Welcome to America. 0.99

00:10:40.000 You can hear him saying that it's going to go down.

00:10:42.000 He just is going downtown.

00:10:43.000 He's filming himself.

00:10:45.000 The preconditions for this?

00:10:47.000 A Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, that signed a criminal justice bill.

00:10:51.000 Did the one thing affect the other?

00:10:53.000 We can't yet prove that.

00:10:55.000 But why wasn't Governor Lee signing a bill that says, I'm going to keep you in prison longer, violent criminal?

00:11:02.000 Play cut 80 of the mass shooter that should still be in prison, by the way.

00:11:06.000 Play cut 80.

00:11:08.000 I'm doing this for real while I pray. 1.00

00:11:10.000 I ain't no nigga polling niggas, though. 1.00

00:11:13.000 This for real nigga. 0.98

00:11:14.000 This for real nigga. 1.00

00:11:16.000 I know 12 to get down on here. 1.00

00:11:17.000 Do I'm gonna do?

00:11:18.000 Go to the valley. 0.99

00:11:19.000 Shoot it out with them in the valley. 0.99

00:11:21.000 Hear him. 1.00

00:11:22.000 Just going around filming himself, just randomly shooting people.

00:11:26.000 And we look at his criminal record, if I'm not mistaken, right, Connor?

00:11:29.000 He should still be in prison if he served his entire sentence.

00:11:31.000 Is that right?

00:11:32.000 But he was let out early.

00:11:33.000 Was he let out early because of Governor Bill Lee, Republican governor of Tennessee?

00:11:38.000 I'm just asking.

00:11:39.000 Well, the mayor of Memphis thinks so.

00:11:42.000 Play cut 85.

00:11:43.000 He said if he served his full sentence, he'd still be in prison today.

00:11:46.000 Play cut 85.

00:11:48.000 If Mr. Keller Served his full three-year sentence.

00:11:55.000 He would still be in prison today.

00:12:00.000 And four of our fellow citizens could still be alive.

00:12:06.000 He says the problem is not the Memphis Police Department.

00:12:09.000 The problem is the judicial system that will not punish.

00:12:11.000 You mean the Republican state legislature and your Republican governor of Tennessee?

00:12:15.000 He served an 11-month for first-degree murder that was pleaded down.

00:12:20.000 So much to talk about.

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00:14:00.000 Republicans are asking me all the time.

00:14:02.000 They're emailing me, they're texting me, Charlie, can you get on the phone?

00:14:04.000 My campaign's not doing well.

00:14:06.000 Talk about crime.

00:14:06.000 What advice do you have?

00:14:08.000 Now, the reason they don't like talking about crime is the local newspapers, they get really upset.

00:14:12.000 They say, oh, you're a racist for talking about crime.

00:14:15.000 Who cares what the local papers tell you about?

00:14:18.000 Protect your citizens.

00:14:19.000 You have people in Memphis going around doing random shooting sprees.

00:14:24.000 You got teachers being kidnapped at 4 o'clock in the morning, getting kidnapped and murdered.

00:14:31.000 And the mayor of Memphis, a Democrat, is blaming the state legislature and the Republican governor of Tennessee.

00:14:39.000 But it's obviously not just in Tennessee.

00:14:41.000 Memphis has a crime wave.

00:14:44.000 Chicago has a crime wave.

00:14:45.000 We're going to get to Chicago in just a second.

00:14:47.000 I got a whole thing to go on Chicago here.

00:14:50.000 But I want to just keep on repeating this point.

00:14:52.000 Republicans, November is not going to be about tax cuts.

00:14:57.000 Inflation is a big issue.

00:14:58.000 Crime, though, is an issue that is so personal.

00:15:02.000 It's so right up in your face.

00:15:04.000 And I'm going to walk through precisely and exactly what is the agenda as we go throughout this hour.

00:15:10.000 The agenda is not to have a safe society. 0.88

00:15:12.000 The agenda is not even to try to pander to all the BLM groups. 1.00

00:15:17.000 That's part of it.

00:15:18.000 Yes, there's bad ideology here, but part of this is being driven.

00:15:22.000 Part of Bill Lee signing in the criminal justice thing and part of Republicans always want to do this is white guilt.

00:15:31.000 The left, they are experts at weaponizing and utilizing white guilt.

00:15:38.000 Oh, you have white privilege.

00:15:40.000 That's why all of these fights about white privilege and white fragility are so important.

00:15:46.000 We go through this in great detail on our podcast.

00:15:48.000 We talk about postmodernism, post-structuralism, Jacques Derrida, Michelle Foucault, critical race theory, Derek Bell.

00:15:55.000 We talk about all the different philosophers and the ideas that have contributed to this nonsense that defund the police, there is no truth, let people out of prison.

00:16:03.000 Because we understand that ideas, these ideas are pathogens.

00:16:07.000 They germinate and eventually they could take over your entire society.

00:16:11.000 And some people just say, oh, Charlie, those are fringe ideas on college campuses.

00:16:15.000 No, those fringe ideas are now governing your cities.

00:16:20.000 It's policy.

00:16:22.000 Republicans, whether you're running for Senate in Pennsylvania against John Fetterman, who's a total joke, or up against Mark Kelly in Arizona or Raphael Warnock, every time that you get up on the stump, you need to say that I am going to be the harshest person on crime that you can imagine, especially people running statewide for governor's races.

00:16:41.000 We're going to lock them up and throw the key away if you are a violent criminal.

00:16:45.000 This entire idea of soft on crime, criminal justice, it is backfiring like you wouldn't believe. 0.81

00:16:51.000 And guess what?

00:16:51.000 No political party, in my personal opinion, is articulating this well.

00:16:55.000 Part of the appeal of Donald Trump, by the way, in 2016 was his tough on crime message.

00:17:00.000 You see, crime is an issue where some people are afraid to talk about it openly because they don't want to be called a racist, but it is an issue that can radicalize someone into a Republican overnight.

00:17:09.000 You know, everyone thinks that defunding the police is a great idea until someone defecates on your front lawn, your daughter gets kidnapped, or your neighbor's house gets burned down and looted.

00:17:19.000 And the person that did that is let off with no bail the next morning.

00:17:24.000 Play Cut 91, the surveillance footage appears to show the man accused of her abduction cleaning out his cars hours after she disappeared, play cut 91.

00:17:34.000 I don't think there's any sound here, but this goes to show the perp cleaning out his car after he kidnapped and murdered teacher mother in Memphis.

00:17:44.000 What is the Republican governor, Bill Lee of Tennessee?

00:17:48.000 Well, the direction he was going is, hey, guys, too many people in prison.

00:17:53.000 That's why Republicans are poised to lose.

00:17:55.000 If we are Democrat-liked, we lose in November.

00:17:59.000 Hey, we can reform prisons better than you can.

00:18:01.000 No, lock them all up.

00:18:03.000 You're a violent criminal kidnapping people? 0.98

00:18:06.000 You're done. 0.99

00:18:07.000 Sorry. 0.99

00:18:08.000 Think about how perverse you must be, how demented, how demonic, how evil you must be to kidnap somebody. 0.60

00:18:15.000 If you're kidnapping somebody, you want to talk about a gateway drug to other crimes, you probably are not going to all of a sudden become alter boy of the local diocese.

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00:19:37.000 There's something happening in Illinois that I think everyone needs to be aware of.

00:19:40.000 There is this act called the Safe Tea Act that somehow snuck through and hasn't been given the coverage that it deserves.

00:19:50.000 Now, Governor J.B. Pritzker, and I've made a couple promises.

00:19:54.000 I know, I'm not going to mention how J.B. Pritzker looks like a balloon.

00:19:57.000 I'm not going to do that anymore, right?

00:20:00.000 We're done talking about it.

00:20:01.000 I made a promise.

00:20:02.000 They said, a lot of people email that says, Charlie, stop making fun of people because of their weight.

00:20:06.000 You know what?

00:20:07.000 Fine.

00:20:09.000 I'm not going to say that J.B. Pritzker could have his own zip code.

00:20:13.000 I'm not going to do any of that.

00:20:15.000 Instead, I'm just going to say J.B. Pritzker was born on third and thought he hit a triple.

00:20:19.000 How about that?

00:20:21.000 He's a very big trust fund baby.

00:20:25.000 Never worked an honest day in his life, and now he's running what once was one of the greatest states in the country.

00:20:29.000 Now, anytime I talk about Illinois, I get very emotional and very heated.

00:20:36.000 And by the way, it should be that case for anyone's home.

00:20:39.000 Connor starts talking about Texas, he gets very fired up.

00:20:42.000 Andrew starts talking about Nevada, he gets really fired up.

00:20:45.000 Illinois is my home, and what they have done to Illinois is criminal what these people have been able to get away with.

00:20:52.000 So there's this bill that passed.

00:20:55.000 It was super quiet how this went through called the Safe Tea Act.

00:20:59.000 One of the sponsors of the bill is a guy by the name of Justin Slaughter.

00:21:02.000 Ooh, that's a very fitting name for the sponsor of the Safe Tea Act.

00:21:07.000 Justin Slaughter.

00:21:09.000 You can't make it up.

00:21:09.000 It's like something out of an Orwell film.

00:21:12.000 Yes, Mark Murder is the sponsor of the Safety Act.

00:21:19.000 And Hank Homicide was the final sponsor.

00:21:23.000 No, actually, his name really is Justin Slaughter.

00:21:29.000 Can't make this stuff up. 0.90

00:21:31.000 With a black power fist raised to the heavens, exclaiming that the passage of the Safe Tea Act. 1.00

00:21:42.000 So I want to make sure I understand this correctly. 0.91

00:21:44.000 The Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity Today Act, otherwise known as the Safe Tea Act.

00:21:50.000 See, they try to be super cute with their naming here, passed with the backing of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus.

00:21:56.000 This is back in January of 2021.

00:22:00.000 Beginning in January 2023, it abolishes cash bail.

00:22:07.000 Now, J.B. Pritzker signed this into law.

00:22:11.000 It is state law now.

00:22:13.000 There's Justin Slaughter, not to be confused with Hank Homicide or Mark Murder, who puts his black fist to the sky as the bill that will allow the slaughter of Illinois citizens continue.

00:22:13.000 And there he is.

00:22:28.000 The Safe Tea Act has not received the coverage it deserves.

00:22:33.000 Illinois is one of the largest states in the country.

00:22:36.000 Illinois has one of the largest cities in the world, let alone America, Chicago, and this has not received any sort of coverage.

00:22:45.000 All kind of goes into this theme.

00:22:47.000 Republicans, wake up.

00:22:49.000 Why are you not talking about this stuff?

00:22:50.000 So now, starting in January 2023, these offenses will be non-detainable offenses beginning in January 1st, 2023.

00:23:04.000 What does this mean?

00:23:05.000 If you are arrested for these offenses, you got to be let go.

00:23:10.000 What offenses?

00:23:13.000 Aggravated battery, aggravated DUI, aggravated fleeing, arson, burglary.

00:23:23.000 How about this one?

00:23:25.000 Drug-induced homicide.

00:23:29.000 If you commit homicide in the state of Illinois starting in January 2023 and you might have had cocaine or Adderall, no bail.

00:23:40.000 You're out.

00:23:40.000 You're done.

00:23:41.000 Back on the streets.

00:23:42.000 You can go commit more crimes.

00:23:44.000 You can do whatever you want.

00:23:45.000 Non-detainable offenses.

00:23:48.000 They are not allowed to detain you because of what has passed here.

00:23:52.000 So if they have fentanyl in their system, which by the way, many of these criminals get all souped up on drugs.

00:23:57.000 Now, I said Adderall intentionally, by the way.

00:24:01.000 It could be off-label.

00:24:02.000 It just says drug-induced homicide.

00:24:03.000 There's no definition of that.

00:24:05.000 It could be fentanyl.

00:24:06.000 It could be Adderall.

00:24:07.000 It could be cocaine.

00:24:09.000 It could be anything.

00:24:10.000 It just says drug-induced homicide.

00:24:13.000 It could be, by the way, it could be marijuana.

00:24:16.000 It could be psychedelic-laced cannabis.

00:24:21.000 Intimidation.

00:24:22.000 Kidnapping. 0.79

00:24:24.000 In January of this coming January, 2023, if you kidnap somebody and then murder them while you have cocaine in your system, no bail.

00:24:38.000 Robbery.

00:24:39.000 If you rob something, hey, you could do the trifecta. 0.73

00:24:42.000 You could rob a store, kidnap the owner, and murder the owner with no drugs in your system. 0.80

00:24:49.000 No bail. 0.96

00:24:50.000 Second-degree murder, no bail.

00:24:55.000 Threatening a public official, no bail.

00:24:58.000 All you have to do is give them a ticket.

00:25:00.000 If you break into someone's home, the police can't use force to remove them.

00:25:05.000 This is what's happening in Illinois right now.

00:25:08.000 Under the Safety Act, these suspects would be released to Cook County's neighborhoods.

00:25:12.000 Honestly, I don't know what newspaper this is.

00:25:15.000 I think it's the Daily Herald or Chicago Tribune.

00:25:17.000 Even the moderates in Illinois are saying, whoa, This is way too much. 0.99

00:25:22.000 Yeah, that's what happens when you guys elect these BLM Democrats by the name of Justin Slaughter, can't make it up, to go author your bills and no one pays attention. 0.96

00:25:32.000 And I will say this: this is tragedy for Illinois. 0.97

00:25:36.000 It's awful.

00:25:37.000 But for all of the Deerfield and Skokie and Winnetka, white liberal, obnoxious, smug liberals that elect Brad Schneider to Congress, you deserve all of this, honestly. 0.97

00:25:55.000 You guys are so smug. 0.99

00:25:56.000 You are so arrogant. 0.99

00:25:58.000 You guys are, you cannot have a conversation with these North Shore liberals in Chicago. 1.00

00:26:04.000 They're some of the worst. 0.78

00:26:05.000 And anyone who lives in Chicago knows exactly what I'm talking about.

00:26:09.000 And they're like, yeah, you know, we need to be racially equitable.

00:26:13.000 Black Lives Matter while I send my kid to North Shore Country Day and all white school.

00:26:19.000 Yeah, we need equity at Nutrier.

00:26:22.000 This is going over the heads of some people in the national audience.

00:26:24.000 For those of you in Illinois, I know you're loving it.

00:26:27.000 So these criminals will now be released under this.

00:26:31.000 How about this guy?

00:26:32.000 Michael Hawkins, 59 years old, charges of child pornography, sexual relations with a child, half a million dollar bail.

00:26:40.000 He'll be released under the new law.

00:26:42.000 Ivan Chapton, half a million dollar bail, residential arson.

00:26:47.000 He would be released under this.

00:26:49.000 Joseph Kamen, armed robbery and armed with a firearm, $750,000 bail.

00:26:57.000 He'd be released.

00:26:58.000 By the way, there's a whole list of these.

00:27:00.000 Larry Weatherspoon, currently in a Cook County jail for $1,000 bail.

00:27:05.000 He's been charged with kidnapping with a firearm.

00:27:08.000 Is that all?

00:27:09.000 How about this guy, Frank Wells, another outstanding citizen, $200,000, felony possession, use of weapon and a firearm.

00:27:16.000 Gregory Williams, felony possession, use of firearm, $200,000 bail.

00:27:22.000 Vernon Holman, $250,000 bail for armed robbery.

00:27:26.000 Why am I reading all this?

00:27:27.000 All of them would be released immediately.

00:27:29.000 The police no longer have the power with this new law that has gone into effect in the state of Illinois because of an all-Democrat legislature.

00:27:37.000 And then J.B. Pritzker, who will have armed guards for the rest of his life, will never have to live under these measures.

00:27:47.000 Founding Fathers warned us against this.

00:27:48.000 They said, we are going to be going in a dangerous direction when people can pass laws that they do not have to live under.

00:27:54.000 No cash bail is basically what got Chessa Boudin recalled in San Francisco. 0.59

00:28:00.000 And for all of all the people I know in Chicago that were posting the black square for BLM, you guys are all responsible for this. 0.53

00:28:08.000 Keith Kegel, domestic robbery and bodily harm, domestic battery, bodily harm, half million dollar bail.

00:28:16.000 He'd be released.

00:28:16.000 Keeps on going, by the way.

00:28:18.000 There's long, long, long lists of these criminals.

00:28:22.000 What is the point then even of arresting anybody?

00:28:26.000 What is the point even of having police?

00:28:31.000 So now we're going to transition.

00:28:33.000 What is the goal here?

00:28:34.000 The goal is not to get rid of police.

00:28:37.000 It's not.

00:28:38.000 They love political power.

00:28:42.000 While they are allowing, for example, murders to skyrocket in New York City, they're allowing murders to skyrocket in Chicago.

00:28:49.000 They're allowing murders to skyrocket in Portland.

00:28:52.000 What do they do today?

00:28:53.000 The priority of the district attorney of New York, the priority is not these sorts of measures, is these kidnappings, these murders, these arson.

00:29:04.000 The priority is indicting Steve Bannon.

00:29:08.000 It's a term we've used quite often here on this program.

00:29:11.000 Anarcho-tyranny.

00:29:14.000 Anarchy on the streets?

00:29:15.000 Tyranny against the political dissidents. 0.98

00:29:19.000 They will use political force and power to lock up conservatives, but thugs, criminals, child predators, pedophiles, arsonists, murderers, no bail. 0.98

00:29:29.000 But if you dare speak out in favor of Donald Trump, we will raid your home. 0.93

00:29:36.000 Listen in five minutes, but I'm going to do my best.

00:29:39.000 Let me just close the thought here.

00:29:41.000 Someone says really quickly, he said, Charlie, quit telling people, quit caring if people are going to call you a racist.

00:29:46.000 Just so we understand, being called a racist is one of the most powerful tools the left has.

00:29:51.000 People will willingly turn their communities into complete dystopian hellholes as long as they're not called a racist.

00:29:57.000 Got to stop caring about it.

00:29:59.000 That's number one.

00:29:59.000 Number two, what should the Republican message be?

00:30:03.000 Well, the Republican message needs to be very clear.

00:30:07.000 It needs to be that, here's the criminal, and here's what I'm going to do about it.

00:30:10.000 Now, a certain candidate for office won using this message and was attacked from every direction.

00:30:20.000 Remember the Willie Horton ad?

00:30:23.000 George H.W. Bush was attacked by Michael Dukakis and all this.

00:30:28.000 He didn't care.

00:30:29.000 He wanted to win.

00:30:30.000 He wanted political power.

00:30:31.000 By the way, they gave him like a state funeral as if a Pope passed away when H.W. Bush died.

00:30:37.000 I'm not saying he didn't deserve it.

00:30:38.000 I'm just saying it's just true.

00:30:40.000 But remember the ad that George H.W. Bush ran, PlayCut 93.

00:30:45.000 Bush and Dukakis on crime.

00:30:47.000 Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers.

00:30:50.000 Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison.

00:30:57.000 One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times.

00:31:01.000 Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison. 0.65

00:31:06.000 Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend.

00:31:11.000 Weekend prison passes. 0.92

00:31:13.000 Dukakis on crime.

00:31:15.000 And George H.W. Bush is lionized to this day for running that ad. 0.55

00:31:19.000 Republicans need to run that ad relentlessly.

00:31:22.000 There is a similar one by our friend Stephen Miller, who runs Citizens for Sanity, play cut 90.

00:31:28.000 For nearly 30 years, crime was falling in the United States.

00:31:32.000 No more.

00:31:39.000 The national murder rate is at its highest in 25 years.

00:31:45.000 The result of far-left policies that leave innocent Americans at the mercy of violent criminals.

00:31:51.000 Violent crimes up 21% in Washington, D.C., 35% in Chicago, 41% in New York City, and murders are up 207% in Portland.

00:32:04.000 And that's just part of the Ed.

00:32:06.000 Lock them up and throw away the key.

00:32:08.000 We're not going to reform prison.

00:32:09.000 We're not going to do this.

00:32:10.000 We're going to make your streets safe.

00:32:11.000 It is a civilizational defining issue.

00:32:15.000 Why are they doing this?

00:32:18.000 Okay, now we get to the final part.

00:32:20.000 Why are they doing this?

00:32:21.000 Why are they passing this in Illinois, where kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, drug-induced homicide, second-degree murder, arson, aggravated DUI, aggravated filling and eluding, and drug offenses, they can't enforce it.

00:32:34.000 They can't remove someone in your shed.

00:32:35.000 They can't remove someone in your business.

00:32:36.000 They can't remove someone to your home.

00:32:38.000 What are they trying to get at here?

00:32:39.000 They do not want to abolish the police.

00:32:41.000 They want to abolish local police and implement a national police force.

00:32:45.000 They want to turn the FBI and the IRS and all these other government agencies into a national, deployable, Democrat on-demand police force.

00:32:54.000 So they can go after people like Steve Bannon, but the thugs and the criminals and the people in the cities, they'll just become these sources of murder, of chaos, of destruction.

00:33:06.000 They do not want to abolish the police.

00:33:10.000 They want a police that works for them.

00:33:12.000 And guess what?

00:33:13.000 The local police doesn't work for them.

00:33:15.000 That's why they've always hated the local police.

00:33:17.000 The local police doesn't get carve-outs or favors.

00:33:19.000 It doesn't get their cousin drug dealer off the hook, but they know how to maneuver the DOJ for those things.

00:33:26.000 And by the way, we have to be more than pro-police.

00:33:28.000 We have to be pro-justice, tough on crime.

00:33:32.000 Someone just asked Charlie, what can we do in Illinois?

00:33:35.000 Well, unfortunately, very little.

00:33:36.000 It's going to come into effect in January.

00:33:38.000 You can hopefully get Darren Bailey elected as governor, hopefully take back the legislature, but it's probably not going to happen.

00:33:44.000 Illinois is cracking.

00:33:47.000 You can't be held with bail for kidnapping and second-degree murder.

00:33:52.000 The police will just arrest the same people over and over again, and nothing will end up happening.

00:33:56.000 But it's part of the agenda, which is they don't want to get rid of the police.

00:34:01.000 They want a police that is theirs, a national police force.

00:34:05.000 The spike in crime, they'll start to say, well, we need the FBI to go into New York.

00:34:09.000 We need the FBI to go into Portland.

00:34:11.000 They want to nationalize.

00:34:12.000 They want to get rid of sheriffs.

00:34:14.000 They want to get rid of local county prosecutors.

00:34:17.000 They want to get the federal government in charge of the policing business.

00:34:21.000 That's the agenda. 1.00

00:34:22.000 Create the chaos and bring in the federal government.

00:34:26.000 For any Republicans out there, if you want to win, talk about this issue.

00:34:33.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:35.000 Email me your thoughts as always.

00:34:36.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:34:38.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:34:39.000 God bless.

00:34:44.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 08, 2022

Murder In Memphis & Illinois Insanity—How to Reclaim Our Country from Violent Crime

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