00:01:30.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:38.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:19.000Have you noticed this disturbing trend?
00:02:21.000Whether it be in mayors offices or city councils or even on college campuses, it seems that there is a snitch culture that has been setting in across the country.
00:02:34.000It seems as if that there is a pattern of people in charge trying to incentivize and reward and encourage citizens turning in their neighbors.
00:02:47.000This kind of started as a joke on college campuses.
00:02:50.000There's a thing called bias incident report teams.
00:02:54.000These happen at major university campuses where students are paid money by the university to snitch and report fellow classmates that might be engaging in racist behavior.
00:03:07.000In fact, the University of Arizona had this a couple years ago, and this became a massive story.
00:03:17.000So, for example, I'll just read a couple of these.
00:03:20.000At Arizona State University, they have a filing of a report of misconduct.
00:03:24.000At Wittenberg University, they have a bias incident report team, a BIRT.
00:03:29.000At Wright State University, they have a bias incident reporting system.
00:03:34.000The Northern Arizona University has a campus inclusion team where anyone may report an incident of bias.
00:03:42.000So this idea of a culture of snitching and turning in your fellow neighbor starts on college campuses, but it's not staying on college campuses, which we say so often on this program.
00:03:53.000And we say at the work that we do at Turning Point USA that this idea of one person being rewarded to look not at their fellow countrymen as a neighbor or as someone as they should get to know, but instead as someone that if they see them do one thing wrong, they can possibly get money or prestige.
00:04:16.000If you look at the Soviet Union or even at the Gestapo or Mao's Red Guard, every totalitarian government needs a citizenry that is properly incentivized to turn in their neighbor.
00:04:34.000So, before we go any further and we talk about what's happening right now in America, we should ask ourselves the question: why?
00:04:41.000Why is it that Mao Seitong from 1966 through the mid-70s had his Red Guard?
00:04:48.000It was a student movement, best known as the Red August of 1966.
00:04:55.000He encouraged citizens to go door to door, to go neighborhood by neighborhood, looking to see who might be a dissident.
00:05:05.000This was now known in history books, or is well known in history books, as Red August.
00:05:11.000These were mostly students who called themselves the Red Guard.
00:05:16.000Why is it that totalitarian and authoritarian governments need citizens to do their handiwork?
00:05:24.000The reason is that the power of one person or even one government or one political movement is by definition limited unless they are able to enlist normal everyday citizens.
00:05:40.000We know this is the Gestapo or the brown shirts.
00:05:43.000It seems that there are limitations on what the Leviathan or the government can do.
00:05:49.000You see, this idea of snitch culture is now the next step in the authoritarian totalitarian power grab.
00:06:00.000You see, the constitutional framework that our founding fathers designed for us and the framers thought and prayed over so deliberately has limited the power of Joe Biden and Mark Zuckerberg.
00:06:13.000So now they have to explore other means.
00:06:15.000And this is why when you go on Facebook, they're asking you to turn in your fellow Facebook friends if they've been exposed to extremism.
00:06:25.000You see, tyrants require infantry to fulfill their demands.
00:06:30.000You see, just Joe Biden yelling aimlessly at the teleprompter is not enough to revolutionize the country.
00:06:36.000Instead, they need to enlist your neighbor, maybe your sister, maybe your cousin or your aunt.
00:06:44.000Remember when Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is the failed mayor of Los Angeles, famously said, snitches get rewards.
00:06:55.000This was encouraging community members to report businesses who were violating his stay-at-home order.
00:07:01.000Essentially, Mayor Eric Garcetti realized that he would not be able to implement a total and complete lockdown of human behavior unless he expanded the armed forces of the lockdown and got you involved.
00:07:17.000If you've observed recurring violations of the safer at home order, please continue to let us know at coronavirus.lacity.org/slash business violation.
00:07:28.000You know the old expression about snitches.
00:07:30.000Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.
00:07:34.000We want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe.
00:07:40.000Therefore, you should turn in your neighbor.
00:07:43.000Now, some people say, well, Charlie, what's the problem with this?
00:07:46.000It encourages citizens to become their own law enforcement.
00:07:52.000Well, snitch culture sidelines decent neighboring and relationships that otherwise would have existed, and the sort of morality that used to tie us together, and instead rewards the destruction of the common man.
00:08:06.000Instead, instead of a reward system that says you are driving your neighbor's kids to work kids to school or picking up groceries for the little old lady down the street, instead, the idea of what is good and what is considered to be respectable is looking at all times to see when someone might step out of line.
00:08:31.000You see, when you design a culture around the premise of tattling, around the premise of he's doing something wrong, you will perceive wrongdoing where it does not exist.
00:08:45.000Let me say that again: you will perceive wrongdoing where it does not exist.
00:08:50.000And let me re-emphasize this point: in this new Orwellian culture that we are entering, every single person will have something that could be held against them that can limit your freedom.
00:09:04.000You see, the citizens, your aunt, your uncle, your brother, or even your children will tattle on you.
00:09:15.000They will instead be divided into two categories: the allies of the party and the state, and the subjects.
00:09:25.000You see, this is a pattern of authoritarianism, which is a theme that we talk about a lot here on this program, which is studying the psychology of people that want more power.
00:09:37.000And the one attribute that always seems to rear its evil and ugly head is a small group of people needing to enlist normal everyday plumbers and electricians, teachers, and firefighters to then become the infantry of the party.
00:09:58.000They need to have these incentives and they need to create subordinates to enforce their decrees.
00:10:05.000And this is not just happening in Los Angeles.
00:10:07.000We're going to dive into this and how this idea of snitch culture is permeating everywhere.
00:10:13.000And instead of saying, Hey, you're doing something I don't like, can you stop doing that?
00:10:19.000Instead, it's, I'm going to report you to the government, to the state, to the Public Health Commission, and I will be given a merit badge because of that.
00:10:29.000The idea of what is virtuous in America went from acting with courage to now rewarding cowardice.
00:10:37.000It went from going into the street and preventing evil to now peering through your window and seeing it where it doesn't exist.
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00:12:56.000Aristotle famously said, It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence.
00:13:03.000You see, the tyrant claims a monopoly on such qualities for himself.
00:13:08.000That anybody who asserts a rival dignity or acts of independence is threatening his superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny.
00:13:16.000He hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority.
00:13:20.000It is also the habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at a table and in society.
00:13:28.000Citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.
00:13:34.000Aristotle 2,500 years ago predicted how tyrants and despots will use mass immigration and this idea of the breakdown of trust between neighbors as a way to assume control.
00:13:48.000You see, the goal of the Joe Biden types and the Zuckerberg types and the masters of the universe is they don't want you to go into a restaurant and see potential friends or relationships that can be made.
00:14:03.000They want you to go with fear that maybe the person sitting in the booth behind you at the local Applebee's, maybe the person sitting in church next to you is someone that might see you violate a thought crime.
00:14:17.000They might see you say or do something that isn't in line with the party.
00:14:21.000They might see that you are not vaccinated.
00:14:24.000Cut 32, Jen Saki, who is the press secretary of the United States, I guess you could, or the government of the United States.
00:14:33.000You see, we have to differentiate between the country and the government.
00:14:37.000I don't like doing that at all times, but there is a difference between the people running our government and the beliefs and the morals and the values of the greatest republic ever to exist.
00:14:48.000Jen Saki says that she will go door to door to Americans to see if they are vaccinated.
00:14:57.000President will outline five areas his team is focused on to get more Americans vaccinated.
00:15:03.000One, targeted community-by-community door-to-door outreach to get remaining Americans vaccinated by ensuring they have the information they need on how both safe and accessible the vaccine is.
00:15:14.000She will now, she says, we are going to go door to door.
00:15:37.000This idea of snitch culture, the government of the United States, the people in charge are going to go door to door.
00:15:44.000Now, I hope, I pray, I want more than anything else to have one of these paid apparatics that work for the Biden government to show up at our door.
00:15:58.000In fact, I would love to have one of the vaccine enforcement patrol show up at the Turning Point USA headquarters.
00:16:06.000They will show up and they'll say, Hello, we would like to tell you, we'd like to ask you whether or not you guys are vaccinated.
00:16:12.000Maybe we can give you some cash, some beer, some weed.
00:16:17.000And, you know, some people are saying, Charlie, what should I say in response to that?
00:16:20.000Now, here's what I will say to all of you.
00:16:23.000If you get one of these wonderful knocks on your door, film your interaction with these people.
00:16:48.000It is creating a template and a blueprint of how they can get the citizenry of the country to conform to their wishes and their demands.
00:16:56.000Snitch culture is now growing across the country.
00:16:59.000And the reason is that there are only so many government bureaucrats they can employ.
00:17:05.000And also, snitches are not bound by the Fourth Amendment.
00:17:10.000Snitches do not have to get a warrant to spy on you or to be able to search and seizure your personal items.
00:17:20.000You see, snitches, they're everywhere.
00:17:23.000And it creates and it breeds this culture of distrust.
00:17:26.000In the Soviet Union, you didn't know if you were walking into a restaurant, if someone was watching and listening to your every conversation.
00:17:37.000You see, when there is a lack of trust, it's also really hard to enact commerce.
00:17:43.000So you think about, there's a great story by my friend Vishal Mengal Waldi, who wrote a phenomenal book by the name of The Book That Built Your World.
00:17:52.000And he talked about how trust and private property are the two most important things to make sure a market can succeed, even more than low taxes and low regulation.
00:18:04.000And he contests that it's more important for an economy to have trust and fair courts to be able to, let's say, adjudicate differences, be able to say this is someone's property.
00:18:25.000There's a story that Vishal told about when it came, he tells about in his book, the book that built your world, about the difference between, I think the country is Denmark.
00:18:34.000No, it was the Netherlands, between the Netherlands and India.
00:18:38.000And he's an Indian telling the story, that he was at a church conference right outside of Amsterdam.
00:18:44.000And someone that he was getting to know really well said, hey, Vishal, let's go for a drive out into the country, 20 minutes out into the country, and let's just enjoy and let's get some milk.
00:18:53.000He said, okay, and it's kind of dairy country out there.
00:18:56.000And they went out to this specific farm and they pull up and there's no one there.
00:19:03.000And there's kind of a barn and you walk into the barn and it says, and it had a cooler full of fresh milk that was obviously from the dairy farm not too far.
00:19:13.000And it says, please serve yourself and, you know, pay five Euros or whatever the currency is in Amsterdam.
00:19:41.000It brings down the price of milk because then you don't have to pay for someone to serve it.
00:19:46.000You don't have to pay for someone to protect it.
00:19:48.000And then, if you trust everyone to give the right change and not steal all the change, it also you the customer trusts that the milk is not spoiled.
00:19:57.000So, Vishal is just stunned by this, and he grew up in India and he jokes around to his friend.
00:20:03.000He said, In India, not only would people steal all the milk and steal all the money, but they'd steal the cows too.
00:20:12.000And the point is that if you do not have trust in a country or in your community, it requires you to have all these other checks and balances.
00:20:22.000It requires you to put in all these other provisions that will raise the cost and will make it less likely for you to want to transact with your fellow neighbor.
00:20:32.000You see, the culture that is being advanced right now by the party in charge and by the people running our government is one that you're always looking over your shoulder.
00:20:43.000This is why you're seeing violent crime increase.
00:20:45.000This is why you are seeing people completely indifferent when women are getting raped and mugged on the subway in New York City.
00:20:52.000Not my problem, it's not the police's problem either.
00:20:56.000So, you start to see this slow-motion deterioration of your nation.
00:21:02.000And to reinforce this point, the tyrants know this, so they are trying to raise an army.
00:21:10.000You see, when an army is typically raised, they'll put posters out or public awareness ads: go join the military, the few, the proud, the Marines.
00:21:22.000Instead, they are raising a shadow military.
00:21:27.000They are raising up a shadow enforcement arm, a red guard that very well could be the person that just served you your coffee this morning.
00:21:38.000This was from last summer of Snitch Culture Just Beginning.
00:21:42.000Cut 30, Smirconish on CNN, on how the St. Louis governor, no, it should be mayor, not governor, the mayor of St. Louis asked its citizens to report businesses who are not following the stay-at-home order.
00:21:56.000In the last week of March, the St. Louis County government asked its citizens to report any non-compliant businesses via a dedicated email address or online form, the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Order Report of Abuse and Wrongdoing, which says, by reporting violations, you play a critical role in helping us make sure that everybody is doing their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by following the stay-at-home order.
00:22:24.000As reported by local station KSDK, within little more than a week, the site received more than 900 such tips from concerned people wanting to keep their community safe.
00:22:37.000The CNN report continues to explain how, when filling out the report form, you have to check a disclaimer that says your personal information may be released to the public.
00:22:47.000Let's play cut 31 of how our government on a local and state level are meeting their limitations.
00:22:55.000So they are now trying to raise an army.
00:23:03.000But the concerned tipsters perhaps didn't read the fine print on their complaint forms.
00:23:08.000Before you could submit the online claim, you had to fill out personal information, including, and then check a bunch of disclaimers.
00:23:15.000I have been advised that this form and any other communication may be considered an open record pursuant to the Sunshine Law.
00:23:22.000Somebody utilized that law to obtain the names, and someone else posted all of them online with the headline: Here you go, the gallery of snitches, busybodies, and employees who rat out their neighbors and employers over the panic demic.
00:23:39.000At Colgate University, students sent a memo encouraging them to report fellow classmates who violate social distancing guidelines and to include names so action could be taken.
00:23:50.000Similar instructions were sent out at schools across the country, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and colleges have even developed hotlines in place to report risky activity.
00:24:03.000So we know this has happened before, but let's go a level deeper.
00:24:07.000This is something that we always try to do here on the Charlie Kirk Show, not just tell you the news, but explain why and go into the philosophy, the psychology of the reason things are happening.
00:24:27.000The reason is that when you start to have a totalitarian government, many people want to be part of that team.
00:24:38.000You see, fear is a driving motivation.
00:24:42.000And a lot of people out there and many citizens, they don't want to be caught on the wrong side of a vaccine enforcement squad, show us your papers, which is what's happening.
00:24:57.000And so weak and cowardly people want to be on the winning team.
00:25:03.000And they are enlisted in the enforcement squad and they are told that they are doing the right thing for public health because the experts tell us to do it to go fight extremism.
00:25:14.000One recent example is a undergraduate student by the name of Jessica Zong, who hosted and attended parties while she was in college.
00:25:27.000While Cornell's university's mandatory COVID-19 educational training and common sense should have been enough to deter people from partying, so now there is a petition to kick her out of Cornell University.
00:25:42.000Now it says she's part of the 2024 class.
00:25:45.000That means they want to rescind her acceptance.
00:25:49.000You see, this culture is now permeating not just in public health departments, not just in social media actions, but also we are now encouraging and we are supporting and we are rewarding and we are platforming the next generation to not look at themselves and say, man, maybe I can make better decisions.
00:26:11.000Maybe I could be a better human being.
00:26:13.000Instead, to be scanning the horizon for anyone that might violate the rules.
00:26:22.000The rules might have been achieved in some sort of tyrannical fashion.
00:26:25.000But instead, there's always going to be a portion of the citizenry that wants to be on the side of power because their subconscious urge that they have yet to reconcile is they are afraid that if they do not take action early and be on the side of the state, that they might end up with the raid coming down their door.
00:26:47.000Remember, dictators always need to have subordinates.
00:26:50.000And when you design a culture around tattletailing, you will perceive wrongdoing where it doesn't exist.
00:26:57.000Maybe you want to get that extra merit badge of reporting in your best friend.
00:27:03.000Maybe you want to get the special ceremony where they say, well done, little Johnny, for reporting in your parents.
00:27:11.000You see, the idea of children reporting in their parents, that happened all throughout Mao's China.
00:27:17.000In fact, it is the pattern of tyrants to try to get children to turn against their parents.
00:27:24.000Did you know that this pattern, or did you realize that this template, this Marxist totalitarian template, means that your children will be told and instructed and trained to turn you in?
00:27:38.000Your children will be used against you in this new era that we are entering.
00:27:44.000Now, this is only the latest trend in a deterioration of trust.
00:27:52.000And the moment they no longer exist, then all of a sudden that vacuum will be filled with people who wish to preserve and protect their own power.
00:28:07.000Your best friend might end up becoming your biggest enemy.
00:28:12.000And this all stems from the limitations that tyrants and people like Biden and Whitmer and Pritzker have on their own power.
00:28:25.000Charlie Kirk here, and I've warmed you about home title theft, where criminals and cyber thieves remove you from your home's title and become the owner.
00:28:33.000I said you better get home title lock because it's coming.
00:28:36.000Well, if you're on Facebook, that big breach is here.
00:28:38.000Facebook has 500 million accounts exposed to cyber thieves.
00:28:41.000And according to a retired FBI cyber crime expert, everything criminals need to take over as the new owner of your home was leaked.
00:28:48.000That includes name, address, and personal information.
00:29:33.000And then I'd say, have you ever heard of Ivermectin?
00:29:37.000Did you know that this is an experimental vaccine?
00:29:40.000How much do you know about hydroxychloroquine?
00:29:43.000Do you know any loved one or friend that has got the vaccine and had an adverse reaction?
00:29:49.000Have you ever heard of anyone dying after getting their first or second shot in a very unusual way?
00:29:55.000What do you have to say about the Northwestern University student who got the vaccine, then had a heart disease and then died?
00:30:02.000She was 19 years old and she was a black woman.
00:30:05.000Does that life matter to Black Lives Matter?
00:30:08.000I would ask these questions and more, but the point is this.
00:30:11.000The only way to defeat snitch culture, the only way to defeat all of this, the enforcement arm, the knocking on the doors, and there is a proven playbook of this, is that everyone listen to this right now.
00:30:25.000And every time that you come across one of these smug, snitching tyrants, you have to call them out.
00:30:32.000You got to look in their eyes clearly and you have to say, you are what's wrong with our country.
00:30:38.000You want to whisper behind my back and report me to the authorities?
00:30:42.000Look at me in the eye and tell me I'm doing something wrong.
00:30:45.000This only ends when we stop being afraid that we will be turned in and we act with courageous action against the people that are trying to do their best to destroy the ties that bind us together.
00:31:41.000And right now we see this starting to get implemented, but I'll be honest, we are not seeing enough reaction against it.
00:31:48.000This only will change when we start to call out the snitches for what they're doing.
00:31:53.000All of a sudden, we should say, no, no, no, that person right there, they're going to report me to the public health department because they're too afraid to act with clarity and confidence and courage.
00:32:03.000And this is a law of nature and this is a rule of humanity.
00:32:10.000They hate it when they get called out.
00:32:13.000They hate it when they get brought into the public eye.
00:32:19.000You see, only when we start to give visibility to this form of corrosive culture will things actually start to change.
00:32:29.000You see, the tyrants and the people in charge, Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, Laurie Lightfoot, Bill de Blasio, who's a total disaster, they are betting and counting on being able to raise an army of loyal citizen sycophants who will do their handiwork in the pews of churches,
00:32:53.000who will do their handiwork around dining room tables at family gatherings, do their handiwork in college dormitories, who will do their handiwork in places that the government is not welcome.
00:33:07.000You see, they want to expand the government.
00:33:10.000They want the government to not stop at its constitutional limits.
00:33:14.000They want to be able to have people that you can see and cannot see as undercover agents working for the state.
00:33:25.000You see, part of snitch culture and part of what the tyrants want is to create almost a sleeper cell operation where you look around your shoulder, you look over and you say, is that person reporting me?
00:33:40.000And that only changes when the snitches are afraid of you.
00:33:45.000That only changes when the snitches are not given a reward, but they are given a punishment when they turn you in.
00:33:52.000That only happens when we decide to say that it is immoral and it is wrong, unseemly to make a profession or a career or to say you're doing something moral to turn in your fellow countrymen.
00:34:06.000We need a restoration of trust and the neighborly attitude that built America.
00:34:12.000And when that returns, the snitches will run to the hills and go apply for a job at the government, which is exactly where they belong.
00:34:21.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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