On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the riots in Los Angeles and how the Constitution came into play in order to protect and defend the people of the United States of America from the tear gas and rioting police.
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00:02:36.160So I was glued to the news this weekend, you know, not the tinfoil hat streaming from a basement kind of news, but the shiny corporate news, you know, the we've got a hair budget bigger than NASA network kind of stuff, you know.
00:02:56.760And they serenaded me with this heartwarming tale of mostly peaceful protests that were happening in Los Angeles.
00:03:04.240And it was truly inspiring, truly inspiring.
00:03:08.460Those politicians in California just keeping people safe and fighting for the average person, you know.
00:03:14.900Meanwhile, over the anchor's shoulder, it was like an audition reel for Mad Max Fury Road.
00:03:21.640I don't know if anybody caught that, you know, a guy in black block gear just yeeting a concrete slab at federal agents like he's, you know, gunning for gold in the anarchist Olympics.
00:03:46.220And I think what screams mostly peaceful is the cloud of tear gas.
00:03:52.360You know, maybe that was just some sort of dystopian, you know, vape ad that was running in the back.
00:03:59.140I'm not really sure, but with a straight face, don't worry, it's mostly peaceful, you know, aside for the part where it's totally and completely not kind of like say, you know, imagine that.
00:04:46.980I mean, yes, you had a very lovely dinner.
00:04:49.940You had an awful lot in common, but when he tried to put you in the ice bath, all of that kind of doesn't count anymore, you know.
00:04:59.640And I love the fact that they're calling this just spontaneous and grassroots because absolutely, that's what I was thinking.
00:05:08.060Totally grassroots, especially with their signs that say, you know, smash capitalism or whatever they were saying.
00:05:14.720I don't know if you saw this, but printed in crisp HD, you know, was, I don't remember what exactly it was,
00:05:22.200but it was like comradeskinkos.com where you can get a discount now, you know, for bulk riot boards.
00:05:31.320But it said the communists and socialists printed by, paid for by, I mean, they're proud of the fact that they're communists.
00:05:41.680And the flags, oh my gosh, it was so patriotic.
00:05:44.600Like, well, I mean, unless you were an American, you know, parade of banners.
00:05:51.080I'm hearing stuff in my ear, parade of banners from El Salvador and Cuba and Venezuela, the Palestinian flag that always screams peace to me, you know, you know, it was it was good.
00:06:03.920It was like they raided a U.N. gift shop and said, give me all the flags from dirtbag communist countries that are failing and terrorist states.
00:06:15.260Meanwhile, the news anchors, clutching their pearls and the PhDs in their creative delusion, insist these are just terrified everyday Americans.
00:07:21.600Politicians there working overtime so some trust fund Trotsky can Molotov a Dunkin' Donuts, you know, the only place you can get a decent cup of coffee.
00:07:34.180Wait, you're burning down the coffee shop now?
00:07:36.120Why are you burning down the coffee shop?
00:08:41.860This is somebody trying to overthrow the United States of America.
00:08:47.240You know, somebody should point out, hey, I don't know, setting buildings on fire, setting police cars on fire, throwing concrete slabs at police officers and government agents, probably not peaceful.
00:09:02.340You know, but you say that and boom, you're a fascist bigot, you know, or just, God forbid, somebody who notices things and is still attached to reality.
00:09:39.580Now, this all started apparently because we were going after these poor illegals that are here just because they're poor and they're, they're just looking for a better life.
00:11:14.540Then you have Jose Ortiz, 42, of Ecuador.
00:11:19.920He was arrested on Friday, served administrative deportation.
00:11:24.760His criminal history includes being sentenced for more than 11 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilos of cocaine.
00:20:41.880They take radical positions on immigration.
00:20:44.480For example, it led the 2018 campaign to abolish ICE.
00:20:48.520It currently leads the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, which gathers intel about enforcement actions and deploys activists to respond to, in other words, to put our police officers and ICE federal agents in danger by exposing them in advance.
00:21:07.160They also have strong ties to the Democrat Party in California.
00:21:10.720They have supported the election of Democrat candidates throughout its lobbying arm and throughout its history.
00:21:19.340It has a really close relationship with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
00:21:24.360The organization also has a close relationship with organized labor in the state.
00:21:34.640I'll have Jason give me an update on SEIU, the head guy of SEIU.
00:21:39.220If you followed me back when we were on Fox and back in those days on radio, you know the role of SEIU and how bad this organization really is.
00:21:51.500They are, I believe, they are just insurrectionists through and through, communists through and through.
00:22:00.320The organization also has a close relationship with the organized labors, which in turn, they become a major financial supporter of Democratic politicians.
00:22:12.000On Friday, CHURLA held a rally protesting ISIS enforcement actions and the arrest of the SEIU president for obstruction.
00:22:20.680Now, the incredible part is that CHURLA's activities are primarily funded by you if you are a taxpayer in California.
00:22:31.940We have obtained a financial audit shows that for fiscal year ending 2023, $34 million from the state, mostly through the Department of Social Services, accounts for 72% of the total revenue.
00:22:46.920This is nearly a threefold increase over the previous year.
00:22:51.180Now, all of this information is coming from, what's her name?
00:23:55.560If you are in doubt at all on what is actually happening in California, I want you to listen this week because this week and on Wednesday, our Wednesday TV show, I'm going to go through all of this.
00:24:14.600And I want you to have a friend, watch it, somebody who's not completely lost, but still maybe a little confused.
00:24:21.380They must understand what they're seeing is a show.
00:24:40.140Now, let me tell you about one of the guys involved in this.
00:24:43.160He's a billionaire from America, Neville Roy Singham.
00:24:47.760He is kind of a mysterious figure that made a lot of his fortune, in part due to his ties with communist China.
00:24:55.860He now lives in China and has emerged now as a key funder of the radical groups inside the United States that are pushing for the violent protests.
00:25:07.900And he's got a very strict pro-Beijing kind of script.
00:25:12.580He made his wealth by selling IT software business to an investment firm partially owned by the Communist Party in China.
00:25:21.580He is a major funder of a group called the People's Forum.
00:26:33.760And that's also who the Trump administration was looking to deport.
00:26:36.060So, the People's Forum has been a driving force behind the protests condemning the detention and possible deportation of the pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.
00:26:47.940There are scores of videos posted by the forum on social media detailing the group's role in organizing, promoting, attending, and leading all of the pro-Khalil protests.
00:27:00.620They did a rally outside the courthouse.
00:27:07.100Khalil's legal team has addressed the crowd at a protest organized by the forum.
00:27:12.620This is all from that American billionaire that now lives in China.
00:27:20.820The forum is led by a guy named Milano Delos Santos.
00:27:28.080And I'm saying that as white as a white man can possibly say it, because that's who I am.
00:27:34.020Also, personally tweeted multiple times to promote the forum-led protest for Khalil.
00:27:40.920Major patron for the People's Forum is the communist businessman, Neville Roy Singham.
00:27:47.260For months, we've been the target of a campaign that alleges our funding comes from dark money.
00:27:52.220A few years ago, we met Roy Singham, a Marxist comrade who sold his company and donated most of his wealth to non-profits that focus on political education, culture, and internationalism.
00:28:11.260Well, she's the co-founder of the radical left-wing group Code Pink.
00:28:16.020Her group touts itself as anti-war, but it's also very pro-China and very anti-Israel, pro-strangely pro-Islamists.
00:28:31.520The New York Times reported that Singham works in Shanghai, that his efforts are linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:28:39.400This is from the New York Times, that he has attended at least one CCP workshop on promoting the party globally.
00:28:47.480The New York Times also reported that he provides backing for the People's Forum.
00:28:51.440The Free Beacon has reported that key leaders for the forum serve in top position at Singham's Justice and Education Fund.
00:29:00.840The Free Beacon also reported that the network run by Singham is also behind Breakthrough Media and Dongsheng News,
00:29:10.580who both push pro-China narratives and whose content is re-shared by the forum here in the United States.
00:29:17.360Free Press also reported that Singham and Evans have donated over $20 million to the People's Forum from 2017 to 2022
00:29:26.120through a series of shell organizations and donor advisory groups, accounting for nearly all of the group's funding.
00:29:35.480The Free Beacon also reported in 2024 the People's Forum had encouraged anti-Israel activists
00:29:41.300to recreate the violent protests of the summer of 2020, just hours before the rioters' storm and occupied a building at Columbia University campus.
00:29:50.560So these are some of the people that are involved.
00:29:54.340Again, you also have the federal government involved.
00:29:58.680DHS, under Mayorkas, was also helping fund, I think it was Churla, wasn't it?
00:32:57.060I was on vacation, and I picked the wrong time to try to get some R&R.
00:33:01.280But as soon as things started happening, I said, you know what, this is what we've been waiting for.
00:33:07.460Because I was in Los Angeles earlier this year after Trump was inaugurated, and there were protests even then.
00:33:13.000I know that Democrats are saying, oh, if you get them to admit that there's riots, which has been very hard to do, apparently,
00:33:19.660they'll say, well, it's Trump's fault, but that's why there's unrest and disorder.
00:33:25.060But there was unrest and disorder in Los Angeles months ago in direct response to Trump finally being back in office.
00:33:34.220I was outside Los Angeles City Hall, and there was a big school walkout, and a big fight happened, and a high schooler got stabbed in that.
00:33:42.060That's not the fault of the president.
00:33:43.420That's not the fault of the National Guard.
00:33:44.900And so what's happening now, what I've been telling people is that Los Angeles specifically, especially in a case like this,
00:33:54.520they've been waiting for months for an opportunity to act out.
00:33:57.760You've got all the faux controversies over the deportations from the quote-unquote Maryland man, Garcia, and all that.
00:34:07.320And they've been waiting for their turn to be targeted so that they can, in their eyes, fight back against Trump and his administration.
00:34:16.980So, of course, that's not to say that ICE shouldn't be doing operations here, but this was to be expected.
00:34:26.080They have been preparing, and what has been playing out in the streets violently is exactly what they were hoping for because they want to, again, in their eyes,
00:34:38.900defend the community and fight back against fascism and racism.
00:34:42.980So, Julio, it's amazing to me because you look at the people, let me just give you a couple.
00:34:49.720One of them, 55-year-old guy from the Philippines, criminal history, burglary, four years in prison for burglary,
00:34:57.500sentenced to sexual penetration with a foreign object and to force an assault with an attempt to rape in the city of Pomona,
00:35:05.220sentenced to 37 years in prison for that, arrested on Saturday.
00:35:08.760That's one of the guys they're complaining about.
00:35:12.320Another guy, criminal history, includes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent or distribute five kilos of cocaine history.
00:35:23.660Another one includes sexual battery in Los Angeles, also sentenced for three years probation for receiving stolen product,
00:35:33.760obstruction of an officer, assault with a deadly weapon.
00:35:40.680I mean, all of these, that's who they picked up.
00:35:43.140These were not, you know, the regular people.
00:35:45.780How are the Democrats getting away with supporting the worst of the worst and everybody just looking the other way?
00:35:55.180I mean, I hate to just repeat kind of the meme, but it really, it's Trump derangement syndrome.
00:36:01.200Trump was great at moving the needle within the Republican Party on immigration and actually taking it seriously.
00:36:07.720The side effect of that was the Democrats said, well, we have to be the exact opposite of Trump, which is why the Biden-Harris administration opened the border.
00:36:16.080Okay, well, now that he's back in office, it doesn't matter.
00:36:19.640To them, it does not matter who they're picking up.
00:36:22.880They can pick up the worst person on earth, and they're still willing to fight tooth and nail.
00:36:27.340And we've seen that, you know, even before this operation here in Los Angeles.
00:36:33.340And this is really the fault of the mainstream media.
00:36:37.560This is the fault of Democrats in Congress.
00:36:41.000By whipping people up into a frenzy over every little thing whenever there's an immigration enforcement action.
00:36:49.660And so that's why I'm just concerned that this is going to continue, not just in Los Angeles, but elsewhere, whenever there is a big mobilization.
00:37:00.880The National Guard, he sent in the National Guard, and let me just give you the code right from the book.
00:37:07.900National Guard, President of the United States can send the National Guard into a state without a governor's consent, but only under specific legal conditions, constitution, federal statutes, and legal precedent.
00:37:16.640Give the president this authority, primarily in cases of insurrection, rebellion, or when federal rights are being denied.
00:37:24.520The request, without a request, Section 252, the president can send in the National Guard to enforce federal law if unlawful obstructions or rebellion make it impossible to enforce federal law in that state by regular means.
00:37:45.640The president then can send in forces without consent, rebellion, or denial of constitutional rights.
00:37:50.940If there is an insurrection or domestic violence that hinders the execution of federal laws or results in the denial of civil rights protected under the Constitution.
00:38:00.100I mean, it is very clear the president can do this.
00:38:03.800And in any other time in our history, everybody, all Americans, would say, yes, thank you.
00:38:10.860Send in the federal troops to stop this.
00:38:51.040And that's why I think it shows how the leadership is much more decisive this time around, supported by, I would say, by a better cabinet as well, who say, you know what?
00:39:01.760We're not going to wait for anybody to dither.
00:39:05.260Because, I mean, Minneapolis was, I mean, the reason why that got out of control, because Tim Walls just did not decisively say, okay, we'll send in the National Guard.
00:39:13.400And so this, I just really need people to understand that this is what the far left, in particularly Los Angeles, but also other areas, they've been waiting for this moment.
00:39:28.220And so I think that it sends a strong, clear message that, hey, we're not only going to send in federalized National Guards members, we're going to send in the Marine Corps.
00:39:37.660And, you know, Glenn, I was in the Marines once at one point.
00:39:54.720They got to get called back because it takes time to get worked up for a deployment of any kind.
00:39:59.600So, but it's just, it's unfortunate that all of this started because ICE and HSI were taking the people into custody, like you were listening, right?
00:40:11.500People that shouldn't be here, number one.
00:40:13.520But also, number two, while they were here doing these horrific crimes against other immigrants, primarily, but also U.S. citizens, too.
00:40:20.800So, I mean, I think Stephen Miller was, you know, I just saw his video again today when he was at the White House saying, you know, I couldn't pay any member of the media here to live next to these people, even if the house was free and you wouldn't have to pay any private taxes.
00:40:35.400We couldn't pay you enough money because you guys actually all live in these, in these actually nice areas away from them.
00:40:41.980And that's what really makes me upset is because that is absolutely true.
00:40:45.000They, you know, I worked in D.C., the bubble and all that, and that's absolutely true.
00:40:49.220No one wants to live next to these people, but because of their sensibilities and their misguidedness, they still think, well, other people can because at least we have the money to not do that.
00:41:01.100Julio, do you have any idea what Gavin Newsom is doing with all this?
00:41:04.740Because, you know, he spent the last few months trying to convince people he's, you know, right down the middle.
00:41:32.000You know, he's doing his typical posturing.
00:41:33.760But I think this, again, shows that in a time of crisis, you can either have a Democrat who's going to sympathize with the violent people that are ravaging American streets, or you're going to go with the other side.
00:41:45.360And I think especially because it's not just him.
00:41:49.040They released that letter, that statement from all the Democratic governors so that, you know, J.B. Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, you know, other people that might want to make a run in 2028.
00:41:59.140This is going to come back to haunt them because, surprise, surprise, most Americans don't agree with just letting rioters rampage through the streets while waving foreign flags.
00:42:12.640So I guess J.D. Vance is going to have to thank Gavin Newsom for providing him with more ammunition when that time comes.
00:42:23.740But, yeah, I mean, it just further proves that there's a reason why California isn't the state that it's currently in, which is not good.
00:42:31.140I, you know, I used to live out here at one point, and I understand why people love it, for its beauty, for, you know, for what it was, but it is far from that today.
00:42:43.940And that is directly because of the policies in times of peace and in times of chaos.
00:43:04.200I mean, it's kind of crazy that the call to action yesterday was so early in the day because usually these things are kind of reserved towards more of the evening because in the evening they can get away with more stuff.
00:43:15.460So we're still waiting on a word to see what kind of the time is.
00:43:21.400But, no, I think things are to be expected to continue.
00:43:25.420And it just depends on how many additional resources are put into the Los Angeles area.
00:43:36.600I know that the reporting is 500 Marines with, you know, 2,000 National Guardsmen.
00:43:43.020We didn't really see the National Guard out there, and that's just because under their rules they are mainly protecting federal locations.
00:43:53.240And that does free up officers to, you know, take care of the rioters locally.
00:43:56.600But in my opinion, I don't think it's going to really truly end in terms of the violence.
00:44:03.560Obviously, people can protest peacefully.
00:44:06.000But in terms of the violence, I don't think it's going to end until there is a massive response because Los Angeles is a big city, right?
00:44:14.700So, sure, you can secure the downtown area, but if something happens in Santa Monica or Glendale or, you know, wherever, that's going to – you're going to have to draw those resources and those personnel away and then exposing what they were once securing, or you're going to have to bring in more people so that you have all your bases covered.
00:44:33.880It is – it's absolutely incredible to watch.
00:44:37.860And if he does send in the troops, you're going to see Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis and everybody else start to react exactly the same way.
00:44:47.980I mean, I think this is – you know, have you seen any of the coalition between the Palestinian, Islamicist, communist, socialist kind of activity?
00:45:01.300Because this all seems to be rolled into one, and I think this is their – I think this is their tactic to get them to 2028, quite honestly.
00:45:11.340It's just set the whole country on fire.
00:45:15.260I mean, yeah, because this is – these are always a coalition of far-left beliefs when it comes to racism, imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy.
00:45:24.800I mean, to them, it's all one and the same.
00:45:27.300So, yeah, we saw a few Palestinian flags, saw a few keffiyehs, people wearing to cover their faces, and some of the graffiti, you know, that makes passion, you know, mentions that issue.
00:45:41.300And, of course, it's like, oh, well, I'm glad we didn't forget that because, you know, clearly that hasn't been given enough attention these past two years.
00:45:48.280But, no, I think you're right, and we're seeing in other cities the same kind of far-left network promoting protests.
00:45:56.840I saw one that's supposed to be in Chicago.
00:45:58.580There's one that's supposed to be in Tampa.
00:46:00.220I don't expect Tampa to get out of control because they actually take care of riders head-on.