On today's show, Glenn and Stu talk about the massive protests in Los Angeles and the police response to them. They also discuss the similarities and differences between the riots of the 1980s and the current protests in the streets of Los Angeles. Glenn also talks about the new California Governor Gavin Newsom and his declaration of war on the First Amendment.
00:07:39.160The moment we have feared has arrived.
00:07:43.840So everything that they have been building up, that Donald Trump is a dictator, that Donald Trump is going to take over, that Donald Trump is going to take away everybody's rights, that Donald Trump is going to use the military to put people and have them disappeared in the streets, that he's a failed dictator.
00:07:58.720All of this stuff, everything they've been planting, he's just announced, has arrived.
00:08:06.800Now, if that moment has arrived, what are you supposed to do about it?
00:08:14.700This is the biggest problem with my job, because I'm telling you, this moment has arrived.
00:08:57.380Well, we know Hamas yesterday came out and said, it's time there is no red line for any Muslim in America.
00:09:05.640It's time to assassinate all those who like Israel, help Israel, will stand with Israel.
00:09:11.620Kill anybody in the family of Donald Trump, anybody in the family of our vice president, to kill anyone in his cabinet and their family, anyone in Congress and their family.
00:14:31.580Good thing is, media is not that important.
00:14:33.680By the way, I have an announcement coming up in just a little while, at the top of the second hour, in just a few minutes, on the media and where they are.
00:14:44.300And gosh darn it, it couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.
00:14:47.280But, as they are, as they are lying to you, and feeding you the Gavin Newsom thing, feeding you, now yesterday, the Nancy Pelosi thing, where she says, and now, just like any dictator, California doesn't need it, and he's sending in the National Guard.
00:15:06.120It's fascinating how these people just think they can get away.
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00:19:44.860I was 19 at the time, and I was fairly similar, a little familiar with LaTosha Hawkins' verdict,
00:19:54.100but being 19, I wasn't really plugged into politics or current events.
00:19:58.400And then when things blew up after the Rodney King verdict, it came down on a Wednesday is when we saw the outrage from the black community.
00:20:09.740It was basically a community that had legitimate reasons to be upset.
00:20:14.580And there was a rift between the black community and the Korean community because the Korean community actually went into these black areas that were predominantly black and open businesses there.
00:20:25.960And we're doing business in the community.
00:20:27.280And because of the cultural differences between the two, there was a lot of, I guess you can say, built-up animosity towards each other.
00:20:36.320And that's where, I guess, that's the riots.
00:20:40.940A lot of the pensive frustration was targeting Korean business owners because of that.
00:20:45.840And it went on from Wednesday through the weekend until the National Guard showed up.
00:20:51.040But we were fending for ourselves by Thursday.
00:20:57.340And once it went out is when many of us answered the call.
00:21:00.360A lot of the misconception that online is that it was just Korean shop owners, which isn't true.
00:21:05.720There were a lot of young men like myself, 19, 20, 22-year-olds that went out there.
00:21:11.740And that's kind of what I'm writing in my book right now from that perspective, growing up in Los Angeles at that time and what the culture was like and who some of these young men were.
00:21:22.400One of them being Eddie Lee, who gave his life that week for the community.
00:21:28.920And, unfortunately, it was, you know, through friendly fire.
00:21:33.500And I detail that in my book regarding why that happened and who some of these, you know, young men were like myself and my driver who was out there.
00:21:41.660And we weren't always, always on, you know, we weren't all on the roof, which is another misconception.
00:21:47.780Some of us were out there where we were hunting.
00:22:09.020One of the largest gangs that came out of L.A. is MS, which is short for Mara Salvatrucha, which is a Salvadorian gang that started in the mid-80s.
00:22:18.880And a lot of them were shooting at these business owners.
00:22:24.840And some of us who had a background in the streets knew their territory and knew who they were.
00:22:30.440So we actually went into some of these areas to basically let them know, put them on notice that it's not just, you know, the older generation that's shooting at them, but we're actually going to be actively hunting them down, too.
00:22:42.620And L.A. is very layered and complicated.
00:22:44.720There's a lot of different pockets and neighborhoods where, you know, you have different ethnic groups.
00:22:50.360And the rule is that you don't go into other people's area and mess around.
00:22:56.080And you stay in your own neighborhood.
00:22:58.000You know, you'd be respectful of other people's, you know, different neighborhoods.
00:23:01.120You don't go there and just start popping off shots.
00:23:04.700And that's kind of what they were doing.
00:23:06.880And I'm glad to say that it worked out.
00:23:20.160You know, the Italians protected their neighborhood and don't come into the Italian neighborhood and try to stir anything up or you'll be in trouble with the Italians.
00:23:26.800And they won't mess with you and your neighborhood.
00:24:01.000So it's no longer a sense of vigilantism, but just protecting your own and then making sure that there isn't any encroachment into, I guess you could say, your territory.
00:24:11.140So I didn't see it as being a vigilante, but just, you know, maintaining law and order, somewhat law and order and some semblance of peace.
00:24:19.880And that was done through the barrel of, you know, firearm.
00:24:26.840Compare what you went through, you know, the Rodney King riots, the George Floyd riots and this riot.
00:24:40.620You had different parts of L.A. County that were upset and you had fires and looting because the black community was spread out through South L.A., Compton, South Central, Ladera Heights, different areas.
00:24:55.700And you can actually see that, you know, you know, when you look at the city as a whole from, let's say, Hollywood, you saw the fires from different parts of the city.
00:25:04.860These riots that are occurring now, like the 2020, what I call the Antifa BLM riots, now the 2025 L.A. riots that are happening down, they're very centralized and they're not organic.
00:25:19.660They're being funded by NGOs and it's a leftist Marxist agenda that's being pushed to make it appear as if there's a widespread support for this.
00:25:28.940For example, the current riots that are occurring right now, it's just happening in downtown L.A.
00:25:33.420And the curfew that was imposed by Mayor Bass is only for, I would, I don't know what off the top of my head, but I think it's a two square mile radius.
00:25:45.260I mean, anywhere outside of that one square mile, life is proceeding as it always has been and it doesn't look like anything is going on.
00:25:51.880Whereas the difference in 1992, whether you were in Hollywood, Culver City, which is further out west and then Hollywood is up north past downtown L.A.
00:26:02.100And obviously south of downtown L.A., you had fires, you know, looting.
00:26:23.020They're letting these these protesters spiral out of control because many of them, the playbook is for them to start in downtown L.A.
00:26:30.700at City Hall and then make their way down to the one on one freeway, which really pisses off a lot of people because that's, you know, it's it's it's a it's a highly traveled freeway in L.A.
00:27:32.200It is Newsom and Bass both say the riots are contained.
00:27:36.480They didn't need the National Guard, that this is Trump just trying to turn into a dictator, that this is their communities having enough of these people being disappeared on the streets.
00:28:04.440They lie about what's going on because of social media and because of, you know, the lack of reporting from the local news, which covers for the current leadership in L.A. County, including the mayor and the board of supervisors, the people that are not getting 100% of the news.
00:28:21.020And this is no different than what happened in early, early this year with the fires, with what was going on and to say it's Altadena.
00:28:29.020You know, they're not the news in order to get coverage for the local leadership and to get on their good side.
00:28:36.320They're not going to report anything bad that's happening.
00:28:38.800But currently there are, I believe, there's a class action lawsuit against the board of supervisors, the mayor.
00:28:44.420I think there's tons of lawsuits that are being filed right now.
00:28:47.460And the problem is, is that it's not these individuals that are going to be paying for these.
00:28:51.200It's the city and the county, which is going to be a drain on the budget.
00:28:54.880And it's going to affect social, you know, the social services that we need, like paramedics, firefighters, you know.
00:30:42.940Well, I'm finishing it up by the end of, near the end of this month.
00:30:46.460My kids are going to read it because the book is tailored towards the next generation, like Gen Alpha, Gen Z, because these are the kids that weren't alive at that time.
00:30:56.180And they only see what, you know, online social media portrays and then also, you know, what they may hear from the news.
00:31:03.580So I want to give them an account from being, from a teenage perspective at 19 in terms of what it looked like and how it played out.
00:31:10.960So my kids are going to read it first.