Today on the Glenn Beck Radio Program, we wonder if Antifa is the group to blame for the violent riots across the country, and also, Glenn speaks with Joe Green, who stood his ground during the riots by trying to defend his business. Also, Glenn spends an hour listening to Pat Gray to find out how he's doing during these crazy times, as we discuss Drew Brees' second apology video after he was attacked for standing up for something he believes in. According to The Hill, it looks like, this is not surprising.
00:01:25.380You know, I know we were going to talk about Tony Timpa, and we will, because it's really important what you've exposed here.
00:01:32.920But I just want to ask you, as I think this is a very relevant question, and your book handles this well.
00:01:38.940What do you mean by The Church of Cowards?
00:01:41.240Well, I mean, you know, when we look around at the church in the country today, I think it's pretty clear to most Christians that, you know, it's a church infected by not just cowardice,
00:01:56.700but I think complacency, you know, people's spiritual complacency, where we're just sort of floating along on the tide of the culture.
00:02:04.960And, of course, I wrote this book before the lockdowns and everything else happened, but everything that we've seen in the last few months has only, unfortunately, I think, sort of proven my point,
00:02:14.200especially as prisons have been shut down and so many of us as Christians have just sort of gone along with that as our First Amendment rights were totally obliterated on a basis that, by the way,
00:02:26.680has now been exposed as a total sham, because, of course, they've thrown all that to the side for the protest.
00:02:31.360So, unfortunately, I hate to say, you know, I've been proven right by this, but I think I have been.
00:03:48.240But I also think we should keep in mind that we shouldn't forget that there have been riots and mass looting and violence at BLM protests for years now.
00:03:59.320I mean, before Antifa was as prominent as it is now.
00:04:03.080Have we forgotten Ferguson, Baltimore?
00:04:05.000We've forgotten Dallas, where five police officers were executed at a BLM protest.
00:04:08.480So there's a weird thing that I've noticed among some conservative commentators, where it seems like they're trying to absolve BLM of any guilt and put this all on Antifa and say, well, they're coming in and doing the rioting and looting.
00:04:20.560I know that they're partially responsible.
00:04:22.340But why are we pretending that Black Lives Matter has not also been a violent movement from its inception, from day one?
00:11:29.860It actually did happen to Daniel Shaver on his knees, begging for his life saying, don't kill me.
00:11:33.720And they shot him white man, you know, and, and this kind of thing happens all the time.
00:11:37.560The important point is that the police brutality is a real problem.
00:11:41.220In my opinion, there's a real problem with the way sometimes the police go about things,
00:11:44.760even though it's a minority of cases, but it does happen.
00:11:47.500I don't think there's any reason to believe at all, actually, that it's racially motivated.
00:11:51.960I don't think it has anything to do with race.
00:11:53.480The vast majority of cases, I think it's, it's, you know, power trip.
00:11:57.660I think it's sometimes police officers don't value human life as much as they should.
00:12:01.060And then also sometimes this idea that, you know, there, there, there are some cops who don't want to take any chances at all with their own lives, none at all.
00:12:08.300And so they'd rather kill you than take any chance whatsoever.
00:12:11.380Now, fortunately, most cops don't operate that way.
00:12:15.080And I think that's what leads to Daniel Shaver, Tony Tempo, George Floyd, and many of these other cases.
00:12:20.240If we're going to go further than that and say that this person was killed because of their race, because this cop hated him because he was black, you're going to need some evidence for that.
00:12:28.900And the evidence cannot be that the person died, because we know that happens to white people, too.
00:14:14.840And if we want to really, if we're serious about addressing the problem, then we have to first diagnose it correctly.
00:14:22.360And if we're insisting on this racial narrative, then we can't possibly diagnose it correctly.
00:14:26.800Because then if we're saying, well, this is all racial, then what the hell are we going to say about Tony Tempo and Daniel Schaefer and the others?
00:14:35.380How does that, that doesn't fit with the theory.
00:14:37.660So there's obviously something else going on here.
00:14:40.640And I think I just, I think that's how we have to look at it.
00:14:43.880And, you know, by the way, you know, twice as many white people are killed by cops every year as black people.
00:14:49.300Of course, there are many more white people in the country.
00:14:52.520But it's still, if that's not, if it's true that cops are racist out hunting for black people to kill, which is what we're told by BLM, you would not expect, based on that theory, to find out that there are twice as many white people killed by cops.
00:15:07.460It just, it doesn't work with the racist cop theory, does it?
00:15:11.420And so, again, I think it just means that we need a different explanation other than the racial one to get to the bottom of the police brutality issue.
00:15:20.980Host of the Matt Walsh Show on the Daily Wire, good friends of ours, Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, the Matt Walsh Show.
00:17:49.800And if I ever do hear those people, I immediately correct them and distance myself from them.
00:17:55.000And there's nothing I can do to alleviate racism in my life other than to, quite frankly, overcorrect and give preferable treatment to blacks or other minorities.
00:18:06.900Which I find myself doing here and there, I guess, but I don't think it's fair.
00:18:14.640I'm not posting the black box, but that just means I'm sick of the mob.
00:20:40.020I need to know why you busted my door in, where the warrant is.
00:20:44.580First of all, because you need to, I don't care what kind of call you got outside from anybody walking around outside.
00:20:48.880You need a warrant to bust my door in.
00:20:50.880I just had four cops with AR-15s in my front door and busted it down because somebody called them, said a Hispanic male had an AK-47 or whatever.
00:21:01.660And that's all, that's all the information you need to bust my door down.
00:21:20.860You have no right to bust my door down without a warrant.
00:21:23.700Even if I did have an AK-47 in here, I am fully within my rights to own an AK-47.
00:21:28.660AK-47, a volume is not an automatic, an automatic firearm weapon.
00:21:32.540This guy is ranting and raving, but he's right because the cops broke his door down because they said they had a, a very vivid description.
00:21:42.120When asked what the vivid description was, a Hispanic, listen to him here, under normal circumstances, a warrant is not needed.
00:22:20.560We should have been marching in the streets peacefully until people are fired in the Justice Department and the FBI for the abuse of power and the corrupt procedures that they have used to frame innocent people in Washington, D.C.
00:22:41.080Over the last 10 years, I've seen personally how the wheels of justice can grind a man, a race, or just people with political differences down into dust.
00:23:11.400But they're facing being maimed or being killed, and those good cops should be supported 1,000% and deserve our respect and be held up as the heroes that they are.
00:23:22.560They do things that you wouldn't want to do and I wouldn't want to do.
00:24:07.940Now, that doesn't solve all the problems because I know a lot of white people that have gotten into a lot of trouble for going out and peacefully protesting coronavirus.
00:24:20.560So, I know this is a couple-a-week thing or a couple-a-month thing, and it's been going on with blacks forever in America.
00:24:30.940But I don't care what it looks like or who that person looks like when they come to kick down the door or to ask you questions to make you feel like a criminal when you're not.
00:31:11.300Doesn't that make you, doesn't that make you almost a pariah in California?
00:31:17.460Well, a lot of people frown on it, you know, because you have a lot of liberals out here that just, you know, you should just lock up and that's what your insurance is for.
00:31:27.120Well, insurance doesn't cover that, you know.
00:31:34.640So, you went in about three o'clock in the afternoon is when you started thinking trouble is coming and it came shortly after your windows were smashed.
00:31:44.740And by the time you got there, people were starting to smash more and try to get in and grab things.
00:31:49.620But you didn't go home, the authorities didn't actually arrive until the National Guard arrived at, what, about four o'clock in the morning?
00:32:10.520It got really dicey and I, you know, I have friends out here and customers that were standing with me and I would never be able to live with myself if anything happened to any one of them, you know.
00:32:26.580So, I'm just glad it turned out how it did.
00:32:28.800I want to get to the ending of this story here in a second, but I want to ask you, how do Californians and business people react when you've been told by the governor and specifically the mayor of Los Angeles has been, I think, one of the worst,
00:32:48.240is that we're not fully going to be reopened until there's a cure for coronavirus.
00:32:54.480They've been arresting people that have been surfing on the beaches.
00:32:57.500They've kept stores closed, all because of coronavirus.
00:33:01.480And now, they're saying that it's okay, and in fact, the mayor of Los Angeles is marching down the street with the protesters at times without a mask.
00:33:13.980It's like a double standard, you know.
00:33:16.400It's just like, you know, you tell the stores that are open that you have to have social distancing and you have to wear a mask.
00:33:23.300But you can gather in these humongous, I mean, I couldn't, probably 5,000 people down there on Sunday.
00:33:33.080Nobody, you know, most wearing masks, but a lot not wearing masks and not social distancing.
00:33:39.180And, you know, it's just, and then, you know, like you were saying, you know, the mayor, and it's just put a lot of businesses in dire straits.
00:33:52.480I mean, they're struggling to make it.
00:33:54.280So, what do people in California that you know, Joe, say of this?
00:33:59.620Because I think there's a lot of people around the country that say, wait a minute, I do believe the coronavirus was real.
00:34:06.440But did they just take advantage of this?
00:34:10.000Why are doctors now coming out and saying that, you know, racism is a plague on humanity, and so if you're going to protest racism, that's more important than the coronavirus?
00:34:23.780How are doctors saying these things when so many people have lost their jobs or lost their businesses?
00:34:32.520How do you reconcile this in California with your leadership?