Your basic rights are under attack. In California, a new law could override decades of Supreme Court precedents protecting parental rights. Who owns the children? Is it the parent? Or is it the government? On today's show, Glenn Beck takes on these stories and more.
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00:01:13.740And Todd Benzman talks more about the colony in Houston that is the size of the District of Columbia.
00:01:21.620And we go over some of the states now that are much smaller than just the two million that came in across our borders in Joe Biden's first two years.
00:01:36.840They're bigger now, much bigger in most cases than 15 states.
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00:03:08.760And I want to start in California with an alarming new law that thinks it can override decades of Supreme Court precedents for the protection of parental rights.
00:03:21.700Because the question is, the question is, who owns the children?
00:03:32.080Is it the parent, which has been this way for thousands of years, except in communist China and communist Soviet Union and communist countries?
00:03:46.080That's it for, for, for, for as long as man has roamed the earth, parents are responsible for their children, but not in California.
00:03:59.220They want to force parents to affirm their trans children or else.
00:04:04.500It is a terrifying intrusion of government into the home and a major warning sign of even more tyranny to come.
00:04:12.860Now, I want to show you, this is the, the ATF, uh, the American Federation of Teachers, uh, Randy Weingarten.
00:04:22.140This is her talking about parental rights.
00:04:26.320Those same words that you heard in terms of, um, wanting segregation post-Brown v. Board of Education, those same words you hear today.
00:04:38.620It's not, you know, I was, I was kind of got smacked when I was on the, I was talking to Southern Poverty Law Center and they showed me the same words.
00:05:07.340Those words, you know, they come, they come together a lot of times in all kinds of different scenarios.
00:05:14.340So, she's talking to the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the most disreputable, uh, centers out there.
00:05:24.900It is, it is nothing but a leftist organization that is doing the bidding of the left and trying to, uh, whitewash whatever they want, whitewash and smeared whatever they need smeared.
00:05:42.440So, the Southern Poverty Law Center showed her parental rights akin to segregation.
00:07:34.960Can you imagine saying to the left, you don't have a right to know what I'm teaching and what I'm doing?
00:07:43.500If your child comes home and they say, by the way, I'm a Christian, I'm a devout Christian, I learned it at school, you, mom and dad, you're an atheist.
00:07:55.880I've already turned you in to the school, and if you say anything to me, they can take me out of the home.
00:08:05.580See, you have to look at it from all scenarios.
00:08:10.740You have to look at it from every aspect.
00:08:14.200You remember when we said the government has no place in anyone's marriage, do not redefine marriage, because then you have to redefine everything.
00:13:49.360I didn't want to spend all of my money living, paying for taxes for things that I knew would only make society worse and knew that it would collapse at some point.
00:14:01.620So I never got the beach of California.
00:14:07.080And yet now I have to pay for their mistakes.
00:15:10.660But since I was elected to Congress 11 years ago, I've served at Walter Reed and as a medical policy advisor, as well, obviously, as a congressman and a congressman on the Intelligence Committee.
00:15:22.900So now, tell the story to the American people, in case they don't know, about what is going on with the CIA and this bribe to the so-called experts.
00:15:36.980Yeah, so, I mean, a little background.
00:15:40.020As a physician, ever since the pandemic started, I'm looking into what's going on physiologically, how do we treat patients.
00:15:47.320But in that process of doing research, discovered that we were actually engaging with China in a lab in Wuhan to create gain-of-function viruses.
00:15:58.600That being said, with Intel Committee, I've been involved with this for the past three years, at least.
00:16:06.500And what has happened now is we have somebody coming forward as a whistleblower seeking full whistleblower protections.
00:16:13.360And that means, at this time, he wants to be anonymous.
00:16:17.480He came to both the Intelligence Committee and to the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, with which I chair.
00:16:26.960Obviously, you summed up a lot of them.
00:16:28.540But there was the CIA, in trying to figure out whether this came from a lab or from nature, put together a COVID discovery team, if you will, seven people, as you talked about.
00:16:40.600So, six of the people, they came to the conclusion with some level of confidence that this came from a lab.
00:16:46.640And the senior person, according to these charges, said it came from nature.
00:16:52.280Okay, well, you're entitled to your opinion.
00:16:54.300But what they ended up doing at the end of the day, releasing to the public and to the intelligence community, all they said was the CIA was unable to determine.
00:17:03.680Well, it sounds like they had a pretty high number of people that were able to determine as best as they know it.
00:17:09.160It is our responsibility on this committee to follow up on everything to do with the pandemic.
00:17:18.960The reaction from the CIA has been very serious.
00:17:22.240So, we're now seeking documents, communications.
00:17:25.620And we also have asked to speak with Andrew Macritus, who the whistleblower says was the chief operating officer and had a lot to do with constructing this.
00:17:37.900I hope that the director of CIA will be cooperative with us.
00:17:42.460But, you know, you hit the big question.
00:17:46.380I mean, why would they want to do that?
00:17:49.120I mean, this goes back to where Fauci prompted, I'm using their words, prompted a group of scientists to write what's known as proximal origins.
00:17:58.840Where in their internal documents, they're saying, oh, yeah, they're doing this type of research in China.
00:18:09.680And then they come out and say it came from nature and tries to make that definitive.
00:18:14.460Why are we not having a scientific debate?
00:18:16.840What is the reason for attempting to steer everything in one direction?
00:18:21.400And here's one of my concerns, Glenn, and I think you'll appreciate this.
00:18:24.320If this is true and we have, for political reasons or whatever, changing the notion of changing intelligence, what does that say to our international partners who rely on us for intelligence, who we work with together on intelligence, if our own intelligence department is changing things from what people actually did and said to fit a narrative that they want?
00:19:20.980And I would and I would contend that if we didn't have Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, it wouldn't have come forward at all.
00:19:27.940So this person had an opportunity to go to somebody that would seemingly would listen as a whistleblower.
00:21:42.880So we will continue to pursue and find the truth.
00:21:45.580And we have to suggest or legislate things into law that allow us to hold people accountable within agencies when they do things.
00:21:55.960And I use the example like this, Glenn.
00:21:57.720You know, in the military, which I served 25 years, we have the UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice.
00:22:03.900Unethical is unlawful in the military.
00:22:05.900In our agencies, unfortunately, and this is across the board, but in our agencies, if you violate some of your tenants or what you say are the rules of engagement within your agency, nothing really happens to you.
00:22:22.520Oh, you might get fired and then go work at CNN.
00:22:25.160But, you know, this is a problem that we have.
00:22:29.100And so we are trying on so many fronts to put punitive measures in place when violations are occurring, such as with the FISA court, et cetera.
00:22:42.480You know, the IG said 17 times things were violated.
00:23:22.320So, you know, on my particular subcommittee, what I keep saying and have said since the beginning is honesty and truth is non-negotiable and we're going to be looking for it and we're going to make sure that it is there.
00:23:34.280But if it's not there, we're going to point it out and hold people accountable.
00:25:36.760So, America needs to understand to elect people that are willing to make that change and get us back to the government that our founders set up.
00:25:45.220Representative Brad Wenstrup, thank you very much for what you're doing.
00:25:49.540Please keep us informed if there's any other news that starts to break here about the CIA apparently bribing members of the team, the experts on COVID.
00:26:04.620Good. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
00:26:57.020He has been talking about this colony in Houston that is getting all kinds of really special breaks if you want to, you know, buy a house there.
00:27:07.980And you don't have any documentation at all.
00:27:28.660There's no law against selling to illegal immigrants.
00:27:31.860If you're financing it yourself, you don't even need to ask for their credit rating or a history of income or any of the normal things to buy land.
00:27:46.460I mean, just, you know, thousands and thousands of people, Spanish speakers, mostly from Mexico, Central America, Cuba, really mostly Spanish speaking.
00:27:59.980And now there are probably on the order of 75,000 people that live in that area of about 60 square miles.
00:28:09.880And the majority of them, if you talk to people who live there and the immigrants themselves, as I have, knocking doors throughout that community, most of them are here illegally.
00:28:24.240And that's why they're attracted to this area.
00:28:26.740The other reason why they're attracted to this area is because they regard it as a safe zone, a no-go zone where ice will not tread.
00:28:35.880Local police don't like to go in there.
00:28:37.600They've been shot at firefighters don't go in there, very thinly patrolled.
00:28:43.220And all four cartels or at least four of the cartels are active there.
00:29:06.460And as far as, you know, like the Daily Wire just had a piece recently where they explored the question of legality and determined that, you know, what the developer is doing is legal.
00:29:18.100They're selling land to – it's not up to them to determine whether you're illegally present.
00:29:24.040And they're selling land to people owner-financed.
00:29:28.860All you have to do is be willing to pay 9%, 10%, 12% interest on that loan, which they're all willing to do because they can't get a regular bank loan.
00:29:38.400And then they put up whatever kind of ramshackle house or, you know, sometimes they're nice brick homes.
00:29:45.260But the whole area is sort of without ordinance or code enforcement, which I think is also one of the things that is appealing about it.
00:29:55.000You just buy the land and then you figure out how you're going to live on it.
00:29:58.960Like, some people have tents, I'm told.
00:30:11.540And then there are some really nice brick, stately brick homes here and there, too.
00:30:15.940Not everybody who lives there is an illegal immigrant.
00:30:21.680When I was knocking doors through the area, I did run across some U.S.-born citizens who just said, you know, we like having a little bit of land and it's cheap out here.
00:30:34.360But many, even they, would tell me that most everybody around them is an illegal immigrant.
00:30:40.800And I did meet some illegal immigrants who bought that land.
00:30:43.600And they told me that the appeal of it was that, first of all, you know, it's ultimately cheaper to even pay those high interest rates than to rent an apartment somewhere as an illegal because there's usurious rents get charged on illegals if you, you know, try to rent in a regular apartment complex.
00:31:05.600But this way, ultimately, the monthly is lower.
00:31:09.360And but if they miss a few payments, the landowner can take it back and resell it.
00:31:48.400You paid high interest rates, but you've defaulted and just get out and he can sell it again over and over and over and over again.
00:31:55.980Yeah, very, very high foreclosure rates in that that area, one of the highest in the nation.
00:32:01.540I believe it's a top 10 or 15 in the nation for that.
00:32:06.240But, you know, the real issue to me there is that there's a homeland security problem because it's very thinly patrolled.
00:32:15.100They have four or five bilingual officers that are attached to the Liberty County, Texas Sheriff's Department for, you know, 100,000 people.
00:32:43.800Of course, illegal immigrants are not allowed to own weapons.
00:32:47.340But there are cartels there, according to Sheriff Greg Capers, who lives in next door San Jacinto County and has declared a state of emergency from the migrant crisis.
00:33:45.700And how many people are coming to this place, you know, every year?
00:33:53.840Well, you know, I talked to the school superintendent.
00:33:56.780My book, my book that I published is called Overrun.
00:34:00.100The last chapter is dedicated to Liberty County, Texas, as emblematic of interior impacts and consequences from this mass migration crisis.
00:34:13.620The local school district was thirty four hundred a decade ago, K through 12.
00:34:23.740And I'm guessing these people are not paying local taxes, are they?
00:34:27.960Well, actually, they in this particular case, because they're owning property, the school district does it, but it's not enough.
00:34:36.760And they're constantly asking for because, you know, one property might have three or four families on it, you know.
00:34:44.520And so I talked to the school superintendent about a week ago and he said over the summer we had they had a twelve hundred student increase from the from the spring to the fall.
00:34:57.960And he says, we're getting about one hundred and fifty a week still.
00:36:38.580And I mean, most of them have children.
00:36:40.300I mean, you look at your local school districts first and start asking, why are they asking me for a bond election to spike my tax rate again for schools?
00:36:50.900But also, you know, nobody is insured.
00:36:53.680So they're, you know, the health care systems, wherever you are, whatever state you are, are going to be in the red.
00:37:14.360And the crime, I mean, we, yeah, how many, yeah, okay.
00:37:18.740Well, I mean, I could go on and on about that.
00:37:20.760I mean, horrendous, horrendous, horrific atrocities that are the kind of crimes that are going on.
00:37:29.200I mean, Liberty County used to be a place where it was like Otis got thrown in jail on Saturday night.
00:37:35.820You know, there might be a meth knucklehead here and there, you know.
00:37:39.380But now you have crimes like, you know, the guy next door walks over with his AR and slaughters a family of Hondurans, all five of them, including the kids.
00:37:49.960Or you have one guy chained two women up in his trailer and sexually abused them until he killed them both and, you know, dumped their bodies.
00:38:05.300Well, one of them escaped, tried to escape in a car and didn't make it.
00:38:08.920And he shot her in the car and burned her up in it.
00:38:11.820That kind of stuff is going on over there.
00:38:15.540A couple weeks ago, they just caught the cops about 20 miles from Colony Ridge vehicle with 26 kilos of, like, high-purity cocaine in it.
00:38:27.320There is heavy drug trafficking going on.
00:38:31.600There's lots of murder, lots of criminality.
00:38:35.740And I think that's really what you have to watch for.
00:38:38.420I mean, at the very least, our cities and states need to police this and make sure that they've got pressure on those law enforcement,
00:38:47.140real law enforcement pressure on these communities to protect them and the rest of us from what's going on.
00:38:56.680I guess the bigger, the big issue is whether this business model might be replicated by demand across the country.