Ep. 505 - Law And Order Is Officially Dead
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Summary
On this episode of the Matt Walsh Show, host Matt Walsh talks about the shooting of a man who tried to take down a statue in New Mexico, and how it shows that law and order is officially dead in America. Also, the Supreme Court has discovered transgenderism in the Civil Rights Act, and the left attempts to cancel a man's fishing license because they don't like the shirt he wore while fishing.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we are told that an armed right-wing militia member shot a, quote,
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protester who was trying to tear down a statue. But there's a lot more, a lot more to this story,
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and we're going to talk about it. And I think what this story really shows is that law and order is
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officially dead in America. If you thought that already happened, well, maybe it did. But this is
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the thing that really makes it clear. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the
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left's attempts to cancel a man because they don't like the shirt that he wore while fishing
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over the weekend. And also, the Supreme Court has magically discovered transgenderism in the Civil
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Okay, law and order is officially dead in our country. It's finished. It's done,
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I'm afraid to say. It's one thing to have rampaging mobs in the streets. That's bad enough. It's
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another thing to have law enforcement and state authorities who will not enforce the law against
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that mob. Those are both bad situations, bad and worse situations. But it's still another thing
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for law enforcement and state authorities to not only refuse to enforce the law against these mobs,
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these criminals, but to actively protect the criminals. And that's where we are now. We've
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gotten all the way to that point. The law is not just neutralized. It has been twisted,
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perverted, and is now being wielded in favor of, at the behest of, according to the demands of,
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the mob. And that's the death of law and order. It's over. And that's where we are.
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So here's an example, the latest example, and it's a doozy. In New Mexico, a now familiar sight
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began to unfold yesterday. A gang of criminals, a gang of vandals, a gang of terrorists decided they
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were going to pull down a statue. This one was of a conquistador, but they don't like. Conquistador
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500 years ago, they're still upset about it. 500 years later, these people, they're still mad about
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this conquistador. 500 years. Half a millennium later, they're mad. Now, their problem with this
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particular statue, actually, you know what? I don't care what their problem is. Their problem
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doesn't matter. I was going to go into the explanation of the history. You know, I don't
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care. You shouldn't care. I don't care. Mobs who tear down statues should be defied, ignored,
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tamped down, resisted, arrested. I don't care why they don't like the statue. I really don't.
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In fact, if I were in charge, I'd keep the statue up and build another one. I would say,
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oh, you don't like this statue? Okay, we'll build a second one then. And it's going to be,
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it's going to be twice as big. Just to spite you. That's what we're going to do.
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You know, I, I would, I would, this is what I would do. In fact, I'm going to run for president.
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And my sole campaign promise is this. I'm going to build a, I'm going to build 300 foot statues of
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Columbus in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Austin, and New York. That's what I'm going to do.
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And then I, and then I'll resign. That's, that's the only thing I want to do as president.
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And that's the right way to respond. I mean, I'm only half joking. In fact, I'm not joking at all.
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That's how you respond to mobs. As I've argued, no matter how you feel about any of these statues,
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and I personally like most of them, especially the ones of Columbus. I love those because he's one of
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the great men of history. But no matter how you feel, even if you hate the statues, you should
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oppose pulling them down at the behest of a mob. And you should especially oppose the mob doing it
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themselves. For the sake of law and order, for the sake of good sense and decency and civilization,
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you should oppose that. Okay. We want to have a conversation about a particular statue,
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not in a panic. Okay. We're not all coming together in a panic. Oh no, the mob doesn't
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like it. We have to do something about a statue. No, no. I mean, if you want to have a reasonable
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discussion about a statue and talk about it, we can do that. You start grabbing the ropes and the
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chains and spray painting and defacing and crying and screaming. It's the discussion's over. We're not
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talking about it now. It's the same thing I say to my kids. You know, if you have a problem with
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something that's happening, if you don't like something, we can talk about it. But if you come
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here stomping your feet, and if you scream, and if you're not polite, and if you don't talk to me the
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way you're supposed to, we're not going to have a discussion. That's what I have to say to my kids.
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You know, my seven-year-olds, I have to say this to them. No matter what you want to talk about,
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if you're approaching me like that, we're not going to discuss it.
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So a lot of times I have to say to them, you know, when they come stomping up and screaming,
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I have to say, no, leave the room. Try that again. Walk back to me without stomping. Wipe the look
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off your face and talk to me politely with respect, and then we'll discuss. That's what we need to be
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saying to the mob, because these are a bunch of children. These are a bunch of toddlers.
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They have less maturity than my seven-year-olds do. Probably because my seven-year-olds have the
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advantage of parents. You know, me and my wife. We're parenting them. A lot of these overgrown
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toddlers never had that. In any case, the mob showed up for this statue. As per usual, law
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enforcement did nothing. Refused to enforce the law. Tearing down statues is illegal. I feel like I have
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to keep repeating that, because you can forget that part of it, but it is actually illegal to do this.
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It is, in fact, a felony to do this. To destroy property, in most states, destroying property
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that's over $500 in value is a felony. These statues are priceless. These are priceless works of art
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that were handmade by artists years ago, centuries ago in some cases.
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But state and official, state and local officials, law enforcement, they're sitting back and letting
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them do it. So a group of armed citizens being called vigilantes, I believe they would call
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themselves militia, came to defend the statue. And this is what happens. When the government refuses
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to uphold the law, people take matters into their own hands. Don't want that to happen.
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I don't want that to happen. But do you know how you stop that? If you're a government official,
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if you're in law enforcement, if you're a police chief, you do your damned job. You don't just sit
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back and complain about vigilantism. Don't sit there and refuse to enforce the law and welcome chaos and
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anarchy and violence in the streets. And then scold the vigilantes who step in or take advantage or
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however you want to put it. Enforce the law. That's how you solve the vigilante problem. That's how you
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solve the problem of the rampaging mob. You solve all those problems by enforcing the law.
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Now, so we've got the criminal vandals committing a felony. We've got the armed militia responding.
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Things, of course, go sideways. What do you think's going to happen? And what we're being told by the
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media is that one of the armed, quote unquote, vigilantes ended up firing into the crowd,
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shooting a, quote, protester. You know, this is how it's sort of being characterized.
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The Albuquerque police chief, who, again, had no interest in upholding the law and preventing
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violent criminals from defacing public property and tearing down a priceless work of art just because
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it gave them the sads and it made their tummy hurt, is now coming out forcefully against the
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militia. He said, the police chief says, we are receiving reports about vigilante groups possibly
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instigating the violence. If this is true, we will be holding them accountable to the fullest extent
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of the law, including federal hate group designation and prosecution.
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Here's what the governor said. Let me see if I can pull that up. Michelle Grisham says,
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although we're still learning more about the situation, I'm horrified and disgusted beyond
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words by the reports of violence at the protest Monday night in Albuquerque. The heavily armed
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individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a civil guard, were there for
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one reason, to menace protesters to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force. To menace the
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people of New Mexico with weaponry is on its face unacceptable. That violence did indeed occur
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is unspeakable. Unspeakable, she says. Now, did we, in fairness, I haven't checked.
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Something tells me, though, that Governor Michelle Grisham has not, there's not going to be much of her
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speaking that forcefully against the, you know, left-wing mobs that have burned down buildings and
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assaulted people and thrown Molotov cocktails at police officers. Has she come out and called that
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violence unspeakable? Has she denounced them in terms that strong? If she has, then great.
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I somehow doubt that she has. Most Democrat governors have not. But she also says their actions are
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unsanctioned. Okay. What about the mob that's there committing the crime of tearing down the statue?
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Is that sanctioned? She's, she's calling this a protest. Governor, they're committing a crime in
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your state. And you're calling that a protest. And if committing crimes can be a protest, then why
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can't a, why can't a vigilante group say that they're, this is a protest on their part?
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Now, um, okay, let's, so let's, this is how it's all being characterized. Let's go to the video
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and see the actual incident itself. Here it is.
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What you see right there to me is clear cut self-defense. The guy, I don't know his name,
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blue shirt guy, we'll call him, is retreating. They attack. He shoots. Self-defense. Okay. He's,
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he's, uh, uh, in fact, he's, he's attacked. He's hit by a, someone with a skateboard. He retreats.
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They're pursuing him. They continue to attack. Finally, he's tackled. And then the, and then the
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shot is fired. That would seem to me to be self-defense. What happened right before that? Well,
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here's the lead up to what you just saw. And I think that, I think this, this fills in all the
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gaps and we have the, the, basically the whole context of everything. So what, here's what led
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Was it necessary for him to do that? No. Should he have done it? No. But we should also keep in mind
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that this mob again is committing a felony. Um, this woman is initiating contact, blocking his path
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in order to assist in the commission of this crime. These are not, there are no innocent victims in this
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situation at all. The mob are all, they're all criminals doing what they have no right to do.
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Blue shirt man has every right to walk into that crowd. They don't have a right. It's not like the
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mob has a right to commit a crime unimpeded. They say back away. We're committing the crime here.
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Nope. You're not allowed in. Uh, but he didn't have to pull the, you know, MMA move, uh, obviously
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there. Does this change the fact that he acted in self-defense in the first video that we played?
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No, I don't see that it does. He's retreating. He's leaving. He's standing down. Um, they attack,
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they attack because they're angry at him. Not because he's a continued threat. He's leaving
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the situation. So they're mad at what he did and they attack him. That's not legally justified that
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that's not self-defense on their part. And so, okay, now we have an altercation that at this point has
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been initiated by, uh, one of the vandals and that's when he shoots. And that would again seem to be
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self-defense to me. Notice something else though. What do they do? They start calling for the cops.
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You hear the guy in the video, cop, get the cops, the cops, get the cops, get his license plate.
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You want to abolish the cops. What are you going to do with the license plate information? If you
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abolish the police officer, the, the, the, the cops, if there's no police officers, you get someone's
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license plate, um, after they've just assaulted a woman, what are you going to do with that information?
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You know, they hate the cops. They want the cops abolished yet. They're calling for them
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because we, they're, they're, they're a bunch of tough guys that we don't need no,
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we don't need no stinking police. We don't need the police. We could take care of it ourselves.
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But you know, the moment the, the, the, you know, what hits the fan,
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now they're calling for the cops. But here's the real point. Okay. Why are we even in the position
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of sorting through this chaos and figuring out who's at fault? Why are we in this position in
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the first place? Why was there even an occasion for a left-wing criminal mob to clash with a right-wing
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militia? Why was there an occasion for that? Why was any of this happening? Because the law is not
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being enforced. This isn't rocket science. This isn't a difficult equation. It's not hard to figure
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out. If you, if you don't enforce the law, you're going to end up with mobs, criminals, vigilantes,
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and militias. I said that last week, we were talking about defund the police. So you defund the
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police, guess what, guess what you're going to have? Militias and vigilante mobs. Guess what we
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just saw? Of course the defeat, the police haven't been defunded. They've just retreated. They've all
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but been defunded. This is what you get. This is, this is what you always get. This is always going
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to be the result. If the law is not going, is not enforced, this is what is going to happen. So enforce
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the law. The police should be there surrounding the statue, arresting anyone who tries to take it
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down. Arrest them, cuff them. The minute, I mean, think about the, how long it, think about the process
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of, of tearing down a statue. This is not something that you can do in 30 seconds.
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This, you got to have all the, the, you know, you got to have all the, you need the rope and the
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chain. You got all the material. You need, you need to get a bunch of people together. It takes
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time to do, especially if you're doing it, uh, shall we say unofficially, that is illegally.
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And there's just no one around it. So cops just letting it happen.
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The moment someone takes the rope and puts it around the statue, you come in and cuff them,
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put them in the car and send them to jail. This is what should be happening everywhere.
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And no, I don't, I don't, I don't blame the police for this first
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because they're being told to stand down. And I understand, you know, the cops are telling you
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to stand down. You're the, the, this is what the brass is saying. This is what, this is what people
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in charge are saying. If you're a police officer, are you going to go in by yourself and try to take
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on the mob? No, you're not going to do that. Uh, you're going to get in trouble for that. If you do
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it, it's not going to have any effect. You're just going to get assaulted by the mob. So there's
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nothing you can do. I mean, as an individual police officer, you know, if, if, if, if no
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one is enforcing the law, you're almost as powerless as anyone else is around. Um, so I
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understand that, but this is still a decision being made, not by individual police officers,
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but by people higher up, you know, police chiefs and higher than that mayors and governors
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decision they're making not to enforce the law. They decide to enforce it. All this goes
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away. Okay. Um, you do that, you know, if, if, if they had done that in New Mexico, that
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vandal never would have been shot. It's that's, that's, that's that simple. He might've been
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arrested. If you had done what you were supposed to do with someone like that and just arrested
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him to begin with for trying to tear down a statue, you would have saved them. Now, from
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what I understand, he's in, he's in, he's not, he fortunately didn't die, but you would
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have saved him from being in critical condition in the hospital. By the way, um, the vandal
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last week, uh, that, that, uh, I don't know if you saw that video. I don't remember if we
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played it on the show or not. They're tearing down a statue somewhere. The statue falls right
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on top of one of these guys, splits his head open. You enforce the law there. And that guy
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never, never, um, suffers what I'm sure was brain damage. That doesn't happen.
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That's the other thing that we miss in this tearing down a statue is it's that's dangerous.
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This is a large, very heavy object that you're tearing down.
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And it's a mob of people all surrounding it. It's dangerous in and of itself. That should
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be reason enough to enforce the law is that it's dangerous to do. There's a reason why
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you wouldn't send a mob of 50 people out to just randomly chop down a tree. It's a, it's
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a, that's a dangerous procedure and you need to be very careful in how you do it or someone's
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going to get hurt or killed. It's dangerous in itself. And then it's dangerous when you,
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when you mix in other groups of people that are trying to stop it from happening.
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But this is, this is just our, the people in charge, our elected leaders, so-called leaders,
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leaders in name only. This is a decision that they've made.
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Not going to enforce the law. And in fact, they're going to protect the lawbreakers.
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They're going to provide them with a forum. They're going to clear the path.
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Give them space to destroy is what the mayor of Baltimore said years ago.
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And that was a, during the Baltimore riots a few years ago, uh, after the Freddie Gray case
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and the mayor of Baltimore said, we have to give the rioters space to destroy.
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That was an outrageous and terrifying thing to hear one mayor say about what was happening in
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Baltimore. This is now what is happening across the country. Governors across the country,
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mayors across the country are saying this is space to destroy. The entire country apparently
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And it's only going to get worse. I'm afraid to say. All right, let's go to, uh, let's go to
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news headlines. Number one, a lot of news. We'll start with this. Of course, a profoundly
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significant decision from the Supreme court yesterday and a profoundly terrible one. Um,
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my friend, Josh Hammer calls this the Roe v. Wade of religious liberty, which, which seems to be a
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pretty good way of putting it. A six justice majority led by Neil Gorsuch, Trump's pick.
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One of the reasons we were told we had to elect Trump instead of one of the other Republicans
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is that Trump will give us great Supreme court picks. You know, he's, he's going to be the guy
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who gives us the really good ones. Uh, but not so much as it turns out Trump's Supreme court picks
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have been a little bit like his wall. It was supposed to be big and beautiful across 2000 miles. And,
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you know, ends up being a little bit of fencing here and there, not nearly as impressive as he
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promised to put it mildly. Anyway, Gorsuch in the liberal justices, uh, to include John Roberts
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found that title seven of the civil rights act of 1964, which is supposed to protect against sex
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based discrimination in employment also applies to gender identity and sexual orientation. Now
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there are so many problems here that it's hard to count. And I would recommend reading Josh's piece
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of the New York post. Um, you could read Ryan T Anderson in the daily signal. Uh, he's always got
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great stuff on this or listen to Ben on this. I mean, as I'm sure you already have, they're going
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to give you a more comprehensive analysis than what you'll hear from me because they're experts in
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the legal issues that, uh, at play here to my mind, just briefly, a few things jump out at me.
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First being that the Supreme court's job is to tell us what the law says. That's their job
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to settle disputes about what the law says. No reasonable person actually thinks that title
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seven really means to protect gender identity, whatever that even means, because none of the
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people responsible for title seven for that statute had any concept of our modern notion of gender
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identity. That wasn't a thing. They didn't, they didn't, no one talked about that. They most certainly
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did not mean to include that. In fact, people with a modern notion of gender identity in modern times
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don't have any actual notion of what it really is because it's an imaginary concept. But the point
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is that, that, that title seven, everyone knows doesn't actually protect gender identity. It doesn't,
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doesn't really do that. Liberals think that it should, which okay, is a different argument.
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The Supreme court is not supposed to be changing laws to make them into what they should be.
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That's the legislator's job. That's why we, that's why we elect lawmakers to do that.
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The decision, um, and that's what this decision was. It was, it was legislation.
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It wasn't saying this is what the law says. It was saying, this is what the law should say.
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And so now we're going to pretend that it does say that. Um, also the implications here are enormous
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and troubling, of course, to turn gender identity into a protected class opens Pandora's box.
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Um, essentially what the justices have done here is codify into law, the idea that biological males
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are female. If they say they are a biological man, man, male can be protected under the, under
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the same statute that protects women from discrimination. If he says that he's a woman,
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which means that we are now legally recognizing that a man who says he's a woman, even though
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isn't actually magically, therefore turns into one. And now, uh, now that they're in a protected
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class, does that mean that religious employers, religious schools, uh, churches are not allowed
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to make hiring decisions according to their religion? Does it mean that men now have a God
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given human right to enter into women's locker rooms and bathrooms and sports teams? Those issues
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aren't directly mentioned in this decision, but that obviously is the groundwork that has been laid
00:25:20.680
and all of that is coming next. So that's what we have to look forward to. Speaking of the rule
00:25:25.660
of law being dead, number two, the Boy Scouts of America have come out and, uh, of course,
00:25:30.280
bend the knee, uh, and bowed before BLM and the radical left. No surprise there. BSA has been
00:25:36.400
bowing to the radical left for years now. That's why the organization is dying and deserves to die.
00:25:41.080
Uh, it just serves no, I mean, there's no reason to put your kids in the Boy Scouts now. I, I don't
00:25:45.800
know what, I don't know what you would be thinking if you, if you did. It just, the Boy Scouts don't,
00:25:50.520
they basically don't exist. They exist in name only now. Um, but there's no reason if you're looking
00:25:57.560
for whatever you're turning to the Boy Scouts for, there are better organizations than the Boy Scouts now.
00:26:04.220
Um, but also the Boy Scouts, they came up with a merit badge. This is the latest in their effort
00:26:12.260
to, you know, show off how woke and enlightened they are. There's a new merit badge. It's the
00:26:16.700
inclusion and diversity badge that will be required of any scout who wants to become an Eagle Scout.
00:26:23.540
Right? Diversity and inclusion. That's the badge, which is an important life skill, isn't it?
00:26:29.660
Diversity and inclusion. I mean, that's, uh, you know, if you're, if you're out in the woods
00:26:33.700
trying to survive, I can just imagine, you know, imagine someone, someone, someone coming out of
00:26:39.640
the wilderness after spending two months in there and, uh, and you ask them, you say, you know,
00:26:45.400
how did you do it? How did you survive? And they say, well, I recall my training as a scout.
00:26:50.180
I mean, thank God I'm an Eagle Scout. I knew how to build a fire. I knew how to hunt. I knew how to fish.
00:26:56.460
I knew how to build a shelter. But most importantly, I'm very skilled in the area of diversity and
00:27:03.740
inclusion. I was just including stuff everywhere. That was the main thing. That's how I survived by
00:27:09.460
including. So much stuff was included. I was including left and right. That's what saved me.
00:27:17.780
Uh, number three, the latest victim of cancel culture is Oklahoma state football coach, Mike Gundy.
00:27:22.760
Gundy. Gundy apparently went, uh, on a fishing trip recently wearing an OAN shirt. OAN is a one
00:27:28.840
America news network, a conservative news organization that, uh, has, has really been the
00:27:34.360
target of the left's wrath in particular recently because Trump has, uh, has mentioned them a few
00:27:39.600
times and he went wearing a, he's wearing a shirt, OAN shirt. That's all the shirt just says OAN.
00:27:48.400
That's all it says. And now the left has gone to work canceling him for a shirt that he wore while
00:27:55.240
fishing. Some brave journalists found a picture on Facebook and posted that to Twitter, got the
00:28:02.060
mob worked up. Then some players said they they're going to refuse to play for Gundy because, because
00:28:07.200
of the shirt and on and on and on. And that's how it goes. And Gundy has already come out and I mean,
00:28:12.520
all but apologize for the shirt and said that he's going to work hard on, uh, you know, bridging the
00:28:17.540
gap and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, that, that whole thing. Uh, so we, we know how this goes, but
00:28:22.280
they're at the point now where they want to control the shirt you wear when you go fishing.
00:28:30.260
They think that's their business. They're going to, they basically what I guess the idea is they
00:28:37.920
should be able to dress you in the morning. Everything you do is their business. And if you
00:28:43.380
do anything in any context or say anything in any context, past, present or future, and they don't
00:28:49.900
like it, they should be able to destroy your life. Number four, a Thomas Jefferson statue has been
00:28:57.020
torn down by vandals in Portland. Um, I, you know, this should not surprise us. I, I, some of us have
00:29:04.800
been warning about this for years. In fact, I, back when I, when I worked for the blaze,
00:29:09.420
I don't know, four years ago or more, uh, I wrote an article saying they're going to come for the,
00:29:15.220
you know, when, when that, when that round of, of Confederate statues are being torn down
00:29:20.740
back, uh, you know, four or five years ago, I wrote an article. I wasn't the only one, but making
00:29:25.320
the argument that this, this is groundwork that's being laid and they're coming for the Confederate
00:29:32.640
statues. Next, it's going to be the founders. And if you don't want the founders to be torn down,
00:29:37.720
if you don't want Columbus to be torn down, if you don't want this to continue, then you need to
00:29:42.320
resist the mob even here when it comes to Confederate statues. Because as I keep saying,
00:29:47.580
no matter how you feel about those statues, if you start appeasing the mob and letting them tear it
00:29:52.960
down and supporting them in doing it and making arguments in their favor, you have, you have,
00:29:58.140
you have opened the floodgates and there's not going to be any closing it.
00:30:04.500
Especially when you listen to the reason why they want these statues torn down.
00:30:10.440
One of the big things you hear about the Confederate statues is, uh, well, we got to turn it, tear it
00:30:15.200
down because these are slave owners who are racist. Well, okay. That there, there are, it's a lot more
00:30:22.780
than Confederates who fall into that category. A lot of slave owners existed in the world, um, prior to,
00:30:31.240
you know, the 19th century, 19th century and earlier, a lot of slave owners all across the
00:30:35.180
world, not just white people. 19th century and earlier, everybody was racist by modern standards.
00:30:43.640
So if we're saying you could tear statues down for that reason, then they're all coming down.
00:30:47.980
Washington and Jefferson, forget about it. They're, they're finished. They were racist men who own
00:30:55.420
slaves. No doubt about that. Can't, can't deny it. But as always, you know, conservatives are just
00:31:04.080
historically, um, especially in recent times, conservatives are, are, are just so obtuse
00:31:10.200
and so slow to, to pick up on what's happening around them. This has been the great frustration
00:31:18.340
for me for years is how slow conservatives are. You know, you've got the left focusing intensely on
00:31:25.680
some area of the culture war while conservatives are saying, ah, it's a sideshow. It doesn't matter.
00:31:30.220
Ah, yeah, they're just, just let them get it out of their system. It'll, it'll end there. I'm sure.
00:31:34.140
Do you understand now how this works? It never ends. It never ends. If you, if you agree with
00:31:44.520
them on this area here, if you try to appease them here, it's, it's not going to end.
00:31:51.920
Okay. Something a little positive, something to brighten your day. I think we'll, we'll end with,
00:31:55.620
uh, the, the new segment. Number five, uh, take a look at this video.
00:31:58.780
I know people don't like Trump. I understand that. But let me tell you something. If I had
00:32:03.800
to pick between him and Joe Biden, I'm not voting in Joe Biden. You want to see, you want to see a
00:32:09.020
bunch of black people go to jail by the next four years? Put Joe Biden in. Watch what happens.
00:32:13.800
You want to see black men get killed substantially? Like they, like you've never seen before? Put
00:32:18.340
Joe Biden in and watch what happens. These Democrats, and I'm sorry to say this, I'm not trying to be
00:32:22.800
racist, but they hate black people. These are the same people who have fought to keep slavery in.
00:32:27.300
These are the same people who built the KKK. These are the same people who hated us from the
00:32:31.660
beginning. The Republican party is the party of the blacks. Blacks read the Republican party is
00:32:35.840
the only party that the black people actually assisted in finding. But all of that history
00:32:40.740
has been torn away. People say, Oh, there was this big switch. There was never a big switch.
00:32:45.020
The union, the union won because we had grown in the industrial area era. So we were able to get
00:32:50.960
trains and get supplies back to our soldiers while the Confederate was still riding horses.
00:32:55.220
They were not able to get supplies back fast enough, right? So what happened was once slavery
00:32:59.580
was abolished and the South, the people in the South could no longer make their money
00:33:03.080
from slaves. They had to move to the North to work in the industry to produce. And so
00:33:07.500
the people in the North that already had established themselves in the industry moved to the South.
00:33:12.200
And so that's where it was a transfer of people coming from the South to the North and people
00:33:16.000
coming from the North to the South. There was never a big switch. So the same Democrats who hated
00:33:20.680
black people from the beginning are the same ones who hate us now. And they use our cars.
00:33:25.040
Why did Black Lives Matter turn into something about LGBTQ when blacks really don't support
00:33:29.900
that? We're conservative. We really not about that. Not only that, we don't support abortion.
00:33:34.160
We're about working. This is the black culture. We ain't even about that. Not only that,
00:33:38.940
we're not about feminism. Black women marry their husbands and respect their husbands.
00:33:42.620
That's what we on. We're not on this. Oh, I do what I want. We don't do that. That's not our
00:33:48.000
community. And you wouldn't understand. I know you understand. We don't do that. But yet these
00:33:52.560
people are hijacking our movement and the Democratic Party, they're trying to hijack
00:33:56.520
ourselves. No. And I don't think I need to add anything to that. I think it's just great stuff.
00:34:01.840
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00:35:01.220
anyone who tries to use Jesus to justify rioting and mob rule. I've seen a lot of this kind of thing
00:35:08.880
in recent weeks. For example, there's this tweet, which went massively viral. It was like 150,000 plus
00:35:15.040
retweets. It says, I swear to God, Christians forget that Jesus was publicly executed
00:35:22.480
by the government for being a threat to their power and causing political unrest.
00:35:27.260
And more recently, there's this, the Reverend Lenny Duncan says, Jesus was a man of color
00:35:34.420
murdered by law enforcement and state-sanctioned violence for insurrection against the Roman Empire.
00:35:41.460
And if you go to this article from NPR with Lenny Duncan, you see him there with the Black Lives
00:35:48.220
Matter robe on. And there's an interview with him and he says, he has a lot to say. Among them,
00:35:56.600
he compares Trayvon Martin to Jesus. Okay. So just to give you an idea of where this guy is coming
00:36:01.400
from, the attempt to make Jesus into a leader of the mob, the leader of a violent insurrectionist
00:36:10.260
movement, much like Antifa, and to say that he was killed by a government fearful of his threat to
00:36:17.700
their power. I mean, that's the kind of take on the passion story that you might have if you've never
00:36:23.720
read the passion story. But here's my strategy. Okay. And it's pretty radical, pretty wild, I admit.
00:36:31.040
But before I form an opinion on a thing, especially a biblical thing, I like to read the thing.
00:36:39.480
That's just, that's how I approach it. Okay. My personal preference, we all have our own way of
00:36:43.360
going about it. But I figure if I'm going to have something to say about this, maybe I should
00:36:50.220
know what it is. I don't know, just an idea. And when I do that, I discover that, no, Jesus was not
00:36:59.240
killed because he was an insurrectionist who threatened Rome's power. That's a convenient way
00:37:04.300
of looking at it. If you're a leftist in modern America, that's not actually what happened. Rome
00:37:10.140
couldn't care less about Jesus. There's a reason why contemporary Roman historians and other
00:37:19.980
contemporaries in the Roman government who were around at the time of Jesus, none of them mentioned
00:37:26.180
him in their record books. To them, he was just an itinerant preacher, a Jewish preacher going around
00:37:35.880
and, you know, preaching his own religion. They didn't care about that. In fact, the Roman authorities
00:37:43.800
cleared Jesus of the insurrection charge. It's a pretty crucial part of the passion narrative.
00:37:52.260
We, you know, he's the high priest bring Jesus to Pilate and Pilate interrogates him and says,
00:37:58.860
I don't see any problem with the guy. It's, you know, I just don't see it. He's, he's, I'm paraphrasing,
00:38:03.800
but he says, you know, he, the guy, he appears to be innocent to me. Ultimately, Pilate orders Jesus's
00:38:13.060
execution. Why does he do that? And here's the crucial point. Why, why is, why does Pilate order the
00:38:21.140
execution of Jesus? It's not because Pilate, as the governing authority, is afraid of Jesus or thinks
00:38:28.400
he's an insurrectionist or is a threat to their power. No, it's because the mob demanded, the mob
00:38:35.980
shouted, crucify him. Pilate ordered the execution. He did something he knew was wrong, ignoring, in fact,
00:38:46.700
ignoring Roman law, uh, because the mob demanded it. So if there's any lesson here, you know, aside
00:38:57.920
from the theological lessons that can be applied to this current situation in America, it's about
00:39:03.540
mob rule. It's about, it's about, this is why you don't cave to the mob. This is why governing
00:39:09.640
authorities need to uphold the rule of law. The execution of Jesus was not done in an attempt
00:39:17.660
to uphold the rule of law. It was really done in defiance of the rule of law. It was done because
00:39:23.980
the, the, the rule of the mob had supplanted the rule of law. And this is what happens when a
00:39:32.700
governing authority caves to the mob and gives a violent mob, whatever they want, you end up
00:39:40.620
executing the Messiah. Okay. That's the real lesson. But what you find from leftist activists
00:39:47.560
is that they can take, and this is just one example, but they can take a story out of the Bible
00:39:52.440
that, that completely opposes their worldview and everything they're doing, and they can twist it
00:40:00.540
in support of them. They, they, they can, they can make it say the, the exact opposite of what it
00:40:07.780
actually says. And as I said, this is just one example, but everyone doing that is, is therefore
00:40:15.240
canceled. And maybe we should all go and, you know, it's, it's a good practice in general to
00:40:19.800
actually read the Bible. So maybe go actually read the passion story. You might, you might, you might
00:40:27.380
find some stuff in there that surprises you if you've never actually read it, but, but you've
00:40:30.580
gone around giving your opinion on it regardless. All right. We'll leave it there. Thanks for
00:40:34.820
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