The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 505 - Law And Order Is Officially Dead

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we are told that an armed right-wing militia member shot a, quote,

00:00:05.400 protester who was trying to tear down a statue. But there's a lot more, a lot more to this story,

00:00:11.400 and we're going to talk about it. And I think what this story really shows is that law and order is

00:00:16.320 officially dead in America. If you thought that already happened, well, maybe it did. But this is

00:00:20.980 the thing that really makes it clear. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the

00:00:25.360 left's attempts to cancel a man because they don't like the shirt that he wore while fishing

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00:01:46.820 Okay, law and order is officially dead in our country. It's finished. It's done,

00:01:53.480 I'm afraid to say. It's one thing to have rampaging mobs in the streets. That's bad enough. It's

00:02:00.660 another thing to have law enforcement and state authorities who will not enforce the law against

00:02:05.580 that mob. Those are both bad situations, bad and worse situations. But it's still another thing

00:02:13.100 for law enforcement and state authorities to not only refuse to enforce the law against these mobs,

00:02:20.700 these criminals, but to actively protect the criminals. And that's where we are now. We've

00:02:27.440 gotten all the way to that point. The law is not just neutralized. It has been twisted,

00:02:33.560 perverted, and is now being wielded in favor of, at the behest of, according to the demands of,

00:02:40.900 the mob. And that's the death of law and order. It's over. And that's where we are.

00:02:47.680 So here's an example, the latest example, and it's a doozy. In New Mexico, a now familiar sight

00:02:54.320 began to unfold yesterday. A gang of criminals, a gang of vandals, a gang of terrorists decided they

00:03:02.060 were going to pull down a statue. This one was of a conquistador, but they don't like. Conquistador

00:03:08.460 500 years ago, they're still upset about it. 500 years later, these people, they're still mad about

00:03:14.040 this conquistador. 500 years. Half a millennium later, they're mad. Now, their problem with this

00:03:20.580 particular statue, actually, you know what? I don't care what their problem is. Their problem

00:03:26.360 doesn't matter. I was going to go into the explanation of the history. You know, I don't

00:03:29.980 care. You shouldn't care. I don't care. Mobs who tear down statues should be defied, ignored, 1.00

00:03:40.020 tamped down, resisted, arrested. I don't care why they don't like the statue. I really don't.

00:03:48.600 In fact, if I were in charge, I'd keep the statue up and build another one. I would say,

00:03:54.880 oh, you don't like this statue? Okay, we'll build a second one then. And it's going to be,

00:03:58.120 it's going to be twice as big. Just to spite you. That's what we're going to do.

00:04:05.280 You know, I, I would, I would, this is what I would do. In fact, I'm going to run for president.

00:04:11.640 And my sole campaign promise is this. I'm going to build a, I'm going to build 300 foot statues of

00:04:17.960 Columbus in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Austin, and New York. That's what I'm going to do.

00:04:25.280 And then I, and then I'll resign. That's, that's the only thing I want to do as president.

00:04:31.440 And that's the right way to respond. I mean, I'm only half joking. In fact, I'm not joking at all.

00:04:38.240 That's how you respond to mobs. As I've argued, no matter how you feel about any of these statues,

00:04:44.820 and I personally like most of them, especially the ones of Columbus. I love those because he's one of

00:04:50.460 the great men of history. But no matter how you feel, even if you hate the statues, you should

00:04:55.620 oppose pulling them down at the behest of a mob. And you should especially oppose the mob doing it

00:05:02.180 themselves. For the sake of law and order, for the sake of good sense and decency and civilization,

00:05:08.360 you should oppose that. Okay. We want to have a conversation about a particular statue,

00:05:13.740 not in a panic. Okay. We're not all coming together in a panic. Oh no, the mob doesn't

00:05:19.380 like it. We have to do something about a statue. No, no. I mean, if you want to have a reasonable

00:05:22.780 discussion about a statue and talk about it, we can do that. You start grabbing the ropes and the

00:05:29.140 chains and spray painting and defacing and crying and screaming. It's the discussion's over. We're not

00:05:35.300 talking about it now. It's the same thing I say to my kids. You know, if you have a problem with

00:05:43.460 something that's happening, if you don't like something, we can talk about it. But if you come

00:05:48.860 here stomping your feet, and if you scream, and if you're not polite, and if you don't talk to me the

00:05:53.200 way you're supposed to, we're not going to have a discussion. That's what I have to say to my kids.

00:05:58.160 You know, my seven-year-olds, I have to say this to them. No matter what you want to talk about,

00:06:03.580 if you're approaching me like that, we're not going to discuss it.

00:06:08.740 So a lot of times I have to say to them, you know, when they come stomping up and screaming,

00:06:13.540 I have to say, no, leave the room. Try that again. Walk back to me without stomping. Wipe the look

00:06:21.900 off your face and talk to me politely with respect, and then we'll discuss. That's what we need to be

00:06:28.320 saying to the mob, because these are a bunch of children. These are a bunch of toddlers.

00:06:33.580 They have less maturity than my seven-year-olds do. Probably because my seven-year-olds have the

00:06:40.040 advantage of parents. You know, me and my wife. We're parenting them. A lot of these overgrown

00:06:45.180 toddlers never had that. In any case, the mob showed up for this statue. As per usual, law

00:06:51.880 enforcement did nothing. Refused to enforce the law. Tearing down statues is illegal. I feel like I have

00:06:57.480 to keep repeating that, because you can forget that part of it, but it is actually illegal to do this.

00:07:03.580 It is, in fact, a felony to do this. To destroy property, in most states, destroying property

00:07:10.620 that's over $500 in value is a felony. These statues are priceless. These are priceless works of art

00:07:17.860 that were handmade by artists years ago, centuries ago in some cases.

00:07:28.300 But state and official, state and local officials, law enforcement, they're sitting back and letting

00:07:32.060 them do it. So a group of armed citizens being called vigilantes, I believe they would call

00:07:37.980 themselves militia, came to defend the statue. And this is what happens. When the government refuses

00:07:44.800 to uphold the law, people take matters into their own hands. Don't want that to happen.

00:07:51.020 I don't want that to happen. But do you know how you stop that? If you're a government official,

00:07:56.200 if you're in law enforcement, if you're a police chief, you do your damned job. You don't just sit 0.99

00:08:02.160 back and complain about vigilantism. Don't sit there and refuse to enforce the law and welcome chaos and

00:08:09.300 anarchy and violence in the streets. And then scold the vigilantes who step in or take advantage or

00:08:16.580 however you want to put it. Enforce the law. That's how you solve the vigilante problem. That's how you

00:08:21.660 solve the problem of the rampaging mob. You solve all those problems by enforcing the law.

00:08:27.500 Now, so we've got the criminal vandals committing a felony. We've got the armed militia responding.

00:08:36.300 Things, of course, go sideways. What do you think's going to happen? And what we're being told by the

00:08:42.040 media is that one of the armed, quote unquote, vigilantes ended up firing into the crowd,

00:08:47.320 shooting a, quote, protester. You know, this is how it's sort of being characterized.

00:08:52.260 The Albuquerque police chief, who, again, had no interest in upholding the law and preventing

00:08:57.460 violent criminals from defacing public property and tearing down a priceless work of art just because

00:09:01.860 it gave them the sads and it made their tummy hurt, is now coming out forcefully against the

00:09:07.220 militia. He said, the police chief says, we are receiving reports about vigilante groups possibly

00:09:12.460 instigating the violence. If this is true, we will be holding them accountable to the fullest extent

00:09:16.380 of the law, including federal hate group designation and prosecution.

00:09:19.400 Here's what the governor said. Let me see if I can pull that up. Michelle Grisham says,

00:09:27.940 although we're still learning more about the situation, I'm horrified and disgusted beyond

00:09:31.140 words by the reports of violence at the protest Monday night in Albuquerque. The heavily armed

00:09:34.960 individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a civil guard, were there for

00:09:39.680 one reason, to menace protesters to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force. To menace the

00:09:45.080 people of New Mexico with weaponry is on its face unacceptable. That violence did indeed occur

00:09:50.540 is unspeakable. Unspeakable, she says. Now, did we, in fairness, I haven't checked.

00:09:57.500 Something tells me, though, that Governor Michelle Grisham has not, there's not going to be much of her

00:10:07.000 speaking that forcefully against the, you know, left-wing mobs that have burned down buildings and

00:10:11.500 assaulted people and thrown Molotov cocktails at police officers. Has she come out and called that

00:10:15.840 violence unspeakable? Has she denounced them in terms that strong? If she has, then great.

00:10:21.880 I somehow doubt that she has. Most Democrat governors have not. But she also says their actions are

00:10:29.680 unsanctioned. Okay. What about the mob that's there committing the crime of tearing down the statue?

00:10:36.420 Is that sanctioned? She's, she's calling this a protest. Governor, they're committing a crime in

00:10:45.280 your state. And you're calling that a protest. And if committing crimes can be a protest, then why

00:10:53.760 can't a, why can't a vigilante group say that they're, this is a protest on their part?

00:10:58.400 Now, um, okay, let's, so let's, this is how it's all being characterized. Let's go to the video

00:11:05.680 and see the actual incident itself. Here it is.

00:11:08.160 get his license plate.

00:11:35.580 get his license plate. 0.99

00:11:39.580 Get the f*** out. 0.99

00:11:42.580 Dude, you're back. 0.99

00:11:48.340 What you see right there to me is clear cut self-defense. The guy, I don't know his name,

00:12:13.080 blue shirt guy, we'll call him, is retreating. They attack. He shoots. Self-defense. Okay. He's,

00:12:21.060 he's, uh, uh, in fact, he's, he's attacked. He's hit by a, someone with a skateboard. He retreats.

00:12:27.860 They're pursuing him. They continue to attack. Finally, he's tackled. And then the, and then the

00:12:33.440 shot is fired. That would seem to me to be self-defense. What happened right before that? Well,

00:12:40.220 here's the lead up to what you just saw. And I think that, I think this, this fills in all the

00:12:44.360 gaps and we have the, the, basically the whole context of everything. So what, here's what led

00:12:48.540 up to that moment. Watch. Okay.

00:13:08.500 Was it necessary for him to do that? No. Should he have done it? No. But we should also keep in mind

00:13:16.100 that this mob again is committing a felony. Um, this woman is initiating contact, blocking his path

00:13:23.340 in order to assist in the commission of this crime. These are not, there are no innocent victims in this

00:13:28.860 situation at all. The mob are all, they're all criminals doing what they have no right to do.

00:13:35.380 Blue shirt man has every right to walk into that crowd. They don't have a right. It's not like the 0.99

00:13:42.140 mob has a right to commit a crime unimpeded. They say back away. We're committing the crime here.

00:13:47.900 Nope. You're not allowed in. Uh, but he didn't have to pull the, you know, MMA move, uh, obviously

00:13:54.980 there. Does this change the fact that he acted in self-defense in the first video that we played?

00:13:59.600 No, I don't see that it does. He's retreating. He's leaving. He's standing down. Um, they attack,

00:14:07.020 they attack because they're angry at him. Not because he's a continued threat. He's leaving

00:14:10.860 the situation. So they're mad at what he did and they attack him. That's not legally justified that

00:14:16.840 that's not self-defense on their part. And so, okay, now we have an altercation that at this point has

00:14:24.640 been initiated by, uh, one of the vandals and that's when he shoots. And that would again seem to be

00:14:29.080 self-defense to me. Notice something else though. What do they do? They start calling for the cops.

00:14:34.900 You hear the guy in the video, cop, get the cops, the cops, get the cops, get his license plate.

00:14:43.360 You want to abolish the cops. What are you going to do with the license plate information? If you

00:14:48.260 abolish the police officer, the, the, the, the cops, if there's no police officers, you get someone's

00:14:52.440 license plate, um, after they've just assaulted a woman, what are you going to do with that information?

00:14:57.440 What do you think you're going to do with it?

00:15:02.420 You know, they hate the cops. They want the cops abolished yet. They're calling for them

00:15:06.100 because we, they're, they're, they're a bunch of tough guys that we don't need no,

00:15:10.440 we don't need no stinking police. We don't need the police. We could take care of it ourselves.

00:15:13.960 Bunch of tough guys.

00:15:17.020 But you know, the moment the, the, the, you know, what hits the fan,

00:15:20.660 now they're calling for the cops. But here's the real point. Okay. Why are we even in the position

00:15:30.840 of sorting through this chaos and figuring out who's at fault? Why are we in this position in

00:15:37.000 the first place? Why was there even an occasion for a left-wing criminal mob to clash with a right-wing

00:15:44.460 militia? Why was there an occasion for that? Why was any of this happening? Because the law is not

00:15:51.720 being enforced. This isn't rocket science. This isn't a difficult equation. It's not hard to figure

00:15:59.180 out. If you, if you don't enforce the law, you're going to end up with mobs, criminals, vigilantes,

00:16:05.400 and militias. I said that last week, we were talking about defund the police. So you defund the

00:16:11.040 police, guess what, guess what you're going to have? Militias and vigilante mobs. Guess what we

00:16:15.820 just saw? Of course the defeat, the police haven't been defunded. They've just retreated. They've all

00:16:21.780 but been defunded. This is what you get. This is, this is what you always get. This is always going

00:16:31.480 to be the result. If the law is not going, is not enforced, this is what is going to happen. So enforce

00:16:38.460 the law. The police should be there surrounding the statue, arresting anyone who tries to take it

00:16:45.080 down. Arrest them, cuff them. The minute, I mean, think about the, how long it, think about the process

00:16:54.620 of, of tearing down a statue. This is not something that you can do in 30 seconds.

00:17:00.900 This, you got to have all the, the, you know, you got to have all the, you need the rope and the

00:17:05.380 chain. You got all the material. You need, you need to get a bunch of people together. It takes

00:17:08.980 time to do, especially if you're doing it, uh, shall we say unofficially, that is illegally.

00:17:16.340 And there's just no one around it. So cops just letting it happen.

00:17:20.580 The moment someone takes the rope and puts it around the statue, you come in and cuff them,

00:17:27.240 put them in the car and send them to jail. This is what should be happening everywhere.

00:17:32.760 And no, I don't, I don't, I don't blame the police for this first

00:17:36.960 because they're being told to stand down. And I understand, you know, the cops are telling you

00:17:43.100 to stand down. You're the, the, this is what the brass is saying. This is what, this is what people

00:17:47.480 in charge are saying. If you're a police officer, are you going to go in by yourself and try to take

00:17:52.040 on the mob? No, you're not going to do that. Uh, you're going to get in trouble for that. If you do

00:17:57.720 it, it's not going to have any effect. You're just going to get assaulted by the mob. So there's

00:18:00.540 nothing you can do. I mean, as an individual police officer, you know, if, if, if, if no

00:18:05.840 one is enforcing the law, you're almost as powerless as anyone else is around. Um, so I

00:18:11.980 understand that, but this is still a decision being made, not by individual police officers,

00:18:17.880 but by people higher up, you know, police chiefs and higher than that mayors and governors

00:18:23.940 decision they're making not to enforce the law. They decide to enforce it. All this goes

00:18:29.940 away. Okay. Um, you do that, you know, if, if, if they had done that in New Mexico, that

00:18:42.700 vandal never would have been shot. It's that's, that's, that's that simple. He might've been

00:18:47.140 arrested. If you had done what you were supposed to do with someone like that and just arrested

00:18:52.860 him to begin with for trying to tear down a statue, you would have saved them. Now, from

00:19:00.560 what I understand, he's in, he's in, he's not, he fortunately didn't die, but you would

00:19:04.060 have saved him from being in critical condition in the hospital. By the way, um, the vandal

00:19:10.240 last week, uh, that, that, uh, I don't know if you saw that video. I don't remember if we

00:19:14.800 played it on the show or not. They're tearing down a statue somewhere. The statue falls right

00:19:18.820 on top of one of these guys, splits his head open. You enforce the law there. And that guy

00:19:24.640 never, never, um, suffers what I'm sure was brain damage. That doesn't happen.

00:19:33.020 That's the other thing that we miss in this tearing down a statue is it's that's dangerous.

00:19:38.520 This is a large, very heavy object that you're tearing down.

00:19:43.400 And it's a mob of people all surrounding it. It's dangerous in and of itself. That should

00:19:50.800 be reason enough to enforce the law is that it's dangerous to do. There's a reason why

00:19:56.540 you wouldn't send a mob of 50 people out to just randomly chop down a tree. It's a, it's

00:20:02.020 a, that's a dangerous procedure and you need to be very careful in how you do it or someone's

00:20:05.900 going to get hurt or killed. It's dangerous in itself. And then it's dangerous when you,

00:20:11.060 when you mix in other groups of people that are trying to stop it from happening.

00:20:17.280 So that's reason enough.

00:20:21.420 But this is, this is just our, the people in charge, our elected leaders, so-called leaders,

00:20:29.900 leaders in name only. This is a decision that they've made.

00:20:34.340 Not going to enforce the law. And in fact, they're going to protect the lawbreakers.

00:20:41.700 They're going to provide them with a forum. They're going to clear the path.

00:20:47.340 Give them space to destroy is what the mayor of Baltimore said years ago.

00:20:52.360 And that was a, during the Baltimore riots a few years ago, uh, after the Freddie Gray case

00:20:58.360 and the mayor of Baltimore said, we have to give the rioters space to destroy.

00:21:02.300 That was an outrageous and terrifying thing to hear one mayor say about what was happening in

00:21:09.200 Baltimore. This is now what is happening across the country. Governors across the country,

00:21:15.440 mayors across the country are saying this is space to destroy. The entire country apparently

00:21:19.960 is space for the mob to destroy.

00:21:21.500 And it's only going to get worse. I'm afraid to say. All right, let's go to, uh, let's go to

00:21:29.160 news headlines. Number one, a lot of news. We'll start with this. Of course, a profoundly

00:21:34.980 significant decision from the Supreme court yesterday and a profoundly terrible one. Um,

00:21:39.500 my friend, Josh Hammer calls this the Roe v. Wade of religious liberty, which, which seems to be a

00:21:44.840 pretty good way of putting it. A six justice majority led by Neil Gorsuch, Trump's pick.

00:21:49.920 One of the reasons we were told we had to elect Trump instead of one of the other Republicans

00:21:54.920 is that Trump will give us great Supreme court picks. You know, he's, he's going to be the guy

00:22:00.100 who gives us the really good ones. Uh, but not so much as it turns out Trump's Supreme court picks

00:22:07.500 have been a little bit like his wall. It was supposed to be big and beautiful across 2000 miles. And,

00:22:12.380 you know, ends up being a little bit of fencing here and there, not nearly as impressive as he

00:22:16.720 promised to put it mildly. Anyway, Gorsuch in the liberal justices, uh, to include John Roberts

00:22:21.840 found that title seven of the civil rights act of 1964, which is supposed to protect against sex

00:22:26.820 based discrimination in employment also applies to gender identity and sexual orientation. Now

00:22:33.320 there are so many problems here that it's hard to count. And I would recommend reading Josh's piece

00:22:37.720 of the New York post. Um, you could read Ryan T Anderson in the daily signal. Uh, he's always got

00:22:43.140 great stuff on this or listen to Ben on this. I mean, as I'm sure you already have, they're going

00:22:48.740 to give you a more comprehensive analysis than what you'll hear from me because they're experts in

00:22:53.380 the legal issues that, uh, at play here to my mind, just briefly, a few things jump out at me.

00:23:00.300 First being that the Supreme court's job is to tell us what the law says. That's their job

00:23:05.760 to settle disputes about what the law says. No reasonable person actually thinks that title

00:23:14.620 seven really means to protect gender identity, whatever that even means, because none of the

00:23:20.800 people responsible for title seven for that statute had any concept of our modern notion of gender

00:23:27.140 identity. That wasn't a thing. They didn't, they didn't, no one talked about that. They most certainly

00:23:31.040 did not mean to include that. In fact, people with a modern notion of gender identity in modern times

00:23:37.280 don't have any actual notion of what it really is because it's an imaginary concept. But the point

00:23:42.480 is that, that, that title seven, everyone knows doesn't actually protect gender identity. It doesn't, 0.89

00:23:47.980 doesn't really do that. Liberals think that it should, which okay, is a different argument.

00:23:55.280 The Supreme court is not supposed to be changing laws to make them into what they should be.

00:24:01.120 That's the legislator's job. That's why we, that's why we elect lawmakers to do that. 0.98

00:24:07.540 The decision, um, and that's what this decision was. It was, it was legislation.

00:24:12.500 It wasn't saying this is what the law says. It was saying, this is what the law should say.

00:24:17.780 And so now we're going to pretend that it does say that. Um, also the implications here are enormous

00:24:24.140 and troubling, of course, to turn gender identity into a protected class opens Pandora's box.

00:24:30.980 Um, essentially what the justices have done here is codify into law, the idea that biological males

00:24:37.680 are female. If they say they are a biological man, man, male can be protected under the, under 0.61

00:24:44.180 the same statute that protects women from discrimination. If he says that he's a woman,

00:24:49.120 which means that we are now legally recognizing that a man who says he's a woman, even though

00:24:54.900 isn't actually magically, therefore turns into one. And now, uh, now that they're in a protected

00:25:01.460 class, does that mean that religious employers, religious schools, uh, churches are not allowed

00:25:07.440 to make hiring decisions according to their religion? Does it mean that men now have a God

00:25:11.360 given human right to enter into women's locker rooms and bathrooms and sports teams? Those issues 1.00

00:25:16.200 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. 1.00

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 0.88

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 0.98

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. 0.98

00:32:13.800 You want to see black men get killed substantially? Like they, like you've never seen before? Put 1.00

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. 0.99

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 0.98

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. 1.00

00:33:25.040 Why did Black Lives Matter turn into something about LGBTQ when blacks really don't support 0.75

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, 0.72

00:33:38.940 we're not about feminism. Black women marry their husbands and respect their husbands. 1.00

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 There's a woman who knows what she's talking about. We're going to get to your daily cancellation in 0.98

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00:34:56.380 dailywire.com slash subscribe and join today. For our daily cancellation today, I'm going to cancel

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 0.99

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

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 16, 2020

Ep. 505 - Law And Order Is Officially Dead

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