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00:10:52.000And you go against the, when you go against the said government, when you've got your legal team rubbing their hands, leaving, going, we've got this.
00:11:38.000And this leads into the question, which is already picking up momentum, which is becoming bigger than maybe the story is why are they trying to stop this book?
00:11:48.000And I feel that people watching this, if they go out and buy the book, when they read it, they will be asking the same question, going, why would you want to try and stop this book and this story?
00:11:59.000Yeah, for those who don't know, I mean, Christian basically went into a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, took out a bunch of really bad guys.
00:12:06.000He just happened to be driving by as a British SAS officer, saved a bunch of people's lives, killed a lot of bad guys.
00:12:14.000Like, this is an incredible hero story.
00:12:16.000I mean, this is, I mean, honestly, I would think this is the exact person you would think, whether it's British SAS, the U.S. Navy SEALs, you know, Delta, any top operating unit in the world.
00:12:28.000I mean, this is exactly what they train you to do, to be.
00:12:32.000The one man in, you took that on yourself.
00:12:35.000I mean, you should be a hero to virtually anyone.
00:12:40.000And the fact that, I guess, if you were trans, they'd probably be fine writing the book because they need more trans heroes.0.79
00:12:44.000But you don't check any of those boxes, Christian.0.99
00:12:47.000You're just a boring white dude from the UK, now a US citizen.0.98
00:13:14.000This would be like a perfect recruitment tool, PR tool for getting guys to join elite military units.
00:13:21.000But when you think about the system, you look about modern media, you look about the people calling the shots, if you like, and especially in these countries like Australia, UK, in Europe.
00:13:36.000And if you said, oh, well, this is a great PR story, and then these people would look and go, well, what does he look like?
00:13:42.000And like, oh, well, he's at the time, he's in his mid 40s, he's white, he's blonde haired, blue eyed, Christian values, big supporter of President Trump.
00:13:52.000They're like, from their perspective, this is not good PR.
00:13:56.000This is exactly the opposite of what they're trying to promote.
00:14:00.000Yeah, there's not enough diversity in there.
00:14:02.000And again, I don't care if you were green, female, Trans, if you save a bunch of people's lives by taking action and you have the skill set to actually do that, you know, not putting lives at risk, I mean, it seems like a no brainer.0.94
00:14:17.000And I mean, this is coming from obviously the UK, who has sat idly by as there's migrant grooming gangs raping children.0.85
00:14:30.000They're saying it, and no one wants to touch it because the people who are perpetrating those crimes, again, they check a couple of the boxes that we're talking about that you lack.
00:14:39.000And as they've let themselves get invaded by a horde that is more than happy to go about raping people, they're strangely silent about that.
00:14:49.000I guess they're making sure those stories don't get out because that's actually bad PR.
00:14:53.000But they're also doing nothing about the problem.
00:14:58.000So to see the nonsense that you've gone through for years, just trying to get a story out about, I mean, this is probably one of the great solo acts of heroism in modern time.
00:16:07.000It's a young man from a working class background who didn't do well at school, but managed to join the army, excel in there, join the highest performing unit, and then make a difference to fighting evil when no one else could or would.
00:16:45.000Well, you and I are sat in it right now.
00:16:48.000That's exactly what the United States of America, the most, the most powerful country on this planet, was formed by men not willing to stand by when evil and tyranny.
00:17:17.000That's exactly what you want when it goes bad.
00:17:20.000It's Christian with a ski mask over his head, his AK 47 out of the trunk of his car with some extra ammo going in and taking care of a problem.
00:17:36.000It's taking on tyranny, literally all the things that certainly America was founded on.
00:17:44.000Maybe not so much the UK, but you'd think the values given the legal systems, all the things that we share, it's shocking actually just to see how far they've gone.
00:17:52.000And that we can go back to 21, 22, and I was like, hey, America, the land of the free, but we got other countries that are great bastions of freedom, the UK and Ireland and Australia.
00:18:05.000You know, all of these places, and then you saw COVID and you saw the restrictions and the insanity, and you're like, Oh my god, you know, ours was bad enough.
00:18:12.000Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying even ours was good, but you saw what they did in those places.
00:18:16.000You know, I went, I was supposed to go speak in Australia two or three years ago, and I couldn't even get a visa because I was like an extremist.
00:18:22.000I couldn't get a visa to go in the country.
00:18:25.000Like these other guys that I sort of put on that pedestal, Canada, that I put on this pedestal with us, I'm like, they have fallen so far that it's truly scary.
00:18:35.000And just watching them try to do this to you rather than, you know, putting you on like, you know, the hundred pound note is truly sick.0.51
00:18:55.000I'm sorry you're going through this nonsense, but, you know, I think this is a great lesson for so many people of, you know, what's to come if we don't take these kinds of actions.
00:19:14.000No, well, they're putting people in jail for tweets about.
00:19:17.000By the way, whether it's opinion or whether it's literally fact, you know, people tweeting about, you know, migrant rape gangs, you know, it's fact.
00:19:56.000It's hard to believe that it's happening anywhere in the world, let alone, you know, a civilization that we think is sort of at least based on freedom, but I guess that's wrong.
00:20:09.000And I suppose another thing, which we briefly mentioned before we started recording, was another thing about this is Trump derangement syndrome.
00:20:23.000And I think there's, it's not a secret that I've supported your father, the President of the United States, and I always have and always will.
00:20:34.000And the fact that I met him in 2019, which is meant there's a chapter in this book about that called Council House to White House.0.65
00:20:44.000And a council house is like Section 8 houses.
00:20:52.000But from the get go, Meeting President Trump and then speaking for Ambassador Woody Johnson in London, that was the end of my military career.
00:21:10.000And I think there are lots of reasons, and I should add, I get nothing but support from my fellow operators and people who have served with and people who are still serving.
00:21:23.000But I think that the thing that holds everything together is because of my relationship.
00:21:30.000With the president or to the president, that is just too much for them to bear.
00:24:13.000I had my helmet, I had my vision goggles, had ear protection, everything, uniform even, in my truck.
00:24:19.000But I just put the gear that I had, which was I put an assault belt, body armor, and a balaclava, wore a balaclava, and took my rifle just to look somewhat official.
00:24:30.000So I just didn't just turn up and say, hey, I'm the guy in charge.
00:25:29.000So, I mean, I know you went in alone, but you didn't stay alone.
00:25:32.000Eventually, I guess there were six Kenyan paramilitary police officers that showed up, guys you've never worked with, and basically became their leader under fire.
00:27:17.000So, in some parts, I'd say to the Kenyan regular police, no one goes into the rooms.0.90
00:27:21.000I will clear these rooms by myself and you wait outside and then I'll call you in because I couldn't risk any of those shooting any civilians.
00:27:30.000How many rooms did you have to clear and, like, how many overall terrorists were in there?
00:27:37.000So, there was a suicide detonation to start the attack, and then there were four terrorists, but we didn't know where they were.
00:27:47.000Or where they were positioned until much later in the day.
00:27:52.000Overall, to put an estimate, so well, just from neutralizing the terrorists on the top floor of the hotel to moving to the bomb, we cleared 102 rooms, but I'd already cleared, so estimated room clearances, well over 200 room clearances on that day.
00:29:17.000But what is very important about this book is it gives credit where it's due.
00:29:22.000And when I set off to write it, And I finished it.
00:29:25.000I started writing it in the end of 2020, but it was finished in Tennessee this year.
00:29:37.000I didn't want to write a book which was like bad mouthing other people to make myself look good because I don't need to make myself look good.
00:29:45.000So this gives high praise, especially to the US trained Kenyans who were with me for the final 15 hours or so.
00:29:54.000And it's so any Kenyan reading this book should be proud because it doesn't, it gives a bit of criticism, like criticism where it's necessary, but it's filled with high praise for the US trained Kenyans who help me.
00:30:10.000So, as you say, they were there for the last 15 hours, but if the thing was 21 hours, you were in there six hours essentially solo.
00:30:15.000I mean, how does it take that long for anyone else to respond?
00:30:18.000Especially, you know, you were a British SAS operator, you were there in minutes.
00:30:23.000Now, obviously, you've got a call from a friend.
00:30:24.000What takes so long for anyone else to mobilize?
00:30:27.000In Nairobi, I mean, the capital city of the country.
00:30:57.000So, then you see me running back off by myself into the complex.
00:31:01.000And that's the problem is, and it's happened in this country and it happens everywhere it's cowardice in some, but not physical cowardice.
00:31:12.000Whereas if you tell someone, cowardice of leadership, run into it's decision paralysis or whatever you want to call it, they will run into a building if you tell them to.
00:31:23.000But now people are more scared of the repercussions of them acting outside of orders than they are of the physical damage itself.
00:31:30.000So they'll be like, I've got no permission, I can't go in there.
00:31:33.000And it's a worrying state of affairs how we've got to this point in life.
00:31:38.000Yeah, now, obviously, you didn't have permission, but they didn't tell you no either.
00:31:42.000You just sort of went in and did the right thing.
00:31:45.000It's sort of interesting to me that it doesn't seem like you were necessarily reprimanded for what your actions, because it'd be sort of hard to reprimand a hero, but that they would go that hard at you for writing a book seven years later is also pretty crazy.
00:33:21.000It's a little different when you have hundreds of people in a thing that are basically sitting there helpless with suicide bombers.
00:33:26.000I mean, they would have killed, they probably would have killed all of them.
00:33:29.000And if you had a less prepared force or a much larger force and no one knew what was going on, I could see sort of the friendly fire and collateral damage.
00:33:37.000Again, for my, I know you'd spent years clearing houses and rooms all over the world.
00:37:40.000Also, be ready for the actions of everyone around you, including the terrorists and the security forces and other people, other civilians around you.
00:37:49.000And then, third, be ready for the establishment after the event.
00:37:57.000Like, they should have done a follow up movie to the movie, Die Hard, where he gets dragged over the coals for acting outside of authority and things.
00:38:06.000But be ready for the effects afterwards, both positive and negative.
00:38:14.000Even if you do the right thing, even if you're a good Samaritan, even if you're a hero by virtually any imaginable standard outside of that of broken, corrupted bureaucracies, prepare for the legal ramifications afterwards because you see that all the time.
00:38:29.000Good Samaritans acting and it doesn't work and they tried their best to do whatever they could and then they get sued by the people they were trying to help, even if nothing happened through their fault.
00:38:59.000Maybe Nairobi, Kenya is a little different than other places, but if they can have one of the biggest terrorist attacks in the world happen in New York, and you've seen what happened in Israel, I mean, this is something very real.
00:39:55.000And that goes back to being ready, having a plan of, you know, if someone breaks into my home or if I'm in the shopping mall and I'm carrying, where am I going to go?
00:40:50.000It's actually just being so intimately familiar with all of those things that you can do that.
00:40:55.000And again, that doesn't mean, you know, the average guy, even a reasonably trained guy, should be trying to go into a hotel and taking out a bunch of terrorists, but it may be just enough to get you and your family the hell out of a bad situation.
00:41:20.000And also, I mean, you know, I've got nothing but respect for the law enforcement agencies in the United States, but sometimes that police, and this is again extremely relevant in other countries where the police who do turn up aren't going to be the police you think, out of shape, under trained, and with the right mindset, or the ones who've come up to defend you.
00:41:44.000And you're like, man, this is, this things, like I say, when it goes wrong, sometimes it goes wrong really badly.
00:42:27.000And by the way, to your point about the police showing up, and I have a lot of respect for law enforcement as well, but I think, you know, our government here, and I've seen plenty of these cases, they've also made it very hard for law enforcement to do their job.
00:42:38.000If they do do their job, if you do what everyone would want them to do, the lawsuits afterwards, the trying to erase qualified immunity so that they can, you know, sue them, you know, cops show up and they're like, hey, man, I'm not going to take the risk.
00:42:49.000I'm not going to lose my house, my family, my mortgage, go to jail for trying to do the right thing.
00:42:54.000In many cases, and I understand it, there's sort of, They're hamstrung from operating and doing what they probably should be doing because they're worried about those ramifications afterwards.
00:43:04.000And so many places have been so hostile to the police that you have a force, but they're effectively neutered by the inevitability of what's going to happen to them, even if they do the right thing.
00:44:41.000But so it was just a tough adjustment of like losing that purpose, losing that close set of friends because they're all so busy and then we move away and things.
00:44:53.000It's difficult on any veteran or anyone who's done a job for a long time.
00:44:57.000But yeah, so I used this time just to get into America, to get then and work with firearms, something I love, and carry on my training and just.
00:45:14.000I mean, the best thing ever for, in my opinion, if you're suffering from any sort of stress, especially if you've been in the military, is hunting.
00:45:34.000But when readers finish One Man In, what do you want them to understand about courage, about duty, and about being the one man who goes in when no one else is coming?
00:45:47.000What I want people to take from this book is I was very privileged at the end of this incident, if you like, to realize that everything is setting you up for a moment.
00:46:00.000And this goes, elements of this book go back in time to moments in childhood, moments of joining the army.
00:46:06.000And I look back in before 2019, I'd go, oh, these things were like pretty bad.
00:46:13.000And I'm angry about them or I'm pretty pissed.
00:46:16.000And then, but now I'm like, All of these moments were shaping me to be ready for that one day.
00:47:02.000And in terms of your shooting training and stuff like that, for those who are interested, because I get a lot of gun questions on here, if people are interested in that, where can they find that?
00:47:34.000Everyone, again, go check out the book, One Man In Christian Craighead, Great American Hero.
00:47:40.000Now I can say you're a great American hero because you transferred.
00:47:43.000You may have been a hero then in Britain, but since they're going to try to go after you, we'll just happily adopt you as a great American hero, Christian.
00:47:53.000Good luck with everything on the book.
00:47:55.000Just, you know, whatever I can do to help get it out there.
00:47:57.000Because, I mean, I think this is the kind of behavior we want, you know, young people in this country and, frankly, everywhere else in the world to emulate.
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