Reining in rogue prosecutors and weak sheriffs (05-15-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] One and welcome to the program.

[00:00:31] Scott Erickson, he is the director of the Center for Law and Justice at an organization

[00:00:36] called the America First Policy Institute.

[00:00:38] He's a former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security and spent nearly two

[00:00:43] decades as a uniformed police officer.

[00:00:45] Scott, welcome to the program, sir.

[00:00:46] How are you?

[00:00:47] I'm doing well.

[00:00:48] Thanks for having me on.

[00:00:50] Absolutely.

[00:00:51] So where we...

[00:00:52] Can I ask where were you a police officer?

[00:00:55] Were you in a big city?

[00:00:56] Were you in a small town?

[00:00:57] Yeah, no.

[00:00:58] I was in a big city, the city of San Jose, California, about 50 miles south of San Francisco.

[00:01:04] Okay.

[00:01:05] And so how long ago was that?

[00:01:08] Were you there when sort of the rise of all of the BLM stuff happened or were you already

[00:01:14] out of the police department at that point?

[00:01:17] No, I was still working.

[00:01:18] I left the force in early 2017, ended up working at Homeland Security after that.

[00:01:24] But I spent the previous 20 years as a street cop.

[00:01:27] I spent the whole time on the streets and certainly 2014, 2015, Black Lives Matter,

[00:01:34] a lot of the anti-police movement sort of bubbled up around that time and got pretty wild.

[00:01:38] So I saw it firsthand without police work when it sort of got even worse in 2020, but

[00:01:45] still talk to a lot of my former colleagues and kind of see how they're doing and dealing

[00:01:50] with this.

[00:01:51] And I can tell you, it's been tough.

[00:01:52] Yeah.

[00:01:53] Well, we were in Charlotte here Monday.

[00:01:56] They buried the fourth of the law enforcement officers that were killed when they went to

[00:02:01] serve a warrant on a fugitive two weeks prior.

[00:02:06] And it was, I mean, on the one hand, you know, terrible tragedy.

[00:02:10] But on the other, it's, you know, we saw a lot of people come out and support law enforcement.

[00:02:17] And you sometimes don't really, you don't get that sense.

[00:02:22] And it was good to see that a lot of people still do respect law enforcement.

[00:02:27] And I mean, it was just an awful tragedy, obviously, for Charlotte and North Carolina

[00:02:31] and law enforcement in general.

[00:02:33] This is Police Week as well, right?

[00:02:35] So yeah.

[00:02:36] So tell us what, like, what does the, what is your organization doing for Police Week?

[00:02:43] And I guess, were you following any of the story out of Charlotte, which, you know, the

[00:02:50] guy who did it, rap sheet a mile long, lots of interactions with law enforcement, belligerent

[00:02:55] fleeing arrest and possession of a firearm by a felon.

[00:02:58] Yeah, no.

[00:02:59] And of course, following what happened, the tragedy down there.

[00:03:03] I mean, it's almost unbelievable to lose four officers in one incident.

[00:03:09] But it's not unbelievable, sadly.

[00:03:11] And you know, many years ago, I went to a funeral for four Oakland, California police

[00:03:16] officers who were killed trying to apprehend a suspect.

[00:03:20] And it's just, it's surreal.

[00:03:21] It's sad.

[00:03:22] But that's what we do during Police Week, obviously.

[00:03:25] We remember the officers that we lost, in particular the year before, but all of the

[00:03:29] officers that have died or have been killed in the line of duty throughout our country's

[00:03:34] history.

[00:03:35] And it's important to reflect upon that because it is, it's a very dangerous job and we take

[00:03:40] it for granted, you know, that there are men and women working 24 hours a day, seven

[00:03:45] days a week in really tough conditions to try and make our communities just a little

[00:03:50] bit safer so that we can go about our day not hopefully not having to worry about being

[00:03:54] the victims of crime.

[00:03:55] And what happened down there was a tragedy.

[00:03:58] And you know, you alluded to the suspect in the case who has rap sheeted a mile long.

[00:04:04] And this is, you know, the American First Policy Institute, yesterday we held an event

[00:04:08] both to honor law enforcement and those that have passed, but also to talk about, you know,

[00:04:15] how we can make sure that the right policies are being put in place to help public safety,

[00:04:19] to help law enforcement and what policies don't work.

[00:04:22] And we have, you know, this problem today with what we call these progressive prosecutors,

[00:04:27] these rogue prosecutors that are out there pushing a social justice agenda at the cost

[00:04:31] of public safety.

[00:04:33] You know, it's the revolving door.

[00:04:34] You don't hold these criminals accountable and God forbid they end up doing something

[00:04:39] horrendous like what happened recently.

[00:04:41] Yeah.

[00:04:42] So how do you get at that?

[00:04:45] How do you fight back?

[00:04:47] I mean, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, here where we are, we've got a district attorney

[00:04:52] that's not exactly, you know, it's not like one of the woke prosecutors.

[00:04:55] Our sheriff, on the other hand, our sheriff has abandoned the 287G program.

[00:05:00] That was what he ran on and he won and then won re-election on.

[00:05:03] And he's, you know, he's described as a quote, woke sheriff.

[00:05:07] So how do you get at this?

[00:05:09] Because these are the people that are making these decisions, these magistrates who set

[00:05:12] the...

[00:05:13] I mean, we had one a couple of weeks ago we covered where a guy, yeah, he shot and killed

[00:05:19] a delivery driver.

[00:05:21] He was 17 years old, shot and killed a delivery driver and walked on an unsecured $300,000

[00:05:27] bond.

[00:05:28] And the guy was wearing an ankle monitor when he committed the murder.

[00:05:33] How do you get at the judges and these magistrates who are making these decisions?

[00:05:37] Yeah, it's frustrating.

[00:05:39] Ultimately, you know, the people themselves have to hold these people accountable.

[00:05:43] And it's about getting the message out and getting the word out.

[00:05:45] I think we...

[00:05:46] And perhaps we take for granted that not everyone completely understands that the implications

[00:05:52] of the policies that these people are implementing, what's happening.

[00:05:56] And we have to get that out there.

[00:05:58] So the more we talk about this, the more we make people aware that these policies that

[00:06:03] people run on that might sound good in their own echo chamber, but in reality cause a lot

[00:06:09] of damage to society, you know, we can vote them out.

[00:06:12] And you know, it's unconscionable that somebody would promote these terrible policies to see

[00:06:17] the outcome of it and then get reelected.

[00:06:19] But I think that's a byproduct of the public not being fully aware of what's going on right

[00:06:24] in their own community.

[00:06:25] So it's really important that we just continue to talk about this.

[00:06:30] And where people have recourse, whether it's through a citizen recall initiative or elsewhere,

[00:06:36] you know, they should exercise that.

[00:06:37] Chester Boone, the San Francisco DA, is a good example of that.

[00:06:42] I mean, San Francisco, an extremely liberal community, and he was elected on these same

[00:06:47] types of policies that where he was going to implement these sort of soft on crime policies.

[00:06:52] And they got so fed up in San Francisco that they removed him from office.

[00:06:55] So if San Francisco can do it, you know, other communities can do it as well, assuming they

[00:06:59] have again that mechanism to do so.

[00:07:02] But it's all about shedding light on these policies.

[00:07:05] And I think as the nation has grappled with, you know, an increasing crime over the past

[00:07:09] few years, and we see it creeping into neighborhoods that you may not have been used to seeing

[00:07:14] that type of crime, I think people are becoming more aware.

[00:07:16] So hopefully the pendulum will swing back toward a more law and order approach.

[00:07:21] So does it require things to get as bad as San Francisco?

[00:07:24] I saw what Macy's is closing their iconic store in San Francisco now, too.

[00:07:31] Like, does it have to get that bad?

[00:07:34] Well, no, I hope not.

[00:07:36] I mean, San Francisco's a unique case.

[00:07:38] There's a whole confluence of bad policies, not just in criminal justice, but that make

[00:07:43] for difficult times there.

[00:07:45] But it doesn't have to get that bad.

[00:07:47] It just requires people to stand up and say enough is enough.

[00:07:50] And, you know, there's perspective to everything, right?

[00:07:53] Crime isn't as bad as it was in the 80s and early 90s, but it's way worse than it was

[00:07:57] four years ago.

[00:07:59] And there's no reason it has to be that way.

[00:08:01] And I think as long as people need to not accept this as the new normal, they have to

[00:08:05] stand up and say, nope, this is not the new normal.

[00:08:08] We want to go back to how it was a few years ago when we felt safer in our own communities.

[00:08:12] And you have to demand that of your elected officials.

[00:08:15] Yeah, one of the things I mentioned this earlier was the 287G program.

[00:08:19] This is the program.

[00:08:20] In fact, one of our old sheriffs here, a Democrat at the time, like 20 years ago, Jim Pendergraft,

[00:08:27] after he retired as sheriff, he put 287G in place here and then he went around the country

[00:08:31] for the Bush administration, getting it implemented all around America.

[00:08:35] And this sheriff comes in, also a Democrat, but this one comes in and dismantles that

[00:08:41] program.

[00:08:42] And of course, we recently had a standoff with an illegal alien who was here and would

[00:08:47] have otherwise been identified in a 287G program, but for us dismantling this program.

[00:08:54] But the incentives are aligned inside the Democrat primary, and that's who we basically

[00:08:59] get to choose from.

[00:09:01] People who are not Democrats, we don't get an option in the Democrat primary to try

[00:09:07] to oust a sheriff.

[00:09:10] And so, that's why I'm asking these, and I kind of am a little pessimistic in that

[00:09:14] I just don't think that the people inside the voting base of the political party in

[00:09:21] power, I don't think they have any incentives to change the current course they are on.

[00:09:28] Well, I mean, you know, that's a good point until it becomes politically unpalatable for

[00:09:34] them, right?

[00:09:35] Yeah.

[00:09:37] And they have the public opinion swayed to such a degree that they realize that it's

[00:09:40] not worth following those or pursuing those policies anymore.

[00:09:44] And they get it, that when you're dealing with sort of a one-party rule or when the

[00:09:49] primary is sort of the general election, so to speak, in some communities and some jurisdictions,

[00:09:53] you know, oftentimes they're just pushing each other either further to the left.

[00:09:58] And but again, San Francisco is a good example of where it doesn't always work that way,

[00:10:03] and you won't find a more liberal community than San Francisco, but even they had enough

[00:10:08] and it wasn't worth it politically to continue pursuing that.

[00:10:12] And you mentioned 287G, you know, when I was at Homeland Security, that's a program that

[00:10:17] we had expanded considerably.

[00:10:19] And as soon as the Biden administration came in, they cut it out at its knees.

[00:10:24] And it's unfortunate because it really was a great force multiplier, you know, merging

[00:10:30] federal and state and local law enforcement capabilities to help ensure that communities

[00:10:36] weren't being victimized by people who had no lawful basis to be in the country in the

[00:10:40] first place.

[00:10:41] I mean, it's, you know, we said it all the time back then, which is that every crime

[00:10:44] committed by an illegal immigrant is in theory a preventable crime because that person shouldn't

[00:10:49] be in the country in the first place.

[00:10:51] And to shield people from justice and subject American citizens and others to victimization

[00:11:00] is insane.

[00:11:01] So we'll see, you know, what happens in the next year if there's any sort of change of

[00:11:06] administration.

[00:11:07] Hopefully, 287G becomes more robust again.

[00:11:10] Yeah.

[00:11:11] Scott Erickson, the Director of the Center for Law and Justice at the America First

[00:11:15] Policy Institute, that is americafirstpolicy.com.

[00:11:18] Thanks for your time, Scott.

[00:11:20] Appreciate it.

[00:11:21] Thank you for your service, too.

[00:11:22] Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.

[00:11:24] Absolutely.

[00:11:25] Take care.

[00:11:26] I do have some messages regarding the topics that we've been covering throughout the day

[00:11:31] here.

[00:11:33] For example, this from ShutterDog.

[00:11:37] It's a tweet from ShutterDog.

[00:11:39] Oh, I get it.

[00:11:40] ShutterDog.

[00:11:41] ShutterDog.

[00:11:42] ShutterDog.

[00:11:43] I'm thinking he likes taking pictures.

[00:11:45] He's a photographer, I'm thinking.

[00:11:47] He says, the difference between masks at funerals and not at the protests may have been that

[00:11:53] the protesters were carrying Molotov cocktails and the open flames destroyed the virus.

[00:11:59] Possible?

[00:12:00] I don't see why not.

[00:12:03] No, I think it was because COVID knows.

[00:12:07] I did an entire like two years worth of hashtag tweets called COVID knows.

[00:12:13] COVID knows.

[00:12:14] COVID knows if your cause is righteous or not, as COVID determines it.

[00:12:21] It's the smartest virus to ever have spread across the planet.

[00:12:26] And so it could tell.

[00:12:28] It could tell if you were out there marching for social justice, then you basically had

[00:12:33] like the blood smear over the door.

[00:12:36] You could pass freely here.

[00:12:39] No problem.

[00:12:41] If you're singing a hymn at church, it will smite you.

[00:12:48] Smite you down.

[00:12:49] Oh, Smitey McSmites a lot.

[00:12:51] It would just come after you, just like if you were sitting down versus standing.

[00:12:56] If you're standing at a pub, smite, smite, smite.

[00:13:02] If you're sitting down in a restaurant drinking the exact same beverage, it passes by.

[00:13:08] It's got me thinking maybe, maybe it's vertically challenged.

[00:13:14] Like maybe the lung juice when you talk and how it kind of expels into the micro droplets

[00:13:19] and it just kind of hangs in the air, you know?

[00:13:22] And so it doesn't ever fall to the ground.

[00:13:25] So therefore if you're standing, you're in the invisible cloud of lung juice and that's

[00:13:30] how it gets you.

[00:13:31] Or it just, it has, I don't know, something against tall people or maybe it prefers shorter

[00:13:40] people and so it's not smiting the shorter people.

[00:13:45] COVID knew a lot.

[00:13:46] And I'm just saying, I don't know about the various mutations after the fact, but COVID

[00:13:51] did know a lot back in the day.

[00:13:55] It knew when Roy Cooper walked around the block, raised fist in solidarity with the

[00:14:00] protesters and he took his mask off, it knew that his cause was righteous.

[00:14:05] It did not smite him at the time.

[00:14:09] Some say it might have been because he was outside.

[00:14:15] Others would say it was because the mask actually did not provide much protection at all.

[00:14:21] And those people would be largely correct.

[00:14:25] But I choose to believe that COVID was the smartest virus to ever virus.

[00:14:33] COVID knew.

[00:14:35] Rest in peace, COVID.

[00:14:39] Pro-Palestine protesters have vandalized one of the buildings at UNC Chapel Hill, dumped

[00:14:45] a bunch of red paint all over the place.

[00:14:49] They were wearing masks because COVID, you know?

[00:14:54] So CBS17.com reporting, pro-Palestine protesters.

[00:15:03] Palestine is not a country.

[00:15:04] Never was.

[00:15:05] It was a mandate.

[00:15:06] The colonizers gave it that name.

[00:15:08] They're just Arabs.

[00:15:11] They're Arabs that were in this territory.

[00:15:14] Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at UNC Saturday afternoon hours before graduation, which by

[00:15:19] the way got disrupted as well.

[00:15:22] Graduation from UNC Chapel Hill got disrupted just like it got disrupted at Duke University.

[00:15:27] But they were escorted out pretty quickly and then the football stadium filled with

[00:15:33] parents and family and friends of the ones who are graduating, they all started booing

[00:15:38] and the protesters and they started cheering when they were ejected.

[00:15:44] I don't know who spoke at their graduation.

[00:15:45] It definitely wasn't Jerry Seinfeld or anybody of that caliber.

[00:15:50] If it was, I would be giving you that.

[00:15:52] No, I don't even know.

[00:15:53] I have no idea.

[00:15:55] CBS's Amalia Roy said people began to gather at 11 a.m. Saturday.

[00:16:02] About an hour later, tents began to appear and according to the report, fewer than 100

[00:16:09] people were at this protest.

[00:16:12] By 3 o'clock, crews began cleaning up the paint that had been thrown all over the South

[00:16:21] building at UNC.

[00:16:22] Yeah, they dumped red paint all over the steps and everything and then they did like

[00:16:30] the red paint handprints, which by the way, you know where that comes from, right?

[00:16:35] You know what that's about?

[00:16:36] The red hand.

[00:16:37] And look, there are a lot of useful idiots that are part of this movement that don't

[00:16:41] know what it is that they're doing and they probably just think, blood on your hands,

[00:16:45] you know, that kind of thing.

[00:16:48] But it's a symbol of the Palestinians who captured an Israeli soldier and tortured and

[00:17:00] murdered him and then opened up their window.

[00:17:02] They were like cheering from their window.

[00:17:04] They were leaning out the window and they had blood all over their hands and they were

[00:17:08] like holding out their hands, showing everybody, we killed the Jew in a horrific manner.

[00:17:14] Absolutely horrific.

[00:17:16] That's what you're celebrating.

[00:17:18] That's what you're mimicking.

[00:17:19] But 36 people got detained, 30 cited for trespassing.

[00:17:24] Following the protests, UNC announced changes to graduation guidelines.

[00:17:29] The graduates had to present their UNC One card in order to enter the stadium.

[00:17:35] It didn't stop a protest or the kids from walking out.

[00:17:38] They were on the field.

[00:17:39] So these were graduates and they were like, I'm going to walk off.

[00:17:43] I'm going to show you.

[00:17:44] Gosh, mom and dad must be so proud, right?

[00:17:48] They spent all that money to send their kid to UNC Chapel Hill.

[00:17:52] They didn't even get to see their kids walk.

[00:17:54] Well, I guess they did get to see them walk off the field in zip ties.

[00:17:59] I'm just kidding.

[00:18:00] They didn't get arrested.

[00:18:03] There was a piece at Commentary Magazine, commentary.org by Abe Greenwald called The

[00:18:09] Woke Jihad and very lengthy piece.

[00:18:14] Highly recommend you check it out.

[00:18:16] The Woke Jihad at commentary.org.

[00:18:19] And he talks about the sort of intersection of the left wing radicals and the Islamists.

[00:18:25] Like how do you end up with, you know, queers for Palestine?

[00:18:28] In the first decade of the 21st century, he says that the United States was attacked by

[00:18:33] jihadists who drew the country into a years long multi-front war.

[00:18:37] At the start of the third decade, we were attacked in a far different fashion from within.

[00:18:42] Left wing radicals embarked on a violent campaign to upend the cultural and political

[00:18:46] order of our nation.

[00:18:48] Both attacks changed us in significant ways, but neither one broke us.

[00:18:52] In 2023, seizing on Hamas's October 7th massacre of Israelis, the jihadists and the left wing

[00:18:57] radicals explicitly joined forces.

[00:19:01] They first launched a street campaign against Israel in support of jihadist terrorism.

[00:19:06] And then they occupied university campuses where they began harassing Jewish students,

[00:19:10] continuing to call for the death of Israel and America, and amplified their praise for

[00:19:16] jihad all naturally in the name of peace.

[00:19:21] We don't know what this hybrid enemy of the West is going to do next, but we do know that

[00:19:26] it won't stop soon because it's well funded and it's impressively organized.

[00:19:31] Moreover, its two halves, the two groups, enjoy a valuable symbiotic relationship and

[00:19:38] that they need each other, at least for now.

[00:19:42] Three years after the George Floyd revolution, the left has found itself or did find itself

[00:19:48] adrift somewhat.

[00:19:49] By the way, the same thing happened in North Carolina with the Moral Monday movement.

[00:19:54] Democrat Party had been hollowed out.

[00:19:56] Corruption, scandals, lost a whole bunch of elections, lost control of the state.

[00:20:01] And so all you had was this like empty organization that was about to be evicted from its headquarters

[00:20:06] in Raleigh.

[00:20:08] Along comes what?

[00:20:09] The Moral Monday movement.

[00:20:11] A bunch of leftists parading through the streets.

[00:20:14] Media gives them a whole bunch of oxygen.

[00:20:17] With the liberal rank and file no longer interested in police defunding, the public turning against

[00:20:21] DEI schemes, whistleblowers revealing the horrors of gender affirming care for trans

[00:20:26] kids, and the term woke became a source of liberal embarrassment.

[00:20:30] So what was there to constitute the vital work of social justice?

[00:20:35] A revolutionary cannot live on microaggressions alone here, people.

[00:20:39] The left needed a new animating theme and jihadist fury would prove more than bracing

[00:20:47] enough for them.

[00:20:49] The jihadists needed the American left for tactical purposes, right?

[00:20:53] To propagandize for their cause and fit anti-Semitic terrorists into the intersectional left's

[00:21:00] pantheon of victims, right?

[00:21:02] This idea of intersectionality.

[00:21:03] Oh, you're oppressed.

[00:21:04] I'm oppressed.

[00:21:05] We're all oppressed for all these different reasons, but the intersectionality means we

[00:21:08] all get together and we all burn stuff down together.

[00:21:12] Intersectionality.

[00:21:13] If average Americans are shocked at how ardently the woke took to Islamist thinking, it's because

[00:21:18] they don't know the left as well as jihadists do.

[00:21:23] The jihadis, they know what the left is about.

[00:21:27] The love between these two groups is not reciprocal.

[00:21:31] Jihadists love the jihadists.

[00:21:32] They love them for their ferocity and their exoticism as much as for their bottomless

[00:21:38] self-pity.

[00:21:40] Those are the constituent elements of social justice.

[00:21:43] It's why we see protesters trying to shape shift into war ravaged Palestinians, right?

[00:21:47] Asking for humanitarian aid, claiming chemical attacks on students when it's actually just

[00:21:51] a fart spray, grasping to bask in the reflective glow of the nobly oppressed.

[00:21:58] But no properly chauvinistic jihadist could feel anything but disgust for the unchecked

[00:22:03] females, sexual libertines, heathens, and even the Jews that he's been forced to instrumentalize

[00:22:09] in the cause of Islamist domination.

[00:22:13] The leftists and the jihadists both love violence and victimhood.

[00:22:16] They both love destroying the good things of the West.

[00:22:19] They both love anti-Semitism.

[00:22:21] Up until recently, most of the anti-Semitic left was inclined to costume its Jew hatred

[00:22:27] in anti-Zionism.

[00:22:29] But their alliance with plainly exterminationist jihadists has changed that.

[00:22:35] It goes on quite a bit, then it gets to this other line here.

[00:22:40] The first thing to understand about any left-wing protest movement is that its nominal cause

[00:22:48] is irrelevant.

[00:22:52] What have I been saying?

[00:22:54] The issue is not the issue.

[00:22:55] The issue is always the revolution.

[00:22:57] The nominal cause.

[00:23:02] Whatever the issue is, the name of the issue, doesn't matter.

[00:23:06] It's just nominal.

[00:23:07] It's a name only.

[00:23:08] It doesn't matter.

[00:23:09] The thing that matters is the revolution.

[00:23:12] Anything that can help you get there is by its nature a destabilizing action.

[00:23:20] You will adopt it.

[00:23:21] You will do it.

[00:23:22] You will use it.

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[00:24:33] I may have bitten off more than I can chew on this piece.

[00:24:36] I forgot it's like six pages long.

[00:24:38] And I've, and like, you know me, I'm an over highlighter.

[00:24:42] I highlight too much stuff.

[00:24:43] I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get to it all.

[00:24:46] All right.

[00:24:47] I've already wasted time.

[00:24:48] Okay.

[00:24:49] The first thing to understand about any left-wing protest movement is that its nominal cause

[00:24:52] is irrelevant.

[00:24:53] Black Lives Matter isn't about saving black lives.

[00:24:56] Trans activism isn't about protecting trans children.

[00:24:59] Intersectionality is not about the suffering of the diverse disaffected.

[00:25:04] Never were, never will be.

[00:25:06] Underneath their particular brands, social justice movements are assorted fronts in a

[00:25:13] radical war against the good.

[00:25:16] And so it is for the quote pro-Palestinian encampments.

[00:25:21] Black Lives Matter was an attack on law enforcement because law enforcement maintains the good

[00:25:25] working order of the United States, right?

[00:25:28] Prevents a breakdown of society, the quote thin blue line, order over chaos.

[00:25:34] The performative lunatics who turned identity fanaticism into a national pastime are enemies

[00:25:41] of Israel, the Jews, the United States and human decency itself.

[00:25:47] That makes them natural allies of terrorists, whatever their do good cover stories may be.

[00:25:52] All right.

[00:25:53] Skipping ahead.

[00:25:54] You've heard me talk about them before.

[00:25:58] The PPs, right?

[00:26:03] American Muslims for Palestine, the AMP, and the Students for Justice in Palestine, the

[00:26:09] SJP, or as I call them, the PPs.

[00:26:12] Okay.

[00:26:13] AMP supplies SJP with quote speakers, training, printed materials, grants.

[00:26:21] AMP even has a campus coordinator on staff whose job is to work directly with SJP and

[00:26:28] other related campus groups.

[00:26:32] At least seven individuals who work for or on behalf of AMP have worked for or on behalf

[00:26:39] of organizations previously shut down or held civilly liable in the United States for

[00:26:44] providing financial support to Hamas.

[00:26:48] Jewish Voice for Peace, along with another group called If Not Now, also a Tides Foundation

[00:26:55] recipient, aka Soros Money.

[00:26:58] Jewish Voice for Peace is one of the central organizing forces behind pro-Hamas protests

[00:27:03] at Columbia and beyond.

[00:27:05] The Tides Foundation, supported by Soros, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the

[00:27:10] Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Susan and Nick Pritzker.

[00:27:15] Then there's the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

[00:27:18] They received at least $300,000 from the Open Society Foundation, also a Soros Foundation,

[00:27:26] the Open Society Foundation.

[00:27:28] It took in another $355K from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

[00:27:33] For an eight-hour, get this, for an eight-hour organizing shift, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian

[00:27:41] Rights pays its community-based fellows as much as $7,800 for an eight-hour shift.

[00:27:51] That's like John Moore producer money right there.

[00:27:58] Its campus-based fellows, they will make between $2,800 and $3,600.

[00:28:04] The fellows are trained to, quote, rise up to revolution.

[00:28:11] The issue is never the issue.

[00:28:13] The issue is always the revolution.

[00:28:16] There is another more insidious channel of support that bears mentioning, the vast sums

[00:28:20] of money that foreign governments give to American colleges.

[00:28:23] The country most relevant here is Hamas' patron state of Qatar.

[00:28:29] A 2022 study found Qatar gave $4.7 billion to multiple American colleges and universities

[00:28:38] over a 20-year period.

[00:28:41] Schools that accepted money from Qatar and other Middle Eastern donors averaged 300%

[00:28:49] more anti-Semitic incidents than colleges that did not take the money from these countries.

[00:28:54] Coincidence?

[00:28:55] I'm sure not.

[00:28:59] And they could hardly enjoy a more receptive audience.

[00:29:01] It is on the rotting foundations of Western academia itself that the woke jihad built

[00:29:08] its home.

[00:29:10] Dominant academic trends like intersectionality, critical race theory, anti-racism, anti-colonialism,

[00:29:19] which by the way, what is the deal with that?

[00:29:21] These anti-colonialism idiots.

[00:29:25] You guys are marching in service of the biggest colonizing culture ever on the face of the

[00:29:32] planet, right?

[00:29:33] The Crusades had to be launched because the Muslim world had colonized so much of the

[00:29:39] existing planet.

[00:29:41] Anyway, they've turned millions of young minds into a moral funhouse mirror in which racists

[00:29:48] are reflected back as angels, colorblindness as racism, one sex as the other sex, democracy

[00:29:55] as tyranny and tyranny as paradise, freedom as bondage, refugees as colonialists, Jews

[00:30:03] as white oppressors and terrorists as saints.

[00:30:08] He says it's no longer profitable to tease out the subtleties of one neo-Marxist theory

[00:30:12] or another anymore.

[00:30:13] In their totality, they amount to a categorical inversion of the good and the bad.

[00:30:19] They are inversed, right?

[00:30:22] And this is what Marxism is about.

[00:30:24] Hollowing out institutions, wearing their skins around and parading about as if they

[00:30:32] earned the reputations that were actually earned by previous generations and they destroy

[00:30:38] the institution from within.

[00:30:39] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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