Self-appointed martyrs ram their way into custody (11-19-2025--Hour1)

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But we are now over two hundred arrests by Customs and Border Patrol immigration enforcement operations in Charlotte, over two hundred, and as I mentioned yesterday, I feel the need to point this out once again that you know, when you see these videos of you've got you know, border patrol agent breaking a window and that's the beginning of the video, you don't know what occurred before the beginning of the video. And that is not a blanket defense of every single Border patrol officer in every single instance, merely pointing out that that viral video that's tugging on all your feels may not actually prove the thing that you want it to prove, based on your prior biases. Okay, So we have a couple of stories. Apparently we're up to now four for people who have been arrested. These are American citizens who have been arrested for using their cars in ways to try to either harm border patrol officers or to impede them. So the Charlotte Observer with the headline, man documenting border patrol in Charlotte arrested and freed Tuesday from FBI office. Okay, so he was questioned by the FBI. This person. Federal Immigration agents arrested a man who documented their activities in Charlotte on Tuesday, his friends told the Charlotte Observer. So the observers leading with this story, this narrative is coming from him and his friends and his lawyer, who he actually did not know he had. He had not hired a lawyer, but there was a lawyer hanging out outside the facility and was saying he could represent him or something. But the guy who was inside the facility after being arrested did not know this because he did not have this man hired as his attorney. Okay, So this individual, his name is Joshua Long. He was freed from an FBI office six hours after being taken into custody, which is actually not very long. If you've ever been taken into custody, six hours is not too bad. Now. I know that that might be very very long by Mecklenburg County judicial standards here, but in the grands game of things, six hours is not a very long time. I'm not even sure that they finished the paperwork on this guy before he got turned loose. It all happened yesterday afternoon at the parking lot of the East Way Crossing shopping Center. I know it will. I know that place. Well, that was my old stomping grounds back in two thousand and five. Not that I did any stomping there. Well, there was this one time I got mad when I went into the pizzeria and they were all out of zeppels. Anyway, the man's lawyer said that he is concerned because the FBI won't let him visit his client, and details are sparse. So again note the narrative. You know, American citizen merely documenting something going on, you know, picked up by the jack booted fascists and thrown into the dungeon, not allowed to talk to a lawyer. His lawyer when in fact, there is a different accusation that the DHS is making against this individual. It's not simply documenting number one and number two. Like I said, the guy didn't even know this lawyer was outside because he wasn't his lawyer. Here is what Joshua Long's partner, Gabrielle Sorge or Sorgye or Sorgee, I don't know. This is what Gabrielle told the Observer that Joshua Long was trying to quote deter agents from terrorizing our community. Okay, so note the difference because deterring is not exactly the same as documenting, right, those things are not automatically the same thing. It's not quite the same unless you believe that simply videotaping somebody is going to deter them from engaging in their operations. And sometimes, yes, when you're videotaping, somebody could deter some sort of action. However, I'm not sure if you've seen this, but CBP does not seem to be deterred by these activity. They are not. They are continuing to walk around and do whatever they're doing, and they're actually walking around with video cameras themselves. So I'm not sure if everybody has got their stories straight on this yet. As to what exactly Joshua Long was doing now, his friend Lucy Selby said that they were all watching agents and alerting neighbors. Okay, So you're blasting out information about an ongoing federal investigation. Okay. So I guess that's more likely to be classified as deterrence, right, like you're trying to deter or impede or obstruct. That's a good word for it too. They followed agents into the parking lot and then agents blocked them in with their vehicles, she said. So this is all from their perspective, okay. In response to an inquiry from the Charlotta an unsigned media relations email from the US Department of Homeland Security alleged that Long was arrested quote for vehicular assault against a federal agent. Now Long says that's not true. He didn't do nothing wrong. He was released from the FBI office in Southwest Charlotte around six thirty pm, where he was embraced as if he had been held in ah in like an Iranian prison or a Hamas tunnel for the last two years. He was embraced outside by supporters and loved ones and He said in an interview that he was charged with simple assault on a federal officer. So he was charged, So note you have to go. I'm on page two. It just says man documenting border patrol in Charlotte arrested freed Tuesday from FBI office he was charged. That headline could just as easily read man charged with assault on federal official, because that's what he was charged with. Even he acknowledges he was charged with that. Federal officers accused him of skimming their car. That's not even in quotes. So the observer is they're they're the ones that are constructing this description skimming their car. I'm assuming that means like sideswiping it or does that mean something else? I don't know in like in vehicular assault circles in the in the vehicular assault community, does skimming mean something? I'm not up with the lingo there. They say he skimmed the CBB car when he was trying to evade them, but Long said he was following the agents to alert people that they were in the area, which is not that's not actually addressing it. That's it's not a denial. But he says he didn't do nothing. Officers started coming after him, and he started driving aggressively, they say, or Long said. Long said they were driving aggressively, and he just tried to maneuver around them when he got cornered in a dead end, and he said agents eventually pointed a gun at him and pulled him from his vehicle and arrested him on the ground. Now, any law enforcement officer that just heard me read this description knows this pattern. When describing the thing that got you arrested. You are never the villain, right, always the hero or the victim. This is a narcissism. So this is what you are doing when you're when you try to tell the story in your most favorable light. I was out there being a hero. I was out there just trying to document and alert people. I was following the training that I got from the Communist Comrades an Indivisible Charlotte at that church training session. That's all I was doing. And then they started driving after me and I tried to get around them. They got all aggressive, and I was just trying to get away and I just didn't want to do anything wrong, and then they just arrested me. A friend who watched the incident, said Long never scraped the agency's vehicle or the agent's vehicle. So you know he's impartial because he's one of his friends, and so we know that. Okay, now we'll get to the lawyer here, because the lawyer's story is also a little as the kids would say, sus. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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So no, the Hellian says, we have to hammer home that we should enforce as we go so we do not end up in messes like this. It is this messy because of decades of half but enforcement Okay, yeah, no, it's it's what I keep saying, like the decisions of the last forty years and the ignoring of the issue, the deflection, deflection of the issue, the refusal to address it right that has led us to this point. This is what it looks like when you ignore the problem for decades, you ignore the will of your voters for decades. This is what it ends up looking like. But we've got, you know, lefties that are out there rolling around and trying to impede the work of these border patrol agents. And from this story the Observer about this guy Joshua Long who got arrested. Here's what the story says. I'm like halfway through this lengthy piece. I think it's like four it's two and a half pages, almost three pages long. Halfway through, more than halfway through, you finally get this information. For most of the afternoon and early evening, he sat handcuff in an interview room. He said he spoke with FBI agents to convey his point of view on the incident. He said, Okay, first off, don't ever talk to the FBI without a lawyer. Okay, did you learn nothing from the law fair against Donald Trump and his entire orbit of advisors and such. Right, don't talk to the FBI if they come to if they come asking you questions about something, get a lawyer number one. Number two, The fact that he talked with the FBI indicates that whatever Miranda writes, they read him, and I'm assuming that they did. He waived them and spoke to the FBI. So it doesn't seem like he ever asked for a lawyer, Right, it doesn't seem like that. If you're sitting there, you know, the FBI is like what happened because he said he says in the piece that the FBI would talk to the Border Patrol guys and they would come back and talk to him, and they were trying to figure out what exactly happened. So they were interviewing everybody. Well, if you were worried, you should have had a lawyer there, or you waived your rights, in which case then like you're talking freely to the FBI. Did you get a phone call? So like all this outrage, like, oh my gosh, he was detained and all this. Yeah, but he he agreed to talk with them. He was released after the agents went between him and Border Patrol for information about what happened. He was greeted outside by his attorney, Xavier T. Dijanon, and his partner and friends who were there when he was arrested. The lawyer says, I'm feeling horrified. Then an innocent person was held for six hours and disappeared from the world. It was the first time the attorney and long had met that day. Wait, so how is it his attorney? Then? Maybe the final paragraph of the story might shed some light, but maybe not. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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But there was a lawyer outside the FBI facility, Xavier T. De Jannon And when he was released, Joshua Long was released quote, it was the first time the attorney and Long had met that day. Had they ever met before? Did he know there was a lawyer out front? No, An FBI agent told the lawyer outside that people arrested could not see their lawyers. He had waited to see Joshua Long since three point fifty outside the FBI office on Microsoft Way. Long said he was not told that a lawyer was looking to meet with him. He would have requested to see the lawyer if he had known that. Okay, did you ask for a phone call? Did you ask for a lawyer? Did you agree to answer questions without a lawyer present? He's got a court date in May now. Someone with the FBI informed him that the agency will not be allowing lawyers to visit with people facing such arrests until they have been questioned and processed. That's according to the lawyer. He says, that's what the FBI told him. Charlotte. FBI spokesperson Shelley Lynch said in a short statement that the FBI is adhering to the law, but they do not include that short statement in their story, So I don't know exactly what the FBI said, but that does seem to be problematic. I kind of feel like you should probably be, you know, reading people their rights, and if somebody says I want a lawyer, they should have a lawyer, even if they don't know that some guy out front is a lawyer and is like, I'll represent you, I'll represent you. The lawyer says. Criminal defendant's access to counsel is one of the most fundamental rights in this country. So if a criminal defense attorney cannot visit someone who has been accused of a crime while they're being questioned investigated, then their fundamental rights are being violated. There are, of course, instances where the right to counsel can be limited, but in this situation, I don't even have a police report, a case number, a booking number, and investigation open. One of the best follow up questions. Here's a free journalism tip, but it works very well in all sorts of discussions on stuff. Best follow up question usually you can ask if if you don't have any follow ups already planned and ready to go, how so, just ask how so so? When this lawyer guy is saying to the reporter that there are, of course instances where the right to count so can be limited, you could ask, how so explain that give me one of those instances? Is this one of the instances? So? I don't know, and nobody else does. It doesn't even seem like the reporters that covered the story understand all of the law that's at play and what all occurred. Meanwhile, court records provide details about a man who Customs and Border Protection agents alleged was following them in Charlotte and then hit one agent with his car. This guy's name is Christobo Maltos. He followed agents as they conducted stops and arrests on Monday, According to a criminal complaint filed in the US District Court of Western North Carolina District, he reversed when agents first tried to make contact with him Maltos later resumed following them, and three Border patrol cars and five agents surrounded him. The agents asked him him for thirty seconds to roll down his window. According to the court documents, one officer quote leaned over the hood of the vehicle on the front driver's side. Then Maltos's car moved forward about thirty feet and its side mirror struck an officer. That's what they allege occurred. Then the car reversed slowly and officers smashed the driver's side window, opening the door and removing Maltos. This was all captured on body camera. Agent said they read Maltos his miranda rights, which he waved, and he eventually admitted yes, he did move the vehicle forward in first gear, but he claimed he was in shock and was just trying to get away. See, I was just trying to evade arrest. I was just trying to flee the scene. But he did not admit striking the officer. Maltos is charged with felony assault, resisting arrest, and impeding a federal officer. There's another named miguel An hell Garcia Martinez. He faces the same charge. After federal agents alleged that he weaponized his vehicle against them in the University City area on Sunday. And this is probably the video that you saw of the sprinter van jumping over medians, crossing over into traffic, getting chased out and then eventually boxed in and the driver arrested. And there's a woman facing the same charge as Martinez and Maltos. She was released from jail Monday following her hearing. Details about her case remained scant because her criminal complaint remained under seal yesterday, but family and community members told The Observer she was arrested at a Sunday morning protest outside the Department of Homeland Securities Charlotte office. Martinez, Maltos, and this woman face a maximum sentence of eight years in prison and a quarter million dollar fine if they are convicted. Maltos and the woman were released on twenty five thousand dollars unsecured bonds. Martinez has a detention hearing this afternoon. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, because It's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. 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So you know, people scream for comprehensive immigration reform. But if we ignore that and just say that, okay, what does that look like? Are we going to bend for the next two years, four years, five years, eight years, round up and try and find every single person and verify their their status immigration status if we hold to the law. So is your what we're going to do? I mean, my preference is that we follow the law. Or if you don't like the law and you don't want to follow it, then you repeal that law. Those are the options that those are the options in a society that is founded on law. Sure, okay, all right, So what does that law look like? What would you see that law looking like? Well, there's there's many prongs to it. Right, You've got your workplace enforcement that like you got you know your ways to verify, e verify and all of that. So you've got those types of checks and such. You do have a cooperation through a two eighty seven G program. For example, when somebody gets arrested, they end up at the jail, you run them through the ICE database, you get them ount that. Way, right, So there's you're a dancing around the edges though, But I'm saying. No, I'm telling you there are also there are many different ways that enforcing the law is done. And you do it in the workplace, you do it in the you do it in the jails. There are many ways that you go about enforcing that law. Right exactly. But the point being, you're doing nothing except going still going down the path of if you're here illegally, that's it. Why that's you're gone. Right now, I'm going to use a mechanism of not allowing you to work here, so hopefully you'll self deport. But right, that's the law. But that's the law. And again, as we discussed yesterday, if you want people to be able to come into the country to work in your construction company, then you do a work visa program, just like we have for the agricultural workers. Right, And so in the meantime, while we're trying to get that law and whatever that takes, that law's still not going to cover the people that are here illegally. You know, they came twenty thirty, forty years ago. We're still going to after them at some point. We're going to get them, is your point, right? Yeah, if they if they cross paths with enforcement agents. Yeah, whether that's whether that's a good policy that Look, that's the law. Well, no, I'm asking you. No, you're asking me. You're asking me to ignore the law. You're saying, isn't it better if we just ignore these laws? The law. I'm asking you to write the law. You've now got the pending page. Look, hey, hey, hey, John. I have been advocating for immigration overhaul for twenty five years, and nobody has done it. And that's why we are in the position we are in. I agree, right, and I agree that we should be doing it right now. We should be handling that law. And what does that look like? That's what I'm my question. I just gave you one. I gave you one example of what it would look like, work being more work. I just said work. The one that you asked about yesterday was about the construction field, and I said, just as I just did now work visas for that industry. Right. By the way, I got a lot of I have in my hands here. I've got text messages from probably half a dozen people in your field, in your industry that are adamant against your position on this. Well, I'm not defending my field. I'm defending common sense. And what do we do? How do we write this and make comprehensive immigration a non issue? How do we fix it? You first start, as I told you yesterday, You first start with closing the border, right so, and we've got that done, closing the border, keeping it closed, and then you do the enforcement mechanisms in the interior. That's what we're seeing, and that's that is what we are seeing. I got to run, John, I appreciate the call. Like again, I've given all of my thoughts on what immigration should look like over twenty five years. We are not at that point. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.