0:00:00.359,0:00:01.920 against all enemies is brought to you 0:00:01.920,0:00:04.960 adree by veterans fighting Fascism and 0:00:04.960,0:00:08.319 by Veterans for responsible 0:00:12.280,0:00:14.879 leadership I would love your reaction to 0:00:14.879,0:00:16.560 this I mean this is something that we 0:00:16.560,0:00:18.199 come across in like a group that's 0:00:18.199,0:00:20.400 recruiting veterans so if you like an 0:00:20.400,0:00:22.880 exer if you look at like questions 15 16 0:00:22.880,0:00:25.039 and 0:00:27.439,0:00:30.400 17 Jesus 0:00:30.400,0:00:31.880 so I'm looking at an intake 0:00:31.880,0:00:33.440 questionnaire for a violent extremist 0:00:33.440,0:00:34.920 group and I'm going to read you three of 0:00:34.920,0:00:36.680 the questions question 15 are you in the 0:00:36.680,0:00:39.200 military or a veteran if so which branch 0:00:39.200,0:00:41.559 16 if it comes down to it would you go 0:00:41.559,0:00:42.920 against the oath you took in the 0:00:42.920,0:00:44.760 military and law enforcement you could 0:00:44.760,0:00:46.440 end up fighting against your military 0:00:46.440,0:00:49.160 law enforcement 0:00:51.280,0:00:53.520 Brothers I mean I I think you got to 0:00:53.520,0:00:54.840 consider where somebody has to be in 0:00:54.840,0:00:56.960 order to say yes to those three 0:00:56.960,0:00:58.719 questions and also some of the 0:00:58.719,0:01:00.000 capabilities and training that some of 0:01:00.000,0:01:02.280 these individuals bring there are places 0:01:02.280,0:01:05.438 in our military where we are trained uh 0:01:05.438,0:01:08.520 to start and fuel insurgencies there are 0:01:08.520,0:01:09.960 places in our military where we are 0:01:09.960,0:01:13.159 trained to overthrow governments or or 0:01:13.159,0:01:15.000 work with armed militias in order to do 0:01:15.000,0:01:16.159 that sort of thing I'm not saying this 0:01:16.159,0:01:17.680 to be alarmist and I'm not I don't think 0:01:17.680,0:01:19.759 we need to be afraid of our veterans 0:01:19.759,0:01:21.479 what I do think is that we need to have 0:01:21.479,0:01:25.079 a solid understanding uh of of how badly 0:01:25.079,0:01:27.040 this could escalate we're not at the 0:01:27.040,0:01:28.680 point where violence is the solution to 0:01:28.680,0:01:31.079 our problems but there are a lot of 0:01:31.079,0:01:32.560 people trying to convince vets and 0:01:32.560,0:01:34.960 others that we are and that that is a 0:01:34.960,0:01:37.720 very dangerous 0:01:38.200,0:01:40.920 thing today domestic terrorism is the 0:01:40.920,0:01:42.520 greatest terrorist threat facing the 0:01:42.520,0:01:44.920 United 0:01:46.460,0:01:48.960 [Music] 0:01:48.960,0:01:51.399 States the threat is real and we are all 0:01:51.399,0:01:54.200 at risk for decades violent extremist 0:01:54.200,0:01:55.439 groups have sought to infiltrate our 0:01:55.439,0:01:57.600 military to gain tactical training and 0:01:57.600,0:02:01.479 access to weapons and explosives 0:02:04.920,0:02:06.840 I do believe the oath means something 0:02:06.840,0:02:09.000 and I know that I'm going directly 0:02:09.000,0:02:10.598 against people who think that they also 0:02:10.598,0:02:13.400 are honoring their 0:02:14.800,0:02:20.040 oath I I do solemnly swear the of the 0:02:20.040,0:02:23.120 United States enemies foreign and 0:02:23.120,0:02:24.920 domestic so help me God so help me God 0:02:24.920,0:02:28.959 so help me God 0:02:34.440,0:02:42.949 [Music] 0:02:44.680,0:02:46.930 go ahead and fill up this 0:02:46.930,0:02:50.080 [Music] 0:02:54.760,0:02:57.080 Magazine asked a buddy of mine I said 0:02:57.080,0:03:00.879 hey man can you uh can you get me some 0:03:00.879,0:03:04.480 ammo decent ammo I can't find any he 0:03:04.480,0:03:06.280 said yeah man I heard that there's a 0:03:06.280,0:03:07.959 drug dealer down the corner he's uh 0:03:07.959,0:03:09.799 actually slinging ammunition now instead 0:03:09.799,0:03:10.590 of 0:03:10.590,0:03:12.360 [Music] 0:03:12.360,0:03:14.920 drugs so bought some ammunition from the 0:03:14.920,0:03:17.120 drug 0:03:18.799,0:03:21.720 dealer when people look at these these 0:03:21.720,0:03:24.280 guns these rifles and these handguns so 0:03:24.280,0:03:26.360 forth you know there's there's a lot of 0:03:26.360,0:03:28.799 folks that see something that causes 0:03:28.799,0:03:31.480 violence see something that's dangerous 0:03:31.480,0:03:33.720 and shouldn't be allowed in society and 0:03:33.720,0:03:36.200 so forth what they don't realize is that 0:03:36.200,0:03:39.799 this is what gave us our freedom this is 0:03:39.799,0:03:41.840 what won our independence this is what 0:03:41.840,0:03:45.000 protects us from from Attack it's not 0:03:45.000,0:03:47.120 just our god-given right you know to 0:03:47.120,0:03:49.120 defend ourselves it's our constitutional 0:03:49.120,0:03:52.280 right but it's also it's just right you 0:03:52.280,0:03:54.599 know when when you think about it uh 0:03:54.599,0:03:56.280 this rifle will never hurt or harm 0:03:56.280,0:03:58.480 anybody unless something that comes up 0:03:58.480,0:04:01.720 against it 0:04:11.640,0:04:14.640 baby's ready to rock and 0:04:17.560,0:04:20.040 roll being a Texan we're supposed to be 0:04:20.040,0:04:22.079 able to protect ourselves you know the 0:04:22.079,0:04:24.000 stuff that they show you on the movies 0:04:24.000,0:04:25.880 that's our real life that's who we are 0:04:25.880,0:04:28.199 The Cowboy Way and The Cowboy Way is to 0:04:28.199,0:04:31.000 be able to defend yourself 0:04:31.000,0:04:33.199 and uh you know I'm proud to say that I 0:04:33.199,0:04:37.320 can do that you know pretty 0:04:43.400,0:04:45.080 effectively you know I learned how to 0:04:45.080,0:04:46.880 ride a horse when I was about six the 0:04:46.880,0:04:48.919 property that we lived at was a lot like 0:04:48.919,0:04:53.039 this mosqu trees and so 0:04:55.320,0:04:58.600 forth my grandfather gave me my first BB 0:04:58.600,0:05:00.199 gun and 0:05:00.199,0:05:01.720 you know showed me how to aim how to 0:05:01.720,0:05:04.199 breathe and 0:05:06.400,0:05:08.720 shoot I was taught how to hone into a 0:05:08.720,0:05:11.720 Target and be able to actually execute 0:05:11.720,0:05:14.520 with whatever tool I'm 0:05:17.840,0:05:20.080 using but what you learn in the military 0:05:20.080,0:05:22.840 in the Army is your Scopes will fail you 0:05:22.840,0:05:24.199 your red dots will fail you the 0:05:24.199,0:05:26.319 batteries will wear out but your irons 0:05:26.319,0:05:30.199 never ever will so I've never had 0:05:30.199,0:05:32.199 anything on my rifles other than uh my 0:05:32.199,0:05:33.400 iron 0:05:33.400,0:05:37.919 sights not the best grouping but from 60 0:05:37.919,0:05:41.960 yards 50 yards it'll work up 0:05:41.960,0:05:45.600 close they all be in the 0:05:47.199,0:05:49.199 center good 0:05:49.199,0:05:52.319 boy come 0:05:55.360,0:05:57.880 herey I spent my whole life wanting to 0:05:57.880,0:05:59.639 join the military I mean there's a photo 0:05:59.639,0:06:01.360 photo right behind me of me when I was 0:06:01.360,0:06:03.160 probably like 5 years old wearing 0:06:03.160,0:06:04.639 camouflage Head To Toe with a pair of 0:06:04.639,0:06:08.319 dog tags feel like most kids that I grew 0:06:08.319,0:06:09.960 up with went through a phase of wanting 0:06:09.960,0:06:12.120 to be a cop or a firefighter or an army 0:06:12.120,0:06:16.280 man right I never grew out of 0:06:17.680,0:06:20.599 that then when I was 16 years old 0:06:20.599,0:06:22.639 September 11th happened and it kind of 0:06:22.639,0:06:25.759 put a different spin on that desire to 0:06:25.759,0:06:29.280 serve I went to go out and find bad guys 0:06:29.280,0:06:30.880 and find 0:06:30.880,0:06:35.039 justice so this is when I was 18 years 0:06:35.039,0:06:38.160 old in basic training and it's the 0:06:38.160,0:06:40.039 standard photo that you take before you 0:06:40.039,0:06:42.720 know what anything on the uniform means 0:06:42.720,0:06:44.440 so you notice there's no ribbon no name 0:06:44.440,0:06:47.400 tag anything like that it's a a 0:06:47.400,0:06:51.120 barebones uniform I was wearing a shirt 0:06:51.120,0:06:54.199 jacket and tie that weren't mine I mean 0:06:54.199,0:06:56.800 this is ignorance is bliss right here 0:06:56.800,0:06:59.759 that's that's what this photo is the 0:06:59.759,0:07:02.319 historical record is absolutely clear 0:07:02.319,0:07:04.240 that the aftermath of warfare is a 0:07:04.240,0:07:06.599 danger point for anti-democratic 0:07:06.599,0:07:08.759 violence for racist violence for 0:07:08.759,0:07:10.360 activity among Clan and white power 0:07:10.360,0:07:12.960 groups there's no question that this is 0:07:12.960,0:07:15.919 the case all of us men women people who 0:07:15.919,0:07:18.199 have served or not old people children 0:07:18.199,0:07:19.840 everyone becomes more violent in the 0:07:19.840,0:07:22.120 aftermath of warfare I think that what 0:07:22.120,0:07:24.120 we don't know yet is what happens to 0:07:24.120,0:07:26.520 that phenomenon when we're talking about 0:07:26.520,0:07:30.440 a 20-year War 0:07:32.440,0:07:34.560 my career started as a enlisted Soldier 0:07:34.560,0:07:37.680 I was Private Crow uh and then um almost 0:07:37.680,0:07:39.960 a decade later it it ended as Captain 0:07:39.960,0:07:42.520 Crow over that period well over a 100 0:07:42.520,0:07:44.319 combat missions between Iraq and 0:07:44.319,0:07:46.560 Afghanistan and of course felt like I 0:07:46.560,0:07:48.800 left that part of my life behind 0:07:48.800,0:07:52.720 me we will take that Dy we're going to 0:07:52.720,0:07:55.840 stor [ __ ] Capital [ __ ] you [ __ ] so 0:07:55.840,0:07:58.879 on January 6th I had told all the 0:07:58.879,0:08:01.080 members of my staff not to come in to 0:08:01.080,0:08:04.080 the office um I had heard reports of 0:08:04.080,0:08:06.560 bugaloo boys and proud boys and others 0:08:06.560,0:08:10.360 um filling flights to come into the 0:08:10.360,0:08:13.520 [Applause] 0:08:13.520,0:08:15.879 capital I think as a lot of us watch 0:08:15.879,0:08:17.680 things unfold on the 6th and then have 0:08:17.680,0:08:19.319 have looked at a lot of the footage 0:08:19.319,0:08:21.759 since you see things we recognize as 0:08:21.759,0:08:24.599 veterans that's affirmative gu this is 0:08:24.599,0:08:28.919 talk on January 6th 2021 US military 0:08:28.919,0:08:31.280 veterans who had sworn an oath to defend 0:08:31.280,0:08:33.519 the country were at the Vanguard of a 0:08:33.519,0:08:35.719 violent attempt to stop Congress from 0:08:35.719,0:08:38.440 certifying the 2020 presidential 0:08:38.440,0:08:40.839 election they were determined to keep 0:08:40.839,0:08:43.599 Joe Biden from becoming president you 0:08:43.599,0:08:45.600 can actually see if you look at it the 0:08:45.600,0:08:47.040 militia groups in the oath Creepers 0:08:47.040,0:08:49.120 three centers the proud boys they're 0:08:49.120,0:08:51.839 organized they're behaving tactically 0:08:51.839,0:08:53.800 they understand that the Dynamics of a 0:08:53.800,0:08:56.360 crowd and they're maneuvering to exploit 0:08:56.360,0:08:58.360 that mass of bodies you know so you see 0:08:58.360,0:09:00.600 an organized line of militia members 0:09:00.600,0:09:02.040 with shields ready to go ready to 0:09:02.040,0:09:03.600 exploit a breach pushing the crowd in 0:09:03.600,0:09:05.880 certain 0:09:06.079,0:09:08.760 directions the mob broke through into 0:09:08.760,0:09:10.839 the capital they evacuated leadership 0:09:10.839,0:09:12.720 they evacuated the floor but they had 0:09:12.720,0:09:14.440 forgotten that there were about two 0:09:14.440,0:09:16.480 dozen members up in the gallery 0:09:16.480,0:09:19.279 everybody stay down get 0:09:19.279,0:09:21.600 down the floor of the house was 0:09:21.600,0:09:23.720 evacuated but there was no safe 0:09:23.720,0:09:26.800 evacuation route evidently um from the 0:09:26.800,0:09:29.360 the gallery there's no safe place in the 0:09:29.360,0:09:30.680 United States for any of these 0:09:30.680,0:09:33.800 [ __ ] military principal 105 0:09:33.800,0:09:36.279 cave means grave and that's why I 0:09:36.279,0:09:37.640 realized we were trapped there was no 0:09:37.640,0:09:39.200 way out and we would likely have to make 0:09:39.200,0:09:41.240 a stand or fight our way out this was 0:09:41.240,0:09:42.839 one of the most shocking moments of my 0:09:42.839,0:09:44.800 life I made the decision to call my wife 0:09:44.800,0:09:47.440 and let her know that I uh love her and 0:09:47.440,0:09:49.360 tell the kids that I love 0:09:49.360,0:09:53.120 them the only time that the US capital 0:09:53.120,0:09:55.480 had been breached before was in the War 0:09:55.480,0:09:58.360 of 1812 and that was care of the British 0:09:58.360,0:10:01.680 king here we are in the capital No 0:10:01.680,0:10:04.360 Looking Back Now boys no looking back 0:10:04.360,0:10:06.200 this is what we [ __ ] lived up for 0:10:06.200,0:10:09.240 everything we [ __ ] trained 0:10:09.320,0:10:12.120 for this was the kind of experience that 0:10:12.120,0:10:14.279 I expected as a US Marine in Iraq but 0:10:14.279,0:10:17.000 could never even imagine happening as a 0:10:17.000,0:10:18.880 United States Congressman in Washington 0:10:18.880,0:10:20.640 DC you know many people have seen the 0:10:20.640,0:10:23.440 pictures they had barred the door to the 0:10:23.440,0:10:25.040 gallery they were banging on that door 0:10:25.040,0:10:27.640 and breaking the glass to that door I've 0:10:27.640,0:10:30.079 often asked myself how did I end up on 0:10:30.079,0:10:32.600 one side of that door and my fellow 0:10:32.600,0:10:35.040 veterans who raised their same right 0:10:35.040,0:10:37.680 hand and took the same oath that I took 0:10:37.680,0:10:38.880 how did they end up on the other side of 0:10:38.880,0:10:41.079 that 0:10:46.360,0:10:50.120 door nearly 150 law enforcement officers 0:10:50.120,0:10:51.390 were injured in the 0:10:51.390,0:10:53.720 [Music] 0:10:53.720,0:10:56.959 melee five protesters died and another 0:10:56.959,0:11:00.680 four police officers later committed 0:11:00.680,0:11:04.120 suicide Donald Trump tweeted out a video 0:11:04.120,0:11:07.600 he said we did a good [ __ ] job among 0:11:07.600,0:11:09.839 those charged in connection with the 0:11:09.839,0:11:13.000 attack a disproportionate number are US 0:11:13.000,0:11:15.560 military 0:11:18.030,0:11:24.600 [Music] 0:11:26.079,0:11:28.600 veterans for me now the capital is 0:11:28.600,0:11:29.760 almost like 0:11:29.760,0:11:32.760 around Gettysburg or antium or going to 0:11:32.760,0:11:35.160 Pearl Harbor and my son Michael was 0:11:35.160,0:11:37.480 killed in action in Afghanistan in June 0:11:37.480,0:11:40.440 14th 2008 and when you join the military 0:11:40.440,0:11:42.680 there's a lot of lot of competing ideals 0:11:42.680,0:11:45.440 of why you show up and and for most of 0:11:45.440,0:11:49.279 it there's a there's a a large amount of 0:11:51.519,0:11:53.920 patriotism but you never lose focus and 0:11:53.920,0:11:56.839 never lose sight that you know I'm here 0:11:56.839,0:11:58.399 in this country maybe to give them a 0:11:58.399,0:12:00.519 better chance to experience what we have 0:12:00.519,0:12:03.760 in America where it's not perfect we are 0:12:03.760,0:12:06.480 trying to form a more perfect union 0:12:06.480,0:12:07.720 every day and we want to give that 0:12:07.720,0:12:09.839 chance to other 0:12:09.839,0:12:12.720 people my son died doing that in 0:12:12.720,0:12:16.199 Afghanistan only for us to to lose that 0:12:16.199,0:12:18.639 sight 0:12:20.320,0:12:24.199 here veterans who swear that oath to 0:12:24.199,0:12:26.440 protect and defend the Constitution of 0:12:26.440,0:12:28.399 the United States against all enemies 0:12:28.399,0:12:30.120 foreign and 0:12:30.120,0:12:32.680 domestic of all 0:12:32.680,0:12:35.160 Americans they should 0:12:35.160,0:12:37.880 understand how dangerous and 0:12:37.880,0:12:39.760 unpatriotic this 0:12:39.760,0:12:42.040 Insurrection 0:12:42.040,0:12:44.920 was they were trying to 0:12:44.920,0:12:47.480 overthrow democratic election 0:12:47.480,0:12:50.720 results they shouted for the hanging of 0:12:50.720,0:12:52.360 our own vice 0:12:52.360,0:12:55.959 president that's a coup 0:12:57.399,0:12:59.519 attempt watching the instr Direction 0:12:59.519,0:13:01.480 happened and we're going to call it that 0:13:01.480,0:13:03.920 because that's what it was and watching 0:13:03.920,0:13:06.279 veterans participate being at the 0:13:06.279,0:13:09.000 Vanguard of that Insurrection it just 0:13:09.000,0:13:10.839 it's mindboggling but I I don't I don't 0:13:10.839,0:13:13.000 have a really good answer for why why 0:13:13.000,0:13:14.240 veterans would do 0:13:14.240,0:13:17.659 [Applause] 0:13:18.440,0:13:21.000 that though I was trained to blow stuff 0:13:21.000,0:13:24.399 up and run with the Infantry I became 0:13:24.399,0:13:26.480 this unofficial On The Ground 0:13:26.480,0:13:30.279 Intelligence reporter May 15 20 0:13:30.279,0:13:33.920 2005 we got called to uh respond to a 0:13:33.920,0:13:35.600 body that was found in a trash dump 0:13:35.600,0:13:39.040 outside solder City when we got there uh 0:13:39.040,0:13:41.000 we realized that it wasn't a body it was 0:13:41.000,0:13:46.480 a bunch of bodies and uh I had never 0:13:46.480,0:13:48.920 experienced anything like it and now as 0:13:48.920,0:13:51.639 I was taking photos closeup photos of 0:13:51.639,0:13:53.680 these faces of victims of murder and 0:13:53.680,0:13:55.800 torture I was looking at their wounds 0:13:55.800,0:13:57.360 and looking at the packaging tape that 0:13:57.360,0:13:59.279 was wrapped around their eyes and imagin 0:13:59.279,0:14:00.600 the terror that they 0:14:00.600,0:14:04.320 felt and every time I snap a 0:14:04.320,0:14:07.000 picture one of those faces 0:14:07.000,0:14:08.600 freezes 0:14:08.600,0:14:10.920 and the way that it froze on the screen 0:14:10.920,0:14:13.560 it froze in my 0:14:13.560,0:14:16.880 head but that was just a day of 0:14:16.880,0:14:20.680 deployment and I had 6 and 1 half months 0:14:20.680,0:14:25.759 7 months left of Iraq to deal with 0:14:26.759,0:14:30.360 that I went in as 11 br to the Army I 0:14:30.360,0:14:33.040 scored fairly high so I went to Airborne 0:14:33.040,0:14:34.920 school which was going to be my next uh 0:14:34.920,0:14:38.320 step of training for special forces and 0:14:38.320,0:14:39.920 uh during that time I ended up getting 0:14:39.920,0:14:42.759 injured really 0:14:43.519,0:14:46.720 badly when I came home I had spent my 0:14:46.720,0:14:49.000 entire adult life up to that point you 0:14:49.000,0:14:51.519 know either training for combat or in 0:14:51.519,0:14:53.880 combat it was hard for me to think of 0:14:53.880,0:14:56.480 anything positive in any way whether 0:14:56.480,0:14:59.120 it's for myself or for my country or for 0:14:59.120,0:15:01.360 democracy or for the 0:15:01.360,0:15:05.839 world I couldn't help but base my 0:15:05.839,0:15:08.800 beliefs and my feelings on my 0:15:08.800,0:15:11.279 experiences all of which had been 0:15:11.279,0:15:14.320 horrifically [ __ ] 0:15:14.560,0:15:17.079 negative when most come out of the 0:15:17.079,0:15:20.120 military they're coming out to a world 0:15:20.120,0:15:21.800 that they no longer understand anymore 0:15:21.800,0:15:23.680 you really get lost in that life when 0:15:23.680,0:15:24.880 you're in the military you know what 0:15:24.880,0:15:27.000 happens is you have the camaraderie the 0:15:27.000,0:15:29.160 friendship all the good things that you 0:15:29.160,0:15:30.560 have in the military and then when you 0:15:30.560,0:15:34.720 come out you kind of have Society that's 0:15:34.720,0:15:37.639 undisciplined incapable and and just 0:15:37.639,0:15:39.160 downright 0:15:39.160,0:15:41.720 ugly good evening I'm Jamie yucas a 0:15:41.720,0:15:43.519 massive police presence in Portland 0:15:43.519,0:15:46.079 Oregon today in anticipation of a 0:15:46.079,0:15:48.560 violent 0:15:49.360,0:15:51.519 confrontation I'm a proud boy I'm a 0:15:51.519,0:15:53.240 president of the Hellgate Bridge crew 0:15:53.240,0:15:55.720 chapter in New York City I'm also an Air 0:15:55.720,0:15:57.839 Force veteran what we're going through 0:15:57.839,0:16:00.920 right now is is a war on the US 0:16:00.920,0:16:03.839 Constitution biggest reason why I joined 0:16:03.839,0:16:06.680 the Air Force myself you know it's to 0:16:06.680,0:16:08.199 get back to my country to serve my 0:16:08.199,0:16:10.759 country I think a lot of that kind of 0:16:10.759,0:16:13.399 came from my up upbringing you know the 0:16:13.399,0:16:15.240 family that I grew up in you know very 0:16:15.240,0:16:18.040 proud to be an American uh very proud of 0:16:18.040,0:16:19.319 what America stood for what it 0:16:19.319,0:16:21.199 represented around the world very 0:16:21.199,0:16:23.160 patriotic and I think a lot of those 0:16:23.160,0:16:25.279 things that which last today members of 0:16:25.279,0:16:27.519 The Proud boys and antifa fought 0:16:27.519,0:16:29.519 multiple times mayor Ted wheeler just 0:16:29.519,0:16:31.279 sent out a statement late today saying 0:16:31.279,0:16:33.360 this past weekend quote put innocent 0:16:33.360,0:16:36.279 lives at risk the proud boys were 0:16:36.279,0:16:39.480 founded in New York in 2016 you want to 0:16:39.480,0:16:41.440 keep on poking a Sleeping Bear guess 0:16:41.440,0:16:43.199 what it's going to rise up and it's 0:16:43.199,0:16:45.720 going to be 1776 up in this [ __ ] and 0:16:45.720,0:16:47.839 are classified as an international 0:16:47.839,0:16:50.720 terrorist organization by Canada we're 0:16:50.720,0:16:52.600 Western shauvin but that essentially 0:16:52.600,0:16:54.759 means is that we're the biggest 0:16:54.759,0:16:57.319 cheerleaders for Western values Western 0:16:57.319,0:16:59.480 culture small government 0:16:59.480,0:17:02.000 maximum Freedom maximum Liberty pro- 0:17:02.000,0:17:04.119 First Amendment Pro Second Amendment 0:17:04.119,0:17:06.240 glorifying the entrepreneur venerating 0:17:06.240,0:17:08.599 the housewife we're not militaristic in 0:17:08.599,0:17:10.599 any way shape or form the fact of the 0:17:10.599,0:17:12.160 matter is you have good guys in this 0:17:12.160,0:17:14.079 world you have bad guys in this world 0:17:14.079,0:17:16.400 and the only way to stand up to the bad 0:17:16.400,0:17:19.079 guys is to fight them they came to 0:17:19.079,0:17:22.119 prominence in America in September 2020 0:17:22.119,0:17:24.760 during a presidential debate between Joe 0:17:24.760,0:17:29.280 Biden and Donald Trump suprem 0:17:29.679,0:17:33.760 right stand back and stand by when I saw 0:17:33.760,0:17:36.080 the president of the United States 0:17:36.080,0:17:38.160 telling an extremist violent 0:17:38.160,0:17:40.080 organization stand 0:17:40.080,0:17:44.240 by that was a chilling moment that was a 0:17:44.240,0:17:46.840 chilling moment for me it wasn't any 0:17:46.840,0:17:48.440 different than a president of the United 0:17:48.440,0:17:50.960 States telling Al-Qaeda or telling Isis 0:17:50.960,0:17:53.679 look I have a tough election stand by 0:17:53.679,0:17:55.240 let me tell you what you need to do did 0:17:55.240,0:17:58.039 we get a lot of notoriety absolutely of 0:17:58.039,0:18:00.039 course we did but at the very same time 0:18:00.039,0:18:02.039 it's it's not because we're racist it's 0:18:02.039,0:18:04.159 not because we're white supremacist if 0:18:04.159,0:18:06.240 we think about what the militant right 0:18:06.240,0:18:08.000 and white power movement looks like 0:18:08.000,0:18:10.240 today there are many of these groups the 0:18:10.240,0:18:12.960 specifics can change from group to group 0:18:12.960,0:18:16.039 but the overall intent is the same the 0:18:16.039,0:18:19.320 common ideology is simple uh we had 0:18:19.320,0:18:22.880 power we should have power power is 0:18:22.880,0:18:25.360 being taken away from us and by any 0:18:25.360,0:18:27.440 means necessary we can get it back 0:18:27.440,0:18:29.000 fascist groups you have National social 0:18:29.000,0:18:30.080 group you have Southern nationalist 0:18:30.080,0:18:31.280 groups you have all types of groups with 0:18:31.280,0:18:32.559 all types of Creeds but ultimately we're 0:18:32.559,0:18:34.159 all being united because we all believe 0:18:34.159,0:18:35.640 in the same thing which is ultimately 0:18:35.640,0:18:37.640 that white people have a right to exist 0:18:37.640,0:18:42.280 and whether the Wii is a white Wii will 0:18:42.280,0:18:45.480 not replace us whether the wi is an 0:18:45.480,0:18:47.919 anti-government we they're all 0:18:47.919,0:18:50.919 intertwined the more laws they pass it's 0:18:50.919,0:18:52.720 going to end up the people versus the 0:18:52.720,0:18:54.640 government right now we're being 0:18:54.640,0:18:57.120 peaceful in the future nobody knows when 0:18:57.120,0:19:00.200 that breaking Point's going M should 0:19:00.200,0:19:01.919 have hit a long time ago personally for 0:19:01.919,0:19:03.960 me a lot of people think that ah you 0:19:03.960,0:19:05.520 know these are Knuckleheads and we 0:19:05.520,0:19:07.679 shouldn't worry about them unfortunately 0:19:07.679,0:19:09.520 we said the same thing about the jihadis 0:19:09.520,0:19:12.000 prior to the events of 911 they live in 0:19:12.000,0:19:14.200 caves in Afghanistan they don't pose any 0:19:14.200,0:19:16.120 threat to the Homeland but by the time 0:19:16.120,0:19:19.080 we decided to go after them after 9/11 0:19:19.080,0:19:21.480 it was a little bit too 0:19:21.480,0:19:25.289 [Applause] 0:19:25.679,0:19:28.240 late I would like to think that we would 0:19:28.240,0:19:30.080 draw the attention of people that are 0:19:30.080,0:19:32.159 from the military with the military 0:19:32.159,0:19:34.559 background and I think it it it would be 0:19:34.559,0:19:36.520 true of like the three centers or the Y 0:19:36.520,0:19:38.960 Keepers the one thread that kind of 0:19:38.960,0:19:41.320 combines all of our groups is the US 0:19:41.320,0:19:45.200 Constitution our respect for 0:19:54.159,0:19:57.400 it and I signed up to defend this 0:19:57.400,0:19:59.679 country I was essentially joining the 0:19:59.679,0:20:03.000 3centers already the oath of enlistment 0:20:03.000,0:20:06.200 is the exact oath of a 3center I do 0:20:06.200,0:20:10.120 Solly swear I do so Solly swear that I 0:20:10.120,0:20:12.880 will support and defend the Constitution 0:20:12.880,0:20:14.880 I will support and defend the 0:20:14.880,0:20:17.240 consti of the United 0:20:17.240,0:20:21.360 States United States against all enemies 0:20:21.360,0:20:24.840 against all enemies foreign and domestic 0:20:24.840,0:20:26.360 foreign and 0:20:26.360,0:20:30.600 domestic in Atlanta I met up with 3% SF 0:20:30.600,0:20:32.760 and some of the other brothers out there 0:20:32.760,0:20:34.799 and everybody was upset about the 0:20:34.799,0:20:37.159 election you know I mean basically we're 0:20:37.159,0:20:39.200 looking at a criminal that has become 0:20:39.200,0:20:41.799 our President 0:20:41.799,0:20:43.960 illegitimately Joe Biden has already 0:20:43.960,0:20:45.919 harmed this country his son has already 0:20:45.919,0:20:48.720 harmed this country we know for a fact 0:20:48.720,0:20:51.880 that that family is a criminal family 0:20:51.880,0:20:55.120 the situation we're in is a situation of 0:20:55.120,0:20:58.360 treason the punishment for treason is 0:20:58.360,0:21:00.600 death 0:21:00.679,0:21:03.360 in America you have the right to be an 0:21:03.360,0:21:06.440 [ __ ] you have the right to have the 0:21:06.440,0:21:08.280 most pathetic views in the world I don't 0:21:08.280,0:21:09.760 have to agree with you you don't have to 0:21:09.760,0:21:11.320 agree with me but that is a right 0:21:11.320,0:21:13.039 protected by the first amendment I think 0:21:13.039,0:21:14.799 when we talk about violent extremist to 0:21:14.799,0:21:16.400 groups we're talk we're talking about 0:21:16.400,0:21:19.320 individuals that go 0:21:19.320,0:21:23.039 beyond the narrative to violence people 0:21:23.039,0:21:25.960 who are planning to attack the US 0:21:25.960,0:21:28.240 government because it's an evil empire 0:21:28.240,0:21:30.799 people who are trying to you know kill 0:21:30.799,0:21:33.840 Jews or kill immigrants or kill black 0:21:33.840,0:21:36.039 people just based on their race or on 0:21:36.039,0:21:40.279 their religion when you move away from 0:21:40.279,0:21:42.799 the narrative as 0:21:42.799,0:21:47.240 ugly as that narrative is to carry out 0:21:47.240,0:21:49.600 violence based on that narrative to 0:21:49.600,0:21:51.880 recruit individuals to carry out 0:21:51.880,0:21:55.600 violence based on that narrative then 0:21:55.600,0:21:57.679 you're a violent extremist then you're 0:21:57.679,0:22:00.520 frankly a terrorist 0:22:03.520,0:22:07.520 get get off 0:22:07.520,0:22:10.679 get we used to talk about IEDs 0:22:10.679,0:22:13.960 improvised explosive devices in Iraq and 0:22:13.960,0:22:16.760 they were incredibly lethal and what we 0:22:16.760,0:22:19.480 learned as we tried to stop this was 0:22:19.480,0:22:21.559 that the problem was not the bomb itself 0:22:21.559,0:22:23.919 the problem you had to go left of the 0:22:23.919,0:22:27.200 boom you had to go Upstream to the 0:22:27.200,0:22:28.960 problem and look at where where the 0:22:28.960,0:22:30.480 problem is coming from where's the 0:22:30.480,0:22:33.799 energy January 6th now a militia group 0:22:33.799,0:22:36.720 had stashes of guns on the outskirts of 0:22:36.720,0:22:39.760 DC ready to go on that fateful day 0:22:39.760,0:22:42.159 during the Insurrection that's just one 0:22:42.159,0:22:44.000 of the alarming allegations from the 0:22:44.000,0:22:46.480 justice department today after the feds 0:22:46.480,0:22:48.799 charged the leader steuart rhods and 0:22:48.799,0:22:50.520 several members of the right-wing group 0:22:50.520,0:22:53.440 The oathkeepers with seditious 0:22:53.440,0:22:56.440 conspiracy Stuart rhods is a former Army 0:22:56.440,0:22:59.279 paratrooper with a law degree from Yale 0:22:59.279,0:23:02.559 in 2009 he founded the oathkeepers a 0:23:02.559,0:23:05.080 shadowy organization that recruited Law 0:23:05.080,0:23:07.400 Enforcement Officers active duty 0:23:07.400,0:23:10.000 military and Veterans their mission was 0:23:10.000,0:23:13.200 to supposedly defend the US Constitution 0:23:13.200,0:23:15.360 but it quickly devolved into an armed 0:23:15.360,0:23:20.120 militia dedicated to overthrowing the US 0:23:20.120,0:23:22.760 government the founders told us more 0:23:22.760,0:23:24.600 wisdom that we must be the militia you 0:23:24.600,0:23:26.960 will not be secure you will not be free 0:23:26.960,0:23:29.760 without it it's time we resurrect that 0:23:29.760,0:23:31.880 and become the militia once again there 0:23:31.880,0:23:34.720 are thought to be 35,000 members in the 0:23:34.720,0:23:37.559 organization most of them heavily armed 0:23:37.559,0:23:39.760 and January 6th was not the first time 0:23:39.760,0:23:42.640 rhs assembled his forces at an arsenal 0:23:42.640,0:23:45.360 of weapons a state of emergency in 0:23:45.360,0:23:47.520 Louisville Kentucky after a grand jury 0:23:47.520,0:23:49.440 decided not to indict three police 0:23:49.440,0:23:53.480 officers in the shooting death of Briana 0:23:54.440,0:23:57.279 Taylor late this afternoon protesters 0:23:57.279,0:24:00.440 clashed with police 0:24:06.000,0:24:07.600 guys bring it in pay attention can't 0:24:07.600,0:24:09.240 talk and listen at the same time you're 0:24:09.240,0:24:11.880 in a military operation behave like it 0:24:11.880,0:24:14.279 overdrive is going to be bravo team and 0:24:14.279,0:24:16.679 the pawn Shop's going to be Charlie te 0:24:16.679,0:24:19.039 following the killing of bana Taylor the 0:24:19.039,0:24:21.760 oathkeepers went to Kentucky alongside 0:24:21.760,0:24:24.240 local milicia groups we here in 0:24:24.240,0:24:26.679 Louisville to protect the Shell station 0:24:26.679,0:24:29.200 and also the pawn shop across the street 0:24:29.200,0:24:31.960 and also a private residence you can't 0:24:31.960,0:24:33.960 predict unpredictable you can't predict 0:24:33.960,0:24:37.080 chaos you can't predict 0:24:39.679,0:24:41.480 stupid 0:24:41.480,0:24:43.720 be my main message is you got to get 0:24:43.720,0:24:45.320 ready and prepare yourselves and your 0:24:45.320,0:24:47.640 communities for what we see coming where 0:24:47.640,0:24:49.960 I think it's unavoidable now got too 0:24:49.960,0:24:51.360 many brainwashed Americans who' been 0:24:51.360,0:24:52.919 brainwashed by communist professors and 0:24:52.919,0:24:56.240 teachers to hate their own 0:24:56.679,0:25:00.200 country what do I want 0:25:00.200,0:25:02.159 I what do you do with someone that hates 0:25:02.159,0:25:04.279 your own country and hates you buy a 0:25:04.279,0:25:05.840 close extension if you believe in your 0:25:05.840,0:25:11.240 country still 3 2 1 0:25:15.080,0:25:17.279 go behind right 0:25:17.279,0:25:19.159 behind it's almost like you're in a 0:25:19.159,0:25:21.279 foreign country doing a stability 0:25:21.279,0:25:23.679 operation against an Insurgency one of 0:25:23.679,0:25:27.440 our guys up there is f p for vet and we 0:25:27.440,0:25:29.279 got another one that and retired stff 0:25:29.279,0:25:30.760 Ser 0:25:30.760,0:25:33.200 that's I'm not surprised that extremist 0:25:33.200,0:25:35.200 organizations try to recruit veterans 0:25:35.200,0:25:37.000 for The credibility that we bring but 0:25:37.000,0:25:38.799 also for our commitment um and that 0:25:38.799,0:25:40.880 commitment takes a lot of forms veterans 0:25:40.880,0:25:43.080 are people in our society who in many 0:25:43.080,0:25:45.080 ways have said I will do whatever is 0:25:45.080,0:25:47.039 necessary to preserve what I believe in 0:25:47.039,0:25:49.039 to preserve the Baseline values and the 0:25:49.039,0:25:50.799 Baseline existence of my Society up to 0:25:50.799,0:25:52.360 an including 0:25:52.360,0:25:54.520 violence put a scope on them take a peek 0:25:54.520,0:25:56.480 at and see if they got that's same kind 0:25:56.480,0:25:57.559 of [ __ ] they've been doing their whole 0:25:57.559,0:25:59.279 career you know now doing here inside 0:25:59.279,0:26:00.559 the United States it's kind of a weird 0:26:00.559,0:26:02.640 feeling I had two purple two purple 0:26:02.640,0:26:04.799 hearts already in a bron St they said 0:26:04.799,0:26:06.080 David only the way we'll call you back 0:26:06.080,0:26:08.960 in if the [ __ ] going to hit the f I came 0:26:08.960,0:26:11.720 home to visit my mom and press withy was 0:26:11.720,0:26:13.080 taking a shower she'd come pounding on 0:26:13.080,0:26:15.640 the door early in the morning she poting 0:26:15.640,0:26:18.240 a TV by the time second airplane hits 0:26:18.240,0:26:21.159 911 well 3 weeks later I was getting my 0:26:21.159,0:26:23.559 shots our group was the second group 0:26:23.559,0:26:25.580 that enter Afghanistan H H 0:26:25.580,0:26:26.840 [Music] 0:26:26.840,0:26:28.960 man it's 0:26:28.960,0:26:33.880 it's so enticing I mean I um God you get 0:26:33.880,0:26:37.200 to fight again you know it's um you know 0:26:37.200,0:26:38.960 you're trained in certain things you 0:26:38.960,0:26:41.320 know you can see the battlefield better 0:26:41.320,0:26:42.720 uh if you believe the country is under 0:26:42.720,0:26:44.399 attack you have a certain set of skills 0:26:44.399,0:26:46.520 that maybe you were trained uh trained 0:26:46.520,0:26:48.640 with that you can you know help the 0:26:48.640,0:26:50.279 group around you right you're a force 0:26:50.279,0:26:52.880 multiplier the quential examples of a 0:26:52.880,0:26:55.600 force multiplier are special forces Army 0:26:55.600,0:26:57.840 Green Berets you know these 12-man a 0:26:57.840,0:27:00.000 teams that actually go Behind Enemy 0:27:00.000,0:27:02.200 Lines and train up to a battalion you 0:27:02.200,0:27:04.760 know up to six or 700 local indigenous 0:27:04.760,0:27:07.120 forces on combat skills certainly I 0:27:07.120,0:27:08.399 think that's one of the reasons why some 0:27:08.399,0:27:11.360 of these extremist groups are recruiting 0:27:11.360,0:27:13.760 these individuals very deliberately into 0:27:13.760,0:27:15.360 their 0:27:15.360,0:27:18.240 movements they're [ __ ] coming 0:27:18.240,0:27:21.559 that's you need lock load ready to go 0:27:21.559,0:27:23.799 hey guys everybody spread out get eyes 0:27:23.799,0:27:27.640 open get a good perimeter 0:27:31.600,0:27:33.120 they light [ __ ] on fire we can shoot on 0:27:33.120,0:27:36.000 them right yep very [ __ ] well 0:27:36.000,0:27:38.279 hopefully they light sh on 0:27:38.279,0:27:42.519 fire when I was 21 and severely 0:27:42.519,0:27:45.279 damaged from a war that I had been lied 0:27:45.279,0:27:48.399 into and that my friends were dying for 0:27:48.399,0:27:50.320 when a guy like Stuart rhods comes along 0:27:50.320,0:27:52.640 with a Yale law degree and they see the 0:27:52.640,0:27:54.320 eye patch they don't know that he shot 0:27:54.320,0:27:56.240 himself at a range but they assume he's 0:27:56.240,0:27:59.120 a combat wounded vet and says like hey 0:27:59.120,0:28:01.039 you can support and defend the 0:28:01.039,0:28:02.600 Constitution of the United States 0:28:02.600,0:28:05.320 standing with us and just you know 0:28:05.320,0:28:07.760 repeats the words of the the the second 0:28:07.760,0:28:09.640 amendment that that's all it took for me 0:28:09.640,0:28:12.640 to be like okay you know you know you've 0:28:12.640,0:28:13.919 got the pedigree you've got the 0:28:13.919,0:28:16.159 background why should I challenge that 0:28:16.159,0:28:19.760 you I I have no basis in in experience 0:28:19.760,0:28:24.919 or education to challenge it 0:28:27.160,0:28:30.269 [Music] 0:28:31.480,0:28:32.279 they're not going to let him get 0:28:32.279,0:28:34.360 anywhere near yeah no cuz we're going to 0:28:34.360,0:28:36.039 [ __ ] pain the streets 0:28:36.039,0:28:39.279 man the challenge with having veterans 0:28:39.279,0:28:42.480 directly involved is twofold the first 0:28:42.480,0:28:45.320 is that they bring a certain expertise 0:28:45.320,0:28:46.880 they might bring in organizational 0:28:46.880,0:28:50.640 skills or military skills that can make 0:28:50.640,0:28:54.279 a movement more dangerous all right War 0:28:54.279,0:28:55.279 up let's 0:28:55.279,0:28:57.799 go the second thing that's disturbing 0:28:57.799,0:29:00.919 how ever is particularly in our society 0:29:00.919,0:29:03.640 veterans have legitimacy they have a 0:29:03.640,0:29:08.000 particular place of respect and when we 0:29:08.000,0:29:10.760 see veterans involved in something it 0:29:10.760,0:29:14.679 gives some component of legitimacy to 0:29:14.679,0:29:16.880 that 0:29:16.880,0:29:19.519 cause our command's been trying to tell 0:29:19.519,0:29:21.519 us to inform you that you are breaking 0:29:21.519,0:29:24.720 curfew right now yes sir so if you could 0:29:24.720,0:29:26.039 just go back to your 0:29:26.039,0:29:29.640 post not not by us just by we will have 0:29:29.640,0:29:31.600 to enforce 0:29:31.600,0:29:34.919 C appreciate 0:29:36.600,0:29:39.559 it 0:29:39.559,0:29:42.840 very veterans have a kind of social 0:29:42.840,0:29:45.360 cache that provides cover for a lot of 0:29:45.360,0:29:47.559 the extremist activity that these groups 0:29:47.559,0:29:50.200 are trying to do so if you turn out to a 0:29:50.200,0:29:51.640 protest with a bunch of people in 0:29:51.640,0:29:53.799 uniform much like if you turn out with a 0:29:53.799,0:29:56.039 bunch of women um you have a different 0:29:56.039,0:29:58.240 kind of reception than if you turn turn 0:29:58.240,0:30:02.480 out wearing say swastikas and hoods and 0:30:02.480,0:30:05.120 robes so when we think about this this 0:30:05.120,0:30:06.720 is along the lines of something like 0:30:06.720,0:30:08.840 choosing to come out in polo shirts and 0:30:08.840,0:30:11.519 khakis or choosing to come out in funny 0:30:11.519,0:30:13.880 Hawaiian shirts as part of bugaloo those 0:30:13.880,0:30:16.080 are deliberate decisions that are made 0:30:16.080,0:30:18.600 to create the opportunity for public 0:30:18.600,0:30:21.640 reception and the use of veterans is one 0:30:21.640,0:30:24.440 way to do this among several I've not 0:30:24.440,0:30:26.200 been a part of any militia beforehand 0:30:26.200,0:30:27.480 but once they opened up and said that 0:30:27.480,0:30:28.919 they were doing all BLM and they you 0:30:28.919,0:30:31.200 know I've seen my city on fire I I was 0:30:31.200,0:30:32.960 just like I've had enough and so I you 0:30:32.960,0:30:35.080 know I reached out to my local militia 0:30:35.080,0:30:37.760 and you know I've been with them ever 0:30:37.760,0:30:41.000 since When You're vulnerable and you're 0:30:41.000,0:30:43.600 looking for family cuz that's what the 0:30:43.600,0:30:46.640 people you serve with are they look like 0:30:46.640,0:30:49.880 they could be family they look like they 0:30:49.880,0:30:52.480 can provide you that sense of purpose 0:30:52.480,0:30:54.799 that mission that camaraderie that you 0:30:54.799,0:30:55.840 had in the 0:30:55.840,0:30:59.519 military that you became dependent on 0:30:59.519,0:31:03.799 that became the center of your identity 0:31:03.799,0:31:06.880 they could give that back to 0:31:07.559,0:31:10.919 you and when he tells you to fight you 0:31:10.919,0:31:14.440 have no reason to question that because 0:31:14.440,0:31:16.240 he's giving you purpose and he's giving 0:31:16.240,0:31:18.639 you 0:31:19.200,0:31:21.320 mission do you say the oathkeepers are 0:31:21.320,0:31:23.639 preparing for potential violence on and 0:31:23.639,0:31:26.039 around election dat yeah yeah we got our 0:31:26.039,0:31:28.279 people across the country um making 0:31:28.279,0:31:30.039 plans that there's too many of us 0:31:30.039,0:31:31.639 there's too many veterans first of all 0:31:31.639,0:31:33.519 too many freaking military veterans 0:31:33.519,0:31:35.360 that's one thing I'm not a big fan of 0:31:35.360,0:31:37.880 the war on terror that did WR a lot of 0:31:37.880,0:31:39.679 our rights one thing it did give us is a 0:31:39.679,0:31:42.159 massive pool huge pool of combat 0:31:42.159,0:31:45.519 veterans and about 95% of them are on 0:31:45.519,0:31:48.240 the conservative side or on the side of 0:31:48.240,0:31:50.679 the Constitution yeah so it's not going 0:31:50.679,0:31:53.279 to play out very 0:31:53.860,0:31:55.639 [Applause] 0:31:55.639,0:31:59.639 well and so when I look at January 6th 0:31:59.639,0:32:01.760 of course there were people who did 0:32:01.760,0:32:03.600 violence and climbed Gates and caused 0:32:03.600,0:32:06.039 trouble but in my view they were likely 0:32:06.039,0:32:09.760 the foot soldiers they were the result 0:32:09.760,0:32:12.559 of the efforts of other people there's 0:32:12.559,0:32:13.919 the man behind the curtain pushing 0:32:13.919,0:32:15.440 everybody out you know these These are 0:32:15.440,0:32:16.840 the half-cock plans the guys who go 0:32:16.840,0:32:18.440 early the people you really have to 0:32:18.440,0:32:20.039 worry about are the people you don't 0:32:20.039,0:32:21.880 even know exist until you're 2 years 0:32:21.880,0:32:24.320 into the conflict CU they're tactically 0:32:24.320,0:32:26.919 patient and they're watching you oh my 0:32:26.919,0:32:29.399 god and I still I'm absolutely stunned 0:32:29.399,0:32:31.440 that people don't see how awful January 0:32:31.440,0:32:34.480 6th was and what an indicator that is 0:32:34.480,0:32:36.799 and how it's escalating and anybody who 0:32:36.799,0:32:38.559 says that this can't happen in a worse 0:32:38.559,0:32:41.519 way either they're ignorant um or 0:32:41.519,0:32:43.799 they're part of the problem overran the 0:32:43.799,0:32:46.480 capital we're in the [ __ ] Capital bro 0:32:46.480,0:32:48.519 people shouldn't look at the 0:32:48.519,0:32:51.320 Insurrection at the capital as an 0:32:51.320,0:32:53.720 anomaly we should pay attention to the 0:32:53.720,0:32:57.880 pattern that got us there 0:33:03.600,0:33:06.279 in the name of Jesus Christ we light 0:33:06.279,0:33:09.600 this cross and as light dispels Darkness 0:33:09.600,0:33:12.240 so may his word and his example dispel 0:33:12.240,0:33:17.039 the Heathen from our midst amen 0:33:19.519,0:33:23.679 amen father son you will 0:33:23.679,0:33:26.520 conquer white the Tre 0:33:26.520,0:33:29.120 [Applause] 0:33:29.120,0:33:33.279 power we will fight we will fight there 0:33:33.279,0:33:35.399 is one American example of an 0:33:35.399,0:33:36.960 extraordinarly successful terrorist 0:33:36.960,0:33:39.760 movement and that is of course the G 0:33:39.760,0:33:43.159 Clan many people in the clan talked 0:33:43.159,0:33:45.440 about their experience as a continuation 0:33:45.440,0:33:48.360 of warfare the first wave came after the 0:33:48.360,0:33:50.360 Civil War and here we saw prominent 0:33:50.360,0:33:52.760 veterans like Nathan Bedford Forest Who 0:33:52.760,0:33:54.720 Rose to leadership of that 0:33:54.720,0:33:57.120 Clan and although it started as a 0:33:57.120,0:33:59.559 veteran social organization it very 0:33:59.559,0:34:02.080 quickly pivoted to extr Legal violence 0:34:02.080,0:34:04.240 targeted at African-Americans which 0:34:04.240,0:34:07.840 included Night rings lynchings serial 0:34:07.840,0:34:11.040 rape serial murder all of these things 0:34:11.040,0:34:14.119 were designed to create Terror in 0:34:14.119,0:34:16.239 African-American communities to control 0:34:16.239,0:34:18.679 labor pools to control local politics 0:34:18.679,0:34:22.359 and to keep African-Americans from the 0:34:23.440,0:34:26.639 polls one of the main parts of the Jim 0:34:26.639,0:34:28.440 Crow era was something that we would 0:34:28.440,0:34:30.199 think of today as election subversion 0:34:30.199,0:34:34.199 and we would see in States like Georgia 0:34:34.199,0:34:36.760 where they refuse to seat 33 State 0:34:36.760,0:34:39.560 legislatures we saw in States like 0:34:39.560,0:34:41.960 Louisiana where they refused to seat a 0:34:41.960,0:34:44.520 duly elected United States senator in 0:34:44.520,0:34:47.399 North Carolina where they held a coup to 0:34:47.399,0:34:49.199 overthrow black 0:34:49.199,0:34:51.239 leadership in 0:34:51.239,0:34:53.399 Wilmington and in Mississippi when 0:34:53.399,0:34:55.839 winning elections by fraud and violence 0:34:55.839,0:34:58.079 became increasingly difficult white 0:34:58.079,0:35:00.280 politicians turned to the state 0:35:00.280,0:35:04.040 constitution in 1890 Solomon Calhoun the 0:35:04.040,0:35:06.599 convention's president gave delegates 0:35:06.599,0:35:09.280 their marching orders we came here to 0:35:09.280,0:35:12.040 exclude the Negro nothing short of this 0:35:12.040,0:35:15.240 will answer the pole tax and literacy 0:35:15.240,0:35:17.079 tests that were written into Mississippi 0:35:17.079,0:35:19.560 Law were so effective at keeping blacks 0:35:19.560,0:35:22.040 from voting that Calhoun's strategy 0:35:22.040,0:35:24.640 became a model for the rest of the South 0:35:24.640,0:35:27.119 staying in place for almost another 0:35:27.119,0:35:30.320 century the clan managed to keep 0:35:30.320,0:35:32.560 African-Americans from voting for 100 0:35:32.560,0:35:35.200 years uh that is an astonishing 0:35:35.200,0:35:37.240 political success and it happened 0:35:37.240,0:35:39.000 because the clan was politically 0:35:39.000,0:35:41.839 powerful really well connected largely 0:35:41.839,0:35:44.000 in the Democratic party not just in the 0:35:44.000,0:35:47.720 South and was able to establish itself 0:35:47.720,0:35:51.599 as a counterpower that would stop the 0:35:51.599,0:35:53.760 emergence of new voters whether those 0:35:53.760,0:35:55.960 voters were blacks or indeed Catholics 0:35:55.960,0:35:58.560 who they didn't see as genuinely 0:35:58.560,0:36:01.400 American the next and most politically 0:36:01.400,0:36:04.599 effective wave of KKK activity came 0:36:04.599,0:36:07.440 after World War 0:36:11.400,0:36:14.680 I the second clown that emerges after 0:36:14.680,0:36:17.000 Birth of a Nation a movie that really 0:36:17.000,0:36:19.920 changes the perception of the clan that 0:36:19.920,0:36:22.280 wood Wilson as president screens in the 0:36:22.280,0:36:27.079 White House allows a new media Savvy 0:36:27.079,0:36:28.160 extreme 0:36:28.160,0:36:30.240 movement to 0:36:30.240,0:36:32.960 emerge and this is when you really saw 0:36:32.960,0:36:35.200 the group take off not just in the South 0:36:35.200,0:36:37.240 but Nationwide this is the clan that 0:36:37.240,0:36:39.560 reached a membership of some 4 million 0:36:39.560,0:36:42.280 people and 10% of the state of Indiana 0:36:42.280,0:36:44.040 they were parading in public on the 0:36:44.040,0:36:46.800 National Mall in Washington DC and the 0:36:46.800,0:36:48.720 founder of that organization had been a 0:36:48.720,0:36:51.720 veteran of the Spanish American 0:36:51.720,0:36:54.839 war it comes to head in 1924 the 0:36:54.839,0:36:57.200 Democratic party has a convention a 0:36:57.200,0:36:59.800 Madison Square Garden and the klex clan 0:36:59.800,0:37:02.119 decides that it's going to stop the 0:37:02.119,0:37:03.960 Democratic Party from condemning Clan 0:37:03.960,0:37:06.400 violence and they pretty much take over 0:37:06.400,0:37:08.760 the party and make sure that it is 0:37:08.760,0:37:11.440 running on their agenda now if you want 0:37:11.440,0:37:13.040 the optimistic story four years later 0:37:13.040,0:37:14.839 the Democratic party changes if you want 0:37:14.839,0:37:17.400 the pessimistic story a major political 0:37:17.400,0:37:21.200 party gets co-opted and taken over by a 0:37:21.200,0:37:23.200 violent insurrectionist terrorist 0:37:23.200,0:37:25.680 movement the kkk's grip on the 0:37:25.680,0:37:28.520 Democratic party soon ended but nearly 0:37:28.520,0:37:31.359 100 years later attempts to subvert free 0:37:31.359,0:37:35.079 and fair elections have not you rigged 0:37:35.079,0:37:37.839 my [ __ ] election you [ __ ] piece of 0:37:37.839,0:37:40.560 [ __ ] we're going to try you and we're 0:37:40.560,0:37:44.079 going to hang you we're talking about 50 0:37:44.079,0:37:46.960 and 60y old ladies that are just that 0:37:46.960,0:37:48.319 just been working elections their whole 0:37:48.319,0:37:53.040 life or respected leaders on on both 0:37:53.040,0:37:56.359 sides that are being inundated with some 0:37:56.359,0:37:57.920 of the worst types of threat that you 0:37:57.920,0:38:00.040 can imagine you and your family will be 0:38:00.040,0:38:02.599 killed very slowly the death threats 0:38:02.599,0:38:04.800 came by text to Trisha raffensberger 0:38:04.800,0:38:07.040 wife of Georgia Secretary of State As 0:38:07.040,0:38:08.960 Trump attacked him incessantly for 0:38:08.960,0:38:10.440 standing by the election results in 0:38:10.440,0:38:13.280 Georgia he's an enemy of the people 0:38:13.280,0:38:15.599 intimidation is a form of voter 0:38:15.599,0:38:18.480 suppression and goes hand inand with 0:38:18.480,0:38:20.160 with election subversion both in our 0:38:20.160,0:38:22.079 history and today they're trying to rig 0:38:22.079,0:38:24.319 an election and we can't let that happen 0:38:24.319,0:38:25.760 I hope you're all going to be pole 0:38:25.760,0:38:29.160 Watchers the entire pole watching 0:38:29.160,0:38:30.880 program for the Trump campaign was 0:38:30.880,0:38:33.440 called Army for Trump we need every 0:38:33.440,0:38:37.319 able-bodied man woman to join army for 0:38:37.319,0:38:40.200 Trump's election Security operation the 0:38:40.200,0:38:42.000 underlying narrative the messages that 0:38:42.000,0:38:45.079 were pushed were one of we need to go 0:38:45.079,0:38:48.720 protect and stop fraud from uh coming 0:38:48.720,0:38:51.000 into our elections it was a very 0:38:51.000,0:38:54.200 militaristic campaign to increase its 0:38:54.200,0:38:56.560 operational effectiveness Trump's Army 0:38:56.560,0:38:59.160 enlisted group group like true the vote 0:38:59.160,0:39:01.520 which had many veterans within its ranks 0:39:01.520,0:39:04.560 as a veteran we're sworn to support and 0:39:04.560,0:39:06.400 defend the Constitution my brothers and 0:39:06.400,0:39:09.119 I were willing to shed our blood on the 0:39:09.119,0:39:12.440 battlefield to protect the beliefs of 0:39:12.440,0:39:14.720 the Iraqi people so they can vote so I'm 0:39:14.720,0:39:16.760 asking you as Americans to take 0:39:16.760,0:39:18.440 involvement in this vote and the idea 0:39:18.440,0:39:21.040 that military service entitles you to 0:39:21.040,0:39:23.079 talk about protecting the Constitution 0:39:23.079,0:39:25.280 is a real problem because it gives a 0:39:25.280,0:39:27.000 level of justification these groups do 0:39:27.000,0:39:29.119 not deserve have not earned if you have 0:39:29.119,0:39:31.440 any information about ballot harvesting 0:39:31.440,0:39:33.680 in your state go to true the vote it's 0:39:33.680,0:39:37.119 called trueth vote.org and I sure I'm 0:39:37.119,0:39:38.800 sure a lot of people in this audience 0:39:38.800,0:39:41.000 saw plenty if there's always this 0:39:41.000,0:39:43.520 underlying belief that people are trying 0:39:43.520,0:39:46.680 to game this system in an unfair way 0:39:46.680,0:39:48.880 then regardless of the intent of the 0:39:48.880,0:39:50.720 people that are are are brought into 0:39:50.720,0:39:53.440 that system that default will always be 0:39:53.440,0:39:56.160 there to to police that vote and we know 0:39:56.160,0:39:57.359 that that's going to have a dis 0:39:57.359,0:39:59.520 proportionate impact on communities of 0:39:59.520,0:40:01.960 color we're trying to build an army here 0:40:01.960,0:40:04.400 that will have the confidence and and en 0:40:04.400,0:40:07.319 courage to come down in here in these 0:40:07.319,0:40:11.040 areas where we really need um po workers 0:40:11.040,0:40:13.560 this is where the fraud is occurring you 0:40:13.560,0:40:14.839 know those areas that he was pointing 0:40:14.839,0:40:17.520 out there are no allegations of any sort 0:40:17.520,0:40:19.920 of voter fraud or Shenanigans taking 0:40:19.920,0:40:23.000 place there in 2020 at all the only 0:40:23.000,0:40:24.640 thing that's known is that black and 0:40:24.640,0:40:28.599 brown people vote heavily in those areas 0:40:28.599,0:40:30.240 Harris County like the rest of the 0:40:30.240,0:40:32.520 United States has seen its percentage of 0:40:32.520,0:40:35.760 white residents decrease dramatically 50 0:40:35.760,0:40:38.280 years ago white Americans made up more 0:40:38.280,0:40:42.119 than 80% of the US population by 0:40:42.119,0:40:45.720 2044 they will be in the minority the 0:40:45.720,0:40:48.480 demographic change of the United States 0:40:48.480,0:40:51.079 away from being a white majority country 0:40:51.079,0:40:53.079 towards a multi-racial nation and a 0:40:53.079,0:40:55.520 multicultural nation is what moves it 0:40:55.520,0:40:58.319 from Simply aha my Community is becoming 0:40:58.319,0:41:00.480 multi-racial and our politics will 0:41:00.480,0:41:03.160 change because of this to we have to 0:41:03.160,0:41:06.200 stop this because if people can vote and 0:41:06.200,0:41:09.079 exercise their rights the white majority 0:41:09.079,0:41:10.720 will be 0:41:10.720,0:41:14.240 imperiled and everywhere I turn I have 0:41:14.240,0:41:17.240 been hearing from my constituents they 0:41:17.240,0:41:21.040 are deeply worried they know their 0:41:21.040,0:41:24.119 history they are witnessing what is 0:41:24.119,0:41:27.560 happening to our democracy in real time 0:41:27.560,0:41:30.040 in the aftermath of the 2020 election 0:41:30.040,0:41:33.079 Republican legislator in Georgia and 18 0:41:33.079,0:41:35.920 other states passed a slew of laws that 0:41:35.920,0:41:38.480 limited access to The Ballot Box but 0:41:38.480,0:41:41.240 what is even more disconcerting is that 0:41:41.240,0:41:43.640 these politicians in the state 0:41:43.640,0:41:46.359 legislature have already laid the tracks 0:41:46.359,0:41:50.319 to take over local Boards of Elections 0:41:50.319,0:41:53.440 control the count we can get to the same 0:41:53.440,0:41:56.520 place through bureaucratic violence as 0:41:56.520,0:41:59.079 some would say as we can get to through 0:41:59.079,0:42:02.560 actual violence and intimidation and 0:42:02.560,0:42:05.119 when you marry those two then you are in 0:42:05.119,0:42:08.599 a unique era of suppression and 0:42:08.599,0:42:11.170 anti-democratic 0:42:11.170,0:42:14.380 [Music] 0:42:22.240,0:42:24.839 efforts Heavenly Father we thank you for 0:42:24.839,0:42:27.480 this wonderful Gathering of people 0:42:27.480,0:42:29.880 that's come this afternoon Lord to 0:42:29.880,0:42:32.960 celebrate this grassroot campaign of 0:42:32.960,0:42:35.920 keeping America great we know that 0:42:35.920,0:42:38.319 there's groups today uh that have 0:42:38.319,0:42:41.160 brought Havoc to our great cities Across 0:42:41.160,0:42:44.440 America this militant Marxist groups 0:42:44.440,0:42:47.000 Lord that uh would destroy us from being 0:42:47.000,0:42:49.599 a greatness I pray against them Holy 0:42:49.599,0:42:52.440 Spirit in Jesus name and everybody said 0:42:52.440,0:42:54.210 a big old 0:42:54.210,0:42:55.400 [Applause] 0:42:55.400,0:42:59.160 amen you Joy Warriors and Patriots have 0:42:59.160,0:43:01.400 watched as your tyrannical governments 0:43:01.400,0:43:03.559 have separated you from your churches 0:43:03.559,0:43:06.000 from your schools from your Prosperity 0:43:06.000,0:43:08.119 right from your families from your 0:43:08.119,0:43:10.839 businesses but now you can fight back 0:43:10.839,0:43:14.800 cuz that's what we do we fight back all 0:43:14.800,0:43:19.000 right let off how many veterans I got in 0:43:19.000,0:43:22.119 here let me hear you 0:43:22.160,0:43:24.520 shout they're trying to make us a 0:43:24.520,0:43:28.040 socialist country 0:43:28.359,0:43:29.559 maybe they're trying to make us a 0:43:29.559,0:43:31.280 communist country 0:43:31.280,0:43:34.960 yeah I am deadly serious the next 3 0:43:34.960,0:43:37.040 years is going to determine whether we 0:43:37.040,0:43:39.200 remain a free country that's why all 0:43:39.200,0:43:42.319 over America we need people like Eric 0:43:42.319,0:43:44.820 particularly in the 0:43:44.820,0:43:50.280 [Applause] 0:43:50.280,0:43:53.079 sen he hasn't stopped fighting he's 0:43:53.079,0:43:55.480 still on the front lines and the day 0:43:55.480,0:43:57.440 after the election he said you know what 0:43:57.440,0:43:59.440 we got some serious irregularities here 0:43:59.440,0:44:00.880 we need to look into this fraud and what 0:44:00.880,0:44:02.960 did you hear from the mainstream media 0:44:02.960,0:44:04.920 over and over again they said oh that's 0:44:04.920,0:44:07.839 just crazy you can't do that you can't 0:44:07.839,0:44:09.280 say that there's any fraud in the 0:44:09.280,0:44:11.359 election well I'm proud to tell you I'm 0:44:11.359,0:44:13.440 the only person in this race from 0:44:13.440,0:44:15.720 Missouri who went down to the front 0:44:15.720,0:44:18.240 lines in Arizona myself to look at the 0:44:18.240,0:44:20.720 election audit and they need to audit 0:44:20.720,0:44:23.480 the whole election they go on at the 0:44:23.480,0:44:25.359 whole 0:44:25.359,0:44:28.720 election Eric G is a highly decorated 0:44:28.720,0:44:31.520 former Navy SEAL and a road scholar he 0:44:31.520,0:44:34.040 grew up as a Democrat and after leaving 0:44:34.040,0:44:36.160 the service wrote several best-selling 0:44:36.160,0:44:38.599 books about humanitarianism strength and 0:44:38.599,0:44:41.559 compassion is a book of photographs and 0:44:41.559,0:44:43.760 essays from eight different countries 0:44:43.760,0:44:45.559 where I did International humanitarian 0:44:45.559,0:44:48.319 work and documentary photography he also 0:44:48.319,0:44:50.400 co-founded the influential veteran 0:44:50.400,0:44:53.079 nonprofit the mission continues 0:44:53.079,0:44:54.760 everybody's home sleeping we're out here 0:44:54.760,0:44:56.319 working the mission continues man our 0:44:56.319,0:44:58.040 belief at the mission continues was that 0:44:58.040,0:45:00.200 every single veteran who was coming home 0:45:00.200,0:45:01.800 was an asset and that they could all 0:45:01.800,0:45:03.520 live lives of purpose and dignity and 0:45:03.520,0:45:06.319 meaning here at home in 2015 he became 0:45:06.319,0:45:08.880 the Republican governor of Missouri but 0:45:08.880,0:45:11.079 resigned less than two years later in 0:45:11.079,0:45:13.359 the wake of a sex and fundraising 0:45:13.359,0:45:16.760 scandal in 2021 he began his campaign 0:45:16.760,0:45:19.640 for the US Senate when I took the oath 0:45:19.640,0:45:23.000 to serve in the United States military I 0:45:23.000,0:45:27.480 took an oath to defend the Constitution 0:45:27.480,0:45:31.240 against all enemies 0:45:31.240,0:45:33.040 foreign and 0:45:33.040,0:45:36.280 domestic and 0:45:37.920,0:45:42.160 domestic and folks let's be clear we 0:45:42.160,0:45:44.599 have a fight on our hands for this 0:45:44.599,0:45:46.880 country and we're here to let the 0:45:46.880,0:45:49.559 mainstream media know and let the left 0:45:49.559,0:45:51.880 know and the establishment know and let 0:45:51.880,0:45:54.559 the Rhinos know that we are going to win 0:45:54.559,0:45:58.359 and we're taking back our country 0:45:58.359,0:46:01.240 we are taking back 0:46:01.240,0:46:03.760 our this is our country and we are 0:46:03.760,0:46:06.359 taking it 0:46:08.760,0:46:12.240 back there's a Cadre of Iraq and 0:46:12.240,0:46:15.720 Afghanistan era veterans who were 0:46:15.720,0:46:19.200 trained in Elite military units who went 0:46:19.200,0:46:22.200 to Elite schools he plus we're with you 0:46:22.200,0:46:26.240 all the way who know better and over the 0:46:26.240,0:46:27.520 last few years 0:46:27.520,0:46:30.400 have seen Trump's rise to power and 0:46:30.400,0:46:32.920 rather than be disgusted by it because 0:46:32.920,0:46:35.520 it goes against all of our values they 0:46:35.520,0:46:38.280 don't live by those values and you went 0:46:38.280,0:46:39.880 from high school to the Marines yeah the 0:46:39.880,0:46:41.319 good the great thing about the Marine 0:46:41.319,0:46:43.599 Corps is that they really force you to 0:46:43.599,0:46:45.280 shape up I I like to describe it as a 0:46:45.280,0:46:47.720 four-year character education because 0:46:47.720,0:46:49.680 they teach you not just you know how to 0:46:49.680,0:46:51.200 iron a uniform but they teach you about 0:46:51.200,0:46:52.480 financial management they teach you how 0:46:52.480,0:46:54.480 to make your bed they teach you a lot of 0:46:54.480,0:46:56.440 the skill sets that you need to be a 0:46:56.440,0:46:59.400 successful adult JD Vance is a former 0:46:59.400,0:47:02.160 Marine like Stuart rhods he graduated 0:47:02.160,0:47:05.200 from Yale law school and like Eric gron 0:47:05.200,0:47:07.160 he's a best-selling author who was once 0:47:07.160,0:47:09.559 a darling of the New York Times are 0:47:09.559,0:47:12.440 there commonalities between poor whites 0:47:12.440,0:47:15.000 poor blacks poor Latinos absolutely 0:47:15.000,0:47:16.920 there are things that are shared across 0:47:16.920,0:47:18.960 across different groups and I think that 0:47:18.960,0:47:20.680 we should take some inspiration for it 0:47:20.680,0:47:22.960 from it some recognition that that we 0:47:22.960,0:47:26.040 are sort of in this together in 2016 he 0:47:26.040,0:47:28.280 called Donald Trump an idiot I'm a never 0:47:28.280,0:47:30.599 Trump guy I never liked him and 0:47:30.599,0:47:32.319 suggested that he could be an American 0:47:32.319,0:47:34.880 Hitler but four years later he changed 0:47:34.880,0:47:37.160 his tune when he launched his campaign 0:47:37.160,0:47:39.599 for Ohio senate seat I wasn't always 0:47:39.599,0:47:41.960 nice but the simple fact is he's the 0:47:41.960,0:47:44.359 best president of my lifetime and he 0:47:44.359,0:47:46.640 revealed the corruption in this country 0:47:46.640,0:47:49.240 like nobody else JD Vance a few years 0:47:49.240,0:47:51.720 ago I think a lot of people across 0:47:51.720,0:47:53.599 political Spectrum had a lot of respect 0:47:53.599,0:47:56.119 for him but now we see him pretending to 0:47:56.119,0:47:59.839 be an idiot are you a racist do you hate 0:47:59.839,0:48:01.599 Mexicans I think it's ridiculous that 0:48:01.599,0:48:04.319 we're focused on this Border in Ukraine 0:48:04.319,0:48:05.720 uh I don't I got to be honest with you I 0:48:05.720,0:48:07.079 don't really care what happens to 0:48:07.079,0:48:08.720 Ukraine one way or another a guy like 0:48:08.720,0:48:10.960 Eric gon or a guy like JD Vance they 0:48:10.960,0:48:15.040 didn't internalize any of the morals 0:48:15.040,0:48:16.920 that are supposed to be instilled in US 0:48:16.920,0:48:19.440 during our training things like Valor 0:48:19.440,0:48:24.599 and honor and respect 0:48:27.119,0:48:28.680 striking fear in the hearts of liberals 0:48:28.680,0:48:30.559 everywhere 0:48:30.559,0:48:33.920 folks they understand when they're lying 0:48:33.920,0:48:36.680 they understand when they're fueling 0:48:36.680,0:48:39.119 hatred I say it all the time right I 0:48:39.119,0:48:40.599 think the election was stolen from Trump 0:48:40.599,0:48:42.359 and technology companies would not let 0:48:42.359,0:48:44.280 us talk about the fact that Joe Biden is 0:48:44.280,0:48:45.960 is the leader of the world's biggest 0:48:45.960,0:48:48.559 crime family and they recognize that 0:48:48.559,0:48:50.440 they need to do it in order to achieve 0:48:50.440,0:48:52.200 power part of the problem for the young 0:48:52.200,0:48:53.640 veteran too is that some of these 0:48:53.640,0:48:56.079 manipulative voices are former high 0:48:56.079,0:49:00.190 ranking military leaders General Michael 0:49:00.190,0:49:01.920 [Applause] 0:49:01.920,0:49:03.680 [Music] 0:49:03.680,0:49:06.640 Flynn so when you hear somebody who held 0:49:06.640,0:49:08.359 sway over you when you were in uniform 0:49:08.359,0:49:09.559 and now they're out and they're still 0:49:09.559,0:49:11.520 commanding that respect that that has 0:49:11.520,0:49:16.040 just such a strong purpose Trump 0:49:17.520,0:49:19.430 won he 0:49:19.430,0:49:23.100 [Applause] 0:49:23.460,0:49:25.559 [Music] 0:49:25.559,0:49:29.559 won he he won he won the popular vote he 0:49:29.559,0:49:31.359 won the popular vote and he won the 0:49:31.359,0:49:34.040 Electoral College vote ah you know 0:49:34.040,0:49:35.839 Flynn's Flynn's a character he's 0:49:35.839,0:49:37.880 something special you know it's comes a 0:49:37.880,0:49:39.200 little bit from the camaraderie of of 0:49:39.200,0:49:40.680 being a military person I can look at 0:49:40.680,0:49:43.200 Flynn and I can see that he's he's got 0:49:43.200,0:49:46.559 some really really deep love for this 0:49:46.559,0:49:48.920 country and respect for it and he does 0:49:48.920,0:49:51.640 respect his oath I am not a conspiracy 0:49:51.640,0:49:55.400 theorist I I base my life on facts and 0:49:55.400,0:49:57.839 judgment and what I believe is right for 0:49:57.839,0:50:00.839 this country for this country period 0:50:00.839,0:50:03.440 Flynn has been exposing truth left and 0:50:03.440,0:50:05.000 right and that's what makes him one of 0:50:05.000,0:50:06.680 the most dangerous men in 0:50:06.680,0:50:10.000 America Michael Flynn is a retired US 0:50:10.000,0:50:12.839 Army three-star General his specialty 0:50:12.839,0:50:15.319 was Military Intelligence is it trusted 0:50:15.319,0:50:17.640 you know the intelligence Community 0:50:17.640,0:50:20.040 wants to you know validate the sources 0:50:20.040,0:50:21.960 of information that we have in order to 0:50:21.960,0:50:23.760 make it to to ensure that it's 0:50:23.760,0:50:26.160 believable reliable relevant and the 0:50:26.160,0:50:28.680 teams he LED were notoriously effective 0:50:28.680,0:50:31.200 in rooting out insurgencies in Iraq and 0:50:31.200,0:50:34.880 Afghanistan for over a decade in 2012 he 0:50:34.880,0:50:37.079 was nominated by Barack Obama to be the 0:50:37.079,0:50:38.960 director of the defense intelligence 0:50:38.960,0:50:41.200 agency Mike Flynn brings to this 0:50:41.200,0:50:43.799 position Decades of experience in 0:50:43.799,0:50:45.240 Military 0:50:45.240,0:50:47.720 Intelligence his knowledge of the 21st 0:50:47.720,0:50:50.599 century Battlefield is 0:50:50.599,0:50:53.040 unsurpassed but 3 years later the 0:50:53.040,0:50:55.720 one-time Democrat had become an avid 0:50:55.720,0:50:57.599 supporter of cand date 0:50:57.599,0:51:00.760 Trump lock her up that's 0:51:00.760,0:51:04.240 right yeah that's right lock her up and 0:51:04.240,0:51:06.440 would soon become president Trump's 0:51:06.440,0:51:09.599 National Security adviser but just 22 0:51:09.599,0:51:12.280 days into his term Trump fired him for 0:51:12.280,0:51:14.880 lying about his interactions with Russia 0:51:14.880,0:51:17.079 the evolving and eroding level of trust 0:51:17.079,0:51:19.280 as a result of this situation is what 0:51:19.280,0:51:21.599 led the president to ask for General 0:51:21.599,0:51:22.760 Flynn's 0:51:22.760,0:51:25.280 resignation and general Flynn would soon 0:51:25.280,0:51:28.119 enter a plea deal with the FBI his 0:51:28.119,0:51:30.400 prison sentence was under review when 0:51:30.400,0:51:34.079 Trump pardoned him in December 2020 less 0:51:34.079,0:51:37.160 than a month before leaving 0:51:37.160,0:51:39.440 office Mike Flynn and I served together 0:51:39.440,0:51:42.799 for many years and we very close friends 0:51:42.799,0:51:44.119 I 0:51:44.119,0:51:46.440 disagree with him 0:51:46.440,0:51:49.839 politically I am 0:51:49.839,0:51:53.440 disappointed by the nature of the the 0:51:53.440,0:51:56.040 comments that he makes the calls to 0:51:56.040,0:51:58.480 action this is one of our top quality 0:51:58.480,0:52:00.359 guns and maybe I'll find somebody in 0:52:00.359,0:52:01.450 Washington 0:52:01.450,0:52:06.079 [Laughter] 0:52:06.079,0:52:09.240 DC disgraced former General Michael 0:52:09.240,0:52:13.079 Flynn convicted felon he uses General 0:52:13.079,0:52:15.119 like it's his first name I'm his 0:52:15.119,0:52:18.520 Facebook friend his Facebook name is Jen 0:52:18.520,0:52:22.680 Flynn on telegram he's General 0:52:22.680,0:52:25.520 Flynn he's using his rank as part of his 0:52:25.520,0:52:28.160 identity and and he has adopted the 0:52:28.160,0:52:32.839 radical fascist politics of Maga and of 0:52:32.839,0:52:36.079 Kon where we go one we go all we go one 0:52:36.079,0:52:38.839 we go all God Bless America to build 0:52:38.839,0:52:42.680 himself up as a leader for an Insurgency 0:52:42.680,0:52:44.559 against the people of the United States 0:52:44.559,0:52:47.119 this country is awake this is soil that 0:52:47.119,0:52:49.160 we have fought over and we will fight 0:52:49.160,0:52:51.880 for in the future he could take military 0:52:51.880,0:52:53.400 capabilities and he could place them in 0:52:53.400,0:52:55.880 those States and basically rerun an 0:52:55.880,0:52:57.720 election in each of those States clearly 0:52:57.720,0:53:00.319 his military experience influences some 0:53:00.319,0:53:02.599 people to give him 0:53:02.599,0:53:04.880 legitimacy that he might not otherwise 0:53:04.880,0:53:08.200 have I'm a simple Marine I want to know 0:53:08.200,0:53:12.720 why what happened in minimar can't 0:53:12.720,0:53:15.240 happen 0:53:15.240,0:53:18.000 here no reason I mean it should happen 0:53:18.000,0:53:19.720 here no reason right that's right 0:53:19.720,0:53:21.520 Flynn's apparent endorsement of a 0:53:21.520,0:53:24.040 military coup is not the only time the 0:53:24.040,0:53:26.520 former military intelligence officer has 0:53:26.520,0:53:29.000 has planted ideas about the illegitimacy 0:53:29.000,0:53:30.839 of the federal government and its 0:53:30.839,0:53:33.319 partners in crime well he doesn't need 0:53:33.319,0:53:36.400 any introduction on this Friday January 0:53:36.400,0:53:39.040 28th broadcast he's General Flynn and of 0:53:39.040,0:53:41.160 course a embattled individual in the 0:53:41.160,0:53:44.240 fight for this Republic all these Global 0:53:44.240,0:53:46.960 organizations they see themselves as 0:53:46.960,0:53:49.440 this is how we can control societies 0:53:49.440,0:53:51.760 this is how we can control Humanity so 0:53:51.760,0:53:54.920 let's introduce something called covid 0:53:54.920,0:53:56.559 and they did it and they did it for for 0:53:56.559,0:53:57.920 a couple of reasons one of the big 0:53:57.920,0:53:59.960 reasons was was to steal an election 0:53:59.960,0:54:02.640 they have an intent to have a new world 0:54:02.640,0:54:05.359 order they have an intent to track every 0:54:05.359,0:54:07.559 single one of us and they use it under 0:54:07.559,0:54:09.240 the skin they use a means by which it's 0:54:09.240,0:54:11.880 under the skin Dr foui would be right in 0:54:11.880,0:54:13.559 right in there in the same room with 0:54:13.559,0:54:16.160 people like Dr Mangal and Dr zel who 0:54:16.160,0:54:19.319 worked for the Nazis at the time of uh 0:54:19.319,0:54:20.880 of of Hitler's all of Hitler's 0:54:20.880,0:54:23.079 experimentation on human beings the 0:54:23.079,0:54:25.640 reality is as you learn the ability to 0:54:25.640,0:54:27.280 lead whether it's military or not you 0:54:27.280,0:54:29.440 learn the ability to get people to do 0:54:29.440,0:54:32.280 stuff and that's just what he's doing we 0:54:32.280,0:54:35.160 are in a crucible moment in the history 0:54:35.160,0:54:37.200 of the United States of America we're 0:54:37.200,0:54:39.319 fighting with faith we're fighting with 0:54:39.319,0:54:41.720 courage and nothing can resist the power 0:54:41.720,0:54:44.680 of prayer he perverts this military 0:54:44.680,0:54:48.440 experience this religious experience to 0:54:48.440,0:54:51.720 evoke this kind of feeling of a higher 0:54:51.720,0:54:54.240 purpose the oppression that they have 0:54:54.240,0:54:57.760 used with this virus is an Abomination 0:54:57.760,0:54:59.680 to 0:54:59.680,0:55:02.319 Freedom there is no righteousness on 0:55:02.319,0:55:06.280 their side the Lord is not on their side 0:55:06.280,0:55:08.680 he is on 0:55:08.680,0:55:12.079 ours that's right we will not go 0:55:12.079,0:55:16.240 silently in to the 0:55:16.240,0:55:18.440 night we will 0:55:18.440,0:55:22.039 fight we are making our lists and we are 0:55:22.039,0:55:24.839 checking them twice and we are finding 0:55:24.839,0:55:26.480 out 0:55:26.480,0:55:30.599 W who is the enemy of 0:55:30.599,0:55:32.920 America people that are creating the 0:55:32.920,0:55:35.520 oppression in this country the people 0:55:35.520,0:55:37.760 that are involved with tearing down our 0:55:37.760,0:55:41.880 freedoms our liberties and the value of 0:55:41.880,0:55:44.160 what we hold dear in this country need 0:55:44.160,0:55:47.839 to be placed on list people like Dr 0:55:47.839,0:55:50.839 fouchy that have constantly in his life 0:55:50.839,0:55:54.000 caused death destruction illness and 0:55:54.000,0:55:55.920 horrible things they have to be put on 0:55:55.920,0:55:58.240 these list they have to be put out of 0:55:58.240,0:56:00.680 our society all together and never be 0:56:00.680,0:56:04.440 trusted again now if someone ends 0:56:04.440,0:56:08.119 up attacking these people that have been 0:56:08.119,0:56:09.799 found to be an enemy of the United 0:56:09.799,0:56:11.480 States and they're 0:56:11.480,0:56:13.640 criminals I'm not going to shed a tear 0:56:13.640,0:56:15.839 about 0:56:16.520,0:56:21.440 it come in good 0:56:22.760,0:56:25.039 boy when I left the military I was a 0:56:25.039,0:56:27.720 hardcore Republican was libertarian like 0:56:27.720,0:56:29.160 a lot of people in the 0:56:29.160,0:56:31.599 military I was looking at like I can't 0:56:31.599,0:56:33.520 even call them documentaries but these 0:56:33.520,0:56:38.039 YouTube videos like uh this movie 0:56:38.480,0:56:41.440 Zeitgeist you had better wake up and 0:56:41.440,0:56:43.240 understand that there are people who are 0:56:43.240,0:56:45.280 guiding your life and you don't even 0:56:45.280,0:56:47.799 know it now that I study extremism I 0:56:47.799,0:56:51.599 recognize it's filled with anti-semitic 0:56:51.599,0:56:54.039 tropes the theme of the movie without 0:56:54.039,0:56:56.039 explicitly saying it is that Jewish 0:56:56.039,0:56:57.520 people people were out there controlling 0:56:57.520,0:56:58.960 the banks and the banks are the reasons 0:56:58.960,0:57:00.680 why we go into Wars so therefore the 0:57:00.680,0:57:02.280 Jews are responsible for my friends 0:57:02.280,0:57:03.839 dying right that's the connection that 0:57:03.839,0:57:05.680 it's trying to make the ultimate goal is 0:57:05.680,0:57:07.240 to get everybody in this world chipped 0:57:07.240,0:57:10.319 with the with the RFID chip and uh have 0:57:10.319,0:57:11.799 all money be on those chips and 0:57:11.799,0:57:14.160 everything on those chips and if anybody 0:57:14.160,0:57:16.240 wants to protest what we do or violate 0:57:16.240,0:57:19.079 what we want we just turn off that chip 0:57:19.079,0:57:22.839 I just absorbed this propaganda and fell 0:57:22.839,0:57:25.880 for it fell into it I was watching Alex 0:57:25.880,0:57:27.599 Jones before anyone knew what his name 0:57:27.599,0:57:29.599 was I mean now they're openly bragging 0:57:29.599,0:57:31.520 it's world government and they run it 0:57:31.520,0:57:34.319 Tucker Carlson was back on MSNBC and 0:57:34.319,0:57:36.680 Glen Beck it's all connected these 0:57:36.680,0:57:39.520 people down here are radicals and all of 0:57:39.520,0:57:41.319 these Concepts started to fit together 0:57:41.319,0:57:44.920 and feed this narrative this this idea 0:57:44.920,0:57:46.720 that I had felt but couldn't put words 0:57:46.720,0:57:49.200 to for so long that I was the victim not 0:57:49.200,0:57:53.160 just of circumstance but of some sort of 0:57:53.160,0:57:56.160 Nefarious group of powerful individuals 0:57:56.160,0:57:59.000 ual who were manipulating all of us and 0:57:59.000,0:58:01.559 and that everyone was just acting as 0:58:01.559,0:58:03.640 puppets you know what people now call 0:58:03.640,0:58:07.880 the Deep state but we were 0:58:08.480,0:58:10.799 awake and it was our job to wake 0:58:10.799,0:58:12.960 everybody else 0:58:12.960,0:58:15.480 up who's the 0:58:15.480,0:58:19.480 Patriot video 0:58:30.840,0:58:37.719 [Music] 0:58:39.319,0:58:41.280 ladies and gentlemen prepare for the 0:58:41.280,0:58:43.680 strong 0:58:45.640,0:58:50.119 mag yep 0:58:50.680,0:58:54.480 that's there's a lot there they flashed 0:58:54.480,0:58:56.480 photos of the pyramid on our dollar 0:58:56.480,0:58:59.440 bills they showed a picture of George 0:58:59.440,0:59:02.920 Soros they talked about the World Bank 0:59:02.920,0:59:04.960 everything's Incorporated these are all 0:59:04.960,0:59:07.400 things that I didn't understand when I 0:59:07.400,0:59:10.920 was watching my propaganda videos uh 0:59:10.920,0:59:15.000 back in 2007 2008 but man I mean it's 0:59:15.000,0:59:16.400 like they just took notes off of the 0:59:16.400,0:59:18.520 [ __ ] that had me all confused and crazy 0:59:18.520,0:59:21.839 back then and the 0:59:22.079,0:59:24.520 second these groups have always operated 0:59:24.520,0:59:27.160 on a Playbook of using prevailing social 0:59:27.160,0:59:32.319 context to mobilize people recruit and 0:59:34.760,0:59:37.680 radicalize the 20s Clan was anti-black 0:59:37.680,0:59:40.000 and anti-jewish but it was also 0:59:40.000,0:59:42.440 anti-mexican near the border anti- labor 0:59:42.440,0:59:44.640 in the Pacific Northwest anti-immigrant 0:59:44.640,0:59:46.039 in the Northeast where there were a lot 0:59:46.039,0:59:48.280 of immigrants what it did was figure out 0:59:48.280,0:59:50.119 what the prevailing social tensions were 0:59:50.119,0:59:53.160 in a given community and use those to 0:59:53.160,0:59:57.400 recruit people for its own purposes 0:59:57.559,0:59:59.520 the prevailing feeling among a host of 0:59:59.520,1:00:02.000 veterans returning from Vietnam was that 1:00:02.000,1:00:04.480 they had been stabbed in the back by an 1:00:04.480,1:00:08.720 ungrateful Society their own feckless 1:00:08.720,1:00:11.400 government and the media Elite well it 1:00:11.400,1:00:13.599 seems now more certain than ever that 1:00:13.599,1:00:16.119 the bloody experience of Vietnam is to 1:00:16.119,1:00:18.480 end in a stalemate it made them ripe 1:00:18.480,1:00:21.200 recruits for a new conspiracy fueled 1:00:21.200,1:00:24.079 wave of violent extremism aimed at 1:00:24.079,1:00:26.799 rooting out the Enemy Within the Cubans 1:00:26.799,1:00:28.920 are coming in by the thousands the 1:00:28.920,1:00:31.480 Mexicans are coming in by the millions 1:00:31.480,1:00:34.480 the the Haans are coming in from haia or 1:00:34.480,1:00:36.400 wherever the that little [ __ ] country 1:00:36.400,1:00:38.319 is coming in by the hundreds of 1:00:38.319,1:00:40.319 thousands white people have had enough 1:00:40.319,1:00:42.119 they can no longer even afford to buy 1:00:42.119,1:00:45.119 proper housing for themselves yet our 1:00:45.119,1:00:46.920 government would have us spend thousands 1:00:46.920,1:00:49.319 and thousands of millions of dollars on 1:00:49.319,1:00:51.720 non whites they've had enough one of the 1:00:51.720,1:00:53.599 key figures in the white power movement 1:00:53.599,1:00:55.280 after the Vietnam War and one of the 1:00:55.280,1:00:57.680 architects of its move to sell style 1:00:57.680,1:00:59.760 terrorism to using the earling internet 1:00:59.760,1:01:01.880 and to a number of other major changes 1:01:01.880,1:01:04.640 that fueled its rise is a veteran named 1:01:04.640,1:01:06.960 LS beam the only thing that's it 1:01:06.960,1:01:09.640 imported tonight is Will America be 1:01:09.640,1:01:13.319 white 100 years from tonight and if so 1:01:13.319,1:01:15.480 will you commit yourself to the battle 1:01:15.480,1:01:18.720 to make it so Lewis beam served two 1:01:18.720,1:01:21.160 tours in Vietnam as a helicopter Gunner 1:01:21.160,1:01:23.880 and came home in 1968 with multiple 1:01:23.880,1:01:26.640 medals for bravery in combat says that I 1:01:26.640,1:01:28.920 use great professional skill and courage 1:01:28.920,1:01:31.680 in the face of great personal danger 1:01:31.680,1:01:34.480 that hasn't changed at all in my opinion 1:01:34.480,1:01:37.880 presently I'm having to use utmost skill 1:01:37.880,1:01:41.039 and I think it does take courage to to 1:01:41.039,1:01:43.400 do what I'm doing and I'm doing it in 1:01:43.400,1:01:45.960 the face of the enemy that's time the 1:01:45.960,1:01:49.559 enemy goes under a different name beam 1:01:49.559,1:01:51.960 took the skills he honed in the military 1:01:51.960,1:01:54.480 and brought them to the KKK where he 1:01:54.480,1:01:56.920 rose to Grand Dragon of the Texas 1:01:56.920,1:01:58.559 Knights I had been paid by the 1:01:58.559,1:02:01.520 government $300 a month to fight and 1:02:01.520,1:02:03.880 kill companies to execute them whatever 1:02:03.880,1:02:05.400 term you want to 1:02:05.400,1:02:08.960 use uh in Vietnam and what is the 1:02:08.960,1:02:11.440 difference between Vietnam and Houston 1:02:11.440,1:02:13.690 Texas but a few thousand 1:02:13.690,1:02:17.279 [Applause] 1:02:17.279,1:02:20.480 miles one of the reasons that beam Rose 1:02:20.480,1:02:22.880 so quickly in these organizations is 1:02:22.880,1:02:24.799 that he told a story about Warfare and 1:02:24.799,1:02:26.960 Trauma that a lot of their people were 1:02:26.960,1:02:29.160 mobilized by including people who didn't 1:02:29.160,1:02:34.240 serve I saw a young man about 19 years 1:02:34.240,1:02:37.920 old ENT traed in a armored personnel 1:02:37.920,1:02:39.000 carrier 1:02:39.000,1:02:42.960 in about 22 Mi Northeast of s 1:02:42.960,1:02:45.640 gun with his legs pinned beneath the 1:02:45.640,1:02:49.200 seat as a result of a a rocket propell 1:02:49.200,1:02:52.839 grenade and he stayed on the 1:02:52.839,1:02:57.760 radio kep asking for help 1:02:57.760,1:02:59.240 asking us 1:02:59.240,1:03:02.760 to come get 1:03:04.039,1:03:06.920 him so his argument was about the 1:03:06.920,1:03:09.640 wrongness of war the horror of seeing 1:03:09.640,1:03:11.359 casualties in the field the horror of 1:03:11.359,1:03:13.839 losing your fellow soldiers but his 1:03:13.839,1:03:17.160 pivot was this is why we should come 1:03:17.160,1:03:19.200 back to the United States and bring that 1:03:19.200,1:03:21.880 violence home to everybody who left us 1:03:21.880,1:03:24.279 there our mission is a reconnaissance 1:03:24.279,1:03:28.640 Patrol we have information that the 1:03:28.640,1:03:32.720 enemy is in the 1:03:33.920,1:03:37.000 area the Jews have assumed leadership of 1:03:37.000,1:03:38.640 the federal government they totally 1:03:38.640,1:03:40.359 control it and they're controlling us 1:03:40.359,1:03:42.640 thly the government that's in Washington 1:03:42.640,1:03:44.880 DC today does not represent the interest 1:03:44.880,1:03:47.079 of the white people therefore we will 1:03:47.079,1:03:49.119 replace them with people who will 1:03:49.119,1:03:51.720 represent the ideals of white Wester 1:03:51.720,1:03:53.160 Christian 1:03:53.160,1:03:55.359 civilization how are we going to replace 1:03:55.359,1:03:58.200 them by any means necessary we want the 1:03:58.200,1:04:01.200 heads of the enemies in our toe sacks in 1:04:01.200,1:04:02.839 Vietnam they took ears we're going to 1:04:02.839,1:04:04.160 take 1:04:04.160,1:04:06.920 heads beam's rhetoric and Military 1:04:06.920,1:04:09.440 exercises eventually got the attention 1:04:09.440,1:04:13.640 of the FBI and in 1983 he left Texas for 1:04:13.640,1:04:17.319 Hayden Lake Idaho a Haven for white 1:04:17.319,1:04:19.760 supremacists he joined forces with Aryan 1:04:19.760,1:04:22.559 Nations and began to command a cell 1:04:22.559,1:04:25.000 style terrorist movement of white power 1:04:25.000,1:04:27.720 activists the idea was that one or a few 1:04:27.720,1:04:29.400 white power activists could work 1:04:29.400,1:04:31.720 together towards a commonly held set of 1:04:31.720,1:04:33.760 goals and targets but without 1:04:33.760,1:04:35.559 prosecutable ties between them and 1:04:35.559,1:04:38.160 without direct ties to movement 1:04:38.160,1:04:41.039 leadership but there was a problem the 1:04:41.039,1:04:42.880 cells which were spread across the 1:04:42.880,1:04:45.400 country and into Canada still needed to 1:04:45.400,1:04:47.760 communicate with each other and even 1:04:47.760,1:04:50.000 when the FBI wasn't listening on their 1:04:50.000,1:04:53.520 phones beam wanted to do more than talk 1:04:53.520,1:04:56.920 he wanted to share ideas and create 1:04:56.920,1:05:00.160 networks so they created a social 1:05:00.160,1:05:02.640 network called Liberty net and one of 1:05:02.640,1:05:05.480 the first postings was titled online for 1:05:05.480,1:05:06.610 God and 1:05:06.610,1:05:09.240 [Music] 1:05:09.240,1:05:12.200 Country and then Louis beam traveled 1:05:12.200,1:05:14.680 around the country teaching people how 1:05:14.680,1:05:17.279 to go online these message boards 1:05:17.279,1:05:19.559 included assassination lists and 1:05:19.559,1:05:22.200 ideological content and who you should 1:05:22.200,1:05:24.319 hate and why but they also included 1:05:24.319,1:05:27.760 social network content like personal 1:05:27.760,1:05:32.200 ads and this was in 1984 885 way before 1:05:32.200,1:05:34.400 most people think about farri online 1:05:34.400,1:05:37.319 activism decades before Facebook can't 1:05:37.319,1:05:40.319 beat the with this day using this early 1:05:40.319,1:05:43.920 form of the internet clansmen skinheads 1:05:43.920,1:05:46.680 neo-nazis and other extremist groups 1:05:46.680,1:05:48.720 banded together to commit a series of 1:05:48.720,1:05:51.680 heinous robberies bombings and murders 1:05:51.680,1:05:53.640 across the country and since we're all 1:05:53.640,1:05:55.880 racists since we're all the radical 1:05:55.880,1:05:58.440 right and that's a crime in America when 1:05:58.440,1:06:01.359 you have to do the time don't regret the 1:06:01.359,1:06:03.599 crime we'll be at the Forefront of the 1:06:03.599,1:06:06.599 fight doing what uh hopefully uh 1:06:06.599,1:06:09.520 smashing the uh skulls of Communists or 1:06:09.520,1:06:12.119 uh executing race Traders or uh shooting 1:06:12.119,1:06:14.760 on site anybody we don't think is white 1:06:14.760,1:06:16.440 we have to get our government back 1:06:16.440,1:06:17.880 that's what it's all about all these 1:06:17.880,1:06:20.279 so-called subversive groups are nothing 1:06:20.279,1:06:23.000 but patriotic citizens trying to do just 1:06:23.000,1:06:26.200 that by 1985 the department of Justice 1:06:26.200,1:06:28.319 came to believe that the network of 1:06:28.319,1:06:31.039 white power cells Behind These crimes 1:06:31.039,1:06:33.760 represented a serious threat to National 1:06:33.760,1:06:36.520 Security Lewis beam has been charged 1:06:36.520,1:06:39.760 with seditious conspiracy along with 13 1:06:39.760,1:06:40.720 other 1:06:40.720,1:06:43.000 individuals Mr Bean did you plan to 1:06:43.000,1:06:45.520 overthrow the government what else is a 1:06:45.520,1:06:47.440 country boy going to do on Saturday 1:06:47.440,1:06:50.240 night when the only drug store in Town's 1:06:50.240,1:06:53.279 closed but the trial was a disaster for 1:06:53.279,1:06:55.640 the government a stunning verdict is 1:06:55.640,1:06:57.640 afternoon in the trial of 13 white 1:06:57.640,1:07:00.279 supremacists among charges they faced 1:07:00.279,1:07:02.079 conspiracy to overthrow the government 1:07:02.079,1:07:04.000 of the United States the verdicts from 1:07:04.000,1:07:05.880 the all-white jury came on the fourth 1:07:05.880,1:07:08.240 day of deliberations beam and his 1:07:08.240,1:07:10.400 codefendants were acquitted on all 1:07:10.400,1:07:13.039 charges the humiliating outcome led the 1:07:13.039,1:07:15.559 doj to focus their attention on 1:07:15.559,1:07:18.079 individual criminals and abandon 1:07:18.079,1:07:19.839 investigations of the white power 1:07:19.839,1:07:23.039 movement as a domestic terrorist threat 1:07:23.039,1:07:25.079 the catastrophic Legacy of leaderless 1:07:25.079,1:07:26.200 resistance 1:07:26.200,1:07:29.000 has been that we as a public have lost 1:07:29.000,1:07:31.400 sight of this Movement we don't have any 1:07:31.400,1:07:33.359 domestic terrorism legislation we don't 1:07:33.359,1:07:36.000 have domestic terrorism laws for example 1:07:36.000,1:07:39.000 the number one tool um FBI agents and 1:07:39.000,1:07:41.839 prosecutors use to disrupt terrorist 1:07:41.839,1:07:46.000 attacks in the United States is material 1:07:47.240,1:07:50.079 support material support is basically a 1:07:50.079,1:07:52.960 charge to levy on individuals who are 1:07:52.960,1:07:55.480 helping a terrorist organization or a 1:07:55.480,1:07:58.000 ENT organization unfortunately we don't 1:07:58.000,1:07:59.640 have that when it comes to domestic 1:07:59.640,1:08:02.079 terrorist 1:08:02.319,1:08:04.440 organizations the problem with this 1:08:04.440,1:08:06.960 situation is when you don't have 1:08:06.960,1:08:09.319 domestic terrorism laws you need an act 1:08:09.319,1:08:12.160 to happen you need a hot body in order 1:08:12.160,1:08:14.599 to start an investigation and usually 1:08:14.599,1:08:16.839 you can charge that individual with hate 1:08:16.839,1:08:19.040 a crime or with other charges but you 1:08:19.040,1:08:20.799 cannot charge them with terrorism you 1:08:20.799,1:08:24.439 cannot go after the whole network holy 1:08:24.439,1:08:26.679 cow about a third of the building has 1:08:26.679,1:08:30.839 been blown away is just 1:08:30.880,1:08:34.839 devastating get back get back a massive 1:08:34.839,1:08:36.759 Car Bomb exploded outside of a large 1:08:36.759,1:08:38.679 Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma 1:08:38.679,1:08:41.080 City shattering that building Killing 1:08:41.080,1:08:43.399 Children Killing federal employees 1:08:43.399,1:08:46.640 military men and civilians even Timothy 1:08:46.640,1:08:49.799 McVey he blew up a whole Federal 1:08:49.799,1:08:52.479 Building and prosecutors could not 1:08:52.479,1:08:57.920 charge him or his associates with 1:08:57.920,1:09:00.399 terrorism the bombing of Oklahoma City 1:09:00.399,1:09:03.399 in 1995 was the largest deliberate mass 1:09:03.399,1:09:05.679 casualty event on American soil between 1:09:05.679,1:09:08.880 Pearl Harbor and 911 but most people 1:09:08.880,1:09:10.799 still don't understand what that event 1:09:10.799,1:09:13.080 was and what it meant the indictment 1:09:13.080,1:09:15.000 charges that Timothy McVey and Terry 1:09:15.000,1:09:16.880 Nichols former Army buddies with a 1:09:16.880,1:09:18.560 grudge against the government planned 1:09:18.560,1:09:21.000 the bombing selected McVey and Nichols 1:09:21.000,1:09:22.880 met each other through their service 1:09:22.880,1:09:24.439 they trained together at Fort Riley 1:09:24.439,1:09:27.799 Kansas before McVey deployed to the gulf 1:09:27.799,1:09:29.960 as part of Big Red One infantry unit in 1:09:29.960,1:09:32.799 Iraq there he seems to have experienced 1:09:32.799,1:09:35.120 some amount of traumatic combat before 1:09:35.120,1:09:37.198 their return 1:09:37.198,1:09:39.600 home after washing out his special 1:09:39.600,1:09:43.120 forces he was really angry and we see at 1:09:43.120,1:09:45.520 that moment his deepening involvement in 1:09:45.520,1:09:47.180 radical white power 1:09:47.180,1:09:49.238 [Music] 1:09:49.238,1:09:52.439 activity ranging from mcvey's connection 1:09:52.439,1:09:54.840 to the Michigan militia the federal 1:09:54.840,1:09:56.840 government itself is the child of the 1:09:56.840,1:09:59.159 armed citizen we the people are the 1:09:59.159,1:10:01.280 parent of the child we call government 1:10:01.280,1:10:02.800 in short the federal government needs a 1:10:02.800,1:10:04.880 good spanking to make it behave his 1:10:04.880,1:10:06.640 contact and attempted contact with 1:10:06.640,1:10:08.480 groups like the Arizona Patriots and the 1:10:08.480,1:10:11.600 National Alliance and his written belief 1:10:11.600,1:10:13.400 in white power principles that were 1:10:13.400,1:10:16.040 published in his hometown newspaper 1:10:16.040,1:10:18.960 McVey used his military training to help 1:10:18.960,1:10:21.400 carry out the Oklahoma City bombing and 1:10:21.400,1:10:24.040 in a letter to a friend he invoked his 1:10:24.040,1:10:26.840 military oath to to justify it I have 1:10:26.840,1:10:29.040 sworn to uphold and defend the 1:10:29.040,1:10:32.040 Constitution against all enemies foreign 1:10:32.040,1:10:35.040 and domestic and I will blood will flow 1:10:35.040,1:10:38.520 in the streets good versus evil free men 1:10:38.520,1:10:41.600 versus socialist wannabe slaves pray 1:10:41.600,1:10:44.280 it's not your blood my friend the other 1:10:44.280,1:10:46.800 key component here was his use of the 1:10:46.800,1:10:49.560 Turner Diaries at gun shows Timothy 1:10:49.560,1:10:51.400 McVey would hand out copies of the 1:10:51.400,1:10:54.080 Turner Diaries a dystopian novel that 1:10:54.080,1:10:56.679 details how to top the US government the 1:10:56.679,1:10:58.760 fictional revolutionaries start by 1:10:58.760,1:11:01.080 blowing up a federal building and then 1:11:01.080,1:11:03.280 proceed to exterminate their political 1:11:03.280,1:11:06.679 enemies including all Jews blacks and 1:11:06.679,1:11:09.120 Latinos the Turner Diaries became 1:11:09.120,1:11:10.960 enormously important to this movement 1:11:10.960,1:11:13.040 not because it's a good book but because 1:11:13.040,1:11:15.440 it provides the imaginative answer to a 1:11:15.440,1:11:17.679 really important question which is how 1:11:17.679,1:11:20.719 can a tiny group of people a small 1:11:20.719,1:11:22.800 Fringe movement do what they're setting 1:11:22.800,1:11:24.640 out to do in this period which is to 1:11:24.640,1:11:26.280 overthrow the most militarized 1:11:26.280,1:11:29.960 superstate in world history in 1997 1:11:29.960,1:11:33.400 McVey was convicted of murdering 168 1:11:33.400,1:11:35.600 people using a weapon of mass 1:11:35.600,1:11:37.840 destruction and blowing up a federal 1:11:37.840,1:11:40.719 building no domestic terrorism charges 1:11:40.719,1:11:42.800 were brought however because he and 1:11:42.800,1:11:44.679 Nicholls were thought to have acted 1:11:44.679,1:11:48.239 alone just imagine if Timothy mcvey's 1:11:48.239,1:11:50.719 name was Muhammad we will look at that 1:11:50.719,1:11:53.360 terrorism threat in a very different 1:11:53.360,1:11:56.000 length first of all we will look at it 1:11:56.000,1:11:58.360 as a terrorist threat we will go after 1:11:58.360,1:12:01.040 McVey we will go after all the people 1:12:01.040,1:12:02.880 who are helping him or who are assisting 1:12:02.880,1:12:06.080 him we will keep the investigation going 1:12:06.080,1:12:08.719 in order to get the whole network and 1:12:08.719,1:12:11.760 when you are very limited with the tools 1:12:11.760,1:12:14.120 uh you are using these groups will take 1:12:14.120,1:12:15.719 benefits from it these are not lone 1:12:15.719,1:12:17.400 wolves these are people who are united 1:12:17.400,1:12:20.639 by ideology by social ties by selection 1:12:20.639,1:12:22.560 of targets these are all part of the 1:12:22.560,1:12:24.199 same movement and this is really what 1:12:24.199,1:12:26.280 we're seeing continuing into our present 1:12:26.280,1:12:28.480 day 1:12:30.280,1:12:33.000 moment tonight the plot to kidnap a 1:12:33.000,1:12:35.240 governor foiled by the 1:12:35.240,1:12:36.760 [Music] 1:12:36.760,1:12:40.360 FBI in October 2020 less than a month 1:12:40.360,1:12:43.199 before the presidential election 14 men 1:12:43.199,1:12:45.360 were arrested in a plot to kidnap 1:12:45.360,1:12:48.040 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer their 1:12:48.040,1:12:50.120 plans included storming the state 1:12:50.120,1:12:53.480 capital using zip ties to take hostages 1:12:53.480,1:12:55.639 and conducting a trial that would result 1:12:55.639,1:12:58.320 in a public hanging of the governor the 1:12:58.320,1:13:00.040 suspects were all members of The 1:13:00.040,1:13:02.800 Wolverine Watchman a paramilitary group 1:13:02.800,1:13:05.360 commanded by a former Marine that had 1:13:05.360,1:13:08.280 ties to the Michigan militia prosecutors 1:13:08.280,1:13:10.719 contend that they wanted to kidnap her 1:13:10.719,1:13:13.120 to try to ignite another American Civil 1:13:13.120,1:13:15.560 War before the 2020 election in hopes of 1:13:15.560,1:13:17.360 disrupting it and perhaps keeping Joe 1:13:17.360,1:13:18.960 Biden from becoming president but 1:13:18.960,1:13:21.400 Federal prosecutors could not charge any 1:13:21.400,1:13:23.400 of the conspirators with material 1:13:23.400,1:13:25.120 support and despite having amount 1:13:25.120,1:13:26.880 mountain of evidence laid out against 1:13:26.880,1:13:28.800 them at trial the group's leader Adam 1:13:28.800,1:13:30.560 Fox telling the informant he was 1:13:30.560,1:13:32.280 inspired by Oklahoma City Bombing 1:13:32.280,1:13:34.520 terrorist Timothy McVey telling the 1:13:34.520,1:13:36.960 informant if we can't have our world 1:13:36.960,1:13:39.679 they can't have theirs Burning It Down 1:13:39.679,1:13:42.080 Like Lewis beam before them if we can't 1:13:42.080,1:13:44.040 have this country nobody gets it that 1:13:44.040,1:13:46.600 clear we'll be total ashes everywhere 1:13:46.600,1:13:49.120 none of the defendants were convicted on 1:13:49.120,1:13:51.440 federal charges the goals of this 1:13:51.440,1:13:54.560 Insurgency in Michigan were to take over 1:13:54.560,1:13:56.760 the state house and then to kidnap and 1:13:56.760,1:13:58.600 execute the governor the goal of the 1:13:58.600,1:14:00.520 Insurgency on January 6 was to overturn 1:14:00.520,1:14:02.800 the results of a democratic election so 1:14:02.800,1:14:05.960 if we see this as part of a movement 1:14:05.960,1:14:08.840 it's to stop the American people being 1:14:08.840,1:14:10.400 able to choose their own leaders an 1:14:10.400,1:14:12.760 Insurgency is all about seizing control 1:14:12.760,1:14:14.560 of a government not through winning an 1:14:14.560,1:14:16.080 election not through Democratic 1:14:16.080,1:14:17.639 processes not through persuasion but 1:14:17.639,1:14:20.480 through violence it's an it's a form of 1:14:20.480,1:14:25.520 War USA USA USA 1:14:25.520,1:14:26.920 coward 1:14:26.920,1:14:30.199 tra if you look at January 6th what 1:14:30.199,1:14:32.960 we're looking at is really the Collision 1:14:32.960,1:14:35.600 of three different streams of Activity 1:14:35.600,1:14:37.199 one is the organized white power 1:14:37.199,1:14:39.840 movement that is coming off of decades 1:14:39.840,1:14:41.840 if not generations of organizing 1:14:41.840,1:14:44.080 Armament training and ideological 1:14:44.080,1:14:45.560 content they want to know what the 1:14:45.560,1:14:48.159 orange has stand for [ __ ] proud boy 1:14:48.159,1:14:50.679 another is kinon which is newer more 1:14:50.679,1:14:53.239 radical works very fast where we go one 1:14:53.239,1:14:55.600 we go all and the final one the biggest 1:14:55.600,1:15:02.840 one is simply the Trump Bas TR Trum Trum 1:15:02.840,1:15:05.360 Trum it's clear to me that what you had 1:15:05.360,1:15:07.600 was a concerted effort by a number of 1:15:07.600,1:15:09.920 different organizers do you want your 1:15:09.920,1:15:14.120 house back take it to take these various 1:15:14.120,1:15:16.920 groups together and focus their energies 1:15:16.920,1:15:21.480 into create a critical mass and that's 1:15:21.480,1:15:25.480 not new 1:15:37.280,1:15:41.639 in Iraq when al-Qaeda in Iraq emerged it 1:15:41.639,1:15:43.840 really came led by a guy named Abu 1:15:43.840,1:15:46.320 musaba zwi he traveled around the 1:15:46.320,1:15:49.760 country had a Charisma to him and he 1:15:49.760,1:15:53.480 portrayed this hey I'm not your normal 1:15:53.480,1:15:56.400 political leader we are going to show 1:15:56.400,1:15:59.080 the kind of commitment that real men 1:15:59.080,1:15:59.880 would 1:15:59.880,1:16:03.400 do and al-Qaeda in Iraq which was very 1:16:03.400,1:16:05.560 extreme ideologically started to be 1:16:05.560,1:16:07.360 joined by people who weren't natural 1:16:07.360,1:16:09.960 bedfellows people go finally someone 1:16:09.960,1:16:13.000 who's not going to put up with the crap 1:16:13.000,1:16:15.679 someone who's going to take the law into 1:16:15.679,1:16:18.440 their own hands and going to get us what 1:16:18.440,1:16:21.199 we deserve because we have been 1:16:21.199,1:16:25.800 exploited by the elites of the region 1:16:25.800,1:16:28.800 I think Abu masab Bazar kawi and Donald 1:16:28.800,1:16:32.120 Trump both understand that you can 1:16:32.120,1:16:34.960 inflame those passions it is where the 1:16:34.960,1:16:38.600 leader takes those frustrations that 1:16:38.600,1:16:42.360 becomes potentially disastrous grievance 1:16:42.360,1:16:44.280 narratives are made up they're 1:16:44.280,1:16:47.560 constructed narratives but they are used 1:16:47.560,1:16:49.600 by demagogues because they work and if 1:16:49.600,1:16:51.600 you have a political party that is 1:16:51.600,1:16:53.560 organized around grievance around a 1:16:53.560,1:16:56.120 sense of loss and a sense of threat you 1:16:56.120,1:16:58.000 have the basis for the ideology that 1:16:58.000,1:17:00.040 will promote violence we gathered 1:17:00.040,1:17:01.840 together at the heart of our nation's 1:17:01.840,1:17:05.320 capital for one very very basic and 1:17:05.320,1:17:09.560 simple reason to save our democracy 1:17:09.560,1:17:13.560 we're going to walk down to the 1:17:14.159,1:17:17.520 capital and we're going to cheer on our 1:17:17.520,1:17:21.800 brave senators and congressmen and women 1:17:21.800,1:17:23.080 and we're probably not going to be 1:17:23.080,1:17:27.040 cheering so much for some of 1:17:27.040,1:17:30.520 them because you'll never take back our 1:17:30.520,1:17:32.960 country with weakness you have to show 1:17:32.960,1:17:34.930 strength and you have to be 1:17:34.930,1:17:37.679 [Applause] 1:17:37.679,1:17:41.960 strong DC is a [ __ ] war 1:17:41.960,1:17:44.400 zone this what 1:17:44.400,1:17:47.320 we the siege of the capital on January 1:17:47.320,1:17:49.520 6th did not overturn the results of the 1:17:49.520,1:17:52.880 2020 election but that's not the only 1:17:52.880,1:17:55.280 measure by which the actions of that day 1:17:55.280,1:17:57.840 are being judged there's footage of 1:17:57.840,1:17:59.679 proud boys directing journalists to read 1:17:59.679,1:18:01.080 the Turner 1:18:01.080,1:18:04.679 Diaries Read The Turner 1:18:06.280,1:18:09.080 Diaries on January 6th the Turner 1:18:09.080,1:18:11.280 Diaries was structuring a lot of sort of 1:18:11.280,1:18:14.239 the imaginative performative action of 1:18:14.239,1:18:16.159 that day the news hung outside the 1:18:16.159,1:18:18.440 capital refers to events in the Turner 1:18:18.440,1:18:20.199 Diaries called The Day of the Rope which 1:18:20.199,1:18:23.080 is the hanging of race Traders which 1:18:23.080,1:18:25.520 include politicians 1:18:25.520,1:18:27.440 [Applause] 1:18:27.440,1:18:29.520 [Music] 1:18:29.520,1:18:32.480 my and significantly there is a strike 1:18:32.480,1:18:34.880 on the capital that is not supposed to 1:18:34.880,1:18:36.960 be a mass casualty attack in the Turner 1:18:36.960,1:18:38.840 Diaries it's a mortar attack it's meant 1:18:38.840,1:18:41.480 to be simply the selected killing of a 1:18:41.480,1:18:44.159 few corrupt legislators in order to show 1:18:44.159,1:18:47.159 other white people that extremists can 1:18:47.159,1:18:49.719 strike at the heart of American power 1:18:49.719,1:18:51.159 yeah 1:18:51.159,1:18:55.239 yeah yeah we did it we did it [ __ ] 1:18:55.239,1:18:58.239 did it yo take laptops paperwork take 1:18:58.239,1:19:01.800 everything all that [ __ ] my friend my 1:19:01.800,1:19:03.560 friend sitting 1:19:03.560,1:19:06.880 in and by that measure I think that they 1:19:06.880,1:19:09.679 succeeded Donald Trump tweeted out a 1:19:09.679,1:19:14.080 video he said we did a good [ __ ] 1:19:14.080,1:19:17.080 job January 6 was a huge success for 1:19:17.080,1:19:21.159 them January 6 inspired so many people 1:19:21.159,1:19:24.239 not only here in the United States but 1:19:24.239,1:19:26.960 even in Europe that violence is a way to 1:19:26.960,1:19:30.199 change the government is a way to change 1:19:30.199,1:19:31.679 that 1:19:31.679,1:19:34.960 establishments in the western world that 1:19:34.960,1:19:37.800 they consider corrupt they considered 1:19:37.800,1:19:40.480 evil uh they considered that these 1:19:40.480,1:19:42.520 governments are nothing but tools to the 1:19:42.520,1:19:44.960 Jews or to whatever conspiracy they 1:19:44.960,1:19:47.239 believe 1:19:49.800,1:19:52.520 in you believe the rich people in the 1:19:52.520,1:19:54.719 world are using this disease and it's 1:19:54.719,1:19:56.960 exaggerating it to create some sort of 1:19:56.960,1:19:59.520 apocalyptic nightmare right you think 1:19:59.520,1:20:01.320 it's common sense that we all have to 1:20:01.320,1:20:04.020 stay inside and be afraid of the 1:20:04.020,1:20:07.199 [Applause] 1:20:09.360,1:20:12.320 air you look at January 6th I think the 1:20:12.320,1:20:13.719 people that were there that participate 1:20:13.719,1:20:16.239 in it number one they wanted it to serve 1:20:16.239,1:20:18.920 as a wakeup call to those people who are 1:20:18.920,1:20:22.560 Empower and the fact of the matter is 1:20:22.560,1:20:24.400 every single person that was there that 1:20:24.400,1:20:27.520 day is a patriot of this nation y Randy 1:20:27.520,1:20:29.080 maybe you want to put the beers inside 1:20:29.080,1:20:31.480 the the the the bridge maybe you want to 1:20:31.480,1:20:34.639 get off being a patriot being a person 1:20:34.639,1:20:36.800 that loves their country especially you 1:20:36.800,1:20:38.600 know being a military veteran you take 1:20:38.600,1:20:41.760 an oath to the Constitution and for a 1:20:41.760,1:20:43.280 lot of those people that were there that 1:20:43.280,1:20:45.639 day they felt that their constitution 1:20:45.639,1:20:48.360 was being shredded up our democracy was 1:20:48.360,1:20:50.600 being shredded right in front of our 1:20:50.600,1:20:52.239 eyes I think it's absolutely 1:20:52.239,1:20:53.840 heartbreaking to see veterans involved 1:20:53.840,1:20:55.639 in these things and I know for a lot of 1:20:55.639,1:20:57.520 them that their hearts are in in some 1:20:57.520,1:20:59.320 ways in the right place we just don't 1:20:59.320,1:21:02.600 live in the same world of truth 1:21:05.880,1:21:08.239 [Music] 1:21:08.239,1:21:10.600 anymore the people in DC they were 1:21:10.600,1:21:12.840 Americans yeah and they were patriots 1:21:12.840,1:21:14.800 they only broke laws because the DC 1:21:14.800,1:21:16.800 police didn't do their 1:21:16.800,1:21:20.639 job okay okay that's it people died 1:21:20.639,1:21:22.239 because they didn't do their 1:21:22.239,1:21:25.000 job so they broke into the Capital 1:21:25.000,1:21:26.760 because DC police didn't do their job 1:21:26.760,1:21:28.360 the DC police they didn't break into 1:21:28.360,1:21:31.120 anything they let them in not only did 1:21:31.120,1:21:34.320 they let them in it's paid for by tax 1:21:34.320,1:21:36.520 dollars it's their [ __ ] 1:21:36.520,1:21:41.840 property easy sorry this is the lethal 1:21:41.840,1:21:44.840 danger of the big election lie right 1:21:44.840,1:21:46.560 it's this is a conspiracy theory that 1:21:46.560,1:21:48.560 says the very heart of American 1:21:48.560,1:21:49.840 political life the very heart of our 1:21:49.840,1:21:51.320 democracy has been destroyed and taken 1:21:51.320,1:21:54.159 from us which leaves us what recourse do 1:21:54.159,1:21:55.480 I believe the election was stolen 1:21:55.480,1:21:57.280 absolutely without a doubt there's no 1:21:57.280,1:22:00.239 way in hell Joe Biden was elected 81 1:22:00.239,1:22:02.159 million votes for Joe Biden I don't 1:22:02.159,1:22:04.560 think so we're in a situation right now 1:22:04.560,1:22:06.600 where you know we can't trust our 1:22:06.600,1:22:09.280 elections anymore we know that so what 1:22:09.280,1:22:12.159 really is scary is is that what will the 1:22:12.159,1:22:14.400 people do what will the average American 1:22:14.400,1:22:16.320 do when they finally wake up to the 1:22:16.320,1:22:18.560 reality of all this and the answer to 1:22:18.560,1:22:22.080 that is we don't know we have no idea 1:22:22.080,1:22:24.920 what the American people will do this no 1:22:24.920,1:22:27.639 longer is a constitutional republic and 1:22:27.639,1:22:29.600 we are going to fight to bring our 1:22:29.600,1:22:33.159 constitutional republic back again we've 1:22:33.159,1:22:35.159 had violent domestic extremist 1:22:35.159,1:22:37.360 organizations for a long time but I 1:22:37.360,1:22:38.760 think what makes this moment 1:22:38.760,1:22:40.080 particularly dangerous there are a 1:22:40.080,1:22:42.120 couple of things the first one is the 1:22:42.120,1:22:44.800 fact that it's able to ride on a wave of 1:22:44.800,1:22:48.280 conspiracy thinking and general 1:22:48.280,1:22:50.280 distrust that's happening because of 1:22:50.280,1:22:51.840 social media Technologies it's happening 1:22:51.840,1:22:53.199 because of the way we we've structured 1:22:53.199,1:22:55.199 our society on the internet that gives 1:22:55.199,1:22:57.880 them the sheer numbers of people that 1:22:57.880,1:22:59.760 they could never dream of of bringing to 1:22:59.760,1:23:01.440 bear on their own everybody's got to put 1:23:01.440,1:23:02.719 their shoulder to the wheel we need 1:23:02.719,1:23:05.199 participation 24/7 we need you to be a 1:23:05.199,1:23:07.600 force multiplier as a soldier and as a 1:23:07.600,1:23:09.679 as a uh as a general as a retired 1:23:09.679,1:23:12.719 General we have an army of digital 1:23:12.719,1:23:14.840 soldiers if you can do command and 1:23:14.840,1:23:16.920 control over social media and you're 1:23:16.920,1:23:18.920 fighting against evil and you're on the 1:23:18.920,1:23:20.880 side of God and you're on the side of 1:23:20.880,1:23:22.639 the United States in your oath it's a 1:23:22.639,1:23:25.400 very attractive proposition 1:23:25.400,1:23:26.960 the sad part is is you're using all 1:23:26.960,1:23:28.440 those skills and that goodness and that 1:23:28.440,1:23:30.480 purity of heart that you think is 1:23:30.480,1:23:34.280 actually absolute unadulterated 1:23:34.280,1:23:36.719 [ __ ] the second major difference is 1:23:36.719,1:23:39.080 you have political cover from the very 1:23:39.080,1:23:41.800 top the only way we're going to lose 1:23:41.800,1:23:44.360 this election is if the election is 1:23:44.360,1:23:46.920 rigged remember that January 6 was the 1:23:46.920,1:23:48.840 culmination of two months of a 1:23:48.840,1:23:50.520 propagation of a big lie and of 1:23:50.520,1:23:53.080 conspiracy theories by the president of 1:23:53.080,1:23:54.920 the United States 20 thirds of House 1:23:54.920,1:23:57.040 Republicans go along with Trump and vote 1:23:57.040,1:23:59.320 to overturn the electors on the evening 1:23:59.320,1:24:02.159 of January 6th we a United States 1:24:02.159,1:24:03.880 Senator and members of the House of 1:24:03.880,1:24:06.000 Representatives object to the counting 1:24:06.000,1:24:07.800 of the electoral votes of the state of 1:24:07.800,1:24:10.000 Pennsylvania Madam speaker I Rise to 1:24:10.000,1:24:11.719 support the objection Madam speaker I 1:24:11.719,1:24:13.360 Rise to support the objection Madam 1:24:13.360,1:24:15.679 speaker I Rise to support the objection 1:24:15.679,1:24:18.040 Madam chair I vigorously support this 1:24:18.040,1:24:20.520 objection and I in a vote that has 1:24:20.520,1:24:23.760 always been thought to be ceremonial and 1:24:23.760,1:24:25.840 minister IAL where you accept the 1:24:25.840,1:24:27.600 Electoral College results which were in 1:24:27.600,1:24:29.600 no serious way contested I mean that's 1:24:29.600,1:24:31.920 almost as astounding as what happened in 1:24:31.920,1:24:34.159 terms of the Insurrection how can so 1:24:34.159,1:24:37.320 many people believe that it was unfair 1:24:37.320,1:24:38.760 it was because their president said it 1:24:38.760,1:24:40.760 was unfair their Senator said it was 1:24:40.760,1:24:42.960 unfair their member of Congress said it 1:24:42.960,1:24:45.520 was unfair a full audit is absolutely 1:24:45.520,1:24:47.719 necessary we should get injunctions if 1:24:47.719,1:24:50.080 necessary and normally those are people 1:24:50.080,1:24:52.119 that the electric can have faith in I 1:24:52.119,1:24:54.960 Rise for myself and 60 of my colleag to 1:24:54.960,1:24:57.840 object to the counting of the Electoral 1:24:57.840,1:25:00.760 ballots from Arizona is the objection in 1:25:00.760,1:25:02.719 writing and signed by a 1:25:02.719,1:25:07.119 senator yes it is it 1:25:08.239,1:25:11.719 is but it is not just the big lie that 1:25:11.719,1:25:13.639 appears to have captured much of the 1:25:13.639,1:25:16.520 Republican Party Congressman Denver rlan 1:25:16.520,1:25:18.080 lost his party's nomination over the 1:25:18.080,1:25:20.080 weekend the first term Congressman was 1:25:20.080,1:25:22.520 ousted by former Liberty University 1:25:22.520,1:25:25.159 employee Bob good 1:25:25.159,1:25:26.679 getting run out of the Republican party 1:25:26.679,1:25:28.320 was really interesting I believe I was 1:25:28.320,1:25:30.760 the first one that was affected by Q 1:25:30.760,1:25:32.280 conspiracy theories when I didn't even 1:25:32.280,1:25:33.000 know 1:25:33.000,1:25:36.000 it I had conducted a same-sex wedding in 1:25:36.000,1:25:38.440 summer of 2019 two guys who had worked 1:25:38.440,1:25:41.040 for me or volunteered and then I started 1:25:41.040,1:25:43.520 hearing these weird things I'm funded by 1:25:43.520,1:25:45.440 George Soros I'm a secret Jew I'm a 1:25:45.440,1:25:47.639 secret Dem I'm trying to change the 1:25:47.639,1:25:49.280 sexual orientation of children I'm a 1:25:49.280,1:25:50.920 tool of the Antichrist and I'm hearing 1:25:50.920,1:25:52.320 all this I'm like this is sounds like 1:25:52.320,1:25:54.520 New World Order crazy stuff you know the 1:25:54.520,1:25:56.239 anti-semitic 1:25:56.239,1:25:59.159 tropes you had better wake up and 1:25:59.159,1:26:01.600 understand that there are people then I 1:26:01.600,1:26:03.000 started doing my own research and I'm 1:26:03.000,1:26:05.119 pretty good at it and uh I saw some of 1:26:05.119,1:26:07.080 the same patterns that you saw with 1:26:07.080,1:26:09.080 foreign terrorists you know and when you 1:26:09.080,1:26:12.440 chased Isis or alada or IED resupply 1:26:12.440,1:26:14.920 from Iraq into Iran you know i' I've 1:26:14.920,1:26:17.119 seen some things and uh what I saw was 1:26:17.119,1:26:19.920 that people were using language uh in 1:26:19.920,1:26:21.800 the open that I I thought we would never 1:26:21.800,1:26:23.800 see As Americans my two decades of 1:26:23.800,1:26:25.000 intelligence War fighting and 1:26:25.000,1:26:26.639 counterterrorism experience coupled with 1:26:26.639,1:26:30.040 serving in the 116th Congress is why I 1:26:30.040,1:26:31.960 will not allow conspiracy peders to 1:26:31.960,1:26:34.360 hijack our ability to conduct reasonable 1:26:34.360,1:26:36.320 policy discussions for the betterment of 1:26:36.320,1:26:38.320 all Americans I was pretty much drummed 1:26:38.320,1:26:41.280 out and censured for following the law 1:26:41.280,1:26:43.480 and trying to save this country and uh 1:26:43.480,1:26:47.040 I'm not I don't think I'm overstating 1:26:47.400,1:26:50.719 that if one of our two parties is 1:26:50.719,1:26:53.960 committed to an orwellian whitewashing 1:26:53.960,1:26:55.719 of hist history if you didn't know the 1:26:55.719,1:26:57.920 TV footage was a video from January the 1:26:57.920,1:26:59.920 6th you would actually think it was a 1:26:59.920,1:27:02.320 normal tourist visit is committed to 1:27:02.320,1:27:04.159 propagating or at least not quarreling 1:27:04.159,1:27:07.480 with a big lie uh the big lie the big 1:27:07.480,1:27:10.159 lie is a lot of [ __ ] that's what it 1:27:10.159,1:27:13.560 is is committed to not quarreling much 1:27:13.560,1:27:15.760 with conspiracy theories is committed to 1:27:15.760,1:27:17.880 purging those Republicans at the state 1:27:17.880,1:27:19.480 and local level and at the national 1:27:19.480,1:27:21.800 level who want to fight back against the 1:27:21.800,1:27:23.840 lies and the conspiracy theories that's 1:27:23.840,1:27:26.040 a big 1:27:26.040,1:27:28.560 deal war is literally the continuation 1:27:28.560,1:27:31.199 of politics by other violent means our 1:27:31.199,1:27:33.000 military forces are the part of our 1:27:33.000,1:27:36.000 society that carries out that peace then 1:27:36.000,1:27:38.199 we come home and the question is do we 1:27:38.199,1:27:40.520 have a political system that functions 1:27:40.520,1:27:43.560 or are we at a point where our own 1:27:43.560,1:27:44.880 politics the politics inside our own 1:27:44.880,1:27:46.360 communities the politics inside our own 1:27:46.360,1:27:48.360 country can only be continued through 1:27:48.360,1:27:50.600 other means and we got to be very 1:27:50.600,1:27:52.159 careful because if you think you have 1:27:52.159,1:27:53.600 support from the highest levels of 1:27:53.600,1:27:54.960 government 1:27:54.960,1:27:56.320 why aren't you fighting for your country 1:27:56.320,1:27:57.880 aren't you already sort of sworn in to 1:27:57.880,1:28:00.119 do this the issue is is that the people 1:28:00.119,1:28:02.440 that we are identifying as extremists 1:28:02.440,1:28:04.360 they're identifying as Patriots or 1:28:04.360,1:28:06.600 Freedom Fighters and that is it almost 1:28:06.600,1:28:08.440 sounds like I'm talking about terrorism 1:28:08.440,1:28:10.600 right 1:28:13.800,1:28:16.800 now one of the organizations that I'm 1:28:16.800,1:28:19.440 particularly interested in uh as the 1:28:19.440,1:28:24.239 Patriot front for the of our nation 1:28:24.239,1:28:27.440 Liberty of our people liy for the 1:28:27.440,1:28:32.119 victory of the American Spirit Victory 1:28:32.119,1:28:34.360 they're producing what they refer to as 1:28:34.360,1:28:36.440 propaganda they're studying books on 1:28:36.440,1:28:39.600 fascism because they believe democracy 1:28:39.600,1:28:41.639 has failed and their vision for the 1:28:41.639,1:28:47.119 future is a dominant white race that has 1:28:47.119,1:28:50.679 captured the Republican party and has 1:28:50.679,1:28:53.480 defeated their political opponents by 1:28:53.480,1:28:56.960 violence or by 1:28:57.280,1:28:59.199 exclusion these guys showed up in 1:28:59.199,1:29:02.600 Philadelphia on the 4th of July 2021 and 1:29:02.600,1:29:05.520 assaulted a bunch of 1:29:12.000,1:29:14.840 people nothing came of it cuz the local 1:29:14.840,1:29:16.400 cops didn't know what the hell were they 1:29:16.400,1:29:19.239 were dealing with so this is a fascist 1:29:19.239,1:29:21.239 gang who's 1:29:21.239,1:29:23.840 operating all around the country police 1:29:23.840,1:29:26.400 and say they prevented a possible 1:29:26.400,1:29:28.480 domestic terror attack over the weekend 1:29:28.480,1:29:31.199 31 men were arrested all dressed alike 1:29:31.199,1:29:33.199 allegedly on their way to wreak haveit 1:29:33.199,1:29:36.040 at a pride event in the city of cordelan 1:29:36.040,1:29:38.560 cordelan is just a few miles north of 1:29:38.560,1:29:41.000 Hayden Lake and the Patriot front 1:29:41.000,1:29:43.480 following in the footsteps of Lewis beam 1:29:43.480,1:29:45.960 had made it a base of operations and in 1:29:45.960,1:29:48.080 the same way Denver WLAN had been 1:29:48.080,1:29:51.159 targeted by qanon for officiating a gay 1:29:51.159,1:29:54.239 wedding Q's rhetoric casting the LG B 1:29:54.239,1:29:58.320 btq Community as groomers and pedophiles 1:29:58.320,1:30:00.840 helped put them squarely in the sights 1:30:00.840,1:30:03.840 of the white nationalist Patriot front 1:30:03.840,1:30:06.320 while the proud boys the oathkeepers the 1:30:06.320,1:30:09.400 3centers are a threat the ones that I'm 1:30:09.400,1:30:12.280 really afraid of are the Gen Z ones the 1:30:12.280,1:30:14.639 service members who have served during a 1:30:14.639,1:30:16.480 time of relative peace these young 1:30:16.480,1:30:18.840 people who joined to fight never got a 1:30:18.840,1:30:22.199 chance to fight and who starting in 1:30:22.199,1:30:24.400 conservative Echo Chambers online have 1:30:24.400,1:30:27.440 been brought into the proud boy to 1:30:27.440,1:30:29.840 fascist pipeline so 1:30:29.840,1:30:33.480 gab is an alternative social media 1:30:33.480,1:30:36.400 platform that was created to be a safe 1:30:36.400,1:30:37.480 space for 1:30:37.480,1:30:40.320 neo-nazis one of the groups on here is 1:30:40.320,1:30:43.159 the national Justice party this is a 1:30:43.159,1:30:45.719 Neo-Nazi party within the United States 1:30:45.719,1:30:49.480 whose goal is to use protests to 1:30:49.480,1:30:53.080 radicalize Trump supporters into 1:30:53.080,1:30:54.480 explicit 1:30:54.480,1:30:55.400 white 1:30:55.400,1:30:58.239 supremacy they're developing new and 1:30:58.239,1:31:00.719 original propaganda that paint them in a 1:31:00.719,1:31:04.280 light of achieving the power the ability 1:31:04.280,1:31:09.320 to shape politics and engage in violence 1:31:09.320,1:31:11.000 in a way that they thought they were 1:31:11.000,1:31:13.600 going to get from the military they 1:31:13.600,1:31:16.280 understand how to recruit people into 1:31:16.280,1:31:18.119 that lifestyle so right here this is an 1:31:18.119,1:31:19.560 Italian Maye 1:31:19.560,1:31:23.679 frgo uh I don't care that was the slogan 1:31:23.679,1:31:27.000 of of the fascist party under 1:31:27.000,1:31:29.320 melini so what they're trying to do is 1:31:29.320,1:31:31.920 make white nationalism look like it's 1:31:31.920,1:31:35.840 testosterone filled way to be a man I 1:31:35.840,1:31:38.159 believe that these Young Veterans who 1:31:38.159,1:31:39.679 getting out and joining things like 1:31:39.679,1:31:41.440 patriate front and nationalist socialist 1:31:41.440,1:31:44.400 club and the word Nazi is nationalist 1:31:44.400,1:31:47.320 socialist I think that the Republican 1:31:47.320,1:31:50.400 party is is you know more than capable 1:31:50.400,1:31:52.600 of adopting that IDE ideology in a way 1:31:52.600,1:31:55.000 that that's unfathomable even to me you 1:31:55.000,1:31:57.199 know I I never saw us where we are today 1:31:57.199,1:32:00.840 I I think another four years things 1:32:00.840,1:32:03.400 could be far 1:32:06.560,1:32:09.119 worse I think the worst case scenario is 1:32:09.119,1:32:11.480 probably worse than most of us want to 1:32:11.480,1:32:14.280 imagine I could see a civil war because 1:32:14.280,1:32:15.560 this is the same movement we've been 1:32:15.560,1:32:17.560 dealing with this whole time it's 1:32:17.560,1:32:19.360 reasonable to assume that what we can 1:32:19.360,1:32:22.080 see is only about half of the activity 1:32:22.080,1:32:24.199 that there is an underground that is in 1:32:24.199,1:32:26.520 violent action training in camps trying 1:32:26.520,1:32:28.960 to accumulate weapons and preparing for 1:32:28.960,1:32:30.679 violence when you talk about Civil War 1:32:30.679,1:32:32.840 or specific sectors of the country that 1:32:32.840,1:32:35.159 could go kinetic just go to these areas 1:32:35.159,1:32:36.600 where you see the first big far-left 1:32:36.600,1:32:38.400 protest when Republicans take back the 1:32:38.400,1:32:41.119 house boom if there's anybody out there 1:32:41.119,1:32:43.800 from antifa our black lives matters 1:32:43.800,1:32:45.760 spend your first [ __ ] bullet up my 1:32:45.760,1:32:48.199 chest okay or if Republicans think that 1:32:48.199,1:32:49.920 one of the state elections were stolen 1:32:49.920,1:32:52.320 boom forget right in your legislators 1:32:52.320,1:32:54.639 you got to do something it's it's We the 1:32:54.639,1:32:56.440 People you're going to have to take my 1:32:56.440,1:32:58.440 life there's no way I'll die on this 1:32:58.440,1:33:01.000 hill there's no way no way all of this 1:33:01.000,1:33:03.080 can happen who's to say that if a 1:33:03.080,1:33:05.440 legislation came down where we l our 1:33:05.440,1:33:06.639 Second Amendment tomorrow that that 1:33:06.639,1:33:09.080 wouldn't start a civil war to be honest 1:33:09.080,1:33:10.400 with you I don't know of any veteran 1:33:10.400,1:33:12.239 that wants wool in this country but at 1:33:12.239,1:33:14.719 the very same time when you look back to 1:33:14.719,1:33:16.360 what our founding fathers wanted for 1:33:16.360,1:33:18.760 this country we are so far away from 1:33:18.760,1:33:20.280 that today it's just something they're 1:33:20.280,1:33:25.080 ready for and their gun safe is full 1:33:25.639,1:33:26.960 if you're prepared you're prepared and 1:33:26.960,1:33:29.280 if you're not you're not if you're armed 1:33:29.280,1:33:31.080 then you're somewhat prepared to defend 1:33:31.080,1:33:33.360 your family and yourself if you're not 1:33:33.360,1:33:36.880 armed you're dog 1:33:37.719,1:33:40.480 meate there's imminent Civil War if we 1:33:40.480,1:33:42.199 don't fix our elections and actually 1:33:42.199,1:33:45.440 make them Bonafide again we don't have 1:33:45.440,1:33:47.520 2024 there is no 1:33:47.520,1:33:50.920 2024 but it is the election of 2024 that 1:33:50.920,1:33:53.320 opens up a different front one that is 1:33:53.320,1:33:56.440 potenti as dangerous as a violent Civil 1:33:56.440,1:33:58.280 War there are people in this movement 1:33:58.280,1:34:00.119 who believe that the nation cannot be 1:34:00.119,1:34:02.719 saved as it is and must be overthrown in 1:34:02.719,1:34:05.040 order to make way for a white ethnostate 1:34:05.040,1:34:06.320 and then there are probably people in 1:34:06.320,1:34:08.159 this movement who think aha there's an 1:34:08.159,1:34:11.040 opening here to run for office and mount 1:34:11.040,1:34:13.440 a sort of coup from inside in order to 1:34:13.440,1:34:15.679 change the very nature of the nation you 1:34:15.679,1:34:17.440 know I worry about scenarios in which 1:34:17.440,1:34:20.239 you know in 2024 uh one party controls 1:34:20.239,1:34:21.480 Congress the other party wins a 1:34:21.480,1:34:23.000 presidential election Congress refuses 1:34:23.000,1:34:24.920 to certify the election the Republican 1:34:24.920,1:34:27.199 party has a pretty systematic plan to 1:34:27.199,1:34:29.760 have state legislator impose themselves 1:34:29.760,1:34:31.159 much more directly into the 1:34:31.159,1:34:33.199 certification of electors to perhaps 1:34:33.199,1:34:34.920 also suppress some democratic votes 1:34:34.920,1:34:37.159 along the way so I do think the chances 1:34:37.159,1:34:39.400 of a real attempt to overturn a 1:34:39.400,1:34:41.800 legitimate election results are not 1:34:41.800,1:34:44.000 nothing and they're not tiny and then 1:34:44.000,1:34:46.040 somebody as president or people that are 1:34:46.040,1:34:48.440 elected that aren't do aren't there in a 1:34:48.440,1:34:50.119 in a legal way and then that's when The 1:34:50.119,1:34:51.560 Descent happens and that's the end of 1:34:51.560,1:34:54.119 our country and our legal norms and that 1:34:54.119,1:34:56.159 scares the hell out of me this country 1:34:56.159,1:34:58.199 you as individuals with the individual 1:34:58.199,1:34:59.920 liberties and individual rights that you 1:34:59.920,1:35:02.199 have you need to start assuming risk for 1:35:02.199,1:35:03.800 your neighborhoods and your communities 1:35:03.800,1:35:07.080 in your towns you have to get involved 1:35:07.080,1:35:08.600 General Flynn's ultimate plan is to 1:35:08.600,1:35:11.760 undermine democracy is to get his 1:35:11.760,1:35:15.560 digital soldiers to radicalize the rest 1:35:15.560,1:35:17.960 of the Republican base go run for dog 1:35:17.960,1:35:19.960 catcher if you don't like this who's 1:35:19.960,1:35:21.639 running your school board go run for the 1:35:21.639,1:35:23.719 school board if you don't like who's 1:35:23.719,1:35:25.239 running your little town or your little 1:35:25.239,1:35:28.639 Parish go get involved if Flynn can 1:35:28.639,1:35:31.119 convince his followers to push enough 1:35:31.119,1:35:33.600 good people out of government they'll 1:35:33.600,1:35:36.719 beat us into submission I don't want 1:35:36.719,1:35:38.760 guys like disgraced former General 1:35:38.760,1:35:42.280 Michael Flynn to be deciding who's an 1:35:42.280,1:35:44.760 American and who's not General Flynn do 1:35:44.760,1:35:47.119 you believe the violence on January 6th 1:35:47.119,1:35:51.440 was justified I said I I said because 1:35:51.440,1:35:55.760 their movement is about excluding others 1:35:55.760,1:35:59.080 it's not about the will of the people 1:35:59.080,1:36:01.920 it's about suppressing opposition it's 1:36:01.920,1:36:04.480 about power General Flynn do you believe 1:36:04.480,1:36:06.119 in the peaceful transition of power in 1:36:06.119,1:36:08.159 the United States of 1:36:08.159,1:36:11.480 America that's fa this is how countries 1:36:11.480,1:36:14.480 Fall Apart part of my experience as a 1:36:14.480,1:36:15.760 veteran and as somebody who's worked 1:36:15.760,1:36:17.880 with refugees and done human rights work 1:36:17.880,1:36:20.320 I know what happens when the center 1:36:20.320,1:36:22.280 cannot hold and a and a society falls 1:36:22.280,1:36:24.320 apart I know what happens when your 1:36:24.320,1:36:26.440 ethnic Identity or your in-group 1:36:26.440,1:36:28.760 outgroup membership becomes a life and 1:36:28.760,1:36:30.320 death issue and when Neighbors start 1:36:30.320,1:36:33.840 killing each other I've seen it and 1:36:33.840,1:36:35.480 whatever your Twitter bravado about the 1:36:35.480,1:36:37.719 next civil war is nobody wants to see 1:36:37.719,1:36:40.000 that I mean that is the road to Hell the 1:36:40.000,1:36:42.400 very worst case scenario is that we 1:36:42.400,1:36:44.239 slide to 1:36:44.239,1:36:48.719 authoritarians that we are not able to 1:36:48.719,1:36:50.960 climb out of this we have seen this 1:36:50.960,1:36:53.719 happen over and over and over again in 1:36:53.719,1:36:56.520 other countries we have seen them fight 1:36:56.520,1:37:00.199 back against the first wave and not be 1:37:00.199,1:37:02.080 ready for the second and not be ready 1:37:02.080,1:37:04.360 for the third this is a this is going to 1:37:04.360,1:37:07.239 take a long time and it's going to take 1:37:07.239,1:37:09.280 everything we have to make sure that our 1:37:09.280,1:37:11.000 democracy is still standing at the end 1:37:11.000,1:37:13.000 of it I hope that people are [ __ ] 1:37:13.000,1:37:15.960 scared because being scared motivates 1:37:15.960,1:37:19.199 people and I I want you to be scared by 1:37:19.199,1:37:20.840 what's true and I want you to look at 1:37:20.840,1:37:23.800 evidence I you to think critically and 1:37:23.800,1:37:25.400 do everything within your power and 1:37:25.400,1:37:29.040 within the uh confines of of the law to 1:37:29.040,1:37:30.440 make sure that we don't live in that 1:37:30.440,1:37:32.400 dystopian future that could just be a 1:37:32.400,1:37:34.960 few years 1:37:38.560,1:37:41.920 away I went to my son's grave site and I 1:37:41.920,1:37:44.960 just felt so helpless it made me angry 1:37:44.960,1:37:47.040 that my son's sacrifice almost felt like 1:37:47.040,1:37:49.679 it was in vain now I've refocused and I 1:37:49.679,1:37:51.040 had to take a look at it I had to do a 1:37:51.040,1:37:52.840 lot of soul searching to understand that 1:37:52.840,1:37:55.440 that's not the case 1:37:56.270,1:37:57.480 [Music] 1:37:57.480,1:38:01.760 case and this fight is not over it's far 1:38:01.760,1:38:03.639 from over and it may never be over but 1:38:03.639,1:38:05.480 his sacrifice is not in 1:38:05.480,1:38:08.360 vain my service service of everyone else 1:38:08.360,1:38:10.119 of all Americans regardless of your wore 1:38:10.119,1:38:11.639 a uniform as long as you got up in the 1:38:11.639,1:38:13.119 morning you just try to do the right 1:38:13.119,1:38:15.599 thing it's not in vain what if every 1:38:15.599,1:38:17.960 Young American did national service for 1:38:17.960,1:38:20.599 a year maybe in uniform but not 1:38:20.599,1:38:22.280 necessarily what if they didn't in 1:38:22.280,1:38:24.840 health care conservation education how 1:38:24.840,1:38:26.199 would they feel about each other at the 1:38:26.199,1:38:29.480 end of that by experience we know you 1:38:29.480,1:38:31.480 almost always feel different more 1:38:31.480,1:38:34.280 tightly you break down many of your 1:38:34.280,1:38:36.679 preconceived prejudices against other 1:38:36.679,1:38:40.679 groups trust starts to 1:38:40.800,1:38:42.960 build in 1:38:42.960,1:38:46.119 2013 I first applied to my local 1:38:46.119,1:38:48.599 Community 1:38:49.480,1:38:52.800 College having had my military 1:38:52.800,1:38:54.360 experience turn turn out so negative 1:38:54.360,1:38:56.000 I'll be honest my confidence was 1:38:56.000,1:38:58.560 destroyed and I was like terrified of 1:38:58.560,1:39:00.679 registering for classes because I was 1:39:00.679,1:39:03.679 terrified of failure and I went over the 1:39:03.679,1:39:06.040 course of my first semester at Nassau 1:39:06.040,1:39:08.760 Community College fulfilling a lot of 1:39:08.760,1:39:10.760 bad stereotypes about veterans you know 1:39:10.760,1:39:13.480 coming in having my headphones on having 1:39:13.480,1:39:15.360 my hoodie over my head kind of just like 1:39:15.360,1:39:18.560 sitting down not talking to anybody not 1:39:18.560,1:39:21.280 engaging and a group of student veterans 1:39:21.280,1:39:23.480 at my Community College identified that 1:39:23.480,1:39:26.080 that recognized that it was a problem 1:39:26.080,1:39:28.920 and helped to break me up my 1:39:28.920,1:39:31.520 shell I went from being that guy who 1:39:31.520,1:39:33.040 doesn't talk to anybody and sits in the 1:39:33.040,1:39:35.440 corner to being elected to represent all 1:39:35.440,1:39:37.199 of the student Veterans of my school 1:39:37.199,1:39:40.040 student Veterans of Nassau is a chapter 1:39:40.040,1:39:42.040 of student Veterans of America it's a 1:39:42.040,1:39:44.560 National Organization focused on 1:39:44.560,1:39:45.880 basically easing people in the 1:39:45.880,1:39:48.440 transition from combat to college to 1:39:48.440,1:39:49.880 careers one of the things that the 1:39:49.880,1:39:52.360 veteran Center does is it allows for us 1:39:52.360,1:39:55.080 to kind of get back into an environment 1:39:55.080,1:39:57.080 that we're familiar with it gives us a 1:39:57.080,1:39:59.000 sense of camaraderie that we really miss 1:39:59.000,1:40:01.400 from the military it's not something 1:40:01.400,1:40:03.520 that happened overnight but it set me on 1:40:03.520,1:40:05.480 the path towards recovery and rather 1:40:05.480,1:40:08.280 than feel like the future was 1:40:08.280,1:40:10.520 predetermined by these powerful groups 1:40:10.520,1:40:11.719 and that there was nothing that I could 1:40:11.719,1:40:13.920 do in fight against them I started to 1:40:13.920,1:40:16.440 accept the idea of maybe the truth is 1:40:16.440,1:40:19.080 somewhere in the middle and because most 1:40:19.080,1:40:20.840 of my interactions with the outside 1:40:20.840,1:40:23.880 world were in person person to person I 1:40:23.880,1:40:27.159 wasn't as easily able to seek out an 1:40:27.159,1:40:29.320 echo chamber that didn't challenge my 1:40:29.320,1:40:32.320 opinions that only reinforced my beliefs 1:40:32.320,1:40:34.760 that diversity of opinion is what kept 1:40:34.760,1:40:36.840 me from you know joining the oathkeepers 1:40:36.840,1:40:38.880 when it first sprang up that helped to 1:40:38.880,1:40:40.320 break me out of 1:40:40.320,1:40:43.199 it a lot of veterans getting out they 1:40:43.199,1:40:45.320 don't have that opportunity we're in a 1:40:45.320,1:40:46.440 different 1:40:46.440,1:40:49.719 world in this new world our troops have 1:40:49.719,1:40:52.840 to be trained to not only defend 1:40:52.840,1:40:56.440 themselves against a Chinese sniper or a 1:40:56.440,1:40:57.560 Russian 1:40:57.560,1:41:01.320 tank but against enemy disinformation 1:41:01.320,1:41:04.239 campaigns on the Internet it's also true 1:41:04.239,1:41:07.199 that disinformation is not just coming 1:41:07.199,1:41:11.119 from China and Russia we know how to 1:41:11.119,1:41:14.360 combat malicious misinformation we did a 1:41:14.360,1:41:17.440 pretty good job teaching soldiers and 1:41:17.440,1:41:19.760 citizens how to not fall for Nazi 1:41:19.760,1:41:22.239 propaganda we did a pretty good job 1:41:22.239,1:41:24.199 teaching soldiers citizens how to not 1:41:24.199,1:41:25.880 fall for communist propaganda all 1:41:25.880,1:41:27.239 through the Cold 1:41:27.239,1:41:30.080 War the problem with that of course is 1:41:30.080,1:41:32.000 that you know opposition to the Nazis 1:41:32.000,1:41:33.639 was a goal shared by both political 1:41:33.639,1:41:35.800 parties in America opposition to the 1:41:35.800,1:41:38.239 Soviet Union was a goal shared by most 1:41:38.239,1:41:40.040 across the political Spectrum in America 1:41:40.040,1:41:42.440 right now this conflict you know it's 1:41:42.440,1:41:44.320 far too partisan it's far too divisive 1:41:44.320,1:41:46.320 and it's far too politicized we know how 1:41:46.320,1:41:48.760 to do this but it takes unity and this 1:41:48.760,1:41:50.760 is a layer cake of problems this is 1:41:50.760,1:41:53.840 something that does not just exist at a 1:41:53.840,1:41:56.520 DOD policy level this is about how 1:41:56.520,1:41:58.440 journalists talk about the movement how 1:41:58.440,1:42:01.440 our laws prosecute the movement how our 1:42:01.440,1:42:03.400 national leaders direct their time and 1:42:03.400,1:42:06.000 attention we know that there is a lack 1:42:06.000,1:42:10.119 of political will to establish or to 1:42:10.119,1:42:13.360 create a domestic terrorism law yet I 1:42:13.360,1:42:15.960 think there is a big possibility that we 1:42:15.960,1:42:18.560 can designate these groups as 1:42:18.560,1:42:21.800 International terrorist organizations so 1:42:21.800,1:42:26.280 what that means we can take all the 1:42:26.280,1:42:30.239 rules the laws the authorities that the 1:42:30.239,1:42:31.880 FBI and other law enforcement and 1:42:31.880,1:42:34.880 intelligence agencies have to go after 1:42:34.880,1:42:38.000 them the same way we go after 1:42:38.000,1:42:40.119 International terrorist organizations 1:42:40.119,1:42:42.800 who's paid a price who's paid a price 1:42:42.800,1:42:45.920 for being a conspiratorial irresponsible 1:42:45.920,1:42:48.000 demagogic extremist with the exception 1:42:48.000,1:42:50.599 of a few true believers who were just 1:42:50.599,1:42:53.199 duped and taken in and foolishly 1:42:53.199,1:42:55.480 believed all this stuff most of them are 1:42:55.480,1:42:57.960 going about going along doing fine 1:42:57.960,1:43:00.360 voters need to decide whether they are 1:43:00.360,1:43:02.880 comfortable with those who inight 1:43:02.880,1:43:07.159 violence representing them and movements 1:43:07.159,1:43:11.440 like this end when the entire population 1:43:11.440,1:43:13.560 decides that they are 1:43:13.560,1:43:16.150 unacceptable we haven't seen that 1:43:16.150,1:43:19.250 [Music] 1:43:19.360,1:43:21.599 yet so the ideal solution is 1:43:21.599,1:43:22.920 deradicalization but that's not 1:43:22.920,1:43:24.599 something something I'm interested in 1:43:24.599,1:43:26.920 I'm interested in 1:43:26.920,1:43:29.760 Justice and I'm interested in imposing 1:43:29.760,1:43:32.239 costs on people are trying to hurt 1:43:32.239,1:43:34.040 America and 1:43:34.040,1:43:36.400 Americans all I think about all day is 1:43:36.400,1:43:38.440 finding bad guys and hoping that they 1:43:38.440,1:43:41.320 end up in jail documenting any 1:43:41.320,1:43:43.000 potentially criminal Behavior 1:43:43.000,1:43:45.159 documenting things that if they're not 1:43:45.159,1:43:49.000 illegal society would frown upon and 1:43:49.000,1:43:51.760 ultimately it's to put a cost behind 1:43:51.760,1:43:55.400 being in Insurgent within the United 1:43:55.400,1:43:58.800 States I'm a Nazi Hunter but it doesn't 1:43:58.800,1:44:00.000 mean we're going to win and that's what 1:44:00.000,1:44:01.639 I want to tell people 1:44:01.639,1:44:04.920 this good doesn't always Triumph but I 1:44:04.920,1:44:06.960 do believe the oath means something and 1:44:06.960,1:44:09.400 I know that I'm going directly against 1:44:09.400,1:44:10.840 people who think that they also are 1:44:10.840,1:44:13.480 honoring their oath in the same way and 1:44:13.480,1:44:14.840 that's why I think this makes this 1:44:14.840,1:44:17.159 dangerous but what's enabling that 1:44:17.159,1:44:19.800 Schism to 1:44:19.880,1:44:23.880 happen is the LIE which world of Truth 1:44:23.880,1:44:26.080 do you live in it's not about commitment 1:44:26.080,1:44:28.560 to country that's shared so the only way 1:44:28.560,1:44:29.840 back to get back together the only the 1:44:29.840,1:44:32.520 only possibility of reconciliation is a 1:44:32.520,1:44:34.360 conversation that can occur in you know 1:44:34.360,1:44:36.320 in an environment of Truth we can either 1:44:36.320,1:44:38.159 reconcile with with each other as a 1:44:38.159,1:44:41.239 country or we can have a conflict where 1:44:41.239,1:44:43.239 do I want America to 1:44:43.239,1:44:47.239 go not here not where we're at this path 1:44:47.239,1:44:48.840 we're on will kill us it'll kill this 1:44:48.840,1:44:50.560 country it'll kill Freedom it'll kill 1:44:50.560,1:44:52.280 our camaraderie it'll kill our 1:44:52.280,1:44:54.520 compassion and our human decency for 1:44:54.520,1:44:56.880 each other what I'd like to see is for 1:44:56.880,1:44:59.159 the people on both sides all come 1:44:59.159,1:45:02.560 together and agree on going by the truth 1:45:02.560,1:45:05.239 only if we can do that then this nation 1:45:05.239,1:45:08.599 can be Salvage do I see that 1:45:08.599,1:45:10.760 happening no I 1:45:10.760,1:45:15.360 don't I can hope though 1:45:22.180,1:45:29.010 [Music] 1:45:34.880,1:45:37.989 [Music] 1:45:38.960,1:45:41.960 is 1:46:01.690,1:46:22.040 [Music] 1:46:37.670,1:46:40.770 [Music] 1:46:43.680,1:46:57.770 [Music] 1:47:00.620,1:47:04.010 [Music] 1:47:07.130,1:47:13.949 [Music]