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[Veterans for Responsible Leadership]
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[Meidas studios]
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I would love your reaction to this
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I mean this is something that we come across
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in like a group that's recruiting veterans
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so if you like an exer
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if you look at like questions 15 16 and 17
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Ah Jesus!
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So I'm looking at an intake questionnaire
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for a violent extremist group
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and I'm going to read you
three of the questions.
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Question 15: are you in the military
or a veteran?
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If so, which branch?
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16: If it comes down to it would you go
against the oath you took
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in the military and law enforcement.
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You could end up fighting against
your military/law enforcement brothers
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I mean I I think you got to consider
where somebody has to be
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in order to say yes
to those three questions
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and also some of the capabilities
and training
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that some of these individuals bring.
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There are places in our military
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where we are trained to start
and fuel insurgencies.
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There are places in our military
where we are trained
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to overthrow governments
or work with armed militias
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in order to do that sort of thing.
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I'm not saying this to be alarmist
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and I don't think we need to be afraid
of our veterans.
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What I do think is that we need to have
a solid understanding
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of how badly this could escalate.
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We're not at the point where violence
is the solution to our problems
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but there are a lot of people trying
to convince vets and others that we are;
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and that is a very dangerous thing.
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Today, domestic terrorism is
the greatest terrorist threat
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facing the United
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States the threat is real and we are all
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at risk for decades violent extremist
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groups have sought to infiltrate our
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military to gain tactical training and
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access to weapons and explosives
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I do believe the oath means something
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and I know that I'm going directly
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against people who think that they also
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are honoring their
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oath I I do solemnly swear the of the
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United States enemies foreign and
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domestic so help me God so help me God
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so help me God
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go ahead and fill up this
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Magazine asked a buddy of mine I said
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hey man can you uh can you get me some
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ammo decent ammo I can't find any he
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said yeah man I heard that there's a
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drug dealer down the corner he's uh
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actually slinging ammunition now instead
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of
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drugs so bought some ammunition from the
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drug
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dealer when people look at these these
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guns these rifles and these handguns so
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forth you know there's there's a lot of
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folks that see something that causes
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violence see something that's dangerous
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and shouldn't be allowed in society and
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so forth what they don't realize is that
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this is what gave us our freedom this is
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what won our independence this is what
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protects us from from Attack it's not
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just our god-given right you know to
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defend ourselves it's our constitutional
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right but it's also it's just right you
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know when when you think about it uh
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this rifle will never hurt or harm
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anybody unless something that comes up
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against it
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baby's ready to rock and
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roll being a Texan we're supposed to be
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able to protect ourselves you know the
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stuff that they show you on the movies
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that's our real life that's who we are
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The Cowboy Way and The Cowboy Way is to
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be able to defend yourself
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and uh you know I'm proud to say that I
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can do that you know pretty
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effectively you know I learned how to
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ride a horse when I was about six the
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property that we lived at was a lot like
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this mosqu trees and so
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forth my grandfather gave me my first BB
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gun and
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you know showed me how to aim how to
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breathe and
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shoot I was taught how to hone into a
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Target and be able to actually execute
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with whatever tool I'm
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using but what you learn in the military
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in the Army is your Scopes will fail you
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your red dots will fail you the
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batteries will wear out but your irons
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never ever will so I've never had
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anything on my rifles other than uh my
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iron
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sights not the best grouping but from 60
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yards 50 yards it'll work up
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close they all be in the
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center good
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boy come
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herey I spent my whole life wanting to
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join the military I mean there's a photo
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photo right behind me of me when I was
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probably like 5 years old wearing
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camouflage Head To Toe with a pair of
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dog tags feel like most kids that I grew
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up with went through a phase of wanting
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to be a cop or a firefighter or an army
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man right I never grew out of
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that then when I was 16 years old
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September 11th happened and it kind of
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put a different spin on that desire to
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serve I went to go out and find bad guys
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and find
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justice so this is when I was 18 years
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old in basic training and it's the
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standard photo that you take before you
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know what anything on the uniform means
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so you notice there's no ribbon no name
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tag anything like that it's a a
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barebones uniform I was wearing a shirt
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jacket and tie that weren't mine I mean
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this is ignorance is bliss right here
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that's that's what this photo is the
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historical record is absolutely clear
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that the aftermath of warfare is a
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danger point for anti-democratic
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violence for racist violence for
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activity among Clan and white power
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groups there's no question that this is
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the case all of us men women people who
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have served or not old people children
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everyone becomes more violent in the
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aftermath of warfare I think that what
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we don't know yet is what happens to
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that phenomenon when we're talking about
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a 20-year War
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my career started as a enlisted Soldier
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I was Private Crow uh and then um almost
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a decade later it it ended as Captain
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Crow over that period well over a 100
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combat missions between Iraq and
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Afghanistan and of course felt like I
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left that part of my life behind
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me we will take that Dy we're going to
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stor [ __ ] Capital [ __ ] you [ __ ] so
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on January 6th I had told all the
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members of my staff not to come in to
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the office um I had heard reports of
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bugaloo boys and proud boys and others
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um filling flights to come into the
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capital I think as a lot of us watch
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things unfold on the 6th and then have
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have looked at a lot of the footage
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since you see things we recognize as
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veterans that's affirmative gu this is
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talk on January 6th 2021 US military
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veterans who had sworn an oath to defend
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the country were at the Vanguard of a
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violent attempt to stop Congress from
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certifying the 2020 presidential
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election they were determined to keep
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Joe Biden from becoming president you
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can actually see if you look at it the
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militia groups in the oath Creepers
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three centers the proud boys they're
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organized they're behaving tactically
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they understand that the Dynamics of a
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crowd and they're maneuvering to exploit
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that mass of bodies you know so you see
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an organized line of militia members
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with shields ready to go ready to
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exploit a breach pushing the crowd in
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certain
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directions the mob broke through into
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the capital they evacuated leadership
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they evacuated the floor but they had
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forgotten that there were about two
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dozen members up in the gallery
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everybody stay down get
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down the floor of the house was
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evacuated but there was no safe
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evacuation route evidently um from the
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the gallery there's no safe place in the
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United States for any of these
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[ __ ] military principal 105
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cave means grave and that's why I
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realized we were trapped there was no
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way out and we would likely have to make
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a stand or fight our way out this was
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one of the most shocking moments of my
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life I made the decision to call my wife
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and let her know that I uh love her and
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tell the kids that I love
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them the only time that the US capital
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had been breached before was in the War
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of 1812 and that was care of the British
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king here we are in the capital No
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Looking Back Now boys no looking back
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this is what we [ __ ] lived up for
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everything we [ __ ] trained
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for this was the kind of experience that
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I expected as a US Marine in Iraq but
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could never even imagine happening as a
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United States Congressman in Washington
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DC you know many people have seen the
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pictures they had barred the door to the
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gallery they were banging on that door
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and breaking the glass to that door I've
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often asked myself how did I end up on
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one side of that door and my fellow
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veterans who raised their same right
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hand and took the same oath that I took
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how did they end up on the other side of
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that
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door nearly 150 law enforcement officers
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were injured in the
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melee five protesters died and another
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four police officers later committed
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suicide Donald Trump tweeted out a video
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he said we did a good [ __ ] job among
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those charged in connection with the
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attack a disproportionate number are US
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military
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veterans for me now the capital is
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almost like
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around Gettysburg or antium or going to
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Pearl Harbor and my son Michael was
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killed in action in Afghanistan in June
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14th 2008 and when you join the military
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there's a lot of lot of competing ideals
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of why you show up and and for most of
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it there's a there's a a large amount of
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patriotism but you never lose focus and
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never lose sight that you know I'm here
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in this country maybe to give them a
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better chance to experience what we have
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in America where it's not perfect we are
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trying to form a more perfect union
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every day and we want to give that
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chance to other
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people my son died doing that in
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Afghanistan only for us to to lose that
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sight
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here veterans who swear that oath to
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protect and defend the Constitution of
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the United States against all enemies
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foreign and
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domestic of all
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Americans they should
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understand how dangerous and
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unpatriotic this
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Insurrection
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was they were trying to
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overthrow democratic election
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results they shouted for the hanging of
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our own vice
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president that's a coup
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attempt watching the instr Direction
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happened and we're going to call it that
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because that's what it was and watching
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veterans participate being at the
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Vanguard of that Insurrection it just
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it's mindboggling but I I don't I don't
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have a really good answer for why why
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veterans would do
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that though I was trained to blow stuff
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up and run with the Infantry I became
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this unofficial On The Ground
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Intelligence reporter May 15 20
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2005 we got called to uh respond to a
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body that was found in a trash dump
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outside solder City when we got there uh
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we realized that it wasn't a body it was
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a bunch of bodies and uh I had never
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experienced anything like it and now as
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I was taking photos closeup photos of
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these faces of victims of murder and
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torture I was looking at their wounds
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and looking at the packaging tape that
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was wrapped around their eyes and imagin
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the terror that they
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felt and every time I snap a
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picture one of those faces
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freezes
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and the way that it froze on the screen
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it froze in my
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head but that was just a day of
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deployment and I had 6 and 1 half months
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7 months left of Iraq to deal with
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that I went in as 11 br to the Army I
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scored fairly high so I went to Airborne
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school which was going to be my next uh
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step of training for special forces and
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uh during that time I ended up getting
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injured really
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badly when I came home I had spent my
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entire adult life up to that point you
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know either training for combat or in
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combat it was hard for me to think of
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anything positive in any way whether
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it's for myself or for my country or for
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democracy or for the
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world I couldn't help but base my
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beliefs and my feelings on my
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experiences all of which had been
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horrifically [ __ ]
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negative when most come out of the
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military they're coming out to a world
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that they no longer understand anymore
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you really get lost in that life when
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you're in the military you know what
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happens is you have the camaraderie the
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friendship all the good things that you
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have in the military and then when you
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come out you kind of have Society that's
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undisciplined incapable and and just
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downright
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ugly good evening I'm Jamie yucas a
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massive police presence in Portland
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Oregon today in anticipation of a
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violent
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confrontation I'm a proud boy I'm a
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president of the Hellgate Bridge crew
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chapter in New York City I'm also an Air
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Force veteran what we're going through
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right now is is a war on the US
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Constitution biggest reason why I joined
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the Air Force myself you know it's to
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get back to my country to serve my
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country I think a lot of that kind of
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came from my up upbringing you know the
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family that I grew up in you know very
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proud to be an American uh very proud of
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what America stood for what it
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represented around the world very
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patriotic and I think a lot of those
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things that which last today members of
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The Proud boys and antifa fought
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multiple times mayor Ted wheeler just
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sent out a statement late today saying
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this past weekend quote put innocent
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lives at risk the proud boys were
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founded in New York in 2016 you want to
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keep on poking a Sleeping Bear guess
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what it's going to rise up and it's
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going to be 1776 up in this [ __ ] and
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are classified as an international
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terrorist organization by Canada we're
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Western shauvin but that essentially
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means is that we're the biggest
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cheerleaders for Western values Western
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culture small government
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maximum Freedom maximum Liberty pro-
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First Amendment Pro Second Amendment
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glorifying the entrepreneur venerating
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the housewife we're not militaristic in
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any way shape or form the fact of the
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matter is you have good guys in this
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world you have bad guys in this world
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and the only way to stand up to the bad
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guys is to fight them they came to
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prominence in America in September 2020
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during a presidential debate between Joe
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Biden and Donald Trump suprem
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right stand back and stand by when I saw
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the president of the United States
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telling an extremist violent
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organization stand
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by that was a chilling moment that was a
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chilling moment for me it wasn't any
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different than a president of the United
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States telling Al-Qaeda or telling Isis
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look I have a tough election stand by
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let me tell you what you need to do did
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we get a lot of notoriety absolutely of
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course we did but at the very same time
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it's it's not because we're racist it's
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not because we're white supremacist if
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we think about what the militant right
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and white power movement looks like
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today there are many of these groups the
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specifics can change from group to group
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but the overall intent is the same the
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common ideology is simple uh we had
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power we should have power power is
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being taken away from us and by any
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means necessary we can get it back
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fascist groups you have National social
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group you have Southern nationalist
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groups you have all types of groups with
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all types of Creeds but ultimately we're
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all being united because we all believe
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in the same thing which is ultimately
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that white people have a right to exist
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and whether the Wii is a white Wii will
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not replace us whether the wi is an
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anti-government we they're all
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intertwined the more laws they pass it's
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going to end up the people versus the
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government right now we're being
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peaceful in the future nobody knows when
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that breaking Point's going M should
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have hit a long time ago personally for
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me a lot of people think that ah you
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know these are Knuckleheads and we
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shouldn't worry about them unfortunately
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we said the same thing about the jihadis
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prior to the events of 911 they live in
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caves in Afghanistan they don't pose any
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threat to the Homeland but by the time
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we decided to go after them after 9/11
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it was a little bit too
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late I would like to think that we would
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draw the attention of people that are
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from the military with the military
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background and I think it it it would be
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true of like the three centers or the Y
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Keepers the one thread that kind of
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combines all of our groups is the US
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Constitution our respect for
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it and I signed up to defend this
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country I was essentially joining the
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3centers already the oath of enlistment
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is the exact oath of a 3center I do
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Solly swear I do so Solly swear that I
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will support and defend the Constitution
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I will support and defend the
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consti of the United
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States United States against all enemies
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against all enemies foreign and domestic
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foreign and
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domestic in Atlanta I met up with 3% SF
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and some of the other brothers out there
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and everybody was upset about the
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election you know I mean basically we're
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looking at a criminal that has become
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our President
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illegitimately Joe Biden has already
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harmed this country his son has already
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harmed this country we know for a fact
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that that family is a criminal family
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the situation we're in is a situation of
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treason the punishment for treason is
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death
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in America you have the right to be an
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[ __ ] you have the right to have the
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most pathetic views in the world I don't
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have to agree with you you don't have to
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agree with me but that is a right
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protected by the first amendment I think
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when we talk about violent extremist to
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groups we're talk we're talking about
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individuals that go
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beyond the narrative to violence people
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who are planning to attack the US
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government because it's an evil empire
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people who are trying to you know kill
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Jews or kill immigrants or kill black
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people just based on their race or on
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their religion when you move away from
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the narrative as
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ugly as that narrative is to carry out
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violence based on that narrative to
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recruit individuals to carry out
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violence based on that narrative then
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you're a violent extremist then you're
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frankly a terrorist
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get get off
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get we used to talk about IEDs
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improvised explosive devices in Iraq and
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they were incredibly lethal and what we
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learned as we tried to stop this was
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that the problem was not the bomb itself
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the problem you had to go left of the
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boom you had to go Upstream to the
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problem and look at where where the
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problem is coming from where's the
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energy January 6th now a militia group
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had stashes of guns on the outskirts of
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DC ready to go on that fateful day
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during the Insurrection that's just one
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of the alarming allegations from the
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justice department today after the feds
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charged the leader steuart rhods and
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several members of the right-wing group
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The oathkeepers with seditious
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conspiracy Stuart rhods is a former Army
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paratrooper with a law degree from Yale
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in 2009 he founded the oathkeepers a
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shadowy organization that recruited Law
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Enforcement Officers active duty
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military and Veterans their mission was
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to supposedly defend the US Constitution
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but it quickly devolved into an armed
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militia dedicated to overthrowing the US
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government the founders told us more
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wisdom that we must be the militia you
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will not be secure you will not be free
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without it it's time we resurrect that
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and become the militia once again there
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are thought to be 35,000 members in the
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organization most of them heavily armed
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and January 6th was not the first time
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rhs assembled his forces at an arsenal
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of weapons a state of emergency in
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Louisville Kentucky after a grand jury
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decided not to indict three police
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officers in the shooting death of Briana
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Taylor late this afternoon protesters
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clashed with police
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guys bring it in pay attention can't
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talk and listen at the same time you're
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in a military operation behave like it
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overdrive is going to be bravo team and
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the pawn Shop's going to be Charlie te
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following the killing of bana Taylor the
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oathkeepers went to Kentucky alongside
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local milicia groups we here in
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Louisville to protect the Shell station
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and also the pawn shop across the street
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and also a private residence you can't
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predict unpredictable you can't predict
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chaos you can't predict
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stupid
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be my main message is you got to get
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ready and prepare yourselves and your
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communities for what we see coming where
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I think it's unavoidable now got too
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many brainwashed Americans who' been
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brainwashed by communist professors and
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teachers to hate their own
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country what do I want
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I what do you do with someone that hates
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your own country and hates you buy a
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close extension if you believe in your
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country still 3 2 1
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go behind right
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behind it's almost like you're in a
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foreign country doing a stability
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operation against an Insurgency one of
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our guys up there is f p for vet and we
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got another one that and retired stff
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Ser
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that's I'm not surprised that extremist
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organizations try to recruit veterans
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for The credibility that we bring but
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also for our commitment um and that
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commitment takes a lot of forms veterans
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are people in our society who in many
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ways have said I will do whatever is
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necessary to preserve what I believe in
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to preserve the Baseline values and the
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Baseline existence of my Society up to
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an including
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violence put a scope on them take a peek
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at and see if they got that's same kind
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of [ __ ] they've been doing their whole
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career you know now doing here inside
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the United States it's kind of a weird
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feeling I had two purple two purple
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hearts already in a bron St they said
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David only the way we'll call you back
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in if the [ __ ] going to hit the f I came
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home to visit my mom and press withy was
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taking a shower she'd come pounding on
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the door early in the morning she poting
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a TV by the time second airplane hits
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911 well 3 weeks later I was getting my
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shots our group was the second group
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that enter Afghanistan H H
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man it's
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it's so enticing I mean I um God you get
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to fight again you know it's um you know
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you're trained in certain things you
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know you can see the battlefield better
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uh if you believe the country is under
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attack you have a certain set of skills
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that maybe you were trained uh trained
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with that you can you know help the
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group around you right you're a force
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multiplier the quential examples of a
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force multiplier are special forces Army
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Green Berets you know these 12-man a
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teams that actually go Behind Enemy
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Lines and train up to a battalion you
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know up to six or 700 local indigenous
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forces on combat skills certainly I
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think that's one of the reasons why some
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of these extremist groups are recruiting
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these individuals very deliberately into
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their
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movements they're [ __ ] coming
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that's you need lock load ready to go
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hey guys everybody spread out get eyes
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open get a good perimeter
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they light [ __ ] on fire we can shoot on
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them right yep very [ __ ] well
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hopefully they light sh on
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fire when I was 21 and severely
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damaged from a war that I had been lied
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into and that my friends were dying for
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when a guy like Stuart rhods comes along
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with a Yale law degree and they see the
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eye patch they don't know that he shot
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himself at a range but they assume he's
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a combat wounded vet and says like hey
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you can support and defend the
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Constitution of the United States
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standing with us and just you know
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repeats the words of the the the second
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amendment that that's all it took for me
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to be like okay you know you know you've
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got the pedigree you've got the
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background why should I challenge that
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you I I have no basis in in experience
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or education to challenge it
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they're not going to let him get
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anywhere near yeah no cuz we're going to
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[ __ ] pain the streets
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man the challenge with having veterans
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directly involved is twofold the first
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is that they bring a certain expertise
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they might bring in organizational
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skills or military skills that can make
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a movement more dangerous all right War
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up let's
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go the second thing that's disturbing
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how ever is particularly in our society
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veterans have legitimacy they have a
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particular place of respect and when we
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see veterans involved in something it
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gives some component of legitimacy to
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that
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cause our command's been trying to tell
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us to inform you that you are breaking
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curfew right now yes sir so if you could
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just go back to your
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post not not by us just by we will have
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to enforce
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C appreciate
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it
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very veterans have a kind of social
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cache that provides cover for a lot of
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the extremist activity that these groups
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are trying to do so if you turn out to a
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protest with a bunch of people in
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uniform much like if you turn out with a
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bunch of women um you have a different
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kind of reception than if you turn turn
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out wearing say swastikas and hoods and
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robes so when we think about this this
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is along the lines of something like
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choosing to come out in polo shirts and
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khakis or choosing to come out in funny
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Hawaiian shirts as part of bugaloo those
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are deliberate decisions that are made
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to create the opportunity for public
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reception and the use of veterans is one
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way to do this among several I've not
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been a part of any militia beforehand
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but once they opened up and said that
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they were doing all BLM and they you
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know I've seen my city on fire I I was
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just like I've had enough and so I you
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know I reached out to my local militia
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and you know I've been with them ever
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since When You're vulnerable and you're
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looking for family cuz that's what the
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people you serve with are they look like
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they could be family they look like they
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can provide you that sense of purpose
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that mission that camaraderie that you
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had in the
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military that you became dependent on
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that became the center of your identity
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they could give that back to
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you and when he tells you to fight you
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have no reason to question that because
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he's giving you purpose and he's giving
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you
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mission do you say the oathkeepers are
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preparing for potential violence on and
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around election dat yeah yeah we got our
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people across the country um making
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plans that there's too many of us
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there's too many veterans first of all
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too many freaking military veterans
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that's one thing I'm not a big fan of
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the war on terror that did WR a lot of
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our rights one thing it did give us is a
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massive pool huge pool of combat
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veterans and about 95% of them are on
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the conservative side or on the side of
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the Constitution yeah so it's not going
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to play out very
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[Applause]
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well and so when I look at January 6th
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of course there were people who did
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violence and climbed Gates and caused
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trouble but in my view they were likely
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the foot soldiers they were the result
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of the efforts of other people there's
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the man behind the curtain pushing
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everybody out you know these These are
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the half-cock plans the guys who go
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early the people you really have to
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worry about are the people you don't
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even know exist until you're 2 years
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into the conflict CU they're tactically
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patient and they're watching you oh my
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god and I still I'm absolutely stunned
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that people don't see how awful January
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6th was and what an indicator that is
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and how it's escalating and anybody who
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says that this can't happen in a worse
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way either they're ignorant um or
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they're part of the problem overran the
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capital we're in the [ __ ] Capital bro
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people shouldn't look at the
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Insurrection at the capital as an
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anomaly we should pay attention to the
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pattern that got us there
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in the name of Jesus Christ we light
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this cross and as light dispels Darkness
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so may his word and his example dispel
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the Heathen from our midst amen
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amen father son you will
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conquer white the Tre
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[Applause]
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power we will fight we will fight there
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is one American example of an
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extraordinarly successful terrorist
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movement and that is of course the G
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Clan many people in the clan talked
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about their experience as a continuation
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of warfare the first wave came after the
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Civil War and here we saw prominent
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veterans like Nathan Bedford Forest Who
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Rose to leadership of that
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Clan and although it started as a
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veteran social organization it very
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quickly pivoted to extr Legal violence
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targeted at African-Americans which
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included Night rings lynchings serial
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rape serial murder all of these things
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were designed to create Terror in
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African-American communities to control
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labor pools to control local politics
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and to keep African-Americans from the
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polls one of the main parts of the Jim
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Crow era was something that we would
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think of today as election subversion
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and we would see in States like Georgia
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where they refuse to seat 33 State
-
legislatures we saw in States like
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Louisiana where they refused to seat a
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duly elected United States senator in
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North Carolina where they held a coup to
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overthrow black
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leadership in
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Wilmington and in Mississippi when
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winning elections by fraud and violence
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became increasingly difficult white
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politicians turned to the state
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constitution in 1890 Solomon Calhoun the
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convention's president gave delegates
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their marching orders we came here to
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exclude the Negro nothing short of this
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will answer the pole tax and literacy
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tests that were written into Mississippi
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Law were so effective at keeping blacks
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from voting that Calhoun's strategy
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became a model for the rest of the South
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staying in place for almost another
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century the clan managed to keep
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African-Americans from voting for 100
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years uh that is an astonishing
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political success and it happened
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because the clan was politically
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powerful really well connected largely
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in the Democratic party not just in the
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South and was able to establish itself
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as a counterpower that would stop the
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emergence of new voters whether those
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voters were blacks or indeed Catholics
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who they didn't see as genuinely
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American the next and most politically
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effective wave of KKK activity came
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after World War
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I the second clown that emerges after
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Birth of a Nation a movie that really
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changes the perception of the clan that
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wood Wilson as president screens in the
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White House allows a new media Savvy
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extreme
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movement to
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emerge and this is when you really saw
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the group take off not just in the South
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but Nationwide this is the clan that
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reached a membership of some 4 million
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people and 10% of the state of Indiana
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they were parading in public on the
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National Mall in Washington DC and the
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founder of that organization had been a
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veteran of the Spanish American
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war it comes to head in 1924 the
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Democratic party has a convention a
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Madison Square Garden and the klex clan
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decides that it's going to stop the
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Democratic Party from condemning Clan
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violence and they pretty much take over
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the party and make sure that it is
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running on their agenda now if you want
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the optimistic story four years later
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the Democratic party changes if you want
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the pessimistic story a major political
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party gets co-opted and taken over by a
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violent insurrectionist terrorist
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movement the kkk's grip on the
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Democratic party soon ended but nearly
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100 years later attempts to subvert free
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and fair elections have not you rigged
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my [ __ ] election you [ __ ] piece of
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[ __ ] we're going to try you and we're
-
going to hang you we're talking about 50
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and 60y old ladies that are just that
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just been working elections their whole
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life or respected leaders on on both
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sides that are being inundated with some
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of the worst types of threat that you
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can imagine you and your family will be
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killed very slowly the death threats
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came by text to Trisha raffensberger
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wife of Georgia Secretary of State As
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Trump attacked him incessantly for
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standing by the election results in
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Georgia he's an enemy of the people
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intimidation is a form of voter
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suppression and goes hand inand with
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with election subversion both in our
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history and today they're trying to rig
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an election and we can't let that happen
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I hope you're all going to be pole
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Watchers the entire pole watching
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program for the Trump campaign was
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called Army for Trump we need every
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able-bodied man woman to join army for
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Trump's election Security operation the
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underlying narrative the messages that
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were pushed were one of we need to go
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protect and stop fraud from uh coming
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into our elections it was a very
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militaristic campaign to increase its
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operational effectiveness Trump's Army
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enlisted group group like true the vote
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which had many veterans within its ranks
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as a veteran we're sworn to support and
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defend the Constitution my brothers and
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I were willing to shed our blood on the
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battlefield to protect the beliefs of
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the Iraqi people so they can vote so I'm
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asking you as Americans to take
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involvement in this vote and the idea
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that military service entitles you to
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talk about protecting the Constitution
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is a real problem because it gives a
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level of justification these groups do
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not deserve have not earned if you have
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any information about ballot harvesting
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in your state go to true the vote it's
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called trueth vote.org and I sure I'm
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sure a lot of people in this audience
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saw plenty if there's always this
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underlying belief that people are trying
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to game this system in an unfair way
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then regardless of the intent of the
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people that are are are brought into
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that system that default will always be
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there to to police that vote and we know
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that that's going to have a dis
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proportionate impact on communities of
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color we're trying to build an army here
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that will have the confidence and and en
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courage to come down in here in these
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areas where we really need um po workers
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this is where the fraud is occurring you
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know those areas that he was pointing
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out there are no allegations of any sort
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of voter fraud or Shenanigans taking
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place there in 2020 at all the only
-
thing that's known is that black and
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brown people vote heavily in those areas
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Harris County like the rest of the
-
United States has seen its percentage of
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white residents decrease dramatically 50
-
years ago white Americans made up more
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than 80% of the US population by
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2044 they will be in the minority the
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demographic change of the United States
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away from being a white majority country
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towards a multi-racial nation and a
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multicultural nation is what moves it
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from Simply aha my Community is becoming
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multi-racial and our politics will
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change because of this to we have to
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stop this because if people can vote and
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exercise their rights the white majority
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will be
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imperiled and everywhere I turn I have
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been hearing from my constituents they
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are deeply worried they know their
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history they are witnessing what is
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happening to our democracy in real time
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in the aftermath of the 2020 election
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Republican legislator in Georgia and 18
-
other states passed a slew of laws that
-
limited access to The Ballot Box but
-
what is even more disconcerting is that
-
these politicians in the state
-
legislature have already laid the tracks
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to take over local Boards of Elections
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control the count we can get to the same
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place through bureaucratic violence as
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some would say as we can get to through
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actual violence and intimidation and
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when you marry those two then you are in
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a unique era of suppression and
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anti-democratic
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[Music]
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efforts Heavenly Father we thank you for
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this wonderful Gathering of people
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that's come this afternoon Lord to
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celebrate this grassroot campaign of
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keeping America great we know that
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there's groups today uh that have
-
brought Havoc to our great cities Across
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America this militant Marxist groups
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Lord that uh would destroy us from being
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a greatness I pray against them Holy
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Spirit in Jesus name and everybody said
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a big old
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[Applause]
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amen you Joy Warriors and Patriots have
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watched as your tyrannical governments
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have separated you from your churches
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from your schools from your Prosperity
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right from your families from your
-
businesses but now you can fight back
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cuz that's what we do we fight back all
-
right let off how many veterans I got in
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here let me hear you
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shout they're trying to make us a
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socialist country
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maybe they're trying to make us a
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communist country
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yeah I am deadly serious the next 3
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years is going to determine whether we
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remain a free country that's why all
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over America we need people like Eric
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particularly in the
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[Applause]
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sen he hasn't stopped fighting he's
-
still on the front lines and the day
-
after the election he said you know what
-
we got some serious irregularities here
-
we need to look into this fraud and what
-
did you hear from the mainstream media
-
over and over again they said oh that's
-
just crazy you can't do that you can't
-
say that there's any fraud in the
-
election well I'm proud to tell you I'm
-
the only person in this race from
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Missouri who went down to the front
-
lines in Arizona myself to look at the
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election audit and they need to audit
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the whole election they go on at the
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whole
-
election Eric G is a highly decorated
-
former Navy SEAL and a road scholar he
-
grew up as a Democrat and after leaving
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the service wrote several best-selling
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books about humanitarianism strength and
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compassion is a book of photographs and
-
essays from eight different countries
-
where I did International humanitarian
-
work and documentary photography he also
-
co-founded the influential veteran
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nonprofit the mission continues
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everybody's home sleeping we're out here
-
working the mission continues man our
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belief at the mission continues was that
-
every single veteran who was coming home
-
was an asset and that they could all
-
live lives of purpose and dignity and
-
meaning here at home in 2015 he became
-
the Republican governor of Missouri but
-
resigned less than two years later in
-
the wake of a sex and fundraising
-
scandal in 2021 he began his campaign
-
for the US Senate when I took the oath
-
to serve in the United States military I
-
took an oath to defend the Constitution
-
against all enemies
-
foreign and
-
domestic and
-
domestic and folks let's be clear we
-
have a fight on our hands for this
-
country and we're here to let the
-
mainstream media know and let the left
-
know and the establishment know and let
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the Rhinos know that we are going to win
-
and we're taking back our country
-
we are taking back
-
our this is our country and we are
-
taking it
-
back there's a Cadre of Iraq and
-
Afghanistan era veterans who were
-
trained in Elite military units who went
-
to Elite schools he plus we're with you
-
all the way who know better and over the
-
last few years
-
have seen Trump's rise to power and
-
rather than be disgusted by it because
-
it goes against all of our values they
-
don't live by those values and you went
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from high school to the Marines yeah the
-
good the great thing about the Marine
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Corps is that they really force you to
-
shape up I I like to describe it as a
-
four-year character education because
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they teach you not just you know how to
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iron a uniform but they teach you about
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financial management they teach you how
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to make your bed they teach you a lot of
-
the skill sets that you need to be a
-
successful adult JD Vance is a former
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Marine like Stuart rhods he graduated
-
from Yale law school and like Eric gron
-
he's a best-selling author who was once
-
a darling of the New York Times are
-
there commonalities between poor whites
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poor blacks poor Latinos absolutely
-
there are things that are shared across
-
across different groups and I think that
-
we should take some inspiration for it
-
from it some recognition that that we
-
are sort of in this together in 2016 he
-
called Donald Trump an idiot I'm a never
-
Trump guy I never liked him and
-
suggested that he could be an American
-
Hitler but four years later he changed
-
his tune when he launched his campaign
-
for Ohio senate seat I wasn't always
-
nice but the simple fact is he's the
-
best president of my lifetime and he
-
revealed the corruption in this country
-
like nobody else JD Vance a few years
-
ago I think a lot of people across
-
political Spectrum had a lot of respect
-
for him but now we see him pretending to
-
be an idiot are you a racist do you hate
-
Mexicans I think it's ridiculous that
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we're focused on this Border in Ukraine
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uh I don't I got to be honest with you I
-
don't really care what happens to
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Ukraine one way or another a guy like
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Eric gon or a guy like JD Vance they
-
didn't internalize any of the morals
-
that are supposed to be instilled in US
-
during our training things like Valor
-
and honor and respect
-
striking fear in the hearts of liberals
-
everywhere
-
folks they understand when they're lying
-
they understand when they're fueling
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hatred I say it all the time right I
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think the election was stolen from Trump
-
and technology companies would not let
-
us talk about the fact that Joe Biden is
-
is the leader of the world's biggest
-
crime family and they recognize that
-
they need to do it in order to achieve
-
power part of the problem for the young
-
veteran too is that some of these
-
manipulative voices are former high
-
ranking military leaders General Michael
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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Flynn so when you hear somebody who held
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sway over you when you were in uniform
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and now they're out and they're still
-
commanding that respect that that has
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just such a strong purpose Trump
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won he
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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won he he won he won the popular vote he
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won the popular vote and he won the
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Electoral College vote ah you know
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Flynn's Flynn's a character he's
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something special you know it's comes a
-
little bit from the camaraderie of of
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being a military person I can look at
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Flynn and I can see that he's he's got
-
some really really deep love for this
-
country and respect for it and he does
-
respect his oath I am not a conspiracy
-
theorist I I base my life on facts and
-
judgment and what I believe is right for
-
this country for this country period
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Flynn has been exposing truth left and
-
right and that's what makes him one of
-
the most dangerous men in
-
America Michael Flynn is a retired US
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Army three-star General his specialty
-
was Military Intelligence is it trusted
-
you know the intelligence Community
-
wants to you know validate the sources
-
of information that we have in order to
-
make it to to ensure that it's
-
believable reliable relevant and the
-
teams he LED were notoriously effective
-
in rooting out insurgencies in Iraq and
-
Afghanistan for over a decade in 2012 he
-
was nominated by Barack Obama to be the
-
director of the defense intelligence
-
agency Mike Flynn brings to this
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position Decades of experience in
-
Military
-
Intelligence his knowledge of the 21st
-
century Battlefield is
-
unsurpassed but 3 years later the
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one-time Democrat had become an avid
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supporter of cand date
-
Trump lock her up that's
-
right yeah that's right lock her up and
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would soon become president Trump's
-
National Security adviser but just 22
-
days into his term Trump fired him for
-
lying about his interactions with Russia
-
the evolving and eroding level of trust
-
as a result of this situation is what
-
led the president to ask for General
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Flynn's
-
resignation and general Flynn would soon
-
enter a plea deal with the FBI his
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prison sentence was under review when
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Trump pardoned him in December 2020 less
-
than a month before leaving
-
office Mike Flynn and I served together
-
for many years and we very close friends
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I
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disagree with him
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politically I am
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disappointed by the nature of the the
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comments that he makes the calls to
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action this is one of our top quality
-
guns and maybe I'll find somebody in
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Washington
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[Laughter]
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DC disgraced former General Michael
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Flynn convicted felon he uses General
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like it's his first name I'm his
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Facebook friend his Facebook name is Jen
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Flynn on telegram he's General
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Flynn he's using his rank as part of his
-
identity and and he has adopted the
-
radical fascist politics of Maga and of
-
Kon where we go one we go all we go one
-
we go all God Bless America to build
-
himself up as a leader for an Insurgency
-
against the people of the United States
-
this country is awake this is soil that
-
we have fought over and we will fight
-
for in the future he could take military
-
capabilities and he could place them in
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those States and basically rerun an
-
election in each of those States clearly
-
his military experience influences some
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people to give him
-
legitimacy that he might not otherwise
-
have I'm a simple Marine I want to know
-
why what happened in minimar can't
-
happen
-
here no reason I mean it should happen
-
here no reason right that's right
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Flynn's apparent endorsement of a
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military coup is not the only time the
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former military intelligence officer has
-
has planted ideas about the illegitimacy
-
of the federal government and its
-
partners in crime well he doesn't need
-
any introduction on this Friday January
-
28th broadcast he's General Flynn and of
-
course a embattled individual in the
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fight for this Republic all these Global
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organizations they see themselves as
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this is how we can control societies
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this is how we can control Humanity so
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let's introduce something called covid
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and they did it and they did it for for
-
a couple of reasons one of the big
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reasons was was to steal an election
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they have an intent to have a new world
-
order they have an intent to track every
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single one of us and they use it under
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the skin they use a means by which it's
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under the skin Dr foui would be right in
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right in there in the same room with
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people like Dr Mangal and Dr zel who
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worked for the Nazis at the time of uh
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of of Hitler's all of Hitler's
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experimentation on human beings the
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reality is as you learn the ability to
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lead whether it's military or not you
-
learn the ability to get people to do
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stuff and that's just what he's doing we
-
are in a crucible moment in the history
-
of the United States of America we're
-
fighting with faith we're fighting with
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courage and nothing can resist the power
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of prayer he perverts this military
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experience this religious experience to
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evoke this kind of feeling of a higher
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purpose the oppression that they have
-
used with this virus is an Abomination
-
to
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Freedom there is no righteousness on
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their side the Lord is not on their side
-
he is on
-
ours that's right we will not go
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silently in to the
-
night we will
-
fight we are making our lists and we are
-
checking them twice and we are finding
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out
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W who is the enemy of
-
America people that are creating the
-
oppression in this country the people
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that are involved with tearing down our
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freedoms our liberties and the value of
-
what we hold dear in this country need
-
to be placed on list people like Dr
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fouchy that have constantly in his life
-
caused death destruction illness and
-
horrible things they have to be put on
-
these list they have to be put out of
-
our society all together and never be
-
trusted again now if someone ends
-
up attacking these people that have been
-
found to be an enemy of the United
-
States and they're
-
criminals I'm not going to shed a tear
-
about
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it come in good
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boy when I left the military I was a
-
hardcore Republican was libertarian like
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a lot of people in the
-
military I was looking at like I can't
-
even call them documentaries but these
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YouTube videos like uh this movie
-
Zeitgeist you had better wake up and
-
understand that there are people who are
-
guiding your life and you don't even
-
know it now that I study extremism I
-
recognize it's filled with anti-semitic
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tropes the theme of the movie without
-
explicitly saying it is that Jewish
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people people were out there controlling
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the banks and the banks are the reasons
-
why we go into Wars so therefore the
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Jews are responsible for my friends
-
dying right that's the connection that
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it's trying to make the ultimate goal is
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to get everybody in this world chipped
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with the with the RFID chip and uh have
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all money be on those chips and
-
everything on those chips and if anybody
-
wants to protest what we do or violate
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what we want we just turn off that chip
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I just absorbed this propaganda and fell
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for it fell into it I was watching Alex
-
Jones before anyone knew what his name
-
was I mean now they're openly bragging
-
it's world government and they run it
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Tucker Carlson was back on MSNBC and
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Glen Beck it's all connected these
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people down here are radicals and all of
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these Concepts started to fit together
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and feed this narrative this this idea
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that I had felt but couldn't put words
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to for so long that I was the victim not
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just of circumstance but of some sort of
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Nefarious group of powerful individuals
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ual who were manipulating all of us and
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and that everyone was just acting as
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puppets you know what people now call
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the Deep state but we were
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awake and it was our job to wake
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everybody else
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up who's the
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Patriot video
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ladies and gentlemen prepare for the
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strong
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mag yep
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that's there's a lot there they flashed
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photos of the pyramid on our dollar
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bills they showed a picture of George
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Soros they talked about the World Bank
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everything's Incorporated these are all
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things that I didn't understand when I
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was watching my propaganda videos uh
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back in 2007 2008 but man I mean it's
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like they just took notes off of the
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[ __ ] that had me all confused and crazy
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back then and the
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second these groups have always operated
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on a Playbook of using prevailing social
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context to mobilize people recruit and
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radicalize the 20s Clan was anti-black
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and anti-jewish but it was also
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anti-mexican near the border anti- labor
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in the Pacific Northwest anti-immigrant
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in the Northeast where there were a lot
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of immigrants what it did was figure out
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what the prevailing social tensions were
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in a given community and use those to
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recruit people for its own purposes
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the prevailing feeling among a host of
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veterans returning from Vietnam was that
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they had been stabbed in the back by an
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ungrateful Society their own feckless
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government and the media Elite well it
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seems now more certain than ever that
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the bloody experience of Vietnam is to
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end in a stalemate it made them ripe
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recruits for a new conspiracy fueled
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wave of violent extremism aimed at
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rooting out the Enemy Within the Cubans
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are coming in by the thousands the
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Mexicans are coming in by the millions
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the the Haans are coming in from haia or
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wherever the that little [ __ ] country
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is coming in by the hundreds of
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thousands white people have had enough
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they can no longer even afford to buy
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proper housing for themselves yet our
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government would have us spend thousands
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and thousands of millions of dollars on
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non whites they've had enough one of the
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key figures in the white power movement
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after the Vietnam War and one of the
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architects of its move to sell style
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terrorism to using the earling internet
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and to a number of other major changes
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that fueled its rise is a veteran named
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LS beam the only thing that's it
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imported tonight is Will America be
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white 100 years from tonight and if so
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will you commit yourself to the battle
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to make it so Lewis beam served two
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tours in Vietnam as a helicopter Gunner
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and came home in 1968 with multiple
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medals for bravery in combat says that I
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use great professional skill and courage
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in the face of great personal danger
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that hasn't changed at all in my opinion
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presently I'm having to use utmost skill
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and I think it does take courage to to
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do what I'm doing and I'm doing it in
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the face of the enemy that's time the
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enemy goes under a different name beam
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took the skills he honed in the military
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and brought them to the KKK where he
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rose to Grand Dragon of the Texas
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Knights I had been paid by the
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government $300 a month to fight and
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kill companies to execute them whatever
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term you want to
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use uh in Vietnam and what is the
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difference between Vietnam and Houston
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Texas but a few thousand
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miles one of the reasons that beam Rose
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so quickly in these organizations is
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that he told a story about Warfare and
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Trauma that a lot of their people were
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mobilized by including people who didn't
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serve I saw a young man about 19 years
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old ENT traed in a armored personnel
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carrier
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in about 22 Mi Northeast of s
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gun with his legs pinned beneath the
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seat as a result of a a rocket propell
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grenade and he stayed on the
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radio kep asking for help
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asking us
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to come get
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him so his argument was about the
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wrongness of war the horror of seeing
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casualties in the field the horror of
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losing your fellow soldiers but his
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pivot was this is why we should come
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back to the United States and bring that
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violence home to everybody who left us
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there our mission is a reconnaissance
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Patrol we have information that the
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enemy is in the
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area the Jews have assumed leadership of
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the federal government they totally
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control it and they're controlling us
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thly the government that's in Washington
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DC today does not represent the interest
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of the white people therefore we will
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replace them with people who will
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represent the ideals of white Wester
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Christian
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civilization how are we going to replace
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them by any means necessary we want the
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heads of the enemies in our toe sacks in
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Vietnam they took ears we're going to
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take
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heads beam's rhetoric and Military
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exercises eventually got the attention
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of the FBI and in 1983 he left Texas for
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Hayden Lake Idaho a Haven for white
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supremacists he joined forces with Aryan
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Nations and began to command a cell
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style terrorist movement of white power
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activists the idea was that one or a few
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white power activists could work
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together towards a commonly held set of
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goals and targets but without
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prosecutable ties between them and
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without direct ties to movement
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leadership but there was a problem the
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cells which were spread across the
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country and into Canada still needed to
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communicate with each other and even
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when the FBI wasn't listening on their
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phones beam wanted to do more than talk
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he wanted to share ideas and create
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networks so they created a social
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network called Liberty net and one of
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the first postings was titled online for
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God and
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Country and then Louis beam traveled
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around the country teaching people how
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to go online these message boards
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included assassination lists and
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ideological content and who you should
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hate and why but they also included
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social network content like personal
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ads and this was in 1984 885 way before
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most people think about farri online
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activism decades before Facebook can't
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beat the with this day using this early
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form of the internet clansmen skinheads
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neo-nazis and other extremist groups
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banded together to commit a series of
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heinous robberies bombings and murders
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across the country and since we're all
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racists since we're all the radical
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right and that's a crime in America when
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you have to do the time don't regret the
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crime we'll be at the Forefront of the
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fight doing what uh hopefully uh
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smashing the uh skulls of Communists or
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uh executing race Traders or uh shooting
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on site anybody we don't think is white
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we have to get our government back
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that's what it's all about all these
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so-called subversive groups are nothing
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but patriotic citizens trying to do just
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that by 1985 the department of Justice
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came to believe that the network of
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white power cells Behind These crimes
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represented a serious threat to National
-
Security Lewis beam has been charged
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with seditious conspiracy along with 13
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other
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individuals Mr Bean did you plan to
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overthrow the government what else is a
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country boy going to do on Saturday
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night when the only drug store in Town's
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closed but the trial was a disaster for
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the government a stunning verdict is
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afternoon in the trial of 13 white
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supremacists among charges they faced
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conspiracy to overthrow the government
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of the United States the verdicts from
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the all-white jury came on the fourth
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day of deliberations beam and his
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codefendants were acquitted on all
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charges the humiliating outcome led the
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doj to focus their attention on
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individual criminals and abandon
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investigations of the white power
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movement as a domestic terrorist threat
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the catastrophic Legacy of leaderless
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resistance
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has been that we as a public have lost
-
sight of this Movement we don't have any
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domestic terrorism legislation we don't
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have domestic terrorism laws for example
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the number one tool um FBI agents and
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prosecutors use to disrupt terrorist
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attacks in the United States is material
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support material support is basically a
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charge to levy on individuals who are
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helping a terrorist organization or a
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ENT organization unfortunately we don't
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have that when it comes to domestic
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terrorist
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organizations the problem with this
-
situation is when you don't have
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domestic terrorism laws you need an act
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to happen you need a hot body in order
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to start an investigation and usually
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you can charge that individual with hate
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a crime or with other charges but you
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cannot charge them with terrorism you
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cannot go after the whole network holy
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cow about a third of the building has
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been blown away is just
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devastating get back get back a massive
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Car Bomb exploded outside of a large
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Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma
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City shattering that building Killing
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Children Killing federal employees
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military men and civilians even Timothy
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McVey he blew up a whole Federal
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Building and prosecutors could not
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charge him or his associates with
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terrorism the bombing of Oklahoma City
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in 1995 was the largest deliberate mass
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casualty event on American soil between
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Pearl Harbor and 911 but most people
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still don't understand what that event
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was and what it meant the indictment
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charges that Timothy McVey and Terry
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Nichols former Army buddies with a
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grudge against the government planned
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the bombing selected McVey and Nichols
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met each other through their service
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they trained together at Fort Riley
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Kansas before McVey deployed to the gulf
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as part of Big Red One infantry unit in
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Iraq there he seems to have experienced
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some amount of traumatic combat before
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their return
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home after washing out his special
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forces he was really angry and we see at
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that moment his deepening involvement in
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radical white power
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activity ranging from mcvey's connection
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to the Michigan militia the federal
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government itself is the child of the
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armed citizen we the people are the
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parent of the child we call government
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in short the federal government needs a
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good spanking to make it behave his
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contact and attempted contact with
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groups like the Arizona Patriots and the
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National Alliance and his written belief
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in white power principles that were
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published in his hometown newspaper
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McVey used his military training to help
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carry out the Oklahoma City bombing and
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in a letter to a friend he invoked his
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military oath to to justify it I have
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sworn to uphold and defend the
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Constitution against all enemies foreign
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and domestic and I will blood will flow
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in the streets good versus evil free men
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versus socialist wannabe slaves pray
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it's not your blood my friend the other
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key component here was his use of the
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Turner Diaries at gun shows Timothy
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McVey would hand out copies of the
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Turner Diaries a dystopian novel that
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details how to top the US government the
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fictional revolutionaries start by
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blowing up a federal building and then
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proceed to exterminate their political
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enemies including all Jews blacks and
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Latinos the Turner Diaries became
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enormously important to this movement
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not because it's a good book but because
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it provides the imaginative answer to a
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really important question which is how
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can a tiny group of people a small
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Fringe movement do what they're setting
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out to do in this period which is to
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overthrow the most militarized
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superstate in world history in 1997
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McVey was convicted of murdering 168
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people using a weapon of mass
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destruction and blowing up a federal
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building no domestic terrorism charges
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were brought however because he and
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Nicholls were thought to have acted
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alone just imagine if Timothy mcvey's
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name was Muhammad we will look at that
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terrorism threat in a very different
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length first of all we will look at it
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as a terrorist threat we will go after
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McVey we will go after all the people
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who are helping him or who are assisting
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him we will keep the investigation going
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in order to get the whole network and
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when you are very limited with the tools
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uh you are using these groups will take
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benefits from it these are not lone
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wolves these are people who are united
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by ideology by social ties by selection
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of targets these are all part of the
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same movement and this is really what
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we're seeing continuing into our present
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day
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moment tonight the plot to kidnap a
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governor foiled by the
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FBI in October 2020 less than a month
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before the presidential election 14 men
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were arrested in a plot to kidnap
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer their
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plans included storming the state
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capital using zip ties to take hostages
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and conducting a trial that would result
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in a public hanging of the governor the
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suspects were all members of The
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Wolverine Watchman a paramilitary group
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commanded by a former Marine that had
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ties to the Michigan militia prosecutors
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contend that they wanted to kidnap her
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to try to ignite another American Civil
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War before the 2020 election in hopes of
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disrupting it and perhaps keeping Joe
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Biden from becoming president but
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Federal prosecutors could not charge any
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of the conspirators with material
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support and despite having amount
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mountain of evidence laid out against
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them at trial the group's leader Adam
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Fox telling the informant he was
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inspired by Oklahoma City Bombing
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terrorist Timothy McVey telling the
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informant if we can't have our world
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they can't have theirs Burning It Down
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Like Lewis beam before them if we can't
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have this country nobody gets it that
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clear we'll be total ashes everywhere
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none of the defendants were convicted on
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federal charges the goals of this
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Insurgency in Michigan were to take over
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the state house and then to kidnap and
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execute the governor the goal of the
-
Insurgency on January 6 was to overturn
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the results of a democratic election so
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if we see this as part of a movement
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it's to stop the American people being
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able to choose their own leaders an
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Insurgency is all about seizing control
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of a government not through winning an
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election not through Democratic
-
processes not through persuasion but
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through violence it's an it's a form of
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War USA USA USA
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coward
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tra if you look at January 6th what
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we're looking at is really the Collision
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of three different streams of Activity
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one is the organized white power
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movement that is coming off of decades
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if not generations of organizing
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Armament training and ideological
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content they want to know what the
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orange has stand for [ __ ] proud boy
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another is kinon which is newer more
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radical works very fast where we go one
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we go all and the final one the biggest
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one is simply the Trump Bas TR Trum Trum
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Trum it's clear to me that what you had
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was a concerted effort by a number of
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different organizers do you want your
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house back take it to take these various
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groups together and focus their energies
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into create a critical mass and that's
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not new
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in Iraq when al-Qaeda in Iraq emerged it
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really came led by a guy named Abu
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musaba zwi he traveled around the
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country had a Charisma to him and he
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portrayed this hey I'm not your normal
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political leader we are going to show
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the kind of commitment that real men
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would
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do and al-Qaeda in Iraq which was very
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extreme ideologically started to be
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joined by people who weren't natural
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bedfellows people go finally someone
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who's not going to put up with the crap
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someone who's going to take the law into
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their own hands and going to get us what
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we deserve because we have been
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exploited by the elites of the region
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I think Abu masab Bazar kawi and Donald
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Trump both understand that you can
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inflame those passions it is where the
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leader takes those frustrations that
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becomes potentially disastrous grievance
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narratives are made up they're
-
constructed narratives but they are used
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by demagogues because they work and if
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you have a political party that is
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organized around grievance around a
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sense of loss and a sense of threat you
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have the basis for the ideology that
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will promote violence we gathered
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together at the heart of our nation's
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capital for one very very basic and
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simple reason to save our democracy
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we're going to walk down to the
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capital and we're going to cheer on our
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brave senators and congressmen and women
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and we're probably not going to be
-
cheering so much for some of
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them because you'll never take back our
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country with weakness you have to show
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strength and you have to be
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[Applause]
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strong DC is a [ __ ] war
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zone this what
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we the siege of the capital on January
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6th did not overturn the results of the
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2020 election but that's not the only
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measure by which the actions of that day
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are being judged there's footage of
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proud boys directing journalists to read
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the Turner
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Diaries Read The Turner
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Diaries on January 6th the Turner
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Diaries was structuring a lot of sort of
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the imaginative performative action of
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that day the news hung outside the
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capital refers to events in the Turner
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Diaries called The Day of the Rope which
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is the hanging of race Traders which
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include politicians
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[Applause]
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my and significantly there is a strike
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on the capital that is not supposed to
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be a mass casualty attack in the Turner
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Diaries it's a mortar attack it's meant
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to be simply the selected killing of a
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few corrupt legislators in order to show
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other white people that extremists can
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strike at the heart of American power
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yeah
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yeah yeah we did it we did it [ __ ]
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did it yo take laptops paperwork take
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everything all that [ __ ] my friend my
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friend sitting
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in and by that measure I think that they
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succeeded Donald Trump tweeted out a
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video he said we did a good [ __ ]
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job January 6 was a huge success for
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them January 6 inspired so many people
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not only here in the United States but
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even in Europe that violence is a way to
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change the government is a way to change
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that
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establishments in the western world that
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they consider corrupt they considered
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evil uh they considered that these
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governments are nothing but tools to the
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Jews or to whatever conspiracy they
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believe
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in you believe the rich people in the
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world are using this disease and it's
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exaggerating it to create some sort of
-
apocalyptic nightmare right you think
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it's common sense that we all have to
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stay inside and be afraid of the
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[Applause]
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air you look at January 6th I think the
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people that were there that participate
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in it number one they wanted it to serve
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as a wakeup call to those people who are
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Empower and the fact of the matter is
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every single person that was there that
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day is a patriot of this nation y Randy
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maybe you want to put the beers inside
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the the the the bridge maybe you want to
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get off being a patriot being a person
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that loves their country especially you
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know being a military veteran you take
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an oath to the Constitution and for a
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lot of those people that were there that
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day they felt that their constitution
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was being shredded up our democracy was
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being shredded right in front of our
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eyes I think it's absolutely
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heartbreaking to see veterans involved
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in these things and I know for a lot of
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them that their hearts are in in some
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ways in the right place we just don't
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live in the same world of truth
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anymore the people in DC they were
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Americans yeah and they were patriots
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they only broke laws because the DC
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police didn't do their
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job okay okay that's it people died
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because they didn't do their
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job so they broke into the Capital
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because DC police didn't do their job
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the DC police they didn't break into
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anything they let them in not only did
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they let them in it's paid for by tax
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dollars it's their [ __ ]
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property easy sorry this is the lethal
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danger of the big election lie right
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it's this is a conspiracy theory that
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says the very heart of American
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political life the very heart of our
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democracy has been destroyed and taken
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from us which leaves us what recourse do
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I believe the election was stolen
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absolutely without a doubt there's no
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way in hell Joe Biden was elected 81
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million votes for Joe Biden I don't
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think so we're in a situation right now
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where you know we can't trust our
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elections anymore we know that so what
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really is scary is is that what will the
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people do what will the average American
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do when they finally wake up to the
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reality of all this and the answer to
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that is we don't know we have no idea
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what the American people will do this no
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longer is a constitutional republic and
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we are going to fight to bring our
-
constitutional republic back again we've
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had violent domestic extremist
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organizations for a long time but I
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think what makes this moment
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particularly dangerous there are a
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couple of things the first one is the
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fact that it's able to ride on a wave of
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conspiracy thinking and general
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distrust that's happening because of
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social media Technologies it's happening
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because of the way we we've structured
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our society on the internet that gives
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them the sheer numbers of people that
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they could never dream of of bringing to
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bear on their own everybody's got to put
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their shoulder to the wheel we need
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participation 24/7 we need you to be a
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force multiplier as a soldier and as a
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as a uh as a general as a retired
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General we have an army of digital
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soldiers if you can do command and
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control over social media and you're
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fighting against evil and you're on the
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side of God and you're on the side of
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the United States in your oath it's a
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very attractive proposition
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the sad part is is you're using all
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those skills and that goodness and that
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purity of heart that you think is
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actually absolute unadulterated
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[ __ ] the second major difference is
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you have political cover from the very
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top the only way we're going to lose
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this election is if the election is
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rigged remember that January 6 was the
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culmination of two months of a
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propagation of a big lie and of
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conspiracy theories by the president of
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the United States 20 thirds of House
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Republicans go along with Trump and vote
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to overturn the electors on the evening
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of January 6th we a United States
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Senator and members of the House of
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Representatives object to the counting
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of the electoral votes of the state of
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Pennsylvania Madam speaker I Rise to
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support the objection Madam speaker I
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Rise to support the objection Madam
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speaker I Rise to support the objection
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Madam chair I vigorously support this
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objection and I in a vote that has
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always been thought to be ceremonial and
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minister IAL where you accept the
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Electoral College results which were in
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no serious way contested I mean that's
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almost as astounding as what happened in
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terms of the Insurrection how can so
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many people believe that it was unfair
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it was because their president said it
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was unfair their Senator said it was
-
unfair their member of Congress said it
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was unfair a full audit is absolutely
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necessary we should get injunctions if
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necessary and normally those are people
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that the electric can have faith in I
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Rise for myself and 60 of my colleag to
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object to the counting of the Electoral
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ballots from Arizona is the objection in
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writing and signed by a
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senator yes it is it
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is but it is not just the big lie that
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appears to have captured much of the
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Republican Party Congressman Denver rlan
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lost his party's nomination over the
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weekend the first term Congressman was
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ousted by former Liberty University
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employee Bob good
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getting run out of the Republican party
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was really interesting I believe I was
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the first one that was affected by Q
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conspiracy theories when I didn't even
-
know
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it I had conducted a same-sex wedding in
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summer of 2019 two guys who had worked
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for me or volunteered and then I started
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hearing these weird things I'm funded by
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George Soros I'm a secret Jew I'm a
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secret Dem I'm trying to change the
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sexual orientation of children I'm a
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tool of the Antichrist and I'm hearing
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all this I'm like this is sounds like
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New World Order crazy stuff you know the
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anti-semitic
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tropes you had better wake up and
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understand that there are people then I
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started doing my own research and I'm
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pretty good at it and uh I saw some of
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the same patterns that you saw with
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foreign terrorists you know and when you
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chased Isis or alada or IED resupply
-
from Iraq into Iran you know i' I've
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seen some things and uh what I saw was
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that people were using language uh in
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the open that I I thought we would never
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see As Americans my two decades of
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intelligence War fighting and
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counterterrorism experience coupled with
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serving in the 116th Congress is why I
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will not allow conspiracy peders to
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hijack our ability to conduct reasonable
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policy discussions for the betterment of
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all Americans I was pretty much drummed
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out and censured for following the law
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and trying to save this country and uh
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I'm not I don't think I'm overstating
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that if one of our two parties is
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committed to an orwellian whitewashing
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of hist history if you didn't know the
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TV footage was a video from January the
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6th you would actually think it was a
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normal tourist visit is committed to
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propagating or at least not quarreling
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with a big lie uh the big lie the big
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lie is a lot of [ __ ] that's what it
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is is committed to not quarreling much
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with conspiracy theories is committed to
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purging those Republicans at the state
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and local level and at the national
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level who want to fight back against the
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lies and the conspiracy theories that's
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a big
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deal war is literally the continuation
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of politics by other violent means our
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military forces are the part of our
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society that carries out that peace then
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we come home and the question is do we
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have a political system that functions
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or are we at a point where our own
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politics the politics inside our own
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communities the politics inside our own
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country can only be continued through
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other means and we got to be very
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careful because if you think you have
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support from the highest levels of
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government
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why aren't you fighting for your country
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aren't you already sort of sworn in to
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do this the issue is is that the people
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that we are identifying as extremists
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they're identifying as Patriots or
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Freedom Fighters and that is it almost
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sounds like I'm talking about terrorism
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right
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now one of the organizations that I'm
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particularly interested in uh as the
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Patriot front for the of our nation
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Liberty of our people liy for the
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victory of the American Spirit Victory
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they're producing what they refer to as
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propaganda they're studying books on
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fascism because they believe democracy
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has failed and their vision for the
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future is a dominant white race that has
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captured the Republican party and has
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defeated their political opponents by
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violence or by
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exclusion these guys showed up in
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Philadelphia on the 4th of July 2021 and
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assaulted a bunch of
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people nothing came of it cuz the local
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cops didn't know what the hell were they
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were dealing with so this is a fascist
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gang who's
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operating all around the country police
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and say they prevented a possible
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domestic terror attack over the weekend
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31 men were arrested all dressed alike
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allegedly on their way to wreak haveit
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at a pride event in the city of cordelan
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cordelan is just a few miles north of
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Hayden Lake and the Patriot front
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following in the footsteps of Lewis beam
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had made it a base of operations and in
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the same way Denver WLAN had been
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targeted by qanon for officiating a gay
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wedding Q's rhetoric casting the LG B
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btq Community as groomers and pedophiles
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helped put them squarely in the sights
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of the white nationalist Patriot front
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while the proud boys the oathkeepers the
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3centers are a threat the ones that I'm
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really afraid of are the Gen Z ones the
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service members who have served during a
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time of relative peace these young
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people who joined to fight never got a
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chance to fight and who starting in
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conservative Echo Chambers online have
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been brought into the proud boy to
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fascist pipeline so
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gab is an alternative social media
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platform that was created to be a safe
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space for
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neo-nazis one of the groups on here is
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the national Justice party this is a
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Neo-Nazi party within the United States
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whose goal is to use protests to
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radicalize Trump supporters into
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explicit
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white
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supremacy they're developing new and
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original propaganda that paint them in a
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light of achieving the power the ability
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to shape politics and engage in violence
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in a way that they thought they were
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going to get from the military they
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understand how to recruit people into
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that lifestyle so right here this is an
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Italian Maye
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frgo uh I don't care that was the slogan
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of of the fascist party under
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melini so what they're trying to do is
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make white nationalism look like it's
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testosterone filled way to be a man I
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believe that these Young Veterans who
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getting out and joining things like
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patriate front and nationalist socialist
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club and the word Nazi is nationalist
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socialist I think that the Republican
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party is is you know more than capable
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of adopting that IDE ideology in a way
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that that's unfathomable even to me you
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know I I never saw us where we are today
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I I think another four years things
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could be far
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worse I think the worst case scenario is
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probably worse than most of us want to
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imagine I could see a civil war because
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this is the same movement we've been
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dealing with this whole time it's
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reasonable to assume that what we can
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see is only about half of the activity
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that there is an underground that is in
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violent action training in camps trying
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to accumulate weapons and preparing for
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violence when you talk about Civil War
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or specific sectors of the country that
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could go kinetic just go to these areas
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where you see the first big far-left
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protest when Republicans take back the
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house boom if there's anybody out there
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from antifa our black lives matters
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spend your first [ __ ] bullet up my
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chest okay or if Republicans think that
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one of the state elections were stolen
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boom forget right in your legislators
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you got to do something it's it's We the
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People you're going to have to take my
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life there's no way I'll die on this
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hill there's no way no way all of this
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can happen who's to say that if a
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legislation came down where we l our
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Second Amendment tomorrow that that
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wouldn't start a civil war to be honest
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with you I don't know of any veteran
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that wants wool in this country but at
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the very same time when you look back to
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what our founding fathers wanted for
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this country we are so far away from
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that today it's just something they're
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ready for and their gun safe is full
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if you're prepared you're prepared and
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if you're not you're not if you're armed
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then you're somewhat prepared to defend
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your family and yourself if you're not
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armed you're dog
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meate there's imminent Civil War if we
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don't fix our elections and actually
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make them Bonafide again we don't have
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2024 there is no
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2024 but it is the election of 2024 that
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opens up a different front one that is
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potenti as dangerous as a violent Civil
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War there are people in this movement
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who believe that the nation cannot be
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saved as it is and must be overthrown in
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order to make way for a white ethnostate
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and then there are probably people in
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this movement who think aha there's an
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opening here to run for office and mount
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a sort of coup from inside in order to
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change the very nature of the nation you
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know I worry about scenarios in which
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you know in 2024 uh one party controls
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Congress the other party wins a
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presidential election Congress refuses
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to certify the election the Republican
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party has a pretty systematic plan to
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have state legislator impose themselves
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much more directly into the
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certification of electors to perhaps
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also suppress some democratic votes
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along the way so I do think the chances
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of a real attempt to overturn a
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legitimate election results are not
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nothing and they're not tiny and then
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somebody as president or people that are
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elected that aren't do aren't there in a
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in a legal way and then that's when The
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Descent happens and that's the end of
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our country and our legal norms and that
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scares the hell out of me this country
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you as individuals with the individual
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liberties and individual rights that you
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have you need to start assuming risk for
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your neighborhoods and your communities
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in your towns you have to get involved
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General Flynn's ultimate plan is to
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undermine democracy is to get his
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digital soldiers to radicalize the rest
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of the Republican base go run for dog
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catcher if you don't like this who's
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running your school board go run for the
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school board if you don't like who's
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running your little town or your little
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Parish go get involved if Flynn can
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convince his followers to push enough
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good people out of government they'll
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beat us into submission I don't want
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guys like disgraced former General
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Michael Flynn to be deciding who's an
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American and who's not General Flynn do
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you believe the violence on January 6th
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was justified I said I I said because
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their movement is about excluding others
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it's not about the will of the people
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it's about suppressing opposition it's
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about power General Flynn do you believe
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in the peaceful transition of power in
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the United States of
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America that's fa this is how countries
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Fall Apart part of my experience as a
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veteran and as somebody who's worked
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with refugees and done human rights work
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I know what happens when the center
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cannot hold and a and a society falls
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apart I know what happens when your
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ethnic Identity or your in-group
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outgroup membership becomes a life and
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death issue and when Neighbors start
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killing each other I've seen it and
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whatever your Twitter bravado about the
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next civil war is nobody wants to see
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that I mean that is the road to Hell the
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very worst case scenario is that we
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slide to
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authoritarians that we are not able to
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climb out of this we have seen this
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happen over and over and over again in
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other countries we have seen them fight
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back against the first wave and not be
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ready for the second and not be ready
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for the third this is a this is going to
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take a long time and it's going to take
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everything we have to make sure that our
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democracy is still standing at the end
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of it I hope that people are [ __ ]
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scared because being scared motivates
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people and I I want you to be scared by
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what's true and I want you to look at
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evidence I you to think critically and
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do everything within your power and
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within the uh confines of of the law to
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make sure that we don't live in that
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dystopian future that could just be a
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few years
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away I went to my son's grave site and I
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just felt so helpless it made me angry
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that my son's sacrifice almost felt like
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it was in vain now I've refocused and I
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had to take a look at it I had to do a
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lot of soul searching to understand that
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that's not the case
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case and this fight is not over it's far
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from over and it may never be over but
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his sacrifice is not in
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vain my service service of everyone else
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of all Americans regardless of your wore
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a uniform as long as you got up in the
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morning you just try to do the right
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thing it's not in vain what if every
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Young American did national service for
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a year maybe in uniform but not
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necessarily what if they didn't in
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health care conservation education how
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would they feel about each other at the
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end of that by experience we know you
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almost always feel different more
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tightly you break down many of your
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preconceived prejudices against other
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groups trust starts to
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build in
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2013 I first applied to my local
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Community
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College having had my military
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experience turn turn out so negative
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I'll be honest my confidence was
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destroyed and I was like terrified of
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registering for classes because I was
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terrified of failure and I went over the
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course of my first semester at Nassau
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Community College fulfilling a lot of
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bad stereotypes about veterans you know
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coming in having my headphones on having
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my hoodie over my head kind of just like
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sitting down not talking to anybody not
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engaging and a group of student veterans
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at my Community College identified that
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that recognized that it was a problem
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and helped to break me up my
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shell I went from being that guy who
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doesn't talk to anybody and sits in the
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corner to being elected to represent all
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of the student Veterans of my school
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student Veterans of Nassau is a chapter
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of student Veterans of America it's a
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National Organization focused on
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basically easing people in the
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transition from combat to college to
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careers one of the things that the
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veteran Center does is it allows for us
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to kind of get back into an environment
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that we're familiar with it gives us a
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sense of camaraderie that we really miss
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from the military it's not something
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that happened overnight but it set me on
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the path towards recovery and rather
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than feel like the future was
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predetermined by these powerful groups
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and that there was nothing that I could
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do in fight against them I started to
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accept the idea of maybe the truth is
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somewhere in the middle and because most
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of my interactions with the outside
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world were in person person to person I
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wasn't as easily able to seek out an
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echo chamber that didn't challenge my
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opinions that only reinforced my beliefs
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that diversity of opinion is what kept
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me from you know joining the oathkeepers
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when it first sprang up that helped to
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break me out of
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it a lot of veterans getting out they
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don't have that opportunity we're in a
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different
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world in this new world our troops have
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to be trained to not only defend
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themselves against a Chinese sniper or a
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Russian
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tank but against enemy disinformation
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campaigns on the Internet it's also true
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that disinformation is not just coming
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from China and Russia we know how to
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combat malicious misinformation we did a
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pretty good job teaching soldiers and
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citizens how to not fall for Nazi
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propaganda we did a pretty good job
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teaching soldiers citizens how to not
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fall for communist propaganda all
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through the Cold
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War the problem with that of course is
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that you know opposition to the Nazis
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was a goal shared by both political
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parties in America opposition to the
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Soviet Union was a goal shared by most
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across the political Spectrum in America
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right now this conflict you know it's
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far too partisan it's far too divisive
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and it's far too politicized we know how
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to do this but it takes unity and this
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is a layer cake of problems this is
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something that does not just exist at a
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DOD policy level this is about how
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journalists talk about the movement how
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our laws prosecute the movement how our
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national leaders direct their time and
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attention we know that there is a lack
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of political will to establish or to
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create a domestic terrorism law yet I
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think there is a big possibility that we
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can designate these groups as
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International terrorist organizations so
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what that means we can take all the
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rules the laws the authorities that the
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FBI and other law enforcement and
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intelligence agencies have to go after
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them the same way we go after
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International terrorist organizations
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who's paid a price who's paid a price
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for being a conspiratorial irresponsible
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demagogic extremist with the exception
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of a few true believers who were just
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duped and taken in and foolishly
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believed all this stuff most of them are
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going about going along doing fine
-
voters need to decide whether they are
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comfortable with those who inight
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violence representing them and movements
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like this end when the entire population
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decides that they are
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unacceptable we haven't seen that
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yet so the ideal solution is
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deradicalization but that's not
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something something I'm interested in
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I'm interested in
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Justice and I'm interested in imposing
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costs on people are trying to hurt
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America and
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Americans all I think about all day is
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finding bad guys and hoping that they
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end up in jail documenting any
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potentially criminal Behavior
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documenting things that if they're not
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illegal society would frown upon and
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ultimately it's to put a cost behind
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being in Insurgent within the United
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States I'm a Nazi Hunter but it doesn't
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mean we're going to win and that's what
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I want to tell people
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this good doesn't always Triumph but I
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do believe the oath means something and
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I know that I'm going directly against
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people who think that they also are
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honoring their oath in the same way and
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that's why I think this makes this
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dangerous but what's enabling that
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Schism to
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happen is the LIE which world of Truth
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do you live in it's not about commitment
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to country that's shared so the only way
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back to get back together the only the
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only possibility of reconciliation is a
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conversation that can occur in you know
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in an environment of Truth we can either
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reconcile with with each other as a
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country or we can have a conflict where
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do I want America to
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go not here not where we're at this path
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we're on will kill us it'll kill this
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country it'll kill Freedom it'll kill
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our camaraderie it'll kill our
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compassion and our human decency for
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each other what I'd like to see is for
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the people on both sides all come
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together and agree on going by the truth
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only if we can do that then this nation
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can be Salvage do I see that
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happening no I
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don't I can hope though
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