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I guess crime really can pay · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  We've all heard the saying, crime does not pay.
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  Looking at the news though, makes you question the truth of that saying.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans.
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  Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teach the rising generation be free.
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  I'm glad you could join me today.
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  You know, we all want to believe that, you know, truth in the end wins out, justice wins, crime doesn't pay.
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  But more and more, it seems like it does.
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  If not in the short term, if not, you know, at least in the short term, sometimes in the long term, because of how we treat, well, how we treat the crimes.
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  Let's start with a case out of Vermont that started actually more than a decade ago.
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  And it involved a Vermont police officer who a protester at the Capitol uh say injured them, and they sued the police officer.
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  Now, one of the protesters, a Sheila Linton, uh apparently was in the Vermont Capitol after it was closed, and the police began arresting these protesters.
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  Uh, Ms.
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  Linton remained seated, leaked arms with other protesters, uh, according to the opinion.
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  Um the officer, uh, I believe Mr.
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  Zorn said told her that he would have that he would use force unless she left the building.
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  Uh, he took her arm, placed it behind her back, twisting her arm.
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  I'm sure we've all seen this on TV at some point.
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  And when she complained about discomfort, he repeatedly asked her to stand.
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  And when she didn't comply, he twisted harder to live and press to lift her off her feet, at which point um she's claiming that she was injured both physically and psychologically.
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  But that really isn't the focus of what was going on here.
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  What I look at is the Supreme Court decision that said the Vermont police officer was entitled to qualified immunity.
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  Now, this is probably a a case where qualified immunity may actually make sense.
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  My concern is that more often than not, I see qualified immunity as a way to get out of to basically benefit from criminal activity.
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  Now, the question really in this case, which I you know, I I haven't gone into all the details, is you know, my point is that they never got to look at was Zorn's actions justifiable, right?
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  Because qualified immunity, granted, understand there is nothing in the Constitution that grants a general qualified immunity.
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  The only immunity granted is members of Congress are immune from arrest while on the floor or while traveling to or from one of the houses of Congress, except for certain things like uh breach of the peace, uh treason or a felony.
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  So, and and they cannot be questioned for anything, any speech or debate they have in either house.
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  That's the only immunity allowed by the Constitution.
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  Now, I understand the logic of qualified immunity, the idea that um, you know, the police make an easy target for frivolous lawsuits.
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  And my concern is by granting them, well, my current twofold.
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  First of all, qualified immunity basically says you can't sue unless a court says there was a clearly established constitutional right.
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  I would think to avoid injury, that would be a fairly clearly established constitutional right.
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  The question is was her demonstration peaceful, and did she have the the lawful right to be in a public building simply because the government said it was closed.
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  But we see we never get to those questions because the court said no, the officer has qualified immunity, he cannot be sued because we have not established that there's a clearly established constitutional right that was violated.
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  That's the one that always gets me going because there are consequences for not enforcing the law, for finding ways to skirt the law, including by law enforcement.
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  I've seen plenty of cases where law enforcement was allowed, quote unquote qualified immunity, where the activities of the officer was truly criminal, but they never even got examined.
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  But doesn't always involve law enforcement.
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  Sometimes it's the criminal.
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  For example, uh Chicago, um Chicago had an illegal alien who uh not once, but twice, um, was released because of Chicago's sanctuary policies.
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  Now, this man who was again not just uh uh you know released um uh apparently first by uh this gentleman by the name of Medina Medina was apprehended by border patrol and then released into the country by the Biden administration.
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  Uh he was caught shoplifting in Chicago, was released again.
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  Um he was then he was charged with retail theft, and a warrant for his arrest was issued, but nobody he didn't show up to court, and nobody apparently bothered to follow up.
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  Now, here we have this this recent report that's just I think it was just past weekend of him stalking uh uh uh a lady who was merely out, granted, it was early uh I think it was last Thursday morning.
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  She was walking in a park with friends, and uh he approached the group while wearing a mask, and then on to the gun when she tried to flee, he shot her.
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  Now, is there a direct correlation between shoplifting and murder?
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  No.
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  Is there a direct correlation between uh being in this country illegally and murder?
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  No.
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  But you know what?
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  They they learned this little lesson in New York City.
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  They learned uh under uh mayor Giuliani that when you prosecute the small crimes, often the big crimes don't happen.
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  But you see, this happened.
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  Here's a guy, he committed crimes, he had entered the country illegally, got away with it.
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  He committed shoplifting, got away with it.
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  And for whatever reason, now he's decided to to again pursue these ladies.
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  They were alleged that he was stalking them, and he murdered one while running while she was running away.
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  Would this have happened if, well, we'd actually kicked him out of the country?
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  Maybe he would have come in the country again.
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  We've had we've seen evidence of that.
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  What if he had actually been, you know, charged and and uh uh prosecuted for the shoplifting?
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  Maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't.
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  We'll never really know.
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  But if we're not going to worry about the small crimes, we really cannot be surprised when the large crimes happen.
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  And sometimes they really do happen.
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  For example, uh, in the Bay Area of California, uh an Azerbaijani man has been uh indicted by a federal grand jury for fraud.
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  The claim that he he he defrauded the government of 90 million dollars in your taxpayers dollars.
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  He's got 14 counts of aiding and abetting health care fraud and money laundering.
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  Now, add that with the recent stories about what's been going on in Minnesota, other examples in California, we're seeing that um, yeah, fraud is rampant, and well, at least for a period of time, it pays.
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  I don't know how long this guy got away with the fraud, but if you're if you've accumulated 90 million dollars in health care fraud, my guess is this has been going on for a while, and he lived pretty well off of it till he got caught.
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  Or what about the uh Missouri nonprofit company?
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  The leader was recently sentenced to 16 years in jail for uh uh fraud involving child uh meal programs.
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  See, Akani Bobo was the executive director of the New Heights Community Resource Center.
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  And um things they did, they accepted government money to provide meals to low-income and school-aged children after school and during the summer.
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  Uh, she was convicted by a jury of three counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and two counts of obstruction of an official proceeding after the trial.
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  They evidence shows that she this was not a oops, I made a mistake, or I got into my head that this was the intention was to defraud the state by her, you know, from the very outset by her participation in the state's meal program for children.
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  I don't know, man.
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  Is this just another example of why getting the government to do this rarely works well, or just the general greed of people?
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  I mean, let's face it, most people want something for nothing.
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  They'd love to get something for nothing.
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  It's why lotteries are so popular.
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  But um, you know, uh, again, the question is does crime pay?
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  And well, it looks like it may pay more often than we thought.
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  It's going back to Chicago.
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  I saw this one.
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  Um a Chicago man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after running a years long scheme.
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  To a pay to obtain 1.5 million dollars in federal food stamp monies, which he used to purchase soda that he later resold as a profit.
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  That's right.
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  He was getting food stamp money.
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  He was buying soda and then selling it for money to make a profit.
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  Flat out scam.
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  Nothing, you know, iffy about this.
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  And now he's going to spend about four years in jail because he got caught.
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  But for the time, for the time he was doing this, he was profiting.
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  He was making money.
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  And who knows?
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  Maybe some of the money he made has been squirreled away somewhere where when he does his time, he'll still have access to it.
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  I don't know.
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  But it's it's um to me, you know, these are examples of again, maybe not in the long run, but in the short run, these are cases where people have profited from uh uh you know from crime.
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  It did pay.
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  And you also have to wonder well, how many people haven't been caught?
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  I mean, how many people this this uh uh soda scam went on for what five, six years.
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  How many people were doing the same thing but didn't get caught?
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  It makes you wonder.
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  Sometimes crime, which I know it just sounds bad, right?
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  We we don't want crime to pay.
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  We want life to be fair, but it's only fair if we enforce the fairness.
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  Somebody has to do that.
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  That's one of the reasons why you know government government exists is to well to make sure things are just the the um the preamble of the constitution.
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  You know, we the people of the United States of America in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, establish that people get what is their due.
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  And they were told, you know, the we create the federal government to do that at a federal level, dealing with federal laws and federal issues.
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  We have the same same thing at state laws and state issues.
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  Look at how many of these programs are federal programs where federal money was illegally spent on these programs.
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  That's right.
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  Not one of these programs um are constitutional.
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  And I want to, you know, the the not the SNAP program, not the uh childhood nutrition program, the the summer and after food programs.
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  None of those are authorized by the Constitution.
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  But they're that funny money gets defrauded from us by the federal government.
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  There are people that have jobs whose job it is to run a department that doesn't legally exist, to take money embezzled from the American people and spend it on other people.
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  And in doing so, they're indirectly committing a crime, and they benefit from it because they get a paycheck and they get benefits.
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  So, and let's not forget the Congressmen and women that you know get their jobs and they get their not just their paychecks, they get all their benefits for implementing these criminal uh programs.
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  So because they they pass the Congress passed it, doesn't mean it's legal.
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  So I have to look at this and say that saying that crime doesn't pay just doesn't seem to be true.
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  I mean, I wish it were.
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  I wish it was that every criminal that defrauded the government, the defrauded people was brought to justice, that they lost the the proceeds of their criminal activities, and they were returned to the people whom they defrauded.
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  But look at another case.
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  Uh, I so this guy um the let's take the soda guy, right?
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  A million and a half uh dollars that he stole from the American taxpayer.
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  How much of that money is gonna go back to the American taxpayer?
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  Is any of it?
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  We look at some of this, you know, people who are you know, oh well, this person's gonna be fine to spend time in jail.
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  Um, is that money going back to the taxpayer that it was stolen from?
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  The tax very same taxpayer now that has to pay to incarcerate this person.
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  You talk about justice, you get defrauded by the fit by the government of the federal government, they get defrauded by somebody who then you have to pay to house them.
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  Does that sound like the the innocent party, the victim is getting made whole again, getting restored?
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  Or is it just simply another example of yeah, crime actually paying as much as we dislike the idea?
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  Because if we don't realize what's really going on, I mean, sure, I I'd love to live in a perfect utopia.
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  I know a lot of people claim that you know, I look at the way things are supposed to be, not the way they are.
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  And to a certain extent, that's true, because if I'm not willing to look at the way things are supposed to be, how are we ever supposed to get there?
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  And I think that's what we need to do is recognize this is where we are and find out what's wrong so we can get to where we want the country to be.
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  Now, before I get into more of this, I've I've had plenty more examples.
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  And today we're saying, well, you know what?
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  Sometimes crime does pay.
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  And I'm looking at now, I'm gonna look at some criminal activity by government actors.
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  Right.
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  And uh, how do you remember that uh when Zaren Mondami was was running to be mayor of New York City, uh, he said, Oh, we're we're gonna create government run grocery stores because obviously the government does everything well, it never it never screws up.
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  It it it never makes a mess.
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  I have to admit, I thought that was a one-off, and I wasn't terribly surprised because having lived in New York City and having lived in New York State, I kind of had a clue what was going on, but they're not alone.
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  See, in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin's legislative socialist caucus.
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  Oh yeah, they introduced again, Wisconsin has a history of socialism, but that's not the point.
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  They introduced a bill.
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  They want to spend 100 million dollars of the state taxpayers' money to create a network of government run grocery stores.
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  I wish I were kidding.
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  A hundred million dollars of um of uh uh uh taxpayer money to run a grocery store, which means guess what?
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  Wisconsinites would have to pay for the groceries twice, once to buy the groceries and once in their taxes to keep the government run uh program afloat, because I've never seen a government run that is actually efficient, and it's not like this has never been tried before.
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  In 2020, the city council council of Erie, Kansas purchased the town's only grocery store rather than let it close, except the market operated at a loss for years, and the average resident only spent 14 in the store.
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  In fact, just last year, the the the city uh actually leased the store out to a private company because they couldn't make it work.
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  Little River, Kansas has a a quasi-government run store.
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  You see, the the government owns the building in the refrigeration system, but the store is actually run by a private company because let's face it, government's never efficient.
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  Just look, just go to a DMV and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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  And this has even been tried in Madison, Wisconsin.
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  Uh uh, the state capital.
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  They've been trying to get a government run grocery store up and running to serve what they refer to as a a food desert on the city's south side.
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  Um it was supposed to open back in in 2023, then again in 2025.
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  As far as I know, it's still not open, but this is their a government attempt to to run a grocery store.
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  Now, I don't know if it's actually a violation of state law or the constitution for the government to run a grocery.
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  If not, it it I really think it should be, but this is Wisconsin.
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  Who knows out there?
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  And then we've got Wisconsin.
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  Now, how long have we been hearing Democrats and again, Democrats run Connecticut?
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  Uh, how people Democrats complain, oh, you can't require an ID to vote.
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  That's racist.
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  People can't get IDs.
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  It's it's terrible.
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  It's it's Jim Crow 2.0.
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  Well, now the Democrats in the Connecticut legislature are pushing through an emergency anti-fraud law that require those bottle redemption centers to collect a copy of your driver's license if you cash in more than a thousand bottles or cans in a day.
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  Now, I don't know how many people are grabbing a thousand cans or bottles of of soda, but um you're telling me that it's not racist to demand ID to turn in bottles for their deposit, but it is if you want to vote.
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  That appears to be the logic of the Democratic members of the Democratic Party in the state of Connecticut.
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  Now, down here in Tennessee, we don't have that foolish nonsense of bottle deposits.
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  When I lived up in New York, every time, every bottle you got soda, juice, water, mostly they came with a five to cent deposit.
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  So when you bought the the soda or the the juice or whatever, you the they collected the store collected five cents.
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  I wonder where they left on deposit.
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  Oh, yeah, with the government.
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  And then what you could do is when you were done drinking the bottle, of course, you had to wash the bottle and all that.
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  You could take it back, and they most stores had these machines, they'd stuffed the thing in, and usually it'd recognize the bottle and say, Oh, okay, here's a little piece of paper, so you can get five cents off when you pay your bill at the store.
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  Um, some went states I know when as high as 10 cents a can or bottle, but um, yeah, this is all to prevent litter, right?
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  This all came about we want to prevent litter by giving people an incentive to return the bottles and cans rather than throwing out the bottles and cans.
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  All right, but I just find it interesting that, oh no, you can't require an ID to vote, but you can require an ID to turn in bottles and cans.
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  Now, okay, right now it's a thousand bottles or cans, which means someone's doing this in books, someone's doing this for a living.
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  Um, they're making money at it.
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  But why a thousand?
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  Why not 500?
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  Why not a hundred?
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  Why not ten?
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  Go out and buy a case of beer, and guess what?
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  You want to turn in those cans, it's uh uh you gotta they have to keep a copy of your driver's license.
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  They have to collect a copy, they have to collect your personal information in order to turn in those cans if you want to do it in bulk.
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  And then who decides how big is bulk and how many how much bulk is is too much bulk.
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  And if you want to get into the real theft by government, well, just just look at civil asset forfeiture.
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  This idea that you know a law enforcement officer sees something, believes, doesn't have proof, no problem because just a belief that it is the produce of of criminal activity, and they seize it.
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  And not only do they see they don't they claim they can do this, they claim this is not a deprivation of property without due prize law because they don't charge you with any criminal activity.
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  They simply charge the well, whatever it is they confiscated.
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  Now, again, this went back to the idea of uh you know the the war on drugs and drug kingpins, and they wanted to seize their yachts and their planes and their homes and their cars, but it's turned into a money-making deal.
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  And now you have you you literally have law enforcement agencies who, as a living, they're trying to confiscate money because they get a portion of it, they get to keep it.
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  And it certainly seems to profit those those uh law enforcement agencies and the states and cities that that they work for.
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  Tell me that's not qualified theft.
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  So if you think about it, right?
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  You've got you've got Wisconsin that says, um, we're gonna we're basically gonna rip you off by having your taxpayer dollars fund a grocery store, which means it doesn't have to make money because if it's losing money, you can just take more money from the taxpayers.
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  Just look at Amtrak.
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  Again, I lived in upstate New York.
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  I used to ride Amtrak into the city, and I always love the fact that um I did the research.
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  When I paid for my ticket to take a train from Albany, New York to New York City, the cost of the train ride was more than I ever paid for my ticket by a significant amount.
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  And I always found that I found that both annoying because I knew I was paying for it as a taxpayer, but I also found it criminal because you're ripping off the taxpayers because you can't provide a service at a profit.
• 28:43
  The same thing here with the uh uh with with the, you know, okay, you know, we we did this whole thing where where we wanted to collect deposits on bottles and cans in an attempt to um uh you know save the planet from from this pollution, and it turns in, oh, you want to actually make money at it.
• 29:02
  There was a movie, oh um, I can't remember the name.
• 29:05
  It started Tom Hanks as a foreigner who was stuck in a New York City uh airport, right?
• 29:12
  On his flight to the United States from wherever he was, the company, the country went through a coup and was no longer recognized, so he he couldn't go back because there was no they didn't recognize the the country, and he couldn't go into the city because his V his visa was no longer valid because it was for a citizen of a country that that no longer existed.
• 29:34
  And so here he's stuck in the airport.
• 29:36
  What are you gonna do?
• 29:37
  Well, he figured out that you know those those little trolleys for moving your luggage.
• 29:42
  You know, you put a was you, I think you put a quarter in, and uh you get to take a trolley and you can move your luggage around.
• 29:48
  And the idea was it incents you to bring the trolley back to get your quarterback.
• 29:53
  You see this at some uh grocery stores in certain locations where to get a grocery cart, you
• 30:00
  Put in a quarter, maybe it's more than a quarter, I don't know, and you get a cart, and it's designed to incent you to bring the cart back.
• 30:08
  But they really do.
• 30:09
  There are a lot of people that don't, they don't bother.
• 30:12
  The quarter's not worth the extra time and effort it'll take to return this the card to this.
• 30:17
  So this guy said, I know, I'll wander around and I'll collect all of those carts that people haven't returned to get their deposit so I can buy something to eat.
• 30:28
  It's a great scam.
• 30:31
  But now Connecticut said we don't want you to do that.
• 30:34
  You know, if you're out collecting bottles and cans, maybe you're wandering the streets or the roadways and you're collecting what people have thrown away.
• 30:40
  Maybe you're going through uh you know public trash to get that and you're collecting these and you bring them down in bulk.
• 30:47
  You have to have an ID because we got to make sure that what?
• 30:51
  I'm still trying to what is it?
• 30:53
  What is it that they're trying to crack down on?
• 30:56
  I mean, they complain, they claim it's anti-fraud.
• 30:59
  What is the fraud?
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  If you collected, if someone else didn't want the bottle or can and you collected it, why are you not uh do its deposit?
• 31:09
  All right, what's the fraud in there?
• 31:12
  That's what I'm trying to figure out.
• 31:13
  It's not like people are going to the grocery store, buying a thousand bottles of coke, and then drinking the coke and returning them in an attempt to make money.
• 31:21
  You you paid for the deposit, now you're getting your deposit back.
• 31:26
  It just seems to me to be a another, let's have let's take this these, these make these crazy laws and then punish people for actually following the laws that we made.
• 31:37
  And I have to wonder how many of these things are done in violation of the constitutions of the state, which would make those activities illegal, unconstitutional, criminal even.
• 31:46
  Hmm.
• 31:48
  Always makes me wonder.
• 31:49
  And I wonder who's making money on this?
• 31:51
  Who's making money collecting bottles and cans?
• 31:54
  Who's making money requiring these photo IDs?
• 31:57
  Who's going to make money if Wisconsin starts setting up you know, government-owned groceries?
• 32:02
  Who is actually, well, they say follow the money?
• 32:05
  Who's actually making the money?
• 32:07
  I don't know because I don't see anybody really making money off of all this stuff.
• 32:12
  But I'm sure there are people who will be employed in Connecticut.
• 32:17
  Well, to they've got to take that they're collecting these photo ideas.
• 32:20
  The government's going to want to copy them.
• 32:22
  Someone they've got to be scanned and filed and processed and stamped and whatever.
• 32:26
  So I'm sure somebody in government's going to make some money off of that, but they got a job.
• 32:30
  And of course, Wisconsin, if they're going to set up grocery stores, well, they're going to have to employ somebody, right?
• 32:36
  And would they be government employees?
• 32:38
  Meaning, would they get government benefits?
• 32:40
  So I remember that you know a lot of people used to take government jobs because not because they got great pay, but because the benefits are great.
• 32:48
  Their medical coverage, their retirement plans.
• 32:51
  Who's uh benefiting from all this?
• 32:54
  Maybe it's not exactly a crime, but it certainly smells an awful lot like a crime, like a scam, like an attempt by government to take over what is not legally authorized to.
• 33:07
  And isn't that a form of theft?
• 33:09
  When government takes a power that's not delegated to them, they're taking it from the people.
• 33:15
  Isn't that a form of theft?
• 33:16
  Isn't that depriving somebody of the property they have in their rights when these are being violated?
• 33:23
  And of course, if we're talking about fraud and we're talking about scams and we're talking about this, you gotta go to the pinnacle of fraud and scams in this country.
• 33:37
  In fact, I have a whole series of stories I want to talk about about what's going on in Congress and uh, well, the scams and other things that they're perpetrating on us.
• 33:50
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• 39:40
  And uh, well, today we're saying maybe crime does pay.
• 39:44
  Now, all right, I may be pushing the definition of crime here, but stop and think for this minute.
• 39:49
  The the Congress is required by law to uh have create a budget and to pass certain spending bills.
• 39:58
  Yet they haven't done that.
• 40:00
  In what two decades?
• 40:02
  And of course, now what we're seeing is has got to be the most ridiculous.
• 40:07
  Um, I don't know, what is this?
• 40:08
  It's not exactly fraud, but it is kind of because Congress has not been it has not been able to fund the Department of Homeland Security as a whole for what two months now.
• 40:21
  Now, this is because Democrats in the Senate review refuse to vote for this bill, claiming they want changes to uh customs border patrol and um uh immigration customs enforcement to departments that are already funded.
• 40:36
  So, yeah, this nonsense has been going on now.
• 40:39
  It's been what for two months, meaning there's not funding for what is it, the Secret Service, TSA, FEMA, all these others, and they keep getting away with it.
• 40:50
  And again, this is not it's not technically a crime for Congress to be stupid.
• 40:56
  Um, but it I mean, this the fact that people hired these levels of stupid, uh, are politically they're so worried about the donkeys versus elephants that they're willing to do whatever damage they can in order for to get their way.
• 41:13
  So now we're hearing reports again, long delays at TSA.
• 41:17
  Why?
• 41:17
  Well, because TSA is not funded, which means the employees can't get paid.
• 41:23
  Now they'll get their back pay when you know the Senate finally gets his thumb out of its backside, but until then they can't get paid, and not everybody's willing to put up with this.
• 41:33
  And the shortage of workers are getting so uh so bad that there are reports that there could be closures.
• 41:39
  You could actually close an airport directly because a political party wants to play uh party partisanship games rather than do their job.
• 41:51
  Kind of reminds me of something that uh uh George Washington said in his farewell address.
• 41:57
  The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetuated the most hard enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
• 42:10
  That's exactly what we're dealing with right now.
• 42:13
  We're dealing with petty spite, and it's causing problems.
• 42:24
  How early do I have to get to the flight in order to go through security if TSA is in such a state of disarray?
• 42:31
  Again, play all the games you want.
• 42:33
  It's just directly because Democrats want to play partisan politics with the Department of Homeland Security and with your ability to exercise your right to travel, to do business with airlines.
• 42:49
  This is all being done again.
• 42:50
  It's all parts.
• 42:51
  And what's funny is you know, we're not hearing this on the news.
• 42:55
  How many times are you hearing demonstrations of people saying, hey, you know, Congress, get your thumb out of your backside, do your job, or you're fired.
• 43:04
  In fact, I think every every Democrat that's voted against this, these they should be fired.
• 43:10
  Problem is they come from states where they think that um they probably think what they're doing is it's it's honorable and it's it's you know, we're standing up against the man, and and we're we're on the right side of history, except they're not.
• 43:26
  And now that the passengers are getting um are beginning to really feel the pain, um, they're not too happy and they're they're expressing themselves.
• 43:37
  Now, the message I have for them is hey, walk up and thank a Democrat, find a Democratic Senate, thank them for ruining your vacation, your your opportunity to go maybe visit family or or just conduct business because of this game, this this game they're playing uh with uh with and oh, by the way, go out to the Republicans as well.
• 43:59
  You could just easily go out there because they refuse to actually require a true a real filibuster in order for this log jam to continue.
• 44:09
  See, there are 50 what 52 Republicans in the Senate.
• 44:12
  All it takes is a vote of 51 for them to susp to say this bill, we're doing a talking filibuster, meaning Congress, Sony Congress is gonna have to be talking on the floor continuously, or we vote.
• 44:26
  And of course, if it came to an actual vote, it would pass.
• 44:30
  So it's not, you know, yeah, you can the Democrats started this nonsense, but the GOP, they're cowards, they're unwilling to do this.
• 44:37
  Well, they might do it to us.
• 44:39
  Well, guess what?
• 44:41
  If you were doing something to stupid, you deserve it.
• 44:45
  But this is, you know, these are our supposedly adults acting like petulant children.
• 44:51
  And I think maybe they need a good um uh metaphorical trip out to the woodshed.
• 44:57
  They need a good metaphorical spanking.
• 45:00
  Everybody in the Senate deserves a good metaphorical spanking because this is, I mean, this is the type of thing.
• 45:08
  I mean, yeah, I used to get spanked if I if I acted this way.
• 45:11
  It's about time that uh we start treating this, they start acting like adults, or we start treating them as children.
• 45:18
  Now, there is one piece of TSA legislation that has gotten through the center.
• 45:23
  No, it wasn't funding the TSA so that you and I could actually get through the line in a reasonable amount of time.
• 45:29
  Oh, no, no.
• 45:30
  It was to end the um uh uh the the process by which members of Congress get to bypass the line, right?
• 45:42
  Right now, members of Congress, they get to speed through or skip the entirety of the TSA screening process.
• 45:49
  So this legislation, which is on the Senate floor, um, would basically say, okay, if you want to play these games and have long lines, you have to suffer them as well.
• 46:01
  I love that idea.
• 46:03
  I think Congress should be forced to live by every law they pass.
• 46:06
  That includes TSA, that includes health care, that includes absolutely everything.
• 46:15
  If they're gonna impose it on us, they have to suffer it as well.
• 46:19
  It should be criminal for Congress to pass a law that they are not subject to.
• 46:28
  It should be uh uh unconstitutional, it should be against the law.
• 46:33
  It certainly is against the the basic concepts of of justice and equal protection of the law.
• 46:41
  And uh, you know what?
• 46:42
  It's about time.
• 46:43
  I want to see, I want to see Congressmen standing in line for hours trying to get through TSA.
• 46:48
  And again, that's that's just beginning.
• 46:50
  I they should be required to, they should be required to to uh uh get their their insurance to the uh exchange.
• 46:56
  No special insurance for Congress.
• 46:58
  No, you get the exchange, you get the worst of what you impose on everybody else.
• 47:04
  The fact that they're allowed to get away with this just shows, you know what?
• 47:09
  That when the country was founded, when the men designed the the constitution, they were dealing with adults, not petulant children that we are today, which really says a lot about you and me and who we who we hire to represent us, that we are hiring children, petulant little children, that if they don't get their way, they they throw down and throw a temper tantrum like a kid in a in a grocery store cereal aisle.
• 47:37
  I'm disgusted by it.
• 47:39
  Yeah, yet still, they get their pay, they get their benefits, they get their little stipends for where they you know when when they they have to have a house in DC and all the travel, they get all the little extras and goodies they voted for themselves.
• 47:54
  Meanwhile, we suffer with the nonsense they create for us.
• 47:59
  And um, okay, technically it's not criminal.
• 48:03
  Really think it should be.
• 48:04
  I really think we should hold Congress account to this type of behavior.
• 48:09
  But let's consider the the original saying the crime doesn't pay.
• 48:13
  And again, that's a great goal.
• 48:17
  That's a great uh thing to strive for, but it doesn't happen unless crime is punished.
• 48:27
  When you don't punish crime, crime pays.
• 48:31
  If when you delay the punishment, it pays, which is just incentive for more crime.
• 48:38
  Again, I go back to Giuliani in New York City.
• 48:42
  Once they started enforcing the small crimes, they uh I was actually talking to uh a former NYPD officer who was admonished for uh bringing in small petty crimes.
• 48:54
  He was admonished by his supervisor.
• 48:58
  You know, don't waste your time on that.
• 49:01
  Take care of the big crimes.
• 49:02
  When Giuliani came in and said, no, we're gonna punish the small crimes, they found a drop in big crimes as well, because they made crime not pay.
• 49:13
  If you're gonna get, if you're gonna have to pay a fine for jumping a turnstile at the in the subway, then why would I do something larger?
• 49:23
  And too often I think we we brush it aside, it's it's not big enough, you know.
• 49:27
  We no, we can we we we we want to focus on the big things for getting it's the little things that become the big things.
• 49:36
  It's the small problems that become the large problems.
• 49:41
  And what does it say?
• 49:43
  Not just to the criminal, but to every per everybody when they see people get away with crimes.
• 49:49
  Sure, I'm sure most of us like those, you know, uh uh the the films like you know, oceans 11 and the sting, where the the there's there's a a scam.
• 50:00
  And the scammer, they're they're energetic and they're they're you know likable and you kind of pull for them, even though you're realizing they're committing a crime.
• 50:10
  Well, that may be one thing on the movies.
• 50:13
  But what happens when it's in real life, when people don't get uh uh compensated, when people aren't held accountable, when crime is allowed to pay, you're encouraging more crime.
• 50:26
  So, yeah, you know, we have to pay attention to the small things, and we should hopefully they help limit the number of of big things, but if we allow crime to pay, whether it's actual crime or just you know, criminal like activity, isn't it?
• 50:47
  You know, we're we're going to get more of it.
• 50:49
  What we put up with, we'll get more of, which is why I keep going back.
• 50:54
  You know, you look at Congress.
• 50:56
  When Congress violates the Constitution, they are violating the Supreme Law of the L.
• 51:00
  It may not technically be a criminal violation, it may simply be a civil violation, but it is a violation of the Supreme Law of the land.
• 51:07
  And we've let them get away with it for so many decades.
• 51:11
  People not only allow it, they expect it, they demand it.
• 51:15
  Same with the courts, right?
• 51:17
  The judges have ignored the Supreme Law of the Land time and for decades, and they've got away with it.
• 51:22
  No one's punished them for their bad behavior.
• 51:25
  So why in heaven's name would they stop?
• 51:30
  We complain about partisan judges, federal judges, uh, you know, ones that act more like politicians than judges, but they've never paid a price for it.
• 51:38
  So why should they stop?
• 51:40
  They get what they want.
• 51:42
  There's no reason for them to stop.
• 51:46
  So if we want less crime, we have to stop letting crime pay.
• 51:53
  And yes, it takes time.
• 51:54
  And yes, it takes effort, and yes, it takes money.
• 51:57
  And yes, it takes the American people doing something.
• 52:01
  I was on a call earlier this week.
• 52:02
  We were talking about jury duty.
• 52:04
  And uh, you know, I the the person we were talking about, actually uh voter registration.
• 52:09
  And they said, you know, people who there he's heard people that said they don't register to vote because they don't want to serve on a jury.
• 52:17
  Because that's where they get the jury pool, right?
• 52:19
  Voter registration is where they get the jury pool because you're supposed to be a citizen to vote.
• 52:23
  Well, I had, you know, I'm just going, you know, that's abdicating one of the most powerful and important roles of a citizen.
• 52:32
  One of our greatest duties is to serve on a jury.
• 52:36
  And when you avoid jury duty, well, then you have citizens who maybe even people like us that actually know the constitution.
• 52:45
  You got people that are listening to to judges and attorneys who may know the law, but they don't know the supreme law.
• 52:52
  And that's where they're getting their guidance.
• 52:54
  We have juries because it's we the people that convict uh criminals, not government.
• 53:01
  It's an important part of it's an important part of how this country was designed.
• 53:10
  It's an important part of recognizing the people, we the people jointly are sovereign as a body.
• 53:16
  We the people are sovereign.
• 53:18
  That comes not only with benefits, but it comes with responsibilities.
• 53:24
  And too often, we let our responsibilities lapse.
• 53:28
  Now, most of us are not there to enforce the law, but we do hire people that to enforce the law.
• 53:34
  We call them police.
• 53:37
  And those police work for us.
• 53:39
  We used to call them public servants.
• 53:41
  And we hire people that pass the laws that the police are supposed to enforce.
• 53:46
  And we hire the people that oversee the judges that are supposed to decide these cases and controversies.
• 53:53
  We hire the people that oversee them.
• 53:55
  You're seeing a pattern here.
• 53:58
  If crime is allowed to pay, it's because we the people sit back and allow it.
• 54:04
  And until we change our minds, it's gonna continue.
• 54:09
  Now, the bad news is, yeah, it's gotten so ingrained that's exactly what people expect.
• 54:15
  The good news is guess what?
• 54:16
  If we the people help make this mess, we the people can fix this mess.
• 54:23
  Now, I'm hoping we don't end up going to the route of our founding fathers and having to declare independence, throw out the old government, and create a whole new one.
• 54:33
  We don't have to.
• 54:35
  We live in a country where we can change our government without replacing our government.
• 54:42
  We change it by who we hire to represent us, who we hire to make the laws, who we hire to oversee the executive branch and the judicial, who we hire, not just in Washington, D.C., in your state house, in your county courthouse, in your city hall.
• 55:03
  We hire these people.
• 55:05
  Which is why I say we need to start treating them like employees, not rulers, not officials, servants, employees hired to serve us.
• 55:23
  That is part of you know crime gets away with it because we're hiring people to let it happen that don't focus on.
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  Now, maybe we have a lot of other things to focus on.
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  But I think if there's there's one thing we've seen, is that when you don't when you let crime pay, even at the small levels, you get more crime.
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  You subsidize crime by letting it pay.
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  And when you whatever you subsidize, you get more of.
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