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The Kill Switch Would Absolutley Be Abused · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, sixteenth day
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of November. I'm West Thanks for joining me. We are a week out
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from Thanksgiving, folks, sound the alarm. One week to go coming up
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fast. Stores look like Rudolph vomited everywhere. It's official now. Everything looks
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like they were getting ready for Black Friday. As you've been into any of
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days now away from Black Friday, and then it's full scale. You know
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what's to the wall? You know that expression? Yeah, So it's going
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to be full scale right on into Christmas. It's ready to go, it's
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ready to happen. I want to talk about the kill switch technology that the
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government, the Biden administration and many Democrats are pushing forward. That they want
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to see vehicles, new vehicles that come along starting in twenty twenty six,
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have this technology in place where authorities can shut down your vehicle if they deem
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that you are driving impaired in the vehicle, and they want to know that
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they can shut down the vehicle and save lives. That's what they want out
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of Kentucky. Representative Thomas is the one who was pushing a defund legislation to
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take care of that, to get rid of an amendment that would basically shut
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it down. And of course we have Republicans in control of the House,
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they should be able to get this done simply by voting along party lines.
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And nineteen Republicans voted with Democrats, so they're a step closer to this being
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a thing, and this is coming beginning in twenty twenty six, I guess,
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is what they're pushing for. So let's talk a little bit about how
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this works. The idea that and I guess The first notion of this is
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they say it's about drunk driving, So it's about intoxicated drivers who could kill
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people if they were just allowed to drive around all willy nilly on the roads.
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Right, if they're allowed to drive their cars, then they're going to
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hurt people and they're gonna put lives in danger. And that's the idea there,
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that they're gonna they're gonna put lives and uh in danger and kill people.
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That seems to be the logic that they're pushing on this. So now
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that sounds on the surface, that sounds great. All right, sounds great.
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Okay, if you're intoxicated and you're driving, they can shut down the
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car and prevent you from driving the vehicle while intoxicated. But there's gonna be
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a series of things that have to be in place where judgment calls have to
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come in. Right, So what happens if well, we'll get to that
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part in a second. There's a whole slew of rights that are being trounced
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on by this, and we could we could really talk about a number of
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other laws that and things that we've had in place that I take issue with
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for similar reasons. Okay, So What you have here is you have this
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idea that it's bad because drunk driving is bad, and I'm sorry that it's
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good because drunk driving is bad and they need to be able to stop drunk
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drivers from driving. That's the basis for the thought on this. What a
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slippery slope this becomes for other reasons that they can shut off your vehicle it's
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a high speed car chase, shut it down, shut the car down.
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I've heard people make that case in the past that they should be able to
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do that to disengage the vehicle from functioning while and that of course would take
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put lives out of danger as they're able to prevent the high speed car chases
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from happening. There's a few things that I think fall under this category,
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and I'm always one in particular for me that I always take flak for disagreeing
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with because people when they get angry when I say this to people. But
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I think seat belt laws are not okay. They're not okay by me.
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I am pro seat belt I am pro seat belt laws that involve children.
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I do think there should be some sort of because it involves protecting someone who
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can't rightly protect themselves. Easily a kid can get in a car and put
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a seat belt on. Small kids can't necessarily do that. Parents should be
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forced to put the kids in some sort of a safety harness or whatever,
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because if they don't mandate that, the kids may not necessarily get protected.
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I don't have a problem with seat belt laws when it pertains to kids.
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When it pertains to grown adults, I take issue with it because I don't
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think that the law is really about protecting the people in the car. I
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don't think it's about that at all, in the actual sense of we're doing
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this for your own good. I think it's about insurance. I think it's
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about insurance companies, and I think there's a number of things in place that
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put it in that particular category. For me, I think that's what it's
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about, because, first of all, motorcycles there's no safety harness on that.
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Sure, they tell them. In some states you got to wear a
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helmet, but you can ride on a motorcycle and just sit on it,
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and in some states, I think Georgia may be one, you can just
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lie down on it. You don't have to be straddling the bike. There's
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a lot of accidents that happen with motorcycles. Anytime someone talks about getting a
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motorcycle, the loved ones go, now, don't do that. You're gonna
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get injured. Everybody always gets hurt whe they're on a motorcycle. Not everybody,
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but there's that paranoia. So, if motorcycles are legal, which I
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think they should be, If your ability to ride a motorcycle lying down is
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legal in some states, which I don't necessarily think that should be legal,
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you know what I mean, if you've seen them when they lie down on
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top of it, feet stretched out behind them, they're not straddling it at
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all. If your ability to ride a motorcycle without a helmet on is legal
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in some states, which I don't think it should be, then, but
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a motorcycle, if you have an accident, you're going to go flying significantly
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worse circumstances than if you're in a car and you don't have a seat belt
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on. But that's not the concern. They say, Oh, we have
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to be concerned about the other passengers in the vehicle and all those sorts of
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things, and if the passengers of children. I agree with that. This
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is one of those things where we've just accepted this and we've accepted it under
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the guise of, well, it's helping keep people safe. If it helps
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keep people safe, then we should do it. And that's where I think
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this kill switch thing starts to become a very slippery slope, and that's what
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ultimately people are arguing. And I think that the nineteen Republicans who voted for
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it probably are falling on the side of well, this will keep you people
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safe. This means that they can shut down drunk drivers and they won't be
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able to harm other people if they can shut that down. And eventually it's
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going to be for high speed chases. All these things are going to start
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to come into play, and it's going to be a case of, hey,
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we know that this vehicle belongs to this person and we're looking for this
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person. Let's just shut their vehicle down. And to be able to shut
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it down. Does that mean they're gonna have to know where it is?
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Is it going to be a GPS involved in it? They can always know
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where you are. Do you see where this starts to become scary. You
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can justify a number of things under the category of we're keeping everyone safe.
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If the government always knows where you are if they have access to your GPS
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on your phone and your GPS on your car, monitor what you're doing on
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the internet, monitor your hate speech in New York. You know that's what
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the governor of New York wants to do, cut down on anti semitism.
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Well, if you say they don't need to be monitoring everything that we're doing
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all the time in every possible case, well, what are you pro anti
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Semitic talk? Pro semitism? Are you pro anti Semitic talk? Seems like
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a lot of Americans all of a sudden are I don't know how that happened,
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But no, I'm not. But I also don't think that the government's
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role is to monitor everything that's spoken all of the time. If you want
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to tell me that you have someone keeping an eye when people start talking about
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doing some sort of terroristic act, sure, if you want to tell me
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that there's someone monitoring when I don't know a group of citizens is going to
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claim they're out doing a peaceful protest, but they're going to try to burn
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a city to the ground. Yeah, keep up with that, keep tabs
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on that. I'd like to know when that might happen so that police can
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get involved and prevent it from happening. I'd love to know when that's happening.
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If you think that the government needs to know where you are and track
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your location at all times, I got problems with that, even in the
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name of safety. How safe does it make you feel? Safe do you
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feel when a government can keep tabs on you? How safe do you feel
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coming out of COVID and hearing stories around the world about people being locked up
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because they went in their front yard and didn't want to put a mask on
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in their front yard, or they decided not to get vaccinated and maybe faked
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a document saying that they were vaccinated when they really didn't need to be.
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We know how the vaccines turned out, but it was all scare tactics to
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tell us you have to get it. Are you going to kill Grandma?
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A government that can tell you that and enforce those sorts of things, not
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let you go to work, not let you pick up your kids from school,
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not let you take care of just living your life. If they can
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shut you down, and you've given them permission to shut you down, they
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can start adding more reasons that they might need to shut you down. It's
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a very slippery slope. It's a very dangerous path to begin. I remember
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after nine to eleven there was conversation about, oh, we've got you know,
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they have to keep up with terrorism. They've got to in the name
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they got the Patriot Act. We got in the name of keeping tabs on
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potential terrorists out there. We have to monitor what everybody's doing. I have
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the ability to keep track on it. So we don't have any more terrorism.
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No, no, you don't, No, you don't. We have
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other issues right now that we could use to help prevent a number of the
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things we're talking about. Whether it's potential terrorists coming in the country across the
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border, whether it's potential criminals coming across the border that might lead us into
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high speed car chases, whether it's criminals coming across the border drinking a lot
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and getting in cars and dry. That's the first line of defense that we
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could do. And that's an easy, preventable thing that doesn't infringe on the
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rights of any American citizens at all. None shut the border down. That's
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the first solution to knock out some of these problems. And I know,
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oh, it's not popular to say, I think that this kill switch is
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bad. What you're proved drunk dry, you must drink and drive all the
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time. I've never been drunk, never been drunk. I have an occasional
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beverage at a gathering, usually at home. I might have an evening cocktail
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when I have them, which is extremely rare. But if I enjoy a
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glass of whiskey at home, I'm not driving for the night, even if
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it's just a small little bit. No, I've never driven a vehicle while
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intoxicated. I've never driven a vehicle in a situation when I shouldn't be driving
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a vehicle. That's never happened. I've been sleepy, but never so sleepy
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that I couldn't drive the vehicle. So how many different things can we think
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of that would be dangerous besides a drunk driving sleepy driving? You have to
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do something to prove that you're not sleepy. What if your car starts to
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swerve a little bit, you have a mechanical problem with it, and the
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police see it and they shut you down. How many people have to know
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where you are and keep tabs on you keep track of where you are.
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How many people have the ability to just shut your car down? Think about
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another pandemic. If another pandemic happens, can they shut all of our cars
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down and prevent us from going anywhere? If they want us to shelter in
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place again, you all should stay at home. You guys shouldn't leave your
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Why would you want to leave your house in the midst of a pandemic.
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We want to be able to shut it down. This is why so many
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people, so many Second Amendment patriots, say we're not giving up any of
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the guns. You start with one, you want to take them all.
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It's a very slow progression, sometimes a quick progression. Here's what's even more
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amazing about this whole thing with this kill switch is knowing that Alexandria Casio Cortez
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is one of the Democrats who was raising the alarm about this kill switch,
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saying this could be an issue with individual rights, individual freedoms. Yes,
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it absolutely is. It's not that it could be. It completely is.
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And to hear conversations, oh, this is the stuff of science fiction.
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Yes, the government being able to track you at all times and be able
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to shut your vehicle down, these are things that should concern you. These
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are things that your rights could easily be alienated. And what happens if they
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have the ability to know where your vehicle is and maybe you are in a
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nearby vicinity of a crime that took place and they want to label it on
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well, you were there, we know you were there. Think about the
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implications that are there if they want to just start stacking up charges against you.
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I know, it's supposed to just be a kill switch, that's all.
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They want, a kill switch to shut it down whenever you're driving a
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vehicle and you are impaired by alcohol. That's what they say it is.
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That's the uh, what their claim it is. That's the trojan horse.
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Politics. A new survey of gen Z millennials gen X baby boom us,
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over ninety percent of respondent said that they don't want to talk about politics
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at their Thanksgiving dinners. Let me just say this, Okay, I agree
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with this in principle. I don't think talking about politics. There's a number
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