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E7: Conspiracy Theories and Government Skepticism · The Junto Podcast

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Music.
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Junto podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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As always, I'm your host, Edgar Mills.
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Music.
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Hello, America, and welcome back. Thanks for listening to episode seven.
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So today, I want to talk about conspiracies a little bit, duality of man a little bit, contradictions,
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and the things that we, why do we believe or disbelieve the things that we do?
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Some of you may know i'm not a big fan
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of the cia for instance and we've
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discovered over the years of various operations that the cia did bad and nefarious
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things mk ultra comes to mind or even way back further than that operation mockingbird
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which i would argue is still in play.
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Not that I'm a big conspiracy. I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist,
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but as a cynical dude, especially as a cynical libertarian dude,
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you tend to question everything.
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And there's nothing wrong with questioning everything. I think it's healthy.
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I think that you should question almost everything.
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No, you should question everything. How you come to your beliefs is another
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thing. That's where the critical thinking comes in.
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Don't just take,
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What the government tells you at face value, because it's oftentimes untrue.
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At any rate, duality of man. Why do we believe the things we believe?
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The JFK files have been released, I think. Something like 80,000 documents have been released.
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Obviously, I'm not going to read 80,000 documents.
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But the JFK assassination was one of the biggest mysteries of my generation, anyway.
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And people just ahead of my generation were, you know, it was a big deal.
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Where were you at when JFK?
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For our generation, it's where were you on 9-11?
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For the generation previous of the baby boomers, it was where were you when
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Kennedy was assassinated?
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It was a big deal in American history, a very big deal.
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And whatever these documents come to show, there's been controversy around it
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for decades and decades.
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But whatever these documents bear out, I'm going to go ahead and put my money
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that the CIA was 100 percent involved.
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That's that's my money. That's where I'm putting my money.
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John F. Kennedy. They didn't like John F. Kennedy. John F. Kennedy didn't like them.
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So anyway, we'll see how that plays out.
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And if it plays out that that's what it finds, right, if that bears out that
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the CIA was involved, who's accountable for that?
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Who's going to answer for that? I have no idea. I mean, no one, really.
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How do you answer for that? I can tell you this, I'm pretty sure that George
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Herbert Walker Bush was a CIA man during that time,
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and he can't tell you where he was at when JFK was assassinated.
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He has no recollection of where he was at when JFK was assassinated.
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The Bush, the Bush family. And then that leads us to some more bizarre theories. 9-11.
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15 years ago, 20 years ago, 15, 20 years ago,
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you to tell me that our government or in conjunction with some other government
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intelligence agency, but specifically our government intelligence agencies,
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you wouldn't have made me believe that they were capable of,
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not capable, but willing to sacrifice American lives on the scale of 9-11.
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I firmly believed it was an act of terrorism perpetrated by whatever extremists,
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Saudi extremists, Osama bin Laden, whoever you want to assign it to.
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And today, I'm not saying 100 without—now, I'm not putting money on that,
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but I do suspect our government, if nothing else, knew about it.
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If nothing else, probably complicit and may have planned the whole damn thing. Who knows?
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And like I said, 20 years ago, you wouldn't have been able to convince me of that.
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And I had a conversation with my mom who asked about, and I was like,
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there's no way that our government would sacrifice 3,000 plus citizens just to go to war.
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I was like an idealistic i was like a very idealistic way to view it you know
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i was a green beret i was a young green beret so and as all young green berets do i wanted to go to war,
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you know you you train to do a thing.
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And actually, I had a rotation under my belt already as an 82nd guy by the time
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I had that conversation with my mom.
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And I was still convinced that, like, yeah, this is righteous.
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We're doing a righteous thing.
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In retrospect, maybe not.
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Maybe not. Did our government do 9-11? I don't know. I think there's a realistic possibility.
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I think the Internet is a magical place.
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But where am I going with all this? And I talked about duality and contradictions and things like that.
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Where I'm going with it is, yeah, the Internet is a magical place.
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All of the information is out there, man.
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All the information is out there. All right.
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Swimming through it, swimming through the sea of information and making sense
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of any of it. That's the trick.
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And smarter people than me have to do that.
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There's so much. But even with all that information, how valid is it?
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How valid is it? Who's putting it out there and for what purpose and who are
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they connected with, et cetera, et cetera.
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All these things make you question who you put your trust in. Who do you believe?
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I said this on another podcast, but my belief that Jesus died on the cross,
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I choose to believe that.
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Obviously, until now, there seems to be no proof that Jesus is the Son of God.
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I just believe it. That's what faith is.
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So when somebody you know and trust tells you something bizarre and you choose
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to believe it or not to believe it, you know, why?
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A lot of it is, I'd say, confirmation bias, I guess, where you want to believe
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certain things, so you just do.
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But hopefully facts will come out, especially with these JFK documents.
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Hopefully more facts will come out.
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People are always looking for explanations The problem with most people,
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the masses Is that you will take the simplest explanation,
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Or the one that's just handed to you The easiest, right?
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You'll take the simplest path of least resistance.
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Yep, Saudi terrorists Flew planes into the World Trade Center Oh, my God.
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But there are so many questions around that, so many other questions.
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And we've all seen the videos and various conspiracy videos and all that.
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And some of them seemed credible. Some of them didn't.
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But there's so many incredible coincidences or sorry, technical difficulty.
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So many coincidences or odd facts around that.
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Just the way the building collapsed or that Building 7, I think it is,
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that didn't even get struck by aircraft.
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Somehow it completely was completely destroyed.
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Things like that. I'm not trying to bring that up. That's not what we're talking about.
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I just think there's enough question there that bears far more looking into.
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I think the same about the JFK assassination.
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I think the same about everything.
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There's more...
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That bears looking into coincidences. I mean, let's look at the,
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the bill and Hillary Clinton circle of circle of acquaintances.
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What's the body count up to of, of all the people in their circle,
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people that they know who've committed suicide, who've committed suicide.
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I want to say it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 or 70 people.
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No other couple in the history of ever knows 60 or 70 people that have committed suicide.
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Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide? Everyone knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn't commit suicide.
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We take it for, that's what they said, that we just assume either truth or just
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assume they're lying and we're never going to know about it.
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And then we accept that as good to go.
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Wouldn't you like to know? Wouldn't you like to know the facts?
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I mean, what does that have to do with anyone? Well, it has to do with a larger,
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you know, sex trafficking business, right?
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And it has to, ultimately, one day that might come to your neighborhood,
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right? Little girls go missing.
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Young girls go missing in your
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neighborhood, in your town. Now you may start to wonder. I don't know.
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Who do you believe? Who do you choose to believe?
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Unfortunately, a lot of that's based off politics. Chuck Schumer was just on
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TV on The View yesterday.
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And he was carrying on about, we are united against Trump.
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They were not united, the Democratic Party specifically.
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They weren't united about helping to fix America, helping to fix problems.
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They were united against Donald Trump. and anyone on to carry on and belittle
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people who created their own businesses.
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Because of like greed right well i created my business i shouldn't get taxed
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well i firmly believe that i firmly believe the income taxes is literal theft
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but he feels like that's the government bright.
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Like, that's just a thing that that is. And just because it's always been that
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way doesn't mean it always should.
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And by the way, it hasn't always been that way.
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Only since 1913.
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A lot of agencies came to exist around 1913 that offers other conspiracy.
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The federal reserve for instance and the
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irs for instance so anyway there's
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so many things out there in government that should lead
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you to question it and if you have any curiosity whatsoever and then you want
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to back that with like well how could we mitigate all this this cloud of mystery
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you can mitigate it by shrinking the government and and holding people more accountable.
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It's very hard to hold bureaucrats accountable for things.
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It's a common thread out there that private business owners,
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if they do something bad, they immediately feel it, right?
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You'll feel it in your pocket, the bottom line. You'll lose customers.
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Ultimately, you'll lose your business. There is incentive for you to do good,
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whereas in the government, if they have no incentive.
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If they do something wrong or bad, the citizens feel it.
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And then the government bureaucracy, the middlemen and the politicians just carry on.
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They take no hit. They take no financial hit. They think nothing of throwing
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billions of dollars against going in debt.
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Nobody gets fired. I don't even think you can fire government bureaucracy.
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They just shift them around from office to office, I think.
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So duality, let's talk about the duality of man a little bit.
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We feel the way we do about things. I feel the way I do about things, right?
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And I'm going to talk a little bit about, I got some friends here in Georgia,
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Zach Varnell and Elizabeth Melton, they run a podcast called Banish Big Brother.
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And Banish Big Brother is an organization. It's a nonprofit that,
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you know, they just, they're actively out there fighting against the surveillance state.
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And specifically like technical surveillance in our city streets and things like that.
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Or from our computer, like big tech listening to us while we're hanging around
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the house and that kind of thing.
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Like, every time somebody says there ought to be a law against something,
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I kind of think of Banished Big Brother.
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Like, there are laws.
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There ought to be a law against terrorists being able to plot on us.
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So, after 9-11, what happened?
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The Patriot Act happened. And what did the Patriot Act do?
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That allowed frigging almost unfettered, uncontrolled surveillance on American citizens.
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And it hasn't changed since.
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Because the one thing we know about the government, once it gets some power,
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it does not relinquish it freely.
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So every time somebody goes, oh, there ought to be a law, I think about Bannett's
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big brother. I'm like, oh, no, there are not be a law.
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I can't remember what president said it. I want to say Calvin Coolidge said
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that the measure of success in the legislature branch is not how many laws you pass.
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It's how many it's how many you get rid of, abolish.
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Yeah, man, less laws, less convoluted law.
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We're controlled by law. And the more convoluted, the more legalese that they
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squeeze into these 8,000-page friggin'
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documents, the less able your average citizen is to decipher it.
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And you're just at the mercy.
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And every cop will tell you ignorance of the law is no excuse.
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You've still done what you've done. It's still illegal.
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So, but yes, it's on us to try to go deeper,
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but also I'm pretty sure it says somewhere in our founding documents that laws
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should be readable and understandable by the common man, by the lay person.
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So who do we believe? Duality. There ought to be a law.
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I want to be free to do what I want, but I see my neighbor doing something I
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don't like. So I say there should be a law.
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Think about that. Every time you look at someone doing a thing that you don't
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like, imagine you doing the thing you do like.
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And then some other a-hole across the streets thinking, man, there ought to be a law.
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The law is how that that's how
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we're that's one of the ways we're controlled what's another
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good way we're controlled yeah i'm
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going to bring up another conspiracy theory that that was proven true many years
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ago is mockingbird yeah i did a i did a blog a couple blogs ago called to kill
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mockingbird now some of you may may have thought that was a mistake and it should
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have said to kill a mockingbird,
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but no, it was very specifically worded to kill a mockingbird.
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Mockingbird was a CIA operation. I think that it started somewhere,
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it had its origins anyway, in 1948 in retaliation to some Russian big talk.
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And that was where the CIA got in bed with our media.
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Newspapers, big newspapers, New York Times, et cetera, and then in bed with
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TV and television and radio.
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And they were shaping and crafting stories.
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These days they call that operational preparation of the environment.
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That's what they were doing. They were preparing the environment.
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They were doing it via very controlled propaganda, very specific propaganda.
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And that went on at least. Now, I would argue that Operation Mockingbird is
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still a thing and it's still happening.
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Just look at any mainstream news media. Look at MSN.
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MSN, you can't with a straight face say that they deliver unbiased news. They don't.
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And on the other hand, some people would argue Fox or whatever.
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I don't watch any of them. So, well, I have watched both of them, but I don't regularly.
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That's not where I consume my news is what I'm trying to say.
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So it's very simple. You can look at that right now and be like,
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yeah, that's government propaganda.
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So I would say Mockingbird still exists. Now, it went on at least through the 70s.
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I think of the famed Woodward and Bernstein, the guys who broke the Watergate
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scandal, I think Bernstein, he did a report,
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and his report, and this was maybe in 1975 or so, and it said like there were
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at least over 400 media personnel or personnel who were CIA,
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either CIA employees or assets.
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That may not seem like a lot, but think about that. That's plenty.
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But the CIA and the DOD, for that matter, has been involved in consulting on movies before.
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One of my all-time favorite movies, The Green Berets with John Wayne. Yeah, man.
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Now, hear me out. I love that movie. But that was the only movie filmed that
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was about the Vietnam War that was filmed during the Vietnam War.
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And that was John Wayne.
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That was his attempt rallying the troops his patriotism they were trying to
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put a positive heroic spin on on what was going on in in southeast asia and
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i want to say that movie was in 68,
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opposition to that war was already heated by
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then so they were trying
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to to put a very patriotic spin on that in
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fact some of the actors that played in that movie were originally opposed and
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didn't didn't want to be in the movie because of that but at any rate so that's
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just one example and i don't know if that was john wayne's it was a movie made after a book.
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By i think robin moore so it was made after a book it wasn't just a complete fabrication,
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and i thought though it was kind of campy you know they're they're patrolling
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tactics and stuff i thought it was very very good there were real green berets
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in the movie real paratroopers they felt they were down at fort brop fort benning
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i think also at fort bragg and fort rucker,
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so yeah it was a very patriotic move but still the film itself was 100 propaganda,
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100 propaganda so anyway lovely film i loved it,
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what what's some other films i think that the cia may have touched there's a
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movie called parallax view from
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the 70s i want i don't know exactly when probably mid-70s parallax view,
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And it had Warren Beatty in it back when he was sexy and big talent in Hollywood.
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And that movie was, even though they didn't...
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Talk about the CIA, right? It was about a front company that kind of recruited assassins.
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And essentially, they just, they used these assassins to kill up-and-coming
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politicians that were either independent or, you know,
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that looked like they were going to be some kind of problem for the,
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you know, for the sort of deep state.
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I think through reading about mockingbird that might have been one of them that
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i think maybe the cia probably probably had a hand on and what about zero dark 30,
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now that you can you could say that movie was a little bit gritty i guess you
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know they showed some torture stuff but but really though they kind of they
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romanticized it a little bit like The guy who was getting tortured,
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yeah, he was getting tortured, but I think they soft-shoed that one, guys.
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Do you guys think that? I think they soft-shoed that one.
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And then the, and then the agent, the, the case officer, the female lead,
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like she was the lone hero of the movie.
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When in reality, it was a whole, a whole team.
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So that was early, that was early, you know, pushing DEI before DEI was a thing.
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And then of course the, the SEAL team that, that killed Bin Laden.
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Where's old Rob O'Neill today? I don't know. I don't know.
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I think he tried. I think he exploited his, what was going on there.
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And I'm pretty sure he's been arrested for domestic abuse or something. I don't know.
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At any rate, I think the CIA had a hand in that film as well.
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So even though, yes, it's entertainment, but you guys know this. I hope you know this.
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The movies and the television shows shape the way you consume that the way you look at real life.
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And and it and it creates some bias there it really does in fact oh yeah parallax
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view that movie parallax view
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with warren badey there's a scene in there where they do this uh sort of,
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sort of brainwashing sort of technique where they
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flash different images and then
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there's different different words that pop up you know
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mother family patriot murder
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you know things like that it's real cool you know
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i'm not a psychologist i don't know how how you do brainwashing
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techniques but that was a pretty good i think that was a pretty good example
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of of i think they were kind of trying to give us a little peek to show us like
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some what would have been a considered extreme then to soften us up a little bit probably.
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Anyway, it was a good movie. You should check it out. I love spy movies.
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I love to hate the CIA. You know, I think here's the thing, man.
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There are heroic dudes in the CIA, in the special operations and everything.
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Individually, right? Dudes who go out and sacrifice themselves for what the greater good is.
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I mean, at what point do you start questioning the greater good?
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I find that older soft guys, the older you get, the more you question.
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And some guys go exactly opposite they they career they retire and they stay
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in service of the country and they're they're sold 100 for whatever you know
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for whatever reason they don't want either they don't want to see or they write
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it off as just a small segment,
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i mean is the whole of the u.s government bad probably
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not i mean i'm i'm sure there's so many so many
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good humans i know i know many of them
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so there's just so many good humans
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that work in the service of our country and it's
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a shame that they get crapped on
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by the politicians who who will bend and twist and and and undercut for their
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own personal gain or for the gain of their secret society or whatever it is,
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you know, so that's a shame.
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And for these smaller people working within the government who are up and comers
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in those little secret organizations who are trying to shape their own,
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trying to, trying to shape their own way into the elite of the elite,
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you know, F you guys.
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So, yes, kudos to the warriors who go out and do the thing, the war,
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right, the actual warring, because these people sitting in office don't do it.
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But F you if you're a warmonger, right, if you're looking to get into the next war.
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I was listening to Ian Carroll talk about the war in Afghanistan as it related
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to the opium production.
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And then it compared that to the war in Vietnam as it related to opium production.
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And when you start to put those kinds of things together, it starts to make
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you question a lot of stuff.
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You guys remember Air America? Thank you.
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That was also a movie, and it was okay, but the CIA had a front company,
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an aircraft transportation company, where they were delivering, you know,
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cargo goods for humanitarian, allegedly humanitarian purposes.
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But the reality was they were muleing drugs across Southeast Asia,
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among other things, sure, and weapons and things like that.
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And all that stuff came out later on, and it was all true.
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So all the things we think we're doing, it's good. When we look back on it, was it good?
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Now, if you look at it from an individual perspective, were my intentions good,
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like as an individual? Yeah, sure.
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But when you look at it as a collective, you start to see that things are a little effed up.
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And that's too bad. You got to choose who to believe.
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It is not unpatriotic to question your government,
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to question the legislators, the representatives in office, because a lot of
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them up there doing bad stuff, man.
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It's not unpatriotic to question them. In fact, it's patriotic to question them.
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If you want to talk about being in the American spirit,
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America was born of rebellion and questioning the delivered narrative and also
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taxation without representation.
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So, don't fear being labeled as a conspiracy theorist because you're questioning things.
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You just have to vet your sources a little tighter.
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You have to vet your sources a little tighter, and then you have to kind of
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have corroborating evidence.
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And there's plenty of it for most of these things. Yeah, plenty of it.
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Who do we believe? Who do we believe?
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Duality of man. So let's get back to Banishbrick, brother.
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Speaking on conspiracies. Is there conspiracy at the state and local level to surveil U.S.
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Citizens 24-7 outside the house and inside via your computer,
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via traffic cameras, via the flock cameras, and all these things?
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I saw some legislation i think that was i
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don't know that it passed or has been even
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voted on yet about making all new vehicles starting in 25 or 26 have a have
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a remote cutoff switch what and a remote cutoff switch but then i think ford
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was talking about doing a thing where they could command,
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remote command the car to drive like back to a designated spot,
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like back to the dealership or something like that.
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That's, who thinks that's a good thing? If you think that's a good thing,
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please hit me up, Edgar Mills at OspreyShootingSolutions.com.
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If you think that's a good thing to have remote cutoff or remote control of your vehicle.
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I have a 73 Ford F-250, and now I have a 2014 Land Rover Discovery, or LR3, LR4, LR4.
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I don't think the LR4 is in danger of ever being, I don't think it's new enough
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to have like secret trackers and crap like that on it.
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I tell you what, old Black Betty, the F-250, yeah, that's old school.
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She ain't getting tracked by nobody or getting cut off by nothing.
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But why would they why would you have that why
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why would that be a necessary thing what is
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the justification for that for having remote cutoff or
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remote control of of the the vehicles
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on the road well paranoid people think because ultimately they're just going
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to cut off the cars and we're going to be stuck and we're not going to be able
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to travel unless they choose designated time and space that we we are allowed
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to travel and i don't that's dystopian i know but i don't think it's too far off,
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These cameras and traffic. So here in Georgia, there's been a lot of lawsuits
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against these traffic cameras in school zones.
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Now, a lot of people, that sounds good on the surface, doesn't it?
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Hey, let's put traffic cameras in the school zone so people slow down so the
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kids are safe, so that the kids are safe, so the kids are safe.
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But these cameras are tracking people and taking photos even when it's not school
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hours, which they're not supposed to do that.
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These traffic cameras are not being controlled and monitored by police departments
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it's the third third parties i think one of the ones that i heard about and
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in a in a conference i sat in,
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i want to say the friggin third party was in canada or somewhere and they were
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the ones collecting like the police department got a cut of it and then the
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the monitoring company got,
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the bulk of the money.
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So it's for-profit policing now. You guys, most of the Democrats, I mean, are we for?
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Do we like for-profit policing?
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So the Republicans, you people out there who live out in the land,
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whatever your right or left, do, yes, of course we want kids to be safe.
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You know, throw some God dang speed bumps up. That'll slow cars down.
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Do we want to be photoed and billed via the mail with some instructions?
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Oh, if you want to fight this, you can go to whatever place six months from now.
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About facial recognition? What's the goodness and the badness of that?
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How many of you think that that is more value or more good than bad?
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How many of you think that there's more benefit from facial recognition technology than bad?
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Now, again, they're going to use, oh, it's for safety, for safety.
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It's going to make you safe.
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We're going to minimize crime by using facial recognition.
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I beg to differ i beg
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to differ i know all the airports have it these days and i'll
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what's the last arab country i was in either the
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uae or saudi arabia somebody man it's yeah it's full blown facial you got to
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stand in front of the scanner when the hole works and they they got you man
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they they got they got your face uh they get your prints you know they get your
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eye i think Did I have to do an eye scan?
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Trying to remember if I did an eye scan or not at one of these airports. It's crazy.
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It's absolute craziness. Facial recognition. What's the benefit of that?
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So all this technology, the benefit seems to be for policing.
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Well, don't you want to police the bad guy? Don't you want to make it a safer?
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No, man, I don't. I'm just going to tell you now.
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Now, at the expense of my freedoms, I do not opt for safety over freedom.
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And I would hope that most people in my circle feel the same way. I know they do.
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Many, many, many people in my circle feel the same way.
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I opt for individual liberty over mandated safety.
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Then the next question is always, what about the kids? What about the kids?
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I'll take care of my kids, my grandkids.
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You take care of your kids, and then all the kids are taken care of.
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Well, what about the people that don't take care of their kids?
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Well, the government is not meant to be a nanny.
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It's not meant to be a babysitter.
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It's not meant to be a daycare. And for those of you who are the hot topic of
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the day is that I want to say that Trump just signed a executive order banning
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the Department of Education.
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Now, a friend of mine who we have slightly different political beliefs,
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he just posted something that said, Trump signs an unconstitutional executive
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order banning the Department of Education.
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And my question is, what makes it unconstitutional? The Department of Education
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was never in the Constitution.
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It was created via executive order by Jimmy Carter.
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So if he could constitutionally create an executive order, creating it,
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how is it unconstitutional creating an executive order, dismantling it?
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And especially for the Department of Education, to me, it comes back to what?
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Centralized versus decentralized. For the American public, decentralized operations is the way to go.
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Community-based education, community-based policing, community-based freaking everything.
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Why do we need the federal government either mandating, dictating,
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or controlling funds to pass out to whoever's compliant? Why do we need that?
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Why is it better for the federal government to have oversight on education and not your county.
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Well, what if the county does something unconstitutional in school?
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Well, that's what the Supreme Court's for, my fellow Americans.
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The Supreme Court handles those things.
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So if you think something unconstitutional is happening in your school,
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you go to the Supreme Court, take a good argument.
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Supreme Court will weigh in on it.
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And judge one way or the other, and then you, there you go. You abide by it.
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The problem is people think their problem, whatever the outcome to their situation
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is, that should be the outcome for everyone. This is the only right outcome.
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So they try to make it a law for the nation.
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And I got news for you. North Dakota does not operate on the same parameters as New York, right?
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There's different dynamics.
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Don't need a federal overlord in any of our lives, in any aspect of it.
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And what else does the Federal Department of Education, what else does that lend itself to?
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I was talking about surveillance, right? Well, what about surveillance in schools?
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Now, one of my things, I happen to believe, much like I think all cops should
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wear cameras, I think schools should have cameras in every classroom and microphones.
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Now, the question is, should this get recorded and used as something,
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you know, years later? No, it shouldn't.
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It should be recorded and then, you know, every week or every few days dumped
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so you don't keep the data. So you have space for your data.
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But if an incident happens, you can go back and look on it that day and be like,
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yep, I see what happened. I hear what happened.
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And here's who's at fault. And this isn't to police students.
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This is to keep students and teachers in check.
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So that sounds a little bit nanny-ish.
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But you're sending your kids off to strangers, folks.
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However you want to look at that you're sending your kids off to strangers
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every single day and they spend eight or nine hours with
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strangers then they come home filled with
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whatever it is those strangers put into their their little minds so we need
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to as parents i think it's your right as a parent to know exactly what's what's
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going on in the classroom and yes that should be available to parents to review.
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Just like I think.
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I'm not 100% sure. I think I remember there being a rule, at least here in Georgia,
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where parents can come audit any class.
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And with very little red tape, there should be, where if a parent wants to go
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walk around all day with their student in school and sit in the back of the
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class and just observe what goes on, they should be able to do that.
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But I think the cameras in schools will keep teachers and students honest with each other.
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But that's a fine line there. If it was, well, we need facial recognition and
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all this and that to go along with that, I'd be against it.
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That's a very fine-tuned thing right there that I wouldn't want.
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Yeah, a very fine-tuned thing.
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Schools police yeah i think police cameras are necessary but look if you're
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a small town and you want people to slow down and you ain't got enough manpower to go post up a cop,
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in a visible place there's some damn speed bumps down man you know school zones church zones.
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City county state parks you know
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throw speed bumps around that'll that'll slow people
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down then throw some speed bumps around what else
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surveillance yeah surveillance that's a big one and that's
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coming folks i encourage you to go check out banished big
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brother the website which is banished big brother.com banished at banished big
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bro on x but if you if you dig into that there's a good documentary out there
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on the surveillance state and these smart cities and things like that.
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That's going to be the next big battle as far as, well, at least the Fourth
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Amendment, but as far as sort of illegal surveillance or overstretched, abused surveillance,
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it's going to be these smart cities where they're tracking you everywhere you go.
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And you get some you know your credit card's got a chip that gets that walks by sensors and,
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where they can literally track you everywhere you go that now out in the rural
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rural places that that may never happen um it's i don't know if the bang would
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be worth a buck for them on that,
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but in big cities it's already happening smaller cities it's already happening
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my friend elizabeth i think she lives in columbus or near columbus georgia down
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where like fort benning's out And they have cameras everywhere, man.
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And I want to say Atlanta, now that I think about it, now Atlanta has the most
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cameras of any city in the U.S.
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Pretty sure that's the case. Now, it's one thing for a private business to have
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cameras pointing at their door,
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you know, pointing at the front of their business where it might get smashed
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in, pointing at their back door or windows where people might be able to get in and rob them.
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That's one thing for a private business to do that.
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It's an entirely another thing for a business to have external cameras that
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are facing out into the street,
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where they can monitor just the general public and then track that information
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and hold that information.
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That is simply unreasonable search and seizure. That is all that is.
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It's an unreasonable search.
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Without a warrant, there should not be any surveillance, period.
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Well, your phone calls, all the data that you click on on your computer,
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that stuff's being tracked it's being held it's being
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stored and it's recallable now we
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don't all have our own special little nsa agent you know what i mean the memes
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that's funny it's funny that the memes have that but most of us aren't nearly
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important enough to dedicate hundreds of thousands of dollars of manpower to,
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but they don't mind dedicating a memory, right?
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Space and their database to collect up all your shit and then use it against you at a later date.
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With no warrant or no just cause or probable cause.
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So think about that stuff. The surveillance state is what's coming, folks.
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I want to say Elon Musk said something to the effect of AI. And AI is going to be a part of that.
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Artificial intelligence obviously is going to be a part of that.
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However, he said that AI,
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there's an 80% chance that it's going to work for the benefit of mankind,
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but there's a 20% chance that it's going to enslave mankind.
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And that's the bit I'm worried about, right? The surveillance and the AI.
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And eventually you can't, much like the 1984 book where poor Wilson,
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he's got to find a little piece of ground in his house, a little corner,
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a little nook that he can get in and write without being observed.
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Everywhere else in his house, he was observed.
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We do not want that because the only purpose it could possibly serve is for control.
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What about your health? What if you have a heart attack at home by yourself?
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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That's bullshit. That's subterfuge. That's a cover for control.
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That's absolutely it, control. Man, this has gone negative, man.
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This has gone negative. I'm going to wrap this up with some good stuff.
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Well, that's semi-good stuff. Watch the movies.
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Parallax View. That was a very good one. I loved it. Parallax View.
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And that's from the 70s. Another awesome one from the 70s is...
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Days of the Condor with Robert Redford. And that was another one with the CIA
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was, you know, the bad guy.
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I can go watch the Green Berets. When I was, when I was an E8,
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it's times I would every now and then I would be asked to sit on a board for
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promotion board for like E5s or whatever.
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And I would always have a list of, you know, pretty solid questions.
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But my very first question was if you could tell me the name of the platoon
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sergeant or the team sergeant on the main team there and the Green Berets,
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if you could tell me the name of the team sergeant, I have no further questions.
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So if you think you know the name of the team sergeant, hit me up.
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The Green Berets, awesome, awesome movie. What's some other good movies lately?
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I tell you what, I did a review. review the patriot it's an amazon series i
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did a blog on it there was just a sort of a,
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series review because i've been telling people about it forever and once once
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i discovered it through my i think my friend timmy turned me on to it once i
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discovered it man it's one of the most brilliant shows in existence and if you
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haven't read the the review that i wrote on it,
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Oh, man, go watch it.
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It's only two seasons. It's only two seasons.
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And the depth of character development that they do in that show is phenomenal.
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And you genuinely feel every character in that show, you genuinely feel what
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they got going on, especially the main character, John.
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Even though he's doing messed up things because he isn't a CIA,
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you know, non-official cover, blah, blah, blah, assassin.
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Even though he's doing questionable things for questionable reasons,
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that's the conflict of the show.
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Is that you empathize with this guy and you empathize with him hard.
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It's a brilliant show. The Patriot on Amazon. You have to watch it.
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And if you do watch it or you have watched it, please hit me up, man.
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I want to hear your thoughts on what you thought was just really, really good.
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What were the really, really good parts? Because it was all good.
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The interactions with all the characters.
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The characters themselves all had such, man, realistic but rich backstories.
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God, anyway, I could go on and on about it. I could go on. Even the bad guys.
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Holy cow. You even empathize with the bad guys.
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So anyway, I'll leave you with that. The Patriot on Amazon. Go watch it. Check it out.
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Other than that, be thoughtful. Think critically.
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Don't take information at face value. Go back it up with some other sources.
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And other than that, on your daily journey, have good manners and be kind to
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people, whether you disagree with them or not.
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Have good manners and be kind to other people.
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Don't let politics, don't let politics of all freaking things be the thing that
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is the barrier to a potentially beautiful friendship.
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