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Richard Somers of Somers Point: Cancelled Because His Story Explains September 11. · Seth Grossman – Liberty and Prosperity

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  - Richard Summers
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  - event that Seth and a lot of nice
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  - people, make happen.
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  - We visit with Seth that I believe you
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  - have done more to keep the Richard Summers
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  - flame
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  - alive
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  - than anyone
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  - else that I could think of, Seth. Well,
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  - thank you very much. And all this stuff,
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  - of course, is posted at libertyandprosperity.com.
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  - And if you wanna get our emails about
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  - this and the others topics, just contact us
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  - at info@libertyandprosperity.com.
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  - But, as you pointed out, the the story
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  - of Richard Summers is a remarkable story
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  - that I first learned about in 2004,
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  - the two hundredth,
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  - year
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  - since Richard Summers and the entire crew of
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  - the Intrepid
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  - died in Tripoli
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  - on September fourth eighteen o four.
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  - After hearing that story, especially hearing that story
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  - three three years after the September eleventh two
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  - thousand one attacks,
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  - that story had a profound,
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  - impact on me
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  - because I realized that if Americans
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  - remembered Richard Summers
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  - and
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  - the 12 other men on his ship who
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  - died in eighteen o four
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  - and knew their story and knew who they
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  - fought against
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  - and why they fought against them and what
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  - they had to do to protect Americans,
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  - there would not have been 3,000 Americans murdered
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  - on 09/11/2001.
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  - And and so when we had that ceremony,
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  - I learned a lot, and I I thought
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  - it should be a yearly event.
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  - And and to my surprise,
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  - after in 2005,
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  - nobody wanted to do anything about it. And
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  - so, I got together with Sally Hastings, the
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  - Somers Point Historical Society,
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  - and we did that for for several years,
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  - you know, just trying to say, well, you
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  - forgot this local hero,
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  - Richard Summers. We have to remember him. And
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  - then I realized it was a lot more.
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  - We didn't forget about Richard Summers. There you
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  - go. It turned out that Richard Summers,
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  - told us a story
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  - that could no longer be taught in America.
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  - So he he it was purposeful
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  - that he would not be remembered. Yeah. So
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  - so he was the really the first American
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  - hero to be canceled.
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  - Wow. And and when I realized that, it
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  - it made me really What was so politically
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  - unpopular
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  - that this would would go the way that
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  - it did? Well, because it pointed out that
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  - America
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  - was at war
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  - with Islam.
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  - And that is and, actually, America was not
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  - at war with Islam. Islam was at war
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  - with us.
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  - And when you find out how that happened
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  - and why that developed,
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  - we suddenly found out that,
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  - cities like, Somers Point realized it would be
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  - bad for business,
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  - to promote Richard Summers and tell that part
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  - of the story. Pay the tribute and just
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  - keep quiet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We
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  - we we learned nothing. So so anyway, I
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  - like to take this,
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  - a little step further,
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  - to not only explain how the lessons
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  - learned from the story of Richard Summers,
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  - teach us what led to 09/11/2001
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  - in the murder of 3,000 Americans.
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  - But actually, as you get into the details
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  - of the story,
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  - what what what Richard Summers did in eighteen
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  - o four
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  - actually directly led to September 11, and I'd
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  - like to to talk about that. Now the
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  - entire story, I wanna thank
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  - Bob and Cindy Furch of the,
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  - Shore Local magazine. It's it's given out free
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  - throughout the South Jersey area. And if you
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  - pick out the,
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  - the this week's edition, which has that picture
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  - of that,
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  - beach umbrella,
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  - it tells on page eight,
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  - Bob and Cindy Furch allowed me to tell
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  - the complete story of Richard Summers there. And
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  - I recommend that you,
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  - teach that story, to your family and to
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  - your friends by just picking up that copy
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  - of the magazine and leave it on your
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  - coffee table. It would be,
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  - really worthwhile.
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  - But the story begins with a night of
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  - September fourth eighteen o four.
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  - A small
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  - merchant ship,
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  - sails alone into the Harbor Of Tripoli in
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  - North Africa.
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  - It carries no cargo.
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  - It's instead loaded with bombs and explosives.
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  - Its captain was 26 year old Richard Summers
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  - from Somers Point, New Jersey.
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  - He and all 12 members of his crew
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  - knew then
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  - they had very little chance of coming back
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  - alive,
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  - yet they all volunteered for this mission.
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  - For three years, they had been been at
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  - war with fanatic sea fighters
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  - who were called Barbary pirates,
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  - but they were not pirates at all because
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  - pirates were criminals.
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  - These were what we call privateers in English
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  - or courserres in French.
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  - They had letters of mark and reprisal.
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  - They were legally
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  - allowed to attack and rob
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  - any enemy ship or coastal village
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  - as long as they share the booty with
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  - the ruler or government that hired them.
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  - Pirates were tried and executed when they were
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  - captured as criminals.
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  - Privateers
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  - or corsairs in French
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  - were supposed to be held as prisoners of
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  - war
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  - and released at the end of the war.
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  - When the privateers would come back to the
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  - home port with their booty,
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  - it would be put up for sale at
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  - the public auction.
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  - The government would get its share.
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  - The owners of the ship, the captain, and
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  - the crew would get the rest.
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  - And when it came to the privateers of
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  - North Africa,
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  - the most valuable booty were people.
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  - The passengers and crew of the ship,
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  - that they captured where the coastal villages were
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  - sold as slaves.
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  - The whole economy of North Africa at that
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  - time was based on slavery.
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  - The city of Algiers in what is now
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  - Algeria had a population of a 100,000
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  - people, and 25,000
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  - of them were slaves.
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  - This started long before The United States existed.
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  - Beginning in the year 1500,
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  - when the Arabs conquered
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  - the Roman cities of Tangier, Algiers, Tunis, and
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  - Tripoli in North Africa,
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  - they those kingdoms became known as the Barbary
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  - Kingdoms,
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  - and they would attack and rob,
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  - all the ships in coastal villages
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  - of Christian Europe.
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  - French and Italian crusaders stopped them for a
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  - while,
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  - but then the Ottoman Turks came in
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  - and the,
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  - pirates or or the Barbary pirates got,
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  - got stronger and the raids got worse.
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  - For a thousand years, these Barbary kingdoms,
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  - conquered rather, they raided European ships in coastal
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  - towns as far away as Iceland.
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  - They captured more than a a million Europeans
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  - and sold them as slaves in North Africa.
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  - In 1560,
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  - pope Pius the fifth formed a holy league
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  - of all the European nations to fight back.
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  - Now I'm telling the story. I mean, do
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  - you do you remember learning this in high
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  - school they
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  - did not have
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  - a curriculum
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  - that ignored our history.
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  - Well, that's very good because I I I
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  - knew absolutely nothing Yeah. Of this. I mean,
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  - as far as I know, you know, you
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  - had the Greeks, you had the Romans. Yeah.
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  - Bill Bill Gussie taught about the Barbary pirates.
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  - You had the, you know, the barbarians from
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  - Europe destroyed the Roman Empire,
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  - and and then next thing you know, you
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  - have the Crusades. Or or how did,
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  - how did the Roman Empire half of the
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  - Roman Empire become Muslim? Well, see, we didn't
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  - learn any of that stuff. But
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  - anyway, Europe fought back. And for two hundred
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  - years, they finally reached a standoff.
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  - And and the standoff was the Europeans got
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  - tired of fighting,
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  - the Barbary Kingdoms.
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  - The Barbary Kingdoms,
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  - you know, were losing money fighting the Europeans,
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  - so they worked out a deal. The Barbary
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  - Kingdom say, we will stop raiding your villages
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  - and your ships. We will stop enslaving Europeans.
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  - In fact, that's when they went into, Africa
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  - and captured blacks and slaves instead.
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  - But just pay us money and we'll leave
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  - you alone. So for two hundred years, Spain,
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  - Portugal, England, and France, they all paid money
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  - to the, the Barbary Kingdoms. They were left
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  - alone.
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  - And because the Americans were part of the
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  - British Empire,
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  - the Americans could sail anywhere in the world
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  - without being attacked because we were protected
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  - by the British bribes, which they called tribute.
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  - And then suddenly we fight for our independence.
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  - And in 1783,
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  - we're recognized. The American colonies are independents
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  - are independent. They star this they fly the
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  - stars and stripes on our ships instead of
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  - the British Union Jack.
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  - And instantly, we find out that the Barbary
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  - Kingdoms read the newspaper,
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  - and they immediately started, attacking our ships, robbing
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  - our people, and selling them into slavery.
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  - And so when we asked the Europeans, well,
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  - what should we do? We gotta fight back.
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  - We were told, well, do what we're doing.
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  - Just pay them, and they'll leave you alone.
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  - And we did that for about ten or
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  - fifteen years. 10% of The United States federal
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  - budget
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  - was spent on tribute and bribes to these,
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  - Barbary Kingdoms,
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  - but the but we had a problem.
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  - Because America was such a peaceful nation, we
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  - had no navy, and the Barbary Kingdoms knew
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  - we had no navy. So no matter how
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  - much we offered to pay them as tribute,
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  - every year they demanded more. Wow. So finally,
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  - in 1798,
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  - Americans come up with this phrase, millions for
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  - defense,
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  - not 1¢ for tribute.
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  - We didn't pay a dime in tribute anymore.
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  - Every nickel we were paying for tribute, we
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  - used to build a brand new navy, and
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  - Richard Summers of Summers Point was one of
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  - the first to join. It is break time,
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  - but that also began the policy
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  - that lasted for a very, very long time.
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  - I think it's fair to say that in
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  - modern history, it was broken because
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  - people did start paying to get hostages back
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  - and things like that even if they didn't
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  - admit it. But that became the long stated
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  - policy of America. And it kept Americans safe
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  - Yes. For a hundred and fifty years. We'll
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  - be right back. It is Seth Grossman, the
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  - founder, the executive director
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  - of Liberty and Prosperity,
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  - visiting right here on the Hurley in the
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  - morning program where we remember
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  - each year. We remember to remember
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  - Richard Summers. We'll be back after this.
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  - Citizen, before you continue your great annual
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  - Richard Summers
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  - narrative that you do here on the Hurling
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  - in the Morning program, the Hurling in the
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  - Morning charity, which I think you'll acknowledge this
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  - has been a regular
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  - contributor to Liberty and Prosperity because we wanna
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  - help you further this great public message that
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  - your organization does. So we are handing you
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  - a grant in the amount of $500.
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  - Well, gee, thank you very much, Harry. And,
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  - again, even though we don't make the
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  - Richard Summers event a fundraising event,
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  - and, we do not charge at all for
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  - the ceremony, which takes place,
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  - we're having it at 10:00 in the morning
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  - this September 4 because of the, it's the
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  - Friday before Labor Day weekend.
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  - And then at 11:00, we're having a, brunch
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  - to sort of talk about,
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  - the presentation. And that's not a fundraiser either.
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  - We're just charging $20, which is our actual
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  - cost of the breakfast.
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  - But we are asking everyone who supports what
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  - we're doing to make a donation like you're
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  - doing this type of year, time of year
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  - because it does cost money to put these
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  - events together,
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  - to promote them, to have the website, to
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  - be on, you know, the various radio shows
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  - and and so on. So I thank you
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  - very much. And I'm gonna give something to
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  - you. I'm gonna give you a book called
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  - God's Terrorist Wow. By Charles Allen. Thank you.
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  - And I guarantee
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  - when you read that book, and I don't
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  - expect you to read that book. I believe
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  - Marge is gonna read that book and then
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  - give you the, highlights. She is very well
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  - read. When you read that, and it's like
• 13:39
  - reading a Russian novel where where you have
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  - to read the details, the names. I guarantee
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  - you when when you and Marge finish reading
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  - that book,
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  - you will know more than 90 per 95
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  - of all the experts at the Pentagon and
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  - State Department put together,
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  - because it's a brilliant work. And hopefully, I'll
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  - have time to, to get to that part
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  - of the story,
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  - at the end. And of course, I'm I'm
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  - telling parts of the story, and I know
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  - I don't have enough time, even .com
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  - post. We recommend, other books.
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  - .Com post. We recommend,
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  - other books.
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  - And, of course, I wanna thank at Shore
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  - Local. If you wanna have a print copy
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  - to put in front of your high school
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  - or college kids with before they go back
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  - to school, pick it up before it appears.
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  - It's that blue and yellow, beach umbrella on
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  - the cover,
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  - because they really
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  - presented it well and gave me all the
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  - space I needed. Alright. So now
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  - Americans have had enough of paying tribute.
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  - We say millions for defense, not 1¢ By
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  - the way, I gotta ask you this real
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  - quick. Sure. And I'll pay for it. I
• 14:53
  - need another one of your books
• 14:56
  - because we gave Noah
• 14:58
  - our book, and Margie wants another copy of
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  - your book. And and that's the book called
• 15:02
  - the 1676
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  - project. It's wonderful. How New Jersey shaped America.
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  - And by the way, everyone I know who
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  - read that book, including
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  - college professors, high school teachers, experts,
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  - said that the book achieved everything I wanted
• 15:17
  - to achieve
• 15:19
  - by giving you all the facts
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  - that every American once knew
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  - by time they finished the eighth grade, but
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  - which has not been taught at all in
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  - American schools since the nineteen thirties.
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  - And, yes, it's available for $20 in person.
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  - It's,
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  - $24.95
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  - on Amazon. But I will make sure before
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  - I leave They'll have a
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  - a copy of that book. Thank you. But
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  - but let me just briefly say what happened
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  - when America went to war. We build a
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  - navy,
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  - we go over to,
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  - to North Africa.
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  - And for the first two years, the war
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  - is an absolute disaster
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  - because it was led by admirals or commanders
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  - who followed rules of engagement.
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  - They wanted to make sure we were only
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  - fighting
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  - the pirates.
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  - We were not fighting the Turks or
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  - or if if there were four Barbary kingdoms,
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  - there'd be Algiers and Tunis and Morocco and
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  - Tripoli.
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  - So Algiers would say, we're at peace with
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  - you.
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  - So we would not attack any of the
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  - ships from Algiers, just the ones from Tripoli.
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  - And later, we found out that the the
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  - the pirates from Tripoli were flying an Algerian
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  - flag.
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  - And and so they they, ran circles around
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  - us.
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  - We didn't stop any blockade. We didn't protect
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  - any Americans. We didn't protect anyone else. We
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  - just spent a whole lot of money and
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  - wasted two years and became the laughing stock
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  - of Europe.
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  - Finally, in eighteen o three,
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  - Thomas Jefferson
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  - fires the admiral,
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  - and he replaces him with a guy called
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  - Edward Preble.
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  - Edward Preble takes command,
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  - and he gives full authority
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  - to his 26 year old commanders
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  - to do whatever it took to win the
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  - war.
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  - And the three best known commanders were Richard
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  - Summers of Summers
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  - Point, Stephen Decatur of what is now Ocean
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  - City, Maryland, and Charles Stewart of of Philadelphia.
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  - And those young commanders,
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  - they tracked down every single ship they saw.
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  - They didn't care what kind of flag it
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  - was flying.
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  - In fact, they would fly different flags. They
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  - took down the American flag. They'd put up
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  - the Dutch flag, the Turkish flag, every flag
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  - they could. And finally, they and they used
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  - Greek. They used their own translators.
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  - They saw that the, pirates used phony documents,
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  - and they basically captured every single ship on
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  - the high seas for a year.
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  - All the, Barbary kingdoms made peace with America
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  - except one, and that was Tripoli. He took
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  - his fleet into Tripoli Harbor
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  - and,
• 17:50
  - and the Americans knew
• 17:52
  - that, that Congress was getting tired of spending
• 17:55
  - money on this endless foreign war, that they
• 17:57
  - were gonna get called home before they finished
• 17:59
  - the job with the last kingdom. And they
• 18:02
  - realized if they did not end the war
• 18:04
  - and finished the job
• 18:05
  - with that last fleet of Tripoli,
• 18:08
  - all their work and all the sacrifice and
• 18:10
  - all the suffering would have been for nothing.
• 18:12
  - So Richard Summers and the others come up
• 18:14
  - with a plan
• 18:15
  - to bring the war to an end
• 18:17
  - in one dramatic
• 18:19
  - battle. And that brings us to September fourth
• 18:22
  - of eighteen o four. Perfect time for a
• 18:24
  - break. We'll be right back. Great storyteller.
• 18:26
  - We'll,
• 18:27
  - return much more with citizen Seth Grossman,
• 18:31
  - the executive director of Liberty and Prosperity,
• 18:34
  - and he hit his mark. You know he
• 18:35
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• 18:37
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• 18:39
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• 18:42
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• 19:05
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• 19:09
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• 19:11
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• 19:16
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• 20:14
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• 20:16
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• 20:18
  - but many that are very bad storytellers. And
• 20:21
  - I and I think it's a big reason
• 20:23
  - why we're losing
• 20:25
  - on so many issues that are flat out
• 20:27
  - winners.
• 20:28
  - And, Seth, along with all of our listeners,
• 20:31
  - I'm enjoying the narrative. Time is yours. Well,
• 20:33
  - thank you. And I've been trying to get,
• 20:35
  - by the way, Republicans and Democrats to tell
• 20:38
  - the story of Richard Summers
• 20:39
  - Because when Americans know the the story of
• 20:42
  - Richard Summers, they understand why
• 20:45
  - we have to do certain things that we're
• 20:47
  - doing in The Middle East. But because they
• 20:49
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• 20:51
  - for two hundred and twenty years,
• 20:54
  - they they don't understand
• 20:56
  - what's going on today. It's true. By the
• 20:58
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• 21:00
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• 21:03
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• 21:06
  - He has entered into a plea deal for
• 21:08
  - his DUI case. That has literally
• 21:11
  - happened
• 21:12
  - just now. Seth, time is yours. Thank you.
• 21:15
  - And, of course,
• 21:16
  - since I I could only tell part of
• 21:18
  - the story
• 21:20
  - in one hour on the radio. I can
• 21:21
  - only tell part of the story if I'm
• 21:22
  - three hours on the radio.
• 21:24
  - However, you can learn more by going to
• 21:27
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• 21:30
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• 21:33
  - for the next day or two to pick
• 21:34
  - up the, the Shore Local with the Richard
• 21:37
  - Somers story on page eight. And that's the
• 21:39
  - Shore Local edition with the blue and yellow,
• 21:42
  - beach umbrella
• 21:44
  - on the front cover. So here we are.
• 21:46
  - It's the night of September fourth
• 21:49
  - of eighteen o four.
• 21:52
  - Richard Summers and the 12 members of his
• 21:54
  - crew.
• 21:56
  - Second in command, by the way, is Henry
• 21:58
  - Wadsworth.
• 21:59
  - And, he became the you know, his,
• 22:02
  - sister was pregnant.
• 22:03
  - And when he was killed on the intrepid,
• 22:05
  - his sister named,
• 22:07
  - the nephew, the child, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• 22:11
  - So you had,
• 22:13
  - some of the
• 22:14
  - finest men in America were on that ship
• 22:16
  - with Richard Summers.
• 22:17
  - And they knew they had little chance of
• 22:19
  - coming out alive, but they knew they had
• 22:21
  - fought this war for three years.
• 22:23
  - And they knew that the first two years
• 22:25
  - had been completely wasted and frittered away
• 22:28
  - by following rules of engagement that did nothing
• 22:31
  - but get Americans killed,
• 22:32
  - but did nothing to defeat the enemy.
• 22:35
  - In just ten months,
• 22:37
  - they accomplished more in those ten months to
• 22:39
  - win the war Wow. Than the navy had
• 22:41
  - done during the previous two years. They were
• 22:43
  - on the verge of ending the war, but
• 22:45
  - they knew they were getting dispatches from congress
• 22:48
  - that,
• 22:49
  - Americans were tired of the war. They don't
• 22:51
  - wanna pay for the war. Okay. They were
• 22:53
  - caught
• 22:54
  - in fact,
• 22:56
  - Thomas Jefferson had just bought Louisiana from the
• 22:58
  - French and they had to pay the French,
• 23:01
  - I think $4,000,000
• 23:02
  - for Louisiana.
• 23:03
  - So the word was,
• 23:05
  - the navy would be called home immediately. They'd
• 23:07
  - pay whatever ransom had to be paid. They'd
• 23:09
  - start paying tribute again.
• 23:11
  - They just didn't wanna fight the war anymore.
• 23:13
  - So the young 26 year old commander said
• 23:16
  - we've got to do something dramatic.
• 23:18
  - So they took a captured Arab ship.
• 23:22
  - They loaded it with explosives and bombs.
• 23:26
  - The last,
• 23:28
  - Barbary fleet in Tripoli was in the harbor.
• 23:30
  - They were going to
• 23:32
  - sneak that boat in to the, enemy fleet,
• 23:36
  - and detonate it, light a fuse, escape on
• 23:39
  - a rowboat, and then destroy the enemy fleet.
• 23:42
  - It was a long shot, but they figured
• 23:45
  - they had to do it. It turned out
• 23:48
  - Richard Summers, they they sailed that ship into
• 23:51
  - Tripoli Harbor.
• 23:52
  - Their shipmates watched them, you know, disappear into
• 23:55
  - the darkness. There was a a moon that
• 23:57
  - that lit them up. They could see where
• 23:59
  - they were going. And then suddenly, there was
• 24:01
  - a enormous explosion,
• 24:03
  - and everybody knew the explosion was too soon.
• 24:06
  - Richard Summers, his entire crew, they were killed
• 24:09
  - instantly.
• 24:10
  - It looked like the whole project was a
• 24:12
  - failure.
• 24:13
  - Sure enough, just as Richard Summers
• 24:16
  - predicted,
• 24:17
  - a month later, a ship comes in from
• 24:19
  - America.
• 24:20
  - They're told the war is over. Pack up.
• 24:22
  - We're going home. Here's a bunch of money,
• 24:25
  - paid to get the rest of our prisoners
• 24:27
  - out of, North Africa.
• 24:29
  - We lost. We're sorry. We did our best.
• 24:32
  - After the sacrifice that Richard Summers and Henry
• 24:36
  - Wadsworth and the others had made,
• 24:38
  - the crew of the, the American sailors,
• 24:42
  - offshore, they were livid,
• 24:44
  - and they went rogue.
• 24:45
  - And they didn't use did not use that
• 24:47
  - money to pay off the tribute and end
• 24:49
  - the war. They used the money,
• 24:52
  - to send the marines ashore Wow. And, and
• 24:55
  - hire a bunch of Greek Christian mercenaries
• 24:58
  - and, and storm the shores of Tripoli.
• 25:02
  - We won the victory
• 25:04
  - that Richard some was denied to Richard Summers.
• 25:08
  - America made treaties with all the North African
• 25:10
  - countries,
• 25:11
  - and,
• 25:12
  - and and we no longer paid tribute, and
• 25:15
  - we changed the world by doing that. So
• 25:17
  - they went all out rogue to do that.
• 25:19
  - They did. Wow. So, Were they welcomed as
• 25:22
  - heroes? And Well, of course, when it worked,
• 25:24
  - of course, they were welcomed as heroes.
• 25:27
  - But that's that's another story that is not
• 25:29
  - often told. But here's here's where it goes
• 25:31
  - further. Here's where it leads the Richard Summers
• 25:34
  - story leads us
• 25:35
  - to 09/11/2001.
• 25:39
  - So what happened
• 25:40
  - Europeans had been paying bribes to the,
• 25:43
  - Barbary Kingdoms for two hundred years because they
• 25:46
  - figured it was impossible
• 25:48
  - to defeat them,
• 25:49
  - and it wasn't worth it to defeat them.
• 25:52
  - After the Americans
• 25:54
  - won this stunning victory
• 25:56
  - And remember, America was only a tiny country,
• 25:58
  - had 5,000,000 people, only 17 states, had only
• 26:01
  - been in existence for thirty years,
• 26:04
  - and yet the Americans
• 26:05
  - defeated a power, an evil power that the
• 26:08
  - Europeans couldn't deal with
• 26:10
  - for, for two, three hundred years.
• 26:13
  - So what happened is the Europeans say we're
• 26:15
  - gonna do what the Americans did, and they're
• 26:18
  - going to,
• 26:19
  - conquer all these,
• 26:21
  - Barbary kingdoms. And this is how, by the
• 26:23
  - way, European colonialism
• 26:25
  - begins.
• 26:26
  - Not because they wanted to conquer anybody. They
• 26:29
  - just didn't wanna be attacked anymore. They didn't
• 26:30
  - wanna pay tribute anymore.
• 26:32
  - And so they made enormous changes in the
• 26:35
  - whole Islamic world.
• 26:37
  - It's important to remember that at that time,
• 26:40
  - the Turks, the Ottoman Turks,
• 26:42
  - were the rulers of the Islamic world. There
• 26:45
  - was something called a caliph.
• 26:47
  - The sultan of Turkey was like the pope
• 26:50
  - and the emperor at the same time. Wow.
• 26:52
  - He controlled,
• 26:54
  - how Sharia law was interpreted.
• 26:57
  - He declared when there would be war or
• 26:59
  - peace, jihad,
• 27:01
  - or truces.
• 27:02
  - And he
• 27:03
  - led all of the Muslims as far away
• 27:05
  - as The Philippines,
• 27:07
  - as India, as Indonesia.
• 27:09
  - And so what happened after first the Americans
• 27:12
  - and then the Europeans win this victory,
• 27:15
  - the Ottoman Turks
• 27:17
  - changed the way the Islamic world is run.
• 27:21
  - Now they get rid of remember I said
• 27:23
  - how slavery was the key to the Islamic
• 27:25
  - world?
• 27:26
  - They agree. They get rid of the slavery
• 27:28
  - in most of the Islamic world.
• 27:30
  - They send their children to learn English and
• 27:33
  - French and German.
• 27:35
  - They modernize.
• 27:36
  - Their women stop,
• 27:38
  - following these ancient Islamic countries.
• 27:41
  - They allow the French to build the Suez
• 27:44
  - Canal in Egypt.
• 27:45
  - They build railroads.
• 27:47
  - The Islamic world is now becoming peaceful with
• 27:50
  - the rest of Europe.
• 27:52
  - The Greek people are allowed to be freed,
• 27:54
  - the Serbs, the Romanians.
• 27:55
  - So suddenly,
• 27:57
  - it looks like we could have peace between
• 27:59
  - the
• 28:00
  - Christian world and the Islamic world for the
• 28:03
  - first time in a thousand years. Wow.
• 28:05
  - And then something happens. And you'll talk about
• 28:08
  - it after the final break? Yes. We'll have
• 28:10
  - about eleven, twelve minutes uninterrupted. More Seth Grossman
• 28:13
  - visiting on the Hurley in the morning program,
• 28:16
  - about Richard Summers
• 28:18
  - Few days from now, the annual Richard Summers
• 28:20
  - event will be taking place. Back in a
• 28:22
  - moment.
• 28:24
  - Hurley in the morning. The news from our
• 28:26
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• 28:26
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• 28:31
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• 28:41
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• 28:46
  - It gets me up every morning. I have
• 28:48
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• 28:51
  - Seth, time is yours. Okay. Thank you. And,
• 28:54
  - of course, the rest of the story is
• 28:55
  - posted at libertyandprosperity.com.
• 28:58
  - We will be telling parts of the story
• 29:01
  - this Friday morning
• 29:02
  - at 10:00 in Somers Point at the Richard
• 29:05
  - Somers Memorial Park
• 29:06
  - on New Jersey Avenue, right next to the
• 29:08
  - library, right across from Charlie's Bar.
• 29:11
  - And, there's no admission for that. We'll be
• 29:13
  - having,
• 29:15
  - what Marianne Cannon, the artist who painted the
• 29:17
  - mural there, will be explaining the mural, will
• 29:20
  - be telling more of the story.
• 29:21
  - We'll be having
• 29:25
  - Molly, Pugliese. We'll again be singing Columbia gem
• 29:28
  - of the ocean, a very popular
• 29:30
  - song that has also been canceled.
• 29:33
  - And, of course, if you wanna put, something
• 29:36
  - in front of your, family for print,
• 29:38
  - the story is published in Shore Local magazine
• 29:41
  - available,
• 29:42
  - free throughout the area on page eight.
• 29:45
  - So now we have the success.
• 29:49
  - American marines
• 29:50
  - land on the shores of Tripoli.
• 29:53
  - We stop paying tribute.
• 29:56
  - American sailors are free to sail wherever they
• 29:59
  - want without being attacked and robbed and sold
• 30:01
  - into slavery.
• 30:03
  - But even more important than that, we inspire
• 30:05
  - the rest of Europe
• 30:07
  - to be embarrassed for their failure to do
• 30:10
  - anything for hundreds of years. And they stepped
• 30:12
  - in, and they ended the piracy.
• 30:15
  - They ended the attacks. They ended the slavery.
• 30:18
  - They ended the bribes.
• 30:20
  - And finally, the rulers of Turkey,
• 30:22
  - the,
• 30:23
  - the caliph,
• 30:25
  - the the caliph, the sultan
• 30:27
  - that rules the entire Islamic world announces
• 30:30
  - that the Islamic world has got to change
• 30:33
  - and learn how to deal with,
• 30:36
  - other people. And it looks like we're on
• 30:39
  - the verge of peace
• 30:40
  - between the Islamic world and the Christian world
• 30:43
  - for the first time ever. But somebody wouldn't
• 30:46
  - like that, so it wasn't allowed to happen.
• 30:48
  - Well, you're you're getting ahead of me here.
• 30:50
  - I know. I'm just But And we only
• 30:52
  - have eleven minutes. But but but in the
• 30:53
  - deserts of Saudi Arabia,
• 30:55
  - there were, a warrior king called Mohammed Saud,
• 31:00
  - who is the ancestor of the Saudi family
• 31:02
  - that runs Saudi Arabia today.
• 31:05
  - There was a, a radical
• 31:07
  - imam called Mohammed Wahab, spelled w a h
• 31:11
  - h a b.
• 31:13
  - And according to,
• 31:15
  - them and they also had a
• 31:17
  - a a scholar from India
• 31:19
  - called Shah Waliullah
• 31:21
  - of Delhi, India. And at that time, India
• 31:24
  - and Pakistan were one country ruled by the
• 31:27
  - British,
• 31:27
  - and it was about 20%,
• 31:30
  - Muslim.
• 31:32
  - They became
• 31:33
  - angry at the Turks
• 31:34
  - for betraying
• 31:36
  - Islam.
• 31:37
  - They said the Turks had gone soft. The
• 31:39
  - Turks had gone corrupt. The Turks had forgotten
• 31:42
  - about jihad. The Turks were only in it
• 31:44
  - for the money.
• 31:45
  - And so they began a rebellion
• 31:48
  - against the Turks.
• 31:50
  - And their philosophy was this, they said,
• 31:54
  - Allah wanted Muslims
• 31:55
  - to rule the world.
• 31:57
  - They said in just one hundred years,
• 32:00
  - Mohammed
• 32:01
  - and the first two generations of his followers
• 32:04
  - had conquered,
• 32:06
  - all of the Middle East, all of North
• 32:08
  - Africa, all of Persia,
• 32:09
  - and all of India
• 32:11
  - in less than a hundred years.
• 32:13
  - And now they said
• 32:15
  - they were being defeated by even the Americans.
• 32:18
  - This tiny country defeats Islam.
• 32:21
  - Now all the other Christian countries are attacking
• 32:24
  - Islam.
• 32:25
  - Now the British are keeping them from conquering
• 32:28
  - the rest of India.
• 32:30
  - What caused this disaster to the Islamic world?
• 32:33
  - And they said, it's because we are no
• 32:36
  - longer following the ways of Mohammed.
• 32:38
  - So they said we must now return to
• 32:41
  - the intolerance
• 32:42
  - of the Arabian Desert in the dark ages.
• 32:45
  - We must wrap up the women.
• 32:47
  - We must get rid of music. We must
• 32:49
  - get rid of dancing.
• 32:50
  - We must no longer tolerate Jews, Christians, Buddhists,
• 32:54
  - or Hindus living among us.
• 32:56
  - We must have constant jihad, constant war.
• 33:00
  - And they would have this technique
• 33:03
  - for guaranteeing
• 33:04
  - total war,
• 33:06
  - that
• 33:06
  - is very familiar.
• 33:08
  - What they would do,
• 33:10
  - they you could call them Salafis, Wahabis.
• 33:14
  - We could we could call them radical Islam
• 33:16
  - today.
• 33:17
  - But this cult
• 33:18
  - of the Saudi family, the Wahab family, and
• 33:22
  - Shah Wali Uli Walla Ula of of India,
• 33:26
  - they would spend years and years
• 33:28
  - turning their villages and homes into fortresses.
• 33:32
  - They would put bombs and booby traps and
• 33:34
  - punji sticks and all this,
• 33:36
  - stuff.
• 33:37
  - And then they would go out
• 33:39
  - to peaceful neighbors
• 33:41
  - and they'd,
• 33:43
  - rape, pillage, you know,
• 33:45
  - torture,
• 33:47
  - commit all these unspeakable
• 33:49
  - atrocities.
• 33:51
  - And when the peaceful neighbors would retaliate and
• 33:53
  - come back,
• 33:55
  - they would be ambushed in these, houses and
• 33:58
  - villages,
• 33:59
  - that had been prepared by this.
• 34:01
  - Now, of course, many of their women and
• 34:03
  - children would be killed.
• 34:05
  - But for them, it was a good thing
• 34:07
  - because they would say, look. We are innocent
• 34:10
  - Muslims, and we are being attacked
• 34:12
  - by, you know, British and and Indians and
• 34:15
  - Hindus and Sikhs.
• 34:17
  - And they would rally the entire Muslim world
• 34:19
  - to defend them because they were victims.
• 34:21
  - And this was a technique that they perfected,
• 34:24
  - in,
• 34:25
  - India
• 34:26
  - and and,
• 34:27
  - Afghanistan,
• 34:29
  - and even in The Philippines.
• 34:31
  - They use these techniques against, Black Jack Pershing
• 34:34
  - and general Leonard Wood in The Philippines nineteen
• 34:36
  - o one. They made peace impossible
• 34:38
  - by creating conflict.
• 34:40
  - Right. They they would commit murders and ambushes
• 34:43
  - and and sabotage and all these things to
• 34:46
  - guarantee they would be attacked.
• 34:48
  - And then when they would be attacked, they'd
• 34:50
  - be prepared because they spent years waiting for
• 34:52
  - the attack. They'd inflict heavy casualties on the
• 34:55
  - enemy, and they'd be victims because you're attacking
• 34:58
  - us in our own village. Insidious. This was
• 35:00
  - a technique that they used in 1818,
• 35:03
  - in,
• 35:04
  - in Iraq, in 1820, in Afghanistan,
• 35:07
  - in 1831,
• 35:10
  - in, Bengal in India, in Delhi in Cornpur
• 35:13
  - 1857.
• 35:14
  - All those, Errol Flynn movies with the Bengal
• 35:16
  - an Bengal answers, these were against these Wahhabis.
• 35:19
  - Devious
• 35:20
  - yet effective.
• 35:22
  - Absolutely.
• 35:23
  - So in fact and that explains the September
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  - eleventh attack.
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  - Why they attack in New York in September
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  - 11? Because we would attack them in Afghanistan
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  - after they had spent seventeen years
• 35:35
  - building the tunnels and the the defenses and
• 35:37
  - the booby traps and the ambushes.
• 35:39
  - And that's exactly what they did to Israel,
• 35:42
  - from Gaza, commit the atrocity
• 35:44
  - after spending seventeen years building tunnels. So it's
• 35:48
  - the same thing. So,
• 35:49
  - what happened to the Wahabis?
• 35:51
  - Well, it turned out that the Americans in
• 35:54
  - The Philippines
• 35:55
  - and the British in India and the Turks
• 35:58
  - completely,
• 36:00
  - destroyed them and discredited them. So for a
• 36:03
  - hundred years, this sect of Islam
• 36:05
  - was totally disgraced in the Islamic world, but
• 36:09
  - we didn't wipe them out. They hid out
• 36:11
  - in the caves and tunnels of Afghanistan
• 36:14
  - for years and years, and they had their
• 36:17
  - teachings were taught in a school right outside
• 36:20
  - of Delhi, India, India called the, the Dioband
• 36:24
  - Seminary
• 36:25
  - Seminary. And any of your members of our
• 36:27
  - audience who are from India will know exactly
• 36:29
  - what I'm talking about.
• 36:31
  - In fact, students of this,
• 36:34
  - Wahhabi or radical college in India,
• 36:36
  - you know what the word for students of
• 36:38
  - that college was? What? Taliban.
• 36:40
  - Oh my gosh. So that's how they kept
• 36:42
  - this radical doctrine alone.
• 36:45
  - So but but in any case, for years
• 36:47
  - and years, they were considered radical,
• 36:50
  - violent,
• 36:51
  - ignorant,
• 36:52
  - had no respect in the Arab world
• 36:55
  - until
• 36:56
  - 1930.
• 36:57
  - In 1930,
• 36:59
  - these, Wahab
• 37:00
  - radicals come out of their caves in Afghanistan,
• 37:03
  - and it's a whole long story. They take
• 37:05
  - over Saudi Arabia,
• 37:06
  - and that Saudi,
• 37:08
  - that's descended to that first Saudi,
• 37:11
  - king of the eighteen hundreds
• 37:13
  - is now ruling Saudi Arabia again.
• 37:15
  - But still, it's it's a backward
• 37:18
  - province, violent province, poverty province. Nobody pays any
• 37:22
  - attention to them
• 37:23
  - until
• 37:24
  - 1938.
• 37:27
  - In 1938,
• 37:29
  - you have a geologist
• 37:31
  - for the California
• 37:33
  - of California American Oil Company
• 37:36
  - finds
• 37:37
  - oil in Saudi Arabia.
• 37:39
  - Within ten years,
• 37:41
  - what used to be the backward,
• 37:43
  - despised,
• 37:44
  - violent,
• 37:46
  - sect of Islam
• 37:48
  - now has more money
• 37:50
  - than anyone else in the,
• 37:52
  - Islamic world.
• 37:53
  - They become richer than when the Islamic world
• 37:56
  - had slaves. Wow. And so the Wahhabi preachers
• 37:59
  - say Allah has chosen us
• 38:02
  - to again continue
• 38:04
  - the jihad
• 38:05
  - that we began,
• 38:08
  - back with Mohammed,
• 38:09
  - in in this fourteen hundred years ago. And
• 38:12
  - that's exactly where we are today.
• 38:14
  - Now, of course,
• 38:16
  - it's a it's a little more complicated because
• 38:19
  - many of the Saudis,
• 38:21
  - you know, after they made all that oil
• 38:23
  - money, they don't wanna do jihad anymore.
• 38:25
  - They wanna go skiing in Switzerland. They wanna
• 38:27
  - have their fancy house. They want the western
• 38:29
  - life. They want the western life. But the
• 38:31
  - Wahhabi said, you do that.
• 38:33
  - In fact, they the Wahabis made a deal,
• 38:35
  - they'll say. They said to those,
• 38:37
  - Saudi royal family,
• 38:39
  - you could have your
• 38:40
  - vacations in Switzerland. You could go skiing. You
• 38:42
  - could live whatever lifestyle you want, but let
• 38:45
  - us run the schools
• 38:47
  - and let us have money so we could
• 38:49
  - promote our Wahhabi doctrine
• 38:51
  - around the world. And that's how you had
• 38:53
  - that split personality
• 38:55
  - of Osama bin Laden
• 38:57
  - being raised in luxury,
• 38:59
  - but having been taught as a child that
• 39:01
  - the only true way of the world is
• 39:03
  - for Islam to take over the world. And
• 39:05
  - that's what led us to September 11.
• 39:07
  - So, I I and now you see why
• 39:09
  - the story of Richard Summers, you see where
• 39:12
  - it leads to, and you see why the
• 39:14
  - story cannot be told in our,
• 39:17
  - schools, in our colleges, or in our mass
• 39:19
  - media, or in official productions. But if we
• 39:22
  - don't learn those lessons,
• 39:24
  - I don't see how we're gonna survive if
• 39:25
  - we don't start telling those stories again. Seth,
• 39:27
  - final minute. How consequential
• 39:30
  - a figure
• 39:31
  - is Richard Summers in American history?
• 39:35
  - He at one time, he was recognized as
• 39:38
  - a true national hero that every school child
• 39:40
  - knew. And you were talking, I would love
• 39:43
  - to see the Richard Sommer story on Netflix
• 39:45
  - Yeah. And everything we talked about. And it
• 39:47
  - would be just a good sequel
• 39:49
  - to the George Washington story or many of
• 39:51
  - the other things. And, really, that's the mission
• 39:53
  - of libertyandprosperity.com.
• 39:55
  - We we are just a bunch of senior
• 39:57
  - citizens who meet every Saturday
• 39:59
  - at a a diner inside a restaurant in
• 40:01
  - Somers Point, but we're I'm hoping this one
• 40:04
  - person listening
• 40:05
  - somehow
• 40:06
  - gets that spark and teaches that story and
• 40:08
  - takes us to Netflix into the mass media.
• 40:10
  - And thank you, Harry, for all you do
• 40:12
  - for us. Well, thank you. Learn Richard Summer's
• 40:14
  - story, teach it to your children. And thank
• 40:16
  - you for your comp contribution. Thank you. Welcome.
• 40:18
  - It's my pleasure.