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- 0:00- Yeah. You're bringing up,
- 0:01- Donald Trump. And one of the tragic things
- 0:04- is when, president Trump does stuff like this,
- 0:08- when he says I'm the greatest president,
- 0:10- when he says I'm gonna rename Lake Ontario
- 0:13- and call it Lake America,
- 0:15- when I'm gonna say we're gonna take,
- 0:18- you know, Greenland. We're gonna make Canada the
- 0:21- fifty first straight,
- 0:22- fifty first state.
- 0:24- We're going to
- 0:26- rename the Kennedy Center after me, and I'm
- 0:28- gonna build a ballroom.
- 0:30- You know, all this stuff,
- 0:34- causes a lot of people not to like
- 0:37- Trump, not to like Republicans.
- 0:39- And what it does, it's really destroying the
- 0:42- Republican Party.
- 0:43- Because if
- 0:45- you or if I would say anything negative
- 0:47- about, Trump,
- 0:49- the Trump supporters who are still about maybe
- 0:52- two thirds of the Republican Party,
- 0:55- they will say, well, we we
- 0:57- don't like you. We'll make sure you never
- 0:59- get elected. We'll we won't give you any
- 1:01- support.
- 1:02- And then the one third,
- 1:04- that
- 1:05- doesn't like this,
- 1:07- is intolerant towards the Trump supporters. So you
- 1:10- you destroy
- 1:11- or divide or make ineffective
- 1:14- the Republican Party, which is the only party,
- 1:17- capable of defeating the Democrats in their agenda.
- 1:20- So you have to ask yourself, why is
- 1:22- he doing this?
- 1:24- Does he believe it? Does he think it's
- 1:26- cute? Does he wanna get the support of
- 1:28- the two thirds
- 1:30- who's of Republicans who support him, which is
- 1:32- only one third of the entire country?
- 1:34- It's very baffling, and it's very difficult as
- 1:37- to how Republicans running for election
- 1:40- in this difficult cycle we're gonna deal with
- 1:41- that. So that's I'm sure that's gonna be
- 1:44- talked about quite a bit at at our
- 1:46- breakfast meeting this morning. So thanks for setting
- 1:49- the agenda there.
- 1:51- My pleasure. I love setting your agenda.
- 1:54- Yeah. I might be calling next week. Hi.
- 1:56- I'm Seth Grossman, the former executive director of,
- 1:59- Liberty and Prosperity. But actually, it'll be the
- 2:02- Jewish, holiday of Rosh Hashanah, so I'll be
- 2:04- taking a break, next Saturday.
- 2:06- And I just wanna make a a couple
- 2:09- of comments. I want to thank everybody who
- 2:11- gave such support to the Richard Summers event
- 2:13- that we had in Somers Point yesterday.
- 2:16- And there were two details or nuances in
- 2:19- the story,
- 2:21- which really
- 2:22- apply to what's going on today,
- 2:25- which which we really didn't talk about in
- 2:27- previous years. And one is in the Richard
- 2:29- Summer story.
- 2:31- The fact that, when America went to war
- 2:33- against Islamic terror,
- 2:36- back when Thomas Jefferson was president
- 2:39- in eighteen o four.
- 2:41- We were losing that war for the first
- 2:43- two years because
- 2:45- the, the original naval commanders
- 2:49- just didn't understand
- 2:50- the job they had to do.
- 2:52- And,
- 2:53- it was only in the third year
- 2:55- that a, an effective commander was appointed who
- 2:59- gave respect to the young officers like Stephen
- 3:02- Decatur and,
- 3:03- Charles Stewart and Richard Summers
- 3:05- that in ten months,
- 3:07- the American Navy
- 3:09- almost,
- 3:10- won a war
- 3:11- in just ten months that had been being
- 3:13- lost for two years.
- 3:15- And if you look at American history or
- 3:17- military history,
- 3:19- in almost every war America has gotten into,
- 3:22- we
- 3:22- we won those wars
- 3:24- by firing the generals that we started with.
- 3:28- Because
- 3:29- unfortunately,
- 3:29- some sometimes military leaders in time of peace
- 3:32- or or good civil servants or good, with
- 3:35- bureaucracy.
- 3:36- But when it comes to fighting war, they
- 3:38- just don't know how to do it And
- 3:40- they have to be fired.
- 3:42- If you look at what has happened to
- 3:43- the American military
- 3:45- during the past sixty years where we haven't
- 3:48- really won a war since 1945,
- 3:50- in many ways it's because we have not
- 3:52- fired
- 3:53- bad generals. We have not promoted good ones.
- 3:56- And and that's something that the Richard Sommer
- 3:59- story teaches us,
- 4:00- that that's there.
- 4:03- Well,
- 4:04- it certainly was a a nice event. Sorry
- 4:06- I couldn't make it, but,
- 4:08- you you really have done a nice job
- 4:10- of telling us who Richard Summers was
- 4:13- because prior to knowing you, I never heard
- 4:15- of Richard Summers.
- 4:17- And and there's there's so many
- 4:19- details in the story that apply to today.
- 4:22- Like, one thing that Richard Summers did, the
- 4:24- heroism was that those Americans,
- 4:27- in eighteen o four. They not only won
- 4:29- the respect of Europe,
- 4:32- but they were respected throughout the Islamic world.
- 4:32- And the Islamic world actually began
- 4:45- rulers of an
- 4:46- empire, they being the rulers of an empire,
- 4:49- they were also the like the Pope or
- 4:51- the spiritual leaders
- 4:53- of the Islamic world and they began to
- 4:55- teach tolerance respect for others
- 4:57- and were actually
- 4:59- modifying
- 5:00- the way Islam dealt with the rest of
- 5:02- the world.
- 5:03- And what that did that triggered
- 5:06- a,
- 5:07- I guess a reaction in Arabia
- 5:09- by these radical,
- 5:12- Islamic,
- 5:13- leaders who said no we have to go
- 5:15- back to the way Islam was in the
- 5:17- dark ages of Arabia.
- 5:19- We have to go to violence, constant war,
- 5:21- attacks.
- 5:22- And for years, they were extremists who had
- 5:25- no
- 5:27- say, they they were not respected in the
- 5:29- Islamic world until 1938.
- 5:32- And what happened in 1938?
- 5:34- They discovered oil right there where the most
- 5:37- extreme
- 5:38- of, you know radical Muslims were
- 5:41- and what had become a almost like an
- 5:44- extreme lunatic fringe
- 5:46- when you give them billions of dollars a
- 5:48- year
- 5:49- to promote their doctrine they suddenly have become
- 5:51- the mainstream
- 5:52- voice of Islam
- 5:54- And that's something that the,
- 5:56- Richard story,
- 5:57- Richard Summers story leads us to. And, it
- 6:00- was very interesting. The whole,
- 6:02- story besides the event we had,
- 6:04- we,
- 6:05- you know, Harry Hurley, let me
- 6:08- go into those details
- 6:10- Wednesday
- 6:10- at, between the 08:00 and 09:00 hour, which
- 6:13- I believe is posted on the WPG website,
- 6:16- and we'll be sharing it next week. So,
- 6:19- I learned a lot of insight
- 6:21- from
- 6:22- going into those details. So that you you
- 6:23- can never stop learning.
- 6:25- Yeah. And and and you
- 6:27- you do learn every year. I I mean,
- 6:31- here I I've given the same,
- 6:33- actually, I'm supposed to give the same speech
- 6:35- or the same presentation every year for twenty
- 6:37- two years.
- 6:38- And each of those twenty two years is
- 6:40- something completely different because either there's a new
- 6:43- event that comes up or you read something
- 6:45- new that gives you new insight.
- 6:47- So, anyway, that was
- 6:49- a a very informative week. Meanwhile,
- 6:52- I I wanna pick up something we talked
- 6:54- about,
- 6:55- two weeks ago,
- 6:56- and that was when the, we had those
- 6:59- two
- 7:00- people in Mays Landing were killed by that
- 7:04- reckless
- 7:04- teenage driver,
- 7:07- because they had stolen a car in Longport,
- 7:09- evaded police in Longport,
- 7:11- and then we're driving about 80 or 90
- 7:13- miles an hour in the opposite direction
- 7:16- of traffic on Route 50 in Mays Landing.
- 7:19- And I have to ask this question two
- 7:21- weeks later, have we learned anything from that?
- 7:25- I I mean, have any details come up
- 7:27- from your callers or, callers of the other
- 7:30- talk radio programs, on this station?
- 7:33- That if the, you know, if the Long
- 7:34- Port police saw something suspicious in Long Port
- 7:38- involving people stealing a car at 03:30 in
- 7:40- the morning,
- 7:41- and that car just drives away.
- 7:43- How did it get away for five hours?
- 7:45- Did anyone call in and give us any
- 7:47- information as to what happened?
- 7:49- Well, we I haven't. Not on this show.
- 7:52- And, I don't know about Harry, but that
- 7:54- that I I haven't heard of anything.
- 7:57- And, you know, because when you see dangerous
- 7:59- people in the car running away, are they
- 8:00- under orders not to pursue?
- 8:03- And if if you allow that to happen,
- 8:05- you know, you we see what happens.
- 8:07- Yeah. Has anyone spoken publicly? Any political people
- 8:11- of the way we deal with hardened criminals
- 8:13- who are 14 or 15 years old?
- 8:16- No. Has any I haven't heard anything, though.
- 8:18- I haven't heard anything. Has anyone talked about
- 8:21- the fact that, we have the dozens, if
- 8:24- not hundreds, of very dangerous
- 8:26- hardened criminals who are teenagers,
- 8:29- but yet we only have one county facility
- 8:32- that only holds 27 inmates.
- 8:35- I have not heard of any and here
- 8:37- we're in the middle of an election campaign.
- 8:38- You would think that in two weeks, somebody
- 8:41- would have said something.
- 8:43- And all I've heard is,
- 8:45- Cape May County sheriff,
- 8:47- Republican Robert Nolan,
- 8:49- speaking to the lower county Republican club. He
- 8:51- said we need to get tough on juvenile
- 8:53- crime,
- 8:54- But he was mostly talking about, you know,
- 8:56- rowdy teens on the Boardwalk of Wildwood. I
- 8:59- don't think he was talking about the hardened
- 9:00- criminals.
- 9:01- But, you know, if if if the Democrats
- 9:04- aren't
- 9:05- doing anything about it and Republicans aren't doing
- 9:08- anything about it either, what are we gonna
- 9:10- do? And I I think we have to
- 9:12- start asking that question.
- 9:14- Yeah. That that is a good question. And
- 9:16- what what are we gonna do?
- 9:18- That that And and yeah.
- 9:21- I mean, yeah. You're a a open ended
- 9:24- question,
- 9:25- and I don't think there's a lot of
- 9:26- answers.
- 9:27- At least not not what we can see.
- 9:31- And and if you read today's press of
- 9:33- Atlantic City, which, of course, comes out online
- 9:35- and it gets distributed later on the newsstand.
- 9:38- So you see that these random crime stories,
- 9:42- Anta Johnson of Gloucester County
- 9:44- got three years in prison for kicking someone
- 9:47- in the face at the Tropicana Casino on
- 9:50- March 1. Jeez. So if she's in three
- 9:52- years in in,
- 9:53- in in prison, that means she'll probably be
- 9:55- out in about a year.
- 9:58- What's she gonna be like when she gets
- 9:59- out? Is she gonna be a reformed person,
- 10:02- or is she going to just do the
- 10:05- same stuff she was doing before?
- 10:07- And do we have can we possibly hire
- 10:09- enough police
- 10:11- to look out for people and protect people
- 10:14- when you have people like that wandering around?
- 10:17- Another story. And there there were about a
- 10:19- half a dozen stories in today's,
- 10:21- press of Atlantic City.
- 10:23- Charles Summers, 21 year old from Atlantic City,
- 10:26- was sentenced to seven years in prison
- 10:28- for shooting a victim in both legs in
- 10:30- Atlantic City on July 4, two years ago.
- 10:34- What she so if he he's in for
- 10:36- seven years, he'll be out in two or
- 10:37- three? Jeez. And what kind of person is
- 10:40- he gonna come out? Did he learn something?
- 10:43- Melissa Tucaram,
- 10:44- 30 year old, from New York.
- 10:47- She got fifteen years for luring a victim
- 10:49- into an armed robbery where he was killed
- 10:52- in Atlantic City, January 24 twentieth twenty twenty
- 10:55- four. I mean, there was a time
- 10:58- when,
- 10:59- people who committed these kind of crimes, they
- 11:01- were there for life for for twenty, thirty
- 11:04- years. In fact, in Old England, they used
- 11:06- to execute people for all
- 11:09- felonies.
- 11:10- Christopher Davis, 38 last Tuesday, got four years
- 11:13- for drive by shooting on Florida Avenue in
- 11:16- Atlantic City.
- 11:18- Khaled Harakshin,
- 11:19- 22 years old.
- 11:21- Five years for four separate incidents
- 11:24- including taking off. He gets stopped on the
- 11:26- expressway
- 11:27- and he just, takes off and almost runs
- 11:30- over the, officer.
- 11:32- So so it's
- 11:34- those are the stories that we read every
- 11:36- day.
- 11:37- And another interesting story,
- 11:39- the New Jersey Correctional Officers Union,
- 11:43- is,
- 11:44- complaining about a law
- 11:45- that says they can't put,
- 11:48- prisoners
- 11:49- into solitary confinement,
- 11:52- for attacking corrections officers,
- 11:55- attacking other prisoners.
- 11:57- And one of the latest things that these
- 11:59- prisoners do,
- 12:01- they they call it splashing. It means they
- 12:03- take,
- 12:05- you know, a human excrement or their human
- 12:08- urine,
- 12:09- and they put it in containers and they
- 12:11- throw it at the,
- 12:13- doors. Oh. Gretchen also. They throw it other
- 12:15- prisoners.
- 12:16- And if they,
- 12:17- so normally the the punishment for this is
- 12:20- to be put in solitary confinement, which makes
- 12:22- a lot of sense. Because it means if
- 12:25- you can't even in prison
- 12:27- deal with other people,
- 12:28- you know, you shouldn't deal with other
- 12:31- people. But because there's a state law that
- 12:34- says that, certain protected,
- 12:37- what they call vulnerable prisoners
- 12:40- cannot be punished in this way.
- 12:42- And vulnerable prisoners are defined and have a
- 12:44- whole list of definitions that people with psychological
- 12:47- trauma,
- 12:48- people who identify
- 12:51- as gay
- 12:52- or transgender.
- 12:53- And and without even any medical documentation, all
- 12:56- they have to do is say I have
- 12:58- a problem
- 12:59- and they cannot
- 13:00- be,
- 13:01- put in solitary confinement. So the correction officers
- 13:04- are complaining
- 13:06- that, you know, anybody just, you know, could
- 13:09- do this horrible stuff. And all they do
- 13:11- is say, well, I'm gay. I'm transgender. You
- 13:13- know, you can't do anything to me. So
- 13:16- if we can't control these people
- 13:18- in prison, how can we possibly control them
- 13:20- out of prison? Because this is what they
- 13:22- do. You know, we we send them away
- 13:24- for one, two, three years. They come out
- 13:26- getting away with this.
- 13:29- Again, we we have a culture that makes
- 13:31- the police more afraid of criminals than criminals
- 13:34- are afraid of police. And I don't know
- 13:36- about you, but I just don't see any,
- 13:39- political people
- 13:40- even talking about a need to do something
- 13:43- about this. No. I don't either. And, you
- 13:45- mentioned the in the beginning of that discussion,
- 13:48- you mentioned the,
- 13:50- accident or the the people that were killed
- 13:52- in Maze Landing.
- 13:53- That that kid well, he's not a kid.
- 13:55- He's 18.
- 13:56- He he had done the same thing two
- 13:58- months earlier. So what's he doing now? You
- 14:01- know? The the so he stole the car
- 14:03- two months earlier.
- 14:05- Yeah. And and do you know what they
- 14:06- were doing? You would have maybe they were
- 14:09- all, like, 13, 14, 15 years old. They
- 14:11- knew
- 14:12- that if they got caught, they'd be sent
- 14:14- home. Right. Because there's only 27 spaces in
- 14:17- the juvenile,
- 14:18- detention center at Harbor Field.
- 14:20- And unless we have somebody say we gotta
- 14:23- build more stuff, we gotta confine dangerous people
- 14:26- indefinitely
- 14:27- or far longer than they are because we
- 14:30- cannot
- 14:31- hire more police to to basically go one
- 14:34- on one to follow these people around.
- 14:37- So if we have a real democracy we
- 14:39- should be able to do something about it.
- 14:41- I finally want to talk about,
- 14:44- and yet we talked about antisemitism
- 14:46- last week.
- 14:48- And,
- 14:49- and I pointed out that that most of
- 14:51- it is coming from
- 14:53- socialism.
- 14:54- And socialism is built on envy, being jealous
- 14:57- of what other people have,
- 14:59- and and feeling a right that if there's
- 15:01- something wrong in your life, you have the
- 15:03- right to take something from somebody who is
- 15:05- more successful than you.
- 15:07- And again, three hundred and fifty years of
- 15:09- American culture
- 15:11- has been designed to,
- 15:13- to get, you know, Americans not to think
- 15:16- that way because that that's our natural instinct.
- 15:19- Our natural instinct is really to be barbarians
- 15:22- to to want whatever we could get away
- 15:23- with and the heck with anybody else. And
- 15:27- and that's a very unpleasant
- 15:28- society
- 15:29- and that's why we have Judaism and Christianity
- 15:32- and Hinduism and Buddhism
- 15:33- that, that tell us to respect others.
- 15:37- Do unto others as you would have them
- 15:38- do unto you. And we're just not doing
- 15:41- that. And there's another element to it.
- 15:44- It's very easy to just say well,
- 15:47- someone's, something's going on that I don't like.
- 15:49- So I'm, I, I hate the bad people
- 15:51- who are causing it.
- 15:53- And one of the key elements,
- 15:55- and I forgot about this, but one of
- 15:57- the key elements of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism
- 16:00- is something called discernment,
- 16:03- wisdom,
- 16:04- judgment, critical thinking.
- 16:06- Where you just don't look at things on
- 16:08- the surface. You look at the details.
- 16:10- You compare what happened before, what happens afterwards.
- 16:14- And and that's a a process of of
- 16:17- civilization and intelligence
- 16:19- that that used to be schools and colleges
- 16:22- were there to teach kids how to do
- 16:24- that.
- 16:25- And now our, colleges and high schools and
- 16:28- popular culture teaching people to do the do
- 16:30- the opposite. Well, that person's bad. That person's
- 16:33- greedy. That person's toxic.
- 16:35- Don't have anything to do with them. Don't
- 16:37- talk to them. Don't even talk to your
- 16:39- parents or grandparents if they disagree with you.
- 16:41- And,
- 16:42- you know, we've got to
- 16:44- recognize,
- 16:45- what's going on. We gotta deal with it.
- 16:47- And, again, this is not simple stuff. You
- 16:50- could talk in a thirty minute commercial or
- 16:52- a sound bite in one minute. You it
- 16:54- it take you have to read books. You
- 16:56- have to think, and our whole civilization is
- 16:58- built on that,
- 17:00- and we have to be aware of that.
- 17:02- Yeah. That
- 17:04- that's a lot. You you said a lot.
- 17:06- But but
- 17:07- but radio
- 17:08- is, you know, is valuable because it gets
- 17:11- us to think. In other words, in a
- 17:14- in a minute or two on radio, you
- 17:15- can't solve a problem.
- 17:17- But in a minute or two on radio,
- 17:19- you can make people aware
- 17:21- of the need to think about a problem
- 17:23- that needs to be solved. That is right.
- 17:25- Yes.
- 17:26- And and I just wanna go to one
- 17:27- one,
- 17:28- point when I talked about the antisemitism.
- 17:31- Besides the socialist,
- 17:33- and unfortunately, the the more socialist you are,
- 17:36- the more antisemitic you are. It's a statistical
- 17:39- fact. And most black Americans are more socialist,
- 17:43- than others. That's why they vote 95%
- 17:45- democrat. They've been targeted by
- 17:48- leftist, you know, for sixty years and it
- 17:50- worked. And the next, most antisemitism
- 17:53- is in college students
- 17:55- because that's where they're being programmed in socialism.
- 17:58- But besides the social socialism, there's the Islam.
- 18:03- You know, more Muslims hate Jews more than
- 18:06- anyone else. And there's a very simple reason
- 18:08- for that, why they hate Israel.
- 18:11- You know, they believe that,
- 18:13- Islam must conquer,
- 18:15- the entire world.
- 18:17- And there are a billion and a half
- 18:19- Christians, and there are a billion Hindus.
- 18:22- And they believe that at some point Islam
- 18:24- must conquer
- 18:26- the Christians and the Hindus, but they know
- 18:27- the Hindus and the Christians are strong.
- 18:30- There are only 15,000,000
- 18:32- Jews in the world.
- 18:33- So they want to you know take over
- 18:35- from the Jews, the Christians, and the Hindus,
- 18:38- equally.
- 18:39- But what makes it so humiliating
- 18:42- for the these radical you know Islamist
- 18:45- is there are only 15,000,000 Jews and there's
- 18:47- only one Jewish country in the world which
- 18:49- is Israel which is small as the New
- 18:52- Jersey
- 18:53- in in the middle of the Middle East.
- 18:55- So the fact that after fifty years,
- 18:57- they have been unable to destroy
- 19:00- tiny little Israel.
- 19:01- It's really a humiliation for the whole Islamic
- 19:04- world because people are saying, well, if you
- 19:06- can't even destroy Israel,
- 19:08- how are you gonna deal with, Christian America
- 19:10- or Hindu India? So that's another element to
- 19:12- that antisemitism
- 19:14- that I wanted to, bring up. Anyway, all
- 19:16- this stuff we talk about it every Saturday
- 19:18- morning from 09:30 to 10:30 at Liberty and
- 19:20- Prosperity, and I'm on my way to see
- 19:23- what they thought about your comments about president
- 19:26- Trump this morning. So so we'll see how
- 19:28- that goes. Okay. Thank you, Seth.
- 19:30- Seth Grossman. Liberty and Prosperity. The website libertyandprosperity.com.