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- 0:52Speaker 4: This morning three zero four three four five fifty eight
- 0:55Speaker 4: fifty eight three zero four, three four five fifty eight
- 0:57Speaker 4: fifty eight. That uh singing that you heard in the
- 1:00Speaker 4: background is one Harvey Payton, who's in studio with us
- 1:03Speaker 4: this morning.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Harvey, good morning, how you doing this?
- 1:05Speaker 5: Well? It wasn't Frank's enough. I don't know about that,
- 1:08Speaker 5: but it's five. You know the there's been some construction
- 1:11Speaker 5: on I sixty four between the Institute and Dunbar interchanges.
- 1:15Speaker 5: They're working on a bridge, yeah in there, uh, and
- 1:18Speaker 5: it just takes time. You know, there's a lane shift,
- 1:21Speaker 5: and it's tough. You know, you're starting down the hill
- 1:23Speaker 5: there at Institute and traffic's going back. I would just
- 1:27Speaker 5: I don't think it's an inordinate delay, but you know,
- 1:29Speaker 5: I sort of look forward to that because the last
- 1:32Speaker 5: three weeks here in a rush. Now you're on the
- 1:34Speaker 5: interstate and people are bumping around and they're speeding, and
- 1:39Speaker 5: everybody's looking at the jockey for position on the lane chain.
- 1:42Speaker 5: So just get off at Institute, drive up fair Lawn Avenue.
- 1:47Speaker 5: Last week I came up through Dogtown and you know,
- 1:51Speaker 5: Patrick Street, hit the boulevard, gives you time to just decompress,
- 1:55Speaker 5: look around and look at the parts of this from
- 2:00Speaker 5: west to the central part of Kanawa County you just
- 2:02Speaker 5: don't see before us. This morning, I thought, well, let's
- 2:04Speaker 5: I'll try the other way. Let's go across the Dunbar
- 2:07Speaker 5: toll bridge and pop out on sixty and you know,
- 2:11Speaker 5: just see how crowded it's going to be. Chick filated there,
- 2:16Speaker 5: and you know, drive up the boulevard. A nice spring
- 2:18Speaker 5: day it's enjoyable to slow down a little bit. We
- 2:21Speaker 5: sometimes move too fast, and of course it helps because
- 2:25Speaker 5: this is this is the coolest time of the day.
- 2:27Speaker 5: The heat's been pretty insufferable. Listening to the radio gives
- 2:32Speaker 5: a good chance to listen to this station on the
- 2:33Speaker 5: way up to hear what's on the news. There was
- 2:35Speaker 5: one interesting I'm about the airport. You know, I I've
- 2:41Speaker 5: never been shy being grown up in Saint Albans and
- 2:45Speaker 5: practiced and really made my career in Putnam County about
- 2:52Speaker 5: criticism of the current airport because we lost an opportunity
- 2:55Speaker 5: in the sixties to have you know, seven thousand foot
- 2:58Speaker 5: runway at a central location. And you know that's my
- 3:03Speaker 5: personal feeling. We missed the boat. But we have what
- 3:05Speaker 5: we have. We have what we have and that is
- 3:08Speaker 5: is it called Charleston International Yeager Airport some agglomeration. Well,
- 3:13Speaker 5: for almost thirty five years, Ed Hill has been active
- 3:16Speaker 5: on the airport authority. Ed's a lawyer with Hill, Peterson, Carper,
- 3:22Speaker 5: Dietzler and b Right. And you know, I don't agree
- 3:27Speaker 5: with the the airport where it is was the best
- 3:31Speaker 5: choice to make. But Ed Hill has just been a
- 3:33Speaker 5: dedicated public servant and has done the very very best
- 3:37Speaker 5: he can with that airport, trying to move it forward,
- 3:39Speaker 5: to keep up, just to keep from becoming a complete
- 3:42Speaker 5: backwater with a little tiny regional air service. Ed Soffer
- 3:46Speaker 5: the loss fore years and his wife Nancy, a delightful
- 3:48Speaker 5: person who was Kent Carper's sister, really nice person and
- 3:52Speaker 5: a lawyer, and she passed away early. And of course
- 3:55Speaker 5: Ed was on the board with Alan Tuckett, who was
- 3:57Speaker 5: also left the board that was the announced one that
- 4:01Speaker 5: been after thirty five years. Ed's just stepping aside the
- 4:03Speaker 5: count of commissions, naming other people and newer blood to
- 4:08Speaker 5: the airport Authority, and Alan Tackett left the authority. People
- 4:11Speaker 5: may remember General Tackett was the head of the guard
- 4:15Speaker 5: here and the vet from up Cabin Creek. Really one
- 4:22Speaker 5: of those people who is a citizen. He's not a politician,
- 4:28Speaker 5: not a public figures as much as he is just
- 4:30Speaker 5: a solid citizen. And those are the people who really
- 4:33Speaker 5: make things happen and make things great. I wish General
- 4:36Speaker 5: tack at all the best in the world and his
- 4:39Speaker 5: endeavors after the Airport Authority had great experience this week
- 4:43Speaker 5: with public service, often you lose sight of that, I
- 4:46Speaker 5: had to did not have to, but I'm going to
- 4:49Speaker 5: Canada on a fishing trip in August. Had to look
- 4:54Speaker 5: at my passport and inexpires in November. Well, most countries
- 4:59Speaker 5: have have what's called a six month rule for entry.
- 5:03Speaker 5: If you enter another country with whom we do not.
- 5:06Speaker 5: We have an arrangement for visitors visas. You know, you
- 5:12Speaker 5: can enter the country and you can stay as much
- 5:14Speaker 5: as six months lawfully. Now if you don't, that's when
- 5:18Speaker 5: your quote visitors visa expires. If you don't leave, then
- 5:21Speaker 5: you're an unlawful alien resident. Well, I have no idea.
- 5:27Speaker 5: I'm certainly not going to be there that I'll I'll
- 5:28Speaker 5: be in Canada for maybe two weeks total up and back.
- 5:34Speaker 5: But with Canada, the rule of the six month rules
- 5:38Speaker 5: has just generally been ignoledged and never applies. If you've
- 5:40Speaker 5: got a US passport that expires tomorrow, you can go
- 5:44Speaker 5: across the bridge at Detroit, or you can go up
- 5:47Speaker 5: through Thousand Islands, or you can clear customs at any
- 5:50Speaker 5: airport like Toronto or Montreal, and no problem. I got
- 5:55Speaker 5: to say, well, you know that is sort of an
- 5:59Speaker 5: unwritten rule, But do you think that might have changed,
- 6:03Speaker 5: and it only has to change in one mind, because
- 6:06Speaker 5: as you walk up to that little cubicle in the
- 6:10Speaker 5: airport and you hold out your little passport and the
- 6:15Speaker 5: photo you take at the kiosk when you get off
- 6:17Speaker 5: the plane, it's up to that office, to that immigration officer,
- 6:21Speaker 5: to whether you know, once you step across that line,
- 6:24Speaker 5: you're in the other country. While you're still on the
- 6:26Speaker 5: inby side of that line, they just said, put them
- 6:29Speaker 5: back on a plane, send them home. You really have
- 6:31Speaker 5: no right of entry. And I think, well, what if
- 6:33Speaker 5: I just run into some guy who's really mad at
- 6:37Speaker 5: us about this fifty first state business and just says, hey,
- 6:43Speaker 5: this passport expires less than six months, we can't let
- 6:45Speaker 5: you in. I mean, that's all it takes. And you're
- 6:48Speaker 5: there's no appeal from that. You're just to gone gosling.
- 6:50Speaker 5: So well, I alread knew it, but I'm a little
- 6:53Speaker 5: bit worried about the time because I'm going to travel
- 6:56Speaker 5: in August. I didn't really think about this. So to
- 6:58Speaker 5: the Hurricane Post Office. They're listed online as one of
- 7:02Speaker 5: the places they actually have a little passport office there.
- 7:05Speaker 5: And I'll tell you, I have you talk about the
- 7:10Speaker 5: very best customer service. There's a lady who works at
- 7:12Speaker 5: the counter. She was by herself there working the counter,
- 7:15Speaker 5: and the passport office is off to the right. And
- 7:19Speaker 5: I stood there while the folks were doing their mail
- 7:21Speaker 5: all time. See I'm talking about I passed, Oh really,
- 7:23Speaker 5: when are you traveling? I said, well, you know, I
- 7:27Speaker 5: need to make an appointment. It says, oh, no, no,
- 7:28Speaker 5: you don't need an appointment. I'll take care of you
- 7:30Speaker 5: right now. Gave me the application, said fill this out.
- 7:33Speaker 5: Is it a new renewal or anew and I said,
- 7:35Speaker 5: it's a renewal. Do you have your old passports? I've
- 7:37Speaker 5: got it here. Put all the information here back to her,
- 7:41Speaker 5: looked it over, made a little card, made a mistake,
- 7:44Speaker 5: said I step in this room. There's the picture. He said.
- 7:50Speaker 5: If you have a debit card, we can just do
- 7:53Speaker 5: a money order and I'll mail this in for you
- 7:55Speaker 5: right now, and you should have this passport in three weeks.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Nice.
- 7:58Speaker 5: Yeah, like then, just so you know, not self aggrandizing,
- 8:04Speaker 5: just a person who was really doing their job efficiently
- 8:07Speaker 5: and accommodating a public need. And then you know, last
- 8:11Speaker 5: week Jake Goldman called the show to tell me that
- 8:18Speaker 5: we were talking about canaw County records being online. Of course,
- 8:21Speaker 5: that was Juneteenth was last Thursday, and West Virginia Day
- 8:25Speaker 5: was Friday, and so I did what Jay recommended. I
- 8:29Speaker 5: called the Canall County Record Room Monday. Now let me
- 8:33Speaker 5: say this, I have complained for like five years because
- 8:37Speaker 5: canawh County's records are not online. But that's not a
- 8:40Speaker 5: decision that was made in the record room. Those are
- 8:43Speaker 5: the nicest, most helpful people in the world down there.
- 8:45Speaker 5: You go into the recording window, or we get a
- 8:50Speaker 5: birth certificate or death certificate, or go across the hall
- 8:54Speaker 5: and need some help looking up something to get a copy.
- 8:56Speaker 5: I mean, I see those folks in there working all
- 8:58Speaker 5: the time. People just want not lawyers. They wander in
- 9:02Speaker 5: and they're looking for a record, and they're polite and
- 9:04Speaker 5: so you know they've got caller ID. So when the
- 9:07Speaker 5: fellow picked up the phone, he knows who he's talking to,
- 9:10Speaker 5: and he said, oh, yeah, you guys have an account.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Let me give you this. It just really efficient and
- 9:16Speaker 5: polite and gave me. There's a website. I think it's
- 9:19Speaker 5: KENADWV dot compilled hyphen Technologies dot com. And when you
- 9:26Speaker 5: push that once you've got an account. You just get
- 9:29Speaker 5: a It's pretty slick. I mean, it's the same system
- 9:32Speaker 5: that's used in uh most other counties. Now a lot
- 9:36Speaker 5: of other counties do not require you to have a
- 9:39Speaker 5: quote an account too that you don't have. You don't
- 9:43Speaker 5: have to pay to use the system like Rown County.
- 9:46Speaker 5: You just go online. I had to look at something
- 9:48Speaker 5: yesterday about some mineral interest. But you know, when public
- 9:52Speaker 5: servants perform and they get so much criticism, that's a
- 9:58Speaker 5: government job. That's folks are efficient, they care about their jobs.
- 10:02Speaker 5: They've most of them have been doing it for a
- 10:04Speaker 5: long time. So shout out in kudos to I don't
- 10:08Speaker 5: know the lady's name, but whoever runs the Hurricane post office.
- 10:12Speaker 5: I want to go out there and uh they were
- 10:15Speaker 5: put a little gold star by her name and the
- 10:17Speaker 5: Lamb's Book of Life in the same way with the
- 10:19Speaker 5: fellows at their record room this morning.
- 10:22Speaker 4: The last time I got my passport renewed, I went
- 10:26Speaker 4: to a small post office as well and had a
- 10:28Speaker 4: very similar experience. It was like I felt like I
- 10:31Speaker 4: was stumbled across a secret you know. It was like this,
- 10:34Speaker 4: this was like way easier than I expected to basically
- 10:37Speaker 4: in and out and it was. It was really easy.
- 10:38Speaker 5: I was expecting some swear Buckra said, well, we need traveling.
- 10:41Speaker 5: I said, well, I told her generally want to say, oh,
- 10:44Speaker 5: where are you going? Do you travel off? I said, well,
- 10:46Speaker 5: look here's the old passport. It's got some visa stamps
- 10:50Speaker 5: on it. Well, you'll get that back. They send your
- 10:53Speaker 5: old one back. It's canceled. But because you know, you
- 10:56Speaker 5: want to sort of like a momentum of your trips,
- 10:59Speaker 5: because when you go, you know, the most countries you enter.
- 11:02Speaker 5: Canada does it sometimes sometimes they don't. They just put
- 11:05Speaker 5: a visa stamp on there to tell you, yeah, that
- 11:07Speaker 5: shows your data of entry in the countries. I've got
- 11:10Speaker 5: them from places in Europe and South America, and just
- 11:13Speaker 5: I want to keep it so it should come back
- 11:16Speaker 5: in the mail all in about three weeks with the info.
- 11:20Speaker 4: I don't want to derail your conversation. But I heard
- 11:22Speaker 4: something last night that I thought was kind of interesting.
- 11:24Speaker 4: You brought up passports today, so I thought maybe i'd
- 11:25Speaker 4: ask you. I was reading where I think the British
- 11:28Speaker 4: Embassy or the US Embassy in the UK was advising
- 11:33Speaker 4: those applying for visitors visas from the UK that are
- 11:36Speaker 4: coming to the United States, one of the first steps
- 11:39Speaker 4: they needed to do was make all of their social
- 11:40Speaker 4: media public. They couldn't have private social media anymore because
- 11:43Speaker 4: those things were going to be checked before they were granted.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Their visitors of visa never heard anything like that before.
- 11:49Speaker 4: And it just makes me wonder, you're leaving the country
- 11:53Speaker 4: and coming back. What is the I mean, I'm not
- 11:57Speaker 4: saying that's capricious on the United States point.
- 11:59Speaker 2: I I don't know how that works.
- 12:01Speaker 4: But is there a h Is there a mechanism where
- 12:05Speaker 4: a citizen could be required to surrender their social media's
- 12:09Speaker 4: before re entry into the country.
- 12:11Speaker 5: Well, whether that could lawfully be done or not, I
- 12:15Speaker 5: don't know. I don't know the answer to that because
- 12:17Speaker 5: I haven't been asked to look at it, but certainly,
- 12:20Speaker 5: I mean, a lot of power is vested in the
- 12:23Speaker 5: hands of that person you hand your passport too when
- 12:25Speaker 5: you come back to the border, and all I've ever
- 12:28Speaker 5: heard is welcome, ang, good to have you back. But
- 12:31Speaker 5: it could also be just sit in that room, uh,
- 12:35Speaker 5: and that person has I mean, you have not entered
- 12:38Speaker 5: the country until you clear that agent. I mean, you're
- 12:42Speaker 5: you're in the United States, right, you flew into Kennedy,
- 12:45Speaker 5: so you're out on Long Island, or you flew into Atlanta,
- 12:48Speaker 5: so there you are. The question. You're physically here, but
- 12:54Speaker 5: legally you are not a person within the United States
- 12:58Speaker 5: until you cross that line. That's one of the things
- 12:59Speaker 5: that the border. You know, people who are apprehended within
- 13:05Speaker 5: there used to be seven hundred and fifty feet. I
- 13:07Speaker 5: think now they have a different sort of enforcement zone.
- 13:11Speaker 5: We just take them the border thrown back across. I mean,
- 13:14Speaker 5: that's it. You're not entitled entry. And if the agent
- 13:17Speaker 5: says no to me, it's frightening. It's upsetting to hear
- 13:22Speaker 5: things like all your social media posts. I mean, that's
- 13:24Speaker 5: off comes awfully close to thought control or sort of regimentation.
- 13:32Speaker 5: But these are folks who are non citizens, and certainly,
- 13:35Speaker 5: I mean an argument could be made given the current
- 13:39Speaker 5: circumstances in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe and
- 13:44Speaker 5: somewhat in Southeast Asia. The Philippines are rife with you know,
- 13:48Speaker 5: with the disputes regard mostly religious disputes. Does the State
- 13:55Speaker 5: Department have a right to screen the musings of folks
- 14:01Speaker 5: who enter the country, Well, probably they don't have the
- 14:05Speaker 5: right to stop American citizens on the streets, or people
- 14:08Speaker 5: who have already in the country and say give me
- 14:10Speaker 5: your phone without probable cause. But perhaps some degree of
- 14:15Speaker 5: that enforcement is better than having a person enter the country,
- 14:22Speaker 5: rent a car and drive ninety miles an ira through
- 14:24Speaker 5: a parade route and kill fifteen people, women and children,
- 14:29Speaker 5: and then you find out on their social media posts
- 14:32Speaker 5: that they've been radicalized a year before, and there was
- 14:35Speaker 5: banner about that. So, I mean, it's a balancing test.
- 14:39Speaker 5: I'm sure there are legitimate, valid reasons to scan folks
- 14:45Speaker 5: more carefully as they come into this country. What happens
- 14:48Speaker 5: to American citizens is a different story. Because you're an American,
- 14:51Speaker 5: I mean you are, regardless of crossing that bar, you're
- 14:55Speaker 5: still an American citizen. You have a right to do
- 14:57Speaker 5: process based upon some denial, which segues a little bit
- 15:04Speaker 5: into one of the things I wanted to talk about
- 15:06Speaker 5: this morning. You know, the first Amendment to the Constitution
- 15:11Speaker 5: of the United States is the first Amendment because it's
- 15:14Speaker 5: important now. They're not ranked. Most legal scholars say, well,
- 15:19Speaker 5: they're not ranked ordinarly. You know, these are cardinal numberings
- 15:23Speaker 5: which just designate one, two, three, four, not first, second, third, fourth.
- 15:31Speaker 5: But you know, everybody's familiar with piresson making their law
- 15:35Speaker 5: affect and freedom of the press, nor the establishment of
- 15:39Speaker 5: religion or the free exercise thereof. And then the last
- 15:43Speaker 5: cause is nor of the people to peaceably assemble and
- 15:48Speaker 5: petition their government for redress of grievance. And that's an
- 15:52Speaker 5: absolute fundamental right. And we used to be really taken seriously.
- 15:58Speaker 5: I mean, the founding father were almost literalists. So there
- 16:02Speaker 5: were days set aside from the founding of the Republic
- 16:07Speaker 5: until about eighteen fifty, when a day a week or
- 16:12Speaker 5: a day every other week while Congress was in session,
- 16:15Speaker 5: members of the House of Representatives would request time on
- 16:19Speaker 5: the floor where they would read petitions that were brought
- 16:22Speaker 5: to them by their constituents. That's what they thought, you
- 16:26Speaker 5: have to write to petition your government. Well, if I
- 16:27Speaker 5: take this petition to my congressman, he has to read
- 16:30Speaker 5: it on the floor of the House.
- 16:31Speaker 2: That feels shocking today.
- 16:33Speaker 5: Well yeah, well it didn't last past about eighteen fifty
- 16:37Speaker 5: because Northeastern abolitionists, those who opposed the enslavement of human
- 16:48Speaker 5: beings were well represented in the House. My representeds from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
- 16:58Speaker 5: and they would just stand up all day read petitions
- 17:01Speaker 5: in the House of Representatives against the enslavement of human
- 17:07Speaker 5: beings in the United States, which did not sit well
- 17:10Speaker 5: at all. Then with the majority of House members who
- 17:12Speaker 5: were dominated by Southerners. You got to remember Edward Ruffin
- 17:16Speaker 5: almost killed Charles Sumner. He beat him almost to death
- 17:19Speaker 5: with the canes. Sumner was in the Senate, Refen was
- 17:21Speaker 5: in the House. Sumner got up and made a scorching
- 17:23Speaker 5: speech about slavery, and Ruffin sneaked up on him two
- 17:27Speaker 5: days later and almost killed him. Uh So, the majority
- 17:31Speaker 5: of House members, who were mostly in slavers or sympathetic
- 17:36Speaker 5: with enslavers, said well, we're not going to do that anymore,
- 17:38Speaker 5: and so petitioned. They died, and it's never been revived,
- 17:42Speaker 5: probably won't be. So how do you petition? Government? Free
- 17:45Speaker 5: dress where you go to your you go to the office,
- 17:48Speaker 5: or you see a senator or a congressman on the street,
- 17:52Speaker 5: or on the unlikely occurrence that they have, say a
- 17:57Speaker 5: public meeting to discuss matters at issue with their instituents,
- 18:02Speaker 5: they call those town halls. I think someplace. You certainly
- 18:06Speaker 5: have a right to appear in petition. Read a petition.
- 18:08Speaker 5: You can hand a petition, you can have one hundred
- 18:10Speaker 5: signatures on it. Or you know, if the people simply
- 18:14Speaker 5: refuse to make themselves available, you can go to their office.
- 18:16Speaker 5: You go where their staff is. Well, why do you
- 18:20Speaker 5: do that way? You do it because you have a
- 18:21Speaker 5: right to express yourself about your grievances. What happened yesterday
- 18:26Speaker 5: in Charleston at the United Bank Building I think it's
- 18:30Speaker 5: five hundred Virginia Street East. A number of people gathered
- 18:36Speaker 5: I think outside in the park area there carrying signs
- 18:43Speaker 5: of protests. They want to influence the position of Senator
- 18:49Speaker 5: Shelley Capita regarding this budget bill, which the folks who
- 18:53Speaker 5: are protesting deeply and sincerely believe is harmful to the
- 18:56Speaker 5: majority of West Virginia's because of its effect on Medicaid,
- 19:01Speaker 5: food assistance, educational programs, and otherwise. Well, six of those
- 19:10Speaker 5: individuals went through the door into the lobby the building.
- 19:12Speaker 5: The building's open to the public. It's not like the
- 19:14Speaker 5: federal building where you walk in, you show ID. You're searched,
- 19:19Speaker 5: at least electronically by going through a detector and scanner.
- 19:23Speaker 5: It's a public building. Anybody walking down the street that
- 19:25Speaker 5: can walk in the lobby. There's no day you can't
- 19:28Speaker 5: go in there with nefarious purpose. You know, you can't
- 19:32Speaker 5: panhandle in the lobby. They have security people every They
- 19:34Speaker 5: walked in the like everybody else who's the member of
- 19:37Speaker 5: the public, took an elevator up to whatever floor Senator
- 19:40Speaker 5: Capitol's office is located, got off the elevator, I guess,
- 19:43Speaker 5: went to the door and they saw she's not here.
- 19:45Speaker 5: In DC, well, they knew that obviously. I mean the
- 19:48Speaker 5: sentence in session, the woman's not here. You're going to
- 19:52Speaker 5: their office to make a point that she's not here.
- 19:55Speaker 5: That's that's sort of a negative reinforce. But here we
- 19:57Speaker 5: are to discuss this very important piece of legislation, and
- 20:01Speaker 5: nobody's here, and so they just stood in the hallway.
- 20:04Speaker 5: One of them was the Reverend James Lewis, who I
- 20:09Speaker 5: admired deeply. He has done tremendous work in the area
- 20:11Speaker 5: of civil rights and human rights and labor rights, and
- 20:14Speaker 5: this area is way better for having him here. But
- 20:17Speaker 5: I think j Lewis is in his mid mid if
- 20:19Speaker 5: not late eighties. He's a walker here was handcuffing. Hey, man,
- 20:25Speaker 5: I don't think so. I think he walked across the street.
- 20:27Speaker 4: I saw a video with him getting cuffs put on.
- 20:29Speaker 4: I don't know if maybe they took him off before
- 20:30Speaker 4: they took him out or not. Well, hey had head,
- 20:32Speaker 4: he's a walker to walk across the street. I just
- 20:34Speaker 4: saw he may have been cut, and you know that's what.
- 20:39Speaker 5: The purpose was. So you get this what I call
- 20:43Speaker 5: sort of smarmy bystander nullification attitude. Well, look, it's private property.
- 20:50Speaker 5: If you want to first thing that people say it's
- 20:53Speaker 5: private property, you know you just want to go make
- 20:56Speaker 5: a show of things. Well, yes, it's called the point.
- 20:59Speaker 5: It's called called indirect civil disobedience. Indirect civil disobedience, it
- 21:07Speaker 5: means that to try and sway the conscience of the
- 21:11Speaker 5: public with regard to an issue, You may call attention
- 21:17Speaker 5: to your protest by defying a particular law, not the
- 21:22Speaker 5: one that you are protesting. Now, you know, direct civil
- 21:26Speaker 5: disobedience would be Mahatma Gandhi going to make salt. The
- 21:30Speaker 5: British had a law that nobody can make salt except
- 21:33Speaker 5: our people, so we can overcharge you for it. The
- 21:37Speaker 5: Gandhi went to the seashore, so we're going to make
- 21:40Speaker 5: some salt. Well, he was arrested. Other people were beaten
- 21:42Speaker 5: here to death. That's direct civil disobedience. You won't stand
- 21:48Speaker 5: up to take the oth if you're drafted. Indirect civil
- 21:52Speaker 5: disobedience is like if Arch Mineral or its predecessor, the
- 21:58Speaker 5: Massy Company, or any of these others their alphabet suit
- 22:01Speaker 5: coal companies buy someplace like Candleton Industries and they just
- 22:08Speaker 5: steal the employees' benefits by stealing their retirement benefits and
- 22:12Speaker 5: pocketing them as a part of a bankruptcy proceeding in
- 22:16Speaker 5: Saint Louis. Not here, then indirect civil disobedience would be
- 22:22Speaker 5: officials from West Virginia, from the UMW Cecil Roberts, going
- 22:26Speaker 5: to the federal building and sitting down on a public
- 22:29Speaker 5: sidewalk and say and when they were asked to leave,
- 22:30Speaker 5: say no, they know they're going to be arrested. I
- 22:33Speaker 5: actually tried to become involved in one of the planned
- 22:37Speaker 5: arrest and I was just told, no, listen, we know
- 22:39Speaker 5: how to do this. This is what we do to
- 22:42Speaker 5: draw attention to our position. It's not a spectator sport.
- 22:46Speaker 5: I respect that. So you've got six people, one of
- 22:49Speaker 5: whom has a lot of experience with civil disobedience, go
- 22:53Speaker 5: into a lobby, you go up an elevator and there's
- 22:55Speaker 5: a lobby. It's open to the public. Now, there's an
- 22:57Speaker 5: accounting office across the hall. Well, aren't they in? I
- 23:02Speaker 5: guess if your whole position is a senator can deprive
- 23:08Speaker 5: the people of the rape to petition by renting an
- 23:10Speaker 5: office in what is a private building. They can't really
- 23:14Speaker 5: be in a federal building because the courthouse is that
- 23:17Speaker 5: so much security can never get in and out. The
- 23:22Speaker 5: possible inconvenience of other firms on that floor, who benefit,
- 23:27Speaker 5: by the way, for being able to tell their clientele
- 23:29Speaker 5: or our office right across from Shelley's, uh, come and
- 23:32Speaker 5: see us. The implication of some soft power. But that
- 23:36Speaker 5: matter inconvenience is clearly outweighs the rights of these six
- 23:39Speaker 5: individuals to peacefully attempt to petition their government for redress. Now.
- 23:46Speaker 5: And they were arrested, and they planned to be arrested,
- 23:49Speaker 5: and you know what happened, All of a sudden piece
- 23:51Speaker 5: of woitamit? What are they doing? And what are they
- 23:52Speaker 5: doing with this preacher putting the handcuffs on this woman
- 23:55Speaker 5: in a wheelchair. They've got a lot of handcuff This
- 23:58Speaker 5: older gentleman here, who is uh has a petisse. He
- 24:01Speaker 5: was to read, let's put him a handcuff. You got
- 24:03Speaker 5: a girl that looked at me like she is about
- 24:05Speaker 5: twenty two to twenty three years old, maybe five foot two,
- 24:08Speaker 5: could have weighed one hundred pounds, so then well, let's
- 24:10Speaker 5: hand it. Well, they knew that was going to happen,
- 24:12Speaker 5: the visuals of that, sure, I mean it's and also
- 24:16Speaker 5: the Charleston police were very chill during the entire thing.
- 24:19Speaker 2: They were very chill.
- 24:20Speaker 5: As I found out. Well, I told you this was
- 24:23Speaker 5: some time ago about the theft of these men and
- 24:26Speaker 5: women's benefits. Uh, the police knows what's going on. Yeah,
- 24:30Speaker 5: all right, I mean it's it's you know, come with me,
- 24:35Speaker 5: and they know the person's going to say no, and
- 24:37Speaker 5: it's like, please stand up, and the peaceful civil disobedience,
- 24:42Speaker 5: nonviolence stands up, just like Martin Luther King put his
- 24:46Speaker 5: arms out and was taken off to the Birmingham jail, which,
- 24:49Speaker 5: by the way, would be pretty good reading for those
- 24:51Speaker 5: who somehow thought that because the building where the senator
- 24:56Speaker 5: maintains their office is quote private, it's only private when
- 25:00Speaker 5: they wanted to be private, right, It's public when you
- 25:01Speaker 5: want people to come in perhaps they're a quick reading
- 25:06Speaker 5: of the letter from the Birmingham Jail would be helpful
- 25:08Speaker 5: to them to get them more complete and full understanding
- 25:11Speaker 5: of what it means to be an American and what
- 25:14Speaker 5: rights we have. And one might ask, well, why does
- 25:17Speaker 5: the US senator have her office in a bank building?
- 25:21Speaker 2: Anyway?
- 25:22Speaker 5: Would the bank not be somewhat concerned about Well, because
- 25:27Speaker 5: the bank doesn't own the building. You know, the buildings
- 25:31Speaker 5: owned by the Canal Rocks Atlanta company. It's owned by
- 25:35Speaker 5: you know, people used to own Canal Banking and Trust.
- 25:37Speaker 5: Mike Smith, wonderful guy, his brother Chris and ran from Ay.
- 25:42Speaker 5: I mean, they're just an extremely powerful economic and social
- 25:46Speaker 5: force in this area because they're directly their descendants of
- 25:49Speaker 5: Governor Bill McCorkle, and perhaps the Dickinsons as well. And
- 25:52Speaker 5: that's just the way the world wigs. And if you're
- 25:55Speaker 5: a US Senator and you're married to one of the
- 25:56Speaker 5: Dickenson hears in a way, and you live up in Southeales,
- 26:01Speaker 5: where am I going to spread the largas of rent
- 26:04Speaker 5: from my office? Well let's just go down here to
- 26:06Speaker 5: the bank building, right. You know, those are all valid concerns,
- 26:09Speaker 5: But this idea that because a hallway is private property,
- 26:13Speaker 5: that people have no right to walk up to the
- 26:15Speaker 5: door of a US center. I just think it's just
- 26:18Speaker 5: repugnant to me. He is an American. Yeah, it's a
- 26:21Speaker 5: bit inconvenient for a day. Is that going to be
- 26:25Speaker 5: more inconvenient than a lifelong perhaps a child or a
- 26:29Speaker 5: young adult who's not not diagnosed with a hearing disorder
- 26:33Speaker 5: or chronic disease because you don't have a medical card anymore,
- 26:37Speaker 5: Is that any more important? I mean, those are the
- 26:39Speaker 5: things that this nonviolent civil disobedience draws attention to. It
- 26:44Speaker 5: was meant to period. Let's take a break.
- 26:48Speaker 2: Let's do that. Let's take a break. That's going to
- 26:50Speaker 2: take a break.
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- 28:37Speaker 4: Hey, I think yes, indeed a little different. Yeah, listen
- 28:40Speaker 4: to that mombur music. We know do we know who
- 28:43Speaker 4: this is? I know who it is. That's the inevitable.
- 28:47Speaker 5: Brian Roberts, my son in laws, sarrac husband on his
- 28:50Speaker 5: twelve spring guitar.
- 28:51Speaker 4: Man.
- 28:51Speaker 2: That sounds long guitar.
- 28:53Speaker 5: Yeah, sluck tracks recorded over a sound over. That's right.
- 28:58Speaker 5: And so if you call the fat, that's what you'll hear.
- 29:01Speaker 5: If you have to just played on home for a bit.
- 29:03Speaker 5: That sounds really good. Yeah, I mean he's a wonderful musician.
- 29:06Speaker 5: So is his son, Logan Roberts, my middle grandson. I
- 29:11Speaker 5: mean he Logan because Brian before the pandemic, it was
- 29:17Speaker 5: a really good setup. Because Sarah was working with the VA.
- 29:20Speaker 5: It was a long day job and Brian could stay home.
- 29:23Speaker 5: He gave a pretty good living given guitar lessons, but
- 29:26Speaker 5: those were all after hours. They scheduled him so he
- 29:29Speaker 5: could go over to fret and fiddle and give lessons
- 29:31Speaker 5: after five o'clock Sarah would be home from work. So
- 29:35Speaker 5: so the kids, Logan and Lily and just grew up
- 29:39Speaker 5: with their dad around all the time playing the guitar.
- 29:41Speaker 5: And he taught you know, when Logan was like three,
- 29:45Speaker 5: he could play little ditties on the keyboard, had his
- 29:48Speaker 5: own little guitar.
- 29:49Speaker 2: Wow.
- 29:50Speaker 5: Now he's finished high school, Logan has and he put
- 29:55Speaker 5: through a carbonry course at Carver and did quite well.
- 29:58Speaker 5: But I asked him after granted graduation last month, Logan,
- 30:01Speaker 5: you if I could help you maybe get into the
- 30:06Speaker 5: apprentice program at the Locals. Well, Papa, I might want
- 30:09Speaker 5: to do something in music, which I think is a
- 30:11Speaker 5: wonderful thing to do. Just you know, if you're eighteen, nineteen,
- 30:14Speaker 5: twenty years old, just take a flyer. If there's something
- 30:16Speaker 5: that you know, there aren't there things that you wish
- 30:20Speaker 5: you had done hm when you were an eighteen year.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Old that oh yeah, yeah, sure, absolutely.
- 30:24Speaker 5: I was seventeen years old. I want to join the army.
- 30:26Speaker 5: My father went nuts, No, he's no. I mean he
- 30:30Speaker 5: was a patriotic better than World War Two, and he said, no, seventeen,
- 30:35Speaker 5: nobody's saigned anything. You're going to school. I worked all
- 30:38Speaker 5: my life to try and get somebody's going that's what
- 30:40Speaker 5: you're going to do. So I often thought, you know,
- 30:44Speaker 5: things could have been different. You go to maybe do
- 30:49Speaker 5: a couple of tours in the service and go to UCS,
- 30:52Speaker 5: maybe end up like my uncle Jim. You know, he
- 30:55Speaker 5: was from West Virgina. He ended up spending a long
- 30:57Speaker 5: and prosperous life in San Diego, California because he joined
- 31:00Speaker 5: the Navy, and that's where he was when he retired.
- 31:02Speaker 5: So you never know. But the best way to find out,
- 31:07Speaker 5: Like we were talking off here, folks come to me
- 31:10Speaker 5: and to Tom and we give advice mostly about injuries, accidents,
- 31:16Speaker 5: insurance claims, things where people feel like they've been done
- 31:19Speaker 5: wrong by the acts or negligence of another person. And
- 31:23Speaker 5: we'll say, well, what's going to happen if we bring
- 31:27Speaker 5: this lawsuits? Well, I can't absolutely predict that for you,
- 31:31Speaker 5: but there's one absolute prediction I can make is that
- 31:33Speaker 5: if you don't bring the lawsuit, nothing's going to happen.
- 31:36Speaker 5: So I can tell you that exactly. Now, the question
- 31:40Speaker 5: is is it worth to you. Here's a sure thing,
- 31:46Speaker 5: nothing's going to happen. Can you live with this, or
- 31:48Speaker 5: there's a possibility things will be better if you get
- 31:51Speaker 5: intovolved in litigation. And of course a lot of that
- 31:54Speaker 5: is where we talk to clients, which you really have
- 31:57Speaker 5: to do. I thought, I don't think that this online.
- 32:01Speaker 5: Send me a claim on a telephone, send me your
- 32:03Speaker 5: medical bills, upload those to an office someplace, and we'll
- 32:07Speaker 5: spit you back a number. And here's what you can do.
- 32:11Speaker 5: You know that might fit the cookie cutter mold at
- 32:14Speaker 5: some law firms, particularly the largest in the world, want
- 32:16Speaker 5: an employee. But our thought is, you know, people should understand, Okay,
- 32:21Speaker 5: here's what you've got and that's not going to change
- 32:24Speaker 5: unless we take some action. Now, nothing's the sure thing
- 32:29Speaker 5: with the law. So here's what we're going to have
- 32:32Speaker 5: to do to try and get over here where you
- 32:34Speaker 5: want to be. Now, if the cost of getting from
- 32:38Speaker 5: where you are right now to where you want to
- 32:39Speaker 5: be is more than you're willing to incur, then let's
- 32:44Speaker 5: make the best of this. I'll see what we can
- 32:46Speaker 5: do to adjust the situation to make the best of it.
- 32:49Speaker 5: That's the sort of thing that makes real lawyers talk
- 32:53Speaker 5: to real clients and be concerned about people trying to
- 32:56Speaker 5: get real results. You know they several years ago, I
- 33:03Speaker 5: was involved in a case I actually involved public assembly
- 33:06Speaker 5: with people who were arrested up here on July the
- 33:08Speaker 5: fourth at the State House. They showed up with T shirt.
- 33:12Speaker 5: George Bush was there making a speech, and you know,
- 33:15Speaker 5: I think then he went to Ripley to the Ripley celebration. Well,
- 33:18Speaker 5: they had T shirts on underneath their shirts, so they
- 33:21Speaker 5: walked through security and then they took their shirts off,
- 33:23Speaker 5: and the crowd was It was a classic case of
- 33:26Speaker 5: bystander nullification. These folks had a right to wear these
- 33:29Speaker 5: T shirts. It's a public place, it's a state house.
- 33:35Speaker 5: But the crowd became agitated. It was a hot day.
- 33:40Speaker 5: You know, there's a clear thread of somebody's going to
- 33:43Speaker 5: punch these people or throw a rock or something. And
- 33:46Speaker 5: it wasn't helped at all by the others who were there.
- 33:48Speaker 5: So the police department did what you said they did.
- 33:51Speaker 5: They arrest them for trespassing, which they shouldn't have done.
- 33:54Speaker 5: I mean, they weren't trespassing there in a public place.
- 33:56Speaker 5: Boy had a really smart Danny Jones was mayor and
- 33:58Speaker 5: Danny smart the charges dismissed, and so he ended up
- 34:02Speaker 5: in a civil action where I was Associate council here
- 34:08Speaker 5: for the ACLU, and in view of their latest performance
- 34:13Speaker 5: in this gender affirmation lawsuit from Tennessee, I think last
- 34:18Speaker 5: week I misspoken and said it was Arkansas. I was
- 34:20Speaker 5: on the wrong side of the Mississippi River. We settled
- 34:25Speaker 5: that case. I settled it because while I was out
- 34:30Speaker 5: of town, they've had a mediation and it was obvious
- 34:33Speaker 5: that all that the ACLU, they didn't care about these
- 34:35Speaker 5: two people. They wanted some sort of big statement, big
- 34:39Speaker 5: money statement, and the fight trying and say, look, you're
- 34:41Speaker 5: not gonna get a big money statement in Charleston, West Virginia.
- 34:44Speaker 5: You're going a big statement. You're gonna get a big
- 34:46Speaker 5: statement that this was a okay, and these folks are
- 34:49Speaker 5: going to walk out of here without a dime for
- 34:51Speaker 5: all they've been through, and I'm not putting up with it. So,
- 34:55Speaker 5: I mean, I look at scance.
- 34:56Speaker 2: At that the.
- 34:59Speaker 5: You know, the there's a reality of really anybody who
- 35:02Speaker 5: wants to go online and you think, well, the New
- 35:03Speaker 5: York Times is the mainstream press, Well it is. It's
- 35:06Speaker 5: also one of the world's greatest newspapers, along with the
- 35:08Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Times of London,
- 35:12Speaker 5: the La Times, Atlanta, Constitution, Times, picking un in New Orleans.
- 35:16Speaker 5: I mean, those are great traditional legacy sources of the news.
- 35:23Speaker 5: There is a really good commentary in there this morning.
- 35:26Speaker 2: By a.
- 35:29Speaker 5: By a leader in the movement that resulted in the
- 35:35Speaker 5: Ubert Felt decision legalizing or authorizing the same sex marriage
- 35:40Speaker 5: in the United States and marriage equality, and you know,
- 35:48Speaker 5: the enforcement of equal protection and employment laws relative to gay, lesbian,
- 35:55Speaker 5: and transgendered individuals. Who just says, wait a minute, but
- 35:59Speaker 5: now I'm an outca because if I have the audacity
- 36:01Speaker 5: to say, well, you know, we need to take a
- 36:03Speaker 5: really close look at transgendered women who really are physically
- 36:09Speaker 5: advanced far beyond there are peers in athletics, and are
- 36:15Speaker 5: we making such a big deal of this that it's
- 36:17Speaker 5: just damaging everybody And maybe we're going to get a byelash.
- 36:21Speaker 5: But to say that, and I'll say it, I mean,
- 36:25Speaker 5: you're pummeled, pummeled as some sort of reactionary kook. Anyway,
- 36:32Speaker 5: We're not reactionary cooks at the Payton Law Firm. We
- 36:34Speaker 5: pay really close attention to our clients and to the
- 36:37Speaker 5: work we do. We do a lot of automobile accidents,
- 36:40Speaker 5: we do disability work, wrongful death insurance claims, in particular
- 36:46Speaker 5: someone's denied a claim where they've offered less. And we
- 36:51Speaker 5: also do things that folks need at sea level to
- 36:53Speaker 5: counsel with and speak. So call us at three oh
- 36:56Speaker 5: four seven five five five five five six, or go
- 37:00Speaker 5: online Paytonlawfirm dot com. You can send an email that
- 37:03Speaker 5: goes right for Tom's desk right and we'll see you
- 37:06Speaker 5: next week.
- 37:07Speaker 4: That's great information from the Payton Law Firm. As always
- 37:10Speaker 4: be back here next Thursday at eight twenty for more
- 37:13Speaker 4: of as the lawyer from the Peyton Law Firm. Dave
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