The Charlie Kirk Show - 9/11—Terrorism and the Security State 21 Years Later
Aired: 2022-09-12
Duration: 36:40


=== Panic After 9-11 (09:17) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:01]  It's the day after 9-11.
[00:00:03]  And so we remember 9-11.
[00:00:05]  We ask ourselves the question, how has our country profoundly changed over the last 21 years?
[00:00:09]  Well, 9-11 was something we'll never forget.
[00:00:12]  And now we're going to live with the type of government and the policy decisions that happened afterwards.
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[00:00:53]  What happened after 9-11 laid the groundwork and the framework for the tyranny that we're living through right now?
[00:00:58]  It's important we recognize that, admit it, and then we can go about fixing it.
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[00:01:53]  Where were you on 9-11?
[00:01:54]  I was in a second grade classroom, September 11th, 2001.
[00:01:59]  I remember exactly where I was sitting when all of a sudden someone came storming into the room and said, the two towers, the twin towers have been hit.
[00:02:07]  Now, when you're in second grade, you don't quite understand the enormity of what that means.
[00:02:13]  You don't quite process and internalize what it was to say Flight 93 goes down, Pentagon was attacked, the Twin Towers were attacked.
[00:02:27]  Now, what happened afterwards was a unanimous, overwhelming groundswell of support for law enforcement, for police officers, for firefighters, all obviously warranted and still warranted to this day.
[00:02:43]  But unfortunately, what ended up happening after 9-11 was the worst aspects of the American government seized on a tragedy and they saw it as an opportunity to create a massive, unchecked federal security state bureaucracy.
[00:03:04]  In addition, the warmongers and defense industry saw it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to go invade sovereign country of Iraq, to go wage nation-building wars that cost over $8 trillion.
[00:03:20]  I asked the question: is America freer, safer, wealthier, more prosperous, happier because of how we reacted to 9-11?
[00:03:31]  After 9-11, there was a mandate.
[00:03:35]  It was a mandate no different than after the financial crisis.
[00:03:38]  It was a mandate no different than after COVID, which is something terrible and awful has happened.
[00:03:44]  We must do something big and bold and ambitious.
[00:03:48]  And the something that ended up happening was now 21 years later, we look back and we see it was putting the United States Constitution through the shredder.
[00:04:00]  Patriot Act, the launching of the Department of Homeland Security, FISA courts, spying on Americans without their consent.
[00:04:13]  You see, after 9-11, The worst aspects of the American government seized on the fear and they said, if we do not pass this bill, another 9-11 could be right around the corner.
[00:04:26]  Now, in my personal opinion, I don't think the politicians or the people in charge actually properly told the story of how 9-11 happened.
[00:04:35]  For example, it was an immigration problem.
[00:04:39]  You could put all the other theories around 9-11 aside.
[00:04:42]  Everything that happened there from laxed airport security to all of it and instead asked the question, why were they allowed in the country?
[00:04:52]  Why were the terrorists and the hijackers allowed into the country?
[00:04:57]  And you look at it, there was some very suspicious entrance and kind of immigration flaws and issues of allowing these hijackers to come in without any sort of idea.
[00:05:09]  So because of that, they said, well, we have to start the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, an entire new branch of government that is dedicated just towards domestic surveillance that was basically focused on your activities, your language.
[00:05:30]  More than 263 government organizations were either created or reorganized following the 9-11 attacks.
[00:05:37]  263 government organizations.
[00:05:42]  Now, 21 years later, we're actually able to look at things with a cool and very prudent and calculated approach.
[00:05:55]  But in the heat of it, I want to be very clear, in the heat of 9-11, after it happened, you wouldn't dare oppose this sort of expansion of the government.
[00:06:06]  It's the same way after COVID.
[00:06:08]  We look back, we say, why did we spend all that money?
[00:06:11]  Why did we spend $6 trillion?
[00:06:14]  We were one of the few programs that said, this is a bad idea because we learned our lesson post-9-11.
[00:06:19]  When people are clamoring and the bullets are firing and people say, you must pass this bill, that is exactly when you should slow down and not pass the bill.
[00:06:28]  But Republicans, every single Republican voted for the COVID bailout packages that gave NPR money and fraudulently pumped money we didn't have into the economy that contributed to inflation.
[00:06:39]  Republicans did that.
[00:06:41]  The same way Republicans voted for the Iraq war, voted for the expansion of the Department of Homeland Security, the same way Republicans voted for the creation of the TSA.
[00:06:54]  Now, I have to say, there's a lot of people that listen to the Charlie Kirkster that work in the TSA, actually a pretty impressive amount.
[00:06:59]  But the TSA should be completely abolished.
[00:07:01]  It is totally and completely unnecessary.
[00:07:04]  There's some wonderful people that work in the TSA, but the TSA is a widely incompetent government agency that makes airline travel harder, that infringes on our civil liberties.
[00:07:16]  I am not a threat to airline travel.
[00:07:18]  Chances are almost every single person watching this program is not a threat to airline travel.
[00:07:23]  You could privatize it.
[00:07:26]  You can figure it out a different way.
[00:07:27]  By the way, the TSA is not even good at their job.
[00:07:30]  Study shows that TSA misses a fair amount of weapons.
[00:07:33]  In fact, the TSA fails most tests in latest undercover operation in U.S. airports, according to ABC News.
[00:07:41]  Source said the results were an improvement from two years ago.
[00:07:44]  But in recent undercover tests at multiple airport security checkpoints, DHS inspectors said screeners of their equipment failed more than half the time.
[00:07:54]  So all those lines at airports, the 6 a.m. flights where you have to take off your shoes and repeatedly go through it.
[00:08:00]  Oh, what's in your laptop?
[00:08:01]  You can't have a water bottle.
[00:08:03]  The failure rate is anywhere between 50 to 80 percent.
[00:08:07]  When ABC News asked the TSA source at the Department of Homeland Security what the failure rate was, they said, is it around 80%?
[00:08:15]  The source said, you're in the ballpark.
[00:08:18]  Again, wonderful people that work at the TSA.
[00:08:20]  I've got to know some of them.
[00:08:22]  They're just being poorly led.
[00:08:25]  They're not being trained properly.
[00:08:27]  And the TSA never should have been created.
[00:08:32]  But again, in the fog of tragedy, in the fog of 9-11, DHS, FISA courts, invading sovereign countries that never attacked us like Iraq, it all sounds popular.
[00:08:48]  Over 1,200 government organizations and 1,900 private companies now do work related to counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence.
[00:08:59]  Budgets for defense-related agencies also rose.
[00:09:02]  The Coast Guard, TSA, and Border Patrol, the one that actually should get more funding, has seen more funding since 2001.
[00:09:10]  Department of Homeland Security's budget started with $13 billion in 2001.

=== Rising Homeland Security Budgets (03:12) ===

[00:09:17]  It rose to $43 billion in 2011.
[00:09:22]  And I bet it's well over $80 to $90 billion now in 2021.
[00:09:29]  So what happened after 9-11 was a panic.
[00:09:32]  It was a panic by voters.
[00:09:34]  It was a panic by politicians.
[00:09:36]  By the way, totally understandable.
[00:09:37]  Oh, I'm sorry, DHS's budget is $183 billion now.
[00:09:41]  $183 billion.
[00:09:45]  It started as $13 billion, and now it's $183 billion.
[00:09:52]  Not enough money to build a wall, by the way.
[00:09:54]  Not enough money to build a southern barrier against the invasion of our country.
[00:09:59]  And the fiscal year 2023 Homeland Security Bill provides discretionary funding of $59.9 billion.
[00:10:07]  So they have a budget increase going into next year.
[00:10:11]  What happened after 9-11 changed the country.
[00:10:15]  We are living in a post-9-11 world.
[00:10:18]  And I'm going to walk through exactly what has been happening in the last recent years because they built something so big, so wide, so powerful that it turns out there weren't enough terrorists to justify their size.
[00:10:32]  So they had to go find some or create some.
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=== Eroding Personal Liberties (04:10) ===

[00:12:30]  So 9-11 happens.
[00:12:31]  DHS is founded.
[00:12:32]  Patriot Act is passed.
[00:12:34]  Mass surveillance begins.
[00:12:37]  Collection of cell phone data.
[00:12:39]  Phone records.
[00:12:40]  The erosion of personal freedoms and liberties.
[00:12:42]  And so some people start to whisper about this in 05, 06, 07.
[00:12:46]  And honestly, to their credit, most of the complaints came from the American left, not left liberals.
[00:12:53]  People that, like Dennis Kucinich, for example, let me talking about how, why are we spying on citizens?
[00:13:01]  This is not appropriate.
[00:13:03]  Republicans full speed ahead working in the Unit Party with Democrats passed massive United States surveillance bills.
[00:13:12]  And we always thought as conservatives, oh, this is against jihadis.
[00:13:15]  This is against the Taliban.
[00:13:17]  This is against ISIS.
[00:13:18]  This will be used against foreign terrorist and domestic extremists.
[00:13:24]  And so what ended up happening, we passed the bill, Department of Homeland Security gets founded.
[00:13:30]  And around 2009, around 2008, 2009, a problem started to emerge, which is, okay, they indicted a bunch of foreign Middle Eastern terrorists that were floating through the country and they did huge dragnets, but they kind of ran out of people to arrest.
[00:13:51]  Department of Justice had a separate desk just committed to American National Security.
[00:13:56]  Department of Homeland Security had an entire operation dedicated to it.
[00:14:02]  And right around 2009, something very important happened, which is there was a shift.
[00:14:10]  There was a pivot.
[00:14:13]  In 2009, Obama took office and then released the DHS memo on right-wing extremism in 2009.
[00:14:24]  This memo, which was put forward, showed that right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first black president and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members and mobilize existing supporters and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but have not yet turned to attack planning.
[00:14:46]  In 2009, DHS was slightly moved and no one really noticed it from worrying about the Taliban, ISIS, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda.
[00:14:56]  ISIS didn't exist yet, but it was a variation of the same blend.
[00:14:59]  And it pivoted.
[00:15:02]  Now, most of us didn't notice this in 2009.
[00:15:04]  We were too worried about the financial crisis, too worried about Obama's health care takeover, too worried about trying to win the Massachusetts special election with Ted Kennedy, who passed away, and winning it with Scott Brown.
[00:15:15]  We were not focused on the pivot to the mass security state.
[00:15:23]  But you know who was?
[00:15:24]  We should have just listened to him.
[00:15:25]  Rush Limbaugh was.
[00:15:26]  Play Cut 27.
[00:15:28]  So this speech is designed to Totally blunt the Tea Parties, which are grassroots affairs that will happen all over America tomorrow.
[00:15:40]  The DHS report, this comes from the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.
[00:15:45]  Now, when you read this whole thing, and it doesn't take long to read it, it's only nine pages.
[00:15:50]  You can go to various places and read summaries of it as well.
[00:15:55]  For example, every there is no proof here, no proof offered, no evidence offered that anything they project is true.
[00:16:05]  Rush Limbaugh knew what he was saying.
[00:16:09]  So now we have a new acronym, Domestic Violent Extremists.
[00:16:14]  MAGA is the inheritor of the Tea Party.
[00:16:17]  They call these DVEs.
[00:16:19]  And they use the power of the federal government.
[00:16:23]  They use the power of FISA courts, of the 263 government organizations and agencies to go after every single MAGA Republican.

=== Battling Threats From Within (15:25) ===

[00:16:41]  After 9-11, we were in a panic.
[00:16:43]  There might be another 9-11.
[00:16:45]  Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
[00:16:50]  And in panic, we did not think clearly.
[00:16:54]  In the panic, we were not able to calm down and remember this quote from Benjamin Franklin.
[00:17:02]  Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
[00:17:11]  After 9-11, we create this mass leviathan and security state, thinking, oh, that'll never be used against us.
[00:17:18]  But it turns out there is a supply and demand problem with Middle Eastern terrorists.
[00:17:23]  There just aren't that many crossing through America.
[00:17:25]  And every single one of them should obviously be arrested and deported.
[00:17:29]  We don't even find them on our southern border, by the way.
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[00:18:54]  So we create this Leviathan out of panic.
[00:18:57]  And it's a lesson.
[00:18:58]  The next time there is a crisis, are we going to rise up and tell our leaders we're not going to put up with it?
[00:19:04]  We failed the test after the financial crisis.
[00:19:06]  We failed the test after COVID.
[00:19:08]  After COVID, too many Republicans, too many grassroots people, we were in a state of fear.
[00:19:13]  Now we look back, we said, oh, we all know better.
[00:19:14]  Well, our Republican leaders didn't.
[00:19:16]  Lockdowns, mass mandates, vaccine mandates, spending trillions of dollars we don't have.
[00:19:23]  And now the war is no longer against ISIS.
[00:19:27]  It's no longer against Taliban.
[00:19:29]  It's no longer against the Taliban, no longer against al-Qaeda.
[00:19:33]  No, they are now convinced that the war is here.
[00:19:38]  You see, the 21-year leadup, they used the power of the government and the will of the people at the time to give themselves all the domestic political power to be able to imprison, infiltrate, smear political dissidents.
[00:19:59]  Cut six, Senator Mark Warner says that we beat terrorism because of the intelligence community, but then compares January 6th to 9-11 yesterday.
[00:20:08]  Hold on a second.
[00:20:09]  How did we beat terrorism exactly?
[00:20:12]  The Taliban is back in control in Afghanistan.
[00:20:15]  How did we beat terrorism in Libya?
[00:20:18]  How did we beat terrorism?
[00:20:20]  Mark Warner has always been one of the spokespeople via the Democrat Party for the intelligence community.
[00:20:26]  Whatever the CIA wants, that's what Mark Warner is parroting.
[00:20:30]  Play cut six.
[00:20:32]  In many ways, we defeated the terrorists because of the resilience of the American public, because of our intelligence community.
[00:20:39]  And we are safer, better prepared.
[00:20:42]  The stunning thing to me is here we are 20 years later, and the attack on the symbol of our democracy was not coming from terrorists, but it came from literally insurgents attacking the Capitol on January 6th.
[00:20:55]  You see the shift?
[00:20:57]  We're remembering 9-11, remembering how our country was attacked.
[00:21:01]  But now we need to focus on how our true threat is here in the homeland.
[00:21:10]  You build this massive machine.
[00:21:12]  Don't be surprised when it's going to be used against you.
[00:21:14]  Now, I was young and I was naive.
[00:21:18]  I fully admit it.
[00:21:20]  When I was in high school, I thought the Patriot Act was the best thing ever.
[00:21:24]  Now, I'm allowed to be wrong in high school.
[00:21:26]  I'm allowed to be wrong when I'm 20 or 21.
[00:21:29]  You know who's not allowed to be wrong?
[00:21:30]  Every single one of these senators that we elected, that we put into office, that voted for this.
[00:21:36]  How did they have the power to spy on Donald Trump?
[00:21:39]  How we reacted after 9-11.
[00:21:41]  How do they have the power to raid Mar-a-Lago?
[00:21:44]  Because of how we reacted after 9-11.
[00:21:46]  How do they have the power to be able to infiltrate conservative MAGA America first groups?
[00:21:53]  Because of how we acted after 9-11.
[00:21:56]  And at every corner, every turn, people like Lindsey Graham and other Republicans, they will fearmonger and they're good at it.
[00:22:04]  They will say, okay, we need some reforms, but if we do not approve this piece of legislation, then there will be another 9-11.
[00:22:12]  And as soon as they say that, everyone says, well, forget it.
[00:22:15]  We don't want another 9-11.
[00:22:16]  Obviously, I don't either.
[00:22:17]  No one does.
[00:22:18]  But is that really true?
[00:22:21]  Is it without the $180 billion we spend on DHS alone?
[00:22:28]  Is that going to prevent another 9-11?
[00:22:32]  But now they're conflating intentionally January 6th, where the only people who died were killed by the government to 9-11.
[00:22:43]  Kamala Harris doing just that, play cut 30.
[00:22:45]  Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault.
[00:23:03]  Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
[00:23:12]  December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.
[00:23:22]  Pearl Harbor, 9-11, January 6th.
[00:23:26]  What do all those have in common?
[00:23:28]  Afterwards, they were able to get a massive government response so that they could be able to have more power.
[00:23:37]  After World War II, totally warranted.
[00:23:39]  But you know what was amazing after World War II?
[00:23:41]  Something happened that had never happened before.
[00:23:44]  We actually decreased the military budget after World War II.
[00:23:47]  We invested domestically.
[00:23:48]  That was a strong and a proud country.
[00:23:51]  After 9-11, not one of these programs have been disassembled.
[00:23:55]  Not one of these programs have been defunded.
[00:23:57]  They only get bigger.
[00:23:59]  The state only grows in strength.
[00:24:02]  The wealthiest counties in America are all around Washington, D.C. There is a political war raging in America.
[00:24:10]  And the way that we acted after 9-11, which was with panic, totally okay.
[00:24:15]  It's okay to panic when your country gets attacked.
[00:24:17]  We green lit every single project of the police state.
[00:24:25]  John Brennan, who used to run the police state, said that if you're a libertarian, if you're someone that has libertarian leanings, you're an enemy of the state.
[00:24:34]  Play cut 32.
[00:24:36]  Members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,
[00:24:51]  where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
[00:25:07]  Even libertarians with laser-like focus.
[00:25:12]  Laser-like focus that they're coming after you.
[00:25:19]  That you're an insurgent against America for believing that the government is not being run properly, that you have disagreements in policy.
[00:25:28]  You are now an insurgent in your own country.
[00:25:32]  The lesson from here, from this, there's a lot of lessons, but what's important to recognize is we can't blame Democrats for this.
[00:25:40]  This was a creation largely of Republicans and of the establishment in Washington, D.C.
[00:25:47]  The Uniparty does not want to be disrupted.
[00:25:51]  They don't want to be challenged.
[00:25:53]  And I'm sure many of you, like me, were supportive of these measures and these bills.
[00:25:57]  We need to be able to spy on the terrorists.
[00:25:59]  We need to be able to capture them.
[00:26:01]  The question always is, though, how do you define a terrorist?
[00:26:04]  They define anyone that goes to a Make America Great Again rally as a semi-fascist, half the country as a terrorist.
[00:26:11]  They just brought in the definition.
[00:26:14]  Meanwhile, the Biden regime is releasing the 20th hijacker from Gitmo, a Saudi prisoner at Gitmo who is suspected of trying to join the 9-11 hijackers has been sent home to country for treatment for mental illness, the DOD has said.
[00:26:32]  So they attack domestic violent extremists at home, but the actual people who were hijacking, they release them from Gitmo.
[00:26:40]  That is the priority of the Biden regime.
[00:26:44]  So Chuck Todd asked Kamala Harris, we're now battling a threat from within.
[00:26:49]  Do you notice the premise?
[00:26:50]  This is what they always do.
[00:26:51]  The drive-by media always does this.
[00:26:54]  Just as if it's a given.
[00:26:55]  Well, now we're battling a threat from within.
[00:26:58]  And then he asks a question.
[00:26:59]  This is how deceptive they are.
[00:27:01]  And it takes an ear that's been listening to this for many years and a decade.
[00:27:05]  And I know a lot of you catch it as well.
[00:27:07]  Wait, hold on a second.
[00:27:07]  What threat from within?
[00:27:09]  That's what a critical response would have been.
[00:27:11]  Hold on, Chuck Ted.
[00:27:13]  What threat from within?
[00:27:13]  You mean the Democrat Party?
[00:27:16]  No, it's just a given now in the media's cross-examination and the media's questioning.
[00:27:22]  The given is half the country is a threat.
[00:27:26]  And listen to how Kamala Harris responds.
[00:27:29]  She thought she was being very thoughtful when she responded to this.
[00:27:32]  Play cut 17.
[00:27:33]  We're now as a nation battling a threat from within.
[00:27:36]  Is the threat equal or greater than what we faced after 9-11?
[00:27:42]  That's an interesting question.
[00:27:45]  I have held many elected offices as District Attorney Attorney General, Senator, now Vice President.
[00:27:51]  And there's an oath that we always take, which is to defend and uphold our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
[00:28:02]  We don't compare the two in the oath, but we know they both can exist and we must defend against it.
[00:28:09]  I mean, what a leading question.
[00:28:11]  So we know that we have a threat from within.
[00:28:14]  Instead, he should have said, what is the threat from within exactly?
[00:28:17]  Can you name them?
[00:28:18]  Can you specify?
[00:28:18]  How many are there?
[00:28:19]  What are they called?
[00:28:20]  What are their beliefs?
[00:28:21]  Instead, it's just this broad threat from within.
[00:28:24]  So if you're a viewer of Meet the Press with Kamala Harris, like, oh, wow, there must be a threat from within.
[00:28:30]  Such a threat from within that Chuck Todd just acknowledges it, and it's a given.
[00:28:34]  It's a statement.
[00:28:36]  Do you see how all of a sudden it goes from, oh, there might be some problems to we're going to ask the vice president of the United States, and she gives this non-answer.
[00:28:44]  Oh, yes, you know, that's a very good question.
[00:28:47]  She can't even give a straight question of what is a bigger threat to the United States, China or a plumber from Athens, Ohio.
[00:28:53]  Can't decide.
[00:28:55]  Created by the Uniparty in Washington, D.C., used against you.
[00:29:01]  That is being used against you right now.
[00:29:04]  Not going to be, but is being used right now.
[00:29:08]  Rand Paul and his father, Ron Paul, tried to warn us about this.
[00:29:14]  Play cut 29.
[00:29:16]  There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer.
[00:29:27]  That time is now, and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
[00:29:36]  He was one of the few Republicans with the courage to be able to do that.
[00:29:39]  That was back in 2016.
[00:29:42]  They used elements of the Patriot Act to spy on Trump, to infiltrate his campaign, or to attempt to.
[00:29:48]  They used elements of the Patriot Act, still to this day.
[00:29:52]  What phone calls are they listening to?
[00:29:54]  What text message are they intercepting?
[00:29:57]  As we reflect back on the tragedy of 9-11, 21 years later, we are now living in a police state, in a security state, that was made possible thanks to our imprudent and rushed reaction to the tragedy.
[00:30:15]  They said it was our generation's Pearl Harbor.
[00:30:18]  And they were right.
[00:30:20]  But what was never properly explained is that our own government was going to become the very villain that we thought we were fighting.
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[00:31:29]  Did anyone try to warn us about this?
[00:31:32]  Well, before I go any further, let's just make the argument stronger.
[00:31:38]  And I hope everyone understands the significance of what we're talking about here.
[00:31:41]  What we're talking about is the federal government that is being used as an extension of the regime, extension of the political aims and ambitions of the Democrat Party, made possible thanks to the Uniparty in the Republican Party, Dick Cheney, Lindsey Graham.
[00:31:57]  They were the big authors and sponsors of the Patriot Act.
[00:32:00]  Do you feel safer because the Patriot Act, does the Patriot Act make you sleep better at night?

=== Sacrificing Liberty For Security (04:33) ===

[00:32:06]  Now, he was laughed at.
[00:32:08]  He was mocked.
[00:32:09]  He was not taken seriously.
[00:32:12]  But there was one figure to his great credit who was consistent and was clairvoyant when it came to the topic of the Patriot Act, and that is Ron Paul.
[00:32:23]  Many people in this audience probably used to laugh at Ron Paul.
[00:32:26]  Oh, he's wacky.
[00:32:28]  He doesn't know what he's talking about.
[00:32:30]  Ron Paul warned that if we build this huge surveillance state, it will turn into a police state against American political dissidents.
[00:32:41]  And it just so happens the biggest threat to the American regime are conservatives.
[00:32:49]  Play cut two, Ron Paul tried to warn us.
[00:32:53]  I think the Patriot is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty.
[00:32:58]  But why I really fear it is we have drifted into a condition that we were warned against because our early founders were very clear.
[00:33:06]  They said, don't be willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
[00:33:10]  Today, it seems too easy that our government and our Congresses are so willing to give up our liberties for our security.
[00:33:19]  I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security.
[00:33:24]  You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.
[00:33:29]  He was laughed at.
[00:33:30]  I mean, just this is back in 2011.
[00:33:32]  He was running for president.
[00:33:34]  At the time, he was the joke of the regime media.
[00:33:37]  A lot of energy with younger voters at the time, by the way.
[00:33:40]  A lot of people at Turning Point USA and the higher levels, like the older levels, are all Ron Paul people.
[00:33:45]  In fact, Ron Paul played a big role in getting me into politics.
[00:33:48]  When I talked to some of our younger members at Turning Point, they're like, who's Ron Paul?
[00:33:52]  I don't get it.
[00:33:54]  Ron Paul, again, there's plenty of things I disagree with Ron Paul on drug policy immigration, but he was so consistent on how the government will be weaponized against the thought criminals, weaponized against the people that might be able to create a political movement.
[00:34:12]  Hillary Clinton spoke out.
[00:34:13]  9-11 is a reminder the U.S. must deal with extremism of any kind.
[00:34:19]  They have their messaging straight.
[00:34:21]  We are going to eliminate American conservatives from the political landscape no matter what it takes.
[00:34:27]  We'll use the federal government.
[00:34:29]  We'll use the military.
[00:34:30]  We'll use the CIA.
[00:34:32]  We'll use the FBI.
[00:34:34]  We'll use DHS.
[00:34:34]  We'll use the Department of Justice.
[00:34:36]  Play cut 16.
[00:34:38]  And we have also, I think, been reminded about how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.
[00:35:00]  So I'm one who thinks that there are lessons still to be learned from what happened to us on 9-11 that we should be very aware of during this time in our country and the world's history.
[00:35:13]  I'm so exhausted with hearing, especially violence.
[00:35:17]  We have denounced any form of political violence, whether it would be January 6th or whether it be any other day, repeatedly.
[00:35:26]  Who exactly is endorsing political violence?
[00:35:28]  Oh, you were, and your entire political party in the summer of 2020 was.
[00:35:32]  Antifa, BLM.
[00:35:36]  It is such a gaslighting operation.
[00:35:38]  It is a psychological manipulation tactic done intentionally.
[00:35:42]  It is 9-12.
[00:35:44]  9-12 was always remembered as the day that America came together and they took advantage of that.
[00:35:51]  They took advantage of our unity.
[00:35:53]  They took advantage of our solidarity.
[00:35:56]  The sinister forces of the American federal government saw an opportunity to create new departments, 263 of them, to give themselves more funding.
[00:36:07]  And we are now living in that post-9-11 security state, police state world where they deem you, the American Patriot, a dissident.
[00:36:17]  What do they use?
[00:36:18]  They use the Patriot Act to go after the American Patriot.
[00:36:22]  I hope our lesson is learned.
[00:36:26]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:36:27]  Email me your thoughts.
[00:36:28]  As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:36:30]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:36:32]  God bless.
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