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Sept. 27, 2024 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano

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[REMOTE] - Occupy, Peace & Freedom Rally - Kingston, NY (Special Guests!)

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	The seeds of democracy was sown here.
	On the four corners of freedom.
	And we have today not only a great crowd outside that's going to be as you're going to see soon, but some real men who are real patriots in the truest sense of the word that our founding fathers were.
	Not these little clown boys and girls.
	That we call politicians, little chicken hawks that love war and couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
	So, today we have with us Judge Andrew Napolitano.
	Sound like you're from the Bronx, Gerald.
	Yeah, Napolitano, from the Bronx, born to be free.
	Joe Lauria, another cat from the Bronx, another paisano.
	Scott Ritter.
	A man of men.
	The cat that's been on the other side knows what it looks like, knows how bad it is, and that's why he's a true advocate for peace on earth, goodwill to all.
	So, Judge, thanks for being here.
	Pleasure, Joe.
	So, there are a couple of hundred, probably close to a thousand people outside waiting to hear from us.
	What is your message?
	Major Ritter.
	The message is, if we don't learn how to put humanity ahead of ideology, to put people ahead of politics, to put peace ahead of war, we're all going to die.
	That's as straight as it gets.
	Conflict has been part of the human condition ever since man stood upright and started doing what he does.
	But in the past, conflict was limited by man's ability to kill.
	And generally speaking, you could kill yourself into exhaustion and still have people left.
	Today, conflict involves the potential of nuclear war.
	And a nuclear war will be terminating for everybody.
	It's the end of the world as we know it.
	Anybody who thinks you can ride a nuclear war out, I'd advise you to read Annie Jacobson's book.
	Nuclear war scenario, you're not going to write it out.
	You're either going to die in a horrific hellfire, or you're going to die a lingering death where you wish you had died in the lingering hellfire.
	Well, I have to disagree.
	Because all of these rich billionaires, they're building bomb shelters.
	Life is going to be just great.
	They come out of their bomb shelter, everything will be just beautiful.
	Could you imagine these people spending all this money and bragging about?
	That they got bomb shelters?
	Are there bomb shelters that could actually insulate you from a nuclear weapon?
	Well, so what?
	What the hell?
	Life will be destroyed when you come out.
	Let's put it this way.
	Assuming that they were able to build a bomb shelter, I mean, I guess when you get money, you get a little fanciful.
	Elon Musk has a lot of money, and he's going to Mars.
	And I wish him great success.
	Maybe he'll stay there.
	And they built these bomb shelters, and maybe they'll go down there.
	Again, Nuclear winter is a real thing.
	And when nuclear winter happens, there are going to be parts of the planet where there's going to be a sheet of ice that's going to cover the planet.
	In Annie Jacobson's book and other studies, they're talking about the state of Iowa becoming an absolute sheet of ice, the Midwest.
	They're talking about Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, a sheet of ice.
	Now, this sheet of ice is going to cover tens of millions of dead people.
	Because that's what's going to happen when you're not in your bunker.
	It's going to cover them.
	A sheet of ice is going to stay that way for six, seven years.
	So when these guys come out of their bunker and the ice melts, they're going to be in a hellscape of rotting corpses and the diseases and everything.
	They have nothing to eat.
	So good luck with your bunker.
	I'm telling you, they do this in the media.
	They keep showing pictures of these people building these bunkers.
	When President Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons, if the United States participates meaningfully, or if he perceives the United States participating meaningfully in an attack on Russia itself, and when Foreign Minister Lavrov says, I'm going to use an American phrase that he didn't use, we are locked and loaded, are they to be believed?
	First of all, the Russian president isn't threatening anybody.
	The Russian president is simply stating statements of fact.
	It's not a threat.
	It's reality.
	See, a threat is me trying to bluff you.
	It's bluster.
	Reality is this is the way it's going to be.
	It's written in black and white.
	It's our doctrine.
	Our military has it factored in.
	We've already made the decisions.
	And if these things happen, this is a likely outcome.
	So we probably don't want these things to happen.
	Putin's not bluffing.
	There's no bluff in Putin.
	Lavrov's not bluffing.
	You know, the people that, see, in America, I guess we've gotten so used to being the bully, the global bully, that we go around and we threaten and we threaten and we threaten and we threaten.
	And we mirror image our threatening posture on others.
	Putin doesn't threaten anybody.
	What Putin says is, this is the way it is.
	And he has actually shown great restraint.
	See, in America, we perceive restraint.
	As weakness.
	Restraint is actually the strongest posture you can take because it shows maturity.
	It shows respect.
	It shows all the things that a global leader should be.
	It shows a leader who respects his people.
	It shows faith in your own strength.
	100%.
	Well said.
	How chilled is the American press today?
	How afraid are journalists?
	To criticize the government.
	I'm thinking back when I was in college in the Vietnam War era, the press was adverse to the government.
	Today, the press is, correct me if you disagree with me, a tool of the government.
	I think it's been a tool of the government for a long time, even during the Vietnam War to some extent.
	But yes, there was a popular pressure against the war that they influenced the press.
	That's missing.
	Excuse me.
	There's any doubt that more and more of you've seen It's as if this disinformation that the government puts out, that intelligence has put out, is laundered through a supposedly credible source like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	And it's a careerist element to this business, clearly.
	And people want to get a job, keep the job and move it.
	There's fewer and fewer jobs in journalism.
	that's another factor so being obedient to what We also have this introduction of the anti-disinformation industry that just cropped up overnight in the last few years.
	And they are cutting out, trying to stifle what I think are the two most important aspects of journalism and covering international affairs, and that is, number one, historical context.
	And number two, looking at other people's points of view.
	If you want to report on the Ukraine-Russian war, you have to take the Russian point of view and assess what is happening by looking at both sides.
	Same, of course, Palestinian side with the Israeli side.
	And the Israeli conflict didn't begin on October 7, 2023, obviously.
	And the Ukrainian war didn't begin in February 2022 either, clearly.
	There are antecedents, but 2014 is going to be out.
	So they're trying to destroy the alternative media that is not giving in to the corporate dictates that the government is...
	You taught a very significant course on it at St. John's University.
	You've written books about it.
	It's a different world today.
	Today there's one big party, the big government party, the pro-war party, the pro-debt party, the pro-mass surveillance party.
	What is the chance, remote or realistic, of a person being elected to office who could restrain the government?
	You know, I call it a crime syndicate.
	It's not a party.
	And it's up to the people to change it.
	We need a revolution.
	We need a peaceful revolution to get out this crime syndicate.
	And if it doesn't happen, it's only going to get worse.
	And, you know, what Joe was just talking about, journalism, I call them prostitutes.
	Prestitutes.
	Media whores.
	Prestitutes.
	That's not a legitimate word, is it?
	Of course it is.
	The Bronx official, Napolitano.
	They're media whores that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and their government whoremasters.
	Let's go back to the Iraq War.
	Remember the guy named Phil Donahue just passed away?
	Yes, a great man.
	Right?
	Had a big show.
	Came out against the Iraq War.
	Off the air.
	Scott was one of his most important guests.
	Off the air.
	Are there people in the military who are profoundly anti-war?
	I would say this.
	When you join the military, you really don't have a clue what war is.
	You train for something, but it's like preparing to fight Mike Tyson in the boxing ring.
	You can spend all the time you want hitting a heavy bag, running, doing your work, but you don't know what boxing's like until you get in the ring and you get hit.
	Right.
	So there's a lot of military people who train for war who lust for war.
	I was one of them.
	I have to tell you, as a lieutenant and a junior captain, I just wanted to close with and destroy the enemy through firepower maneuver.
	I woke up every morning, wanted to perfect the art of killing.
	Once I'd been to war, I hated war with a passion beyond belief.
	It doesn't mean that I stopped wanting to the country.
	Because the one thing you learn in the military, and some people get mad at me, I'm a big fan of the book To Kill a Mockingbird.
	There's a great scene in there where Atticus Finch, the lawyer, is called upon to shoot a rabid dog.
	He doesn't want to, but he was the best marksman in his unit.
	When the time comes and there's rabid dogs in the street, The military is that person with the skill set necessary to put down any rabid dogs that threaten our community.
	And we need the military.
	You're talking about a defensive military, not an offensive military.
	Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
	But what I'm trying to get at is if there's a rabid dog, I'm going to use my taxes.
	I'm not going to wait for the dog to attack me.
	which is the way you are today?
	Not many of them will make that transition because they finished their careers in the military.
	But I'll tell you this.
	When I got out and I was talking about the potential of a conflict with Iraq, and I was on a very big NPR show, and I remember I was saying, you know, these bombs that people were talking about dropping are going to land on the city where there are women and children, and these women and children are going to die.
	It's not just the bad guys who die, the women and children are going to die, and we have to think about that.
	I got a phone call from my mentor, a colonel, Marine Corps colonel, Silver Star winner, Vietnam, Purple Heart.
	The guy's a killer.
	And I'm like, oh, no, he's going to hold me to task for being – He said, "What you said, the humanity." He said, "We need everybody to think about it." This is a stone-cold killer who knows the importance.
	Of making sure that we don't glorify war, that war is about man killing man, men killing women, men killing children, society's killing society.
	It's the worst thing that people can do to people, and we have to prevent it at all costs.
	Were you ever pro-war in your youth?
	No, but I grew up in a pro-war family.
	I mean, the Vietnam War, I remember watching it on black and white TV during dinner when I was 10 years old.
	and at home near Burkhoff, I didn't really understand, but once I began to understand Sure.
	We're the rabid dogs that threaten the United States, and don't you think the rest of the world sees the United States as a rabid dog?
	No, we are the rabid dogs.
	Yes, we are the rabid dogs.
	And the world, and I just want to say this to the American people right now, the world is building Atticus Finches out there to take this rabid dog down.
	The rabid dog being us.
	Being America.
	You need to understand we have stopped being a force of good.
	We are the rabid dog.
	We threaten the world.
	And then you sit back and you wonder why people are doing what they do to counter us.
	The good news is they're choosing to defeat us economically.
	They're choosing to defeat us with diplomacy.
	They're using the proper tools that we never employ.
	They're not like us.
	They don't bring the gun up first.
	But eventually, when we push through diplomatic You know, the only thing to me that's going to make it happen, you've got to have money behind you.
	The billionaires are for bonds, not a penny to occupy peace.
	Could you imagine?
	Could you imagine if Buffett, if Bezos, if Zuckerberg, if Musk?
	Here's a billion bucks.
	Here's a billion dollars.
	We want peace.
	We want peace.
	We'd have peace like that.
	We'd have peace like that.
	You can't do it without any doubt.
	Look, there was a one article came out about the rally coming out, this Hudson Valley one or something.
	And it was OK, but they called me a I have a.
	That's actually a compliment.
	You do have a razor tongue.
	Yeah, how about go F yourself with your...
	You want to defend democracy, you want to stop the war, put your money where your mouth is, Jensen House is Warren Buffet's son.
	He came to one of my rallies when I had Ralph Haley.
	Is he here today?
	No.
	He gave us a penny.
	Maybe you're charging him too much rent.
	I'm just saying.
	Not a penny.
	Not a penny.
	If the billionaires gave us money, it would be over like that.
	And again, going back to the media and what Scott was saying about he was on the other side.
	I was on the other side.
	I was the assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate.
	You see the picture of me when I picked up Ronald Reagan at the Chicago Hilton.
	I was killing environmental legislation.
	I was a chief government affairs specialist for the chemical industry in the 70s, at the height of the environmental movement.
	And I started to learn.
	You started to learn.
	So what's going to change?
	To me, the people have to get in the best shape they can, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
	And they have to stand up.
	It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority.
	Keen on setting breastfires of freedom in the minds of men.
	Thank you, Sam Adams.
	Samuel Adams.
	When the revolution happened, what did they say, 5%, 3% of the people were for it?
	It was about 30%.
	But when it was over, it was about 75%.
	Okay.
	And that's where we are now.
	The people want peace.
	The politicians want war.
	And again, it's up to us to make it happen.
	And by the way, people ask me also, how could it change?
	We need a renaissance.
	What are they saying?
	in the manner of the Romans and the ancients to describe the quality of their work after the Black Plague.
	They were killing themselves.
	60% of Europe, finito, wiped out because of filthy sanitation, just like the crap now.
	You like those PSPCs or whatever?
	You like those microplasts?
	We're killing ourselves.
	We're killing ourselves.
	And like Scott's saying, we are on the verge of nuclear war.
	And what we do is we do in the Middle East.
	So we have to, it's up to the people, and again, the institution of Bill of Rights and this man, and we have to bring that spirit back, and that's the renaissance.
	Well, we're starting that, or resuming it, we've started it long before today, and a few minutes downstairs.
	In a beautiful garden with a thousand people waiting to hear from us.
	Ready to go?
	Thank you everybody.
	We'll see you in a few more minutes.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	To secure these ends, America's weapons are non-provocative, carefully controlled,
	designed to deter We do not need to use threats.
	Or people, thousands of people, But at the same time, there is a question: whether we should be able to look at the conflict in the same way, on the other side of the regime, on the tyrannical regime, on the spread of the tyrannical regime.
	And that is the question that we have been asked to the general minister of our dear colleagues.
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	above all, by defending our own private interests." "Lypria powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a choice." A humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
	To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age will be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy or of a collective death wish for the world.
	To secure these ends, America's weapons are non-provocative, happily controlled, designed to deter and take care of selective use.
	The military forces are committed to peace and discipline in self-respect.
	Our diplomats are instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.
	For we can seek a relaxation of patience without relaxing our God.
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	And we are all God, we do not need you, friends.
	And we are all people with thousands of people.
	But at the same time, we are all about whether we should be involved in these conflicts in different countries, on the actions of the authoritarian regime, on the rise of the tyrannies, on the rise of the mass destruction.
	And, in fact, this is the question that is posed by the general minister of our fellow colleagues, Mr. Guido.
	I am sorry, Mr. Guido, Mr. Guido.
	I am sorry, Mr. Guido.
	nuclear power must occur at those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
	To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear rage,
	To secure these arms, America's weapons are non-provocable.
	you And welcome to the Peace and Freedom Rally 2024 edition.
	We got a great show on here for you today.
	When I say show, I don't mean in terms of entertainment.
	What I mean is that this is going to be a vehicle of empowerment.
	Empowerment through the acquisition of knowledge and information.
	We have a great lineup of speakers, and there isn't a more relevant time.
	In the modern history of our nation for what we're about to do here today.
	We live in a world that is beset with crises after crises after crises.
	And it appears that the people whom we elect to hire office are incapable of coming up with the solutions.
	So maybe it's time for we, the people, to put better people in office.
	And this today is going to be the vehicle in which we're going to do that.
	There's some pretty heavy topics, some pretty heavy topics.
	We want you to think, but we want to also have you leave here empowered, and we want to have you leave here with a positive frame.
	So one of the ways we're going to do that is we have some entertainment built in as well.
	What I'd like to do now is turn the stage over to Garrett Steele, an outstanding musician who's going to play us a song I think we'll all be familiar with.
	Garrett, the stage is yours.
	Check, check.
	Are we there?
	Thank you, everybody.
	I've got to tell you how honored I am to be here and to be a part of Occupy Peace.
	I wanted to be here last year and couldn't get up here.
	Gerald and the team were so kind to kind of let me jump in last minute, and I really appreciate it.
	I know everybody here today would all be on the same page to say that we know that we've lost our way a little bit here in our great country.
	Certainly our government has.
	And so when I sing this song, I always sing it with a thought in mind of the country that the forefathers started for us and a country of peace and freedom.
	And I think, again, we're all in agreement there.
	A song that you'll recognize for sure.
	feel free to sing with me.
	Oh beautiful for spacious skies, remember waves of gray.
	For purple mountain majesty, above the fruited plains.
	America, America God shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining Sing with me.
	God bless America, land that I love.
	you Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above.
	From the mountains, to the prairies, to the ocean, white with fire.
	God bless America, my home sweet home God bless America, my home sweet home
	America, America, God bless America, my home sweet home God shed His grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
	O crown thy good with brotherhood from the sea Steele,
	give him a big round of applause.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	All right.
	We got a dog barking out there?
	All right.
	I've seen this crowd before.
	I think it was in front of the U.S. Embassy in Managua in 1986.
	Were you all out there?
	You all look so familiar.
	At any rate, I'm Randy Credico.
	And anybody here remember me?
	I used to do stand-up comedy.
	And so I'm going to do a few minutes today.
	First of all, I want to welcome everybody here.
	The place is completely jammed.
	We've got, what, 500 people in here right now, including 75 undercover agents from the FBI, CIA, and the NSA.
	They've got to do their job.
	I understand, guys.
	Do your job, all right?
	But get another job, all right?
	Stop hassling Scott Ritter!
	Right?
	Come on, you guys in the FBI, do something.
	Scott's the greatest patriot that we have in America, right?
	All right, so we got another guitar player coming up right now, Anthony Blinken.
	He brought his full five-piece band.
	It's called the Genocide Five.
	He lost his drummer last year, Henry Kissinger.
	And his guitar player, other guitar player, lead guitar player, Madeleine Albright.
	So Kissinger and Albright are getting it on in hell.
	All right, so is this thing working?
	Are you sure?
	All right.
	What did I want to say?
	First of all, welcome to Kingston, which used to be the capital of the state of New York.
	Did you know that?
	All right.
	Now it's become.
	And thank you for that.
	We have a lot of special guests.
	I got a note here.
	Keep it short.
	All right.
	Less is more.
	All right.
	All right.
	By the way, speaking of the CIA, they're making some budget cuts.
	They just had to lay off three reporters from the New York Times, the CNN, and the Washington Post.
	If you're looking for a job there, it's all right, folks.
	I'm just glad, you know, I work with Scott.
	The last time I did stand-up comedy was actually, last time I did a set was in 2004.
	It was in a little city called Tarrytown, and I was the opening act.
	There was a debate on the Iraq War.
	On one side was Christopher Hitchens, and on the other side was Scott Ritter opposing the war, and Scott blew.
	Mr. Hitchens away.
	That was wonderful.
	I'm glad to be back on the stage with Scott Ritter.
	Now, Victoria Newland's supposed to be here any minute, but she had a problem coming up here from Washington, D.C. Her broom caught on fire on takeoff.
	Dorothy threw a bucket of water on her and she melted.
	Boy, we have such a great...
	Coming up very soon, Gerald.
	I know.
	I got a few minutes.
	Okay, stretch.
	All right, come on.
	This is not a shiva today, folks.
	It's Irish week.
	How's that?
	I can't believe the people on this show.
	You know, like 80% are Italian-Americans.
	You know that?
	We haven't had that many Italian-Americans together in an anti-war crusade since Saquon Vincetti.
	You know, it reminds me of the guys I'm working with today.
	You ever see the movie The Godfather?
	No?
	You remember that peace meeting of the Dons?
	And Marlon Brando says, I want to thank Don Salente organizing this meeting and all the other Dons.
	Don Napolitano, thank you.
	Don Lawyer, look at this.
	I don't think it's ever going to get so bad.
	Then Ukraine, so bad Such kind of thousand people Then Ukraine So lots of Look what he did.
	All right, I'll make necessary arrangements.
	Clear them.
	All right, that's about it on that one.
	All right, we got to keep moving, folks.
	All right, so who do we have here?
	Oh, by the way, I'm not the original opening act.
	It was supposed to be another comedian, Admiral Kirby.
	He's a wonderful comedian, Admiral Kirby.
	Imagine him on the Titanic.
	Everything's all right.
	Go back and listen to the band.
	I'll tell you, it's a rough crowd today.
	See, I did the Tonight Show.
	In 1984.
	Did you know that?
	Back then, I was doing...
	Is that what it says?
	Okay, wrap.
	That's really nice to see.
	Wrap it up.
	All right, we'll go.
	I was going to do what I did back then, which was Reagan.
	And, well, they all lied.
	Reagan.
	That was what I did.
	I'm not going to do it now because I got a rap over there.
	So I'm going to wrap it up.
	Make me a chicken wrap.
	All right.
	So we got Roger Waters coming on at four o 'clock.
	All right.
	Are you here to hear Roger?
	We got Roger Waters.
	We have Scott.
	We have Judge Napolitano who's going to come up here and say, Hi, everyone.
	This is Judge Napolitano for Judge and Freedom.
	It's Saturday, the 28th of September.
	And today we have Scott Ritter.
	We have Gerald Salente, Joe Loria.
	But first.
	All right.
	Never mind.
	Gerald Cilente is the author of these two books, all right?
	Best-selling Trends, Trends Journal.
	He's been doing this for the last nine years, this Peace and Freedom Rally here in Kingston.
	These are his two bestsellers.
	And now I get to start drinking early.
	You guys are wonderful.
	We're going to bring up right now the guy, really.
	Mr. Cilente is just wonderful.
	I've given you the books.
	Get these books.
	And he's coming up right now.
	Gerald Cilente!
	A big round of applause for Gerald Cilente.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You want my heart.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you so much for being here.
	You really, really warmed my heart and soul.
	I'm heartbroken about what's happening to this country and the world.
	And it's up to we, the people of the United States, to change this and countries that you believe in.
	Somebody sent me this quote from the Bible.
	5-9 or whatever.
	Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
	What are you talking about?
	Who is this Matthew clown?
	We need war!
	We need war!
	Alright?
	I'm a politician.
	I'll tell you what to do.
	I'm a chicken hawk.
	I'm a little Lindsey Graham with a peck of the size of a pencil, but I love war.
	How about, blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
	What God are you talking about?
	Oh, thou shalt not kill?
	Hey, where are all you Quakers over there?
	Here's one.
	Yeah, good.
	Two.
	Where are all the priests?
	Where are the Seventh-day Adventists?
	They die on the eighth day?
	Could you imagine if all of the religions that believe in their Bible were all here preaching the peace that they claim their God has told them to believe in?
	And from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for being here.
	It means so much.
	And you're coming from all over.
	Canada, Orlando, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan.
	Somebody said Schittsburg.
	Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
	Oh, you had that guy over there.
	What's his name?
	Joshua Shapiro.
	Yeah.
	You had a guy that signed his name on a Horwitzer shell.
	Oh, yeah, I'm happy.
	I hope I kill a lot of people with this.
	This is demonic.
	It's demonic.
	I launched Occupy Peace over a decade ago.
	I bought these three buildings.
	This is the most historic four corners in America.
	The only place with pre-Revolutionary War stone buildings.
	The seeds of democracy was sown here.
	I went for jury duty.
	The courthouse is right over there.
	The guy putting on the show said, you see that picture over my shoulder?
	That's John Jay.
	Oh, that John Jay?
	Yeah, he was a judge over here.
	here they come We interrupt this program to give you a special bulletin.
	The Martians have just landed.
	Anyway, he goes on to say that when this was the first capital of New York State, and then the British burnt it down after the Battle of Saratoga, that the Constitution that was written for New York State, over 70% of America's Constitution comes from this Constitution.
	I was looking to leave the country.
	Back in 2010.
	And I'm traveling around, and there's nowhere I wanted to go.
	I came back from Berlin in 2013.
	2012, excuse me.
	And Berlin was grander than Paris before it was bombed out.
	And I said to myself, where were the people to stop it?
	You're losing.
	And I came back and there was a for sale sign on the fence over here.
	I took possession of the building.
	I came back on April 27th.
	This building over here, 1750 Franz Roggenhaus.
	And I bought it because the seeds of democracy were sown here.
	I'm only me because I'm a Napolitano born in the Bronx.
	Born to be free.
	Love it or leave it?
	No, you leave it.
	You don't tell me what to do.
	I'm an American.
	Born to be free.
	Born to be me.
	Don't you tell me.
	And then I bought the other three.
	The other one's a museum.
	I bought them because the seeds of democracy were sown here.
	And I want to thank you all for being here.
	So I launched Occupy Peace, and this is the foundation of Occupy Peace.
	We got, what, about 900 bases overseas in about 90 countries.
	Close the bases.
	Bring home the troops.
	Amen.
	Thank you.
	Secure the homeland.
	We got enough people here.
	Oh, no, we got to bring in more cheap labor.
	I forgot.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah.
	And you want to go to war?
	Let the people vote.
	Let the people vote.
	Not some little clownless ball.
	I can't use the word, but it's a less at the end of it.
	And little girls who tell us, I'm your congressman.
	I'm your senator.
	I'll tell you what to do.
	All you are are plantation workers of Slavelandia.
	I'll tell you what to do.
	No, you got it wrong.
	This is the four corners of freedom.
	We are Americans.
	Our founding fathers.
	You don't tell us what to do.
	Get this in your head.
	You're public servants.
	Capisce?
	We tell you what to do and we want peace on earth and to bring America Again, no foreign entanglements.
	There are countries rotten in front of our eyes.
	Another almost $9 billion to keep the wars going in Israel, and another $9 billion to keep blooding the killing fields in Ukraine.
	Just this week, hey, you like the roads, all the bumps in them?
	Take Amcrap.
	How about a subway in New York, a night in Calcutta?
	The country's running in front of our eyes.
	It's up to we, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	Happiness?
	Go to hell!
	Get back in your house.
	COVID's going to get you.
	COVID's going to get you.
	All right?
	Anyway, we got a great lineup here.
	And a man of men.
	I know a lot of cats.
	This guy's a real guy.
	He's been on the other side, knows how bad it is.
	When he was in the military, killing was something that was in his mind.
	But then, he saw the other side.
	And he became a different man.
	And he's a true man of peace.
	And he fights for it.
	And he pays the price for it.
	ladies and gentlemen mr scott ritter Gerald Salanti, ladies and gentlemen.
	Gerald Salanti.
	Now, I've got good news and I've got bad news for you, depending on your point of view.
	Well, okay, can you hear me now?
	Because I'm willing to go Marine Corps on you, baby, and just shout it out, but I'll use the microphone.
	Don't touch the microphone.
	Thank you.
	All right, can you hear me now?
	Okay, here we go.
	I got good news and I got bad news for you.
	The bad news is the person that's supposed to be speaking to you right now is Anya Parampel.
	She's one of the most passionate speakers out there about the situation in the Middle East.
	The conflict in Gaza, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the tragedy that's been falling the people of Lebanon today.
	No problem.
	We're going to fix this.
	I can move over here.
	Or I can just do it.
	Test.
	Okay.
	Here we are.
	Now I feel like Roger Daltrey, but I'm not going to sing.
	But as I said, the bad news is that...
	Unfortunately, we had a natural phenomenon called a hurricane, and she and her outstanding husband, Max Blumenthal, were supposed to be here to participate, and weather got in the way.
	It might be bad news or good news, but I'm pinch-hitting for Anya on the Middle East and Gaza.
	So if you're expecting somebody a little bit better looking, a little bit smarter, and a little bit articulate, forgive me.
	But here I am.
	I start off with humor not because I find the situation in the Middle East humorous.
	I start off with humor because if I were to address the situation in the Middle East with the sincerity that it deserved, I couldn't speak to you because I'd be crying.
	The horror of war has never been so manifest as it is today in the Middle East.
	That mankind is able to perpetuate against mankind are on display, full display.
	It's not theoretical acts of genocide that are taking place.
	It's actual acts of genocide that are taking place today with the Israelis inflicting genocidal murder on the Palestinian civilians of Gaza.
	And now we have Israel turning its guns on the people of Beirut.
	Now, there is a struggle there, a struggle between Israel and Hamas, a struggle between Israel and Hezbollah.
	And unfortunately, because a long time ago, mankind forgot about the art of diplomacy, especially the Israelis, and they have chosen the sword, to live by the sword, but you shall die by the sword.
	They seem to have forgotten that second part.
	But we are in a war, a horrible war, a horrible conflict.
	And as is always the case in war, it's the innocents who pay the heaviest price.
	And that's what we see unfolding in Gaza, depending on who's counting.
	And this is where it gets really perverse.
	Because somehow, the bigger the number I put out there, the more you're supposed to feel horror.
	Ladies and gentlemen, there's only one name I have to put out there for you to have horror in your hearts.
	And that's Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who was in the car with her relatives.
	The machine gun bullets ripped through the car, fired by the Israelis, killing her family, leaving her and her 15-year-old relative cousin alive but wounded.
	They picked up the phone and they called for help.
	Within minutes, the machine guns opened up again and killed her 15-year-old cousin, leaving a 6-year-old girl alone with dead relatives on the phone, begging for help, pleading for help, crying for help.
	They tried to send help.
	They sent two paramedics, very brave men, who went out there from the Red Crescent Society.
	They cleared the path.
	They got approval from the Israelis to go there and rescue this six-year-old girl.
	They got within sight, 50 meters away.
	They said, we see her.
	We see the car.
	They got out of the ambulance, and they were immediately gunned down by the Israelis.
	Murdered!
	Their crime, trying to rescue a six-year-old girl.
	She's on the phone begging for help.
	Please help me.
	Please come to me.
	A six-year-old pleading for help.
	And what did the Israelis do?
	The tanks are coming closer, she said.
	I'm afraid.
	The tanks are coming closer.
	The lady on the other end had her pray, had her research verses from the Koran.
	And then the machine guns opened up for a last time.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And they murdered.
	All you need is one name.
	And yet I can give you 40,000 to 190,000 names of Palestinian civilians who have been murdered in Gaza by the Israelis.
	Their crime?
	Wanting to have a homeland.
	Wanting the same thing we want.
	A place we can call our own.
	A place we say, this is my home.
	This is where I will raise my family.
	But no, the Israelis don't want to live in peace.
	The Israelis dream of something.
	And when I say Israelis, I'm speaking of Zionists, people.
	I'm not speaking of Jews.
	I'm speaking of Zionists.
	The Jewish faith is a faith of God.
	We are not here to speak ill of the Jewish faith.
	We're not here to speak ill of any religion.
	We're here to speak ill of the murder in the hearts of those who will steal the land of others so that they can prosper while suppressing the ambitions, the desires, the hopes, and dreams of millions of people who are innocent.
	They're only guilty of one thing, being born in a concentration camp, an open-air concentration camp.
	That's it.
	That's all they're guilty of.
	And now what have the Israelis done?
	Because there was a conflict started on October 7th, I'm not going to go into big information about this.
	It's controversial.
	But if you think the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli issue, began on October 7th, 2023, you know nothing about the history of the Middle East.
	Go back to the Nakba, 1948.
	750,000 Palestinians forcefully evicted from their homes.
	Tens of thousands murdered by Israelis who had no intention.
	Of allowing the Palestinians to have a homeland.
	And now you understand why October 7th happened.
	I'm not here to justify violence.
	This is a peace rally.
	We're not here to justify violence.
	We're here to condemn violence in all of its forms, especially when they turn the guns and instruments of war on innocent civilians.
	Hind Rajab shall not be forgotten.
	And no Palestinian who has died in Gaza can be forgotten.
	And it is our duty and responsibilities as fellow human beings on this planet we call Earth to ensure that her sacrifice shall not be in vain, that one day the Palestinian people will have a homeland of their own, a land called Palestine, and Jerusalem will be their capital.
	Now, this is an anti-war rally.
	When we speak of the Middle East, We speak of it being the homeland, basically the birthplace of three of the world's major religions.
	Christianity, Judaism, the Islamic faith.
	And you turn to the books of these faiths, and you hear words.
	For instance, Christianity, Matthew 24-26, Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
	The Romans come in.
	Peter pulls out his sword.
	Jesus says, sheath your sword.
	He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, and we need to remember that.
	We have the Jewish faith, Isaiah, where they say that we shall turn swords into plowshares.
	We shall turn spears into pruning hooks.
	Nations shall not go to war with nations, and we shall learn war no more.
	There couldn't be a better verse for people.
	We shall learn war no more.
	The Islamic faith speaks of people who walk in the eyes of their Creator.
	They walk with humility.
	And if others choose to treat them poorly, they respond with peace.
	Respond with peace.
	Now, normally I'd like to leave it here, except that I'm going to say that I've lost faith in organized religion, because in the name of organized religion, so many millions of people have lost their lives.
	I'm going to turn instead to the history of my country, the country I love more than life itself, the United States of America.
	I'm going to turn to the words of a great president, John F. Kennedy, who in April of 1963, at a commencement address before American University, Gave a speech about peace.
	And the phrase I want you to take away with you, because it's very easy today to read the headlines and to say, I hate Benjamin Netanyahu.
	Or, if you're on the other side, to say, I hate Hassan Nasrallah so much I want him dead.
	I hate Senwar so much I want him dead.
	To will death on people, the heads of governments, the heads of entities.
	But John F. Kennedy said there is no government or entity so evil that it requires us to lose touch with the fact that the people are innocent.
	It's about we the people.
	We're the ones that matter.
	It's we the people who are going to make peace.
	It's not the governments that make peace.
	We the people make peace.
	So what I'd like to do right now is a little exercise.
	I want to take John F. Kennedy's words and bring it into life.
	What I need you to do now is please stand up, turn to the person to your left and right, and introduce yourself.
	Tell them who you are, your name.
	Say hi to people.
	Bring peace to people.
	Bring love to people.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Hello everyone.
	You hear me back in the back?
	That's...
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Okay, great.
	Thank you.
	Just wave if you hear me in the back.
	Great.
	Thank you.
	My name is Edmund DeMarsh.
	I'm the editor of the Trends Journal.
	It is a pleasure.
	It's a pleasure to be around so many people.
	Looking for peace.
	Because all you see in the media are people looking for war.
	There's actually people that exist out there looking for peace, and it's nice to see.
	So, it's my honor today to introduce some of the best voices in the peace movement.
	And that privilege is not lost on me.
	It's also a privilege to be around all you fine people.
	The timing of this rally could not be better for all the wrong reasons.
	Just last week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was embraced at an artillery factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	That's the birthplace of Joe Biden.
	He told reporters that it's places like these, an artillery factory, where you can truly feel The democratic world prevail.
	I say it's at peace rallies and it's through diplomacy where peace and democracy prevails.
	Not in an artillery factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	We also look and we saw Governor Josh Shapiro.
	He was so overwhelmed with patriotism that he had to sign an artillery shell.
	So I guess patriotism was contagious that day.
	The Middle East is a disaster, and the Biden administration insists that it's seeking a ceasefire in between weapons shipments to Israel.
	You can't call for a ceasefire and provide 2,500-pound bombs to the country you're telling to stop doing the shooting.
	It's rallies like these that you could imagine a world where countries like the U.S. and Russia and Iran and China work together for the common humanity instead of looking to name a new country to the axis of evil.
	How about we look for new countries to add to our allies and work together to advance society and advance humanity?
	No one talks about that.
	And that's exactly why there aren't They don't want to hear this.
	They don't want a push piece.
	They don't want unity.
	And that's becoming more apparent by the day.
	And that's why it's rallies like this that are so important for us.
	Mark Twain once wrote in a quote, and now this was posted on Judge Andrew Napolitano's podcast.
	That I was watching, and I made sure it was actually authentic.
	Mark Twain once wrote, in the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave and hated and scorned.
	When his cause succeeds, the timid join him.
	For then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
	So that's what we're doing here.
	We're looking for the timid to join us in our movement.
	We are the patriots right now.
	We're not seeking war.
	And courage, courage is contagious.
	And that's what we're also feeding off of each other.
	We're here to be brave.
	And it's also interesting because during the evolution of both the Ukraine war and the Israel war, we saw an evolution in Washington.
	Indeed, in November, I'm sorry, in the hours after the October 7 attack by Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to X, the former Twitter platform, and he posted that he was encouraged, this is a quote, encouraged by Turkey's advocacy for ceasefire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately.
	So Antony Blinken called for a ceasefire, essentially, in the hours after the Hamas attack.
	That post was deleted.
	In November 2022, the former chairman of the chief of staff, General Mark Miley, told CNBC in an interview, we've seen the Ukrainian military fight the Russian military to a standstill.
	Now, what the future holds is not known with any degree of certainty, but we think there are some possibilities here for a diplomatic solution.
	He was quickly reprimanded, evidently, and came out the next week and said, it's up to Ukraine when they want to stop fighting.
	A year later, Politico ran an article that wasn't too broadcast, it wasn't too popular.
	It was titled, Miley Had a Point.
	So we're here today with some of the most esteemed guests you could possibly have in a stable.
	So it's my privilege now to...
	He is the editor-in-chief of Consortium News.
	Everyone should check that out.
	It's consortiumnews.com.
	And he's the author of A Political Odyssey.
	He's a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Sunday Times.
	He's well-traveled, been to more than 70 countries, and his expertise is in the Middle East.
	I present you Joe Lauria.
	I think, who knows me out there?
	Oh, thank you.
	So this, we're on a ship.
	I'm going to be deciding Decidedly less fiery than Scott Ritter.
	So I hope I don't put you to sleep.
	We were discussing before what kind of speeches we were going to give, and I had to admit I planned a very sober address about the state of journalism.
	In a time of extreme crisis, it's often said that journalism, free press, is necessary for a democracy.
	Well, I'm going to say here today that a free press is not necessary for our survival.
	Scott has written about this for Consortium News and elsewhere, and he's going to speak, I think, after me again about this.
	On September 14th, we came very close, closer even than the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a possible nuclear war.
	And it was only the House of War, the Pentagon, believe it or not, that stopped us from going down that road.
	It's extraordinary.
	Why?
	Because they know war, and Anthony Blinken does not know war.
	He is the representative of the neocons right now in the Biden administration.
	You know, Obama, Trump, Biden, they've all allowed neocons to infiltrate their government.
	And they wreak unbelievable havoc.
	They create blood, oceans of blood and wasted mountains of squandered U.S. dollars.
	For what?
	For a sick dream of world domination.
	In another age, when it was not a dirty word, they would have proudly said that they were imperialists.
	Because it is a dirty word.
	It started to become one with Mark Twain.
	Someone just mentioned Mark Twain.
	Who was in the Anti-Imperialist League.
	Because that's when the U.S., after conquering this continent, started moving abroad.
	In the first, against, of course, the Mexicans.
	And then the Spanish War.
	And then the Philippines.
	Spanish, decrepit Spanish Empire.
	Ended by the rise of the American empire.
	This is a sick dream of the neocons.
	But I'm going to talk about the press.
	Because I think...
	It's the worst thing, what's happening for us as Americans, I think, is that the role that the U.S. government is playing in this.
	It's not just the money that's going to Israel that could be shut off tomorrow.
	It's not just all the weapons that are going there and committing this genocide are now It's also U.S. ships and troops being sped towards that region.
	What for?
	That's a direct participation in this.
	Israel knows that Iran and Hezbollah, they have huge amounts of hardware that they could do damage to Israel, despite its Iron Dome.
	But they're given pause because they're not suicidal, the Iranians.
	Because the U.S. government is there standing behind.
	Netanyahu, allowing him to provoke this war that he's been dying for decades for the U.S. to fight for him because he doesn't have the strength against Iran.
	And what is this?
	Is it to save a country, to defend themselves?
	Or is it to create a regional empire back to the days of King David?
	They want and they make references to the Old Testament.
	This is real for the leaders of these particular right-wing lunatics in the government of Israel now.
	I say that we need a free press to save us from nuclear war because the public has to know how close we are to it.
	They need to know what our leaders are doing so that we could remove them.
	Without that information, we're going to sleepwalk ourselves into a nuclear holocaust.
	This is nothing new.
	Jerry talked about the Bible.
	He mentioned the Bible.
	Nothing new under the sun is another line from whatever psalm that was.
	There is something new under the sun, and that is nuclear weapons.
	But in terms of how the state operates and the narratives that they make up about themselves, to put the people in their place and to make themselves look to be the legitimate rulers, to create a difference between them and us that really naturally doesn't exist.
	They have to create a myth about themselves.
	And Plato had a word for this called the noble lie.
	The noble lie.
	It's a lie.
	It's a lie with their legitimacy how they rule.
	But it's noble because they get to rule.
	So they're the nobles.
	And this has gone on from earliest civilization, and it's the same today.
	The role of the press and throughout history, dissidents, and many of them have been put to death like Hebrew prophets or Socrates.
	Is to challenge this state myth.
	And this state myth is put out to the people in various media.
	The old days, of course, religion had a huge role.
	The divine right of rulers.
	Going all the way from the Egyptian pharaohs to European monarchs not too long ago.
	Even architecture can have a role in showing that we're in charge.
	The noble lie.
	We are the rulers.
	You are just in your place.
	You have your social role here.
	And don't step out of line.
	And above all, don't question what we're telling you.
	Because if you do, we're going to put you in jail.
	We're going to execute you.
	And as I said, nothing's new under the sun because Julian Assange was five years in a maximum security prison in London for publishing true information about the U.S. government, revealing these lies, showing the lies upon which the U.S. state has to exist.
	Because if the truth comes out, we will question it.
	We will demand change.
	Our system's supposed to allow that.
	He had to be punished.
	And he was.
	So nothing was really new under the sun, is it?
	Another way they're going after us is to stop the role of journalism again.
	Journalism is a kind of recent phenomenon in history.
	It's supposed to every day question and challenge what our government leaders are saying.
	And they pretend that that's what they're doing.
	But really, are they?
	Are they really?
	There's two main aspects.
	That we need to have in real journalism.
	As I said, I worked for the Wall Street Journal, and I have never been a fan of the Wall Street Journal.
	I worked for the Boston Globe, Sunday Times of London, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, Johannesburg Star, covered the UN for 25 years.
	So in covering international affairs there, there's two things that I needed to do to do that job properly.
	One is to not just look at one point of view.
	Don't just go to the American ambassador of diplomats and see what is the American position on this affair and then listen to them what they say the Russian position is or what they say the Palestinian or Iranian position is.
	No, you go to the Iranians.
	You need to listen to different voices.
	This is just basic one-on-one journalism.
	And when you gather the information from different points of view, getting out of yourself, your own national bias, if you have it.
	And you look at the evidence in front of you.
	You try to figure out what it means.
	And then you write that.
	The best approximation to the truth that you can come up with.
	And you transmit that to the people.
	That is what journalism is.
	You have to listen to the other side.
	But what happens?
	What happens when you listen to the Russian position on Ukraine?
	And you include that in your report.
	Or the Iranian position.
	Or the Palestinians.
	Or even the North Koreans.
	We now have a whole new industry that cropped up virtually overnight after the 2016 Brexit in Britain and Trump's election here, where the established order became quite nervous about popularism, that this ridiculous, this disinformation cottage industry, everyone suddenly overnight is an expert in disinformation.
	It's all private, but they work closely with government.
	This is an extension of how government cannot, because of the First Amendment, censor a newspaper.
	They can't censor us, but they can get a private company to do it.
	That's what they're trying to do.
	Whether that's allowed or not is another question.
	There are Supreme Court decisions that say that government cannot use a proxy to commit a crime or a violation of the Constitution that they're not allowed to do by themselves.
	This is what we're having.
	And what does this disinformation complex say if you write an article or a TV report that includes the Russian point of view?
	A Putin puppet that you're paid by the Russians.
	You're paid by the Palestinians, by the Iranians, by the North Koreans.
	You couldn't possibly be including their position in your reports if you didn't get paid to do that.
	But why do they say that?
	Because these are people, the mentality, they themselves are being paid to do this.
	They could only understand.
	How else would they know?
	They could only understand that people take positions because they're paid for it.
	Not because they're actually committed to trying to find out the truth.
	No, but they can't understand that that is what some reporters are still trying to do.
	Thank you.
	It's an objective report.
	They are destroying journalism.
	They are destroying journalism by not allowing, by trying to prevent reporters from speaking to the other side.
	And they want to destroy the historical context.
	Of course, everybody knows that the war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023.
	Nothing happened before that worth looking at.
	Nothing happened here.
	So, just because Hamas, for no reason, woke up like Putin that morning and said, I'm going to just, I feel evil today.
	I want to kill somebody.
	There's no reasons why these people act well.
	If you give the history, you have a very different story.
	I want you to give the history.
	And the history really begins at the end of the Second World War.
	Both of these stories.
	At the end of the Second World War, the United States was the only major combatant.
	There was a balloon bomb dropped on some picnickers in Washington State by the Japanese.
	And injured a few of them.
	That was the only area of bombardment of the United States in the Second World War when the U.S. dropped tons of bombs on Japan, of course.
	Firebombing cities.
	Worse damage than even the nuclear bombs did.
	And, of course, in Germany and Dresden after the war was lost.
	But the U.S. found itself in a damaged, destroyed world, totally intact, and a revived economy from the Depression because of the arms industry.
	And what would they do?
	What were they going to do?
	Would they really try to rebuild the world in progress or to just cash in?
	And realize that all of these lands without governments, with damaged populations, with infrastructure destroyed, there's enormous resources out there.
	These countries have unbelievable oil, rubber, gas, tin.
	The U.S. businessmen weren't lusting for this.
	So the opportunity was there.
	Almost it fell in their lap.
	A world empire.
	A world empire there was for the taking.
	Or they could have worked to follow their flowery language of spreading democracy, lifting people up out of poverty.
	Now, we saw an ugly 80 years now of U.S. world domination.
	And I think it also does a tinge of megalomania in there from the dropping of the atomic bombs.
	Those were totally unnecessary events.
	And I think it brought...
	And now we see a revival of that because the neocons are pushing to send missiles deep into Russia, which could cause a nuclear exchange.
	So they are then infused with this idea that they could use nukes.
	We can do it.
	The same sick world-dominating mentality.
	Before this event, we were having a chat.
	We did a roundtable.
	Scott was saying that the U.S. is the rabid dog in the world.
	The United States is seen by us.
	It's very hard for people to realize that we could be the bad guys, that our government is bad.
	And that gives a lot of advantage to the government and through the media, pushing their noble lie that we are special people, we're exceptional, we bring democracy to everyone, we only care and want to do good in the world.
	That's only those bad guys, those Russians, those Iranians.
	What a coincidence!
	Those are the really ugly countries, the ones that the U.S. wants to get out of the way for various reasons, because Russia, if you see, and I'll get to this in 1948, the U.S. made a deal with Mikola Lebed.
	Lebed was a right-hand man of Stepan Bandara, who was the fascist Ukrainian leader during the war.
	Killed thousands of Poles and Jews.
	They brought him to New York City.
	They set him up in an office, 1948, a year after the CIA was born.
	They put him in that office, and they sent him to Ukraine for sabotage and propaganda operations.
	Now, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, of course, so they went to Soviet Ukraine to work to undermine the Soviet Union.
	They wouldn't touch Bandera, by the way.
	The British did.
	MI6 worked with Bandera, and of course, the KGB finally assassinated him in 1959.
	But the Americans worked with this guy, Lebanon, until 1991.
	Until independence in Ukraine, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
	And when the Soviet Union collapsed, Wall Street rushed in.
	And they saw an incredible country, the resources of Russia are beyond any other country.
	The territory is larger, gold, gas, oil, all kinds of other minerals there.
	This is a prize.
	And they went in there and they had an acid strip, a formerly state-controlled, a state-owned economy.
	And they...
	I went to Moscow in 1995 under Yeltsin.
	I couldn't believe what I saw.
	The Wild West.
	Hundreds of people living in front of the train stations, burning fires, trying to survive outside.
	Cops taking bribes right in front of me on a cab that I was in, from the cab driver.
	They didn't care.
	Two guys saw my camera, and they were coming running after me.
	I had to ditch them in the Moscow metro.
	Wild scenes.
	Exactly 20 years later, that was October 95. In October 2015, I went back again to Moscow.
	It was a complete coincidence exactly 10 years later.
	And I left from Berlin, and I thought I was still in Western Europe.
	Clean, orderly.
	Why?
	What happened?
	This was not the crazy country.
	Vladimir Putin, who we don't have any really right to say whether he should rule this country or not.
	That's up to the Russian people.
	He restored the sovereignty of this country, the dignity of Russia, and that pissed off a lot of people in Wall Street and Washington.
	His 2006 Munich Security Conference speech, listen to that.
	He says there, you were supposed to not expand NATO, and now you're expanding NATO.
	You're just playing us for fools.
	We're not going to take it anymore.
	And guess what?
	From 2006 to 2022, 16 years, he did take it.
	And he didn't take it anymore.
	And that's what led us to this invasion.
	The overthrow of Yanukovych and then the launching of a civil war against Russian speakers in the east of Ukraine who were defending democracy.
	They had voted for Yanukovych.
	And it was overthrown in a coup.
	They called it a revolution.
	Tell me one revolution where a democratic elected government was overthrown.
	Revolutions of kings, dictators.
	This was a coup that the U.S. organized.
	Why?
	Because Yanukovych decided he was going to take a Russian economic package and not an EU one.
	So they overthrew him.
	And then a civil war was launched.
	Thousands of people were killed over eight years in Donbass.
	That was launched with U.S. help, and they were training.
	NATO was training the Ukrainian forces, arming them.
	It was a de facto NATO state already.
	And we then learned from Angela Merkel after she left office, the German Chancellor, that they purposely did not implement a deal that the Russians worked very hard with the Germans and the French to sign, which was the Minsk Accords.
	The UN Security Council endorsed it unanimously.
	The US voted for it.
	This was supposed to allow eastern Ukraine to remain inside Ukraine but have autonomy.
	And Merkel admitted that they never took that seriously for a minute.
	They used the time.
	They were buying time to arm Ukraine.
	Then in 2021, of course, in December, the Russians offered a treaty to NATO and a treaty to the United States to create a new security architecture in Europe.
	They couldn't put up with this anymore.
	They tried that in 2008.
	It failed.
	They repeatedly tried this.
	And now, after that failure, Putin said, if you don't take these deals or negotiate these deals, we will take military technical measures.
	What does that mean?
	The U.S. wanted this invasion.
	Biden needed it.
	He said so in Poland.
	The aim here is to overthrow Putin.
	Lloyd Austin said it's to weaken Russia.
	They needed this to do this for an economic war, an information war, and a ground proxy war.
	They're losing all three.
	Only people in the United States and Western Europe believe any of the crap about Ukraine.
	Sorry.
	And why?
	Because the history is not there.
	It's being excised.
	It's being taken out.
	And the Russian point of view is being removed.
	They are defanging journalism on purpose because we are meddling with the state narrative, the noble lie.
	Speaking of which, I invited Howard Zinn, the great American historian, late now great historian, to the UN to address UN correspondence.
	And I asked him then, what is the American noble lie?
	Without any hesitation, he said democracy.
	That's the lie.
	So I could go through the whole history of the Middle East, too, and say that in 1948, just like the Ukrainian-US government relationship with the neo-Nazis, and Ukraine started in 1948 and continues all the way through this coup in 2014 until this day.
	And don't forget, Barack Obama knew this, by the way.
	I have a lot of chrisms of Barack Obama, but there's one thing.
	A couple of things he did right.
	Trying to open relations with Cuba.
	The Iran nuclear deal.
	But in particular, he refused to arm Ukraine in 2015.
	There was a lot of pressure on him to give lethal aid to Ukraine.
	And why didn't he do it?
	He said two reasons.
	One, it will antagonize Russia.
	And for Russia, Ukraine is a vital interest.
	It is not for the United States.
	It's not worth it.
	And because some of American weapons may fall into the hand of thugs.
	That's the word he used, thugs.
	Who do you think he may have met?
	How about Azov?
	Right?
	He knew there were neo-Nazis.
	Of course they knew, but the CIA had been working with them from 1948 until that moment.
	Obama was right.
	And then when Trump, by the way, in his Republican platform said, we're not going to arm Ukraine, all the Russiagate lunatics said, look at that, you see, he's in Putin's pocket!
	Except that was Obama's policy!
	Not to arm Ukraine.
	And then out of pressure on him, because of Russia, he did arm Ukraine.
	One of the worst things Trump did.
	Now he says he's going to end the war in five minutes.
	So this war, also in 1948, is the beginning of Israel, of course.
	And the fact that there were no people there, no Palestinian people.
	It was just an empty place that they walked into.
	This is what we're told to believe.
	You read Elam Papa, ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and you get the history of the thousands of people who were killed, and that ethnic cleansing that began then is still going on, and it's being accelerated as we speak.
	In Gaza and in the West Bank, and they're pushing the frontiers into Lebanon.
	And we need to know that, and that's the role of journalism, and we need a free press, because these two wars, Ukraine and Israel, could go nuclear unless we know what's going on.
	Thank you.
	Joe Loria, ladies and gentlemen.
	Thank you.
	Okay, so we have just started to heat up here, but we are going to take a 10-minute intermission just so we could just relax, calm down.
	We set up a peace village over here where you can get food, you can get refreshments.
	Scott Ritter has a table over there.
	Also, anyone watching at home, please share our link.
	Go on different social media sites, share it.
	Maybe even hashtag OccupyPeace or something so you can see a common thread.
	This is a chance where people can visit OccupyPeace.com, contribute what you can.
	Every penny over there goes right to peace.
	So this is a major initiative today.
	Right now, And they're from Virginia, and they will be playing for about 10 minutes.
	Don't go too far.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	All right, we're kind of exhausted.
	11-hour drive from southwest Virginia to be up here to make this special event.
	And when I was talking to some people in the audience, which I was really impressed with, and I think this is really important to know, we're crossing party lines, whether you're left, you're right, independent, Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter.
	We have one purpose, anti-war.
	We don't need war.
	War is only profitable for the MIC.
	MIC.
	I think Frederick Douglass said a long time ago, I will unify, I will unite with anyone to do good and no one to do bad.
	We may disagree on small issues, but if we do agree on important issues, So we're going to do a couple of tunes for you during this intermission.
	We've got a wonderful crowd, and I'm sure this crowd will continue to grow.
	Had to tell you everything.
	Gil got the best of me.
	Had to tell you everything, baby.
	Only way we could live free.
	You knock me down for so much your honesty.
	You knock me down for so much your honesty.
	I didn't know it all about me Well, so much for that honesty.
	Oh, honesty, baby.
	Took one big bite right out of me.
	But his wound is on the man.
	And I ain't never gone back there again guitar
	solo you It's not about tomorrow.
	It's less about yesterday.
	You beg, you steal, you borrow to be anywhere but where you are.
	And a little for what you need when you're on that other side, honesty.
	And a little for what you need when you're on that other side, honesty.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Van Menackes on lead guitar, one of the finest guitar players I know.
	All right, wonderful crowd.
	Again, thank you all for coming out.
	Thank you.
	Looking for my cape.
	All right.
	This is the next tune I'm going to do for you.
	It's called They Told You.
	Boy, they tell you a lot of things.
	A song I wrote in the second grade.
	T-Tog
	They say that the fire is always burning They told you not to climb up on the wall They told you not to play games with Satan So don't come crying home when you fall They told you not to spend all your money At the corner candy store where sin begins Swine angels may be watching.
	So we'll pull around before you step on.
	Cause they told you.
	Yes, they told you.
	They told you exactly what to do.
	They told you.
	Yes, they told you.
	They told you so, it all must be true.
	But the teacher, they told you that you had no point with you.
	They found you gagged that clown in the classroom and showed all the jokes on you.
	'Cause they told you, yes they told you, they told you exactly what to do.
	They told you, yes they told you.
	I told you so, but I'm gonna scoot you.
	I told you so, but I'm gonna scoot you.
	I told you.
	There's a place called heaven.
	But you have to know somebody to get in.
	Start making friends in high places.
	And all will go well in there.
	Because they told you.
	Yes, they told you.
	They told you exactly what to do.
	They told you.
	Oh, they told me.
	Thank you.
	They told you so, it all must be true.
	All right.
	I see they told you as well.
	It's amazing in school how we get indoctrinated.
	We're not taught to think.
	We're taught facts and information.
	Facts.
	like American Indians and such.
	I'll tell you, it was quite a long drive last night from I live in Allisonia, Virginia, which is in the tail of Virginia.
	That's way down there.
	And when I got an email from a friend saying, would you like to play up here at the Peace Rally, it was a no-brainer.
	I wanted to be here, no matter what it took.
	So I left late in the afternoon and drove over 11 hours all night to be here.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for being here.
	I believe in my heart that it would have driven 35 hours to be here.
	So this event is beyond this event, as you know.
	What has been going on in our government for the last many decades.
	Corporations taking over.
	The military-industrial complex, filling their pockets, starving the people.
	I've played all over the country, including California, New Mexico, Colorado, name it, every state, and in Canada.
	And folks, I have never seen so many homeless people in my life.
	And these people are not drug addicts and alcoholics.
	Maybe some are.
	But many of them are middle-class people.
	Families have to reduce themselves to asking for a handout on the street.
	I don't know.
	That takes a lot of courage to feed your family, to do anything to feed your family.
	When we go ahead and we spend over $100 billion to support a war that we have no business being in, we start a war that we started.
	Basically, back in 2014.
	And Scott Ritter has eloquently elaborated on that.
	This has been going on for decade after decade.
	From Vietnam, I would believe, even from Korea, you might say Korea.
	Vietnam was the first, and all through.
	We have an election coming up.
	We have a Democratic person.
	Kamala Harris, who is being endorsed by Dick Cheney.
	The worst war criminal, said Adolf Hitler.
	And our response was, I am honored.
	Does that tell you something?
	It tells me everything.
	So as I said before, even though I'm tired, I'm a little weak.
	I mean, you may see me make a mistake or two.
	It's because I'm exhausted.
	I had no sleep last night.
	But again, I would have traveled 35 hours or more to be a part of it, to be helped, to contribute.
	And all you are doing the same, and thank you so much for being here.
	Believe me, thank you.
	I want you to give a hand to my guitar player, mine, a guitar player, a lead guitar player, a very good friend of mine who belonged to Van Manakis.
	Ben and I know each other since 1972 when he played on my demo, my first demo in New York back in 72. How many years ago was that?
	I think it's more than that.
	48 years.
	I don't feel 76. I may look 76, but I don't feel 76. Anyway, my heart's in the right place.
	And I believe if we're put on this earth for a short period of time, if we can do good, great.
	If we can do great, even better.
	Even the smallest act of kindness to a neighbor.
	The one point I tried to make, and I don't want to get long-winded on it, but I must say this.
	A lot of my friends that voted Democrat, Would not believe, would not participate, or be involved with someone from the other side of the aisle, the Republicans.
	And I would just tell them, look, we're all human beings.
	We need to find common ground.
	This anti-war, this peace movement is common ground.
	Thank you.
	Common ground is it.
	The young lady just pointed that out.
	So if you find a person that's opposite your way of thinking, don't confront them in anger.
	Try to find common ground.
	Find out what you both have in common.
	That's the most important thing, because we're all human beings.
	We're all here on this earth, and we're all going to die.
	Charles Bukowski said that years ago.
	If we all realized that we're only here for a short time, we probably would love each other more.
	I believe that.
	Let's get on with it.
	I never needed mine.
	I gave away my share.
	Then I felt your love.
	Then I felt you there.
	Oh, I felt you there.
	Never took a chance.
	Did myself so well.
	Then you opened up.
	And helplessly I fell.
	Oh, I fell.
	Never knew how good Letting go could feel When the trust is there When you know it's real I
	never said it all to you, had no reason to tell.
	When I heard you call, helplessly I fail, oh, I fail.
	And all the rules I've known so well, they're quiet and broke, helplessly I fail, I fail.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Thank you so much for listening.
	Thank you so much for being here for this wonderful event.
	My name is Jim Lord.
	I was here with Van Menakus.
	And peace, brothers and sisters.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	You're safe, you're safe.
	All right, well, I'm sorry.
	All right.
	Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to return to your seats, we're in for the second half of the Peace Rally.
	I'd like to just, once again, direct you.
	There are papers, about 11 by 8 papers.
	They have QR codes on them.
	It's very simple.
	You just take a picture of the QR code.
	It directs you to OccupyPeace.com where you can donate anything.
	The idea here is we want 100% participation.
	In what we're trying to do.
	Now, without further ado, I present to you Scott Ritter, who will talk about nuclear annihilation, and then introduce Roger Waters.
	Thank you very much.
	Microphone working?
	All right.
	Now, this time, I'm here as myself.
	You don't have to imagine me as on your parent pill.
	That made me pretty uncomfortable.
	And again, I start with humor because the topic that we're going to talk about right now is how we're all going to die.
	I want to put you on notice that not too many Americans recognize this.
	On September 14th, the world almost ended.
	I don't know what you're doing on Saturday, September 14th.
	I don't know what you're doing with your lives.
	Hopefully it was a nice day.
	You're out enjoying it.
	But are you aware that a politician in Washington, D.C. almost signed his name to a piece of paper?
	That politician's name is Joe Biden.
	He is the President of the United States.
	Had he signed his name to that piece of paper, the British government, which brought that, Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, would have worked with the Ukrainian government.
	To take Storm Shadow cruise missiles, target them with intelligence prepared by the United States of America, loaded into these missiles with British hands, then put on Ukrainian aircraft to fire against Russian targets.
	This would have been an act of war by Britain and the United States against Russia.
	An act of war that would have prompted an immediate Russian retaliation.
	That would have gone outside of the borders of Ukraine, striking targets in the United Kingdom and the United States.
	Now, this would not have been a nuclear attack yet.
	But it would have been a very serious strike, one that would have prompted the United States and NATO to strike Russia back in turn.
	With conventional weapons, but this would have been a strategic strike, one designed to take out command and control, logistics.
	Strategic nuclear capability.
	And this would have prompted a Russian nuclear retaliation by doctrine, which in turn would have prompted an American nuclear retaliation.
	And 72 minutes after this nuclear exchange began, we'd all be dead.
	The world would be over.
	This almost happened.
	This isn't a joke, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is not a drill.
	This is reality.
	This is what's happening right now.
	The United States government is considering signing these documents still because there are people in the U.S. government that think the Russians are bluffing.
	Did we the people empower our elected representatives to play Russian roulette with our lives?
	Because that's what they're doing.
	But this is Russian roulette where the gun is loaded, fully loaded.
	Every time you pull the trigger, you will die.
	This is the reality.
	It's not one that I'm happy about.
	I'm going to go back in time here a little bit.
	You know, I had a history of doing weapons inspections.
	I take pride in the fact that I was the first American inspector on the ground in the Soviet Union back in 1988 to implement the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
	That was a treaty that for the first time got rid of an entire class of nuclear weapons, beginning the process of drawing the world down from an era where we had to today.
	If you meet me in the street, shake my hand and buy me a beer, because I saved your life.
	That might have worked a couple years ago when I was drinking beer.
	I'm not drinking beer anymore, for obvious reasons.
	But it's a tongue-in-cheek joke, because it's true.
	Had we not gotten rid of those weapons, we wouldn't be here today.
	There would have been a nuclear war, and we all would have died.
	Back then, we were afraid of nuclear war.
	We were afraid of a lot of things.
	I have two wonderful daughters, Patricia and Victoria.
	They're back here right now, hawking daddy's books.
	One of the things that they have on their table, though, is a card.
	It's a card that's...
	A song that was written by my daughter.
	A song that's a music video that was illustrated by my other daughter, Victoria, and her fiancé, Sam Poling.
	Now, why is this relevant?
	Back in 2006, my daughters came home from school, as daughters are wont to do.
	And they looked their father in the eye and they said, Daddy, is the world going to end?
	I said, that's a hell of a question for, I think at the time, a 12-year-old to ask.
	Is the world going to end?
	How do you begin to answer that?
	I said, what prompted this?
	They said, well, we saw a movie by Al Gore about climate change, and the world's going to end.
	And so I had to have that conversation with them about the reality of pollution, the reality of how we interface with the planet we live in.
	Some people think it's a threat, other people don't.
	But then I had to talk to them about the other realities in the world, because they said, Daddy, you're a weapons inspector.
	What are nuclear weapons?
	I said, well, nuclear weapons are bombs that are designed to destroy the world.
	Well, Daddy, why would they want to destroy the world?
	I said, well, because there's people out there that we think want to destroy us, and they have those weapons.
	But, Daddy, if they use those weapons, they die too.
	I said, yes.
	They said, this is crazy.
	And my daughters began an exercise.
	And this breaks my heart while it gladdened me.
	Because they imagined a time when humanity could no longer live on earth.
	Because we had squandered the gift that we had been given.
	And so they imagined the end of the world.
	And they created an imaginary world that they could escape to.
	Where they could start life over again.
	But then, because my daughters are smarter than the average cookie, they realized that the problem wasn't Earth or this world.
	The problem was humanity.
	That even when humanity went to this new Earth, this new chance for life, we recreated the same things that destroyed life on Earth today.
	As I prepared to do this presentation, Gerald Solante asked me to come and do this presentation.
	As I prepared to do it, I thought back to that.
	And I said, you know, this is an important story.
	This is an important lesson, and I want to share it with people.
	So I had my daughter record this song.
	And then I had my other daughter and her fiancé illustrate it.
	We turned it into a music video.
	And I'd like to play it for you today and let you see it for yourself.
	So what I'd like to do now is I'm going to turn this screen over so those in front can see it.
	Others, if you were to direct your attention to the van in the back.
	And let me do the world premiere of the song Daydreams.
	Daydreams.
	Thank you.
	Where do they go when the wind goes whistling down the plane?
	Colors burst before my eyes like God through paint into the rain.
	God through paint into the rain.
	When I was young, I'd go running through the forest, chased by men in uniforms, running after unicorns.
	It was a land formed in my imagination Celestial navigation where life begins again Sun Sunlight bursting in my eyes, hands raised to try and stop the pain.
	Search for meaning in the sky.
	My whole world suddenly gone insane.
	My whole world has gone insane.
	The world marks the best.
	The world marks the best.
	The world marks the best.
	The world marks the best.
	Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams
	Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams Daydreams
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Maybe we've got to put some grease, too.
	And now she puts something on there.
	Now she's there.
	Donald Trump looks at Harris and says, I've got to do better.
	And now we have a bidding war on how to stop a nuclear war.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we just captured a unicorn.
	That's how you capture a unicorn.
	That's how you make yourself relevant.
	Do not give your vote to anybody.
	Make them earn it.
	And that way you save democracy, save America, save the world through your vote in November.
	Operation Dawn.
	This is a campaign that I'm involved in.
	Today is the kickoff.
	We're going to keep doing this all the way up through the election.
	We need your help.
	In the back there, I'm selling these challenge coins.
	They're cute.
	Talk about preventing war.
	It's a memento of today.
	But it does more than that, ladies and gentlemen.
	It raises money.
	It allows me to get on an airplane and fly to California and have a similar talk in California.
	It allows me to go to other states, swing states, and have a similar talk.
	To make the wheel squeak as loud as possible so that the politicians have to put the grease on it.
	Help us make Operation Dawn a reality.
	If you like that music video, we have cards back there.
	The QR code.
	Play this song.
	Show it to people.
	Waken people up about the danger of wars and how the threat of nuclear war creates sorrow in the hearts of children.
	Sorrow in the hearts of children.
	We owe it to our children to make a better world for them.
	Right now, all we've done is create the conditions for the fact that they will have no future.
	None whatsoever.
	This is not a world that I want to live in.
	This is not a world none of us should live in.
	We should demand changes.
	You know, in the song, they say, and this is lyrics that resound me, because I used to be a Marine.
	And once a Marine, always a Marine.
	It's in my heart.
	It's in my blood.
	People keep saying, Scott, why do you do what you do?
	Because sort of you're like anti-war.
	But why do you do it with the passion that you do it in?
	That's what the Marine Corps taught me.
	The Marine Corps taught me to be passionate about what I'm going to do.
	To see it through.
	To complete the mission.
	Right now the mission is to stop a nuclear war.
	I don't believe in uniforms.
	I believe in unicorns.
	Let's go chasing them together.
	Come with me.
	That's what the song says.
	Come with me.
	And so that's what I ask you to do.
	Join me on a journey to capture that unicorn, to make our life a better place, to save the world we live in, so that we will have a future for our children.
	A future for their children.
	A future so that generations down, they will look back at this moment in time.
	And think highly of the people who are assembled here today.
	You know, you look at the history of the United States.
	If they want to have a fight, let it begin here.
	If those warmongers who are looking to have a nuclear war want to have a fight, let it begin here.
	Right now.
	Let's do battle.
	I'm not talking about violence.
	I'm not promoting violence.
	I'm talking about empowering we the people.
	to stop a nuclear war by using the gift that the Constitution gave us.
	And so now what we're going to do...
	I'm just trying to figure it out.
	We ready?
	All right.
	So now what we're going to do is we're going to turn it over to a special guest who's going to appear here today.
	Roger Waters.
	You know him.
	Singer from Plink Floyd, political activist, a hell of a good man.
	Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for Roger Waters.
	Cheers.
	Cheers.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Hey, Scott.
	Hi, everybody.
	This feels like a minor miracle.
	It's going to be really interesting trying to speak through the two-second delay that I'm hearing very loud in my ears of my voice, but I'll try.
	Woo!
	Yeah, that's hard.
	I should get some headphones.
	No, I can't get headphones.
	I'm going to make do with what we are.
	I just heard Scott say, once a Marine, always a Marine.
	I get it, Scott, and I was really excited and moved to hear your words about the only thing that we need to act upon right now is to prevent these motherfuckers taking us into the Third World War, which is what they're determined to do.
	Sorry, I'm going to calm down a bit because I've been trying to watch this.
	On YouTube.
	There was no audio for a long time.
	But we soldier on.
	It's so great to see you all there in that field in Kingston, New York.
	And it's great that this is going out to a big audience, I believe, on Judge Napolitano's YouTube channel, among many other channels.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Wow, this is hard, hard, hard.
	Hard, hard, hard.
	Anyway, never mind.
	It's only technology.
	Listen, in a while, when I stop, we're going to play a very short clip of film that I've been making with my team for the last few days.
	It's excerpts from a live screening that we made last May from Prague in Czechoslovakia of My show that I was doing there called This Is Not A Drill.
	This is not a drill is what they play you through the loudspeakers just before you're burnt to a crisp with your family and all your relations and everybody else when they drop a nuclear bomb on you.
	That's why my show was called This Is Not a Drill.
	A drill.
	Well, this is not a drill today.
	So more power to you.
	All of you who are here in this field and watching this YouTube feed are resisting the monster that is the empire of the United States and all other warmongers all over this beautiful globe that we call home.
	So the fact that you are linking arms in this field in Kingston this afternoon and the fact that we are symbolically linking arms with all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity or religion or nationality or anything else is supremely important.
	Thank you.
	Now, take a breath.
	Can I take a breath?
	Yes, I can.
	Oh, that's brilliant.
	I've lost the repeat in my ears, so I can calm down now.
	So, I started doing This Is Not A Drill Tour.
	Back in the summer of 2022 in the United States and Canada and Mexico.
	I think we did nearly 50 gigs.
	And it was great.
	And we encountered very little resistance and we encountered lots of extremely enthusiastic audiences who understood what my pop concert was about and agreed with its sentiments, i.e.
	same sentiments as Scott Ritter just spoke of here.
	Stopping the possibility, or the probability, should I say, of nuclear war.
	Everything went sort of well until we got to Europe, where the Germans tried to ban my concerts.
	Well, when I say the Germans, egged on by the Israeli lobby and the Hasbro team, who have been trying to silence me and shut me up for about 20 years now.
	And in fact, I've got a message for them.
	I've got a message for you people who are trying to call me an anti-Semite, trying to shut me up.
	Don't waste your breath.
	I am not going to shut up.
	I'm going to go on barking like a good dog should.
	And by the way, this dog has teeth.
	I am.
	I'm going to bite back and I shall continue to bite back for as long as I have breath in my body because this is my planet too and it belongs to me and all my brothers and sisters who have love and truth in their hearts all over the world.
	I've been staring at a little picture of me.
	I've suddenly remembered that you are by that little green bit on the top of my phone.
	So I'm going to try and talk to you from now.
	So there I was in Germany.
	They took me to court to cancel my shows.
	It's not a Jewish lobby, it's an Israeli lobby in London, picked it up.
	I have many, many, many of my friends in London, and obviously I have many, many, many Jewish friends, fought by my side to prevent them from cancelling me in London as well.
	Then I went to South America last December, and I couldn't find room at the inn.
	They, the Israeli lobby, spoke to all their friends in the hotel business, and Roger Waters was not allowed to stay in a hotel in Buenos Aires.
	I was okay in Santiago in Chile.
	Nowhere in Colombia was I allowed over the threshold.
	So it was an interesting experience.
	That tour is over, but this clip that you're going to see when I stop talking gives you at least a flavour of what we did on that tour.
	One of the things that we did on the tour was we sang a new song of mine called The Bar, where I explained to everybody in the arena that for this one night, they, all 15, 20, however many thousand of them were, were in London.
	If we were communicating one with another at a government level, as Scott was suggesting we should over the Ukraine, there would be no war in Ukraine because it would never have started if we had not provoked the Russian people, our Russian brothers and sisters.
	Okay, and getting them to draw their red lines in the sand and say, if you Anyway, I'm sure everybody else, all the other speakers, will furnish you with all the details of the history of everything that went on.
	But I will say this.
	I want to thank Randy Credico, who got me involved in this, and my friend Scott Ritter, and Max, and Anya, and...
	When I wake up every morning, I try not to weep for my friends in Gaza and now in Beirut, where they've started murdering civilians wholesale.
	I saw the pictures.
	A friend of mine, Lama Beirut, she's a journalist in Beirut, has been texting me all morning.
	So I've been watching all this stuff.
	When I wake up in the morning and I finish weeping, which I do very quickly because there isn't time for it, I am determined to do one thing every day, to stand up and be counted as an act of resistance.
	Against the military-industrial complex and the ruling class and the warmongering arseholes in the US Senate and in the Congress who are driving us inexorably over the edge of the cliff.
	This is the first.
	I'll probably do several things today, but this is the important one.
	And I feel a real sense of comradeship and community with all of you here.
	And if I sound a bit emotional, it's because I am.
	I've been watching this shit unfold since October the 8th or 9th last year.
	And it's been driving me more and more and more crazy until I've almost become numb.
	But I will never become numb to the suffering of my Palestinian brothers and sisters.
	And I will never stop resisting this.
	Appalling genocide that's going on right in front of our eyes.
	All right, I'll shut up now.
	So again, thank you all.
	Thank you, Randy, for introducing me to this occasion.
	Hopefully the guys will have lined up this little clip of the film.
	Believe, believe, believe in love and truth.
	Love and truth are our paths.
	To peace and to freedom for all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of their religion or ethnicity or nationality.
	And in the case of our brothers and sisters in Palestine, for their freedom from the river to the sea.
	Thank you.
	Love you all.
	Love and truth.
	Oh, they did.
	Oh, they did.
	Oh, they did.
	Oh, they did.
	It's the same old tune, no closer to peace than the man in the moon.
	The president is still just as crazy as Lou.
	Still picking fights in some foreign saloon.
	Bob still throw it, her is cat.
	The band still play this American pie.
	The gunner still sweeps in some foreign field.
	And the boys are still coming home on a shield And nothing's real And we play the game With the bravery being out of range We're still South Adelaide With the bravery being out of range We're still straight from the train With the bravery being out of range We're
	still getting to the rain With the bravery being out of range We're still talking insane With the bravery being out of range We're still chilling to the rain With the bravery being out of range We're still loyal for all damn great We're still living in the
	rain We're still trying to the rain With the bravery being out of range Yeah, with the bravery being out of range Come
	on in here sister And sit us there You are most welcome in the bar We may seem few, but we are many We are many Have you been traveling before?
	The girl who brought you in here Is Lakota From Standing Rock, where they made me stand.
	So from 48 North Dakota, here's a message for the man.
	Would you kindly get the fuck off, Alan Land?
	Let me go.
	Yesterday there was an aggressive piece in the Jerusalem Post.
	The writer rejects to the juxtaposition of the names Anne Frank and Shireen Abu Akhle during my song, The Powers That Be, which you all saw earlier tonight.
	I stand by the inclusion and the juxtaposition of Anne Frank and Shireen Abu Akhle's names in this show.
	They are both my sisters.
	They were both murdered by the state and like all victims of state violence they must be remembered.
	Fear, fear drives the mills of modern men.
	Fear keeps us all in mind.
	Fear of oil is far enough, fear of old incontinence, places for life.
	We really want to.
	It surely must be so.
	For this is a democracy, and what we all say goes.
	We are in greater danger of any group of people who have ever been in the whole history of this small, beautiful planet that we call home.
	This is the most dangerous time, so we should...
	The people who live on this planet do not want you to keep an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
	We want to get rid of them all!
	So please, go and do it!
	I mean, apart from anything else, they're incredibly expensive.
	And we could use that dosh for other things.
	We could look after the old lady on the street in New York for a stop.
	Or maybe we could educate our children or have a health service or blah, or blah, or blah.
	All of those things are more valuable than nuclear warheads, which have no value at all.
	All you create, and all you destroy, all that you do, and all that you save, and all that you eat, and everyone you beat, and all that you slight, and everyone you fight, and all that is come, and all that is gone, and all that is to come, and every day, under the sun is to come.
	Of the sun as he clips the rival.
	All of those things are all valuable.
	Thank you, Roger Waters, for that.
	What about another round of applause?
	It is hard to follow Roger Waters when you're giving a speech.
	Okay, so that leads us to our final intermission because we're saving some really powerful speeches for next.
	That's going to include Judge Andrew Napolitano.
	Gerald Salenti, and then we'll have all of our speakers join us on the stage one last time.
	So in this third and final intermission, I once again ask everyone here to check out our Peace Village off to my right.
	We have t-shirts.
	We have QR codes.
	We have everything to join the movement.
	I said it before, and I know everyone out there is passionate.
	And this is where you can help us.
	And you can take action.
	So help us.
	OccupyPeace.com.
	Everyone who's watching online right now, please take a second.
	Share this to your social media account.
	Clip parts of it.
	Share it on TikTok.
	This is how we spread the message.
	We have two very attractive people right there wearing the hate politicians.
	Who are you to tell me what the F to do?
	And it looks great on you.
	And it's all the rage.
	Oh, welcome.
	And it makes a great Christmas present for like-minded relatives, and so I'm just putting it out there.
	So please, we're taking a break for 10 minutes.
	Visit the Peace Village to my right, OccupyPeace.com.
	And now, without further ado, it's my pleasure to introduce country music artist Garrett Steele.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	A great and very meaningful event for me was I got to sing at a Mises event and dedicate it to one of my heroes, Dr. Ron Paul.
	Yes.
	And at another Mises event, my brother, who's my drummer, he and I got to take a class at Mises University.
	And it was actually the introduction to constitutional law.
	And we got to take it a couple of different times.
	And so one day, my brother and I had something printed up.
	And one day we came into class and we wore this.
	Do you remember that?
	And on the back it says, Judge Andrew Napolitano for president.
	Everybody in the class wanted one.
	Unfortunately, he's not on the ballot this year.
	We'll take him on the Supreme Court as well.
	But anyway, today is another one of those events for me.
	When I get to dedicate this song to Judge Napolitano.
	As well as Gerald and Scott Ritter and all of those who have spoken today.
	Just as was said today, and this song will also articulate, these people have laid their careers on the lines, their fortunes on the lines, their reputation, and even in some instances risked their life.
	And so it is time for you and I to step up and ask ourselves, you know, what is it we can do to be the title of this song, Those, one of those.
	Some live their lives with honor.
	A path they bravely chose.
	And the world would be a better place if there were more of those.
	There are those who reach out giving hope to those without helping hands that to their part To ease a pain.
	To mend a heart.
	Those who serve.
	They are called.
	And those who fight.
	And those who fall.
	They take a stand.
	And through it all.
	Their love still grows.
	Lord help me be.
	One of those There are those Who are strong In their quest To right the wrong Unafraid To take a chance To face the truth To
	dance the dance, a trusted friend, a guiding light, standing up to what is right.
	And somewhere in the darkest night, their candle glows.
	Lord, help me be one of those.
	The best that they could be To overlook the weaknesses of those like me Those who serve Thank
	you.
	Thank you everybody here today.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	If you liked that and would like to see more of his content, check out GarrettSteel.com.
	GarrettSteel.com.
	Up next for one more song is Jim Lord and Van Menarchus.
	It's a Jim Lord solo.
	It's a Jim Lord solo.
	Thank you again.
	Thank you.
	I wrote this song called We the People.
	I just want to reach out and just say it's wonderful to see all of you here.
	Very important.
	very important issue
	When we needed it most A promise of change would come A wage we could live on Care for the sick A roof for those without one All the years that you could have made Good on
	that promise are gone with the trust we once felt.
	The lies, they just get thicker as our country gets sicker from the poisons chained up with their wealth.
	But we the people, oh, all eyes open.
	Living day to day To keep our homes And feed our children And now they want to take our voice away They send all their wealth While the country's low quiet,
	put the quiet messenger's song.
	And softly they sing out the six o 'clock news, ignoring all of the wrongs.
	But we, the people, Oh,
	what will it take For them to listen, to hear the cries we know well.
	How many lives will be lost while we're waiting and watching you start another war?
	Oh, but we, the people, All eyes open living day to day to keep our homes and feed our children.
	And now they want to take our voice away.
	Now they want to take our voice away.
	Thank you, folks.
	Thank you.
	Stay united.
	Stay united.
	Judge Andrew Napolitano for judging freedom.
	Thank you.
	What a, after all my years at that network where I used to work, what a pleasure it is to be among like-minded people.
	Thank you.
	I was walking into a theater in New York City and I saw some lady across the street waving and waving and she ran across the street and I knew I was in her crosshairs and she said, Judge Napolitano, Judge Napolitano, I heard you were dead.
	I looked at her, I said, Madam, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
	I don't think any of you will be disappointed at the end of today.
	Isn't Scott Ritter a genuine American hero?
	Thank you.
	And my friend Joe Lauria is the most courageous journalist you'll ever shake hands with.
	And my new friend, Roger Waters, who watches my show every day.
	God bless you, Roger.
	I've been a fan of yours since I was a lot younger than I am now.
	So when we are...
	The First Amendment reads in part, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
	And I would say to the students, well, what would happen if the states ratified an amendment repealing the First Amendment?
	Would we still have the freedom of speech?
	Now, if you're a big government type, Who believes that freedom comes from the government?
	Then the answer to that question is no.
	But if you recognize that freedom comes from our humanity, a gift from God who created us, then it doesn't matter if we have the First Amendment.
	we will always have the freedom of speech.
	This is at least...
	to defend yourself against the government if it's taken over by tyrants, and your right to be left alone.
	These are rights that come from our humanity, whether the government is willing to recognize them or not.
	Thank you.
	After we fought the revolution and won the revolution and wrote a constitution, five states threatened to secede.
	Isn't that interesting?
	The framers And they threatened to leave unless a Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
	And the Congress picked the same guy to write to the Bill of Rights who had written the Constitution, Little Jimmy Madison.
	Now they call him Little because he was four foot eight.
	So I hope when I go to heaven I get to stand next to Little Jimmy because I'll look like Shaquille O 'Neal by comparison.
	When little Jimmy wrote the First Amendment, he insisted that the word the be in there.
	Hear me out.
	Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, recognizing its preexistence before the government.
	If it existed before the government, where did it come from?
	It comes from our humanity.
	This was recognized by the framers of the Constitution and the ratifiers of the Bill of Rights.
	It would last for seven years.
	The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
	In 1798, the Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, a law that was motivated by something that is inconceivable today, fear of the French.
	All right.
	They feared the French because the French had just cut the king's head off and they were worried the same thing would happen here.
	So they enacted this awful set of laws, which basically said, if you want to come to the U.S. and become a citizen, come here.
	We'll give you 20 acres of land.
	You can till it and do whatever you want.
	And you'll be a citizen after 14 months.
	Unless you're French, then you have to wait 14 years.
	Oh, and by the way, Anyone who is critical of the government or the president and is convicted of this criticism shall be sentenced to two years in a federal prison.
	So the same generation, and in some cases the same human beings who had just written, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, enacted legislation.
	That abridged the freedom of speech and punished its exercise in order to preserve the government from too much criticism.
	The statute prohibited criticism of the President, the Congress, and the government.
	Note what's missing.
	The Vice President.
	The Vice President was Thomas Jefferson.
	He and John Adams, the president, didn't speak.
	Well, remember how you became president and vice president in those days.
	Everybody ran for president.
	Whoever finished first became the president.
	Whoever finished second became the vice president.
	Could you imagine that today?
	Could you imagine Hillary Clinton as Donald Trump's vice president?
	Hillary, get me a Diet Coke.
	Jefferson didn't care what people said about him.
	Nor did Congressman Matthew Lyons, the Ron Paul of his era, who decided to test the limits of the Alien and Sedition Act by criticizing the president in public.
	John Adams, who was as wide as he was tall during his years in the White House, often wore a purple robe.
	On his way to the Capitol building, and his wife sewed gold epaulets on the shoulders, and he looked like a regal mountain walking through the streets.
	So Congressman Lyons went up to him and said in front of the press, good morning, your majesty.
	Well, that did not result in a prosecution.
	And then he said a few days later, good morning, your pump.
	And that didn't result in a prosecution for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts.
	And then he said with the press there, good morning, your rotundity.
	And that resulted in a prosecution for violation of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
	And a member of Congress was tried in federal court in Boston and convicted of mocking the president's waistline.
	And for that, he was sentenced to two years in a federal prison.
	And then he did something in jail, which if you are from New Orleans, Chicago, Boston, or Hudson County, New Jersey, you are familiar with.
	He ran for re-election from his jail cell, and he won.
	And when he got to Washington, D.C., expecting to mock His rotundity, he found instead a tall, thin, raven-haired occupant in the White House by the name of Thomas Jefferson.
	And Jefferson proceeded to pardon Congressman Lyons and return the 430-acre farm that the feds had stolen from him during his years in incarceration.
	You can see what the government thinks of the First Amendment.
	This would continue on and on and on in the Civil War.
	Abraham Lincoln, forgive me for using bad language, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
	That's your right to be brought before a judge after you've been incarcerated.
	And then he arrested 3,000 journalists in the North for being critical of his war effort.
	claimed that he received emergency powers from the Constitution.
	After he had died, the Supreme Court You can say whatever you want in wartime or in peacetime.
	Woodrow Wilson, during World War I, he is the former constitutional law professor at my alma mater, Princeton University.
	He is the former president of Princeton.
	He is the former governor of New Jersey, arrested Princeton students.
	Who stood in front of a draft office in Washington, D.C. and read subversive materials aloud, and he arrested them because he felt it was interfering with the draft.
	What were the subversive materials that the Princeton students read?
	The Declaration of Independence.
	What was the name of the federal agent sent from Washington, D.C. to arrest these Princeton students?
	John Edgar Hoover.
	The rest, of course, is history.
	When Wilson was challenged on this at a press conference, Mr. President, have you read the First Amendment?
	Congress shall make no law bridging the freedom of speech.
	You're arresting your former students for reading the Declaration of Independence and you took an oath to uphold the First Amendment.
	He said to the reporters, well, read the First Amendment.
	It only restrains the Congress.
	It doesn't restrain me.
	Such an answer, of course, in law school today or on the bar exam would cause you to flunk law school and never be licensed for the bar exam.
	Because Congress shall make no law means no government shall make any law abridging the freedom of speech.
	That, of course, would not stop George W. Bush and the Republicans.
	In the days and weeks following 9-11 when they enacted the most horrific piece of legislation since the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Patriot Act.
	The Patriot Act authorizes one FBI agent to permit another FBI agent to conduct a search.
	Even though the Fourth Amendment says there shall be no searches except by warrants issued by judges based on probable cause of crime and specifically defining the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
	The Patriot Act also makes it a crime to tell anyone that you received An agent-written search warrant.
	Of course, they have a fancy name for these agent-written search warrants.
	They're called national security letters.
	So if the feds show up and hand a national security letter to your lawyer, your doctor, your banker, your librarian, the lawyer, doctor, banker, librarian cannot tell you that they received this national security letter.
	So two librarians are in a library in Bridgewater.
	I know that sounds like a joke.
	Two drunks are standing at a bar, but this is a true story.
	Two librarians are standing at a library in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and an FBI agent walks in and hands a national security letter to one of them, and she's hard of hearing.
	She says, who are you?
	Well, I have a national security letter.
	What?
	She doesn't understand what he says.
	She's 86 years old.
	She hands it to her 75-year-old.
	Volunteer.
	She's arrested.
	She's arrested for revealing the fact that she had received a national security letter.
	Now, fast forward a year, and the 86-year-old is 87, and she's a defendant in a federal courtroom.
	And the federal judge says to the prosecutors, you really want to prosecute this 87-year-old lady for telling her 76-year-old assistant that she received a national security letter?
	Yes, we do.
	It's a violation of national security for anybody to tell anybody else that they received a national security letter.
	And the judge says, well, wait a minute.
	This is a public library with government books on government shelves.
	How can it be a crime to take a book off a government shelf and read it?
	Why was the FBI even in the library?
	No answer.
	Who's the Attorney General, John Ashcroft?
	Get him on the phone, because I'm about to declare the Patriot Act unconstitutional.
	Well, whereupon Ashcroft says, well, dismiss the case, dismiss the case, pull the case before she can declare it unconstitutional.
	So the government then changes its mind and says, well, all right, Your Honor, we're going to move.
	To dismiss the indictment.
	And the judge says, I'll rule on your motion tomorrow.
	And that night, she published an opinion declaring the Patriot Act unconstitutional, and then the next day dismissed the indictment.
	This has happened five times throughout the country.
	And whenever it happens, the government will not appeal it for fear that a higher court will sustain How can it possibly be a crime to tell your lawyer,
	your spouse in your bedroom, a priest in confessional, a judge in a public courtroom, that you received a piece of paper from the government?
	That's how disrespectful and hateful the government is of the freedom of speech.
	Yeah!
	Why does the government fear the freedom of speech?
	So that people like Scott Ritter cannot tell you how dangerous the government's policies are.
	And how close the government brings us to annihilation.
	The government doesn't want to hear that.
	The government is so afraid of Scott Ritter, they sent 40 FBI agents to his house, including a SWAT team and a bomb squad, to get his cell phone and his desktop.
	And then they questioned him.
	And Scott Ritter stood eyeball to eyeball with the government and never blinked.
	Thank you.
	The government does this when it wants to chill the freedom of speech.
	When it wants to cause people who criticize the government to look over their shoulders before they speak.
	Because not everybody who criticizes the government is as big as Scott Ritter, but not everybody who criticizes the government is as courageous as Scott Ritter.
	So the freedom of speech, if you want peace, speak about it.
	If you want peace, challenge the government.
	If you want peace, shake your fist in the tyrant's face.
	Thank you.
	In the long history of the world, JFK famously said in his inauguration speech, only a few generations will be granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger.
	This Is that our?
	This is the generation.
	Now is the time to defend it.
	Gatherings like this will rile up the people to tell the government when it is wrong.
	Thank you.
	Our freedoms come from our humanity.
	Whether you believe, listen, I'm an old-fashioned pre-Vatican II, Francis skeptic, Latin mass attending Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be that.
	You don't even have to recognize the existence of God.
	You know that we are the highest and best rational beings on the planet.
	And you know that we naturally yearn to be free.
	And you know that those natural yearnings come from within our hearts.
	And they are as essential to our existence and our pursuit of happiness as anything the government can give.
	Government, on the other hand, is the negation of liberty.
	Government only exists by stealing liberty.
	You're at home at night.
	There's a knock on the door.
	You open the door.
	There's a guy with a gun.
	The guy says, give me your money.
	I want to give it away in your name.
	Say, what the hell is this?
	I'm going to call the police.
	Don't bother.
	We are the police.
	It's an old Mary Rothbard one-liner.
	There are three ways to acquire wealth.
	The sweat of your brow.
	The inheritance model.
	The mafia model.
	Give us your money or else.
	Which model does the government use?
	Why do we tolerate this?
	Why do we continue to vote for and fund a government that thrives on seizing our property and stealing our liberty?
	Why do we have a one-party system?
	In the Congress, in the government, a uniparty that loves war and killing and debt and surveillance and taxes and deficit spending and steals our liberty and steals our property.
	Because there are not enough Scott Ritters in the world.
	That's why we have that problem.
	Because there's not enough understanding.
	There's not enough understanding of our liberty and courage with which to articulate it so that the government stops.
	Jefferson, for all of his flaws, said, when the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
	When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
	Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?
	The government should fear us.
	We shouldn't fear it.
	Why don't more people understand that?
	Why?
	Because the government has seduced two-thirds of the population into receiving wealth transfers from it and believing that they can't exist without it.
	It is time for us to recognize That the individual has primacy over the government.
	I've been around for a long time.
	I've been doing this for 50 years, arguing for the primacy of the individual over the state, arguing for peace over war, arguing for a government that does nothing more than defend our individual liberties.
	When I die, I hope to die faithful to these first principles in my bed, in my home, surrounded by the people who love me.
	But not all of you will have that luxury.
	Some of you will die faithful to first principles in a government prison because of your exercise.
	Of the freedom of speech.
	And some of you will die faithful to first principles in a government town square to the sound of the government's trumpets blaring.
	When the time comes to make these awful decisions, you will know what to do.
	Because freedom lies in the human heart.
	But it must do more than just lie there.
	Thank you and God love you.
	Thank you.
	Hey, FBI, that was for you.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Garrett Steele, Garrett Steele.
	Music Music Let's see if we can't get this next speaker out here to boogie with us in a little bit.
	Welcome to the stage, our host.
	Mr. Gerald Cilente, come on out and boogie with us a little bit, Gerald.
	Mr. Gerald Cilente, come on out and boogie with us a little bit, Gerald.
	Mr. Gerald Cilente, come on out and boogie with us a little bit, Gerald.
	Thank you.
	I don't know if it was Jesus, Muhammad, or Buddha, but one of them said, you better boogie before the lights go out because tomorrow is iffy.
	And I'm President Boogie.
	Vote for me on Election Day.
	I will raise wages.
	I will lower taxes.
	I'll put a chicken in every pot.
	I'll put a Cadillac in every garage.
	All you have to do to join is bring your own fifth because I'm starting the fifth party.
	Election time is coming and a real gone candidate get to the polls real early and don't forget the date and vote for Mr. Boogie.
	Vote for Mr. Boogie.
	I'll put rhythm in the White House.
	And all the squares have got to go.
	I'm going to make a speech in every city.
	I'm going to make a speech in every town.
	I'm going to kiss everybody's baby when their daddy's not around.
	So vote for Mr. Boogie.
	All right.
	All right.
	Judge Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria.
	Everybody, thank you all so much.
	Roger Waters, Maron.
	Thank you all for being here.
	You know, there's a definition for democracy.
	Government by the people.
	The rule of the majority.
	Oh, this is Marion Webster.
	Screw you, Merriam-Webster.
	I'll tell you what to do.
	You got no democracy.
	If you don't believe the crap spewing out of my mouth, you believe in misinformation.
	Why, I find misinformation being sexually abusive.
	You know, why don't we call it transgender information?
	Let's really be stupid.
	A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation, usually involving periodically held free elections.
	Free elections?
	We got no free elections.
	It's a crime syndicate.
	You don't get billions of dollars from the billionaires.
	You can't run for anything.
	And all these billionaires.
	Billions and billions for bombs.
	Not a penny for peace.
	You know, by the way, people say to me, you know, we don't like your language.
	What am I in the sixth grade?
	He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.
	Why?
	Because anger looks to the good of justice.
	And if you can live amid injustice without anger, You are immoral as well as unjust, said Thomas Aquinas.
	Here we are on the four corners of freedom, where our founding fathers fought for us.
	And once upon a time, there was a real man that was president.
	Not like these little boys with cojones, smaller than a mothball, but really bad attitudes.
	By the name of George Washington.
	George Washington.
	Just look at this.
	This fellow, his name is here, put this great George Washington little piece together, and I'm going to speak more about it.
	Could you put that video up?
	Thank you.
	They got the big screen back there.
	Another.
	They got the big screen back there.
	George Washington, a real man, not like these little boys.
	A man, when he crossed the Delaware, a guy that fought.
	Not like these little chicken hawks.
	Oh, a Biden?
	Five draft deferments.
	A little wall-mongering little boy, five draft deferments.
	Oh, Trump?
	Oh, he only got four.
	Clinton?
	Yeah.
	He drafted his way deferment out of it, too.
	Obama, the Nobel piece of crap prize winner.
	One after another, but they love war.
	Little boys, little, little gutless boys.
	I want to read to you some of George Washington's farewell address.
	Because, again, we are at the most historic four corners in America.
	Where the seeds of democracy were sown, there is nowhere, nowhere in America than where you are right now.
	As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
	One method of preserving it is to use it sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating Screw you, Washington!
	How dare you say that?
	I'm little Biden ballists.
	How dare you say cultivating peace?
	Cultivating peace is not allowed.
	You are not allowed to say it on ABC.
	All about Crap Network.
	You're not allowed to say it on CNN.
	The cartoon is News Network.
	Going on.
	But remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it.
	Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions in times of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars May have occasion.
	Oh, debt?
	You mean the $35 trillion in debt?
	And when you put the real number into it, it's about $260 trillion in debt?
	You mean the trillion dollars that we give to the military-industrial complex each year?
	Screw you, Salenti!
	You're banned from the mainstream media.
	I used to be on Oprah, The Today Show.
	Good morning.
	We hate you.
	You're a man of peace.
	You're a warrior for the Prince of Peace.
	And we're on the demonic side.
	He goes on by saying, cultivate peace and harmony with all.
	Peace and harmony with all.
	They had me hiding under a desk in case an atom bomb went off when I was a kid.
	Like that was going to save your life.
	The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
	It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection.
	Either of which This is George Washington.
	We have been taught to hate the Russians and hate the Iranians all our lives.
	It is a slave to animosity or to its affection.
	Antipathy.
	In one nation against another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of disrupt occur.
	Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, vehement, or bloody contests.
	The nation, prompted by ill will, And resentment, sometimes in perils to war, the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy.
	So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.
	Here we are.
	Variety of evils.
	He goes on to say, And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, and deluded citizens who devote themselves to the favorite nation facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.
	Like every little piece of scum that we call politicians, they could care less about us.
	It is the responsibility Of the executive branch at all levels of government, local, state, national, to provide and protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within their authority.
	And it is the responsibility of all citizens in all sections of the country to respect the rights of all others.
	And to respect the law of the land.
	The United States, as the world knows, you ready for this?
	We'll never start a war.
	Yeah.
	Laughing at Washington.
	Little clown boys.
	As I say, with a pair of cojones smaller than a mothball.
	You call these guys out man to man.
	As we'd say in the Bronx, they wouldn't know it at a piss or shit.
	Little gutless little clowns.
	Oh, don't talk to me.
	How dare you take us to war?
	You want to go to war?
	Go over there and fight.
	Send your wife, send your kids, send your money.
	Go over there and fight or shut your mouth.
	Thank you.
	George Washington goes on to say this generation of Americans has already had enough, more than enough, of war and hate and oppression.
	We shall be prepared if others wish it.
	We shall be alert to try to stop it.
	Look at the difference.
	This is our founding fathers.
	This is where we are, where the seeds of democracy was sown that have been stolen from us.
	He goes on to say, in relation to the still, you ready?
	Subsisting wars in Europe, my proclamation of the 22nd of April, 1973, is the index to my plan.
	After deliberate examination with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all circumstances of the case, had a right to take and was bound in its duty and interests to take a neutral position.
	Look how we have declined.
	Little gutless clowns destroying our lives, stealing our money to give to the military-industrial complex.
	John F. Kennedy's speech.
	Scott Ridders talked about this.
	It was on June 10th, 1963.
	All about peace.
	June, July, August, September, October, November.
	Jack, you're dead.
	I have therefore chosen this time at American University, speaking to the graduating students, and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds, and the truth is too rarely perceived, yet it is the most important topic on earth, World peace.
	World peace.
	And little pieces of crap hate world peace.
	What kind of peace do I mean?
	What kind of peace do we seek?
	Not a Paximeticana forced on the world by American weapons of war.
	Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
	I'm talking about genuine peace.
	The kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living.
	The kind that enables men and nations to grow and the hope and to build a better life for their children.
	Not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men and women.
	Not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
	And refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.
	It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon, now remember this is 1963, contains almost ten times the explosion forces delivered by all the Allied forces in the Second World War.
	It makes no sense in an age when deadly poisons produced, again, this is what Scott was saying, by nuclear exchange would be carried by the wind and water and soil and seed to far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.
	I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rationale and irrational men.
	I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war.
	And frequently, the pursuers of peace fall on deaf ears.
	Some say that is useless to speak of world peace.
	First, let us examine our attitude toward peace itself.
	Too many of us think it's impossible.
	Too many think it's unreal.
	But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief.
	It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.
	Think about that.
	Forces that we cannot control.
	Little Chuckie Schumer, I'm wearing my glasses just like him.
	Little Lindsey, you come out of the closet yet, Graham?
	One little clown boy after another.
	Oh, I'm Tom Carton.
	I was in the military.
	F you, little boy.
	We do not accept that view.
	Our problems are man-made.
	Therefore, They can be solved by men.
	There is no single simple key to this peace, no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers.
	Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts.
	It must be the dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenges of each new generation, for peace is a process.
	A way of solving problems.
	He goes on to say, today should total war ever break out, no matter how, our two countries, talking about the Soviet Union at the time, would become primary targets.
	It is an ironic but accurate fact that the two strongest powers, and again, Scott was talking about what Netanyahu said he's going to do if they escalate this war.
	No matter how our two countries would become the primary targets, it is an ironic but accurate fact that the two strongest powers are the two in the most danger of devastation.
	All we have built, all we have worked for, would be destroyed in 24 hours.
	This is 1963.
	He's saying it will be destroyed in 24 hours.
	And even in the Cold War, which brings burdens and dangers to so many nations, including nations closest to allies, our two countries bear the heaviest burdens.
	For we are both devoting massive sums of money to weapons that could be better devoted to combating ignorance.
	We are both caught up in a vicious and dangerous cycle in which suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counterweapons.
	But whatever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom Walk together.
	And then there was another man, unlike these little boys, by the name of Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, supreme commander of the Allied forces, and two-term American president.
	Every gun that is made, every warship launched.
	Every rocket fired in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.
	Those who are cold and not clothed.
	The world in arms is not spending money alone.
	It is spending the sweat of the laborers, the genius of the scientists, the hopes of the children.
	This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.
	Under the clouds of war, It is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
	Here we are.
	And now, as a trend forecaster, current events form future trends.
	These are a couple of headlines at Aharets and the Times of Israel just before I came out here.
	Ballistic missile fired from Yemen once again triggers sirens across central Israel.
	IDF says a bullet terror chief Nazarala, other top commanders killed in Beirut's strike.
	IDF launches multiple new strikes in Beirut.
	Houthi missile triggers sirens in Tel Aviv.
	Vowing revenge from secret location, Khamani, the Iranian, declares five days mourning for Nasrallah.
	Calls on Muslims to stand by Lebanon, claims killing top leaders of Hezbollah won't ripple terror group, vows Lebanon will make, quote, aggressors pay.
	But, what's her name?
	Kamala Harris came out today.
	Kamala.
	Yeah.
	Hilarious.
	Kamala Herrera.
	Hilarious.
	Nasrallah was a terrorist with American blood on his hands.
	Diplomacy remains the path passed forward.
	All right.
	She goes, she said, U.S. Vice President, Democratic presidential candidate, said following his blood on his hands, terrorist, across decades, His leadership of Hezbollah destabilized the Middle East.
	Wait a minute.
	A terrorist?
	You mean the Lebanese that fought against the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon?
	Oh, they're terrorists.
	So if somebody breaks into your house with a gun and you shoot them because they're taking over your house, you're a terrorist.
	Across decades of leadership of Hezbollah destabilized the Middle East and led to the killing of countless innocent people in Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and around the world.
	Today Hezbollah's victims have a measure of justice, she said.
	I have an unwavering commitment to the security of Israel.
	Washington could go screw himself!
	Washington, hell with you!
	Hey!
	Israel ain't my country.
	I'm an American.
	I believe in the founding fathers.
	Thank you.
	Anybody that wants to go support Israel, go over there and fight.
	Send your wife, your kids, your money.
	Go over there or shut your mouth.
	Shut your mouth!
	You arrogant little clowns!
	Hey, Kamali, you gonna go over there and put on your costume and go fight?
	No!
	We're gonna send American little boys that is too stupid to understand what we're saying.
	She goes on to say, adding that she and President Biden, yep, are gonna do everything they can To keep this war going.
	So there you got it.
	What Scott Ritter is saying is 1000% accurate.
	We are on the verge of nuclear annihilation.
	All you got to do is read what Putin said last Wednesday.
	And now there's another trip.
	Again, Hezbollah defeated.
	Israel in 2006.
	And by the way, the mainstream media calls the militants, militants, militants.
	In the Trends Journal, we don't do that.
	We report what's being reported all over the world.
	We subscribe to Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post.
	Oh, we also go to Press TV, Tehran Times, IRNA, ISNA.
	Hear what the Persians have to say.
	Oh, we go to Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera.
	We want to hear what everybody has to say.
	So we say this is what they're saying.
	This is where it's going.
	And this is what you might want to do.
	But no, though.
	They call them militants so that you learn to hate them right away.
	They're nothing more than prostitutes, as I said.
	Media whores that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whoremasters.
	Joe Laurie was talking about before the media.
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	You got six companies.
	Again, thanks to that little boy, Bill Clinton.
	Every time he got caught with his pants down, bombs away over Baghdad, yeah, that guy.
	The 1976 Federal Communications Act, when he allowed the bigs to take over the media.
	Six companies today control 92% of all the American media.
	So, the story's very simple.
	If Israel loses this war, not my language, theirs, a thing called the Samson option, S-A-M-S-O-N.
	Now, let's put these numbers together again.
	Hezbollah beat them in 2006, after they had invaded for years.
	There are 9 million Israelis, 20% of them Arabs.
	There are 91 million Iranians.
	If Israel loses, they go what they call the Samsung option.
	They go nuclear.
	They go nuclear.
	We are in the most perilous times of our life, and now you're seeing the Biden administration coming all out in support.
	Of Israel's attack of Lebanon.
	This is going to escalate beyond the belief.
	One of my lines is, when all else fails, they take you to war.
	People forget that before Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023, there were 39 weeks of protests going on in Israel.
	Because when Netanyahu came in, he tried to pass this Judiciary Reform Act that would have prevented him from going to court where he was being brought up on charges.
	39 weeks.
	39 weeks of protest.
	Not my language.
	The language of Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel.
	Again, this is before Hamas attack.
	Israel is in a civil war.
	Hamas attacks, but totally forgotten.
	And now, again, before that happened, Netanyahu's poll ratings were in the toilet where he belongs.
	And now this is from Financial Times.
	Offensives boost Israeli prime minister in the polls.
	Netanyahu has definitely recovered from the post-war crash.
	A political pollster and political analyst arguing Israel's increasingly aggressive action at a regional level had played a role in his rehabilitation.
	Quote, it looks like Israel is taking the initiative.
	It's true, everybody gets terrified about the consequences, but each time they have ultimately been And a lot of people come out thinking Netanyahu has regained Israel's footing.
	Now, once upon a time, there was another little gutless little boy by the name of George W. Bush.
	A little daddy's boy of nothing.
	As George Carlin says, one big club and you ain't in it.
	A little clown boy of nothing.
	A little boy of nothing.
	Again, as I say, when all else fails, they take you to war.
	Before the war on terror, before the war on terror, we had the dot-com bust.
	The NASDAQ was down over 70%.
	The war on terror happens That little clown boy says We're going to get 90% of the people swallowed the crap coming out of the mouth of his little jaw.
	The longest war in American history, lost.
	And this is from History Today.
	July 26th, 1941.
	Ready?
	Remember, when all else fails, they take you to war.
	The Great Depression is going on.
	United States freezes Japanese assets.
	On July 26, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States.
	You know why?
	In retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indochina.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	French Indochina?
	What the hell are the French doing in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam?
	We're stealing their tin.
	We're stealing their rubber.
	Rob, pillaging, raping.
	Hey, we could go there.
	And me, as an American, what the hell do I care about this?
	These things have been going on for centuries, and that's what George Washington warned us about.
	You ready?
	President Franklin Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America, Britain, and the Dutch East Indies.
	Dutch East Indies?
	You lousy Dutch are going into Indonesia and robbing and stealing and raping and pillaging.
	Oh yeah, with Dutch East Indies, we can do anything we want.
	Followed suit.
	The result, Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88% of its imported oil.
	Japan imports 100%.
	Can't understand why they bombed Pearl Harbor five months later.
	You cut off all their trade.
	You stole all their oil.
	We are in the same situation now.
	The current administration will do anything they can to win this election.
	When all else fails, they take you to war.
	So it's up to all of us to do what we can.
	And you all are doing everything you can.
	My heart is so warm by seeing all of you.
	Thank you so much for coming here.
	Thank you.
	And thank you, thank you, Judge Andrew Napolitano.
	Thank you, Scott Ritter.
	Thank you, Joe Lauria.
	Thank you, Randy, for putting this together, getting everybody, thank everybody, and please do what you can to donate to Occupy Peace.
	If the billionaires gave us a billion dollars, we would have peace tomorrow.
	Thank you, and God bless you.
	She came out here to be an actress He was a singer Where

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