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Oct. 6, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano

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Alastair Crooke : Order, Prudence, Rules are GONE!

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	Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for judging freedom.
	Today is Monday, October 6th, 2025.
	Alistair Crook will be here with us in a minute on prudence, order, rules internationally.
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	And now is the time Now is to Crook, welcome here my dear friend Before we get to Order, prudence, rules are gone In the past several hours, the uh French government collapsed yet again.
	I don't even know how long this Prime Minister was in office, maybe a month.
	What's your read on this?
	Well, it was expected.
	We knew he was gonna it was going to collapse, and we don't know who um can possibly um fill in.
	Uh for the moment, it doesn't look like Macron is going to um leave.
	He may try and stay on point another prime minister, wait until he can feel there's a chance of doing a snap election or something, but even that will not solve his problems because he will lose it.
	No, this is part of the serious uh crisis.
	I mean, uh here in Italy last Friday.
	I mean, the whole country closed down, completely closed down.
	Ostensibly in support of the Palestinian.
	And that was real, supporting the Palestinian uh flotilla.
	But also, it was about the state of the country.
	And there were in the papers and the newspapers, they were talking about, you know, we can't go on when people are broke by the third week in the month, which is the case here.
	So, I mean, you know, and everything was shut.
	There were no trains, no buses, nothing.
	Uh, nationwide.
	I'm sure you haven't seen it in any of your newscasts or anything, but the same is happening in other parts of uh of Europe, too.
	I mean, the the protests are taking place much more widely.
	We saw um Chris is running a clip now.
	Uh we saw large demonstrations in Milan, but I did not know it was nationwide.
	Uh or is is it your view that the push for a ceasefire in Gaza or a Palestinian state?
	I guess they're pretty much the same, is the pretext for a general uh cultural uh economic uh disenchantment with life in Western Europe today?
	Well, they've sort of fused together.
	I mean, you know, the what's happening in Palestine is symptomatic for for many people of the failure of the leadership of the elites in in Europe.
	So it's not they're not any more separated.
	And yes, I mean it was very violent.
	They took over the railway station and there was bitter fighting in Milan when this was happening.
	This last one has been quite different.
	And the government and all the newspapers were very clear and said, you know, this is new.
	We've had protests and we've had individual and trade unions of protest.
	It's been bigger than anything, everything.
	Everything shut down.
	Everything was on strike.
	Huge protests this week.
	Will the establishment in Brussels pay attention?
	Will they do anything or change anything?
	No, they won't.
	Will the Italian government will the Italian government fall as the French government has just fallen?
	It's possible because Malonia is not very she's more supporting Israel.
	She's been a big supporter of Israel.
	And as you're showing the clips, um the mood of the country has turned sharply against it, very sharply.
	I mean, this is a Europe-wide thing that they've turned against the careful passing of the European Union saying, well, yes, we're in in support of a two-state solution.
	But in the end, you know, they send naval vessels to guard the flotilla.
	And then the Italian government said, Oh, but they'll have to withdraw at 150 nautical miles because we wouldn't like a dispute with Israel.
	I mean, you so people are angry.
	And as a result, uh, the Israeli Navy aboarded these ships as if they were pirates because it was in international waters and kidnapped unarmed people, a good number of them Americans, some of the Americans uh veterans of the US military, who are just attempting to bring food, water, medical supplies and clothing to the starving uh beleaguered, tortured people of Gaza.
	And Ben Gavia Ben Givia came to see these people from the flotilla, and he very publicly announced to the uh guards that were surrounding them, they were all sitting like prisoners on the floor, and he said, You're going to be treated as terrorists.
	Oh boy.
	What what conceivable crime against the state of Israel could they have been committing in international waters by attempting to deliver uh food, but there's no there's no reasoning uh with these people as long as Trump and the American government support whatever they do, they're going to keep they're going to keep doing it.
	Why why is the West in general, as you have written, becoming meaner, rougher, and less tolerant.
	Uh well, I was um uh really orientating this much more to um the United States in the second Trump term.
	Um that various uh strands of the leadership, and I'm talking about the Tech Brothers uh from Silicon Valley, um, the uh the Israeli leadership there, the Jewish oligarchy, uh, and the Trump team have uh changed completely the political doctrine.
	The old doctrine, you know, the rules-based order is gone because they're not obeying the rules.
	They're actually tearing up the rules-based order.
	They are ignoring law, they're ignoring actually moral precepts, norms of, if you like, um, how to handle um prisoners or how to handle war.
	All of this is being torn up, thrown in the air in order to try and bring about, if you like, um, a new dominance of the United States across the Middle East and also uh in South America in Venezuela.
	So everything is being thrown in the air, and law is ignored, norms are allowed, and this is a new doctrine uh that is being pursued in order to um, if you like, bluster the way to dominance, or ultimately to use military force uh To create um submission, because dominance is about submission.
	And that's what Israel is insisting on, and which the Trump team, like Barak, Steve Barak said quite clearly, Tom Barak said very clearly.
	Look, this is, you know, the other side of the coin to Israeli dominance, which is what they are imposing on the region, of course, is submission.
	You either submit or you're gonna suffer military consequences.
	This is the new, this is the new doctrine, uh geopolitical doctrine uh that is being enforced at the moment to try and get dominance.
	And it is, as I've said many times, ultimately, this is about trying to find the way of increasing the United States uh revenues into its capital account uh to cover um what is happening, which is if you like, um that they are being overwhelmed by deficits.
	The deficits just grow and grow, and the United States is overwhelmed by them, and overwhelmed by debt that has to be refinanced in the next few months through to the midterms.
	So, how do you do this?
	And they want, if you like the dominance to insist that people have to provide investment into the United States, and you can call it tribute, you can call it a tax, you can call it a tariff, or you can call it a sanction.
	It amounts to the same thing.
	It's about changing the financial order, the global financial order, and to do that um through a new policy structure of if you like threat and if you like bluster and dominance um to achieve it.
	Here's uh here's an example of bluster and dominance, which we'll play in a minute.
	The president's uh deputy chief of staff who is paid by the federal government but is not confirmed uh by the Senate.
	So he's not actually an officer of the government, he's an advisor of the president, but he whispers in the president's ear continuously, uh Stephen Miller.
	But before we get to that, just to show you the breakdown of law and order here, uh the president announced he was going to send troops to Portland, Oregon, because he didn't like the politics articulated by people demonstrating against ICE.
	Uh the governor of Oregon brought an action before a federal judge, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump.
	She wrote a 31-page opinion and joining the use of the Oregon National Guard, National Guard for the federalizing the Origin, Oregon National Guard and bringing them into Portland.
	She said, we held a trial.
	No demonstration was larger than 30 people, and they were all peaceful.
	I'm not going to let you have troops staring them down, intimidating their First Amendment rights.
	No Oregon National Guardsmen are to be federalized.
	Over the weekend, the president federalized California and Texas National Guard and announced that they were going to go to Oregon because he felt they were outside the purview of her order.
	She held a trial and a hearing on Sunday afternoon, accused the president of directly defying her order and prohibited the federalization of any National Guard showing up in Oregon.
	Just to give you an example of where they are.
	Now he's sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, and here's why.
	Cut number nine.
	We are about to provide you with a level of support you cannot even imagine.
	This isn't just a task force.
	This is a all of government unlimited support operation.
	ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE, Department of War, every resource we have.
	We are sending in real cops with guns and badges to go out with you on the street every single night making arrests.
	I pledge to you, we will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations.
	The idea that there is a square inch of bloc in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
	This is Memphis, this is the United States of America, and all that bullshit is done.
	It's over, it's finished.
	Like Berlin in 1933.
	It's very dark.
	But it is, as I said, this is the new doctrine, in this case, applied to the United States, not just to the Middle East.
	So it is a it's it's a very much a new era.
	We can kiss goodbye the old rules-based order.
	That's gone.
	This is the new order that we are seeing.
	One where you get dominance, and if you can't get dominance by just bluster and threatening financially, uh, then you send in the troops.
	And that's what look, the whole the whole globe is on fire at the moment.
	There's tensions everywhere.
	In Europe, there's tensions, but also across the Middle East.
	It's not confined just to Gaza.
	It's tensions at the moment, just as we're talking, Israel is bombing Lebanon again.
	It is going to bomb Syria.
	I mean, we are in a period of everything is is igniting altogether, all at the same time.
	And you know, what's going on in Gaza at the moment is essentially uh Trump trying to tamp down, I suspect, Trump trying to tamp down uh the Gaza element, because he does not want that exploding if they intend or plan to attack Iran, because that would not be uh it would be not good to have both these things going on simultaneously.
	So he's pursuing this, and all this theater that is coming out, the theater that, oh yes, you know, I've told Netanyahu he's gotta stop the bombing and he's got to let the hostages be released.
	We've been there before, we've seen this of movie before, and then ultimately, and what's happened?
	Actually, Netanyahu increased the bombing after he made that statement and is increasing it still.
	When you argue, as you do so uh persuasively in your most uh recent piece, that we now have uh war without rules.
	Can an argument be made that Donald Trump is following Benjamin Netanyahu's lead?
	I mean, Netanyahu is waging a war against civilians and old ladies and children and babies.
	That's war without rules.
	Donald Trump is blowing up, it's now four four boats, speed boats uh in the uh Caribbean with no uh due process whatsoever.
	Where does this go from here, Alistair?
	Well, uh well, that's a $64,000 question.
	Where exactly it's going to go from here.
	Uh, but you're quite right.
	I mean, you know, he admires what you know, forget the propaganda.
	He admires Netanyahu.
	He is under Netanyahu's thumb.
	He will do what Netanyahu wants, and he's taking his lead from Netanyahu.
	And and this is also because, as I have written before, um, there is a real sense that there is an internal war in America that um Netanyahu is engaged.
	I called it the Eighth Front, which is to take control of the media, and my goodness, that's happening.
	The um Israeli oriented oligarchs uh in America, um, Larry Ellison and his son and others are taking control of the media, and now they're paying people, um, the influencers,
	playing influences something like $7,000 um for a post, but they're recruiting young American um American, mostly conservatives, to try and push the line of absolute support for Israel.
	And they're spending lots and lots of money, paying people to write posts on Instagram and TikTok and other sites, um, pushing the Israeli agenda.
	So uh you have you know this war too in in the US, and these different factions have come together.
	And the problem is, and why net why I think Trump is finding it so difficult, And why he between Iraq and uh in a hard place is I do think that Trump understands that this is costing him and America reputation.
	Um the mood is turned strongly against Israel.
	I mean, right across Europe.
	Just look what's happening in Europe.
	Um, and it's the same in America, and he knows that this will have an impact at the midterms.
	He can see that.
	Yet he cannot do anything, uh except a little bit of theater.
	Oh, I'm gonna be so tough and netanyahu, and tell him, you know, he's too negative, he's got to do this, he's got to accept what's happening.
	Um, but we know this, we've seen this before.
	At the end of the day, um, the United States will and is supporting Israel completely.
	Um, aircraft are traveling to the Middle East, arms are traveling to the Middle East, large quantities of money and arms are traveling to the Middle East in preparation for a war on Iran, which seems inevitable because I don't know how many of your views uh have understood where we are on Iran, because essentially the snapback process came in on the if it was I think the 28th of August.
	30 days after that, it automatically starts, um, which is I think around uh any time now, uh, or it's already started.
	Um, and then uh what you have, and this is important to understand the JCPOA ends on the 18th of October.
	It's over.
	So where does everything go with Iran?
	There will be no JCPOA.
	Well, with no GC, with no GC JCPOA, will the will there still be the snapback sanctions, which as I understand you can describe it better than I are draconian.
	No, this has uh snapback sanctions are not draconian because largely most of them have been in place for a long time, done unilaterally rather than through through the UN thing.
	Um, but um it will uh it is, of course, I mean, the snapback is also other sanctions and other parts of it come into effect about um being able to import weapons and other things.
	But in a few days' time, what are we today?
	6 of October, 18th of October, the whole JCPOA structure comes to an end.
	And what's significant about this is that at the moment the United States is trying to, if you like, impose sanctions, and Russia and China are saying, no, we will not allow that to happen.
	We will not allow the committee to meet that will impose sanctions on Iran.
	We won't accept even the committee to meet.
	And what's more from the first of this month, uh, Russia is president of the council and can block it and will block it.
	So it's clear that this structure that has been put in place by Trump channels, funnels Iran down to a single point.
	Either it has to accept the ultimatums of the United States, no zero enrichment, no missiles, no foreign policy, or else it'll be military attack.
	I mean, because all the bridges to negotiations, the IAEA ended with snapback, and then the JCPA itself ends in a few days' time.
	So, I mean, where else is it going to go except towards this endless sort of funnel towards some sort of conflict?
	This is a resolution because there's no diplomatic structures then left after the 18th.
	Here's uh Prime Minister Netanyahu, pretty happy that his buddies have taken over TikTok.
	Cut number five.
	We're gonna have to uh use the tools of battle.
	You know, the weapons change over time.
	You can't fight today with uh swords, that doesn't work very well, okay.
	And you can't fight with the fight with cavalry.
	That doesn't work very well.
	And you have these new things, you know, like drones, things like that.
	I won't get into that.
	But we have to fight with the weapons that uh apply to the battlefields in which we're engaged.
	And the most important ones are on social media.
	And the most important purchase that is going on right now is class.
	TikTok.
	TikTok.
	Number one.
	Number one.
	And I hope it goes through because it's uh it can be consequential.
	And the other one, what's the other one that's most important?
	X. X. That's very good.
	So they his his uh friend Larry Ellison, the uh billionaire Zionist oligarch, who now runs a Paramount and CBS, uh, has taken over TikTok, and I guess they're going to try and take X, formerly Twitter, from uh Elon Musk.
	Good luck uh with that.
	But and there's going to be, and this is what is going to make it so difficult in the United States.
	And I'm saying this as an outsider, but the pushback that is a real shift taking place.
	If you look at what is going on by the people who have influence with the MAGA group and with young Americans, both conservative and democratic, there is a strong shift away from support for Israel,
	and more than just away from Israel, antagonism uh to the idea that America has got to be led in Israel to these things, such as Gaza or an attack on Iran.
	And it's going to get, I think, quite bitter because the Zionist leaders are, and you Steve Miller and also Kellogg and all the others are very tough, and saying, you know, they've got to support Israel.
	Gotta support Israel.
	If they don't, there will be consequences.
	You know, I wrote a book about this called Constitutional Chaos, what happens when the government breaks its own laws.
	The book is 10 years old, but it's as relevant today as uh as when I wrote it.
	These are very dark times uh in which we live.
	Uh, one last question.
	Don't you think the Americans and the Israelis realize how punishing the Iranian response will be on Israel if and when the US and Israel uh attack Iran, far more punishing than when uh Prime Minister Netanyahu cried uncle back in June.
	Uh there's was there is uh uh uh uh quite a famous Goldman who is um the editor of Asia Times, and and not so long ago, well, uh a little while ago, he went to one of these secret closed door meetings with American politicians,
	intelligence chiefs, and um military, and and he was talking about Russia and Ukraine, and and they all produced these ridiculous statistics about how Russia is about to collapse and is losing you know a million men, and he said to them, you know, this is all BS.
	This isn't true at all.
	You know it.
	And he said the stark fact was of course they knew it.
	They still said it because they just not could not come to accept that America would no longer be given the orders in the world, and they couldn't accept that.
	So they went on saying the things that they know were untrue, and I think that's what we're seeing about Iran.
	They're saying, oh, it'll collapse, it'll be easy.
	They know that there are going to be problems.
	I'm sure there are Israelis that understand that, but they can't say it.
	You're not allowed to say that.
	That is like treachery to say that um what that America and Israel acting together is not strong enough to completely obliterate Iran.
	How could you say that?
	That's unacceptable.
	So they don't say it.
	Alistair, thank you very much, my dear friend.
	Uh it's a pleasure to chat with you, even if the subject matter is Uh is so gloomy.
	Thank you for your ideas for your intellect and your and your beautiful analysis.
	All the best.
	We'll look forward to seeing you next week.
	All the best to you too.
	How are you feeling?
	Yes, thank you.

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