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Aug. 14, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘One of the Biggest Pinocchios of the Year’
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Ladies and gentlemen, you are just in time for episode 144 of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the indefatigable, inimitable P.K.
And, ah, ah, Mr.
P.K., I'm sure you are aware that we have just passed the fifth anniversary of a very important date in American history.
Well, there are so many woke moments from the past five years, it's hard to think of what you could be talking about if it weren't for a few tweets that we're going to be talking about that came out to remember the gentle giant himself, Ferguson's own Michael Brown.
That's right, that's right.
It was on August 9th of five years ago that hands-up-don't-shoot became a national rallying cry.
Now, of course, let's briefly go over what happened.
Michael Brown had just knocked off a local convenience store, strong-arm robbery, and he'd walked off with a bunch of cigarillos.
He was high on marijuana, as was discovered later at the amnesty.
He was walking down the middle of the street and Officer Darren Wilson came by and told him to walk on the sidewalk, please.
It's then that he learned over the radio that this guy matched the description of the perp who had knocked off the convenience store.
And he decided to ask further questions about him.
And at that point, Michael Brown reached in through the car window while the officer was still in the car, tried to wrestle his gun away from him, punched him several times in the face.
The firearm went off at that point, hitting Michael Brown in the hand.
He went out, he backed off, left off and went off in one direction.
And Darren Wilson got out of the car.
Michael Brown came charging back to him despite being told to stop and get down.
And he was shot to death by a terrified Darren Wilson.
Well, the word that got out and the word that was promoted by the media was that Michael Brown was trying to surrender peaceably.
He had his hands up.
He was saying, don't shoot, don't shoot.
According to some accounts, he was on his knees doing this and was shot down like a dog in pure cold blood.
Well, this was the rallying cry until the Obama Department of Justice, under the supervision of our first black Attorney General, Eric Holder, did a comprehensive study thoroughly debunking the whole thing.
And to the point where the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler called the whole slogan of Hands Up, Don't Shoot, the biggest Pinocchio of the year.
Well, well, what do you know?
That sounds pretty bad.
Well, this did not stop our friend Kamala Harris.
To her 867,000 followers on Twitter, she reported, Michael Brown's murder forever changed Ferguson and America.
Murder, by the way.
We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.
Now, I'd never been to her Twitter account before, and I noticed her Twitter banner shows her in an all-black crowd.
I guess that's just part of racial justice.
Would she pass the brown paper bag test that they used to have back in... Oh, the old...
The elite black sororities would decide if they were going to admit a new member and they'd hold the paper bag up?
I'm not sure she would.
I'm not sure she would.
She might not pass the paper bag test.
Now she's a former prosecutor for heaven's sake.
She should know better than to say someone who was officially examined stem to stern by none other than Eric Holder and found to have acted in an entirely justifiable way is guilty of murder.
Yeah, that whole DOJ report, I think it came out in early 2015.
March 4th, as a matter of fact.
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
And I remember everyone was like, wow, this pretty conclusively illustrates that this whole thing has been a massive hoax.
But then there was a separate report the DOJ put out where it showed that, well wait a
second, blacks are being disproportionately ticketed.
And the speed trap that is Ferguson and in St. Louis County.
Look at all the times that blacks have been disproportionately pulled over.
Oh my gosh, this is a symbol of systemic racism.
The crazy thing about that report, I read both reports with great attention.
And the second report that lambasted the policing practices of the city of Ferguson simply swallowed, in an unquestioning way, stories like, hands up, don't shoot.
There was no attempt to really get at the truth.
All they did was harvest these exaggerated claims, some of them probably true.
It was really the most gullible report of all.
The one about the Michael Brown shooting seems to have been done by a completely different bunch of guys.
Highly competent individuals.
Very, very skeptical.
They weren't swallowing anything.
It was baloney.
But anyway, it was not just Kamala Harris who was celebrating St.
Michael's 5th anniversary.
Elizabeth Warren, to her three million followers.
She tweeted, five years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
We must confront systemic racism and police violence head-on.
Here's another lady.
She taught at Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School.
Murdered.
Murdered, she says.
Murdered by a guy who was explicitly exculpated by the DOJ.
Well, I mean, how would you How would we remember this date if what took place on the streets of Ferguson was reversed?
What if Michael Brown had been successful in getting officer Darren Wilson's firearm from him and he had shot Darren Wilson to death?
But we would never have heard of either of them.
There was a story Mr. Taylor, I'll be brief, the prior year in Indianapolis there was a a big picnic with a bunch of black families and there was a disturbance so an officer by the name of Perry Wren shows up and he had he had a gun he pulled it out because he was told that there was a black guy with a gun I believe was an AK-47 and they had an exchange of firearms an exchange of firearms Perry officer Wren regrettably was killed and that started a I will always get out of the car movement in Indianapolis because there was a pushback from the
Black priests and the black community in Indianapolis.
Oh my gosh, you know, because he also in being shot by the black guy, he shot the black guy.
Don't remember if the guy died or not, but they said if you hadn't, they, uh, I'll tell you what happened.
One of the family members of the black guy who shot and killed officer and said, if you didn't get out of the car, this wouldn't have happened.
You mean if the officer hadn't gotten out of the car?
Exactly.
And he was an officer.
Perry Wren was a white man.
He had a beautiful family and no one remembers that story outside of people like you and me.
I don't even remember it.
But I always thought, had the races been reversed in that instance, that would have been the jumpstart of the Michael Brown stuff.
Well, not if the races had reversed.
If the wrong guy had died.
Precisely.
Precisely.
And that's how combustible this entire situation is, and that's when you think about our guest last week, Colm Flaherty, when he talked about police officers, how terrified they are of going out.
You're seeing record number of homicides in cities across the country right now.
They're on pace, a number of cities are on pace for breaking records again, even though we're supposed to have seen the Ferguson effect dissipate by now, since it's been five years since Obama's DOJ waged war.
Mr. Taylor, you have to just wonder, every morning when a cop leaves their home, what are they thinking?
Well, uh, I think they're thinking that they have the most difficult job in the United States of America, perhaps the world.
Because after all, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also said Michael Brown should be here today.
No one should die due to the color of his skin.
De Blasio was saying that he was shot because he was black.
Boy, if you attack a police officer, you're probably going to die, no matter what your race.
In any case, I find it very interesting that just like the family of Martin Luther King, Michael Brown's family seems to be living very well on the effects of martyrdom.
There's something called Colorlines.com, a website in which Michael Brown Sr.
reflected on the five-year anniversary.
He says, At this point I've found a little bit of peace, but Mike Brown Jr.' 's nine siblings are still hurting and have questions.
They were all younger than him, and the last thing they remember is their brother was taken away from them in the manner that he was.
And he goes on to say, a lot of the work that we're doing right now at the Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation grew out of things that he said.
So, there is a Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation.
Now, it claims to be a 501c3.
I can't really tell what it does.
It doesn't even have its own webpage, but it has a Facebook page.
I suspect the one thing that it does is pay Michael Brown Sr.
a salary.
But he's not the only one.
The mother of Michael Brown, Leslie McSpadden, and Leslie is spelled L-E-Z-L-E-Y, by the way, for those of you who like details of this kind.
She appears to be a rather better entrepreneur.
She is chief executive and founder of the Michael O.D.
Brown Foundation.
I guess OD.
What does that stand for ordinarily?
In any case, Michael O. D. Brown Foundation.
It has a much more, it has quite an elaborate website.
It's got a board of directors.
One of its programs is called Rainbow of Mothers, and from its description we find that, too often black and Latina communities and our children are confronted with violence When tragedy strikes, we want to be there with Annette to catch our beautiful and brilliant black butterflies.
What happened to the brown butterflies?
We want to help them understand the tragedy they've been faced with.
So, one of these days, if I had time, I'd love to go get the 990 filings of these 501c3 organizations, find out just how they spend their money and where it comes from.
In any case, as I say, Leslie McSpadden, is a better entrepreneur than Papa Brown.
She got a column in the Washington Post, not some little obscure colorlines.com place, and she wrote this.
I decided I would write this year because the continuing execution Of black and brown young people by law enforcement has not stopped or even slowed down since I lost Mike Mike.
She refers throughout to Michael Brown as Mike Mike.
Interestingly enough, father refers to him as Mike Brown Jr.
But to her, she's Mike Mike.
Black men and boys are still not safe walking down the street.
The president is flagging an open season on black and brown men and boys.
Now this is despite the fact that as I said the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler had said this hands-up don't shoot stuff with the biggest Pinocchio of the year.
Well apparently the Washington Post has forgotten that fact.
I don't think Bezos owned the Washington Post.
in 2015 when that was when that came out.
I think he might have but maybe he did I might be wrong but my main point is back in 2014 my favorite episode of that whole ordeal of what happened on Canfield Drive there in Ferguson Missouri was maybe about a month after the Initial interaction between Darren Wilson and Michael Brown, the family started trying to sell souvenirs.
Do you remember this?
Oh, that's right.
And the family members got in a fight over who could actually sell the right paraphernalia, the right swag, if you will.
That's right.
The Michael Brown bobblehead doll.
I don't know if there are bobblehead dolls.
I would love to have one if there actually was a Michael Brown bobblehead doll.
I'd actually take that back.
I'd like to have a Darren Wilson bobblehead doll.
But I remember there was a big scuffle.
That's right.
I might be mistaken.
Somebody got arrested.
It might have been his mother.
The charges were dropped.
They got in a battle.
They got in a... That sounds familiar.
Well, now they've got their 501c3s, so they don't have to get in a fight anymore.
They found a better way to profit from the death of kinfolk.
Yeah, I guess you don't have to.
Black families seem to be pretty good at that.
As I say, Martin Luther King, his family, ooh, they're all multi-millionaires.
They've dined out on this for decades and will for decades to come.
But let me just finish with Leslie McSpadden's column in the Washington Post.
She goes on to say, of an African-American ages 18 to 36 say they always or often go out of their way to avoid contact with the police.
Now this reminds me of the videos we were looking at the other day.
I think some of our listeners have also seen them of blacks just walking up to white police officers and just pouring buckets of water on them or ambushing them with these water cannon.
And the way blacks taunt and shout at and insult the police What a bunch of baloney.
Half of them always are off and go out of their way to avoid contact.
They seek contact.
The idea that they're terrified of being shot just any day, this is just such baloney.
But anyway, P.K., I believe you have a story for us about how the NFL is toying the line about how wicked American society is.
Yeah, I'd love to just make one more point about the whole Michael Brown thing.
The one really interesting thing that's happened after the incident there in Ferguson, Darren Wilson, of course, wasn't wearing a body cam.
And we know now that there's been a revolution when it comes to police officers wearing body cams.
And of course, what's happened has been the exact opposite of what Black Lives Matter and these leftists who have no problem saying that Darren Wilson executed an innocent black body.
It's actually proven the type of behavior.
And it's confirmed racial stereotypes of who is committing the crimes and who police officers are interacting with on a continual basis.
And guess what?
Not a lot of white faces.
Well, as I recall, the number of black people shot has actually gone up slightly as a result.
Because people recognize that they're going to have the evidence to show that it was justified.
But be that as it may.
Tell us about the wisdom of the National Football League.
Well, let's set the stage here, folks.
A couple years ago, Colin Kaepernick was influenced by the same type of thinking that white cops are going out there to find innocent black bodies to assassinate, like Michael Brown.
Of course, this is the same type of thinking that permeates the top contenders for the Democrat nomination for president, as Mr. Taylor noted during the tweets that he mentioned.
A couple years ago, the NFL decided they were going to allocate tens of millions of dollars to a social justice fund by the players.
Well, now it turns out that Shawn Jay-Z Carter, you might remember him.
He's a billion-dollar rapper businessman.
I believe he is married to Beyonce.
The fact is, I don't remember him.
Jay-Z got his start as a rapper.
I think he once sold drugs before then, but he's also the founder of an entertainment company called Rock Nation, and they're entering a multi-year partnership with the National Football League to enhance the NFL's live game experience and amplify the league's social justice efforts.
As part of the agreement, Rock Nation is going to advise on the selection of artists for major NFL performances, such as the Super Bowl.
You know, a lot of people think that's a really big time where they can make a statement.
A couple years ago they had Beyonce, and you might remember this one.
I'll ask this question again.
When she came out doing the Black Lives Matter, you know, Black Panther influence type dancing.
The fist salute.
The fist salute.
They were all black dancers and they did the fist salute.
A major component of this partnership is going to nurture and strengthen community.
Of course, that largely means black or brown communities through football and music.
But that means only black or brown communities?
It's almost exclusive, yeah.
When you look at where social justice money from the 32 NFL franchise has been allocated, All these nonprofits are almost exclusively for urban children.
I don't think they're working in poor white Appalachia.
No, they're not.
So this is all part of the NFL's Inspire Change initiative and you know Carter has said that well one of the things that they want to do he said during a Q&A with Select Media when this partnership was announced that Again, this is all about inspiring change.
This is all about continuing on the whole message of what Colin Kaepernick started.
It's not a dialogue.
It's a monologue, blaming all the problems that non-whites, particularly black, brown youth in urban areas where there are NFL franchises, the problems they face are due to.
Wow.
Pale faces.
Whitey.
That's the problem.
That's a really original theory.
So why I wanted to bring this up, guys, the NFL season is about to kick off.
Turn it off for good.
Just walk away.
You know, if these goofs in conservative ink can talk about a Blexit, hey, just imagine what would happen if white people turned off the NFL and stopped paying attention.
An NFlexit.
Well, I wish I could turn it off, but I never turned it on.
So, there you go.
I've been ignorant all my life and happier for it.
But, yes, and there's yet more of this good stuff coming down the pike.
As I recall, Kamala Harris is similarly motivated for the perpetual quest for social justice and she plans to use red flags for that purpose?
There was a piece at AR I read last week where the author noted that conservatives, particularly white conservatives, need to understand that red flag laws are going to be utilized against, well, against them.
And Kamala, Kamala, as I like to call her, Harris, she announced just today that if she's elected president, she is going to press Congress to pass a red flag law, that's at the federal level, not the state level, that would allow law enforcement officials to temporarily seize the firearms of white nationalists that may be on the verge of carrying out a hate crime.
Wow.
A lot to take away from that sentence.
Well, you know, frankly, frankly, if there is a so-called white nationalist about to commit a hate crime, I'm all for it if they manage to take away his arms, his weapons.
Now, that is the crucial modifier, of course.
A white nationalist about to commit some sort of crime.
I don't want that happening.
I very much don't want that happening.
My fear, of course, is that Kamala and her pals are going to think that just any so-called white nationalist is inevitably about to commit a crime.
So you're talking about the pretext there.
I see what you're saying.
Well, it's the condition.
If the condition is met... Now, there was an article in Esquire, and we cited it on the Ameren webpage.
It said, there is no such thing as a moderate white nationalist.
Every white nationalist, by definition, subscribes to a violent ideology, even if he hasn't yet shot up a Walmart.
That, I suspect, is Kamala Harris's thinking.
That's the motivation behind it?
Yes.
Well, I've always hated that term.
I don't know why people like that term.
We're Americans.
And I think that Rush Limbaugh, of all people, put it quite succinctly the other day, where he said, look, we're at a point now where it's basically Americans versus People who hate America.
It's really that simple.
It's people who decide they want to tear things down.
And the red flag laws... I can't think of anything more un-American than red flag laws.
And again, as I understand there might be a piece coming up on AR that's going to analyze
polls where people are allowed to go by race to talk about their intent in preserving or
enacting gun control laws.
It's basically white people who are the only people in favor of keeping the Second Amendment
intact at this point.
Well, I do think that in theory, if you do have some sort of objective way of trying
to determine whether or not some guy is going to go on a rampage and who has weapons, maybe
under certain circumstances with proper due process, those people should have their weapons
Now, maybe you're an absolute hardline Second Amendment guy who says, never, never, never, never, never.
In this state of play, as far as any kind of white advocacy is concerned, every time there's an El Paso-type killing, it is a terrible setback for us.
And if something like this stops that, okay, but believe me, I share your concern that it's going to be a workaround of the First Amendment so as to say, okay, if some people, if people say X, then they should not be armed, no matter what their behavior patterns are.
Well, I mean, again, Donald Trump is called a white supremacist, a white nationalist on a daily basis.
Someone like Tucker Carlson is called a white nationalist, white supremacist, because that word racism no longer carries the same weight.
So now you've got to go nuclear.
And that is the aspect of where I think, wow, is Kamala Harris, again, I love Kamala because of the wrestler, is Senator Harris Does she really want to go after anyone who voted for Trump?
Because that is where I think, in the terms of dialogue with the left, that's where we are.
I fully understand your worries and I share them.
Because I agree with you.
If there is somebody out there who has made threats, I'm sorry, if you're going to make a threat if you are a black nationalist, if you are a If you were someone advocating for Aztlan, if you're saying, you know, because we're worried about ICE and if it turns out that, you know, some of these leftists, when you call them Antifa, if they're making threats, I do agree, they should be arrested.
And like you said, if somebody's threatening to do another El Paso, hey, That's right.
Arrest that person?
What the heck?
Because these are our countrymen and you should want to stop something like that.
Right.
I certainly understand the direction which this place could go.
And I'll just read a couple more paragraphs here from this USA Today story that is breaking as we were preparing to go live with, gosh, episode 144.
Thank you, dear listeners, by the way, for listening to this program.
You make this happen.
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So, Ms.
Harris, her proposal calls for the creation of domestic terrorism prevention orders.
There's an Orwellian phrase.
Domestic terrorism prevention orders that would give law enforcement and family members of suspected white nationalists or domestic terrorists the ability to petition a federal court to temporarily restrict a person's access to guns if the person exhibits clear evidence of being a danger.
So here is, again, if you've ever said, gosh, you know, I wish President Trump, why won't he build the wall?
And a family member says, my God, that's racist.
Well, see, it's all a question of interpretation.
As you put out, Kamala Harris is emphasizing white nationalists, white nationalists, white nationalists.
But I think there are circumstances under which perhaps you shouldn't necessarily arrest people, but if you withdraw Weapons from them under certain... I don't know.
It's a very delicate situation.
There are at least six major cities in this country that have really exhaustive gang databases.
Those cities have been attacked vociferously by the ACLU and the NAACP because these gang databases are quote-unquote racist.
Mr. Taylor, we even see this in London, where Scotland Yard has a gang database, the Gang Matrix, and it's almost All non-white faces.
Now here's the thing.
And your point is they had to abolish it.
They had to get rid of it.
In Chicago and Baltimore there's a push to get rid of this stuff and other major cities.
My point is this.
We know that in these major cities the homicide clearance rate and the non-fatal shooting clearance rate is so low because the black community protects the black criminals with the no snitching.
Policy.
Now, here, if you really wanted to get serious about gun crime in this country, we know that the majority of gun crime in this country... The Brookings Institute published this, by the way, last year.
It's heavily non-white.
White people primarily use firearms for what?
Suicide.
Suicide.
Now, if you want to get serious, you know, Tucker Carlson is right.
America doesn't have a white supremacy problem.
It really doesn't.
What America has, if you want to talk about gun crime and you want to make communities safer, you would use these gang databases and that's where you would go.
That's how you would make black lives truly matter.
That's how you make these cities livable again, by utilizing the data that exists.
What we see with Kamala Harris's proposal, it's a way to disarm dissidents, the dissident right, those who have family members who say, oh my gosh, you won't believe what My brother or my uncle said at the dinner table over Thanksgiving.
And that is where I think we're headed.
We live in a society now where there's a Stasi next door.
Yes, we could well be headed that way.
And it's unlikely that the gangbangers in Chicago, their family members are going to say, oh by the way, Leroy has a gun and Leroy talks about killing people.
Judge, please disarm him.
That's very unlikely to happen.
Although that is where it should be happening.
Yes!
And one of the really fascinating things about the firearm violence in these major cities, invariably, almost all the firearms, they were procured illegally.
So once again, the true war on constitutional rights, I don't want to sound like a libertarian here because I can be as radically federalist as need be if necessary, but We are coming to a point, Mr. Taylor, where the Washington Post publishes an op-ed saying that the First Amendment stands in the way of prosecuting white supremacy.
Whatever that word means.
That's right.
That's right.
Well, we know that there are some things more important than the Constitution.
That's getting rid of white supremacy.
But anyway, moving on to a different subject.
And I think on this podcast, we do hold Donald Trump's feet to the fire.
We criticize them when criticism is due, but we praise them when praise is due.
And this is one of those occasions in which a certain amount of praise is due, due to the fact that ICE conducted its largest ever single state enforcement operation in history in six central Mississippi cities just on August 7th.
What they did was sweep up 680 illegal immigrants at seven meat processing plants, and they used federal search warrants for this, and they seized the business records at all of these plants.
Now this was the culmination of a year-long investigation.
I don't know, I don't see why it should take that long, but apparently it took that long.
But, now that was August 7th.
By 4pm the next day, ICE had already released 303 of those 680 people.
That sounds like quick work to me, but including 18 juveniles who were found to be working, one as young as 14.
Now, the ones who were released We're issued the usual notice to appear, which means that they're supposed to show up and let a judge decide if they're eligible to stay.
Most of those people we'll never hear from again.
But of those detained, some will be criminally prosecuted with charges related to identity theft, document fraud, or repeated illegal entry.
Fine.
I hope they go, and I hope they go quickly.
But what this means is some of these 680 who were arrested have already been through immigration proceedings and have been ordered removed.
But they're not removed.
They're still here.
Not only are they still here, they're working illegally.
Now, the whole idea of raids on illegal alien workers was pretty much off-limits in the Obama era.
And in fiscal year 2016, only 106 such people were arrested.
Only 106!
Might as well just forget about them.
In other words, if you were working illegally, you had not a care in the world while Obama was in the White House.
Now, ICE has increased its worksite criminal arrests by 460% from the year after that, so they're arresting thousands of people.
Which is fantastic!
It's a good start.
It's a good start.
Now they need to arrest the employers.
Well, that's exactly right.
Now, one of the companies is called Koch Foods.
And there were a lot of people assuming that this is really something run by the Koch brothers.
Apparently, there's no connection at all.
It's just a coincidence in terms of names, but they were hosting job fairs.
Because they need to hire people.
They need to hire people who are here legally.
Isn't that great news?
I should think that the folks around to be loved would be overjoyed.
They're hiring.
Jobs for the boys.
Now, one of the support, of course, is that Who is going to be suffering from this?
Six of these seven Mississippi chicken plants that were raided, it's clear that they were willfully and unlawfully employing illegals, including, mind you, workers wearing ankle monitors.
Ankle monitors.
I'll talk about them later.
I got curious about ankle monitors and looked into how they work and what good they are.
But in any case, these were people who showed up wearing ankle monitors because of immigration infractions and got hired anyway.
Anyway, and part of the awful aspect of this is there have been so few arrests of the employers.
From October 2018 until May of this year, guess how many new prosecutions there have been for hiring people working illegally?
How many?
I'll guess $3,500.
Wrong.
New prosecutions for, I'm sorry, for hiring people.
Oh, for hiring.
Oh, I guess under 10.
Well, you're right.
Eight.
Okay.
There have been eight companies and that's from October until May this year.
Only eight, for heaven's sake.
It turns out one of the guys who owned two of these companies, his name is Huo Yuliang of California.
He was just very clearly, he was instructing his people to hire illegals if possible.
It's just absolutely blatant.
Keep the wages down as low as possible.
Mississippi state law requires employers to check documents using E-Verify.
But he says, don't worry about that, you know, hire them.
Now, the trouble is, of course, that when you use fraudulent documents, bogus social security numbers, the employers always say, well, we didn't know.
We didn't know.
You have to prove that they knowingly and deliberately hired people who are here illegally and didn't have the right to work.
So, I'm hoping that there will be some prosecutions that come from this.
It sounds as though Huo Yuling of California certainly deserves to be prosecuted.
Well, the sands are running out in the hourglass at the Trump administration, and it's so sad to hear that such... It is great that he's doing this, but again, too little, too late.
This is the type of stuff that would have been fantastic to start implementing right at the start of his presidency.
Day one, for heaven's sake.
Yeah.
That's what he promised he would do, remember?
And we've seen the exact opposite.
On national public radio, which I sometimes listen to, because it's interesting to know what the elites and the liberals are listening to, they interviewed some poor guy whose mother was afraid to go to work, whose father was about to be deported, and oh, a tearjerker, tearjerker, tearjerker.
And what I've always said is, if the Trump administration was serious, they were going to say, okay, We're going to come and get you.
We're going to get you sooner or later.
And if you wait and you get taken by surprise, it's not going to be fun.
So you should beat the feds, get your affairs in order, and clear out so you can do it on your own time rather than suddenly and by surprise when we tell you it's time.
That's how I would react to all these tearjerker stories.
How magnanimous of you.
Well, I mean, that's a proper warning.
Look, do it on your own time.
Wind up your affairs and go home before we send you home by surprise at a time not of your own choosing.
Isn't that fair?
It seems fair.
Of course, you know.
What it requires is firmness of will, which our chief executive does not have.
Now, back to this business about ankle monitors.
As I was saying, I got curious at how that works.
Now, the whole ankle monitor business for illegal immigrants, that program started in 2002.
And the GPS monitors became more common as deportations rose.
Now, the whole ankle bracelet business is run by a government contractor called B.I.
Inc.
Now, B.I.
stands for Behavior Interventions.
I wonder what else that company does.
I mean, that might be a play on their stock.
Who knows?
But it's a subsidiary of the country's second largest private prison company, which also operates immigration detention centers.
The monitors cost an average of $5 a day per person to operate.
Whereas, detention costs an average of $130 per day.
So, $5 per day is a whole lot cheaper than $130 per day.
So, if they have the same effects, then they are a bargain.
Immigrants call the monitors grietes, or shackles.
They weigh 5.5 ounces, that's 155 grams, and they use radio frequency signals to send
alerts to a monitoring station if the device is tinkered with or removed, or if you leave
certain designated areas of travel.
The devices hold a charge for about 6 hours and have to be charged up and it takes about
two hours to charge.
And they're issued with a rather short power cord.
So you have to be, and it's still attached to your body, of course, you can't remove the thing, it's stuck to your ankle, or it's wrapped around your ankle.
It looks like a big sports watch.
Really, I saw photographs of them.
But you have to be tethered to the power source every six hours or so for two hours a day.
Sounds inconvenient.
It's true.
Now, if a device's battery is about to die, there's an alarm triggered and there are instructions.
Guess in what language?
I don't think it's going to be English.
It's not in English.
They all speak Spanish, these little gizmos.
And it says, charge me, charge me, feed me, feed me.
Also, if you go to a geolocation outside the area that you're restricted to, it'll start shouting at you and say, call your officer.
Me llame usted something or other.
Now, but, interestingly enough, these devices are effective only up until a certain point.
And that point is when you show up in immigration court.
Apparently, the illegals think that it's worth trying to skip out of the hair of la migra so long as you have not gone to court and got a deportation order.
But once there's a deportation order, they just cut the thing off and then disappear into the background.
We thought we'd have flying cars in the future, but guess what we have?
We have illegal aliens wearing ankle bracelets that speak to them in Spanish.
That's right.
Well, I mean, Congress marches on in every field.
Could have been on Mars, but instead.
But see, that's just it.
They work fine.
People will use them.
People won't snip them off until a judge says, you're out of here.
And then they say, OK, we're not going to cooperate anymore.
And now this is very, very interesting.
When the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General had a report on these things, and they said if someone flees or absconded, as they put it, and cut the thing off, they go hunting for the monitor, not the person.
You know why?
Because it has more value.
The monitors cost $800 to $1,500 a piece.
There you go.
That's right.
That's what matters.
They are much more interested in retrieving these expensive things than having to track down some guy who's joined the millions.
The millions who might be here for years and years and years.
Now, something else.
I mean, I'm always interested in statistics here.
And apparently, if somebody wore the monitor, For the eight years or so it takes to actually come up before a judge and then be told, clear out.
If they've applied for asylum or something.
Guess how much it cost to monitor the guy?
Just an ankle bracelet for six or eight years.
I'll tell you.
Go ahead, tell me.
$16,000.
$16,000.
$16,000 just to keep tabs on him.
Anyway, I just thought this was interesting information about modern technology.
So $2,000 a year.
That's right.
But there are people who don't like this modern technology.
And as I believe you had tracked down a story about people actually taking shots at the folks who run this kind of business.
Well, if you recall last month, Gosh, about a month ago, there was a terrorist attack on a Washington ICE detention center by Willem van Spronsen, who wrote I Am Antifa.
I think he showed up with an AR-15.
And by Washington, you mean Washington State?
By Washington State.
I think, yeah, it was Tacoma, Washington.
He was influenced by this group that idolizes, you know, terrorists such as John Brown, and they wanted to stop the evil fascists that are ICE and their struggle against fascism.
He had homemade explosives.
He was shot, thankfully, as he tried to engage in a terror attack.
You were talking about El Paso.
The sad thing about El Paso is that there wasn't someone who was armed that could have shot the guy.
That's right.
That would have been the happy beginning.
My point is this.
The language the left is using to demonize and dehumanize ICE has consequences.
We saw the terror attack.
Could have resulted in a lot of people being injured.
Thankfully it was just the Berserker terrorist that was killed, but just this past week...
In San Antonio, shots were fired at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, and also it includes the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office.
So there were two separate offices that were shot at in a terror attack in San Antonio, which is not getting any publicity.
And once again, President Trump, you were gift-wrapped the incident that happened in Tacoma, Washington.
You were talking about doing something against Antifa, Once again you dropped the ball.
There was a terror attack.
You could have had the ability to address the nation about why we should support police officers.
Why we should support first responders.
Well now we've seen again where officials are blaming quote political rhetoric and misinformation after the two separate incidents where the field officers were shot out in San Antonio early Tuesday morning.
Christopher Combs, he's a special agent in charge of the San Antonio FBI, stated in a press conference on April 12th, he said, quote, an unknown number of individuals in an unknown number of vehicles fired shots at the building and came close to hitting federal employees in the building.
This just happened a day or two ago.
Yeah, this happened August 12th.
August 12th.
He said April 12th.
August 12th.
And this was a report reported by the San Antonio Express News and he said Combs would say, quote, I want to stress to everyone that any attempt at any violence or illegal illegal activity against a federal official will not be tolerated.
Unfortunately, this is being tolerated.
He said that this was an act of violence and it could have resulted in the assassination of a federal employee.
Again, I believe that they've arrested somebody.
Daniel Bible, the San Antonio Enforcement and Removal Operations field office director said, quote, political rhetoric and misinformation that various politicians, media outlets, and activist groups And I wish the occupant of the White House would tweet to that effect.
But so far, I understand he's not mentioned this at all.
He has not mentioned this at all.
As I recall, there could have been several vehicles that went by involved in this.
It sounds like a convoy that went by and blazed away at this ICE office.
This, again, we've seen AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her ilk continually and constantly state that what's happening at the border with these illegal immigrants who the mainstream media, the corporate press, has decided to just call immigrants at this point.
They're putting cages.
It's like a concentration camp.
Well, that type of rhetoric has consequences.
And unfortunately, there really is no media outside of, I don't know, Tucker Carlson, who's even going to talk about this ad nauseam.
Well, you know, in that line, there's interesting development here in the Washington, D.C.
area because the administration wants to build in the U.S.
Capitol a Center for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children.
HHS said the facility would be among three new permanent shelters built in communities with large numbers of immigrants from Central America.
The idea is that you want to house these children close to where they might have relatives or in any case there are people of their culture, their community nearby to get them involved.
What does Mayor Muriel E. Bowser say about that?
She says, absolutely not.
We're not going to accept a facility of that kind.
She says, Washington D.C.
will not be complicit in the inhumane practice of detaining migrant children in warehouses.
Warehouses?
This is hardly what these things are.
One that they want to build in Virginia, for example.
It would have a staff of 147 people.
It would be equipped with classrooms, sleeping areas, and two acres of outdoor space for recreation.
But no, Muriel Bowser says they are in warehouses.
The one in DC might accommodate as many as 242 children, but the city council is dead set against this, and this I find absolutely hilarious.
One of the Latino activists in the DC area says this, So many of us in the Latino community are opposed to this happening anywhere in the United States, but certainly not when it's in our backyard!
Yes, not in my backyard.
That is the classic statement.
That was Maria Gomez.
Well, I mean, what do they want?
They're trying to build these facilities that are, so far as I can tell, extremely humane, but they refuse to have them where they actually live themselves.
The fact is, the U.S.
Border Patrol has caught more than 69,000 unaccompanied minors.
Since October of last year through July.
69,000!
That's an increase of 50,000 from the same period the previous year.
What are you supposed to do with these?
Well, obviously, you can't just let them loose on the street.
Is that what they want?
Is that what Muriel Browser wants?
Or, are we going to find foster homes for every one of these?
Not always easy to do.
But, if they want to build, as I say, sounds like a pretty nice place to me what they're trying to build for these folks.
No, you can't do it.
Well, in Northern Virginia, where American Renaissance is located, HHS wants to build another one, too, but the local supervisors, the county supervisors, say they are absolutely opposed, and they want to know, is the Trump administration going to reimburse their jurisdictions for any local tax dollars used to care for the children?
What an idea!
When it's in their backyards, they want to pay up.
No mas.
Furthermore, the local Northern Virginia people want to know, would HHS deal with any potential problems with discipline or communicable diseases?
Wait a second.
I thought that was all a myth.
These were just peaceful people.
Well, there's no me, there's no you, there's no us, there's no them.
We're all one world.
We all bleed red, but when it's in our backyard, they might have communicable diseases.
There might be discipline problems.
It might cost money.
Despite the fact, HHS is going to hire 147 people for this place.
On the macro level, it's fine.
On the micro level, no mas, no mas, no mas.
But shouldn't Northern Virginia be delighted?
This is creation of jobs, isn't it?
It's vibrancy.
Wow!
But no, not if they've got to pay for it.
Well, for heaven's sake.
Well, on the subject of no mas, I don't know how you say that in Italian, But our friend Matteo Salvini, our admired, one of my two favorite politicians, all of Europe, has been active in the NoMos business, at least in Italian.
Who's your favorite?
I'd say Viktor Orban.
He's my favorite.
I'll go with Salvini.
I think he's about to put together a coalition that will actually be the most hardcore.
There's good things happening in Germany.
There's good things happening in Europe.
But let's talk about what just happened with actor Richard Gere and Salvini.
Salvini giving him, putting a thumb to his nose and giving him sort of that funny little, that funny little symbol or whatever you used to do.
No, the gesture is with two hands.
You slap your biceps with one hand, you make a fist and you bend it.
Oh, I think that's called giving them the finger.
No, that's giving them the Italian fist.
Yes.
Well, so Hollywood millionaire He's worth about a hundred million dollars, Richard Gere.
He has called upon the Italian government to assist African migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than one week.
He appeared with them, he took photos, he did interviews, they did selfies.
Yeah, I think he brought them food packages.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So he visited the open-armed ship in a show of support.
joined a press conference and he made comparisons between Salvini with President Donald Trump.
Salvini, of course, is blocking migrant ships from docking in Italy and President Trump, he's been faced with criticism in the words of Richard Gere for his immigration policies.
Gere said, hey, quote, we have our problems with refugees coming from Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico.
It's very similar to what you are going through here.
He said, accusing the politicians in Italy of demonizing migrants.
Quote, this has to stop everywhere on the planet now.
Let them all in.
Stop if we say stop.
Of course, I'd like to see the confiscation of Richard Gere's fortune to pay for the repatriation of all illegals, but that's not going to happen.
But I can at least put it out there that that's what should be happening.
Well, of course, Salvini, he didn't take this too kindly.
He pointed out that, quote, Given this generous millionaire is voicing concern for the fate of the open arms migrants, we thank him.
He can take them back to Hollywood on his private plane, all the people aboard, and support them in his villas.
Thank you, Richard.
That was Salvini's statement.
If you want them, if you want to support them, they're all yours and you can feed them, shelter them, and clothe them.
Yep, I don't think Viktor Orban would quite have shot back with that.
So Salvini's got... I love it when he said, for example, all those people want to get to Italy over there in North Africa, the only Italy they're ever going to see is on a postcard.
Yeah, so he's got a way with words.
I do like that.
But Victor Orban, Victor Orban's still my boy.
And the only Richard Gere they're going to see is when he flies in for a secure photo op and then quickly flies out to head back to Cannes or some film festival.
And he got that ability to thumb his nose at Europeans.
But on the subject of no mas, or unfortunately, mas, mas, mas, there is Pope Francis.
Pope Francis just the other day, he said, I am concerned because we hear speeches that resemble those of Hitler in 1934.
Why 1934, I wonder?
Well, that was the great Nuremberg rally that was depicted in Leni Reifenstahl's movie, Triumph of the Will.
But why 1934?
Maybe he's a big movie buff or something.
In any case, he says, What people are saying is us first.
We, we.
These are frightening thoughts.
And he called for migrants to be integrated into society and said nationalism is a quote, attitude of isolation.
The nationalist agenda risks thwarting the courageous dreams of the founders of Europe, says Pope Francis.
Well, That's his latest statement.
Well, as you may recall, in 2016, Pope Francis flew to the island of Lesbos, and he toured these refugee camps, and they made a very careful selection, and he flew back in his own jet with 12 Syrian refugees.
And I was just curious to know what became of them.
I was assuming they'd all live in the Vatican, of course.
No, they don't live in the Vatican.
They live elsewhere, but two of them were profiled in a recent article.
A woman named Aid and her family are reported to be a success story.
Her husband works as a handyman for the religious congregation that provides their housing.
Okay.
Is that really a success?
Well, she works as part of a cleaning crew at a hospital.
Well, well.
Now, they get free housing and also their basic expenses are met by a grant of roughly $1,200 a month per family paid directly by the Vatican.
Well, so at least the Vatican is paying them, and they are making themselves more or less useful.
Now, there were supposed to have been 12 families.
There were others that did not get to fly back with the Pope on his airplane, and I haven't seen profiles on them.
So I'd be curious to know if this guy who's a handyman for a religious congregation and a lady who works at a cleaning crew in a hospital are the success stories.
I'd be curious to know what happened to the rest.
But that apparently is not being widely reported.
But anyway, so much for Pope Francis.
And if we might move on, very briefly here, back to the United States, I'd just like to, a little comic relief, talk about Uncle Joe Biden.
You know, this is fairly widely reported, so I can cover it briefly, but on the campaign trail, he's been saying such things as, we choose science over fiction.
We choose truth over facts.
Now, it's been said that this was a slip of the tongue.
He wasn't really saying we choose truth over facts, but at that point the crowd yelled and cheered.
So they seem to think that liberal or ideological truth is more important than facts.
We'll see what actually... It's their religion.
Yes, it is their religion.
Truth over facts.
Also, this is another thing he said.
He was talking about the usual uplift program.
He says, poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
He got scattered applause for that, too.
I guess he's saying, you know, he's not a white supremacist.
These poor kids are just as hard-working, just as smart and talented as white kids.
And this was at something called the Asian and Latino Coalition PAC meeting.
Well, of course, then he says, you know, he was on the attack, on the attack against the occupant of the White House.
We have a problem with this rising tide of white supremacy.
And we have a president who encourages it and emboldens it.
Then, on the campaign trail, he said, our president has more in common with George Wallace than George Washington.
Well, that's interesting.
You know, more in common with George Wallace than George Washington.
Well, I suppose so, because after all, George Washington was a slaveholder, you know.
Donald Trump doesn't actually own slaves, so I guess he does have more in common with George Wallace than George Washington.
Orange man is not that bad then, I guess is what you're saying.
I guess he's not so bad.
Of course, in George Wallace's solid days, Joe sang a different tune.
He told the Philadelphia Enquirer on October 12th of 1975, some time ago, and I'm quoting him directly, I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace.
Someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people.
Someone who wouldn't pander, but would say what the American people know in their gut is right.
I suspect he was talking about busing.
I think that's exactly what he's referring to, which was largely impacting the Northeast.
Yes, yes.
But that's, as I say, that's our comic relief for the day.
Good old Joe Biden.
And we'll keep an eye on him.
But he's still top of the polls.
Well, he's top of the polls, but I actually am going to throw a prediction out.
I think Kamala Harris is going to be very close.
I actually think we're going to see Elizabeth Warren.
Began to start getting a lot of noise when it comes to Iowa and those initial few states.
And I think that she'd be very hard to beat if she picked Stacey Abrams as her running mate.
Elizabeth Warren, Stacey Abrams.
She'd be easy to beat.
That's a 1-2 knockout punch.
Auto-delivered, but at least I think so.
In any case, we don't have much time and I'd like to read a letter from a listener.
Now, this is a brilliant question and maybe we'll get some answers from listeners because I don't think we have time to answer it ourself, but let me read.
She says, I am a woman in my late 20s who in the next few years will be getting married and starting a family.
I grew up in Minnesota and am currently riding to you from a kayak in the middle of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.
One of the few places of solitude I can go to escape the city's violent demographic shift.
My grandparents attended church services in Germany, but now the only language spoken in places of worship is Somali.
My car's been stolen twice.
I hear sirens racing through the night towards the non-white areas of the city.
I know I need to leave.
I want to have a place for my future family where our people can feel safe and be together.
I don't know where that is, and that scares me.
I want to grow roots in a majority white state, but most are run by Democrats that have called for more diversity.
Then she goes on to say, My boyfriend's grandparents built houses and sold real estate in Chicago but had to flee their successful business due to demographic change.
I know nothing is certain, but I don't want to grow roots in a place my grandchildren will have to flee.
I don't want my gravestone to be littered with trash in an area where no one's name sounds like mine.
The American Renaissance podcast gives me such important insight, and so I'd like to ask for a little more.
Where can I go?
And she says, I don't want my gravestone to be littered with trash in an area where no one's name sounds like mine.
And I don't want to grow roots in a place my grandchildren will have to flee.
Those are very difficult questions.
She's thinking long term.
She goes on to say, many young people all over the internet have very little resources but are desperately asking the same question.
Where can we call home for our people?
I believe this causes much unrest in many good people who have put off having families because they don't have the answer.
I sincerely thank you for your time and what advice do you have for me?
I think that's something we should all sit back, our listeners should sit back and think about and if you have If you have an answer to that phenomenal question.
I actually read that question.
She sent that to me as well.
And I read it and I thought, wow.
Because those two words are the most important to understand what's going on worldwide.
Not just in America.
Our people.
When you can say that, you've taken that step.
But see, this is so poignant to think, where can I go where I know my grandchildren won't have to flee?
That's thinking ahead.
I'm afraid there is probably no place at this point in North America where you can have such confidence.
No.
Maybe if it were in Lithuania.
Maybe in Hungary.
But I believe there is no place in the United States where you can be confident that your grandchildren will be the majority and will be comfortable being who they are.
Regrettably, that's 100% the truth.
But if any of our listeners have any answers, any ideas, we would love to hear from you.
You can send answers and ideas to the Contact Us tab at amren, A-M-R-E-N dot com, or to... Yeah, shoot me an email.
Because we live here, at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, the simple email, all one word.
Because we live here at ProtonMail.com, I encourage you to go back and listen to that question Jared read out and think about it because that is the fundamental question of our time for our people.
So, for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Gersey.
Our podcast time is up.
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