Jared Taylor and his co-host laugh at another rent in this lefty group’s tattered credibility. They also discuss spinelessness in Germany, backbone in Britain, Portland’s continuing decline, and the awful but predictable consequences of hating the police.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my co-host, none other than the irreplaceable Paul Kersey.
It is March the 9th, Year of Our Lord, 2023, and we will begin with comments from our respected listeners.
One writes in to say, I've been retired for almost 23 years from working with a predominantly black workforce in prisons.
Wow, better he than I. What was in my face back then is in everybody's face now, which is why you and Mr. Kersey are correct in that we need to go our separate ways.
Mr. Taylor did an interview with a white police officer who discussed his experiences working in predominantly black areas.
The interview was riveting.
Think of how many other professionals, such as school teachers, hospital workers, etc., are assigned to work in such areas.
Speaking with those people would be equally riveting.
Well, I would suggest that our listener write in, identify himself, and explain how we might contact him.
Perhaps he could write an article for American Renaissance, or perhaps he could even be interviewed.
In any case, now may be a good time to tell our listeners how to get in touch with us.
So one way is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N dot com, hit the Contact Us button, and you can send a note to me.
And the other way to do it is, Mr. Kersey?
Oh, it's so simple.
Go to your email or whatever you use, and in the To field, send an email to BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com.
Once again, Email address is so simple.
It's because we live here at ProtonMail.com, and we love hearing from each and every one of our listeners, and we thank you so much for tuning in, and I would like to say thank you to all those who tried to reach out on Twitter to Scott Adams.
He doesn't have his DMs open, and his publicists fired him after his comments.
In fact, he's been excommunicated from virtually every aspect of human society, polite society,
Mr. Taylor, except for conservatives.
Right-wing people are rallying around him and loving Dilbert and loving—
Yes, we bring this up because we had suggested that we might bring him on our little podcast,
discuss some of his late travails.
We'll keep trying, and we can hope we can have him on.
And yes, thanks to all of you who try to persuade him to be our guest.
And let us proceed with further listener comments.
One writes to say, last week you reported on cartoonist Scott Adams and his deplatforming over his reaction to the Rasmussen poll.
One has to wonder if Adams first heard about it from your podcast, as so many others did.
Well, maybe he did, maybe he didn't.
He's a pretty on-the-ball guy.
Another comment, Several weeks ago, you reported on a white man who was brutally beaten by two Hawaiians for moving into their Hawaiian village.
The two have just been found guilty of a hate crime, but sentenced to ridiculously short terms.
One got six years, six months.
Another got four years, two months.
Had the roles been reversed, how much time do you think two white perps would be facing?
Well, for those who are unfamiliar with this case, it was pretty brutal.
He had moved, this white man had moved into a village on Maui, and it was overwhelmingly Hawaiian.
They said they didn't want him there.
And he kept minding his own business, rehabilitating a house he had gotten.
They beat him so badly, they broke bones in his body.
I think he had concussions.
They beat him with a shovel.
And the Hawaiians are, of course, astonished they could possibly be accused of hate crimes for doing such a thing.
But imagine the reverse and somebody wanting to move in a white neighborhood being treated that way six years, six months, four years, two months.
I think not.
Well, no, in that case, Mr. Taylor, I believe President Biden would address the nation if such a incident occurred.
He probably would.
He would certainly go to the bedside of the poor, wounded non-white who was driven out of his neighborhood.
Oh, dear.
No, the world would be turned upside down, and that guy would be seeing very, very long-term imprisonment.
Well, our first story, it comes from Atlanta, and it has to do with the 85-acre trading complex for the city's police and fire departments that is now under construction.
The planned $90 million complex has infuriated environmentalists and anti-police activists since 2021, when it first got underway.
It is primarily being funded by donations to the non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation, and it would include an amphitheater, amphitheater classrooms, training areas for police to carry out simulated crime situations like shootouts, Anti-cop protesters say the police tactics learned at the facility will not lead to a decrease in crime and have slammed the project at ones that promotes militarization of the police department.
They don't even know what training is going to go on there.
The protesters have been camped in forests around the construction site and have launched regular efforts to halt construction.
They have set up a group they call Stop Cop City.
And they say that that Wallonee Forest, which surrounds the facility, is stolen Muskogee land.
Well, I'd like to know who the Muskogees stole it from.
Perhaps the mound people.
Other people we don't even know about.
In any case, the center, they say, would mean the destruction of wildlife and Kwame Ulufemi, a fine guy, I'm sure.
He's of Community Movement Builders, a group that advocates for police forces to be defunded and eventually abolished.
He says, to be clear, Cop City is not just a controversial training center.
It is a war base where police will learn military-like maneuvers to kill black people and control our bodies and movements.
What do you think of that?
They will learn military-like maneuvers to kill black people.
Oh boy, that's all they're going to learn, I'm sure.
Last year, vandals targeted the office of a contractor working on the facility.
They broke windows in Birmingham, Alabama, scrawled graffiti all over the place, and the contractor suffered $80,000 in damage.
But just last Sunday, there was an increase in the violence and the number of people involved.
They used fireworks, Molotov cocktails to attack police vehicles, destroy construction equipment and machinery, set some nice fires that I saw on videos also, and a suspected Antifa activist charged with domestic terrorism because of these rights is none other than an attorney for the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center.
His name is Thomas Webb Juggins, age 28.
And he's one of 23 people who were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism.
How about that?
It's about time these people had the book thrown at them.
Only two of the 28 were from Georgia, the state of Georgia, including, of course, this SBLC guy.
If he works at the headquarters, that would be in Alabama.
All these out-of-staters coming in to do this.
And it's not a far drive from Montgomery to Atlanta.
I'm sure he was commuting.
I bet he's been there before.
Now, there have been a number of serial protesters, well-known people, then a former school teacher, and a young dancer who recently turned to activism.
I guess her dancing career just wasn't going up in flames, so she decided to put other things up in flames.
Well, Juergens, this lawyer, SBLC, he joined them in September 2021, and he worked on its
economic justice project.
Well, throwing Molotov cocktails will bring much economic justice.
He's worked as an assistant public defender and legal intern with the US Attorney's Office
in Florida.
And he and this batch of marauders, some from as far away as France and Canada, are facing
domestic terrorism charges.
Police say 35 of them were detained.
It's not clear whether the other 25 face the same charges of domestic terrorism.
There was quite dramatic footage released by the Atlanta Police Department showing nearly 150 masked rioters breaking into the construction site and destroying things, shooting fireworks at the police, just being wonderful good neighbors.
But this I find quite fascinating.
In a statement Monday evening, the SPLC finally acknowledged the police had arrested one of their boys, but claimed he had been acting as a legal observer.
With the National Lawyers Guild.
Boy, I wouldn't want to admit that.
The National Lawyers Guild is one of the most cuckoo, loony, lefty organizations in the country.
But the Guild and the SPLC issued a joint statement, and they condemned every arrest that was made on Sunday.
Every one.
They did?
Yeah.
As an example of, quote, ongoing state repression and violence against racial and environmental justice protesters.
They said this was escalating police tactics, and they say each of these instances, including the many protesters charged with domestic terrorism, make clear that law enforcement views movement activists as enemies of the state.
This is highfalutin, supercharged, hysterical language.
Enemies of the state.
Then, this is the best of all, SPLC has and will continue to urge de-escalation of violence and police use of force against black, brown, and indigenous communities.
I'll point out that almost everybody who was arrested was white, and practically all of the demonstrators I could see peeping through their masks and their black outfits, they all looked white to me with just one or two little exceptions.
They say, working in partnership with these communities to dismantle white supremacy, we strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.
Well, are they advancing your human rights, you think, Mr. Kersey, the SPLC?
Boy, oh boy.
We're white.
Mr. Taylor, we're white.
We have no rights in this country.
Well, that's right.
We have none to advance.
So, other videos posted online showed a police surveillance tower on fire, sending smoke billowing into the sky.
Well, that's advancing the rights of all people.
Now, a police spokesman says, we have a video of all these people and we'll continue to investigate the case.
Do you think it'll be like January 6th?
Do you think they will post the likenesses of these people on bus stations in Atlanta or all around the world trying to track these people down?
I somehow don't think so.
Will the FBI get involved?
They, no doubt, sent more agents to investigate an alleged noose in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage.
Then they would ever send to look into this.
This is this is such a smear from anti-police violence You know putting what turned out to just be a pull-down loop in a black driver's garage is vastly more serious But it is true that the Sunday attack spurred Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to announce that she will introduce a resolution that would formally designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
I think that would be a great idea.
The SPLC has no admitted affiliation with Antifa black protestors, but it condemned President Donald Trump's 2020 move to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, calling it dangerous.
And unjust.
So there you go.
Well, you know, the SPLC, it used to claim to be working with law enforcement, and they would give them data on people that they should look into.
Well, it's gonna make a pretty threadbare claim of theirs to think they're on the sides of law enforcement.
When their guys are involved in stuff like this.
Let's hope this guy goes to the slammer for quite a long time, but I'm not optimistic, given the kind of behavior we generally get when it is people like this who are doing violent things.
In any case... That was very apropos music, by the way, for that comment about throwing him in the slammer.
That had a nice militaristic vibe to it.
I'll say this.
We know from the George Floyd riots what happened in New York.
We're a couple lawyers were actually arrested and they threw Molotov cocktails into a police cruiser, if memory serves correct.
And I believe they got very lenient sentences.
And of course, we know what happened in Portland, where virtually all of those arrested for attacking federal buildings had those charges dropped.
Same thing in Seattle, same thing in Chicago, same thing in DC.
In fact, we're approaching the third anniversary of the George Floyd riots.
And I was talking to a friend just today about what happened Uh, to the White House when President Trump was taken to the bunker and this person, she had no idea that that happened.
She's like, what are you talking?
President Trump had to go to the bunker?
It's like, yes, 60 plus secret service agents were injured and sent to the hospital protecting the White House fence.
And the joint chiefs of staff actually basically refused orders.
That's the, um, That's the story where General Milley was going to do his resignation because of the whole racial justice stuff.
And remember, he famously came out and said he wanted to understand the white rage behind all of this and of the J6 stuff.
It really is hard, Mr. Taylor, just to wrap this up.
It's so hard to think this world we live in now, this, because you wrote about it.
It was a coup.
Something transpired.
You know, the city I live in used to have some of the most beautiful monuments in the country.
They're all gone.
It's not like it's an empire collapsing where there'll be weeds around these collapsed monuments.
They're gone.
There's no memory of them anymore.
Although, when you bring up what happened at the White House and Donald Trump, yes, it was two days, two days of rioting and attacks, and they burned the church that's right across the street in Lafayette Square, I think St.
James Church, I believe that's what it's called.
It was an extraordinary thing.
Well, now the only riot that has ever happened in the history of the United States was January 6th.
That's the only one we ever, ever, ever hear about.
No, it's just astonishing.
Worse than 9-11, Mr. Taylor, I believe is what the left calls it.
Oh, absolutely.
9-11 was just a few.
Somebody did something.
Isn't that what one of our representatives said?
Some people did something.
Who was that?
That was Elaine.
That was our Somali friend in Minnesota.
Was that our Somali friend or was it Ayanna Pressley?
I can't remember.
We have so many of these cuckoos.
In any case, I believe you have a story.
Not, coincidentally, on clearance rates of murder in the United States.
I do have a story.
I do have a story on this.
It's an incredible one, but I have to ask a quick question because this past week, and it kind of goes to what one of the star writers at American Renaissance has talked about, Mr. Taylor, and that is the media run state.
What Tucker Carlson has come out with with the J6 stuff is pretty devastating in my opinion against this narrative that there were violent protests when the one guy in horns was basically escorted throughout the Capitol and That this that this information that these videos were kept from all this I mean J6 you wrote about it.
You wrote a great piece about are we all domestic terrorists now and because that was pretty much on yeah, exactly and and you just think about how I Again, this is kind of siloed.
You know, conservatives, people who are more toward our wavelength, they're eating this stuff up.
But of course, everybody else, it's like with anything, you can't admit that your worldview is wrong, because if you do, every illusion or everything that held it aloft comes collapsing down.
So you have to just reinforce your idea that, oh, no, no, no, J6, it was really violent.
On the other hand, I think just as it was an absurd mistake for the official congressional investigation to cherry pick out of hundreds, thousands of hours of video and show the ones they wanted.
I think it was a bad mistake for Kevin McCarthy to hand this over exclusively to Terry Carlson.
He did the same thing, of course.
He cherry picked and picked out things that suited him.
Nobody seems to be in the business of trying to find out, OK, what exactly happened.
It was violent.
There's no question about it.
But to call it an armed insurrection and this whole idea of Everybody just has an axe to grind, and we're going to pick out the little parts of the 40,000 hours that prove our case, and they're going to pick out the little parts that prove their case.
I just don't like the way the whole country is working.
Nobody seems to be interested in finding out what really happened.
Sorry to be a bit of a spoil sport on this.
I would agree with that and we'll move on to the clearance rate, but I'll leave with this.
To me, the great travesty is that it even happened because there were a lot of representatives and senators who were going to bring forth, uh, they were going to contest the, the election results and they were going to bring forward a hearing on it.
And the fact that we never got that, in fact, the, the female senator from Georgia even reversed her decision to contest because she was, she said she was so upset and, and that to me is that, that Excuse me, that's what's lost in what happened on January 6th, is that we didn't have a hearing.
If you had doubts about the election, they should have been utterly unchanged by what happened on January 6th.
That had nothing to do with whether there were irregularities in the election process.
But anyway, let us move on to clearance rates.
And now it seems that you've got a 50-50 chance of getting away with murder in the U.S.
these days.
Yeah, you know what?
This is from the Daily Mail, arguably the best online news source in the entire world.
It's out of the United Kingdom.
They do amazing reporting on crimes in the United States that even local municipalities don't even bother doing.
But this one, this one was pretty crazy.
How just half of all America's murders get solved as a homicide clearance rates slump to their lowest level in four decades.
From 71% in 1980 to just around 50% in 2020.
Think about that for a second.
From 71%, which is already abominable.
That's terrible.
You know, that means that 29% of murders are, you know, they're not being solved.
But now it's more than half of murders go unsolved.
Meaning that, you know, a lot of murderers out there probably Probably committing more and more crime.
This is from the Marshall Project and Murder Accountability Project.
Found this out.
So America's now at risk of becoming the first developed nation where the majority of murders go uncleared.
According to Thomas Hargrove, he's of course the founder of the Murder Accountability Project, which tracks unsolved homicides in the United States.
U.S.
police have solved more murders than in any year since 1997 because of the increasing number of homicides.
The clearance rate, though, has dramatically declined to a little below 50%.
Think about that again for a second, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, some of you might not live in the United States.
You live in a country where the clearance rate is Maybe closer to 100% because you have more social capital where you live.
In the United States, we're talking about little below 50%.
Now, clearance rates were a metric used to determine how many homicides police solved.
This comes after a substantial surge in America's biggest cities, including Kansas City, when it solved 15 murders for every 100,000 people in 2022.
hundred thousand people in 2022.
Wait, solved 15 murders for every hundred thousand?
Wait, no, no, no.
That's a surge.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no.
It's a surge in homicides, including Kansas City, when it saw 15 murders for every 100,000 people in 2022.
Kansas City is one of those cities that had a magnificent increase.
How many did it not solve?
Oh, it's not even talking about solved, it's just pointing out that there's an increase, a substantial, yeah, 15 for every 100,000.
So researchers found that the top five homicide hotspots in the United States were, would you like to try and take a guess at one of those?
Oh, Memphis would be one, Los Angeles would be one.
I don't know.
East St.
Louis.
East St.
Louis never features because it's so small.
Regalus, what's the honors list here?
Detroit, St.
Louis, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Milwaukee.
Memphis isn't in those.
Memphis is not in the top five.
My goodness.
Gosh, they're slumping.
So according to the FBI, homicides can also be cleared by exceptional means.
This is when police believe they have enough evidence, but they were unable to make an arrest.
Examples of such include the death of a suspect, another jurisdiction's refusal to extradite someone, or police identification of a suspect.
So from 2019 to 2020, police across the United States solved 1,200 murders.
Which is a 14% increase.
However, in comparison to previous decades, murders have now risen twice as quickly and are at 30%, leading to a drop in cleared crimes as only one in every two murders are solved.
Local law enforcement agencies reported only 14,715 homicides, while the CDC so far have counted
25,988 murders, according to data collected by the Murder Accountability Project.
This is because the FBI has mandated all crimes committed in 2021 and afterwards must be reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System, NIBRS, rather than the summary reporting system.
Again, it's Additionally, the change of clearance rates over the years can be pinned down to the fact that the nature of crimes police are being asked to solve has changed over the years, and one of the things you and I know is that most of these crimes, these cities we just talked about having the biggest hotspots, virtually every homicide in Detroit, St.
Louis, New Orleans, and Milwaukee are committed by blacks.
And we know that there is something called the no snitching, where They just refuse to cooperate with police.
They just refuse to tell, even though it's not like there's a bunch of white people in robes and hoods going into these neighborhoods and committing these crimes.
It's largely black on black violence.
And it blows my mind.
And I know it blows your mind.
Go ahead.
I've spoken to a police officer.
He has had the experience of actually coming up to a black man dying, expiring on the sidewalk.
And you're asking him who did it and the guy says, I won't say, and then he dies.
He knows who shot it.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm not telling.
And then he dies.
So they're true to their word.
No snitches, even if they ain't going to get stitches.
It's just the code of the hood.
I guess you don't snitch on a brother.
Well, So, we got quite a few police stories here, and here's one having to do with Austin, Texas.
In Texas's woke capital, Austin.
Austin is practically, they are awake 24 hours a day.
They've got insomnia, they're so woke.
It's in the midst of a policing crisis with over 300 vacancies and cops quitting because they feel despised.
We're right up there with Portland and Seattle and San Francisco as being one of those places where if you're at all conservative or in law enforcement, this has become a hostile place, says Bryant Moose, a lieutenant who retired last month.
Austin's police department staffing is so bad, 911 calls are frequently redirected to 311 non-emergency number.
And the beleaguered department has also pulled detectives from solving cases to act as patrol officers.
You could see that the city's attitude towards its police department had started to shift, and personally speaking, I didn't feel that it was really appreciating what we do, said Moon.
Austin had always been a pretty liberal-leaning city, but it was pro-law enforcement at the same time.
They weren't hyper-critical as they have become now.
I think that's a very interesting observation.
You can be pretty liberal, super liberal in your politics and still understand that the world needs police officers, for heaven's sake.
You'd think so.
You'd think so.
Yes.
But in 2020, the City Council voted to defund the police force by $150 million.
That was a third of its budget.
Wham!
Wham!
Gone.
Elected officials also nixed three cadet classes—that's at the police academy—and cut 150 officers out of the budget.
Last year, the local DA announced an indictment of 19 police officers accused of using excessive force against protesters in the 2020 riots.
Now this, this is the latest thing.
Remember, I don't, I can't remember we talked about it, but New York City, some of the people who claimed that they were mistreated by the police, each got what, $20,000?
A settlement?
$21,000.
$21,000.
Yes.
Nice payday for them.
Well, apparently they're going to try that again, and they'll try that in Austin.
19 police officers have been indicted.
Boy, you're out there doing your job.
You got people who want to kill you.
Boy, oh boy.
This Moon, this retired lieutenant says, it almost felt like there was a target.
The DA's office in the city were looking for an opportunity to do something to you, to prosecute you, fire you.
No matter if you did it right or you did it wrong, they wanted to fire you and prosecute you, says Moon.
At times, entire areas of the cities have been left unpatrolled, while the few officers who were working respond to a big incident.
A recent night of chaos caused by street racers set an example for what residents can expect, says Moon.
The drivers shut down intersections, driving dangerously, and set several people on fire.
Nice guys.
Vandals attacked a police cruiser, breaking windows, injuring an officer, but the first officer to respond waited 22 minutes for backup.
In the midst of chaos like this, Mr. Kersey, people setting folks on fire, driving wildly.
Boy, oh boy.
And this is just the best news of all.
Progressively piling on all of these policies, city voters will get to decide if they want to create a police accountability office later this year.
Who can possibly work under these circumstances?
It's insane.
Now, that was Austin, Texas, and now moving right along to the NYPD, another desperate department that is hiring risky recruits.
Two decades ago, the New York City Police Department attracted 20 applicants for every open position.
But an exodus that began in 2020, magical year, Mr. Kersey, magical year, the year of our new St.
George Floyd, 2020.
That has left the New York City PD 1,700 officers short.
Likewise, in San Jose, California, applications of the force have fallen by two-thirds from three years ago.
Chicago is losing two officers for each one it graduates in Police Academy.
Resignations in Chicago increased 42% from 2019 to 2021.
Retirements increased 23%.
2019 to 2021, retirements increased 23%.
According to a 2022 survey of law enforcement officers in eight states, 51% have considered
quitting because of anti-police attitudes.
60% know a colleague who has already done so.
And of course, the longer the staffing crisis goes on, the worse community police tensions will become as faith in the competence and trustworthiness of law enforcement erodes.
These people are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
As I've been saying for years, all they're going to get are thugs and psychopaths and drug users.
It's the worst possible people are going to become police officers.
A majority of departments are accepting recruits who admit they've used illegal drugs.
Visible tattoos were once taboo, but a third of the departments now allow them.
Many departments are granting exemptions to rules against hiring applicants with criminal convictions, including violent felonies.
Waving or limiting standards exacerbates the problem by demoralizing veteran officers and turning off high quality candidates who don't want to have to work with trash.
Excellence attracts excellence.
This is what Heather MacDonald calls the death spiral of policing in the United States.
What an insane country we live in, Mr. Kersey.
I don't know if a nation has ever behaved in this way.
I mean, set aside all the racial nonsense we're going through.
The racial nonsense, of course, is part of the problem here.
That's why people despise the police, or think they despise the police, because of this alleged brutality against blacks.
But all this tranny, sexual craziness, foreign policy madness, we never seem to find a war we don't like.
I just don't know when any nation in the history of the world has torn itself inside out and just gone collectively insane the way ours has.
100%.
No, just think about this, you know.
less than half the murders now are solved and we know what, what was it in 2021 wasn't it 60% of
homicides with a suspect were black so it's you know 13 does 60 that that old that whole great
name but then again you think about it you think about it if half the homicides aren't
if half the homicides aren't solved what percentage are actually committed by blacks.
I'm actually looking at right now the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission, because this is a city that actually breaks down gun crime by race.
And it's about, I know it's a majority black city, it's about 40, I think it's like 48% black and 43% white.
black and 43% white in 2022 Mr. Taylor 91.39% of suspects in gun crime non-fatal and homicides homicides
were black
Ninety one percent.
I mean, again, that's Milwaukee.
That's that's Wisconsin.
And, you know, what you just talked about, the transgendered stuff.
One of the big outrages right now is down in Florida.
One of the sidewalks has been painted the rainbow flag colors and somebody there's tread marks on it.
And this is this is a cause for moral outrage by our by our by our media run state.
You know, we do have a state religion.
We do have a state religion.
And it is, it is the BLM flag and the LGBTQ+, whatever.
We see these on, you know, State Department buildings across the world.
The BLM flag and the transgender flag.
Oh yes.
Oh yes.
And while we continue on this police theme, I believe you have an interesting little story about New Orleans.
I do have an interesting story about New Orleans, one of my favorite cities that I stay away from.
Residents are warned, don't sit in your car, as carjackings have spiked a shocking 165% since the More than doubling since before the COVID-19, you know, I'm gonna put these words in quotations because I don't think it was, the pandemic, end quote.
They've skyrocketed over the last three years.
Of course, as you said, something happened in May of 2020 when George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose when he was in police custody.
New Orleans has grappled with increased violent crime in the last few years and had the most homicides per capita among major U.S.
cities in September, earning it the title as The nation's murder capital before being unseated by the years.
By the year's end, I'd love to know which city unseated them.
But the city's homicide rate has doubled since 2019, according to the New Orleans City Council Crime Dashboard.
Wouldn't it be nice if you had a city that didn't have a crime dashboard, by the way?
Isn't that the goal of a city, of having a police force and having elected officials that you, you know, having a crime dashboard?
Isn't that just a mockery of everything that a civilized society should aspire to be?
Well, I don't so much mind having a dashboard, I just want all the numbers on it to be zeros!
Bingo!
Yeah, it's like in a factory.
When was the last time there was an injury while people were working?
You know, hopefully it continues to go up because there are no injuries.
But yeah, you're right.
Carjacking soared, increasing 165% over a three-year period.
There were 273 incidents last year compared to just 103 in 2019.
year period, there were 273 incidents last year compared to just 103 in 2019.
Again, I use those words loosely because, you know, there should be zero carjackings
if you live in a civilized city, but to go from 103 to 273, you know, you're talking
about, my gosh, that's a crazy percentage when you think about how many days in the
year there are.
And what did you say the title of this story is?
Don't sit in your car, keep moving?
Don't sit in your car, yeah.
Quote, you try to park close to your house or where you're going.
I always do that.
You don't sit in your car and play on your phone.
Sally from New Orleans said, quote, people have to be aware of what's going on, end quote, around them when they leave the home.
Jeez.
OK.
Carjackings in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C.
and Minneapolis have also spiked in recent years.
The city of brotherly love didn't live up to its name when carjackings increased by 494% since 2019, surpassing 1,300 in 2022, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Well, New Orleans is a much smaller city than Philadelphia in terms of the citizenry.
In Philadelphia, I mean, 1,300 carjackings.
That's what?
God, so that's three per day?
More than three per day.
So, jeez.
That's about four a day.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
People must love their cars in Philadelphia.
Gotta have one.
Well, no, and again, this is just what happens when the thugs, when the criminals, when the vagrants, when those who prey on society, No, the police are basically standing down.
That police are not going to, you know, in Atlanta, police don't even go after carjackings or crimes.
They've discontinued having police chases.
I mean, the whole racial justice, social justice, human rights scam is costing people their lives.
It's costing people.
It's costing people.
It's basically making it so you have a story such as the one I just Well, we know what's going to happen.
Remember South Africa?
There, you can buy special equipment on your car that will belch flame out the sides of your car if somebody approaches.
I did not know that.
That sounds so cool!
Do it at night, you know.
Impress your friends.
And people who don't have that equipment, often they will just roll right through stoplights because they don't dare stop because carjacking is so bad.
My technique, of course, is to drive a 28-year-old car.
And I would even tell you what model it is so you won't recognize it and come carjack me.
But no, we know where the end point on all of this is, and it's called South Africa.
Real quick, I've got to bring this up.
South Africa.
I love reading about South Africa, and they have an amazing—it's important.
I love how you emphatically said that.
We have to read about it to know what's coming here.
It's like we need to read about Rhodesia to know what's coming here.
Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
We need to read about Haiti to understand what's coming here.
I know you are a big firearm enthusiast.
I know you love the Second Amendment.
One of the firearms I've always wanted to see is the Street Sweeper.
I believe that was that's a 12 gauge automatic shotgun that the South Africans have and I've always wanted to see one and of course the ball pop shotgun has now become such a big such a big part of the of the nomenclature here in the United States.
So yeah, I just love the fact that you use the words belched fire from the side of a car.
I mean, that's a new one to me.
As they claim to tear it.
This is a fully automatic shotgun?
Well, I guess extreme circumstances require extreme measures.
Yeah, it's called the Street Sweeper and it was in South Africa.
And no, at some point I would love to actually break down in Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography,
he talks about how beautiful Johannesburg was.
He went and visited, I believe his name was Reg Park, and that's when he talks about just how amazing South Africa was in the 70s.
All finished now.
No, it's not only finished, there's no remnant of it.
Oh, Johannesburg's still there.
It's just, it might as well be the capital of Haiti now.
Was it renamed, by the way?
I don't think Johannesburg's been renamed, but they're renaming a bunch of things.
Anyway, let's move on to a different English-speaking country, if we can call South Africa English-speaking.
Britain has set out details of a new law barring the entry of asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the Channel.
They're saying no.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, their first Indian prime minister, has made stopping the arrivals one of his five key priorities after the number of migrants arriving on the south coast of England soared to more than 45,000 last year, up 500% in two years.
See, we get carjackings, they get migrants.
I'm not sure which is worse.
The new legislation will mean anyone arrives this way will be prevented from claiming asylum and deported either back to their homelands or to so-called safe third countries.
The legislation will allow the detentions of migrants without bail until they can be removed, says Interior Minister Suella Braverman, another Indian.
Only children People are considered too sick to fly and those of, and this sounds like a terrible loophole to me, at real risk of serious and irreversible harm will be allowed to claim asylum in Britain.
This is the sort of thing.
Suella Braverman has been involved in trying to get this sort of thing.
One thing and another she tried to figure out.
It's always being thwarted one way or another by crazy busybodies or the European court system.
And, of course, the U.N.' 's Refugee Agency said it is profoundly concerned about these proposals.
Which would deny people the right to asylum, no matter how genuine and compelling their individual cases will be.
Well, the point is, if they want asylum, and they're in a rubber raft coming from France, they could apply for asylum in France, or wherever they were before they got to the channel, for heaven's sake.
The government admits that the draft legislation may not be compatible with Britain's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, so it could face legal challenges.
Well, Rishi Sunak, there's a solution.
Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Why don't they ever do that?
I'm sure there is some way you give him a year's notice, whatever it is, and say, bye-bye, boys.
We are no longer bound.
But Sunak said he would do whatever is necessary to stop the boats, and he would fight any legal challenge.
Now, this to me is an astonishing figure.
Just under two-thirds of those who arrive on these boats are currently granted asylum or some form of humanitarian protection.
Two-thirds!
Well, of course they're roaring in.
They've got a 66 and two-thirds chance of getting some kind of asylum or protection if they just show up.
Of course they've got to get rid of them.
Last year, Britain had this deal to send tens of thousands of them 4,000 miles away to Rwanda, but the first deportation flight was blocked by an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights.
Those louts.
London's High Court then ruled it lawful last December, but opponents are seeking to appeal that verdict.
It's funny what you just said, Mr. Taylor.
They've got a better chance of getting asylum in Britain than homicides have a chance of being cleared in the United States.
Yes, this is astonishing to me.
They must have terrible, terrible rules.
So if their rules are so bad that two-thirds are actually getting some kind of humanitarian statement can stay in Britain, by all means, they just get to pitch them out before they have a chance to open their mouths.
And if that's the case, then they'll just stop coming.
Of course, I have been proposing for years, all they have to do is puncture a few of those boats, and it might be a cold bath for some, but that would stop the rest of them coming in.
Now, there's another little story in Germany, which shows what happens when you don't turn people back.
In 2021, you may recall, there were floods in Germany, the Aar River.
It devastated the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and it killed 180 people in flooding.
Some people, of course, saw the floods as an opportunity.
And in the ensuing chaos, there was a wave of robberies and burglaries.
Now, two years after the event, it turns out that of the 275 known perpetrators, 196 were foreigners, not Germans.
And in many cases, the government... Repeat that.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
If you could repeat those numbers real quick.
196 out of 275 were foreigners.
Just eyeballing, that looks to be about 60-70%, 196 out of 275.
Yep.
The information has come to light only because of a series of questions submitted by the Alternative für Deutschland, the AFD party in the North Rhine-Westphalia government.
This is typical.
Here they are sitting on this information, they don't want anybody to know.
How many of these terrible exploiters of this natural disaster were foreigners?
They want everybody to think, oh, it's just, it's all Hans and Juergens and all of our good boys.
The suspects targeted apartments and homes, but brought banks, hotels, construction sites, They were stealing.
When they got into homes, they stole jewelry.
They tried to steal vehicles.
And, this is an astonishing figure, 670 people were injured due to burglaries and raids on their homes.
Of these arrests, the 275 known perpetrators, only 48 got sentences.
Forty-five cases the government considered deporting these terrible people, but they
decided that the legal obstacles were so great they wouldn't even bother.
Thank you for watching.
Here's Germany for you.
That's Germany.
Germany, boy, you sure can't say Deutschland uber alles anymore.
It's Deutschland unter alles, the way they're behaving.
But, of course, Germany is not alone.
Mr. Kersey, why don't you tell us about what some of our legislators are up to?
I believe you've got the state legislators and federal legislators who are acting up.
You know, let's go back to back.
This is one that I found on Steve Saylor's blog.
Actually, it's from National Review, so let's give credit where, you know, where it's rarely but occasionally due.
A broken clock can be right twice a day.
So, uh, you know, ranking Democrat derails COVID origins hearing by smearing a witness as racist.
Rather than trying to get to the bottom of how the pandemic began, Representative Raul Ruiz of New Mexico, a Democrat, spent his allotted time during Wednesday morning's hearing, that's yesterday, March 8th, on COVID's origins, berating one of the witnesses over a book he wrote 10 years earlier on the human genome, implying that the book was motivated by racism.
Oh my gosh, never heard of that.
Ruiz, the ranking Democrat on the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic used his opening
statement in much of his first round of questioning to argue that his Republican colleagues had
compromised the panel's efforts to investigate COVID's origins by calling Nicholas Wade as a witness. Quote,
today's hearings, today's hearing marks a concerning step down the path of letting extremism
get in the way of an inquiry that should should be led by science and facts, Ruiz said.
As Republican chairman of the committee pointed out when introducing him, Wade has edited two of the most prominent science journals in the world, Nature and Science.
Well, they were two of the most prominent science journals before they were inundated and infected with wokeness.
And he also led the New York Times science coverage for years.
I believe, Mr. Taylor, you've actually praised Mr. Wade many times for his books.
I believe you wrote a fantastic review of Troublesome Inheritance, Genes, Race, and Human History.
Yes, it's fully scientific, and that's what the lefties hate about it.
Correct.
Please proceed.
He's an independent journalist now, and he's established himself as one of the foremost authorities publicly examining the possibility of a lab leak and calling for a thorough and transparent investigation into COVID's origins.
Kudos to him.
As I mentioned, he authored the 2014 book, A Troublesome Inheritance.
I believe that's the one that talked about the warrior gene, correct?
That's correct, yes.
And many other fascinating things.
We had an extensive review of it in AmRen.
So for our listeners out there, if you want to go read that, head over to AmRen.com, and I think you're just in the search feature, type in Nicholas Wade Type in his name and you'll find a review of that book.
So his, again, this book examines the genetic basis of race and how varying environments shape human development.
It's a wonderful, it's a wonderful Antidote to the insanity of guns, germs, and steel, I believe that Jared Diamond wrote back in the late 1990s.
Wade's work on the book should disqualify him from being called as a witness in the hearing, despite his decades-long career and expertise, Ruess argued.
Quote, when House Republicans announced this hearing with their slate of hand-picked witnesses, I was alarmed to see someone who wrote a book applauded by White supremacists, Ruiz said, explaining that he sent a letter to his Republican colleagues insisting that they disinvite Wade, quote, so as not to give legitimacy to a man of such discredited, unscientific, and harmful views.
These views are dangerous and have no place in a hearing examining the origins of a pandemic that has disproportionately and overwhelmingly I don't believe that's actually true.
No, that's not true.
No, no, if you look at the deaths, no, people keep repeating that as if it were true.
Initially, it appeared that it might be true, but it isn't any longer.
But they keep jabbering about this.
Well, boy, sounds like this Nicholas Wade doesn't deserve to live, much less give testimony to Congress.
Well, if the Democrats had their way, because, Mr. Taylor, Representative Kwesi Funey joined Ruiz in smearing Wade as a racist, claiming that Wade's theory about COVID's origins are steeped, steeped in racism.
Wait, wait, wait.
His theories about the COVID origins are steeped in racism?
Oh, boy.
Well, OK.
I guess because he thinks it might have come from a Chinese lab.
Is that it?
Well, here we go.
Here's this quote.
Okay.
Quote, I'm a bit appalled that this hearing now gets layered over with the issue of race in a very strong way with the presence of Mr. Wade.
And Mr. Wade, I have read your book and I'm appalled by it.
Fumé said, quote, you've got an opinion, which is fine, but it's steeped in this theory that minorities are so genetically different that they are culpable.
In some sort of way, and I don't like that at all, end quote.
Mr. Taylor, I've got to ask you one quick question.
I've got to ask you one quick question.
Do you actually believe that Quessé Fumé picked up a copy of A Troublesome Inheritance, Genes, Race, and Human History, and that he read it?
You know, I was just wondering about that.
I think that what Nicholas Wade should have done was said, well, Congressman, I'm delighted to hear you read it.
Could I trouble you to reproduce a single argument that I made in the book?
I actually, I'm not going to lie, I love reading.
I love reading books by the left on race.
The New Jim Crow was one of my favorite books because it basically makes all the arguments that we need to use to basically say, hey, maybe there is a genetic propensity for blacks to commit so much of this gun crime.
You can't just blame it on systemic racism.
I'm actually reading the book, I forgot the title, Teaching White Supremacy, I believe.
It's supposed to be this leftist book that bemoans what America once was,
and it just makes me very proud.
I'll be completely blunt, it makes me very proud of what our ancestors built in this country.
And you and I have written about this.
I believe this coming May will be the date that you and I have argued Americans should celebrate,
because in May of 1790, that was when our founding fathers,
including George Washington, signed the Naturalization Act of 1790.
And it's just one of the travesties that this wasn't included in the Constitution, the importance of race.
Because our founding fathers knew it all.
They knew it all.
They sure did.
And that's one of the things that the left gets, and it's one of the things that, unfortunately, too many on the right still run from embracing, if I can put it that way.
All too true.
Yes, for those of our listeners who are not recognizing this historic reference, that was the first Naturalization Citizenship Act ever passed by the United States, the very first Congress, 1790, restricting citizenship to free white persons of good character.
And let us not leave out the of good character.
Well, moving on to a different story.
The federal government has sued ExxonMobil.
Over claims the company failed adequately to address racial discrimination in the workplaces after nooses were found at a Louisiana facility.
According to the lawsuit, yes, yes.
As if the company, as if the company president went in and hung five nooses, you know, got to sue the company.
According to the lawsuit, the energy giant violated federal law by failing to take appropriate action after a string of incidents between 2016 and 2020 during a four-year period at its Baton Rouge facility, including five times a hangman's noose was found.
The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claims the company investigated some, but not all, the incidents and failed to take measures reasonably calculated to end the harassment.
The lawsuit claims ExxonMobil violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevents racial discrimination in the workplace, by its lack of action to rectify the problem.
Even isolated displays of racially threatening symbols are unacceptable in American workplaces, says Michael Kirkland, director of the EOC's New Orleans field office.
Now, let's think a little bit about this.
These nooses, if they actually were nooses and weren't just loops of some kind, could very well, probably most likely, were not hung by white people.
They were hung by people who just love to find racial discrimination because you make them feel so persecuted and virtuous.
Furthermore, the law says nothing about what you have got to do if you have discovered a noose, or if you've discovered anything of that kind.
It says you can't discriminate.
That's all it says.
And the idea that somehow the EOC says, well, okay, if you find something like this, how much time you got to spend investigating?
How much money do you have to spend on it?
How much coddling and slobbering over blacks do you have to engage in if such a thing happens?
How hard do you have to find out who actually did it, especially if it's going to turn out that blacks did it themselves?
The whole idea of suing a company for something like this is absolutely spectacularly outrageous.
Now ExxonMobil is known for defending itself vigorously in court, so I'll be very curious
to hear how this lawsuit fares.
Of course, the federal government has got unlimited lawyer money because you and I,
you and I, unlike so many of our non-white brethren, pay our taxes.
So thanks to you and me, thanks to our pockets being emptied, they've got plenty of money
to battle ExxonMobil on this completely bogus thing.
Realistically, what are they supposed to do?
How much money are they supposed to spend?
Golly, the Civil Rights Act, as I say, says you can't discriminate.
It's almost entirely about hiring.
But also you can't deliberately create a hostile working environment.
But how are you supposed to prevent some lunkhead from hanging up a loop, especially if they're doing it deliberately to provoke cries of racism?
This is just outrageous.
Uh, as I vow to myself practically every month, I promise not to be outraged by something crazy that happened in this country, and every month I break my vow.
Now moving on to Walmart.
Now remember last week we talked about Portland downtown?
that 2,500 downtown businesses had filed address changes buggering out of downtown.
Now, not all of those businesses have necessarily moved, but this was because of constant break-ins,
bums, winos, junkies everywhere on the sidewalks, prosecutors who do not prosecute,
people who can walk into your store, walk out with arms full of merchandise
and not be prosecuted by the police.
Walmart said it's gonna close its final two locations in Portland, Oregon at the end of March.
So it's not just little downtown businesses.
Walmart, the last two Walmarts, the closures will result in nearly 600 employees being laid off.
This hurts people right where it matters most, in their jobs.
And the closure is because of record-breaking retail theft.
As a Walmart spokesman says, prices will be higher and stores will close if Oregon authorities fail to address rampant shoplifting.
You know what they really need to do?
Well, I don't know.
What they really need to do is something that I probably shouldn't say in a public podcast.
Companies shuttering stores in Portland.
This has become increasingly common.
Last week we talked about the clothing store Rain PDX that shut down operations after they were burgled 15 times.
15 times in a couple of months.
Nike and Cracker Barrel have closed in 2022, with companies citing shoplifting.
Now, I can understand Nike.
Cracker Barrel, of course, is mostly a restaurant, but they have the little stores out front.
I guess people were—you would think that people going to a Cracker Barrel would be the kind who would be walking out with merchandise, but be that as it may, we talked about this last week, just how remarkably quickly A city like Portland that used to be an absolute gem, it's still got a white majority.
How a wonderful little city can just descend into savagery in the space of maybe four, five, six years, thanks to these idiot, catastrophic, Soros-funded DAs and people who refuse to prosecute.
Not even six years, not even six years, Mr. Taylor, you're talking about three years, and I'd like to point out there's an amazing image right now going around on Twitter.
It shows, it's either a CVS or a Walgreens, and on one aisle, virtually every item is behind plexiglass.
That's the way.
Except, except... Dictionaries.
Sunscreen.
Sunscreen, oh dear.
I wonder what that means.
Our time is up, Mr. Carsey.
We must go, and thank you ladies and gentlemen from all around the world who listen to us.