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Sept. 6, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ban the ADL?

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey describe the fight that is brewing between Elon Musk — owner of X — and the ADL, which wants to censor it. Taylor and Kersey also discuss indictments in Georgia, rampaging Eritreans, misery in Johannesburg, and counting coup in Africa. Thumbnail credit: Screengrab from YouTube/CNBC.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, with American Renaissance.
And with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
Well, what makes him indispensable?
Well, he gets it right when I get it wrong.
Every boomer needs a young, quick-witted co-host.
Wouldn't you agree, Mr. Kersey?
Every boomer.
I think Uncle Jared is our favorite boomer.
It's just a shame that with all that's going on in the world right now that your voice, a self-identified boomer, isn't back on Elon Musk's Twitter, which I know we're going to talk about at length today.
Ah, yes, yes.
Well, somebody's got to stand up for us boomers.
We made a terrible mess of things for you younger folks, but a few of us are trying to correct the errors that my fellow boomers make.
Well, let's start with comments.
Someone writes in to say, you made quite a fuss over Professor William Darity of Duke because that professor of economics thinks the U.S.
government should spend more than twice the federal annual budget, giving every black family $850,000 in reparations, thus making every family five times richer than the median American household.
Well, yes, I did make a fuss over that.
Our listener goes on to say, I'm disappointed you failed to point out something you yourself have said about Professor Darity.
When a researcher sent him results of polygenic scores that showed pure genetic analysis of people can predict the likelihood of certain traits, Professor Dougherty wrote, there will be no reason to pursue these types of research programs at all.
They can be rendered to the same location as Holocaust denial research.
He went on to say, I feel just as strongly, we should not keep the notion that the world is 6,000 years old under consideration.
Mr. Taylor, you further wrote, the New Yorker calls Professor Darity, perhaps the country's leading scholar on the economics of racial inequality and a booming voice for reparations for slavery.
And you added, no wonder he wants to treat behavior genetics as if it were Holocaust denial.
If genes account for even just a few points of the black-white IQ gap, it might spoil his calculations of how many trillions we owe blacks.
Well, to be sure, I'd forgotten I wrote that about Professor Darity.
And as I said, you know, every boomer needs young, flexible minds to keep him on track.
Thank you, listener.
Here is another comment.
This one, I think, will probably provoke a certain reaction among our listeners.
This has to do with the fact that we were worrying about what the consequences are going to be of all of these cascading lawsuits against Donald Trump by the party in power when it is suing the opposition candidate who's leading the field.
Our listener writes, if Mr. Trump were not by all appearances an actual criminal, then yes, I would say his arrest and conviction by the opposing political party would tear the country apart.
As it stands, Mr. Trump is an obvious criminal.
The stolen documents case, in particular, is where the prosecutor has Trump dead to rights, he's defenseless.
In the non-white world, the ruling party hauls off to kangaroo courts innocent opposition candidates to be jailed, which may incite revolution or war.
Not here, because no one is above the law.
Neither the ruling party nor the competing party.
And in order to believe Mr. Trump is innocent, you would need actively to avert your eyes from an otherwise blinding supernova blasting out reality.
Guilty as hell.
Wow.
But the disintegration of civil society is not off the table.
We should be scared because a large part of the country adheres to the madman's personal whim.
And it will stay that way even after the madman goes to jail.
The persisting order of the USA largely depends on whether or not this madman gets up on the correct side of the bed.
It is not the act of hauling the madman off to jail where he belongs that will tear the country apart, but it is how the madman will respond.
So, strong talk from someone who's clearly not a Trump booster.
No, I'd say so.
A supernova.
Wow.
Yes, a supernova out there saying, guilty as hell.
Blinding lights in the sky, just like the day Jesus was born, I guess.
All these blinding lights.
In any case, another comment.
Listening to your August 30 podcast about the mayors of Chicago and Baltimore suing car manufacturers, that was Kia and Hyundai, blaming them for making their cars too easy to steal.
If a car is to be blamed for being East Steel, thus presenting a target that cannot be resisted, will well-dressed people be held responsible for tempting muggers and muggings and hold-ups?
Will attractive women be blamed for tempting race and sexual harassment?
Will mass looting teens, rioting and fighting, killing and looting, be held responsible for tempting white devils to commit hate crimes by stopping them?
Good questions all.
And here's, oh gosh, we got two more comments.
I guess last podcast I complained about a few comments we'd gotten and boy we got quite a load here.
We do.
Recently talked about how wiry black hair gets caught embedded in the towels and ruins them.
I have thought twice about black hair until in the office a black lady, Megan, made a joke to the effect of, you know how black women hear about, sorry, She made a joke to the effect of, you know how black women are about their hair.
And all my black colleagues laughed.
I was puzzled.
Only then learning, as an adult, that the elaborate weaves and hairstyles black women wear are fake.
Well, for the longest time, I thought, oh, that was real hair too.
I thought, boy, their hair grows long.
This did help explain another puzzling phenomenon.
A young Brazilian girl told me she was worried about falling asleep on public transportation for fear of waking up with her hair shaved off.
Namely, hair theft.
Now, I can hardly believe this, but this listener actually sent in an article, a link to an article from the LA Times that talks about this very problem.
Venezuelan hair thieves.
Gracious.
Well, the listener goes on.
Because of the higher percentage of European genes among black Brazilians, Afro-Brazilians will be visibly African, as will their hair, and yet it'll have European hair texture.
This is why you'll see billboards in black areas and black hair salons advertising products made with natural Brazilian hair.
It's grown on Brazilian women's heads and then is sold or stolen.
Gosh, quite a little crop south of the equator, I guess.
And our final comment.
Here is someone who has taken a few liberties with Emma Lazarus's poem, which, as we all know, is stuck to the base of the Statue of Liberty.
It had nothing, of course, to do with the statue, which is called Liberty Enlightening the World, not Liberty Inviting the World, as it is now thought to mean.
And Emma Lazarus's poem, of course, is called The New Colossus.
And the new version, the new version of the new Colossus goes, give me your drug takers, your gangsters, your COVID infected masses learning to live free.
Thanks to our welfare benefits, the wretched refuse of your crime ridden societies who are in search of richer pickings with deeper pockets.
Send these the homeless, the freeloaders to me.
I lift my lamp besides the golden feeding trough.
Feeding trough, I should say.
A supernova trough.
Ah, boy, it seems that way, doesn't it?
Boy, Joe Biden rang the dinner gong, and man, they have just piled across the border.
So yes, now I believe, Mr. Kurz, you've been following this matter of the ADL and Mr. Musk and Keith Woods closer than I, but let me just sort of give you my understanding of it, and you can flesh it out as you see fit.
And it all started when Jonathan Greenblatt, who runs the ADL, tweeted this on August 30th.
I had a very frank and productive conversation with Linda Iaccarino.
She is CEO of X, formerly known as Twitter, about X, what works and what doesn't, and where it needs to go to address hate effectively on the platform.
Boy, boy, gotta address hate.
Mr. Gleenblatt went on, I appreciated her reaching out and I'm hopeful the service will improve.
India will be vigilant and give her and Elon Musk credit if the service gets better and reserve the right to call them out until it does.
So they're going to be combating hate as they always do.
Well, this prompted Irish nationalist, Keith Woods, To start a campaign with hashtag BanTheADL, which began trending on Twitter with tens of thousands of posts and support from major conservative figures, Elon Musk liked several of Wood's posts.
And I believe at one point BanTheADL was the number one hashtag.
For a very long time, actually, Mr. Taylor.
Oh, good, good.
The longer, the better.
And by interesting coincidence, Keith Woods was one of our star speakers at the last American Renaissance Conference just a few months ago.
And let's see, and as I said, Elon Musk has taken note of this campaign and he has tweeted, the ADL, because they are so aggressive in their demands to ban social media accounts for even minor infractions, are ironically the biggest generators of anti-Semitism on this platform.
Why do you know?
He also tweeted, Facebook caved to far-left pressure groups and now allows them silently to dictate policy in exchange for admin.
Based on what we've heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss.
They would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company.
So roughly $22 billion.
And then he goes on to say, this is all Elon Musk speaking.
To clear our platform's name on the matter of antisemitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the ADL.
Oh, the irony.
Oh, what a clever lad that Elon is.
And he also suggested releasing all the data relating to the ADL and other organizations that are pushing to censor and silence X accounts.
Now, I would love to see that.
My guess is that your servant and American Renaissance have both been mentioned by ADL in its attempts to shut people up with whom they disagree.
Jonathan Greenblatt has also called Tucker Carlson an obvious anti-Semite and demanded that he be kicked off X. I mean, it just really boils down to one simple thing.
If he doesn't agree with what you say, then you're a hater and off you go.
And alas, on September 2nd, this was just a few days after this reported conversation between Jonathan Greenblatt and this weak sister, Linda Iaccarino, On September 2nd, Internet platform X suspended a number of identitarian movement accounts in Europe.
One of the main identitarian accounts on Twitter that remained unsuspended pointed to the banned accounts in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and in Switzerland.
And it said, this is unacceptable, Elon Musk, you promised us freedom of speech, no totalitarian censorship like the ADL is propagating.
So, there you go.
This is off and running.
Let's see what happens.
I wonder if there will be a complete data dump of all the files.
You know, when there were data dumps of various kinds, I kept hoping that some of the correspondence between Twitter, as it was called then, and the various opponents of racially-oriented so-called hate speech would appear.
But it never did.
No, I hope it will.
I think this is pretty much the most important story right now that's happening when you consider that I mean, did the ADL have anything to do with you and American Renaissance being kicked off of Twitter and social media?
I'd love to know.
Yeah, because, yeah, that that's a very important question, because I think it's important to actually look at what happened right when all this started.
And if I could quote real quick, Elon Musk had a great tweet today where he pointed out that Jonathan at the ADL kicked off a massive Twitter boycott campaign less than a week after the acquisition closed.
Literally nothing had changed about the site.
Our US revenue is still down 60% from that campaign, but slowly improving.
Elon Musk was retweeting a tweet from the ADL which says and this was on
11 for 22 today. We are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter
Spending because we are profoundly concerned about anti-semitism and hate on the platform
Here's why we're asking advertisers to hashtag stop hate for profit and hashtag stop toxic Twitter. This was in
Again you said that was 2022, right?
It was that they were all because that was when it was obvious he was going to buy the platform.
Nobody knew what the price was going to be.
That's when I think he had negotiated for $53 per share price.
I believe that's what it actually ended up closing at.
So he's going back and looking at all this and you know, there's another great tweet that I think is actually worth quoting.
This is from Greg Price, a guy I follow on Twitter.
Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Jonathan Greenblatt if he was seeking to have a role at X or shaking down Elon Musk for donations to the ADL, like he did to Adidas and the Brooklyn Nets.
And he responds by saying that's an anti-Semitic trope.
Now, of course, the shakedown of Adidas occurred because of, uh, what's a guy's name, Kanye West or, or ye back when all that, uh, his presidential campaign was launched with, uh, With Nick Fuentes by his side and, oh gosh, what's the Brit who used to write for Breitbart?
Milo Yiannopoulos.
Milo Yiannopoulos and the Brooklyn Nets.
I believe there was a player who got in some trouble for a black player who got in some trouble with Jewish roots.
It will be very interesting to see whether the richest man in the world really can put the ADL in its place.
No one has yet so far succeeded.
And I dug up a few little quotes from the ADL website.
Some of them aren't there anymore.
But I think it's particularly relevant in light of these European identitarian accounts that just got suspended after this cozy little conversation with Linda Iaccarino, CEO of X. This is what ADL says.
In a guide for pro-Israel activists, it says, the idea of binationalism in Israel is unworkable given current realities and historic animosities.
It amounts to nothing less than an indirect attempt to bring about an end to the state of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people.
But I guess that sort of thing is fine for France or Germany or the United States or any other white country.
In another post since deleted from the ADL, the organization wrote, with historically high birth rates among Palestinians and a possible influx of Palestinian refugees and their descendants now living around the world, Jews would quickly be a minority within a bi-national state.
I think that's another way of saying a diverse state, don't you?
Thus likely ending any semblance of the equal representation and protections.
The ADL has also said it's unrealistic and unacceptable to expect the state of Israel voluntarily to subvert its own sovereign existence and nationalist identity and become a vulnerable minority within what was once its own territory.
What an idea!
What an idea!
Not good for Israel.
Heavens!
But I guess it's okay for us, and that's why these identitarian movements in Europe have just been banned after, as I say, this cozy little tit-a-tat between Jonathan and Linda.
So, we'll see what happens.
Yeah, it's fascinating.
I go back and I think it's, gosh, it's 2023 and you think of all the massive changes that have taken place, Mr. Taylor, since Donald Trump won the election in November of 2016.
Of course you had, if you recall the New York Times article in 2018, I believe the headline was the making of a YouTube radical.
And you think about all, I believe the ADL was mentioned significantly in that article because they were, they were terrified of the amount of, Reach people like Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Southern, Gavin McGinnis, and Stefan Molyneux had, and they were targeted for digital extermination.
I mean, think about how big Stefan Molyneux's audience was, Mr. Taylor.
Oh, heavens, yes.
I believe he interviewed you a couple times.
He interviewed me once, and once was enough, I guess.
Once was enough.
Well, he's now on Rumble, and he probably has one one-thousandth of the reach that he had, maybe even worse than that.
I mean, it's sad when you think about this, and it's just the immense power that is exerted over free speech.
And if I could just read real quick from Ron Coleman, he's a right-wing Jewish attorney, and he wrote a piece that Mr. Musk just actually tweeted out and said, great piece.
He said, this is in Newsweek, Coleman writes, the ADL has become part of a great online censorship machine that is being exposed day after day as an anti-free speech enterprise.
The National ADL, like the ACLU, the NAACP, and other formerly apolitical civil rights groups, is now merely a tax-exempt cadre of the National Democratic Party.
Anyone paying any kind of attention knows this.
And as the Democrat Party has moved further into the fringes of left-wing lunacy, the ADL has moved with it.
Whether a Jewish anti-defamation issue is at stake or not, the party requires it.
And Mr. Taylor, that's why I think this is so important because there's so many things that need to be done and Musk truly believes in free speech.
You know, we know the reason why he bought Twitter was because of his son that was transitioned in public school.
He's been talking a lot about this and he talked about the woke mind virus to the Babylon Bee and just the mere fact that you have So many prominent conservatives who used to be terrified of the SPLC, of the ADL, and of these alphabet organizations, these NGOs.
Um, that do so much training for the federal government.
I mean, my gosh, the ADL actually does training for the FBI.
I thought they had stopped that, but as far as you know, they're still training the FBI.
The fact that they did at one point, I think it's very important to understand.
And I think the fact that Elon Musk, a guy who has such a prominent vision for the future of humanity is basically putting all this on the line.
It's going to be a battle of the Titans.
All right.
We'll see.
Well, we are clearly in Elon Musk's court, despite the fact of being a 501c3 organization.
This is not a political candidacy, so we can back Elon all the way.
Go Elon!
Hey, he's our favorite African American.
Yes, he is.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I think you have another very important story about indictments that were handed down in Georgia regalist with these indictments.
You know, Georgia, Georgia's always looked at as this, you know, right of center state, you know, of course, got rid of the Confederate flag on its state flag back during the Olympics when Zell Miller was Zell Miller was the last Democrat governor.
He was more of a Dixie crap.
But anyways, this story is so important because I think this could have Far-reaching impact if other right-leaning states can have DAs and have state's attorneys who actually consider doing this.
61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connecting to the Stop Cop City movement.
Now, 61 people have been indicted on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protest against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call Cop City.
In the sweeping indictment that was released on September 5th, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr alleged the defendants are militant anarchists who supported a violent movement that prosecutors traced to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests.
Indeed.
The August 29th indictment is the latest application of the state's anti-reciteering law, also known as, it's RICO law, right?
Or is it RICO?
RICO.
RICO law.
And comes just weeks after the Fulton County prosecutor used the statute to charge former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants.
We are entering the stages of lawfare, ladies and gentlemen, and the state of Georgia has decided to fight back.
The Stop Cop City effort has gone on for more than two years and at times veered into vandalism and violence.
Opponents fear the training center will lead to greater militarization of the police and that its construction in an urban forest will exacerbate Environmental damage in a poor majority black area.
It'll probably improve it enormously.
You know, the old restaurants might spring up and all sorts of services.
But anyway, it's just an excuse to fight to fight the police.
Let's face it.
As if, yeah, as if the police aren't part of.
Yeah, exactly.
Most of the indicted have already been charged over their alleged involvement in the movement.
Right.
Rico charges carry a heavy potential sentence.
That can be added on top of the penalty for the underlying acts.
Among the defendants, more than three dozen people already facing domestic terrorism charges in connection to violent protest.
Three leaders of a bail fund previously accused of money laundering and three activists previously charged with felony intimidation after authorities said they distributed flyers calling a state trooper a murderer for his involvement in the fatal shooting of a protester.
Who, by the way, pulled a gun on the police.
I think maybe open fire.
In any case, he was certainly armed and he brought it on himself.
It sounded like a suicide by cop case to me.
It did.
I agree with that.
Now, the attorney general for Georgia, Mr. Carr, said this, quote, the 61 defendants together have conspired to prevent the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by conducting, coordinating and organizing acts of violence, intimidation and property destruction, he said.
In linking the defendants to the alleged conspiracy, prosecutors have made a series of allegations.
Those include everything from possessing fire accelerant and throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers.
To be reimbursed for glue and food for activists who spent months camping in the woods near the construction site.
Is that really a crime?
Being reimbursed for glue and food?
Well, anyway, I guess that's how you put a RICO case together.
That's how you put a RICO case together.
No, I mean, again, they're engaging in a long spread and a long running terror campaign.
Widespread.
Widespread.
But long spread too.
Yes.
Exactly.
I caught myself there.
But activists leading an ongoing referendum effort against the project immediately condemned the charges, calling them anti-democratic.
This is from the Cop City Vote Coalition.
They said in a statement, quote, Chris Carr may try to use his prosecutors in power to build his gubernatorial campaign and silence free speech, but his threats will not silence our commitment to standing up for our future, our community and our city.
You know, they talk about free speech.
Have you seen some of the videos of the attacks on this thing?
They are throwing commercial quality firecrackers, the ones that you put a hundred yards up in the sky and go boom!
They're throwing these at the police.
And there was a remarkable invasion of the site in which they burned construction equipment.
It's pretty hair-raising stuff.
And they're talking about free speech?
Well, they've got a real imagination.
It's an insurrection, and finally the state has stepped in and regained the monopoly on violence.
I think about all the incredible images we saw during the summer of George Floyd in Atlanta, where the CNN Center was actually attacked by Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
If you recall, they had to have police barricade the door because they were throwing in those M80s, those very, very potent The type of firecracker that you're told if you're going to throw, make sure you light it and throw it as fast as you can so you don't lose a digit or a finger on July 4th.
Trust me, I grew up with those.
You had to go to Alabama to get them because they were all banned in Georgia.
Well, maybe they're going to ban these Antifa types in Georgia too.
Let's see.
But it's about time that these bomb throwers and arsonists and It's just wreckers of everything that comes their way got a
bit of a comeuppance So let me read more paragraphs just because they buried so
much here. There's gonna be good. Yep there. It's gonna be good
Republican governor Kemp Brian Kemp has praised the indictment saying my top priority and always will be keeping Georgians
safe Especially against out-of-state radicals that threaten the
safety of our citizens and law enforcement Now again, protests against the training center escalated after the fatal shooting in January of 26-year-old protester Manuel Esteban Pérez Taran, known as Tortuguita.
The GBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has said state troopers fired in self-defense after he shot at them while they cleared protesters.
from a wooded area near the proposed facility.
That's my recollection. This guy was blazing away at the police,
you know, and now all his buddies are upset because they, gee,
they returned fire. Can't have the police doing that, can they? Can we?
Yeah, it's good to see Georgia not engage in what we saw in New York where I believe
people who protested, they were given how much?
A $13 million settlement?
We talked about that a few weeks ago.
Yes, I think it worked out to something like $4,000 or $5,000 per protester.
Denver just did the same thing.
We're going to talk about that, yeah.
Gosh, crazy, crazy, terrible stuff.
But in any case, elsewhere, crime runs wild, particularly in Washington.
Southeast Washington Giant.
That's the grocery store that, not the one in Southeast Washington, but Giant is the brand of grocery store that I most frequently frequent here in Northern Virginia.
But in the store on Alabama Avenue in Southeast DC, for those of you who are unaware of the geography and the demographics of Washington DC, Southeast is a heavily pigmented part of town.
But the first thing many shoppers notice about that store is cameras everywhere.
In the aisle, in the entrance, in the corner of every store.
Also, armed guards at both entrances.
At least there are two.
Usually they try to reduce the pinch points to one, but they've got armed guards.
Giant said there'll be no more national brands such as Tide Detergent, Colgate Toothpaste, and Advil on the shelves in the Alabama Avenue store.
The grocery store chain added that current crime levels have made the business of carrying certain products unsustainable.
That's why, yes, all the national brands of these things are being pulled from inventory because I guess blacks are particularly brand conscious, you know?
You can't get a good price if you try to resell generic Advil, I guess.
I didn't realize that our dusky brethren are so worried about getting their detergent actually from Tide, but I guess they are.
But apparently what they will do is they will just march in and clear out all the brand name stuff.
And one of the shoppers at Alabama Avenue says she has seen thieves walk right into a nearby nail salon and try to resell brand new brand name cosmetics that they just ripped off the shelves.
So, but they're going to keep selling the store brand, and I guess, you know, I suppose the Alabama Avenue residents are just going to turn their noses up at the store brands, and so all of a sudden shoplifting, I'm sure, will just plummet to zero.
The store says it will also start having a security check of receipts of every customer who leaves the store.
I think that's probably a good idea.
Giant says, however, it does not have any current plans to close its doors on Alabama Avenue.
Well, you know, how long can this go on?
They've got to make a buck.
Yeah.
And once again, it looks like I see I see a food desert in the making.
I see things just drying out.
The weather's getting hot.
The weather's getting dry.
And desert may be upon Alabama Avenue anytime soon.
But Mr. Kersey, I believe you turned up a story in which an actual mainstream outlet has reported on black crime in New York City.
I nearly fell out of my chair.
Well, actually, we're the first people to talk about it.
This is the crime and enforcement activity in New York City report that the New York The New York City Police Department puts out every year, and normally it comes out... I'm sorry, go ahead.
But didn't you say that some mainstream outfit had written about this?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Oh, dear me.
Oh, I misunderstood.
We're the first people to talk about it.
We're breaking news here on the Renaissance Radio podcast.
Because again, since Mayor Eric Adams took over, they hadn't released this yet.
Normally, this report is published in the first quarter of the subsequent year.
So the 2021 report was published in February of 2022.
The 2022 report, it took until August of 2023 for this to come out.
And now the most important thing to note is they break down the suspects for all violent crime.
And as we know, The city of New York City is about 24% black, 29% Hispanic, 14% Asian, and whites are 32% of the city's population.
So, let's get to the stats.
Why don't we talk about them real quick?
It turns out that for the homicide suspects arrested, 97.1% were black, Hispanic, or Asian.
For 2022.
Okay, 97% were non-white.
Yes.
And whites are what percent?
So 3% with white.
1%.
Only 3%, only 3% of the homicide suspects.
Actually 2.9%.
And then unfortunately, as we know, because we've talked about it this year, where clearance rates are below 50% for the first time ever across the country, New York City has a high number of Of homicides that, of course, don't have a suspect.
So you have to wonder how close to 98 to potentially 99% of the suspects would be non-white if we actually had, you know, a near 100% clearance rate.
Hmm.
Okay.
What about other crimes?
Okay.
95.7% of robbery suspects arrested in 2022 were non-white.
percent of robbery suspects arrested in 2022 were non-white.
89.4 percent of race of rape suspects arrested in 2022, New York City, were non-white.
And 98.9% of shooting suspects arrested in 2022 New York City were non-white.
98.9% of shooting suspects in non-fatal shootings were non-white.
I bet very few of those were Asians.
They're overwhelmingly black with a certain number of Hispanics.
You know, years ago I took all of those statistics and I calculated how much all these various crimes would decline in terms of percentage if New York City were all white.
And basically you could defund the police.
A crime like the shootings, for example, would drop to maybe five percent of what you have today if all of the shooters were white.
Murder would drop to, I don't know, six percent, three percent.
It's just it's absolutely astonishing.
But to my disappointment, I now learn that we're the only people talking about this.
But I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
No, no.
I look forward to this every year.
In fact, I don't think, you know, Um, I, I correspond with, um, you know, Heather McDonald and we did, we did, we did a, um, we did a podcast for, for VDare, Mr. Taylor about her book.
And she was very worried by the fact that this hadn't been released.
This was in May.
And she, she said, I, it's going to be harder and harder to find this stuff as cities, uh, clamped down.
We know infamously, uh, under, oh gosh.
Under Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, that's right, they actually stopped publishing the racial data in their Chicago police report.
It's fantastic.
They had very good numbers.
I'm surprised Derrick Adams is still releasing this stuff.
The more we talk about it, the more likely they are to stop releasing it.
But that's the idea.
If you don't like the facts, just make sure nobody learns them.
Yeah, by the way, if any of our listeners want to Google this, it's the Chicago Police Department Annual Report.
And just to go back and put a bow on this conversation, Mr. Taylor, if you're going to Google this, ladies and gentlemen, it's the 2022 Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City Report that is available on the NYPD.
And I strongly urge our listeners to search that out.
Did you see any historical trend figures in the 2022 numbers?
I mean, we all know that 2020 was a great leap, certainly in homicides.
Well, I think there's going to be an article at AR that actually breaks that down and looks to see if there are differences.
So this is, again, crime stats, you can't lie.
You can only suppress them.
We're not going to talk about somebody that, it's our favorite police commissioner, but did you know that yesterday Philadelphia lost police chief Outlaw?
She resigned.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Miss Outlaw and her black fingernails will be there no more?
She will be there no more.
Philadelphia also used to be a city that published incredible racial data for crime and that went the way of the That went the way of the Dodo about seven years ago, maybe eight years ago.
Well, the truth is just too painful.
The truth must be denied.
Well, let us take a little trip to Israel with ADL in mind.
Benjamin Netanyahu plans to depart all African migrants from Israel.
Hear, hear!
This is after Eritrean groups were involved in riots.
Israeli Prime Minister's remarks came a day after violent protests in Tel Aviv left more than 140 people wounded.
They had a real scepter.
The fighting went on for hours.
30 police officers were wounded.
Now these groups, they are supporters and opponents of Eritrea's government.
And they had at it with construction lumber, pieces of metal and rocks.
And while they were at it, just for fun, they smashed shop windows and police cars.
You know, once you're out there with a piece of lumber, you've got to swing it at something, you know, even if you can't find an enemy Eritrean.
Israeli police in riot gear, they shot tear gas and stun grenades and live rounds.
And officers on horseback try to control them, corral them and control them.
But the trouble is, this all happened when the Eritrean embassy It, uh, there was going to be a celebration by the official Eritrean government of how wonderful we are on the 30th anniversary of the current ruler's rise to power.
30th anniversary.
You know, they like, uh, they like permanent heads of state.
Well, there are other Eritreans who don't care for the current regime.
And as it turned out, this is really very handy.
You know, you don't even have to have a scorecard to know who the players are.
Opponents of the regime wore blue and the supporters wore red.
This is something out of gangs in New York, Scorsese's gangs in New York.
What in the world?
My goodness.
Well, boy, I guess they came, you know, ready to fight.
Well, as it turns out, a President Isaias Afwerki, he's age 77, and he has led Eritrea since it won independence from Ethiopia after a long civil war.
There are no elections, no free press.
And you have to have an exit visa to leave the country.
I guess a lot of people have slithered out of the country anyway.
And about 25,000 African migrants live in Israel.
They're mainly from Sudan and Eritrea.
Of that number, 17,000 are Eritreans.
17,000 Eritreans living in Israel.
25,000, all told.
I mean, come on, Bibi Netanyahu, you're falling down on the job.
You want to expel all African infiltrators, as he calls them.
In 2019, a regime supporter, an Eritrean regime supporter, was stabbed and beaten to death by three of the members of the Eritrean community in Tel Aviv.
But as it turns out, Israel recognizes these are not asylum seekers.
These are economic migrants.
And it says it has no legal obligation to keep them.
But under international law, Israel can't send them back to where their life or liberty might be at risk.
On the other hand, If half the people in these fights are regime supporters, couldn't they send them all back?
Couldn't they round up all the blue shirts or the red shirts, whichever it is, and say, hey, you're going home to the regime you love?
Well, as it turns out, hundreds of thousands of people have, as I say, slithered out of the country over the years, lots of them going across the deserts into Sudan and then North Africa, and many of them go to Europe.
And as it turns out, 17,000 arrived in the promised land, the land of milk and honey, now known as Israel.
Well, as it turns out, they've had the same thing going in in Norway.
Eritreans have been filmed in yet another set of street battles, this time in Norway, with attacking each other with bats, bottles and iron rods on the streets of Bergen, the second, the city, the country's second largest city.
And the riots were the top story in Norway because it's ordinarily a pretty peace-loving place.
And police struggled to contain the situation with Eritreans throwing cobblestones at one another and the police.
And riot police moved in after over six hours of rioting.
Yes, they had to deploy with gas masks, helmets, shields, and were supported by a helicopter.
I'm not quite sure what a helicopter does under the circumstances.
I guess it radios back onto the ground saying, yep, yep, yep, they're forming up around the corner here, go get them.
But last month, a similar battle took place during an Eritrean festival in Sweden, resulting in 52 injuries.
This sort of violence is routine in Germany, with each year seeing mass riots at Eritrea festivals.
This year in Germany, 131 arrests were made and 26 officers were wounded during street battles.
So what in heaven's name?
You know, I wasn't really aware of how Eritreans all around the world are battling each other.
This just goes to show you, you can take the African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African.
Well, let's not disparage them too much.
I mean, isn't there a good Eritrean restaurant somewhere in Northern Virginia?
I'm sure.
I have never visited it, if there is.
I'm sure Eritrean food is just delicious.
I wish it were so delicious that Eritreans would stay there and eat the stuff, but alas, that's not the case.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I think you have a story about the police in Austin.
Seems to me like they're kind of falling down on the job.
Well, let's talk about Austin because this is important to go back in time to the George Floyd moment where everybody went mad.
I believe you you still have pretty much the best essay about, you know, a country gone mad and not pretty much.
You can remove that.
It was the best essay.
There you go.
It was hands down the best essay by Mr. Taylor that I encourage everyone to go out and find a country gone mad.
And I believe we are starting to see Um, the pushback against that led by, like I said, Elon Musk, which is so fascinating to think, but this is from August 13th, 2020 from the Texas Tribune.
The headline was this Austin city council cuts police department budget by one third, mainly through reorganizing some duties out from law enforcement oversight.
$150 million was cut after criticism about officers in the city's top cop face months of criticism.
Overt the killing of an unarmed black and Hispanic man, the use of force against anti-police protesters, and the investigation of a demonstrator's fatal shooting by another citizen.
We call that the shot, Mr. Taylor, because that was, that was what?
That was three years ago?
So what happens now?
Courtesy of Fox News, September 4th, 2023.
Here's the headline.
Austin police ask robbery victims to call 3-1-1 amid staffing shortage crime crisis.
Is this known as chickens coming home to roost?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
So, yeah, here we go.
Austin Police in Texas have asked residents to call 3-1-1 if they get robbed near an ATM over the weekend as the department struggles amid an increase in urban crime and staffing shortages.
The Austin Police Department posted a graphic and a post on Twitter to urge residents to call 3-1-1 or make an online report if they're robbed.
Make an online report.
You whip out your cell phone, I guess, and you tap that in while this guy's beating you and picking your pocket.
Yeah, great idea.
It makes total sense.
Keep Austin weird, they say.
Well, it can't get much weirder than this, right?
Talk about chickens coming home to roost.
3-1-1 is usually reserved for non-emergency requests as opposed to 9-1-1.
Quote, even if you are cautious and follow all the safety advice, you may still become the unfortunate victim of a robbery, the Austin Police Department wrote on Twitter.
Do you know what your next step should be?
Yeah, whip out that concealed carry and blaze away!
Well, that's the obvious, if the police refuse to show up.
Then yes, that would make sense that the law abiding must take, uh, must take, uh, the drastic measures.
Well, what's that?
What's that slogan?
When help?
Let's see.
Uh, well, let's see when seconds matter, the police are minutes away.
Well, here's what the police were minutes away.
Tell you to do in a situation like the one you just described, quote, make a police report and provide as much information as possible so we can recover your property quickly and safely.
The graphic included advice to mention the bank in the 311 report and include the date and time of the cash withdrawal.
I can't imagine going to an ATM.
I don't go to ATMs anymore, but could you imagine having to look over your shoulder as you're putting in your four-digit code and wondering if there was a marauding youth near you that you know that the police department has already said, hey, you're on your own, pal.
You got to make sure you get the right bank and the date, time.
You know, I bet the way it works is people now have designated, designated guards and designated withdrawers.
Always go with two or three people, you know, some of them with their backs to the ATM,
guarding your back while you do the job.
Yeah, no, this is this is not the way a civilized society works.
Yeah, back in 2020, compared to 2020, Austin has had a 77% increase in auto thefts and
an 18% increase in aggravated assaults and a 30% increase in murder.
The Austin Police tried to clarify in a statement to Fox News that anyone who was assaulted or threatened during a robbery should call 911.
This post was intended for victims of a mugging in general and not just specific to robberies.
Actually, it says jugging.
I take that back.
I've never heard this term before, so I'll hope that Fox News didn't have a mistake and they have the J for where the M should be.
But they say this.
The post was intended for victims of a jugging in general and not specific to robberies.
Jugging is a form of theft that includes both robbery and burglary, Austin Police explained in a statement, and occurs when a suspect follows a victim from a bank to their next location before committing the crime.
I'd never heard of that.
So interesting.
I don't understand why that means that it's not particularly urgent.
If somebody follows you to a bank and takes your money, why is that not any different from a mugging?
But in any case, I don't get it.
Welcome to the brave new world of Austin.
I mean, again, I haven't been to Austin since 2008.
I know it's its own little city, state in a lot of ways.
But how many did you see in that first article that you quoted from 2020, they had cut their
police force in half?
Was that it?
Let's see here.
Austin police in 2020 cut police department, the Austin City Council cut police department
budget by one third.
By one-third?
By one-third.
They cut $150 million.
And now, of course, we see what's happening as they restructured the department.
Council Member Greg Cazar, who crafted the three-tiered plan to reduce the police department budget, said when the Austin community organizes and asks for change, he wants to make sure the council can respond effectively.
Mr. Khazar, we see how effective that change in the police budget was three years later, with jugging now an augmenting problem, unfortunately, a metastasizing problem.
That might be somebody snatches a girl's purse while he's jogging.
That might be a jogging, but this is new terminology for me as well.
Well, let us take a trip to Africa.
This was from about a week ago, but this was big news briefly, when at least 74 people died, including 12 children, after a building fire in Johannesburg.
The city of Johannesburg confirmed that it owned the building, but it said that cartels had taken it over.
This is one of many, many buildings in Johannesburg, in what's still called the Central Business District, although there is no business going on there.
This was all white during the apartheid era, but when blacks came in, it became unlivable and all the businesses moved out.
And there are now scores of buildings, big high-rise.
These used to be office buildings and people have piled into them and they build little cardboard shanties in these open spaces that were not meant to house people at all.
And they are now deemed, of course, unfit to live in.
They're full of families that pay rent to criminal gangs that run them.
Yes.
Can you imagine this?
This, you know, a skyscraper that used to be an office building.
Well, you can't make money there anymore.
The owner walks away.
And so people move in.
No running water, no toilets, no legal electricity.
And these buildings are said to have been hijacked.
Scores of people often live in just one room in some former office, and because they don't have any proper heat, no cooking, people cook on little stoves, and fires are common.
And all of these shack-like structures that have been built inside them, of course, make everything super combustible.
And in the cold winter months from June to September on that side of the equator, fires are often lit in large metal drums with wood and other scavenged items thrown in for fuel.
They also use candles for illumination because all the electricity connections are illegal, rigged up for those who actually manage to do it without getting electrocuted, And, of course, the occupants are there illegally under extremely unsanitary conditions.
The smell of feces permeates the corridors as occupants relieve themselves wherever they feel like it.
The city center of Johannesburg, as I say, they still call it the Central Business District, is a dangerous place to be, night or day, because, well, you can imagine, But when Apartheid was dismantled, all of the businesses that used to be there buggered off, and all those old buildings are now taken over and hijacked, as they say.
Drugs and addiction proliferate.
Outsiders are at risk if they venture in.
But, you know, you have to hand it to these enterprising criminal types.
They see people moving into a building like that and they say, OK, we've got a real deal.
Just walk through with a couple of guys with AKs every month and collect rent.
So free enterprise.
There you go.
Now, that's South Africa for you.
Now, we'll move to Gabon.
That is, oh, I guess about at least a thousand miles north of South Africa, on the west coast of Africa.
Last month, Gabonese military officers announced a takeover of power, yet another coup, and the annulment of Saturday's elections, which they said lacked credibility.
In other words, democracy didn't go the way they wanted.
The announcement came shortly after the election of President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
He had won a third term of office in a disputed election.
Now, he is the son of former President Omar Bongo, who ruled from 1967 to 2009.
In other words, the Bongo pair and fiece, father and son, have been running the place since 1967.
Sounds like a pretty good gig for the Bongos.
In July, well, in any case, yet another coup.
Now, this is Al Jazeera is counting coups, so to speak, as the Native Americans used to do.
And it points out just this last July, members of Niger's presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum inside his palace.
And they said they put an end to bad governance.
So Al Jazeera, as I said, counting coups, says that since 1950, 486 attempted or successful military coups have been carried out around the world.
That's nearly 500 since 1950.
Africa comes in with a winning share of 214, of which at least 106 have been successful.
Regime change, if you know what I mean.
And it turns out at least 45 of the 54 nations in the African continent have had at least a at least one coup since 1950.
How many?
Could you repeat that?
There are 54 nations on the African continent and 45 at least have had a successful coup.
And I'm sorry, at least a at least one coup attempt.
So coups are really in fashion in Africa.
Now, some coups, some countries have really specialized in coup d'etat, military coups.
And Burkina Faso, which used to be known as Upper Volta, I always thought Upper Volta was a lovely name for an African country.
It sounds like outer space to me.
We're going to Upper Volta this month.
In any case, it has had nine successful coups.
Benin has had six, Sudan five, also Burundi has had five.
Five seems to be the lucky number because Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mauritania and Mali, all those countries have had five successful coups.
Now, Al Jazeera put together a very interesting table of coup attempts, both successful and unsuccessful.
And as I say, Africa leads with 214 attempts, 106 were successful.
Then we come Latin America, 146 attempts of which 70 were successful.
Then I'll just, I'll just stick with the successful coups.
So that was Africa, 106, Latin America, 70, Asia Pacific, 27, Middle East, 21.
Europe has had eight successful coups since 1950.
And I would have to sit and scratch my head and think about what those were.
I wonder if they would include what happened in Ukraine as a successful coup, what happened,
I guess it was in 2014.
Exactly.
And eight successful coups in Europe since 1950.
That would really be an interesting thing to look into, wouldn't it?
Was there one in Hungary?
Well, 1956 was an attempted one.
Would they call that a coup?
I don't know.
You said it was an attempted coup, right?
No, no.
No, no.
Well, in Europe, in Europe it says there have been since 1950, 17 coup attempts, eight of
which were successful, nine of which failed.
So I mean, if we have got some historically minded listeners who would like to fill us
in, this would be very, very interesting.
And this is data that is put together by some, reportedly, I guess Al Jazeera has put this stuff together, but 17 coup attempts, eight successful, in Europe since 1950.
In any case, moving away from Africa, which is usually a good idea, but then we're moving towards Denver, which doesn't sound like a good idea, but they have just been showering money on rioters, it seems to me, or at least demonstrators.
Yeah, we teased this story about 20 minutes ago.
The Denver City Council has unanimously approved a $4.7 million settlement to over 300 Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested by Denver police in the summer of 2020.
The settlement was approved as part of the City Council's consent agenda and covers over 300 people who participated in protests.
No Rico statues being involved here, just spreading of Washington's T-bills.
The 300 people who participated in protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.
The settlement is separate from the $14 million payout to 12 injured protesters, which went to a jury trial last year in which the city is appealing in federal court.
And a $1.6 million settlement to seven injured protesters earlier this year.
So you're talking about $15.6.
You're talking about over $20 million that Black Lives Matter protesters are getting from their participation in the Denver riots.
Good grief.
This is just outrageous.
And people wonder why you can't get police officers.
Impossible to hire police officers.
What a demoralizing, depressing thing.
You save your city from complete chaos, collapse, arson, and looting, and then the people that you had to be forceful with get millions of dollars in payouts.
What a career!
Boy, I'm going to sign up tomorrow.
The 4.7 settlement approved Monday will go to protesters who say their First Amendment rights were violated by the Denver Police Department.
Quote, Denver used its militarized police force to unlawfully arrest over 300 people for protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, said Claire Senior, one of the arrested protesters and plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The city has agreed to pay for this one instance of violent suppression of free speech while they continue to brutalize in prison people every day.
Oh yeah, they should no doubt pay every time they arrest somebody.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a violation of free speech.
Gosh, I mug you.
Boy, I get arrested?
Man, hey, that's a violation of my First Amendment rights.
What fools these people are.
Our message is that Black Lives Matter is as necessary now as it was in 2020.
You know, Mr. Taylor, I'm reminded of one of the reasons why Michelle Malkin stopped caring about politics, because she was at a Back the Blue rally where they were assaulted by Antifa and the police did nothing.
Well, I agree.
I agree that BLM is just as much needed now as it was in 2020.
I agree 100 percent.
Well, Frightened Senator initial lawsuit filed against the city or text message sent among Denver police leadership appearing to show them only enforcing a curfew against protesters.
Quote, over 300 people were arrested for the simple act of protesting.
The U.S.
Constitution does not allow police to clear the streets of protesters simply because they do not agree with their message.
What if they're breaking curfew?
If they're breaking curfew, if they're burning, if they're looting buildings, if they're breaking windows, that's all nonviolent expression in the name of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Mr. Taylor, don't you know better than that by now?
Haven't we seen the same thing play out in D.C.
where all the charges against those who tried to storm the White House, which forced President Trump
to the bunker of the White House back on May 31st, 2020, they had all their charges dropped.
Come on, you're allowed to try and storm the White House and send 60 plus Secret Service agents to the hospital.
Now, Elizabeth Wang, I'm sorry, go ahead.
As I recall, 60 were injured, but only 11 went to the hospital.
But, you know, maybe your numbers are different from mine.
Let's clarify that.
Yeah, let's just say that.
It's always important to get the facts right.
Yes, let's get the facts right.
Well, the lady who said that, Mr. Taylor, was Elizabeth Wang.
Sure, sure.
Family was on the Mayflower.
She's a civil rights.
She's a she's a civil right.
She's from the civil rights law firm Loewe and Loewe and lead attorney for the plaintiffs.
In addition to compensation to protesters, the settlement prevents the city from enacting
any curfew enforced against those who engage in protest activity in the future.
This is a win that will protect free speech in Denver for the years to come."
End quote.
Actually, what it does, it sets the stage for Denver to burn.
It does.
Just as Minneapolis burned.
It does.
This is crazy.
Oh my gosh.
This is such a depressing story.
And I'm sorry we have to end on such a miserable note.
But, Mr. Kersey, our time has run out.
And that means it's time for us to remind our listeners how to get in touch.
You can send messages to me.
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And we have so many more stories that we can't get to, but we'll try to stuff some in next week.
We look forward to this, this great honor and pleasure of spending this hour with you next week.
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