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Dec. 20, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Crystal Mangum Finally Comes Clean

Jared Taylor is pleasantly surprised that the stripper in the Duke Lacrosse case now admits it was all a hoax. He also discusses encouraging court cases, Syrian “refugees,” Harvard Law, and ballot fraud. Thumbnail credit: © Chuck Liddy/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
	And once again, I am without my usual co-host, Paul Kersey.
	But to those of you who have expressed some concern about his state of being, fear not.
	He'll be back before long.
	We just don't know when.
	Everything will work out just fine.
	So fear not.
	Well, as usual, we'd like to start with comments from listeners today.
	And our first listener writes in to say this Yes,
	one of those guys was a J6er, and he noticed gold bars and other things missing, and he reported it, and the FBI figured out, wow, one of our boys did the snitch.
	Another case was of the arrest of a member of the Boston City Council who was misusing city money.
	In the Boston case, the fact that Tanya Fernandez Anderson was the first Muslim, the first former illegal immigrant, and the first African immigrant to hold elected office in Boston, well, you can imagine the pressure was strong to look the other way.
	I know that many in our circle think the FBI is hopelessly compromised and might as well be abolished.
	However, cases like this suggest that it still does a lot of good.
	My suspicion is that most street level agents are probably determined to fight crime and that change at the top should be all that is required to fix the FBI. Of course, how far down the change at the top should go is a matter for debate.
	Well, you know, I tend to agree with this commenter.
	You never know how far down the change has got to go, but my guess is that most people who are on the street fighting crime are probably sincere about stopping the bad guys.
	There are a lot of politicized things that happen there, but I think that's the kind of thing you can change probably without firing, oh, I don't know, no more than, what, 5-10% of the people?
	Who knows?
	In any case, thank you for that comment.
	Here is yet another comment.
	In your December 5th Radio Renaissance episode, you said all of this roaring about Haitians eating pets was probably pure baloney.
	You seem to have based this on the fact that the black woman who ate a cat around the same time as this debate was raging turned out to be an American black.
	Well, there are other reports of cat-eating.
	This video, and he sends a link, is 25 minutes long, but a podcaster walks around Springfield asking white residents whether the Haitians are eating pets.
	Many had horror stories about what they'd seen Haitians doing to cats.
	If you don't want to watch the whole thing, the first 30 seconds has clips of residents discussing what they have seen Haitians doing.
	Well, yes, I watched more than the first 30 seconds.
	They talk about a van driven by Haitians containing 30 or 40 cats.
	Well, I don't know.
	How likely is that?
	How likely is that?
	How easy is it to bag 30 or 40 cats?
	And were they really driving around?
	And how do you know there are 30 or 40 cats in a van unless you stick your head in the window and look all around?
	I don't know.
	I'm still not very convinced.
	My listener goes on to say, now the baloney in what Trump said is that there are no reports that I've seen of Haitians eating dogs.
	Geese and cats, yes, abundant evidence of them being killed and eaten.
	Well, I don't know about geese either.
	The goose that has often been seen in a photograph of a black guy carrying around what looks like two, maybe three geese.
	Other people say that this was roadkill, that he was just taken off a street.
	I don't know.
	But my listener sends in another link, and he says they briefly discuss one goose killing and At the 57-minute mark here.
	And there is a discussion of a man who claimed that there was a group of four Haitians walking around with geese.
	And there's other footage from people, however, complaining about Haitians sucking up city services, littering, breaking into cars.
	This is something that is said to have been going on.
	And these are reports at a city hall meeting.
	Now, I didn't see any footage of people at City Hall talking about Haitians eating cats, dogs, or geese.
	No, so thank you for this comment, and I am open, I am open to more persuasive evidence that they really were eating cats, or dogs, or geese, or each other for all I'm concerned.
	I just want to see the evidence, more convincing evidence.
	So I would like to repeat how much Mr. Kersey and I appreciate your comments.
	I especially appreciate it when I make a goof.
	I say something wrong or indefensible.
	And I like to be corrected when these things happen.
	So please don't hesitate to send me messages at...
	Amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and we have a Contact Us tab right at the top of the page.
	And you click on that, and you can send me a message, and I love to hear from you.
	Now, I suspect that some of my younger listeners, and certainly some of those who live outside the United States, have never heard of Crystal Mangum.
	Crystal Mangum, she was briefly very famous in the United States and she's been in the news again.
	It was in 2006, that is 18 years ago, that she really made the big time and was famous.
	It happened to do with the fact that that year three of the four co-captains of the men's lacrosse team at Duke University Paid a total of $800 for two exotic dancers to perform at a party that they put on for the team.
	And one of those exotic dancers, I think that is a bit of a euphemism for a stripper, one of them was a black woman named Crystal Mangum.
	M-A-N-G-U-M. All but one of the players on the lacrosse team at the time were white.
	And the next day, Mangum claimed that the three co-captains had all gang-raped her in a bathroom.
	Well, the university believed her.
	So did the press.
	It was a wild and joyous and frantic attack on white privilege.
	I was convinced right from the start it was a bunch of hokum.
	White people almost never gang-rape black women.
	It is such an unusual crime that the FBI, which keeps statistics on, not the FBI, but the National Bureau of Justice Statistics, keeps crimes on just about every kind.
	But in the case of white men gang-raping blacks, they just have so few cases like that, they just don't calculate statistics on it.
	But, as I say, it was a wild and joyous attack on white privilege, and the coach of the lacrosse team was forced to resign as if it were his fault.
	The university canceled the remainder of the season.
	I guess that means they just forfeited every single game.
	This is an utterly idiotic thing to have done, even if there had been something wrong that the co-captains had done.
	Maybe put them off the team.
	I don't know.
	But this was a huge, huge overreaction.
	However, Ms. Mangum, she submitted to a DNA test, and the evidence failed to match any of the 46 white players on the team.
	So they all had to submit to DNA tests, too.
	But what did the DNS show up?
	The DNA evidence showed that Ms. Mangum had had sex with four different unidentified other men in a period of probably three or four days before the rape claim.
	As I say, none of them was identified, but not one of them was a lacrosse player, so this suggests that perhaps, I don't know, she wasn't just an exotic dancer, she had other lucrative performances going on, so far as I know.
	Well, later on, as things progressed, she said she wasn't sure she'd been actually raped, but she insisted that some sort of sexual assault did take place.
	The tide eventually turned against her and in favor of the white alleged rapists, and a prosecutor by the name of Mike Nifong, N-I-F-O-N-G, was found to have overzealously championed his case in the At Duke, they were all just slavering and rubbing their hands at the prospects of actually finding racist white people.
	The boys' defense attorneys pleaded for the North Carolina State Bar to intervene, and charges were then brought against a sitting district attorney, this knife-on guy, for the first time in history.
	So, he had been too outspoken, and worst of all, he had concealed the crucial DNA evidence from the investigation.
	I mean, this is just unconscionable, obviously.
	And he was later disbarred, so a certain amount of justice was done.
	Likewise, the three players who'd been accused got $20 million each in a settlement with Duke.
	In the final accounting, it turned out the university had spent more than $100 million on legal fees, settlement costs, and other expenses because they were so frantically determined to string up their students as examples of white supremacist bad guys.
	Well, that was all back in 2006. Four years later, in 2010, she was convicted on misdemeanor charges for setting a fire that nearly destroyed the house Now, how did that happen?
	Well, Crystal told officers she got into a fight with her boyfriend at the time and she decided to burn all his clothes.
	And the fire spread and nearly burned down the house.
	But no one was injured in the fire after all.
	Not only did she burn his clothes, I guess that is a terrible thing to do to a black guy, burn his clothes.
	She smashed his car windshield and she also threatened Well, then, just one year after that, she and her new boyfriend, who had been dating for about a month, got into a heated argument after she was allegedly caught flirting with another man.
	So the new boyfriend, by the name of Reginald Day, He got upset about this, and she claimed that he had been beating her before she snatched a kitchen knife and stabbed him to death in self-defense.
	Does she have an anger problem, perhaps?
	Was he really beating her?
	We don't know at this point, but in any case, in 2013, Crystal Mangum, at that time 34 years of age, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison for second-degree murder.
	That means she could be out in 2027. Well, in the meantime, she has now admitted for the first time that, yep, the whole Duke Lacrosse business was nothing but pure hoax.
	It was all a big fat lie.
	She was interviewed in prison by an independent content creator, no sleuth New York Times journalist, no, no, no, WAPO, not interested, Chicago Tribune, not interested, the big networks, no, but an independent content creator interviewed her and The content creator is called Let's Talk with Kat, or at least that's his or her program.
	And now, Crystal says, I made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people.
	Validation from people.
	Boy, did she get validation.
	If you are black and you claim that white people have mistreated you, boy, oh boy, people will make you a hero.
	And she also claimed that it was her search for validation that led her to become a stripper.
	She now asks the three men she accused of raping her to accept her apologies.
	I want them to know that I love them.
	They didn't deserve that, and I hope they can forgive me.
	So far, I've seen no press reports on reactions from the three men.
	It turns out she's found God in prison.
	She says mostly she reads the Bible to get through the day.
	She says you can get all that growth in Jesus.
	He loves us just the way we are.
	He's enough and we're enough.
	She's become a sweet girl now.
	She says that she would describe her time in prison as one of growth.
	However, she says she has no regrets and that everything happens because of God.
	Well, that sounds like kind of blaming everything on God.
	Yep, I dragged these three boys through the mud along with the entire lacrosse team, but everything happens because of God.
	Well, will the progs who always go for the race baiting, will they ever self-reflect because of something like this?
	Yep, turns out, she says, as we all knew, the whole thing was complete bunkum.
	Now she admits it.
	Will the progs wait for all of the information next time?
	I think we know the answer to that.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, even those of you who know about Crystal Mangum, I bet you didn't know that in 2008, that was just two years after her great blaze of fame and glory, she wrote an autobiography.
	It's called Last Dance for Grace, The Crystal Mangum Story.
	It's a 252-page paperback.
	I see no ghost writer's name, but it does say it was edited by someone.
	Now, here is how the book is described.
	We will never have the answer to many of the questions raised by what has become known as the Duke Lacrosse case.
	Well, I think we do have the answer now.
	I think we have all the answers we need.
	The description goes on to say her short stint as a dancer convinced her to encourage women to think about other career choices.
	Crystal has been through sexual, physical, and emotional abuse that left her with deep psychological scars.
	The Last Dance for Grace is Crystal's attempt to set the record straight about her life and the circumstances around one of the most controversial cases in American history.
	By that they mean, of course, the Duke Lacrosse case.
	Well, she does not set the record straight in the book.
	In fact, she does not at all claim that she made it all up.
	She pretends that it all still happened in this book.
	So, last dance for grace.
	Well, I guess she's got a last dance for forgiveness at this point, finally.
	Well, let's see.
	There is a victory, and we'd like to count our victories in this business.
	A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that NASDAQ cannot impose rules on companies listed on the stock exchange, that's the NASDAQ exchange, that are meant to promote diversity by requiring listed firms to have women and minority directors on the boards, or explain why they don't.
	We reported this on the podcast when the NASDAQ made these rules.
	You had to have a certain number.
	If you have an overnumber of directors, X number has got to be a woman, a minority, or a sexual minority.
	The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in New Orleans, issued a 9-8 ruling that found that the rules approved by the Socials and Exchange Commission violated federal security laws.
	The rules were challenged by a conservative think tank known as the National Center for Public Policy Research and the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment.
	That was a group founded by Edward Blum.
	Edward Blum is the guy who successfully sued in the Supreme Court to challenge race-conscious college admissions policies, the same Edward Blum, a good fellow.
	NASDAQ said that while it believed its rule would benefit companies' investors, We know better.
	Yeah, you're going to do so much better if you have non-whites on your board of directors.
	We know better than you.
	But they said it will respect the court's ruling and does not plan to appeal.
	So, hooray!
	NASDAQ's rule required that companies have at least one woman, racial minority, or LGBTQ person on the board or explain why it doesn't.
	And I guess you couldn't just say, well, we couldn't find one that we thought was better than these white guys that we have on the board.
	That would never do.
	Companies were also required to submit annual disclosure about how many board members were female, racial minorities, or LGBTQ. Well, nowadays, it seems to me that you'd get one of the boys to just say, well, I'm a woman after all, so now we have a woman.
	Or, you know, I've always wondered, how do you prove that use that someone is LGBTQ? I suppose in this case, one of the white guys on your board, he can claim to be homosexual, and who's to say no?
	I can see the boys sitting around the director's table saying, you know, come on, take a hit for the company.
	You're the guy.
	You're the guy who can make the claim.
	You know, just tell them, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm gay.
	And wouldn't that fulfill the rules?
	I mean, how do they prove otherwise?
	Really?
	Now, as it turns out, when they first appealed this, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit that was entirely composed of Democrat appointees issued a ruling in October 2023 that upheld the SEC's approval of the NASDAQ rules, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit that was entirely composed of Democrat appointees issued a ruling
	However, the full court reconsidered the matter, and the 9-8 decision was split along ideological lines with Republican appointees and the majority deciding that the rules should be struck down.
	Nine Republicans, eight Democrats, and so it is struck down.
	Politics do matter.
	Judges matter.
	And when you have a Republican president who appoints sound thinking on the Supreme Court, it can make a huge difference to the United States of America.
	Now here's yet another victory.
	A U.S. judge on Friday said Southwest Airlines must face a lawsuit by a prominent affirmative action opponent who claims that a now defunct program that awarded free flights to Hispanic college students was racially discriminatory.
	Well, how could it not be?
	This was a U.S. judge, U.S. District Judge, Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas, said Southwest's elimination of the 20-year-old program was That flew Hispanic cottage students for free and offered to pay Edward Blum.
	Edward Blum again.
	His American Alliance for Equal Rights.
	One penny did not make the claim that the airline discriminated moot.
	You see, the airline was saying, well, okay, we're not going to do it anymore, and we're going to pay these guys a penny in damages because we didn't hurt them.
	So the case is over.
	It's moot.
	The case can go away.
	But the judge says, no, the case is not going to go away.
	Since 2004, and I sure didn't know about that, Southwest's Lanzate program.
	This is all in Spanish.
	That means the exclamation mark.
	There's one upside down exclamation mark at the beginning of the word and then a right side up one at the end of the word.
	This is all very Hispanico.
	The program helped 1,500 Hispanic undergraduate and graduate students who lived at least 200 miles from their school fly to school for free, but only Hispanics.
	Lanzate meant you had to be Hispanics.
	Now, the Dallas-based airline ended the program after the lawsuit was filed in May.
	Once they were caught out, they stopped doing it.
	Southwest argued that its offer to provide relief sought by Blum's group made the entire lawsuit moot.
	Yes, that penny of damages.
	But Judge Fitzwater disagreed, and he allowed the group to move ahead with claims Southwest violated a Civil War-era law barring racial bias in contracting.
	Now, this ruling could be cited in future cases over diversity and inclusion programs which are facing increasing scrutiny and a number of legal challenges.
	In other words, as Blum said, the decision is a powerful tool to prevent case mooting from discriminators nationwide.
	Now, my assumption is this.
	Simply by saying, okay, we don't do it anymore, That doesn't mean that people who suffered from these discriminatory programs cannot sue.
	And so, if a university has been told by its state regulators, none of this is DEI, no more discrimination, and it's stopped, just because it really has stopped, and I suspect many times it doesn't actually stop, that doesn't mean that people who are discriminated against, who suffered from discrimination, can't sue.
	This would be a remarkable thing.
	But this lawsuit is the latest in a series of cases Blum has filed challenging diversity programs after another group he founded last year convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to bar racial discrimination in college admissions.
	So, yes, indeed, this Blum guy, this is Edward Blum is his name, I thought maybe I'll look into him and do maybe a video on this guy's career.
	He's got all of these businesses, all of these little groups, making sure that people take the idea of non-racial discrimination seriously.
	Even apply it to white people.
	Can't discriminate against them either.
	Now this is another spot of what I would say is good news.
	Derek Chauvin's legal team will be permitted to examine heart tissue and fluid samples taken from George Floyd's autopsy.
	This is part of an appeal of Derek Chauvin's federal civil rights conviction, and it's based on the medical theory that Chauvin did not cause George Floyd's death.
	Well, I think it's pretty clear that he did not.
	But U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted a motion from Chauvin to inspect the evidence as part of a claim that a heart condition and not Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck killed Floyd.
	Chauvin is seeking to overturn his 2022 federal civil rights conviction because of, quote, ineffective assistance of counsel.
	In other words, his lawyer did not do a good enough job.
	Chauvin argues that his original defense lawyer, Eric Nelson, failed to tell him that a forensic pathologist based in Topeka, Kansas, Dr. William Schatzel, told his lawyer, Eric Nelson, that he didn't think Chauvin caused Floyd's death. that he didn't think Chauvin caused Floyd's death.
	All right.
	Chauvin added that Nelson failed to seek testing of heart tissue samples that Dr. Schatzel believed would show evidence of a heart condition called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
	Well, well, we'll see.
	This guy, the Schatzel watched the...
	This was all on television.
	The entire trial was on television.
	We covered it day by day.
	We had a woman who watched every day and wrote up every day's report.
	It was really quite fascinating.
	And this guy saw all the evidence, and there was a lot of medical evidence presented.
	This guy's a specialist, and he figured this guy had, that George Floyd had Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
	Well, Magnussen wrote, That Chauvin's defense team, this is a judge, he decided that Chauvin's defense team can take discovery of any histology slides of Floyd's heart.
	That means they can examine them all.
	And they're also allowed to inspect and make copies of any photographs taken of Floyd's heart.
	And they can take quantities of certain fluids for testing.
	As it turns out, the original lawyer, Nelson, no longer represents Chauvin, and he did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the idea that he was incompetent in the case of this trial.
	Now, the same judge who made this decision, Judge Magnuson, he's the one who sentenced Chauvin in July 2022 to more than 20 years in federal prison for violating Floyd's civil rights.
	Now, unlike the state trial, Floyd pleaded guilty to this.
	He figured, I guess, that his goose was cooked.
	He was going to be found guilty anyway, and he'd get a shorter sentence if he pleaded rather than held out for trial.
	So he pleaded guilty, but his plea included an agreement not to challenge his sentence except under a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
	And that would be the case if the judge did decide that, okay...
	He did not get the legal help that he should have gotten, and that's, in effect, what Magnussen had decided.
	Here was this possibility that George Floyd had a heart condition that he died from rather than because of his knee, of Chauvin's knee on his neck.
	And so this appeal can go forward.
	On the other hand, prosecutors who are very much opposed to this idea of claiming that Chauvin had ineffective legal counsel and that he can look at the heart, they described Dr. Schatzel's email to Nelson as an unsolicited opinion from a doctor who had seen the state trial on television.
	They argued that Nelson's decision not to share that information with Chauvin did not violate Chauvin's rights.
	Regarding his decision eventually to plead guilty.
	Well, so this is good news.
	Again, we'll see whether what is learned about the heart does support the theory that he had takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
	But either way, this is good news.
	And I'm a little bit surprised because at the time, back in In 2022, when Chauvin was put on trial and all these guilty verdicts and guilty pleas were going on, there seemed to be absolutely no consideration of his rights.
	I wonder if Judge Magnuson, who originally sentenced him to this long prison term, is having second thoughts.
	I don't know.
	Well, this is something about history.
	We often hear that Columbus brought all sorts of horrible diseases to the New World.
	That is one of the many crimes of the white man.
	And in this sense, Christopher Columbus was patient zero in this horrible affliction and disease which is the white man.
	When he goes out to the rest of the world, he is a cancer.
	And Christopher Columbus was patient zero.
	Well, This is from The Telegraph, a British newspaper, and I'll read a few sentences from it.
	When a mysterious, flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher Columbus returned to the Americas, suspicion fell on his crew.
	And what turned out to be syphilis was soon rampant across the continent of Europe and beyond.
	Now scientists have carried out genetic testing on the bones of infected people from Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Argentina, who lived between the 13th and 15th centuries and died before Columbus arrived.
	As it turns out, this genetic testing has found that ancestral forms of syphilis were present in the New World before it was discovered among Europeans after Columbus and the boys returned.
	Kirsten Boss, a group leader for molecular paleopathology at the Max Planck Institute, Well, so this has finally been nailed down.
	I've heard for years that this was a theory, but everybody wants to assume that no, no, nothing ever was bad was done to white people.
	It's always white people doing bad things to other people.
	This article goes on to say the sexually transmitted infection starts with painless ulcers on the genitals before bringing rashes, flu-like fatigue, headaches, and eventually foul-smelling, oozing pustules.
	Yikes.
	Joseph Grunpeck, a German physician who contracted the illness in the 15th century, described it as, quote, so appalling that until now, nothing more terrible or disgusting has ever been known on this earth.
	Wow.
	In the final stages, the skin begins to rot and disintegrate, and victims succumb to heart failure or brain damage and die.
	It was known as the great pox.
	You know, we've heard of smallpox.
	Well, this was the great pox.
	Or it was also known as the French disease, which sounds like an insult to Frenchmen.
	It killed, according to this, five million people in Europe at the end of the 15th century and the Wow!
	Now, as you probably know, the disease had largely been eradicated in the Western world by the mid-20th century, but it has recently had a resurgence.
	And this is one of those things in which there are very, very substantial racial differences.
	My recollection is that the syphilis rates among blacks...
	It's on the order of ten times higher than in whites.
	In the case of Hispanics, it's three or four times higher.
	There are ways to avoid getting syphilis.
	And the stupider you are and the less foresight you exercise, the more likely you are to get syphilis if you are sexually active.
	So it's come roaring back.
	Well, now we are moving from syphilis to Syrians in Denmark.
	Syria, as you all know, has gone through a rather remarkable change in the last few days.
	Bashar al-Assad is out, and this relatively unknown guy, whose name I can never remember, is in.
	And people are claiming that Syria is now a more habitable place.
	We'll see.
	As it turns out, Syrian refugees, these are recognized refugees in Denmark, can get up to 200,000 Danish crowns.
	That is 27,000 euros, which I would guess is about $30,000.
	And children will get 6,700 euros, that's probably about $7,000, a little bit more, if they go back to Syria.
	Denmark will pay them to go.
	As it turns out, since 2019, nearly 600 Syrians who had legal residency in Denmark returned to Syria with financial support of this kind.
	So this has been going on for some time, but Denmark has upped the ante, and now they're hoping that since there's been regime change, more of these Syrians will scamper off.
	Integration minister...
	They have an integration minister.
	Karebek expressed the hope that even more people take advantage of the offer in light of the program's continuation and the change of circumstances in Syria.
	As of January 2024, there were around 45,000 Syrians living in Denmark.
	45,000 too many, in my view.
	Paying for return may be more cost-effective than supporting many of them who do not work.
	Furthermore, and I think this is quite interesting, it just goes to show you how much good sense is percolating through the Danish mind, not one of the centrist political parties has objected to this payout for people to scamper back to Syria.
	Even in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union, their parliamentary group, Vice President Jens Spahn, recently proposed offering free flights and a 1,000 euro incentive for voluntary return to Syria.
	Free flights and 1,000 euros.
	Nearly half of Syrians in Germany remained dependent on welfare nearly a decade after coming in the 2015 asylum wave.
	And as of August last year, there were over half a million Syrian citizens in Germany sucking on the public teat.
	Boy, it'd be great to get them to go, but I don't think a thousand euros will be enough.
	Austria has offered a thousand euros to all of those willing to leave the country voluntarily in addition to help in organizing travel and getting the necessary travel documents.
	I don't know.
	Will a thousand euros be enough?
	Sweden is considering what I consider a far more sensible approach.
	They say they are proposing the revocation of residence permits and refugee status, asserting that refugee status should be temporary.
	And I think, of course, it should.
	If you show up in Sweden claiming that things are absolutely unlivable, circumstances are impossible in your home country, and you're a sure enough refugee, but then those circumstances change, what's wrong with stripping those people of refugee status and saying, you've got to bugger off?
	Absolutely right.
	Bravo the Swedes.
	Let's hope it happens.
	Now, this is a story that I should have mentioned right after explaining that Derek Chauvin has a break, that he's going to be able to have his legal team and his medical boys examine George Floyd's heart.
	Because this is from the black press.
	It's from a website called Word in Black.
	And it goes like this.
	It's official.
	Black lives don't matter anymore, if they ever really did.
	Four years ago, a white man suffocated George Floyd, a black man, to death in a gritty Minneapolis street corner as bystanders begged for mercy.
	Well, he was not suffocated to death.
	That's just crazy.
	Nobody claims that his throat, that he was strangled, that his windpipe was cut off.
	Nobody ever made that claim.
	Then it says, a year later, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison, a rare instance of accountability and introspection in America's long history of racist, systemic violence.
	Well, Monday brought us yet another reminder of how fleeting that reckoning truly was when a white man was found not guilty of suffocating Jordan Neely.
	Again, no suffocation happened.
	No suffocation even claimed.
	This was a lateral vascular hold, and if any damage was done to Jordan Neely, it was by cutting off his blood flow, not his windpipe.
	Of course, we're talking about Daniel Penny, who restrained Jordan Neely, who was threatening people in a most ferocious way.
	I did a video on the case and on the verdict, and I invite all of you listeners to go look at it at the amren.com website.
	I think, in my own humble way, that it's a pretty good summary of the case, its implications, and why it's so important that he got a verdict of innocent.
	Now, I continue with Word in Black.
	It says that the penny acquittal was just weeks after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the presidency in a racist campaign.
	Well, I'm just not sure what was racist about it, but that is what the campaign was, according to Word in Black.
	And the story continues.
	The verdict slams the door on the George Floyd era.
	I hope it does.
	It goes on to say the New York chapter of Black Lives Matter could barely scrape together more than a handful of protesters to demonstrate during Penny's trial.
	Well, maybe even black people realize things have gone a little bit further than they should.
	Maybe even black people are tired of crazy, threatening, wild black men on the subway scaring the living daylights out of fellow passengers, as blacks testified at the time.
	Now, here's another little adventure, this time in Los Angeles.
	The FBI, the good old FBI, doing its job like it's supposed to.
	Yes, sometimes it does happen.
	The FBI has rated the home of Los Angeles Democrat Deputy Mayor, who police say is the likely source of a bomb threat at City Hall earlier this year.
	Now, the police department, who first figured this out, said our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was probably Brian Williams, deputy mayor for public safety.
	Public safety, mind you.
	Then the police went on to say, due to the department's working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. Now that's because Williams, his deputy mayor for public safety, his duties included oversight of the LAPD, the Los Angeles Fire Department, and various other police departments that patrol the Los Angeles Airport and the Port of Los Angeles.
	So he is the heap big law enforcement chief.
	And he is thought to have called in a bomb threat.
	Nobody at this point knows why.
	Mayor Karen Bass named Williams as Deputy Mayor for Public Safety February last year.
	And during his time as Deputy Mayor, he worked on issues including police hiring, public safety, and the search for a new police chief.
	He had earlier served for seven years as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.
	Needless to say, he is an African-American fellow citizen.
	I'm always very suspicious of these Civilian Oversight Commission people.
	They are invariably composed of BIPOCs, who probably have an intense anti-police bias and And it seems to me that it is precisely their kind of screaming and wailing that tend to hamstring the police.
	Now, I think there should be civilian commissions of oversight.
	If they have sensible people on them, it is important for people to see and pay attention to what the police are doing.
	But these commissions are almost always witch hunts.
	They are hanging judge and jury, and I think most of them should be disbanded, at least the way they operate now.
	Well, as it turns out, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety is now on administrative leave.
	Much to the dismay of Pastor Xavier Thompson of Southern Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.
	He, like Williams, an African American fellow citizen, he says Williams has been a model public servant, someone who has acted with integrity in the highest manner.
	Well, that may be.
	I hope that's true.
	Now, Pastor Thompson, who worked with Williams while serving on the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Commission, voiced dismay that yet another black city official is being targeted by law enforcement.
	Targeted, mind you.
	L.A. Council Member Curran Price is fighting felony corruption charges.
	While former L.A. Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas is appealing his conviction on bribery, fraud, and conspiracy.
	Well, Pastor Thompson is very upset about this.
	I suspect that they are being targeted to the extent they're being targeted because they have got their hands in the till and they probably do belong in the pokey.
	So, it'll be interesting to find out what this fellow's motive was.
	First of all, did this guy, who is a model of public integrity and a perfect public servant, as his pal calls him, did he really do it?
	And if he did, why?
	A wonderful find out.
	Now, this is another one of these mysterious stories.
	It happened relatively recently, so perhaps more facts will come in, but maybe the news cycle will move on to something else, some other Donald Trump appointment that Democrats don't like, and we'll never know what came of this, but in the meantime, it's pretty intriguing.
	In the Towson suburb of Baltimore, one person is dead, and nine others were hurt when the minivan they were riding in came under fire.
	The van flipped on its side.
	Flipped on its side.
	I guess it, you know, the tires were shot out.
	No, I suspect the driver was hit.
	In any case, the van flipped on its side, burst into flames as it landed outside a funeral home.
	The SUV was carrying 10 people.
	10 people in an SUV. Nine of them were shot, and these are between the ages of 14 and 27, so a rather young group, and one person died.
	Video, there was surveillance video, shows two or three people getting out of another vehicle that pulled up and then blazing away at the SUV. Flashes of gunfire can be seen, and then these other people get in a car and drive away.
	Police said during a news conference that they're not ruling out retaliation as a motive.
	Well, I don't rule out retaliation either.
	This doesn't look like just your random behavior.
	The mass shooting started as many as six blocks from the funeral home, which is where it ended.
	So my guess is, I looked at several articles about this.
	The details are extremely sparse.
	But I'm guessing what happened is there was some sort of serious grudge between the people in the one car and the people in the SUV. The people in the other car came up from behind and started shooting, bang, bang, bang, and this went on for six blocks or so.
	They finally hit the driver, and the driver lost control.
	The thing turned over, burst into flames, and then the people who were doing the shooting, they stopped, got out of their car, and fired a few more rounds.
	So out of the ten people, they managed to hit nine.
	Now, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olzuski said, These acts are shocking and completely out of character for what happens and how we expect our communities to be safe in Baltimore County.
	Well, I'm sorry, Johnny Olszewski, but the more you look into Baltimore and the kind of crime that happens there and how often it happens, this seems to be entirely in character.
	But he says it's out of character.
	And just to support my point, in the very same community on December 9th, that is just 10 days ago today, Nineteen-year-old Andrew Blessing was shot and killed.
	Officers found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
	Police say that so far, this Andrew Blessing shooting and the one in which the van flipped over with ten people in it and burst into flame, they're not connected.
	But the victims of this latest shooting apparently knew Mr. Blessing and his family.
	Now, I've not said a thing about race.
	The articles are silent on the question of race.
	So, I should officially be agnostic on the question of race.
	So, I cannot make any dispositive argument or comment on this, but my suspicion is, in fact, I would bet the next dozen mortgage payments that these are once again African American fellow citizens who are involved.
	Moving on from Towson, Maryland to Harvard Law School.
	Black student enrollment at Harvard Law took a nosedive after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based preferences.
	Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year black students, or 3.4% of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s.
	Of that 19, 13 are women, only 6 are men.
	This does not really surprise me.
	Black men are less likely to go to college.
	They seem less willing to sit still and be taught.
	Black women seem to be harder working as students.
	And so I'm not at all surprised that 13 of the Harvard Law first years are women and only six are men.
	This is in the black contingent.
	Last year, it was more than 19 students.
	The first year class had 43 black students.
	So that's a more than 50% drop.
	According to the New York Times, since 1970, there have generally been 50 to 70 black students at Harvard Law's first year class.
	So, affirmative action, race preferences were really having effect on the composition of the class.
	Sean Wynn, the president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, he lamented the decline in enrollment.
	He called it a crushing loss.
	With this marked decline, he said, the ruling has broken something fundamental about the experience of attending this law school.
	What does he mean by that?
	It seems to me that when you say to a school, nope, you cannot give blacks or minorities, usually it turns out to be the people getting the most leg up are blacks, then Hispanics, maybe American Indians.
	When you say you can't do that, and the number of people admitted on the basis of merit alone, it seems to me that people who have already gone through the process would be kind of shut up about it.
	Don't you think they would prefer not to call attention to the fact that they probably got in?
	This guy is the president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association.
	Wouldn't you kind of rather stay quiet rather than say, oh, this is horrible, horrible, horrible, and the experience of attending Harvard Law School will never be the same again?
	I think I would just shut up, rather than call attention to the fact that I probably got in because of racial preferences.
	But anyway, that's what he's doing.
	As it turns out, black and Hispanic enrollment...
	Well, let's see.
	Oh, sorry.
	Let's talk about Hispanics at Harvard Law School.
	Hispanics, they used to be...
	Let's see...
	Hispanics this year were 39 students, or 6.9%, and this is a decline from 63 students, or 11%, last year.
	So Hispanics went from 63 to 39. The decline is not quite so fierce in percentage points.
	Not surprisingly, the enrollment of white and Asian students increased.
	Well, what do you know?
	I guess Harvard is doing what its tone is doing, at least to a certain degree.
	I mean, do we really know for sure that the blacks and Hispanics who were let in really did deserve to get in strictly on merit?
	Black and Hispanic enrollment also decreased at the University of North Carolina Law School.
	University of North Carolina, that was the other defendant in the important case decided by the Supreme Court brought by Edward Blum's Students for Fair Admission.
	Once again, a real feather in Edward Blum's cap.
	Black first-year students at UNC dropped to nine.
	From 13 last year.
	There were only 13 the year before.
	Hispanics dropped from 21 to 13. So, at least to some degree, these law schools are doing what they're supposed to do.
	Now, here is a rather blatant case of ballot fraud.
	A Denton County, Texas, jury sentenced a man to four years in prison and ten years probation, four years in the big house, for ballot fraud in a 2020 Carrollton mayoral election.
	That is in Denton County, Texas.
	Zul Mirza Mohammed, age 43, pleaded guilty to 106 felony charges related to voter fraud.
	He was running for mayor.
	And I guess he really wanted to win, by hook or by crook.
	He forged ballot-by-mail applications under the names of residents of Carrollton, and he had the ballots all sent to a Louisville mail store, where he leased a virtual mailbox using a fake ID. Now,
	Frank Phillips, who is the head of the Elections Administration, a local guy, he said his staff thought it was very suspicious that so many ballot-by-mail applications were being sought from the same address.
	They all went to the same place.
	Now, that does seem like a coincidence, does it?
	And so the investigators contacted a number of the Carrollton residents whose ballots had been requested and asked, did you ask for a mail-in ballot?
	And they said they hadn't made such a request.
	Well, those clever Carrollton police...
	They put surveillance on the postal facility and what the investigators did, they inserted a tracker into a box of ballots that had been delivered.
	I guess the idea was you put in a tracker so you don't have to sit there, sit around 24 hours a day waiting for the guy to show up and collect his mail.
	In any case, on October 7, 2020, Muhammad, he picked up the box from the facility and took it home.
	Investigators immediately followed the tracker and they searched the house and found the box full of ballots in Muhammad's bedroom.
	They also found his fraudulent ID, another box of Dallas County ballot applications, and a fake notary stamp.
	Now, because he is pleading guilty to 106 felony charges of voter fraud, my guess is they had at least 106 phony ballots in there.
	So, yes, it's pretty stupid to have thought, okay, you can have 106 ballots all sent to the same address.
	He probably applied for them pretty much around the same time.
	Of course, given the way bureaucracies work today, it's entirely possible that nobody would have noticed.
	Okay, number 106 and went off to P.O. Box blah blah.
	Who cares?
	But in any case, he was arrested, and just recently the jury decided he was guilty, and off he goes to the big house for four years.
	Now, the news accounts are silent as to where Zul Mirza Mohammed is from.
	But I guess he was a passionate lover of democracy, wanted to serve his country, was eager to be an elected official, and he wanted it so badly that he was willing to resort to this kind of skullduggery.
	Well, poor Zul Mirza Mohammed's dreams of being the mayor of Carrollton have been dashed.
	Well, let's see.
	Back to Tom Holman, one of my favorite public servants, but he said something that surprised me a little bit.
	He is going to be border czar for Donald Trump.
	On Wednesday, he was on CNN, and host Caitlin Collins asked him, he said to him, as you know, there are a lot of mixed status households in the United States.
	That's people, households, in which some of the people here legally, some of them aren't.
	She says, do you plan to take both parents into custody if there are minor children in the house?
	If they're in the country, if the adults are in the country illegally, will they be deported?
	In other words, if they have an anchor baby.
	Holman said, we're going to remove you.
	If you have a U.S. citizen child, if they choose that after they come to the country illegally and choose after being ordered removed to have a U.S. citizen children think, okay, the court order doesn't mean anything anymore, the removal order doesn't mean anything anymore, then what kind of message of that we're sending to the whole world?
	So it sounds like Holman is talking about people who have been ordered out.
	They're here illegally.
	They've been ordered scram.
	And they have a child.
	And this child is an anchor baby.
	And so, in effect, he's saying, okay, if they have a child and they have an anchor baby, yep, we're going to deport you anyway.
	He says, what kind of message is it to send the whole world if all you have to do is have a child and you've got a U.S. citizen child?
	It makes no difference even if you've already been told to get the heck out.
	So, he says, ignore a judge's order of deportation but have a baby and you're fine?
	If we do that, we might as well shut down the immigration court because the orders don't mean anything.
	And we might as well take the border patrol off the border.
	The children can stay with the other parent if one of them is legal.
	Or the child can go.
	We don't deport U.S. citizens, but the illegal put himself in that position.
	We didn't, so out he goes.
	So, okay, now I'm all for that, but I'm a little bit surprised he's talking about people only who have already under an order for removal.
	I would like to think that Holman wants to kick them out if they're illegal, or maybe the idea is once they're illegal and found, then there is an order for deportation.
	It doesn't seem to me, though, that a judge's order for deportation is required.
	If you find somebody, and you know he's here illegally, do you have to go through all some sort of rigmarole to get him out?
	I don't know.
	But in any case, if they're here illegally, he says, doesn't matter if some illegal has got an anchor baby, out, out, out, out.
	Now, on the subject of sanctuary cities, this is something that's a sore spot to me.
	Analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies.
	That is a really first-rate outfit in Washington, D.C. Everything I know about immigration I learned from the Center for Immigration Studies, which tracks sanctuary jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from federal immigration law.
	This study found that roughly 7.9 million illegals live in sanctuary states, counties, and cities.
	Although there's much imprecision in the data, the bottom line is that close to 8 million illegal aliens, equaling 56% of the estimated nationwide total, live in sanctuary jurisdictions, says CIS's Jason Richwine.
	Well, I don't know if some of you recognize the name of Jason Richwine.
	He was with a think tank and he was later fired.
	I think was it Heritage or was it Manhattan?
	I think it was Heritage.
	He was with the Heritage Institute and it turned out that he had written a PhD in which he talked about The fact that with all of these immigrants from the third world, the average IQ in the United States is declining because so many people coming in are populations with low IQs.
	Well, then Heritage, if I'm correct, and it was Heritage, he was fired for this.
	Well, I'm very glad to hear that he's back working for CIS. Now, he pointed out that 6.3 million illegal aliens live in the sanctuary states of, and these states are entirely, all throughout the state, sanctuaries.
	California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.
	That's a lot of sanctuary states.
	And now more than 750,000 aliens live in Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia, where sanctuary jurisdictions are plentiful.
	So, you can have a sanctuary jurisdiction within a state that is not entirely a sanctuary state.
	Let's see.
	And then, more than 820,000 illegal aliens live in sanctuary counties and cities in non-sanctuary states.
	So you can have a state that says, we're not a sanctuary, but then a local government can say, yes, yes, we are.
	That would include Douglas County, Kansas, and New Orleans in Louisiana.
	Louisiana is not a sanctuary state, but New Orleans is a sanctuary city.
	Texas and Florida are two states.
	That have no local sanctuaries because they ban them.
	And Jason Richwine, peace unto him, he says eliminating sanctuaries is one of the most important steps that a state can take to help the Trump administration with enforcement.
	Hear, hear.
	As Holman says, if you let us into jail, we can arrest the bad guy in the jail and in the safety and security of the jail.
	And one officer can do that.
	But when you release a public safety threat back into the community, you put the community at risk, you put my officers at risk who have to make the rest, and you put the alien at risk.
	It's trouble for everybody.
	Just turn the guy over to us as soon as he gets out of jail.
	It's simple.
	It's so simple.
	And I don't understand.
	I generally don't understand why all of these progressive Democrats aren't delighted that...
	Bob Holman is happy to take these people out of their city and out of the country.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've run out of time, as I always do.
	Thank you so much for being with me.
	It's a pleasure and an honor, and I look forward to spending this time again with you next week.

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