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March 19, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Free Pete Santilli, an independent media journalist jailed by the Obama regime!
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Today I'm announcing FreePeteSantilli.com.
That's the word free, Pete, P-E-T-E, Santilli, S-A-N-T-I-L-L-I.com.
Now Pete Santilli is an independent media journalist.
He's a loud mouth.
He can be provocative.
He He exercises the full spectrum of the First Amendment, which is a beautiful thing to see, even if you don't agree with what he's saying all the time.
Pete Santilli has been arrested by the FBI, thrown in prison because of his speech.
He's been charged with serious crimes that could earn him six years in prison.
And he is, in effect, a political prisoner of the Obama regime.
And in this podcast, I'm going to discuss a bit about Pete Santilli, what I know, and also the launch of this website, freepetesantilli.com, where you can make a donation to his legal defense fund, which we have no part of.
But we are directing people to those who are running that fundraiser for Pete.
Now look, we've had many, many people now speak out in defense of Pete Santilli, including, believe it or not, the ACLU. The ACLU... And Alex Newman over at TheNewAmerican.com and John W. Whitehead at Rutherford Institute have all spoken out in defense of Pete Santilli,
who remains this prisoner, political prisoner of the Obama regime, or maybe a prisoner of war, you could say, although he wasn't acting as a soldier by any means.
Now, Pete Santilli was a host on a network that I co-founded called TalkNetwork.com, which has already radically transformed itself because I didn't like the original model and how it was operating as a kind of an online radio which has already radically transformed itself because I didn't like the So we changed it over to be a talk aggregation website, kind of like what you might describe as the Drudge Report of Talk.
That's what it is now.
And Pete Santilli was one of the original hosts on the network, and I really appreciated some of his work there.
But when the Oregon refugee, the wildlife refuge, not refugee, wildlife refuge situation unfolded, Pete Santilli headed out to Oregon to cover it, be part of it.
He was live-streaming.
And I had no idea what he was doing out there after about the second or third day.
He kind of cut off contact with all of us at Talk Network, and he was doing his own thing, which is very much what Pete does.
And that's totally fine.
I mean, he's his own independent guy.
And he's very provocative, right?
I mean, he's bullheaded.
He says a lot of things that might be considered provocative, but it's all just part of the...
The persona of Pete Santilli.
You know, it's the First Amendment expression.
That's what it is that the First Amendment was written to protect people like Pete Santilli.
And he was never calling for violence.
And yet he got arrested by the FBI and they've thrown him in a jail cell and they've silenced him and they've kept him there.
And he remains this political prisoner.
Well, the ACLU came to his defense arguing before a judge in Oregon, arguing that, hey, even though we don't like the speech of this guy, that's what the ACLU said, isn't his speech still protected?
Because if we start to arrest and imprison people because of the words they say, then, you know, aren't we just a totalitarian regime in essence?
Isn't that just the definition of tyranny?
And the ACLU argued that Pete should be released because he's an independent media journalist.
And that's what we are pushing for, too.
We want Pete Santilli to be released.
Yeah, he's provocative.
Yeah, he's polarizing.
Yeah, a lot of people don't agree with what he says.
But so what?
Since when did America become a nation where everybody has to be nice in what they say?
I mean, doesn't someone have the right to criticize the Bureau of Land Management, the BLM, and their criminal actions against the ranchers of Oregon and Nevada and many other Western nations, Utah?
What, you don't have the right to criticize your government anymore without being thrown in prison?
That's what we're looking at here.
So...
We have John Whitehead, who's the author of, let me just check the name of this book again to get it right, Battlefield America, an excellent book that you have to get.
He's an author at the Rutherford Institute, that's rutherford.org, and he says, quote, not only has free speech become a four-letter word, but in more and more cases the government deems free speech to be dangerous and in some instances illegal.
The US government has become intolerant of speech that challenges the government's power, or reveals the government's corruption, exposes the lies, and encourages citizenry to push back against the government's many injustices.
And he talks about the situation in which Pete Santilli finds himself.
So one such test is playing out before our very eyes in Portland, Oregon, he says, where radio shock jock Pete Santilli, a new media journalist, is sitting in jail.
Santilli, notorious for his controversial topics, vocal outrage over government abuses and inflammatory rhetoric is not what anyone would consider to be an objective reporter, but he makes it clear that he has a viewpoint but he makes it clear that he has a viewpoint and that he has no qualms about sharing it with his listeners.
And anyway, in this article, you can read this article at FreePeteSantilli.com, which talks about how Santilli has become a prisoner of the state, an enemy of the state, because of his speech.
And then Alex Newman over at TheNewAmerican.com He also talks about the same thing and how Pete Santilli is a prisoner of the Obama regime.
Now, I fully realize that Santilli was falsely accused by a bunch of rumor mongers who, and I know exactly where this originated, because there is a camp in the liberty movement that hates because there is a camp in the liberty movement that hates
So anyway, a lot of people accused Santilli of aiding the FBI, but it turns out he was just streaming interviews with the ranchers to try to bring them more publicity and attention, and the FBI was watching those interviews.
And in watching them, they were gathering information, you know, how many people are in the refuge and what are their views and how many are armed and what have you.
The point is, the FBI watches everybody's broadcasts and listens to everybody's podcasts.
Of course they do.
Why wouldn't they?
So, you know, Pete wasn't working for the FBI. He was doing his job as an independent journalist and the FBI was watching his videos, reading his articles, whatever.
So, we now know that the false accusations against Pete, you know, have turned out to be, again, totally false, because if he was working for the FBI, he wouldn't be rotting in a jail cell, you know, weeks later.
The FBI wouldn't have even arrested him, or if they did, they would have let him go.
But they're not.
They're charging him with serious felony crimes, and he's facing up to six years in prison for being a journalist.
Granted, a loudmouth, provocative, inflammatory journalist, but so what?
Again, even the ACLU argues this.
If you're going to throw every loudmouth in jail, then what about Howard Stern?
What about Alex Jones?
What about, I don't know, Glenn Beck?
I mean, you name a bunch of loudmouths, what, is the government just going to start rounding up all these people and throwing them in jail?
You know, just because their views happen to be critical of government, is that what we've come to in this country?
Well, with the arrest of Pete Santilli, that seems to be the case.
So now by keeping him in jail, the federal government is, in effect, admitting that they are now a total police state, a North Korea-style police state where free speech has been criminalized if the tone of that speech is not something that the federal government a North Korea-style police state where free speech has been criminalized if the So just like in North Korea, if you criticize Kim Jong-un, you get your head blown off with military gear that they use you for target practice.
So that's what it's come to now in the United States.
If you're critical of the government, they just arrest you and throw you in jail and charge you with interfering with the federal government's operations.
They just say you're interfering and that's a felony and you're going to jail for six years.
So now, I mean, InfoWars...
All the people at InfoWars could be arrested too.
In fact, there was an article in that.
I've got to bring that up because it was a really, really good article.
Here it is, the article by Kurt Nimmo.
It says, backing InfoWars may soon be considered, quote, material support of terrorism.
John Carlin, in charge of the DOJ's National Security Division, was speaking at George Washington University and said,"...homegrown violent extremists can be motivated by any viewpoint on the full spectrum of hate, anti-government views,
racism, bigotry, anarchy, and other despicable beliefs." And, of course, that event was hosted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, which, of course, itself is an extremist hate organization on the left, led by a guy, Mark Potok, whose face looks like it was used in a slam dunk competition by a bunch of 7'5 African-American basketball stars.
I mean, the SPLC is the most hate-filled, hate-spewing organization you can imagine.
And this idea that anyone critical of a corrupt government is an extremist is completely insane.
There are legitimate grievances against government corruption, against government waste, against government cover-ups.
I mean, we've even covered the EPA being fully aware of the lead pollution in Flint, Michigan, knowing that children were being poisoned in Michigan and yet doing nothing to stop it.
So what, is that comment now to say that the EPA is involved in a cover-up that harms children, is that an extremist point of view now to be pro-environment, to demand clean water?
Is that extremism?
Is that anti-government now?
So what's happening, you know, you look at all these people, Stuart Rhodes at Oath Keepers, Alex Jones at Infowars, Pete Santilli, All these people are now going to be labeled extremists, possibly then arrested, thrown in prison because of their speech.
And this is the message here today, that Pete Santilli is important to all of us because of what he stands for.
Not even so much what he said specifically, but the fact that if this federal regime can put Pete Santilli in jail because of what he says, because of his speech, because of his independent reporting as a journalist, then they can throw anybody in jail, myself included. because of his independent reporting as a journalist, then they Because I'm critical of government in many, many different ways.
My criticism is more on the science side, you know, water pollution, pesticides, glyphosate, GMOs, toxic herbicides, you know, those kinds of things.
But I'm very critical of the government nonetheless.
The FDA, pharmaceuticals, vaccine policy, all those things.
I'm very vocal.
On those things.
And these guys, you know, Santilli and Alex Jones and Oath Keepers and so on, are more, you know, stronger on the issues of firearms and, you know, citizens' right to bear arms and perhaps standing up against government extremism in cases like the Bundy Ranch incident in Nevada.
So all these guys could go to jail.
I mean, think about it.
Dave Hodges, James White, Tim Brown, all these people, everybody who's part of the liberty movement, if they can throw Pete Santilli in jail, then they can throw everybody in jail for speaking out against the government.
And so this is the question.
This is why...
But we have to support the freedom of Pete Santilli, even if we don't agree with what he said.
And that's the point here.
I don't even know everything that Pete Santilli said when he was in Oregon.
At the standoff.
I don't know everything he said.
I know he did not call for violence because his pattern is to always work to a de-escalation of violence.
That's what he did at Bundy Ranch.
He helped prevent violence there.
And Santilli is not the kind of guy who riles people up and says, you know, pull out your guns and start shooting.
He's not that guy.
There might be others in the movement who are more like that, but that's not Pete.
Pete is a de-escalation guy.
Yeah, he wants attention for himself.
Sure.
You know, there's nothing wrong with that.
We live in the age of YouTube and podcasts and personalities.
You know, we're all, in essence, trying to expand our audience.
There's no crime in that, to expand your audience.
And yeah, his tactics are kind of shock jock.
And so what?
What, he can't say something outrageous?
He can't play up a caricature?
You know, the Pete Santilli...
His caricature is not the same as Pete Santilli, the person off the air.
Some of this is shock jock-ish to create interest, to create the shock, to create the controversy, to get the audience.
I mean, come on.
Everybody in the industry, like Alex Jones, does that all the time.
So we have to support the freedom of Pete Santilli, even if we don't entirely agree with everything that he says.
That's the issue here.
So I'm asking you, as someone who believes in liberty, to go to FreePeteSantilli.com and And donate to his legal defense fund.
Again, I have no part in that fund whatsoever.
Every dollar, I understand, is going to go to his legal defense.
He's going to have huge, huge legal bills.
I'll probably donate, well, I'll donate to his legal defense personally.
So I'll add to that too.
But the main thing here is that we cannot let this government destroy the First Amendment.
We cannot let them jail people who are functioning as independent media journalists.
Otherwise, we're all going to rot in filthy jails.
Right?
That's where it ends up.
And if they can take away the First Amendment, of course they can take away the Second, or the Fourth, or the Fifth.
I mean, is there anything left of the Fourth Amendment even at this point?
We want a backdoor into the Apple iPhones so no one can have privacy, no one can have encryption, really?
Yeah, that's what it's come to.
So this is what it's going to turn out.
If we don't free Pete Santilli and other people like him, then we're going to end up living in a nation where everyone is silenced by the terrorism of the government itself, terrorizing citizens into absolute silence so that no one criticizes the government.
Oh, and those who do are rotting in jail cells.
Now, think about this.
This idea of criticizing the government is only condemned because the government is currently being run by a liberal, Obama.
Imagine if Donald Trump gets into the White House.
Do you think...
Do you think that criticism of Donald Trump is going to be outlawed and condemned and people are going to be jailed?
No, of course not.
The entire left and the mainstream media will just go all out against Trump.
In other words, they can criticize the government all they want when the government's run by a Republican.
But if the government's run by a Democrat, you can't criticize at all.
That makes you an extremist and someone who should be in prison.
And that's absurd.
That's un-American.
That's criminal behavior on the part of the government itself.
You know, the reason we have the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment and the Second and others is because our founding fathers were afraid that the government would become so large and powerful it would begin to overreach its limits and would, in effect, dominate The citizens with a totalitarian power, as they had seen in the British Empire.
So they wrote out the Bill of Rights years after the original Constitution was signed into law, was, well, signed and established.
And they named the First Amendment as the first because it was deemed to be the most important.
And the First Amendment not only covers the right to free speech, but also the right to peaceably assemble without government interference, and the right also to freedom of expression of religion.
The freedom to pray, the freedom to express your religious affiliation or your absence of religious affiliation.
Either one is protected under the First Amendment.
And so what we are now seeing with Pete Santilli thrown in prison We are seeing the systematic destruction of the First Amendment by a totalitarian regime that is also systematically destroying everything else in this nation, systematically destroying our culture with illegal immigration, systematically destroying our economy.
With Obamacare and oppressive regulatory environments and taxes on small businesses and so on, and also destroying the rule of law in this country.
Look at the biggest criminals that we've had in this country have been people who led the Department of Justice.
Eric Holder.
Biggest criminal of all.
And look who the Democrats want to elect now.
Another massive treasonous criminal, Hillary Clinton.
They are the criminals.
And they are putting the voices of freedom in prison to silence them so that no one dares speak out against them.
This is why we have to support the freedom of Pete Santilli.
Not even because of Pete himself, but because what his situation now represents, which is the absolute tyranny of a criminal regime being brought down against innocent citizens of America who are merely trying to voice their legitimate grievances against a regime that has gone bad.
So I ask you, go to FreePeteSantilli.com, read the articles there, click on the donation link, which will take you to, I think it's a GoFundMe page, to help with his legal costs.
And let's spread the word.
Please share this.
PeteSantilli.com.
Just so you know, if you don't know who Pete Santilli is, Pete Santilli, you know, he has a harsh personality.
He's a polarizing guy.
He's an aggressive, outspoken guy.
He's not a cuddly, fuzzy teddy bear, so don't think of him in that way, but he's the real deal.
He says what he believes.
He makes a lot of good points.
He tries to help bring attention to these issues that are crucial for the history of America.
He's got a message of liberty and a message of expressing his First Amendment rights to the extreme letter of the protections offered by the First Amendment.
In other words, he's going to push the boundaries of the First Amendment and fully express it.
We need people like that in society.
They serve an important role.
They help remind the rest of us that, yeah, we still live in a free country, or at least we did until recently, and now this guy's rotting in a jail.
So it's time to free Pete Santilli.
Otherwise, if they don't free Pete Santilli, then it really is an all-out war against journalists in America.
It's an all-out war.
If you're a journalist who says anything critical about any kind of government run by the Democrats, then you're going to be literally deemed a criminal, arrested, thrown in prison, and denied your rights.
But of course, if you're a liberal criticizing a Trump presidency, then, well, you'll be given free reign.
You can criticize all you want.
You can call Republicans and conservatives anything you want, apparently.
That's never considered extremism.
It's only the voices of liberty criticizing corrupt leftist government that are considered criminals.
So that's what we're up against here.
And you know, it's not even debatable that expressions of free speech help create a more free and more abundant society.
And we, the people, we have to support the free speech of others, even if we don't agree with their message.
And that's the key.
I even support the free speech of people like Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center, even though he's a weasel and he's a piece of crap, a bearded slug or something.
He's a horrible person, but I still support his free speech.
Because he has a right to express his viewpoint as all of us do.
He's a moron, an idiot, and a hate monger, but I can say that because I have free speech, and he can respond to that because he has free speech.
We both have free speech.
That's how we create a society of liberty and freedom, by honoring the free speech of those even if we do not agree with them.
Now, there's got to be a limit to that free speech.
You can't go out and, you know, say openly call for the mass murder of someone like that.
You can't, you know, invoke mass murder or violence or, you know, as I say, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater unless there is a fire.
But right now, I mean, a lot of people would argue that our liberties in America are under severe threat.
There is a fire.
We have every reason to be screaming about what's happening because the totalitarian regime is now criminalizing free speech, criminalizing independent journalism.
There is now this attack against people like Pete Santilli is on.
This is no longer theory.
It's not conjecture.
It's not conspiracy talk.
You know, Pete's sitting in jail right now.
And if we don't stand up and demand his release, then he might be there for the next five or six years because of the words that he said as a journalist and because the Obama regime did not want to hear those words.
Is that America?
Is that what it has come to?
If so, then we're...
Farther gone than I ever thought, I tell you.
Alright, so the website is freepetesantilli.com.
Get the message out.
Even if you don't agree with Pete, we've got to protect his right to free speech.
I would say the same thing.
If they arrested Michael Moore and threw him in prison, I would actually record the same thing and say, you know, we've got to free Michael Moore.
Because he has a free speech right too.
Yeah, I mean, I don't agree with what he says, but are we going to imprison people because of their expression of the First Amendment?
If so, we're gone.
So help Free Pete Santilli.
That's at FreePeteSantilli.com.
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