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It's time for humanity to stand up in the infowar.
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It's Tuesday, July 16th. July 16th.
I'm Paul Joseph Watson.
This is InfoWars Nightly News.
Let's take a look at what's coming up on the show tonight.
Tonight on the InfoWars Nightly News.
The Obama-approved Muslim Brotherhood beat and kidnap children.
Then, Russia amasses full combat readiness.
And we bring you the latest on the Trayvon Martin fallout.
All that and more coming up on the Info Wars Nightly News.
They're talking about this crazy Texan.
Everybody knows Texans are dumb.
I rode a horse to, you know, work this morning.
Top story tonight.
Brothers murdered over free Zimmerman sticker?
That's the headline out of Infowars.com.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is facing accusations that it covered up a hate crime by denying that the murder of two brothers in a parking lot on Sunday night was related to the Trayvon Martin case, despite the fact that a sticker was placed on the brothers' truck.
Which read, Free Zimmerman.
This is causing a lot of controversy today.
Around 8.45pm on Sunday night, 24-year-old Andrew Austin Bohannon and his brother, 19-year-old Matthew Ryan Bohannon, were sitting in their truck at the Golden Corral parking lot when they were approached by another car carrying multiple occupants.
After, quote, some type of conversation between the two parties, multiple shots were fired at the brothers.
One was killed instantly while another was pronounced shortly, was pronounced dead shortly afterwards after he arrived at the hospital.
And now, according to First Coast News, rumours have spread that the deadly shooting is in retaliation to a bumper sticker placed on the Bohannon's truck that said, Free Zimmerman.
So the family's denying this.
The police have come out and denied it, that there's any connection to the Zimmerman case.
But residents there, particularly on Facebook, are asking hard questions.
Could there have been a cover-up that this murder was caused by the free Zimmerman sticker?
We know that there was a heated argument in the moments before the shots were fired.
What was that argument about?
The reports say there were multiple eyewitnesses, there was surveillance footage of this incident, but no details have emerged out of that so far.
So we know there have been scores of threats to murder white people, to murder Hispanics by Trayvon Martin supporters that were made on Twitter in the days before the Zimmerman verdict and of course in the days following.
So a lot of people are asking the question tonight, could the police have deliberately decided to downplay this connection in order to prevent retaliatory attacks amidst this national tension?
And many would even argue that that was a wise move in the light of the current climate.
So, we'll see another story tonight.
Violence, which is primarily being carried out by Trayvon Martin supporters, is starting to become a disturbing theme.
In fact, just before we came on air, there was a story out of Pennsylvania where Kill Zimmerman was graffitied on the side of a building, which was then set ablaze.
So this seems to be picking up over the last couple of days numerous similar incidents.
But now this murder of two brothers, the question is being asked if it is connected to the Zimmerman trial.
So we'll see as more details emerge on that story.
Trayvon protesters storm Walmart assault bystanders Again, this is out of Infowars.com.
Unrest continued for a third night in Los Angeles last night as protesters against the Zimmerman verdict stormed a Walmart, attacked bystanders and stomped on cars.
And as you can see in the clip here...
Basically, an unruly mob again rampaging through the streets.
We saw it the previous night with them blocking the freeways, intimidating drivers, in some cases attempting to pull them out of their vehicles.
It seems to be picking up.
Last night, there was even more disorder.
Thankfully, it remains limited to Los Angeles and Oakland, as far as I can tell at the moment.
But more of these disturbing incidents coming to light.
And the LA Times report continues, several protesters made their way into the Walmart as guards scrambled to close the security gates.
And you can see that in the video.
A short while later, Los Angeles Police Department officers wearing helmets and carrying batons swarmed the store as others marched through the parking lot.
So, amidst all this unrest, this disorder, we've got the LAPD who have come out.
Of course, as we reported a couple of days ago, initially they were ordered to back off, let the protesters, as they're still being called, swarm through the streets, attack vehicles, attack bystanders, set things on fire.
The police were told to stand down.
According to the LAPD last night, tonight is going to be different.
They're going to treat these acts of criminality, which is what they are, with the proper response.
So they're risking escalating it.
Of course, we know back during the 92 LA riots, the deliberate tactic was to not intervene in these riots in many cases, which some people blame for the 2,000 injuries, the 53 deaths during those riots.
So the police have ...promised to crack down tonight, so hopefully these riots will begin to fizzle out, otherwise the situation could escalate.
Twitter is ablaze with these death threats against Zimmerman.
Of course, his family have now gone into hiding due to the massive amount of death threats that they've received.
And we also see protesters, Trayvon Martin protesters, wearing these t-shirts, dead or alive, with a picture of George Zimmerman on them.
So, the rhetoric, the heated rhetoric, continues.
But whereas, you know, Justin Carter, the Texas teen who made a joke Facebook post and got ten years in prison for it, or is set to face ten years in prison, he's already being beaten up in jail for that crime, yet you have thousands of people making direct death threats.
It's being almost completely ignored by the media, and according to the likes of Time magazine, you know, we're racist to even talk about it.
So the fallout from the Zimmerman verdict continues.
Now I have this story out of my Fox DC.
Jogger says he was attacked in retaliation for Zimmerman verdict.
A man who says he was jogging alongside of a road when three black men abducted and beat him claims the alleged attack was in retaliation for George Zimmerman's acquittal.
Police in Senatobia, Missouri told Fox News.
Police Chief Steve Holtz told Fox News the alleged victim, who is white, was jogging Sunday night along Highway 51 when he said the suspects pulled over and ordered him to get inside their car.
So basically they said, they said, do you know who Trayvon Martin was?
They made it clear it was about the case.
They abducted him, beat him up, threw him out on the side of the road.
And we've had numerous reports of photographers, reporters also being attacked by these mobs in places like Oakland as if they were responsible for the Zimmerman verdict.
Of course, completely ridiculous.
We've also got a story out of Baltimore where a Hispanic man was beaten up while his attackers screamed, this is for Trayvon.
And this is all over the past two, three days, and then as you add to it the murder story that we started the show with, and unfortunately this violence seems to be starting to build.
Next story, legendary musician attacked after dedicating song to Trayvon Martin.
This is out of ktvu.com.
Again, another violent attack related to the case.
This time it was a white woman attacking a black musician because he dedicated a song To Trayvon Martin.
This was music legend Lester Chambers.
He dedicated the song People Get Ready by Curtis Mayfield to Martin when 43-year-old Dinah Lynn Andrews Potter jumped up and shoved Chambers to the ground after allegedly yelling, it's all your fault.
So they're saying this was racially motivated hate crimes charges are going to be filed against this woman.
So you've got white people attacking black people now.
And it continues.
This is out of Hollywood Reporter.
Stevie Wonder boycotting Florida following Zimmerman verdict.
Stevie Wonder won't be performing in Florida anytime soon in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal.
The singer said he would not be performing in the Sunshine State until its Stand Your Ground law is abolished.
He also said he would not be performing in any other state that recognizes the law which some say contributed to Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
So let's go to the clip of Stevie Wonder.
I decided today that until the stand your ground law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again.
Wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
Thank you.
So there's Stevie Wonder saying he's not going to play in Florida because of the outcome of this case.
But forget the rights and wrongs of the Zimmerman trial.
The question has to be, you know, why isn't Stevie Wonder boycotting Chicago in light of the fact that scores of black people are killed every single month, more than the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan?
You know, more black people are killed in Chicago by other blacks every weekend than the number killed by the Ku Klux Klan over a period of 50 years.
No one seems to be concerned about that.
Nobody's protesting about that.
You know, we have a national outcry over one dubious case which may or may not have been self-defense, yet black people, certainly the ones who are up in arms over Trayvon Martin, don't seem to be too animated about the 1,300 black babies that are killed every day in America through abortion.
93%!
93% of murdered black men are killed by other black men!
There's no outcry about black-on-black violence.
There's no national conversation about the kind of culture that creates that bloodshed.
A culture, I would add, is being pushed, contrived, and emphasized by the likes of MTV through mainstream hip-hop.
So it's selective outrage once again.
It's mass media contrived mind control.
And as you saw from the stories earlier, it's only creating more violence and division.
Moving on to other news now.
Muslim Brotherhood beat kidnap child.
Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the streets of Egypt are seen beating and kidnapping a young boy.
Let's go to the clip.
So basically we have no idea what happened to that boy after he was abducted, as you saw in the clip, or indeed what egregious crime he was supposed to have committed in the eyes of those Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
So this is another one of the stories developments in Egypt that has fallen off the radar to a large extent as you know the focus has been on Zimmerman in the United States.
Because last night seven people were killed and four hundred injured in Cairo As a result of continued confrontations between pro-Mohammed Morsi protesters and the Egyptian military.
On Friday, the Obama administration called for the release of Morsi, so they seem to be putting their ducks in order back behind the Muslim Brotherhood again.
Of course, we know that the original coup that saw Morsi come to power was State Department backed years in advance.
And then also a few days ago, USS San Antonio and the USS Kiasij were moved closer to Egypt directly as a consequence of the still unfolding crisis in that country.
So, you know, that doesn't mean the US military is preparing for an intervention.
But it certainly means that the situation in Egypt remains fluid.
And of course we know that the Egyptian military is funded to the tune of 1.3 billion dollars a year by the US military.
So, they've got a dog in the fight on both sides of the game.
They've backed the Muslim Brotherhood, they've also backed the Egyptian military with over a billion dollars a year.
But given the brutality of the Muslim Brotherhood, which of course is a lesser version of the jihadists, the extremists the Obama administration is currently backing in Syria, let's hope the situation in Egypt doesn't descend into another Algerian-style civil war, because if you research that back 20 years ago, It was a very similar situation.
It was a clash between the government and extremist Muslim groups within the country.
And I believe around 200,000 people ended up dying as a result of that civil war.
But you've also got the Al-Nawr Party in Egypt, which is a Salafist ally of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And that's now playing an influential role in this interim Egyptian government, and many people fear that they could become even worse than the Muslim Brotherhood if they get into power.
On the flip side, you've got Mohamed ElBaradei, who of course is a George Soros Foundation stooge, so the U.S.
seems to have all bases covered currently in Egypt as the situation continues to unfold.
Staying with geopolitical news now, this is Anthony Gucciardi out of StoryLeak.
Russia amasses full combat readiness strategic bombers.
Straight out of Russian news, Vladimir Putin has called for the nation's strategic bombers to enter a state of full combat readiness following the snap drills that were initiated after Israel bombed Russian-made missiles within Syria.
So as Gucciardi reported on Sunday, Russia's large-scale amassing of over 160,000 troops, naval ships, fighter planes, strategic bombers, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media, with only Russian-based news services really reporting on the event.
And these are the largest Russian war games since the Cold War.
You'd think that would be a bigger story, but it's receiving relatively little attention.
And it, of course, follows the recent revelation that Israel once again attacked Syria.
Again, imagine if Syrian warplanes were bombing Israel once a month, what do you think the reaction would be?
Of course it was recently announced that that happened again in Syria when Israel bombarded weapons supplies in Latakia, weapons that had been provided by the Russians.
And according to a report out of Ynet News today, the Israelis only gave the green light for the attack when they were assured that no Russians were on site.
So they're being very careful not to initiate tension, more tension, with the Russians.
And you've got several incidents over the past few months where fighter jets, both Turkish and Israeli, ...have mysteriously fallen out of the sky due to technical malfunctions when people in Syria have in fact contradicted that narrative and said that those F-16s could in fact have been shot down.
Israel's not going to admit to that because it's a slap in the face for them, but the rumours that those fighter jets were shot down continue to circulate.
And the article continues, the revelation that Israel was behind the strike on the Russian-made missiles in Syria may be behind the reason for the combat drill, assuming the Russians found out before the general public.
So firstly...
Of course we had the Snowden wild goose chase and now the Zimmerman controversy.
While all that's been at the forefront of the news agenda, the continued build-up to war continues to simmer.
In Britain, the military has basically told David Cameron that arming these radical jihadist rebels in Syria is not going to happen, so they're having to backtrack on that.
And the case for arming them in terms of the court of public opinion has completely collapsed in light of these numerous atrocities that have been documented and have indeed intensified over the past year.
So we've got that.
We've got the Syrian Army that continues to score key victories in its battle to retake these rebel areas across the country.
So, in conclusion, the window appears to be closing.
Remember the Wall Street Journal reported back in June that the rebel push backed by US weapons is set to begin in early August.
So, if we're still talking about this situation, if it remains the same in two months' time, Then it appears that that window for intervention in Syria will be firmly shut.
But now we've got Russia staging the biggest war games since the Cold War.
And it's basically hardly anybody is talking about it, but we're talking about it here on InfoWars Nightly News.
Quote of the day now.
Racism is taught in our society.
It is not automatic.
It is learned behavior towards persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
So again, that speaks to the point that a lot of this race-baiting, a lot of this hatred, is contrived.
You know, people who share the same culture shouldn't be at each other's throats over physical characteristics when our main enemy remains those in power who will abuse it and who will inflict that abuse against all of us no matter what our colour or creed.
There's the show note now.
If you're watching PrisonPlanet.tv tomorrow, I would urge you to do so because we're going to premiere State of Mind, the exciting new mind control documentary.
We're going to intersperse the screening of this new film with a roundtable discussion featuring some of the people behind that film, some of the InfoWars crew.
So that's going to be the premiere of State of Mind exclusively at PrisonPlanet.tv tomorrow on InfoWars Nightly News, so be sure to subscribe at PrisonPlanet.tv to get first access to that.
We're going to go to break now, but when we come back, David Naik talks to former Congressional candidate David Seaman about the inherent structural corruption in the US electoral system and ways we can fix it.
So we're going to go to a break.
That interview is coming up.
Stay tuned.
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This concert will help fund the Peaceful Streets Project annual Police Accountability Summit, which will be the culmination of a crazy year and a half.
We'll start with my New Year's arrest for trying to take pictures of and stop two thug cops from assaulting a woman who had committed no crime.
I subsequently joined with other activists here in Austin to launch the Peaceful Streets Project to bring about a cultural shift so that people would stand up for their rights while standing together to bring accountability to criminal cops.
Since then, the Peaceful Streets Project has given victims of police abuse a platform to share their stories.
We've hosted dozens of Know Your Rights trains, organized over 100 cop watches, and hosted a successful police accountability summit where we gave out 100 cameras to people in need so they could film the police.
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Lewis said, when training beats education, civilization dies.
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Whatever the public face of something is, whatever they're talking about publicly, there's something else over here they're probably not looking at.
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Well, the question is always before us is, how do we affect change?
We may understand what's wrong in our system.
We may want to try to wake up other people.
Maybe we have woken up some other people.
But how can we affect a broader change?
Well, one of the ways you can do that is to run for office.
Maybe.
We're going to talk to someone who tried running for office, and I've had that experience as well.
So we're going to talk about our experiences as independent and third-party candidates.
And joining us today is David Seaman.
He's a 27-year-old who ran for Congress in Florida's 20th congressional district.
He had a ground-up grassroots campaign and then withdrew from the race.
And so we're going to talk to him as to what he learned in his experience.
Welcome, David.
Hi, David.
Thanks for having me on.
Thank you for joining us and thank you for getting involved and caring enough to run for office.
But tell us what your experience was, why you withdrew from the race, what your takeaway from the whole political experience was.
Sure.
I actually didn't know that you would run also, so that would be an interesting conversation.
What basically happened is I was working in various capacities as a reporter and independent journalist covering some of the more disturbing police state stories in this country.
Warrantless surveillance, roadside checkpoints, where they're basically asked to show their papers in violation of the Constitution, and of course the NDAA.
I was one of the first to really cover that in depth.
The indefinite detention provision, section 1021.
And so I was putting out these articles and videos and some of them were getting a lot of traffic, but I felt like it was not actually making a difference.
You know, I would write something and then a publication would pick it up and 50,000 people would read it.
And then the next day you feel like nothing has actually changed.
You know, people read about it.
They're aware that these things are happening and they just go, oh, this doesn't really affect me, even though it truly does.
And so I decided In retrospect, mistakenly, and I think a little naively, that running for office and building this grassroots internet-based campaign would allow me to have a chance of getting into Congress, and that if you're in Congress, even though you're a freshman, you would have the ability to propose legislation to roll some of this stuff back to demand greater accountability.
But what I quickly saw is that a number of forces are really set up To act as barriers to entry if you try to get into politics and if you don't have the backing of one of the two parties, it's basically like a political cartel.
If you're not a Republican or Democrat, you stand almost no chance.
And if you speak out against things like drone strikes and NSA spying, then your slim chances go down to almost nothing.
Well, absolutely.
It's very much a closed country club operation.
The last time we had a viable third party candidate rise up was Abraham Lincoln, just before the Civil War, and the Republicans made sure that would never happen again.
My experience is running as a third party candidate, because you went the full route of trying to get on the ballot by yourself.
That's one of the things that a third party can help you with, is to have the resources to get on the ballot, because that's, in and of itself, just getting on the ballot is such a rigged part of the process.
Tell us what you had to do as an independent.
Well, as an independent, I actually withdrew back in January, so I didn't get very far in my efforts at all.
The idea was to raise money and awareness, both in my district and online.
And so there was a lot of online interest, but it didn't convert at all into interest within the district.
You know, online, people were really excited about the campaign and were spreading the word about me on, you know, various limited government websites.
But then when I would actually meet with people in my district, potential constituents, One of the first things they would ask is, are you a Democrat or Republican?
And when I'd say I'm neither, I'm an independent, the reactions were not all that positive.
I actually was speaking to one couple, and when I said that, the guy crossed his arms and said, well, I don't like that.
And it's like, what is this, King of the Hill?
You don't like that?
Why don't you like that?
That was a reaction I got a lot.
And then people would ask me, what's wrong with the woman we already have?
She's a great Congresswoman.
She's a good Democrat.
And I would really challenge people and say, what does that even mean?
She walked away in the middle of a filmed interview when she was asked about the NDAA and Obama's secret kill list.
I don't think she's a good representative.
And when you would say these things, people would Go, oh, he's just, uh, he's a fringe guy, he's a tea bagger.
They would say these things because they've been trained by the mainstream media.
That's right.
You can label anybody who is different from their MSNBC style politician, anybody who's different from that, to label that person a fringe kind of person and to automatically dismiss what they have going on.
Well, you know, that kind of training goes all the way back to government schools.
You know, you look at what happens every week, it's a new opponent.
You know, you got our team versus School X over here.
And every time it comes up, you know, those are the bad guys.
And so you're always, everything they do is to steer you into this dichotomy, where it's an us versus them.
Whoever that them is, that changes from time to time.
But people are so caught up in this left-right paradigm in the Republican and Democrat Party, And I've had people, when we were running as third party candidates, they would get very angry about the fact that there was even third parties out there.
They thought that was a very harmful situation, and it's like, why would that be harmful?
Should we go into a grocery store where we've only got Two choices of dishwashing soap?
I mean, people can't make up their mind when they see more than two choices?
I think we're the only democracy that I know of that has only two parties, pretty much.
And even if you wanted to support strictly a two-party system, the question is, should those two parties be so firmly entrenched and calcified that you never have an option of ever changing out those two parties?
I mean, that's what has really brought about the corruption, is the entrenchment of those two parties.
Yeah, even in the presidential election last year, we saw everybody making this flawed argument that, you know, whatever candidate they backed, either it was either Obama or Romney, well, he's the lesser of two evils, so I'm voting for him.
And it's like, well, you're still voting for something that's evil then.
You're voting for somebody who supports imprisonment without trial of American citizens.
and supports killing people without proper due process, killing people using drones.
And if you notice on the liberty issues, there was not any difference whatsoever between the Republican candidate and between the Democrat candidate, because the military industrial complex, the police state industrial complex, is going to make sure that their financial interests, which is eternal war and a surveillance state against the American people, they're going to make sure which is eternal war and a surveillance state against the American people, they're going to make sure that And so you find that even in the case of Ron Paul, for example, now Ron Paul ran back in 1988.
He was one of the first supporters back in the late 70s, I think 76, when Reagan first ran against Ford.
Ron Paul was his first and earliest supporter, and he was a very ardent supporter of Ronald Reagan, But when Ronald Reagan got in in 1980, what Ron Paul saw was that Ronald Reagan was not standing up for individual liberty.
He was throwing the Second Amendment under the bus, he was inflating away the currency, running up a huge deficit, getting us involved in all kinds of military war, running the drug war rampant.
And so what he did was he wrote a letter of resignation in 1986, somewhat like your letter when you resigned and dropped out of the race, but more detailed about his criticisms of Reagan and how it had gone off the rail from what he had promised.
And then he ran in 1988 as a Libertarian Party candidate.
And I remember there was a lot of hope for Ron Paul.
It was the first time we'd had a seated, someone who was actually in Congress, who was running as head of the party.
And so he was an experienced politician, very articulate, as people have seen, and we had high expectations for it, but it basically went nowhere, because the partners of the government and the media made sure that was not covered.
And then look at what happened when he ran in 2012, and also in 2008.
He created a groundswell of support, but look at how he was dumped in the corrupt political process, within the party as well as the media.
The pundits destroyed him.
It's amazing how Uh, you can listen to his speech and it's quite impressive.
And then, you know, in the days and weeks after that speech, pundits on the three main networks pick it apart and instead of telling you what the person actually said, They go, oh, his foreign policy is crazy.
We kept hearing that, is that his foreign policy is crazy, it's not realistic.
And then you sit down and think about it, and you're like, well, what's crazy about requesting congressional approval before going to war and committing American forces to some place overseas?
You know, that's actually the most sane argument there is.
Actually following the Constitution, right?
What's that?
Actually following the Constitution.
That's crazy.
The laws that we are founded upon, and these pundits on TV made him out to seem like a crazy person, when I think it's crazy that the two parties, when they have these bitter debates over the budget, you know, they're talking about 2.3 trillion dollars versus 2.7 trillion dollars, or whatever that amount is.
It's a difference of only a couple hundred billion dollars.
Absolutely.
And look at the way he was treated in the debates.
people out there who are like why do we need to be spending trillions of dollars on surveillance programs and wars of occupation overseas you know absolutely and look at the way he was treated in the debates if you remember when he first ran in two thousand eight in the republican party he was excluded from a lot of the debates and i don't believe they screwed him from any of them in two thousand twelve But look at what they did to Gary Johnson.
Here was somebody who was a two-term governor.
A two-term governor.
And he only got in one or two, maybe, of the Republican debates.
And they had people who had never been elected to anything, like Herman Cain, and they had him in the debates, in all the debates.
And yet, someone who had been elected, and he ran as a Republican candidate in a heavily Democratic state, and won re-election by an even larger margin than he had won the first time.
So you've got somebody there who was not part of the insider political club, Of course, remember that even though Herman Cain had never won anything as far as the election goes, he was part of the insiders.
He was part of the Federal Reserve.
So, of course, they had him in all the debates.
But not Gary Johnson, because he was an honest outsider.
And that's what we see.
First of all, they play games with who's allowed on the ballot.
And then once you jump through all of their hoops, and they have excessive hoops that Republican and Democrat candidates don't have to jump through, once you get on the ballot, they exclude you from the debate.
And we see that even within the party, qualified candidates are excluded from debates.
And so you don't really have, it's very difficult for you to get your message out there, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Gary Johnson, we saw the media kept saying that he was inexperienced.
How is a guy who's been governor of New Mexico and has summited Mount Everest and has launched his own successful profitable tech companies, how is he inexperienced?
A successful businessman and as a politician he exercised the veto more than all the other candidates combined.
So he was effective as a governor as well and well-liked.
It's very strange when you look at the political process.
So what is your take on this moving forward?
I mean, personally, I don't want to discourage anybody from doing any kind of resistance.
And I think there's value for running for political office.
What do you think?
Yes, I think other people can, you know, succeed where I failed.
For one thing, I happen to be living in one of the most difficult, you know, loyal blue districts in the country.
So I had an uphill battle from day one.
I definitely don't want to discourage other people from doing what I did, maybe taking it a bit further than I was able to.
But for me personally, I found that the way I can make the most difference is by acting as a force of reason within the media.
So whenever I do a show like yours, Or a radio show or a TV show.
I try to just tell people what's going on and do it without any kind of agenda, because I don't care.
I don't care about making Democrats look good or making Republicans look good.
I think both of these parties are filled with freaks at this point.
The amount of money they're wasting on spying on our own people.
That whole NSA program that came out today in The Guardian is loosely based off of what we did to Iraqi insurgents when we were spying on their text messages and phone calls.
So you now have a situation where the government considers your own rights to be at the same level of protection as an Iraqi insurgent.
That's pretty scary and disgusting.
And for me personally, the way I can make the most difference is by improving media.
I'm launching a morning show next month in Los Angeles, because you see how bad morning TV has become.
It's become a place where if you even mention Edward Snowden, they freeze up and either mock it or they immediately say he's a traitor, you know, he shouldn't have released that information.
That's right.
And unfortunately, you and I see through that, but there are millions of people who really don't because they haven't been exposed to alternative media yet, and they just take that stuff at face value.
So I'm really convinced that we need to change the media so we can have a more honest discussion in this country.
And then that'll make it easier for third-party candidates like yourself and for independents like me to actually get somewhere.
That's right.
I think we're at the point where we have to get people to recognize that the emperor has no clothes.
And one of the things we can do is tell people about it, but you know, I think that when Ron Paul ran, both as a third-party candidate and both of the times that he ran within the Republican Party, I think that was a real seminal moment for people who really had the scales removed from their eyes.
They had a very optimistic view of America as being this land of law, As land of liberty.
They thought there were rules and if you played by the rules you're going to get recognized and they saw some really dirty political tricks.
A lot of dishonesty.
I mean, look at even keeping him out of a speaking position at the Republican Party by having this fake voice vote that they had already pre-scripted on the teleprompter and somebody caught it and put the scripting of the voice vote up Well, I mean, it was just so incredibly rigged in the various states.
I think that had a lot of value, however.
It got people to understand that the emperor has no clothes.
We have a lot of mind control that goes on through the media and through the school systems, and it trains people to believe that We have this honest, freedom-oriented government, and they need to have those scales taken off.
And we can tell them directly, but a lot of times, they have to experience it directly.
So I think it's a very important thing for people to get involved in the electoral process, just so people can see the corruption and experience it firsthand.
That's going to get them to question, why a government like that?
Should be reading every bit of electronic mail that we have.
Why they should have the ability to kick down our doors at will and come in guns blaring in a no-knock raid.
That's the kind of government that we have and people see how that government reacts once they get involved in the political system.
Yes, definitely.
And to go back to the difference that media makes for a second,
I've had people, friends of mine, who are, you know, kind of big government Democrats who thought that they were supportive of Obama and after me sending them, you know, so many YouTube videos of clips that we've all seen of, you know, roadside checkpoints where people are forced to get out of their cars and they're yelled at and broke and, you know, they have their bras searched for, you know, paraphernalia and drugs and then some of these TSA checkpoints where they now have canine units
They force you to walk through something that's basically a microwave oven.
When people watch these videos, regardless of their political preferences, the reaction is visceral.
You know, there's a disgust that wells up disgust and realization that something needs to change.
And so that's why I think that just getting the information out there is so important because we can't become better voters until we realize that this stuff really is happening.
You know, it's one thing to watch MSNBC and think that everything is okay, but then when you just go out into the world, like just for me to walk to the closest Starbucks, I'll pass by about 25 surveillance cameras at street intersections.
So you realize that something is really wrong there.
At the very least, it's a huge waste of our resources, and we only have so much resources as a society.
But, you know, in a more sinister direction, it's a real forfeiture of our rights that has occurred over the past decade, and it seems to be intensifying over the past couple of years.
Oh yeah, it's accelerating very quickly.
Now, you've decided, as I think Ron Paul has, I think Ron Paul is going to have even more impact as he starts to do a news organization, and especially this curriculum that he's got, because that's really where you get people's minds, is as early a possible age as possible, forming a worldview.
Giving them a perspective of how things work and trying to do that as early as possible.
So I think he's going to have a lot of impact there.
But now your program is going to be in LA, a morning show is what you're saying?
And where's that going to run?
Is that going to be on public access or is it going to be a network?
Good question.
We're looking at a couple of different options in terms of getting it on TV, but it's going to come out on iTunes and YouTube every weekday, and there's going to be a high-definition format that people can download.
And the production quality is really important to us.
We want it to look just like today's show or CBS's early morning show, but instead of only talking about Trayvon and these other divisive issues, we want to use that time to really go in-depth into things like, why is the government spending nearly $2 billion for a data center in Utah why is the government spending nearly $2 billion for a data center in Utah Why does the TSA continue to expand?
What is the actual payoff here?
Has this stopped a single terrorist attack?
So these are the things that we want to spend time talking about on the morning show.
And yeah, it's going to be distributed in as many ways as possible, and it's going to be free for people to access.
You won't need a cable subscription.
Okay, great.
Well, if people want to find out more about that and find out how they can help support you, they can go to davidseaman.net.
Is that correct?
And you've got an Indiegogo project that's going on now to get funding?
Yeah, thank you so much, David, for plugging that.
If people go to my website, to davidsiemann.net, there's a video right at the top right now where I talk about The Morning Show and our goals, and there's also a link somewhere on there.
So people can see where we're at funding-wise.
We're 78% fully funded, funded by listeners and people who read my articles.
And it's cool that we're being funded by people who actually want this news instead of being funded by, you know, like News Corporation or something like that.
So we're funded by the viewers, 78% there, and I'm hoping that within the next few days we'll be fully funded.
So if people want to check that out, the video's over there.
Great, great.
Well, thank you, David, for your activism.
Thank you for getting involved, and thank you for continuing to plug away at it.
Even when one avenue doesn't work, we just turn around and we try something else, but we can't give up on liberty.
It's just too important.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, thank you.
It's a marathon, not a sprint.
I really believe that at this point.
That's right.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Bye-bye.
Well, as David said, it's very important that people wake up.
How are they going to wake up?
What form of activism are you going to take?
Well, at this point, I wouldn't discourage anybody from getting involved in the political process, as I said, but I think that there's a lot of groundwork that still needs to be done to wake people up.
One of the ways you can do that is with documentaries.
One of the best ways you can do that.
And our documentary, State of Mind, it's actually not our documentary, but we're selling it here exclusively at InfoWars, started shipping yesterday.
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They're going to give commentary as they watch this premiere.
So you won't want to miss that.
It's a very important way for people to understand exactly how they're being manipulated by the media, by the government, by the school system.
Mind control is much larger than just the MKUltra program or COINTELPRO.
It extends to so many different aspects of our society.
And they talk about the full history of that.
They talk about it broadly in all these different aspects.
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