April 20, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
02:54
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| How many people have died in the Philippines? | |
| I think it's something like, they're calling it about 150 out of a country of 105 million people. | |
| Basically nobody. | |
| The way I put it is, if you've ever read The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, 10,000 words, very boring. | |
| Basically, our deaths are a period. | |
| At the end of a sentence in that book. | |
| But we are more locked down than you are. | |
| Basically, the Philippines has become a dictatorship now. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| So give me an example. | |
| Can you leave the house for groceries? | |
| It completely depends on your neighborhood. | |
| But there's a neighborhood near me, which coincidentally is poor, meaning they have no political power, and they have soldiers. | |
| Surrounding them. | |
| Making sure they stay in their homes. | |
| We're not talking police anymore. | |
| We're talking soldiers. | |
| You having been there for some time now, is this surprising to you, given this leader? | |
| Well, you know, unfortunately, it goes back centuries before the current leaders. | |
| We were a Spanish colony for 350 years. | |
| And the Spanish basically treated their colonialists, the people they colonized, as slaves. | |
| So, you know, this country basically was a slave country for 350 years until the Americans came in for just 50 years. | |
| So, unfortunately, they still have that slave mentality of, you know, that the master tells them you will do this, and they do that. | |
| Protesting just isn't part of the mentality here. | |
| And they're easily bought off, really, with a bag of rice. | |
| So let me ask you, Michael, other than Sweden, pretty much the whole world has followed the same protocol. | |
| How do you explain that, if you are right? | |
| Well, there have actually been varying degrees of following. | |
| Even Sweden hasn't just said, you know, been laissez-faire. | |
| At first, they restricted crowds to 500, which isn't much of a restriction, actually. | |
| Although, you know, it covers sports events. | |
| So, you know, it meant that basically they outlawed sports events. | |
| Then due to outside pressure, not internal, but outside, they restricted that to 50. | |
| But, you know, in a lot of countries, they restricted to two. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
| All right, hold on with me. | |
| I'm talking to Michael Fumento, who's an investigative reporter, but basically, in my experience, a truth-teller. |
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