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July 30, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

06:13

Ami in Portland: Protesters Want to Tear Down the System

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	It's up at DennisPrager.com or you can go straight to his website, TommyHorowitz.com.
	And you yourself, I asked you if you, and I did remember, I did watch your video and I'd forgotten.
	You did speak to a demonstrator or two.
	And you were recognized, which is a danger.
	I was always wondering when it's going to finally happen, you'll be recognized.
	Then what happened?
	Well, then they proceeded to.
	So one of the things they do when the federal officers come out and hold the line to make sure they can no longer threaten the federal building is they throw glass bottles, sometimes Molotov cocktails, at the officer.
	So there's a lot of littered glass on the floor just outside of the federal building.
	And they began to pick up the glass and throw it at me.
	It wasn't that bad.
	I was able to extricate myself out of the situation pretty quickly.
	I actually went there for two nights.
	That was the first night.
	The second night I came back, this time I came back with security.
	We interviewed probably a dozen or so people before we had to hightail out.
	The response was Very similar.
	And, you know, kind of what I try to do is uncover the nature of someone with just a few penetrating questions, right?
	In this case, I really asked two questions for the most part.
	And the first question was, is it time to end the American experiment?
	And the second question was, are you trying to use chaos, right?
	Because what I was seeing around me, what we're seeing around the country in these blue cities is Out of control, chaos, but is chaos being used as a tool to accomplish the first, to end America?
	And the response was, with one exception, was pretty much unanimous.
	That, yes, in both cases, America has to end as we know it, because that's the only way that we can build equality, not equality of opportunity, but equality, of course, of outcome.
	And we can't do that within the context of how the founders framed this country.
	And yes, chaos is absolutely what they are using to accomplish this goal.
	And I thought it was, and I said there was an exception.
	There was an exception.
	There was a black man who I interviewed at the end, and he was beside himself at how these people were using a black, because this is all ostensibly a Black Lives Matter protest, right?
	This is what they said they were there for.
	The reality worked.
	But this guy recognized that.
	And a number of black, Protesters who were there recognized that they were hijacking what they're trying to do, what they're trying to accomplish, and using that to push their Marxist agenda.
	And they noticed that they were seeing socialist flags, Marxist flags, Soviet flags, Antifa flags.
	They noticed these things, and they were beside themselves, and how they thought that this violence, what was happening to them, was counterproductive to what they're trying to accomplish.
	And that so few black people were actually out there.
	And it's true, the vast majority of them, they were saying 98%, I don't know what the exact number was, but a significant percentage were white.
	The whole thing was fascinating and troubling all at the same time.
	Do you know if nearly all of the violent protesters are from Oregon?
	Yeah, I would say the vast, vast majority.
	I mean, some may have been from Washington as well.
	But the vast majority are local.
	And by the way, that's the other lie that they've said.
	When I was in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, same thing.
	All outside agitators.
	Hogwash.
	These were almost all people internally from the city who feel that way.
	And the overwhelming majority were white.
	And any other generalizations for, let's say, age or sex?
	It was actually quite split gender-wise.
	Am I allowed to say that?
	Are we allowed to assign gender?
	I can't assume somebody's gender, so I refuse to ask that question because I don't want to be canceled.
	But it seemed to me that most of the people there were non-menstruating people.
	I'm sorry, we're equally between non-menstruating and menstruating.
	And, yeah, look, it was tough to show those organizations that there was...
	Look, there's obviously a generalization you can make about their political booties.
	I don't think there's anybody in the center or right of center who were there.
	But people were pretty open and honest about what they stood for.
	What they stood for was the dissolution of the United States.
	I'm silent because you wonder what produces people.
	To want to destroy something so uniquely good.
	We have never taught in our schools, and I hate to say it, in our homes.
	I don't think the teaching of American values has not been a priority for our schools, certainly not for our schools, and many people are homes.
	And when people oftentimes come to me and say, I don't know how my son became a leftist, or how my son went to university and became anti-Israel, and I say to them, I hate to say it, but chances are it's kind of your fault.
	You didn't spend the time, the effort, to inculcate them in American values.
	That's correct.
	And that's the result.
	That is exactly right.
	So, your video is, what is it titled?
	Inside the Portland Riots.
	Okay, so it's up at DennisPrager.com and at Ami Horowitz's.
	All right, my friend.
	I'll look forward to your next video from Tehran.

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