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July 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Almost too much to bear.
This is almost too much to bear.
I'm watching, I shouldn't do this during the show.
I'm watching CNN.
And they are doing a story, complete with pictures, about how the SUNY tribes in the Anbar province, who had formerly been allied with al-Qaeda and the insurgency and against America and so forth, have now allied with America.
Now, this is portrayed as a bad thing because the SUNY tribes are violent.
Why?
They're killing these foreign fighters, these al-Qaeda fighters, with American-supplied weapons.
This cannot be tolerated.
We're going to ask this Brigadier General, sir, do you really condone this violence, this kind of violence?
We were perpetuating the violence?
You know what he should have said?
Of course, it's a PC general.
I mean, by the time you get to be general in this army, you know, you're just schooled at saying a whole bunch of words that don't mean anything.
Of course, George Patton would have said, yeah, we're killing the enemy until they give up.
That's what we're here for.
We're going to kill them any way we can.
We're going to kill them in the morning.
We're going to kill them at noon.
We're going to kill them at night.
We're going to kill them.
And anybody that is allied with us is going to kill them until we win.
See, we don't have those kind of generals anymore.
They're just in the movies on 24 or wherever.
Anyway, I also noted with some glee that the drive-by, the leftist media is focusing on the fact that Mr. Bush is having a colonoscopy tomorrow for males of a certain age, a requirement, a fairly frequent requirement.
And I just hope, along with, remember what Ronald Reagan said when he was shot, and he looked up and saw these doctors about to open up his chest cavity.
Hope you're all Republicans.
I certainly hope that tomorrow they're all Republicans when the colonoscopy is administered.
This is also a moment, however, of sheer terror for the left.
Sheer terror.
Because for a few hours, Dick Cheney will be President of the United States.
Just consider it.
Now, this week, a remarkable hearing was held in the United States Senate, chaired by Senator Feinstein, a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee,
on the subject of the conviction of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compeon for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler who was fleeing back into Mexico after having been apprehended with 742 pounds of marijuana in his van.
Senator Feinstein did a credible job on this.
Give her credit.
She hauled in U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who prosecuted these two Border Patrol agents.
Now, the background on this is Johnny Sutton was a confidant of Governor George Bush, one of his legal aides, when Bush was governor of Texas, moved with Bush to the Justice Department when the Bush administration took over.
In fact, during the transition, during the Florida contest in 2000, he was part of the task force of people at the Justice Department or wanted to move into the Justice Department, working for the Bush campaign, who did the legal work that led to George Bush prevailing at the Supreme Court and the laws of Florida prevailing for that matter as to who voted and all that.
So Johnny Sutton's close.
He's inner circle.
He wound up assistant deputy AG for something in the Bush administration and then mysteriously was transferred out and down to El Paso, Texas to be the U.S. Attorney.
Now, in the world of the inner circle, this is a downgrade.
You don't go from a pushy plush job up in the Justice Department to U.S. Attorney in El Paso.
That's not a move up.
That's a move down.
Unless you have a mission.
The mission apparently was to carry out George Bush's agreement with El Presidente Fox of Mexico that the civil rights of illegal immigrants would be protected.
It turns out that in this incident, the drug dealer, the drug runner, had grappled with Jose Compeon, had gotten free of the Border Patrol agent.
He was being chased by Ramos.
He ran for the border after having only come in, I don't know what it was, a couple hundred yards maybe.
He was running for the border.
It was clearly in sight.
He turned around as he was running, according to the testimony of the officers, pointing back at them.
And the evidence for that is that the shot that finally did get him was sight.
They always say he's shot in the butt.
He was shot in the side of the butt, which is different because it means that that side was exposed to the fire.
In other words, he was turned around.
If he'd been shot in the rear, then he's fleeing and they shot him while he was fleeing.
No, he was turned around.
The shot went into the side of the gluteus Maximus, if you know what I'm saying.
This testimony was completely ignored.
And even worse, Johnny Sutton suppressed evidence of how he got a hold of Osbaldo Aldrete Davila, the drug smuggler, who fled into Mexico and mysteriously was turned over to Homeland Security investigators, given a grant of immunity and a green card to enter the United States anytime he wanted to,
who was the star witness against the Border Patrol agents.
I didn't have a gun.
I was running away.
They shot me.
I'm in pain.
I'm a permanent disability.
I'm suing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
How did, it turns out, the Mexican government, here's the answer.
The Mexican government, looking for a test case, turned Mr. Davilo back to the Aldrete Davila over to the investigators.
His story was pat from the beginning.
I never had a gun.
Other Border Patrol agents have gone down, by the way, and interviewed his family.
They said this guy's been running drugs since he was 13, and he's always carried a gun.
They all do.
It's a dangerous place.
You have drug dealers shooting each other, much less all the other dangers.
So Johnny Sutton then gives this guy immunity.
Well, between the time of the incident and the time of the trial, there was another bust of hundreds of pounds of marijuana in a safe house along the Texas border, in which, among other names that came up in the investigation, Osbaldo Aldrete Davila came up.
And as soon as that happened, the case was dropped.
Arrest was avoided.
It was not completed.
Therefore, he was, Mr. Sutton has said on every news program I've listened to him on, the U.S. attorney has said, when he's asked about, well, your witness came in with another load of dope.
Well, we don't know that.
It's under investigation.
There's never been an arrest.
He does know it.
And I'll tell you why I know he knows it.
Because he classified, by the way, they classified as secret all the information associated with this second bust, which was never revealed to the jurors, never revealed to the court, never revealed in this trial, that this guy under immunity had brought in more dope, which obviously would have gone to the credibility, adversely affected the credibility of this witness as he tried to say, hey, here's my story, put these Border Patrol agents in jail.
That jury would not have bought it had they known this guy was continuing to be a drug dealer.
So how do we know that he brought that second load across?
The DEA documents with his name on it have been shown to a few members of Congress, and they've said, well, look, you can't release this.
You can't tell anybody about it.
You can't really get into detail because these are secret.
We punch secret on them.
Therefore, you can't.
Well, I caught up with Duncan Hunter yesterday, who knows about this.
You're going to hear in this tape my question of Duncan Hunter about the second load of dope and then his answer.
Listen carefully to this.
Was there another load of dope?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And a big load of dope, and the guy was connected to it.
And Johnny Sutton at that point had an obligation to go to the court and say, my witness has been tainted.
It's his testimony that's sending these guys to prison for 11 and 12 years.
I've got an obligation to tell this to the court.
The interesting thing is that Johnny Sutton and the agency basically classify the information, that is the documents, that would tend to help Compeon and Ramos, in fact, not only tend to help them, help them enormously.
I don't see any jury making a conviction if that information had been followed, had been placed before the jury or placed before the judge.
And the judge doesn't have to tell them what the information is.
He simply has to say that the credibility of the witness has been compromised.
So Duncan Hunter couldn't tell me what he saw in those documents because they were labeled secret, classified secret by the Homeland Security folks, by the U.S. attorney, documents that would have made his star witness a liar and a violator of the immunity, the conditions of immunity obviously being you can't run drugs into the United States anymore.
He did it anyway.
He was allowed to suppress the information and to convict these Border Patrol agents, and it is an absolute travesty.
Well, now it turns out that 48, 49, maybe it's more than that by this time, congressmen, including Duncan Hunter, Congressman Dana Rohrbacher of California and others, have sent a letter to President Bush urging him to commute the sentences.
If, after all, Libby Scooter Libby can have his sentence commuted because he was misremembering or lying about circumstances that did not add up to a crime anyway, how about two Border Patrol agents in line of duty apprehending a known drug smuggler and shooting him after he threatens, you know, turns around and threatens them because the two Border Patrol agents thought they saw a gun.
I mean, this is a classic situation.
The guy turns around and extends his arm back toward you.
Well, what do you think?
He's waving goodbye.
So, Mr. Bush, common sense, the facts, and reason dictate that you at least commute the sentence of these two brave, patriotic Border Patrol agents.
However, you were asked that question in Nashville yesterday, and there was a different answer, which I'll play for you when we come back.
Roger Hedgeck in for Rush Limbaugh back after.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Rushback on Monday.
So at a town hall meeting in Nashville, Tennessee at Opryland yesterday, I guess, George Bush was asked a question about these two Border Patrol agents, Ramos and Compeon, and their trial and whether or not he would pardon them.
I want to give you the whole question because it was a sincerely phrased question by an obviously concerned woman who really knew what she was talking about.
And the president, you probably didn't see this because they didn't show it much on TV, but she's looking at him and he's looking at her while he listens to the question.
And as he hears more of it, he's backing up and then turns around, showing her his back as he answers.
Which, again, body language to me tells me a lot.
Here's the question and the answer by the President.
My question to you is this.
There are two border guards presently in jail.
The Tennessee General Assembly passed a resolution with 91 votes in the House and 30 in the Senate asking our Tennessee delegation to support, to go to you asking for a pardon for these two men that were tried, where information was left not with, was kept back from their trial.
And there's also a resolution in the House, H.R. 40, with a number of our Tennessee delegation signed on to that.
Will you pardon these men that are unjustly in prison?
I'm not going to make that kind of promise in a forum like this.
Obviously, I'm interested in facts.
I know the prosecutor very well, Johnny Sutton.
He's a dear friend of mine from Texas.
He's a fair guy.
He is an even-handed guy.
And I can't imagine, well, you know, you've got a nice smile, but you can't entice me making a public statement on something that requires a very, I know this is an emotional issue, but people need to look at the facts.
These men were convicted by a jury of their peers after listening to the facts as my friend Johnny Sutton presented them.
But anyway, no, I won't make you that promise.
The President of the United States.
Christopher in Marlborough, Vermont.
Christopher, welcome to the Russell Limbaugh Program.
Yeah.
Hi, Roger.
Yeah, I originally or years ago, I was a resident of Carlsbad, California, when you were undergoing some difficulties at that particular time in your career.
Extreme difficulty.
Thank God that you've seen the light.
You're a reformed liberal.
Thank God.
In any case, Roger, I just wanted to point out that I heard Johnny Sutton on a radio program.
I can't remember which one, but I heard him a couple of weeks ago, I believe it was, and he indicated that these two Border Patrol agents had, in fact, secreted what they had done, and they had, in fact,
taken their shell casings, 15, I believe he mentioned, and thrown them into the river, and they had failed to file a report, a shooting report, on this particular incident, and that he, being the good guy that he is, presumably, had apparently offered them a plea bargain, which they had refused.
Now, this is only what I heard on the radio via Johnny Sutton, so I really don't know.
Well, I heard this too.
I mean, I interviewed Johnny Sutton at the time this all happened, and I heard this too.
We went and looked into that.
I finally got, after some difficulty, a transcript of the trial.
We did read the testimony.
It turns out that indeed shell casings are collected every time there is a shooting by all Border Patrol agents.
This is what they do.
They collect the no one threw them in the river.
They were collected.
There also was not a report made which does violate the administrative laws of the Border Patrol.
But the comeback to that was that shortly after this shooting, the supervisor and a number of other agents were on the scene.
There were up to eight, I believe it was, Border Patrol agents on that scene as they were collecting evidence of what happened.
So the two Border Patrol agents in charge thought they didn't have to file a written report.
They had already had their supervisor there.
They already talked with him verbally.
And again, I've even had this conversation with T.J. Bonner, who's the head of the Border Patrol Agents Union.
He says, look, technically, that is an administrative violation.
They could have been given a letter in their file.
They could have been given a maximum, I forget what it was, a day or two off with pay, without pay for that.
11 and 12 years incarceration in federal prison is nowhere near.
That's pretty draconian, I have to admit.
And your characterization of where this man received his wound is directly corresponds with him turning to fire at these agents.
That's correct.
And by the way, we know that because when he came back over the border, Homeland Security had him.
He still had the wound probably, had problems with his wound.
They took him into the military hospital there at El Paso, and the doctors worked on his problems that associated with this gunshot.
So they had a complete workup by American doctors of where the bullet entered and all of that.
That was all in.
Total ballistics.
Yes.
Yes.
But am I correct in assuming that this man has received a civil settlement from the United States government?
He has received a I'm told there is a settlement in his lawsuit.
They will not reveal it, and nor will they reveal the amount.
Wow, so I'm out of breath.
I know, me too.
Christopher, thanks for the call.
Let's see, we've got time for one more.
Leon in Los Angeles, you've got a minute.
Go ahead, Leon.
Yeah, why doesn't somebody step up and say there was collusion between the President and Sutton to make sure that those men went to jail as a warning to the rest of the Border Patrol of keep your hands off those people coming across that border.
And you know what?
Even if that, Leon, even if that didn't happen, and I'm kind of of suspicion it did, but even if it didn't happen, the net effect, because I talk to Border Patrol guys all the time, the net effect is that they have been given that message.
Whether it was intended as a message or not, that's the message that they have received.
If you do your job down here, if you defend yourself, if you shoot under circumstances where you're trained to shoot, you are going to be prosecuted by Johnny Sutton.
You're going to do federal time.
And the consequence of that is we've had one case after another where the smugglers are getting emboldened.
They're driving their cars and trucks and vehicles at the agents.
And the agents are trying to dodge and weave and not return fire in circumstances where they should.
So whether intended or not, that's the message.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Today Rush.
Of course, back on Monday.
All the information in the meantime at rushlimbaugh.com.
Your phone calls at 1-800-282-2882.
Here's Luke in Brian, Texas.
Luke, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
How are you doing, Roger?
Doing well.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
I just wanted to call, and I've been listening, I guess, to the show and most of the talk radio since about 2006.
I don't know if you remember in December 2004, you came and visited some Marines in Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego who had been injured in Iraq.
I was one of those Marines.
I just wanted to say thanks for coming out there and visiting.
It meant a lot to me and my family and my wife.
Well, Luke, it was a privilege to be there that day.
I believe that was the day.
Were you there when I brought the Charger girls and the Harley-Davidson stuff?
I was doing pretty well.
Yeah, we had some fun that day giving that out.
We got some TVs.
We got all kinds of things we wanted to get.
And all that was, Luke, was us saying thank you because we were there to say thank you to you for what you've been doing for us and to make you understand that you were not forgotten and that it was a painful thing and what went on with all the injuries and everything.
But we just appreciated and wanted to be there to say that.
How have you been doing since then?
I'm doing good.
Since then, I've been medically retired in August 2006, just last August.
And now I'm continuing my education at Texas A ⁇ M University.
Got married and doing well and just living the American dream, I guess.
Luke, you sure are.
God bless you.
Thank you for what you did for the country.
Thank you for being a positive, great role model for the rest of us, my friend.
And thanks for the call.
It was a privilege and pleasure to be there that day and the other days when we have done our best to do what we can for these wounded warriors and for that matter for all the other military families.
We've got something out of the local show called Homefront San Diego where we mobilize the local listening audience to help military families with whatever it is they need while their loved ones are fighting this war.
So it's an important part of what we do.
And Luke, that was just heartwarming to hear from you.
Well, I appreciate it.
I appreciate you, my friend.
Thank you.
Johnny in El Paso, Texas, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hi, Johnny.
Hi, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I always enjoy your program when you're taking over for Rush.
Thank you.
Say, I've been listening about these Border Patrol agents here in El Paso, and I just don't know what I'm missing here.
I know that these guys, I'm as frustrated as the next person is about this war, this comical war on drugs, but law enforcement agents cannot, out of frustration for not being able to apprehend a suspect, just open fire on a guy.
They have to apprehend him.
They cannot act as judge, jury, and executioner.
No, but that's not what happened.
That's exactly what happened.
They tried to get this guy.
He got away, and they shot him in the butt.
Have you read the transcripts of the trial?
Just what I've been listening to on your program.
Yeah.
On Russia's program.
Because here's what I get out of the transcript.
Here's what I get out of the testimony of the officers.
And given it was disputed by the drug dealer.
But the officer's contention was that this guy physically grappled with them.
Then he was running toward the border.
They ordered him to halt and he wouldn't halt.
So they opened fire.
He turned away before they opened fire, before they opened fire, Johnny.
He turned around, and while he was 30, 40 yards away in the brush over there, his arm comes up.
He turns around and he's pointing back at them.
Now, you can say he was just waving goodbye if you want to, but in the normal course of events along this border, what that means to a Border Patrol agent is he's got his gun out and he's pointing back at the officers.
And they knew he was unarmed or they would have filed a report.
But instead, that's not the testimony, Johnny.
That's not the trial.
Now, you can make this up and you can come on the program and say it, but that isn't the testimony in the trial.
That's the way the trial came out.
They were found guilty.
Now, I tell you what I do with Neil.
It came out.
It came out that the jury believed the drug dealer over the agents.
I understand that, and that's the conviction, and that's what we have to live with.
But you can't mischaracterize the testimony of these agents.
The testimony of the agents was, we thought he had a gun.
He turned around and pointed at us, and we fired.
Sure as hell we fired because that's what we're trained to do.
And they were found guilty, and I agreed that their sentence was extreme, and that that particular part should be commuted.
Well, that's what I hope will happen, too.
That's what I hope will happen.
Hey, thanks for the call, Johnny.
Yeah, this business of the charges ought to be talked about as well, because this charge included the serious charge that led to the 11 and 12 years.
The charge didn't have to be, let's see, what was it, firing a gun in connection with a violent felony.
And the violent felony, I guess, was the hitting of this guy, shooting him.
The firing of the gun was added to it.
It didn't have to be.
And Sutton was ⁇ and Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney, which is not that caller, I suspect, but anyway, Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney, said to Dianne Feinstein in this hearing in the Senate the other day that he had not personally recommended the charges.
Now, this didn't have a lot of credibility.
He didn't recommend the charges, that his team of prosecutors had recommended the charges.
Well, they knew perfectly well the charge they were bringing as opposed to excessive force or some other charge that maybe was one or two or three years of Federal the charge, and whatever it might have been, Sutton admitted they brought the charge that had the heaviest penalty possible under the circumstances.
So at least that part has gotten concurrence from Mr. Sutton himself.
Whether or not we can get a commutation of these years, it is a huge, huge problem for these families.
And we now know the families of these Border Patrol agents.
They are trying to raise money for the legal defense and to assist the family so they don't lose their houses and all the rest of that that happens when the breadwinner goes away.
Both these guys have young kids in the house, a number of them.
And so the Border Patrol Agents Union has a defense fund.
If you care to Google them and come up with it, you can help out.
All right, here's Bud in Medford, Oregon.
Bud, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Go ahead.
Hi, Roger.
How are you?
Did from ex-San Diego who lives in beautiful Northwest.
There you go.
Thank you.
Hey, Roger.
I am all for these two agents getting their pardon.
I have a question, though, about has anybody ever interviewed any of the jurors?
How did they come to their conclusions?
Well, they did come to their conclusions.
They were interviewed.
They did come to their conclusions by saying we believed Mr. Aldrete, the drug smuggler, and the evidence at trial.
The defense attorneys were not able to show that he had violated his immunity.
They were not able to show anything about his background.
They were not able to bring in his mother, who told the investigators, and we found this out later, who told the Homeland Security investigators that her son always carried a gun when he went across the border.
None of that got into the evidence, so the jurors were left with what they were left with.
Excessive force, rogue officers.
The prosecutors were saying, look, you have to send a message.
You can't have this kind of thing going on.
And that's the way they structured the trial.
Didn't the prosecutor have to share some of that evidence with the attorneys?
The judge ruled out a lot of this stuff, and whether the defense attorneys knew about it or not, they couldn't tell the jury.
The judge, by the way, is another interesting fact in this whole case.
The judge was a divorce court judge in the State of Texas, a State judge, who had been appointed by then Governor George Bush.
She was then appointed to the Federal bench when George Bush became president.
It was in front of this judge, a Bush appointee and friend, that a Bush appointee and friend, Johnny Sutton, brought this case.
So again, you can make your own conclusions out of all of this, but it looks very deliberate and it looks very planned.
And I think the president, in the quote that I played for you, pretty much convinced me that Johnny Sutton was there for that reason.
He's a fair guy.
He's an even-handed guy.
Johnny Sutton's my friend.
Those are pretty strong associations.
Roger, can I ask one more question?
Go ahead.
If that's the case, it sounds almost like there was a conspiracy beforehand in the trial this.
I think what there was.
I wouldn't say no, no, no.
But I don't want to say that.
There's no conspiracy.
What there was was an intention by this president to show Mexico and the Mexican government that he was not going to allow Border Patrol officers to violate the civil rights of illegal aliens as defined by the Mexican government.
But nevertheless, that was an awful stiff penalty for just something that simple.
Amen to that, but I appreciate the call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh and back with more after this.
All right, I got to get to a quick update here on the Carver Elementary School issue.
You may be following us.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh, Rushback on Monday.
Carver Elementary in San Diego at San Diego Unified School District, a public school, a public elementary school, was the subject of some attention here by me and others because of a substitute teacher's revelation.
Mary Stevens, a substitute teacher who went to sit in as a substitute teacher in this school, was given the lesson plan, was told that at 1 o'clock there would be prayer time.
She said, is it a typo?
Does this mean playtime?
Because it's sixth grade.
What are we talking?
No, no, prayer time.
And another employee of the school district will come in and lead that prayer at 1 o'clock, and you can leave the classroom if you like during that time.
This is after the lunch break of 12 to 12.55.
So 1 o'clock is an academic hour.
She goes into this class, the substitute teacher.
It's all girls.
It's all Muslim girls.
It's all Somali Muslim girls.
They are segregated by faith and by gender.
And at 1 o'clock, they lock the door of the classroom, pull the blinds, and pray with the direction of this employee of the school district.
Well, it obviously, we've been fighting this prayer in school battle since 1962.
The U.S. Supreme Court said no, separation of church and state, God out of public schools, no prayer.
And since then, the Christians have felt that we've fought back to try to get it's okay to do the Bible study, but only after the curriculum day, the academic day, only during a break, only voluntarily between students.
No employees can be involved.
No facilities can be involved.
All that stuff that we've been going through for 45 years.
Suddenly, here's this school within a school dedicated to Islam.
It's an Arabic immersion program for these Somali students, apparently so they can read the Quran in Arabic, because they're not Arabic speakers.
They're from Somalia.
So we discover all this and say, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
This seems to be a double standard.
This seems to be different rules.
And we've been pursuing this.
The school district's been stonewalling and doing a lot of strange stuff.
But the latest to come out of this is, oh, and I got to tell you that the other thing I thought was really, really interesting is the PTA had these Muslim parents, of course, were there at the PTA, and they had an election to elect the president of the PTA.
The president who was elected is Mohammed Ibrahim Lakani.
And Mr. Lakani was elected.
They raised their hands for the various people who were running, and Mr. McLakani was.
And so the women raised their hands with the men.
The men looked around at the women, according to an eyewitness at this election, and the women were given to understand that they should lower their hands because women were not going to vote.
We're not going to start with those dangerous precedents here.
Not here.
So the men elected a man to be the head of the SPTA.
Anyway, so we get this finally today from the superintendent, Carl Cohen of San Diego Unified School District in an internal memo regarding Carver Elementary.
We are told by a reliable source that the memo says there'll no longer be a special prayer time for any students.
Obviously, they can still pray at lunchtime, at recess, at breaks, after school, before school, whatever they want to do, but they can't do it during the academic curriculum time.
There had been previously been two minimum days when school concludes at 12.30 or 1, Tuesday for all students and Friday also for Muslim students.
The minimum day will now be Friday for all students, so no special arrangement for Muslim students.
And there's not going to be any more single-sex education because this facility, now there are single-sex education facilities and experiments going on, but in the run of the Mill Public School, there's not supposed to be segregation by gender and they will not be separated any longer at Carver Elementary by gender.
So we are making some progress to understand that if you're going to have rules, rules which of course are disputed with regard to God in school, we at least aren't going to have a situation where God is in, I mean, God is out, and Allah is in.
That isn't going to happen in this school.
And I went online, there's an Islamic School Addresses of North America at msa-natl.org.
And I got, what was this, 43 pages?
43 pages of a printout of all the Islamic schools in the United States, some of which look to be private, and that's fine.
Catholics did the same thing, put out their own private schools where they could teach their religion.
That's fine.
That sounds like liberty to me.
But some of these also sound like, again, schools within a school, schools that are set up within a public school, relying on public funds.
That's a different story.
And so, of course, we went through this whole thing trying to define what was appropriate here for the freedom of these students as well as for the notions of equal and fair play for all students.
And we did this all without that.
Mind you, we did this without the help of the ACLU.
I'm quite proud of that.
The ACLU, who's been meddling in every single prayer and school issue since 1962, refused to get involved in this one.
Hmm.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Let's take a break, and we'll be right back with our concluding segment on the Rush Lingbaugh program after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Let's take another call.
Here's Alan in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Alan, go ahead.
Pleasure to talk with you, Roger.
I'd like to say thanks, congratulations, and God bless to the young Marine that called two callers ago, I believe, and was able to say after taking a shot for the country and going through rehab that he is now living the American dream.
What spirit and what just overwhelming tenacity that that young man has.
And just God bless him.
That one call for me effectively refuted the entire Democratic majority of the United States Senate.
Absolutely, absolutely.
And I only wish that they could understand what this world's about.
I believe this is the Marine, by the way, that was pretty severely injured.
He had lost portions of his legs.
He was in an IED, I believe this is the same individual in an IED explosion.
And we had raised the funds to bring his parents out and his girlfriend's fiancé, and it was just such a delight just to hear him say with all this confidence in his voice and all this love and appreciation and positive outlook that he had gotten married.
He was living the American dream.
I'm with you, Alan.
That was an inspiring moment that certainly gave me the chills, and I appreciate your call.
Well, I've got tears in my eyes, and thank you for all that you do, Roger.
Thank you.
Oh, you bet.
You bet.
We can't do enough.
As far as I'm concerned, we can't do enough.
Not just talking about it.
We've got to do something about it in our own individual communities, and I'll leave that up to you.
Now, just trying to interpret, and I know we tried Senator Byrd a little while ago, and I don't think there was a lot of understanding of just what Senator Byrd was saying, but let's try it again.
This is Senator Byrd on the Vic matter of the dog fighting.
Let that word resound from hill to hill and from mountain to mountain, from valley to valley.
Term limits, anyone?
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Thank you, Rush, for the opportunity and the privilege of being here on the program.
Rush Back on Monday.
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Have a great weekend.
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