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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	The last unamnested immigrant in America and happy to be here.
	It is Friday.
	It is the end of the week and you know what that means.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
	Yes, you know how this works.
	From Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist retains strict control of the show like General Sissy is currently doing in Egypt.
	But on Friday, we outsource the show to cheap foreign labor, so there is no highly trained broadcast specialist.
	That means you get to talk about anything you want to talk about.
	1-800-282-2882, the day after America's birthday, talk about the state of independence, the spirit of independence in the United States.
	You want to talk about what's happening in Egypt, how things are going under the new reset button of the Obama era.
	Feel free to call 1-800-282-2882.
	want to talk about the postponement of the employer mandates of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.
	They've now been postponed by a year to, this by the way is very odd, lawmaking.
	I'll come back to this in a moment.
	It's very odd, the idea that you can simply just postpone the, you can pass a law and then just postpone it, postpone it, postpone it.
	So that very conveniently, it was postponed until, initially postponed until after Obama's re-election.
	Now it's going to be postponed until after the Democrats take back the House.
	So it all works out for them.
	1-800-282-2882, if you want to talk about Obamacare, if you want to talk about this new super beast, the presidential limousine that comes with night vision, and we've been trying to stat night vision and a blood bank in the bet in the back and armored doors.
	And they compare it to a James Bond car in the news stories.
	The point about a James Bond car, by the way, is that it usually gets ripped to pieces half an hour into the movie.
	I forget whatever it is.
	The Piers Brosnan one, I think it's The World is Not Enough.
	And it's the usual thing.
	Q explained, now pay attention, 007.
	This car comes with one or two special features.
	And because they work for the James Bond 007 works for the British Civil Service, they're far more penny-pinching.
	They're not money-no-object types like these guys who've just done this new car for President Obama.
	So Q always says, do try to return the equipment in one piece, 007.
	And of course, he never does.
	And the point in The World is Not Enough with Piers Brosnan.
	And about 40 minutes into the movie, for some reason or other, the bad guy, I forget who it was the bad guy.
	Oh, he was some crazy bad guy.
	A laser beam slices the special car in two.
	And James Bond is watching.
	Piers Brosnan is watching from the side and says, oh dear, Q's not going to be happy about this.
	But in the U.S. government, it's a different thing.
	It's money, no objects.
	So nobody cares whether this big, huge, this state-of-the-art thing with the night vision goggles is ever going to be used for anything.
	It's just, you know, if you've got it, flaunt it.
	And even if you haven't got it, even if you're entirely broke, even if you're $18 trillion in the hole, go ahead, still flaunt it.
	What the hell difference does it make?
	$100 billion for a trip to Africa?
	Ah, who cares?
	So if you want to talk about that, you could also give me a call there.
	1-800-282-288 to talk about anything you want to talk about.
	This new Lone Ranger movie, this is Hollywood's way of celebrating Independence Day in America.
	They put out this big new, the big new Lone Ranger movie, The Lone Ranger guy.
	It was like simple.
	You couldn't go wrong with The Lone Ranger in the old days.
	Lone Ranger ran for decades on radio, ran for decades on television.
	Can't go wrong with him.
	This one, though, this one for a start, this is as long as the entire Lone Ranger radio serials all put together.
	This film is nearly three hours long.
	And a liberal website, the IO9 website, reviews the Lone Ranger by saying that they finally found an explanation as to why this guy goes around with a mask.
	You know, in the old days, they didn't explain the Lone Ranger, who is that masked man?
	Nobody ever says why is that masked man mask?
	But they do, in this film, they explain it.
	And the reason he wears a mask is because, as this left-wing website, I09, puts it.
	It's a sort of sci-fi website, but they, you know, the usual kind of liberal types there.
	But they say that he realizes his fellow white men are corrupt and complicit in the mass murder of Tonto's fellow Native Americans.
	So he wears the mask because he, if he takes off the mask, the Lone Ranger himself will wind up becoming complicit in the white man's guilt at what he's done to Native Americans.
	So the mask, we finally, after decades and decades, the Lone Ranger was invented in what, 1930s, 1940s.
	So we finally have an explanation as to why the Lone Ranger wears a mask.
	It's to lessen his white guilt.
	So if he takes off his mask, he will be like all the other white men and be complicit in the mass murder of Tonto's fellow Native Americans.
	So the mask is his, the mask is explained at last.
	He wears a mask because it's, as this liberal website put it, the Lone Ranger's mask is made of white guilt.
	That could probably apply to all these heroes.
	I mean, I don't know, is Batman's Spandex underwear made also represent white guilt?
	Who knows?
	It could apply to all of them.
	All these reinventions are the same.
	But they've done the classic thing of Hollywood, modern Hollywood.
	They've turned great trash into bad art, which is what a lot of these reinventions do.
	Lone Ranger, well, Mr. Snurdly's suggestion is that the Lone Ranger should just have sat on the back of the horse.
	Don't.
	There's no room on the back of the horse.
	Who is it?
	Who's it complaining now that Cordell West is complaining that since we got gay marriage, blacks have been moved to the back of the bus again.
	So there's no room on the back of the horse.
	Mr. Snerdley thinks Tonto should be at the front of the horse.
	And then it's the gays, the blacks, and the Lone Ranger all riding together in the back of the horse.
	So it's everyone.
	Everyone except Tonto.
	The mask they're wearing is basically the rear end of the Vaudeville horse suit in Mr. Snerdley's thrilling remake.
	Anyway, this was supposed to be the big 4th of July Hollywood blockbuster, The Lone Ranger, in which the Lone Ranger is ashamed of his face.
	So he wears a mask.
	And it's El Stinko Floppo at the box office.
	It's a bomb.
	What is it?
	I think the Drudge is calling it Kibo Bombi.
	It's an almighty bomb.
	It's gone.
	It's over.
	The Lone Ranger dead, kaput, doesn't work anymore.
	It's gone.
	It's over.
	And that's, why would Hollywood think that was what Americans wanted to see on Independence Day?
	I said I wanted to talk a bit about independence earlier on.
	And I think it's important in the con because what happened on July the 3rd, the coup in Egypt, military coup in Egypt, and what happens on July the 4th, 1776, is an in.
	Why did the American Revolution work?
	And why did the Egyptian Revolution not work?
	Why did the Facebook Revolution and the Arab Spring turn into such a bust, basically delivering it?
	I mean, Egypt now has a choice between basically a totalitarian theocrats of the Muslim Brotherhood or neo-fascists represented by these sort of remnants of Nasserite pan-Arabism lurking around Egypt.
	The reason, obviously, is because before this was a free country, it was made by free men.
	They ran their own affairs.
	They governed their own towns.
	They governed their own towns to a much higher degree than anybody governed villages back in England or Scotland or Ireland or anywhere.
	They understood the importance of property.
	They were the wealthiest people in the British Empire at the time of the Declaration of Independence.
	They thought as free people.
	They had a system of laws.
	They had property rights.
	They had everything except the final piece of the puzzle, which was independence and sovereignty.
	And that's why the American Revolution succeeded.
	Democracy, democracy, going into a polling station and voting is the last piece of the puzzle.
	If you don't think as free men, you do what those Egyptians do, did last year.
	And it's not just the 51% who voted for Mohamed Morsi.
	They basically, the two big parties in that election were the Muslim Brotherhood and then the even more Muslim Brotherhood, which was an Islamic party for people who thought the Muslim Brotherhood were a bit wussy.
	And if you take that, the combined proportion, three-quarters of the electorate voted for totalitarian theocratic parties because they do not think as free men.
	And the polling station, the vote, going in and taking a ballot paper and putting a check on the box by the candidate is the last piece of the puzzle.
	And you do, and it's fine.
	It's fine if you just want to fly in Jimmy Carter and the UN observers, but it's nothing to do with real liberty.
	July the 4th is about real liberty.
	July the 3rd, this ludicrous stage of the so-called Arab Spring, in which General Sissy and the military brass have now decided to have taken away the first elected president, freely elected president in Egypt's history and installed their own man.
	That's what happens when you confuse one man, one vote democracy with the conditions of liberty.
	The American Revolution succeeded because the American settlers already thought as free men.
	In Egypt, they do not think as free men.
	They don't have any, their concept of property rights, their concept of freedom of expression.
	I mean, if you look at this thing now, like the first thing Mohamed Morsi did is he'd start punishing journalists who wrote any mean editorials about him.
	That was his big thing.
	He kept throwing, if you wrote an editorial against him, he threw you in jail.
	He closed down your paper and he threw you in jail.
	So they got rid of Mohamed Morsi.
	Now state prosecutors are saying that Mohamed Morsi himself may well be prosecuted for, quote, insulting the presidency, unquote.
	Well, that's nothing.
	That's a show trial.
	You know, you've troubled the guy.
	Leave him to rot in jail or put him on a plane and send him into exile in the south of France or Switzerland.
	But don't pretend that you're observing any legal or constitutional process when you put your former head of state up on charges of, quote, insulting the presidency.
	You're just making it go along.
	Do you think any of these people, either side, either of those crowds, either side, the pro-Morsy crowds, the anti-Morsi crowds, how many of them do you think would be capable of writing a First Amendment or understanding what it means or understanding that a free society doesn't mean you go into a polling booth and vote for your guy to come out on top and then he tosses people into jail for writing editorials he doesn't like, he doesn't like.
	These people do not have the necessary conditions for liberty.
	And unless you give some thought to that, they never are going to have it.
	But that's why the American Revolution succeeded and almost every other revolution that takes place fails because they do not meet the conditions necessary to live as a free people.
	Mark Stein on the day after Independence Day, post-Independence Day, lots more of your calls straight ahead.
	1-800-282-2882 Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB Network Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
	John, thanks for waiting.
	What is on your mind this Open Line Friday?
	Well, I'm watching the Zimmerman trial, and just before lunch, they had a confrontation between the defense lawyer and the medical examiner who's the prosecution witness.
	His name is Dr. Bao, B-A-O.
	And Dr. Bao brought in his own notes so that he could say the right thing.
	And so when the lawyer, Mr. West, Zimmerman's lawyer, said, are you reading from something?
	And the guy had to admit it.
	And he said, what do you got there?
	And he had pages of notes.
	And so they asked for copies of the notes and to take a recess for lunch.
	And now they're going back.
	And in the interim, one of the legal analysts on CNN, and I don't usually watch CNN, but they were covering the trial at the time.
	She said that the case is so against the prosecution that the defense is probably going to ask for a directed judgment from the judge.
	And it won't even go to the jury.
	And then she said, except that it's become so politicized that that's not going to happen.
	And what I think she's saying is that Obama at the beginning of this thing, of this incident, said that Trayvon was the son, if he had a son, it would look like Trayvon.
	And I think there's a lot of outside pressure still on this, and it might go, you know, be influenced by the White House.
	By the way, that's an extraordinary thing to say for the President of the United States to say.
	I wouldn't have, I wouldn't want to, I'd be gone.
	Once the most powerful man on the planet, supposedly, although it doesn't look that way if you're in Tahrir Square, but once the most powerful man in the planet says if he had a son, it would look like the victim in this case,
	then I would just hightail it across the border and I would never set foot in the United States again because that is, I would very much doubt you'd be able to find a jury in which the overwhelming majority of people have not heard that statement.
	But by the way, just to go back to this medical examiner reading, that's a real no-no in court.
	When you're a witness in court, the jury is supposed to be able, wants to be able to evaluate you on whether you're giving your and whether you're giving honest testimony.
	You can answer the questions that are asked of you in a competent, confident manner.
	The guy who was on earlier, Trayvon's stepbrother, who basically blew it for the prosecution because he let the cat out of the bag that he didn't really know his brother terribly well.
	That's a classic.
	You could rehearse these people, and I take it the prosecution did attempt to say this, say that, but it was a slapdash prosecution and they didn't really rehearse themselves often enough.
	Now, if you're just a member of the public and you've got a piece of paper and you're reading out, the judge might cut you some slack on that.
	But when you're a medical examiner, you know you can't just read your script out in the witness box.
	You're supposed to actually be, you're there as an expert.
	You're a medical examiner.
	You're supposed to be testifying to stuff you know.
	And if you only know it because you've written it all down in a particular form of words, then you ought to have stayed up all night practicing in front of the mirror so that you could regurgitate it competently.
	I think that the defense is right.
	The judge would be entitled to issue a ruling and just not send it to the jury on that basis, John.
	Did you see any of the questioning of this doctor, the medical examiner?
	I didn't say.
	I was hard at work here preparing for the show so that's why I was saying you came on.
	He was on for at least a half hour and he was interrupting the defense lawyer, Mr. West, and it got so bad that they had to have the judge intervene and say, you know, let's have only one person talking because the court senographer can't be typing down the utterances of more than one person at a time.
	And this Dr. Bow, who I guess he's some kind of an Asian, he looks Chinese, is an arrogant little jerk that kept on saying he doesn't remember anything and everything that he's stating is just his opinion.
	I mean, so it was the arrogance and then followed by these notes that were what he did want to share.
	He said, hey, these are my notes.
	You don't have a right to it.
	And the judge goes, hold up there, Charlie.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You're reading them out from the witness box.
	They're your testimony.
	No, no, this is, I mean, this is a staggeringly inept prosecution.
	And the point you made earlier, John, is interesting.
	If this were any other defendant, this would be a slam dunk.
	That guy would be out of here.
	Because of what Obama said and because of the need for conviction, it may not be that way.
	Yes, it's post-Independence Day in the United States of America.
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	American Independence Day 2013, the state of California passed on this California Senate on Wednesday, passed the K-12 Transgender Rights Bill.
	This is about transgender bathrooms.
	California is sliding into the Pacific.
	It's broke.
	Businesses are fleeing California for more favorable jurisdictions.
	It's got a health system that's been overwhelmed by illegal immigration.
	It's got all kinds of stuff going on there, but they're dealing with their priorities.
	And they passed this K-12 transgender rights bill, AB 1266.
	And it forbids California schools from K-12 from discriminating against students based on their gender identity.
	What this means is that if you're a kid in a California school now, you get to decide which restroom you would like to use and which sports teams you would like to join.
	In other words, if you want to use, if you're a boy, but you are, it's nothing to do with whether you are born a boy or born a girl or whether you have had operation to have the old wedding tackle taken off and you become a girl or whether you know you've undergone surgery or hormone treatment or anything like that.
	If you identify as a whatever you identify with, you're allowed to use that bathroom and play on that sports team.
	It's made to me the whole transgendered bathroom thing is actually the issue of the hour as America celebrates Independence Day.
	There was a story out of Maine on the other side of the country a couple of weeks ago about identical twin.
	They were identical twin boys, but one of them identifies as a girl.
	And it's now gone to the Maine Supreme Court because the one who identifies as a girl was humiliated at not being able to use the girls' bathroom in school.
	She had to go and use the bathroom in, I think it was the nurse's office or whatever.
	But now in California, it's the first state in the Union to say that if you are in a California school, you can use whatever bath.
	I would have loved it when I was at school.
	I would have loved it when I was like 14, 15 to just say, oh, yes, I, you know, it's amazing.
	But I thought over the weekend, I suddenly realized I identify as a girl.
	So I thought I'd use the ladies' changing room today.
	I thought I used the girls' changing room today.
	Don't mind me.
	Pay no attention to me.
	Don't get disturbed by anything you happen to see.
	It's just, I identify as a girl, so it's perfectly fine.
	Do you need some help soaking your back?
	I would be, that would be what I would have done at school.
	And they say now that they're worried that under this, people, guys who are like football players or they're sports players, they're not like the big, they can't compete with the real jocks.
	So playing on the male sports teams is like a bit tough.
	So now they'll be able to just decide they want to play on the female sports teams.
	And this is the way it is.
	This is the way it is in California.
	The transgendered rights bill, this is the first state in the Union to pass a bill in which wherever you are, K through 12, if you're a first grader and you'd rather use your little first grade boy and you'd rather use the girls' toilet, you'll be able to use the girls' toilets.
	Well, that's that's what that's the trick.
	That's the trick, Mr. Snerdley.
	It is the abolition.
	It is the abolition of gender.
	It was like I was up in Canada a couple of days ago, and they have like the big, what I always used to think of as the gay pride parade, but in fact, it's like the GLBTQI2S or something parade now, because it's not just your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender.
	There's something called intersex.
	There's something called questioning.
	There's two-spirited.
	There's people who live.
	There was a big story in the Toronto Star from outraged people who live in what they call the grey zone of gender identity.
	And when they fly to America, you hicks at customs and border protection and homeland security and the TSA.
	You don't have any lines for the people who live in the quote gray zone of gender identity.
	You think there should be men and women and all the rest of them.
	There's all kinds of people.
	I mean, it's true.
	It's true if you live in the grey zone of gender identity and you walk through a TSA scanner and you've got a full set of everything going through, then you get hauled over and the TSA guys.
	So the left is committed to abolishing gender identity.
	There are no men, there are no women.
	And that goes along with the gay marriage.
	That's what part of the gay marriage thing is all about.
	They take out the word, I think Spain was the first to do this.
	Spain, when they introduced gay marriage, and they're just cleaning up the bureaucratic language, they replaced the words mother and father with progenitor one and progenitor two.
	That's how it is now in Spanish law.
	I don't know which one Mr. Snerdley is.
	You seem more of a progenitor two type to me.
	But like try it in a singles bar.
	I love it.
	It works with the chicks every time.
	You go in and you like to slide onto the bar.
	You see a hot-looking chick and you slide onto the bar stool next to her and say, do you want to come back to my place and play progenitor one and progenitor two?
	It works every time.
	You can't go wrong with it.
	But that's what the left is.
	The left is committed to the abolition of gender.
	And it's amazing.
	I mean, for a start, it ought to seem for a start.
	An eight or a nine year old, this whole thing now, once upon a time, not so long ago, sex changes.
	It was something you got, you had a slightly unhappy teenage period and you moved out your parents' house and at 19 or 20 or whatever, you went and you got a sex change.
	And that was, I would think, I mentioned James Bond the other day.
	I think there was one Bond girl in the Roger Moore era who had originally started out as a Bond boy.
	And she'd had this fantastic operation and looked absolutely terrific.
	She didn't, by the way, if Nancy Pelosi or Bette Middler are listening to this, she didn't get that on the National Health Service.
	I think she had it done in Switzerland because believe me, you don't want to get your sex change done on the British National Health Service any more than you want to get it done under Obamacare.
	But that's what they did.
	And then people start to say, well, 14, 15, people can wield.
	You're making life-threatening, life-changing alterations to the human body here.
	Now they're doing it with grade schoolers.
	They're basically saying, oh, well, yes, Jimmy, we got Jimmy a G.I. Joe when he was five, but he really didn't like G.I. Joe, so he prefers to play with Barbie.
	So now we're going to pump him full of hormones and we're planning on him having the full SNP when he's nine or ten.
	Who knows what that's about?
	Who knows what that's about?
	And the idea that the presumption that it's entirely normal for a child to understand, to understand concepts of gender identity at that age is amazing to me.
	But you can't go backwards on any of this stuff.
	So the state of California now says anybody has the right to use any bathroom, has the right to play on any sports team.
	If you want to play, you know, if you feel the guys' basketball team, if you is a bit, the competition is a bit tough on there and you'd rather play on the girls' basketball team, feel free.
	And as a bonus, you'll get to use their changing rooms too.
	That's how it is now in California.
	The abolition of gender.
	And that's the left, by the way, is all about.
	This is why the right thinks of politics in two narrow terms.
	The left are the, the left, everything is politics.
	Even so, in the end, politics touches everything.
	You can't be a six-year-old boy without being politicized by the state of California, by leftist social engineering.
	You can't go to nursery school without being politicized by leftist social engineers.
	The right thinks politics is about electing a guy with an R after his name every other November.
	The left thinks it starts in kindergarten and the boys and girls' bathrooms are part of the battlefield.
	And that's why they tend to win a lot of this stuff.
	Mark Stein Infra Rush.
	take more of your calls straight ahead.
	Hey, Mark Stein in for the infarush on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Ilona in the great state of New Hampshire, down in Merrimack, New Hampshire, down way south of me.
	Greetings from Grafton County, Ilona.
	Good to hear from you.
	Well, greetings from Hillsborough County.
	It's good talking to you.
	I was wondering what your reaction is to the Gabby Gifford's Mark Kelly rights and responsibilities tour.
	They've been in New Hampshire the last couple of days now, and I just heard on the news this morning that apparently Mark Kelly just bought a hunting rifle at a gun store up in your neck of the woods.
	He claims he needs it for hunting, but speculation is that he actually got it because he wants to prove how easy it is to pass the test for owning again.
	So I was just wondering what your reaction is to this silliness that they're doing.
	Yeah, and it is silly.
	I mean, basically, for a start, he should know enough because of what happened to his wife.
	He should know enough to be able to distinguish between the purposes for which people buy guns and why they buy guns.
	And that there is nothing for him to be gained by somehow getting it about the people who buy guns for protection or buy guns for hunting are the issue here.
	This is exactly the same.
	All the things we've been talking about today, it's the same as the NSA.
	It's the same as the idiot security banning beach umbrellas at the Boston Pops concert in Boston.
	But the lazy mind universalizes the problem.
	And in fact, you know, the lazy mind makes things creates bad things.
	It's like after Tamil Ansarnev, there was some Saudi guy walking around with a pressure cooker and he was arrested.
	And apparently he was just a Saudi who's interested in cooking.
	He's like the Paula Dean of Riyadh or whatever.
	There were a couple of guys, but on the other hand, there were a couple of guys up in Vancouver who tried to just been arrested in a plot to explode something with pressure cookers.
	So We're about three months away from banning pressure cookers, banning pressure cookers.
	Pressure cookers don't kill people.
	If you outlaw pressure cookers, only people under pressure will have cookers.
	So it's the mind that says there are no bad people.
	We can't be judgmental about anybody.
	We can't actually look for the people we need to look for.
	So we just have to ban things.
	We have to ban everything for everybody.
	And it'll be guns, it'll be pressure cookers, it'll be beach umbrellas.
	But you know, I don't know what it's like down in Hillsborough County, Ilona, but I would say up here, by the way, all this anti-gun stuff has been getting no traction whatsoever.
	And that thing that happened in Concord, where a state rep, a Democrat state rep, is reading out some list of victims of gun violence in America, and she read out the name of Tamilan Zarnayev, you know, the dead Boston bomber.
	And it was only afterwards that people realized that's what it is, by the way.
	A Democrat state rep in New Hampshire thinks that Tamilan Zanev, the Boston bomber, is a victim of gun violence.
	That's the kind of stupidity you get into when you make things, things the issue rather than the people who do them.
	By the way, I think he was in Whitefield New House.
	Wasn't it the Whitefield gun shop?
	I can't remember.
	I know the time.
	I think it was the Whitefield.
	The owner actually invited him to come.
	It was a discussion.
	Yeah, I bought a gun at the Whitefield gun shop many, many years ago.
	That's how slack the system is.
	Even foreigners could just stroll it and there.
	See?
	That's the point.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	But that's, you know, that is not going anywhere.
	That is not going anywhere.
	The non-judgmentalism of all this, what you have at Sandy Hook, for example, you cannot, as we see at the Boston Pops, you cannot turn, even if you read everybody's emails, even if, like this German technology, they've got something now that they can, the Germans have just announced they can pump advertisements directly into your head on trains.
	You lean against the window and they pump the advertisement directly into your head.
	I don't know how they do it, but even if we had that here so that Obama could send you peace-loving messages into your head and you would never vote Republican again, even if you had the all-powerful super security state, it doesn't do anything for people like it doesn't do anything for things like Sandy Hook.
	And in gun-free countries, supposedly gun-free countries like the United Kingdom, they're having guys with machetes chopping fellas' heads off on the streets of London in broad daylight.
	You don't turn.
	That's the lesson.
	That's the lesson of Independence Day.
	The lesson of Independence Day is that independence as a society presumes depends on an independent people, depends on people taking responsibility for their own lives.
	And God forbid, if you should be, I went, and I just want to, I didn't talk about Sandy Hook a lot when it happened, but I want to just say a word about this thing.
	I think the militarization of our schools would be an absolute tragedy.
	I went to my kids' band concert, my little New Hampshire grade school a few weeks ago.
	And I arrived 10 minutes early, and we thought we'd go in early.
	The doors are all locked.
	Used to be, that was, you know, that's like a school in picture-perfect small town New Hampshire where town meeting is held in the school gym and everything.
	And the school is a community building that members of the community used to be able to walk in, walk out of, take part in activities, all the rest of it, open to all.
	Now you have to press a buzzer which goes out to the Secretary of State and Shield, determine whether it's legitimate to open the door up and let you out.
	So that thing that you see in parts of this country, the military, our schools are like sort of armed fortresses against the world, against the community they're meant to serve.
	We should think very carefully before going too far down that path.
	Thanks for your call, Ilona.
	Lots more ahead on Open Line Friday.
	According to Jake Tapper, because of sequester cuts, there were no fireworks this year at Camp Lejeune, Fort Bragg, Shaw Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor, Hickam, or Maguire-Dix Lakehurst.
	There's money, there's $100 million to send the President of the United States to Africa.
	There's money for a new limo that includes night vision, ooh, night vision in the new limo.
	But there is no money for fireworks at Camp Lejeune.
	The guy who does the fireworks at Camp Lejeune has done them for years.
	He has said he was happy to do them for free, but the company offered to do them for free, but they still turned them down.
	And if you believe this narrative, if you believe this narrative about the sequester, the reason you can't have fireworks on the 4th of July is because of the sequester.
	But there's money, there's $100 million to send the President on a failed, flop, disastrous trip to Africa.
	There's money for a new limousine.
	Don't believe this stuff, folks.
	Don't believe this stuff.
	They're picking and choosing.
	And when a smart guy like Jake Tapper decides to string along with that narrative, he's just supporting their version of events.

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