Sept. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and uh we're honored, honored uh to be with you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire. | |
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| Uh the Washing When am I gonna be in Minneapolis I'm gonna be in Minnesota I'm gonna be in Minneapolis uh on October the 9th, uh and that's at uh Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, and it's presented by the uh Center for the American Experiment. | |
| Uh and I o uh well, if uh you go to American Experiment.org, you can get tickets. | |
| Or if you go to my website, if you go to SteinOnline dot com, and that's Stein with a Y, as in why do I have to listen to this annoying foreigner telling me everything that's wrong with my country. | |
| Uh STEYN Online.com. | |
| Uh there's a link just in the right hand sidebar on the homepage that will bring you bring you to that. | |
| And uh that's October 9th, Center of the American Experiment, it's uh orchest orchestra hall in uh Minneapolis. | |
| Oh, if they want to get me on Twitter, my Twitter handle is at Markstein Online. | |
| And uh if they want to get me on Facebook is Mark Stein Online too, I think. | |
| That's right. | |
| I've got to I've got so many I'm like these, uh I'm like some of these Somali guys. | |
| I've got seven different names. | |
| I can't always remember them all. | |
| Uh but uh I think that's uh I think that's I shouldn't be making Somali jokes when I'm appearing in Minneapolis, 'cause it's like fifty-eight percent of the population or something now, uh, and we want them all to uh come out and buy tickets uh uh for Oct October the ninth. | |
| But uh I will be there. | |
| And I always love I I mentioned uh uh uh at uh at the beginning of the show that I always love go to Minneapolis because I got to use the Larry Craig wide stance uh men's room there. | |
| And uh I didn't mean use it in the Larry Craig sense. | |
| I wasn't playing FTSE uh with uh with uh any uh Minneapolis airport cop. | |
| But I was always very appreciative of that men's room, and I'll tell you I'll tell you why. | |
| Uh at the time I was having my difficulties with the Canadian human rights commissions up north of the border, and I was basically looking at a lifetime publication ban in the country I was born in. | |
| Uh that would have been the statutory penalty if I'd been convicted of flagrant Islamophobia. | |
| That's what I w uh uh uh I was up against at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. | |
| Flagrant Islamophobia, which is w far worse than just regular Islamophobia. | |
| I mean, uh flagrant Islamophobia is you're doing it uh extremely flagrantly, flamboyantly, even camply. | |
| I was accused of being campy Islamophobic. | |
| And the statutory penalty is that my magazine and no other publication would have been able to publish me in the land of my birth for life. | |
| Uh so I was very interested In free speech issues, and I still am. | |
| And just uh so at the same time as I'm undergoing this torment uh in front of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Federal Human Rights Commission, uh at the hands of the Canadian Islamic Congress. | |
| I hear about Senator Larry Craig, who uh who uh was uh uh caught playing footsee with an undercover cop in the Minneapolis airport men's room. | |
| And uh he he's no longer a senator now, he was one of the singing senators with Trent Lott and Jim Jeffords, and I've no idea what he was singing under that stall divider, uh, but uh the police officer evidently liked it enough to stick his police boot under the divider and wiggle his toes against Larry Craig's toes. | |
| And uh Larry Craig's original defense was that uh he had a wide stance while he was in the Minneapolis airport. | |
| He was famous around Washington that when he went to the men's room he had a wide stance, and that's why his foot was on the other guy's side of the divider. | |
| And he modified his defense, and he said that in fact the twirling of his boot under the men's room stall divider to the police officer when he was when he was twirling his shoe with a come hither twirl to the Minneapolis airport cop, that that was that that that was protected speech under the First Amendment. | |
| And I thought, what a great country. | |
| What a great country. | |
| In in Canada, in Canada, my columns are not protected free speech, but in America, Larry Craig's foot movements under the bathroom uh men's room stall divider is protected free speech under the First Amendment. | |
| What a great country. | |
| And ever since then, ever since then, I have not attacked imams in print, uh, but I always make a point of hitting on them whenever I encounter them in airport bathrooms because it's far safer, and as Larry Craig, uh Senator Larry Craig taught us, it's protected speech under the First Amendments. | |
| I was very grateful for that, and uh I always look forward to being back at Minneapolis at well be on October the ninth. | |
| Um the Washington Post is beginning to uh not just because it's uh it's fired uh Catherine Graham's granddaughter as publisher and replaced her with a uh as all the sinister news coverage says, Reagan administration appointee. | |
| Uh the Washington Post seems to be losing patience with Obama. | |
| A headline on two columns today, Obama's Herky Jerky leadership. | |
| Herky jerky. | |
| Herky the word of the day is Herky Jerky, says Ruth Marcus, which is a polite way of saying erratic. | |
| Uh she she's uh this is what she says. | |
| Once again, this is a hold that the president helped dig himself into and one that was easily foreseen. | |
| Once again, he looks weak and uncertain, not in control of his game. | |
| Sometimes if everyone is mad at you, it is proof that you are doing your job. | |
| Sometimes it's a sign that you are simply messing up. | |
| That's Ruth Marcus on Obama's Herky Jerky leadership. | |
| Meanwhile, Dana Milbank, Dana Milbank has written a column on President Obama's unnerving happy talk uh and compares him unfavorably uh with David Cameron, the uh the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who is uh he's nominally head of the Conservative Party. | |
| He's nobody's idea of a conservative. | |
| He's basically an unprincipled, unmoored squish of the first order. | |
| Uh and when he's looking uh uh uh like Mr. Backbone and Mr. Decisive and Mr. Leadership next to you, you know things uh things are really bad. | |
| A poll released last week found that 54% of the public thinks Obama is not tough enough uh on in foreign policy. | |
| Obama has been giving Americans a pep talk, essentially counseling them not to let international turmoil get in the way of the domestic economic recovery. | |
| Uh and he's talking about the necessity of American leadership and how Obama's happy talk fails that test. | |
| Uh and uh Ruth Marcus Rakus is talking about Obama's Herky Jerky leadership. | |
| These people are slowly, slowly beginning to tire of defending the indefensible. | |
| Uh And uh uh basically because a lot of things are getting worse, and eventually uh the the things that are getting worse will be getting worse right where you are. | |
| Um I I made the point in the first hour that uh when you abolish the south southern border, as Obama has, there's basically no difference between domestic and foreign, uh between home and abroad, between Main Street and a lot of crazy wacky foreigners doing crazy stuff on the other side of the planet, because it turns out they live in Minneapolis or whatever. | |
| And that's the point. | |
| It's a very thin line that separates civilization from barbarism. | |
| And if you you go back to that Malaysian Airlines flight, not the one that disappeared, but the second one that was ferrying a bunch of Dutch businessmen and Dutch tourists uh from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpa in Malaysia and got shot down over Ukraine by some goons acting at the behest of Vladimir Putin or whatever. | |
| And that's that's the division. | |
| That moment. | |
| You you think you're getting on a a flight from uh one corner of the civilized world to another, but you have to pass over, pass over some part of the map that has just fallen out of civilization and back into barbarism. | |
| And in that little dark patch on the map, uh where the beacons of civilization no longer burn, you get shot out of the sky, and it's all over, and you're in a field, and no matter what the international community says, uh the goons who shot you down, don't let anybody get near the crash site, and they pick over your bodies and they steal all your stuff and they dishonor you even in death, because that's how narrow the line is between civilization and barbarism. | |
| Uh and the light went out in Ukraine, and the light went out in Libya at Tripoli Airport, where these uh where these planes have uh disappeared, and the light goes out in Mosul, uh, where Christians have fled who've been one of the oldest Christian communities on the planet, | |
| and they're all gone now, and their churches are being destroyed and raised to the ground, and the light goes out in Mosul, and the light goes out here and a light goes out there, and all the superpower does is it asks the first lady to stand there with a sad look on her face and a piece of cardboard with a handwritten hashtag. | |
| I mean, I don't even get the handwritten hashtag. | |
| I thought it was just something you had on the computer. | |
| I didn't realize it worked on a piece of cardboard, too. | |
| The handwritten hashtag, hashtag bring back our girls. | |
| How did that work? | |
| How did that work? | |
| How does hashtag how does hashtag government work? | |
| Or does it just mean another light goes out here and another light goes out there? | |
| And pretty soon when you take in a flight, you're flying in darkness all over and hoping there are still a few beacons, a few citadels of civilization that have still got their lights on. | |
| And you still hope that there'll be somewhere out there, there'll be a shining city on a hill, because everything below the hill is plunged into darkness and barbarism. | |
| And that is what is happening to this map. | |
| That is what is happening to the map uh on Obama's watch. | |
| And even the Washington Post, even the fans of Obama can't defend this because what can you say? | |
| He's not serious. | |
| He's golfing. | |
| He's in Estonia to reassure people, and what he says doesn't reassure anybody, because they're asking him about another American who's been beheaded, and he's got nothing to say about it. | |
| Mark Stein and Farush will take your calls straight ahead. | |
| America's number one radio show, the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein in for Rush. | |
| Uh Charles C. Johnson from uh got news dot com uh joins us. | |
| Uh uh Charles has uh an enviable uh nose for news, and he has been digging down in uh to the uh the the backstory to events in uh Ferguson, Missouri, and specifically with Michael Brown, | |
| uh who who Started out as the gentle liar, uh gentle giant and the college kid, and then he was caught on video uh stealing uh these cigars uh and uh his story has kind of decayed from there, the the gentle giant thing. | |
| Uh but but Charles has been wondering what else is behind that and has been trying to get hold of uh his uh of the court records from uh juvenile court, Charles. | |
| Uh how how's that end of things going and what have you heard? | |
| So uh I filed suit uh oh you know uh two weeks ago with the uh St. Louis Post dispatch and what we we went to court today and the uh judge is gonna make a decision either something, you know, uh in the next month uh on the uh on the issue. | |
| And what I had was I had two St. Louis police officials who both told me that Michael Brown was in a gang and that Michael Brown uh that Michael Brown was charged with uh with uh uh second degree murder. | |
| And uh which would be consistent with being in a gang and being present for a shooting, but not necessarily participating in it. | |
| Right. | |
| And I wanted to find out if this was true, so I filed a sunshine request. | |
| Uh I was denied uh on dubious grounds, and so I retained counsel and got news.com and I sued, and we uh are we've been uh fighting it uh ever since. | |
| Now now usually the the argument for not releasing a juvenile's criminal record is because he becomes an adult and you don't want the taint of his juvenile record to hang around his shoulders uh for the rest of his adult life. | |
| But but the argument here is that, well, he's dead, uh so there's not going to be an adult life, so there's no reason not to release these records. | |
| That's basically it, isn't it? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| And you know, there's a there's another case involving a white 18-year-old who stole cigarettes and who died uh from being beaten by a security guard, and his juvenile records were also released. | |
| So there's a bit of a you know, racial angle here, which is why is it that a dead black you know juvenile's records aren't released, but a dead white one's were. | |
| And honestly, you know, I just want to know what are in the records to know if the police officers were telling the truth. | |
| And you know, there's a lot of stuff swirling around here in uh in Missouri, which I've flown to to go and actually be present at the courtroom, and uh a lot of stories that haven't been reported about the looting and about the rioting. | |
| Uh and so I wanted to go what uh one of the things we do at Got News.com is we tell the stories that no one else will, even if they're politically incorrect. | |
| And so uh I intend to fight it all the way through to the end. | |
| Well the post the post dispatch uh the the St. Louis paper has a story uh in in which uh the uh uh a lawyer for the uh county's juvenile officer uh says there were there were no convictions or active cases for uh quote serious felonies, unquote. | |
| Now, does that necessarily rule out uh the second degree uh murder uh uh story that you've been uh No, well we were what we were told is that um is that there were charges and that a deal was struck. | |
| Uh Lewis had Lewis Head, who is Michael Brown's stepfather, has a long rap sheet, and we were told what I was told is that uh that a deal was struck by Lewis Head to kind of keep uh his stepson out of jail, and that's part of the reason that Michael Brown went wound up living with his with his father and with his grandparents rather than with his mother and stepfather. | |
| Um and so that's that that's entirely consistent with what I've heard. | |
| Um, again, a serious felony, you know, that's a very interesting question. | |
| What is a serious felony? | |
| The uh the council did not explain that today. | |
| And what's interesting is that uh the St. Louis Post dispatched his own lawyer said that they wanted the records, um, but their reporter, you know, wrongly said that there were no charges either. | |
| We we didn't hear that in court today. | |
| Um so they think that Post Dispatch unfortunately got it wrong. | |
| And fortunately I was able to shame them into filing suit alongside us to go and get these records. | |
| Um and uh I'm glad that they're they finally joined uh you know, joined up and they're fighting for the first amendment too. | |
| J just quickly, Charles, uh should we attach any significance to the fact that this lawyer, Cynthia Harcourt, used this why didn't she just say he is no Class A felonies, he is no Class B felon is why did she use a deliberately vague phrase? | |
| Well, it's a great question. | |
| Uh You know, I've repeatedly said I'll drop the suit immediately if uh you know, if a court official will go and say uh there you know that that he has no criminal record. | |
| Um but they they they have not done that. | |
| Um I've also been very clear, you know, they've played all sorts of games with me saying that, you know, oh they're fifty Michael Browns, you're sure you have the right one. | |
| And I was like, yes, you know, here's here's all this information. | |
| Here's the first uh his two middle names. | |
| Here's his driver's learn learner you know, driver's sermon. | |
| So this might just be so they've tried to play all these games because they don't want us to know the information. | |
| Yeah, so this might be more obfuscation on that part. | |
| It's a fascinating story. | |
| Keep keep at it, Charles, and we'll keep following it here too. | |
| Yes, great to be with you. | |
| Eric Erickson uh checks in tomorrow and Rush returns live next week. | |
| Let's go to Pat in uh Utah in uh in the town of Orem. | |
| Did I say uh that right, Pat? | |
| Yes, Oram. | |
| Okay, great great to have you with us, and thanks uh thanks for waiting. | |
| What's what's on your mind today? | |
| Thank you. | |
| I always listen when you're on, although we're big fans of Rush. | |
| Uh I'm going back to your granny uh on the air airlines. | |
| Uh I just returned from Canada with five of my seven children. | |
| Uh four boys and their spouses and one without a spouse, thirteen grandchildren. | |
| All the men are over six feet tall, one six foot seven, they all have snarky senses of humor and so on, and I warn them, do not say anything when we cross borders or when we get on planes. | |
| Right, right. | |
| I am the last one to go through the check. | |
| I get wounded three times, have to take my shoes and my jewelry off. | |
| I say I have new hips and new knees. | |
| Oh no, I had to go through again, and I had to stand like I was going to do jumping jacks and be patted down. | |
| I'm seventy six years old. | |
| And this was which which airport was this at? | |
| In Syracuse. | |
| In Syracuse, New York. | |
| Coming back from Canada. | |
| Okay. | |
| So you'd like ten. | |
| But the first indignity was I looked over and saw a woman I had seen earlier in a wheelchair. | |
| She had to have been ten years older than me. | |
| She could not even hold her head up in the wheelchair. | |
| They took her out of the wheelchair, two TSA agents held her up, made her spread her legs and go through the padding down. | |
| Right. | |
| And I thought, well, I hope you're all feeling safer now that you've taken care of all of us grandmothers. | |
| No, it's it's uh it's it's ridiculous this. | |
| My kids, my kids are all going, Where's mom? | |
| Where's mom? | |
| Oh, she's back now, they won't let her through. | |
| My grandkids are saying, Oh my gosh, is grandma going to get on the tra the plane? | |
| But you know what I think they're looking for? | |
| What what did you think it was? | |
| My kinder eggs. | |
| That's that's true. | |
| Kinder eggs and bagpipes. | |
| That'll do it for you every time. | |
| So I think uh I think I told my grandkids you can all feel safer now. | |
| Grandma's been checked out and she has no um untour devices on her that will harm anyone on this plane. | |
| But you know you know some you know something, Pat. | |
| This stuff isn't isn't funny, because if you'd said to people even uh forty years ago, uh so uh uh th th that at one point uh uh Americans in wheelchairs, law abiding we have this thing uh which is a basic uh uh concept in law called probable cause. | |
| It's why you can't be driving down the street and a uh police officer can't uh pull you over unless he's got a reason to pull you over. | |
| And the courts give wide latitude to that. | |
| But he can't pull over. | |
| You can't walk down the street and a police officer sees uh uh an eighty-seven year old lady in a wheelchair and he drags her out of the wheelchair and he feels all the way up her legs, unless he's got a reason to do it. | |
| The airport is the only place so far, so far in America, uh, where all your rights, uh all your Fourth Amendment rights uh uh about unlawful seizure and all the rest of it, uh just disappear. | |
| And Amer and Americans should be revolted uh when they listen to Pat describing what she went to. | |
| Because as I said, it doesn't mean the security's working really well. | |
| It doesn't mean oh, oh we've got uh we've got Pat. | |
| Uh If they're if they if they're patting down uh Pat uh and if they're patting down the lady behind her in the wheelchair, if they're dragging her up out the wheelchair, three people, three people. | |
| You wonder why this is the brokest nation in history is because it takes three people to pat down an eighty-seven year old woman in a wheelchair who is no threat to anybody, uh no threat to anybody. | |
| Uh and the inability to distinguish that. | |
| If you go back to where we came in uh 1999, uh and uh some guy is uh Ahmed Rassam, that was his name, uh and he had a Canadian passport, and he was trying to get from uh uh uh on a border crossing from British Columbia, Washington State uh border cross. | |
| I think it was on the ferry. | |
| And it wasn't anything in his paperwork that they looked at. | |
| It wasn't anything in the in his uh in i the scanner, it was the border agent didn't like the look in his eyes, didn't like the look in his eyes. | |
| She made a human judgment. | |
| That guy was on his way to blow up LAX on December 31st, 1999. | |
| And the border agent stopped him because she made a human judgment as to the threat he represented. | |
| And now we don't do that. | |
| Now we profile things. | |
| Now we put a woman in a wheelchair, uh, we put Pat through the scanner and make her stand there like she's doing jumpin' jacks and figure, well, you know, what are those things in her hips? | |
| Well, they're called hip replacements, and a lot of elderly Americans have them. | |
| But we profile we don't profile Abdul Rahman Mohammed, the ISIS guy killed in uh killed fighting in Syria for America's enemies, we profile hip replacements. | |
| So if you've got a hip replacement and it shows up on the scanner, we'll drag you aside uh for extra screening. | |
| And that's never going to work. | |
| Because you can always add zillions of things to the list. | |
| And there'll always be someone who gets the podcast. | |
| The panty bomber got through. | |
| He got on the plane. | |
| And nobody wanted to go into this because it's all too revolting to discuss. | |
| But the uh but the uh but the the guy, the panty bomber would have blown that plane up over Detroit if he hadn't made the mistake of not changing his undies for two weeks. | |
| So if he'd uh if he was the sort of fellow, if he if he had a more punctilious hygiene regime and he changed his tighty whiteies every day, uh that plane would have been blown sky high. | |
| He got the bomb on the plane, and it's only because he'd been wearing the same pair of of feet knickers for two weeks uh that the thing didn't blow sky high. | |
| The uh the fruit of kaboom bomber, as uh as Rush used to call him. | |
| And that's the only reason, because the m the bomb material had quote degraded uh in the euphemism, uh because he'd been wearing these things uh for two weeks. | |
| Saying if we had jihadists with better hygiene habits, uh he would have blown that plane sky high. | |
| And in the meantime, uh the TSA are dragging aside uh old ladies in wheelchairs or Pat with her hip replacements and profiling things. | |
| Prof instead of profiling the threat, they're profiling things, and that's never gonna work. | |
| And it's interesting uh I was just reading something. | |
| Michelle Buckman uh was talking about uh she'd been told by uh an FBI guy, she'd been speaking to an FBI guy about what's gonna happen to all these Minnesota people when they come back after fighting for ISIS, and the FBI guy says, Well, you know, they're just they're US citizens, they're gonna waltz straight in. | |
| And uh she's talking about, well, look, they're fighting for the enemy. | |
| That used to be called treason. | |
| Uh throughout most of human history, uh people accused of treason have been hanged. | |
| That's the penalty for treason. | |
| Uh I think uh that's that's still on the books in most uh in in in most countries. | |
| Um and if you take up arms with the enemies of your country, uh that's that's a capital offense, and and you should die. | |
| But instead, instead, uh because we don't prosecute treason anymore, because it's supposedly Difficult to prosecute because apparently fighting for ISIS and chopping the heads off people uh all over Syria and Iraq is uh is entirely compatible with U.S. citizenship, nothing can be done when these fellas fly back to the country. | |
| And here's the thing, when I listen to Peter King and other people who are very good on the national security threat, David Cameron's new proposals in London and all the rest of it, they're all talking the same way that somehow if you get uh if you b if you get the security apparatus, if you just crank that up another notch. | |
| Uh so if you put in a plan whereby a guy who's been uh, you know, he's been in Syria and Iraq uh and he can't quite account for the reasons he was there, or he took a flight to uh Istanbul and then disappeared and he might have worked his way down uh into Syria and Iraq and it's not kind of clear. | |
| You'll have the right to revoke his passport to revoke his passport. | |
| And these are the laws people are talking about now. | |
| And I my worry is this that they would just be like all the other laws we have. | |
| You know, Pat said she got this treatment when uh they'd been over in Canada and uh uh she came back down, took a flight out of Syracuse Airport in New York and they did this to her. | |
| And it'll be the same thing with that with the passports. | |
| They'll pass some new law uh so they can take away Abdul Rahman's m Abdul Rahman Mohammed's passport when these guys come back from Minnesota uh come back to Minnesota from all the fun they're having fighting for ISIS. | |
| And it'll never be applied to Abdul Rahman Mohammed, but it'll apply to Pat. | |
| You know, it'll turn out uh she'll she'll go up to uh Toronto uh for a couple of days uh shopping and to see an ABBA musical at the Princess of Wales Theatre, and she'll be coming back, and uh she won't have filled in the IU one two correctly, or she'll have a kinderg with her, and they'll take her passport. | |
| Cause that's the way all the laws work now. | |
| They don't get the laws y we've got a bazillion laws, and Abdul Rahman Mohammed and all the other fellas uh tap dance their way round them without a lot of difficulty, because Obama's suspending them piecemeal all the time. | |
| And people say, Well, we should pass more laws. | |
| And they'll pass more laws, and Abdul Rahman Mohammed will tap dance around them with ease, and they will never be applied to the people for which they were attended. | |
| Uh, but you'll get your passport confiscated for bringing back a kinderg from Winnipeg. | |
| And that's the way that's the problem by in looking at this thing purely in terms of profiling things and in terms of the big security state. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein, in for Rush, let's uh go to Leanne in Farmington, Maine. | |
| Leanne, it's uh great to have you with us on the Excellence in Broadcasting. | |
| Thank you, Mark, for having me. | |
| Uh my head's about to blow up, I think, if I dare say that, because the uh whatever it is, echelon or whatever might be listening. | |
| They are flying on our cell phones, probably our landlines, and yet we have a wide open southern border, no real foreign policy, and no initiative whatsoever, and no strategy. | |
| How about that? | |
| They're spying on perfectly good US citizens' cell phones. | |
| I gave up my mark. | |
| Well, what I found out that our government had voted by an arrow margin to continue civilized the cell phones. | |
| I said, it's not worth it for me to talk to my Aunt Rose in Michigan and be spied apart and play tetris and brick attack to my heart's content when I'm not talking on the phone to her. | |
| But but but you but you you're you're right, Leanne, but you know what what it is now, like every you can't opt out of that from your point of view. | |
| Every single even if you do things the old fashioned way and you take a letter uh and you handwr your address on it and you take it to the post office in Farmington, every single uh piece of mail now mailed into the United States is photographed. | |
| There's a record of that. | |
| And yet they can't they can't tell us who's coming over the border, they don't know how many illegals or legals really probably we have here now. | |
| They can't sell they can't send them back, they can't tell us that they can uh you know, document anything. | |
| Mark, I'm going crazier with this country. | |
| Well, the well the the thing the the thing is that when when they when they talk about it like that, I mean that's a choice. | |
| There's two types of people here. | |
| When they talk about undocumented un or informal workers, as they say now in California, informal, which makes them like relax and relax, as if they're wearing a V-neck sweater, uh, you know, like uh Obama going to play golf at the Vineyard Golf Club or uh Pericomo's Christmas special or whatever it is. | |
| They're like relax, they're informal. | |
| Uh you know, they're informal immigrants. | |
| Uh And and and the and life now, it's it's like a it's amazing to me. | |
| They would know if you held up a liquor store, Lee Ann, and I'm not suggesting you should do this if anyone's concerned, uh but if you held up a liquor store. | |
| You may need to under this government. | |
| Uh if you held up a liquor store, they would know instantly all your phone records, all your credit trans card transactions, everything you they've got a perfect snapshot of your life. | |
| Because they're monitoring it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. | |
| They're monitoring Le Ann in Farmington, Maine. | |
| And yet at the same time, there's this alternative population, the informal community, as they now call it in California, this new community of informal Americans, uh who exist uh uh living in the shadows, | |
| as they call it, which actually sounds very cool and shady and relaxing, uh, who don't have to worry about all this scrutiny, who who have a dispo have disposable identities, they have fake social security numbers, they have just enough documentation to be able to open bank accounts and send money back and all the rest of it. | |
| Uh but they don't have they're not scrutinized in the same way. | |
| By choice. | |
| The government by choice uh doesn't scrutinize them. | |
| And these two communities of of you, the Lee Ann School of Americans and the new group of what they call in California informal Americans, informal Americans, uh are overlaid like uh like overlaid area codes in a uh what's what's Maine's area code 207, isn't it? | |
| I think Lee Ann, is that right? | |
| Yeah, code. | |
| Area code 207. | |
| And I don't know whether they've introduced another one yet. | |
| No, they haven't. | |
| In fact, Olympia Snow helped us keep this one. | |
| We wind up statewide, no matter what. | |
| Right, right. | |
| But when they if they ever do, they'll be in they'll introduce another one, which will be 893 or whatever, and they'll and it will be overlaid on so you'll have essentially two area codes on one state or one city. | |
| And if you've got a 207 number like Leanne, every aspect of your life is monitored uh within within a millimeter of everything you do. | |
| And in the other overlapping area, you intersect, you'll you'll uh uh at road junctions in this other overlaid community, which exists in the same physical space, you don't have that. | |
| You're Abdul Rahman Mohammed, uh, you've got all your jihadist connections, you're joining up with ISIS, and yet somehow it doesn't affect you getting a job at Minneapolis Airport. | |
| And the world and and that's why Leanne ought to be crazy about this. | |
| Because it's it's this strange inversion that the more they don't, the more they don't crack down on the lawbreakers, the more they don't crack down on the guys who are going off and fighting for America's enemies overseas, the more they crack down on you, because it's a lot easier to crack down on Leanne than it is to crack down on ISIS. | |
| And that's the way it's gonna go until we get serious about this. | |
| And that's why I don't want any more of these uh new laws and all the rest of it, because they won't use the laws against the ISIS guys, they'll use them against Leanne, and that's the problem with it. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, we'll close it out in a moment. | |
| Hey, thanks. | |
| Uh thanks a lot. | |
| I've got a new book out next month that I clear forgot to plug it on the show today, but it'll be uh out uh hitting bookstores if there are any left uh in October. | |
| And I do need the royalties because uh my application for a job at Minneapolis Airport just uh just got vetoed as a security risk, so that's not gonna pan out for me. | |
| Uh I'm Mark Stein. | |
| I've had a uh ball being uh being here these uh last couple of days. | |
| The great Eric Ericsson will be here live tomorrow. |
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