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Dec. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh today on a lovely New Year's Eve.
I am I'm sorry, Christmas Eve.
That's what I meant.
Christmas Eve.
I'm not confused about the Tate.
Well, that's quite a way to get it.
I was ready to party, guys, but I'm actually ready to celebrate Christmas Eve anyway.
So there we have it.
It is Christmas Eve.
You are not living in a time warp.
And I'm from the Blaze.
I'm the host of the Buck Sexton Show and also formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency and the NYPD Intelligence Division.
I was an intelligence division specialist there.
More on me at facebook.com slash BuckSexton.
So let me say happy New Year's Eve and in advance.
Happy New Year's Eve and Merry Christmas in advance.
All of it.
We're taking it all down here right at once.
So I was looking for some things.
I know Rush yesterday was talking about perhaps getting into some stories that were on the happier front.
I actually might have to rely on you for some of that today.
I might need you to call in and tell me things that are cheerful and happy and good because the news cycle doesn't really seem to be popping up with a lot of that stuff right now.
The call in here is 800-282-2882.
So if you have some words of Christmas Eve, cheer, then by all means do call in and let me know.
It was not cheery here in New York last night.
It was not cheery really at all on the streets of Midtown Manhattan.
No doubt you've heard about the protests that have been ongoing in this city for some time.
I was born and raised in New York City.
I know this place very, very well.
And as I said at the beginning, I worked for the NYPD Intelligence Division for some time.
And what I see here is very clear to me.
And I just wonder when there'll be a complete across the board recognition of some very basic realities here.
For example, when someone is chanting NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?
As the protesters were chanting last night, when you chant those things, do you really think that that's considered to be an attempt at reforming policing, either in New York or across the country?
Could any sane person actually believe that?
We've heard some of the other chants.
What do we want?
Justice.
When do we want it now?
And if we don't get it, shut it down.
That's what they're saying.
What they mean by that is to actually shut down parts of the city.
And in fact, the New York Post here was reporting that there was an ambulance that was stranded by these protesters, as has happened at numerous times in the past.
And I would just point out to you, if you take a little moment, if you compare and contrast the Chris Christie Bridgegate phenomenon, the scandal that wasn't, but they tried really hard to make that a national scandal, right?
Christie was like, hey, I'm going to shut down a bridge.
But he didn't.
And all the federal investigations have shown that, in fact, or so far, the federal investigation has shown that he did not shut down that bridge.
But there were some who were calling that a mass casualty attack.
And I'm not making that up.
They thought, well, the bridge is a place where emergency service vehicles go and ambulances go and all the rest of it.
And so if he was in any way involved in that, there had to be blood on his hands, right?
But now with the anti-cop protesters, you never hear anything like that, even though they are shutting down parts of the city that do require, that are supposed to be open for ambulances to go through.
And there are parts of the city that we can definitely expect there to be real impact on those businesses as well that absolutely need this time of year to be strong for them in terms of sales.
Otherwise, well, some of them could go out of business.
In a classic leftist move here, they care so much about the little people that they're helping them become unemployed.
And I don't know if you caught this, but there's actually now a movement in the Mall of America out of Minnesota.
Remember, the New York protests are just the most visible manifestation of this anti-cop movement across the country.
The New York protests are against the largest police department in the country, but actually there are similar outbreaks.
And obviously, we saw what happened in Ferguson, but even in other cities.
And so what happened in Minnesota was that in the Mall of America, protesters were told, look, don't show up here.
Don't do this.
And they did it anyway.
And they shut down some 80 stores for two hours.
And now the city attorney is saying, you know what?
We're actually going to hold you accountable for that because that's illegal.
And you may think that you have some sort of right based upon how loud you scream or how furiously you tweet that you have some kind of right to shut down other people's businesses during this Christmas and holiday period, but you don't.
And in fact, you should be held responsible for that.
So there are some now, it seems, based upon the horrific assassinations of two NYPD officers over this past weekend, there's a movement afoot, it seems, to push back against the movement.
Finally, now people are feeling a little less terrified at the prospect of calling this for what it is, which is a leftist expression of rage, sort of tantrum of the progressives.
And as I've said before, I don't respect this movement, and I don't feel the need to say that I respect the movement.
And I don't want to be told that I have to respect the movement because I flatly do not.
And you can see how much respect they have for cops, particularly the NYPD, when you have the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, more on him in a minute.
The mayor of New York telling them, I have an idea, guys.
Why don't you stand down on these protests for a few days while we are in the midst of this immediate aftermath?
They haven't even had the funerals yet, or perhaps it's happened in the past day.
But they wouldn't wait, they said.
They won't wait at all for these NYPD officers to just have a few days of mourning.
No, no, they can't wait even a day for that.
And so, really, what you've seen is that there's not much separation in terms of integrity and decency between at least some of these protesters and their movement and the Westboro Baptist Church, for example.
Oh, it's an unfair comparison.
Someone says, Oh, how could you do that?
How could you say that?
That's outrageous.
They're protesting.
They're not at the officers' funerals.
Oh, no, but they are.
A very reluctant report from CNN, from one reporter there, said that, yes, in fact, there were protesters showing up at the funeral to protest there.
So, why again do I have to show respect for this movement?
Why would you even for a second, and I don't, but why would you even feel the need to engage in a dialogue with all of them?
That's what I would want to know.
They're using hashtags on Twitter like hashtag jailkiller cops.
They're calling them racist.
They're saying that it is a structural and systemic racism across the country.
And last night, over a thousand of them tried to shut down Fifth Avenue, which is where we have the tree at Rockefeller Center.
They're at Fifth Avenue in Midtown here.
And they're forcing people to try to pay attention to them because we'd really rather not.
We'd actually like to get on with celebrating the holidays with family and friends and loved ones.
But the mayor said, stand down, and they won't.
In fact, one guy was quoted as saying, they asked for a moment of silence for the cops, but not for Garner.
That was from the New York Post.
So that's what this has come to now.
So they can't ask for a moment of silence for the cops without apparently simultaneously asking for a moment of silence for Eric Garner.
This makes absolutely no sense, unless your whole purpose here is to really just, as they say, shut it down, bring it all down, cause some massive dislocations and huge and all sorts of animosity that will spring from this.
One point that I want to make is: we're always being told that these are predominantly nonviolent protests, right?
And never, I think, could you have put this in more sharp contrast than when you had all these reporters in Ferguson who are saying, here I am in Ferguson.
It's the protests.
Protesters are mostly peaceful.
The buildings behind me are all on fire, but don't pay attention to those because these are peaceful protests, mostly peaceful.
Let me just walk you through a brief thought experiment.
How many political movements do you think would be given so much of the benefit of the doubt by the media?
All you have to do is think for one moment about what the outcry would be if, for example, a Tea Party group had called for openly the murder of some government agency's officials, then that happened.
And you have people saying, oh, it's not representative of the movement.
It has nothing to do with it.
There's no correlation here.
There's no connection.
There's nothing at all.
Nonsense.
It's an out-and-out lie.
But we keep being, we're told over and over again that, in fact, somehow this group, somehow, this movement, which you have to just call them the anti-cop movement, that they are not, that this is not representative of them.
We're told that somehow those that are going out there and openly calling for the murder of police officers and calling them racist as a matter of course, that's what they do day in and day out.
They're saying that these protesters just want reform.
Well, I'm pretty sure you're not going to get any reform if your idea is to scream at people and call them racists and murderers.
That's not going to work very well at all.
And so it's clearly not about reform.
But just imagine for a moment any other group, any other political activity, any other political committee or whatever, they were doing these things.
And we would be told over and over, how many times would a police officer be assaulted by some other political entity before people would say, you know what, there's a problem here.
How many buildings could they burn down?
And how many police officers could be killed before people recognize that this stuff needs to be taken seriously?
That's what everyone needs to start being honest about, is that this movement doesn't deserve some special consideration.
In fact, I will tell you this.
This is a retreat of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I'll get into the differences in that in just a minute, along with a little bit on my own hometown mayor here, Bill de Blasio, and why I think that's more of a story than people realize, perhaps.
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This is Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh.
Christmas Eve, everyone.
Back in a minute.
Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh.
Happy Christmas Eve, everyone.
Hope you're getting all of your shopping in or finishing up, getting close to finishing up at the office.
Maybe you're already at home hanging out with family and friends.
That would be great.
We've got some more to talk about here on the city.
Now, it was a memorial, by the way, for two officers where there were protesters disrupting.
The funeral for the officers has not actually yet happened, but they showed up at the memorial service and made noise and protested and all the rest of it.
But I just have to say that I wonder how many times people marching under the same banner, yelling the same slogans for the same cause, who have burned down buildings, who block traffic in violation of law, who shut down businesses during the most important time of year for those businesses and assault police officers with rocks or bottles or punches, or in the case of the Brooklyn Bridge here, I believe it was, trying to throw trash cans at them.
How many times can that happen before we stop with the absolutely knee-jerk, usually peaceful thing?
Well, the usually peaceful protests.
Well, okay.
I mean, a bully maybe only takes your lunch money and punches you in the face once a week, but if he's still waiting there every day, it has an effect.
I don't think he keeps like, well, the bully is usually peaceful.
It's only sometimes that causes a problem.
I don't think this, I think this movement, I know this movement is getting some kind of special treatment all the time.
But that brings me to those who are trying to stop this before it goes too far off the rails.
And essentially, the movement, as it is generally referred to, I guess, now, is done and over with.
You have the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio.
Now, I know that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have been very unhelpful with all this cop stuff for some time, but Bill de Blasio has built his mayoral campaign and now his mayoral career around agitation over the police.
That's really what this guy is all about.
Now, here's something you should know about him.
For one, not only is this guy constantly, it seems, in an audition for provost and diversity educator of Lefty Loon University somewhere.
I mean, he seems to think that's what his job actually is.
His real name is Warren Wilhelm.
Now, believe it or not, this means that some of us call him Kaiser Wilhelm.
Because I think if you're going to change your name in your 40s, because it makes you sound like you're more useful for the unions, because you have a name that's like, hey, my name is Bill de Blasio, not Warren Wilhelm, that people might just decide all of a sudden to think, well, this guy's really likable.
I think he's fantastic.
Aktung.
So I call him Zakaisa because he's Kaiser Wilhelm.
Because his name is actually Warren Wilhelm.
I keep telling people this and no one believes me.
He changed his name.
This is what Democrats do, by the way.
They change the name around.
It's like being an actor, you know, hey, my name is something cool sounding.
People will like me more.
So that's what we get with Bill de Blasio now.
So he's standing on.
He's like, I'm the Kaiser.
And I tell my left-wing minions to stop with all the protests all over the city of New York.
I've had enough of all this.
This is ridiculous.
They didn't listen to him.
They didn't.
I know who could have imagined that the Kaiser would not be able to say no more marching in the street.
So Warren Wilhelm is apparently unable to get them to settle down.
There's been a break.
In fact, some of them were quoted last night as saying that they specifically are doing this to show their displeasure with the mayor.
And they use some expletives, of course, in the quotes, but I can't do that.
But I'm just saying they were very clear about all of that.
So the mayor has gotten no traction with those that he relied on ideologically as part of his base here.
And I just think that we should point out that this is a recurring theme.
By the way, de Blasio ran Clinton's campaign in 2000.
The guy's absolutely plugged in at the national level, has ambitions well beyond just being the mayor of New York City.
So someone to keep an eye on.
But for example, when the police officers on the bridge were assaulted, he says, well, they were allegedly assaulted.
No, they weren't allegedly assaulted.
They were assaulted.
It's just a question of if you're going to name an individual who has not yet been found guilty in a court of law, then you attach the allegedly.
But that's not how he does things.
Always looking for a way to pander, always looking for a way to convince the left that he's still on their team, that he's still on their side.
I mean, this guy really couldn't run an ice cream stand, and somehow he's in charge of the largest city in the country.
And he's had his hands all over what is an absolute mess.
I mean, if I can just go back to a serious note here for a second, the racial divisions that people like de Blasio play with, as well as Obama Holder, Harry Reid, Pelosi, the whole Democratic Party.
This is their favorite tool, just like it's the favorite tool in the media of shutting down or forcing the shutting up of the opposition.
Anyone who disagrees with them, you call them racist, and it just brings the whole thing to a screeching halt.
All of a sudden, it's just done, right?
But this is playing with fire.
This is very dangerous.
Racial division, when really inflamed and allowed to fester, has led to some of the most inhuman massacres in history.
So, this notion that they can keep doing this, they can just keep on trying to pull people apart to forget about what actually makes us all American and brings us all together, and that that's not going to have very serious long-term consequences is just completely false.
And that we can't even get a reprieve from this during the holiday season.
Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's, everything.
We can't just agree to disagree with the protesters, or they can't agree to disagree with civilization and the rest of the world for a few weeks here.
They can't lay off just a little bit.
The rest of us are going out there and trying to either finish up before we have our holiday dinner or get a few last-minute presents.
These guys are marching around, kicking at the load-bearing walls of civilization.
It's appalling.
All right, Buck Sexton, back in a minute.
Yes, indeed, it is Buck Sexton with you on Christmas Eve.
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The call-in here is 800-282-2882.
Let's light it up with some calls.
We have Mike in Maryland.
Mike, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You're speaking to Buck Sexton.
Hey, Buck Sexton.
This is Mike Gorman.
How are you?
Hey, Mike, I'm good.
Thank you.
How are you?
Pretty good.
It's kind of drizzly rainy here, but that's okay.
Many, many, many years ago, my daughter was in a soccer tournament in the other side of Washington, D.C., and the game, the coach desperately wanted the girls to win.
And so I said, if you won't win for the coach or the American flag, how about winning for pizza?
And I offered them free pizza if they would win the soccer game.
And of course, they rose to the occasion for free pizza.
As one does.
As one does.
As is definitely to be done.
I was thinking, and I just did this morning, I gave 10 pizzas to our local police department.
And I said, please make sure it was an anonymous gift.
And so what I'm suggesting to anybody who's on the telephone, who's on the radio listening today, is that they call up to their local pizza place, whether whomever or whomever.
I'll get yelled at if I say one way or the other, and order a couple, three, four pizzas and have it delivered to your local police department as just a show of community thanks to them for doing their job.
Well, Mike, that's, I say, a lovely idea and absolutely exemplary of the Christmas spirit.
So thank you very much for a brief, a little cheer, a little uplift there.
It doesn't have to, you know, it's Christmas time, everybody.
It doesn't have to be like the most frightening Christmas in the history of all Christmas, guys.
It doesn't have to be that way, says the Kaiser.
Or like, you know, maybe you can go on a little surfing.
You know what I mean?
Go hang out.
You're in Hawaii, doing your thing.
America's going to figure it out.
I've got two years left.
What are I going to do?
Aloha.
Let's take Sheila in New York City.
Sheila, calling in from my hometown, and I'm here with you.
What's going on?
Hi, bud.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
I just wanted to say that I ran smack into the so-called demonstration last night against, it had a big banner.
It said, stop racist police brutality.
I was coming out of the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, which is next to Tiffany's.
And just as I came out, these people came down 56th Street from the east side, turned the corner and started walking up the sidewalk uptown on 5th Avenue.
And there were already two or three photographers stationed there taking pictures of them.
And it was not a very big crowd.
I would say it was approximately 150 to 200 max people.
There were some blacks at the front of the crowd behind the banner, but I kept walking.
And they moved over.
They allowed me to walk down the sidewalk.
And I walked through the crowd.
And it was 85% Caucasian.
You know, the protest was reported by most outlets that I saw.
And by the way, Sheila, I've bumped into these protests many times in the past couple of weeks, and they're somewhat unavoidable.
One of their favorite routes, and I won't say where it is, one of their favorite routes basically goes underneath my window.
So sometimes I'm sitting at home, you know, trying to have a tea or a scotch, as one does, and all of a sudden I hear, whose streets are streets.
So it's unavoidable for me.
I hear them.
But, you know, they were reporting at 1,000 people was initially what they were saying, which on a New York City street would be pretty.
And so you're saying it wasn't, because I've seen them that size.
The one I saw on 6th Avenue a couple of weeks ago was thousands of people.
It was at least 5,000 or 10,000 people marching.
So it was pretty small last night.
I'm sorry.
It seemed like they were trying to keep the momentum up, but it was a pretty anemic protest.
I have to say, I think.
The poor police had to walk in the street alongside them in the rain, you know, with no umbrellas.
And I thought it was a joke.
And I worked in lower Manhattan when I was in the middle of the day.
Occupy Wall Street, camped out in front of Trinity Church under the scaffold, and they lived there 24 hours a day.
And it seemed to me that this was definitely Occupy Wall Street.
It was organized.
They were trying to stoke the flames, but it really didn't seem to be working very well.
And most of the people marching were just kind of staring ahead like zombies.
And some people were chanting justice for Michael Brown, which I thought was a real joke because he tried to kill a police officer.
And, you know, they're going to keep it up, but it's really, it really is manufactured.
I know.
Sheila, thank you.
Thank you for calling in and giving us some eyewitness account of what this was actually like last night.
She made a very important connection, by the way.
I've said this before.
People should understand that this is Occupy Wall Street 2.0.
This is the second iteration of that sort of leftist digital protest movement, right?
In fact, the Occupy Wall Street Twitter account is one of the main avenues they use to actually try to coordinate these things.
But here's the big difference: that was along the sort of rough organizing principle there, if you can call it that.
And this is all very Alinsky.
You just get people to organize around something and you get them angry and then you force them to do what you want to do.
Then you tell them to march in this direction and scream these slogans.
This is all very Saulinsky.
And Saulinsky, you know, the buddy of Hillary Clinton, the woman who's the presumed next president of the United States.
Get ready for that.
But the truth of the matter is that they originally were organizing around income inequality because after the financial crash, they thought that's where we'll get the most bang for their buck, I suppose.
I don't know how else to put it.
That's where they'll get the most useful outrage and the most sort of, well, the most useful idiots, actually.
They're trying to bring them all together.
If you want as many useful idiots as possible, just talk about income inequality, which is sort of like protesting weather, which we know they also do under the banner of climate change.
Anyway, but that fizzled out after a while because that doesn't have quite the same resonance.
And also, people eventually figured out that some of these encampments that they had were sort of these squalid little shanties full of people with thousands of dollars of computer equipment that their parents bought for them talking about income inequality.
It just didn't really have resonance long term.
But race, which, by the way, was a part of those protests as well.
And there were anti-cop protests then.
They just weren't that well covered.
But the sort of martyrs of the anti-cop movement, there would be huge signs made of them.
And, you know, Abu Mumiya Jamal would pop up.
It's not him, actually, but photos of him and him as an issue.
And there were others as well.
I believe Troy Davis was another.
Some of them were people that were on, they said, on death row unjustly.
Others were people that were killed by police.
I went to one rally.
This was back in 2011.
I went to one rally where they, and covering it for the Blaze, and they had a huge banner with all the names of everybody killed by police, irrespective of what the circumstances were.
And by the way, that's not something that we can completely ignore at all because they're still doing that.
There was a shooting just last night, and there's video of this one.
Thankfully, imagine if there was not a video, the response that would come from these anti-cop protests there.
There was video, but this was a, as I'm seeing the banner on some of the TV screens around here, was armed black teen killed by police officers.
Well, here's a very good rule of thumb: don't pull a gun on a police officer.
That's about as straightforward as it's going to get.
And if you think there's some way to reform law or reform society such that police officers are going to deal with that differently, you're either just completely lying or you're living on another planet.
You pull a gun on a cop, you're going to get shot.
And that's the way that it should go, actually.
This is to have to state things that are so obvious, it's almost demeaning, right?
Why would we even have to say this?
But we have to state things like black lives matter.
Of course they do.
And then you say things like, all lives matter.
No, no, no.
The president of Smith College said that immediately, smack down.
How dare you distract with your call for all life having value?
Next thing you know, you're going to be talking anti-choice, President of Smith.
How dare you, madam?
I'm so sorry.
It's not all lives matter.
It's only Black Lives Matter.
I don't know what the Smith president sounds like, but that was my closest approximation.
Let's take Rich, also in New York.
A lot of New York callers on this, understandably.
So, Rich in White Plains, New York.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You are speaking to Buck Sexton.
Yes, Buck.
I've seen you on Fox News.
You do a terrific job there.
Thank you so much.
Buck, we keep hearing over and over about how we have to have a conversation, which is such an overused, I mean, to that I say, you know, actions speak louder than words, but nonetheless, we have to have a conversation about the relationship between the police and blacks.
And I'm not even talking about recently.
Let's go back to Professor, what was his name, Gates, how the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
Am I getting, do I have that right?
Professor Gates at Harvard, and yes, then Obama saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
We can go all the way back to that, Trayvon Martin, and now we have the incidents recently.
And to me, Buck, the conversation should have happened way back then, and it would have been a very short conversation.
And here's how it would have gone.
To the protesters and to anybody making that allegation that the police are unfairly targeting blacks, I would ask, where is your proof?
Well, but they cite statistics without context.
So they'll say, well, look at incarceration rates, but without actually looking at criminality.
Well, what level of, if you're going to separate this out into different groups, what level of crime is being committed by these different groups?
I mean, is it I think that the problem, Rich, is that ultimately they just want to scream at everybody and call them racist and then have a list of demands behind that.
And the demands are kind of vague, too.
Never mind the sort of basic ideology behind all of this.
But what's also happened is that the violence across this country has been in decline.
Let's just say for the past two decades.
Violence, particularly in New York City, since 1993, which was, I think, was the height of murders in New York to today, is down something on the order of 80 to 85 percent.
It's an absolute, it's like a stock market crash if you were to look at this on a chart.
It is an absolute plummet.
And yet here we are now.
They want to talk.
Police violence is less than it's been.
General violence is less than it's been.
We are safer as a society in this country than we have been ever before.
And now they want to, now they're saying that this is so terrible.
It's just completely lacking in, it's not anchored in any reality.
This is just sort of a figment of the protesters' imaginations that this is now happening a lot.
It's getting worse.
It's happening more often.
It's just flatly untrue.
They don't have the data on their side.
And the only person who I've heard who really said it flat out, you know, without equivocation, is Bernie Carrick, who said that this narrative that's being created right now over, God, the narrative started when Obama took office, but I mean, escalated to the point where it is now.
This narrative is based on a lie, and Carrick is right.
The whole thing is based on a lie.
So, Rich, thank you very much for calling in.
Good to hear from you.
We will go into a break here.
This is Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh, facebook.com/slash Buck Sexton.
You can send me your thoughts there or at Buck Sexton on Twitter, live tweeting throughout the show, as I do.
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In for Rush.
Back in a minute.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh.
I am from The Blaze.
I'm the host of the Buck Sexton Show, formerly of the NYPD, which we've been talking about a bit here.
Also, formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency.
I was an analyst in Rock Desk and then on Afghanistan as well.
Spent some time at the Counterterrorism Center.
And I'm actually about to cross the streams, for those of you who are Ghostbusters fans, cross the streams.
Wait, wait, no, crossing the streets from Ghostbusters when they have the packs with the electronic guns and they.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's from everybody who knows Ghostbusters knows what Crossing the Stream means because I'm about to cross NYPD protester stuff with ISIS stuff.
NYPD and CIA, the worlds are colliding.
Here's how it goes: there's a U.S. Attorney General.
I was going to say that Ghostbusters is a great Christmas movie, although that's not technically true.
I still think it's great to watch around Christmas.
Die Hard, however, is the best Christmas movie, and it's very likely that the Sexton men, my brothers, my dad, and I will at some point be watching Die Hard in the near future.
Exactly.
So the U.S. Attorney in Illinois.
So this isn't just some, this isn't some crackpot theory out there.
The U.S. Attorney in Illinois is saying that they have received intelligence, which means they've just picked up online stuff, that ISIS is reaching out to Ferguson protesters.
So don't think that the rest of the world isn't watching what's going on here and thinking, hmm, and that bad actors around the world, including those that behead, crucify, rape, pillage, and mass murder, they're reaching out to those in Ferguson and they're saying, you know, keep it up.
They're actually also specifically now, and this was on some accounts that I saw from a site intelligence group, S-I-T-E.
They do great stuff.
They're basically just looking at all the jihadi forums all over the world and picking up what the jihadist conversation is because it's all happening online.
There's a cyber jihad.
And they said that there's now, no surprise here, a call from ISIS to kill cops and military, but kill cops here in the United States.
Cops and military.
That's what they're saying now.
That's who you should target.
And this should not be taken as some kind of idle threat because as we've seen with the public beheading in the UK of a lone wolf extremist, and now we've seen in Australia not only numerous major counterterrorism raids, but also at least one instance of an Islamic state fighter and an Islamic state leader of some kind who reached out to someone in Australia and said, let's arrange for a public beheading there.
Australian security forces managed to intercept this and stop it.
But they've had the largest counterterrorism raids in their history.
So this is happening now all over the world to our allies, and they're trying to do it here at home as well.
But just I just think that that's something that's worth pointing out, that the U.S. attorney in Illinois is saying that they know that ISIS is specifically reaching out to Ferguson protesters.
ISIS, hashtag stand with Ferguson.
Yeah.
Not making it up.
This is what's actually going on there.
So I think that that gives you a sense of who that sort of thing.
Who sees some solidarity with the anti-police movements?
By the way, in counterinsurgency analysis, I know a lot of you served.
A lot of you know counterinsurgency better than you would ever care to from your time, either in Iraq or Afghanistan.
But attacks on the police are a very important metric, as you know, because attacks on police, that's what more than anything else creates fear in a local population.
If there's no police walking street to street, and sometimes the military has to fill that function, but if there aren't cops on the beat, making sure that people don't have to worry about being raped, murdered, have all their home ransacked, then people don't feel like the state's providing them security.
The basic bargain, the basic aspects of the polity, of the sort of social contract that you're in with whatever country you live in, whether you like it or not, you're in some kind of a contract.
That erodes very quickly if the police can't provide you that basic security.
And so when you have insurgents, and really what the global jihad is also a global insurgency, right?
And that's how it's set up to function.
Now it's something that we're looking at and realizing that the global jihad is spreading very quickly around the world, and it's something that we're concerned about.
But what I wanted to point out here is that we have to go into a break, which I'm being told.
That's why.
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