All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 8, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
32:33
Will The Real Tim Walz Please Stand Up?

Democratic Party VP nominee Tim Walz is being sold to American voters as "'the coach" - an everyday guy who wears camo hats and flannel. Republicans are attacking him as embellishing his military record. Who is the real Tim Walz? Also today: re-Tweet in the UK...go to jail! Finally, Scott Ritter has powerful enemies...and they are coming at him.

|

Time Text
Waltz And The Left-Wing Waltz 00:12:40
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel Mick Adams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
We're back to normal, I think, Dr. Paul.
Does that mean the country's back to normal?
No, no, not yet.
The economy's back to normal.
We've got to work on that a little bit more.
Yeah, so, well, we're going to talk about, I couldn't find anybody in the news, but I think this guy Waltz.
Yeah.
And, you know, I think I made a commitment when we heard who it's going to be.
I said half-kind words to him.
I said he came across, I didn't know him.
Yeah.
Didn't study his voting record.
Didn't have an analysis of his political positions.
But he seemed to be an easygoing guy and seemed to be friendly.
And others have said the same thing.
But right now, I think he's had a personality adjustment.
All of a sudden, I don't see him the same way as I saw him from a distance when we crossed paths in Washington.
So this is something else.
I actually have to say that the first comments I had was probably wishful thinking, even though it was true, they were true statements.
That's the way I feel.
But right now, it's almost the opposite.
I mean, it looks like he learned his lessons very well in politics.
You know, they weren't all just in Congress.
Matter of fact, they never talk about his congressional thing.
But it was one step up.
He moved right along.
He had the military background, and that was important.
And I said, wow, you know, he has a good resume.
That first day, I had a boy, Boy Scouts and teachers and coaches and military experience.
And boy, I'll tell you, he's doing quite well.
But on the second day, all of a sudden, truth broke out.
We learned some other things.
And it's not quite the same.
We find out that a lot of lies were told, a lot of exaggerations, typical political statements made to exaggerate things.
And I think that the military service is one thing that will not be well received.
That's sacred.
When they'd asked me about the idea, I always thought, yeah, I'm going to tell him.
But I have to confess, I didn't stand up against it like some other doctors who just wouldn't go and shoot and kill people in a draft.
But anyway, the military service turned out that he lied about things.
Some people really were treated harshly when they lied about their military record, but nothing major seems to happen yet.
And I think that issue is going to be around for a long, long time.
But there's a lot of other things going on, too.
But I thought the military thing would be the biggest political thing that people are going to, especially with conservatives and the people who see fighting senseless wars actually very important.
But it turns out he didn't even want to fight those senseless wars.
He endorsed.
So that won't work.
So I think the beginning of the end of his positive positions, that lasted for about two days, I think it's downhill from now.
Yeah, and I mean, I think it's still, I mean, our first reaction is smart choice because, and actually, this is the image that they want you to see when you think of Tim Waltz.
If you put up that first clip, this is from Politico.
Tim Waltz's camo cap is more important than you think.
And it is a good point, and this is a good look for a Democrat vice presidential candidate, as you point out.
Rugged military coach.
You know, he was a teacher.
But unfortunately, there are some things that are coming out.
And I think he is in a little bit of trouble.
As you point out, Dr. Paul, the military stuff, now, of course, a lot of it is the right-wing attack squad, whatever, but that's the kind of stuff that you have to be careful about.
You shouldn't embellish.
And if it is true that he did, it could be a problem for him, and it'll dog him.
Here's the article that we were both reading.
If you go to the next one, National Guard disputes Waltz's military bio.
CNN calls out absolutely false claim over deployment.
And in fact, I think the fact that CNN has mentioned it is going to be a real problem for him and he's going to have to address it.
And I have, Dr. Paul, just a short clip from CNN so people can hear for themselves if you have your earpiece ready what CNN actually said.
It's quite a surprise to see CNN come out like this.
This is that first video clip.
If we can, I think we play the whole thing on this one, if we can get ready for that.
There we go.
Let's listen to CNN of all places.
You know, they want Waltz and Kamala to win.
Waltz did make a comment speaking to a group.
He's done it a couple of times where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation.
As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war, and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you.
There is no evidence that at any time Governor Waltz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.
So that is absolutely false when he said that about gun rights out there.
Waltz did make Waltz speaking to a group.
You know, to me, and you've already mentioned it, it's surprising that we heard that from CNN.
It has to be really bad for them to come out because as soon as you read that and go down the paragraph, there's another bit of news on CNN.
It looks like they're broke and suffering from bankruptcy.
And every once in a while in the last month or two, I keep thinking there were bits and pieces where it was sort of like the old CNN, and then they tried to cover a war independently.
But I think it's a little bit too little, too late.
But the whole thing, that some of the information about the truth about it is coming out by the National Guard.
Yeah.
That doesn't smell.
Trump haven't even started on him.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But, you know, we've dug a little deeper because that's a problem.
And it's, you know, it's embarrassing when you embellish your military career to try to look like a tough guy.
And you kind of weren't.
It's kind of bad.
But I mean, I think we found things that are even more disturbing than that.
This is red meat, and they're going to jump at it.
But other things are worse.
Now, Justin News is a good news source, by the way.
But go to the next clip.
We read about this.
This is about the stuff during COVID, and that's pretty serious.
Under Waltz, Minnesota built hundreds of millions, even after warnings about pervasive failures.
In regard to the next one, this is from the same article.
They ramped up government giveaways.
There was no oversight.
Governor Tim Waltz was warned that his team did not have adequate protection for the taxpayer money.
He sent it out anyway.
We're talking about a half a billion dollars totally in this.
$250 million from Feeding Our Future program was apparently taken by people who didn't deserve it.
So there's a real problem with his management of money.
Shouldn't be surprising, I should say, coming from the left.
He'll fit right in.
He'll fit in there.
Here's another trick we learned on the way out.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So, and the other things on COVID, I would just point a couple out that I think are worse.
And I think, you know, but the Republicans are just as guilty in many ways.
But put this next one on.
Now, this is the thing that's really awful, Dr. Paul.
And this is something that he did as governor during COVID.
One Minnesota, thousands reported on neighbors using Tattletale Hotline during pandemic.
So he set up an East Germany Stasi-like hotline where you could call and turn in your neighbors.
Put the next one, this is from that article, a hotline set up by Waltz's administration to monitor compliance with his 2020 stay-at-home order, generated thousands of reports for Minnesotans.
You know, there's something about this, Dr. Paul, I know you agree, that's particularly pernicious.
The idea that you're reporting, I saw my neighbor go to church.
He's not allowed to do that.
That's sick.
But when the dictatorships get really evil, they get hold of the children.
And there's a trend in that direction right there.
Get hold of the children.
They brainwash them at a very, very young age to spy on their parents.
You know, that's happened decades ago.
Their parents, the parents were under attack by their kids on environmental things.
And that, of course, is coming from government schools.
And that's the propaganda.
So that's the whole thing that they have to do.
But you know, all these issues, you know, whether it's a foreign military service or all the corruption and the handling of money, I still think the big issue, the big issue is the promotion of government plunder.
You know, how much money have they and the policy, you know, the COVID policy, he has a record of being one of the worst states.
One of the worst.
And that is all a loss of civil liberties, a cost to the taxpayer, and not only that, it's lousy medicine.
So to me, that is plunder.
And then the turnaround and turn it into a positive and say, we had the best run state.
And they say it with a, with, you know, like they're believe it.
They're probably proud of it.
Maybe they're totally brainwashed themselves into believing that this, we really did a good job.
But quite frankly, I think the strength of natural law is such that even these people know what they're doing and they just decide that in the meantime, we're going to benefit from this.
And then they have to sell it by, you know, Kamala, I heard her the other day.
She was talking about freedom and all this stuff.
What?
What hypocrisy?
Yeah, that's true.
Freedom with a gun at somebody's head.
Yeah, authoritarian tendencies for sure.
Well, speaking of Waltz and children, there's a couple of other pretty bad things.
Go to the next one now.
This is Dr. Simon Guddek, who's a good follow on TwitterX if you follow him.
So he did a series on the problems with Waltz.
On October of 2021, Waltz ran a shameless campaign, coercing children and teens to get the jab with the bait of a chance to win a college scholarship, all while knowing full well that this virus posed virtually no threat to young people.
So he ran this ad, kids deserve a shot to go get these kids, little kids who we know and he knew at the time had virtually no chance of getting it.
But we do wonder how many kids now got myocarditis, pericarditis, and all of these horrible things from the shot.
And those side effects can be long-lasting, come up years later.
And I noticed one thing when somebody at the age of 22, an excellent athlete, they'll report it as a sudden death, which it was, but they never mention whether he had had inoculations, what he took, how many booster shots did he have, and that sort of thing.
And you can be 21 and have sudden death without the inoculation.
That's known.
But the numbers have gone up.
And that to me suggests what more people are getting around to believing.
So here's another one with Waltz and children.
This is even worse, in my opinion.
Okay, my subjective opinion.
Put on the next one.
Now, Libs of TikTok, which is a right-wing Twitter account.
Government's Role in Hate Speech 00:07:32
I'm not going to play the video.
I'm just going to read it.
So here's Tim Waltz when he was running for governor back in 2017.
Let's be honest, these were the real stars of Waltz for Governor parade this Sunday.
It was a pride parade celebrating LGBT lifestyle.
Libs of TikTok said, very weird and creepy.
Waltz had children march in an LGBTQ pride parade, wearing shirts spelling out his name and forming a pride rainbow.
What people want to do with their private lives is their own business.
I think our viewers agree.
But when you put kids in that environment, there's something not right about that.
The word that comes to my mind, that's sick.
Yeah, it's sick.
It's sick.
Hopefully the people wake up to it.
I have one more little audio clip, though.
I mean, we're kind of trashing him, but it should come out, I think.
If we want to listen to this, now this is a very quick, I think, a seven-second comment, but it also shows his view on the fundamental freedom that we have, which is free speech.
Now listen to what Walt said about free speech if you cue up that middle.
Here we go.
Let's listen.
It's a real quick clip, so put it in.
I think we need to push back on this.
There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.
I think we need...
There's no guarantee of free speech when it comes to misinformation.
Even the First Amendment doesn't say anything about, if we can find out that you hate somebody and you said something negative, we'll put you in jail.
That's what he's saying.
You have free speech.
What's wrong with you?
So, anyway, speaking about, well, we'll keep an eye on it, you know, what's happening.
But I guess we'll move on.
Speaking of speech, and we do this, I think our next story, I think we probably agree that the reason we're talking about it is not to trash the UK.
They deserve to be trashed.
The government does at least.
But we want to probably look at it as a warning because that stuff's going to come over here.
Now, put the next, there's been a lot of riots over there in the UK.
We don't want to go into that.
It's not our business.
They've got some problems over there.
But the reaction of the government is telling.
Brits are warned that merely retweeting information about the riots could be a criminal offense.
And go to the next one really quick.
Similar topic.
UK's Metropolitan Police Chief threatens keyboard warriors with terrorism charges, being charged with terrorism for retweeting something.
And, you know, once again, it's hatred.
They say that if you allow these people to say what they want, they're going to incite hatred.
You know, and that's not nice.
Yeah.
No, what's not nice is the people who are the official protectors of liberty, theoretically, are the ones who are storing up the most of the hatred and violating our liberties.
But it's always to qualify and say, oh, work for good language, not the bad language, when they start telling, you know, what they're really attacking, what they can't stand, is they can't stand, you know, the truth.
They're attacking truth.
This is a whole issue because the politician and the empires all depend on lying to the people.
And it's easy to be done, especially if the nation is wealthy and they have a lot of largest and they have a lot of time to run up debts and all.
And they're the liars, but eventually it's caught up.
It doesn't last forever.
But just think how many people, it's just like the wars.
Wars end because they get exhausted.
Well, the wars against the people at home end too when the bankruptcy becomes so evident.
But just because we know it's going to end is not much of a reassurance with a war overseas or war against the American people.
The best thing is to stop it before it starts.
And that's what the founders hope for, except for Jefferson.
Jefferson wasn't all that optimistic.
He says, you better be ready every 20 years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's right.
Well, we can laugh and say, you know, this is the UK, it'll never happen here.
But, you know, this is what's coming.
And I want to, this is the last audio clip, Dr. Paul, if you'll indulge me.
This is their head of their police saying this.
I mean, if you listen to what he says, tell me this isn't chilling.
I can imagine it happening here.
Put that last one.
Let's listen to this guy.
What a creep.
Play that whole clip if you can.
The offense for incitement to racial hatred involves publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive, which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred.
So if you retweet that, then you're republishing that, and then potentially you're committing that offense.
And we do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media.
Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with identification arrests and so forth.
So it's really, really serious.
People might think they're not doing anything harmful.
They are, and the consequences will be visited upon them.
So they have dedicated police officers scouring the media, seeing if anyone retweets something that is insulting to other people.
You know, this is, I guess they've solved all the other crimes.
It's almost like we are the radical warriors against privacy.
Because how many people do they have to search for to find a real criminal?
And if they do, it's probably somebody they'll let go.
They don't even have to search for criminals that steal.
There was another story.
It just drives me buggy.
Another story where somebody is arrested.
You have the pictures of tearing up a store and ransacking it all.
And then an employee, you know, can't stand it.
And they want to just report it now.
Report it or chase them out or something like that.
And then the owner comes in and fires the equipment.
What is the matter with these people?
I'm a doctor and I can't make a diagnosis.
They're nuts.
Yeah, exactly.
Perfect, perfect.
Well, in case anyone thinks that simply expressing yourself, as we would call the First Amendment, which is a natural right not given by government, it's not happening.
Well, it is happening.
Put this next one up.
Now, David Vince, I've been on his show before.
He has a video show.
And he retweeted this from the Cleveland police over there in the UK.
He says, unbelievable, sent to prison for years for the crime of gesticulating and shouting at police officers.
Now, this is the police officer's own report.
Stephen Malin is the first person to be sentenced in Teesside for his involvement in the violent disorder in Hartlepool on Wednesday, 31st July.
Judge Laird jailed him for 26 months.
The 53-year-old was constantly in the face of officers gesticulating and shouting at them.
So over two years in prison for gesticulating and shouting at police officers.
So they're doing it.
They're putting people in jail for this.
So now what they've done is legalize you cannot be rude.
Rude is bad.
Criminalizing Rudeness 00:10:30
People should be able to handle that, but that's a different category.
It's not a crime.
We can react to it.
We can debate it and everything else.
But what they want to do is criminalize being rudeness.
And could rudeness ever be subjectively interpreted?
You know, maybe you could just stare at somebody.
Oh, you're being rude, and we're going to get you for it.
So I think that's the big problem, though, is they still use the permission to lie and try to distort everything they say.
And the language, they have to do away with language.
The language has been so twisted, twisted around.
And yet it's at a point now where I think the sides are getting stronger and stronger.
There's a lot of people on our side.
The people who are against liberty have the loudest voice and the loudest influence when it comes to education and the media and the courts and the government.
And yet, that's why I don't want to get people so discouraged.
I say, you know, maybe we should just leave.
Where?
Let's move to England.
Yeah, I'm right.
Go to jail for that.
Maybe we'll have more liberty.
The English, you know, I think the rights of man, you know, traditionally, and English years and years ago, but they really institutionalized and brought that about and had an influence on our Constitution as well.
But now they've lost it.
They've lost it too.
But we could say, well, yeah, you guys, you Americans, you've lost it too.
You didn't even keep it in your Constitution.
What good's your Constitution?
And so the conflict and the lining up of the people who are on one side versus the other.
And I think it's truth versus nihilism, you know, whether there's anything wrong about lying.
And I mean, if you read the resume of some politicians we've been talking about, and the ones I've met up there, they knew better.
How can they deny how many innocent people have died, but they always say, we did it for patriotic reasons.
And, you know, the obedience to anything military has not gotten us very far.
It's dug a big hole for ourselves.
But the one thing is, though, I think people should realize we're in a transition period.
You can moan and groan about it and try to point things out.
But the whole thing is it can't continue, but we have to be able to think about what can we replace it with.
In a way, that's what the founders did.
We can replace it.
And you know, our Constitution has been said by libertarians that that was the only revolution and a war where the people ended up with more liberty than they had before.
Right now, you don't have to have an official war.
You just constantly lose liberties.
Yeah.
Well, we should make a t-shirt.
Nihilism is rude.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, the last thing we want to talk about today has to do with a friend of ours, Scott Ritter.
He's spoken at our conference before in Houston a couple years back.
And he had a little visit yesterday, and it was from the FBI.
I put that next clip up.
FBI raids home of former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
On Wednesday, the FBI raided the home of Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, an outspoken critic of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza.
So writes Dave DeCamp on anti-war.com.
He later went outside, and I watched the clip.
He went outside and told reporters that the raid was related to a suspected violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the FARA Act.
That's the act that requires individuals who lobby for a foreign country to register as agents.
And that reminds me of a word you used in the last segment, subjectively.
That is a law that is subjectively applied.
There is no law and order once they can do this.
But you know what this reminded me of was, and I'm sure you'll remember this.
We had this little debate in the presidential debate, and they said, are you for fences?
And, you know, I probably said under certain circumstances, you might have to consider that.
But I said, I really don't feel good about fences, you know.
But, you know, a fence can keep you out of your private property and certain things.
So you ought to look at that more objectively.
But the thing that I closed with, you've got to remember, fences are more often used to keep you in.
So what was the first thing they did to him?
Took his passport.
They took his passport.
So that's the first nail in the fence.
No, not the first one.
They've been nailing putting the fence.
You know, the control of finance is one thing.
Can you leave with what you own?
Not very easily.
Well, anyone who knows Scott Ritter knows that he says what he thinks.
He doesn't mince words.
He's very aggressive and assertive.
He's a former Marine.
You know, he doesn't fool around.
And I think probably, and he travels around the world.
He's been to Russia many times.
He's trying to promote a dialogue between the U.S. and Russia.
Probably just saying that is going to get us raided.
But he gets into trouble for that.
The FBI is in his house.
I watched him go into his car.
Aaron Matei, who is a friend of mine, works over at Grey Zone, a great guy.
He has a tweet about what happened, and he makes a good point.
If you put that next one up, he says, Scott Ritter, a vocal critic of the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and of the Israeli government, says the FBI raided his home over suspected FARA violation.
Mattei goes on to comment, on top of the free speech implications here, it's noteworthy that this happens just as AIPAC, which is not registered as a foreign agent of Israel, celebrates its $8 million investment in ousting an elected member of the U.S. Congress, Corey Bush.
So he's clearly making the point here that APAC doesn't have to register as a foreign agent, yet they meddle in our elections.
But Scott Ritter is facing some difficult times because he's not registered.
Well, it's obvious they didn't take my suggestion about 20-some years ago.
I suggested that we didn't have to have the FBI.
What?
What are we going to do?
They take care of us.
They protect us.
They keep us safe.
You know, this whole thing that we have to have all these government agents, including our military, is there to make us safe.
And that's the whole principle needs to be talked about because if government wants to make us safe, they have to make sure what we eat, how much exercise they have, what we read, and what we do.
So they take total control of it.
But the FBI, and I say, wouldn't there be a loss of law and order?
Well, not necessarily.
You could have private individuals providing it.
But the big question is, it's sort of like, what would you do without the government medicine?
Well, we could avoid COVID.
How great is the government delivering medicine?
That sort of thing.
So I think this idea that only chaos would come if you have less government is wrong.
And it used to be more difficult for me to answer that.
But right now, I just say, well, okay, we don't have government, we have the government doing this.
Schools, for instance, school.
They do the schools.
Has that been a great thing?
You pointed out what they're doing with the kids, you know, at parades and things.
This is a propaganda tool, you know, for the worst type of government ever.
So this is the reason people should have more confidence and not buy into this desire.
Yes, I want to be safe, but we have to emphasize the fact that you can be safer.
It's the government that's going after Scott Ritter.
You know, he's not safe.
That doesn't mean that we need a much tougher FBI because maybe they should have arrested him immediately, you know, that kind of book.
Exactly.
Well, I think if we're exhausted here on this topic, I'm going to close out.
And I'm going to close out by saying if you watch the Ron Paul Liberty Report at all, you'll know that we talk about Jonathan Turley a lot.
He's a good friend of ours personally.
He's someone I know Dr. Paul admires a lot.
He is an outspoken proponent of free speech.
And I'm very pleased to announce, this is a late announcement of speakers for our conference.
And I've been thinking about this for a long time because he has a new book out.
If you put up that last clip, we'll skip that one.
This is his new book, The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
Now, I wrote to Professor Turley last night because I couldn't get this book out of my mind.
And I said, Professor, would you come and visit with us on the day of our conference and talk about your book a little bit?
And he said, I'd be delighted to do so.
Please give my best to Ron Paul.
So, announcement, Jonathan Turley is going to come and talk about this book.
It's perfect for the Liberty platform, Free Speech in the Age of Rage.
I'll put the link in the description.
Get your tickets.
Come see Professor Jonathan Turley, Ron Paul, all of our friends are going to be there speaking and attending.
And we want you to be there too.
So we'll see you on August 31st.
Over to you, Dr. Paul.
Wonderful.
Yeah, isn't that great news?
No secret for me.
Well, it just hit me last night.
I've been just bothering me.
I've got to, you know, because we've asked him to be at our conferences before, and he's very generous with his time, but I just couldn't get this book out of my mind.
Wow, wonderful.
I'm happy about it.
Good to see you.
And I've known him for a long time, and he's a person that is level-headed.
And, you know, he's not afraid.
You know, most people would say, well, he's a conservative Republican.
You can't write him off as just being an old conservative Republican.
Defending Principles of Liberty 00:01:36
He's somebody that's very thoughtful, and he defends the principles.
And I have no idea how he votes, you know, but I'm sure, and I've heard him say things that doesn't make him a champion of Biden, that kind of stuff.
But anyway, I'm glad that he'll be coming there.
And I'm also glad that we can continue with these programs because they're so valuable to me because I get to meet a lot of people we talk to in different methods.
And I think this is a chance.
People thank me, and I'm glad they appreciate me coming and spending time.
But the truth is, it's sort of selfish in a way because I get a lot of benefit from it.
Because if I want to continue thinking about these issues, I want people to give me ideas and think about it.
What are your concerns?
And I'm anxious also to expand the horizons and get more people.
And that really is up to the people who finally decide, you know, you've won me over.
I really believe in the principles of liberty and limited government.
Well, then they say, when they ask me what I do, you know, what I say is just do whatever you're capable of doing because everybody has capability.
But the first and most important thing is to know what you believe in and put it all together and realize that the principles of liberty are very valuable.
And the one thing is, if we had more people, and that's the kind of government we've had, we would have a lot more peace and prosperity.
Export Selection