Stars and Stripes Under Fire: When the Flag Wasn't Enough to Unite Us
This week on the Richard Leonard Show talks about violent protests in Los Angeles, arguing local leaders failed to act, forcing President Trump to send federal troops. He defends the move as necessary to protect innocent civilians and restore order. The episode questions the motives behind the protests, criticizes media distraction, and calls for stronger leadership and support for law enforcement.Show more Brought to you by Cortez Wealth Management! Proudly supporting America First values πΊπΈ! Looking for retirement and asset growth strategies from someone who shares your values? Check out Cortez Wealth Management, led by a proud Christian husband, father, and patriot. π http://cortezwm.com/
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Well, now that we have all kinds of distractions from the things that have been happening the last three, four weeks, and what I'm talking about is now we are presented with nothing but Israel and Iran and the missiles going back and forth.
And how involved should the U.S. really be?
And are they too involved?
Are they not involved enough?
What's happening?
What is the president going to say?
What's going to happen?
But yet we are no longer talking about what did happen and what is most likely still happening to some degree on the streets in America.
And so today we're going to have a conversation about that.
And it's probably going to be more about public safety.
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Okay, so I believe that we are experiencing, once again, this, hey, look over here, but not over here game.
For many, many days, we were flooded with information about LA and riots, no kings, all these other things, which I think is a, I think it's a, is a mixed bag.
And when we did the research about support for, specifically for the president sending in soldiers to bring back some kind of law and order to the streets of Los Angeles, I was surprised by the results.
I was surprised by their poll.
And probably the most legitimate one that I was able to research and look up was a poll from Reuters.
And it was about evenly split.
There wasn't a whole lot of deviation in whether or not people supported the president's decision to deploy American soldiers to city streets to help restore order or not.
And I guess as we saw and things played out over some days, we saw that there was some pretty good support, but there's also a lot of people that weren't happy with it.
And so I wonder why that is.
I personally, my personal opinion is that when there are no other people in a leadership role that are willing to make hard decisions and put the folks, the folks who are doing the right thing, the people who are coming and going from work, trying to go grocery shopping or enjoy their time off or whatever,
I believe that they deserve to be protected first.
And so when we see chaos in our streets and we see that the local police are either not able or equipped, which I don't think is the issue, but we see them handcuffed by their leadership, their local leadership, and their state leadership, like we saw with Mayor Bass and Gavin Newsom.
They refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement agencies that are there to do a job.
And so I think that one important thing to outline is that everyone has a job to do.
And I understand that this topic of illegal immigration and getting people out of our country that are undocumented and are not supposed to be here anyway, especially ones that are violent and committing crimes, and then also not having to answer for them is a problem.
And so it seems like in the moment, local leadership forgot.
They forgot about the little old lady that needs to go to the corner store to grab some things to cook for dinner or the single mom who is trying to get her kid or children to soccer practice or whatever the case may be.
Families out trying to enjoy their time, whatever it is.
Why should those folks have to be scared?
Why should their movement around their own home, their own city, their own town, have to be restricted by people that, number one, most likely don't live there, although I would say in LA, a lot of the protesters were probably from LA.
But in many other places in the country, we hear reports all over the place that protesters are paid actors.
In fact, I heard on the radio not long ago that there was some local celebrity in some town in the south was at the airport to go to LA for some photo shoot or some recording or something like that.
And he ran into and met a couple of these protesters at the airport.
And he was saying that they seemed like decent people.
And they articulated to him that they were being paid to go to LA to protest.
And so on its face, there really isn't anything wrong with that as long as you're going to do your protesting peacefully and you're not going to hurt anybody or damage any property and you're going to abide by the law of the land that's set out.
By all means, go protest.
I think that it happens all over the place all the time that people are paid to actually protest.
Or it's similar, in my opinion, to lobbying.
It's just a different goal.
But these protests weren't peaceful.
I don't care what anybody says.
We all could see it with our own eyes.
These protests weren't peaceful.
These people weren't there just screaming and shouting and letting others pass that didn't agree with them or didn't want to have anything to do with it, but yet this is their community too.
That didn't happen.
And when law enforcement shows up and tells you it's time to go, this is getting out of hand.
Let's try again tomorrow.
Which if you get on X, for example, and you start scrolling through videos of people, videos that people recorded who were there, you can hear police officers all over the place saying, hey, time to go.
Let's try again tomorrow.
And of course, the last four or five days or whatever, we didn't hear a lot of that because there was a lot of shooting, CS gas, and throwing rocks and throwing scooters off the bridge and pepper ball guns and chaos.
It was chaos.
But if you are able to go back far enough to when all this stuff first started and the tension started to rise, you can hear police officers telling people, hey, it's time to go.
This is getting out of hand.
We'll try it again tomorrow.
Go get some sleep, have a beer, you know, take a bong, rip, whatever it is you do to calm down, go do it and come back tomorrow and just abide by the law of the land.
And when things start to get out of control and the police become overwhelmed, and in this instance, federal law enforcement agencies are there to do their job and their job is to find and extract illegal, undocumented migrants who are causing problems and get them out of our country for the betterment of everybody.
And guess what?
For the betterment of even the people protesting.
But it doesn't turn into that.
It turns into violence and destruction and fires and CS gas and bricks off a bridge and scooters off a bridge and just destroying anything that they can get their hands on to prove a point.
And I guess I don't really understand what the point is.
When you get that far, unhinged, your point seems to fall on deaf ears.
Because on one hand, you can be screaming that you want equality and these are my people, and I don't understand what's going on.
Can you explain it to me?
And this and that and the other thing, and blah, blah, blah.
And then on the other hand, we're throwing piss bottles at the cops.
We're blocking their movement so they can't continue on with their job.
We're surrounding law enforcement officers and federal agents and refusing to let them do their job.
Well, that's not how things are supposed to work here in the United States of America.
Law enforcement agents are tasked to do whatever it is they're tasked to do.
And they're also not, they're not going to just bow down to whoever asks them to bow down because that's also not their job.
And so I guess I don't understand how Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass just refuse to cooperate with these things.
And so then you hear people talk about, well, you know, these are my people and they work hard and they, yeah, okay, they pay taxes and they're contributing members of the community.
And maybe that's true.
Maybe that's true.
But at the end of the day, you have committed a crime.
And the law of the land is when you come to America, there's a process, of course.
It's a long and arduous process.
And that's a good thing.
I would think that most people would agree that it should be difficult.
It should be difficult to become a U.S. citizen.
Why wouldn't it be?
Why would we not want people to adhere to our customs and courtesies?
Even though we're a melting pot of many different cultures, this is still America, and we still have our own standards and our own ways of living and the way that things work around here.
Feel free to practice your religion and participate in the activities of your specific culture.
Feel free to do that.
But do it within the confines of the law.
And so what happens, what happens when law and order are not all that attainable by civilian law enforcement anymore?
What are we to do?
And I don't think that it was a question ever of the ability of the local law enforcement.
I don't think that that was the question at all.
I think the problem became that they were handcuffed by their own leadership.
They were told what not to do.
And so we saw it at the beginning of all this outrage in LA, right?
The ICE agents were, if I remember right, were at some illegal warehouse or some kind of facility.
And maybe the facility wasn't legal, but apparently they had a bunch of illegal migrants working there.
Cheap labor is what I read that they claimed at the end when they were ousted.
But in that instance, When federal agents went in and rounded up the people, well, they were met with a ton of opposition.
And they were blocked from leaving.
They were distracted from doing their jobs.
And I think what a lot of people probably don't understand is that in these instances, these things can get out of control really fast.
And so a lot of people don't agree with the aggressive posture of law enforcement at times.
But I think also what people just don't understand is that it can get out of hand extremely quickly.
And if you don't try to keep a reins on the situation, bad things are going to happen.
People get hurt.
Property gets destroyed.
Cities are just in complete upheaval, like we saw.
It all got way out of control.
And for all we know, still is way out of control.
But what are we to do?
What should be done?
What's the right answer?
And people are roasting President Trump for sending in the military, for sending in the National Guard.
And then when that wasn't enough, deploying the devil dogs, the Marines, to go and bring and restore law and order.
Because at the end of the day, I don't believe that we need to look out for people that are causing the problems, the ones that are starting the fires, the ones that are burning the American flag in the streets of LA or on any street in America,
anywhere, and then stomping on it, pissing on it, and destroying businesses and looting and destroying property and throwing bricks at the cops and electric scooters over bridges and just complete animals.
People are acting like animals.
And so what was the president?
He was the one that made the decision.
What was he to do?
The governor of California wouldn't do anything.
He was just going to let LA burn.
He was going to let the war on the police and federal agents in the streets of LA ignite.
And I think that we saw that starting until somebody sent them help.
And so then President Trump gets roasted for sending in the National Guard as a federal entity.
Because the governor, the governor has the power, right?
The governor has the power to deploy the National Guard for crowd control and riot control.
He's got that power, but he wouldn't do that.
And as we're watching all of this unfold over the days, who knows how many innocent people's shit got destroyed?
Who knows how many innocent people got injured or violated?
How many people couldn't get to work?
How many medical emergencies in the city couldn't be responded to?
How many people lost their businesses?
Did anybody lose their life because they couldn't get to or from a medical facility?
The EMS or emergency services couldn't get to them.
But yet we have people who have the balls to pass judgment on the president who was looking out for all of those people, not looking out for the people who were causing problems.
His main concern were the police and federal entities on the ground, the innocent people who want to move about their communities with freedom.
Folks who were trapped on the highway because these big mobs of people decided they were going to protest on a highway and stop traffic.
And so then what happens when somebody is having a medical emergency and they run over a bunch of protesters so that they can get help?
What if there's a man driving a truck and his wife is in there and she's about to give birth to their first child?
And all of a sudden they run into this barricade of people who are screaming and throwing piss bottles and setting fires and burning the flag and all kinds of bullshit.
And he runs them over because to him, his wife, his lady, and his baby are more important.
And by the way, isn't it unlawful?
Isn't it unlawful to stop the flow of traffic on an interstate?
Isn't there some law about unlawful detention of somebody?
I can tell you that there is a law.
I can tell you that it was something that Stew Peters and I had to be very, very careful about when we worked as fugitive recovery agents, as bounty hunters.
You detain the wrong person and restrict their movement.
Shit, they're liable to charge you with kidnapping, especially if you take them out of a house or into a house or put them in a vehicle or whatever and it's the wrong person.
Or it's not the person that should be in handcuffs.
Because as civilians, we were not police officers.
We were not federal agents.
The work we did was regulated by, what is it called?
The Bureau of Insurance or whatever it is.
The organization of the federal government that manages the Department of Insurance.
There it is.
Ding.
And so essentially, to the police anyway, we were civilians doing a job that was similar to law enforcement or security.
But if we held up the wrong person or anybody for that matter in the course of our job, they are liable to charge us with something.
But yet all these people that are blocking movement from everybody else who doesn't want anything to do with this, doesn't want to be involved, they just want to go from here to there.
And they have to sit on a highway for hours because some assholes want to protest and shout and carry on?
And furthermore, does your message get across clearly?
Does the message get to the people that you're trying to sway to your side by doing all of this shit?
I don't think so.
I couldn't even tell you if they were all Mexican folks.
We saw a lot of Mexican flags, but who else was there?
So, when you ask people and you hear people talk about it, what you hear is, well, yeah, there was a whole bunch of Hispanic folks were pissed off waving Mexican flags and causing problems.
The only people you're going to get on your side are those who agree with you, which, according to Reuters, was about half and half.
But who knows what the truth is about the people that were there?
Like we said, some local celebrity from somewhere met some protesters who claimed that they were going to be paid to go to LA and protest.
And we see a lot of local politicians and bureaucrats.
I mean, hell, we even saw federal politicians here.
Maxine Waters was walking around in the protests trying to rile people up, fanning the flames.
We must not.
We must not give in, she was saying.
This is a sitting member of the House of Representatives out amongst protesters, telling them that they must resist, continue to resist.
We're here.
Your elected officials are here standing with you.
Don't worry, we got you.
And then she stands back and watches them destroy government property.
Just destroying.
And you know what else?
A lot of people who were probably from the community, I guess I don't know what the ratio was of actual people from Los Angeles versus people who came in from out of town to participate.
But if you live in that community, aren't you pissed off about it being destroyed?
Aren't you pissed off about people throwing bottles of piss and bags of human feces and spray painting all over your community and breaking shit and destroying stuff and burning things?
And doesn't that piss you off?
This is where you live.
This is your home.
So when protests get from calm or non-violent, I shouldn't say calm, but non-violent to complete chaos, doesn't that piss off the members of the community that are living there?
What do they got to say about it?
And what were they doing?
But I can tell you what nobody was doing up until a certain point, and that was sending the police and the innocent civilians in the community any help.
Nobody was willing to send them any help until the president did.
So we got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
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Okay, before we enter the last segment, we were talking about the, of course, the chaos that ensued over in LA and who's going to help?
Who's going to help the innocent civilians, the small businesses, and the small business owners?
And of course, public workers like the police.
Not just the police, not just the firefighters, not just the emergency services, but everybody else who has to be called into work on the weekends or their time off to clean up this mess.
And are they in danger when they get called in to remove spray paint or clean up glass and burnt material or whatever the case may be?
Who is going to do that when the local leadership will not?
Well, President Trump did.
And so there's a lot of argument about whether or not that was the right call.
And I was surprised again to see that the approval rating for this was about split amongst their sample size of people, however many people they surveyed.
But what I will say is that it wasn't all that long ago.
It wasn't all that long ago that we saw what happens to a major U.S. city when local leadership fails to at least try to reinstate law and order.
We saw it right here in Minneapolis.
We saw it right here when Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Fry would not allow the National Guard to do what it is that they can do.
And so one of the biggest misconceptions is that military wasn't meant for things like riot control.
Well, that's wrong.
Military is trained in riot control.
The military, specifically the National Guard, has a whole lot of what's called MPs, military police officers, who are trained in riot control.
Not only the military police officers, but soldiers from all different jobs, all different MOSs.
It's a secondary duty.
Some can volunteer, and if not enough people volunteer, then the commander starts choosing people that he thinks would be good for that duty.
And so they are trained in that.
It is one of their functions.
They just don't show up on U.S. cities to do riot control with grenades and guns strapped to their chest.
Like we saw.
We saw the California National Guard soldiers with shields and batons, the ones that were on the front line trying to keep the chaos from advancing.
Yeah, we saw soldiers, especially the Marines, once they got to the game, once they were called in, yeah, they had rifles and they had body armor.
But what seems to be missing from the narrative also is that the Marines were called in to assist federal agents and protect federal property.
Now, once they're there doing their protection detail or standing guard or whatever you want to call it and shit gets out of hand, well, of course.
Of course they're going to react.
That's their job.
But I guess my question would be is, why is everybody, not everybody, but why are so many people so concerned about the way that rioters and violent protesters are treated?
Like, I get it.
I get you're upset about whatever the case is.
And in this case, it's immigration and getting people out and the way they're going about doing it and blah, blah, blah.
I get it.
I understand you're upset about that.
But why does anybody think that destroying things and chaos and violence and fire and brimstone?
What makes people think that the rest of America, especially our government and our leadership, are going to bow down to that?
What makes anybody think that that's an effective technique?
Did the people who staged these riots, did they have this opinion that, well, if we get in there and we burn the place down and we cause as much problems as we can and as much chaos and we stop civilians from moving around their community and we burn down their businesses and we destroy their whole city and make it smell like shit and piss and garbage.
Well, then President Trump will listen to us.
If we do all of these things, then everyone else in his camp, they'll listen to us and they'll come to our side.
Do people really think that that's a viable solution?
That's a viable outcome to what they're pissed off about.
We like to preach in our schools, in our safe communities, that violence is not the answer.
Aggression is not the answer.
But I think that we can see that the protesters and the turned into rioters, they went right to the things that we preach not to do.
We teach our kids that violence is not the answer.
If you're going to stick up with yourself, use your words.
Be the bigger person and turn the other cheek.
But that's not what we saw.
And so how do these folks think that these actions are going to get the people that they're trying to communicate with on their side?
And furthermore, why do they think that they have a valid argument?
And like I said before, there are illegal immigrants that are in this country and they're probably working their asses off and they're contributing and they're just putting their head down, going to work, raising their families, doing their thing, whatever it is.
And they probably don't cause a whole lot of problems.
One, because they probably don't want to get deported, because they value being here.
And so I get it, I understand.
But the fact of the matter remains that you broke the law.
And it's even compounded by the fact that in the last however many years, we've had so much of it.
We've had so many people flood in our country.
And the ones that are here doing dirty shit and causing problems and committing crimes, well, you done effed it up for everybody then.
Because now I believe that we don't know, as a society, we don't know which illegal immigrants we can trust.
And so the precedent has been set, unfortunately, by the folks who come into this country and decide that they're going to rape and murder and steal and cause problems and gang violence and drugs and fentanyl and trafficking of women and children and probably even men.
And if we don't know who those players are and who those people are, then everyone's got to go.
And maybe that's how it should be anyway.
And I believe that the United States government gave people and still are giving people a fair chance.
Self-deport yourself if you know you're here illegally.
Self-deport yourself, go back home, and go through the correct process.
And then nobody can say shit to you.
But they don't want to do that.
Why?
Because the process is long and the process is hard.
And I have, and I will continue to say it should be hard.
Being an American citizen should be a privilege, in my opinion.
I love this place.
This is my home.
This is where I was born, where I was raised.
I sacrificed a lot for that flag that these son of a bitches are throwing on the ground and burning and pissing on.
I sacrificed a lot for that.
And so did millions of other Americans.
And so when we're asked to just sit back and watch all of it be decimated, and in what some people say is some fake view of how our country should be, well, people aren't okay with that.
I would have thought more people would not be okay with that, but it is what it is.
So my question to all these folks who disagree with President Trump's actions: what would have been a better play?
What's a better option?
Were we to just watch local police and federal agents, ICE agents, be attacked and injured, maybe even worse?
And then are they wrong for defending themselves if it gets that far?
If it gets far enough for bullets to be flying back and forth, is that where we want it to get?
Are we going to send mobs of people at groups of police officers and federal agents and overwhelm them until they feel like their life may be in danger and they start shooting guns?
And before you know it, we have shootouts in the street.
Or do we send in the National Guard, have a bigger show of force, a bigger presence in the hopes that this will help people see, well, maybe these guys aren't fucking around.
Maybe we should just scream from the mountaintop and then stop destroying shit and hurting people.
But everybody on Capitol Hill who disagrees is going to make Trump look like a villain again, like they've been trying to do for so long.
But what's a better answer?
And I don't feel like anybody has a good answer for that.
Because a lot of the answer you get is, well, you know, just send more police.
Well, they were all there.
To the best of my knowledge, from what I read, the chief of LAPD called everybody into work.
If you work for this department, you better get your ass to work.
Whether you're a patrol officer, a detective, an actuary in the finance department of the department, doesn't matter.
If you're an LAPD employee, you get your ass to work.
Well, what happens when there aren't any more people to get to work?
And then the county sheriff calls in all of his deputies and all his people, and they're all out there working.
What happens when they're all at work and they're all trying to do their jobs?
And they're all dealing with the same bullshit the last group of cops that came to work were dealing with?
Then who do we call?
Do we call other agencies in the area, other cities, to spare some officers for mutual aid?
Yep, they did that too.
And so when local law enforcement was expended, and I don't know if they weren't expended because they were all there working, but when everyone's there and there's no more cops to call, then what?
Then what do we do?
Somebody's got to make a decision.
Somebody has to do something.
The governor wasn't willing.
The mayor certainly wasn't willing.
I think she was planning another trip to Uganda or wherever she was at when her city was burning, burning from wildfires and there was no water.
Do we remember that?
That went away pretty quickly, didn't it?
Are those people even able to rebuild their homes yet?
Would you be surprised if there were still many homes that were just flat pieces of land?
Who knows how that's turning out?
So then the president made a decision, showing true leadership.
True leadership is to, in times of chaos and strife, to make a decision, right, wrong, or indifferent.
Somebody just make an effing decision.
And at that time, it probably wasn't even about whether or not it was right or wrong, but it was about getting those cops on the street some help because the mobs were only growing.
And so what's a better option?
I don't know how many times I'll ask the question, maybe another hundred times, but what should he have done?
What should have been done?
And I don't believe that anybody has issued a solid answer for that.
I don't think they have.
They just go right to Trump's authoritarian dictator.
Well, but he may have saved the lives of some police officers that night.
He may have saved the lives of some civilians who just didn't want to be involved.
He may have saved some small business owners their storefront.
And Has anybody at all chose to go walk the streets of where these riots and this chaos was happening and ask the people that live there, ask the small business owners, ask the community how they felt about having American soldiers helping to defend, to defend their stuff and their lives and their well-being?
Isn't that what American soldiers and the American military do is defend not only the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, but defend our borders, defend our streets, defend our people.
Not from just far away problems and threats.
But when those threats come to our front door and our police officers and our local law enforcement and federal law enforcement agents are being overwhelmed, who are you going to call?
Can't call the ghostbusters.
Call the National Guard.
When that's not enough, then you call the Marine Corps.
Apparently, that's what Trump did.
I don't disagree.
I don't disagree with what he did at all.
I don't think we've seen any reports or any articles or any news, any media, nothing at all about United States Marine Corps soldiers killing civilians.
We didn't see any reports of California National Guard soldiers injuring or killing civilians or destroying property or anything like that.
So what really did it harm?
Other than a bunch of politicians saying this is not how democracy works.
Well, I'd be willing to bet that there were many people who live in these communities, who work in these communities, who thought that their view of democracy, their view of freedom, their view of what's right and wrong were different than the mob walking by their house.
But what are they going to say?
I'm going to say a bunch of shit to all these protesters just so they can be hurt or harassed or their property destroyed because of the animals that were walking up and down the street causing problems.
You see, I think part of the issue in our country is that we've forgotten what it's really like to be held accountable.
I think that accountability in our society today is something that isn't really forced upon people.
It's not practiced very widely amongst a lot of people.
And so when issues come to your doorstep and you have to be accountable for them for some reason, these people have been able to go, well, no, that's just not the way it is.
I don't have to be accountable for that.
They were wrong.
The president was wrong.
ICE is wrong.
Legal immigrants are right.
We're right for destroying all this shit.
You're going to listen to us.
And all you did, all they did, was further confirm the stereotype of ignorant idiots.
I think we saw a lot of ignorance.
And what were communities to do?
It wasn't long ago, like I said, that we saw all of these things happen.
It wasn't just Minneapolis.
Remember Seattle?
Do you remember Seattle when all these blue-haired fuckheads locked down a whole park or a couple city streets or blocks?
Remember that?
Nobody could come in or out without permission.
And then before you know it, the whole place stunk to high heaven.
There was people overdosing.
There was drugs everywhere.
It was all a bunch of fucking degenerates.
Do we remember what happened in Portland, Oregon?
Not too far away from Seattle?
Well, in Portland, Oregon, it was much of the same.
People were just running around doing whatever the hell it was they wanted, destroying property, hurting people, drug overdoses, all kinds of shit.
It was happening in multiple places in this country.
And what's really weird about it is it was happening everywhere that was blue.
Here in Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, blue.
Seattle, blue.
LA, blue.
Now, we did see mobs of people and riots.
And I guess I don't even know if we saw riots.
I've never seen any kind of information that said that there was rioting in all of these other places, but there were a lot of protests.
Did some of them turn violent?
Probably.
Could some of it be considered rioting?
Probably.
But history shows the last time that we had this upheaval in our country just wasn't that long ago.
Our country blew up because a career criminal drug addict overdosed himself.
It just so happens that while he was in police custody, he had his overdose and this excited delirium and fentanyl and all this other stuff.
And then we're going to blame it on some cop who was doing what he was trained to do.
I don't know if that makes a whole lot of sense, but that was the narrative that was pushed all over this country.
And most people bought it.
And so then all these assholes had justification for destroying cities.
Minneapolis still hasn't recovered.
Shit, if the Timberwolves didn't make the playoffs this year, if the Twins aren't playing well, then the place is a ghost town.
All there is is a bunch of assholes shooting at each other running around downtown.
I don't know.
I guess it's just me.
But I think the important thing to remember is that when all of this stuff blows up and there's chaos everywhere, somebody has to make a decision.
And that's what I believe President Trump did for this particular situation.
And I don't think he was wrong.
Somebody has to restore law and order.
And then the last thing I'll say about it is, if you're not a person who's willing to make the decision about whether people are going to be able to go to work tomorrow or not, whether people live or die, if you're not willing to make decisions that carry a lot of weight and consequence, then I don't know that you got room to bitch.
If you're in the seat where you have to make a decision about 5,000 people who are pissed off, even if it was 20,000 people that were pissed off about deportation and immigration and blah, blah, blah, but yet the city of 10 million people or 5 million people, however many people live in the Los Angeles area, which is a lot of people, you probably got to put the majority first, right?
You got to do what it takes to protect the innocent, the people who aren't participating.
They're just trying to do what they're supposed to be doing.
And so all these people rioting and burning and looting and all this, it's all just noise and it needs to be dealt with.
Dealt with by a noise that's louder and stronger and if need be, more violent.
But that's just my opinion.
I got a whole lot more to say, but we've run out of time.
So we'll have to pick this back up another time.
But I want to thank you guys for being here.
I really appreciate it.
Take care of yourselves.
Have a great rest of your weekend.
As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over and instead we're just sending them money and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the side of Israel.
Look at the site of Tel Aviv and look at the site of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going.
You tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God.
Go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign study, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the lot and say we stand with them.
You go to Trump's cabinet, you go to Biden's cabinet, it's full of Jews.
I'm a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
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