Aug. 17, 2013 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, everybody, welcome to the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
It's Saturday evening, August 17th.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
And you know, we normally like to start off each show, at least we've been doing this for the last few months, reading a few emails that have come in.
And we have really been swamped with emails the last couple of weeks.
In particular, a huge uptick in traffic.
As you know, last week, the website was even down as a result of all the traffic at the beginning of the show seven days ago tonight.
So it's all good things happening.
But I've got an email to share with you folks.
I'm not going to read it verbatim, but I'm going to tell you what it said.
And this is a major announcement.
Sam Bushman knows about this.
Keith Alexander knows about this.
But other than that, I don't think I've shared it with anyone.
And I'm not at liberty to give you all of the details yet.
But this is an astounding development for the Political Assess Pool Radio Program.
I was contacted earlier this week by producers of a television series.
It's going to be, I don't want to say it's a reality show, but it's a five-part documentary series that's going to air on national television.
And I was thoroughly vetted, as I came to find out, by the production crew that's going to be on the ground here and by the network executives.
And I was chosen to offer a narrative, offer a commentary in this five-part series about the South and race and the South and a conservative Southerner's viewpoints on issues such as the Confederate flag and so on and so forth.
And I'll tell you this, and I give this network their everlasting credit.
Normally, when they look for people like that, they dredge the bottom of the barrel.
They look for people that are missing teeth and lack the ability to articulate or string a sentence together.
They came to me.
They came to somebody that is known for talking about these issues in a professional and a polished way.
I'm not going to say I'm the best suited to do it.
If they really wanted the talent of the show, they'd go to maybe Keith or Eddie, but they wanted a good-looking one.
And I got to live with that.
But no, in all seriousness, this is a major coup for the cesspool.
You know, we give you our top 10 countdown at the end of each year.
And I guess if you could pare it down, you could do a top 10 all-time accomplishments, victories, stories related to the political cesspool.
This has got to be at the very top of that list.
Filming for this series is going to take place in September, and it will air in January.
Now, this is not going to put the political cesspool on the map because, in all honesty, we have been on the map for a long, long time.
You look at our portfolio, and this is not being said braggadociously, but because we serve at the pleasure of our audience, and our audience has given us the ability to go out and do these things and make headlines.
But, I mean, y'all know that I was a short-term repeat commentator for CNN back in 2007.
And, you know, we've done stories for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and the London Times and Newsweek magazine.
Jimmy Kimmel's done a skid on us.
Howard Stearns talked about us.
Entertainment Tonight.
We've had some pretty big scores.
So this doesn't put us on the map, but this solidifies our stronghold, I think.
And you look at our show against all odds, the little show that could, the little show that stands up against the world, refuses to sell out, talks about our issues without retreat, surrender, or apology.
And there's never been a lull in the nine years we've been on the air.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's never been a lull.
Now, granted, we're not on national TV every week, but we do get bursts of national publicity fairly often, at least routinely, I would say.
Now, there are some weeks or sometimes even months in between these spikes that we don't get it.
But what's happening during that time, during the interim?
We're still reaching tens of thousands of people each month through our website, through the affiliate stations, the AM and FM stations that carry our show to select markets, through the internet, the online audience.
We're reaching tens of thousands of people now each month, folks.
That is highly substantial, particularly for our movement and for the issues that we talk about.
Nobody, I think, has a bigger voice than we do.
Thanks to this network.
Thanks again to you, ladies and gentlemen, for supporting us.
And this is why we ask you to support us during those quarterly fundraising drives that are so vital.
The next one's going to kick off in September.
This is why we ask for your support, so that we can stay alive, so we can keep fighting long enough to enjoy these opportunities and to take advantage of these opportunities.
And so, again, I'm not at liberty to say exactly which network it is.
The network has its own plans to roll out its promotion of this series.
But I can tell you that I am involved, and this has been signed off on by the top people of the network.
When I said I was thoroughly vetted, they have listened to the show.
They listened to the show, watched some of my other appearances on television, read the website, checked into our backgrounds.
They did their research before they extended the invitation to me.
And again, I say, and the producers could not have been nicer, even called me, sir.
I'm so used to being called by media, you know, racist, skinhead, you know, homophobe, you know, Neanderthal, anti-Semite.
I think these are my first names.
And that James Edwards is just a nickname.
But these people called me Mr. Edwards.
Sir.
The lady that I talked to, the young lady that contacted me on behalf of the production crew, just a charming young lady.
I very much look forward to working with this and sharing with you the experience, folks.
So again, it's going to tape in September.
It will air in January.
It's going to be national television.
I even asked them what they expect, and I want you to listen to me, folks, on this one.
I asked them what they expect the audience to be.
And they said millions.
Millions.
When I was on CNN on the Palazzo show on those handful of occasions, I think at that time the Palazzo show was averaging about 600,000 viewers per night or per episode.
Obviously, that's a ton of people.
This is going to be more than double that.
They came to the political cesspool because we've made a name, we've carved our niche for these issues, and we are seen as the go-to people when they want somebody on to legitimately articulate a certain viewpoint.
Again, they could have gone to some, what am I looking for, Keith?
I don't want to call names, but I mean, they could have gone to, again, people that just don't look presentable, people that aren't able to speak properly, and basically heartfelt.
They could have intentionally discredited our point of view.
Exactly.
Thank you.
By going after somebody like this.
But they didn't do that.
They came to somebody that they feel as though can get the job done.
And so this is exciting, folks.
The opportunity to reach millions of people with our message on a national television show that will air to millions.
This is what's going to be happening.
It's in the works.
It's done.
It's, again, taping in September, airing in January.
This is why we do what we do.
This is why you support our work.
And I kind of went a little longer into that announcement than I'd intended to, but I did it because it is such a profound development, folks.
It's one of the biggest we've ever enjoyed.
Keith, I know you were, I think, the first person I called with news of this.
You and Sam Bushman.
Your thoughts?
I think it's going to be a wonderful opportunity to put our best foot forward for the movement on a at least European, Europe-wide platform stage.
And I think that we're going to basically, one of two things is going to happen.
Either they're going to, you know, can the deal because we're so articulate and because we make our arguments so persuasively.
That's happened before.
That happened with Desite when they came to America.
On the other hand, the other thing that could happen is they actually do, in good faith, play what we say.
And if that is the case, we're going to come out with a knockout.
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All right, folks, welcome back to the show.
Took a little liberty to spend the first segment filling you in on that announcement.
More details will be forthcoming.
And again, I mean, we have no reason other than no reason not to take them at their word that my position in this series is secure and that we've been vetted.
And in fact, you know, they know what we're going to say because they've listened to the show.
They've seen some of our other interviews.
So I think they're well aware of what they're going to get with me.
And in talking to them, that's what they're looking for.
So we'll see.
But as of right now, it's all green lighted and ready to go.
And I guess the moment of truth will be in January when it airs.
But it is going to happen, folks.
I can tell you that.
Now, that's the, I guess, the big email of the week.
But we've got some other emails.
Listen, my friends, so many great emails coming each week.
We only have a minute or two to share a couple of selections with you at the top of each show.
But now that that huge announcement with the television series is out of the way, I want to read this that came in this week from Chris in Maryland.
And he says this, I must tell you that your program is so important to me.
I spent most of my 38 years living just south of Baltimore.
As a child of the 70s, my folks really seemed to push diversity.
I can still remember having to listen to Marlow Thomas's free-to-be you and me record and belong to racially mixed groups.
I have really tried to believe the wonders of diversity myth despite the reality that experience taught me.
It's hard to think correctly when all the people of influence in your life are pushing the equality agenda.
For the last six years, my family of eight, so this is a 38-year-old man with eight kids, has lived in a neighborhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, virtually free from diversity.
Being a resort town, we get our share of visitors, but keep ourselves away from those areas.
It's funny in a sad way that this year we had more black visitors and the crime went way up, shooting, stabbings, and beatings.
Locals who always walk the city were taking cabs out of fear.
They shared this with me and call it youth or bad element.
But when pressed, they look around and more carefully say, the blacks.
They know that they can speak freely with me because I am called the most racist, non-racist.
I am called this by a coworker because I speak frankly about race, but love everyone and treat them well.
This is probably the long way around to thank you, but thank you.
Please send your warmest regards to everyone there.
So Keith, that goes out to you too.
And this is a listener in Maryland that's writing in for the first time this week.
Family man loves the show.
Well, I think it was Edmund Burke that said, if you reach mental age and you're not a conservative, you have no sense, you have no mind.
This is what has happened to this person.
Unfortunately, we have an awful lot of young people.
The young people have been spoon-fed liberalism from almost day one.
And it's just exactly like Adolf Hitler said.
He said, if we do not get the parents or the adults, it does not matter.
We already have their children.
This is like the big rat moving through the bowl constrictor.
Know this big bulge of young people coming through and the people that were born before desegregation had taken root in America, people like me, we are on the downslope people 62 and or 60 and older are not the majority and they're doing everything they can to diversify America as well as Europe.
For example, the left has a game plan.
They do it everywhere.
For example, in England, they get the nearest group of third worlders, which are Muslims, pump them into the nation.
Like in America, they get the closest group of third worlders.
Hispanics pump them into a white nation in America or a white nation, Muslims into England.
Why do they do this?
Because their ultimate goal is globalism, global government.
They know that if they fill England with enough people who have no allegiance to the nation state of England, or they pump America full of enough people that have no allegiance to the nation state of the United States of America, it will be much easier to transition out of the nation state into the global state, which is their ultimate goal.
Why do they want to do this?
They've been saying this ever since the Fabian Society back in the 19th century.
They do not think that it is fair or right that people that live in certain nations, for the most part, white nations, are more prosperous than the average citizen in non-white nations.
Back in the 50s, I remember specifically listening to the John Burst Society.
These were the pencil neck geeks with big Adams apples, buddy holly glasses, black slacks with pointy-toed shoes, telling everybody, beware of the one-worlders who think Americans have no right to live any better than Ecuadorians.
And we thought that was comical at the time.
But apparently the John Birchers, at least in that respect, hit the nail on the head.
They absolutely were prescient.
They were the Nostradamus of America back in the 50s when they made those type of predictions.
We need to understand what's happening and why.
And when we understand what's happening and why, you need to, you will draw the conclusion that basically it's an anti-white plot to reduce us and our influence in the world and reduce our wealth.
And they do this not because we're not talented.
They're doing it precisely because we're talented and it flies in the face of their egalitarian dogma.
Well, Keith, people are beginning to pick up on that.
You know, we were picked up by a couple of new AM affiliates, I believe in Indiana, a couple of weeks ago.
The traffic is booming to our website.
And after this TV show airs, you know, there's going to be millions more that are subjected to our message and our thoughtful and heartfelt presentation of it.
Think of how many emails we're going to get then.
But here's another one, and this comes from a listener in Kentucky, and this is an incredible email.
He writes, as always, I look forward to your show tonight.
This one actually came in today.
I've been listening for two years and have never missed an episode.
Keith, we can't even say that.
We can't even say that.
I mean, this guy, two years, never missed a show in two years.
Now, this guy is actually, if I understand correctly, his father was Puerto Rican and his mother was white.
And he says, in case you're wondering, how does a guy with my background end up as a political cesspool listener and a race realist?
And that's a fair question.
I have to admit that somebody with my background is probably an anomaly.
Honestly, I've always felt very welcome from the American Renaissance folks, the CFCC members, and the political cesspool gang.
Yes, you've always been polite and courteous in our exchanges on and off the air, but I suspect that's how you are anyway.
Somebody raised you right.
I probably have my views because my father was fully assimilated, although he had a Spanish accent, and I grew up in Kentucky with an Anglo-colonial stock mother where we were treated like anyone else, fairly or not.
If my town had been 15% Puerto Rican with the restaurant problems that that would have caused, things would have been differently.
I simply was not raised to be a victim and detest that sort of thing.
Honestly, I probably dislike multiculturalism more than you.
For what it's worth, the only people who have ever given me a hard time are white liberals who want to save people such as myself.
I've had them literally start sputtering and almost convulsing when they discover my views.
I kid you not.
James, I've lived and interacted with many people from all over the world.
From my experience in a boarding school from the ages of 13 to 17, military experience, travel to 20 countries, and being from a bicultural background, for people to deny that there is any difference between races and behavior, intelligence, temperament, etc., is like denying the law of gravity.
I say that people are different with no malice whatsoever.
It's just the way things are.
I wish you guys were wrong about race and culture and that the people were the same, but that's not how it is.
Wishing it does not make it so.
Again, best wishes and Godspeed.
That comes from Bill in Kentucky, who is a monthly contributor, Keith.
And it shows exactly what a race realist is.
It's a person that does not hide their head in the sand like an ostrich when confronted with racial reality.
The reality that all races are not equal.
They obviously are not equal.
Anyone who has taken the time to investigate and study non-white versus majority white nations can't help but come to the conclusion that there are significant differences that have a just a determinative effect, you know, totally determinative on the prosperity of the nation.
Kudos to that gentleman for his race realism.
And of course, we appreciate Bill's support and embrace him as a member of our listening audience.
We've got to take a break, folks.
We're going to get to news after this.
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All right, everybody, welcome back.
Keith, you know the Pink Palace Museum, right?
That is the museum here, folks, in Memphis.
It is the Natural Science and History Museum.
I've been going to the Pink Palace for as long as I can remember.
My grandfather used to take me when I was, well, as early as I can have memories, I guess six years old is about the time you start remembering most things or some things.
So for as long as I've been alive, I've been going to the Pink Palace.
And I've gone fairly regularly.
I've probably been a hundred times in my life if I've been once.
And I took my daughter there this week.
And I've taken her there a few times already.
She's three and a half years old.
We have a membership.
But the one thing about the Pink Palace is it doesn't change.
The exhibits are the same in there today as they were in the early 1980s when I went.
And Memphis is a majority diverse city, let's just say.
And so they, you know, not a lot of funding is pumped into the Natural Science and History Museum.
But nevertheless, to show you how dated the museum is, and I mean this in a good way, it's good that it's dated.
They have a Civil War exhibit in the museum, and the spot of it that's dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest reviews him objectively and fairly.
In fact, I don't remember this.
I guess the last couple of times I've went, I didn't go to that particular part of the museum, but we went with my father and my mom and my wife and my daughter.
It was a family trip to the museum.
And I took a picture.
I'm showing it to Keith.
I have a new iPhone now.
And I took a picture of the Nathan Bedford Forrest exhibit there.
Listen to what it reads.
Imagine reading something like this about the man now if it was written again.
This has probably been in there since whenever the museum opened, I guess, back in the 30s, 30s.
But here's what it reads about Nathan Bedford Forrest.
This middle-aged man rose from the rank of private to lieutenant general during the course of the Civil War.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born near Chapel Hill, Tennessee in 1821.
He moved to Hernando, Mississippi when he was 13 and came to Memphis in 1851 as a successful businessman.
Now, people will know some of this during our Confederate History Month series, but it's always good to reinfuse a little story about the South from time to time on the show because our Confederate History Month series is so popular.
In fact, we still get emails about it about six months after the fact.
Nathan Bedford Forrest prospered as a dealer in land, cotton, livestock, and slaves.
As a slave dealer, he had a reputation for humanity and integrity.
Ironically, even those who bought and owned slaves looked upon slave dealers as members of a lower social class.
Despite Forrest's social standing and his lack of a traditional military education, he had amassed a fortune of $1.5 million when the Civil War broke out.
I guess that'd be about the equivalent of a billionaire today.
To his men, old Bedford was a holy terror to be obeyed instantly.
His language was direct, clear, and forceful, yet he was able to joke with his men.
His men confided in him as a soldier's soldiers who would be in the mud or swinging an axe with them if necessary.
His brilliant cavalry raids and other guerrilla activity gained him the rank of lieutenant general and the respect of the soldiers who normally jeered cavalrymen.
After the war, Forrest presided over an insurance company and helped organize the Memphis-Selma Railroad.
Both financial vineyards ventures failed.
And although he went bankrupt in 1868, no creditors filed claims against him.
He leased land on President's Island in the Mississippi River and formed there with prisoners, a common practice of the day.
When he died in 1877, a three-mile procession of 20,000 mourners followed him to Elmwood Cemetery.
In 1905, he was reburied underneath an equestrian monument at Memphis's Forest Park.
So, Keith, a couple of things point out there.
Number one, it was a good review.
And they mentioned the fact that he was a slave owner and a great man.
You know, it's easy to, and folly, I might add, to compare today's morality, whatever you want to label that as, versus the practices of a time before us.
Well, you know, George Washington was a slave owner.
Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner.
Were they evil because of that?
That was the way of the world.
That's not to say we would do it today or that we wished it had ever been done.
But no, they were great men, and so was Forrest.
But Forrest in particular always gets a bad rap.
And this is in Memphis's one and only museum for history.
Very good piece there.
And it had some artifacts of his and all kinds of stuff.
So it was great to see that again.
I didn't remember that from even my previous trips.
Yeah, I'm kind of sorry you brought it up because the powers of bee will probably find a way to kibosh it now.
But let me just tell you, this is a problem.
The Civil War was all about slavery, slavery and nothing but slavery.
If you listen to our solons of society and culture in America today, why?
Because they're liberal.
Liberals are the new establishment, both in education, entertainment, and every other respect, higher academia, you name it, they're in charge.
And furthermore, because they're in charge, we're going to have history distorted so that it tells the parable and the tale that the liberals want to tell about American history.
The fact of the matter is slavery was not the primary cause of the American Civil War.
The reason I say that is just exactly what you said.
You can't, you make a big mistake when you judge historic figures and historical events according to modern standards and sensibilities.
No white people, North and South, or hardly any white people in the North or South in antebellum America, were so enamored with black people that they were willing to go to war to free them.
They did not want to sacrifice their sons, their fathers, their brothers, their uncles, whatever, in such a crusade.
And that is exactly the way people like Steven Spielberg presented antebellum America to be in his recent Lincoln movie, all of these other history books that are written, you know, Doris Kern Goodwin's book that was the basis for the Spielberg movie.
People realized in the South that slavery had been part of normal human society almost everywhere at some point in history.
And furthermore, almost everybody's ancestors were slaves at one point or another in history.
And because of that, they said this is totally, you know, this idea that, you know, first of all, that's not what the Civil War was about.
And if it had been, they would have had a very good argument to say, look, this is part of human society and has been from time immemorium.
You need to buy our slaves.
This is what happened everywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.
The last slaveholding or lawful slave-holding nation in the Western Hemisphere was Brazil.
In 1885, they abolished slavery.
That's what would have happened in America.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, none other than the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, that apparently Abraham Lincoln thought was a primary cause of the Civil War because it plucked so many heartstrings about the plight of black slaves in the South.
After the Civil War, she was a New Englander.
She married a Southerner and settled on his plantation in Florida.
And one quote that you'll never hear from the elite, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, is that there was never a need for a war to end slavery in America or anywhere because the capitalist class had discovered that wage slavery was cheaper than chattel slavery, and it was.
You didn't have to take care of unproductive children or decrepit old people in wage slavery situations, but in chattel slavery situations, you did.
Consequently, that's why the people in charge of the economy would have inevitably ended slavery in the West.
I got a question for you, Keith, with regards to slavery.
They actually had on display there as well in the exhibit on Forrest a handwritten bill of sale for when he purchased a slave, and it was signed by Forrest for having received the slave.
And I really wanted to break through that plate glass and take that just for the signature.
What do you think he paid?
Can you guess?
I mean, I was surprised.
I mean, I had no idea what the going rate was for something like that back then.
But, I mean, could you even dare to?
$1,000.
Keith gets $1,000.
It was $1,200.
$1,200.
Interesting little note.
Somewhat related, 15-foot Confederate flag will fly along I-95 just south of Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.
It's your good news story for the week.
A Confederate Heritage Group confirmed last week that it plans to fly a 10-foot by 15-foot Confederate flag along Interstate 95 just south of Richmond.
The flag will fly on a 50-foot pole and will be visible from the northbound lane.
Basically, the flag is being erected as a memorial to the memory and the honor of the Confederate soldiers who sacrificed, bled, and died to defend Virginia from invasion, said the spokesperson for the Virginia Flaggers Group, the state's chapter.
The NAACP, of course, is vocally opposing the move.
But since this is being erected on private land that borders the interstate, there is nothing they can do about it.
But you know, one of the Confederate One of the anti-Confederate malcontents speaks out in a video that we've provided for you at thepolitical Sessbo.org.
And I wonder if he would take the same position with groups who put up never-ending memorials and never-ending renaming of streets to Martin Luther King Jr.
Would he take the same position then that we shouldn't erect a monument for those whom we honor?
Of course he wouldn't.
We got to take a break.
We'll be back.
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All right, everybody, welcome back.
A little good news there at the end of that last segment.
A huge Confederate flag going up in Virginia off of the I-95 interstate, obviously one of the country's main arteries.
Interesting story about my visit to the museum with Nathan Bedford Forrest and that exhibit.
Of course, you know, whites are the only ones that are held accountable for the practice of slavery.
When, as Keith said, whites have been enslaved throughout history, and the only place where slavery still exists today in the year 2013 are in a handful of non-white third world countries in Africa and the Middle East.
But of course, nobody cares about that.
What's important is that white people in America at one time held slaves.
It's not important that blacks still practice it, but that we once did, of course, you know, the shakedown and all.
But Keith, we got a, oh, one more thing, a bit of good news, and we're going to go to Joe in Pennsylvania, who's a caller on the line.
Georgia highway officials have reinstated pay-it-forward tolls.
This is out of Atlanta.
A bit of southern gentility will return to a Georgia highway after officials reversed a decision to ban motorists from paying tolls for others, officials said.
So basically, they banned people from doing acts of good deed, but the South will rise again.
And chivalry and southern manners and hospitality has re-emerged in Atlanta, at least in the form of the pay-it-forward tolls, people helping out the folks that don't have enough change to get past the gate.
All right, Joe in Pennsylvania, thanks for waiting and thanks for calling in.
What can we do for you?
Hello, James.
Hello, Keith.
Hello.
Yeah, hi.
Listen, you brought up the slavery issue here in America.
Well, I happen to have ancestors on both sides who go back to pre-revolutionary times.
And it seems that, according to mine and other research on my mother's side, a man came over in steerage in the 1600s and worked for a man here for a long time from England.
Primarily, I believe he was Welsh.
And he rose in prominence here in the Northeast and other places.
And he actually did have a homestead in the Northeast in New Jersey, where I grew up.
And they were slaveholders.
And at the point where the Emancipation Proclamation kicked in, that slave, I think it was a black woman, was freed from her bondage, but she chose to stay as a paid employee.
How about that?
Well, I'm glad you brought that up.
What a lot of people don't understand is that slavery Was legal in every colony at one point or another in American history, not in since 1791, but in the pre-revolutionary era and really up through the Revolutionary era in America, slavery, for example, was lawful in Massachusetts.
You think of Massachusetts as being the anti-slavery capital of America.
But actually, slavery was lawful there until shortly before America actually became a nation in the present form that it's in today.
There were also slave owners in virtually all the states, even the states that did not officially sanction the ownership of slaves.
That's what the Dred Scott decision was about.
You had a man that had lived in Missouri brought his slave into a free state, and the slave sued to be free.
But there were many other slaves that didn't and acquiesced to that situation, just like the person that you talked about.
And Joe, we thank you very much for the call and for sharing that bit of your family history.
Thank you for listening.
We got to get to Peter Scoop Stanton now, but we'd love for you to call back on a future episode.
Thanks again for listening up there in Pennsylvania.
Keith, we've listened to, had a caller from Pennsylvania.
Emails from Kentucky and Maryland tonight.
They're all over the place.
Our listeners are and our intrepid Washington D correspondent calling in the night from the belly of the beast.
Scoop, you engaged in a little historical activity this week as well.
Yes, I did, James.
Good evening, James Key, Sam, Cecil Family, and ANSA.
Well, I laugh every week and I know what's coming, but I still like that.
All right, well, back in the, let's do a little history lesson.
Back in the war of 1812, the U.S. told a local flag maker out of Baltimore saying, we want a ginormous flag to fly at Fort McHenry to let the British know that, hey, we're here, come and get us.
So this lady who was a flag maker spent 10 hours a day, had to lay the flag in a brewery with 15 stars and 15 stripes to represent the states.
That's right.
The American flag at one time had 15 stripes.
So the flag flew at Fort McHenry and was seen for miles.
So the British bombed Fort McHenry, tried to take over the fort, and they lost.
So the next morning, Francis Scott Key saw the big flag still standing there, you know, still waving, so he was just there right at the Star-Spangled Banner.
Now, the Maryland Historical Society is doing a replica of the same flag.
15 stars, 15 stripes, hands sewn.
No sewing machine, hand sewn.
Yours truly had the opportunity to go up to the Maryland Historical Society in downtown Baltimore and put that 10 stitches in the flag.
So the week of September 13th at Fort McHenry in downtown Baltimore Harbor, you will see the ginormous flag, and hopefully it won't fall apart.
This flag will also be on display at the AC Thanksgiving parade up in New York and a couple other places.
So yours truly is a part of history.
Actually good history instead of bad history.
Well, congratulations, Scoop.
This is Keith Alexander.
I'm glad you brought up Francis Scott Key because the fate of his descendants is a perfect example of what went wrong in America between the Revolution and the Civil War.
His grandson had been elected to the Maryland legislature in 1861.
He was about to take his oath of office as a legislator in the Maryland General Assembly when he and all of his peers were arrested by federal troops under orders from Abraham Lincoln.
The reason Lincoln arrested them is that he knew that the first item on their agenda was going to be a vote for secession.
And he knew more than likely Maryland was going to be voting to secede from the Union.
He did not want Washington, D.C. to be surrounded by enemy territory, which it would have been if Maryland had seceded.
So he had them arrested, had many of them put in the holds of prison ships, including Francis Scott Key's grandson, and they were held there for a long time, some of them for the duration of the war.
And Francis Scott Key's grandson actually wrote a book about his experience that you can get a copy of on Amazon.
It's called 14 Months in an American Bastille and read it to find out just what a tyrant Abraham Lincoln was.
John Wilkes Booth was not, we're not applauding his assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but he was absolutely correct when he hollered out on the stage of Forrest Theater after doing the deed, sic semper tyrannis, thus always to tyrants.
Abraham Lincoln was tyrannical.
There was a Supreme Court decision about this arrest of the Maryland legislature called State X-Rail Milligan.
And Roger Tawney, who was the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court at the time, said that President Lincoln had violated the rights of the legislators to habeas corpus, which is part of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, which was in effect at the time, and that these legislators had to be freed.
This so enraged the tyrannical Abraham Lincoln that he sent federal troops out to arrest the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Roger Tawney.
Cooler heads prevailed, but that shows you just what a tyrant Lincoln truly was.
Scoop, you have provoked another history lesson from the Walking Encyclopedia that is Keith Alexander the Great.
Keith, where do you store this?
Your head is about the same size as mine, but I don't have nearly as much information in between my ears.
My brain has just as many wrinkles as my face, I guess.
Well, Scoop, let me tell you something.
I'm proud of you, my friend, and I say that sincerely.
You know, these are the kind of people we are.
For anybody who might be a curious listener tonight, or even for our detractors, this is the kind of people that we are.
You know, we talk about Eddie the Bombardier Miller running 26 miles in a marathon that benefits, you know, kids going through cancer.
Here's Scoop going up, driving out of his way to put 10 stitches in a historical flag that means something to him.
And Scoop, when that flies in the May sees the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, I'm going to look specifically for those 10 stitches that you put in.
I bet I can find them.
Yes, they're the ones coming out of the flag.
The last minute is all yours, Scoop.
Okay.
New York City, some judge who is a member of the tribe decides that the NYPD policy of stopping frisk is illegal, which goes against the Terry v. Ohio decision.
So this federal, low-level fellow judge goes against a Supreme Court decision.
And so hopefully NYPD will appeal and then they can go back to stopping crime.
And of course, this person does not live in a bad neighborhood.
So stop and fish doesn't affect her.
An interesting report.
As always, Scoop will talk to you next week, my friend.
And folks, stay tuned.
Our featured guest for the night is coming up in the second hour.
He is Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review.