April 2, 2016 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Welcome to the second hour of tonight's broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, for Saturday evening, April the 2nd.
Very pleased to welcome another first-time guest.
Back-to-back weeks now, we've had guests making debut appearances on the show, and I certainly hope this won't be our guest's last appearance on the show.
His name is James Lancia.
He's a former police officer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, patrolling one of the worst housing projects at one of the worst possible times during the American crack epidemic.
He's seen things that only special forces soldiers should see in some godforsaken land.
He has taken his experience, thoughts, ideas, and opinions to words on paper and is the author of the book, Downtown White Police, which is currently available on Amazon.
Not one to miss mince words, Officer Lancia takes on the politicians, race baiters, the media.
He also takes on the militarization of the police.
He has appeared on many, many shows, including that of our friend, Jesse Lee Peterson, who was on the show himself recently.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Political Cesspool, Officer James Lancia.
Great to have you.
Great, James.
Thanks for having me on the Political Cesspool.
I've been looking forward to this for a while.
Yeah, you know, the audience doesn't know this, but it's our opportunity to finally welcome you.
I think we've had to reschedule it at least twice, maybe three times, pushing you back with the constant developments happening with the Trump campaign and our involvement with that.
So it's great to have you here.
And I had the opportunity to talk with this guy a few minutes before the show started tonight.
And tonight's just going to be sort of an introductory interview.
And we look forward to having him back on in a few weeks.
And we're going to do it much more in depth.
But tonight is a good start.
Mr. Lancia, tell us about your book.
Why the title, Downtown White Police?
All right, sure.
Yeah, everybody asked me about that.
Well, that's something that on one particular incident in the housing project, the one you were talking about, it was the sixth largest in the United States, as well as the number one worst rated for crime.
That was an FBI statistic.
I go into depth with some real details with how bad that place was.
But yeah, we were on a call, a gun call, and we were headed up a stairwell.
And these little black kids, you know, they would look at us and they'd say, hey, there they are.
There's a downtown white police.
You know, because that was most of the city police officers were white males at the time.
And a lot of the housing police officers were usually black.
But so they kind of distinguished us between them by calling us downtown for the downtown precinct we came from.
How many what would you say was the overall demographic makeup of the residents?
And if I could ask a two-part question that, and how long were you a member of the force there?
Well, I came on in 1978 as the youngest police officer in the city's history.
Most of my career spanned through the 80s and early 90s.
But like you were saying before, the crack at the crack epidemic, I get that tongue-tied with that for some reason.
But a lot of Americans don't realize that the crime rate during that time was so much higher than it is now.
Let's take, see, I'm from Bridgeport.
That's in the New York City metro area.
So we were like a little New York, but our crime rate was actually worse than New York City.
Our crime rate was four times higher than the national average.
So it was basically a real war zone of crime.
But the demographic of the city at that time was at least 50% minority to white.
The neighborhoods I worked in were just about exclusively black and Hispanic.
And that's what I mostly dealt with.
Now, I go into depth in the book of many of the situations I've been in, but I'll also give an in-depth look at now after being retired for a while, I've seen the changes in policing and some of the bad trends.
And I go into that in depth.
But that's the demographic, mostly black, mostly Hispanic, very violent.
And we went through all the problems of race and being blamed for being racist, just for making arrests of violent blacks, all the same horsemen that are going through today.
Very interesting.
And you document your career in this book, Downtown White Police, which I want to remind our audience now you're starting to get an idea of why we had this gentleman on.
And very courageous of you to speak out about these things in a truthful and candid and frank manner.
You put this in your book, Downtown White Police, available on Amazon.com.
You just alluded to this, but I'd like for you to elaborate a little bit more.
You're in there in this majority, minority neighborhood, if we could use that oxymoron.
And you're there, of course, to try to help these people, to try to enforce the law that's going to protect them.
What was the treatment that you received from the residents of this housing project?
And was it different than what the black officers in your ranks experienced?
Well, yeah, see, the problem was, we all come on the job.
Most good cops come on the job really thinking they want to do something.
See, I was a poor white kid.
I grew up without the ridiculous notion of white privilege.
And, you know, I grew up in the same areas that I patrolled.
So basically, as a white police officer in a predominantly minority project or even section of town, because the whole city had projects all over town, and, you know, every neighborhood was almost pretty much pretty bad.
But everything we did, everything was so racially involved.
I mean, everything a white cop did, no matter how good he tried to serve the community, it always came back as something racial.
They used race constantly to muddy the waters of any arrest we made.
And very little appreciation for the lives we saved, for the dangerous criminals we took off the streets.
And like God, there was a lot of that going on.
Gun crime was four times higher than it is now, believe it or not.
And we had inferior equipment.
We were carrying six-shot revolvers until we went to the nine millimeters.
We were always outgunned.
I mean, everybody thinks, you know, assault rifles came out just recently.
I mean, we were dealing with Uzi's and MAC-10s, AR-15s.
I mean, I go way into depth into that.
We're always outgunned.
And a lot of claims of racism on the parts of the white cops.
I mean, we had problems with the black cops because actually they filed federal lawsuits saying that when they were assigned to black neighborhoods, they felt that they were being racially discriminated against because the black areas are much more dangerous.
So they thought that if they're assigned there, that they're like it was some racial motivation behind it.
It was ridiculous.
And the courts found in their favor.
So, you know, assignments, promotions, elite units, you know, they complained that because they couldn't get in those units because they didn't earn their way in, they had to have the federal government push them in.
I never looked at it as I mean, I always volunteered for the bad areas.
I mean, that's how I got my reputation.
I mean, in my whole career, that's all I worked in, was the projects, was all the bad neighborhoods.
I worked in the elite units of the department, raids with the FBI, DEA, ATF, constantly, constantly constant warfare.
I've been through every situation an inner city cop can go through.
But yes, race did play a major factor, and I go into race very deeply in my book and all the myths about it and all the other stuff because, you know, it needs to be said.
And every cop that reads my book tells me it's about time another cop is candidly speaking about this.
But I back it up with facts, statistics, and experience.
It can never be disputed, James.
That is the key.
And I'm glad you added that last little bit to it.
Wow.
Folks, we're just scratching the surface.
We only have one more segment tonight with Officer Lancia.
Check out his book, Downtown White Police, available on Amazon.com.
Buy it, and we're going to have him back on in a couple of weeks.
But first, we're going to have him back on right after this commercial break.
Amazing interview.
Stay tuned.
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Really wish we could keep Officer Lancia for the full hour tonight.
This is just a preview of the next interview that's going to be coming with this brave and courageous former law enforcement officer.
We established there in the last segment that you were a white cop patrolling the housing projects of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the sixth largest housing project in the country at that time.
And it was almost entirely black or Hispanic area.
I'm going to assume that you treated those who you were serving and protecting with respect and courtesy regardless of their race.
Did you receive the same treatment from them?
Well, not on a regular basis.
There were some decent people out there.
See, the way we were trained, we were trained to respect the public.
I know a lot of people will probably wince at that and not believe it, but back then, it was all about respect, giving respect, and getting respect back.
Now, for the most part, the people that did appreciate us being out there and because we did our job and protected them, they were silent about it because they were afraid.
Anybody that looked like they were a friend or favorable to what the cops did were really in danger of their lives.
So for the most part, we never saw any appreciation, very rarely.
It was always, you know, the negative aspects of it.
And that includes gunfire, sniping, physical assaults, and everything else that goes with it.
So we treat, believe me, a lot of people, they get this notion that cops just want to go out there and treat every minority with, you know, in a wrongful manner.
That can be farther from the truth.
That makes your job much more difficult anyway.
People just want to do their job and know that they made a difference.
And that's the truth for good cops.
I mean, I'm speaking for myself and the majority of, I think, the guys that I was on the job with, and even the guys that are still out there now.
But there is a negative aspect to policing today.
I think it's going in a downward trend with the militarizing and federalizing and everything else.
So, you know, I talk about that in my book, as well as the glorifying of every thug that gets shot by a white cop.
And we're going to get into that here in the next couple of minutes.
But, you know, obviously, you're a cop.
You're patrolling these neighborhoods.
You notice things.
And I think in some instances, political correctness has been boiled down to a war against noticing.
You can't help but notice some of the realities of what you see on a day-to-day basis.
But at the same time, you don't let that affect you doing your job with honor and integrity.
I would imagine that fighting the crack epidemic in a housing project is like climbing Mount Everest in sandals.
Who hindered you most from doing your job?
Well, honestly, I think it's the political aspect of it, the racial aspect, like you were saying, what they call profiling now is what I call in the book observation.
Like you said, you have to notice things as a cop.
You have to observe what's going on around you.
Race is a part of that.
It's not just that you observe the race.
You observe the actions of the person that you are observing.
I mean, a cop knows what to observe.
That's what stop and frisk was all about.
It was all about observing criminal behavior and noticing maybe an armed suspect doing things he's not supposed to be doing in a place he's not supposed to be doing.
But they're curtailing all those police tools now, and that's why crime is up on the upswing again.
If you look at New York City, it was cleaned up pretty well after, you know, after the late 90s and early 2000s, but it's on a downward trend now because criminals are getting the hint now that you could do just about everything you want and cops aren't going to be able to do anything about it.
Look at Chicago, same thing, all the big cities, and it's weeding its way down into the small cities.
It's going to affect everybody soon.
But that was the hindering.
The mayor's office, so you can't do this, you can't do that.
You're getting complaints about this, you're getting complaints about that.
All the while, all we were doing was our job and protecting the people that live there.
We were protecting the minorities as much as anybody else.
And now these people suffer also because for some political reason, they don't feel, they feel that everything we do, everything as a white officer does, it's got to be racially motivated.
Couldn't be farther from the truth, James.
Well, and then, and I know that, and I appreciate you stating that for the record, and I think people with functioning brains know that.
You know, you notice that there is one group of people that are committing a majority of the crimes, particularly in an area where they predominate, but yet you're somehow supposed to not, you know, look at these people a little more closely.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if that's what the statistics suggest.
But of course, I'm sure you watch with gritted teeth as you see these officers coming under fire for so-called profiling.
And now it's, of course, even much worse than that.
Officers being killed in action.
Some statistics suggest up now, more than 200% officers are absolutely looked at as the villains in places like Baltimore and Ferguson while the city's being burned to the ground.
And that's coming from our president in the media.
You as a former law enforcement officer, how do you stomach watching this narrative unplay?
Play out.
It's very difficult.
That's why instead of just going into obscurity after retirement, I had to write the book because I, you know, when you leave the job, the last thing you want to do is think about this garbage.
You know, you want to just escape, but you can't escape it anymore.
The world is changing in such a way that you're not going to find a place to go.
This isn't going to touch you.
So then I said to myself, with all the experience I have, all the knowledge I have, I cannot keep it silent anymore.
People need to know the truth.
So I go into race big time in my book without being ashamed and without trying to politically correct it.
And I attack everything and I back it up with statistics.
And you're right.
If it's blacks that are committing the majority of the crime, then they're the ones who should be incarcerated for it.
So you've got this Jim Crow myth, which is a bunch of baloney.
I refute that.
Okay, Black Lives Matter.
I go into all that and I show how ridiculous it all is from being backed by George Soros and everything else.
I mean, it's so deep.
It's just so deep right now.
I think people are taking the little story they're getting from the media and trying to, and they think it's this black victimization that never goes away.
Everything they do, it's all black victimization.
It's really blacks victimizing whites.
Whites are targets all around the world now.
And it's a trend that's just growing worse.
Well, and of course, that trend has been Really highlighted by the fact that Obama has done more to make the jobs harder on cops than anything you could possibly imagine.
You know, according, I guess, to Obama, who sent Eric Holder and everybody else down to Ferguson, really the only appropriate action for Officer Darren Wilson to have taken was to allow himself to be murdered by the crazy part, James.
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
We have a little lag here.
No, no, no.
I was just going to ask you, this is the last question we'll have time for, and then we're going to have you back on for a solid hour in a few weeks.
But how difficult is it for police in places like Ferguson?
As we watch these things play out on the TV, what actions can they take that won't get them fired or excoriated as a racist for standing up and trying to enforce the law when the perpetrators are black?
Well, see, that's the problem.
Everything, that's why I call it in my book.
I call it glorifying thugs.
Everything a cop does, even with a violent resisting black, I mean, everything he does is going to be deemed as racist.
Darren Wilson did all that he can possibly do.
You know, Michael Brown was a violent thug.
He pushed his way through and robbed the store, and then he came out and he resisted an officer's efforts to bring him to justice.
He did the only thing he can do.
Police work is messy, James.
Sometimes it's bloody and it's violent, but you need the right men to be able to do it.
But they're trying to purge guys like me, Darren Wilson, guys that can do the job.
They're trying to purge us out so that they're going to have a bunch of lackeys out there, a bunch of politically correct lackeys who aren't going to care about your safety.
All they're going to do is write reports and pick up the pieces.
You see what I'm saying?
That's what we want.
I see what you're saying, and we're going to leave it at that for now.
But when we have you back on, it's going to be for twice as long, folks.
Officer James Lancia, our guest, former law enforcement official in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Check out his book, Downtown White Police, on Amazon.
Buy it today.
Thank you.
Thanks, James.
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Well, officially, we are going to kick off our celebration and remembrance of Confederate History Month in the third hour of tonight's broadcast.
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And in past years, we have had star-studded lineups of guests during our Confederate History Month series featuring such notables as author Michael Andrew Grissom.
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But why do we celebrate Confederate History Month each year on our award-winning show?
It's because of our genuine and heartfelt pride of Southern heritage and our deep love and respect for those ancestors who fought to preserve the American way of life during Lincoln's war against the South from 1861 to 1865.
In a previous article years back pertaining to Sean and Leanne Touhey's attack on Ole Miss, Leanne Touhey is the person who wrote the book The Blind Side, which became, of course, the movie.
And that guy, Michael Lohr, who they adopted, also went to my high school, Briarcrest Christian School.
But I wrote this in a response to their attack against the South.
We should never forget that the South was right.
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So stay tuned if you're a new listener to this show or haven't caught our Confederate History Month series in the past.
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There's no shame to bear.
In fact, I consider myself having won the genetic lottery for God to have allowed me to come into this world as a Southern male and to have been born and raised in the former Confederate state of Tennessee.
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Even got a letter from a listener in Florida just today saying that can't wait for the Confederate History Month series.
is something that people anticipate every year and certainly we do as well but people from outside the south i've made mention before in the political cesspool of my confederate ancestry and i am the son of confederate veterans on both sides of my family if a man was a fighting age during the time of that war in my family they fought and that's something that just stirs my soul.
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If you go to our website tonight, just yesterday, Friday, I posted a little primer on Confederate History Month.
There is a video on YouTube that I posted in this article of very early video footage of Confederate veterans in the early 1900s, very old men by this point, doing the rebel yell.
And these brave men, these men of valor and honor and dignity, so old and frail they can barely muster the strength to yell, but they're in their full military uniforms and they're giving that rebel yell that just struck fear.
That blood-curdling yell from the Scots-Irish fighting stock that founded the South.
And they're giving that yell to the best of their ability and their advanced age.
That was the yell that the invading force of the United States heard as southern flags fluttered in the wind.
I wish I could have fought with them.
Folks, watch that video.
Watch that video.
You know, we fight in the ways that we can in the times that we were born.
You know, just last year, the political cesspool, when the attack on Confederate flags and symbols and monuments and buildings with the names of veterans and heroes were under attack, we held an event here at Nathan Bedford Forest Park in Memphis drew 500 people, 500 people with about a week's notice.
We do what we can with what we've got.
And, you know, just so extremely proud of this bloodline to have that blood, to be part, their flesh and bones still living.
You know, these people didn't die.
They still live in me.
And they still live in my heart and mind and in the hearts and minds of their ancestors.
I mentioned multiple branches of my family tree have roots that tap into the Confederacy.
One of my great-great-great-grandfathers served in the 4th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion.
Others served in Company H of the 21st Texas Infantry Regiment.
One gave his life in service to the Confederate States.
Some lived through the war.
I actually have a picture.
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It's a picture of the grave of my great-great-great-grandfather in Corinth, Mississippi.
My dad's side of the family is from Corinth, Mississippi.
My mom's side of the family is from Thaxton, Missippi, small town in Pontotock County, Missi.
Oh, man, folks, you know, to be directly descended from that noble line, there's just nothing that I'd rather have.
It is for these reasons, though.
Do you see what I'm driving at?
Family.
It's personal.
You know, a man who won't rise to defend his family's name and honor isn't a man at all.
And we see this with so many southerners now who are just, you know, indifferent to their heritage or, you know, they are ashamed of it.
Don't be ashamed.
Be proud.
You have every reason to be proud.
I took my wife and children down to Thaxton, Mississippi last 4th of July.
And we repost this piece or a link to it on the website fairly often and just had a wonderful day down there, a day trip to Faxton, Mississippi.
First thing we did was visit the Confederate square there on Main Street, paid our respects to this beautiful monument of the Confederate veteran that's featured proudly at the center of town square.
You know, hundreds of Confederate monuments like that serve as the centerpiece of town and county squares all across Dixie.
The inscription on this one in Pontotock County, Mississippi reads, Love's tribute to the soldiers who marched beneath the stars and bars and were faithful to their duty.
This monument is erected in grateful remembrance.
And the front of it simply reads, the front of this obelisk simply reads, Our heroes, 1861 to 1865.
The soldier atop the monument is standing in an eternal century.
We reflected at that monument, took pictures with it, and strolled down Main Street visiting shops and talking with the rural townspeople.
We had a great catfish lunch.
And I already mentioned, you know, why go to Pontotock County?
You know, it's because of family.
My mom's side from Faxton, Mississippi, which is literally made up of three buildings, a town hall, a small grocery store, and a gas station with a single pump, and a Baptist church.
That's it.
And, you know, while I was there, I took, again, I keep saying this word, but great pride in being able to visit the graves of my maternal great-grandparents.
You know, even though my children can never know them, it still means so much to me to be able to teach them about who these people were and to attempt to raise them in the best of my ability in the same traditions that were handed down to me.
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And, you know, I take my role as a husband and a father very seriously.
It's hugely important to me that my children be raised to be good Christian people who love their family and their ancestors from whence they came.
Any normal person should have a deep respect and reverence for his or her cultural heritage, particularly when these people were fighting, my God, what they fought against.
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And that is the spirit of the South.
That is the spirit of a good and decent Christian people who were of the same make and mold and stock of the founding fathers.
So many of the descendants of the heroes of the Revolution fought for the Confederacy, don't you know?
And it's because they were fighting for the same principles and ideas that this country was founding on.
We won the first American Revolution and the good guys lost the second.
That's okay.
Just because you lose doesn't mean that you're not worthy of the honor for fighting the good fight.
We'll be back with more.
We haven't even started Confederate History Month yet.
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Well, as I said, folks, we're going to really kick off Confederate History Month at the top of the next hour, but I wanted to really set the stage for why it's so personal to us.
And I think I did that in the last segment, talking about my family's ties to the Confederacy.
You know, my ancestors who fought and died and bled for that lost cause, that great cause.
And now we look at the modern South.
And let me tell you something, folks.
There's still a lot of good news out there.
I'm going to share with you some good news.
We're going to break down why the war was fought in the third hour when we officially kick off the Confederate History Month celebration.
And there's a lot of good news happening with Confederate-related issues pertaining to flags and parks and monuments.
And we're going to get into that in the third hour, too.
But there's also some cause for just utter disgust.
There's a church, I don't recall the name of it now, but a Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma.
And in this church, there was a number of stained glass windows.
And one of the panes of one of the windows featured a Confederate flag.
And according to Russell Moore, this degenerate, who is the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics Committee, he wrote about how proud he was of this church for having the courage to take down that window pane that had the Confederate flag in it because, you know, as they wrote, you can't be a Christian and have any association with the Confederate flag.
And basically, the church can't afford to offend anybody.
And that's pretty much what they wrote.
You know, what about the offense that the descendants of the Christians who fought for the South feel when you denigrate their ancestors?
No Christian should have any association with the Confederate flag.
So says the leadership of the Southern Baptist Church.
You know, we're Southern Baptists.
We talk about this.
But here's the thing that they don't remember, Eddie, and I'm going to turn you loose, Eddie the Bombardier Miller in here now for the remainder of the show.
The Confederate flag is a Christian flag.
It literally is a Christian cross.
The Confederate flag, even though the colors are different, is an exact replica minus the stars of the flag of Scotland.
The flag of Scotland, which so many people who settled the South, of course, came from Scotland, the Scotch-Irish stock.
That's our ancestors.
They came from there and they settled the South.
They modeled the Confederate flag after the flag of Scotland, the national flag of Scotland, which is also referred to as St. Andrew's Cross.
People, I guess, don't know that Christians were not only executed or crucified on the T-shaped crosses that we associate with Jesus' crucifixion.
Many were executed on X-shaped crosses.
That's why you have that big X in the field of the Confederate flag.
St. Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross.
Obviously, he has the ties to Scotland.
And when our people came here to the South, they changed the colors a little bit from light blue and white to dark blue and red.
And the red was supposed to signify Jesus' blood.
That's why the Confederate flag is red.
It was a Christian flag.
It still is a Christian flag.
But now you have the descendants of Confederate soldiers, or at least people who claim to be, saying that you can have, Christians can have no association with this Christian symbol of a Christian people who fought a righteous battle.
And that's what they're saying now.
And because, of course, it's a sin to offend any black person who may not have an understanding of what this flag stands for.
I ask you, Eddie, with cucks like this, what about the commandment that's actually a commandment to honor your father and your mother?
Is it honoring your father and mother to call them racist and unchristian and to say that they couldn't have been Christians and fought for the South?
That's exactly what the leaders of the church are doing today.
James, my son, that is exactly the behavior that I would expect for the satanic cooks like Russell Moore.
I would expect no less from him because, you know, just going back to the Bible, and in case Russell Moore, if you're listening, I was.
And he had, you know, we don't like to question the faith of anyone, but Russell Moore has called us a white supremacist radio show.
This is, you know, a Southern Baptist calling us, you know, white supremacists on his own Twitter feed.
Well, he's a Trojan horse.
Well, we know he's funded by George Soros.
And as Peter Brimlow said, they just bought a Southern Baptist.
You know, his whole Twitter thing is nothing but attacking the South, attacking Christians, and attacking Donald Trump.
That's pretty much his whole shtick.
And he's getting the money.
And that's crying.
And, you know, in the good book, it says, you know, this really is nothing.
It's been going on forever.
But in the book, it says that they will call in the end times.
And I don't know whether we're in the end times or not.
Who knows?
Not only the angels in heaven knows.
But it says that they will call good evil and evil good.
And that's what we're seeing now.
James, and you mentioned the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and they also crucified Christians also and tortured them.
Well, you're seeing the rhetorical, the verbal crucifixion of the good Christians right now, like me and James and other Christians that are standing tall.
You're seeing the crucifixion of the Confederate dead, the honorable Confederate dead, that people like Russell Moore.
Russell Moore, I hope you're listening, you piece of scum.
You know what?
You couldn't carry the dirty socks of any of these Confederate soldiers.
You can't carry my dirty socks.
And let me tell you something else.
You can't carry the dirty socks that infantry soldier.
God bless that infantry officer, James, that wrote that letter.
I cried today.
Infantry officer, God bless you.
You're talking about the email we got.
Now, we're not going to mention his name, but we got a – I cried.
That was – I was in our war.
My war was before the infantry officer was born.
But listen, I was sucked in just like he was.
That's the kind of people we got.
We got the hardcore.
We got people that are putting their life on the line for this country.
And this very guy who's putting his life on the line is being crucified by this satanic cuck who's in bed with this atheist Jew, George Soros.
Just to give you a little backstory on what Eddie's talking about, we receive so many emails.
We're not going to give a name or even a state.
We receive hundreds of emails every week.
An infantry officer, I may add.
An infantry officer emailed us.
He said he's been listening for a year.
11 Bravo.
And he just made his first contribution, and he wanted to let us know how much he appreciates and respects us.
And he even mentioned the different attributes that the different members of the hosting staff, Eddie and Keith, namely, bring to the program.
And this is a guy that's an active service officer in our armed forces.
So, you know, these are the people that are rallying behind us.
And it's a shame.
Look, it's really a shame when you have to fight the enemies of our people, and you have to fight your own people, too.
People, I mean, you would think that somebody claiming to be a representative of the Southern Baptist Church would be an ally.
You have to fight your own people because they're fighting us.
And, you know, the living embodiment, I got to say this.
I'll talk back to you for the final word.
Look, who are you attacking?
Who is the Southern Baptist Church attacking?
And not just them.
We say that because we have affiliations with it, but it's, of course, the entire media.
It's everybody.
As true Christians have noticed, the church now is not changing the world.
The world is remaking the church in its image.
And people like Russell Moore smile because the establishment smilingly accepts their surrender.
And it's more of a sin to offend the forces of evil than it is to stand up for your own people and to be called a racist.
You know, he's not only attacking his own family, his own ancestors, and denigrating their memory.
I would say if I could, you know, the two most Christian of all the American heroes arguably were Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
Read their new books.
Read their memoirs.
Read their biographies.
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were probably two of the most godly Christian soldiers.
That ever took a battlefield and you're.
You're denigrating them, while you take money from George Soros and you claim you're the head of a Christian denomination.
You know what James, and I would.
You know what Russell Moore you you, you scab.
You know what.
I hope you're listening.
I hope your minions, your Satanic minions, are listening.
I would love, oh god, I would love, I would love to see you go in front of this infantry officer in front of me, a former medic.
I could, I can mop the floor with you son, any day you want to meet, but historically speaking, of course, of course, and.
But you know, but you know why would he go in front of a guy like Stonewall Jackson or his ancestors and say, you know what you're evil?
The infantry soldier we're talking about, the infantry officer.
I would love to see Russell More.
I would love to see you get in front of his face and preach that garbage, that Satanic garbage you're preaching.
You know what that guy was, man, oh man.
This guy's an infantry officer in the United States ARMY.
He would wax you son, he would expose you for the piece of Satanic cuck you are okay, you know what?
And this guy James, this guy here is to represent.
He is an ancestor of southern we're.
You know our ancestors were Southerners, that we're basically fighting the same battle our ancestors fought 150 200, 300 years ago.
You know we're fighting the same evil, that the same evil has been here, the same evil.
It's infiltrated our churches.
Look, that's all there is.
Look I, I hope Russell Moore knows Christ.
I hope he will come and be, hope he comes to Christ.
It's obvious to me he does not know, nobody knows.
But i'm telling you he has sold out, he has sold out his people.
You know what it's like.
It's like i'll have he sold out the faith of his fathers, i'll have to say, bring in the Mormon, my Mormon brothers here.
The Mormons say, actually the Bible says it too in the book, and the Mormons repeat it.
You know, you shall know them by their fruits.
Well, look at the fruits that we put out.
Look at the fruits the infantry soldiers are putting out in for this infantry soldier.
Multiply that by 100,000 and look at the fruits that the Russell Moores of the world are putting out.
They're in there subverting the church.
Going to Revelations.
Revelations, second and third chapter of Revelations talks about those Jews that claim to be Jews that are not Jews, you know, talking about being in the synagogue of Satan.
It also says in the last, in the last, in the very last chapter of Revelations, that if, and I'll paraphrase it, if you add one tittle or subtract one tittle from this Bible, you know, that is exactly what the Southern Baptists have done to say that perverting the whole thing.
They write it now in their doctrine.
They criticize the horrible sin of racism.
Well, racism was a word that was invented about 100 years ago by the Marxist Leon Trotsky, and its definition is not clear, but they put that in there as a sin.
Is that added to the Bible?
I mean, yeah, that was the other commandment.
Moses had to leave that.
We got something that can, but don't worry about it.