May 9, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
Each time I see a little girl of five or six or seven, I can't resist a joyous urge to smile and say thank heaven.
Four little girls, four little girls get bigger every day.
Thank heaven, four little girls, they grow up in the most delightful way.
Those little eyes, so helpless and appealing, one day will flash and send you crashing through the ceiling.
Thank heaven, four little girls, thank heaven for them all, no matter where, no matter who.
Without them, what would little boys do?
Thank heaven.
Probably an unusual song to kick off any given broadcast of TPC, but not if you knew what was going on in our household this week.
Well, really, a couple of big events.
My wife and I shared our 14th wedding anniversary on the 5th.
So I believe that would have been last Tuesday, if my math is right.
I better pull out the calendar because I don't want to be wrong about that.
I know it was on the 5th, of course, but yes, the 5th was a Tuesday.
So we had that.
And then two days later, we found out that the baby we are expecting, we, the royal we, is a girl.
So thank heaven for little girls indeed.
And we were very excited about that.
Baby Caroline is due in October, and she will join the ranks of Henry and Isabel as the Edwards children.
And so it has been a week of celebration, also a week of, well, really some sadness, I guess, too.
Supporter, a local supporter of the radio program, great guy, young guy, passed away suddenly.
And his service was today.
I had been a longtime friend of his wife's, and they were just dear people.
But as a result of that service, he also knew some other longtime friends of the broadcast who came into town for the funeral.
And they have actually joined us in the studio tonight.
And I'm talking about Rich Hamblin and his beautiful wife Janice.
Matt Goodwin, one of Eddie's lieutenants, is here as well, along with Keith Alexander.
And yours truly, James Edwards.
So that's what we're going to be doing tonight.
We had some guests that were booked to join us this evening.
But as a result of the circumstances, with the passing of one of our local friends and the fact that other friends were coming into town to memorialize and commemorate his passing, we're all in the studio together tonight.
So we're just going to take some time and have some banter and break down some of the biggest political stories of the week and some other current trends that are going on.
Rich Hamblin is going to be presenting an hour-long presentation.
I was talking with Rich about this last week, and he was scheduled to be on tonight, actually, even before we knew he'd be joining us live in Memphis.
But when we did the world tour, we didn't focus on South Africa back in March.
And I know Jack Ryan was on last week to talk about some of the observations he has had as a tourist.
Well, Rich Hamblin has traveled the country much more extensively, and he is going to be on tonight to share his observations.
Now, we've done this before, but I think we're going to cover some new ground tonight that we haven't covered before.
Catch you up on the latest on South Africa all the way up to the current day.
So we're looking forward to that.
Janice, his wife, will also be on to talk about important family dynamics.
And also this hour, we are going to be talking about, for the most of this hour, in fact, the shot heard around the world two and a half months after it was fired.
We're talking about the shooting in Georgia.
That's all coming up tonight.
The Georgia story we'll be covering this hour.
But first, I want to welcome everybody here.
Rich, Janice, Matt, Keith, of course, as always, love y'all.
I'm really glad y'all are here down here in Memphis with us tonight.
And it's going to make for a very interesting show.
Keith?
Yep, it's great to have new faces and new voices up here.
And of course, all of these people are people that we've known for a long time.
We know we can vouch for them.
And it's going to be an interesting show tonight.
Well, we did something today with our good friends that we haven't been able to do in two or three months.
And that was go and eat at a sit-down restaurant, a restaurant that happened to have opened in the 1920s.
And we've talked about this restaurant before, but we had some great barbecue this afternoon and got into the studio early and have just been visiting and enjoying some fellowship with the great people, really the best of people.
But Keith, I got some good news for you.
You're going to be able to retire after tonight.
You're never going to have to come on the radio again because I got a letter here.
Keith doesn't know about this.
I haven't told anybody about this.
Your life's work is now complete.
Okay.
Because of you, a listener of this program sent, bought and sent a copy of Tammy and the Bachelor to his granddaughter.
So now there is a person in the world who has seen Tammy solely as a result of your testimony.
Somebody that I didn't have to strap down to a chair to watch it.
Well, that's the price of admission.
Anytime we have guests who come into town and want a place to stay, Keith will put you up at his manor, but you're going to pay the price.
And the price is watching Tammy.
Or Shane, your choice.
But if it's your pick, Keith, we know you're going with Tammy all day and all night.
Or some Amos and Andy.
You know, sometimes you throw in a wildcard.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's just like the cartoons or something.
You know, that's a short interlude between Shane and Tammy and the Bachelor.
Well, let me just read this to you, Keith, so you can fully bask in the glow here.
And this is a letter that one of our listeners wrote to his granddaughter.
We'll leave her name out of it, but he does address her in this letter and writes, I hope you're having fun.
It must be cool not to have to go to school.
Are you keeping up with your online school work?
He sent us a copy of this because he wanted Keith to see it.
Ordered a movie for you.
It's called Tammy and the Bachelor.
I have a friend in Tennessee who told me that all the young girls need to watch this movie.
I've never watched it myself, but it came out in 1957.
It stars Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent, Debbie Reynolds as Tammy, and Walter Brennan as grandpa.
They were all famous in those days.
The title song is Tammy.
It became a number one hit in 1957 for Debbie Reynolds and runner a gold record.
Canadian Leslie Nielsen died in 2010.
He appeared in more than 100 films and 150 TV shows.
Debbie Reynolds died in 2016.
She was an actress, singer, and businesswoman.
She had a television show called The Debbie Reynolds Show.
Walter Brennan died in 1974, the same year your dad was born.
He won three Academy Awards.
Hope you enjoy the movie, Loves and Kisses.
So, Keith, how about it, buddy?
Well, it's great.
Now, when somebody says, Keith, name one thing you know you've done as a result of your work on the show, you can point to that.
And I want you to frame this letter.
Well, let me tell you, there are two things, two great things about Tammy and the Bachelor.
The first is it models for young women what they should be looking for in a husband, and it models for young men what they need to be looking for in a wife.
Also, it is the most positive portrayal of upper-class southern society that I think Hollywood has ever produced.
They've never produced anything that nice to the South, either before or after.
So, for those reasons, I highly recommend Tammy and the Bachelor.
Well, after we had dinner, as we call it in the South today, we and my wife was there too.
I mean, of course, my kids have been at the house.
We've been visiting with them as well.
We went on a walk around the neighborhood.
And, Keith, before we came to the studio, you actually presented a viewing of another one of your favorite selections that I'm sure all of our guests really enjoyed.
Janice really did.
Called So Dear to My Heart.
It's a Disney movie from 1949, and it's part or cartoon and part regular film.
Before the Dumbo movie, everything that Disney did was a cartoon, but that made him vulnerable to Jewish power and influence his machinations.
And what they did was they unionized his cartoonists and had them go on strike and thought they could bring him to his knees and get him to sell his studio to them.
And since that, when he survived that with Dumbo being a big success, what happened after that is he tried to hedge his bets by getting into regular movies, which is what he did gradually.
And this is in that interlude period.
All right, opening banner out of the way, we got a big show for you tonight.
Rich is going to take us to South Africa.
Janice is going to talk to us about important family dynamics.
But first, we're going to go to Georgia and talk about this shooting that I'm sure you know about.
We'll break it down to you when we come back.
I'd advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
So I want to be honest.
It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
Whenever things are going badly for you and you loosely start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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What do you wish your parents would do to show you they love you?
Take me to Montana, that I would have a huge slumber party with all the girls there.
Play with me more often.
My mom's so busy with the board meeting.
To spend more time together as a family.
Do more out-of-the-house activities.
This is a tough one.
My parents, they do everything I have now.
If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have a roof over my head.
They don't need to show it to me.
I just know they lose my planners.
Well, not yelling at me very much.
What do you wish?
What do you wish?
Raise my allowance.
To not argue together.
Have my dad be home more for dinner and stuff so that it could be even closer.
Family, isn't it about time?
Buy me an ice cream and kiss me to love me.
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Okay, folks, also in the second hour, we're going to cover some stories such as the unemployment rate, what's going on with the stimulus bucks, the latest trends with the coronavirus, also Franklin Graham being thrown out of New York for being a hate group.
I tell you, the line gets redrawn all the time.
And Confederate History Month continues on the blog at thepoliticalaccessible.org throughout the month of May.
We wrapped up our official on-air coverage of that celebration, obviously, a couple of weeks ago, but we've got some more great pro-Southern content coming up as scheduled to post this month on the website.
But first, let's get to the biggest story of the night.
Whites, of course, are guilty until proven innocent.
Keith, give me a minute to read through the facts of this case, and then we'll start really singing our teeth into it.
This is going to be the sole focus of our commentary this hour.
Jared Taylor writes for American Renaissance.
Get ready for another massive national convulsion over race.
It will be just like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray.
This time, the dead black man is Ahmaud Arberry, aged 25.
The whites who shot him are Gregory McMichael, aged 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34.
There is no presumption of innocence.
Joe Biden tweeted that Ahmaud Arberry was killed in cold blood.
Elizabeth Warren says that what happened is sickening.
And Elon Omar is quite sure that R. Berry was lynched, killed in cold blood, just for being a black man in America.
Even the conservative commentators are saying the same.
National Review just ran an article called The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
The two white men's addresses are now splashed across the internet.
And as this lad notes, quote, street gets its revenge always.
This guy and his son, gone, be dead soon enough, and I'll gladly praise that day, end quote.
So what happened?
If you're unfamiliar with this story, we'll break it down for you now.
Unlike previous celebrated modern lynchings, at least some of the police findings are public.
Their lives may be ruined, but there is good reason to think that what Gregory and Travis McMichael did was perfectly legal.
Here are the facts, ladies and gentlemen, the facts that you will not hear from the press that is now covering this story.
Keep in mind that this actually happened two and a half months ago, but not until the press got involved.
Were these men actually detained by law enforcement?
The father, Gregory McMichael, is a former police officer and an investigator for the district attorney.
He lived close to a new building under construction where there had been break-ins and trespassing.
Mr. McMichael had reportedly seen surveillance video of a black man trespassing.
He says that on February 23rd, he saw a black man who turned out to be R. Berry, quote-unquote, hauling ass down the street and thought he looked like the man in the video.
So he and his son armed themselves and followed in the pickup truck, hoping to hold him until the police came.
A friend named Brian William followed in the second vehicle and recorded the whole thing.
The McMichaels drove ahead of Arberry and stopped him in the street.
What happened next, you can see on the video.
In the video you can find at amrin.com.
And it is consistent with what McMichaels told the police.
They shouted at Arberry to stop because they wanted to talk to him.
They say that R. Berry instead ran around the truck and attacked Travis, the younger McMichael, who was holding a shotgun.
There were three shotgun blasts as Travis and Arbery struggled for the weapon, and R. Burry died at the scene.
The video recently became public and proves that people can see the same images and see things completely differently.
George Barnhill, a Georgia DA, who investigated the killing at the time that it happened, has written a public letter summarizing his findings.
He wrote that the three white men, quote, were following in hot pursuit a burglary suspect with solid first-hand probable cause in their neighborhood and asking him to stop, to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived.
That's what the law enforcement had to say about this situation.
He added, under Georgia law, this is perfectly legal.
He also noted that the McMichaels were legally armed.
There may be other reasons besides the surveillance video to think that the McMichaels had probable first-hand cause, but those details are not yet available.
Mr. Barnhill, whose investigation included an autopsy report, reconstructed the struggle between Travis McMichael and R. Burry as follows: The first shot is through Arbery's right-hand palm, which is consistent with him grabbing and pulling the shotgun at the barrel tip.
And the second and third wounds are consistent with the struggle for the shotgun as depicted in the video.
Given the fact that R. Burry initiated the fight, this is key at the point R. Berry grabbed the shotgun.
Under Georgia law, McMichael was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.
Just as importantly, while we know McMichael had his finger on the trigger, we do not know what caused the firings.
R. Burry would have only had to pull the shotgun approximately 1/16th to 1/8th of 1 inch to fire the weapon himself.
And in the height of an altercation, this is entirely possible.
R. Burry's mental health records and prior convictions, this was not the angelic lad that you see the videos and the pictures of.
He is someone with prior convictions, help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man.
We'll stop right there.
Keith, you've read about this.
You're familiar with this situation.
My instant takeaways are: number one, this happened I think 75, 76 days ago.
It was investigated by the local law enforcement and found to be under the realm of self-defense law.
And that's why they didn't choose to arrest these men at the time.
The media later catches wind of it.
And I mean, as later, as in just this week, national outcry, LeBron James saying every time a black man leaves his home, he is hunted by whites.
All the media are painting this guy to be the next Trayvon Martin.
And it's a story we've heard before and seen before.
And those are the facts of the case.
Well, first of all, let me ask this: why does any white person go to a basketball game with LeBron James?
He hates you.
He hates you, even though you're making him a multi-millionaire.
So all these black celebrities are so outspoken and jump to conclusions.
You know, they're often there, but never in doubt.
When is there going to be any blowback from the white community?
That's one question.
But then, getting to the legalities of this matter, there's something called the fleeing felon rule.
Okay, the fleeing felon rule used to be that if a felon or someone who there was good grounds to think had committed a felony, the police could shoot him as he was running away.
Now, there was a landmark case in the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 80s, early 90s from Memphis, and the defense lawyer was a guy named Jim Schaefer, not Jim Schaefer, Tim Schaefer, who I knew.
And Tim Schaefer got the Supreme Court to change the fleeing felon rule.
Now, you can't shoot some fleeing felon in the back as he runs away, which used to be the law since the founding of the American Republic until that Supreme Court case came down in the 90s.
But this is not that case.
In this case, the fleeing felon or suspected fleeing felon turned on this apprehending citizen, grabbed his gun, and was trying to get it from him, possibly to use it.
Under those circumstances, the fleeing felon rule that would otherwise have protected him doesn't protect him.
If he had been running away with his back to them and had been shot in the back by even a policeman, He would have been the policeman would have been in a lot of trouble and whoever shot him would have been in a lot of trouble.
But when he turns and starts fighting and starts trying to disarm this other person, then it's a total, totally different matter.
It's just a matter of two guys fighting for a gun.
One guy owns a gun.
He has a right to it.
This guy is trying to get the gun away from him and could possibly be intelligent.
And by the way, and by the way, Keith, I apologize for the interruption.
I know I read a lot and took some time this hour, but I know a lot of people are not yet familiar with this story, even though it really is the biggest news story in the country right now.
If you watch the video, and I've watched it several times, not only is the Ahmad Arbery reaching for the gun, he is also pounding him in the head with his other fist.
Yeah, takes it totally out of the fleeing felon rule or the revised fleeing felon rule and puts it in a matter of self-defense.
And quite frankly, I don't know how they're going to determine what happened to cause that gun to discharge.
Was it Ackberry pulling the trigger?
Ackberry pulling the gun so that the other guy pulled the trigger or was the other ones?
Well, I think even if McMichael had pulled the trigger and it wasn't an accidental discharge due to the yanking of the barrel by Arbery, I still think that's a good idea.
How are they going to do that?
It doesn't matter.
I think it's a clean.
See, this is why you're supposed to have an attorney and you don't answer questions.
All right, hold on.
Let's call it probable.
I mean, reasonable doubt.
We'll be right back.
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Okay, and we're back, ladies and gentlemen, a busy show tonight.
A show that we turned on its head just a couple of days ago and totally revamped the lineup tonight and the agenda.
But this was something I wanted to cover, this shooting in Georgia.
All of the media, and I mean, even the so-called conservative media is speaking with one voice on this.
As one of our listeners in New York just commented, Ken up in New York never misses a show.
Ken listens to more shows than I do.
The mainstream media just said the jackpot.
Two white southern men hunt down and kill innocent black jogger.
That's the headline everywhere.
Our system demands that whites be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
This is made to offset the misery and frustration of the masses.
Even the president added to the fire.
That's true.
And of course, Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, and the white Republican senators of Georgia are all on board with the narrative.
Now, let's go back to the facts again.
R. Berry, who just like Trayvon Martin, just like Michael Brown, he's being shown with pictures of himself from high school where he's wearing a tuxedo and a nice bow tie.
Now, they didn't choose to show his mug shot where he's wearing the orange prison jumpsuit, which is far more recent.
No, they didn't show that one.
R. Berry appears to have had a shoplifting conviction and to have brought a gun to school illegally and resisted arrest and so on and so forth.
A trial here could be as sensational as the Trayvon Martin case and could turn out to be the same.
To get a conviction, the prosecutor would have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Based on the facts that they appear now, and under Georgia law, that will not be easy.
There could be another spectacular acquittal, and of course, that will bring the howls of fury and dismay.
But instead of stopping to talk, as he was asked to do by this former police officer, retired police officer, he appears to have charged the man with a shotgun, and he would surely be alive today had he not.
But the facts don't matter.
All that matters is the chance to accuse whites of racism.
And many whites will get just a wild thrill out of this as the blacks.
But controversies like this are inevitable, as Jared Taylor concludes.
When whites and blacks try to live together, life in a multiracial society is always full of tension and conflict.
But Keith, I can't get away from the fact.
They are painting this guy, this retired police officer and his son as the caricature of Klansmen, the caricature of Klansmen, where they're just waiting in the neighborhood, waiting for a black to jog by so they can just shoot him in cold blood.
That absolutely didn't happen.
And this was not a case that was unbeknownst to local law enforcement.
They investigated this the minute it happened.
Only two and a half months later, after the media caught wind of it, were these men arrested.
And that screams, screams.
You want to know what a real lynch mob is?
It's happening to these white guys.
Well, look, first of all, lynching involves hanging with a noose.
And I don't know that there are very many people being hung by nooses today.
So lynching is metaphorical, okay?
And it's not really what's going on here.
Furthermore, with the law being in the state that it's in, that guy didn't have to turn around and start talking with the people.
He didn't have to give himself up.
He could have just kept running.
And if he had been shot doing that, then the guy that shot him would have been guilty of a felony homicide.
But he runs right over, grabs the gun, and he's going to be a little bit more.
But when you grab the gun and start trying to beat him, then it's totally outside of that fleeing felon rule.
And he basically, you know, the fellow that he was fighting with that owned the gun would not be guilty of any crime.
Now, I want to ask you your legal opinion on this.
So we were talking at lunch, obviously, about whether or not these two white men can expect to have a fair trial.
I was pleasantly surprised that justice was served in the case of George Zimmerman.
And of course, Darren Wilson and Ferguson with Michael Brown.
Justice really was served there.
Not the kind of justice the media wants and that all of these presidential candidates want and demanding that these people be murdered.
You know, they're presumed guilty and not innocent.
But I guess it could come down to you watch this video.
We see what we have told the audience.
We see the man going, grabbing for the gun, trying to attack the man with the gun, and he ends up getting shot.
The other people see he's just running down the road and then they shoot him for no reason.
You can watch the same video and people see different things.
But I guess it'll come down to the venue.
That's what Rich was saying at lunch.
It's really just going to come down to the venue.
I mean, if they get a favorable jury, if they go down to downtown Atlanta.
But Rich, would you mind?
I mean, could you tell us what you said very quickly about the jury of your peers and what that was all about?
Sure.
I was referencing a fellow named Lysander Spooner who wrote a lengthy essay back in the middle of the 19th century called Trial by Jury.
And in it pointed out, under Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, and which would have been understood by the framers of the Constitution and the writers of the Bill of Rights, a trial by jury was a man going before a jury was supposed to be tried by a jury of his peers who were familiar with his circumstances.
So all this modern concept of if a juror knows a defendant or knows the facts of the case, they're supposed to be automatically excluded is not really founded in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of common law.
Your peers are your friends.
People that know you.
Or at least people in your community.
Yeah, right.
People that know you, correct.
Not necessarily a friends.
Okay, not necessarily your friends, but people who know of you or know of your circumstances.
Well, see, this is a problem of multiculturalism.
The trial by jury is part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage.
It is part of our cultural heritage.
And to the extent that you have juries and accused people that are not Anglo-Saxon, you start seeing the thing break down.
For example, all of these insurance companies are all the time caterwauling and crowing about what they call runaway juries.
And what they never tell you in the news is that these runaway juries where somebody gets a million dollars for a hangnail or something, just to be, you know, kind of extravagant or hyperbolic.
Basically, those are always in vast majority minority venues, places where the population that comes in and is eligible for jury service is not Anglo-Saxon.
So that's, you know, this is a problem.
And this is a problem with our judicial system.
And it's not a problem that I think you can cure in any way.
It is something that is inherent in multicultural societies.
You have one group of people that see one thing.
They are programmed to see one thing.
And other people that can be objective.
And that objectivity is derided.
And it's called bias instead.
And like I said, under the law, as I understand it now, if this black man had been shot as he was escaping, if he was climbing over a fence or something like that and had been shot in the back, back before that 1990s Supreme Court decision I was telling you about, he would have, the guy that shot him would not have been guilty of a crime.
After that decision, he would be.
And in this case, he would be.
But on the other hand, when the person being chased turns around and attacks the guy with the gun, then that takes it totally out of that.
And he's, I think, more than justified in defending himself.
See, one of the, and talk about unfortunate circumstances.
The guy that shot him has the unfortunate southern sounding name of Travis.
So, you know, what in the world are they going to do with him?
They're going to have a field day in the national media about this.
And if the local jury lets him go down, then it's just, you know, Jim Crow is alive and well, and black people can't catch a break anywhere.
Well, TPC listener Jenny writes, the video is clear.
The two men with guns were trying to stop and question R. Berry for his suspicious behavior.
R. Burry ran toward and violently attacked the man holding the shotgun, trying to grab the gun out of the owner's hands all before any shots were fired.
It was self-defense, period.
Well, that's, I agree.
And obviously the law enforcement in that jurisdiction agreed because not one but two prosecutors passed on bringing charges against the McMichaels saying that it's clearly self-defense.
Well, it was clearly self-defense to them and to us, but to the media and to LeBron James and to the Democratic presidential candidates, it is not.
And so, Keith, the question is, is there any chance these guys don't hang for this?
I mean, I would not bet the farm on it.
I'll tell you that.
The problem is that we live in a politically correct time, and political correctness causes these white defendants to have no resource or refuge from any of the authority figures.
The governor of the state is already weighed in against him.
The president of the United States is weighed in against him.
And this is a pathetic, pathetic statement on just how whites are the victims of racism today, much more so than blacks or any other group.
Anybody can come after a white person.
They can make this type of charge.
If they holler and shout loud enough, cowardly white politicians will cave in like a cardboard outhouse in a hailstorm.
Okay.
And that's what's going to happen to these guys.
And it's unfortunate.
And hopefully we're going to have a appellate court that has the gumption and the guts to call things according to the law and reverse that decision.
But I guarantee you, if they get a majority black jury, and even if they don't, the way that this thing is being pitched to the public, I would have to say these guys are in for a bumpy ride.
I hope not.
I hope that justice is served and whatever justice may be.
Now, I have my opinion that it looks like, well, I agree with the local law enforcement and the first two prosecutors that took a look at this and said it was self-defense.
Well, they finally found one in the DA's office that would try this after the media got a hold of it, don't you know?
So we'll talk about that in a few days.
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Okay, well, the fun doesn't stop during the commercial break.
I tell you, we talk right through them.
We talk all throughout them.
And even coming back to the break, we don't stop, do we, Keith?
Yeah.
But we were just talking about some of the cases in the past where, you know, white guys that they didn't like in the South, if they got acquitted by a jury, they'd just keep retrying them until they got the verdict they wanted.
They did that, by the way, too, in the Southern Baptist Convention with the alt-right vote to denounce the alt-right.
I mean, I think they broke their own rules four or five votes until they got the vote they wanted.
But anyway, they're relentless.
Let me just say this about those Mississippi burning type where like Edgar Ray Killen was prosecuted seven times and comes in in his 80s on a walker with an oxygen tank and they finally get him for some type of technical violation.
It's all a way to tell the public that nobody bucks the revolution and gets away with it.
And then the reason we're drawing the correlation is not one, not two.
Well, there were two prosecutors who passed on this, and they finally found one that would prosecute him.
I mean, it's just like, I mean, if the law enforcement have already, if the people in charge of either arresting these people or saying it was self-defense have already weighed in, I mean, well, the thing is, see, you have diversity in that AG's office.
They probably found a black prosecutor or else some lived out De Lauder.
We were talking about De Lauder.
Yeah, De Lauder was a guy that was a judge who found Edgar Ray Killen guilty.
I thought De Lauder was the prosecutor.
Well, he may have been the prosecutor, but then he became a judge, and then he was caught being on the take and disbarred.
I think Alec Baldwin plays him in the movie.
Yeah, right.
But he's still a great hero.
But see, this is just like Jewish power and influence does with these Nazis.
Like, we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago.
Some guy, some German national guy, 95 years old, got deported out of the United States because it turned out that he was a guard in a Nazi prison camp during World War II.
He's been over here since the end of World War II, led a totally blameless life, a productive citizen, but he's transgressed the greatest sin of all, the taboo.
And see, going after people like this relentlessly, that is a Jewish trait.
That's what they do.
And it was what they did for Nazis in World War II.
For example, people wonder, you know, the Japanese were a lot more cruel to their prisoners than the Nazis.
Why didn't we have a Nuremberg trial for Japanese war criminals?
Well, we didn't because they didn't cross the Jews.
That's it.
You know, that's it in a nutshell.
Well, let me say this.
Look, if these people are guilty of murder, then let justice be served.
But, you know, I'm a layman, obviously, but based upon what I see, what I've read, what I've read from the local law enforcement, certainly casts a big doubt on that.
But if they are, let justice be served.
However, there's a message going on here, though, James.
And the message is this.
White people, you know, cast your eyes in the other direction.
Turn a blind eye to all of this criminality because if you dare to do something to try to enforce law and order in your neighborhood and it involves a minority group member, then you can be toast.
I mean, your life is over.
So basically, you just tolerate a certain level of criminality.
That's what they want to do.
And see, and you're not supposed to arrest any black person that isn't willing to be arrested.
And quite frankly, I don't think there are very many of those.
So basically, you just let them run wild.
There's a good compare and contrast from this same town, Brunswick, Georgia, that I'd like to bring to the attention of the audience right now.
I found this in another article amongst the many I've read this week concerning this particular case.
This writer opines, we don't need a trial.
The two white men who shot Ahmaud Arbery are murderers.
Just ask some of America's leading conservative pundits.
We don't know all the facts, but that doesn't stop Democrats and mainstream media from assuring us that George and Travis McMichaels are guilty.
Many conservatives, quote unquote, agree.
If a white community kept blacks out through violence, it would be the biggest story in the world.
Rand Paul's chief strategist, Doug Stafford, demanded, quote, his fellow white Americans watch this lynching, end quote.
He says not enough whites are, quote unquote, demanding justice.
Conservatives should know better than to rush to judgment, let alone demand it.
Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown should have taught them to wait for the facts, but why aren't they waiting?
Because there's practically nothing conservatives crave more than the acceptance from the left and to be not called a racist.
They jump at the first chance to join the lynch mob.
Here's the contrast, though.
This is interesting.
In Brunswick, Georgia, where Ahmaud Arbery was shot, a black murdered a 13-month-old white baby in his stroller.
But there was nothing about it in the media.
Will any of these people even mention this case?
No chance.
Because conservatives thrive on praise from liberals and they don't get it for telling the truth.
Well, I guess that 13-year-old white baby was trying to grab the 13-month-old.
See, this is insanity.
And you have nobody that will come to the defense of white people.
White politicians are worthless.
Neoconservatives are worthless.
They basically just want to get their cheek pinched by the establishment that they're a good, good little boy because they have sided against their own type.
Now, if a black person of significance speaks up and says, I don't think that these two guys are guilty of murder, I mean, he's going to be pilloried.
He's going to lose his career.
See, we have allowed the news media and the entertainment industry, like LeBron James.
Professional sports are just entertainment, folks.
I just hate to tell you, but that's what it is.
See, these people are all card-carrying members of the left, and they're coming after white people.
White people, and particularly a southern white person named Travis, heaven forbid, man, that guy's toast already.
You know, you might as well just go ahead and buy his burial plot because that's what they're planning to come after this guy for.
If they get anything short of a death penalty, then they're going to complain that there's no justice.
But attacking somebody that has a gun and trying to pound their head with one arm and trying to grab the gun with the other, that is a situation where I think a reasonable person would use that gun if they still had control of it for self-defense.
And, you know, that is going to be lost in all of this.
You're going to find all of these people lining up, celebrities, politicians, and whatnot, jumping to conclusions.
And in the DA's office, they probably have a black guy there that is the guy that wants to, you know, prosecute this thing.
And the head AG is not going to say, look, we've already made our decision.
We're not going to prosecute.
He wants to.
Not with the media coming down the way it has.
I mean, like I said, they fold like a cardboard outhouse in the hailstone.
And even the, again, quote-unquote conservative media, National Review, Ben Shapiro, et al., they're all completely, I mean, if you read one of their articles and didn't see who was the author, you would think it was CNN, MSNBC.
Of course, that's no surprise to our audience.
Well, look, you know, these guys are obviously southern white Gentiles.
And because of that, they are guilty of something and probably deserve the death penalty in the eyes of most of the nation.
You know, it's just that bad now.
We are the new objects of racial discrimination.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, there's not much more we can say on that right now.
Obviously, these two men, the accused, were just picked up this week.
Again, all of this happened two and a half months ago, but the media demanded an arrest and the minorities demanded an arrest.
And so, by God, an arrest was made.
And we'll see what happens.
Even after this had already been declared, self-defense.
They're going to want somebody's head on a pike, both of them probably.
And the message that the rest of us are supposed to get from this is turn a blind eye to black criminality whenever you see it.
It's not worth it.
Well, yeah, Charles Blow, who's a real blowhard for the New York Times, Charles Blow wrote this tearful column lamenting the passing of Ahmad Arbery, another black man falsely assumed to be a criminal.
Well, no, he was the criminal.
We know he was because of his rap sheet.
Now, he may or may not have done these burglaries, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.
But, you know, I must have missed Charles Blow's equally tearful column lamenting the murders and rapes and tortures of Channel Christian and Chris Newsome.
And I'll tell you, black-on-white rape, murder, torture, all of that is a hell of a lot more common.
And in fact, you can count on one hand the number of times they have had a white-on-black shooting because they've all made sensational news.
Again, you can name them.
Trayvon Martin, out there and Michael Brown and Ferguson.
I mean, you can count them.
You can literally count them.
And it happens about once every other year.
Well, they will continue to fan the flames.
That's cultural Marxism's modus operanda.
They're going to pick the scab off of any racial problem that they can find because the cultural Marxists have determined that the true fault line in human society, particularly here in the West, is not ideological and it's not even religion.
It is race.
And that's where they're going to build the revolution.
That's where they get everybody.
That's red meat to the masses and whatnot.
And they're continuing to do this.
And it has a larger purpose than just getting these two white southerners.
And I'm saying this is going to inflame race relations.
That's what they want to do.
Oh, there'll be rioting.
If these two are acquitted, there's going to be rioting again, as we've seen before.
But I'll tell you, if it was a case, I want to be clear.
If it was a case where you had these two white guys that were just walking down the street blasting away at blacks for no reason, obviously they deserve to be arrested and tried for murder.
But that is not what I saw here.
And even if this guy was running away, guilty as homemade sin, going over a fence, and one of these two guys shot him in the back as he was going away, those guys, those white guys, would have been guilty of a homicide.
But on the other hand, when the guy attacks them, starts trying to pound them with one fist and grab the gun away with the other, and the guy is shot, the purpose shot, that is not a crime.
All right, we're going to pause right there on that story.
We come back in the second hour, a quick hodgepodge of other current events and headlines, and then we're going to get into the Hamblins with Janice talking to us about family dynamics, and Rich is going to take us behind the scenes in South Africa in the third hour.