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Jan. 18, 2024 - Viva & Barnes
02:11:13
FBI Corruption & Weaponization! Interview with Alfredo Luna - a.k.a. AlphaWarrior - Viva Frei Live!
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No question, it's in your interest to encourage them to keep fighting a war that many predicted they could never win in the first place.
It's in your interest to not push diplomacy, and it's in your interest to lead to the slaughter of a generation of Ukrainian men and women.
Because if they lose hope, they're no longer going to fight.
Oh, my goodness.
If they realize that they should negotiate a peaceful resolution, well, then where the hell are we going to launder our money for the next five years?
If they realize that, you know, okay, cut your losses, maybe.
Then they might actually stop fighting.
We might actually have peace.
That's not good for the military industrial complex.
That's not good for our interests.
What are our interests?
Using the Ukrainian people as proxies for this war against Russia.
We'll fight to the last Ukrainian, says every member of that military industrial complex.
what he says at the end.
If they're no longer going to fight, the The geopolitical consequences will be major, and they are not in our interest.
Oh, that's nice, that's nice.
If Ukrainians won't fight, the geopolitical consequences will not be in our interest, says this man in his Bundeswehr.
There is a real spin behind it.
Oh, there's a spin behind it.
It's a spin.
How can you justify slaughtering people?
How can you convince them to march off to the slaughter?
Well...
Some of them apparently are not doing it all that willingly, hence the conscription of any fighting-age male in Ukraine.
Okay, well, it's not really on topic for today.
I was going to start with Joe Biden calling, you know, everyone who disagrees with him extreme MAGA Republican.
That might have been a more appropriate intro video, but it was four seconds long.
And it wasn't long enough to do the standard intro.
Everyone trickles in.
If you don't know...
Who we are talking with today, you're going to know.
We're going to do a whole series because this has to be memorialized.
It has to be memorialized in real time documented so that if and when the proverbial iron fist comes down and tries to memory hole things, people have seen it and people have understood what's happening.
Okay, standard disclaimers, or you all know how this works.
Viva Frye, former Montreal litigator turned current Florida rumbler.
We're going to start on YouTube, Viva Frye, Rumble, Viva Frye, and vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
I should have made sure that we are live everywhere.
And we are.
Live on Rumble, perfect.
And we are live on vivabarneslaw.locals.com, perfect.
Let me just play it and make sure.
Good.
And, excuse me, we're going to end on YouTube 20, 30 minutes in.
Move over to Rumble exclusively.
I'll post the entire interview to YouTube later on.
It's not a question of, you know, weighing our words.
I don't give a crap about that anymore.
It's a question of favoring the platforms that actually support and promote free speech like Rumble.
Okay, and if anyone, the link to Rumble is up there.
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VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com Okay, and now, for those of you who don't know, the...
Let me refresh here and just make sure we're good.
Good.
Alfredo Luna, if you don't know who he is, Alpha Warrior.
I was going to say Alpha Male, but Alpha Warrior, who's got his own podcast now.
He's got his own Rumble channel.
He's on another platform, which we're going to talk about at length.
But I will let him give us the 30,000-foot overview before we dive into childhood, upbringing, military service, and...
Being the object and the victim of a weaponized persecution.
Alpha, are you ready?
Sir, at the risk of asking the obvious question, how goes the battle?
And while you answer that, I'm going to go to locals and see if our audio levels are matching.
30,000 foot overview, who are you?
Yeah, absolutely.
First, I'll start off with my greatest accomplishment.
I'm a dad.
So that takes the lead.
After that...
Very interested in getting to the upbringing.
I think some people will be surprised, especially some good friends that are watching today.
Honored to be here, so thanks for having me.
Thanks for the chat, the audience willing to take time to hear my story.
Your guys' time is valuable, and you're going to spend it with us, so I appreciate that.
It's amazing because I get a lot of DMs and I get a lot of people saying you've got to have people on.
I have trouble keeping up myself with everything that's going on.
And so I stumbled across it.
I went to your Twitter feed and then it was bang.
And then I DM and you responded very quickly.
So that's how it just happens and people have to be patient.
The lightning strikes and then life is created.
Okay, so what's your real name is?
Full name is Alfredo Luna Jr.
Now, let's see.
If there's a junior, there's a senior, Alfredo.
So, I mean, you're from, born and raised in America?
Where are you from?
Yeah, born and raised in Southern California.
Only time I've ever left the country is just to go to war.
Then came back right here to beautiful U.S. of A. That's okay.
We're going to get there.
What did your parents do?
Or what do they do?
My mom, she's worked for special education kids as an assistant teacher for over 35 years.
She ended up having a stroke because of this story back in November of 2021.
So she has since retired.
My dad is independent.
He contracts, does all kinds of work, electrical work, landscaping work, all that.
Just a normal mom and dad.
And military family?
No, no.
I was the first one.
There's a cousin that went into the Marine Corps.
A cousin I looked up, too.
So if anything, that's probably where I knew I was going to go into the military, but I think the influence probably came from him as to which branch I chose.
Now, you said Southern California.
Now, I only know that from a song because apparently it never rains in Southern California.
Bada bing, bada boom.
May I ask the indiscreet question as to how old you are?
I am 44 years old.
Shut the front door.
When's your birthday?
9-9, September 9th, 1979.
September.
So I'm older than you by...
Hold on, you're gonna turn 45 in September.
Yeah, I got five months on you.
44, man.
Okay, I won't spend too much time on it, but childhood, how many siblings, normal childhood?
Were you a troublemaking kid?
No, no, actually, I was a nerd jock, or undercover nerd, you know, because I played sports, but I had very strict parents.
Both my parents came from, you know, very, very poor backgrounds.
So it was just me and my little brother, six-year difference.
They just wanted to make sure that we were set up for success.
A B in my house was equivalent to an F. That's the way my dad saw things.
And I tested that one time, and I learned the hard way.
So, you know, very strict upbringing.
Parents were buried into the church.
We were raised not just Catholic, as my mom says.
We were raised Roman Catholic.
That's the way our household was.
And if I got in trouble, it was, go read the Bible, and it better not be the story of Noah again.
Can you, for I will say a little Jew boy, can you explain what that means, not just Catholic but Roman Catholic?
Is Roman Catholic a particularly strict variant of Christianity?
I mean, what part of Catholic is not strict?
It's more of the, you know, a lot of the old school cultural stuff is really enforced.
You know, it's the traditional cathedral style churches.
You know, you're going to go through all the sacraments when you're supposed to go through them.
I mean, my understanding of it, I didn't get into it as much as my parents did.
Now, have you asked your parents what they think of Lil Nas' next cover album?
Okay, forget that.
We were talking about that yesterday on The Unusual Suspects, Lil Nas likening himself to Jesus.
Okay, so you say a closet, not a closet nerd, but an undercover nerd, athlete.
Are you over six feet as well?
No, no, no.
I'm right at the threshold.
Okay, so you're still a monster as far as I'm concerned.
And so, athlete as a kid growing up, I mean, I guess the question is always, how do you get into the military?
When do you make that decision to go train and then ultimately to go serve?
You know, as far as the athlete part, you know, when I first got into football, it was tackle football, Pop Warner football.
You know, this was back in the 80s.
I had no business being in there that first season.
I mean, my mom was the one that had the neck roll, the arm pads.
Like, I looked like the Michelin.
Guy out there on the field, and once the team realized, like, this kid just doesn't know, has no athletic capability, they would just run my way.
And this is back when if you paid, you played.
So, you know, I hated football that first year.
And when the season came to an end, and I share this story, because I think it'll make sense where a lot of my character came from later on in life.
My dad takes me, we go home, I'm getting ready to put my gear away, and he's like, no.
We go to the side of the house.
And he says, put your helmet back on.
Put your shoulder pads back on.
And I'm like, remember, I'm like eight years old, maybe nine by this point.
And he says, come and hit me.
You know, big, grown man, my father.
And, you know, so I just kind of run.
And he's like, no, hit me.
And he's pushing me back.
And he does this a couple times.
So now, you know, I got tears in my eyes.
I'm like, we just got embarrassed.
Now I'm going through this.
And he just keeps hitting me, hitting me, hitting me.
And finally, I just get so much.
Anger and juice in me that I'm just like, I'm going to leave it all out here on the side of the house.
And I bury my helmet right into my dad's groin, stomach area.
And he falls down on the ground and he's gasping for air.
And now I'm like, I'm about to get the worst weapon of my life.
And he kind of sits up and he says, if you can knock me down, there's not one kid out there that you can knock down.
And he just walks inside.
And the following year, I went back into football and was the most valuable player every year until I graduated high school.
And so that confidence was instilled by my father.
But that being said, the strongest one in my family was my mom.
You have to elaborate on that.
What do you mean by that?
My mom, she, you know, you would say the traditional mom.
She took care of us.
She raised us.
But she also worked.
You know, I remember prior to going to, you know, preschool and kindergarten, you know, she would clean apartments in the apartment complex that we lived in.
And we'd be right there.
She had 80s music on.
It's the reason I like 80s music, if everybody's wondering.
And she's cleaning walls and cleaning, you know, sliders.
And I just watched her work.
And then we'd go home.
She'd get everything ready for my father.
You know, he, you know, put his boots out and that just never changed.
My mom was working from before I woke up until I went to sleep.
She was just always working.
And then unfortunately, you know, later on in life, a year after I graduated, you know, there would be a divorce and my mom never remarried.
She said, like I said, you know, Roman Catholic, she said, well, I'm married to God.
And, you know, she, she continued that her, her entire life.
And it, it just.
Anything that was just difficult, she just never showed it.
You know, from, you know, my grandma passing away, she's just, the woman's strength is just, it's immeasurable.
You said a year after high school?
Yeah.
High school in America is grade 9?
9th to 12th.
All right.
And so this is a year after you're out of high school, so a year after grade 12. So you're six years older than your younger brother?
Yes.
So your younger brother's still in the house, living through a split up.
I mean, is it nasty?
Is it relatively amicable as far as divorces go?
You know, they did a good job of kind of shielding us from it.
You know, hindsight, I think it was probably a lot worse than we probably saw.
But we didn't really show a lot in front of us.
I mean, the initial night that, you know, it was announced, you know, my mom told us about it.
That was a pretty emotional night.
But from that point on, you know, there was not a whole lot that they really shared until it was over.
People in the chat might get angry that I have to ask this because I need to know that.
Do they sit you down together or does your mother sit you down alone with your brother and give you the news?
No, I was told separate.
Actually, I don't know how they told my little brother, but my mom's the one that told me.
She actually put my dad on the spot.
She's like, your father got something to tell you.
And he was just like, my mom's name is Felicita, so everybody calls her Flea.
And he's like, flee, flee.
And she's like, no, either you tell your son or I will.
And so then that's how I got the news.
That's interesting.
Okay.
And so you're older, probably easier to deal with this, whether or not you retrospectively understood signs that you didn't put together until it happens.
So you graduated from high school, and now for someone who's never served, how does this work?
Do you apply to the military?
Do you go to university and get into it afterwards?
How do you go about that?
So, you know, like I said, my parents forced me to do really good in school.
And I didn't want to go to college.
I was like, now, you know, I'm on my own.
I did what they want to do.
I want to do life the way I want.
I don't want to go to these four universities.
I know everything, right?
I'm 17 and a half years old.
I want to work and go to junior college.
And so I did.
I was still dating a girl through high school, so that had some influence there, too.
Wasn't the brightest outside of the books, I guess, with that decision.
And I wanted to join the military.
And, man, this is really going to take the alpha title from me, but I'll get it back later.
She's like, if you join the Marines, I'm breaking out with you.
And I was like, man, I really like this girl.
And so I put it off.
And we dated longer.
Ended up having my first two little girls in 2000, 2001.
And 9-11 happens.
And I'm actually working as a construction company.
Let me pause you there.
You had two kids by the time you're 21 years old?
Yep.
Back to back.
Well, you're Roman Catholic.
Are you married to this girl or are these out-of-wedlock children?
At the moment, they're out-of-wedlock.
Holy cow.
That's wildly young for most people to have kids.
You have two kids.
I'll ask.
Accidentally or was it a plan?
It was an accident.
Surprise.
I mean, wasn't being too careful, so it wasn't dumb.
Knew it was running the risk, but it wasn't planned.
Okay.
Two kids.
How far apart?
One year.
One born February 10th and the other one born May 2nd.
February 10th.
May 2nd.
February, March, April, May.
Dude, they say you're not supposed to engage in intercourse for six weeks after that.
Never mind.
I'm not getting that far into it.
So you have two kids by the time.
You're 21. Then 9-11 happens.
Yep.
Okay.
Now I can anticipate where this is going, but please tell us.
Yeah.
I'm working a construction job with my dad and my uncle.
It's remodeling some apartment complexes.
And I'm working on the electrical, working on the patios, this old couple, and they're watching TV.
And obviously, it's early in the morning here on the West Coast.
And the news pops on because the first tower got hit.
So I just kind of stop and I'm just looking, you know, at their TV with them.
And they know, I mean, they didn't mind.
And watch the second thing happen.
And then after that, it's, you know, everybody kind of knows the news of how it develops.
So we go sit down, have lunch with all the workers.
And I tell my dad, hey, I'm going to the recruiting office tomorrow.
And he was adamantly against it.
And went the next day.
They were closed, surprisingly.
And so then I went the day after that.
They were open.
I enlisted, took the test.
They, you know, to summarize this process, they were trying to push me to get into JAG because I scored really, really, really high in the ASVAB.
JAG is what?
Judge Advocate General.
Okay.
And I know there's a television show called JAG, but I never watched it.
So that was a good one, too.
And I said, no, I don't.
So they were pushing, pushing.
And I said, listen.
I want boots on the ground.
I want to go over there and, you know, slay bodies, you know, do the Marine Corps thing of what they did to our country.
And so I ended up joining the infantry unit, went to boot camp, and then in February, on Valentine's Day of 2003, we landed in Kuwait, and we're in Kuwait just before the war started.
Well, now you're, I don't know if she's your wife at the time now, but at least the mother of your two kids' girlfriend who didn't want you joining beforehand, I presume...
Wants you joining even less after 9 /11.
Yeah, she was not happy with the decision, but this is when I realized how much I love my country and how much of a patriot I am and stood my ground and said, well, we're doing this together or I'm doing it on my own.
How old are your kids at this time?
They're two and three years old or one and two?
Two and three.
Dude, so you have...
It's unfathomable, not unfathomable, like I can...
Sort of empathize and put myself in your shoes, but it's probably unfathomable to most.
Two young kids, 9-11, and you say, I'm signing up.
I'm going to go into harm's way.
I'm going to leave my family and go fight for what I think is right at this time.
And you leave your two young children and join the United States Marine Corps.
I joined.
And I remember on the, it would have been the 13th, February 13th, you know, before we flew out.
I remember going into the room because we all lived in one little room.
And looking at my two little girls, they're sleeping on the bed.
And she's like, you want to wake them up to say goodbye?
And I had already said goodbye before they went to sleep.
And I said, no, I don't want to wake them up.
You know, they're just going to cry.
And I just, that was the image I burned in my head.
And that was the image I kept with me the entire time I was out there.
What's it like leaving?
Is she your wife or girlfriend at the time?
At that time, now we're married.
Okay.
Oh, you're still, you're with her now.
Yes.
We're together.
We stayed together.
Holy crap.
We're not together anymore.
Oh, not together.
Darn it.
Okay, well, I was going to say it had a happy ending, but I guess it had a happy middle, and now it's...
Yeah, I do.
Have you seen the movie Interstellar?
I have.
Okay, I mean, like, I've never...
I don't have these experiences, but in as much as, you know, a scene of a movie makes you feel it, the scene when Matthew McConaughey's going off and the daughter says, like, I don't want to leave you angry like this, and then she chases him down as he's driving off.
I mean...
It makes you feel feelings.
And I can only imagine that's to some extent what it's like but exponentially like on steroids for the person going through it.
And you're off and you're gone and how long?
What's this whole process like?
What is it like?
Where do you go?
What do they do with you?
When do you come back?
Yeah, we flew from March Air Force Base which is in Moreno Valley, still Southern California.
We did a layover in Maine.
And then from Maine, we landed in Frankfurt, Germany.
And then from Frankfurt, Germany, we landed in Kuwait.
And so when you're flying over the Middle East for the first time, especially at night, I mean, everything's dark.
You can just see, you know, a little bit of the, I mean, as high as you are, you can still see some of the dust trails from vehicles that are driving.
But we land in Kuwait, and this is where you realize, like, this is real.
Now, the war hasn't started yet, you know, because that starts about a month later.
But we land in Kuwait, and it's just like, everybody's like, get off, get off, get off.
Like, you're dismounting the plane.
It's like the movies.
There's a line of black SUVs.
You go to each one.
You give information.
You go to the next one.
They're doing an eye scan.
You go to the next one.
You're getting a, I think they gave us an ID or took our IDs, one of the two.
And then you move into trucks, and then, you know, heading off to whatever, you know.
Camp that they sent us to.
And then it's a whole lot of training and downtime while you're in Kuwait.
You're there.
You're not yet fully trained.
You're there for the training.
Well, we're trained.
Very, very good training.
But now you're doing specific training to what you're most likely going to encounter in this kind of geographical area.
Okay, amazing.
How long does that training last?
And what do you experience when you're out there?
Well, we trained until March 17th.
I want to say about a day and a half before the rest of the world knew we got the news that we're going to be crossing the LOD.
And at that point, it's this comms check, it's weapons check, it's health check.
It's making sure everybody is at 110% ready to go in battle.
Checking all the vehicles.
So I was lucky.
We're infantry scouts, part of a reconnaissance battalion.
It's LAVs.
So all the other grunts usually give me a hard time about this because we get taxied around while the other regular grunts have to march.
So I always kind of get a little grief for that, but I just say they're jealous.
It's okay.
You'll survive.
And we went, and for those that don't know the LAV, it's like the Army's Bradley, except we have wheels instead of tracks, and it's light armored instead of the better armored.
LAV is light armored vehicle.
Yeah, light armored vehicle.
So it has a 25mm bush cannon on it.
It's a beast of a vehicle.
Wow.
And so you're out there in the thick of it for how long?
We crossed on March 18th, and I was there until August the 18th of 2003.
So March 2001.
Yeah, March 2000.
I'm sorry, March 2003 to August 18th of 2003.
They call that a tour, right?
Is that like one sequence of service?
So eventually they turn into deployments, but in the beginning of the war, this was new for us.
Most of us, I actually think almost all of us, this was the first combat deployment because I don't think there were very many older guys that were there from the first desert storm.
But we were told, hey, once you Marines get to Baghdad, we're going to get you guys home.
So you tell a bunch of Marines that that's the ticket to get home.
A lot of motivation.
Well, we need to get into Baghdad a lot faster than the campaign anticipated.
So then I was like, well, no, we got to keep you guys around.
And, you know, it went.
So now once the war, I want to say once it got to OIF-3, the third phase, is when it starts to turn into regular deployments.
You'll get Marines that go out there for six months.
I think the Army does a year.
And now you start having this, like, you know.
Consistent time pattern.
But in the beginning, you don't know.
You can be there six months, nine months, a year.
Until we establish control, you're not going home.
And how many deployments did you do?
That was it.
That was the only combat deployment that I did.
And so you're back home, August 2003, and you don't deploy for military again at any point.
No, no, I don't deploy any.
So because I had my two little girls at the time, they didn't allow me to go active duty, so they put me part of the reserve battalion.
So I was part of 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in Camp Pendleton.
So the first two-thirds of my career was active duty because of combat, but once that was done, then it went back to the reserve role where you go once a month and then two weeks training throughout the year.
Okay, now we're going to...
We've got the...
Well, I've got some more questions about service, and we're going to fill in the missing period until you get raided by the FBI over a tweet, or over some tweets.
Everybody, get your butts on over to Rumble.
Link is there.
The link is in the pinned comment.
And we're going to continue this there, but this will all be replayed on YouTube tomorrow.
So, doesn't change anything on our end.
Alpha, give me two seconds, and we're going to end on YouTube now.
Now, I won't harp on this for too long, but it's always been something that I find fascinating.
You get back from war, August 2003.
What is it like reintegrating or integrating, or is it even possible, into civilian life when you get back?
Like, what do you do?
What's the first day like?
What's the healing process like?
And is there ever a full healing in terms of what you came from versus trying to get back to citizen life?
Well, I figured you're going to find this part humorous.
So I got to come home a month earlier than the rest of my company.
And the reason they sent me home on August the 18th was because I had a baby that was due August the 20th.
So they actually, I got to fly home earlier.
So my process was a little bit different than a lot of the other Marines in my company.
I get sent back to Kuwait.
So I get to fly on the C-130 with the guys into Kuwait.
I get to Kuwait, start doing...
A deprocessing process, which is just making sure that everybody knows where you're going, everything's squared away.
But right before I go to get on the plane, you know, to start the process home, I'm in this camp where you got the Marines coming in and the Marines going, you know, home or wherever else they're being stationed at.
It's just like the movies.
As I'm in this path going this way, I see a Marine coming towards me that I recognize.
And it was the gunnery sergeant.
Well, staff sergeant at the time, gunnery sergeant now.
That recruited me.
It was my recruiter.
So I get to see my recruiter.
And, you know, we shared a moment.
And it was cool.
I mean, I knew where I was going, so it wasn't like he did me dirty.
And then from there, I started the process home.
Same way, you know, into Germany.
Did a layover, I think in New York, not Maine.
Then came into California to LAX.
Now, here's where it was.
This is where I started to realize, even though I was young, I started to realize.
There were things that happened to us out there.
When you're out there, especially when you're popped out of the hatch of an alley and you're going through this urban environment, everything's a threat.
Every window, every door, every alley, everything that looks like a rice bag on the side of the road can be an improvised device.
You're constantly analyzing a thousand things every minute because your life depends on it and the life of your Marines depends on it.
And no one teaches you how to shut that down.
So now you go into LAX and I get off this plane and, you know, my bubble's like 10 meters wide.
And now there's people that are like bumping shoulders.
I had so much anxiety just walking through LAX because I'm still doing it.
I'm looking at luggages.
I'm looking at doors.
And I'm having to retell myself, like, you're home.
Chill out.
You know, just relax.
And so then from LAX.
They put me on a private jet, flew me into Palm Springs Airport, and that's where my family was waiting for me.
Went home, and thank goodness I got home when I did, because the baby came home, or was delivered a day early.
So the very next morning, we're in the hospital, and I'm delivering my third little girl.
I mean, that's phenomenal.
And now, the interesting thing that you talk about, not shutting it off, or it's always on, does it ever shut off?
You learn to control it to where it becomes absent, so you feel like it's shut off.
But then years later, you experience things.
I remember one time I'm driving on the side of the freeway.
I think I was coming home from work.
And I'm out here, Southern California.
We're not too far from Box Canyon, Yuma.
There's a lot of places where the military does training.
And by this point, I've been out of the military for years.
And on the back of a semi-hauler is an old BMP.
That, obviously, it's on its way so the airplanes can, you know, do their practice bombing.
But as soon as I see it, instantly, that was one of the vehicles we're trained to be on alert for.
That was an enemy vehicle.
And I'm driving my little 2001 Honda Accord at the time, and I remember just everything inside me just felt frozen, you know, because that was considered a threat.
And then, obviously, within seconds, I get my composure, kind of laughed it off.
But I realize, man, there's some things back there that are, you know, they're still there.
Hardwired.
I mean, hardwired.
And what do they do in terms of verifying your mental well-being when you're back home and, you know, expected just to reintegrate into society?
What level of, not scrutiny, but verification, medical examinations do they do to make sure that you're integrating smoothly?
I don't know how they do it now.
Back then, I was asked if I was okay, and I said, I'm fine.
And that was the level of effort that was put into that.
So you get back home.
You get the biggest distraction, the most beautiful distraction of all time, which is a third kid.
What do you do as of that point up until, I guess, we're going to span a 17-year period.
What do you do after that when you get back home?
I tell my family not to tell anybody.
I didn't want anybody to know I was home.
And that actually took 30 days.
It was 30 days before I was willing to let everybody, outside of my parents and her parents, it took 30 days before I was like, okay, let's start telling the cousins and everybody.
You know, that I'm home, which, you know, people were like, well, they wanted to come see the baby because they knew that the baby was here.
And so, but for 30 days, I just didn't, I just wanted to be by myself.
You know, I didn't really go anywhere.
I'd go from our house to the store to, you know, get like Infamil or something like that, or, you know, to a fast food place down.
And I just kind of was a hermit crab for a month.
And then it was like, slowly started to integrate back with friends and family.
That's very interesting.
And then what do you do for work?
Or what do you start doing for work?
So after that, I go and I start working for the Department of Public Social Services.
So I'm going back to college.
I'm working for the Department of Public Social Services.
And I enter the police academy.
This is amazing.
It's for anybody who...
People need to be interested in the backstory.
They need to understand who you are in terms of...
In terms of understanding and appreciating the absolute insanity of what you're subsequently put through, given what you've already sacrificed for your country.
So you basically get trained to work in law enforcement, which you do for how long?
I get hired through the Academy in 2005.
I get out on my own in 2006.
And I keep doing my career until January 19th of 2019.
Is it independent or same employer for 13 years?
Same agency that I work for the entire time.
Same agency.
So you're a reliable employee.
You are a...
What do they call...
Oh my goodness.
Not a loyal citizen.
What's the word?
I'm totally brain farting, but you're a patriotic citizen who sacrificed more, put your life on the line.
I think I know the answer because I heard it in another podcast.
You've never had a criminal record in your life, correct?
My Bonnie and Clyde moment was a tinted windows ticket in 2003.
In what state?
I'm in Florida.
Tinted windows, I think, are legal here.
I don't know.
Were they all blacked out?
No, no.
It's Southern California.
It's hot.
I don't think I ever gave anyone a ticket for that during my career because I was like, this is ridiculous.
But no, it was here in California.
As a matter of fact, I was in uniform because I actually got that when I was coming back from...
Because when you get back from a deployment, even though you get to go home, you still got to keep going back to the base.
So in this place, it was Camp Pendleton.
But on the weekends, I would still come home.
And so I actually got that ticket while I'm in my Marine Corps camis coming back from Camp Pendleton from a CHP officer.
CHP Officer Rice.
If you're working and you're watching, that wasn't cool, man.
CHP California Highway Patrol.
Yeah.
How much was the ticket?
Oh, man, I don't remember.
And they don't, like, immediately smash out your windows because you're not allowed?
No, no, no, no, no.
If you take it off, I think it was, like, $10 or $30.
And if you leave it on, I think it was, like, $100 and some bucks back then.
All right.
So that's it.
You got a clean record.
You'd never been reprimanded as a U.S. Marine Corps?
Nope.
Okay, it's crazy.
So up until 2019, working law...
Is it law enforcement, like, uniform on walking streets?
Yeah, started off, like, you know, patrol, you know, pushing a black and white, and then worked my way into detectives, got into gangs, and worked undercover in gangs.
Okay, because I know that you have had some wild experiences, or at least very intense experiences as law enforcement, working undercover in gangs.
Is it MS-13 gangs?
Because that's the only one, or the Bloods of the Crips, or the other two that I know.
No, out here it's predominantly Hispanic gangs.
Actually, MS-13 was coming into, well, our exposure to MS-13 was coming in at the tail end of my career.
It was actually some of my informants, because when I was on the regional gang task force, we knew people from, like, the Mecca, Oasis area out there, by the Salton Sea, if I was trying to track what I'm talking about.
And actually, it was some of the street rats that were telling us, hey, there's these MS-13 guys coming in.
And then I started looking into them, but I never had the chance to fully investigate them.
Something tells me there will be a movie made about your life sometime sooner than later, but tell us, for those who can't possibly, undercover in gangs.
What in...
I mean, I'm thinking Training Day.
I'm thinking all the movies I've ever seen.
What is being...
I'm thinking Serpico.
What does being undercover...
What do you have to do to get undercover, infiltrate gangs?
You know, so shockingly, I was involved in four officer-involved shootings.
And for the cops that are like, oh, the guy was trigger-happy.
No, like where they had guns and were actually shooting at me.
And that all actually happened in my patrol time.
Didn't have any shootings when I was actually working.
Gangs are doing undercover.
You pretty much, you grow the real big beard.
We did Hispanic games and outlaw motorcycle gangs.
And you go and you're getting weapons from guys.
You know, you're getting guys.
It's not as glamorous as the movies make it seem.
It's actually a lot more scary.
Because there's situations that, because you don't want to burn the informant.
You don't want to burn yourself.
So a lot of times your officer safety has to get compromised for that.
And that goes against everything you've been trained for.
So it makes you very uncomfortable.
There was times where, you know, my partner's driving, you know, we got the informant in the passenger seat, you know, I'm in the backseat.
And we only had time to do a real quick, you know, search of them, but not a confident search in them.
And it's one of those things where if this guy has a gun, you know, he could take out my partner.
Or a lot of times you're going into these areas where...
There's a gap.
There's not a lot of...
I mean, it's Southern California, a lot of desert area.
So you're driving out to some of these trailer parks where your tail, your guys that have your six, they can't be that close.
Sorry, what does have your six mean?
So anytime we do something, we stay close to the guys that are undercover or in plain clothes.
So if something goes wrong, they give the signal, we can immediately get there and protect these guys because you don't have a vest or anything on.
You know, like, you don't have all the equipment that you would normally have if you're uniformed.
Well, when you can't be that close to them, the farther away, the farther that response time, the more time you have to do on your own.
And so when you're going out to some of these trailer parks that are in Mecca and Oasis, your backup may have to be, you know, three or four minutes away.
And I know that may not seem like a lot, but that's a very long time if you have to fend for yourself.
And then you start to wonder, What if this informant's setting us up?
Because a lot of times their self-preservation requires that.
And we were very lucky.
We never got burned by an informant.
But there were some times where things felt sticky.
I remember there was one community, and this one was actually a Crips community.
We do have a Crips gang out in Palm Springs.
And we had to get information.
When you do search once the right way, you have to...
Land these targets, get official documentation, you know, stuff that you can attest to yourself because you're going to be swearing before a judge.
And so we have to make sure we see whatever our subject is going into whatever building we see, you know.
And a lot of times you have to be in scenarios that are not safe.
And you got to, like in this particular situation, I had to go by myself.
So I'm in a Cripps apartment complex.
I'm by myself.
You know, I have a phone, you know, with the wired headphone.
Acting like I'm talking to a girl that I'm looking for in the complex, but it's my partners on the other line, you know, waiting here if I scream.
And then you sit there, you know, on the rails waiting for the target.
And those guys know who belongs there and who doesn't.
And so you just have to wait, you know, and play it off.
And it worked.
We got the information we needed and, you know, we left.
But I remember that was one time, man, that I was, my shirt was drenched with sweat when I was done with that one.
I'll put it that way.
Blood in, blood out was the movie that I was thinking about that I couldn't come up with fast enough.
Now, we're going to get into this as it relates to your story when you were put in jail, but you have kids while you're doing this.
I presume anonymity, or at least concealing your identity, is of critical importance at the time.
I mean, do you not live with some sort of a fear now, nonetheless, for all of what I presume legally you might have done while you were undercover busting gangs?
For the last two years, three years, it was pretty high.
Only because, as we get into the story, they doxed where I live.
So then it became a real threat.
Because I still have active cases.
Homicide and attempt homicide cases that are in the court system.
So these gang members find out, well, here's the main agent or the main officer.
We can go kill them.
We can take them out.
You can't live like that because you give yourself a heart attack.
But in the beginning of when this happened, I wouldn't let my son throw out the trash.
I wouldn't let anybody check the mail.
I was always the first one out of the house for anything, just in case somebody was lying in wait.
So now there's a risk there.
Yes.
I just don't let it consume my life right now.
Okay, so now we're going to get into the thick of this, although I think I could spend another two hours on your stories as a...
Undercover freaking cop busting gangs.
2019, what happens?
Why does the employment come to an end?
So in December of 2018, we have a change of leadership in our chief.
We go from a phenomenal chief to our deputy chief takes over.
And we're actually kind of excited about this because on paper, this man was one of us.
You know, tactical team.
He did narcotics.
He did gangs.
He was actually the...
Captain, Lieutenant or the Captain of the SWAT team when San Bernardino had the terrorist attack.
So, like, we were pumped up about this guy, and he was kind of quiet while he was our Deputy Chief.
But during this time, in this transition, we started to see his true colors.
And we ended up having a homicide investigation.
One of the detectives, Detective Heather Olson, I got no problem putting these people's names out there.
These are just my opinions.
Or not my opinions, but these are my facts.
And she comes to me to write a warrant because 90% of the warrants were going to come through me because I was the one that did gangs and the majority of the homicides we had were going to be gang related in some aspect.
So I go through this probable and the case and I tell her there's no probable cause.
So she gets mad.
She goes to the sergeant who happens to be a friend of mine, good guy, Sergeant Alberto Reese.
And he calls me to the office and he's like, he's like, Luna, that's my last name.
And so I go in there and he's like, man, Heather says you don't want to do the warrant for him.
I'm like, come on, sorry.
Overtime?
You don't think I want overtime?
The probable cause is not there.
So I run through the series of facts.
He's like, yeah, we don't got it.
He calls her in, tells her, is he missing anything?
No.
Well, then you don't got no probable cause.
So she goes to, you know, Deputy Chief at the time, Travis Walker.
And you guys look him up.
You'll be interested in how things turned out for him.
So Travis Walker, all of a sudden we're having an emergency detective briefing.
Now here's the thing.
In a homicide case, we have a briefing in the morning and we have a briefing at night.
Unless there's some major change or information that comes forward, there's no briefings in between that.
And that hadn't happened.
So I already knew what's going on.
So we go into this briefing.
All the detectives are there.
He kind of BS's for about a minute and a half.
And then he's like, all right, well, I want warrants on that guy, that guy, and that guy.
You know, they're pinned up on the board.
And so I look at Heather.
She don't say nothing.
I look over at my buddy, the sergeant.
Good guy, but he's a yes sir guy.
And he don't say nothing.
So I'm just like, I look at, we used to call him DC for deputy chief.
So I go DC.
Well, I'm the one that got to write the warrant here.
So what's the probable cause?
And he gets pissed.
He stands up.
He's bigger than me.
He's got me by like six inches.
He was like 6 '6".
And he slams his fist on the conference table.
And he goes, they're effing gangsters, Luna.
They're effing gangsters.
That's your probable cause.
Now, he obviously said the words.
He storms out, slams the door.
So now I'm pissed.
So I'm looking at everybody.
I'm like, yeah, let me go right in the probable cause.
That we want to go do this because they're effing gangsters and see if we don't all end up in civil court or arrested for Fourth Amendment violations.
So I can't be insubordinate.
I've been ordered to write the warrants.
So I tell the sergeant, hey, I'm going to write the warrants.
I'll write them how she said.
Now, there's a lot to this story, but it would take a whole two hours just to do this story.
But one of the important things to this story was some of the information.
I'm careful how I say this.
Some of the information we're getting was coming from a person.
That was related to one of the officers that we had at that time.
So there were a lot of things.
This is one of those cases.
All cases need to be pristine, but this one definitely has to be pristine because ultimately this informant can be killed and they're related to one of ours.
So I tell them, hey, you need to look at witness protection, witness relocation.
All these things need to start coming into play.
So I write the warrant.
And then I tell the sergeant, hey, I'm taking him with me as one of my buddies.
So when we go to the DA's office right now, you guys don't say that I didn't try to sell this, right?
So me and my brother, Detective Brothers, we head over to the DA's office.
Had a great working relationship with Deputy DA Annie Lofthaus.
Just a phenomenal gang DA.
We go drop off the warrant.
Now, one of my bragging rights was to this point, I had never had a warrant denied.
Because I was never in the gray area.
Either I had it or I didn't.
So I tell, hey, Annie, we've been up for about a day and a half.
We're going to be down in the car sleeping.
When you get to this, give us a holler.
So she's like, okay.
So finally, the phone call comes in.
She's like, hey, I got a big problem up here.
I go, I know.
So we go up there.
So we go to the floor they're on.
And here's where things get a little sticky.
She has two warrants for this case.
One that I wrote and one that the gang intervention team wrote.
Their warrant was for the electronics once we did the warrant for the homes.
She was going to approve theirs.
Ours didn't have probable cause.
So I said, listen, Annie, I have so-and-so that's on the phone.
They can answer the questions because I knew you were going to have questions and you can get this information for yourself.
So she goes through, verifies that my warrant is accurate.
And so what I ever did with the other one or how they dealt with it, that's beyond me.
I don't know.
I just know they weren't happy about it.
But this is the real reason my career came to an end.
So I tell Annie, do me a favor, just call the sergeant, let him hear it from you, and then I'll deal with it when we get to the station.
So she does, we're driving back, and the sergeant calls me, he's in a panic.
He's like, she denied the warrant.
I go, what do you think was going to happen?
We don't have probable cause.
Well, Travis Walker had all three homes already surrounded by SWAT teams.
And because there's more targets than we had SWAT teams, he had to call in assistance.
So you have multiple agencies involved.
And this now future chief is about to look, get humiliated by everybody because as cops, we're very hard on each other, a bunch of alphas, right?
So that happens.
So between the fact that that happens, between the, it was just, I mean, childish things, to be honest, that were taking place.
I had a target on my back.
You know, there was only two times in my career that I was written up.
Once when I was in training for transfer, TOK, transfer knowledge thing, it's procedural.
And then one's for crashing a police car, which I'm surprised it took so long before I crashed one.
Other than that, I never even had so much as a citizen complaint.
I was very lucky to have the career that I had.
And he ends up taking the reins, and within four months of him being chief, he writes me up four times, does the official termination for inaccurate, well, I'm sorry, that was one of the write-ups, was inaccurate documentation on my time card.
And then the reason I got terminated was for not taking a case as a mandated reporter and for a homicide case that was just completely just, it was a terrible case.
Nonetheless, I go to court.
It's called arbitration.
There we go.
I go through arbitration.
Judge hears all the facts.
Luckily, I had partners that weren't intimidated by this chief, and when they took the stand, they really told the truth.
And everything was documented by body cam, so I wasn't worried, really, honestly.
And we win the case.
Judge writes a 36-page award letter saying that, I mean, these are the judge's words.
You're using them as a scapegoat.
You need to reinstitute them with back pay, make them whole.
I mean, it was a great award letter.
This is where we messed up as a police union.
We didn't have binding arbitration.
So even though we won the arbitration case, They get to appeal it to the Ritz of state of California.
So now this kind of this leads into the FBI story off of one of the theories I have.
We're scheduled to go to Ritz in May of 2021.
By this time, the departments even came out and offered me a large amount of money.
And I'm like, no, you're going to pay me a hell of a lot more than that.
And I'm getting my job back.
So they already knew I wasn't going to budge.
And then that takes us into.
Yeah, what happens?
Now we're going to get there, but just one quick question, if I'm looking here.
Is Travis Walker, the one from Santa Paula and its former police chief, Travis Walker, sued by second accuser?
Is this the Travis Walker?
That's the gentleman.
I told the city manager, I told him, listen, you don't even have to take my word for it.
This stuff's on body cameras.
You have other detectives telling you, this guy is lying.
You guys realize he wanted me to fabricate a search warrant?
And you're going to take this guy's word over mine?
And they learned the hard way.
Dude, okay, so now, that's interesting.
It's making a lot more sense in terms of, you know, how one becomes a target.
2019, this happens in 2019.
It spans a little bit of time.
Arbitration doesn't happen overnight.
The world shuts down in March.
Now, I haven't surfed through your Twitter feed.
You sent me some of the materials that were the object of the complaint, but...
When did you have a Twitter account?
Were you, you know, I don't know.
This is not blaming, and there's no but.
In hindsight, you can read some of the tweets and say, if anybody wants to misunderstand a tweet, maybe I gave them some fodder.
But explain what happens, how you get, well, basically, what happens during COVID and what you end up doing on Twitter.
Yeah, actually, I think I opened up my Twitter in 2011 or 2012, I think is when I created it.
But I didn't really like it.
So I was on Instagram.
And, you know, I was putting out information about a certain thing that they're trying to put in our bodies.
I was putting out information about my body.
You could say it.
The jab.
I've stopped even suggesting it's a vaccine, but the jab.
So you're one of them free thinkers who might have had too much to think and you're posting some stuff and you're active about it from the beginning?
From the very beginning.
I'm talking about the jab.
I'm talking about the election fraud.
I'm putting all that out there.
So Instagram ends up taking me down.
And so I was like, man, you know, now what do I do?
So I'm like, all right, I have this Twitter thing.
People are there, you know, in that world.
So let's check this out.
And so I go to Twitter.
And I was a small Twitter.
I think I had like 600, like a little over 600 people that were following me at the time.
And I'm putting it out there.
I'm not even getting Twitter.
Like, I don't even violate Twitter's terms of service.
And were some of the tweets spicy?
Some of them were spicy.
But I'm also an absolutist when it comes to the Constitution and the First Amendment.
And so the FBI, according to them, you know, we haven't seen the whole search warrant yet because they won't give it to us.
But in the seven, eight pages that they have given us three different times.
They say confidential citizen, confidential informant, and confidential human source.
Three times they're writing their document.
So they say that somebody reported my Twitter account to them.
This is what they tell me later.
And my theory is that it's somebody at my agency or by proxy someone to my old agency in the administrative department.
That was like, we're about to get served up with a multi-million dollar wrongful termination and bring this guy back.
But if we can get him arrested, then we don't have to bring him back.
It'll certainly color our file a little bit more.
I mean, it's after the fact stuff, which should in theory have no relevance on the merits of the case.
However, when it comes to reinstatement, I suppose, you know, being...
Being arrested and imprisoned might impede your ability to come back to work.
And we'll summarize this quickly.
You're critical of the jab.
You're critical of the 2020 election.
I can only presume you are one of the many people who says, holy crap, Jan 6 is coming there.
And we believe that this has been a fortified to the point of invalidity, constitutional invalidity.
This revolves around the January 6th.
Insurrection.
I'm putting it in quotes for anybody who's listening on podcast.
You didn't go down, but you got taken down by the FBI as a result of tweets relating to January 6th.
Absolutely.
So, I was invited to the Capitol.
By whom?
One of my co-workers.
So, during the fight for my job at the police department, I had a part-time job working as an explosive canine handler, which plays into this.
You were blowing up dogs?
No, no, no.
First of all, I'm joking.
For all the paw lovers, no.
My partner had paws, and we looked for bombs at, you know, we did Levi's Stadium, you know, Grammys, Emmys, like all the major stuff down here in California.
So I was a part-time canine handler to detect explosives.
And then I worked part-time originally, and then I got hired full-time to work for the Palm Springs Unified School District as one of their gang officers and one of their security officers, given my background.
So that's what I was doing when all this unfolded on January 15th.
So it was my partner from the school district that, you know, same kind of ideology that I had, a super cool black dude that was just like, hey man, and so this is how it goes down.
He's like, hey, me and my wife are going to go to D.C. for January 6th.
We want you to go.
Only about a month old, month and a half old.
Is this your fourth kid?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I got babies.
So from the first military marriage, we can call it, I had four daughters.
All of them are adults now.
And then I had a relationship during my law enforcement career where I had a son.
That lasted for a few years.
We're up to four now.
We'll keep going.
And then I met the woman of my dreams that's going to be with me forever.
And we have two little girls, one that was born on November 20th, 2020, and then one that was born this past year.
First of all, that's amazing.
You have six kids.
It'll keep you young, having young kids at 44. And your genes are going to inhabit the earth, which is also something of a victory.
So you seem like a very good dude.
If there's anyone who's going to propagate their genes, Alpha, you seem like the alpha candidate to do it.
Okay, fine.
So you get invited.
Yeah.
And you decide not to go.
And I tell him, no, I can't go.
And a lot of these conversations are documented in text messages.
And so then, and he knew financially, like, I was already fighting, you know, the court cases for the agency stuff.
And so finally, I tell him, hey, look, man, I'm strapped, so I can't go.
You know, the money's just not there.
So he goes, he reaches out to me, and he's just like, hey, we will cover everything.
Like, you just pay for your food.
We'll cover all the other expenses.
And then I was just like, man, I still can't.
You know, I've got an infant at home.
So I'm invited to go.
I don't go.
January 15th, we're awakened by an explosion.
Well, actually, before we get there, just back it up a little bit, because I don't want to pull these up.
I just want to find the one.
You're tweeting actively in the interim.
And I'm wondering, I don't know if you've ever gone through your Twitter feed to see if anybody says, hey, at FBI, you might want to look into this.
That's what some people tend to do.
As far as I can tell, you'll tell me if I'm wrong, the most objectionable one tweet that you've ever done, I think.
January 6th, 2021.
Will you fight, bleed, and maybe even die with me as we take on the evil that is now stealing our nation?
I'm a marine combat veteran, law enforcement veteran of 14 years, and my allegiance is to God with a capital G, family with a capital F, and country with a capital C. I'm ready, are you?
Time to Patriot the fuck up, God wins.
Patriot with a capital P. Is that the worst one you've done?
That was the one that I think is the most spicy, and that's the one that they focused on.
The majority of their interview was focused around that question.
And it's literally like, you sent me, like, there's a lot of stuff and I'm looking through it.
Some of it you say, you sent me stuff that they should have looked at, but I just want to look at the incriminating stuff.
That's the worst that I've seen.
That's the one they focused on when they interrogate you.
So just so everybody knows, full disclosure, that's the spiciness of your tweet.
I don't know that you, you know, it's like the Ashley Babbitt, you're asking for trouble maybe, but definitely not the amount of trouble that you got.
Okay, so you're tweeting these things out beforehand.
You say no to January 6th.
January 6th comes and goes.
Before they pre-dawn raid you with concussive grenades and snipers or whatever has the lasers on them, what happens as of January 6th to the raid, tweet-wise, social media-wise, and in your life?
My life is normal.
I'm still going to work.
I'm working at the school district.
I'm still on Twitter tweeting, putting the stuff that I'm putting out.
And a lot of us at the time kind of anticipated that the day before, on January 19th, that Trump was going to put this disclosure of all this election fraud that was out.
Obviously, you know, we know that didn't come to fruition.
And that was because I put another tweet out there that I think it was like 1-19 or 1-19.
That was the other tweet that they had asked me about.
And then the other tweet that they brought out was one of the Punisher skull, but has the Roman numeral three in it.
And so they were questioning about the...
3% militia group.
They brought that up during the interview.
That's during your interview.
So those are the ones you put out before.
Hold on, you know what?
I actually have to bring those up.
I think people need to see the absolute level of absurdity here.
Stop screen share, present.
Screen share, window.
Well, let's go with the spicy one first.
Okay, so this is spicy one.
No, this is not the spicy one.
Yeah, no, this is the spicy one.
Okay, so it says 19th at 4.50.
What does that mean?
I see the...
Oh, okay, fine.
Sorry, I have the wrong one up in my backdrop.
Okay, so that's spicy number one.
Now the only problem is I don't know how to get rid of that.
So this is one of the spicy tweets.
Yes.
I'm going to remove this and see if I can do this in real time.
So I'm going to go close that window, and I think I can bring up another one.
The Punisher skull is the one that's kind of hilarious.
Let's see here.
We go window, and I think this one?
What do we got here?
Do we see 19th?
Yes.
What's this one about?
So that's when we thought Trump was going to come out.
Well, I won't say we, but that's when I thought that Trump was going to come out and drop all the information about the election fraud that had been discovered.
That's not incriminating per se.
That's just showing a frame of mind that you were buying into this and that you were...
Okay, and then we got...
Oh, I can't find the Punisher.
I'll bring the Punisher up afterwards.
Okay, so you're tweeting in the meantime.
You have no idea what's going on.
January 6th comes and goes.
And then you wake up with a wonderful knock on the door and it's not Mr. Rogers on January 15th.
I wish it would have been a knock on the door.
A knock on the door would have been a lot safer than what transpired.
We're sleeping and there's an explosion or a loud boom that's outside.
I hear my truck alarm go off and then I hear the house alarm go off.
Now, everybody got to remember, I used to work undercover doing the gang stuff as we talked about.
The first thing that comes to mind, you know, because there's only like three or four times since we've lived at this house that we rented, where, you know, something's happened, a sound or something outside or alarm goes off, and I'll grab my old duty weapon that I had on the nightstand, you know, to confront whatever threat's out there.
By the grace of God and only the grace of God, on this particular morning, I didn't grab my gun.
I grabbed my phone.
And so as I ran to the alarm panel, I'm turning off the alarm.
Well, the front door, it's an adobe-style house, so the front door is like textured glass.
So as I'm turning it off, the missus starts screaming at me, get away from the door, get away from the door.
And I look, and there's like a dozen red dots that are, you know, scanning the glass on the door.
Then my phone goes off, and it's the FBI dispatcher saying, hey, this is the FBI.
We have your house surrounded.
You need to come out.
You know, kids are crying.
What were the explosions?
I mean, you'll find out afterwards, but what were the explosions that needed to precede the phone call?
Flashbangs.
For what purpose?
To wake you up?
Well, so this is my opinion.
So not only was I on a tactical team, I used to plan tactical operations.
I've planned operations with 300 and 400 cops, multiple jurisdictions, federal agencies, military agencies.
Like I used to plan these things.
And there's a matrix that we go through, especially if we're going to incorporate a SWAT team or do dynamic injuries.
There's a lot that goes into it, not just to protect the officers, but liability, to protect the suspects, whoever you're going after.
Every time I've ever been part of a dynamic search warrant, flashbangs was one of the last things that's ever used.
In today's day and age, most of what happens is called surrounding call-outs.
We surround the home, we get lights on, we secure the area, and then we get on the megaphones.
You know, this is the police.
This is the FBI.
Come out with your hands up.
We attempt contact that way.
Once we can't, by this time, we've already have the numbers because we've been watching and doing this house probably for at least a few weeks.
Now we attempt contact via phone.
If that doesn't work, we get to the megaphones again.
You know, we may even, depending on, you know, the threat of the situation, maybe even put a robot to go to the door.
Flashbangs is the last thing you do because When you do that, it's the shock and awe because now you're going to make entry.
Here comes the dynamic entry and you're trying to get the suspect off guard so that you can take them down.
So you have the advantage.
It is my opinion based off of my experience.
They wanted you to come to the door with a fucking gun so they could shoot you.
That is exactly what I believe they wanted to happen.
Holy shit.
And it's like, I've never done law enforcement, never been in the military.
All that I know is that when you wake up and you don't know if that's a gunshot that just went off, your first reaction is to grab a gun and defend.
And especially since they do whatever the flashbangs, concussive grenades, and then don't immediately enter, what did they think any rational person would do?
Who was the guy that they just, the Facebook post old guy, blind?
Partially handicapped that they executed because they get someone to respond to what they think is a confrontation.
Well, I don't remember his name now, but...
No, dude, that's...
There's no other rational explanation.
Flashbangs, and then they call you.
And then they call.
And there's a video of it, so nobody has to take my word for it.
I was literally just going to ask you if this is documented for those who don't believe.
Is the video...
Disclosed?
Communicated?
Public?
Yeah.
As a matter of fact, I think it's in that file I sent you.
There's one that says surveillance video or video surveillance.
Hold on just one second, sir.
All right, now they've got Alpha.
I'm looking at the folder.
The folder is FBI post.
Press negative media.
Same district.
Surveillance video.
Hold on a second.
Is it's FBI SWAT attacks?
Alfredo Luna's home?
Yep.
Holy...
I'm trying not to swear.
It was a New Year's resolution that I made yesterday, but I'm going to not abide by it whatsoever.
Here we go.
This is it right here?
Okay, this is it.
Is there audio on this?
No, there's no audio.
So that's...
That's people on a truck.
There's one, two, three.
Dude, this is fucking insane.
Remember, zero criminal record.
As a matter of fact, just to give people an idea of my background.
I'm a decorated Marine at Combat Meritorious Promotion.
As a police officer, I have congressional awards.
I was awarded the Medal of Valor.
I have an award from the FBI signed by James Comey.
Not proud of who signed it, but I earned my award.
Multiple accommodations from the chief.
I had a law enforcement career that we all want as an officer.
I was very, very, very lucky.
If you don't mind, I was going to call you Luna, but I'm going to let this video play while we continue talking.
And I didn't want to ask you these questions because it's almost like, it's almost demeaning.
Like, did you win any awards that might make this even more egregious?
Holy shiots.
Okay, so it's...
Sorry, keep going.
Yeah, so the truck that's in the middle, you guys can keep your focus on there.
The one to the far right is the armored vehicle.
At the edge of the screen, that's the guys that's on the turret mounted with a rifle.
But you're going to see the guy in that middle truck in a little while that's going to throw.
Do you see my cursor?
You see the cursor?
Yeah, I see it.
You'll see a guy that throws a flashbang from there.
You live in a neighborhood.
Like, you have neighbors across the street now.
Yeah, this is my neighbor's surveillance camera.
Oh, I see.
Did you get that from your neighbor or did you get this from the FBI?
No, no, no.
My neighbor gave this to me.
I'll tell you what.
Good man.
Because a lot of people would have been...
Afraid to come forward.
Scared shitless.
No crap.
Okay, so what time?
This is pre-dawn, before 6 o 'clock.
Yeah, this is 05 something in the morning.
I mean, I like to think that even these flashing lights probably would have woken me up because I'm a very, very light sleeper.
Okay, so we're going to keep watching this.
Should I skip it?
Oh, we're two minutes in.
I think the flashbang part's coming.
After the flashbang, there's the flashbang.
That was it.
Hold on a second.
Did I just miss it?
I think it was like at 157 or 158 when it went off.
Because we're looking at your house.
Your house is behind the truck with the flashing lights.
Yeah, so top right corner, you guys will see the...
Here it goes.
Wait, did we miss it again?
Yeah, actually I think it was probably farther back.
Come on, man.
Let's do this.
Okay, we're at 140.
We did just see it.
I mean, we just saw it.
Am I going to back up to 1.30?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
That bright light you saw was them turning the spotlight on the front door.
Okay.
The flashbang is very obvious.
You'll see the explosion of light.
We're going to let it play.
And for those who are listening on podcast, I'll narrate the blinking lights of the truck while a corrupt and weaponized FBI prepares to try to provoke a fatal response from a man who they're raiding with no better reason.
Okay, so they flash the light.
I was walking around.
This is like...
Did they just did this to the guy in...
The other Jan Sixer guy in...
I forget what state now.
New Jersey?
Where they issued a nationwide manhunt and went door to door.
There you go.
That was it.
Yep.
Okay.
And we're at 211.
Okay.
So now you can see my truck alarm in the driveway.
The lights are flashing.
The alarm's going off.
The house alarm's going off.
That's actually...
They threw it in front of my son's bedroom window.
Is where they deployed it at.
And I heard you say this, but I'll ask it.
It was on another podcast.
We're going to get it out here for the sake of it.
Does anything else happen in this video?
No, no.
After this, the only thing that happens is you'll see me walk out and then they'll handcuff me.
But it's about a minute or so before that happens.
There I am.
You mentioned that before anybody does any of these types of raids, they know the layout of the house.
They know who's there so they can avoid risks.
So not the theory, but the reasonable expectation is not only do they know that you had two young kids in the house, they presumably even knew where their rooms were.
Absolutely.
So they throw, it's not a concussive grenade, it's a flashbang.
And so what's the difference between a concussive grenade and a flashbang?
One's going to be more sound oriented.
And the flashbang is, it's not so much sound, but you're going to get the percussion and you're going to get the bright light to disorient you.
So they do that.
You do not pick up your gun.
You go down with your phone and then they call you like, hey, we've surrounded your house and just detonated a flashbang.
Didn't know if you hear it.
Good morning.
That's exactly what happened.
Who is on the phone?
Are you allowed mentioning who's on the phone with you or who calls you?
It's just they identify themselves as the FBI dispatcher.
So they had your number.
They had your number in all of this, like literally.
Absolutely.
Okay, so tell us what happens during this raid because it in and of itself is a traumatic experience.
So you see me come out, you know, shorts and a t-shirt.
They sit me on the sidewalk.
They handcuff me, sit me on the sidewalk.
I've already probably asked for the search warrant three or four times.
When the agents get here, they'll give it to you.
And then the worst part of that whole day is what I have to witness.
You know, I chose a military life.
I chose a law enforcement life.
And to come out with all those guns pointed at you.
And it's not a training scenario.
It's pretty intense.
But as intense and scary as it was for me, my family's not.
They're not military.
They're not law enforcement.
They're just regular people.
And I had to see, you know, my missus and my teenage stepdaughter, my teenage son.
It was his birthday, as a matter of fact.
This happened on his birthday.
I had to see them come out with guns pointed at him and be just the same way I was.
They weren't handcuffed, but the same order as I was.
And then they sat them across the street, actually in front of the house where the surveillance camera is, in the dark early mornings of January here in California.
And trust me, even though it's California, it's still really cold.
And then I noticed that my missus doesn't have the newborn.
She was two months at the time, Alexandria.
And she's pleading with them to go inside to get the baby, and they won't let her.
So I tell the operators that are babysitting me, I'm like, hey man, we have a newborn in there.
Let her go get the newborn.
And they wouldn't.
You know, so we're outside for about a good probably hour and a half, two hours before my family.
The sun was up by the time they finally let my family go inside.
And this is what I told them.
You can tell from the picture.
It's a little house.
A little Adobe style house that we rent.
And I've ran these kind of, you know, searches.
So I told them, I go, look, we don't have a lot of stuff, man.
Go, go, go render the living room secure.
Take my family inside.
It's cold.
And no, nothing.
No search warrant.
No nothing.
They finally take my family inside and they take me to the backyard and that's where they proceed to force the interview.
We're going to get to that interview in a second.
What blows my mind, who's with your two-month-old?
She's by herself and whoever was in my house at the time from the operators.
Is anyone, I'm not trying to be, is anyone babysitting the kid, making sure the kid's not, she's not choking on a pacifier or is like anybody watching and then who the hell, who the hell, is anyone in the room with your two-month-old?
We don't know.
They've never told us.
Holy shit.
Okay.
I mean, but what's the rationale to this?
Do you feel like you're dealing with automatons?
Where you're like, dude, can my wife get our two-month-old kid?
And what do they do?
Are they sitting there smiling?
Do they look like they're happy doing this?
Or do they look like they are following orders?
You know, I give...
I struggle this part, man.
I struggle this part.
Because I...
I've been on that kind of team.
And so I tried to put myself in their shoes during what they're doing to me.
So I know it's not going to be uncommon to see laughing and joking that can be completely disconnected from what they're doing.
But I also know that their presence and their attitude towards me and my family initially, because things do change, initially was very aggressive.
It's something that...
It's what I would expect if we were being confrontational with them.
But everything that I did, and I could hear my family, everything that all the requests we're making were all very professional.
But there's this level of just aggression that they had.
And I have a theory to that later.
But it was...
It's intended to provoke a violent response from you even when you're in cuffs.
That's...
I knew...
Because you're a dad.
Every party he wants to get up and just jump up, handcuffs his arm, and be like, I'm going to go and check on my daughter.
I don't care what you guys say.
But I also know that the second I do that, any leg I have in the fight, I just gave it away.
They're going to use it against me.
That's going to turn into obstructing, resisting arrest.
Now I'm giving them a crime to constitute the work they're doing.
And I just had to bite my lip on this one, man, and it was hard.
It's unforgivable.
And there's no...
Okay, so when do they question you?
Do they question you after you get your kid, or your wife gets your kid, or is this in the two hours in between that they're questioning you?
Well, hindsight I learned, but at the time, I don't know.
I see them take my family.
Best guess on The Sun was probably around 7 in the morning, maybe 7.30.
They take me to the backyard.
I'm still handcuffed.
They sit me on one of my patio chairs.
A couple SWAT guys that are surrounding me, and then the two FBI agents show up to do the interview.
And as soon as they show up, first thing I said, hey, can I go inside and check on my family?
And it's declined.
They tell me, no, you got to sit down.
And I have no idea.
I'm sitting here.
I got these two agents.
There's three or four SWAT guys off to the side.
Like, I'm going to do anything.
I mean, it was insulting, if anything.
That's what I was upset about with them.
And I have no idea.
Is my family handcuffed?
Is my family separated?
It's my son's birthday.
Has anybody checked on him?
There's all these questions.
They're not answering it.
They won't even let me go in the house.
The two FBI agents, just for the sake of it, it doesn't matter at all.
I just want to visualize.
Are they men, women, white, black?
What do they look like?
It's two Mexican FBI agents.
Well, one is actually he's a detective for the Rialto Police Department who's assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
That's how they get jurisdiction, which is a great conversation to have one day.
He's Mexican, clear as Mexican.
The actual special agent, Armenta, he's Mexican, maybe mixed with something.
He's a real light-skinned Mexican guy, kind of like myself.
He looks younger, I would say probably early 30s.
And then Detective Candias.
He looked older than me, I would say probably late 40s, early 50s.
And do they look like they're getting pleasure out of the power play here?
Armenta doesn't.
Armenta, actually, my opinion of him at the time was he looked new.
He looked like a rookie.
Detective Candius, he just looked upset, like he didn't want to be there.
He looked like I was the inconvenience for him.
I mean, people could write it off to good cop, bad cop, you know, maybe.
But, you know, that's kind of the way they look.
They were plainclothes just with the FBI jackets.
Everybody else were in the SWAT uniforms.
Okay, and then they start asking you questions, and you're a skeptic.
I mean, you showed critical thinking prior to.
You believe the election was heavily fortified, and anybody who disagrees is, you know, out in left field.
So you should know better than to talk to the enemy.
Are you saying lawyer, lawyer, lawyer?
Or how does this interrogation go?
The first words out of my mouth were, can I go and check on my family?
That got denied.
I said, can I see the search warrant?
We're going to get it to you.
And then, by this time, Armenta's opened up his black leather bifold, and I see printouts from my Twitter.
And he sees that I see it, and he makes a statement.
He goes, we're here to question you about your social media being potentially violent.
Did you have to do everything you just did to question me on my social media?
Well, in my head, I'm thinking, you gotta be effing kidding me.
This is why you're here.
This is why you pointed guns at my kids.
This is why my baby was by herself.
This is why my house is probably being turned upside down right now because of effing tweets.
Like, that's what I'm thinking.
I'm not verbalizing it, but I'm thinking it.
And what actually comes out of my mouth is...
Nothing in my social media is violent, and I want my attorney.
And they say, declined, or just, oh no, let's just ignore that and continue asking you questions.
Their response is, we'll let you get to your family, but we've got to talk to you first.
So, it's, you know, go with the program, or who knows where they're going to go.
But they leverage my family against me.
And so you continue talking to them and answering questions.
I knew I had to be very careful.
You know, obviously given the career that I had, you know, and my advice to anybody, listen, don't ever do it.
You know, even if you know you're 100% innocent, don't ever talk to law enforcement because things will be taken out of context and used against you.
So always consult your attorney.
Michael Flynn is the prime example of not talking to them, even when you think they're being friendly, but especially when they are there as adversaries.
Overt.
Yeah.
And so they come out and that the spicy tweets, the first printout they give me, and they're like, what's this about?
I mean, the answer, are you fucking kidding me, officer?
Like, I mean, I don't know.
I can't even...
How long does this last?
I don't know.
I'll call it interrogation.
This was an interrogation.
It goes on for, I would say, at least two to three hours.
Shut up!
And from what I understand from other podcasts, you don't have the audio or the video of this.
They have the audio.
So we were able to get an audio recording of the interview.
So anything that I'm saying about what they ask me is documented.
We have a copy of the audio.
They have a copy of the audio.
However, some of the things that unfolded later get a little bit more shady.
But they go through.
Now, during the interview, probably the two most important things that transpire, because not that it's related to my case, but anybody out there that has been told that this is not the political strong arm of the government that the FBI is being utilized for, they ask me two questions.
And never in my career have I ever asked these two questions.
And remember, this is recorded, so anybody who wants proof will send them the soundbite.
They asked me, who'd you vote for president?
I said, Donald Trump.
And they asked me, what political party are you registered with?
I said, I'm a Republican.
It's totally normal.
It's almost like being arrested and being asked what religion you are.
I don't know if they were saying it to get me pissed, because it did.
I was upset.
You know, I didn't show up, but internally, I was more mad than I already was.
And then, right before the interview concluded...
If I may, were those questions early on in the interview or later on in the interview?
I would say those are a little bit more than halfway through.
Okay.
And so then when we get to...
Well, so when they were asking me about the...
I'll go back to the Punisher skull, because they bring out that printout.
And they're all, what's this?
I go, that's the Chris Kyle Punisher skull.
And so this is when Candy is the older gentleman.
He goes, no, it's not.
You know what it is?
I said, yeah, it's the Chris Kyle skull.
You know, the American sniper.
He goes, no, that's a militia.
And so we have this little back and forth argument.
He goes, you're going to tell me you don't know what the three percenters are?
And I said, no.
I go, I work OMGs.
I know what one percenters are.
Do you want me to make an educated guess here?
I will.
So he proceeds to tell me.
That the 3% militia is it took 3% of the Americans to be a part of the revolution that took over this country.
And then my response to them is, well, I'll look it up and I'll see if you're accurate in that take.
I go, but this is the Chris Kyle skull.
And so that concludes that part.
Now, I think you, more than a lot of people, unless there's other attorneys or people in law enforcement, will know.
Why this statement he makes, and this is towards the end of the interview, so important, because this one actually made my stomach turn.
I just shared everything that happened.
This forced interview, ignoring my request from my attorney.
And then this is what Detective Kandias tells me.
He says...
His name is Detective Kandias?
That's what a lot of people have started to call him.
Sorry.
He comes out and he makes a statement.
He goes, you just know how to tweet without getting in trouble.
Now, I'll translate this for the audience.
This is a detective who, the day before, was just in front of a judge, raised his right hand, and swore for the judge that everything in that search warrant is true and accurate to the best of his knowledge.
So in this case, they're investigating domestic terrorism based off my social media.
So you're telling the judge...
That you're investigating this criminal element of these tweets because they're saying that I wanted to disrupt the January 20th inauguration.
And I'll explain that part because it gets crazier.
But now he makes the statement to me, recorded, that he already knows that I tweeted in a way that wasn't criminal.
So how did you tell a judge that these were criminal terrorist threats?
You know, California Penal Code 422.
If you already knew and had the mindset that I didn't meet that threshold, you lied.
You lied to a judge.
No, no.
The judge just believed something different than he believed.
It was just his opinion, although he had to swear to it in, I presume, an affidavit for the warrant.
100%.
So then I started finding out, they're telling me they're going to take my guns.
So in California, red flag law state, they got a California gun violence protective order to take my firearms, and then the next day they filed for the criminal problem cause search warrant.
Now, why this is important, in 14 years of law enforcement, I never knew this loophole.
And we learned this when we went to court because we're trying to get the search warrant suppressed because of exculpatory information, Brady information.
There's just a lot to it.
But what the judge told us was even though if the judge agreed that, you know, these were lies and there was all these omissions and the probable cause wasn't met, the fact that they had the gun violence protective order first to precede it, he was always going to sign that probable cause search warrant for the criminal.
So, in other words, if you live in a red flag state, you can have law enforcement generate this, you know, anonymous party or this informant to say you're a threat, get that, come to your home, and they'll search for the crime.
Wow.
That is terrifying, absolutely terrifying to me.
It's an amazing thing, like, I've said this about Canada, where the gun ownership laws are so restrictive and so prohibitively Seriously, in terms of infractions or violations, it's a liability to own a firearm.
Own a shotgun and leave it loaded and you get raided?
Jail for two years.
Don't have a trigger lock on it?
Jail.
It's still legal, but it's such a liability of your freedom to own that it'll just be a deterrent for anybody, which sounds something similar to Commie California.
Okay, so where were we now?
You do the interview, they end the interview, you just know how to tweet without any trouble.
I asked them, because I'm starting to realize these guys, at least these two FBI agents, are not as smart as what I thought the FBI was.
Like, I'm starting to realize this through their line of questioning.
So I ask them, how did you guys get, because I ask them, I go, why do you guys not even do this for my social media?
Well, because we believe that you're trying to disrupt the January 20th inauguration.
With these tweets.
And so I ask them, how?
With what tweet?
What tweet?
What private message?
What phone call?
Because by this time, they're even asking me questions, you know, back in November of 2020, or October of 2020, what were you doing up near San Francisco?
And I was like, we were recertifying for our canines.
So they already had gone through my banking information, my text mess information, my geograph.
They already knew all about me before they showed up to my house, and they're questioning me.
And obviously, I had legitimate reasons for everywhere I was.
So when we get to this point, I said, as a matter of fact, just a few days ago, I tweeted, and this is in those tweets that I said they never brought up.
It's like a red banner with the Statue of Liberty.
There was this tweet circulating social media, and it was telling people to go to the national capital or the state capital and to go armed.
But nobody on this post was taking any claim to it.
And it was spreading like wildfire.
So a bunch of us quote tweeted this and said, do not go.
This is an Antifa.
That's the one.
So you see what I put?
This is a BLM and Antifa trap.
Do not attend.
Share this.
So I immediately ask them, I just posted this a few days ago.
How did you get a judge to sign off on a search warrant that I'm telling people to go and disrupt the inauguration when I just tweeted the opposite, telling people not to?
Now, they should have just stuck with the lies they're already doing and said they didn't know what I was talking about.
But they actually slipped up and said, well, we saw that.
But you're telling people not to go because it's BLM and Antifa.
And so I tell them, I don't care if I'm telling people not to go because it's too cold or too hot.
I'm still telling people not to go.
So how do you convince a judge?
And the look on their face told me that this wasn't in the search warrant.
How do you convince a judge?
Let him remain ignorant and everybody can plead plausible deniability.
Well, at least the judge will say, I didn't see it.
I rely on an FBI that falsifies evidence to get spy warrants against Carter Page.
How am I supposed to know that Kleinfeld, his name is not Kleinfeld?
Clinesmith, falsified evidence.
How am I supposed to know the FBI guys didn't show me exculpatory tweets that would have undermined any...
All right, so this interview lasts a few hours, and then they take you to jail, right?
No, no.
So here's what they do.
They take my guns.
Now they've moved me into the dining room of my house, so this is the first time I'm actually seeing my family as they're getting ready to leave.
And now they bring me the face page from the search warrant finally at the conclusion of all this.
And so I ask them, what do you guys want from me?
Like, what is it that you want so my family doesn't have to worry about this happening again?
And so our mentor says, well, you seem like a good guy.
This is your chance to take the off ramp and just stop tweeting about the government.
Now, it doesn't really sit in that statement of what he said to later on the day, you know, when you start to process it all.
And then I realized what he was actually telling me.
He's like, shut up.
You know, just censor yourself and the problems go away.
But they leave.
They don't arrest me.
They give me a property receipt.
I ask them.
Now, this is where it's a theory.
Hold on.
What does a property receipt mean?
A property receipt.
So anytime we do a search warrant, anything we take from that house, anything, you have to document it.
And then you give it to the person saying, hey, here's a list of everything that we took.
So this way there's a receipt of it.
So they give me a property receipt of all my firearms and firearms-related things, magazines, all that stuff.
And then they leave.
So that's January 15th.
On the evening of January 20th, Inauguration Day, is when they arrest me.
So I'm working at the school district.
I'm out patrol.
It's in the evening time.
And one of my partners, retired law enforcement, He calls me, and all my partners kind of know what has happened by this time, but it's been all over the local media.
And he's like, hey man, there's some unmarked cars surrounding the school district, and there's some marked units parked a little bit ways down.
So I know from my experience, you don't do that when you're going to come question somebody.
You do that when you're going to arrest somebody.
So I call my supervisor who happens to be a friend, and I say, hey Rudy, more likely they're going to arrest me.
I don't want to get arrested in the school uniform and have that make the front page of the local news on top of everything.
I'm going to go home.
I'm going to change into civvies, make sure my family's dialed in on what they need to do, and then I'll go over there and walk into whatever they got going.
I do that.
Family's in tears.
Make sure they have the number of the attorney.
Make sure they have my bank card and PIN number and all that stuff, because I don't know how long this is going to take, because this is all at the beginning of when all this was happening to people, so we didn't really know.
So I make my way.
I meet them across the school district where we put gas in our vehicles right next to Palm Springs International Airport.
Palm Springs PD is there and the FBI agents are there.
Well, I know the Palm Springs guys.
It was a neighboring agency.
I've worked with these guys for years.
So the sergeant comes over and he's like, hey, Luna, you know what this is about?
Yeah, it's my social media, man.
They were just at my house a few days ago.
He goes, no, it's a warrant for an assault rifle.
I said, no.
I go, it's for my social media.
They were just at my house a few days ago.
By this time, the agents come over, and I don't know if they probably thought he was giving me insider information or what, but they kind of, you know, interrupt it.
And they tell me, yeah, you're under arrest, California penal code 30605, possession of assault rifle.
I'm pissed.
And so my supervisor's still there.
He sees that now it's going to surface my anger, and he's looking at me, and he's just like, just shut up.
Don't say anything.
So then I say, I go, what's my bail?
Because I figured my bail would be somewhere between $30,000 and $35,000.
And they go, it's a quarter of a million dollars.
So I go, what are the other charges?
And they go, there are no other charges.
So then I knew they did what's called a bail enhancement form.
Now, for California, I've only done them maybe three or four times in my career.
This is reserved for the most intense scenarios.
You arrest a domestic violence suspect, and if this person gets out, they're going to kill the victim.
They're going to finish it off.
Like, that's what this is reserved for.
And this is what they did to me.
They did a bail enhancement for me.
To this day, they haven't given it to us.
California Penal Code 30605 defines possession of an assault weapon.
Anyone within the state possesses an assault weapon.
I don't know what that means yet, except as provided in this chapter will be punished by imprisonment for up to a year, yada, yada, yada.
I know the punchline to this because I listened to another interview.
The assault weapon that they charged you with and arrested you with was your service weapon?
It's my police patrol rifle.
No, Alpha, you gotta make it make sense.
Service patrol rifle in what state?
California.
So what the hell does an assault rifle mean under that provision of law for someone who has no idea?
Well, there's no such thing as an assault rifle.
I know.
You know?
So the law is, you know, it's really off to a bad start with that.
But anybody that has, and this law changes so often, I know it just changed again for the beginning of 2024.
It's any rifle that has a center, it's center fire, pistol grip, 16-inch barrel, and a shoulder fire.
And 10 rounds, I think.
Let's see here.
Semi-automatic center rifles with fixed magazines, which can accept more than 10 rounds.
Semi-automatic center rifles, which are less than 30 inches long.
And semi-automatic center rifles.
I don't know what a semi-automatic center rifle means.
What is a center rifle?
So when you look at the cartridge, in the middle of that cartridge is where it has the primer, which is pretty much any bullet.
And I'm probably getting this wrong.
I won't claim to be a weapons expert when it comes to that.
But it'll fire, it'll go down the rifling of the rifle.
I believe if I got that right.
It's been a couple of years, you guys.
I got rusty.
You'll get made fun of on the Rumble chat if you got it wrong.
Bottom line kicker to all of this is the alleged illegal assault rifle that you have in your possession is your service rifle from when you were a police officer.
And they're saying there's no record of it.
Now, remember, I used this for about 11 years, 10 or 11 years.
The agency has paperwork on it.
Every time we qualify, We don't just write down our qualifications.
California is very strict for those that don't know.
Every weapon we have to qualify, including our off-duty firearms, we're writing down the serial number.
Sergeants and lieutenants are signing off on it.
And in our agency, we do this at minimum of three times a year.
So you're talking a while over at least 30 different times this weapon being documented with me.
On top of that, I'll go a little slow here.
You'll see...
Let me see if I can make you bigger.
Hold on.
I'll go like this.
Wrong one.
Hold on.
I'll bring you to this side.
Look at this.
Oh!
You'll see it.
And this is dated October 4th of 2011.
State of California to the Department of Justice.
You'll see my name right over here.
You'll see...
For anyone that wants to verify, there's a serial number.
The weapon.
You can cooperate that against...
Don't call it a weapon.
You're going to get in trouble if you call it a weapon.
A firearm.
A firearm.
You know, my signature, the chief's signature.
Now, bless my mom's heart.
My mom was one of those people that you keep every receipt for like 20 years.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Two things that happen, and for those that are unfamiliar with the Jeremy Brown case, you know, go listen to his case.
You'll think, I don't think their intentions were to arrest me for my rifle.
I think they foobarred something, and this was the fallback plan.
And I think that's why it happened a couple days later versus that day.
During the integration, I asked them, hey, you guys aren't taking my explosive orders, are you?
And they said, yeah, you're not supposed to have them.
Because remember, I'm a canine handler, so there's certain orders and stuff that we have to do this.
And I said, yes, I do.
I have my ATF license.
It's in my truck.
I'm a Marine, so I know where everything's at.
You take 10 cents from the truck, I'm going to know about it.
And so you go to my glove department, and right under the black folder with my manual and insurance, all that, is a plastic sheet, and inside that plastic sheet is my ETF certification.
Because anytime we go to work, it has to be with us as we're transporting this stuff.
They come back, it's not there.
Where else could it be?
I'm like, no, trust me, it's there.
They come back, it's not there.
I go, well, you can check in the cases, because I had a container where I can keep all this stuff stored together.
And what's not there?
Based on everything that I've been through, because there's more to this case too, hopefully we can get to it.
It's my belief they're going to do to me what they did to Jeremy Brown.
They were going to say I was in possession of explosives that I wasn't supposed to have and that that's where I was going to get arrested.
Now, you're not supposed to make copies of those certifications.
However, like I said, the way I was raised is you make copies of everything.
That's the way my mom raised me.
So I had a copy.
And I don't think they knew.
So when they left and I called my attorney to tell her what happened, I said, hey, they're saying I don't have this and they couldn't find it.
I even went and looked and I couldn't find it.
So somebody took it and probably got rid of it or destroyed it.
But I had a copy of it.
And so my attorney says, send it to two people.
Don't say who you're sending it to and send me a copy.
And so the following day, she ends up sending that or I think or maybe that night, that night or the following day, she sends that over to them.
So they knew that you can't.
You couldn't lie about that.
So I think they went over and went the rifle route and probably with the same agency that I think is the one that's the confidential informant probably got rid of any records that the agency had not knowing that I had a copy from the original as well.
Okay, so hold on.
Oh, the explosives would have been certainly easier to go after you as being a domestic terrorist if you're...
Unlawfully in possession of explosive material.
The rifle, I mean, wouldn't you have photographs, like ample evidence that you have been in possession of this in the line of service for years?
It's in the spicy tweet.
There's a picture of me in uniform holding that rifle.
It's actually unbelievable.
Show me the man, I'll find you the crime.
They come and get you on the 20th, arrest you for...
Unlawful possession of an assault rifle under California law, which was your service rifle from when you were law enforcement, and they take you off to jail or wherever, remand.
Yeah.
You know, I did leave out something, and it's important.
During the raid, when we execute a search warrant, 99% of the time, nothing's an absolute in this case, we start from the front of the property and we work our way back.
Narcotics being the exception, because sometimes you've got to get there before it's destroyed.
But the majority of time, we're going to start from the beginning of the property line and work back.
So the driveway, the garage, and then depending on the layout of the house.
Which is what they did in my situation.
So they destroyed my truck, destroyed my garage, my son's bedroom, and it was his birthday again, which it pisses me off.
His bedroom's destroyed.
Well, when they get to the hallway where my stepdaughter is, by this time, and we know this because she communicated it to me, she's in her bedroom, she's being babysitted by one of the SWAT operators, and she says they all congregate right there in the hallway.
Well, in that hallway is all the accolades I was telling you about, the Medal of Valor, the commendations, the FBI award.
It's all on this wall.
They're all congregated there.
And one of the guys, I asked, who she refers to as the bald guy, and if I'm correct, I think it was the team leader, asked the bald guy, hey, are we arresting this guy?
And he says, no, I think this is one of the good guys.
Now, like I said, everything to this point in my house has been destroyed.
The rest of my house...
Was treated with complete respect.
My bedroom where all my firearms are housed, they even folded clothes and put everything back.
It's like two different teams hit it.
What that tells me is when they had that Zero Dark Thirty briefing with these FBI agents, they probably really had these guys thinking, because this is early on in all this, they probably really had these guys thinking they're going to go deal with some bad cop, some dangerous combat veteran.
They really probably thought they were going after domestic terrorists.
And when they started to see my family's behavior, my behavior, started to see, you know, what's decorated on the walls, the lack of certain allegations that they were putting out there, like QAnon stuff.
You know, my coffee table has two books, the Bible and the Constitution.
When all this started to unfold, I think they realized we weren't given the complete picture here, and it shifted, as far as the SWAT operators, it shifted the way they treated my family and my home.
Not so much with the FBI.
Not with the FBI agents.
There's nothing that's going to convince me otherwise than they wanted to kill you with the immediate raid.
Period.
Like they had with that old guy, and I forget where it was now, but everybody knows who I'm talking about.
You know, Ruby Ridge and Waco and whatever, and it's just history doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
So they come and get you on the gun charge, and then they haul you off to wherever.
They tell me I have a quarter million dollar bail, and then they ask me, do you want to go to the Indio jail or the Banning jail?
Well, I have homicide suspects at both jails, so I'm like, it doesn't matter.
My life's going to be in danger at either one.
This is what everyone should understand this now, because now the whole beginning part's going to make a lot more sense now.
You've literally locked people up or been responsible for locking people up in the jails to which they are asking you, which one do you want to go to?
The one with gang members from the Crips or the one with the gang members from MS?
I'm just using those as examples.
They're taking you to jail, jails, or remand, wherever it is.
Where there would likely, if not necessarily, be people that you've put behind bars.
If I'm the detective handling that case, the newest detective knows we either need to go and ship this guy to a county jail, you know, a couple counties away, or maybe even a different state.
The threat to life is immediate.
Because we're talking gang members, looking at life sentences.
Like, the threat is real.
So as I'm being transported, Palm Springs PD did the transport.
We're driving, and the young kid, or young man, he's not a kid, the young man pulls off into this dark commercial complex.
So I'm looking, because I'm in the back of the paddy wagon, I'm like, what the hell's going on here?
He comes to the back, and he opens the gate, and he goes, hey man, go ahead and step out, I'm going to sit you in the front.
Now, I know everything that's been going on.
I look at him like, I go, I'm stepping out, man.
So you guys could say I tried to escape and someone's lying in wait to take me out.
I go, I know.
I'd seen enough movies to know this.
And he goes, no, man.
He goes, the sergeant, all the guys told me they know you and what's happening is bullshit.
You shouldn't be going through this.
So sergeant told me that once I get far enough away to move your handcuffs to the front and go ahead and bring you in the front of the car, that you're a good guy.
With caution.
I did, and he did.
He double cuffed me, put it in front, move into the front of the vehicle, and treated me with respect all the way to the jail.
Now, when we get to the jail, this is where things start to really get crooked.
As we're driving there, I'm thinking, well, this is the one point where California's jacked up laws are going to benefit me.
I go, it doesn't matter if it's a quarter million dollar bail.
It's a non-violent...
It's a nonviolent felony charge, which means I'm going to get fed kicked.
What that means is our jails are so overcrowded that when somebody comes to jail in California, if there's not a violent charge to it, you just get a court date.
They book you, they photograph you, take your fingerprints, you get a court date, and you go home.
Unless they know that you voted for Trump and you're registered Republican.
And then this happens.
So I get there and I tell the Sarge, hey, I'm getting fed kicked, right?
And he goes, we're trying to figure something out.
So about 20 or 30 minutes pass, and I see the orange jumpsuit that says Riverside County Inmate come out, and I'm like, well, I guess I'm not getting fed kicked.
And so I got to get naked in front of former peers and go through all the shaming of this process.
And then I'm thinking, well, they're probably going to put me in, you know, protective custody, you know, with the PC guys giving, you know, my job.
And, you know, I've got a better chance of fighting those guys than I do, you know, if they put me in GP.
But we end up taking a different route because I've been here to interview people before.
So in my head, I'm like, where are we going?
And they put me in solitary confinement.
And at this point, I'm in this solitary confinement cell.
And I'm broken, man.
Like, you know, I'm hurting.
I'm hurting.
You have, what was it?
I had two thoughts there.
Hold on a second.
It was, oh yeah, solitary.
It's either for COVID or for your own protection.
For COVID.
But when they put you in solitary, you have no idea for how long this is going to be.
Well, I knew it wasn't COVID because the booking process was actually quite lengthy.
They actually put you in another room and have someone come in and test you for COVID.
And they tell you, you tested negative, and then from there you continue on with the process.
So it wasn't for COVID.
I think it's because of who I was, a conservative Republican.
Someone voted for Trump.
So I'm in this solitary confinement.
I measure it.
It's 8 feet by 11 feet, you know, with my feet.
And I'm looking at it, and I just get on my knees, and I just tell God, you know, everything I've done for my country, you know, war, law enforcement, you know, four shootings, you know, I left out something really important about the death of my partner.
I go, I don't know why I'm here.
And I don't know how I'm going to get through it unless you find a way to bring me some peace.
So just bring me peace.
Now, while all this is going on, My family's already contacted my attorney.
My attorney already has a bail bondsman agent.
My mom put up her home for collateral.
And they're calling the jail and they're saying, hey, don't book him.
We have the bail for him.
This is where things get twisted.
The jail tells my attorney and the bail bondsman agent, you can't bail him out because he has a parole hold.
And so my attorney, because she's known me for years, she's represented her agency.
She goes, what are you talking about?
He's never been arrested in his life.
What a parole hold is, for those that don't know, that means you went, committed a felony, went to court, got convicted of the felony, got sentenced to prison, went to prison, served a portion of that time in prison, got released out early on parole, and then while you're out on parole, you did something to violate that parole, hence a parole hold being put on you.
And all this is happening unbeknownst to me.
Sometime during that night or the next morning, they contact my attorneys and family and say, oh, it was a clerical mistake.
In all the years of doing this job, I've never seen that happen.
Just a mistake that deprived one of their life and liberty for however long because of a clerical mistake.
The reason they did it was because they wanted to make sure the only way I was going to get out was you're going to do that quarter million dollar bail.
That's the only way you're going to get out.
And so now we go in.
Now the important thing that I really left out, and it plays into this next part of the story from August the 4th, is before they left, Detective Candius turns around and he goes, hey, I'm sorry about Gibson.
He used to work with us.
Sorry you couldn't save him.
Now my partner Gibson, he died on March 18th of 2011.
We were in pursuit.
It was a scenario that happened.
My partner crashes into a tree.
Me and another partner are trying to get him out, and we can't.
We watch our partner burn alive in front of us.
That amazing man, Jermaine Gibson, two-time Purple Heart recipient, also Marine, just a phenomenal human being.
And he just got married, and his baby actually was, little Jermaine, was only about two or three months old at the time.
They literally said this to me before they leave.
Everybody can kind of decide for themselves why.
Well, the next time I see the FBI, now by this time, My attorney's been corresponding with the DAs, the FBI.
They know I'm represented.
I get a knock at the door on August the 4th of 2021.
And when I open the door, it's Special Agent Armenta and FBI agent or Detective Candace.
And I look at them.
I'm holding my little one.
I step out because they're not coming.
You got a warrant.
And they're like, no, we're here to return your electronics equipment.
And so my older daughter comes, takes the baby.
So now I'm talking to them in front of my house, in front of the front door.
And I tell them, I make the statement, you guys realize the American people don't trust you anymore.
And the FBI agent Armenta replies, he goes, why do you say that?
I said, yeah, Christopher.
Because it's true, but okay, what's his answer?
So I go, you had Christopher Wray go on television and make the statement that he hadn't seen any evidence of Antifa at BLM at January 6th.
I go, at a minimum, everybody with a phone or a tablet has seen John Sullivan and the ties there.
And this is what Armenta tells me.
He goes, well, of course he said that.
He can't say something that's going to help Trump.
Now, I'm standing in the front door facing Armenta.
Candius is standing behind Armenta facing me.
So they're both facing me.
When he says that, even his partner kind of looks at him like, dude, what'd you say?
And so I look at him.
I said, dude, I think Biden is a complete clown.
But if I'm under oath and I get questioned on something he did good, like I got to tell the truth.
He realizes he said the quiet part out loud.
Well, we're going to get your electronics.
So they go back to the vehicle.
They're there for a little bit of time.
And they come back.
They give me my electronics.
I sign the receipt for it.
They leave.
I immediately get on the phone with somebody to have them record my statement while it's completely fresh.
Then I call my attorney, tell my attorney what happened.
He's pissed.
He's like, well, did they call you?
I go, no.
He goes, they've tried no communication with me.
They're directly communicating with someone whom they know to be represented.
I don't know if the rules are the same in America that it would be in Canada civilly, but I presume when they know that someone's represented, they don't go and meet with them privately without the presence of counsel.
100% misconduct.
And so he's pissed, and I tell him, whatever.
I go, you need to get the recording from them because this is what they said.
And so by this time, I've gone on a few podcasts and shared my story, and I went on a few more.
So this is August the 4th.
Now, here's the other thing why August the 4th is important.
That's the birthday of Jermaine Gibson.
And they know, historically, that on my social media, I would usually put out a memorial thing for him because of his passing.
It's my belief that they showed up because they were either trying to find me, you know, sad, depressed, emotionally distraught, maybe under the influence of, like, beer or something.
Something to support their red flag law case.
You know, the mental issue.
At the time, this is August, this is after you've been released from custody.
Yes.
In terms of your bail, were there any prohibitions on alcohol or marijuana consent or anything like that?
No, I don't believe there is.
Okay.
So not like if they had caught you drunk that you would have been in violation for consuming alcohol.
I know some of the Jan Sixers weren't allowed consuming alcohol, I think.
Yeah, there's nothing like that that I'm aware of.
Okay.
And so they give me my electronics.
They leave.
So my attorney starts asking for this continually.
We finally get to early December of 2021.
And during this time, I've gone on a few shows and I've told everybody that part of the story.
And I said, listen, once we get that audio, I don't care if a judge puts a gag order on me.
I will release the audio and everybody's going to see it.
Because essentially, you have an FBI agent saying that it's okay to commit perjury under oath so long as you're not helping your opponent.
And I'll deal with the consequences of being in contempt of court.
You ain't getting that audio, Alf.
I'll tell you that much.
Well, the DA contacts my attorney the day of or the day before we go to court and says the FBI contacted us and said there's no audio recording of that contact.
Now, there's audio contacts of every other contact they have with every other January 6th defendant that's out there.
The DOJ says they argue that this is the biggest case for the DOJ in our nation's history.
And you're going to go to the home of an alleged suspect and you're not going to record that contact.
I'm not buying it.
Now, I'm just little old Luna.
You know, I'm not significant in the big scheme of things here, but this is why they destroyed that audio.
Special Agent Armenta is also the special agent that was handling the assault case for Officer Fanone.
Fanone is the guy.
Allegedly had a heart attack after being tased, was the one who testified tearfully.
He did an interview with someone.
Oh, the guy from MSNBC who cried, I want to thank you for your service.
Okay, so that guy.
The poster boy from all of that.
Well, the reason they got rid of that audio is because it would have been a Brady issue.
And it would have compromised not only every case he's done, but specifically that one.
So it becomes one of the dominoes to help collapse their narrative.
Of lying, you know, of what's going out there.
So it's my belief that that's the reason that audio no longer exists.
Now, during this time, like I said, we got a couple of pages for the warrant, and we've seen three different times they mentioned confidential informant, confidential citizen, CHS.
So we do a motion to reveal the identity of the informant, because one of the three theories we have is it's someone from the agency or proxy to the agency that was trying to undermine that, you know, court case, civil suit going on.
The day, the morning of that we get to court, the DA, who's running for judge and has subsequently became a judge, imagine that, tells my attorney, the FBI just contacted me and said it was a typo.
There is no informant.
They meant to write anonymous party.
Now I'll give it to you once.
But you're going to tell me you made that mistake three times?
And I guarantee you, when we get the rest of the hundred and so pages of the warrant, it's probably in there dozens of times.
There's nothing to say.
And the guy, what was his name?
Kleinfeld.
Not Kleinfeld.
Klein Smith.
Kleinfeld was the lawyer from Carlito's Way.
Klein Smith is the FBI lawyer.
It was a clerical error.
They modified evidence and then submitted it to a judge.
And here...
What they submitted, they'll have to backtrack it because I guess they would have to identify a confidential human source.
Or it was anonymous the entire time and then they did lie about it being a CHS so that it would lend more credibility when they go to a judge.
If it's anonymous, what the hell?
You're just taking anonymous shit from the internet.
And so it's, you lie then or you're lying now?
Because in California, I'm still considered an expert witness on gangs and search warrants.
And I've never done, I'm like 99.9% confident, I've never done a warrant with an anonymous party.
Really, nobody does because judges are just, they don't like it.
They know it could be a neighbor, ex-employee, ex-girlfriend.
Like, there's just so many motives.
They're just not going to like that.
It could be Antifa trolls on the internet.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
But the opposite side of that spectrum is a confidential informant.
A judge weighs that very high because he knows we've gone through the whole check the boxes, you know, people's safety, identity, ongoing crimes.
A judge gives a lot of credibility to that.
So either you lie then to bring credibility or you're lying now to protect that source because it's going to expose motive.
That is damned if you do, damned if you do, damned if you don't, in one way or the other.
So the other motion we file at the time, and this is December of 2021.
No, I'm sorry.
Now we get into early 2022.
We do a motion to suppress the felony charge down to a misdemeanor charge.
During that time, they've offered one plea deal.
I rejected it.
And when we go, I'm trying to get the order of events here correct.
Yeah, so we do a motion to, we do the motion to reveal the identity of the informant, and then we do the motion to, it's a 19B motion, to bring it from founding a misdemeanor.
The DA argues, I'm trying to remember his name, Navarro, WDA Navarro, now Judge Navarro.
He argues to the judge, we can't reduce this to a misdemeanor.
This is a January 6th domestic terrorist.
He's still tweeting.
He's doing shows.
He has a podcast.
He's a threat to society.
The judge rules in favor of them.
He does it without prejudice.
And about seven minutes to eight minutes later, we're now in the hallway of that court.
The same DA, the one that just argued that I'm a danger to society, you can't reduce it to a misdemeanor, because everything we've been requesting has been denied in the criminal case.
But remember, there's still the civil case, the gun violence protective order that they used to take all my guns.
So there's a civil case and a criminal case that are paralleling each other.
So that afternoon, now we've got to go to civil court.
And so my attorney says, hey, it doesn't matter.
Everything that we're not able to get in the criminal case, we're going to get them on the stand now, and we're going to make them answer to all this shit.
Eight minutes after we leave that courtroom, DA comes over, tells my attorney, you guys still gotta go to the court in Indio, but just so you know, we're dismissing the case.
The criminal case?
The civil case.
Oh, I see, so they don't have to testify about it.
So we go to court in Indio, and in front of a lot of the DAs and the judge that I used to be in chambers with, in front of everybody that knows that my name has been ran through the mug.
You know, we see the DA get up there and they dismiss the civil case against me.
And that's the first, you know, we won half the battle at that point.
But just so everybody knows, they started this whole process with that.
And now you're dismissing it.
It's not like, you know, it went to court and a jury made a decision.
They're dismissing it.
They know I can sue them like crazy for this.
But they're willing to take the chances with the lawsuit just to keep the agents from having to testify on the stand.
I'm just going to read one chat that just caught my attention.
CallSignCujo says, Viva, we need to blow his channel up bigly in the most positive way.
Nonviolent metaphor.
We're going to get to that at the end, and I'm not going to forget.
So they dismissed the civil...
I mean, it's just the lawfare.
And by the way, they'll maybe end up dismissing all the charges.
The damage will be done.
And if you don't screw up in the process, they won't be able to get you on some sort of procedural violation while these bullshit charges were...
You know, brought and carried out.
Plus, you survived the initial incident, which was probably more than what they already wanted.
You were in solitary for, what, 36 hours?
Two days?
Yeah, about a day and a half.
And you get out and you go back to regular life, or you go back to your family.
Yeah.
Working a job?
Are you able to work a job now?
So, remember, I went from part-time to full-time.
And that move actually put me back on probation with the Palm Springs Unified School District.
And the pressure that they were receiving, you know, they ended up letting me go.
So that left me with just the canine job that I had and, you know, just trying to find ways to make ends meet.
And then ultimately, in mid-2022, the canine job wanted me to go to another state for an extended amount of time, which, A, I can't do because...
I'm still out on bail right now.
So anytime I leave the state, I need to do it with permission and it needs to be temporary.
And then two, I can't leave babies at home because the missus still has her full-time job.
She's a CNA.
Hold on, what's a CNA?
Certified nursing assistant.
They're the hardest, in my opinion, I think a lot of people agree with me, they're the hardest working people in the medical field.
And most underpaid.
If California is anything like Canada.
Yeah.
So during this process, I start to realize they're panicking because they've dismissed the civil case, which tells me they know, you know, they know what we're going to ask the questions nobody else knows to ask.
And they start offering deals.
And these deals, I've worked law enforcement.
I'm like, you don't offer deals like that unless you're not confident in the case.
Ultimately, this was about a month and a half ago when I went to my last hearing.
It was a family settlement conference and that got continued.
They offer my attorney, they say, hey, what if we reduce it to a misdemeanor?
Because I've told them to go pound sand every time.
They said, what if we reduce it to a misdemeanor?
No probation, no nothing.
He just signs guilty to the misdemeanor.
We'll immediately close the case.
The next day he can file for expungement and the DA will support it.
And I told him, you can go after yourself.
We're going to go to trial.
Now, my attorney, he's frustrated and I understand.
He's like, listen, dude, there's He goes, there's nothing better they can offer you.
Like, that's the best they can offer you.
Well, okay, it's the Georgia-RICO case sort of charges that some of the defendants have agreed to, which results in no criminal record, total expungement after three years.
And some people say they're stupid for having pleaded.
Others say they would have been dumb to say no.
Here's what I'll say, and I'll speak from the heart on this so people can understand.
Worst case scenario for me in this corrupt system, I know that I'm looking at probably a guilty plea because the system's just, it's corrupt.
So what I told my attorney is, you need to fight for my appeal.
So hopefully we're in the presence of a good president at the time that's trying to rectify these things.
But worst case for me is three to five years.
Now, I'm not saying I want to go through that.
There's no way.
I got a family that I don't want to abandon.
I got a little girl that's three, another one that's seven months.
The seven-month-old, I mean, can you imagine if dad's gone for three or five years?
Like, I don't want that.
But it's easier for me.
I was willing to give my life as a Marine.
I was willing to give my life as a cop.
If I got to sacrifice three to five years of my freedom to get on the record everything that they've done, then so be it.
There's a lot of people that are facing much harder sentences, 15 years, 20 years, 25 years.
When you're faced with that, and let me tell you guys, I'll be in debt the rest of my life.
The amount that it costs to fight this.
Listen to all the stories.
People are losing their homes.
You can't get work.
I have an impeccable resume.
When all this happened, I applied to these really great jobs.
Immediately hired, offered bonuses.
But then they do the background check.
And this FBI flag pops up and they rescind it.
So they make it impossible to have any type of reasonable employment.
So it's hard for people to continue to face that.
Especially when you're looking at people that are 40 and 50. In other words, you tell them to spend the rest of your life in prison.
So those of us, like myself, that are positioned to where that sacrifice isn't as great as theirs, we've got to take this fight.
Because here's one of two things that's going to happen in my situation.
Either they're going to dismiss the case to keep their agents from having to testify, or they're going to have to go on the record.
And they're going to have to answer, why did you say this thing about perjury?
And maybe they think that there's no audio on their end.
Maybe there's other audio that's out there.
They're going to have to explain.
Because once we go to trial, they have to disclose the entire warrant.
And I'm going to pick that thing apart.
Why do they not have to have already disclosed it?
I presume this falls under not even Brady obligations, but just full disclosure.
How do you not have it yet?
They're supposed to.
The law says you're supposed to.
It is...
No, it's atrocious full stop.
There's no but.
And the fact that anybody can find some meaning in it or some strength and solace is on them and not anything else.
What I was going to ask.
You go to a jury trial in California.
Lord knows how that goes.
And then some people are going to say you're risking three to five in jail.
You can get it all out on the record.
And if after all that they still say guilty and you're a cop going to jail, that's going to be a very, very, very long three to five years.
It will, but I can survive it.
It'll be a nightmare, but I can survive it.
My God would not have allowed me to be in this position unless he's going to see me through it.
And it doesn't always mean it's going to be easy.
But here's the thing.
Somebody has to get them on record.
Somebody does.
Because if I take a plea, everything they've done from fabricating evidence, exculpatory information, Brady information, destroying evidence, lying, the cover-ups, all of that, there's no accountability for it.
And on top of that, you know, I've been debanked.
You know, early on in 2021, Bank of America shut down my banks.
I'm a quad S-er.
Anytime I go to fly, you know, I'm subject to the special treatment.
Say what the quad S-er means for those who don't know.
So quad S is on our tickets.
On the corner, there'll be these four S's.
That's why they call it the quad S. And when I first experienced this, this would have been May or June-ish around 2021.
I went to the Ontario airport.
I was going to do a canine job that I was flying out to for a weekend.
And when I get there, because I've flown a lot, they're taking forever.
At the desk where you check in.
And I was like, everything okay?
And so finally somebody comes over, and I'm talking like 30 minutes right there.
And they finally let me go.
I go to Oversize to check in my stuff, and now I get to where the TSA is, the fun part that we all like.
And as soon as I get there, I see a little red flash on the guy's screen.
He stops everybody.
They clear everybody out of the little module area, and this team of TSA guys comes over.
This guy has a clipboard.
With a plastic sheet on it, and he goes and starts reading this whole thing.
If you want to continue to fly, you got to do this, this, this.
This is a random audit, is what they call it.
Bullshit.
Random my ass.
Okay.
So you get there, and you take off everything.
You're down to just t-shirt jeans.
Socks are off.
They open your luggage to go through everything, your electronics.
They run you through the x-ray one.
They run you through the spinning one.
I mean, the whole process took about 40 minutes.
And meanwhile...
I feel bad for the people that are waiting because they're all waiting.
Nobody can come through that until they're done with me.
So finally, when they move me off to the side, they open it.
They go to business as usual.
I'm still bare feet and my jeans and my t-shirt.
And I have a Marine Corps tattoo on my forearm.
So the guy sitting there at the machine, he looks at me and he goes, Hey, Devil Dog, what'd you do to get on this list?
And I said, Well, I'm glad you're telling me it's a list because everybody else is telling me this is random.
He goes, No, man, you're on the list.
I go, Should I expect this when I get to Dallas-Fort Worth?
He goes, yeah.
And I said, all right.
And sure enough, when I went to fly home from Dallas-Fort Worth, it was the same treatment.
And then later on, it started to come out.
We started to realize it was happening to other people.
And there was this list that they were denying, which ultimately we found is Quad S, which means it's the highest level of alert that you can have before they revoke your ability to fly.
And here's what's dangerous.
Not only do you go through that, but the entire time that I'm now in the terminal, I'm being followed.
I'd recognize undercovers.
I did it.
You're being followed everywhere.
Bathroom, everywhere.
And then when you finally get to the little tunnel thing to get into the plane, they pull you aside again.
Check your carry-on again.
They swab your hands again.
They run the dog on you again.
Now, I know I'm a good person.
Imagine if you're getting onto that plane with me.
Dude, I once saw a guy getting on a plane.
His clothes was in a laundry bag, and I was like one of those...
Aerated laundromat.
I was scared.
If I see this, I'm a neurotic guy.
I'm scared.
And that's what I'm thinking.
I'm like, these poor people, they're probably wondering, who is this dude?
Is he a terrorist?
You start thinking all this.
But here's the other part that people don't think about.
You're utilizing resources now on me that could actually be searching the terminal for a real threat.
And now you've taken that away to actually look for someone that's dangerous.
And now I'm not the only person this is happening to.
This is happening to hundreds of people as they fly that are on this list.
It happened to Brendan Strzok, another one of the Jan Sixers.
Not that anyone looks like more of a threat, looks conceiving, but some people look like less of threats than others, especially given the charges that they're facing.
Oh, wow.
Brandon's a beautiful-looking guy.
Come on.
I met him in person.
He looks just as cinematic in person as he does on the internet.
No, he said the same thing.
It's nuts.
Wasted resources.
Scares the shit out of everybody else getting on the plane.
And for what?
His charges weren't even, at least yours, in theory, serious charge.
Unlawful possession of a banned assault rifle.
That sounds scary.
Two things, actually.
I want to ask where everything is at now, but do you have time to come over to Locals and take some exclusive questions there?
Absolutely.
Okay, now I want to do three things.
There were three Rumble rants here.
On the Rumble side, it says Crash Bandit.
They are using summary judgment a lot in our U.S. judicial system lately.
Absolutely, Crash Bandit.
See the way they get around even giving you a fair trial.
Benchbrat says, I teared up in the shower when Alpha said he joined the day after 9-11 to find out it's all a lie must hurt.
I'm going to save that question for locals because that's off topic, but I wanted to ask you that.
And I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, I am genuinely sickened how corrupt and evil many within the federal government are for crying out loud, needing to investigate anyone who buys a Bible.
It's like evil wears feds like a skin suit.
Where are things with you now?
Do you have a trial date?
The Family Settlement Conference got continued to March the 7th.
So two and a half more months we go to that.
We're going to request the discovery that we still haven't got.
I told my attorney, we're not going to trial, man, until they give us the stuff that we need.
So I imagine we're going to get a date continued after that to get the discovery.
I don't see how a judge is going to let them get away with not giving us discovery.
And at some point, I think probably maybe...
Approaching summertime or during the summer, he's going to make them give us discovery.
And then once they give us discovery, I think we got 30 days and we go to trial.
So I think we'll probably be looking at trial either in the summer or in the early fall this year.
I think we're looking at trial.
Well, the one question I'm not leaving for our locals' part.
You have a podcast.
Give everybody the links.
I'm going to put them in the pinned comment, but how can people help you?
And it's got to be...
I know there's more than one click.
I'm going to put the one clicks in the comment section, but tell people what you're doing now, where they can help you, how they can help you, and where they can find you.
Yeah, if you want to give my family a gift and help us with this fight, I have a GiveSendGo set up.
It's GiveSendGo.com slash DefendPatriotLuna.
And then...
My podcast.
The only reason that my podcast even exists is because of this fight.
I got frustrated.
My attorneys gave me the green light, and on August 30th of 2021, I started the Alpha Warrior show, and it's on Rumble.
You guys get to get my take and perspective on things, and guests that I bring on get to do things from a different perspective.
Bringing this up in real time so you can confirm with your own voice, this is the appropriate.
That's the correct one right there.
Amazing.
And that beautiful little girl is now three years old.
Soft little cheeks.
Oh my goodness.
Soft like velvet.
That's the little one they left by herself in the basinette.
And I was Googling Cain Velasquez before because the profile pic that we used for the thumbnail, and it clicked while we were live.
Cain Velasquez.
Hold on.
I'll bring up.
That's the thumbnail.
Does Alpha have a donation site?
It says Arkansas Crime Attorney.
We just got it.
Okay, and I think the link is here.
Link here.
I'll put all the other links in there, but the give send goes is arguably but not arguably the most important.
Not that anybody cares about Commitube, but are you also on Commitube with your channel?
I was.
I started off there, but YouTube, Twitch, all them didn't waste no time to take me off and de-platform me, so it's just rumble.
Any reasons given to ask the absurd question?
The final strike on YouTube, I was doing a live show with Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, and they de-platformed me in the middle of the show.
They didn't wait for me to finish.
Dr. Sherry, medical misinformation.
I mean, at least they shut down a buddy of ours.
It was a clerical mistake.
They brought it back up.
But when you talk crypto, apparently that's also...
Anything contrary to full control over the populace raises immediate flags.
So you've been yeeted from YouTube.
Yeah.
So people can...
You can find me on Rumble and two different channels on Twitter, X, whatever you consider it now.
Have I...
As far as the...
Important details of the story.
I think we've covered all of them.
Have I not asked anything that I should have asked?
No.
You actually did a phenomenal job.
I had a skeleton.
There's tangents.
I have the skeleton of your story, but I didn't want all the details because I like to learn things in real time.
I can't get past the initial.
I can't get past the initial raid.
It's obvious what the purpose was.
Okay, everybody, what we're going to do here, because there are some questions on Locals, and I got the important one, and it has to relate to whether or not you regret your service or whether or not you feel that you've been lied to, but save it for vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Everybody, link to Locals, and I will put up this entire interview on YouTube tomorrow.
I'm going to put all your links in this after we stop going live.
Make sure I didn't leave anything here.
Okay, I think we got everything.
We got everything on the Rumble side.
Yeah, okay.
So we're going to end it on Rumble.
Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
And I'm also going to try to sell you on Locals, but that'll be there.
Okay, ending on Rumble.
Everyone will know where to find you.
And Locals, here we come.
Now.
This is the personal question, Alpha.
I mean, there's the senators that you have, Duckworth, Senator Duckworth, who served, sacrificed.
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