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Get ready get ready for the okay november 14 20
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26 allegedly according to that thing we call a calendar
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and i'm live on my stream almost a half hour
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late uh what.
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A shock right uh but i'm late like every stream
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now because i have no am and fm affiliates so
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i don't have a schedule i have to stick to Anyway,
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it is what it is. It was what it was.
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But I'm almost never alive on a Saturday. Uh, so
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here we are live on a Saturday and why am
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I doing this special presentation? Because, uh, I have the
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opportunity to have Stuart Wexler with me who has not
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been on in the past few years, but has been
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on several times as a coauthor to Larry Hancock, uh,
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regarding the MLK assassination, especially, uh, at first the awful
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grace of God, I think was his first appearance on
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the show. That's what we were talking about. But later on,
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we had to discuss Stu's book, uh, America's secret jihad.
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And this in general, general overview, totally unfair to the
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content of the book, but here I go anyway, is
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about the deep underground of the right wing, if you will,
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the white supremacists, that whole basket of people that, You know,
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from the Klan to the White Aryan Resistance to, gee,
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the Birch Society, you know, just all of that. And
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the actual role it plays in history, the things that
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have actually gone on outside of the propaganda and the
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useful scapegoating. Uh, which again, I'm not scapegoating, uh, using
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the term scapegoating to indicate that we're talking about innocent people.
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It's just that the distortions over the realistic role of
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domestic terrorists, you know, that became a popular term a
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couple of times in the past couple of decades, but
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hasn't been used properly. And has the historical record been
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honored when it comes to the public's, um, exploration examination and, uh,
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et cetera, exposes, if you will.
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No.
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But if you read Stu's work, guess what? You get
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an idea of what actually happened. And, you know, just
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like with most things, history requires revision as we get
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further away from the events that we are examining and revisiting. So,
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you know, that's the way it is. But he's the
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author of that book. Also a smart guy in general
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and somebody who I've been happy to have on. I mean, oh,
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JFK assassination. He's got some experience there as well as
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a researcher. I will always point to. Well, let's see.
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conference appearance that he did in 2003, where he gave
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a presentation on a paper regarding the bullet lead analysis
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and things like that in the JFK case. And that
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wasn't even his field, really. OK, specifically what was studied,
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the science per se, not necessarily his thing, because guess what?
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He was a schoolteacher. And he does other work regarding
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the investigation of, let's see, cold cases, deep political history
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and things like that in multiple places. Now, I'm going
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to just first ask Stu, how are you doing tonight?
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I'm doing well. Glad to be back on, Chuck, and
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I'm hoping you are doing well as well.
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You know, I'm trying. I'm trying. And also, by the way,
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in the very near future, I'm hoping that you'll be
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on with Mike Swanson on his YouTube channel to further
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what it is we're really going to wind up focusing
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on tonight. But let's begin with this, because you did
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wind up testifying. uh you know to the luna committee
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right the the oversight committee the recent hearings in the
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past few years anyway that uh you know some people
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have absolutely lauded trump for having initiated by executive order
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and fair enough but an oversight committee has wound up
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taking testimony from jefferson morley uh you know from rod
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rogers they thought they were taking it from roger stone
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but they were talking to oliver stone that was one
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thing that happened during that uh interesting public
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you know excuse me sir didn't you write this book
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no i think you got me mixed up with roger
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stone uh you know and and you actually ended up
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testifying about something else larry hancock has been involved with
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that committee oh wait a minute i guess in the
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background on all of that because uap rfk mlk jfk
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it's funny Larry's either advising somebody or directly writing things
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that are going into the record or guiding people about
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what's going to go into the record. But you have
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a different... circumstance to discuss but you did first of
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all uh you know speak with the speak in public
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uh with the luna committee and maybe people forgot about
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it because they might be remembering the reverse engineering of
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alien technology and the bodies allegedly in our hands they
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might be remembering that or oh my god they were
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admitting that jfk might have been a conspiracy once again
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in public uh although the government first admitted that to
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my mind with the hsca where they said Yeah, Lee
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Harvey Oswald was still involved, but, you know, it's likely
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somebody else is with him. Anyway, they did that. That's
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the second official conclusion by the U.S. government regarding the
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JFK assassination. Oh, and there was the MLK assassination considered there, too.
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And they kind of came up with the idea that,
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wait a minute, there must have been a conspiracy there, too. But,
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you know, pay no attention to the actual record. So, Stu,
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in recent years, this Luna committee caught fire a bit.
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deep on this, did wind up testifying. So I wonder
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if you wouldn't mind speaking to that. Because as I've
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had to interact with people throughout this, where they're saying, oh,
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why don't they do what the HSCA did? Why don't
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they investigate this and that? And the third thing I've
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had to repeatedly say, that this is an oversight committee.
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this is not the whole of their work. This
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is just a mandate being fulfilled that the president sent
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down to Congress. And indeed, they're trying to give life
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to the statement that he made where he said he
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wanted full disclosure of about a list of 20 things.
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Kind of exaggerating there, but it was a pretty lengthy
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list if you think about it. Of, you know, stuff
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that are historical controversies. And you wound up testifying. But
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I've had to explain again and again, this isn't the ARRB.
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This is not the HSCA. And it's not an investigative agency.
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It's oversight and collection of, you know, stray information is
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all that's gone on so far. And people also want
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them to go after Epstein and anything else. You know,
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the existence of aliens finally admitted U.S.
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Government.
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Area 51, let's go, let's go. it's an oversight committee.
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Calm down. You know, I've said that over and over again,
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but maybe I'm wrong. You were actually there. So what
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do you have to say about that?
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No, I think you're largely correct. So I testified in January,
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end of January, on the King assassination. It was, first
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of all, to be somebody who taught civics for you know,
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almost 20 years and then testifying in front of Congress.
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It's pretty crazy and honor of a situation for me.
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But it very much to your point, they're under like
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they can't compel things. It's really they're they're sort of
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requesting things that the government should do. And to their credit,
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and especially I would say to Congresswoman Luna's credit, they've
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been pretty aggressive. And they've gotten things, in some cases
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almost by force of will, by Luna and her staff,
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her staff I'm in contact with every so often, even
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to this day. They're very good about it. But, again,
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they're still at the mercy to some extent, to a
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large extent, of the agencies that they're involved. So they
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do have oversight, as you said. So they can go
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to the National Archives and say, how are you doing
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at releasing these files that are supposed to be released
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under President Trump's executive order? And they have a decent
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amount of sway on that kind of activity. But when
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you get much further, so when you say you go
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to an agency that has a little bit more in
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terms of institutional power, you may have more of a
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difficult time trying to get additional material, say, from the FBI,
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additional material from the CIA. And ironically, the thing I
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testified primarily about is the thing that they could do
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the most on and yet in some ways the least on,
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as I'll explain in a second, is trying to get
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the HSCA files on MLK. Now, I had four or
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five other things that I asked about MLK, and if
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I'm being fair, they've had less success getting the additional
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MLK stuff. They had a great success in conjunction with
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the executive order getting the huge set of files that
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I've been after for over a decade. And that's the
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Merkin files, the FBI's abbreviation for the murder of Martin
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Luther King. Almost every one of those files was released
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mostly in full on searchable. Very, very cool. But the
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House Select Committee on Assassinations and many of your viewers
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will know what it is. But for those who don't,
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this is the investigation in the late 1970s to both
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the JFK and MLK assassination. And they were concurrent assassinations. G.
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Robert Blakey was above both of them as the head counsel,
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recently deceased. And we have– and I know the public–
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and we can talk about it. The public knows that
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we have a lot of the JFK files in part
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because of the Assassinations Record and Review Board. And a
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big part of why I'm going to be talking to
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you folks tonight is going to be trying to inform
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you about another board that's the Assassinations Records and Review
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Board but for civil rights cold cases. That being said–
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We get 95% or more of the HSCA files on JFK.
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We have basically 0% of the concurrent investigation on MLK.
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See, now there's a misconception among a lot of people
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who figure that, you know, the entirety of the HSCA
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has been revealed or, you know, that is where a
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significant amount of progress was made. Indeed, even the slide
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that people point to at the end of the Oliver
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Stone film regarding the release of files, if you read
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it carefully, it does say the files of the House
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Select Committee are the ones that we're not going to
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see until... Right. You know, 2020, whatever. And then it
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was pushed up to 2017. And then we have the
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ARRB and that entire tale unfolds. But that was inspired
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by people's outrage over the fact that these files from
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the 70s were still, you know, under lock and key.
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That is correct. And in the same seal applied to
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MLK files, the– but we have, again, because of law
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but also because of real diligence and activity towards the
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executive orders. We have almost all of the JFK HSCA files. Now,
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we have the only ones we have on MLK were
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accidentally released in the JFK files.
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Now, see, there's there's another interesting part of this is, again,
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the resistance has been all along, though, with MLK greater
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than any of the JFK stuff, because we made progress
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there with JFK, like like you said. Quite frankly, the
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majority of the HSCA stuff has now been declassified, is
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available widely, publicly, and accessible even on the websites. We've
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had better chances with accidental releases regarding MLK, although they
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were parallel and concurrent investigations by the same body. The
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House Select Committee on Assassinations, plural, that's the two assassinations.
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Just keeping this in mind, not for you, Stu, obviously,
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but for the listener, that is the thing, and this
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sometimes gets convoluted together. But that's what you were speaking
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about when you went. You could have spoken on RFK.
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You could have spoken on JFK. But you were selected
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because of your special attention to the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination,
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which is not technically a cold case. But when you
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mentioned this potential. for an ARB of sorts, uh, for
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the civil rights cold cases, for those that are sort
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of uninitiated and those that weren't in your class when
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you were a teacher, because you had your class working
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on this stuff. Okay. And you had, uh, various individuals
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working on this stuff along with you credit where credit's due.
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Um, You know, we're not just talking about let's get
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at the truth of MLK, but there are various cases
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that do require reexamination to be polite and general about it.
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And also maybe some examination, because some things were never
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examined at all regarding various civil rights figures and their
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murders that occurred. Yes, go ahead.
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Yeah, so we... So the history of the Civil Rights
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Cold Case Records and Review Board, which is very similar
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to the R, it emerged ultimately out of the work
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Larry and I were doing on MLK. Because when you
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read our books, it was first The Awful Grace of
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God and then the most updated version is Killing King.
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You'll see that we focused– Not just on the mechanisms
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and the drivers on the ground of who killed Martin
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Luther King, but we were dealing with the ideology that
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ultimately was behind not just the April 4th killing, but
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multiple attempts to try and kill him beforehand. And we
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associated with a particular really dangerous right-wing perversion of Christianity
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called Christian Identity. And one of the things we established
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was that other very famous civil rights crimes, like the
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bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963,
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September 1963, unbeknownst
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for instance, first revealed in the House Select Committee on Assassinations,
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there was a connection, there was a lead up. In fact,
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there may have been an attempt to to draw King
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specifically there with that crime to kill him. And there
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were more than one instance, the Mississippi burning killings, where
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there's overlap on trying to kill King. So our initial
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two books dealt somewhat with these other crimes because we
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had to. And then the book you referenced, America's Secret Jihad,
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I went away from Larry on this one. We worked
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so well on other stuff. But I had to expand
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on this and just look at how far I could
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take it and where it led. And I wound up
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pointing out and finding out connections to a lot of
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very famous racial murders and other crimes that happened later
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on that no one connected, not just with King assassination,
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but with civil rights and with this ideology. But when
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I was doing it, what I found was every time
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I was trying to take it somewhere, I would– I found,
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for instance, in the case of the Birmingham bombing, that
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the FBI had wiretapped the law office of one of
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the real big white supremacists and frankly terrorists of his day,
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a guy named J.B. Stoner. And it was likely for years.
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the Birmingham bombing. Stoner was very likely it was either
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directly involved or indirectly involved as the attorney in virtually
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every major act of civil rights violence in the 1960s
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and late 1950s. You know, it gets a little bit
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shaky from a constitutional point of view, but. If they
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were bugging his law office, God knows what was going
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on there in terms of what they found out.
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circumstance that is there from an institutional standpoint because the
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FBI has its incestuous involvement with the KKK at a
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certain point, not just for surveillance, but they have active
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members on the payroll, let's put it bluntly. And the
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thing is, you start admitting to all of the things
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that went on there as a government agency. If people
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were very clear on a lot of that circumstance, that
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causes a big, huge question mark about the story we
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were told, the prosecution, the level of justice that was
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meted out to anybody over the years. You know, how
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many FBI agents were at every Klan meeting? You know,
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how many guys are responsible for actually participating in the violence,
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not just taking notes? You know, this becomes a whole issue.
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not even close to the whole of what was going
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on regarding surveillance, counter surveillance, you know, literally domestic intelligence
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operations going on among these underground subcultures of individuals that, yeah,
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the Klan is part of it. but not even the
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largest part of the white supremacist octopus, so to speak,
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that continues to exist today.
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he was thrown out of the Klan because he was
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too radical. He formed his own group with a guy
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named Ed Fields who's amazingly still alive at 90 and
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still active in white supremacist groups. And they formed a
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group called the National States Rights Party, which sounds more,
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you know, benign, but is anything but. It's actually worse
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than the Klan. And the point that brings us to
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the bigger point, all of these issues with government surveillance
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of groups, with their investigation of these crimes, you know,
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there's suspicion, maybe sometimes warranted, sometimes not. There is certainly questions,
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even if they weren't in any kind of dark way involved.
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The reality was that in a lot of these civil
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rights crimes that came up via my King research and
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then ultimately via my research into the history of domestic
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terrorism in the United States with America's secret jihad, there's
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There was a real incentive, and not just in the 60s,
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but going back to the 40s, depending on who was
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doing the investigation, what Justice Department attorney or circuit or
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whatever was involved in the case, there was a lot
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of incentive to keep whatever they found quiet. and under
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lock and key. And unfortunately, that meant, I mean, in
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the most extreme case, I brought up the Birmingham bombing,
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and this is going to come up a lot. There's
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a reason why I keep on coming back to it.
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In the most extreme case of the Birmingham bombing, they
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solved that case within weeks, but never told anybody. Now,
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their argument at the time, Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover's argument,
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Not all entirely a bad one in 1963 was, well,
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this was state and local jurisdiction. And, you know, no
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Birmingham or Alabama jury, DA, police force, et cetera, was
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going to convict anybody for that crime. And therefore, we
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would just be exposing sources and methods, including potentially informants
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that we developed. in these groups. So we're just going
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to keep the informants and not, and not help solve
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the crime because no one's going to go to jail
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for it. Anyway, it becomes less justifiable as years go
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on and creates an incentive actually for them to never
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admit that they solved it.
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attorney general, future governor of Alabama, a guy named Bill Baxley,
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who I've talked to, He forced it. He forced their
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hand and he brought charges and he got them. He
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convicted 15 years after the fact a guy named Dynamite
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Bob Chambliss for that bombing. And yet we still had
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cover up. We still weren't told the full story. And
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it took another 20 plus years to For a gentleman
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who becomes very important to this board that I'm trying
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to save and that I need people to write their
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lawmaker about, a gentleman by the name of Doug Jones,
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who just ran for governor of Alabama and was one-time
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senator in Alabama. When he was a federal prosecutor out
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of Alabama, he brought the last people to justice for
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the Birmingham bombing. Forty years later, with FBI files that
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had been sealed— Right. For decades from the public. All
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of this could have happened, say, in 1966, 1967 and didn't.
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And therefore, a bunch of people actually got away with
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it now because they died before they could be prosecuted.
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But that is the extreme version of what kind of
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documents and information is being withheld by the government on
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all of these other civil rights issues. cases that are
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not King that are even not civil rights figures in
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some cases are everyday people who got killed in a
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racial murder. The government, you know, in other cases, maybe doesn't,
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you know, didn't solve the case because we knew what happened,
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but the government may have had information that could have
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helped the families understood what happened. Um, and I can
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tell you, I know of a person, um, in one
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of these cases that will hopefully be released by this
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board that I'm going to ask people about, where the
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woman knew who killed her father, and the person who
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did it got away with it. But she had to,
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for 30 years, investigate herself the motive. And there were
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all sorts of salacious rumors as to why her father
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was killed, that he was sleeping with the white person
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who killed her. um him her his wife no one
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she couldn't tell to what extent they were true or
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not imagine you pick up rosa parks's autobiography and she
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raises the specter that your dead father was sleeping with
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a white woman's a white man's wife and got killed
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for it that wasn't it and she took her 30
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years of going through files to find out that what
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it was was that her father was a very successful
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Dairy person, especially for a black person in, you know,
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the late 1950s. And he got killed because he was
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out competing the white people in the same industry.
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And she had to dig for that. When I told
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my students in 2015 and taught them about all the
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stuff we didn't find out about the Birmingham bombing. And
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I taught them about how there's still stuff we don't
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know about J.B. Stoner's role. They decided to do something
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about this. And in many ways, they didn't know about
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her yet. So this woman, people like this woman don't
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have to spend 30 years looking for answers. They Helped–
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with my guidance, we created a law. It was based
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on the JFK Assassinations Records and Review– Records and Collection Act.
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They wrote a bill. They got some media attention for it,
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got an article in Politico, got the attention of Bobby Rush,
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the only guy to ever beat Barack Obama in an election.
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He introduced it in the House.
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It got stuck there a little bit, but then we
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got very lucky that Doug Jones, who had promised us
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he would introduce it, won his Senate race in Alabama.
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It took some lobbying. It took some work, especially by
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Doug Jones and Bobby Rush, but eventually gets through the
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House and gets through the Senate, and we get the
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Civil Rights Cold Case Records and Review Board. And I
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am here, and I'm also happy to talk about the
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other stuff even more, MLK, The committee– I know I
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started about the fact, and I will get back to it.
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I know I'm doing the weave, as Trump sometimes calls it.
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But I want to let you know we created a
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website for you to mobilize because the board was not created,
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was not functional until the second half of 2024, even
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though the law passed in 2019. It's an incredibly small board.
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They're about to go
out of business in 2027, January,
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unless we can do something to extend it. And we
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have something in place to extend it. And all we
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need– and I'll talk about it more. I know I'm
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talking a lot here, Chuck. But all we need is
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for people to go to the website that we'll have
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on this– in the link section on this board, and
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it will create the email for you. You just put
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in your name, your zip code and your name. You
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just cut and paste. You put it into your own
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email browser and send it. It doesn't store anything. It
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takes less than a minute. And we can get answers
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for people who are still wanting to know about the
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Birmingham bombing, still wanting to know about multiple dozens of
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civil rights cases where people got away with the murder.
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OK, so just allow me to do this. It is
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very much like signing a petition. Like people do online
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all the time, maybe a slight bit more effort than
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the point and click that you get with the signing
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the petitions for this and that, sending it to the
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White House. But also, just so people understand, the ARRB
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was extended a little bit beyond its original mandated lifespan
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as well. Um, and this would not be unprecedented or
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unusual because again, this is a temporary agency, like you said,
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inspired by the ARRB, um, or the ARB as some
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people call it. Um, and it has a limited lifespan
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just like that thing did. Uh, so what we're talking
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about here is giving it a bit more time to
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get more done because as you said, it was only actually, uh, animated, uh,
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Two years ago, and that is not a lot of
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time to go through many, many cases where, again, the
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institutions involved, the individuals involved have been resistant for various
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reasons to allow even the things that were truly investigated
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to be revealed. So I think that's a fair summation there.
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And yes, we're going to include a link along with
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the show notes, and I'll put that out everywhere I can.
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And you can do it for yourselves. Fill in the,
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you know, the form. You'll be directed to do so.
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And that's about the size of it. It's not that hard.
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Just a touch more effort than the signing a online petition, maybe.
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Yeah.
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Go ahead.
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It's literally you put in zip code. name, cut and
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paste four times, and you're done. And the reason we
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did it, just to let the folks know, first off,
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as you said, it takes one minute of your time.
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It would be incredibly appreciated by me and my former
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students if other folks would share it out. And the
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reason we didn't do it as a petition for them
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We're sending it to multiple congressmen. We created this website
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that micro-targets the congressperson. So if you read some of
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the emails that will be generated, it's going to say
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things to the congressperson that will appeal specifically to that person.
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It's really neat in the way it works in that way,
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which is a real advantage over a petition. Basically, the
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big thing it's asking your lawmakers to do is to
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ask their party leaders to do something called suspending the rules.
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And that's important, too, because the other element of this
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is that slows this board down is they're very good
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at what they do, but they're very, very small. If
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you told me they were the smallest agency in the
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entire United States federal government, I would believe it. And
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so they do a thorough job, but they're doing it
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with so few people. And there's the extra element, and
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that is this, that If we try and let this
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go through the normal process instead of suspending the rules,
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which is sort of an inside baseball way that the
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House gets its job done faster, because if you ever
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learn about how a bill becomes a law in the House,
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it has to go through like five stages. Suspending the
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rules basically takes you from committee to passage, and it
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goes to the president. But if we have to wait
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until the end of December, which is what we had
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to do, and I could tell the story if you
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want me to, How crazy that got even the first
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time this law passed in 2018. It's incredibly tenuous. It
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may not happen. It almost didn't happen with the original law.
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And in the two months that that's going on, these
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handful of people on the board, the staff especially, they
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have to consider whether or not to take other jobs. Okay.
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And so if we could get this thing suspended on
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Tuesday– this is why I'm so desperate to get out there.
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Tuesday is the first instance where we could possibly have
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this happen. If we could get the rules suspended on this,
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those people will have the assurance that they could just
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stick and stay on the board and do their job
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and work. And they'll have their job for another few
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years because this bill that we've gotten through the Senate already,
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unanimous consent, every senator agreed– If it goes through the House,
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they're going to get several extra years in order to
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do their job. It's not limitless. There's like the law
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sets what a cold case is. So there's essentially a
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virtual queue of cases that they have to go through.
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And then it's over. So it's not a thing where
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you'll be paying for it forever as a taxpayer. And
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it's relative to virtually every agency. It's also one of
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the cheapest agencies probably in the entire United States government.
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But if you fill that out and if you share it,
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so if you don't just fill it out, you do
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me a huge favor and share it because I've been
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sharing it and doing well. But the problem is, is
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my my socials are all heavily concentrated in the northeast.
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And that's fine. But we really need it to be
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concentrated in other parts of the country, too, so that
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--> 00:33:16.730
when any of the. Republican or Democratic leaders, they're getting
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calls from everybody. That's what we're hoping, that all the
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lawmakers say, hey, I just got emails from five people
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about this. Can you put this on the agenda Tuesday?
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And that's what I'm kind of hoping for and what
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I'm very grateful that you're allowing me to pitch the
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audience on, Chuck. But happy to talk again about all
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the other stuff. Like I didn't even get done talking about,
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you know, the the MLK element of the task force.
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And one thing that people might have, and you can
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ask me it is why isn't the civil rights cold
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case board review board handling the MLK assassination? And I'm
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happy to answer that question as well.
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Yeah, I have a few questions, but while you were speaking,
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I am putting it out on Twitter. The opening statement
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and the title page and the link is, to point
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it out to people. Also, I'm going to include it.
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I have included it at the chat room at ocelli.com,
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which currently doesn't have a lot of traffic because it's
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not my usual day to broadcast. But people can always
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roll it back and take a look and grab the
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link from there if you don't have the show notes.
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And you can participate in this right now, this weekend. Uh,
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I'm going to make sure that this is released, uh,
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before midnight tonight, if I can, uh, this, uh, this
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podcast and get it right on out there. Um, you know, just, uh,
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just so people have a chance to do it. And
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like you said, it shouldn't take more than a minute
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of your time, you know, and again, this is not necessarily, uh,
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about the MLK case, but good question. Uh, you know,
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the MLK case to me is not a cold case, uh,
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But there is more to be revealed there, and there's
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more to be revealed in all these cold cases. And
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many of these cases, although significant, did not receive as
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much public attention as obviously the MLK case or even
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the recent activity regarding the Malcolm X case. Right. Where,
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you know, you do have actually people being released. Something
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happened that all came just out of a Netflix documentary
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and a few other activities, but also represents the collective
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work of many people who were asking questions for many
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years regarding that. I don't know if you have any
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comments about that, but let's begin with, OK, why isn't
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the MLK case included here in these, you know, with
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this board?
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Go ahead.
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So the law has statutory section. When my students designed it,
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it's 95% like revising the JFK Records Review Board. Any
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of the people like Bill Simpich or Larry Schnapp or anybody,
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if they read it, they'd be like, wow, this is
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like many places almost word for word, but some words changed.
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But there's a section where we have to actually define terms,
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and a lot of that borrowed from something called the
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Emmett Till Act. which attempted to reopen a bunch of
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these cases, over 100 of them, those cases were all
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closed without resolution. But the definition of a cold case
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is defined by that section. And that section, depending on
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how stringent you want to be, and I think the
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board has been pretty stringent about it, you have to
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stick within the contours. And the problem for MLK cases
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is Local case where the person, James O'Reilly, essentially pled guilty. Now,
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of course, Congress then, as you said, Chuck, quite eloquently
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at the beginning, Congress kind of said, no, actually, we
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think this was a likely conspiracy, as they did with JFK.
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So I think that could potentially open it up. But
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the problem becomes MLK case is hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of files. Now, MLK himself. wanted these cases solved.
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People think that Hoover didn't like him because Hoover was racist.
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There was a part of that, sure. But Hoover really
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didn't like MLK because MLK was calling out the FBI
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on failing to solve these cases. There is a case
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called the Morse Ford lynching. I went and watched the
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reenactment in Georgia of this case. It's the last mass
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lynching in the history of the United States. I think
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it was in 1946. The whole town is traumatized by this.
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They still do reenactments of this lynching. And that case,
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people don't realize this, played a major role in why
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Martin Luther King himself became radicalized into the civil rights movement.
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He was on the issue with the Burmese. The reason why,
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as I was saying before, these white supremacists started doing
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murders to draw King into their kill zone because they
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knew every time they committed one of these crimes, King
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would come and protest it. So even though this case
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is probably too unwieldy and maybe out of the definition
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of of a civil rights cold case for MLK. If
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MLK is an inspiration to you folks like he is
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to me, this board is as much about what his
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spirit was as anyone's. And these cases are a part
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of the story of what, in some cases, what happened
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to him. And so... I would strongly– again, everybody, if
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you could fill it out, share it. But that's why
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they don't do it because, A, it's probably technically outside
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the definition of what they can count as a civil
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rights cold case. And, B, even if it wasn't, it's massive.
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So the MLK case probably needs the full weight of
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a group like the Luna Task Force, right? to get
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at the files. And I'm happy to talk about some
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of the hangups we're having on that front. It's not
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for lack of effort by Luna. Um, but I'm hoping
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because Larry Schnapp, for everybody who doesn't know, has said
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that he, as he understands it from certain people on
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the inside, including Jeff Morley, this board is the task force, thankfully,
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is going to be renewed in the next in the
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Democratic Congress. Jared Moskowitz is going to be the chair.
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Luna will be the co-chair. And hopefully we can get
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done what we haven't gotten done yet on JFK, MLK
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and RFK.
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Right.
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And look, correcting the historical record and really actually revealing
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the historical record in many cases, not just for the
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sake of the family, but for the sake of the
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many lessons that could be learned, should truly be a
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bipartisan effort. Because I can't see how someone would object
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to to straightening this out. You know, you ask almost anybody,
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any political party about transparency, they may want to point
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to the lack of it in their opponents. But, you know,
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notice everybody points a finger because there is a lack
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of transparency that is evident across the board, whether you
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want to blame your own or not. OK, just saying.
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So this is something that, you should be, in spirit,
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a bipartisan effort. I don't know how else to put that.
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You know, and this is what I never understand is that, yes,
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there's indeed a push from one side or the other
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when it is politically convenient or advantageous, I should say,
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you know, for certain things. And of course, you know,
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even during the hearings regarding the Luna Committee, etc., you know,
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you saw political grandstanding, people trying to score points on
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a certain level. you know, trying to make their points.
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You know, before I say anything about the actual thing
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in front of me, I just want to point out
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that Donald Trump is, insert either the opposition comments, you know,
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he's a scumbag and this and that, and he did
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all this stuff wrong, or he is a great American
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and we need to thank him for every breath we breathe.
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You know, this grandstanding went on during the five minutes
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of question that people were granted, you know, during these
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hearings as well. Um, you know, that's my commentary. That's
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not Stu, but that, that is what happened. You were there. Okay.
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You saw, well, I mean, I, I, I experienced it
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to some extent. I mean, with my, with, with my hearing, um,
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it's about the MLK assassination files, right? And they turned
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it into an entire thing about Quintel pro and they
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were all under the misperception. And God knows if you
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watch the hearing, um, You'll see me almost ripping what
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little hair I have left out of my head trying
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to correct them that they all were under the impression
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that what was released were the scurrilous Quinto Pro stuff
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on King. None of that was released. Thus far, everything
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that's been released, hundreds of thousands of files from the FBI,
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not from the HSCA, have been the crime, have been
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related to the criminal investigation of Martin Luther King's murder.
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And it was driving me crazy because everybody was trying
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to score points with Quinto Pro from both sides. And
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trying to imply that it was a hit job on King.
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And it was nothing of the sort. And the big
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problem and why I was trying so hard to correct
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it is that can contribute to scaring the King family
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from supporting what I was asking for. If they think
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it's going to be scurrilous material– They could work to
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try and not get it released because there is scurrilous
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material that's probably largely exaggerated or false on King. In
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the files, it's a pretty good bet. But it what
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it doesn't have to be what's released in connection with
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his murder.
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Well, right.
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And that was my whole theme.
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Yeah, because even the true scurrilous material, there is some
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true scurrilous material. But there is also fabricated, exaggerated, as
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you said. I mean, you know, you name it. They
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are concerned with the legacy, you know, of Dr.
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King.
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So. That is their main concern. And look, you can
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do this without, you know, besmirching the man postmortem. OK,
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you know, I'm not saying you, Sue, but I'm saying
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it can be done. So there are people that are
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concerned with that. Rightfully so. You know, we've already heard
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enough about, you know, well, he was sleeping with this
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one or whatever. And they have a recording. Hey, something
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happened in that hotel room. Hey, it turns out it
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wasn't him. You know, I've heard this for years and
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years already. You know, and of course, there were the
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plans to do things like, you know, give them a threat. Hey,
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you can end up being a junkie dead in an
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alley anyway, even though you've never done drugs, my friend.
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You know, and why don't you kill yourself? Here's a letter.
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You know, these things have come up. OK, and they
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do lead to some pretty nasty stuff. Indeed, COINTELPRO should
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be an embarrassment. you know, to our law enforcement agencies
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in the federal government. It should be. Various people, you know,
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they attempted to neutralize in their language one way or another.
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And that does include killing them, imprisoning them. And it
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didn't matter if it was rightfully or wrongfully done, you know,
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so on and so forth. And there's much to be
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said there. But we can get at the truth here without,
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you know, fouling the victim's legacy, basically. I mean, I'm
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trying to put this as politely as possible.
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Well, that was literally my whole testimony.
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Yeah.
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My whole testimony was we can do this in a
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selective way. Right. And what we're facing now is resistance
711
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.019
from the clerk of the House of Representatives on the
712
00:45:30.179 --> 00:45:35.849
HSCA stuff. And then my other four requests, I'm waiting.
713
00:45:35.909 --> 00:45:38.110
I need to probably follow up in a week or two.
714
00:45:38.590 --> 00:45:41.210
The other four main aspects of my request included things
715
00:45:41.269 --> 00:45:44.889
like just getting the files directly on certain people and
716
00:45:44.909 --> 00:45:50.769
groups from the FBI and other agencies, seeing what foreign
717
00:45:50.809 -->
00:45:54.159
governments had to provide. You know, Ray went to Mexico, Canada,
718
00:45:54.179 --> 00:45:58.519
and the UK. And then a big one is would
719
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:01.440
they be willing to run fingerprints? And it's, it's, is
720
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.860
that in their ambience? Because I have them, they're scanned
721
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.380
to specs and they can be run fingerprints that were
722
00:46:09.420 --> 00:46:15.099
never matched in the King assassination. And why not see
723
00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:17.039
if we can find out if this, you know, if
724
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.469
it shows up as being a member of the criminal underworld,
725
00:46:19.510 --> 00:46:22.769
we have a big problem on our hands, right? So, um,
726
00:46:23.949 --> 00:46:26.730
those were the, the main things I was asking for.
727
00:46:28.309 --> 00:46:30.230
And the number one thing was to try and get
728
00:46:30.250 --> 00:46:34.590
the clerk to release selectively the files, selectively meaning don't
729
00:46:34.690 --> 00:46:37.599
give out the Cointelpro stuff. It's all in one place.
730
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:39.119
We know what the file name is. We know the
731
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:42.579
section of the report. Don't release it. Keep that out.
732
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:50.019
Release everything else. And let us see executive session testimony,
733
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.110
staff reports, et cetera, that we have all of them
734
00:46:53.170 --> 00:46:58.070
from JFK and none of them from MLK, right? Um,
735
00:46:58.929 --> 00:47:01.489
there's less stuff on RFK. I tried to get some
736
00:47:01.530 --> 00:47:03.389
input on that as well. Larry and I have done
737
00:47:03.429 --> 00:47:06.610
a lot on that. Um, but there's stuff that can
738
00:47:06.630 --> 00:47:09.769
be released there that wasn't released. They did release a lot.
739
00:47:09.809 --> 00:47:16.800
And unfortunately we're not very, um, uh, discreet in what
740
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:21.840
they released. They should have redacted and withheld some stuff without,
741
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.159
or consulted with the RFK family before they released some stuff,
742
00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:29.670
I think. But, um, They did. There's still more on
743
00:47:29.690 --> 00:47:34.050
that that can be done. I hope this task force
744
00:47:34.949 --> 00:47:39.130
stays with their feet on the pedal. I hope I
745
00:47:39.170 --> 00:47:43.570
even get a chance to testify again and sort of
746
00:47:45.250 --> 00:47:49.769
explain one more time where things stand and maybe argue
747
00:47:49.829 --> 00:47:52.949
against what the clerk of the House has to say.
748
00:47:54.630 --> 00:47:59.030
And then we can work it from there. And then,
749
00:47:59.070 --> 00:48:03.929
you know, again, you're doing part of the work. On MLK,
750
00:48:03.949 --> 00:48:06.150
you should do it anyway just for these victims and
751
00:48:06.170 --> 00:48:09.789
their families and
their communities just by extending this review port.
752
00:48:10.250 --> 00:48:10.469
Right.
753
00:48:11.139 --> 00:48:13.739
And, you know, sending the email and sharing it, et cetera,
754
00:48:14.659 --> 00:48:18.900
to anyone who does that, very much appreciated. But, yes,
755
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:24.510
I think, you know, a lot of people throw– shade
756
00:48:24.550 --> 00:48:27.260
his way, but I think Jeff is actually, having Jeff
757
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:31.019
on the staff has been a big help for JFK,
758
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:34.239
and I think we'll probably see, my guess is we'll
759
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.539
see just how much when we get the, this interim
760
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:41.659
report out about JFK, you know, um, but there's no
761
00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:45.489
such person on MLK. I, I, I occasionally call up, right.
762
00:48:46.150 --> 00:48:48.989
Well, but yeah, no, I understand. Let me, let me
763
00:48:49.050 --> 00:48:52.530
interrupt you because I, I want, there might be somebody
764
00:48:52.590 --> 00:48:55.519
listening to all this and saying, okay, you know, I
765
00:48:55.579 --> 00:48:59.539
support the spirit of this, but I'm a little confused. Um,
766
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:03.980
So here's what the ultimate question should be here regarding
767
00:49:04.019 --> 00:49:06.420
this before we move on to just, you know, tell
768
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.320
me about what your thoughts are on the, you know,
769
00:49:08.389 --> 00:49:10.190
on the committee and the other things that we might
770
00:49:10.210 --> 00:49:13.630
get to if we have time. But um in the
771
00:49:13.730 --> 00:49:19.500
best of all worlds right um your best results that
772
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:24.199
you could imagine ultimately uh you know what is it
773
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:27.380
that is the uh you know the dream goal here
774
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:30.590
uh that you'd like to accomplish like how would you
775
00:49:30.659 --> 00:49:35.070
summarize that to people what would be You know, the
776
00:49:35.349 --> 00:49:39.769
the gain here, what would be the the best possible
777
00:49:39.929 --> 00:49:45.239
outcome for these efforts, for this committee, et cetera? What
778
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:49.119
is it that you actually seek? Ultimately, if you were to,
779
00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:52.670
you know, boil it down to its most simple statement,
780
00:49:52.889 --> 00:49:54.489
how would you explain that to somebody?
781
00:49:55.369 --> 00:50:00.119
The ideal world would be on Monday. Speaker Johnson, Majority
782
00:50:00.139 --> 00:50:06.949
Leader Scalise, and Minority Leader Jeffries are overwhelmed with emails
783
00:50:07.070 --> 00:50:11.650
and phone calls from lawmakers who received your emails from
784
00:50:11.670 --> 00:50:17.789
this website. And they're all telling them tomorrow, Tuesday, that
785
00:50:17.809 --> 00:50:28.210
would be November 17th, put the S-1510 on the agenda
786
00:50:28.570 --> 00:50:31.409
and suspend the rules so that this can go to Trump,
787
00:50:31.530 --> 00:50:34.230
get signed, and this board can have another few years.
788
00:50:35.050 --> 00:50:38.550
So my ideal would get mass mobilization that leads to
789
00:50:38.610 --> 00:50:43.099
people in the Congress contacting their leaders, their party leaders,
790
00:50:43.139 --> 00:50:46.679
and telling them, let's get this done tomorrow. Let's get
791
00:50:46.699 --> 00:50:47.760
this done on Tuesday.
792
00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:49.179
Right.
793
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:53.199
And then that would be my dream world, because then
794
00:50:53.409 --> 00:50:57.349
it almost definitely will go through. And then we just
795
00:50:57.369 --> 00:50:58.789
have to do a little bit of extra work on
796
00:50:58.849 --> 00:51:02.840
President Trump. But this is hugely bipartisan. Ted Cruz champions it,
797
00:51:03.389 --> 00:51:10.599
and John Ossoff championed it in the Senate. Bonnie Watson Coleman,
798
00:51:11.099 --> 00:51:14.260
Brian Fitzpatrick, and Mike Lawler championed it in the House.
799
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:19.369
That's the whole range of the— of the continuum of
800
00:51:19.590 --> 00:51:21.530
political ideology all in one bill.
801
00:51:21.670 --> 00:51:24.889
I was just going to say, Ossoff is literally, you know,
802
00:51:24.949 --> 00:51:30.239
the Democrats' Democrat from Georgia, while Ted Cruz is, you know,
803
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:35.039
the Trump Republican who, you know, didn't even mind all
804
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.739
the things that went on there during the, you know,
805
00:51:37.820 --> 00:51:42.610
the primaries, has been a staunch supporter of Republican everything
806
00:51:42.619 --> 00:51:46.960
and Trump everything. And, you know, Ossoff definitely not in
807
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.869
that camp. If you got these guys agreeing. Um, that's
808
00:51:51.050 --> 00:51:59.559
quite a diverse, uh, rainbow, uh, you know, range of individuals. Okay.
809
00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:02.920
Just saying you just take those two good enough to
810
00:52:02.980 --> 00:52:06.300
explain to you that that should cover just about everything
811
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.630
politically outside of the, you know, the wide eyed, uh,
812
00:52:09.789 --> 00:52:12.710
one-off crazy independent you might get here or there that
813
00:52:12.769 --> 00:52:16.389
covers the majority of our, uh, political paradigm right there.
814
00:52:17.500 --> 00:52:20.400
Yeah, and it passed unanimous consent in the Senate, which
815
00:52:20.460 --> 00:52:24.239
not a single senator objected to it. And it went
816
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:26.920
36 to 4 in the House committee. We're just looking
817
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:32.199
for the same unanimity in the House in letting them
818
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:34.530
suspend the rules that we got in the Senate. And
819
00:52:34.550 --> 00:52:36.090
then it goes to the president right away.
820
00:52:36.269 -->
00:52:39.269
You see, now, has anybody thought of going the other
821
00:52:39.309 --> 00:52:41.389
direction here? Because this just occurred to me while you
822
00:52:41.409 --> 00:52:45.429
were speaking. You know, because Trump has no problem if
823
00:52:45.489 --> 00:52:51.380
somebody says, you know, basically, sir, this would further. Your
824
00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:56.929
executive order, this right here alone, would actually empower your
825
00:52:56.989 --> 00:53:01.610
executive order even further about transparency and revealing, you know,
826
00:53:01.670 --> 00:53:06.469
the other cases as well as other historical controversies that,
827
00:53:07.070 --> 00:53:09.280
you know, you could name a number of how many
828
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:14.000
families are affected or involved here, how many different states, whatever.
829
00:53:14.699 --> 00:53:18.090
This affects a lot of people. And this is, you know,
830
00:53:18.130 --> 00:53:25.429
maybe not as top shelf in the public consciousness as JFK, MLK, RFK.
831
00:53:25.510 --> 00:53:30.889
But this is right there. And this furthers the spirit
832
00:53:30.929 --> 00:53:34.469
of your agenda and bolsters it all and could add
833
00:53:34.510 --> 00:53:37.340
to your legacy. If somebody just explains that to Trump
834
00:53:37.550 --> 00:53:42.900
in 20 seconds, he might actually go and also tell
835
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:46.780
the representatives, OK, OK. I want this done.
836
00:53:47.619 --> 00:53:52.500
So before I try to, so, so I tried to
837
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:54.840
do what we did at the end of what we
838
00:53:54.860 --> 00:53:58.429
did in 20 of the, of the first law, which
839
00:53:58.489 --> 00:54:04.610
is I tried to contact Christopher Ruddy who helped us.
840
00:54:04.949 --> 00:54:08.570
Jim Jordan's office helped us. They were the ones who
841
00:54:08.590 --> 00:54:10.320
helped us get president Trump to sign it. It's a
842
00:54:10.340 --> 00:54:13.320
crazy story. There was a lot involved there. That's kind
843
00:54:13.340 --> 00:54:17.219
of funny, but in any event, But I'm not having
844
00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:19.800
nearly the success I had in January of 2019. And
845
00:54:19.909 --> 00:54:23.349
it took a while in January 2019, but I did
846
00:54:23.369 --> 00:54:26.570
not have that success because I did think of that. Unfortunately,
847
00:54:26.650 --> 00:54:28.630
it doesn't seem to be working. So I think we
848
00:54:28.670 --> 00:54:31.630
have to go the conventional route and try and go
849
00:54:31.670 --> 00:54:36.460
bottoms up. and get to the leaders.
850
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.280
That's fine. I just thought it was a fair question.
851
00:54:39.300 --> 00:54:41.940
No, it's a great idea. Trust me, I thought of it. Unfortunately,
852
00:54:41.980 --> 00:54:45.920
I had no success. It's actually a very smart idea.
853
00:54:46.590 --> 00:54:49.090
There is no reason not to double cover here either,
854
00:54:49.289 --> 00:54:53.570
because if the president is behind it and starts discussing
855
00:54:53.630 --> 00:54:58.449
it or brings it up in public, that automatically, especially
856
00:54:58.510 --> 00:55:04.130
this president, automatically means it's going to get attention. That's
857
00:55:04.150 --> 00:55:04.860
a guarantee.
858
00:55:04.929 --> 00:55:11.400
If he called Scalise and Johnson tomorrow, it would be
859
00:55:11.460 --> 00:55:14.719
over and done with. They would absolutely put it on
860
00:55:14.739 --> 00:55:19.239
the agenda. It would get through. I just, you know, again,
861
00:55:19.500 --> 00:55:21.980
I have not had success getting to him this time around,
862
00:55:22.099 --> 00:55:26.070
but I am having some success with the mobilization effort,
863
00:55:26.090 --> 00:55:28.590
but would love more people to become involved.
864
00:55:28.710 --> 00:55:28.989
Oh, yeah.
865
00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:31.489
But if you got Trump to even utter something about
866
00:55:31.530 --> 00:55:36.780
this committee, you know, in passing to a journalist, a
867
00:55:36.860 --> 00:55:40.480
million podcasters would begin saying, To dig into it, find
868
00:55:40.539 --> 00:55:42.760
out what it was. I'm serious. Overnight, that would probably.
869
00:55:42.780 --> 00:55:43.179
No, no, no.
870
00:55:43.219 --> 00:55:43.539
I know.
871
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:43.940
I know.
872
00:55:44.019 --> 00:55:44.260
I know.
873
00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:44.500
I know.
874
00:55:44.539 --> 00:55:44.800
I know.
875
00:55:44.820 --> 00:55:47.420
The only issue, again, as we as I try to
876
00:55:47.460 --> 00:55:50.000
say so far has not succeeded.
877
00:55:50.460 --> 00:55:52.539
No, fair enough. I'm just trying to point out it
878
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.280
is a good idea. It just it doesn't.
879
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:56.159
It's a great idea.
880
00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:56.920
Yeah.
881
00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:59.260
But, you know, I thought of it just didn't work.
882
00:56:00.260 --> 00:56:03.039
Cause even like I said, great minds think alike.
883
00:56:03.119 --> 00:56:05.039
Yeah. I mean, but, but even if he mentioned it,
884
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:06.900
I mean, imagine that for a moment, the news media
885
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.699
would have to go figure out what the hell it was.
886
00:56:09.019 --> 00:56:09.480
Oh yeah.
887
00:56:09.739 --> 00:56:12.179
Again, it would, it was, it was the Holy grail.
888
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:14.489
It just didn't work for it. It worked for us,
889
00:56:14.829 --> 00:56:17.869
you know, obviously getting to him to sign it was
890
00:56:17.909 --> 00:56:22.630
a crazy story. It was very, very last minute and
891
00:56:22.769 --> 00:56:25.809
we really had to do some crazy things to try
892
00:56:25.849 --> 00:56:29.469
and get his attention. Um, but it ultimately worked.
893
00:56:29.489 --> 00:56:33.760
So, Well, yeah, no problem. But it would be, listen,
894
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:36.900
whatever effort you made and
whether you failed or not,
895
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:39.980
that might more specifically speak to the moment in which
896
00:56:40.019 --> 00:56:43.380
you tried it than, you know, the validity of the idea.
897
00:56:43.820 --> 00:56:47.599
But I've taken almost an hour of your time already, Stu. And,
898
00:56:48.039 --> 00:56:50.280
you know, I want to sort of tie a bow
899
00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:54.920
on this. And again, the link, OK, to the website.
900
00:56:54.940 --> 00:56:57.420
And I have it in front of me just and
901
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.260
also I've now published what they call an article on
902
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:05.179
X regarding this, giving people the link and a quick description,
903
00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:10.340
which I directly lifted from the website and just put
904
00:57:10.380 --> 00:57:12.500
it out as an article on X. I just tweeted
905
00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:15.920
that out. whatever you call it, X post, all right, whatever.
906
00:57:17.300 --> 00:57:20.940
You know, the Civil Rights Cold Case Records, that is
907
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.599
at the top of the website. And of course, Civil
908
00:57:24.780 --> 00:57:29.510
Rights Cold Case Records, okay, is what you'll see to
909
00:57:29.570 --> 00:57:33.409
click on. And, you know, you see it here, your
910
00:57:33.449 --> 00:57:37.309
representative can help finish the work. Okay, the Civil Rights
911
00:57:37.349 --> 00:57:43.530
Cold Case Records Review Board releases long-withheld federal records concerning
912
00:57:43.789 --> 00:57:46.949
decades-old civil rights murders. You already know this if you
913
00:57:46.969 --> 00:57:52.690
were listening. Its authority runs out in January. Therefore, S-1510
914
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:58.739
would extend. It is so the board can complete its mission. Now,
915
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:02.860
that's the first paragraph on the landing page, okay? I
916
00:58:02.900 --> 00:58:05.300
assume that's the— yeah, it is the homepage. I'm just looking.
917
00:58:05.949 --> 00:58:09.380
It is the homepage and everything is interactive. And all
918
00:58:09.389 --> 00:58:11.880
you got to do to start is to click create
919
00:58:11.940 --> 00:58:16.719
my email to my representative. So it is that simple.
920
00:58:17.099 --> 00:58:21.070
It's just probably, I don't know, 20 seconds more effort
921
00:58:21.110 --> 00:58:24.369
than signing a petition to get it done. Also, at
922
00:58:24.389 --> 00:58:26.250
the top of the website, there's a big red button
923
00:58:26.269 --> 00:58:27.449
that says create my email.
924
00:58:29.349 --> 00:58:30.130
We put it everywhere.
925
00:58:30.670 --> 00:58:35.900
Hey, look, you covered both ends. Just saying. Okay. And
926
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:39.039
this thing is also broken down in posts here. You know, one,
927
00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:43.639
the board, two, the cases, three, student made law, four, S.
928
00:58:43.590 --> 00:58:43.639
1510.
929
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:49.420
Okay. And all of those sections here on the website,
930
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:53.599
easily consumable. And the majority of it, you've actually heard
931
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:57.619
Stu Wexler just explain now. So not only an author,
932
00:58:57.739 --> 00:59:04.349
but an activist regarding the historical record and indeed justice
933
00:59:04.590 --> 00:59:08.070
and the civil rights cold cases themselves, not alone. As
934
00:59:08.110 --> 00:59:10.570
he said, his students had worked with him on this.
935
00:59:11.030 --> 00:59:14.880
He's worked with others, you know, for a long time.
936
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.199
For a long time. When did you actually start to
937
00:59:18.260 --> 00:59:22.380
work on what it is we see now? Just out
938
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:25.880
of curiosity, when did that work begin for you exactly?
939
00:59:26.820 --> 00:59:29.719
So we started on this law in my classes in 2015.
940
00:59:29.719 --> 00:59:36.909
And there are students now who are 28 years old
941
00:59:36.949 --> 00:59:38.730
who still do stuff for it when they can.
942
00:59:38.750 --> 00:59:39.469
Yeah.
943
00:59:41.130 --> 00:59:45.150
That's what's amazing about it. We took us even after
944
00:59:45.190 --> 00:59:48.090
the law passed. We lobbied for an appropriation. We lobbied
945
00:59:48.170 --> 00:59:52.739
for a support bill. We wrote a Supreme Court friend
946
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:55.719
of the court brief. So it was like my class
947
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for eight years.
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Yeah. And in 2014 and 15, if anybody goes back
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01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:04.820
in my archive and listens to when Stu appeared, of course,
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01:00:04.860 --> 01:00:06.840
I was talking to him about the book, The Awful
951
01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.289
Grace of God at first. Uh, and, uh, also interviewed
952
01:00:10.329 --> 01:00:14.150
Stu separately from Larry, but then with Larry, uh, back
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01:00:14.230 --> 01:00:16.750
then when this show was still kind of new, cause
954
01:00:16.809 --> 01:00:19.469
I only started it in 2013. So I've been around
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01:00:19.489 --> 01:00:23.300
doing this for 13 years. Um, the point is it
956
01:00:23.340 --> 01:00:26.599
was being brought up then because it was happening then. Uh,
957
01:00:26.780 --> 01:00:28.840
but we didn't go into it because I was busy
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01:00:28.940 --> 01:00:32.219
on the books and I was busy on MLK. Uh,
959
01:00:32.500 --> 01:00:37.730
and you know, As Stu said, the actual, you know,
960
01:00:37.909 --> 01:00:42.610
agency not really animated until 2019, I believe you said, right?
961
01:00:43.460 --> 01:00:46.739
Well, it didn't get signed. It wasn't animated until 2024.
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01:00:46.739 --> 01:00:48.780
Oh, excuse me. It was signed in 2019, but animated
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01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:49.239
in 2024.
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01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:53.179
So it's literally been operating in a functional way for
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01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:57.150
two years, and yet it's
about to go out of.
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01:00:58.070 --> 01:01:00.869
operations unless we save it right now two years asking
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01:01:00.909 --> 01:01:03.010
everybody to help and that is and i thank you
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so much for letting me help.
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01:01:04.349 --> 01:01:07.030
No absolutely for your help two years just to be
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clear here two years how many cases are we talking
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about are encompassed by this.
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01:01:11.739 --> 01:01:15.460
So they've already released 63 but my guess is i
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mean it's not a fixed number per se that they
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01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:21.619
that i think they they know exactly but it's probably
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a few hundred cases right.
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And only two years to work on even the 63 Correct.
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And, you know, quite a lot of the initial ones
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01:01:31.730 --> 01:01:35.809
are stuff where, you know, it's not a big fight
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01:01:35.829 --> 01:01:38.469
to get the material out. There's still stuff where you
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01:01:38.489 --> 01:01:40.909
need to get grand jury records out and that's going
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01:01:40.929 --> 01:01:42.909
to take them longer to fight that fight.
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01:01:43.190 --> 01:01:43.929
So, right.
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Whatever time we could add, you know, seven years or
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01:01:48.489 --> 01:01:52.949
whatever is being added by S-1510, that would be amazing.
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Right.
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And for those people that believe, you know, the government
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01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:58.019
does waste a lot of money, I agree with you,
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first of all. But secondly, this is not a high expenditure.
989
01:02:03.599 --> 01:02:08.699
activity here. This is not something that is anywhere near
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01:02:09.340 --> 01:02:14.750
an expensive agency, temporary or otherwise, in the federal government.
991
01:02:14.809 --> 01:02:17.489
But also, by the way, it is a temporary agency,
992
01:02:17.550 --> 01:02:21.389
so it has a finite existence. You're not trying to
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01:02:21.429 --> 01:02:24.590
give consent to something that'll be there forever, serve no purpose,
994
01:02:24.659 --> 01:02:26.980
and just write out paychecks for people who do nothing,
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01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:32.099
as many government agencies become at a certain point. or
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01:02:32.139 --> 01:02:37.130
many bureaucracies within the government agencies also generate, you know,
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01:02:37.510 --> 01:02:41.590
circumstances like that. Obviously, this is not the case here.
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01:02:41.710 --> 01:02:43.429
So I just want to, you know, tell people this year,
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01:02:43.670 --> 01:02:46.190
we're not talking about something that's going to cost a lot.
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01:02:46.630 --> 01:02:51.599
We're not talking about something that is frivolous. We're not
1001
01:02:51.659 --> 01:02:55.460
talking about something that couldn't accomplish a great many things,
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01:02:55.619 --> 01:02:59.599
even if you're just talking about giving peace of mind
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to families who have been affected for 60 years, 70 years.
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01:03:05.769 --> 01:03:08.969
You know, there are cases from the 1950s that are
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01:03:09.010 --> 01:03:13.429
definitely part of this. There are cases from the 1960s.
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01:03:13.849 --> 01:03:17.190
I'm guessing here there are cases from the 70s as
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01:03:17.250 --> 01:03:20.550
well that are also part of this. But the majority
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01:03:20.570 --> 01:03:22.190
of them would probably be in the decade of the
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01:03:22.489 --> 01:03:27.369
50s and the 60s. And, you know, How long should
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01:03:27.469 --> 01:03:31.739
justice be delayed is the ultimate question. It's not a
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01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:34.880
high cost thing. And we're not asking you to contribute
1012
01:03:34.900 --> 01:03:38.340
to anything. Just you're on the Internet because otherwise you
1013
01:03:38.360 --> 01:03:41.400
couldn't hear this show now. So you're on the Internet.
1014
01:03:41.539 --> 01:03:45.079
You can use a browser and go to the clickable link,
1015
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:47.360
which will be in the show notes is, you know,
1016
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:50.900
on my chat room. I did put out on Twitter.
1017
01:03:51.039 --> 01:03:54.710
I will put out on Facebook later. et cetera, et cetera.
1018
01:03:54.730 --> 01:03:57.889
I'll put out on my social media and the big
1019
01:03:57.929 --> 01:04:01.059
red button, create my email. It'll do most of the
1020
01:04:01.099 --> 01:04:04.179
work for you. And it won't be just a petition.
1021
01:04:04.460 --> 01:04:10.900
As Stu said, it'll specifically address the appropriate representative based
1022
01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:16.190
on who you are and where you are more appropriately. Okay.
1023
01:04:16.570 --> 01:04:19.929
So you can show who you are by allowing this
1024
01:04:19.989 --> 01:04:24.579
thing to help you give a nudge to the establishment
1025
01:04:24.619 --> 01:04:29.570
to tell them that the record is in need of
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01:04:29.989 --> 01:04:34.469
revision and revelation. So that is the way I would
1027
01:04:34.510 --> 01:04:36.590
put it, Stu. Anything you'd like to say here as
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01:04:36.630 --> 01:04:39.750
we close out? I again, thank you for taking the time. Look,
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01:04:39.829 --> 01:04:41.489
in the very near future, I'd love to talk to
1030
01:04:41.510 --> 01:04:43.789
you about some of these other things. Like I'm now
1031
01:04:43.849 --> 01:04:46.610
intrigued by what the story is about what you had
1032
01:04:46.659 --> 01:04:48.500
to do to get Trump to sign the bill in
1033
01:04:48.519 --> 01:04:52.639
the first place. I would love to hear that story. Um,
1034
01:04:53.119 --> 01:04:58.360
I'm thinking you're not a natural Trump supporter either. Uh,
1035
01:04:59.619 --> 01:05:03.909
you know, I mean,
it's my guess. Um, you know, Stu, uh,
1036
01:05:03.929 --> 01:05:05.269
I don't want to speak for you, you.
1037
01:05:05.219 --> 01:05:06.860
Know, probably a pretty good guess.
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01:05:06.989 --> 01:05:07.469
Okay.
1039
01:05:07.510 --> 01:05:09.949
But, uh, you know, but we were willing to work
1040
01:05:09.969 --> 01:05:12.170
on both sides. It's a, that's a great story. There's
1041
01:05:12.190 --> 01:05:14.630
like 10 great stories as to what happened when these
1042
01:05:14.690 --> 01:05:15.489
kids worked on this.
1043
01:05:15.710 --> 01:05:15.929
Right.
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01:05:16.369 --> 01:05:18.130
Um, and the things that we like had to figure
1045
01:05:18.230 --> 01:05:21.269
out how to work around and get through, um, I
1046
01:05:21.349 --> 01:05:24.030
am going to write a book soon on it. I
1047
01:05:24.070 --> 01:05:26.070
just don't want to write it until we're finished. And
1048
01:05:26.090 --> 01:05:28.059
this is really probably what will finish it.
1049
01:05:28.510 --> 01:05:28.760
Right.
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01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:31.860
If we can get it extended. Then I'm done with
1051
01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:33.360
the story and I can write the story.
1052
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:33.820
Right.
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01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:37.139
And if not, sadly, you can write the story, too.
1054
01:05:37.260 --> 01:05:38.239
But it might.
1055
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.519
Have a not as good ending. Hopefully it'll have a
1056
01:05:40.539 --> 01:05:40.940
happy end.
1057
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:41.400
Right.
1058
01:05:41.460 --> 01:05:45.059
It'll have a slightly less happy ending where, you know,
1059
01:05:45.260 --> 01:05:48.869
we fought the good fight. But here's what happened. And
1060
01:05:49.010 --> 01:05:51.690
you again, the listener, you hearing the sound of my
1061
01:05:51.750 --> 01:05:55.389
voice out there, not Stu, but everybody else. you can
1062
01:05:55.429 --> 01:05:57.789
become part of it just by going clicking that button
1063
01:05:57.829 --> 01:06:01.280
and following some directions over at the website link is
1064
01:06:01.340 --> 01:06:03.920
provided in the show notes it's on my site it's
1065
01:06:04.059 --> 01:06:06.119
on my twitter if you're x whatever you want to
1066
01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:08.260
call it if you follow me there and i'll put
1067
01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.039
it out in other places and uh we'll see if
1068
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:13.860
we can sneak this onto youtube somehow and maybe rumble
1069
01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:18.079
and uh the video platforms in audio form uh that'll
1070
01:06:18.099 --> 01:06:20.590
take a little more doing but uh let me get
1071
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:24.309
out the audio podcast tonight And to do so, yeah,
1072
01:06:24.369 --> 01:06:26.090
I'm going to ask you, Stu, how you want to
1073
01:06:26.130 --> 01:06:28.489
close this out. I give you the floor and that'll
1074
01:06:28.530 --> 01:06:30.590
be that. We'll just close it out in the audio
1075
01:06:30.610 --> 01:06:33.409
form and I'll work as quickly as I can to
1076
01:06:33.449 --> 01:06:34.150
get it out tonight.
1077
01:06:35.289 --> 01:06:38.159
Thank you, Chuck. Thank you, everybody who signs. And please
1078
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:40.320
also share it to everybody else and tell them to
1079
01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:42.159
share it. Let's make this go viral.
1080
01:06:43.539 --> 01:06:46.300
Very important, because you know what? With a handful of people,
1081
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:48.360
believe it or not, you might be able to get
1082
01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:52.349
some action here. You know, your particular handful of people
1083
01:06:52.949 --> 01:06:56.050
are significant here. This is not necessarily a drop in
1084
01:06:56.070 --> 01:06:57.849
the bucket thing. There is a bit of a force
1085
01:06:57.909 --> 01:07:02.780
multiplier here that can be ignited, if you will. You
1086
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:07.460
can give ignition to the high speed chemistry that this
1087
01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:14.380
could become and progress could be made regarding, you know, again,
1088
01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:18.809
the murky history of. Of this circumstance, which again, you know,
1089
01:07:18.849 --> 01:07:20.920
there's a lot of things here. We could go into
1090
01:07:20.940 --> 01:07:23.360
the politics of it, but the politics of then are
1091
01:07:23.420 --> 01:07:27.159
not the politics of now. And when is it ever
1092
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.699
a bad time for the truth? I can't think of
1093
01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:31.550
it myself.
1094
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:32.300
You know, there might be.
1095
01:07:58.449 --> 01:08:02.969
We'll be right.
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Back.
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never united man, they'd stay the madder, read a red
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or orange margarita.
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One nation beneath.
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And justice for only the elite that can afford to rent,
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but not own.
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Justice for the seat of the transhumanist jack bro, space
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axe rocket.
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To hell, there's an opportunity to be slaughtered by the
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systems that.
1115
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Feed, it's for the rest of us all!
1116
01:09:36.819 --> 01:09:38.800
Right to life, country, we just might make.
1117
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It so The death penalty will be the punishment for
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01:09:42.180 --> 01:09:43.640
daring To burn.
1119
01:09:43.220 --> 01:09:46.380
The flag of war and A truth.
1120
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Already ablaze, we'll make some orange seasons It's the third
1121
01:09:49.020 --> 01:09:52.359
term because that is God's choice for ages Orange in the.
1122
01:09:52.140 --> 01:09:53.659
New world, butter or taco.
1123
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Crazy promise, guy, dance, marketer And Jesus, well, as we
1124
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save ourselves From communism and fascism, when evil we go fascism.
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In Cleopatra.
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Bible Pod 3 where the Antichrist is a transgender whore
1127
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And Babylon.
1128
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Has franchises that merely include a Trump Tower And McDonald's
1129
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in every new city on the present for profit planet.
1130
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The Needs of God.
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The Needs of God An atheist does what an atheist
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can afford to read would not own justice with a
1133
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seat on the transhumanist tech, bro.
1134
01:10:33.810 --> 01:10:38.130
Space X rocket to hell. It's the opportunity to wreck butt.
1135
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Don't forget that though, we are a rising.
1136
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Light country, we just might make it so.
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01:10:57.550 --> 01:11:02.329
Death penalty will be the punishment for death.
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01:11:12.810 --> 01:11:14.750
The views expressed by caller schools or anyone else who
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happens to get on the air at Ocelli.com do not
1140
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necessarily reflect the views of Ocelli.com or Chuck Ocelli, and
1141
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we are not responsible for any stupidity which might ensue.
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Thank you.
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1146
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1147
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President Kennedy would not have been assassinated if he had
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1149
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War and the rise of
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1152
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1153
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not only wanted to invade Cuba, but knew that there
1154
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1162
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are still happening today. Larry Hancock's book, In Denial, rips
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the cover off many of them. Using new files, it
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exposes things about the Bay of Pigs that no one
1165
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has ever written about before.
1166
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It shows why it really failed.
1167
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And why the United States did not.
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What are the dynamics of a crowd? How do you
1175
01:13:15.449 --> 01:13:17.489
move a mob? How do you excite? How do you
1176
01:13:17.529 --> 01:13:20.729
make them feel as one with you? I don't know how.
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01:13:20.850 --> 01:13:22.590
Join them first. Join them?
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Yes.
1179
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When you speak to them, speak to them as if
1180
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you were a member of the mob. Speak to them
1181
01:13:28.590 --> 01:13:33.310
in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate.
1182
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If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If
1183
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.079
they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. If
1184
01:13:39.100 --> 01:13:42.460
they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But
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most of all... The thing that is most of the
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essence is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.
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What are the dynamics of a crowd? How do you
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move a mob? How do you excite them? How do
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you make them feel as one with you? Join them first. Yes,
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when you speak to them, speak to them as if
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you were a member of the mob. Speak to them
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in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate.
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If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If
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they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. If
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they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But
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most of all, the thing that is most obvious is
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that you make this mob an extension of yourself.
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What are the.
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Dynamics of a crowd?
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How do you move a mob?
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How do you excite? How do you make them feel
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as one with you? Join them first.
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Join them.
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Yes, when you speak to them, speak to them as
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if you were a member of the mob. Speak to
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them in their language, on their level. Make their hate
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your hate. Talk to them of poverty. Talk to them
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of their fears. Give them objects for their anger. Make
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this mob an extension of yourself.
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Revelation through conversation.
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Do you like history real history that you were never
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taught in schools why the vietnam war nuclear bombs and
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nation building in southeast asia by author mike swanson with
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new documentation never seen before that'll open your eyes to
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events that led up to this why The Vietnam War,
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Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in Southeast Asia, 1945-1961. Get
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your copy today at Amazon.com.
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Why?
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The Vietnam War by author Mike Swanson.
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I want them to appreciate the incredible job we're doing.
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We are doing a job the likes of which has
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never been done before.
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You're going to have mental depression for people. You're going
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to have large numbers of suicides. Take a look at
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what happens in a really horrible recession or worse. So
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you're going to have tremendous suicide, but you know what
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you're going to have more than anything else?
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Drug addiction.
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You will see drugs being used like nobody's ever used
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them before. And people are going to be dying all
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over the place.
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From drug addiction. I want them to appreciate the incredible
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job we're doing.
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We are doing a job the likes of which has
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never been done before.
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I want them to appreciate the incredible job we're doing.
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We are doing a job the likes of which has
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never been done before.
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You're going to have mental depression for people. You're going
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to have large numbers of suicides. Take a look at
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01:16:21.939 --> 01:16:24.880
what happens in a really horrible recession or worse. So
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you're going to have tremendous suicides.
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But you know what you're going to have more than
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anything else? Drug addiction. You will see drugs.
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Being used like nobody's ever used them before. And people
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are going to be dying all over the place from
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drug addiction.
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Let's get out of town and tell them that once
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again they've lost a million men.
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Lord, I've missed a lot.
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Like you've never seen before, it's what you're fighting for.
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Falling for It's all this drunken, sexist beat, the streets alive.
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With their heat beat Drinking laser light, just losing it,
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so good
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I've never been so free