The Fifth Circuit Says Gun Rights Cross State Lines

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson.
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You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative.
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Our apologies from Patriotch 920 for those technical difficulties, but we are on air and good to go now, hopefully for the rest of the morning.
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With that being said, we've now thrown away the first half hour of the show.
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That means that we have we I mean we we still have to get into the same number of things.
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You guys still have to know everything that's going on.
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So that means I've I've got to manage to get through all these stories in a much shorter period of time.
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So let's kick it off without further ado with the Texas Ethics Commission.
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Yesterday during the show, you guys might remember that the Texas Ethics Commission, kind of out of nowhere.
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I'm sure there were, you know, backdoor discussions and those sorts of things, but kind of out of nowhere, it appeared like uh to be to be totally fair that the Texas Ethics Commission was just randomly on a random Wednesday gonna show up and they were going to increase the per diem for legislators here in the state of Texas, which of course, as we talked about yesterday, would also have the byproduct, the symptom.
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That means uh that lawmakers are able to get wined and dined by lobbyists without any transparency, and that number goes up.
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The the amount of money that those lobbyists can spend goes up.
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And so, rightfully, some of us were not very happy with that arrangement.
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We were not very happy with the bureaucracy raising per diem without really, again, talking to the people.
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Uh, and and that's without even understanding that it connects back to the lobbyists and the secret meals and the secret money and and these sorts of things.
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And so there was a lot of problems.
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The the biggest of which probably was the lack of transparency because it just seems to have come out of mostly nowhere.
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Obviously, you're gonna have to have raised discussions, and it makes sense they have an ethics commission that rules on what's fair, but also that still needs to be accountable to the people.
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And I say this all the time for for good reason.
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One of the biggest problems in our modern government is that there is literally no transparency or accountability.
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They they just get to do basically whatever they want.
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And I understand that the founders intended for us to have checks and balances so that they can all check and balance one another.
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But the biggest check and balance was the American people.
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It was us.
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It was the guys.
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It was the people.
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They were the ultimate accountability mechanism, they were the ultimate group that you had to be transparent to.
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Yes, Congress was supposed to hold the president accountable, who's supposed to hold the Supreme Court, and it all kind of works together, but all of that's tied together by the will of the people.
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We're a republic.
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And part of the problem is that one, the checks and balances aren't going so well in general.
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Uh, they all are either backstabbing one another, or frequently you'll find that they're just kind of working together in ways they shouldn't be.
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You'll you'll find judicial activists, it's like you should have run for Congress.
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Why are you an activist in a judge position?
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Doesn't make any sense.
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The checks and balances have kind of eroded and they've stopped being held accountable by the people.
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There's no longer any sense of transparency for the people.
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And so, you know, there was a lot of there was a lot of backlash at the Texas Ethics Commission for even talking about doing this, especially on again a random day that nobody really knew was coming.
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Well, now they've tabled that discussion.
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They voted yesterday to table the proposed increase without discussion.
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Largely, I would, I would wager, because people started finding out about it.
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People said, oh, well, if you're gonna have this meeting, we should show up, we should find out what's going on, we should have, you know, voter participation.
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I understand you're a bureaucracy, but we should have the people having something to say about it.
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I think that's totally fair, it's totally reasonable.
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And so we all know exactly what it would have done and exactly why there was backlash, because again, this is raising per diem without talking to the the people of Texas, raising, I mean, it's not raising the salary, but for all intents and purposes, without the amount they wanted to raise it, it would have been an extra$10,000 a year, at least, assuming no special sessions, which if you've ever met Governor Abbott, those are kind of inevitable.
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And so at the end of the day, we realized not only did it raise per diem by a significant amount without talking to the people, but because of the rule that lobbyists can spend up to 60% of the daily per diem on a single thing for a candidate without having to inform the people and put down details and who they were whining and dining, the end result would be that, of course, they could spend lobbyists could spend significantly more money on buying and paying for politicians without telling you they're buying and paying for politicians.
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And so people rightfully said, not cool, we don't want that.
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And rather than vote on it and say, We're not gonna do this, this is clearly wrong, or have massive public discussion, instead they just tabled it.
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We don't know for when, they just kind of did.
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Um, we'll find out, I guess, later down the road if they decide they're gonna do it later when no one's paying attention.
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But for now it's been tabled.
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Let's go ahead and get to another story.
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This is wild.
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The Fifth Circuit has now struck down a federal ban on interstate handgun sales.
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Uh this is this is pretty wild.
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So for some background.
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Several provisions of the federal code, which were enacted back in 1968, so it's been a while, almost 60 years, collectively prohibited the buying and selling of handguns across state lines.
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You just weren't allowed to do that.
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Uh the first section 922A3 prohibits unlicensed individuals from transporting or receiving into the state a firearm obtained outside of the state.
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So, you know, pretty clear.
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The second, section 922A5, prohibits unlicensed individuals from selling or delivering firearms to individuals known or believed to reside in another state.
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So if you can't go and and you know buy them there and then bring them back in, that's also not supposed to happen.
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The third provision, that's 922B3, prohibits licensed firearm dealers from selling or delivering firearms to individuals known or believed to reside in another state.
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So even if you are a licensed firearm seller, you can't do it or you couldn't do it.
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Together, they basically, I mean, as a category, just outlaw all direct sales of handguns to interstate commerce.
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None of it can happen because it's unlicensed, it's licensed, it's transportation, all of those things.
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It was basically just straight up illegal to have interstate commerce participation of handguns, regardless of where the parties were located when the sale was made.
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Even if you're in the state, they can't sell to you if they think you live somewhere else.
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And so Tim Herron of New Mexico and Freddie Blish of Arizona are individuals who have sworn they would be customers of Elite Precision's Customs LLC, a federally licensed firearms manufacturer and dealer located in Mansfield, Texas, if not for the ban.
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You have men in New Mexico and Arizona saying we would buy from you.
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We we swear we like we'll put sworn oath, we would buy from you if it were legally allowed.
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And so he showed direct harms coming as a result.
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And so the plaintiffs uh sought a permanent injunction that would block the provisions from being enforced.
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And it named the Bureau of Alcohol, Debacco, and Firearms and Explosives, the ATF, acting ATF director Daniel Driscoll, and U.S.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche as defendants in the case.
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The DOJ, of course, sought to just have the lawsuit uh dismissed entirely, not even go after it.
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U.S.
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district judge Mark Pittman found that the challenge provisions do not function as a de facto prohibition on possession, but rather a reasonable commercial restriction enacted by Congress.
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And so the district court concluded that they don't violate the Second Amendment, which I I mean is just absolutely insane.
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Regardless of that, the plaintiffs appealed the case, as they're allowed to do, to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
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Now, the Fifth Circuit has been on a bit of a run recently, uh, mainly because the Fifth Circuit has behaved the way that judges are supposed to behave, which is not to write law, it is not to enforce law, it is to interpret existing law.
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That's all they're supposed to do.
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And they're supposed to, and of course, there are always subjective things, and things can be vague, and so you need courts to do this.
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But as a general rule of thumb, I know this is confusing.
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Judges are supposed to interpret as objectively as possible.
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That they're supposed to go in and give you guys an objective reason why they ruled the way they did, using sentence structure and everything else, legal precedent, all the other things that have been built up to make those rulings.
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And so the Fifth Circuit has actually been doing that largely, not perfectly, but they've been doing it to a large degree.
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And it's been fascinating to watch.
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Regardless of that, it went to the Court of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where it was heard by a three-judge panel uh consisting of uh judges Jerry Smith, Kurt Engelhart, and Katharina Haynes.
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The only issue that actually went before the Fifth Circuit was whether the three challenge provisions are constitutional under the Second Amendment.
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That was it was very straightforward, incredibly simple.
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Those three provisions, which have been enacting since 1968, someone had enough of a damage to take it to court and say, hey, these are actually unconstitutional and you need to rule on it.
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And so just recently, the panel released its decision.
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It was two to one, finding that the provisions are unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, which reversed Judge Pittman's order and blocked the provisions from being enforced.
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Now, the woman, Judge Haynes, she dissented from that.
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Judge Smith explained in the opinion that the test for determining whether a law is a violation of the Second Amendment was laid out in the 2022 U.S.
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Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v.
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Bruin.
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A court must inquire, quote, whether the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, and if so, then the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct.
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It then becomes the government's burden to prove, to justify any regulations they have by demonstrating that it is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.
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And the Fifth Circuit concluded, the federal government didn't do that.
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They've not shown that.
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And pointing to one law that's been enacted since 1968 is not the historical tradition, it's just this one law.
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And the question is, is this one law historically traditional?
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And the answer the court found was no.
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Your right to keep and bear arms does not stop at your state line, and the government cannot make you pay a penalty just to exercise it.
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The Fifth Circuit got it exactly right.
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This is a purchase ban, it is presumptively unconstitutional, and the government failed to justify it.
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We told the federal government we were coming for this ban, and today we beat them.
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Now, of course it doesn't necessarily end there.
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Uh the panel's ruling has now blocked them from being enforced, but the DOJ is expected to let the decision stand rather than appeal.
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Now they could appeal, and I don't want to get ahead of myself and say they're not going to, because we're not profits, we can't see the future, you know, we can't plan for tomorrow, we can only do what we can today.
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And at the end of the day, all we know right now is the Fifth Circuit has has has said this.
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Now, a couple of things that I want to note.
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First of all, winning a case in general at any level bodes well for the future.
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It doesn't bode perfectly, right?
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As they found out because the district judge did a bad ruling.
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But a vast majority of the time, because there's now technically a precedent from an existing judge, when it goes to a higher court, they have to not only rule on the case, but also by nature say the other judge was wrong, the other court was was mistaken.
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And that's a higher burden to do, generally, than simply just sitting there and and saying, we're gonna rule on this.
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They have to reverse a previous order.
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And so just as a general again, it's a general rule of thumb.
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It's not it's not exact.
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But generally speaking, you want to win every level because it starts building a precedent already for what the court can rule on.
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They can read the other judges' opinions, why they ruled the way they did, and use that existing analysis towards their own interpretation, right?
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Makes sense.
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And so the fact that the Trump DOJ is not expected to appeal, combined with the fact that the Fifth Circuit has now ruled favorably against the DOJ and in favor of the right of the people to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed, bodes very well.
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Uh now, on the same day as the panel ruling, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel released a legal opinion on a separate Second Amendment issue, concluding that the federal prohibition against licensed dealers selling handguns to otherwise law-abiding adults aged 18 to 20 is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and therefore unenforceable.
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In other words, the Trump DOJ, while there are existing laws they're enforcing, are also coming out and saying, but that doesn't mean we want to.
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And that doesn't mean that these things shouldn't be struck down just because they're currently existing law.
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And so not only are they expected to not appeal this, they weren't expected to appeal the NFA ruling either.
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And on top of that, they're releasing opinions on other issues of the Second Amendment that seem, I'll say aligned with our general overall goal of a lack of infringement.
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The DOJ seemingly uh appears to be rolling back those regulations and not really fighting them very hard rather than proceeding with these sorts of appeals and proceeding to enforce uh obvious constitutional violations.
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And so again, we can't know where it's going to go.
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Just like with the IFA, we couldn't know they weren't going to appeal.
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But the general rule, the general rumor, the tog of the town, if you will, is that they're not going to do that, which would be phenomenal.
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Now, listen, this is not happening in one case, right?
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There are a variety of ways that the Second Amendment has been infringed upon and no one really notices.
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No one really seems to be paying attention.
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Well, there is a group that is consistently paying attention and is doing things exactly like this.
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They're willing to go to court, they're willing to do what it takes to get these sorts of constitutional violations struck down from the law.
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And that is our sponsor, Gun Owners of America.
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Gun Owners of America understands that the Second Amendment shall not be infringed.
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And that actually means something to GOA.
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They are the only real lobbyist organization for the Second Amendment in the country that's actually doing, you know, helpful work that believes in the promise of no compromise.
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That means that laws like this one, even if they've enacted for 60 years, are unconstitutional and therefore should be struck down.
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And they they they fight to strike those things down in a variety of ways.
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That includes campaigning for good candidates.
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We're right now in the midst of election season.
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It means getting good candidates elected to office who are going to further give you your rights back that have actually been taken away from you.
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It also means lobbying when you get into legislative sessions so that good laws get passed that benefit you and your rights, and bad laws that would continue to violate your rights are struck down.
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Finally, with cases like this, they will go to court.
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They will sue for unconstitutional violations, they will take it before a judge, and they will appeal, if need be, all the way to the Supreme Court to fight these sorts of things, like the recent NFA ruling that was achieved by gun owners of America.
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But they can't do any of that without your support.
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They need their member support and those who maybe could become members.
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It is a$25 annual membership, just$25 a year, every single cent of which goes back to the lobbying, to the campaigning, and to the lawsuits, as well as other things like grassroots education, so on and so forth.
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Now, we still have plenty of time left in the show.
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Now, in the first hour, we'll be wrapping it up here in the next segment for the first hour of the show with our weather report.
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But when we get back at the top of the hour, just so you guys can kind of have an idea of where we're going, we have some hotels that have now been sued over sex trafficking of a teen that was linked to the Klein Kane High School prostitution case.
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We talked all about that case.
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Well, now some hotels are facing lawsuits as well, in addition to the actual people who did the trafficking.
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You also have a House candidate in here in Texas who's telling the DSA, the Democrat Socialist of America, that he needs to hide his socialist affiliation if he wants any chance at winning, because he's running in a deep red district.
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We also have Houston, which is going to report late campaign finance flyers uh to the Texas Ethics Commission.
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It's going to become automatic.
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They're strengthening those campaign violation rules, uh, which is phenomenal, but we'll talk about what actually that that ended up meaning.
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We also have in Texas City two employees who've now been disciplined over alleged flock misuse.
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Even though the DA there has declined charges, the department itself has taken action.
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And then time permitting, we also will get into some stuff going on at the border with uh illegal aliens who are locked in a train car, a gang member from Mexico who's been sentenced to 43 months.
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Um, and the U.S.
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Supreme Court has now declined to intervene in certain in the surrogacy custody case here in Texas.
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We'll go over all of that in the next hour.
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In the meantime, when we get back, we will wrap up the first hour of the show with our weather report.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920.
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Houston's weather will get a small favor from a weak front today.
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Not cooler temperatures, but air that at least will feel less muggy, less sticky, less humid.
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The change will be modest, but you should actually notice it.
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The front will not bring cooler temperatures or very much rain at all, but it will lower dew point temperatures, an indicator of how saturated the air is, how humid the air is, into the mid and upper 60s.
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Meanwhile, actual air temps will remain in the mid-90s.
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So it will be a brief break from humidity.
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That doesn't mean, again, any sort of cooler fall weather, but it's noticeable enough that you'll feel cooler during the day because of those dew point temperatures.
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And so that comes again from a September that already ranks as one of our warmest.
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Today may still feel warm, but the air should gradually become more comfortable as the front pushes farther south of Houston.
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Lower values of those dew point temperatures generally means the air feels less humid, so that's what's expected.
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Dew points are set to fall into the mid and upper 60s today and tomorrow, which will not again be truly dry air, but it will be a step down from the more humid weather we've had over the past few days.
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The front will not bring a major temperature drop.
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Highs will remain in the lower to mid-90s, overnight temperatures falling into the 70s.
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Most of the Houston area is going to stay dry today and tomorrow.
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Now, I will also point out that a warmer and more humid weather pattern could return this weekend as moisture increases across the region.
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A few isolated showers or thunderstorms could develop Sunday and Monday going into next week, especially across northern counties, but widespread rain is not likely for now.
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Another front could approach next week and bring better rain chances along with a more noticeable temperature change.
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For now, today's forecast is pretty simple.
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It's hot, mostly dry, not a lot of rain, and a little less humid than we've had.
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But again, it's still a nice upgrade to have.
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And I'll also point out if you look out at the forecast headed into next week, you might notice, and this is just a guess, so I don't want to get anyone's hope up, but you might, you might notice that the highs starting around next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday time period are going from the upper or going from the low to mid 90s down into the mid to upper eighties.
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And that, again, is just a guess.
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That could change in a heartbeat.
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We all recognize that, we all understand it, but that doesn't mean we can't get at least a little excited about the prospect of coming back with some cooler weather next week and some rain on the agenda as well.
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Now, before we go to the break, just to let you guys know, I mentioned this earlier in the week, but I want to bring it up again.
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I will be out tomorrow and Monday.
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There will not be a show that I'm doing live.
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I don't know exactly what the plan is if we're going to replay this show or or if we're going to bring somebody else in.
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But just to let you guys know, I will not be live tomorrow or Monday.
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I'm out.
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And so just wanted to keep you guys posted on that updated so you guys are aware that tomorrow's show I will not be doing live.
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But I still have another hour of a live show to do before I go.
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So when we get back from the break, like I said, we we have quite a few stories to touch on.
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We're gonna kick it off with some hotels that were sued over alleged sex trafficking.
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When we get back from the break, as always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978.
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One more time, that is 713-779-KYST.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing to be back with the rest of our stories at the top of the next hour.
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Don't go anywhere.
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This is the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920.
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Good to be with you this fine Thursday.
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By the way, quick reminder, I said this before, I'll say it again.
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I want to make everybody well aware that coming up tomorrow and Monday, I will actually be out of town.
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Uh, just to let you guys know, I will not be here on the show.
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I don't know, like I said before, I'm not sure exactly what we're going to do, but I will not be here on the show live tomorrow or Monday.
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Now, with that being said, I do want to announce that Patriot 920 will be out at the Conroe Gun Show this weekend.
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And uh you can also stop by the Conroe Gun Show to see our friends from Triple J Ammo and Fire Armadillo, who will also be at the gun show up there, the Conroe Gun Show that's going on this weekend.
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And you're gonna be able to see Patriot 920, our booth, all our stuff, as well as Triple J Ammo and Fire Armadillo.
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Great group of guys out there.
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So we'd love to see you this weekend.
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Now, with that being said, we do have some more stories to get into as we wrap up the show today.
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Not in this segment, don't you worry.
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We still have about an hour left, but we do have lots to get into in that hour, so I don't want to waste our time.
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Attorneys for a woman identified as Jane Doe have filed a federal lawsuit against several Houston area hotel operators, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, alleging that the businesses enabled and profited from a sex trafficking scheme allegedly organized by a former Klein Kane High School teacher and her adult son, which we've reported on before.
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Jane Doe is represented by civil rights attorneys, Bakari Sellers, and Jonathan Jackson.
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The lawsuit alleges that she was seventeen years old when she was lured from her home and forced into a life of violence, repeated sexual assault, and commercial sex trafficking.
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According to the complaint, Jane Doe was beaten and forced to engage uh in in these sorts of acts more than ten times a day.
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The lawsuit describes the Houston area as a major sex trafficking hub focusing on the FM 1960 corridor and a one-mile stretch of Bissonette Street.
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You all know about that.
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Notice the blade, or the track, whatever you want to, whatever, you know, area you're in that you call it, but we all know about it.
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Areas that have been long associated with prostitution and trafficking.
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The hotels named in the lawsuit include Budget Inn, Palace Inn, Camelot Inn, and Hotel Royale.
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The complaint alleges that hotel employees knew Jane Doe and other victims were being abused on the properties, but failed to intervene.
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It further claims that maybe the reason why they didn't intervene is because the hotels benefited financially from the activity.
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Now, Houston was the first major U.S.
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city to adopt an anti-human trafficking ordinance.
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Uh, back in 2020, the city approved requirements for hotel and hotel owners, managers, and employees to receive training on how to recognize and report potential trafficking.
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So the lawsuit alleges that despite having that training, the hotels failed to act, even though there were warning signs, and instead prioritize their revenue and just basically not having to deal with any sort of conflict.
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Sellers said Jane Doe was a child.
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No amount of makeup could have covered up that fact or hidden the nightmare she was living with.
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These hotels let that nightmare continue because for them, their profits were more important.
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They not only allowed this to happen on their watch, they profited from it.
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Now, I will say it's crazy because the case against the former teacher was actually dismissed in January of this year, which we reported on due to insufficient evidence.
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However, her adult son, Roger McGee, pleaded guilty to child trafficking and is currently serving a 20-year sentence.
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It's a little bit crazy to me that despite the fact that we got the adult son uh and it was very clearly connected with his mother, we weren't able to continue the case, allegedly speaking.
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And so that got dropped.
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Uh, but now they're filing a federal lawsuit against the hotel change that allowed this to transpire.
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Now, a couple things that I want to know, because I want to be as clear as I can about my opinion on all of this.
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The the reality is that obviously there are multiple guilty parties in almost any sort of crime.
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Right.
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And you have to be aware of that, you have to understand that.
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That of course, the person actually doing the sex trafficking is the one at fault.
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That is the main responsible party for all of this.
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And so the person actually doing the trafficking, actually forcing the prostitution on these girls, that guy should be held accountable to the full extent of the law.
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We we all, I think, agree on that as a community.
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That's the that's the main problem.
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You go after the guy that did the crime.
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At the same time, we can't sit around and pretend like people in general, and as a society, that we don't have responsibilities.
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And we don't live in a place like New York City.
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I'll give you an example of what I mean by this.
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Up in New York City, we know there's been a significant amount of crime on the subway system.
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And you guys might remember back to the Jordan Nealy Daniel Penny situation where you have a guy on the subway who's threatening to kill people, who's threatening to hurt people.
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And so, of course, one man takes it upon himself to engage the threat, make sure that people are safe.
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It results in a bit of a tussle uh and a headlock.
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Now, at the end of all of this, what happens?
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Well, we know that Jordan Neely dies.
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And of course, there was always debate on exactly how, uh, if he was on any drugs, all of those sorts of things that I think are fair questions to ask.
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But at the end of the day, it's it's actually all rather rather irrelevant.
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This man is threatening people's lives, he's being physically violent.
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You have the right to defend yourself.
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Well, in New York City, of course, that resulted in charges.
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And it resulted in a massive lawsuit with the DA going directly after this guy, despite the fact that he ended up winning, all irrelevant to the fact that the the justice system, quote unquote, is targeting the wrong people.
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And so up in place like New York City, it's easy to kind of put your head down and say, well, I I don't want any part of this.
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Because if I go and I defend the people on this train, what happens to me?
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Because in Texas, you know what happens to you?
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Nothing.
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Right?
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You may face a civil suit, and we're we're working on that, by the way, in the next legislative session, dealing with civil issues of who pays attorneys' fees for self-defense cases.
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That's its own issue.
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But you won't be charged, or at least you shouldn't be.
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And if so, it should be very clearly dismissed.
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And there shouldn't be a law fair against those sorts of people.
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And so here in Texas, there's a more there's more responsibility because there's more freedom to act.
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We have that here.
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And I'm not saying that you are legally obligated to go and defend people that you don't know.
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But if you are playing a role in facilitating these things, for example, you own a hotel and there's prostitution going on in your hotel, and there are very clear warning signs, that's what's happening, and you do nothing, probably, at least the claim goes, because you wanted to make more money and you didn't want to deal with conflict, that's not a get-out-of-jail free card.
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You can point all day long to the guy that actually did the thing and say, that guy is the responsible party.
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He's the main guilty party, but that doesn't take away your responsibility as an owner of a hotel, right?
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That doesn't take away your responsibility.
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In similar fashion, if you're, if you're in the restaurant industry, and you know, well, I'll give you an example of this.
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Taco Bell kind of went through a bit of a spaff recently because uh a lot of the the greens they were selling were associated with a a viral outbreak.
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And it would, it would be kind of tantamount to Taco Bell saying, well, that's bad, but it's not even a little bit our fault.
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We don't apologize.
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It's not it's not on us at all.
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And just go after the people that are providing the greens.
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They go after the companies that are you know bringing in the actual product and say, those people are at fault.
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They're responsible for this.
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They should have sure.
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And we can all agree that there is a responsibility for the people that are bringing in the stuff.
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You're also the restaurant and you're selling these things to people.
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You have a responsibility to make sure that things you're selling are safe, and you don't get to point fingers at somebody else when they're not.
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Now, should we still, you know, go after the yes, of course.
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Again, the responsible party should be the main ones that you deal with.
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But you also have a level of responsibility of your own, and you have to own up to that.
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And so these hotels that allowed this to happen had a responsibility.
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We have an ordinance, we have training for a reason.
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We know that we have human trafficking issues here in the greater Houston area.
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And so we put that responsibility on people that are able to have that responsibility.
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And when you avoid that responsibility because you want more money or you don't want to deal with it, or whatever the problem may be because you didn't want to have sufficient training, whatever it is, you have responsibility for that.
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And you have to own up to it.
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Now, with that being said, I want to go ahead and jump over to this House candidate because this is just absolutely wild, but it's not a surprise to those of us who are paying attention.
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James Salarico is one of the clearest examples of this.
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We know we have a lot of politicians on the left that are trying to moderate in campaign only, right?
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It's it's MICO.
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Moderate in campaign only.
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Because the moment they get into office, we know they're not going to be moderates.
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We've seen their voting history, we've seen their personal opinions, we've seen their beliefs, we know the things that they actively care about, but they moderate for the sake of the campaign.
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They're on the trail.
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And we know this James Allerico, again, I said is an excellent example.
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His own reverend at his so-called church is coming out and saying, Yeah, well, look, I know that James Alarico is saying these things that don't seem to align with our beliefs.
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That's because he's campaigning.
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He has to do that if he wants any chance at winning.
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And then after he wins, don't worry, he's going to quote, change his tune.
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He's going to go back to the kind of man that we know that he is.
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And of course, we already know that, and we know that about a lot of leftist candidates, but hearing it verbatim come out and people being honest about it makes it just so much more obvious how bad this is.
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But it's not just James Hallarika.
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We want to talk about this other one.
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Yesak Worku, this guy who's running for the Texas House, he explicitly came out and told the DSA, the Democratic Socialist of America, that he is a member of the organization and wants to advance its policy goals, but said that he can't identify as a Democratic Socialist because he's running in a quote, deep red district.
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He's challenging Republican State Representative David Lowe in House District 91 up in Tarrett County.
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His positions are detailed in a 15-page questionnaire submitted as part of his effort to secure the endorsement of the Fort Worth DSA.
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The document is marked, quote, for internal use only, and says it is intended solely for the Fort Worth DSA members and should not be shared publicly.
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But you can't trust the socialists, you know, you can't trust the commie.
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They put it publicly on their website.
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And so in his questionnaire, he lists his party affiliations as Democrat and DSA.
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Asked why he was seeking the socialist organization's endorsement, he said that DSA represents the direction he wants the Democrat Party to go, the direction that he'd like to take the party.
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He said, I'm seeking endorsement because I feel that the DSA represents ideologically the future I want to see for the Democratic Party, and I want to do whatever I can to further DSA policy goals from being turned into policy.
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Later in the questionnaire, he asked, he was asked directly whether he is a member.
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He said, Yes, I am.
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But when asked whether he would publicly identify as a socialist during his campaign, including on his website or campaign literature, he said, no, deep red district.
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Which, by the way, I just want to be clear, there was no comma, there was no punctuation.
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He said, no deep red district.
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You have to assume he's saying, no, I'm not going to identify as a member because I'm running in a deep red district, but you have to assume that because his writing is legitimately so bad that I have a distinct feeling that most six-year-olds could probably write better, though.
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Given the modern state of American education, I'm not even sure about that anymore.
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They should be able to, but I don't know if they can.
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He just wrote no in a deep red district as his answer to that.
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Regardless of that, despite declining to publicly identify, he agreed to publicate their endorsement, allow the organization to collaborate on his field plan for his campaign, consider DSA members for policy positions, periodically attend DSA meetings, and endorse and campaign for other DSA-backed candidates.
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The questionnaire also asked how he would use elected office to build socialism and working class power, and he responded that he wants to strengthen unions, challenge corporate monopolies, promote worker and consumer cooperatives, and provide worker-owned alternatives to companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Doordash.
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Fort Worth DSA's endorsement policy describes an endorsement as a degree between the organization and a candidate that makes the campaign a chapter priority and establishes a working relationship with the candidate.
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Its policy distinguishes between cadre and non-cadre endorsements.
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Just for a little quick note, cadre endorsements are DSA members with significant experience in the organization who are going to publicly identify as socialists, present their campaigns as DSA projects, and commit to the organization's platforms.
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The group allows non-cadre endorsements or candidates who align with the principles, though aren't directly associated with the party itself that they're willing to endorse and fight alongside.
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He also called for any cooperation between local jails and federal immigration authorities.
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Forward DSA's endorsement policy lists supporting cooperation with ICE or the Department of Homeland Security on immigration enforcement among the positions that automatically disqualify a candidate.
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And so, of course, he wants the endorsement, so he's not going to do that, but he's a Democrat, so he's not going to do it anyways.
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He comes out and says, No, no, no.
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I'm anti-ICE.
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I think that local jails should completely just refuse to work alongside federal immigration authorities.
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And so the questionnaire was distributed to DSA members as part of their endorsement process.
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He told that the timing of a potential DSA endorsement meant it would make no sense to rework campaign messaging and policy developed over months last minute.
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He said one thing remains true.
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My opponents don't define this campaign.
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My allies don't define this campaign.
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The only person that defines what the campaign stands for is me.
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I know this district.
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I know what it wants.
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I know what it stands for.
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And as a representative, I believe it is my duty to give them what they want, and that is what my campaign is tailored around.
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Now he did not address why he said he wouldn't publicly identify.
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He didn't address why he went after the endorsement if he's not reworking his campaign materials.
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And to be honest, that's actually worse.
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Because this is basically just straight up admitting that his campaign is lying.
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In in his own words.
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And he probably didn't mean to do that.
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But given the way that this man writes, I'm not so sure that he was bright enough to recognize that he even did that, but he did.
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And I'll tell you how he did it.
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He comes out and he says, Look, I'm not going to rework any of my campaign stuff.
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I may be going after a DSA endorsement, which means I largely align with the goals of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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But I don't have time to rework my campaign.
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And so in other words, my whole campaign has basically just been a lie facilitated to get votes in a deep red district.
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And so I'm not going to come out and be honest now about my actual affiliations and what I actually believe.
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And he he does this sly thing, the leftists often do, which they say, hey, look, we're a big tent.
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Right?
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We're a big tent party.
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That means we're going to have some people who align more with socialism, some who maybe align more with communism, some who align more with capitalism.
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And all those people can fit under one big tent of the Democrat Party.
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This is the claim he tries to make.
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Except for there's one major problem.
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He says that no one represents the campaign but him.
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Well, that's great.
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But the way that you're representing the campaign is that you want a DSA endorsement and that you align and want to see the Democrat Party follow what the DSA desires.
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In other words, you are plainly admitting that you are a socialist.
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You did it.
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Your campaign spokesman didn't come out and apply for you, right?
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It wasn't that some campaign spokesman came out and said something and you said, no, no, no, that doesn't represent the party.
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I represent my campaign.
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Not even my spokesman.
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He messed up.
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This is not what I believe.
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You're the one that applied.
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And for you to turn around and say, and I'm not going to rework my campaign at all because I've made all these changes, I don't have time, just tells us the level of dishonesty found within the Democratic Party.
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It's not even that you necessarily just have really bad candidates, though you do, right?
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Joran Mamdani is a good example of this.
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The man was honest about everything he believed.
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He talked about what he wanted.
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He admitted that he believes in communism and he's a Muslim and he's born in a foreign country.
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He admits to all this openly.
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But there's other Democrats that are running in places where you can't do that.
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Here in Texas, if you adamantly come out strong for socialism and communism and Islam and all these things, you're not going to win an election.
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You're just, it's just not going to happen, at least not right now, with the political climate of Texas.
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You're not going to get anywhere.
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And so you have to, the same as James Talerico, you have to moderate.
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You have to come out and say, well, those things I said in the heat of the moment or those were provocative, but that's not exactly what I meant.
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You have to defend yourself and you have to kind of pretend to believe things you don't believe.
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And this is why they say, don't worry, this is not public, but this is my this is my real character.
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This is who I actually am.
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This is what I actually believe.
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And that's the problem on display with the it's not just one candidate.
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It's not just James Talo Rico, though it is James Talo Rico, it's many others who are coming out and they're they're straight up lying to the American people on the basis of winning an election, so they go in and turn us into a socialist hellhole.
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That's what they want.
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They want class warfare at every level so that at the end of the day, and we know this about communism, take a look anywhere it's gone, so that they can ultimately have pure authority.
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They want power and they want money.
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That's what they want.
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And utilizing the people's frustration with gas prices and with grocery prices and everything else is a winning method for the left.
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But in Texas, it's only partially a winning method because you can't do that if you're full on admitting that you're a legitimate socialist.
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And so they have to say, no, no, no, that's not public.
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I I'm not reworking my campaign.
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We're not actually going to talk about that, but that is what I actually believe.
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And when I get in, you know that's actually what I'm going to do.
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If you know what the people want so well, and you're what the people want, then why do you have to hide your actual beliefs?
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Why do you have to secretly engage with these people?
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If you know what the people of your district want and they want you, then why are you having to hide your beliefs?
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Because they don't actually want you.
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They may want a little bit of a change.
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They may want someone who seems to care more.
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And that's why Talereko's doing so well.
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But if they knew the truth about you, if you were honest about all of your actual beliefs, you would lose in a landslide.
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And so they can't do that, or they won't do that because they don't have any integrity.
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Now, with that being said, we get back from the brand.
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Break, Houston has now announced they're going to automatically report late campaign finance file filers to the Texas Ethics Commission, promoting more transparency and accountability here at the local level.
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We will talk about that when we get back from the break.
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The ordinance requires the City Secretary to file a sworn complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission within five business days when a filer misses a required campaign finance deadline.
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The City Secretary also must post the names of late filers on the city's website within 24 hours of the deadline and update the list as reports are submitted, which is kind of like a wall of shame.
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Have you ever gone to one of the restaurants where they have the eating challenge?
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Like you have to eat this massive pizza in under 30 minutes.
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Like that sort of thing.
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And you've got the wall of fame and the wall of shame.
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If you're able to complete the challenge, you go on the wall of fame.
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If not, they take a pretty gross-looking picture of you with only half the pizza gone because you couldn't do it, and they put it on the wall of shame with you looking really sad because you weren't able to complete the challenge.
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It's kind of what happens here.
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We now have a wall of shame on the city website.
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If you didn't file in time, not only are we filing a sworn complaint with the ethics commission, but also everyone's going to see your face and your name and know that you broke the rules.
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So don't do that.
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He said too often candidates don't follow the rules, but there's no accountability for it.
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And so city rules already say candidates who miss those deadlines can be fined up to$500.
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The city's Office of the Inspector General or the City Ethics Commission could, in theory, act on violations, right?
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That's already something that we have, but in practice, that just never happens.
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And so while there is existing avenues for a level of accountability, they're not being utilized.
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So we needed a new one.
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The City Ethics Commission in particular does not appear to have met for at least a decade.
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So we have it, they just don't meet.
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And they don't take any action.
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And so they're a useless organization.
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The Texas Ethics Commission can assess civil penalties of up to$5,000 for violations, but they can generally only act after someone has filed a complaint.
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It's a complaint-based system.
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They don't do all the research themselves, compile all of the lists, uh whether that's due to time constraints, budget constraints, I don't know, but they don't.
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And so it requires someone to complain.
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And so we've had people complain, uh, independent citizens who've noticed that there's an issue.
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But this should be done automatically as a rule of government.
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They should be making sure that people that are trying to be in government are following the rules.
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That should be an eligibility requirement.
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And so the ordinance passed yesterday creates a process for the city to formally refer those violations to the state just as an automatic thing within 24 to 48 hours after you miss a deadline because they're updating their rules anyway.
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And so back in 2023, there was a report that found that 10 of the 41 people, which is basically 25%, who had filed paperwork to run for Houston mayor or city council, had not filed campaign finance reports covering the final six months of 2022.
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In other words, again, they were just blatantly violating the rules.
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Several candidates said they did not realize they had to file reports if they had not raised money or spent money, that they still had to file reports showing that they didn't.
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Uh Mark Jones, a Rice University political scientist, said that late campaign finance filings are not unusual.
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He said that candidates and officeholders typically must file campaign finance reports twice a year, which disclose how much your campaign raises and spend, who your campaign is getting money from, which people, which organizations, which, you know, billionaires might be funding you.
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The Texas Ethics Commission typically intervenes only in more egregious cases, and we know that collecting fines can take years, but the new ordinance, I think, will function less as a punishment than a signal that that you don't get to just do that with no accountability.
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That yeah, you know, it may take years and it may not be the the end of the world, but having a wall of shame and having automatic reporting means that you, at bare minimum, did get in trouble.
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And that there is accountability.
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And more importantly than just the punishment, though I I wish that that was more secure, the most important part of this is that it's transparency back to the people.
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If you're not doing these things, we should automatically know.
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If you're not following the rules, uh if if you're running for office for A May Orialship in one of the top four largest cities in the country, and you're not even able to file your campaign stuff correctly, which is, again, the tip of the iceberg with the kind of role that you're gonna have as mayor, the kind of important tasks that you're going to be tasked with dealing with and reporting on and being up to date on and being informed on.
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If you can't even file your campaign stuff on time and correctly, why would we give you any sort of budgetary control, fiscal control, and moral control over our city?
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It doesn't make any sense.
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And so we should automatically know if you're incompetent or malicious, whichever one it is, it doesn't really matter.
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If you're too incompetent or malicious to file those things on time, you're generally not the kind of person that we want to see in the office.
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But in order to know that, we have to know that you're not doing it.
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And that requires a level of support from the city ordinances, which we now have.
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And so this was brought through proposition A.
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We talked about that yesterday.
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It was a 2023 charter amendment that lets only three council members place a lawful proposal directly on the agenda, which they did.
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That was Joaquin Martinez, Amy Peck, and Sally Alcorn, which signed on to the proposal.
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And of course, the city's legal department also made sure that it was all good to go and make sure that everything was fine.
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Uh Edward Pollard questioned whether the ordinance would burden the city secretary's office.
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And Mayor John Whitmeyer was also saying, hey, maybe this will burden them, but it's a good thing.
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And so Mayor John Whitmeyer ended up voting in support of the ordinance.
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And so again, I think this is an important role of our city secretary.
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If we're gonna have a job, part of it should be to make sure that people are working and operating above board.
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And we need that.
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Now, with that being said, we have one more story I want to get to before we go to the break.
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And that is flock.
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It seems like uh either every day or at least a couple times a week, we have new stories on flock, whether that's hackers, whether it's cities that are finally doing away with their contracts, whatever that looks like.
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We've had those issues.
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And just in the Greater Houston area, we know we've had multiple instances of abuse and disciplinary punishment as a result of that abuse, right?
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We know that happened in Houston, Pasadena, Dear Park, and now we've got one coming out of Texas City.
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And so Texas City Police revealed new details yesterday about two department employees accused of misusing the city's flock license plate reader system, including a dispatcher who searched for her own child dozens of times and a police sergeant who was demoted.
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The details were presented during a special Texas City Commission meeting yesterday night, focused in part on the police department's use of automated license plate readers.
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Assistant police chief James Patterson said that an audit launched in August uncovered two separate cases of misuse.
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In the first case, a police said the dispatcher used the flux system 42 times to check on her child, who was driving a vehicle the dispatcher owned, and so the employee received a multi-day suspension as a result of that.
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In the second case, police said that a sergeant used the system for non-law enforcement purposes on multiple occasions.
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Patterson said the several policy violations were sustained, and the sergeant was demoted to the rank of police officer and given a multi-day suspension.
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Now, it was not disclosed to us what that sergeant was searching for or why, just that it was not official use.
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Both cases were presented to the Gavison County District Attorney's Office, which declined to pursue criminal charges, which is a little bit wild, because again, especially when it comes to issues of mass surveillance, which we know that this is a major concern of the flock camera system, is the mass surveillance aspect.
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And and and and really, if you're anti-flock, you'd want these people to face criminal charges.
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But if you're pro pro-flock, you actually almost more want them to face criminal charges.
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And that's because you want to showcase that this is not going to be a common problem, this is not gonna be something that we have to deal with, that the surveillance operation is safe, that it's not being abused, and the main way to do that is by highlighting that when they do abuse it, they get served justice.
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And if they don't, then of course people are gonna continue having concerns.
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If they say that these officers can get away with violating that trust, with abusing their power and abusing the system, and nothing happens to them, what what do we have to dissuade us from being incredibly concerned about the future of Flock?
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So if you're pro-Flock, you actually should want this justice to come even more.
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And so I'm a little lost on the DA's position.
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It's not like there wasn't evidence.
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There was no evidence for internal discipline.
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So clearly there was that internal investigation that yielded fruitful results.
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I don't know why there's no sort of charges.
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Regardless, they declined to pursue any sort of criminal charges.
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The August audit also raised questions about how Texas City police monitored use of the system.
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Um, when Patterson was asked what the auditing process looked like, he said he was not aware of the process.
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He said it's something that we wanted into in August with plot becoming national news and a hot topic.
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So we were really interested in auditing ourselves and ensuring that our officers were using the technology for the reason that it was meant to be used.
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When asked whether it was possible there had been no previous ob uh any sort of previous audits at all, he said that is certainly a possibility.
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Yes.
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It's certainly true that we have this mass surveillance system that people are really, really upset about for good reason.
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And it may be true that we literally did not audit ourselves once.
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That there was no audit performed whatsoever.
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Absolutely insane.
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And even now that you've done the audit, our information that we're getting back is incredibly limited and they're not facing charges, things seem weird.
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Now, yeah, that emotion is good, but a couple days suspended and then you come right back does not seem like an adequate punishment to dissuade people from using it in the future.
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And if you if you know that you can use this system in Texas City for whatever you want, you can be a total creep, and it's just I have to take a couple days off work, does that sound like it's gonna dissuade anybody that wants to do that?
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No.
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Maybe it'll dissuade the people that are like on the fence that are like, oh, I really shouldn't, but maybe I kind of want to.
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Well, you're also gonna get found out and suspended.
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Okay, I'm not gonna do it.
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But for the people that actually really want to, this is not dissuading at all.
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This is in no way preventative whatsoever.
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And I'm I'm really, I'm really frustrated by it because, again, we're already dealing with something that is very, very problematic.
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You're already talking about a topic that is incredibly politically charged because it's the potential for mass survey AI surveillance.
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And people are already saying we need to end this.
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And now people aren't even facing justice when they do abuse it.
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It's it is a dangerous precedent to allow.
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With that being said, in the next segment, we got a couple different border stories.
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One of a Mexican gang member who's been sentenced to 43 months for illegal reentry.
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And we also have a border patrol uh that has rescued illegal aliens from a locked train car.
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We'll go over both of those stories when we get back.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative.
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The left would love nothing more than for every single illegal alien to be your run-of-the-mill average Joe just trying to work hard for his family.
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They want that because that's really good for their narrative.
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And they also want to believe that it's totally safe to get here, that the people who are coming here illegally are doing so completely safely, and there's no concerns, but none of that could be further from the truth.
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U.S.
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Border Patrol agents discovered illegal aliens locked in a train car by smugglers for the fourth time in the last three weeks.
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Uvaldi Border Patrol station agents searched a stationary auto track train car on Friday after a Border Patrol canine alerted them.
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They discovered four illegal aliens who were completely trapped inside.
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Smugglers had locked one Chinese national and three Mexican nationals in the car with no means of escape.
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Agents rescued the four and transported them to the Uvaldi station for processing.
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Three other rescues at the same railroad have occurred in the last three weeks.
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On August 30th, agents rescued eight individuals locked in a similar car, according to a including a child, by the way.
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A September seventh rescue involved the same rail sliding and three people.
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One individual was deceased when agents discovered two illegal aliens locked in a freight car on September eleventh.
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And so Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol agent Anthony Scott Good said this is the work of criminal alien smugglers who have no regard for human life.
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Doors on freight cars are locked externally, and migrants.
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Are trapped for an indefinite amount of time without food or water.
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No one should believe the lies of smugglers who say they can provide safety because they only care about the money they can gain by exploiting vulnerable people.
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And we know that illegal border crossings, which is what's happening here, can pose just an unbelievable number of dangers for everybody involved, including drug trafficking, human trafficking, assaults, cartel activity, what they feel like you owe them once you do actually get here.
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Extreme weather, which can include, by the way, still in September, extreme heat if you're trapped in a vehicle.
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And so under the Biden administration, those dangerous border crossings happened all the time.
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And again, the left wants you to assume that there's no danger, that this is actually all good, and that it's completely positive, and that you should just let it happen.
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And yet we have countless of tra uh tractor trailers, regular train cars, vehicles, uh, they're being transported alongside drugs.
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People are being prostituted out once they do get here to pay back their so-called debt to the smugglers.
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We know that's been going on.
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And so the left is just straight up lying.
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Um the Center for Immigration Studies asked, why would migrants pay$7,000 or more to smugglers, travel hundreds to thousands of miles, and cross the barren desert or wildly unpredictable Rio Grande, only to turn themselves into agents on the U.S.
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side because they knew, at least under the Biden administration, that their odds were good that after they were processed, they'd be released.
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Now, under the Trump administration, and we've said this before, not only are releases down to zero, but because of that, border crossings have reached a historic low that we've not seen in something like 30 years.
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Uh, the Center for Immigration Studies credited CBB Commissioner Rodney Scott's strategies for the decline in illegal border crossings, noting his adherence to federal laws.
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They said the Scott strategy to detain and deport illegal aliens contrast with the catch and release policy of the Biden administration.
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In September, the administration rewarded 16 straight months of zero releases.
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And because of that, the southern border saw monthly apprehensions at 94% lower than the monthly average of the Biden administration.
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Apprehensions were 97% below the peak of the Biden administration and less than the number apprehended in five days in August of 2024.
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And so, even if you're a pro-immigration guy, I mean, imagine for a moment, I'm not illegal or illegal, I've said that there are major concerns with the way that our immigration system has been weaponized and utilized to replace the American people, it's really bad.
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But even if you're a pro-immigration person, the basis for being pro-immigration is generally a very, very strict adherence to what they call empathy, which is where they feel what other people feel.
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Empathy, by the way, very different from sympathy and usually significantly worse and leads you to do crazy things because you put yourself in their shoes.
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And not in the old, how do you think you'd feel if that were you?
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But in the sense of, no, no, no, they are me and I have to let them do whatever they want because I want to do it goes it it gets absolutely insane when you get into empathy.
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But that's their basis.
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So if you follow that, just logically, just holding them to their own standard, which they really don't like, by the way, but if you do, you'll find out something that doesn't really make any sense.
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And that's why they have to just basically ignore that these sorts of dangers are happening.
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Because if your ultimate thing, your ultimate regard, is that you care so much about people that they should all have the ability to be here and to have a good life, you should care all the more about a regard for their right for their life and for their rights and for their ability to function.
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And when you find out they're being locked in train cars and tractor trailers and prostituted out and thrown into drug trafficking and sex trafficking and all this other stuff, you can't maintain any level of consistency with your empathy while saying that that's okay, we should let that happen.
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You should desire that if the way to stop it primarily is by saying you have two options, right?
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There's only two.
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Either you reduce it by having zero releases, so people are not incentivized to come here, or you just open the border completely and you don't even catch people.
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Much less uh you don't have to release them because you just let them cross.
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Now, some leftists, I'm sure, actually would support that policy, which is uh just insane.
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I I mean it's not even worthy of addressing because it's just so insane it doesn't make any sense.
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But the reality is if you actually care about these people like you claim to, you should desire they not try to come here except for the legal way.
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That that should be your fight.
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Because when they come here this way, the dangers presented before them are uncountable.
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And many die, lose their livelihood, lose their their their any sort of personal, you know, freedom, all of that stripped away from them.
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And so if you care even remotely about these people, you should be saying, don't try to break the law to come here.
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Do it the right way.
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I know that life at home may not be so fun.
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You were born there, that's your home.
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God's given you a specific challenge in your life.
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You should you should suffer for the sake of Christ.
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And if you're able to get here illegally, good.
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If not, stay.
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Because if you try to come here illegally, not only are you gonna face the full force of the law, but you're also gonna face these dangers that are always associated with this illegal smuggling.
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Now we didn't get to get into the next story, so we'll wrap up the show with it.
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A Mexican gang member has now been sentenced to 43 months for illegal re-entry into the U.S.
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Yet again, another story that the left would like nothing more than to pretend has never and will never happen, which is that the people coming across are not all goody two shoes.
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Many of them are incredibly dangerous.
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So we'll talk about that to wrap up the show.
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Got a text that it says, We farm out so many things to other countries because it's cheaper.
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What about farming out incarceration?
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Hey, I tell you what, I look at El Salvador.
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We need an example of how good their incarceration system is.
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I I'm down, especially for a lot of these crimes that really you never want them.
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If you're gonna give somebody, you know, put somebody away for life, uh clearly whatever crime they committed was worthy enough, they could never interact in society again.
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I don't see why in the world we wouldn't just send them elsewhere anyway.
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It doesn't matter where they are, they're gone.
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So, and I've said before, I think the deportation of naturalized peoples, if they do certain things, is certainly, or at least should be, on the table.
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Right?
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So give you an example with this guy here, and by the way, I appreciate the text in a federal judge sentenced a Mexican national to 43 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United States following multiple prior removals.
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Following his imprisonment, he is expected to face removal proceedings in 43 months, so a little over three, three and a half years.
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According to the U.S.
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Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas, Alonzo Salazar has been removed from the U.S.
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three times previously.
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He was first removed in May of 2014, returned and was again removed in March of 2022, and August of last year, and returned again.
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In December of last year, they encountered him in Laredo and determined that he was again unlawfully president in the U.S.
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So again, he has prior convictions for illegal re-entry, possession with intent to distribute.
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They also documented a history of human smuggling.
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And so, again, these are the sorts of people we're letting in here.
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And there's no reason why we should have to pay money here in our country and have him in our jails.
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I mean, we we talk all the time about how, well, we have, you know, such high incarceration rates and way too many.
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Doesn't matter.
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How about with this guy would be a clear case example of why don't we put him in a Mexican jail instead?
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I bet he would enjoy it much more.
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Regardless of that, we're wrapping up the show.
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Thanks everybody for texting and thanks for tuning in.
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Lord willing, as I mentioned, I will be out tomorrow and Monday.
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So, Lord willing, I'll talk to you guys again on Tuesday.
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In the meantime, don't be too bored without the show.
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Enjoy the rest of your Thursday.
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Enjoy your weekend at the start of next week, and I'll see you guys very soon.
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In the meantime, God speed.