I was thinking about probably something that that triggered
Glenn. I'm putting words in his mouth,
but I'm, I'm thinking about a story that Dave Smith retold,
which every libertarian knows incredibly well.
I think he, I think he was talking about this on Rogan
recently that, that, that presidential primary debate
where Ron Paul schooled Rudy Giuliani and it was, it was
filled with Republican donors. And of course he, Ron Paul got
booed on that stage. But it and also ignited a
cultural grassroots fire understanding of, of what
blowback is and what, what one of the fundamental costs of
interventionism is. And I believe you open your book
with a story that I, I had never heard this story before.
I, I knew about that the Pulse nightclub shooting and I knew
about the official narrative that it was, that it was a hate
crime. But I didn't know that the
shooter had actually explained what his purpose was.
Tell, tell that story because it's, it's, it's fascinating how
blatantly the government lied to us on that.
Briefly, on the case of Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani, what the
claim was initially was that Ron Paul said 911 happened because
we invaded Iraq. How could you say such a thing?
What he's implying is that Ron Paul didn't know that 911
happened before George Bush's full on invasion of Iraq one or
two years later. What Ron Paul, of course, was
referring to was the bombing and sanctions campaign under the
Clinton administration from 1991 all the way up through September
11th. The reason that he used this
because when Osama bin Laden had everyone's attention and he had
his speeches, declarations and interviews, he didn't focus on
here are quotes from the Quran. Here's why everyone should
believe in Muhammad and all infidels should be killed.
What he said was the Americans are bombing Iraq and they have a
sanctions campaign. According to Leslie Stahl in the
United Nations that these could have killed 500,000 people.
The UN ambassador Madeleine Albright said they have 500,000
children. It's a high cost, but we think
the price was worth it. Killing hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi civilians as a causal result of sanctions in the 90s
before 911, that's where the US was with Iraq.
So Bin Laden's grievances were sanctions and bombings of Iraq,
US support for Israel, especially during Operation
Grapes of Wrath and the first Khana massacre.
This would have been in 1996. And 3rd, the occupation of Saudi
Arabia. Where they made a deal with King
Fahd to station troops in Saudi Arabia and bomb Iraq for 10
years. Those were Bin Laden's three
grievances. This is what caused the blowback
of 9/11. Ron Paul knew that.
Rudy Giuliani pretended like he didn't know that or literally
didn't. So that's the case of 911.
So let's Fast forward 15 years to June 12th of 2016.
A man named Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando,
FL murdering 49 people and injuring 53.
If memory serves, Barack Obama's still president in 2016.
And Barack Obama said this was an attack on the LGBT community.
Assuming that, well, Pulse nightclub is a gay club.
He shot a gay club. Must have been because they were
gay. Americans were targeted because
we're a country that has learned to welcome everyone no matter
who you are or who you love. And hatred towards people
because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes
from, is a betrayal of what's best in us.
So Barack Obama speaks to Americans.
This is from whitehouse.gov. I got this quote.
He also said this in public on camera.
So this is Obama's take away. Look, unfortunately, we're too
nice. We're too tolerant and too
welcoming, and we can't give into bigotry.
That's the lesson. So what you can do is actually
look at the words of Omar Mateen, not because, well, I
like terrorists and I want to hear them out, and we should
consider their point of view. The goal is recognizing that
terrorism is a shortcut to fame and an attempt to bring the
world's attention to a certain idea.
What Omar Mateen did is he went into the nightclub, shot up the
place and held people hostage. He then called 911.
Here was a transcript of what Mateen said when he had the
world's attention on the 911 call.
According to Obama, you'd think he'd say stop engaging in
homosexuality, sodomy should be a crime, outlaw interest and
start reading the Quran. According to Obama's thesis,
this is the reality that we should see.
Here are the actual words of Omar Mateen.
You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq.
They are killing a lot of innocent people.
What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over
there? You get what I'm saying?
You need to stop the US air strikes.
They need to stop the US air strikes, OK?
They need to stop the US air strikes.
You have to tell the US government to stop bombing.
They are killing too many children.
They are killing too many women, OK.
I feel the pain of the people getting killed in Syria and
Iraq. They need to stop bombing Syria
and Iraq. the US is collaborating with Russia and
they are killing innocent women and children.
OK the air strikes need to stop and stop collaborating with
Russia. OK tell tell the fucking the air
strikes need to stop. You see, now you feel.
Now you feel how it is. Now you feel how it is.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in the year
2016, the year this happened, the US government had dropped
26,000 bombs on Middle Eastern countries.
More than 20 thousand of those were on Syria and Iraq.
This was in the operation against the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria. So this was the ISIS attack that
happened. The exact number from the CFR
24,287 bombs dropped in 2016. And the US government likes to
say it's fighting a war on terrorism.
It's the biggest terrorist organization probably in the
world, maybe. And that maybe that's just
because they have the power to do it.
And if any other organization had this much power and
influence, they would do the same thing.
The reality is they lie actively, both Democrats and
Republicans, about the nature of military warfare and why
Americans have to bear the cost of people getting killed.
Whether it's on 9/11 in New York or whether it's in Orlando, FL.
We know the motive of these people and both Democrats and
Republicans actively lie about it.
This was one of those things that I came across and I go,
well, how have I never heard of this before?
I get 24 hour news from CNN, 24 hour news from Fox News and this
doesn't get a mention at all. I found one local CBS News
organization who interviewed someone who was in the nightclub
and this woman had actually said he said he was upset that we
were bombing his country. Other than that, this should
have been wall to wall coverage. Hey, the US government engaging
in mass murder is 1. Immoral.
And two, we have to bear the cost for their terrible actions.
As the government constantly says, there's externalities in
the free market. There are huge externalities
when the state engages in mass murder based on lies.
This was such a blatant example of deception that when
originally I had really liked Barack Obama, seeing him as an
anti establishment figure who was going to unite the country
and was not playing the race card as early as 2008.
In 2008, he was asked if you lose to John McCain, will it be
because you're the first black candidate?
And he responded that if I lose it will be because I didn't form
a narrative. I didn't really tell a story
that Americans could get behind. And I thought that was such a
great answer. I said Hallelujah, yes, this guy
is awesome. And then it turns out he is
George W Bush just looks a little different, no different
in principle than George W Bush. He, we're still waiting for him
to close Gitmo. He only had two terms to do it.
Maybe he's going to stage another coup, get another
president to stop running his campaign, get their vice
president to come in, and then he'll end the torture programs
at Guantanamo Bay. I'm sure he wouldn't lie about
that as well. But yes, the Pulse Nightclub
deception, The myth of Pulse Nightclub, which by the way,
Donald Trump also jumped on to. He basically had the same
position of Barack Obama never citing empirical evidence.
You would think that if someone in 6th grade made a claim like
this guy hated us because we tolerate homosexuality, you'd
expect some sort of citation, some sort of reasoning from a
6th grader. But the sitting president
doesn't have to cite their sources.
We just blindly trust the experts.
Whether it's Tony Fauci, whether it's Barack Obama or Donald
Trump, we don't have the slightest standards for the
politicians who are the CEOs of the monopoly on violence called
the state, but we have impossible standards for the
private sector. It's all just too predictable.
But yes, the Pulse nightclub massacre was one of the main
things that I looked at and said, all right, what is an
innocent explanation for what Barack Obama said versus the
reality of what happened? And I just cannot think of one.
That was another one of the early reasons I left
progressivism.