1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,800 I was thinking about probably something that that triggered 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,320 Glenn. I'm putting words in his mouth, 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,800 but I'm, I'm thinking about a story that Dave Smith retold, 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,840 which every libertarian knows incredibly well. 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,600 I think he, I think he was talking about this on Rogan 6 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:20,160 recently that, that, that presidential primary debate 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,880 where Ron Paul schooled Rudy Giuliani and it was, it was 8 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,280 filled with Republican donors. And of course he, Ron Paul got 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,000 booed on that stage. But it and also ignited a 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,440 cultural grassroots fire understanding of, of what 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,960 blowback is and what, what one of the fundamental costs of 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,480 interventionism is. And I believe you open your book 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,080 with a story that I, I had never heard this story before. 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,880 I, I knew about that the Pulse nightclub shooting and I knew 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,080 about the official narrative that it was, that it was a hate 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,560 crime. But I didn't know that the 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,800 shooter had actually explained what his purpose was. 18 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,440 Tell, tell that story because it's, it's, it's fascinating how 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,520 blatantly the government lied to us on that. 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:17,000 Briefly, on the case of Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani, what the 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,240 claim was initially was that Ron Paul said 911 happened because 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,040 we invaded Iraq. How could you say such a thing? 23 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,080 What he's implying is that Ron Paul didn't know that 911 24 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,280 happened before George Bush's full on invasion of Iraq one or 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,880 two years later. What Ron Paul, of course, was 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,800 referring to was the bombing and sanctions campaign under the 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,480 Clinton administration from 1991 all the way up through September 28 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,840 11th. The reason that he used this 29 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:50,560 because when Osama bin Laden had everyone's attention and he had 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,520 his speeches, declarations and interviews, he didn't focus on 31 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,720 here are quotes from the Quran. Here's why everyone should 32 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,120 believe in Muhammad and all infidels should be killed. 33 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,000 What he said was the Americans are bombing Iraq and they have a 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,760 sanctions campaign. According to Leslie Stahl in the 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,800 United Nations that these could have killed 500,000 people. 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,400 The UN ambassador Madeleine Albright said they have 500,000 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,640 children. It's a high cost, but we think 38 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:19,280 the price was worth it. Killing hundreds of thousands of 39 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,680 Iraqi civilians as a causal result of sanctions in the 90s 40 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:27,440 before 911, that's where the US was with Iraq. 41 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,440 So Bin Laden's grievances were sanctions and bombings of Iraq, 42 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,640 US support for Israel, especially during Operation 43 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,680 Grapes of Wrath and the first Khana massacre. 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,480 This would have been in 1996. And 3rd, the occupation of Saudi 45 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,600 Arabia. Where they made a deal with King 46 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,640 Fahd to station troops in Saudi Arabia and bomb Iraq for 10 47 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:51,240 years. Those were Bin Laden's three 48 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,560 grievances. This is what caused the blowback 49 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,360 of 9/11. Ron Paul knew that. 50 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,160 Rudy Giuliani pretended like he didn't know that or literally 51 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,480 didn't. So that's the case of 911. 52 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,280 So let's Fast forward 15 years to June 12th of 2016. 53 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,480 A man named Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, 54 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,280 FL murdering 49 people and injuring 53. 55 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,480 If memory serves, Barack Obama's still president in 2016. 56 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,800 And Barack Obama said this was an attack on the LGBT community. 57 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,720 Assuming that, well, Pulse nightclub is a gay club. 58 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,440 He shot a gay club. Must have been because they were 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,280 gay. Americans were targeted because 60 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,600 we're a country that has learned to welcome everyone no matter 61 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,160 who you are or who you love. And hatred towards people 62 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,760 because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes 63 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,120 from, is a betrayal of what's best in us. 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,040 So Barack Obama speaks to Americans. 65 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,320 This is from whitehouse.gov. I got this quote. 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,280 He also said this in public on camera. 67 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,040 So this is Obama's take away. Look, unfortunately, we're too 68 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,600 nice. We're too tolerant and too 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,840 welcoming, and we can't give into bigotry. 70 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,560 That's the lesson. So what you can do is actually 71 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,880 look at the words of Omar Mateen, not because, well, I 72 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,600 like terrorists and I want to hear them out, and we should 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,680 consider their point of view. The goal is recognizing that 74 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,160 terrorism is a shortcut to fame and an attempt to bring the 75 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,360 world's attention to a certain idea. 76 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,840 What Omar Mateen did is he went into the nightclub, shot up the 77 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,160 place and held people hostage. He then called 911. 78 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,040 Here was a transcript of what Mateen said when he had the 79 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,880 world's attention on the 911 call. 80 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:44,040 According to Obama, you'd think he'd say stop engaging in 81 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,280 homosexuality, sodomy should be a crime, outlaw interest and 82 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:52,200 start reading the Quran. According to Obama's thesis, 83 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,240 this is the reality that we should see. 84 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,440 Here are the actual words of Omar Mateen. 85 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,800 You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. 86 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,840 They are killing a lot of innocent people. 87 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,800 What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over 88 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,400 there? You get what I'm saying? 89 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,720 You need to stop the US air strikes. 90 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,320 They need to stop the US air strikes, OK? 91 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,520 They need to stop the US air strikes. 92 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,360 You have to tell the US government to stop bombing. 93 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,120 They are killing too many children. 94 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:21,360 They are killing too many women, OK. 95 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,960 I feel the pain of the people getting killed in Syria and 96 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,160 Iraq. They need to stop bombing Syria 97 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,160 and Iraq. the US is collaborating with Russia and 98 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:31,960 they are killing innocent women and children. 99 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,720 OK the air strikes need to stop and stop collaborating with 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,480 Russia. OK tell tell the fucking the air 101 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,440 strikes need to stop. You see, now you feel. 102 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,800 Now you feel how it is. Now you feel how it is. 103 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,120 According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in the year 104 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,760 2016, the year this happened, the US government had dropped 105 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,360 26,000 bombs on Middle Eastern countries. 106 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,240 More than 20 thousand of those were on Syria and Iraq. 107 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,680 This was in the operation against the Islamic State of 108 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,400 Iraq and Syria. So this was the ISIS attack that 109 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,040 happened. The exact number from the CFR 110 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:21,800 24,287 bombs dropped in 2016. And the US government likes to 111 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,560 say it's fighting a war on terrorism. 112 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:26,800 It's the biggest terrorist organization probably in the 113 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,600 world, maybe. And that maybe that's just 114 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,080 because they have the power to do it. 115 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,480 And if any other organization had this much power and 116 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,000 influence, they would do the same thing. 117 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:41,120 The reality is they lie actively, both Democrats and 118 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:46,400 Republicans, about the nature of military warfare and why 119 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,440 Americans have to bear the cost of people getting killed. 120 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:55,000 Whether it's on 9/11 in New York or whether it's in Orlando, FL. 121 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,920 We know the motive of these people and both Democrats and 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,240 Republicans actively lie about it. 123 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,000 This was one of those things that I came across and I go, 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,800 well, how have I never heard of this before? 125 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:12,360 I get 24 hour news from CNN, 24 hour news from Fox News and this 126 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:17,560 doesn't get a mention at all. I found one local CBS News 127 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,920 organization who interviewed someone who was in the nightclub 128 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,160 and this woman had actually said he said he was upset that we 129 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,640 were bombing his country. Other than that, this should 130 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,640 have been wall to wall coverage. Hey, the US government engaging 131 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,680 in mass murder is 1. Immoral. 132 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,080 And two, we have to bear the cost for their terrible actions. 133 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,240 As the government constantly says, there's externalities in 134 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,600 the free market. There are huge externalities 135 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,640 when the state engages in mass murder based on lies. 136 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,640 This was such a blatant example of deception that when 137 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,720 originally I had really liked Barack Obama, seeing him as an 138 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,000 anti establishment figure who was going to unite the country 139 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,800 and was not playing the race card as early as 2008. 140 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,720 In 2008, he was asked if you lose to John McCain, will it be 141 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,080 because you're the first black candidate? 142 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:13,280 And he responded that if I lose it will be because I didn't form 143 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,240 a narrative. I didn't really tell a story 144 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,320 that Americans could get behind. And I thought that was such a 145 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,080 great answer. I said Hallelujah, yes, this guy 146 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,720 is awesome. And then it turns out he is 147 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,600 George W Bush just looks a little different, no different 148 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,159 in principle than George W Bush. He, we're still waiting for him 149 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:34,360 to close Gitmo. He only had two terms to do it. 150 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,240 Maybe he's going to stage another coup, get another 151 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,600 president to stop running his campaign, get their vice 152 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,720 president to come in, and then he'll end the torture programs 153 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,440 at Guantanamo Bay. I'm sure he wouldn't lie about 154 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,760 that as well. But yes, the Pulse Nightclub 155 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,120 deception, The myth of Pulse Nightclub, which by the way, 156 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,480 Donald Trump also jumped on to. He basically had the same 157 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,800 position of Barack Obama never citing empirical evidence. 158 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:05,720 You would think that if someone in 6th grade made a claim like 159 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,280 this guy hated us because we tolerate homosexuality, you'd 160 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,560 expect some sort of citation, some sort of reasoning from a 161 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,760 6th grader. But the sitting president 162 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,680 doesn't have to cite their sources. 163 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,080 We just blindly trust the experts. 164 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,000 Whether it's Tony Fauci, whether it's Barack Obama or Donald 165 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,520 Trump, we don't have the slightest standards for the 166 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:30,680 politicians who are the CEOs of the monopoly on violence called 167 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,280 the state, but we have impossible standards for the 168 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,360 private sector. It's all just too predictable. 169 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:38,120 But yes, the Pulse nightclub massacre was one of the main 170 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,760 things that I looked at and said, all right, what is an 171 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,080 innocent explanation for what Barack Obama said versus the 172 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,640 reality of what happened? And I just cannot think of one. 173 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,480 That was another one of the early reasons I left 174 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:53,240 progressivism.