Don't Drink the Kool-Aid

Commander Dale Brown comes by Malik Books to talk about his new book Detroit Urban Survival Chronicles: Protection Survivor Stories of Domestic Abuse, Theft, Robbery, and Violence

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
My leak bus has how the knowledge you want, but
has how the knowledge you need. Bus. Yeah, they have
all the books that the whole wild world want to
read my leg Bus. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Book Show,
bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Hi,

(00:22):
my name is Milik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf. Hey,
I have some controversial questions for Melik's mail Bag that
I'm going to address on this episode. Um, there's a
couple of areas that I don't like to spend a
whole lot of time on, and that's politics and religion.

(00:45):
But some things politically affects all of us. And that's
why I did my episode last week called Big Text Censorship,
because this is an ongoing issue in America. More, I
guess receipts that Elon Moss had released again on Monday

(01:05):
might be another dump again on Day, but the last
two weeks more receipts about the censorship, about shadow banning,
and about the big tech interfering in the election by
silencing messages that are in opposition to the Democratic Party. So, um,

(01:30):
I'm gonna address those uh questions I got from the
mail bag Malik's mail Bag But I'm also releasing an
interview I've done with Commander Dale Brown, who wrote a
book called The Detroit Urban Survival Chronicles Protection survival stories
of domestic abuse, death, robbery, and violence. So I interviewed him.

(01:54):
He also came to Malik Books and did a demonstration
on tactics, uh, how to evade a knife, a gun
and things of that type. And it was very impressive
because with very little force and certain pressure points on
your body, you know, you can do push around someone

(02:14):
twice as big as you with very little ease, and
you can remove a gun and a knife if you
if you're in a position to defend yourself from someone
who's attacking you. But this was an extraordinary interview of
someone who has over thirty years experience of defending the community.
So I'm gonna feature that interview on here. And I'm

(02:36):
also gonna talk about the Win of wonder Land event
that we hosted this last week. We did a Win
the winter Land book giveaway, so stay tuned for this
epl toe, which I'm gonna call Don't Drink the kool Aid,
Don't Drink the kool Aid, Big Day, the Big Day.

(02:57):
Commander Dale Brown is at Maliegue Books and as always
I gotta interview them from a podcast, Maliek's bookshow, bringing
the world together with books, culture and community. The name
of the book is Detroit Urban Survival Chronicles, Protecting survivals
stories of domestic abuse, death, robbery and violence. Well, Dale,

(03:20):
let's jumped right into it. You know, Um, talk to
me about what a reader can find in this book
and why this book is so important in this era
that we live in. In A reader is going to
find in this book the actual stories of how we
used our system, the training system I created and why

(03:40):
I created it, because it talks about the violence UH
that was being perpetrated by violent criminals, violent individuals, and gangs,
and then how we actually rescue people and protected families
from these gangs and how we still do this very day.
So right now, my company protects UH approximately five thousand
families UH twenty four day, seven days a week. And
we started to me seven years ago. And so what

(04:02):
this book is about is just telling the stories of
how and why the training system exists and how the
training UH is gonna help you protect yourself from your
family because it helped us. So it's literally the how
to book how to create safety safely for your family,
for your community, your corporation, anywhere in the world. Well,

(04:22):
share your background because obviously you offering a lot of
strategic tactical you know, things that can help people survive,
saving their lives and so forth. So talk to them
about your background because I think that's important. Yes, my
background is uh uh in a lot of different martial arts.
So I trained a lot of martial arts. I was
a kid to one adulthood, uh, and then I was

(04:44):
licensed prive investigator when I got of the military, and
I was airborn paratroupe from the military. So what I
did was I mixed together several different knowledges, and that
was areas of knowledge that was primarily the understanding of
the skill set from that I learned from martial arts.
Then uh some of the disciplines from from the military,
and then I mixed that with my understanding of law,

(05:06):
because in order for you defend yourself legally, you have
to know the law, otherwise what you're doing could be
considered illegal. So really good people that are not the
bad guys are actually in prison right now simply because
it could not articulate their use of force properly. So
my original reason, my impetus for teaching was I thought
would be a great business. The reason I switched from
a business model to a community service model was because

(05:31):
this girl got chased off a bridge. Her name was
Delete Award. She was snatched out of a car in
front of crowd of people, her and her daughter, teenage
daughter in her car. They pulled the mother out, they
stripped her clothes as three men they stripped river close.
She jumped off the bridge, the Bellow Bridge, to escape
these men, and she died in the water as a result.
And I thought, if I had some people on that

(05:53):
on that bridge, if I had trained the mother, then
I could have provided them with the knowledge they needed
to protect themselves and stop the horrible event from happening.
And I didn't, I know, I had no way to
get to them because at that time I was just
teaching my system to those who could afford it, and
so I was teaching downtown Detroit. I just created some students.

(06:13):
I started building up a good student um group, diverse group,
and Uh, I decided that was not important when that
girl got changed to the bridge. What what made me
UH realize that my life's purpose was that I'm in Detroit,
and I believe that's what my purpose was, to be
the person could bring the knowledge. And then when I
end up on the East Side, purpose is important, purposes everything.

(06:34):
So now I believe that was my purpose. And then
so I go to train the people, and then I
find out something else that even if I trained the people,
if they're dealing with a gang, they need more than
just training. So I created an organization from the streets
Detroit by getting volunteers from the neighborhood. I got them
free apartments from the building owners. I made a deal
with the building owner. Uh, that's really rich to say,

(06:54):
you give me a firm, give me a facilities so
I can use a school, give me one free apartment
each building, and I will uh stop these home invasion
murders that are killing your um prosperity. The first time
I mentioned to him, he said, no, he's not interested.
He's he's rich, but he's not also rich because he
doesn't waste money. He doesn't spend money on the people
that are paying him. So there's not enough lighting, there's

(07:17):
not good doors, there's no security essentially for the people
who live there. And we're talking about ten buildings and
one square block proxibly five hundred homes, and uh, of
those you're at a vacancy. So you're talking about, you know, uh,
two or fifty families. When you should have a thriving
community a five hundred dwellings filled. You have two fifty
dwellings filled in this in this one square block. And

(07:39):
what I did was I told the building owner, you
know I can help. He said he wasn't interested. He
said to him, it doesn't make sense that one guy
with a dog and a rifle could do something that
the charge Detroit Police Department could not do. For the
twenty years that he's been owning these building. He said,
he's not making any money, so he doesn't not interested
in spending money on safety for these for the people
live there. And I said, well, you know, I get

(07:59):
your point. And I thought about it. I was like, wait,
what what could one person do with a dog and
a rifle the police department care? I was like, man,
that doesn't make sense. I was like, what am I thinking?
You got to make him a believer? No, I I
didn't believe. Now. I was like, right, that was a
good question, All right, I could be killed out here
I didn't think about it. I was like, well, you
know what, I was going to die as an airborne paratrooper.

(08:21):
I was going to give up my life for no
good reason. So I would definitely be doing doing myself
a good service and the community good service if I
died for these families, they might have one if I
killed even one of these criminals were killing the families, right,
These are rapist, Robert, murderous individuals and games. If I
would have died killing them, was that's what would happen, Bob,
what I thought it was gonna happen. I thought that

(08:41):
they were going to escalate the level of force with
firearms and knives and guns and multile aggressors to the
point where I have to kill them, and in that
process I was going to be killed. So I believe
that was going to happen. So I didn't believe there
was gonna be a future. So we're talking about nineties.
When I discovered that there was no protection, There was
no one coming. The entire the entire protection was me

(09:02):
and whatever volunteers like, right, And I didn't think that.
I thought it was the police. I thought, you, all
that we need to do is call the police, and
then we tell the police what happened. The police can
come there, and then police can provide us with the
safety that we needed. But when you call the police,
they might come the next day. That's correct or not
at all, based on level of threat. That's for that's
being UH conveyed to them through the nine one system.

(09:22):
So instead of complaining, what I did was I created
this this alternative option, which is VIPERS. VIPER stands for
Violence Intervention Protective Emergency Response System. It's a bodyguard training system,
and I got volunteers in the community. I convinced the
building owner give me six months. I said, you lost
seventy thousand dollars last month when the girl got murdered.
And usually always girls getting murdered, almost always menners getting shot.

(09:42):
Girls are getting murdered. But every time that happens, this
guy loses about seventy thousand income. And I found this
out from the building owners UH secretary manager. She told
me he lost seventy thousand last month. People moved out
when the girl got murdered. So I said, you know what,
let me, let me do what I can do for you.
So it's not that it's what is there's no protection,
so it's not crime infested. What's happening is because there's

(10:04):
no protection, there's no one to keep people alive. That
means that if your daughter's being threatened, your son is
being threatened, your family is being threatened, then there's no
one to stop you from from actually being killed by
the people threatening you. So it's not urban violence, it's
really uh the opportunity is being built for them that
are predatory. In some cases is just misunderstandings. Other times
just abusive people that have no uh, no one to

(10:27):
tell them to stop and then when to stop them.
So essentially what I did was I got to building
owner and I said, give me six months to stop
your losses. Give me six months stop at home invasion murders.
He was like, you know what, I don't believe it's
gonna work, but I'll give you six months. So I
got a free apartment, I got a free office, I
got two thousand a month, and I got a free
apartment and ten buildings. And then I got volunteers in

(10:48):
the community and I trained them and they got a
free apartment and I trained that. We trained every day
all day. You only have to protect their building and
then they respond if necessary. And then we had you know,
ten people you know always said these people in and
so it was concentrating. I didn't have any money, right,
was just nothing for dog food and supplies and equipment. Right,
So we were successful. Then we stopped all the home

(11:10):
invasion and murders and as a result, the police department
had nine one calls go down from three hundred down
to thirty a month. And that was me because we
always called police for every situation. And if police get
there before we you know, we have to take action,
that's fine. But what happens is normally, um, whatever situation is,
we'll call the police for whatever violence screaming, someone chasing someone, uh,

(11:31):
someone kicking in someone's door, we have to take actions
which called it's called action circumstances. Due to action circumstances,
we have to protect someone. That means legally we're taking
action now as vigilantes, now, as usurping authority, we're going
into uh protect someone because there was no other choice.
We already called the police. The police cannot be here yet,
so in in in the interim period before the police

(11:53):
can arrive, we protect the family. Okay, you de escalating
whatever we physically dominated, threat, beat them down, shoot them
staff and whatever needs to be done. Were we done
before the police get there, if it's necessary, or save life?
So nothing, So we're talking. Uh so you confront them
with with violence too. We confront them with extreme violence,

(12:14):
not violence of extreme violence. Their their level of violence
was significant less than ours. So I came to them
with thirty rounds, with laser, flashlight, scope and all guys
unnecessary things so that they could be petrified of the
reality of a negative decision. And as a result, we
were able to shock their brain into believing they could
not win. So now they don't look at me as

(12:36):
a woman, child, old person or someone they could believe that.
This went viral. This went viral because now in its
whole community talking about the potential of extreme violence being
met with their violence and them being untrained, now that
they're thinking twice about making moves, Well, what it is
that not just untrained? There? There there what drives them

(12:57):
as low priority. So for them, there the rape, robbing,
and murdering families because they have opportunity. Once they believe
there's no opportunity, once they believe it's been denied, they
don't want to do it anymore. So what I offered
them was pain and suffering. Right, I offer them immediacy.
I'm gonna respond right now when when the senior citizens
are calling, when the single moms are calling about being

(13:18):
um home invaded and raped by a female gang, I'm
gonna respond right now, when men are laying in the
weight to attack females in the building, When there are
men in the building that are assaulting people going in
their homes without even masks, they wouldn't even They're not
even like they're not trying to get away. They would
knock on your door and tell you to check it
in to to rob you in a group of men

(13:39):
like you can't you know, like it's like a weird movie.
Like in a movie the bad guys like trying to
get away. These guys are walts waltzing. They were not
even trying. This is there's no threat. And when when
the police got there, there was still no threat. Which
I'm a carjacking eighty year old man. There's a storybo
eight year old man and getting car jacked in here,
and the police, uh, they showed up and the eight

(14:00):
year old man was just told to go to the the
apartment with bleeding mouth, and uh, the guy who who
Who's who? Pistol whipped him? Who I have a rifle
on in the hallway. When the police get there, he
was allowed to leave and go downstairs into an apartment
each other. They were not interested in enforcing laws in
any these situations. And what I did instead was I

(14:22):
decided that instead of blaming the police or being a victim,
I decided to take charge of the situation and create
a change, positive change. So I explained to them that
this will no longer be tolerated. We're not going to
have that. It's a good place for families to lives.
Where I live. My rightful covers from here to here

(14:42):
to here to here, So all these streets are covered.
These for streets. You're gonna do Mayham where somewhere else,
but on these streets right here where I live, you're
gonna not be able to harm these families. Twenty far
as day, seven days a week. I can sum that up.
Never be to the aggressive, but fight with those who
fight with you, Yes, And what that means that you
have to So if I want them not to aggress,
I may have to make them believe that they will

(15:03):
not win. If they believe they can win, they're gonna
try and they can't win. Therefore I'd be actually setting
them up to to have to kill them. So I
can all say is that in the community, cleaning up
the community, I was able to do it without killing
anyone there. So in that community where I start on
the east Side, which they called crack Alley, this area
was so bad they just believe. They just believe it
couldn't change. The people live there believe it, and the

(15:23):
police believe it could not change. And so once I
got rid of those nine one calls, the police started
supporting us. The police were like, well, whatever you do,
and I'm not getting any legal complaints. There's no federal complaints,
there's no state complaints, there's no lawsuits against police department.
So I'm going to you know, the police department began
to support us very positive as a result of Yeah,

(15:45):
as as a result of the fact that we were
creating positive for the community in general. And when you
create a safe place for the families, that occupancy goes
from to a waiting list. That means that what you
do by protecting the people is you create prosperity. So
you make rich people richer by making poor people safer.

(16:06):
Say that again, you make rich people richer by making
poor people safer. So that's never heard that before. But
that's profound. That's profound. That that's purpose of the book
to share with you how that happens, because it's a
naturally occurring outcome. So I'm not a nonprofit. I get
money for protecting rich people. Rich people fund everything I do.
I started with a dog and a rifle and no money.

(16:28):
Now I got boats and armored vehicles on kinds of
cars and things. Prosperity right, But that came from that
came from protecting people. So successfully protecting people means there's
a profit. So I don't need any handouts. I don't
need anything from the government. No one gives me anything.
I don't have any loans. And when you loan me anything,
I built it through sweat equity. So the money I

(16:49):
have comes from creating positive conditions for wealthy people. I
make them pay a great deal of money to get
no discounts. They pay double. Rich people pay double. That's
my rule, and then I have money left over to
protect all people, doesn't matter where they live, what their
religion is, what their ethnicity is we protect all kinds
of people in all communities, and we don't just protect

(17:10):
you in Detroit. So we're ex The first prosecutor's office
to actually ask us to protect people for free was
Oakland County, and openly County is the richest community in Michigan.
And these are women that are being tortured and terror
terrorized and and uh attempted to be murdered by men
that are wealthy, and they're in the suburbs, and there's
no one to protect them out there either. We just

(17:31):
think there is. There's no protection no matter where you live.
When someone's coming to kill you, it's you and the killer,
and the police can get there if they can. And
police do get there, that's great, But unfortunately, the way
crime works and violence, violence is here and now, and
the police are gonna be coming for somewhere else. So
you look at active shooters, most act shooters are killed
by themselves, that are killed by responders. First responders are

(17:51):
their way after the response, and so it's just it's
just the way where it's not the police are bad
or slow. It's the reality that no matter how fast
the police get there, it's not gonna be fast enough
to give example, in one of the home invasion situations,
I got there in seven minutes as five minute went
into a ladies house it was actually a paying client.
Seven minutes, which is pretty fast. Uh. When I got there,

(18:12):
there were three police cars and there's about ten officers
already there. They beat me there by five minutes. They
got to this house within two and a half three
minutes of the alarm going off. They had left a
raid uh to two blocks down from this house, so
when the call came in they said to go two
blocks over to respond to a home invasion. By the
time they got there, with engines blaring, so you know
they're flooring. You can hear the engines from you know,

(18:34):
a mile away. So by the time they floored and
got to the house, the criminals all heard the police
cars coming and just took off and all scattered around
the area they call. They didn't catch anyone. So that's
an example of even being very fast to response situation,
he still are not gonna win. That's why what's what
matters is protection. If we don't want someone to do crime,
to rape robin murder people, we have to go there

(18:55):
before they rape Robin murder and prevent the rape, roberty, murder.
And if we want our police to do that, we
need to reward them for that. So that's something that
we hope to hopefully support the futures, having businesses help
support paying police officers bonuses for the things you want
them to do, including training them. So I have a
training program for how you're gonna beat the robert. How
are you gonna beat the robbert to the crime where

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he already premeditating the plotting and planet right, And that's
where you beat him at in the plotting and planet
So if they don't believe they can rob, rape, and
kill someone, they don't you have to beat them in
their belief system. So the number of robberies in this
mall of stores is probably very low. Why they don't
believe they can get into the mall and get out
of them all safely, so they don't do that. The

(19:38):
same store being somewhere else could easily be robbed because
it's inside of them all. So being inside of the
mall gives you a degree of safety simply because the
criminals don't know how they can get in and then
get out. So we tactically using fear as a deterrent.
Fear is that the deterrent they have to fear consequences.
The moment they believe there's no consequences, they're actually going
to try. So once you tell someone you know it's

(20:01):
not that's not against the law, you can do that
to someone and then you can't get caught. Most likely,
once they even believe that, whether it's true or not,
they're going to try something. So they have to believe
that there's no opportunity. We call opportunity denial. Opportunity denial
is the way to create safety safely. So once you
create the idea that opportunity exists, you're actually creating violence.

(20:22):
You're creating conflicts. That's kind of what's taking place in
society right now with the UH. If you don't if
you don't have a thousand dollars, you're still in I
think you have to still more than a thousand dollars
to even be arrested. I think that that creates a
center correct if you if they know personals they can't
get arrested, they're gonna be doing anything. But it's a
bottom line. So what you gotta do is make it

(20:44):
more difficult for them to UH be able to get access.
So for example, if their glass here, if you have
two doorways and you have to buzz them in or
buzz them out, that's how you stop people from coming
in and snatch stuff. They can't be but they gotta
be buzzed out. Therefore they can't get out. So they
know that. So what do is happen? Most while people
there and then try to block the door? Right, one
person block door, So you have to make sure that
you have so far apart that you can block the door.

(21:05):
That's at Walmart. I think they shed it all about
four hundred million dollars. Well, most of the most of
their theft is internal. Remember that. So in big companies
eighty percent of shrink is internal. So every dollar they're
talking about, remember eight of those dollars, it's really them,
their employees doing that. So the managers working with security,
working with these people. Where those people, not all of them,

(21:26):
just like this store. So remember that theft is internal
in all organizations, uh, in all types of companies. Okay,
so one more, This book is about one thing, how
you can learn from our journey over the past twenty
seven years, UH to help you make good decisions for
you and your family. But you're learning the actual stories

(21:46):
from how we used our system and you can use
it for your family, for your community as well. Commanded
Brow appreciate and in interview about the Urban Survival Chronicles,
the question is does the strategies work? They didn't. There
will be no book. And you heard it from Commander

(22:08):
Brown right here on my leak book show. Appreciate you,
my brother. We had an amazing turnout at the Winter
Wonderland book giveaway, overwhelming turnout from the community. The ball
and Hills Creenshaw applies. The mall was just transformed into

(22:32):
a community hub where people came from all over to
get books, toys, the slad, the dance to to walk
um the mall and participate in many different activities. And
it was just a fun event, a festive event, a

(22:54):
family event, and we had such a wonderful time. Yeah.
We also hosted a book signing at Posting Beans where
Kevin Powe, he's a controupuning author, journalist Um he Um
had done his fifteen book called Grocery Shopping with My Mother.

(23:17):
I would have interviewed him, but it was just too loud,
so I told him I'll do it another time. Because
it was just overwhearming turnout at the Posting Beans. It
was a brunch in books signing and his book just
came out and so we have signed copies that Meleek Books.
So please pick up your copy. Kevin poue um Pole,

(23:37):
he's been uh once again. This is fifteen books, a
book about poetry and his relationship and inspiration that he
got from his mother, you know. And but back to
the winter wonderland at the Ball and Hills Clean Shaw
Mall and Moleek Books giveaway in partnership with Beyond the
Dormant Book Club, we had such a wonderful day. I

(24:02):
had tutoring company out Cahol Terrific Tutors and they gave
out UM free tutoring for our youth and Melik Books
and Beyond the Dormant Book Club gave away books. People
were shocked and amazed of all the different books that

(24:23):
we had on display that we were able to give out. Um.
They were new books that wasn't used and people just
was amazed and thankful. And so we give all things
and glory to God, you know, and everyone who helped
make this day possible. UM as a youth organization and
now probably called as Bigger than us. They did a

(24:44):
real big big thing, a big job and a good
job and transforming that mall totally into um where where
thousands of dolluarsand people just came out and had such
a wonderful time. And and um, we're just grateful and
thankful to do our part, which is the book giveaway.

(25:05):
And and it was an amazing response for that, you know,
amazing response. I understand that they might give out around
twelve thousand toys, but we was able to give out
around three thousand books. So give thanks, give thanks. So
you know, one of the things about Melik's Bookshop bringing
the world together with books, culture and community is the

(25:27):
fact that, um, we're about community, and this week was
a community event and uh and every it was festive,
it was a holiday spirit. And you know, you can
go on to social our social media Malik Books and
follow us and you could see some of the the
giveaways and what was taking place at the Winning Wonderland.

(25:49):
So anyway, uh, that's all about community. Thank you. We're
back with back with the Maliek's mail bag. I got
some explosive questions that were emailed to me from Jaden

(26:09):
and Windsor Hills Malik. After listening to big tech censorship,
I had to write in I respect you as a businessman,
a father, a husband, and a man of the community.
But this ain't it. Brother. You said you're not taking aside,
but all you're doing is reciting right wing talking points.

(26:32):
Twitter took down new photos of Hunter Biden at the
request of the Biden campaign. Who cares that validates Twitter's
terms of service anyway? Also can Elon must be trusted
to release all the files are just the ones that
supposedly make the Democrats look bad. Your points about black

(26:55):
people being silent are well taken, but Trump lost fair
and square. Don't drink the kool aid. J You packed
a loading question. I'm gonna try to do my best
about the big text sense you shure. I'm glad you

(27:17):
took an interest and wrote me, But hey, I don't
know if I have enough time to ask you everything.
I only even voted a certain amount of time to
the Melik's mail bag. But listen, Jaden, I'm a black
man in America then knows the history of both the
Republicans and Democrats. But no party right or left has

(27:41):
been fair or just two black people on a consistent basis.
We have gotten some inroads from both parties. There are
issues that I identify both on the left and the right.
I like the fact that Obama wanted to give universal

(28:02):
health care. Now that might strike you, Jaden, but I
like that idea. But I know for a fight. Historically
in this country, the number one party who has wanted
the censor free speech has always been the left, the Democrat,

(28:24):
the liberals, and that has not changed to day. Jim
Crow was started by the left. They would sick dogs,
water holes on black people to sionist us, to put
fear in us. The clue cause Klan was invented by
the left to enforce fear in black people. So nothing

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has changed the date. Censorship is a known fight to
be a strategy. The FBI and the murder in government
has used the silence black people. Now, as far as
me identify with certain points on the right, okay, hey,

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but that don't mean identify with the Republicans, I don't
represent neither party because both parties have silence black people,
oppressed black people, imprisoned black people, and have destroyed the
black family. So don't put me in that trick bag. Jaden,

(29:33):
I think you're drinking that cool aid. You think that
the big texts companies are not colluding and conspond with
this government. They're coordinating and writing service terms that are
discriminating against different groups of people in different ideologies, simply
because it don't fit the narrative. Now, you can believe

(29:55):
Jaden all you want, but the way you think, and
that's fine. But I'm under no illusion that it's all
about power and what power comes control. They have to
control this influence that is taking place on this social
media and it's to their interests. They really believe, I'm
talking about the gun believe this is in the best
interests of America. That benefits their interests. It is not

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in the best interests of the society and the citizens
because they are disseminating disinformation with the very definition of censorship.
What it took down hunting Biden's new pictures. I think
they should, but they ain't stopping all those new pictures
with thongs, all these women's booty sticking wide old crotches,

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who spread it, you know, left to the right, But
they ain't stopping none of that off of the social
media is all kind of filth and decadous on this
social media. They ain't stopping nothing that, they're not censoring
none of that. But they're censoring people when it ain't
in the best interests of the government. I see a
whole lot of up on there that they allowed this

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hate speech towards black people and it's still posted. But
that's okay because it ain't in the entrance of the
government to stop the killing and stop the hate speech
towards blacks. And so they guess what, So it's just
laced in field in honeycomb with nothing but vile things
against black people. New photos absolutely should be taken down,

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But that's not what they censored. What they censored was
information about hit about our president, on Biden being involved
in business dealings in Ukraine, China and different companies around
the world, and the relationship that Biden had with his

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father and him being mentioned in there under many various
terms like the big guy and so forth. Washington Post
is a big paper, they don't publish. They can be
sued for putting information out this false. And what took
place was they were Sensor, a huge company, uh like
Washington Post was Sensor and material was taken down only

(32:06):
for two years later where all these major news payer
and they're admitting that that laptop was legit number one,
So why was it taken down? Yes, while Elon Musk
is revealing all these receipts about the government FBI colluding,
conspiring and manipulating and coordinating with the big tech companies

(32:26):
the sensor information about Hunter Biden, about Trump or whatever.
They ain't censoring all that hate speech against black people
and all of them lives put all throughout the social
media about black people and all that new this all
over the social media, this causing licension behavior in society.
Social media is a platform for people to put their

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information or content on their The social media is not
supposed to be editing. What they're doing is editing, and
that means they shouldn't be protected because they end in
the business of entity. And that's where I believe that
they're coming up against the free speech because they're editing content,
they're controlling content, and so there I think that they're

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in violation and I think that they went too far.
And Jayden, if you think that elections are fair, then
you have truly drink kool aid. A no election fair.
First of all, presidents are selected, not elected. I do
not believe there are any fair and free elections. They

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all manipulate one way, shape or form, and the power
structure that wants to control the outcome in these elections
are heavily involved. They have done many polls since the
presidential election, and the majority and make people believes something
was wrong with this last election and that big Tech

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interfered in the presidential election in their censorship of the
Hunter of Biden laptop. So, Jayden, thank you for your question.
I hope I was able to answer your questions from
Elijah in South l A Malik, I think you need
to brush up on the First Amendment. Free speech does

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not mean that every platform in the world is required
to let you say whatever you want whenever you want.
Twitter has rules, and if they are valuated, you are
kicked off. It's simple. If you start doing anti semitic
rents on your podcast, like Kanye I Heart Radio would

(34:40):
stop putting it out. Can you be arrested for those rents? No,
that is freedom of speech. Twitter isn't taking away anyone's
First Amendment rights, and certainly not major political figures who
can be on televisi whenever they want. Okay, that's a

(35:03):
loaded question. Again, ELI appreciate it, thank you. But my
main focus, like I said on the Big Tense sign ship,
is the fact that we need to be aware that
you know, people are being targeted on social media and
being taken off, eliminated, suspended for views and points there

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are not once again acceptable to a certain party. Now
as far as free speech, you know, I know you
can't say like you in the theater. This is the classic.
If you're in the theater and shout fire, there's no
fire and people start stampede and running out and there's
no firing. Somebody to get hurt. You can get arrested
for that and know why because you put people in

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danger and you put people at risk, all right, So
there are rules and parameters. All right, this is not
the case. Okay, this is not people shouting fire. People
have been sensored and eliminated off of social media simply
because they didn't agree with certain things about the vaccination

(36:11):
and they were censored and eliminated. People have spoken things
about the government. The government didn't like It's Big Tech
didn't like it, and they removed them from social media.
So that's black people and that's white people. And in
different have been censored because their views are different. Now

(36:33):
it's not sometimes it's not. What you say is how
you say it. And the thing is, anytime you're trying
to speak to an audience, you need to speak in
a way that you are effective and can communicate, all right,
and you need to be aware of that. There's responsibility

(36:54):
come with being free and therefore you need to meet
those responsibilities. So when it comes to free speech, no,
I don't think big tech had a right to edit
people and take people things off. And they're able to
get away with that because politicians are allowing them, not
because they are an independent business. They are discriminating. That

(37:16):
is my and this is how I see it. They
are discriminating and they're getting away with it because politicians
are not standing up to defend the rights of the
people in America because it's to their benefit that they
control the masters of the people and what they think
and how they think. So when you say to me,
Elijah that I need to brush over free speak, I
think you need to because the small man today censor,

(37:42):
the big man tomorrow censor, and that's exactly what has happened.
You need to brush up on your First Amendment, because
I'm not not under the illusion that when a person
is empowered they want to control the way people think.
They don't. They spend billions and billions it is to
influence how you think, what you wear, what you say,

(38:03):
how you men see the world. Hey, look, this is
we're live in the world. You got to stop being
living in a fairy tale. Power is power, and power
people control many industries because of their power, and big
Tech independently popped up this government just couldn't have it

(38:24):
run wild and let anything and everything on there without
controlling it. So that's what they're doing. They want to
control what's being put on there. And it's under free speech,
and there are discriminating because you can wear, like I said,
you can wear thongs, you can be half new you
could say some of the most filthiest things sexually and

(38:46):
what beyond social media. But the minute you say something
is pro black or anti government or against somebody's religious belief,
all of a sudden, now you gotta what you gotta
be sensive, all right, whof you know? And that's the
argument here, And it ain't got nothing to do with
protecting free speech. That's not what they're doing their sensory

(39:10):
free speech, and it's bigger than all else. And the
reality is that I knew years ago that day was
going in this direction and that's exactly what they did.
So anyway, that's my thoughts on these questions. Man. You know,
like I said, um, I think it's important how you
say things and what you say, and I think you

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need to choose your words carefully, absolutely, and some people
do that better than other people. And I think that
you know, um, big tech is violating our First Amendment right.
And that's my take on that. Thanks for listening to
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