October 28, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (10/28) - John Alle comes on the show to talk about the fence going up around MacArthur Park. John has a solution for the homeless problem! John talks about one of his first days back from vacation and going to Santa Monica and experiencing a crazy person up close! Anti-Israel protestors who blocked the freeway a few months ago are going to be placed in a diversion program as their punishment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on the
radio every day from one until four o'clock and after
four o'clock if you have missed anything. Ah, that's what
the podcast is for. John Cobelt Show on demand also
on the iHeart app. And we spent a lot of
the first hour talking about how while Gavin Newsom was
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trying to portray himself the other day as being a
poor kid who had to live on wonderbread and macaroni
and cheese, turns out his dad managed the trust for
Gordon Getty, the heir to the multi billion dollar oil fortune.
So Gavin Newsom's dad was very, very wealthy. He was
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not struggling on wonderbread and macaroni and cheese. That is
another complete Gavin Newsom why totally invented nonsense. So you
listened to that in the first hour. All right, he's
coming on. He's a businessman. We have he owns businesses
in the most interesting places. We have him onne frequently
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because he describes how Santa Monica is going to hell
and businesses are fleeing, and he also owed some businesses
in near MacArthur Park and the story I told you
about in the last segment. Karen Bass now wants to
spend over two million dollars to put an iron fence
around MacArthur Park because the crime and the drug addicts
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and the mental patients and the gangs are out of control.
Let's get John Alley on. How are you, John?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good? Welcome back from your trip. John, you were missed.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, thank you very much. Why don't you develop some
businesses in a more peaceful area between Santa Monica and
MacArthur Park. I mean, well, there's got to be another
way to make money.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Hopefully there is, but we'll get this back making money
and helping all the employees and the residence in those
areas they need it. I mean, I'm one hundred percent
in favor of investing to secure and clean up the parks,
but accepting the parks as a locale to house or
service mental illness or co occurring drug disorders is dangerous.
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So this fencing is an idea on the table, but
it needs debate. It's easier to agree with authority than
post questions and concerns and have conflict if it does happen,
there's going to have to be coordinated effort to stop
the tragedies outside the park, in the alleyways and curbways.
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Otherwise these knights of the living dead will Expand there's
pros and cons about what the proposed fencing might do.
But first let's not forget to follow the money trail.
Three years ago we spent one point five million dollars
to clean up the park the south side, then the
north four months after each side opened. It was ravished.
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The problem then and now I think was not fixed
because our government urban planners did not identify the solution
before we address the problem. This has money laundering John
for family and friends written all over it. That much
fencing's not even used at Dodger Stadium. And this is
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quote braided funds unquote and involved. That's money County perhaps
the state matched by federal funds. There's a better focus,
and that would be to properly patrol MacArthur Park and
force a curfew. And we need to dedicate sworn LAPD
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officers on horseback and in cars to enter the park.
Twenty four to seven. We need the police chief needs
to authorize sworn officers to follow our brave firefighters and
paramedics into the park their backs, so they put out
fires and try to save those eight persons overdosing every day.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Eight a wait, wait, eight times the paramedics have to
enter MacArthur Park to save an overdose.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was corrected by CD eleven council member unitsus Hernandez.
We thought it was six, she said, John, it's eight.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, why isn't she calling for the police for twenty
four to seven coverage?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's a police abolitionist, all right. I can see she
would rather see social workers, not health workers. She would
rather see ambassadors.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's that's a stupid None of that works, It never
has and never will. That's absolutely ridiculous. So ultimately she
doesn't she doesn't care if everybody dies in the park.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, think about it. You're right. I think in part
because they can't claim the number of homeland has decreased,
they're dead.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think that was why sometimes they claim the homelessness
number has gone down, It is because so many have died.
But then we found out a few days ago that
it turns out they seriously undercounted the homeless, and so
that's why the number went down, is because they fudged
the numbers. They lied about the numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
The sales that the food and retail businesses in the
area are still down. They're affected by mental health apartment
buildings with occupants who are terrorizing people inside and out.
In that area. There's casadel Soul homeless shelter across the street.
There's incidents in the laundry rooms, shower stools, of rapes, attacks.
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There's a project called the Asbury. It's six and cronolect
another disaster. And now, like in Santa Monica, what was proposed,
the Housing Authority is under contract for nine million to
purchase a twenty eight unit building for the same use
occupied in a residential area. We don't think small facilities
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within residential neighborhoods that posed danger to residents, school and
kids belong there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, No, that's horrible. That's got to be more corruption
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We are really going to be pushing for the county
and the state to lease or purchase the Saint Vincent
Medical Center just blocks away through an Alvarado that's coincidentally
owned by the publisher of the La Times. We want
to see if he's really committed to helping La and
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utilize the vacant seventy five acres on the south campus
of Rancho Los Amigos in the Downy area. Karen Bath
actually tweeted that site could be turned into mental health
drug an alcohol rehab, and a shelter within three days.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's do that, yeah, and force people to go there.
Force them to go there. They have a trice to
either go there, they go to jail.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's interesting whether without fencing or a gate. We notified
and I asked personally units is Hernandez CD eleven council
member whose term is coming up in twenty twenty six,
if she would I told her there are signs posted
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with park hours. Why aren't the hours being enforced? And
if we have a fence, what are the police going
to do if someone doesn't want to leave? The very
next day, John, that sign was removed. Oh, so you
can drive around the park and there's no sign with
posted hours unless they were reposted within the last few days.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's how they do it. But when people are breaking
the law, breaking the rules, they just remove the law
or the rules and then you don't have a problem anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well. Karen Bass, who supposedly has a public health degree
from USC courtesy of council member former supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, that was a dirty deal.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's to stop. She needs to stop calling these people unhoused. Yeah,
that's nonsense. Maybe twenty percent or homeless, an eighty percent
are on drugs and mentally ill. They need help. We
need large facilities and we've identified too. Now we need
to act on it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
All right, good stuff, John Alley, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, thank you, John all right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
John Alley. He's a businessman, owns businesses in MacArthur Park
and what he said at the end there is really
the most important thing. We'll talk more when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We just finished talking with John Ally. He's a businessman
who owns a number of businesses in the MacArthur Park
area and Karen Pass announced yesterday they're going to spend
two million dollars for an iron fence around MacArthur Park.
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It's overrun, as I mentioned, with thousands of homeless people, criminals,
gang members, mental patients. Really terrifying scary environment there. I mean,
every psychopath gathers in MacArthur Park. And like John Ally said,
eighty percent of these people are on drugs or the
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mentally ill. There's only been one solution, and it's the
solution that's always worked throughout human history, and it's the
only solution that will ever work. And anyone who says
otherwise is on the take. They're making money from the system.
Here's the solution. You arrest all the drug addicts and
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the mental patients and send them for mental health treatment
indoors locked up, or drug treatment indoors and locked up.
That's it. And if they don't want to go, they
can go to jail and go through their withdrawal there
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and when they're ready, we'll pay for their drug addiction.
Will pay for their drug addiction treatment or their mental
health treatment. How about that. That's the deal. They are
never allowed to sleep on the streets or in the
park again, no one, not one person, not ever, not
for one night, not for one hour, one night, which
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was the law, the rules all our lives, still is
in almost every city. All this nonsense about all their
stupid terms outreach harm reduction is garbage. It was a
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way to manipulate you into thinking that there was another
solution if you just paid them enough money, enough billions,
they'd be able to pull it off. They all made
enormous amounts of money. You are taxed to death. You
have been a sucker for this. If you believe it,
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I'm sorry. You're not liberal, you're not compassionate, you're not
open minded to new ideas. You are a fool. Their
ideas do not work, and they've been proven to not work.
There's no question about this, no more debate. And if
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everybody in this freaking city would just say, enough of
this mental institution for this guy, drug addiction unit for
this guy, everybody out you don't like it, jail, that's it.
Nothing else ever worked. They have spent billions upon billions,
all across the country, all around the world. None of
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it worked. Mental health treatment requires medication, requires in some cases,
intensive therapy. In some cases it's not curable, drug treatment,
intensive treatment, therapy, medical medical treatment, and a lot of
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that doesn't work either, but sometimes it does. To give
it a shot, but here's the rule. You can go
into the desert and do whatever you want. You're in
a public place, a park, for god's sakes, no zero tolerance,
zero tolerance. You'll be dragged by your ankles with your
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head banging on the sidewalk and thrown into the back
of a police unit. Out you start doing that every day.
See what happened with legal immigrants. Trump started sending the
National Guard in two million disappeared on their own. You
know that's why they hate him. They hate him because
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he's right, and they hate him because his methods work,
and they hate him because it busts up this racket
of nonprofit felons, criminals who built us out of billions
of dollars with their stupid homelessness treatment program. So there's
no sich thing. They fail, they fail, they fail again. Oh,
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you have a drug addict in the streets. I have
an idea. Let's walk up to him and do hard reduction.
Let's give him a needle so he can inject more drugs.
Aren't we compassionate? No, you're a criminal, you're a fraud,
You're cruel. They don't care if these people die in
the streets. The day that they convinced everyone that they
were the compassionate ones, that they had a heart, and
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most of the fools in this city believe that was
the day that La headed for the sere. Stop it.
Stop being a child. They are grifters. They're con men
and women. They're making millions of dollars. You're spending enormous
amounts of money and you still have these These are
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obviously mentally ill and drug addiction to people. There's no
question about it, There's no more debate. I can't believe
people fall for this crap. One solution one, There isn't
another one. None of it's worked. It is one of
the greatest scams I've ever seen, played out right in
front of our eyes, mostly in the last ten years,
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and they ran off with billions of dollars and most
everyone fell for it. It's absolutely fascinating how the human
mind you could be convinced of complete nonsense once you
start emotionally manipulating the person. All right, more coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
Eight seven seven weys Stady six eight seven seven moys
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app and get it in for Friday. We'll play it
all for you. Remember we had a few weeks ago
Laray mcgretty on the Santa Monica Mayor and we went
through she was out for quite a while, almost an
hour on all the terrible things that have happened to
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Santa Monica, which she agreed is happening, and it's similar
to well, we were just talking about MacArthur Park. Same problem.
Too many criminals, too many gang members, too many drug addicts,
mental patients, homeless people. They're all the same, that's all
one big category, all the people who can't function in
normal society anymore. And they walk around Santa Monica, especially
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in the parks and on the beaches like zombies. Now,
so we were going for two weeks we had on
that trip to Iceland in London. We come back and
first day we're back, they were back. It was late
in the afternoon. My wife wanted to go on a walk,
you know, because we've been lying around all day after
all the traveling. It's like, well, let's go take a
walk through something. Let's try Santa Monica. Let's go to
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Palisades Park, which is along that stretch that overlooks the
cliff and the beach. We parked the car. We look
over to the right. Well I looked over to the right,
and I see a guy and he's bobbing up and
down on the park bench and he's talking. And I said,
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is that guy on the phone or is he talking
to an imaginary friend? My wife goes, it's an imaginary friend.
Let's get out of here. You can't tell when people
are on the phone, right, I said, yes, if you
don't see their earbuds. Yeah, a lot of times the
phone zombies kind of are like fentinel zombies and the
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way they walk, they're walking really slow, their head is down,
they're a little bent over, and if they're talking, they're
on their phone. And then you have the actual zombies.
And this guy was I guess schizephratic, and he had
a friend next door. It looked like a friendly conversation.
Well at least he's not lonely. John. Yeah, I know,
maybe maybe that's not a bad place to be, as
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long as said you know your friend is friendly. Yes,
you just stab you right right? Yeah, if your friend
tries to stab you that it's yeah. Uh so that's
that's the first thing we saw. So I'd say, oh,
we can't stay here, so our time, our re entry
time in Santa Monica lasted less than one minute. So
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we go park in another place. And this is another
section of the Palisades that I think it's Palisades border
that in Sinemia they didn't burn and it doesn't face
the ocean. It faces a canyon. We walk there a
lot too parked the car. I look across to the
left this time, what's that guy doing. He's another guy.
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He's in a co old car, sitting by himself and
it's piled from from Florida ceiling with junk. We get
out of the car because at least this guy is
contained inside his vehicle. He is not loose. So we say,
let's try to take a walk. Anyway. We walked to
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the edge of the block. Third guy and this guy
uh is walking very fast and he's kind of jittering,
like he just took a snort or something. And this,
by the way, is a really expensive neighborhood, right, These
are all multi multimillion dollar homes. Has a gorgeous view
of the canyon down below. I can't believe the neighborhood
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puts up with this. So this is this is This
is Santa Monica, west side of La and Santa Monica,
as we've told you, has been destroyed. One of the
favorite shopping places, walking places, social places, restaurants totally ruined.
And now I knew this eventually would happen, And this
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is the moment of truth. You let so many businesses
move out, so few people go there. Now the tax
base collapses, and Santa Monica's collapsed. They have the highest
vacancy rates in La County, especially in the downtown area.
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All the businesses moved out, and they got whacked at
least three ways. They got whacked because of the stupid
government shutting everything down during the pandemic, massive overreaction. They
didn't do it in Florida and Florida's thriving. Number two
was on George Floyd Riot Day. The police and officials
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in Santa Monica allowed the rioters to destroy a lot
of businesses, both downtown and on the Third Street promenade.
It's like, oh, you're a George Floyd rioter, go ahead,
set that on fire over there, specially these windows. Take
anything you want. The police stood down, the Santa Monica
government ordered them to stand down. So the rioters, and
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none of them gave a crap about George Floyd. This
was a chance to do what normally they do in
the dead and night. Now they did it at four
o'clock in the afternoon with the sun out. George Floyd,
spare me. Then they allowed all the vagrants, the mental patients,
the drug addicts, to wander around freely, locked out on drugs,
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their mental illness fully blooming. So they scream and they
talk to themselves, and they shout at you, and occasionally
they killed quite a few people in Santa Monica, attack
people on the beaches, attack people in the parks. It's
like walking into a zoo, except there's no fences around
the animals. Would you walk into a zoo of wild
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animals where there were no fences. No, that's what Santa
Monica is. It's a human zoo filled with mentally ill
animals and drug addicted animals. Imagine going to a zoo
where half the animals were mentally ill, half of them
were on drugs, and there was no fencing. There weren't
motes or anything to keep them from killing you. So
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what happens They come to kill you. So now where
are they going to do? They have lost millions and
millions of tax revenue set uh the Santa Monica appear.
The crowds have thinned out, retail and office vacancies highest
in La County, highest in La County, especially downtown. So
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the city is headed towards bankruptcy. Now, the city council
there's a new plan. They have been ultra far left
wing forever, but they have a city council made up
largely of young millennials, and uh, this crowd has done
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a flip. I think we got to see. They have
a new plan. They're going to significantly increase police patrols.
Look at that. The only thing that makes an area
safe is having a lot of police. That's the only
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thing they wouldn't do. They're going to enforce misdemeanor offenses,
so maybe when somebody takes a crap on the sidewalk,
the guy will be hauled off. They're going to invest
in infrastructure and community events. Oh get this, a more
business friendly approach to permits and fees. How about that?
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Then you will be hassled for years before you can
open a business and be tax to tax and tax
with all kinds of stupid fees. They are They're going
to increase the number of police officers by at least
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eight to ten a day in a specialized unit downtown,
five patrol officers, two homeless workers eight public safety employees.
They need more than two homeless workers. They're going to
make a three and a half million dollar investment, replace
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sidewalks in streets, freshen up the trees of the trash cans.
You need about two hundred homeless workers, and the police
should accompany the homeless workers and tell the guy what
I said in the last segment. Want to go to
the mental patient clinic or the drug addiction clinic? Pick one,
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pick both. Otherwise you go to the jail clinic and
you stay there, but no more outreach. I saw the
outreach in Santa Monica on the beach once. Two young kids,
like they're in the early twenties. It was like their
summer job. They're bouncing along on a beach cart and
they roll up to a guy that he's in a
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bed roll laying on the beach and they kind of
move him a couple of times to wake them up
out of his drug Stupor would you like a peanut
butter sandwich? Honest to god, I stopped dead in my
track staring, would you like a peanut butter sandwich? Is everything? Okay?
I don't know what the guy said.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He was.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Probably threw up on their shoes and then they bounced
away on their little beach car. All right, yeah, that's outreach.
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
Who do we got coming up at three o'clock. That's
gonna be Alex Stone from ABC News, because once again
every year there's dangerous lookalike candy that people are gonna
be handing out on Halloween. What's it look like? What
is it going to do? We'll talk about that with
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Alex Stone coming up after three o'clock. I remember, well,
we've had many stupid protests clogging up the freeways in
Los Angeles. There was one in December twenty three, December
twenty twenty three shut down of the southbound lanes of
the one ten Freeway right near downtown. And this one
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was those Palestinian crazy The jew haters were out in
force from the Win ten Freeway. They protested, you know, Israel,
and by the way, it turned out pretty good for Israel,
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not so good for Hamas. This is what happens when
you take the side of a murderous terrorist group against
the United States and Israel, You're gonna lose but this
protest block traffic. Some people started pouring out of their
cars and got into fights with the demonstrators, and what
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happened on live television, which I think you know there
should be more of the Only way to stop these
demonstrations is to get out and defend your territory, because
it's not freedom of speech. That's that's a stupid I
wouldn't call it a misunderstanding, it's a non understanding of
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how the laws and the constitution works. You could say
what you want, but you have no constitutional right to
block traffic on a major freeway none. In fact, protests
are fine if they're confined to certain public areas like
a park, and you're supposed to apply for a permit,
and you have a designated time in place to protest.
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That's how it works in the civilized world. Here in
communist Los Angeles, though, Karen Vass doesn't enforce those laws,
and she lets all the crazy lunatics, no matter what
their stupid issue is, lock the freeways of normal people
who want to go to work. So, if you remember
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December of twenty twenty three, these motorists poured out of
their cars, got into fights. Now we have this weird
little city attorney in La named Heidi Feldstein STOs Id
Feldstein Soto, and she charged many of the protesters with
unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, failure to comply with the
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lawful order, obstruction of the street sidewalk, blah blah blah, misdemeanors.
How many are going to jail? Nobody, and the charges
may all be dropped. A judge is putting twenty nine
of the protesters into a diversion program. They have to
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perform twenty hours of community service. Well, that's not going
to stop them from blocking the freeways the next time.
You can't even tell a lot of these people if
they really care about their protest or they're getting paid.
Like the No King's protest from last weekend, a lot
of those people were paid. Some of the journalists have
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published documents on the internet showing the millions of dollars
dozens and dozens of organizations spent in order to fund
these fake protests. A lot of them were fake paid protesters.
In fact, one citizens journalist went up, took the video,
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interviewed four people at a protest. Three out of the
four were paid. SI a small, tiny sample size, but
so excuse me. A judge put twenty nine protesters into
a twelve month diversion program. They each performed twenty hours
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of community service. So is that the whole diversion program?
Twenty hours of community service over twelve months. I don't
know what is that? Fifteen minutes a week. If they
complete that service and obey the law, then the charges
will be dismissed. Their attorney, Colleen Flynn, who also seems
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to be a nut, sent her client, we're motivated by
a moral duty to bring attention to the loss of
life and humanitarian crisis going on in Gaza, right because
nobody knew about it. This is two months after the
Hamas terrorists committed all those horrific atrocities. And I don't
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know is that even in the news raise awareness another
one of those stupid phrases. And uh, but you know
nobody's going You know, if everybody went to jail for
a year, you'd stopped this nonsense, which is what ought
to happen. Nobody should be allowed to block a freeway.
You block a freeway that ought to be a felony
and go to prison for like five years or more more.
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I talk about this the more harsh of the sentence,
I want, I I just don't. Nobody wants to enforce
any laws, Nobody wants anybody arrested. Nobody nobody's no laws
are in forest, nobody's put in jail. And so you
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end up with the same absurdity week after week, month
after month, year after year. Maniacs paid maniacs screaming in
the streets, over all kinds of causes. Half of them
don't even know what. Don't even know what they're screaming about.
All right, Alex Stone Nicks from ABC News on this
dangerous Halloween candy that may be handed out this week.
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Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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four o'clock if you have missed anything. Ah, that's what
the podcast is for. John Cobelt Show on demand also
on the iHeart app. And we spent a lot of
the first hour talking about how while Gavin Newsom was
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trying to portray himself the other day as being a
poor kid who had to live on wonderbread and macaroni
and cheese, turns out his dad managed the trust for
Gordon Getty, the heir to the multi billion dollar oil fortune.
So Gavin Newsom's dad was very, very wealthy. He was
(00:45):
not struggling on wonderbread and macaroni and cheese. That is
another complete Gavin Newsom why totally invented nonsense. So you
listened to that in the first hour. All right, he's
coming on. He's a businessman. We have he owns businesses
in the most interesting places. We have him onne frequently
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because he describes how Santa Monica is going to hell
and businesses are fleeing, and he also owed some businesses
in near MacArthur Park and the story I told you
about in the last segment. Karen Bass now wants to
spend over two million dollars to put an iron fence
around MacArthur Park because the crime and the drug addicts
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and the mental patients and the gangs are out of control.
Let's get John Alley on. How are you, John?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good? Welcome back from your trip. John, you were missed.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, thank you very much. Why don't you develop some
businesses in a more peaceful area between Santa Monica and
MacArthur Park. I mean, well, there's got to be another
way to make money.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Hopefully there is, but we'll get this back making money
and helping all the employees and the residence in those
areas they need it. I mean, I'm one hundred percent
in favor of investing to secure and clean up the parks,
but accepting the parks as a locale to house or
service mental illness or co occurring drug disorders is dangerous.
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So this fencing is an idea on the table, but
it needs debate. It's easier to agree with authority than
post questions and concerns and have conflict if it does happen,
there's going to have to be coordinated effort to stop
the tragedies outside the park, in the alleyways and curbways.
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Otherwise these knights of the living dead will Expand there's
pros and cons about what the proposed fencing might do.
But first let's not forget to follow the money trail.
Three years ago we spent one point five million dollars
to clean up the park the south side, then the
north four months after each side opened. It was ravished.
(03:02):
The problem then and now I think was not fixed
because our government urban planners did not identify the solution
before we address the problem. This has money laundering John
for family and friends written all over it. That much
fencing's not even used at Dodger Stadium. And this is
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quote braided funds unquote and involved. That's money County perhaps
the state matched by federal funds. There's a better focus,
and that would be to properly patrol MacArthur Park and
force a curfew. And we need to dedicate sworn LAPD
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officers on horseback and in cars to enter the park.
Twenty four to seven. We need the police chief needs
to authorize sworn officers to follow our brave firefighters and
paramedics into the park their backs, so they put out
fires and try to save those eight persons overdosing every day.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Eight a wait, wait, eight times the paramedics have to
enter MacArthur Park to save an overdose.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was corrected by CD eleven council member unitsus Hernandez.
We thought it was six, she said, John, it's eight.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, why isn't she calling for the police for twenty
four to seven coverage?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's a police abolitionist, all right. I can see she
would rather see social workers, not health workers. She would
rather see ambassadors.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's that's a stupid None of that works, It never
has and never will. That's absolutely ridiculous. So ultimately she
doesn't she doesn't care if everybody dies in the park.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, think about it. You're right. I think in part
because they can't claim the number of homeland has decreased,
they're dead.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I think that was why sometimes they claim the homelessness
number has gone down, It is because so many have died.
But then we found out a few days ago that
it turns out they seriously undercounted the homeless, and so
that's why the number went down, is because they fudged
the numbers. They lied about the numbers.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
The sales that the food and retail businesses in the
area are still down. They're affected by mental health apartment
buildings with occupants who are terrorizing people inside and out.
In that area. There's casadel Soul homeless shelter across the street.
There's incidents in the laundry rooms, shower stools, of rapes, attacks.
(05:50):
There's a project called the Asbury. It's six and cronolect
another disaster. And now, like in Santa Monica, what was proposed,
the Housing Authority is under contract for nine million to
purchase a twenty eight unit building for the same use
occupied in a residential area. We don't think small facilities
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within residential neighborhoods that posed danger to residents, school and
kids belong there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
No, No, that's horrible. That's got to be more corruption
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We are really going to be pushing for the county
and the state to lease or purchase the Saint Vincent
Medical Center just blocks away through an Alvarado that's coincidentally
owned by the publisher of the La Times. We want
to see if he's really committed to helping La and
(06:44):
utilize the vacant seventy five acres on the south campus
of Rancho Los Amigos in the Downy area. Karen Bath
actually tweeted that site could be turned into mental health
drug an alcohol rehab, and a shelter within three days.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's do that, yeah, and force people to go there.
Force them to go there. They have a trice to
either go there, they go to jail.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's interesting whether without fencing or a gate. We notified
and I asked personally units is Hernandez CD eleven council
member whose term is coming up in twenty twenty six,
if she would I told her there are signs posted
(07:30):
with park hours. Why aren't the hours being enforced? And
if we have a fence, what are the police going
to do if someone doesn't want to leave? The very
next day, John, that sign was removed. Oh, so you
can drive around the park and there's no sign with
posted hours unless they were reposted within the last few days.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's how they do it. But when people are breaking
the law, breaking the rules, they just remove the law
or the rules and then you don't have a problem anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well. Karen Bass, who supposedly has a public health degree
from USC courtesy of council member former supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, that was a dirty deal.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's to stop. She needs to stop calling these people unhoused. Yeah,
that's nonsense. Maybe twenty percent or homeless, an eighty percent
are on drugs and mentally ill. They need help. We
need large facilities and we've identified too. Now we need
to act on it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
All right, good stuff, John Alley, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh, thank you, John all right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
John Alley. He's a businessman, owns businesses in MacArthur Park
and what he said at the end there is really
the most important thing. We'll talk more when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We just finished talking with John Ally. He's a businessman
who owns a number of businesses in the MacArthur Park
area and Karen Pass announced yesterday they're going to spend
two million dollars for an iron fence around MacArthur Park.
(09:13):
It's overrun, as I mentioned, with thousands of homeless people, criminals,
gang members, mental patients. Really terrifying scary environment there. I mean,
every psychopath gathers in MacArthur Park. And like John Ally said,
eighty percent of these people are on drugs or the
(09:34):
mentally ill. There's only been one solution, and it's the
solution that's always worked throughout human history, and it's the
only solution that will ever work. And anyone who says
otherwise is on the take. They're making money from the system.
Here's the solution. You arrest all the drug addicts and
(09:55):
the mental patients and send them for mental health treatment
indoors locked up, or drug treatment indoors and locked up.
That's it. And if they don't want to go, they
can go to jail and go through their withdrawal there
(10:15):
and when they're ready, we'll pay for their drug addiction.
Will pay for their drug addiction treatment or their mental
health treatment. How about that. That's the deal. They are
never allowed to sleep on the streets or in the
park again, no one, not one person, not ever, not
for one night, not for one hour, one night, which
(10:36):
was the law, the rules all our lives, still is
in almost every city. All this nonsense about all their
stupid terms outreach harm reduction is garbage. It was a
(10:57):
way to manipulate you into thinking that there was another
solution if you just paid them enough money, enough billions,
they'd be able to pull it off. They all made
enormous amounts of money. You are taxed to death. You
have been a sucker for this. If you believe it,
(11:17):
I'm sorry. You're not liberal, you're not compassionate, you're not
open minded to new ideas. You are a fool. Their
ideas do not work, and they've been proven to not work.
There's no question about this, no more debate. And if
(11:39):
everybody in this freaking city would just say, enough of
this mental institution for this guy, drug addiction unit for
this guy, everybody out you don't like it, jail, that's it.
Nothing else ever worked. They have spent billions upon billions,
all across the country, all around the world. None of
(12:02):
it worked. Mental health treatment requires medication, requires in some cases,
intensive therapy. In some cases it's not curable, drug treatment,
intensive treatment, therapy, medical medical treatment, and a lot of
(12:26):
that doesn't work either, but sometimes it does. To give
it a shot, but here's the rule. You can go
into the desert and do whatever you want. You're in
a public place, a park, for god's sakes, no zero tolerance,
zero tolerance. You'll be dragged by your ankles with your
(12:47):
head banging on the sidewalk and thrown into the back
of a police unit. Out you start doing that every day.
See what happened with legal immigrants. Trump started sending the
National Guard in two million disappeared on their own. You
know that's why they hate him. They hate him because
(13:09):
he's right, and they hate him because his methods work,
and they hate him because it busts up this racket
of nonprofit felons, criminals who built us out of billions
of dollars with their stupid homelessness treatment program. So there's
no sich thing. They fail, they fail, they fail again. Oh,
(13:34):
you have a drug addict in the streets. I have
an idea. Let's walk up to him and do hard reduction.
Let's give him a needle so he can inject more drugs.
Aren't we compassionate? No, you're a criminal, you're a fraud,
You're cruel. They don't care if these people die in
the streets. The day that they convinced everyone that they
were the compassionate ones, that they had a heart, and
(13:57):
most of the fools in this city believe that was
the day that La headed for the sere. Stop it.
Stop being a child. They are grifters. They're con men
and women. They're making millions of dollars. You're spending enormous
amounts of money and you still have these These are
(14:19):
obviously mentally ill and drug addiction to people. There's no
question about it, There's no more debate. I can't believe
people fall for this crap. One solution one, There isn't
another one. None of it's worked. It is one of
the greatest scams I've ever seen, played out right in
front of our eyes, mostly in the last ten years,
(14:43):
and they ran off with billions of dollars and most
everyone fell for it. It's absolutely fascinating how the human
mind you could be convinced of complete nonsense once you
start emotionally manipulating the person. All right, more coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
Eight seven seven weys Stady six eight seven seven moys
Stady six. Or use the talkback feature on the iHeart
app and get it in for Friday. We'll play it
all for you. Remember we had a few weeks ago
Laray mcgretty on the Santa Monica Mayor and we went
through she was out for quite a while, almost an
hour on all the terrible things that have happened to
(15:26):
Santa Monica, which she agreed is happening, and it's similar
to well, we were just talking about MacArthur Park. Same problem.
Too many criminals, too many gang members, too many drug addicts,
mental patients, homeless people. They're all the same, that's all
one big category, all the people who can't function in
normal society anymore. And they walk around Santa Monica, especially
(15:50):
in the parks and on the beaches like zombies. Now,
so we were going for two weeks we had on
that trip to Iceland in London. We come back and
first day we're back, they were back. It was late
in the afternoon. My wife wanted to go on a walk,
you know, because we've been lying around all day after
all the traveling. It's like, well, let's go take a
walk through something. Let's try Santa Monica. Let's go to
(16:14):
Palisades Park, which is along that stretch that overlooks the
cliff and the beach. We parked the car. We look
over to the right. Well I looked over to the right,
and I see a guy and he's bobbing up and
down on the park bench and he's talking. And I said,
(16:40):
is that guy on the phone or is he talking
to an imaginary friend? My wife goes, it's an imaginary friend.
Let's get out of here. You can't tell when people
are on the phone, right, I said, yes, if you
don't see their earbuds. Yeah, a lot of times the
phone zombies kind of are like fentinel zombies and the
(17:02):
way they walk, they're walking really slow, their head is down,
they're a little bent over, and if they're talking, they're
on their phone. And then you have the actual zombies.
And this guy was I guess schizephratic, and he had
a friend next door. It looked like a friendly conversation.
Well at least he's not lonely. John. Yeah, I know,
maybe maybe that's not a bad place to be, as
(17:23):
long as said you know your friend is friendly. Yes,
you just stab you right right? Yeah, if your friend
tries to stab you that it's yeah. Uh so that's
that's the first thing we saw. So I'd say, oh,
we can't stay here, so our time, our re entry
time in Santa Monica lasted less than one minute. So
(17:44):
we go park in another place. And this is another
section of the Palisades that I think it's Palisades border
that in Sinemia they didn't burn and it doesn't face
the ocean. It faces a canyon. We walk there a
lot too parked the car. I look across to the
left this time, what's that guy doing. He's another guy.
(18:11):
He's in a co old car, sitting by himself and
it's piled from from Florida ceiling with junk. We get
out of the car because at least this guy is
contained inside his vehicle. He is not loose. So we say,
let's try to take a walk. Anyway. We walked to
(18:31):
the edge of the block. Third guy and this guy
uh is walking very fast and he's kind of jittering,
like he just took a snort or something. And this,
by the way, is a really expensive neighborhood, right, These
are all multi multimillion dollar homes. Has a gorgeous view
of the canyon down below. I can't believe the neighborhood
(18:56):
puts up with this. So this is this is This
is Santa Monica, west side of La and Santa Monica,
as we've told you, has been destroyed. One of the
favorite shopping places, walking places, social places, restaurants totally ruined.
And now I knew this eventually would happen, And this
(19:16):
is the moment of truth. You let so many businesses
move out, so few people go there. Now the tax
base collapses, and Santa Monica's collapsed. They have the highest
vacancy rates in La County, especially in the downtown area.
(19:38):
All the businesses moved out, and they got whacked at
least three ways. They got whacked because of the stupid
government shutting everything down during the pandemic, massive overreaction. They
didn't do it in Florida and Florida's thriving. Number two
was on George Floyd Riot Day. The police and officials
(20:01):
in Santa Monica allowed the rioters to destroy a lot
of businesses, both downtown and on the Third Street promenade.
It's like, oh, you're a George Floyd rioter, go ahead,
set that on fire over there, specially these windows. Take
anything you want. The police stood down, the Santa Monica
government ordered them to stand down. So the rioters, and
(20:25):
none of them gave a crap about George Floyd. This
was a chance to do what normally they do in
the dead and night. Now they did it at four
o'clock in the afternoon with the sun out. George Floyd,
spare me. Then they allowed all the vagrants, the mental patients,
the drug addicts, to wander around freely, locked out on drugs,
(20:50):
their mental illness fully blooming. So they scream and they
talk to themselves, and they shout at you, and occasionally
they killed quite a few people in Santa Monica, attack
people on the beaches, attack people in the parks. It's
like walking into a zoo, except there's no fences around
the animals. Would you walk into a zoo of wild
(21:13):
animals where there were no fences. No, that's what Santa
Monica is. It's a human zoo filled with mentally ill
animals and drug addicted animals. Imagine going to a zoo
where half the animals were mentally ill, half of them
were on drugs, and there was no fencing. There weren't
motes or anything to keep them from killing you. So
(21:33):
what happens They come to kill you. So now where
are they going to do? They have lost millions and
millions of tax revenue set uh the Santa Monica appear.
The crowds have thinned out, retail and office vacancies highest
in La County, highest in La County, especially downtown. So
(21:58):
the city is headed towards bankruptcy. Now, the city council
there's a new plan. They have been ultra far left
wing forever, but they have a city council made up
largely of young millennials, and uh, this crowd has done
(22:20):
a flip. I think we got to see. They have
a new plan. They're going to significantly increase police patrols.
Look at that. The only thing that makes an area
safe is having a lot of police. That's the only
(22:40):
thing they wouldn't do. They're going to enforce misdemeanor offenses,
so maybe when somebody takes a crap on the sidewalk,
the guy will be hauled off. They're going to invest
in infrastructure and community events. Oh get this, a more
business friendly approach to permits and fees. How about that?
(23:05):
Then you will be hassled for years before you can
open a business and be tax to tax and tax
with all kinds of stupid fees. They are They're going
to increase the number of police officers by at least
(23:29):
eight to ten a day in a specialized unit downtown,
five patrol officers, two homeless workers eight public safety employees.
They need more than two homeless workers. They're going to
make a three and a half million dollar investment, replace
(23:51):
sidewalks in streets, freshen up the trees of the trash cans.
You need about two hundred homeless workers, and the police
should accompany the homeless workers and tell the guy what
I said in the last segment. Want to go to
the mental patient clinic or the drug addiction clinic? Pick one,
(24:12):
pick both. Otherwise you go to the jail clinic and
you stay there, but no more outreach. I saw the
outreach in Santa Monica on the beach once. Two young kids,
like they're in the early twenties. It was like their
summer job. They're bouncing along on a beach cart and
they roll up to a guy that he's in a
(24:33):
bed roll laying on the beach and they kind of
move him a couple of times to wake them up
out of his drug Stupor would you like a peanut
butter sandwich? Honest to god, I stopped dead in my
track staring, would you like a peanut butter sandwich? Is everything? Okay?
I don't know what the guy said.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He was.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Probably threw up on their shoes and then they bounced
away on their little beach car. All right, yeah, that's outreach.
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
Who do we got coming up at three o'clock. That's
gonna be Alex Stone from ABC News, because once again
every year there's dangerous lookalike candy that people are gonna
be handing out on Halloween. What's it look like? What
is it going to do? We'll talk about that with
(25:32):
Alex Stone coming up after three o'clock. I remember, well,
we've had many stupid protests clogging up the freeways in
Los Angeles. There was one in December twenty three, December
twenty twenty three shut down of the southbound lanes of
the one ten Freeway right near downtown. And this one
(25:56):
was those Palestinian crazy The jew haters were out in
force from the Win ten Freeway. They protested, you know, Israel,
and by the way, it turned out pretty good for Israel,
(26:17):
not so good for Hamas. This is what happens when
you take the side of a murderous terrorist group against
the United States and Israel, You're gonna lose but this
protest block traffic. Some people started pouring out of their
cars and got into fights with the demonstrators, and what
(26:39):
happened on live television, which I think you know there
should be more of the Only way to stop these
demonstrations is to get out and defend your territory, because
it's not freedom of speech. That's that's a stupid I
wouldn't call it a misunderstanding, it's a non understanding of
(27:01):
how the laws and the constitution works. You could say
what you want, but you have no constitutional right to
block traffic on a major freeway none. In fact, protests
are fine if they're confined to certain public areas like
a park, and you're supposed to apply for a permit,
and you have a designated time in place to protest.
(27:23):
That's how it works in the civilized world. Here in
communist Los Angeles, though, Karen Vass doesn't enforce those laws,
and she lets all the crazy lunatics, no matter what
their stupid issue is, lock the freeways of normal people
who want to go to work. So, if you remember
(27:47):
December of twenty twenty three, these motorists poured out of
their cars, got into fights. Now we have this weird
little city attorney in La named Heidi Feldstein STOs Id
Feldstein Soto, and she charged many of the protesters with
unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, failure to comply with the
(28:10):
lawful order, obstruction of the street sidewalk, blah blah blah, misdemeanors.
How many are going to jail? Nobody, and the charges
may all be dropped. A judge is putting twenty nine
of the protesters into a diversion program. They have to
(28:34):
perform twenty hours of community service. Well, that's not going
to stop them from blocking the freeways the next time.
You can't even tell a lot of these people if
they really care about their protest or they're getting paid.
Like the No King's protest from last weekend, a lot
of those people were paid. Some of the journalists have
(28:55):
published documents on the internet showing the millions of dollars
dozens and dozens of organizations spent in order to fund
these fake protests. A lot of them were fake paid protesters.
In fact, one citizens journalist went up, took the video,
(29:15):
interviewed four people at a protest. Three out of the
four were paid. SI a small, tiny sample size, but
so excuse me. A judge put twenty nine protesters into
a twelve month diversion program. They each performed twenty hours
(29:35):
of community service. So is that the whole diversion program?
Twenty hours of community service over twelve months. I don't
know what is that? Fifteen minutes a week. If they
complete that service and obey the law, then the charges
will be dismissed. Their attorney, Colleen Flynn, who also seems
(29:58):
to be a nut, sent her client, we're motivated by
a moral duty to bring attention to the loss of
life and humanitarian crisis going on in Gaza, right because
nobody knew about it. This is two months after the
Hamas terrorists committed all those horrific atrocities. And I don't
(30:20):
know is that even in the news raise awareness another
one of those stupid phrases. And uh, but you know
nobody's going You know, if everybody went to jail for
a year, you'd stopped this nonsense, which is what ought
to happen. Nobody should be allowed to block a freeway.
You block a freeway that ought to be a felony
and go to prison for like five years or more more.
(30:45):
I talk about this the more harsh of the sentence,
I want, I I just don't. Nobody wants to enforce
any laws, Nobody wants anybody arrested. Nobody nobody's no laws
are in forest, nobody's put in jail. And so you
(31:06):
end up with the same absurdity week after week, month
after month, year after year. Maniacs paid maniacs screaming in
the streets, over all kinds of causes. Half of them
don't even know what. Don't even know what they're screaming about.
All right, Alex Stone Nicks from ABC News on this
dangerous Halloween candy that may be handed out this week.
(31:27):
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