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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The man you are about to hear from is well.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He would want me to say, was once upon a
time a literal male model. And if you don't believe me,
check his recent IG post.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I am q Ward.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You'll be able to see for yourself. I'm not making
that up. He is the Q in the QR code.
He goes by the name of.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Q Ward, the voice you just heard be lying no,
I'm not, he said, I would like him to say, no,
I wouldn't. Why would Why on earth would I like
you to say that?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, because was past tense. Eh.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The R in the QR code his name is rams's Jah.
Y'all forgive him because sometimes on these airwaves he'd be
lying to.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Y'all, I'm just bigging up my brother. Anyway, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're gonna be talking about how Letitia James has been
indicted for mortgage fraud from the Trump's Department of Justice.
But right now it is time for q wor It's
clap back, where we talk about how ice face coverings
have led to impersonators and bad actors Q.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
When law enforcement becomes indistinguishable from lawlessness, when power stops
identifying itself, then anyone can wear that uniform. Tonight, I
want to talk about something that's a little bit deeper,
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more sinister, and it should be more scary than policy,
something that cuts to the bone of what keeps the
society free versus what makes it afraid, which Rams and
I continue to echo is the whole point. Because when
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people who are supposed to enforce the law start moving
in the shadows, when they wear masks, when they refuse
to identify themselves, when they skip due process and act
like they're above the constitution, something shifts. Suddenly, law enforcement
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doesn't look like justice anymore. It looks like kidnapping, and
only sometimes with a government logo on their chest. Let's
be honest, Ice didn't start this way. They used to
at least pretend to respect process, you know, warrants, identification,
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some form of accountability.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
But now.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We see raids where agents are masked, nameless, unidentifiable, and
refuse to even present a warrant, storming into homes, crashing
into vans, and neighborhoods in the middle of the night,
and in those moments, there's no meaningful difference between an
arrest and an abduction. That blurred line is not an accident.
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It's the whole point, and this part should terrify everyone.
When law enforcement stops looking legitimate, it gets very easy
for bad actors to fake it. We've already started to
see cases of fake ice agents invading homes, harassing families,
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extorting people, people who are now too afraid to even
call the police for help. And even if they did,
how would anyone be able to tell the difference. When
real agents and criminals dress are like behave the same,
and refuse to identify themselves, what's less to distinguish them
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from one another. You can't expect the public to separate
the shadow from the state when the state chooses to
live in the shadows. Here's what happens next, and history
has shown this over and over again. When state power
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becomes illeligible, fear becomes the new law. People don't call
for help because they don't know who's going to show up.
Communities close their doors, Silence becomes a way to survive,
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and every knock at the door feels like a threat.
The most chilling part this is not just happening too,
and was never intended to just happen to undocumented immigrants.
ICE has already targeted, kidnapped, abducted, detained US citizens and
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called it misidentification. So yes, anyone can be next, because
this system that they've created has nothing to do with justice.
It's just about power, unchecked, unverified, unaccountable. This is straight
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out of the authoritarian playbook. Make our processes opaque, make
the uniforms generic, make the raids unpredictable, make accountability optional.
And when vigilantes or extremists start mimicking those same tactics,
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the government can shrug and say, well, we don't know
who did it. Once again, no concern for national security.
They are literally engineering chaos. This is how regimes turn
ordinary streets into hunting grounds. So here we are at
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the clapback. When the people with badgers stop proving who
they are, they stop deserving the power that they hold.
When the law moves like criminals, the law itself is
no longer safe. If anyone can wear the uniform, then
no one is safe under it. And when power hides
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behind mask, fear becomes the language of the land. We
deserve a system where the law is visible, accountable, distinguishable
from the lawlessness it claims to fight. Because of the
line between an arrest and the kidnapping disappears, then we're
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not talking about public safety anymore. We're talking about state manufactured,
state engineered, state sanctioned fear.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I've had the displeasure of actually reading those articles where
people were impersonating ICE agents and the victims of those impersonations,
and how dark and.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Grizzly those stories get.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And ICE seems to have zero accountability when it comes
to their tactics and the ripple effect. So yeah, and
now we're going to talk about Letitia James. She's been
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indicted for mortgage fraud from Trump's Department of Justice. All right,
this from bionnews dot com. A federal grand jury has
indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James from mortgage fraud,
marking another effort from President Donald Trump to target his
political adversaries. Percynn indictment against James was presented on Thursday,
October ninth by US Attorney Lindsay Halligan of the Eastern
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District of Virginia. In a video statement, James rejected the charges,
calling them a politically motivated attack. Trump has long targeted
James for her role in a civil fraud case that
resulted in a five hundred million dollar judgment against him
and his company, which was recently overturned on appeal.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
This is nothing more than a continuation of the President's
desperate weaponization of our justice system.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Unquote, James said.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
She goes on to say he is forcing federal law
enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did
my job as the New York State Attorney general. Quote.
James added that the charges were baseless and accused Trump
of a grave violation of our constitutional order. Details of
the indictment haven't been officially released, but the case reportedly
involves a twenty twenty one real estate transaction in Virginia.
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A grand jury has been investigating whether James has committed
fraud when she assisted her niece in purchasing a home.
One mortgage document listed James as intending to use the
property as her primary residence, qualifying the loan for better rates,
despite other emails and documents suggesting otherwise.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Elizabeth Ucey, a.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Veteran prosecutor in the same office, had previously concluded there
was no probable cause for charges, and had been preparing
to present that assessment to Halligan. However, after Halligan's appointment
last month, the case moved forward. Halligan defended the indictment
in a statement on Thursday. Quote the charges as alleged
in this case represent an intentional criminal act and tremendous
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breaches of the public's trust. The facts and the law
in this case are clear, and we will continue following them.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
To ensure that justice is served.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Halligan's appointment came after Trump criticized delays in prosecuting his
political opponents. Quote what about Comy, Adam, Shifty, Shift, Letitia,
They're all guilty as well, but nothing is going to
be done. We can't delay any longer. It's killing our
reputation and credibility unquote, the President wrote last month on
True Social James's indictment also comes just weeks after Halligan
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brought charges against former FBI director James Comy, despite career
prosecutors having concluded that there was insufficient evidence. It remains
unclear when James will appear in court or what specific
charges she faces. Quote the President's actions threaten not just me,
but the very foundations of justice in this country.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Unquote. James said Thursday.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Okay, So the short of it is that Letitia James,
uh what basically like co signed for a house for
her niece. One of the documents says that Letitia James
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was going to use the house as a primary residence.
All of the rest of the documents said that she
wasn't going to use it as her primary residence. They've
dug found this one document and they are using it
to suggest that Letitia James is a criminal. That's their words,
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criminal acts, right, and that justice needs to be served.
So for everybody that said that Donald Trump was the
victim of Joe Biden's Department of Justice and that Joe
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Biden was weaponizing the government to go after Donald Trump,
and that in and of itself was wrong, that Joe
Biden should not use the DOJ to go after his
political opponent, Donald Trump, I need to see that same
energy right now. I know I won't get it, but
I'm just pointing out your hypocrisy. Second of all, we
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actually know that Donald Trump did all of the stuff
that he did repeatedly for many years. It was the
tactic that was laying out in court. We know that
he was assaulting women and violating women. He said it himself.
I was watching an interview the other day with him
and Howard Stern. Howard Stern was making a joke about
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sexual predators, and then Howard Stern was like, actually, there's
sexual predator.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
They probably got to be worried about as you talking
to Donald Trump that.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Donald Trump's like, yeah, I guess you're right, you know
something like that, right, So the science have all been there,
then the evidence.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Was introduced, right.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So all you Trump people are doing is just showing
that you're committed to this man. You're not committed to
any consistent code. Otherwise you will ignore evidence that paints
Donald Trump in an accurate light, and you will uplift
and champion. I don't even know if you want to
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call this evidence. If you have four documents, three of
them say I'm not going to live there, one of
them says I'm going to live there. I would look
at that and say, okay, well, this might have been
a clerical error. Maybe pay a fine, you know what
I mean. But that's not a criminal It doesn't feel
like a criminal act, right, not for one house, you know,
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not for you know what, if you're a by the
book person, maybe it is okay, but where was that
energy when it came to Donald Trump? And if you're
not a buy the book person, then what's the big
deal here? And the only answer that you could give
me that satisfies this across the board is that you're
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in a cult and you will do anything that Donald
Trump says. That's my two cents. Q.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
What say?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Ye couldn't have said it better myself? That there is
no you said. If you're a by the book person,
then sure, but no, you can't be the buy the
book person and be the Trump supporter. The that'd be
an immediate conflict of interest. You're going to be a
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person that abides by the law, that holds people accountable,
that does things by the book, then this wouldn't be
your president. So, as usual, the rules only apply to
everyone else. Their president can do whatever he wants. He
can violate the Constitution, he can violate the Bible, he
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can violate them, their wives, their children. We've seen it.
He has supporters on the political level who he's insulted
to their faces and their wives, and they kiss up
to him to get an endorsement and to be his
friend and to play golf at his golf course. We
saw supporters tell their daughters that it's okay to be
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grabbed by the P word, just so they can continue
to support that man, not reassure their daughters that that's wrong,
they're reprehensible and disrespectful, and that they should never tolerate it. No, no, no, honey,
that's just a fact of life. That's just something that
you have to accept. Boys will be boys. So by
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the book, and what book.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
As you said, there's no cold, there's no line, there's
no ethics, there's no morals, there's no principles. There's whatever
he says, whatever he says is right, even if he
says something different tomorrow, even if he said something different yesterday.
Whatever he's saying we should think, however he's saying we
should vote, however he's telling us to feel. Whatever he
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says is right, whatever he says is wrong is what
we will adopt. That's the position, the mental state, that's gymnastic.
The line that his cult holds is that whatever he says,
whenever he says it is right. There is no law
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he could break that will make them change their mind.
There's no thing he could do that would change the
way they feel about their president, their leader, their savior.
He's their messiah character. He cannot be defamed, he cannot
be tarnished. He cannot say or do anything disgusting enough.
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Even when he says things that are offensive to the
very people that supports him, he insults them to their faces.
And like I said before, they wear his hat in
his T shirt and they wave his flag and they
applaud him while he robs from them and insults them.
He insults them to their faces. And they don't care
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because they got to own the libs and they got
to be right about how great Maga is. No matter
how many times it proves it's not.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It's funny because you remember we did that story where he's,
like Donald Trump said, smart people don't like me, and
I just wonder what it feels like to be a
person that actually likes him.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
He says, I do great with the poorly educated boom,
and he tells you how he feels about you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What a world we live in, man, What a world?
Who'd a thunk we had to end up here? But
here we are. Anyway that's going to do it for us?
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