June 2, 2025 • 35 mins
Jon Caldera fills in for Ryan Schuiling. In the first hour, Caldera reacts to yesterday's terrorist attack in Boulder and talks about the government's response.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good afternoon, mister Schuling, No key on, John Calvera, give
me a buzz three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven one three talk. Let's jump into it.
I live in Boulder. I've spent I don't know how
much time on the Pearl Street Mall over my many
many years, drunkenly, as a student, as a consumer, as
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a guy doing all sorts of things. The Pearl Street
Mall has always been the kind of gathering place and
it's it's one of the few pedestrian malls that seems
to work, although with more and more homeless even stores
and shops are having a harder time on the Pearl
Street mall. Smack dab in the Pearl Street Mall on
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this pedestrian mall and used to be a regular street
that cars would drive on. They blocked it off, they
bricked up the streets and people can walk on it
seems to work. Is the County Courthouse now, This is
the old style county courthouse, yellow brick made back I
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think in the thirties, especially given the hammer and sickle
insignia on the top. I am not joking. It was
probably a Depression works project. The original courthouse in Boulder
burned down I think in the late twenties or early thirties.
I forget, and they rebuilt one and over the door
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is a plaster mosaic. I don't know what it is called,
but of one guy using a hammer or an axe
and the other guy using a sickle not so subtle
hammer and sickle action. For those who can't read the
read that during the thirties there was a huge communist
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push and who knew it would take holden Boulders so well.
Boulder is home of of emoting. You cannot be a
Boulder right unless you are telling people why you are
better than them. And Boulder is meant for political demonstrations
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for some reason. They just love to get together and
wave signs. It's every day there are people out waving signs.
And one of the groups that does a little parade
does a thing, apparently it's been doing it for quite
some time, is a pro Jewish group. If I'm going
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to remember their name in just a second. And they
they do this peace walks, run for their lives. It's
called run for their Lives. And the Bolder chapter follows
the same route of what it calls a peace walk
and says, usually, you know, twenty five thirty people walk
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and cross paths with protesters, and they're there to support
Israel but also to demand the release of Israeli hostages
held by Hamas. Not a big deal. This is what
happens in Bolder. Instead of mowing your lawn, you protest.
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Instead of weeding your garden, you counter protest. And so
every week Run for their Lives does their peace walk,
and they're always run across the protesters because it's Bolder,
and they're all shouting free Palestine. So this has been
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become regular fair and in a way it's part of
what makes America great. Quite literally, on the courthouse lawn,
you've got people on both sides of an issue spouting
at each other. I don't think he either won doing
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much much good. But what do I know? Until yesterday?
Until yesterday when when this man Mohammed Sabriy Solomon ambushed
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eight people, He threw mall's off cocktails, he shouted free Palestine.
And this is Bolder. Of course, this happens in Bolder.
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Where else could it possibly happen other than Bolder? From
the Wall Street Journal, demand accused of using a flame thrower,
so get rid for more common sense flame thrower laws.
In an attack on a Jewish group in Bolder, told
investigators he had been planning it for a year because
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he quote wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished
they were all dead. Now, this is very uncomfortable for Bolder. One.
Violence of any kind is not the Bolder way got it.
But you see, the violence went the wrong way here.
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Boulder is a very pro Palestinian elitist college town that
doesn't want to support Israel. I'm just being general generalist here.
Boulder has a rather large pro Palestinian vibe to it.
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So imagine how long it's taken. What it takes for
people to say, wait a second, this was first an
active terror and it was directed at the Jews. I'll
tip my hat to our governor who was pretty quick
to say it when he put out his statements. The
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Boulder Mayer didn't say anything for hours upon hours. The
Boulder Democratic Party put out a statement said nothing about
the Palestinian issue, just condemned, condemned violence. Well, let me
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ask you a question. I do want to get some
answers on it. How much have we been feeding this?
Keep in mind we've had pro Palestinian nut jobs in
the state Capitol, member Representative Epps and Hernandez who had
little Palestinian flags on their desks in the State House.
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Even she was busy yelling from the gallery, disturbing their
work because she was so into that her Boulder is
a college town. And what confuses me here, maybe you
can help me out, is that Trump and conservatives are
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called fascists, They're called Nazis all the time. But yet
it's the left now pushing so much violence against Jews.
It is the most liberal members of Congress that are
the most pro Palestinian who want to turn their back
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on Israel. And let us not forget for just this
even a second. Without American support, Israel ceases to exist.
America has always been the strong ally of Israel. I
feel that changing. I feel that slipping, and when that ends,
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it's not going to be a pretty thing. Mohammed Salbury
Solomon charged with a federal hate crime in Sundays afternoons
ambush that left eight people injured, some with burns. Witnesses
said they heard Solomon yell free Palestine before throwing molotov
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cocktails plural into the crowd. Demonstrating on the popular Pearl
Street pedestrian mall. HM Wall Street Journal says the attack
sent shockwaves through the college, known as a welcome and
tolerant community, home to the state's flagship university. What a
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for a bunch of bull crap? That is, Boulder is
not welcoming, Boulder is not tolerant. Bolder, I believe, is
the most hateful city in the state. If you are
a gun owner, there is no tolerance for you. If
you are a limited government person, there is no tolerance
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for you. Oh and by the way, if you're Jewish,
I don't really don't know how much tolerance there is.
So that line was obviously written by somebody who went
on the line and found the talking points, but not
somebody who's been to Colorado and understands just how remarkably
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remarkably hateful Colorado or Boldriz without a doubt. Oh and
then there's this little part. Who is this guy? Give
me a call three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven to one three talk. He's here illegally.
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What a great treat this is. He's here from Egypt
on an expired visa. That's right, he entered the US
in August of twenty two. He has a B two visa.
Those usually go for about six months. It is a
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tourist visa. H It expired in February two thousand and three.
Let me say that again, February two thousand and three,
a six month visa for nearly a two and a
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half years. This guy has been in our country illegally. Hmm.
This part is interesting. He has filed for asylum. Does
that mean he's legal to stay? No? Well, no, not
without a visa. As I understand it, Solomon had been
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living with his wife and five children about one hundred
miles south of Boulder in Colorado Springs. What he couldn't
find any Jewish sympathizers zionists to kill in Colorado Springs,
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The court document says he was waiting for his daughter
to graduate before executing the attack, telling an investigators, he
researched how to make molotov cocktails on YouTube and targeted
the group Run for Their Lives, which advocates for hostages
being held in Gaza. After learning about the event online,
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he arrived about five minutes early and waited for them.
Solomon said, quote, he did this because he hated this group.
But he just learned about this group and needed to
stop them from taking over our land, which he explained
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as Palestine. All right, So let me see if I've
got this right. The King Soupers, where I shop regularly,
where my daughter would have been if she didn't mess
up her schedule the day of the Bolder King Soupers shooting.
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That was also somebody from out of town. It also
had some hints of it being Islamic or jihadist or fundamentalist.
That was never proven, was never used, and the prosecutors
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in the trial never used it because it wouldn't garner
any sympathy in Bolder. But get in these two, in
these two instances of massive violence, of just ugliness, who
aren't even Bolder rights going nuts in their own town.
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These were Muslims coming into Bolder to commit violence, knowing,
knowing full well, we can't defend ourselves legally in Bolder.
Concealed carry permits no longer allow you to carry in malls.
I don't know if that means the the Pearl Street
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mall or King Supers. Certainly it is getting more and
more weird. Why attack Boulder? All right? Three h three
seven one three eight two five five. I like to
hear folks from the Jewish community and from the Muslim
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community as well. Why did it take so long for
people to say this was an act of terror? It
seemed as though the Feds were willing to say it
a lot faster than the Bolder police were willing to
say it. How long did it take for Bolder police
to get to the scene. By the way, this is
the same issue I have after the shooting. There was
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about forty five minutes in the King Supers shooting after
the first bullets fly flew when the first comps went in,
one got shot dead, the rest left, and then there
was about forty five minutes where police did not engage
the shooter. We've never really gotten answers for what happened,
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but a lot of it was they were waiting for
the toys to arrive. They needed to get, you know,
the robot. They needed to get the tank. Heaven forbid,
We've got to have the tank so the tank would
come and knock in the front. That's how they were
going to do it. So I'm scrolling through it, I'm
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looking at the Wall Street Journal, and I see a
picture of the robot. Law enforcement officials investigate after the incident.
So they got the bomb robot. You know, it looks
like the the Mars rover, and it's and the swat
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guys are all swatted up. The tank is there because
the tank needs to be there. It's as if we
have these toys and we have to force them into
situations whether or not they're needed. Instead of hiring more people,
we hire more toys, a lot of it, because we
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get federal grants for this stuff, and then we've got
to hire people to man the toys. And then when
we need the people, they don't want to play without
the toys, and they love putting these things on display.
I would rather have a couple more cops on the
ground than another robot. I asked the bomb squad once
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they were out showing the robot, and I said, have
you ever used this? And he said, oh, yeah, we've
picked up We've had to get grenade. Sometimes you find
a grenade someplace, an old grenade which may or may
not be active. What do you do with the grenade? Oh,
we have to give it to the military and they
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dispose of it. Does the military come and get it, Oh?
If they would, So you could just leave it alone
and let the military come and get the old antique grenade.
But it's a toy that isn't used the situation van
They've got a whole mobile headquarters that I'm sure is
now parked outside of the courthouse where they can communicate
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with this, that and the other thing. And I'm not
saying it's bad to have that. I'm just saying when
you have tanks sometimes it gets in the way of
regular old fashioned police work like being there. And when
you take away people's right to defend themselves to carry arms,
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guys like this can get away with crimes like that,
and the same thing with a shooter and king soupers
up and Boulder. This is my hometown. I have been
there since nineteen eighty four. I have been in Colorado
since well nearly all my life. And I wonder what
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is it about Boulder three h three seven one three
eight two five five seven to one three talk. I'm
curious about that. What does this tell you? What does
it tell you that guys come from one hundred miles
away to blow up Jews in Bolder? What does it
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say that we have such an immigration system that this
guy has been past his visa for two and a
half years and is still in the country. I love
the comment that he was planning to do this but
had to wait until his daughter graduated. What's the real story,
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and why is it that we keep talking about Well
we can. We don't condone this hate, we don't condone
this violence. How about no, we stand up for the
people of Israel instead. I don't hear our leaders saying
that keep it here. You're on six thirty k how
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thirty two minutes after? I'm John Caldera give me a
call three h three seven to one, three eight two
five five trying to make some sense of the dysfunction
that is my hometown of Boulder, which is not a
tolerant place, which is not a diverse place, it is
a pro Palestinian place. And I'm wondering why we don't
have the discussion of what's really behind what happened yesterday
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on bad immigration enforcement. Lets these people stay in the
United States. And two, I want our leaders to say
this is not just wrong because it's violent. They are
trying to intimidate us to stop supporting Israel, and we
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won't do that. All right, let's go to the phones.
Bill welcome you with John Caldera. Glad to have you
on K.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
How Hi John. Why, For the life of me, I
can't figure out why you still live up there. But
that's a whole nother discussion.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I was there first, you were there, There you go.
I tried to stop there for just a second because
I do think about that. And my kids went to
school there. My son gets some pretty good services up there,
and that's important. He has a community of other handicapped
folks that he's hangs out with, so he's got roots.
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That's important. But there's also this just plain feeling of
wait a second, I moved a boulder. I've been in
Colorado nearly all my life. I was there before they
became intolerant. I was there before it was full of
rich people up in each other's business. And there's just
something that rubs me the wrong way that I've got
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to leave because you are intolerant. No, screw you, I'm
staying right here and you don't like me tough, and
that's you know, there's that whole sense of you know,
people who are leaving Colorado for the same reason. I
don't want to do that. I don't want to be
that person. I don't want them to drive me out.
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I don't know if I can keep that up forever,
but boy, it just it just bothers me that they
can be so intolerant that they make a guy like
me leave, If that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mean love, I love listening to you because it's
during the break. I'm trying to put together some thoughts
and one just popped out. It's like we can't And
I'm hoping that this lunatic that came from El Paso
County drove all the way up the Boulder. You know
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that there are you know, little covens and pockets up
there that are you know, saying, man, he had, he
had the colonies to do well, we haven't done right.
I mean that's the way it seems. But I've been
here for twenty five years, not in Boulder, but you
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have to go to you have to go up there
on a fairly frequent basis. And I for the you said,
how do we put sense to this? How do we
how do we try and make sense to it? I
don't think you can. It is the hotbed for those
who worship Sololenski, and they go there to learn how
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to put his theories into practice.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Many of them are putting his theories to practice, but
don't realize that they are the useful idiots in a
Solosky plan.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right, And is it lost on them that our governor
is Jewish and the first lady man is Jewish? I mean,
how does the I mean the bottom line is not
using a good word here, but it's successful.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And the only thing you give it. By the way,
I don't think it's fair to call uh Marlon Reese
the first lady gentleman or whatever it was. He's the
first gentleman. They're married. I can I respect that. I
disagree with him on all sorts of issues, including animal
rights Marlon, but I've met him. He's a decent guy.
And you know, no, we're not. Yes, we have a
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we have a gay Jewish governor, but I don't even know.
I don't even know if Polists could be elected anymore.
I just don't know if the state has gone even
past Polis level of progressivism.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, you know, in some ways that's good because just
thinking militaristically, Boulder is not in a very good geographic location.
You got ninety three going north and south, and you
got thirty six come in they.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Live in a bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I mean, if anything were to be need to be done,
and I'll stop that tangent. But what really gets me,
even though he's probably not a practicing Kosher Jew, the
cognitive dissonance between these people that promote this sort of
thing and cheer for him. You know, they're cheering. They're
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cheering for this guy behind closed doors because he did
what they didn't they couldn't do, and not putting him
on a pedestal. He's a lunatic. But they don't even
understand the cognitive dissonance that they have in living out
their lives the way they do up there. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
During the cognitive distance is it is palpable without a doubt. Also,
let's let's talk a little bit about they're anti anti
gun laws and Boulder. Now, as a gunny myself, I
am hated in Boulder, and I the idea that there's
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tolerance or diversity. No, not if you're a gun owner.
They hate you. They will they want you gone, they
will take away your stuff, they will register you. No,
they're they're they're hateful. But wait a second, this act
of violence wasn't done with a gun. The acts of
violence in England are done with knives. This guy is
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using gasoline. What are we going to do next? Will
Boulder have a three day waiting period to get gasoline?
Will there be some sort of registration that you'll need
to fill out? How to when you when you fill up? What?
What are they gonna do? I bet there's going to
be a law against flame throwers in the next legislative session.
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I mark my words, that is what they're going to do.
They're gonna say we can't have flame throwers, as if
it's gonna do anything that. If this doesn't wake people
up that violence isn't caused by the weapon. Violence is
caused by politics, and violent is caused by not enforcing
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laws against criminals, including this guy who wasn't supposed to
be here. He should have been deported two years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm just waiting for them to trot out the hashtag
they did after the Kroger incident and thank god your
daughter wasn't there, but it came out almost immediately. Bould
or Strong. There's not a town along the corridor that's
more weak than Boulder.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
As measured by what week, as measured by what?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
How do I word this? People that don't even realize
that they are in danger. The people in Kroger, they
had no idea. They couldn't recognize the fact that they
are totally defenseless. The people. Okay, so God bless these people.
They want to exercise their First Amendment right to go
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out and and protest peacefully. That's fantastic, very hot button topic.
Whether or not this idiot drives up from Malpasso County
or not, you would think, man, in this day and age,
in the political climate that we live in today, this
might be a dangerous thing to do. And I have
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no way to protect myself in this county, in this
city because they've made us all so weak and unable
to defend ourselves.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Thanks for the phone call. Thank you. I understand what
you're trying to say. It is a difficult thing to articulate.
Bolder is disempowering people, taking away their right to self defense.
Bolder is also, let's put it quite honestly, feeding an
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anti Israel Therefore anti Jewish sentiment. Boulder pushes a pro
Palestinian point of view. Now, part of that is just
what happens on every college campus. But I don't understand why,
and I don't understand why we would be surprised when
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something like this happens. As the pro Palestinian movement continues
to grow in the United States, and what kind of
what kind of Mamsie Pamsey response do we get from
our elected officials? They all say, we denounce violence. How
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about this, we denounce Palestinian protesters. How about this, we
denounce those who want to kill Jews. How about we
say this that it's not it's not trumpy racist KKK
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members that are the anti Semites of today. No, it
is the intelligentsia, it is the academics, it is the left.
The left is anti Semitic, the left hates Jews. Can
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we say this, where where are the mosques? Where are
the people of Muslim faith? Where are they in this?
It's kind of like when some ultra Christian whack job
tries to blow up an abortion clinic and they say, well,
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we're just doing God's will. Well, they're not throwing gasoline
on anybody. They blow up a clinic when when nobody's there.
That used to be the model, and Christians have a
responsibility to stand up and go I am not with them.
That is not how you handle this if if the
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Muslim community is saying that, I'm not hearing it. I'm
not hearing the Muslim community step up and say we
disagree with this guy. We are not anti Zionist. We
don't want to see Jews dead. Three h three seven
one three eight two five five seven to one three talk.
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I went to a special viewing that the Israeli Consulate
put on of video from October sixth during the Hamas
attack on Israel. I got to see the horror, the horror.
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I got to see the translation of a guy calling
his parents saying I've killed seven Jews today, I've killed
seven Jews, and the mom crying with pride. Yes. Yeah.
Boulder keeps saying we're a tolerant community. One Boulder isn't tolerant.
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And if Boulder is tolerant, they're tolerant of the wrong things.
Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here,
six point thirty k how call three oh three seven
one three eight two five five. People of the Jewish faith?
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Do you feel safe in Colorado? Do you feel safe
in Bolder? Do you sense hostility towards you? Do you feel,
I don't know, persecuted. Would that be the right question?
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Would you feel comfortable hanging out in Boulder or do
you feel viscerally you are not really welcome in that tolerant,
welcoming community. I've been in Boulder since eighty oh my god,
eighty four. You know what, I have never felt more
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unwelcome in a place than I do right now in Boulder.
As a conservative, as a libertarian, as a gun owner,
as someone with a different ideology. I am not welcomed
there at all. All right, let's get to the phones.
Let's talk to Wes. Wes welcome. You're with John Caldera.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Hey, John, got to give you credit for stand up
and the people of Republic of Boulder for as long
as you've had. But you know, I've got a question.
So you know, the the stuff that has come out
when Poula said we don't tolerate, you know, condone any
kind of this kind of violence. Is there any violence
that's really you condone? I mean, do you ever hear
somebody come out and say, well, you know, we condone that,
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but that guy the crap beat out of him, and
so we're going to condone that. But what My big
question I have is when you pair and all this
stuff you know from the so called non senctuary sitting
that Denver is and and Boulder and everybody and in
every place else, how long before you know, we know
that our our our judicial system doesn't work. When you're
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talking everything from pr bonds and everything else, the cops
can't do anything. How long before somebody gets injures the
wrong person, kills the wrong person, whatever a family member
doesn't start, you don't start to see some vigilanting justice.
I mean, if the cops can't do anything, and this,
you know, when these guys do get arrested and they're
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right back down on the street, how long before we
it comes to that where we you know, Charles Bronson
type thing, you know, to where people are going around
saying that the cops won't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I will.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
You know, it's kind of scary to think. I hope
something like that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
But no, But but I know what you mean, and
it's harder and harder to do. Charles Bronson could go
and get even but there wasn't a whole bunch of
CCTV cameras and ring doorbell cameras everywhere he went. The
fact of the matter is we're not safe in Colorado
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and it has political reasons. Immigration, lax on crime, taking
away our guns. It's going to lead to more violence.
Back after the news
Good afternoon, mister Schuling, No key on, John Calvera, give
me a buzz three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven one three talk. Let's jump into it.
I live in Boulder. I've spent I don't know how
much time on the Pearl Street Mall over my many
many years, drunkenly, as a student, as a consumer, as
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a guy doing all sorts of things. The Pearl Street
Mall has always been the kind of gathering place and
it's it's one of the few pedestrian malls that seems
to work, although with more and more homeless even stores
and shops are having a harder time on the Pearl
Street mall. Smack dab in the Pearl Street Mall on
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this pedestrian mall and used to be a regular street
that cars would drive on. They blocked it off, they
bricked up the streets and people can walk on it
seems to work. Is the County Courthouse now, This is
the old style county courthouse, yellow brick made back I
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think in the thirties, especially given the hammer and sickle
insignia on the top. I am not joking. It was
probably a Depression works project. The original courthouse in Boulder
burned down I think in the late twenties or early thirties.
I forget, and they rebuilt one and over the door
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is a plaster mosaic. I don't know what it is called,
but of one guy using a hammer or an axe
and the other guy using a sickle not so subtle
hammer and sickle action. For those who can't read the
read that during the thirties there was a huge communist
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push and who knew it would take holden Boulders so well.
Boulder is home of of emoting. You cannot be a
Boulder right unless you are telling people why you are
better than them. And Boulder is meant for political demonstrations
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for some reason. They just love to get together and
wave signs. It's every day there are people out waving signs.
And one of the groups that does a little parade
does a thing, apparently it's been doing it for quite
some time, is a pro Jewish group. If I'm going
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to remember their name in just a second. And they
they do this peace walks, run for their lives. It's
called run for their Lives. And the Bolder chapter follows
the same route of what it calls a peace walk
and says, usually, you know, twenty five thirty people walk
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and cross paths with protesters, and they're there to support
Israel but also to demand the release of Israeli hostages
held by Hamas. Not a big deal. This is what
happens in Bolder. Instead of mowing your lawn, you protest.
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Instead of weeding your garden, you counter protest. And so
every week Run for their Lives does their peace walk,
and they're always run across the protesters because it's Bolder,
and they're all shouting free Palestine. So this has been
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become regular fair and in a way it's part of
what makes America great. Quite literally, on the courthouse lawn,
you've got people on both sides of an issue spouting
at each other. I don't think he either won doing
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much much good. But what do I know? Until yesterday?
Until yesterday when when this man Mohammed Sabriy Solomon ambushed
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eight people, He threw mall's off cocktails, he shouted free Palestine.
And this is Bolder. Of course, this happens in Bolder.
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Where else could it possibly happen other than Bolder? From
the Wall Street Journal, demand accused of using a flame thrower,
so get rid for more common sense flame thrower laws.
In an attack on a Jewish group in Bolder, told
investigators he had been planning it for a year because
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he quote wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished
they were all dead. Now, this is very uncomfortable for Bolder. One.
Violence of any kind is not the Bolder way got it.
But you see, the violence went the wrong way here.
(05:37):
Boulder is a very pro Palestinian elitist college town that
doesn't want to support Israel. I'm just being general generalist here.
Boulder has a rather large pro Palestinian vibe to it.
(06:01):
So imagine how long it's taken. What it takes for
people to say, wait a second, this was first an
active terror and it was directed at the Jews. I'll
tip my hat to our governor who was pretty quick
to say it when he put out his statements. The
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Boulder Mayer didn't say anything for hours upon hours. The
Boulder Democratic Party put out a statement said nothing about
the Palestinian issue, just condemned, condemned violence. Well, let me
(06:44):
ask you a question. I do want to get some
answers on it. How much have we been feeding this?
Keep in mind we've had pro Palestinian nut jobs in
the state Capitol, member Representative Epps and Hernandez who had
little Palestinian flags on their desks in the State House.
(07:10):
Even she was busy yelling from the gallery, disturbing their
work because she was so into that her Boulder is
a college town. And what confuses me here, maybe you
can help me out, is that Trump and conservatives are
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called fascists, They're called Nazis all the time. But yet
it's the left now pushing so much violence against Jews.
It is the most liberal members of Congress that are
the most pro Palestinian who want to turn their back
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on Israel. And let us not forget for just this
even a second. Without American support, Israel ceases to exist.
America has always been the strong ally of Israel. I
feel that changing. I feel that slipping, and when that ends,
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it's not going to be a pretty thing. Mohammed Salbury
Solomon charged with a federal hate crime in Sundays afternoons
ambush that left eight people injured, some with burns. Witnesses
said they heard Solomon yell free Palestine before throwing molotov
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cocktails plural into the crowd. Demonstrating on the popular Pearl
Street pedestrian mall. HM Wall Street Journal says the attack
sent shockwaves through the college, known as a welcome and
tolerant community, home to the state's flagship university. What a
(09:09):
for a bunch of bull crap? That is, Boulder is
not welcoming, Boulder is not tolerant. Bolder, I believe, is
the most hateful city in the state. If you are
a gun owner, there is no tolerance for you. If
you are a limited government person, there is no tolerance
(09:31):
for you. Oh and by the way, if you're Jewish,
I don't really don't know how much tolerance there is.
So that line was obviously written by somebody who went
on the line and found the talking points, but not
somebody who's been to Colorado and understands just how remarkably
(09:58):
remarkably hateful Colorado or Boldriz without a doubt. Oh and
then there's this little part. Who is this guy? Give
me a call three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven to one three talk. He's here illegally.
(10:20):
What a great treat this is. He's here from Egypt
on an expired visa. That's right, he entered the US
in August of twenty two. He has a B two visa.
Those usually go for about six months. It is a
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tourist visa. H It expired in February two thousand and three.
Let me say that again, February two thousand and three,
a six month visa for nearly a two and a
(11:03):
half years. This guy has been in our country illegally. Hmm.
This part is interesting. He has filed for asylum. Does
that mean he's legal to stay? No? Well, no, not
without a visa. As I understand it, Solomon had been
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living with his wife and five children about one hundred
miles south of Boulder in Colorado Springs. What he couldn't
find any Jewish sympathizers zionists to kill in Colorado Springs,
(11:52):
The court document says he was waiting for his daughter
to graduate before executing the attack, telling an investigators, he
researched how to make molotov cocktails on YouTube and targeted
the group Run for Their Lives, which advocates for hostages
being held in Gaza. After learning about the event online,
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he arrived about five minutes early and waited for them.
Solomon said, quote, he did this because he hated this group.
But he just learned about this group and needed to
stop them from taking over our land, which he explained
(12:38):
as Palestine. All right, So let me see if I've
got this right. The King Soupers, where I shop regularly,
where my daughter would have been if she didn't mess
up her schedule the day of the Bolder King Soupers shooting.
(12:58):
That was also somebody from out of town. It also
had some hints of it being Islamic or jihadist or fundamentalist.
That was never proven, was never used, and the prosecutors
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in the trial never used it because it wouldn't garner
any sympathy in Bolder. But get in these two, in
these two instances of massive violence, of just ugliness, who
aren't even Bolder rights going nuts in their own town.
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These were Muslims coming into Bolder to commit violence, knowing,
knowing full well, we can't defend ourselves legally in Bolder.
Concealed carry permits no longer allow you to carry in malls.
I don't know if that means the the Pearl Street
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mall or King Supers. Certainly it is getting more and
more weird. Why attack Boulder? All right? Three h three
seven one three eight two five five. I like to
hear folks from the Jewish community and from the Muslim
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community as well. Why did it take so long for
people to say this was an act of terror? It
seemed as though the Feds were willing to say it
a lot faster than the Bolder police were willing to
say it. How long did it take for Bolder police
to get to the scene. By the way, this is
the same issue I have after the shooting. There was
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about forty five minutes in the King Supers shooting after
the first bullets fly flew when the first comps went in,
one got shot dead, the rest left, and then there
was about forty five minutes where police did not engage
the shooter. We've never really gotten answers for what happened,
(15:20):
but a lot of it was they were waiting for
the toys to arrive. They needed to get, you know,
the robot. They needed to get the tank. Heaven forbid,
We've got to have the tank so the tank would
come and knock in the front. That's how they were
going to do it. So I'm scrolling through it, I'm
(15:41):
looking at the Wall Street Journal, and I see a
picture of the robot. Law enforcement officials investigate after the incident.
So they got the bomb robot. You know, it looks
like the the Mars rover, and it's and the swat
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guys are all swatted up. The tank is there because
the tank needs to be there. It's as if we
have these toys and we have to force them into
situations whether or not they're needed. Instead of hiring more people,
we hire more toys, a lot of it, because we
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get federal grants for this stuff, and then we've got
to hire people to man the toys. And then when
we need the people, they don't want to play without
the toys, and they love putting these things on display.
I would rather have a couple more cops on the
ground than another robot. I asked the bomb squad once
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they were out showing the robot, and I said, have
you ever used this? And he said, oh, yeah, we've
picked up We've had to get grenade. Sometimes you find
a grenade someplace, an old grenade which may or may
not be active. What do you do with the grenade? Oh,
we have to give it to the military and they
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dispose of it. Does the military come and get it, Oh?
If they would, So you could just leave it alone
and let the military come and get the old antique grenade.
But it's a toy that isn't used the situation van
They've got a whole mobile headquarters that I'm sure is
now parked outside of the courthouse where they can communicate
(17:37):
with this, that and the other thing. And I'm not
saying it's bad to have that. I'm just saying when
you have tanks sometimes it gets in the way of
regular old fashioned police work like being there. And when
you take away people's right to defend themselves to carry arms,
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guys like this can get away with crimes like that,
and the same thing with a shooter and king soupers
up and Boulder. This is my hometown. I have been
there since nineteen eighty four. I have been in Colorado
since well nearly all my life. And I wonder what
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is it about Boulder three h three seven one three
eight two five five seven to one three talk. I'm
curious about that. What does this tell you? What does
it tell you that guys come from one hundred miles
away to blow up Jews in Bolder? What does it
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say that we have such an immigration system that this
guy has been past his visa for two and a
half years and is still in the country. I love
the comment that he was planning to do this but
had to wait until his daughter graduated. What's the real story,
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and why is it that we keep talking about Well
we can. We don't condone this hate, we don't condone
this violence. How about no, we stand up for the
people of Israel instead. I don't hear our leaders saying
that keep it here. You're on six thirty k how
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thirty two minutes after? I'm John Caldera give me a
call three h three seven to one, three eight two
five five trying to make some sense of the dysfunction
that is my hometown of Boulder, which is not a
tolerant place, which is not a diverse place, it is
a pro Palestinian place. And I'm wondering why we don't
have the discussion of what's really behind what happened yesterday
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on bad immigration enforcement. Lets these people stay in the
United States. And two, I want our leaders to say
this is not just wrong because it's violent. They are
trying to intimidate us to stop supporting Israel, and we
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won't do that. All right, let's go to the phones.
Bill welcome you with John Caldera. Glad to have you
on K.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
How Hi John. Why, For the life of me, I
can't figure out why you still live up there. But
that's a whole nother discussion.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I was there first, you were there, There you go.
I tried to stop there for just a second because
I do think about that. And my kids went to
school there. My son gets some pretty good services up there,
and that's important. He has a community of other handicapped
folks that he's hangs out with, so he's got roots.
(21:04):
That's important. But there's also this just plain feeling of
wait a second, I moved a boulder. I've been in
Colorado nearly all my life. I was there before they
became intolerant. I was there before it was full of
rich people up in each other's business. And there's just
something that rubs me the wrong way that I've got
(21:24):
to leave because you are intolerant. No, screw you, I'm
staying right here and you don't like me tough, and
that's you know, there's that whole sense of you know,
people who are leaving Colorado for the same reason. I
don't want to do that. I don't want to be
that person. I don't want them to drive me out.
(21:45):
I don't know if I can keep that up forever,
but boy, it just it just bothers me that they
can be so intolerant that they make a guy like
me leave, If that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mean love, I love listening to you because it's
during the break. I'm trying to put together some thoughts
and one just popped out. It's like we can't And
I'm hoping that this lunatic that came from El Paso
County drove all the way up the Boulder. You know
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that there are you know, little covens and pockets up
there that are you know, saying, man, he had, he
had the colonies to do well, we haven't done right.
I mean that's the way it seems. But I've been
here for twenty five years, not in Boulder, but you
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have to go to you have to go up there
on a fairly frequent basis. And I for the you said,
how do we put sense to this? How do we
how do we try and make sense to it? I
don't think you can. It is the hotbed for those
who worship Sololenski, and they go there to learn how
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to put his theories into practice.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Many of them are putting his theories to practice, but
don't realize that they are the useful idiots in a
Solosky plan.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right, And is it lost on them that our governor
is Jewish and the first lady man is Jewish? I mean,
how does the I mean the bottom line is not
using a good word here, but it's successful.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And the only thing you give it. By the way,
I don't think it's fair to call uh Marlon Reese
the first lady gentleman or whatever it was. He's the
first gentleman. They're married. I can I respect that. I
disagree with him on all sorts of issues, including animal
rights Marlon, but I've met him. He's a decent guy.
And you know, no, we're not. Yes, we have a
(24:05):
we have a gay Jewish governor, but I don't even know.
I don't even know if Polists could be elected anymore.
I just don't know if the state has gone even
past Polis level of progressivism.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, you know, in some ways that's good because just
thinking militaristically, Boulder is not in a very good geographic location.
You got ninety three going north and south, and you
got thirty six come in they.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Live in a bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I mean, if anything were to be need to be done,
and I'll stop that tangent. But what really gets me,
even though he's probably not a practicing Kosher Jew, the
cognitive dissonance between these people that promote this sort of
thing and cheer for him. You know, they're cheering. They're
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cheering for this guy behind closed doors because he did
what they didn't they couldn't do, and not putting him
on a pedestal. He's a lunatic. But they don't even
understand the cognitive dissonance that they have in living out
their lives the way they do up there. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
During the cognitive distance is it is palpable without a doubt. Also,
let's let's talk a little bit about they're anti anti
gun laws and Boulder. Now, as a gunny myself, I
am hated in Boulder, and I the idea that there's
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tolerance or diversity. No, not if you're a gun owner.
They hate you. They will they want you gone, they
will take away your stuff, they will register you. No,
they're they're they're hateful. But wait a second, this act
of violence wasn't done with a gun. The acts of
violence in England are done with knives. This guy is
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using gasoline. What are we going to do next? Will
Boulder have a three day waiting period to get gasoline?
Will there be some sort of registration that you'll need
to fill out? How to when you when you fill up? What?
What are they gonna do? I bet there's going to
be a law against flame throwers in the next legislative session.
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I mark my words, that is what they're going to do.
They're gonna say we can't have flame throwers, as if
it's gonna do anything that. If this doesn't wake people
up that violence isn't caused by the weapon. Violence is
caused by politics, and violent is caused by not enforcing
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laws against criminals, including this guy who wasn't supposed to
be here. He should have been deported two years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm just waiting for them to trot out the hashtag
they did after the Kroger incident and thank god your
daughter wasn't there, but it came out almost immediately. Bould
or Strong. There's not a town along the corridor that's
more weak than Boulder.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
As measured by what week, as measured by what?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
How do I word this? People that don't even realize
that they are in danger. The people in Kroger, they
had no idea. They couldn't recognize the fact that they
are totally defenseless. The people. Okay, so God bless these people.
They want to exercise their First Amendment right to go
(27:59):
out and and protest peacefully. That's fantastic, very hot button topic.
Whether or not this idiot drives up from Malpasso County
or not, you would think, man, in this day and age,
in the political climate that we live in today, this
might be a dangerous thing to do. And I have
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no way to protect myself in this county, in this
city because they've made us all so weak and unable
to defend ourselves.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Thanks for the phone call. Thank you. I understand what
you're trying to say. It is a difficult thing to articulate.
Bolder is disempowering people, taking away their right to self defense.
Bolder is also, let's put it quite honestly, feeding an
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anti Israel Therefore anti Jewish sentiment. Boulder pushes a pro
Palestinian point of view. Now, part of that is just
what happens on every college campus. But I don't understand why,
and I don't understand why we would be surprised when
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something like this happens. As the pro Palestinian movement continues
to grow in the United States, and what kind of
what kind of Mamsie Pamsey response do we get from
our elected officials? They all say, we denounce violence. How
(29:44):
about this, we denounce Palestinian protesters. How about this, we
denounce those who want to kill Jews. How about we
say this that it's not it's not trumpy racist KKK
(30:07):
members that are the anti Semites of today. No, it
is the intelligentsia, it is the academics, it is the left.
The left is anti Semitic, the left hates Jews. Can
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we say this, where where are the mosques? Where are
the people of Muslim faith? Where are they in this?
It's kind of like when some ultra Christian whack job
tries to blow up an abortion clinic and they say, well,
(30:51):
we're just doing God's will. Well, they're not throwing gasoline
on anybody. They blow up a clinic when when nobody's there.
That used to be the model, and Christians have a
responsibility to stand up and go I am not with them.
That is not how you handle this if if the
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Muslim community is saying that, I'm not hearing it. I'm
not hearing the Muslim community step up and say we
disagree with this guy. We are not anti Zionist. We
don't want to see Jews dead. Three h three seven
one three eight two five five seven to one three talk.
(31:40):
I went to a special viewing that the Israeli Consulate
put on of video from October sixth during the Hamas
attack on Israel. I got to see the horror, the horror.
(32:01):
I got to see the translation of a guy calling
his parents saying I've killed seven Jews today, I've killed
seven Jews, and the mom crying with pride. Yes. Yeah.
Boulder keeps saying we're a tolerant community. One Boulder isn't tolerant.
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And if Boulder is tolerant, they're tolerant of the wrong things.
Give me a call. Three h three seven one three
eight two five five. I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here,
six point thirty k how call three oh three seven
one three eight two five five. People of the Jewish faith?
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Do you feel safe in Colorado? Do you feel safe
in Bolder? Do you sense hostility towards you? Do you feel,
I don't know, persecuted. Would that be the right question?
(33:07):
Would you feel comfortable hanging out in Boulder or do
you feel viscerally you are not really welcome in that tolerant,
welcoming community. I've been in Boulder since eighty oh my god,
eighty four. You know what, I have never felt more
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unwelcome in a place than I do right now in Boulder.
As a conservative, as a libertarian, as a gun owner,
as someone with a different ideology. I am not welcomed
there at all. All right, let's get to the phones.
Let's talk to Wes. Wes welcome. You're with John Caldera.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Hey, John, got to give you credit for stand up
and the people of Republic of Boulder for as long
as you've had. But you know, I've got a question.
So you know, the the stuff that has come out
when Poula said we don't tolerate, you know, condone any
kind of this kind of violence. Is there any violence
that's really you condone? I mean, do you ever hear
somebody come out and say, well, you know, we condone that,
(34:10):
but that guy the crap beat out of him, and
so we're going to condone that. But what My big
question I have is when you pair and all this
stuff you know from the so called non senctuary sitting
that Denver is and and Boulder and everybody and in
every place else, how long before you know, we know
that our our our judicial system doesn't work. When you're
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talking everything from pr bonds and everything else, the cops
can't do anything. How long before somebody gets injures the
wrong person, kills the wrong person, whatever a family member
doesn't start, you don't start to see some vigilanting justice.
I mean, if the cops can't do anything, and this,
you know, when these guys do get arrested and they're
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right back down on the street, how long before we
it comes to that where we you know, Charles Bronson
type thing, you know, to where people are going around
saying that the cops won't do anything.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I will.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
You know, it's kind of scary to think. I hope
something like that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
But no, But but I know what you mean, and
it's harder and harder to do. Charles Bronson could go
and get even but there wasn't a whole bunch of
CCTV cameras and ring doorbell cameras everywhere he went. The
fact of the matter is we're not safe in Colorado
(35:26):
and it has political reasons. Immigration, lax on crime, taking
away our guns. It's going to lead to more violence.
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