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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good night.
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Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of
talk show host Michael Brown.
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The Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
I appreciate you tuning in the week before Christmas. Everybody
I just noticed, like him Denver, anyway, traffic is just horrendous.
Everybody is on the move, the malls are all crowded,
and of course the commercialization of Christmas continues on as
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it just amazes me. But anyway, just set that aside.
You know, the rules of engagement. The message line is
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days after the Bondie Beach massacre down in Australia. That's
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the incident where fifteen innocent Australian Jews were literally just
gunned down in a massacre by a air of Islam extremists.
The cops have now moved on a group of men
that are suspected of sharing the same murderous ideology and
I kind of slowed that down because they they weren't involved.
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They haven't killed anybody, at least that we know of yet,
but the cops have moved in on them. Tactical units
intercepted two vehicles in Liverpool, not England, but in southwest Sydney,
and seven men were detained. You I think many Ausies
would say that that part was handled exactly as it
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should have been. The cops did what they had to do.
But what comes next tells you everything about the twisted
priorities of Australia's political and legal system in the year
twenty twenty five. And I think maybe an indication indication
of kind of what's happened in Europe has now spread
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to Australia where it's truly exploded horrifically. And I think
except for this country is still divided enough that the wokeness,
the political ideology, and the fear of calling out radical
Islam for what it is is still kind of we
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still have our fingers in the dike and and we're
still keeping that flood at Bay to a certain extent
now not completely because clearly when you look at Columbia Harvard,
some of the other things that go on around the country,
all the anti Semitic tropes that are that are spewed,
you know, incessantly everywhere. We still have a problem in
this country. And yes we have had some you know,
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anti Semitic murders and mass shootings and all of that,
but so far we're still at least I think. I know,
I'm really you know, kind of dancing around this, but
I really think that in this country we still haven't
gone as far off the deep end as Europe, the
United Kingdom, and Australia have. So again, less than twenty
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four hours after the dramatic arrest of these seven individuals,
they were released. There were no charges, no accountabilities, and
I can't even find their names at least as of yesterday. Yet,
just a few weeks earlier, the same country that released
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seven radical Islamis sympathizers, they deported a white South African
man by the name of Matthew Gruder for his alleged
involvement with a fringe ultra nationalist group, the National Socialist Network.
Not because mister Gruder was involved in a terror plot,
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not because he had any weapons, whether they were legal
or illegal. We'll get to Australia gun laws in a minute.
But they deported him just for holding an ideology, just
for holding a political belief, and that was enough for
the Australians to cancel his visa, drag him out to
the airport and send him on his way backing. So
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I think that raises a pretty obvious question, why is
it that in that country, in Australia, radical Islam gets monitored,
but white nationalism gets deported. And I'm not at all
arguing on behalf of either one. I'm just pointing out,
wait a minute, why would you treat radical Islam with
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kid gloves, but someone who purports to be a white
nationalist gets deported? I think you might know the answer.
The Liverpool Steam, which was launched a couple of days
ago on their December eighteen. I always say their December
eighteen when I'm talking about Australia. There's always a day
ahead of us, was really a textbook example of the
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cops doing their job in a really high thread environment.
Acting on credible intelligence that a violent was possibly being planned,
the New South Wales Tactical Operations Unit intercepted two vehicles
near George Street and inside they found seven men, all
between the ages of nineteen and twenty four. Oh, they
fit the profile right, and they were all from Victoria,
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and they reportedly traveled together in a convoy heading in
the direction of Bondy Beach. One of them was already
on the Australian intel community's radar, and all were described
as adherents of extremist Islamic ideology. That's the same warped
thinking that fueled the massacre at Bondi Beach. Now the
comps didn't find any guns, didn't find any explosives, or
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they found a knife, and sometimes that's all that's needed.
I guess just asked the family of British fusil Lee Rigby,
who was hit by a car driven by his Lawmaic
terrorists and then stabbed to death before having his lifeless
body dragged into the street by these Middle Eastern Neanderthals
like some sort of grotesque trophy, which they tend to do. Now,
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the lot stopped in that was stopped in Liverpool. They
weren't just some group of random drifters out for a drive.
Those men were known to the Victorian authorities and at
least one was under active investigation. They were headed toward
Bondi the same beach they were doing so just days
after those innocent Jewish lives were taken by other Islamis.
There no definitive target has ever been confirmed. But does
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anybody believe that that was just a coincidence? I just
don't believe in those kinds of coincidences. The investigators suggested
that those men might have been on their way to
collect weapons and after Bondi, who in their right mind
would want to wait and find out? I kind of
get the reaction. In fact, what the cops did shows
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a very clear shift because after the massacre at Bondi
Beach where Navid Akram, that man with known Isis sympathies,
slipped through the intelligence cracks, slipped through the law enforcement cracks,
murder fifteen people, including a ten year old child. But
you know, at that point, you really don't have any
more excuses. The softly soft approach had failed, and the
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cops knew they couldn't wait to afford you know, they
couldn't afford to wait for another body count. So this
time they went in early, and they hit hard, and
they made the call that the rest of the system
seems too godless to make organized Islamic extremism is a
warning sign. It should not be an afterthought. But they
let them go, or would we be seeing names, photos,
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court hearings and deportations. Now that's not just a rhetorical jab,
it's the reality. I think of Australia in the year
twenty twenty five. It's a country where radical Islam is
treated with kid gloves, and while ultranationalists voices get labeled
as hate groups, racists, extremists and they're worthy of exile.
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What's good for the goose is not good for the gander. Now,
remember the guy that he exported did not commit he
did not commit any crimes, but because he was affiliated
with a nationalist group, they ripped up his visa and
he was sent packing to South Africa. That was enough.
There were no guns, there were no bombs, there were
no threats. Just to name on a list and a
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label and that's all it took. So when we get back,
let's contrast that with the Liverpool seven, the seven radical
Islamis that were being monitored. There's a huge difference. It's
the weekend of Michael Brown. Text line as usual is
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I'll be right back back to Australia. Welcome back to
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the weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
Merry Christmas everyone. So the cops did their job, but
what about the Liverpool seven Liverpool in Australia. They were
being monitored and they were actually linked to an ideology
that had just inspired the worst terrorist attack in Australia
in nearly thirty years. And yet they're out on the street,
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back in the community under surveillance. Yeah, under surveillance, but
they're walking around free. So why the double standard? And
I'm not arguing for or against that they should be
arrested and not be arrested. I'm just pointing out there's
a double standard here that we ought to at least
be aware of and say is this the right thing
or not the right thing? Now, the cops did their job,
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let's be clear about that. The tactical teams went in
hard and fast. But it's the rest of the system,
the bureaucrasts, the politicians, the useful idiots who can't seem
to stomach the truth. Radical Islam is not just a
foreign problem. It's in Australia just like it is. It's
permeating everywhere. You know, I just as parenthetical here. I
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don't really want it to happen in Japan because Japan
is such a homogeneous society and it's such a wonderful society.
I love Japan, So there's my bias. I love Japan.
But they're moving in there and they're wanting to build mosques,
and Japan's trying to figure out what to do. I
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really wish them well because I wonder how they're going
to deal with that compared to how Australia is dealing
with it. Radical Islam is not just a foreign problem.
It's everywhere. And if everybody keeps treating it like some
sort of unfortunate coincidence instead of an actual pattern, a
political movement. If we just keep releasing, redacting, retreating, somebody
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somewhere is going to pay for it again, and they'll
pay for it in blood. The phrase used by one
Australian official set it all quote men who harbor islawmic
state ideology. Well, how about just Muslim extremists. Do they
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refer to these nationalists members as men who just harbor
ultra nationalist ideology or do they call them what they
really are? Neo Nazis ideology seems to matter enough to
take action if it's neo Nazis, but not if it's oh,
radical Islamis. It was enough for them to deport a
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man to another continent for holding an ultra nationalist ideology,
but it wasn't enough to hold seven known radical, radicalized
Muslim men who were driving the Bondy to do I
don't know what and driving there just days after a
massacre that was inspired by their Islamist ideology. Oh my gosh,
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it's just it's it's nuts. What else is going on
in Australia? They're Prime Minister Anthony Albanize, who is of
the left wing Labor Party, announced sweeping new gun control
proposals following that massacre on Bondi Beach. The attack involved
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an Indian immigrant and his son. They, as we know now,
opened fire on the crowd. They killed fifteen people and
they wounded forty others. The father was shot dead by
the cops at the scene. The son was injured. Taking
into custodies into custody, authorities said the attack was inspired
by Isis. They went to the Philippines and they spent
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a couple of months in the Philippines being trained by
an ISIS group in the Philippines. So in response to
the attack, the Labor Prime Minister has argued that Australia
must strengthen its firearms laws. Oh why don't you strengthen
your immigration laws. No, they're going to focus on the
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weapon used. They're going to focus on the tool, which
I find freaking hilarious considering that it's Australia. He said,
this Sunday's deadly ISIS inspired anti Semitic terrorist attack at
Bondi Beach highlights the need to finish the job on
gun reform. Really, now, let's remember that that's this very
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same Prime minister revealed that one of the attackers, the father,
was a licensed firearm owner who had legal who did
legally possess six guns. That same Prime minister said, there
is no reason someone living in the suburbs of Sydney
needed this many guns, you know, for us in the
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United States of America, that's really one of the stupidest
things you can say, because it's none of the government's
damn business how many guns I own. Every time I
hear about a story about, oh, you know, we rated
somebody's home and we found an arsenal. What's an arsenal?
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Is an arsenal? Ten guns, twenty guns, one hundred guns,
a thousand guns? What is an arsenal? And who cares
unless you can tie that air quote here arsenal to
a planned attack somewhere. The number of guns anybody owns
is im material. Now, this new measure in Australia would
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place limits on the number of firearms that any one
individual can own. It will restrict firearm licenses to only
Australian citizens, and it will allow the intelligence agency. You
know something else you should know about their intelligence agencies.
I know that in this country. I mean, and I
think you know too, that we have domestic intelligence agencies
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like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and a
few others, and then we have foreign intelligence agencies like
the CIA and the NSA is kind of a hybrid
of both. But in Australia they have just criminal intelligence
agencies and they're all kind of lumped together together. The
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Prime Minister said that the government anticipates large scale confiscation
of weapons, and he said that, I quote, we expect
hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed
because they're going to implement a mandatory buyback scheme. Now,
state and territory governments are going to be responsible for
collecting surrendered firearms and then compensating the owners, while the
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Australian federal police will oversee their destruction. H don't tread
on me. Don't try that here. And I always get
a kick out of a buy back program because did
the government sell it? No, So you're not buying back,
you're confiscating, and then you're going to compensate for the
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confiscate the confiscation of the guns. It's kind of like
asset forfeiture, except there's been no crime involved. It's just
the mere possession. So like in this country, if you
commit a crime with a vehicle, then you know, if
you deal drugs and the government can prove you were
dealing drugs out of that car, well then they can
confiscate that asset, that vehicle and they can sell that all. Now,
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ostensibly air quotes emphasize bold face. Ostensibly there's due process involved,
but not really. Now. The skeptics of stricter gun laws
will point to incidents and jurisdictions that have already have
heavy regulation. Earlier this year, there was a mass shooting
a school in Sweden that left multiple people dead despite
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that country strict firearm ownership rules. In this country, a
twenty twenty three mass shooting in Baltimore, a jurisdiction that
has extensive gun laws and reduced policing, I might add,
left two people dead and dozens injured, renewing arguments that
gun control alone does not prevent violent crime. In fact,
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I would say that gun control usually exacerbates violent crime,
because then, as we all know, only the criminals have gun.
So let's let's spend the record in Australia. We'll give
you a list when we get back. It's the Weekend
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Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk.
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of me. That's enough to solve any of their insomniacs
problems out there. This is the Australian Prime Minister a
couple of days ago talking about how diversity is our
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strength overwhelmingly.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
One of the things about this country as what they
want is when people come to Australia, you leave all
divisions and hatreds at the door.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Really, because apparently those dirt bags didn't. They didn't leave
their hatred at the door. In fact, they came to
Australia and then they took their radicalization and went to
the Philippines and got trained in how to massacre people,
how to shoot from defensive positions, and then went to
the beach and on the first day of Hanukkah massacred Jews. So,
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mister Prime Minister, are you paying attention. Are you awake?
This is my problem with anyone who is unwilling to
recognize that Islamists are a danger to Western civilization. It's
just oil and water. It just does not mix at
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the door.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
When you come to Australia. You are here to support
our society, of which is diverse. But that diversity is
a strength, and.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
That is what enough of that. I just want you
to hear the diversity is our strength, because is it really?
I don't think that that's the case. He then said
in another SoundBite, he talked about how past protests, misinformation,
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all of that is what's to blame for the Bondi
Beach attack.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
There's been discussion about protests. Josh Fredenberg and others have
said that some of these demonstrations that have happened over
the last couple of years shouldn't have occurred, They shouldn't
occur in future. Obviously, Chris Means on a state issue,
announced plans for legislation upcoming to curtailed demonstrations large public
gatherings after a terror terror designation. Could I ask you
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do you believe the tenor of any of these protests
demonstrations contributed to what we saw on the weekend, and
do you personally have any concerns about demonstrations occurring in
the near future.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, hatred start with language and then moves to action
and vilifications and then can lead.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
To an escalation of it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I certainly have been concerned and have expressed continually my
concern about some of the language that it's used during
some of the misinformation as well, which is there Australians
want overwhelmingly One of the things about this country is
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what they want is when people come to Australia, you
leave old divisions and hatreds at the door.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
But they don't. And if you think that language and
demonstrations escalate into incitement, then why don't you do what
we do here. You know, we've often talked about the
fire and the theater, and my explanation of that court
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decision has been, yes, you can shout fire falsely shout
fire in a theater. There's no police, there's no prior restraint,
there's no speech police following you everywhere that is standing
you know, at behind at the door into the theater,
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that the minute you stand up, is going to come
down and say what are you going to say? You
can't you know, there's we don't do that. So from
a practical point of view, you can stand up and
falsely shout fire in a theater, but if that causes
a stampede and injures people, you're going to be held
liable both civilly and perhaps even criminally for that speech.
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Even with our First Amendment, where we recognize that the
government cannot, and in some cases, in some specialized cases,
even private individuals or institutions cannot limit your freedom of speech.
But even with that broad recognition of how important free
speech is, we still recognize that there are some limitations.
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And even that limitation I just told you does not
stop you committing what could turn out to be a
crime by inciting violence and by creating the conditions for
people to be harmed. But Australia doesn't do that. Instead,
they want to focus on the guns, because for them,
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it's the gun that is the problem. It's not the
radical Islamist it's none of that. It's oh, it's the guns.
So they're going to do a gun buy back problem,
and they're gonna do it that's kind of a Freudian slip.
They're going to do a gun buy back program. Well,
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they've already got some of the strictest gun laws in
the entire world. So when they make a claim that
there have and they do make this claim because they
define a mass shooting as five or more people in
one incident, and then they go on to claim that
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there had been no mass shootings. Well, a friend of mine,
you know, heard me talking about this yesterday and sent
me a list. The Childer's Palace fire June of two
thousand killed fifteen people. Seth Gonzalez July ten, two thousand
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and one, bludgeoned to death his sister, mother, and father
with a baseball bat. Oh, not a gun, a baseball bat.
The Manass University shooting October of two one young Zang,
a student, shot his class maiden teacher, killing two and
injuring five. The Churchill fire, I remember this one was horrible.
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Ten confirmed deaths because of arson. The fire was lit
on February seven, o nine. The Lynn family murders July
of nine. Lea and Ben Robert Zee killed his sister,
her husband, and three members of a family five person
from the Lynn family with a hammer. The faces of
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the victims were so disfigured that forensics had to be
used to identify them. The twenty eleven Hattreville Siege, a
mass shooting took place on Friday April twenty nine, twenty eleven,
took place in Hectreville, South Australia. That one started after
a thirty nine year old male, Donato Anthony Corbo went
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on a shooting rampage, killing three people, winning a child
two cops before being arrested by the Special Operations Police
after an eight hour standoff. The Quaker Hill Nursing Home fire.
Ten confirmed and as many as twenty one people may
have died as a result of a deliberately lit fire
in a Quaker's Hill nursing home November eighteen, twenty eleven.
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The Hunt family murders. Jeff Hunt killed his wife and
three children before turning the gun on himself. In twenty
fourteen became stabbing. A woman stabbed eight kids to death
on Friday twenty fourteen December nineteen, twenty fourteen. Seven of
them were owned Margaret River May eleven, twenty eighteen. Seven
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killed by a gunman Darwin June fifth, twenty nineteen. Four
people killed at a hotel by a man using a
pompassion action shotgun and then The claim that there have
been a drop in deaths is somehow a tributal almost
entirely to a drop and is almost entirely a tributal
to a drop in suicides, but not a decrease in
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total suicides. Suicide people just found other methods where there
was no longer a gun available, but yet they went
to claim that, oh, it's the guns and we're going
to use the gun. So now they're going to do
the gun buy back program. It's not going to change
anything unless and until they the Australian government and all
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of Western civilization recognizes that radical islamis Islamis are an
anathema to all of the things that we believe in
Western society. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right
of the god given natural right of self defense, all
of those things will and are under attacked by Islam,
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which is truly just a form of government wrapped in
a religion. That's what it is. And unless and until
people are willing to acknowledge that and recognize it and
quit calling it the religion of peace, will continue to
see this happen. Oh hmm. We just saw in Syria
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where we lost some of our own military members hang tight,
I'll be right back. Welcome back to the Weekend with
Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. The very
first defendant in this sprawling Medicaid autism program fraud going
on in Minnesota pleaded guilty to one count of wire
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fraud day before yesterday. Aushavarhan Hassan, aged twenty eight, was
part of a scheme that was defrauding Medicaid. Of this
is just one part of it. We now know this
is going to be well in excess of a billion dollars.
But this one individual, one individual, defrauding Medicaid of fourteen
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million taxpayer dollars. Now, I just want to remind you
that I know this is Medicaid, and that a lot
of Medicaid dollars come from you know, the states, but
also a lot of Medicaid dollars come from all of
us and then get distributed out to the states. So
if you're soon to be getting a paycheck, I want
you to look at your paycheck and look at the Medicaid,
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the Medicare taxes that you pay, you know, when you
look at your FICA and all of that stuff that
gets deducted because you help this dumbass collect fourteen million dollars.
Now that's just the tip of the iceberg, because he
was also participating in a separate fraud scheme that saw
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the theft of about four hundred and sixty five thousand.
Can I just say half a million, thank you, half
a million dollars from a food assistant program for needy children.
Merry Christmas, everybody. These are the people that Minnesota, in
this Somali community, keeps importing. And then we're called racist
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because we point to a particular group of people that
are inherently engaged in fraud and we point out the fraud,
and then somehow we're there are races for pointing out
the fraud and that it is confined to not solely.
I'm sure that once we dig into this, we'll find
maybe even some Caucasians, maybe even some Blacks or Mexicans
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or Hispanics or Asians, or if we forget races, will
get into all the ethnicities. You might even find a
Presbyterian or two who knows engaging in fraud. Meanwhile, the
US Attorney's Office for Minnesota announced new charges against six
other defendants in what the Department of Justice is describing
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as staggering, industrial scale fraud. The schemes are part of
this larger fraud conspiracy, all tied to the state's smally
immigrant community, which is now believed to have seen the
theft of an estimated nine billion dollars in taxpayer dollars. Now,
this is not isolated. This excuse me, swallowed run. This
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is not some isolated incident. But guess what Tim Walls
is really upset about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, the team is, and I could I will
get them here on this. Look, this is one of
I don't want to say the number, it's countless numbers.
Every night I get an update on this of the
threats to our federal money on everything we do. Because look,
right now, it's very clear the entire federal government is
weaponized against Minnesota and the issues of things that should
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be states, right states to control. They're threatening us with this,
and this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency,
and it is about those ballrooms and everything else. Now
we're back on transgender folks, and these are healthcare providers
providing the best guidance to parents and children to get
their care. So we're assessing what it means. It's on
every front. It's CDLs, it's transportation money, it's money across
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the board that they have weaponized.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
But I love about these kinds of comments is let's
never deal with the crimes that we have. Let's somehow
shift it over to this is all the fault of
the Trump administration. And there now they are. The Trump
administration is now weaponizing federal funds against the entire state.
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I would say we are, and we're rightfully doing so,
because when you have whether it's one billion, nine billion
or turns out to be forty billion dollars is some
estimates I've seen in fraud, you ought to start questioning
every single federal dollar that goes to a state. And
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Minnesota is not along alone. I'm certain that if we
started digging into oh, I don't know, let me just
think Colorado, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, we're gonna find
something similar. And I would even point out I and
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this is based on my own personal experience inside the
Beltway as the under secretary, I found fraud all the time.
We did everything we could to minimize it. I mistakenly
told the truth to a Senate committee one time, complaining
about you know, some fraud in a program we had discovered,
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and I said, yes, that fraud is there, and we
have minimized that fraud and we continue to try to
minimize it as best we can. But there will always
be fraud. Our job is to try to mitigate against it,
prevent it, stop it, and when we find it, you know,
go after the people have committed the fraud and stop it.
But whenever you've got federal money involved, there's going to
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be fraud involved. Oh my god, it was heresy. You
can't tell us the truth like that because we can't
handle the truth drives me crazy. I want to be clear, though,
It's not an isolated scheme in Minnesota. From Feeding our
Future to housing stabilization services and now the autism services.
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Those massive fraud schemes from a web that's stolen billions
of dollars in taxpayer money. Every case that they bring
exposes another strand of that network. So the challenge is
immense and their work's going to have to continue. Evidence
presented by federal prosecutors detailed how this particular dirt bag
participated in fraudulent claims for a medicaid program trying to
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support children with autism. Spectrum disorder and in the Feeding
our Future nonprofit. Oh go oh, another NGO shocker? You
mean an nng O and non government organizations is fraudulently
doling out money. I'm shocked. You mean there's prostitution in
the whorehouse. Unbelievable, And now Waltz facing mounting criticism for
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his administration's failure to take action against these fraudulent schemes.
State government whistleblowers have been claiming for a long time
that Waltz and other state officials were aware of the
fraud network going all the way back to twenty nineteen,
but they wouldn't take legal action because they were fearful
of being seen as racist because of the Somali community.
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I arrest my casier honor, so we came with Michael Brown.
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The Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey, welcome back to the
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I appreciate you tuning in the week before Christmas. Everybody
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Everybody is on the move, the malls are all crowded,
and of course the commercialization of Christmas continues on as
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it just amazes me. But anyway, just set that aside.
You know, the rules of engagement. The message line is
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days after the Bondie Beach massacre down in Australia. That's
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the incident where fifteen innocent Australian Jews were literally just
gunned down in a massacre by a air of Islam extremists.
The cops have now moved on a group of men
that are suspected of sharing the same murderous ideology and
I kind of slowed that down because they they weren't involved.
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They haven't killed anybody, at least that we know of yet,
but the cops have moved in on them. Tactical units
intercepted two vehicles in Liverpool, not England, but in southwest Sydney,
and seven men were detained. You I think many Ausies
would say that that part was handled exactly as it
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should have been. The cops did what they had to do.
But what comes next tells you everything about the twisted
priorities of Australia's political and legal system in the year
twenty twenty five. And I think maybe an indication indication
of kind of what's happened in Europe has now spread
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to Australia where it's truly exploded horrifically. And I think
except for this country is still divided enough that the wokeness,
the political ideology, and the fear of calling out radical
Islam for what it is is still kind of we
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still have our fingers in the dike and and we're
still keeping that flood at Bay to a certain extent
now not completely because clearly when you look at Columbia Harvard,
some of the other things that go on around the country,
all the anti Semitic tropes that are that are spewed,
you know, incessantly everywhere. We still have a problem in
this country. And yes we have had some you know,
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anti Semitic murders and mass shootings and all of that,
but so far we're still at least I think. I know,
I'm really you know, kind of dancing around this, but
I really think that in this country we still haven't
gone as far off the deep end as Europe, the
United Kingdom, and Australia have. So again, less than twenty
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four hours after the dramatic arrest of these seven individuals,
they were released. There were no charges, no accountabilities, and
I can't even find their names at least as of yesterday. Yet,
just a few weeks earlier, the same country that released
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seven radical Islamis sympathizers, they deported a white South African
man by the name of Matthew Gruder for his alleged
involvement with a fringe ultra nationalist group, the National Socialist Network.
Not because mister Gruder was involved in a terror plot,
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not because he had any weapons, whether they were legal
or illegal. We'll get to Australia gun laws in a minute.
But they deported him just for holding an ideology, just
for holding a political belief, and that was enough for
the Australians to cancel his visa, drag him out to
the airport and send him on his way backing. So
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I think that raises a pretty obvious question, why is
it that in that country, in Australia, radical Islam gets monitored,
but white nationalism gets deported. And I'm not at all
arguing on behalf of either one. I'm just pointing out,
wait a minute, why would you treat radical Islam with
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kid gloves, but someone who purports to be a white
nationalist gets deported? I think you might know the answer.
The Liverpool Steam, which was launched a couple of days
ago on their December eighteen. I always say their December
eighteen when I'm talking about Australia. There's always a day
ahead of us, was really a textbook example of the
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cops doing their job in a really high thread environment.
Acting on credible intelligence that a violent was possibly being planned,
the New South Wales Tactical Operations Unit intercepted two vehicles
near George Street and inside they found seven men, all
between the ages of nineteen and twenty four. Oh, they
fit the profile right, and they were all from Victoria,
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and they reportedly traveled together in a convoy heading in
the direction of Bondy Beach. One of them was already
on the Australian intel community's radar, and all were described
as adherents of extremist Islamic ideology. That's the same warped
thinking that fueled the massacre at Bondi Beach. Now the
comps didn't find any guns, didn't find any explosives, or
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they found a knife, and sometimes that's all that's needed.
I guess just asked the family of British fusil Lee Rigby,
who was hit by a car driven by his Lawmaic
terrorists and then stabbed to death before having his lifeless
body dragged into the street by these Middle Eastern Neanderthals
like some sort of grotesque trophy, which they tend to do. Now,
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the lot stopped in that was stopped in Liverpool. They
weren't just some group of random drifters out for a drive.
Those men were known to the Victorian authorities and at
least one was under active investigation. They were headed toward
Bondi the same beach they were doing so just days
after those innocent Jewish lives were taken by other Islamis.
There no definitive target has ever been confirmed. But does
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anybody believe that that was just a coincidence? I just
don't believe in those kinds of coincidences. The investigators suggested
that those men might have been on their way to
collect weapons and after Bondi, who in their right mind
would want to wait and find out? I kind of
get the reaction. In fact, what the cops did shows
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a very clear shift because after the massacre at Bondi
Beach where Navid Akram, that man with known Isis sympathies,
slipped through the intelligence cracks, slipped through the law enforcement cracks,
murder fifteen people, including a ten year old child. But
you know, at that point, you really don't have any
more excuses. The softly soft approach had failed, and the
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cops knew they couldn't wait to afford you know, they
couldn't afford to wait for another body count. So this
time they went in early, and they hit hard, and
they made the call that the rest of the system
seems too godless to make organized Islamic extremism is a
warning sign. It should not be an afterthought. But they
let them go, or would we be seeing names, photos,
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court hearings and deportations. Now that's not just a rhetorical jab,
it's the reality. I think of Australia in the year
twenty twenty five. It's a country where radical Islam is
treated with kid gloves, and while ultranationalists voices get labeled
as hate groups, racists, extremists and they're worthy of exile.
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What's good for the goose is not good for the gander. Now,
remember the guy that he exported did not commit he
did not commit any crimes, but because he was affiliated
with a nationalist group, they ripped up his visa and
he was sent packing to South Africa. That was enough.
There were no guns, there were no bombs, there were
no threats. Just to name on a list and a
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label and that's all it took. So when we get back,
let's contrast that with the Liverpool seven, the seven radical
Islamis that were being monitored. There's a huge difference. It's
the weekend of Michael Brown. Text line as usual is
always open three three one zero three keyword Michael, Michael
I'll be right back back to Australia. Welcome back to
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the weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
Merry Christmas everyone. So the cops did their job, but
what about the Liverpool seven Liverpool in Australia. They were
being monitored and they were actually linked to an ideology
that had just inspired the worst terrorist attack in Australia
in nearly thirty years. And yet they're out on the street,
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back in the community under surveillance. Yeah, under surveillance, but
they're walking around free. So why the double standard? And
I'm not arguing for or against that they should be
arrested and not be arrested. I'm just pointing out there's
a double standard here that we ought to at least
be aware of and say is this the right thing
or not the right thing? Now, the cops did their job,
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let's be clear about that. The tactical teams went in
hard and fast. But it's the rest of the system,
the bureaucrasts, the politicians, the useful idiots who can't seem
to stomach the truth. Radical Islam is not just a
foreign problem. It's in Australia just like it is. It's
permeating everywhere. You know, I just as parenthetical here. I
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don't really want it to happen in Japan because Japan
is such a homogeneous society and it's such a wonderful society.
I love Japan, So there's my bias. I love Japan.
But they're moving in there and they're wanting to build mosques,
and Japan's trying to figure out what to do. I
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really wish them well because I wonder how they're going
to deal with that compared to how Australia is dealing
with it. Radical Islam is not just a foreign problem.
It's everywhere. And if everybody keeps treating it like some
sort of unfortunate coincidence instead of an actual pattern, a
political movement. If we just keep releasing, redacting, retreating, somebody
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somewhere is going to pay for it again, and they'll
pay for it in blood. The phrase used by one
Australian official set it all quote men who harbor islawmic
state ideology. Well, how about just Muslim extremists. Do they
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refer to these nationalists members as men who just harbor
ultra nationalist ideology or do they call them what they
really are? Neo Nazis ideology seems to matter enough to
take action if it's neo Nazis, but not if it's oh,
radical Islamis. It was enough for them to deport a
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man to another continent for holding an ultra nationalist ideology,
but it wasn't enough to hold seven known radical, radicalized
Muslim men who were driving the Bondy to do I
don't know what and driving there just days after a
massacre that was inspired by their Islamist ideology. Oh my gosh,
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it's just it's it's nuts. What else is going on
in Australia? They're Prime Minister Anthony Albanize, who is of
the left wing Labor Party, announced sweeping new gun control
proposals following that massacre on Bondi Beach. The attack involved
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an Indian immigrant and his son. They, as we know now,
opened fire on the crowd. They killed fifteen people and
they wounded forty others. The father was shot dead by
the cops at the scene. The son was injured. Taking
into custodies into custody, authorities said the attack was inspired
by Isis. They went to the Philippines and they spent
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a couple of months in the Philippines being trained by
an ISIS group in the Philippines. So in response to
the attack, the Labor Prime Minister has argued that Australia
must strengthen its firearms laws. Oh why don't you strengthen
your immigration laws. No, they're going to focus on the
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weapon used. They're going to focus on the tool, which
I find freaking hilarious considering that it's Australia. He said,
this Sunday's deadly ISIS inspired anti Semitic terrorist attack at
Bondi Beach highlights the need to finish the job on
gun reform. Really, now, let's remember that that's this very
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same Prime minister revealed that one of the attackers, the father,
was a licensed firearm owner who had legal who did
legally possess six guns. That same Prime minister said, there
is no reason someone living in the suburbs of Sydney
needed this many guns, you know, for us in the
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United States of America, that's really one of the stupidest
things you can say, because it's none of the government's
damn business how many guns I own. Every time I
hear about a story about, oh, you know, we rated
somebody's home and we found an arsenal. What's an arsenal?
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Is an arsenal? Ten guns, twenty guns, one hundred guns,
a thousand guns? What is an arsenal? And who cares
unless you can tie that air quote here arsenal to
a planned attack somewhere. The number of guns anybody owns
is im material. Now, this new measure in Australia would
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place limits on the number of firearms that any one
individual can own. It will restrict firearm licenses to only
Australian citizens, and it will allow the intelligence agency. You
know something else you should know about their intelligence agencies.
I know that in this country. I mean, and I
think you know too, that we have domestic intelligence agencies
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like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and a
few others, and then we have foreign intelligence agencies like
the CIA and the NSA is kind of a hybrid
of both. But in Australia they have just criminal intelligence
agencies and they're all kind of lumped together together. The
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Prime Minister said that the government anticipates large scale confiscation
of weapons, and he said that, I quote, we expect
hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed
because they're going to implement a mandatory buyback scheme. Now,
state and territory governments are going to be responsible for
collecting surrendered firearms and then compensating the owners, while the
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Australian federal police will oversee their destruction. H don't tread
on me. Don't try that here. And I always get
a kick out of a buy back program because did
the government sell it? No, So you're not buying back,
you're confiscating, and then you're going to compensate for the
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confiscate the confiscation of the guns. It's kind of like
asset forfeiture, except there's been no crime involved. It's just
the mere possession. So like in this country, if you
commit a crime with a vehicle, then you know, if
you deal drugs and the government can prove you were
dealing drugs out of that car, well then they can
confiscate that asset, that vehicle and they can sell that all. Now,
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ostensibly air quotes emphasize bold face. Ostensibly there's due process involved,
but not really. Now. The skeptics of stricter gun laws
will point to incidents and jurisdictions that have already have
heavy regulation. Earlier this year, there was a mass shooting
a school in Sweden that left multiple people dead despite
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that country strict firearm ownership rules. In this country, a
twenty twenty three mass shooting in Baltimore, a jurisdiction that
has extensive gun laws and reduced policing, I might add,
left two people dead and dozens injured, renewing arguments that
gun control alone does not prevent violent crime. In fact,
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I would say that gun control usually exacerbates violent crime,
because then, as we all know, only the criminals have gun.
So let's let's spend the record in Australia. We'll give
you a list when we get back. It's the Weekend
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of me. That's enough to solve any of their insomniacs
problems out there. This is the Australian Prime Minister a
couple of days ago talking about how diversity is our
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strength overwhelmingly.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
One of the things about this country as what they
want is when people come to Australia, you leave all
divisions and hatreds at the door.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Really, because apparently those dirt bags didn't. They didn't leave
their hatred at the door. In fact, they came to
Australia and then they took their radicalization and went to
the Philippines and got trained in how to massacre people,
how to shoot from defensive positions, and then went to
the beach and on the first day of Hanukkah massacred Jews. So,
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mister Prime Minister, are you paying attention. Are you awake?
This is my problem with anyone who is unwilling to
recognize that Islamists are a danger to Western civilization. It's
just oil and water. It just does not mix at
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the door.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
When you come to Australia. You are here to support
our society, of which is diverse. But that diversity is
a strength, and.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
That is what enough of that. I just want you
to hear the diversity is our strength, because is it really?
I don't think that that's the case. He then said
in another SoundBite, he talked about how past protests, misinformation,
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all of that is what's to blame for the Bondi
Beach attack.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
There's been discussion about protests. Josh Fredenberg and others have
said that some of these demonstrations that have happened over
the last couple of years shouldn't have occurred, They shouldn't
occur in future. Obviously, Chris Means on a state issue,
announced plans for legislation upcoming to curtailed demonstrations large public
gatherings after a terror terror designation. Could I ask you
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do you believe the tenor of any of these protests
demonstrations contributed to what we saw on the weekend, and
do you personally have any concerns about demonstrations occurring in
the near future.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, hatred start with language and then moves to action
and vilifications and then can lead.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
To an escalation of it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I certainly have been concerned and have expressed continually my
concern about some of the language that it's used during
some of the misinformation as well, which is there Australians
want overwhelmingly One of the things about this country is
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what they want is when people come to Australia, you
leave old divisions and hatreds at the door.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
But they don't. And if you think that language and
demonstrations escalate into incitement, then why don't you do what
we do here. You know, we've often talked about the
fire and the theater, and my explanation of that court
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decision has been, yes, you can shout fire falsely shout
fire in a theater. There's no police, there's no prior restraint,
there's no speech police following you everywhere that is standing
you know, at behind at the door into the theater,
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that the minute you stand up, is going to come
down and say what are you going to say? You
can't you know, there's we don't do that. So from
a practical point of view, you can stand up and
falsely shout fire in a theater, but if that causes
a stampede and injures people, you're going to be held
liable both civilly and perhaps even criminally for that speech.
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Even with our First Amendment, where we recognize that the
government cannot, and in some cases, in some specialized cases,
even private individuals or institutions cannot limit your freedom of speech.
But even with that broad recognition of how important free
speech is, we still recognize that there are some limitations.
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And even that limitation I just told you does not
stop you committing what could turn out to be a
crime by inciting violence and by creating the conditions for
people to be harmed. But Australia doesn't do that. Instead,
they want to focus on the guns, because for them,
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it's the gun that is the problem. It's not the
radical Islamist it's none of that. It's oh, it's the guns.
So they're going to do a gun buy back problem,
and they're gonna do it that's kind of a Freudian slip.
They're going to do a gun buy back program. Well,
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they've already got some of the strictest gun laws in
the entire world. So when they make a claim that
there have and they do make this claim because they
define a mass shooting as five or more people in
one incident, and then they go on to claim that
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there had been no mass shootings. Well, a friend of mine,
you know, heard me talking about this yesterday and sent
me a list. The Childer's Palace fire June of two
thousand killed fifteen people. Seth Gonzalez July ten, two thousand
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and one, bludgeoned to death his sister, mother, and father
with a baseball bat. Oh, not a gun, a baseball bat.
The Manass University shooting October of two one young Zang,
a student, shot his class maiden teacher, killing two and
injuring five. The Churchill fire, I remember this one was horrible.
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Ten confirmed deaths because of arson. The fire was lit
on February seven, o nine. The Lynn family murders July
of nine. Lea and Ben Robert Zee killed his sister,
her husband, and three members of a family five person
from the Lynn family with a hammer. The faces of
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the victims were so disfigured that forensics had to be
used to identify them. The twenty eleven Hattreville Siege, a
mass shooting took place on Friday April twenty nine, twenty eleven,
took place in Hectreville, South Australia. That one started after
a thirty nine year old male, Donato Anthony Corbo went
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on a shooting rampage, killing three people, winning a child
two cops before being arrested by the Special Operations Police
after an eight hour standoff. The Quaker Hill Nursing Home fire.
Ten confirmed and as many as twenty one people may
have died as a result of a deliberately lit fire
in a Quaker's Hill nursing home November eighteen, twenty eleven.
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The Hunt family murders. Jeff Hunt killed his wife and
three children before turning the gun on himself. In twenty
fourteen became stabbing. A woman stabbed eight kids to death
on Friday twenty fourteen December nineteen, twenty fourteen. Seven of
them were owned Margaret River May eleven, twenty eighteen. Seven
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killed by a gunman Darwin June fifth, twenty nineteen. Four
people killed at a hotel by a man using a
pompassion action shotgun and then The claim that there have
been a drop in deaths is somehow a tributal almost
entirely to a drop and is almost entirely a tributal
to a drop in suicides, but not a decrease in
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total suicides. Suicide people just found other methods where there
was no longer a gun available, but yet they went
to claim that, oh, it's the guns and we're going
to use the gun. So now they're going to do
the gun buy back program. It's not going to change
anything unless and until they the Australian government and all
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of Western civilization recognizes that radical islamis Islamis are an
anathema to all of the things that we believe in
Western society. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right
of the god given natural right of self defense, all
of those things will and are under attacked by Islam,
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which is truly just a form of government wrapped in
a religion. That's what it is. And unless and until
people are willing to acknowledge that and recognize it and
quit calling it the religion of peace, will continue to
see this happen. Oh hmm. We just saw in Syria
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where we lost some of our own military members hang tight,
I'll be right back. Welcome back to the Weekend with
Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. The very
first defendant in this sprawling Medicaid autism program fraud going
on in Minnesota pleaded guilty to one count of wire
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fraud day before yesterday. Aushavarhan Hassan, aged twenty eight, was
part of a scheme that was defrauding Medicaid. Of this
is just one part of it. We now know this
is going to be well in excess of a billion dollars.
But this one individual, one individual, defrauding Medicaid of fourteen
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million taxpayer dollars. Now, I just want to remind you
that I know this is Medicaid, and that a lot
of Medicaid dollars come from you know, the states, but
also a lot of Medicaid dollars come from all of
us and then get distributed out to the states. So
if you're soon to be getting a paycheck, I want
you to look at your paycheck and look at the Medicaid,
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the Medicare taxes that you pay, you know, when you
look at your FICA and all of that stuff that
gets deducted because you help this dumbass collect fourteen million dollars.
Now that's just the tip of the iceberg, because he
was also participating in a separate fraud scheme that saw
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the theft of about four hundred and sixty five thousand.
Can I just say half a million, thank you, half
a million dollars from a food assistant program for needy children.
Merry Christmas, everybody. These are the people that Minnesota, in
this Somali community, keeps importing. And then we're called racist
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because we point to a particular group of people that
are inherently engaged in fraud and we point out the fraud,
and then somehow we're there are races for pointing out
the fraud and that it is confined to not solely.
I'm sure that once we dig into this, we'll find
maybe even some Caucasians, maybe even some Blacks or Mexicans
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or Hispanics or Asians, or if we forget races, will
get into all the ethnicities. You might even find a
Presbyterian or two who knows engaging in fraud. Meanwhile, the
US Attorney's Office for Minnesota announced new charges against six
other defendants in what the Department of Justice is describing
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as staggering, industrial scale fraud. The schemes are part of
this larger fraud conspiracy, all tied to the state's smally
immigrant community, which is now believed to have seen the
theft of an estimated nine billion dollars in taxpayer dollars. Now,
this is not isolated. This excuse me, swallowed run. This
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is not some isolated incident. But guess what Tim Walls
is really upset about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, the team is, and I could I will
get them here on this. Look, this is one of
I don't want to say the number, it's countless numbers.
Every night I get an update on this of the
threats to our federal money on everything we do. Because look,
right now, it's very clear the entire federal government is
weaponized against Minnesota and the issues of things that should
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be states, right states to control. They're threatening us with this,
and this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency,
and it is about those ballrooms and everything else. Now
we're back on transgender folks, and these are healthcare providers
providing the best guidance to parents and children to get
their care. So we're assessing what it means. It's on
every front. It's CDLs, it's transportation money, it's money across
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the board that they have weaponized.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
But I love about these kinds of comments is let's
never deal with the crimes that we have. Let's somehow
shift it over to this is all the fault of
the Trump administration. And there now they are. The Trump
administration is now weaponizing federal funds against the entire state.
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I would say we are, and we're rightfully doing so,
because when you have whether it's one billion, nine billion
or turns out to be forty billion dollars is some
estimates I've seen in fraud, you ought to start questioning
every single federal dollar that goes to a state. And
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Minnesota is not along alone. I'm certain that if we
started digging into oh, I don't know, let me just
think Colorado, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, we're gonna find
something similar. And I would even point out I and
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this is based on my own personal experience inside the
Beltway as the under secretary, I found fraud all the time.
We did everything we could to minimize it. I mistakenly
told the truth to a Senate committee one time, complaining
about you know, some fraud in a program we had discovered,
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and I said, yes, that fraud is there, and we
have minimized that fraud and we continue to try to
minimize it as best we can. But there will always
be fraud. Our job is to try to mitigate against it,
prevent it, stop it, and when we find it, you know,
go after the people have committed the fraud and stop it.
But whenever you've got federal money involved, there's going to
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be fraud involved. Oh my god, it was heresy. You
can't tell us the truth like that because we can't
handle the truth drives me crazy. I want to be clear, though,
It's not an isolated scheme in Minnesota. From Feeding our
Future to housing stabilization services and now the autism services.
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Those massive fraud schemes from a web that's stolen billions
of dollars in taxpayer money. Every case that they bring
exposes another strand of that network. So the challenge is
immense and their work's going to have to continue. Evidence
presented by federal prosecutors detailed how this particular dirt bag
participated in fraudulent claims for a medicaid program trying to
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support children with autism. Spectrum disorder and in the Feeding
our Future nonprofit. Oh go oh, another NGO shocker? You
mean an nng O and non government organizations is fraudulently
doling out money. I'm shocked. You mean there's prostitution in
the whorehouse. Unbelievable, And now Waltz facing mounting criticism for
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his administration's failure to take action against these fraudulent schemes.
State government whistleblowers have been claiming for a long time
that Waltz and other state officials were aware of the
fraud network going all the way back to twenty nineteen,
but they wouldn't take legal action because they were fearful
of being seen as racist because of the Somali community.
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I arrest my casier honor, so we came with Michael Brown.
Hang tight, I'll be right back.
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