December 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Brian Fitzherbert, president of Liberty and Prosperity, joins Anne Baker on WOND radio for 'Fitzherbert Friday'.
Brian and Anne talk about violent illegal criminals, immigrants who resist assimilation into American culture, the mental health crisis in America, and more.
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Anyway, do do we have Brian on? We
do. Woo hoo.
Good morning, Brian Fitzherbert on Fitzherbert Friday. Welcome,
Brian. How are you?
Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. Thanks for
having me. Hey.
Is is the weather to your,
to your specifications?
No. I actually preferred the snow and the
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cold of last week. Well, that's because you're
a hockey player. You're an ice hockey player.
Well, of course. Of
course. I would.
I was getting Luke on skates and everything.
So Oh my. Oh my good. Well, you've
got this huge backyard. Are you planning on
making it into an ice rink?
Oh, well, I've already taken advantage of that.
So
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Well, of course, you have.
Of course, you have. Given the, frustrations,
you know, that we have locally, and not
to go off on a tangent here, but
the frustrations that we have with, unfortunately, the
current situation with the the skate zone in
Atlantic City, etcetera, and the other rings down
in South Jersey are are, you know, hours
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away. So, I'm going to solve my own
solution, in the short term because,
it's quite frustrating.
Well, I expect that from someone who's in
the weapons industry. Okay?
You've you've got the ability to think through
the problem and find a solution,
and I know you will. And I have
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no doubt that Luke is going to become
one of the best ice skaters
in Egg Harbor Township ever. So there you
go.
Anyway,
Brian, I'm I'm I'm gonna ask you. I
I have been reading on so many issues.
There's a thousand issues out there.
What
do do you
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wanna focus on that you find to be
so important that we really do need to
have a discussion on it?
Well, I think it comes back to probably
my,
two passionate subjects, and that's the economy, and
that's,
illegal immigration. And as we've unfortunately now seen
yet another instance up in the Northeast at
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Brown University and MIT, we've had yet another,
foreign national,
commit crimes.
And what this was done, he got,
legal status, at least in the short term,
through the diversity lottery program, which needs to
end.
Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have already announced
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a pause to that entire program. Great. I
hope it's paused indefinitely, and I hope it
shuts down. Because, again,
if there are individuals that are not compatible
with American culture and civilization,
they can't be
here. And everything that Homan and Nome have
done to secure the border, as Trump talked
about in his address on Wednesday,
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it is night and day between this time
a year ago
and where we are with securing the border
and going through the wickets to get individuals
out of here. Because, again,
everything
can be solved by eliminating
the massive amount of illegal aliens as well
as those individuals that come here that do
not assimilate, and that's the biggest problem. If
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you come here and you wanna be an
American and you wanna assimilate into our country
and our culture, just like the one you
left behind, great. But if your thing is
to, oh, well, it didn't work out where
I was. I'm just gonna recreate it here
in America. That's sorry. That's not part of
our culture.
And we're seeing more and more of these
instances.
And, again, why is
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the cost of any goods expensive?
It's because of the demand. It says why
rent is high. It's why housing is high.
It's why health care is high. It's why
school sizes, etcetera, all this stuff
that impacts us economically.
Obviously, with secretary Duffy talking about the amount
of illegal aliens that have commercial driver's licenses
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that are on the roads,
driving big rigs and also causing accidents and
killing people. Not to mention New Jersey in
particular with the amount of illegal aliens that
we have here that are given driver's license
that, guess what, aren't insured. So guess what
car insurance companies that are left
that are willing to provide any kind of
insurance coverage for New Jersey drivers,
they have to take that into the account
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of their risk pool. So they have to
drive up the cost of insurance for what
happens if you get in a car accident
with someone who doesn't have car insurance, like
an illegal alien that is driving that should
not be here.
That's they they gotta anticipate the capturing all
those costs. So,
those are things that, again, Donald Trump is
hit upon,
Kristi Noemann, Homan. But, again, it's
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I mean, talk about just the last week
of news
from,
just
the horrific,
Hollyweird stuff with Rob Reiner and his his
wife. You know, that's unfortunate that their own
son who clearly,
has mental problems. And, again,
another thing to tie into what Trump has
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tried to do and what Congress needs to
act on, we need mental institutes again. There
needs to be a place to put these
people that cannot function in society, that cannot
function
in American culture regardless of who their parents
are, regardless of how many times there's been
attempts. So, like, look, I say it tongue
in cheek, but Hollywood is holly weird. The
fact that this
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now 32 year old, I think, is is
age was in and out of rehab from,
single digit age for drug problems
until he was in his late teens,
that's a problem. And there are some people
that are broken,
and a lot of parents don't know they're
obviously responsible because they brought this person into
the world, and they try to handle things
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privately, and sometimes that works, sometimes it clearly
doesn't based on the tragedy and how this
ended. But even more so, there has to
be a place to put these people that
cannot function
and clearly have mental disorders. And the fact
that the Democrats in the left have tried
to normalize all kinds of mental disorders
with a large range,
has not has not contributed anything positive. So
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those are things
that's it's horrifying to see these in the
headlines. But, again, we need to have,
you know, for lack of better terms, the
parents
making decisions again from a political standpoint
and stop
lying on individuals taking advantage of empathy
and society's
urge to want to understand why people are
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the way they are. We don't have time
for that. We need to keep people safe,
and people need to be locked up, whether
it's for criminal,
and law enforcement reasons, or because they have
a mental disorder and they cannot function in
this in this civilization. Yeah. Well, we're gonna
take a quick break, but we're gonna come
back to this topic because I think it
is so absolutely urgent
that exam Dan Baker. I'm talking with Anne,
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and I'm here, of course, with Brian Fitzherbert,
this being Friday and Fitzherbert Friday.
And I absolutely agree 100%
with you, Brian.
We need to open up mental institutions again.
We need perhaps to have a better way
of of training
the people who are in these mental institutions.
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But we have to get the mentally ill
off our streets
who are in fact the ones that we
have to worry about with our safety and
the safety of our families.
Absolutely. And it does it doesn't just stem
from those that are homeless.
It stems from those that, you know, obviously,
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can't even function in other normal aspects of
society and, you know, they become shut ins,
etcetera.
And they do
really crazy stuff. You know, we're still learning
more about the January 6 pipe bomber
that the FBI, Dan Buongino in particular,
made sure he got before he left the
bureau,
who was basically
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around for five years Yeah. And had more,
pipe bombing material,
at his house when they found him. And,
you know, we'll learn more as time goes
on with the with regards to that. But,
I mean, no sane person,
decides to walk in Washington DC
and proactively drop pipe bombs in front of
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both the Democrat and the Republican National,
committee buildings with the attempt to obviously harm
people and kill people,
and who from what has been revealed, has
had a very shuttered life,
etcetera. So, again,
how many instances of this
do we hear in the news? I mean,
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take the Charlotte,
stabbing
of, that beautiful young woman on the subway.
I I mean, how many times we have
to add this up where there are people
walking around and maybe there are concerned parents
or family members, but they have no place
to take them. They have no place to
do to deal with it because I I
can't even imagine what that's like where, you
know, you're responsible clearly regardless if they're a
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minor or not because you brought this person
into the world, and you need to be
able to handle it. And some people can't
handle it, so they just kick them out.
And then guess what? It's the rest of
society's problem, And sometimes that yields very negative,
outcomes
like murder or other things that are horrific.
And there's gotta be a place to put
these individuals, and they need to be committed.
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And, you know, maybe there's an opportunity for,
for care
and rehabilitation,
and maybe there isn't, and maybe this is
where they go. And, again, it has nothing
to do with anything other than making sure
that you, me, and anyone listening is safe.
We should feel safe. And, you know, you
tie that into this foreign national
that,
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went on Brown's campus
and whether or not it was a target
attack, you know, more information will come out,
killed two young college students. And then now
we just learned this morning or late last
night that this was also the same individual
that killed an MIT professor,
when the entire,
political apparatus in Rhode Island was saying that,
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oh, there's there's no threat to society. There's
no danger. Because if he would've come if
the gunman would've done something, he would've done
something wrong. You don't know that. I mean,
that Paul that mayor of Providence should resign
immediately, number one. And number two, the fact
that the law enforcement
found this foreign national dead in a storage
unit in New Hampshire Yeah. Truthfully is lucky.
What if he just decided not to kill
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himself? Would they have found him? And would
he have continued killing people? So, again, these
are these are really, really crazy things,
that are going on right now. And it's
again, all the headlines,
they tie back to a common theme, which
from lack of rare terms is a
lack
of for, you know, a lack of integration
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and assimilation into
America,
the structure of the family unit,
and what to do with individuals that make
choices,
whatever that may be, that have to do
with things that aren't normal.
Drugs,
excessive
alcohol use,
or excessive mental problems
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that your answer to a solution
is to murder somebody.
I mean, regardless if it's used with whatever
weapon, a gun, a truck, a knife. I
mean, take your pick. If someone has the
decision to make
a conclusive
way to end whatever
whatever has spawned this thought process
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is to murder somebody. I'm sorry. You're not
right in the head, and that is someone
that needs to be committed. And this is
a mental problem. And the, again, to my
point before, it's not just this stuff. It's
all kinds of mental disorders you were talking
about before I came on. With what RFK
Jr has said that they are now eliminating,
thank God, any,
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support for any of this nonsense of transgender
mutilation of children and minors that the Democrats
in the left try to call gender affirming
care. These people have mental disorders.
Right? It's it's so fundamental. You ask any
normal kid that takes biology
that hasn't been propagandized,
that reads a simple book. You have x
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y chromosomes. You have x x chromosomes. There's
only two sexes. It's male and female. There
is no changing. It is impossible. If you
think otherwise, you have a mental disorder. If
you have empathy for this, truthfully, you're probably
closer to having a mental disorder. It's not
normal.
No.
Let me let me let me tell you
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something funny. I just found out what cisgender
was,
and it's it's being normal.
Alright? Saying, yeah. Yeah. I have x x.
This is what I am. I have x
y. This is what I am. That's what
cisgender means. Is that is that, like, systematic
generalization? Is that what that is? It's c
I s, cisgender.
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That's what these crazies on the left, this
this
woke ideal of everyone having their own pronouns
and being able to determine what sex they
are. This is what they said, cisgender. I
I they probably said it, spitting it out
of their mouth because to be normal
is not part of who they are.
Therefore, you are on the other side of
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the fence and not friendly to them or
with them.
So yeah.
It truly is crazy, Brian.
It is. It's it's unfortunate,
but this is what happens when, number one,
there's a breakdown of the American family. There's
a breakdown
of American culture and assimilation
and a
breakdown of truthfully
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normality.
There is a reason it is abnormal, and
people don't want to be abnormal, or they
do want attention
because they're not getting it elsewhere because their
parents are getting divorced or something else is
happening in their life. And they're reacting. And,
unfortunately, maybe it's even worse. Maybe there's sexual
abuse. Maybe there's child abuse. Maybe there's something
else at work. And, again,
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if you do the mirror test and, again,
you look in the mirror and you make
sure that you are a role model,
whether or not you are a parent, whether
or not you're a son, daughter, niece, nephew,
uncle, aunt, whatever that may be, grandparent, for
those around you because you're a role model
whether you want it or not because people
see
what no matter what age you are. And
a lot of the times,
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there's just there is something that stems from
this. But again, we don't have time for
this.
We can't fix the world.
People need to live, and people need to
be safe.
And that, again, comes back to what we
were talking about. There needs to be a
committal
process again for people who cannot
function in society or be normal. Yeah. As
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well as the other issue that you mentioned,
illegal immigration or legal immigration,
bringing in people who culturally
do not wanna assimilate.
They wanna bring their own culture into our
country. They wanna bring their own religion,
which is the the Islamic
religion into our country with all the rules
that it entails
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that make women slaves
of the men who actually believe in this
craziness.
Yeah. There's a lot we should do, and
we should absolutely
keep those people from Islamic countries coming in
from coming into our country. Because if they
will not assimilate,
if they will not become Americans, if they
will not learn English
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and learn our ways, they don't deserve to
be in our country.
Right. And real quick, everyone,
we have a right to decide who comes
into our country just like you, me, or
anyone listening
has a right to determine who comes into
their home,
who comes onto their property,
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who comes into their community, etcetera. We have
every right to say that we don't want
somebody regardless
of who they are or where they come
from. It doesn't matter. We have a right
to decide that because this is our country,
and we can deny anyone we want. And
Trump is flexing that muscle, and that's what
we voted for.
Exactly right. And and that's what we can
hope for. I know that he has cut
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off
immigration immigration
from so many different countries now whose people
are culturally different from us,
who will never learn our language, who will,
gather in their own spaces as we have
seen,
with the Somali population.
This is not a good thing for Americans.
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This is not good for us culturally.
It is not good for us with our
safety.
So,
anyway,
and this and this Christmas music makes me
think, what am I talking about?
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I'm here, of course, with Brian Fitzherbert, this
being Fitzherbert Friday,
and, with my favorite guy,
young,
so many wonderful ideas,
and certainly,
more knowledgeable
than 99%
of the young men and women who walk
the Earth today.
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Brian, there is so much to say about
what you are talking about. And when we
talk about illegal immigration, much of what we
say has to do with the fact that
we found Islamic terrorism
to be taking over,
to be one of the things that grabs
headlines
in our country today with the death and
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destruction
that comes with it.
Do you think there's any way
that we are going to,
I don't know, find a solution
to the Islamic terrorism unless we simply stop
allowing
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those people who believe
in the Islamic
so called religion
to enter into our
country?
I don't know. That's complicated,
because if you do a broad brush, that
makes it very difficult because there are plenty
of people
that can practice their said religion and not
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be violent, not, you know, do honor killings
of, you know, their daughters or, you know,
blow up things,
because they are a different religion and can
assimilate into this country.
But again, we have every right
as a constitutional republic,
as citizens, and those who represent us in
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government at the local county, state, and federal
level
to elect people and empower people to make
decisions
to protect American citizens
and to make decisions on whether or not
people can come in or not. It is
not a free for all, even though there
is one party that says that it is.
And that there is one party that says
it doesn't matter if you are legal or
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not. Doesn't matter if you're a citizen or
not. It doesn't matter if you have assimilated
or not. It doesn't matter if you speak
English or not. It doesn't matter if you
love this country or not. We're going to
represent you, and that is the Democrat party.
And that's very sad because look at all
the things that consistently happen.
There is something called radical Islamic terrorism. We've
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seen it. We've seen it this year. We
saw it last year. Sadly, we'll probably see
it next year and the years that follow
until
something fundamental
changes
that has long lasting impacts. Now we're in
a current circumstance
that we're all lucky with president Donald Trump
in the White House. And, you know, God
willing, his vice president, JD Vance, who shares
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a lot of these,
these policies
that would be implemented should he get elected
president in his own right in 2028 for
taking office in '29 to continue
this type of process because it isn't a
three or four year fix. This is a
ten year to fifteen year detox
that has to happen without any interruption
to be able to be anywhere
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to get,
truthfully where we need to be, I think,
from a safety standpoint, from a law enforcement
standpoint,
where people aren't fearful of things,
that continue to be read about, you know,
in the news. And, again, a lot of
people don't even watch the news, listen to
the news, or read the headlines because it
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is that that bad. And they don't wanna
see it, so they kinda wanna close off.
But it's still dangerous.
It's still dangerous, and we can harden,
schools,
you know, put in, more security measures, put
in locks, put in security guards, etcetera, that
kind of stuff to protect our children.
You know, same thing with workplaces,
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any other place that you go. But I
mean, again,
a lot of people have concealed carry license
because they don't want their last thought to
be, I wish I had my gun because,
God forbid, they went to Home Depot or
they went to ShopRite
or they went somewhere in a public setting,
a concert,
the beach, the boardwalk, anywhere
where there is a possibility of some lunatic
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opening fire. I mean, for god's sakes, Bondi
Beach in Australia,
which Australia is a very interesting case study
because Australia is extremely
difficult to immigrate to. They have the the
strictest
immigration laws in
the world,
and they're also the most anti gun,
country
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as well as for citizens to obtain weapons
and or guns. And these gunmen, they knew
who they were, and one even had six.
I think it was the father. Mhmm. And
you see this happen. They had a direct
attack in this case on those that happen
to be Jewish.
And, again,
whether or not it's here in The United
States or elsewhere, you're seeing this
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as a reaction
probably to,
behavior, etcetera. But just because you're reacting to
something you don't like, doesn't give you the
right to murder people. And again,
even the notion of talking about homicide and
murder and killing people
is becoming numb
to a lot of people because you see
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it so much in news,
which is really sad. I mean, to take
someone's life,
it it's most people get upset when they
run over on accident a squirrel on the
road. Right. I mean, think about the where
you have to go
to want to kill someone regardless of how
you do it. Like I said before, whether
it's a knife, whether it's a gun, whether
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it's a long gun, whether it's a truck,
whether it's a pipe bomb, whatever that may
be, you have made a conscious decision that
you are going to kill someone and or
people.
There is not there's something clearly wrong with
you,
how you were raised, what you've been exposed
to, your culture, everything, and how you operate
as a human being.
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Well, it's,
it's unfortunate.
We have this this,
growing population
of people who are far different than we
are. I'm gonna read that quote from 1899,
Winston Churchill,
who of course as you know is John's
hero.
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Winston Churchill said, individual
Muslims
may show splendid qualities,
but the influence of the religion
paralyzes
the social
development
of those who follow it.
No stronger
retrograde
force
exists
in the world,
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Far from being moribund
or
lifeless
or not wanting to engage is what that
means,
Mohammedanism
is a militant
and proselytizing
faith.
No truer words were ever spoken.
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That's what,
Islamic
followers want. They want to spread
the faith. And unfortunately,
in this country, where the birth rate is
going down, down, down, it's going up, up,
up for those people allowed into our country
who are from the Islamic
faith.
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Yeah. Yeah. So so again,
we can spend literally hours going into,
the three major religions. We can spend hours
going into,
where things deviate, where they agree in some
of the prophets, etcetera. But again, if you
have a religion that in a lot of
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ways,
again and, you know, whatever Muhammad's last word
was,
is is, you know, gospel,
that if there is somebody that is an
infidel,
meaning not Muslim,
and you have every right to kill them,
yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem with
Western civilization. That's a problem
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just in normal
society or how normal people operate in the
twenty first century.
You don't just go kill someone
because they disagree with you. You don't just
go kill someone
because you think they have hate,
and that they can't be changed. Normal people
are like, okay. Cool. You have your opinion.
I have my opinion. No big deal. Let's
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move on. Or if you see something on
the TV, you change the channel. If you
see someone that has a flag
on their lawn or on their home,
you ignore it because it's their property. They
can
do whatever they want on their property.
Normal people
find ways
to operate when it's again,
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we're all here
renting space for, like, where it turns on
this planet
and and, god willing, a long and prosperous
life.
But
yet there are individuals
that
continue to believe and justify
justify
that,
yep. No big deal.
I'm gonna kill this person. I have every
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right to, and I'm gonna be rewarded for
doing so. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Or take it even further with Charlie Kirk's
assassin,
who literally
made conscious decisions,
clearly was aware of what he was doing,
why he was doing it, and had no
problem doing it.
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And I look forward to him being tried.
I look forward to him being convicted, and
I look forward to him being executed
because that is a normal thought process
given that he assassinated a young father for
no reason other than the fact that he
disagreed with him. And
And we have a process
for justice and accountability.
Now
a lot of people have a lot of
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motions regarding that. Do they want to do
something
sooner, faster? Because, again, this isn't on order.
Right? It doesn't happen in a one hour
episode.
This is a long, arduous process that, unfortunately,
Charlie Hearst's widow and and his his family
have to go through. But that's justice instead
of just taking a pistol and
taking this guy's life an eye for an
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eye.
That's not the world we live in.
No.
No. It's it's not. But I, you know,
I I sure
my wish is that people who are found
guilty with,
you know, without a shadow of a doubt
and given a sentence of death,
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I wish
that they actually followed through with it. Because
I I think we still have
I think his name was Tsarnaev.
His brother was killed when he ran over
them him by accident in the Boston marathon,
horror
so many years back, and the younger brother
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is still alive in a federal prison
even though he had the death penalty, then
it was removed, but then it was put
back again.
Why is this man still
alive?
I don't know. I I It happened in
Massachusetts.
That may be part of it. One of
the most liberal and,
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I don't know, and no common sense whatsoever
with any one of the politicians that I've
heard from Boston.
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Oh, boy. Charlie Brown.
It's one of the movies that I have
to watch before Christmas.
It's the only thing that gets my blood
roiling,
and ready,
ready for all the cooking and
cleaning and
wrapping that has to be done. Charlie Brown.
Nothing better than watching,
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who was it, Pig Pen on the stage
talking about what the real reason behind Christmas
is.
Yeah.
That's always great. Yeah. Yeah. It certainly is.
Are you all ready for
Christmas, by the way? You've got,
the beautiful child,
who probably
wants
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very few things,
but I'll bet he's just gonna be a
lot of toys under that Christmas tree.
I'm almost there. He certainly,
is fixated and focused on one toy in
particular, which is a robot dinosaur. So Santa
is definitely going to be bringing that. I
bet. And,
you know, it's it's always
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it's always good to just get into that
spirit. Catherine and I have, begun our annual,
routines with stuff, especially movies.
You know, whether it's Home Alone or,
the Santa Claus, and, actually, we've now made
it a routine to watch another great Christmas
movie, Die Hard.
When everything is all said and done, we
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can sit and relax. But, you know, we're
looking forward to it, and we're looking forward
to, you know, Luke just ripping apart some
some presents under the tree and just the
whole magic,
as well as, obviously, the importance of why
we're celebrating Christmas, which is celebrate the birth
of our lord and savior,
that happens to coincide with winter solace. So
we're very,
we're very blessed, and we continue to count
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our blessings,
and we send that to everybody else. Yeah.
I I I wish I wish every family
that had children would simply even if they're
not very religious,
if they would bring them to the local
church to see the creche to see
Mary and Joseph, the angels, the the animals,
and most importantly,
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the the tiny little food holder in which
Christ was laid,
at his birth.
It's like
so beautiful. Such a beautiful story.
If you take your kids to it, they're
going to want to know what the story
is behind it.
And that's one way to begin
the most important lessons you're going to teach
your child, and that is the love of
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God and and how it's supposed to be
part and parcel of who we are.
Hey, Anne. Speaking of God's message real quick,
I wanted to tell you we just had
a caller calling Uh-huh. With a, fact check.
It wasn't Pigpen. It was Linus. Linus.
Linus.
All respect do.
Thank you. Whoever you were,
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I I know that you two watch, Charlie
Brown and get as much out of it
as as anyone,
who is, thinking clearly what you get out
of that that beautiful cartoon message.
I don't know. There's there's so much happening
in our world,
Brian.
What is
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your more most fervent prayer
outside of wanting what is best for
your family and those you love?
What do you find coming to your mind
most of the time
asking God to please make something happen?
Yeah.
It's pretty simple,
to bring more
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people,
more Americans in particular, closer to him. More
closer to God, more closer to Jesus,
to more of
a moral
execution
of,
principles.
You know, I always say if we if
everyone had morals, we would need ethics, but,
unfortunately, this is where we are. And, you
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know, I just pray that
people find them. Sometimes people find them early
in life and child. Sometimes they find it
on their deathbed. Sometimes they find it in
between.
But I hope the
the message, especially around this time, is is
more connected to people to find,
the grace of God and just the importance
and the sacrifice that that Jesus made for
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all of us.
And to just
tomorrow's a better day, and we can be
we can be better tomorrow.
We can be better today and just try
to find ways to improve and just be
be better
as as we possibly can because it's a
very, very dangerous world out there. It's a
horrific world out there.
And,
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you know, I just I just pray for
for I mean, it's cliche, but I just
pray for peace
and just pray for security and pray for
safety.
Plain and simple. Yeah.
Yeah. We need to be reminded though all
the time, of that because,
you know, the needs that we have or
the belief that we we should be able
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to satisfy
all of our wants,
sometimes scrambles our brains.
And we forget that the most important thing
is the love of family,
the love of country,
and most importantly, the love of God.
And this is the,
this is the time of the year
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when
our senses should be,
highly,
I don't know,
sensitized
to what's going on around us, to the
needs of other people,
and what we might be able to do
to help those other people.
And to do it in the name of
God,
because of his love for us,
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the miracle of our birth occurred.
We are images made in the image and
likeness of God.
And,
you know, there are so many things that
perhaps we will be able to do in
the future.
Get rid of abortion,
which someday some more civilized
culture than our own will look back on
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us and say, how could a people
want to kill their own children?
Maybe that'll happen.
I don't know. Right now, we've got thousands
and thousands of babies being murdered every month.
So
all we can ask for is God's grace.
Yeah. And even more so,
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remember that for every one of these unfortunate
individuals that seem to have the desire to
take the the life of their own child,
there isn't probably three or four mothers out
there that are hoping, praying
that they have themselves a child, that they
have a healthy pregnancy, that they have,
the opportunity
to to bear children,
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that may have been trying,
maybe for a month, maybe for two years,
or, you know, I've had miscarriages.
And yet it's so precious. It's such a
miracle, and yet there are so many people
that have no problem
making a transactional thought to to take out
life like that. It's it's quite heartbreaking.
Yeah. Yeah. I think anybody going through that
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needs to go to Jersey Shore Women's Center
here in South Jersey
because they will
they will take you in.
They will,
carry you through your pregnancy.
They will have women who have gone through
abortion as well
as who will be, going through adoption.
They have all kinds of wonderful things available,
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including and most importantly
their ear, their shoulder to cry on.
And, I think
if more women just stopped
and said,
this is a baby growing within me. This
is a miracle of all miracles.
Probably
all I could say is you don't even
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see you don't even see the fertilized egg
that is implanted.
You can't see it. It's that small. And
yet within nine months, we've got someone as
perfect as your Luke,
as my Luke,
as babies throughout the world.
That's what you get.
Anyway,
Brian, thank you. Thank you for being here
with us. And,
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I know everybody out there who listens, they
love to listen to you. So,
looking forward again to, the next time we
speak. In the meantime,
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
Love to you, Catherine, and many kisses and
hugs to Luke.
Take care, my friend.
Likewise. Thanks for having me. As always, Merry
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Christmas to everybody listening. Happy New Year,
and stay safe out there. It's always a
pleasure.
Thank you, Brian. Have a good one.
Anyway, do do we have Brian on? We
do. Woo hoo.
Good morning, Brian Fitzherbert on Fitzherbert Friday. Welcome,
Brian. How are you?
Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. Thanks for
having me. Hey.
Is is the weather to your,
to your specifications?
No. I actually preferred the snow and the
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cold of last week. Well, that's because you're
a hockey player. You're an ice hockey player.
Well, of course. Of
course. I would.
I was getting Luke on skates and everything.
So Oh my. Oh my good. Well, you've
got this huge backyard. Are you planning on
making it into an ice rink?
Oh, well, I've already taken advantage of that.
So
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Well, of course, you have.
Of course, you have. Given the, frustrations,
you know, that we have locally, and not
to go off on a tangent here, but
the frustrations that we have with, unfortunately, the
current situation with the the skate zone in
Atlantic City, etcetera, and the other rings down
in South Jersey are are, you know, hours
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away. So, I'm going to solve my own
solution, in the short term because,
it's quite frustrating.
Well, I expect that from someone who's in
the weapons industry. Okay?
You've you've got the ability to think through
the problem and find a solution,
and I know you will. And I have
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no doubt that Luke is going to become
one of the best ice skaters
in Egg Harbor Township ever. So there you
go.
Anyway,
Brian, I'm I'm I'm gonna ask you. I
I have been reading on so many issues.
There's a thousand issues out there.
What
do do you
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wanna focus on that you find to be
so important that we really do need to
have a discussion on it?
Well, I think it comes back to probably
my,
two passionate subjects, and that's the economy, and
that's,
illegal immigration. And as we've unfortunately now seen
yet another instance up in the Northeast at
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Brown University and MIT, we've had yet another,
foreign national,
commit crimes.
And what this was done, he got,
legal status, at least in the short term,
through the diversity lottery program, which needs to
end.
Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have already announced
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a pause to that entire program. Great. I
hope it's paused indefinitely, and I hope it
shuts down. Because, again,
if there are individuals that are not compatible
with American culture and civilization,
they can't be
here. And everything that Homan and Nome have
done to secure the border, as Trump talked
about in his address on Wednesday,
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it is night and day between this time
a year ago
and where we are with securing the border
and going through the wickets to get individuals
out of here. Because, again,
everything
can be solved by eliminating
the massive amount of illegal aliens as well
as those individuals that come here that do
not assimilate, and that's the biggest problem. If
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you come here and you wanna be an
American and you wanna assimilate into our country
and our culture, just like the one you
left behind, great. But if your thing is
to, oh, well, it didn't work out where
I was. I'm just gonna recreate it here
in America. That's sorry. That's not part of
our culture.
And we're seeing more and more of these
instances.
And, again, why is
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the cost of any goods expensive?
It's because of the demand. It says why
rent is high. It's why housing is high.
It's why health care is high. It's why
school sizes, etcetera, all this stuff
that impacts us economically.
Obviously, with secretary Duffy talking about the amount
of illegal aliens that have commercial driver's licenses
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that are on the roads,
driving big rigs and also causing accidents and
killing people. Not to mention New Jersey in
particular with the amount of illegal aliens that
we have here that are given driver's license
that, guess what, aren't insured. So guess what
car insurance companies that are left
that are willing to provide any kind of
insurance coverage for New Jersey drivers,
they have to take that into the account
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of their risk pool. So they have to
drive up the cost of insurance for what
happens if you get in a car accident
with someone who doesn't have car insurance, like
an illegal alien that is driving that should
not be here.
That's they they gotta anticipate the capturing all
those costs. So,
those are things that, again, Donald Trump is
hit upon,
Kristi Noemann, Homan. But, again, it's
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I mean, talk about just the last week
of news
from,
just
the horrific,
Hollyweird stuff with Rob Reiner and his his
wife. You know, that's unfortunate that their own
son who clearly,
has mental problems. And, again,
another thing to tie into what Trump has
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tried to do and what Congress needs to
act on, we need mental institutes again. There
needs to be a place to put these
people that cannot function in society, that cannot
function
in American culture regardless of who their parents
are, regardless of how many times there's been
attempts. So, like, look, I say it tongue
in cheek, but Hollywood is holly weird. The
fact that this
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now 32 year old, I think, is is
age was in and out of rehab from,
single digit age for drug problems
until he was in his late teens,
that's a problem. And there are some people
that are broken,
and a lot of parents don't know they're
obviously responsible because they brought this person into
the world, and they try to handle things
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privately, and sometimes that works, sometimes it clearly
doesn't based on the tragedy and how this
ended. But even more so, there has to
be a place to put these people that
cannot function
and clearly have mental disorders. And the fact
that the Democrats in the left have tried
to normalize all kinds of mental disorders
with a large range,
has not has not contributed anything positive. So
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those are things
that's it's horrifying to see these in the
headlines. But, again, we need to have,
you know, for lack of better terms, the
parents
making decisions again from a political standpoint
and stop
lying on individuals taking advantage of empathy
and society's
urge to want to understand why people are
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the way they are. We don't have time
for that. We need to keep people safe,
and people need to be locked up, whether
it's for criminal,
and law enforcement reasons, or because they have
a mental disorder and they cannot function in
this in this civilization. Yeah. Well, we're gonna
take a quick break, but we're gonna come
back to this topic because I think it
is so absolutely urgent
that exam Dan Baker. I'm talking with Anne,
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and I'm here, of course, with Brian Fitzherbert,
this being Friday and Fitzherbert Friday.
And I absolutely agree 100%
with you, Brian.
We need to open up mental institutions again.
We need perhaps to have a better way
of of training
the people who are in these mental institutions.
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But we have to get the mentally ill
off our streets
who are in fact the ones that we
have to worry about with our safety and
the safety of our families.
Absolutely. And it does it doesn't just stem
from those that are homeless.
It stems from those that, you know, obviously,
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can't even function in other normal aspects of
society and, you know, they become shut ins,
etcetera.
And they do
really crazy stuff. You know, we're still learning
more about the January 6 pipe bomber
that the FBI, Dan Buongino in particular,
made sure he got before he left the
bureau,
who was basically
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around for five years Yeah. And had more,
pipe bombing material,
at his house when they found him. And,
you know, we'll learn more as time goes
on with the with regards to that. But,
I mean, no sane person,
decides to walk in Washington DC
and proactively drop pipe bombs in front of
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both the Democrat and the Republican National,
committee buildings with the attempt to obviously harm
people and kill people,
and who from what has been revealed, has
had a very shuttered life,
etcetera. So, again,
how many instances of this
do we hear in the news? I mean,
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take the Charlotte,
stabbing
of, that beautiful young woman on the subway.
I I mean, how many times we have
to add this up where there are people
walking around and maybe there are concerned parents
or family members, but they have no place
to take them. They have no place to
do to deal with it because I I
can't even imagine what that's like where, you
know, you're responsible clearly regardless if they're a
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minor or not because you brought this person
into the world, and you need to be
able to handle it. And some people can't
handle it, so they just kick them out.
And then guess what? It's the rest of
society's problem, And sometimes that yields very negative,
outcomes
like murder or other things that are horrific.
And there's gotta be a place to put
these individuals, and they need to be committed.
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And, you know, maybe there's an opportunity for,
for care
and rehabilitation,
and maybe there isn't, and maybe this is
where they go. And, again, it has nothing
to do with anything other than making sure
that you, me, and anyone listening is safe.
We should feel safe. And, you know, you
tie that into this foreign national
that,
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went on Brown's campus
and whether or not it was a target
attack, you know, more information will come out,
killed two young college students. And then now
we just learned this morning or late last
night that this was also the same individual
that killed an MIT professor,
when the entire,
political apparatus in Rhode Island was saying that,
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oh, there's there's no threat to society. There's
no danger. Because if he would've come if
the gunman would've done something, he would've done
something wrong. You don't know that. I mean,
that Paul that mayor of Providence should resign
immediately, number one. And number two, the fact
that the law enforcement
found this foreign national dead in a storage
unit in New Hampshire Yeah. Truthfully is lucky.
What if he just decided not to kill
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himself? Would they have found him? And would
he have continued killing people? So, again, these
are these are really, really crazy things,
that are going on right now. And it's
again, all the headlines,
they tie back to a common theme, which
from lack of rare terms is a
lack
of for, you know, a lack of integration
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and assimilation into
America,
the structure of the family unit,
and what to do with individuals that make
choices,
whatever that may be, that have to do
with things that aren't normal.
Drugs,
excessive
alcohol use,
or excessive mental problems
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that your answer to a solution
is to murder somebody.
I mean, regardless if it's used with whatever
weapon, a gun, a truck, a knife. I
mean, take your pick. If someone has the
decision to make
a conclusive
way to end whatever
whatever has spawned this thought process
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is to murder somebody. I'm sorry. You're not
right in the head, and that is someone
that needs to be committed. And this is
a mental problem. And the, again, to my
point before, it's not just this stuff. It's
all kinds of mental disorders you were talking
about before I came on. With what RFK
Jr has said that they are now eliminating,
thank God, any,
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support for any of this nonsense of transgender
mutilation of children and minors that the Democrats
in the left try to call gender affirming
care. These people have mental disorders.
Right? It's it's so fundamental. You ask any
normal kid that takes biology
that hasn't been propagandized,
that reads a simple book. You have x
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y chromosomes. You have x x chromosomes. There's
only two sexes. It's male and female. There
is no changing. It is impossible. If you
think otherwise, you have a mental disorder. If
you have empathy for this, truthfully, you're probably
closer to having a mental disorder. It's not
normal.
No.
Let me let me let me tell you
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something funny. I just found out what cisgender
was,
and it's it's being normal.
Alright? Saying, yeah. Yeah. I have x x.
This is what I am. I have x
y. This is what I am. That's what
cisgender means. Is that is that, like, systematic
generalization? Is that what that is? It's c
I s, cisgender.
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That's what these crazies on the left, this
this
woke ideal of everyone having their own pronouns
and being able to determine what sex they
are. This is what they said, cisgender. I
I they probably said it, spitting it out
of their mouth because to be normal
is not part of who they are.
Therefore, you are on the other side of
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the fence and not friendly to them or
with them.
So yeah.
It truly is crazy, Brian.
It is. It's it's unfortunate,
but this is what happens when, number one,
there's a breakdown of the American family. There's
a breakdown
of American culture and assimilation
and a
breakdown of truthfully
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normality.
There is a reason it is abnormal, and
people don't want to be abnormal, or they
do want attention
because they're not getting it elsewhere because their
parents are getting divorced or something else is
happening in their life. And they're reacting. And,
unfortunately, maybe it's even worse. Maybe there's sexual
abuse. Maybe there's child abuse. Maybe there's something
else at work. And, again,
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if you do the mirror test and, again,
you look in the mirror and you make
sure that you are a role model,
whether or not you are a parent, whether
or not you're a son, daughter, niece, nephew,
uncle, aunt, whatever that may be, grandparent, for
those around you because you're a role model
whether you want it or not because people
see
what no matter what age you are. And
a lot of the times,
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there's just there is something that stems from
this. But again, we don't have time for
this.
We can't fix the world.
People need to live, and people need to
be safe.
And that, again, comes back to what we
were talking about. There needs to be a
committal
process again for people who cannot
function in society or be normal. Yeah. As
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well as the other issue that you mentioned,
illegal immigration or legal immigration,
bringing in people who culturally
do not wanna assimilate.
They wanna bring their own culture into our
country. They wanna bring their own religion,
which is the the Islamic
religion into our country with all the rules
that it entails
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that make women slaves
of the men who actually believe in this
craziness.
Yeah. There's a lot we should do, and
we should absolutely
keep those people from Islamic countries coming in
from coming into our country. Because if they
will not assimilate,
if they will not become Americans, if they
will not learn English
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and learn our ways, they don't deserve to
be in our country.
Right. And real quick, everyone,
we have a right to decide who comes
into our country just like you, me, or
anyone listening
has a right to determine who comes into
their home,
who comes onto their property,
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who comes into their community, etcetera. We have
every right to say that we don't want
somebody regardless
of who they are or where they come
from. It doesn't matter. We have a right
to decide that because this is our country,
and we can deny anyone we want. And
Trump is flexing that muscle, and that's what
we voted for.
Exactly right. And and that's what we can
hope for. I know that he has cut
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off
immigration immigration
from so many different countries now whose people
are culturally different from us,
who will never learn our language, who will,
gather in their own spaces as we have
seen,
with the Somali population.
This is not a good thing for Americans.
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This is not good for us culturally.
It is not good for us with our
safety.
So,
anyway,
and this and this Christmas music makes me
think, what am I talking about?
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I'm here, of course, with Brian Fitzherbert, this
being Fitzherbert Friday,
and, with my favorite guy,
young,
so many wonderful ideas,
and certainly,
more knowledgeable
than 99%
of the young men and women who walk
the Earth today.
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Brian, there is so much to say about
what you are talking about. And when we
talk about illegal immigration, much of what we
say has to do with the fact that
we found Islamic terrorism
to be taking over,
to be one of the things that grabs
headlines
in our country today with the death and
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destruction
that comes with it.
Do you think there's any way
that we are going to,
I don't know, find a solution
to the Islamic terrorism unless we simply stop
allowing
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those people who believe
in the Islamic
so called religion
to enter into our
country?
I don't know. That's complicated,
because if you do a broad brush, that
makes it very difficult because there are plenty
of people
that can practice their said religion and not
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be violent, not, you know, do honor killings
of, you know, their daughters or, you know,
blow up things,
because they are a different religion and can
assimilate into this country.
But again, we have every right
as a constitutional republic,
as citizens, and those who represent us in
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government at the local county, state, and federal
level
to elect people and empower people to make
decisions
to protect American citizens
and to make decisions on whether or not
people can come in or not. It is
not a free for all, even though there
is one party that says that it is.
And that there is one party that says
it doesn't matter if you are legal or
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not. Doesn't matter if you're a citizen or
not. It doesn't matter if you have assimilated
or not. It doesn't matter if you speak
English or not. It doesn't matter if you
love this country or not. We're going to
represent you, and that is the Democrat party.
And that's very sad because look at all
the things that consistently happen.
There is something called radical Islamic terrorism. We've
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seen it. We've seen it this year. We
saw it last year. Sadly, we'll probably see
it next year and the years that follow
until
something fundamental
changes
that has long lasting impacts. Now we're in
a current circumstance
that we're all lucky with president Donald Trump
in the White House. And, you know, God
willing, his vice president, JD Vance, who shares
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a lot of these,
these policies
that would be implemented should he get elected
president in his own right in 2028 for
taking office in '29 to continue
this type of process because it isn't a
three or four year fix. This is a
ten year to fifteen year detox
that has to happen without any interruption
to be able to be anywhere
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to get,
truthfully where we need to be, I think,
from a safety standpoint, from a law enforcement
standpoint,
where people aren't fearful of things,
that continue to be read about, you know,
in the news. And, again, a lot of
people don't even watch the news, listen to
the news, or read the headlines because it
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is that that bad. And they don't wanna
see it, so they kinda wanna close off.
But it's still dangerous.
It's still dangerous, and we can harden,
schools,
you know, put in, more security measures, put
in locks, put in security guards, etcetera, that
kind of stuff to protect our children.
You know, same thing with workplaces,
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any other place that you go. But I
mean, again,
a lot of people have concealed carry license
because they don't want their last thought to
be, I wish I had my gun because,
God forbid, they went to Home Depot or
they went to ShopRite
or they went somewhere in a public setting,
a concert,
the beach, the boardwalk, anywhere
where there is a possibility of some lunatic
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opening fire. I mean, for god's sakes, Bondi
Beach in Australia,
which Australia is a very interesting case study
because Australia is extremely
difficult to immigrate to. They have the the
strictest
immigration laws in
the world,
and they're also the most anti gun,
country
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as well as for citizens to obtain weapons
and or guns. And these gunmen, they knew
who they were, and one even had six.
I think it was the father. Mhmm. And
you see this happen. They had a direct
attack in this case on those that happen
to be Jewish.
And, again,
whether or not it's here in The United
States or elsewhere, you're seeing this
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as a reaction
probably to,
behavior, etcetera. But just because you're reacting to
something you don't like, doesn't give you the
right to murder people. And again,
even the notion of talking about homicide and
murder and killing people
is becoming numb
to a lot of people because you see
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it so much in news,
which is really sad. I mean, to take
someone's life,
it it's most people get upset when they
run over on accident a squirrel on the
road. Right. I mean, think about the where
you have to go
to want to kill someone regardless of how
you do it. Like I said before, whether
it's a knife, whether it's a gun, whether
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it's a long gun, whether it's a truck,
whether it's a pipe bomb, whatever that may
be, you have made a conscious decision that
you are going to kill someone and or
people.
There is not there's something clearly wrong with
you,
how you were raised, what you've been exposed
to, your culture, everything, and how you operate
as a human being.
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Well, it's,
it's unfortunate.
We have this this,
growing population
of people who are far different than we
are. I'm gonna read that quote from 1899,
Winston Churchill,
who of course as you know is John's
hero.
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Winston Churchill said, individual
Muslims
may show splendid qualities,
but the influence of the religion
paralyzes
the social
development
of those who follow it.
No stronger
retrograde
force
exists
in the world,
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Far from being moribund
or
lifeless
or not wanting to engage is what that
means,
Mohammedanism
is a militant
and proselytizing
faith.
No truer words were ever spoken.
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That's what,
Islamic
followers want. They want to spread
the faith. And unfortunately,
in this country, where the birth rate is
going down, down, down, it's going up, up,
up for those people allowed into our country
who are from the Islamic
faith.
(23:57):
Yeah. Yeah. So so again,
we can spend literally hours going into,
the three major religions. We can spend hours
going into,
where things deviate, where they agree in some
of the prophets, etcetera. But again, if you
have a religion that in a lot of
(24:17):
ways,
again and, you know, whatever Muhammad's last word
was,
is is, you know, gospel,
that if there is somebody that is an
infidel,
meaning not Muslim,
and you have every right to kill them,
yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem with
Western civilization. That's a problem
(24:37):
just in normal
society or how normal people operate in the
twenty first century.
You don't just go kill someone
because they disagree with you. You don't just
go kill someone
because you think they have hate,
and that they can't be changed. Normal people
are like, okay. Cool. You have your opinion.
I have my opinion. No big deal. Let's
(24:58):
move on. Or if you see something on
the TV, you change the channel. If you
see someone that has a flag
on their lawn or on their home,
you ignore it because it's their property. They
can
do whatever they want on their property.
Normal people
find ways
to operate when it's again,
(25:20):
we're all here
renting space for, like, where it turns on
this planet
and and, god willing, a long and prosperous
life.
But
yet there are individuals
that
continue to believe and justify
justify
that,
yep. No big deal.
I'm gonna kill this person. I have every
(25:41):
right to, and I'm gonna be rewarded for
doing so. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Or take it even further with Charlie Kirk's
assassin,
who literally
made conscious decisions,
clearly was aware of what he was doing,
why he was doing it, and had no
problem doing it.
(26:03):
And I look forward to him being tried.
I look forward to him being convicted, and
I look forward to him being executed
because that is a normal thought process
given that he assassinated a young father for
no reason other than the fact that he
disagreed with him. And
And we have a process
for justice and accountability.
Now
a lot of people have a lot of
(26:24):
motions regarding that. Do they want to do
something
sooner, faster? Because, again, this isn't on order.
Right? It doesn't happen in a one hour
episode.
This is a long, arduous process that, unfortunately,
Charlie Hearst's widow and and his his family
have to go through. But that's justice instead
of just taking a pistol and
taking this guy's life an eye for an
(26:45):
eye.
That's not the world we live in.
No.
No. It's it's not. But I, you know,
I I sure
my wish is that people who are found
guilty with,
you know, without a shadow of a doubt
and given a sentence of death,
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I wish
that they actually followed through with it. Because
I I think we still have
I think his name was Tsarnaev.
His brother was killed when he ran over
them him by accident in the Boston marathon,
horror
so many years back, and the younger brother
(27:30):
is still alive in a federal prison
even though he had the death penalty, then
it was removed, but then it was put
back again.
Why is this man still
alive?
I don't know. I I It happened in
Massachusetts.
That may be part of it. One of
the most liberal and,
(27:52):
I don't know, and no common sense whatsoever
with any one of the politicians that I've
heard from Boston.
Ann Baker is on News Talk fourteen hundred
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Oh, boy. Charlie Brown.
It's one of the movies that I have
to watch before Christmas.
It's the only thing that gets my blood
roiling,
and ready,
ready for all the cooking and
cleaning and
wrapping that has to be done. Charlie Brown.
Nothing better than watching,
(28:35):
who was it, Pig Pen on the stage
talking about what the real reason behind Christmas
is.
Yeah.
That's always great. Yeah. Yeah. It certainly is.
Are you all ready for
Christmas, by the way? You've got,
the beautiful child,
who probably
wants
(28:55):
very few things,
but I'll bet he's just gonna be a
lot of toys under that Christmas tree.
I'm almost there. He certainly,
is fixated and focused on one toy in
particular, which is a robot dinosaur. So Santa
is definitely going to be bringing that. I
bet. And,
you know, it's it's always
(29:17):
it's always good to just get into that
spirit. Catherine and I have, begun our annual,
routines with stuff, especially movies.
You know, whether it's Home Alone or,
the Santa Claus, and, actually, we've now made
it a routine to watch another great Christmas
movie, Die Hard.
When everything is all said and done, we
(29:37):
can sit and relax. But, you know, we're
looking forward to it, and we're looking forward
to, you know, Luke just ripping apart some
some presents under the tree and just the
whole magic,
as well as, obviously, the importance of why
we're celebrating Christmas, which is celebrate the birth
of our lord and savior,
that happens to coincide with winter solace. So
we're very,
we're very blessed, and we continue to count
(29:58):
our blessings,
and we send that to everybody else. Yeah.
I I I wish I wish every family
that had children would simply even if they're
not very religious,
if they would bring them to the local
church to see the creche to see
Mary and Joseph, the angels, the the animals,
and most importantly,
(30:19):
the the tiny little food holder in which
Christ was laid,
at his birth.
It's like
so beautiful. Such a beautiful story.
If you take your kids to it, they're
going to want to know what the story
is behind it.
And that's one way to begin
the most important lessons you're going to teach
your child, and that is the love of
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God and and how it's supposed to be
part and parcel of who we are.
Hey, Anne. Speaking of God's message real quick,
I wanted to tell you we just had
a caller calling Uh-huh. With a, fact check.
It wasn't Pigpen. It was Linus. Linus.
Linus.
All respect do.
Thank you. Whoever you were,
(31:02):
I I know that you two watch, Charlie
Brown and get as much out of it
as as anyone,
who is, thinking clearly what you get out
of that that beautiful cartoon message.
I don't know. There's there's so much happening
in our world,
Brian.
What is
(31:22):
your more most fervent prayer
outside of wanting what is best for
your family and those you love?
What do you find coming to your mind
most of the time
asking God to please make something happen?
Yeah.
It's pretty simple,
to bring more
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people,
more Americans in particular, closer to him. More
closer to God, more closer to Jesus,
to more of
a moral
execution
of,
principles.
You know, I always say if we if
everyone had morals, we would need ethics, but,
unfortunately, this is where we are. And, you
(32:04):
know, I just pray that
people find them. Sometimes people find them early
in life and child. Sometimes they find it
on their deathbed. Sometimes they find it in
between.
But I hope the
the message, especially around this time, is is
more connected to people to find,
the grace of God and just the importance
and the sacrifice that that Jesus made for
(32:26):
all of us.
And to just
tomorrow's a better day, and we can be
we can be better tomorrow.
We can be better today and just try
to find ways to improve and just be
be better
as as we possibly can because it's a
very, very dangerous world out there. It's a
horrific world out there.
And,
(32:46):
you know, I just I just pray for
for I mean, it's cliche, but I just
pray for peace
and just pray for security and pray for
safety.
Plain and simple. Yeah.
Yeah. We need to be reminded though all
the time, of that because,
you know, the needs that we have or
the belief that we we should be able
(33:07):
to satisfy
all of our wants,
sometimes scrambles our brains.
And we forget that the most important thing
is the love of family,
the love of country,
and most importantly, the love of God.
And this is the,
this is the time of the year
(33:29):
when
our senses should be,
highly,
I don't know,
sensitized
to what's going on around us, to the
needs of other people,
and what we might be able to do
to help those other people.
And to do it in the name of
God,
because of his love for us,
(33:51):
the miracle of our birth occurred.
We are images made in the image and
likeness of God.
And,
you know, there are so many things that
perhaps we will be able to do in
the future.
Get rid of abortion,
which someday some more civilized
culture than our own will look back on
(34:12):
us and say, how could a people
want to kill their own children?
Maybe that'll happen.
I don't know. Right now, we've got thousands
and thousands of babies being murdered every month.
So
all we can ask for is God's grace.
Yeah. And even more so,
(34:34):
remember that for every one of these unfortunate
individuals that seem to have the desire to
take the the life of their own child,
there isn't probably three or four mothers out
there that are hoping, praying
that they have themselves a child, that they
have a healthy pregnancy, that they have,
the opportunity
to to bear children,
(34:54):
that may have been trying,
maybe for a month, maybe for two years,
or, you know, I've had miscarriages.
And yet it's so precious. It's such a
miracle, and yet there are so many people
that have no problem
making a transactional thought to to take out
life like that. It's it's quite heartbreaking.
Yeah. Yeah. I think anybody going through that
(35:15):
needs to go to Jersey Shore Women's Center
here in South Jersey
because they will
they will take you in.
They will,
carry you through your pregnancy.
They will have women who have gone through
abortion as well
as who will be, going through adoption.
They have all kinds of wonderful things available,
(35:37):
including and most importantly
their ear, their shoulder to cry on.
And, I think
if more women just stopped
and said,
this is a baby growing within me. This
is a miracle of all miracles.
Probably
all I could say is you don't even
(35:58):
see you don't even see the fertilized egg
that is implanted.
You can't see it. It's that small. And
yet within nine months, we've got someone as
perfect as your Luke,
as my Luke,
as babies throughout the world.
That's what you get.
Anyway,
Brian, thank you. Thank you for being here
with us. And,
(36:19):
I know everybody out there who listens, they
love to listen to you. So,
looking forward again to, the next time we
speak. In the meantime,
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
Love to you, Catherine, and many kisses and
hugs to Luke.
Take care, my friend.
Likewise. Thanks for having me. As always, Merry
(36:39):
Christmas to everybody listening. Happy New Year,
and stay safe out there. It's always a
pleasure.
Thank you, Brian. Have a good one.
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