September 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Jeremy and Adyn Brendan join to discuss Adyn's journey to Hamilton College through a QuestBridge scholarship. Adyn shares his college experience, including his ACT score and involvement in a community mural project during his freshman year. The conversation turns to a contentious art piece that led to an encounter with campus security, resulting in a fight for Adyn's reinstatement and scholarship. Advocacy and representation efforts are highlighted, alongside Adyn's mixed feelings and the support he has received for his education. The episode concludes with ongoing support for Adyn and closing words from Bubba.
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Today on the show, we're joined by Jeremy andAiden Brendan.
Jeremy, a passionate advocate and voice for hisfamily, and Aiden, a young man navigating
challenges and growth after a high profileexperience at Hamilton College.
Together, they bring a raw and real perspectiveon justice, resilience, and what it means to
stand strong as a family.
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Let's get into the show.
The following program is part of the PatriotBroadcasting Project brought to you by the seed
projects podcast network.
Welcome in to a very important episode of thePatriot Broadcasting Project.
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I am your host, Bubba Sartz, and with me todayis Jeremy and Aiden Brendan.
Welcome to the show, guys.
Thanks.
Thanks for having us.
We appreciate it.
Well, Jeremy, you reached out to me on Facebookand, expressed an interest on coming onto the
show to talk about a situation that Aiden foundhimself in over some art that he had done at
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the college he was attending.
Since then, he's been arrested.
He has been charged with some pretty heinouscharges, I would say, that are completely
unfounded, and, we're gonna get a chance tohear all about it.
So I'm gonna give you the floor, let you kindof explain the opportunity that he had to even
go to this college, which was a huge deal, andand and how it was all ripped away from him.
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So the floor is yours.
So Aiden, a lot of local people know Aiden is ahe's a scholar he's a QuestBridge scholar from
Yanken High School here in class of last yearin 02/2023.
2023.
QuestBridge academic low income well, it's forlow income families, and it's really
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prestigious award.
Anyways, he got a full ride scholarship thatthey provide full ride scholarship to go to
Hamilton, and he well, he got to choose.
He had to go through a program to it.
So he got a full ride scholarship to go toHamilton or college in New York.
And, yeah, it's a big deal, I guess.
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And you can explain, I guess, a little bit moreabout that scholarship if you want.
Well
well, the whole point of the scholarship wasthat it was meant to be an opportunity to help
low income students and people who excelintellectually to get full ride scholarships in
the colleges, you know, because, usually whathappens is that people usually, like, excel at
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sports or something and then they get in thesecolleges that way.
Well, this was meant to be a program for peoplewho excel intellectually instead of physically.
And so they selected me to be one of the peopleto potentially get a full ride scholarship.
And so what you essentially do is you will rankthese colleges in a list, and you will go and
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you'll, like, write, like, a ton ofapplications for each of these colleges.
I, like I believe I put all my application workin a single document.
It was, like, what, 13 pages long, and I had todo that in, like, twenty four hours.
So it was pretty intense.
But at the end of it, I got, accepted atHamilton College.
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So that was, like, a big deal for me.
Like, I when I saw I was at a loss for words.
This was, a big opportunity for me.
Like, this was going to be my way that I couldmake it make it make make my make it in the
road and, like, have a thing.
Because, like, the big thing for me aboutcollege is that it just costs so much.
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And so for me, as a person who has, like, noexperience, no real education that an employer
would look at and consider, like, we'll hireyou for.
Like, I didn't, like, see the value in going tocollege at that point.
And this QuestBridge Garthip, like, sort ofchanged that for me and gave me that chance.
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So that was
a big thing.
So the scholarship is not through the collegeitself, but a national scholarship, and then
you kinda had your choices of colleges, andthen it was which one would work out.
Is that kinda how the process works?
They match they they'll match you with thecollege, essentially, is what they do.
They take these kids, put them through aprogram, and then you have to meet these
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certain requirements.
Aiden scored a 34 in his SAT with a perfectscore in English.
So, like, this
is Aiden.
Congratulations.
I got a 25 a little hungover, and I I think I II went without a calculator.
I was pretty proud of that.
To score a 34 on your ACT exams is huge.
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That's massive.
This college was happy to have you.
Correct?
I mean, they were thrilled to have someone onthis scholarship coming to their school.
So talk about, you know, not just getting theopportunity now, which is huge, you deserve all
your kudos for that.
But now, you know, actually going to theschool, traveling away from home to a very
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prestigious college.
Right?
Hamilton College is is world renowned, I think,for some of their, you know, graduates.
And
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah.
They because there's a little Ivy is what theycall themselves as far as they're not renowned.
You look it up, they their their nickname's thelittle Ivy.
Yeah.
They they are considered to be the wannabe IvyLeague among the Ivy Leagues.
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So Yeah.
They're they're like just
The Ivy League's little brother.
Yeah.
The CEO of Goldman Sachs currently graduatedfrom Hamilton College.
Yeah.
They have
So for a small town South Dakota kid to be ableto enter this school, it's a pretty big deal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Huge.
Yeah.
Huge.
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So, Aidan, talk about your experience as youfirst get there.
You were a freshman when this whole situationoccurred.
Correct?
A sophomore.
Okay.
So this was your entering your second talkabout your experience in that freshman year and
kind of being at the school and your experienceup until the point when, you know, the whole
kinda drama started.
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So I'd say that my experience in the collegewas, like, I I went into it, like, I knew,
like, this was going to be, like, a, like, aliberal university where people aren't
necessarily going to, see things the same way Idid.
And I sort of was expecting that that, and Isort of, like, went there with a sort of
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position of, like, well, I'm just going to haveto hear these people out and, non politely, you
know, like, just go through the motions becauseI'm because, like, I'm not gonna worry about
that.
I'm just going to focus on my education.
And, like, what I want, I want, like, a scholarI want to get a computer science and stuff.
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And to me, like, that's that's a veryapolitical thing.
So it's like, I so it's like, I can do this.
I can get through this.
I don't have to worry about that is what I wasthinking.
So I went so I went into college.
I was very excited to be there.
It was, like, a nice college.
It was, frankly, like, a lot smaller than Iexpected it to be.
So it was like so that was also really positivefor me, and it was, in the middle of nature and
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stuff.
They had, like, trails nearby so that I could,like, get away and, like, recoup.
So that was all so that was also a really goodthing for me and for my studies.
And more or less, the people there well, theywell, they were nice.
They acted nice.
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Like, they smiled at you, and they'd wave you,and they'd be
They see if they could see that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's they have pictures and stuff.
You can look them online.
Oh, yeah.
They It's
really nice.
Real nice place.
Real nice weather.
It's just
a nice So even though you knew politically,obviously, you weren't going to align with
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these people, being a small town South Dakotakid, having conservative values, You were aware
of that going in, but you weren't necessarilyat odds with people on a day to day basis.
Is that fair?
No.
I'm no.
I wasn't no.
I was I was there to, like, to make friends,to, like, open relation to have To
be a college student.
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Yeah.
Exactly.
Yes.
Like like, I joined like, I joined, like, theboard game club there, and we had a thing going
where we where we'd stay up late on, like,Saturdays, and we play poker.
Like like, we had a cool time time together,and that was cool.
So you weren't you weren't an outcast at theschool up until the point that all all the
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situation and the incident kind of started.
So let's fast forward a little bit.
When exactly is the time frame of this?
This is now into your sophomore year.
And if I was correct in reading some of thethings that it was a school kind of founded art
project.
Correct?
Yeah.
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It's a It was a school formed art project, amural on freedom of speech and democracy.
Crossroads mural.
Yeah.
That's Crossroads Community mural.
I got the I got the little thing right here.
The the print well, it's it was an email theysent out to the students.
Yes.
And it talked about says, we're thrilled toinvite you to participate in the community
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mural celebrating elections and democracy.
This collectively created mural explores suchthings as right to vote, freedom of speech as a
cornerstone of democracy, respect respectfulexpression and diverse opinions, and role of
elections in shaping our future.
This project is open to everyone on campus asopportunity to affirm the importance of
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engagement in the in the democratic process.
That's the first paragraph of it.
So yeah.
So, yeah, so this mural was, like, happening,like, in the run up to the to the Trump to the
Trump election.
And so it was happening in that so it'shappening in that context.
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And what was also happening at the same timewas that you had the Israeli Palestine conflict
going on that has started, last it actuallystarted last year.
My second semester was when it started.
So they had established this group calledStudents Justice for Palestine.
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And so I was sort of interested in seeing, whatthey stood for, what their arguments, why why
they supported this or that.
So I went to one so I went to one of theirmeetings, and I sat in back and I watched.
And, essentially, what they did is they,pointed to a bunch of, like, really refined
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websites, which were, like, clearly, like,these were put together by, like, well paid
organizations, I'm sure, and stuff.
And so I went out of this meeting knowing thatknowing that Student Justice for Palestine is
just I was pretty confident that it's just afront for propaganda is essentially what I
concluded.
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So that's so that's what I got out of that.
So but these people were but these people weregoing around, and they and they were spreading
their pamphlets.
They were spreading their pamphlets and stuff.
And they were at this mural, obviously, becauseit's it's a mural inviting people to give
political speech.
So they obviously had, like, two of their ownposters there.
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And and there were and there were people whosupported Trump there.
Like, there was a poster that said, Trump 2024on there.
Like, there were those people on campus, andthere were those people on campus.
I didn't know them personally, but I Yeah.
But it was there.
And, in the end, it ended up getting scribbledout, which, I guess, foreshadowing 01/2001.
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I guess I guess moving on, I like I guess we'regetting to a point that's, like, as a parent
looking over this kind of this whole thing, itwas this community mural art project wasn't
properly handled to begin with.
No.
Like, they apparently did not supervise this.
They put it in a place, gave everybody crayonsand markers.
They laid the stuff out for kids to do.
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Then they didn't post any rules on the walls,didn't have anybody there supervising it.
They and they just walked away and said, hereyou go.
Have fun.
And then see what happened.
You know?
Set it all out there and see what people put onthere.
And in the end, they ended up with a bunch ofshit that was bunch of stuff that excuse my
language, but stuff that's scribbled on.
You know?
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I mean, that ain't of course Yeah.
People were defacing 19 year old kids.
People were defacing other people's art if theydidn't agree with what the post had said.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The whole you know?
And then now they're well, essentially, whathappened is they're now they're just
selectively deciding, okay.
Well, you scribbled something out, so youviolated their rights because you scribbled
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something out.
And, like, well, what about so and so thatscribbled out this or this or that?
They're like, well, we didn't catch them.
You wouldn't Right.
A enforcement of of whatever rules they hadthat they did not, that they failed to, you
know, delegate down to
Right.
The people.
Like, they never posted any rules for it, andthey kinda made them up as they as they went.
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I'm assuming
sent an email to the student body and then saidit was then left it in a place and didn't post
rules.
Anybody can walk by that thing.
Like, I literally I mean, I don't know ifanybody's checked out speaking of which, you
should check out my web my Facebook page,obviously.
A lot of this information is all on my Facebookpage.
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And and that's either Jeremy Brendan,obviously, just or aide Brendan, you type
those, and I've been hashtagging a lot of stuffout there, so you should be able to find a
bunch of stuff.
But, yeah, they did not did not, like, putanything out there for these parent or for
these kids or anybody walking by.
And, like, on my, like, on my Facebook page,yeah, I have a flyer, you know, of that of
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stuff that they've been disseminating from oneof the news groups that they have around there
of different things that they've beendisseminating, and that relates to the Charlie
Kirk stuff that just recently happened.
You know?
And it was the it was like a thing.
It wasn't two hundred two hundred yards.
It was a 183 public you know?
So but, like, there's a lot of this they theyjust didn't do this, and then they selectively
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enforced it.
And then they took the video.
Like, well, they went to video to get him tocatch him and what he did wrong, but they
didn't do anything.
Like I said, I show you other stuff that peopledid.
You know?
Well and and let's address that then.
Let's address that.
So, Aidan, you had taken part in this muralproject.
You had brought your own piece of artwork tothe table.
Can you describe what your art and yourpresentation was expressing your right to free
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speech and expression?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
So Ultimately, we believe it was over this onein the end.
That's upside down.
Is it upside down?
Yep.
Did see
that right?
Or did I it the right way the first time?
I did it right it's right way.
I did it right the first time.
I'm looking at it on the wrong side.
Ultimately, we
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have that over it was over this one.
Hayden contributed to this one and put theblack in the you know?
So it makes it hard.
You know?
Right.
Honestly, I honestly, I think he made it betterbecause now you gotta stop and look to see both
sides.
So what did they take offense to with thispiece of artwork?
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I'm very I'm a little lost as far as as whyyour your piece of art there is being singled
out for the charges that they had leveledagainst you.
Through through all my research, it's beenreally I've been doing lots and lots of
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research and connecting all
the dots.
And Yeah.
My my dad has been looking more into it.
Really?
I've been really researched it.
Like, we've been told, like, literally had aschool teacher, you know, one of Aiden's former
teachers that was willing to help us, and she'sbeen researching some of these sites.
Like, if you go to I'll make them famous rightnow.
The ampersand journals on Substack, if you gothere and find that Felipe de Cruz or Felipe de
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yeah.
Felipe de Cool.
They have put out a whole bunch of journalstuff, and they got a they like Aiden's name in
there several, several times in a bunch ofdifferent opinion pieces or whatever you wanna
talk you wanna call it.
So we've done a bunch of research on that penname, and we know who the pen name is now.
I don't know if I should really tell anybody orwhether it matters.
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I'll keep it secret for time being.
But, anyways, if you go through that and youcould see they obviously have a pretty good
inside view and bias of what's going on insidethe school.
And a lot of these factions are all like, thisgroup this group this group that does this
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stuff, the SJP group, they're all right they'reall in the same building stacked to get stacked
together.
You know?
So the I don't know what they call them.
CI what this?
The what?
The Which people?
No.
The the campus, they're meant to it's whatQuestBridge is a part of.
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The The For the mine for for the minoritygroups Oh.
For the opportunity groups.
Oh, the CIF or CIFC.
I think it's CIF?
Anyways, they're all linked together, so theyall work together.
You know, one person one person says something,whether it's from this community, said
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something to this community, and now it lookslike Okay.
Well and and, Jeremy, I'm gonna stop youbecause we're kinda jumping around here, and
you're showing us a lot of things, but there'snot a lot of context there.
So, Aidan, I kinda just want you to walk usthrough.
You you make this poster as part of this muralproject.
And now you had put it up there, but, whatreally caused the stir?
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I mean, is this the day after you post yourpiece of art up there that now you're getting
calls and charges levied against you or kindahow did it all play out?
Yeah.
So, yeah, so how, yeah, so how it plays out isI took is that I took part in this mural, and,
obviously, like, I wrote a bunch of our stuff.
I wrote a bunch of our stuff.
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Like, the specific things that they give me foris not for the post they show me for.
It's actually for what I draw on the StudentJustice for Palestine poster.
So what I did was that I drew, I added abackward swastika to their Palestinian flags
that they drew because that flag represents,the Palestinian authority or is the symbol of
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Palestinian authority, Hamas, otherwise knownas the terrorist group, which has explicitly
stated that they want to ethnically cleansethe, holy land of the Jews so that they can
remake it into a a exclusively MuslimPalestinian state.
So they've already so they explicitly saidthat.
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So I just added the backward swastika to make apoint that, hey.
By the way, these people wanna do what Hitlerdoes.
And so that's what so that's essentially what Iwas trying to say on that poster, and that's
what they're essentially going to get me for.
So I go off so I go off to
Now now meanwhile, other people had beencontributing to other people's art during this
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time as well.
Correct?
Yeah.
During this entire time.
Everyone's contributing stuff, and people werescribbling stuff out.
They were
Because it's a community mural, there were noguidelines that's that that you can't
contribute to another piece of art when you putthe piece up there to contribute to the mural
as a whole that it was able to be added to byother students.
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Correct?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's there's nothing stopping people frombuying stuff.
And and they did.
They they add they added doodles.
They all they altered people's words.
Like, they, like, they'd erase them.
They scrubbed
out.
Teenagers do to things.
We've all seen the insides of bathroom stalls.
It's a very a very poor idea for the college tohave almost no oversight on this whatsoever and
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ability to do that.
We're struggling really to see the the pictureson there, Jeremy.
I appreciate you doing them.
You can share some stuff with us, and we'llwe'll post them posthumously onto our Facebook
pages and provide some evidence of thesethings.
But very hard to see the pictures on the screenthere.
So, Aiden, at what point are you contacted bythe authorities after you have added your take
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on on the mural?
Right.
So the next day is a Saturday, and I have a aCS project coming up.
So I'm so I'm sitting down and working on thatwhen I get a knock on on my door.
And so then I go do it, and it's and it's thefreaking cops.
And I'm like, like, what?
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And they're like, can we walk in?
And I'm like, well well, this I guess, why not?
And so they and so then they walk they walk in.
They look around.
They obviously see nothing because I don't haveanything out.
And they asked me they asked me, did you drawdid you draw stuff on the mirror?
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And I'm like, yeah.
Of course, I did.
And they're like, did you draw a swastika?
And I'm like, well and, like, draw a swastika.
And I'm like, well, technically, no.
And they're like and they're like, well, didyou draw a swastika?
And I'm like, well, you can say it's aswastika, but, technically, it's not a
swastika.
But so they're like, okay.
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We'll take okay.
Then we're going to take you to, campussecurity.
So they do that.
And so they do that.
So I go to campus security and campus security.
And so I'm sitting there, and then I go to JeffLandry.
And Jeff Landry is like, okay.
You're going to get suspended now because ofwhat you did.
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And I'm I'm like, well, that sucks.
Well, that sucks really bad, but, like, that'san understatement.
But you get the idea.
Like, I felt, like, very, very pained.
And, also, at the same time, I was also askedby the investigator to go, write a a statement.
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And so then I go write a statement with him.
And, again, the whole thing when you get to thewhole backward Swastika thing, again, he's
again, he's like, he insists again, he makessure to insist.
Like, you drew a Swastika.
Right?
And, yeah.
Whatever.
Drop yeah.
Whatever.
You're the one typing it up.
And so he does that.
And so he does that, and then I sign that, andhe, like, and he, like, assure and he's, also
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this entire time, he's, like, assuring me,like, don't worry.
We can don't worry.
We can get this corrected or whatever.
Just just sign it already.
And so then we get out.
We get that finished.
You go ahead.
We get out, and we get that finished.
And so then we go in.
And so then it's like, well, you gotta callyour well, you gotta call your dad.
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So I call him, and he's like and when I tellhim what I did, he's like, what?
He's like, you're sir you're serious.
Right?
Like like, you're serious, but, like, I didn't,like, I didn't think it that way.
I think, like, he was, like, like, fighting madat me.
I was trying to say as little as possiblebecause I know better when the cops are
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involved, you just keep your mouth shut.
We're on the phone.
I knew he couldn't talk.
I'm just Mhmm.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what you're thinking, but I wasjust trying to tell you keep your mouth shut.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, anyways, that happened.
And then and so then the investigators so thenJeff Landry after that, the Jeff Landry invites
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the investigators into his office.
So well, before this, Jeff Landry asked him,like, are you going to arrest him?
And they're like and they're like sorta likelike razor shrug their shores and be like,
don't know.
Like, depends.
And so then he invites them into the office tovisit visit them while I'm calling dad, and
then they come back out, and they're like,okay.
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And then Jeff Landry is like, okay.
They're going to arrest you now.
And so I and so I get arrested.
I go get processed.
I come back, and then they send and then theysend me to a a a hotel at the other end of town
to, you know, to, like, spend some time alonein my misery.
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You know?
To wait.
Yeah.
To wait.
They wanted you to
Did they take you to jail that day and processyou?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
How traumatic that must have been.
As someone who's been through that process, Iknow how traumatizing it can be.
And for a a piece of artwork and not havingdone what they said you did in the first place
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to accuse you of the things.
What were the actual charges that they chargedyou with at the moment?
Aggravated harassment.
Felony felony aggravated harassment.
Felony Felony aggravated harassment.
And then released on a personal recognizancebond from that then into this hotel because you
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were obviously living on the dormitory of theschool that you had just been suspended from
because of this situation.
Mhmm.
Essentially.
So, yeah, he's essentially evicted evicted outof his place where he lived, you know, some
sixteen, seventeen hundred miles away from homedepending on what route you take.
And yeah.
They mister Landry, after he got off the phone,he handed the phone to me.
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And I talked to mister Landry, and he waswanting me to prop Aidan up in a hotel for two
weeks or better until they could get it figuredout what they were gonna do.
And then he wanted me to put the bill for itand yeah.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Knowing that request for yeah.
That's the thing.
He knows that we're a low income family tobegin with.
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So
Well and I feel like they rushed through anykind of due process on theirs.
They coerced a confession out of you byintimidating you with the police and with the
threat of suspension over top of you to get youto admit to something that you did not do.
Mhmm.
Because I essentially hauled him in without himand questioned him without even writing him his
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rights.
Mhmm.
It's what they did.
So I mean, they he didn't get any rights oranything like that until it was written on that
statement that he made he signed.
So, really, he wasn't even divisive of hisrights until that point.
And we still yet to see any of the videos orany of that stuff from the officers, you know,
because that should all have been taped orvideoed, but not subnet come out yet.
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So and
No.
And and currently, have these charges beendismissed at this point?
Yes.
They they were dismissed in grand jury.
Yeah.
They were dismissed by a grand jury.
They went all the way to a grand jury, and thegrand jury said, uh-uh.
I don't think so.
There's there's not enough here to levy chargesand to go through the the process of criminally
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charging you.
Yeah.
So now that leaves us to the reinstatement inthe school.
If there are no charges, I'm assuming theschool has a right to suspend you, but they
would have to follow some kind of due processas well.
If there's no evidence of wrongdoing, then itwould be very hard, it seems, for them to levy
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the suspension against you.
So is that the fight that we are currently innow is to have you reinstated and your
scholarship returned to you at this HamiltonCollege?
Is that the, process we're in now?
Yeah.
That's that's essentially that's essentiallywhat's going on is that we want, Hamilton
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College to recognize that suspend that whatthey did suspending me wasn't, by any means
right.
It wasn't following their due process.
It wasn't following, the due process of law oreven their own due process.
It just it just wasn't fair all altogether.
And
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Well, and at points, it seems unlawful.
Beyond just being unfair, I have to believethat some of your personal rights were intruded
upon here.
No doubt.
Well, they continue.
The school's newspaper still continues to well,they released an article, I should say,
continue within March.
And on Twitter, if you go back to the spectatorstuff, they still release a word rate or word
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articles.
Like, he's in jail.
Like, our lawyer was in court on February ortrying to get his sentence reduced is what they
say.
And then they make no reference to anythingafter that.
Well, that's libel.
Yeah.
So the publication itself and the school shouldbe held accountable for that as well if indeed
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you are not in jail or trying to have yoursentence reduced.
If people get Google search, it's hell up.
They're they're doing they did yeah.
They did all of that.
Like, part of how part of how they're able to,like, get me, like, permanently suspended or
expelled was that they was that they pushed itthrough and they got done before before a grand
jury could dismiss it.
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Well, which doesn't really make a differencebecause if a grand jury dismisses it, then that
means that, well, it should be apparent toanyone that these charges were just, plain just
made up just for the sake of the school so thatthey would have a grounds for expelling me.
Because, if you receive any funding whatsoeverfrom the government, which the school
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definitely does, you have to respect people'sfreedom of speech rights, whether you're a
private or public college, especially if youexplicitly give people freedom of speech as
they did with this MERL.
So the only grounds that they have for that isif I got criminally charged for something like,
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like harassment or like a hate speechviolation.
That those are the only grounds that they couldsay that they could expel me for any reason,
which is why they had to push which is why theyhad to make sure that I got arrested so that
then they could have legal grounds forexpelling me thereafter.
And, of course, they want to push it to a grandjury so that way they'd have enough time to do
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that before it got dropped.
And then, of course, during this entire time,they continue to, continue to use their
connections in the media, with NPR and The NewYork Times and and everyone else.
They still use their connections there to makesure to get the word out so everyone knows that
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I'm an anti Semite, and I'm the boogeyman, andthat you should be scared of me, and that you
that you don't want anything to do with me.
You know?
Which which makes what we're doing today soimportant and sharing your story on our
platforms and and around the world.
I want to so it's been about a year that you'vebeen suspended.
You said this happened around election time, sonot quite a year yet.
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You're still fighting.
Are you being represented, by someone that's inthe, in the area of where the school is that
where the the, the court proceedings and thebattle with the school to be reinstated are
taking place?
Yeah.
That's where they're happening, but we we don'thave representation at this time.
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No.
Yeah.
No.
Actually, we're in the search representation.
We're actually doing a lot of things pro se.
He's doing them pro se per se, actually, we'llwe'll call it.
Dad's been doing a lot of filing and stuff withthat.
If you go to the court site, they have a thisis one thing I'd really like.
I'd I'd like to advocate for is New York.
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New York open laws.
They're open civil laws and open court laws.
You South Dakota needs to check into that, putthat stuff online because they have.
It's it's awesome.
You file everything online, and everything'sthere for the public to see.
There's no there's no questions about it.
Everybody can see
the case and go look at it
themselves if they want and check the
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whole work out.
Aidan, Aiden is it your wish to return toschool at Hamilton College and to continue your
education?
Oh, that's well, that's a complicated questionbecause this is the college that this is the
college that kicks me out.
And since that and since my dad has been, like,doing research and stuff into it, like, we've
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been we've been, like, finding connectioneverywhere.
Like, there's like, apparently, I've, like, Ihave, like, enemies everywhere around the
corner who've been backstabbing me this entiretime.
And I guess to me, that sort of makes sensebecause, leading up to leading up to this
event, like, my personal experience in thecollege was just was just going down a hill up
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to that point.
Like like, people like, people were sort of,like, treating were sort of, like, treating me
like I'm infected or something.
I I don't know.
It was just I just I just all I know is that Ijust felt, like, depressed and terrible, like,
during those last few months leading up to thatbecause and I felt, like, very, very much
alone.
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So, like and now and now that I know and nowthat I know for certain that, yes, indeed,
like, I wasn't just that wasn't just me, like,being crazy.
Like, people really did, like, hate me there.
Like, knowing that, that makes me feel like Idon't really wanna go back.
Like, as a point of justice, yes, I do want tobe able to have my scholarship back and go to
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school and get an education.
But if that comes at the cost of, like, me,like, literally, like, rip wanting to smash my
brain out, like yeah.
That's a that's a tough offer.
Yeah.
Well and there should be a a way for you to getyour scholarship returned to you and to be able
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to continue your education at another school,especially with the way things have transpired
and the treatment that you received there atHamilton College.
So I hope that people listening will doeverything they can to support this young man
and his family.
This is someone who is granted from a smallSouth Dakota town granted an incredible
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opportunity to further their education becausethey identified themselves and set themselves
apart as an exemplary student.
Passing the ACT with a 34 out of 36.
Correct?
Yeah.
A a near perfect score on your collegeplacement test, we should be putting young men
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like you and young people like you on apedestal and be making sure that you are given
every opportunity to excel in the worldregardless of what your political ideologies
may be or just your conservative leanings as a,I will say, a country boy.
Mhmm.
We are here to help you in every way that wecan.
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Again, Jeremy, please state where we can findout more information on the story.
We're here to help this young man get himselfback into school to to have this education
reinstated and this opportunity reinstatedbecause it was unduly taken from you in the
first place.
Yeah.
Oh,
absolutely.
You could go to my Facebook page, which just,jeremybrendan@facebook.com.
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Yeah.
You can also check out our we have another pagethat's p y m p or that or it's
For young men.
For young men praying.
That's another Facebook page out there.
You can also check us out on our GoFundMe pageas we're raising funds, obviously, to try
getting round up another lawyer and all theothers legal fees that we're gonna have to
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face, obviously.
And yeah.
So that we got that.
We got a GoFundMe page.
So at that I'm not sure.
Just it's all linked to my Facebook page.
So you should
have Excellent.
Well, gentlemen, I appreciate you taking sometime for us today to share your story and allow
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us the opportunity to share this with ourfollowers and with the world.
I wish you nothing but the best, Aidan.
As a fellow South Dakotan, I am so proud of youfor the achievements, that you reached, and I'm
so sorry that you've had to go through this.
The traumatizing experience of being arrested,at such a young age for really no criminal
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activity that was done by you is, it'sabhorrent.
And I hope that you are reinstated into anotherschool that will support you in furthering your
education.
And I hope that, this, you know, forty fiveminutes or so that we've spent talking to each
other has a positive effect on your life.
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Gentlemen, anything that you wanna add, inclosing here?
I'm I'm just imploring people to watch thiswatch this case and that people need to watch
out because the this kid is a perfect perfectkid.
He's done nothing wrong.
He has nothing done nothing wrong in his life.
If they can do this to him and get away withdoing something like this to him, imagine what
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they could do to anybody else.
When are we gonna have a chance ever to defendour rights and our freedoms without having
somebody have some skeleton in the closet,whatnot, that's gonna pop up.
This kid is perfect for this chance to defendour rights and actually prove a point and do
what we need to do.
I mean, otherwise, we're gonna lose it.
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They're gonna be allowed to censor us, andthey're gonna let be allowed to do this kind of
stuff whenever they want, and they're gonnapick and choose.
That's that's so we need to stand up and justhelp fight this case because I don't know when
we're gonna get another chance.
Just I don't know.
Yeah.
And and I just like to say, I'm very thankfulfor for letting you have us on, mister Starts.
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And I'd and I'd also like to thank you for foryour support and for your fans' support as
well.
God, god willing, this will come this will comeout in our favor.
Thanks.
Yep.
Well, I know that we will all be praying foryou, and we will be following closely as this
story gets out there and as the proceedingscontinue.
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Hopefully, we can create enough public stir, toget you reinstated, or maybe another school
will come out of the woodwork out of all ofthis and want a a bright young man like you to
come and attend their university.
Yes.
That's part of the plan.
Just get his name out there at least to get himto another school or find another opportunity
for him because they obviously, he dedicatedhimself to that QuestBridge Scholars.
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So
And and he's worthy.
You've already proven that, Aiden.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for taking sometime for us on the Patriot Broadcasting
Project, and we will be following closely asthis journey continues.
Have a great day.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Have a good one, starts.
Today on the show, we're joined by Jeremy andAiden Brendan.
Jeremy, a passionate advocate and voice for hisfamily, and Aiden, a young man navigating
challenges and growth after a high profileexperience at Hamilton College.
Together, they bring a raw and real perspectiveon justice, resilience, and what it means to
stand strong as a family.
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Let's get into the show.
The following program is part of the PatriotBroadcasting Project brought to you by the seed
projects podcast network.
Welcome in to a very important episode of thePatriot Broadcasting Project.
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I am your host, Bubba Sartz, and with me todayis Jeremy and Aiden Brendan.
Welcome to the show, guys.
Thanks.
Thanks for having us.
We appreciate it.
Well, Jeremy, you reached out to me on Facebookand, expressed an interest on coming onto the
show to talk about a situation that Aiden foundhimself in over some art that he had done at
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the college he was attending.
Since then, he's been arrested.
He has been charged with some pretty heinouscharges, I would say, that are completely
unfounded, and, we're gonna get a chance tohear all about it.
So I'm gonna give you the floor, let you kindof explain the opportunity that he had to even
go to this college, which was a huge deal, andand and how it was all ripped away from him.
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So the floor is yours.
So Aiden, a lot of local people know Aiden is ahe's a scholar he's a QuestBridge scholar from
Yanken High School here in class of last yearin 02/2023.
2023.
QuestBridge academic low income well, it's forlow income families, and it's really
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prestigious award.
Anyways, he got a full ride scholarship thatthey provide full ride scholarship to go to
Hamilton, and he well, he got to choose.
He had to go through a program to it.
So he got a full ride scholarship to go toHamilton or college in New York.
And, yeah, it's a big deal, I guess.
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And you can explain, I guess, a little bit moreabout that scholarship if you want.
Well
well, the whole point of the scholarship wasthat it was meant to be an opportunity to help
low income students and people who excelintellectually to get full ride scholarships in
the colleges, you know, because, usually whathappens is that people usually, like, excel at
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sports or something and then they get in thesecolleges that way.
Well, this was meant to be a program for peoplewho excel intellectually instead of physically.
And so they selected me to be one of the peopleto potentially get a full ride scholarship.
And so what you essentially do is you will rankthese colleges in a list, and you will go and
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you'll, like, write, like, a ton ofapplications for each of these colleges.
I, like I believe I put all my application workin a single document.
It was, like, what, 13 pages long, and I had todo that in, like, twenty four hours.
So it was pretty intense.
But at the end of it, I got, accepted atHamilton College.
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So that was, like, a big deal for me.
Like, I when I saw I was at a loss for words.
This was, a big opportunity for me.
Like, this was going to be my way that I couldmake it make it make make my make it in the
road and, like, have a thing.
Because, like, the big thing for me aboutcollege is that it just costs so much.
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And so for me, as a person who has, like, noexperience, no real education that an employer
would look at and consider, like, we'll hireyou for.
Like, I didn't, like, see the value in going tocollege at that point.
And this QuestBridge Garthip, like, sort ofchanged that for me and gave me that chance.
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So that was
a big thing.
So the scholarship is not through the collegeitself, but a national scholarship, and then
you kinda had your choices of colleges, andthen it was which one would work out.
Is that kinda how the process works?
They match they they'll match you with thecollege, essentially, is what they do.
They take these kids, put them through aprogram, and then you have to meet these
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certain requirements.
Aiden scored a 34 in his SAT with a perfectscore in English.
So, like, this
is Aiden.
Congratulations.
I got a 25 a little hungover, and I I think I II went without a calculator.
I was pretty proud of that.
To score a 34 on your ACT exams is huge.
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That's massive.
This college was happy to have you.
Correct?
I mean, they were thrilled to have someone onthis scholarship coming to their school.
So talk about, you know, not just getting theopportunity now, which is huge, you deserve all
your kudos for that.
But now, you know, actually going to theschool, traveling away from home to a very
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prestigious college.
Right?
Hamilton College is is world renowned, I think,for some of their, you know, graduates.
And
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah.
They because there's a little Ivy is what theycall themselves as far as they're not renowned.
You look it up, they their their nickname's thelittle Ivy.
Yeah.
They they are considered to be the wannabe IvyLeague among the Ivy Leagues.
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So Yeah.
They're they're like just
The Ivy League's little brother.
Yeah.
The CEO of Goldman Sachs currently graduatedfrom Hamilton College.
Yeah.
They have
So for a small town South Dakota kid to be ableto enter this school, it's a pretty big deal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Huge.
Yeah.
Huge.
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So, Aidan, talk about your experience as youfirst get there.
You were a freshman when this whole situationoccurred.
Correct?
A sophomore.
Okay.
So this was your entering your second talkabout your experience in that freshman year and
kind of being at the school and your experienceup until the point when, you know, the whole
kinda drama started.
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So I'd say that my experience in the collegewas, like, I I went into it, like, I knew,
like, this was going to be, like, a, like, aliberal university where people aren't
necessarily going to, see things the same way Idid.
And I sort of was expecting that that, and Isort of, like, went there with a sort of
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position of, like, well, I'm just going to haveto hear these people out and, non politely, you
know, like, just go through the motions becauseI'm because, like, I'm not gonna worry about
that.
I'm just going to focus on my education.
And, like, what I want, I want, like, a scholarI want to get a computer science and stuff.
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And to me, like, that's that's a veryapolitical thing.
So it's like, I so it's like, I can do this.
I can get through this.
I don't have to worry about that is what I wasthinking.
So I went so I went into college.
I was very excited to be there.
It was, like, a nice college.
It was, frankly, like, a lot smaller than Iexpected it to be.
So it was like so that was also really positivefor me, and it was, in the middle of nature and
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stuff.
They had, like, trails nearby so that I could,like, get away and, like, recoup.
So that was all so that was also a really goodthing for me and for my studies.
And more or less, the people there well, theywell, they were nice.
They acted nice.
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Like, they smiled at you, and they'd wave you,and they'd be
They see if they could see that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's they have pictures and stuff.
You can look them online.
Oh, yeah.
They It's
really nice.
Real nice place.
Real nice weather.
It's just
a nice So even though you knew politically,obviously, you weren't going to align with
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these people, being a small town South Dakotakid, having conservative values, You were aware
of that going in, but you weren't necessarilyat odds with people on a day to day basis.
Is that fair?
No.
I'm no.
I wasn't no.
I was I was there to, like, to make friends,to, like, open relation to have To
be a college student.
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Yeah.
Exactly.
Yes.
Like like, I joined like, I joined, like, theboard game club there, and we had a thing going
where we where we'd stay up late on, like,Saturdays, and we play poker.
Like like, we had a cool time time together,and that was cool.
So you weren't you weren't an outcast at theschool up until the point that all all the
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situation and the incident kind of started.
So let's fast forward a little bit.
When exactly is the time frame of this?
This is now into your sophomore year.
And if I was correct in reading some of thethings that it was a school kind of founded art
project.
Correct?
Yeah.
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It's a It was a school formed art project, amural on freedom of speech and democracy.
Crossroads mural.
Yeah.
That's Crossroads Community mural.
I got the I got the little thing right here.
The the print well, it's it was an email theysent out to the students.
Yes.
And it talked about says, we're thrilled toinvite you to participate in the community
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mural celebrating elections and democracy.
This collectively created mural explores suchthings as right to vote, freedom of speech as a
cornerstone of democracy, respect respectfulexpression and diverse opinions, and role of
elections in shaping our future.
This project is open to everyone on campus asopportunity to affirm the importance of
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engagement in the in the democratic process.
That's the first paragraph of it.
So yeah.
So, yeah, so this mural was, like, happening,like, in the run up to the to the Trump to the
Trump election.
And so it was happening in that so it'shappening in that context.
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And what was also happening at the same timewas that you had the Israeli Palestine conflict
going on that has started, last it actuallystarted last year.
My second semester was when it started.
So they had established this group calledStudents Justice for Palestine.
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And so I was sort of interested in seeing, whatthey stood for, what their arguments, why why
they supported this or that.
So I went to one so I went to one of theirmeetings, and I sat in back and I watched.
And, essentially, what they did is they,pointed to a bunch of, like, really refined
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websites, which were, like, clearly, like,these were put together by, like, well paid
organizations, I'm sure, and stuff.
And so I went out of this meeting knowing thatknowing that Student Justice for Palestine is
just I was pretty confident that it's just afront for propaganda is essentially what I
concluded.
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So that's so that's what I got out of that.
So but these people were but these people weregoing around, and they and they were spreading
their pamphlets.
They were spreading their pamphlets and stuff.
And they were at this mural, obviously, becauseit's it's a mural inviting people to give
political speech.
So they obviously had, like, two of their ownposters there.
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And and there were and there were people whosupported Trump there.
Like, there was a poster that said, Trump 2024on there.
Like, there were those people on campus, andthere were those people on campus.
I didn't know them personally, but I Yeah.
But it was there.
And, in the end, it ended up getting scribbledout, which, I guess, foreshadowing 01/2001.
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I guess I guess moving on, I like I guess we'regetting to a point that's, like, as a parent
looking over this kind of this whole thing, itwas this community mural art project wasn't
properly handled to begin with.
No.
Like, they apparently did not supervise this.
They put it in a place, gave everybody crayonsand markers.
They laid the stuff out for kids to do.
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Then they didn't post any rules on the walls,didn't have anybody there supervising it.
They and they just walked away and said, hereyou go.
Have fun.
And then see what happened.
You know?
Set it all out there and see what people put onthere.
And in the end, they ended up with a bunch ofshit that was bunch of stuff that excuse my
language, but stuff that's scribbled on.
You know?
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I mean, that ain't of course Yeah.
People were defacing 19 year old kids.
People were defacing other people's art if theydidn't agree with what the post had said.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The whole you know?
And then now they're well, essentially, whathappened is they're now they're just
selectively deciding, okay.
Well, you scribbled something out, so youviolated their rights because you scribbled
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something out.
And, like, well, what about so and so thatscribbled out this or this or that?
They're like, well, we didn't catch them.
You wouldn't Right.
A enforcement of of whatever rules they hadthat they did not, that they failed to, you
know, delegate down to
Right.
The people.
Like, they never posted any rules for it, andthey kinda made them up as they as they went.
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I'm assuming
sent an email to the student body and then saidit was then left it in a place and didn't post
rules.
Anybody can walk by that thing.
Like, I literally I mean, I don't know ifanybody's checked out speaking of which, you
should check out my web my Facebook page,obviously.
A lot of this information is all on my Facebookpage.
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And and that's either Jeremy Brendan,obviously, just or aide Brendan, you type
those, and I've been hashtagging a lot of stuffout there, so you should be able to find a
bunch of stuff.
But, yeah, they did not did not, like, putanything out there for these parent or for
these kids or anybody walking by.
And, like, on my, like, on my Facebook page,yeah, I have a flyer, you know, of that of
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stuff that they've been disseminating from oneof the news groups that they have around there
of different things that they've beendisseminating, and that relates to the Charlie
Kirk stuff that just recently happened.
You know?
And it was the it was like a thing.
It wasn't two hundred two hundred yards.
It was a 183 public you know?
So but, like, there's a lot of this they theyjust didn't do this, and then they selectively
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enforced it.
And then they took the video.
Like, well, they went to video to get him tocatch him and what he did wrong, but they
didn't do anything.
Like I said, I show you other stuff that peopledid.
You know?
Well and and let's address that then.
Let's address that.
So, Aidan, you had taken part in this muralproject.
You had brought your own piece of artwork tothe table.
Can you describe what your art and yourpresentation was expressing your right to free
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speech and expression?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
So Ultimately, we believe it was over this onein the end.
That's upside down.
Is it upside down?
Yep.
Did see
that right?
Or did I it the right way the first time?
I did it right it's right way.
I did it right the first time.
I'm looking at it on the wrong side.
Ultimately, we
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have that over it was over this one.
Hayden contributed to this one and put theblack in the you know?
So it makes it hard.
You know?
Right.
Honestly, I honestly, I think he made it betterbecause now you gotta stop and look to see both
sides.
So what did they take offense to with thispiece of artwork?
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I'm very I'm a little lost as far as as whyyour your piece of art there is being singled
out for the charges that they had leveledagainst you.
Through through all my research, it's beenreally I've been doing lots and lots of
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research and connecting all
the dots.
And Yeah.
My my dad has been looking more into it.
Really?
I've been really researched it.
Like, we've been told, like, literally had aschool teacher, you know, one of Aiden's former
teachers that was willing to help us, and she'sbeen researching some of these sites.
Like, if you go to I'll make them famous rightnow.
The ampersand journals on Substack, if you gothere and find that Felipe de Cruz or Felipe de
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yeah.
Felipe de Cool.
They have put out a whole bunch of journalstuff, and they got a they like Aiden's name in
there several, several times in a bunch ofdifferent opinion pieces or whatever you wanna
talk you wanna call it.
So we've done a bunch of research on that penname, and we know who the pen name is now.
I don't know if I should really tell anybody orwhether it matters.
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I'll keep it secret for time being.
But, anyways, if you go through that and youcould see they obviously have a pretty good
inside view and bias of what's going on insidethe school.
And a lot of these factions are all like, thisgroup this group this group that does this
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stuff, the SJP group, they're all right they'reall in the same building stacked to get stacked
together.
You know?
So the I don't know what they call them.
CI what this?
The what?
The Which people?
No.
The the campus, they're meant to it's whatQuestBridge is a part of.
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The The For the mine for for the minoritygroups Oh.
For the opportunity groups.
Oh, the CIF or CIFC.
I think it's CIF?
Anyways, they're all linked together, so theyall work together.
You know, one person one person says something,whether it's from this community, said
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something to this community, and now it lookslike Okay.
Well and and, Jeremy, I'm gonna stop youbecause we're kinda jumping around here, and
you're showing us a lot of things, but there'snot a lot of context there.
So, Aidan, I kinda just want you to walk usthrough.
You you make this poster as part of this muralproject.
And now you had put it up there, but, whatreally caused the stir?
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I mean, is this the day after you post yourpiece of art up there that now you're getting
calls and charges levied against you or kindahow did it all play out?
Yeah.
So, yeah, so how, yeah, so how it plays out isI took is that I took part in this mural, and,
obviously, like, I wrote a bunch of our stuff.
I wrote a bunch of our stuff.
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Like, the specific things that they give me foris not for the post they show me for.
It's actually for what I draw on the StudentJustice for Palestine poster.
So what I did was that I drew, I added abackward swastika to their Palestinian flags
that they drew because that flag represents,the Palestinian authority or is the symbol of
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Palestinian authority, Hamas, otherwise knownas the terrorist group, which has explicitly
stated that they want to ethnically cleansethe, holy land of the Jews so that they can
remake it into a a exclusively MuslimPalestinian state.
So they've already so they explicitly saidthat.
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So I just added the backward swastika to make apoint that, hey.
By the way, these people wanna do what Hitlerdoes.
And so that's what so that's essentially what Iwas trying to say on that poster, and that's
what they're essentially going to get me for.
So I go off so I go off to
Now now meanwhile, other people had beencontributing to other people's art during this
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time as well.
Correct?
Yeah.
During this entire time.
Everyone's contributing stuff, and people werescribbling stuff out.
They were
Because it's a community mural, there were noguidelines that's that that you can't
contribute to another piece of art when you putthe piece up there to contribute to the mural
as a whole that it was able to be added to byother students.
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Correct?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's there's nothing stopping people frombuying stuff.
And and they did.
They they add they added doodles.
They all they altered people's words.
Like, they, like, they'd erase them.
They scrubbed
out.
Teenagers do to things.
We've all seen the insides of bathroom stalls.
It's a very a very poor idea for the college tohave almost no oversight on this whatsoever and
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ability to do that.
We're struggling really to see the the pictureson there, Jeremy.
I appreciate you doing them.
You can share some stuff with us, and we'llwe'll post them posthumously onto our Facebook
pages and provide some evidence of thesethings.
But very hard to see the pictures on the screenthere.
So, Aiden, at what point are you contacted bythe authorities after you have added your take
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on on the mural?
Right.
So the next day is a Saturday, and I have a aCS project coming up.
So I'm so I'm sitting down and working on thatwhen I get a knock on on my door.
And so then I go do it, and it's and it's thefreaking cops.
And I'm like, like, what?
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And they're like, can we walk in?
And I'm like, well well, this I guess, why not?
And so they and so then they walk they walk in.
They look around.
They obviously see nothing because I don't haveanything out.
And they asked me they asked me, did you drawdid you draw stuff on the mirror?
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And I'm like, yeah.
Of course, I did.
And they're like, did you draw a swastika?
And I'm like, well and, like, draw a swastika.
And I'm like, well, technically, no.
And they're like and they're like, well, didyou draw a swastika?
And I'm like, well, you can say it's aswastika, but, technically, it's not a
swastika.
But so they're like, okay.
(22:40):
We'll take okay.
Then we're going to take you to, campussecurity.
So they do that.
And so they do that.
So I go to campus security and campus security.
And so I'm sitting there, and then I go to JeffLandry.
And Jeff Landry is like, okay.
You're going to get suspended now because ofwhat you did.
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And I'm I'm like, well, that sucks.
Well, that sucks really bad, but, like, that'san understatement.
But you get the idea.
Like, I felt, like, very, very pained.
And, also, at the same time, I was also askedby the investigator to go, write a a statement.
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And so then I go write a statement with him.
And, again, the whole thing when you get to thewhole backward Swastika thing, again, he's
again, he's like, he insists again, he makessure to insist.
Like, you drew a Swastika.
Right?
And, yeah.
Whatever.
Drop yeah.
Whatever.
You're the one typing it up.
And so he does that.
And so he does that, and then I sign that, andhe, like, and he, like, assure and he's, also
(23:50):
this entire time, he's, like, assuring me,like, don't worry.
We can don't worry.
We can get this corrected or whatever.
Just just sign it already.
And so then we get out.
We get that finished.
You go ahead.
We get out, and we get that finished.
And so then we go in.
And so then it's like, well, you gotta callyour well, you gotta call your dad.
(24:11):
So I call him, and he's like and when I tellhim what I did, he's like, what?
He's like, you're sir you're serious.
Right?
Like like, you're serious, but, like, I didn't,like, I didn't think it that way.
I think, like, he was, like, like, fighting madat me.
I was trying to say as little as possiblebecause I know better when the cops are
(24:32):
involved, you just keep your mouth shut.
We're on the phone.
I knew he couldn't talk.
I'm just Mhmm.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what you're thinking, but I wasjust trying to tell you keep your mouth shut.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, anyways, that happened.
And then and so then the investigators so thenJeff Landry after that, the Jeff Landry invites
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the investigators into his office.
So well, before this, Jeff Landry asked him,like, are you going to arrest him?
And they're like and they're like sorta likelike razor shrug their shores and be like,
don't know.
Like, depends.
And so then he invites them into the office tovisit visit them while I'm calling dad, and
then they come back out, and they're like,okay.
(25:15):
And then Jeff Landry is like, okay.
They're going to arrest you now.
And so I and so I get arrested.
I go get processed.
I come back, and then they send and then theysend me to a a a hotel at the other end of town
to, you know, to, like, spend some time alonein my misery.
(25:40):
You know?
To wait.
Yeah.
To wait.
They wanted you to
Did they take you to jail that day and processyou?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
How traumatic that must have been.
As someone who's been through that process, Iknow how traumatizing it can be.
And for a a piece of artwork and not havingdone what they said you did in the first place
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to accuse you of the things.
What were the actual charges that they chargedyou with at the moment?
Aggravated harassment.
Felony felony aggravated harassment.
Felony Felony aggravated harassment.
And then released on a personal recognizancebond from that then into this hotel because you
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were obviously living on the dormitory of theschool that you had just been suspended from
because of this situation.
Mhmm.
Essentially.
So, yeah, he's essentially evicted evicted outof his place where he lived, you know, some
sixteen, seventeen hundred miles away from homedepending on what route you take.
And yeah.
They mister Landry, after he got off the phone,he handed the phone to me.
(26:48):
And I talked to mister Landry, and he waswanting me to prop Aidan up in a hotel for two
weeks or better until they could get it figuredout what they were gonna do.
And then he wanted me to put the bill for itand yeah.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Knowing that request for yeah.
That's the thing.
He knows that we're a low income family tobegin with.
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So
Well and I feel like they rushed through anykind of due process on theirs.
They coerced a confession out of you byintimidating you with the police and with the
threat of suspension over top of you to get youto admit to something that you did not do.
Mhmm.
Because I essentially hauled him in without himand questioned him without even writing him his
(27:35):
rights.
Mhmm.
It's what they did.
So I mean, they he didn't get any rights oranything like that until it was written on that
statement that he made he signed.
So, really, he wasn't even divisive of hisrights until that point.
And we still yet to see any of the videos orany of that stuff from the officers, you know,
because that should all have been taped orvideoed, but not subnet come out yet.
(27:59):
So and
No.
And and currently, have these charges beendismissed at this point?
Yes.
They they were dismissed in grand jury.
Yeah.
They were dismissed by a grand jury.
They went all the way to a grand jury, and thegrand jury said, uh-uh.
I don't think so.
There's there's not enough here to levy chargesand to go through the the process of criminally
(28:23):
charging you.
Yeah.
So now that leaves us to the reinstatement inthe school.
If there are no charges, I'm assuming theschool has a right to suspend you, but they
would have to follow some kind of due processas well.
If there's no evidence of wrongdoing, then itwould be very hard, it seems, for them to levy
(28:43):
the suspension against you.
So is that the fight that we are currently innow is to have you reinstated and your
scholarship returned to you at this HamiltonCollege?
Is that the, process we're in now?
Yeah.
That's that's essentially that's essentiallywhat's going on is that we want, Hamilton
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College to recognize that suspend that whatthey did suspending me wasn't, by any means
right.
It wasn't following their due process.
It wasn't following, the due process of law oreven their own due process.
It just it just wasn't fair all altogether.
And
(29:25):
Well, and at points, it seems unlawful.
Beyond just being unfair, I have to believethat some of your personal rights were intruded
upon here.
No doubt.
Well, they continue.
The school's newspaper still continues to well,they released an article, I should say,
continue within March.
And on Twitter, if you go back to the spectatorstuff, they still release a word rate or word
(29:49):
articles.
Like, he's in jail.
Like, our lawyer was in court on February ortrying to get his sentence reduced is what they
say.
And then they make no reference to anythingafter that.
Well, that's libel.
Yeah.
So the publication itself and the school shouldbe held accountable for that as well if indeed
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you are not in jail or trying to have yoursentence reduced.
If people get Google search, it's hell up.
They're they're doing they did yeah.
They did all of that.
Like, part of how part of how they're able to,like, get me, like, permanently suspended or
expelled was that they was that they pushed itthrough and they got done before before a grand
jury could dismiss it.
(30:34):
Well, which doesn't really make a differencebecause if a grand jury dismisses it, then that
means that, well, it should be apparent toanyone that these charges were just, plain just
made up just for the sake of the school so thatthey would have a grounds for expelling me.
Because, if you receive any funding whatsoeverfrom the government, which the school
(30:58):
definitely does, you have to respect people'sfreedom of speech rights, whether you're a
private or public college, especially if youexplicitly give people freedom of speech as
they did with this MERL.
So the only grounds that they have for that isif I got criminally charged for something like,
(31:21):
like harassment or like a hate speechviolation.
That those are the only grounds that they couldsay that they could expel me for any reason,
which is why they had to push which is why theyhad to make sure that I got arrested so that
then they could have legal grounds forexpelling me thereafter.
And, of course, they want to push it to a grandjury so that way they'd have enough time to do
(31:43):
that before it got dropped.
And then, of course, during this entire time,they continue to, continue to use their
connections in the media, with NPR and The NewYork Times and and everyone else.
They still use their connections there to makesure to get the word out so everyone knows that
(32:05):
I'm an anti Semite, and I'm the boogeyman, andthat you should be scared of me, and that you
that you don't want anything to do with me.
You know?
Which which makes what we're doing today soimportant and sharing your story on our
platforms and and around the world.
I want to so it's been about a year that you'vebeen suspended.
You said this happened around election time, sonot quite a year yet.
(32:28):
You're still fighting.
Are you being represented, by someone that's inthe, in the area of where the school is that
where the the, the court proceedings and thebattle with the school to be reinstated are
taking place?
Yeah.
That's where they're happening, but we we don'thave representation at this time.
(32:48):
No.
Yeah.
No.
Actually, we're in the search representation.
We're actually doing a lot of things pro se.
He's doing them pro se per se, actually, we'llwe'll call it.
Dad's been doing a lot of filing and stuff withthat.
If you go to the court site, they have a thisis one thing I'd really like.
I'd I'd like to advocate for is New York.
(33:11):
New York open laws.
They're open civil laws and open court laws.
You South Dakota needs to check into that, putthat stuff online because they have.
It's it's awesome.
You file everything online, and everything'sthere for the public to see.
There's no there's no questions about it.
Everybody can see
the case and go look at it
themselves if they want and check the
(33:32):
whole work out.
Aidan, Aiden is it your wish to return toschool at Hamilton College and to continue your
education?
Oh, that's well, that's a complicated questionbecause this is the college that this is the
college that kicks me out.
And since that and since my dad has been, like,doing research and stuff into it, like, we've
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been we've been, like, finding connectioneverywhere.
Like, there's like, apparently, I've, like, Ihave, like, enemies everywhere around the
corner who've been backstabbing me this entiretime.
And I guess to me, that sort of makes sensebecause, leading up to leading up to this
event, like, my personal experience in thecollege was just was just going down a hill up
(34:18):
to that point.
Like like, people like, people were sort of,like, treating were sort of, like, treating me
like I'm infected or something.
I I don't know.
It was just I just I just all I know is that Ijust felt, like, depressed and terrible, like,
during those last few months leading up to thatbecause and I felt, like, very, very much
alone.
(34:39):
So, like and now and now that I know and nowthat I know for certain that, yes, indeed,
like, I wasn't just that wasn't just me, like,being crazy.
Like, people really did, like, hate me there.
Like, knowing that, that makes me feel like Idon't really wanna go back.
Like, as a point of justice, yes, I do want tobe able to have my scholarship back and go to
(35:00):
school and get an education.
But if that comes at the cost of, like, me,like, literally, like, rip wanting to smash my
brain out, like yeah.
That's a that's a tough offer.
Yeah.
Well and there should be a a way for you to getyour scholarship returned to you and to be able
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to continue your education at another school,especially with the way things have transpired
and the treatment that you received there atHamilton College.
So I hope that people listening will doeverything they can to support this young man
and his family.
This is someone who is granted from a smallSouth Dakota town granted an incredible
(35:43):
opportunity to further their education becausethey identified themselves and set themselves
apart as an exemplary student.
Passing the ACT with a 34 out of 36.
Correct?
Yeah.
A a near perfect score on your collegeplacement test, we should be putting young men
(36:05):
like you and young people like you on apedestal and be making sure that you are given
every opportunity to excel in the worldregardless of what your political ideologies
may be or just your conservative leanings as a,I will say, a country boy.
Mhmm.
We are here to help you in every way that wecan.
(36:27):
Again, Jeremy, please state where we can findout more information on the story.
We're here to help this young man get himselfback into school to to have this education
reinstated and this opportunity reinstatedbecause it was unduly taken from you in the
first place.
Yeah.
Oh,
absolutely.
You could go to my Facebook page, which just,jeremybrendan@facebook.com.
(36:52):
Yeah.
You can also check out our we have another pagethat's p y m p or that or it's
For young men.
For young men praying.
That's another Facebook page out there.
You can also check us out on our GoFundMe pageas we're raising funds, obviously, to try
getting round up another lawyer and all theothers legal fees that we're gonna have to
(37:17):
face, obviously.
And yeah.
So that we got that.
We got a GoFundMe page.
So at that I'm not sure.
Just it's all linked to my Facebook page.
So you should
have Excellent.
Well, gentlemen, I appreciate you taking sometime for us today to share your story and allow
(37:38):
us the opportunity to share this with ourfollowers and with the world.
I wish you nothing but the best, Aidan.
As a fellow South Dakotan, I am so proud of youfor the achievements, that you reached, and I'm
so sorry that you've had to go through this.
The traumatizing experience of being arrested,at such a young age for really no criminal
(37:59):
activity that was done by you is, it'sabhorrent.
And I hope that you are reinstated into anotherschool that will support you in furthering your
education.
And I hope that, this, you know, forty fiveminutes or so that we've spent talking to each
other has a positive effect on your life.
(38:20):
Gentlemen, anything that you wanna add, inclosing here?
I'm I'm just imploring people to watch thiswatch this case and that people need to watch
out because the this kid is a perfect perfectkid.
He's done nothing wrong.
He has nothing done nothing wrong in his life.
If they can do this to him and get away withdoing something like this to him, imagine what
(38:42):
they could do to anybody else.
When are we gonna have a chance ever to defendour rights and our freedoms without having
somebody have some skeleton in the closet,whatnot, that's gonna pop up.
This kid is perfect for this chance to defendour rights and actually prove a point and do
what we need to do.
I mean, otherwise, we're gonna lose it.
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They're gonna be allowed to censor us, andthey're gonna let be allowed to do this kind of
stuff whenever they want, and they're gonnapick and choose.
That's that's so we need to stand up and justhelp fight this case because I don't know when
we're gonna get another chance.
Just I don't know.
Yeah.
And and I just like to say, I'm very thankfulfor for letting you have us on, mister Starts.
(39:28):
And I'd and I'd also like to thank you for foryour support and for your fans' support as
well.
God, god willing, this will come this will comeout in our favor.
Thanks.
Yep.
Well, I know that we will all be praying foryou, and we will be following closely as this
story gets out there and as the proceedingscontinue.
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Hopefully, we can create enough public stir, toget you reinstated, or maybe another school
will come out of the woodwork out of all ofthis and want a a bright young man like you to
come and attend their university.
Yes.
That's part of the plan.
Just get his name out there at least to get himto another school or find another opportunity
for him because they obviously, he dedicatedhimself to that QuestBridge Scholars.
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So
And and he's worthy.
You've already proven that, Aiden.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for taking sometime for us on the Patriot Broadcasting
Project, and we will be following closely asthis journey continues.
Have a great day.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Have a good one, starts.
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