S4 E09 - Cane or Weapon? Inside Al Green's Capitol Controversy

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The podcast discusses Congressman Al Green being censured for waving his cane at President Trump in the Capitol. It argues that if Green were a Republican, he would face harsher repercussions, referencing previous incidents such as the January 6th charges for brandishing flagpoles and the 1856 assault on Senator Charles Sumner with a cane. The script highlights the inconsistency in the justice system, suggesting that actions by the left are often excused while similar actions by the right are heavily penalized, using both historical and recent events to illustrate this perceived bias.

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Congressman Al Green was censured for waving

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his cane at President Trump inthe Capitol, but if he were a
Republican, he'd be in jail.
Let's talk about precedentfirst.
January 6th, the DOJ chargedpeople with felonies for
brandishing flagpoles in thecapitol, not for hitting anyone,

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just for holding them.
That was called"violent".
That was called"an attack ondemocracy", and the left hasn't
stopped talking about it.
Al Green waved a blunt weapon atthe president of the United
States inside the same capitol.
Wait, a cane is a weapon.

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Uh, don't play dumb.
A wooden or metal cane is ahardened club.
Police have classified them asweapons in multiple criminal
cases and history backs it up.
This isn't even the first time acane was used as a threat inside
the same halls of congress.
In 1856, pro-slavery, DemocratPreston Brooks, nearly killed

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abolitionist Senator CharlesSumner, right on the Senate
floor.
Sumner was beaten so badly witha cane that he couldn't return
to work for three years.
That's what canes can do in thehands of an angry politician.
And that attack also happened inthe capitol.

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Greene knew exactly what he wasdoing when he copied Sumner, his
predecessor.
I realied Trump is not a wimpyDemocrat, but he still might
have feared for his life.
And if you think the Sumnerincident is ancient history,
let's talk about something morerecent, something the media
won't talk about.

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Just this past January, a man inMiami used a stick to kill two
people and severely injure.
Two more.
Sky 10 flying above downtownMiami shows a body covered with
a tarp police say two homelessmen were attacked and beaten by
a man with a stick.
He then attacked a couple of thefour victims, two are dead and

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two are in the hospital.

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Now, if he had used a gun, the media
would've called it a massshooting.
How do we know?
Because they call every shootingincident with four or more
victims, a mass shooting,whether it's four deaths or for
people with bullet bruises froma ricochet.
With two people killed.

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Miami was definitely a"masssticking." So tell me why is Al
Green getting a free pass?
Are we going too far here?
I don't think so.
When Elon Musk gave a smiling,heartfelt wave to spectators, he
was accused of a hate crime ofgiving the Nazi salute, and the

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media went through contortionsto make it into a threat.
Congressman Green's gesture wasa threat without any media spin.
It was a threat.
A man with a stick can bedeadly.
History proves it.
Recent events prove it, andwaving a weapon at a president

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inside the Capitol is no smallthing.
If a Trump supporter had donethis, we all know the FBI would
be knocking at his door.
Before the same night was over,but why isn't there outrage?
Because we've been conditionedto accept this lopsided system

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of justice.
When the left crosses the line,it's excused as passion,
righteous anger, or just amisunderstanding when the right
does something far less extreme.
It's criminalized used tojustify sweeping crackdowns and
treated as a threat to democracyitself.

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If we refuse to demand equaljustice, then this will keep
happening because the amount ofcrap you take is the amount of
crap you're gonna get.