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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. You turned into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Any conservative news channel on the radio, on television, you
read any blog, you read any magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You will hear politicians.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorrows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities,
and we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
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evil people who in past years would have committed their
crime and then they would have been arrested eventually, and
then they would have been sent away first time for
a couple of years, they'd get out, they do it
again the next time, for ten years, get out and
do it again.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The next time. They'd be in for And they're getting older.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
As this is going on, and as as punks get older,
they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well,
what happens if that what if that happens if that
cycle that we just just described, What if instead that
guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is,
he's released. Now instead of being a year, three, five,
ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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a lot of them, and they're violent, and each victim.
God help you if you're a victim one of these people,
because you're not a statistic anymore. It becomes you lock
every door obsessively, you go to counseling, you worry over
your family members, the phone rings and you jump, you
worry something. It changes your whole, It steals your innocence.
So we know that George Soros and now his son's
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taking over the operation. We know that I can't stand
the man, and it is bad for America. But one
must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his
agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole.
Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals
out of innocent people, and you can make innocent people
out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now you've heard this line from me, from Tucker, from
a lot of other people. We have a guest who's
going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point,
chapter and verse.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
His name is Zack Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and
he is an author of the He is the author
of the book Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows lawyers are
destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me
start with the question, of all the things you could
write about, why did you choose this?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on
the show today. I really appreciate appreciate the opportunity to
be here and talk about this. But the reason we
chose to write about this my co author and I
we're both former prosecutors, and we started talking to the
friends of former colleagues and they said, Hey, there are
prosecutors coming into office around the country and they're not prosecuting.
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They're refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not secuing veil
even for repeat violent offenders, and even when someone is
convicted of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for
that convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more
and more in cities are around the country, and so we
started looking into it. We started writing about some of
these prosecutors, and pretty soon it became a parent there's
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a thread leaving all these prosecutors together. This was a
national movement that was very well financed back by George
Soros and other left landing billionaires, and it was a
systematic attempt to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine
and re engineer our criminal justice system. And the consequences
of this effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities
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where it's being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims,
and it's been absolutely devastating for the rule of law
across the country. And so this is a very important topic. Frankly,
I think it's something not a lot of people realize
is happening right now, and so we wanted to write
about it to highlight it and the most importantly, give
folks a pathway forward if they're confronted with one of
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these rogue, radical distance attorneys in their own communities.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Zach, I want to do that, but I want to
devote sufficient time as much as we possibly can to
Let's start, and I want to devote the time to
do this thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let's start with how this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To what extent can we say that these are Soros prosecutors.
I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going
to be the devil's advocate in this case from truly
the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't
the only one supporting these prosecutors and they are winning
the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points and responds to that.
First of all, Yeah, George Soros isn't the only person
doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving
forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the
biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we
have an entire chapter where we go through the funding
of this movement, how it works, what we know, What
we can't definitively know because a lot of the money
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goes through back channels. It's tend from public views. But
what we think we know based on where some of
the money is going with some of the money is
being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions,
George Soros has given almost forty million dollars in direct
campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorney around the country. Now,
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that is a lot of money. But in politics, you
may be thinking, well, that's not that much money. You know,
look at how much we spend on the last presidential election.
Look at how much is spend on Senate rignatorial races.
But the important thing to realize here is that in
different attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar, low profile affairs.
They're often uncontested. Many times, even in large cities, a
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six figure campaign contribution is unheard of. And so when
you you know, inundate these cities with a seven figure
campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also, we suspect
in indirect spending, different infrastructure that's been put in place,
think tanks, support groups that George Sorol system spending to
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support this radical movement in criminal justice reform in general
may be approaching a billion. If it's a billion with
a being dollars. And then quickly to your second point,
you said, these individuals received the supportable voters, they were
elected to office. That's true. What happened in many of
these jurisdictions when these folks were first running for office,
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they used poltpted language saying they wanted to fare criminal
justice system. They wanted a criminal justice system that didn't
unnecessarily incarcerate anyone. They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you
or I or any reasonable person would agree with. But
what happened when these individuals got into office. In many cases,
it quickly became a parent. What they met by those
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phrases and what you or I or the average person
would have understood those phrases to mean are two different things.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Dire right and the amount of money, As you said,
it may not sound like that much money, but it
is shocking how these district attorneys races. Unlike say, congressional seats,
one congressman can't do much if you're not the Speaker
of the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney
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has an incredible amount of power. You will discuss this
issue in greater detail. I'm going to devote a lot
of time on this Evening's program just so that you're aware,
because this is an issue that is not getting enough
attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Heck, you see what's.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Happening with with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More
coming up the book is Rogue Prosecutors. How radical Sorrows
lawyers are destroying America's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I've almost went to law school.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Mars the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The book is Rogue Prosecutors.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How radical Soros lawyer are destroying America's communities. Folks, I
want you to understand, to put this into perspective. When
you talk about presidential elections and how much money is raised,
you take that to the state level for gubernatorial elections
and how much money is raised. And the one that
gets me is how much money people will spend on
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a congressional election. How much money will be raised, And
you think to yourself, of all those millions of dollars,
we could have taken ten percent of that and focused
it on a district attorney's race in the major cities
and won some races. Most people don't know who the
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district attorney is in their county. And I'm particularly speaking
of the major counties that the major cities are part of.
Harris County for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see
this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland,
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you know, Monoma County used to be kind of a
reasonable county and Portland was a little wacky, weird, harmless.
Well that's changed, and now you don't want to run
a foul of the district attorney in those sorts of places.
So for very little money, you talk about bang for
the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, sorrows can
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have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
in saying, well, if you're a young black man who
is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston
right now. And you follow a little lady from the
bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going because
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her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants
to give them some money for their birthday. And that
guy puts a pistol in her face, whips her, takes
the money, and the cops arrest him. They got him
dead to rights, they got him on video, they've got
her witness account.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know, there's four witnesses at a whole deal. And
you've got, as we've seen in Houston, you've got now judges,
because beyond just the prosecutor, you've got the judges. Now,
all of a sudden, we've seen a crime spike in
Houston and Harris County, the likes of which we've never seen.
And it's not that there are criminals, it's that our
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process is no longer dealing with them. That's why this
issue is so important, because it's a national trend and
it's not accidental rogue prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyers are
destroying America's communities. Zach, I think I cut you off
while you were making your point. I want to make
sure you leave nothing unsaid. We're gonna have plenty of
time to get into this. But when you look at
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the Soro's strategy and how targeted this is, how did
he do we understand how he decided this would be
the thing he would focus on.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book, and
the way we structured the book, we basically have The
first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of
the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement
from the sixties seventies to prison abolition movement. There's actually
a movement where people think no one should go to
prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well
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with the general public. Most people wrecked it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original marksist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished to
day through the Rogue Prosecutor movement. But what happened back
in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, Essentially some folks who work
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for George Soros or had been affiliated with George Soros,
they recognized how much power the district attorney has, and
are twenty three hundred local elected das around the country,
and they simply realize, it doesn't matter how many officers
you have on the street. It doesn't matter if the
officers are making arrest. If the prosecutor won't prosecute the criminals,
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what the police.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Do doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And it doesn't matter what kind of laws you have
on the book. If you have mandatory minimums lency sentences
for violent crimes, none of that matters either. If the
prosecutor won't prosecute, because the judge will never see the case,
it'll be dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so,
in a very ingenious and very diabolical way, these individuals
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recognized how much power the DA has. They recognized that
not many people pay attention to the local DA races,
and they recognized that for relatively little money, they could
go in boost their preferred candidates to the top of
the electoral pack and essentially through a very back end
way in active preferred policies, policies that frankly they like,
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they knew they could never get pushed through each state's legislature.
And so they did a test run in Mississippi and
Louisiana with some where they primaried essentially some death penalty das,
and they had success. And so then they moved out
and they went national and their first big city prosecutor
they backed with Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County
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District Attorney. And so the other thing we do in
our book we highlight eight different road prosecutors in eight
different cities around the country. We outlined how they came
to be part of the movement, who backed them, the
policies they've enacted once they got into office, and most tragically,
we focus on true crime stories that would not have
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happened but for these rogue prosecutors' policies. And I have
to tell you it's heartbreaking when you see the same
results playing out in city after city after city, and
knowing that these crimes would not have happened if these
prosecutors would have just done their jobs and would if
they would have sought justice and sought to hold criminals
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accountable for their actions.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want
to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief,
because they don't say it in these words directly, that
a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color,
should simply be released back out on the streets because
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he is a victim of a system. And it's not
until someone is a victim of of a crime or
has a family member who is. And we had a
series of crime victims families in the last year during
our during our.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Election cycle stepped forward and we had.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The son of a woman who she was run over
and then they backed back up over her to seal
her purse as she exited a McDonald's. And we have
teenagers who are murdered by a gang member, and then
the gang members drive by the mom's home and and
and make you know, air pistol gestures at her, or
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they're released from prison before she's home from a casket
or planning the funeral. The bad guys are released to
go back to their home three doors over from where
the bad guy kill their daughter. It is a level
of a depth of depravity that is hard, I think
for most people to understand that these things aren't happening accidentally,
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that this is a strategy, a very ill intentioned strategy,
and it's working out exactly the way they planned it
because they don't share our belief that the victim is
sacrosanct and criminals should be punished.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I will die for the country. I will die or
disclast Michael Berry Joe, He's the big honor to be
living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
A year or two ago, I was watching No Country
for Old Men, and Tommy Lee Jones's character, if you recall,
is the sheriff who never really unholsters his gun. He
never has to draw, and the Mexican cartels have brought
a level of violence to the streets that he can't
even understand. The firepower far exceeds anything he's got, and
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he just can't understand how the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
World has gone to hell. You just can't understand it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So he goes to his mentor, and he's talking to
his mentor, and his mentor's trying to explain how crazy
the world has become, and he refers to signs and wonders.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And when I heard that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I thought, you know, that's how I feel about some
of the crazy news stories of how on earth can
this actually happen? How do you reach such a point
of depravity?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I really have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to
you from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
It's all damn money, into money and the drugs. It's
just damn you.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
What's it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
If you'd told me twenty years ago, i'd see children
walk in the streets of our Texas towns with the
green hair bones and their noses, and I just.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Flat out with the bleak signs and wonders. But I think,
once you quit here in sir and ma'am, But that's
just seem to follow. It's it's the digital pad.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It is not the one thousan one thing, signs, signs
and Wonders. It's the digital pars Walker.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And it's ugly.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs
after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Robin's fully say three thirteen year old boys were inside
of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out,
driving on Kedzie Avenue at about two thirty this afternoon.
Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with
another car, killing a seventy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
One year old man who was driving.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Neighbors tell us the man lived in a nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
He's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I don't even think they're taking drivers, eve, So how
are you stealing a car? I'm very unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Say it.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Say it.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
The teens were all arrested at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered
that they haven't taken drivers yet.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's the least of their words.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Lttarian Milton Terrian was seven
years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked
why he did it, he said that he wanted to
do hood rat stuff with his friends. He wanted to
do hoodrat stuff with his friends that went viral in
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two thousand and nine, but you've already forgotten it. He
was seven years old. You have a seven year old
boy stealing a car and saying funny stuff on the news.
Let's go back to that original report.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
This is a.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Seven year old kid, a first grader.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Credit WPF News in West Palm.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Beach, Ltarian Milton is not your typical seven year old.
If you his age, have ever driven an suv up
and down several busy streets. It all started at his
mother's townhouse. Latarian says he took the car keys and
hopped into his grandmother's dodge duringo and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I came to the back door.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I looked on the counter, my keys were born.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I took my gun car because I got mad at
my mom. And then I saw him have a friend
come in and he smoked for a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He started the vehicle, then put it into gear.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I yanked b the thing and off they went. Two
seven year olds alone on the road. Latarian drove several
miles through Lake Park and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
We got the one call out he told you about
of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
To be able to see what the stereo.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
part cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
I want to do it because it's fun. It's funny
do bad things drive them to a car.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yes? But I wanted to do hoo orsh stuff for
my friend.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's
where Laitarian hit the curve inside swipe the sign. The
suv took most of the beating, snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
A grandmother's rage.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip his behind right now.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You don't think you should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
There's a little bit no video games for the whole weekend, and.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
One unusual story for police. Are you sorry?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You understand that now your grandma's gonna have to pay
to have.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Those cars fixed because you hit those cars.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Can my mom, I don't know, can your mom help her?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You moved on as we all did, but litarian.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she
wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found
himself in trouble again. Want to guess what he did?
This time he carjacked a car with his friends once again.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Latarian Milton spent about ten minutes in court this morning.
He learned that he will not be able to go
home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear
from the judge the next court day. We last spoke
with Latarian Milton in twenty fifteen. He had just completed
middle school and was looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Don't get the school in high schools. Good famis football
team paw some good successful.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
This is Milton entering a Westboum Beach quarterroom Monday to
face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and Carjackie
Bobe County.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Here of stepan.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
He say a lift driver picked up four young males
and a female early Sunday morning and drove them to
Windor Away in Westboum Beach. That's where the female exited
the vehicle. Investigators say the suspects told the driver to
take them to another location. When the driver refused, authorities
say one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and
hit the driver in the back of the head. The
driver says he got out of the car and was
robbed of his wallet and jacket. He later told Diffidy's
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that Milton, who was in the front passenger seat, got
out and hopped into the driver's seat and sped away
with the other suspects. According to investigators, the driver gave
detectives a phone number which led to the identification of Milton.
Deputy's arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We first met Milton in
two thousand and seven, when he was seven years old.
He had just stolen his grandmother's SUV and went on
a joy ride through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I want to do it because it's fun, funny do
bad things? Help drives into a car.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yes, but I wanted to do hoosh stuff with my friend.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But I thought they wouldn't take me to jail. I'd
whip this behind right now.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Back in court, the judge ordered Milton to remain at
a juvenile facility and to his next court.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Date, Militarian would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison
for that Crown the streets have replaced fathers in the home.
You know, I've played this flip before, but maybe it's
never been more appropriate than now. It was Denzel Washington
when he was asked about the importance of the father
in the home.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman dez into this
the issues.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
And I don't think it's more important to make head
weigh in our own house. By the time the system
comes into play, the damage is done. They're not locking
up seven year olds.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three
four weeks ago, and we saw these little kids on
bikes with masks on the side of the head, like
five or six of 'em. And the driver said, yeah,
they little yummies. I said, who said little yummies? Look
up Google little yummy. Little yummy was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And you look at his picture, you'll see the head
shot up and he's like this, and he got murdered
at eleven by a fourteen year old. Wow, who's doing
life now in a sixteen year old?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You blame the system? Where was his father?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well, well when my father got locked up?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Or where was his father?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know, fifteen to twenty five? One
did twenty eight this and that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together, but I still had
a father who was a gentle man and a good example.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
And they did.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
They can blame the system if we want, but they
didn't lock any of us up at seven. We were
all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen, my
parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have anybody
to help them, and they kept doing what they was
doing and the system got them. So I don't know,
the system is rigged, but all the more reason not
to help you.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Take Carriet though, think about it.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
My clarious.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The issue of DEEI keeps coming up, diversity, equity and inclusion,
and it is an issue fraud with hurt feelings and
a lack of honesty, and the lack of honesty is
for a simple reason, because of the hurt feelings.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
See, the truth is painful to some people.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
If you were let's say you're a fan of the
NFL for about a two what do your span there?
The most dominant team by far was the New England Patriots,
but the fans of all the other teams wanted their
team to win, so they would argue, my team's better
in your team. But no, actually, your team doesn't win
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the super Bowl and the Patriots do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But if it hurts your feelings, we'll say that your team,
which came in last place is the best team and
the Patriots really aren't.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And we can make excuses.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We can do the film, we can do the inflated
but we can make every excuse known to mankind, and
we can say your team is better.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
In fact, we can make your team the super Bowl champion.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We just call them the champion even though they don't win,
and then everybody will be happy. Right, And that's what
you do if your primary goal is to avoid hurting
people's feelings. So what people learn when they want to
get their way, as children do, is they learn what
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behaviors will allow them to get their way. You see
a child manipulate a parent, and every parent you know,
you've you've been there. A kid who has a booboo,
Mama kisses the booboo, who put a band aid on it,
and for a little while there, he doesn't have to
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his homework, almost fussing on what she's using that sweet
mama tone.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh it's so nice. He can eat what he wants.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He's not required to do anything, and maybe we can
even have some ice cream. Oh, it's good. So if
you're a kid, you go ooh. Hypochondria pays. This is
how we train animals. It's very simple. Animals can't understand words.
They do understand tone. I think some humans think they
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understand words.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And obviously they can't speak back to us. But say dog,
for instance, they're very smart and they're very smart at
recognizing patterns. And dog trainers will tell you this, and
that's why the consistency of the pattern is key.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Dog.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
When I say a word or a sound up and
you go down flat, and I give you a milk
bone and you love a milk bone. Then when I
go up, you go down. You get the bone, and
next time I go, uh, you're going down because you'll
get the bone. Now, Uh, it's not really a word.
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But if instead of umph, I did sit, then you
may Oh he gets the word sit. No, he gets
the tone and he gets the reaction. And so dogs
learn to react in this manner. Well, guess what some
of you, in fact, most of you, are being played
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for the dog by people want you to react a
certain way when they want it. When they scream racism,
you apologize, You hand over your money, you hand over
your position, you change your rules, you do everything because
it pays, and you learn to sit when they say sit.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And so we have become a nation of people whose
primary concern is not upsetting the people who are always upset.
The problem with this is there is no end to
this behavior, and as we're coming to learn, there are
real consequences. There are companies who no longer manufacture good products.
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There are people in positions where you need to be
good at a skill and you lack that skill. But
you're a girl, but you're black, but you're this, but
you're that, and then you're failing at performing the task
because you had no business being there creates real problems.
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Now the response to that is, Oh, you just don't
like women, Oh you just don't like blacks. Oh that
is an insulting thing to say. And it's also a
stupid thing to say. And I'm not going to respond
to it because it reflects more about you than it
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does me. If that's what you think of me, then
I'm not going to change your opinion by disagreeing with you.
But also understand you have revealed your stupid Now, if
you're stupid and also black, or stupid and also a woman,
I'll just add that to your character profile. You're taller,
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you're sure, you're fat, or you're skinny, you're stupid, okay,
And I will never change my opinion of you because
you have shown me you are stupid. And I'm not
hiring you because you're stupid. I don't care how much
that upsets you. You're not forcing me into that. And
when people start behaving this way, you don't have to
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have DEI in the NBA. You don't have to have
DEI in the NFL because coaches only want the best
player on the field and fans demand that you win.
What an amazing world to live in where winning or
losing would actually matter. You've seen this with Boeing, where
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they've put people into positions that they can't handle them.
And you've got engine callings falling apart in midflight, wheels
falling off at takeoff, cockpit window glass cracking, engine failure,
You've got real, real problems. And the airlines, not just
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the manufacturers, are having their share of problems. A female
pilot showed up to work in street clothes and she
tells the passengers that she's going through a divorce. Now
this says to me, this person is a person is
emotionally unstable, and I'll bet you that would have been
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revealed all along the process of her becoming a pilot.
I don't have to tell you how important the job
of being a pilot is. Because fewer than two dozen,
fewer than twenty terrorists managed to hijack a few planes,
and it was the worst terror attack on American soil.
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This is kind of a big job. Inside Edition revealed
the story. Here she is, she's not in her uniform,
but here she is having a moment before a flight.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Listen to this. Hey, if you don't feel safe, get
off the airplane.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
This is your captain speaking, but never like this set.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I'll stop and we'll fly the airplane.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Don't worry.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I'm going to let my co pilot.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
He's a man.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, it's a total meltdown.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
The pilot boarded in her street clothes that addressed the
passengers over the interco. Passenger Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what
was happening.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
She said, let's take a vote. How many of you
would like to take off now with me dressed as
I am? Or would you prefer that I take ten
minutes to get changed into my cute little uniform. Then
she started talking about her divorce and political candidates in
the minute. She mentioned that a gentleman stood up and
just yelled, blow enough, you're scaring me.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave
a running commentary.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
On social media.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Pilot also insulted a couple on board.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Did I offend you? Okay?
Speaker 7 (32:45):
So did I purposely offend you? I did? Did the
answers yet?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Please this on doors?
Speaker 10 (32:51):
After twenty passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines
flight with a pilot quietly left the aircraft.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Okay, if you don't feel fake it off the airplane
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Sh
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. You turned into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Any conservative news channel on the radio, on television, you
read any blog, you read any magazine.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You will hear politicians.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorrows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities,
and we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
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evil people who in past years would have committed their
crime and then they would have been arrested eventually, and
then they would have been sent away first time for
a couple of years, they'd get out, they do it
again the next time, for ten years, get out and
do it again.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The next time. They'd be in for And they're getting older.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
As this is going on, and as as punks get older,
they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well,
what happens if that what if that happens if that
cycle that we just just described, What if instead that
guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is,
he's released. Now instead of being a year, three, five,
ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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a lot of them, and they're violent, and each victim.
God help you if you're a victim one of these people,
because you're not a statistic anymore. It becomes you lock
every door obsessively, you go to counseling, you worry over
your family members, the phone rings and you jump, you
worry something. It changes your whole, It steals your innocence.
So we know that George Soros and now his son's
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taking over the operation. We know that I can't stand
the man, and it is bad for America. But one
must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his
agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole.
Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals
out of innocent people, and you can make innocent people
out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And that has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now you've heard this line from me, from Tucker, from
a lot of other people. We have a guest who's
going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point,
chapter and verse.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
His name is Zack Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and
he is an author of the He is the author
of the book Rogue Prosecutors, How radical sorrows lawyers are
destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me
start with the question, of all the things you could
write about, why did you choose this?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on
the show today. I really appreciate appreciate the opportunity to
be here and talk about this. But the reason we
chose to write about this my co author and I
we're both former prosecutors, and we started talking to the
friends of former colleagues and they said, Hey, there are
prosecutors coming into office around the country and they're not prosecuting.
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They're refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not secuing veil
even for repeat violent offenders, and even when someone is
convicted of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for
that convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more
and more in cities are around the country, and so we
started looking into it. We started writing about some of
these prosecutors, and pretty soon it became a parent there's
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a thread leaving all these prosecutors together. This was a
national movement that was very well financed back by George
Soros and other left landing billionaires, and it was a
systematic attempt to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine
and re engineer our criminal justice system. And the consequences
of this effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities
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where it's being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims,
and it's been absolutely devastating for the rule of law
across the country. And so this is a very important topic. Frankly,
I think it's something not a lot of people realize
is happening right now, and so we wanted to write
about it to highlight it and the most importantly, give
folks a pathway forward if they're confronted with one of
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these rogue, radical distance attorneys in their own communities.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Zach, I want to do that, but I want to
devote sufficient time as much as we possibly can to
Let's start, and I want to devote the time to
do this thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Let's start with how this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To what extent can we say that these are Soros prosecutors.
I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going
to be the devil's advocate in this case from truly
the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't
the only one supporting these prosecutors and they are winning
the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points and responds to that.
First of all, Yeah, George Soros isn't the only person
doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving
forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the
biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we
have an entire chapter where we go through the funding
of this movement, how it works, what we know, What
we can't definitively know because a lot of the money
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goes through back channels. It's tend from public views. But
what we think we know based on where some of
the money is going with some of the money is
being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions,
George Soros has given almost forty million dollars in direct
campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorney around the country. Now,
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that is a lot of money. But in politics, you
may be thinking, well, that's not that much money. You know,
look at how much we spend on the last presidential election.
Look at how much is spend on Senate rignatorial races.
But the important thing to realize here is that in
different attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar, low profile affairs.
They're often uncontested. Many times, even in large cities, a
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six figure campaign contribution is unheard of. And so when
you you know, inundate these cities with a seven figure
campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also, we suspect
in indirect spending, different infrastructure that's been put in place,
think tanks, support groups that George Sorol system spending to
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support this radical movement in criminal justice reform in general
may be approaching a billion. If it's a billion with
a being dollars. And then quickly to your second point,
you said, these individuals received the supportable voters, they were
elected to office. That's true. What happened in many of
these jurisdictions when these folks were first running for office,
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they used poltpted language saying they wanted to fare criminal
justice system. They wanted a criminal justice system that didn't
unnecessarily incarcerate anyone. They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you
or I or any reasonable person would agree with. But
what happened when these individuals got into office. In many cases,
it quickly became a parent. What they met by those
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phrases and what you or I or the average person
would have understood those phrases to mean are two different things.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Dire right and the amount of money, As you said,
it may not sound like that much money, but it
is shocking how these district attorneys races. Unlike say, congressional seats,
one congressman can't do much if you're not the Speaker
of the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney
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has an incredible amount of power. You will discuss this
issue in greater detail. I'm going to devote a lot
of time on this Evening's program just so that you're aware,
because this is an issue that is not getting enough
attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Heck, you see what's.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Happening with with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More
coming up the book is Rogue Prosecutors. How radical Sorrows
lawyers are destroying America's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I've almost went to law school.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Mars the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The book is Rogue Prosecutors.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How radical Soros lawyer are destroying America's communities. Folks, I
want you to understand, to put this into perspective. When
you talk about presidential elections and how much money is raised,
you take that to the state level for gubernatorial elections
and how much money is raised. And the one that
gets me is how much money people will spend on
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a congressional election. How much money will be raised, And
you think to yourself, of all those millions of dollars,
we could have taken ten percent of that and focused
it on a district attorney's race in the major cities
and won some races. Most people don't know who the
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district attorney is in their county. And I'm particularly speaking
of the major counties that the major cities are part of.
Harris County for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see
this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland,
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you know, Monoma County used to be kind of a
reasonable county and Portland was a little wacky, weird, harmless.
Well that's changed, and now you don't want to run
a foul of the district attorney in those sorts of places.
So for very little money, you talk about bang for
the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, sorrows can
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have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
in saying, well, if you're a young black man who
is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston
right now. And you follow a little lady from the
bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going because
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her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants
to give them some money for their birthday. And that
guy puts a pistol in her face, whips her, takes
the money, and the cops arrest him. They got him
dead to rights, they got him on video, they've got
her witness account.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There's no doubt.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know, there's four witnesses at a whole deal. And
you've got, as we've seen in Houston, you've got now judges,
because beyond just the prosecutor, you've got the judges. Now,
all of a sudden, we've seen a crime spike in
Houston and Harris County, the likes of which we've never seen.
And it's not that there are criminals, it's that our
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process is no longer dealing with them. That's why this
issue is so important, because it's a national trend and
it's not accidental rogue prosecutors. How radical Soros lawyers are
destroying America's communities. Zach, I think I cut you off
while you were making your point. I want to make
sure you leave nothing unsaid. We're gonna have plenty of
time to get into this. But when you look at
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the Soro's strategy and how targeted this is, how did
he do we understand how he decided this would be
the thing he would focus on.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book, and
the way we structured the book, we basically have The
first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of
the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement
from the sixties seventies to prison abolition movement. There's actually
a movement where people think no one should go to
prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well
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with the general public. Most people wrecked it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original marksist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished to
day through the Rogue Prosecutor movement. But what happened back
in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen, Essentially some folks who work
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for George Soros or had been affiliated with George Soros,
they recognized how much power the district attorney has, and
are twenty three hundred local elected das around the country,
and they simply realize, it doesn't matter how many officers
you have on the street. It doesn't matter if the
officers are making arrest. If the prosecutor won't prosecute the criminals,
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what the police.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Do doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And it doesn't matter what kind of laws you have
on the book. If you have mandatory minimums lency sentences
for violent crimes, none of that matters either. If the
prosecutor won't prosecute, because the judge will never see the case,
it'll be dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so,
in a very ingenious and very diabolical way, these individuals
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recognized how much power the DA has. They recognized that
not many people pay attention to the local DA races,
and they recognized that for relatively little money, they could
go in boost their preferred candidates to the top of
the electoral pack and essentially through a very back end
way in active preferred policies, policies that frankly they like,
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they knew they could never get pushed through each state's legislature.
And so they did a test run in Mississippi and
Louisiana with some where they primaried essentially some death penalty das,
and they had success. And so then they moved out
and they went national and their first big city prosecutor
they backed with Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County
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District Attorney. And so the other thing we do in
our book we highlight eight different road prosecutors in eight
different cities around the country. We outlined how they came
to be part of the movement, who backed them, the
policies they've enacted once they got into office, and most tragically,
we focus on true crime stories that would not have
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happened but for these rogue prosecutors' policies. And I have
to tell you it's heartbreaking when you see the same
results playing out in city after city after city, and
knowing that these crimes would not have happened if these
prosecutors would have just done their jobs and would if
they would have sought justice and sought to hold criminals
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accountable for their actions.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want
to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief,
because they don't say it in these words directly, that
a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color,
should simply be released back out on the streets because
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he is a victim of a system. And it's not
until someone is a victim of of a crime or
has a family member who is. And we had a
series of crime victims families in the last year during
our during our.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Election cycle stepped forward and we had.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The son of a woman who she was run over
and then they backed back up over her to seal
her purse as she exited a McDonald's. And we have
teenagers who are murdered by a gang member, and then
the gang members drive by the mom's home and and
and make you know, air pistol gestures at her, or
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they're released from prison before she's home from a casket
or planning the funeral. The bad guys are released to
go back to their home three doors over from where
the bad guy kill their daughter. It is a level
of a depth of depravity that is hard, I think
for most people to understand that these things aren't happening accidentally,
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that this is a strategy, a very ill intentioned strategy,
and it's working out exactly the way they planned it
because they don't share our belief that the victim is
sacrosanct and criminals should be punished.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I will die for the country. I will die or
disclast Michael Berry Joe, He's the big honor to be
living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
A year or two ago, I was watching No Country
for Old Men, and Tommy Lee Jones's character, if you recall,
is the sheriff who never really unholsters his gun. He
never has to draw, and the Mexican cartels have brought
a level of violence to the streets that he can't
even understand. The firepower far exceeds anything he's got, and
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he just can't understand how the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
World has gone to hell. You just can't understand it.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So he goes to his mentor, and he's talking to
his mentor, and his mentor's trying to explain how crazy
the world has become, and he refers to signs and wonders.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And when I heard that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I thought, you know, that's how I feel about some
of the crazy news stories of how on earth can
this actually happen? How do you reach such a point
of depravity?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I really have to wonder.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to
you from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
It's all damn money, into money and the drugs. It's
just damn you.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
What's it mean? What's it leading to?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
If you'd told me twenty years ago, i'd see children
walk in the streets of our Texas towns with the
green hair bones and their noses, and I just.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Flat out with the bleak signs and wonders. But I think,
once you quit here in sir and ma'am, But that's
just seem to follow. It's it's the digital pad.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
It is not the one thousan one thing, signs, signs
and Wonders. It's the digital pars Walker.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And it's ugly.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs
after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Robin's fully say three thirteen year old boys were inside
of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out,
driving on Kedzie Avenue at about two thirty this afternoon.
Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with
another car, killing a seventy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
One year old man who was driving.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Neighbors tell us the man lived in a nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
He's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I don't even think they're taking drivers, eve, So how
are you stealing a car? I'm very unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Say it.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Say it.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
The teens were all arrested at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered
that they haven't taken drivers yet.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's the least of their words.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Lttarian Milton Terrian was seven
years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked
why he did it, he said that he wanted to
do hood rat stuff with his friends. He wanted to
do hoodrat stuff with his friends that went viral in
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two thousand and nine, but you've already forgotten it. He
was seven years old. You have a seven year old
boy stealing a car and saying funny stuff on the news.
Let's go back to that original report.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
This is a.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Seven year old kid, a first grader.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Credit WPF News in West Palm.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Beach, Ltarian Milton is not your typical seven year old.
If you his age, have ever driven an suv up
and down several busy streets. It all started at his
mother's townhouse. Latarian says he took the car keys and
hopped into his grandmother's dodge duringo and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I came to the back door.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I looked on the counter, my keys were born.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I took my gun car because I got mad at
my mom. And then I saw him have a friend
come in and he smoked for a cigarette.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He started the vehicle, then put it into gear.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I yanked b the thing and off they went. Two
seven year olds alone on the road. Latarian drove several
miles through Lake Park and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
We got the one call out he told you about
of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
To be able to see what the stereo.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
part cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
moving cars near Walmart.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
I want to do it because it's fun. It's funny
do bad things drive them to a car.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yes? But I wanted to do hoo orsh stuff for
my friend.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's
where Laitarian hit the curve inside swipe the sign. The
suv took most of the beating, snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
A grandmother's rage.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
I want to whip his behind. That's what I want
to do right now.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip his behind right now.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You don't think you should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
There's a little bit no video games for the whole weekend, and.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
One unusual story for police. Are you sorry?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You understand that now your grandma's gonna have to pay
to have.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Those cars fixed because you hit those cars.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Can my mom, I don't know, can your mom help her?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You moved on as we all did, but litarian.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she
wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found
himself in trouble again. Want to guess what he did?
This time he carjacked a car with his friends once again.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Latarian Milton spent about ten minutes in court this morning.
He learned that he will not be able to go
home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear
from the judge the next court day. We last spoke
with Latarian Milton in twenty fifteen. He had just completed
middle school and was looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Don't get the school in high schools. Good famis football
team paw some good successful.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
This is Milton entering a Westboum Beach quarterroom Monday to
face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and Carjackie
Bobe County.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Here of stepan.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
He say a lift driver picked up four young males
and a female early Sunday morning and drove them to
Windor Away in Westboum Beach. That's where the female exited
the vehicle. Investigators say the suspects told the driver to
take them to another location. When the driver refused, authorities
say one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and
hit the driver in the back of the head. The
driver says he got out of the car and was
robbed of his wallet and jacket. He later told Diffidy's
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that Milton, who was in the front passenger seat, got
out and hopped into the driver's seat and sped away
with the other suspects. According to investigators, the driver gave
detectives a phone number which led to the identification of Milton.
Deputy's arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We first met Milton in
two thousand and seven, when he was seven years old.
He had just stolen his grandmother's SUV and went on
a joy ride through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I want to do it because it's fun, funny do
bad things? Help drives into a car.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Yes, but I wanted to do hoosh stuff with my friend.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But I thought they wouldn't take me to jail. I'd
whip this behind right now.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Back in court, the judge ordered Milton to remain at
a juvenile facility and to his next court.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Date, Militarian would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison
for that Crown the streets have replaced fathers in the home.
You know, I've played this flip before, but maybe it's
never been more appropriate than now. It was Denzel Washington
when he was asked about the importance of the father
in the home.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman dez into this
the issues.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
And I don't think it's more important to make head
weigh in our own house. By the time the system
comes into play, the damage is done. They're not locking
up seven year olds.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three
four weeks ago, and we saw these little kids on
bikes with masks on the side of the head, like
five or six of 'em. And the driver said, yeah,
they little yummies. I said, who said little yummies? Look
up Google little yummy. Little yummy was eleven year old murderer.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And you look at his picture, you'll see the head
shot up and he's like this, and he got murdered
at eleven by a fourteen year old. Wow, who's doing
life now in a sixteen year old?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You blame the system? Where was his father?
Speaker 9 (23:38):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well, well when my father got locked up?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Or where was his father?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did, you know, fifteen to twenty five? One
did twenty eight this and that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together, but I still had
a father who was a gentle man and a good example.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
And they did.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
They can blame the system if we want, but they
didn't lock any of us up at seven. We were
all doing enough to get locked up. At thirteen, my
parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have anybody
to help them, and they kept doing what they was
doing and the system got them. So I don't know,
the system is rigged, but all the more reason not
to help you.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Take Carriet though, think about it.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
My clarious.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The issue of DEEI keeps coming up, diversity, equity and inclusion,
and it is an issue fraud with hurt feelings and
a lack of honesty, and the lack of honesty is
for a simple reason, because of the hurt feelings.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
See, the truth is painful to some people.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
If you were let's say you're a fan of the
NFL for about a two what do your span there?
The most dominant team by far was the New England Patriots,
but the fans of all the other teams wanted their
team to win, so they would argue, my team's better
in your team. But no, actually, your team doesn't win
(25:13):
the super Bowl and the Patriots do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But if it hurts your feelings, we'll say that your team,
which came in last place is the best team and
the Patriots really aren't.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And we can make excuses.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We can do the film, we can do the inflated
but we can make every excuse known to mankind, and
we can say your team is better.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
In fact, we can make your team the super Bowl champion.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We just call them the champion even though they don't win,
and then everybody will be happy. Right, And that's what
you do if your primary goal is to avoid hurting
people's feelings. So what people learn when they want to
get their way, as children do, is they learn what
(26:00):
behaviors will allow them to get their way. You see
a child manipulate a parent, and every parent you know,
you've you've been there. A kid who has a booboo,
Mama kisses the booboo, who put a band aid on it,
and for a little while there, he doesn't have to
(26:22):
his homework, almost fussing on what she's using that sweet
mama tone.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh it's so nice. He can eat what he wants.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He's not required to do anything, and maybe we can
even have some ice cream. Oh, it's good. So if
you're a kid, you go ooh. Hypochondria pays. This is
how we train animals. It's very simple. Animals can't understand words.
They do understand tone. I think some humans think they
(26:53):
understand words.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And obviously they can't speak back to us. But say dog,
for instance, they're very smart and they're very smart at
recognizing patterns. And dog trainers will tell you this, and
that's why the consistency of the pattern is key.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Dog.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
When I say a word or a sound up and
you go down flat, and I give you a milk
bone and you love a milk bone. Then when I
go up, you go down. You get the bone, and
next time I go, uh, you're going down because you'll
get the bone. Now, Uh, it's not really a word.
(27:37):
But if instead of umph, I did sit, then you
may Oh he gets the word sit. No, he gets
the tone and he gets the reaction. And so dogs
learn to react in this manner. Well, guess what some
of you, in fact, most of you, are being played
(27:59):
for the dog by people want you to react a
certain way when they want it. When they scream racism,
you apologize, You hand over your money, you hand over
your position, you change your rules, you do everything because
it pays, and you learn to sit when they say sit.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And so we have become a nation of people whose
primary concern is not upsetting the people who are always upset.
The problem with this is there is no end to
this behavior, and as we're coming to learn, there are
real consequences. There are companies who no longer manufacture good products.
(28:46):
There are people in positions where you need to be
good at a skill and you lack that skill. But
you're a girl, but you're black, but you're this, but
you're that, and then you're failing at performing the task
because you had no business being there creates real problems.
(29:08):
Now the response to that is, Oh, you just don't
like women, Oh you just don't like blacks. Oh that
is an insulting thing to say. And it's also a
stupid thing to say. And I'm not going to respond
to it because it reflects more about you than it
(29:29):
does me. If that's what you think of me, then
I'm not going to change your opinion by disagreeing with you.
But also understand you have revealed your stupid Now, if
you're stupid and also black, or stupid and also a woman,
I'll just add that to your character profile. You're taller,
(29:50):
you're sure, you're fat, or you're skinny, you're stupid, okay,
And I will never change my opinion of you because
you have shown me you are stupid. And I'm not
hiring you because you're stupid. I don't care how much
that upsets you. You're not forcing me into that. And
when people start behaving this way, you don't have to
(30:11):
have DEI in the NBA. You don't have to have
DEI in the NFL because coaches only want the best
player on the field and fans demand that you win.
What an amazing world to live in where winning or
losing would actually matter. You've seen this with Boeing, where
(30:33):
they've put people into positions that they can't handle them.
And you've got engine callings falling apart in midflight, wheels
falling off at takeoff, cockpit window glass cracking, engine failure,
You've got real, real problems. And the airlines, not just
(30:54):
the manufacturers, are having their share of problems. A female
pilot showed up to work in street clothes and she
tells the passengers that she's going through a divorce. Now
this says to me, this person is a person is
emotionally unstable, and I'll bet you that would have been
(31:16):
revealed all along the process of her becoming a pilot.
I don't have to tell you how important the job
of being a pilot is. Because fewer than two dozen,
fewer than twenty terrorists managed to hijack a few planes,
and it was the worst terror attack on American soil.
(31:36):
This is kind of a big job. Inside Edition revealed
the story. Here she is, she's not in her uniform,
but here she is having a moment before a flight.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Listen to this. Hey, if you don't feel safe, get
off the airplane.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
This is your captain speaking, but never like this set.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I'll stop and we'll fly the airplane.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Don't worry.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I'm going to let my co pilot.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
He's a man.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, it's a total meltdown.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
The pilot boarded in her street clothes that addressed the
passengers over the interco. Passenger Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what
was happening.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
She said, let's take a vote. How many of you
would like to take off now with me dressed as
I am? Or would you prefer that I take ten
minutes to get changed into my cute little uniform. Then
she started talking about her divorce and political candidates in
the minute. She mentioned that a gentleman stood up and
just yelled, blow enough, you're scaring me.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave
a running commentary.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
On social media.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Pilot also insulted a couple on board.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Did I offend you? Okay?
Speaker 7 (32:45):
So did I purposely offend you? I did? Did the
answers yet?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Please this on doors?
Speaker 10 (32:51):
After twenty passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines
flight with a pilot quietly left the aircraft.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Okay, if you don't feel fake it off the airplane
Speaker 3 (33:06):
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