Campus Protests vs Civil Rights Movement

Episode Transcript

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Michael, good morning. Good tohave you here. There is always the
privilege. Thank you so much.Interested as I am, and these claims
by some of these current students thatthese protests today are very much like the
Civil rights movement? Oh really?Why? Why are they wrong? Michael?
Well, what I'm Chuckley and gearhe is obviously, of course,

(00:21):
I'm not surprised that what I'm seeing, what they're learning nowadays, that they
don't understand their history. There's quitea few major differences here. And of
course the first and foremost is,you know, if you want to just
to look at the tactics alone civilrights movement, they were peaceful tactics.
They were marches through Selma, theywere you know, sitting on a public

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bus, refusing to give up yourseat, things along those lines. These
other situations with pro palace stitting anddemonstrations that we don't call them demonstrations,
we actually loaned force to call themriots because they're doing a couple of things.
First of all, they are blockingthe rights of other students, intimidating
aggressive you can't go to class,or shutting down, trespassing on public party

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university property. It's not the betterthat they're in camp there. They want
to be a camp there, that'sfine. It's when they protest and block
the rights of bugs. And thatnever happened in the civil rights pop The
civil ice eroument was made to drawattention to an issue of discrimination from race
right. And not only that,but the violence was done. The violence
was done on the other side.I mean, I'll never find the images

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when I was a little kid ora young kid of the fire hoses and
the dogs and the billy clubs.I'll never forget that we have the same
images your the same images and thisparticular situation. Here's the images that we
have. We have the propilities,which you have to understand that we have
made thousands of arrests across the countryso far, with many more to come,

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and over eighty percent of the arrestsare not students. They're paid agitators
by those funded shell companies, andso they're being paid big bucks to create
havoc and hill they're doing a prettygood job of it. They actually have
been attacking and going after the lawenforcement officers when they're there to try and

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clear things out. They are escalatingit. They pass out fires and brochard.
We've got copies of it. They'sprofessionally done. How to escalate instead
of de escalating. Yeah, yeah, don't worry about getting locked up or
it takes blood shedding your blood tobring about change things. Just crazy stuff.

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Gary, We you're sitting there chantingdeath to America, death to the
very system. Yeah. I sawone of them in New York City and
he's right. He was asked,what will you do if you get arrested
it. I'll be out within twentyfour hours, no problem. That's an
issue. These tactics are disgusting towatch, and I, you know,

(02:58):
I wonder if your former law enforcement, why does it take permission, Michael,
from a university for a police tocome in in a situation like this,
where where it's a tender box,there's potential violence, they're breaking windows,
and yet they can't go in insome of these places unless the university
says they can. Why is that? Well, it's a very fine line

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here, Jerry, plus differentiate.First of all, just as your home,
universities are claiming it's private property,so I can't go into your home
unless there is probable cost. Inother words, if I see you committing
a crime, if I hear screens, people are being abused, et cetera.
I kick you in the front door, hobby it. But the university's
taking the same position. As longas they're standing there, you can't do

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anything. Well, where law enforcementhas got to realize is they don't stand
there anymore. They are creating habits, they're busting windows, they're destroying property,
they're vandalizing it. Even though thatmay not be the biggest crime in
America, that's still criminal. Andwhen you need to exercise or authority to
interview immediately regards to what the universityhad to say, Well, and these

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we're finding out and in many casesthe population of the of the protests,
of the of the encampments, ifyou will, that are actually students is
relatively small. And you mentioned thesorrows types that are funding these, and
they're ready for the next one,aren't they. Whatever the next issue is
that pops up where they can wherethey can feign outrage, they'll go there

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and uh and cause and cause havoc. This is a professional operation. I
heard that he's paying people. Wastwenty eight hundred dollars paying these people.
We're we're here and some of theorgans are getting ten thousand dollars a day.
Oh to be able to do thisthen, But here's what has to

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happen here if we're going to getto set of control. Not only do
we in law enforcement need to exercisewhat we've been hired in charge to do,
and that is to protect the peopleregardless where the university wants you there,
No, that's irrelevance. And thesecond thing is the people affected,
i e. The parents, thestudents that can't go to class, and

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I mean just clearly against need tomount a massive lawsuit, class action lawsuits
against the university, against your souls. I guess where the funding is coming
from. It's time we play hardballtactics. We just don't normally do that.
You know. One of the greatthings about America we have such a
compassionate party, and I'm all forthat, but when you're under invasion,
when you're under attack, it's timeto put the compassion hard to the side,

(05:32):
to stand up and depend your ground, no doubt. Michael, Thanks
good to have you on. MichaeLett's here on KFAB this morning news.
So they had it seems to havecalmed down a little bit. A lot
of these places have had the policecome in and clean them out, so
it seems to they're just waiting forthe next one. Rosie, Right,

(05:55):
Well, they can't do campuses duringthe summer graduation. Yeah, Now,
if you're if you're a parent who'sbeen paying seventy thousand dollars a year to
go to Colombia and you don't getgraduation or USC, I'd be pretty unhappy
about that, no doubt.