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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. You caned into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Any conservative news channel on the radio, on television, you
read any blog, you read any magazine. You will hear politicians.
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities.
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And we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
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
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.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
They'd be in for And they're getting older 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,
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ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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.
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So we know that George Soros and now his son's
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.
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Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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.
And that has happened. Now you've heard this line from me,
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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, is available now. Zach, let me start
with the question, of all the things you could write about,
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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 seeking bail,
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 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 weaving all these prosecutors together. This was a
national movement that was very well financed, it 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
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communities 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
it is happening right now, and so we wanted to
write about it, to highlight it and the most importantly,
give folks a half way forward if they're confronted with
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one of 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.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As much as we.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Possibly can to Let's start, and I want to devote
the time to do this thoroughly. Let's start with how
this happened. To what extent can we say that the
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
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Soros isn't the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they
are winning the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points in response 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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flows through back channels. It's end 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 attorneys 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 less residential election,
look at how much is spend on senate ubernatorial 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 favorite
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 be dollars. And then quickly to your second point,
you said, these individuals received the supportable voters, they were
elected to office. That's true, But what happened in many
of these jurisdictions when these folks were first running for office,
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these pulltected 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, they quickly
became a parent. What they met by those phrases and
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what you or ire the average person would have understood
those phrases to mean are two different things entirely right.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
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 has
an incredible amount of power to discuss this issue in
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greater detail. I'm going to devote a lot of time
on this Evening's program so so that you're aware, because
this is an issue that is not getting enough attention
and is absolutely destroying America's cities. Heck, you see what's
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 communer.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I I've almost went to law school. Mars the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The
book is Rogue Prosecutors. 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
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state level for gubernatorial.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Elections and how much money is raised.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And the one that gets me is how much money
people will spend on 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.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cities and won some races.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Most people don't know who the district attorney is in
their county.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And I'm particularly.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Speaking of the major counties that the major cities are
a part of. Harris County for Houston, Cook County for Chicago.
You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland.
You know, Monoma, County used to be kind of a
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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
have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
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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 old lady from
the bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going
because her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To give them some money for their birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
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. There's no doubt. You know, there's
four witnesses at the 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
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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 more criminals, it's that our
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
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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 going to have plenty
of time to get into this. But when you look
at the Soros 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 (11:33):
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 recognize it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original marksist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished a
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 recognize how much power the district attorney has, and
there 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 do doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter
what kind of laws you have on the book. If
you have mandatory minimums, leafy 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 recognized how
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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
act the preferred policies, policies that frankly they like, they
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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 prosecute
that they backed with Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook
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County 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 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
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not have 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 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 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 election cycle. Step forward, and we had the
son of a woman who she was run over and
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then they backed back up over her to steal her
purse 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 they're released
from prison before she's home from a casket or planning
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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 and that these things aren't happening accidentally,
that this is a strategy, a very ill intentioned strategy,
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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 (16:12):
I will die for the country. I will die or
disc to Michael Berry Joe, he's the big honor to
be living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
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 world has gone to hell.
You just can't understand. 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. And when I heard that,
I thought, you know, that's how I feel about some
of the crazy news stories of how on earth can
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this actually happen? How do you reach such a point
of depravity? I really have to wonder.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to you
from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
It's all the damn money, income, money, in the drugs.
It's just damn Yanda, thank you?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
What it mean?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
What's it leading to?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I don't know. 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
it's flat out with the bleach signs and wonders that
I think, once you quit here in sir and ma'am,
it's just them to follow.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, it's the pad. It's the digital pad. It is
not the one the one.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Thing signs, signs and Wonders.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's the digital bors.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago, and it's Sudly.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs after.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
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 one year.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Old man who was driving.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Neighbors tell us the man lived in a nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't even think they'd taking drivers ere, so how
are you stealing a car?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
He's very unfortunate, said said. The teens were all arrested
at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
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 (18:55):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Latarian.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Milton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Latarian was seven years old when he stole his grandma's car.
When asked why he did it, he said that he
wanted to do hoodrat stuff with his friends. He wanted
to do hoodrat stuff with his friends. That went viral
in two thousand and nine, but you've already forgotten it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He was seven years old.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
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. This is a seven year old kid,
a first grader. Credit WPF News.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
In West Palm 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 (19:54):
I came to the back door. I looked on the counter.
My keys were going. I took my Guma car because
they got mad at my and then I show him.
Have my friend come in, and he smoked with cigarettes.
He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I
yanked the I yanked, I yanked the thing, and off
they went. Two seven year olds alone on the road.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
We got the one called that he told you about
of a driver in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
He looked too short to be able to see the stereeo.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
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 1 (20:26):
I want to do it because it's fun, funny do
bad things. Drives into a car, so did you know
that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, but I wanted
to do hoosh stuff for my friend.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
It all ended on investment Lane and consumer drives. That's
where latarian hit the curve inside swipe the sign. The
SUV took most of the beating, snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
A grandmother's rage. I want to whip his behind. That's
what I want to do right now.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip his behind right now.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You don't think he should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's a little bit, no video games for a whole weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And one unusual story for PILLI are you sorry?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You understand that now your grandma's going to have to
pay to have those cars sticks because you hit those cars.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Call my mom, Mom, I don't know, can you mom
help her?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You moved on as we all did, but Latarian didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
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.
WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
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 3 (21:45):
I'll get the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
School on high school because he had to fly football
team some good successful.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach couardroom Monday
to face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and
Carjackie balbe Founty here of staff and he's say a
lift driver picked up four young males and a female
early Sunday morning and drove them to Windor Away in
West Palm Beach. That's where the female exited the vehicle.
Investigator say the suspects told the driver to take them
to another location. When the driver refused, authorities say one
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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 Walladen jacket. He later told deputies 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. Deputies arrested Milton
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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 (22:43):
I want to do it cause it's fun funny do
bad things help the drives.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Into a car. So did you know that you could
perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, I wanted to do hoosh stuff with my friend,
but I thought they wouldn't take me to jail. I'd
whip this behind right now.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Back in court, the judge ordered Milton to remain at
a juvenile facility into his next.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Day, Miltarian 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 clip 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 6 (23:16):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman delz into this
the issues.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And I think it's more important to make headway 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 3 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
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 them. And the driver said, yeah,
they little yummies. I said who He said, little yummies?
Look up Google little yummy. Little Yummy was eleven year
old murderer.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And you look at his picture, you'll see his head
shot up and he's like this got murdered at eleven
by a fourteen year old Wow, who's doing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Life now and a sixteen year old? That makes no sense.
You blame the system. Where was his father?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well, well when my father got locked up?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Or where was his father?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example. And they didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
They can blame the system if we want, but they
didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah, 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 why all the more reason
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not to help.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You take car of your own. Think about it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The issue of DEEI keeps coming up, diversity, equity and inclusion,
and it is an issue fraught with hurt feelings and
a lack of honesty and the lack of honesty is
for a simple reason, because of the hurt feelings. See,
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the truth is painful to some people. If you were
let's say you're a fan of the NFL. For about
a twenty year span there the most dominant team by
far was a New England Patriots, but the fans of
all the other teams wanted their team to win, so
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they would argue, my team's better than your team. But no, actually,
your team doesn't win the super Bowl and the Patriots due.
It's just that simple. 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 (26:02):
And we can make excuses.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
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. In fact, we
can make your team the super Bowl champion. 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.
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So what people learn when they want to get their way,
as children do, is they learn what behaviors will allow
them to get their way. You see a child manipulate
a parent, and every parent you know you've been there.
A kid who has a booboo, Mama kisses to booboo,
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who put a band aid on it, and for a
little while there, he doesn't have to his homework, almost fussin,
or she's using that sweet mama tone.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh it's so nice. He can eat what he wants.
He's not required to do anything, and maybe we can
even have some ice cream. Oh, it's good.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
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 understand words.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And obviously they can't speak back to us. But say dogs,
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. Dog,
when I say a word or a sound huh, and
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you go down flat and I give you a milk
bone and you love a milk bone. Then when I
go humph, you go down, you get the bone. And
next time I go umph, you're going down. You'll get
the bone.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Umph it is not really a word. But if instead
of umph, I did sit, then you may oh.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
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 for the
dog by people want you to react a certain way
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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 (28:58):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Creates real problems.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
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. I'm not going to respond to
it because it reflects more about you than it does me.
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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,
you're short, you're fat, or you're skinny, you're stupid, Okay,
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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
have Dei in the NBA. You don't have to have
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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
they put people into positions that they can't handle them.
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And you've got engine callings falling apart in midflight, wheels
falling off at takeoff, cockpit window glass cracking, engine failure.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You've got real, real problems.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And the airlines, not just the manufacturers, are having their
share of problems. A female pilot showed up to work
in street clothes and she tells the passengers.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That she's going through a divorce.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Now this says to me, this personal is a person
is emotionally unstable. And I'll bet you that would have
been 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,
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fewer than twenty terrorists managed to hijack a few planes,
and it was the worst terror attack on American soil.
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 (32:26):
Listen to this. Hey, if you don't feel safe, get
off the airplane. This is your captain speaking.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But never like this.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I'll stop and.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I will fly the airplane.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Don't worry.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I'm going to let my co pilots fly it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
He's a man.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, it's a total meltdown.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
The pilot boarded in her stream clothes and addressed the
passengers over the intercom. Passenger Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what
was happening.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
She said, let's take a vote.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
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 a minute. She mentioned that a
gentleman stood up and just yelled, blow enough, you're scaring me.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave
a running commentary on social media.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Pilot also insulted a couple on board. Did I offend you? Okay?
So did I purposely offend you?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I did?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The answers yes, but pleased this on doors.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
After twenty passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines flight,
The pilot quietly left the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, if you don't feel faked, get off the airplane.
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. You caned into.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Any conservative news channel on the radio, on television, you
read any blog, you read any magazine. You will hear politicians.
You will hear this set again and again and again,
the Sorows district attorneys, the Sorows prosecutors. We know that
crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities.
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And we know that there are these sort of predator, prowler,
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
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.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
They'd be in for And they're getting older 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,
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ten years in prison, he's committing crimes, and he's committing
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.
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So we know that George Soros and now his son's
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.
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Go in and get the district attorney, own the district
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.
And that has happened. Now you've heard this line from me,
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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, is available now. Zach, let me start
with the question, of all the things you could write about,
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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 seeking bail,
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 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 weaving all these prosecutors together. This was a
national movement that was very well financed, it 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
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communities 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
it is happening right now, and so we wanted to
write about it, to highlight it and the most importantly,
give folks a half way forward if they're confronted with
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one of 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.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As much as we.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Possibly can to Let's start, and I want to devote
the time to do this thoroughly. Let's start with how
this happened. To what extent can we say that the
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
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Soros isn't the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they
are winning the support of their voters.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
How do you respond to his outsized influence.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I'll make a couple of points in response 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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flows through back channels. It's end 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 attorneys 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 less residential election,
look at how much is spend on senate ubernatorial 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 favorite
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 be dollars. And then quickly to your second point,
you said, these individuals received the supportable voters, they were
elected to office. That's true, But what happened in many
of these jurisdictions when these folks were first running for office,
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these pulltected 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, they quickly
became a parent. What they met by those phrases and
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what you or ire the average person would have understood
those phrases to mean are two different things entirely right.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
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 has
an incredible amount of power to discuss this issue in
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greater detail. I'm going to devote a lot of time
on this Evening's program so so that you're aware, because
this is an issue that is not getting enough attention
and is absolutely destroying America's cities. Heck, you see what's
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 communer.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I I've almost went to law school. Mars the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The
book is Rogue Prosecutors. 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
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state level for gubernatorial.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Elections and how much money is raised.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And the one that gets me is how much money
people will spend on 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.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Cities and won some races.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Most people don't know who the district attorney is in
their county.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And I'm particularly.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Speaking of the major counties that the major cities are
a part of. Harris County for Houston, Cook County for Chicago.
You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, LA, Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland.
You know, Monoma, County used to be kind of a
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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
have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes,
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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 old lady from
the bank where she makes a withdrawal because she's going
because her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To give them some money for their birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
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. There's no doubt. You know, there's
four witnesses at the 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
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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 more criminals, it's that our
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
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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 going to have plenty
of time to get into this. But when you look
at the Soros 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 (11:33):
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 recognize it for the
radical policy that it was. But what that original marksist
prison abolition movement pushed. Much of that's been accomplished a
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 recognize how much power the district attorney has, and
there 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 do doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter
what kind of laws you have on the book. If
you have mandatory minimums, leafy 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 recognized how
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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
act the preferred policies, policies that frankly they like, they
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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 prosecute
that they backed with Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook
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County 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 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
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not have 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 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 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 election cycle. Step forward, and we had the
son of a woman who she was run over and
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then they backed back up over her to steal her
purse 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 they're released
from prison before she's home from a casket or planning
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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 and that these things aren't happening accidentally,
that this is a strategy, a very ill intentioned strategy,
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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 (16:12):
I will die for the country. I will die or
disc to Michael Berry Joe, he's the big honor to
be living in the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
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 world has gone to hell.
You just can't understand. 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. And when I heard that,
I thought, you know, that's how I feel about some
of the crazy news stories of how on earth can
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this actually happen? How do you reach such a point
of depravity? I really have to wonder.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to you
from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
It's all the damn money, income, money, in the drugs.
It's just damn Yanda, thank you?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
What it mean?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
What's it leading to?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I don't know. 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
it's flat out with the bleach signs and wonders that
I think, once you quit here in sir and ma'am,
it's just them to follow.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, it's the pad. It's the digital pad. It is
not the one the one.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Thing signs, signs and Wonders.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's the digital bors.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So credit for this story comes from Fox thirty two
in Chicago, and it's Sudly.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
We began with a tragic story in the Southwest Suburbs after.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
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 one year.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Old man who was driving.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Neighbors tell us the man lived in a nearby apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't even think they'd taking drivers ere, so how
are you stealing a car?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
He's very unfortunate, said said. The teens were all arrested
at the scene.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
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 (18:55):
Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things,
let me remind you of Latarian.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Milton.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Latarian was seven years old when he stole his grandma's car.
When asked why he did it, he said that he
wanted to do hoodrat stuff with his friends. He wanted
to do hoodrat stuff with his friends. That went viral
in two thousand and nine, but you've already forgotten it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He was seven years old.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
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. This is a seven year old kid,
a first grader. Credit WPF News.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
In West Palm 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 (19:54):
I came to the back door. I looked on the counter.
My keys were going. I took my Guma car because
they got mad at my and then I show him.
Have my friend come in, and he smoked with cigarettes.
He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I
yanked the I yanked, I yanked the thing, and off
they went. Two seven year olds alone on the road.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park and Palm Beach Gardens.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
We got the one called that he told you about
of a driver in the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
He looked too short to be able to see the stereeo.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
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 1 (20:26):
I want to do it because it's fun, funny do
bad things. Drives into a car, so did you know
that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, but I wanted
to do hoosh stuff for my friend.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
It all ended on investment Lane and consumer drives. That's
where latarian hit the curve inside swipe the sign. The
SUV took most of the beating, snapping off one of
his axles and wheels.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
A grandmother's rage. I want to whip his behind. That's
what I want to do right now.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
whip his behind right now.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You don't think he should be punished for all of this.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's a little bit, no video games for a whole weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And one unusual story for PILLI are you sorry?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You understand that now your grandma's going to have to
pay to have those cars sticks because you hit those cars.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Call my mom, Mom, I don't know, can you mom
help her?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You moved on as we all did, but Latarian didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
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.
WPBF twenty five news.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
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 3 (21:45):
I'll get the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
School on high school because he had to fly football
team some good successful.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach couardroom Monday
to face charge of stemming from an arm robbery and
Carjackie balbe Founty here of staff and he's say a
lift driver picked up four young males and a female
early Sunday morning and drove them to Windor Away in
West Palm Beach. That's where the female exited the vehicle.
Investigator say the suspects told the driver to take them
to another location. When the driver refused, authorities say one
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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 Walladen jacket. He later told deputies 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. Deputies arrested Milton
(22:34):
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 (22:43):
I want to do it cause it's fun funny do
bad things help the drives.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Into a car. So did you know that you could
perhaps kill somebody?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, I wanted to do hoosh stuff with my friend,
but I thought they wouldn't take me to jail. I'd
whip this behind right now.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Back in court, the judge ordered Milton to remain at
a juvenile facility into his next.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Day, Miltarian 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 clip 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 6 (23:16):
You know, incarceration race in America has been a problem,
especially as opposed to minorities, and Roman delz into this
the issues.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And I think it's more important to make headway 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 3 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
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 them. And the driver said, yeah,
they little yummies. I said who He said, little yummies?
Look up Google little yummy. Little Yummy was eleven year
old murderer.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And you look at his picture, you'll see his head
shot up and he's like this got murdered at eleven
by a fourteen year old Wow, who's doing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Life now and a sixteen year old? That makes no sense.
You blame the system. Where was his father?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yeah, well, well when my father got locked up?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Or where was his father?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
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.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example. And they didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
They can blame the system if we want, but they
didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah, 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 why all the more reason
(24:56):
not to help.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You take car of your own. Think about it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The issue of DEEI keeps coming up, diversity, equity and inclusion,
and it is an issue fraught with hurt feelings and
a lack of honesty and the lack of honesty is
for a simple reason, because of the hurt feelings. See,
(25:25):
the truth is painful to some people. If you were
let's say you're a fan of the NFL. For about
a twenty year span there the most dominant team by
far was a New England Patriots, but the fans of
all the other teams wanted their team to win, so
(25:46):
they would argue, my team's better than your team. But no, actually,
your team doesn't win the super Bowl and the Patriots due.
It's just that simple. 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 (26:02):
And we can make excuses.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
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. In fact, we
can make your team the super Bowl champion. 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.
(26:29):
So what people learn when they want to get their way,
as children do, is they learn what behaviors will allow
them to get their way. You see a child manipulate
a parent, and every parent you know you've been there.
A kid who has a booboo, Mama kisses to booboo,
(26:54):
who put a band aid on it, and for a
little while there, he doesn't have to his homework, almost fussin,
or she's using that sweet mama tone.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh it's so nice. He can eat what he wants.
He's not required to do anything, and maybe we can
even have some ice cream. Oh, it's good.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
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 understand words.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And obviously they can't speak back to us. But say dogs,
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. Dog,
when I say a word or a sound huh, and
(27:56):
you go down flat and I give you a milk
bone and you love a milk bone. Then when I
go humph, you go down, you get the bone. And
next time I go umph, you're going down. You'll get
the bone.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Umph it is not really a word. But if instead
of umph, I did sit, then you may oh.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
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 for the
dog by people want you to react a certain way
(28:40):
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 (28:58):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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.
(29:23):
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.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Creates real problems.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
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. I'm not going to respond to
it because it reflects more about you than it does me.
(30:07):
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,
you're short, you're fat, or you're skinny, you're stupid, Okay,
(30:31):
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
have Dei in the NBA. You don't have to have
(30:52):
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
they put people into positions that they can't handle them.
(31:12):
And you've got engine callings falling apart in midflight, wheels
falling off at takeoff, cockpit window glass cracking, engine failure.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
You've got real, real problems.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And the airlines, not just the manufacturers, are having their
share of problems. A female pilot showed up to work
in street clothes and she tells the passengers.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That she's going through a divorce.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Now this says to me, this personal is a person
is emotionally unstable. And I'll bet you that would have
been 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,
(32:04):
fewer than twenty terrorists managed to hijack a few planes,
and it was the worst terror attack on American soil.
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 (32:26):
Listen to this. Hey, if you don't feel safe, get
off the airplane. This is your captain speaking.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But never like this.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I'll stop and.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I will fly the airplane.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Don't worry.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
I'm going to let my co pilots fly it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
He's a man.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, it's a total meltdown.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
The pilot boarded in her stream clothes and addressed the
passengers over the intercom. Passenger Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what
was happening.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
She said, let's take a vote.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
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 a minute. She mentioned that a
gentleman stood up and just yelled, blow enough, you're scaring me.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave
a running commentary on social media.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Pilot also insulted a couple on board. Did I offend you? Okay?
So did I purposely offend you?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I did?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The answers yes, but pleased this on doors.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
After twenty passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines flight,
The pilot quietly left the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, if you don't feel faked, get off the airplane.
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