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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Very Show is on the air, officially turned around.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guys, we are back, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We are back.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We are back, plastic, We are back.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
That look.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't care if you went to college or not.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
People tell me they're not educated, and I look down
at their signature line on their email and they own
a production plant where they own a refinishing shop or
a roofing company or a rehab shop, and I say,
you're not educated. Tell me what your process is from
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when someone hires you to perform, when they tell you,
we bring the product in and we weld on it,
and we drill holes in it. We do this, and
we do this and we do this. Well, I can't
do that. Am I more educated than you? We all
have different skill sets. The Academy was not set up, unfortunately,
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originally to teach the skills of plumbing and electrical and
drilling and lifting and hoisting and programming and all those
sorts of things. It was set up for a small
subset of society who were mostly lawyers and legislators, governors,
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people who would govern, and the medical profession, and that
developed and eventually that thing like a multi headed monster grew.
It's such a massive industry in this kind most people
don't even think about it as such. They've bought into
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the bull of all of it. But I say all
that to say this. The best emails I get, and
I've set it for years, and I'll say it again,
are from truck drivers. Almost none of them went to college.
And the reason is simple, because they spend time thinking.
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They spend time thinking and engaging, then out on the
phone all day. They can't be kill somebody. They listen
to ideas and they think them through. They structure their arguments.
Think I'm paying or anything, I'm crazy. I'm dead serious.
I read my emails.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You can go to YouTube or whatever site you want
and look up Milton Friedman like fried Man, and you
will learn more about economics than almost anybody you know.
You will be surprised how much you will learn. And
when you're done, go to talk. I'm a Soul who
was his acolyte the University of Chicago. Although Soul didn't
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come around until he went to work for the government.
This young man, this young black man, in an academic environment,
was not brought.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Into the Chicago school of economic thought, market.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Freedom while freedoman student, but he went to work for
the US government, did Thomas soul and while he was
there researching the issue of the minimum wage. His research,
the statistical data showed him, with no doubt in his
mind that raising the minimum wage actually hurt the worker.
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I know, counterintuitive, but it was true. So he told
his bosses in the federal government at the Department of Labor,
and they said, put that away. Don't say that. Our
job politically is to push for minimum wage and we
need research the shows that's better for the worker. And
he said, I did the research. The research shows it
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hurts the worker. And his boss told him, we're not
worried about the worker, We're worried about the political issue.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that was his AHA moment. As in Take On Me.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Milton Friedman once said, keep your eyes on government spending
because that is the real tax burden.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
This is what people miss out on.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Keep your eye on one thing, and one thing only,
how much government is spending, because that's the true tax.
Every budget is balanced. There is no such thing as
an unbalanced federal budget. You're paying for it if you're
not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes.
You're paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation
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or in the form of borrowing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's the important thing to remember.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
You're gonna hear a lot of talk about tax cuts
because taxes are viewed by people who don't understand economics.
Taxes are viewed as a way to punish people to
an extent. That is the effect they have. Taxes are
a burden. But Democrats will tell you we've got to
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tax the rich. So if they can make you do
two things. Number one, hate the rich, and number two,
believe that they are working to harm the rich. That
is the central part of their platform. Rich people are
evil and we're out to get them. Don't you hate
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the rich people? Little do they tell you. The truly
rich in this country are far more likely to be
Democrats than Republicans because the truly rich don't work for
a lim they have wealth. They don't pay taxes anyway,
It doesn't scare them. They don't make their money, well,
they already have money, but they don't make their money
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off of wages. In this country, we tax wages. It's
a much lower tax on capital gains. All that wealth
you have put it to work, which We do want
you to put it to work, because that's what underpins
the stock market and investment into whatever business you're trying
to found. We want you to put it to work,
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and when you do, in exchange, we'll only tax it
at fifteen percent, whereas your wages, hell, that goes up
to almost forty percent. We tax the wages, not the
capital gains. Wealth people don't Wealthy people don't make wages.
Warren Buffett doesn't have a big salary. He loves to
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talk about the fact that his secretary pays a higher
percentage in taxes than he does. That's because she makes
wages and you make wealth. Give her some of yours.
It's not only waste and fraud that cost us money.
Out of control regulations and red tape that costs us money.
This is Bill Maher explaining how much it costs to
build one public toilet in San Francisco, E.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Francisco, which is unfortunately the poop capital of the world.
I wanted to build a single, a single public outdoor toilet.
The bid came in at one point seven million dollars
for a toilet and it would take three years to build.
Then a company came along and said, you know what,
We're going to donate it and pay for the installation.
So donation of the thing itself and installation, oh various,
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saved one point seven million dollars. This is what the
problem I have with government. The cost said the exam
Francis are chronicle. Isn't the project, it's project management.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
In other words, it would still cost one point two
million even though the thing itself and the installation was
free by construction management, engineering fees permits, civic design review surveys,
contract preparation cost estimate.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
This is the Yeah. Actually that sucks all the money out.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Of there's another step to that, when you look at
who the people are that are chosen for those jobs.
Talking about federal government waste, I've seen it at local government.
I've seen it Harris County, City of Houston's terrible. Harris
County is even worse. State of Texas has plenty of
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waste as well. You wouldn't think it because we got
Republicans in charge. There is so much waste you wouldn't
believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Wouldn't believe it. Here is Elon.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Musk talking about the waste just at the federal government.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
The amount of waste that happens with the federal Commany
is really staggering. It's a staggering amount of waste attached
payer money by any given expensure. We have to say, well,
what does this do for the citizens of America? Like
how is this good for the people of America?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's it's their money?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Like for some weird reason, you know, a lot of
people in the sort of you know, state or whatever,
the politicians, they seem to forget that the money being
spent is your money. And if it's not spending being
spent in a way that is beneficial to the American people,
it's a misuse of the funds. I mean, there's there's
a lot of money that's being spent where where sort
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of illegals are getting more benefits than citizens.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like what the heck is that? That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I was talking about and I often do, the fact
that you don't necessarily need college. Now you have to
have college to become a lawyer. You have to have
college to become a doctor or an architect or a pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
But for many people college is un necess sire.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I have had people tell me things like, oh, you
say that, and you went on to get two law degrees.
It's easy for you to say I could do exactly
what I'm doing without all those degrees, and I wouldn't
have had to earn all those scholarships and take out
loans to pay for my wife's law school well enough
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to do all that could have started to work immediately.
Most people in radio never go to college. College wasn't
for Rush, college wasn't for Hannity. I don't did Beck
go to college. There's a lot of people succeed in
radio that start in radio in the same way that
number of people that start in trades, a number of entrepreneurs.
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You look at these people that Elon is bringing in,
you don't it's laughable to think learning programming and AI
at the university level when you're big Balls or one
of these guys that Elon has brought in to help
him find the fraud in the government. These guys are
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geniuses that what they're teaching in the university is so
far behind what these young people knew.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, it's crazy. I mean it's amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It'd be like, you know, when I was a kid,
if we could program the VCR, then the family was
happy because they didn't know how to do it. The
universities are so far behind training computer programmers on what
these kids are already doing at home. These gamer kids,
they think on a different level, a whole new dimension.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Why go to universe? Oh, because you have to have
that degree?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Why because people our agent above still think that degree
is so important. I've known people worth hundreds of millions
of dollars who were embarrassed if they don't have a
cauge degree. Why what do you care what other people
think about you? College is not for everybody unless your
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field requires a college degree. We need to stop sending
everybody to college. You can make good money starting right out.
Learn something, go to work, work hard, be in a
position where you're learning things, developing skills, developing relationships, developing contacts,
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and be working toward the moment that you control the
capitol and you own the company, which won't be overnight anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Elon, I love what he had to say about this.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
First, Well, you don't need learn stuff, Okay, Everything is
available basically for free. You can learn anything you want
for free. It is not a question of learning. There
is a value that colleges have, which is like you're
seeing whether somebody can somebody work hard at something, including
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a bunch of sort of annoying homework assignments, and still
do their homework assignments and cut soldier through and get
it done. You know, that's that's like the main value
of college. And then it also you know, if you
probably want to hang around under a bunch of people,
you are our age for a while instead of going
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right into the workforce. So I think colleges are basically
for fun and to prove you can do your chores,
but they're not for learning.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
In case you're wondering.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Elon holds a dual degree in economics and physics. He
also briefly enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford University.
It was there that he realized, I want to apply
what I'm doing. I'm not an academic. I want to
apply what I learned. I want to change the world,
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and that doesn't happen at a university. I'm not against
a university for anybody who thinks I I enjoyed going
to college. I enjoyed going to law school. I went
to college at the University of Houston, went to law
school at the University of Texas, and I got another
law degree in Nottingham, England, and I loved that time
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and I still love to learn. I had great teachers,
starting with my mother, who was a voracious reader, never
went to college. Oh the places will go, That's what's
on her tombstone, Oh the places. Because she loved Doctor Seuss.
She read Doctor Seuss to all the kids in our
family and the grandkids, and the idea that with a
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book you can travel anywhere, you can see anything. I
remember the Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe, and I
remember transporting myself far away places.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I remember the.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Thrilling idea, your mind is so powerful now the place
that you transport yourself to when you read about You know,
my wife, who's also a big reader, grew up reading
about reading the tales of Wilber Smith and the Great
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Englishman exploring into Africa, into the bush. And you know
her point was the Africa I imagine was not the
Africa we ended up going to see. But I learned
to use my brain to take me places. If you
could learn to read. And now you have so many
more resources. For all the complaining we make about technology,
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you can go to YouTube now and learn to do anything.
You can transport yourself. Anywhere you want to learn to
wire things, or build things, or make things, or paint
things or repair things, You've got it all right there
on YouTube. People are learning skills on YouTube that they
then take to start businesses. How many stay at home
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moms are starting a business where you can put the
letters out in front of the house and say it's
your kid's sixteenth birthday, or how to decorate balloons or
make mums.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Or whatever else. It's a glorious time, folks. The Michael
Varies Show continues to use to use my mother and block.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Remember being in Ronnie Anderson's class, who was a legendary
baseball class coach at Western Star High School, when the
news came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
People of that generation that marked a moment. And I
don't know that people older or younger, I don't know
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that any generation has a moment that they mark more.
For me, it's the Challenger explosion. It's also later nine
to eleven. But I don't know that anybody has a
moment like that the way that generation talks about that moment.
And I think we've all over the years had our
doubts whether we were being told the truth, and it's
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increasingly clear that this is the age. This is springtime
in America. We're going to reveal the secrets and put
them to rest. There's going to be truth and honesty
and healing. Congressman Anna Paulina Luna has been tasked with
leading the charge of investigating federal secrets that have been
kept from the American people. It's our government, we pay
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for it. We deserve to know the truth, no stone unturned.
And the first project she has dove into is the
JFK assassination.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
And wow, our first investigation will be announced, but it's
going to be covering on a thorough investigation into the
John F.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
And I can tell you, based on what I've been
seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held
here in Congress was actually faulty in the single bullet theory.
I believe that there were two shooters and we should
be finding more information as we are able to gain
access into the skiff, hopefully before the file are actually
released to the public. As of right now, there's people
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that have been publicly out there, for example, on the
JFK stuff, that were actually present in the room at
the operating at the operating room where he.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Was actually brought to right after the shooting. So we
hope to bring.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Those people in to testify, and again, these hearings will
be open to the public. I'm also expanding this to
the entire conference. So if someone's going to take this
seriously and look at it through an investigative lend and
get answers to the American people, they are welcome to
ask questions of the witnesses, and you guys will all
receive notice of that.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So what did doctor red Duke, a young Doctor red
Duke and the other doctors actually see at Parkland when
they pulled the sheet off Kennedy's head.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Within minutes of seeing President Kennedy, doctors at Parkland concluded
that the neck wound was an entrance wound and the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Head wound with exit wound.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
The fatal wound came from the front. I think and
other people believe that too. We thought that there was
an entrance wound in the neck and an exit wound
in the back of the head.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Parkland Hospital doctors were puted as saying they thought at
least one bullet entered mister Kennedy's neck from the front.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Parkland doctors were a serious problem for the US government
because they had provided evidence that there was a shooter
somewhere in the front and that ran totally contrary to
the official narrative of a lone shooter from above and behind.
A lot of people just decided to keep their mouth shut,
including the Parkland doctors.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
What actually happened in travel Ver one never came out,
never became public.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I was there, I know what I saw.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
I was there, I remember it in detail, It's etched
in my memory forever.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
In all probability, there was a conspiracy. There was more
than Ludel shooter.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
The Parkland doctors told the truth. These doc everybody's trustworthy.
As you can get well. People feel that they have
a better understanding of what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Ron Paul, so far ahead of his time, spent most
of his life calling things out, and people thought he
was crazy, and time proves him right. He was a
guest on the lease of Booth Podcasts and he said
he believed there was a coup of.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Our government the day JFK was shot.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I believe there has been a coup, a coup of
the American system, the American Republic, the constitution, and a
group came in and they took it over and they're
in charge. So you don't go to war with decoration.
You go to war when a president writes an executive order.
And I date the real, real number one day I
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came up with. I had a lot of incidents that
have occurred, but the day that I come up with
is when it became very obviously there has been a
coup of our government and our system, and that was
November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, and I remember that clearly.
And that of course was when Kennedy was shot by
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the CIA, and then Robert Kennedy was shot and Martin
Luther King was shot, and then a hundred other people
that were related were shot. And the odds are most
Americans now believe that it was probably we ourselves that
did it to us. The Russians didn't come and do
it to us. So I think that's what it happened,
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and that exists. But that's just trying to understand it.
But when you look at what they did, that the
bad stuff they did under COVID, you know that atmosphere
is there, so it's an attitude, the prevailing attitude. It's
the Soroses of the world, but taking over our university,
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taking over medicine. So they have been winning these battles.
But once again the only thing that we have left
is trying to use the freedoms that we have to
persuade other people to change their minds. And of course
that's where I see bits and pieces of hope.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
It is a burden to be Ron Paul. When Ron
Paul passes, as we all will, he will finally put
down his burden.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It is a burden to be that man.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
You are better off being a guy who doesn't have wisdom,
who doesn't see what no one else sees. I mean,
you think about how passionately Ron Paul as in the
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wilderness been calling out things that people will called him
crazy over monetary policy when nobody thought about it, distrust
of the government. I remember during one of the presidential debates,
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maybe it was eight, maybe it was twelve, and they said, well,
it sounds like you you want to do away with
the FBI, and he said exactly, And there was sort
of a hiss in the crowd, and some anchor who
couldn't spell FBI kind of chuckled, like you're crazy, fool, Well,
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who was right? Who was right? You think about what
a burden it's had to be for Ron Paul his
entire life to.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Know the system is.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
He's seen it and people called him crazy for it
one that time is his friend?
Speaker 11 (24:05):
Here is E and O wear that four foot ditch
to Michael Very show the evil can eevil stunt cycle
rum ideals.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Speaking of Paul, run Paul and the burden of being
run Paul, having a vision of what's happening, having clarity
when no one else does. This was Ron Paul at
a primary debate talking about abolishing federal agencies.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
People didn't talk this way back then.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Now we all agree, yeah, tear him down, But at
the time, at the time, he wasn't all alone.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But this certainly wasn't the prevailing wisdom.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
The irs, the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of
Homeland Security, medicare.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I know that you used to want to end the FBI.
I'm not sure whether you still support that idea, sir.
Perhaps you can tell us.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
But if you'll get rid of the CIA, let alone
the FBI, how would President Pall have any idea, any
intelligence of what our enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Are up to Well, you might ask the better question.
Before nine to eleven, we were spending forty billion dollars
a year and the FBI was producing numerous information about
people being trained on airplanes to fly them but not
land them, and they totally ignored them. So it's the
inefficiency of the bureaucracy that is the problem. So increasing
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this with the Department of Home Land Security is spending
more money, does espall us all a problem?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yes, we have every right in the world to.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
Know something about intelligence gathering, but we have to have
intelligent people interpreting this information. But you know, just going
for increasing presidential powers has been discussed.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Is rather disturbing to me.
Speaker 11 (25:53):
This whole idea that we're supposed to sacrifice liberty for security.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We're advised against that. Don't remember that when.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
You sacrifice liberty for security, you lose both.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's what's happening in this country today.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
We have a national ID card on our doorsteps.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's being implemented right now.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
We have fic at courts, we have warrantless searches, we've
lost habeas corpus, we've had secret prisons around the world,
and we have torture going on that's un American, and
we knew you used the power of the presency to
get it back in order in order to take care
of us and protect this country and our liberty.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Than you.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Think about Ron Paul, he's an obstetrician. I don't know
if he's obguy in or just assume obg I in.
So he's living in Lake Jackson, Texas. He's delivering babies,
very successful, raising a family. Runs for Congress that had
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to be disruptive for his practice. Runs for Congress, serves
from seventy six to seventy seven. He's off a term,
runs again, serves for six more years. Then he runs
for president in eighty eight as a Libertarian. Then he
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goes back ninety seven to thirteen, serves in Congress again,
runs for president in two thousand and eight, and runs
for president in twenty twelve. No, he didn't win Remo,
and that's just it, isn't it. That's just it. He
knew he wasn't gonna win. He had to find a
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platform to get ideas out. He had to get ideas out,
and he did. You know, perseverance is something I have
learned about successful people. Russell Leabar loves to tell the
story of handing the keys back to the truck. He
couldn't afore because he went bankrupt early. You find a
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successful person politics, you name it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
They get knocked down and they get back up. That's
just what happens.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Back to the irregularities on the day JFK was killed.
In the movie, and granted it's Oliver Stone movie, I
got it. But Jim Garrison played by Kevin Costner, meets
with a mysterious mister x Donald Sutherland. We're back to
the investigation and now the belief that there were two shooters,
and he goes over the security lapses that day, the
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day that JFK was shot.
Speaker 14 (28:42):
After I came back, I asked myself, why was I
a chief of Specialize, selected to travel to the South
Pool at that time to do a job. But any
number of about this could have been, And I wondered
if it could have been, because one of my routine duties,
if I had been in Washington, would have been to
arrange for additional security in Texas. So I decided to
check it out, and sure enough, I found out that
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someone had told them one hundred and twelve's Military Intelligence
Group and Fourth Army Headquarters at Fort sam Houston to
stand down that day over the protests of the unit commander,
Colonel Right. I believe it's this is significant because it
is standard operating procedure, especially in a known hostile city,
and downas to some them into secret service. But even
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if we had not allowed the bubbletop to be removed
from the limbausine, we would have placed at least one
hundred to two hundred agents on the sidewalk without questioning
when only a month of the cod out you, an
ambassador and by Stevenson stood on the hip, had already
been several attempts into Gaul's life in France. We would
have arrived days ahead of.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Time, studied the route, We checked all the buildings.
Speaker 14 (29:43):
We never would have allowed all those wide open empty
windows overlooking dealing. Never we'd have had our own snipers
covered in the area. The never window went up, they'd
have been on the radio. We'd have been watching the crowd,
packages rolled up, news dator quote or whatever.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
You never would have let a man open the lumbrella
along the way. You never would have allowed that limousine
to slow down of ten much less take that unusual
curve of hosted. At all, you would have felt an
army presence.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
In the streets that day.
Speaker 14 (30:07):
None of this happened. It was a violation of the
most basic protection codes we have and it is the
best indication of a mess.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Of blocking Dallas.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
Who could have best done this, black ops, mister Garrison.
People in my business, people like my superior opposite, could
have called Colonel Ryk and said, look, we have another
unit coming from so and so providing security. You'll stand down.
I mean that day, In fact, there were some individual
army intelligent people in Dallas. I'm still trying to figure
out who would why, But they weren't protecting clients. And
of course Osbory Army Intel had a Harvey Lee Oswold
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on the file and all those houses were destroyed. Many
strange things were happening in your Lee, Harvey Oswold had
nothing to do with them.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Els for thank you, and good night,
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Very Show is on the air, officially turned around.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Guys, we are back, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We are back.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We are back, plastic, We are back.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
That look.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't care if you went to college or not.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
People tell me they're not educated, and I look down
at their signature line on their email and they own
a production plant where they own a refinishing shop or
a roofing company or a rehab shop, and I say,
you're not educated. Tell me what your process is from
(00:57):
when someone hires you to perform, when they tell you,
we bring the product in and we weld on it,
and we drill holes in it. We do this, and
we do this and we do this. Well, I can't
do that. Am I more educated than you? We all
have different skill sets. The Academy was not set up, unfortunately,
(01:21):
originally to teach the skills of plumbing and electrical and
drilling and lifting and hoisting and programming and all those
sorts of things. It was set up for a small
subset of society who were mostly lawyers and legislators, governors,
(01:43):
people who would govern, and the medical profession, and that
developed and eventually that thing like a multi headed monster grew.
It's such a massive industry in this kind most people
don't even think about it as such. They've bought into
(02:04):
the bull of all of it. But I say all
that to say this. The best emails I get, and
I've set it for years, and I'll say it again,
are from truck drivers. Almost none of them went to college.
And the reason is simple, because they spend time thinking.
(02:25):
They spend time thinking and engaging, then out on the
phone all day. They can't be kill somebody. They listen
to ideas and they think them through. They structure their arguments.
Think I'm paying or anything, I'm crazy. I'm dead serious.
I read my emails.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You can go to YouTube or whatever site you want
and look up Milton Friedman like fried Man, and you
will learn more about economics than almost anybody you know.
You will be surprised how much you will learn. And
when you're done, go to talk. I'm a Soul who
was his acolyte the University of Chicago. Although Soul didn't
(03:04):
come around until he went to work for the government.
This young man, this young black man, in an academic environment,
was not brought.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Into the Chicago school of economic thought, market.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Freedom while freedoman student, but he went to work for
the US government, did Thomas soul and while he was
there researching the issue of the minimum wage. His research,
the statistical data showed him, with no doubt in his
mind that raising the minimum wage actually hurt the worker.
(03:48):
I know, counterintuitive, but it was true. So he told
his bosses in the federal government at the Department of Labor,
and they said, put that away. Don't say that. Our
job politically is to push for minimum wage and we
need research the shows that's better for the worker. And
he said, I did the research. The research shows it
(04:11):
hurts the worker. And his boss told him, we're not
worried about the worker, We're worried about the political issue.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that was his AHA moment. As in Take On Me.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Milton Friedman once said, keep your eyes on government spending
because that is the real tax burden.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
This is what people miss out on.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Keep your eye on one thing, and one thing only,
how much government is spending, because that's the true tax.
Every budget is balanced. There is no such thing as
an unbalanced federal budget. You're paying for it if you're
not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes.
You're paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation
(04:55):
or in the form of borrowing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's the important thing to remember.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
You're gonna hear a lot of talk about tax cuts
because taxes are viewed by people who don't understand economics.
Taxes are viewed as a way to punish people to
an extent. That is the effect they have. Taxes are
a burden. But Democrats will tell you we've got to
(05:26):
tax the rich. So if they can make you do
two things. Number one, hate the rich, and number two,
believe that they are working to harm the rich. That
is the central part of their platform. Rich people are
evil and we're out to get them. Don't you hate
(05:47):
the rich people? Little do they tell you. The truly
rich in this country are far more likely to be
Democrats than Republicans because the truly rich don't work for
a lim they have wealth. They don't pay taxes anyway,
It doesn't scare them. They don't make their money, well,
they already have money, but they don't make their money
(06:10):
off of wages. In this country, we tax wages. It's
a much lower tax on capital gains. All that wealth
you have put it to work, which We do want
you to put it to work, because that's what underpins
the stock market and investment into whatever business you're trying
to found. We want you to put it to work,
(06:33):
and when you do, in exchange, we'll only tax it
at fifteen percent, whereas your wages, hell, that goes up
to almost forty percent. We tax the wages, not the
capital gains. Wealth people don't Wealthy people don't make wages.
Warren Buffett doesn't have a big salary. He loves to
(06:53):
talk about the fact that his secretary pays a higher
percentage in taxes than he does. That's because she makes
wages and you make wealth. Give her some of yours.
It's not only waste and fraud that cost us money.
Out of control regulations and red tape that costs us money.
This is Bill Maher explaining how much it costs to
build one public toilet in San Francisco, E.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Francisco, which is unfortunately the poop capital of the world.
I wanted to build a single, a single public outdoor toilet.
The bid came in at one point seven million dollars
for a toilet and it would take three years to build.
Then a company came along and said, you know what,
We're going to donate it and pay for the installation.
So donation of the thing itself and installation, oh various,
(07:41):
saved one point seven million dollars. This is what the
problem I have with government. The cost said the exam
Francis are chronicle. Isn't the project, it's project management.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
In other words, it would still cost one point two
million even though the thing itself and the installation was
free by construction management, engineering fees permits, civic design review surveys,
contract preparation cost estimate.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
This is the Yeah. Actually that sucks all the money out.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Of there's another step to that, when you look at
who the people are that are chosen for those jobs.
Talking about federal government waste, I've seen it at local government.
I've seen it Harris County, City of Houston's terrible. Harris
County is even worse. State of Texas has plenty of
(08:38):
waste as well. You wouldn't think it because we got
Republicans in charge. There is so much waste you wouldn't
believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Wouldn't believe it. Here is Elon.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Musk talking about the waste just at the federal government.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
The amount of waste that happens with the federal Commany
is really staggering. It's a staggering amount of waste attached
payer money by any given expensure. We have to say, well,
what does this do for the citizens of America? Like
how is this good for the people of America?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's it's their money?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Like for some weird reason, you know, a lot of
people in the sort of you know, state or whatever,
the politicians, they seem to forget that the money being
spent is your money. And if it's not spending being
spent in a way that is beneficial to the American people,
it's a misuse of the funds. I mean, there's there's
a lot of money that's being spent where where sort
(09:32):
of illegals are getting more benefits than citizens.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like what the heck is that? That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I was talking about and I often do, the fact
that you don't necessarily need college. Now you have to
have college to become a lawyer. You have to have
college to become a doctor or an architect or a pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
But for many people college is un necess sire.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I have had people tell me things like, oh, you
say that, and you went on to get two law degrees.
It's easy for you to say I could do exactly
what I'm doing without all those degrees, and I wouldn't
have had to earn all those scholarships and take out
loans to pay for my wife's law school well enough
(10:23):
to do all that could have started to work immediately.
Most people in radio never go to college. College wasn't
for Rush, college wasn't for Hannity. I don't did Beck
go to college. There's a lot of people succeed in
radio that start in radio in the same way that
number of people that start in trades, a number of entrepreneurs.
(10:47):
You look at these people that Elon is bringing in,
you don't it's laughable to think learning programming and AI
at the university level when you're big Balls or one
of these guys that Elon has brought in to help
him find the fraud in the government. These guys are
(11:10):
geniuses that what they're teaching in the university is so
far behind what these young people knew.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, it's crazy. I mean it's amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It'd be like, you know, when I was a kid,
if we could program the VCR, then the family was
happy because they didn't know how to do it. The
universities are so far behind training computer programmers on what
these kids are already doing at home. These gamer kids,
they think on a different level, a whole new dimension.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Why go to universe? Oh, because you have to have
that degree?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Why because people our agent above still think that degree
is so important. I've known people worth hundreds of millions
of dollars who were embarrassed if they don't have a
cauge degree. Why what do you care what other people
think about you? College is not for everybody unless your
(12:08):
field requires a college degree. We need to stop sending
everybody to college. You can make good money starting right out.
Learn something, go to work, work hard, be in a
position where you're learning things, developing skills, developing relationships, developing contacts,
(12:29):
and be working toward the moment that you control the
capitol and you own the company, which won't be overnight anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Elon, I love what he had to say about this.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
First, Well, you don't need learn stuff, Okay, Everything is
available basically for free. You can learn anything you want
for free. It is not a question of learning. There
is a value that colleges have, which is like you're
seeing whether somebody can somebody work hard at something, including
(13:00):
a bunch of sort of annoying homework assignments, and still
do their homework assignments and cut soldier through and get
it done. You know, that's that's like the main value
of college. And then it also you know, if you
probably want to hang around under a bunch of people,
you are our age for a while instead of going
(13:21):
right into the workforce. So I think colleges are basically
for fun and to prove you can do your chores,
but they're not for learning.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
In case you're wondering.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Elon holds a dual degree in economics and physics. He
also briefly enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford University.
It was there that he realized, I want to apply
what I'm doing. I'm not an academic. I want to
apply what I learned. I want to change the world,
(13:55):
and that doesn't happen at a university. I'm not against
a university for anybody who thinks I I enjoyed going
to college. I enjoyed going to law school. I went
to college at the University of Houston, went to law
school at the University of Texas, and I got another
law degree in Nottingham, England, and I loved that time
(14:15):
and I still love to learn. I had great teachers,
starting with my mother, who was a voracious reader, never
went to college. Oh the places will go, That's what's
on her tombstone, Oh the places. Because she loved Doctor Seuss.
She read Doctor Seuss to all the kids in our
family and the grandkids, and the idea that with a
(14:38):
book you can travel anywhere, you can see anything. I
remember the Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe, and I
remember transporting myself far away places.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I remember the.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Thrilling idea, your mind is so powerful now the place
that you transport yourself to when you read about You know,
my wife, who's also a big reader, grew up reading
about reading the tales of Wilber Smith and the Great
(15:10):
Englishman exploring into Africa, into the bush. And you know
her point was the Africa I imagine was not the
Africa we ended up going to see. But I learned
to use my brain to take me places. If you
could learn to read. And now you have so many
more resources. For all the complaining we make about technology,
(15:35):
you can go to YouTube now and learn to do anything.
You can transport yourself. Anywhere you want to learn to
wire things, or build things, or make things, or paint
things or repair things, You've got it all right there
on YouTube. People are learning skills on YouTube that they
then take to start businesses. How many stay at home
(15:57):
moms are starting a business where you can put the
letters out in front of the house and say it's
your kid's sixteenth birthday, or how to decorate balloons or
make mums.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Or whatever else. It's a glorious time, folks. The Michael
Varies Show continues to use to use my mother and block.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Remember being in Ronnie Anderson's class, who was a legendary
baseball class coach at Western Star High School, when the
news came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
People of that generation that marked a moment. And I
don't know that people older or younger, I don't know
(16:39):
that any generation has a moment that they mark more.
For me, it's the Challenger explosion. It's also later nine
to eleven. But I don't know that anybody has a
moment like that the way that generation talks about that moment.
And I think we've all over the years had our
doubts whether we were being told the truth, and it's
(17:00):
increasingly clear that this is the age. This is springtime
in America. We're going to reveal the secrets and put
them to rest. There's going to be truth and honesty
and healing. Congressman Anna Paulina Luna has been tasked with
leading the charge of investigating federal secrets that have been
kept from the American people. It's our government, we pay
(17:22):
for it. We deserve to know the truth, no stone unturned.
And the first project she has dove into is the
JFK assassination.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
And wow, our first investigation will be announced, but it's
going to be covering on a thorough investigation into the
John F.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
And I can tell you, based on what I've been
seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held
here in Congress was actually faulty in the single bullet theory.
I believe that there were two shooters and we should
be finding more information as we are able to gain
access into the skiff, hopefully before the file are actually
released to the public. As of right now, there's people
(18:02):
that have been publicly out there, for example, on the
JFK stuff, that were actually present in the room at
the operating at the operating room where he.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Was actually brought to right after the shooting. So we
hope to bring.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Those people in to testify, and again, these hearings will
be open to the public. I'm also expanding this to
the entire conference. So if someone's going to take this
seriously and look at it through an investigative lend and
get answers to the American people, they are welcome to
ask questions of the witnesses, and you guys will all
receive notice of that.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So what did doctor red Duke, a young Doctor red
Duke and the other doctors actually see at Parkland when
they pulled the sheet off Kennedy's head.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Within minutes of seeing President Kennedy, doctors at Parkland concluded
that the neck wound was an entrance wound and the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Head wound with exit wound.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
The fatal wound came from the front. I think and
other people believe that too. We thought that there was
an entrance wound in the neck and an exit wound
in the back of the head.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Parkland Hospital doctors were puted as saying they thought at
least one bullet entered mister Kennedy's neck from the front.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Parkland doctors were a serious problem for the US government
because they had provided evidence that there was a shooter
somewhere in the front and that ran totally contrary to
the official narrative of a lone shooter from above and behind.
A lot of people just decided to keep their mouth shut,
including the Parkland doctors.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
What actually happened in travel Ver one never came out,
never became public.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I was there, I know what I saw.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
I was there, I remember it in detail, It's etched
in my memory forever.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
In all probability, there was a conspiracy. There was more
than Ludel shooter.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
The Parkland doctors told the truth. These doc everybody's trustworthy.
As you can get well. People feel that they have
a better understanding of what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Ron Paul, so far ahead of his time, spent most
of his life calling things out, and people thought he
was crazy, and time proves him right. He was a
guest on the lease of Booth Podcasts and he said
he believed there was a coup of.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Our government the day JFK was shot.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I believe there has been a coup, a coup of
the American system, the American Republic, the constitution, and a
group came in and they took it over and they're
in charge. So you don't go to war with decoration.
You go to war when a president writes an executive order.
And I date the real, real number one day I
(20:59):
came up with. I had a lot of incidents that
have occurred, but the day that I come up with
is when it became very obviously there has been a
coup of our government and our system, and that was
November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, and I remember that clearly.
And that of course was when Kennedy was shot by
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the CIA, and then Robert Kennedy was shot and Martin
Luther King was shot, and then a hundred other people
that were related were shot. And the odds are most
Americans now believe that it was probably we ourselves that
did it to us. The Russians didn't come and do
it to us. So I think that's what it happened,
(21:40):
and that exists. But that's just trying to understand it.
But when you look at what they did, that the
bad stuff they did under COVID, you know that atmosphere
is there, so it's an attitude, the prevailing attitude. It's
the Soroses of the world, but taking over our university,
(22:02):
taking over medicine. So they have been winning these battles.
But once again the only thing that we have left
is trying to use the freedoms that we have to
persuade other people to change their minds. And of course
that's where I see bits and pieces of hope.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
It is a burden to be Ron Paul. When Ron
Paul passes, as we all will, he will finally put
down his burden.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It is a burden to be that man.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
You are better off being a guy who doesn't have wisdom,
who doesn't see what no one else sees. I mean,
you think about how passionately Ron Paul as in the
(23:00):
wilderness been calling out things that people will called him
crazy over monetary policy when nobody thought about it, distrust
of the government. I remember during one of the presidential debates,
(23:20):
maybe it was eight, maybe it was twelve, and they said, well,
it sounds like you you want to do away with
the FBI, and he said exactly, And there was sort
of a hiss in the crowd, and some anchor who
couldn't spell FBI kind of chuckled, like you're crazy, fool, Well,
(23:47):
who was right? Who was right? You think about what
a burden it's had to be for Ron Paul his
entire life to.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Know the system is.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
He's seen it and people called him crazy for it
one that time is his friend?
Speaker 11 (24:05):
Here is E and O wear that four foot ditch
to Michael Very show the evil can eevil stunt cycle
rum ideals.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Speaking of Paul, run Paul and the burden of being
run Paul, having a vision of what's happening, having clarity
when no one else does. This was Ron Paul at
a primary debate talking about abolishing federal agencies.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
People didn't talk this way back then.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Now we all agree, yeah, tear him down, But at
the time, at the time, he wasn't all alone.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But this certainly wasn't the prevailing wisdom.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
The irs, the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of
Homeland Security, medicare.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I know that you used to want to end the FBI.
I'm not sure whether you still support that idea, sir.
Perhaps you can tell us.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
But if you'll get rid of the CIA, let alone
the FBI, how would President Pall have any idea, any
intelligence of what our enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Are up to Well, you might ask the better question.
Before nine to eleven, we were spending forty billion dollars
a year and the FBI was producing numerous information about
people being trained on airplanes to fly them but not
land them, and they totally ignored them. So it's the
inefficiency of the bureaucracy that is the problem. So increasing
(25:31):
this with the Department of Home Land Security is spending
more money, does espall us all a problem?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yes, we have every right in the world to.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
Know something about intelligence gathering, but we have to have
intelligent people interpreting this information. But you know, just going
for increasing presidential powers has been discussed.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Is rather disturbing to me.
Speaker 11 (25:53):
This whole idea that we're supposed to sacrifice liberty for security.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We're advised against that. Don't remember that when.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
You sacrifice liberty for security, you lose both.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's what's happening in this country today.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
We have a national ID card on our doorsteps.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's being implemented right now.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
We have fic at courts, we have warrantless searches, we've
lost habeas corpus, we've had secret prisons around the world,
and we have torture going on that's un American, and
we knew you used the power of the presency to
get it back in order in order to take care
of us and protect this country and our liberty.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Than you.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Think about Ron Paul, he's an obstetrician. I don't know
if he's obguy in or just assume obg I in.
So he's living in Lake Jackson, Texas. He's delivering babies,
very successful, raising a family. Runs for Congress that had
(26:57):
to be disruptive for his practice. Runs for Congress, serves
from seventy six to seventy seven. He's off a term,
runs again, serves for six more years. Then he runs
for president in eighty eight as a Libertarian. Then he
(27:19):
goes back ninety seven to thirteen, serves in Congress again,
runs for president in two thousand and eight, and runs
for president in twenty twelve. No, he didn't win Remo,
and that's just it, isn't it. That's just it. He
knew he wasn't gonna win. He had to find a
(27:40):
platform to get ideas out. He had to get ideas out,
and he did. You know, perseverance is something I have
learned about successful people. Russell Leabar loves to tell the
story of handing the keys back to the truck. He
couldn't afore because he went bankrupt early. You find a
(28:06):
successful person politics, you name it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
They get knocked down and they get back up. That's
just what happens.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Back to the irregularities on the day JFK was killed.
In the movie, and granted it's Oliver Stone movie, I
got it. But Jim Garrison played by Kevin Costner, meets
with a mysterious mister x Donald Sutherland. We're back to
the investigation and now the belief that there were two shooters,
and he goes over the security lapses that day, the
(28:39):
day that JFK was shot.
Speaker 14 (28:42):
After I came back, I asked myself, why was I
a chief of Specialize, selected to travel to the South
Pool at that time to do a job. But any
number of about this could have been, And I wondered
if it could have been, because one of my routine duties,
if I had been in Washington, would have been to
arrange for additional security in Texas. So I decided to
check it out, and sure enough, I found out that
(29:04):
someone had told them one hundred and twelve's Military Intelligence
Group and Fourth Army Headquarters at Fort sam Houston to
stand down that day over the protests of the unit commander,
Colonel Right. I believe it's this is significant because it
is standard operating procedure, especially in a known hostile city,
and downas to some them into secret service. But even
(29:24):
if we had not allowed the bubbletop to be removed
from the limbausine, we would have placed at least one
hundred to two hundred agents on the sidewalk without questioning
when only a month of the cod out you, an
ambassador and by Stevenson stood on the hip, had already
been several attempts into Gaul's life in France. We would
have arrived days ahead of.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Time, studied the route, We checked all the buildings.
Speaker 14 (29:43):
We never would have allowed all those wide open empty
windows overlooking dealing. Never we'd have had our own snipers
covered in the area. The never window went up, they'd
have been on the radio. We'd have been watching the crowd,
packages rolled up, news dator quote or whatever.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
You never would have let a man open the lumbrella
along the way. You never would have allowed that limousine
to slow down of ten much less take that unusual
curve of hosted. At all, you would have felt an
army presence.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
In the streets that day.
Speaker 14 (30:07):
None of this happened. It was a violation of the
most basic protection codes we have and it is the
best indication of a mess.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Of blocking Dallas.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
Who could have best done this, black ops, mister Garrison.
People in my business, people like my superior opposite, could
have called Colonel Ryk and said, look, we have another
unit coming from so and so providing security. You'll stand down.
I mean that day, In fact, there were some individual
army intelligent people in Dallas. I'm still trying to figure
out who would why, But they weren't protecting clients. And
of course Osbory Army Intel had a Harvey Lee Oswold
(30:41):
on the file and all those houses were destroyed. Many
strange things were happening in your Lee, Harvey Oswold had
nothing to do with them.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Els for thank you, and good night,
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