September 12, 2025 • 42 mins
(00:00:00) Reactions to Charlie Kirk's Assassination, Open Meetings, & ICE
(00:00:29) Reactions to Charlie Kirk's Death
(00:12:29) Ad Break
(00:13:28) The Problem with Karma
(00:22:59) Digging Deep - Caddo Parish Legal Case
(00:32:27) Ad
(00:33:25) ICE Detention Centers
(00:40:31) Magnolia Pit BBQ
You're listening to American Ground with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for September 11, 2025.
0:30 We discuss the latest developments following the tragic assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. We dig into the emerging reports from law enforcement, the viral social media reactions, and the misrepresentation of Charlie Kirk's words.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
(00:00:29) Reactions to Charlie Kirk's Death
(00:12:29) Ad Break
(00:13:28) The Problem with Karma
(00:22:59) Digging Deep - Caddo Parish Legal Case
(00:32:27) Ad
(00:33:25) ICE Detention Centers
(00:40:31) Magnolia Pit BBQ
You're listening to American Ground with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for September 11, 2025.
0:30 We discuss the latest developments following the tragic assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. We dig into the emerging reports from law enforcement, the viral social media reactions, and the misrepresentation of Charlie Kirk's words.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins is demanding a life time social media ban for anyone who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
- A New Orleans Firefighter may be in trouble for a post she made after the Charlie Kirk Assassination yesterday.
- Republican members of the Shreveport City Council released statements today reacting to the murder of Charlie Kirk, but all 5 Democrat members of the council declined to make a statement.
12:30 Ad Break
13:30 We take a look at the troubling social media trend of invoking "karma" to justify or even celebrate Charlie Kirk's death.
23:00 We reflect on the 24th anniversary of 9/11 and discuss the importance of preserving the truth of history for future generations. We Dig Deep into a developing legal story. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrell is suing the Caddo Parish Commission for violations of the Open Meetings Act.
32:30 Ad Break
33:30 We dive into the recent lockdowns at multiple historically Black college and universities. Plus, we guess which states have the most ICE detention centers.
40:30 And we finish off with a word about Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
We choose to go to the moon and do the
other thing, not because they are eamy, but because they
are odd.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
So apparently the authorities know the name of the suspect
who took the life of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Am I getting that right?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know. I have not seen that. I have
seen that. The FBI says they know more than they're
telling the people, But I hadn't seen that they know
the name of the suspect.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So what I am Apparently the Gateway Pundit is reporting
that law enforcement has identified the name of a suspect
in the hunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin. No arrest warrant
has been issued at this time. They do have photos,
and they say it does appear to be a college
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aged individual.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, they have released photos of the suspect and he's
wearing a shirt with an American flag and an eagle
on I guess it looks like it's a hoodie, a
kind of a lightweight hoodie with the American flag and
an eagle on it. And he's wearing a hat and glasses.
Looks to be a Caucasian male about college age, yeah,
I agree with that, and looks like he's in his twenties.
(02:13):
It's hard to tell, really, but I have not seen
from anyone else saying that they know the name.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, absolutely, they haven't released that information. But I guess,
you know, a lot of folks have had some time,
some time to reflect. Is it too soon to say
we've reflected on the meaning of what happened yesterday? I mean,
we were really, really upset, and I'm still angry today.
(02:41):
I'm angry and sad. I'm angry and sad, and at
the same time, I am more resolved than ever to
debate folks, to talk to folks, to be more patient
with folks who may have a difference of opinion. Even
though some of the things that I have read on
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social media, especially people in our own communities in Louisiana,
all across the state. I mean it's there's clearly a divide,
and there tends to be a divide a long skin color.
Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, it is I have not. Actually, one of the
things I've been shocked by is the number of black
folks that have come out, Black conservatives have come out
and saying this is not okay. And most of actually
most of the criticism or most of the people that
I've seen cheering the death of Charlie Kirk have been
white people.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I actually maybe I don't know, maybe my feet is
a little different, But I'm just saying I see many
Black Americans and the one word that is said over
and over and over, and it's not along with the
word racist, you know, of course calling Charlie Kurt a racist,
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and then they give all the examples of where he
said he was racist, like for example, like for example,
when Charlie Kirk said that if I see a black
airline pilot, I'm concerned. And it has nothing to do
with the fact that he's black. It really doesn't. What
it has to do with the fact is is that
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was that individual hired because of a DEEI policy or
is that person which there are many exceptional pilots of color,
that's not the question. But with DEI, that's crept into
so many boardrooms and hiring practices and admissions offices in universities.
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When you see someone in a position like an airline pilot,
you've got to wonder. You've got to wonder. And it's
not just it's not just a person of color, it's
gender as well, because that's the other part of this.
The Airline Pilots Association, you know, they claim that there
were not enough minorities represented in terms of professional airline pilots. Okay,
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that's great. I mean, let's encourage people of color, let's
encourage minorities of all kinds to become airline pilots, professional
airline pilots. But let's make sure that they're qualified and
that they're not being hired according to some policy that
kind of looks the other way when it comes to competency.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That is one of the downsides of DEI that the
Left does not consider is that it will lend itself
to stereotyping. It will lend itself to people second guessing. Well, look,
if you have policies out there saying well, we've got
to have a certain number of people who are of
who look a certain way, and we have to have
those people in our job, and we're going to hire
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people who aren't as qualified as other people simply because
they look one way or they are one sex. Then
people will naturally go, well, wait a minute, is this
a good person, this is a competent person I have
in this position, or is this somebody who was hired
because of the way they look. That is what Charlie
Kirk was saying when he was commenting about that. He
wasn't saying that, but the clips get edited, the clips
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get shortened, and so people would just go see, Charlie
Kirk's a racist, but he's not. But again, the majority
of the people that I've seen on my feed, and
I guess personally it's about fifty to fifty, because I've
had some people that have sent me I did a
post today talking about the right to free speech, and
so I've had some of my leftist friends that have
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sent me videos of Charlie Kirk speaking, and about half
of those were black and about half were white, and
they were trying to say that, well, it was a
clip of Barbara Jorge. He was saying, Barbara Jordan and
oh my gosh, Crockett out of Dallas. He says these
women just aren't smart, and he's right, they aren't. But
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the caption was Charlie Kirks's black women aren't smart. Well,
that then becomes a misleading headline because Charlie Kirk, nowhere
at any time, said all black women aren't smart. He
said these particular women who claim to be smart. But
he was also talking about e Dei because he had
Sheila Jackson Lee on the house floor before she passed away,
and she was saying, I'm here because of DEI, and
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Charlie Kirk was saying, we know. So they were saying, look,
he says all black women are dumb. That's not what
Charlie Kirk was saying. He was saying that particular black
woman is dumb. And that's not a judgment on her skin,
that's a judgment on her intelligence. And frankly, he's right,
she was not that smart.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And here's the other part, I guess and before I
kind of went off the rails there the word that
is most often used by those that are denigrating Charlie
Kirk divisive. Well, no, no, no, the word is karma.
That's I've seen that one is that one is used
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over and over and over that some karma karma. Let
me ask you something. If you say karma, are you
are you God fearing?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Are you God fearing? You know? No, you know because
karma God is not.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Karma comes from a Hindu tradition. So karma, if if
you look at it, karma comes from a Hindu tradition.
It's not a Christian idea at all. It's a Hindu idea.
Now if you say you reap what you sow, okay,
well that's a Christian idea and maybe that's a Christian
idea that's similar to the concept of karma. But if
you're just saying karma, then no, no, you haven't. You
haven't read your scriptures enough.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
And that is what a lot of folks are saying.
And the question is it's karma that his wife loses
her husband, It's karma that those those little children lose
their father. That that's that, that's karma, that's somehow and
what is that? What does that say about you?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, that's that's the thing that people miss, is
that what they're saying about Charlie Kirk says more about
them than about Charlie Kirk. And that's that's well, you
know what, there's a trend here as we head into
the top three things you need no before tomorrow. First
thing you need no but from tomorrow. Louisiana Congressman Clay
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Higgins is demanding a lifetime social media band for anyone
who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Higgins said on Twitter,
I'm going to use congressional authority and every influence with
big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of
every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
He also said he would work to have businesses blacklisted
and licenses revoked. Higgins called Kirk quote a beautiful young
(09:48):
man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative
truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, Now, as much as I respect Congressman Higgins, I
don't I think I can go along with that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And moreover, I don't think Charlie Kirk could have gone
along with that because there were several times when he
was out an event and a leftist would step up
and the crowd would start booing the leftist and he said, no, no, no,
let them speak. I think that spirit should apply here.
Second thing you know before, my New Orleans firefighter may
be in trouble for a post she made after Charlie
Kirk's assassination yesterday. The post read quote, I think he
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should be forced to carry that bullet in his body.
That bullet has a right to be there because it's
a gift from God. Attorney generalistmrll responded by saying, this
comment on social media by a person in a position
of public trust is unacceptable and disturbing. It's even more
disturbing and invoking God in the delivery of the bullet
that took Charlie Kirk's life. I expect consequences for this
individual's grossly inappropriate comment. New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Roman
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Nelson said the department was launching an investigation, adding any
actions or words that undermine that trust or promote division
or insensitivity are taken very seriously.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It would absolutely shock you the number of elected officials,
people in positions of power that would denegrate and would
have been and and and those are the ones you're
hearing from.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And the third thing you know before Marvel. Republican members
of the street Port City Council released statements today reacting
to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Councilman Grayson Butcher said,
above all, Charlie was a father and a husband. Heather
and I are praying for Charlie's family, Lord to give
them peace and comfort. Counselman Jim Talifera said, in order
for us to continue to be the United States of America,
we need to unite around this fundamental idea. Though I
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may disagree with what you say, I will defend to
the death your right to say it. Charlie died defending
your right to free speech against someone who was trying
to silence him and you. All five of the Democrat
members of the council were invited to issue a joint
statement about the attack, but declined that invitation.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I got no words for that, absolutely no words.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
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Speaker 1 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Poward Lewis.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I was mentioning earlier one of the most common words
that I see from those denigrating Charlie Kirk, who was
assassinated yesterday, is the word karma. They all use this
word karma. And let you let me just tell you something.
Karma is not Christian, It never has been, it never
will be. And as you pointed out, the word comes
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it is rooted in Hinduism, Buddhism, uh, Jaineism. Uh. These
are religions. What is Jainism. It's apparently a offshoot of Buddhism.
But these these are all religions that believe in reincarnation. Right,
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the endless cycle of death and rebirth until you work
off your debts and achieve enlightenment. That's the whole idea, okay.
But the core idea of karma is this, what goes
around comes around. If you do good, good will eventually
come back to you. If you do evil, evil will
eventually circle back and bite you. It's an endless balancing
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act across multiple lifetimes. If you believe in reincarnation. Now
that all sounds neat on the surface, but here's the problem, right,
it's not just unbiblical, it is anti biblical. It denies
the cross, it denies the blood. Karma denies salvation through
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Jesus Christ. Because karma says you can save yourself by
stacking up good deeds. But the Gospel says you are
saved by grace through faith. That's Ephesians two eight through nine.
Karma says just comes from endless cycles of payback. Right,
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the Gospel, the Gospel for Christians, says justice has already
been satisfied on Calvary's Hill by the lamb of God
who takes away the sins of the world. But let's
be very.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Clear on this. Yes, there is the Christian concept that
you will reap what you sew, but there's also you
have to have the understanding that this is an evil
fallen world. There is none good, no, not one. All
of us are flawed, all of us have sin inside
of us, all of us have sinned, all of us
probably will sin again, perhaps within the next hour. So
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and Jesus said, He didn't say following me will be easy.
He told his disciples you were going to be tortured,
and you will lose your life for me. And he said,
blessed are those who lose their life for me. So
the Christian concept of yes, you will reap what you
So there are also sometimes when evil will be done
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to you, not because you have done evil, but because
you have stood up for what was right.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Okay, But every time you hear someone say karma about
the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and these people who say
this claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, they're not.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
They're missing something.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I mean, God resks Charlie Kirk's soul. But when they
say karma. What they're revealing is something chilling. They are
showing you that their heart is far from Christ. Because
to invoke karma at that moment is to say, Charlie
Kirk got what he deserved. Right now, think about that,
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a man is gunned down, a wife loses her husband,
his children lose their father, and instead of mourning, instead
of praying, instead of condemning evil, someone smirks and says, karma,
that's evil, that is demonic, that is not of God.
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And if someone dares to claim the name of Christ
while spitting out the word karma, they're not just confused,
they are disingenuous. They're lying either to themselves or to others.
Because you cannot be a disciple of Jesus Christ and
rejoice when someone is murdered. You cannot be a child
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of the Cross and celebrate bloodshed.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And this whole idea of karma that you're gonna get
what you deserve. Look, the only people who will get
what they deserve ultimately are those who refuse Jesus. If
you accept Jesus, if you accept the sacrifice he's made,
if you dedicate your life to him, you will not
get what you deserve because we all deserve hell because
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we all have sinned. Charlie Kirk concluded, Because as much
as I admire Charlie Kirk, there is no way he
was perfect right because he's a man. He's not God.
He's a man. So Charlie Kirk, like every one of us,
deserves to be separated from God according to the Bible.
But because he accepted Jesus's sacrifice, because he pledged his
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life to Jesus, because he followed Jesus, he's not getting
what he deserved. He is spending time with Jesus today
and and the none of us deserve that. That comes
from grace. But that comes because God did that for us,
not because we earned that. Okay, But Christianity says, Jesus
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bore the punishment that's right for your sins. That's right.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Karma says you must bear it for yourself. Christianity says
you get grace you don't deserve. Karma says you get
only what you deserve right. Christianity says love your enemies,
Karma says, watch your enemies suffer. Christianity says God is
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sovereign over life and death. Karma says the universe is
in charge, some you know, some impersonal force is keeping
school just randomness. So if you believe in karma, if
you believe in karma, you are denying Christ. You celebrate.
If you celebrate karma when a man is assassinated, you
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deny the Gospel. And if you claim to be a
Christian while doing so, you are living a lie.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, you need to go, you need to go do
some more reading. There's some reading that you've missed. There's
some studying, there's there's some understanding, there's some wisdom that
you've missed.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
And this is where we are in America. We're at
a crossroads. Are we going to choose the cross of
Christ or the counterfeit of karma will Are you going
to choose grace and forgiveness and life or are you
going to choose vengeance and cycles of destruction and death?
Because if we let karma, if we let karma thinking
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dominate our culture, then every act of violence will be justified,
every assassination will be celebrated, every innocent death will be
explained away, and America will continue to crumble because a
nation without mercy, without grace, without God cannot survive.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And Charlie Kirk spent his life. Let's go back to
the you will reap what you saw. He spent his
life trying to have conversations about truth with young people.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
He spent his life pouring into strangers, pouring into young people,
teaching them how to stand up. And yesterday Charlie Kirk
was assassinating people. Will will you so evil you get evil?
Wrio well trying to teach people the truth is not evil.
Charlie Kirk's reaping was not his death. What's happened since
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then is and there have been millions, millions of young
Americans who have stood up since Charlie Kirk was assassinated
and said, you know what, I'm done with the left
under I see what Charlie was trying to tell us now,
and I'm there have been millions of people who have
I don't know millions, thousands and thousands of people who
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have registered as Republicans today because of this assassination. That's
part of the reaping what he was sowing. His legacy
will continue even though his body will not.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And I'll say this again, Charlie's Kirk. Charlie Kirk's death
obviously is a tragedy, and to celebrate it with karma.
To say it's karma is evil. To claim Christ while
doing so is a lie. And to save this nation,
we must call it out for what it is. We've
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got to reject the counterfifth, the counterfeit, and return to
the truth of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
There is evil in this world. There is, and if
you proclaim Jesus, you will be hated by the world.
And Charlie was by a large part of the world,
but he was also loved and respected. And if you
lose your life for his sake, you will be blessed.
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We'll be back.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
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Speaker 4 (22:58):
Stephen par with Lewis or of course, today is the anniversary,
the twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven YEP. Today
the President honored those victims from nine to eleven, and
he had this to say, take a listen.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
In the quarter of a century since those acts of
mass murder, nine to eleven, family members have felt the
weight of miss birthdays and empty bedrooms, journals left unfinished,
and dreams left unfulfilled. To every member that still feels.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Avoid every day of your lives, the first Lady and
I unite with you in sorrow, and today, as one nation,
we renew our sacred vow that we will never forget.
September eleventh, two thousand and one in.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
The quarter yep.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So in my career working in media, there have been
some very tough days. Yesterday was one of them. Yesterday
is one of the five toughest days I've had working
in media. When the Columbia blew up over my house,
that was a tough day. But I still think the
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toughest day was nine to eleven and I was doing
I was working weather in Tyler at the time, and
I had to do the first weather cast after I
went back on because National networks basically went wall to
wall coverage for almost what eighteen hours something like that.
So I actually did the first weather cast after that,
and that was so hard to get up on the
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screen and talk about weather when that was not where
my heart was. My heart was still aching over what
had happened. Yesterday was kind of like that. To get
on the radio to talk about what had gone on
was difficult because my heart was still aching. Yesterday in
many ways emotionally reminded me of nine to eleven. It's
not the same scale. Wasn't it the same thing thing?
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But there were echoes, And.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You know, there's some folks that say, why do you
keep bringing up nine to eleven? Why do we as
a nation? No, I mean there's folks out there that
believe the same folks that probably are the ones that
are shouting karma.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think these are people who weren't there on nine
to eleven. But because anybody that lived through Pearl Harbor,
they continue to bring up Pearl Harbor for the rest
of their life. There are people who were Pearl Harbor
survivors who just recently passed away and there the lead
in their obituary was that they were Pearl Harbor survivors.
That's what nine to eleven was like.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But see, we do live in a culture that wants
to erase memory. They want to rewrite history, they want
to sanitize the past. I mean, twenty four years is
enough time for it a whole generation to grow up
without any living memory of that day.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
My daughter does not have any memory of nine to
eleven because it happened before.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
No, no, no, think about it. I mean college freshmen today.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No clue. They don't know what that was like because
they weren't there. It's history.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I mean, if if we don't actively remember, if we
don't pass the truth on to the next generation, then
never forget.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then it was just a slogan.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It becomes well, never forget becomes barely remember. And when
that happens, I think, America, I think we lose part
of our soul. And Trump's words today, I think serves
as a line in the sand that no matter how
many years go by, no matter how much the world changes,
we will never let this fade into the background.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
As Ronald Reagan said, if we if we don't know
what we did, we won't know who we are. We've
got to remember nine to eleven so that we remember
who we are. Let's dig deep, going down down. So
we talked a little bit about this last week, but
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it seems other folks started to pay attention to it.
The Attorney Generalist Murle issuing the Cattle Parish Commission for
violating the Open Meetings Act when they gave that proclamation
to Ernie Sanders, saying what a great guy he is.
They also violated the open meetings law two more times
after that because they didn't have any agenda, they didn't
have any open vote. They just were handing out proclamations
that had never actually been proclaimed. They didn't even let
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the Republicans on the commission know what they were doing.
And this is a seven to five commission. It's not
like there's only one Republican and he just was absent
that day. They were intentionally hiding this from the Republicans.
But the bigger part of the lawsuit, this is the
part of the lawsuit that could have a massive implication
for the entire state, because Liz Merle is saying the
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Commission did not do a voice vote, but rather on
some of these proclamations voted by machine. And they vote
by machine on almost every vote they take, and that
vote is then displayed up on a screen for the
people who attended to see. They've been doing that for decades,
but Liz Merle's lawsuit says that's illegal. You have to
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do a voice vote. A machine vote doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And of course this is happening in Cato Parish, right
the City of Shreveport. Yeah, the city attorney. Of course Streetport.
For folks who are from other parts of Louisiana, Streetport
is in Cattle Parish.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The Cattle Parish chambers and the Streetport City chambers are
on the same building.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Okay, But the city attorney for the City of Streetport said,
we don't. The City of Streetport doesn't have to change
the way it's city council members take votes. It Basically,
the city attorney, Yeah, in Shreveport said, ignore what is
being alleged by the Attorney General of Louisiana and just
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keep taking the vote. Keep doing what the way you've
been doing it, which is not a voice vote.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So NOLA dot Com quote through a spokesperson, Merle said
she's relying on a long line of age opinions after
the one in nineteen eighty, which she said interpret the
statue as requiring a voice vote, which is in fact
what is stated by the plain language of the statue.
They include opinions in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and seven,
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twy eleven, and twenty twenty two that said votes couldn't
be done by video phone or in writing because they
didn't satisfy the verbal voting requirement. Okay, but as we
were just talking about, this could affect Shreetport. The city
attorney for s Reeports is nah. But there are other
parts of the state where they're going, Wait, this might
affect US Councils in New Orleans, Slightelt and Saint Tammany
(29:28):
Parish typically cast their votes by machine results which are
then displayed on a screen. This is what's written in
the NOLA article Adam Swinsick, who's the lawyer for the
New Orleans City Council. The city council, like the state
legislator and other in countless other government bodies, has long
use electronic voting systems without complaint or challenge. So they're saying, look,
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you know, we've been doing this for a long time.
It's not a problem. He brings up the state legislature. Well,
that doesn't apply. The state legislature operates under a different
set of wa laws than city councils and parish commissions,
so the state legislature doesn't have that voice vote requirement
like the local governments do. But there are lots of
(30:11):
places that do a machine vote for local ordinance and
spinning bills. And resolutions and are subject to the voice
vote requirements. So the question now is if merle wins
this lawsuit and this will go all the way to
the state Supreme Court, if she wins the first round,
if it goes all the way to same Supreme court,
and Supreme Court says, well, that's what the law says.
What happens to all of the city origin cas passed
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in every city in parish since nineteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
And you say, why is she bringing this up because
this is part of the opens meeting the open the
Louisiana Open Meetings law, right, So what the law says,
And the law says, all votes by members of a
public body shall be viva vote chay, which would be
by voice yeah, And they shall be recorded in the
minutes in the journal or other official written proceedings, which
(30:57):
shall be a public document. That means when you're elected
commissioners or parish council members, whatever it is, they must
do so by voice. They must say yay or nay
out loud. That's what the statute says. And I really
questioned the city attorney for the city saying, I don't
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see any reason that we should change anything because It's
been done this way for years and years.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But if Myrtle's right, then every single ordnance, tax bill,
bond proposal resolution since nineteen eighty could be at risk
of being overturned in Shreatport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, everywhere,
every local city or Paris that does an electronic vote,
that could be huge chaos and it could be coming
very soon.
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Speaker 4 (33:14):
Stephen Poward lewisar, you know it has really things are
just so upside down. Did you hear it? Southern University
in Baton Rouge they went on lockdown. Yes, I mean
entire all of the campus activities have been canceled through
the weekend. And it's not because of weather or you know,
but because of apparently these undisclosed threats to Clark the Seat.
(33:43):
It's not just Southern, it's Clark, Atlanta, Virginia State, Alabama State,
Hampton University, but Dune Cookman all reporting threats. All of
those universities went into lockdown. These are all historically black
colleges and universities, right, and the FBI is not saying
what these are. They believe in the threats are, They're
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they're taking them seriously. Uh and so they but there's
gone down.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But there's been no evidence that there's been any there's
been a threat, but not necessarily any devices found or
any credible something like that, right, I mean, there's been
no evidence that's turned.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Up, no, not whatsoever. But you know, this is just
more of the fear and intimidation that some people in
on our planet right thrive off of. I mean, it's
it's how they it's how they destabilize a free country
such as the United States.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And then once again there's this is an.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Indoctrinate are our young people at the same time.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And at this point we don't have any understanding of
who's done the threat, or what the threats are about,
or what or why it was just historically black colleges
that were chosen don't We don't have any answer on that.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So the lockdown has been lifted now at Southern University,
but they have canceled activities. So basically, if you live
on campus at in Baton Rouge at Southern, you're still
you know, you get onto the campus, you live in
the dorms or whatever, you can go about your daily business,
but basically only essential personnel are required to show up
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or be on campus through through Monday, so through.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The weekend and into Now did you see Charlie Kirk
was scheduled to appear at LSU next month in Baton Rouge,
And of course the unthinkable could have happened there just
as easily as I mean, there wasn't anything special about
Utah in my opinion, I don't think so that's just
where this one shooter is gone. But if you've watched
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social media and you've seen some of the hearts of people,
you know that there's people who wished ill on Charlie
all over the country, and that's a shame. Tell you what,
We're gonna shift gears. Let's play a.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Game black battleship, shall we say?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay? So, uh, you know Louisiana we got with the
Louisiana Lockup now that new Ice detention facility.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I prefer the name Swamp Slammer.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh, the Swamp Slammer.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
No, No, no, that that's that's what I think would be.
That was my own coining.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I'll tell you what. We'll reach out to Trump's folks,
and we'll reach out to the governor or the governor,
and then we'll what is he calling it? Louisiana lockup.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Swamp slammer sounds so much.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Just swamp slammer's better. You're right, all right? So which
states have the most ice detention centers in America right now?
Florida Florida number five, they have five ice detention centers.
Texas number one, twenty three ice detention centers in Texas.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Ice ice baby well ice ice. That would be ice
twenty three times, but we don't have time for that, No,
nor the patients. Louisiana number two.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Louisiana is the second highest number of ice attention centers
in the United States of America. We have nine, so
we actually have almost twice as many as Florida does.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
No, Alabama, Alabama not on the list. New York, New
York tied for eighth place with four facilities. What about
California number three? They have seven ice attention facilities. Arizona, Arizona,
They are tied for eighth with four. New Mexico No, No,
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New Mexico only had one ice detention centers. New Jersey,
New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Ice detention centers. Where else? Illinois?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Illinois?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Wait, am I missing here? Nevada?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Nevada because it's right next to the bord. It's close
to the border.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Ah iceed it? How many more left on this list?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
A whole bunch? Oh really yeah, I think you've got
four out of the ten ICE detention centers. Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
that's a good guess. But no Arkansas, Arkansas, No, because
you have Sarah Huckaby Sanders, she'd be in Kentucky. There
you go, number six on the list, well, tied for
fifth place with Florida. They got five Tennessee, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Okay, we're running.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's a bit of a random list. Yeah, so number
one Texas twenty three ICE detention facilities in Texas. Louisiana
second number nine, then California at seven, Ohio has six, Florida,
Kentucky and Michigan have five, and then Arizona, Georgia, New York,
and Pennsylvania have four. So one of the things that
stood out to me here is Texas has more ICE
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detention facilities than the next three states combined, including another
border state that actually has a larger population of illegal immigrants, California.
California's got the most illegal alien it is a border state,
and yet we have more detention facilities in Louisiana when
We're not a border state than California does some of this.
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It looks like you've got this based on politics.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Again.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
New Mexico's got a very large border with the Mexico
and yet they only have one iced attention facility. What
they've got a Democrat governor and a Democrat controlled legislature.
So while you have a state at California that's got
a lot of illegal aliens, we need a lot of
attention facilities there, they only have seven because you've got
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Democrats in charge and they're not wanting to cooperate with
the federal government. Louisiana is and so we're second on
that list. We've got more American ground radio coming up.
Stick around, we'll be right back.
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Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah. Absolutely. Now we're seeing that there's a Facebook post
of a Secret Service agent allegedly saying Charlie Kirk deserve
to be assassinated.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
A Secret Service agent?
Speaker 4 (41:49):
I see a United States Secret Service agent? Are you
kidding me? I mean, you really have to wonder about
the quality of the United States And I find to
be smirched not to be fund.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
That really hard to believe. Why would anybody working for
the Secret Service he has been placed on leave? Really?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yes, Secret Service agent Anthony Paul said, Charlie Kirk, a
Christian husband and father of two young children, deserve to
be murdered in cold blood?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
How can that person be a Secret Service agent?
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And guess what word he used? Karma? You can't circumvent karma,
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Okay, America needs a lot more prayer. We'll be praying
here in the break. Not more karma, No more prayer.
We'll be praying during the break. We'll grab back.
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
So apparently the authorities know the name of the suspect
who took the life of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Am I getting that right?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know. I have not seen that. I have
seen that. The FBI says they know more than they're
telling the people, But I hadn't seen that they know
the name of the suspect.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So what I am Apparently the Gateway Pundit is reporting
that law enforcement has identified the name of a suspect
in the hunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin. No arrest warrant
has been issued at this time. They do have photos,
and they say it does appear to be a college
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aged individual.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, they have released photos of the suspect and he's
wearing a shirt with an American flag and an eagle
on I guess it looks like it's a hoodie, a
kind of a lightweight hoodie with the American flag and
an eagle on it. And he's wearing a hat and glasses.
Looks to be a Caucasian male about college age, yeah,
I agree with that, and looks like he's in his twenties.
(02:13):
It's hard to tell, really, but I have not seen
from anyone else saying that they know the name.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, absolutely, they haven't released that information. But I guess,
you know, a lot of folks have had some time,
some time to reflect. Is it too soon to say
we've reflected on the meaning of what happened yesterday? I mean,
we were really, really upset, and I'm still angry today.
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I'm angry and sad. I'm angry and sad, and at
the same time, I am more resolved than ever to
debate folks, to talk to folks, to be more patient
with folks who may have a difference of opinion. Even
though some of the things that I have read on
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social media, especially people in our own communities in Louisiana,
all across the state. I mean it's there's clearly a divide,
and there tends to be a divide a long skin color.
Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
No, it is I have not. Actually, one of the
things I've been shocked by is the number of black
folks that have come out, Black conservatives have come out
and saying this is not okay. And most of actually
most of the criticism or most of the people that
I've seen cheering the death of Charlie Kirk have been
white people.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I actually maybe I don't know, maybe my feet is
a little different, But I'm just saying I see many
Black Americans and the one word that is said over
and over and over, and it's not along with the
word racist, you know, of course calling Charlie Kurt a racist,
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and then they give all the examples of where he
said he was racist, like for example, like for example,
when Charlie Kirk said that if I see a black
airline pilot, I'm concerned. And it has nothing to do
with the fact that he's black. It really doesn't. What
it has to do with the fact is is that
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was that individual hired because of a DEEI policy or
is that person which there are many exceptional pilots of color,
that's not the question. But with DEI, that's crept into
so many boardrooms and hiring practices and admissions offices in universities.
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When you see someone in a position like an airline pilot,
you've got to wonder. You've got to wonder. And it's
not just it's not just a person of color, it's
gender as well, because that's the other part of this.
The Airline Pilots Association, you know, they claim that there
were not enough minorities represented in terms of professional airline pilots. Okay,
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that's great. I mean, let's encourage people of color, let's
encourage minorities of all kinds to become airline pilots, professional
airline pilots. But let's make sure that they're qualified and
that they're not being hired according to some policy that
kind of looks the other way when it comes to competency.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That is one of the downsides of DEI that the
Left does not consider is that it will lend itself
to stereotyping. It will lend itself to people second guessing. Well, look,
if you have policies out there saying well, we've got
to have a certain number of people who are of
who look a certain way, and we have to have
those people in our job, and we're going to hire
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people who aren't as qualified as other people simply because
they look one way or they are one sex. Then
people will naturally go, well, wait a minute, is this
a good person, this is a competent person I have
in this position, or is this somebody who was hired
because of the way they look. That is what Charlie
Kirk was saying when he was commenting about that. He
wasn't saying that, but the clips get edited, the clips
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get shortened, and so people would just go see, Charlie
Kirk's a racist, but he's not. But again, the majority
of the people that I've seen on my feed, and
I guess personally it's about fifty to fifty, because I've
had some people that have sent me I did a
post today talking about the right to free speech, and
so I've had some of my leftist friends that have
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sent me videos of Charlie Kirk speaking, and about half
of those were black and about half were white, and
they were trying to say that, well, it was a
clip of Barbara Jorge. He was saying, Barbara Jordan and
oh my gosh, Crockett out of Dallas. He says these
women just aren't smart, and he's right, they aren't. But
(07:00):
the caption was Charlie Kirks's black women aren't smart. Well,
that then becomes a misleading headline because Charlie Kirk, nowhere
at any time, said all black women aren't smart. He
said these particular women who claim to be smart. But
he was also talking about e Dei because he had
Sheila Jackson Lee on the house floor before she passed away,
and she was saying, I'm here because of DEI, and
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Charlie Kirk was saying, we know. So they were saying, look,
he says all black women are dumb. That's not what
Charlie Kirk was saying. He was saying that particular black
woman is dumb. And that's not a judgment on her skin,
that's a judgment on her intelligence. And frankly, he's right,
she was not that smart.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And here's the other part, I guess and before I
kind of went off the rails there the word that
is most often used by those that are denigrating Charlie
Kirk divisive. Well, no, no, no, the word is karma.
That's I've seen that one is that one is used
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over and over and over that some karma karma. Let
me ask you something. If you say karma, are you
are you God fearing?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Are you God fearing? You know? No, you know because
karma God is not.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Karma comes from a Hindu tradition. So karma, if if
you look at it, karma comes from a Hindu tradition.
It's not a Christian idea at all. It's a Hindu idea.
Now if you say you reap what you sow, okay,
well that's a Christian idea and maybe that's a Christian
idea that's similar to the concept of karma. But if
you're just saying karma, then no, no, you haven't. You
haven't read your scriptures enough.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
And that is what a lot of folks are saying.
And the question is it's karma that his wife loses
her husband, It's karma that those those little children lose
their father. That that's that, that's karma, that's somehow and
what is that? What does that say about you?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, that's that's the thing that people miss, is
that what they're saying about Charlie Kirk says more about
them than about Charlie Kirk. And that's that's well, you
know what, there's a trend here as we head into
the top three things you need no before tomorrow. First
thing you need no but from tomorrow. Louisiana Congressman Clay
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Higgins is demanding a lifetime social media band for anyone
who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Higgins said on Twitter,
I'm going to use congressional authority and every influence with
big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of
every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
He also said he would work to have businesses blacklisted
and licenses revoked. Higgins called Kirk quote a beautiful young
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man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative
truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, Now, as much as I respect Congressman Higgins, I
don't I think I can go along with that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And moreover, I don't think Charlie Kirk could have gone
along with that because there were several times when he
was out an event and a leftist would step up
and the crowd would start booing the leftist and he said, no, no, no,
let them speak. I think that spirit should apply here.
Second thing you know before, my New Orleans firefighter may
be in trouble for a post she made after Charlie
Kirk's assassination yesterday. The post read quote, I think he
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should be forced to carry that bullet in his body.
That bullet has a right to be there because it's
a gift from God. Attorney generalistmrll responded by saying, this
comment on social media by a person in a position
of public trust is unacceptable and disturbing. It's even more
disturbing and invoking God in the delivery of the bullet
that took Charlie Kirk's life. I expect consequences for this
individual's grossly inappropriate comment. New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Roman
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Nelson said the department was launching an investigation, adding any
actions or words that undermine that trust or promote division
or insensitivity are taken very seriously.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It would absolutely shock you the number of elected officials,
people in positions of power that would denegrate and would
have been and and and those are the ones you're
hearing from.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And the third thing you know before Marvel. Republican members
of the street Port City Council released statements today reacting
to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Councilman Grayson Butcher said,
above all, Charlie was a father and a husband. Heather
and I are praying for Charlie's family, Lord to give
them peace and comfort. Counselman Jim Talifera said, in order
for us to continue to be the United States of America,
we need to unite around this fundamental idea. Though I
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may disagree with what you say, I will defend to
the death your right to say it. Charlie died defending
your right to free speech against someone who was trying
to silence him and you. All five of the Democrat
members of the council were invited to issue a joint
statement about the attack, but declined that invitation.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I got no words for that, absolutely no words.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We'll be back.
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Speaker 1 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Poward Lewis.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I was mentioning earlier one of the most common words
that I see from those denigrating Charlie Kirk, who was
assassinated yesterday, is the word karma. They all use this
word karma. And let you let me just tell you something.
Karma is not Christian, It never has been, it never
will be. And as you pointed out, the word comes
(13:37):
it is rooted in Hinduism, Buddhism, uh, Jaineism. Uh. These
are religions. What is Jainism. It's apparently a offshoot of Buddhism.
But these these are all religions that believe in reincarnation. Right,
(13:57):
the endless cycle of death and rebirth until you work
off your debts and achieve enlightenment. That's the whole idea, okay.
But the core idea of karma is this, what goes
around comes around. If you do good, good will eventually
come back to you. If you do evil, evil will
eventually circle back and bite you. It's an endless balancing
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act across multiple lifetimes. If you believe in reincarnation. Now
that all sounds neat on the surface, but here's the problem, right,
it's not just unbiblical, it is anti biblical. It denies
the cross, it denies the blood. Karma denies salvation through
(14:43):
Jesus Christ. Because karma says you can save yourself by
stacking up good deeds. But the Gospel says you are
saved by grace through faith. That's Ephesians two eight through nine.
Karma says just comes from endless cycles of payback. Right,
(15:04):
the Gospel, the Gospel for Christians, says justice has already
been satisfied on Calvary's Hill by the lamb of God
who takes away the sins of the world. But let's
be very.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Clear on this. Yes, there is the Christian concept that
you will reap what you sew, but there's also you
have to have the understanding that this is an evil
fallen world. There is none good, no, not one. All
of us are flawed, all of us have sin inside
of us, all of us have sinned, all of us
probably will sin again, perhaps within the next hour. So
(15:43):
and Jesus said, He didn't say following me will be easy.
He told his disciples you were going to be tortured,
and you will lose your life for me. And he said,
blessed are those who lose their life for me. So
the Christian concept of yes, you will reap what you
So there are also sometimes when evil will be done
(16:03):
to you, not because you have done evil, but because
you have stood up for what was right.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Okay, But every time you hear someone say karma about
the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and these people who say
this claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, they're not.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
They're missing something.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I mean, God resks Charlie Kirk's soul. But when they
say karma. What they're revealing is something chilling. They are
showing you that their heart is far from Christ. Because
to invoke karma at that moment is to say, Charlie
Kirk got what he deserved. Right now, think about that,
(16:46):
a man is gunned down, a wife loses her husband,
his children lose their father, and instead of mourning, instead
of praying, instead of condemning evil, someone smirks and says, karma,
that's evil, that is demonic, that is not of God.
(17:07):
And if someone dares to claim the name of Christ
while spitting out the word karma, they're not just confused,
they are disingenuous. They're lying either to themselves or to others.
Because you cannot be a disciple of Jesus Christ and
rejoice when someone is murdered. You cannot be a child
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of the Cross and celebrate bloodshed.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And this whole idea of karma that you're gonna get
what you deserve. Look, the only people who will get
what they deserve ultimately are those who refuse Jesus. If
you accept Jesus, if you accept the sacrifice he's made,
if you dedicate your life to him, you will not
get what you deserve because we all deserve hell because
(17:53):
we all have sinned. Charlie Kirk concluded, Because as much
as I admire Charlie Kirk, there is no way he
was perfect right because he's a man. He's not God.
He's a man. So Charlie Kirk, like every one of us,
deserves to be separated from God according to the Bible.
But because he accepted Jesus's sacrifice, because he pledged his
(18:16):
life to Jesus, because he followed Jesus, he's not getting
what he deserved. He is spending time with Jesus today
and and the none of us deserve that. That comes
from grace. But that comes because God did that for us,
not because we earned that. Okay, But Christianity says, Jesus
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bore the punishment that's right for your sins. That's right.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Karma says you must bear it for yourself. Christianity says
you get grace you don't deserve. Karma says you get
only what you deserve right. Christianity says love your enemies,
Karma says, watch your enemies suffer. Christianity says God is
(19:02):
sovereign over life and death. Karma says the universe is
in charge, some you know, some impersonal force is keeping
school just randomness. So if you believe in karma, if
you believe in karma, you are denying Christ. You celebrate.
If you celebrate karma when a man is assassinated, you
(19:25):
deny the Gospel. And if you claim to be a
Christian while doing so, you are living a lie.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, you need to go, you need to go do
some more reading. There's some reading that you've missed. There's
some studying, there's there's some understanding, there's some wisdom that
you've missed.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
And this is where we are in America. We're at
a crossroads. Are we going to choose the cross of
Christ or the counterfeit of karma will Are you going
to choose grace and forgiveness and life or are you
going to choose vengeance and cycles of destruction and death?
Because if we let karma, if we let karma thinking
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dominate our culture, then every act of violence will be justified,
every assassination will be celebrated, every innocent death will be
explained away, and America will continue to crumble because a
nation without mercy, without grace, without God cannot survive.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And Charlie Kirk spent his life. Let's go back to
the you will reap what you saw. He spent his
life trying to have conversations about truth with young people.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
He spent his life pouring into strangers, pouring into young people,
teaching them how to stand up. And yesterday Charlie Kirk
was assassinating people. Will will you so evil you get evil?
Wrio well trying to teach people the truth is not evil.
Charlie Kirk's reaping was not his death. What's happened since
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then is and there have been millions, millions of young
Americans who have stood up since Charlie Kirk was assassinated
and said, you know what, I'm done with the left
under I see what Charlie was trying to tell us now,
and I'm there have been millions of people who have
I don't know millions, thousands and thousands of people who
(21:20):
have registered as Republicans today because of this assassination. That's
part of the reaping what he was sowing. His legacy
will continue even though his body will not.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
And I'll say this again, Charlie's Kirk. Charlie Kirk's death
obviously is a tragedy, and to celebrate it with karma.
To say it's karma is evil. To claim Christ while
doing so is a lie. And to save this nation,
we must call it out for what it is. We've
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got to reject the counterfifth, the counterfeit, and return to
the truth of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
There is evil in this world. There is, and if
you proclaim Jesus, you will be hated by the world.
And Charlie was by a large part of the world,
but he was also loved and respected. And if you
lose your life for his sake, you will be blessed.
(22:25):
We'll be back.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
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Working to ensure that talk radio of the people, by
the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Parr.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Stephen par with Lewis or of course, today is the anniversary,
the twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven YEP. Today
the President honored those victims from nine to eleven, and
he had this to say, take a listen.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
In the quarter of a century since those acts of
mass murder, nine to eleven, family members have felt the
weight of miss birthdays and empty bedrooms, journals left unfinished,
and dreams left unfulfilled. To every member that still feels.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Avoid every day of your lives, the first Lady and
I unite with you in sorrow, and today, as one nation,
we renew our sacred vow that we will never forget.
September eleventh, two thousand and one in.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
The quarter yep.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So in my career working in media, there have been
some very tough days. Yesterday was one of them. Yesterday
is one of the five toughest days I've had working
in media. When the Columbia blew up over my house,
that was a tough day. But I still think the
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toughest day was nine to eleven and I was doing
I was working weather in Tyler at the time, and
I had to do the first weather cast after I
went back on because National networks basically went wall to
wall coverage for almost what eighteen hours something like that.
So I actually did the first weather cast after that,
and that was so hard to get up on the
(24:39):
screen and talk about weather when that was not where
my heart was. My heart was still aching over what
had happened. Yesterday was kind of like that. To get
on the radio to talk about what had gone on
was difficult because my heart was still aching. Yesterday in
many ways emotionally reminded me of nine to eleven. It's
not the same scale. Wasn't it the same thing thing?
(25:00):
But there were echoes, And.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You know, there's some folks that say, why do you
keep bringing up nine to eleven? Why do we as
a nation? No, I mean there's folks out there that
believe the same folks that probably are the ones that
are shouting karma.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think these are people who weren't there on nine
to eleven. But because anybody that lived through Pearl Harbor,
they continue to bring up Pearl Harbor for the rest
of their life. There are people who were Pearl Harbor
survivors who just recently passed away and there the lead
in their obituary was that they were Pearl Harbor survivors.
That's what nine to eleven was like.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But see, we do live in a culture that wants
to erase memory. They want to rewrite history, they want
to sanitize the past. I mean, twenty four years is
enough time for it a whole generation to grow up
without any living memory of that day.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
My daughter does not have any memory of nine to
eleven because it happened before.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
No, no, no, think about it. I mean college freshmen today.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No clue. They don't know what that was like because
they weren't there. It's history.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I mean, if if we don't actively remember, if we
don't pass the truth on to the next generation, then
never forget.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Then it was just a slogan.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It becomes well, never forget becomes barely remember. And when
that happens, I think, America, I think we lose part
of our soul. And Trump's words today, I think serves
as a line in the sand that no matter how
many years go by, no matter how much the world changes,
we will never let this fade into the background.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
As Ronald Reagan said, if we if we don't know
what we did, we won't know who we are. We've
got to remember nine to eleven so that we remember
who we are. Let's dig deep, going down down. So
we talked a little bit about this last week, but
(26:51):
it seems other folks started to pay attention to it.
The Attorney Generalist Murle issuing the Cattle Parish Commission for
violating the Open Meetings Act when they gave that proclamation
to Ernie Sanders, saying what a great guy he is.
They also violated the open meetings law two more times
after that because they didn't have any agenda, they didn't
have any open vote. They just were handing out proclamations
that had never actually been proclaimed. They didn't even let
(27:12):
the Republicans on the commission know what they were doing.
And this is a seven to five commission. It's not
like there's only one Republican and he just was absent
that day. They were intentionally hiding this from the Republicans.
But the bigger part of the lawsuit, this is the
part of the lawsuit that could have a massive implication
for the entire state, because Liz Merle is saying the
(27:34):
Commission did not do a voice vote, but rather on
some of these proclamations voted by machine. And they vote
by machine on almost every vote they take, and that
vote is then displayed up on a screen for the
people who attended to see. They've been doing that for decades,
but Liz Merle's lawsuit says that's illegal. You have to
(27:55):
do a voice vote. A machine vote doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And of course this is happening in Cato Parish, right
the City of Shreveport. Yeah, the city attorney. Of course Streetport.
For folks who are from other parts of Louisiana, Streetport
is in Cattle Parish.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The Cattle Parish chambers and the Streetport City chambers are
on the same building.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Okay, But the city attorney for the City of Streetport said,
we don't. The City of Streetport doesn't have to change
the way it's city council members take votes. It Basically,
the city attorney, Yeah, in Shreveport said, ignore what is
being alleged by the Attorney General of Louisiana and just
(28:39):
keep taking the vote. Keep doing what the way you've
been doing it, which is not a voice vote.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So NOLA dot Com quote through a spokesperson, Merle said
she's relying on a long line of age opinions after
the one in nineteen eighty, which she said interpret the
statue as requiring a voice vote, which is in fact
what is stated by the plain language of the statue.
They include opinions in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and seven,
(29:06):
twy eleven, and twenty twenty two that said votes couldn't
be done by video phone or in writing because they
didn't satisfy the verbal voting requirement. Okay, but as we
were just talking about, this could affect Shreetport. The city
attorney for s Reeports is nah. But there are other
parts of the state where they're going, Wait, this might
affect US Councils in New Orleans, Slightelt and Saint Tammany
(29:28):
Parish typically cast their votes by machine results which are
then displayed on a screen. This is what's written in
the NOLA article Adam Swinsick, who's the lawyer for the
New Orleans City Council. The city council, like the state
legislator and other in countless other government bodies, has long
use electronic voting systems without complaint or challenge. So they're saying, look,
(29:51):
you know, we've been doing this for a long time.
It's not a problem. He brings up the state legislature. Well,
that doesn't apply. The state legislature operates under a different
set of wa laws than city councils and parish commissions,
so the state legislature doesn't have that voice vote requirement
like the local governments do. But there are lots of
(30:11):
places that do a machine vote for local ordinance and
spinning bills. And resolutions and are subject to the voice
vote requirements. So the question now is if merle wins
this lawsuit and this will go all the way to
the state Supreme Court, if she wins the first round,
if it goes all the way to same Supreme court,
and Supreme Court says, well, that's what the law says.
What happens to all of the city origin cas passed
(30:32):
in every city in parish since nineteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
And you say, why is she bringing this up because
this is part of the opens meeting the open the
Louisiana Open Meetings law, right, So what the law says,
And the law says, all votes by members of a
public body shall be viva vote chay, which would be
by voice yeah, And they shall be recorded in the
minutes in the journal or other official written proceedings, which
(30:57):
shall be a public document. That means when you're elected
commissioners or parish council members, whatever it is, they must
do so by voice. They must say yay or nay
out loud. That's what the statute says. And I really
questioned the city attorney for the city saying, I don't
(31:18):
see any reason that we should change anything because It's
been done this way for years and years.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But if Myrtle's right, then every single ordnance, tax bill,
bond proposal resolution since nineteen eighty could be at risk
of being overturned in Shreatport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, everywhere,
every local city or Paris that does an electronic vote,
that could be huge chaos and it could be coming
very soon.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
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Welcome back to American boun Radio.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Stephen Poward lewisar, you know it has really things are
just so upside down. Did you hear it? Southern University
in Baton Rouge they went on lockdown. Yes, I mean
entire all of the campus activities have been canceled through
the weekend. And it's not because of weather or you know,
but because of apparently these undisclosed threats to Clark the Seat.
(33:43):
It's not just Southern, it's Clark, Atlanta, Virginia State, Alabama State,
Hampton University, but Dune Cookman all reporting threats. All of
those universities went into lockdown. These are all historically black
colleges and universities, right, and the FBI is not saying
what these are. They believe in the threats are, They're
(34:04):
they're taking them seriously. Uh and so they but there's
gone down.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But there's been no evidence that there's been any there's
been a threat, but not necessarily any devices found or
any credible something like that, right, I mean, there's been
no evidence that's turned.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Up, no, not whatsoever. But you know, this is just
more of the fear and intimidation that some people in
on our planet right thrive off of. I mean, it's
it's how they it's how they destabilize a free country
such as the United States.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And then once again there's this is an.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Indoctrinate are our young people at the same time.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And at this point we don't have any understanding of
who's done the threat, or what the threats are about,
or what or why it was just historically black colleges
that were chosen don't We don't have any answer on that.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
So the lockdown has been lifted now at Southern University,
but they have canceled activities. So basically, if you live
on campus at in Baton Rouge at Southern, you're still
you know, you get onto the campus, you live in
the dorms or whatever, you can go about your daily business,
but basically only essential personnel are required to show up
(35:20):
or be on campus through through Monday, so through.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The weekend and into Now did you see Charlie Kirk
was scheduled to appear at LSU next month in Baton Rouge,
And of course the unthinkable could have happened there just
as easily as I mean, there wasn't anything special about
Utah in my opinion, I don't think so that's just
where this one shooter is gone. But if you've watched
(35:46):
social media and you've seen some of the hearts of people,
you know that there's people who wished ill on Charlie
all over the country, and that's a shame. Tell you what,
We're gonna shift gears. Let's play a.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Game black battleship, shall we say?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay? So, uh, you know Louisiana we got with the
Louisiana Lockup now that new Ice detention facility.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I prefer the name Swamp Slammer.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh, the Swamp Slammer.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
No, No, no, that that's that's what I think would be.
That was my own coining.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I'll tell you what. We'll reach out to Trump's folks,
and we'll reach out to the governor or the governor,
and then we'll what is he calling it? Louisiana lockup.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Swamp slammer sounds so much.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Just swamp slammer's better. You're right, all right? So which
states have the most ice detention centers in America right now?
Florida Florida number five, they have five ice detention centers.
Texas number one, twenty three ice detention centers in Texas.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Ice ice baby well ice ice. That would be ice
twenty three times, but we don't have time for that, No,
nor the patients. Louisiana number two.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Louisiana is the second highest number of ice attention centers
in the United States of America. We have nine, so
we actually have almost twice as many as Florida does.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
No, Alabama, Alabama not on the list. New York, New
York tied for eighth place with four facilities. What about
California number three? They have seven ice attention facilities. Arizona, Arizona,
They are tied for eighth with four. New Mexico No, No,
(37:34):
New Mexico only had one ice detention centers. New Jersey,
New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Ice detention centers. Where else? Illinois?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Illinois?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Wait, am I missing here? Nevada?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Nevada because it's right next to the bord. It's close
to the border.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Ah iceed it? How many more left on this list?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
A whole bunch? Oh really yeah, I think you've got
four out of the ten ICE detention centers. Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
that's a good guess. But no Arkansas, Arkansas, No, because
you have Sarah Huckaby Sanders, she'd be in Kentucky. There
you go, number six on the list, well, tied for
fifth place with Florida. They got five Tennessee, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Okay, we're running.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's a bit of a random list. Yeah, so number
one Texas twenty three ICE detention facilities in Texas. Louisiana
second number nine, then California at seven, Ohio has six, Florida,
Kentucky and Michigan have five, and then Arizona, Georgia, New York,
and Pennsylvania have four. So one of the things that
stood out to me here is Texas has more ICE
(38:48):
detention facilities than the next three states combined, including another
border state that actually has a larger population of illegal immigrants, California.
California's got the most illegal alien it is a border state,
and yet we have more detention facilities in Louisiana when
We're not a border state than California does some of this.
(39:08):
It looks like you've got this based on politics.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Again.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
New Mexico's got a very large border with the Mexico
and yet they only have one iced attention facility. What
they've got a Democrat governor and a Democrat controlled legislature.
So while you have a state at California that's got
a lot of illegal aliens, we need a lot of
attention facilities there, they only have seven because you've got
(39:32):
Democrats in charge and they're not wanting to cooperate with
the federal government. Louisiana is and so we're second on
that list. We've got more American ground radio coming up.
Stick around, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
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Radio with Lewis are Avalona and Stephen Parr.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Having a hard time focusing, Welcome back to American ground Radio.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Stephen Power of Lewis ar Avaloni. Okay, you ever have
a day it was a really rough day, Things that
are tough, things didn't go your way, and you're like,
you know what I really want is some comfort food
right now? Absolutely absolutely, so this is I've actually gone
to Magnolia Pit Barbecue because of that in the past.
I just, you know what, I want some comfort food.
I want some barbecue. I want some mashed potatoes. I
(40:37):
want some I want some brisket, and I want some
some barbecue sauce. I want some fried ocres. It's good
for the soul, you know. I just I just want
to I want to eat something that makes me feel
like life is gonna be okay.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I mean and and I look barbecue,
it's good stuff America. And look Louisianian from Magnolia Pit Barbecue.
It's not just some barbecue joint.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Right, It's not a chain. It's it's an original place.
It's you know, it's it's hometown cooking. It's Louisiana style barbecue.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Well yeah, I mean, if you want to savor the
soul of Louisiana barbecue, that's where you go.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
So go check out Magnolia Pit seven nine Jorden Street
in Streetport, right off the line Avenue. It's gonna be
delicious and you'll feel better when you're done, as long
as you don't eat as much as I eat, because
sometimes I overeat there. Just get if you need to
get the to go bag and then you'll you'll feel
good the next day too.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah. Absolutely. Now we're seeing that there's a Facebook post
of a Secret Service agent allegedly saying Charlie Kirk deserve
to be assassinated.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
A Secret Service agent?
Speaker 4 (41:49):
I see a United States Secret Service agent? Are you
kidding me? I mean, you really have to wonder about
the quality of the United States And I find to
be smirched not to be fund.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
That really hard to believe. Why would anybody working for
the Secret Service he has been placed on leave? Really?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yes, Secret Service agent Anthony Paul said, Charlie Kirk, a
Christian husband and father of two young children, deserve to
be murdered in cold blood?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
How can that person be a Secret Service agent?
Speaker 4 (42:26):
And guess what word he used? Karma? You can't circumvent karma,
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Okay, America needs a lot more prayer. We'll be praying
here in the break. Not more karma, No more prayer.
We'll be praying during the break. We'll grab back.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
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