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This is how Can this Happen?
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With Betsy Bell And we're at the Double B Studios.
We are in Las Vegas, Nevada. And before we get started,
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my audience, what is on tap four today? Well, I am,
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as usual finding out that I have a mixed ideology.
I believe in freedom of speech, but I understand some
days you have to fight for it, and I'm not
one for getting into a big brawl. If you will,
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well I have gotten into them. What I seem to
have lacking in my life is a way to single
out the most effective manner of getting a point across.
It seems like when you are with another person and
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you speak up, and they speak out and you speak
out back, it kind of evolves into a fight, and
then once the fight starts, all the rational and all
of the logical thinking goes awry, if you will, so,
I believe that's what happened on Tuesday night, because we
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still don't know what this fight is about. Donald Trump
went out for dinner in Washington, d C. He wanted
to celebrate the fact that crime is down in DC.
The event was marred by protesters from a Hamas terrorist
supporting group called Code Pink, and they were waiting inside
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the restaurant to Trump. There was also a crowd gathered
across the street from the restaurant. They like heckling two,
so they greeted Trump with a mix of cheers and booze. Yeah,
I think the libation kind would have been better. Let's
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hold up a toast for Donald Trump, He's at least
doing things that nobody else has done.
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Go figure.
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Code Pink. The name of the protest group has a
leader named Susan Medea Benjamin, but she led the protest
right at the twenty eight second mark of Trump walking
into the restaurant. So Code Pink, what does that stand for? No,
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it's not communism, but that's what it sounds like to me.
Cold are Women for Peace and it is a pacifist
anti war organization registered in the United States as a
five oh one three C organization. It focuses on issues
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such as drone strikes. Okay, I don't know what that means.
So it means we know that the drone struck and
we don't like it. Not clear, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp,
God forbid, somebody should commit a crime and then be
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sent to jail for that crime. Palestinian statehood, the Iran
Nuclear Deal, human rights in Saudi Arabia. So Cold Pink,
a feminist grassroots organization.
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Is working to end US wars.
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Well, okay, let's say that they are on vacation right
now because the.
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US is not at war.
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But maybe that was something that Code Pink was confused about,
especially when they're asking the United.
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States to free Palestine.
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Well, as far as I know my audience, Palestine is free.
They held elections in two thousand and six and they
voted for the people that lead them. So we will
go there in a minute. But for the moment, Palestine
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is free. I don't understand what they're protesting and why
they're asking the US to change the elected policy of
the Palestinian state. Okay, well, the rightful owners of Palestine
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and caretakers of Palestine are the ones that have made
it clear how they want their Palestinian state run. But
Code Pink says they support Palestinian's right to resist the
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violent Israeli occupation of Palestine. So again, here we go.
We're having a fight over the fact that Israel is
occupying Palestine. That is unclear at this moment due to
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the fact that Israel has had to vacate the Gaza
Strip of a safety precaution for their people. And that's
not because their people started a war. It's because hummus
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started the war in Israel.
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But don't confuse me with the facts.
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That is what we are dealing with every day in
the United States of America. Because we are free, we
can say whatever we want. It doesn't mean it's backed
up by the facts. You say to me, well, Betsy,
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what are the facts? That is what I'm trying to
explain to you. You can't ask Palestine to be free.
If they voted against freedom and they voted for terror
risk to run their country. You could persuade them to
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have another election, But as long as Hamas is in control,
their last election was in two thousand and six, twenty
years or so, whether you need one or not. So
how does this happen? Well, my audience, we know that
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Code Pink thinks they're doing something valuable, that they're fighting
for a principle. But the leaders of Code Pink have
their own problems. So Susan Medea Benjamin, I can't believe this.
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Was born on September tenth, nineteen fifty two, what's today
September tenth. She was the daughter of Alvin and Rose Benjamin.
She grew up in Freeport, New York, on Long Island
and is of Jewish descent.
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Her father.
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Was Alvin Benjamin, a wealthy real estate developer. He was
president of the Benjamin Companies, which afforded Susan Benjamin all
of the lifestyle that came with that. In the United
States of America, she had freedom. She also went to
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Tufft's University, but in the first year of her university life,
she renamed herself after the Greek mythological character madea Why
did she want to be called Susan Medea Benjamin? The
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issue is she quote like the sound of the name Medea. Hmm,
that sounds Susan Medea Benjamin like something that could be
a fight within itself. But then she is quote unquote
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a pacifist. Okay, up next, let's find out what Medea
was up to in her lifetime.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're listening to Renegade Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Welcome back.
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This is Betsy Bell at the Double B Studios in
Las Vegas, and we are here today to try to
figure out what the fight's about. We need to stand
for something. But if we don't know what it is,
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why are we fighting about it? Because we want to
have our way, My audience, it's time to understand. We
don't get our way all the time, God forbid. The
little munchkins and cupcakes don't get what they want and
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then they throw tantrums. Does that remind you of anything,
my audience, it seems like it's the whole of this
nation right now. You can't have what you want because
I want what I want, and if you have what
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you want, I can't have what I want.
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Is that what the fight is about?
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I'm beginning to think so, my audience, especially when I
read this little diatribe. When I saw that Susan Benjamin
decided to be Susan Medea Benjamin, I thought, well, maybe
there was a reason and a reflection needed to her name,
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because she chose a mythological character, and somehow it seemed
to ring true because she decided she wanted to be
called Medea only because she liked the sound of it.
Let's explore who Medea was. She was best known as
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the wife of Jason, and she helped him secure the
Golden Fleece through her magical abilities, and also be Cosmidia
had a knowledge of sorcery. Well do I mean magic?
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A little bit different than that. Medea later marries Jason,
but when he leaves her for another woman, she eventually
kills their children and his other bride, the woman that
he cheated on her with. But that was only according
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to some versions. Of her story. Well, my audience, I
don't want to change my name.
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I like my name.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
My name is Betsy Bell, but my real name is Elizabeth,
as you well do not know, my audience, I was
nicknamed Betsy by my mom, who said I don't want
people calling you Liz or Liza or Beth or not,
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that those aren't wonderful names.
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But she liked Betsy.
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So I became Betsy Bell when I married Tom Bell.
When you tried to figure all of this out, my audience,
you end up in a maze of confusion. It looks
like one of those boards that you pull out from
a computer, and it has all these machinations, all these
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wires going in and out.
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Where they go nobody knows.
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So, now that we are into this theory about why
Susan Benjamin wanted to be Susan Medea, I did not
come to a conclusion. I will leave that to you
because you are all extremely smart.
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Now.
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The Free Palestine Movement was founded by Ya Sir Kashlik,
a Syrian born Palestinian businessman of considerable wealth. He lives
in Syria, but he is Palestinian and he owns a
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Palestinian businessman's club, He also owns a small Lebanese newspaper
and to this day he still lives in Syria. But
the Free Palestine movement has since functioned as a pro
regime Palestinian community organization, providing services and holding rallies. Kash
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Lik's own seemingly size involvement is for political ambition. The
Syrian regime appears more intent than ever to.
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Clear yur Moot.
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Yur Moot is an area in Syria that was originally
built as a refugee camp for Palestinians. Unfortunately for itself,
it grew into a deeply populated residential neighborhood on the
outskirts of Syria. Once known as the capital of Palestinian
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dyspora in Syria, Yar Moot now lies in ruins. It
is a broken shell of what used to be a
thriving community. So what is diaspora? That refers to people
who are scattered across various locations away from their traditional homeland.
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So Palestinians moved to the outskirts of Syria and that
village is now in ruins. But meanwhile, back in Palestine,
speaking of freedom, the legislative elections were held in Palestine
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on January twenty fifth, two thousand and six.
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The result was a victory for.
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Hamas, contested under the last name of Change and Reform,
a terrorist dream running slogan. Here is why I say
that the Hamas lee ran under change and reform. Hope
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and change. Is that familiar, my audience. The Hamas reformers
received forty four percent of the vote and one seventy
four of the one hundred and thirty two elected seats,
while the ruling FATA received forty one percent of the
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vote and only won forty five seats. As you have
heard me say, they only need elections once every twenty
years or so, because apparently they haven't had an election
since then. So what is it that's making Palestine on
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free its leadership? The fact that they don't have ongoing
elections to elect new leaders with new ideas. No, because
Israel is on the outskirts of Palestine trying to exist
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as a free country and Palestine doesn't like that. Why
would that be because they're not free either? Oh my gosh,
you see what my point is, my audience. How many
fights are we gonna have before we understand what the
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real fight is all about? Coming up next, I'll explain
that in detail.
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You're listening to Renegade Talk Radio.
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Welcome back, my audience. I'm so grateful that you're here
with me today. This is Betsy Bell at the Dobb
Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada. What I wanted to do
with this segmgment is to give you a full circle,
three hundred and sixty degrees, if you will. But first
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I do want to say that you can find how
can this happen? On any podcast, website or platform. All
you have to do is put in how can this happen?
And up I will come. So, my audience, when I
say that this part of the show is a three
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hundred and sixty degree circle, it's because this part of
the show is called Nobody is Stopping You. How does
that happen? Unfortunately for us, we have decided that we
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need permission. We need permission to say what we think.
We need permission to go where we want to go.
We need permission to try and speak our mind in
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a crowd. Well, what is permission permission is that our
school of thought totally follows and aligns with everyone else's.
So how does that work? How can that happen? We
are individuals. None of us are the same in any way,
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shape or form. We were created individually to have talents,
to have looks that are completely unique to only us.
So what happens if if we decide a that we
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want to look like everybody else, that we want to
sound like everyone else, that we have nothing individually that
the world needs. We have taken everything we've been given
and thrown it out in the trash. You might as
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well do that, because what have you accomplished? If you're
not willing to give the world what is unique about yourself,
it becomes an extremely lonely path down an endless highway
of unhappiness and unsatisfaction. Because you cannot give what you
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have to the world, you're stopping yourself from doing it.
And you don't need permission, and you sure as hell
don't need forgiveness. So why is this part of finding
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out what the fight is about? When you take everything
down to its basic principles, this is what you will find.
We have been given the opportunity to be born in
a country that is free. How did that happen? This
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is what happened. People came from a suppressed and a
bullied parliament and regime. They came into the shores of
America and founded a country that was based on freedom
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of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of individuality because,
as the forefathers explained to us in detail, we were
created as people from God. God created us. They believed
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that that was our dignity, our character, and our individuality
because as creations of God, none of us were the same.
All of us had unique talents, all of us thought individually,
all of us sparked feelings that were not inside anyone
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else except us. So now, how does that correlate with
what the fight is about. The fight remains that we
as individuals need to have the freedom to say what
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we think. If you take that away from us, we
no longer have an outlet. We no longer have space
where we can be, where we can actually be confronted
by our individuality, and people can support that or not.
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But who are we to say who we should support?
Who are we to say that you cannot support an individual?
You cannot call out a president for doing what he
was elected to do, but you don't have to agree
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with it. You can stand up and speak your mind
in objection to it. But what if you're the person
that speaks in favor of it. Supposing you are a conservative,
supposing you do believe in God, Supposedly you are allowed
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to access your ability to believe in God, to speak
out about God, to speak out about your individuality. And
then people come along and say, no, you cannot do that,
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You are not allowed to. So are they fighting for
you to have rights? Are they fighting for the rights
of other people? People come along and say they want
Palestine free, But Palestine is free. They just didn't choose
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the path that the protesters thought they should choose. So
who the hell are these protesters and why are we
bothering with what their fight is for? Where do they
stand when it comes to the fight in their own country?
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There are people who protest, standing up for the flag,
putting your hand over your heart because you know what
this country has given you you and you respect that.
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People deny that you should be patriotic, They protest and
they burn the American flag, which is the only real
symbol of freedom in the entire.
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World, not only our world.
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We still have the ability to do whatever we want,
to stand for whatever we want, regardless of who stands
against us.
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And if we stand.
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For God, we don't need to stand for anything else.
Because godsend his only son to save you. You are saved,
but don't let anyone tell you that because you believe
that you aren't worthy. You're not going to be chosen
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and you do not get to live free like the
rest of us do.
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That is up to you, not to them.
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So don't stand down, don't stand back. You have everything
on your side that you need because you stand for
people staying free, people being elected freely, people who represent you,
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and only you can stand against them if you're not
happy with what they're doing. So don't wait for permission.
Don't expect everybody to stand in line and quote you,
stand up in do it anyway, because that is what
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we still have in the United States of America, the
ability to stand for it, the ability to stand for freedom,
the ability to say it out loud, I'm free. God
gave me equal rights to you. Thank you, and thank
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you America, because so far we're still here.