Crime in Cities

Kenny Webster interviews Power the Future's Daniel Turner.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, if you enjoy the Walton Johnson Show like we do,
then you might also enjoy the Pursuit of Happiness show
in the afternoon with oh Kenney Webster there.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
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not using it, does he? Hi, Welcome back everybody. Our
younger listeners will understand that joke. The older ones might not.
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(00:37):
does he? There, now the older listeners get the joke. Hi, everybody,
welcome back from break And if you live in the
greater Houston area, I hope you're safe because crime exists.
It's rampant in big cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Texas,
New York City, and of course Washington, DC. Even when
they say crime is down, it still ain't great, is it.

(00:58):
I was in New Orleans recent and I tell you
one thing I've noticed is New Orleans hard to believe
has actually really improved over the last year or two.
All they did was bring in Louisiana State troopers to
police the streets when the New Orleans Police Department wasn't
doing it. Mayor LaToya Cantrell, she's the mayor in New Orleans.

(01:20):
She had a sexual relationship with her bodyguard, a local
police officer. And look, I'm not saying that's all the
cops in New Orleans doing, but there's not only part
of it. If you're in New Orleans, you notice things changed.
Why because they brought in a bigger police force from
outside the city to help them clean things up.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Does that sound familiar? Washington, d C. Not a great
place to live.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Less than a month ago, one of their top police
commanders had to step down in disgrace when it turned
out he was lying about police statistics. Imagine that. Well,
now we've learned that Donald Trump is sending in the
National Guard to help out the people in the city.
I like washing to DC. I'll tell you I haven't
been there since Labor Day weekend twenty nineteen. It's been

(02:04):
several years since I visited the city. I was there
the last time. I think it was good when Donald
Trump was in one point zero, but right before the pandemic.
So I wanted to get a real opinion what's it
actually like in the city in terms of violence and
danger and crime. So I reached out to a friend
of mine who spent a lot of time in the city.
And if you listen to this radio show, you've heard

(02:24):
his opinions before. Daniel Turner from Power the Future is here. Daniel,
you lived in Washington.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
D C.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I guess it's just a squeaky clean, safe place to
lave where you don't have to lock your doors today.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Right, It's remarkable that the blowback that this executive order
and his actions by the president is taking, because again
it's one of those eighty twenty issues where the left
is just so hell bent on being anti Trump and
whatever Trump does is bad, so we have to do
the opposite. But there are a lot of liberals in

(02:55):
DC who will welcome this. They won't say it publicly
because they're cowards, but they will welcome this. I wrote
an obed back in twenty twenty about leaving DC and
moving to the country. It's when I decided I was
going to be a farmer and I was getting out.
And it's probably the most controversial i'bed I ever wrote
because a lot of you know, even friends of mine

(03:16):
called it racist and called it offensive, and I was
like to think I was five years ahead of the curve.
I saw what was coming with politics, arrangements to syndrome
and appeasing radical black groups, radical BLM groups, and appeasing
them by just turning a blind eye to crime. And

(03:36):
I knew what was headed and I said, I don't
want to be part of this anymore. Not only don't
want to be part of it, I'm not allowing my
tax dollars to finance it anymore. And so that's when
I moved to the country and I bought a farm
and I became a step farmer, which is a big transition,
because I got tired of my tax dollars supporting a

(03:57):
system that treated me with such and they really do
hate me in Washington, d City and a lot of
what I'm frustrated about, which I'm sure Houstonians and all
big city folks. And remember, if your listeners know, I
was born and raised in New York City, so I
really am an urban eide at heart. I got tired

(04:17):
of Kenny calling the police when every window in my
car was smashed and the response being well, you must
have left something on the seat right. I got tired
of hearing friends getting jumped and the response being well,
you shouldn't have walked down U Street at two in
the morning, and getting you know, mugged on the subway
or the metro as they call it in d C.
And being told, well, you know what, you really shouldn't

(04:39):
have gotten off at that station. And there's this mentality
that criminals don't have to live in fear. Criminals. Criminals
need their space. Remember we saw that during the BLM riots.
They need their space to protest, their space to burn.
I knew the crap was hitting the fan, and I
fled a while ago. I have my own security force.

(05:01):
Now they're called aggressive dogs and lots and lots of guns,
and I've never slept better at night. But it is
it is embarrassing that there are people on the list
who are so full of hatred of Donald Trump that
they will look at a city that is genuinely in
decline and dangerous and filthy and and and say, Nope,
it's fine Trump. Trump is the wrong. Trump is in

(05:22):
the wrong here. That's the level of insanity our country
has come to.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
You know, I remember who was it that said we
should just let him riot and get it out of
their system. Was that the mayor of Philadelphia? I forget
what big city it was, and.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Minneapolis as well, that little thin shouldered guy who just
lost to the Somali national Jared whatever his name is,
but yeah, he was the one who also remember him
taking a knee weeping at the George Floyd coffin. I
cried very heavily when my dad died, but I never
snibbled like that man did before George, I think George

(05:58):
Floyd's coffin. And that's the frustrating thing. You know, these
are hard conversations to have because whenever we talk crimes, sadly,
it leads to conversations of race, and no one wants
to have a conversation about race because it makes everybody uncomfortable. But,
for goodness gracious, how much longer are we going to
pretend that it is normal for eighty five percent of

(06:21):
black youth to be fatherless, to have eighty percent of
them not perform at grade level, to have the majority
of them with multiple crimes before they hit their sixteenth birthday,
and we're just supposed to pretend that it's the system.
I saw a guy on Twitter yesterday who was saying
how this is all the fault of white America, And

(06:41):
I thought, this is a majority black city with a
black police force, a black mayor, a black city council.
You know, let's have the difficult conversation of race. But
you need to pen this on your own community. And
it's tragic that we've allowed this. It's tragic. You know,
if you want to have some controversy, there is no
one who hates Black America more than black elected officials

(07:05):
and the Shila Jackson Lee's and the Maxine Waters. They
will let their constituents live in misery and danger and
drugs and filth and ignorance and poverty so long as
it keeps them in power. And what black politicians have
done to black generations of people that we've allowed our cities.
And again, I'm an urbanite, I was born and raised.

(07:26):
I am like eight or nine generations New York City.
What we have allowed to happen to our great cities,
all in the sense of equity and diversity, is shameful
because no one has had it worse than those four
black kids who have grown up in just the worst
of circumstances and we've turned a blind eye because we're
afraid of awkward conversations that may get me canceled. Kenny,

(07:47):
I know not from you and from our friendship, but
if this video, if this conversation goes national, you know,
people are going to come after me because that's just
the way we respond to the truth.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, to your point, one in three black men in
Texas voting for Republicans and nobody. We haven't seen that
in decades, right, generations, really, And you just made the
point that this is an uncomfortable conversation. I find two
groups of people are usually more comfortable with talking about
race than others, Black people and conservatives. White liberals get
very squeamish. They don't like talking about it because of

(08:20):
their own personal guilt. And I think that that actually
is one of the underdiscussed reasons why black people might
be moving towards the right.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Of course, Donald Trump had a lot to do with it.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But here in our home city, with all this talk
about crime in big cities, it reminds me of our
own mayor, John Whitmyer.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
John Whitmyer is a lifelong Democrat.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
He's a classic Democrat, classic liberal from the twentieth century.
When he was a state senator for a very long time,
he voted with the Democrats on everything. There was only
one thing that made him conservative when he took over
as mayor of Houston. He actually wants laws to be enforced.
He actually wants criminals to stay in jail. And for
the crime of sharing that opinion, the people in the

(08:59):
far left in his own party are now pushing a
recall effort to remove him from office. You know the
Democrat Party is in trouble when a lifelong Democrat is
being threatened by members of his own party with being
removed from office just simply because he doesn't want dangerous, Finally,
criminals roaming the street.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Your reaction to that, Daniel Turner, It.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Is pure evil to allow a criminal element to fester
in society because you don't want to have the difficult
conversation or because that element gives you power. Right, and
part of the biggest philosophical difference between left and right
when it comes to this issue is that I genuinely
believe the right wants to empower people so that they

(09:42):
can live their own damn life. The left wants to
make people dependent on government forever. And it is why
the left hates charter schools. That it is why it
wants government housing, government, cheese, government food programs, government welfare checks,
government everything government. Because as soon as you don't need government,
why do I need Maxine Waters? Right, Why do I
need any of you folks? If I have my own

(10:04):
autonomy and my own paycheck and my own education and
my job, I don't need government for any of these things.
And that's what we have done to all minority groups,
but especially black groups. We've allowed them to live on
dependency of government because it makes you powerful. And that's
just that is a level of evil that God alone
can forgive.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I never will One person you would not expect to
agree with Daniel Turner and I and presumably a lot
of people listening right now, is Joe Scarborough, the morning
show host on MSNBC.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Is an ex Republican.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Liberal squish, somebody that pushes the Democrat agenda passionately, fervently,
and he is out right now saying that Democrats in
DC are privately cheering Trump's move to crack down on
the crime.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Will just go back to the fact that you know,
the people that are cheering this on privately are not
like right wing Republicans are not maga people. A lot
of our friends are in the media, and also Democrats
that worked on Joe Biden's campaign, that worked on other
campaigns that are saying, yeah, I'd like to feel safe
walking around this city. If the federal government can be

(11:15):
a positive partner in keeping the street safe while again
forming a partnership with the DC police and not taking over,
then I at least the people I've spoken with that
live in DC day in, day out see this as
a positive step.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Wow, Joe Scarborough, Daniel Turner, I mean from his mouth,
I mean it must be real.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's that's that's tremendous bravery, right. And and you know
how much of America goes to bed every night, locking windows,
locking doors, putting on alarm systems, making sure there's nothing
in the car. What a horrible existence that these folks have.
And and I don't think people know the peace of

(12:02):
mind that you have when you live in rural America,
that you know I shouldn't give this out because well
I can, because you can't. I don't lock a damn thing.
I don't even have a key to my house. I
don't think right, I have, like said, loud dogs who
will attack, and I have lots of guns and I
live in rural America. It is It is evil, Kenny.
It is evil that we allow so many people every

(12:24):
night to live in fear and we do nothing about it.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Daniel Turner Powerthefuture dot com is the website. Follow him
on x you'll be glad you did a lot of
great information about national and local political issues. A fantastic
resource for those of you in the energy industry.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about it is little Kenny. Oh sorry, bro,
I mean big Kenny.

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