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Brad Johnson it is September 11th 2019
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interesting day to begin with but want
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to talk about two things first is a
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general Flint as I recall was one of the
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the first casualties of the whole
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investigation on Trump remember my
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remembering that right and also some
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things have come out lady that might
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indicate that it was an entirely
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fictional the reasons for convicting the
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guy but you know what it’s so it’s just
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a dim echo in the back of my memory
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please straighten me out on that okay
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yeah yes you’re correct general Flynn
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was the first national security adviser
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of the president a head of the National
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Security Council if you will and he now
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the current man John Bolton who has just
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laughed was the third one in under the
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president’s first part of the first part
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of his term first term and which by the
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way is a little bit of a record I’m
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afraid not not the most positive thing
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in the world but yeah general Flynn was
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sort of was forced out and now what’s
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and so he made a plea deal and pled
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guilty and is accepting this type of
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certain type of sentence that was
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negotiated with the prosecutors and then
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presented to the judge who has to accept
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it now what’s very interesting is what
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he did well he’s back in court been back
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in court and a lot over the last week or
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so his last round of court and this is
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something we have talked about in
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previous interviews in his last stint in
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court the judge just berated him you
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know and said you’re willing to be
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branded a traitor after all your years
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in the military and that makes you you
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know no-good so-and-so traitor to your
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country you’re not a patriot you’re not
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anything you know good blah blah blah
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the judge went off on him now he sat
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quietly through all of that and said yes
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you know I accept my sentence and kept
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his mouth shut and just endured the you
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know the verbal beating up of by the
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judge the judge goes out and comes back
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and then
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okay sorry you know you know just
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understanding the situation and so on I
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apologize you know you’re you’re a fine
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person etc but the judge ended up on all
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of this as by basically saying something
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to the effect of I’ve never put an
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innocent man I were never convicted an
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innocent man in a plea deal and I’m not
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going to start now that’s kind of how he
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ended up now there was a great deal of
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legal analysis of what all this means
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now I I don’t even really care about the
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legal analysis of it what I care about
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is the human element of it and I’m not
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looking at the judge as some sort of
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legal entity I’m looking at him as a man
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and as a person how he responded to this
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and let’s not forget judges are people
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too and this judge looked at the
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situation he knows it’s bogus he knew
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way back then it was bogus and doesn’t
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like it because he knows the general
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Flynn as has made this deal basically to
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protect his son now what has slowly come
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out and now what’s being presented in
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court by general Flynn’s new lawyer are
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these details what is surfacing and just
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in a nutshell not raining tremendous
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detail on this but what’s surfacing on
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it is that that and let’s keep in my
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journal Flynn was interviewed by Peter
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straw who’s the disgraced senior FBI
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head of the CI division the
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counterintelligence division yeah so he
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was interviewed by that Geist rock and
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other people as well but out of all of
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those reports that everybody wrote up on
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on meeting him those reports stated that
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the FBI agents all concluded that
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general Flynn was telling him absolute
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truth all along and had nothing to do
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wasn’t doing anything wrong anywhere
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he didn’t perjure himself didn’t do
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anything to mess with their
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investigation told them everything he
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knew in a truthful fashion that was the
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conclusion general Flynn under these
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circumstances has been misinformed to be
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basically completely innocent of what
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the original charges were against him
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and the fear you know the supposed
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reason for the investigation against
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now part of that because this shows that
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behind the scenes there was a lot of
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discussion if he’s innocent
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how do we nail him now what’s important
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about that and deeply significant once
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again the prize in the United States
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Donald Trump is the big winner on this
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the reason is because you know the guy
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he’s innocent but you go after him
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anyway why
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and of course it’s political they needed
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to nail this guy and get him out of
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there to weaken the President of the
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United States and get him who knew a lot
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of how these things work out of the way
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so that he wouldn’t be interfering and
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creating trouble for their operation
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which was to remove the president
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legally elected president United States
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so these pieces of this are starting to
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surface and then this is like two things
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it’s making the president sure you know
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look awfully good that he’s been saying
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all this stuff is fake it’s proof
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documentary proof that this was
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political in nature so they did since
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they couldn’t really find anything that
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general Flynn did wrong
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they went looked and found some things
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about the son now apparently there were
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some questions about the son’s behavior
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I don’t know haven’t really looked at
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the boy don’t really care but the father
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general Flynn did what any loving father
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would do and he’s sacrificing his
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reputation and being convicted of a
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crime has been essentially bankrupted by
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this process to save his son who was
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then being targeted by the FBI and once
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again for political reasons so it’s a
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very very interesting turn of event like
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I said as this Flynn
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case unfolds and with the documentary
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proof that’s there you know why would a
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prosecutor withhold information that
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they’re required through the discovery
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process to provide to the defense team
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and did not so like I said there’s a lot
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of problems starting to unfold there and
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it’s back to the same crew who was there
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at the time Jim Comey Peter struck all
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of all of these same cast of characters
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so
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these you could really there’s a pattern
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starting to develop which is a criminal
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pattern of behavior on their part that
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is politically motivated they did things
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that are fairly black and white as
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illegal for political motives a
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political corruption not a criminal
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corruption I mean in the sense of what I
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the distinction I’m making there is that
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they were politically corrupt not
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corrupt in the sense of like the Mafia
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was paying him fifty thousand dollars
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under the table to leave them alone or
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something it’s it was based on their
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political views they allowed themselves
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to be corrupted where they broke the law
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in order to obtain the political outcome
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that they desired
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now that’s criminal as well they
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politicized their office absolutely
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but beyond politicizing their office
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they they use the powers of government
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to target innocent people for political
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motives now that’s absolutely
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third-world and and let me say I’ve
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lived in most of the rest of the world
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seen or seen most of the rest of the
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world and and spent many many I’ve spent
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decades overseas and the fundamental
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building block of society beyond like
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the family unit but it as a structure
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the fundamental building block of
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society is the legal system if that
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legal system doesn’t work and this is
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something again we’ve discussed
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previously then nothing can work because
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then the only way to enforce laws is not
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through the legal system the only way to
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enforce laws is through the use of force
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and so basically you have everything
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devolve to fiefdom of criminal power
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because who’s willing to go kill people
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to enforce the contract well you know
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not the average person they don’t want
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to do any of that sort of stuff but the
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average criminal is happy to kill
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somebody over money they do it every day
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we see these sorts of murders take place
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worldwide all the time so what happens
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is of course the those groups that are
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perfectly willing and happy to use force
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to get what they want are the ones that
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then 10 the power gravitates to them
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because you can’t go to the legal system
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that’s where you start to see the police
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paid off at and all of those things be a
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problem and even in you know using poor
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Mexico
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why beat up from time to time over these
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sorts of issues they get trapped in this
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cycle of wear that you can’t break out
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the police are paid for by you know a
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lot of the narco traffickers and the net
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transnational organized criminal groups
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because the government can’t afford to
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pay them because they’re bankrupt and to
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be elected in a place like Mexico you
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need a lot of money just like here looks
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like in Canada like everywhere else
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you need money to run for office and to
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win and what does that money come from
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since the economy’s crappy it comes from
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the criminals so to get elected to
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office in Mexico Colombia in many ways
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you require funding and that funding
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it’s just not something you’re gonna
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find in decent people’s hands that are
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willing to give it to you and the people
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that might be able to do that there was
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a Colombian named Galan years ago that
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got murdered by the narco traffickers
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because he was looked like an honest
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politician that was going to take it to
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him so they killed him and that’s the
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problem you know they get into this this
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trap this cycling and can’t get out so
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this this turn towards the perversion of
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our legal system for political gain is
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extraordinarily dangerous it creates
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chaos and that is something that that a
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country of laws like the United States
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and of the Constitution just cannot have
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we cannot allow it and if those people
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have done it to overthrow duly elected
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president United States for their own
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political desires that has to be treated
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in the most harsh manner possible and if
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it does indeed rise to the level of
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treason then everything should be on the
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table for their punishment and as we’ve
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discussed before US Attorney General bar
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has reinstated the federal death penalty
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so if indeed if indeed it’s true that
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and all of this can be proven beyond a
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shadow of a doubt I would say in this
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case then the death penalty should be on
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the table for these people that were
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involved and this this lesson needs to
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be driven home we cannot allow this this
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type of degradation of democracy and if
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the United States goes down the toilet a
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lot of the free world will follow it’s
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it’s going to be very difficult to
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recover and certainly would
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be hundreds of years before we see you
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know I think the level of civilization
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that we’ve enjoyed you know in the
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recent decades to resurface to the
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degree that we’ve seen it and enjoyed it
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you know so I love you know what’s
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tragic is that the people of Hong Kong
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clearly know that in the people of
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Canada do not yes I think you have a
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very valid point I would lump together
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if the Canadians and Americans don’t
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mind I would lump the Canadians and the
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North Americans in the US citizens
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together and on this and very few people
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realize just how valuable these things
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are how dangerous these problems are
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whereas Hong Kong as you say pointed out
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very correctly they’re they’re on the
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cusp of being under the absolute
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dictatorship Bootheel of the Communist
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Chinese party and if they crack down on
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them there is no personal freedom there
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is no personal freedom if you if you
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don’t say what they want you to say and
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if you don’t follow the party orders
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they’ll kill you or put you in jail or
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one way or another dispose of you so I
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certainly don’t want to see that here in
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the United States nor do I want to see
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that in Canada nor do I want to see that
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in Western Europe or really any place
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else if we can free these people to you
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know start to work to their potential
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and everything I’d be better for the
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entire world better trade better economy
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on the on the world stage so this is
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just it’s so fundamentally important and
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yet it’s being treated so trivially by
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certainly the press the mainstream press
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here in the United States and that that
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is a danger that cannot be allowed I’m
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very alarmed I hope that this gets taken
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care of
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I hope AG bar comes through with
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everything that I believe he will and
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will see but I think right now it looks
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like the Flynn general Flynn case has
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jumped to the forefront and his and a
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lot of this through his lawyer his new
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lawyer legal team is are really starting
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to pump these documents out so that gets
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in front of that judge I think the judge
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is gonna be very friendly to this
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because like I said he’s recognized from
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the beginning this whole thing is bogus
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and so this is the right circumstance to
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start to bring these P
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the the criminality of these people to
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the surface so everybody can see it
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so we’ll see it’s it but it’s a very
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very interesting stage and there’s now
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these things unwinds slowly through the
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legal system so it’s not like we’re
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gonna get big pieces out you know
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necessarily every day but there’s going
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to be some major things happening in
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that case over the you know short to
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mid-term and over the next month to
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three which we’re going to start to see
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these things pop up as it winds through
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the legal process so this is something
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for everyone to keep their eye on it’s
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in the scheme of things it’s very
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important for general Flynn personally
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I’m I’m thinking right now he’s got an
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extremely good chance of being
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completely exonerated and in fact the
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people who persecuted him not just
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prosecuting him are going to be in some
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legal trouble so that would be justice
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it appears based on what we see so
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looking forward to see this see this
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unfold
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you
