KATRINA: The Real Meaning of the 2nd Amendment is Found When Society Implodes

Too many Americans do not fully understand the depths and true intent of the 2nd Amendment, but the people of New Orleans were acutely aware of it in the wake of Katrina, where the criminals and the cops joined forces to prey upon the citizens. Police officers did not merely assault and batter unarmed citizens and rape unarmed women, they also indiscriminately murdered many unarmed citizens, including shooting a mentally disabled man in the back as he fled from them in terror after they opened fire on a group of citizens seeking help, and one cop walked up to his wounded body and kicked/stomped the man's head until he was dead. 

So, how about you? Are you ready to deal with such chaos? You'd better be, it's coming.

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to you very quickly. Okay, let's, you know, I love to try to talk about current
things as much as possible. But I also like to reference past events and gain
knowledge and understanding from them. And I think we're foolish not to do things
like that. It's said that the only thing that men never learn from history is that
men never learn from history, and I think that's true. And when we don't learn from
history, we are doomed to repeat it. And Unfortunately, history continues to repeat
itself and will continue to repeat itself until the age of man is over and God has
had the final say.
One of the reasons I'd like to go back in even into more recent events,
not just the Revolutionary War and not just us leaving England and not those far
back. I'm talking about even more contemporary things that we can learn from and yes
even some that happen here in the 21st century. So what I'd like to really drive
home in this episode is for us to just give up this notion that the Second
Amendment is primarily about just defending yourself and putting meat on the table.
No, that is not true, and yet that's part of it. But those are secondary and
tertiary items. They are not the primary reason that the founders wanted us to be
able to defend ourselves, not just individually, but as a collective military body.
Let's go ahead and just drive that home. The Second Amendment is far more than just
about hunting and personal events. The Second Amendment is about American citizens
being armed and trained as warriors and being able to meet all possible threats with
defensive force, and that includes up to and including our own government,
or even local government officials. You understand there's been quite a few skirmishes
throughout American history between citizens and local officials. Google the Battle of
Athens, Tennessee, and you'll get some idea just from that one alone. But bad things
have been happening here in America for a long time, believe it or not. Where we
are always, There are constant reasons and necessities laid upon the citizenry to arm
up and defend themselves with deadly force against the threats that they are facing.
And that is what needs to be vocalized far and wide in this country.
I am sick to death, oh well, the Second Amendment primarily about, you know, being
able to go hunting and being able to defend yourself. Nope, it's far more than
that. And that's why they, that's, that's why they're able to make stupid arguments
like you don't need an AR -15 to defend yourself. Well, no, maybe not in the day
-to -day course of life, but if, God forbid, any of our local officials here in
Brevard County, Florida, or state officials here in the state of Florida, decide to
wax despotic. We the people have every right and duty to be armed with the whatever
weaponry we find necessary to defend ourselves and defeat our foe.
I said defeat our foes, whomever they may be,
especially those who are waging war against the Constitution. See than just defending
ourselves. You see, I want to do more. If I have to defend myself, the way to
defend myself is to defeat my opponent, my assailant, my adversary,
defeat them. That is, make them either unable or unwilling to fight any longer.
If then, if that includes them expiring, then so be it. But that's the notion we
have to have if we're going to be the warriors our founders intended for us to be.
So the primary reason the Second Amendment not only exists but was pinned and
adopted in 1791 is to put us American citizens on an equal footing when it comes
to facing off against any tyrants regardless of their form, their social status,
their location or their size, and that includes us being armed with whatever we need
to do, whatever we need to have to defend ourselves against these threats.
I don't care if it's short barreled rifles or short barreled shotguns or even short
barreled rifles with suppressors on them. How about machine guns? Yep. Striker
vehicles. Yep. A1M1 Abrams, M1A1 Abrams tanks. Yep.
Mortars. Yep. Anti -tank cannons. Yep. RPGs. Yep. All of them.
We have a right to them. Not only that, we have a duty to them. If we're going
to function as the militia, our founders intended for us to be. If you don't
believe that, I really don't care. I know most of my audience believes that, but
this needs to be propagated from C to shining freaking C. This is enough of this,
oh, we have a right to defend ourselves. No, let's take it to the instigree that
our founders intended. We have a right to defend ourselves against our own
government, and that was their primary reason for instituting it, okay?
Within our supreme law. So, first, primarily, they pinned the Second Amendment so
that people could mount a successful defense even up to and including their own
government if it should wax despotic and tyrannical. And if you suppose this would
never happen in the United States, I'm telling you that such things have already
happened here, and yes, I'm talking about in the 21st century. Secondarily,
personal and family defense. Yes, personal and family defense, defense of self and
family and heart and home, especially during times of lawlessness when the police and
/or the military are unable to, or even unwilling to help. He's all, "Royce,
come on, that's not gonna happen in this modern day and age, man, maybe back in
the days of the frontier. No,
you really? I have a very contemporary example for you,
and it's one that I cite often on this program.
Thirdly, sustenance hunting comes into play. That is, having to take game for our
nourishment and sustainment. Lastly, because I hear people say the second amendment is
about sport shooting and personal defense. Bull fertilizer. Sport shooting was the
last thing the founders gave half a crap about. I know nothing wrong with sport
shooting. I know quite a few sport shooters. Matter of fact, my audiologist, whose
website is attached to this very episode, Ear Care of Melbourne, Mr.
Oberbeck there. Glenn is one heck of a competitor and a sports shooter and he is
about to tell you what that dude knows his stuff. I pity any criminal that might
tangle with him if he's armed and he's always armed. I assure you because well
that's what we Americans do okay. So I want to quote this statement that I did at
the end of the program on the last episode. And you know what, I think I'm going
to quote this thing every single episode until we all have it memorized.
It was a quote from Tench Cox as he wrote in the Pennsylvania Gazette,
February 20th, 1788. That's a full three years before the adoption of the Second
Amendment into the Bill of Rights into the Constitution. He asked, rhetorically,
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared,
then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom?" Well, let me
answer that real quick. No, it's never feared by the government. What the government
fears is us turning our arms against them if they get a little too criminally
minded with us. Anyway, Congress has no power, in other words, no constitutional
authority to disarm the militia, that is, the people. Their swords and every other
terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of an American. The unlimited
power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments,
but where I trust in God it shall ever remain in the hands of the people.
Now let's give an example of what governments do to people.
Now we see here's the other part. This really weird notion that our government is
benevolent and that they only just make mistakes every now and then. That's a
fallacy and it's not true. Government power. Not only does it corrupt,
but it also attracts the corrupt, the corrupted. Yes, it attracts evil people,
because evil people seek out positions of power and authority. So it always attracts
the sociopaths and the psychopaths, it seems. And that's true,
unfortunately, whenever there's a lack of accountability. And this story I'm going to
reference many of you are already aware of. And it was the massacre that took place
against Sioux Indians, Lakota Sioux, Native Americans. And it happened at Wounded
Knee. No, some of y 'all think Wounded Knee was the assault by Tanya Harding against
Nancy Kerrigan. No, that's a different story. This one was much worse and it
involved much more than a wounded knee. And here's an article I'm going to be
referencing heavily throughout here in an article by Tom Nighton. It says, "One
massacre illustrates why the Second Amendment exists." He said, "There's no real
debate about 9 /11 being the worst massacre in American history, at least within the
context of someone or group, killing as many people as quickly as possible generally
in a single day. But before then, there was another massacre that reigned supreme,
and while it involved plenty of guns, making it an exception to my look at
massacres of the past where they weren't used, it's actually a great example of why
we need the Second Amendment. You see, this one was carried out by the United
States government. Now, before you go, well, that was back then. Oh,
are you forgetting Waco? Hmm? And so many other things.
Yeah. Are you forgetting the murder of over 10 ,000 Americans during prohibition by
the government? In 1890, the United States Army launched a campaign against the
Lakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They were dealing with settler concerns
that the ghost dance the Lakota were engaging in might lead to a resurgence of
conflict with white residents of the area. Well, hey, you know what? They should
have passed universal background check laws back then. Then Then they wouldn't have
to worry about it, huh? Oh, maybe an assault weapon ban too. Or you know what?
Red flag laws, that oughta do it. But this is essentially what they were enforcing
was a red flag law, if you really think about it. In principle,
it is 100 % a red flag law. People were concerned and worried and afraid that these
Native Americans might just get violent again. Gee, I wonder why they would want to
do that.
And they said, "Oh, we want them. We want them disarmed." And so Papa Government,
the great white grandfather's, rode to the rescue
and butchered a lot of people. Okay? So on December 29th,
1890, the Army troops sought to disarm the Lakota people they'd surrounded the day
before. One of the Lakota, a deaf man, a lot like your host,
didn't understand what was happening and resisted handing over his rifle, arguing that
he'd paid for it. Well, I'm of the same mindset. If I paid for it, you're not
taking it. In the struggle, the gun went off, and hell fell upon the Lakota.
By the time everything was done, more than 250 Lakota were killed. Many of them,
civilians versus 25 U .S. soldiers, six more died later on from wounds sustained
during that engagement, but It was later determined that most of those soldiers were
hit by friendly fire. Even more disgusting, I'm adding this part, 20 soldiers
received medals of honor, yes, medals of honor for butchering unarmed men,
women, and children of the Lakota. Mr. Knighton continues.
Now let's understand that the Lakota hadn't actually done anything hostile, people
were worried they might. "Which sounds an awful lot like red flag laws if you ask
me," he said. Then the soldiers sought to disarm people who hadn't actually done
anything wrong, during which there was an accident and the soldiers responded by
shooting everything that moved. "Oh Royce, this is an old example now.
Come on, man. Nothing's happened like that, you know, any time in our, you know,
contemporary years here, bull fertilizer. And matter of fact,
a lot of it happened exactly the same freaking way. We'll talk about that in a
minute. This, of course, is the problem with forcibly disarming people,
especially those who didn't do anything wrong. The Deaf Native American isn't that
much different than someone who simply doesn't understand why the cops are at his
door with a court order to take his guns away. At the end, hundreds were
slaughtered. The Second Amendment wasn't considered applicable to the Indian nations of
the time, though. They were largely viewed as having no rights at all under the
law, which is why so many treaties were ignored when it became convenient.
You see the government is a lot like fire and I've said this before on this
program so I totally agree with Mr. Knight in here. It's got its purpose, but it's
dangerous if you don't maintain strict control over it. Amen and amen. We've
certainly been finding out how dangerous it can be with all the doge findings,
but he said, "Don't suppose for a second that Wounded Knee cannot happen again." It
most certainly can, Waco is a prime example, but the Second Amendment means that
it's a whole lot less likely to happen, all because our Founding Fathers understood
the necessity of government but also understood that it should never be trusted.
Okay, again, you might say we're voiced that was a long time ago. Mr. Nighton, that
was a nice article, but that was a long time ago. That would never happen in
America today.
Oh, really? Well, when we come back after this brief commercial timeout,
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We've been discussing the necessity of the Second Amendment and the necessity of
viewing it for what it is and why we need it and the the reasons the founders
chose to instill it in the supreme law to recognize the right of self -preservation
not just on an individual basis but on a collective basis as a neighborhood or as
a county or as a city or state, whatever the case may be, if people are facing a
threat to them and need to arm up and band together and organize to take on that
threat. That's the primary reason of the Second Amendment. It has nothing to do with
bird hunting, buck hunting, sports shooting, anything like that. Primarily,
the defense of a nation. Secondary was the defense of one's self and family and
hearth and home. The rest of that, the sports shooting and hunting, those were
nowhere near as important to the founders as the first two. Now remember I said in
the first portion and I made a rhetorical comment where I assumed that some doubter
might say Royce, come on. "Wounded Knee" happened back in 1890.
Nothing has happened here in this country like that since.
Really. Again, I'm gonna reference the government killing over 10 ,000 people with
poisoned alcohol. I'm going to also reference the Battle of Athens, Tennessee.
Google it, you'll see what I'm talking about. Yes, there have been many instances in
the history of this nation where a group of people, whether it's townsfolk or county
folk, had to band together and pick up arms to defend themselves.
Oh, how about the great Northfield, Minnesota raid by the James Younger gang? Yeah.
The people in Minnesota were on to them and they had a feeling that they might
make their way north to Minnesota. And so the town of Northfield had a plan.
And that plan involved a welcome committee, unlike anything the James Younger gang
had ever faced before. Because it involved, whoa, a lot of guns being pointed at
them and fired at them. Bob Younger himself took 17 hits and somehow still managed
to stay alive. I am sure he's probably a lot heavier considering the weight of
those bullets back in those days, but you get my point. There have been many places
in our history where we have had to band together to fight for survival against
tyrants and marauding criminals and people of amoral structure,
people who are morally dyslexic, people who prey upon others during critical times
and times of disaster and things like that, predators who take advantage of other
people and their weaknesses. That constant has been going on since Cain rose up and
slew Abel in the book of Genesis. Now here's an article I'm going to read to you
from 20 years go. There's two articles, actually.
And I'm going to tell you these stories and read these stories to you from these
articles, the first one by John Burnett from December 21st, 2005.
And we had an incident in this country back in 2005, in August,
I believe, when Hurricane Katrina, which I've referenced here many times, Swept
through New Orleans and did unspeakable damage not just when it may landfall and not
just on its way out. But the aftermath that happened there and the chaos and the
social breakdown that took place in New Orleans. Can happen anywhere and your dad
got well better be ready for it you've heard me talk about it on this program so
many times people here's a prime example of it so this article the headline is more
stories emerge of rapes in post Katrina now remember I told you before there was
later found out that a lot of police officers were involved in those rape gangs oh
come on Royce that's a stretch Uh, is it? Oh, you remember me talking about here
on this program just a few weeks ago about the father in London who has been
trying to rescue his daughter from rape gangs there in Rotherham, finding out later
that many officers in the Rotherham Police Department were part of that rape gang.
How about that? Gee, uh, all that, all that happened prior there, too, as the Brits
were disarmed. Hmm. You understand now why I would never let myself be disarmed,
right? Here's the article by John Burnett from 2005. Law enforcement authorities
dismissed early reports of widespread rapes in New Orleans during the lawless days
following Hurricane Katrina. Again, I'm gonna remind you it was later ascertained that
some of them were cops. But a growing body of evidence suggests that there are more
storm -related sexual assaults than previously known. I'm only reading excerpts of this
article, by the way. Judy Benitez is executive director of the Louisville Foundation
Against Sexual Assault, a statewide coalition of rape crisis centers, and she says as
she watched New Orleans descend into chaos After Katrina she knew what would happen.
Okay, and then people y 'all need to get hold of that, too You know, I don't think
you understand how quickly Social services could break down and be non -existent. Yes
services you depend on now. Oh Daddy having a heart attack call 911.
They'll be here in a few minutes Someone trying to kick in your back door call
911. Somebody be there in a few minutes Your city's descending into chaos after a
horrific hurricane has wiped out everything and wiped out infrastructure and the
command center and police communications and everything else. Give them a call if you
want and they're going to help you. You probably won't even get through. What it
will do though is notify corrupt cops where your position is and they'll probably
come pay you a visit but not to take your report, Yeah, to take something else
This lady said and her name being come on get back there Judy Benitez She said
what you had was a situation where you got a tremendous number of vulnerable people
and then some predatory people Who had all of the reasons to take their anger out
on someone else? She said drug and alcohol use is another contributing factor, and I
believe that too. And no police presence to prevent them from doing whatever they
wanted to, to whomever they wanted to. One of the victims is Ms.
Lewis, a 46 -year -old home healthcare worker from New Orleans East who asked that
her name not be used. Ms. Lewis said she was raped on Monday, August 29th,
the day of the storm. The account of her rape was, I think,
day after the storm. The counter of her rape was verified by a trained forensic
nurse at Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge, where Lewis later sought treatment.
Lewis and others had taken refuge in the redemption elderly apartments in the Irish
Channel section of New Orleans. On that first night after the storm, the city had
lost power and she was sleeping in a dark hallway trying to catch a breeze. It was
there, she says, that an unknown man with a handgun sexually assaulted her. He raped
her. She asserted that building, that multiple other women, were raped in the same
apartment building over the next four nights, but her claim could not be checked
out. Probably because nobody wanted to talk about it, except to their of victims.
Ms. Lewis said, "Some bad things happened, you know. There was nobody there to
protect you. Listen, listen carefully." Recalling her attack, she sobbed,
"They just left us here to die. Nobody cared." After her rape,
Lewis says, there were no clinics open, so she washed herself with bleach. She
stated, All I could do was pray, pray for rescue, pray that I didn't have any type
of sexually transmitted disease. Lewis says that later in the week, National Guardsmen
forced evacuees out of the building at gunpoint. They were finally able to leave the
city on Saturday. She says she tried to report the assault by that time, but
authorities weren't listening. She said the police were stressed out themselves.
They didn't have any food. They didn't have water. They didn't have communication.
They didn't have ammunition. The National Guardsmen didn't wanna hear it. Well,
she didn't think they had ammunition, but they did and that's gonna come up in the
next story.
Experts say it was the perfect environment to commit a crime and the worst
environment to report a crime, the police department reeling from desertions flooded
and the flooding and the immensity of the disaster was in survival mode itself.
Civil disorder had, I'm sorry, civil order had completely broken down,
yes, into civil disordering. Now, let me ask you something. How much guns and ammo
how many guns and how much ammo would you like to have in the aftermath of
something like that? Hmm. You think about that now and you start buying it now
Because this is just one thing. There are multiple natural disasters that could lend
to such things Easily all over again And if you're not prepared,
Well, you better be prepared to accept what's coming.
Anastasia is a petite 25 -year -old hairdresser who asked that her last name be
omitted. She contacted the NOPD in October and filed a report that she had been
beaten with a bat and raped on September 6 after the storm in broad daylight next
to a flooded McDonald's at Gentilly Boulevard in the Elysian Fields near her father's
house. Anastasia says thugs were still wandering the streets of her neighborhood more
than a week after the flood. She said, "I didn't see any police officers.
I could have gotten away with murder. It was that terrible, so I can assume what
the criminals were thinking, and that's exactly what happened. Under the best of
circumstances, rape is one of the hardest crimes to solve. In New Orleans last year,
there was a rape every other day on average. National surveys show that half of all
sexual assaults are never reported. Well, I tell you what, ladies, there's a way to
fix that, and you start shooting your attacker. And the only thing you'll have to
report then is why he's laying there with a hole in his face. Judy Benitez of the
Louisiana rape crisis group says the non -report rate would be far higher given the
nightmare of Katrina. She said the fact that something wasn't reported to the police
doesn't mean it didn't happen. We know all about other things that happened, all the
thefts, all the robberies. There was all kinds of crime taking place on a much
higher level than usual. "Why would we think there was less rape typical of any
given week in the city? It doesn't make sense." Okay, yeah, that was just a bunch
of criminals running loose and raping people. There was nothing in that article about
cops actually doing that. No, not that article, but there are other articles that
definitely brought that out. Not only that, the police were doing a lot more and a
lot worse than just raping women. hmm they were committing wholesale murder some of
them yeah multiple of them actually matter of fact here's an article from 2010 five
years after Katrina and this is the headline six New Orleans police officers charged
in post Katrina murders you got that
Murders. Yes, that means these police officers turned into freaking predators and
killed people. Oh, come on, Royce, how do you know those weren't defensive shootings?
They got blown out of control. You know, like the George Floyd crap and all that.
Well, you listen and you tell me. This is an article by Jordan Flaherty, who is a
journalist, a TV and film producer, a author of the book's floodlines and also the
book No More Heroes. Mr. Flaherty started this way.
This week federal officers charge six current and former New Orleans police officers
in connection with the killing of civilians in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
The six are not only accused of murder but also of inspiring to hide their crime
through, listen, secret meetings, planting evidence, inventing witnesses,
false arrests, and perjury. Okay, people, when law and order breaks down,
there is no law and order. And police officers that do this have crossed the line,
had now become criminals. And you are not required to accept their abuse simply
because they wear a badge. You're welcome. Because they wear a badge doesn't mean
they wear a crown. For the officers, by the way, we're facing the death penalty.
They didn't get the death penalty. They got like some of them got 40, some of them
got 65 years in prison. Good. May they rot there. It says while the details of
their charges are shocking, much of the media has missed the real story and that is
the corruption and violence are endemic in the New Orleans Police Department and
wider systemic changes needed not just in police personnel but in the city's overall
criminal justice system. What are they talking about? A corrupt police department that
was corrupt prior to Katrina. So what do you think they did after Katrina?
Do you think they suddenly became civic minded and suddenly and suddenly we need to
protect the public. After all, we are cops, guys, come on. Let's quit doing the
crimes and let's start helping people, okay?
Bullfertilizer, if you're so damn corrupt that you start thinking so stinking
selfishly that you use your badge to wield power over others selfishly,
you're a criminal, you're a criminal. They said in the days after the flooding of
New Orleans police officers were told they were defending a city under siege and
were given tacit permission to use deadly force at their own discretion. Oh gee,
what could go wrong? At the time no one in power seemed to be interested in
looking into the details of who was killed and why. For more than For years,
these post -Katrina murders were ignored by the city's district attorney, the
Republican U .S. attorney, and even the local media. But in late 2008,
ProPublica and The Nation, which was a publication, published the results of an 18
-month investigation by journalist A .C. Thompson. Under new leadership,
the Department of Justice, that is the one under George W. Bush, began its own
inquiries soon after Thompson's report. FBI agents reconstructed crime scenes,
interviewed witnesses, and seized officers' computers. Disturbing revelations have
continued to unfold since then, as the mounting evidence against them has forced a
growing number of cops to confess. Now, among the most shocking cases was what
happened on September 2, four days after Katrina made landfall, Henry Glover was shot
by one officer, not one officer who was with other officers, and then he was taken
hostage while he was still alive and they took him away somewhere and they found
his charred remains weeks later and they were never able to figure out if he was
killed before before he was set on fire or if he was burned alive.
Okay, people were talking about police officers doing this. Also on September 2nd,
Denny Brunfield Sr., a 45 -year -old man stranded with his family at the Norlands
Convention Center was deliberately hit by a police car as he tried to wave them
down for help and then one of the cops got out of the car in front of scores of
witnesses shot him repeatedly in the back until he was dead. Why?
Good question. Why? Oh Roycer had to be more to it than that. No. No,
these guys got sentenced to lengthy prison, decades in prison, in federal freaking
prison. This was more than just a bad shooting, a bad defensive shooting.
This was murder, cold blooded. These guys were getting their jollies off, hitting
people with their cars and gunning them down. Look, I'm going to tell you right
now, these six that got caught and prosecuted, there was plenty of others that got
it for less because they couldn't prove they had killed people. All these people
were all powerless to do anything. These people that sat there and watched this cop
run this man over with their car and then get out and finish him off with gunfire.
They were all unarmed. They had been unarmed by the local police and by the
National Guardsmen and they had been disarmed at gunpoint. On September 4th,
2005, on New Orleans, Danziger Bridge, a group of police officers drove up to
several unarmed citizens who were fleeing their flooded homes and simply opened fire.
Oh, gosh, come on, man. Somebody give me a bad report here. The people probably did
something to try to hurt the note they drove to them they drove up to them if
these people were a threat they would have gone the other way if they were really
afraid they drove up to them got out of their vehicles and simply opened fire two
of the people were killed including a mentally challenged man named Ronald Madison
and four others were seriously injured. Now, Mr. Madison was not only shot in the
back by Officer Robert Falcon, F -A -U -L -C -O -N.
Yeah, Mr. Officer Falcon shot him in the back as he was running away.
And then Officer Kenneth Bowen rushed up to this mentally challenged man as he lay
there on the ground with a gunshot wound to his back and kicked and stomped him on
his head until he knew he was dead.
Do you understand the violence of something like that? I mean, you really wanna make
sure someone's dead. You gotta be driving the heels of your boot down hard around
the temple area and into the ear and elsewhere else to make sure that you crushed
that skull, which is what he did to this mentally challenged man who had been shot
in the back, trying to run away from people with badges who had now turned the
corner and had become murderous predatory criminals who needed to be shot in the
face with buckshot. Roy, you shouldn't talk about shooting cops like that. I would
shoot every one of those cops had I've been in that situation, 'cause number one, I
would not be unarmed ever. Not just not on your freaking life.
Had the guardsmen come to my door and kicked it in and pointed their rifles at me,
I guarantee I'd be waiting for him. I'd probably go down with a sucking chest wound
or a head shot, whatever, I don't care. I'm taking at least two or three of them
with me. You better believe that.
Just Think about that. What it takes to do that? Shoot a man in the back and then
one of your buddies runs up, kicks him, stomps him on the head till he's dead. You
understand what it takes to do something like that? The evil in a person's heart
that's required to drive someone to do that. These people were not street criminals.
They were badge -wearing police officers who took an oath to uphold and defend the
Constitution.
How do you like that? And you think these people are going to side with you if
the government ever sides against us?
They will turn on you without batting an eye. Officer Falcon and Bowen were among
those charged this week in a 27 count indictment that lays out the disturbing chain
of events on the bridge. The post -Katrina killings also led investigators into
further inquiries. The feds have already announced that they're looking into at least
eight other cases, including incidents that occurred in the summer before Katrina and
in the years after. And as high -ranking officers confess to manufacturing evidence,
their confessions bring a doubt to scores of other cases they have worked on.
Gee, you don't mean a cop would lie and have you falsely charged and imprisoned
now? Yeah, that was going on before and after in New Orleans. Okay Royce,
well that's just New Orleans. That doesn't mean it's gonna happen in my city. Well,
you're right, it doesn't mean that and I hope it doesn't. But how many of you live
in cities and counties and states where corruption is rampant.
I already know all of you in Chicago live in a corrupt city. All of you in New
York City, you live in a corrupt city. Yes, the government is corrupt. You think
they'd be your savior during a terrible incident?
Yeah, you don't know these people.
So, Activist named a wide range of cases from the death of 25 -year -old Genard
Thomas, who was shot by police in front of his father on March 24, 2005, to Sherry
Singleton, shot by police in 1980 when she was naked in a bathtub in front of her
four -year -old child. Several parents and other family members of victims of police
violence have joined in protest in community forums sponsored by the CUC.
The parents of Adolf Grimes III, who was shot 14 times by cops on New Year's Day
in 2009, are among those who have spoken out. And Mr. Grimes' father said we want
those officers incarcerated so they can live with it like we have to live with it.
All the cops involved receive sentences ranging from 40 to 65 years in federal
prison. So you tell me, what if this was you and your family in the aftermath of
a disaster? You're gonna trust the police? Or would you rather be armed and ready
to shoot anyone? And I do mean anyone, including rogue police officers or rogue
soldiers for that matter to shoot anyone attempting to harm you and /or your family.
Is that you, is that something you resolved in your heart? It certainly is in mine,
but I'm telling you what, you better start thinking about that decision right
freaking now instead of wait to your face with it because when you are faced with
it, you're gonna hesitate because you see the badge. And bad things are gonna happen
to you, especially if you are governed by a corrupt police force like New Orleans.
How is your thinking going to change once you realize your survival in that of your
family is dependent upon you being willing to shoot other human beings,
even police officers, even soldiers, or other government officials who have waxed
tyrannical and corrupt and are preying upon your fellow citizens. If you think
they're going to be your defenders during such times, you might want to hit rewind
on this episode and give it another good listen, okay?
How about a quick glance across the pond where the Brits have been disarmed by
their government and now the rape gangs are flourishing with many police officers in
their ranks as we discussed earlier in the program and several episodes back. What
are you going to do? Are you ready to be your own defender up to and even against
police officers if the need be? Now, if you think this program is me trying to get
citizens all ginned up to shoot cops, then you aren't freaking listening to this
program. This program is saying, "What happens when you find yourself in the same
type of position as the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and they found themselves
being preyed upon by rape gangs in which were many police officers, and not only
that, the police officers were killing them and murdering them, shooting them in the
back as they ran away from them and then running up and stomping them to death
with their boots.
What are you going to do? What are you ready to do? To what depths are you
willing to go to defend yourself and your family? And do you have the hardware and
the training and the wherewithal to do just that? You better give it some thought
now before it shows up. I pray it never does, but if it does,
you had dad come well, but better be ready. Or you're gonna be just another
statistic, I can tell you that. So you stay armed up, you stay trained up, and you
stay in contact with your reps, and you try to keep them honest, and you never
forget that incoming rounds always have the right of way. Royce out. (upbeat music)
♪ 'Cause through your baby,
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