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Listen now 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.519 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:43.240 your podcasts. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.440 This is It Could Happen Here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.440 news gaest covering what's happening in the White House, the 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.920 crumbling world, what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.480 This episode, I'm joined by Robert Evans, j I'm Stout 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.959 and Sophie Lichtermann. Maybe maybe Sophie will decide to comment 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.160 on some of this important, important news we have today. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.319 To bless us, and maybe Robert will decide to forgive 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.080 you for jumping into giving the title of this show 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.600 and not letting me say electile dysfunction or something like that. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.800 We no, I have not gotten over living. Let's talk 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:27.360 about a pedophile. It's time for your Friday pedophile Update. Yeah, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.200 we call it the FREEO file minutes. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.080 I don't like that. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.280 It is free to callos SO. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.479 On August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, at eight thirty six 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.399 Anno Meridian that means in the morning, the Las Vegas 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.080 Metropolitan Police Department Office of Public Information put up a 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.280 press release with the title eight child sex Predators arrested 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.800 during undercover operation. Now, this was a report on a 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.360 multi agency operation going after child sex predators that was 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.840 headed by the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children or ICY 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.120 the AC Organization, which is a joint operation that involves 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.240 a mix of There's some detectives from the Las Vegas 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.080 Metropolitan to Police, there's some folks from the FBI Child 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.600 Exploitation Task Force, and then I guess the ICAC has 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.840 its own task force. I've never heard of this group before, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.200 but there's there's a number of other law enforcement agents involved, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.119 including North Las Vegas Police Henderson Police who actually posted 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.800 declaration of arrest for the person that we'll be talking about. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.760 That's the Henderson, Nevada Police, Homeland Security Investigations, and the 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.240 Nevada Attorney General's office. This was your standard sting to 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.760 try and catch people who are attempting to have sex 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.720 with kids, where you have undercover agents who are online. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.320 In this case, they were using an app called Pure 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.959 and on WhatsApp. It looks like, as a general rule, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.320 these guys met the person that they thought was a 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.200 minor on Pure and then took the conversation to WhatsApp 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.040 to plan for an in person meeting where they then 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.200 they you know, the whole what's that guy who used 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.400 to do the TV show where he would bust pedophiles 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.560 and there were some ethical problems with Chris Hansen. They'd 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.320 have their Chris Hansen moment, right, No familiar with this, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.000 Oh man, it didn't go well. So the story that 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.639 people have been hearing and that kind of went viral 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.519 out of this is that one of these eight people 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.440 arrested was tom Ardiam Alexandrovitch, who was a high ranking 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.920 cybersecurity official. He was the director of one of the 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.160 divisions of Israel's top cybersecurity agency. So you know, inn 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.200 Israeli government official working in cybersecurity is one of the 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.320 guys arrested. He was in town in Las Vegas for 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.560 the black Hat convention, which is like a hacking convention, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.320 and like a lot of hacking conventions, over time, it 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.560 has turned from a bunch of guys who do not 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.480 like the Feds to just Feds, right, Like, I think 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.040 that that's why the guy guy from israel cybersecurity agency 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.560 is at this thing, hitten on so fed allegedly fifteen 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.720 year olds. So this guy is arrested and then he 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.960 posts bail at ten grand and he flies back to Israel, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.760 which gets a lot of people in an uproar. Obviously, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.960 anything involving officials of the Israeli government is receiving heightened 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.560 scrutiny right now, what with the genocide, and also for 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.760 a long time, there's a lot of evidence of special 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.240 treatment being given to agents of the government of Israel 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.320 by the United States government, and so people are like, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.719 is that what's going on here? Because this seems pretty 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.960 fucked up. And I guess the first thing I should 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.560 say is that it doesn't seem like he's being treated 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.320 differently from anyone else in this sting. This is per 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.040 statements made by the local government and by the Attorney 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.640 General's office. This is the standard bail amount for this crime. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.800 And when people post bail for this crime, which is 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.080 the standard amount of ten grand, there aren't conditions usually 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.760 on the bail, which means it would not be standard 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.120 to stop him from traveling or returning home. He's due 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.800 to return to the United States in several weeks for 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.800 the court proceedings to go on. So the short answer 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.640 to this seems to be that, like, no, this is 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.880 just kind of how the system works, and that might 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.840 not be great, But he doesn't seem to have been 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.040 given special treatment because he was an official of the 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.560 Israeli government. Now, does that mean that that's going to 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.800 prove to be what happens in the long run. No, because, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.039 among other things, he might just not come back to 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.880 the US, and if the Israeli government is a party 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.080 to that, and like there isn't any kind of like 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.360 action taken to like force him to return to go 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.000 through the legal process, then I'd say, yeah, there's something 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.440 to be particularly upset about here. But I think the 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.480 broader thing to maybe be upset about here is that 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.599 guys can get caught for this and then have a 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.839 no condition bail that allows them to flee the country, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.039 which might be a flaw in the system. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:37.520 Right. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.640 I'm a big innocent until proven guilty guy. I'm a 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.000 big reasonable bail guy. But I'm also a big I 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.720 don't know man. Maybe if the agent of a foreign 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.239 government gets caught trying to fuck a child, they shouldn't 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.320 be able to fly back home. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.160 Immediately after they bail out. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:50.640 I don't know. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.480 To seems that it's a reasonable objection. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.800 Yeah, So you know, this is a classic case of 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.320 you've got the story what actually happened here, got how 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.599 it's interpreted online, and then you've got how it's being 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.440 interpreted online by the stupidest person on the world, on 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.880 the planet, in the planet, and in that planet that 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:11.400 didn't work. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.359 Oh it'd be good if he was, wouldn't it in 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:14.239 the molten cools? 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.400 Yeah, that would be nice. You've got how the story 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.960 is being interpreted by particularly bad journalists. Let's say that 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.880 that's the nice way to put it. And I'm talking 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.880 about Michael Tracy. If you're not familiar with Michael Tracy. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.200 He is ostensibly a leftist and anti authoritarian. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:32.760 He's the kind of guy. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.200 Who just sort of reflexibly if the US is involved, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.880 whatever is the worst case scenario for the US doing 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.160 something is what's happening. During the invasion of Ukraine, he 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.760 alleged that the US was sending troops into Ukraine. I 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.120 think because he saw some guys outside of an embassy 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.719 in Poland, some American soldier for. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.160 The marine details and some of the marine detail. It 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.040 was like, we're getting ready to invade. That did not happen. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.680 Now, Michael Tracy has a sub stack of course cases, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.599 and he published an article titled was an Israeli pedophile 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.800 really allowed to flee the United States? And I can't tell. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.760 He starts with like a whole paragraph about Jeffrey Epstein, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.960 and I can't actually tell what his stance is on this, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.600 And I don't really want he's talking about how people 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.040 are eager to prove him wrong about Jeffrey Epstein. I 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.920 have no desire to know what this guy thinks about 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:20.720 Jeffrey Epstein. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.400 Well, this is probably a Jeffrey Epstein was a secret 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:24.760 massad agent type thing. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.120 Well, except for his whole argument here is that there's 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.520 people are being incredibly unreasonable to think that this guy 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.360 is guilty or to think that he probably did anything wrong. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.880 And the reason Michael Tracy suggests that Tom Alexandrovitch probably 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.000 didn't do anything wrong is that the terms of the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.440 app Pure, which is where the authorities say he first 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.920 got in contact with the officer pretending to be a child, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.880 requires you to be eighteen years or older. And in 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.840 this substack to post the terms of service to be like, see, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.040 there is even what appears to be a rig the 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.119 risk age verification process. To ensure that no minor gains 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.040 access to the app, government issued documents must be submitted 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.200 to ensure that only persons at least eighteen years of 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.320 old are allowed on the app. And he's like, does 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.760 this mean the government was faking documents? Was pretending to 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.360 be a child to this app? 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.880 Yet that's what they were doing, Well, they were pretending 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.440 to be a triild Jeremary, Yeah, that's probably what they 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:20.920 were doing. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.560 And the other thing what's really funny about this is like, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.720 that's his whole point is that the app requires them 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.200 to be eighteen, so it's you know, the authorities must 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.200 have been doing something fucked up and lying to the 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.160 app for this to have happened at all. And this 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.760 is just an example of Michael Tracy not reading the 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.040 declaration of arrest, which he links in his article, because 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.080 the declaration of arrest does say that, yes, this person 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.560 got in contact with the undercover agent bearing the peer 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.680 up and then the same sentence says and later WhatsApp 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.120 with phone number dot dot dot and says that on WhatsApp, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.240 this is where they talked about the person in this 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.560 case being a minor, and this is where they set 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.880 up like to arrange a meeting. This is lee cybersecurity 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.760 official was going to take them to circ the slay 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.800 and had them bring a condom like That's all in 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:10.680 the declaration of arrest. Now, obviously Alexandrovitch maintains his innocence, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.640 maintains he thought this person was eighteen all the entire time. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.080 All I've got here is the declaration of arrest. I 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.040 don't have hard evidence, but per the source that Michael 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.680 Tracy cites, like this is not just happening on pure 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.839 This is as is often the case, by the way, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.640 when pedophiles go after kids, they meet them on whatever 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.520 app and then take them to a second digital location, right, Like, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.200 that's just the way these things work. And that's really 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.199 all I have to say about this. You know this, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.520 This is the kind of I mean, maybe keep an 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.240 eye on this in case this guy doesn't go back 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.000 and the Israeli government does hide him. But it's entirely 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.640 possible that this will go the way court cases and 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.559 this sort of thing are supposed to go. There's one 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.560 other funny thing, considering this guy is a high ranking 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.440 Israeli cybersecurity official. There's just like a list of you know, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.200 statements about like what Alexandrovitch said to detectives when he 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.160 was being interrogated, you know this stuff like Alexander Alexandrovitch 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.120 stated he did not know the numbers for the Israeli government. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.640 Alexandrovitch stated his family was an israel Alexandrovitch stated it 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.719 was important he get numbers for his flight, and then 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.720 Alexandrovitch stated his phone does not have a password but 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.040 uses his right thumb print. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:21.160 No a biometric user, cybersecurity expert for the government. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.320 They're not sending the best people. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.240 Oh my god, your fucking thumb print, dude, Your fucking 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.040 thumb print. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:33.320 Okay, yeah, it's just famous most secure possible access code. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.200 Anyway, that's all I've got for peta Friday tune in 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.080 next week we'll have another pedophile for you. I'm sure 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:53.360 of it. Oh yeah, here's ads. All right, we're back, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.400 and it is a pedophile free will. We can't guarantee that, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.760 I suppose, but we are hoping petera free zone from 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:05.479 here on it. Talking of things which are incontrovertibly crimes, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.720 Israel has deliberately murdered for Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.800 Among them was an us Are Sharif, a prominent correspondent 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.280 for the network in Gaza. The IDF also killed correspondent 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:23.840 Mohammed karka, cameraman Ibrahim Zaya, and driver in cameraman Mohammad 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.760 Nofal Al Jazeera has named all of these people. The 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.520 strike also killed two freelancers. One of them was mom 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.040 And Aliwa and al Sharif's nephew, who was a student 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.160 studying journalism for weeks before the liberate and pre meditated 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.760 war crime to war crime under a Roman statute and 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.280 also a violation of the Geneva Conventions because journalists are 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.920 also civilians the idea of engaged in manufacturing consent for 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.520 the strike. They did this three unit that nine to 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.880 seven two magazine has reported on called the quote legitimization cell. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.760 You're always doing great when you have a unit called 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.000 the legitimization cell. Yeah, that's yeah. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.319 It's pretty fucked to quote from the piece which are 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.400 link below. It has been a signed to identify guy 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.920 as a based journalist. It could betray us undercover her 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.720 mass operatives in an effort to blunt growing global outrage 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.000 over Israel's killing of reporters. You should read this article 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.079 like it goes through instances whether they have a very 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.199 clear confirmation bias right, And the case of al Sharifhys 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.640 is a pretty good example of how ridiculous this can be. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.240 They released this document, they tweeted it actually claiming he 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.959 was in her mask from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.440 The document clearly wasn't original document, Like it was a 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.040 PDF done up with like a navy blue background and stuff. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.440 It's laughable to think that they like captured this pdf somehow. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.880 It just doesn't line up. Even if we take that 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.920 to be true, right, that he had been a member 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.760 of her mask till twenty seventeen. That was eight years ago. Like, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.880 isn't the whole point of the thing that they're saying 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.240 that they want people to stop being in hamas, like 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.760 killing them because they want did that and I don't 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.920 believe them. It still doesn't make sense right. They've done 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.920 this in other cases with other Juras, specifically other Al 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.079 Jazeera journalists. In July this year, the CPJA that's a 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.080 committee to Protect Journalists if you're not familiar, warned that 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.679 they were worried about an attack on al Scherif due 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.680 to the increasingly detached from reality smear campaign being pursued 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.360 against him by IDA spokesman a Vice Adray. For example, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.600 on the twentieth July, Adray accused him of being quote 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.719 part of a quote false harmass campaign on starvation as 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.880 he played footage of al Cherif crying after seeing a 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.760 woman collapse from hunger on camera. Speaking about the campaign, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.840 al Cherif said it is not only a media threat 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.880 or an image destruction. It is a real life threat. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.959 He said it's in his interview with CPJA, He also said, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.280 I live with the feeling that I could be bombed 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.040 and martyred at any moment, my family is also in 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.199 danger and his nephew was killed with him right in 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.280 the air strike. When I think about like, I have 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.240 colleagues I've worked with through are Palestinian who work in Gaza, right. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:13.520 I remember twenty twenty three October tenth, twenty twenty three, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.920 I was in Syria, in Rajaba specifically, and I was 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.720 sitting in a t shop because the Wi Fi and 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 my hotel was nonexistent, and I wanted to check in 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.320 on my friends, right who worked there. And I remember 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.080 this guy helping me translate one of these videos in 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.240 which you see a dead person in the blue press vest, right, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.240 and I was concerned that it might be someone I've 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.440 worked with before, so I was trying to work out 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.960 it with them, and he was saying in his video. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.120 At the funeral, people were saying that another journalist would 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.520 take up the dead journalist camera and the flag jacket 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.200 and keep reporting, which is very touching for me. But 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.240 journalists and Gaza have been targeted by the IDF for 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.720 a very long time, and this is one of many examples, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.040 and it's disgusting and reprehensible. That's about all I have 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.600 to say on it should we turn to immigration for something. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:06.800 Colleague despondent and said, yeah, all right. USCIS US Citizenship 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.800 and Immigration Services has issued a new guidance material to 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.040 instruct offices in cases where they can use their discretion 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.720 to look at whether the person has quote endorsed, promoted, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.600 or supported, or otherwise espoused the views of a terrorist 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.720 organization or group, including those who support or promote anti 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.920 American ideologies and activities, anti Semitic terrorism from skipping a 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.840 bit here, and anti Semitic ideologies. This discretion can be 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.720 used in extension of stay cases, change of status cases, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.400 reinstatement or f or M non immigrant status, and certain 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.240 employment authorization requests, they say in the memo. The USCIS 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.680 Policy Manual also lists other instances where discretion could be used. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:53.080 These include TPS, Temporary protected status, humanitarian parole partition to 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.800 classify an alien as a fiancee of a US citizen, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.560 asylum and refugee status. So I looked up what the 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.560 quote anti American activities were. There's a footnote right. The 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.960 footnote links to iron A three one three a Immigration 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.920 Naturalization Act. Most of the anti American activities are things 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.440 which already had a bar to naturalization, and most of 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.360 those pertain directly to being a member of the Communist Party, 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.960 like a literal card carrying member of the literal Communist 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.520 Party right capital C, Capital P. The USO had a 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.680 bar on naturalization for people who are members of the 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.000 Communist Party for some time. I believe they still have 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.360 a bar on naturalization for people who were members of 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.520 the Nazi Party pre visa waiver I should say not 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.120 actually a visa when people from Europe were coming to 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.479 the United States, you'd have to answer a short questionnaire. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.680 One of the questions was about whether you or anyone 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.360 related to you had been a member of the Nazi Party. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.960 I remember like once being some German people in Europe 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.400 and they were telling me they'd had to answer this 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.760 question entering the United States. So the anti American activities 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.000 is one that's been getting the most attention, but it 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.520 does specifically footnote to the communist stuff, which is again 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.800 something that has been US policy for a while. What 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:14.160 I'm more worried about is stuff about anti Semitic terrorism. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.720 Yeah, because that means one, you've shared a pro Palestine 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.960 post on social. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.400 Media, Yeah you say genocide bad. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.000 Yeah, that can mean so many things that as we've 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.840 already seen, like we've seen some of this stuff already 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.680 be enforced. This is new guidance material, but we've seen 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.720 reports coming from people trying to enter the country, you're 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.480 trying to get visas that show that this is happening 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.720 for like months ever since, like you know, like March, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.320 I started to see a lot of stuff regarding either 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:46.240 pro Palestinian statements or like posts or campus protests that 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:46.879 sort of stuff. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.240 Yeah, the f visa I mentioned there is it's a 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.879 non immigrant student visa right for full time students. So 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.840 like that is the one where we've seen students have 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.640 to turn over as social media handles, a social media 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.600 can't be locked. It's very easy to see how these 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.160 two things line up. Yeah, and as a guest said, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.000 like people, they have always been able to use their discretion. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.760 This is just guidance on how they should use it, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.520 but they have been using it for some time. The 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.159 administration has also moved the goalpost for naturalization. So naturalization 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.160 is becoming a citizen of the United States. Right, there 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.439 is a requirement that people who naturalize as citizens have 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.600 quote good moral character. Previously, the way they did this 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.680 was there were bars for certain crimes right murdered genocide, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.760 something called aggravated felony, which is something that only exists 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.040 in immigration law. Going forward, they're changing to, I guess, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.600 a more holistic idea of what a good moral character 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.359 might be. I'm going to quote again. Going forward, USCIS 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.359 offices must account for an alien to positive attributes and 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.560 not simply the absence of misconduct in evaluating whether or 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.720 not an alien has met the requirement for establishing GMC. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.800 That's a good moral character. The officer must take a 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.280 holistic approach in evaluating whether or not an alien seeking 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.680 naturalization has affirmatively established that he or she has met 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.720 their burden of establishing that they are worthy of assuming 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.600 the rights and responsibilities of United States citizenship. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.560 The worthy What does that mean? You have to prove 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.480 to an officer that you're a good person. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:20.800 Yeah, how so, yes, by the officer's definition, I'm assuming. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.280 Yeah, yeah, I mean this is this is guys for 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:29.120 like discretionary enforcement. So I don't like the word holistic here. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.840 I don't. Yeah. They is literally asking him to take 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.160 into account everything they know about this person and then 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.440 just make a call. Is this someone you want to 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.000 have as your neighbor, you know, like, I don't know 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.520 what the oh I mean, I can guess how this 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.399 might manifested. It's worth noting that as DHS goes, USCIS 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.440 officers tend to be the least right wing right CBP 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.520 and I, so the much higher proportion of people who like, 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.760 for instance, they had some issues with getting people vaccinated 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.640 and CBP that kind of stuff right, indicators that people 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.520 might be sort of down this conser piracy pipeline. We 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:06.080 also learned this week that Todd Blanche directed federal cops 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.720 to arrest Mayor rasp Baraka outside of a detention center 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.840 in New Jersey in May. We noticed because of body 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.960 cam footage. We don't have the footage, but the footage 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.919 is reported on in court documents, and the footage a 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.520 DHS official says, quote, we are resting the mayor right now, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.960 per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Anyone 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.720 that gets in our way, I need you guys to 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.760 give me a perimeter so I can cuff him. So 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:30.640 that the agent talked on the phone and then gave 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.280 this statement. Right, So, it seems that the deputy ag 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.680 there with the one who gave the order to arrest 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:41.000 rasp Baraka right, Ice has also arrested a cop. This 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.679 is our little moment of like a harp pond cup violence, 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.879 top pond cup violence. Yeah. John Luke Evans was a 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.800 reserve officer for the Old Orchard Beach Police Department in Maine. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.840 The police chief of Orchard Beach, who's called elist Chard, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.440 said that the department had used e Verify to check 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.359 if he could work legally, right, which is the thing 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.160 that you are supposed to do. He Verify. It's a 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.480 database run by the Department of Homeland Security. I think 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.520 it's also in combination with another department that allows you 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.080