1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Who paid for that trip for you to go to 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: that memorial service? 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: Well, uh, that those resources are resources that I have, 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: and therefore they are in a way that does not 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: interfere with anything that has to do with serving the 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: United States. 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 3: Congress understood, So public funds. 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: Or those resources or resources that I have. 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 4: What's need to be talking to you about a situation, 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 4: and that we made and recarry it out. 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: Who paid for that trip for you to go to 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: that memorial service? 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: Well, that those resources are resources that I have, and 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 2: therefore they are in a way that does not interfere 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: with anything that has to do with serving the United States. 16 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 3: Congress understood, So public funds. 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 2: Or those resources or resources that I have. 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 4: What's need to be talking to you about a situation, 19 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 4: and then we may and we carve it out. 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: Who paid for that trip for you to go to 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: that memorial service? 22 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 2: Well, that those resources are resources that I have, and 23 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: therefore they are in a way that does not interfere 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 2: with anything that has to do with serving the United States. 25 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 3: Congress understood, So public funds or. 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 2: Those resources are resources that I have. 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 4: What's need to be talking to you about a situation? 28 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 4: That we may and we care of it out. 29 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 5: We're talking about people who end up in very important 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 5: public positions who are stupid and criminal. Now the exception 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 5: of that is Rodney Ellis. Rodney Ellis is extremelyly smart, 32 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 5: head and shoulders above any of the others. But most 33 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 5: of what we're dealing with here's people of limited mental 34 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 5: capacity who you wouldn't hire to work at your company. First, 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 5: they'd be toxic personalities. Second they're lazy, and third they're 36 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 5: not very smart. These are people that could not get 37 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 5: hired in companies and advance in companies, even with the 38 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 5: added advantage of being able to check the correct box. 39 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 5: But they move over into the political realm and they have. 40 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,839 Speaker 6: Had run of it. I mean they have had situation 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 6: after situation. 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 4: What's need to be talking to you about a situation 43 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 4: that we may and we carry it out. 44 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 6: Some of them have had acquisition after acquisition. 45 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 5: Been witch Hunt, a female career criminal who was arrested 46 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 5: last year for practicing dentistry without a license. 47 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 6: Keeps picking up new charges. 48 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 5: Now free on seven felony bonds here in Harris County alone, 49 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 5: as Randy Wallace reports, no matter how many criminal charges 50 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 5: of probation violations. Wanetta Solomon seems to remain free thanks 51 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 5: to two hundred and thirty second Criminal District Court Judge 52 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 5: Josh Hill, Fox twenty sixth with the story. 53 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 7: Most people will consider one Netta Solomon a habitual offender. 54 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 8: I'd give her more than that. She's NonStop. 55 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 3: She's been to prison many times, been. 56 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 8: A prisoner at least four times in three different counties 57 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 8: from twenty fifteen all the way to twenty and seventeen. 58 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 7: Now she's free on seven felony bonds in Harris County. 59 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 8: Aggravated assault multiple counts, Unlawfully carrying a weapon by a 60 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 8: convicted felon multiple counts, violating your probation conditions multiple times. 61 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 7: No matter how many criminal charges or probation violations one, 62 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 7: that of Solomon seems to remain free thanks to two 63 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 7: hundred and thirty second Criminal dis Court Judge Josh Hill. 64 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 7: Last year, we told you how Solomon was charged with 65 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 7: practicing dentistry without a license. She's trying employed as a 66 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 7: teeth whitening specialist. According to court documents, she called herself 67 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 7: Nikki Callaway and had an office in this building. Due 68 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 7: to all the Harris County criminal charges, Galveson County reivoked 69 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 7: Solomon's probation and put her in jail for sixty days. 70 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 8: Then last month, Randy She's charged with two more felonies 71 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 8: in Brazoria County. 72 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 7: Still she remains on probation in Harris County and free 73 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 7: from jail on seven felony bonds. 74 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 8: If I'm on probation and I'm watching this segment, I'm 75 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 8: going why am I paying my fees? Why am I 76 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 8: reporting to my probation officer? Why am I going to 77 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 8: these classes? Why am I doing what I'm supposed to 78 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 8: be doing? And she's not doing anything, and nothing happens 79 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 8: to her. 80 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 5: And it continues, and it continues. This was exactly what 81 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 5: Rodney Ellis wanted. Criminals able to continue to apply their 82 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 5: trade to steal, to rob, to murder, to rape and 83 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 5: not be punished, and that is exactly where we are. 84 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 5: There was something called an O'Donnell consent Decree. This is 85 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 5: a little bit complicated, it's not as direct as most things, 86 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 5: but the way it worked was Harris County was sued 87 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 5: because there are a lot of black people that were 88 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 5: committing crimes and getting arrested, and if they didn't have 89 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 5: someone who would come down and pay their bond. They 90 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,239 Speaker 5: would stay in jail for a couple of days till 91 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 5: their court hearing. And so I think it was a 92 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 5: setup where they sued Harris County and then Lena had 93 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 5: all go comes in as the Harris County judge, and 94 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 5: with Rodney Elysi's direction, they say to the federal government, well, 95 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 5: if you tell us we have to, I mean, don't 96 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 5: throw us in that briar patch. You know, I'm just 97 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 5: little o'breer rabbit over here. I don't want to go 98 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 5: in that briar patch. I won't be comfortable over that. 99 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 5: If you was to throw me in there, I don't 100 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 5: know what I do. And they get thrown into briar 101 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 5: patch and zippity DooDah all day and we're living through 102 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 5: the hell that they caused. So Attorney General Ken Paxton 103 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 5: is trying to undo this O'Donnell consent decree. 104 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 6: See the idea is. 105 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 5: It comes down from the federal government. But Harry's County 106 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 5: agreed to it because Harris County was really they were 107 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 5: not acting right. You know, you can't just be arresting 108 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 5: people and prosecuting them for committing crimes. If a lot 109 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 5: of them turn out to be black. 110 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 6: Well, who chose that? So Harris County agrees, Yeah, you're right. 111 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 5: We agree to your very stringent requirements. We didn't want 112 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 5: to know nothing, but we will because you know we've 113 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 5: done wrong before, the people before us. You know it's 114 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 5: not really our fault, but but we agree with you. 115 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 5: We should put ourselves in a real bad way and 116 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 5: not be able to put We consent to your decree, to. 117 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 6: Your order, and we'll keep letting the bad guys out. 118 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 6: We'll agree to. 119 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 5: Well, keim passion is going after that night, and it 120 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 5: looks so the O'Donnell consent decree. The case was style 121 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 5: O'Donnell at All versus Harris County at All. It was 122 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 5: filed in twenty sixteen. The suit alleged or challenged Harris 123 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 5: County's pre trial bail practices as unconstitutional, alleging they caused 124 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 5: a quote wealth based detention system where indigent, low income 125 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 5: misdemeanor defendants were detained solely because they could not afford 126 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 5: to pay bail, while wealthier individuals were released. This violated 127 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 5: the Fourteenth Amendment's equal Protection clause and due process clause. 128 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 6: That was the claim. 129 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 5: The case centered on lead plaintiff Miranda O'Donnell, who was 130 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 5: arrested for driving with a suspended license and held in 131 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 5: jail because she couldn't pay a twenty five hundred dollars 132 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 5: bail bond. Law suit represented thousands of similarly situated misdemeanor 133 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 5: arrestees in Harris County, Texas, which of course is home 134 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 5: to Houston and the third largest jail system in the 135 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 5: United States. The lawsuit was filed in twenty sixteen by 136 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 5: a civil rights group including Texas Rio, Grand Legal Aid 137 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 5: and the ACLU of Texas. Twenty seventeen, the court issued 138 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 5: a preliminary injunction finding Harris County's bail system likely unconstitutional. 139 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 5: It ordered prompt release on personal bonds for most misdemeanor 140 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 5: arrestees and guaranteed bail hearings within forty eight hours for 141 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 5: those not released. July of twenty nineteen, I should point 142 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 5: out that in the middle of all this, Lena Hidalgo. 143 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 6: Is elected in let's see, we're in to be twenty yeah, 144 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, that's right. 145 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 5: July of twenty nineteen, the parties plaintiffs and the Harris 146 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 5: count officials negotiated and submitted a proposed settlement and consent 147 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 5: degree to the court. Harris County Commissioner's Court approved it 148 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 5: by majority vote. The problem is that by this time 149 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 5: you had Harris County elected officials who were basically the 150 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 5: plaintiffs as well. They agreed with that position. And now 151 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 5: that they had the County Judge's office, and they had 152 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 5: three out of the five because remember Ramsey and Cagle 153 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 5: were against this nonsense, but at that point you had 154 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 5: Adrian Garcia, Rodney Ellis, and the new County Judge Lena 155 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 5: had Algo. So in a three to two vote, they go, well, 156 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 5: I guess we'll agree to this. To this, you know 157 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 5: what you're making us do. October November twenty nineteen, after 158 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: the hearings revisions objections from the groups like Harris County 159 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 5: District Attorney, the police unions, and bondsmen who who argued 160 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 5: it undermined public safety and judicial discretion and. 161 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 6: Cost them a lot of money. Let's be honest. 162 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 5: US District Judge l Lee h Rosenthal approved the decree 163 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 5: on November twenty ninth November twenty first, twenty nineteen. Starting 164 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 5: in twenty twenty, implementation was overseen by a court appointed 165 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 5: monitor team including experts from Duke University and the University 166 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 5: of Houston Law Center for at least seven years. That 167 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 5: team is designed to ensure compliance and aim to make 168 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 5: Harris County a national model for excellence in pre trial justice. Well, 169 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 5: it has been nothing of the sort. It has caused 170 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 5: absolute mayhem on the streets of Houston and Harris County. 171 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 6: It has been a complete disaster for the victims. 172 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 5: And we have seen bad guys get out again and 173 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 5: again and again. Not to mention that Harris County agreed 174 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 5: to pay nearly four million dollars to PLANTUS attorneys who 175 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 5: brought this case and again. Rodney Ellis is very smart. 176 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 5: Rodney Ellis is very connected to planous attorneys, and I'll 177 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 5: bet you he's connected to this particular Plainiffs attorney. Occasionally 178 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 5: I'll have someone in me an email and say, hey, 179 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 5: Rodney Ellis is over here on I tendant Baytown. Just 180 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 5: walked into the room with Wayne Rio and several of 181 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 5: these you know, mass tort lawyers. And what is he 182 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 5: as a Harris County commissioner, what is he doing here? Well, 183 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 5: I can assure you he's doing something that is going 184 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 5: to make him a lot of money. While only a 185 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 5: state senator. Over all these years salary seventy two hundred dollars, 186 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 5: he managed to get fabulous rich. And one has to 187 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 5: wonder why. Well, when I was talking earlier about the 188 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 5: self dealing, one of the things that happens in all 189 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 5: this is there are massive contracts that are given out 190 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 5: by the city, the county, Houston, Community College, Metro. There 191 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 5: are various levels of government, so they get all their 192 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 5: people entrenched in these organizations. So when Rodney Ellis was 193 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 5: a state official, a state senator, he might not could 194 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 5: do a deal with the state, but he would get 195 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 5: people in on deals with the state, like say, oh, 196 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe somebody in the Houston Mayor's office, 197 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 5: and then they turn around and give him a deal 198 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 5: with the City of Houston. So you'll see these elected 199 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 5: officials who they work at the county. But great example, 200 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 5: Rodney ellis Is chief of staff, was arrested for taking 201 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 5: bribes while she was president of hisd's board. She's the 202 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 5: president of the school board and also the chief of 203 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 5: Stafford County Commissioner. When she's arrested, it was for taking 204 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 5: bribes while on the school board, but by this time 205 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 5: she had moved over to the Houston Community College where 206 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 5: she was a trustee. She is just amazingly committed to 207 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 5: public service. Isn't it incredible? You see these people, they 208 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 5: get planted by a Rodney Ellis type person and they 209 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 5: put them in other levels of government, so that each 210 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 5: of the levels of government is actually just part of 211 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 5: a network of people that are dealing self dealing with 212 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 5: each other. And they will make alliances with outside parties, 213 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 5: some of whom are famous in Houston. You would recognize 214 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 5: the names. They would make alliances with outside parties, say 215 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 5: a car dealer that keeps a high prominent you know 216 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 5: name in the Democrat Party, and or an engineering firm, 217 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 5: and then when they need to get somebody elected to 218 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 5: another office, that engineering firm will help that. 219 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 6: And they keep this network. Is this web of corruption, 220 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 6: and that is how it works. 221 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 5: That should have been in God the front cover above 222 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 5: the fold of every nation across the globe. After the 223 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 5: Middle East Peace Plan was signed, a situation was made. 224 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 6: What did they say? What need do I have? What 225 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 6: is an opening line? 226 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 4: What's the need to be talking to you? The situation 227 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 4: that we made and we carry it out. 228 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,239 Speaker 5: What's the need me talking to you about a situation 229 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 5: we made and we carried out. 230 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 4: What's the need of me talking to you about a 231 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 4: situation that we made and we carry it out. 232 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 5: I like the tone that suggests not having seen it, 233 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 5: only having heard it a little sassy. I get the 234 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 5: impression he kind of popped his head a little when 235 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 5: he said it, right, what's the need of me talking 236 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 5: to you by the situation we made and carried out. 237 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 4: What's the need of me talking to you about a 238 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 4: situation and that we made and we carry it out. 239 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 5: Y'all keep bothering me about the car. I don't have 240 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 5: a car. We're not rich like y'all. Karen Wrights, I 241 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 5: hope you are in the mood for spirited debate. The 242 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 5: crosswalks are not the heel I want to die on 243 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 5: for the following reason. 244 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 6: If you just tuned into the. 245 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 5: Show, there is this story about the crosswalk in Montrose 246 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 5: that is a rainbow flag. They've painted the road just 247 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 5: as in New York they put a big black Lives Matter, 248 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 5: so they've painted the road with a rainbow flag. And 249 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 5: Greg Abbott ever saw when Greg Abbott says, I don't 250 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 5: you know, Desansus is doing all sorts of stuff and 251 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 5: I haven't really done any of that. 252 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 6: I better, I better do something. What could I do? 253 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 5: Well? They have a rainbow flag in Houston. We'll write 254 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 5: a letter for you that says, if you don't remove 255 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 5: the rainbow from the middle of the intersection, then we 256 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 5: will with whole text dot funds from you. 257 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 6: Oh and I'll look tough. Yes, you'll look tough. 258 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,719 Speaker 5: Everybody will think I'm like Trump, Yes, just like Trump. 259 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 6: Okay, then let's do that. That for sure. Tell me 260 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 6: when people start thinking I'm tough. Let me let me 261 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 6: know when. How when it all. 262 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 5: Hits So they're going to remove the flag from the 263 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 5: middle of the concrete. Now is it the most important 264 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 5: thing in the world, Not one bit in the grand 265 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 5: scheme of things. Really doesn't matter. I feel certain that 266 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 5: the people in the neighborhood don't have a problem with 267 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 5: the rainbow flag in the middle of the concrete or 268 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 5: whatever else they want to put there. That is not 269 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 5: the point of this message. However, let me continue. The 270 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 5: crosswalks aren't the hill I want to die on for 271 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 5: the following reason. We don't want to erase Columbus or 272 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 5: Thomas Jefferson or Robert E. 273 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 8: Lee. 274 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 5: They are They have taken our shrines and are afraid 275 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 5: of the conversion. The crosswalk is their shrine. We aren't 276 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 5: afraid of the conversion. I know they have a million 277 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 5: other shrines, but they feel erased, and if we do that, 278 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 5: it's hard to argue for our own history not being erased. 279 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 5: I understand why it is happening. I just wonder if 280 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,959 Speaker 5: strategically it's how we want to win the culture. Hearts 281 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 5: and minds are changing, the fading symbols will speak for themselves. 282 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 5: And no, I haven't crossed over, no pun intended, Karen. 283 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 5: I don't find anything bothersome about what you say, Karen. 284 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 5: I think you make your point in a very respectful manner. 285 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,959 Speaker 5: I think it's very logical, and I suppose there is 286 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 5: some merit to the argument. Is that we don't engage 287 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 5: in the tactics in which they engage, and so that's 288 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 5: why we appear to be morally superior, and we. 289 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 6: Give people a. 290 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:16,959 Speaker 5: Harbor in the storm of life that the Democrats liberals, 291 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 5: cause we are stable. We don't engage in the nonsense 292 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 5: that they do. I grasp that logic a great deal. However, 293 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 5: here is my problem with it. We don't want to 294 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 5: Erase Columbus or Thomas Jefferson or robberty Lee. They have 295 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 5: taken our shrides and are afraid of the conversion. I'm 296 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 5: not sure what the conversion is. I don't know if 297 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 5: that's meant to be a conversation. I'm not sure what 298 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 5: that means. I don't know what the conversion is. The 299 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 5: crosswalk is their shride. We aren't afraid of the conversion, right, 300 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 5: so I guess we go back to this. This speaks 301 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 5: to all of the prosecutions going on now and a 302 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 5: number of other things that are happening right now. There 303 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 5: was a detent in this country. 304 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 6: There was a. 305 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 5: Patromona, there was a there was a peaceful coexistence among 306 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 5: people with differences of political opinion, and. 307 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 6: Of course there was How weird would it be if 308 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 6: there wasn't. 309 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 5: We're not a tribal people. There are countries where the 310 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 5: people cannot live amongst themselves because their entire focus is 311 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 5: destroying each other. Those are also countries incapable of running 312 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 5: electricity and indoor toilets. They're savages that no better than dogs, 313 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,719 Speaker 5: just living meal to meal and and and growling at 314 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 5: whoever gets closest to their food. They live in constant fear, 315 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 5: in aggression, incapable of higher level thinking, incapable of developing 316 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 5: a society of comfort and convenience and wealth and artistic 317 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 5: endeavors and happiness and love. They just can't and they 318 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 5: can't see themselves out of it. All that is true, 319 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 5: and that was how we lived in this country. Politics 320 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 5: was not particularly important except for people to whom it 321 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 5: was already important, in the same way that football is 322 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 5: not particularly important to people unless you're a person who 323 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 5: cares about football, or for that matter, soccer or baseball 324 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 5: or basketball, or archery or fencing. If you're into it, 325 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 5: you're into it or chess, and for everybody else, okay, whatever. 326 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 5: And that's pretty much what politics in this country was. 327 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 5: And then we had a moment where the left became infiltrated. 328 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 5: And I don't think they's aw it coming, but once 329 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 5: this beast started growing. When it started, it was a 330 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 5: marginal fringe, and they said, oh, there's an opportunity. There's 331 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 5: some foot soldiers, there's some young aocs that can get 332 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 5: out there on the streets for us. There's some young battlers, 333 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 5: there's some young recruiters. They can go out and recruit 334 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 5: young voters for us. They can provide the muscle we 335 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 5: need to be able to. You know, you're not gonna 336 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 5: have Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer at your protest on 337 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 5: their walkers. You're not going to have Jerry Nadler. You 338 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 5: know that little fellow guy's got his breeches all the 339 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 5: way up to his nipples, and you know he's kind 340 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 5: of waddling along. So the party needed some muscle. So 341 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 5: they brought in this young, aggressive group of very far 342 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 5: left socialists and they took the party over. And we 343 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 5: bothered nobody, and they did. 344 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 6: Take down our shrines. 345 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 5: And now we have a dec do we say, well, 346 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 5: we're not going to do what they did, We're going 347 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 5: to be better, or do we show them the consequences 348 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 5: of their actions the Michael Berry's Show. 349 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 6: Tim you are on the Michael Berry Show. What's say you, sir? 350 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 9: Michael? Real quick about your last segment. If we were 351 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 9: to put stars of our crosswalk, they'd lose their mind. 352 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 9: If we were to rename Robert Lee e Lee High School, 353 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 9: they would lose her mind to get violent. But with 354 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 9: that said, the reason I called you're talking about government 355 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 9: corruption in nineteen ninety I feel comfortable about talking to 356 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 9: Jesus now about this. Now, Port ben County was going 357 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 9: to put in a landfill. So I was really good 358 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 9: friends with the JP who has since passed. I was 359 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 9: doing handyman work at his house and he came to 360 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 9: me after grooming me, taking me to bars and out 361 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 9: to eat all this good stuff, and said, hey, there's 362 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 9: some property I want you to buy. And I feel like, well, 363 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 9: I don't have the money for that. He said, no, 364 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 9: I'm going to buy it. I just need to put 365 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 9: it in your name. And I'm like, what do you mean? 366 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 9: What if he told me? You said, you know, he's 367 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 9: friends with the land commissioner and they know where they 368 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 9: want to put this landfill, and he can buy the 369 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 9: property for you know, one thousand dollars an acre or less, 370 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 9: and then a few months later they turn around and 371 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 9: sell the property back to the county for twenty times 372 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 9: thirty times more than what they more than what he 373 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 9: negotiated with somebody else. Because I didn't want to get 374 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 9: involved in it, but it's it's crazy. They're almost like pedophiles. 375 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 9: They groom you, they take you, they whine you, dine you. 376 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 9: He offered, you know, I had a small charging company 377 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 9: at the time. He said, Hey, you know, if we 378 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 9: do this, then we'll move on. We can get you 379 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 9: to do work at the schools, We get you to 380 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 9: do work at the you know, the county barns. We 381 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 9: can get you all this other work. And it's just 382 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,719 Speaker 9: it's just never ending. And now I'm in the private sector, 383 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 9: and I even see in the private sector, I have 384 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 9: contractors I worked with you, and I've talked before. I 385 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 9: worked for a very large Chicken company, and I have 386 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 9: contractors that want to get kickbacks. They expect us to 387 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 9: take kickbacks, and I deal with tens of millions of 388 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 9: dollars every year. But I just thought, now that you 389 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 9: know he is passing, did you say Chicken. 390 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 6: Or Chicken Chicken? What do you do for the Chicken company? 391 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 9: I'm an area leader facilities for a very large Chicken company, 392 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 9: which the owner that you interviewed during COVID. So you 393 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 9: and I have talked about this before. 394 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 6: Okay, hold on, what is your title? Say what is 395 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:22,479 Speaker 6: your title? 396 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 9: I'm the area leader facilities. I make sure that the 397 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 9: buildings stayed running. Matter of fact, I'm in Houston today 398 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 9: looking at some of our sites. Make sure they stay 399 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 9: pretty and Christine to our core values. So they all 400 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 9: look the same and everybody has a great Figer meal. 401 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 5: There's been a lot of criticism from people who, frankly 402 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 5: I think are vegans and that's. 403 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 6: What drives this. 404 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 5: But they have criticized, for instance, Tyson and their farming 405 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 5: uh and production facilities, and that the chickens are too 406 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 5: close together in these sorts of things. Is that something 407 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 5: that has made life more difficult for y'all? 408 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 9: No, Now, we've uh, we've we've We've grown exponentially in 409 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 9: the last ten years. I've been been there ten years. 410 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 9: It's not a proper for us. We're one of the 411 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 9: we're probably the largest chicken one of the largest chicken 412 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 9: players in the business. 413 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 8: Now. 414 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 5: So so your facility, So tell me about the process 415 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 5: of the chickens life and how that works. 416 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 6: I'm interested. 417 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 9: I don't deal I don't deal with the with the 418 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 9: the operation side. I deal with strictly the building. I 419 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 9: make sure the lights stay on, the building stays pretty, 420 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 9: stays painted, the remodels things things, the equipment stays running. 421 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 9: There's all the deal with all the government agencies and 422 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 9: permitting and stuff like that. 423 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 6: Do you ever go in there to see the chickens. 424 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 9: The love of chickens. Yeah no, no, but I do 425 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 9: live in these Texas with the chicken farms, so yeah, 426 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 9: there's a yeah, there's something. There might be something to 427 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 9: be said about how the transports. 428 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 5: Which doesn't bother me. I just enjoy eating them. I 429 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 5: was just curious how it how it affects you. 430 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 6: Do you eat a lot of chicken. 431 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 9: I know that as much as I. 432 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 6: Used to because of this process, because of what. 433 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 9: Because I'm in I'm around it every day. 434 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that's weird because I never crave fish 435 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 5: so much as. 436 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 6: When I go near the water. 437 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 5: When I get near the water, I start craving fish. 438 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 9: It's a funny story that you're talking about the shrimp. 439 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 9: The other day. I owned it, actually owned a fifty 440 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 9: foot double rigs shrimp boat, and I ran out of 441 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 9: past Christian and Mississippi. And what you said was exactly true. 442 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 9: The import shrimp is just ridiculous. It's it's right. It's ruined. 443 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 9: It's ruining an industry, without a doubt. 444 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 5: You didn't buy that boat off all that kickback money 445 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 5: you got from the JP, did you? 446 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 9: No? No, I turned down the JP, and like I said, 447 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 9: he was a very well known person in for Bank County, 448 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 9: so he since passed, but we were we were good friends. 449 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 9: I just didn't want to get to be associated with that. 450 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 9: And I ended up going to work for Fortman County 451 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 9: Law Enforcement, so after that we kind of yeah. I 452 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 9: didn't talk about things like that anymore at all. 453 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 6: Were you an officer? 454 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 9: I was deputy? 455 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 6: Yes, how'd you enjoy that? 456 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 9: I love it? I love it. But Differ says, I 457 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 9: make a lot more money making sure Chicken Play stays 458 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 9: open than I did police. 459 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 3: And how many years? 460 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 9: Really shame that? I need you, Michael, I need your 461 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 9: help on how many years? Twelve years? I need your 462 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 9: help on this. I'm sixty one years old. I went 463 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 9: to Harris County to beget a reserve deputy. Okay, I 464 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 9: passed the physical fitness test. I'm very healthy. I have 465 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 9: over two thousand hours. I meant, I kept up with 466 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 9: all my mandated courses, all right. But Tiko decided, say 467 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 9: I've been out ten years, that I had to go 468 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 9: back to a basic peace officer academy, which would have 469 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 9: took me from an intermediate straight to a master piece 470 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 9: officer license. And I was actually talking to Senator Whipmeyer 471 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 9: at the time. Now it's you know, Mary Whitmyer, and 472 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 9: we had some movement on it and then just went nowhere. 473 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 9: But there's a lot of guys like me that want 474 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 9: to go back in law enforce as a reserve officer, 475 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 9: our deputy, that they just make it too cumbersome for 476 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,959 Speaker 9: us to join to join back in the forest. 477 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 5: That's not accidental. It's the same reason that there are 478 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 5: people that would be happy to go and teach in 479 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 5: our schools and they make it so difficult. And what 480 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 5: they do you probably know this already. I'm sure you're 481 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 5: only a pretty smart fellow. The reason they're going to 482 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 5: make it difficult for you to go back and be 483 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 5: a deputy, reserve deputy, it's not because you lack firearm training. 484 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 5: It's not because you lack the physical fitness. It's not 485 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 5: because you lack the aptitude. It's because they want to 486 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 5: reprogram you. Because policing today is not what it once was. 487 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 5: Because if you think that a bad guy can be 488 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 5: dealt with like a bad guy, those are outdated modes 489 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 5: of thinking and we don't want that around here. And 490 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 5: sometimes people will hide their bad opinions or their bad 491 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 5: policies behind. Listen, that's not what I would like to do, 492 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 5: but we don't want. 493 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 6: To get sued. 494 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 5: There are a lot of answers to why people do 495 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 5: stupid things that I have heard over the years that 496 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 5: relate to, well, we don't want to get sued. 497 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 6: What if what if someone said to you, same guy, 498 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 6: you can no longer be married to. 499 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 5: Your wife and a parent to your children, and if 500 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 5: you try to do that, I'm going to sue you. 501 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 5: If you would say sue me, I care about this. 502 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 5: There are things I'm willing. 503 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 6: To fight for. 504 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 5: And that's really what that comes down to. And this 505 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 5: is how we've ended up with a situation where you've 506 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 5: got people calling themselves protesters who are rioted, rioters and 507 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 5: terrorists spitting in the faces of officers. Kent State was 508 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 5: one of the greatest setbacks in this country because after that, 509 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 5: there is this constant fear that if police respond when provoked, 510 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 5: it will go negative. It was the same thing with 511 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 5: the shutdown, and Trump proved that wasn't true. 512 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 6: These people should be clubbed. 513 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 5: When you spit on an officer, hit an officer, throw 514 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 5: things at an officer, they should be clubbed into submission. 515 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 6: And then and then jail and prosecute you have. 516 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 5: You can't beat a cost An officer any more than 517 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 5: you can a person on the street.