1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: What gives United States of America the right to kill? 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: Today on the David Rutherford Show, What's Up? Team, Welcome 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: back to the show. Incredibly grateful for you all and 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: your support. We've been covering some pretty heavy things lately. 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: There's a lot going on in the news. We've got 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: the election stuff that's beginning to percolate all over the place. 7 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to have more shows on this coming up. 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: We have the build up of the US military in 9 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: off the coast of Venezuela. We have the Ukrainian peace 10 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: talks that seem to be devolving a little bit. We've 11 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: got some seditious intent from sitting US CO and senators 12 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: that are Democrats. We've got probably a continued fraction in 13 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: the MAGA movement America First Movement. We've got a lot 14 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: going on, and the thing that I think is gaining 15 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 1: the most traction for both sides, because you've got obviously 16 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: one side. The left are saying, you know, this guy's 17 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: a king, he's illegal, he's a tyrant. He's going to 18 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: take imperial control over the US government without any guard rails. 19 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: He's destroying democracy. And I mean we've been hearing this 20 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: for going on nine years now, that's their attack. He's hitler, 21 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: he's this, he's that. We heard it all to where 22 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: to point now, Thank god, none of that has any 23 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: true impact on people, normal people in the middle. And 24 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: you know, then you have even traditional kind of Republicans 25 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: who are beginning to kind of shy away from supporting 26 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: the president in his policies and what he's tried to do, 27 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: because I think, you know, he came in under the 28 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: guys that he would start no new wars, and that 29 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: was a big promise to the American public, and I 30 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: think that really pulled in a ton of people that 31 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: were in the middle, so to speak, on both sides, right, 32 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: people that wanted a more common sense approach to US 33 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: foreign policy instead of what we've seen for the last 34 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: thirty five forty years. And I I I think the 35 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: greatest kind of unifying idea that brings most most people 36 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: that have a strong moral declination, if you will, is 37 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: the fact that America in the US government, the Department 38 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: of Defense or the second Department of War now, the 39 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: Intelligence community, Homeland Security, I Sport of Patrol, you name it, 40 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: that they have a responsible moral responsibility to adhere to 41 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 1: certain laws that have been on the books for very 42 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: long time in some cases and others they're relatively new 43 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: after nine to eleven and the Patriot Act and what 44 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: that promoted in terms of sacrificing a significant portion of 45 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: our liberties as well as really taking the gloves off 46 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: the intelligence community and what DoD can do in terms 47 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: of kinetic operations and covert operations around the world. I 48 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: wanted to address this because I think this is going 49 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 1: to be the fundamental issue that has brought forth to 50 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: attack the MAGA movement America first movement in the mid terms, 51 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: and then it will be amplified because I believe our 52 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: elections are still compromised in a very deep and sinister 53 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: level with an international conspiracy, including a domestic conspiracy that's involved. 54 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: And we're going to break really jump into that over 55 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 1: the next month or so here, and I will continue 56 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: to cover that throughout this year because it's so critical 57 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: too the future of America. And what you're gonna have 58 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: is you're going to say, all right, we have lost 59 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: the moral the moral stance. We have lost our ability 60 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: to stand on top of the hill and say we 61 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: do things the right way, which there are still quite 62 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: a few people in this country that believe that that 63 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: there is a unique way that we engage as opposed 64 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: to all the other desk spots in the world, the 65 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: the Putins and the Ji's and the Mulahs of Iran, 66 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: and the communist Maduro and and all these other you know, 67 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: Kim Jong yun and all these other people around the 68 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: world who treat their their populations as slaves. And Americans 69 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: seem to believe that there, uh, there is this moral 70 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: high ground that we occupy, and so I wanted to 71 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: cover this today. I wanted to get into this because 72 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: this is going to be a key component of what 73 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: will be used against the Trump administration and then moving 74 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: forward with whoever takes his place as the cannon, most 75 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: likely JD. Vance and a lot of people are saying 76 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio will be his running mate, and that's yet 77 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: to be seen or to understand, but these narratives are 78 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: definitely going to be used. They're already being used to 79 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: the point where there are City and US Senators Mark 80 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: Kelly in particular, who's going to run for president absolutely 81 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: who is basically advocating for a US military personnel and 82 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: intelligence community personnel and homeland security personnel to defy rightful, 83 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: lawful orders. So I wanted to dig into what gives 84 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: the American government the right to kill? All right, the 85 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: first question you have to ask yourself is what gives 86 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: you the right to kill? So, Jordie, Jordy, what would 87 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: you say gives an American the right to kill? Not murder? Right? 88 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: That shall not murder. That's in that's ingrained and not 89 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: only our biblical law, but also in our actual law. 90 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: You can't go out and just murder somebody. So what 91 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: gives us the right to kill? What would you say? 92 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 2: I would say, regular citizens, you have the right to 93 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: kill in self defense. If you are if you are 94 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: someone you know or love is facing grave bodily harm 95 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: or imminent death, you have the right to kill. 96 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: Yep. And that would be in your vehicle. If you're 97 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: getting carjacked, that would be in your home. If your 98 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: home is being broken into, that would be on the street. 99 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: If somebody attacks you, uh, and you have imminent ineminent 100 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: bodily harm you know, coming your way, Right, you would say, 101 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: are there any other places? 102 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say it does depend on which 103 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 2: states you live in. It's a little iffy if you 104 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: have that right, I got it in the States. But 105 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 2: it's all on your self defense any other any in 106 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 2: any other way. 107 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: I can't you intervene with somebody that's under attack and 108 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: kill the person that's trying to kill the other person? 109 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: You think that that's a that's that's a right. Yes, okay? 110 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: Do you think you can? You watch somebody kill somebody 111 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: or the vehicular manslaughter and they run into somebody and 112 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: then try and run away, can you run after them 113 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: and kill them? No? Yeah, all right, So it's pretty 114 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: it's pretty narrow when you think about it. Right, when 115 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: you or your loved ones, or someone innocent person on 116 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: the street is under a threat of their their life 117 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: is in danger, then you know the good Samaritan law. 118 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: If you will or or stand your ground law, or 119 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: your castle is your home, you know your castle, your 120 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: domain law, whatever that is. You can you can in 121 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: essence defend yourself and kill another human being and still 122 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: remain in that definitive higherarchy of morality. Agreed, Agreed, Okay, 123 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: I think the same thing. I believe that we there 124 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: are circumstances where we have the right. That's why we 125 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: have the Second Amendment. That's why you know, we have 126 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: a lot of these laws. I live in Florida, Uh, 127 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: pretty much one of the best states in the Union 128 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: to be able to defend you your property or your family, yourself, 129 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: your property, your family, And so you're right, Okay, Now 130 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: here's the kicker. How many laws do you think are 131 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: on the books that place guard rails on on who 132 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: the government i e. The Executive branch can turn the 133 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: green light on and engage in kinetic a covert action 134 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: on America's behalf where killing is involved. How many laws? 135 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say a lot, but and I'd probably 136 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 2: say it's a little too many. 137 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, the technical number is a fuck ton Okay, And 138 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go through some of these. Yeah, yeah, 139 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: that's the Latin response. So I'm going to go through 140 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: these because what I wanted to do is give everybody 141 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: put it into context, just the scope that the United 142 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: States military intelligence communities, homeland agencies, all those law enforcement 143 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: agencies that gives them the right to engage in killing 144 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: or inflicting bodily harm on its enemies or perceived enemies, right, 145 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: all right? You know, so this is essentially a detailed, 146 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: legally grounded overview of the primary lawful mechanisms which the 147 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: United States can authorize and conduct kinetic military strikes, missiles, 148 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: air strikes, drone strikes, special operations, raids, et cetera against 149 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: foreign governments, terrorist organizations, and other national security threats. These 150 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: are the actual domestic and international legal basis the US 151 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: government relies on and relies on in practice as of 152 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. All right, here you go the War 153 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three Public Law ninety three 154 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: DASH one four eight five zero USC five four to 155 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: one DASH one five four eight. And this was past 156 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: seven November nineteen seventy three. Over over President Nixon's veto 157 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: right now purpose as it is state and then loss 158 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: itself to fulfill the intent of the framers of the 159 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: Constitution and ensure that the collective judgment of both Congress 160 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: and the President will apply to the introduction of the 161 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: United States armed forces into hostilities. In reality, it has 162 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: become one of the most contested and widely ignored or 163 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: reinterpreted statues in US national security law. All right, here 164 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: are the core provisions, and they place these in three 165 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: buck buckets. Right. The law divides all possible uses of 166 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: military harry force into three categories and imposes different rules 167 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: on each. Number one congressional authorization. This is an actual 168 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: declaration of war. Do you know the last time we 169 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: had an actual declaration war like US Congress World War two? 170 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: Bengo after the company, after the Jea Jordy Thay, that 171 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: was last time, buddy, your ancestors, So it was. It 172 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: was after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. We had a 173 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: declaration of war, all right. This is specific statutory authorization 174 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: two thousand a treat There's also a treaty obligation that 175 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: requires it Article five of NATO. Right, that would warran 176 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: US Number two. If the president has one of the 177 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: three of these, the clock and reporting lose rules below 178 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: do not apply at all. This is number three a 179 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: sixty day clock hostilities or imminent hostilities, and this is 180 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 1: the statue one five for for b Bravo. If US 181 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: are introduced into these situations without prior congressional authorization, into 182 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: actual hostilities, or into foreign territory airspace or waters while 183 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: equipped for combat except for supply repair, etc. Or into 184 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: situations where involvement in the hostilities is clearly indicated by 185 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: the circumstances. The famous imminent hostilities clause. So the legal 186 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: minds of the Department of Defense or Department of War say, 187 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: you know what, there was imminent hostilities, So that gave 188 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 1: us the right to flip the switch and send missiles 189 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: down range? All right? Number four, Yeah, President must report 190 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: to Congress in writing within forty eight hours a quote 191 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: war powers letter end quote. Forces must be withdrawn within 192 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: sixty days of the report ninety days if the President 193 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: certifies unavoidable military necessity for safety. After that deadline, all 194 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: all funding is automatically cut off, the so called funding 195 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: cutoff or automatic withdraw provision. So there is a vision 196 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: that Congress can come in and be like, now time's up, 197 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: We're caanking the money, bring them all back. And then 198 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: number five everything else, right, training missions, ship visits, flyovers, evacuations, 199 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: missile defense deployments, et cetera. No reporting or clock is 200 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: required for that, all right. All right, So that's pretty 201 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: established stuff right there of what it requires. All right. 202 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: So presidential non compliance. Since nineteen seventy three, every president 203 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: from Nixon to the second Trump administration twenty twenty five 204 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: president has taken the formal position that the War Powers 205 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: Resolution is unconstitutional to the extent it limits Article two 206 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: Commander in chief powers. In practice, however, they have followed 207 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: a con distant work around. All right, and we're gonna, 208 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna say, we're gonna go through some 209 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: of these, all right, President Ford. The Maya Guayz Rescue 210 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five submitted report, consistent with the War Powers Carter. 211 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: The Iran hostage rescue attempt consistent with again. Reagan Lebanon 212 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: eighty two, eighty three, Grenada eighty three, Libya bombing eighty six, 213 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: consistent with the War Powers resolution. George H. W. Bush 214 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: Panama eighty nine, go for build Up ninety claim Article 215 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: two authorization and got an au MF anyways, that's an 216 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,359 Speaker 1: authorized use of military force anyways, all right, Clinton Bosnia 217 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: ninety five, Kosovo ninety nine, Suday in Afghanistan ninety eight, 218 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: consistent with but ignored the sixty day clock in Kosovo. 219 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: George W. Bush Afghanistan, Iraq three. But he did get 220 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: au MS. It's authorized military force in those w War 221 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: Powers resolution largely irrelevant because of the one two au MS. 222 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: Obama Libya twenty eleven explicitly claimed action did not trigger 223 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: hostilities definition. Most aggressive reinterpretation of the War Powers resolution. 224 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: People didn't count. No, we'll get to that. It gets better. 225 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: I have a lot here to deseventy. All right, Then 226 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: he had Trump strikes seventeen eighteen, Solomia strike twenty twenty, 227 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: Biden Syria, Iraq strikes twenty one through twenty four, Yemen 228 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: Hohoti strikes twenty four to twenty five, and then Trump 229 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: again ongoing Yemen Yemen campaign twenty five. And then you 230 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: could argue probably the Iranian strikes. And then now what 231 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: he's doing with the boat strikes against Venezuela and who's 232 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: been designated as a terrorist organization to have you know, 233 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: so you know all these and what they say, what 234 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: they said in the they said, what it said in 235 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: the research is that Libya twenty eleven controversy was the 236 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: high water mark of executive defiance, right, and that was 237 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: March nineteenth, the US begins air naval campaign in Libyan 238 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: Operation Odyssey Dawn. To unified protector Obama Administration's legal position, 239 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: State Department Legal Advisor Harold co and OLC the operation 240 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: had limited mission, low risk of escalation, no troops on 241 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: the ground, therefore no hostilities under the War Powers Resolution, 242 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: just an illegal arms deal, illegal presence of of CIA operations. 243 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: One of my closest buddies was one of the country 244 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: leads during that whole thing. Really interesting stories. Even many 245 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: liberal law professor called it a clear violation. All right, 246 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 1: current practices, as of December twenty twenty five, every administration 247 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: files a forty eight hour War Powers letter for any 248 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: significant combat operation, drone campaign, serious strikes, Hooty Strikes Center. 249 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: The letter always says President is reporting consistent with the 250 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: War Powers Resolution, deliberately not pursuant to avoid conceding the 251 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: law's constitutionality. The sixty day clock is universally treated as 252 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: a dead later letter. No president has ever withdrawn forces 253 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: because of the clock expired. Congress has never enforced the 254 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,479 Speaker 1: funding cutoff. It would require passing a law cutting funds, 255 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 1: which is potentially impossible when US troops are in combat. 256 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: All right, There have been attempts to strengthen and replace 257 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: the War Powers Resolution that all failed. Now here's the 258 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: bottom line of the War Powers Resolution. The War Powers 259 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: Resolution remains on the books, as is ritually cited in 260 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: every presidential lets to Congress, but it has zero practical 261 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: restraining effect. On the executive branch. The combination of the 262 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: two thousand and one au MF plus expansive Article two 263 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: theories in congressional inaction has effectively sidelined it for virtually 264 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: all post nine to eleven kinetic operations. Most constitutional scholars 265 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: across the political spectrum now described as a failed statute. 266 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: All right, So pretty much the one thing that this 267 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: war powers resolution right restricts this kind of open engagement 268 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: limited engagement warfare has been blown off by every president 269 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 1: up to including Trump. Right, So that's the first one, 270 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:49,239 Speaker 1: all right. Congressional declaration of war Article one, Section eight 271 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: US Constitution. Full scale war against another sovereign state requires 272 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: an actual joint resolution or declaration of war passed by 273 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:03,360 Speaker 1: both housands of Congress, signed by the President, or passed 274 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: over for veto last used eleven December nineteen forty one 275 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: against Germany and Italy. Extremely rare in modern practice. It's 276 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: a non issue, right Our Article one is just a 277 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: non issue, all right. Now, These are where it gets interesting. 278 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: This is where the whole dynamic of our involvement overseas, 279 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: conducting all these strategic military strikes and special operations missions, 280 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: as well as the intelligence community conducting special activities in 281 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: all these different areas. All right, authorization for military for 282 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 1: use of military force passed by Conrad the most common 283 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: modern mechanism for sustained military campaigns. The two thousand and 284 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: one au MF Public Law one zero seven Desk. Four 285 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 1: zero is passed on eighteen September two thousand and one. 286 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: Just what was it? Nineteen days or no September eleventh, 287 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: so it'd be eight days seven days after nine to 288 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: eleven this thing was passed, right, This authorizes the President 289 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, 290 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: or person he determines he determines planned, authorized, committed, or 291 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: aided in the nine to eleven attacks, or harbored such 292 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: organizations or persons. Primary legal basis for virtually all post 293 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: nine to eleven counter terrorism strikes against al Qaeda, the 294 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:42,719 Speaker 1: talban isis al Shabab, AQAP, etc. Meaning every other terrorist 295 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: deemed organization falls in line. Still enforced in twenty twenty five, 296 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: repeatedly interpreted by successive administrations Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and 297 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: now the second and Trump adminisigation to cover associated forces 298 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: and successors. All Right, here you go, just in case 299 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: the nine to eleven AUMF wasn't good enough. Guess what 300 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: was passed basically the following year, two thousand and two 301 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 1: Iraq AUMF Public Law one zero seven Dash two four 302 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: to three specifically authorized force against saddamus sins Iraq. Now 303 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: this did, however, get formally repealed in twenty twenty three, 304 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: but residual residual operations were folded under the two thousand 305 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: and one AUMF or New authorities proposed new AUMs example 306 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: two zero one to eight Dash two zero two three 307 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: attempts to replace the two thousand and one AUMF or 308 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: authorized force against Iran back militias have repeatedly failed to 309 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 1: pass in Congress. But guess what that didn't stop Trump's 310 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: administration for bombing to holy living shit out of the 311 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: nuclear facilities in Iran, which, by the way, don't get 312 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: me wrong, go for more power to you if those 313 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: people don't have. But it is rolling the dice with 314 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: a greater, wider spreader conflict, all right, all right. Authorition 315 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: for Use of military force the two thousand and one 316 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: AUMF Title Public Law one zero seven Dash four zero 317 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed 318 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against 319 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: the United States. And this was a vote in the 320 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: Senate ninety eight to zero. In the House four hundred 321 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 1: and twenty to one, Representative Barbelie voted no on that. 322 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: All right, exact tex here's the exact text of the 323 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: operational section, all right that the president is authorized to 324 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: use all that. And the reason I'm doing this because 325 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: I want you to understand as you listen to this, 326 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: I want you to understand that they have these legal 327 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: I don't want to call them loopholes because they built 328 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: they built the loophole into the language that they chose 329 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: to use. So listen to the language. And that's the 330 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: critical aspect, right. That's how the lawyers which crack me up, 331 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: the UCMJ or the Defense Department lawyers or you know, 332 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: homeland Er State Department, they all sit around and they're like, 333 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: what do you think who's going to tell them we 334 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: can't do it? Nobody says anything, and so what they 335 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: just keep doing it over and over and over again. 336 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: And I know what you're saying. You're like, hey, rot, 337 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: WTF right now? Weren't you a dude that that was 338 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: able to conduct operations as a result of these Yes, 339 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: I was. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that 340 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: they don't have their place in time, Absolutely not. And 341 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: I'm going to get to that at the end. So 342 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: just bear with me. Why read you the laws as 343 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: as they as I summarize them as best I could. 344 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: All Right? The extended text of the operative section of 345 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: Session two day that the President is authorized to use 346 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: all necessary an appropriate force against the nations, organizations, or 347 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided in the 348 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,880 Speaker 1: terrorist attack that occurred on September eleventh, two thousand and one, 349 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 1: or harbored such organizations as persons, in order to prevent 350 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: any future in order to prevent any future acts of 351 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, 352 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: or persons. And that last piece right there, the language 353 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: just opens it up, right, So it's what allows you 354 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: to go from nine to eleven al Qaida, the tab 355 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: not even the Talb, but al Qaida and al Kaida 356 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: financiers and other government sponsored financial operatives or whatever. And 357 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: then you opened all the way up. So now you've 358 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: got this whole area of anybody that's committing terrorist attack, 359 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: I e. Why do you think now all the cartels 360 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: are labeled as terrorists. You just recently so thought the 361 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: different sections of the Muslim brotherhood were able to tear 362 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: us as well too. All right, key legal elements in 363 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: how they have been interpreted from two thousand and one 364 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: to two thousand and five. Right, the quote he determines 365 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: authority is explicitly delegated to the president alone. Congress does 366 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: not need to approve specific groups or countries. The President 367 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: simply notifies them, usually in classified annexes of periodic war 368 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: powers letters. So these are classified letters that help put 369 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: out to the headshed of the Senate in the House, 370 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: right and say hey, this is what I'm gonna do 371 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: now again, I'm not gonna get into that now, all right, 372 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: original core targets al Qaeda, the Talban, anyone who planned, 373 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 1: authorizer committed or eight to nine to eleven tenens expansion 374 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: number one. And this is in quotations associated forces, all right, 375 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: This is two thousand and two to President Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, 376 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: and the second Trump administration all adopted the same legal theory. 377 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: Groups that fight alongside al Qaeda, the tileband, or share 378 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: their objectives against the US are covered. Right. So that 379 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: is the expansion. So anybody who has labeled the terrorist 380 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: organization now, all of a sudden, why do you think 381 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: the Biden administration got away with breaking the law when 382 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: they were labeling people, especially the January sixth people, as 383 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: what you know it, I know it, domestic terrorists. Right. 384 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: As soon as you get that terrorist label right on 385 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: whatever cable or whatever authorization thing, forget it, You're done. 386 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: You're all the entire mte of the US is wide 387 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: open to come down on your head. And again, listen, 388 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: there are times where this is a necessity. Right, I'm 389 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: not saying this is a comprehensive bad thing. The problem 390 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: is when it's abused, and we have seen it abused 391 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. All Right, No statutory 392 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 1: definition or list exists. The executive brand decides unilaterally. Current 393 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: associate forces as of December twenty twenty five, officially include 394 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: ices all branches Iraq, Syria, Corson, Sahul, Somalia, West afric ETCA, 395 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,959 Speaker 1: al Qaeda in the Arabian pronouncer AQAP and Yemen, al 396 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: Kaita in the Islamic Maghreb, Aqim al Shabab, Somalia, Talban 397 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: still Tarique E Tylabh Pakistan, TTP certain fractions of the 398 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: higherat tarhir hyat Tareer al Sham in Syria when fighting 399 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: alongside al Qaida elements, i e. The new president of Syria, 400 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: former al Qaeda member, So he definitely knows that if 401 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: he steps out of line, he falls right back underneath 402 00:28:54,160 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: that right, all right? Expansion two quotations successor entities. When 403 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,959 Speaker 1: a covered group changes its name or splinters, the executive 404 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: claims the new entity inherits the original authorization. Example Isis 405 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: is treated as a successor to Al Kaita in Iraq. 406 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: Very interesting how Isis came about? If you want to 407 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: really dive into a phenomenal history of the war on Terror, 408 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: there's a great book out there. I still haven't read 409 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: it yet. It's on my desk at my house. I'm 410 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: trying to get through these other books. First by Scott 411 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: Horton that's called Enough Already, And this is a book 412 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: that outlines the entire history of our involvement in the 413 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: Middle East, going all the way back to the nineteen seventies. 414 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: So in what's taken place and who's led the charge 415 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: to destabilize the region at the highest level. All Right, 416 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: geographic scope. The law contains no geographic limitation whatever whatsoever. 417 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: So if they're operating in Mexico, have at it. If 418 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: they're operating in Panama, have at it. If they're operating 419 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: in Canada, have at it. If they're operating in Venezuela, 420 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: have at it. All right. Used in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Siria, Iraq, Kenya, Niger, Cameroon, 421 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: molly Bikina, Fossil Chad, Djibouti, Philippines, Cuba, Guantanamo Detention, and others. 422 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: There's no sunset or expiration day. Unlike nineteen ninety one 423 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,719 Speaker 1: in the two thousand and two AUMs, the two thousand 424 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: version has no termination clause. Why because terrorism never ends. Right. 425 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: When you fight against a adjective, a verb, or some 426 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: infinite grammatical definition, Guess what, man, that's great for business. 427 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: If you're in the business of waging war and training 428 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: and taking back guys off the battlefield, then there's nothing 429 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: better than to go after the anomalous, constantly evolving terrorists 430 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: that exists in the world. All right, no sunset I 431 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: read that types of operations authorize Here we go ground 432 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: can't combat to Afghanistan two thousand and one to twenty 433 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: twenty one. Boy, we walked away with a huge victory 434 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: on that one, didn't we. Who Yeah, awesome job, guys, 435 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: all right, and again again I fought on the ground 436 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: there for ten years, all right, in different capacities with 437 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: the sealed teams, Blackwater, and the Central Intelligence Agency, and 438 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: there I worked with incredible human beings that were willing 439 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: and did sacrifice their lives for what we believed was 440 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: a righteous mission. Okay, just so you know that I'm 441 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: not hammering the guys that were on the ground and 442 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: men and women that were doing the job. That's not 443 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, all Right. I love my service, I 444 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: love the people I served with, and I feel incredibly 445 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: honored to have been part of that unit and the 446 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 1: units that I was a part of. All right, Drones 447 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: strikes and air strikes thousands in Pakistan. I was in 448 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: Pakistan for a bunch of twenty eleven more than drovenes 449 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: strikes and every other year combined conducted Yemen Somalia Special 450 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 1: Forces raids right or Special Operations Force raids. Example the 451 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: twenty eleven bin Laden raid, which took place where in 452 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: a sovereign country of Pakistan that we had no war 453 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: powers resolution against. But because of the AUM, they're on 454 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: the battlefield. All right. Also the twenty nineteen but god 455 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: bagdaddy raid And by the way, greatest Trump after action 456 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: speech in the history of Trump's speeches, where he talks 457 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: about killing Baghdaddi. But if you want to watch a 458 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: hilarious thing, Shane McGillis has a bit on this, absolutely phenomenal, 459 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: hilarious but again outside the general purview of kinetic actions, right, 460 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: presidents like, we're gonna kill him, Let's kill him. He 461 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: died like a dog, Like a dog. He died like 462 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: a sad dog, crying, Oh, please take the dog off 463 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: my balls, please, man, I gotta work on that. I'm sorry. 464 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: My impressions suck. All right. Cyber operations when classified as 465 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: a use of force, that's what I love, all right, 466 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: Cyber operations anywhere, anytime against terrorists and can be in 467 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: quotations as a use of force. Right all right. Now, 468 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: there have been a bunch there have been people out 469 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: there who are like, you know, this is ridiculous, dude. 470 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: We can't keep just this open book of kinetic opportunity. 471 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: It's just not. It's not right, man, It's not morally right. 472 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 1: And so what they do is they rogered up and 473 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: they wanted to fight against the system. They wanted to 474 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,479 Speaker 1: do the right thing because they felt that the moral 475 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 1: high ground we had allowed ourselves to move down into 476 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: the trenches of the very Malthusian realities to what it 477 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: means to wage war against the people that want to 478 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: wage war against us. And and also, i just want 479 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: you to know, I'm not a moron. I'm not naive, 480 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: I'm not Pollyannic, I'm not stupid. I do realize that 481 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: there are many, many millions of people around this world 482 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: that would like to see the United States collapse. That's 483 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,919 Speaker 1: just the way it is. It's the way it's been 484 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: in every major civilization throughout human history, that everybody wants 485 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,319 Speaker 1: to take the big guy down on the block. Just like, 486 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: how did we get our start? We thought we'd kicked 487 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: the snot out of the Brits, and we did, and 488 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: we got our own country, all right. So I'm not 489 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: saying that this isn't a reality. I'm not saying that 490 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: all right. Now, here's the deal. There's also been multiple 491 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: attempts to repeal these au MS. 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So there 522 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: have been multiple attempts right twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one, 523 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: Obama and Biden administration both publicly called for repeal replacement, 524 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 1: but never pushed that hard. Right, we're gonna repeal the AUM. 525 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 1: Vote for me now when they get in, let them 526 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: have it. Twenty twenty one House and Senate vote voted 527 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 1: to repeal the two thousand and two Iraq AUM. Successful, 528 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: and that's great. Let's repeal this one and make it 529 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,360 Speaker 1: look like we care. Right. March twenty three, Senate voted 530 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 1: sixty six to thirty to repeal the two thousand and 531 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: one Bipartisan led by Tim Kaine and Todd Young. It 532 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: died in the House didn't even get to a vote 533 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to twenty five. No serious repeal efforts 534 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: succeeded under the second Trump administration. Instead, the administration continued 535 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: to cite cite IT for Hoothy strikes, Sirie Iraq military strikes, 536 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,919 Speaker 1: and ongoing and counter ISIS operations and now what other 537 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: operations we just enhanced? Right, all these cartels that are 538 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: now terrorist organizations with the top one on the food 539 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: chamber in Venezuela. Now all right, current status still fully 540 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,760 Speaker 1: enforced primary legal basis for every US counter terrorism kinetics 541 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: strike worldwide, except purely defensive actions against national nation state forces. Example, 542 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 1: Hoothy missiles defended under pure Article two, but offensive strikes 543 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: against ruthy targets sometimes folded under the two thousand and 544 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: one AUMF when AQAP elements are co located. The Biden 545 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 1: and the second Trump administration both submitted identical classified lists 546 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: to Congress every six months, naming the same twelve to 547 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:46,240 Speaker 1: fifteen associated forces. So the reality is the two thousand 548 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: and one September eleventh, nine to eleven reaction is that 549 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 1: AUMF is the pretense for all the strikes you're seeing 550 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 1: take place. Right now, that's the reason why we're allowed 551 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,479 Speaker 1: to go around and whack people all over the world, 552 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: because they're terrorists, all right. Now, here's the next one. 553 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: This is Article two Commander in Chief authority. This is 554 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,799 Speaker 1: presidential unilateral action. Now, listen, I understand this a lot 555 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,279 Speaker 1: of information, but you come here because you want all 556 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,440 Speaker 1: the information. You want to contextualize it. You want to 557 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: hear the reality of it instead of the little bits 558 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: and the pieces and the propaganda on both sides. Right, 559 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 1: So this is the totality of it. And I'm not 560 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I could go on for each one of these. 561 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,279 Speaker 1: I could do an entire two hours on. So I'm 562 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 1: just trying to abbreviate it. Sorry, Just bear with me. 563 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: Article two Commander in Chief authority. All right, The executive 564 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:46,480 Speaker 1: branch claims inherent constitutional authority to use military force without 565 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 1: prior congressional approval in three main scenarios hey national self defense, 566 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:56,840 Speaker 1: respond to actual imminent attack. Classic example, strikes to prevent 567 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 1: an imminent armed attack on US territory, embassy, or forces. 568 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 1: The twenty twenty Solamani strike and Baghdad was justified partly 569 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 1: under imminent threat theory. Eminent threat theory. Always love when 570 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: the three the critical theories come out, right, all right, 571 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: b protection of US persons or critical national interests abroad. 572 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: There you go. Let's say we've got an embassy, We've 573 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 1: got a big corporation that has a headquarters somewhere, it's 574 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 1: people are being terrorized or whatever. That gives us the 575 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 1: author the authority, all right, Okay, see collective self defense 576 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,160 Speaker 1: of allies under treaty obligations. All right, this is the 577 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: famous one that's been all over the place because of 578 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,800 Speaker 1: the Ukraine War. Right, if we allow Ukraine to become 579 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,240 Speaker 1: a member of NATO, they fall into this most clearly. 580 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 1: NATO Article five invocation after nine to eleven only time 581 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:54,080 Speaker 1: ever invoked. Also used for defense of partners, example, defending 582 00:40:54,160 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: Iraqi government or SDF SDF partners against ices. This has 583 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 1: a war Powers resolution overlay. President of both parties or 584 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,040 Speaker 1: both of both parties takes the position that the WPR 585 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: is constitutionally only the extent it recognizes Article to authority. 586 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 1: In practice, every administration since seventy three files WPR letters 587 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:24,960 Speaker 1: within forty eight hours, introducing forces into hostility or situations 588 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:30,400 Speaker 1: where hostilities are quotation imminent, but almost never seek specific 589 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,879 Speaker 1: congressional approver within the sixty to ninety day client All right, 590 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 1: the next one, number four United Nations Security Council resolutions, 591 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 1: which basically have you know, no weight whatsoever. I mean, 592 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,799 Speaker 1: there's been all kinds of people that have said we 593 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 1: need to do this. The most famous one, obviously was 594 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,799 Speaker 1: the Iraq War, when you had Colin Powell. You know, 595 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, this is a slam dunk comment, you know, 596 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: all made up intelligence, all bogus, all bull convincing the 597 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,759 Speaker 1: world that sono I'm Hussein was a part of all 598 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,720 Speaker 1: Kaita hadn't tend to get a new all garbage. Everybody 599 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,799 Speaker 1: knows that it's not disputable. If you still live in 600 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 1: a place where you think the Iraq War was justified, 601 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,799 Speaker 1: then you know, go back to you know, watching your 602 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,920 Speaker 1: daytime soap operas and check out, because you're one hundred 603 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,759 Speaker 1: percent irrelevant in terms of your foreign policy understanding. All right, 604 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 1: It's just that's been settled and done for years now. 605 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 1: All right, Now, this provides international legal authority, not domestic 606 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: or US authority, but often cited as additional justification. You 607 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,800 Speaker 1: had the golf war, did it? Libya? No fly zone? 608 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: You know, some other measures A right host nation, all right, 609 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:50,239 Speaker 1: next host number five host nation consent or invitation when 610 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 1: the recognized government of the country in which strikes occur consents. 611 00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,319 Speaker 1: Iraq consented, Syria has consented, but you did have no 612 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,760 Speaker 1: consent from the Assad regime. So US relies on Article 613 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:10,360 Speaker 1: two plus inability slash unwillingness theory against ices. That's a 614 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:15,960 Speaker 1: little tricky right there. The whole war in Syria. Scott 615 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 1: Horton talks about that, how we essentially funded Al Kaida 616 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,239 Speaker 1: and ices to go into Syria to take down the 617 00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: Assad regime in order to do what potentially put in 618 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,000 Speaker 1: our own puppet. At the time. Kind of it seems 619 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,920 Speaker 1: odd that we would put in an Al kaid of 620 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,040 Speaker 1: puppet like we do now. But you know, again, when 621 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,720 Speaker 1: you when you evaluate these powers and what it gives 622 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,880 Speaker 1: the government of what it gives our government the opportunity 623 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,280 Speaker 1: to do in the name of quotations terrorism is really 624 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: vast and it allows us to begin effectuating politics in 625 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:59,120 Speaker 1: a overt war way instead of doing covert warfare that 626 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: the Central Inteli Eligence Agency and its predecessor of the 627 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 1: OSS had been doing since World War Two. Right OSS 628 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: worked in conjunction with different mafias around the world, different 629 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 1: criminal organizations in the prosecution of World War two, and 630 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,440 Speaker 1: then in nineteen the most famous one immediately after the 631 00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,799 Speaker 1: CIA's participation in rigging the Italian elections to get rid 632 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: of the fascist communists, and then fifty three ousting the 633 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,879 Speaker 1: democratically elected head of Iran and putting in the Shah 634 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,960 Speaker 1: because we didn't want that, and then all these dozens 635 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,320 Speaker 1: of other operations. Right host nation consent all right, number 636 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:44,120 Speaker 1: six unable or unwilling. That's in quotations doctrine, customary international 637 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:48,240 Speaker 1: law claim. I'm going to blow over that current December 638 00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five actively legal basis and youse all right 639 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: here you go. Virtually all counter terrorism drone slash air 640 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 1: strikes worldwide fall under the one AUMF article in Article 641 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: two ongoing strikes against WHO these and Yemen red sea 642 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: shipping attacks Article two Self Defense eight two thousand and 643 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,240 Speaker 1: one AUMF, and to the extent aqap is involved strikes 644 00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,720 Speaker 1: in Serie Iraq against Iran, I ran back militious Article 645 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,480 Speaker 1: two Protection of US Forces two thousand and one AUF 646 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,440 Speaker 1: au MF ISIS or peer self defense. Potential strikes on 647 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:27,560 Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear facilities or leadership would almost certainly be justified 648 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:32,360 Speaker 1: on Article two imminent threat theory, exactly as twenty twenty 649 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:38,719 Speaker 1: sol mona strike was all right, all right, So what'd. 650 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,799 Speaker 2: You learn in that, JORDI, Well, I mean, I have 651 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 2: a pretty extreme reaction to this, and you might have 652 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,120 Speaker 2: to talk me off a ledge or talk some sense 653 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,799 Speaker 2: into me. But that sounded like a lot of complicated 654 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 2: ways to say we can do whatever we want to do. 655 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,200 Speaker 1: Oh, that's one hundred percent accurate. And in these legal 656 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,600 Speaker 1: doc I mean I'm skimming the headline of these things. 657 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,839 Speaker 1: And you can go and you can you can dig 658 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: deeper on all these which I recommend you do. Go 659 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: to chat EPT, go to GROC. I think Rock's the 660 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,320 Speaker 1: best one. That's where I do most of my research from. 661 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,239 Speaker 1: And then I just keep digging in and digging in. 662 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:14,879 Speaker 1: So if you can go and you look at these 663 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,480 Speaker 1: whole statutes, these things are like this, right, They're not 664 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,040 Speaker 1: just you know, in the Constitution a couple you know, 665 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 1: war powers resolution and all that, or you know war 666 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:31,279 Speaker 1: powers act like these are nuanced, very particular language that 667 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: remains ambiguous so that we can have this vast, this 668 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: vast array of opportunities under the guise of this AOMU, 669 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,839 Speaker 1: which is targeting terrorism. And that's been this tool that 670 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,640 Speaker 1: nobody's wanted to restrict or pull back because why it 671 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,200 Speaker 1: means like you know, you can come out of the 672 00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 1: shadows and you're you don't have to wage clandestine, covert 673 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,560 Speaker 1: or that is illegal. But under the the main commentary 674 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,439 Speaker 1: of plausible deniability, right, they get away with many other 675 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,240 Speaker 1: things or or whatever they you know, and the intelligence 676 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,239 Speaker 1: community they classify under these same things as well too. 677 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,000 Speaker 1: It's not just the Department of War. All right, are 678 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,000 Speaker 1: you ready, let's shift, let's talk. But what you're saying, yes, 679 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: pretty much, if we designate somebody at terrorists, we can 680 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,880 Speaker 1: authorize a kinetic strike on them. Well, that you know 681 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:37,600 Speaker 1: is everything from drones to cyber special ops, to covert, clandestineops, 682 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,480 Speaker 1: to kidnappings to you know, everything everything you can think 683 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:43,640 Speaker 1: of in the middle of that. 684 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,600 Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to get into this now, 685 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,920 Speaker 2: but sometimes I want to bring up I don't think 686 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,960 Speaker 2: that I mean, this is a lot of words and 687 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,360 Speaker 2: a lot of documents to say you have this authorization. 688 00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,480 Speaker 2: I don't think they need any kind of law. Can 689 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,160 Speaker 2: they do whatever they want to do with or without 690 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,959 Speaker 2: these authorizations? I mean, who's gonna stop then? 691 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: Well, now you're getting into the moral conundrum, and I'm 692 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,040 Speaker 1: going to address that here at the end. All right, 693 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,080 Speaker 1: So let me just work through this, all right? All right? 694 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,920 Speaker 1: What is illegal for the government to do? What is it? 695 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:25,120 Speaker 1: Verbatim said illegal? Huh? Can they do anything illegal? According 696 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,839 Speaker 1: to who? Oh yeah, there's a bunch. I'm gonna give 697 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,160 Speaker 1: you some right now. Lethal uses? All right, this is 698 00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,880 Speaker 1: what's what is illegal? All right? Legally grounded summary of 699 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,759 Speaker 1: kinetic actions, lethal uses of force, airstrike, dne striked raids, 700 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:43,719 Speaker 1: sabotage with explosives, assassination, etc. That are prohibited for three 701 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,160 Speaker 1: categories of US actors as of December twenty twenty five. 702 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:53,120 Speaker 1: Illegal means either a flatly prohibited by the US statue 703 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,919 Speaker 1: or binding an executive order, or b only lawful under 704 00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:02,719 Speaker 1: extreme narrow conditions that almost never meet in practice. All Right, 705 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:09,320 Speaker 1: here we go. So this is the for the intelligence community, 706 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,400 Speaker 1: the CIA, and to a lesser degree, other Title fifty agencies, 707 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: and I think there's a seventeen or nineteen intelligence agencies 708 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:23,400 Speaker 1: so assassination targeted killing of specific individuals by name in 709 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:31,480 Speaker 1: a protected status. All right, there's a all right example. 710 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,279 Speaker 1: They cannot put together a foreign leader on a kill 711 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: list the way DoD can with an HVT under the 712 00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,520 Speaker 1: two thousand and one aun F. So the agency can't 713 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,840 Speaker 1: do it, but dd could probably get away with it, 714 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:48,200 Speaker 1: all right, got it? Covert lethal action not reported to 715 00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:52,280 Speaker 1: Congress under Title fifty, all right, must give prior notice 716 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,960 Speaker 1: to the Gang of eight or finding plus retroactive notice 717 00:49:56,120 --> 00:50:00,560 Speaker 1: in external ordinary cases. No presidential find, no lethal court action. 718 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,440 Speaker 1: The CIA cannot legally run its own independent drone or 719 00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:10,240 Speaker 1: raid campaign unless the President signs of finding and notifies Congress. 720 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,160 Speaker 1: Then yeah, yeah, right, any kinetic didn't They didn't Obama 721 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,080 Speaker 1: killed never mind anyway, any kinetic action in a country 722 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,040 Speaker 1: where the US is not in arm conflict. Right, and 723 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:25,319 Speaker 1: this is where the this is includes DoD AUMF Article two. 724 00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:30,439 Speaker 1: CIA has no independent war authority at piggybacks on dods AUMF. 725 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,719 Speaker 1: All right. CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somali four 726 00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:38,600 Speaker 1: to eighteen were legally justified only because they were folded 727 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: under the DODZ OH one au MF authority and conducted 728 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,400 Speaker 1: in coordination with jaysok. Right, and that's Seal Team six, 729 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:50,680 Speaker 1: that's Delta. That's a couple of covert units. Pure CIA. 730 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:55,919 Speaker 1: Unilateral strikes in non battlefield countries are illegal. All right, 731 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,920 Speaker 1: Here you go, Department of Defense Title ten, Forces Convention, 732 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:05,120 Speaker 1: Military JAYSCK, etc. Any offensive kinetic action not covered by 733 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,920 Speaker 1: declaration of war specific AUMF Article two, self defense, actual 734 00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,839 Speaker 1: eminent tech host nation consent the SOFA implied authority. We 735 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:19,040 Speaker 1: went through all those, right, all right, here's some of 736 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,760 Speaker 1: the other things. Use of military force inside the United 737 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:27,520 Speaker 1: States against US persons, except for very narrow expectations. And 738 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,560 Speaker 1: this is the posse Coomatatas Act one to eight USC 739 00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:38,560 Speaker 1: one three eight five plus DD regular regulations. DoD drone 740 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:43,120 Speaker 1: strikes or raids on US soil are against against the 741 00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:48,440 Speaker 1: US citizen terrorists is illegal. The only real exception is 742 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:54,279 Speaker 1: eminent self defense or military bases. Huh. All right, oh, 743 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,680 Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go. This is what everybody's 744 00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:03,200 Speaker 1: been employing US military personnel to enford forced domestic law. Again, 745 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:08,600 Speaker 1: posse Coomatatas same statue. National Guard can be used under 746 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,960 Speaker 1: state control or Title thirty two, but regular military cannot 747 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:17,400 Speaker 1: conduct arrest, raids, etc. Inside the US. That's what everybody's 748 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,720 Speaker 1: going nuts. But Trump is doing what who's he using? 749 00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:26,080 Speaker 1: National Guard? Reserve? National Guard? We just saw that poor 750 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,680 Speaker 1: girl get murdered on the streets. All right, NGOs non 751 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:34,960 Speaker 1: government organizational all right, true NGOs, private military contractors when 752 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,440 Speaker 1: not under DoD contract charities, et cetera, any lethal kinetic 753 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,880 Speaker 1: action on behalf of the United States one eight USC 754 00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,759 Speaker 1: nine Murder of US nationals abroad and nine to five 755 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:51,560 Speaker 1: six conspiracy to kill kidnap abroad. Neutrality laws, Arms Export 756 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,840 Speaker 1: Control Act, it TAR, and general federal murder slash assault statues. 757 00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,360 Speaker 1: Private US citizens or NGOs have zero legal authority to 758 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,360 Speaker 1: conduct air strikes, raids, or assassinations on behalf of the 759 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,840 Speaker 1: US government. Examples of illegal actions a private drone company 760 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,960 Speaker 1: launching hell fires and Yemen on CIA requests without d 761 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:17,960 Speaker 1: d oh, that's my favorite. Blackwater style contractors conducting offensive 762 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:21,600 Speaker 1: raids not not under Title ten Command Post two thousand 763 00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,480 Speaker 1: and eight rules require they be under DoD chain of 764 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:29,040 Speaker 1: command for lethal operations, and NGO or church groups sabotaging 765 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:34,240 Speaker 1: Iranian centerfuges with explosives that cross that crosses into terrorism. 766 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,000 Speaker 1: All right. Private military contractors are part of that, conducting 767 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:46,960 Speaker 1: offensive combat operations all right, uh contractors, dude, yeah yeah, 768 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,640 Speaker 1: And then there was a summary table of what's flat 769 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:53,640 Speaker 1: flat out illegal uh more the same it's it's you know, 770 00:53:53,800 --> 00:54:01,000 Speaker 1: private companies or NGOs or cutouts or contractors doing this. 771 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:02,920 Speaker 1: So it's kind of if the government. 772 00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,920 Speaker 2: If the executive branch says it's okay, then it's okay. 773 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,080 Speaker 1: And if they don't, it's not okay. Well the executive 774 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,920 Speaker 1: branch first has to like go big and be like 775 00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,239 Speaker 1: this is it. This is the deal, right ter, Yeah, 776 00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,959 Speaker 1: get they're terrorists, so you're cleared hot for these type 777 00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,399 Speaker 1: of operations. Then what you do is you wrap your 778 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,879 Speaker 1: intelligence community underneath your DoD operations and you combine them 779 00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:33,279 Speaker 1: with jaysock. So jasock always gives you the top cover 780 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,920 Speaker 1: to conduct these types of operations. So it comes from 781 00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,040 Speaker 1: the president saying they're terrorists one hundred percent. The whole 782 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,160 Speaker 1: thing starts right there under the two thousand and one 783 00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:49,399 Speaker 1: aumf right, that's where the whole thing is. All right, 784 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,280 Speaker 1: Now that's a lot again, and we're fifty four minutes 785 00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:54,719 Speaker 1: into this thing, so I'm going to try and wrap 786 00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,840 Speaker 1: it up here, So I just want to touch on 787 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,640 Speaker 1: one thing, all right. I asked Rock this, and I 788 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:03,360 Speaker 1: thought that this was fascinating. How many prosecutions and convictions 789 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,960 Speaker 1: of these crimes has there been since nineteen forty five? Right? 790 00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:13,600 Speaker 1: Legit questions? How many illegal operations that we found out about? 791 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:21,759 Speaker 1: Right government overthrows, targeted assassinations, illegal weapons sales, whatever? All right, 792 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,480 Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to read it, all right, based 793 00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,080 Speaker 1: on a comprehensive review of historical records, legal analysis, and 794 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,640 Speaker 1: official reports, the number of US government officials, including military 795 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,000 Speaker 1: personnel from the Department of Defense, members of the Department 796 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,960 Speaker 1: of War, members of the intelligence community such as CIA officers, 797 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,960 Speaker 1: and any other federal actors prosecuted for the kinetic related 798 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:50,320 Speaker 1: crimes outlined in prior discussions. Example, unlife, unlawful offensive strikes 799 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:55,920 Speaker 1: not covered by AUMF Article two, peacetime assassinations under e E. 800 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,640 Speaker 1: Executive Order one two three three three, violations of War 801 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:04,960 Speaker 1: Powers Resolutions, possecomment Tatis Act breaches involving leth form or 802 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,680 Speaker 1: independent private lethal operations on behalf of the US since 803 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,200 Speaker 1: ninety five? Is how many what's your guests, Jordie two 804 00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,719 Speaker 1: that would be setto yeah, I was just being optimistic. 805 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,680 Speaker 1: Yeah you were. There have been no prosecutions. So what 806 00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:27,520 Speaker 1: JORDI was insinuating that this is wide open, nobody's going 807 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:33,400 Speaker 1: to contain it, nobody's going to control it. That's the truth. Now, 808 00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,839 Speaker 1: I don't know what it's doing to you or what 809 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,840 Speaker 1: it makes you feel, but let me give kind of 810 00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:50,120 Speaker 1: a counterpoint to this, right, all right, I think everybody knows. 811 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:54,360 Speaker 1: I think after after the COVID, where we realize how 812 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,960 Speaker 1: much of what we've been told in the past has uh, 813 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:04,080 Speaker 1: let's say, moral flexibility built into the information or narratives 814 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,960 Speaker 1: that have been pitched for many, many, many decades, not 815 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:10,120 Speaker 1: just whatever you know, all the way even before World 816 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,239 Speaker 1: War Two. This goes way back. You know, you have 817 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:18,640 Speaker 1: to recognize that the reality is when you are a 818 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:28,720 Speaker 1: dominant factor in any particular political endeavor, militaristic endeavor, industrial endeavor, 819 00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:34,360 Speaker 1: financial endeavor, shipping endeavor. I mean, just go down the list, right, 820 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:40,120 Speaker 1: whether you're talking about oil extraction and production, whether you're 821 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,960 Speaker 1: talking about finance, whether you're talking about weapons developing, weapons sales, 822 00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,280 Speaker 1: or you're talking about criminal enterprises, or you're talking whatever 823 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:54,160 Speaker 1: it might be. The reality is is when you represent 824 00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:59,720 Speaker 1: a threat to other people and their desire to a 825 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:04,320 Speaker 1: cue emulate wealth, power and control. There's going to be 826 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:11,200 Speaker 1: these types of warfare that engages espionage. Cyber warfare now 827 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:16,840 Speaker 1: is exploding. You have criminal enterprises that are partnering with 828 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:22,920 Speaker 1: public officials. You have criminal enterprises that have involved themselves 829 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,320 Speaker 1: in our politics and our voting and all different just 830 00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:31,960 Speaker 1: I highly recommend the book Stolen Elections, you know, as 831 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:37,120 Speaker 1: well as documentary by Professor David Clements. Let my people 832 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:42,400 Speaker 1: go in. What you need to recognize now, back back 833 00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,360 Speaker 1: what one hundred you know, not even you know eighty 834 00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:51,000 Speaker 1: plus years ago when people wanted to when leaders wanted 835 00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:55,960 Speaker 1: to capture land, change things, they just would overthrow the government, 836 00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,000 Speaker 1: or they'd create their militaries, or there were revolutions all 837 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:02,919 Speaker 1: over and they would do it. Well. Now the life 838 00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,280 Speaker 1: has become so sophisticated with how we do. We've entered 839 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,640 Speaker 1: into a permanent state of what many people call hybrid 840 00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:17,400 Speaker 1: warfare or fifth generation warfare, or psychological warfare, a covert 841 00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:23,480 Speaker 1: clandestine warfare that includes all the above. That's the reality 842 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:29,200 Speaker 1: of what we face. China is a threat. Are they 843 00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,080 Speaker 1: going to invade us? Not likely? Are they going to 844 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:36,360 Speaker 1: launch nuclear missiles. Not likely. But are they actively working 845 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,560 Speaker 1: with other groups or organizations or political leaders around the 846 00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,000 Speaker 1: world that want to take us down? Yes, they make 847 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:51,520 Speaker 1: TikTok if they Russia, Iran, South Africa, India. You know, 848 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,360 Speaker 1: everybody's got their own interests, every country, every leader has 849 00:59:55,400 --> 01:00:00,000 Speaker 1: their own interests, and sometimes these interests come together because 850 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:05,440 Speaker 1: of a grander plan or grander desire. And then what 851 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,960 Speaker 1: does that have And also we have that taking place 852 01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:14,360 Speaker 1: internally domestically. Anybody that tries to convince you that open 853 01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:19,160 Speaker 1: borders is a good thing for a sovereign nation is 854 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:23,040 Speaker 1: trying to take you down. Period. Anybody that is trying 855 01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:28,000 Speaker 1: to imprison or indict its political opponents is against the 856 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,440 Speaker 1: American system. It's just the way it is. Anybody that 857 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:39,160 Speaker 1: is requiring defund the police wants the system to collapse. 858 01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:45,080 Speaker 1: Anybody that is committing in insane fraud with the taxpayer 859 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,400 Speaker 1: dollars to fund the invasion which has taken place over 860 01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,600 Speaker 1: the last thirty years in this country, probably around sixty 861 01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:56,400 Speaker 1: million people live here. Imagine what would take place with 862 01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,200 Speaker 1: our tax dollars if we didn't have to pay for 863 01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,120 Speaker 1: all of that. So you have to begin to realize 864 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:09,000 Speaker 1: that even though I lay out this reality that the 865 01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:13,560 Speaker 1: US government, essentially the president can engage in any type 866 01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:19,040 Speaker 1: of clandestine or over kinetic warfare, covert warfare under this 867 01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,920 Speaker 1: AM two thousand and one AUM or the presidential you know, 868 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:28,880 Speaker 1: his powers, executive orders, whatever. That's the reality, and that's 869 01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:32,000 Speaker 1: what they believe is necessary to combat this other thing. 870 01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,680 Speaker 1: But we still get back to the fundamental question at hand. 871 01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:43,000 Speaker 1: Do we have the right to kill whomever we believe 872 01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,840 Speaker 1: is a threat? And that's the question that's on the 873 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:53,760 Speaker 1: table because I think what many people are still holding 874 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:58,680 Speaker 1: on to is they're still holding on to this mythology 875 01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:04,120 Speaker 1: or this illusion that somehow America because of the society 876 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,000 Speaker 1: that we have, and you for the most part, you 877 01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,280 Speaker 1: get to, you know, do what you want. You can 878 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,840 Speaker 1: earn your own living, you can go and live wherever 879 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,680 Speaker 1: you want. Obviously, taxation is I believe is the worst 880 01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:18,120 Speaker 1: the legality that we have going right now. We don't 881 01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:22,040 Speaker 1: own anything, We rent everything from the government. And then 882 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,520 Speaker 1: you know, I also believe that a lot of the 883 01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:30,360 Speaker 1: institutions have been captured or corrupt by I don't know 884 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:35,160 Speaker 1: if it's nefarious characters are just radicals, right, people don't 885 01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,080 Speaker 1: believe that the American dream is a reality. They think 886 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,720 Speaker 1: it's fabricated. There's corruption at all levels. It doesn't matter anymore, 887 01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:46,200 Speaker 1: and this all is so overwhelming the process. But I 888 01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:50,200 Speaker 1: go back to the central question of what is what 889 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:54,360 Speaker 1: gives us the right to kill? And that's something I 890 01:02:54,400 --> 01:03:01,520 Speaker 1: believe after we address the current situations that our country 891 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:06,160 Speaker 1: is facing, because I believe for the past thirty years, 892 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:11,480 Speaker 1: the fox is in the henhouse deeply in every aspect 893 01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,440 Speaker 1: of our government, in every aspect of our institutions, and 894 01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:20,920 Speaker 1: every aspect of industry out there. That's the various people 895 01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:26,920 Speaker 1: have become so entrenched in corruption that they're willing to 896 01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,920 Speaker 1: live a moral, relativistic life where as long as I'm 897 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,120 Speaker 1: getting paid, as long as I'm getting mine, who cares 898 01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,360 Speaker 1: what happens. And then there's other active people that are 899 01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,080 Speaker 1: trying to tear it down. So the question I've put 900 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,840 Speaker 1: forth to you don't want you to think about, is really, 901 01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,480 Speaker 1: what are the things that America can do to regain 902 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,760 Speaker 1: the moral high ground? What is it the things that 903 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,920 Speaker 1: we have to do right now in order to regain 904 01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,160 Speaker 1: our country first, Because if you don't try and think 905 01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,720 Speaker 1: about those, if you don't process those questions, then you 906 01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:06,200 Speaker 1: are going to live in a very, oh, a very 907 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:12,440 Speaker 1: conflicted state of being. You have two things pulling you 908 01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,720 Speaker 1: apart at any one given time, or multiple things pulling 909 01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:22,120 Speaker 1: against your consciousness, your sense of righteousness, your moral code. 910 01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,040 Speaker 1: But I am here to tell you that America is 911 01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:30,160 Speaker 1: under attack, and so it's really difficult to answer the question, 912 01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,400 Speaker 1: who do we have the right to kill? All Right, 913 01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,080 Speaker 1: I can't thank you all enough. I really appreciate it. 914 01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,520 Speaker 1: Make sure you go like and subscribe to everywhere you're 915 01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,560 Speaker 1: hearing this or watching it. Please go over to YouTube, 916 01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,440 Speaker 1: like post, give a comment. 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He needs some love, for sure. 925 01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,680 Speaker 1: He's the one who makes this whole thing happen, and 926 01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:19,160 Speaker 1: I just can't thank you enough God, bless America and 927 01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:32,120 Speaker 1: glad bless you and your morality. Who yah