What's up everybody and welcome to the latest edition of the Falcons final whistle podcast I'm Scott Bayer and we're doing this in person this time with Tori McElaney and Ashton Edmonds. What's up y'all? Yeah, man, we are coming to you after a 20 to 19 victory over the Falcons 2019 victory over the Arizona Cardinals here at Mercedes Benz Stadium where they have been playing a lot better than they play on the road It took a fourth quarter comeback drive from Desmond Ritter. We're gonna get into that and Youngway coup sealed the deal with the 21 yard field goal or something like that as time expired The Cardinals had no opportunity to go down and do that. It was a good ending to a game that was We don't have to sugarcoat it right that was essentially meaningless between two teams eliminated from playoff contention But there's still plenty to observe and to take note of and to dissect and decipher as we move forward Throughout the rest of the season and obviously into the offseason We I talked so much about this about an offseason priority list that we're gonna compile And every piece of evidence that we get Makes brings that into clearer view. So anyway, we're gonna get into all that fun stuff I'm taking a look at Tori McElaney. She writes the topic lists here And we're gonna get into Desmond Ritter Tyler LG here Cordero Patterson Young Foundation all that fun stuff But the the first topic That I'm just gonna skip the general takeaways because I just think it's so well written here all caps. They won period. Wow period 4-game losing streak snapped and thoughts. So Yeah So I guess I'll just borrow from my good friend Tori here Thoughts. Yeah thoughts question mark. Um, so just for me personally It was interesting because I thought that this game played out exactly how the last few games have played out for the Falcons But instead they won this game like they just found a way to win Which is something that they haven't been able to do in the last probably Month and a half give or take one game. Yeah, and I mean you're still What looking at this team and at this point in the season, you know exactly who this team is even as you're kind of finding more about Finding more out about Desmond Ritter in his progression.  Thank you. It was wild, but we're not talking about that game. We're talking about this one So for me, it's like, you know what that you know what the defense is They have now not given up more than 20 points in the last four games or 21 points in the last four games Yep, that's that's big for this defense. That's pieced together with a Lot of different guys and duct tape and duct tape. Yeah for sure and then for this offense It's about seeing progress with Desmond Ritter and you still rely on the run game Which was evident with what Tyler Algira was able to do and then you've seen Desmond Ritter's growth And I know we're gonna get into that more but to see his passer rating Increased to see his completion percentage increase to see him be more comfortable in the pocket I felt was very very evident. So this team is exactly what it's been the last few weeks The Cardinals just aren't very good. They're in a very similar situation They're they're playing a quarterback that it's what their fourth quarterback in the season. Yeah, that's crazy And then I mean they just found a way to win. Yeah, that's kind of my general thought Yeah, they found a way to win when they haven't been able to do that recently. I mean, they went play three games in a row Three games in a row. Yeah, they played two games in a row where they lost by three and then we all know what happened in Washington, but nonetheless they snapped this for a game losing streak and I'll ask Ashton thoughts Yeah, I thought it was yeah. Um, I thought it was a great game I thought the defense played really well. I think they had what four or five red zone stops Which was which was big like Tori said and I just thought they all just played They were all consistent and you could tell that, you know, they wanted to win this game They want, you know, when I talked to players after the game They talked about the need to just finish strong finish out these last two games strong And you could tell that they put their their best foot forward against the Cardinals regardless If they're eliminated from playoff consention or not I mean Arthur Smith also talked about, you know, just the need to finish this season. I was strong again We saw the Falcons play fishing on both sides and and that's why they came out with it up Yeah, I mean, it's interesting after the Ravens lost that when combined with other positives for other NFC South teams eliminated the Falcons from the playoffs He was asked what like what are you looking for out of the last two He said victories and progress. I think we saw a little bit of both if we're using his guidelines And why not because he's the one making decisions about he and Terry fawn know about what happens next So let's be honest. This was a game against two teams with Nothing to lose right it had its moments where you're watching it And you're just like gosh the these teams are are a ways away from being what they ultimately want to be So let's go ahead and put that out there, too We're not saying that this was a fantastic win by the Falcons by any means this was a win It was a win period. Yeah, and the thing that I liked most about it is What happened at the end? Arizona's defense right not necessarily top caliber Still got JJ Watt them right, but when it mattered most when they were down with five minutes to go Desmond Ritter led them 67 yards. They got a big run from Cordero Patterson It was nice to see him Doing something doing something. Yeah Desmond Ritter though three for three On a third and seven where you absolutely have to have it. Yeah Otherwise you just kick the field goal and then the Cardinals have a chance to come back have to have it He throws an absolute rocket to Michael Pruitt who led the team in receiving yards. Yeah, that's an inexemplate But nonetheless, um, I think and we're going to talk a lot about In ways that Desmond Ritter is improving, right? I think You can look at all these small things and you can dissect the operation at some point You're just gonna have to go in the game right at some point all those small things That we can talk about and you see signs of progress at some point. I don't care about that. I care about How'd you do when the game was on the line? And we know Desmond is a gamer like that his reputation precedes him You're not 44 and six in college if you haven't done some good things in the fourth quarter The guy's a gamer the guy gets it. Heck he threw up a perfect pass to Drake london in new orleans that could have set them up to at least tie the game He didn't drop the ball. No, yeah, but I think it was encouraging to see Him go out there with the game on the line And find a way to get it done. Yeah. Yeah, and I think too The part of that goes along with this and this is something Scott and I were talking about after the game It's like the more Desmond Ritter gets comfortable in this offense and in the league. Let's just be honest He hasn't played But two games prior to this so there is a There are growing pains that you you go through and there is an adjustment to When catching up to the speed of the game understanding that this is different than college This is his first time playing in the league And because of going through those growing pains and really just taking those reps that he didn't have before this It allows you to kind of get into that gamer mode, you know Like it when you are doing the foundational fundamental things and you can kind of get those going a little bit It allows you to be a gamer like how we saw and to go three for three in a drive that Really really mattered to to this game and and not just that and something else We were talking about too was that those three going three for three in that drive Even though like people be oh, we only threw it three times But when you really break it down, especially in the scope of arthur smith's offense That's really all he's asking his quarterbacks to do right. He's not asking them to go out and throw the ball seven eight times in a drive the the run game has its Strengths and you should be able to lean on that and and I think that that's something that that drive Encompassed I think What one this offense can look like and two How desmond ridder Operates in it and I go back to what I said earlier where it does I think it's very evident that desmond ridder Is comfortable More comfortable almost night and day comfortable than what he was the first time that we saw him in new Orleans and this is only a very small Sample size and we have seen growth growth and we have seen him take steps in the right direction And I do think that that should be something that We're talking about because It's gonna matter In 2023 Right regardless of what the falcons do what they decide to do with desmond ridder is going to matter and it's gonna come It's gonna stem from the foundation that he sets Right now. Yeah, no, I definitely agree with that and I think The poise that we saw from desmond ridder in that late fourth quarter drive Is like you said, it's gonna mean the most in the future and and for this team in the future But he does continue to progress every game Statistically, you know, he went he completed a 73 percent of his passes today and he still didn't throw Any interceptions which is amazing for a rookie quarterback And he just continues to grow You know, he exudes so much confidence On the field and in press conferences and and I and I think that You know, that definitely provides a lot of hope for the falcons offense moving forward in the future Yeah, he didn't single-handedly make this an explosive passing No, no, and he was never supposed to yeah, but I think as you continue to evaluate him I think there's a lot to like and when it comes down to it The thing the poise the the moxie the Confidence that he projects. I asked him about that that that About projecting confidence that understanding He does all these little things to let everyone know that he that that he supports them that he's confident that that they're gonna win I asked Dave vagon this a couple weeks ago and arthur last week as well I hate when people say I asked so I'm sorry. I just broke my own rule Those guys were asked by somebody Maybe names godbear But just about is he self-aware is he critical in meeting rooms? Can he say oh, yep, I made a mistake right there or is he blind to it? And both guys who work with the quarterbacks a lot say he can identify Problems and his ego isn't too big to be like, yeah, I screwed that up. Here's how I can do that better Sometimes you guys have guys with supreme confidence who like can't see their own shadow Right, I don't think that's the case here. And that's another one of those encouraging signs. Look, he's got the arm talent That's on that third and seven completions. Right. I mean, he's not always totally perfectly accurate, but I think that I think he even talked in the I'm getting off on a tangent now He even talked in the press conference about early on He let the pressure affect his footwork Who says that in a press conference and that's why he was inaccurate, which means he understands the process And I think those are the things that I like Yeah, it's funny too because I I talked about this on a couple of different occasions I can't remember if it was podcast or written or tv or what but yeah, you're everywhere I'm doing a lot of things. Um, but I remember saying in that for when we were in new orleans And we were watching desmond ridder operate in the pocket. He had happy feet And I I could feel it was almost you felt that jitter and I think that's normal for a guy in that situation I didn't see happy feet in this game And I think that alone is a sign of progress and he I mean he even started the game Arthur smith talked about like starting the game aggressively and he completed 12 of his first 14 passes Right that I mean that's pretty good for a guy. I think in desmond ridder's position right now Yeah, and And we're we're gonna hop back in and talk about tyler and cp In just a second. I just want to clear something up for falcons final whistle listeners I read the youtube comments not always a great idea, but I did and all three of us were getting killed in the comments because I think maybe it was misconstrued or we didn't I thought we explained it well enough, but nonetheless everybody was saying Because you're considering other quarterbacks of the future drafted or free agent or veteran or otherwise You've already given up on desmond ridder as the starter and that is not that is not correct And that's not what we that's not what we were trying to say. Yeah I want to make it clear that we were talking about I mean you only have desmond ridder Moving forward logan woodside was brought in just to Be out there in case the The only person who you can feel like is gonna be there next year is desmond ridder You can't go into a 2023 season with just desmond ridder in the quarterback room and why not get a talented Right. Yeah, you want desmond ridder to be pushed desmond ridder is the type of guy who wants to be pushed Like I I think that was all we were trying to say is that Regardless of what desmond ridder does or doesn't do you have to go fill the quarterback room.  Yes is going to be frustrated During the spring when arthur and terrier at ohio states pro day And at alabamas pro day and they're and they're checking out young and shrouded and levis and All the peeps and all those guys Because that's what they have to do and I keep going back to say it and then the tangent will be over her But I feel like if you're out on the road And you find a guy who you think is a generational perfect for my offense fall in love with this individual You take them no matter what the situation is You and that's not anything that's not anything negative about ridder That's just a fact of the matter is that if you feel like you have a Somebody might put on a gold jacket one day type of talent in front of you and you're sitting there Whatever draft pick that Like that you have I don't care if matt ryan's still on the roster I'm probably taking a hard look at that until you have that true friend I wouldn't have looked at it matt ryan's third year But I look at it in 12 or 13 and that's all that I think that we were trying to say But yeah, just numbers gotta add a quarterback, right? So might as well make it a good one Right. Might as well have someone to push desmond ridder and desmond ridder to push someone else.  Yeah, I think arthur smithy even used the example of Drew domin and matt hennessey today. We saw matt hennessey get the start at left guard Matt hennessey and drew domin had the Most significant position battle that I've seen since The sins I started covering this team and I think matt hennessey is going to be better for it I don't know what's going to happen in the off season with that left guard position But I do think that matt hennessey could potentially be a guy who Either one steps into that role or fights for that role. Yeah And I think that's all you're asking these players to do is to compete with one another Because at this point with this team No position is safe Unless you are Maybe chris lunstrom aj trail grady jaret jake matthews Drake london jake london If you're one of those guys, okay, sure whatever you have the money to prove that you're out there for a reason Everybody else How much how much turnover are we gonna see a lot? Exactly exactly my point. So and then after in years after that I think we will see less and less because they can spend on these bigger deals Yeah, we need to move on right one area. How's this for a transition one area where where the The need is very low. Oh, yeah, is that running back? Yep. Because add them to the list too, right because tyler algear That dude the second half of the season. He looks so comfortable. He looks like his byu highlights Against novato rino.  He's confident. He's patient. He's all these things And then today we have Cordero who maybe hasn't had the best statistical season his receiving yards or way way down I guess rushing yards are way up But we saw him used in a way that I think everybody Expected him to be used because tyler can be that Three down type of running back so you can put cordero in the slot. He had what six catches today He was all over the place and I think that the combination of those two guys is super encouraging I spent I mean tyler's averaging what five yards a carry now That that was really encouraging Ashton and arthur smith and desmond ridder talked about that. Yeah for sure. Yeah I mean algear. He moved into the record books today. He eclipsed over 1000 Yards in scrimmage. So, you know, I think that says a lot about algear. He didn't play the first game Against the same saying he's a healthy scratch. He was yeah, he was a healthy scratch And like he came alive in the second half of the season And he merged as a as a young quality running back But what arthur smith said after the game is that, you know cp is such a versatile player and you can use them together There are a lot of plays where you see cp as a wideout, which you saw against the cardinals today And you saw the one down in the red zone some other plays and it's nice when you can mix and match And you know, I think that's very true And I think that provides a lot of hope for the falcons offense in the future because cp is such an amazing Inversital player like he's great in the backfield. He's great at wide out and inside the algear He's just a force in the backfield like Nobody can really tackle algear And we saw cp. He had 42 yards receiving 42 yards rushing and the touchdown And I think that just you know Again that that provides a lot of hope for the falcons offense moving forward in the future and I just think that's that's going to make this offense Versatile in every way Here's the thing that I think people need to think about when it comes to this idea of What we saw today with tyler algear and cordial patterson was that They didn't I don't think they necessarily even knew what they had in tyler algear until you get to the midpoint of the season When both cp and damien williams are on ir and I think back to Kind of something that arthur smith has talked about recently Where he was talking about how cp was your featured back and so he had because he had to be so you use him As a traditional running back and cp goes out and has a 200 some odd rushing guard game in seattle, but As tyler algear has emerged you see the like mystery of cp and the I hate saying this word because I know cp doesn't like it But the gadgety type of guy of being able to have a versatile like Look about what cp can provide your offense in the different packages Definitely like two back packages like that that is Something that tyler algear's emergence provides this offense and that's something that arthur smith talked a lot about And I think it's because they have started to trust tyler algear And he's really proven himself that he can go out and get those dirty yards that is So I think that that just goes to show kind of what the trajectory of The again the the emergence of tyler algear's role in this offense is and how it can help Corderole Patterson because I know we have talked so many times this year. It's like Why isn't cp getting out wide like he was last year? I think that I mean he this was a guy who had a lot of receiving yards last year And you're kind of wondering why well, that's why he had to be the feature back for a while Now it's kind of morphing into tyler algear because he's been productive and it allows you to move cp out And do different things with him. Yeah, and that was always the plan It was just a matter of it wasn't you couldn't execute it because damy williams got hurt in a flash And it just never and then corderole gets hurt and then tyler emerges, you know, it takes So anyway, this was all the plan and that's why it's like I think it's easy to be like Well, you know arthur smith is an idiot because he's not using cp the way he did last year Well, I'm sure he really wanted to right and that's what we saw here And he he identified some matchups that worked well for patterson on like on the outside Yeah, so it's not just a matter of oh, well, he's not calling this play It's like you have to think about these things football is so interesting to talk about right because there's so many like dimensions You and if you're not seeing the full picture Then you're not doing it. Yeah, you know and nothing that we're talking about here Is not something that arthur smith hasn't already talked about three times over in press conferences He's the one that brought up All that stuff about you know cp goes on ir and then tyler emerges and then you got to and then cp's working back to full health Then he's the one that brought up that up what a month ago, right? He even said that tyler He even he's basically said that tyler, um impressed him like as far as like how fast he adjusted to the nfl like earlier in the season just paraphrasing what he said but I think the biggest thing that i like about tyler is just like his awareness Even arthur smith said after the game like when it was third and two with the minute and three seconds left You know tyler needed three or two he really needed two yards to get the first down But he got three and he went down and that's what ran basically ran the clock out and and helped seal the falcons victory And i just think he's playing very maturely and i think he's he's definitely adjusting to the game very quickly It's it's weird. I think at times Arthur smith can be he's really good in press conferences in that if he doesn't want to answer your question Like he's he's not going to answer it and I think sometimes he may have a reputation of coming off as kind of like Flippant sometimes which I don't think he is right, but if you listen close enough, he's going to tell you the truth Right, you just have to be like aware of it And you have to really understand kind of what Exactly what he's saying and how he's saying it. I think over a couple years I feel like i'm fluent in arthur smith At least i'm getting better at it nonetheless, but nonetheless he I think he's he's a very smart engaging individual And I do think that to your point torii that there are some nuggets in there Um, you just got to pay attention to it. Um, and as we kind of move forward we've been talking about desmond ritter tyler algear Right and you look at how many members of this draft class and this rookie class are seeing significant time Troy anderson and arnold ebacadie and so on and so forth And it's not because they're in evaluation mode. It's because those rookies have earned the roles that they've gotten They're not just taking a look at troi anderson troi anderson is playing Better than michael walker right now So when you have these young guys and at the end of the year they've earned it merit-based promotions and you see them produce If you're trying to look at this thing Beyond you know the last two games where they're not going to make the playoffs is that this young foundation is expanding Yeah, don't you think I know i was like Yes No, something I wrote about post game was just this idea that I do think What we're seeing from this young foundation Is that there is a foundation to build upon The falcons are going to have Significant money this off season They're going to be able to make moves that we haven't seen them be able to make in a couple years if not longer than that so Even in that I feel like there are pieces in place that you can build around and and I say that kind of just really looking at this 2022 draft class and The way that I think that they have emerged in their own Individual roles is something that Yes, gives me hope for what the falcons can do in 2023 and 2024 and beyond I don't think that just because they are out of playoff contention that we can sit here and be like Oh, this is it like fire everyone like this is just the beginning Of my evaluation of this front office and of this coaching staff because for the last two years that they've been here The salary cap has kept them in jail They have been unable to really create the team in my opinion that they want to here And that's nothing against the guys on this current team But we know this is a team that's pieced together with a ton of guys on their rook on the early days Of their rookie contracts and then a lot of free agents that are signing one-year deals and so To be able to say that even in all of that and even in the growing pains and even in the losses and In everything that we've seen that there is a foundation there that is reliant on Tyler Algier and Drake London and Troy Anderson and ak and de angelo de angelo and kyle pits and I mean AJ to rail chris lynch from all of those guys. I just named all in their rookie deals Right all of them So These are pieces that you're gonna have for a while and you're gonna be able to build Around them and here's I mean so I have to give a shout out to Matt Haley and John Dayton who they write our nerdy birds report, which runs on Friday morning since it's fun Yeah, I I learned something new every every day because I sometimes don't get like too stat heavy I try not to because sometimes I do think stats can be misleading. I feel like dean peas just like Spoke through me at that point. Oh 100 but they really did break this down that Only 11 players on this active 53 man roster were on the team prior to last year 11 On the 53 man active roster 90 percent of the players are under 30 and 50 percent are under the age of 27 that's the fifth highest mark in the NFL in terms of young players and Atlanta leads the NFL and rostered players Under the age of 26 at 13 That is and then the Falcons also have the fifth highest percentage of players on rookie contracts with three or fewer years of experience That's 85 percent of this 53 man roster I I know I just threw out a ton of numbers and stats and everything But that's important when you're looking at this team and where it wants to go and I do think that there is something That with this foundation that they've laid that there is something for the future to be built upon This team has had its issues. This team has had its problems. This rookie class has had their growing pains but even in saying all of that They're still showing that they have a foundation worth building upon. Yeah Every off season or at least the off season that we've been here of which there aren't too many But I've been here for three three But during the off season we do this series called building blocks, right and and it's and you have to Select guys who are on their rookie deal who you would consider part of the Falcons young foundation Tori and I did this last year this was before ashen came on and we had to come up with five or six and five and five and by the time we got to the fourth one we're like Who are we going to pick? Right and now this off season it it's almost going to be the opposite. Yeah, there's there's going to be too many We're going to have to expand the series, which I think is a sign It's a way of saying that I do think the young foundation is expanding And we all talk about the growth that you see between years one and two and the guy has an off season Arthur Smith has brought this up a couple times where he says The growth between years three and four Like what we're seeing with chris lindstrom who was already pretty good and now elite that there's an opportunity there. So when Throw kala magari in there too. Yes 100 the the kala magari that we are watching play this year is Head and shoulders above what he's been since he's gotten to alana. Yeah, and those types of things are encouraging because He's he's not all that old anyway, right? So but so you you're looking across this roster and it look there's a lot of work to do Yeah, and it's gonna this is not an excuse I want to say that too just because i'm sitting here being like the there is Potential and hope for the future that doesn't excuse the fact that the falcons are out of playoff contention And they've lost as many games as they have this year. This is not an excuse No, but if we are in evaluation mode now because there's nothing because we know when the season's gonna end Yeah, and I think that Those are some encouraging signs as you can as all of a sudden you get the money and then you have Some more draft capital and you look at what you have And maybe your needs are lesser or you're you can draft for depth. You know all all those types of things I think are encouraging We just hit the 30 minute mark. We generally have a heart out at 30. 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Tonight in the holy land. Wow one of the most dangerous escalations in years after Israeli missiles killed at least 20 people in the Gaza Strip Including nine children according to Gazan health officials Welcome back and thanks for watching make sure to check out my description and pin comment for all my alternative platform links So here we go again after 400 now artillery missiles launched from Gaza into Israel with over 70 Israelis wounded and several killed the US news media is playing their part in a terrorist tactic of using human shields in order to produce Anti-Israeli propaganda in the form of US and world news reports the tactic is so obvious that it strains Crudulity to believe that they don't know what they're doing. Here's how it works The Hamas terrorists launched missiles from highly populated areas in this case the al-Aqsa mosque Sometimes schools are just tightly packed civilian areas when Israel inevitably responds Hamas hopes that they hit civilians That they can then use to manipulate US news media until blaming Israel Because some journalists there as you can see a wave to us saying not to go there Okay So we're not actually going in there because it's been rightly pointed out to us that they could be an immediate Israeli retaliation To the rocket that was fired from here. Now. Let's look at this objectively I have no special love for Israel and I don't doubt that they share a lot of blame in this conflict But it's hard for me to harshly judge a country that's under constant attack by a literal terrorist government Whose openly stated goal is the destruction of Israel and Jews worldwide Let's not forget that this is a country that wants allied with Hitler and still indoctrinates their population with very Nazi-esque propaganda to this day Meanwhile Israel is a top tier first world country where Jews Christians and Arabs all coexist peacefully now before I dive Into this topic any further give me just 30 seconds to tell you about this special offer for my viewers ask yourself Are you on the investment treadmill? 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They appeared to do minimal damage But Israel responded immediately with airstrikes Which the Palestinians say injured and killed civilians including nine children Okay, wow NBC news frames this as an escalation by Israel for retaliating after Hamas fired 200 or more rockets at the time into Israeli civilian areas now You can call me toxically masculine all you want But the fact of the matter is if anybody fired hundreds of artillery missiles into the United States or any country for that Matter they're gonna respond in kind why because they have to take out those firing positions and hopefully the guys firing not doing so Will result and even more attacks and more Israeli casualties the argument I always hear made by US news media and the political left is that Israel's responses are Disproportionate whatever that means Disproportionality and warfare the whole idea of war is that one side is stronger and defeats the other So what if Israel did respond in the exact same way that they were attacked well I can guarantee you that there would be way more Palestinian casualties Why because when Israel responds they strike specific targets if they just launched hundreds of artillery missiles in the Gaza They'd probably wipe most of it out now Israel also has the iron dome Which will stop some of those missiles incoming But not all of them as if having the iron dome precludes Israel from being able to retaliate and destroy targets that are actively attacking them Air raid sirens wailing as Israelis took cover in their homes a children's ballet class huddled in a classroom Amazingly, no one was hurt most of the rockets stopped by Israel's defense system the iron dome But retaliation was swift and deadly Palestinians saying at least 20 people were killed Including three children the Israelis saying only three militants were hit notice how quick they are to Accept Palestinian claims of civilian casualties and by that they mean Hamas a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel How quickly they forget other times that they parroted Hamas lies then had to backtrack long after Hamas had benefited from the drive-by media lies These protests are not letting up among Palestinians There is now no conviction that President Trump is an arbiter for the peace process His militant supporters calling for rockets to fly toward Israel And while UN human rights officials are criticizing Israel for using lethal force against protesters Israel and the trump administration are blaming Hamas Meanwhile, did you ever even hear about the 108 Israeli civilian casualties during the attacks in 2018? Another point I want to make here is that leftists often like to downplay the deadly artillery used by Hamas as fireworks But as you probably guessed that's just an outright lie Hamas has a deadly arsenal that has a limited success against Israel Not for lack of trying but because Israel has become so good at missile defense and the retaliatory strikes I ask you all who is really to blame for Palestinian civilian casualties? Is it Israel or is it Hamas and the us news media who willingly play a crucial role in the human shield tactic? Let me know in the comment section. That's all I have for this one But before you go, please hit that like button and subscribe Also, make sure to check out all my alternate platform links in the description or pin comment. Thanks for watching I'll see you all tomorrow


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a random number block randomizer for this group of teams right here Sixers, Thunders, Suns, Wizards, Clippers, Blazers and Pacers. This unlocks Flawless Pick Your Team 6 coming up in a separate video. Big thanks to this group right here for getting in on it Only to do one filler for each of those number blocks, which I appreciate There are the numbers right there Let's roll it, randomize it, names and numbers, six and a two, eight times. One, two three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. After eight, we got Gretchen down to Steven P Six and a two, eight times four The numbers, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time After eight, we got zero down to three. Now obviously no redemptions in Flawless, so I don't have to do my redemption spiel For these but it is in the description if you want to take a look at it for future RnBs. Gretchen with zero four David with nine, Gretchen with two and five, David with eight, Gretchen with seven And six, Ray with one and Steven P with three. All right coming up the next video Flawless, jaspyscasebreaks.com


What the Marines have done by coming in and volunteering their time, I'm very overwhelmed. Today what we're doing is we're doing some demolition for a local family here who is affected by Hurricane Florence. The house as you can probably see got flooded through so we're doing some demolition in there with the Marines and me and their loved one. It's good to be able to work with the community to get to know who you're working with who's supporting you it's nice to know that there's no to bridge that gap there's no wall between and boundary between you guys and the community the ones you serve so it's nice. The Marines, the civilians, everybody in this community is pulling together the whole thing is just overwhelming. We think it's very important to foster those relationships and come out and help in any way we can. We're going to continue to do that because it's the right thing to do.


All the office isn't completely done yet, but it's getting pretty close. We're definitely up and running and functional, but I wanted to spend some time and get my office done, so I actually kind of, you know, shift the priorities I had to get this done because I have work to do and videos to edit and stuff I get to get back to and customer things and all this build up is real expensive, so we have to make sure that we're working so we can keep the money coming in. The monitor stands and all that a lot that I brought over from the old store, including the desk. So we'll start out with what I did for the desk here. So we built it using the IKEA Ekbak and Countertop. Now that's actually because it doesn't scratch as easy. This is not like those, I want to say Le Mans, I want to call them lemons. We've gotten those before and they're nice, but they scuff easy, they scratch easy. This is a laminate kitchen countertop, so it makes a really strong desk and it's really reasonably priced. Now we got that and we put a piece of OSB board that we mount, so we mount everything to it from the top. Now the monitors, same ones I've had for a while, I've actually had these a few years, they are great. They're ASUS 23 inch IPS display. I'm going to put all the details and links below to the exact model if you're interested. Been super happy with them. The IPS display on these is just vivid, crisp, full 1080 and really not been any issues at all. After a couple of years, I'd really recommend these monitors. Then my monitors for the speakers are studio monitors. I wanted something that produced a really good, even sound and I actually, I'm actually kind of cheap, so I found these at a pawn shop. They look like brand new and I got them for like a hundred bucks. There's Samsung BT5s. They actually have Bluetooth, which is pretty cool. So when we're setting things up before I have my computer in here and we're building it out, I could jam out with them just hitting the Bluetooth button and sync them to my phone, which is really cool. The sound response, the bass response from these is wonderful and especially in a room this small, which I did custom build my office and we did build it small. So it's only six by three, so it really, really rocks. But that's also why it gets real easy to catch a lot of echoes in here.  So I'm recording on microphone and doing voiceover work. No problem. So I put the foam on the walls as you see on either side here. So the walls are all nice and foamed. I did a separate video. I got that from Foam by Mail. I got these cool above me IKEA things. Oh, I don't know. I had to find the name of those ones with the lack shelf. So that's where the little orange boxes are. All this stuff was many trips to IKEA to put a lot of this together. The LED lights are just your generic ones I ordered off of Amazon. Now mouse and keyboard are still the same ones I've had for a while. Once again, there's something I actually ended up getting for, I think I bought it for $20 new in the box. It's a really nice Apple keyboard. Not a big fan of Apple as the company, like I don't care for their software. I'm not an iPhone user or anything like that. It's not my thing. But their keyboards are just really great and they have no problem working in Linux. So no issues there. My mouse is a Pro-HT mouse. Some people have asked, it's kind of generic. It's an Inland. It's one of the cheapy ones. Nothing special. It fit my hand well and it works and it mouse is just fine. So that works really well. My case isn't NXT. I got that given to me by a friend. He thought it was too big and bulky to have in his house. So he says, here, Tom, just take this cool NXT case. Let me get the model number real quick. It's an NXT Switch 810 if you want to know the specific model. What's important to me is things like cable management. It has cable management and as you can see here, we put together really, really clean. I'm really picky that I want everything to be both functional but nice and tight and not loose wires everywhere. Which is also why when you look across or under my desk, I like things really clean without things on my desk because I only want the things on my desktop for me to see because everything becomes a distraction for me and takes away like, ooh, look, shiny. So when I work, for example, when I'm at work flows, I put my phone on mute and just ignore notifications for an hour or two if I have to focus and get a project done such as editing a video. And that's kind of, you know, a lot of what I do here is either edit videos, customer support. Once you've had these triple monitor setups, it's so much easier because you just spread everything. I spread the timeline sometimes across multiple screens. I have the editing window in another screen so that just helps quite a bit. Still using the Blume Yeti microphone, I really have no reason to replace it. To me, the voice quality sounds really good on it. You can find these for a deal on eBay or even reasonably placed when you buy them new. I still have this chair, which I've actually had for like 15 or more years, maybe even longer. I've had this chair for a long time. The Herman Miller air-on chair, just super comfortable. I kind of recline back and rock in it and been really happy with it. The computer itself is a quad-core i7. I'll drop the specs in there. Once again, it was stuff that I kind of traded for. I don't remember the exact model, the motherboard, and I'm too lazy to take it all back apart to get the exact one. It is an Asus Republic Gamer with 16 gigs of RAM. Then I use an SSD and a three terabyte storage drive for all my videos. So 256 gig SSD. Plenty fast enough for what I do. I mean, I always want faster but it comes down to cost over value. My next build might be a rise in one because they're really impressive. But overall, that's kind of the stuff in my office. Maybe I'll do some more videos about how I do my workflow using this. I've done that on Kaden Live, showing how I do my editing. I'm still editing with Kaden Live, although a newer version has come out, which is great and I've updated to it right away. Been having a little bit of an audio sync issue but hopefully all the audio in this is in sync. But other than that, it's just a lot of little details and custom work. I don't like to buy a lot of off-the-shelf stuff for my desk. And this has been a really good setup and just really solid. It's great, there's no wiggle here. It takes a lot to get these monitors to shake some of your type and nothing's moving around. And that's why we did it this way with the boards going underneath and bolted right to the wall with a 2x4 runner across the wall. I also like it so there's nothing underneath the floor because when you're on a vacuum, the vacuum can get all the way to the back anytime. Every wire is zip tied and little types of loops that we screwed in. So we ran cable management all along the bottom. It's just nothing too special. It's the same conduit hooks that you can get from Home Depot. They make great for holding cables. Cables through there, everything stays right flush up against the bottom of this. We had a lot of this one-inch orange tubing. So even exposed wires like you see behind here on the monitors, I ran those in the orange tubing. So no wires or dangling or anything like that. Even my charge cable I ran across and over through that to keep it obscure. It gives it a really clean look and it kind of goes with that mentality I have of being distraction free, hopefully. So that's it. If you have any questions, leave it in the comments below. I think I kind of covered it all. But this is my little box that I work in and kind of cut myself off from the world so I can get things done.  I'm like, I want the least disturbed office. That's always my goal. It's not about the biggest office. I don't need to occupy a lot of real estate. When I want to do stuff, there's plenty of store. We have the new buildings about 2,000 square feet. So there's plenty of other places for me to go and do things and do reviews. We built the studio area. But when I just got to sit down and get work, I cut the lights out, spin and work here. All right, if you like to count in here, like and subscribe and thank you.


in libraries a stable source of income. So once the Rogers Act passed, the San Francisco Free Library was able to open its doors the following year in its first building, which was actually, it was a shared building. It was in a large auditorium on the second floor of Pacific Hall, which was on Bush Street just west of Kearney. So they are on the top floor. So on opening night on Saturday, June 7th, 1879, both Senator Rogers and Hallity made, there's a big party, and there also were many auspicious statements about the future of both San Francisco and the library itself. So Hallity would then spend the 80s and 90s overseeing the proliferation of his cable tramway and cable car worldwide, so he's very busy. He also headed up the Chamber of Industry, which was a progenitor to the Chamber of Commerce, and he continued serving as regent of the University of California, specifically managing the finances and also supervising the development of the Lick Observatory, the California School of Mechanical Arts, and the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts. So he didn't slow down, backing up a little bit in time. On November 18th, 1868, he would marry Martha Woods. She was much younger then. She was the daughter of a Sacramento carpenter, and he probably met Father Woods on one of his contracting jobs. So by all accounts, they had a very happy marriage, and these obviously are portraits of their later years. And this is a wonderful shot of their family life at their summer home in Portola Valley called Eagle Home Farm. Hallity's in the center with his face turned away from the camera, and Martha is to his right. Unfortunately, they had no natural children, but they practically raised their niece Florence, who's sitting on the steps behind him, behind Hallity, and they also adopted a cousin's child, Andrew Hallity Brown, who had been raised in their household since infancy. So that's the little guy in the front. Hallity would die in his bed on April 24th, 1900. He had suffered for years from congestive heart failure and after some time he finally succumbed, leaving his wife and young son, Andrew Hallity Brown. Mrs. Hallity would outlive him by 37 years, and I just feel so sorry for her because she lost her husband in April, and within 18 months had lost her mother, and also the little boy. So this portrait was of great comfort to her. In her later years, it would hang in her bedroom at the Heritage House on Laguna Street, and that's a nursing home still there. So the portrait was painted by a family friend, Harriet Foster Beecher in early 1898. She was a student at the San Francisco Art Association, and this was one of the organizations that Hallity helped found. She would eventually paint a second portrait after Hallity's death, and that portrait resides at the Bancroft Library at the University of California. And I dare say our portrait is better because he looks more alive in this one. So Beecher, she was related to the Beecher family, Henry Ward Beecher. Lyman Beecher, yeah, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Foster Beecher would marry into the family, but I'm sure she had very interesting parties with her in-laws. She was a mover and shaker in the art world, and would be known for her plain air works. In 1915, she also was one of the very few women artists that would be selected to serve on the Panama Pacific International Expositions Advisory Committee for Western Art. All right, so a couple years ago, the library had plans to move Hallity's portrait in order to make way for the 1854 Bridgens map, and it's surrounding archival case, which you can view anytime on the second floor. So I was very concerned about this new installation and the moving of the portrait because I felt strongly that Hallity should have a good vista of at least one of the reading rooms. He has a good vista here. Anyway, when the portrait was removed, it was immediately clear that it needed some repairs. Oh, also I should say, the little label on the back was put there once the painting was finished because it debuted in Chicago at an art show, and it did a little tour and then made its way back here to San Francisco. So as you can see, and from your beautiful little program, the elaborately carved gesso frame was actually separating from the wood frame and cracked in several places, and the gold leaf was sadly discolored. But Peter Verkoven, the master gilder and frame maker of Ada Kuhl was called in to rescue our portrait, and ultimately he would re-carve and replace the missing ornamental features. He would fill in and replace the gesso ornamental frame, the sections that were missing, and he'd reapply the gold leaf, and then he refit the painting. He didn't do all that with the painting actually in the frame. He'd refit the painting with appropriate tension into the refurbished, beautiful frame. And now Mr. Hallity is set to face another hundred years with us. Thank you for hosting me tonight.


But anyway, in the second hour we get to meet the guest, our guest today is Disciples Zai joints and we are really humble that he joined us today, how are you sir? I'm good. I'm good. Yeah I'm good. Oko fiti? That's good. Thanks for the invite. Karibu, karibu. We enjoyed the vibe up up here. Ya vibe, go find out, go find out. Si odi p Funnwa na sikisha na sumati niye to muitetu sa SSI hands Really, really. But who is Disciples Zai? Disepozaan is a gospel minister He is also a saved Christian, a Pender Christ He made the Lord and Savior of my life All right Pender tu glu mese ma save Christian Besides that, there is nothing else that you do? I am also a real estate valua So no, nani leju wa tukuna kitu na ficha white So no, nani leju wa tukuna kitu na ficha white Nani leju, nani leju wa tukuna kitu na kutanga za maali na pata We see defeated in to wakuju Non will come for you As long as you are here, you are safe Disepozaan, I am interested in a jinayaki disciple Monakujiita aposto Apostos sayo meki hanza, kiki omleze kwaiti kwa ma dansa so ituli kona kruhi netoo wa zaya墮dansu kruhi so after some time krui kadilenspa sika break so... na ni kwa, sanana, na yuhi wa fayo kusaap Christ so ndi o, leta ni ga kwa introduce kwa music nili ya zakini, kwa na drzand before so ikinelda kugro kwa word nika jwa Christ na ni kwa na biya, secret Zaake sanakua We have 12 disciples. We have 12 disciples. And they are loyal disciples. Yes, they are loyal disciples. Take us through some Ziki Uliyanzalini. And how has it been for you? Ziki Uliyanzalini is in 2018. So it has been fine so far. I thank God it has been surrounded by very influential people. Especially Kama Elkhana. He is in the building. It's the first time he has been in the building. He is in the building. It's the first time he has been in the building. Kama Elkhana is in the building. He is a very good friend. He supports the ministry and the music. So, yeah. What is the record of your music? Not necessarily, but in terms of advice and how to approach the whole music scene. Yeah. Yes. So, the issue is nizakumbukani blenili ya zangoma nilikwa na tagatu rege-rege-rege. So, ma zangwa li kwa mesinakini, eh, mahani zingupan zikuna fanya misili. It's not between the two, it's between the two. So, I can't realize as much as yes, na fanya rege, na most of the time, to talk to him, napa toa. So, I don't want to diversify nika moni diversify at least nikuna fanya wama zingini zingupi ya zangwa niza relate to. Not only ccwa rewa raspe kiaake, but you can call to the world to only a specific people. So, domano na nga wama zangu nida diverse piyaake plani. Ah, nice. Smart move. Na maze na relate na ingini. Yes, na relate na ingini. Na, na, na, na. Ayo iwi.   Um, awo ya the issue is rege, especially part of aikwagi very complicated kwiwe, ainsi na kongatu English in English. achieved in English. Get different. Ah Eh Oh, no wonder, sasa. Kwa tuwerega wa kipafom niki DJ wana kuja wana ni ambiya, wola! So na mi na pula wupu niki dhania, niku ambiya na ambiya. Kufi nambiya hold on. Ah, wola! Ina boot of ten, nikshonaria. Niki matua. Niki na waka na yuwa, wola! Niki na waka na yuwa, wola! Niki na waka na elitrasia to anyway. Niki na waka na elitrasia to anyway. Niki na waka na yuwa, waka na yuwa, wola! Niki wawa ikwa gikomplikated sana. Especialist, niki kakaela, generationia mabidjana, wana elewa na grass. So ikwa gikomplikated sana. So wa sayo ni mbibio na struggle ku elewa ni waza eik. Yes. Kwa weta geti hakusi waza eik? Kwa weta geti kina na ni na ii? Mi na feel, music universal na joa. Godron na joa udiensi ako. Udiensi ako. Udiensi ako. Kawu ki tiki ministeria Paul. Paul ali ito tiki gentiles. Na yuwa kukakumisioni akel dito kakwa God.  So mi na feelingi, Kami musici ma kudia kwa spiriti ango kani wo shi pama ni rege na ito a play me kama. Kagi ku doctor. Exactly. I like this guy. If Iki wali wa sayo ita. Awesome awesome awesome. So apart from say, whatever you've done, are you preparing anything for us? Desi ya? Ya desi ya ni kuna projects. Projects di kebao. Actually sayi ni kuna, there's an album finishing up. Album. Should be releasing maybe end of this month and my Ali next month. Iki toka tune da. Of course na taki. Economic chaya rege na ni? Eikona rege, actually most of the songs rege na dance hall piya. Sungs ka piya po? Sungs ka kumi. To say mi 7 ni rege. 70% ya. 70% ya. 70 songs. Kuna moji kuna collab wa puna Elkana? Elkana bado, kuna vitu baditu na panga, lakini neza menshonoa say kama na jwa mahat muhan. Koko album. Demflani piya na ito wa shami. Ye piya koko album. Album album. Thank you so much Disciple. Uru di tene na yu album. Kabisa kabisa. Anyway watu wa taku support? VPP yu album piyo na isa mention pinutai drop so that watu wa kinbi yu kusasafi?  Disciples Zahana. Tumasalamu. Tumasalamu. First of all, thank you my whole crew, DJ Kagem, Emin, Moses, na grupti yote Godo Blesana na producerangu Sean, K-wise, barikiwe sana na not forgetting regemta the whole crew. Regemta? Ni muna yo regemta sana. But anyway, I'm looking forward to the discussion. Thank you so much, Disciples. Nishkuru. Anatu Blesna kani DJ. Glorias tu na yo rege. Ita kwa fitisana. Nishkuru. Liman. Ebu Rudia? Ebu Rudia? Nishkuru. Wola, Wola. Wola, Nishkuru. Wola, Nishkuru. Disciples Zahana. When we dropped the album Y254, the first place was Jaffet. Ya man, we did it for Jesus. We had it. Ah, Nishkuru. Ebu, usfanya 2 yubi useme. Ni ni ni ni. Thank you for always watching J.C. Circle. Ni ni ni. Ya man, ni ni tingo. Thank you all for always watching J.C. Circle. Here on Y254. Bless it. Kwa.


And what's not to hate about the welfare warfare police state out there. And when I was asked to give a talk at the conference, I had just written an article for lurockwell.com entitled constitutional neo-conmen. And so I thought I'd talk about that theme today. And what you know one of the things I was thinking about was that I noticed that all during the George Bush administration the neo-conservatives had a mantra. The mantra was 9-11 changed everything. So every time Judge Napolitano would be on the Fox News channel to debate O'Reilly or Hannity or one of these people, the mantra would come out. 9-11 changed everything. Here's a judge saying this, the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. Wiretapping without a warrant is unconstitutional. The mantra would come out. 9-11 changed everything.  Constitution, Schmonstitution was the mantra of the neo-conservatives all during that time. That abruptly changed immediately as soon as Barack Obama was declared the winner of the election four years ago. Immediately these same people, Rush Limbaugh started sounding, you know, he sounded more like Benito Mussolini during the Bush administration, but he transformed himself miraculously into Murray Rothbard as soon as Obama took the oath of office. And even the odious Mark Levin, who Limbaugh calls the great one, Lou does too, Lou Rockwell calls him the great one, but he spells it G-R-A-T-E, the great one. He wrote a book on the constitutional liberty. So all of a sudden all these neo-cons are Ron Paul libertarians when Obama is in office. So they're phonies in other words. And so, you know, of the first order. And I'm not speaking of phonies. One person that I'm going to quote, that's sort of the theme of my critique here, is in the course of doing a little web research on writings on Teddy Roosevelt. A couple of weeks ago I found an article by Charles Kessler who works at the Clermine Institute in California. He's one of the neo-cons. And if you don't know about the Clermine Institute and their stance, this is a group that gave Statesmen of the Year Awards recently to Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Victor Davis Hansen, and Rush Limbaugh. Statesmen of the Year. So you know kind of where they're coming from. And Kessler wrote a review of this book on Teddy Roosevelt. And he said this. He said, and this is sort of the ideology of the neo-conservative Clermine Institute, government must be strong but limited. Think about that. So that's like, in my notes I wrote, it must be short but tall, light but dark, good but bad, high but low. And it makes about as much sense as all of that, strong but limited. And of course, this is contrary to everything we know about government. And this guy is a professor of government at Clermont Graduate School with a Harvard degree. And so surely he knows better, but he doesn't say better. He must know better though. But it's really a proposal. How is government to be limited anyway by the Constitution? Well no, that if history proves anything is that a written constitution is all but useless in limiting government. We should learn that a long time ago. How about secession? Will that limit government, you know, giving people freedom of association? In theory, yes. But of course, the last time any group of Americans seriously threatened to secede, the federal government ended up killing 450,000 of them according to the latest estimates. There's updated estimates, by the way, using modern forensic research techniques on the Civil War deaths. And it puts just the southern deaths at about 400 to 450,000. Whereas it used to be 300,000 as the old number that lasted for about 100 years. And so well, that didn't really work out either. And of course, the one of Murray Rothbard's favorite philosophers was John C. Calhoun, who in his famous Disquisition on Government wrote and explained in great detail why a written constitution could never be relied upon to limit government. You need something else that people themselves need to be empowered to interpret the constitution, to veto unconstitutional laws and so forth. You could never trust the government itself to be the final arbiter of constitutionality. And of course, there is no bigger haters of John C. Calhoun than the Claremont Institute and the neo-conservatives for that reason, because they are sort of the purveyors of the nationalist, centralist tradition in American politics. And so the most evil thing in the world to them is the Jeffersonian tradition of decentralization. And Calhoun in his day, he died in 1850, carried on the decentralization tradition. And so in terms of the role of war, I'd like to just talk about a few historical facts that illustrate this fact that the idea that you can be pro-war, you know, when people like Charles Kessler say government must be strong but limited, well, the strong part, he means the military industrial congressional complex. We must have a gigantic military to protect our freedoms. That's what he means by strong but limited. He means limiting government to the constitutional functions, which are Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution really is mostly foreign policy and war-making. And then there's weights and measures and naturalization and a few things like that. But the real big money items have to do with war, defense, foreign policy there. So that's what he means. Well, this idea that 9-11 changed everything is really a contradiction to what I consider to be one of the best statements the US Supreme Court ever made about the Constitution. And this was a statement that was made in a case called ex parte milligan in 1866. And it was the Supreme Court, Abe Lincoln was finally dead. And so they finally got up the nerve to criticize him for having illegally suspended the writ of habeas corpus. The Chief Justice did at the time, Roger Bitani, but then an arrest warrant was issued for him. And so he was sort of intimidated as for other judges. But once Lincoln was dead, the Supreme Court, even though it had several of his appointees were quite heroic in saying this, they said, I'm quoting, the Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people equally, equally in war and peace. And it covers with its shield of protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of men that any of its great provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. So the Supreme Court in 1866 was saying it is especially during wartime that we have to be vigilant and enforcing the Constitution because we can't trust government to concoct phony wars or phony crises with the intention of grabbing our liberties and throwing them away at any time in the future. And so that was the court's way of chastising what Lincoln had done. And so of course he had done much more than suspend habeas corpus. They mass arrested tens of thousands of Northern civilians, newspaper editors, the mayor of Baltimore, Congressman Henry May of Maryland was thrown in prison. A large part of the Maryland state legislature was imprisoned without due process. The grandson of Francis Scott Key was imprisoned in Fort McHenry not too far from where his grandfather wrote the Star-Spangled Banner for criticizing in an editorial Lincoln's illegal suspension of habeas corpus. A member of Congress was deported. Clement Vellandigan was his name for opposing the Lincoln administration. And Lincoln essentially redefined treason to mean criticism of him and his administration. But if you were to read the article 3 section 3 of the United States Constitution, it defines treason as follows. It says treason is defined only, it uses the word only, as levying war upon the states or giving aid and comfort to their enemy. And the states is in the plural. So what else would you call Lincoln's levying war upon the southern states other than levying war upon the southern states? It was the literal definition of treason in the U.S. Constitution to begin with. And so to argue that we need to have a strong military establishment to protect constitutional liberty does not have a very good historical record. When I debated one of the top Lincoln cultists in California shortly after my book The Real Lincoln came out, Harry Jaffa, I debated him at the Independent Institute. After my first turn, he stood up and said, Abraham Lincoln never did anything that was unconstitutional. And the room of about 200 people just exploded and laughed her because most of them had read my book and that cites all the scholarly literature on this because generations of historians have never said that. They've called Lincoln a dictator, but they say he was a benevolent dictator. But not Jaffa, who by the way is also associated with the Claremont Institute in California. And so that's Lincoln. So this established precedence. Precedence are important. There's a book by a left wing law professor called Our Secret Constitution, and he celebrates the fact that the Lincoln administration pretty much trashed and ignored the Constitution in the north, in the northern states, because it established precedence for expanding government far beyond what the actual Constitution would would allow for, or even without waiting for amendments to allow you to do additional things that you would like to do with government. And so these many of these precedents were used as justifications in quotation marks for similar abuses of constitutional liberties during World War One. For example, the Espionage Act, under the Espionage Act that was passed during World War One, there was a 20 year jail sentence and a $10,000 fine for discouraging enlistment, for simply criticizing the war in a way that could be construed as discouraging enlistments. So there were jail sentences for questioning the constitutionality of the draft. The draft came in, and if you question the constitutionality, a few feeble souls, for example, had the audacity to point out that the 13th amendment to the Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude. And so if you were to quote the 13th amendment in public, you could go to prison for that. A movie producer was in prison for making an anti British movie. Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party candidate for president who won over 900,000 votes, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the war. The government organized lynch mobs to harass anti-war protesters. The postmaster general prohibited circulation of newspapers critical of Woodrow Wilson. There was a committee on public information to spread public government propaganda. Of course, the entire government today is now as a committee on public information. So is the public school system. For that matter, they should call it the committee on public information. Private property was confiscated. There was a law passed that allowed the president to confiscate any factory or to order a factory owner to produce goods for the military at a price he the president deemed appropriate.  There's a prison sentence. Private property was confiscated of all sorts. Not only was there a draft of humans, but the draft applied to businesses as well. So businesses could be drafted and conscripted into producing things for the government and sold at prices the government ordered you to be sold for. The Supreme Court rubber stamped every bit of this. None of this could be it could be conscrued as being constitutional by any fair reading of the actual constitution. But the government Supreme Court rubber stamped all of it. And here's a before Woodrow Wilson became president, he was a political science professor at Princeton. Let's not let's not just badmouth Harvard like the judge did earlier. Let's add Princeton in there. And here's what he said about the idea that, you know, after the civil war, it was not it was not the idea that the blackrobed deities of the Supreme Court or five government lawyers with lifetime tenure would be the sole arbiter of constitutionality on all matters. That that didn't exist until after the civil war. Before the civil war, people had the quaint idea that there were three branches of government. And that maybe even the people themselves should have a say on constitutionality, not just five government lawyers with lifetime tenure. But when this came about after the civil war, Woodrow Wilson celebrated this fact before he became president. He said this in one of his books, the war between the states established this principle that the federal government is through its courts, the final judge of its own powers. And of course, during his administration, the Supreme Court decided that the government should have unlimited powers. And the World War two was a repeat of the constitutional abuses of World War one, only many or many time many orders of magnitude worse than in World War one. There was more nationalization factories were ordered to produce things again, there was price fixing. If the government decided that your profits were excessive, there was a excess profits tax. And of course, the worst abuse was the the rounding up and imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Some of them were third generation. Not a one of them was ever accused of a crime, let alone convicted of any crime. But they're put in what FDR himself called concentration camps. This was before we use the phrase concentration camps to refer to the Holocaust in the in the German concentration camps. And but FDR used it to describe what was going on with Japanese Americans. Six thousand conscientious objectors were imprisoned. And and of course, the Supreme Court rubber stamped all of this all of this once again, was found to be to be constitutional. Fast forward to today's today's version of this course, the neocons that I've been talking about, just as a brief review, you know, the Congress gave President Bush the power to declare martial law. Bush claimed to have unconstitutional powers of what he what he called the unitary executive. You remember that the unitary executive, the Patriot Act allows the government to declare that almost anyone who protest government actions as an enemy combatants allows warrantless wiretapping. Proclaim the Bush administration was exempt from the Geneva Convention permits the government to order individuals and financial institutions to turn over to it private financial information. And then if you reveal to anyone that the government has been snooping on your private financial information, you can go to jail for that, for letting people know that they have been doing that. And so and so every war that we have, we have the government using the war as an excuse to abolish liberties. If there's one article I would recommend that you all read in addition to Rothbard on war in the state that Walter mentioned not too long ago. It's wars the health of the state by Randolph Bourne. Many of you are already familiar with this. It was written in 1918 and when Bourne was a relatively young man and he died before he actually could finish the essay. It's online in a number of places. But here's what he says on this topic here. He says during wartime minority opinion, which in times of peace was only irritating to government and could not be dealt with by law unless it was conjoined with an actual crime, becomes with the outbreak of war a case for outlawry. Criticism of the state objections to war lukewarm opinions concerning the necessity or the beauty of conscription are made subject to ferocious penalties far exceeding in severity. Those affixed to actual pragmatic crimes. Public opinion as expressed in the newspapers and the pulpits in the schools becomes one solid block. Loyalty or rather orthodoxy becomes a sole test for all professions and so forth. Another thing he says that I'm going to finish up with is he points out that the punishment for opinion during wartime is often far more ferocious and unintermittent than the punishment of pragmatic crime of real crime of rape, murder and so forth. And finally I'm going to conclude with this because Peter is standing up in the corner again over there is he says this, the state represents all the autocratic, arbitrary, coercive, belligerent forces within a society. It is a sort of complexes of everything most distasteful to the modern free creative spirit, the feeling for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Then the next line is war is the health of the state. It's the health of all of this.  Thank you very much.


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