Nick Fuentes (23:00)
We disagreed on much, but we agreed about abortion. We agreed about feminism. We agreed about many of the other moral social ills of the country. And when you look at his most vicious detractors, the people celebrating his death now, possibly probably the gunman that killed him, they hated him because of his defense of Christian morality. He wasn't killed necessarily, perhaps by a socialist or by someone who disagreed about his position on fiscal policy. And this is something I think we all need to take into account, something we need to be aware of and notice. The most vicious, hateful opponents of the conservative movement of all stripes, they are the ones championing transgenderism, which goes by another name, mutilation of the body, a disordering of the soul. It's the proponents of abortion, which is some form of child sacrifice, at the minimum, infanticide. These are the most vicious, violent, hateful detractors of even a moderate conservative like Charlie Kirk because he stood up for those biblical values, I'll say it better. Christian values, Christian morality for Christ himself, for the truth incarnate. And for that I consider him a true martyr, and I hope his reward is in heaven. And the least that you could say about Charlie Kirk is that he died professing a faith in God. He died professing the truth. Let us be so lucky. In a way, I don't count him as lucky. It's a. It's a horrible tragedy. Years taken, memories, but ultimately martyred for the sake of the truth, for the sake of mercy, for the sake of the unborn, for the sake of children affected by all these diabolical, perverse things. He will receive a handsome reward in heaven for it. May he rest in peace. God bless Charlie Kirk, his, his family, his daughters, everybody, his enemies, his, his friends, everybody in the country. Let us truly see each other as children of God. Let us all see God in everybody. Let's be charitable towards one another in our words and our actions. Let's be slow to anger. And I know it's rich for me to say that I'm a very volatile person. Let us be slow to be angry, wrathful, vengeful, judgmental. Let's try to be kind, compassionate, understanding, but at the same time, let us be strong, tough, clever when we need to be. Let us defend the people we love from those that are trying to hurt us. And God give us the strength, the prudence, the perseverance to defeat this evil with some finality in our lifetimes. And it may be a long time, but let us see it through to the end. For the sake of everybody, remember that you will die like Charlie Kirk. You and I will die. Charlie Kirk had plans. We all have plans. We all have plans. To live to be 95 years old, retired, with our family on our side, dying of old age peacefully in our sleep. That's not promised. None of it. None of it is promised. Not our bodies, not our faculties, not our cognitive capabilities. Not. Not 50 years, not tomorrow, not today, not tonight. Do with that information what you will live as though if you died at any moment, you'll be satisfied with it. And what do we take with us in death? We don't take any of it. Not our bodies, not our wealth, as you know, Our esteem, our credibility, our. Our victories, our all. All of it eventually be washed away by time and by eternity. What you take with you to the judgment are your deeds. What is melted down at the end of your life is your actions. And they will be melted down like metals. And they will be gold, silver, bronze, copper. They will be judged accordingly to their weight, to their kind, to their type. What did you do? Did you do the right thing? Did you tell the truth? Did you sacrifice as Christ did? Did you do these things as Christ did? In the end, that is all that you take with you. And it is worth its weight in gold. Literally. People get so caught up. They're so worried about strategy, machinations, even the fate of our people here in this world. But the world is passing. We are passing. We are mortal. And all these people that see Charlie Kirk. And I get it, people are beating their chest. They don't want to be deterred. They don't want to be defeated. Let it be a reminder. We all die. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We're all going that way. Try and actually dissent against the government in a real, meaningful way, and you'll find that you'll run up against the same kind of resistance and the same kind of opposition from the American government that a Russian dissident would run into in the Russian government, and the same kind of opposition that a Chinese dissident would face from the Chinese government. It's not that much different, and I'm living proof. The first political content that I ever saw was Interview with Thomas Sowell, actually, for the Hoover Institute. Every single time, the reduction in the tax rates has led to an increase in tax revenue. So I hear people on television saying how the government can't afford to give. To give this tax cuts to the rich. You know, not giving anything to anybody. The first book I read was Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. And, you know, from that point on, I was political. Good evening, everybody. You're watching America First. My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes. We have a great show for you tonight. I've been doing this show now for four years. Really. It's been a quest for truth and for knowledge ever since I got into this stuff, which was when I was a little kid. Ever since I was in middle school, I started to realize that there would be consequences for my views almost immediately. I started my show America first in February 2017. And the first ever hit piece that was written about me came in April 2017 in response to comments I had made on my show. And of course, the comments were taken out of context. The first major wave of deplatforming was in 2019 that I got banned from Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and then PayPal. People forget how rapidly that's accelerated. I distinctly remembered when tech censorship arrived on the scene as a new phenomenon. I got banned from Twitter and now that's just the law of the land. I was suspended from Twitter yesterday. Permanently suspended, gone. The big tech companies have launched their fiercest attack yet on your right as an American to follow your conscience and to say what you believe. There was this sense ever since I got started that total deplatforming was inevitable. They banned the sitting President of the United States from Twitter. They don't give you a reason. It's not like they have a good reason. I'm now banned from every major social media platform. As somebody who was deeply entrenched in the media ecosystem and in the landscape, it was pretty clear what the writing on the wall was, which is that everybody is going to be deplatformed from everything and it's only a matter of time. Currently, the FBI is pursuing an investigation against me for my involvement at the Capitol. I had done nothing wrong at the Capitol. I committed no crime. I went there for the Trump rally on the Ellipse, which was just outside the White House. I walked to the Capitol with hundreds of thousands of other people for a civil first amendment protected demonstration. I didn't participate in any violence, illegal criminal activity. And so on the one hand, I knew I had done nothing wrong. But I also know that in this new country that we have, that doesn't necessarily protect you from law enforcement. I won't even know when the investigation ends. It may still be going on, it may not be. They don't actually tell you it's open ended as far as that's concerned. They investigate you, they don't tell you when it ends. And it could be years before they return, before they show up, before they Build their case and finally decide to bring you in. And if they decide not to do that, well, they'll never tell you either way. They don't tell you that either. One night, I think I was playing video games or streaming or something. And before I started up to go to bed, I checked my email, and I saw my email that my credit card had been declined for some subscription. And I said, well, that's weird. I don't think I'm over my limit on my credit card. As far as I know, it's a good credit card. And so I go to my online banking app, and I see that on my checking account, it was $0 and understand I had something like a half million dollars in that checking account just the other day. And so at first I assumed. I thought, this is a glitch, you know? So I refreshed the app, and nothing changes. I closed the app. I reopen it. Nothing happened. And upon further investigation, I saw there was a legal order placed on my account. I went through my transaction history and I saw a legal order and subtracted my entire bank balance, froze both my credit cards and my entire checking account was frozen, which is where nearly all of my cash was. I called customer service at the bank. I said, where's my money? What's going on? They said, well, we'll get to the bottom of this. They called their legal department. They call me back a few minutes later, and they tell me, your account is under review and we could give you no other information. And I was furious. I said, are you kidding me? I had all this money one day, and now it's gone. When's it going to be released? Who's doing this? Why is this happening? And they just kept saying the same thing. All we could tell you is, your account is under review. And so I called the bank every single day for two weeks, multiple times, every day for two weeks. And finally, after about, I think it must have been 15 or 16 days, she calls me back and she says, Mr. Fuentes, I have some good news for you. We have an update on your account. In order to get in touch with the people that have been place a legal order on your account, you can call these numbers. And she gives me three phone numbers for US Attorneys working for the Department of Justice. And so at that point, I know this is an FBI investigation. At that point, I know this is the Department of Justice, which has placed a freeze on all my cash in my bank account. And the reason why this is so crushing is because the Department of Justice and the FBI are immovable because of the war on terror, because of the Patriot act, because of how the federal government operates. They really can do whatever they want to whoever they want, and there's nothing you can do about it. And so I talked to my lawyer. I asked him, can I get my money back? Is there anything I could do? Do they have to release it? Which are the obvious questions that anyone would ask. And the response is basically, they can take your money. They can. They don't need a reason, and they could keep it as long as they want and they don't have to give it back. And this is how the federal government works. A lot of people assume that because this is America and not Russia or China, that there must be something that can be done. You must be able to sue, you must be able to file something and pursue some kind of recourse. But sadly, that's not the case. If you find yourself the subject of an FBI investigation, if you find yourself a target of the federal government, there's really nothing more that you can do. It's as inevitable as death or gravity. The federal government is going to do what it's going to do, and you're just along for the ride. All of that concentrated power that's been built up in Washington D.C. is being rotated and turned inwardly. And the kind of shock and awe that we saw in 2003 or 2001, Patriot Acts, Panopticon surveillance state that's now being wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, connected wealthy elite people, and they can now wield that and utilize that against people with American citizenship. People that have done nothing wrong, are not criminals, are not a threat to society, but people that are merely an inconvenience or a problem to powerful people. And so at that point, that's the total end of a free society. That's the end of your rights, that's the end of your property, and it could be the end of your life. And so that was the first major instance of the federal government coming after me after January 6. I had planned a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to demand that Ron DeSantis strengthen his big tech censorship legislation. I have it on authority that Ron DeSantis Santa signed a toothless big tech censorship bill. And so the press conference was supposed to be attended by me, Michelle Malkin, Laura Loomer, Lauren Witzke, a few other friends of mine. Lauren Witzke flew into Florida the day before the press conference. And she had texted me that day and said that she was put through advanced screening swabbed for explosives, put through all the machines. They take my laptop, they take my phone. I don't know what they do with it. I just know that my phone is turned on Bluetooth when I get it back every time. So I show up to o' Hare Airport the morning of the press conference. I had an American Airlines flight booked from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, and I was unable to print my boarding pass. But I go to the kiosk, and the kiosk wasn't letting me check in either, which was weird to me. But it fell in line with my expectation. I thought, well, I'm not able to check in because I'm on some kind of a list. All I have to do is go to the counter and have them print my boarding pass for me, and I'll be on my way. I might have to go through security, security like others have, but I'll be on a plane in no time. So I go to the front desk. So can you help me print my boarding pass? The representative from American gets on the phone, and she's on the phone for 30, 45 minutes. So I'm getting increasingly nervous, like, is this gonna work out like I was told it would? And she gives me a disappointed look, and she says, I'm sorry, but you're not able to fly today. She told me, you don't have clearance to board a plane today. And I said, what? I said, can you call again? She goes, okay. She humors me. She calls them up again, returns the same response. I can't give you any information, but you can't fly today. And, you know, my head starts spinning. I'm thinking, is this the airline? Is this the airport? Is it the tsa? Is it a federal thing? Am I on a no fly list? Or is this something that's being administered by an airline or something more local? Local. She didn't have any answers for me. She just told I couldn't get on a. On a plane. I said, I am political. I said, I think that might have something to do with it. She said, I looked you up. She said, I suspect that that might be the case. I said, okay. She told me to try booking another flight from a different airline. So I did. I got all my bags. I went over to the United terminal at o'. Hare. I sat down, I booked a flight. United flight to Palm Beach, Florida. So I go up to the counter to print my boarding pass. Representative gets on the phone. She's on the phone for 45 minutes. She asks me, are you flying alone? Yes. Are you planning on bringing a gun on the plane? No. You know, goes through a series of questions, and then she says, I'm sorry, you can't fly today. Same deal. I said, is it the airline? Is it the airport? She said, I don't know, but I'm just being told by airport security, you can't fly. Fly on the plane today. I said, okay, so I'm on a no fly list. America first founder Nick Fuentes put on no fly List. It's a part of a very coordinated and systematic effort to intimidate and persecute people that are against the Biden administration, people that are against the American regime, specifically Trump supporters and the leaders of Trump supporters, such as yourself and me. Michael Sherwin, who is directing the capitol investigation in D.C. he said on 60 Minutes, and he actually got in trouble for it. He said the reason they went after the Internet, celebrities and the people on social media first when they were investigating the Capitol was to create a shock and awe effect and prevent people from protesting the inauguration. So I wanted to ensure, and our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe, that we could charge as many people as possible before the 20th. And it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because they're like, if we go there, we're going to get charged. And so it represents a major escalation. So I get home, I tweet about it, I say, hey, I'm on a no fly list. And this goes viral. Everybody starts talking about this political dissident, persecuted, put on a no fly list for his views. That's the headline. And what I find is that people are asking me for evidence. And, you know, so I talked to Glenn Greenwald, I talked to a few other people, and they were saying, is there any way you could produce documentation that you were put on a no fly list? Is there any evidence you have that you're on a no fly list? And, you know, in the moment, I wasn't thinking to pull out my phone and record. I'm thinking about I'm about to get on an airplane. This is an uneventful encounter. I said, no, I don't have any evidence. And in fact, I found out that they're actually not even permitted. The government is not authorized or permitted to tell you if you're on a no fly list, much less inform you in advance. They don't send you something in the mail. They don't email you. They don't tell you. And even if you ask them, they're not permitted to tell you whether or not you're on the list. And I did just that. I called the TSA and I asked them, am I on a no fly list? I just had this experience, and they told me that that's classified law enforcement information. We can't tell you. I went out to Midway Airport and I booked yet another flight, a third flight, a Southwest flight to Phoenix. And I thought, surely if I'm not on a no fly list, I should be able to make this flight because it's a different airport, different airline, different destination, different time of day. And I got there four hours before the plane departed. So I thought, if I can't get on this flight, there's no reason that I wouldn't be able to other than that I am on a federal no fly list. I'll be able to confirm it that way. And this time I recorded it. I tried to check in, wasn't able to do it on my phone at the kiosk. I went to the customer service counter and had the exact same experience. And there's no way I could get on this plane.
