Mark Levin (40:23)
Maybe you're going to watch the football games this weekend or my show this weekend. You'll do anything for your kids, won't you? Anything? Anything. Well, in other countries there are kids just like this young people. See, Iran is Persia prior to the Islamist revolution that took over that country at a point of a gun. The people in Persia were westernized, were highly educated. The Persian people were known for science, technology, all kinds of cultural advancements for thousands of years. Those young people are just like our young people. They want to see a movie, they want to go out with their friends. They want to go to the beauty parlor or have their hair done. They want to wear cool clothes. Maybe they want to go out and have a drink. Maybe they want to dance, listen to music. The young people in Iran want to do the same thing. They know all about it. They're not allowed to. A little over three years ago, there was a young lady, I believe she was about 16, She was walking down the street and she decided she was not going to cover her head. The Iranian regime's SS grabbed her off the street. People wondered what was happened, what happened to her. More and more people wondered what happened to that girl. She was tortured and raped and murdered. The young women in Iran rose up. They rose up. They took to the streets. They didn't have guns, they didn't have any weapons. And they led a huge protest. And it lasted days. And the United States did nothing. The thugs, their SS came in and started killing them, slaughtering them, imprisoning them, raping them. It's the benefits of working for a fundamentalist Islamist regime. Supposed to be very religious, don't you know? We did nothing. We watched issued statements, did news reports. We did nothing. Nothing. None of our business. Why do we care? The protests that have taken place in Iran this time were bigger than ever. And the people were encouraged to protest from Western capitals all over the world, including ours. Help was on the way. I pray to God that it is. I still believe that it is, But the intensity, the immediacy, the imperative nature in the west starts to ebb, doesn't it? You don't see a lot of it on the news right now, do you? Other talk show hosts aren't really talking about it, are they? Out of sight, out of mind. That's why the lights are off. That's why all communication except Al Jazeera has been cut. Those people are dying a horrendous death. I'm going to discuss at Lent tomorrow night on Life, Liberty and Levin. You know, ladies and gentlemen, about half of those who died fighting the Revolutionary War died on British prison ships. The conditions were horrendous. Horrendous. And they had a choice. Either turn against their country and join the British against the Revolution. Die a short death in the hull of a boat, a horrible death, or try to escape, at which point, if you were caught, they would hang you on the spot. The British were brutal. The French. Yes, the French. We talk about our relationship with the British. The French sent about 6,000 troops to help us fight the Revolutionary War. They had volunteers, some of their greatest military minds, including Lafayette, who fought throughout the Revolutionary War by Washington's side. And there were others, but the British, they won almost every battle. And yet the. The ability of Washington to outmaneuver them for us to survive was remarkable. It's a seven year war, a forever war, if you will. And I guess Washington was a neoc. But it all came down to one battle, Battle of Yorktown in Virginia. And there's a series of rivers and bays and even the Atlantic Ocean that are on the coast of, and the inner coast of Virginia. The British figured if they could get their fleet or fleets, they could get it off the coast of Yorktown, bombard the American and French forces and the British forces could squeeze them their so called infantry, that they would defeat the Americans once and for all. The French sent their navy, much of which is in the Caribbean, north. They sent their navy north, parked it right there on that river. In fact, they sent two fleets. The bulk of the French navy was sitting off the shore of Virginia. The British sent two fleets. Some of theirs were parked in the Caribbean. They sent them to New York and they came down to Virginia. There was a battle that took place before the battle of Yorktown where the French beat the British but didn't decisively eliminate their navy. The British navy went back up towards New York and the French navy sat on the coastline of Virginia to defend the American forces and their own soldiers who were assisting our soldiers and they bombarded the British, Washington, Lafayette. They charged and charged to the point where Cornwallis and his forces really had nowhere else to go. They would been wiped out, all 7,000 of them. And they surrendered. And that was effectively the end of the Revolutionary War and the beginning of what would become the United States of America. If we did not have the help of the French and I could explain another day and the Spanish, to some extent, there would be no America in our revolution. The people of Iran want nothing more or less than what we have. No, it's not our job to do this for every people all over the world. But where we can. We're not trying to instill a democracy. We're trying to protect a people who are being slaughtered. They're unarmed. They love Americans. They love the West. And this same regime hates us. Has tried to assassinate our president, Is funding terrorism in our country. Has warned that you took out our nuclear sites. But we're not done. You can't take the knowledge from us. They've killed about a thousand Americans over the course of a year backing Hezbollah and Hamas. They want to kill us. It's a quiet night out there, isn't it America? It's a beautiful night, isn't it? Unless you live in a concentration camp called Iran. I'll be right back. Mark Len, If your credit card balance is freaking you out after all the holiday spending, I have something that can save you money right now. Cut your cell phone bill in half by switching to PureTalk Saver plan. Just $20 a month for unlimited talk text and 3 gigs of high speed data on Pure Talk's super fast nationwide 5G network. 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I've been wanting to focus on, you know, so many other things and I'm invited by so many wonderful hosts on Fox, but I just can't balance it all. But Sean and I have had such a fantastic relationship over the years. He's like a brother. And so I will be on. The plan is a couple of times a month, no certain schedule, but on Fridays. And that's what we'll do. As for this podcast I've been working on, I'm still working on it and we'll give that a shot. We'll see how that goes. My family's a little concerned. They say mark three hours a day radio with multiple hours of prep. Two shows on Fox. You do your own monologue with multiple hours of prep. You're writing your books and now you're taking on something else. Let me just tell you folks, I feel young. I am motivated. But more than that, if not now, when? I am blessed to be here. If not now, when? If I don't use my voice now, it'll never be used. I'll be right back. 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