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This is happening now at a rapid pace across the country. Petty theft has now been decriminalized in San Francisco. Anything under $950 is not going to be prosecuted. This happens in Walgreens yesterday, and 17 stores have closed so far due to shoplifting. And so here's a very simple question. What is going to prevent these entire stores from being stolen, up to $900 every single day if they're not going to be prosecuted? And the answer is nothing. It kind of goes back to this idea that is in Elvis Huxley's Brave New World, everybody belongs to everybody. Who's to say that when you do not have private property, can you be free? And of course you can. Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York because the small crimes were the big crimes. The. The small things were the big things. But I have just as much disgust for someone that goes into a Walgreens with a massive shopping bag or a garbage bag and fills up with a bunch of deodorant and toothpaste as someone that goes into a bank. You are morally equivalent in my eyes. So let's play a clip. A clip here of what's happening. You could see it yourself. Cut 73. A shoplifter in San Francisco loaded up a bag on a bike and just rode out of the store as the security guard. They just watch and they record it on their phone. This person will never be held accountable. But I guess for whatever criminal network he's going to. They're going to have a lot of shampoo. Play tape. There he is. Security guard. Just watching it, filling it up. You see, if I saw that guy, I would just totally. I wouldn't put up with that. That's it. Total and complete anarchy. Shopping bag full of stuff. See you later. Welcome to San Francisco. And some people say, well, what's possibly wrong with this? Well, private property in every regard deserves to be protected. And yeah, Walgreens, the big corporation, of course they can take the hit. And they've gone super woke, so I don't really care. But all of a sudden, all the small stores are getting hit and they're closing down, and they can't afford to continue to restock their inventory with no such payment in return. In Chicago, police are no longer chasing criminals on foot. Chicago has an increase in crime that they have not seen over the last Decade. We have gone through the Chicago crime statistics and they are horrifying. Now, some people say the looting of these stores is reparations. Looting is reparations. And by the way, many of your children are learning this in college and in high school. Just this week in Chicago, 12 people have been shot and killed. 60 people shot and wounded, 72 total shot and 12 total homicides. And of course, the very people that are implementing these rules and these laws in San Francisco, they don't actually want to live under them. And in the Chicago Tribune published this, reparations are not about economic stability, not a looted pair of $120 Nikes that when you loot and you steal, it's really about giving black people what they want and what they deserve. Because someone they were related to 100 years ago was a slave. No, not even 100 years ago, 150 years ago. Therefore, they deserve new Nikes. Not about making good choices. Remember, this is the true struggle that's happening in the country. And because we have decided to just send a lot of kids to government run schools, we have lost the moral argument, which is what is a human being? What are you doing here? Do you want to create better character? Do you want to tear down the entire country around you? Is it the country that's the problem? Or are you the problem? And so petty crime is now becoming big crime. Rapes are up, murders are up, kidnappings up, arson's up, and there is flight out of San Francisco. Russell Kirk famously said that order signifies harmony. There are two aspects or types of the inner order of the soul and the outer order of the commonwealth. Plato talked this in his Plato's Republic. But the educated, the philosopher kings nowadays, to use a Plato word, find it very difficult to grasp this and understand. If you do not have an ordered soul and an ordered commonwealth, then yes, you have chaos, disorder. And then you get an autocrat and a tyrant. And that's the real agenda here. They want Gotham to burn, so then Bane or the Joker can take over. Once there's fire, people want a firefighter. And that is the playbook of the left. Charlie Kirk here. And I've warned you about home title theft, where cyber thieves remove you from your home's title and you become the owner. I said you better get home title locked because it's coming. Well, if you're on Facebook, that big breach is here. Facebook had 500 million accounts exposed to cyber thieves. 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They can't address the crisis on the southern border. They can't try to bring back manufacturing jobs to our country. But the one thing that Congress has decided to agree on and every single senator voted in favor of this, was to create a new federal holiday. Fourteen members of the House of Representatives deserve credit for voting against this. And that is to create a new federal holiday called Juneteenth. Now, you might not have heard this before, Juneteenth, according in its most generous reading. And I'm going to tell you what this is really all about, is about on June 19, allegedly, this is the way the story goes. 1865, June 19, 1865, soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free. And this according to BLM Incorporated and many of their alleged historians, like this guy or woman, I don't know, Peniel E. Joseph, who wrote the Sword and the the Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. And is the director of the center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Policy. He says having Juneteenth as a national holiday offers possibilities Americans can't ignore. And so they want to create a new July 4th. And they've done it. They, the House and the Senate have passed this with almost no opposition. And Joe Biden is now going to create a new black Independence Day. That's right. Circled on your calendars from now, for the rest of your life, there will be a new Independence Day before July 4th. And it's not going to have the American flag. No. You see, if you look at the symbols behind Juneteenth. It is the African flag, something that's called the Pan African flag. You might not have heard this before because you grew up in America with where the American flag actually mattered. But now, in the new world after George Floyd or BLM Incorporated or whatever, we now have to say we're going to preempt this on Juneteenth. We are now going to have a Pan African Black Independence Day. And in Congress, in front of the picture of George Washington, we have members of Congress that are not singing the US national anthem. They're not saying God bless America. No, they're singing the black national anthem. You haven't heard about this? We have a black national anthem. Now play tape. That is now the new black national anthem. You better learn it or else you're a racist. Forget Francis Scott Key, America the Beautiful. No, no, no. We must now go sing whatever that is. So here's a really interesting question. When did Abraham Lincoln think America was founded? Why do we celebrate July 4th? What's the significance of that? Well, for those of us that grew up in the 90s, it's just always been the holiday where we say this was America's founding. But was it? Why do we say that that was America's founding? What's the reason for that? There's so many other dates, by the way, we could choose. Why was America not founded on September 17, 1787, which was, of course, the ratification of the United States Constitution, the end of the Constitutional Convention that ended a bitter summer of fights where the Republic could have broke apart? Why was America not founded In December of 1791, when the bill of Rights was officially ratified, pushed by George Mason and all the other member states. Why July 4, 1776? What happened on that day? Well, first, it's actually more important to realize what happened in that year. You see, Abraham Lincoln was actually the first American president that made a point of this. Other American presidents like Quincy Adams, Monroe and Madison, they mentioned it, but there was. There was an attachment for Madison, for the Constitution. Obviously, he was the father of the Constitution. Lincoln was the first generation not to actually be directly connected to that founding generation. Think of it as almost the greatest generation and their grandkids. Abraham Lincoln was truly that next generation after Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson. So Abraham Lincoln, at one of the most famous speeches ever given, he decided to say something that wasn't actually very obvious. And you've probably heard it said 50 times in your school, four score and seven years ago. Hold on a second. Do you notice that he mentions a year, not a date. He was actually talking about the totality of the year 1776, not necessarily just July 4th. This is a very important point. What else happened that year? Well, Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written that year. Pretty important. Of course, the Declaration of Independence was signed and written by Thomas Jefferson. Wealth of nations was written by Adam Smith. Also, George Mason's Virginia Bill of Rights was passed in 1776. Vermont also abolished slavery soon after that. That was a big year. That's what Abraham Lincoln was getting at. And if you read deeper into the 272 words of the Gettysburg Address, he says, Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Let's stop there. You know what Abraham Lincoln was doing? He was creating a thread. Abraham Lincoln was making an overarching historical, moral and philosophical argument that what came before us was something that we should actually try to attain. What Abraham Lincoln was saying was, hey, that year in 1776, most specifically, July 4th, the day that it all culminated on. That's not a day that we should gloss over. Well, let's also talk about the context. What was Abraham Lincoln looking at when he gave this speech? What was Abraham Lincoln doing when this speech was given? He was looking at brutal carnage. That's what this is. A speech that he thought would be in the dustbin of history. In fact, Abraham Lincoln was given the shortest amount of time to speak out of all the speakers in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He thought no one would want to hear from them. Little did he know these 272 words would change the trajectory of human history. And he ends here in the speech of the 272 words that we were here highly resolved that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. What Abraham Lincoln was saying was that in this Declaration, it talked about divine truth. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth in a separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God. That's what Abraham Lincoln was going for. He said, that's what we have to aim at. That's the nation our founders gave us. That's the nation that the generation before us gave us entitle Them a decent and respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Do you notice what's not mentioned in that paragraph? Skin color. Do you mention what's not mentioned in the Gettysburg Address? Skin color. The ideal was that we're going to care about character, spirit, your spirit and your soul, not how you look. So what Juneteenth is all about that every Republican decided to vote for in the Senate. It's a direct affront to the righteous and moral idea that we were founded on July 4, 1776. We are now going to have competing independence days for the rest of your life. That's right. You are now going to have an African, a Pan African Juneteenth quote Freedom Day. And by the way, I'm all for celebrating the liberation of slaves, but why don't we do it correctly? Why don't we celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation signed by a Republican president? Why don't we have a federal holiday on September 22nd to commemorate Abraham Lincoln which was the true courageous act that actually ended up being the end result. Juneteenth is merely the end of what Abraham Lincoln started on September 22nd. So why that day? Why June 19th? Oh, it's before July 4th, that's why. So that your summer celebration starts with a BLM incorporated hyper racialized day off. So what was the movement that actually began in 1776? Did you know by the time of the Constitutional Convention? This is a very interesting fact to share your friends. You see the way Juneteenth is now going to be taught because Republicans decided not to fight against this. Did you know that nine states by the time the Constitution was ratified by 1787 abolished slavery? Do you know that you know the Northwest ordinance in Article 6 that says the Northwest Territories will be free territories. That's why the dividing line, the Ohio river was always the definition of free and slave state. You know the first ever anti slavery convention was held in 1775 in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson's original handwriting in the Declaration of Independence blamed King George for bringing the evil of slavery to the United States. Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is not just bad for slaves, it was bad for slaveholders too. Before Juneteenth, which has now become a federal holiday, as Joe Biden puts it forward, the most patriotic day of the year was July 4th. Now it has a new competitor and here's how this is going to end. And Republicans have no depth, no sophistication, no understanding of how this works. They're going to Say, well, if you support July 4th, you're a white supremacist. That's the white supremacist day. The real day is June. Juneteenth. You're going to start seeing these African flags all over the country. They're already in Chicago City hall, by the way, the Pan African flag. Lord Falkland famously said that if things are not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change them. What does this accomplish or achieve? To have a competitor against the moral beautiful holiday of the unifying July 4th. Somehow, July 4th now needs a competitor. Somehow. July 4th, the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. Said very clearly that the Civil Rights act is us cashing on the promissory notes of the promise made that day. Or how about Frederick Douglass, the former slave himself, that said that the truths of the founding enshrined in the Declaration are eternal truths for no matter what skin color you are, including slaves. Is that something we should forget? So now we get a day off to hear how racist we are. Thank you, Republicans. Some people are saying, well, Charlie, what's wrong with having another national holiday that honors the liberation of slaves? Of course I'm for that, conceptually. Obviously, that's not what this is about, and I could prove it to you. This person, Peniel E. Joseph, whoever this is, writes very clearly that, no, no, no, it's not about the freeing of slaves. Really, what this is about is about racial identity politics. Let me make sure I get the exact. Oh, yeah. Scores of corporations, including the NFL, designated the date paid holiday as the nation scrambled to respond to monumental calls for racial justice. Last year's Juneteenth celebrations drew the nation closer to the promise of multiracial democracy that first dawned in 1865. Wait. We don't have multiracial democratic institutions, so this whole thing is about trying to push us towards what, exactly? Just one year later, troubling signs of racial backlash abound. No, it doesn't. What are you talking about? It's a complete and total lie. White empathy over the deaths of innocent black Americans at the hands of police, recognition of the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and celebrations of Juneteenth have curdled this resentment. First of all, we've been through the Tulsa thing, and it's way more complicated than they ever thought to believe. This was a mob gone wrong. And there was a lot of back and forth. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1965. The amount the announcement of the end of slavery by a Union Major general in Texas, long celebrated in black communities from coast to coast. It has been a Texas state holiday since 1980 and is a strong Lone Star State tradition. Is that really what they're celebrating? Because he goes on to say here, historically must be contextualized. History offers us a guidepost to understand our present, but it rarely repeats itself, especially on racial matters. Echoes previous instances of patterns of anti black sentiment. US History holds a chilling warning about restricting votes. Oh, I see what this is all about. Got it. HR1. So then he goes on to this long essay that really, Juneteenth is the beginning of racial reconciliation. That's why we have to have Juneteenth. According to this person, the system of punishment that imprisoned black women and men can be replaced with innovative social policies and investments that produce thriving neighborhoods. Well, maybe blacks should get married before they have kids and graduate high school. And as Candace Owens says, they're in jail because they commit more crimes. And it's true. In fact, there's an under incarceration problem. If you look at the actual statistics. The backlash we have witnessed since last year is old as the Republic. And Juneteenth 2021 will be celebrated against this bittersweet backdrop. Yet just because we have been here before does not mean that we must stay. Juneteenth still offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a process that can last. Can I say that again? They are saying this is why they want Juneteenth. Juneteenth offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a transformative process that can last. You hear that? Juneteenth is now a federal holiday so that we can transformationally change America. That's what they're saying when they tell you who they are. Believe them. We know how they operate. They try to get entire months dedicated to the drag queen story hour agenda, which is what we have right now, the whole month of June. And Juneteenth is not about liberty or liberation in their eyes, in the ideal. Of course it is. That's not what this is about. If it was, we would actually celebrate Emancipation Proclamation. We know that they try to sneak something in and then pervert it and use it to their own political impulse. That's exactly what they're doing with right here and now. We are going to have a federal competitor that's right against July 4th. And there will be essays and movements saying that July 4th is nothing more than a celebration of the white supremacist colonialist tradition that existed the True Independence day is a pan African independence day. Don't believe me? Just type into your Google images. Juneteenth. Every single image is an African flag, not an American flag. Not one. In fact, the 9th. I'm sorry, the 54th image is an American flag. It's a Pan African flag. Symbols matter. Tradition and history matters. Our nation was founded in a culmination in 1776 of decades of courageous protestant ministers that dared talk about the truth that you're made in the image of God. Nine states by the constitutional convention had abolished slavery well before Juneteenth. Abraham Lincoln recognized the true founding of our country, July 4, 1776. But now, in this new postmodern woke agenda, it's not enough to say that all men are created equal. No. Now you must have a racial independence day, a black independence day. Do you think that's actually going to heal the country and harmonize us? Or do you think maybe they might be using this to further sow division? I'll let you decide. Now, some people say, charlie, how could you possibly be against emancipation? You see, that's a really sloppy argument. You think that I don't oppose. I think I oppose it being a federal holiday because I'm some sort of like anti emancipationist or like an anti abolitionist? Of course not. I'm against it for a lot of different reasons. I'm happy to detail it. Number one, I think the wise, clairvoyant and correct observation that Abraham Lincoln made that our founding was in 1776. He said that at the Gettysburg Address. That's a big deal. And celebrating the ideal of July 4th has always been us. Continued to be an aspirational nation, a nation that always wants to better our conduct, better our laws in the framework of the moonshot that all men are created equal. And it says it very clearly in the declaration that we hold these truths to be self evident. Now what's the meaning of that? We hold these truths to be self evident. That means that a king does not have to tell us this. Every human being has the agency and the ability to recognize that you have a right to your life, your consciousness to be able to assume property and liberty, which means the pursuit of virtue, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Straight out of John Locke, that to secure these rights, which means to protect them, governments are instituted among men, meaning that governments are governments do not pre exist men. So you see what Thomas Jefferson is doing here Is he is making a. He is making a more practical argument of John Locke's natural rights social compact doctrine that government did not come before man. Men create government. It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to the right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM incorporated and Patrisse Cullors and Ibram x Kendi? Why are they so excited to have Juneteenth? Why do they want this so badly? Why are they lobbying for it? Well, for a very simple reason, for the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day around racial identity politics. BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday. You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to. To teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need to talk about our racial past. Yeah, let's talk about our racial past. Happy to. Happy to talk about how we were the first nation to abolish the importation of slaves in 1807. In fact, we were so bold about it, we put it in the United States Constitution. Let's talk about that. If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate March of 1807? Find the date, Connor. March of 1807. We want to celebrate a holiday. Why don't we celebrate the first nation to ever bar the importation of slaves. If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate the day that Vermont abolished slavery? That was a big deal. If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate the nine states that abolish slavery ahead of the constitutional convention. You see on its surface, March 2, 1807. That's a big deal. Why don't we make March 2, 1807, a federal holiday? And quite honestly, Juneteenth is a day of when the news reached Texas and kind of a big party broke out. I'm all for that. I'm for celebrating emancipation. God bless that. Seriously. It's a moral good. But that's not what this is about. We know that. And if I have to over explain this to you, then you don't know the left. You don't know these people. Now they have the black national anthem, they're gonna have a black Independence Day. And I think the best argument for this, this is a preemptive kind of cutting in line against July 4th. You see, July 4th was always by definition a colorless holiday. The only colors that mattered on July 4th were red, white and blue. It didn't matter if you were black or if you were Asian or Hispanic. Play cut 70.