Mark McCloskey (3:31)
Okay. And it takes a little background too, because particularly since yesterday was the anniversary of George Floyd's death in St. Louis on the evening and morning of June 1st and 2nd of last year, the folks that have the high ground, the moral superiority over us decided the best way to show their love and compassion was to burn down downtown St. Louis. And they set fire to lots of buildings that did millions of dollars worth of damage. They shot four police officers and killed retired police captain David Doran, who about a half a mile from where I'm sitting right here in his secondary employment. And the most impressive thing that Patty, my wife and I were when we were watching from a live helicopter feed while the 711 in downtown St. Louis, two blocks from the police headquarters, from the first time a rock comes through and breaks out the window, looters come in, looted, empty, throw fire in. The building becomes fully engulfed in flames. 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes, we watch this. How many fleas showed up? Zero. How many firemen showed up? Zero. We looked at each other and said, you know, when the foot hits the sham, you're out there in your wild lonesome, all right? And then in the ensuing nearly a month, more and more businesses in our neighborhood got boarded up. Little pharmacy around the street for me. I went over there and the roll up steel doors had been torn off, the windows are all boarded up. So I asked the owner what happened. He said when the alarms went off, I said, did you come down to see what's going on? I didn't want to get killed. Make long story short, the guys were in there for six hours stealing everything that could be Stolen, breaking, everything that could be broken. And the cop showed up 10 hours after the alarm went. So once again, self reliance is your only resort at that time. So now it's, now it's June 28th, it's a Sunday afternoon. Our daughter, who's 31, was coming in from Chicago to have dinner with us. We were setting up on the, on the porch. I put a pork loin on barbecue and my daughter shows up. All of a sudden we start hearing noise coming down Kings Highway. Now we know that there was going to be an event that day because in the city of St. Louis, where there's no police enforcement, where the police have been told to stand down, there's no prosecution, you get to advertise your rights. And so this organization called expect us St. Louis put out a fire saying they're going to have a riot when and where. So we put fire extinguishers and weapons around the house. And then the, this, this mob comes down Kings Highway. Now we're right on Kings highway at the end of a private neighborhood, gated, private neighborhood. Everything inside the gates, private property. There's no the streets, the sidewalks, the street lights, everything owned by the members. All right? All of a sudden, Kings highway, six lanes wide, fills with people as far as you can see, screaming, shouting, beating on drums, hammering the street with sticks. The police have closed down King's highway to let the mob use it, but then abandoned the street. No police anywhere to be seen. We're looking over at the gate and we say, God, I hope they don't come in here. Right then the gate bursts open and the one half opens like a bat wing door. The other half is staked to the ground, does not open. They just folded it to the ground and started coming in, falling over each other like lemmings getting in. I stood up on the porch and I said the two most racist white supremacist words known the English language. I said private property. And as soon as I said private property, since they're communists, that inflamed them and they started pouring in ever so much more stuff. Well, Patty and my daughter went in to call 91 1. I reached in, I grabbed my AR15 and went back out to porch, started saying some really unpleasant things to them like get out, private property. And I actually probably swore at him once. I said, get the hell out of my neighborhood. You would think they might do that, right? You know, seeing kind of a grumpy looking 64 year old man carrying a semi automatic rifle, barefoot rumple. But no, they just Kept pouring in, screaming death threats at us. Gonna rape your wife and burn down your house. You got a business, your business is gone. We're gonna kill you. That's where I'm going to take my bath. That's where I'm going to go to bed. That's where I'm going to have my breakfast after we kill you and take over the house. And the best part was a couple of these peaceful protesters were standing right in front of me on the porch. And one of the guys had had ammo pockets and his body army. He pulled out two loaded magazines, pointed them at me so I could see they're loaded with shells, clicks them together and says, you are next, Geisha. In the next room, wearing light colored body armor, wearing a sidearm. He turns around so I can see on the back it says human shield. And then he comes, he turns around, back towards us and starts inching closer and closer and closer. And if you've seen that one still from that day where I'm leaning over and talking to Patty and I've got the AR in my hand, what I'm saying to her is, if that guy comes any closer, I'm going to have to kill him. And because you're very threatening and armed, at which point Patty says to me, you're not killing anybody today. The voice of reason. But we held them off and the crowd eventually dissipated. That 32 second clip that plays endlessly on the news was the last 32 seconds of about a 15, 18 minute event. But that was the easier of the two times. That's what made the news. Then we got a tip that they were coming back that Friday, July 3rd, and they were coming back specifically to kill us and burn down the house. And we'd gotten that from a black client of ours who was in the organization and brainwashed by lady that we'd represented for years. Nice young lady. We knew her family real well, went to her graduation, went to her husband's funeral. We were felt like family with them. But she called up to tell us that what we did was inexcusable. We were going to have to die for it. And they came back that Friday now with twice the manpower. Now, the FBI estimate was up to a thousand people with the intent to kill us and burn us out. And we had a hard time getting security. But earlier in the week, making a short story out of this, a long version of about 40 minutes, but I'd gotten a call from the White House saying the President supported us and if there's ever anything that he could do to help, let us know. Well, when that Friday, when that Thursday evening happened and we still were facing death, could not hire any private security. I called that guy back and I said, it's a pretty gosh darn good time now, right? And so he gave me Mark Meadows cell phone number and I called up Mark Meadows and pull him a longer version of the story. I just called you. And when that Friday happened, a miracle happened. The riot was supposed to start at about 6:30 or 7. We started getting Navy Seals showing up. One 1x Navy Seal, 4th generation cattle farmer from Kansas, threw his gear in the back of his pickup truck and drove on in. One of the things I did was right after I talked to Mark Meadows was I called up Tucker pearls and Tucker. I'm talking and I'm sitting on the bench in the kitchen. You can hear Patty crying in the background. And he says, you know, longer version of what I just said here, that McCloskeys are going to die on Friday, that they can't get any private security to help them. I hear Mrs. McCloskey sobbing in the background. The police have been ordered to stand down. And thanks to that, we got about 10 secondary employment cops in rural jurisdiction who weren't afraid to get dirty if the job required we had on that Friday afternoon. By the time the mob showed up, what we used to call the Reagan administration, peace through superior firepower. And it kept the crowded baying once again. Second time, nobody got shot, nobody got hurt except our psyche and that 130-year-old gate that got smashed on Sunday night on the 28th. But it shouldn't take having the president's chief of staff on your speed dial. Be safe from a mob in Missouri. You know, we ought to have something called a government that we pay taxes to that protects us from the mob, not supporting it and encouraging the mob.
