WEBVTT NOTE War, State, Economics, and Hypocrisy 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.840 I'm going to start off with a joke. It might be seen as inappropriate, but if Mel Brooks can have springtime, excuse me, for Hitler, I can have a joke about invasions. 2 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:22.240 In any case, George Bush is thinking of invading New Orleans. Why? We have weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, Tabasco sauce, gumbo, cooking spices. 3 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:28.320 And a moderate member of his administration says, no, George, don't invade, send inspectors. 4 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:35.320 And George says, well, we already tried that, and they came back drunk and 20 pounds heavier, so that won't work. 5 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:49.320 What I want to do is to very briefly run over what libertarianism is and try to apply it to war and peace and international relations. 6 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:56.320 Now, the way I see libertarianism, it starts with the basic premise of the non-aggression axiom and property rights. 7 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:20.320 And suppose I were to attack Tom DiLorenzo on the back. He's surly. He's bigger than me. He's got weapons of mass destruction. He's got fists. He outweighs me. He's a nasty guy. I mean, look what he did to Honest Abe Lincoln in his book. 8 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:25.320 So what I think I'll do is next time he turns his back, I'll just sort of stick a knife in there because he might attack me. 9 00:01:25.320 --> 00:01:32.080 now anyone would know that this is preposterous and nonsensical and if 10 00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:38.960 it's true for individual relationships it's true also of of Iraq I mean the 11 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:42.720 odds of Iraq attacking the United States are pretty much the odds of Tom 12 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:50.480 hauling off and attacking me it's just silly now the way many people measure 13 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.960 whether you're a libertarian or not as they have this Nolan chart we're on the 14 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:24.960 On the one hand you have economics and you know do you favor you know minimum wage or this or that or tariffs and on the other hand they do civil liberties like legalizing pornography or prostitution and then they leave it at that but this is highly problematic because there's really a third element it's not just economics nor civil liberties but it's also international relations and this is I think why there's such a gigantic bifurcation in the libertarian movement the so-called libertarian 15 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:29.460 in the libertarian movement because some people who consider themselves libertarians are pro-war. 16 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:33.460 I mean, there is this concept out there called pro-war libertarianism, 17 00:02:33.460 --> 00:02:38.460 which in my way of thinking is sort of a contradiction. 18 00:02:38.460 --> 00:02:44.460 So I think that if we want to revise this, we have to have three axes, 19 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:48.460 not just the economics and civil liberties, but also war. 20 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:54.460 So what I want to do is apply libertarianism to this area. 21 00:02:54.460 --> 00:03:07.220 And the way I will apply it is I take my notions from George Washington, who in his farewell address, warned us about entangling alliances. 22 00:03:07.220 --> 00:03:10.380 John Quincy Adams has this magnificent quote, 23 00:03:10.380 --> 00:03:15.060 We are the friend of liberty everywhere, but the custodian of none but our own. 24 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:20.500 Let me read that again, because it's very short and pithy and very much to the point, and I think very libertarian. 25 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:27.300 We are the friend of liberty everywhere, but the custodian of none but our own. 26 00:03:27.300 --> 00:03:29.900 So I think that's very important. 27 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:37.000 We should be able to have relations with any country, but we should not be protecting U.S. citizens abroad. 28 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:43.700 One of the problems with protecting U.S. citizens abroad is you have overlapping countries. 29 00:03:43.700 --> 00:03:52.940 In other words, if a person from the United States goes to Canada and we feel that the U.S. government has to protect the person in Canada, 30 00:03:52.940 --> 00:04:01.060 then you have overlapping sovereignty. It's unclear as to who is the sovereign there, and this is just a recipe for war. 31 00:04:01.060 --> 00:04:09.700 How far have we deviated from John Quincy Adams and George Washington and this non-overlapping sovereignty and peace and prosperity? 32 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:14.020 Well, we've been deviating quite a bit. 33 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:18.980 Cuba in 1963, we've been blockading that island for 39 years. 34 00:04:18.980 --> 00:04:23.140 Australia in 73, the CIA interferes and manipulates a free election process. 35 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:28.140 Chile in 1973, CIA backed who elected president. 36 00:04:28.140 --> 00:04:30.500 Now, I'm no big fan of Allende. 37 00:04:30.500 --> 00:04:32.460 Please, don't think I'm an Allende fan. 38 00:04:32.460 --> 00:04:36.100 But still, we have to, if we're going to do a clear assessment of what the United 39 00:04:36.100 --> 00:04:38.820 States is doing, we have to list this as a foreign intervention. 40 00:04:38.820 --> 00:05:08.820 Allende wasn't going to attack us. Portugal in 1974, Angola in 1976 through 1992, Afghanistan, the U.S. supports, arms and trains, Muhadin rebels, including rebel leader Osama Bin Laden, he was our boy, we were supporting him against the Russians, El Salvador in 1980, U.S. AIDS government condemned for gross human rights violations, Nicaragua in 1981, Chad in 1982, Libya in 1982, Honduras 41 00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:29.820 U.S. in 1982, Lebanon in 1982, Grenada in 1983, Iraq in 1987, U.S. supports an armed Saddam Hussein's Iraq, of course we think he's got weapons of mass destruction, we gave it to him, you know, he probably just lost them though, he's so inept. 42 00:05:29.820 --> 00:05:35.020 Iran in 1998, U.S. shoots down an Iranian passenger airline, 43 00:05:35.020 --> 00:05:41.220 Libya in 1989, Philippines 1989, Panama 1989, we invade and deal with Nureaga, 44 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:50.420 Kuwait 1991, Iraq 1990, 10,000 people die monthly as a result of our blockade, 45 00:05:50.420 --> 00:05:58.620 Bulgaria 1991, Somalia 1992, Peru 1992, Colombia 1992, Bosnia, Haiti 1994, Sudan 1998, 46 00:05:58.620 --> 00:06:28.620 Afghanistan 1998, Yugoslavia 1999. In addition, we've had several assassination attempts. Iraq's Abdul Karim Qasseem, Francois Duvalier in Haiti, Patrice Malumba, Congo, Rafael Trujillo, Dominican Republic, Diem in South Vietnam, Fidel, Raul in Cuba, Francisco Camano in Dominican Republic, 47 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:36.620 I've got this long page, but I'm not going to keep reading this. We've deviated a long, long way from the libertarian view on foreign policy. 48 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:43.620 In fact, I might even claim that we've deviated, the government has deviated more from the libertarian position in foreign policy than it has, 49 00:06:43.620 --> 00:06:54.620 God help me for saying this, than an economic policy or civil liberties, or at least it's a horse race. At the very least it's a horse race. 50 00:06:54.620 --> 00:06:59.220 Groucho Marx famously said, I wouldn't join any country club that would have me as a member. 51 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:03.420 Bin Laden says, in this spirit, I'm not quoting him now, 52 00:07:03.420 --> 00:07:10.620 we must all take up arms against anyone with the moral depravity it takes to provide arms to people like me. 53 00:07:10.620 --> 00:07:21.420 Well, who had the moral depravity to give him arms? It's us. 54 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:35.420 The US is the world's policeman who appointed us, it's certainly incompatible with Washington and Quincy, 55 00:07:35.420 --> 00:07:40.420 why is it any business, the US government, why these hooligans are killing each other? 56 00:07:40.420 --> 00:07:44.420 They haven't defended us, they've made us helpless before box cutters, 57 00:07:44.420 --> 00:07:48.420 they're gadding about all over the world poking sticks in Hornet's Nest 58 00:07:48.420 --> 00:07:53.420 Making us not only feel less safe, but making us actually less safe. 59 00:07:53.420 --> 00:07:56.420 Well, what are the causes of terror? 60 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:01.420 Before I go into the causes of terror, I must quote from this so-called Liberty Magazine, 61 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:03.420 and I quote, unquote, 62 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:06.420 It's time to forget rude causes. 63 00:08:06.420 --> 00:08:11.420 Who did what to whom? Because nothing the U.S. government has done justifies this mad dog attack on America. 64 00:08:11.420 --> 00:08:15.420 Now, isn't that a kick in the pants? Or isn't that an intellectual way to look at it? 65 00:08:15.420 --> 00:08:19.420 Forget about root causes. We don't have to understand what's going on. Let's just kick butt. 66 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:25.420 This is Liberty Magazine. This is a fraud. I mean, that's not liberty. 67 00:08:25.420 --> 00:08:30.420 Here is Bin Laden, an actual quote as opposed to a made-up quote. 68 00:08:30.420 --> 00:08:36.420 The people of Islam have suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed by the Zionist Crusader alliance. 69 00:08:36.420 --> 00:08:43.420 That's us and their collaborators. It is now the duty of every tribe in the Arabian Peninsula to fight jihad 70 00:08:43.420 --> 00:08:47.920 and cleanse the land from these crusader occupiers. Their wealth is booty to those who kill them. 71 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:52.420 My Muslim brothers, your brothers in Palestine and the land of the two holy places, that's Saudi Arabia, 72 00:08:52.420 --> 00:08:57.420 are calling upon your help and asking you to take part in the fight against the enemy, the Americans and the Israelis. 73 00:08:57.420 --> 00:09:02.420 They're asking you to do whatever you can to expel the enemies out of the sanctities of Islam. 74 00:09:02.420 --> 00:09:12.420 Okay, that's root causes. I mean, we have no reason to disbelieve him. He's an honest terrorist. He's telling us what it is. 75 00:09:12.420 --> 00:09:18.420 It's not that we're rich. People are trying to say, well, there are other root causes. 76 00:09:18.420 --> 00:09:22.420 Well, it's because we're rich, he's attacking us. He's rich, too. There are plenty of other rich people. 77 00:09:22.420 --> 00:09:26.420 We believe in free enterprise. That's why he's attacking us. No, it's not that. 78 00:09:26.420 --> 00:09:30.420 According to some research that I've been part of with Gortney and Lawson, 79 00:09:30.420 --> 00:09:34.420 we're only the fifth most free, economically speaking, country in the world. 80 00:09:34.420 --> 00:09:38.420 So if it's economic freedom that he hates, he should attack the other four before us. 81 00:09:38.420 --> 00:09:44.420 Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland are freer than we are, so why isn't he attacking them? 82 00:09:44.420 --> 00:09:49.420 Ditto with democracy, he's not attacking us with democracy. Other people have got democracy. 83 00:09:49.420 --> 00:09:55.420 Another theory is that they're Muslims, they're Arabs, they're islamics, therefore they're intrinsically evil. 84 00:09:55.420 --> 00:10:01.420 We're western, we have civil liberties, freedom for gays, miniskirts, things like that, but other countries have got that too. 85 00:10:01.420 --> 00:10:07.420 So why aren't we, why isn't he attacking other countries? It's the fault of immigrants is another theory. 86 00:10:07.420 --> 00:10:19.420 Well, we have our own home-grown terrorists. Tim McVeigh, Janet Reno, names is American. 87 00:10:19.420 --> 00:10:26.420 Tim McVeigh and Janet Reno are American as apple pie. Here's Madeleine Albright, who is another American. 88 00:10:26.420 --> 00:10:29.420 Leslie Stahl asks her on TV in 60 minutes, 89 00:10:29.420 --> 00:10:34.420 We have heard that half a million children have died as a result of sanctions against Iraq. 90 00:10:34.420 --> 00:10:39.420 I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima, and you know, is the price worth it? 91 00:10:39.420 --> 00:10:42.420 And here's our Madeleine, our Madeleine. 92 00:10:42.420 --> 00:10:47.420 I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. 93 00:10:47.420 --> 00:10:51.420 This is our Madeleine terrorist. 94 00:10:51.420 --> 00:10:56.420 Look, suppose there was a Martian equipped with very heavy binoculars, 95 00:10:56.420 --> 00:11:01.420 and so heavy that he could, or so accurate that he could see the uniforms on various soldiers. 96 00:11:01.420 --> 00:11:09.820 And he noticed that 130 countries had U.S. soldiers in them, and that no other country had other foreign soldiers. 97 00:11:09.820 --> 00:11:12.820 In other words, the foreign soldiers of any other country were not in any other countries. 98 00:11:12.820 --> 00:11:17.820 They stuck in their own country, whereas the U.S. had its soldiers in 130 other countries. 99 00:11:17.820 --> 00:11:22.820 What would the Martian, I picked Martian because, you know, you get a sort of a perspective, what would he say? 100 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:28.820 Who is the aggressor? They're aggressing against us? Come on. 101 00:11:28.820 --> 00:11:38.820 It's obviously untenable. Who has done the most foreign invasions and bomb droppings and assassinations of presidents? 102 00:11:38.820 --> 00:11:46.820 Who has dropped bombs on Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki? It's us. We're the international bad guys. 103 00:11:46.820 --> 00:11:51.820 Now, there is no moral equivalence. We're the bad guys. 104 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:57.820 Now, the U.S. may be the best country in which to live and we voted with our feet and we're here. 105 00:11:57.820 --> 00:12:00.820 If we didn't think it was the best country, we wouldn't be here. 106 00:12:00.820 --> 00:12:04.820 But just because it's the best country in some ways doesn't mean that it's not an international bully. 107 00:12:04.820 --> 00:12:07.820 It doesn't mean it's not a good country in other ways. 108 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:11.820 It's not because of trade, McDonald's, movies, that they're killing innocent people. 109 00:12:11.820 --> 00:12:18.820 If we just stop those things that he is complaining about, I think we would do very well. 110 00:12:18.820 --> 00:12:24.820 Osama never mentions capitalism, freedom, wealth, western culture as reason for jihad. 111 00:12:24.820 --> 00:12:39.820 Well, I now have a list of things that we should do if we are to reorient our foreign policy toward a libertarian foreign policy ideal. 112 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:52.820 One is pull out the troops out of Saudi Arabia. Two is stop killing Iraqis. Three is stop foreign aid for Israel and every other country, and pull out of every country, not just Arabia. 113 00:12:52.820 --> 00:13:00.060 we're not doing it because he said it we're doing it in spite of him saying it 114 00:13:00.060 --> 00:13:04.100 I mean just because he said look if Hitler said two plus two is four we 115 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:08.700 wouldn't renounce two plus two is four if Osama says you know something that's 116 00:13:08.700 --> 00:13:12.520 libertarian well we do it because it's libertarian not because we're Osama 117 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:19.440 aides or anything like that I I'm not really against the Homeland Security 118 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:49.440 Department. But I thought that was the Defense Department. So I don't see why we have to have two departments that are supposed to be doing the same thing. Now obviously the Defense Department is not really a Defense Department, it's an Offense Department. We should close all military bases. Don't worry about unemployment. There's plenty of work and if you don't believe that, read Henry Hazlitt or the Lump of Labor Fallacy. We should shut down all foreign embassies. They're just targets. They're unneeded in an era of fax and phone and email. They're 119 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:56.040 Costly, kick the UN out of New York and you know they're just a bunch of trough feeding socialists. 120 00:13:56.040 --> 00:14:02.160 The one thing that I think is compatible that the US government has done with libertarianism, 121 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:06.600 I'm now a minarchist or a limited government libertarian, I'm not an anarcho-capitalist, 122 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.440 I'm wearing these shoes just for argument's sake, is Star Wars. Say what you will about 123 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:17.120 Star Wars, at least it was defensive. Shooting enemy bombs as they come into the country is 124 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:24.120 is defense, that's okay. Libertarianism is compatible with defense, not offense. 125 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:33.120 A formal declaration of war, as we heard last night from Ron Paul, is compatible with the Constitutional Republic that we're supposedly upholding. 126 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:38.120 And without it, we're just violating our principles. 127 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:39.960 Okay, how about economic policy? 128 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.940 Well, one thing on economic policy we could do 129 00:14:43.940 --> 00:14:46.540 is realize that it's a failure 130 00:14:46.540 --> 00:14:49.080 of government monopoly protection. 131 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:53.660 If a private defense agency did as badly as the FAA, 132 00:14:53.660 --> 00:14:56.220 we would, they would go broke. 133 00:14:56.220 --> 00:14:58.500 See, I'm not against the FAA making mistakes 134 00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:01.800 or people making mistakes, to err is human. 135 00:15:03.020 --> 00:15:05.780 People always make mistakes, but the benefit of a market 136 00:15:05.780 --> 00:15:08.460 is that when you make a mistake, you lose money. 137 00:15:08.460 --> 00:15:09.760 And if you make a mistake too much, 138 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:11.820 you lose too much money, you go broke. 139 00:15:11.820 --> 00:15:13.420 Whereas in the government sphere, 140 00:15:13.420 --> 00:15:15.700 you don't have any of that sort of thing. 141 00:15:15.700 --> 00:15:18.940 You can make mistakes from now until the cows come home, 142 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:21.540 to be in touch with my Arkansas roots here, 143 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:25.000 and you never go broke. 144 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:28.780 So the big problem is not so much a specific mistake 145 00:15:28.780 --> 00:15:30.540 of which they've made more than their fair share, 146 00:15:30.540 --> 00:15:31.940 but the fact is that we don't have 147 00:15:31.940 --> 00:15:34.700 this automatic feedback mechanism in place 148 00:15:34.700 --> 00:15:37.860 in the government area as we do have in the private area. 149 00:15:37.860 --> 00:15:40.740 The reason we have good wristwatches and pizza and ties 150 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:44.340 is not because capitalists don't make mistakes, they do. 151 00:15:44.340 --> 00:15:46.820 It's just that we have this weeding out process. 152 00:15:46.820 --> 00:15:50.520 That's why the capitalist system is such a miracle. 153 00:15:50.520 --> 00:15:52.380 And we don't have that in the government sector. 154 00:15:52.380 --> 00:15:56.960 And if we did, then those areas would be much improved. 155 00:15:58.220 --> 00:16:00.180 Okay, so what are these guys doing? 156 00:16:00.180 --> 00:16:05.960 You know, who packed your suitcase, put your seat in the upright position, 157 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:11.700 tray tables down, no nail clippers, I mean, this is sort of like Soviet central planning, 158 00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:16.740 the economic orders that they've got, it's sort of like they've got to do something, 159 00:16:16.740 --> 00:16:21.740 and even if it's irrelevant, I mean, nail clippers, come on, it's just crazy. 160 00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:26.460 Also, there should be armed pilots, because the alternative next time there's a plane 161 00:16:26.460 --> 00:16:29.660 taken over by someone is you shoot down the bloody plane. 162 00:16:29.660 --> 00:16:36.860 Better to have a pilot, most of those are ex-Navy or Army or Air Force people, who are perfectly trained and capable. 163 00:16:36.860 --> 00:16:42.360 I mean, what I'm now doing is stepping out of my role as economist and into my role as entrepreneur. 164 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.860 I'm trying to predict what would a market do in terms of safety? 165 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:50.460 And it's not what the FAA is doing. 166 00:16:50.460 --> 00:16:59.260 Their motto seems to be, do something, anything, as long as it's irrelevant, which is... 167 00:16:59.260 --> 00:17:02.720 Here's a quote from Jean Garvey, the head of the FAA. 168 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:07.700 Guns on planes is an idea two weeks ago I never would have even considered. 169 00:17:07.700 --> 00:17:12.760 Well, this is the head lady in charge of our safety and she's not even considering anything. 170 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:19.520 There are, suppose the Secret Service that guards the president or Tiffany Jewelers said they wouldn't even consider guns. 171 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:25.460 You know, we'd say, what are you, a lunatic? You know, you just fire them. 172 00:17:25.460 --> 00:17:28.360 Look, here are three places where the feds ban guns. 173 00:17:28.360 --> 00:17:31.360 Post Office, Public Schools and Airplanes. You feel safe now? 174 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:42.360 There was this wonderful case in Kennesaw, Georgia, where there was a bunch of rapes, and they passed the law. 175 00:17:42.360 --> 00:17:46.360 It was not a libertarian law, but the law was compulsory. You had to have a gun. 176 00:17:46.360 --> 00:17:50.360 And not only did you have to have a gun, but you had to have training in guns. 177 00:17:50.360 --> 00:17:53.360 So many women, for the first time, had guns in their pocketbooks, 178 00:17:53.360 --> 00:17:58.560 and they were taking gun lessons and shooting at targets and stuff like that. 179 00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:03.360 You'll never guess what happened to the rape rate in genocide. 180 00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:05.960 You'll be shocked. 181 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.160 I mean, most rapists are, you know, amiable guys. 182 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:15.360 They just don't want to get shot and they go elsewhere with, you know, putting a sign on your door. 183 00:18:15.360 --> 00:18:19.360 This is a gun-free area. It's like an invitation. 184 00:18:19.360 --> 00:18:28.960 We've got, where I teach now at Loyola University, New Orleans, they've got these, you know, gun and then a slash across. This is a gun-free zone. 185 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.460 It's just an invitation. It's crazy. 186 00:18:33.460 --> 00:18:40.260 Another thing that we can do on an economic front to make sure that things are good is to allow oil exploration. 187 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:46.560 The people who are opposing this are the watermelons. Those are the guys who are green on the outside and red on the inside. 188 00:18:46.560 --> 00:18:51.560 You know, never should we touch any oil because, you know, oil is evil or something. 189 00:18:51.560 --> 00:18:57.860 Although it's interesting, the Rainey Preserve, a wildlife sanctuary, they found natural gas on it. 190 00:18:57.860 --> 00:19:03.060 And the hypocrisy was that there you could develop it because they realized that if they could develop the natural gas, 191 00:19:03.060 --> 00:19:05.460 they could then buy other natural preserves. 192 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:11.760 But on your land, forget about it. Their land, it's okay. It's different. 193 00:19:11.760 --> 00:19:13.460 We should end the war on drugs. 194 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:16.260 The war on drugs keeps the prices of drugs high. 195 00:19:16.260 --> 00:19:25.260 And drugs are produced by bad guys, other than us bad guys, and this finances their evil doing. 196 00:19:25.260 --> 00:19:32.960 So, I mean, there are other reasons for legalizing drugs, but this is one international reason for doing it. 197 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.060 Racial profiling is the next issue. Look, there's no racial profiling. 198 00:19:37.060 --> 00:19:42.460 When there's racial profiling, the cops are going to hassle black grandmothers. 199 00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:47.460 They don't hassle black grandmothers or black babies or people like that. 200 00:19:47.460 --> 00:19:51.960 What we have is not racial profiling. What we have is anti-criminal profiling. 201 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:57.460 Blacks of a certain age, I don't know, 15 to 25, are overrepresented in the crime statistics. 202 00:19:57.460 --> 00:20:02.960 So when they pay special attention to this group, they're trying to stop crime. 203 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.960 Now, I hate to say anything good about government police, but, you know, fair is fair. 204 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:17.360 Well, similarly with Arabs. All of these tourist activities have been done by Arab males of age, I don't know what, 21 to 35, something like that. 205 00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:30.720 So why are they hassling black people, oriental people, white grandmothers, you know, the whole thing is silly. 206 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:40.560 What I've done is I've developed two techniques for dealing with my friends on the left and my friends on the right. 207 00:20:40.560 --> 00:20:47.220 With regards to my friends on the left who love things like the minimum wage and rent control and welfare and affirmative action, 208 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:50.060 what I say is, look, you know who's giving you these programs? 209 00:20:50.060 --> 00:20:55.720 The evil George Bush, the same guy who's giving you the war that you hate, he's giving you these domestic policies. 210 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:04.720 So why are you so non-suspicious and so friendly to evil government here when you see government with its cloven foot here? Be consistent. 211 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:14.720 And I say a similar thing to my friends on the right. I say, look, you people realize the evils of government in minimum wage, rent control, tariff, welfare. 212 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:20.720 Don't you realize that the same people are doing this war stuff? How can you be so schizophrenic? 213 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:28.720 How can you be so bifurcated to accept government in the one area and sort of hate government in the other area? 214 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:35.720 In my title, I've got hypocrisy. It's part of my title. And where is the hypocrisy? 215 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:43.720 Well, the interesting thing is that the US does not mess with China or Russia or even starving North Korea because they've got nukes. 216 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:47.720 Whereas, you know, Iraq doesn't have them, so they go in there. 217 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:54.720 Well, this sends a message. If you want to be free from Uncle Sam, get nukes. Get them quickly. 218 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.720 This is not exactly the message that we want. 219 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:05.720 The other bit of hypocrisy is our friends, the neoconservatives, who don't go into the army themselves and then call for the blood of other people. 220 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:07.720 Thank you for your attention.