Title: Katie Halper
Show: Katie Halper
Date: 2022-04-11
URL: https://youtu.be/ZyCLngdLCYo
Duration: 144:00

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[00:00] today and tomorrow which is the 11th in the US. Uh kind of not commemorating I we we are looking back. It was on the 11th of 2019 of April that Julian Assange was snatched and grabbed by the Metropolitan Police in London and made a political prisoner at Gilmore Prison. So why I am here today is that comrade Misty said to me like a month ago we're going to do

[00:32] something in New in in DC. I said write me down. Sure. I'll be there. And then like 3 weeks ago said we're doing April 11th. And I didn't realize at the time that well that's the day that Julian was snatched and graphed and put into this what really is a medieval medieval media media a medieval fortress in London. It's like uh the tower of London is a luxury suite compared to where he

[01:02] is right now. So, and I said not only that, but that's the anniversary of this show. I started with the help of Margaret Kler and others and Julian Assange on April 11th, 2017, which was the uh program Assange Countdown to Freedom, which was on WBAI at that time. It was that day with Julian and John Pillager. We kicked off that show. So, that was five years ago.

[01:33] Two years ago, two years later, Julian was snatched and grabbed by Metropolitan Police and mummified basically in this uh horrible prison uh that you would it's okay for if you were Hannibal Lecter, but not for one of the great minds of our time, one of the great uh individuals, one of the great humans of our time, one of the great talented individuals ever is there right now. and we'll all talk about that later on, the

[02:04] different reasons why he is there. We have an incredible cast. I'm going to basically do the Ed Sullivan routine tonight. I'm going to be introducing performers and Katie Halper is going to help me with that. Uh because uh this is not about, as I said earlier, about other issues. There's a lot of issues right now. There's a war in Yemen. Uh and there's a war in Venezuela and and they're trying to overthrow the government of Cuba. US is committing crimes around the world. There's a war that's been going on for eight years in

[02:37] Ukraine. I don't want to get into those subjects tonight. I want to get into Julian Assange because he is dying in that [ __ ] prison. And we have to focus on that tonight. And I hope everyone will indulge that thought tonight and focus on Julian Assange because there's a war going on right here. And it's a war on the very democracy. what's left of it in this country. It's a war on the first amendment. It's a war on free speech and it's being lodged by our government

[03:10] through Julian Assange. There is a war we are if he goes whatever we have left of this democracy is gone as John Piller has said. So we are here to fight back against the war on the first amendment and the strongest pillar of democracy in this country which is the first amendment and the entire bill of rights right now is happening and we have to fight back and that's why I am here

[03:41] tonight. This is the fourth event. Humorous. It's standups. I say humorous. Satis for Assange is what I should say. And we have a great cast. We have a great uh group of comedians and speakers tonight. And uh you know, I get very upset thinking about it that here we are tonight. We're all having a good time. And that guy Julian Sons

[04:11] 23 hours a day 23 hours a day this great mind cutting off the fingers of Beethoven Brahms Dubai is what they've done and tomorrow I'm here because comrade Misty said come down on the 11th and I said okay I'll exploit it and do this on the 10th and say it's the 11th And we'll do tomorrow in front of the uh I What do you think? I have good vision.

[04:44] All right. I'm Mr. Magcoo. I can barely see uh that you gave that to me. But tomorrow in front of um in front of uh early the British consulate, which is the US consulate basically because the US cons US controls the British consulate. There will be a demonstration at 10:00 in the morning. Am I right, Combert Misty? Yes, you're right. And where is that located? Um, it's at the British Embassy. It's uh right by the the It's on uh let's see 31 Mass

[05:15] 3100 Massachusetts Avenue 10:00 in the morning. I will be there. And then there's one at 2:00 in front of We're hitting both countries. DOJ the DOJ. Yeah, the DOJ two. I hope Venita Gupta comes out and says hello to us. All right, that's 2 o'clock. That's 10 o'clock. And that so this is important that you show up tonight, but it's more important that you show up tomorrow. So everybody that's here tonight, it's important right now that we go on the streets cuz there is no chance that Julian is

[05:45] going to be freed unless the asses of the masses are on the street. It It's on us. And tomorrow is the beginning of that. I mean, we've done this before. Chuck and uh my good friend Bernardet, I know her name. What do you think? I'm Rain Man, right? So, Chuck Confered that uh we we were here like way back in August. It was 175 degrees outside and we did something

[06:16] with two other people that came by selling Italianis and that was Yes. And Media was there. She came and did an interview and then she melted and went away. But she's speaking tonight. So, um, uh, that being said, um, and then two o'clock in front of the DOJ, it's really important that we get out there because this is a fight. This we are we are the Abraham Lincoln Brigade fighting against

[06:46] evil right now. And we have to get out there and fight and support because this republic is dying right now. If they are able to silence during Assange for good, we need to fight for it. It's the fight. I know it's a lost cause to some people. Those are the only ones worth fighting for. And uh tonight we're going to talk hear from a lot of great speakers. Um I'm going to get someone that knows who's been through this to kick it off. He's done. Every event I've done in this

[07:20] city, this man always says, "I'm there." He spent two years in prison. He exposed CIA torture and he has devoted his life on behalf of the good fight. And you all know who he is. It's John Kyaku. Give him a big round of applause.

[07:52] Hi everybody. Good job. Usually I try to come with a joke. I'm not funny, but I try. Neither am I tonight. I I can't I can't tonight. It's uh you we've gotten to crunch time. So, I'll I'll view my role tonight as bringing the crowd down so that our sadderist friends can uh bring it back up again. You know, I've been thinking about this a lot and uh I I mentioned the last time I was here that that Julian's um family has accused

[08:23] me in a very friendly way of being overly optimistic. And uh I I've come to realize that that they're right. I have been overly optimistic in the process. I just have believed that Julian's case was so crystal clear and our concerns for his human rights and his civil rights and civil liberties has been so clear that he couldn't lose. And even as he began losing in the

[08:54] British uh uh judicial system, I convinced myself that cooler heads would prevail. I realized that I was wrong. And so I've come to the conclusion that from now on it's up to us, right? We're the ones that have to take this to the streets and to the courts. Julian, in the event that he is extradited, and it's coming up to crunch time. Today's the 10th. The uh Westminster court is supposed to send

[09:24] his extradition to Pretty Patel on the 20th. And then I'm assuming now that she's going to order his extradition. And so, God forbid he'll he'll he could be here by the end of the month. And so when he comes, I'm going to say when, he'll come to the Eastern District of Virginia, the espionage court. Forgive me if this is repetitive, but I've had personal experience in the Eastern District of Virginia. He cannot

[09:56] and will not get a fair trial. It's not possible. His jury will be made up of people who work for or who have friends and relatives working for the CIA, which is in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Pentagon, which is in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and any one of dozens of intelligence community contractors. The deck is stacked.

[10:29] In my own experience, when I was facing trial after I blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program, my best friend's wife had an uncle, if you can keep it all straight, who was OJ Simpson's jury consultant. Yeah. I thought, "Oh, I've got it made now." He came up to Washington. We got him a security clearance. He went through 15,000 pages of classified discovery. And he said to me, "If we were in any other district in America, I would say,

[11:00] let's go for it. We're going to win this thing." But the Eastern District of Virginia, he said, "Buddy, you don't stand a chance. Take the deal." And so I took the deal. Julian's not being offered a deal. He's facing more than what, a century, century and a half in prison, something like 175 years. How much was 175 years? 175 years in prison. 50 when he gets out. Yeah, he'll be 250 years old when he gets out. So, uh there there's no there's no deal on the table. That's why

[11:32] I say it's up to us in the event that he comes. We have to be at that court every single day. We have to be in the courtroom. We have to be outside the courthouse because that's where the media is going to be. and they have to understand that he has a core of support that's willing to throw down for him. We have to be there to convince the likes of the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

[12:02] that if Julian goes down for this, they're going down next because this is a very slippery slope. You know, I participated in a Zoom meeting not too long ago that included two former reporters for Night Ribbon, and neither one of them mentioned Julian through the entire presentation. And then finally in the Q&A at the very end of it, somebody said, "Well, wait a minute. What about Julian Assange? We've been talking for an hour and a half and nobody's mentioned Julian Assange." And one of these Nightrider uh reporters said, "Oh, I don't view him as a as a

[12:35] journalist. I view him as an activist." Well, you know what? Even if you don't view him as a journalist, he's certainly a publisher. And if a guy who's not even an American citizen can go to prison for 175 years for releasing information that the public owns, by the way, the American public own that information. Yeah, he pays that price and is not an American citizen, is not compelled by

[13:05] law to protect the information in the first place, that every national security journalist in America is next. Every last one. So, let's all be there. Let's be there when they bring him in. We'll be there for every preliminary hearing. We'll be there for the trial. will be there to give interviews out front to every reporter who's going to be there. And you know that there are going to be reporters from all over the world. And people have to understand that he's not alone.

[13:36] That he has all of us. And there are a lot of us. So let's keep up the fight. Now the stakes are high. Now is when the fight begins. Thank you very much. What? You're an American hero. Thank you. You really are. You sacrifice a lot and you never scare yourself. You are

[14:07] out there. You do all of the different podcasts, radio shows. You've been here every single time and I really salute you for that. I think this audience will too. John Keryak. Thank you. I want to give a shout out to the people uh that have been uh out there for Julia watching this show tonight. I know that. And first of all, John Pilter. Give him a big round of applause. John,

[14:44] Neils Meler, what about Nils Melzer? Craig Murray, the great Craig Murray, and uh individual that uh saved my life by getting me this little dog and that is Roger Waters. Roger Waters. It was the Paul Rosen of our time. Paul Rosen of our time is Roger Waters. It is

[15:14] today. Wow. What a coincidence. a lot of coincidences today, but um I want to thank all of those people. I want to thank you all for coming in. Um and we're going to keep this show rolling and we're going to be doing things. I talked to Katie. What do I We're We're kind of like improvising our way through this. All right. So, uh we're going to be going to comedian to musician to a speaker. So, uh, please, uh, be, uh, very, uh, thoughtful of, uh, the

[15:46] performers. And we're going to go to comedy right now, and then we're going to go to music. And, uh, this, uh, John F. O'Donnell, who's one of those, they better know me. Well, he's one of those that was a correspondent for redacted tonight, which was silenced by US Justice Department. Uh, they have silenced RT. Why? Why? I I do RT. Why not? I mean,

[16:20] I've been on MSNBC. I know it's like government control. I mean, you think that Mary Melbour doesn't get like like something on the side, you know, from those guys. All right. So there's no pure news broadcast in this country. It's like you watch MSNBC and CNN, you get five. It's all panel discussions and and they're it's like you it's so skewed. It's like remember the Mlathan group? Sure. All right. It's like the Mlathan group where you got five points of view. The right, the far right, the extreme right,

[16:52] the fascist right, and the third right. That's what you got in those groups. And that is what's happening today on these shows. There's no there's no it's like Jim Steoto, he's going to survive. If Julian Sans goes to prison, he and Jim Acasta and their, you know, their tubs of grill cream will survive for a long period of time. The same way when they broke out of the uh display window at Saks Fifth Avenue where they were like this. One guy gets it, man. Thank you, John.

[17:23] He's the only guy he still uses girlfriend. All right. All right. So, uh, those people. What is he doing? Is he praying over here? It's all right. You're dressed in black. I figured, you know, one of those guys from India that does that. Fisher. All right. Dressed like that. All right. Steve Brown. Steve Brown, by the way. Hey, Steve. Uh Steve Brown, if you don't know who he is, is on the board at

[17:54] Cobert Action Magazine. And Lou, where's Lou Wolf? Over here, who I met in 1986 is a co-founder with Ellen Ray and Bill Sha. And I remember I was at the event in I think it was somewhere in Boston, right? Was in Cambridge. We did some kind of event for corporate Action magazine. And uh that's when I first met. That's like almost 40 years ago. And it was about the war in Nicaragua in the counter

[18:25] insurgency in El Salvador. And I went there and I did my Reagan impression. Yes, I remember that you was doing my Reagan back then and thees have done it again. Honduras and I have a photograph that bears me out. Well, it's not exactly a photograph. It's a shadow grab. As you can see, the guy with the duck head is all right. That was what I did back in at that event.

[18:56] Please give this guy some speed. Line of blow or anything, man. They don't have anybody got some clean blow here. I tried cocaine one day for 20 years and I said, "It's not work out, man. I got to get away from it. So, that's it, man. All right. So, uh, we're going to move to comedy right now. So, John F. I No, I've already introduced you John F. We've been pacing back and forth. I want you to keep it

[19:28] down to 1 minute and 30 seconds. I'm kidding. We've already discussed this. He's actually very funny and one of the originals at the great show redacted tonight, which has been redacted by the US government. Would you please welcome John F. Oanl. [Applause]

[20:01] Cool. And how about John, guys? John, give John. Is this mic working? Okay. Awesome. I'm John. Um, uh, yeah, it's good to be back in DC. I haven't I haven't been back in DC for a few years, so it's good to be back here. Uh, give yourselves a round of applause for coming out. Come on, give yourselves a round of applause. We're showing solidarity, enjoying time. This uh, I remember when I was in DC doing shows all the time for like uh, I guess I would call them sort of

[20:32] political normies, you know, like DC normies. I would always ask them something about Edward Snowden, but I think it also applies to Julian Assange. I would say this. I would ask him a question. And I would go I would go round of applause if you think Edward Snowden is a hero. And I get this little trickle of like of like nervous applause. And then I would say round of applause if you think he's a traitor. And again it'd be this little trickle of like and then I'd say round of applause if you didn't applaud because you're maneuvering for political position. You're not sure who's around. You don't want to reveal how you feel about the

[21:03] situation. Everyone be like, "Yeah, that's me. That's me. I'm in the third category. My moral compass is broken. My moral compass is broken. I want to be a congressional staffer. I want to be a congressional staffer. I want to work for Mitch McConnell. Yeah. I want to work for a turtleface man with a jolly gullet. Yeah. I want to work for a turtleface man with a jolly gullet. Yeah. And if I do a good job, maybe he'll pee on me or whatever. [Laughter]

[21:35] I just wanted to see what happened if I got dirty up top. You know what I mean? Ever following a hero CIA whistleblower turn my Mitch McConnell joke into a peeing joke right up top in solidarity with Julian? This is the comedy portion of the show, you guys. This is the comedy portion of the show. Let's have some fun, right? Wouldn't Julian want us to have some [ __ ] fun right now, huh? That's how I feel about it. So, let me tell you who I am. Let me get vulnerable. Let me get honest. I'm John.

[22:05] I'm a sober vegan conspiracy theorist with bipolar disorder who lives with his mom in suburban New Jersey. I do not sound cool on paper. But let me explain myself. I'm sober because I have bipolar disorder. So I have to be according to my doctors plural. I'm vegan also because I have bipolar disorder because it's important to have a a low inflammation diet. It's really good for the brain and being

[22:36] vegan is a good way to do it. So, I'm vegan for that reason. I'm also vegan for ethical reasons concerning the environment and animal rights is what I tell aging hippie boomers so they'll give me hand jobs. What does it work? What? I'm a conspiracy theorist because I'm paying attention. I have bipolar disorder because of ill-advised LSD experimentation in high

[23:06] school. I think probably I live with my mom in suburban New Jersey because all of my money is tied up in cryptocurrency. This is who I am. Which begs the question, do you guys know my mom? Do you guys know Pam? Do you guys know Pammy? Do you guys know my mom? Do you guys know Pamela? She's pretty cool. I love her a lot. But that being said, her

[23:37] primary email address is an optline.net email address. She uses the email address that's given out as the cable provider as her main email address. Gross. I can barely love her anymore. But that being said, she needs to hold on to that email because she created a Gmail email address. And for real, the Gmail email address she created is lest we forget 911gmail.com. [Music] Yeah, I like it. For real. I like it.

[24:07] And I was like, "Mom, why did you create the email addresses we forget 911?" I show up. She was like, "While I was watching television, there was a commercial on TV for September 11th commemorative coins, and I figured no one would have that email address." Yeah. No [ __ ] No one has any. Could you imagine somebody did like, "Oh, let's try less wee forget 911_1"@gmail.com. If you have the email address less we forget 911@gmail.com. You can't send like a casual email.

[24:39] You can't be like, "Hey, Pammy here, aka lessforget 911@gmail.com. Just want to remind everybody about the bake sale. I'll be doing my famous snicker doodle cookies. Carol, you're going to do red velvet cupcakes. Oh, and Terry, you're going to do brownies. But don't forget, a lot of kids have nut allergies, so keep the ones with the nuts away from the ones without the nuts. Never forget about the nut allergies. Never forget. Never forget. Never forget about the nut allergies. If you have the email address

[25:09] less, we forget 911@gmail.com. The only person you can email is like Dick Cheney because we all know he orchestrated the entire thing and that's why I've called you all here tonight. Please immediately after the show, go to www.tabardin.com/jet fuel cannot melt steel beans and read everything on that web page. And if you still have any questions afterwards, feel free to email my mom.

[25:39] All right. Yeah, man. Thank you for that. You got it, my man. So, uh, yeah. So, maybe like IRL, I'm not doing great, but I am I'm rushing it on the internet. I am the most popular John by far on the internet. Thank you. First page, second page, third page, fourth page, all me, all this guy. That being said, interestingly, the ninth entry on the first page is not about me. It's a

[26:09] different John F. O'Donnell. Who is it, you ask? Brigadier General John F. O'Donnell. He got the number nine spot. Sure, why not? All he's done is been a command pilot in the United States [ __ ] Air Force, who's logged more than 200 hours in the air and partaken in more than 250 combat missions while flying either his F4 Phantom or his F104 Starf Fighter son. And his military decorations include what? I don't know. The Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal, and the Air Force Commenation Medal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[26:45] But he ain't got his own website, son. Suck your freaking dear, General John F. O'Donnell. You ain't on Twitter. You ain't on Instagram. You ain't got no podcast. Probably because you were born in 1930 and died in 2005. But whatever. Get your [ __ ] together. Your internet's presence is pathetic, man. And here's my favorite part, you guys. There's no way in a million years, man, in 1969, man, when Brigadier General

[27:15] Jonathan was flying over northern Vietnam, man, and dropping God knows how many tons of napom and cluster bombs in the Vietnamese people that he ever could have imagined in his wildest dreams. that part of the freedom he was fighting for was in fact the freedom for me comedian John O'Donnell to include him, Brigadier General John O'Donnell in my adorable little comedy routine. God bless you Brigadier General John F O'Donnell. You are a patriot sir. You are a patriot sir andor a war criminal or a war criminal sir depending on who you talk to.

[27:48] Vietnam, man. Be it [ __ ] now, man. Everybody 1 2 3. Be it [ __ ] now, man. 1 2 3. Be it [ __ ] man. Isn't that like bizarrely cathartic? Yeah. I um Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Let's talk about what you guys want to talk about. Say it with me. You guys want to talk about the US back right-wing coup that happened in Bolivia a couple years that nobody knows about. Boom. day all day. I know when a group

[28:20] of Assange reporters want to talk about the US back right-wing coup that happened in Bolivia a couple years ago that nobody knows about, but probably people in this room do know about it. Uh I don't bring it up to be political. I only bring it up because this coup apparently was over lithium because it's believed that Bolivia has the world's largest reserves of lithium and it's thought that lithium is going to become an even more valuable resource than fossil fuels because of how it's used to power all sorts of technology, electronics and you know batteries and computers and stuff like that, right? So, here's the thing. Generally speaking, I'm against resource-based

[28:51] regime change wars, but but I have bipolar disorder. I'm on lithium. I take lithium every day. I need me that lithium. Otherwise, every two years or so, I think I'm Jesus Christ, which is not a sustainable way to maintain a comedy career. Or, as it turns out, a viable credit score. Why? Cuz Messiah don't give a [ __ ] about paying his bills on time. He got [ __ ] to

[29:24] do. He don't care if his [ __ ] goes into default. He be Messiah. So, in this one particular instance, I got to say, [ __ ] the indigenous people of Bolivia and their inherent right to benefit off their own natural resources. [ __ ] them. I can't have the democratically elected socialist leader of Bolivia nationalizing all the lithium, keeping it out of the grabby hands of the US imperialist piggy pigs. Give me that lithium. Otherwise, I don't know. I'm going to have to be cracking open iPhones and swallowing the batteries.

[29:56] Oh, look at John. What's he doing? He's running down the road trying to catch up with a Tesla so he can wrap his lips around the tail pipe and suck out the precious metals. A come to think of it, Teslas are electric cars. They don't even have uh tail pipes. Looks like John going to have to find himself the electric the Energizer Bunny. Remember the Energizer Bunny? And then I'm just going to have to gently plug my penis inside the Energizer Bunny's electrical socket butthole and get charged up. Charge me up, Bunny. Charge me up, Bunny. Oh, this part of the joke's real weird.

[30:28] So it only works like 50% of the time, you know, this not being one of those times and I'm just stuck up here just like [ __ ] an imaginary bunny from behind. You know what I mean? But sometimes that's what comedy is. Elon Musk, you know what? [ __ ] you Elon Musk for that [ __ ] Elon Musk is like a concistador of the global south for their minerals and resources. We think he's like the cool richest guy in the world. And thank you for saying that because I had no way to get out of my joke, but that worked. Good laugh line and applause line. So, thank you on

[30:59] that. Uh, and I'm Jonathan. Thank you. [Applause] That was And so he's missing from Redacted tonight and so is Jaffre and so is Lee Camp. Those other two will be on a little later. And uh and so is

[31:31] my good friend, one of the greatest journalists of our time, and that is Ashen Ratanzi. You know who he is. Give him a nice big round of applause for all the great points we have. Amazing. [Applause] They don't classify MSNBC or CNN or Fox as US governmentont controlled news agencies, but they are seriously right. Whether indirectly or directly, I mean,

[32:03] Operation Mocky Bird is still alive and well. and and somebody said, "Well, I think John, that's that all of these correspondents are going to lose their job." I can tell you that those at Wolf Blitzer will not lose his job. He will continue to be there. Or Kendallian or any of those other fake journalists, they will not lose their jobs. Okay? Neither will Chuck Todd, neither will uh

[32:34] Jake Tapper. They will continue because they go along to get along and that's what it's all about. All right, Julian Assange. These guys all together are not a patch on his ass as a journalist. Am I right? Yeah, I was watching I was watching two nights ago the movie Spartacus and the one moment that really struck me Spartacus going against what was you know back then the US government which

[33:04] was the Roman Empire against Marcus Cassus and uh they lost and then when they tried to find out who the one guy was who the one guy was who inspired all of these people Spartacus They rounded up all of the prisoners and they said, "Who is Spartacus?" And then one after another said, "I am Spartacus." I am Spartacus. So today, who is the one guy, Julian Assange? I want to ask everybody beginning with

[33:36] you, Chuck, who is the leader, who is Julian Assange? I want you to start it and I want everyone to say that we are Julian Assange. So, who is Julian Assange that we're going after, Chuck? I am Julian Assange. Who is Julian Assange? I am Julian Assange. Everybody, thank you. I didn't hear from you. Come on, Steve. Steve, you're not working with CNN, are you?

[34:08] [Music] Steve Jones. Good. Yeah. All right. So, um, right now, uh, we're going to bring up we're going to some wonderful music tonight. Uh, Eleanor Goldfield was here at our last event and knocked the place out. She really did. Who was here for that night? She's a award-winning documentarian. She is a fantastic singer and she is here tonight. Would you please welcome

[34:39] Elner Goldfield? Give her a big round of applause. [Applause] Give me one second. Hold on. Hold, please. I know. Yeah. I just feel like I got to pull the time somehow. Um, so for all

[35:12] those who were here last time, y'all are about to hear the same three songs cuz I got a fourmonth old and a [ __ ] ton of boxes, [ __ ] ton of moving boxes at home. So, my ass has not picked up this guitar since the last time I was here. So, it's it's going to be a little rusty. Uh, but we're going to get through it together. Uh, and last time I asked y'all to sing along. And this time I feel like I'm going to need a little bit more. So, let's all

[35:44] sing along in solidarity. I'm going to call on you again the last song, but not this song cuz it's mine. Again, I'm not going to be a dick and ask you to sing along. Unless you can, in which case just make my So, shameless self-promotion. Oh, duh. Um, shameless self-promotion. Uh, this song is off of my new EP, which you can find on my website, part ofkillingpathy.com.

[36:16] Or if you sign up for Leeamp's Patreon at leamp or no, at patreon.com/leamp for $25 or more, you'll get a vinyl of this EP. You know, because Lee Camp had to start a Patreon because the US government Shut down. [Music] I stand a pile of bricks on my feet.

[36:52] Build me a road. I was searching for something to see. But who's got the time to split the summer night? [Music] Cuz the hours of days and days we've come to this place. Oh, the world's on fire and I'm going to stay where it burns.

[37:26] I built this p and I'm going to stay where it burns. [Music] I would say I'm right here where it burns. [Music] [Applause] [Music] You remember the time we stood through the

[38:01] Well, now it's past. Fast forward behind you. Home was a fire. I can feel this burn. [Music] What do you live for? Time to kill forever. Oh, the world's on fire. But I'm going to stand where it burns.

[38:34] We built this fire. I'm going to s [Music] I'm still

[39:15] All right. Who here hates fascists? Really? I don't know who. like, "Oh, I kind of hate fascists." You know, depends. All right. Well, that's awkward, but okay. Well, then this song may or may not be for you. I'll tell all you fascist be [Music] cuz the people around this world are

[39:47] getting [Music] bound to lose all you fascists. You know you're bound to lose. Hey all you fascists. Hey all you fascists. You're bound to lose. You're bound to lose. [Music]

[40:20] Feel free to sing along. Well tell all you fascist. You may be surprised as people around this world are getting you bound to lose. Hey fascists, you know you're bound to lose. [Music] Hey you fascists. Hey you fascist. Hey, are you fascinated?

[40:54] [Music] Fascist, you're bound to lose. Hey, fascist, you know you're bound to lose. H you fascist. Hey you fascist. Hey you fascist.

[41:29] Sorry [Music] you fascist. Hey Hey, are you Thank you.

[42:16] [Music] Steve Jones. Steve Jones. Steve Jones has been doing this at every one of these events. You know who's not here tonight? You know, I've been doing this show. I saw his countdown of freedom for 5 years. It also began April 11th. As I said earlier, I'm getting old. I'm a triple AAA kid. My family, my lineage. Triple A. It's alcoholism.

[42:48] It's arthritis and Alzheimer's. So, if I repeat myself, hi, I'm Randy. I'm an alcoholic. It's a retail meeting. Yes. You're good, man. You're good. All right. Would you please see if this guy is still breathing next to you? Steve Brown, I want to tell you something. Rescued Assange's Countdown to Freedom in 2020 cuz I am the worst

[43:19] fundraiser in the world. I cannot I would never be hired by the Salvation Army because I cannot raise [ __ ] money. I just can't say I can't do it. But uh when we were going under, Steve Brown came through and we got some great volunteers. Uh and one of them who couldn't make it tonight is my engineer and uh editor, Kelly Lane. She got very sick. She was coming up today and uh and she couldn't make it. So a shout out to you, Kelly Lane, for all the hard

[43:51] work that you've done to keep this going. Um, that being said, again, tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. in the morning, it's important. Tell your friends to show up at the uh US uh lackey government uh council of the UK government, you know, uh Major Strasser has told them that uh you they got to continue the fight to squaltch the first amendment, uh the UK government. So they

[44:22] are totally totally on board with uh whatever they say here in the US to try to keep Julie Assange from what are they afraid of? One guy, one guy here, one individual. They've spent, you go to the city, you know, you show up at Union Station and you see hundreds of people sleeping on on the sidewalk or on a bench there. There's tens of thousands of people

[44:53] homeless in this city, 75,000 in New York City. They don't have money for that, but they have hundreds of millions of dollars to try to kill Julian Assange. All right, that's where if they would stop the prosecution, take that money and put it into the homeless problem in this country, we could solve it. But that's more important to them that they not allow Julie Assange to speak. Unbelievable. Really, that's what this is all about.

[45:24] And I want to thank everybody here tonight for being here. And I want to thank everybody for speaking out. Uh I'm going to bring up right now someone who had the most incredible show uh about two months ago right after uh I forgot the there's so many epics in the Julian Assange um what you call a the Kafka s show trial. Uh, and uh, Katie Halpert did a great show along with uh, Maryanne Williamson and Briana

[45:56] uh, Joey Gray. They put this great show together and I'm just very honored to be part of it on uh, that one particular day and she's been on it and we're doing this right now on Katie. You know, I was going to put on my YouTube account and I said, "Oh, I only have a thousand, you know, subscribers." She's got like 67,000. I said, "As many people, of course, I might pick up some new subscribers, but that's not it's not about me. It's about getting the [ __ ]

[46:27] message out there." And Katie had the vehicle to do it. And uh she's been really on top of this issue. you know her uh uh from Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbei, sometimes with Aaron Mate and sometimes with I don't know if you rotate the uh your your your uh co-host, but u she's here today and she's going to come up here and talk about the situation and she's going to bring up uh my favorite presidential candidate of all time afterwards. Uh

[46:59] would you please welcome uh the wonderful dog loving Ken Hill. [Music] [Applause] Hi everyone. I I feel kind of awkward stepping on Julian As. I'm going to do it right now. How about his name? Sure. It's a metaphor. Hi everyone. How's everyone doing? Hello.

[47:30] It's great to be here in DC. I feel like I have a special place in my heart for Washington DC. So, just to get where I'm really from out of the way, I'm from New York City. Um, I'm the product of a mixed marriage. U, my mom is Bronxian, my dad is Queensian, and they were both part of the great Jewish migration from the outer burrows into Manhattan's Upper West Side. I can't tell if they're non New Yorkers or anti-semmites in the crowd. All right. Uh, yeah, they were searching for a better life as close to zars as

[48:01] possible. Uh, but I did, uh, grow up hearing a lot of stories about Washington DC because my parents, well, my mom would tell me stories about the anti-war movement, about the civil rights movement. Like instead of lullabibies, they would tell me those stories, but effectively put me to sleep, so they worked well. Um, but I didn't really understand them. So my mom used to tell me about how she went to the march on Washington and I thought she visited a friend who was a king named Martin Luther and that he had a

[48:32] dream that he told her about the next day. Like that's really I mean despite how funny that punchline is, that's actually true. I'm not making a joke. That's actually true. That's really what I thought. Um but my mom did not have a sleepover with Martin Luther King. Many people did, but well, although lots of women did not say anything, but yeah, lots of women did. It's It's okay. It's not too soon there's been a foyer about it. But my mom did come close to dating another civil rights hero. Um, he

[49:04] doesn't have quite as much cred as MLK, but my mom did briefly date Marin Barry. Yeah. who would you know later become the mayor of Washington DC before being forced to step down miss a crack cocaine prostitution scandal like you haven't been there the great part of that story though is that he got his job back again which is the American dream but uh they met they met during the civil rights movement uh I always say

[49:36] that of all the snick meetings and all the history in the world she had to walk into his That's the grown one. It's literally the most wholesome joke ever. He went to a meeting for the student body coordinating committee. You guys are like, "Wow, really, Katie?" Sorry, John. John, I need you here to make some jokes about like fornicating with a Tesla battery. All right, let's see. Uh, anyway, if

[50:07] your mom dates someone like Mary, it's not like that useful. So if your mom dates someone like Martin Luther King then whenever your dad mad at your dad you could be like you're not my father. Martin Luther King is my father but it doesn't work Mary as I learned the hard way. Um but yeah so my parents we are from the upper west side as I mentioned before to uporious uh laughter um that you may not remember because that's how loud it was. You have now a kind of PTSD from it and it's knocked your memory out but uh it's true my parents we're we're

[50:38] Jewish but like we're not religious Jews. So, I grew up not celebrating any Jewish holidays except for Passover, which I thought was the black holiday like Quanza, but a lot older because my family like starts with the whole Jews in Egypt thing, but then spends most of the stater talking about the civil rights movement and then ending on of course the Israeli Palestinian accomplishments. Yeah, there you go. Um, but uh it is interesting. How many

[51:09] you guys know like secular Jews? The rest of you know and you just don't realize it. So, uh I had a Puerto Rican boyfriend a couple years ago and he was telling his dad that he had a new girlfriend. The dad was like, "Oh, nice. Puerto Rican." And my boyfriend Tom was like, "No." And dad was like, "Damin?" He's like, "No." He's like Italian. No. What is she Jewish? And the dad says, "Jewish Jewish or Woody Allen Jewish." actually perfectly captures like a real it was a real nuance understanding of Jewish identity, you know, meaning

[51:41] basically culturally Jewish, but it's kind of an awkward person to have as your like standard, you know, you don't really want to go there, right? Cuz like I mean, I don't know if I spell it out, but you don't want like a prolific pedophile to be your go-to person. Thank you. Um, but uh were you guys upset when you learned that about Woody Allen? Like I can barely enjoy this film now, right? Reminds me of how upset I was when I learned about London Reenshaw's

[52:11] politics. Like I can no longer enjoy trying to Well, all right. So, uh, what else? All right, let's stick to real politics. Real politique. How about John Mir Shimemer? All right, that was just a real that was off the copy. All right. Uh, the sad thing is this is going on my channel. I just switch it to my chat. This is maybe I'll this will be a Patreon only. By the way, please

[52:42] subscribe to patreon.com/katy show. Um, and you'll be and then I don't know. I'll play something else instead of this. I'll cut myself out and everyone else will be in it. I told you I'm Jewish, so I'm very self-deprecating. You guys are like, "No, it's actually appropriately decorating. It's just observational humor." Um, but uh what's the deal with, by the way, what is the deal with everyone who's like evil getting praised? So, basically, if you're good like John Kiryaku, you're punished for being a

[53:12] whistleblower. Same thing with Julian Assange. But if you're like a torturer or the people in the collateral murder video, you face no justice. All right. Like, did you guys see Ponda Lisa Rice lately on Fox News where she condemned Putin for violating the sovereignty of an independent country? Like, why did she condemn it? She mad cuz she wanted to do it again. She's like jealous. And then Bush, of course, is a hero again. I do I do like the dynamic between Bush and Kanye. It was cute. She

[59:58] inconvenient to have revealed. In order for a document to be classified legally, the government needs to be able to prove that this is classified because it would be a danger to US security for this information to be revealed. But now millions of documents every year are classified for no other reason than the government does not want us to know what's in them. And it takes people like John um Keryaku and Julian Assange to say the government might not want you to

[1:00:28] know but you must know or there is no greater threat to the security of the United States than that we take that route to police state and government secrecy. And so to be in the presence of John and to be talking about Julian, I think it's important for all of us to ask ourselves given what they have done, what can we do? And I think that that it's it's so interesting because what the system has been able to do, we're talking here

[1:01:00] about our need to inconvenience the system, but they've created a situation where we're considered a social inconvenience to bring it up. Are you gonna bring up Julian Assange again? We're We're at dinner. We're having a dinner party. Are you really gonna bring up Julian Assange again? I think particularly, if I may say so, I think it's particularly difficult for a woman when they start rolling their eyes and are you talking about that again? We know how you are. And it's so important on a night like tonight that we commit to ourselves that next time somebody says, "Oh my god, are you going to talk

[1:01:32] about Julian Assange again?" Please respond by saying, "Have you heard the one about Julian Assange? Have you ever heard the one about Julian Assange? Do you know that it has absolutely nothing to do with Hillary Clinton's emails? Do you know that this was in 2010? It was way before anything Hillary Clinton's emails. Do you know that this has to do with murders? Do you know that this has to do with atrocities? Do you know that this has to do with torture? Do you know what this means? If the government can can shut stuff up like this, do you know what it means that the US government doesn't cover for the US defense department when it is when it is

[1:02:03] perpetrating atrocities like this? And do you know what it means about us as people that we refuse to shut up about it? And then if they say, "Oh my god, do we have to talk about this one more time?" All I can ask you, all of us is please that we leave here tonight committed. Damn right. We're going to talk about it one more time. That was powerful. I follow

[1:02:36] that great once again. Marian Williamson, you can see why they push her off the uh debates in 2020. We can't have her up there, Josh. But we're behind you. I don't know if you're running for office again, but people should get behind you. If you do, I know we may get some support from the people's party. I know Nick Bronn is here tonight. We need a voice like that speaking nationally. Thank you. And it took a lot

[1:03:06] of guts and a lot of courage to do what you did in 20120 during those debates. Nobody. Even Bernie Sanders was saying, "Boy, she's way out there on the other side. She's too far to the left. I can't even talk like this about Julian SL. Leave it to her." And then, you know, I I got to consider my position as the head of some committee. I've got a committee. I got to I'm

[1:03:38] almost 80 years old. Why should I not sell out? No. All right, I'm serious. I saw you in 2020. I said, "Wow, where did she come from?" And uh the Department of Peace, she comes up with this idea. What a great idea. Marian Williamson said if she were president, she would not the Department of Defense, which is the Department of War is what it is. It was the Department of Peace. What a great idea that is. And

[1:04:11] uh let's think about that. And once again, give her another big round of applause. And to Katie Halper, when Katie helper, usually you take her off as an MC. I said, Katie, you'll bring up Marian Williamson because you know her well, but the right thing to do was to like bring you up and then take you off and give you a big round of applause. So, that was uh very self-sacrificing. Thank you very much. Uh once again, Katie Halper, we're are

[1:04:42] on her channel on YouTube. All right, so we have uh we're we're continuing. The bar is still open. Please keep this place uh open. I want to thank once again the Tavern in uh because you know they're going to take heat for this. This is an employee This is an employeeowned incredible institution. It really

[1:05:14] must acknowledge Fritzy Cohen who is the matriarch today. I came here with Sam Husini who didn't show up tonight because he didn't have a mask and and that was thick enough. Hi Sam, I know you're watching but he brought me here like four months ago. We were looking for a place to do this standup for songs and he brought me here and Fritzy said yes of course. And then Dave Ruby, who's

[1:05:46] a general manager and uh one of the great uh individuals that I've met in my lifetime. He's back there pacing. Dave, because there are are a couple of crazies who tried to sneak in tonight. Dave has got it. He's got it all set. And uh give thank you Dave for all that you've done in support of this and all the employees here who are owners. This is a Can you imagine this beautiful this beautiful historic

[1:06:19] hotel and restaurant and in is employeeowned. This should be the role model for every place across the country. This is I just want to tip my hat to the uh the Amazon workers union for that historic victory. You know what solidarity now? The one that uh Pete Singer said. Solidarity forever.

[1:06:51] [Music] Of course he does. Solidarity forever. Who knows the words? [Music] power gater anywhere beneath the sun. Yet the force on earth is we

[1:07:24] strength of the union that makes us strong [Music] forever [Music] foreverary forever. All right. Thank you, man. That was really wonderful.

[1:07:56] And I know that's a big thing for my good friend here, Chuck Slackin, who's with NYC Free Assange, who's been working forever uh as a uh as the union head in New York City with the postal workers union, and they just got finally uh something very big and even Chuck Schumer supported it. So, uh, you got everybody supporting Canada. So, there cannot be, what is it, Chuck? Service reform act of 2022 was signed

[1:08:26] into law passed Wednesday and it only took us 16 years to get it back. Congratulations, Chuck. I know you've been working on it for a long time. All right, so we're going to bring up we're going to keep that. We have We still have Lee Camp. We still have Media Benjamin coming up. We still have Margaret Ratner, counselor, coming up. We still have Lucy uh Murphy coming up and uh probably somebody else, but um uh and I'm going to announce the event tomorrow morning in front of the British

[1:08:58] consulate, one of the US's great colonies, the British consulate. They should have a old glory on top of that continent. Uh that's coming up tomorrow 10. and then at 2:00 in front of uh the Department of Injustice. All right. Uh so we're going to bring up we're we got to get some laughs here. We still have a couple more comedians. So uh let's have a good time. Uh this is another individual that's now no longer

[1:09:29] with RT since they were censored and thrown off the air during this new what is really they had 1919. They had their first red scare and they had the 50s or the second red scare and the McCarthyism. It's like Russia is no longer the Soviet Union, but we have a third red scare going on. And uh the victims have been stations like RT that give a different point of view. And uh

[1:10:01] one of the point the correct one you can see. Yes, it you're right. All right. I kind of like I know I middled that. All right. I middled that for the CIA that's in the back of the room writing down my resume. All right. Remember I used to do my acting for the US embassy in 86 87 88 in Nicaragua. The only great crowd I ever had was 7 o'clock in the morning after drinking

[1:10:32] bootleg Florida Kanye and having to uh entertain all the peace groups there. All right, they're the only ones who understood my impression of General Singal. Nobody knows much from who single was and Elliot Abrams who changed his name to Tony Blink. All right. So, we're going to bring up right now really he's been at every one of these events and he's a tremendous

[1:11:03] political satist. Would you please welcome Jaffer Cox? He's ready to laugh. Thanks Randy for that intro. The RT intro. This next guy, he's unemployed as [ __ ] Just got laid off. It's fine. I'm not bitter about it.

[1:11:36] This is uh it's good to be here. Give a round of applause to yourselves coming out. This is great. I am always genuinely very honored to be here and a part of these amazing lineups. Um this is uh this is the model minority part of the show. Um, y'all remember that in the '90s they would call every Asian person in America a model minority? How racist was that uh

[1:12:07] to other minorities, right? Just like that the the the racism in the US is very advanced, right? Uh it's very nuanced. That's mind-blowing. them. It's like, look, if you got if you got to be a minority in this country, if you have to be a minority, do it with some grace. All right? Do it like them. Look at them. They study. They're quiet. They don't talk during the movies. Who's ready to laugh? Huh? You know,

[1:12:38] I don't know. Um, you know, I um I was a model minority. I'm Pakistani. I was a model minority until around 9/11. That went out the window real quick. They were like, "Oh, this is not model minority behavior." I was like, "You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. Take me off the list. Put me on the new list. I'll go on my list." Yeah. I remember after 911, I was like in seventh grade and there was this kid who

[1:13:09] didn't like me. So, he was trying to hurt my feelings and he was like, "Your people did this to us." And before I could say anything, my buddy Phil jumped in. Phil was like, "Actually, Joffer is from Pakistan. His country had nothing to do with 9/11." And then I had to jump in like, "Actually, you know, Osama gets all the credit." What was he? He was just an investor. That's all he was. He was just a financeier of vengeance. Uh the man, y'all know who the man credited with the

[1:13:39] architect of 911. Khali Shank Muhammad currently in Guantanamo Bay. a Pakistani man. So, let's give credit where credit is due. Okay? We're out here. We're making moves. We're doing stuff. We're model minorities. We're making a difference. Look, Muslims, um, you know, we're not terrorists. Um, because there's actually no such thing as a terrorist, which I know sounds like something a terrorist would say, but uh, look, you'll know

[1:14:12] what I mean. I I don't have to explain it to this audience. You know, we're terrorist. Very, it's a political term. Every country in the world, their enemies are terrorists. They're never terrorist. We're never terrorists, right? Like, and it's the UN has always struggled trying to come up with an actual like specific like precise definition for terrorism. Probably because every time they come up with one, the CIA is just like, that's not going to work for us. Awkward. You know, we don't want people bringing up, you know, Guatemala or Brazil or Venezuela or Cuba or Libya or

[1:14:43] Iran or Lebanon or Sudan or Somalia or JFK. Who's that JFK? Who's that? Use that JK. Don't bring up JFK, please. Sorry. Weird. Weird that you said that. The only way uh the the UN could come up with a definition for terrorism that the US would like be excited about it would have to be extremely specific right like look here at the UN we condemn terrorism obviously and terrorism is like we all know anytime anyone anywhere anytime

[1:15:16] anywhere 19 dudes who don't import or drink beer board a plane planes very important terrorist not fighter jets those are Commercial airlines. Write this down. Anytime 19 dudes who pray five times a day, book United on a Tuesday, Billy 7:47. And I know this is where the laughter deties down. Audiences at this point are just like, "This brown guy knows a lot about 911.

[1:15:46] That's kind of my vibe. I'm the 911 guy. Uh, that's what I'm trying to do." And just for the record, know that this is the tame version of me. All right. This is me. People don't know who I am, so I got to kind of warm people up. But one day, I'm going to be famous, okay? And when I'm famous, my comedy will be free and liberated and insufferable. Okay? I I will have the lowest Rotten Tomato rating of all time. Just confused reviews. Just like, I guess it was comedy, but he did a 10-minute bit on the application process to ISIS, and it was alarmingly detailed.

[1:16:20] Yes, I like to have frightening comedy. Um we uh you know recently we had we had a real low moment in our war on terror which I really enjoyed. Um we uh we recently killed like the newest leader of ISIS and it makes sense. I remember waking up that morning just like why do I feel so safe? Is it is it working? Um and uh you know Biden came up and did his like he got to do his big serious Joe press conference dramatic press like

[1:16:51] serious time. America joke time. And um and he did this dramatic press conference and uh no one gave a [ __ ] It was beautiful. Uh I love it. There's people out there who like Joe Biden, but every citizen of this country has to admit that that man cannot read a room, right? That's not not his strong suit public speaking. Um it's unfortunate. Uh but I look he gave this dramatic press conference. I understand why he was excited for the press conference, right? He was thinking about Obama. Remember Obama's press conference? He got to be

[1:17:22] like, "Oh, we got Osama." Everyone was like happy and cheered. Even Trump got to be like, "We got Abu Bakr al-Badi, right? OG uh leader of ISIS." This new leader of ISIS. I don't even know the guy's name. Okay, I don't know his name. And I know Abu Bakr al-Badi, right? I know my [ __ ] I show love, right? Y'all know that about me. I'm pretty sure Joe Biden didn't even know this [ __ ] guy's name. Okay, I watched the entire press conference. He didn't say his name a single time. He just kept calling him like a coward and a dog. We got America. Don't worry. Squad Joe here being serious. We got We got We got the

[1:17:54] coward. We got the dog. We curse the cowardly dog. That's what I call him. That's what I call Well, of course. Of course. I know. Of course. Jojo knows his name. What's his name? Abu Baba. Boooo. Aiz. I'm sorry. Look, the point is America, the guy that you didn't know was alive is no longer alive. See that sound like Joe's on the case. And his wife is like, "Who you talking to, Joe? We're at lunch right now." All right. That's comedy. Um, I think that's comedy. Um,

[1:18:25] we're now now we're uh pivot now we're doing a new uh we're doing a war on domestic terrorism now aka a war on white people terrorism. Um, which you know before was a war on Muslim terror terrorism. Let's uh recap that real quick. Uh that was uh led to the murder of over a million people. the destabilization of the Middle East, which led to a refugee crisis, which in turn led to a rise led to a rise of anti-migrant racist sentiment around the

[1:18:55] world, which in turn is fueling a rise of neopascism, which we're all dealing with today. And in 8th grade, me and my friends went to school dressed as ninjas. And the police officer stepped into the office cuz he thought I was dressed as al-Qaeda on dress like your superhero day. Yeah, you can laugh at that. Some parts of the war on terror are kind of lighthearted and that was one of the funnier parts. Um, but look, that was a war on Muslim terror. Okay, now we're in a war on

[1:19:26] domestic terror. I don't know. I don't really see a war. Look, I'm I'm I'm seeing more of a kurfuffle on domestic terrorism. And look, I'm Muslim. I'm petty. I want to see a war. All right, I'll be honest. I Where's the war? Where's the war? Show me a war. I want to see Here's what I'm see. I want to see uh two of these insurrectionists. We found out that they got family from Poland. So, our government bombs the [ __ ] out of France, right? That's what I want to see. I want to see some consistency. Okay. I want to see I want to see a panel on CNN where the topic of discussion is, is Southern Baptism

[1:19:57] really a religion of peace? On our panel today, we have Breza Osman, Raja Khi, and John. I know on Southern Baptism before, I wanted to see Guantano Bay shut down forever. I'm against torture. Not anymore. Repurpose it. Repurpose it. Get Get the brown terrorists out. White terrorists in. No shoes allowed inside. That is torture for white people. That would be a first rule. I want to see I want I want to see uh I want to see a white kid get in trouble for dressing like a terrorist or dress like a

[1:20:28] superhero. He's going to the office all pissed off. Like I'm not an interruptionist. I just like wearing camo. God. [Music] I mean, I know, you know, I'm joking. We all know the war war on domestic terrorism is not a good thing. Uh, but thankfully, no one really gives a [ __ ] No one's excited about it. There's only one group of people excited about the war on domestic terror, and uh, that is white liberals. God damn, dude. Anytime

[1:20:58] on the news they call a white person a terrorist, white liberal, they cream their pants. They get so happy. They're like, "Yes, we're terrorists, too. Hello. Come get us. Hide that vote for Trump. Arrest him, FBI. Dude, white liberal women, they've all cut ties to the Republican dads. They don't talk to them anymore. It's like, talk to your dad, all right? He raised you. He loves you. He co-signed your lease. It's the least it's the least you can do, dude. Um, I don't know what's happening with white people and their

[1:21:29] like the last insurrectionist that got arrested, you like his uh his son snitched on him. That's how we got and people applauded that. That's tragic. Okay, my my dad is a Muslim Republican. He's a psycho. He's a zip out Muslim Republican. He might do a [ __ ] jihad against Biden, but I will I would I would never ride out my dad. Okay, I love my dad. He raised me. What is happening with white family structure in this country that they're ratting out their own damn parents? This

[1:22:00] is tragic to me. It just shows that Bernie Mack was right. Okay, white people, you got to beat your kids. You got to proud of white folk beat the damn kids. All right, they're out here at now their own family. It's a damn shame. Um, but here's where I would normally end the bit with like for normal audiences. I'm like, but on a serious note, white people don't trust the FBI. Don't answer your culture, but I know y'all uh y'all don't need to hear that. So, um I'll I'll I'll just say this. Um you know, uh

[1:22:33] you you have heard and you will hear people much smarter and better equipped than me. uh say uh you know great things about this cause. Um so I don't really have much to add to that, but this is a cause we should all be supporting and I'm really glad we're all here and that this is happening and I'm happy to be a part of it. So thank you everyone. [Applause]

[1:23:06] Everybody having a good time tonight? Yeah, we are here to free Julian Assange. Right. I hope people will join Comrade Misty. And Ulysa says Grant here. General Long Street. I don't know. Great beard. You don't need a mask. You got that beard.

[1:23:39] No, I want to talk to you. I want to bust your balls. He and I bust each other's balls for the last couple of months. This is Dave Ruby who is the general manager. All right. And one of the owners of this place because of Fritzy Cohen that this has made his pack all the time. And this is the place if you are supporting Julian Assange. This is the uh ground zero. We're going to be working out of here.

[1:24:10] And Gabriel Shipton, Julian's brother will be back here. He will be staying here. So will uh Julian's father, uh John Shipton be staying here because they know the commitment. Fritzy Cohen over there. I know you want me to sing Jimmy Kagny, but you know I cuz you're the only one that knows. Let me ask you this. Yes. Who is ready to sign up for a jihad against? Somebody's got some petition. Paula, do

[1:24:42] you have a petition? Davis is like Paula, do you have a petition? A jihad against what? I don't want to say that here. They'll find a way to like throw me in with Bin Laden and I'll be in prison for 20 [ __ ] years in Guantanamo. Remember the words of Jesse We're supposed to have three people. Don't let her say it. I'm talking about a jihad. I mean, I'm not talking about a specific group of people who has been accused of doing.

[1:25:13] I think that was Keith. [Music] That was in the back. But what I'm saying is this is that we need Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let her finish what she has to say. I don't censor anybody, especially the one that let us do this here tonight in the last four events. It's pretty suggesting that jihadists have just gotten a bad name. What I'm saying is that maybe that's something that we people who need to protect the first amendment need to form something. Maybe

[1:25:44] we can call it something different to go after the real fascists in this country who are against Julian and they're in our government. you know, and uh and we just want to finish the show. No. Did she finish her? Yes. Would you stop? She and I have a good rapport. Okay. I know. Anyway, but you know, I am I I am who I am and I and that's what Papey said. Well, and I am who I am. No, I agree with you, Fritzy. I think

[1:26:16] that we should There may be a better way of saying it. Yes. I think you should first actually but you know but are you her PR person? Yeah. Let her talk. All right. I haven't heard it in haven't you had five drinks like tonight. All right. So please of I'm joking. Please. I'm a comic. I used to be.

[1:26:46] I've lost my sense of humor. All right. All right. You're going to have a debate with me. All right. So, what? All right. I'm through. But All right. We'll talk about it later, Fritz. We're going to have an open mic when the show's over. Anybody can get up here and say what they want. It's going to be like uh what do you call on a Jaffer? He He Do you like him? Oh, I do. Yeah. He encouraged me to speak out. Yeah. But apparently that was not correct.

[1:27:17] All right. Do you want her as your sidekick? All right. Always nice to have a chorus if you sing in tune. All right. How you doing, brother? You're the best. Steve Jones once again. All right. We are here tonight for Julian Assange. We here tomorrow once again 10 in the morning. I'll be there in front of the Where is that? Uh, comrade Misty. British ambition. I know that, but where is it? 3100 Massachusetts Avenue.

[1:27:47] I thought it was inside the White House. All right. So, it's 3100 Massachusetts Avenue. And then at 2:00 in front of uh Merrick Garland, who's sick right now, as if he wasn't already sick, but he's got physical ailments and he may not show up. All right. And who else? And and so you got a petition, Paula. I got to keep the comedy going here. No, we're going. We're good. All right. We're good. All right. We we'll do it later. We still have a couple acts. And then before we go, we

[1:28:19] have a wonderful uh singer at the end, Lucy Murphy. Before that, the um one of the great heroes legally of my lifetime for the last 50 years is going to who the only one that I know who knows Julie Assange really well in this room who's visited him 50 times and has been a legal adviser and saw him at Bill Morris. That's Margaret Bradford Cutsler. Give her a round of applause.

[1:28:50] She came all the way from New York City. All the way from New York City. We broke down this morning and it was the first time where I didn't offer 95 get off on the exit to the Baltimore airport. All right. If you listen to if you listen to that Siri, go to the right, go to the left, go to and you end up, you know, in Cleveland. All right. So, I just followed the signs today and got here on time. So, I don't need that [ __ ] GPS

[1:29:22] anymore. I'm serious. Don't drive to that. I mean, Lewis and Clark made it all the way to Utah without a GPS. GPS. All right, listen. Are you going to get Can you give her a couple of thumbs? It's all It's just truth. Sorry. Is that a bad thing? It's a bad thing that you're slowing down the show. All right. All right.

[1:29:52] It's okay. You can say what you want. But therefore, she's giving energy. She'll be like Native American. I love it. The fact that you're helping this place out. at that board 13. Never mind. All right. All right. So, uh, one of the great activists that I've met in my lifetime, I met her through Tony Newman from, uh, way back in San Francisco in the in the

[1:30:22] 80s. And she was, I think, running for she was like sitting in a tree. Were you sitting in a tree? I like in a redwood up there in Sequoia where I used to go when I was a kid. And the greatest stunt that I've ever seen over the last 20 years was at the RNC convention in 2004 when Code Pink interrupted uh was it Dick Cheney or when who was it? All of them. It was rocket

[1:30:54] 5 years, six years including his head, his shoulders and now above his head. I remember that. That was when George Bush was there. We're fighting against cicas. America is fighting cicas. We got We got I can only protect this country by hiding hiding our freedom. We're we're we're fighting against uh cicas. [Music] I used to do, you know, I started out doing Nixon in 1972 when I first started out 50 years ago as

[1:31:24] a comedian. It was Nixon. Uh, Denn Bush. It was Ford, but it was really just kiss. By the way, it's Kissinger's birthday on Thursday. He turned 700. So, let's give a He turned 700 and uh there's no room in the reason why he hasn't died cuz there's no [ __ ] room in hell for him. They have to build a parallel hell for Kissinger alone. And then it was Jim Aarta was for four years and he was all

[1:31:55] right. Then it was Reagan and I yes he was there and for the next uh whatever and then then after Reagan it was George Bush senior. We are not at war with the people of Iraq. We are at war with the Iraqi people. Yeah. And then he did his Churchill speech when it was all over. Never have so few killed so many for so few that

[1:32:26] have so much. Thank you very much. [Music] That was Bill Clinton for 8 years and he did what he did. He killed 500,000 people in in Iraq with the sanctions and uh what he did with NATO. You have to know about NATO and Yugoslavia and all that [ __ ] Then he got [ __ ] by Amy Goodman and he got all upset by what? All right. So, he's gone. And then it was uh George

[1:32:58] Bush Dub. God bless America. America is the greatest nation in the land. He actually said that Texas is 50th in the country in education, but we didn't drop back to 51 or 52. the top 50 part. I'm not going to do the rest of them. All right. So, uh coming up and and so uh this was a great event and uh I love media for what she did at the Republican

[1:33:31] National Convention. She's going to bring up uh our headline comic uh and so give her a big round of applause. Should I tell the one joke I know they do in politics? It's like a kids joke. You got to laugh. Okay. It's the one where the bear and the rabbit are taking a crap in the forest and the bear says to the rabbit, "You have any problem

[1:34:02] with [ __ ] sticking to your fur?" And the rabbit says, "No." So the bear grabs a rapid wipes his neck. Okay, now to Afghanistan. So I just came back from Afghanistan and it really makes me think about Julian Assange because I went to Afghanistan for the first time 20 years ago when the US was bombing Afghanistan. started out

[1:34:33] the shock, you know, and we were told that these were now, remember, precision bombs. Remember that? Yeah. Precision bombs. And that there weren't going to be civilian casualties. So, I went over with a group of there were four of us women. And uh where's Staffer? We went into Pakistan first. There went into Pashawer. You know Pashawer? Yeah. It's a wild place. went through the uh crazy mountains to get into Kbble and found

[1:35:03] these streams of civilians whose loved ones had just been killed by US precision bombs. And we thought, you know, what are we going to do about this? Kids who didn't have parents anymore. Uh uh widows who had no money to feed their kids. People who were desperate to begin with and now we're just totally totally impoverished. Not a penny. So we went back to the United States. We went to the US government. We said, "First of all, you got to stop killing civilians. And

[1:35:34] second of all, the ones you've killed, you got to compensate them." So they said, "You're crazy. These are precision bombs. We don't kill civilians." That was in the old days. Well, we fought and we fought and fought and finally we had the Afghan War Diaries thanks to Wikileaks. Thank you. And what did the Afghan war diary show? They had first they released about 90,000 memos that show thousands and

[1:36:07] thousands of civilian casualties. And then they released uh maybe you wrote it, John, a CIA manual about how to convince the American public that this is actually a good war. And then they released documents about um you know the uh death by container. Uh the younger ones here probably don't remember that but this was when a bunch of Taliban like thousands of them surrendered and they were put in these metal containers to transport them and then they were either just suffocated to

[1:36:39] death or they were shot at through the containers and it could have been up to 2,000 prisoners of war. That's actually not allowed. prisoners of war. Uh they even released to show they were even handed memos from jihadists. There were like a thousand handwritten memos uh that um released by Wikileaks. And so all of these materials in total were over 300,000

[1:37:09] documents related to Afghanistan. It was amazing. Now, for us, it helped us go to the American government and force them to create a compensation fund for Afghan victims. Now, you know, we could talk about what was the life of an Afghan victim worth because it wasn't very worth very much according to the US government. But thanks to those Afghan war diaries, we could prove that there were thousands and thousands of civilian victims. But more important than that, it changed the perception of the Afghan

[1:37:41] war. It changed perception from the Afghan war being the good war and all we had to do is send in more more troops, just another surge and we could have won that war to one that showed that it was indeed a quagmire and we had to figure out how to get the hell out of here. And so we owe a lot to Julian Assange for helping us to understand what was really going on in Afghanistan, what our government was really doing in Afghanistan, for exposing all the lies

[1:38:13] of our government, exposing all the deaths. And now I know we're not allowed to talk about Ukraine, but I'm only going to say it because the American people are caring about civilian deaths because they see it every day on the TV screens. And if we had a media that would have shown us all of the deaths in Afghanistan, we wouldn't have needed Wikileaks to teach us. And now I want to bring up somebody who

[1:38:46] embodies both comedy and truthtelling. And I loved watching him on RT. And it's a terrible shame that RT is not the venue where we can see him right now. But we still have many ways to still watch Lee Camp who makes us laugh. [Applause]

[1:39:16] [Music] [Applause] that I It's an honor to share a stage with Media, a woman who's been dragged down more rooms by security that walked out of the incredible No, But seriously, it's so good to be on this stage with like heroes of mine. Randy Kico cause Russia game. I don't know if you watch MSNBC,

[1:39:47] but he [ __ ] did it. This is a man. He was the go between between Julie Assange and Roger Stone. Rachel said, this is a man who thinks phone apps is how you order appetizers from a car. He caused Russia Gates. This is the only No, but seriously, I honestly the only comedian to do Johnny Carson and lose gigs

[1:40:17] because he called the Secretary of State Eva Braun or something. So, I'm not I'm not kidding. An honor to be on the stage with with all these wonderful people for such an incredible cause, such an important cause, and uh and and it's great to be up here. Uh, I guess I'm now the the most censured comedian in America who hasn't sexually assaulted anyone. All right, never mind. L just got a

[1:40:49] Grammy. The most censured comedian in America, period. It's more you're more censored if you're anti-war than for all the other [ __ ] that these people do. No, but it's in the in a in a single day. Well, so in three days and the TV shows are cancelled, all the all the old episodes deleted off of YouTube, podcast deleted off of Spotify. But in America, we have freedom of press. We have freedom of of speech, right?

[1:41:21] That's what we have here. No, it's it's it's utter horseshit, but it's it's exciting to be here. This is such such an important cause. Julian Assange, a man who should have [ __ ] statues built for him. I mean, if that's what statues are supposed to be in our society, right? The people we look up to, the people that show us how to behave, what we should be, what we should aim to be, if we could just if if if we had the spine they had, that's what statues should be, right? Instead, in this country, if you look at the statues and you really statistically speaking, apparently

[1:41:53] there are more impressive and accomplished horses in this country than women. Something can be funny and true at the same time. Like you guys were like, I want to laugh, but [ __ ] [ __ ] All really, if you don't laugh at everything I say, that's kind of funny, but also that's everything I have. So,

[1:42:24] we're in trouble. All right. Well, actually, here's something else. This is for people not liking my other [ __ ] The other day, I saw a sushi restaurant where the sushi goes around on a conveyor belt and you pick what you want. I think that's how bears view hiking trails. Take your time on some of these.

[1:42:56] All right, let's let's go to I thought let's go to the real colony material, right? The our newspapers, our our lovely legacy press. This is the highly respected Wall Street Journal from from this past week. Top headline leaders demand war crime probe. So that should say war criminals demand war crime probe, right? You're going to what? American and NATO leaders for a war crime probe. That's going to Jeffrey

[1:43:26] Dmer for restaurant recommendations. Charlie Sheen to teach us etiquette, you know, and [ __ ] Will Smith. Other headline, Tesla chief Musk disclosed he just bought a 9% stake of Twitter. And and people are like, "Oh, this is good." Cuz he's talking about not censoring Twitter. And people are like, "This is great." It's like, "No, a sociopath just bought a large part of the public

[1:43:57] discourse and don't celebrate that shit." And they are all billionaires sociopaths. All right? Every goddamn one. not hero. You cannot be a billionaire and not be a sociopath. If someone owns a billion of anything else and they had a billion cats or a billion shoes or a billion collectible cookie jars, you wouldn't go, "Wow, really impressive. What is

[1:44:29] your trick? How did you do it?" You know, that guy's a [ __ ] lunatic. So, what's the different with a billion pieces of paper? And I know you're like, well, the difference it's actually worse because a billionaire could give half of their billion things to like poor people and change their lives, which you couldn't do with half of your billion cats. I mean, I guess you could change them for the weirder, but you couldn't you couldn't help people.

[1:45:00] They're all sociopaths, and we need to start remembering that. All right. Next headline, invasion drives countries to green energy, but not yet. Yeah, if we just had more [ __ ] war, we could save the planet. That's what we need. Uh, all right. This is a New York Times. Excellent newspaper. Excellent. Excellent. You know, oh, by the way, for anyone under 30, I know you might not know what these are. These are you people used to buy these and hold them

[1:45:32] and read them and they wave them and around and they and and you know it was a thing. It's like it's like if you had a bunch of iPads all glued together and you New York Times I don't know if you know this 70% of the distributor distribution of New York Times now uh sales of New York Times is for uh proof of life photos. That's That was for poor people. John Keryaku liked it. John Keryaku. All right. If he

[1:46:04] laughs, you all better [ __ ] laugh. Jesus. This makes your time in prison for you people. And you're not laughing if he finds one. So, this headline says, "Hundreds missing and tons of rubble to clear in Ukraine." Uh, so first of all, apparently New York Times cares about people harmed by war. That's interesting. Look at that. But also, uh, yeah, turns out war is disgusting.

[1:46:35] That's what that headline should read. War is [ __ ] It's all [ __ ] Where? Like, but they show photos of the rubble and the dead and everything. Where were those photos in Syria and Iraq and [ __ ] All of a sudden, New York Times is like, "Turns out war is awful." Uh, then lower down on the page, Darthur trial at the HEG. Uh, the International Criminal Court,

[1:47:06] uh, which is a criminal court for prosecuting war criminals who are black. So, I don't even know, was it 99% of the ones they prosecuted have been black. And the US actually has Congress passed what is lovingly called the Netherland Netherlands Invasion Act where if they were to take one of our soldiers or one of our people and put them on trial, the ICT, we would invade the Netherlands. What? Yes, we passed that through Congress.

[1:47:37] All right. That is going to be a [ __ ] interesting invasion. I mean, them trying to defend themselves on their windmill powered bicycles from throwing wooden shoes at us. This is going to be a hell of a fight. Another headline, boom time for vertical farms because we don't have seasons anymore. That's the part they forgot. They're just excited. Vertical parks doing really well cuz everything outside's dying. Babe, you want to mention that? No. No. Not so much. Not in the New York

[1:48:08] Times. Some of these are bummers, folks. Some of these are bummer. Exp. This is uh still New York Times experts believe hackers are targeting Ukraine with misinformation efforts. This is the New York Times uh pissed off that they have competition the misinformation effort. They're like [ __ ] And those people don't even have to print it on the pieces of paper. Uh and then this is uh maybe still New

[1:48:38] York Times. Germany finds it hard to drop Russian energy. I love this is kind of like, you know, standard like, you know, it'll talk about Russian war crimes and stuff in there. So, it's like a standard anti-Russian article, but still they're using the euphemism for planetary death fluid. It's energy. Germany's finding it hard to quit energy. Energy sounds like, you know, suburban what suburban moms have at like a jazzer size [ __ ] class. They got a

[1:49:08] lot of energy, a lot of pep. No, it's planetary death fluid. That's what they're trying to quit. And I think we're all addicted to it. Better go back to these. I have a voodoo doll of myself at home that I treat quite well. [Laughter] Well, let's see. I'll just do a few more minutes here. They they What? The Biden

[1:49:41] is adding funding to the police. Yeah. More more police cuz that's really going to fix things. It's just more of these [ __ ] idiots with guns. Yeah. And and really part of the solution is please everybody stop calling the police for nonsense. You do not need men with guns inserted into any situation almost ever. Almost. People call people act like it's their daddy. They're like the music is too loud. comes sending you're sending idiots with guns into a

[1:50:13] situation because a Bruno Mars did was a little loud. Like that's that's like calling a guy with napal because there's a light smell of ass coming from next door. It's [ __ ] insanity. Honestly, and and they they are they're maniacs that most of them they don't [ __ ] know how to deal with half the situation that they are thrust into. and and they're a lot of them are drugged up on steroids and all the numbers the estimates are that 25% of all urban

[1:50:44] police are filled with steroids and guess what roid rage fits really well if you look at police brutality oh poor decision making quick to violence all these things like oh interesting and we don't even test them we don't even test it after they [ __ ] harm someone we don't test them like we we test Olympic athletes to see Just to see if someone legitimately jumped over things really quick. Okay. Oh, you went really fast over those sticks.

[1:51:16] See if you did it legitimately cuz otherwise you're going to [ __ ] hell. But we don't cop like why are we like I mean with the Olympics we're like wow you threw that stick really far. Let's see if you did. Why the cops? We know like, "Wow, you threw that grandma really far. Let's see if you did it legitimately. Let's see if that's a new record or not."

[1:51:48] Did you know that if you took your lungs and spread them out flat, they would cover a tennis court? But you'd probably lose the match. True story, googly. All right, I'll wrap up with this. We need to we need to expand and it's part of the reason I'm I'm I'm thrilled to be here. I'm thrilled to be with so many of you. So many of you I kind of know or I

[1:52:19] know a little bit and you do such impressive stuff and and it's like we have to expand the step one of this of of of changing this world is to expand the debate which really all of you are part of and don't debate within this little Randy mentioned earlier this little [ __ ] allowable thought on corporate media which of course we've been you know Randy lost gigs I've been purged from media like they want you in this little box of allowable debates that's what it is they have you know Even when they have a debate, it's like someone being like, "We're going to bomb

[1:52:50] Syria right now." And then someone right here being like, "We're going to bomb the next week." And they're like, "That's the whole debate. That's all there can be." And so, you got to expand the debate. Don't debate about whether there's too much corporate spending in our elections. Debate whether there should be corporations at all in this [ __ ] country. Don't debate about whether someone should be locked away for life for their third drug charge. Debate about whether there should be drug charges at all

[1:53:22] or whether it should be a health problem instead of a crime problem. Don't debate about about whether you know dropping our drone bombs is killing too many innocent civilians. Debate about whether we should be at war at all. Have that debate. Don't debate about whether our schooling system is creating too many dumb kids. Debate about whether there should be dumb kids at all. They should be released into the woods is a creative [ __ ] Lord of the Flies.

[1:53:55] Thank you guys so much. [Applause] Wow, that was great. They can't. Can you imagine that? I can't find him on YouTube. I can't find him on RT. I can't find him on Spotify.

[1:54:25] They have mummified the voice of Lee Camp. And what did you hear tonight? Can you imagine? that that's happening right now in this country that the voice of Lee Camp is silenced along with Jaffer Khan uh along with John F. O'Donnell along with George Galloway along with uh the great Ashen Ratanzi awardwinning uh

[1:54:57] journalist and Chris Chris Hedges. Yes, you're right. Thank you. Abby Martin. I'm Abby Martin is like, you know, they what let's look at it, man. It's it's amazing that that we can't hear any descent in this country. The only thing we get is John, that guy Jim Skioto, and the other guy, Jim Acasta. That's it. That's the news. Come on. You got Rachel Matt out. Come

[1:55:28] on. Well, you know, she's a road scholar and you know, road scholar that decided that she likes to drink Lawrence O'Donnell at 30 Rock at that bottom because I've done I've done uh MSNBC 11 times. The only thing they wanted to talk to me about was this whole [ __ ] about Russia Gate and Roger Stone and and Julian Assange. There was nothing ever there. Can you imagine Julian Assange saying to me,

[1:55:59] "Hey, look, I got this great stuff that's coming out. Would you do me a favor? Pass it to Roger Stone. You all right? Really, it's pass this to Roger Stone. I want him to get so it undermines the surprise of my uh release of these documents." I mean, it's just so [ __ ] ridiculous. But they ran with it and for a couple of years and now he's uh he continues. They brought up especially this nutcase empty will this

[1:56:31] empty suit empty will uh that is promoting this ridiculous fairy tale that there was something between Megan Rogerstone and Margaret Ratner Counselor. There was nothing. Uh but they uh continue to smear Julian Assange. That's one way. Uh, and because they want to quiet the guy. But at any rate, what I'm going to do right now, we still have Lucy Murphy's going to sing and then we may have a couple of speakers afterwards as the we got to

[1:57:02] close down the live stream, but uh, right now I'm going to bring up someone and I could have brought her on in the beginning. I said, "You know what? It's important that you go on at the end because she's the only one I know that has visited Julina Assange maybe 40 or 50 times since 2013. She's been a not you. Oh, you're keeping the place. You're paying the rent.

[1:57:34] She's uh but u she uh brought me to Julian Assange in 2016 when I was at WBAI. I was looking for a guest and she said here I I didn't want to ask her because she had been visiting and she'd been working with Michael Ratner uh on the Assange case and uh so he got on my show and then we did the Assange countdown and she helped me coordinate it along with Julia uh back in on April 11, 20

[1:58:09] and so she last visited Julian Assange four or five months months ago. Uh she's been, if you take a look at her record, uh 50 years going back to uh as a organizer of the uh demonstrations and the sitins at Columbia University against the Vietnam War. She was person of the week on ABC News for her work uh with those in uh peace groups that were infiltrated by the FBI. And I can't I

[1:58:40] mean the list goes on and on but she does it unlike her husband who the late William Kler who got a lot of attention. She does it quietly and she gets it done. She worked with me on the uh Rockefeller drug law movement. She got me into Tulya where we got 46 people out of prison that were shankied into it this racist drugs drug thing in 1999. uh but she does it quietly. uh but she

[1:59:10] knows Assange and I think it's appropriate that she is the last speaker before we go out with Lucy Murphy and that is the great attorney civil rights attorney Margaret Rackard [Music]

[1:59:42] Is that working? All right. Yes, it worked very well. Am I supposed to talk or something? All right, she's up there. Steve, thank you, Steve. You know, the first time I spoke u the first time I spoke in this room, I said, you know what? I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic that Julian is going to be

[2:00:14] successful. And the reason I'm optimistic is that it's impossible that this country would turn its back on the basic things, the only things that are left to it to be proud of. And that is the first amendment. The ability to speak, the ability to criticize, the ability to choose who you want to elect on the basis of knowing what they have to say instead of hearing lies from everyone.

[2:00:45] So I I said, you know, I stood up here and I said, I'm optimistic and and I'm embarrassed that I said that. I really am because how could I have been optimistic in the face of looking at what this country has done over the last 15 years? How do I dare have optimism at that at that point? I mean, I I know I had optimism because it was a clean fight because it meant free speech because they grabbed somebody who wasn't

[2:01:15] an American from another country and said, "We can stop you from talking about what we don't want to hear by putting you in jail. Meanwhile, we can keep you in isolation for 10 years while we're readying our complaint against you." So, okay, it's all okay. We can do all of these things. I'm saying they can't get away with this. This is not possible. This is a white man. He has nothing to do with with this society. The only thing he's done is speak out,

[2:01:48] publish things. He's done he's not a gun runner. He's not a drug addict. He's not selling drugs. He's not stealing anything. He's not committing any crime. So it's not possible that you can grab him and put him in jail for the rest of his life. Well, it is possible. It is very possible. And I hate to say this because I want to be, you know, totally optimistic. Um, and I haven't

[2:02:19] always been totally optimistic uh about uh what could happen to my clients. And I've been um usually not disappointed because the worst things happened and that was expected. But I didn't expect the worst thing to happen here. And as you look around today, today it's worse than ever. So we can see why it happened. We I you know last year I didn't see why, but now I see why. I see that this country has

[2:02:51] deteriorated to such an extent that if they can't control what is said, they can't start because they have done so many and they have to do it without anybody knowing or anybody talking about it because they can't survive and capitalism cannot survive without their doing what they're doing. So it's a there's a problem here.

[2:03:25] So it's you know it's just an extension of the problem of imperialism and the problem of capitalism and imperialism and it's all going to be over very soon and I'm sorry to say that. And we'll have a real hero in the next millennium perhaps and that will be Julian Assange. and we will have someday statues for him but not not in my life. Um he is a brilliant,

[2:03:57] wonderful, generous human being who really never harmed a soul in his life and only had nice things to say about everybody, believe it or not. And um I never saw him be chauvinist. I never saw him be um talk nastily about anybody behind the back. And here he is having been tortured

[2:04:28] and and um vilified and made into an enemy so that the United States can get away with this [ __ ] And here we are in a world that is unrecognizable now. And um I'm sorry to say it, you know, and um I don't know what else to say except that, you know, I really love him and I hope that you all can love him and how see perceive that how terrible this world has become

[2:05:01] through looking at what's happening to him. um and what's happening to um a large number of people in this room who have been silenced and why have they been silenced? Because they're talking about what is truthfully happening and we can't allow that anymore. And what does that mean? What what happens then? Can we can we take to the streets? Well, it's the only thing we can do. Um,

[2:05:32] and will we do that? And that's that's the question. Will we organize enough to take to the streets and do something about what is happening to this country? And I don't know. I hope so. And that's all I have to say. Wow. Margaret Country

[2:06:04] because you are a lawyer and I was just mentioning this to Steve, but he's going to be tried in in this district which I think John mentioned is loaded totally loaded against him. Is there any way that there's a way to demand that the venue of this trial be changed? Is that something that might at least be It's like the guys that were tried in the uh the It's like the guys that were tried uh in the attempt to kill Hitler in 45.

[2:06:36] It was in It was in one judge's courtroom and they couldn't get a change of opinion. All right. No, no. You understand why? I understand. It's a it's something you do when when the court is stacking here again. It's you know you ask I mean I'm just wondering and John I think it was John who was talking about it is that John can can they get a change of venue? No, no. Because they they'll argue that the that the crime was committed in the Eastern District of Virginia because

[2:07:08] much of the information that was released was that it still should not be something that people talk about and reveal why this is a unfair what's his name? Gordon Croberg. Wow. Gordon Croberg. Is that his name? The prosecutor. Oh, the prosecutor. Yeah. Yeah, that's his name. He's uh if you ever saw late, he's a guy. Even with what you said, there are all kinds of times where a a trial is moved.

[2:07:38] Oh, yes. Because even though that's where it's not happening here, it is argued that they couldn't get a fair trial there. Absolutely, right? Yes. I think it needs to be argued. How many years is that going to take? How much longer can he survive? There are many things that can be argued. Why do we do that? There are many things that can be argued. No, would you relax, please?

[2:08:08] Um, I'm going to answer this question. Um, nothing that has happened to Julian Assange has follows any law or follows any reason. I don't know why we should have I I mean I was the same way. I I well this time he's got to win because and I kept saying that but it's not that way anymore. The world doesn't operate on the basis of justice on the basis of

[2:08:38] well it wouldn't be fair if he were trying here. That's meaningless now obviously but isn't it part of educating the public to to have at least a group challenging this because you talk about why this venue is so poisonous right and you know you picking one thing but we could have argued we argued all along about what was happening to Julian we argued all along about people who were kept in Guantanamo we argued all along about

[2:09:10] murders and and and the ways we kill innocent civilians all over this world and we talk about it, but does that control it? Does that stop it? I mean, we could talk about it and I agree that if it didn't happen, we wouldn't talk about it, but it happens. We talk about it. All right. Oh, no. No censorship. Okay. No, I I just you know the thing about it is he said I just think if indeed he is going to be tried in this venue that we cannot

[2:09:42] be silent about how corrupt this is. I agree. you know, and and that's why we have to organize and we're going to begin tomorrow morning in front of the DOJ tomorrow morning uh afternoon in the morning to go in front of the center and Paula is going to come up here and I want you to uh get your give her your name and how you can get the events because we have to continue to organize. It's not going to happen on

[2:10:14] television. It's not going to happen at this event. It's not going to happen anywhere but on the streets. That's if you want to fight, be a winter soldier, as Thomas Payne said, and get out there in 110° weather, 21 below weather, and get out there and fight because this is the the end of this dem this what is this a democracy? No, but I know that. But any kind of

[2:10:44] as John Pill just said any cintillaa of a democratic uh society that we live in in the west I don't it doesn't exist whether it be Belgium you know you know Netherlands the UK n it doesn't exist okay it's all for public consumption but you got to get please she's going to go around and get your names here uh and we're going to have Lucy Murphy come up here and Lucy Murphy who has been at so

[2:11:15] many of these Assange events and other events. I last saw her at one for my uh my uh for Assange and and the great Linder Peltier and for uh Mia. I know. I know. I was going to forget that. All right. So, um we're going to She's going to close it. We got a couple of tunes for Steve to Jones and we may get a a speaker here or there for a couple of seconds, but we got to close down the

[2:11:47] live stream and move on and and we're going to give it to Lucy Murphy right now. Would you please stand? Thank you, Margaret. Margaret wants to give her a round of applause. That was beautiful. Here, let's go out with some music. Thank you, Randy. [Music]

[2:12:21] locked in jail. No one should hold their face. Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on. Oh, [Music] hold on.

[2:12:53] [Music] Mary we and mother moan. Gel stood up and blown on your eyes. [Applause] Hold on. Oh, [Music] keep your eyes on the prize.

[2:13:26] Oh Lord, the only thing that we did wrong was the wonder in the wilderness too long. Keep your heart open. Hold on.

[2:13:57] Keep your eyes. [Music] And the only thing that we did right was to all that night that might keep your eyes on Friday. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

[2:14:30] [Music] You know, silence begin to shift. They walk out. Keep your eyes on. Hold on. [Music]

[2:15:09] Hold on. Keep on. [Music] Hold on. [Music] Keep your eyes on. Hold on. Yes.

[2:15:49] In the key of E. Okay. [Music] A little voice. [Music]

[2:16:23] Okay, I think we have to rehearse this. That's a call and response song. It's a bushwad town. It's a bushw. And for you students, I expect you to do. I got the bush blues. I'm going to spread the news all around.

[2:16:56] We'll try this again. [Music] Home down in Washington DC cuz it's awesome. [Music] I'm going to spread the news. all around. [Music]

[2:17:27] You know, we went all over town. Everywhere we went, the folks were turning us down. Boob town. It's a town. It's a boob town. It's a town. I got the push balloons are going to spread the news all the ground. But let's stop first. Well, it's the

[2:17:59] home of the brave and the stand of the free. I don't want the Christmas tree. But it's a bushwre. [Music] And this is the verse that got me in trouble with Mary and Mary.

[2:18:32] After I sang this song, all right, there was this where my name was, my name got whited out and they didn't even close the list. They just never rich in Washington. He knows how to throw a nickel to the mayor just to see

[2:19:02] him at a bush town. It's a good town. I got the news around Washington. He knows how to throw a nickel to the m just to see her bow cuz

[2:19:33] it's a bush town. It's a town. I got the voice going around. Do you hear what I'm telling you? I got the voice. I'm going to use all. [Music]

[2:20:06] Wow. Oh yeah. Don't go anywhere. I want everybody that spoke tonight to get up on the stage right now. And I also want to thank Ford Fiser over here who did the lighting, has done all of these events, not just here, but has done it uh throughout the city for all

[2:20:36] progressive causes. That's sportfisher. If you need live streaming, go to Fort Fiser. He is absolutely the best. He's committed and he's cheap. Thanks, Randy. No, no, but no, not cheap. No, he's he's expensive. Thanks, Randy. No, he's committed. He wants the right amount that likes what they're doing and it's not a business. All right. Thank you, Ford Fisher, for this. How do people reach you? News to share.

[2:21:08] All right. I want everybody getting up here. Margaret Ratner Hunster and No, you you were up here. Everyone to stay. John Kiryaku open the show. Uh and then we had uh John O'Donnell. We had John O'Donnell. And then we had Elanar Hill. Anybody [Music]

[2:21:38] [Applause] get this table everybody? Is everybody out there? Spread it out. All right. Let's spread it out. I want to introduce you once again. And Marvin Bradford

[2:22:10] Sophia Donald This is right now in our gold field and they are the best. All right, thank you for

[2:22:42] all and of course over here. All right, thank you all uh for being a part of this. We're all going to go back there and uh hang out in the back of the room. Hold a sign early. Yes, let's hold a sign. That would be a great This is a sign by NYC Assange which co sponsored this event tonight.

[2:23:14] Thank you. And let's Julian, let's try to get RT and this great show back on. Bring it on. Bring it on. Thank you all. Thank you, Tabern. Thank you, Princy going. If you want to get this picture, go ahead. Dave, Ruby, I love you, man. And I see

[2:23:47] Wire Green out there. And I see uh Nick is out there. Brianna People's Party. I'm going to run. [Music] around. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right.
