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Chapter 1: Is ISIS in the United States?
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Okay, copy. West. I'm looking at danger close now. All right, everybody. Short answer first. Yes. ISIS is here in the United States. Now, let's unpack that just a little bit. Let's unpack what I actually would have rather been talking about.
And I actually know probably more than anything, the first thing I need to do is I need to time capsule this episode a little bit or timestamp it or watermark it, however you would describe it, because the information that I'm gonna be talking about is current up until, I don't know, five minutes ago when I did the last little touch up to make sure that I could at least talk about what was breaking information or current information in this moment.
It is the 2nd of January today in the early afternoon. This episode comes out on the 3rd of January of Friday. And one of the reasons that I didn't want to make this video or I don't like making videos like this, there's a few. One, I don't... I'm not a provocateur by any stretch.
I'm not looking at headlines, trying to graph something from a headline that I could throw together and put it on the internet, even though it might be a really good strategy for a content creator. And me saying those things, I'm speaking about myself and things that I am not necessarily looking to do. Nothing but respect for people who want to take that as their path forward.
It just, it's not me. It's not ever felt like something that I want to do. I don't consistently watch the headlines and look for those things. The information I have now will, I mean, I would like to think what has been released will be accurate moving forward, but what will definitely change is that people and organizations are going to add to what is available to me in this moment.
And that's why I say we have to time capsule this a little bit. My initial answer is yes, ISIS is here. And I will unpack that further, but that is based on current information I have now. So just keep that in the back of your mind.
If you're listening to this a month from now, however you may find it, wherever you may find it, understand that the farther it gets away from the 2nd of January, the more information that we will have, the more we'll come out about this, and hopefully we'll be able to get some better answers. We have to also talk about what I know and what I don't know.
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Chapter 2: What happened in New Orleans?
Even back then in the early aughts, as I've heard them called, and I really like that term, the double aughts, if you will, was that regardless of how effective we were overseas, it was a problem we were never going to completely solve because I don't know if you can truly kill off an ideology. especially with military power. Now I say that, and that is how we ended World War II.
That is how we destroyed imperialized Japan. Now in World War II specifically, right, we eradicated Nazism in the country of Germany, but not completely. And there are still complete and utter idiots in the United States who still have their head wrapped around the ideology of Nazism. So yes, we had great military effect in World War II, but it didn't get rid of the ideology.
And as long as that ideology survives and has the ability to travel and infect other people, regardless of how ridiculous the concept may sound, I don't think it's possible to eradicate it. The difference, obviously, between World War II time period and the time period that we are living in right now is access to information.
The first time I remember hearing about somebody being radicalized again at these higher level ISIS, Al-Qaeda levels were the San Bernardino shooters where it was a husband and wife. And it's been a long time since I've actually talked with one of the officers who was involved in this. So my details are a little bit hazy. Husband and wife, it was near Christmas time at a Christmas party.
I believe it was a rec center. And they went in there and they absolutely wreaked havoc. Both of them ended up losing their life. There were explosive device that were involved in that. The radicalization, the exposure to the ideology, it only occurred over the internet.
To the best of my knowledge, they'd never actually interfaced with somebody from a face-to-face, in-person perspective that could have recruited them or radicalized them or indoctrinated them. They did it to themselves. And that is why I think ISIS is in this country. And that's one aspect, I should say, of why I think ISIS is in this country. And unfortunately, this is not the end, in my opinion.
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Chapter 3: Are recent attacks connected?
If I was a betting person, which I am not, and I certainly would not bet on something like this. But if you put a gun to my head and said, you have to bet on whether or not these things will stop or they will continue.
My answer, my honest answer, as much as it breaks my heart from somebody who spent a good portion of their life trying to stop things like this from happening in this country, my chips would go towards it's going to happen again. I hate to say that, but it is legitimately how I feel. There's access to information, and that just seems to be accelerating. And I don't know how we stop that.
There are consequences. to unchecked border policy and allowing a nation... Is allowing the right word? I don't know. For allowing a condition in a nation where a border is incredibly fluid and... Unfortunately, most of the time in this country, the conversation has to be tied around politics.
If we can strip that aside and just talk about an inability to keep people out of your country or an unwillingness, whether because of a social optic or a political optic or everything in between, to draw a line in the sand and be unwilling to hold it, there are consequences from that. There are people who have dove into this much deeper than myself.
Sean Ryan has done some fantastic podcasts with people who are in this space. They have their fingers on the pulse of what is going on in these environments. And they are, my words, not necessarily theirs, screaming at the top of their lungs that something needs to be done and something needs to be changed. So we have information. and we have access to actually come into the country.
Now, one of the first things that was reported about what happened in New Orleans was that it was not a standalone attack, meaning an individual. And I don't know if I mentioned this in the beginning when I was talking about what I do know versus what I don't know, One of the things that just was released was that this person, they called him a lone wolf. So they said he was acting by himself.
Initially, they were saying there was up to five people that could have potentially been involved with this. I hope it is an individual. But given the conditions that I just described, especially the border, it is possible or it would be possible, if not plausible, that something like this happens where somebody is not acting alone. I am very glad that that has not happened yet.
It would not surprise me, not even one else, if it were to happen because of the combination of those two things, the ability to move people and the ability to access information that I do not know what else to describe that level of radicalization and the beliefs of those individuals who wrap themselves around that ideology. So, yeah, they're here, both in spirit and in person.
And it begs a question. What can you do? What should we do? Even before that question, though, and this is something that I have had deep conversations with, because when something catastrophic like this happens, and there is no other word for it than catastrophic and horrific, when something like that happens, people will rightly say, who would target innocent people like that?
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