Is the world burning down around me? I’m looking across the news today, I’ve got people chasing down cops with hatchets, I’ve got new ebola scares, I’ve got British governments attacking Christian schools for not having imams teaching lessons.
Have we all gotten stupid?
We got some interesting stuff. Anderson Cooper, poor Anderson, some idiot in Canada wanted a selfie with him at the murder site of the soldier that was killed by the terrorist. We’ll get to that in a minute.
All that and a lot more on today’s show. Welcome to The Live Show. My name is Jason Stapleton. If you want to be part of the show, you can email Jason@TheLiveShow.TV.
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It seems to me as though, everywhere I’m looking now, I pay pretty close attention to the news and there’s been some very unfortunate things that I’m seeing.
And I don’t want to get on this bandwagon about government intrusion and be one of those people. There are some serious issues that are happening here in the United States.
I got two stories here: one out of Great Britain and one out of the U.S. where you have governments that are basically punishing schools for practicing their Christian beliefs and their value system. They’re doing it in the United Kingdom under the guise of tolerance and individual liberty. And somebody in Great Britain needs to explain to those in their government what exactly individual liberty is because I don’t think any of them understand it.
And, then you’ve got the stock market is looking like it might be down again today. Dow futures pointing down 11 because of an apparent ebola scare. I don’t know what else it could be.
Now, we’ve got a guy in New York back from Guinea who tested positive for the ebola virus. If you notice, the people that are getting ebola are coming from outside the United States who contracted it or people who worked closely with someone who is being treated for ebola in the late stages. Now this, of course, holds true to what we believe and what we understand about ebola is that it is not highly contagious until the very late stages.
Yesterday, we talked about the shooting that happened in Canada, with a terrorist on the loose.
Let me define terrorism for you because people are trying to say that it wasn’t terrorism, that it was an isolated incident.
Again, it’s either people who don’t really understand what terrorism is or people who are just trying to water down the fact that this was a Muslim extremist who ended up going and shooting soldiers at a memorial and then going on to a government building and shooting up that place as well.
A terrorist is someone who performs a terrorist action in order to influence the political and cultural decisions of the governments in that area. So, I don’t care if this guy is attached to a larger cell and there’s evidence that he was, that his dad use to fight in the revolution against Muammar Gaddafi before he came to Canada. And so there’s all kinds of evidence that this guy is tied directly back to the same militant fighters who ultimate established a stronghold in Iraq and Syria.
But let’s leave all of that aside. Let’s say he was just some nut job out there who took a little too seriously the good book written by Mr. Muhammad. And he just decided that he was going to start killing people. That is a terrorist act. He did it for no other reason than to terrorize. He was trying to create fear and panic in society. That’s terrorism no matter how you look at it.
And, we talked about it yesterday on the show. Wouldn’t you know it, of course there’s a lot of press and stuff down there, and Anderson Cooper was down there doing a report on the event. And a young aspiring journalist from the Sun News, Vandon Gene, ends up asking Anderson Cooper for a selfie.
Reporter’s ‘Completely Inappropriate’ Request Leaves Anderson Cooper Stunned: ‘I Can’t Believe Any Station Employs You’http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/22/reporters-completely-inappropriate-request-leaves-anderson-cooper-stunned-i-cant-believe-any-station-employs-you/
Anderson Cooper tweeted out scathing criticism of a reporter Wednesday night after the journalist asked for a photograph at the same site a Canadian soldier was killed hours earlier.
Video of the incident showed Cooper tell “aspiring journalist” and Sun News contributor Vandon Gene that the request was “wildly inappropriate.”
Gene initially uploaded the footage and then turned to Twitter to skewer Cooper.
Cooper was not afraid to fire back on Twitter, reiterating that he found his request “completely inappropriate” and even said it surprised him anyone would hire him as a reporter.
Anderson Cooper responded that he was not going to take a picture with him near where someone just died. And the reporter gets pissed, he really gets angry at Anderson Cooper for not being willing to take a selfie with him near the recent and tragic death site of this soldier who was murdered. He ends up sending out some tweets going after Anderson. Anderson’s response to Vandon Gene is classic. Kudos to Anderson Cooper for doing the right thing.
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The religion of peace is at it again!
Apparent Muslim Suspect Viciously Attacks NYC Officers With a Hatchet; Possible Ties to Radical Islam Revealedhttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/23/hatchet-wielding-man-shot-and-killed-after-vicious-attack-on-officer-in-nyc/
A hatchet-wielding man attacked a group of patrol officers in a busy commercial district in Queens on Thursday, injuring two before the other officers shot and killed him, New York City police said. A bystander was wounded in the gunfire.
The deceased suspect has been identified in multiple reports as 32-year-old Zale Thompson, an apparent Muslim who lived in Queens.
At a news conference at a hospital where one officer was being treated for a serious head wound, Police Commissioner William Bratton said that investigators were still trying to determine a motive.
New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attackhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/us-usa-newyork-hatchet-idUSKCN0IC2RG20141024
A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said.
The officers were on foot patrol when they were asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture on a Queens street at about 2 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said.
Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said.
The remaining two officers fired their weapons at the man, hitting him. The suspect, whose identity was not yet confirmed but who was said to be approximately 32 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene.
What are we coming to? New York City, here’s the thing: you can’t own a gun in New York City. You really can’t. To get a concealed carry permit, to get a weapon into New York City is extremely difficult. Huge gun laws preventing that and so what happens? This guy has a hatchet. And he just comes at officers with a hatchet, critically wounding one of them before they finally get their guns out and shoot him.
We could make this about gun crime. The thing is, removing guns don’t stop crime. All it does is prevents honest people from protecting themselves. This time, the cops were caught off guard by a hatchet wheeling man who apparently is upset at White people, who made hateful remarks on YouTube.
And we talked about this on the show yesterday during the Michael Brown incident. I said, guys, there is likely legitimacy to the argument, there is police brutality that happens all the time. There are cops who create wild injustices in America all the time. But go after them. Go find those actual cases. Don’t spend your time on the Michael Brown thing because Michael Brown was not a good guy. He was not a good person. He was a criminal. He attacked a police officer and he was shot dead for it. That’s not the guy you want to hitch your cause to. You find somebody else.
Most recently, we found this today. There was a situation where, we don’t know what happened before but, there is a cop and a suspect wrestling and they’re kind of rolling around, where it looks as though the police officer is trying to arrest this individual and then this individual is resisting.
NYPD cop kicks fellow officer in the head during arrest - thinking he is the suspecthttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2806101/The-moment-NYPD-cop-kicks-fellow-officer-head-arrest-thinking-suspect.html
This is the moment an undercover cop kicked a fellow officer in the back of the head after apparently mistaking him for a suspect.
Video footage from DNAinfo New York shows the plain-clothed NYPD officer rush to the aid of a uniformed colleague, who was wrestling a suspect with the help of another undercover officer.
But the officer, who is seen wearing a grey jumper and jeans, immediately kicks the undercover cop in the back of the head after joining the struggle at Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue station.
Here’s the thing: the difference between this situation and the Michael Brown situation is that this officer is going to lose likely his badge. They’re talking about firing this officer and rightly so. The guy came in, had no idea what was going on, ended up first kicking another officer in the back of the head, and then later punching the suspect in the nose.
I will tell you right now, there is some justification for him hitting the suspect because if the suspect was tangled up with the officer and was not complying with the officer’s orders to give then he does have the ability to use physical force in order to move him.
But that’s the kind of thing that you can take out. You can say ‘look at what this cop did, this guy ought to be punished and this is evidence of a system problem inside the police force.’ Now, whether or not that’s true, it’s very difficult to prove but certainly this is a much better case for you to protest against. But not the Michael Brown case.
I want to switch over and talk about what’s happening in the school system and really in government. And I’m going to use something that’s going on in the U.K. and tie that to a battle a church in California is having.
Christian school 'downgraded for failing to invite an imam to lead assembly'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11173102/Christian-school-downgraded-for-failing-to-invite-an-imam-to-lead-assembly.html
A successful Christian school has been warned it is to be downgraded by inspectors and could even face closure after failing to invite a leader from another religion, such as an imam, to lead assemblies, it is claimed.
The small independent school in the Home Counties was told it is in breach of new rules intended to promote “British values” such as individual liberty and tolerance in the wake of the Trojan Horse scandal, involving infiltration by hard-line Muslim groups in Birmingham.
So you have a Christian school in the United Kingdom that’s been downgraded by the government and they’re facing potential closure because the Christian school will not bring in Imams or some other religious group to lead assemblies.
Let me set this up for you. The Trojan Horse Scandal was a situation where some Muslim based schools were used as breeding grounds to spread hate and discontent. There is evidence that they were attempting to get rid of all non-muslim staff in order to teach radical ideas to children. And the British government was upset about this so they put together a law that says you have to provide a well balanced education. Inspectors are going around schools now say that they will consider the effectiveness of a school’s provision for a pupil’s spiritual, moral, social, cultural development and how the schools leadership and management ensures that the curriculum’s activities promote British values.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to explain to you a very simple principle that is overlooked. There is no such thing as British values. There is no such thing as American values or French values. There are only individual values. And individual values vary from person to person, from household to household, across the country. So the very idea that you are going to create a law that focuses on promoting British values is to suggest that individual values have no place and that there is some sort of collective value system across the whole of Britain. And that simply can’t be true. That’s the first thing that we really need to understand.
The second thing is this law is designed to promote individual liberty. But if the government is placing laws on people preventing them from the free practice of their own religion and choosing how they are going to educate children seems to me a violation of liberty, not a support of.
The most troubling piece of this is the tolerance piece. This idea of tolerance on an international scale has become one that says you have to be accepting of everyone’s religion, you don’t have a choice. Tolerance means total acceptance, allowing all people special privileges, forcing people to accept your way of life. That is not tolerance.
True tolerance is you believe what you believe, I believe what I believe. We may very well disagree but as long as you stay on your side and you don’t infringe on my right to practice what I believe, I will not infringe on your right to practice what you believe.
For example, the gay marriage topic we talked about yesterday where this gay couple walk into a chapel and says we’d like you to marry us. And the individual says I’m sorry that goes against our religion and our faith so we simply can’t do that for you. I’m not going to perform this ceremony. Well, under this new concept of tolerance, somehow this pastor ought to be forced to provide chapel services to this gay couple, even if it goes against what he believes. So it’s okay if it infringes on his individual liberty, on his individual right as long as it’s tolerant of someone else’s opinion. Where is the tolerance of this pastor? Where is the tolerance for this school?
Churches in California Battle State Gov’t After Being Forced to Cover ‘Elective Abortion’http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/23/look-closely-at-these-govt-letters-the-elective-abortion-mandate-could-have-major-implications-for-california-churches/
A recent regulatory change in California now requires all employer health plans in the state — including those offered by churches and faith-based organizations — to cover elective abortions, according to a conservative legal firm.
Casey Mattox, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, told TheBlaze Thursday that the regulatory amendment requiring abortion coverage was made by California’s Department of Managed Health Care.
The abortion policy immediately took effect August 22, with the government giving 90 additional days for the language in health care plans to officially change, according to state documents.
Mattox explained this week in a story for The Federalist that the change resulted from “the insistence of the American Civil Liberties Union,” with California officials subsequently deciding that elective abortion now falls under “basic health services” in the state.
But Mattox told TheBlaze that this regulatory situation is curious, as churches are now exempt from providing contraception, but not abortion.
“Churches are exempt from both state and federal … mandates,” he said. “They don’t have to provide contraception, but they have to provide abortion.”
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