Tulsi Gabbard Warns America About Federal Law Enforcement Weaponization Against American Parents

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[00:01] >> Ben: THANK YOU.

[00:02] ALSO HERE TONIGHT, FORMER HAWAII

[00:04] CONGRESSWOMAN AND FORMER

[00:06] PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TULSI

[00:07] GABBARD.

[00:08] SO, TULSI, TELL ME, DO YOU THINK

[00:09] THAT PARENTS NEED TO BE

[00:10] CONCERNED ABOUT HEADING TO

[00:14] GITMO?

[00:14] >> EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE

[00:15] CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING

[00:16] RIGHT NOW, BEN.

[00:18] THIS IS SOMETHING THAT BIGGER

[00:22] THAN DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS.

[00:23] WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE IS ABOUT

[00:25] THE POWERFUL ELITE IN THIS

[00:27] COUNTRY USING THEIR POWER TO TRY

[00:28] TO SILENCE AND CONTROL US.

[00:30] WHAT IS SO DANGEROUS ABOUT THIS

[00:32] SITUATION IS WE HAVE THE

[00:35] ATTORNEY GENERAL ESSENTIALLY

[00:38] WEAPONIZING OUR FEDERAL LAW

[00:38] ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO

[00:40] INTIMIDATE AND SILENCE THE

[00:42] AMERICAN PEOPLE TO TRY TO

[00:44] SILENCE US INTO COMPLIANCE,

[00:47] ESSENTIALLY.

[00:47] AND THE REALITY IS THAT, AS YOU

[00:49] KNOW VERY WELL, WHETHER WE

[00:51] DISAGREE OR AGREE WITH EACH

[00:52] OTHER, WHETHER OUR SPEECH IS

[00:55] QUIET OR OBNOXIOUS.

[00:56] OUR SPEECH IS PROTECTED BY THE

[00:58] FIRST AMENDMENT.

[00:59] IT'S SOMETHING THAT I, AS A

[01:00] SOLDIER, AND AS A MEMBER OF

[01:01] CONGRESS TOOK AN OATH TO SUPPORT

[01:03] AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND

[01:05] I MAY HATE THE SPEECH THAT YOU

[01:08] SAY.

[01:08] I MAY COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH

[01:10] IT, BUT I WILL LAY DOWN MY LIFE

[01:12] TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.

[01:15] >> Ben: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

[01:16] CONCERNS ME SO MUCH ABOUT THIS

[01:18] PARTICULAR MOMENT, TULSI, IS

[01:19] THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY ABOUT

[01:21] THE PEOPLE WHO YOU HEAR ABOUT

[01:23] GETTING INTO FIGHTS OVER THIS.

[01:24] WHO ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO TO COURT

[01:26] AND DEFEND THEMSELVES.

[01:27] IT'S ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO

[01:29] STAY QUIET BECAUSE OF THE FORCES

[01:30] OF THE ELITE, BECAUSE OF BIG

[01:32] TECH, BECAUSE OF BIG GOVERNMENT,

[01:34] BEING POTENTIALLY USED AGAINST

[01:36] THEM.

[01:36] THEY ESSENTIALLY ARE SCHEDULED

[01:37] INTO SILENCE BECAUSE THEY DON'T

[01:39] WANT TO BE AT THE END OF THAT

[01:43] SPEAR.

[01:43] >> AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO

[01:44] IMPORTANT FOR US TO STAND UP TO

[01:46] SPEAK OUT, TO FIGHT BACK, TO

[01:48] TAKE A STAND FOR OUR FREEDOM.

[01:51] THE KIND OF ACTION THAT WE'RE

[01:52] SEEING FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL

[01:53] GARLAND, IT MAKES OUR COUNTRY

[01:55] LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE WE ARE

[01:57] MOVING TO A POLICE STATE RATHER

[01:59] THAN BEING THE LAND OF THE FREE

[02:03] AND SO NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO

[02:05] ALLOW THEM TO INTIMIDATE US INTO

[02:07] SILENCE.

[02:07] NOW IS THE TIME THAT WE, THE

[02:08] AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST TAKE THIS

[02:09] STAND FOR EACH OTHER, FOR OUR

[02:11] CIVIL LIBERTIES, FOR OUR

[02:12] FREEDOMS, BECAUSE,

[02:14] UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE WHO ARE IN

[02:15] POWER, THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO

[02:16] BE LEADING OUR COUNTRY, RATHER

[02:18] THAN UPHOLDING OUR CIVIL

[02:19] LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS, THESE

[02:20] KINDS OF ACTIONS ARE VIOLATING

[02:22] AND INFRINGING UPON THEM.

[02:24] >> Ben: I KNOW THAT YOU IN

[02:25] CONGRESS WERE ONE OF THE MAJOR

[02:27] VOICES PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE

[02:28] ASSUMPTION THAT WE SHOULD JUST

[02:30] TAKE FOR GRANTED INTELLIGENCE,

[02:35] SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

[02:35] COMMUNITIES THAT THEY JUST

[02:37] PLACES THAT WE SHOULD TRUST

[02:40] AUTOMATICALLY.

[02:41] YOU WANT TO SEE THEM HAVE MORE

[02:42] OVERSIGHT AND MORE TRANSPARENCY

[02:43] BECAUSE YOU FELT THAT WE NEEDED

[02:44] TO BE MORE SKEPTICAL.

[02:46] THAT'S NOT BEEN SOMETHING THAT I

[02:48] THINK TRADITIONALLY A LOT OF

[02:50] REPUBLICANS LISTEN TO.

[02:50] BUT A LOT MORE OF THEM ARE

[02:52] LISTENING TO IT NOW.

[02:52] WHAT ARE SOME OF THE STEPS THAT

[02:54] WE CAN TAKE TO HAVE MORE

[02:55] CONFIDENCE THAT WE WON'T SEE A

[02:57] SITUATION WHERE THINGS LIKE THE

[02:59] DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ARE BEING

[03:00] TURNED AGAINST OUR OWN LAW

[03:03] ABIDING CITIZENS?

[03:04] >> WELL, WHEN YOU HEAR SO EASILY

[03:07] IN THIS SPECIFIC EXAMPLE THE

[03:09] COUNTER-TERRORISM DIVISION OF

[03:10] OUR GOVERNMENT, THE NATIONAL

[03:12] SECURITY BRANCH BEING INVOKED TO

[03:15] TARGET EVERYDAY AMERICANS, TO

[03:17] TARGET THESE PARENTS WHO,

[03:18] BECAUSE THEY CARE SO MUCH FOR

[03:20] THEIR CHILDREN, ARE GOING AND

[03:21] SPEAKING OUT AT THESE BOARD OF

[03:23] EDUCATION MEETINGS, WHEN YOU SEE

[03:25] THIS HAPPENING, IT SHOULD BE A

[03:28] RED FLAG BEING WAIVED TO EVERY

[03:30] SINGLE PERSON ABOUT THE DANGER

[03:32] OF THESE PROVISIONS THAT WERE

[03:34] PASSED IN THE PATRIOT ACT AFTER

[03:36] 9/11 TO SPECIFICALLY GO AFTER

[03:38] AL-QAEDA THE JIHADIST TERRORISTS

[03:40] WHO ATTACKED US ON THAT DAY NOW

[03:42] BEING REDIRECTED TOWARDS OUR

[03:45] NEIGHBORS, OUR FRIENDS, THOSE IN

[03:46] OUR COMMUNITY, OUR FELLOW

[03:48] AMERICANS.

[03:48] SO WE CAN ONLY PUT A STOP TO

[03:53] THIS LAWMAKERS ACCOUNTABLE SO

[03:55] THAT THESE POLICY CHANGES ARE

[03:56] MADE SO THAT THESE PROVISIONS IN

[03:58] THE PATRIOT ACT ARE REVOKED.

[03:59] THIS IS WHAT I WAS WORKING ON IN

[04:01] CONGRESS AND WE ARE SEEING NOW

[04:05] SO IMP