Tucker looks at several incidents of people who were punished for defending themselves. Highlights include:
“Jose Alba came to the United States 30 years ago to work, and working is exactly what he was doing at the bodega in Harlem at almost midnight on Friday, selling chips to people who don’t bother to work, holding up the retail economy for minimum wage.”
“A healthy society celebrates, venerates men like Jose Alba, men with jobs and families, men with independence and dignity. And above all a healthy society affirms the right of men like this to self defense. Self defense is the cornerstone of all liberty; if you can’t defend your own life and property, you have no rights at all.”
“That was obvious in America, for centuries this was a country whose leaders encouraged decent behavior, who held up the common man as a hero. But that has changed. Jose Alba wasn’t lauded for his bravery or his resourcefulness, he wasn’t congratulated for defending himself in the face of a violent felon much younger than him.”
“Alba was arrested at the scene, and he was sent to jail.”
“If the criminal who assaults you is a member of a favored group, you don’t have the right to fight back. You may not defend yourself. You must take whatever he gives you, because thugs have more rights than you do, you being the person dumb enough to be working at almost midnight in a bodega in Harlem on a Friday.”
“That’s the message. The tech companies, as always, joined with government as a unified force to send this message.”
“GoFundMe deleted Jose Alba’s fundraising page from the internet. Contrast this with how the left’s militia are treated. Now, GoFundMe explained, ‘we don’t allow fundraising for anyone who’s been charged with a violent crime,’ really? Well, that’s just a lie, and provably so. BLM rioters were encouraged to raise money or bail and their legal defense. They can have lawyers, but not bodega clerks. They are powerless, and they must remain so.”
“Virtually every power center in the United States agrees that self defense is no longer allowed. You can no longer fight back. And if you don’t believe it, remember how the media covered the Rittenhouse trial. Here was a man exercising his lawful, his fundamental right of self defense, but he was charged with murder, and corporate media backed the prosecutors.”
“’You lose the right to self defense when you’re the one who brought the gun.’ Now, legally, that is nonsense, that’s insane. There’s no reference whatsoever in American law for that statement, but the law is not the point. They don’t need the law. They now have the unilateral authority to destroy your business, ruin your reputation, throw you in prison, prevent your family from hiring a lawyer to defend you or get you out of jail.”
“The people who are favored by the regime can do whatever they want, you can do nothing to protect your life, your family, your property. Burglars broke into the Arlington Smoke Shop in March of 2020, middle of the night. A store employee who was sleeping in the store because there were so many break-ins, shot at the robbers, as is his right, in fact his duty, and he should be applauded for that. But no, he was prosecuted.”
“At this very moment, the Biden administration is letting in millions, literally millions of illegal aliens, foreign nationals whose identities we can’t actually know because, ‘they work hard, the American dream, the statue of liberty, give us your tired huddled masses, etc etc, okay.'”
“But then when those immigrants come here and work in a bodega in Harlem or a smoke shop in Arlington and they’re faced with violent crime, this same party, the democratic party, punishes them for defending themselves. Whose side are they on exactly?”
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