S15 EP45: Hour 2 - Terror in New York

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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two. Hello, America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the United States. The phone number is 877-9737-425.

If you wish to be on the program today, I would be happy to have you. Those of you on the line.

Be patient. I will get to you. There's a lot to cover. You should know that the Iranians are now

sending out footage of the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York,

claiming that they have hit Benjamin Netanyahu's apartment complex in Tel Aviv. That's how

things are going for the Iranians right now. Not good. Now, I got a pivot to what happened

in New York City over the weekend. There was a terror attack in New York this weekend.

A Islamist inspired by ISIS through an IED. Okay. Y'all listen, I need to apologize in advance

because I occasionally say Iraq when I mean Iran and I am deathly, deeply afraid of saying IUD

instead of IED. I'm sorry. Sorry. Just if I mess up, show me some grace, please.

There was a protest this weekend in New York City over the Islamification of New York and the

growing number of mosques in New York that blare out the call to prayer. I assume y'all know

what the call to prayer is. Five times a day Muslims are commanded to face Mecca and pray.

And you hear it. I grew up with it. It doesn't bother me. It bothers a lot of people around here.

I grew up with it overseas. I heard it all the time. In fact, even on the newscast at night on

the TV channels, they would pause television at night and they arranged television around the

times of prayer. So your TV show would end and they would show a picture of a mosque and you would

hear the call to prayer and Muslims who were watching. We know it was time for them to pray.

Christians could use some prayer discipline. Nonetheless, there's a protest in New York City over

the call to prayer and the Islamification of New York. And at that protest, counter protesters

showed up good progressive whites of New York, showed up to show that they are tolerant. And along

with them, a couple of Islamic radicals who are American citizens from Pennsylvania showed up

and through an improvised explosive device with a fuse at the protesters hoping to kill them.

In fact, there is some remarkable footage. Now, you can't see this, but what I want to describe

to you in this footage is that there's a protester who is on his bullhorn. His name is Walter

Masterson and he is saying that all people are welcome in New York and as he's yelling on a

bullhorn that all are welcome in New York, the Islamic radical comes up from behind him running

and throws the IED. We were pulling and raising New York and we want everyone here to stay in New York.

You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone that.

The guy, the Islamic radical yelled al-Awqbar and he threw the improvised explosive device. Now,

what I find kind of funny in Walter Masterson claims to be a comedian. What I find very

funny is that Walter Masterson is today declaring that he stands by what he said that all are welcome

and we should oppose the racism and intolerance of those who don't want the call to prayer in New York

and Walter Masterson would be dead today had that IED exploded the way its makers wanted.

Walter Masterson will go to his grave defending the Islamic radicals. Now, what I also find very notable

is Mayor Mimdani of New York who held a press conference about this Islamic terrorist

attempt in New York City and it was by the way the New York police are treating it as inspired by

ISIS as an act of Islamic terror and this is how the mayor of New York City began the press conference.

On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion where I live with my wife Rama.

Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled

Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city and he

Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me nor is it anything new for the one million or so Muslim

New Yorkers who know this city as our home. While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver

in my belief that it should be allowed to happen. Hours is a free society where the right to peaceful

protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone.

I will defend that right every day that I am mayor even when those protesting say things

that I abhor. Let me also be clear about something else. New York City will never tolerate violence,

whether from protests or counter-protests. Many of the counter-protesters met this display of

bigotry peacefully with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all. Notice

he never actually condemned the Islamic terror. Now what's actually notable is that

there is a lawyer in New York City when Islamists commit acts of terror. He rushes to defend them.

Pro Bono, that guy now works for Memdani and he can't defend these guys.

In Mir Balat is one of the bomb throwers. He told police. He wanted Saturdays attack to be more

deadly than the Boston Marathon bombing. This is actually from the statement put into evidence

in the indictment. In the NYPD vehicle, in route to the NYPD precinct, Balat without being questioned

by the NYPD officers transporting him made the following spontaneous utterances in part and as

captured on the transponding NYPD officer's body, Warren Kamber footage quote, this isn't a religion

that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet. We take action. We take

action. If I didn't do it, someone else will come and do it. After arriving at the precinct and

being advised of and waving his Miranda rights, Balat requested a piece of paper and after giving

a piece of paper and pen, wrote the following, all praises due to all the Lord of all worlds. I

pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage, you cuffar emir bi. Based on my

training and experience, I know that cuffar is an Arabic term that refers to nonbelievers or

infidels and that die in your rage as a slogan used by ISIS and based on a verse of the Quran.

Law enforcement officers later asked Balat if he was familiar with the Boston Marathon bombing,

and if this was what Balat was hoping to accomplish, Balat responded no, even bigger. That was only

three deaths. Based on my training and experience, I know that on our about April 15, 2013, two

individuals planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the

Boston Marathon. Three people were killed. Hundreds injured in the terror attack. This guy wishes to have

more terror attacks. This guy wished to have more dead. This guy claimed that he was inspired by ISIS.

And the mayor of New York's reaction is first to attack the protesters who did not want the

Islamification of New York City, nor the Islamic radicals. The mayor of New York seemed to be

pretty quiet and did not condemn Islamic radicalism in New York. Now, the mayor's wife,

like wise has been exposed, turns out that Zoraan Mandoni's wife, who cosplays as a foreigner,

was on social media on and around October 7, liking social media posts of people defending

the murders of Jews in Israel. Zoraan Mandoni says his wife is a private citizen. No, she played

an active role on his campaign. He listens to her advice. You know what I find interesting,

she's a particular type of progressive. She is born in Houston, Texas on a social media. She claims

she's from Damascus area. Her parents are immigrants to the country. She's not. She's a native

born American citizen and cosplays as a Syrian. She does this because it makes her more exotic.

Let's be clear about this. She wants to be exotic. There are a group of progressive whites who are

in decline in the world and they're holding on to race and virtue of race as a way to make

themselves seem superior and more exotic and that's what she's doing. She's a native born American

citizen born in Houston, Texas, who claims to be from Damascus because it makes her more exotic

and that makes her more special and she hates the Jews. She was liking posts, celebrating the

raping of women and the murdering of children in Israel. She's liking those posts. She's liking the

posts about globalizing the intifada and Palestine from river to sea. She's doing that. Now

Zorhan Mandani, her husband did the same thing. After October 7th, he was in the streets cheering

on the Palestinians. The New York Times referred to Mandani's wife liking posts cheering on the

murder of Jews as supporting the Palestinian cause, which apparently is murdering Jews.

And these people won't condemn the ISIS attack in New York City. By the way, the New York Times

tried to claim that the man threw a device filled with metal and pieces, metal fragments.

It was actually loaded with nails and razor blades if I remember that, right, nails for sure

or maybe nuts and bolts and other things designed to kill and maim individuals should have

exploded, had a fuse. The New York Times originally attempted to play down what was thrown and then

when there was outrage changed the headline to improvise explosive device. None of these progressives

really care about this. So, you know, by the way, that reminds me. I interviewed my friend Michael

Yusuf a couple of weeks ago. He's got a book coming out. And it is a book on how the progressive

secular atheist left is aligned with Islamic radicalism. It's called an unholy alliance.

In fact, let me hang on a second. Let me do this for you. This is a book. So this is a very, very

easy book to read. And I did an interview with him. They asked me if I would please read the book.

I was like, oh my gosh, read a book. Really? There's so many words. I'm just tired of reading books

these days, folks. I got to read news articles all the time. I got to read magazine articles all

the time. The last thing I want to do is read a book. Really? You want me to read a book?

And I was like, okay, it's not a bad book. It's not a long book. I'll read the book.

And I got intrigued by the book. And it really does break down how the left in this country,

the secular left is allied with the Islamic radicals and are allowing the takeover in this country

in certain segments of the country of the Islamic radicalism, which will then once it's dominant

silence left. If you text the word engage, I'll send you a link to Michael Yusuf's book, Unholy

Alliance. A text the word engage to 3, 3, 7, 7, 7, 7. The book is called Unholy Alliance. It's

by Michael Yusuf. And it really breaks down how secular progressivism is bringing about an Islamic

invasion in the United States through the Muslim Brotherhood, which tries to mainstream itself as

some secular group that advances the interests of the Middle East, when actually it's a far, far,

far deeper sinister organization. There's a red-green alliance happening right now between

Muslims and the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, one of the things that I appreciate about Michael

Yusuf is that he distinguishes between the Mecca and Medina Muslims. Now, that's a phrase that

comes from a philosopher that essentially there are a lot of Muslims of this country who are

peace-loving, who just want to worship their faith. And they are Mecca Muslims. When Muhammad

left Mecca and went to Medina, his philosophy got more aggressive about conquest, subversion, and

subjugation of non-believers. And so the Muslims who want conquest, who want to silence you,

who want to subject you to abuse, this philosopher is called the Medina Muslims. Because if you read

the Quran, Muhammad's philosophy changes over time. And what philosopher says, you got to read the

prior statements by the future statements, the statements that he made after he went to Medina.

And Michael Yusuf explains all this, that there are Muslims in this country who you can have

as friends who aren't going to try to kill you, force your conversion, subject you to abuse,

or anything like that. But then there are also those like the Muslim Brotherhood that believe

they should move into a country, pretend to be friends, and once they're dominant, silence you.

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I don't holy alliance how progressive is it brought about in Islamist invasion? We're seen

that in New York City, where as we now have a Muslim mayor of New York City, he is working over

time to condemn the white people of New York City and give it a complete pass to the Islamic radicals

who literally tried to engage in a terrorist attack over the weekend, and he can't bring himself

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The government is partially shut down still. The Department of Homeland Security

is shut down. In New Orleans, Louisiana today, the wait time to get through TSA is over three hours.

That is an absurd amount of time for that particular airport, Louis Armstrong Airport.

It is increasing around the country as people simply are not showing up. I am looking

in Atlanta, Georgia right now, where it is 29 minutes in north terminal to get through,

and only 17 minutes in the main terminal, five minutes if you go through the international

terminal, and five minutes through precheck checkouts, which is Atlanta is a well-oiled machine.

But a lot of airports around the country, it is becoming extremely, extremely difficult to get

through airports because the transportation, the safety administration, they're not getting paid.

And employees are not showing up for work. And lines are building, and the Democrats refuse

at a time of war to reopen TSA. And remember, it's the Coast Guard and FEMA as well that are not

being funded. And they're doing it to hold hostage the funding for ICE and Border Patrol, which

are already funded through the end of 2028. This is Tim Cain, the Senator from Virginia,

talking about the government shutdown on face to nation.

Completely agree. Let's fund all these agencies that don't have funds right now. And let's

confine the ICE and CBP discussion to what are the reforms necessary? Well, we've offered this

on the floor, and the Republicans had thus far rejected. They said you got to fund everything

or nothing. And we said we've agreed on all the other agencies. Let's do that. But ICE and CBP

need reforms. We've made that very, very plain. And American citizens want their to be reforms.

And so that is to focus right now. And they do have enough money because the Republicans

provide it to them last summer and the reconciliation bill. Well, exactly. But he's doing a three-card

Monty. He's shuffling the deck to it so that you don't pay attention. Yes, the Republicans have

funded it. But what he wants to now do is say, we will fund the rest of Homeland Security and pull

back the funding from ICE and Border Patrol in order to reform them. So Republicans are saying

no deal, no dice. That's not going to happen. It is absurd to me that we're here. And by the way,

the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as well needs to be filled up. We can't release the Strategic

Petroleum Reserve. That's what Chuck Schumer is asking is the president to release oil from

the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But Chuck Schumer is the one who bragged about blocking Donald

in 2020 from being able to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Why is the Strategic Petroleum

Reserve mostly empty? Democrats don't want to talk about it. They want to blame Donald Trump

for it being mostly empty. They don't want to talk about why it's mostly empty.

It's mostly empty because Joe Biden in order to help Kamala Harris in 2024 release the Strategic

Petroleum Reserve so that oil prices would go down, so that grocery prices would go down,

because energy prices would go down. And it was a political action. There was no emergency and Joe Biden

did it anyway. And Democrats don't want to talk about why it's empty. They blocked Donald Trump

from refilling it. And then they blessed Joe Biden completely empty in it. And now they're like,

we don't have any Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is crucial to our national infrastructure.

Donald Trump has made his phone roll. No, you Democrats did it. And now you don't want to fund

Homeland Security either. I'm beginning to wonder if Homeland Security is actually necessary.

If we can go this long without it being funded, why do we need it? We've got a security theater

at the airports. Let's be real honest here. Do you really think putting your liquids and jels

in the Ziploc bag is really doing anything at this point? In fact, most airports now have security

machines that can detect any compromise products, taking your shoes off and your belt off,

taking your laptop out. Do you really think, because when I go through pre-check, because I got

pre-check, I don't have to take my belt off. I don't have to take my shoes off. I don't have to

take my laptop out of my bag. What does taking your laptop out of your bag really mean? They still

check it occasionally. I get stopped because I travel with an enormous amount of equipment in my

bag. I got wires. I try to keep everything bundled up and separated, but I got my iPad and I've

got my laptop typically when I travel. And inevitably, I'll go through security at some airports and

they make me take out the laptop and the iPad because they can't see both of them together

without complicating things. Does it really make you can tell there are an explosives?

And then they want you to leave them turned on so they can open them and see that they're

real. So much of it is security theater. I have a friend of mine who went through an airport that

will rename nameless, but might be named after two dead mayors and got his gun through.

Only afterwards did he realize it and it was a very awkward conversation,

but he realized it after he got through that they had missed it and he went and reported on

himself. And because he reported on himself, it was an accident, nothing happened. Thankfully,

but I got another friend who went through and had a bullet in his carry on bag. He had been

shooting that weekend had a bullet in his carry on bag and he got in trouble for having the bullet

in his carry on bag. My favorite one though is I got a guy I'm friends with here in town who went

to went through the Atlanta airport. Maybe I shouldn't say this because they'll change these,

but it's too funny. He went through the Atlanta airport got in line and realized he had his knife

with him. So in the Atlanta airport, there's a there's a there's a a stereo surrounded by restaurants,

big courtyard area. They got trees and stuff. So he went to that area where the big pot and plant

trees are and he dug a hole in the dirt in one of the pots buried his knife because it was a

family heirloom knife buried it went on a strip came back went back to the pot and plant and dug his

knife back home. I just was a lot of the security theater, but if something bad happens, you kind of

wanted in right now, whether you like it or not, you kind of need it. And the result, of course,

is that the Democrats don't want to fund it. The Democrats have shut down the Department of

Homeland Security and let's recall the history. The Department of Homeland Security was started

after 9-11 because there was a belief that the disjointedness of coordination with the federal

government could be resolved by creating a massive bureaucracy. They put Tom Ridge, God rest

to soul and in charge of Homeland Security at the time. And it was designed to coordinate

responses for terror among other things. Remember back in the day, you had the color coded days,

we'd have the yellow days, the orange days, the red days, we had to be on high alert. We now know,

again, I'm going to play you this again. This is the shortwave radio messaging after the

Ayatollah was assassinated. That is Farsi language. It is the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Corps broadcasting out to sleeper selves around the world, waking them up.

The Israelis are now confirming that's what that was. Was the Farsi language numerical code

waking up the sleeper selves around the world. They have not, thank God, yet taken action,

and hopefully they are too impotent to do so. But remember, under the Biden administration,

a massive number of people came across the border in the United States who are unaccounted for.

We know they came across, so we don't know who they are. We just know they got away.

And the Democrats aren't funding Homeland Security to go find those people.

Thankfully, border patrol and ICE are funded, but the entire intelligence network of the United

States needs to be deployed and it's not being deployed. And the Democrats are dancing around

what's going on here. This is the President of the United States aboard Air Force One this

weekend. They cut babies heads off. They chopped women in half when they did. Take a look at

October 7th. Take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years. So I know nothing about

a desalination plan other than to say if they're complaining about a desalination plan,

we can plan about the fact that they shouldn't be chopping babies heads off, okay?

They are a brutal monstrous regime. They are a brutal monstrous regime. And yet you got

Chris Murphy, who's one of the big apologists for the Iranian regime on television this week.

And claiming we need a diplomatic solution here. This guy is deeply, deeply malevolent.

Former colleague Senator, now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he would say what he,

where he here, there is a difference between Iran having a nuclear weapon and all the other

regimes you're referring to that you oppose their leaders. I imagine you're talking about China

and Russia in that the Mullahs in Iran, this is, again, Rubio's characterization, are madmen

and they believe in holy war and they believe in killing the crusaders of the United States and the

Jews of Israel and that there is a special degree of unacceptable ability for them having a nuclear

weapon. So yeah, I don't disagree, but what I disagree with is that an aerial military campaign

or even the insertion of ground forces can permanently dislodge Iran from having a nuclear

weapon. Again, you were talking about knowledge that can't be bombed out of existence. So how do you

stop and a diplomatic agreement? We had a diplomatic agreement. Barack Obama negotiated agreement

in which Iran was more than a year away from getting a weapon. We had daily inspections scouring

the country. It was working. Donald Trump's advisors told him it was working. He threw that agreement

into the trash, which precipitated the crisis that we are in today. This was, this is a place

where diplomacy probably is the only true path to make sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.

It's not that Chris Murphy is naive. It's that he hates the country.

Chris Murphy wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. He says he doesn't. He'll never publicly admit it,

but Chris Murphy has always been on the side of the opponents of the United States and he's always

wanted the United States weaker. He's one of those progressive who believes the world would be

safer if we were weaker. A lot of these progressives in this country, they want Iran to have nuclear

weapons because they don't believe they'll really use them. They just believe that we cannot

believe them if they have nuclear weapons and they think we're the bully. They don't understand

that the Iranian theocracy is premised on bringing about the apocalypse and that Iran is the one

country on planet earth that would use nuclear weapons because the entire existence of the Iranian

regime is to bring about the destruction of Israel and the United States and they may not be able to

make a nuclear missile, but they could make dirty bombs with access to uranium to be able to wipe out

Israel, a rinderate radioactive to rinder New York City radioactive. It's what they want.

They say they want it. I told you the story of the Spanish Prime Minister who asked the

Ayatollah Khameini what he woke up in the morning thinking about it. He said the destruction of

Israel. The Ayatollah when asked why he was pursuing nuclear weapons said because Israel is a

one bomb nation. This is Steve Whitkoff, a board Air Force one talking about the negotiations with

the Iranians. They react about having 60% enriched fuel enough for 11 bombs. They told me in

Jared we're not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn't take militarily so you know

I think they're going to need a change of attitude. We're not going to give you diplomatically what

you could not take militarily and Chris Murphy is still out there saying oh we need a diplomatic

solution. We need a diplomatic solution. Well we need a diplomatic solution with a new regime.

This is Reza Polavi on Fox News with Laura Trump. So Prince Polavi when and if a government transition

begins do you believe that those who do accept that immunity or others may try to stand in the way

of progress? Let me stress the importance of why we say and I say that except for those people

who have been criminally implicated with this regime and have the blood of the Iranian people on

their hand. There are many elements within the military police forces security forces as well

as a civil bureaucracy that can survive regime change and be part of the solution. That's the

quickest way to ensure a stable transition. They have to be part of the solution as opposed to

remain part of the problem. As a matter of fact my own messaging both to the military or security

forces as well as a civil bureaucracy is the fact that they can see a future for themselves.

We're not talking about debatification like in Iraq. We're talking about a totally different

scenario of change. I think this is something that should be acceptable to the American administration

and I think this is most importantly what is acceptable to the people of Iran.

I think our Iranian elements inside will only trust a scenario whereby they are not only

guaranteed that their survival provided that they're not criminally implicated but will be part

of the solution and they will accept that as a true scenario of reconciliation, national

unity and I think that goes hand in glove with if that's the end game that we are looking for

whether it is from our prison or the prison we have right now under President Trump's administration.

There's a plan in place by all of the rival groups to build a new government in Iran.

Chris Murphy of Connecticut and his colleagues on the Democratic Party side would rather

use diplomatic relations with the existing terror regime there than actually stand up for the people

of Iran. And they won't even stand up for the American people by opening the Department of

Homeland Security to keep us safe domestically at a time we're dealing with a terror regime like

Iran. I mentioned earlier there's polling out. The only thing Americans hate more than AI

in this country is Iran and the Democratic Party. Is it any wonder why the American people hate

the Democratic Party? And by the way, that's NBC news is pulling. It's not Fox news is pulling.

NBC news shows that Iran and the Democratic Party are the two things this country hates the most.

They hate the more than Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, JD Vance or even artificial intelligence.

Welcome back. It is Eric Erickson here.

You know, I need to talk about the dignified transfer that happened at Dover Force Base. A lot of

people are attacking Donald Trump for not taking his cap off. And there are also people attacking

Donald Trump for not bowing his head as the dead soldiers from the Middle East were taken off the

plane. The president probably should have taken his cap off as a sign of respect, but he's an 80-year-old

who doesn't like people to see his disheveled head. But the reason the president did not bow his

head is because he was saluting. And people are showing pictures of Donald Trump from behind

with others there, Melania Trump and others bowing their head and the president not. And that's

because the president was saluting. If you saw the picture from the front, he was saluting as the

commander in chief to the bodies. What I also find very, very notable is that the people who are

the loudest attacking Donald Trump for not taking his cap off and not bowing his head are the very

same people who defended Joe Biden for checking his watch repeatedly at a previous dignified transfer.

Joe Biden checked his watch repeatedly during that time and many of the Democrats attacking Donald

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