Chris Moritz
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332 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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And it's the notion that there are certain cultural traits and practices that survive the generations and are amalgamated into a new society. And Mexico is a very, I mean, it's a wonderful place in many, many ways. I agree. I love it. But- It is a fusion of indigenous people and Spanish Catholics. And European. Right. And many of those traits survived the Aztec period.
And I will tell you, the level of brutality of the Aztecs is beyond belief. Yes. They killed 200,000 people a year. At least the sacrifice.
Of course, I will tell you the Aztecs, uh, worshiped a lightning and rain God called Tlaloc. And when there were droughts, they would, um, they would sacrifice their children. And they believed that the tears of their children on the, as they walked up the steps of the pyramid to have their hearts ripped out, would be taken by the gods and transformed, transmogrified into rain.
So, the cartels emerge from this kind of amalgamation culture, and they have alters. They have alters of... with human skulls and other kind of icons that are indigenous to Mesoamerica. There's even a cartel icon or idol, I should say, called Santa Muerte, which is, you know, you see on a lot of cartel tattoos and so forth. And, you know, MS-13 is even more demonic.
Although that was born in California, in Los Angeles, by the way. Like it came from Los Angeles, El Salvador and destroyed El Salvador. Exactly.
Exactly. And that's why I feel it's so critical to understand this dynamic. It's not just a historically interesting facet, but the fact is that we have brought in millions, 12 million migrants, many of them coming from this triangle, right, in Central America. And it's really important to understand who are these people, right?
And especially, let's say, the two million gotaways, which is often cited as the pure criminal element amongst the migrant invasion. And because there was all migrants that are looking for economic benefits or whatever, they turn themselves into ICE. And Tom Homan told me this directly. They turn themselves into ICE. And under the Biden administration, ICE has
as Holman put it, has been reduced to, instead of enforcement, changing diapers and making sandwiches. But for those 2 million that evade ICE, they are doing so so that they are not put into the system and they are pure gangsters. And they're coming from cultures that display heads on bridges and skin people alive. and boil people in acid. And this is a part of their sport.
And it is seeping into California.
In so far as that they control ultimately through proxies the entire criminal economy of California. Amazing. Now there's another factor of this.
No, it went somewhere else. They had to find other alternative revenue streams, other verticals. And what was the safest alternative and also highly lucrative? Yeah.
residential burglaries and retail theft so all of the retail theft that you see that we see in in the media of these you know nordstrom's being right yeah by hordes of of thieves that's not just like incidental individual acts of like larceny right That is all organized by gangs.
And the market for the resale, the fencing it's called, in California, maybe just even Los Angeles, is like $10 billion. Nationwide retail thefts are $100 billion. Where is it resold? It's resold through fencers and- eBay. Yeah, eBay. It's like pawn shops, but I think primarily on the internet or to even perhaps other companies. It passes through multiple layers, right?
And so these fencing operations are extremely lucrative. Yeah. Um, so, so there's that angle to it and, uh, it's resulted in the emergence of trends within these kinds of, uh, burglaries, um, called flocking or jugging or knock knock burglaries or follow home burglaries. And basically it, it, it, uh, you know, flocking is a term that refers to, um, uh,
Penetrating a safe neighborhood, blending into that neighborhood, targeting a particular person that they've perhaps, through social media, identified as potentially wealthy, and then going on missions into these neighborhoods. to rob them, tie them up, home invasions, whatever.
But what's quite interesting is that there are some gangs that have become so good at it that they now actually act as consultants to other gangs to teach them how to flock. So what does that look like from the victim's perspective? Well, it could look like getting tied up. It could look like you're not home and you come home and everything's gone.
A knock-knock burglary is just like what it sounds like. Criminals will, you know... knock, knock on a door. If someone's home, maybe they don't proceed with the crime, but sometimes they do. And I can tell you a story that I heard that really, truly shocked me. It took place also in Santa Monica, which is where I'm from.
that there was a case of a single woman in her home in a nice part of Santa Monica, and these two guys, gangsters, attempt to knock knock on her, and they breach the door, and her dogs attack these guys so badly that the altercation moves into the street, and they are wounded by the dogs. She calls the police.
Police show up, and the gangsters claim that their dogs attacked them, and the cops called animal control, and she moved out to Texas after that. That's crazy.
So if I can turn it to like a personal anecdote. Um, about a year ago, uh, my home in Santa Monica, um, which it's an affluent neighborhood, but like my house is for sure the most dilapidated on, on the block. It's been in my family, you know, through my great grandparents, um, my brother and I, uh, live there and own it. And, um, in September of last year, we were subject to, um,
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