Daniel Haqiqatjou

Oh, right.

Yeah, he definitely faced the brunt of a lot of these restrictions.

And they usually roll out these types of restrictions against people who aren't necessarily the most powerful or the most popular.

So, okay, we can do this against a 19-year-old or 20-year-old.

And

No one's going to really step in to call that out and say, this is government overreach, this is contrary to his civil rights, et cetera, et cetera, because he's irrelevant.

At that time, when they first started doing this, he was not as well known.

They deliberately target people like that because then the policy is in place and you have a legal precedent, and then you can expand it and start targeting other people, but then it's too late to protest that because they've already put the mechanisms in place, the legal mechanisms, the political mechanisms.

Before even like Nick Fuentes or some of the other dissidents that we see today, Muslims were really targeted.

Muslims were targeted after 9-11.

So a lot of these kinds of restrictions that you see on banking, like I've had relatives back 15 years ago, 20 years ago actually, that were debanked.

My own dad, he wasn't debanked, but his money became in a bank.

This is even before 9-11 because I have an Iranian background.

so my dad is from iran i was born in the us but because of his background like his money it was frozen for a while at one of the banks wow and it was very difficult for him to unfreeze that even though like he he wasn't charged with any kind of crime there he you know has been working actually uh in nasa as you know working for the space program

as an engineer but still that's not enough like because of suspicion and you're kind of like a political outsider like this fifth column oh you're muslim iranian because of the whole conflict between the us and iran uh since 1979 his money was was frozen for a period of time

um and others as well like so these kinds of tactics that we see more recently they actually have longer roots like older roots and muslims were the ones targeted because muslims are like a small minority in the u.s maybe one to three percent of the population in the u.s so then they they put a lot of these restrictions targeting muslims first um and then they roll it out to the majority populations as needed

It's growing partly because of birth rate, partly because of immigration.

So there are a lot of Muslims coming in from different parts of the world, a lot of war-torn parts of the world.

But, I mean, this is also a point of conversation.

I don't know how deep we want to get into the immigration issue.