Gavin de Becker

We leave 300,000 troops in Germany, 300,000 troops in Japan, hundreds of thousands of troops in South Korea.

Why don't we bring these people home?

If the war is over, the war is over.

But that's not how empire works.

And so the U.S.

tends to continue these wars in Japan.

The versions I just described to you, which is more secret versions.

And it's it's dark, man.

I mean, if somebody and maybe somebody has.

But if somebody came into America and did a bunch of terrorist incidents in America that killed a lot of Americans.

oh, geez, let's reflect on whether that's ever happened.

But anyway, if that happened, we'd be stressed.

And rightfully, we'd have a lot to complain about.

But it goes on.

And it's kind of my theme for today is sharing these things that are all available on Wikipedia.

I'm not making them up.

They're all real.

And I looked at them from the point of view of a criminologist where I really lay out

The evidence and my purpose, my reason for doing this today with you, also in a book, my reason is that I really want to encourage Americans to be skeptical because if you don't have skepticism, the government runs us.

We don't run the government.