Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Because you'd actually look at the polling on what D.C.
residents want.
It's none of what they're getting.
It's if you actually like the Washington Post did a big poll about this.
If you'd like to fact check this and people are not happy with the federal intervention.
So the question is, what do the people of Charlotte think about their crime situation and what kind of interventions do they want to do that?
And I leave that to the people of Charlotte to answer.
I cannot speak for them.
And again, maybe we need to do a better job of asking them.
And maybe you'll get an answer that says they want to invite some other greater degree of law enforcement into their lives.
But to me, it seems like a great way to solve a problem is to ask the people who live there, how can we help you and to see what kind of answers they give.
I've been probably outspoken on that all my life.
My name is as ordinary Anglo-Saxon as it comes, right?
Like of clear European descent, which of course I am.
But my mom was an Armenian Christian born in Syria who was raised in Lebanon and in particular Beirut.
She grew up in Beirut.
She grew up in Beirut at the time it was, you know, more widely considered to be the Paris of the Middle East.
And that has always kind of shaped my perception because, you know, what her impressions were of what State of Israel did and what it was.
This is obviously long, long, long before October 7th, you know, decades, obviously.
preceding that preceding even the intifada the first intifada um so yes i have always felt that palestinian advocacy has been missing in mainstream media in american culture i don't think i've seen anything in my life as challenging as the last two years relative to that it's funny you mentioned that we started this conversation talking about have i ever been like afraid to speak out about um political issues here's let me let me connect the dots for you a little bit
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