Robert Held
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Some of those that I'm familiar with and that you may be familiar with is, you know, the one that prevented the National Guard.
But you're talking about specifically where they're using these violent tactics and that we've got a couple of those in Chicago.
We have what I call the journalist lawsuit pending before Judge Sarah Ellis.
um she issued a preliminary injunction but the court of appeals stayed her preliminary injunction um that suit has not yet been dismissed but now we have the suit
from two days ago by the state of Illinois, which has the same allegations.
These same allegations are repeated over and over.
You've seen them in the videos.
Many of us have experienced these tactics personally in a very visceral and dangerous way.
But even if you haven't experienced it, you can see the videos and you see what these people are doing.
And there are individuals and now the state of Illinois, the attorney general is trying to hold them to account for their weapons, their tactics and the intimidation and the trauma that they are imposing on our communities.
I told you and I believe that our home is our castle.
And if an individual, I don't care who he is.
I don't care what uniform he puts on or how big a gun he's carrying.
If someone breaks into my home, I have the right to defend my home, even with lethal force.
Go on.
So don't open your door, you shouldn't let strangers into your home, and certainly masks individuals with weapons, faces covered, refuse to produce a warrant, don't have any identification on them, do not let them into your home.
Now what's going on in the streets?
I think we're getting to the point, Don, where more than civil disobedience is required.
I know there are individuals who are maybe younger than I am that are even more risk takers than I myself am.
But there may be a time to