You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio act or wherever you get your podcasts. What has to be done for defenseless young women in America to be safe on our streets, to be safe on our mass transportation in cities. Well, IRENA's Law maybe a start. Before I get to IRENA's Law. The reason I'm thinking about this is that law, of course, but also this violent assault against this NYU student, Amelia Lewis.
She was walking down This is New York City. She was walking down Broadway in New York. This is one of the busiest streets in the world, one of the most famous streets in the world, one of the busiest streets in the world. Nine thirty am on a Monday when, and it's all on videos you can see it. Some maniac comes up. It's a white guy, long hair and beard, comes up behind her, whacks her from behind, like kind of on the on the butt as hard but as hard as he can, and then grabs her by the
hair and pulls her to the ground. This is in broad daylight. People everywhere, and no one does anything. You know, there's there's a few things going. And first of all, why does this hit home so much? Well, because it turns out, does anyone again? Does anyone a guess? Is this the first time? Was this guy just having a bad day? Is this the first time that this lunatic attacking woman? Now he's wanted on multiple previous assaults of
women things just like this. And I'm sure we could get some ACLU attorney that tells us, Oh, but he's really good at, you know, finger painting, and we shouldn't lock him up. He's got a bright future if only we understood him better or whatever. But this is a guy who who does not deserve to be walking freely in society. And it's cruelty to victims. It's cruelty to young women like this, this slender NYU female co ed
who's walking down the streets. It's cruelty to them to subject them to this kind of risk because the state makes it. The state made a decision New York City in this case, big s state or little less state depends. But New York City made a decision here that they were going to let this individual roam the streets because he had had multiple contacts with law enforcement. He was wanted on other things, but they kept letting him out.
You let him out, you let them out. And you know, I understand in this case, the girl is she's really shaken up. I mean, she put out a video on social media about.
This right before it all happened. So I circled where I'm walking. I just crossed the street and I'm walking down the right side of Broadway, and then you can see that he literally followed me across the street and that's him right there, and he literally targets me and approaches me and does this.
She's very shaken up. She's upset, understandably, and people might say, well, you know she's okay, no serious injury. Yeah, but you know this guy, let's say he pulled her, she fell and hit her head and went slipped into a coma and died. That kind of thing has happened. Even something as straightforward as shoving, somebody can believe it or not, can kill someone because they can fall back, hit their head, hemorrhage,
and they can die. That happens. And so what you see is we have a society now, we have an America where, because of leftist ideology, when it comes to criminal justice, let's be clear. This guy in this case. Often this is there's a racial element to this. Insofar as Democrats are uncomfortable with how many black people in America per capita are in prison for violent crimes, that's there. They think that there must be something wrong with the system. The other side of the argument is it is what
it is. You break the law, you hurt people, you go to prison, and you know if they are far fewer Amish than African Americans in prison per capita per capita, very important. That's just the way it is. We have to have law, we have to have order, we have to have people protected from violent crime on the streets. But in this case, it's a white guy who did it. And I'm making the same argument because he was arrested multiple times, because it's actually not about race at all.
The race is irrelevant. Race should be irrelevant to the prosecution of criminal justice cases. It's do you break the law? Are you a threat to public safety? Are you a repeat offender? Are you at danger to others? You look at that and if the answers are yes, you go away to a cell. It is very kind of us
as a society. There are other places and other times in not distant path and not the distant past, America among them, but other countries as well, where you did something like this and they just let mean, they just execute you. Now, we give people health care and food and a safe you know, and warm place to sleep and live, but we get them out of the general population because they're a risk to people in the general population.
And this is where we just have to have an end to this madness, which will bring me to IRENA's law here in a second. But our sponsor is Paradigm Press. Look, I think that we are entering at once in a century opportunity for mainStreet investors. This AI stuff is real. The world is changing very quickly, and politics and markets have this effect on each other that you have to
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it went into effect today in North Carolina. And now remember Irena was and we you know, you have this video of it, which I think that one of the big changes. As you know, I've been popularizing this for a while, this idea that body cameras ended BLM. Essentially that the BLM movement now they said, oh, we need more body cameras on more cops. We can see all the racism and all the excessive force. And a lot of people say some of these cops should use more force.
Some of these cops are too slow to draw their weapon actually, and I understand why they don't want to get sued. They don't want to go to prison. But body cams have changed the whole game. Surveillance cameras as well, just in public places, show us the kinds of things that are happening in this country far too often, and who the perpetrators are, and so we're very aware of
the reality. People can say what they want about it, but because of surveillance cameras which are omnipresent now in public places, we are very aware of what's going on, and that's why you have And it also makes it visceral, makes it more real, makes it more honestly traumatic for us because we can see this stuff now. And we saw the stabbing of Irena and how vicious it was, how I mean, unprovoked is not even the right word
for it. It's completely out of nowhere. Scirl was doing it, had nothing to do with this guy, didn't even know he was there. He just came up and just stabbed her in the neck and she bled out there, and for the first few minutes, no one did anything to help her, no one even moved. She was white, everybody around her was black. No one did a thing to help her. We all saw it on the video. I'm just describing. I'm describing what we saw on the video.
It is a description. And if descriptions of reality make people uncomfortable. That's too bad, because we choose to live not by lies. We choose to live in reality. And that also means that we have to be realistic about criminal justice laws and the way that they're applied. This's why IRENA's law is a step in the right direction. It eliminates cashless bail for a whole range of offenses
and violent offenses. There are certain now conditions for any pre trial release, including GPS monitoring, and it's a step in the right direction. Let's just see what the let's to see how this is actually implemented. But if you really hurt somebody without justification, meaning you know, you're not justified in self defense or something. If you walk up to a woman on the street and punch her in the face and break her nose because you're a maniac, you should sit in a cell until a judge decides
that you should go to prison for years. That's the truth. That's the country we need to live in. I was in Taiwan, as you know, in September and experienced effectively a zero crime society. Essentially, there's some crime, but it's so little that it can be safely and truly ignored. We don't have to live this way. We don't have to have maniacs attacking women in the streets, stabbing them on the on light rail in North Carolina. We don't
have to live this way. We just have to have the resolve to enforce laws and to have strong enough laws and strong enough prosecution that these individuals are removed from being the public safety threats that they are. I mean, already you have some just some nonsense from some of the sheriffs. Remember some I want to North Carolina. I bet sheriffs are elected. I got to check and see how it is in different states or different counties. But you got some sheriffs saying, well, now because of all
the iceed attentions, now we have to hold people. We can't do the iceed attentions, so we're overcrowded and all this stuff. This is one of the complaints they have about this. And I just say, okay, you know, if you're gonna hold rapists and murderers and people that are guilty of violent felony assaults longer, we'll figure out the other part about ice, we'll get that going too. Just hold them, okay, keep them from harming people. Do your job.
That would be a really nice, a really nice change. Yeah, you had some sheriff heres ending in agreement with ICE citing resource constraints. You know, it's just remarkable how instead of wanting to be the solution, people just always want to perpetuate the problem. They want to make things worse somehow. There's a lot of reasons for it. It's kind of just a loser mentality thing. But anyway, what's going on
in North Carolina with IRENA's law. This needs to be the case in every American state, in every American county and city, where if you're a violent offender, there's no It's also the other thing to people, Oh what about people who are innocent? You know, the last time somebody was executed in North Carolina was two thousand and six, been almost twenty years since anybody, anybody was executed North Carolina. There was Oh, but what about people that are going
to prison who are innocent. We try to operate at the highest levels of truth and accuracy and honesty in the criminal justice system, but if perfection is going to be the only acceptable outcome, we don't have a criminal justice system. We have a fantasy that we're living in or that we want to live in. It's never going to happen. So just like if you've got to fight a war, you do the best you can. You don't kill civilians on purpose. But it's not going to be perfect.
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