Why is justice seemingly selective in our society? We question the glaring disparities in the pursuit of justice, using the high-profile case of the United Health CEO's alleged murderer as our starting point. In this episode of the Rant Network we get into into the uncomfortable truth about why this case has the full attention of the NYPD and FBI, while countless other homicides fade into oblivion. We throw down a challenge, questioning societal priorities and the blatant inequality in law enforcement's approach.
00:00:02.584 --> 00:00:08.394 You know, david and I spoke in the green room for just a few seconds, so be prepared.
00:00:08.394 --> 00:00:16.951 This is going to be a wild ride on Friday, and I always like doing this to David, especially on Fridays, because I know he needs to relax by the weekend.
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00:00:51.950 --> 00:01:12.763 Listen carefully I don't want anyone to think for a second that the justice being served with the alleged murderer of the United Health CEO is a bad thing.
00:01:12.763 --> 00:01:28.275 It's a great thing, and I think AOC getting out there saying this is what happens when you deny claims as a call for universal health care and brings it up.
00:01:28.781 --> 00:01:30.025 I don't recommend violence.
00:01:30.125 --> 00:01:37.932 but now you understand why people are violent and this is the reason why, basically, a call to action for further violence.
00:01:37.932 --> 00:01:41.879 But that's not what this rant's about or where I want to go with it today.
00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.890 I want to drop David in the twilight zone.
00:01:44.890 --> 00:01:49.908 There are 24,000 homicides in the United States of America.
00:01:49.908 --> 00:02:05.194 Why does this white, rich CEO get the entire resources of the New York City's finest and the FBI and not the 24,000 other people?
00:02:05.194 --> 00:02:06.275 You know why.
00:02:06.275 --> 00:02:08.127 It doesn't make any sense.
00:02:08.127 --> 00:02:19.469 If we have the technology and skill and ability to mobilize a country for a manhunt, why is this manhunt more important than any other manhunt?
00:02:19.469 --> 00:02:28.167 It's because he's a white guy who's a CEO of a Fortune 100 company called United Healthcare, or is there something else to this?
00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.710 Now, David, I'm not letting you off so easy either.
00:02:31.710 --> 00:02:33.768 I'm going to continue on and put you in a rabbit hole.
00:02:33.768 --> 00:02:38.170 We all saw what happened with the George Floyds.
00:02:38.170 --> 00:02:44.450 These aren't pleasant experiences that society has to endure.
00:02:44.450 --> 00:03:00.769 These aren't pleasant experiences that society has to endure not the families of the loved ones that end up in the odd position and unfortunate ending, but is the insanity ensuing as a result of it equally as important?
00:03:00.769 --> 00:03:06.391 So, David, I hope you caught these two concepts that I threw right at you.
00:03:06.391 --> 00:03:09.688 It's two fastballs, because I'm going to drop the mic on you now.
00:03:09.688 --> 00:03:10.792 No, you're not going to drop it.
00:03:12.221 --> 00:03:24.734 Here's where I'm really miffed, and I think, stuart, what you have just done is give the entire platform to all those who are angry at society, government, police, you name it.
00:03:24.734 --> 00:03:28.846 I'm going to go through the whole myriad of the basket and, Stuart, I'm going to be very honest with you.
00:03:28.846 --> 00:03:32.591 You know, it's a question of choosing your battle.
00:03:32.591 --> 00:03:37.044 The unfortunate thing is that the police take the.
00:03:37.044 --> 00:03:47.628 You know, according to what I have understood now, I'm going to mess with you right now, because here's something that I have been dealing with, as we've talked about numerous times on this rant network.
00:03:47.628 --> 00:03:57.671 Ok, and that is the fact that I've been dealing with anti-Semitism, stuart, I've been physically assaulted, verbally assaulted, and I've had police standing there.
00:03:57.671 --> 00:04:04.016 Ok, stuart, I was physically assaulted by a police, were standing there and nothing happened, nothing, nothing.
00:04:04.016 --> 00:04:19.096 And if you recall and I don't know if you saw this, actually we ranted about this that a rabbi stood on the street watching pro-terrorist protesters in downtown Montreal.
00:04:19.096 --> 00:04:26.370 He took out his phone, he said nothing more than film them and the police told him to get away because he's going to incite violence.
00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:29.523 You want to know why people are angry at the police.
00:04:29.523 --> 00:04:30.906 It's not the police.
00:04:30.906 --> 00:04:46.446 The police take the marching orders from their bosses, the chief of police, the mayor, and if you look at what happened in New York City, that a CEO gets shot, who do you think is going to freak out more than the mayor of New York?
00:04:46.446 --> 00:04:51.632 Or, for that matter, go even higher, as you said, because the FBI was involved?
00:04:51.632 --> 00:04:58.728 Simply put, stuart, it's really easy Uppity ups are freaking out because top drawer guys are getting killed.
00:04:58.728 --> 00:05:02.290 Now, we don't want that in our society.
00:05:02.290 --> 00:05:17.853 And so when you have that, when you have an attempted assassination on a president, which we've talked about, when you have all this violence, you can only control so much and the profile of this is off the chart.
00:05:17.853 --> 00:05:19.983 So it gets the attention of the police.
00:05:19.983 --> 00:05:26.122 So one thing you did not mention in your preamble is how come they got some?
00:05:26.122 --> 00:05:28.665 How come the police and the FBI and all these resources?
00:05:29.206 --> 00:05:39.108 The question you could have also added on that was why was the media so enthralled with this murder and not any of the other 24,000.
00:05:39.108 --> 00:05:40.947 Because you want to know what, stuart?
00:05:40.947 --> 00:05:47.485 It doesn't resonate, I'm sorry to say, whether you're black or white, or Asian or Jewish or whatever.
00:05:47.485 --> 00:05:51.331 You are black or white, or Asian or Jewish, or whatever you are.
00:05:51.331 --> 00:05:53.394 If there's nothing interesting behind you.
00:05:53.394 --> 00:06:00.081 You're just another statistic.
00:06:00.081 --> 00:06:09.971 The media doesn't care, society doesn't care, the police will look into it, the mayor doesn't care, the governor doesn't care, the FBI doesn't care, but when it becomes high profile, now we care.
00:06:09.971 --> 00:06:13.589 And you know, when you brought up George Floyd, that's exactly what happened.
00:06:13.589 --> 00:06:15.065 Did he get the right justice?
00:06:15.065 --> 00:06:24.310 I'm not getting into that, but notice how high profile it became and therefore now the police had to get involved and the mayor had to go.
00:06:24.310 --> 00:06:26.889 It's a PR stunt, stuart.
00:06:26.889 --> 00:06:33.341 It isn't more than if we're looking for real justice, then every murderer would have been already in jail.
00:06:33.341 --> 00:06:39.824 But that doesn't happen because it doesn't have the same resonance, it doesn't have the same impact on society.
00:06:39.824 --> 00:06:48.367 Please note that everybody wants to blame the police, but the reality is it's society's craving for what's exciting.
00:06:49.007 --> 00:06:53.553 Okay, the murderer of the CEO is a rock rim rocker.
00:06:53.553 --> 00:06:56.185 Yes, this is one of the top.
00:06:56.185 --> 00:06:58.293 You know companies in the United States?
00:06:58.293 --> 00:07:00.444 Yeah, healthcare companies in the United States.
00:07:00.444 --> 00:07:05.389 Yes, this CEO runs a multi-billion dollar corporation.
00:07:05.389 --> 00:07:14.968 No, allegedly the murderer didn't even have a policy with this company and he went out and allegedly shot him, although we have the video to show it.
00:07:14.968 --> 00:07:24.024 So allegedly is a funny word, and all of a sudden, because of the high profile nature of this individual, the world turns upside down to go catch him.
00:07:24.425 --> 00:07:28.949 But in the meantime you see people like you know others that don't get it.
00:07:28.949 --> 00:07:31.583 But you know, go back a little bit in time to JonBenet Ramsey.
00:07:31.583 --> 00:07:32.124 Remember her.
00:07:32.124 --> 00:07:46.891 She was kidnapped and murdered and because she was a little cute girl and she was a you know, she was part of those pageantries and whatever the world society went upside down and all the resources were thrown in or whatever.
00:07:46.891 --> 00:07:53.387 Really For that, no offense to the family, but why is your child more important than anybody else's?
00:07:53.387 --> 00:08:04.007 So there's no wonder the AOCs take political advantage of this and there's no wonder that society's in outrage because how come African-Americans can't get equal building and how come?
00:08:04.007 --> 00:08:05.630 And that's what it is.
00:08:05.630 --> 00:08:16.035 So pointing the fingers at the police is a convenient move, but we need to point the fingers at ourselves in society and say why are we not treating these murders the same way?
00:08:16.035 --> 00:08:19.668 Why does this CEO get more, more notoriety?
00:08:19.668 --> 00:08:22.744 That's our fault and I'm sorry.
00:08:22.744 --> 00:08:24.009 I'm sickened by that.
00:08:24.899 --> 00:08:43.616 You know, and again I saw it, yeah, when I saw this all come down, and I think that the political weight that went to the police department is why this became national news.
00:08:43.616 --> 00:08:48.557 I also think the news networks are compressive on this.
00:08:48.557 --> 00:08:52.375 Their CEOs should be very nervous as well.
00:08:52.375 --> 00:08:57.596 They do things in a manner that are not exactly on the up and up.
00:08:57.596 --> 00:09:01.515 You know, like you said, they tried shooting Donald Trump not once, but twice.
00:09:01.515 --> 00:09:03.350 You know they shot Reagan.
00:09:03.350 --> 00:09:05.071 You know they shot Kennedy.
00:09:05.071 --> 00:09:13.312 They've shot a bunch of people, but it wasn't so politically motivated as it is today.
00:09:13.673 --> 00:09:24.235 And the AOCs are absolutely guilty, as charged, and should be, because they're the ones inciting the violence.
00:09:24.235 --> 00:09:34.014 They're screaming fire in the movie theater, yet there's not a political fortitude to tear them from their political posts.
00:09:34.014 --> 00:09:56.345 Remember, on Wednesday I talked about the stomp and these AOCs, these Rashida Tlaibs, these hated, hating people of the American public who only could incite violence, racism and divisiveness to find their way to step up in society.
00:09:56.345 --> 00:10:02.798 They are the scum of the world, giving the Latinos the worst name in history.
00:10:02.798 --> 00:10:08.557 The Muslim faith gets trashed because of the receded talibs and the omars.
00:10:08.557 --> 00:10:11.528 They're destroying the fabric of the free American spirit.
00:10:11.528 --> 00:10:13.610 They're destroying the fabric of the free American spirit.
00:10:14.390 --> 00:10:21.178 All walks of life come to this country to literally embrace the American dream.
00:10:21.178 --> 00:10:28.975 That isn't assimilate, that is to in part, embrace.
00:10:28.975 --> 00:10:38.336 We don't want you to forget your roots, we don't want you to forget your values, but your values got to sink in with the American value system, which is what has been forgotten.
00:10:38.336 --> 00:10:44.395 We don't want to change the American value system At least most people don't, except the fringe.
00:10:44.395 --> 00:10:55.335 And they get turned out because we find an issue that one person gets passionate about that may have some mental health issues, and then they're exploited.
00:10:55.335 --> 00:11:02.077 And when they're exploited you get these guys like Luigi to go and do heinous acts.
00:11:02.077 --> 00:11:08.605 I am willing to put a good cup of coffee down that I suspect that he didn't shoot just any guy on the street.
00:11:08.605 --> 00:11:16.259 He wanted to shoot a top-line executive and that's why he was easier to get.
00:11:16.259 --> 00:11:36.778 And if the AOCs call for more violence and for more murder, maybe their position should be brought up as contact and be censured out of the political party, because requesting and pushing the base to become more violent isn't good david.
00:11:37.359 --> 00:11:42.705 You know, stewart, I'm going to tell you something like and I hear what you're saying, but fringe doesn't sell ads in a newspaper.
00:11:42.705 --> 00:11:44.749 Fringe doesn't do anything.
00:11:44.749 --> 00:11:47.375 You know, what we love is radicalism.
00:11:47.375 --> 00:11:50.385 What we love in society is is it excitement?
00:11:50.385 --> 00:11:54.207 What we love is something that is god, oh, my god factor, you know.
00:11:54.388 --> 00:12:00.695 I mean, think about Just Chicago alone, with over 2,000 murders a year.
00:12:00.695 --> 00:12:11.350 It's just a byline, it's not even noted, but it's noted when it's suddenly something more like there's a factor, if you know what I'm saying.
00:12:11.350 --> 00:12:12.731 There's like a wow factor in this.
00:12:12.731 --> 00:12:14.754 And this is what people want in society.
00:12:14.754 --> 00:12:26.076 If they were true to themselves and say we will not accept crime, we would see a diminishment in violence, we would see a diminishment in the shootings and we would be treated well.
00:12:26.076 --> 00:12:33.950 But look, the police is extended in many cities to the point where they can't handle the violence, they can't handle the murders.
00:12:33.950 --> 00:12:38.274 As a result, they don't get that kind of treatment and it's unfortunate.
00:12:38.274 --> 00:12:48.615 Okay, and a lot of it has to do with defunding the police and a lot of it has to do with defunding the police, and a lot of it has to do with you know where the police come from.
00:12:48.855 --> 00:12:55.975 But think of the mayor of Chicago right now, who's putting money towards immigrants as opposed to his own people, and everybody's like, hey, that's not fair.
00:12:55.975 --> 00:13:02.701 What you're doing is you're hurting us and that is why, when you ask why resources get to the, why the best resources?
00:13:02.701 --> 00:13:03.691 Because they can pay for it.
00:13:03.691 --> 00:13:10.094 And if you think about it, the insurance company that is covering the CEO is probably wondering and others want.
00:13:10.094 --> 00:13:13.451 And that is what, unfortunately, you and me and others can't get.
00:13:13.892 --> 00:13:25.001 Because if God forbid, someone is shot on the street and is just an average Joe or average Jane, we'll try to figure it out, we'll try not to figure, I don't know, because you're a statistic.
00:13:25.001 --> 00:13:30.298 Okay, and that's the thing Is we don't value any more life.
00:13:30.298 --> 00:13:31.240 We don't.
00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:40.356 Unfortunately, we're really treating life and the violence behind it Just like a you know whatever, and so when it happens, we're no longer shocked.
00:13:40.356 --> 00:13:52.547 But when it's a CEO shot in broad in the middle of New York, the way it is caught on camera and the story behind it, we're all in awe and we got to solve the crime because it looks bad on New York.
00:13:52.567 --> 00:13:53.068 It looks bad on the FBI.
00:13:53.610 --> 00:13:55.096 We don't even know the story yet, dave.
00:13:55.809 --> 00:13:59.461 No we don't, but just the perception of it is like that.
00:14:02.042 --> 00:14:10.966 The perception of it is like that Well, at some point there's got to be an end to this insanity, David, any last words before I wrap it up.
00:14:16.230 --> 00:14:19.134 All I can tell you is, stuart, is when society figures out its moral compass, we'll probably be better.
00:14:19.134 --> 00:14:25.654 But when you play the politics, and you play the racism game, the racism card, and when you play this extremist politics, you can't be surprised.
00:14:25.654 --> 00:14:26.076 I'm sorry.
00:14:26.950 --> 00:14:33.020 Nope, and that's why the end of a politician's career came so abruptly.
00:14:33.020 --> 00:14:37.876 On that note, the tank man takes another knee.
00:14:37.876 --> 00:14:40.910 And that brings us to a close for another episode of the Rant Network.
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00:15:17.352 --> 00:15:20.078 David, you ready to do our year in review next week?
00:15:20.078 --> 00:15:25.019 Get it ready, ready, ready to start doing it, I know but we got to get it ready.
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