Jesse Ventura knows martial law when he sees it
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FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul grabbed him for an interview as he was exiting a small, local event at his high-school alma mater. He exuded a calm fury, the same passion he’s always had against injustice.
I’ve included a partial transcript of the following ~8:00 video below. He made the following chilling, if obvious point about halfway through.
“I spent 17 months in Southeast Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf. Right? You know how I know we’re a third world country? Because in third world countries, they have the military doing their police work in the cities.
“When you walk around, I was in the Philippines the day Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and went under dictatorship. We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner. That’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military.
“That’s what’s happening here. and people better wake up to it.”
Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now' by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul (YouTube)
“We’re a country of the Constitution. We have a leadership now that has destroyed the Constitution. They don’t follow it. They could [sic] care less about it. Am I right or wrong? I took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I view, after January 6th, the Republican party is a domestic enemy to our Constitution. I can’t get any bolder than that, can I?”
“I just came here today to show my support as a graduate of Roosevelt and tell them how proud I was of what they did of keeping ICE off of this campus. This is a place of learning and you learn and you learn things like the Constitution. You learn about warrants. You learn about things of that nature. And what we’re getting right now is violating all that what kids are being taught.
“You want to know something? I’ll give you a quote.
“We’re a third world country now. You want to know why? I’m an expert. I been to them. I spent 17 months in Southeast Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf. Right? You know how I know we’re a third world country? Because in third world countries, they have the military doing their police work in the cities.
“When you walk around, I was in the Philippines the day Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and went under dictatorship. We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner. That’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military.
“That’s what’s happening here. and people better wake up to it. You want to read something, then read your history of Germany and start comparing the tactics of what happened in 1930s Germany to what’s happening here.”
“It undermines the entire Constitution. The military cannot be turned loose
unless it’s a national emergency. They’re going to tell me this is a national emergency.”
“You mean the draft-dodging coward? I don’t saw call him by name. He’s the draft-dodging coward who, when it was his time to serve his country, he did what all rich white boys did. I wasn’t a rich white boy. I grew up in South Minneapolis. Most of me and all my friends are Vietnam veterans. We had to go. But the rich white boys never had to go, did they? And he didn’t have to go, did he? And yet he’s going to tell me what courage is.”
“[…] good for these people that stood up. They’re teaching their students something that we are a country that we have to be a country of law and a country of the Constitution. They’re all forgetting about the Constitution of the United States of America. We don’t even have it anymore after January 6th. Are you kidding me? And then they all get turned loose and now they’re in charge. I gave up on this country when this guy got elected.”
“[…] somebody needs to clean up what the Democrats and Republicans constantly wreck. And you notice I lump them together. You know, I should use my old name for them, the Democrips and the Republoodlicans, which my apologies to the Crips and Bloods for using their name in that way.”
