Point of View May 13, 2024 – Hour 2 : Abusing James Younger

[00:00:00] Across America Live, this is Point of View.

[00:00:41] We have posted Panna's commentary abusing James Younger which came out May 3rd.

[00:00:48] So you have that article.

[00:00:50] We also have a link to SaveJames.org which I would encourage people to go to as well.

[00:00:55] And of course we have all the links as well.

[00:00:58] Jeff Younger is in studio with us.

[00:00:59] He has two boys, James and Jude.

[00:01:01] But if you are not familiar and will tell the whole story, the mother of James decided

[00:01:07] would not be a boy but a transgender girl.

[00:01:11] And this has led to all sorts of abuse.

[00:01:13] First in the state of Texas, now you are in the state of California.

[00:01:16] Jeff, welcome back to Point of View.

[00:01:19] Howdy, glad to be here.

[00:01:20] This has been going on for years.

[00:01:22] Can you remind us how many years it's been?

[00:01:25] Because I think you did one of the first interviews with Panna Dexter.

[00:01:28] Yeah, 10 years.

[00:01:29] I was one of the first cases in the United States.

[00:01:31] That is amazing.

[00:01:32] I know many of our listeners have heard this.

[00:01:35] We talked about it with Panna Dexter recently on our Friday.

[00:01:37] But if you don't mind giving some of the background story, which I know you've said

[00:01:41] so many times.

[00:01:42] I've heard you on other talk shows.

[00:01:44] But again, you have to tell the story and I think everybody needs to hear it.

[00:01:48] It's actually important because what I do is I hit the highlights of where very

[00:01:52] clearly the rights of my son and parental rights were destroyed.

[00:01:56] Of course.

[00:01:57] So my ex-wife starting when my son was two years old began to transition him to

[00:02:01] a girl.

[00:02:02] When I forbade her from doing that, she's a pediatrician.

[00:02:06] She used to practice in Coppell, Texas.

[00:02:09] And she used her relationships with psychologists, which I consider a

[00:02:14] pseudoscience and really one of the most destructive forces in the world

[00:02:19] today.

[00:02:21] She used her relationship with psychologists to force me out of the house.

[00:02:23] I moved a mile up the road.

[00:02:25] And then my son right past his third birthday told me that his mother was

[00:02:30] teaching him that he's a girl and that he thought he was a girl.

[00:02:32] And if you go out on YouTube and you search for mommy says I'm a girl, that

[00:02:37] that's had billions of views on the Internet.

[00:02:40] It was one of the again, one of the first cases.

[00:02:42] Yes, it was.

[00:02:42] It even went all over Eastern Europe, Russia.

[00:02:45] It went even into China because my we're Orthodox Christians.

[00:02:51] And, you know, I have people calling me from Serbia and Romania and like,

[00:02:55] how could this happen? They understand Texas as a as a Bible Belt state.

[00:02:59] And this didn't make sense to them.

[00:03:01] So what happened was a protracted battle in divorce court.

[00:03:06] I told the the custody evaluator his name is and I look, I named names.

[00:03:11] That makes that's one of the things that makes me different, too.

[00:03:14] His name is Blake Mitchell.

[00:03:15] He's a psychologist.

[00:03:16] He's a custody evaluator.

[00:03:17] He does custody evaluations in Denton County, Collin County and Dallas County.

[00:03:22] He's a despicable liar.

[00:03:24] And I told him straight up that she was trying to change my son into a girl

[00:03:28] and that I showed him that same video on YouTube that nowhere appears in his report.

[00:03:33] And he told the court that I lied to him about that and made it up that she wasn't trying to change his gender.

[00:03:38] And on that basis, the court gave me less than standard possession time because I told lies about how she was treating my son.

[00:03:45] Well, now we know she was doing it.

[00:03:48] We had a second custody evaluator because we went to a twenty nineteen trial.

[00:03:52] And the reason we got there was she ramped it up.

[00:03:55] So literally, I would take my son to school to Pinkerton Elementary in Capelle, Texas.

[00:04:02] First grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade.

[00:04:04] I would take him to school in boys clothes and the teacher would give him a dress to put on and they would make him use the girls restroom.

[00:04:10] The entire administration of the Capelle School District turned against me and tried to transition my son behind my back.

[00:04:16] And we could talk about why that's legal.

[00:04:18] And it has to do with laws that with psychologists, they don't have parents have no right to the medical and psychological records of their children.

[00:04:27] We can talk about that.

[00:04:29] So this ramped up, obviously, you know, I had to take that very seriously and I fought against this.

[00:04:34] So she took me to trial again.

[00:04:35] We went to a trial in 2019 with a jury trial and I got fifty fifty custody and a check on all medical that might be done to James and Jude.

[00:04:46] So the liberal judges in Dallas County got very upset and moved the case out of the two fifty fifth district court into the three hundred first district court with a judge I call Bloody Mary Brown.

[00:04:59] Bloody Mary Brown systematically using temporary orders stripped me of all parental rights, even statutory rights.

[00:05:06] She wasn't allowed to strip me of she stripped me of those rights in court.

[00:05:10] The reason she used temporary orders is we have a problem in Texas.

[00:05:14] Temporary orders cannot be appealed from family court.

[00:05:16] They can be appealed from every other court in Texas, but not family court.

[00:05:21] And these temporary orders usually hold for two to three years.

[00:05:23] And in a child's lifetime, that's not temporary.

[00:05:27] But that's what she used eventually culminating and letting my ex-wife move my child to California after I successfully passed a law against doing these procedures on kids took me six years and a couple hundred thousand bucks

[00:05:40] I had my own money, but I finally got it passed here in Texas.

[00:05:43] When she couldn't do it here, she petitioned the judge to move to California and the judge letter.

[00:05:48] And frankly, the political establishment in Texas all breathe a sigh of relief because they want my case out of Texas.

[00:05:53] I've been nothing but a thorn in their side.

[00:05:55] I went up to the Texas Supreme Court to try to stop that saying, look, you can't strip the protections of Texas law from a Texas boy and let him go to California and be sexually abused.

[00:06:07] You can't do that under the Texas Constitution.

[00:06:10] So there's a judge, his name is Blacklock on the Supreme Court.

[00:06:14] He wrote the opinion. I call him Black Hearted Blacklock.

[00:06:17] Justice Blacklock determined that actually you can do that under the Texas Constitution and allowed my son to move to California full well knowing that he'd be chemically castrated.

[00:06:28] She's went once she got there after three months, she immediately filed to have my son chemically castrated.

[00:06:33] She's formally filed for that.

[00:06:36] And they've also formally filed for permission to physically castrate him when he gets older.

[00:06:41] And I'm going to have a hearing on that subject in May 30th in a California court.

[00:06:49] It's an incredible story of how that has unfolded at each point, it seems to me and we've had these kind of conversations with Kelly Shackelford that when you're talking about religious liberty for a moment,

[00:07:02] that sooner or later you think common sense is going to break out.

[00:07:05] Sooner or later, you're going to get some judge is going to go, wait a minute, this is completely out of hand.

[00:07:11] But in this particular case, like some of the ones that Kelly's had to deal with religious liberty,

[00:07:16] I think most people would have said this happened in Texas and you couldn't find a judge that actually said, wait a minute, this is this looks wrong from the outset.

[00:07:26] And even if I'm not convinced that everything that Jeff said is right, I should be concerned about what's happening to James.

[00:07:34] It seems to me that it shows how the sort of the transgender mindset has really sort of taken over and nobody really wants to challenge that.

[00:07:43] Is that fair?

[00:07:44] No, it's look, I can tell you this.

[00:07:47] Everyone in Austin who's an elected official is scared to death of the pink mafia, the LGBT mafia.

[00:07:54] They're terrified of them.

[00:07:55] And it's because they have no limits.

[00:07:57] They'll go look, I mean, if you go on search for Jeff Younger, UNT, University of North Texas, UNT,

[00:08:04] and you'll see I go there to do a speech when I was running for office for House District 63.

[00:08:09] I was only running for office to get a bill passed to save my son.

[00:08:11] That's all I wanted to do.

[00:08:12] You know, do my two years and get out right.

[00:08:14] Who wants to be in a seven thousand dollar a year job?

[00:08:17] So I go there to give a speech.

[00:08:19] Four hundred trans Antifa supporters surround the building, try to bomb it and burn it down.

[00:08:26] DPS has to put snipers on the roof.

[00:08:29] They have to pull me out under police protection.

[00:08:32] I get two ribs broken.

[00:08:33] A guy tried to choke me unconscious.

[00:08:35] They tried to overturn the car I was in.

[00:08:37] These people are serious.

[00:08:39] We'll take a break and continue our conversation with Jeff Younger right after this.

[00:08:58] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] Arthur Brooks begins his article by asking if you're feeling a little guilty about reading his article.

[00:09:07] He explains that we may feel that way because it is taking away from something else that you feel you should be doing.

[00:09:13] We have deadlines and obligations nipping at our heels.

[00:09:16] The title of his article is How to Be Less Busy and More Happy.

[00:09:20] As I've mentioned in previous commentaries, Arthur Brooks has been investigating what makes people happy.

[00:09:26] He has a podcast with the name How to Build a Happy Life.

[00:09:29] Now, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans are usually trying to do more than one thing at a time.

[00:09:38] The survey also found that nearly two thirds said that sometimes they feel too busy to enjoy life.

[00:09:44] That number approached three fourths when asking parents with children under the age of 18 who then admit that they feel too busy to enjoy life.

[00:09:53] The solution to excessive busyness is simple, do less.

[00:09:57] But he acknowledges that this is easier said than done.

[00:10:00] But don't give up yet. Researchers have learned that well-being involves a sweet spot of busyness.

[00:10:06] Put another way, too little discretionary time or even too much free time reduces life satisfaction.

[00:10:14] He also admits that for most of us, too much discretionary time is scarier than too little and we overcorrect to avoid it.

[00:10:21] If we don't know how to use it, free time can become idleness, which leads to boredom and humans hate boredom.

[00:10:27] The trouble for most people is the fact that their lives are far below the sweet spot of discretionary time.

[00:10:33] And that's why I suggest that all of us take a moment to reevaluate our lives and time commitments.

[00:10:39] I'm Kirby Anderson. And that's my point of view.

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[00:11:04] Back once again, Jeff Younger in studio with us.

[00:11:06] By the way, if you'd like to ask a question, make a comment 1-800-351-1212.

[00:11:11] We do have information about him. You can scroll down.

[00:11:15] There's a section where it says help save James from chemical castration.

[00:11:18] You click on that. It'll give you some information.

[00:11:20] If you'd like to have Jeff come and speak to your group, you'd like to hear the whole story.

[00:11:24] That is certainly available as well.

[00:11:27] If you scroll down a little bit further, you will find Penedexter's commentary abusing James Younger.

[00:11:33] And it is just sort of a follow up to the very first interview she did with him years ago.

[00:11:39] And of course, a lot more has unfolded since that time.

[00:11:42] Tells a little bit about the Texas Supreme Court and a number of other things.

[00:11:46] Some of the California trans refuge laws and the rest.

[00:11:51] But I was asking you a tough question, and I think you've got two answers to it.

[00:11:54] You gave us one.

[00:11:55] But why is it that individuals who you would hope at some point will say, wait a minute, this is not making sense?

[00:12:03] This is being forced upon this young boy, James, who may not know who he is.

[00:12:09] And this maybe we need a time out or back off.

[00:12:13] But there is a fear that you've mentioned that I think is something that you've illustrated.

[00:12:18] But there are some other reasons for that, isn't there?

[00:12:20] Most definitely. So, you know, Mark Twain has this wonderful quote that, you know,

[00:12:25] it's hard to dissuade a man of a bad opinion if he's being paid to hold it.

[00:12:30] So the big problem we have in conservative politics in general, this is social politics, this is border politics, everything.

[00:12:38] The donor class of the Republican Party are far left liberals.

[00:12:43] People just don't understand this or they don't want to face it.

[00:12:46] I don't know why.

[00:12:48] The largest donor to the Republican Party is a man named Paul Singer.

[00:12:52] He's a hedge fund billionaire, and he founded the Human Rights Campaign,

[00:12:55] which is the largest transgender lobby group in the world.

[00:12:59] James Pritzker started the child transgender movement.

[00:13:03] And at the time, he was the third largest donor to the Republican Party.

[00:13:06] He's now an ugly man in a dress, goes by Jennifer Pritzker right now.

[00:13:10] But the transgender movement was started by large Republican donors, OK?

[00:13:16] And they donate tons of money, I'm talking hundreds of millions of dollars a year

[00:13:21] are given and put into the political process by these people.

[00:13:25] So you've got a problem. Let's say that you're governor of Texas.

[00:13:29] How do you deal with this? You've got to please your liberal donors

[00:13:32] because you can't run a state-run race without $10 million in your pocket.

[00:13:36] Right? And you've got an extremely right wing conservative electorate in Texas.

[00:13:41] So how do you do this?

[00:13:43] The way that they've come to it is a propaganda technique.

[00:13:46] So they'll pass bills like we we successfully passed the transgender bill

[00:13:50] here in Texas, for example.

[00:13:52] However, they stripped out my language, classifying it as child abuse.

[00:13:57] Now, why did they do that?

[00:13:59] Because it allows parents to take their kids up to Colorado,

[00:14:02] castrate their kids and bring them back to Texas.

[00:14:04] And there's nothing Texas can do about it. It's not child abuse.

[00:14:07] It's illegal to take your child outside the boundaries of the United States

[00:14:10] or outside the boundaries of Texas in order to abuse them.

[00:14:13] That's an actual crime.

[00:14:14] It's actually a federal crime, too, to take a child across state boundaries

[00:14:17] to abuse them.

[00:14:19] So classifying as child abuse would have definitively ended it in Texas.

[00:14:22] But they left this loophole to please the donors.

[00:14:25] They could tell donors, look, all these kids are still getting castrated.

[00:14:28] They're sterile, they're transgender care.

[00:14:30] And they can go to the conservative base and say,

[00:14:32] see how conservative I am? I outlawed it.

[00:14:33] They did the same thing with abortion.

[00:14:35] So everybody thinks we've terminated and ended abortion here in Texas.

[00:14:40] Well, just as many abortions are going on in Texas right now

[00:14:42] as ever have, they're all chemical abortions.

[00:14:44] They don't perform, the doctors don't perform those procedures.

[00:14:47] So instead of outlawing abortion, they outlawed the medical procedure

[00:14:52] of abortion.

[00:14:53] So now you go to Planned Parenthood Clinic,

[00:14:55] they set you down in a room with video cameras

[00:14:58] and they pass through a tray kind of like you have at a pharmacy.

[00:15:01] They pass the pills through the tray so they can prove

[00:15:03] the doctor never gave them to you.

[00:15:06] The woman takes the pills, kills her babies,

[00:15:08] and then they actually make more money on the aftercare

[00:15:10] from the poison she put in her body.

[00:15:12] Right?

[00:15:13] But so they leave this loophole.

[00:15:14] They come to us and say we ended abortion,

[00:15:16] see how conservative we are.

[00:15:17] They go to the donor class and say,

[00:15:19] see, all the women can still get abortions any time they want.

[00:15:23] So they create legislation with these loophos.

[00:15:26] That's why we pass laws and they never have an effect.

[00:15:29] We pass border laws, never has an effect.

[00:15:31] We pass voting laws, never have an effect.

[00:15:33] They put these loopholes in order to get the donor money

[00:15:36] and then they need to get your votes by convincing you

[00:15:38] that it's conservative.

[00:15:39] So the bottom line is Republican politics are being driven

[00:15:43] by rich liberals in the Northeast who donate

[00:15:45] the most money to the party.

[00:15:47] Just before we get into what's going on in California,

[00:15:50] I thought it'd be worth pointing out

[00:15:51] that as we've talked on this program many times before,

[00:15:55] if you were just to take the policies of Europe

[00:15:57] and apply them to the United States.

[00:15:59] And you know where I'm going with this

[00:16:01] because lots of times we were told,

[00:16:02] I remember when President Barack Obama said,

[00:16:04] why can't we be more like Europe?

[00:16:06] Well, if we were more like Europe,

[00:16:07] we would outlaw a lot of abortions that exist right now.

[00:16:11] If we were more like Europe, we wouldn't have DEI

[00:16:13] because there've been some things coming down

[00:16:15] in especially the UK about the dangers there.

[00:16:18] And if we were more like Europe,

[00:16:19] we wouldn't probably have transgender surgeries

[00:16:22] because they're actually moving away

[00:16:23] from the sum of that, aren't they?

[00:16:25] Yes, I mean for the third time,

[00:16:27] like first we have Sweden banning these procedures

[00:16:30] after they did a comprehensive review,

[00:16:32] then Finland filed suit.

[00:16:33] Now we have the CAS review which you can get online

[00:16:36] and you can get the full one.

[00:16:38] That's unusual because they put the whole report on.

[00:16:41] They're the first country to ever do that.

[00:16:44] The CAS report definitively shows

[00:16:46] that what they call affirming transgender,

[00:16:49] affirming care makes people worse.

[00:16:52] The social transition makes them worse,

[00:16:53] and the physical surgical transition makes them worse.

[00:16:56] The suicide rates after surgical transition

[00:16:59] are up to 50 times higher in transgender people.

[00:17:02] It doesn't make them better, but we knew this.

[00:17:03] So when I went to trial in 2019,

[00:17:06] I brought in an expert named Dr. Levine

[00:17:09] and he created the first transgender clinic

[00:17:11] at Johns Hopkins in 1973.

[00:17:13] And you had Paul McHugh up there as well.

[00:17:14] Paul McHugh.

[00:17:15] Right?

[00:17:16] And they started this gender clinic

[00:17:18] and after four years, they did a review of their data.

[00:17:21] They gave up.

[00:17:21] And they said, well, we're harming them

[00:17:23] and they said, well, we're harming patients

[00:17:24] and then they shut it down.

[00:17:25] That's right.

[00:17:26] So we knew this in the 70s, right?

[00:17:27] Yes, we did.

[00:17:28] This is one of the endemic problems with psychology.

[00:17:34] Your listeners can Google

[00:17:35] the crisis of replication in psychology.

[00:17:38] It's a huge problem in psychology.

[00:17:40] They know about it.

[00:17:41] There are giant task panels.

[00:17:43] There are government grants.

[00:17:44] They're getting government grants to study this,

[00:17:46] but we're talking a third to a half

[00:17:48] of their studies don't replicate.

[00:17:49] Right.

[00:17:50] Which means-

[00:17:51] And we documented that in some of my commentaries.

[00:17:53] Yeah, 100%.

[00:17:55] Which means that when a psychologist makes a factual claim,

[00:17:59] a statement of truth,

[00:18:00] it's literally no better than flipping a coin.

[00:18:02] You can't trust it.

[00:18:04] These are the people that gave us lobotomies

[00:18:06] on women in the 1960s.

[00:18:08] People that were doing electroshock therapy

[00:18:11] on unruly teenagers in the 1970s

[00:18:15] that gave us these weird repressed memory scares

[00:18:18] that convicted, you know,

[00:18:19] hundreds of innocent people in the 1980s and 90s.

[00:18:23] This is a science that has done horrible,

[00:18:26] horrible things to our body politic.

[00:18:29] And I have actually advocated

[00:18:31] and I continue to advocate

[00:18:32] that psychology be stripped

[00:18:34] of its professional designation.

[00:18:36] The states have that power.

[00:18:37] The state legislatures have that power.

[00:18:40] I think we can keep psychiatry.

[00:18:42] Behavioral psychology,

[00:18:44] which is the study of the physical responses

[00:18:47] of the body in relation to sensory,

[00:18:50] that's legitimately scientific.

[00:18:51] Psychiatrists study that.

[00:18:54] But psychology is completely bunk.

[00:18:56] And what people may not know is,

[00:19:00] you don't have any right

[00:19:01] to your psychological records of your kids.

[00:19:04] So-

[00:19:04] That's amazing.

[00:19:05] Yeah.

[00:19:06] Now let's talk about what's coming up in California

[00:19:07] because that's the next step, right?

[00:19:10] Yeah.

[00:19:11] And that's one of the reasons

[00:19:11] we wanted to give people an update

[00:19:12] and Benedicto's commentary is there,

[00:19:14] but we also have a link to your website

[00:19:16] that will tell people more about that.

[00:19:18] And again, just go scroll down to where it says,

[00:19:21] help save James from chemical castration.

[00:19:23] Where are you at this point?

[00:19:25] So when I successfully got this law passed here in Texas,

[00:19:28] which outlawed the chemical castration

[00:19:31] and surgical castration of minors,

[00:19:33] that basically put that whole business

[00:19:36] out of business at Children's Hospital,

[00:19:37] which was the one that was really spearheading

[00:19:39] this in Texas.

[00:19:41] Children's Hospital is one of the largest

[00:19:43] political donors in California politics.

[00:19:46] And that's where my ex-wife went straight to.

[00:19:49] So she literally enrolled my son

[00:19:51] into the Children's Hospital system for transgender care.

[00:19:56] He is, I think he's been completely brainwashed

[00:19:59] by this process.

[00:20:02] Here's what's I think important for listeners to know

[00:20:05] going forward into this year in California.

[00:20:07] My son has never presented as a girl to me.

[00:20:11] He told the state appointed psychologist,

[00:20:14] which by the way was the same psychologist Governor Abbott

[00:20:17] appointed to the Red Flag Commission

[00:20:18] to take our gun rights.

[00:20:19] You think that was an accident?

[00:20:20] It wasn't.

[00:20:22] He told her that he wants to be a boy,

[00:20:23] doesn't wanna be a girl and is embarrassed

[00:20:25] wearing dresses.

[00:20:26] She on the basis of that claim by my son,

[00:20:29] she initiated a CPS investigation of me.

[00:20:33] So these are the kinds of people

[00:20:35] that they're all connected, they're working together.

[00:20:38] And in California, I'm really facing down

[00:20:40] probably the toughest challenge for my son.

[00:20:41] And I basically am gonna have one or two chances

[00:20:44] to stop this.

[00:20:45] And so I'm kind of sweating it.

[00:20:48] Well again, I wanted you to have the link

[00:20:49] and it is, you've got the pictures

[00:20:51] and you got both you and James and Jude.

[00:20:54] We haven't mentioned much about Jude there

[00:20:56] but of course everybody's heard about James

[00:20:57] and Penedextre has been following that.

[00:20:59] We'll continue to follow it

[00:21:01] and we'll probably bring you back here again

[00:21:02] after a while.

[00:21:03] But I just wanted people after we talked about it

[00:21:06] a couple of weeks ago with Penedextre's commentary

[00:21:08] to get to know you, to watch this.

[00:21:10] If you would like to play this and show it to others

[00:21:13] you're welcome to do so.

[00:21:14] And if they'd like to contact you

[00:21:15] they could do that as well right through this website.

[00:21:17] I'll do that.

[00:21:18] Thank you.

[00:21:19] So Jeff, it's been a long road

[00:21:21] and it's not ending anytime soon.

[00:21:23] So thanks for coming in today and talking with us.

[00:21:25] Thank you, God bless.

[00:21:26] We're gonna take a break and when we come back

[00:21:27] got a couple other things to cover

[00:21:29] before the end of the program today

[00:21:30] but I thought you'd appreciate this.

[00:21:31] Where does moral truth come from?

[00:21:34] According to 58% of Americans

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[00:21:39] A quarter of generation Z says

[00:21:41] society determines moral truth

[00:21:43] and morality can even change over time.

[00:21:46] Only 42% of Americans believe that truth comes from God.

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[00:21:52] but I find these numbers extremely troubling.

[00:21:55] It really is a crisis of truth

[00:21:57] and that crisis has consequences.

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[00:22:03] People with biblical beliefs are called bigots

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[00:23:10] And now here again is Kirby Anderson.

[00:23:14] Final half hour, let's see if we can cover

[00:23:15] a couple of other issues in the news

[00:23:17] but just before we do so let me just mention

[00:23:19] that my commentary today has the title

[00:23:22] Less Busy More Happy.

[00:23:24] It comes from our good friend Arthur Brooks

[00:23:26] who's been on the program with us many times before

[00:23:29] and actually has done quite a study over the years

[00:23:32] of why people are happy,

[00:23:34] where happiness comes from and the rest.

[00:23:37] And he of course starts his article by saying

[00:23:39] maybe you feel a little guilty about reading this article

[00:23:42] because you think maybe you should be doing something else.

[00:23:45] It maybe is taking time away from something

[00:23:47] that you think you should be doing

[00:23:49] and then points out the fact that all of us

[00:23:51] are a little too busy.

[00:23:53] That's an understatement of course

[00:23:55] but then makes the case that it isn't just busyness

[00:23:58] it's excessive busyness is the real issue

[00:24:03] because if you're excessively busy

[00:24:05] well the answer is simple, we'll do less.

[00:24:08] But it doesn't necessarily mean do nothing.

[00:24:11] He found that there's kind of in this study a sweet spot.

[00:24:15] You know if you have nothing to do

[00:24:17] and all you're surrounded by is boredom

[00:24:20] and most people never deal with boredom

[00:24:22] because they always have a smartphone with them

[00:24:24] but you know boredom is a difficult thing

[00:24:27] to come by these days but you can recognize

[00:24:30] that being too busy and stressed out

[00:24:33] or being totally bored, not having anything to do

[00:24:36] isn't good so there's a sweet spot

[00:24:38] and I think the issue is of course

[00:24:41] trying to find that discretionary time.

[00:24:43] So anyway I just thought it would be an interesting

[00:24:45] article for you to find and as we do so often

[00:24:50] if you click through of course you can then find

[00:24:53] the original article which again

[00:24:54] Karen is very good at putting up

[00:24:57] and this particular article was in the Atlantic

[00:25:00] and if you want to read 20 pages you are welcome to do so

[00:25:03] or if instead you'd rather read mine

[00:25:05] which you can read in less than two minutes

[00:25:08] actually about a minute and a half at less

[00:25:11] that at least gives you something to learn about

[00:25:14] and so each day I try to bring to you something

[00:25:17] that I think might be kind of interesting

[00:25:19] and be helpful to you.

[00:25:21] When we are talking about the whole issue

[00:25:24] of what is happening on the campus

[00:25:27] Katie Pavlich the other day actually posted something

[00:25:30] which got my attention that is when you were dealing

[00:25:33] with some of these people that are pro-Hamas

[00:25:37] in some cases pro-terrorists

[00:25:41] you are dealing with some individuals

[00:25:43] that you would expect maybe a full investigation

[00:25:46] from the Department of Justice because we now know

[00:25:51] and I can read from some very good articles

[00:25:54] as I did about a week ago that even the Wall Street Journal

[00:25:58] was pointing out that these are not spontaneous

[00:26:02] if nothing else just look at the similarity

[00:26:05] of all the tents from the East Coast to the West Coast

[00:26:08] looks like they went and bought them all at once.

[00:26:11] There are of course now websites

[00:26:13] that people have identified where these particular groups

[00:26:16] are gathering and learning from one another

[00:26:19] and so of course you would expect

[00:26:22] that there would be some kind of investigation.

[00:26:25] Recognize this is the Department of Justice

[00:26:27] that has brought an investigation against a Catholic man

[00:26:30] because he was pro-life and was at an abortion clinic.

[00:26:35] This is the same Department of Justice

[00:26:37] that has been told and some of the FBI and others

[00:26:40] that we should be concerned

[00:26:42] about some of these pro-life Catholics

[00:26:44] and we should be concerned

[00:26:46] about some of these homeschooling parents

[00:26:49] and you've heard us go through the list

[00:26:51] of all the kinds of investigations that have been mounted.

[00:26:56] So why is it that we've seen so little interest

[00:27:00] apparently so far maybe that changes tomorrow

[00:27:03] from those who I thought would probably want

[00:27:07] to investigate where did all these protests come from?

[00:27:11] So let me quote from the New York Post.

[00:27:14] This is an article by Katie Pavlich

[00:27:16] but I'll go to the original here

[00:27:18] in which the New York Post said this,

[00:27:21] top Justice Department official,

[00:27:23] Kristen Clark's history of association

[00:27:26] with known anti-Semites may hamper her ability

[00:27:30] to properly investigate recent civil rights violations

[00:27:34] at Columbia University according to House Republicans.

[00:27:38] Five Republican lawmakers led by upstate

[00:27:41] this would be upstate of New York,

[00:27:43] Claudia Tinney wrote to Clark

[00:27:46] the assistant attorney general

[00:27:48] in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

[00:27:50] to express outrage over the current environment

[00:27:53] at Columbia University and demand she disavow

[00:27:57] her extensive connections to known well-known anti-Semites

[00:28:02] according to a letter that was obtained

[00:28:05] by the New York Post.

[00:28:06] It goes on to say we are deeply concerned

[00:28:08] that your history of associate with these individuals

[00:28:11] and anti-Semites hinders your ability

[00:28:14] to impartially support an investigation

[00:28:16] into the violations of Title VI at Columbia University.

[00:28:21] Some of the other people that are those

[00:28:23] who have written this in addition to Claudia Tinney

[00:28:26] would be Bill Posey, who is a Republican from Florida,

[00:28:30] Keith Self, who's been on this program with us

[00:28:33] who's a Republican from the state of Texas,

[00:28:35] Mike Lawler is a Republican from New York

[00:28:38] and of course the House Republican

[00:28:40] conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik

[00:28:42] who's also from New York as well.

[00:28:44] And so I think you're starting to see

[00:28:46] that as you look at some of the connections

[00:28:50] they have really raised some concerns.

[00:28:53] They also pointed out that she had signed a letter

[00:28:58] defending an individual that was actually attending

[00:29:04] an event which was featured by the Nation

[00:29:07] of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

[00:29:09] And so there are a couple of things

[00:29:11] that have surfaced over the last couple of days

[00:29:14] and we'll see how that unfolds.

[00:29:16] But sometimes people say it does seem to me

[00:29:20] that we don't have the same standard of justice.

[00:29:24] And here's maybe one more possible explanation.

[00:29:27] Katie Pavlich goes into it in a little bit more detail

[00:29:30] and you can find that if you'd like to read it.

[00:29:32] But I think it's an illustration that once again

[00:29:35] if you are concerned about what's happening on campus,

[00:29:38] as I started the program about an hour and a half ago,

[00:29:42] the best solution would be to have a president

[00:29:46] of that university in the case we were talking

[00:29:49] about Ben Sasse, the president

[00:29:51] of the University of Florida.

[00:29:52] And most recently when I have spoken

[00:29:55] on a couple of occasions,

[00:29:57] I've told the story of two presidents.

[00:30:00] One is the president at Northwestern University

[00:30:03] which a lot of people including many

[00:30:06] of the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish groups,

[00:30:09] individuals who called for his resignation

[00:30:12] who in some respects met with some of the protesters,

[00:30:16] maybe even agreed to many of their demands

[00:30:19] and I think took a situation

[00:30:21] that could go from bad to worse.

[00:30:23] And so there's a good example of going one direction

[00:30:26] and bending over backwards to appease the protesters.

[00:30:30] And then the other is Ben Sasse

[00:30:32] who on the one hand says,

[00:30:33] look, we do believe in free speech.

[00:30:35] We will defend your right to say things

[00:30:38] even if we completely disagree with them

[00:30:41] but violence is not speech.

[00:30:44] And I think it is important to realize

[00:30:47] that violence is violence, speech is not violence

[00:30:50] but when you cross a line,

[00:30:52] we will actually institute all sorts of punishments

[00:30:57] not the least of which is we will kick you off

[00:30:59] of campus and it will be three years

[00:31:02] before you would be allowed to come back onto the campus.

[00:31:05] So there are ways to deal with these issues

[00:31:08] and if nothing else, I think it's a good illustration

[00:31:11] of how to handle some of these particular issues.

[00:31:14] And if we're waiting for the Department of Justice

[00:31:18] got a feeling we might be waiting a long time

[00:31:21] before any actions are taken.

[00:31:23] But in the meantime, we have the university,

[00:31:26] we have the local police force,

[00:31:28] we should support those people in law enforcement

[00:31:31] especially when they've tried to do this job

[00:31:33] under very difficult circumstances.

[00:31:36] My last article is one that I do with some hesitation

[00:31:40] because I remember years ago,

[00:31:42] we did a series of interviews on the dangers of drugs

[00:31:48] and when we came to the issue of marijuana,

[00:31:50] there was a guest that we had on the program

[00:31:53] and he pointed out that there were pretty good studies

[00:31:56] which actually showed that heavy users of cannabis

[00:32:00] or marijuana sometimes showed all sorts

[00:32:04] of psychological problems.

[00:32:06] What was so interesting is then I was greeted

[00:32:10] by lots of phone calls from individuals calling up saying,

[00:32:13] look, I've been using marijuana for years

[00:32:16] and I don't have any psychoses,

[00:32:18] I don't have any schizophrenia

[00:32:20] and my answer always well, consider yourself fortunate

[00:32:23] because the documentation is pretty clear

[00:32:27] that some individuals have suffered under that.

[00:32:30] So this particular article which goes on for pages

[00:32:34] and I'll try to summarize it briefly after the break

[00:32:38] is put together by Alicia Finley

[00:32:40] but what she is basically doing is quoting

[00:32:43] from much of the research that has been done

[00:32:46] over the years by individuals

[00:32:49] that have been looking at this.

[00:32:51] The individual in particular is Dr. Bertha Madras

[00:32:56] who is an individual that has been a psycho biology

[00:33:00] professor at Harvard Medical School

[00:33:02] and this has been an attempt to pull together

[00:33:05] some of the detailed information.

[00:33:08] Some of it comes from work done

[00:33:10] at the Harvard Medical School,

[00:33:11] some of it comes from the World Health Organization,

[00:33:15] some of it comes from a number

[00:33:16] of other different sources

[00:33:18] but I thought at least I give it one more try

[00:33:21] to point out that if you want to look at good based research,

[00:33:26] actually really very well evaluated research,

[00:33:31] you would recognize that there are some real concerns

[00:33:34] about marijuana use and at a time

[00:33:37] when we have so many states that have legalized it,

[00:33:40] I think it's worth mentioning that this study

[00:33:43] and this series of studies document the dangers.

[00:33:46] We'll be right back.

[00:33:56] You're listening to Point of View.

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[00:34:02] Back for just a few more minutes as we talk about marijuana

[00:34:05] and you might even say why are we bringing it up now?

[00:34:07] First, because of the article,

[00:34:09] two because this last week

[00:34:10] the International Journal of Drug Policy addressed the issue

[00:34:14] and perhaps the most significant one is

[00:34:17] even though we have 24 states

[00:34:19] that have legalized marijuana,

[00:34:21] another 14 states that permit it for medical purposes,

[00:34:25] we also now have the Biden administration

[00:34:28] that is moving to reclassify marijuana

[00:34:31] as a less dangerous schedule three drug.

[00:34:35] Now you might say, I don't understand what that means.

[00:34:38] Well, this would put marijuana on par

[00:34:41] with say anabolic steroids or Tylenol with codeine

[00:34:46] and as Dr. Bertha Madras again,

[00:34:50] a former psycho biology professor

[00:34:53] at Harvard Medical School has said,

[00:34:55] this was a political decision, not a scientific one.

[00:34:59] And you might say, okay, well, what is her expertise?

[00:35:02] Let's go back to 2015

[00:35:05] and the World Health Organization asked her

[00:35:08] to do a detailed review of cannabis

[00:35:12] and its medical benefits

[00:35:14] because we've always been told

[00:35:15] that there are some very significant medical benefits

[00:35:19] to using marijuana, cannabis

[00:35:21] and that it is not very dangerous.

[00:35:25] And so you can go and again, you can find this article.

[00:35:28] This is on the second page.

[00:35:29] I'll give you some links if you want to dig it up.

[00:35:32] 41 page report for the World Health Organization

[00:35:36] that essentially documented scant evidence

[00:35:40] of the medical benefits of marijuana

[00:35:44] and then reams of research on its harms

[00:35:47] ranging from cognitive impairment

[00:35:51] to psychosis to car accidents.

[00:35:54] So let me work our way through this

[00:35:55] in the few minutes I have.

[00:35:57] She says, for example,

[00:35:58] the addiction potential of marijuana is as high or higher

[00:36:03] than some other drugs.

[00:36:05] About 30% of those who use cannabis

[00:36:08] have some degree of use disorder.

[00:36:12] By contrast, only about 13% of drinkers

[00:36:16] are estimated to become dependent on alcohol.

[00:36:19] So first of all, there are some concerns.

[00:36:22] Marijuana and alcohol both interfere with driving,

[00:36:26] but with the former that is marijuana,

[00:36:29] there is no medical cutoff points

[00:36:32] to determine whether it's safe to get behind the wheel.

[00:36:35] There has been a cutoff point as you will know

[00:36:38] for whether or not you are driving impaired or not.

[00:36:42] And so states where marijuana is legal

[00:36:45] have actually seen increases in car accidents.

[00:36:50] And there's another difference that is,

[00:36:52] again, for those of you that drink,

[00:36:55] you can relate to the fact that there's a point

[00:36:58] of after your body metabolizes that alcohol,

[00:37:02] it will eventually clear your system.

[00:37:04] Now, again, you might come up with a morning

[00:37:07] after headache or other things,

[00:37:09] but eventually the alcohol is gone.

[00:37:12] By contrast, marijuana sits there

[00:37:15] and promotes brain adaptation

[00:37:19] because the brain uses,

[00:37:21] we oftentimes talk about the brain as having gray matter.

[00:37:23] Really the brain uses fat

[00:37:25] to insulate its electrical activity.

[00:37:28] So there's a massive amount of fat in your brain,

[00:37:31] which is really what we call white matter.

[00:37:34] And that's where the marijuana gets soaked up

[00:37:37] in your brain.

[00:37:39] Now, she also points out that marijuana

[00:37:42] does more lasting damage to the brain than alcohol,

[00:37:45] especially at some of the high potencies

[00:37:48] being consumed today.

[00:37:50] We've talked about this before,

[00:37:51] the level of THC,

[00:37:53] which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana

[00:37:57] is most people guesstimate probably four times

[00:38:00] and maybe even higher than it was 30 years ago.

[00:38:03] And that of course heightens the risk,

[00:38:06] which as she points out,

[00:38:07] range from anxiety to depression.

[00:38:11] And then the one of course we talked about years ago

[00:38:13] on point of view with one of these experts

[00:38:15] is there's mounting evidence

[00:38:17] that cannabis can cause schizophrenia.

[00:38:20] The guest I had on at that time,

[00:38:22] his wife at one point said something about

[00:38:24] the number of marijuana users

[00:38:26] in the psychiatric clinic who had schizophrenia.

[00:38:29] And he said, is there a correlation?

[00:38:31] She said, well, of course we know there's a correlation.

[00:38:34] And he says, what?

[00:38:34] I'm a New York Times writer

[00:38:36] and I'm hearing about this from my wife for the first time.

[00:38:39] And of course we talked about that then,

[00:38:42] but also it goes on to talk about some of the other issues

[00:38:47] because this last week you had a published article

[00:38:50] in the International Journal of Drug Policy.

[00:38:54] And sometimes marijuana has also been associated

[00:38:57] with violent behavior.

[00:38:59] Now the argument in the particular article

[00:39:02] in the International Journal of Drug Policy

[00:39:05] is that the studies are inadequate

[00:39:08] to demonstrate a causal relationship.

[00:39:12] Just because you see a correlation

[00:39:14] obviously doesn't mean a causation.

[00:39:15] We understand that, that's called basic science,

[00:39:18] basic statistics.

[00:39:20] But Dr. Madras says that the link between marijuana

[00:39:23] and schizophrenia fits all six criteria

[00:39:27] that science used to determine causality

[00:39:31] including the strength of the association

[00:39:34] and its consistency.

[00:39:36] So although you perhaps can't prove it enough

[00:39:40] for the scientific rigor,

[00:39:42] you can certainly see that it matches in a way

[00:39:45] that you would have expected.

[00:39:47] Another cause for concern, you mean there's more?

[00:39:50] Yes, there's more.

[00:39:52] Is that most pregnant women that are using marijuana

[00:39:58] should be concerned because it has been linked

[00:40:01] to increased preterm deliveries,

[00:40:07] also increase in admissions of newborns

[00:40:10] into neonatal intensive care units,

[00:40:14] also lower birth rates and smaller head circumferences.

[00:40:20] So you can begin to see there are some very concerns

[00:40:23] as well for the child.

[00:40:26] The drug that carries so many serious side effects,

[00:40:29] she points out, would be required,

[00:40:31] you would think by the FDA,

[00:40:33] that would be the Food and Drug Administration

[00:40:35] to carry a black box warning,

[00:40:38] which should be the highest level alert,

[00:40:40] but it does not.

[00:40:42] And so again, just think of the kind of warnings

[00:40:45] you see on a packet of cigarettes,

[00:40:48] on maybe somebody using Skoll

[00:40:50] or some kind of various kind of tobacco process

[00:40:55] of some sort, and of course nothing of the pain.

[00:40:59] So all of these negatives, what about the positives?

[00:41:04] We've been told that this is

[00:41:06] a very useful medical treatment.

[00:41:10] And she points out again, Dr. Madras,

[00:41:13] that there are specific types of pain,

[00:41:17] which usually are when you have a damage to nerve endings

[00:41:20] like in diabetes or where there's poor blood supply

[00:41:23] where you get some benefit,

[00:41:26] but for almost every other type of pain

[00:41:28] in almost any other condition,

[00:41:31] there's no strong evidence from highly qualified

[00:41:36] randomized trials to support its use.

[00:41:39] So the argument that it's being helpful medically

[00:41:44] is really significant.

[00:41:46] One of her quotes is,

[00:41:47] "'The benefits have been exaggerated,

[00:41:49] "'the risks have been minimized,

[00:41:51] "'and the skeptics in the scientific community

[00:41:54] "'have been ignored.'"

[00:41:55] She says, the playbook is always to say

[00:41:57] that it's safe and effective and non addictive in people.

[00:42:01] So for people who might say,

[00:42:03] "'Well, the war on drugs is a failure.'"

[00:42:05] She says, this is not a war on drugs,

[00:42:07] it's a defense of the human brain

[00:42:10] at every possible age from in utero to old age.

[00:42:15] So again, you may want to use marijuana

[00:42:18] and quite frankly, if you're in one of those 24 states

[00:42:21] that have legalized it or another 14 states

[00:42:24] that are permitted for medical purposes,

[00:42:26] nothing to keep you from doing it.

[00:42:28] But I think somebody concerned about their brain,

[00:42:31] concerned about their developing child

[00:42:35] might want to read this article

[00:42:36] because it's a very good summary

[00:42:39] of a lot of technical data

[00:42:41] and it reinforced some of the things

[00:42:43] we talked about years ago.

[00:42:46] But after a while,

[00:42:46] I just got tired of all the people calling in saying,

[00:42:48] "'You know, I've used marijuana

[00:42:50] "'and I've never had a problem.'"

[00:42:51] Well, good for you.

[00:42:52] But if you're really concerned about your body,

[00:42:55] you might pay attention to this article

[00:42:57] and we've posted it on the website today

[00:42:59] at pointofview.net.

[00:43:01] I want to thank Megan for help engineering the program.

[00:43:03] Steve, thank you for producing the program.

[00:43:05] We look forward to seeing you tomorrow

[00:43:06] right here on Point of View.

[00:43:12] Have you ever met a child

[00:43:13] you knew would do great things?

[00:43:15] They displayed remarkable imagination,

[00:43:17] understanding and a zest for learning.

[00:43:20] Now imagine someone takes that child

[00:43:22] and instead of fostering their potential

[00:43:24] with a real education,

[00:43:26] they feed them nothing but lies.

[00:43:28] You know, that scenario isn't so far from reality.

[00:43:31] From a young age,

[00:43:32] Americans are fed a consistent stream of distorted facts

[00:43:36] from the secular indoctrination

[00:43:38] they receive in many public schools

[00:43:40] to the biases presented as fact

[00:43:42] in many colleges and universities

[00:43:44] to the barrage of misinformation

[00:43:46] from the mainstream media

[00:43:48] and the lack of moral grounding in our society.

[00:43:51] It's not that Americans aren't capable

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