 Okay, quick story, put aside banking, quick story about this cop city. This is interesting, because I've been complaining forever about a police training, and police really need to get better trained, and they need to be more efficacious, and they need to be able to deal with violent situations much better than they actually do. I think police shootings are ridiculous. The amount of violence that police use in situations where it's unnecessary is ridiculous. And then just what appears to be police losing it, losing their cool and responding emotionally to situations, all things that can be dealt with with proper training. And anyway, in Atlanta, they have pretty rundown training facilities, I'm not sure it's about the facilities at the end of the day, it's about the content of the training. But anyway, they've rundown training facilities and for years now they have wanted to upgrade their training quality and both quality and the facilities. So about seven years ago, the non-profit, the Atlanta Police Foundation was tasked with raising money in order to do this, to build a new training facility, and they have, they found a piece of land and they are in the process of building an 85-acre training facility, state of the art, that will replace the decaying facility that exists right now. And you think people would be happy about this, given the increase in violence in America, given the fact that we clearly see that police are not trained, given the horrible, we just saw another report yesterday or the other day about one of the police departments and how awful they were and how badly trained they are and how under-resourced they are and so on. So the foundation basically raised $60 million and the city is gonna pitch in $30 million and they're gonna spend $90 million on this training facility. Well, this came to public comment in the city council and there was a lot of negativity about it, a lot of kind of leftist who defund the police types and Tifa types, anti-police types, spoke up against it but the city council decided to green light it anyway because we know that the people who show up at these hearings rarely reflect the actual sentiment in the community and given the rise in crime, it is time to do this. In September, 2021, this project was green lighted. Since then, the opposition has demonstrated outside, they have vandalized machines, they have sabotaged equipment. In January, in an attempt to clear the protest sites, police shot and killed an environmentalist activist who had allegedly shot and injured a cop even though the activists claimed that's not true. And then days later, about 100 people descended on downtown Atlanta in protest of the killing and some of them dressed in black, dressed in Tifa black. While they smashed bank windows, they set off fireworks and they lit a police con fire. So the standard practice for Tifa type riots and vandalism and nihilism of that brand of leftism. And this is going on and ultimately, Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia declared an emergency brought in a thousand national guards and cleared a dollop. Now this last weekend, a group of protestors were protesting Atlanta, the training center, and they began throwing large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, this was war zone, and fireworks at police offices. They ultimately destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism. No one on the police force supposedly was injured, but it looked pretty bad and it looks like, again, a group of black clad equipped with riot shields and Molotov cocktails and all kinds of other stuff were really behind the most violence of these activities. So this, again, is Tifa attacking all of this. It turned out there was a peaceful gathering and, of course, Tifa infiltrated that and then used that as a distraction while they went and vandalized equipment and used the more violent means. 23 people were arrested, two of them, let's see, 21 of them were charged with domestic terrorism. Almost all, sorry, all of them were charged with domestic terrorism. 21 of the 23 are not from Georgia. I mean, Tifa brings their people in from wherever they need to. So it's not from Georgia. This is not a Georgia-based really protest. 35 people totally been arrested and the charges carry up to 35 years in prison. So these are big charges. Of course, human rights watch and other leftists have criticized the charges, arguing that they're intended to deter protest. They probably are and they should be deterring protest. Now, bottom line here is I'm glad to see the Atlanta police using forceful tactics against these people. I'm glad that they're charging with domestic terrorism. I'm glad that they'll send them, hopefully send them to J.F. a long time. I think facilities like this and investment in police training is necessary. The defund the police movement has turned out to be not only a massive failure in terms of the rising crime, but also a massive failure in terms of what voters actually want. It's good to see the Atlanta police department investing in more policing. Now note Atlanta is a democratic city. It's a blue city. In spite of that, Atlanta city council voted for this training facility. In spite of that, Atlanta city council is putting real money into this. While Georgia is mostly red, Atlanta is blue. This is the kind of conflict that's out there, but what I think is important and interesting is that at the end of the day, the number of people that actually believe in defunding the police, that actually believe in violent riots and protests and anarchy and nihilism, the number of people who actually hold those views is very small. They don't represent a significant number of the population. And it's good to see them basically defeated, both in the ballot box in a sense of those kind of candidates being defeated. And by the police, when they get violent, by arresting them and prosecuting them. It's good for the police in the circumstances. I think we need to stand firmly against violence and against demonstrations turning into riots. There needs to be zero tolerance for rioting people. And if you're dressed in black and you come to a protest, the assumption should be that you're a troublemaker and they should be really watched carefully and dealt with the slightest sign of intended violence quickly and thoroughly. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. 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