justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime
tonight, you wonder how many tru americans even know it s good friday. so after hundreds of years, s this has finally become a nonry christian country. but it s not a secular country. i m sure people call call it tht they are wrong. there are no secular countries .gion every country has a religionrs because every personon has has a religion. f it s even if it s atheist. everybody worships somethingthen born that way, we can t get away from it. so what does america s religio n now? well, as it happens, we haven video. thisnow? is from st. mark s lutheran church in fargo, norths dakota. it was taken is from april 2nd.r that was the first sunday after kill the mass killing in nashville te in which three adults and three children were murdered at a christia n school for being christians in the old america. tian. christian pastors would have preached about this. they would have acknowledged. the evil on display and they would have prayed for those who d been killed, a forled.m oo
central television. it means that npfrr is not thate different from the tehran times ,with the exception, ofhappen course, being lessed accurate and more anti-american. yo so that happened on tuesday. why are we telling you. chan abt with all the momentous changes underway around the world, whyy would we open a showab with a story about twittergorizing categorizing npr as state media will ? because it s true. reaso that s the reason.n. finally, thankfully, somebodyd in authority has told the truth about something and that is thrilling to see on its own terms. in a world defined by lies froms our leaders. this seemedig like a rare sis of hope and progress. up telling the truth is the mostms revolutionary act of all, far more than taking up arms. and yet you rarely see it. human beings created language or to describe the world around them more precisely than they could with , say, grunting sign language. ng o beeurnn evly, we have national publi own creatioern ever since, b
effectively been the currency of the world for our entire lifetimes. there was virtually no place in the entire globe you could go that would turn down a 20. andrew jackson s face beside the famous seal of the u.s.as treasury was probably america s best known expor best. from dar es to sri lankapost in to the smallest gold mining outpost, the amazon basin. every shopkeeper on earthco recognizgnizede a twenty dollar bill . the dollar wa.s universal and not just universal.ct inio commerce, though,ns tha the majority of international wered iny held ae conducte dollars, but universally held as a long term store of value. globally, the world s central bank stockpiled us dollars far more than any other currency. now,e ot most americans may not have known that or they did,wary but it doesn t matter what goo they knew. it it wasd very good fore arr everyone who lives here because there were so many us dollars cu in circulation outside ofborrow the country. the cost of borrowi
is a form of white supremacy. as a result, not surprisingly, car burglaries have risen quite a bit. mr. daria, the attendant is not white, but apparently he s sick of watching other people get robbed. so he told the man to get out, leave the garage. in response, the man pulled out a handgun and fired four times ,hit there in the head. and the stomach was a nightmare. but somehow matsudaira had the presence of mind to wrestle the gun from the man and then fire back before the man could shoot him or anyone else. by the time police arrived, both men were lying on the sidewalk bleeding. now, what do you think happened in a scene? self respecting society said the area would have received a medal if not a ticker tape parade. but in the city of new york , he was arrested and charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of a gun. the same gun that had been used to shoot him. darryl woke up in bellevue hospital shackled to his bed. the new york post ran this pictur