Episode 420, The Andrew Parker Show: Crime, Terrorism and the Fabric of Society

In this episode of The Andrew Parker Show, Andrew takes a hard look at the growing threats of crime in America and terrorism around the world—particularly in Israel. He explores how both crime and terrorism undermine the social mores and values that hold communities together, creating fear, weakening justice and eroding liberty.

From the failures of cashless bail to the absence of deterrence, Andrew asks why policymakers fail to prioritize victims’ rights and public safety. He draws parallels between rising crime in U.S. cities and terrorism abroad, showing how both weaken the social fabric and demand moral clarity and decisive action.

Andrew also examines Israel’s ongoing fight against terrorism, the continued captivity of hostages in Gaza, and the urgent need for clear strategies to defend freedom and security without rewarding violence.

Key Topics Covered:
•Crime in U.S. cities and the weakening of deterrence
•Terrorism’s ripple effect on societies and culture
•Israel’s struggle against Hamas and the October 7th aftermath
•Social mores, law and the preservation of justice
•The failure of political leadership to prioritize victims

Stay tuned to hear why America and Israel must fight back—with courage, justice and moral clarity—if they hope to preserve their foundational values.

Transcript

Episode 420 Transcript

Welcome to another episode of the Andrew Parker Show. Thank you for joining us as each episode we talk politics, Israel and the law. This is the successor of the eight year running Victory Hour. It is the Andrew Parker Show and go to theandrewparkershow.com. Subscribe, follow us, sign up for

Email and you will get each episode as it drops Sent to you as it does we usually Have an episode coming out each and every Friday and often on Tuesdays as well this is episode number 420 and Today I want to talk for a bit

about crime in our society and terrorism affecting us as well as many other nation states around the world.

and what we do about crime and terrorism.

We know that with crime in our streets and the inability or ineffectiveness of fighting it, minimizing it, diminishing it through various measures and means, and usually it requires deterrence and it requires justice, swift justice to be meted out.

for the wrongdoer and the protection and really enveloping.

through love and spirit, victims of crime.

It can undermine the entire spirit of a society or community, no doubt.

Terrorism in a broader sense has as its purpose to in fact undermine the spirit of a people.

through a measure that may not directly affect a person within that community or society, but in fact affects the entirety of the society because it...

puts terror in each person.

and therefore affects each person, wondering if next time it will be them.

And oftentimes the ripple effect runs throughout society and the community because it has an impact that is only maybe one or two or three steps removed from that person. Maybe it's a cousin.

was the direct victim.

Maybe it was a neighbor's in-laws.

Maybe it was a friend of a friend who knew the victim.

terrorism can be broader than that such as the suicide bombings in israel

where it literally, at the time of the first Intifada, as you will recall, stopped society and movement and culture in its tracks.

The fear was so great. The inhibition that it caused in people moving about.

The restrictiveness, the sorrow, the grief that put a pale over everything everyone did. This is the purpose of terrorism.

The same sort of result can come from crime, but often the purpose of crime is theft. Sometimes it's just bald-faced evil.

But both crime and terrorism need to be addressed head on, do they not?

Certainly the ends, such as reduction or elimination of terrorism or of crime, the ends do not justify the means. You can't just deal with these issues.

without consideration of the means that you use.

And Israel is faced with this.

and day in and day out trying to carry out a war that has been foisted upon them.

by people that believe that terrorism is the way to achieve their political results.

What is it?

Because through crime and terrorism, it undermines the very social mores of a society. What is a social more?

Let's look at it first from the U.S. perspective. Set aside Israel-Gaza and all that has happened there as a culmination on October 7th of the terrorism that has occurred. And look at the U.S. We have criminal laws on the books. They were placed on the books through a democratic process of electing officials who would go to Washington

or to their state capital and determine what the criminal code looked like. That determination was made based on social mores. That is social norms that a society or a culture considers morally acceptable. Or from the flip side, social conduct

that a society considers morally unacceptable and puts on the books that if anyone engages in this type of conduct, it is expected that law enforcement will catch it and root it out, send it to a prosecutor who will prosecute it, and a judge who will sentence.

And that is what our elected democratic process calls for.

Now, when some in our society decide that despite what is on the books,

They are going to undermine our ability to defeat crime, to fight against it, to minimize it at least.

Then a political battle begins. And that's what we're seeing in the US now, in US cities. The military being brought out to fight against crime, that's not what was intended. No, certainly it wasn't.

The military involves protection and is a national security measure that our democratic society has determined is necessary because it's a dangerous world.

but on the streets of our cities.

Well, some would say if crime gets bad enough, yes indeed.

We need to protect people at the local level, at the state level, in addition to the national level.

Our social mores are being attacked.

This is tied to our core values and beliefs. Our beliefs in right and wrong.

and it has an enormous chilling effect.

to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Why is it that the Democratic Party

⁓ does not want to take all actions necessary within the construct, very importantly, of our Constitution and due process. Now, many of my Democratic friends will say that's exactly what they want to do. And that's what is being done in Chicago, L.A., certain parts of.

Baltimore, many other of the large cities across the country.

And when it comes to immigration and crime done by immigrants, illegal immigrants who shouldn't be here in the first place, and they victimize people. Not all of them for sure. Maybe not even a majority of them. Maybe not even an enormous number of them, although this is in dispute and is being fought daily.

But wouldn't it be wise to get the help that is offered?

Because crime has gotten out of control. see it every day. And if you don't think so, talk to the victims. And if you're still not persuaded,

That may be a problem in and of itself.

Because again, the social fabric of our society, the mores, the norms, the core values are being undermined.

and a war on crime like the war on drugs.

like closing down the border and dealing with our immigration problem.

the war on terrorism which came to our shores lest we forget.

and could easily once again

And we see in our most important ally in the world, the state of Israel, it has brought great, great grief and sorrow.

We need to fight back.

And the Democratic Party has not put forth a way in which they intend to fight back. In fact, what they have done, at least at face value, what they appear to be doing, is protecting perpetrators, undermining our ability to fight against crime and terror.

And again, I put these two things, they're far different. ⁓ They call for different measures, means, and responses for sure. But I put them together because when you look at what the prescription is to defeat them,

It usually comes out of the same...

sort of backbone. You really need to bravery and attack these issues head on. In different ways again, but attack them head on.

Not, ⁓ we need to have cashless bail.

Not, okay, you've arrested this person, we're gonna let them out and hopefully they'll show up for a hearing down the road. Not, okay, this person has been convicted of a heinous crime, we're going to give him six months in jail.

No, not forgetting about the victims.

or all of those who are affected indirectly, or the impact that it has on neighborhoods and people living their daily life, operating a business, bringing their kids to school, the impact on all of it.

cannot be ignored.

So in the end.

If the Democrats want to talk about victims' rights, great, but they haven't, and they don't.

not nearly as they should.

and deterrence is ignored.

Where's the discussion of the hostages in Gaza?

Now they'll say we talk about it every day and

No, there's no support for Israel rooting out and defeating unconditionally the terrorists so that they're not rewarded.

and there's no discussion about how to get the hostages out if you don't want to do it that way. So what are you going to do? Sit and wring your hands? Ask pretty please? Let them out?

Discussions have been going on for a year and a half or more.

Coming up on two years since October 7th.

Those discussions have yielded nothing.

Nobody wants war and nobody wants what it will take.

to destroy.

those that took these hostages because there will be a lot of damage surrounding it.

but in order not to reward it, must be done. And there's no answer from the other side. If you have one...

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So as we hear the debate nightly about crime in our cities here in the US, about terrorism around the world, including in Israel, including the threats to this country from terrorists,

organizations and groups, whether they be in Central America, South America.

or in the Middle East.

or elsewhere.

We need to think about how we deter, how we fight against it with moral clarity in defense of our social mores.

so that the fabric of our society is not left in tatters.

so that our core values and beliefs can be maintained and flourish.

This is Andrew Parker.

Join us next time and until then, be kind to your neighbor.