Episode 442, The Andrew Parker Show: Safety, Security, and the Survival of American Values.

In Episode 442 of The Andrew Parker Show, Andrew examines one of the most fundamental pillars of a functioning society: safety and security. Without them, the ideals of freedom, liberty, and democracy cannot survive.

Andrew takes a deep look at the national debate on sovereign borders, lawful immigration, assimilation, and the erosion of democratic norms when laws are ignored. He also explores the real-world consequences of globalism, corruption, and ideological extremism that threaten America’s stability.

The episode then shifts to breaking developments in the Middle East—from Hamas rejecting the terms of the ceasefire plan to Iran-backed destabilization, Hezbollah’s positioning, and the growing anti-Israel rhetoric in Europe and the United States. Andrew explains why pro-Israel policy is, in most cases, America First policy, grounded in shared values of freedom, democracy, and human dignity.

Stay informed. Stay engaged. And remember—safety and security are not abstract ideas; they shape the future of our nation.

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Episode 442, The Andrew Parker Show

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Welcome to another episode of the Andrew Parker show. This is episode 442, and I want to talk today about safety and security, the importance of a population feeling safe and secure.

It's not just about freedom and liberty and democracy, although those are the pillars of a society we all want to be a part of, or most of us do anyway, and certainly our founding fathers did. But safety and security is foundational. It is required.

You can have all of the rest, if you do not feel safe and secure.

your life takes a downward turn for sure. So when it comes to the macro analysis of safety and security, when it comes to

policy implemented by our leaders to make sure that we are safe and secure.

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Regarding the issues of the day we talk politics Israel and the law each and every episode. We've got some great guests coming up The Fighter to rid the world of anti-semitism something that is thousands of years old, but Really an author and doing her part Melanie Phillips will be on the show shortly and

in a few episodes in addition.

We will have rich Goldberg back on the show ⁓ expert on Middle East policy in particular on Iran and we will talk with him about current state of affairs. I'm to talk a little later in this episode about ⁓ alarming information and news that is coming out of the Middle East. So make sure to listen.

through to the end this isn't going to be too terribly long an episode but listen through to the end to get an update which you may or may not be aware of as the legacy media so seldom covers not only doesn't cover accurately but doesn't cover at all when important things occur in the middle east that affect the united states certainly affect the state of israel ⁓

So turning to safety and security, should the US have sovereign borders? I mean, it is, you would think it's not even worthy of a debate, but it is a real debate in the halls of Congress, in academia for sure, those on both sides of the aisle and political spectrum in the body politic.

debate the idea as to whether the US should have sovereign borders and listen to the argument. The argument that no, we don't need to have borders. Yes, all of the people flooding into this country over the last several years in the tens of millions ⁓ who are not American citizens, who come from other countries around the world. ⁓

Many argue it should be allowed here without process, without recognition of action at the border or protection against an invasion of non-citizens ⁓ to the United States. And the reason is because in today's day and age, it has become a global market.

There is globalism that is on the march, and we are all one people, and it isn't ⁓ that there aren't differences, but those differences strengthen us. And therefore, having borders and protections and exclusion ⁓ is not consistent with that.

And again, we are strengthened by our differences and bringing in people with different skills, different thoughts, different attitudes ⁓ about how society should work and be run is beneficial. ⁓

Should non-citizens be allowed into the country without any process? No vetting whatsoever. And again, many people say yes. Now, there are many more, I believe, that say no. We need a process, we need to vet people. ⁓ It's dangerous out there. The world is filled with those

who want to do us harm and coming into this country without vetting will create an unsafe and insecure America.

seems to ⁓ seems to make ⁓ perfect sense. What about those who, for example, want to come to this country but not assimilate and rather bring their ⁓ the character of their previous country, their home country, to the United States to make the United States more like that?

What about those people? Is that seditious? Is that treasonous? Is that anti-American? Well, as everyone says, we're a melting pot, are we not?

of immigrants all bringing their backgrounds together to strengthen the United States. But what if you wanted to establish Sharia law as the law of the United States and you came here and you grew and you expanded and you got elected and you use the democratic process and the civil rights and other ⁓

freedoms and liberties that we demand here in this country in order to change this country and in order to have a an entirely different type of rule of law a rule of law that treats women ⁓ purely as second-class citizens treats infidels as ⁓ in a caste system as Lesser than and in fact

under a different set of rules that ⁓

not provide the same rights as others, infidels, those who are not believers. So religious freedom would be out the window, but we have the right to make those changes. So what if the population grows and grows and grows in that direction until there is sufficient critical mass to in fact make those changes? Maybe little changes like ⁓

changing the law in a small town, a small border town in one of the states. And then it expands to a county. And pretty soon one state, an entire state, wants to ⁓ change the rules.

So when it comes to immigration,

Is it dangerous for us to allow the invasion that has occurred over the last several years, the Biden years in particular? Because remember, while it occurred under Obama, nowhere near as much, and secondly, Obama

kicked out.

Deported many many immigrants He was the chief deporter up to that point and you know now arguably Trump he has Really muscle him out of that position with strength

calling in the National Guard, etc. ⁓

So is that a supportive action in order to protect safety and security in the United States or is it xenophobic?

And if it relates to Muslims, is it Islamophobic?

Or is it to protect our values, our institutions, safety and security of the citizens of the United States?

Well, certainly when immigrants come here and violate the law,

And they shouldn't be here in the first place at least under the current law the democratically established law

that if you do not like you can democratically change the law.

But you shouldn't change the law by simply...

vigilante action that is by allowing an invasion of tens of millions and ignoring the democratically enacted laws Ignoring them and saying I don't like those laws. I'm gonna make up my own even though they are not enacted Even though they don't go through the process that is required

I'm going to ignore the law and I'm going to change policy even though it is not democratically established policy. That's dangerous. That's very dangerous, isn't it? In the abstract, it's very dangerous because

Those that voted for the representatives that established the law are expecting that the law be followed. And if it doesn't matter who is elected, who's in the majority, who can carry forth bills that get passed and then signed into law, if it doesn't matter, it is a complete destruction of the democratic process.

And that is what has happened when tens of millions storm the Bastille or in this case come into the United States without going through any process whatsoever.

Of course, then when you say, right, we're going to correct that, that was error. That creates a very unsafe and insecure country society.

and you go to correct it.

and the people who want this globalism, they want to ignore the laws on the books, the democratically enacted process. They say, no, no, no, you can't do that and we are going to fight against you doing it. We are going to again ignore the law in preventing you from doing it.

And in fact, we are going to go through the judiciary, which is part of the process, and ⁓ launch case upon case upon case upon case to bog you down. And that's what's happening. ⁓ Note that the Supreme Court and the cases that it has heard and had to resolve.

on its rocket docket. It's not really a rocket docket. It's an emergency petition sort of list of cases. 90 % of those cases, Donald Trump has won. You wouldn't know it by the headlines because you often read, you know, federal court judge blocks Trump from, you know, removing

those in the U.S. who are here illegally.

You know, then you have this dichotomy where people say, well, OK, they're here illegally, but they'll go through the process, and they should be allowed to stay while that process is lined up. It might take five years for them to get a hearing, but that's OK.

They say, now if they commit a crime while they're here and they shouldn't be here in the first place, okay, but that's very few. So few it's negligible, it's not worth talking about. That's a mini-argue. Mini in the Democratic Party, they argue that. And they say, and because you're trying, we disagree with you, we are going to stand in the way of you removing people who are here illegally.

We're going to stand in the way of immigration services doing the job that they, democratically elected members of Congress have established and enacted laws for them to carry out. We are going to stand in the way of those.

It seems fairly dangerous.

Now let's turn for a minute from ⁓ ignoring safety and security and allowing this country to be overrun in certain places actually by those who are here without any process. Now listen, I have a big heart for immigration. I want a big door of immigrants coming to this country.

⁓ as is said immigrants built this country

But they came here through a process. ⁓ Year in, year out, decade in, decade out. They came here with a process, and don't forget that. It wasn't a free for all.

And nowhere is it a free for all.

And I would be opposed, vehemently opposed to closing.

the immigration process.

to having quotas.

But there needs to be a process. There needs to be a vetting. There needs to be rules.

And if we are truly all Americans, we need to assimilate under the Constitution together.

And that has not happened all the time. To be clear, it has not happened all the time. I live and work in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and there are many people here who have not, choose not, and will not assimilate.

And there are many people here.

who will not stop fighting for change in what this country stands for.

but rather will argue for Sharia law.

And is this Islamophobic? Is this xenophobic? No, it's not. It's fact. There are many people who believe that.

Now many of them, ⁓ I would say like Jelani Hussein, they have become quite a droid at using our system to call upon change and to speak out in what I see as blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric.

and it's dangerous.

But what

is important and what happens is if you don't assimilate, if you don't want to truly become an American under the Constitution believing in the Declaration of Independence and the constitutional rights of all, including

citizens from other countries that went through the process.

which most of us did.

⁓ What ends up happening is

you bring from your country.

thoughts, ideas, and apply them here. Now there are some, you know, there are bad people in every religious group, in every ⁓ racial group, in every gender group, in every, two genders some say. Others say there are many more. ⁓ Every gender group, et cetera. They're good people, they're bad people. Let's not paint with a full brush across the board.

Corruption and fraud.

has occurred here in Minnesota.

And it's amazing how large it is. Or is it amazing?

Not all Somalis committed these crimes.

And we'll see how big it is and who committed them and what because we have a judicial system that generally speaking works and in any event is the best in the world. For all of its frailties and weaknesses. The best in the world.

So it will get to the bottom of it, hopefully.

But if you look at...

Somalia.

The research is that on the corruption chart, and there has been an analysis of all countries, 180 or so, ⁓ across the world in terms of the corrupt nature of their government and how they choose to live. And the corruption in Somalia is second to none. It ranks at the bottom.

of all these countries. Now, does that mean Somalians are bad people across the board? They're fraudsters. They're all painted with the same brush.

No. know, Bernie Madoff was one of the worst white collar criminals in American history. No question about it. He was Jewish. Sadly.

He was an Orthodox Jew, sadly.

least he portrayed himself as such.

Does that mean that every Jewish person is painted with the Bernie Madoff brush? No. He was brought to justice.

⁓ The assassin of Yitzhak Rabin Jewish Jewish Ruth Goldstein was Jewish another assassin

Does that mean that

All Jews are Baruch Goldstein? No. And he was brought to justice.

So we have a system.

that can deal with these issues and you can't paint with a broad brush. However, the community.

that has been established did not call this out sooner. This is a huge issue and it runs rampant within the community. Doesn't mean everybody. May not even mean a majority. Who knows what the numbers are other than it runs rampant.

And that impedes our safety and security.

Ultimately what we want.

is a country that is grounded in the values that it was founded upon.

And when those values are eroded.

it raises concern, real concern. And when we have allies that support

those values and that carry and live and die for those values. Those are allies we want to bolster. Those are allies we want to stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder.

And I would argue the number one ally in that regard is the state of Israel, as you know.

Let me give you a bit of news then that came out just ⁓ yesterday.

second week of December in a speech just a few days ago Hamas leader Khaled Mashal been around forever been on he's got Jewish blood on his hands they don't never get out

He said that the terror group will not disarm. They will not relinquish power in Gaza or allow any external oversight in the Gaza Strip. All of these things were required under the terms of the Gaza Peace Plan, the 20-point plan. All of these things were alleged to have been agreed to by Hamas.

And everyone cheered and said, isn't this great?

Well, shocking or maybe not. Once again.

This Muslim group.

Hamas with a constitution to destroy every Jew and the state of Israel in writing their constitution talks of it.

⁓ They lie. They blatantly, outwardly lie.

Mashal, their leader, is now saying, protecting the enterprise of the resistance and its weapons, this is our people's right to defend itself. The resistance and its weapons are the honor and glory of the Islamic nation. Close quote.

He goes on, the end of the war was declared two months ago, but the battle is not over. The October 7 Al-Aqsa flood, that's what they call it, the heinous atrocities that they committed against innocent kids, elders, grandparents.

peace loving people at a music festival.

They call the Al-Aqsa flood. These are despicable people. And I hate to say it, but how can you say anything but?

Nazis who carried out atrocities like that. How can you say anything but?

This is the most similar that has occurred anywhere since World War II to Nazi-like atrocities.

He goes on to say, the Al-Aqsa flood with its might has prepared the international arena. See what they're doing? And Western Europe laps it up like lap dogs.

Democratic party's doing the same.

He goes on to say, this is our opportunity to build on this in order to expel this entity, talking about Israel, from our homeland and from the international stage. The destruction of the state of Israel is what he is speaking of.

And there are in the Middle East who support him in this. There are many in Europe who support him in this. There are many in this country, the United States, who support him in this. They walk the halls of Congress. They walk the streets of Minneapolis.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded to the Hamas leaders' comments.

stating, Hamas is making a mockery of President Trump's peace plan. He called the Hamas leader's speech a direct contradiction of the core terms of the peace plan itself.

Tammy Bruce, State Department spokesperson for the United States, also said that she and the United States expects Hamas to abide by the deal they signed. Hamas, quote, Hamas has agreed to all 20 points of President Trump's 20-point plan. That means Gaza will be fully demilitarized for the sake of Gazans. Of course, that isn't going to happen. I talked about it on the show.

weeks ago, a few months ago in fact when this first occurred. This wasn't a peace plan, it was a ceasefire plan at best and we have been living primarily with that ceasefire but there is no peace because Hamas will not allow the Jews to survive or the land of Israel to survive. And again, there are many in Western Europe that agree, there are many

in this country that agree there are many in the democratic party sadly and even in the republican party now

And there are many right here in the city of Minneapolis,

Hamas continues to violate the ceasefire deal. They're killing Gazans. They're crossing the yellow line repeatedly. Bibi Netanyahu said the other day that Israel and Hamas are very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire deal. He calls it a ceasefire deal. But Hamas has not returned the last body.

⁓ person that was taken into ⁓ gaza they have not returned and and they ⁓ have refused to demilitarize laid on their weapons or allow an external governing body control

In addition a few headlines Lebanon foreign minister says Hezbollah disarmament depends on Iran Well, that's great. You're gonna get a lot of satisfaction there ⁓ And so the US may have to continue its battle with ⁓ with Iran

Just so you know a Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen ⁓ Last week attacked Ron Hallberg Jewish community leader He was the CEO. He is the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington And it was a disgraceful statement, I don't know how else to say it Republicans Democrats is the statement

made. Let me just see here.

Yeah, in Jewish Week's editorial, it was not bad. They say, Senator Chris Van Hollen's attack on Ron Hallberg, the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, wasn't just thin-skinned, it was disgraceful. Republicans, Democrats, faith leaders, agency heads, and local officials all know Hallberg as a straightforward, principled, and imp—

impeccably prepared advocate his word carries weight because he has spent decades proving it deserves to Hall bur noted What has long been evident and that is Van Hollen's ongoing hostility toward Israel and is increasingly visible role as a leader of the progressive anti-israel flank of the Democratic Party

The observation was neither inflammatory nor new. It was honest analysis rooted in the Senator's own record. Of course, Van Hollen then attacked ⁓ Halber. The op-ed went on to say, nothing Halber said should have surprised anyone. We have long documented Van Hollen's troubling pattern.

his reflexive criticism of Israel, his indulgence of talking points that track uncomfortably close to the positions of Israel's harshest detractors, and his eagerness to cast himself as the Senate's resident moral scold on Middle East policy.

The op-ed finishes with, Van Hollen's blunder was revealing. While Halber's standing in the Jewish community is rooted in decades of trust, Van Hollen's standing has been steadily eroding. Many in the Jewish community and far beyond it have grown weary of his one note moralizing and refusal to acknowledge the consequences of his rhetoric. By lashing out at Halber for offering a sober contextual assessment of Van Hollen's record,

the Senator's actions confirmed what his critics have long argued, that he prefers silencing dissent to confronting it.

Holber will debate Van Hollen any time he wishes on the issues of the Middle East.

⁓ One other final point for this episode four four two

The issue arises as to whether America first is actually Israel first. And it certainly isn't. America first is America first. The fact of the matter is pro-Israel policy is America first policy. It isn't the case with all allies. It isn't always the case with Israel. But most of the time,

It is America first policy. And if you want to get away from that because you're an anti-Semite bigot, you can try to. But being honest in debate will reveal the truth. Again, which is pro-Israel policy is America first policy in almost all situations. The country's

live by were founded on and strive every single day to meet the values, the underpinnings, the foundations of their societies. And those values are one and the same. They are values of freedom and liberty and democracy.

of equality.

of taking care of those who are disadvantaged.

And all of that.

with an underpinning of safety and security for all and allowing all to live in dignity. Not every country can say that for sure in the world. Indeed, most come nowhere near. But Israel is at the top of the list with the United States.

We have a lot to be proud of in that reality.

Until next time, this is the Andrew Parker Show.

And I suggest to you all, because it's the right way to live.

Be kind to your neighbor.