54:40 So, you have seen the inventor, the man that holds three of the patents on flare technology telling you those are sniper points firing automatic weapons. What do you think about that? I thought it was fascinating and a different perspective than what i had heard before. I don't know if I will base any definite opinion on it but I thought it was interesting and taught me something I didn't know before Are you aware that our Secretary of Defense William Cohen just created 10 regional teams to work with local law enforcement? That is absolutely unconstitutional and they're doing anti-terrorism training all around the country. Are you aware that General Benton Parton, ex head of Air Force Weapons Development says Oklahoma City was done with pinpoint strikes inside the building? No I wasn't aware about that Right up there on the podium here at the five year remembrance of the slaughter here is Ramsey Clark Ex Attorney General of United States America
55:33 And he is there telling you that we are under federal control, the military is training with local law enforcement. This is absolute police state Nazi Germany is right upon us but this time it's going to be not racial but environmental and socialist It's the real deal ladies and gentlemen and you can't deny it Clark He was Attorney General during LBJ administration and he said some very stunning information that a lot of us in the freedom movement know about but a lot of people out there in the mainstream because of the press don't know about. He was talking about the growing police state, sir would you like to make some comments on that? Well our government has become
56:14 the greatest purveyor of violence on earth as Dr. King said it was in 1967, but today it's gone beyond all reasonable bounds to arrange people like the School for the Americas to go into Chiapas Mexico and kill Mayan Indians who were starving to death with Our NAFTA thing has driven their corn off the market because they can't compete with us and then can sell their surplus corn to make a little money, buy some water purifiers so the kids don't get sick and die from polluted water. Here at home you see things like Waco which show that we carry over
56:54 our militarism right into our churches to assault church people. Well, yes sir my first question is or my first statement about this is you're absolutely right I mean we have military training people in black ski masks with the MJTF multi-jurisdictional task forces training directly with our local law enforcement in Austin Texas where I'm from and I found out that this is a nationwide movement Sure it is. And the sad part is, you know the cop is supposed to be our friend on the beat he's one that gets the cat out of tree and takes care of lost kids and stops someone from burglarizing a home and stuff like that
57:30 Instead, they love to be SWAT team. It's the thin blue line that they're teaching them in fact I've heard police... Pretty thick blue line right now. I've done interviews at protests and things and the police walk up and say stay behind the demarcation line And you'll hear him talking watch the civilians They're using military terminology is this dangerous? Of course it's dangerous a paramilitary Concept of police is a police state You know and our Constitution was created to prevent us police state Yet our police expenditures, our creation of the fear of crime and the belief that you can solve crime by more prisons, by the death penalty and by beating people in their head is crazy. It's just war with our own society. And you see it come to a head at a peaceful church outside of Waco, Texas, Mount Carmel. And just again, to talk about the police statement... I appreciate your doing this interview Mr Clark
58:22 That is the dangerous part about it. Eisenhower, Kennedy and many others warned us about the military-industrial complex and now since we've dominated the whole planet they are now still selling fear but now they're selling fear of the American people They are making us the enemy Well, I think that's right. Our prison population in Texas is the worst of all in many ways just no free society tells people do what we say or we'll kill you yes I mean That's the that's the mentality of a police state well mr.. Clark It's a couple more questions again attorney general and the LBJ administration And you also worked in the Kennedy and the Carter administration? I worked eight years Kennedy Johnson. I did one assignment maybe two for
59:06 President Carter, the first one having to do with the hostages. I was mistaken. I got up in front of the podium and got it mixed up. But the thing that I don't think that the American public realizes is this military training is going on what are some things we can do to get this reversed hopefully? I think we have to resist at every level. If you don't work at the national level, you can expect the local level... After all, we're providing a lot of federal funds for the local level and they love it. And that brings control? It brings control, it brings technology, it brings things they don't need, ya know? Infrared Who needed tanks out here? Yeah! You've got everything that billions and billions of dollars in research and development provide the military are now being
59:50 It's going into civilian control. Have you seen Waco Rules of Engagement? Sure, it is horrifying isn't it? It's horrifying the whole story even more horrifying Sir I didn't actually see this last year but heard about it reported and some alternative press Is it true that last year you spoke about how the Trilateral Commission was running the country Well, I've criticized the Trilateral Commission for many years but i don't really think the Trilateral Commission is running the country. CFR? I think the same people are... Control it! the same people that run the CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations and the... Those are just front groups. Sure! I mean they're just... Meeting houses? They're organizations through which they implement their power and it's in international group that maintains power to the multinational corporations of media and all the rest Yes sir, and wouldn't you say now what you have is corporate socialism for them and slavery for us
1:00:45 Well, you've got corporate wealth for them. They don't... It's called stealing? It could be called stealing, although it's stealing on such a grand scale that you'd have to call it grand larceny I think. But propaganda is one of the main means they employ demonization fear of crime and things like that but every individual... Gillian principle? Every individual has an obligation to be involved in this struggle if you want to live free children who come after to live free. You can't be a bystander and right now we really risk the spread of militarization throughout the world that is endangering the poor everywhere It's the desire to control by force There are so many people in so much poverty, and there is so much technology that can destroy people That it's being employed against people everywhere
1:01:40 The poor here, the poor nations abroad. So we have to work on slashing our military budget to the bare bones it oughta be slashed 90%. We've got to cut back on all hardware for police. Police oughta serve the people and not be a force it shouldn't be a paramilitary concept It ought to be a social service concept that deals sensitively with people...we have to deal with the basic problems while we have poverty we're going to The problems that poverty creates. Poverty is the mother of crime, Plato told us that 2500 years ago and it was pretty obvious then and its pretty obvious now I have one more speaker that i'd like to introduce and he didn't even know he was going to talk here today but it's the talk show host that put together the busload of people that came up from Austin, Texas. He is on radio station KJFK in Austin does a program called The Real Spin his name is Alex Jones well its hard to speak after Ramsey Clark