[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:05] Speaker B: You're listening to casual talk radio where common sense is still the norm whether you're a new or long time listener. We appreciate you joining us today. Visit [email protected] and now here's your host. Ler. [00:00:21] Speaker A: This is likely to be the easiest of my episodes possible, I think, I don't think there's any difficulty with this one. There may be difficulty for listeners. It's possible and I want to just put up front, if sensitivity to certain topics affects you, you may not want to listen to the episode. I'll do the best I can. But I'm a straight shooter in a world of sensitivity. So I this, it warrants straight shooting. Part of the problem from my lens is the desire to filter and censor and suppress and hide the harsh truth of life I believe is part to blame for what happens to people. This is not to blame anyone specific. This is to say that I think we need to get away from the world where we are trying to protect excessively protect. I think there's just too much desire to try to keep people safe for things that they need to have. They need to see and hear the harsh truths of reality because that's how you get battle hardened around things that happen or could happen. Situational awareness will be something I will mention and there's some people not going to like to hear that, but it's important. Some might call it paranoia and it's okay to call it that. But the fact remains we have to look at the big picture of what's going on and we have to say this was avoidable and preventable. But more importantly, we have to really understand root cause. And that's where I'm going to focus as root cause because this is not, this is not what it seems to be. So you may or may not have heard the name Irina Zurutska. If you didn't hear the name, it's okay. But if you heard President Trump, he gave a presser about it. She was killed on a train just out of random nowhere as a random stabbing. There was no clear motive behind the stabbing that anybody can ascertain. The two people didn't know each other. She was just stabbed. And I saw the full video because finally people were sharing. Alex Jones apparently was spreading it. Some others were spreading it. The unedited they we used to have in the old newspapers they would show, you know, like when presidents were getting shot, they would show, okay, boom, this person with a gun out shooting the president, the president recoiling the body. They showed these Things. What is that guy? String bean from like the old days. They showed. They showed because they wanted you to. Nikki Katsaurus. They wanted you to see the reality, the gruesome reality of these events because it should make you more aware of the risks of things. When we started hiding and insulating and trying to protect people's feelings, and I do understand the notion of trigger sensations and things that set certain people off is well understood, but I do feel that by suppressing certain imagery that we find to be disturbing, all we're doing is we're hiding the realities of life and those people are being put at risk. So again, Irita was stabbed on a train. It was caught on surveillance camera because the trains all have surveillance cameras. It was straight up caught. She walks into the train, she sits down right in front of what appear appears to be a black American. I can't tell if he's American, but a black American appears to be. It's obvious that this person is mentally disturbed. Just looking at him, he's rocking, he's doing the head down. He doesn't look like somebody that you should trust. She came, I believe, from the Ukraine. So she may not have understood that there are certain cultural understandings. The idea that you look for certain signs of a lack of safety, you know, not walking at night, you know, not being alone as a young lady, these are just understood. So she gets on, she sits down immediately. She gets her head buried in her phone. Zero situational awareness. She's not. She is not making a judgment about this person. That's fine. You can praise her for not making the judgment. I think it's to her detriment. And I don't even mean his race. I'm talking his mannerisms. His mannerisms spoke danger. Just looking at him spoke danger, spoke risk, spoke trouble, spoke problem. Where she comes from, this may not be the norm. So she may not be accustomed to that as a reality. This goes to the whole learning. I say that we have to teach people this is. Look for these signs. You cannot assume everyone's a good person. That's the worst thing to do, is assume everyone's a good person. You have to look for certain signs. This person, to me, mental illness was all over the body language from the moment she walked in there. It was blatantly obvious. If we were talking about. I'll pick a place. If we were talking about northern United States and this took place in northern United States. But if we were talking, let's say North Dakota, right? Wyoming, Washington State, this, you would look at that person and you would not want to sit near them. I remember and I believe it was Washington state even I was taking a bus and for me, when I was younger, yes, I would sit in the back of the bus. As I got older, I learned I need to sit in the front of the bus as close as I can to the driver. Why? A, I wanted to make sure I could get off quick right when it hit my stop. B, if something does go down, I am always acute and I'm looking and I'm constantly aware of things going on. So I can be hopefully fast enough to warn that there may be something that's going to happen. And that has happened for me before. I had a situation and it wasn't like a significant dangerous spot. Something I just said, you know, somebody on the train or the bus rather was this person looks a little bit kind of skittish and sketchy and they had just gotten on and I wasn't sure, okay, this person looks kind of weird. And I just. And the bus driver kept an eye on him. Nothing happened. But you have to do that. And it has nothing to do with race. There's just body language you look for and signs you look for that tell you something is about to go down or might go down. And it could be that it would go down, but only if nobody was looking. So what made this whole thing worse is the fact it's a black American and this is a Ukrainian. She's blonde, she's young, obviously white, fair skinned. She's surrounded by other what appear to be black Americans. So she's this one in a sea of, you know, there's like four. This mentally ill guy. Again, he's rocking. You see him then pull out something and later we can understand as he zooms in that it's a, it's one of those switchblades type knives. And then just gets up and then just stabs her right in the neck. He grabs around like in kind of a chokehold, brief chokehold piece, and just stabs her on the opposite side of the neck for no reason. Pulls her hat off. She looks up at him in shock. Now she's shocked. She doesn't know what the heck, what the heck. But she just got stabbed. She doesn't realize what's happened to it. You can see on her face, she doesn't realize what's happened to her. She's. She's just in a state of shock. Nothing happens for a few seconds. And then you see her slump. There's a pool of blood. The blood starts to curdle down. Nobody's stopping to help at first. There's minutes pass and nobody's stopping to help her. They saw this happen. They see bloods dripping on the floor. Like, this is how bad this. It's all on camera. Nobody says anything. He walks to the other side of the train. He's still holding the bloody knife. Nobody says anything. She. He's saying, this middle guy said, I got her. I got the white girl. Okay? Nobody says a thing on this. Nobody. Again, blood is dripping on the floor. People see it and they just step over it. Nobody tackles the guy, nobody calls for help, nobody screams, nothing. It's the most bizarre sequence you ever did see. And all it does is stoke flames of racism. This black guy just killed a white girl. Now, him saying, I got the white girl didn't help his case because perhaps he did because she was white. We don't know because we don't know his motivation. Federal charge has been charged against the dude. And maybe we'll hear something. We know that he was homeless. It's blatantly clear he had mental illness. I'm not suggesting that there was not racism here because he called it out in his rants. So it's strongly probable that there was some racism. The thing is, if he's mentally ill, we gotta go deeper. We have to understand how this was happening to somebody like this. This was happening because we have a system. And by system, I mean in certain states. And the president kind of alluded to this. He didn't say it directly. But what happens is in certain states, they have adamantly and aggressively pushed for public transit. Other countries have embraced public transit as the primary form of transportation. The United States never has done. We've tried to force it, but when we set up the freeway system and we went all in on vehicles, personal vehicles, personally, you know, those forms of transportation were not as common as they are in other countries. That's just the truth of it. So these states pushing that form, Washington State's a great example, they actually pay for their. It's a trolley. They pay for theirs out of taxpayer money. You that have a car, you're. You're paying extra taxes to fund this. They don't want to raise the fares because they even said nobody would ride it if we raise the fares. So they're. They're punishing you for having a car. And they're benefiting these over here to have low fare or in some cases, no fare. Then you have certain situations. I remember this was a thing down in San Diego At a point, I think they changed it, but at a point they weren't checking for tickets. They would let anybody get on. New York is bad about this. Chicago is bad about this, where they let homeless get on trains, buses, whatever. You know, they didn't pay fair and we don't know their state. Some of them fall asleep there. Some of them are. They pee on the things. It's bad. And they don't want to enforce it. They don't want to keep it clean. There's, you heard turnstile jumping, right? It's a big thing in New York, same thing. They don't enforce that because all they care about is ridership. They care about their bodies on the thing. Meanwhile, other people are getting taxed because there's no enforcement, because they're not putting adequate security, because they're not making it to where, no, the fare, you have to pay the fare. We're going to make sure you pay the fare. We're going to lock down turnstile jumping, we're going to lock down homeless sleeping on it and make it an actual viable upper scale service. Because they don't do that. It encourages these people, the mentally ill, the disturbed, the homeless, et cetera, the drug users, et cetera, to get on there and write it. And they welcome that because in their minds they're helping those people. They're not helping those people. They're harming people like arena because they're endangering other people who don't know. They don't know our ways, they don't know our customs, they don't know that we have jacked up public transportation. But we do. Every place I've been at where there's been public transportation has been a nightmare, with only one exception. I don't even remember where I was. That's how rare it is every other place. And you know, the train, I forget what it's called, but the train that goes from on the west coast, that goes down to California, that train wasn't too bad. But you still have to be in the kind of the nicer areas. You can't be in the regular coach seating. But still, the point is that this should not have happened to her. But unlike the vast majority of social media, I'm not going to simply point and say the problem is that we let black, you know, these black people are killing white people. That's not really the problem. The problem is these states pushing public transportation that does not lock down to prevent people like this, regardless of race who are mentally disturbed, getting on there, attacking anybody Regardless of the race of the victim. Like it. It's not even about the race with respect to the real problem. The problem is our public transportation system sucks. It has for years and they don't want to fix it when we have a terrible public transportation. It's like the slums in a lot. It's. It's like the slums. You can't have that because those people are going to go there and you're endangering those people. And then you don't put security on the damn thing. Planes actually have plain closed cops at times. Why don't the buses, why don't the trains? Because they would say, oh, it's too expensive, it would raise taxes. The truth is you need to raise fares. Yes, I get it. If you raise fares, some people are not going to ride it. That's kind of the point. You want to increase the perception that this is actually an upper scale form of transportation worth taking. You do that not by having cheap fares. They're doing the cheap fares because they're encouraging ridership. When you encourage ridership, you're encouraging the low bottom of the barrel to get on there and you're putting people like this at risk. That's the truth. I'm blaming the systems, I'm blaming the states, I'm blaming the governments. I'm blaming them because they don't understand. When you try to cater to low fare, low cost. Why do you think low income programs almost always entice the lowest of the low? Why do you think that some of these shelters that cater to homeless are in piss poor conditions? Because when you do those kinds of programs, you're going to entice the people at the bottom of the barrel. And the mental illness, setting that aside for a moment, regardless of race, regardless of gender, none of it really matters in the root of cause. I'm talking the root cause. The root cause is she should not have been put in a situation where she had to feel uncomfortable or where she had to have situational awareness or where she had to watch her back. You shouldn't have to feel that way. I'm saying she would have to have felt that way because of the way our situation is. We have a jacked up situation. That's what makes it suck. Because they don't want to fix it. To where people like her don't have to do those things. She shouldn't have to do those things. I promise you, you're not going to have things like this where somebody mentally ill, of any race, of any gender, whatever is Getting on there, rocking back and forth, jacked up. If you have proper security, if you lock down, turn, stop jumping, security on the bus, security on the train, if you enforce it and you show. We're not going to allow any sort of lack of safety on this because we see it's getting worse and worse and worse. There were countless videos leading up to this, folks, of different surveillance vids of homeless people that get on the dang thing and they pee on themselves all over the floor. They don't want to fix it. They don't want to fix the problem. And they think by not fixing the problem, all they're doing is they're helping. They're not helping, they're harming. And the result is something like this where somebody who didn't know any better lost their life needlessly, pointlessly, because there was no reason behind it. It's a pointless death. That's even worse when it's a pointless death. So I'm not saying this to defend the dude. I hope they. He deserves death penalty. Like, I'm not even a death penalty supporter. But. But he deserves death penalty because of the nature of what he did. There's no reason to have done it. A B, you walk up saying, I got the white girl. Like you think every single cause, and there's nothing around it. There's no logic for it. There's no justification for doing what you did. Second, all the other people that were around now, there's. They might not have known exactly what happened, but you saw blood on the floor, people, and I'm pretty sure she screamed out at least a little bit. Nothing. None of you. There was one guy later, and this was, I think after she had. She was near dead or close to it. Afterward, there was some guy that went up to her. But again, why didn't anybody tackle this dude? Why didn't anybody sock the dude? Why didn't anybody do anything at all? When you see this take place, okay, let's say that. Let's say it's a domestic something, right? And you don't know. You still should do something to try to understand. This was not. This should not be happening. What you're doing to her should not be happening. And I'm going to at least confront you and see what the hell's going on. And when the moment I start seeing blood, you should jump on that and say something. I don't know that anything that anybody could have done could have saved her life, given where she was stabbed. Because I think he got her right the carotid So I don't know. I'm not saying that they would be superheroes. I'm saying at least do something. Don't just stand around, you know, doing nothing, which is what they were doing. You could see it on the camera that it seemed like none of them were enticed. And that makes it worse because they're all apparently black American. So now the narrative is that the black Americans support their own and they support this idiot stabbing this white girl. You. You guys are promoting that narrative. So you're making it worse because you're doing nothing. Why are you doing nothing? Do you have no morals or standards? And there's some women, Some of them are women. So it's not a gender thing. You guys just for what? And my guess, it's only a guest. I'm not there. My guess is they have become numb to violence on the public transit. It's just that this kind of violence for them may be unnatural and they didn't know. But violence in general is probably natural. It looks terrible for the black community that this happened. I'm straight up telling you that. And President Trump's messaging is going to piss people off because of the way he worded it. But he's not wrong. You should not have a situation where arenas put in that kind of spot to get killed just taking the fricking bus or train. It should never happen. I am going to blame the people that enabled it by setting up crappy public transportation and the fact that all the governments refuse to fix our public transportation system to make it more viable. You might ask, well, what would you do? As I wrap up? The first thing is you need to raise the fares. Don't raise the taxes, raise the fares. Yes, it's going to drop ridership. That's kind of the point. It needs to be an upscale service. It needs to be something worth doing. It doesn't matter if it's a fraction of a car. The point is it needs to be a clean, upscale service. To do that, you need money, you need revenue to keep it up. Because all that I'm talking about with security and everything, it's expensive. I understand that. So you add value, add things that make it worth doing it. How about you add food services on the thing. You certainly should have plain close cops. You should have security on the darn thing. You should. You can do noise suppression, you can improve Internet service. There's all sorts of value add things to make it worth taking TVs and all sorts of stuff to make it viable. Why you're raising the rates. You're raising the rate to making an upscale service. You don't allow homeless to get on the damn thing unless they got the fair. If they got the fair. You still have to do some measure of screening. That's where the plainclothes cops come in. We're going to watch you. We're going to watch you as you go to your seat. We're going to patrol the damn thing and make sure that everything stays safe. And we see somebody whose body language gives us pause, we're going to ask and make sure that person is not ill or whatever. And we might have to jump. Jump a trigger. I'm trying to be politically correct and, you know, put you out of your misery. And we do that because we do not want somebody else ending up dead. Okay? That's what I would recommend. Figure out how to make it upscale service. No, you should not be able to ride those services on the dirt cheap. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. No, get the rates up. I. You know, I'm not even gonna toss a number. It doesn't matter. This is about arena and the system failed her. People are gonna rush to judgment about race. In my mind, it's fair game because of what he said. I like to focus on the root cause, which is the governments. They failed this girl. They all failed this girl. And I've been talking about the crap that is public transit for years. It's terrible out here. It's always been terrible in every place except one. It's been terrible, and they don't seem inclined to fix it. I blame them. I blame the governments. I blame the states. I do not. I do not see it changing or improving because they don't want to. They just want max ridership. You can search that yourself. That's what they all care about. We want max ridership. We want as many people writing as possible because we're trying to get as many people off the roads. It's not going to work. You have to make it a viable service. To make it a viable service, you need to bump the rates, stop mailing taxpayers, stop nailing car drivers. Raise the freaking fares, then screen it. You're going to have a drop in ridership. That's fine. Drop cars. You don't need as many cars anymore, right on the road. There's ways that you can make it a viable service and ideally get it to the point where it's much safer, much more appealing to people and less appealing to those who would cause harm to others. That's my stance on it. And you will not change my mind.