1:02:18 multi-year funding and so we even know the years of funding that this has been going on and now since Biden's got in they slammed on the accelerator and it's far worse than it's ever been. It is just total turning inward the whole national security military-industrial complex on the people. So first it was aimed at the Russians in the Cold War then it was aimed after 9-11 at radical Islam and then now it's been swung right back around against the American people. Yes, it has and I've been on the receiving end of it and the one thing I can tell you is that they're still more scared of us. It's sort of a gang stalking style tactic that they use and it's much akin to an old FBI program. I think it's called COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO, absolutely. Harassment.
1:03:05 Yeah, so that's very much what they're doing. I actually had the FBI agent that ran the COINTELPRO program for four years on, he was tapped to be the director of the FBI, but he was seen as too conservative, and that was Ted Gunderson. See, he told me about this 25 years ago, the COINTELPRO, he ran it against Martin Luther King, and he was on my show about a week before he died of cancer via hospital bed, and he apologized to Martin Luther King for it. And then a couple years later, the documents were actually released, and there it was, Ted Gunderson. Well, I don't know if I'll ever have that same kind of vindication. But the peak of this is, though, so I have about 180 acres. I have swamp on almost four sides. The only way to get my house is a railroad, old railroad grade up to my house on the hilltop.
1:03:47 Very thick swamp, heavy forest where I live. And I look out the door and I find a guy, see an armed guy sitting up on a bridge on the outside of my house, probably about 100 meters west of my house, armed. So, I called the sheriff's department immediately. Where I live, it's the law enforcement responsibilities are split between the sheriff's department and the state police. and I arm myself and I'm gonna go stop this person. So I run out the door after this person, after we call the Sheriff's Department, my wife and I, and this person turns and starts running to the swamp, and actually I was trying to flank the person to begin with, so he ran right where I wanted him to, and they had created a path. So humans are, when they're scared or startled, their creatures are habit, and they'll go where they're comfortable, and that's exactly what he did.
1:04:35 He went into the swamp, he turned at me with a firearm and I proceeded to fire at him. But it was at a distance of probably 60 or 50 meters. And it's heavy, it's middle of summer and it's heavy vegetation. I continued to fire into the swamp where I think this person is. And then someone across the other side of my swamp, which is probably half mile, three quarters of a mile, starts shooting back in my direction. So I began receiving incoming fire from across the swamp. So I'm having to lay suppression fire in two different directions. I'm sort of having a good old infantry Iraq kind of flashback here in a way in terms of what the experience is like. I've actually sort of felt like I was back in the military again. Very strange on your own property.
1:05:27 So while I have this person pinned down with gunfire, he deploys a tactical rescue beacon. I haven't seen a tactical rescue beacon used since I was in the military. So it made it very clear that this was some state-sponsored actor, this person. I could probably identify them. And I run back to the house after about 30 minutes of this engagement, ask my wife, and she hears all this craziness going on. She's, what's going on? I'm like, I'm gonna firefight with these guys. And she can't directly see, because it's just far enough outside of her view. and call back to the Sheriff's Department and ask where the hell are these people? She's doing that, I reload, I go back out and I determine that the person is maneuvering east through my swamp to get to my driveway so they can exit. I quickly move over to that location and I looked down my driveway and there are rescue vehicles on the state highway waiting to presumably extract or pick this person up.
1:06:22 After about 20 more minutes of this same kind of activity going on, there are two law enforcement vehicles. I hear sirens coming and I'm like, oh, thank God. So I actually lay my firearms down on the dirt because I don't want them to respond and shoot me. And they do probably about 120 miles right past my driveway. And I'm in disbelief. And I know this, I have this person pinned down in the swamp, could be wounded. Maybe if there's more than one, maybe there's a critical individual. So were they pulling up trying to stop them or just being told to move on? Well, no, they were pulling up and stopping at the end of my driveway. And then, you know, so one vehicle was like a late models GMC pickup with heavily tinted windows looking down my driveway. So there you are seeing law enforcement basically picking up the shooter. Yep. So, um, the, the, the police go based the police cars, the marked cars go by flying past my driveway though. And, um, I can't believe it. So I lectured the person, you know, out in the swamp. I basically say, this is the most unpatriotic bullshit.
1:07:19 that I have ever experienced in my life. I can't believe you're doing this to me. I've done nothing wrong. I'm telling the truth. No one's leaked classified information to me. I haven't leaked any classified information and gave him my piece and I went back up to the hill because I'm not going to sit there and wait forever for this guy to come on the swamp. So I go back, call the Sheriff's Department again, and then the dispatch, and the dispatch tells us that they were diverted for a car accident. So I don't know in what world where a car accident takes priority over a gunfight in law enforcement's mind, but that's what happened. And so accelerating through this though, suddenly they start leaving you alone. Yeah, so well, that moment right there, they quit trespassing on my property.
1:07:59 So thank you, Second Amendment and American rights. It saved my butt, my family's butt. I wonder who gave them the orders to especially go to a veteran's house and run around in the woods with guns and be doing all this. It sounds insane. I mean, it's just it but it shows they're totally politicized. We have the vice president bailing out rioters that burn, try to burn down federal buildings. I mean, the vice president bails out rioters. I mean, these people are communists. Yeah, well, in the lower, so I wondered, I asked myself the question and it depends, the people that they're sending out to my house to do these things. I don't think they are the smartest people in the world. I also think they're low on the ladder and low on the course. Well, I agree, they're just following orders.
1:08:43 Correct. And then you have the mid-level management that want their next promotion, and they believe everything that their superiors tell them. And I think this has been very enlightening for the local law enforcement in my communities, because all the harassment pretty much stopped when two things happened. When I finished my book and sent it off to the publishers, the harassment stopped. Tom Renz files a billion-dollar lawsuit against these people. And I figured out early on that they were trying to make me look crazy. So just by a twist of fate, a psychologist that I saw in 2006, after I had actually pretty bad PTSD after I came back from Iraq,
1:09:18 had been promoted to the Iron Mountain VA as the head of counseling. He's actually one of the best PTSD counselors in the country, if not the world. His name is Dr. Thad Strom. And I tell him the story that, like I told you guys tonight, was going on. And he knew me for years, and I hadn't seen him for years. And he's like, Andrew, I believe everything you're saying. He's like, I will gladly write this letter. So it was the ultimate trump card to put back against the government because here I have one of their best clinicians in this field writing a letter to say that I'm not crazy because I foresaw that that's what they were trying to do. Which is exactly what when they in 77, they admitted in the Senate Frank Church Committee hearings about COINTELPRO, that it was designed in the manuals to make people sound crazy.