it is recommended by by the american medical association the american college of preventive medicine and so on to not get annual physical examinations they do far more good than harm it is dangerous to look for problems far far more harm than good our lives are dangerous to look for problems that will never surface but they'll become problems if you look for if we look hard enough every one of you will be sick if you do for example two thousand cat scans you'll find thirteen hundred abnormalities if you go to get routine tests that are offered on a physical examination like a p s a if you examined two thousand men with a's you'll save one life maybe but you'll diagnose forty eight men with prostate cancer that had never known they had it yet they will lose their prostate the opi in their pants and they won't be able to get an erection this is dangerous looking for problems  don't exist when your body is sick you will know and then you seek medical attention annual physical examinations are recommended against getting by every authority that i know don't do it stay away from physicians a if i didn't have through see one in the mirror every morning i never see a doctor either waiting a summons to start a prison sentence jon my curiosity was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's waterboarding program and has been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of an undercover agent we're now no i would not say i got off lightly for a couple of very specific reasons first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states  began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have strong stance and a very public one and that's what got me into trouble but honestly the only thing i would do differently is i would have hired an attorney before blowing the whistle otherwise i believe firmly even to this day i did the right thing you've called and i think that the first person to be convicted with regards to the torture program is the man who actually shed light on it do you believe the others who put the program together will ever face justice i don't actually i think that president obama just like president bush has made a conscious decision to allow the torturers to allow the people who conceived of of the torture and implemented the policy to allow the people who destroyed the evidence of the torture and the attorneys who used specious legal analysis to approve of the torture to walk free and i think that once that decision has been made that's the end of it and nobody will be prosecuted except me when you came out initially against torture you said it was impractical and inefficient did you consider it immoral initially i said in two thousand and two that it was immoral when i returned from pakistan to cia headquarters in the summer early in the summer of two thousand and two i was asked by a senior officer in the cia's counterterrorist center if i wanted to be trained in the use of torture techniques and i told him that i had a moral problem with these techniques i believed that they were wrong and i didn't want to have anything to do with the torture program what if torture had been efficient would it would you have found a great to support then no you know i grew up in a very pious greek orthodox home and you know we were we were instilled from a very young age with with a very clear sense of right and wrong and i believed from the beginning that torture was wrong it's no secret that  administration has been especially harsh on whistle blow was but can the u s afford leniency in these security sensitive times well see this is i think this is exactly what the problem is in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business the idea  that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime they have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been  i think he is winning this fight against whistleblowers at least not over the long term and i'll tell you why president obama has charged now seven people with violations of the espionage act all previous presidents in american history combined have charge three people with violating the espionage act and the espionage act is a world war one era act that was meant to deter german saboteurs during that first world war and now it's being used to silence critics of the government but so far all seven of these cases that have made their way into a courtroom have have either collapsed or have been dismissed including mine all of the of the three espionage charges against me were exercising their first amendment right to free speech should hold them accountable under something called the law and the constitution and responsibility and looks like going are operating fast and furiously in other ways it's just a shame and anybody who's trying to report things and saying any place is one too many places why should we be in war and in our leaders be those who should work to help their people and save from war and keep things a peaceful if you can't do that i think they're n private banks ability to create debts you know create money loans us is a debt free money for infrastructure investment this can provide full employment the best infrastructure we can imagine and eight eleven now and the numbers are in what was it seven hundred sixteen weapons off of our streets because of seattle's gun buyback event here impressive stuff there to talk about the event in the future of the program seattle mayor mike mcginn good morning sir thank you so much and we were just talking about this before the end this was pretty incredible when you were not expecting this huge turnout where you know we want and our police officers had researched other locations where they've done this and they gotten something like one hundred guns an hour we did seven hundred sixty in three hours or so there was a lot more demand than we anticipated absolutely so the lines were longer there are a lot of people that are waiting on foot in line and we just want to you know so they will have to work on the logistics of the next one to be able to accommodate more people faster  right and there were long lines and you ran out of gift cards at a certain point so i guess the question is if you do do this again what did you learn from this event or what changes that's one of the things obviously is well we'll take a look at the location and how we can move people through the lines more efficient y a little more money in hand so we had about eighty thousand on hand we spent seven day that day and we have about fifty in the bank right now for the next one so we've got a good down payment on the next one but we could really use more donors for that and i think the other one is  take a good hard look at what we can do to stop the gun selling on the street and see what types of rules we may have at our disposal to do that now we can't require background checks or any of those other things that's preempted by state law but maybe we can do something about up and that that was happening now for the most part people were trying to dispose of their weapons they didn't want to sell it to somebody and who knows right you really don't know who you're song to and it really exposed really the insanity of our current gun laws right now if you go to a licensed gun dealer they have to do a background check see if you're a felon you know see if there's anything that prohibits you from owning a gun but a private sale is absolutely regulated and what we saw them and we just that was just driven home to everybody in our community who saw those pictures that what you saw out there right granted was on the street but that could be happening in living rooms that could be happening in gun shows that could be happening anywhere anybody who wants a gun can buy a gun the absolute no type of background checks so long as it's an unregulated private sale and this is what president obama is talking about when he says comprehensive background checks right for all gun sales i want to just one more point on this other states do it in the state of california i understand if you want to sell a gun you have to sell it through a licensed gun dealer if you want to buy a gun you have to buy it from them so so you can do this at a state level to ok and that's one of the things that you're pushing for now is it was like to see the state move on on this issue and what else needs to be changed in your estimation the absolute comprehensive set of background checks is appropriate assault weapons we had three street sweepers which was you know a rapid fire shotgun parent was developed by south african police for right control why are these on the street at all and somebody one of those buyers standing outside could have bought something like that we had other automatic weapons we recovered as well so a ban on assault weapons i believe is appropriate high capacity clips you know the only purpose is to shoot as many bullets as possible as fast as possible we need to look at that as well so those are pieces of the puzzle one of course the law enforcement and making sure we have the ability to provide you know mental health treatment to those that need it is a whole host of things we can do to help but a sensible set of gun regulations is a big start you're talking about some of the guns that were collected you mentioned a couple of them a lot of people are talking about this missile launcher in fact it's like talking about all over the country when you go military grade weaponry is not you know that's what's interesting i heard joe biden speak and he was talking about this in washington d c i went back to the u s congress mayors he spoke to the mayors and he was saying you know the right to own a weapon is not absolute you can't go out and buy a tank right  you can't buy a stinger missile so obviously we're allowed under the constitution to limit what you can own a rocket propelled grenade or a missile launcher is not necessarily an authorized weapon for someone to own so i was kind of shocked by it so we're looking into where it came clips there's all sorts of things we can do more than that though it's a cultural issue and that's what we saw most of all that you know some of those folks were there to get it a cheap gun right some of those folks were there maybe to make a political message but i'll tell you the other thing i was struck by looking at some of those people were there because they wanted to save the guns they were upset that guns were being taken off the street now what does that say about our culture and that's just kind of crazy we have about thirty seconds left i wan is not my first language i'm a legal immigrant and i am an american by choice thank you for giving me this opportunity to express my opinion and give my testimony in opposition to the majority of the proposed bills which nothing to deter future plans gun control does not work and your own your country was awash in readily available firearms and ammunition and yet in your past you did not have mass school shootings other people have already expressed the question what changed it was not th availability of guns suddenly exploded or even increased it actually was decreased what was changed was societal decay gave gun control actually did work in washington d c and chicago would be the safest cities in your nation but it is not they have the toughest gun laws and the highest crime and murder r now some people have asked and called in our fifteenth to call the ar fifteen a weapon of mass killing well it turns out that there are a few government agencies which disagree with that characterization that twelve twelve zero zero zero one one solicitation for the immigration and customs enforcement agency now who needs an ar fifteen with thirty round mags that question has also been brought up and i would like to put forward that had the koreans in the l a riots not had an ar fifteen and a k forty seven s with thirty round magazines and ruger thirty s their businesses would have been burned to the ground like all of the other businesses in their neighborhoods their stood because they stood their ground i would also put forward to conjecture that had the ten thousand students at kinnaman square not been on armed things may not have resulted in so many of them disappearing in your own laws united states versus number three zero nine  the second amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear or fire on that does not have some reasonable relationship to the preservation and efficiency of a well regulated militia it has nothing to do with hunting the militia as per the debate very of us luckier two or three my excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history the prospects of the prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do but if you saw the third reich coming until it was too late the second amendment is a doomsday provision one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed a free people can only afford to make this mistake once country and for your wife's extraordinary journey for her coming here congresswoman woman giffords has been lifted up in prayer by millions of americans and her heroic recovery is inspirational  and please know that you and your family will continue in our prayers in the years to come my wife and i have two little girls there for him to i think no parent and in particular no parent of young children could watch what happened in newtown without being utterly horrified emotion i think often leads to bad policies when a tragedy occurs often this body rushes to act and at times it seems that considerations of this body operate in a fact free zone i will suggest a philosophy that i think should guide this body in assessing gun violence and then i would like to highlight and ask a few questions on a couple of points that i think are particularly salient to addressing this issue the philosophy i would suggest make sense is that we should be vigorous and unrelenting in working to prevent to deter and to punish violent criminals i have spent a substantial portion of my professional life working in law enforcement and the tragedies that are inflicted on innocent americans every day by  criminals are heartbreaking and we need to do more to prevent them at the same time i think we should remain vigilant in protecting the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens and i think far too often the approaches that have been suggested by this congress to the issue of gun violence restrict the liberties of law abiding citizens rather than targeting the violent criminals that we should be targeting and i would point out that i hope some of the passion we have seen from members of this committee with respect to the need to prevent violent crime will be reflected equally should we find ourselves in a judicial confirmation hearing with a judicial nominee who has a record of abusing the exclusionary rule to exclude evidence that results in a violent criminal walking free and being able to commit yet another crime i hope we see exactly the same passion devoted to assessing whether judicial nominees will enforce our criminal laws and not frustrate the administration of justice three points i think are particularly salient the first is in my judgment the proposed assault weapons ban is a singularly ineffective piece of legislation i was having a conversation recently with a loved one  my family who asked a very reasonable question she said why did regular people need machine guns and you know one of the things that happens in this debate is the phrase assault weapons ban gets a lot of people really concerned and they assume much like the phrase military style weapons that we're talking about ordinary citizens running around with m sixteen zero z's that are fully automatic fully automatic machine guns are already functionally illegal ordinary citizens cannot own them absent very very heavily heavy regulation this entire discussion does not concern machine guns and yet i would venture to say a large percentage of americans do not understand that i want to begin by talking about the assault weapons ban as it was in force before and i would ask for slide number one the assault weapons ban that used to be in effect according to the department of justice quote failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or multiple gunshot wound victims now that is the assessment of the united states department of justice justice and that is in one nine hundred ninety four that was the janet reno department of justice under president clinton that said the assault weapons ban was singularly ineffective and we could move to the second sl department of justice likewise concluded that the assault weapons ban quote under it there has been no discernible reduction in the lift fallacy and injurious n'est of gun violence so the reaction to this tragedy in newtown is for a lot of elected officials in washington to rush to reenact a law that according to the department of justice did absolutely nothing to reduce gun violence now why is that that's not accidental because the assault weapons ban if it doesn't ban machine guns what does it ban and what it bans i would suggest to you are scary looking guns if we could move to slide this is a photograph of a remington seven fifty it is one of the most popular hunting rifles in america this rifle would be entirely legal under so called assault weapons ban i have a question for you mr la pierre functionally in terms of the operation of this firearm this is a semiautomatic firearm you pull the trigger once one bullet comes out is the operational firing mechanism in this firearm materially different from the so called assault weapons ban that this this bill is targeted at no it's not now what the assault weapons ban instead targets are cosmetic features so for example i am holding in my hand a pistol grip under this proposed legislation if this piece of plastic this pistol grip were attached to this rifle it would suddenly become a banned assault weapon now i would ask you mr la pierre are you aware of any evidence to suggest that attaching a piece of plastic to this rifle would make it in any way whatsoever even slightly more dangerous that that's the problem with the whole bill that senator feinstein introduced is that it's based on false hoods to people that do not understand firearms to convince them that the performance characteristics of guns that they are trying to ban through that bill are different than the performance characteristics that they're not trying to ban they make bigger holes they're rapid fire or a fire they spray bullets they're more powerful they're heavy armor all of that is simply i mean two for three two seventy's twenty five six thirty six three o eight dozens of other calibers used in hunting are more powerful i mean so i make sure i understand that right this steer rifle which is entirely legal  and is used by millions of americans is the is sold in the identical caliber as the so called assault weapons ban although those look scarier because they have a piece of plastic attached and the ruger many fourteen which senator feinstein exam center bill  uses two to three of the a ar fifteen which has the handle on the bottom which cheaper hypnotists also uses the exact same i'm out of time i want to make one final point if i may which is there has been much attention drawn to gun shows and indeed the statistic of forty percent has been bandied about now that statistic is unfortunately based on a study that occurred before the background check went into effect and so it is a highly dubious figure but i do want to point to what the department of justice said which is in slide five the department of justice has said that firearms used in crimes one point nine percent of those firearms come from gun shows so again in response to this crime this body does not act to enact anti crime legislation to prevent violent crimes instead it targets one point nine percent of the guns in a substantial portion of those guns were sold by licensed firearms dealers who already conducted a background check so even that one point nine percent a substantial portion are already subject to a background check i would ask mr chairman if we have a second round i would like to additionally get into the effectiveness or lack there wealthy remember and i this is the dummy again recently there has been a lot of discussion about gun control in the united states before we go trading in our constitutional right to bear arms i think it is important to look at something other than the second amendment in order to understand the overall purpose of the bill of rights most people know the first amendment is about freedom of speech religion assembly press right to petition the government the second amendment guarantees citizens the right to bear arms it says nothing about hunting the fourth protects you from unlawful search and seizure the fifth protects you from self incrimination as well as providing protection from double jeopardy and guarantees due process of law the six guarantees that you will have a speedy trial and right to counsel the seventh established common law for civil proceedings the eighth prohibits sex cess of bail cruel or unusual punishment the ninth basically provides the people rights not otherwise and whom are rated in the constitution and they tend to define states rights and limits the federal government to the content of the constitution you will notice that i left out the third amendment probably because most people don't even know what the third amendment is about this is what i would like to explain for those who are a little lost on the third amendment yes you can google it but i will attempt to explain and this may bring some clarity for all of you who don't know where you stand on the bill of rights attorneys love to discuss constitutional law however it is rare to find an attorney that can tell you the implications of the third amendment as a matter of fact it seems that most people have forgotten the third amendment altogether ok so so what about the third amendment why have we forgotten about this the answer seems to be that it is no longer applicable but i disagree it is my opinion that the third amendment was extremely important to understand in order to grasp the importance of the second amendment and the rest of the bill of rights the third amendment guarantees protection from having to quarter troops in your home many people seem to have forgotten that life colonisation was not exactly a happy time as a matter of fact it was so bad that we decided to go to war over it the american revolution was not only about unfair taxation but many violations against our god given rights says humans you know life liberty and the pursuit of happiness if the british army came into town they could move into your house slaughter your cattle consume your crops and do what they wanted can you imagine a government that could come into your home and throw you out and then completely trash everything that you have worked for all of your life maybe that helps answer the question why we were willing to fight and died to get our freedom now if a tyrannical government was sending men into your home would you be better off with a firearm or a kitchen knife i think the answer is quite simple oh wait i forgot to add that british troops were known for taking women too so some soldier comes to take your home you daughter and leave you with nothing now i think you are getting the picture why we wanted to stump those bastards given this mindset it is not hard to see why the founding fathers thought it was important that they protect the rights of the people to for on firearms so the next time someone is asking you to answer to the importance of the second amendment test their constitutional law foundation by asking them for their opinion on why the third amendment was so important when you see them flounder  ignorance take the time to politely educate them why do you think hitler disarmed the german people according to the general office of accounting it is estimated that there are three hundred fourteen million firearms in the united states of america that said it seems that the number of incidents with firearms seems to testicular very low when the emperor of japan suggested that they invade the united states after the success of pearl harbor  there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass you see having an armed country is a major deterrent to foreign invasion this is still true today the popular media spin is to blame the guns as the problem but i would say to you that the criminal behind the gun is the problem you see these shootings occur largely at gun free zones if they were gun free how could guns get there if you really think guns are the problem i would like you to show your support for gun control by posting a sign in front of your house that reads this house is unarmed in review criminals are the problem not guns the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting it is about national defen the second amendment goes along with everything else that the founding fathers wanted to avoid which was an oppressive government if you agree with this video please share it as i have found that many people have not even read the third amendment and really have no clue as to what it says are even means thank you for your up here and i got something that about soldiers waking up to it happening here and essentially yeah it was pretty interesting so let's go to this one over here and then  oh come on now ok here we go oh boy o screener our troops out by the time i am president it is the first thing i will do i will get our troops home we will bring an end to this war you can take that to the bank while president obama has over seventeen thousand more american troops to afghanistan it's  send an additional thirty thousand u s troops to afghanistan when i was in iraq i saw the devastation that our invasion and occupation had met out upon because the iraqi people i saw and at times participated in that humanization and degradation of the iraqi people by robbing others their inherent dignity by denying them or by treating them as a less than human other we ultimately robbed ourselves of our own dignity humanity and compassion two years and roll into baghdad every single big apartment building has blown up boys building bombs to kill these american soldiers because we killed their family people don't wake up want to go kill people i was ordered multiple times by commissioned officers and noncommissioned officers to shoot unarmed civilians if their presence made me feel uncomfortable the primary loyalty is not to democracy or to the flag or to america when more to the iraqi people want to the rule of law it is to each other safety at the expense of everything else there is a  hijacked unconstitutional order to invade the sovereign nation of iraq this is a slap in the face to every service member who feels used to because he was told he was going to fight for his country and then was sent to go kicking in the doors of innocent people unprovoked in the middle of night being make the decision whether they want their kids there or not don't show me one side and say it's patriotism it's courageous nothing i did in iraq was courageous i brought fear into people's home i traveled with a fifty caliber weapon every single day and slept with this door underneath my pillow tell me what is so courageous about that i tried hard to be proud of my service but all i could feel was sha racism could no longer mask the reality of the occupation these were people these were human beings i since been plagued by guilt any time i see an elderly man like the one who couldn't walk who we rolled on a stretcher and told the iraqi police to take him away i feel guilt any time i see a mother with her children like the one who cried hysterically and screamed that we are worse than saddam as we forced her from our home i feel guilt any time i see a young girl like the one i grabbed by the arm and dragged into the street we were told terrorists these people want the country back in the country i won't even talk to politicians about the war because they know point me democrat republican they're all profiteers of war even lots of anti war organizations many soldiers who are willing to kill and be killed without question they can spend millions on a single bomb with a bomb only becomes a weapon when the ranks of the military are willing to follow orders to use it they can send every last soldier anywhere on earth they're only be a of soldiers are willing to fight and the ruling class the billionaires who profit from human suffering care only about expanding their wealth controlling the world economy understand that their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war organization called clearance against the war which aside from calling for a full immediate withdrawal of all u s forces from iraq also calls for full support in benefits for returning veterans we have members across the country and overseas in germany and iraq less than four years ago to me it's this phenomenon that we're witnessing is actually a natural evolution and any time you organize human beings to come together to use violence as a way of conflict resolution you will have a breakdown of names we i don't know and cultures you don't understand the enemy's people we know very well and people we can identify the enemy is a system the way just war when it's profitable the enemy is a c e o three ways off from our jobs when it's profitable it's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable it's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable our enemy is not five thousand miles away they are right here at home if we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers we can stop this war we can stop this government and we can create a better world the society is so greedy we're willing to go to war we're willing to go places and send these big metal machines to kill people and fuck people up just so we can make more money i mean i've heard it argued and argued successfully that our society runs on war you know it runs on the domination of the other parts of the world and literally that's the only way you can control a gigantic chunk of the globe you have to keep everybody down you know and that's what our society is based on as far as our our our globalisation you know schematic that's been laid out by all these republicans of all these democrats and all these people that you know are pretending to be our leaders and we're taking a look for none of these people have had these experiences with none of these people feel connected to everybody they're still even the best ones are still operating within a very old old frame and a framework that's set up by you or it's a foolish framework the idea that it should be ok to go somewhere and engage in war to protect a society that wants to go places and engage in war that's insane that's insane because you're saying they're yeah i mean that's automatically saying that the lives of the people here are worth more than the lives of the people everywhere else and their home one thing they're all exactly the same