Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine John Africa of MOVE in Philadelphia.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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wanna get into this John africa. We started John Africa.
I do not know about John ever go now, given its how'd. That aim is born into
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Lopez? Lee part was born on July six, nineteen, thirty one
the now demolished filler philadelphia, general hospital sort out fairly philly sure he was raised in the tough, tight and greedy neighbourhood behind the philadelphia zoo.
it's a weird and is aware that is where the you wake up at like the zebras faculty. That's just that leads to grit and toughness.
He was a quiet type boy, a family federal cause. He liked dogs, the animals and mostly stayed by himself all right, so he's a he
It is an animal loner sure of Michael jackson of sorts. Yes
the lip parts. Were god fearing baptists? Further work is handymen. He and his wife had.
Leaning may leopard, that's your name, leaning may uttered. That's it
a good name that hasn't gone on I'll, say last. I haven't heard another one: they had ten children, six boys and four girls. She stayed home and cared for them yeah until she died in her early forties and then you can't care for the children anymore, because your debt yeah
so the father fell to pieces. Instead of being like alright we're going to make this shit rod we're going to make it happen, he will get a move, we're going to be a sitcom. He was dead, dead, kid who's, blackish, just the thirty of us at.
It's over overwhelming debt,
it's called to you gonna, make it
Have you got be body? It ass, an ok, so he thought the pieces he just became. Like sickly didn't mean I couldn't really function anymore. Sure Vincent was short very
Boy so underweight that this good doctor twice made notes about it by the age of nine. He had been classified as author genetically backward loud
what for? I, don't even know what it is and horrible disease name for him adequately.
where it says edge, edge, educationally mentally retarded. He believes that that's the definition that he was bachelor, retired, educate, educate, okay, it's a different thing, but it's it's! You have such a low. I q, but your
not you don't have downs so you're in the mid. So it's like an education. It's an education definition. Okay, so it means that in his whole life, if he learned as hard as he could, if he got every all the information that he could take him, he would learn to a fifth or sixth grade level.
Jesus but he'd be like able that right will he be able to like take care of himself and live on his own and speak and okay, but you can't like he's not going to be. Ok, isn't going to be a good reader and you know it'd be like for
Can you believe right ones worries us still at six great he's, always in six twenty actors. Division knows our job. We weren't!
I'm getting up like tat about six months ago,
It was first test it is. I is measured at eighty four. Ok, it's not high, but it's that terrible
No, it's like george relations, so this guy can run the country were tested
eight years later at age, fifteen his score fell the seventeen.
so he was going down five every
eight years. So I did
if he's got me like a potato, it's like what more suffered more to see his scholastic ability had reached the third grade level
when at age. Sixteen he dropped out. So he was sixteen and he could read like a third greater, but not only just read but just
general his disposition was sort of. I don't think it's disposition and with j like it was just when it came to centralisation. Ok, that's why it's called edgy. You do everything that were educationally mentally retarded has just about your education,
So so he drops so let's go,
it's like. I don't see what else is really a third great at that you put on the cape, get out there and make it happen to the city, my friend at seventeen, he was arrested for an arm hold up and stealing a car drafted by the hour
he served for more than a year, the infantry during korea. When he returned from korea he met and mary dorothy clark on march eleven nineteen sixty one. So he was dumb yes, but he's get some yeah and he got married
yeah some do he's so sweet you know should be like. So
wanna. Do it like Michael chase. Those rabbits conflict is a dreamer
There was a cheerful man who loved classic oh Jesus
twitter that said that the funding it I'm not. I have
wait, the gate, the one you have you at the large companies.
everything out of body language, black really like stone.
you're just one word at your way through it
since it was a cheerful man who loved classical music in those days he dressed
and was a vigorous talker debater wait right! That's the thing that you have
to understand. Is that
he's not. He doesn't come across as an idiot when you meet him, but a debate or as somebody who is very good at like way, facts I argue, is that this is something that I would. I would feel like. That would fall under this
freleigh of his retard. If you, if you met him
You wouldn't know until he said I can't read
I can't let you can you what I have five coins if I take away one out? What is that like that?
I didn't you just want to debate how many coins
two of my by please tell me, please you just one the top.
How many guys? I knew it
so then he moved even married.
And he moved to new york city await his. Why this he had firm ideas about everything is white described,
as a very deep thinkers everyone who met him thought he was very philosophical in a deep thinker
Vincent moved to new york city, re, studied and practice interior decorator cell
put a straight out his marriage, which being gay
hopefully, hopefully will do if you go honey, I'm going to be gay in new york for a couple of years, honey which one of these blue pastels. Do you like better for the living room, I'm leaving what?
so that put astronomer. His wife was like you, gotta, come back because we
it can't be a gay interior designer in new york and he was like alright, so he came back when he came back. He discovered dorothy was fine,
teachings of a group known the kingdom of yea. Why way? Yea arrogance
Why h, w e h away doesn't matter?
yeah. Why? Our he's got a thing. I think you'd it than it a big thing. Isn't it
it's something from the bible. Yeah way. I can remember I've never read that. I know I never read that I was supposed to read the bible in couch school, but I didn't, but it I know that I believe it
some assembly- I maybe I'm crazy merrimac, but this is where it starts. This is where this is. This is where,
my man, it's so doesn't start here. It is
all the glory.
you're, so not developing. Yet at extol the glue
there's a reincarnation and the power of pyramids. That's none of the bible
there's no there's no power that Jesus is like
What are they?
stop
followers swore off meat and adopted a natural diet. Vincent, however,
kept on eating meat in the nineteen sixty seven, the couple separated they last saw each other and may nineteen sixty eight vincent moved to Powell tongue in philadelphia in nineteen. Seventy, it was a cooperative neighbourhood near the campuses of the university of pennsylvania.
jackson. So it's a co up. It's a neighborhood up, so it's fuckin, liberal hippy. It's that scene sure it's that
it's that time in the world he walked on a summer had San francisco, so that stuff, hey Joe
If you want to make some shoes all right, man will I'll bring my blanket, we can sit on it, so do it
can seventy one man of the manifesto of the community. The housing incorporated bore fourteen names, including Vincent. Let parts
belton in the late sixties and early seventies was a place where a lot of people were involved in liberal politics and social justice. So writes the women's movement, the vietnam war, they were peaceful. They worked to change,
from within the system. It was a variety of people, artist, musicians, college students,
professor out of sure people didn't lock the doors second place. Man come on in Jimmy.
they were friendly and open. They had collective principles like love, my brother in Jimmy and come on in Jimmy
Our decision making is not here or hierarchical.
Authoritarian and open to the entire membership breach. The document the collected does not client
is substitute revolution in our oppressive society and oh boy, yep, so big they got together and they made a bunch of words that no one would care about.
Their should be easily taken advantage, we're gonna button,
weirdos is super easy to trust. To get that just broke so up. It was exactly the neighbourhood that had a tolerance for extremists. Problem like IRA, I'm horn a push,
bearded guru of counter culture who would Mandy around naked, claimed he organized the first birthday in eighteen, seventy
and then murdered his girlfriend and ran away to france. So, but
a brief story of ira iron horn and he was allowed to hang it. He was one of the people walk around naked and then you know how can you tell us more man, and he said
stan earth day and then I'll kill this girlfriend of errors in the environment and ran away to france.
cool where they didn't. I don't think they could extradited intel out to say the two thousand
something said yeah. It was something crazy by this time
This is no longer a nice dresser. Ok, he had deadlocks
He was roaming, the streets trailed by a pack of dogs.
Ok, the attack is strong. He
It wasn't unread man who walked around spouting philosophy. Jesus with dogs yeah with to make
events would walk dogs,
El horse meat as dog food. I read
Where do they get the horse here? What's happening? What is their luggage? You gonna die
action is a guy with a horse and it can- and you take it out like a baby advisable urged by my dogs, ignited panza horse, and
What did you do and then he walked around the co operate with a
We have horse and he's like, hey man, your figure dog, hey here limit. Could you mind if they feed your dog some horse? How does any of it work? A gulin? Hey?
a word. I realise that I only have a third good education. I think I'm gonna go into the southern horse made on the serious you take away to a my dogs out of my five, how many are left at seven?
man, s words be so cries. So that's him he
is that sam everyone that a while back of dogs that veered towards me is yeah, he's ever elected to talk to him. He was about to lose his rented row house on pearl street when the housing co op stepped in and bought it for him. So he could remain out, so that's how much they liked him. I liked them a lot.
can love than event.
About a year or a few moved in neighbours looked out one day and saw young white man standing on vincent's porch with an army of papers. I thought
some kind of school teacher and ever says, but he wasn't vincent. Had
his first disciple, ok. So now I can say here we got a man,
Download glassy down
glassy had a new degree in social work. He was trying to find himself and in doing so, he met Vincent Vincent
had all the answers. Grassy was looking for. After listening to vincent philosophizing
glassy told them. He should write this down, fits and said I dont know how to write, which at that point would give you a weird like yeah pause here.
unless he was like riding for lose. That's what I would
and lately yeah right. You know who else writes the white man, your dad, when I wrote it down in my memories, so vince it, but seriously, can you
Please write that down glassy of over to write them down for him nice.
Vincent dictate and glassy what became known as the book or the guidelines. Three hundred pages that laid out vincent's anti technology back to nature views,
the two men moved into glasses apartment to work on the guidelines they carried out their work in an apartment house that was owned by the housing co up after you,
labour. The guidelines were complete. This was the founding of the christian movement for life.
Which would soon to become known as move it. Much of it
with some of the strangest budget goes on there.
Ranges. Pope prose, I had ever read said a former calot member. The metaphor
I remember was cloaked in vomit. It was filled with metaphors, like that the book was filled.
An accusatory tone attacking science and technology. I love that electricity is cloaked in vomit cloaked in vomit. Yet so so that's the level of light. Then you get that you get like the.
Look. Maybe stupidity is actually involved here that you like how is he philosophizing, while not well
like nietzsche, wasn't like people puke on that shit. Man is
covered in doo doo,
It's totally what it was. Then glassy inventor began living the lifestyle. Sunday, ok
They refused to use road spray and their apartment very soon.
fearing would harm the dogs
entire building came, invest infested with roaches. This way they brought the roaches or they just get to that boy.
When three co members were sent to confront them. Vincent was very hostile. This was the first time,
Anyone had seen the site events in, and he said, if you not with me here
against me. What other idiot said that years later, george bush, so the car began evicting proceedings in the way
nineteen? Seventy three: do you know how much damage a fucking you have to be to get a co, opt to evict you, so they evicted vince their trial.
the franc zone is then a packet dogs, lassie broaches. Then I assume rats,
we have learned that this road, you fuckin everything in their so vincent glassy, moved out there like fuck. This shit we'll take moves on
also many wheelhouse, five dogs, two crazy people and a handful of roaches that moved across the street to a massive victorian house in the classic hippie fashion. The guy who owned the building thought Vincent was a bit of a quote. Strong character
he had a bit of quote brutality about him, but those bad things for tat, but I felt compassion
I don't know anybody. You didn't have a place to live classic
This is how it all fuckin starts like now.
But it's cool man everybody's dress, to decide what is fuckin roaches hook over here and it'll. Be fine like this is the guy that fact everything here
with a big heart, yeah man, I never seen a homeless guy before we got to put them in this big house over here. Can you believe this shit dude doesn't have a place to live? Make you believe that he learned that lesson?
What I like about fuck him, I'm given of change, then the tenets in the building quickly became,
turned about all the dogs and the
now parade of move supporters going through the building
so they decided to sell the house. It was bought by donald glassy, oh gee, how the fuck did he buy it? I don't think houses for that. Much back to see like five hundred bucks, you get a house.
This was a five hundred. While there are still people from them
to this day, who think glassy founded, move. Many people think then, and still think today that
Ass, he worked for the fbi was brought into destroy the co op Jesus yeah. Let's will the f b. I was all about destroying co up.
The board, I guess, but there is a lot of fuckin counterculture people in this area.
We could still there. I know a guy that trip there. There counterculture was that of like, but think about their also like they were black panther tie
yeah, and there were so this this
It had that whole flavor to it. There's going to be like the warriors, this good that there's going to be probably like I like strong,
anti war voices as leaders of that type. So there's all kinds of people, so it is something that actually fb I would fuck with, and my friend who grew up there said phones were tapped and the neighbor
and so there was a legitimate like the f b, I being after it was actually a yeah, so
at the beginning moves him like a peace, loving group. They pick it at the zoo demand
They are demanding that the animals be set free, ok, which they can.
Those men where they get it. What are you gonna do? What you'd? What's yours,
and go with your lines. Like dogs- hey, ok,
what we weren't, here's a hippo like www,
They aggressive after taking its one that
my arm like this. It is what keeps charging like like an indicative. Keep them through the nicest isn't so fucked up at hippos
terrifying has a hug the list so big and they look so ridiculous. Cartier ruin! You ruin you fuckin hip, hippos. You have no idea that what we put them in a rubber
cora its actual life being round dragon and murder. Are you without question run faster than you everywhere?
So they want to settle the animals free, they protested outside of a pet store, saying they didn't see the difference between pet stores in auschwitz. What knowledge
I totally agree more, I'm in name one difference. Ok outwards was
place where they killed him. He named differences.
We'll see,
there has been put jews and asked which nay palming vietnam, war, enslaving, black people and enslaving puppies puppies and as a jew, wisely think, fucking kidding me
nodded slave, their packs that you fade and they love. You said they would jews. Man, ok, fuck you there!
and these Jews run in those big wheels in there too, and their little cage. That's not what's happening, yeah yeah and they love mulch. So so they clearly were a group of idiots. Yes,
It sounds like they were led by a third grader yeah. There's no difference between these animals images. Jesus but move was oh wait. They got their biggest headlines when they handcuffed talk, show host
douglas in his studio to retaliate for an episode in which an errand chimpanzee had been handcuffed and shot with a tranquilizer dart after running a mock during
taping. So they went in the studio, their lot, their handcuff. Do they?
They see it on tv that a monkey got loose and there's not a tranquil. Chimps are fucked up, so they had it
This is why you don't want them out of the zoo they run around studios, do horrible things, that's the only other option
I will just put em. I talk to you
Furthermore, this
between guys out another joe. What do you want for miles? You want of ngos that you want. The mother like douglas, show make up your fuckin minds, but move it always been violent. The people in the co op learn this first hand after vincent and the co up had their falling out here
quit: the club yeah, then the leaders of the cop had their houses, picketed and their lies.
It'll threatened? So he's just like it's like. If.
you come over here and unlike the people next or have these two kids and the kids
it's fun to throw their balls in our yard, some constantly throwing the balls back and the kids were laughing so gareth? Can you want to picket today yeah, let's go over there make their lives hell so she's picketing. Your neighbor is like
that's also, third, great you're doing a protein protests, the neighbors out Adam.
Shot our way out of this one, you fucker joy,
yeah. I know you every july you fucking badge dawood Y o Y buddha with julie, julie time to leave so soon as they are.
Walk down the street they were in neighbors were encircled, they were cursed, they were shoved in perhaps the most and perhaps
violent incident? A move member kicked a co op member in the face breaking his nose,
he had refused to nod hello and the two passed in the hallway wow so that its pick it up not nodded.
From now on. Yet oh yeah, you learn your lesson. Gimme a nod. You measure the next time. They walk by each other man, you're good to go,
ok, you're, not about you. Don't you think about the puppy? Ok, not yet man, you got a puppy go to their mother. Fucker Vincent was now
rarely seen on the street is or is not that much
and he had a new name breaks.
obviously John africa air it is, he chose
africa, because you want to pay a hamish to africa as the continent where all life began sure they appreciated the hell I lit it, should work on vague,
but I got a plaque from africa proudly when he couldn't red. Thank you. Good luck, figuring out what this says. It just says: please buck up is likely
huge award move is a haven for drug users ex convicts and lost souls cool. John Africa played the
other figure, advising cajoling ordering
to win approval. Members had to change their diets, whereof junk food and meat and become physically fit. That's death in size,
This thing was an exceptionally arm is doing the same. Turning crossfire yeah, exactly the earning a gym yeah. It's like a new year's called it's like evans, making a new users abrasions, no more meat. I've gotta work out, keep
dogs, the trucks periodically. They were sent on an activity ordered by John Africa. They would go to demonstrated the local police station to disrupt talks by jane fonda or meetings of the board of education.
all the while their leader stayed hidden, which this I'll get a jane, fonda
against the war was so they were going out and protesting that fonda is doing it and you too pretty lady, hey fuck, you. Finally, a protest and wrong, while his forty or so followers clashed almost daily with the authorities telling into hundreds of arrests. Never once with John africa picked up.
John Africa always made sure he wouldn't be identified, but he was
was there in the background sitting down the street
commotion went on just as a little yeah yeah, it's all right
guys go over there and really let them know fuck shit up, but I'm going to I'm going to be down here. Burdensome incense, get a coffee, grebes of birds have been says,
It's scone. He has her scones yeah, you guys like scones. I got a bunch, but when you're done go, handcuff yourself to MIKE Douglas I'll be here, then this part is a little weird cause. It confronted a lot of information about it. In nineteen,
in seventy six. When move members were released from another arrest, they were coming home. They were at the house, something started with the police again, a kerfuffle, a kerfuffle that a clash with police and a baby ended up dying.
Well, okay, so there is a baby and I think I think what it was from what I could try to gather, because there's so many different pieces of information about this and a documentary that they just kind of briefly
Then a baby died and then they moved on coming up and then they just moved on, but I think I think what it sounds like is that a baby it already died and then, after the clash with police,
they were like you killed. The pain like it sounds like upstairs in the house, so it's fucked up, so there are living transporting, but the impotent
Can also point the finger now yeah. This view killed this baby today. No look,
like it's been awhile, awhile move had a family structure. Everyone was given to me
I feel good story is a feel. Good story is story. This doesn't end well, the story short. Yet I feel like it's going to end. It's not going to great like it terrified. You know what you know, what the ending is and they exploded in the flowers and there they sat
move had a family structure. Everyone has given a new age, fun one! Well, ok, everyone is one:
I your one year old now, you're in hello,
will google got that shaker keys? Have a. I think that so yeah I don't it. It seems like. So it's a way to stop a hierarchy and just say: well, you won
like there's, no parents. Now it's like now. It's like you're living now you're actually born into the system you're supposed to be born into so now. I would say start to count your year now. Is that they're not going to start counting the years who don't up guessing
it's just and the same surname africa as everyone had picked, the name africa popular name, Larry, average area. I Algeria, africa, is hilarious. This is africa, africa, crazy dude. This guy is wild, we're all one w af yeah we're one years old and
the children born to move a forbidden from synthetic formal education as it was called.
They were not taught the reader right. You know what you're gonna be like me stupider. What was it
as it good enough. For me, that is good enough for you, you don't need to read.
John? Every over this dead baby, John africa? I know myself and cockroaches
John everyone knew how to bring people in and make them the system the enemy rights right. The education is oh, whose educational you get that kind of shit
as the years passed, move gain members and grew bolder than cars expanded into the twin house next door, which move simply took over after its tenants moved out
Cool, that's five, hey that
earth and I wonder why the people moved out. We were,
under the concept of did
we're going to cut dead. So that's just hammer rolls by the way we're one. I don't think that's a legal thing. You know no legal depths. We have depth
so I try to take it away. I'm pretty sure. That's not arabs binding this evening have deep. I can hear you still. Ok
neighbours replaced by rats and followers. Those do don't get this too.
Just two symbiotic admit: quarters grew into a compound surrounded by large wooden post. It looked like a military stockade.
move, made compost piles of garbage inhuman, wasting the yards, which attracted the rats and cockroaches at what point? What okay so
They decided to so they have like it's a good since adjective duplex again
winehouse sure like sounds like a lovely place that, while in nice play so, then they get closer than they get a month. You would
post from wear out. Another pie went over near the zoo and cut asean countries installing some, and they put so it looks like the beginning of a brave heart around me, the fucking or
and then they just start shooting in the yard and throwing other garbage there. A so point is
Are you like, oh, I think, a long time ago? So, but now people are just leaving in trying to get them a vector question.
Yes, why you shooting in the yard? That's where we should now be no more questions
or the rats to a dummy. They consider morally wrong to kill pests. Okay, so they don't kill pets right sure. That's that gay wife,
whatever yadda yadda yadda yadda, where the highway the way to have a baby. Because of the time in the place, many people refused to see move as anything but victims of police brutality of races. Well, people. Ok, this fact, but that makes sense right yeah in this crazy liberal area. Will that is the problem with like live
Realism and away right is that a lot of times you are to know,
during guess who understand sure and the evil takes advantage. But at the time there is a lot of racism. Modal em
cops our raises in yeah. You saw this at that point I mean even now. If you saw this you'd sort of lake intrigue,
alright whoa whoa what's happening cause. I don't like what the government's doing. What are you offering, but it's not a rat and shits against that too, so it's maybe not as bad as those people living close to the headquarters were constantly being threatened and harassed. Club member
to try to convince paulsen neighbours. That move is a genuine threat, recall racist, so anybody who lives on that block is like hey man. This
after the shit in the yard, they're saying they're, going to kill us racist people around the blogger. Like, oh really, don't like black people now I know I did
say that the ship
in their yard, really really they all look the same. No, I I want to open your mind a little bit, bro yeah. No, he says they're shooting in the yard. He said what is racist, motherfucker longer racist
god damn in this day and age, or there were bones in their noses. Let me guess: yeah they're carry baskets on their heads, racist fuck, its members of the co op now broken a bitter. The members of the car broken a bitter faction
disputes quarrelling about whether move sympathisers should be permitted into other club houses and soon each other in common police court over proposed sale of the copse property. So it's just break it up, so things get things you're fuckin totally coming apart fork.
Members lodged a formal appeal with the philadelphia pleas for
they asked for the placement of metal shields over the front porch of the club part of building across the street from move members a steel.
between them and moves are the hero like I have. I have an idea to fix this.
Have you seen Israel,
Palestine know what had happened yet,
I shall be like Dublin, ok, yeah.
So have you seen the wall gets that that's what we should do orange on one side,
I buy the on the other. It's a lot like the sitcom, where you're like we'll just put a line of tape down the middle. That's your half! That's my half except a little higher stakes.
Did not respond. Well to police involvement shocking. I'm surprised to hear that this.
the written statement to the police are made twentieth. Nineteen, seventy seven! Hopefully we didn't like John africa right at all. It's gotta be in great depth,
attempt to move headquarters or harm move people. And yes, you want an international incident because our last names- africa, that's international, we're
hit reservoirs, anti hotels and apartment houses, close factories in tat traffic,
in major cities of europe. What I mean it's a little bit off, it's a lot of the targets are fits. Are there like? Aha, okay, do that
it's like if my neighbour came over and was like, hey man like what you're doing, and I are gonna fuck up- conquered
That's a new Hampshire right. You that's right back, that's it! If you don't stop fucking with me, I'm gonna call.
I've read in england in england and plug just neighbour teach you we are equipped. We are equipped well trade and expert in grill tactics. We're not a bunch of four
middle class college students, irrational radicals are confused terrorists. We are deeply religious organisation, totally committed to the principle and belief as top to us by our found or John Africa. We are not looking for trouble, we'll just looking to be left alone, where one
I wouldn't have started with the threats. If I was going to be left alone, because they're, the police and that's actually illegal to threaten the police.
and just make terrorist threats about the world, and I would not say what we're not because that's what you are right:
the whole. The whole thing is I'm looking for trouble and looking for trouble trouble and then I'm not linking the jumble, but it's like we are not a budget disbanded college students,
no clue what we are you are. You really are a little idea, you're, one years old,
statement was signed with the chemical equations for nature, glycerin anti anti? My
hey man! I love
words, but how do we sign this? What's our john hancock on this bitch I'll, be there making the police go to like another department, real quick? But what does
I'm not sure I got money, that's a tank. It was just the kind of thing that capture the attention of the bureau of alcohol tobacco
firearms jacket, movement members just a minute
aristotle fatigue and carry hang guns and rifles to the top. There barricaded paulsen compound the same day, a shock that police took from
move member who had left the compound was traced to glassy glassy,
then arrested and facing a five year, prison term for falsifying federal firearms forms. He became a snitch Jesus right, yeah, what a dick
that's why people think he is part of the f b. I he just let it fuck all of a sudden he's rolling and he's working with them. It's all very late, start to think get the ball rolling, get these people off.
Stop shitting in their yard. I mean first of all tremendous police work if that's true a top notch, but but then all of a sudden he's working with the FDA. Okay, so.
As he had already become disillusioned with the move and John africa when he joined John Africa preached nonviolence, and now he is becoming a weapons freak requesting all move members to obtain bazookas and mortars. Seen that doesn't that make you think he's not f b, I,
he just role because he's like yeah I mean our data will restrict, I think so, but also, if I'm, if I'm following to do,
I'm like yeah man. I like animals and he's like go, get a bazooka, I'm like how the fuck am I going to get a bazooka, I'm not going to go and get a. What am I safe
wait: where's the fucking bazooka. I go down to the grocery store, I'm like hey where's, your bazooka, like what the fuck are you looking?
yeah. I know it's just ordering them, Ghana, it told eighty of that move. Members would kill. If John africa ordered them to glasses and move it stockpiled bombs over the past year. He another move. Members had flown to cities across the nation and to london, where they left bombing timing devices without explosives and hotel rooms. These were accompanied by threatening letters.
warning that move would strike for real philadelphia did not stop it's her ass. I sat down and I know what it makes complete sense, so it makes complete sense go ahead and we can go ahead. Then what they're doing is putting a cap on the property of their taking care taken care
situation. What they're doing gecko had their basically mega fake
The round around like seattle,
drink up yet
with letters with letters that are basically like hey imagine if this was real yeah and then we live in another place. That has nothing to do with that,
yeah hey to tirana what you think and feel threatened by
Why were a jail now capable of ever following through on this, but it meant for a second. You were a little boy
better! I look for sectors. We re not without some magic. If we live
bad advice all over the world. It's almost like this is a plan that was made by a guy with a third grant. Education will make fake ban.
Leave glassy then went to pick occasion and grassy went to pick up our moves weapons in caches from two homes.
of two move members, while the eighty f over watched
that, like a state, the other sentimental
grab some shit and get out of the house right that hall from that day included twenty bombs, a pile of bomb parts to shock, earns eight high powered rifles and a handgun cheese also recover we're books.
They? Anarchists could book to the silencers, snipers and assassins handbook, an assessment
sabotage, and an army field manual on explosives. So they seem like
a good spot. Your reading there just doing a little reading. Look John africa
to be read to us because it can ass, you crush ensure. Is it wrong? Never hobby and I'll. Tell you what they
If there's one thing, I've learned of the dollar but yeah as it is wrong that incident
pledging seventy seven tenement reader reactor- oh well, it's a hobby. I have. I dont, have a skin and I
in september, nineteen, seventy seven ten move members
by John Africa were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and of manufacturing and possessing bombs. But when federal agents and police, which serve the warrants, John Africa was gone.
Then mayor rizzo said quote: they were
be able to get away with what they're in communist countries they love. That's what's wrong with america were packed off too much weight. What does this point? This? Is the map remain arisen. What is this point? He saying that? Ok, so he's
call, yet I may say so. This was fuckin communist, china or communist. It would be ok.
Yugoslavia, then they would. They would be able to get away with right. They wouldn't be able get away with that. Their communist china be like we're going to fucking shit.
Yeah and that's what's wrong with america. It was latin. These fuckin hippies.
he's at thirty are, as it is so he's one of the rare. Yet he is a rare. He is a rare guys and we should be more communist.
You don't hear a lot about rhetoric around this time. You don't hear it from
I sang, let's take the really bad part of you know, there's a lot of good
communism, let's not focus our man. They would thought these assholes kay
in late writing so designed mayor reserve order please to barricade move headquarters, so they
a man and they just put walls on the street and they they literally barricade
block the building. The irony that the groups name is move I mean yeah, you won't be moving move. I love you, I love it gives them other than Jesus. I think
was going to try to move so they supporters defied the mare and brought the modern supply. So you see video of their barricaded and hippies our common will.
Imagine shit like how many pictures of Katie brother, I like what you do like the man, the man. It sounds like shit, real bad by the way, but here man. So it's really great. So then he says oh wait supports define.
Brought spies on august eight. Nineteen. Seventy after negotiations failed. Please move in ok.
the police will be in there to drag them out by the backs of their necks, they're gonna be taken by force. If they resist never underestimate estimate an opponent
never underestimate an opponent always get in there with more than is necessary and you overpower them may result
air reserve is not a good mayor. What do you mean? Well first, mayor risen
It has not ever ring to it. It's bad. It's gotta go to begin with a low mafia, and I have also noticed that this policy that a shoot first ask questions now gathered
definitely a hey we're going to fuck them up feeling about all this yeah. You want to fuck me. I'm going to fuck
you're address philadelphia square,
What we in fact
ice mayor. Rizzo second term will give these hippies aids mayor rizzo reelection speech. It's up now of all the dumb shit we have on tv. Why can't? I see the mayor reserve. There is, oh, my god, just the fucking yeah. It's time
Now I quote, move when the police came in with a bulldozer answer
it's a great start inserted, knocking on their fence.
The those comes in knocking on their fence to get to their ship of poor rats. You sons of bitches goddammit
fuckers god damned mother, fucking, pigs, god, damn it? I'm saying come on with their mother. Fucker was shit on you goddamn fools, so that's their response.
to them the holy grail. While it feels like both sides are a little
Who do you route for europe for the co up
lady, like I wanted a garden, I'm the dog. So after the policeman
and the fence they start moving in firemen serve to fire firehouses and our sprang hoses at the house. I mean that you just know that is still out outmatched, but then,
shoots, you can see it on video, other costs and firemen start to scatter.
The fire has just gone crazy is one of the fireman got shot so want to fires, just fucking, skirt and all over the world.
But, like you see in a three have received cops are shot firemen who shot one cop dead offers of james ramp road.
So then there like go where real situation on hands and then making
I need the house is time to stop spraying what I think I think that they visited got the fence.
Here and they're like would remove in it's gonna be a fucking gunfight from Hell
If they just keeps brand the house, you can imagine you're sitting in a house that likes like soap,
you're in the basement or whatever, and it's just fucking soaked eventually, I don't want to be here anymore, but I mean you would just you know it made me be like. I don't want to be here at all. How how long do you want to be wet? I mean how long damp
I got a little. They really really
not every day, but I feel like I bill. I gotta be like leads annoying, let its annoying when really for how long I've been through. That could govern days you're, but they were too
we're at some point you're like. I don't want to be aware that I have guns. I'd be like keep. Shooting shoot, delay, stop tampering us one by one as well.
Baby one by one, twelve adult move members and some children were driven from the compound in flesh from its basement by water.
when one guy came out to give it to give up to the cops they just beat. The shit out of them live on the news, so you just see them
just kicking. I had never heard anything like that was right.
when he did show cops everyone's like yeah yeah, there's video of them just kicking some guy when he rolls around on the ground. John africa was not among them tricky africa. Then they tore down the house. Okay, the police just knocked the shit knocked down. Sure I mean again
this strategy, but sure move members think there is a police cover up and the police shot off. Sir James ram, because
it's how cops operate well, yeah a lot of times. In the first day of beginning the gods will be like shoot him and then we'll blame them, shoot Gibby. That's other thinking that thinking of protecting themselves
Then Jimmy was I I was working
have iD, but there's Jimmy's plan. He was like ok, guys, I'll move up, there kill me and then gulf. You show me in the bag that had a mag you've got those mothers earn it and earn it. But then move mirrors also says stuff.
Like the people who know us know that we are not terrorists. We fight costs because their dirty their filthy. They are criminal, so the
same way doesn't know along the first sentence. Doesn't
go with the second sentence at all. It's almost like they're, completely opposite sentences. The people who know us know that we are not terrorists. Fine, fair! We fight cops because they are dirty. They are filthy, their cribs.
ok, wait, also willing,
that cop, ok
hard time that killed that guy that started statement. Read it back. Okay, good nine move. Members were prosecuted for the murder of officer rap. They were sentenced to thirty to one hundred years to nine mm or put away real rough,
rough sentence to the district attorney brought charges against the cops would beat the move guy on camera kay
even though it was clearly videotape, they committed a crime. There are found not guilty. Why a
not not by a jury but by a judge didn't even they really now we'll need a jury.
It means that they chose a judge that was like yeah kicking a guy in heads cool gap.
I am, I am adds lodge habit of four,
the trial you guys good with yeah? That's great. While the barricade was going down, three men named Jimmy leave fart
Oh my god, I thought you said Jimmy Lee fart Jimmy leaf heart cells picture
ernie invincibly fired, wait a minute thought property. What the fort brothers patriarchy.
The heart problems. What's that
sometimes this,
It does seem like a plan that was covered by a guy with third grade education. Mr fuck, the doctor for my brother, MR snickers, dear yes, where the farts
Jimmy leave arms. My brother Bobby, who
where the virus, you fathers, the farts, brought property.
In other words, by propagated, though the forts broke.
Opera in rochester, new york,
We are, of course aliases and wine was federal. Fugitive John africa
who are gonna, be johnny,
We, the fibers brothers, mover, ready viper,
moving in a k, self move
but seven how fights we just move next door? What's your wedding, you guys do potluck three guys do rodya, that's right for the parts
We set right on the mailbox rather far kid we live like that move.
Move, but seven houses of the next four years and a gas station? And then they moved to rochester. Stockades went up around
It was the same old patter they dug up. Driveways earth could breathe weird battered
got a leather three murders
Oh my god jeez. I thought that was never going to. I was dying under there, hey the fights, the porches return off the houses
and slots were put over windows. John F,
became known in the neighbourhood as the dude who enjoyed running
He was running in the streets and bare feet everyday. Then he said
putting out bonds for stray dogs in rats? Here,
are you really ready some,
where's began to become upset the conflict that attracted the attention of the eighty f. I've been there really if you're, the if you're the first,
it's yeah, just lay low, then just chill out she also hires. One way to lay low is not to call yourself the farts. Yet no big, big red flag, I mean there's there's just not a lot of people
He's gotta just want to hf headquarters is a board or the picture up. There's the leaders
before it. What I stopped laughing
come on. You guys are serious. Now these guys are serious business, we're going to smoke the farts out of the house, though god damn. Why are you laughing god? Damn it all right now, back in the project fart anyway, Larry quiff
one day several vehicles pulled up and John africa who was walking down the street was arrested. They just
hold up and the guy didn't roll down the window and he's like I've been looking for. You and John everybody, I know, and he just got it like that, was it it was that easy, okay,
in a delegation he said his name was vincent life and then he was one year old.
Google goggles my statement. Google goggles go to remove the cassette. He said it was okay. That move
it bars, because society had made all the chemicals to make bombs and they just makes them together. Ok, that's later now that means that you can make everything on earth. If you,
is half the shit yeah. So your whole organization is built on fucking bullshit, because if you're talking about going back to nature everything out there that people make you can use, which is everything you hold on a goddamn. Second, what this whole operation is built on dog shit: okay, not bullshit. Alright, I'm sorry.
A bitch. Everything else is completely valid. John Africa's trial went smooth. What
Those who defend himself from various he was very respectful. One of the prosecutors thought this was the strongest case he'd ever had, and this creates a third grade.
Education glassy was the star witness.
Two other movement members defected and backed up glassy statements.
They had the bombs they had the weapons, africa's co defendants, Alfonzo robins, just put witness after witness upon the stand to testify. The John Africa had cured back problems, epilepsy, smoking, marital problems and drug addictions. So there's there's a couple of things
there's a couple different trials. I can't believe that he cured epilepsy, one of the guys trying to get a tv show yeah the ones trying to prosecute him for bombs.
He even said it had caught. He even said John africa
because the terrain one police were blockading the palate and compound which was actually those yeah lots of it do direction tat,
really located in one area and then it would move very focused re, very, very it like I'd. Storm clouds followed us through it. All John Africa only spoke twice.
was to cross, examine and eighty f agent and wants to deliver his closing argument?
on the move was jot. Africa's greeting as he faced the jerry furs. Closing argument. I love him. I love him
on the movement of all this guy's gonna get down to business before he was finished. Living would amount to a bizarre sermon. John Africa would cry ten times he was by his rights.
A victim, I'm not a guilty man, I'm an innocent man, I'm fighting for air that you ve got to breathe and of fighting for one water that you ve got to drink and if it gets any want worse, you're not gonna, be drinking that water on fighting for food that you ve got to eat, and you know you ve got it and if it gets any worse, you're not gonna be eating that
fu. Don't you see if you took this thing all the way, all the way you
clean air, clean water, clean soil and be quenched of industry, but you see that they don't want that. They can have that monkeys, don't shoot people, but people shoe
monkeys. Yet monkeys are seen as clear and people are seen as intelligent. You can go as far as you want in the forest. A new war
no jails, because animals are the forest, don't believe in jail.
What kind of civilization- and that's all you say. I rest my case. He needs the civil war,
when the ape like a bull shit, they really is. They have guns aunt Jane S, have world Caesar's, quite a man. This is way after the movies and come out all five of, though now here's, what crazy re, yokels
but he's saying is not that awful?
What are you saying is I want to protect
as from pollution
and you know the guy or man right if you are trying to do that? Don't work plan is, however, the land
somebody's our jails also monkeys, do not have J right. The plan, the waiting pictures, the plan.
Is not clear or a good and well I don't know. But what he's going for is jury notification. Do you know what that is now said, Jane and like? If you go, if you sit on jerry for a guy that is being prosecuted for smoking pot, sure you can say, I dont believe that's adjust, law right and just say not guilty based on jury notification while ok, so I think that's what he's going far so he's trying to get them,
to basically not believe in the crime is charged right right. Ok, I wish every eye was affect the jury deliberated for six days, though this is this: is the prosecutor? Has
the strongest case he ever had as a career is probably like he's like what in the fuck is happening. Africa and robins were acquitted. While the prosecute
huskisson was stunned. It was the only case one prosecutor everlasting his whole career. They had so much evidence. They were withdrawing some evidence during
Proper isn t real flowing they'll be exempt
how many bodies where we have to show them just ease up? We can jump tents and authority.
They were aware over evidence, togae secured over evidence were over edward over selling this crime. We're talking, I cells out of a guilty, as he walked to his car. As such great video as John africa's wine to his car, he was asked how he felt when the verdict was red and he said,
nothing. I was asleep true. He was sleeping, have the tattler, the after actors
John africa move to home on acid avenue that his sister
He was now obsessed with his own power, telling of followers that he'd outsmart in the entire united states. He began committing the kids to hate their pets
then started ordering move kids to beat up their parents. He then,
told the young children that he was now their mother and father
new rules on your parents and then those people that used to be
I want you to be a debate about the fate of up their uncle farts in children, the flag,
who's got the catch
Do you ll, be Peggy workers
is your glasses to make fire burn your parents, Africa never ventured outside dosage avenue headquarters. It was a blue collar. Neighbourhood, kids are playing ball in the streets. Parents who sit on the stoop
Everyone knows each other and then right in the middle, that crazy fucking, p
Moving a house board up the windows immediately and then start
asking from a loudspeaker, you motherfuckers what the fuck are you doing
at their do know. What's going on here, you sons of bitches you're, here fuckin everybody what the fuck is going on.
but you're like who is this guy ryan said we die the one vote for him: did we buy the wrong neighborhood just blasting this new hip hop is very unfocused. Neighbors are a bummer next door. Neighbors would just lay in bed at night and cry and hope. The city would come find a way to deal with a situation. You certainly couldn't talk to the move members. They would go down the street to the park, cut down, trees and dragged the logs up the street and into the house. Wood would be stacked up in the front of the house. There was so much of it. Neighbors asked them to do something about it. Some move put all the wood on the roof. They built two bunkers
it's flat so in the middle of the roof bunker. So, in the southern middle of this nice little street, there's one house that has all the poor all the windows boarded up and then they also took the they like took the wood paneling off the building. So you know you can look through a little
why take off the paneling they did that they built the bunkers
top with holes tissue guns. Out of now I know I wasn't an exterior
and then there's a fence bit trees in the front yard with compost piles. This campus has got to stop and there's like dude climbing up the front.
House like rappelling up with the axes on their back and you're? Just like I'm going to take a hit? This I feel, like are property values. Goddamn. Am I crazy to think that the neighborhood is not what it used to be?
since they started becoming like I remember I would get upset about- were Jim parked his car and visit. I just get angry about the bush hanging over the fence, but now it's just like god. I long for those two thousand, this pilot sure there's a pile of shit in what used to be driveway literally a ship pie, I'm not even using a you'd. This is literally a pile of shit.
on may third, nineteen, eighty four, a dead one on top of the move house with a shotgun wearing a mask on his face,
comfortable to come home to police came. There is a standoff. Stanhope lasted two hours, please never entered the house and no rest remain
no arrests well, because technically it's not a crime. Is it not a crime
I sit on the roof of your house with a mask and a loaded. It's not not in america, because
Fuckin. Why I mean when I was in college, we got into a b for the guy across the street, who was a real fuckin weirdo and they like
I was living in the house and was it was a suburban place and the dude
into his house and brought out like a fuckin dirty harry gun like a huge pistol,
He sat there staring at our house sitting on his car,
and we called the cops and the cops came again. It's Jimmy's cool, like he's, not fucking, that's a threat.
Again, now it's cool persuade her to day ass. He sat there with a gun staring at her house, it's legal
also like sounds illegal because, like he has a b has a right to the gun. Will now he's not he's? Probably you know you can go to rest for heads like a cave forty, so you have undoubtedly that's how it should, because just in case one you never know how you gonna eat without the safety of knowing that you can protect their family after eating your home prize of the man who is a load of lucy? Have you seen red don t? You know what's happening things or care to hear
The philanthropy
de I got permission from the courts to evict move the info. They got to uphold the eviction
to move members who are confidential informants. One was the woman in the house who haven't me john after your sister,
who he had his nephew beat up stuff
it pursued. Charges of disorderly conduct provide election, criminal conspiracy and terroristic threats on may twelve nights unified the police began to evict the street as a jab into the surrounding area. Naturally it was mother's day. What else would you do?
great time you ve had so much time mothers do, they told neighbors. They would have to be out of the house for twenty four hours.
a reporter asked one neighbour what he thought would happen and the man said I think you'll have to kill all of them the police. Commissioner,
commissioner sanborn had premier prepared at announcement for the people inside the house. He read it.
You, a bull horn like a lunatic attention, both this
america means seriously leggings who, on the who, in this story, isn't a crazy asshole. It's like a lifeline.
Beyond that? Rambo movie this in america, this is america, talk
like what in the fog
then he reads the warrants. This is difficult.
The police jackass. Just have this to say your fucking name, your police, commissioner sandler job is america. Ok that there's another
Alright, then moves like now. This is america. Mother fucker only did not did they just say their america moves that they would not surrender. They said
It would kill all the cops and then the cops wives would be sleeping with other men before the end of the day quantum.
old proclamation, it's pretty soon knows gray. Presumptuous is and grieving, so they're they're, just assuming that bit once they kill
is cops their wives. You mean the guy fucks up that, oh, my god, yeah yep. They also the cops wise, be sleeping with black men before the end of the day,
so on one hand there saying you're, wives, whores you refer
maybe, but then there are others using them. Black men are that great, because the other thing is
ready to fuck a while yeah they're, definitely they're hitting a lot there's a lot of shrapnel to go around are definitely saying that the wives are whores and that their black men whores, which are war later whore they're, so bad they're, going to sleep with guys like us. Okay, a mixture is coming from
I you live on shit mountain tops started, sprang, tear gas,
Oh shit load a tear gas,
It's just rain. It's just a giant cloud of rain. This rain hurts then our eyes the tear gas is covering the whole neighborhood. Then move shot at the cops with automatic.
it's okay! Everyone could hear the automatic weapons firing and then had to be coming from move. But after the entire episode was over, police did not find any automatic weapons. They didn't have any guns capable automatic fire turns out, but the police, commissioner, is positive that move shot with automatic weapons, but he can't explain why they didn't have automatic weapons. Sometimes guns dissolve yeah. I've seen that in terminator or they just yeah. They turn into
esther, whenever yeah yeah does guns. So clearly the cop shot. First, are you sure, I think said? Okay, so they shoot a budgetary gas. A no! No news cameras can me around ryan there's nothing, no with either the eyewitnesses any land and they start fuckin shoot. Another house so
now once they shoot, they can be treated as violent felons right in the middle of a crime, so that
now where we are now their violent felons can be, you can do whatever you want. The move people sent, the kids damned the garage and the men went up to them.
If there were three women for and six children and a house to house John africa is one of them. The police ran out of bullets in the morning. They used ten thousand rounds of ammunition in the morning holy shit happy mother's day. Apparently like
it- was just like the most fuckin insane thousand bullets. Yet because the bunker think that there would be a casualty,
Ah well be issued at a house daily. Think somebody like
I don't just get ass, yet they are bunkers everywhere.
Yeah right
because the bunkers on the roof. Please please that move were in a better tactical situation. In them, the cops sprayed fire cannons at the bunker off a crane like they did before with other house ten thousand ten thousand gowns a minute, and we want to knock the bunker over now. Move it already gone through the water.
torture episode, yeah so another like me: they had they had a. They had a plan to counter they put tarps on the bunker. So no water got in Jesus is real. I mean it's amazing how simple, yes, hard part yeah. We should get this tent,
so they're, just in the black sea, god dammit, I got tired of this market. Bugger is coming down. This is america. You type trick.
So then everyone took a break at lunch, like
every logistic smoke takeover.
I look forward and why
is sitting around it's five pm. Someone from the bomb squad was like hey. I got an idea: why don't we fly a helicopter over the house and we'll drop a bomb on it, and everyone was like that. Sounds cool
whoa the mayor's again like I'm good. This is america. After all that everyone was, I can see what can go wrong.
The police loaded, a satchel with four pounds of water, gel explosive and c4 plastics plastic on a forty five second feuds.
Fixated on which people can see if it's what the fuck the helicopter, a helicopter hovered about fifteen feet over the roof
and they rise, though how we went full ballot.
What you saw on board the whole thing
This is yet this all islamic, then yeah they dropped a huge bomb on the roof it explodes and the bunker still there what the fuck
so five minutes after the bomb smoke starts pouring out of the house and the police turned off. The water cannon
The sweeties, because there's fire shouted out shut it down,
without a doubt general hurting ourselves. That's what you do when there's fire right. Then, fifteen minutes later the fires now raging out of the house. Now it's fire coming out of the house. They still do not turn on the fire cannon. He was gone yeah. The fire commissioner, was told by the police commissioner to let the fire burn, because he wanted the tactical situation. He wanted the bunker to burn down yeah
And the fire commission was like yeah. That sounds good, I'm just a fire commissioner to find that the fire burning in the middle of the city. I don't know what I dunno. What these artists, which is what
egg with his eye, is the bologna as amazing, so.
they burned, and a bird.
and the mayor's watching on tv in his office in city hall. Now
sofia, mayor rizzo,.
Philadelphia is one of the last know. This is a different different. Now now we have a black mayor- oh god, he's probably sleeping with some of those cop lives right horse. So he's
Just leave enough that off. He is one of the last cities to get cable in america.
by soon because of all the mob shit and whatever else sure so he's
king on an antenna in his office. We know school
any such water coming and pouring out of the fire here.
later realized after several minutes that that was just bad reception. It was snow share- is little dots, not water, fire dots
and then he realized was a bad tv signal and he ordered the loop with the fire out. That was at six pm. The police commissioner, said that he told the fire commissioner to put out the fire, but the fire commissioners said: the police, commissioner, did not tell him to put out the fire, so it just kept burning. They just stake out video from across the street like right across the street they're they're in a in a building, shirt windows, open and the the the house, the the John africa, and is engulfed in flames right and the cops are talking on the
video you can hear them talking whether it's pointed at the house and the cops say I bet they won't call the police commissioner a mother fucker anymore, and then they all just laugh. Let me I'll just laugh because it's a fucking bbq, so now it's getting dark
yeah yeah is remember the last time they had to stand up for the cops
beat the shit out of that right on the ship. Now, wouldn't you say that of those three com,
you wouldn't have one of them now in a
To go position that very important during that I know you would not have him in that possess. One of the copse who was put on
Forbidding the move guy nineteen. Seventy eight was there: he was behind the house in the alley with his partner. The only place that no one can see with cameras
And they had a machine gun.
So there's no view of anything from anybody, just whatever those guys say happen, hap
the house is completely engulfed in flames
the alley. The move members open up. The garage door and say they're coming out specific
they are. They want to get the kids out
police say re africa then came out and started shooting, but a boy
who is in the house later said that re did not have a gun this hands, because
is carrying a child and a monkey wrench that he helped to use to open the garage door and monkey wrenches, don't shoot yeah yet someday. So the fire at this point starts
If from building to building, then the boy says he heard tell the da da da da da da da Da Da, they actually asked the kid in court deposition make the sound of mating as he just taps on the,
so the shooting the fucker machine gun at then re ran back inside the house and put the garage door back up the cab say he ran back into the inferno because they were going to regroup and figure a new plan. There is a great video of a minister be likes it. Can you tell me what
it's a man run into fire and the cops are like just to regroup regroup and he goes got his wallet. I guess I'm trying to, and he just keeps asking him. I guess I'm trying to understand because for me
that, wouldn't make me run into fire in the council
yeah, I know it's weird. It's weird thing: we're guy yeah, they love fire, it love that
I love fire, really big, verifying fire guy. So
the cops they all they said was come on down with your hands up, but they also had a machine gun.
one kid ran out whose name was birdie
woman ever Mona africa. At that point, everything was on fire. The cops did it look like they just ran out of fire
romano was on one side of the fence and tried to lift Bertie over, but she dropped him and he fell down and was knocked out or winded briefly, so a cop decided to go help, even though the cops with other cops don't fuck around it's a trap, she's going to shoot yeah. He ran over and grabbed the kid and got him safely out.
Ramona Bernie, with the only move members to survive, everyone died in the fire. The fire kept burning, sixty
one homes burn down the whole neighborhood burnt. Everyone is like an area from others. There we find here.
and yet families were like. Oh we're here to celebrate. Our mother is not going to be a thing. There is a just like a city block is burned to nothing. It's ashes worth it.
That's what I'm saying as to whether the city's first
Black Mare had dropped a bomb on a black neighborhood in the way
The disaster mere good said the police commissioner, and manager
a managing director had done outstanding jobs quote it did not.
as we had intended, but it was the right decision. It was a good plan and it could work
what automotive next time do we get an almost again mala game? All I get to do it next time, a smaller bomb where you live or what what's wrong
Try live you learned Jesus.
A few days later he apologized tearfully on tv, and he was
elected in nineteen eighty eight. What do you have to do and fear
You did not get reelected, I mean really burned down. Sixty four houses and killed twelve people or what I like you children.
You ever those guys unattractive and the other makers just crazy
as the mayor of politics and ninety nine.
and become a minister. He now runs a youth mentoring programme, the city of philadelphia paid to rebuild the house's, so that was nice. Re sweet sweetheart
Oh the houses were all condemned in two thousand and one because of shoddy construction did I leave that part out the that's cool. Finally, the mayor street offered owners, one hundred and fifty thousand and threatened to demolish the houses for those who didn't accept his offer cool
Well, they have acquired a fillip. Have this like? Why do people think they're mean
don't know. That is where the people think that many took the buyer. But twenty four families went to federal court,
doesn't apply the twenty four homeowners, one, eight twelve million dollars
He gets a city for bosh, rebuilding and repairs on their homes. So that's good right, yeah!
thousand and eight. A three judge federal appeals panel reduced that amount to one hundred and fifty thousand for all the homer say: fuck up here's, my here's, my
judgment far. You write that reserves,
join. You got lucky,
I want a house, my judge balls la dealt ruin of
the represented herself in court and she went to jail for several years. The cop who testified in the commission hearing about the events who ran to Bertie and saved his life was named James beard hair. He had nigger lover written on his police locker. He was diagnosed with ptsd and left
force and nineteen eighty seven he saved kids life and the other cockspur furious a child. He saved a child,
geez. Then the commission and the commission hearings he's like almost crying about having what he he's about being a part of killing people he's almost crying and the other cops look like bad guys from a an eighty
helicopter heist movie. They got moustaches and the like
So why are you crazy cry? They came ass. They came out trying to shoot at it's out of the fire ball and we were like fuck. You like it's the commission
the commission and investigative mayor good and to other officials. Please, commissioner george sam bore and fire commissioner, William richmond had been grossly negligent
The death of the move. Children appeared to be unjustified homicide. It said the report charge good with political cowardice and called the city's actions. Morally reprehensible. No charges were filed
Birdy, whose real name was Michael ward, went to live with his father, who had been stationed in the military overseas. During this whole thing, Bernie died.
each forty one when he got drunk and passed out in a hot dog on the caribbean crews.
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move is still around its members, still attitude
still around its members, still agitating for the release of the eight members who have been in prison for the nineteen seventy eight cop killing most of the two does
there's some members, all of whom take the surname africa live.
House three miles from us avenue.
they eat a lot of food, they home school, their children, but the taxes have changed since the bombing drew the world's attention. Yeah
Ramona Africa is not a jail says. It's not!
sorry for us to be on the bull horn. Now people are calling us for information. They speak of John africa in the present tense, even though his body was recovered in them.
My friend John just chosen.
Remind me of that story. Surreal feel good tale
in the nineteen eighties american,
these force murdered around and by.
Murdered. A group of assholes would speak, but children still and burned out sixty four houses in nineteen, eighty, four,
how you like in america now I just you know I just did-
I feel that today, just yet right, that's a great story. What a great tail for work!
Truth is I'm glad moves still around too that's good yeah here. Well, it's all. It's all going to be yeah, it's all good, like the mayor's last name. It's all good
yeah sounds good. I must admit that was a campaign slogan, mayor good, that's what is that's an appropriate title for this and sometimes fire. That's you know what
Sometimes you gotta burn down a house. A job obama has kill a bunch of kids, prove a point. Sometimes you gotta level, a neighborhood you'll, never forget mother's day.
That's right! Happy mother's, crazy things going on it's a good one. I was going to do that at pod fast and then I was like nuggets too fucked up with the yeah yeah
I would just be like why can't spray paint again, this pervaded what was out there? How many kids died?
So our balloons well get stuff good stuff. Anthony here. Well, then, think about
I mean you get even you the guy citizenship in their well yeah in england. I can you and I were much better- deserve it now
The brain is rain, their god bless
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