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Who’ll Rule Us? The Crips or the Bloods?

03-12-2013 • http://lewrockwell.com

ROCKWELL: Well, good morning. This is the Lew Rockwell Show, and what an honor to have as our guest today, Mr. Jesse Ventura. Jesse is, of course, the former Independent governor of Minnesota. He's a former U.S. Navy SEAL, former professional wrestler. He's a movie actor, visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government – where I'm sure he shook them up, as they should have been shaken up – of course, a New York Times best-seller, and the host and the executive producer of the wonderful TruTV series, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. And Jesse's last book, which I loved – and we'll link to, of course, all his books and his web sites and so forth – was 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read.

But, Jesse, I want to talk to you today about your newest book – very exciting; I have it right here on the desk in front of me – DemoCrips and ReBloodlicans: No More Gangs in Government. Now tell us about the two political gangs in government.

VENTURA: Well, they're just that. They are like gangs. They parallel gangs completely. I am a bit of a voice of experience. Many people didn't realize but I write in this book that I was a member of the Mongol's outlaw motorcycle club earlier in my life and I spent a few years doing that, so I do know what they are, and I've also been in government, and they're gangs. Laughingly, they actually do even steal their colors, because the Crips' color is blue. Well, what's a blue state? That's a Democratic state. The Red color, naturally for the Bloods. What's a red state? That's a Republican state.