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Moment of Clarity

#684 [REDACTED TONIGHT] - The Truth About The Bronx Fire, Surviving Guantanemo & more

Moment of Clarity

Lee Camp

News Commentary, Comedy, News

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After a Bronx apartment building set on fire earlier this month, killing 17 and injuring many more, a national conversation picked up about low-income housing and tenant rights. New York City’s new mayor initially tried to blame tenants who hadn’t closed the fire door and the people whose space heater may have caused the fire. Lee Camp takes on this story to expose the true culprit responsible for this fire. Naomi Karavani brings you a very special interview this week. She interviewed former-Guantanamo detainee and author Mansoor Adayfi about his experience being held in the US’s most notorious illegal detention center, Guantanamo, for 14 years without charge.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Roll, let's roll, never get their control.

0:04.0

They've got their money, but we've got our soul.

0:08.0

Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control.

0:12.0

They've got their money, but we've got our soul.

0:16.0

Welcome to Redacted Tonight. You've probably heard that one of the most deadly building fires in recent history happened this month in the Bronx.

0:26.6

17 people died, including several children, and 15 others were in critical condition.

0:32.6

So the brand new New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, got together with some allies, and they took turns

0:39.3

chastising the tenants for not closing the fire doors as they fled the building.

0:44.3

Ah, the great American tradition of blaming the victims. The first American blame the victims'

0:50.3

Invitational was held in 1621, when the Pilgrim said the natives had clearly smallpox themselves.

0:57.0

But here is last week's New York City version filmed by Breakthrough News.

1:02.0

Close the door. Closing the door.

1:04.0

Legislation that addresses either the manufacturing of space heaters or the need for education about fire safety or the need for

1:13.3

self-closing doors. Yes, when hundreds of people are streaming out of an over-crowded apartment

1:18.4

building fleeing a fire, why don't they just shut the door? I don't know about you, but when I'm

1:23.9

running for my life, shutting the door is at the top of the list, along with turn off the lights, scoop the kitty litter, and leave a post-it note to remind myself to thaw the brisket for dinner.

1:35.7

And that's the first time I've yelled brisket for dinner.

1:39.2

I take that back, actually. I was in a porn once in Idaho Falls because I desperately needed some clams

1:44.7

to feed the loan sharks, and the producers were trying to appeal to a niche fetish called

1:49.2

Hamdom in which naked people abuse a meat dish. But what Mayor Adams and his co-conspirators didn't

1:56.4

want to mention to anybody was that according to New York City law, the door should have been self-closing.

2:03.9

Oh, interesting. So maybe this door situation is just one small piece of a larger issue called

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