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Chris Smith: I thank my good friend. You know, mention has been made about Margaret Sanger. I have read three of Margaret Sanger's…

On the recordSeptember 29, 2015
I thank my good friend. You know, mention has been made about Margaret Sanger. I have read three of Margaret Sanger's books. In one of them, called The Pivot of Civilization, she talks about the cruelty of charity of caring for indigent women who carry babies to term, that you should not give them help, that charity is cruel. She was a racist. Read her books. Read her birth control review. I went to the Library of Congress, got many copies of it and read through it. She had many programs that talked about focusing on Blacks and others for extermination. Just read her books. And, again, The Pivot of Civilization is one of the worst. Let me also say to my friends that they talk about how these videos have been doctored. Well, there is a new report that just came out called the Coalfire Forensics Analysis. It finds that the videos are authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing. The events depicted in the missing footage fall into five common categories: commuting, waiting, adjusting recording equipment, meals, and restroom breaks. At each interview, four devices recorded conversations, two video recorders with microphones and two audio-only devices. I ask my friends and colleagues on the other side to take a look at that analysis. Again, you just attack the whistleblower. You attack the organization. But you don't look at the evidence.…
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Sep 29, 2015

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