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I quote a Christian Saint, Timothy,

and I find it to be true what he said,

that the love of money is the root of all evil.

That's the end result of my spiritual,

intellectual quest.

It is the end, it is the fundamental truth

that I have verified through three decades,

of empirical, investigative,

legal, academic research,

trying to answer some fundamental

questions about human existence,

and why we behave the way we do,

why we think the way we do,

why we act the way we do.

The love of money is the root of all evil,

and it is the love of money which has the potential

to exterminate, to render extinct

the entire human race.

Alright, so here we have this, uhm, this

likable, sincere guy in the White House.

And he is as imprisoned as we all are.

I need to cut, I need to cut.

I'm just having a real powerful wave

of emotion right now.

Because I-, a whole new realization is opening

to me about what I'm actually saying,

and this is some serious f***ing sh*t,

so I gotta get my head around it for a second.

F***.

Okay, I'm ready.

He's a prisoner of government, he's a prisoner

of politics, he's a prisoner of economics,

he's a prisoner of the Federal Reserve bank of New York,

of the Federal Reserve, of a governmental system, that's

archaic, and not quickly responsive,

so we should not make the success,

or failure of human civilization

rest on his shoulders.

The only thing in the world that you and I

can possibly change,

to give ourselves a chance of survival

and to give our children a chance at

some kind of human, civilized life,

is our minds.

You have to believe, not wish,

not hope, not pray, not beg,

you just have to believe that there's a way

out of it, and you're gonna find it.

This is perhaps the greatest part

of the American characterism.

When we get pissed off and we put

our minds to something, we clearly understand

what needs to be done.

We believe in it, we really can

change things.

I plan on living joyfully and happily

for the rest of my life.

A free man.

Sh*t.

How can you possibly say there's no hope?

Just change your mind and see what we see.

Stop thinking like dinosaurs.

So do you feel that

the work that you do,

you just kind of do it, regardless of

what the possible consequences are.

It just would've been so much easier

to have walked away.

If there was a German

in 1932, 1933,

who had the foresight to look ahead and to see

what the inevitable endresult of the Third Reich would be,

if there was somebody who had seen that coming,

do you honestly think

that they could in good conscience turn around

and walk away from it and pretend it wasn't there?

When every passing day, from the first election

of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933,

to Kristallnacht, to the Night of the Long Knives,

to Anschluss, the occupation of Austria,

Sudetenland, Poland. As all of those things happened

that were right on the map, how do you think

that person would have felt?

Do you think that person could have walked away?

We are all collectively as a species,

responsible for what may be the greatest

preventable holocaust

in the history of planet earth.

Our own suicide.

How do you walk away from that?

How do you sleep at night?

Who is anybody?

Who are you to tell me

it would have been easier to walk away?

You aren't in my skin.

It was never easier for me to walk away,

because to walk away would have meant

to compromise, to walk would have meant selling out.

You know, I'm still a guy

who, 30 years ago,

approached his goverment as a citizen,

asking for redress of grievance.

I cut the CIA deal in drugs,

it's wrong.

Somebody needs to talk about this.

I'm still that same guy.

I'm still the 27 year old,

about to be promoted,

perfect record, perfect rating report,

LAPD dedicated, clean LAPD cop.

He's still alive in me

and he very much wants some answers.

There is a legend, or a fable

that really speaks to my life.

About the 100th monkey.

Long time ago, in the late '40's, early '50's,

when Atom bombs and H-bombs were invoked

with above ground testing,

we set off an atom bomb

on an atol in the Pacific.

And then we waited a number of years,

because we wanted to answer questions like

how soon after we nuked something,

would it be possible

to get any kind of life started again?

So they went back to this island and

they decided to repopulate it with monkeys.

And the monkeys ate coconuts.

Everything was pretty healthy, except for the fact

that the husks of the coconut were slightly radioactive.

So the scientists took 10 monkeys or so,

and taught them to wash the coconuts

in the fresh water stream on the island

before they cracked them open,

and turned the whole thing loose

to see what would happen.

Well, you know, pretty soon

maybe 12 monkeys

out of a population of 10 000

were washing their coconuts.

and then 20,

and then 47.

But a funny thing happened.

As soon as the 100th monkey

started washing his coconut husk,

all 10 000 started washing simultaneously.

I-, I guess one way that I have always looked

at my life, especially since I clearly understood

what this issue was in late 2001,

is, this is my quest for the 100th monkey.

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