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built Molotov cocktails

I do not believe

is a violent act.

Property destruction

is not violence.

(police screaming)

There's a million problems

with anarchists using arson,

but one of the problems, even if you're

looking at it from their perspective

and you do take

their world view,

is that they're not...

they don't have Ph.D.'s in determining,

you know, risk assessment.

What if you hurt someone?

What if your fire

goes out of control?

Hanners:
I kinda got the feeling

that some of this was overblown.

What you have at the core is,

you know,

a couple of 22-year-old guys

who really didn't have a strong

clue as to what they were doing.

I think they got in

quickly over their heads

and got caught up

in the moment.

They hadn't gone up there planning

to make Molotov cocktails.

When they made

Molotov cocktails

was in response

to the shields being taken.

Brandon hadn't

have been with them,

shields wouldn't

have been taken,

they never would

have made Molotov cocktails.

It's those kind of details

that defy simple explanations.

Did he entrap them?

No.

Would they have

made them without him? No.

It's... it's... that's sort of

the tragedy at the heart of it.

David:
Never did I plan to

do anything to hurt anybody.

There's no good guy

and bad guy in this situation.

I'm not completely innocent,

but neither are they.

It's not a black-and-white

case like that.

(Gospel music playing

and singing)

At this time,

I'd like to introduce someone

who met with the pastor

after the storm.

He said we will help you

put this church back together.

He stood behind

every word of it.

Helping our folks

in the neighborhood.

(applause)

I'm a little nervous

to be up here.

I struggle with all these things

in my personal life.

Sometimes it's really easy to get my

eyes off what my role in this world is,

- which is to try to help other people.

- Yeah! Yeah!

And I can forget every other

thing that I'm supposed to do,

but I've usually

kept my eyes on that.

And for whatever reason God's

really blessed me and loved me.

And he's taken a lot of my mistakes and he's

turned them into really positive things.

Congregation:

Amen!

And I'm glad I was able to be

used in a way that was helpful.

And it really does touch my

heart to see everyone here

and to see this building

standing as it does.

There was a time when it

had water in it... pretty high.

- So, thank you.

- Congregation:
Thank you!

The community?

Community would love him,

take him back with open arms.

The activist community?

They might try to shoot him.

(laughs)

I knew from the very beginning

that Homeland Security

had infiltrated Common Ground.

I was looking at it coming

from many different ways,

but God knows I didn't think

it would be from Brandon.

It broke my heart.

It broke my heart,

it literally broke my heart.

It's sad that this young man,

a young man that I loved,

you know,

had to turn

to such dastardly deeds.

Not for patriotism.

Because he was

a paid informant.

He did this

for thirty pieces of silver.

With that interview, I don't really

know where to begin, you know?

I did not co-found a relief

organization to destroy it.

And...

and I didn't work

with the FBI for money.

Brandon Darby is,

you know,

he's relegated himself

into insignificance.

And as far as I'm concerned

he's dead.

Newswoman:
We turn now to a

story out of Austin, Texas,

that's shocked social justice

activists nationwide.

Brandon Darby has admitted

to wearing a recording device...

(crowd shouting)

Brandon:
I know exactly how

the movement treats people.

They're pretty intense about making

you pay if you challenge them.

My entire history,

everything I've ever done that was good

was not there anymore...

almost like Stalin.

(makes erasing noise)

Erased out of the picture.

One guy from Denver wrote,

I'd like to be alone

with Brandon Darby

in a room with no windows and

a box of hollow-point bullets.

Yeah, scary stuff, man.

Like, someone saying

I'm gonna kill you.

Is someone gonna kill me?

When I get attacked

or when I feel attacked,

I look at this.

It's the eight napalm bombs

that David McKay

and Bradley Crowder made.

"Brandon, we would not have

stopped this without you.

Thanks,

Chris Langert, FBI.

I appreciate your hard work

and doing the right thing.

It won't be forgotten.

Special Agent, Tim Sellers."

There are dangerous rivers

of thought going on,

on the far Left and in

the peace and justice community.

And the Left as a whole

needs to hold them accountable.

They constantly beat the drum,

you know,

beat the drum that I'm evil

or the Man is evil,

the empire is evil.

And I'm somehow part of that

because of what I've done.

My biggest concern is like,

they've gone through

great efforts to protect me,

and I've gone through

great efforts to protect me.

And I'm worried that I'm gonna

have to live with what I do

to someone who shows up here

trying to do something like that.

(alarm sounding,

shotgun clicks)

Turn the camera off.

Turn the camera off, dude.

(alarm keypad beeps,

alarm stops)

Ah, f***!

Hello? Yeah.

I'm cool, man.

Yeah, it's just my alarm.

It's cool.

All right.

Hello. Yeah.

I'm cool man,

everyone and their mom

is calling me right now.

Yeah.

No.

Can y'all please like have

some kind of system set up

where just one person calls me,

and not everyone in the world?

t doesn't help the stress level

from this sh*t, okay?

F***ing-A!

(groans)

Hanners:

When you interview people

who know or have known

Brandon Darby,

you realize that everybody kind of

has a different idea of who he is.

Brandon wants to be known...

for doing something

big in his life.

And I think he still thinks of

himself as a revolutionary.

He's a misogynist.

He's a liar.

He's... sometimes...

I wonder if he's a sociopath.

I mean... yeah.

Scott:
It's him first and

the rest of the world second.

If he can be the savior,

for the moment,

if he can make the world like him

cause he doesn't like himself.

Man:

They called Brandon Darby a snitch.

And I said I don't care what your

politics are, you're an American Hero.

(applause)

Without Brandon Darby

these guys would have

thrown Molotov cocktails at

completely innocent individuals

who were there practicing their

constitutional right

to express

their political beliefs.

He was just doing

the right thing.

The radical Left hates me.

I think the moderate Left doesn't

know what the hell to think of me.

And the conservatives

in the country

are willing to embrace me and be

supportive because of what I did.

Caroline:
So Brandon's going

across the nation giving talks

on how the Tea Party can adopt

a grassroots, activist model.

Man:
Mister Brandon Darby,

come on up.

(applause) - Brandon:

We're called Citizen Patriot Response.

And what we do is we try to use

the experiences I have,

and we try to encourage

Tea Party groups to help others,

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