great to have you here. we'll talk more, longer. that is it for tonight. you think theould have broken earlier, tomorrow. john: wre at war against terror. >> this warlike all wars must d. john: so tha american is wage war on apple apple keeping massive profits overseas, a war on hat crime. >> wt turns a normal fat little 8-year-old boy into vicious hate crime committing rapist? john: to continue the war on drugs. >> this is your brain on d drug. john: start one on food. america's wars on food, terror, business, drugs, and hate. >> if you want to hurt another human being, you better make sure they are the same color as you are. john: that is our show, tonight.

>> now john stossel. john: we start show about america's wars with our biggest war, the war on terror, a strange question, what is the right way to kill homosexuals? now that we have yr atttntion, i learned about the proper way to kill gays from former cia directoror james would -- so ambassador woolsly explain. >> joh when i was chairman of board of freedom house, we had a group of american mlims come in to us when were disturbed because the saudis sent imams with diplomatic passports to go to a number of mosques i the u.s., including theirs, they

took away the perfectly reason able instruct material for young people to who were muslim to learn islam. and they left instead a set of terial they th the imam printed up, i remember a second of those, it was thr ways that it was proper to kill a homosexual from the rah habes -- wahhabis in saudi arabia poi of view. yoew. >> it had to be highnough to feel pain coming down? >> right, and would die because it had to be high enough. the stoning, is supposed to be with small stones, so it takes a long time. and big stone does not knock anybody out. then other third way that wahhab say you could burn them alive. saudi embassy got upset at this,

said it was a mistake, andld material we should not pay attention. but next year of it the same. so, we -- look, it is not exclusively a muslim problem, 400 years ago, my fellow call calvinist protestants were burning witches in salem, massachusets. john: wha is your point on war on terror. >> at least in part really important to realize that there is a idealogical side. it is not just random violence, we need to get it straight, not getogged down on a nonsensible ible notion of buying politically correct. john: what do you want to do? kill them all ? >> of course not, you need to

start out by not being politically correct, understanding where some of the movements come from. and some of is some parts of islam, we need to beandid about that. john saudis have a big educationampaign, wahha schools they teach stuff like that to kill homosexuals. these people are our partners supposedly. >> about 1 to 2% of muslims saudis control, and where t rah habes are doing -- rah habe wahhabis are doing writing and teaches is hostile to other religions, in forms of advocating violence in the form of jihad and so forth. john: we're not going to bomb all these people. we can't convince them to be more open minded.

what do you want to do? >> i want us to be able to drive on something other than products. we need to be ab to tell opec, that we do not have to keep shipping tm money in order to drive our cars and our trucks. >>o you say we can't kill them but we can bankrupt them? >> i suggest we need to d is to take away the power of monopoly, that letsil dominate -- transportation to opportunity about 97% that would indirectl encourage peoplelike theaudis and others to actually work for a living, rather than lifting oil for $2 a barrel, and selling it to us for $102. john: what about what president said about bringing drone war down. and should we be spending what we're pending now on the war

against terror? >> well, a drone is a weapon. and think of it as a flying sner in a way. you have i think a lot less collateral damage if you attack al qaeda leader with a drone than if you attack him with a bomb. john: do we need to spend what we're spending? >> i think that we may need to spd more, we may be able it get by with less, point is to figure out what it takes to win. and spend that. jo: thank you ambassador woolsey. >> thank you. john: iant america to have a strong miitary that protects us from fanatics who want to kill us. but how big a militar is that? we now spend almost $800 billion defense. about a fifth of our budget. chris prebbl e . at cato institute, said, that is way too much?

>> it is more than we spend at peak of cold war, when ronald reagan was fighting the soviet union. john: cato, your think tank made this video that cpares our military spending that tt of our allies. >> every year u.s. spends -- our allies spend quarter or less to defend themselves. we agree to pay big bucks to defend our friends, and they let us. that allows our friends to spend far more on everything else. we pick up the tabor global secuty spendg, and our allies free ride. >> they are freeloading off of us, we're suckers? >> we are suckers. i don't blame the if i was in theirituation, ii someone else

offered to pay for my security i would let the too, that is what our allies have done. after world war ii they were shattered by war, but somewhere along the line, they got rich, we didn't revisit why we continue to defend them, when they can defend themselves. john: all right they probably will not do all things that we want ourilitary to do. and that list is long. we want to kill terrorists, and train foreign military to kill terrorists. >> some cntries are very good at that, some better than us. many of the successful operations against al qaeda have been y other organizations other militarie and hor countries -- other countries in cooperation with us, it is in the fair to think they are not inclined to defend themselves if we were not helping them. john: people want the military to do more protect other countries from aggressn toontain china an and -- to conn

china and iran. >> i think that china is the big boogeyman out there, chinese military spending is second to the world, but we're discouraging china's neighbors om doing more to defend themselves. i think that is short-sighted. john: iran, threatens nlear bomb and do who bes what. >> they don't have a nuclear bomb, china does. a few others have them, ran does not iran ii tiny relative to the threat suppoposedly posd by china, w node to put them in perspective. john: we want navy to protect -- >> they defend the sea lanes from interception or disrupt.reo many people, few people would benefit from csing them, thecally that would like to close them like al qaeda can't. hn: if we did that,e would spend what? >> quite a bit less, i think a good rul of thumb, what we were

spending around time of 9/11 attacks today is about $450 billion. that is a good start. ck then we were still defending other couries that could defend themselves, if w stopped that we could spend less. john: we would be safe? >> absolutely. >> thank you, up next more wars like that war over what you will eat. >> we don't just want them labed we' them gone. john: and the war on hate, itself. >> we should be treated the same with the same laws and same punishment for the same crimes.

john: did you see headlines senators blast apple. congress went to war again that evil technology company. >> apple is one of the biggest tax avoiders in america. >> most of your profits worldwide are sitting this three irish companies that you control that don'tay taxes. john: so on. but wait. applereated maybe 600,000 jobs in america. moreover seas. a hug aim of new wealth. apple tries to avoid paying

taxes,heir account anes tell them to because american taxes are crazy, they and i aid legall won't any politician stand up for a business that makes an apatrol yeah, the appropriate response to big intrusive government, one senator spoke up. >> i am offended by tone and tenor of this hearing, by spec able else was dragging in executives from an american company that is not doing anything illegal, i say instead of applicatives -- executives we should have brought in a giant mirror to look at the reflect of congress, this is created by awful tax code. >> way to go. senator rand paul joins us now. did you take drive for saying th rom your colleagues like mccain? >> they may not have been too happy with me, i was not happy

with the proceeding. it is an insul to make corporation officers come in raise their right-hand, and read them the riot act for doing what everybody else does, who wants to come forward and say you want a chief financial officer who maximized your tax bill, i asked a professor, do you take deducts on your taxes do you minimize your tax bill legally, the all answered yes, it was insults to apple, they are largest corporat taxpayer in our country, we should give them an work war for paying so many -- awar for paying so many taxes and creating so many jobs. john: i am glad you complained about this attitude of bringing in the ceo to kneel before congress, apple popular, but if you have a company that makes pespesticide and an oil company,

they try to d destroy you. >> theyy say we didn't subpoena thm. but quietly they say,f you don't come in we will. that committee, is one of few committees in cgress that has power to subpoena, no one the say no. but i thought it was insulting they are great innovators that have created jobs and pay aot in taxes if you want them to bridge home worldwide profits from sales overseas let's make the tax code fair. there are examples that are working. john:nd when your colleagues chew out companies and complain abt tir profit with aer. snear . >> i tol them ty need to bring a mror, i imagined how funny it would be to have a 12 by 12 mirror, and have them look

in this mirror to find the problem. two leaders of that committee, republican and democrat, they have been up here for 30 years, they preside over the tax code it their baby, if it forces money to g overseas,. john: am i being unfair when i against business.ave a war >> there is an attitude, like a hearing on apple. we should do, if we had a president who was a great leader, he should fly out to apple headquarter, congratulate them for being a great american companynd company, say what can you do to help you, to allow you to bring more money home, what tax rate would help that. we should do that tovery successful american company instead of dragging them into washington. and excoriating them, saying they a not paying their fair share, the same with wealthy

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>> whenever iear abo a hate crime, i am shocked and saddened. >> give a damn, do you? john: i give a damn, i am horrified when people are victimized. on the surface i should be glad that america wages a war on hate. and that is how is it should be says paul, who runs fighting discrimination program at a drop called human rights first, but jimmy, cofounder of go proud, a republican gay advocacy group,

says that hate crime laws are not useful. how can you say that? you have been a victim? hav >> absolutely, i was on a bike a year ago, a guy came out in to street, in a pack of kids he nched me and called me a ti-gay name. i was reaching for my phone, and one of the other kids, asked m, is he going for a gun, i let them think that. it was that thought that i might have a weapon that turned the tide.. and prevented me from being a victim of a horrible crime. john: why not more protect with hate crime laws? >> well, i just tony think there is -- don't think there is evidence they are preventing crimes before they happen. we need to focus on that, we can't ignore fact that certain

segments of the population are targets of violent crime simply for who they are. we need to come up with ways to help prevent people from becoming victims of crime, ther than giving them a fal sense of security that there is a law. >> i would like to jump in, i don't believe that hate crime laws are t sold answer to hate crime, i think we're in grime, first main -- in agreement that violent attacks that target people because of their identity, runs family contrary to -- fundamentally contrary to american values, hate crime as a concept is under to understand. john: why? hate is in so man crimes. >> hate crime is perhaps a misnomer, there are biassed crim where people are targeted because of their identity, hate crimes embed in criminal justice system notion of a hate crime,

it requires law enforcement to document them, understand them, to identify them. and to release -- prosecute them including, in some cases with enhanced penalties, it requires them to relse data o annual bases on level of hate crime that creates a broader understandin in society about what needs to be done. john: but we're drowning in-laws already in america. we have civil rightsablable, ane -- civil rights act, and violent crimes act. >> stable at a high level. a report -- >> does the law make a difference? >> it does. >> does the person think oh, that is a hate crime law. >> i had a conversation with a

transgender woman in california, she said,t ds not matter what the law says, noaw will angehe fact, that some people look at me, theyee a man in a dress, that will change with time and understanng that is the difference we're having, we're not disagreeing over fact there s a problem, we're disagreeing overhe fact that the government is the solution on this. john: the example reminds me of the contoargs police go through to be politically correct about this, fbi now has a hate crime manual, say aid offense of terms. wh are they supposed to say. >> i think people feel when they are a victim of a crime, we want assess to in which -- we want a society where they are comfortable going to law enforcement. if they law enforcement to underand their

victimization. >> i am for being sensitive to victims it is important. but i don't think it matters what you call somebody, let's focus on policies and things we can do to prevent from calling them a victim. john: this antihate crime commercial, actress wanda sykes said this. >> imagine walking down the street, wondering if this the killed? will get beaten up or because of who you are. >> i would say to wanda, is passing a law going to change fact that some people walk down the street and wonder they will be attacked becse of who they are? i don't think that law has anything to doith it, it is raising awareness not penalties. >> and again, it may not be that every potenal victim of a hate crime walks down the street in fear, but religious people may not go to mass or synague as

they might like imat kavkaz >> it runs contrary to our freedom of movement, that is a fundamental principle here in the u.s. >> we need to focus to what will help prevent those. john: do you think we have too many laws. >> i don't think we don't have enough hate crime laws. >> on that, paul and jimmy thank u. i a ending this segment with my point of view, expressed by america's greatest philosophers, the kids from "south park." >> cartmanhrows a rack at toke an a black sdent. the school plan its give cartman two weeks detention. but then fbi came, to say. >> i'm afraid it is more camp kateed complicated since the victim is african-american this is considered a hate crime. >> what turns a normal fat 8-year-old until a vicious hate

ime racist? >> you want to hurt another human being, you better make surehey are the same color as youre. >> kids complaint to the govement nir. >> if someone -- governor. >> if someone kills someone it is a crime, but if they kill somebody of a different color it is a hate crime. >> that is hypocri. >> right on kids. i wonder what they would say abou war on drugs. >> this is your brain o drugs, any questio. john: that war, and on certain food. >> next. ok, i am coming. [ susan ] i hate that the reason we're always stopping is because i have to go to the bathroom. and when we're sitting in traffic, i worry i'll have an accident. be right back. so today, i'm finally going to talk to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms.

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john: the war on food. food? , what war? i can eathat i want? except raw milk and 15 stas, in my town, tran fats are illegal, the bigger fight is war on something that sounds scary,

gmo foods >> we don't want them labeled we want them gone, people are getting sk. john: people a getting very sick? gmo stands for je genetically modified. most corn is. you eat is already, this is a product of years of selective breeding, corn was much smaller than this, and less juicy, but, it means that scientists figured out a way to cnge food by manipulates indidual genes. they have a gene that makes it taste bad to insects. here is an example of a genetic modification that may not be sold in america, these fish are 18-month-o salmon. but the big one was modified to

grow twice as fast. allowing this would mean cheaper salmon, we don'tave that, company that engineers fish is waiting for approval are regulators, they have been waiting 20 years. keep it away said jeff smith. who runs instead for responsible technology. >> and let it in said jason lusk author of the food police. >> there is the version of natural food i a mystery, we've been modifying food since humans have been on the plane the ear of corn, ancient ancestor is no bigger than you them. only selecting and planting -- >> but gmo is monkeying with the gene?

>> all selection is playing with genes whether you pick this one and put it together, that traditional plant breeding involves many thousands of genes we don't know what is going to happen. modern biotechnology is picking one or two genes, to put to an ear of corn, it is more precise. >> it should make it safer? jeffrey? >> well, fda scientists were clear in memos made public from a lawsuit, they sai process of genetic engineering is different, and leads to new and defense risks new smyrns newalld toxins, but person in charge of policy at fda was michael taylor, mon monsanto former attorney, and now president. >> monsanto captured the fda . this agency, and they are just in the tank with big business? >> month stan to has capture --

monsanto has done the same to many countries they have their people -- >> that makes me sense cal skepf you not them. you look the every scientific authority on subject, whether u.s. national academy of sciees, and world health organization, foo and these are all independent bodies of independent scientists, ery one of those has confirmed that basic safety of biotech food, there has not been a single scientisticly confirmed case of illness or a annaller join. >> since gmos have been introduc a whole newset of

diseases and disorders o the rise, these are the what parents and doctors say, they take them themselves or family off of gmo they get better, but when they take livestock off of the soy or corn, and shiftt over, livestock get better, that corn in your hand for example, does not taste bad to insects it pokes holes in their cells and killing them, new study, finds that same toxic inte insecticide pokes homes in human cells and causes leakage. >> you are doing is throwing in a lot of corporational analysis justin bieber songs are correlated with a rise in

autism, of course, not, if it is true they are soad for livestock or livesck producers must be stupi john: they must be dumb but beyond bands there is an in between point, a commercial from a group who said if it is je genetically modifies label it. >> put it on the label, made with gmos. >> jason that seems reasonable. >> right, i have no problem with companies volunrily labeling food, great thing for consumer choice, if you want to avoid a gmo you have opportunities, buy organics. but there are a lot of companies that make nongmo claimso we want to main -- mandate, require companies, trouble is that fda

mandates putting a label. john: it would scare consumers. >> it is misleading consumers to believing something that is false. john: whole foods said they will do it voluntarily. jeff is this enough for you? >> no, i thi we need to actually ban gmo evidence is clear from independent scientists, however, when speaking about labeling, it is not responsible to force gmos on the population, right now for example, wic program gives 2 million children, infant formula, eve one of those is geneticallally engeered and parents do not know. >> one of most gmo activists, came outo at a conference in

oxford, and said he dug into the scientic literature and he was wrong. john: thank you, to you both. coming up, war on drugs. new scare is over meth. and the psa theids keep watching television while their friend convulses on the floor. >>his isn't normal. plan but butn meg, its. -- but on meth it is. >> really? is that normal? what you think you know. may not be so.

>> this is your brain on drugs. any questions? john: that was one of the first commercial that warned people about drugs, they amped it up. >> wait. it's not over yet. >> this is what your family goes through, and your friends. and your mind. and your future. any questions? john: i have some, i know, some

drug users put themselves and their families through hell. but if illegal drugs are as horrible and addictive as we've been told h come government's own statistic said millions of americans have used those drugs butta small percentage still use them, author of high price, that challenges everything you know about dgs and society, says drugs are not as addicve or as dangerous as government, media made thehave made them out to . carl hart, why should we believe you, you look like a drug dealer. >> drug dealers must be attractive as hell these days, i have been studying drugs for 20 something years, and the effects of drugs in people. john: at columbianiversity, you briing people i for tests. >> like marijuana,

methamphetame, crack cocaine. the data shows that the vast majority of people who use these drugs do not go on to become addicted. some of these people who have used these drugs go to to be president. current president. before the curb know president, geoe w. bush. bi clinton, all of though guys have used illegal drugs at some point in their life. john: all we know for sure, is that they used weed and maybe dabbled in cocaine, in a couple cases. the message now is that crack, and meth, it gets worse, and it is those are just, they autotically hook you. >> same thias said about mariana, in 1930s, people said you go on to use this drug, you go to commit murder, and use heroine. a reason that i was allowed to happen there were few people who used marijuana. the same is true when we think of drugs like crack coke, and

methamphetamine. not as many people u those drugs, so the rest are the stories, can be made u about these drugs. because, people do not know. but, i have given thousands of doses of tse drugs in my study, and i am he here to tellu that the public has been misled. john: in your laboratory? you get the drugs legally. they let have you them, and you advertise? and bring users in, you recreate absolutely. >> we jp through levels of approval, we recruit participants by craigslist or advertise in the village voice. john: crack user come on in? >> well we say people who have used cocaine before, y, that is right. >> and i'm looking at government's statistics here, of number of people who tried drugs and used in lastonth. and it seems like 95% of the people, give it up, most

addictive seem to be marijuana and pain relievers,here 86% use it in last month. >> yes, so i guess when you say most people give it up, i don't know if that a way to really talk about this. you don't necessarily have to give it up to use the drug without problem, there is a -- there are the vast majority of people who use drugs like cocaine, use it on weeke, or, you -- a monthly basis or use it on every 6 months or something. they hold jobs, and pay taxes they do all those things. similar way we use drugs like alcohol, these -- the body does not recognize that psycho active drug is legal or illegal. john: crack and meth are no rse. >> the problem that makes crack cocaine could and methamphetamine so dangerous, is what they are cut with.

whereas alcohol we're pretty sure what you get is pure. john: most demonized drug today is meth, you see pictures of s meth users with no teeth this drug, @% just more in horrible, and a. we show me spell users who -- ms who watcher tv while their friend convulses on the floor. >> this isn't normal, but on meth, it is. john: propaganda? >> that is purexaggratton. that does so much harm. because, people actually think that they are getting arug education by watching those commercials, i can't say this strongly enough. there are few thing that have done more harm to our drug public education than commercials like that. >> kidding tune the government

out. >> not only that they tune out people like m anybody whoas drug education. they think that it is untrue. because of the lack of credibility that weow have as a result of the government with these hist ter holcombmercials. john: what does more harm to america, drugs or drug war? >> now, one thing i one make clear, drugs whether alcohol or crack coke am they should be takenner russly. -- they should be taken seriously, they can produce harm, but the drug war is unquestion abily that drug war has condition mor done more harc mmunity. reason why it is allowed to continue, the harm it does, or that the major portion of harm, is happening in communities we don't care about as a country. john: dr. carl hart thank you.

next. my take on the government's wars, and the irs scandal. symptoms of the same

john: our last guest said that kids tune out the government's message about drugs, because government laws credibility, for years they told kids, if you do

drugs, you aregoing to die. they saw their friends tie drugs and they were okay, they wer skeptical, they should, like the oxiclean guy, it better be true or you will not liste next time. but government never goes out of business. it fails at nation building in vietnam but trying again in iraq, it wages a war against hate, a war on drugs, it wages war against certain food. goes to war again almost everything busess. apple pays taxes but, as cartoonist, points out b vernment wants to take much more, the politicians demand more of our money, saying we'll complish wonderful things with it. there has been so much fuss about eric holder, a just who

thers targeted tea party groups. will they be fired? will be there a special prosecutor? my apologies to my closing, but i don't care. who is fired or punished. it is not important, their job will be givenhat another bureaucrat, some will be honest, some will be not, the bigger problem is that government employees 22 million people, 21 million if you subtract military and post office, that is millions and millions of people who are -- well, people. most are good but some are bad. and people in government, have a legal right to use force. big government, gives millions of people power over parts of our lives, most will not abuse it. but poker does corrupt. -- per does corrupted, small be bad people. they will use their pow torii hunterture people they don't like. people who hold wrong belie or

talk back. me of you will not get building permits, maybe you will be audited or denied a tax exemption, firing an attorney general will not change, that only smaller government can, but we don't have smaller government. we have big government. because when there is a problem people say, yes, we can. that is why i wrote, no, they can't. because government cannot. it should not tries. and more things it goes to war against the more is grows the worse off we are, while government condition we come millions of americans give up drugs most without help, scientists experiment with food, and we live longer. companies try to minimized their xes, and the use the money to produce wonderful things. individuals do, that we can. but no, they can't.

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