Jesse Ventura: We Should Destroy Every Nuclear Weapon on the Planet

Lee Allen from California asks: How can the US continue to fund Israel, who commits war crimes, when this is against the Leahy Law?

Jesse Says:

We can fund them easily since we commit war crimes too. We torture now: that’s a war crime. We use chemical weapons: that’s a war crime. The hypocrisy is astounding. Certainly we can, because we’re war criminals too!

-Jesse Ventura

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Jeff Fitzgerald from PA asks: What is your opinion of the Kentucky property owner who was arrested for shooting down a drone that was hovering over his backyard? It was privately owned and was carrying a live video camera. He said it was invading his privacy, which I agree with.

Jesse Says:

I agree with it too. As far as I’m concerned, as soon as you own that property it should go right up into the air. And nothing should cross your airspace, at least for maybe 500 feet. If a drone is hovering over your backyard, I think it’s time to take pheasant hunting practice on it!

-Jesse Ventura

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Steve Rizza from AZ writes: Let me start by saying that you, sir, are one of my heroes. I love how you speak truth to power. My question to you is this: Who are we as a nation to tell any other nation that they can't have a nuclear program, even if it leads to the creation of weapons? Isn't Iran in as much danger from Israel as Israel is from Iran? If Israel and Saudi Arabia can have nukes, why can't Iran if they feel so threatened?

Jesse Says:

That’s a great question. It’s something we have to look in the mirror about too. Not only do we have them, but also we’re the only country that’s used them. Not once, but twice.

A lot of truth and a lot of facts have come out now that show that those nuclear bombs didn’t need to be used, because Japan was on the verge of surrendering anyway. It was done to show what we have and scare the rest of the world at the end of the war. That’s a hell of a price to pay—hundreds of thousands of people were killed—in order to frighten the rest of the world.

It’s a case of who has nuclear weapons and who doesn’t and who’s going to control them. It’s the simple thing: we’ve got the most, so that makes us the most powerful country in the world. That’s what keeps us on this delicate thing called ‘peace.’ I wish they could destroy every nuclear weapon on the planet to the point where we wouldn’t have any anymore, but that’s pipe dreaming. It ain’t going to happen.

-Jesse Ventura