Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: The Steve Buscemi Assault

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

Bill talks about the assault on actor Steve Buscemi. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I'm sure you heard that there's been another assault on a famous person, Steve Buscemi. You know, I'm from Boardwalk Empire and Pulp Fiction, great actor. And I know Steve a bit because we commiserated to Nick Games and he's a good guy, very good guy. So he's walking down 3rd Avenue and 17th Street and some guy comes up and punches it. I'm going to do the story in the national part of the broadcast. But I asked myself, I said, look, we've got women getting a punch in the face. We got Rick Moranis, a Ghostbuster guy. He got punched, and he had to go to the hospital.

We tell him he's in a hospital. What's going on? How can you stop these maniacs? There are laws to do it. But there's state laws, not city laws. Okay? So New York State, under Sections 941 and 958, the mental hygiene law, gives the authorities, under the supervision of doctors, the ability to hold people they feel are dangerous to themselves or others.

The problem is that New York State doesn't have longer-term facilities for this. So you go to Bellevue, that's where they send these nuts, and they are crazy, these are loons, all right? And they're in there for a few days, and they get evaluated, and the doctor writes them a prescription for some antipsychotic medicine or whatever it may be, and they're back out, and they're back punching people or doing worse. We have to have a long-term facility for these people. I mean, if you look at these perpetrators, the people who do this when they're caught. They've got 20 arrests. And you're not arrested every time you insult somebody.

So we got kids walking around. You probably heard about the tourist. Walking in Times Square, 48th Street. Some guy stabs them for no reason. Come on. This is public disorder. So Hockel and the Albany pinheads, you got to have a new law. You've got to have a facility where you truck these people up someplace and keep them off the street, particularly the dangerous ones. And it's two strikes and you're out. Now, you know, not three. You're not going to hurt three people. You do it once, evaluation, okay, whatever the left wingers want, that kind of, oh, they need treatment.

Yeah, what if they don't want treatment? What if their malady is too far gone? So we're going to have kids are getting knifed and beat up by maniacs roaming around the street with box cutters? You do it once, okay. You get an evaluation, you get on a program, you do it twice, then you're confined. And I mean confined for years. I'm sorry. feeling sorry for these people. I do in a way, because they're psychotic, but I got to feel

sorry for their victims more than them. And there's no drive at all in Albany to even deal with the problem. Where is the facility? We're paying the highest taxes of any state in the Union. Build some mental health hospitals. If you want to call them hospitals, call them that. I'd call them therapeutic communities. And yeah, they'd be in confinement. Because if you let them out, they're going to hurt the personnel. They're going to hurt the other people there. These are people that are violent, delusional, and murderous in some cases. You cannot let them run around. It's so frustrating. And I fear for my family, I got a daughter living in Manhattan. It's just unbelievably irresponsible of the New York State leadership.

ship. Oh, well, we don't have anywhere to put them. All the ACLU ways, well, blank them. You got a law, build a facility. Oh, but they don't care. I'm telling you, that is the root, is apathy. Well, yeah, you know, Steve Bissemi and Rick Moranis, they get beat up, like, well, yeah, nah, what do we happen for brunch? Oh, boy.