Name: The Mystery Behind the Death of Jamal Khashoggi
Uploaded: 2021-01-11T18:06:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Mystery Behind the Death of Jamal Khashoggi' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Mystery Behind the Death of Jamal Khashoggi' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-11. Transcript available.

What happened with the dissident is, you know, the film is kind of the untold
story behind the
murder of Jamal Khashoggi. You know, the Washington Post journalist walks into
the
Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 and is murdered. I mean, just the
most
horrific, ghastly murder. He walks into the consulate. They basically, you know,
strangle
him, start embalming him as he's alive and kill him.
They were embalming him while he was alive?
Yes. Because they wanted the blood to coagulate because they then dismembered
him and cut
him into pieces to get him out of the consulate. And, you know, and this was
ordered by Mohammed
bin Salman, you know, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
That's proven that he ordered it?
Well, yeah, I think we had to go and say, do we believe the CIA? Do we believe
British
intelligence, French intelligence? Do we believe Turkish intelligence?
Turkey, there was a listening device in the consulate. We don't know how the
consulate
was bugged, but it was bugged. And so the entire audio of Khashoggi's murder,
and even the planning
of his murder was captured by the Turks. And I obtained the transcript as part
of making this
film. And there were independent investigations conducted, Agnes Kalamart of
the UN, of course,
the Turks, the Turks, CIA, and all of them concluded with a very, very high
level of confidence that
MBS ordered the murder. And if you understand how Saudi Arabia works, right? I
mean, this is
considered an absolute monarchy. This is an authoritarian regime, right? And
you have probably 90%, you know,
and I'm making up this statistic, but something of the entire wealth of a
country controlled by
one family. So the idea that you could send 15 people on private jets owned by
the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, traveling on diplomatic passports, people in the kill team. One of the
guys was Mutreb, who was
Mohammed bin Salman's, you know, personal security, head of security. Other guy
was Al-Tubaji, who is the
state forensic examiner and coroner who came with a bone saw. Another guy, Al-Asiri,
is one of the top-ranking
generals. And the list goes on and on. And so the idea that you could have this
carried out without the
approval of the Crown Prince would be staggering to believe. I mean, it's next
to impossible, because
who else would order this crime. And especially when you're dealing with it,
with an absolute monarchy,
anybody who did this without that sort of permission, right? I mean, here, that's,
this is,
you know, Saudi Arabia carried out 800 beheadings last year. So talk about off
with your head. I mean,
everywhere I go, they might not recognize me. But then if I say, hey, what are
you doing? I go,
oh, yeah, did you see Icarus? I mean, everywhere I go in the world, they all
saw it. Like, I can't even
find people that haven't seen it at this point. I mean, it's, it feels like the
whole planet watched it.
And that is the extraordinary power of Netflix, that when they put out a film,
it releases into like 197
countries across like 50 languages, all at the same time, the entire world has
access to it.
And the entire world should have access to this film. But they're not going to
have access to this film,
because there are business interests at stake. There are an investment
interests at stake. And,
and that is really disappointing. And so, I'm shocked that, that I believe with
great wealth,
and with great power comes great responsibility. And if these business titans
that, that have these huge
companies lose their moral compass, lose their direction to basically say, okay,
this might not be the very best thing for our business or our subscriber growth.
But goddammit,
people should see this. Wow, we got to do something about it. Wow, there are
people losing their lives
and sitting in jails. And maybe our distributing this film can change that.
Maybe our letting our hundreds of
millions of millions of subscribers see this can actually bring about positive
change for humanity.
And they don't do that. That's really, it's, it's, it's soul crushing. I, I got
a message,
and I hope Hattisha is not going to be mad at me. Um, she, his fiancee sent me
a message
to two, two, two days ago. And she said, Hi, dear Brian, I've read all the
reviews
of the film. And I'm very encouraged. They seem to like the film. And they have
a really good idea
about it. The main three points they mentioned is that you're brave, that Omar
struggles. And my
position is fighting for human rights. I'm glad. I'm proud of you every day.
You made history. You did an
incredible job, believe me. All is well now. I'm getting better every day. This
trauma has created a
new Hattisha, I think. I understand that every day. I'm not the same person two
years as I was two years
before. I got a lot. And I learned a lot. And I made some good friends. The
most important one is you
and your team, Thor, that's Thor Halverson, the president of the Human Rights
Foundation who financed
the film, and Jake Swanko. He is my cinematographer. My life changed, and my
opinion also changed,
and my daily life also changed. The one thing that did not change is my love
and my heart. It's still
full of love for humanity and Jamal's soul. I believe that if we change life,
it will be with love
and with love for our values. And that's extraordinary to me to see that his
fiancee, two years on,
has such that incredible positive outlook in the world. And I'm so honored to
receive that message.
And at the same time, you know, I know that for the world to actually learn of
her story and her
fight for Jamal's life and for justice is going to be a struggle because of the
whatever you want to call it, business interests of these major platforms that
come ahead of
seeking any sort of accountability for human rights abuses.
And the potential to make the world a better place. And the potential to make
the world a better
pace, but it might not align with their goals for subscriber growth in that
region of the world,
or it might not coincide with possible future investments or investments or
shareholder value.
And that's unfortunate. It's unfortunate if the richest man on planet Earth, or
now the second, I guess,
Jeff Bezos, is more concerned with his bottom line than he is concerned about
seeking justice and
accountability for a man who worked for him, who was murdered while working for
his newspaper,
and that he and his company could have stepped forward to see to it that the
world truly had access to this.
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