Australia under lockdown, crazy human trafficking supporters and more
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Avi Yamini and Drea Humphrey join me on this episode of Rebel Roundup to talk about the recent anti-police protest in Toronto, the recent arrest of a journalist covering the protest, and your letters to the editor.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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Hey, if you thought freedom of the press was under attack in Canada,
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check out the situation on the ground down under,
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where authorities are using the global pandemic to strip its citizens of their basic rights.
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And our newest rebel, Avi Yamini, has the bruises to prove it.
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So, you would think everybody would be on side when it comes to denouncing pedophiles and human traffickers.
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Drea Humphrey was covering a protest against these odious things.
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But members of the loony left staged a counter-protest?
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Gee, does that mean they support pedophilia and human trafficking?
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And I'll share some of your responses regarding my most recent visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Brampton,
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where one shall be arrested for having the temerity to ask questions of the Emperor, Lord Patrick Brown.
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I followed the protesters as they marched for a good couple of hours to Albert Park.
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Over the next few days, I'll release a lot more of what happened on the march.
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I mean, like the stuff that you won't see in the mainstream media.
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But this report, I want to focus on how the police behaved as they trapped the protesters by the Albert Park Lake.
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So there's been numerous, quite intense, heavy-handed arrests here today.
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We walked around for, there was probably a good two hours where there was no arrests, no anything.
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The bloke marched up to me while I was doing a piece to camera.
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You can actually hear me laugh because I seriously thought he was joking.
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If you watched my content before, you'll know that sometimes cops walk up to me and banter a little bit.
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You know, I guess they like my work or they appreciate it or they find it funny or they see my sense of humour and they join in.
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But I quickly realised that this power-hungry commander was not bantering.
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This bloke here is not here for any purposes or reasons.
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But this guy here is going to be placed under arrest right now.
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The fact that a journalist was physically assaulted by law enforcement for absolutely no reason?
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Or the fact that this odious event did not happen in North Korea or Iran,
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but rather in a Commonwealth country such as Australia?
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And joining me now with more on this shocking story is our newest rebel, Avi Yamini.
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In recent days, we've seen a pregnant woman in her pajamas being handcuffed and arrested
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for stating on social media she was going to a protest.
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Likewise, a soldier had his door smashed in by law enforcement for making a similar pronouncement.
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And then last Saturday, you were tackled to the ground for absolutely no valid reason whatsoever.
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Avi, what the hell is going on in Australia right now?
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And it's scary to see how quickly your rights can just be eroded like that.
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And the police state, you know, the people that are meant to serve and protect you suddenly gain some new powers all in the name, you know,
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under the pretense of fighting the virus, suddenly fighting their citizens.
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It is scary because I've been, you know, I've been to Hong Kong to cover those protests.
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You know, the journalist standing there doing a piece to camera, tackled to the ground.
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In fact, you were chuckling when the officer said he was putting you under arrest.
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That's probably because you couldn't believe what you were hearing.
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So that was such an egregious overreaction, I thought.
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But, you know, Avi, I want to back it up a bit.
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What we didn't show in the clip was your journey to the protests.
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And I saw something that had my jaw resting on the linoleum.
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And you have to show your permits, plural, for conducting journalism.
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I mean, Avi, for someone in Canada, someone in the U.S., we're just scratching our heads
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Someone in Victoria, if you told me that three months ago, I would have been scratching my
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head going, there's no chance that that's going to be here in Melbourne, Australia in
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It's the kind of story you hear, you know, from this community, in the Jewish community
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That's the kind of stories you hear from them, that you were only allowed to travel
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with documents to prove you're allowed to be in your own CBD.
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And as a journalist that you have to, you know, provide evidence that you're a journalist
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We're the only place in the world where our citizens are trapped.
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The freedom of movement has been taken away from us.
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You can't get out of Australia at the moment without a permit.
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All my, you know, I've got nephews and nieces and my brothers and sisters.
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I've got hundreds of thousands of cousins, really, in Israel.
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I'm not allowed to go there as an Israeli citizen because in Australia, they will not allow me
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And just yesterday, it turns out that, you know, until now, the excuse has been that it
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is all under the direction of the chief health officer.
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Well, yesterday, the chief health officer said he didn't order the curfew, for example,
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So then the premier, Daniel Andrews here, who claimed it was, he's been saying all the
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way through that it's only under the health advice that they're enforcing these rules.
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He said, oh, no, no, that one was specifically to make the job for police easier to enforce
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the restrictions, which has two problems with it.
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One is, firstly, the police denied ever asking for it.
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And two is, well, that's a kind of argument the CCP make.
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We're going to impose curfews to make it easier for law enforcement to enforce these
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laws that strip you of all your rights in the first place.
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You know, and I remember on the video, the police officer said to you at one point, you
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You need a purpose to go out in public in Australia these days?
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I mean, well, the purpose is I want to be there.
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But at the moment, the COVID restrictions say you need to have a permit with a purposeful
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reason listed on it as to why you're out of your...
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The rules at the moment is you're allowed to be only within 5Ks of your house, one person
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You're only allowed out for one hour a day to exercise.
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Anything beyond that, you need to have a permit.
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I had the purposeful reason according to their dodgy guidelines, according to their overreach.
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As a free person, I should be able to go to the city for anything.
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But in this case, I was complying to their draconian laws.
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I'm the kind of journalist that criticizes this overreach.
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And I'm so excited to be part of the Rebel team because that's what Rebel does, is they
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Because I have been in situations in the past, people that have followed me for a while know
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And it's almost like unless you've got the backing to stand up and fight, you kind of
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And I think the police that day expected me to cop it on the chin because I have in the
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And, you know, I've showed it to the world, but that's as far as it's gone.
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That's not as far as it's going to go this time.
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Now that you're on the Rebel team, our boss, Ezra Levent, he does not bend the knee.
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Three days before your arrest, I was arrested for practicing journalism in Brampton, Ontario.
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The cops were much more gentle with me when they put me in the cruiser.
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But the thing is, the end result of that arrest was a $65 ticket for trespassing.
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And Ezra says, if it takes $65,000 to fight this, all the way to the Supreme Court, we will
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And, you know, that leads me to another question, another Ezra-ism, if I will, Avi, is that
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it seems to us that around the world, governments of all political stripes, governments of all
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levels, municipal, provincial, state, federal, certain politicians, certain bureaucrats have
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Is that the vibe you're getting in Australia right now?
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Especially here in Victoria, in Melbourne, 100%.
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And what I was saying to you a minute ago just proves it.
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The fact that till now they've used the excuse of blaming the health advice.
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It was made on the whim of what we call dictator Dan here because he just makes up restrictions
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They get the taste for it and they're loving it.
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And it's a problem that if people don't stand up and fight it, well, what do you think is
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Just apply some common sense is what I tell people.
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You know, you've got somebody that's obviously power hungry.
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And a lot of these, you know, premiers or state premiers or these politicians, they get
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into this, into that industry because they want power.
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So the minute you've given them power under the idea of fighting a health thing, you know,
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so they're explaining to their victims, oh no, we're only taking the power to protect you.
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The minute they get that power, how hard do you think it's going to be for them to release
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As the evidence has come out to show us that maybe these lockdowns are not as helpful as
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we originally thought, here that's not translating on the street, on the ground.
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The lockdowns are escalating instead of loosening up and trying to deal with the crisis in a more
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And that comes down to exactly what you're saying.
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They get a taste for the power and they're running with it.
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Folks, that was Avi Yamini in Melbourne, Australia.
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What a fantastic addition to the Rebel News team.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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And last Sunday, I attended what I thought would be, no doubt, a peaceful protest with
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The March Against Trafficking protest started at 1790 Beach Ave in Vancouver, BC.
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Approximately 50 protesters marched around the area for around 20 minutes and returned back
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to the starting spot for organized speeches about human trafficking and pedophilia awareness.
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Surprisingly, even though saving children was the main theme of the event, the illogically
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angry left still couldn't resist trying to cancel the protests.
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They used their usual tired tactics of throwing out baseless labels, all because people were
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coming together and using their voices in a way that doesn't parrot the rhetoric of the
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He saw it fit to interrupt one of the speakers named V and kicked down a protest sign about
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There were also a few others who publicly showed their disapproval for the group against human
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I can't even believe I just said that sentence, but it's true.
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One woman, however, topped the cake as far as aggressive and emotionally charged behavior
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Maybe she's learned a thing or two from the Antifa groups.
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Just when you thought that the zealots who comprise the loony left couldn't get any loonier,
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Indeed, you would think a protest against pedophilia and human trafficking would transcend political
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But no, such was not the case in Vancouver recently.
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And joining me now to discuss this further is Drea Humphrey.
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Now, Drea, I think I watched your video four or five times.
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It was just, it was that wild, unhinged Karen who seemed to be upset about anti-Semitism or
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I mean, what in blue blazes was she rambling on about?
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And what is anti-Semitic or transphobic about people protesting pedophiles and human traffickers?
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I think the Kool-Aid they're drinking nowadays is just super strong or something because,
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you know, she came out throwing every name of the book that she could come out with.
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And it's painful almost giving people like that attention.
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But you have to, you have to just show how ridiculous these social justice warriors from
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I think she was trying to say that because she felt that it was a QAnon event, which it
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In fact, one of the speakers even said he wasn't the QAnon that he had experienced or seen firsthand
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in Canada, some horrible things with human trafficking.
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So, you know, she just came out and was just ready to do what the left does, which is label
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So that even though, you know, the people are standing up for a cause, like I said, that
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Because she just recognized some of those people as being not the kind of people that
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So that's why she was taking a stance against a just cause.
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And I should clarify, I mean, even if you are a QAnon follower, that doesn't make you anti-Semitic.
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But I think she was saying because people say bad things about George Soros, that makes
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And I don't know if you heard her bring up indigenous women dying.
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The actual first speech done by Tara Reeve, who actually organized the protest, she actually
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brought that up as part of, you know, some of the things that have been sweeped under
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And then you have Karen coming from her nearby apartment with her dog, you know, ready to shut
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This is a note to all the loony leftists that go to protests or stage counter protests or
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When you're wearing a mask and you're holding a sound box, you know, you're rambling sounds
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I mean, you're already unhinged and incoherent.
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When you bring in all that ambient noise, it just gets even worse.
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But seriously, Drea, I'm also thinking if it's not maybe what we discussed that she recognized
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people on the wrong side of the ideological scale that she disagreed, could it be that
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some of these people, and I'm just blue skying here, there is a lunatic fringe that does want
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Is that maybe what these people are standing up against?
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Because, hey, listen, what other conclusion am I supposed to draw when you, you know, counter
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protest a protest about pedophilia and human trafficking?
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I mean, I felt like there would be people who are against this type of protest, but never
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in a million years did I think they would go public with their complaints towards it.
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So, yeah, there is, and that's something people need to be aware of.
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Not only does human trafficking and pedophilia exist, we all know that, but there's actually
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this shifting to try to normalize it, you know, in TED Talks and in articles and almost
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have us sympathize with, you know, those who suffer from pedophilia.
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So, it's disgusting and to have, I think some of the opposition, since there was four or
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five people, I would conclude that maybe, yeah, at least one of them probably has that.
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There was one gentleman and he came up with sunglasses and couldn't even articulate what
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his issue was with the speech that was being done, but he went right up to the speaker.
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And, you know, it wasn't expected, so I couldn't even catch it all as fast as I would have liked
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And so, too, are the stats you quoted in your report.
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1.2 million children, and this isn't everybody, just children, trafficked each year.
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And then there was this, I thought, was a really staggering and disturbing statistic, Drea.
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And I'm trying to understand why this is, according to Stats Canada, in a report from
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2017, I believe, in the last decade, child pornography offenses had increased in this
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Well, you know, I think obviously social media and how many kids are on social media and images
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and just how much people use social media is a big part of the problem.
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I'll never forget talking to a criminal lawyer one time, and he said, you know, my kids will
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never, I'll never put a picture, even if they're fully closed, on social media, just from what
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I've had to see from the bad guys and what they collect and stuff like that.
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But then you also have young kids not really understanding the risks of things and being
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So I don't know where they're getting all of their offenses are.
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But I think parents really need to be aware of this and be aware of how their kids are online
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Even simple things like, you know, your kids playing at the spray park is super innocent
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to you and to the wrong person, you know, it's something else.
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So, you know, I think you're really onto something too, Dre, and when you talked about children
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themselves sharing, revealing photographs with all the social media platforms they do,
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As one of the protesters noted in your report as well, she rhetorically asked, where's the
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I guess this is nothing to see here, folks, for them?
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I ended up missing the first one, which I was disappointed to.
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There was no mainstream media at the first one either.
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And I guess, you know, missing and enslaved children is just not at the front lines of
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And then going back with that in a way, back to social media again, I don't know if you
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know this, but I'm sorry, I'm trying to hide a shadow here.
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But Facebook also censors a lot of stuff to do with people advocating for people to understand
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They even temporarily, I guess they've let it run now, but they even blocked the hashtag
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Like, you know, so there's a lot of people complaining about how platforms like Facebook
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are actually shutting down people spreading awareness of this.
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So, yeah, it's just not something on the tip of the tongues of the left.
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And, you know, they just parrot what they're told to parrot, really.
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Save the children is somehow, in some way, offensive to the people at Facebook.
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You know, I wonder if we just try to think of any kind of other protest to run, maybe
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one in support of mother's milk or clean air or clean water.
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And thank you again, my friend, for jumping into the bosom of the madness to cover it.
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And like you said in your report, you never thought you were going to see a counter protest.
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Yeah, and there'll be more coverage of that to come.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Did you guys come away from the shooting at the cemetery to tackle David Manzies?
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I don't know why you have to be so challenging, sir.
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Because I'm a journalist on a public property, that's why.
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They said that they've trespassed this man with the hat.
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With all due respect, sir, Giddy Mammon is my lawyer here today.
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And I don't advise people to break the law, okay?
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No, no, you believe that I advise my clients to break the law.
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Okay, we're not here to argue, but it's as simple as this.
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I think it's incredibly important that you know, and I'm talking to you.
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I'm not under arrest, so you can't touch me, right?
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Brampton's finest arresting a journalist for trying to ask questions of the mayor.
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Peel Regional Police pulling their men off of a mass shooting at the cemetery.
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You're at the back of my officers, my colleagues.
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There's a different standard for the Trespass Act in public property.
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Take it up a proper way instead of coming up here.
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Why are you listening to a hand-scrawled note that's not even served?
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I could verbally ask you or tell you that you're not allowed on property.
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If I didn't have the right to be here, he has the right to be here.
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Not when an agent of the property has asked you to not.
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You're confusing private property with public property.
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Four cars and all you cops pulled off the shooting file.
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So if you feel that this is the best way to de-escalate the situation, then so be it.
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They are agents of the property, whether you like it or not.
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And welcome to the Democratic People's Republic of Brampton, Ontario, lorded over by the petty
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little lying liar who almost became premier of the province, Lord Patrick Brown.
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We went to public property, namely the Earnscliff Recreation Centre, in the hope of scrumming
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And three security SUVs and five police cruisers responded.
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You can almost imagine the emergency dispatcher calling all cars.
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Somebody's practicing journalism near a hockey rink.
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Please have the emergency task force on standby.
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And what an egregious crackdown on freedom of the press.
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They don't arrest people for trying to derail a train, but they arrest people for exposing
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Welcome to New Canada, where we have two-tier law enforcement based on identity politics.
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The police seem to be the private security force for politicians, instead of acting in
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Well, you know, Di, it sure seems that way to us, too.
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As this case winds through the courts in the months ahead, I can't wait for the disclosure
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to reveal whose greasy fingerprints are behind this flagrant misuse of law enforcement resources.
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My girlfriend's home was broken into when she got home and she called the police fearing
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Took them 45 minutes to show up because they were busy.
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I think your girlfriend should have claimed to be one of Patrick Brown's gal pals.
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Then the Peel Regional Police would have responded with a helicopter.
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I received a $65 ticket as a result of that trespassing incident.
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And Ezra says we'll spend $65,000, if need be, to fight this egregious attack on free speech.
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How many executives in the mainstream media would ever show that kind of commitment to a cause?
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The last journalists in Canada are getting arrested for doing their job.
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Well, Jonathan, I don't know if we're the last journalists left in Canada, but you raise a good point.
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This should have created the proverbial media snowball with all media organizations taking a stance for freedom of the press.
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But with very few exceptions, that has not been the case.
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Look, I don't care if those in the mainstream media hate me or hate Ezra or hate Rebel News.
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That's fine, but they should love freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.
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Gee, I guess when you owe your existence to a government bailout,
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maybe those freedoms aren't so important anymore for those in the media who are now merely trained SEAL ideologues.
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.