Best of 2020： Avi Yemini!
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Summary
In one of our year-end reviews, we take a look back at some of our favorite Rebel News shows from the past year, including The Best of Avi Yamini, The Dark Side Of, and The Rebel's Year-End Reviews.
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Hello, my Rebels, and I hope you're having a good Christmas time.
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Hopefully you're having a chance to take a break from a busy year,
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or maybe you're still on staycation and have been for many months.
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Either way, it's a pleasure to have you listen to the podcast.
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Over the days ahead, we have the best of The Rebel,
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compilations of some of our favorite videos this past year.
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We'll be back with original programming very early in the new year,
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but I think a lot of these videos you're about to hear today and the next few days
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may well be new to you because they were on our YouTube channel,
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but they were not on my show, The Ezra LeVant Show.
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So I hope you enjoy these because I think most of them may be new for you,
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So without further ado, here are the best of The Rebels shows from 2020.
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And just in closing, let me invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber.
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especially in some of our most dramatic coverage, really makes a difference.
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As you know, we don't take a dime from Trudeau.
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It's December 23rd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it
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Well, you know, one of our most exciting reporters in the last few months has been Avi Yamini.
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He only joined us, I think, four months ago, but he's made an enormous impact.
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Not only is he beloved in Canada, the United States, and the UK,
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but his home country of Australia was starving for the rebel point of view.
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That is, telling the other side of the story, especially in the city Avi lives, in Melbourne,
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which is the heart of the Australian state of Victoria,
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which had the strictest pandemic lockdowns in the world.
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Well, Avi went to work not just with his great journalism,
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but with his crowdfunding to hire lawyers and fight the fines and sue the lockdown police
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and challenge the constitutionality of the lockdown,
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I truly believe that Avi Yamini changed the entire political discussion
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in Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, and therefore in Australia itself.
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I want to start this report by firstly thanking everyone
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for all the love and support you've shown since the footage of
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my unprovoked and violent arrest on Saturday was released.
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And an extra special thanks to the over 10,000 people
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If you haven't signed it, I'm sure, after watching this report,
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So when you're done, head over to standwithavi.com
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and sign and share my petition demanding an end to the Victorian police state
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This report is going to show you what really happened on Saturday
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It exposes how police are abusing their new state of emergency powers
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and even worse, how the mainstream media is helping them get away with it.
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This is one of the protests that I actually have no idea
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the anti-lockdown protest that has been banned in Melbourne.
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we've seen Victoria police heavy-handedly kicking in doors,
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in an effort to stop this rally from happening today.
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Police warn that the entrances into the city are going to be blocked,
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I'm going to take you all the way into the city
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and we're going to report on what's actually happening there
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This is Dictator Dan speaking right now, live on the way.
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For two active cases, there's over 100,000 people
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The chances of her protest causing an outbreak,
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where the threat was far more real at the time.
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Apparently, COVID compliance checks stands for,
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Three in the car and they're filming is the problem.
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Internet publishing and broadcasting for news media purposes.
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So I'm a journalist for Rebel News under the Emeni Report.
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And our job today is to cover what is happening in the CVD.
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Sir, we're going to ask you to part there so we can have a chat.
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Okay, so we're starting at the shrine and then we're following it through to Parliament,
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That's what it says on the permit as per the regulation.
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Basically, Channel 9, Channel 7, they're all coming here.
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Okay, I'm just asking because you seem to not understand what the media does.
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We're going to cover the events in the CBD and the roadblocks and everything that was announced.
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In our work, you've got to stay very, very carefully within the guidelines because unlike the mainstream
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media, I highly doubt they're doing this to the mainstream media.
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So the world is very interested to see how they're going to react to media covering what's
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This is a crucial moment because police pulled us over.
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They didn't want me to go in, but I provided all the required legal documentation and in his
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words, they checked our credentials and were all right to go.
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From here, we head straight to the Shrine of Remembrance where the protests were planned
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I began doing my job just like any of the other journalists there.
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And just like the other journalists there, I followed the protesters as they marched for
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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
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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 arrest,
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It was quite peaceful until, I'm just going to stop here for a second.
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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
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I guess they like my work or they appreciate it or they find it funny or they see my sense
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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 purpose or reason.
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But this guy here is going to be placed under arrest right now.
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At this point, police forcibly take me away with my hands still cuffed behind my back like I'm some sort of violent criminal.
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But what they didn't realise is I was still mic'd up and was recording everything they were about to say.
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I followed all the Chief Health Officers, all the Chief Health Officers directions.
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I had the work permit and it was checked as I came in here by Victoria Police.
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Basically, they couldn't get me for breaching any COVID restrictions, so they had to make
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Only, there's one problem which you all witnessed.
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I wasn't stopping anyone from doing anything, let alone hindering police.
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But the arresting officer then goes off and talks and left me alone with two other cops
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holding me still with my hands tightly cuffed because I was some sort of threat.
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Why didn't you think they did this with Black Lives Matter?
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It was illegal to protest in Black Lives Matter, mate.
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I just want to understand why there's such a heavy-handed response to a protest that I'm
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But the fact that you're going in like this, arresting journalists because why?
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The government has given these unprecedented powers to a pack of power-hungry people who
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Then suddenly I noticed, when we were standing there, a police officer from the police media
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How do you feel about them arresting somebody, a journalist?
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So, I don't understand how they're in Victoria, in Melbourne, they've placed a journalist
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And a few minutes later, the arresting officer returns.
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Uh, so I'm just going to give you a caution, all right?
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Before we continue, I must inform you don't have to say or do anything.
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If you do anything you say or do, maybe give me any evidence.
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Um, the hinder, you're between our police lines.
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Our four-wheel commander's asked you to move, and you've got in his way.
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He barges in as I'm doing a piece to camera, pointing, going, this bloke is not here for
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Did anyone hear one time him asking me to move?
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I was there to report what was happening on the ground.
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He doesn't like the fact that I'm holding them accountable.
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I'm here today at the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in the state of Victoria,
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to launch our fight back against what has become the out-of-control police state.
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The world has witnessed what's happening here, from unlawful arrests to police brutality.
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And, of course, as you remember last week, the moment I was violently tackled to the ground,
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arrested, held against my will, and sent packing.
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And I need your help to do it at StandWithAvi.com, because it's already cost $11,000 just to bring it here.
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We've got Madeline Smith, and for those of you who have been following me for a while will know that she has won
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every single politically motivated case that the police have brought against me so far.
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Now she's helping me take the fight to them, and she's brought on Peter Hamilton, who specialises in this specific area of law.
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Once we're in this court, we're likely going to need some heavy hitters to join our legal team.
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So you can imagine how this will easily cost over $50,000, which sounds like a lot, I know.
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But defending our freedom is priceless, especially when you're up against a state in here.
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So in summary, if you give me the tools to fight them at StandWithAvi.com, we will finish the job, but I cannot do it alone.
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Today, my legal team officially filed the court proceedings in this court against the state.
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And we're going after them for the unlawful arrest, the false imprisonment, the excessive force of tackling a journalist to the ground who posed no threat,
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aggravated and exemplary damages for the intimidation, including that creepy visit to my house with my children late at night.
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But this is not only about me. This is about taking a stand against tyranny and getting our state back.
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The government have gone unchallenged until now in eroding our civil liberties.
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My case is just the perfect one to spearhead this fight because it's so clear cut.
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And the full nine-page, well-written and well-argued lawsuit that has been stamped by the Supreme Court and served on Victoria Police is now available at StandWithAvi.com.
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You don't have to like me, my reporting, you can even oppose my entire worldview, but you must recognise the importance of not allowing the state to dictate what journalism is okay.
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He's going to be under arrest, but this guy here is going to be placed under arrest right now.
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So if you're able and you're willing to pitch in what will inevitably be a very expensive battle, please go to StandWithAvi.com now.
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Every cent helps and make sure to also share this campaign because together, this very little David can and will beat the big Goliath.
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We have the truth, evidence and the will to fight this all the way to the top for all of our sake.
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Yesterday, guys, I hit the streets once again to follow the freedom or lockdown protest, whatever you want to call them, here in Melbourne, Australia, where the protest organisers played a little cat and mouse with police.
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My full report will be published exclusively to Rebel News as soon as it's ready, as soon as possible.
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You'll actually get to see how filing our Supreme Court action with your help changed police tactics, but that's to come.
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In this video, I decided to challenge the protesters as they dispersed from their final pop-up protest location in Footscray, which is a Melbourne western suburb at the end of the day.
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It's important to note, yesterday, Victoria recorded 14 new active cases of COVID, today even lower at 11.
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However, the Premier is still refusing to lift any of these harsh restrictions early.
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They're here to protect us, protect Victoria from this virus that has had 14 active cases overnight.
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If you do the maths, there's 6.6 million Victorians?
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I get where you're coming from, but there's been 14 cases overnight.
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Look at the mental health crisis, which has been created.
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The domestic violence, the alcoholism, the drugs, right?
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Locking people in their own homes when they're perfectly healthy people.
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He's the one with blood on his hands, and he's saying he's saving life.
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But 8 p.m., everyone's got to be tucked up safely in bed.
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And no one will take responsibility because it's got nothing to do with a health crisis.
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Me and my sister, we are like your biggest fan.
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Doesn't that justify shunning down the economy, arresting pregnant mums, journalists, senior citizens?
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Totally justifies it and totally justifies passing the omnibus bill to lock up people like us just for having an opinion, right?
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Are you saying to me with a straight face that 14 cases doesn't justify shutting down our economy, curfews?
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So, what do you think the end game is here, mate?
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I'm just really worried about the 14 cases overnight.
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Especially because there's been protests for three weeks in a row.
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You expect these numbers to be through the roof right now, right?
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Since we've been in this lockdown, the UK, okay.
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Two weeks ago, as you probably remember, I was tackled to the ground and arrested while
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reporting at an anti-lockdown march in Melbourne, Australia.
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If you don't know what I'm talking about, I don't know where you've been, but head to
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The following week, I simply couldn't even do my job due to the continued police intimidation.
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Victoria Police made it clear that I was their target.
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I was on their list, so I stayed away from reporting at protests here in Melbourne.
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But thanks to all your help at standwithavi.com, we filed proceedings in the Supreme Court against
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the state, which in turn also put the state on notice.
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And my boss at Rebel News, Ezra Levant, then asked me to go back to recommence covering
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So Sunday, I got the team together and I hopped onto the protest telegram group to do my job.
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So we've just got from telegram the notification that today's pop-up rally is at Chatston Shopping
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And I think, I don't know how many fines were issued, numerous fines to protesters.
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Meanwhile, a cluster that has grown to 34 cases in Casey, that's more cases than we had
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today in the entire state, wasn't issued one fine.
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So you're telling me people that are actually spreading the disease are not being fined.
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But there hasn't been one case to date that has been associated to any of these protests
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So police are tackling, arresting, fining protesters, arresting pregnant mums, senior citizens for
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But they're letting, they're letting people who are actually spreading the disease get away
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If you've got this and you go and spend time in other people's homes, you will give it to
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It's disappointing, but what's happened has happened.
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And we're concentrating on stopping the further spread of this.
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We were so close that I think we're going to get here before the police.
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Unlike some of the planned ones, they're trying to avoid the police shutting it down.
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This is where they're lifting the flash protest right here.
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We're going to take one moment of silence for all those that we've lost during this lockdown
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and all those that we will lose if this continues.
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There are many people that have passed away during this and there are potentially far more
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people that will lose their lives due to the lockdown measures that wouldn't have lost their
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I am absolutely not going to get violent with him.
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I don't reckon that dude with the guitar is going to get very violent.
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They're asking everyone on the telegram group to get out now.
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I think they're announcing a new location for this flash rally.
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It seems like today they're doing things a little bit different.
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And minutes later, they swarmed the shopping centre.
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it had already been blocked off by a temporary police checkpoint.
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Notice here how the officer ran my plate and then quickly called his colleague to help.
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That wasn't happening to any of the other cars.
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So obviously, something popped up on his screen.
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It's, yep, it's on the permit, as per the regulations.
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Yeah, that will be unfortunate, because we probably need it another ten times today.
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I was going to ask you the same question, brother.
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Yeah, it's got the time, it's all filled out correctly.
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Okay, this is another important moment where...
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And yes, to quote the officer, yes, they're right.
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What we're just going to do, we'll just wait just so we can clear this one.
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Okay, this is another important moment where...
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And yes, to quote the officer, yes, they're right.
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What we're just going to do, we'll just wait just so we can clear this one.
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That's the kind of interaction with police I'm used to.
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I back the blue as long as they're enforcing the laws and not overreaching and overstepping.
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I also have a problem with laws that themselves overreach and overstep.
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That's the problem with the state of emergency powers.
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If that's going to be the interaction all today, I think filing in the Supreme Court,
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after he checked my number plate, he's obviously seen who I am.
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Filing in the Supreme Court certainly changed how police responded to me,
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Okay, your name's on our list because there's...
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Yeah, so you can take me off your list because you're not welcome at my house.
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So thanks to every single one of you who have helped me at StandWithAvi.com so far,
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because without you, I would have likely been arrested again, then and there.
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As you know, I was driving on to South Melbourne Market as that was the next location protesters
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All right, we're here at South Melbourne Market.
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There is a bit of a police presence here already taking down our number plate.
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So I think they are expecting the protests to arrive, protesters to arrive.
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Seems like they're at all the different entrances here.
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Before I even reach the market, he knows exactly who I am.
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And as you're gonna see, he's gonna try trip me up.
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On a positive note, because I like to be positive,
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they realize that randomly tackling me to the ground and arresting me is unlawful.
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This time you'll see they played a very different game, and I played along.
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So they were just checked on the way out of Chadston?
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The game was obviously to catch me saying something wrong,
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Because until now, they've always unlawfully arrested me.
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A local man, outlawfully within his 5k, wanted to say hi when he saw me.
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saw me. But police immediately moved in on him. And then when he tried to simply film the
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interaction, probably for my protection, again, they walked towards the man to intimidate him
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not to, even though it's his right to. How that kind of police behavior protects us from a virus
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is beyond me. Filming from, what, five to ten meters away poses no risk at all. But of course,
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this stopped being about coronavirus a long time ago. Anyways, let's get back to the police
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pretending they don't know anything about me. Rebel News, well-known publication.
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Do you have any details? Have you got some ID for it? Yeah, I've got some ID, of course.
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Does someone else want to speak to the other person?
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Do you have a license in here? Yeah, license copy of my license is here.
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You don't have your... No, no, I don't bring it in case. It's, it's... You can look it up.
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Yeah, of course. I'm as good looking as I am in my... I don't know, am I allowed to take it down?
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I've asked him to go for ID for this. It doesn't.
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This guy is relentless. He knows who I am, but he needs me to show ID. Then he orders me to pull
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down my face mask to show my face. Fine. Now he claims that the license photo that every other cop
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has accepted at all the checkpoints and every other police interaction until now. Suddenly,
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it's not good enough because it blurs out my name a little. By the way,
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on the right-hand side of Victorian licenses, there is a clear license number that he can look up on
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his system and confirm my name, my face, my address, but that's okay. He's obviously fishing
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for a technicality that he can breach me on. Not today, mate. You want to see my passport? Is that better?
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No. There's my passport with my name. The media unit has arrived.
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And we've been committed to working payment with you, do you?
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I've got the letter from my boss there at the moment, yeah.
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I'm not Rebel Media. It's a company. It's a media site.
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So, your mini-report is this, is who's contracted?
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Of your mini-report, which is contract and the letter at the back gives you that information.
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Ezra Levant. They're available. My lawyers are available if you want to talk to all of them
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right now. Everybody's available waiting. They're all on standby. You can talk to...
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Do you have a copy of this that we can have a look at?
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Yeah, I'd love for you to have a photo. That way you can show everyone this time maybe
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The thing is, we just need to make sure, A, that we're wearing masks and airlines,
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and B, that people aren't encroaching on the police operation.
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When we're actually going about, when the members are actually going about doing their job,
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I accept that. And when we were here last time and that happened and I tried to speak
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to the media unit, it's the world is seen. I wasn't in anyone's way. But that's in front
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But the thing is, if the police members give you a direction to do something...
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We've got to protect the public, the police, and you guys...
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I understand that. I understand that. I support... I think we need law and order.
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I just think that the directions need to be clear and that, you know, just cause one off...
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One commander didn't like me personally to target me, that's not really acceptable.
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And they part of... So do you work collectively as a...
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They're my camera guys and that's my... Yeah. So...
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Them two are with me. I don't know anyone else, yeah.
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Seems like we got the all clear. Until suddenly, they start an entirely new line of question.
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The Yemeni reports? News and current affairs. So we're contracted to Rebel News. So Rebel News
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is a news and current affairs site. So I'm just one show on that site, on that, which complies
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with the health directives, which is what you're here to enforce. So it's online, yeah. It's
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an internet-based publishing site. It's very big. It's got millions of subscribers.
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Oops. I forgot to tell him to subscribe on YouTube and to hit that little notification
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button so he doesn't miss anything. But I'm sure he's watching this right now and he's
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probably already a sub. He's a fan. But let's keep playing the I don't know you game.
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So you do stand up in front of the people, yeah?
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You get interviewed on the camera and then they play it over the internet.
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Yeah, on the journalists at Rebel News, you'll see me. I'll come up. I'm the Australian chief
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Australian correspondent. It's a bad photo, so don't judge me.
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Do you ask all the journalists these kind of questions?
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This week there's a, you would have heard the Supreme Court.
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Yeah? So you heard about it. So you obviously know who I am.
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We know all the journalists, but we don't know you. But I know about your Supreme Court action against us.
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It makes no difference where I got my degree or didn't get my degree.
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I'm a paid journalist. That's my job. My accreditation doesn't really matter. That's not part of the health directives.
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But if you want me to read you the health directives, I'm happy to do so.
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Nah, she wasn't keen on me reading it to her because she knows.
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The permitted industry and activity that I fall under that's written on the form in front of her
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is internet publishing and broadcasting for news media purposes.
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That's their word. And that precisely describes what we do here at Rebel News.
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So no matter how hard police try to twist this because they don't appreciate my criticisms lately,
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I'm a legal journalist working within the chief health officer's ridiculous directions.
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Yeah, we were at Chadston and then we followed it here and now we keep going with doing our job.
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I was a bit, it was a bit unfortunate two weeks ago your unit didn't
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It's all good. You comply, you keep by the directions, you're all good.
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If there's a problem you take it to court and it changes the facts on the ground.
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so we prefer everyone to stay with the media section here.
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So yeah, at the moment we're trying to, we're trying to uh...
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Yeah, I don't think it's, I think you're in the wrong place.
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The funny thing is, what she tries to do is when they've got nothing left,
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It turned out that protesters were just playing with police, declaring
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they're going to South Melbourne market to spread the police resources nice and thin.
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And it worked because the South Melbourne market was totally blocked off.
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Lockdown in, has it been good in Melbourne? If it's saving the planet, is it worth it?
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Yes, can you please get some more identification for me Arvie?
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That's my media press card, government, Commonwealth.
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I do too, yeah, but that's my government issued.
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Do you want to copy on my passport or my license?
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No, no, I've got my Commonwealth issued from the Australian Government press pass.
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I am, I really love it because that's my press pass.
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A copy of my permit I don't have on me now, to be honest, but, um...
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Okay, you don't have your copy of your permit on you, so I'm going to ask you to leave.
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That's all right, I'll get a copy now sent to you here.
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Like, with all due respect, this is my job, this is what I'm paid for, you're doing your job.
00:45:43.520
We have a current case with Victoria Police in the Supreme Court.
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The last couple of rallies you've understood that and we've been, uh, we've worked really well together.
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I'm not here to bother you guys from doing your job, but you're not going to move me on from doing my job.
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I'll get that sent, I'll get that sent, I'll get that sent now here.
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Um, but, uh, and otherwise I will fill one, another one out here right now.
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Uh, otherwise you can go ahead and issue whatever fine you want to issue while I'm doing my job with my
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Commonwealth press card, which is quite obvious what I'm doing here, working.
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There's been zero cases for, uh, a week now and, uh, they're trying to intimidate me to leave
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from doing my job because I forgot the piece of paper back at home, which is more than 25k's from here.
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This, this is all because of coronavirus. Coronavirus.
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For the, for your safety at home right now, this, this is what's happening.
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The funny thing is every other protest in this state in, since Black Lives Matter have been met
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with brute force. You saw Tuesday, pepper spray deployed on peaceful protests.
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But today, for some reason, there's a big police presence and there are some protesters that set up a stand.
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Suddenly COVID is fine. The problem is Avi Yamini is outside of his 25 kilometers.
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We better jail him. I think that's a good idea.
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I need to fill out another work permit. I forgot.
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Guys, no matter what they think about Monica, she's actually all right.
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I know, I know. They're, they're, they're having a laugh.
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Remember, this is all to save us from the deadly virus.
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So, will you guys be pepper spraying the climate change protesters today?
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If you're here and you've caused some issues, I'll be asking you to leave.
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All right, so under the Cornwell Act, you can't actually move me on.
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I can. If you're causing a breach, of course I can.
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And if you fail to move on, we can take some action from there.
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But if you cause a breach of the peace, I'll be asking you to leave.
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You understand, we're already in court over that one.
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I just want to ask as police, today, are you guys going to take the same?
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No, not going to pepper spray the climate change protesters?
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.