COVID Fines for Christians, Sneak Peek of New Rebel Show!
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Rebel News Plus is a premium membership that gives you access to all sorts of great long-form, TV-style shows, including The Rebel News Show with Andrew Chapados, where you get access to the latest news and commentary from your favourite Rebelers. This week, we have a story about a church that allowed in-person services to resume in Langley, BC, Canada, despite a ban that was in effect until December 7th, 2019.
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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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Well, this past Sunday, Riverside Cavalry Chapel in Langley
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became one of at least three churches in British Columbia to offer in-person services,
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despite Dr. Bonnie Henry banning services until at least December 7th.
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Meanwhile, it was business as usual at the jam-packed Costcos and Walmarts down the road.
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Jerea Humphrey shall try to make sense of it all.
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And hey, just in time for Christmas, you're going to be getting yet another Rebel News show,
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namely, Andrew Says, which I've been told is a zillion times better than Simon Says.
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Host Andrew Chapados will drop by to tell us what we're all in for.
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And you had plenty, and I mean plenty, to say about my video regarding the grotesque takedown of Adam Skelly,
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the owner of Adamson Barbecue in Toronto, who simply wanted to operate a restaurant.
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But Mayor John Tory and public health head honcho, Dr. Eileen Davila, well, they begged to differ.
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So all the king's horses and all the king's men were sent in to shut down this beloved eatery
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in what was surely a day of disgrace in Hogtown.
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Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.
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It seems like he's going to let us do our thing for today and just let us worship and then contact us later
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if there's going to be any issues, which, glory to God, I'm super thankful that they're not just pulling a China move.
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So as you can see behind me, even though the church has been told for now they're going to be left alone,
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they will not be disturbing the service. There's more manpower here now.
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I think there's about six or seven officers all in line Sunday morning during a church service.
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You guys saw the signs plastered all over social distance here.
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They've got the hand sanitizer out. It's not looking like a super spreader church to me.
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But nevertheless, this is the most pressing crime, I guess, right now in Langley, B.C.
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So what's the plan here today for the Christians?
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We're just discussing that right now with my supervisor.
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We didn't tell them anything so far. I just got some information from one of the contacts and that was as far as we went.
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Right. I heard one of the things they said was, you know, not to interrupt a religious service.
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I won't be answering any questions right now. I'll direct you to my supervisor, okay?
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Okay. Sounds good. Is he here now or he or she?
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All right. So I'm just standing out here. See the officers are here.
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Now you, sir, you've got a lot going on here. You've got blue gloves, rags.
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Today, I'm just trying to take care of all the, just cleaning for COVID.
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Just making sure that this is a safe environment for everybody that's coming into the building.
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We want to maintain all the protocols that are in place with distancing and all those types of things that are going on.
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And this is just a big part of going around and keeping everything clean for people just so it's safe and we can keep any danger of COVID contact.
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Now, as far as you know, has this location been tied to any outbreaks?
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Possibly, yeah. It's got to help, at least. So, yeah. I just want to keep people safe.
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So what's, uh, the police file number's on the top there, on the right top.
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Uh, no. If you want to speed it, have these speeches on the back.
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It seems that it wasn't just the staff at the Riverside Cavalry Chapel in Langley, B.C. that were cleaning up last Sunday.
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That's because local law enforcement was also cleaning up, as in fining the church some $2,500 by order of the Health Highness, Dr. Bonnie Henry.
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And joining me now with more on this egregious story is Drea Humphrey. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Drea.
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Hi. Thanks for having me on this crazy, crazy, crazy segment.
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But Drea, right off the bat, the question arises, why can't this chapel open, yet the fitness facility next door can?
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Why is it that hearing a church service is verboten, but British Columbians can shop till they drop at the local Costco?
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You know, as soon as I got there, I got out of the car, and the first thing I saw, I didn't even have the camera or anything.
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The first thing I saw was people with their mats walking into the yoga studio, and that's great.
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And I'm sure that Jim was practicing, you know, safety standards.
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But how is Dr. Bonnie Henry rationalizing, allowing that to be open, and then shutting down, like you said, the chapel that does have certain rights that are supposed to be protected?
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You know, there are some exceptions, but they actually have rights that are written in the Constitution for freedom of religious expression.
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And then when you throw Costco into it, nearby where I live, there was a Superstore Black Friday sale that was out of the charts.
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I wasn't able to go when people were saying it, but I saw in groups online, people were saying,
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oh, there's no social distancing happening, and, you know, they've got no taxes.
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And, you know, Drea, even if we don't dwell on the freedom of religion part of the Charter of Rights,
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just looking, comparing apples to apples, as you know, last week, we covered what I thought was one of the sorriest chapters in Toronto's history, quite frankly.
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A little Adamson barbecue literally being shut down by all the king's men and all the king's horses.
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And yet, just a few hundred meters down the road, a Costco Superstore packed to the gills with, by the way, its own food service counter selling hot food.
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You know, Drea, what I'm saying is that if this is all about science driving this, how is it that science says, yeah, a big box store is perfectly okay with hundreds and hundreds of people in it,
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but a little restaurant, a little place of worship, oh, that's typhoid married territory.
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Well, you know, I think a lot of it is just the data doesn't align up.
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Dr. Bonnie Henry did say that it has been shown that places of worship have contributed to the spread of the virus.
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What places of worship and how does that compare to others?
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So you have people listening to that and thinking that these places of worship are some super spreaders.
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But as you saw in that report, that particular chapel has not been associated with a single outbreak,
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which can be as small as one person, by the way, even if there is an outbreak.
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And, you know, and then also in the Vancouver area, we have a bishop speaking out,
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and he's speaking on behalf of over 70 parishes where not one has been linked to an outbreak.
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So how is it that there's this collective punishment where a church can receive a $2,300 fine
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for opening their place of worship to the community, mind you, with, I don't know if you saw how spaced out people were.
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They were quite spaced out and also, you know, taking in consideration that COVID-19 is out
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and that certain things should be done to prevent the spread of it.
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You know, Drea, you said something very important there, and that is, where is the data?
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If you were to go and ask Dr. Henry, where's the data?
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Because quite frankly, just like yourself, I'm not aware of places of worship of any faith
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No, I mean, as far as I can tell, and I've looked very hard,
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I have not been able to see where this is coming from.
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I mean, we've heard of outbreaks from gyms in our area quite a bit,
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and that's another reason why I did point out the gym.
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So it definitely seems that gyms are spreading it more.
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And then, yeah, we saw them get some restrictions in B.C. with the last order,
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but they weren't completely shut down like religious gatherings.
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The gyms' classes, like joint classes, have been stopped,
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Well, I can tell you, my local Costco in Richmond Hill,
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with just about five clicks down the road from me,
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and as I understand it, it's just business as usual.
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Well, I think if that was anything other than a Costco or a Walmart,
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by law and law enforcement would come down like a papal bull.
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But when you were speaking to the people at this place of worship, Drea,
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what was their reaction having the police descend upon them,
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These aren't people, you know, as the saying goes,
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they're not going down to the bar wearing trouble on their shirt.
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They're good people, they just want to peacefully worship.
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I mean, how did they make sense of this when they were given these tickets?
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You know, I think they were stunned to a certain extent,
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And the reason I say that is because they were already warned before that Sunday,
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contrary to what some of the local media made it sound like,
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they were told by bylaw before that Sunday that they could expect to receive fines
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and also that the attendees could expect to receive fines.
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So everybody who walked into that church had been notified,
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And they knew what they were getting themselves into.
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And I know the pastor, he also mentioned, you know,
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there's more than one door, it's up to you which way you want to exit.
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which I thought was, you know, a statement in itself.
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They didn't, you know, shame themselves and go out the back door.
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They didn't hide that they're there to practice their religion.
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They came out the front door, even if that meant they were going to get fined.
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Are they going to open under threat, I presume, of more tickets coming?
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Or are they going to bend the knee and not have services?
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The last I heard is still what you saw in the video,
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is that when asked, you know, what exactly, what order are you acting on,
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Because it's been very difficult to find the official signed order.
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It seems not to have been released or as easy to find
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as all of the other signed orders that pertain to religious gatherings being closed.
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So the officers did say that they were going to have to discuss with their legal team
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So I don't know if they've got that answer or not,
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and I don't, I still can't find that signed order that really lays it all out.
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I'm going to go back Sunday and see, see what happens.
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And I guess we're going to find out one way or the other in less than 48 hours
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that if anybody is watching this from the Vancouver area,
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the lower mainland area, and you are a church that is feeling led to be open,
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Rebel News is prepared to fight your fines, help you fight your fines.
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You can contact us and go to fightthefines.com.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Do you know there's going to be another show added to our stable,
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Starting tomorrow, there's a fourth show coming your way,
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It is the Andrew Says Show, hosted by Andrew Chapados.
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That sounds like a segment from a variety show.
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And it's been in the works for a few weeks now,
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And our first guest is Dave Rubin from the Rubin Report,
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And it's essentially a long-form, almost a podcast conversation.
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I think we went for 30 minutes is what we're going to shoot for for most of the episodes.
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And we just talked about the state of political discourse.
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We talked about media coverage of the election.
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So, what you can expect is essentially just a regular conversation,
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not unlike something you would see on the Daily Wire or Joe Rogan or something like that,
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where I'm just talking to guests, getting their opinion on current events
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and specific topics that you'll have to tune in to find out, David Menzies.
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And from what you're telling me, it sounds like one of my favourite shows
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And it's something that you don't see a lot of.
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And they sit down for an hour and have a civil discussion.
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Mark asks a question and lets the guests speak.
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And there's no interruptions, there's no distractions.
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Is that the kind of show we're going to get with Andrew Says?
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His TV show is much different than his radio show, but continue.
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But, yeah, that's what people have come to enjoy from newer media formats
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like Rebel News on YouTube, where there isn't just, or our daily live streams,
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where there isn't just small cuts, where all of a sudden we're out of time.
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And we get more facts than we would get in a five-minute video
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or one of my own videos that may be between four to eight minutes long, let's say.
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And, you know, if you're not familiar with him,
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And I take it you've already recorded the Dave Rubin interview.
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It's great to have somebody who I think is such a big name as the first guest.
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It kind of helps get other guests, as you'll see afterwards.
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We got some great people coming in the coming weeks.
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And we had a great conversation about a lot about the types of media
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that we see right now in the election coverage,
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you're crazy if you actually want to talk about this stuff.
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And the bias that's completely present in places like CNN,
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where they just pretend like there's no political leanings at all.
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You've got Chris Cuomo on with his brother making jokes,
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You've got Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer basically being high-functioning androids.
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Like all the evidence in the election you're talking about,
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It's just another thing that Trump's being crazy about
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So you really get to dig into that stuff as we did with Dave Rubin.
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And one of the other things we were able to talk about
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is why so many conservatives are leaving places like California in the United States.
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New Yorkers are going maybe to Nashville or somewhere in the South
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where there's less taxes, maybe more gun freedom,
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and, you know, less terrible outcomes like a city like San Francisco would have,
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And, you know, I share your fascination about what we've seen happen
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in the United States on November 3rd and onward, Andrew.
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Our colleague, I think, Kian Bexty, has done absolutely superb work
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Kewin went down with Mocha to Spadina Avenue where it's located.
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I'm astounded that there's not a media mob outside that building
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This is, if the allegations are true of the voter fraud,
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this makes Watergate look like a little white lie.
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How do you explain this idea of the media party going,
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It's because this is what they hoped the outcome would be.
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And then they position it as if, oh, we're all going back to normal now.
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Now that Trump's gone, we can just go back to normal.
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And the Democrat Party is to make things as chaotic as possible,
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make a mountain out of every molehill possible,
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whether it's a nomination for a Supreme Court or a district judge
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or, you know, him firing an individual from his staff,
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like Scaramucci or something, for example, or Omarosa.
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Every little thing is chaotic so that when Trump is gone,
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we can say, hey, things are back to normal now, David.
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And I think if the shoe were on the other foot,
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there would be media outside of every single Dominion voting place.
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In Germany, they'd be talking about how it was used in Venezuelan elections.
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And not to mention the simple fact that in American election,
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their votes are being counted in foreign countries,
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You should not have a foreign entity counting your votes.
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It's a fascinating story, and I'm fascinated by how overlooked and underreported it is.
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since we've seen what's happened to the mainstream media in the last several years.
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You know, Andrew, what I like about your interview style is you are one cool cucumber.
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You know, when it comes to being under pressure.
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In fact, we're not going to show a clip of tomorrow's show with Dave Rubin,
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but we're going to show a clip of what happened back in June at Nathan Phillips Square.
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I thought this was maybe the best and perhaps the most important video we ever did at Rebel News.
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It was us reclaiming Nathan Phillips Square from a bunch of thugs called Afro-Indigenous Rising.
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And Andrew says was the first one on the scene.
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And wow, talk about an interview going off the tracks,
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not because of anything Andrew did, but because of running into a bunch of hostiles.
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So we've established basically our own miniature society here.
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Yo, don't put your hand on people like that, bro.
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First of all, entering into the space is violent without...
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But you know an encampment's here and you just came, so...
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I mean, you know, and this really, this is really something the mainstream media never
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runs into, which we do as rebels, that somehow there's this idea, Andrew, that if they don't
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like the media outlet or they don't like the line of questions or they simply don't like
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you, the cut of your jib, if you will, they use violence.
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What are your thoughts going back to that day when you encountered that mob?
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The first thing that I think of is how do these people think that they have a right to
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tell anybody who comes and goes on the property?
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One of the things that they mentioned was that, well, the other media outlets, they come to
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us in advance and they tell us what they want to interview us about and they ask us their
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And I'm just thinking, well, crappy journalists.
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You're just going to let the subject of your interview, who's squatting on public property,
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tell you where you can and cannot go, because what's going to happen?
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Communist anarchists do not care for the media anyways.
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So one person at the beginning tells me that I'm intruding on people's homes and their right
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to privacy while these are tents in Nathan Phillips Square.
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Another person tells me that I'm making myself look silly by talking to his camera as he's
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trying to live stream to, I don't know, two people.
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You can see there that these girls try to block us from walking.
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And I think there's those rare moments where you know you're getting through to people.
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You can see, if you can see their eyes, there's something going on there.
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And particularly these two girls that were there.
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And I said, girls, is this really what you want to do?
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You want to be part of a group that tries to bully people off of public property and tell
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They weren't going to physically stop me from walking and filming a sign.
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And then the only method of recourse they had, David, was to surround me and tell me that
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I was on stolen land until it started pouring rain.
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And then, of course, many of them checked into the Sheridan Hotel.
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That these activists who are, you know, they're out there doing it for the people.
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And they're totally not just getting GoFundMe from left-leaning individuals who are driving
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Mercedes, like the ones that yell at you when they drove by, if you remember that part.
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They're staying at their, how much is it at night, David?
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So during daylight, you're protesting, you're fighting the man.
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Tell me, Andrew, if you were given the opportunity to interview anyone in the world, either present
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Well, I think your answer would be Elvis, first of all.
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I think, obviously, I would have to pick Trump right now, a world leader right now, whether
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it's Justin Trudeau or Donald Trump or even Doug Ford at this point, just because, and
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I'd probably go for somebody I'd disagree with first, because somebody like Doug Ford
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or Justin Trudeau never has to actually answer tough questions.
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They never even have them in the vicinity of difficult pose their way.
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They can either just not have these people called upon at all, or in the case of Doug
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Ford, I got a doctor or an MP behind me that I can shove under the forefront to get these
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So, if I have to choose one person, I guess it would be Justin Trudeau right now.
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I think I'm more simpatical with your first choice, Donald Trump.
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I think if I was looking at anyone who is deceased, my pick right now, because of the way the year
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I would love to have seen, I mean, remember he wrote 1984 in, it was published in 1948,
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so it was just reversing the digits, and then died just a few years after that.
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I would love to get George Orwell's take on what we've been going through with this pandemic,
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because it has been a very Orwellian time in the last several months, wouldn't you say?
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And a lot of the things, I've been saying this for a while, that a lot of the things
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that were conspiracies just in March and April have come true in terms of masking and lockdowns
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I'm hoping that a lot of it isn't part of some grand scheme that we've been hearing about.
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I mean, even though the Prime Minister mentions great resets and stuff like that, and building
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back better is a theme all around the world, I kind of am hoping that it's just some sort
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of crooked payout that people are getting, and not some sort of worldly communist takeover,
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It's got to be one of these people at these protests who can't, you know, they can't take
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We can go with the person at that very protest.
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The guy who has turned out to be a security guard for Garda World, the tall black guy with
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cornrows, he looked at me and he's like, you have to listen to what I say.
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He's like, oh, no, there can't be any discussion about it.
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So you can, I can tell you anything that I want and tell you that you're on stolen land,
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And that's just a nice bow tie on 2020, isn't it, David?
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Well, you know, I'll tell you, you got off easy.
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He made mother jokes when he was talking to me.
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For me, by the way, if you're interested, it was in 1986.
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James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek.
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It was the most soul-destroying experience of my life, folks.
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I had read every behind-the-scenes Star Trek book.
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And I'll tell you, he was so cruel to me that when he had a teaser poster for Star Trek IV,
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and I said, by the way, can you give us any idea what it's about?
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And he said, just tell your readers it's about whales.
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And I was so sure he was taking the piss out of me.
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As they say, you look back after the passage of time, and you get a laugh, don't you?
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Especially when you realize that the first Star Trek movie of the next generation in the early 90s,
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I tried to watch the first half of the movie, and I couldn't.
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I mean, they lost all the old characters in space somewhere.
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Well, that was the reason James Doohan was so miserable to me,
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is that there was a tiny wire story, three paragraphs long, on the Edmonton Journal front page,
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and it was about a new show coming next year called Star Trek The Next Generation.
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And my opening question was, what do you know about this?
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I've been on the phone all morning with my bloody agent.
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He was really upset about getting cut out of the new show.
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I'm not the producer of Star Trek The Next Generation.
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And if there was, it would be taught in journalism school how not to do an interview.
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Folks, tune in to Andrew Says, the newest show.
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Don't you dare miss it, as Billy Red Lions used to say.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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That was the most fucked up shit I've ever got on camera.
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They're just getting themselves in more and more trouble by the second.
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What everybody from all walks of life realizes that this is full of shit and they can't do anything.
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Well, folks, it's coming up for 12.30 and just about five minutes ago, we had the door that was locked down by the city actually smashed open from the inside out.
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A lot of people here tried to cram themselves into the restaurant.
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We need this fire, we need this fire, get back, get back, he's gonna move wrist, bro.
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Shame, shame, shame, shame, he's a hero, this is a hero.
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Well that was the scene at Adamson Barbecue in West End Toronto last Thursday.
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In fact, given the enormous police presence, if you had happened upon the scene uninformed,
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you would have thought that there was an active shooter on the premises or maybe this was a terrorist situation.
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It was all about a restaurateur trying to cook up some brisket.
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And for whatever reason, you just cannot do that in John Tory's Toronto.
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In any event, you had plenty to say about Adam Skelly and the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion
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that was brutally quashed because, well, Adamson Barbecue is not a retailer with special privileges like,
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they wouldn't go and arrest BLM and Antifa like that.
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And if you were to shut down the railway tracks in the name of climate justice or indigenous land claims,
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that sort of criminal activity would be allowed to linger for several weeks.
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How did we suddenly find ourselves, folks, living in a society that truly embraces a two-tier justice system?
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This was overkill on behalf of the authorities.
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Mayor John Tory's worst nightmare would have been for dozens or even hundreds of businesses to follow suit.
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This was his message to other entrepreneurs that if you dare open your shop,
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get ready for all the king's horses and all the king's men to descend upon your store
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and haul you away handcuffed inside a police cruiser.
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Well, Jordana, if the Great Reset means living in a city without getting to enjoy the best brisket this side of Texas,
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Yes, and Adam Scali doesn't want a handout, folks.
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He just wants to serve food and make an honest living.
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The Costco that is situated a mere 400 metres or so away from his restaurant.
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But yet again, if this pandemic has proven anything in 2020,
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Indeed, NJ, I think the phrase, we are all in this together, has now knocked off the phrase,
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the check is in the mail, as the greatest lie ever uttered.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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A rebellion cannot be just one man defying draconian laws.
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It would have been fantastic if other retailers had followed Adam's lead
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But obviously anyone who was thinking about that sort of civil disobedience
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had second thoughts once the city used a bazooka to eradicate a flea.
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What we saw last week was one of the most shameful days in Toronto's history.
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And Mayor Tory, the pretend conservative with the fragile ego,
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he should be downright embarrassed about ever showing his face in public.
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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.