DAILY Roundup | Censorship⧸Chinese election interference, CBC's big bonuses, Hacking 'Smart Cities'
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Summary
In this episode, Ezra Levant talks about what it's like to be part journalist, part pundit, and part business person, and what it means to be a part-time pundit. He also talks about the dangers of corporate greed, and why he thinks we should all be doing what we do best, which is laugh.
Transcript
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Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. How are you doing? Great to see you. Oh, I'm happy to be
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back in this chair. I wish I had three different versions of myself, one that could do nothing but
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commentary, one that would go out into the world and do journalism in interesting places like
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that super fun trip we had to the World Economic Forum. And another one of me, the worst version of
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me that would try and do the business side of things. I recently visited a couple of American
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news organizations. I went to Blaze Media in Dallas. I went to Breitbart in LA. And both of them have
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full-time business people as their CEOs. No one else tries to have a reporter run things too. I mean,
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you can do that when you're a very small shop. But I hope that one day Rebel News grows enough
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that it can be like Breitbart or Daily Wire and have or Blaze and have someone take over on the
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business side just because I don't think that's my forte. Although, don't knock it. I mean, in eight
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years, we've grown enough that we have 47 staff. That number's gone up and down sometimes during
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the height of the pandemic. We were closer to 60. But, you know, I do get a kick out of all the
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different sides of things. But if you had to say, well, what are you? Are you a reporter? Are you a
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commentator? Or are you a business person? I'd say I'm probably a commentator first, a reporter second,
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and a business person like 10th or something. But I think that's also given us a bit of a flavor
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too. I mean, I think for better or for worse, when you regard your company as a mission even more than
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as a business, it shows. People know that we care and that we don't just do things to make money.
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I mean, the way to make money during the pandemic was to be a Pfizer repeater. And it was super gross
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to see, for example, those late night comedians just go full pharma salesman. Wasn't that gross?
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Stephen Colbert, the vaccine. That was, I think, the lowest moment I've ever seen in late night TV.
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And I've seen Jimmy Fallon, but you can go lower than him. Yeah. I mean, if you're about making
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money, you follow the establishment narrative. Because that's where the money is. You will not
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get demonetized if you're a Pfizer salesman. Even if you say false and misleading things,
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if it's in the service of the official narrative, you won't be demonetized. I've seen no fact checks
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of the mainstream media for denying the lab leak theory now that it's effectively being confirmed
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by the U.S. government. I've seen no fact checks calling it fake news when people said, oh, the
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vaccine is 100% effective and 100% safe. Who would ever say those things to begin with? Who would ever
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say that? So anyway, that's me. That's who I am. I'm part journalist and part business person and
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part pundit. That's who I am. I used to be funnier, I think. Maybe I still have some funny in me, but
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it's been tough to laugh over the last few years. And we deal with such heavy things. Maybe laughter
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is the way. When I was at Sun News 10 years ago, especially in the early days, I was in the mood to
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laugh more. And I'll tell you why. First of all, because the darkness of the canceled culture,
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extreme woke politics had not yet really sunk its teeth into the culture. Sun News Network,
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where I was a decade ago, was under some mild boycotting and by some Antifa types, but it
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wasn't ubiquitous. Other media companies would still talk to us, come on our shows. We were officially
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affiliated with the Sun chain of newspapers, so we had built-in friends. I guess what I'm saying is,
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and of course, Stephen Harper was the prime minister, so you didn't have the insane divisiveness
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and violation of civil liberties that you have now. And I didn't have other things weighing on my mind.
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I was not a business person. I was a salaried presenter. So I would show up at the crack of 10,
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do my writing, record my show. I think I did it every day at 1 or 2, and be done by 4. What a life that was,
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working from 10 to 4. I dropped my kids off at school in the morning. So maybe I was more lighthearted.
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I mean, I still think I'm the same person. It's just I think the world is more grave, and my hair is more white to show for.
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Anyways, I want to show, the reason I tell you that, besides a little bit of autobiography,
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is yesterday, I think it was yesterday, maybe it was today, I just saw it today,
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in the House of Commons, CBC, you know, it's a state broadcaster, right? It's like
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Pravda or Russia today, or Al Jazeera is in Qatar. A lot of countries have a state broadcaster. China has
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a series of them. I haven't been to China in a while, but when I was there a dozen years ago,
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they had, I think it was called CCTV or something, Communist China TV or whatever,
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like there was like nine channels, and each one of them was a different
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version of the state broadcaster. It was quite something. I wonder what it's like now.
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So the CBC is a state broadcaster, which is gross to begin with,
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but of course they have government comedians on the official government comedy show,
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and being a government comedian makes about as much sense as being a government punk rocker.
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It's like, I mean, the whole nature of being government is you're the establishment,
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you're the ruler, you're the power, whereas the whole nature of comedian is to speak truth to power
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in the form of ridicule and jest. Was it, who was it? Was it Solzhenitsyn or was it Orwell who said
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every joke is a little revolution? I forget. It was one of those two freedom fighters. And it was
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no one less than the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran who said, there is no humor in Islam, he said.
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Now that's his view. There are some Muslim people who disagree with him, but the idea of authoritarianism
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is that you cannot abide jokes because jokes are made at your expense. We've talked about this before,
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how King Henry, for example, had a court fool, a court jester, and who was a jokester and who might
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dress up sometimes. Will Sommer was the name, Will Sommer was the name of, yeah, put that up on screen
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there, was a very famous court jester. I think it was Henry VIII's court jester. And this is just a
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Wikipedia story, but I've read it and it appears accurate to me. He was at, the thing about the
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court jester is he, his job was to joke and he was given a special immunity. What I mean by that is he
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could do something that no one else around him could do. He could make fun of the king, make fun
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of the king. In fact, Olivia, it's before your time, but did you ever watch that TV show called
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The Tudors? T-U-D-O-R, that was Henry's last name. Did you ever watch The Tudors?
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It was, it was quite a good show, if you like sort of British and medieval stuff. And of course,
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King Henry, one of the most interesting people in the last thousand years. And it was, by the way,
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it was as, I think, I think they got some things right. I think there was a fair bit of historical
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accuracy there. And by the way, if you ask the average age, yeah, throw some B-roll up from,
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from the Tudors just to give people some flavor while I talk about it. This is a very long way
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to get back to the CBC, but I'm talking about what a government jester really is.
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As you can see, there's a lot of, there was a lot of sex and relationship drama in The Tudors.
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And you know what? I think that's accurate. I mean, how many wives did Henry VIII have? How many did
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he divorce? How many did he kill? How many mistresses did he have? And when the movie starts
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out, King Henry VIII is quite a young man. And of course, that is an, is accurate in other ways too.
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The average life expectancy, um, you know, 500 years ago in the UK, I don't have that information
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at my fingertips, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was like 35 and there were more children and
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families. People, uh, lived shorter. And so the average life, the average person, forget about life
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expectancy. The average person was probably a teenager. And you know, the concept that we have
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of middle age, that's when you expired back then. They didn't have our notions of medicine and things
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like that. My point is, um, I think that they, they captured the spirit of that time. And one of the
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things they did, and I can't, I've looked for 20 minutes on YouTube another time. I couldn't find it.
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There was a wonderful scene with, uh, Will Summers, the court jester. And of course, this was a fictional
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dramatization of Henry VIII. But I think that Will Summers was actually a senior advisor to the king
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in that he could say the king's things to the king. He could make genuine criticisms to the king
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that no one else could make. And I think he took that role very seriously. And if you believe what
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you read on the history side, not the fiction side, people would use the court jester, uh, as a way to
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get information to the king through, you know, there's a lot of barriers. How do you get to the
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king? You have to, you have to know someone, everyone's got their interests and agendas, but maybe
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if he could get to the, the king's jester and convince him there's a problem, maybe he can speak
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very candidly with the king. And there's a wonderful scene that I watched in this series a decade ago,
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and I can't find it online, where, uh, the jester is really taunting and pushing, uh, King Henry and
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just giving him, being like a one-man opposition to him. And I think that was essential. It's,
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it's like the old apocryphal saying about Roman emperors, uh, that would have a slave. And I don't
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know if this was real, but I've heard this enough. And how would we know that there would be a slave
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standing next to the king whose job would be to whisper in his ear, you are mortal. You are mortal
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because you're the emperor of Rome, the greatest empire the world has ever seen total power from,
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uh, Britannia and Gaul, um, and Hibernia. These are the, these are the Roman names for
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Britain and Scotland and France, all the way to Judea. Um,
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you know, what a mighty emperor. And you might be tempted to think that you are a God. And so the,
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the idea was that a slave would just whisper in your ear, no, you're just a man. And there's,
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there's actually a Jewish story. King Solomon, uh, allegedly had a ring with a inscription on it
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that was always true, which is this too shall pass. And when he had happy times, it sobered him up.
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And when he was down in the dumps, it gave him hope. All this is to say in a very long way,
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the powerful people need some sort of challenge. Powerful people need a check and a balance.
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And if you've ever met an oligarch, and I have, I've had the pleasure, the mixed pleasure sometimes.
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If you meet an extremely wealthy and powerful person, the kind of person who only travels on
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private jets and limousines, who has personal security, who has a security VP, someone who has
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billions or maybe even more, you'll notice that everyone around them, almost everyone around them,
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is doing whatever they can to anticipate what the great man wants and to say, yes, sir, no, sir,
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three bags full, sir. How high should I jump, sir? And I think the more self-aware oligarchs know this,
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that they're surrounded by flatterers. And, and you can see, I mean, this is what they say about
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Vladimir Putin. They say, and this could well be propaganda, how would I know, that he doesn't
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tolerate bad news. And so his advisors won't give him the straight goods. And I don't know if that's
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true. That sounds like a generic insult you could say about any out of touch politician, but I can
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imagine it's true. And if you watch that docudrama Chernobyl, which I absolutely loved, there was a
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degree of that too. Just lie, don't give anyone bad news. It's a wonderful show, Chernobyl. It's a
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terrible story, but it's wonderfully told. Powerful people, rich people, people who are used to getting
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their way. People who have a lot to give, whether it's power, money, access, or something like that,
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they attract flatterers. They attract yes men. Would you have the courage to defy a billionaire,
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let alone King Henry VIII, who wasn't just a billionaire, he had the power of life or death
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over people? So Will Summers played an incredibly important role as the court fool, the court jester.
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He was the only one who could look the king in the eye and say, you are full of it. You are so wrong.
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And insult the king and not be killed for it. Isn't that an important job? I know it's an important
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job. That's why in this country, we take the country's biggest complainer, we give him a free
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house, a big staff, and a salary and call him the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
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We institutionalize dissent. We hardwire it right into the system. And there's something to the title,
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Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, because you're loyal to the country, you just oppose the buffoon who's
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running the place. Pierre Polyev is loyal to the king and to the country. He's not loyal to Justin
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Trudeau and Trudeau's government. And that's an important distinction there too, isn't it?
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And so here I am, a half hour having passed without me getting to my point. So maybe the time is to get
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to my point now before we all get older. The CBC state broadcaster has a government comedian named Mary
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Walsh, one of the least funny comedians I have ever seen. She's also a liberal partisan. I know this
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because in the 2015 election, she recorded an attack ad on Stephen Harper. I might show you that
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later, calling him Stasi Steve and said, Heil Harper, as if he's a Nazi. So Mary Walsh can find no jokes
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other than to call someone a Nazi. That's how shallow her pool of humor is. And she doesn't mind
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trivializing the Holocaust by equating the grave crimes and horrific crimes of the Holocaust with
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her political opponent, because that's what's important to her. Anyway, so yesterday, I think
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it was yesterday. I don't think it was today. Yesterday, in the foyer of the House of Commons,
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where Rebel News is banned by Trudeau's parliamentary press gallery. We cannot attend. But this burnt out
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over the hill, so-called comedian who is unfunny without a laugh track, goes and accosts the prime
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minister when he is on the hot seat. Trudeau is on the back foot over these China allegations.
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What did he know? When did he know it? How many Chinese hand-picked candidates are in his party,
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in his caucus, in his cabinet? Why did he allow it? Did he, like there's, you could think of the
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questions you said. They're simple questions. Trudeau has evaded all of them. And so there's
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this brief moment he walks out of the parliament and he's available to the media. And there's a lot
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of reporters, and I have to give credit to the mainstream media for the first time in eight years
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that seem to have woken up. You've got Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase at the Globe and Mail. You've got
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Sam Cooper and McKenzie, I forget his last name, at Global News. And look at me, I'm praising journalists
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in the mainstream media. What's come over me? No, nothing's come over me. I'm the same guy I was a week
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ago. It's that these journalists are actually doing some work. But instead of talking to Sam
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Cooper or McKenzie, what's his name, or Steve Chase or Bob Fyfe or any other journalist who's
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asking questions, the CBC state broadcaster sends in their alleged comedian. And we'll play it for you
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in a second. I don't even know what the hell she's saying. I don't understand her point,
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other than I think she's saying, Prime Minister, we should all be less partisan. Don't you think?
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Why don't you set an example? I don't even get it. I think it's some stupid compliment. She's not
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going to make a joke at his expense. She's going to save him, save him, A, from the journalists who
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are trying to get questions to him a few feet away, and B, trying to create some change the channel
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narrative. You could have a lot of funny jokes poking fun at Trudeau's, do you admire China
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comment. That is not what the state broadcaster and their government comedians do. Watch the
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unfunniest woman in Canada, paid for by your tax dollars, have a go at Justin Trudeau. Take a look.
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I'm also outraged about everything, that we're not listening to each other anymore.
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I know you're a good-looking guy like you. You probably know how to fix that, right? And
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so I'm here to listen to what you think. How do we get everybody back together again?
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How do we can the water? How do we make Canada unbroken? Oh my God, is that Pierre Polly ever
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So I'm here to figure out how to make Canada unbroken. Everyone's so outraged. Prime Minister,
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all these people are outraged because your party and your friends are taking hundreds of thousands
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or millions of dollars from China. How do we get, how do we shut them up, Prime Minister?
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Like, it's not even funny. Let's say the obvious thing, it's not even funny. And I think the chief
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job of a comedian is to be funny. It doesn't make a point. And I think that's the second job of a
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comedian. Do you have a point to make? Like, you can just tell a funny joke, make a fart joke for
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all I care. If it's funny, I'll laugh. So is she funny? Check or X? X, she's not funny. Okay, fine.
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So you're not that funny, but you make a serious point in a funny way. That's what a lot of late
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night talk shows are. They're basically Democrat Party operatives with a band, a house band and some
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jokes. So does she make a point? Not really. Her best point is, hey, Prime Minister, everyone is so
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outraged. How do we get out of that? It's in the implication being there's no, there's no rational
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basis to be outraged. We shouldn't be outraged. You've done nothing wrong. But before he even has
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something to say, she turns around and goes, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. And I don't even know if
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that's true. But I think we can assume it was true. Because if Pierre Polyev is there, she knows her
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role is to be a destroyer. Can you, can you, I want to show my video that Andrew Lawton did next.
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But then after that, if there's, there's a rebel news video from 2015, very early, where
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Mary Walsh says to Stephen Harper, Heil Harper, and whatnot, we'll show that I want to just show
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how unfunny she is, what a hack she is, the fact that she's basically paid to attack conservatives.
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So when she doesn't even wait for Trudeau's answer, says, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. I think she's
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actually telling the truth because she knows she's a, she has to go detonate herself on Pierre
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Polyev because that's the CBC mandate. Anyways, when I was at the Sun News Network before Rebel News,
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that was the predecessor to Rebel News. I worked at Sun News Network for a few years, well, from the
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beginning. I worked it from the beginning to the end. And it shut down for regulatory and other
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reasons I won't get into. But I did funnier stuff back then. And maybe I should get back to the
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funny. So this is about a, this is about a decade ago. I dressed up as Mark Delahunty. I don't think
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I've ever worn lipstick before or after. I wear a lip balm. And sometimes people say it looks like
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I never wear lipstick. I think I wore lipstick in this video. I'm not sure. I think I had makeup. I wear
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TV makeup. But, and it's a wig. That's not my hair. Let me show you
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from a decade ago, my impression of Mark Delahunty of this hour is 22 minutes, stalking the late
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Hi, it's me, Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour. I'm here at Toronto
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City Hall. That's the mayor's inner sanctum. I understand he's talking about busting the
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labor he needs to pick up our garbage. I'm going to go in there now. If I don't make it out alive,
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Yeah, Doug. No, no. We've got to figure our way to head off this garbage strike.
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No, the city can't afford another garbage strike.
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No, it can't happen. It can't happen. We've got to figure our way to get these unions.
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Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.
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Well, every time you leave the office, you take out the garbage.
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I'm Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.
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And I've sneaked into City Hall to find Mayor Rob Ford.
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Oh, Lord, love attack Jesus Mary Joseph and the Seventh Seventh.
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You stay where you're to. We'll come to where you're at.
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I'm going to give you a big smooch, Mayor Ford!
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Look, let me just be the first to say that that was not particularly funny either.
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And one of the creepy things about this hour's 22 minutes, especially Mary Walsh, who does
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Mark Delahunty, is if you take the laugh track out of her videos, there is nothing funny
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She actually went to Rob Ford's house and just started abusing him.
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And the final version that was on TV obviously had a lot of laugh track, which we added here
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You hear other people laughing, you feel like, you know, if someone else tells a joke
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and someone laughs, do you ever find yourself sort of, I don't get it, but everyone else
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That's why people use laugh tracks, because they work, because they're a cue to say other
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people think this is funny, so you should laugh too.
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In fact, there's this whole genre of YouTube videos of TV shows with the laugh track removed.
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What's that one of all the nerds who live to get, what's that?
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I don't think I've watched five minutes of that whole series.
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But it's just astonishing to hear that show with the laugh track removed.
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One is, and I love this, famous singers singing famous songs with all the instrumental tracks
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You can see who the true talent is when you strip out the background vocals, strip out the accompanying music.
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There's just some extraordinary talent that almost was covered up by the accompaniment.
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Ah, nothing makes beer taste better than cool, clear, Rocky Mountains spring water.
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Really, I thought they were out west someplace.
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I mean, that was just a quick, would you laugh out loud at that?
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That you can see how achingly that show, I mean, maybe that's funny.
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Like that, but if you know this show, and I don't really, they just pour the, I don't know how this show could work.
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Like, it's not even funny, but you throw on a laugh track and people laugh, and that is the story of Mary Walsh.
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Her mission is to destroy, embarrass, and genuinely, genuinely disrupt anyone conservative, and to do the bidding of the CBC.
00:29:29.380
So, their job right now is to go in and save Justin Trudeau in some way.
00:29:32.760
So, it's only taken me 31 minutes to talk about one story, Olivia, but I had a lot of things I had to, I had to get to.
00:29:40.240
There is a lot of news about the China stuff, and so the opposition is on a roll.
00:29:48.120
And so, the government and their agents, like the CBC, are doing everything to trip them up, to change the channel.
00:30:05.640
Actually, I want to look at Sherry Romanato's response.
00:30:11.680
So, Michael Cooper, who is an MP from the Edmonton area, was asking questions of Melanie Jolie, our clueless foreign minister.
00:30:22.320
And she said something like, I stared him in the eye, and I looked him down on, talking about Vladimir Putin, I stared Putin in the eye.
00:30:29.360
I looked him, and Michael Cooper sort of laughed at that and said, ooh, you stared him in the eye.
00:30:34.160
And it's a funny phrase, because George W. Bush said, I looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw his soul.
00:30:45.420
And Stephen Harper said, I looked him in the eye and said, I'll shake your hand, but you get out of Ukraine.
00:30:51.080
Like, so, people talk about looking Putin in the eye.
00:30:56.940
I mean, the eyes are, are the window to the soul.
00:31:06.880
There's a lot of symbolism and nonverbal communication that happens to the eyes.
00:31:12.400
That's why poker players often wear sunglasses.
00:31:16.520
Sometimes your eyes dart around or your pupils dilate, you can't even control it.
00:31:25.260
And Melanie Jolie deployed it, and Michael Cooper gently mocked it and said, oh, so that must have scared him.
00:31:31.260
A complete, I mean, just a completely irrelevant point.
00:31:36.040
Like, not even, but oh my God, the liberals have their proof of sexism.
00:31:42.420
Sexism, not even too long after International Women's Day.
00:31:49.980
And, of course, the media has gone along with it.
00:31:56.860
You've talked tough with your Beijing counterparts.
00:32:05.800
And now we learned today, and now we learned today, or yesterday, in the Globe and Mail, very conveniently, that a visa was denied of a diplomat who wanted to work at the Canadian Beijing embassy.
00:32:26.880
I have a point of order in regards to the conduct of Mr. Cooper and his comments.
00:32:31.020
I think any woman sitting around this room, I'm sure men can appreciate it and understand it, too.
00:32:37.420
The constant demeaning nature that only occurs to our female minister that appeared today.
00:32:46.000
Yesterday, it was another member of our team asking a question in QP, and a Conservative member said she deserved a participation medal.
00:32:54.320
Today, it was a question of whether this minister is tough enough.
00:32:59.000
Every single day, we sit in this house as women, and we hear these—they're called microaggressions, but they don't feel very micro—to continuously be undermined.
00:33:12.000
And I think he owes this committee and the minister in particular an apology.
00:33:16.240
And I am really sick and tired of sitting in here having to listen to it.
00:33:20.740
I am sick and tired of Canadians having to see it.
00:33:24.320
And I'm really sick and tired of the Conservatives just not getting it.
00:33:33.460
Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I, too, I'm really disappointed.
00:33:37.540
I want to know if that member opposite, when then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper confronted Vladimir Putin and said, get out of Ukraine, did that member opposite say, was he tough enough?
00:33:53.280
Unacceptable behavior for every woman that has ever taken her place in this house.
00:34:00.080
You know, let me list some of the toughest political leaders of the 20th century.
00:34:12.360
I think at the top of the list, in the post-war world, like the toughest political leader in the 20th century was probably Winston Churchill.
00:34:19.760
So, Stalin and Mao in their own odious ways, they were tough in that they were brutal.
00:34:26.780
But in the second half of the 20th century, I mean, that's when Mao and Stalin did a lot of their work.
00:34:33.040
But would you agree with me that Margaret Thatcher was tough as nails?
00:34:39.180
If you don't agree with me, ask the Argentinian dictator, Galtieri, if I remember, who thought that he would take advantage of things and invade the Falkland Islands,
00:34:52.920
which is a little island, a group of islands off the southern tip of Argentina, couldn't be further away from the UK.
00:35:05.500
Very small population, maybe just a couple thousand, I don't know for sure.
00:35:09.560
So close to Argentina, so far from the UK, and he invades and reconquers the Falkland Islands.
00:35:20.400
And how on earth is Margaret Thatcher, thousands of miles away, going to, what's she going to do about it?
00:35:28.780
Well, she put together an aircraft carrier and a battle group and soldiers, and she had them steamed down to Argentina.
00:35:38.300
And she basically said, brother, you got till we get there to get out, or we are going to smash you.
00:35:47.320
And the Brits, from thousands of miles away, won, retook the islands.
00:35:54.420
There's some incredible imagery of the British aircraft carrier.
00:35:58.760
And the jets they used at the time were an American-made jet, the Harrier jump jet,
00:36:03.720
which could land, short takeoff, vertical landing, very maneuverable.
00:36:07.880
Well, the Argentinians had mirage fighters, and it wasn't without cost.
00:36:14.820
The Brits lost a ship called the HMS Sheffield.
00:36:19.360
The Argentinians lost a giant battleship called the General Belgrano.
00:36:23.440
It was actually a very bloody war, especially on the Argentinian side.
00:36:27.020
This is all a way of saying, you don't think Margaret Thatcher was tough?
00:36:57.320
The Irish Republican Army, you might recall that the IRA blew up, blew things up.
00:37:05.640
My old friend John O'Sullivan was with her the night that they had an explosion,
00:37:18.100
Do you think that she would whine if someone poked fun at her?
00:37:26.440
Do you think Margaret Thatcher ever said those words in her life?
00:37:35.060
Do you think Margaret Thatcher could even make that whiny sound that we heard?
00:37:48.600
She would chew up her critics, male or female, chew them up and spit them out.
00:37:54.700
And I can't imagine what she would think of those losers, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry
00:38:01.040
Romanato, who instead of talking about the weighty items of the day, just want to have
00:38:06.980
They actually prove that they are girls, not women.
00:38:13.820
She just gives people a little blast from the past.
00:38:29.800
To those waiting with bated breaths for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have
00:38:37.000
only one thing to say, you turn if you want to.
00:38:49.100
I'd be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the white ensign flies alongside the Union Jack
00:39:00.400
Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the Marines.
00:39:06.080
Of course, the chairman or the president of the commission, Mr Delors, said at press conference
00:39:11.260
the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community.
00:39:19.200
And he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate.
00:39:26.260
All levels of income are better off than they were in 1979.
00:39:32.140
But what the honorable member is saying is that he will rather the poor were poorer, provided
00:39:42.080
That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have.
00:39:49.320
Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
00:39:56.720
And we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom in a very, very much better state than
00:40:07.780
Well, that's quite a tour de force of her history.
00:40:10.380
And when they talked about South Georgia, that's, I think, the name of the, sorry, that reference
00:40:16.580
about the white flag and the union flag, they're talking about reconquering the Falklands.
00:40:28.020
But do you think the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom who beat labor again and
00:40:37.240
She was only defeated by her own party's treachery.
00:40:40.920
Do you think she, what do you think she would think of not the women, but the girls who succeed
00:40:46.940
her and walk in her footsteps, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry Romanato?
00:40:51.160
You wouldn't say mean things like that to a boy.
00:40:56.300
And when you play the gender card, you're essentially saying, I can't hack it with the lads.
00:41:04.260
Now, we don't have the same time to go in depth with Indira Gandhi of India or Golda Meir
00:41:11.640
of Israel, the prime minister who had, you know, all three of these women ran nuclear powers,
00:41:23.280
And it's deeply embarrassing that their successors would push the, I'm just a girl.
00:41:42.580
And to shift that to that you're a female is to imply that you're an idiot because you're
00:41:51.760
There are men who are idiots and there are women who are idiots.
00:41:55.280
And it's unthinkable that someone would say, you're just saying that to me because I'm
00:42:02.760
And they actually demean femin, they don't demean feminism, they demean their own sex by
00:42:10.080
pushing the don't pick on me button instead of, what do you think Margaret Thatcher would
00:42:15.120
do, she would roar like a lion and intimidate the lads.
00:42:30.100
C-11 is one of four bills that Justin Trudeau has introduced, passed, or will introduce to
00:42:41.480
That's C-18, called the Online News Act, regulates news broadcasters, especially like us.
00:42:49.820
There was a bill in the last parliament called C-36 that reintroduces hate crimes.
00:42:55.220
And then there's a bill that has not been introduced yet, but has been released in sort of a pre-bill
00:43:06.240
Taken together, that's four pieces of legislation to censor the internet.
00:43:10.300
That's more legislation, as I like to say, than Trudeau has to deal with the economy, than
00:43:15.280
he has to deal with inflation or housing prices.
00:43:17.920
Because Trudeau deeply cares about censorship, it's actually his number one issue.
00:43:25.220
Um, and I want to show you a new Democrat member of parliament, who just has a really
00:43:36.680
Uh, I don't think this is accurate, talking about one million followers, but even if it
00:43:42.560
Without further ado, let's play that, play that NDP MP.
00:43:46.840
Well, we started with a bill called C-10, which was definitely a worse bill.
00:43:53.560
And I think what the member's referring back to is our concerns we were expressing at that
00:43:58.700
Uh, and so some of the changes that came in C-11 reassured us.
00:44:02.160
And one of those changes is the very one the conservatives are harping on, and that is
00:44:07.460
the changes that made sure that user-generated, uh, content is not affected by this bill.
00:44:13.560
Now, I think what they're ignoring there is there's an exception.
00:44:16.480
If, if you're creating your own content and you're, have a million followers, a million
00:44:21.040
subscribers, and you're making money out of that, then yes, we are going to have the
00:44:27.720
So it's not what the conservatives are saying, is that we should have a blanket exemption
00:44:31.860
that nobody who's making money on the internet, uh, has to report to anybody or be accountable
00:44:38.160
Um, and, and really that was one of the major improvements between the first version of the
00:44:46.860
You know, I think I just got stupider, um, there.
00:44:51.100
I, I, I don't think that, I don't think a word that guy said was accurate.
00:44:55.940
Um, I think that million thing was just some, I just don't even think that that's in, in the
00:45:03.680
Um, I'm not an expert in the same way that, um, Michael Geist is.
00:45:09.360
He's a professor of, um, law and especially a lot to do with the media and things like
00:45:16.280
And he said this about, you can find this on Michael Geist Twitter account.
00:45:21.840
He said this, is it any wonder Canadian digital creators fear bill C-11?
00:45:27.400
Here's NDP MP Randall Garrison saying the bill is much improved since creators with a million
00:45:32.560
followers or who make money are subject to CRTC oversight.
00:45:38.340
The bill regulates user content and subscriber numbers, not a threshold, but still.
00:45:58.880
I mean, speaking of dumb, I'm going to call Jagmeet Singh dumb.
00:46:08.100
Although those two liberals are giving him a run for the money.
00:46:24.320
And she, there was sort of a vibe with Randall Garrison there that this is good, that people
00:46:31.220
who are saying things should be regulated because we don't like other people to have power other
00:46:40.400
Here is, here's Lori Idlout basically saying, yeah, we like censorship.
00:46:46.600
We like the fact that we can finally control those pesky people who think they can just
00:46:52.520
Take a look at this video by another new Democrat.
00:47:00.960
I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected
00:47:10.100
back, what, what they regulate regarding online streaming, as opposed to studio executives that
00:47:20.700
And that is what we're talking about in, in this bill.
00:47:25.400
There's already been content regulation for TV.
00:47:31.680
And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians
00:47:47.380
Crimes are already covered, whether you do it in person, on the phone.
00:47:50.700
In a newspaper, on the internet, crimes are already.
00:47:57.160
You can make money in any way, but you're taxable.
00:48:00.180
You know, we're a for-profit company trying to make money.
00:48:03.400
Whether we do it in a podcast, an email, or a video, you're still taxed.
00:48:15.420
Now, one of the reasons why 80 years ago, the CBC, you know, all these regulations were
00:48:22.120
put into effect is because there was, it was thought that there was limited bandwidth.
00:48:27.220
And that's some, there's some truth to that over the air radio.
00:48:31.660
There were other reasons that are simply obsolete right now.
00:48:36.900
There was also an idea what we need to boost Canadian content because otherwise it won't happen.
00:48:56.380
And what you think is based on what you believe, your conscience.
00:48:59.520
This is about regulating your mind and your heart and telling you what you can or can't say,
00:49:08.660
Hey, I'm going to take a minute to read some super chats.
00:49:26.960
So I'm not sure exactly when he's back, but I think it, I think it might be next month.
00:49:33.240
The second is you love me on news and why it matters.
00:49:35.720
Because that's a show on the Glenn Beck Blaze Network.
00:49:40.000
I went down there the other day and I did four shows in one day, including Glenn Beck.
00:49:44.060
So and they were very warm to the messages we had and were very friendly.
00:49:50.020
Fraser McBurney says, wow, the last few days have had more news.
00:49:53.380
Tucker Carlson, Proud Boys, True Dope, J6, McCarthy, East Palestine and lying fake news.
00:50:03.440
Look, we're a small, we're an army, but we're a very small army compared to other news gathering operations.
00:50:11.260
But but I think we're doing a fairly good job, if I may.
00:50:15.220
LB762 said, Ezra, I was funnier and more lighthearted a few years ago as well.
00:50:19.060
Prior to 2020, it is a symptom of our current times.
00:50:21.700
For those of us that don't have our head in the sand.
00:50:27.600
Um, but there's many things that weigh on me and you can't always think about the news
00:50:36.760
And I think social media is a depression machine.
00:50:40.800
If you're on Instagram, well, you just look at all the beautiful people and think, well,
00:50:47.060
If you're on, um, I don't really spend any time on Facebook, but I don't know, LinkedIn
00:50:54.800
Oh, how's my career going compared to my classmates or something?
00:51:00.100
Uh, Twitter just makes you politically revved up, angry and nervous.
00:51:04.780
So I think social media has taken a lot of fun out of life.
00:51:12.840
I think the times are heavy, but you've got to, you've got to fence it off.
00:51:17.200
You cannot, you know, there's a Jewish saying, you are not, it's not up to you to save the
00:51:25.540
That's another way of saying there's a balance there.
00:51:31.520
You should do your part, but you can't just worry.
00:51:34.000
Another way of looking at that, this is a quote I use from time to time these days.
00:51:38.500
And I thought about it a lot during the lockdowns.
00:51:55.520
But let me ask you a question that has never been posed to me.
00:52:01.520
If I would have lost my job, if I would, if, if fighting hard would have meant I would
00:52:07.020
have lost my job and thus put my family in economic distress, would I have fought?
00:52:15.160
So another way of saying, maybe it was easy for me to fight because I'm the boss of my
00:52:21.840
And, and in fact, our company's mission became fighting.
00:52:28.820
Like, let's say I worked as a nurse somewhere and I had to be jabbed or be fired.
00:52:33.500
And if, and if I got fired, I don't have a ton of savings and my, my family depends on
00:52:45.460
I would like to think that I would do the principled thing, but there's certainly a principle to putting
00:52:55.860
So I'm lucky in that I never had an existential challenge before me.
00:53:00.020
I'm lucky, but I also created that possibility for myself by founding Rebel News, a place
00:53:13.540
What if I was working in a factory somewhere, um, like GM and I was told, guess what?
00:53:20.360
The union's being bought off and you now need to jam.
00:53:25.220
And it's a different answer if you're only defending, depending on yourself or if your
00:53:32.820
I quote Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident, who takes this into account and realizes not
00:53:47.560
Some people are very weak or vulnerable or they just don't know how.
00:53:50.640
And so he said, and maybe you could find the exact wording here because I'm just paraphrasing.
00:54:09.380
Um, it's probably, is there a quote there that touches on that?
00:54:18.020
Can you pump that up a little, just even two notches more size wise so I can read it?
00:54:31.120
On the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested, February 1974, he released the text to live not by lies.
00:54:40.720
The next day he was exiled to the West where he received a hero's welcome.
00:54:51.560
The illusion that human nature and society can be reshaped to predetermined specifications.
00:54:58.040
And his last word before leaving his homeland urges Soviet citizens as individuals to refrain from cooperating with the regime's lies.
00:55:06.920
Even the most timid can take this least demanding step towards spiritual independence.
00:55:12.380
If many march together on this path of passive resistance, the whole inhuman system will totter and collapse.
00:55:18.980
Okay, so that's written by this other guy, Edward Erickson.
00:55:23.980
That's not the actual quote, but you get my meaning.
00:55:26.960
Solzhenitsyn said, you don't have to be on the front lines.
00:55:31.660
You don't have to sacrifice, but at least don't go along with the lie.
00:55:50.340
And that's what I thought of when, for example, when I wasn't vaxxed and had no vax passport and would want to go to a restaurant that I've been going to for years.
00:55:58.620
And the woman who would always seat me said, no, get out.
00:56:03.220
And I thought to myself, why are you doing this?
00:56:15.580
Okay, so you asked what you were supposed to do.
00:56:18.980
Why are you being a functionary of this authoritarian rule?
00:56:29.580
Why are you taking it upon yourself to enforce it?
00:56:37.160
You know, we had a, we had an event when vaccine passports were required.
00:56:43.400
And I'll tell you, I won't say who, but I talked to the manager and I said, we're not vaxxed.
00:56:49.080
And he said, I'm going to ask everyone for their vaxxed passport.
00:56:52.720
I'm going to just ask them in case a cop stings me.
00:56:56.480
He'll hear me asking, but whatever you say, I'll let you in.
00:57:01.920
He doesn't want to lose his business and lose his job, but he's not going to be a little
00:57:09.500
I found little restaurants and places like that.
00:57:13.280
I found, found places like that during, during the lockdown.
00:57:19.080
Um, but I also found so many people who not only would be enforcers, they erotically loved
00:58:06.440
Do you see on the top right there, it says PDF that might make it prettier if you, if
00:58:14.400
So this, this, uh, was before the honorable Dennis Galeatzos, uh, a judge in Quebec.
00:58:36.500
The accused Neil Epstein is charged with criminal harassment and uttering death threats towards
00:58:43.360
The alleged events occurred between March and May of 2021.
00:58:46.880
Do you know what was happening between March and May of 2021?
00:58:57.340
Picture the following scene, a beautiful spring day, a quiet street in the small residential
00:59:02.560
neighborhood, just steps away from two elementary schools, a daycare in a park.
00:59:06.420
Up the road, a four-year-old girl rides her scooter in front of her house with three adults
00:59:10.600
sitting on camping chairs in their driveway, watching her said driveway is adorned with
00:59:17.060
A few meters away, another gathering of nine children spanning ages two to eight smiles from
00:59:23.060
Some of bicycles, some of scooters, all are wearing helmets.
00:59:25.380
Other children are simply walking, playing, getting much needed fresh air.
00:59:28.660
They are all under the watchful eye of their parents.
00:59:35.880
To most, this scene represents a blissful snapshot of suburban utopia.
00:59:44.180
Yet to the complainant and his family, this is an unbearable nuisance and affront on many
00:59:50.820
levels, so much so that according to objective video evidence, they drive dangerously near
00:59:57.060
the children as a way to protest their presence and express their discontent.
01:00:03.780
The complainant has a list of grievances against the accused, his family, his young children,
01:00:09.760
These grievances are nothing more than mundane, petty neighborhood trivialities.
01:00:13.400
The complainants have consistently videotaped their neighbors, yet they charge Mr. Epstein
01:00:20.760
With an irony of unmatched proportions, they complain that he might have recorded them.
01:00:25.760
To the complainants, the presence of young families outside is a source of scorn, blah, blah, blah.
01:00:34.640
A man who has somehow been subjected to criminal charges for almost two years, this injustice
01:00:49.720
Okay, I'll just read a little bit of paragraph seven.
01:00:52.580
This is a fascinating case and it's beautifully written.
01:00:57.480
After Mr. Epstein testified in chief in a tremendous display of professionalism and objectivity,
01:01:02.340
Crown Counsel declined to cross-examine him since, in her view, it was not in the public
01:01:08.280
Instead, she humbly invited the court to enter an acquittal.
01:01:11.120
Having heard the evidence, I can unreservedly confirm that she made the right call.
01:01:18.100
So they charged this guy, Neil Epstein, with stalking, right?
01:01:24.220
But as the video evidence was played showing that it wasn't him that was the stalker, it
01:01:32.860
When this Mr. Epstein got up and said, well, here's what happened, here's what happened,
01:01:36.760
here's what happened, the Crown Prosecutor said, judge, I don't think we should convict
01:01:48.140
And look at the judge saying, good for the Crown Counsel.
01:01:51.680
And I'm just going to, I'm just going to skip ahead here.
01:02:01.440
The interested parties live on Watford Street and Beaconsfield.
01:02:07.480
The testimony of the complainant, Michael Nachachi.
01:02:18.400
He has a large build, albeit smaller than the accused.
01:02:22.480
Nachachi lives with his brother, Ari, who also has a heavyset frame.
01:02:28.640
Nachachi has installed four closed-servic cameras filming in the front of his house at
01:02:33.060
He's also installed two dashboard cameras in his parents' vehicles, a third rear-facing
01:02:37.600
camera in his father's car, and a high-resolution camera on his motorcycle helmet.
01:02:42.800
He monitored the accused and his family, tried to record, anyhow.
01:02:59.920
They're mad that these kids and neighbors are violating the lockdown anti-gathering rules.
01:03:13.360
They were having a street party, blocking the street while drinking at the height of the
01:03:19.280
They were having a party in the middle of the street.
01:03:28.100
The video evidence paints a starkly different picture.
01:03:31.980
The scene is far less pernicious than it portrays to be.
01:03:34.660
First, this party in the middle of the street is a complete misnomer.
01:03:38.920
In reality, it was simply some children playing on the road.
01:03:46.640
There were no toys left in the middle of the road.
01:03:54.220
But it was Nachachi who was driving fast and in a risky way.
01:04:06.540
Instead, the little girl is left to her own devices, quickly pushing her scooter, narrowly
01:04:11.620
And again, Frank Nachachi does not slow his speed.
01:04:16.220
In fact, Mr. Epstein gestures to him to slow down.
01:04:29.760
Maybe I took too long in there, but here's my point.
01:04:31.540
It is about a family, the Nachachis, if I'm saying that right, at war with the other families
01:04:41.280
on the street, if they're hanging out outside, kids using sidewalk chalk, scooters, playing
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And instead of slowing down for the kids, he drives quickly by them to scare them and almost
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And this crazy Nachachi family is filming everything.
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And by the way, the film shows that they're the ones to blame.
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And they managed to get the cops to charge this Neil Epstein guy.
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And as you can hear, after Epstein gave his testimony and after the video evidence was seen,
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There's a lot of interesting things in this case, a lot of crazy details.
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But the thing that stands out to me is this was a snitch.
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This was someone who was furious that neighbors and kids, no less, would be outside playing
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I just read pretty much up to there a little bit further.
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They managed to convince a cop and a prosecutor to take it to court.
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And good for the prosecutor for seeing the error of her ways.
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She had to wait till this Neil Epstein's life was turned upside down.
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So, apparently, Mr. Epstein gave Nekachi the finger one day.
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And this was proof of stalking, criminal harassment.
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To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger.
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I wouldn't want to live in a country where it was a crime to give someone the finger.
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To be abundantly clear, it's not a crime to give someone the finger.
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Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right
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Nonetheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.
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It is an integral component of one's freedom of expression.
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especially when they behave in ways that are highly likely to trigger such profanity,
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like driving too fast on the street where innocent kids are playing.
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Be told to fuck off should not prompt a call to 911,
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On that topic, the evidence in the case that Barr established that even after the accused's arrest,
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therefore after the period covered by these charges,
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to report that Mr. Epstein's wife had given them the finger while walking on the street.
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Calling the police because they gave you a finger because you're a pandemic scold?
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The complainants are free to clutch their pearls in the face of such an insult.
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However, the police department and the 911 dispatching service have more important priorities to address.
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The complainant's brother is fortunate that he was not charged with assault.
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Similarly, both of his parents are lucky they were not taken under the highway safety code
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for driveling recklessly in the presence of children.
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Finally, based on the evidence of the case of Barr,
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Michael Nakachi is fortunate that he was not charged with uttering death threats.
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The complainants should all check those in the victory column.
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But this is, would you agree that this is a mask and pandemic scold gone wild?
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In the modern day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case being thrown out.
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Obviously, this is a little more than a figurative expression.
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Cases aren't actually thrown out in the literal or physical sense.
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Nevertheless, in the specific circumstance of this case,
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the court is inclined to actually take the file and throw it out the window,
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which is the only way to adequately express my bewilderment
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with the fact that Mr. Epstein was subjected to an arrest and a fulsome criminal prosecution.
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Alas, the courtrooms of the Montreal Courthouse do not have windows.
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A mere verdict of acquittal will have to suffice.
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For these reasons, the accused is found not guilty on all charges.
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Like I say, you really do need a sense of humor,
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If you don't laugh, what else are you going to do?
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Anyhow, a lawyer sent that to me because I was telling her the importance of being able to swear.
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That being able to swear, it's not polite, but sometimes it's how we express ourselves.
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And imagine having the cops called on you, being arrested, and being prosecuted because you swore.
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And imagine the whole thing is over pandemic compliance.
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That's a crazy story, and I'm glad to have read that case.
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And I'm glad to know that a judge with that common sense and sense of humor sits on the bench.
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And I hope to spend less time in courts in my second half century.
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But if I ever find myself in a court, I would hope that a judge like that judge is sitting,
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because we need all the common sense and humor we can find.
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My friends, it is 2.12 Eastern Time, 12.12 in the Promised Land of Alberta, and I've got to go.
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But I do have a couple of super chats I'm told that I'll read quickly before I vacate the chair.
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And Maminka says, yes, don't go along with the lie.
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Even those who are not capable of fighting the evil can do their part.
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I'm repeating it, and I think that's important.
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You know, two years ago or three years ago, I did a whole show,
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maybe the whole live stream, on the book Red Color News Soldier.
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But that was this, Red Color was Communist, News Soldier.
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I bought that book in Hong Kong when I was there some 15 years ago.
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I would not be safe to go back there now, and I don't even know if this book would be publishable.
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So, you're on the Amazon page, but go back to the Google search and click Images.
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These are the Red Guard and the Cultural Revolution and the Struggle Sessions and the Jailing of Dissidents.
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And I want to show you what I regard as the most terrifying photo of them all.
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And I know that we did a whole show on this, but it was a few years ago, and people might forget.
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And there's one photo in particular I want to show you.
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Feel free to put it on the screen, because even getting to there will be interesting.
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It's, I wonder if I can send you a different link.
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I'm going to send you a different version of it.
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I'm going to actually just going to copy the image and send it to you.
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This is not a very high-res version, but you see it in Slack there now.
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You see a man being overpowered by what looks like military or police.
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It's a confession, a forced confession that he was like a capitalist running dog or he wasn't sufficiently obedient to Mao or something.
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You've got to apologize and take your punishment.
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So, they stuffed, I think it was a glove in his mouth to shut him up.
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They stuffed a glove in his mouth to shut him up.
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And Mao killed more people in raw numbers than anyone else in world history.
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Depending on the source of statistics, between 50 million and 85 million of his fellow countrymen.
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Depending on the sources, 85 million of his fellow countrymen.
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There was a larger killer in terms of percentage of the world population.
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I tell you that because you say, you know, you refer to the Solzhenitsyn quote.
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And these red-colored new soldier photos are from the late 60s, early 70s.
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And, of course, the Holocaust itself is 80 years old now.
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So, there's really no one alive from back then.
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If you were 15 years old in 1945, you would have been born in 1930.
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There might be some people who are 100 years old who were adults during the Holocaust.
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And soon, the generation of Chinese people who survived the Cultural Revolution will die off, too.
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And soon, we'll only have memories, not eyewitnesses to testify.
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And would it not be beneficial to all to learn from history rather than to be ignorant of it and condemned to repeat it?
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I'll be back tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Mountain to talk about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party
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and what a psychologist would call projection, projecting their sins on you and me.
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I think we're going to close with a video from our friend Callum Smiles.
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It was here in The Hague the day before the Dutch farmers' protest.
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Now, Rebel News have covered these protests before.
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And as the Dutch government aren't budging an inch, we've come back here to cover it once again.
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And we have to be here because the mainstream media will most likely paint a government-positive narrative
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as Mark Rutter has his lackeys in the mainstream media.
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So you can stay tuned to everything we're doing here in The Hague as the Dutch protest happens tomorrow