DAVID MENZIES ｜ Pastor Artur Infuriates Alberta Judge, Bisexual Superman
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Pastor Artur Pawlowski was sentenced to $23,000 in fines, but even more unnerving was that he was ordered to give equal time to the government's narrative whenever and wherever Pastor Artur voices his personal opinions.
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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, Pastor Artur Pawlowski had his day in court on Wednesday,
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and the sentencing, well, it was downright disturbing.
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But even more unnerving was that Pastor Art was ordered by Justice Adam Germain
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to give equal time to the government narrative whenever and wherever
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Pastor Art voices his personal opinions about the pandemic.
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Say, are we still living in a Commonwealth democracy in 2021 or the Soviet Union of yesteryear?
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And hey, look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's bisexual Superman?
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Adam Chapados weighs in on the most recent reimagining of the Man of Steel.
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And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day,
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and you had plenty to say about Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore,
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who recently released the province's official rules for Halloween.
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As expected, those guidelines are completely absurd.
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Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.
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The sanctions announced by Justice Adam Germain do not include imprisonment for Pastor Artur Pawlowski or his brother David.
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They do include significant financial fines as well as an obligation to perform some community service work not associated with street church.
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Additionally, and most problematically, both David and Artur will be under probation.
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And the contents of the probation, while some of it is fairly standard,
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includes some problematic and apparently targeted attacks on their ministries and capacities as pastor.
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First and foremost, Pastor Artur Pawlowski is forbidden from travel outside of Alberta.
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This seeming response to the fact that he has been touring the United States
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and bringing quite a bit of attention to his mistreatment at the hand of government authorities.
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Furthermore, and again most troublingly certainly,
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is the fact that Pastor Artur and David Pawlowski have been instructed to basically provide a verbal statement
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that has been prescripted discussing masks, vaccines, and COVID-19
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in a matter that is approved by the government following any public comments they make.
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This has to be fleshed out and once we have the written ruling, we can explore this at length.
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Sanctions mandating that they follow up any statement with a pre-approved addendum
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clarifying that their opinion is not necessarily that of the government's.
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So, Pastor Artur, we have the ruling not going to jail,
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but as you said, they've fundamentally attempted to undermine your capacity as a pastor.
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but how do you feel about the overall attack on your role as a pastor?
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They just did it in such a way to show that they are merciful.
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There is no way because for me to lie to people,
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to open my mouth with a lie, it goes against the reason I'm alive.
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It's better for me than to take my ability to preach the truth.
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I hang around for four months with the real doctors, real biologists, biologists, real scientists.
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And I know that what they're doing here in Canada is wrong.
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And people expect their pastors, the clergymen, to speak the truth.
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And this judge is effectively taking away my ability to tell the truth to the public.
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I cannot and I will never obey that kind of ruling.
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And we know we've seen charter rights violated from the get-go.
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Compelled speech is the type of stuff we see in the Soviet Union,
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forcing you to add an appendix from the government,
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a footnote to every comment you make publicly as a pastor is ridiculous.
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Do you have any words out there for people as we move forward with your legal battle
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in light of this ruling and what your plan is moving forward?
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You didn't stand up where there was a time to stand up.
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and not obeying the commandments of Jesus Christ?
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If people will rise up, it's over for the villains.
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If people will stand up for the rides, the tyrants will have no foothold.
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Well, if this outrageous ruling by Justice Adam Germain
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doesn't get people who are fans of democracy, justice and free speech to stand up,
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This judge wants a pastor to promote government propaganda
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whenever or wherever he chooses to speak about the pandemic.
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This is the kind of court ruling you might have seen in the dark old days of the Soviet Union.
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As for Canada, surely this is a deeply disturbing precedent
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And joining me now is the man who's been covering the Pastor Pawlowski saga from day one,
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Adam, I have to be honest, given the judge's rhetoric prior to sentencing,
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I was truly expecting him to throw the book at Pastor Art.
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And while nobody wants to be jailed, I have to be honest,
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these free speech restrictions might even be worse than a prison sentence
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I don't know if you're watching the live stream of our coverage from the courthouse,
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but I actually said a few times, because I had this sneaking suspicion
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that he may be laying out this heavy case and stating that imprisonment was entirely justified.
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In a similar fashion to the fact that before he determined that the Pawlowskis,
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Chris Scott and everyone else, basically, who were under this umbrella ruling,
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he seemed to be providing a lot of commentary on how there was reasonable grounds
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to suggest that they shouldn't be found guilty in contempt of court.
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After laying all that out and applauding Sarah Miller for exceptional work,
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he basically came out with a guilty and all counts ruling.
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Based on that experience last time, when he was laying it on so thick and saying prison is entirely justifiable,
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I had this sort of sneaking suspicion in the back of my mind that he's saying this for political purposes,
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to basically say that the government did no wrong, that AHS did no wrong.
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But he knew from a legal precedent that throwing someone in jail for, again, he's already spent three days in jail,
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but throwing someone in jail for an extended period of time, again, with one contempt case,
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one instance, not repeated instances, would lose on appeal immediately.
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So I think he tried to do the most punishment that he could without sending him to jail.
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But on that one hand, it does seem like a victory in that there wasn't a jail sentence,
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It's the fact that they've basically undermined his capacity as a pastor,
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and they've basically tagged on him this Twitter or Facebook-style warning
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that everywhere Pastor Archer goes, he has to say COVID information
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and provide a little disclaimer from the government.
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You are entirely right in suggesting that is communist-era politics.
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When I spoke with Sarah Miller, I asked her if there's any precedent of a court ruling
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where a pastor or a person who speaks publicly was ordered to, after every public statement,
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add a little addendum or footnote providing official government data to contradict their own positions.
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You know, but Adam, even so, do you think Justice Germain has painted himself into a corner?
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I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but by that I mean he has laid out the law to him,
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i.e., when you speak publicly, whether it's in the public square or on social media,
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you have to give a corresponding amount of time to the AHS or government narrative regarding the pandemic.
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So if he doesn't do that, and maybe he's already not done that,
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that would be, I guess, what, contempt of court?
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So now the justice is back in the position of either fining him or sentencing him to jail again.
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So the big question to me is, will this justice double down when it comes to the actual enforcement of this mandate?
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Because I would argue, Adam, it's only a matter of time.
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Yeah. Well, the two potential outlets or the two potential thoughts on this are,
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one, and this is optimistic and I don't necessarily believe it,
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but it is the thought that perhaps he thought he could sort of silence him
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and just kind of put him by the wayside, not throw him into jail.
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He literally mentioned that he didn't want to allow Pastor Archer to become a martyr of sorts in prison.
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So it's very much political, but maybe the thought was, well, maybe we waylay him and stick him to the outside.
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I think that's naive, to be honest, because we know Pastor Archer Poplowski will not be silenced
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and he will not be adding little footnotes or addendums.
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I think what they are likely to do and what is probably what you're suggesting is be like,
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see, this is yet another case of contempt and now we're justified with more severe punishments.
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But what they don't realize they're doing by trying to thread this needle and have the best of both worlds,
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what they're doing is continuing to provide a growing platform
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and make international parties more and more aware that this is clearly political and that he's being targeted.
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This compelled speech mandate is by every metric that I understand, and I'm not a lawyer, but it's illegal.
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You can't force someone, it's against their fundamental rights as a Canadian,
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to have to say something after every public statement.
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If there was ever any doubt whether or not this was political,
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Justice Adam Jermaine's extended comments before he gave his ruling,
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just basically stipulating nothing to do with the contempt of court case,
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but restating government talking points on COVID, finalize that conclusively,
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and then to cement it entirely, his ruling where Pastor Arthur isn't allowed to tour and speak,
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he's not allowed to leave the province, and then worse still,
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Pastor Arthur is subjected to these probation terms that are virtually unprecedented,
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where he's fundamentally being stifled as a pastor.
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It sets in stone that this was a political ruling, not a legal ruling.
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But by the same token, do you think that Justice Jermaine is experiencing some buyer's remorse?
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Because he didn't want to put Pastor Arthur in jail to further continue on the martyr narrative.
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But I would suggest what he did with this, you know, curbing of his free speech is even worse,
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even more noteworthy, even more enraging to the world community that cares about freedom of speech.
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I'm just wondering if we had Justice Jermaine's ear in a private conversation.
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He's saying, yikes, I think I blew it with this ruling.
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And it very much, it resembles, and this furthers the narrative that this is political,
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it resembles Jason Kenney's management of the COVID-19 situation from the beginning.
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He's attempting to play both sides of the conversation.
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And instead of committing to one platform, whether that be opening or moving towards restrictions,
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They're more concerned about public polls than a logical course of action moving forward.
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This initiative by Justice Jermaine was, I think, a horribly failed attempt to thread that needle.
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And I can tell you almost conclusively that there is an element of buyer's remorse,
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Because as court was wrapping up yesterday, Sarah Miller mentioned in court,
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and we'll get the transcripts to make sure that we have this accurately.
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We will share that with our viewers, of course.
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But Sarah Miller basically said that all the cases of precedent that she cited are a large number of them.
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Justice Jermaine didn't even mention in his final ruling.
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And he said something to the effect of, well, I'm only human.
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The written ruling was actually supposed to come out this morning.
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And obviously, the written ruling would be virtually ready to go at the time it was read by Justice Jermaine,
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So I suspect, I mean, I don't know if this is legal, I'm not a lawyer,
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but a ruling that should be out in written form and presented this morning has been delayed by 24 hours.
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I don't know if tweaks are being made or if there's amendments being made
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because of all the criticism and backlash that has come his way.
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But I would certainly love to get my hands on that original written ruling
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as it stood when it was read by Justice Jermaine.
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And Sarah Miller, who has been doing incredible work,
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And make no mistake, that's quite harsh for a lawyer to call a judge's ruling bizarre, isn't it, Adam?
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And I mean, Sarah Miller is a well-respected lawyer, something of a legal prodigy.
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Sheila and I often joke that she was born in a lab to fight in court for freedom.
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But, I mean, she's in incredibly good standing and is well-respected.
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And for something to be so outlandish and his comments to be so out there
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that Sarah Miller is left kind of scratching her head saying,
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this is bizarre, it says something significant.
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This is not simply a matter of Pastor Arthur Pawlowski is our guy
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There's certainly some extrajudicial considerations in what Justice Jermaine presented
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that should be garnering the attention of civil liberties unions and organizations and groups,
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I certainly hope that the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench is looking at this
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And bizarre is not a word you want to hear when you're discussing court rulings.
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When it comes to, since you mentioned civil liberties unions,
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has the Canadian Civil Liberties Association weighed in on this yet?
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It seems that there's just a societal collaboration, willingness to cover this up.
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Mark my words, if these were the exact same circumstances and the exact same words were being spoken
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and it was any other religious group, civil liberties groups would be all over this.
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The other thing that we noticed that was so absolutely jarring is there was probably about
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a hundred people outside of the court at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday on a very cool day.
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City TV and numerous news outlets they're building is literally like you could throw a tennis ball and hit it.
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They didn't say, oh, wait, there's a massive protest outside.
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And the groups that are supposed to be fighting for civil liberties, particularly religious civil liberties,
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and the organizations that are supposed to be covering the news,
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even a block away can't be bothered to come out and cover this international news.
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And, you know, I'm glad we'll end it on that, Adam, because that's what's perversely ironic about this case.
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As you know, back in the 1930s, the premier Bible Bill Eberhardt, as he was called,
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he was on a jihad against the media then, the newspapers, who would dare write criticism.
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He was demanding that the government side be presented.
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They actually won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
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Well, this judge is kind of doing what Bible Bill did back in the 1930s.
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But the silence from the media watchdogs, which, of course, are more like lapdogs these days, it's deafening.
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They're not interested in a Pulitzer Prize exposing an abuse of the state.
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They are simpatico with shutting down free speech, aren't they?
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I'm happy to take that Pulitzer for responsible journalism.
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Well, Adam, you've been doing great work on this file since day one.
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And there are certainly more chapters to be written.
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And you're the right man to do the writing because, hey, let's face it, the lapdogs, they're not interested.
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Thank you so much for a great report, my friend.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Superman is going by in a move that has everyone asking, well, why?
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Australian DC comic book writer for Superman has a new reimagining for Superman's son, Jonathan Kent, that is.
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Tom Taylor appeared on CNN this week to let everyone know that it would be a waste if Superman was just another straight white guy this time around.
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Was what does Superman, what should Superman represent today?
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A new Superman, if you're going to make a new Superman, what should that look like?
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And it struck me as it would be a real opportunity lost if we had another, we had Clark Kent replaced by another straight white savior.
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So here was an opportunity to create a Superman who could represent a whole new group of people.
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Damn Superman, saving people and being white, you monster.
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I'm kind of suspicious that Taylor is trolling, though, and just had the idea, well, what's the most ridiculous thing I can put into the comic to get people's attention and trigger people on the right wing?
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Consider that the writer also discussed the new Superman is going to have to tackle tough issues, like refugees and climate change.
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And I think that was one that we had to leave them.
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And we'll be addressing modern day issues, like?
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John, in the last issue, has just been arrested attending a protest, trying to stop the refoundment of asylum seekers.
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Not that I planned on buying a Superman comic book anytime soon, but this might be a genius marketing ploy by this writer.
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A young Superman kissing a Japanese boy with pink hair just screams endless talk show segments about the impacts this could have on society.
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This is ridiculous, you can't change Superman, the right wing will say.
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Conservatives are so intolerant, how come they can't accept this, the left wing will say.
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All the sources will be outraged and therefore everybody wins.
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You have a writer in a rainbow Superman shirt, saying it's a waste to have a straight white Superman, and then puts him in protest for illegal immigrants.
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This is like a boomer's worst nightmare come true.
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But it all ends up in us talking about a comic book that probably 500 people would have bought otherwise.
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Attempt to emasculate yet another manly character?
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Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...
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Huh, just what is it that is being depicted upon the pages of the most recent Superman comic book these days?
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After all, I don't want to commit the uber crime of misgendering somebody, even a fictional comic book character,
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because that sort of stuff is unforgivable in our cancel culture.
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And joining me now for this latest reimagining of a DC superhero is Andrew Chapados.
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Who knows what we're looking at as it flies by?
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Who knows what we're looking at, and who knows what to believe?
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You know, Andrew, I think being in this business for as long as I am,
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And yet, when I was watching that writer during the CNN interview that you had as part of your report,
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I don't know if he's sincere or if he's taking the piss out of us.
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That's what I gather, David, is that he knows exactly what he's doing.
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He's not dedicated to, you know, this social justice point of view in the comic.
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Some people have got to know that this is not what comic fans are looking for,
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even if they are maybe paid to bring in, you know, a social justice point of view like this.
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But he's wearing the Superman Rainbow Pride shirt.
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He's saying all the buzzwords like Black Lives Matter and refugees.
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And he's making out white male, you know, we can't waste this on another cis white male sort of thing.
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So he's going, he's checking off all the boxes, and it doesn't seem sincere, as you know.
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Yeah, but I hope he's doing this tongue-in-cheek.
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But, you know, these days, it's hard to tell parody from reality, Andrew.
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And you're right, that one quote, that's what got my antenna quivering.
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It would be an opportunity lost if we had Clark Kent replaced by another straight white savior.
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When I go to a comic book, Andrew, I'm looking for escapism.
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I'm not looking for critical race theory via a graphic novel.
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Well, I think it's, for lack of a better term, a psy-op, David Menzies.
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We've got this easily spoken about on conservative media where we're going,
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can you believe they're changing this character to another social justice left-wing trope?
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And on the left wing, they're saying, can we believe that the conservatives can't accept just somebody
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because they're gay and because it's a comic book that's changing and wants to be inclusive
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And I think it's just one of those things where it's a news story that can get passed around
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I don't think there's a lot of energy behind it otherwise,
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because I don't know how many people are buying the copy of this issue without this publicity.
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There's you, there's Kevin Smith, and I'm not sure who else.
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Yeah, well, I don't think I'm going to be buying it.
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Probably it's going to end his career once and for all.
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This would have been, you know, edgy and out there maybe 20 years ago.
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Well, I mean, we've already got, I think, a gay Robin, a gay Captain America.
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You know, Thor has been transformed into a female.
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But what Dean Cain said, and I thought this was very profound,
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what would have been really edgy would have been to have this Superman
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go to defend the rights of gay people in Iran, in Afghanistan.
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But you know DC or any other comic publisher, they're not going to touch that
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Well, TV Superman also said that it would have been an edgier thing to do 20, 30 years ago,
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Now, I was watching a debate yesterday with the great Michael Knowles from Daily Wire,
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and he was talking to a guy, and it's sort of the same deal here,
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where I'm seeing somebody I know debate somebody I've never heard of
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who has a million followers, let's say, because it's so easy for someone to come out here
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and say, you know, progressive this and refugees that, and get all this attention
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The idea that we're changing a superhero to be more progressive and, you know,
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inclusive of people is nothing clever about it, David,
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and that's why it's so sad to see how easily people fall for this sort of stuff.
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If it was 25 years ago, you would say, you know, that's commendable.
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They're trying to spread a different message, maybe had an agenda behind it back then.
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You'd have to ask me before I was born, I guess.
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But, you know, nowadays this is not something that I say, you know what, good on them.
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But, you know, that's the thing, though, Andrew.
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If this writer is being sincere as opposed to being facetious,
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the idea that we don't want another straight white saviour,
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again, I think it plays into this whole critical race theory
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that we see even appearing in elementary school.
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you are privileged and you'll always be privileged
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and you have a lot of apologizing to do forever.
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And if you're a visible minority, you can never amount to anything
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even though there's so much evidence to prove, you know,
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at least in the Western world, that is not the case.
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Again, I think it's almost, if this guy's serious about this,
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part of the indoctrination of progressivism, Marxism,
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I think that maybe the audience does want another straight white saviour.
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He's printing something that's predominantly going to be read
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I'd like to see the demographics of their audience at DC Comics.
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or Japanese gay boys with pink hair, David Manzies,
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And, you know, they're appealing to the right audience.
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But I would like to consider the fact that maybe,
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just maybe, people like Superman, just the way he is,
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oh, it's Superman, some are not actually changing anything.
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But, you know, I think in this day and age, Andrew,
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and their commitment to wokeism and virtue signaling,
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I think of the next issue of Playboy, understand,
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Well, then that makes me think then this move by Playboy
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has to be just a social justice move to get more attention
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because I thought they cancelled printing Playboy issues.
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So what, are they having a ceremonial issue here?
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and I predicted that was going to last maybe three issues,
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And then they brought back, you know, the bunnies
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I mean, it's Playboy, not Playgirl, you know what I'm saying?
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Well, it's about time we had a man on Playboy, David Menzies.
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I don't know who you are or what this show is about,
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but I think it's very progressive and very proper.
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Or it's about time to have a naked man in Playboy.
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on who you want on the cover of Playboy magazine?
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But the other element, too, is maybe this is just a gimmick.
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It's about selling comics by, you know, the fact that they've done this.
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Look at all the millions of dollars of free publicity
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It's just like when they did things like back in the early 90s
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when they killed Superman, you know, reams of publicity the world over.
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And, you know, but then again, I think of what D.C. did five years ago.
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In other words, if just 1% of the people of China buy new Superman,
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Chinese Superman, that will be the biggest selling comic book of all time.
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Well, it only lasted 24 issues and it was cancelled.
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Maybe the marketplace is going to vote with its wallets.
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I'm not so much into a, is it a bisexual Superman with a pink-haired Japanese player?
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So they've got even the mainstream media journalists in there.
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Mainstream media journalists' true dream is to have a hot, young Superman come and swoop him up in their arms
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and they're all tangled in their pink hair and they're talking about Black Lives Matter.
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You know, if it is a gag, they should go all in.
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They should forget about Brainiac and Luther as the arch nemesis.
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Maybe they should come up with Supreme Spirit Unicorn or something like that, you know,
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And be more like Not Brand Eck, the parody Marvel comic from the 1960s, which I'm sure you remember well.
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And the new enemies in this are obviously going to be polo t-shirts and frat boys or something.
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Maybe you love the idea of a new and improved bisexual Superman.
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Let's see how this rendition of Superman sells in the weeks and months to come.
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Step one in creating our uber-safe Halloween mask is, of course, using PPE masks.
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You know, the kind of which Dr. Frankenstein, I mean, Dr. Fauci, originally advised us against wearing.
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And to be extra safe, two or even three masks would do the trick.
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This one here, this is my favorite mask for obvious reasons.
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Now, the second step in creating a super safe Halloween mask, well, it's these guys.
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Now, I want to be very clear about something, folks.
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This is not part of the actual Halloween costume.
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Who knew that groucho marks was ahead of the curve?
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Do you remember back in March when Mexican researchers said that if you're going to eat, take off your mask, but put a nose guard on, because that could help reduce the spread of the coronavirus?
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These are nose guards in case I have to remove my mouth mask for a snack.
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Now, to be extra careful, as you can see, it's falling off, but we have a solution to that.
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We are going to apply, folks, the modern day miracle that is saran wrap.
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Okay, so as you can see now, folks, the nose guard is firmly in place,
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and this plastic is even preventing the coronavirus from escaping my pores.
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So, but don't worry, we still have a few more steps yet.
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Okay, so we got the three cloth masks, we got the nose guard, we got the saran wrap, and we have the plastic shield.
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I think at this point, we can actually put on the Halloween mask.
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Okay, now, there's no such thing as being too safe, is there?
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Okay, so I think over my skeleton mask, the actual Halloween mask, well, another face shield.
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Well, let us all thank God, or would it be Lucifer in this case, that Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore,
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has released the province's official rules for Halloween.
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First rule, Dr. Kieran recommends kids trick-or-treat outside as much as possible.
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Secondly, trick-or-treaters should not sing or shout for their treats.
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Okay, third, homeowners should keep interactions with trick-or-treaters short and encourage them to move along after receiving their treats.
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Yeah, as if homeowners in previous years would invite the small fries into the house to, oh, I don't know, have a beer or something.
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And finally, Dr. Kieran wants trick-or-treaters to wear a face covering when physical distancing cannot be maintained.
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Oh, and he wants us to be creative with the aforementioned face covering.
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And as you just saw, we really got creative indeed, perhaps making the safest Halloween mask on the planet.
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Just one hitch I couldn't see, and oh, there's another hitch I could barely breathe.
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In any event, you had plenty to say about how this unelected, non-accountable health bureaucrat tends to treat taxpayers like toddlers,
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given his absurd rules when it comes to festive occasions.
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I would trust a stranger on the street more than Ontario's top doctor.
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Now, I think the average stranger on the street would have more common sense than Dr. Kieran.
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Well, medical health officers are typically amongst the highest paid bureaucrats in Canada.
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Hefty six-figure salaries, plus tons of perks and benefits,
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and of course, a nice juicy pension for life when they retire.
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maybe Ontario's kids would think they were supposed to trick-or-treat indoors this year.
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I think I'm going to dress up as Ontario's Chief Minister of Health for Halloween.
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I'm with you, Sarah-Jane, but can you imagine those parents who take in Dr. Kieran's advice
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David, you have just proven just how ridiculous our country has become.
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Well, thanks so much, Murray, but truth be told,
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the people in charge, well, they're making it easy for me.
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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.