Rebel News Podcast - January 01, 2022


DAVID MENZIES ｜ Peruvin' FightTheFines.com works; Fighting Vax Passes in the U.K.


Episode Stats

Length

37 minutes

Words per Minute

160.55392

Word Count

6,079

Sentence Count

384

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

A family from Peru wanted to move to Canada because somehow the pandemic restrictions in Peru were even harsher than they are here in Canada, and yet they received $11,000 in fines upon entry to their new home country. Then, our UK correspondent joins us to talk about the fight against vaccine passport segregation in the UK, and who really makes up the anti-vaccination movement.


Transcript

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00:01:14.420 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:32.320 in which we look back at some of the week's very best commentaries from your favorite Rebels,
00:01:37.720 which happen to not be me.
00:01:39.680 I'm your host, who is definitely, absolutely not Mr. David Menzies.
00:01:43.660 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I'm filling in for my dear friend David
00:01:46.820 as he takes some well-deserved time off from the show.
00:01:50.500 However, you will be seeing David back at the Roundup news desk in the new year, so stay tuned.
00:01:56.520 A family from Peru wanted to move to Canada because somehow the pandemic restrictions in Peru
00:02:02.060 were even harsher on kids than they are here in Canada.
00:02:05.500 It's hard to believe.
00:02:06.960 The dad is a Canadian citizen, and so his kids are dual citizens.
00:02:10.420 They did everything right.
00:02:11.480 They tried to come in through the front door to Canada,
00:02:13.640 and yet they received $11,000 in lockdown fines upon entry to their new home country.
00:02:19.420 But this story has a happy ending.
00:02:21.800 Drea Humphrey joins us with this fight the fines victory.
00:02:25.220 Then, Louis Brackpool is living in the land of the vaccine passports.
00:02:29.820 Not Canada, but the UK.
00:02:31.060 Louis wanted to give his fellow UK citizens an opportunity to send a message to their politicians
00:02:36.260 that the people do not want the discriminatory vaccine passport system.
00:02:40.920 Nor is it necessary, since the vaccinated can catch and spread COVID to basically anyone.
00:02:45.880 But when Louis tried to launch a petition, big tech stepped in to block it.
00:02:50.160 Our UK correspondent joins us tonight to talk about the fight against vaccine passport segregation in the UK
00:02:55.700 and who really makes up the anti-passport movement.
00:03:00.580 Then letters, letters, letters.
00:03:02.000 We get your letters all day, every day, and I'll read some of them.
00:03:05.260 Actually, I'm going to read one.
00:03:06.720 It's long, but it's one of the favorite letters that I have received in weeks,
00:03:11.120 and it's about David Menzies being assaulted by Trudeau's RCMP henchmen.
00:03:15.460 You'll note this isn't the usual Rebel Roundup background
00:03:18.160 because I forgot to switch mine out in my interview,
00:03:20.780 so I left this one for consistency's sake.
00:03:24.080 Those are your Rebels.
00:03:25.480 Let's round them up.
00:03:31.480 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News.
00:03:33.860 In another Fight the Fines win for you,
00:03:36.840 a couple was fined over $11,000
00:03:40.640 when entering the supposedly true North strong and free country of Canada.
00:03:47.380 But thanks to people like yourself who have been generously donating at FightTheFines.com,
00:03:54.100 we were able to partner with the Democracy Fund charity
00:03:57.280 and hire them top-notch lawyers from the law firm Great, Woke, and Spencer.
00:04:03.360 Thanks so much for inviting us into your home.
00:04:06.440 There was good news in regards to the over $11,000 fines you guys received.
00:04:13.440 For those who don't know, because this is actually our first time doing this report,
00:04:19.340 tell us why you guys received such a slap-worthy fine.
00:04:24.540 Well, as soon as we arrived to Canada,
00:04:29.660 by the way, we were moving to Canada,
00:04:31.760 and my wife just landed.
00:04:34.400 It was almost six months ago, back in June.
00:04:36.780 Back then, everyone, regardless of your medical status,
00:04:45.000 back then you had to be quarantined and take an arrival PCR test,
00:04:50.920 and then take another PCR test on day 8, if I remember correctly.
00:04:56.200 So when we arrived, we refused the hotel quarantine,
00:05:00.320 partly because we were a family of five,
00:05:03.780 which includes my five-year-old daughter.
00:05:06.300 I had no plans on lugging her up in a hotel room.
00:05:10.780 And another reason is because my wife has a medical condition,
00:05:14.760 which I brought with me.
00:05:17.880 She requires a very special diet.
00:05:20.060 I'm very allergic to food.
00:05:22.180 Exactly.
00:05:22.700 She cannot eat gluten, corn, soy.
00:05:26.220 Tomatoes.
00:05:27.060 Even tomatoes.
00:05:27.940 Yeah.
00:05:29.140 Some of the plants of the nightshade family.
00:05:30.840 So she has a very particular diet,
00:05:33.200 and the public health officers that were there that day
00:05:38.440 did not listen to us.
00:05:40.640 No, we showed the papers.
00:05:41.860 We showed them the papers.
00:05:43.300 And the situation.
00:05:44.580 Situation and all.
00:05:45.580 And at the end of the day,
00:05:46.880 they just wrote us huge tickets.
00:05:52.360 We both received $5,750 each,
00:05:57.100 totaling $11,500 in tickets.
00:06:02.760 And we didn't know what to do.
00:06:05.680 After getting home,
00:06:09.660 we decided to fight this, obviously.
00:06:14.400 We disputed the tickets.
00:06:16.940 After the 14-day quarantine,
00:06:18.520 we went to the courthouse and entered a dispute
00:06:21.960 and contacted Rebel News.
00:06:24.960 I heard of the fund you guys were managing
00:06:29.880 for helping Canadians fight the fines.
00:06:34.760 2021 was a big year in fighting lockdown fines.
00:06:39.120 In fact, we have helped over 2,200 people,
00:06:42.320 churches, and businesses in the fight the fines system.
00:06:45.660 Now, fight the fines is a civil liberties project
00:06:47.800 in partnership with the Democracy Fund,
00:06:49.540 where people suffering a lockdown ticket or infraction
00:06:52.080 are put in touch with top criminal and civil litigators
00:06:54.360 at no cost to them
00:06:55.300 through our special partnership
00:06:57.140 with that registered Canadian charity,
00:06:59.680 the Democracy Fund,
00:07:00.840 and through your crowdfunded donations.
00:07:03.160 And the wins have been really rolling in lately.
00:07:06.560 So fast, we can hardly report on them all.
00:07:08.800 But Drea Humphrey joins us today
00:07:10.080 with the story of a family
00:07:11.000 who was emigrating to Canada,
00:07:13.320 doing everything the right way,
00:07:15.240 and they still received a lockdown fine.
00:07:17.460 Drea, what happened here?
00:07:18.540 Well, absolutely.
00:07:19.940 The husband is a Canadian citizen,
00:07:22.840 but they had been living in Peru.
00:07:25.160 And according to them,
00:07:26.880 it's not so great for children
00:07:28.600 since life with COVID-19 there.
00:07:30.480 So they thought, you know what?
00:07:31.820 Let's take our odds with Canada.
00:07:33.840 And they came to Canada,
00:07:35.700 but, you know,
00:07:36.680 were totally treated like villains on the way in.
00:07:39.920 The wife actually has a lot of medical conditions.
00:07:43.680 She even brought paperwork.
00:07:45.100 Doctors helped fill it out.
00:07:46.380 So hopefully they would be able to go home.
00:07:49.520 Extreme dietary restrictions.
00:07:52.000 And as you probably know
00:07:53.200 from some of our previous reports,
00:07:55.220 if you've got allergies,
00:07:57.060 a quarantine hotel is not the place to be.
00:08:00.700 And so they were fined over $11,000
00:08:04.680 for saying,
00:08:06.220 no, it's safer for us to go home.
00:08:08.000 Sorry.
00:08:08.320 You know, that's crazy.
00:08:10.640 And as I was watching your video,
00:08:12.660 I thought, you know what?
00:08:13.960 Maybe these people should have just sashayed
00:08:15.680 through Roxham Road
00:08:16.940 and they wouldn't have got a fine.
00:08:18.640 They wouldn't have been charged
00:08:20.360 to stay in a quarantine hotel.
00:08:22.760 And the RCMP would have carried their baggage,
00:08:26.020 put them on the bus.
00:08:26.880 They would have went off to the quarantine hotel
00:08:28.520 where they would have got whatever food they wanted.
00:08:30.480 And then just off you go.
00:08:32.620 No testing or at least no fines.
00:08:34.720 No fines.
00:08:36.580 But these folks seem very nice.
00:08:39.980 They get punished
00:08:40.840 for trying to do everything the right way.
00:08:43.100 And this isn't the first thing we've seen of this.
00:08:45.520 We actually see Canadian citizens
00:08:47.320 in other instances getting COVID fines
00:08:50.760 for refusing to quarantine
00:08:52.560 in these jails that are, frankly, dangerous, as we know.
00:08:57.880 Absolutely.
00:08:58.560 COVID jails.
00:08:59.400 I believe in David's report,
00:09:01.060 back to the dietary thing,
00:09:02.820 there was a gentleman with seafood allergies
00:09:05.900 and he was given a tuna sandwich after starving.
00:09:08.920 He was in there starving.
00:09:10.460 It's ridiculous.
00:09:11.660 And then there's also been the claim
00:09:13.340 of sexual assault as well.
00:09:16.100 And it just scientifically or statistically,
00:09:18.360 it doesn't make any sense
00:09:19.680 because if you can go home,
00:09:20.940 if you have this safe place at home
00:09:22.660 and you can just be with your family,
00:09:24.960 why would you go to a hotel?
00:09:27.060 One of the reports that I covered,
00:09:29.200 they put you in a taxi,
00:09:32.660 a public taxi.
00:09:34.540 Like, it makes no sense.
00:09:35.700 And that taxi driver,
00:09:37.060 we interviewed some of the ones
00:09:38.200 that were picking up,
00:09:39.260 they pick up whoever they want.
00:09:41.040 So if you can go into a public taxi
00:09:42.920 to COVID jail,
00:09:43.940 why can't you just go home?
00:09:45.780 But what I love about Fight the Fines
00:09:47.560 is number one,
00:09:48.420 it gives us an opportunity
00:09:49.440 to report good news
00:09:51.000 when we get the winds coming in,
00:09:52.680 which these days is few and far between.
00:09:56.020 So I love that.
00:09:57.680 But just imagine the weight off your shoulder.
00:10:01.060 You're trying to move your whole family.
00:10:03.040 If you watch the report,
00:10:04.060 they mention there's a lot of costs,
00:10:05.560 obviously, with doing that.
00:10:07.000 And you get hit with an $11,000 fine.
00:10:09.360 Plus, you know it's wrong,
00:10:11.180 so you want to fight it.
00:10:12.740 And then thanks to the donors
00:10:14.460 who have generously supported Fight the Fines
00:10:17.820 and donated what they can
00:10:18.940 for top-not legal defense,
00:10:21.560 you get that weight off your shoulder
00:10:23.280 where the lawyers come and take care of it.
00:10:26.340 In this case,
00:10:27.380 it was a whole team effort
00:10:28.880 because there was all this bureaucracy happening.
00:10:31.720 So even Megan,
00:10:32.920 I believe she's a paralegal with the firm,
00:10:35.540 was helping out quite a bit there too.
00:10:37.960 Yeah, it's so unscientific.
00:10:40.260 The one thing I learned
00:10:41.200 from our legal challenge
00:10:43.560 to the COVID jails
00:10:44.760 at nocovidjails.com
00:10:46.380 was that if you present at the airport
00:10:50.260 and you either exhibit symptoms of COVID,
00:10:54.580 which can be anything from a sniffly nose
00:10:56.600 to like, I've got muscle aches.
00:10:59.120 Well, you just got off a long flight,
00:11:00.480 so that might explain it.
00:11:02.000 But even if you,
00:11:03.420 either you present with visible symptoms of COVID
00:11:06.060 or you just say you have symptoms of COVID,
00:11:08.780 you don't have to go to the COVID jail.
00:11:10.640 You go straight home.
00:11:11.900 The COVID jails are strictly for healthy people,
00:11:14.880 which makes absolutely no sense
00:11:16.880 because if you're healthy,
00:11:18.380 then you should just be able to go home.
00:11:20.560 But, you know,
00:11:21.440 if you show up at the airport and say,
00:11:22.760 they're like,
00:11:24.500 ah, get out of here,
00:11:25.280 go home.
00:11:27.940 But moreover,
00:11:28.700 to your point about
00:11:29.780 the help that we're able to give people
00:11:32.600 and really,
00:11:33.980 the thanks goes to the donors.
00:11:35.340 We hear the thank yous
00:11:36.340 because we hear the thank yous
00:11:38.680 because we are talking to people every day.
00:11:40.920 We're the sort of the go-between.
00:11:43.120 But the thanks really goes to the donors
00:11:44.320 and we get the pleasure of being the vehicles
00:11:47.840 by which the donors are connected
00:11:50.020 to the people that need help.
00:11:52.160 But I'm sure this is your experience too.
00:11:55.480 You're interviewing people
00:11:56.760 who have these enormous fines,
00:11:59.220 $11,000.
00:12:00.260 Sometimes it's the whole family
00:12:01.400 is fined $5,000 a pop.
00:12:03.940 And they can't believe
00:12:06.060 that total strangers
00:12:07.960 care so much about civil liberties
00:12:10.620 that they're willing to donate to help them.
00:12:13.640 So they can't even believe
00:12:15.060 that people care about the issue.
00:12:17.520 Little old me.
00:12:19.360 They're like,
00:12:20.120 why do people care about me?
00:12:21.320 But they also can't believe
00:12:22.380 that people care so much
00:12:23.820 that it's like,
00:12:25.000 here's one of Canada's best lawyers to help you.
00:12:27.280 They're so overwhelmed and so grateful.
00:12:29.340 And that's what I love
00:12:30.980 about Fight the Fines.
00:12:32.340 It fills the personal tank up
00:12:35.200 so you have all this energy
00:12:36.420 to fight another day.
00:12:37.460 Because I don't know about you,
00:12:38.600 but people always ask me,
00:12:39.600 how do you do your job?
00:12:41.160 You're dealing with bad news all the day.
00:12:42.380 I'm like, I get to hear the thank yous
00:12:44.080 that I don't deserve.
00:12:45.220 And that helps me fight another day.
00:12:47.760 Absolutely.
00:12:48.560 And like you said,
00:12:49.260 it's now over 2,200 cases.
00:12:52.220 One of the things they always say is,
00:12:53.640 yeah, I apply,
00:12:54.300 but I didn't actually expect to hear back, right?
00:12:56.800 Because they just like,
00:12:57.680 oh, maybe it's 20 people we've helped
00:12:59.960 or something like that.
00:13:00.980 And it's like, no, it's quite a bit.
00:13:03.020 So you're right.
00:13:04.560 It does keep us motivated.
00:13:06.080 Thank you guys so much for donating there
00:13:08.420 because you're making such a huge difference.
00:13:10.960 And you touched on this as well,
00:13:12.940 but a lot of people are,
00:13:14.200 you know, it's so divided.
00:13:16.220 Depending on what news they're watching,
00:13:17.860 it seems like everybody thinks a certain way.
00:13:20.180 So you're right,
00:13:21.260 like that people come together
00:13:22.300 and actually generously donate
00:13:24.960 towards an issue
00:13:26.000 that seems like such a taboo issue
00:13:28.000 in the first place.
00:13:28.720 It's like, no, I'm not alone.
00:13:30.160 And, you know, I should stand up for my rights.
00:13:32.480 And so it's very empowering.
00:13:34.440 And I don't think just for the person
00:13:36.220 who gets the help,
00:13:36.920 but also for the people who see the win, right?
00:13:39.380 It's really important.
00:13:40.420 And who knows the ripple effect that's happening.
00:13:43.300 Yeah, I completely agree.
00:13:45.180 Now, getting back to your story of this family,
00:13:48.320 what's next for them?
00:13:49.620 They're in Canada now.
00:13:51.020 Are they settled in?
00:13:52.800 Yeah.
00:13:53.420 Do they regret coming?
00:13:55.600 No, I don't think regret is the word
00:13:57.880 because again, according to them,
00:13:59.140 I do ask them in the report,
00:14:00.420 what life was like there.
00:14:01.800 And they said for kids in school,
00:14:04.540 it's pretty rough.
00:14:05.540 You'll have to watch the report,
00:14:06.860 but I think they said
00:14:07.620 the kids haven't really officially
00:14:09.260 gone back to school.
00:14:10.700 So that's hard.
00:14:11.500 And I believe they have three kids
00:14:12.900 and they're happy in the city
00:14:15.620 that they're in right now,
00:14:16.640 but they're not sure
00:14:18.440 if that's where they're going to end up staying.
00:14:20.140 But they're just concerned in general
00:14:22.680 across the globe, what's happening.
00:14:24.860 And, you know,
00:14:26.160 they're going to continue to stand
00:14:27.360 for their rights no matter what.
00:14:28.780 But I think there's not a huge sense of security,
00:14:32.440 especially when you enter the country that way.
00:14:34.220 You think you're going for refuge
00:14:35.640 to this true north, strong and free.
00:14:38.200 And then it's already,
00:14:39.220 you have a fight like that.
00:14:40.280 So, yeah, I guess the moral of the story here
00:14:42.800 is that even in Canada,
00:14:45.800 some place is always worse than you.
00:14:48.960 And I guess it's a story across the world,
00:14:51.660 except if you live in Australia,
00:14:53.220 because I don't know.
00:14:54.680 That's what it seems.
00:14:55.660 Australia, Drea, thank you so much
00:14:58.700 for the work that you do
00:14:59.960 for the Fight the Fines cases
00:15:02.480 that you're working with
00:15:03.800 and you're helping.
00:15:05.400 But also, thank you so much
00:15:06.740 just for the work that you've put in this year,
00:15:09.680 fighting for freedom,
00:15:10.700 fighting for the rights to small businesses,
00:15:12.960 and fighting for people's rights
00:15:14.920 to just go to work
00:15:15.820 and not have to produce proof of vaccination
00:15:19.660 or subject themselves
00:15:20.860 to a medical treatment that they don't want.
00:15:22.540 Let's hope things get better in 2022.
00:15:26.760 I am, however, not optimistic.
00:15:29.340 Well, I hope so.
00:15:30.040 And I had a great mentor.
00:15:31.260 So thank you, Sheila.
00:15:33.000 Thanks, Drea.
00:15:34.300 All right. Bye, everyone.
00:15:40.540 Today, I'm fighting big tech censorship
00:15:43.720 to bring you a voice
00:15:45.220 against these divisive vaccine passports.
00:15:49.120 I am proud to announce that I'm not long away
00:15:52.000 from launching a brand new exclusive campaign
00:15:55.280 to the UK with Rebel News
00:15:57.940 to fight back against these divisive
00:16:00.540 and privacy invading vaccine passports
00:16:03.620 that were rolled out to the entirety
00:16:05.720 of the United Kingdom recently.
00:16:07.820 However, we have run into some technical difficulties
00:16:11.680 that us at Rebel News thought it would be appropriate
00:16:14.800 to tell you all about.
00:16:16.660 The campaign that I am launching
00:16:18.400 is one big giant petition
00:16:20.380 that anyone in the United Kingdom can sign.
00:16:23.940 And my promise is to deliver your signature
00:16:27.620 straight to the doorstep of parliament,
00:16:30.460 where we will bring the message from the people
00:16:33.560 to the politicians
00:16:34.960 from all over the political spectrum.
00:16:37.660 So not only is it to prove
00:16:39.460 that we were never asked
00:16:41.300 for these discriminatory restrictions,
00:16:43.700 is that we don't need them and we want them gone.
00:16:47.580 Now, whilst I talk to you on camera,
00:16:49.740 we have a designated set of people
00:16:52.340 to help set up this giant petition
00:16:55.220 and a special website for you to visit
00:16:57.960 and sign your signature.
00:17:00.520 We've been doing a lot of preparation
00:17:02.020 and I've already finished a video
00:17:03.740 to debut the campaign launch.
00:17:07.460 However, something strange has happened.
00:17:10.640 A colleague of mine was arranging the URL
00:17:13.700 for this petition
00:17:15.180 and it was originally at
00:17:16.440 fightvaccinepassports.co.uk
00:17:19.380 and after trying to register this URL,
00:17:22.900 we received an email.
00:17:24.520 It explained that the domain
00:17:26.060 fightvaccinepassports got blocked
00:17:29.020 on the registry
00:17:30.400 for it potentially being,
00:17:32.740 and I quote,
00:17:33.900 malicious phishing activity.
00:17:36.860 Very odd.
00:17:37.860 Well, Canada isn't the only country
00:17:40.040 infected with the disease
00:17:41.380 of COVID vaccine mandates
00:17:43.740 and passports.
00:17:44.780 Our siblings in the Commonwealth
00:17:46.020 over in the UK
00:17:46.920 have recently adopted
00:17:48.080 a proof of vaccination policy
00:17:49.640 wherein certain people,
00:17:51.940 usually healthy,
00:17:53.020 are carved out of society
00:17:54.340 based on either their vaccine status
00:17:56.600 or their unwillingness
00:17:58.400 to provide their vaccine status
00:17:59.940 to total strangers.
00:18:01.600 Joining me now to discuss
00:18:02.640 the vaccine policy in the UK
00:18:04.120 and what he plans to do
00:18:05.780 to fight back
00:18:06.540 on behalf of normal people
00:18:07.720 is Rebel News UK correspondent
00:18:10.020 extraordinaire Lewis Brackpool.
00:18:12.020 Lewis, thank you so much
00:18:13.060 for joining me.
00:18:13.960 I guess my big question
00:18:15.960 is why the vaccine mandate
00:18:19.800 all of a sudden right now?
00:18:22.220 You guys have had vaccines
00:18:23.440 long before we did.
00:18:25.840 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:26.620 It's a very strange one,
00:18:27.860 isn't it, Sheila?
00:18:28.420 I mean, I think it's been
00:18:30.060 the plan all along, personally.
00:18:31.740 They've had ideas
00:18:33.300 of drawing up these plans
00:18:34.580 the past six months
00:18:36.400 and they decided
00:18:37.860 to put it through
00:18:38.520 the House of Commons
00:18:39.620 and have a vote on it
00:18:40.660 where 126 Tories
00:18:43.600 revolted against the mandates,
00:18:46.220 which was very interesting,
00:18:47.660 and the Labour candidates,
00:18:49.200 only seven, revolted against.
00:18:50.860 So it's unfortunately been passed
00:18:53.160 and now the people
00:18:54.420 have to suffer.
00:18:55.880 So it begs the question,
00:18:57.900 can over 300 MPs
00:19:00.420 really decide
00:19:01.380 the bodily autonomy fate
00:19:05.000 of the UK public?
00:19:07.120 And I personally don't think so,
00:19:09.060 which is why I've started up
00:19:10.300 this campaign
00:19:10.920 that we're about to discuss.
00:19:13.620 Before we get to that,
00:19:14.900 I just, I find it remarkable
00:19:16.440 that at least you had politicians
00:19:18.760 who engaged in a vigorous debate
00:19:20.380 on this subject
00:19:21.440 in so much of the rest
00:19:23.080 of the world,
00:19:23.660 in particular here in Canada,
00:19:24.820 we just have some
00:19:26.360 public health deity
00:19:27.460 at this point
00:19:28.340 who just decides
00:19:29.680 these things for everybody
00:19:30.960 and our politicians
00:19:31.760 just nod along.
00:19:33.180 They don't even consider
00:19:34.040 the fact that this is,
00:19:35.460 indeed,
00:19:36.240 a political move
00:19:37.560 that requires
00:19:38.400 political debate
00:19:39.600 around this.
00:19:40.640 Now, you've been out
00:19:41.640 and about in the public
00:19:43.000 talking to people
00:19:44.260 about this
00:19:45.020 and it is a real
00:19:46.240 cross-section of humanity.
00:19:48.300 You've got some people
00:19:49.120 who think,
00:19:50.200 yeah, it's fine.
00:19:50.980 I get to do whatever I want
00:19:52.180 because I'm vaccinated
00:19:52.940 so I guess everybody else
00:19:54.660 be damned.
00:19:55.820 And you do have other people
00:19:57.060 on the other side
00:19:57.920 who say,
00:19:58.480 this isn't for me,
00:19:59.780 I don't want any part of this
00:20:01.240 and I don't have a choice anymore.
00:20:04.360 What do you think
00:20:05.200 the breakdown is?
00:20:06.740 Is it like 50-50
00:20:08.040 or what do you think
00:20:09.260 the public's take is
00:20:10.400 on all of this?
00:20:11.760 I think the public take
00:20:13.100 is definitely rising against.
00:20:15.680 It was a majority,
00:20:17.280 I believe,
00:20:17.960 for a long time
00:20:19.220 because unfortunately
00:20:20.420 a lot of people
00:20:21.080 in the UK
00:20:21.580 have put their faith
00:20:22.860 in this government
00:20:23.520 as blasphemy as that is.
00:20:26.600 But we're now starting
00:20:27.760 to see a shift
00:20:28.560 in the polls.
00:20:29.600 A lot of polls
00:20:30.100 are coming out recently
00:20:31.140 that people are going
00:20:32.500 against these restrictions
00:20:34.020 ever since it came out
00:20:35.740 that Downing Street
00:20:36.540 hosted a big fundu
00:20:39.180 over the Christmas period
00:20:41.280 when everyone was locked down.
00:20:42.760 I think that's sort of
00:20:44.280 messed people up with that.
00:20:47.740 The thing is,
00:20:49.160 everyone has a limit,
00:20:50.260 don't they?
00:20:50.800 I mean,
00:20:51.220 some people it was very early,
00:20:52.840 some people it's late,
00:20:53.780 some people it was just
00:20:54.540 a Christmas party
00:20:55.500 that set people off
00:20:57.340 to make them go,
00:20:58.340 well, hang on a minute,
00:20:58.920 if they're not practising
00:20:59.840 what they preach,
00:21:00.660 why should I?
00:21:01.620 And it's a legitimate question.
00:21:03.820 If these politicians
00:21:04.740 keep pumping out
00:21:06.300 the fear-mongering
00:21:07.120 to the public
00:21:07.920 whilst not following
00:21:09.040 the rules themselves,
00:21:10.020 I mean,
00:21:11.000 is it any wonder
00:21:12.100 that the polls
00:21:12.680 are now starting to shift
00:21:13.980 and Boris Johnson
00:21:15.220 is looking like
00:21:16.180 he's in a bit of deep water
00:21:18.200 now with his party?
00:21:19.860 So, yeah,
00:21:20.680 I'm starting to see
00:21:21.780 a bit more of a revolt
00:21:23.300 than originally
00:21:25.480 six months ago,
00:21:26.880 which is great news
00:21:28.140 because it now shows
00:21:29.180 people really,
00:21:30.380 really do care
00:21:31.080 and they're starting
00:21:31.840 to see it for what it is.
00:21:33.760 Yeah,
00:21:34.200 I think there are
00:21:35.200 a lot of people
00:21:36.040 who,
00:21:37.480 for better or for worse,
00:21:38.800 probably for worse,
00:21:39.680 put their trust
00:21:40.900 in politicians,
00:21:44.260 in public health officials,
00:21:46.120 in the vaccines
00:21:47.140 and while they
00:21:48.160 didn't really have
00:21:49.440 an opinion
00:21:50.260 on the efficacy
00:21:51.040 of the vaccines,
00:21:52.520 they just went
00:21:53.500 and got a vaccine
00:21:54.680 because that was
00:21:56.160 their path to freedom.
00:21:57.820 I guess compliance
00:21:58.680 was their path to freedom
00:21:59.940 when you put it that way.
00:22:02.040 But for them,
00:22:03.140 that's what they saw
00:22:04.280 and now they're
00:22:05.160 double vaccinated
00:22:05.940 and they don't see
00:22:07.300 the freedom.
00:22:07.900 So they did their part
00:22:08.840 but the politicians
00:22:09.580 aren't doing their part
00:22:11.480 and I think there are
00:22:12.640 a lot of people
00:22:13.220 who are being mugged
00:22:14.500 by reality
00:22:15.260 by that fact
00:22:16.220 and I don't know
00:22:17.820 what it's like in the UK
00:22:18.640 but I know here in Canada
00:22:19.800 it's not falling down
00:22:22.040 along party lines.
00:22:23.060 There are people
00:22:23.400 from all over
00:22:24.160 the political spectrum
00:22:25.220 who are saying,
00:22:26.620 I did what they asked me to do.
00:22:29.100 They're not holding
00:22:29.740 their end of the bargain
00:22:30.760 and so when normally
00:22:32.040 it would be a pro-freedom,
00:22:33.440 pro-conservative issue,
00:22:35.020 it's people from the left
00:22:36.540 and the right
00:22:37.140 who are sort of
00:22:37.800 marching together
00:22:38.520 in the street.
00:22:40.120 Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:41.420 And I think this is
00:22:42.480 the one issue
00:22:43.080 that people from the left
00:22:44.060 and the right
00:22:44.420 are really coming together on.
00:22:46.220 When I go to these protests
00:22:47.400 and speak to the everyday person,
00:22:49.640 most of them
00:22:50.560 are just either,
00:22:52.600 they were Labour voters
00:22:53.520 or Conservative voters
00:22:54.920 that have revolted
00:22:55.900 and it's the one issue
00:22:58.040 that people are now
00:22:58.980 feeling so passionate about
00:23:00.300 is their own civil liberties
00:23:01.660 and I think that's
00:23:02.720 extremely important.
00:23:05.540 I mean,
00:23:06.000 you do get the odd bunch
00:23:07.560 that are, you know,
00:23:08.300 revolutionaries,
00:23:09.220 let's take down the system
00:23:10.540 and then you ask them,
00:23:11.480 well, what's the replacement
00:23:12.380 and they don't have the answer.
00:23:14.020 Classic, right?
00:23:15.620 And of course,
00:23:16.500 you've got people
00:23:17.020 on the right as well
00:23:18.480 where they might want
00:23:19.860 to cause trouble
00:23:20.560 but this is normal
00:23:22.440 with every movement.
00:23:23.880 It's just a case of
00:23:24.800 sticking onto topic
00:23:25.940 and that's fighting
00:23:26.980 the vaccine passports
00:23:28.160 and the mandates
00:23:28.880 and mass non-compliance,
00:23:31.420 I believe,
00:23:31.980 is the only way
00:23:32.820 to get out of this
00:23:33.840 because I don't see
00:23:35.440 any other resolution
00:23:37.000 because the politicians
00:23:38.340 have made up their minds.
00:23:39.820 I think it's now down
00:23:40.660 to the people
00:23:41.360 to decide their own fate.
00:23:44.160 Yeah, I think
00:23:44.580 there comes a point
00:23:45.500 where people have done
00:23:46.540 what you've asked them to do.
00:23:47.940 You didn't do your end
00:23:49.040 of the bargain
00:23:50.180 and people become ungovernable
00:23:52.700 because they see
00:23:54.200 that they see
00:23:55.260 that the rug
00:23:56.000 has really been pulled out
00:23:57.320 from under them
00:23:58.060 and I do find it remarkable
00:24:00.140 that you do have
00:24:01.860 this kaleidoscope
00:24:04.480 of humanity,
00:24:05.380 I guess is the right word,
00:24:07.280 at these protests
00:24:08.480 where you have
00:24:09.300 people from the left,
00:24:10.420 people from the right,
00:24:11.300 people who think
00:24:12.020 crystals cure cancer,
00:24:13.620 people from the religious right,
00:24:15.740 people like staunch,
00:24:17.540 like anti-government libertarians
00:24:19.200 and like the natural
00:24:22.440 health food people.
00:24:23.680 They're all marching
00:24:24.400 in the street together
00:24:25.400 and these are people
00:24:26.220 who would normally
00:24:26.760 cross the street
00:24:27.780 so that they don't have
00:24:29.220 to walk beside each other
00:24:30.480 and yet there are hardly
00:24:32.300 any political leaders
00:24:33.940 who look at that
00:24:34.700 and say,
00:24:35.260 there's a parade
00:24:36.200 that's marching,
00:24:37.300 I should get in front of it
00:24:38.960 and lead it.
00:24:40.680 They're all but absent.
00:24:42.300 It's very strange.
00:24:44.120 It is.
00:24:44.680 It is very strange
00:24:45.820 but this strangeness is good.
00:24:48.940 It's actually healed
00:24:50.600 a lot of the political divide.
00:24:53.820 Obviously, since 2016
00:24:55.420 when Trump was elected
00:24:56.980 in America, for example,
00:24:58.800 I mean, you saw
00:24:59.400 a staunch division
00:25:00.520 between people,
00:25:01.720 left and right,
00:25:02.400 Republicans, Democrats,
00:25:03.900 whoever
00:25:04.280 and now for the first time
00:25:06.740 that it's affecting everyone,
00:25:08.920 everyone's putting that aside
00:25:10.360 and going,
00:25:11.140 no, I'll fight for my fellow man
00:25:12.840 and woman.
00:25:13.780 So it is really,
00:25:15.080 really extraordinary to see
00:25:17.280 and, you know,
00:25:18.200 I've now collated
00:25:19.720 a lot of left-wing followers
00:25:20.920 so they're going to be
00:25:22.160 in a bit of a shock
00:25:22.940 when they find out
00:25:23.640 that I'm actually conservative.
00:25:25.120 So, but, you know,
00:25:26.620 at the end of the day,
00:25:28.520 what the common goal is
00:25:30.140 to eradicate tyranny.
00:25:32.220 That's the main goal,
00:25:33.820 to have more of a say
00:25:35.540 to the people,
00:25:36.260 to get the message out
00:25:37.220 from the people
00:25:37.860 back to the government
00:25:38.680 because debate seems
00:25:40.020 to be dwindling now
00:25:41.320 and the only debate
00:25:42.320 that's happening
00:25:42.940 is between the politicians
00:25:44.800 and not having
00:25:46.100 the people decide it.
00:25:47.780 The last time,
00:25:48.580 the last big thing
00:25:49.500 in the UK
00:25:50.020 that the people
00:25:50.760 had a big discussion
00:25:52.320 on was Brexit
00:25:53.080 and that divided the nation.
00:25:54.720 But now,
00:25:55.780 it's kind of flipped to,
00:25:57.880 well,
00:25:57.980 it's the politicians
00:25:58.760 now versus the people.
00:26:00.420 So,
00:26:01.040 we're going to see
00:26:02.060 an interesting development,
00:26:03.300 that's for sure.
00:26:04.640 Yeah,
00:26:04.800 it's funny,
00:26:05.600 you know,
00:26:06.700 you might get
00:26:07.180 the odd lefty
00:26:08.020 who all of a sudden
00:26:09.520 realizes it's actually
00:26:11.520 the conservatives
00:26:12.180 who are out here
00:26:12.940 fighting for my civil liberties
00:26:14.240 and my human rights
00:26:15.320 while the left
00:26:16.380 likes to paint itself
00:26:17.860 as the side
00:26:19.000 of human rights.
00:26:20.040 And so,
00:26:20.320 when those people
00:26:20.820 come around,
00:26:21.860 I don't want to prejudge
00:26:23.080 their past.
00:26:23.700 I want to get them
00:26:24.280 into the fold
00:26:24.860 when I've been out there
00:26:25.660 proselytizing
00:26:26.580 the good word
00:26:27.400 of small government
00:26:28.680 and leaving everybody alone.
00:26:30.260 Now,
00:26:30.960 Lewis,
00:26:31.540 you have not only
00:26:33.260 been out there
00:26:34.180 telling the stories
00:26:35.340 of the anti-lockdown protests
00:26:37.060 and the anti-vaccine
00:26:38.320 mandate protests,
00:26:39.520 but you're doing something
00:26:40.980 so that people
00:26:41.840 can take tangible action
00:26:43.780 and show the politicians
00:26:46.100 their discontent
00:26:47.260 because we know
00:26:47.960 the mainstream media
00:26:48.840 doesn't really cover
00:26:49.960 these protests fairly.
00:26:51.520 The politicians pretend
00:26:52.660 that the protests
00:26:54.120 really don't exist,
00:26:55.320 but you are going
00:26:56.600 to do something
00:26:57.220 that the politicians
00:26:58.320 cannot ignore.
00:26:59.680 Why don't you tell us
00:27:00.300 about it?
00:27:01.820 Sure.
00:27:02.500 Well,
00:27:02.840 I'm setting up
00:27:03.520 my very first
00:27:04.940 campaign in the UK
00:27:06.420 under Rebel News,
00:27:08.220 so I thank everyone
00:27:09.680 for being a part of this
00:27:10.880 and trying to help me
00:27:11.640 get this started,
00:27:13.160 where we are fighting
00:27:14.620 back against
00:27:15.620 the vaccine passports,
00:27:17.300 the pro-segregation
00:27:18.960 law that has just
00:27:20.560 been passed
00:27:21.100 into the UK
00:27:21.780 with the last country,
00:27:23.340 England,
00:27:23.840 within the United Kingdom
00:27:25.120 to have these
00:27:26.480 passports introduced.
00:27:28.080 And I'm setting up
00:27:29.300 one big petition
00:27:30.760 that if you sign it,
00:27:32.680 my promise is
00:27:33.540 to the people
00:27:34.260 is I will hand
00:27:35.700 deliver these
00:27:37.040 signatures
00:27:37.920 to the Houses
00:27:39.500 of Parliament
00:27:40.000 myself,
00:27:40.640 and I'm just
00:27:42.400 asking for a call
00:27:43.360 to action.
00:27:44.140 I'm sick and tired
00:27:45.420 of watching people
00:27:47.520 sit there and go,
00:27:49.060 well,
00:27:49.420 well,
00:27:49.860 the fight's over,
00:27:50.700 that's it,
00:27:51.400 let's just see
00:27:52.820 what happens,
00:27:53.640 oh,
00:27:53.820 it might be a good idea.
00:27:55.040 No.
00:27:55.620 We've seen that it's
00:27:56.360 not worked in other
00:27:57.200 countries like France,
00:27:58.700 Belgium,
00:27:59.520 et cetera,
00:28:00.020 et cetera.
00:28:00.860 We've seen it's
00:28:02.000 only causing
00:28:02.840 discriminatory divide
00:28:04.280 and that's it.
00:28:05.420 And now I think
00:28:06.280 it's time to take
00:28:07.200 the power,
00:28:08.040 sounds cringe,
00:28:08.980 but take the power
00:28:09.720 back to the people
00:28:10.660 and give them
00:28:12.180 a voice now.
00:28:13.060 So that is my promise.
00:28:14.220 I will hand deliver
00:28:15.280 your signature
00:28:16.520 to the Houses
00:28:17.740 of Parliament.
00:28:19.240 Well,
00:28:19.800 I think that's great
00:28:20.660 because it's a tangible
00:28:21.540 act that politicians
00:28:22.560 can't ignore.
00:28:23.520 When Louis Brackpool
00:28:24.400 walks in there
00:28:25.000 with a big stack
00:28:26.040 of paper
00:28:26.640 and thumps it
00:28:27.780 on the desk,
00:28:28.600 that's hard
00:28:29.720 to ignore
00:28:30.260 and each one
00:28:31.380 of those people
00:28:32.560 who have thrown
00:28:33.620 their name
00:28:34.100 onto your petition,
00:28:35.700 those are people
00:28:36.400 who are willing
00:28:36.900 to put their name
00:28:37.660 to civil liberties
00:28:39.140 of their fellow
00:28:40.160 UK citizens.
00:28:42.400 You know,
00:28:42.860 I'm sure you
00:28:44.300 encounter this too
00:28:46.080 when you're at
00:28:46.480 these anti-lockdown
00:28:47.340 protests.
00:28:47.760 There are plenty
00:28:48.200 of people who say
00:28:48.920 I'm vaccinated
00:28:49.740 but I don't want
00:28:50.800 to be a part
00:28:51.220 of a system
00:28:51.640 of segregation.
00:28:52.880 I don't want
00:28:53.440 to go somewhere
00:28:54.660 where my unvaccinated
00:28:56.180 friend or family
00:28:57.060 cannot go with me
00:28:58.060 and I think
00:28:58.860 that's what's
00:28:59.660 so important
00:29:00.280 is that,
00:29:00.840 as you say,
00:29:01.820 this unites people
00:29:03.180 across vaccination
00:29:04.380 status,
00:29:05.180 across party lines.
00:29:06.460 This is about
00:29:07.020 human rights
00:29:07.640 and anti-discrimination
00:29:08.720 and privacy.
00:29:11.500 Exactly.
00:29:12.520 And, you know,
00:29:13.380 I've always said
00:29:14.040 it's not about
00:29:16.160 the left or the right.
00:29:17.320 That's meaningless now.
00:29:18.380 It's the people
00:29:18.900 versus globalism now.
00:29:20.560 And I've always said
00:29:21.840 as well
00:29:22.380 that it's not
00:29:23.420 the unvaccinated
00:29:24.320 versus the vaccinators.
00:29:25.360 You can be
00:29:26.500 anti-mandates
00:29:27.520 and anti-segregation.
00:29:29.320 You know,
00:29:29.500 it's about choice.
00:29:31.140 That's the main thing.
00:29:32.140 It's about the freedom
00:29:32.980 of bodily autonomy
00:29:34.620 and choice.
00:29:36.080 And that's what's
00:29:36.960 extremely important.
00:29:38.640 And our free speech
00:29:40.120 laws suck
00:29:41.220 as it is
00:29:42.040 in the UK.
00:29:43.460 They're dwindling.
00:29:44.420 They've been dwindling
00:29:45.160 since the early 2000s
00:29:46.580 and it's got worse.
00:29:48.280 So,
00:29:48.720 now is the time
00:29:50.180 really to step up
00:29:51.280 and try and show
00:29:52.400 that the people
00:29:53.200 have more power
00:29:53.980 than they think.
00:29:55.440 Now,
00:29:56.120 if someone would like
00:29:57.780 to sign your petition,
00:29:59.080 where do they go?
00:30:01.260 So,
00:30:02.380 you can visit.
00:30:05.260 We had a bit of trouble,
00:30:06.540 didn't we,
00:30:06.880 with the link
00:30:07.480 recently
00:30:08.520 because,
00:30:09.220 unfortunately,
00:30:10.120 they've blocked
00:30:11.460 the
00:30:12.180 Fight Vaccine Passports UK
00:30:15.380 or .co.uk.
00:30:17.480 They've unfortunately
00:30:18.240 blocked that.
00:30:19.640 So,
00:30:20.000 the new link
00:30:21.080 is about to be
00:30:22.280 discovered.
00:30:23.520 So,
00:30:24.020 that will be
00:30:24.720 soon.
00:30:25.680 I'm sure
00:30:26.060 we'll get a banner
00:30:26.840 across there.
00:30:28.200 I'll have that
00:30:28.800 all over my social media
00:30:30.220 in my bios
00:30:31.180 and everything
00:30:31.960 so you can easily
00:30:32.940 access that
00:30:33.940 and you'll see
00:30:34.780 in this video
00:30:35.640 a bumper
00:30:37.000 with where you need
00:30:38.560 to go
00:30:39.000 because,
00:30:39.760 unfortunately,
00:30:40.360 I don't know
00:30:41.360 that link yet.
00:30:42.120 Yeah,
00:30:42.980 we've had some
00:30:43.780 problems
00:30:45.060 across the world
00:30:46.260 actually
00:30:46.780 with companies
00:30:48.460 blocking access
00:30:49.500 to our petitions
00:30:50.460 but tentatively
00:30:51.580 this was at
00:30:52.380 fightvaccinepassports.co.uk
00:30:55.440 and hopefully
00:30:56.420 it stays there
00:30:57.340 because we want
00:30:58.660 to make this
00:30:59.080 one of our
00:30:59.560 largest petitions ever.
00:31:00.860 You're standing up
00:31:01.700 for the rights
00:31:02.920 of your fellow
00:31:04.280 British citizens
00:31:05.420 to be able
00:31:06.240 to be free
00:31:06.880 to go
00:31:07.380 and live their lives
00:31:08.280 as normally
00:31:09.140 as possible.
00:31:09.760 Louis,
00:31:10.120 thank you so much
00:31:10.940 for the hard work
00:31:12.000 that you're doing
00:31:12.560 over in the UK
00:31:13.280 and thank you
00:31:14.100 for all your hard work
00:31:15.340 for the team
00:31:16.260 since joining it
00:31:17.020 this year.
00:31:17.500 I'm so glad you did
00:31:18.360 because the UK
00:31:19.360 is a big place
00:31:20.100 with a lot of problems.
00:31:22.460 Thank you very much,
00:31:23.540 Sheila.
00:31:23.760 I really appreciate
00:31:24.460 you having me on as well.
00:31:25.680 Thank you.
00:31:26.640 Thanks, Louis.
00:31:33.540 Huh?
00:31:34.740 Look around.
00:31:35.520 I hit my car.
00:31:36.520 Yeah,
00:31:37.300 you'd like to see that.
00:31:38.600 I wouldn't like to see that.
00:31:39.760 It means a lot
00:31:42.100 of paperwork
00:31:42.520 for me.
00:31:43.300 Yeah.
00:31:46.120 I don't know.
00:31:46.600 Stay back.
00:31:47.220 Stay back.
00:31:49.140 Stay back.
00:31:49.980 Stay back.
00:31:50.620 What are you doing?
00:31:51.660 Get off me.
00:31:53.200 Hey, I can...
00:31:55.520 Move.
00:31:55.900 Hey, this is assault.
00:31:57.240 Move.
00:31:57.840 I'm on a side...
00:31:58.940 Move.
00:31:59.160 I'm on a sidewalk.
00:32:02.720 I'm on a sidewalk.
00:32:06.160 What is this?
00:32:07.340 You cannot touch me.
00:32:08.840 You're not rushing or working.
00:32:11.180 Hey.
00:32:13.260 I'm like...
00:32:13.920 Are you kidding?
00:32:16.580 Are you kidding?
00:32:17.580 Let's go of me.
00:32:19.700 What is this?
00:32:22.180 You can't...
00:32:22.980 Am I under arrest?
00:32:24.120 Am I under arrest?
00:32:26.880 Am I under arrest?
00:32:28.540 Because otherwise you have no right.
00:32:30.200 Oh my...
00:32:32.200 I'm out of my side.
00:32:35.540 Huh?
00:32:39.460 What's that?
00:32:40.100 I'm under arrest.
00:32:41.300 I'm under arrest.
00:32:41.440 I'm under arrest.
00:32:43.860 I'm under arrest.
00:32:44.360 I'm under arrest.
00:32:45.100 I'm under arrest.
00:32:45.720 Thanks.
00:32:47.260 Huh?
00:32:48.620 Wow.
00:32:51.500 Get off of me.
00:32:52.620 Guys, relax.
00:32:54.440 Get off of me.
00:32:55.480 Bye.
00:32:56.440 As David Menzies says,
00:32:57.920 letters, letters, letters,
00:32:58.940 we get your letters,
00:32:59.840 and boy,
00:33:00.240 do we ever get your letters.
00:33:01.460 All day, all night,
00:33:02.400 viewer feedback,
00:33:03.200 tips and story ideas.
00:33:04.540 Now, I do my best to read them,
00:33:06.140 though I may not always respond.
00:33:07.860 Now, this week I got a letter
00:33:09.260 that I am very glad to have received
00:33:11.900 and to be able to read
00:33:13.020 from a lady named Bonnie,
00:33:15.340 originally from Alberta's Lakeland region.
00:33:18.240 Now, some of you may know
00:33:19.160 that David Menzies spent some of his time
00:33:21.440 as a young cub reporter
00:33:23.080 out there in the Lakeland area
00:33:25.400 near Bonnieville, Smoky Lake,
00:33:27.040 St. Paul, Wabiska.
00:33:28.700 Anyway, David made quite an impact on Bonnie
00:33:31.780 when she was about 10 years old.
00:33:34.000 She even sent me some newspaper clippings
00:33:36.920 of the story David did about her.
00:33:39.340 So, let's read her letter together.
00:33:41.320 Good evening, David.
00:33:42.460 I was again greatly disheartened
00:33:44.000 to see you and Rebel News
00:33:45.440 mistreated recently while reporting.
00:33:47.880 I thought I would share with you
00:33:49.140 how important your work is
00:33:50.620 and has been,
00:33:51.980 including to me personally, I believe.
00:33:54.680 Please find attached
00:33:55.860 two newspaper clippings
00:33:57.420 from way back,
00:33:59.500 from Bonnieville,
00:34:01.300 from about 1983,
00:34:03.340 when I was about 9 or 10 years old
00:34:05.780 at the time where I spent
00:34:07.100 part of my childhood
00:34:08.160 and learned French.
00:34:09.340 If I am not mistaken,
00:34:11.740 you personally covered the story
00:34:13.560 in person
00:34:14.480 of some French class awards
00:34:16.640 from the school
00:34:17.440 that were awarded
00:34:18.240 at the local French cultural center
00:34:20.440 in Bonnieville.
00:34:22.020 I believe I am the little girl
00:34:23.960 in the front row
00:34:25.180 very center in the attached.
00:34:27.720 I remember a tall,
00:34:29.480 red-haired reporter
00:34:30.680 with a great laugh
00:34:32.060 who, despite talking
00:34:33.600 to the adults at the center,
00:34:35.720 actually took the time
00:34:36.920 to talk to me personally
00:34:38.140 and ask me about my trophy
00:34:40.060 and ask me what I got it for
00:34:42.280 when I approached
00:34:43.720 the cookie and juice table.
00:34:45.620 It would be David
00:34:46.300 to be parked by the food,
00:34:47.700 by the way.
00:34:48.420 Anyway, let's carry on.
00:34:50.500 I remember it was
00:34:51.580 a super cold day
00:34:52.800 and you, the reporter,
00:34:54.200 was getting a hot drink
00:34:55.140 to warm up
00:34:55.740 after arriving
00:34:56.640 to cover the story.
00:34:57.560 I remember the reporter
00:34:59.700 being sincerely interested
00:35:01.340 and professional
00:35:02.700 on the job about it.
00:35:04.700 That interaction
00:35:05.500 with the reporter
00:35:06.160 was the first time
00:35:07.180 I realized
00:35:07.880 that something I did
00:35:09.220 or work I put in
00:35:10.880 could matter to the media,
00:35:13.020 actually make the news,
00:35:14.660 and maybe even be important
00:35:16.380 or of interest
00:35:17.220 to the whole community.
00:35:19.060 The trophy is gone
00:35:20.380 and the quality of my French
00:35:21.620 has varied greatly
00:35:22.460 over the years,
00:35:23.360 but I have kept
00:35:24.300 these clippings
00:35:25.220 all these years
00:35:26.500 despite many, many moves
00:35:28.100 for school and work
00:35:29.320 and my own children
00:35:30.220 having gone through school
00:35:31.460 in between
00:35:32.040 because they still remind me
00:35:33.920 of how special
00:35:34.680 the reporter in particular
00:35:36.040 made the day
00:35:37.180 for me personally.
00:35:38.820 The excitement
00:35:39.400 among my friends
00:35:40.820 of the media
00:35:41.820 covering the story
00:35:42.860 and because the clippings
00:35:44.420 remind me
00:35:45.300 of that feeling
00:35:46.140 of accomplishment
00:35:46.960 and spark
00:35:47.960 of future potential
00:35:49.240 if I kept trying.
00:35:51.280 I have made the news
00:35:52.800 over the years,
00:35:53.760 but this remains
00:35:54.900 one of my favorites
00:35:56.380 still.
00:35:57.580 Years later,
00:35:58.540 watching Rebel News,
00:35:59.900 you and Sheila
00:36:00.480 were talking about
00:36:01.360 your time
00:36:01.880 as a young reporter
00:36:02.760 in Bonneville
00:36:03.480 and I was delighted
00:36:05.160 at the potential connection
00:36:06.560 to such a great memory.
00:36:08.520 Whether or not
00:36:09.260 it was you
00:36:09.820 who was the reporter
00:36:10.740 at the time,
00:36:11.340 though I think
00:36:11.820 you might have been him
00:36:13.060 if memory serves,
00:36:14.600 I came away
00:36:15.340 with the knowledge
00:36:15.920 that media matters,
00:36:17.580 sincere reporting matters,
00:36:19.180 and media community connection
00:36:21.660 most certainly matters.
00:36:23.140 Your reporting matters today.
00:36:25.920 Thank you for all you do
00:36:27.780 and for all that Rebel News does.
00:36:30.400 Bonnie
00:36:30.880 This is a really good reminder
00:36:33.060 to me as a journalist,
00:36:34.140 but to the journalists
00:36:35.000 I work with
00:36:35.620 and to everybody,
00:36:36.560 I think,
00:36:37.080 that every interaction
00:36:38.400 we have with people
00:36:39.200 is something that
00:36:39.880 they will remember
00:36:40.820 and that's why
00:36:41.960 it's so important
00:36:42.600 to get those interactions right
00:36:44.020 and to treat people
00:36:45.280 with fairness
00:36:45.900 and dignity
00:36:46.720 and with respect.
00:36:48.300 They might just remember
00:36:49.380 you decades later
00:36:50.360 for the decent human being
00:36:51.780 that you are,
00:36:53.280 just like Bonnie
00:36:54.300 remembered David Menzies
00:36:55.880 for the man he is.
00:36:57.500 Well, everybody,
00:36:58.380 that's the show for tonight.
00:36:59.380 Thank you so much
00:37:00.080 for tuning in.
00:37:00.860 Happy New Year.
00:37:02.200 Like I said,
00:37:02.960 David should be back
00:37:03.900 in the big chair
00:37:04.560 in the new year
00:37:05.540 and I sincerely thank
00:37:07.940 all of you
00:37:08.340 for your concern
00:37:09.080 and notes about David
00:37:10.160 that you've CC'd me on.
00:37:11.780 They really do warm my heart.
00:37:13.540 Now,
00:37:13.900 as David Menzies says,
00:37:15.060 and I could be getting this wrong
00:37:16.120 because I did get it wrong
00:37:17.320 two weeks ago,
00:37:18.860 without risk,
00:37:20.160 there can be no glory.
00:37:21.780 We'll see you next time.