Steve Bannon was a conservative thinker and entrepreneur and political advisor. He ran Breitbart.com for a while. Then he was brought in in the 2018 presidential election, about halfway through the campaign, to turn Donald Trump s fortunes around. But for whatever reason, after the election, things didn t work out.
00:00:00.200Hello, my rebels. I saw a video of Steve Bannon, the Republican journalist and political strategist, being frog-marched into a police station to surrender to authorities.
00:00:11.640He was later released, but it made me think, I didn't see any of that during Trump's entire term as president.
00:00:18.320Was he arresting his political rivals, journalistic rivals? No, he debated them every day. He called them names and mean tweets, but did he actually arrest anyone?
00:00:27.160And then there was James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, and he had his house raided and his property seized, and then his secret documents leaked to the New York Times.
00:00:36.860Did that happen under Trump? I'll take you through it, and I'll tell you what else is going on down there.
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00:01:27.260Tonight, are you comfortable with Joe Biden's political rivals being thrown in jail?
00:01:48.120It's November 16th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:51.100I'm telling you right now, this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden.
00:02:19.460Joe Biden ordered Merrick Garland to prosecute me from the White House alone when he got off Marine One.
00:02:26.360And we're going to do, we're going to go on the offense. We're tired of playing defense.
00:02:29.500We're going to go on the offense on this and stand by.
00:02:32.980By the way, by the way, by the way, you should understand, Nancy Pelosi is taking on Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.
00:02:39.080She ought to ask Hillary Clinton how that turned out for them, okay?
00:04:24.520But Bannon, a rare voice on the other side, was never part of an establishment like that.
00:04:31.840Anyways, after Trump lost the election in November 2020, the left had a vengeance that was palpable.
00:04:39.460No healing the country, no pulling together, blamestorming and comeuppance.
00:04:45.420One of the things they focused on was the January 6th political protest of the Capitol building in the United States in Washington where a number of people broke into the building itself and trespassed.
00:05:36.440I don't like trespass and I don't like riots or vandalism.
00:05:41.300The Democrats and their allies seem to.
00:05:44.120They had a whole summer of riots across America in 2020, including in Washington, D.C., Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
00:05:51.560But I noticed that while the Democrats talk about riots and insurrection on January 6th, no one that day has been charged with rioting or insurrection.
00:06:01.600The charges are more on the level of a ticket.
00:06:05.960I saw someone was charged with parading, which sounds about right.
00:06:11.200I have a friend who calls the whole thing the great meandering.
00:06:14.420And then there's the little wrinkle that the whole thing seems to have been provoked by FBI agents egging on participants and Washington police standing down.
00:06:26.580Like this guy, an FBI asset who has never been arrested or charged.
00:06:31.380In fact, tomorrow, I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested.
00:07:44.160But one of the things the Democrats did is they summoned, they subpoenaed Steve Bannon to testify about his role as if a political activist and pundit and reporter is a criminal mastermind of the great meandering.
00:14:46.100I don't want to make fun of people for wearing masks.
00:15:00.800I don't want to make fun of them because they have been instructed to wear masks.
00:15:03.660I do find it a chuckle to see people jogging outdoors with a mask on or riding in a car all by themselves with a mask on.
00:15:12.800And I shouldn't be judgmental because when every doctor says to do that, every politician, every bureaucrat, the entire media says to do that, who are you to think otherwise?
00:15:23.420It is a little odd to me, though, when I see people who are unhealthy in every way.
00:15:29.380For example, there are a lot of people in society who are fat.
00:15:33.180If you eat junk food, if you smoke, if you drink liquor, if you're out of shape, to think that the greatest health risk in your life can be fixed by wearing a mask.
00:15:44.080I think that's what we call a placebo.
00:15:49.920As you know, the vast majority of people who die from the coronavirus virus are people who are overweight and have underlying medical conditions.
00:16:03.120And the reason I say that is because a lot of people who put fitness and personal health at the center of their lives have thought carefully about taking the vaccine and have, after some contemplation and research, decided it's not in their best interest.
00:16:21.860You see this, for example, amongst elite athletes, people who are at extremely low risk from the virus to begin with, and who actually think about what they put in their body and the risks they're willing to take.
00:16:36.040And so it is with, I think, our guest today.
00:16:40.580He is someone for whom physical fitness is a job requirement, and risk management and assessing different threats to him and others is what he does every day.
00:16:49.420At least until he was sacked for refusing to get the jab.
00:16:54.240I refer to Corporal Daniel Balford, who was a specialized RCMP officer, a sniper spotter, who is assigned from time to time to protect no one less than the prime minister himself.
00:17:07.180Via Skype, Corporal Balford, pleasure to have you on the show.
00:17:09.640I can understand why someone living in a long-term care home in their 70s, overweight, underlying conditions, would wear a mask, would take the vax.
00:17:20.740Those are people at risk from this virus.
00:17:23.000You're a healthy man, I'm going to guess, in your 30s.
00:17:54.960I don't have any underlying comorbidities.
00:18:01.320And I've made it a part of my lifestyle ever since probably going back as far back as high school to take fitness, health and fitness seriously.
00:18:14.600I've tried various different fitness regimens, you know, with the goal of constantly trying to improve what I had before.
00:18:23.040So, I don't feel I'm at high risk of the virus.
00:18:28.680I know it can be very serious for some, like you mentioned.
00:18:31.440I don't fall into any of those categories.
00:18:33.500And what I have seen from some of the scientific literature that I've paid attention to from groups like the Canadian COVID Care Alliance and their affiliates,
00:18:45.340it appears that someone like myself and some of the athletes that you mentioned are likely at greater risk of an adverse event from one of the vaccines than we are of severe illness or disease from coronavirus.
00:19:07.340I've looked at some of the adverse events.
00:19:10.420That's a fancy way of saying someone who was injured by the vaccine itself.
00:19:13.540Young men, especially with heart issues, myocarditis, pericarditis, it's so noticeable that many countries around the world, for example, have banned some of these mRNA vaccines from young men.
00:19:32.280And I'm not sure how the science in a place like Iceland or somewhere in Scandinavia is suddenly different than the biological science here in Canada.
00:19:40.360But I think a larger point is I don't think you ought to have to explain yourself for not taking a medical procedure.
00:20:11.140But even if you were wrong, even if you had some theory that just didn't hold water, I just don't think you would have to bloody well explain yourself.
00:20:19.160And yet, is it a fact that your entire department or maybe the RCMP in a whole are firing officers who don't get the jab?
00:20:39.620And for to have your attestation completed, that you have at least one dose of the vaccine if you haven't been fully vaccinated already.
00:20:48.820And so if you have not attested and if you have not provided proof of vaccination by yesterday's date, you're being put on administrative leave without pay.
00:21:00.940They're claiming that it's non-punitive, but obviously that's not the case when you're taking away someone's paycheck.
00:21:09.620So that's the current status of many of the members in my position.
00:21:15.240Now, we've been looking at other working people who have a union, and some of the unions are going along with the employer and refusing to fight this.
00:21:27.300Other unions are showing some courage.
00:21:30.260I don't quite understand the state of unionization in the RCMP, so forgive me for not knowing that.
00:21:39.600Has there been anyone trying to, within the RCMP, within, well, maybe even other police, trying to push back on this?
00:21:48.540Within the RCMP, we have the National Police Federation.
00:21:52.100It's fairly young as far as unions go, like maybe only a few years old.
00:21:59.600You know, that was, the RCMP was non-unionized for the vast majority of its existence until the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that it was unconstitutional for us not to have that representation.
00:22:11.860So our union has not provided any kind of a challenge to the Treasury Board policy that affects all federal public service employees, including the RCMP.
00:22:26.220We've had various correspondence, depending on the member and depending on the union rep.
00:22:36.220But the official response so far has been that there will not be any kind of a charter challenge due to the likelihood of failing at arbitration based on the legal opinion that they received.
00:22:55.120And so really what their support is, is like they're publicly stating their support, our right to choose, but that they will help us navigate the choice, the consequences of our choices.
00:23:08.260So essentially what that seems to mean is they'll help you with trying to seek either a religious or medical exemption, or they'll help you navigate the leave without pay process.
00:23:19.440Huh, so they won't even try fighting because they say they might lose, so we better not fight because we might lose.
00:23:26.640That doesn't sound like a particularly helpful union.
00:23:31.060You know, there's some workplaces where I can understand in my gut why they would be extremely cautious on this.
00:23:39.420Like let's say you worked in a long-term care facility, really close contact with lots of old people who have underlying infirmities.
00:23:47.360Okay, I get it. I mean, I don't know what the science is, but that rings true.
00:23:52.160If you've got a place, you've got to be careful.
00:23:54.360It would be working really close quarters to old folks.
00:23:58.380But, you know, I don't know a lot about snipers and spotters, but you're typically outdoors.
00:24:04.800You're typically a great distance from other people.
00:24:07.380You know, you're out in the sunshine, in the wind.
00:24:11.460The idea that you would have to be jabbed to do that job.
00:24:16.600I mean, the only thing more remote, I think, is if you worked in a lighthouse or something.
00:24:20.640Like you are literally the eagle eye on a high building or a lookout scanning the crowd for threats to the prime minister or other dignitaries.
00:24:30.420The idea that you have to be jabbed to do your job is laughable.
00:24:35.360Like I really, other than like someone who's driving a truck by themselves, I can't think of anyone who's more sort of like a lone ranger.
00:25:03.900You know, I was thinking about the firemen because a bunch of firemen are being fired over this.
00:25:08.660And I don't know a lot about firemen, but I know that I know there's I know one central fact about them.
00:25:14.560They have come to terms with the fact that they may die unnaturally.
00:25:19.000They might they may run into a burning building, which is not a normal human response.
00:25:24.540They run to danger while everyone is running away from danger.
00:25:28.260And one of the things firemen sometimes do is if there's someone who's passed out from smoke or whatever, they literally pick them up and take them out of a burning building.
00:25:53.140And I think that a sniper is probably further away than really close protection for like a personal bodyguard for the prime minister.
00:26:01.340But I would I would imagine that there could be a scenario where you yourself might actually have to face a bullet, God forbid.
00:26:11.340I mean, you're not right there like like his body man.
00:26:14.360But your job involves you making the decision that you would possibly die to fulfill your job.
00:26:23.080And for someone to be so dainty is to say, well, I won't let a fireman come and rescue me from a fire if they're not jabbed or I won't let a bodyguard protect me.
00:26:34.640God forbid from a bullet if they're not if they're not jabbed.
00:26:38.120I don't want to protect me from a bullet like it's such an absurd demand.
00:27:03.720Feel that this is way more about compliance now than it is about public health.
00:27:08.120And when you mentioned the fireman and me as a police officer, you know, the majority of my time, I'm performing a sniper role, but not all the time.
00:27:21.700I have faced many dangerous situations in my career, both during my time in the tactical policing world, but also in my previous,
00:27:34.020like the first six and a half years of my career was all Northern policing up in the Yukon territory.
00:27:42.420So as a first, when I see this current situation that we're in, one of the messages that I would like to get through to people is to kind of appeal to people's humanity
00:27:52.460and to pause and think to themselves, why is it that so many police, paramedics, nurses, firefighters, and even doctors are refusing to take any of these injections
00:28:07.840and are willing to lose their income over it.
00:28:12.300And some of them who have been speaking out since far earlier than I have, you know, risking their entire public reputation, opening themselves up to ridicule and attack.
00:28:23.420Like, like we're not refusing this based on a position of selfishness and only caring about a serious reaction to myself.
00:28:33.260I think overwhelmingly the, the opinions guiding our beliefs, guiding our decision are that if you listen to thousands of scientists in relative fields,
00:28:56.400like virology, immunology, vaccinology, biology, and you listen to physicians who are treating COVID patients,
00:29:05.760many of them critical care, critical care physicians, there is, the science is not settled.
00:29:15.180So when, when I look at that, it's, it's not from a position of selfishness.
00:29:19.040It's, it's from a position of informed decision-making where I have just listened to the official narrative provided by the government, public health, and the mainstream media.
00:29:30.820I have deliberately sought out experts in the relative fields to open myself to the both sides of this argument.
00:29:40.820And I think the, and I think the strongest evidence that the policy decisions are being made on is weak at best.
00:29:54.740And it is not obvious that these are safe or effective.
00:30:00.740Therefore, if I question the effectiveness of their ability to prevent infection and transmission of the disease,
00:30:14.200why would I take the risk of a massive cardiac event or a thrombo, a clotting related event,
00:30:22.280which could permanently disable me, kill me for something that doesn't even,
00:30:28.620that it's not even obvious that it prevents infection or prevent the spread.
00:30:32.220In fact, public health officials around the world have admitted that these do not prevent infection or transmission.
00:30:42.940Ultimately, the goal is to provide you some level of protection from severe illness or disease.
00:30:49.620And that has been confirmed by multiple experts in the scientific and medical community that I have had personal conversations with since I started speaking out publicly.