EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can you trust the police？
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Can you trust the police? It's a question that has been on everyone's mind lately, and it's not even a question about whether or not the police are good cops. It's about whether we can trust them to do the job they're supposed to do.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I ask a question. Can we trust the police? And it's not even a question
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about lockdown police. It's about politicized police. We see it in the States. I'll tell you
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about an FBI plot to kidnap a Democratic governor and blame right-wingers for it. Sounds crazy.
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Do we have that in Canada, too? I'll take you through some of the facts I know.
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Tonight, can you trust the police? It's July 21st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I said it the other day. I always want to think of police as the heroes that I always thought
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they were. The dozens of police, along with hundreds of firefighters who ran towards danger
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on 9-11, for example, running into a burning building that later collapsed on them, killing
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them and thousands of others. I want to think of police as selfless heroes who put themselves
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in danger every day to keep the rest of us safe, the ones who have to deal with the bad
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people. They're the sheepdogs who protect the innocent and guard the sheep against the
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wolves. That's how I thought of police for the longest time, most of my life. And I always
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felt a sense of solidarity, frankly, whenever I would even just see a cop. I'd always just
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sort of say hi or nod my head or give them a thumbs up just to let them know that I know
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that they're serving us even if they face ingratitude elsewhere. And even as a journalist,
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how many times have I done stories of police who were wrongly smeared by guilty people who
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made up lies about how the police acted, who lied about police being, for example, violent
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or racist. And those accusations would go around the world. And only later would the body cam or
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dash cam footage come out showing the truth that the cops were actually exemplary. It was a big lie
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by the suspects. Done a lot of videos of those. In a way, that's been a subtext of the whole Black
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Lives Matter narrative that all cops are evil, all cops are racist, all cops are violent, even the black
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cops. And that one cop who gets it wrong is an indictment of every cop. Antifa makes that one
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of their slogans. You know, you might see the graffiti ACAB that stands for the smear, all cops are
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bastards. That's not true. But that's the denormalization of police by the left, followed by
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the submissiveness. That's a denormal of the police from within. I hate seeing police in uniform bow to
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anyone because it's not them as individuals who's bowing, but them as representatives of the entire
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police force, of all authority, bending down towards those who actually use or threaten violence.
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You know, Canadians only bow to the Queen, really. And Americans ought to bow to no one. They're not
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a kingdom. But how many cops bow to Antifa? Too many. They're under attack from within and from
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without. That was me for decades, for decades. But I have difficulty now because police have allowed
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themselves to become errand boys for lockdownism, mask rules, social distancing rules, all of them
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stupid, all of them unscientific, all of them subjective, none of them followed by the people
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in power who issue those rules. Here are cops in Alberta taking down a Christian pastor in the middle
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of a street, in the middle of a highway like he's a terrorist. Get on your knees, hands above your
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head, in the middle of a busy road. Here's the same politicians who ordered that hit on him,
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breaking their own rules at the Sky Palace, Secret Lounge in Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, everywhere,
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anywhere. It's all stupider than the next. Here's some violence against our reporters merely for covering
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So yeah, I wish our police did more policing and less abusing of civil liberties. When Los Angeles
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made a bizarre announcement that they're going to start re-implementing mask rules, even for
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vaccinated people, just weird rules all around, made up, pure political muscle flexing, no science,
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the LA sheriff put out a statement saying, yeah, no, not going to enforce that. I've seen that from
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some different US police chiefs. They don't jump up and take orders just from any old politician who
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has a fever dream or issue some tweet. They don't just do that. That's not why they went to the
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police academy in Canada. Most police just say, sure. In fact, I've never seen one not. Now, I'm not
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here to talk about more lockdown bullying by police. We've already covered that. I'm worried it's making
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a comeback in both the UK and Australia. Did you see this?
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Good evening. Within hours, Sydney will be in the grip of much tougher restrictions. The Premier
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clamping down on the stubborn Delta outbreak with what she's calling a no regrets policy. And this is
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why. From a record 82,000 tests, the state today recorded 111 cases and tragically the third COVID
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death in this outbreak, a man aged in his 80s from the city's southeast. Across Greater Sydney, retail
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shops will now close. A small list of essential stores can remain open. Construction sites across
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the city shut down. And from midnight tonight, 110 suburbs across Liverpool, Fairfield and Canterbury
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Bankstown will be sealed shut. That's 900,000 residents who can't leave their area, even for work.
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Yeah, get ready for extreme police enforcement of that insanity. Three people have died on the entire
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Australian continent this year, and they're locking it down. That's not going to go well. Here's Boris
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Johnson announcing mandatory vaccinations just for living life.
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I should serve notice now that by the end of September, when all over 18s will have had their
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chance to be double jabbed, we're planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs
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and other venues where large crowds gather. Proof of a negative test will no longer be an hour.
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Yeah, how are you going to enforce that, mate? How many police are you willing to deploy for that?
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How many skulls are you going to crack for that? We'll talk with Calvin Robinson today about that.
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France said they're vaccine passporting the whole place. Look at the protests. Greece, too.
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The police on the continent are used to being bullies. There's a bit of a fascist and communist
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history to both of those countries. You're going to see some violence. Who went to the police academy
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to do that violence over politics? Don't answer. Maybe some did. But I don't want to talk about
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lockdown policing right now. Talked about that 50 times this past year. I want to talk about something
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scarier. Police getting into the political business, the censorship business, the political
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errands business, the shutting up the opposition business. I've told you about Bill C-36, Trudeau's
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extreme censorship bill introduced in the dying hours of Parliament. The one that revised the hate
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speech provision of the Human Rights Act, but also adds darker elements that weren't there before, like the
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right to make secret complaints to the Human Rights Commission, to have a chance to be a secret
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witness against someone for a hate speech complaint. Secret trials. That's not a Canadian thing. It will
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be under C-36. $50,000 fines for a mean tweet. $20,000 bounties paid to the hate crime complainants,
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even if they're secret. And the ability to go to court to get an anti-hate bond against someone who
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hasn't committed any crime yet, hasn't been charged yet, hasn't done anything yet, haven't been arrested
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yet. But you can now, under C-36, convince a court to give you a sort of peace bond against them,
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getting them under house arrest, limiting their freedoms, forcing them to wear an electronic
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tracker, forcing them to give bodily fluid samples, just because you're afraid of them. I'm serious.
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Read the law at stopc36.com if you want to see the bill for yourself. So I'm worried about that.
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Lockdowns are one thing, but imagine police hunting you down for hurt feelings crimes.
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Well, some police are imagining that themselves, and they're getting pretty excited about him.
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Here's a story in Black Locks. Censorship Bill Useful, RCMP. A federal censorship bill will be
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useful in prosecuting bloggers and Facebook subscribers. An RCMP specialist said last night,
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Bill C-36 will see more things through the charges, a webinar was told. It's a story from Black Locks.
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It's about a webinar put on by a liberal-funded attack group called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,
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very ironically named. They themselves are quite hateful. They put on a conference about how to
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use laws like this to attack conservatives online. And then Mountie actually participated.
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I didn't know cops were allowed to be political. That's really weird. Actually, I have come to know
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that, haven't we all? Here's what that cop said. Law enforcement has to have the ability to use the
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law effectively. Really? So you're a politician now. You want to write the laws. In Canada,
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we don't have anything regulating speech. Really? You don't? Under Section 2 of our
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Charter of Rights and Freedoms, our freedom of expression is protected. So there is no such
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thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression? What? You have an RCMP cop who says
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we don't have freedom of speech in Canada? Are you nuts? Has this cop ever even looked at the
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charter? Section 2b? Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of
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the press and other media of communication that obviously includes speech and every other way of
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expressing ideas. What a weird liar that cop is. A liar or stupid or evil or just ill-informed. I don't
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know. But he's the boss. He's the hate cop who's excited about using this law to get bloggers because
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he thinks we don't have freedom of speech in Canada. Because that's the crime wave we have.
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Really? Is that the big problem in Canada right now? We have 48 churches burnt or vandalized.
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But this Mountie's excited about locking up people for Facebook posts. By the way, if you go to the
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Supreme Court of Canada website, which I encourage this cop to do, and search their rulings, which you
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can do online, the phrase free speech is there in 60 different Supreme Court rulings. 60 times the
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Supreme Court used the phrase free speech, and another 67 times the phrase freedom of speech. So
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127 times the Supreme Court itself. What a bizarre cop that Trudeau Mountie is, isn't he? Saying there's
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no free speech in Canada. Yeah, tell that to the Supreme Court, you wicked liar. Are you ready for a
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politically weaponized RCMP? That's where we're going. Trudeau's hand-picked commissioner, Brenda
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Lucky, refuses to say a word about the burnt churches. Just Trudeau doesn't want her to. Then
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again, she refused to look into the facts of Trudeau himself, interfering in the SNC-Lavalin
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corruption case, and the firing of Jody Wilson-Raybould by Trudeau, because she was getting in his way.
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Because again, Brenda Lucky is Trudeau's girl, and she's loyal to her man. But look at this news out
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of Michigan. Here's a story from October. Remember that story a few months back about how right-wingers
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were planning to capture and kidnap the governor of Michigan who just happened to be Democrat.
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Huge story. Dropped right before the election. Boy, did the media love that story. Right-wingers,
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Trump guys, planning to kidnap an outspoken critic of Trump. Oh, and the timing. Less than a month
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before the election message received. But look now. It's almost a year later. So the truth comes
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out now, and that bell can't be unrung. The election happened. That plot to kidnap the Democratic
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governor, it was almost completely FBI undercover agents and informants. Don't take that from me.
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I'm a conservative in Canada. What do I know? Take it from a liberal American news site called
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BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed hates Trump, but they actually told the truth here. It's a long story.
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But let me read to you the part about the role of the 12 undercover cops who were in on the project.
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Let me read the money quote. An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some
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of those informants acting under the direction of the FBI played a far larger role than has previously
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been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions
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of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its
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inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been
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a conspiracy without them. A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped
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organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one
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another. And the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant
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even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come. The Iraq war vet, for his part,
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became so deeply enmeshed in a Michigan militant group that he rose to become its second in command,
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encouraging members to collaborate with other potential suspects and paying for their transportation to meetings.
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He prodded the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to advance his plan, then baited the trap that led
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to his arrest. Oh, so so they came up with the idea. They funded it. They arranged it. They organized it.
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They pushed forward. They went around the country. They were the number two guy in the spot. The FBI did that.
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Why is there is there not enough real crime in America that needs to be fought? Imagine the effort here,
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the millions of dollars, the thousands of hours, the number of staff. Why? I put it to you, it was a
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political stunt to prove the threat of right wingers, domestic violence extremists on the right.
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That's America these days. That's the disgraced FBI. The same people who set up General Michael Flynn
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filed false affidavits against Donald Trump to spy on him. James Comey, the liar. The FBI setting up
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crimes for a political payoff for their left wing masters. Hey, do you doubt that's coming to Canada
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or that it's already here? By the way, who's torching and vandalizing churches across Canada?
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48 of them now. You'd think we would have caught someone by now. Weird how quiet the RCMP is now.
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I'm sure Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's commissioner, is upholding the law. I'm sure we're fine. I'm sure
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we're in the best of hands. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. Well, of course, the lockdown in Canada is still in effect. For example,
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at the border, you can't come into Canada from the United States without hiding in your home for
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two full weeks. Of course, Toronto finally, after more than a year, released its restaurants for
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the first time. Toronto, the most locked down city in the world, according to the BBC. And they love
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that. But let me tell you, as someone who lives it, it's not a nice thing. I see Australia is lurching
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back into lockdowns over the most trivial caseload. I think a grand total of three people have passed
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away on that entire continent in 2021. And yet millions are having their lives restricted. But
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how about the United Kingdom? They're one of the most vaxxed countries in the world, at least most
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vaxxed large countries. They were under a lockdown led by Boris Johnson, nominally a conservative.
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They talked about Freedom Day, where they would be released from it. Did it actually happen? Well,
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one of our favorite people in the UK is Calvin Robinson. He's a commentator in many places,
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but my new favorite place to catch him is on the new channel, GB News. And Calvin joins us now via
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Skype. Calvin, great to see you again. Welcome back to the show. Ezra, I love coming on this show. So
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thank you for the invitation. Well, the feeling's mutual. And I love seeing you on GB News. What a great
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new project. I wish you good luck with that. I see that Nigel Farage has a new four times a week show
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there. He's a controversial and thoughtful character. I think you guys are doing great
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things. I sort of wish we had that here. But let me ask you about Freedom Day. That was the name
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given to the day where most of the lockdown was going to be lifted. Freedom Day was actually delayed
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a month, wasn't it? It was. First of all, it was delayed a month after saying that it would not be
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changed. And then when they delayed it, they said, you know what, we're sticking to data, not dates. So
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it's important for us to check the data. And when they talk about data, they obviously talk about
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case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths. But the hospitalizations and the deaths were going down.
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In fact, we've got record low deaths in this country at the moment. But that continued to
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be a downward curve. And the date was not changed. It wasn't brought forward. So they pushed it back
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a month. And we came to Freedom Day, which was last week, the 19th of July. And on Freedom Day,
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we think, OK, fantastic. We get our civil liberties back. We can live our normal lives again. We can start
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live with this virus instead of it dictating our lives, instead of government micromanaging every
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aspect of our lives. And what happens that very evening on Freedom Day, the Prime Minister of the
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United Kingdom gets onto his platform and says that from September, we're going to introduce vaccine
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passports. So he essentially said that anyone over the age of 18 has now had the opportunity to be
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vaccinated. And if you haven't chosen to take that vaccination, you will have certain aspects of
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your life limited. It's going to start with large venues and nightclubs. But I suspect it won't end
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there, will it? This has been the plan all along to introduce these vaccine passports, which they've
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denied at every step of the way. The health minister's denied it. A number of ministers have
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denied it, as well as the prime minister. They've all said there is no plan for vaccine passports. And
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here we see they are introducing it. But no less than that, they introduced it on Freedom Day,
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which I think is wicked. It's showing people that carriage and snatching it away and giving them
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a stick instead. It's like torture. Every chance of hope you get is taken away from you at the very
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last minute. You know, every time we think we're free again, the government's there to remind us,
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no, you're not free. We have your liberties and we're not giving them back to you. There's going
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to come a point where the British people have to stand up and take our liberties back because the
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government aren't giving them back by choice. I ask the same about Canada and frankly, Australia all
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the time. I want to show you a quick video montage of the prime minister and other British
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cabinet ministers swearing on a stack of Bibles that they would never bring in a vaccine passport.
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And the reason I show you this, I mean, it won't surprise you that politicians break their promises.
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But when it comes to things about the lockdown, the pandemic, vaccines, the virus, trust is such a
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precious commodity. And to break promises and to be a brazen liar isn't just a normal political
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collateral damage. How can you trust someone who lies about Freedom Day and lies about data?
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How can you trust them to tell the truth about things that people are really worried about?
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Like, are there side effects to the vaccine? Should we vaccine people under 18?
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And those are real questions that people honestly want to know the answer to.
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But if the political class so brazenly fibs, how can you trust them? Here's a montage of British
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politicians saying there will never be vaccine passports.
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The prime minister of Greece has said that he would welcome people to come on holiday in Greece,
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but they will have to have some kind of vaccine passport to show they've been vaccinated first.
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Is that something that the British government is looking at? The idea of a vaccine passport specifically
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to allow people to come and go in the months ahead?
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What I don't think we will have in this country is, as it were, vaccination passports.
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So there you go. I mean, it's no surprise that politicians are liars.
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One of the things that puzzles me, Calvin, in Canada, and I think it applies to the UK also,
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is why the opposition party doesn't really oppose. In Canada, federally and in all
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10 provinces, both the governments and the opposition support the lockdown. It's not
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that way in America. You have a real political split. It seems to me like in the UK, the Labour
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Party, led by Keir Starmer, who used to be a civil rights lawyer, he really doesn't have
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a fundamental disagreement with the lockdown, does he?
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No, it really troubles me. I don't understand his stance. So all throughout the lockdown,
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he's been pushing for harder and longer lockdowns, tougher restrictions. So he's not been in opposition
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to the government. And that's what we need in a time like this. We need questions to be asked
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about whether this is a suitable restriction, whether it actually has an impact or whether
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it's just authoritarian measures. We need an opposition that holds the government to account.
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He hasn't been that. I was quite optimistic today when I saw that the Labour Party were going to oppose
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the government on this. And it seems they're already making a U-turn. But even when they were
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going to oppose these vaccine passports, their stance was, a Labour spokesman said,
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making people show proof of COVID jabs for everyday access to venues was costly, open to fraud,
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and impractical. So even when they oppose it, they can't oppose it for the sake of freedom or
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civil liberties. It's got to be, oh, it's not cost effective, or it's not practical. Come on,
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where is their sense of principle? It's disgusting. And I think they flip-flopped back and forth so
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many times at this point. No one's going to trust the opposition. No one trusts the government. We
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need a party, or we need to refresh our system. We need someone to stand up for the British people,
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not just the British people, you're right, America and Canada too, to stand up for people's civil
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liberties. But what is going on when all of these parties, all of these governments are all singing
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from the same hymn sheet? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there's something deeper at play here.
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If they're all pushing the same party line, what is the agenda? Has it been COVID passports all
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along? Has it been digital IDs all along? Is it a form of control? Is it this new world order,
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so to speak, of the great reset to hashtag build back better? Is it the Davos World Economic Forum?
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Is it that you will own nothing, but you will be happy? I don't know, but it's raising a lot of
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questions. And all this comes from mistrust. If the government could be transparent and open with us,
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and it could share the data and act on the data, and it could be actual, you know, human beings with
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passion and compassion and protecting our freedoms, which is the government's first and most fundamental
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job. If they did all of those things, they'd have more people on board, but they don't. And I'm at a
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loss. I'm really, I'm at a loss at what to do, what to believe and who to trust.
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Yeah. You know, in the United States, I often refer to the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis,
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because he was most clearly a skeptic fairly early about lockdownism. And he got a lot of flack
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from the opposition, of course, but also the media and the public health establishment.
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And for a while there, it looked like he might be wobbled, but it's really paid off and he's got
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bolder and bolder. And my point is he actually showed leadership. He stepped in when it wasn't
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a sure thing it would be successful. Now he's one of the most popular governors in America,
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one of the most successful economically, the health stats. And so I often say that if you just
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tried, if you just had someone try, build it and they will come. I know Lawrence Fox has started the
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reclaim party, reclaim your freedoms, reclaim how things were in the UK. He ran for mayor and he
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didn't break into the double digits, but at least he sort of held up a lightning rod.
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Nigel Farage is with you at GB News. Do you think there is a political alternative in the UK
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that would be freedom oriented? I know that, you know, Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Pierce Corbyn,
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is a lockdown skeptic. So there are people across the political spectrum who don't like this civil
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liberties violation. Your friend Lawrence Fox is trying it. Nigel's tied up. Is there any hope that
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the freedom movement will coalesce around someone who's got a real chance like Ron DeSantis did in
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Florida? Perhaps. I mean, Lawrence Fox's reclaim party are doing great things, fighting for freedom.
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They just launched a report, actually. People should look into this report. It's fantastic.
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Saying that we need a bill of law in this country to protect our freedom of speech like America has
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with their amendments. We don't have anything like that over here. But there's also the reform party,
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which Richard Tice is running now, which was Nigel Farage's Brexit party prior to that.
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And the two are working very closely together, which is great to see. So there is some cooperation
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there, but they're not mainstream parties. So they can have an impact. They can, you know,
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nudge the government in the right direction, but they can't really take government. And that's the
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problem with our two-party system. Either vote for the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. You can
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vote for the fringe parties, but they're never going to be in power. There's more a protest
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or a challenge. And that's the issue. We need to break down this two-party system somehow
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if it's not working. It's like the issue with China. When this pandemic first launched,
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people were saying, is this, you know, a lab experiment or was it a lab accident? And those
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questions were not allowed for so long. And now it's come to pass that actually it probably was
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a lab leak from Wuhan. And now we're able to, you know, Donald Trump was one of the first to raise
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this when he said, you know, this is the China virus. And people were like, oh, that's racist.
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You can't. But now we're getting to the point over a year later, nearly 18 months later,
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that we can actually have the conversation. So we need our politicians to be more open about
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this. And if the mainstream ones won't do it, the fringe ones will have to, and they'll have
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to get a platform. And you're quite right that, you know, Nigel Farage is on GB News now. So he has a
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much better platform for this kind of thing. So hopefully he'll challenge it some more.
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I will continue to raise it whenever I get the chance, but it would be great to see someone in the
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mainstream do so too. Yeah. Well, listen, we sure are watching with great interest because
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although we're across an ocean from you, I think a lot of things that happen in the UK today
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come to Canada tomorrow, especially with lockdownism. I'm terrified that vaccine passports
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will make their way here too. Calvin, it's great to see you. Congratulations again. I love watching
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you on GB News and I encourage all my Canadian friends to download the app. It's a free app,
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so why not do it? And listen, keep up the great work. Thanks for visiting us. And I wish all the
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best for the UK. Hopefully Freedom Day will actually be the beginning of a liberation and
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not the, not yet another false hope dangled in front of the people. Take care of my friend
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and thanks for being here. Thank you, Ezra. God bless.
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Right on you too. There you have a Calvin Robinson, a commentator and, and I see him quite often
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Hey, welcome back. Alexandra, right? So when are the anti-Christian hate laws coming and the anti-Semitic
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hate laws and the anti-Buddhist hate laws, et cetera? Well, look, there are lots of anti-hate laws on the
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books already. The question is who's going to action them against whom? As far as I know,
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in the 40 year, 50 year history of these hate crimes laws in one version or another, not a single radical
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Islamic extremist or terrorist has ever been charged. No extremists from some of the Tamil Tigers groups or
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some of the more militant Sikh groups. Just never. I think anyone could be guilty of a hate crime it's
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defined so vaguely. So it's just whoever the politicians want to charge. Jeff writes,
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Islam isn't a race. It's an ideology and completely open to criticism. This is the problem with hate
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laws, period, as who gets to define what hate speech is? Well, I think any ism, any ideology,
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theology, religion, philosophy, creed ought to be criticizable. And in fact, I think people who
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want to do that more than most would be Muslims themselves. I mean, think about criticism of
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Christianity. I think it most commonly comes from Christians who have questions about their own
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faith or criticisms. I think it's the Reformation, so many internal debates within Christianity.
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Are you banning that? That's what I'm worried about, that anti-Islamophobia won't just be about
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protecting ordinary Muslim people from discrimination. It'll be about stopping political discussion.
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Janine writes, we need more politicians like Derek Sloan. Yeah, I really like Derek Sloan. I have to be
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candid. I don't think he's going to win in the upcoming election. He only won his riding by, I think,
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four or five percent. And now it's going to be split even more ways. I like the fact that he's talking
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to people and other political entities about a slate, but that's not really a thing. It's not
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going to be on a ballot. That's not a group that can issue tax receipts for political donations.
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I'm not quite sure what it means, but I look forward to seeing more from him. I like the guy,
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and I hope he's a success. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us
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here at Rebel World Headquarters, do you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.