EZRA LEVANT ｜ I never thought it could happen： Tommy Robinson touches down in Canada
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Our friend and former employee and current activist and journalist Tommy Robinson has arrived in Canada and we re putting on a tour with him. You ll get all the details and more in today s show. Rebel News Plus is the video version of this podcast, available wherever you get your news and information.
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Hello, my friends. Interesting show for you, if I may say so myself.
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Interesting because of what just happened. Tommy Robinson, our friend and former employee and
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current activist and journalist, has arrived in Canada. I didn't think it would be possible.
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And we're putting on a tour with him. You'll get all the details and more in today's show.
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But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber of what we call Rebel News Plus.
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It's the video version of this podcast. And if you want the video version,
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just go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe. It's $8 a month. You get the video version and
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the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting Rebel News because we don't take any money from
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Trudeau and it shows. All right, here's today's broadcast in podcast form.
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Tonight, I never thought it could happen. Tommy Robinson is in Canada and he's going on a
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speaking tour with Rebel News. It's June 18th and this is the...
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I didn't think he could travel here. I don't know what restrictions are on him,
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but I know he's had a lot of challenges with court cases before. But yesterday,
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Tommy Robinson arrived in Canada. Here's a video he filmed with our reporter, Alexa Lavoie,
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who was there to greet him when he landed at Montreal's International Airport.
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I'm in Canada, yeah, where I didn't think I'd get into Canada. And I got in, I haven't even booked
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a hotel. I'm sorting out now. And I'm here and I want to see as many of you as possible. So I'm
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here with Rebel Media and I'm going to be in Calgary June 24th, Edmonton June 25th, Toronto June 30th.
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I'm looking forward to it. Do you know what? It might be the only time I'm ever allowed into Canada,
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yeah? So let's make some noise. Let's make some noise. And it's at Tommy Thor,
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TommyTor.ca. You can go on there, find out all the details, get your tickets. I want to see as
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Well, I think that's great. And he's here for a couple of weeks. He's here because he has some
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scheduled podcast interviews to do. I'll let him announce those on his own timing. But he's got
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some time and he has teamed up with us. It's no surprise. We used to be the company he worked with.
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We're going to put on some speaking events across Canada, Calgary, then Edmonton, then Toronto. And I
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suppose there's a chance we could add a few more, but hopefully those locations are close enough to
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you that if you want to come, you can make it. To find out the details, including the exact dates
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and locations and prices, go to TommyTor.ca. I'm excited about this, but I also realize
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that many Rebel News viewers who have joined us in the last few years, especially since the pandemic,
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may not know who Tommy Robinson is. He was a pretty big part of our show in 2018, 19, and even 2020.
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He actually worked for Rebel News. His story is interesting, but it's also hard to know the truth
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about Tommy Robinson. Who is he? I first tried to answer that question 10 years ago when I was at
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the Sun News Network. And if you Google him, and if you see what the search engines put as the first
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responses, if you read his Wikipedia page, you will be terrified of him. And in fact, I was.
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For example, I'm Jewish. I don't want to hang out with someone who hates Jews, who's anti-Semitic.
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I don't want to hang out with someone who hates other races either, by the way.
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And there's this wall of anti-Tommy propaganda out there that's very difficult to get through.
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I remember about 10 years ago when I first convinced him to come on for an interview at Sun News,
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the very first question I asked him, and I suppose it sounded sort of stupid or sort of rude,
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but I felt I just had to ask him, are you racist? And he didn't take it personally. He knew I was
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asking because I wanted to know the truth, because I had finally had him instead of just what the
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propaganda said. And he told me no. He was just contrary to the establishment on a number of
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things. And actually, one of his most worrying things to him was the Islamification of public life,
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not Muslims. In fact, it's always interesting to me how many friends Tommy has who are Muslim
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or who are minorities of any sort. The first time I ever met him, he was with his best friend from
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childhood who is black. His two buddies that he first bought a car with are Muslim.
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Here's Tommy at a Sikh event. I think this was in Manchester shortly after a terrorist attack there.
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Tommy and the Sikhs are thick as thieves. Take a look at this. We're in Birmingham, where we've come
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to this temple where they're having a little demonstration to get together to show that Sikhs
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stand against what happened in Manchester. So many times the Sikh community are wrongly identified
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as problematic by uneducated people. So across the country, Sikhs, I've spent the last six, seven
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years forming relationships with Sikhs across the country, and we couldn't ask and no one could ask
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for a better minority group, a more loyal, more patriotic, more hardworking group of people.
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So the fact that after September 11th, Sikhs were killed, after the Lee Rigby killing, a Sikh
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was murdered in a horrific attack in response to it. So by morons. So yeah, I think if I've
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got any sort of platform, I want to show the great side of the Sikh community where they
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stand on all of these issues. They've been fighting against Islamic extremism throughout their
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whole history of their religion, of their community. I've read a couple of Tommy's books,
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and one of them is very autobiographical, and it tells how he went from being a pretty regular guy
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to activated politically. It was when British veterans were coming home from, I think it was
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Afghanistan, and they were marching through his hometown of Luton, and you have returning soldiers.
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I mean, what's the tradition? A ticker tape parade in New York? What would be the tradition in
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the UK? I'm sure it would be something similar. But he was shocked at the abuse that was hurled at
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these soldiers by certain Muslim extremists in his hometown. He was appalled. He couldn't believe it.
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And he set up something called the English Defense League, or EDL. And at first, they were very shy
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about this. They would hide their identities. But then he was very explicit about it. And he was also
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explicit about what he was not. He was not a racist. He was against Nazis. In fact, he burned a swastika
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to demonstrate that. But the EDL, or the English Defense League, had the problem that a lot of right
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of center groups have, is entryists coming in either as bad faith agents provocateurs organized by a
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government to discredit them, or actual entryists who want to take it over. And it was because of that
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that Tommy shut down the EDL, because there were people, whether they were police informants or true
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bad dudes, who were taking it into a racist direction. And he sort of had a second issue
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that was related to the first. And it's something we've talked about on Rebel News before, and it's
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shocking if you haven't heard of it. In the United Kingdom, they have a phenomenon, and it's a terrible
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phrase, but I'm just going to say it, of rape gangs. They sometimes call them grooming gangs.
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And, you know, we're used to the concept of a rape as something that happens in an opportunistic
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moment, in a shocking manner. Someone's pulled into an alley, God forbid, and raped, and then the
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marauder runs off. I think that's what a typical person in Canada, the United States would call a rape,
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a one-time violent crime of opportunity, perhaps, or a stalker, perhaps. In the United Kingdom, it's not
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that way. In the United Kingdom, there are these gangs, but they're not sort of street toughs. They
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come across the opposite way. They trick and entrap young girls, as young as 11 in one case that I wrote
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about. They would say to a young girl, would you like some candy? Would you like some cigarettes? Would you
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like some alcohol? Have a sip? Okay, now that you had some alcohol, would you like a real boyfriend?
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Some of these girls are very, very young. Would you like to ride in my car? I gave you some drugs. I gave
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you some alcohol. Now send me a nude selfie. Okay, now I have the nude selfie. I'm going to blackmail
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you. I'm going to show this to your mother and your father. I'm going to publish this online unless you
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have sex with me, and repeatedly, and all of the other members in the grooming gang. So what they do
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is they trick and entrap and bribe and extort young girls, not just to be raped once, but every night
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for years. I know that sounds astonishing. One particular shocking instance of this was in the city
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of Rotherham, about a quarter million people, and over the course of a number of years, 1,300, actually
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I've seen reports of 1,400, 1,500, 1,300 young girls were raped, and not once, hundreds of times, and
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obviously that showed up very quickly. Social services, hospitals, social workers, you know, it wasn't long
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before police, politicians, the media all heard about it, but everyone was either in on it, or they
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observed what Majid Nawaz, the Pakistani-born Muslim active Muslim progressive activist in the UK said
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all the men who were in these rape gangs had something in common, or at least 80 percent of them
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had something in common. They were Pakistani-born Muslim men. And the targets of their rapes were white
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girls, often lower class. Here's Majid Nawaz saying what really the rest of us are too afraid to say.
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For too long in this country, we, media, the establishment, society, the chattering classes,
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the liberal elite, whatever term you want to use, have ignored the issue of grooming gangs, of young
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vulnerable teenage girls who have been victimised, drugged, and raped, and abused. Whether it's the
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Rotherham case, or all the other cases that were replicated across the country, it is both the
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conclusion of the prosecutor in the Rotherham case, British-Pakistani Muslim Nazir Afzal, or indeed the
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official inquiry into why it took so long for these young, vulnerable, underage girls to get justice,
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both of those concluded that fears of racism prevented us from coming to the defence of vulnerable,
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underage girls. Fears of racism meaning that the state was scared that it would be accused of being
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racist if it rightly arrested and prosecuted British-Pakistani largely, British-Pakistani Muslim
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men in their abuse of underage white teenage girls. And so from fear of appearing racist,
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there was a silence across the country as multiple cases of grooming gangs emerged up and down the
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country, as evidenced now due to multiple prosecutions, successful prosecutions, but sadly
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and unfortunately too late. If we hadn't all been silent, if we had all addressed this issue head
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on when it needed to be addressed, when it was time to address it, then the void would not have emerged
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for the populist agitators to fill that gap and become popular, actually, as a result of addressing
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what is a legitimate issue. They ended up hijacking what should have been the concern of every right-minded
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citizen in this country. I just wish, I wish that those young girls had seen justice served for them
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as fast as the judge served Tommy Robinson justice in this case, because in this case, it's very easy
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for us to pick on the bogeyman. But actually, the truth is that our silence over decades in this country
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is the real bogeyman. And that's the real thing we should despise, our own cowardice in the face of
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grooming of young girls up and down this country, and our conspiracy of silence.
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So Tommy Robinson, being a working-class lad from one of these northern towns, he saw this in his
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own community. In fact, a member of his extended family was a victim, and he started speaking out
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against these rape gangs, these grooming gangs, when everyone else was too terrified to talk about it.
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By the way, the Rotherham case, there was finally a commission of inquiry, and if you read that
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commission of inquiry, they say again and again, people knew this massacre of young women were
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happening, but everyone was too afraid of being called racist, so they turned a blind eye. Well,
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it wasn't just in Rotherham, it was all across the UK, and this became a focus of Tommy Robinson,
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not just English pride and standing up for soldiers, but pushing back against these rape gangs.
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I came to know him on these things, and I realized that he was drawing a distinction
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between individual Muslims who were people, and should be treated with respect as any people would,
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and the ideology of political Islam or Islamism. Anyhow, when Rebel News started, we hired Tommy
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to be our UK reporter, and this is when we weren't really traveling a lot yet and didn't really know
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what we were doing yet. And Tommy was over there, and he started getting these viral hits because he
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was saying things that no one else in the UK would say. He happened to be on the scene, for example,
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moments after an Islamic terrorist hurtled down Westminster Bridge mowing down people in his car.
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Here's this astonishing clip by Tommy Robinson moments after that terrorist attack, and watch how the other
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media react to him and his response to them. This video went super viral, about 20 million views in
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various formats, and it really made Tommy as a journalist and commentator. Take a look.
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As I said, as we're walking around here, we've gone past young people, young girls with blankets over
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from the shock. This isn't a shock to me. I don't understand people who are surprised by this.
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We've had 12 suspected terrorist attacks planned last year. If they would have been successful,
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you'd have seen shopping centers, you'd have seen airplanes, you'd have seen nightclubs, you'd have seen
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a war zone on our streets, similar to this, every single month. Then, and only then, might people
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realize we are at war. We're in war already. We have over 3,000 Muslims who are monitored 24 hours a day,
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seven days a week. Every week, it costs £9 billion a year. We're following and waiting for them to do
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this. We have had 450 ISIS fighters been allowed to return to our country. They've gone and fought for
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ISIS. They've been in training camps. They've been beheading people. They've been raping people,
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and they're walking the streets of our capital city. They're living with us. Our government
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have failed us. Don't come out and act all strong on this, Home Secretary, Theresa May,
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because you haven't been strong. You've been weak. You've showed cowardice.
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You're very quick to label this as a foreign terrorist attack.
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My head is not up my arse. This is an Islamic jihad attack. The man that done this would have
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either been radicalized in a prison, or he would have been radicalized on the streets of the UK
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with full knowledge of our government and our security services. They will know who he is.
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Do you have information that no one else seems to know?
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Yeah, mate, I have information that shows there was four terrorist attacks last week in France.
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Four in France. There was 12 planned last year. Driving your car like this man has done
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is exactly what the Inspire magazine, which is Al-Qaeda's magazine, which was downloaded by 50,000
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British Muslims last year. 50,000 British Muslims downloaded a terrorist manual in our country.
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50,000. Not 10, not 20. 50,000 people who want to see exactly what you see there. That's what they want.
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They want war. They want death. They want destruction. And we keep on pandering, like you just come up to me,
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saying it's got nothing to do with Islam. It's got everything to do with Islam.
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I'm simply asking how you're sure of the political markets.
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OK, well, I'm on the reality. This is the reality. The reality is this is a war.
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These people are waging war on us for time. This has gone on for 1,400 years.
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This is nothing new. And the whole time while this goes on, police leaders or political leaders
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Well, back then, Tommy had a reputation as the former boss of the EDL, and he had had some scuffles
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with the law, but he took to journalism like a fish to water. And soon his videos were getting
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millions of views. And his social media accounts, especially on Facebook, were the most engaged
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with social media accounts in the entire United Kingdom. Tommy Robinson on Facebook had more
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engagement than either the prime minister or the leader of the opposition. He was huge.
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And in response to this, because he was the only person in the media or in politics talking about
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these issues, there were actually parliamentary hearings talking about him by name. In fact,
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I remember one case when Google's head of counterterrorism was summoned before the British
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Parliament. And they asked him, why aren't you banning Tommy Robinson? Take a look at this
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How do you feel about hosting Tommy Robinson on YouTube?
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Yeah, I mean, obviously, I find his point of view on the world abhorrent. And I think it's a very
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difficult call. I presume he's looked at the policies and tried to ensure that any videos on
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YouTube don't contravene the policies. And our reviewers have taken that view at the moment.
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They'll keep it under review. And that's very different from the video content he's used on
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other platforms, which is why he's been banned elsewhere. We have to look across instances like
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that and check that we think that the policies are in the right place. Because there is a
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responsibility here that balances freedom of speech versus stopping hate speech and incitement
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to violence. And I know, I think in this case, I'm not personally that close to it, but I think in this
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case, we've had one political leader saying you absolutely should take this off YouTube and another
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political leader say you absolutely must leave it up there. These videos on YouTube don't get
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monetised by advertising. They don't get access to the tools other creators have. But, you know,
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from a journalistic point of view, from a public interest point of view, understanding what kind
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of views are out there, maybe that is useful. And so that's where we're trying to make sure that
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But does that make you think, the fact that he's able to be on there when he's been banned
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It gives you pause for thought all the time when you're dealing with these challenging cases. I
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think in his instance, as I understand it, the videos are different on different platforms.
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But I think, you know, it's absolutely an area that's under very close review all the time.
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Well, it wasn't hard to twist the arm of social media companies to ban people on the right.
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They were all doing it. And soon enough, Tommy had all of his social media turned off,
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including Twitter. So the slanders would mount against him and he couldn't fight back. Not just
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that, but when he tried to, he was arrested. Tommy worked for Rebel News and then we parted ways.
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And about 90 days after he left us, he was arrested for contempt of court for this video. And you show
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me where the contempt of court is. This was a rape gang that had been on trial. The trial was over and the
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verdict was going to be delivered. So the trial was all over. And Tommy was simply asking the accused
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rapists as they were going into court, how do you feel about your verdict? Take a look at what
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How you feeling? How you feeling about your verdict? How you feeling about your verdict? How you feeling
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about your verdict? How you feeling about your verdict? How you feeling about the verdict? You got your
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prison bag, will you? Yeah, look at you. Got your bags, will you? You got your bags, will you? Yeah. How you feeling
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about the verdict? Oh, I suck your mum's funny. You got no guilt. Is there any guilt? Is there any guilt, mate? Is there any guilt?
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For that, he was arrested by half a dozen cops, put in the back of a truck, whisked away to a trial that took less than 10 minutes.
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Tommy himself never spoke a word. And he was sent to prison. He was sent to prison that day.
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And later put in solitary confinement. Watch that astonishing arrest.
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10 of 1 streaming. I've been arrested for breach of the peace. Are you arresting him?
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I've been arrested for breach of the peace. You've all watched this. You've all watched this.
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You've all watched this. Can you get me a slisser? Can you get me a slisser?
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Can you just turn off your life feed, please? Yes. Can you get me a slisser?
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Do you understand what I'm just talking to you?
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The arrest for the suspicion, following the breach of the peace.
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What does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean?
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You know, you've walked up through his video and watched him.
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More people are going to watch this now than ever.
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This is ridiculous, lads. Do you feel right what you're doing here?
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In fact, someone laid their hand in an assault with me outside court.
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Other people have squirted me and threatened me about my mother.
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And here I am being arrested for saying nothing.
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A breach of the peace. Apparently I'm inciting on my video.
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As I mentioned, by that point, Tommy was not working for us anymore, so I didn't have the
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It took me about a month to get the permission and authority of his family to intervene on
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his behalf, to crowdfund lawyers, to get him out of prison.
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By the time we managed to get him out, we realized what a month and a half in solitary
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Take a look at this when he finally got out of prison.
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You're in better health than you were last time.
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Say a few words to your supporters who have been rooting for you these past 66 days.
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I've enjoyed reading the support and hearing the support.
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For me, the main thing for this would be an embarrassment to the British government,
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In the judge's words, so let's pretend I did commit contempt to court, which I did.
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So something that was unintentional, something that was unintentional that had zero effect
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on a trial, would result in a man, a journalist, being put in prison, spending two and a half
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I walked into Belmarsh Prison and walked out without seeing another prisoner.
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But in a way, that was good because in Onley, they would have killed you if they could.
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I don't have a negative word to say about Belmarsh Prison or any of the stuff.
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Other than the insanity that you were in here to begin with.
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And by putting me at the Old Bailey, they knew they'd get me in Belmarsh.
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Whereas if they would have put it in the second biggest court in the land, which was Winchester,
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I'd have gone to the Cat B local in Winchester.
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I'd have been fine because there's no Muslims in the jail.
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But essentially, I know I look a mess, so have your fun with it.
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And it's ginger, so I look like a little cowardly convert coming out of jail.
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Well, they retried Tommy and they sent him back to prison.
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And I started going over there from time to time to do prison welfare checks.
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I just left HMP Belmarsh, the high security prison on the east end of London,
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where Tommy Robinson is serving out his nine-month sentence for contempt of court.
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The good news is, in five seconds, I could tell that Tommy is healthy.
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He's healthy physically and he's healthy psychologically.
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He lost 40 pounds, three stone, as they say in the UK, in his 10 weeks of incarceration.
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He was absolutely shell-shocked and stressed from being put in solitary confinement for 23 and a half hours a day.
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No exercise, no human contact, not even a TV to give him a voice.
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And then in the half hour a day he was let out of that box,
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it was to be in like a thunderdome where he was shouted and screamed at by the other prisoners for half an hour.
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So 23 and a half hours a day of silence, sensory deprivation,
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That is a dictionary definition of torture, both on the physical side, starving him,
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Let me contrast that to his treatment at Belmarsh, where he, I asked him how he's eating.
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He says that the food that they give him is fine.
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I know that's something we take for granted on the outside.
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I don't think there's a lot of laughter in prison, especially a prison like Belmarsh,
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What they did to you was a form of physical and psychological abuse.
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Yeah, so I haven't had a conversation with anyone for two and a half months.
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So other than one hour, twice, where I saw my wife and children.
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And when I saw them, it was, um, it wore me out for that one hour.
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It was a big thing to, I don't know, by the end of it, it's not, I don't know, it's just.
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I heard that in prison you had constant threats.
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I have, so what's going on, I had threats every day.
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I couldn't have my cell windows open because they would be spat through or shit put through them.
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And then at the same time as that, I had just threats from everywhere.
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And then at the same time as that, I had the police visiting my mother and my wife to tell them that there's intelligence, there's going to be acid attacks on them.
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Now, I don't know if, you know how bad it is for me, I don't even fit, I don't believe their intel.
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I think all of this and the timing for all of it is so I'm on solitary confinement.
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And this is happening outside, which I can't deal with.
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But when I do get a chance to ring home, I find out the police are at my house.
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Do you know why they moved you to a more dangerous prison?
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They moved me from H&P Hull, which was a 7% Muslim population, to the most densely Muslim populated prison in the country.
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Because what they then did is they used the excuse of my safety, which when I got there, they put me straight on solitary confinement.
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They locked me straight away, which was 23 and a half hours a day, locked in a room in a blue mat.
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And then for 30 minutes a day, they opened the door and you walk into a cage this size, small, and you walk around the cage on your own.
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And then they opened the door and locked it back in.
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If that was the sentence for prisoners, it was the fact that every other prisoner's cell door opens at 8 o'clock in the morning and they're out of their cell working, having football, playing pool, and then they get locked up at 6 o'clock at night.
00:28:57.240
Well, Tommy has had various brushes with the law, but he's had various successes too.
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It's obvious that he is being treated as an enemy of the state.
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Last year, there was a pro-Israel march against anti-Semitism in London.
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And Tommy has always been pro-Israel and anti-Islamist.
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Tommy showed up as a working journalist, but one of the far left-wing organizers of this march demanded that police arrest him.
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You're asking me to give my address on all these cameras.
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City of London, Royal Bank of the United States.
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Pandent of Paris Houston, but not including Houston Street.
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You need to go right down King Street to the way to Haybourne train station.
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And the grounds of this is your presence is likely to call harassment, alarm and distress to attendees at the march.
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This was the Metropolitan Police Force yesterday.
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The right of the press to freely report on protest is no less important than the right to the protest itself.
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They should be able to do so without placing intimidation and aggression, officer.
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Officers spoke with the journalists and their team following the incident.
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Is anyone here caused alarm and distress by my presence here?
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There's no one who's caused alarm and distress.
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No one has come up to you and said anything about me.
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You are working under the orders of Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley.
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And the British public are fed up of your tutel policing.
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I'll write it if you refuse your address, but I understand why.
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I heard the Germans saying I'm only doing my job.
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The difference is I don't put a trope on that slant on it, like you lot.
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Do you think a member of the press should be arrested for doing their job?
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Stephen, listen, this is your dispersal notice.
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Tommy was literally pepper sprayed in the face while handcuffed and banned from going into
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London for half a year just because some left-wing organizer didn't want it.
00:31:58.060
Here's our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed reporting on that victory.
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I don't think they had anywhere they could go on it because it was so blatant and the
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But I'm still angry with what they've been allowed to do.
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I'm still angry that my rights and my freedoms have been taken from me for six months.
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I'm still angry that the public have had to support a case to the tune of £60,000.
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Someone should face punishment for what's happened.
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They're just going to be more careful with the paperwork.
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They use the police to silence you, to harass you.
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As I said, this is probably the seventh or eighth time I've been in court on this case.
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I'm a bit overwhelmed because I didn't expect...
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So, I'm glad we found a judge who stood on truth.
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Because I've been in some of these court cases before where I think, well, we won that.
00:33:36.660
And the fact they've gone through this case is an embarrassment.
00:33:39.560
Well, with Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson was born again on Twitter, where he now has more than
00:33:46.580
Not only does he have a platform now, but he's sort of been re-normalized.
00:33:50.940
Banning someone from the public square doesn't just silence them.
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It's sort of a mark, a stigma on them that they've done something morally wrong.
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Even though when you're banned from social media, you don't have a trial.
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Well, putting Tommy back on social media has not only given him a big following again,
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but given him the credibility that he is part of the political conversation.
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And just a few weeks ago, Tommy led a massive march in central London.
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And, I don't know, 10 or 20,000 people were there, including our own Alexa Lavoie.
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Citizen journalism is the answer to the corrupt media.
00:34:32.640
He sent them a message to say that we want today to be the start.
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The Mayor 2C's, the Lawrence Foxes, the Calvin Robertsons, the Carl Benjamin, all of them
00:34:49.260
Everyone who sees this country under attack, everyone who wants to solve it, they don't
00:34:53.780
have to agree with every part of each person's politics.
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And he's tapping into a hunger in the UK, a hunger for change.
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The same hunger that Nigel Farage is tapping into as the leader of the new Reform UK party
00:35:25.480
But he's an interesting story in himself, his own life.
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And I think his life and what's been done to him is a warning for us here in Canada, too,
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of what could happen if we let go of our freedom of speech and if Islamification is something
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So if you are interested in meeting Tommy, go to TommyTour.ca.
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Well, our friend Alexa Lavoie didn't just record that very short Welcome to Montreal video.
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Because Tommy Robinson is supposed to arrive in a couple of minutes.
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We don't know yet if the security would let him through.
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But we hope so because we have a special event with him in Toronto and Calgary.
00:36:43.340
And if you want a VIP with a full meal and hear from him and meeting privately with him,
00:37:00.840
It is terrific to see what's going on in Canada.
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If you are a criminal and you want to come in Canada, it's easy.
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You just walk through the border and they will welcome you with open arms.
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But for someone like Tommy Robinson, who is a journalist and activist, who is shedding light on different topics.
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And, of course, he is politically incorrect in the view of the government because he is not following the same narrative like him and Ivi Yimeni.
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When they try to go to other countries, they try to block them and they try to stop them to come.
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We will see if the security will let him through.
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I know now he is still on the plane, but we will know in a couple of minutes.
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We want his first impression, but we want you to go over TommyTour.ca.
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It's probably the only time in your life and his life that you will have the chance to meet with him.
00:38:21.700
And if you want more, don't forget, the VIP one gives you more time with him and the chance to speak with him one-on-one.
00:38:34.280
But what we know so far, Tommy has been stopped right now and he's currently at the immigration.
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I thought the longer it went, I thought I'm just not getting in.
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So for, what, three hours and a half in the immigration?
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Nah, just ask what I'm doing here, who I'm visiting.
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I landed to go to Mexico and they didn't let me in.
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I flew straight from Copenhagen because I was there for work.
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Do you know, people from Canada have supported me for years.
00:39:43.760
Yeah, I, Ezra Levant, Rebel Media, put me on my path of journalism, which I'm very grateful for.
00:39:50.360
So I'm here to, I'm going to hook up with Ezra.
00:39:54.220
We're going to be in Calgary June 24th, Edmonton June 25th and Toronto June 30th.
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Because I didn't book it because I thought there's no point because I might not come, get through.
00:40:18.340
And you have an event that's coming up in England.
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But do you know, I just found out, they've just given me a court date today.
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I made a film four years ago that was released in America 18 months ago.
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So when I made the film, it exposed corruption of the government, of the local council and the judiciary.
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And they gave me an injunction preventing me from ever showing anyone it.
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And I didn't show anyone it because I'd go to jail.
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I want to hurt you because you didn't hurt it from a lawyer of the court itself.
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I want you to tell us how you learned about it.
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I've heard it from a far left NGO organization who operate to attack people like me.
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And they're the ones that have put out breaking news.
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First I know of it, which shows that they are working alongside the judiciary to attack people.
00:41:31.720
So maybe they were trying to get me in court before.
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So Tommy is going to be with us for multiple events.
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But you can buy your VIP to spend time with this fella.
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And have like a meal with him to learn about him.
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And I think it's, first of all, it's his first time.
00:42:11.960
It's probably the last time I'll ever be allowed in Canada.
00:42:18.260
I had people, three different Canadians just in the last two days,
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messaging me saying, come to Canada, come to Canada.
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I'm happy to hopefully get to meet some of the people that have supported me
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for the years of my journalism with Ezra, the years of my work.
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Evie Eminey, that was blocked in New Zealand in the past.
00:42:40.240
And I was getting really worried because it's been like three hours and a half.
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And I was like, I'm worried it will not get through.
00:42:50.660
But I want just a quick word about the censorship that you experience.
00:42:57.520
I think it's a little bit everywhere where you go.
00:42:59.620
You call it censorship or there's a mixture of censorship and lawfare.
00:43:02.800
So they're not just happy with silencing people anymore.
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They want to destroy them, financially bankrupt them.
00:43:08.800
The film that I released is about the court case
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My film and my covert recordings prove the entire case is fraudulent.
00:43:19.300
That's why they give me an injunction, not let me show the public it.
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But then they were unhappy because it got released in America.
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We've organised another event which is going to be the biggest gathering of patriots
00:43:40.200
I think a million people will probably be watching it live.
00:43:42.460
The whole world's going to have their eyes on London on 27th of July.
00:43:48.640
They dig up a film that was released 18 months ago
00:44:24.460
Why do journalists need qualifications but not politicians?
00:44:29.580
It's obviously about the court case for the Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.
00:44:34.260
And this is one of the things I was, well, I say to anyone who will listen to me,
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imagine the chutzpah of politicians saying, we're going to vet journalists.
00:44:44.660
We're going to see if journalists are up to snuff.
00:44:49.580
Journalists and all of us get to scrutinize politicians
00:44:52.980
because they're the ones who hold power in trust for us.
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We don't have to prove anything to politicians.
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You'd think independent media would be considered more a viable news than state-funded media.
00:45:17.200
getting free cash from Trudeau sort of guarantees you're viable as a financial success,
00:45:26.480
I'm not sure if you've been following our reports on this,
00:45:28.600
but year after year, the CBC's viewership falls.
00:45:44.000
Well, it doesn't matter to them as long as they please one particular viewer.
00:45:50.260
Please interview Tamara and the truckers weekly and encourage them to run for office at all levels.
00:45:57.080
Well, I mean, we love Tamera Leach, if that's who you're talking about.
00:46:01.340
And we'll certainly interview her when, or I don't think that she would really give interviews about her trial when that resumes.
00:46:10.900
But I don't think we're going to talk to her about the trial until the trial is over.
00:46:18.120
As you know, when her trial is on in Ottawa, we have Robert Krejcik, our court reporter, covered every day.
00:46:25.040
He attended literally every single day of court.
00:46:28.060
Right now, he's in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the trial of two of the Coutts four.
00:46:37.840
If you haven't seen them, you can see them at truckertrial.com.
00:46:48.640
And we'll certainly, if she has any news to say, we'll certainly be there to report it.
00:46:53.760
And like I say, we will be there to report on her court case.
00:46:56.860
I do hope that she remains in the public sphere.
00:47:08.680
And, you know, she may not want to run for public office.
00:47:16.240
It's clear that she does well in the public sphere and has really taken a personal approach to everyone who reaches out to her.
00:47:23.740
But that's a little bit different than running for public office.
00:47:27.640
You know, I sometimes try and convince people to run for the Senate in Alberta.
00:47:33.080
For those of you in the nine other unlucky provinces, every once in a while, the province of Alberta actually has a Senate election.
00:47:45.600
But when the next conservative prime minister takes office, and if there is an opening during his term, it has been the tradition.
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I mean, Stephen Harper did it, of appointing elected senators.
00:47:58.340
Don't you think that would be a good thing for Tamera Leach to run for?
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.