EZRA LEVANT ｜ I think we’re slipping further down the slope to tyranny — I have some anecdotes for you
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Summary
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer in the land of the first? Why should you be jailed when you won't give them an answer to that question? Why should the government be spying on you if you don't want them to spy on you?
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tonight i think we're slipping further down the road to tyranny i have some anecdotes for you
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it's february 11th and this is the azure levant show why should others go to jail when you're a
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biggest carbon consumer i know 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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right to do so i saw this video the other day a police officer with a uniform and a badge and a
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gun going unannounced and unprompted to a private citizen's home to talk to them about a peaceful
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protest they were planning to attend here take a look sorry since you're at my home can i just get
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your name and your badge number please i have a card here okay it's erica ingram thank you and this is
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just some information about peaceful protests that's all it is okay so you saw something on my facebook
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no on the facebook group okay and decided to come to my personal residence to give me information
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about peaceful protest yes okay so are the peterborough police no you're with opie um are you guys now
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monitoring people's facebook pages or facebook groups to who comments as to what their um
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uh status updates are or what they're doing or within the group like because if the protest
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happening province-wide yes we have been monitoring the protest okay so there's a protest coming up um
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simply providing you with information about a peaceful protest and now i'm leaving oh okay that
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is all so the ontario provincial police are watching what people are doing on facebook in
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different groups whether or not they're commenting participating liking and you guys are now doing
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service calls to give people information about peaceful protest yeah it's just a proactive measure
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to make sure you understand your rights about peaceful protesting i absolutely i have a copy of the
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canadian charter of rights and freedoms so i'm well within that and and very understanding of that
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uh i appreciate that i'm i'm hoping that uh you guys aren't going to waste our tax dollars continuing
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to do this to everybody but uh now it's nice to know that uh we're we're being watched
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so if you have any questions my cell phone number is on the card thank you okay so the police are going
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door to door surprising people by letting them know they're being spied on that's what that was
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the police aren't giving this homeowner information about peaceful protests she already has the
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information from the facebook page the police are the antagonists they're the people who will arrest
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you and have you charged and prosecuted it's a lie that they're giving you tips it's a legal conflict
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of interest for them to pretend to be giving you advice on how to protest she gave no useful
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information that that was a lie that insults the intelligence that cops purpose was to terrify people
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they come during the day perhaps so the man's way to let people know they're being spied on and if they
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didn't like this police visit well they better not do anything more proactive measures to make you
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understand your rights said the cops sorry that's a doug ford style lie it was a proactive measure to
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make sure you don't exercise your rights that's canada now that cop should be charged with a mask
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violation though did you notice that as if they ever follow their own rules i saw that today
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last night i saw that doug ford had sent lawyers to court ex parte that means it was a sneak attack the
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lawyers for the other side weren't there the truckers lawyers weren't given any notice they weren't
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invited to the secret hearing to seize all of their funds you might remember that a week ago the left
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wing crowdfunding website called gofundme seized the truckers money and planned to give it to their
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own choice of recipients instead that caused such outrage amongst u.s politicians not a peep up here
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in canada that gofundme decided to return the money to the donors so the truckers set up a new crowdfunding
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campaign on give send go it's another website which promised to respect their freedom sounded good
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but uh doug ford went to court to freeze those funds give send go laughed at an ontario court trying to
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seize funds in the u.s in the land of the first amendment but anyone in canada would be foolish
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to mess with this court order until it's repealed i suspect it will be overturned soon when the truckers
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lawyers get to court it'll be interesting to see what information was used by the police to persuade
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the judge but in case um you're not clear canada is now the place where government seizes your bank
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accounts if you oppose them too effectively and the government sends armed police to your house to
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warn you about facebook protests you're involved with you know look at this here it's uh luckily the
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human rights group called amnesty international has weighed in on the whole situation amnesty
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international let me read their canada statement on freedom convoy blockade it's a bit weird they put
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the word freedom in quotes almost like they don't like to use that word anymore i thought that was
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actually what amnesty international stood for yeah not in a long time uh here's what they say
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amnesty international canada is deeply troubled by the reports of violence harassment intimidation and
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hate speech which have surfaced since january 29th said amnesty international secretary general
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ketty nivya bandy nazi flags confederate flags and other symbols of racism and hate exhibited have no
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room in peaceful protests equally concerning is the affiliation of some of the convoy organizers
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with overtly racist white supremacist groups yet none of that's true that's just all gossip and
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rumor that's that's literally justin trudeau's talking points how embarrassing amnesty international
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is now against the right of peaceful working people to protest they they can't get enough
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of civil liberties violating lockdowns what even are they they're cheering for police enforcement
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against peaceful protests they hate the truckers i mean uh they're truckers they're peaceful but
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here's another amnesty international press release in support of a terrorist murderer war criminal named
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omer cotter same human rights group they're fine with him the truckers are doing amazingly well no
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violence just peaceful and civil disobedience i mean look at the news just today there was a blockade at
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the manitoba minnesota border yesterday and today the government there announced an end to certain parts
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of their lockdown not enough not soon enough but do you doubt it was these brave truckers who are saving us
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it certainly wasn't the politicians on their own last night we got a tip someone recorded a phone
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call to them from ontario premier doug ford please get your messages and i got about 250 as of once
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today yeah i'm gonna make this quick because i gotta get no worries uh we're pulling these passports
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we're gonna get back to normal and uh you know i can't give you the exact date uh but it's gonna
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be very soon okay okay no i'm gonna be speaking uh over the next few days friday you're gonna put
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out a statement monday i'll be giving some dates and we're gonna uh move forward okay thanks a lot
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thank you so 250 people had called doug ford just that morning demanding an end to these vaccine
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mandates and doug ford said he would do so he's a liar of course but you can see that the truckers
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are inspiring a lot of people to stand up to ford instead here's what ford actually announced today
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he's going to turn against the truckers with brute force so let me be as clear as i can
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there will be consequences for these actions and they will be severe we've already started by going
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after the money funding the illegal occupation yesterday an ontario court granted our request
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to freeze the funds from give send go for the convoy the opp has also provided additional resources
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to ottawa police services and windsor police services to satisfy their recent requests for
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operational support and more needs to be done we're strengthening the tools and the powers
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of our police forces to resolve this situation and restore order let me be clear the government
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does not direct our police forces but we do set the laws today i'm using my authority
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as premier of ontario to declare a state of emergency in our province and i will convene cabinet
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to use legal authorities to urgently enact orders that will make crystal clear it is illegal and
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punishable to block and impede the movement of goods people and services along critical infrastructure
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this will include protecting international border crossings 400 series highways airports ports bridges and
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railways it will also include protecting the safe and essential movement of ambulatory and medical services
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public transit municipal and provincial roadways as well as pedestrian walkways fines for non-compliance will be severe
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with a maximum penalty of one hundred thousand dollars and up to a year imprisonment
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there's a lot in there and illegal occupation well actually that's not what any court has said all the auto
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court said about the truckers there was that they can't honk their big noisy air horns at night and
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frankly that's fair enough and a toronto court agreed to freeze the money of good send go give send go just
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temporarily until the trucker lawyers can present themselves and have a full hearing illegal occupation
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says who says some politician moments before he says he doesn't direct the police well he just told
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them that he as king judge i guess has deemed them an illegal occupier well if that's the case uh the police
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pretty much have to do what he says don't they i mean if it is illegal but doug ford's not a judge
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i had to laugh when he talked about guarding our borders uh maybe we can get some of that guarding
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our borders business uh down at roxham road we can actually use some police there doug ford's trying
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to town sound tough emergency laws hundred thousand dollar fines a year in prison license is taken away
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that's quite something i'm unaware of any other crime that stops a man from having the right to earn a
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living and for example even if you're bankrupt you're allowed to keep your tools to work you can commit
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murder and all that can be done to you is a prison term you can't and won't have your ability to earn
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a living be taken away but for embarrassing doug ford i guess there's that punishment fines for
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blocking pedestrians did you catch that part i wonder what the labor unions think of this rule
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gee i wonder if that could ever be used against them and the strike i mean that really is what these
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truckers are doing it's a kind of general strike but big labor is along with big government and big
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farmer and big tech they're they're not with the working man anymore no one is for the little guy
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anymore certainly not mr ford nation neither are the federal conservative mps though i'm sorry to tell
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you here's a story in black locks let me just read the headline and the first two sentences
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likens truckers to terrorists the commons public safety committee yesterday voted 11 to 0
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to investigate crowdfunding for ideologically motivated violent extremism in canada the vote
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came as one mp freedom convoy a compared freedom convoy truckers to terrorists quote we as policy makers
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have to anticipate the new landscape that is before us said new democrat mp alistair mcgregor
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the mp read out section 83.01 of the criminal code in accusing truckers of terrorism and opposing vaccine
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mandates so the conservatives voted for that they didn't vote to investigate gofunding for seizing
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the truckers money or to express outrage at ontario seizing funds from the opposition truckers
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they voted to investigate the truckers the so-called conservatives did how do you feel about that
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in fact their interim leader candace bergen is telling the truckers to stop the protest she she's
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sort of had enough of it guys the vaccine mandates are still in effect you you can't get on a plane
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or train in canada without being vaxxed thousands of people are being fired from their jobs for not
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being vaxxed the trucking vaccine requirement is still in effect that's the whole thing this whole
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trucker convoy was about but candace bergen says it's over guys come together the economy you want to see
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reopen is hurting farmers manufacturers small businesses and families are suffering i believe this
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is not what you want to do we must all work together you are protesting because you love your country
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and you want your freedom back to the protesters here in ottawa you came bringing a message that
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message has been heard conservatives have heard you and we will stand up for you and all canadians who
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want to get back to normal life we will not stop until the mandates have ended
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you know for all the tough talk by police though they haven't done anything tough yet now maybe that'll
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change by the time this video i'm recording it in the afternoon goes to air at nine i mean sure the ottawa police
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have stolen a lot of diesel fuel jerry cans which is weird and i think it's criminal acts and it's very petty
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and frankly it's embarrassing but i don't think they've actually arrested any truckers for being
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there have they they haven't seized any trucks or towed them that i've seen all this butch talk about
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emergency acts and new laws doug ford actually doesn't need any new laws i can think of some
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in effect already the highway traffic act the the criminal code the crime of mischief that big bridge
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is privately owned you could call that trespass i mean there are a lot of laws
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laws theoretically loitering jaywalking some of these are being handed out in ottawa i understand
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but they're just tickets they're not high crimes the minor provincial offense is a parking ticket
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really you don't arrest someone for that so so doug ford or justin trudeau or jason kenney really
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wanted to do something they actually have the laws go in there and make an arrest for mischief
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or trespass but they lack the will not because they're not brutal these are terribly brutal people
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they brutalized us for two years but they've been real bullies about it they they pick on
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individuals anyone who pokes their head up they pick them off like arthur pavlovsky again and again
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in calgary because they know he won't fight back with violence or that 78 year old man in ottawa who
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honked his horn so the police wanted to show him who was boss yeah it's so gross or remember adam
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skelly the one brave restaurateur in toronto so politicians are really brave at picking on individuals but
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how about a hundred or a thousand or ten thousand people at once it really is an emergency i suppose
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it really is a breach of public order but the thing is after two years of bullying and scaring and lying
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to us people sort of they side with the truckers against the politicians and even against the cops if
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this blockade were in 2019 i think the government and police would have the moral authority to go in
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and just root them out but now people have watched two years of absurd rules that by their
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you know by by the way the fancy people never follow the rules themselves it's it's not as clear
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cut now wouldn't you say and unlike greenpeace protesters who are obviously malicious these
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truckers aren't professional troublemakers this is the first time they've done anything political
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in their lives they're not trying to destroy the economy they're actually trying to save the economy
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including their own jobs so let me put it another way why would you call in the army
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or even the swat team if you are too politically terrified
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to even just send in a beat cop with handcuffs which they could do at any time but boy has
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the chattering class you know the macbook laptop at the cottage class the zoom class the lockdown
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class the the political and media class boy have they been excited about the army about crushing the
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truckers violently it's it's quite something how butch and these ink stained wretches can be there's
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nothing more physically weak and impotent than a pundit i should know i have soft hands but it's
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quite something to read some of the rageful plans that journalists have for these truckers here's a
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harvard lawyer and cnn pundit juliette cayenne says slash the tires empty gas tanks arrest the drivers and
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move the trucks well that is that is very tough i don't know if it makes sense to slash the tires if you
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want to move trucks i don't know if that would help and i don't know if you've ever seen
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a truck tire uh when it's burst it explodes like a bomb um but this cnn general is ready to go to war
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and she's got the tactics planned out in canada it's even more pitiful here's a columnist named tasha
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keratin who actually i'm not even kidding says she's thinking of uh running for the conservative
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party of canada leadership and there's just a groundswell for tasha keratin she says i would
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declare a national public order emergency under the emergencies act in section two of the cses act
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and call in the military wow call in the military you know she's cool here's matt gurney the little
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weasel who when he was the national post he actually chaired the town hall meeting of staff
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to denounce rex murphy he chaired that he's so tough this rex murphy and here's what he says on twitter
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he's ready to go to war he says the scale of the humiliation in ottawa and the length of it has dragged
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on will require a very dramatic state response to reassert control not even in ottawa necessarily
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but canada will need to remind everyone its boss not necessarily violently but decisively hey guys
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you've embarrassed trudeau too much he's humiliated so because you've embarrassed him we need to be
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dramatic because this is all big show isn't it it's not about freedoms or rights or the law
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drama needs drama sorry about that guys but we have to show you who's boss and in matt gurney's mind
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that's the government that's the police now that doesn't necessarily mean we have to get violent with
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you but we just might says the coward matt gurney who the hell are these little fascists it's half the
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press gallery they're lusting for violence i thought they were against violence it's the truckers who are
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against violence it's the media who's for it and that's my point all these so-called liberals who
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claim to be thoughtful and peaceful and reasonable their opposition to the truckers is so visceral they
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so total they have dehumanized them and now they want to exterminate them i don't know but only if
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necessary says matt gurney just imagine for a moment how would that work i mean so you bring in the army
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in their military uniforms with their their full kit their rifles i presume maybe maybe some grenades
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or i don't know little missiles or something maybe you got some cf-18s flying overhead maybe some armored
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vehicles maybe a tank to to do what to to shoot somebody because that's sort of what soldiers do i don't
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think soldiers even have handcuffs they don't really know how to arrest people i don't think
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they did a great job in oka no disrespect but i i don't think that was the right answer there uh
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soldiers don't know the criminal code they they they haven't studied it they haven't studied the
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charter of rights they they don't know how to process arrestees why would you send in soldiers
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to deal with peaceful truckers who haven't shown an ounce of violence
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why for that butch spectacle the macker anyone's to end the humiliation of the political class to
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show you who's boss that's what matt gurney actually said that's what the goal was
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judo has gone full banana republic already ford doug ford is literally seizing his opponent's bank
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accounts imagine rolling out military violence to tackle peaceful protesters that just completes
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the image and i tell you again uh look how easily the descent into fascism look how easily
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we're falling we're two years into this i remind you that it was two years from hitler becoming
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chancellor of germany to bringing in the nuremberg laws and then it was another three years
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until kristallnacht and then it was another year until war with poland and then it was a few more
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years until the holocaust actually reached its peak it was a decade now i'm not saying we're going
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to go all that way god forbid but in two years oh my god we have gone pretty far
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you can see the elements of it the demonization of a minority calling them unclean the segregation
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ghettoization of those unclean people the cowardly judges approving it all the media becoming
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propagandists the opposition parties acceding to everything the vanguards calling for blood
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only if necessary yeah we've gone pretty far down the road in two years haven't we
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these truckers gotta tell you they've all we got left stay with us for more
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well as you know rebel news has distinguished itself by having the most reporters
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on the ground at the most places across canada you'd think that would fall to the cbc or ctv or global they
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are billion dollar companies all of them subsidized here one way or another by the government but
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that's precisely why they have not covered the trucker convoy they wish it never existed they
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ignored it as much as they could then they defamed it uh we on the other hand are telling the other
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side of the story we're just pointing our cameras at things and letting you the viewer judge and one of
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the places where we have reporters right now is at the ambassador bridge between detroit windsor
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ontario and joining us now live via skype is our friend david the manzoid manzies who's out there on
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the street david how you doing oh i'm doing great ezra and by the way speaking to the mainstream media
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they are here on mass but if they're to my right you can see they're across the street from all the
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demonstrators i think they look upon these people as so many typhoid marys the they're deplorables and
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undesirables they they don't want to get the covid cooties so uh so they are here but uh lord knows
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what they're reporting well um i know you're there with our young reporter isabel pan around i'd like to
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see uh the lay of the land there if you could just slowly spin around the camera let's see what we can
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see sure well let's check out the bridge first uh ezra isabel you can just pan there there is the
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ambassador bridge i don't know if you can see it yeah and you see these uh cars here this ezra is
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essentially the off-ramp for traffic coming from michigan into ontario uh it is blocked and uh there's
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a few big rigs there's a lot of passenger cars some campers um there was a development uh earlier today
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as you can see there's one lane where there are no longer cars that lane was blockaded so it's a
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goodwill gesture the demonstrator said we're going to let you utilize one lane of traffic but i can
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tell you ezra since we've been here we have not seen one vehicle come across the bridge even though
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there is uh technically access with this one lane that's open all right can you have the camera go
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more to the right i want to see the bridge a little bit more we didn't see it uh okay then so just just
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put it on the bridge itself a little further okay can we go more to the right we'll walk on can you
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go more to the right just like yeah there we go yeah i just wanted to see that and if you could hold
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the camera i guess you're walking across the street don't mind me giving camera directions from
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uh a few hundred miles away i just i just want the to pan more to the right right
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right pan more to the right as well okay yeah hold it there so that's is that the bridge there
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that is the bridge the ambassador bridge uh as you know ezra privately owned uh which surprises a lot
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of people and of course the big development today was premier ford around 10 45 announcing a state of
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emergency uh that uh you know enough is enough essentially he's telling these demonstrators
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that the consequences of remaining here if told to uh move by law enforcement they will be severe
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namely up to 100 000 in fines one year in prison also um having driver's license licenses revoked
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so this is serious stuff and i can tell you ezra uh we were doing streeters right after the doug ford
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press conference and um the opinions are split here we have met people that say no i can't afford that
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and we've met other people that say they're holding the line uh they will have to be arrested their
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vehicles will have to be towed and one uh elderly gentleman he said to me uh essentially that uh he
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he already has lost his freedom as far as he's concerned what difference does it make if he's
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sleeping in a car overnight here on the off-ramp of the ambassador bridge as opposed to sleeping in a
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prison cell i found that profound and i found it very sad too ezra all right now i don't want to focus
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too much on the physical layout there but i just want to understand are those like to the right of you
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there your left uh the camera is right is that an open lane like can someone drive through to to go to
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michigan right now like over your shoulder um i think it's your left shoulder my right i see what
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what looks like a toll booth perhaps the camera can focus on that and you can and you can describe
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like what is that is that the and yeah i know all of these lanes that you see behind me these are
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heading into the city of windsor from the bridge okay us traffic canada bound on the other side it's
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two it's uh we have a block view um that's been blocked since wednesday night okay so no canadian traffic
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going to the us is getting through and that's a very small blockade that would be uh i think easily
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tollable if the police come down on them well right i mean of course we've seen pictures of
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the bridge itself with large heavy trucks what i see there are just little pickup trucks really
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yes there is about uh oh i don't know uh four or five big rigs you know the big 18 wheelers
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the rest as you said the passenger cars pickup trucks a few campers and um you know one thing
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i wanted to touch upon too ezra is um the declaration of a state of emergency uh there's no cholera outbreak
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here it's not a health situation there's no riots and molotov cocktails and arson going about i think
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what premier ford was saying is that this is a fiscal state of emergency he mentioned
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700 million dollars of goods is being prevented from crossing the bridge each uh every day and
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that is the impetus for this state of emergency but you know as we talked to ezra before in the office
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it's funny isn't it just two years ago the railroad bulkades billions and billions of uh damage to
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the canadian economy went on for weeks no demon uh demonization of those people no vilification
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by the government and the media and no real urgent timetable i mean it was eventually shut down but
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it went on for several weeks this is day five of this protest so i guess it you know depends on uh
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oh i don't know identity politics in terms of what is an emergency and what is not an emergency
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even when you're talking about the money angle well yeah and if someone wanted to talk about economic
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loss i would suggest to you that doug ford's own lockdown and justin trudeau's lockdown have caused
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a billion dollars of damage a day uh to our economy perhaps even more uh okay so behind you is windsor
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is what you're saying um are there is there anything else that's of interest to look at where you are
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um well i can tell you we uh we can't really show up by camera we're out of range but what's been
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happening uh in the last several hours is increased policing increased uh concrete uh blockades of roads
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so the feeling here i mean when i was here with natasha on tuesday night there was a real festive
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atmosphere you know people literally dancing in the streets playing road hockey now there's an
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ominous feeling ezra it's like they're waiting for that shoe to drop they know the state of emergency
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has been declared uh the city of windsor and two automobile manufacturing associations were in superior
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court at noon trying to get an injunction uh the last i checked i don't know if they got it or not
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uh let's assume they they get it um so there is an ominous feeling especially with the consequences
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if they stay so we're here we don't know when uh this is going to happen oh i can also tell you this
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ezra we have seen more and more law enforcement coming into the city of windsor where we're staying
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the hotel we're staying at ezra uh waterloo police uh which are i believe waterloo might be almost 200
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kilometers away from windsor uh they're here on mass so something's going to happen the question is
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when yeah very interesting well of course uh at that hearing i want to let you know david
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that the democracy fund had lawyers that were granted intervener status status to speak up for
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civil liberties so i don't know how that hearing uh concluded but i'm very pleased to say that civil
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liberties lawyers from our friends at the democracy fund were in there making the case uh for a light
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touch from authorities we'll see how it goes i'm really glad you're down there thanks very much for
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joining us i know you guys did the live stream at noon today which was great so thanks for the update
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and um you know i think that if there's going to be enforcement action anywhere it'll probably be at
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that bridge which is so economically important uh i uh i know that trudeau has the legal tools
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and doug ford has the legal tools to make arrests and move those vehicles without emergency powers
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without his insane fever dreams of the military so i think there's some cowardice and also some
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realization that they if they go in too heavy-handed that'll please the bloodlust of the media party but i
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think it could cause a general strike in canada and i know that sounds absurd but i think describing
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this trucker protest as a general strike is the most accurate description it's not just truckers
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it's farmers it's regular people it's all across the country it's a general strike which i think frankly
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is appropriate given the general crisis and the complete failure of the entire establishment
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we'll see how it goes but i appreciate you being there on the ground david well thank you so much
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for this opportunity to report from windsor uh ezra and uh we uh meeting uh isabel my camera person
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and i we are here uh to witness what's going to go down i think you're right it's going to be
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a very delicate operation i will say this unlike ottawa where the it's a logistical nightmare it might
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take weeks to move all those rigs out with heavy toes this is a much more doable disassembly process
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i think and uh like i said not a matter of if but when uh law enforcement comes in and uh we'll be
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here to make sure we catch it on camera my friend all right well there you have it david the men's
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or men's east thanks for being on the scene at the ambassador bridge and uh stay safe my friend
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thank you right on there you have it stay with us more ahead
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hey welcome back your letters t urban says canada has sparked love and unity for freedom for all
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people all over the world evil hates this and will always overplay its hand stay strong true north strong
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and free we love you i have seen echoes of this convoy around the world and i think that it's
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really absurd i don't know why the entire establishment maybe because they can't lose face
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but as i asked the other day why did every single jurisdiction in the whole world every country every
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city every state every public health officer all say and do the exact same things i mean how did that
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happen that that doesn't seem like a natural coincidence like all of them why are they all so
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vicious with mandates like what like if you really do have 90 percent of people vaxxed why are you so
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insane about the last 10 percent like the truckers and stuff like you're willing to bring in the military
00:34:12.520
to take on a peaceful protest why it's the it's just i don't understand it it's about power it's not
00:34:21.560
about health that's i don't understand it someone with the nickname the uneducated sheep says section
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12 of the charter as part of the constitution is a legal rights section that protects an individual's
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freedom from cruel and unusual punishments canada everyone has the right not to be subjected to any
00:34:38.600
cruel unusual treatment of punishment like hundred thousand dollar fines yeah i don't believe that uh
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that threat by doug ford will see the light of day i mean i'm sure he will promulgate the law
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but a hundred thousand dollar fine for a parking offense is cruel and unusual treatment you're
00:34:54.920
exactly right it's so absurd especially if you're dealing with someone who was peaceful first time
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offense non-violent just said no i'm having really a sit-in on the bridge here um i don't think i'd be
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i would be surprised if you had anything more than a conditional discharge i don't know maybe you're
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going to have a judge who hates these folks but as i've said when we've done our crowdfunding
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for lawyers uh for these truckers my point is you know if terrorists like omar qatar and
00:35:21.160
college sheikh muhammad and saddam hussein can be given a good lawyer the least we can do for
00:35:26.040
these truckers is to give them a good lawyer so we're crowdfunding those well that's our show for
00:35:29.960
today until monday on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters keep fighting for freedom
00:35:35.640
you know the rebels are going to be out there on the streets on the weekend across the country
00:35:39.400
we're the news you can trust because we're right there on the ground cbc is taking their
00:35:44.760
marching orders from justin trudeau we just show you what's happening let me leave you with our
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video of the day mass ticketing of peaceful protesters in milk river alberta let's see how
00:35:56.280
far that goes and you bet we'll be defending people with either rebel news or our friends at
00:36:01.880
the civil liberties charity the democracy fund more on that but let me leave you with that video
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i just got off the phone with uh calling adam seuss who was up at milk river and he says that now
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there is another rcmp checkpoint behind milk river blocking people even getting there
00:36:43.800
just with the press they told me to come around this way okay so rebel news yes okay just one
00:36:48.520
second let me check in with them yeah if you give me 30 seconds and we'll get you on your way no rush man
00:36:52.040
thanks so folks an urgent and critical update right away from here just outside of milk river at the rcmp
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blockade the rcmp just had a press conference and they have announced that they have staged a new
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legal protest area closer to milk river where people are being urged to move effectively what
00:37:13.480
we're hearing is that if people do not move to that area there will be enforcement they would not go into
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too much detail but potentially arrest certainly ticketing if people do not move willingly
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from the perspective of the police i can say that the people behind us have been very pleasant to deal with
00:37:32.280
there's been some incidents that have taken place but overall it hasn't been violent we're staying put
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and uh we're holding the line peacefully and uh you know what they can write us tickets uh we're not
00:37:45.720
doing anything we're on public land right to protest and uh we're we're not going anywhere
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are trying to get people to move out of this place right
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right we're not going anywhere we're not going anywhere there's going to be more coming okay
00:38:35.780
here's the deal okay like i said i'm i've been working for 25 years i've never done this kind
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of thing before i kind of don't even want to be here in some ways right but i got a couple of kids
00:38:47.240
so that what you see behind you is the commencement of traffic enforcement this is a highway in
00:38:52.760
albertasville the rules of the road and the traffic safety act still obey so as you see the
00:38:59.840
guys moving they're going vehicle to vehicle getting license plates looking for owners and
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so as i've said we're here to keep the peace both on the police side and the public side
00:39:22.720
this line is not moving as you can see they haven't moved they're holding it is a police
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action yeah so this is an unlawful protest communication had gone out that we're going
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to start traffic enforcement so if you look behind us or if you're able to when you are
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they are just doing traffic enforcement nobody's going to jail at this point and that's what we
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want to communicate to everybody nobody's going to jail and i think we're communicating well
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i can't go on the bus i can't go see my 85 year old mother i'll never see her again because i can't travel
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i can't even leave this country i can't even leave canada freedom that's what i'm fighting for god bless you truckers
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effective at midnight the restriction exemption program and all its requirements will come to an end
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i can't speak for everybody but i know from quite a few people i've talked to and myself that it's
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it's always been everything has to be gone completely with no chance of reoccurring
00:40:38.000
like when they put in brackets in their their step one and step two that we'll do these things oh if
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the numbers and things don't you know don't go back up i mean they can manipulate numbers all day
00:40:50.080
long so that doesn't mean anything so until everything's completely gone we're here and we're supporting
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creatingavan everywhere and then the fighting divine flying flying flying flying flying flying flying flying flying
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every single vehicle effectively being ticketed