EZRA LEVANT ｜ If you car is self-driving, can the government turn it off for climate reasons？
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If your car is self-driving, can the government turn it off for climate reasons? It's December 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show on The Ezra Levin Show, where I talk about Elon Musk and the Tesla Semi truck.
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Hello, my Rebels. I've got a question for you. Those self-driving cars look really cool.
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But if your car is being driven by AI, and if it's all registered and connected to the
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government, can your car also be turned off by AI or by the government? If they don't want you to
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drive, say it's a climate lockdown, can they turn off your car? I'll tell you what I think about
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Tonight, if your car is self-driving, can the government turn it off for climate reasons?
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It's December 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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I'm interested in Elon Musk because he is so interesting. His whole family is. His mom,
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May Musk, is a 74-year-old supermodel. Just stunning. And here's his unusual dad explaining
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that he named Elon Musk, who wants to put people on Mars. He named Elon after a character in a book
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written by the original rocket scientist Wernher von Braun about colonizing Mars.
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Wernher von Braun's book, I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book, spoke about
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that the head of the Mars colony would be called the Elon. Now, I remember that, but I never thought
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of it as a name. I never thought it was a person's name. And then when May and I got married,
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I was quite amazed to discover that her father's grandfather or something had been called Elon
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Alderman, which just really reminded me of the stories that we had. And so I thought, well,
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yes, I'd like that name for Elon. I won't go through the whole family. They are unusual.
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Let me just say that. And Elon Musk is the most successful person by many measures in the world.
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Tesla, SpaceX spaceships, Starlink satellite internet. Now he bought Twitter to make it
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a free speech app. He's amazing. I'm not sure how he can divide his attention amongst so many projects
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because while he's done his Twitter thing, Tesla has rolled out their new electric trucks.
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Now, I think I'm still a skeptic of electric vehicles for a number of reasons,
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but you can't deny what he's done. Look at this.
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Electric car maker Tesla unveiled its new heavy-duty semi-trucks on Thursday. The trucks delivered to
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PepsiCo had also completed their first cargo run. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who spoke at the
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company's Nevada plant, the battery-powered truck has three times the power of their diesel counterparts
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It's a beast. So, you know, at Tesla, we don't make slow cars. We don't make... This thing has
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crazy power relative to a diesel truck. I mean, actually, especially if you don't have... If you're
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not towing anything, you could zip around like... It looks crazy, basically. It looks like an elephant
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moving like a cheetah. Clips from Tesla show the truck tested in different weather and road
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conditions. Musk said test runs were conducted between Tesla's Sparks Nevada factory and its
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plant in Fremont, California. Tesla said the over 80,000-pound truck was able to drive 500 miles on
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a single charge. However, it didn't give a breakdown of the cargo it was carrying. Tesla did not offer
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updated forecasts for the truck's pricing or production plans. PepsiCo had ordered 100 trucks in 2017
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when initial prices and plans for the vehicle were announced. Brewer Einhauser-Busch, UPS, and Walmart
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were among other companies that had reserved the semi. But what's really on my mind when I think of Tesla
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isn't the electric power source. It's the driverless feature. Look at this.
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That's a real video of a driverless car driving in the rain in a busy city. And I guess it's safe? I could imagine
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some things going wrong. But of course, that's the difference between being a critic and being the guy
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in the arena who actually gets things done, who actually invented this, isn't it?
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But here's the thing about a computer-controlled car that drives on its own using artificial intelligence.
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So you could theoretically have an app in the car. You could theoretically send a child
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in the car without a grown-up to drive the child. There's so many ramifications. Safety is obviously
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the first one that comes to mind. I would think about jobs too. I mean, there are thousands of people
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who are truckers and delivery boys whose jobs might be made obsolete by this. This reminds me of so many
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drones that are being deployed around the world today. Drones have done a lot of fighting in the
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Ukraine-Russia war. I suppose that's better than people fighting, but the drones are killing people.
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Drones dropping bombs. Drones doing surveillance. And in China, drones are enforcing COVID rules
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with spy cameras and loudspeakers. There's a company in the United States called Boston Dynamics
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that makes robots. I'm not going to show you the most modern ones. I don't think you'd even believe
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that they're robots. I think you might think they're just computer-generated images. Let me show you
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this video from four years ago because it's still unbelievable, but easy enough to still believe.
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It's their dog robot, and they're testing how it does when a human interferes with it. Just watch for a minute.
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and that was four years ago here's a clip of today's robots again
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i don't think you're even going to believe this is real i assure you this is real
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i don't think you're going to believe this is real
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that's not a person dressed up as a robot that is a robot we're so far down this path add in
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artificial intelligence total surveillance and then throw in some totalitarianism maybe a gun
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and it's all over isn't it elon musk says that's the thing he's worried most about
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artificial intelligence or ai taking over the world which is interesting given that he works
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with ai that's the self-driving car part that's part of his spaceships there's ai in there he's
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he's got a company called neural link here's what their website says we are creating the future of
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brain computer interfaces building devices now that have the potential to help people with paralysis
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and inventing new technologies that could expand our abilities our community and our world i'm sure
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that's true letting paralyzed people walk again that's that's amazing but i can think of a few more
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uses for transhumanism besides helping the disabled i can think of much more malign uses
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transhumanism that means moving beyond human and merging with computers and machines
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that's the near future it might even be the present but let me show you something very real
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that is happening right now as in just last week in the british county of oxfordshire where the famous
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oxford university is located obviously i'll start by reading a bbc story from last week about the
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subject oxfordshire county council approves 6.5 million pound traffic filter scheme traffic filter
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that sounds like it could be good sounds like maybe they're i don't know cleaning the air or something
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no no no they're filtering out you you're the dirt that they're filtering let me read a bit a 6.5
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million pound trial to stop most drivers in oxford from using busy city routes at peak times
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has been improved the six traffic filters were given the go-ahead by oxfordshire county council's
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cabinet earlier it hopes they will cut unnecessary journeys and make walking cycling and public and
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shared transport the natural first choice to stop most drivers just to stop them not sure what the 6.5
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million quid is for and of course don't you worry it's only for unnecessary journeys it'll be stopped i
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i think you yourself are a probably a good judge for yourself of what is necessary and what isn't but
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no longer don't you worry your pretty little head about that those decisions will now be made for you
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by the government they'll determine if your travels are necessary or not here's some more info on the
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scheme the traffic filters are to be placed at height bridge street yeah we don't need bridges do we
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thames street saint cross road saint clemens hollow way marston ferry road they will operate for seven
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days a week from 7 a.m till 7 p.m except those in marston ferry road and hollow way which would only
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operate from 7 a.m till 9 a.m and from 3 p.m till 6 p.m monday to saturday any driver going through a
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filter who is neither exempt nor using a permit would be charged a 70 pound penalty
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so 70 pounds that's 115 canadian dollars so if you drive into the city but some politician says
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it wasn't necessary you have to pay 115 fine let me read some more liam walker shadow cabinet member
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for highways said the plans were hitting residents pockets and impacting businesses he added oxford is
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slowly being shut down under this anti-motorist coalition well of course of course there's going
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to have many consequences many side effects some foreseen some not it's really a form of lockdown
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isn't it i mean they love the covid lockdowns they they learned what they could get away with right
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they're they're telling you who you can or can't visit where you can or can't go they're not pretending
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it's about covid anymore it's a permanent state of affairs know your place show your papers explain
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yourself is your trip necessary you must answer to the law i wonder if they'll just copy the same
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rules during the lockdown are you going to a funeral are you going to a wedding well were you immediate
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family are they part of your bubble in covid here's the oxford magazine quoting a local counselor who is
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so excited about all this counselor andrew gant oxfordshire county council's cabinet minister member
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for highways management said currently our roads are gridlocked with traffic and this traffic is
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damaging our economy and our environment oxford needs a more sustainable reliable and inclusive
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transport system for everyone traffic filters are an important tool to deliver a transport plan that
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works for all what's an inclusive transport system is that the main point of a transport system to be
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inclusive or is the main point to get people from point a to point b and how is it inclusive if you
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exclude people if you if you ban people except the very rich who could always afford 115 bucks to go
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into town or who are politically connected enough to get an exemption say just a guess what do you bet
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that andrew gant who's very important you know he's the oxfordshire county council's cabinet minister for
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highways management i mean that's an extremely important guy what are the odds he gets an exemption
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because he's just so very important i mean just look at that job title his business card is probably
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so long he has to fold it in half before it fits in his pocket traffic filters are designed to deliver
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safer cleaner and more prosperous place to live work and visit this is not a scheme to stop private vehicles
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in the city exemptions and permits available for residents and businesses will make car journeys faster
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while also improving alternative transport options such as public transport
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how does it make oxford more prosperous if people can't drive in to shop or go to a restaurant and
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pay no attention to your lying eyes this will make car journeys faster people just like a carbon tax makes
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you richer don't you know lower down in the story they actually quote someone who knows just a little bit
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something about prosperity and business in oxford oxford oxford businessman jeremy mogford has publicly
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raised objections to the new bus gates across the city which he claims will be like berlin walls sounds
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lovely but very fitting and just a few days ago clinton pew who owns cafe coco casbar and cafe tarifa on
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cali road unveiled an anti-ltn billboard on the side of cafe coco the oxford businessman and father of
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hollywood actress florence pew described the move as an ill thought out traffic experiment
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i disagree with one part of that the ill thought out part it's not ill thought out it appears that way
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if you think its real goal is to improve the quality of life improve prosperity what else ever they said
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that's just what they say the whole point of this traffic lockdown this climate lockdown
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is the lockdown part the part that's hard the part that's bad the part that's punitive that isn't
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the bug that's the feature that's the point that is why they are doing it it's not ill thought out
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covid climate traffic whatever the excuse is whatever is necessary to say to control your life
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that's what they're doing it for here's how a local radio station is covering it it's like rationing
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you know they did that in the uk during the second world war and afterwards for a while too they were
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so poor they rationed food now they're making you poor they're forcing you to ration your travel it's
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energy poverty really transport poverty they're making it scarce here's what they say transport is
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currently one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis in order to transition to a
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sustainable economy we need to change the way that people get around reducing the number of individual
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journeys by fossil fuel cars and creating the conditions which allow people to travel more by
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foot by bike and by public transport get on foot are you a mom with a with a new baby well get on foot
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are you disabled well get on foot are you elderly just ride your bike or just don't leave your house
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didn't you practice not leaving your house during the covid lockdowns we'll do that again
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counselor emily care transport spokesperson for the green party group on oxford city council described it
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as an important step towards fixing oxford's broken transport system transport is currently one of the
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biggest contributors to the climate crisis that's what this is about it's about ideology it's not
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about traffic or congestion congestion or roads or anything it's about an anti-industry anti-modernity
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anti-car superstition that if we all live more poorly somehow the weather gods will change things
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really no different than the aztecs sacrificing slaves to appease the gods there's another local report
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my favorite line is this one take a look six new traffic filters in oxford have been approved
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following a debate featuring more than 50 opinions from the public county and oxford city councilors
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people representing lobby groups and standalone members of the public came forward but despite
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the presence of police and security proceedings had to be paused twice because of shouting from the
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public gallery one of the speakers an objector was escorted away for refusing to stop speaking
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at the end of her allotted time as she shouted in the chamber at county hall calling on counselors to
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resign that was partly responsible for one of the pauses
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hey just a hunch here if you have to have police and security drag away peaceful citizens because
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they're objecting to your traffic rationing plan maybe you might be i don't know a touch on the
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authoritarian side here's a detail left out of all the other reports i showed you so far i think it's where
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the money is going that 6.5 million pounds they're spying on you in case you don't know they're tracking
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you it's like china the barriers equipped with surveillance cameras will prevent private cars
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traveling through much of the center of the city without a permit other vehicles including buses coaches
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taxis vans mopeds and hgvs will continue to have access at all times oh so so it really is the full-on
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chinese surveillance state experience plus their social credit system they're not even pretending
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are they so yeah i think the uk failed the test you know covid was a test what could the government
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get away with what would the population put up with we all learned we all observed expect a lot more
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lockdowns and and a lot more passports to go to a restaurant to go to shops or even just to use your car
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oh that electric self-driving car business well about that if you drive a regular car you can still
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drive it where and when you want to drive it maybe you might be spotted and arrested or given a ticket
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if you're going where they don't want you to go but you're still the one driving it but those
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those new self-driving cars i suppose someone could just flip a switch and those things are turned off
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by the car company or or by the government the self-driving car is pretty cool but you're never
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riding alone are you you're riding with the deep state right there with you watching every move you
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make tracking you and if need be stopping you for the climate stay with us for more
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what we're based in canada which had one of the harshest lockdowns in the world the city of
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toronto i believe had the title for the most locked down city in north america montreal was vying for
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second place of course they actually had curfews whether you were sick or not whether you were vaxxed
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or not you were not allowed outside your home from 10 p.m to 5 a.m and of course our australian reporter
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avi amini was in ground zero of lockdowns down under in the city of melbourne which was especially
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punitive and even violent i never thought that the united states with its freedom culture its
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constitution its bill of rights would follow the same path and indeed places like florida showed the
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way putting freedom ahead of fear but what about this shocking case a restaurant in the state of
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virginia they of course did not bend the knee to the covid lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 and they got
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into a dust-up with the law back then but here it is almost 2023 and the restaurant owned by matt strickland
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a military veteran in the united states was raided by police just this past week and matt strickland being a
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savvy man of the internet filmed the whole encounter on his cell phone and posted it online
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here's an excerpt from the police raid on his restaurant and i emphasize this didn't happen
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a year or two ago this happened days ago take a look i've actually been found to be detrimental to
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the community but you're still going to shut a man's business down over there
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you're not here to discuss whether or not they're unconscious you're just here to do your job right
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and you're going to enforce that regardless right yeah so you're part of the problem man i want you
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to know that you're part of the problem you're part of the problem you're part of the problem
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everybody in here every one of you man what's going on in this country right now the reason that we're
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in the situation we're in as the united states of america you're part of the problem sir so you can't
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complain about what the president's doing you can't complain about the state that the country's in right
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now you can't you can't complain about how screwed up it is you're part of the problem sir you're just
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doing your job so many people were just doing their job for hitler back in germany you as well
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sir that goes that goes for you as well that goes for you as well that goes for all of you
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that goes for all of you man there's no excuse there's zero excuse
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just doing my job that's not an excuse anymore man that's not an excuse you guys just doing your job
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is facilitating what's going on in this country right now you're shutting down a man's livelihood
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well the voice in that footage is that of matt strickland the restaurant owner and veteran he's
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actually taking his campaign for freedom to the ballot box he's running for virginia senate he joins us now
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via via skype from virginia mr strickland pleasure to meet you tell us what it was like being raided
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on the eve of 2023 i thought all this was long past there were at least four police officers there am i
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right oh yeah there were way more than four police officers there were i think about 20 25 police
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officers there um i think they know how much support i have in the community since i've been fighting
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these covid mandates since the beginning and um and i do have a ton of support in the community because
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of people with common sense they uh they feel like i feel they're they're fed up with the government
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trying to take away our constitutional rights and our god-given rights and uh so i think they felt that
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my supporters were going to show up and um and cause a scene so that's why they they brought so many
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police officers i'm just guessing i don't know but they showed up in force that's for sure
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yeah it's strange to me that armed police uh deal with health measures or i think what they were
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doing in this case correct me if i'm wrong is they were trying to enforce a liquor license they they
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took away your liquor license because of this and they were using that as a technicality uh
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did any of them uh threaten to arrest you to jail you i mean i just find it an odd sight in the in
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not in australia or canada but we're not as free as you are i find it a very odd sight in the united
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states to see armed police tackling the great criminal hot spot of a restaurant it just feels un-american
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to me well it's it's very un-american and and that's why you have so many people who believe
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that there is um a higher power at play that goes outside of political parties goes outside of country
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borders um you know people believe that there's this globalist power that is trying to take over
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you know not just a certain country but the entire world and you know it's hard to deny it when so many
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countries including the united states of america are implementing ridiculous mandates and just
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blatantly stripping their citizens uh constitutional and god-given rights away right under right under
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their noses but the most disappointing thing about it is how many citizens just blindly comply i i don't
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get it i'll never get it and um and yes they did threaten to arrest me on uh multiple times that day
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they've been threatening to arrest me for you know almost three years now but uh what they have to
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understand is um i don't give a damn about getting arrested i'm not scared to go to prison i joined
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the army when i was 17 years old i've been ready to die for this country since i was 17 years old
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and i'll be ready to die for this country until i'm no longer on this earth so going to prison does
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not scare me at all what scares me is thinking about what might be the future of my country if i don't
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fight back right now because i have four children and what i'm not going to do is sit back and
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live a comfortable life as comfortable as i can and pass this fight on to them i'm not doing that
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i'm fighting right now to make sure i set them up for success in the future and that's my whole goal
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in this now you mentioned you're a veteran i think that's a fairly well-known fact about you just
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looking at the four faces in that video clip frankly they looked like i mean you can't judge a book by its
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cover but those four if you could judge by their faces and the uniforms and their countenance they
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look like good cops they look like people who believe in the constitution and i think you were
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right to shame them for complying and going along i think you had the right angle they surely know
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that you're a veteran and you've served the country it am i wrong to say they were uncomfortable
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doing what they did because they seemed like the kind of guys who would normally be on your side
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the side of freedom and there they were carrying out some petty mandate more suitable to an
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authoritarian regime i don't want to put too much stock in what some guy looks like in the uniform
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but i mean because terrible things have been done by people in uniforms throughout the sweep of history
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but it looked like they were uncomfortable there and it looks like your upgrading of them got through
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to them a little bit at least in their minds yeah i believe you're right you're correct i noticed the
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same thing they definitely looked uncomfortable and if i had to guess i would say that uh they don't
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agree with the coveted mandates and they did not want to be in there shutting my business down
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but the problem is we're in this position because like i said before so many people just blindly
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comply and the government and these different corporations and organizations they know
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if they hang our livelihood over our head our ability to provide for our family majority of us
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are going to cave they know that and that's exactly what happened but you have a choice and like i always
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say we are the police we are the military we are the teachers we're the community we are the people
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of the united states of america if we all stand together there's nothing that these criminal politicians
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can do because we outnumber them by far and if there's nobody to enforce their ridiculous mandates
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then they won't be enforced but people are just scared into complying i had a choice as well it was
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uncomfortable for me i was scared as hell you know uh fighting against the mandates because i'm out here on
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an island no other restaurant in virginia stood up like i stood up and fought back against the covid
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mandates and if i sat here and told you that i wasn't worried about my future and what was going to happen
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to me and my family i'd be lying to you but i but i but i also knew that if i didn't stand up and fight
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back that whatever could potentially be the outcome of that was was uh far less worse than the outcome if
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i if i just blindly comply and go along with this and let the world maybe the united states of america be
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molested now uh the state of virginia is very interesting politically it's got different parts it
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touches washington dc that's a particular part of virginia it's got different demographics but
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it sort of made world headlines about a year ago when a republican named glenn youngkin ran on a pretty
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conservative freedom-oriented platform and he won he turned around joe biden's 2020 lead and he won
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for the republicans the state and i i want to ask you this doesn't seem like a glenn youngkin move
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he seems cut more from the cloth of a de santis or an abbott in florida or texas someone who might be
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uh might consider giving an amnesty to restaurants or other businesses like yours who may have tangled
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with an inappropriate bylaw i remember in texas when there was a hairdresser who was facing prosecutions
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and the governor just said i give a blanket amnesty we're not enforcing any of these local mandates
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uh poof it's done and ronda santis did the same thing in florida do you think there's a chance that
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your republican governor would do the same because it feels like this is not a battle for december 2022
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and it's not a battle for glenn youngkin yeah i i mean he ran his campaign on the premise that these
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covid lockdowns and these covid mandates were were not right were illegal and were unconstitutional
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and that he would change things if he won and then he won and then he did hit the ground running and
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he went to work right away and he did a lot of good things here in virginia um but he hasn't done
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everything obviously and he knows about my situation because i have personally told him about my situation
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multiple times face to face um through emails he was at my restaurant just about a month ago
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and because we did a big event for yes lee vega who was a republican candidate for for congress here
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in virginia and um so he knows about my story bottom line and why he hasn't acted you know to this point
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i'm not sure i can't speak for his motivations or why he hasn't acted yet um he still has time i'm still
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holding out hope that he'll jump in and rectify the situation but um but he hasn't so far and it's
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very confusing to me well the fact that you say he attended a republican event is that right it was a
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republican event at your restaurant that's that's very symbolic i mean he would have known where he was
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going in his mere presence is a kind of moral support i mean you you wouldn't go to a place you
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regarded as disreputable or morally reprehensible so the very fact that he attended your establishment
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i find hopeful and you're right it is confusing if he attends your restaurant one month and the next
00:33:06.820
month there's a bunch of cops enforcing some order so maybe he just hasn't got all the facts in front of
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him all right what's the state of things now do you have a lawyer fighting for you do you have a
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crowdfunding campaign how how are you going to fight back yeah i do have a lawyer his name is
00:33:27.220
jonathan amord and he's one of the best constitutional lawyers here in the u.s so i'm in good hands as far
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as that goes um as far as crowdfunding goes uh i just saw i mean right i think right before i came on
00:33:39.940
the show that somebody did start a uh crowdfunding like a gofundme or something like that um for my
00:33:47.220
family and i i don't i'm not sure how to access it i just found out um to be honest with you but
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i don't know what the future holds and i don't know what happens next um i hope what happens next
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is the governor jumps in and he saves all of this all of the businesses here in virginia that are being
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prosecuted for coven mandates not sure if there's any others other than me um but i do know that
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governor northam dropped the hammer on the entire state of virginia and i believe that it's time for
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his past time for governor yonkin to come to to come in and uh and make sure that from this point
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on no other business here in virginia is prosecuted for any of these coven mandates and that's what i'm
00:34:27.060
hoping he does and i'm hoping he does it sooner rather than later but uh if anybody you know wants to
00:34:32.580
follow my story or uh stay updated with what's going on or even help and contribute um my website is
00:34:39.300
matt for va.com and it's all spelled out m-a-t-t-f-o-r-v-a.com and then uh on social media
00:34:47.460
my handles are at matt for va so if you guys want to stay abreast of what's going on and um stay
00:34:53.220
updated that's where you can do so and if you want to contribute um you can do so um that way as well
00:35:00.420
right on well we're based in canada but we feel like we're dealing with the same issues up here
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and it's a little surprising to hear it to come from the united states of america which we know is
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in many ways the freest country in the world so we are interested we will follow your story
00:35:15.540
i wish you good luck with your constitutional lawyer if you've got a good constitutional lawyer
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that i'm very glad to hear it and it sounds like the governor maybe just needs to get a few more facts
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in front of him if he shows up at your restaurant i think that's very important that's a sign that he's
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not buying into the lockdown mentality so hopefully he'll do the right thing like they did
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in florida and texas we'll certainly keep in touch with you and we'll wish you good luck in your
00:35:40.260
campaign i hope that you take this freedom fighting energy that you're using for your own establishment
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i hope that it grows and that you can take it into the virginia senate and wouldn't that be something
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wouldn't that be take turning a bad thing into a good thing if they targeted you for the
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lockdowns and the long-term outcome of that was to put a freedom fighting veteran
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in the virginia senate well that would be a poetic justice i think matt strickland pleasure to talking
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with you we'll have your uh contact info your website and your twitter handle below this video
00:36:15.940
for people to stay in touch thanks for spending the time with us we're in canada but we do have
00:36:20.580
viewers around the united states and we are interested in freedom everywhere so thanks for taking the time
00:36:25.620
well thank you so much for having me on and and allowing me to share my story because it is
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important and i want to say hello and thank you to all of my brothers and sisters uh up north across
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the border in canada we're fighting like hell for you down here in the united states of america and we
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will win i promise you it's going to be a fight um and it's not going to happen overnight but we will
00:36:47.300
win down here and we'll spread that freedom and love up there to you guys in canada we won't let
00:36:52.180
them we won't let them win and uh and conquer the world and change the landscape of the world freedom
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will always prevail and it's because of patriots like you and me that that will happen right on
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well from your mouth to god's ears thanks for your time today and good luck thank you sir i appreciate
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it right on there you have it matt strickland he's running for the virginia senate and he's fighting
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for his freedom and that of his restaurant stay with us more ahead
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hey welcome back your letters to me a peter story says hi ezra your show this evening was absolutely
00:37:32.020
brilliant a masterpiece you really nailed it thank you well thanks very much i think i had good
00:37:37.860
material to work with if you're talking about that journalism panel there were a lot of crazy
00:37:42.180
things said there but the craziest thing was not a flicker not a moment not a blink of an eye did they
00:37:49.060
think are we doing anything wrong as journalists no no no no no no it was the viewers they need to be
00:37:55.700
shut up they're the problem mac o is deal bh i don't know what that means but it's a name says
00:38:02.660
this whole conversation was a self-inflicted joke these people can't see that they are hilarious parody
00:38:07.300
themselves laughable oh yeah you know what that fifth generation settler colonist self-hating white
00:38:14.740
male apologist was so pitiful like if you really hate yourself so much why don't you resign and give
00:38:22.580
the job to someone who is i don't know racially or gender-wise superior to you like if you really
00:38:28.820
hate yourself why don't you quit unless it's all just bs calder 123a says she calls the new twitter
00:38:37.380
toxic but gives no examples of this alleged toxicity free speech for all is toxic also it's strange how
00:38:44.260
the left always babbles about diversity but seems no problem with limiting men who are nearly 50 percent
00:38:48.900
of the population just like their definition of diversity certainly doesn't include christian
00:38:52.900
conservatives yeah or just how about someone who's not from toronto how about someone who
00:39:00.180
is with independent media who has a different point of view um that's why they hate what's being done to
00:39:06.340
twitter actually if you believe the statistics the hate speech and the spam on twitter is reduced and
00:39:11.860
they've eliminated child porn in like one week they didn't eliminate it for 10 years under the previous
00:39:17.460
owners in one week elon musk eliminated so a lot of the toxicity is actually gone from twitter and
00:39:23.860
the result is more user engagement than ever before in twitter's history but they hate it because they know
00:39:30.580
that in twitter they don't get to control the conversation what you saw in that journalist
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conference was a kind of guild a kind of you know we must create barriers to entry and not let
00:39:42.180
anyone else into the public square only we can condemn people only we can belittle people only
00:39:48.580
we can insult people in the moment they clap back we're calling the cops the lowest part of that whole
00:39:53.940
thing was sitting in the corner was the man paying for it all a liberal cabinet minister who happens to
00:39:59.060
be in charge of public safety and they repeatedly told him they wanted police to crack down on the mean
00:40:04.340
tweets and he nodded along dumbly he really is one of the dumbest guys in cabinet but the fact that you
00:40:09.220
consider yourself journalists and yet you are in league with the government shows you are not journalists
00:40:14.420
anymore you're propaganda men for the regime hey let me close with something really fun that i only saw on the
00:40:20.260
internet today someone went through the two and a half hours of that panel and spent a lot of time choosing
00:40:28.180
these great clips couple of them are put in out of order it's it's slightly tricky here but this is the funniest
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thing i've seen online all day so let me leave you with this two minute highlight reel i
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didn't make this i found this on twitter of that journalistic conference you'll get a real kick out
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of it so i'll say goodbye to you now but take a look at this video after i say goodbye it really was
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the highlight of my day until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you
00:40:53.780
at home goodbye and keep fighting for freedom here's that vid i need to warn you that you're going to hear
00:41:00.980
some harsh disturbing language let me begin with the land acknowledgement as a fifth generation settler
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and dismantle white supremacist colonial mindsets that journalists who are harassed online have
00:41:16.100
significantly more symptoms of anxiety depression and post-traumatic distress i went through a digital
00:41:23.780
lynching recently because i've been dealing with so much trolling that i actually disengaged and because
00:41:28.500
my brain doesn't work that great these days i wish this panel were more intersectional it does not
00:41:33.460
reflect an intersectional look i do not seek white men privileged white people especially like white
00:41:41.780
male journalists or white supremacists and that uh journalist i'm supposed to come here and act
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properly and i would like to ask them if they know the definition of misogynoir it's a really tough
00:41:57.860
question which is misogyny against black women so media treats black women very poorly because as
00:42:05.460
journalists we're like constantly on twitter we're all about twitter when the queen died but i didn't
00:42:10.820
see many voices that wrote like i did who said well i'm glad the queen is dead and let me tell you why
00:42:17.780
so maybe i'll make a tick tock far right and the rise of the far right and i'm at the park with my dog
00:42:23.460
these are all either convoy people or convoy adjacent people i like pumpkin spice lattes you're
00:42:30.740
fucked you're straight up fucked maybe because i'm annoying or maybe just because i'm a journalist
00:42:37.940
how do you get those police officers to take this seriously
00:42:42.740
um but maybe that's a little something to think about you know i'm as white and middle-aged as
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they get so i'm the poster boy for white privilege so i apologize for that