EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m sorry to tell you, but Australia is at it again
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In this episode, I take you back to Australia to see what's going on in a place where the police are doing the most shocking things in the world. I talk about a woman who was put in a COVID detention camp against her will even though she had no virus, she didn't test positive, she just was associated with someone who was. No hearing, no trial, no appeal. Just told, pack your bags and go, or there's a $5,000 fine if you delay.
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Hello, Rebels. Today I'm going to take you back to Australia. There's so much news in that place.
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I'm going to show you a shocking video interview of a woman who was put in a COVID detention camp
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against her will. Even though she had no virus, she didn't test positive, she just was associated
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with someone who was. No hearing, no trial, no appeal. Just told, pack your bags and go,
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or there's a $5,000 fine if you delay. Just a shocking, shocking story. I'll take you through
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it. I still can't believe it. Hey, by the way, before we get to that, I really want to invite
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this key video that she filmed from the detention camp. I just really, really want you to see it
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Tonight, I'm sorry to tell you, but Australia's at it again. It's December 3rd, and this is the Ezra
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Levant Show. I'm so glad I visited Australia in the before times. I don't think I would do very well
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there now. New Zealand's worse. I wonder if that's because they're so far away from everywhere else
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that other countries, other people, don't take it personally when they start to fall into fascism. I
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mean, I think people in Vancouver really care about people in Seattle. People in Calgary care about
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Houston, Dallas, Denver, Winnipeg, and Minneapolis, Toronto, and Montreal, and Halifax have a connection
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to New York and Boston because they're neighbors across a high fence sometimes, but there's an
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affinity, isn't there? Who amongst us feels that closeness to Sydney or Melbourne, let alone the
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sparse northern territory of Australia? There's no buddy system in effect, I mean. There's not enough
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intercourse with the rest of the free world. Here's a new story. Don't know if you saw this one.
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I mean, communist China just slides right in there. They've adopted the premier of the state of
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Victoria, Dan Andrews. He loves them. They love him. He copies them. Here's another story from New
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Zealand. The monstrous socialist prime minister there, Jacinda Ardern. There are lots of third world
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colonies of China these days. It's just sad to see a former ally like New Zealand in that list too.
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Um, it's ideology. It's also cash. It's also that we're not paying attention.
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So that's one explanation I have for why Australia and New Zealand have had some of the most shocking
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lockdowns in the free world. I could be wrong. And I don't, like I said, shouldn't throw stones. I mean,
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here in Montreal, a city of millions in Canada, literally they had a nighttime curfew for months on
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end. Like it was a city of teenage girls, not a city of free citizens. So I guess who are we as
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Canadians to throw stones, but it's my theory. Australia was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
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That's my theory. Austria and Germany. Well, I guess their excuse is far darker.
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Today, I want to show you two videos from Australia. The first one is troubling because
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it shows police abusing a young girl, obviously who had done nothing wrong. It's powerful because
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the amassed crowd chants shame at the police, which is interesting. And because the police so
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obviously don't care. That's the thing. When police don't care about having the consent of the public
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or having the trust and support of the public, when they are numb to it or actually have taught
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themselves to despise the public, you're hurtling towards a police state in a dangerous way. I think
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that a policeman who enforces lockdowns or masks or vaccine checks in 2022, which is just four weeks
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away, would be unrecognizable to police to themselves back in 2019. I mean, what's this?
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Are you just fine with that? That was in the University of Western Ontario. The answer is
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everyone in that class was fine with that. The professor was fine with that. The police
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were fine with that. Everyone was fine with that in Canada. Here's the scene. I mean,
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this is from down under. This is a video that Avi did. Take a look.
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My father, my coach, my teacher, lost my job. You guys have your job and you're arresting
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kids. Are you kidding me? What's happening? I'm fucking some little girl, these fucking heroes.
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My mate, we're sitting on top of the bus stop and then they're like, get down. We get down,
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say, yeah, we'll do that. Fine. Three of the cops start grabbing and groping my mate,
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saying she's arrested. There's two little girls just sitting up on the bus stop. The cops come
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along, they hop down and then they decided to bust the crap out of them. One of our cameras
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actually captured the moment where the young lady was walking around looking for her friend that was
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just arrested. You could clearly see her looking around trying to find her friend.
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There's something inhuman about big burly men with body armor and guns beating up a small
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unarmed, unarmed, innocent girl. It's uncivilized. It's brutal. It's antisocial. It feels taboo on a
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deep genetic level. That happens a lot these days in Australia. Police knocked down a grandma in her
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70s and that wasn't enough. They gave her a good pepper spray in the face just to show her Australia
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is fine this day. I've seen a lot of that over these past two years. How many videos have you seen
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of beta males, compliant, progressive men, hounding a lone woman in a grocery store for not wearing a
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mask? They would never do it if she was with a man. I mean, there are four possible permutations for
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a scolding. A woman could scold a man. A woman could scold a woman. A man could scold a man or a man could
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scold a woman. There's four possibilities, right? 90% of the videos I've seen are men, male feminists,
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scolding women, and never if there's another guy around. They wouldn't dare. That's my observation.
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There's something deeper going on there when men pick on women. I think so. I've told you before
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that our company has changed over the past two years. Our staff has changed a bit, our allies,
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our audience, our donors a bit, not totally, a bit. We're much more female, twice as much according
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to Google Analytics in terms of our viewership. People who probably wouldn't have thought of
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themselves as rebel news fans before the pandemic. Lots of moms worried about their children. Lots of
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young women worried about their own ability to have kids. Lots of nurses and teachers about to be fired
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and finding no help from the men who said that they would help. I put it to you that it is a measurement
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of the evil of the regime that so many of its personal targets are women, and gratuitously so.
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I don't know, maybe I'm wrong on that. You tell me. Am I being sexist? So let me show you a video from
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a British website called Unherd, spelled H-E-R-D, like a herd of cattle, Unherd. That's a great name,
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isn't it? They're contrarian, they're dissident, sort of like the word rebel. So they interviewed a woman
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who was put into one of Australia's COVID detention camps. It's a long interview. It's 20 minutes. I
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encourage you to find it and watch it in full. It's excellent. Let me show you three full minutes.
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Again, watch the whole thing yourself from Unherd on YouTube. They did a great job. Watch these three
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minutes. Yeah, so tell us about what we're about to see here. So this is, these are the officials inside
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the camp who are disciplining you because you were apparently not being contained within your area. Is
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that right? Yeah, correct. So I went to the bin to put something in the bin that I was not wearing a
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mask. Mind you, I actually have an exemption. I don't need to wear a mask. I have a medical condition.
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And the person that came to hand me the notice was another police officer.
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So what's, what's the go? So this I'm going to give you a warning, yeah? It's an official
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warning that you have to stay on the balcony and obey the rules while you get, yeah? And
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that's, we have to go the rules again. I don't care. So am I allowed to go to the laundry? You're
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allowed to go to the laundry, but you've got to wear a mask, yeah? Yeah, righto. And you definitely
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can't go to the fence anywhere else, but you're allowed to go to the laundry, yeah? That's always been
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the case, yeah? Right, so if I was sitting just here, which is right near the fence, why are these
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guys in a cabin that's right near the fence? It makes no sense, does it? Yeah, but you
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can't leave your balcony to go to the fence to talk to somebody else. That's what I'll
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do, yeah? So if I was about that balcony. Again, it doesn't have to make sense. There's
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always, there has to be lines everywhere drawn, yeah? And one of the lines is you cannot leave
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your balcony and you cannot go to someone else. Where it makes no sense or it doesn't seem
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right to you, that is the line and that's what the law is, yeah? And that's how I go, yeah?
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The law. Well, the show direction. There's a law that says that.
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The show direction, yep. There's a show direction, yeah? And how the behaviour must be done, especially
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in this area, because it's much more highly infectious and likely to have infected people,
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yeah? Highly infectious when all of us people are negative.
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So correct. So far, the risk is still very high, yeah?
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While you're here, can we just do that? Otherwise, the next time it's a $5,000 fine and we don't
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If you breach again. If I walk out onto that path.
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Without your mask on, for no reason, I don't want to do that.
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The rule of saying that you've broken the rule.
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That I've broken the rule, I will be issued with a $5,000 fine.
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Okay. I could have, we could even do that now, but we're giving the warning first.
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I just want everybody to do the right thing and unfortunately, it's my job to make sure they do.
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I'm just there to make sure they're moving right here.
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Like what was your feeling about being in that situation with those people in control of your every movement?
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They just overpower you and you're literally nothing.
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It's like you do what we say or you're in trouble.
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They were even threatening me that if I was to do this again, we will extend your time in here.
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So the officers within the camp have the power to keep you there longer if you misbehave?
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And at one stage, is it true that they offered you Valium?
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So because I was so distressed and I said, can you just please let me out for a walk or a run?
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And they literally said, we've got a doctor calling you and we'll get some Valium prescribed to you that you can call us anytime you like and you can have Valium.
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The one thing I didn't tell you is, and maybe you heard her say it in the beginning, this woman is not sick.
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You heard her say that, but she was arrested and sent to this jail because a friend of hers was sick.
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So she was traced as a contact because the police ran her license plate or something.
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First, they sent undercover cops, then uniformed cops and said she had to go to this camp or get a $5,000 fine, even though she's not sick.
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She had to leave her home and go to this camp and they wouldn't give her a test to prove she wasn't sick.
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And the petty rules there, cross that line and it's legal, go a few feet that way and it's illegal, but they can do it.
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Well, apparently, apparently they can extend the jailing for a political offense like putting your toe across a yellow line.
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I'm just doing the right thing if he does say so himself.
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A guy like me doesn't do a lot of exercise, but normal people do.
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Cooped up in that house, that little hut for two weeks.
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So this, I'm going to give you a warning, yeah?
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It's an official warning that you have to stay in the balcony and obey the rules while you get it, yeah?
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You're allowed to go to the laundry, but you've got to wear a mask, yeah?
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And you definitely can't go up to the fence anywhere else.
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So if I was sitting just here, which is right near the fence, why are these guys in a cabin that's right near the fence?
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Yeah, but you can't leave your balcony to go to the fence to talk to somebody else.
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And one of the lines is you cannot leave your balcony and you cannot go to someone else.
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Where it makes no sense or it doesn't seem right to you, that is the line and that's what the law is there and that's how I go, yeah?
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And how the behaviour must be done, especially in this area because it's much more highly infectious and likely to have infected people, yeah?
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Highly infectious when all of us people are negative.
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Otherwise, the next time it's a $5,000 fine and we don't want to do that.
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That's the rule of saying that you've broken the rule.
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That I've broken the rule, I will be issued with a $5,000 fine.
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We could even do that now, but we're giving the warning first.
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I just want everybody to do the right thing and unfortunately, it's my job to make sure they do.
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I said it's jarring to hear fascism in an Aussie accent.
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In the movies, they always had a German accent.
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Last I checked that tweet, I actually had more than one million impressions online.
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When you see friendly Aussies in the sunshine, you don't think fascists, right?
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You think, oh, there's just some bureaucratic thing going on just like we have here.
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And it's also polite and it's in color, not grainy black and white like all fascists we've
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We have some friends in Australia, the best Australian journalist, Avi Amini, fighting
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But we have some former journalists down there, too.
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She worked for us for a while before leaving us to do her own thing full time.
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It's an interesting, thoughtful, intellectual journal.
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Maybe she got tired of being an outsider, tired of fighting the power.
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So she's being very pro-lockdown, which has confused me ideologically.
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I don't agree with her on everything, of course.
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She was mad that people were criticizing these camps, people from outside Australia.
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Laugh Out Loud just discovered that there's a Howard Springs hashtag on Instagram.
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And it's full of hot babes posing at what Tim Cash calls a concentration camp.
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And she says it might be pleasant with air conditioning, nice food and free Wi-Fi.
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You might not be forced to go there just given the option if you can't isolate at home.
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You might be able to drink beer and watch Netflix for two weeks while getting paid by the government.
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Well, I don't think they're literally Auschwitz because Auschwitz was a death camp, more than just a concentration camp.
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But detention of healthy people in a camp away from home with abusive conditions and bizarre, unintelligible bullying rules.
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I think we can certainly call it a prison, even if it is sunnier than it was in Poland and Germany.
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And unlike Claire's tweet, it wasn't a matter of choice for that young lady we saw being interviewed by UnHerd.
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Now, Claire was defending Australia's honor, I think.
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She was defending thoughtful, humane health policy.
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She tweeted this to mock excitable Americans about to go for a run in the glorious Australian sunshine.
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She was showing that she was fine with everything.
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But, of course, the woman in the camp wasn't allowed to go for a run in the glorious sunshine, was she?
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Oh, but she could get all the Valium she wanted to cope for two weeks or four weeks if she crossed some yellow line or whatever it would be if she complained.
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I think that Claire Lehman, I think what she said was understandable.
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Because if you had massive 2,000-person detention centers in your country where healthy people were being sent, after no legal process, there was no trial or sentence.
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This woman was told, get in the car, grab your stuff and get in the car.
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If you knew that, you'd have a personal moral crisis on your hands.
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You'd have to find a way of finessing it, of making it square with your lifelong identity as a person, as a citizen in a free country.
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Could you still laugh at Americans for being so obsessed with civil liberties?
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Could you still take pride that your own country was in the first rank of liberal democratic civilization?
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And now that we've all had a good laugh at Claire, how are you feeling about Canada's place amongst the free nations in the world?
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We will have another, like, illegal entrance here in Canada.
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Est-ce qu'on vous a demandé un test négatif ou une preuve de vaccination?
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Pourquoi vous n'utilisez pas la fonction légale de rentrer au Canada?
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So, you just saw a taxi driver just let a family, immigrant, illegal immigrant, come in
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Oh, yeah, the police say that they will arrest them because they will enter illegally in Canada.
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Our Alexa Lavois, at Roxham Road, you are not allowed to fly in or out of an airport without not only a PCR test, but a vaccination.
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Millions of Canadians are banned from planes and trains and ships.
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We're under strict quarantines and lockdowns, but illegal immigrants deliberately going through a fake, non-proper border crossing,
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trafficked by taxi companies in New York State who know exactly what they're doing.
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The only thing I can say is that at least unlike the last time I saw it, the police weren't the luggage boys themselves.
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Joining us now via Skype is our Quebec reporter, Alexa Lavois, to tell us how it went.
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I do not like this Roxham Road illegal crossing because the very first act of these people in Canada is a law-breaking act.
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Just down the road is a proper port of entry where if they really are refugees, they can make their case and be processed.
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I don't believe anyone from New York State is a refugee by definition.
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In New York State, they're not suffering a threat based on race or religion.
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If you got yourself to New York, you're pretty much safe.
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They're fake refugees coming through a fake border crossing.
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What I saw so far, when they came to the border, the police stopped them right away.
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They said, if you cross, you will enter illegally in Canada.
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And they get trained to go there because at one point, they are there, they hesitate.
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And they go and they say, okay, that's my choice.
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Because we have like the new law between the tier, the law that protects the immigrant for not being deported.
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Well, they know that they'll never be sent home and that they'll have luxurious welfare and free health care, no matter where they came from.
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Did any of how many people did you see crossing the day you were there?
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Yeah, another woman who came with a taxi, but the taxi let her a little bit down to the street.
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So she came by walk and we saw the taxi like turn around.
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So we know that you have like a company of taxi that bring them like at this border.
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So I don't know if the company of the taxi know that they are cooperate to bring illegal immigrants to cross between U.S. and Canada.
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But I saw so far like a woman and a whole family.
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But most of the time I was trying to get through the refugee quarantine camp.
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And we know that they have not actually stopped people for five years.
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So the fact that you were there for, I guess, a number of hours and you saw multiple people coming, we can only guess how many are coming through.
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Of course, those taxis know what they're doing.
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It's an odd thing to say people trafficking in the United States and Canada, but that's true.
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Now, you mentioned that you tried to follow these illegal migrants once they crossed the border.
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Let's take a look at that and see if you were accorded the same friendly treatments by authorities as these law-breaking fake refugees were.
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Pardon, I just wanted to know, are they asking you to do PCR tests?
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And we're on the side of Quebec, you can speak French, right?
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So, they said I'm in a private property, so I should like to leave.
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But the thing is, we just see some people are coming in into like the car.
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I was asking, how many people pass every day, sir?
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If you want to call the communication of the GRC, call them in a marriage.
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So, it was private property that you had to get off, but apparently not private property
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that people coming from New York State as a stepping stone from where, who knows where
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So, they're fine, but you, a law-abiding citizen and a journalist, you had to get off.
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It looked like there were a lot of RCMP, a lot of police there.
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I don't know if they were RCMP or local police.
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They were speaking French, obviously, it was in Quebec.
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It looked like they're doing a pretty brisk business.
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I saw a lot of their bus truck going back and forth from the St. Bernard Hotel and the
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And, as well, they have paper on the window everywhere.
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And same, like, the only window where not paper on it, I tried to film, and afterwards,
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So, I was not allowed to check inside what's going on there.
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Well, the way you talk about vehicles coming and going, it's almost like a hotel shuttle
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bus, except for it's for foreign illegals, and we're paying for it.
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You tried to talk to other officials, and they weren't as forthcoming as we would have
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Nous, on essaie juste de comprendre, là , qu'est-ce qui se passe ici, c'est tout, là .
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Je vais quitter, mais on avait une conversation, quand même.
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Madame, s'il vous plaît, je vais vous plaît, je vais vous plaît, là .
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Je sais, mais je suis en train d'avoir une conversation, inquiétez-vous pas.
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C'est un terrain privé, madame, pour me mettre la bachère.
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Mais je comprends pas, c'est interdit d'avoir une conversation?
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Qu'est-ce que vous avez à cacher, monsieur, pour pas que j'aille droit de conversation?
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Il dit, je suis pas permis de avoir une conversation avec ce mec.
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Mais ce mec peut en savoir si il veut avoir une conversation avec moi ou pas.
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It's just that one Roxham Road border crossing.
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Why don't they take this fence and put it there?
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But the thing that you cannot see on the video,
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and then there's the land just offside the road.
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and not being afraid to challenge these people.
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Now, I understand that you were in your vehicle