EZRA LEVANT | Judge orders Pastor Artur Pawlowski to speak the “official” COVID narrative
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Summary
A Canadian judge sentenced a Christian pastor not to prison, but rather to an 18-month speech ban, or actually not so much a ban, but forced speech. Anytime Pastor Arthur Pawlowski criticizes the government about the Pandemic, he's now ordered to immediately rebut himself and give the government's view. I've never seen anything like it in Canada.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, a special show all about a bizarre court ruling out of Alberta
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where a judge sentenced a Christian pastor not to prison, but rather to an 18-month speech ban,
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or actually not so much a ban, but forced speech. Anytime this pastor criticizes the government
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about the pandemic, he's now ordered to immediately rebut himself and give the government's view.
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I've never seen anything like it in Canada. We'll talk more about that, obviously.
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I'm talking about Arthur Pawlowski, so stay with us for that. And let me invite you to get the video
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Tonight, the most bizarre court order I've seen in Canada. A judge orders Pastor Arthur to denounce
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himself every time he speaks in public. It's October 13th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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Today, the judge enforcing Alberta's pandemic lockdown laws sentenced Pastor Arthur Pawlowski.
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His crime? No crime, actually. He simply opened his church during the lockdown.
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In a bizarre 40-minute rant today, Justice Adam Germain ordered that for the next 18 months,
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whenever Pastor Arthur talks about lockdowns, the pandemic, or vaccines, in tweets, in speeches,
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in media interviews, he must immediately repudiate himself.
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And give the official government view condemning himself after he gives his own views.
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He must argue against himself. He must condemn himself or go back to jail.
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It's compelled speech, like a Maoist struggle session in communist China.
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You have to say what the government tells you to say.
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Even convicted murderers cannot be ordered to apologize for their crimes.
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In any way, such a forced apology would be meaningless.
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But a convicted pastor must now violate his own conscience
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and repeat an angry judge's talking points or face prison.
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And if he can't convince Pastor Arthur of this voluntarily,
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he'll just force him to say it with a court order.
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It's like forcing him to kneel, which the police have already done.
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The judge also hit Pastor Arthur with $42,000 in fines
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What a disgrace this judge is, especially to Alberta,
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In his 40-minute rant, the judge repeatedly criticized Pastor Arthur
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for talking about civil liberties to the media.
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He specifically mentioned Pastor Arthur's appearance on Fox News.
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But what does that have to do with allegedly breaking a Canadian lockdown law?
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So to stop more media appearances by Pastor Arthur,
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the judge has ordered him to self-denounce after every public statement.
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The judge also raged at Pastor Arthur for going on a speaking tour
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and warning other churches around North America about the threat to civil liberties.
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So to stop that, the judge also banned Pastor Arthur
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from leaving his home province of Alberta for the next 18 months.
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It's completely unconnected to Pastor Arthur's alleged lockdown crimes.
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It's simply a power-mad judge's revenge on Pastor Arthur,
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a blatant attempt to stop him from speaking freely.
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and clearly unconstitutional court ruling in recent memory.
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to William Eberhardt, the former Alberta premier.
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Eberhardt passed a series of laws together called the Alberta Press Act,
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which forced newspapers to print the government's rebuttal to their own editorials.
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That laughably illegal law was taken all the way to the Supreme Court,
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And the Edmonton Journal, the newspaper that led the charge against the Press Act,
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they won a special Pulitzer Prize for their efforts.
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Justice Germain has brought back that illegal law,
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Alas, today the mainstream media are cheering for the censors this time.
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It'll probably not surprise you that Justice Adam Germain
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I just got off the phone with Pastor Arthur's top gun lawyer, Sarah Miller.
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We're relieved that Pastor Arthur was kept out of jail.
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Jason Kenney's prosecutors has demanded a 21-day prison term.
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But Justice Germain is smart enough to know that
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Sarah and the rest of Pastor Arthur's legal team
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I'm glad that Pastor Arthur will sleep at home tonight
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Please help us crowdfund Pastor Arthur's appeal.
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two of the most heavy-handed authoritarian judges
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I think there's a real personal vendetta there.