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Paypal tried to reinvent itself as "Pay Pirate" last weekend, and now they are paying a price. And now they pay a price for it. David Menzies on the dangers of paypal's new policy.
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tonight paypal tried to reinvent itself as pay pirate last weekend and now they are paying a
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price it's wednesday october 12 2022 i'm david menzies and this is the ezra levent show
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the other day i was thinking about the superb british tv series black mirror
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black mirror ran for five seasons beginning in 2011 most episodes are set in the near future and
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it's typically a dystopian future black mirror is akin to a new age twilight zone the difference
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being that many of the episodes focus on new technology and the often detrimental effect
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that technology has on the human condition black mirror is supposed to be speculative fiction
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but a decade after first airing this tv series is coming across as eerily prescient consider this
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brief analysis of the chilling episode nosedive courtesy of brain pilot the society that lacy
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lives in is one where a rating system has become what people lead their lives by if they have a
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high rating then they're welcomed by many however if people have a low rating then it prevents you
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from doing general things like living in certain neighborhoods and being casted away by certain
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people due to the fact that they don't want to be associated with you this is something that
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affects lacy and is what the main story follows after lacy has a downfall and she gives her speech
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at the wedding for her apparent friend she then gets taken away and put in her cell from here on
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now those ratings have repercussions of course for example when lacy wants to rent a car her rating
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has declined to such a point that it's now too low for her to rent the best cars that are available
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thus she must accept a subpar beater which of course breaks down and she dares not vent about that to the
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rental company because that will undoubtedly lower her rating even further as the episode proceeds
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a continuing series of unfortunate incidents most of which are completely beyond lacy's control
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causes her rating to further plummet by the episodes ending her rating is so low that she's deemed to be
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a detriment to polite society and is taken away and incarcerated she is in effect cancelled outright
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now i was thinking of nosedive during the thanksgiving day weekend when news broke about a new
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paypal policy that was due to go into effect on november the 3rd paypal is an online payment system that
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allows users to pay for transactions and accept payments when selling items or services but apparently
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it also fancies itself to be big brother these days as well you see paypal recently decided to update
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its terms of use you know those impossibly long legalese disclaimers that the vast majority of us never read
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we simply press accept and carry on with our busy days ah but some keen-eyed observer actually did take
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the time and trouble to go through those seemingly endless terms and conditions and a good thing too
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because starting on november 3rd paypal was going to reimagine itself as a free speech gatekeeper
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weird you see if any of paypal's 429 million consumers and merchants expressed quote misinformation end
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quote they would be fined a whopping $2,500 us funds by the way how utterly astonishing is that
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the idea of a financial services conduit devolving into a bunch of censorious corporate thugs that would
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take it upon themselves to one think that they are the moral authorities when it comes to what is and isn't
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so-called misinformation and two would be so full of unearned entitlement that they would consider
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themselves to be members of law enforcement or government i.e. the typical entities that actually
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do have the ability to issue fines and finally three that this could actually take root in the united
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states of america you know land of the free and home of the brave and unless we forget the home of the first
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amendment too when the shite hit the fan paypal quickly went into damage control mode the company
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eventually crafted a statement that reads as follows quote an aup aka acceptable use policy notice
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recently went out in error that included incorrect information paypal is not fining people for
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misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy our teams are working
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to correct our policy pages we're sorry for the confusion this has caused end quote fascinating
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paypal issued a statement that was meant to clear up confusion but actually the statement causes more
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confusion well at least it does for me folks for starters paypal states that its so-called acceptable use
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policy went out in error and furthermore that the policy included incorrect information does anyone believe
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that because if you do i have a bridge for sale in a certain new york borough that's because when
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terms of use policies are crafted the corporate legal team goes through such documentation
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with the proverbial fine-tooth comb lawyers actually fret over all the nitty-gritty details when it comes
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to terms and conditions right down to whether a particular sentence needs a comma as opposed to a
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semicolon so the idea that some loosey-goosey and presumably unapproved verbiage got into the acceptable use
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policy it's completely preposterous this simply does not happen regardless such verbiage is not
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computer generated somebody at paypal who remains unidentified by the way thought this was a jolly good
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idea you know that paypal would act as a regulator or law enforcement officer complete with fining powers to send
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a financial penalty to those users the company deemed to be guilty of wrong think and another
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thing that further diminishes paypal's credibility on this issue those terms and conditions that paypal
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would like you to think were just some random error or whatever well they were precisely defined
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weren't they consider that 2500 penalty the fine is not 2400 nor is it 2600 but precisely 2500
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contrary to what paypal is claiming today everything about those terms and conditions were thought out
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completely paypal is not currently in mea culpa mode for its attempt to boost its bottom line as an
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unofficial sensor rather it is showing contrition because well it got caught red-handed to add fuel to the
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fire paypal is actually in cover-up mode right now because nobody i know is buying that copious quantity of
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bullshite that its new and unimproved policy was an error rather i think paypal thought that given the
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current draconian climate that is now governed by the unholy trinity of wokeism political correctness
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and cancel culture i think paypal thought they could get away with such a fascist policy without creating
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any shock waves whatsoever and dare i say it they likely thought they'd be applauded for its censorship
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stance you know by the usual suspects everyone from the joe biden democrats and the justin trudeau
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liberals to all of those moronic marxists on campus all of whom have a problem with free speech
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and none of whom have a problem with limiting free speech even in the usa you know you know folks in a
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way i kind of regret that this policy is not taking effect on november 3rd because i would have loved
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to know what the corporate masters at paypal would deem to be so-called misinformation we'll never know for
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sure but i do have a hunch based on the political landscape of silicon valley which is to say here's
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betting that a paypal user questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 u.s federal election would indeed be
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slapped with a 2500 misinformation fine whereas a user questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election
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oh they'd be free to do so they might even be rewarded i'm also going to speculate that anyone
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disagreeing with the policies of head medical necromancer dr anthony fauci would also find his or
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herself 2500 light in the pocket as well i would have also loved to witness the drama of a fined paypal
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customer fighting such a grotesque penalty in court maybe paypal deems itself to be above and beyond the
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law but maybe a court of law might render a different opinion in the bigger picture what is it about
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providers of financial services reinventing themselves as the guardians of society in the first place
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i understand that if you go to a bank for a car loan or a mortgage and you lack a sufficient income
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and your credit score is in the sewer well yeah a bank is under no obligation to pony up the funds
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that's the free market economy at work but what we are seeing now increasingly has very little to do with
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the free market economy folks indeed capitalism is an economic system which recognizes individual
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rights but what we are witnessing now is corporatism which is an alternative form of socialism that
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intends to achieve social justice whatever that is case in point remember ezra levent's monologue last
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december when he outed the royal bank for declining our mortgage application incredibly rbc's decision had
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absolutely nothing to do with rebels financial wherewithal here check out this excerpt i'm embarrassed
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i was turned down for a mortgage last week by the royal bank that's pretty embarrassing i'm almost 50
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years old i've been a royal bank customer for 22 years what's wrong with me
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except i wasn't rejected because i'm a failure in fact the royal bank mortgage officer who reviewed
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my application in detail said it was very strong but he's just a regional banker in calgary he said
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the decision to kill it was made at the royal bank's toronto head office he told me my mortgage
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application was canceled because rebel news has the wrong opinions see rebel news and i were applying
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for a commercial mortgage to buy an office building our own place from which we could never be canceled
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or de-platformed i agreed to put my life savings in as a down payment and to get my personal guarantee
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on the mortgage the banker was impressed and said he approved of the deal but the toronto head office
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overruled him because of our conservative views i'm still embarrassed being rejected makes you feel
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powerless and being rejected for inappropriate reasons feels deeply unfair i don't think people
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would believe me they'd probably think i was just making excuses except for one thing i have proof
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from that calgary banker he's told me what the bank was doing to me and why so please give me a few
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moments i want to show you how cancel culture has come to canadian banks if justin trudeau's liberals don't
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like you one day you might have your banking cut off too but also stick around because i want to
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tell you how i intend to get that office building even though trudeau and the royal bank are trying to
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kill it i have an idea that i think could work i think you'll love it actually but first here's my
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proof that it was political here's the mortgage officer i dealt with at the royal bank's calgary branch
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i asked him if there was any financial weakness in the rebel news mortgage application or my personal guarantee
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and here's what he told me so if you had your way this thing would be a green light but you're just
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waiting on the political guys yep if i had my way yeah definitely okay we should be fine if we're
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comfortable given the financials that you have strong cash flows no debt basically and the fact that you
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know you're willing to put your skin on the game kind of but even though our application was strong
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we're debt-free thanks to our viewers this calgary banker said the head office in toronto wanted to
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review it for politics and because of our strong opinions about trudeau the royal bank decided to
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block us yeah it's just about the nature of the business altogether uh because uh the bank has been
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uh i'll be blunt with you the bank has been you know trying to pry away from certain you know uh clients
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where they're kind of out there in the media and uh very strong opinionated you know uh which is your
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business in a way so we're just uh clearing some internal hurdles to make sure that uh the bank is
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okay to that uh kind of uh onboard you as a client internally spoiler alert we did not clear those
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hurdles even though i've done all of my personal banking at that same royal bank branch for decades
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so how do you like them bitter apples if you're a conservative or hold right of center opinions the royal
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bank of canada wants nothing to do with you anymore gross oh and you may recall my interview with gary duke
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of grand prairie alberta back in august scotia bank actually fired gary as a client good golly miss molly
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what did gary do did he default on a loan payment did he steal one of those chain down bank pens oh no
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gary was deemed customer non grata for daring to ask an impolite question check it out what pray tell
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did you do that made your local scotia bank determine that they no longer want to do business with you any longer
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well i uh just tried to get online with uh an app uh to do some banking online and uh
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there was a rainbow app so i said is there any way to get this rainbow app off my phone
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um and he responded in a quite quite a shocking way that kind of surprised me and when you say hey are
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we speaking now uh we talked off air you had dealings with uh mitchell toft he's the uh assistant manager
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at the branch right yeah so it's through an email discussion that i asked him like there's any way to
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get the app off and and he yeah he responded he did not respond for a couple days and then when he did
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he basically hunted me from from uh my bank okay so and i mean i don't know i don't know whatever
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happened to can we agree to disagree but you sent along the um text that uh mr toff sent to you i'm
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going to read it verbatim uh gary scotia bank strives to provide an inclusive environment for
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all members of the lgbtq plus community and during pride month like every other financial institution
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we have chosen to show our support in a variety of ways including visual signs such as rainbows on our app
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your request slash complaint will not be entertained as it does not align with our principles
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your comments are not appreciated nor will they be tolerated which is why we have chosen to
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terminate our relationship with you you may gather the funds from your account and a termination notice
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will be mailed to you advising the date you have until to retrieve any funds any funds in the account
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upon the date of closure will be put into a bank draft and mailed to the address we have on file
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you know i love that statement by the bank manager when he says that the bank is all about inclusivity
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and tolerance only to be intolerant of gary duke's question and then the bank embraces exclusivity by
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firing gary as a customer oh the irony but in the final analysis there is a silver lining to the now
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aborted paypal policy first their proposed perverse policy of finding people a hefty 2500 for wrong thought
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is now deader than disco secondly the company's shares are now down almost six percent good and thirdly
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customers are abandoning paypal on mass indeed just consider this usa today story from two days ago
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entitled quote how to delete your paypal account permanently and what to keep in mind before you
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do end quote ouch folks do you think paypal is now suffering from buyers remorse these days thanks to its
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desire to rebrand itself you know from paypal to pay pirate and that's the crux of the matter when it
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comes to political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture the moral of this sordid story is this
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don't play ball don't bend the knee stand up to these despicable censors and these malicious marxists
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that's what happened to paypal over the weekend and it has been rightfully punished indeed how's
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this for jaw dropping irony paypal was planning to financially discipline its customers for shockers
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espousing a contrarian opinion to leftist narrative nonsense and now it is paypal itself being financially
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disciplined due to users closing their paypal accounts and given that paypal stock is now in freefall
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loving it loving it you know if they ever get around to making more black mirror episodes i'd love to see
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a tale based on the paypal censorship fiasco and unlike nosedive and so many other episodes of black
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mirror the paypal story will indeed have a happy ending there are so many reasons to loathe the arrive can
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app and now a new reason has emerged namely what if i told you that it appears that the federal government
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overpaid overpaid for this app to the tune of 53 million 750 000 you see the off the lot price of this
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app was 54 million but many observers in the tech field say that given the utter simplicity of the app
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it shouldn't have cost any more than 250 000 so what's the deal how does a 250 000
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app balloon into a 54 million dollar app do the impartial tech gurus have it wrong somehow
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or is this yet again another example of the taxpayer being gouged and joining me now to discuss this
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issue further is the federal director for the canadian taxpayers federation and that would be franco
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teresano thanks so much for joining me on the ezra levant show franco well thanks so much for having
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me on tonight always a pleasure so franco holy sticker shock even if that 250 000 guesstimate
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is on the low side one thing we all know for certain is this there's no way in heck this should have cost
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54 million dollars so my friend what's going on here yeah that's the 54 million dollar question isn't it
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what is going on here i mean it certainly smells like another taxpayer boondoggle coming from ottawa
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to me doesn't it now 54 million dollars that is double the previously disclosed price tag so so why are
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we seeing higher costs than what were what was originally uh disclosed to the public now wouldn't
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it just be so nice to wake up one day just one day out of the air and see a news story about a government
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program actually costing less than what was originally budgeted but of course again taxpayers
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across canada are waking up to a story of another government program that is costing us more and
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more you know franco if you ever do wake up to that story forget about reaching out to us here at rebel
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news call right away ripley's believe it or not because they might have to fact check you know i mean we
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our headquarters is not that far away from the eglinton cross uh town lrt project that was started
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in 2011 and you can barely tell in certain sections that any work has been done in more than a decade
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and of course it's delayed and it's over budget and people would argue twas ever thus but getting back on
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topic here this was developed by a toronto-based uh tech company called laser technologies um what do they
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have to say about this franco well you know if we ever did wake up to that story where the government
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uh actually saved us some money it must be april fool's day uh but of course the joke is always
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on taxpayers so let me jump to what might be the most bizarre part of this whole story you know we all
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just celebrated thanksgiving weekend um well there was one techie a single techie who managed at the
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beginning of the thanksgiving weekend who managed to develop a replica of the app took them
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i took the individual two days so they started at the beginning of thanksgiving weekend they were
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still able to make thanksgiving dinner so if it's taking a single techie two days to develop an app
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i think taxpayers have every right to be shaking our heads scratching our heads and wondering how
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in the world did the federal government manage to spend 54 million dollars on the app and as you
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mentioned uh there was some people in the tech industry who were estimating that the raw development of
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the app could have cost even under 250 000 now maybe more things go into the app than just its raw
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development but i think every single canadian right now deserves answers from the federal government
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as to why the tab ballooned to 54 million dollars and franco we are not getting answers from the federal
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government on friday uh conservative mp michael barrett he asked how in the world does this thing end up
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costing 54 million dollars and the response he got and i'll call it a non-response in fact i'll call
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it rubbish liberal mp anthony horsefather replied i will make no apology for an app that saved the lives of
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tens of thousands of canadians madam speaker i will make no apology for an app that saved the lives of
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tens of thousands of canadians this was part of a global health strategy in order to protect canadians
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and this app was put in place in april of 2020 one month after a global i i'm sorry i i have my my
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speakers on and i still can't hear the answer and i i don't think that the honorable member who asked
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the question is also able to hear the answer so i would just ask members to please hold off uh the
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honorable member for uh the honorable secretary can start from the top thank you very much
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madam speaker so this app was put in place one month after a global pandemic was declared and in return
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and in return for doing for answering that question where the honorable member has insinuated that the
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price is entirely related to developing the app that price related to development accessibility and
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support maintenance and multiple different contracts it was not related just to the development of the app
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this is unbelievable how does he come up forget the 54 million dollar figure at this point i want
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to know how this liberal mp thinks that tens of thousands of canadian lives have been saved
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by this app what gives well what the government should be apologizing for is a complete lack of
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transparency right and this is this is a lack of transparency when it comes to corporate contracts
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like that is a huge deal for taxpayers um you know the company that received the most amount of federal
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dollars for this now they hired a bunch of subcontractors look i'm not a business guru i don't
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know if that is the best uh way to produce this but what i do know is that taxpayers are the ones who are
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paying the bill we deserve to know who those subcontractors are but for whatever reason the government
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has been unwilling to show taxpayers just who those subcontractors are who worked on this app and now
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we see the tab ballooning to 54 million dollars again that is double than what was previously
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disclosed to the public so we need full transparency on this we paid the bills we need to see who is
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working on it and why the tab ballooned the way it did and franco um we are not getting any transparency
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on this in fact they're doing virtue signaling by saying this app saved uh tens of thousands of lives which of
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course they cannot prove my question is do you suspect somebody is getting greased along the way
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from when this came up as an idea on a piece of paper to the final product that you know there's
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i don't know some payola going on behind the scenes some liberal crony friends are getting enriched because
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i'm sorry we look at the numbers once again and and listen i don't understand these things i'm a
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dinosaur i think the iphone is akin to magic but when i see so many people in the canadian tech
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sphere say this is outrageous there's no way this should cost 54 million is somebody behind the scenes
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getting greased well i don't know and that's why it's so important that we have full transparency a
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full disclosure of exactly who these subcontractors were now one thing i think we have to point out to
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now i saw this in a national post article i was just reading you know scrolling through twitter i
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saw this national post article about uh the techies who are able to make this app or reproduce the app
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in two days and one thing that really stuck out to me is that um the government managed to outsource
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the development of the app to about 23 or 23 companies uh eight of eight companies had commissions
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of one million dollars or more now when i saw that i couldn't believe it but maybe that explains why the
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tab ballooned the way it did but franco why would they do that i mean again i don't know the nuts and
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bolts of developing an app but why would you go out to 23 different companies i mean i i can't connect
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the dots here my friend well neither can i and look i am not a business guru when it comes to the it
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industry but here's the thing we advocate on behalf of taxpayers and it's not just the dollars and cents
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of course this is a huge sum of money 54 million dollars but another key issue here is the
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transparency it's the accountability or should i say lack thereof now we haven't heard any reasonable
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explanation from this government as to why there's a lack of transparency and as to why it cost us so
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much and look it's not like the app was uh was flawless i mean i think we all remember hearing stories
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about some of the hiccups here i remember hearing reports back in july of thousands of travelers who
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were uh forced into mandatory quarantine uh even though they they had all of their ducks in a row so
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to speak no you're so right this adds insult to injury i think franco because uh that arrive can
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app i used to call it arrive can't uh because it wasn't just a dead dog it was a dead dog with fleas
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i had a friend who was at um montreal trudeau airport and nobody's arrived can was working so
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the border agents were just hustling everyone through um so far from it from saving the lives
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of tens of thousands of canadians uh this thing uh was very temperamental in terms of when it would work
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i guess the last question is we're not going to get a transparent answer uh franco from the trudeau
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liberals so does this mean we're going to have to i don't know file uh an foi and force them to
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cough up the nitty-gritty costing behind this thing well isn't that unfortunate that we actually
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are the ones who are going to have to be able to file the a tips to get an answer from this government
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rather they should be completely transparent with the public but you know what i think a lot of people
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are mad about this and rightfully so because you know it's it's sometimes it could be fun to poke
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uh at government waste but we have to remember right now canadians are paying too much tax because
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the government is wasting too much money and unfortunately this is not the first example far
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from it where we have seen the trudeau government the federal government waste our tax dollars and
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the reason we're all paying way too much tax is because the government in ottawa is wasting too much
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of our money and it seems to as ever thus i mean as the old line goes franco the two most
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oft repeated lies in history this uh number two being the check is in the mail and number one being
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hi i'm from the government i'm here to help you unbelievable well let's see if we can shake some
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answers uh out of this tree uh this is despicable i mean the sad thing is in the big picture uh some
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people might be saying what's 54 million but that's not the point here there's no way something that was
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a quarter of a million dollars should balloon to that and when we get those answers franco i'd love
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to have you back on the show and we'll go through that so thank you so much for bringing this to our
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attention my friend well thanks so much for having me on tonight thank you and that was franco terrizano
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a director with the canadian taxpayers federation keep it here more of the ezreal event show to come
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well folks as usual lots of feedback regarding last night's edition of the ezreal event show hosted by
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the big boss man himself ezra on the news that dina henshaw was fired ggfd writes looking forward to
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hearing henshaw has been fired and a whole lot of other ahs useless top end deadwood oh i share your
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celebration the g had on the unvaccinated the war against those businesses that had the temerity to
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you know open up like costco and walmart this was thanks to henshaw policies and i would love to see the
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purge continue right up to the chief health medical necromancer that would be dr theresa tam
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and on ezra's interview with celine on the news that arthur's trespass charges were dropped
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rand user rumble writes persecution prosecution fails again yay for pastor art i mean you know can
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you believe it folks not that you would have known about pastor art's plight if you relied on the
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mainstream media here was someone that wanted to conduct religious services here was someone who
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wanted to feed the homeless and what did they do they made an example out of him as though he was a
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murderer it was absolutely shameful for this great man to be treated the way he has and he will he's
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continuing to have his day in court in fact so far he's batting a thousand and perseus 09 writes we can
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sum this up this way the police quotation marks the prosecutors the karens the government the mainstream
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media all of these groups are on a power trip they are all trying to play king of the hill and each of
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them is getting knocked off one by one the worst part is that they are all using public funds taxes to
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attack not just arthur but the rest of us i'm guessing they are hoping that some people will just throw
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their hands up and surrender from emotional exhaustion you know i think you're right i think some people
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did surrender but there was a whole bunch of other people that refused to bend the knee and on the
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subject of those who took glee in eclipsing our rights and freedoms you know folks i think there
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were those in law enforcement that wanted absolutely nothing to do with this this was not what they signed
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up for this was not fulfilling their duties as a police officer but i think there was another contingent
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you know the losers the bullies with a badge that thrived on the covid enforcement days and they should
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all be ashamed of themselves what's more they should find another job you are not a good cop when you go
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after law-abiding citizens and arrest them for what not wearing a mask not social distancing not closing down
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their livelihood absolutely despicable well folks that wraps up another edition of the ezra
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levent show thanks so much for tuning in i think either ezra or sheila gun reid will be here tomorrow
00:35:53.540
we'll wait and see in the meantime as always stay sane
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how do you feel with law enforcement going forward in this country
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do you trust them no i definitely can't trust anyone in the law enforcement anymore
00:36:25.060
not that i really could before it anyway i mean if it wasn't for us getting help from you know
00:36:30.660
people online today then we wouldn't have been with no idea what would happen today
00:36:36.260
you know if we didn't have this fun page and everything we've no idea how this could have came out
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this is calm smiles verbal news outside of aberdeen district court where shortly the court case of
00:36:49.700
gabby burnett is set to begin gabby has been accused of assaulting a police officer after
00:36:54.660
they forced their way into their home back in january 2021
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through crowdfunding at stand with gabby.co.uk we've arranged a top lawyer to get this ridiculous
00:37:24.340
case thrown out of court and we can't do it without your help because this case is so important
00:37:29.940
because it could happen to any one of us so please head over to stand with gabby.co.uk
00:37:35.860
to help fund the good fight so i'm here with julie and gabby burnett just outside of aberdeen
00:37:41.300
district court as legal proceedings are about to begin after they are being accused of assaulting
00:37:45.940
a police officer after they forced their way into their home back in january 2021
00:37:51.140
we've set up a crowd funder at standwithgabby.co.uk to help fund a top lawyer to get this ridiculous
00:37:56.340
case thrown out of court but julie now that the day has now come how do you feel i feel that it's
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been put off so long because i think they're trying to make it disappear i think they want it to go away
00:38:10.820
and are you confident not at all i don't think it's going to go in our favor at all
00:38:15.220
i think they're just trying to paint us as the bad ones because they've messed up so badly
00:38:20.660
that they have to try and make us look like we've actually done something when we haven't
00:38:25.620
and gabby regardless of the outcome today how do you feel with law enforcement going forward in
00:38:31.940
this country do you trust them no i definitely can't trust anyone in the law enforcement anymore
00:38:37.540
not that i really could before it anyway i mean if it wasn't for us getting help from
00:38:41.940
you know people online today then we wouldn't have been with no idea what would have happened today
00:38:48.740
you know if we didn't have this fun page and everything we've no idea how this could have came
00:39:04.340
and what sort of effect has the past two years had on your family because it's been
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it's been a long time and it's now finally coming to pass today but how have you all coped
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it's just been it's really stressful haven't having it hanging over our heads all this time
00:39:18.580
especially when you're getting a new job and everything like that it's not the sort of thing
00:39:22.500
you know it's hard to if someone wasn't aware of the story it's hard for me to try and explain
00:39:27.700
my side without looking by you know because people will tend if they don't know they would
00:39:32.020
tend to go with the officials so it's hard trying to defend myself even in situations like that like
00:39:38.500
getting employment and things like that so it's it's been a big stress
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so that's julie and gabby burnett just before their day in court if you want to help fund the good
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fight head over to stanwithgabby.co.uk after a quick in and out how do you think it went today
00:39:56.020
um not too great i'd rather have just got it over and done with the fact that it's going to be hanging
00:40:00.660
over our heads into another year is really quite stressful having had this adjourned dragging this into
00:40:09.540
a second year do you feel more or less confident about next time you're in court uh less confident
00:40:17.300
definitely by what's just happened there which was not much at all i think we're in there for about
00:40:22.180
three minutes i don't feel like anything's on our side right now especially with the law
00:40:31.940
so you've heard from gabby and julie burnett there they're not too confident but with your support at
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stanwithgabby we can get one of scotland's top law firms to hopefully get this ridiculous case
00:40:43.620
thrown out of court so please head over to stanwithgabby.co.uk and help fund the good fight
00:41:07.540
and we're in aberdeen district court this morning but the case was quickly adjourned and the can of
00:41:16.420
overzealous policing was kicked down the road until january next year now rebel have to be here because
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the mainstream media are not this overzealous policing should be a mainstream media story
00:41:29.940
because this is an example of the coronavirus act being abused and it could be abused again
00:41:35.620
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