EZRA LEVANT ｜ RCMP smash free speech in brutal arrest of David Menzies
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David Menzies asks uncomfortable questions of Chrystia Freeland and is arrested and assaulted by the police. We have the videotape to prove it. Here's why you have to see this for yourself.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I have a heart-to-heart with David Menzies, who just yesterday was
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arrested and assaulted by the RCMP for daring to ask a question of Chrystia Freeland. We've
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got the videotape to show it, which is why I really want you to have video access to
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this podcast. Go to rebelnewsplus.com, subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get my show
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every weeknight. And like I say, it's the video version of this podcast. You've got
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to see this with your own eyes. All right, here's today's show.
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Tonight, David Menzies asks an uncomfortable question of Chrystia Freeland, so he's arrested
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and assaulted. It's January 9th. This is the Extraordinary Show. Shame on you, you sensorious
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bug. I'm not sure if you saw the news. More than 10 million people have. It's one of the
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most viral videos we've ever made. Our friend David Menzies was trying to do a report on Chrystia
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Freeland and why the government of Canada refuses to identify the Islamic Republican Guard Corps
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as a terrorist group, which it obviously is. David went to a vigil for a commercial airliner
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shot down by that terrorist group. He bumped into Chrystia Freeland and thought he'd ask
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her a few questions. Here's how that went down.
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Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo
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nationalism? What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault. You're under arrest for assault.
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Police. Police. You're under arrest for assault. How am I under arrest? You bumped into me.
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You bumped into me. I was just scrubbing. I've got my credentials here and you just bumped into me.
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So excuse me. Police. You're under arrest for pushing. What is your name in your badge?
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What is your name in your badge? You've been told you're under arrest. Why am I under arrest?
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He blocked my way. I was just scrubbing Chrystia Freeland. I'm a police officer. You're under arrest.
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What is your name in your badge? How is that possible? Okay. Because you assaulted me three
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years ago when Blackface was attacked. I was very aggressive. You mean I was asking questions
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aggressively? No, no. Your actions were. You were almost pushing everybody over.
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Lincoln, you got this on video, right? He's saying I'm pushing people over? That's an absolute
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falsehood. So now it appeared that way. That's what you're saying, officer? It appeared that
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was pushing people. I didn't touch a single person. That was a little bit aggressive for
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what was happening. Get that. You're under arrest. Please take the microphone out of my face.
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Well, I'd like an ongoing record of this. Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone?
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Can I have the microphone? Can you give me? I'm not resisting. Take your hand out.
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Officer, why am I under arrest? Stop resisting. You don't need to resist. You don't have to say anything.
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You know the drill. I have nothing to hide, officer. Welcome to Blackfaces Canada.
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This is what they do to journalists. I was merely scrumming Minister Freeland and a RCMP officer
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blocked me and evidently this is now a trumped up charge of assault, folks. I didn't come here
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to cause any trouble. I came here to do my job and now I'm handcuffed. This is your Canada now,
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folks. You know, this is the Gestapo taking Blackface's orders. Outrageous. And meanwhile,
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the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization. It's not a terrorist
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organization. And these liberals have the audacity to show up at a vigil for a plane in which almost
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200 people were killed. 57 Canadians, one unborn child, by the way. And look at this. They don't
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want, it is against the law in Blackfaces Canada to ask insensitive questions, impolite questions.
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So, a Canadian government that props up an Islamo-fascist regime, that's okay. But if you ask
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questions about that, that's not okay. This is an absolute outrage. I didn't come here to cause
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trouble, folks. I just came here to ask questions. That's my cameraman, sir. He's not doing anything.
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No, I just want to provide some space so that everybody's safe here, okay?
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Absolutely shocking, but you can see why that video has been seen as I speak to you now more than 10
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million times. Not only the arrest of a journalist is shocking, but to see how he was assaulted and
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the police immediately lied about it, tried to gaslight him and make it seem like he did the
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assaulting when we all saw it on tape. Absolutely astounding. So, for today's show, I would like to
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play for you a 45-minute conversation between David and I that we recorded a few hours ago. But I thought,
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this is worth making the Ezra Levant show. So, for the next 45 minutes or so,
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please enjoy my conversation with David Menzies. I'm not sure if enjoy is the right word,
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because this is a terrible event, but the fact that we managed to capture it fully on video
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hopefully can turn it, you know, lemons into lemonade. Here, take a look.
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Ezra Levant's my name. This is a Rebel News live stream. It's sort of an emergency live stream,
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as in it's based on events. I'm sitting next to our mission specialist, David Menzies. There's a
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reason for that. Yesterday, David Menzies was at a vigil for Persian Canadians, because it's the
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anniversary of an Iranian government terrorist group shooting down a passenger debt, killing
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dozens of Canadians. And when you were there, you spied with your little eyes. The deputy prime
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minister had the audacity to show up at this vigil, even though she refuses to declare this Republican
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Guard terrorist group, a terrorist group. Set the scene, and then we'll play the video that has
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received 10 million views overnight. David, first of all, thanks for taking the time here. Give us
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the background, then we'll go straight to the video. Yes, indeed, Ezra. Back in January of 2020,
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the IRGC shot down a Ukrainian civilian aircraft, 179 people killed, innocent civilians. Oh, and I'll add
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one more, an unborn baby, which of course the left will never list as a mortality. But in that death
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toll, 55 Canadians, most of them of Persian descent. And I can tell you, I went to the first vigil back
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in 2020. And it was very interesting, because there were politicians of every political stripe,
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and every level, municipal, provincial and federal showing up, with the notable exception of one,
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even though the venue is actually in the riding of Richmond Hill. And the one person that didn't
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show up was Majid Johari. And I spoke to people there, and they said it's probably for his own
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well-being. Because Majid Johari, to this day, is a supporter of the Iranian regime. He has had secret
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meetings with Iranian government officials in Canada. And I'll tell you, Ezra, I actually live within
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walking distance of the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts. I've lived in Richmond Hill
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for 25 years now. There's a huge Persian minority there. I believe it's as much as 14% now. All the
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Persians I've met in this last quarter century there have been the greatest people. I have Persian
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friends. I go to Persian restaurants. I shop at Persian stores. All of them have fled the regime for
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what happened back in 1979 with the revolution and talk about buyer's remorse. All of them I admire,
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except, inexplicably, the federal member of parliament, Majid Johari. And if you recall,
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in 2019, that was the closest riding in Canada. Costas Minigakis, the conservative,
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he actually went to bed as the winner. But when they counted the mail-in ballots, guess what?
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So that's some background. You were there for the vigil. And who do you spy but the Deputy Prime
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Minister, Chrystia Freeland. Let's go to the video now. I want to show folks what happened when David
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spotted Chrystia Freeland and he did or tried to do some journalism. Take a look at this.
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Mr. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo
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nationalism? What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault. You're under arrest for assault.
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How am I under arrest? You bumped into me. You pushed into me. I was just scrubbing. I got my
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credentials here and you just bumped into me. So, excuse me. Police, what is your name in your bag?
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What is your name in your bag? You've been told you're under arrest. Why am I under arrest? He brought my
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police officer. How is that possible? Because you assaulted me three years ago when Blackface
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You mean I was asking questions aggressively? No, no, your actions were. You were almost pushing
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everybody over. Lincoln, you got this on video, right? He's saying I'm pushing people over? That's an
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absolute falsehood. So, now it appeared that way. That's what you're saying, officer? It appeared that
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was pushing people. I didn't touch a single person. That was a little bit aggressive for what was
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happening. You're under arrest. Please take the microphone out of my face. Well, I'd like an ongoing
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record of this. Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone?
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Welcome to Black Faces Canada. This is what they do to journalists. I was merely scrumming Minister
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Freeland and a RCMP officer block me and evidently this is now a trumped-up charge of assault, folks.
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I didn't come here to cause any trouble. I came here to do my job and now I'm handcuffed. This is
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your Canada now, folks. You know, this is the Gestapo taking Blackface's orders. Outrageous. And meanwhile,
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the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization. It's not a terrorist
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organization. And these liberals have the audacity to show up at a vigil for a plane in which almost
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200 people were killed. 57 Canadians, one unborn child, by the way. And look at this. They don't want,
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but it is against the law in Black Faces Canada to ask insensitive questions, impolite questions. So
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a Canadian government that props up an Islamo fascist regime, that's okay. But if you ask questions
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about that, that's not okay. This is an absolute outrage. I didn't come here to cause trouble, folks.
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I just came here to ask questions. That's my cameraman, sir. He's not doing anything.
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No, I just want to provide some space so that everybody's safe here, okay?
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Incredible video. First of all, congratulations on keeping you cool. But I want to say something
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and I can't help but chuckle. You were arrested. They were handcuffing you. There was half a dozen
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cops on you. And you kept working. You kept asking them questions. You kept talking, you know,
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you did not stop. And I shouldn't be laughing because the whole thing is so atrocious.
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It's a bonfire of civil liberties. But David, the menzoid menzies, you know, you would not be stopped.
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And I got to tell you, not one in a thousand journalists would have had your self-control
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and your dedication to mission. And we're glad that you're free. They did arrest you.
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They did. You heard that bully, that thug. I hear his nickname is the bouncer, which I heard that this
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morning. If I was a cop, I wouldn't be proud of that because the stereotype of a bouncer is just a
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tough thug who pushes people around and gets kicks out of him. That's not what you want in policing,
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self-control. Believe it or not, it's actually the first ingredient for policing.
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You kept your cool. Absolute stitch up, as the British would say. Entrapment. Gaslighting.
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They're goddamn liars. The reason that has 10 million views is because it's not just because you were
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arrested for doing journalism. That's shocking. But we all saw in real time how he tried to trip
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you. He bumped into you and then said, you're under arrest for assault. And then the other cop with the
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beard made up this whole story about how you were pushing people around and you were aggressive.
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It's their lies, their facility with lying, their ease of lying, their love for lying, their natural state,
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their default state is to lie. They really have taken after their boss, Justin Trudeau.
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Now, I should say the York Regional Police, who took you into custody, they obviously,
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I mean, you can tell me what they said in the cop car because I wasn't there.
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They obviously realized this was BS and let you go. Why don't you, so first of all,
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I just want to say all those things, but why don't you break some news today? What happened when
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you were in the cop car? Because we didn't have that on film. Well, Ezra, it was surreal,
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actually, because they read the rights. Oh, they did give you a caution, legal caution in the car.
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And they said, do you understand what we're saying? And you can make a phone call to your lawyer.
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And they originally said, we're going to bring you down to the police station to, I guess,
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process me, which is on Major McKenzie. I know Richmond Hill very well after living there all
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these years. And then they, another police officer came up to them. I couldn't hear where it was a
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conversation. They went, okay. And you were in the back of the car at this point. Were you handcuffed?
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Yeah. To their credit, they allowed me to have my hands handcuffed here as opposed to behind my back,
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because even though it's an SUV, it's an incredibly cramped space. I have double hip replacement.
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If I tried to wiggle my way into there, I could get really injured. So they allowed me. And I said,
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officers, I'm not going to run away. I'm not going to hurt you. And so they allowed me.
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It's outrageous that they handcuffed you. I want to say it's outrageous that they arrested you. It's
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outrageous that they assaulted you, that they falsely imprisoned you, falsely, maliciously
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prosecuted. All these things are outrageous. But to handcuff you, there is no requirement to
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handcuff someone when arresting them. In fact, legally, they just have to put their hands on you and say
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you're under arrest. Right. In fact, they don't even have to do that. Yes.
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And for them to handcuff you is such a, such a flourish, such a, an abuse, such a
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theatrical, abusive move. And it was the RCMP, was it the RCMP who cuffed you or the York
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Regional Police? I think it was the York Regional Police. Okay.
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That's outrageous. But so there was a conversation. You were in the back, you were cuffed. They were
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going to take you down to headquarters. And then there was a conversation you didn't hear. And then
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what? Then the police cruiser starts to drive north. And I know Major McKenzie is south.
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And we went to a school that had been dismissed. And we went to the back of the school.
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I'm thinking, Ezra, if people know the, the legend of the so-called Cherry Beach
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Express that the Toronto Police used to bring, uh, some people to, uh, Cherry Beach area for a little,
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uh, uh, physical interrogation. I'm thinking, that's what I'm thinking. Because why, you know,
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why would they take you to the back of a school?
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Yeah. And then they said, change of plans. Um, we're, um, we're going to release you here.
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At the school. Uh, it was a short walk back, you know, it wasn't that far. And they said, uh,
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the reason is that the RCMP officer is, uh, has decided to decline to press charges. So, uh,
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we're going to let you go. Which, which says a lot, I think, Ezra, because there were multiple
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eyewitnesses there, including members of law enforcement and, uh, Trudeau security detail.
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Um, even if he declined to press charges, if they thought it was egregious enough what I did,
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and I did nothing, uh, they could still say, no, no, no, uh, I, I witnessed that, you know,
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that attack on Freelander, uh, if you consider, I don't know, the asking of impolite or insensitive
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questions and attack. And then they said, you know, they took my ID and took it, took out down the
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notes and, uh, I was free to go. I walked back to the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts.
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I was told I've been trespassed there, which is inexplicable, Ezra, because if there's no criminal
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charge now, uh, why am I being trespassed? But Lincoln was trespassed too. And says who?
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Says a cop? Says a cop. I said, listen, officer, I'll take your word, but give me a name of who's
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trespassed. And they said, well, we don't have a name. I think they just might be liars though,
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David. That's the thing. What I mean, the first 45 years of my life, you would never find a more
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pro police guy than me. I mean, I would find any rationalization to justify what a cop did.
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I would say, sure. We saw him beat the tar out of a guy, but we probably didn't see what happened
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beforehand. I side with the cop. Like I was so blindly pro cop and it was a source of pride for
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me. And I truly love cops. Now I know there are some good cops out there, but after the, what I saw
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with policing, first of all, during the lockdowns of the pandemic and, and now how they bring coffee
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to Hamas protesters, but arrest you and they beat you up. This is the, this isn't the first time that
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you were roughed up by the PMO RCMP security. I think they're wicked liars. We saw how easily they
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lied. Like it was so natural to watch them lying to you. Oh, you were aggressive. You were pushing
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people over. You assaulted me. Like they said, these lies, they're great actors. I can imagine
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how many times in court, they've just perjured themselves to get a conviction. These guys lying
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is in their nature. Yeah. You know, 2024 hasn't got off on the right foot in terms of policing.
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You mentioned, uh, the Toronto police on Saturday at the Avenue road bridge, uh, which is in a heavily
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Jewish area. That's why they go to that bridge. The Pearl Hamas demonstrators, uh, you know,
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suddenly the Toronto police transitioned from cop to Uber Eats driver, giving them Timbits and, uh,
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and, and coffees. And it's funny, one of the common comments I see in the streams, uh, Ezra is, uh,
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Menzies, this is on you. You should have been chanting genocide. You know, they wouldn't have
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touched you then. Now let's talk about Christia Freeland, that smirking, twitchy, uh, granddaughter of
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a Nazi, celebrator of Nazis. I think her grandfather who was a legit Nazi, um, expropriated a Jewish
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newspaper in the, in, from a Jew in the Holocaust and turned it into a Nazi propaganda rag. And then
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Christia Freeland, I don't blame her for what her grandfather did before she was even born,
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but she tried to hide it and cover it up. And then she celebrated that Nazi, um, uh, Yaroslav
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Honka in parliament. And so to watch her smirk as you were arrested on her behalf is so gross.
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And, uh, unless it's happened in the last 15 minutes we've been on air, she has not yet apologized.
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She has not disavowed. She has not said anything. And, um, I think Christia Freeland is so gross.
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I mean, she's gross in a number of ways, but you might not remember this, but four years ago,
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uh, the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom had something called a media freedom
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conference. And Sheila Gunn-Reed and I went over there. And if you can believe it, Christia Freeland
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was the co-chair of this conference. So Sheila and I were over there in London at this freedom,
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press freedom conference. Christia Freeland gives a speech and then she has a press conference.
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So Sheila wants to go. Yes. And Christia Freeland says, no, not you. Yeah. At a media freedom
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conference. Now in the only time I can remember this happening, the other reporters there said,
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if you don't let her in, we're not going. That was incredible. And let's make no bones.
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Those were foreign journalists, uh, coming to bat for you, not the Canadian. They were Canadian
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stationed overseas. So they weren't part of the auto and mine. Gotcha. But how gross a person are you?
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You literally give a speech at a media freedom conference, but like these cops,
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you're a total inveterate liar. You're a total genetic liar. And so the second you're off the
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stage talking about media freedom, you're banning and censoring journalists. She is a depraved,
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morally depraved, amoral zombie fascist, just like her Nazi grandfather.
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I couldn't have said it any better. And there's an added level of perversity
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here when it comes to Fraulein Freeland Ezra. And it's this once upon a time,
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before she got into politics, she was a journalist. If you call what she did,
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journalism. It was basically, so she was the official biographer to George Soros.
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Oh, I don't know if you know that. So that's not really journalism. It's propaganda.
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Um, I want to show you, um, two tweets, if I may, because this is like, let me just check right now.
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Sure. Um, how many views the video has got? I mean, I, a few moments ago, it was 10 million.
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Wow. And which is just incredible overnight. Even in the time we've been talking 100,000 more views.
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So 10.1 million views, just a hundred thousand, just since you and I were talking, I sat down here
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and I showed you, it was 10 million. Now it's 10.1 million. It's really gaining half a million an
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hour or more. And that's because it shows the truth of your arrest. It shows these wicked lying
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RCMP deceivers. And so far, not a single mainstream media outlet has published on this.
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Uh, True North has Western standard has, um, obviously we have, uh, I feel like I'm,
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I'm leaving what Epoch times has, but other than that, no, now I, I should mention,
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I've been reached out to by the global mail and the CBC.
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So I expect, yeah, first time that's happened in years. Uh, so I'm optimistic, but you know,
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in a way, this is proof of proof of citizen journalism and social media. You're a citizen
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journalist asking a question about, uh, the liberals refusing to ban this terrorist group,
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the Islamic Republican Guard Corps. That's IG, uh, IRGC. But in a way, I don't even care if the CBC
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or the global mail covers something. I'm glad they are. Let me say that.
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But when 10.1 million people, that is more than the combined audience of all the TV stations,
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all the radio stations and all the newspapers in this country, there's not 10.1 people,
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million people watching the CBC. It's more like a quarter million. Yeah. And there's not 10.1 million
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people reading newspapers. It's, it's maybe a couple million in the whole country combined.
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So, um, yeah, I'm glad that the racing media is catching up.
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I think the numbers are important because I think this is the reason why the likes of the global mail
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on the CBC, I would argue are reluctantly covering this. You can't ignore, you know, that 800-pound
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gorilla in the room. I mean, it's, it's going around the world. It's being talked about all around the
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world. Uh, they're almost, you know, shamed into covering this. And, you know, I got to tell you,
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Ezra, in a way, this was very much deja vu. As you well know, back in December, 2021, Lincoln,
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Jay, and I, that's the ace videographer we have on staff. We went down to a downtown Toronto
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restaurant. And the context was this, it was early December and Trudeau had issued a statement
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saying, you know, because COVID is so dire, please don't get together with friends and family
00:25:02.860
for Christmas. Okay. But again, one rule for the one rule for me, he's holding a $1,700 plate fundraiser
00:25:10.700
at the Brickworks restaurant. And Lincoln and I, unlike the mainstream media who were, uh, uh,
00:25:17.900
welcomed in, uh, via red carpet, we stood outside in the cold because blackface is always
00:25:23.580
at least an hour late and we're on a public sidewalk. And I see the video rolling right
00:25:29.580
now. I'm chatting, uh, with, uh, his security detail. Here comes the entourage, typically eight
00:25:35.740
big eight cylinder fossil fuel burning vehicles. No, no EVs or plug-in hybrids here, Ezra. And look,
00:25:43.820
uh, without any kind of identification, uh, I am manhandled. They bring me down the sidewalk.
00:25:50.540
This is all a public sidewalk. And they, uh, I, again, they, well, why did they always do this?
00:25:55.980
Uh, they did it yesterday. They smashed my head into a fence or onto an SUV hood. Uh, I don't get it.
00:26:03.020
In any event, the reason why we were there, I knew we'd only get, um, a chance to ask, uh, Trudeau one
00:26:09.980
question. And it was Mr. Prime Minister, why the double standard? Why are you telling Canadians
00:26:14.860
not to get together with friends and family at Christmas, but you're packing them in like
00:26:18.780
sardines? Oh, there was no social distancing that night. Yeah. Now the guy with the, the cap on,
00:26:24.140
yes, I think he's bald. Is that the same guy who assaulted you yesterday? I don't know.
00:26:30.540
I don't know. Um, but I noticed that you asked that, uh, dollar store Kojak, uh, for his name and
00:26:36.940
his badge number repeatedly. And he refused. Yeah. Which first of all shows cowardice. Second
00:26:41.740
of all shows that he's not a rule follower. Third of all, it shows that he's a rogue cop
00:26:46.780
and that I would call him a dirty cop. I agree. And I think going back to that event,
00:26:50.940
I mean, it's something I can't prove unless, uh, Trudeau fessed up himself. I really believe
00:26:55.740
Ezra that Trudeau saw me on that sidewalk. He knows who we are. I have the rebel news,
00:27:01.420
Mike flash for goodness sake. I have my trademark hat on. And I really believe he said to a
00:27:06.620
security detail boys, give them the works because why on earth would, um, Royal Canadian
00:27:13.180
mounted police officers on their own volition, jump out of the SUVs and rough me up like that?
00:27:19.100
Well, I think that, um, the RCMP, uh, VIP security detail, the bodyguards,
00:27:24.860
they have hung out with Trudeau so much and they have drunk the Kool-Aid. And instead of being a
00:27:29.500
professional police force, they are his personal errand boys. And you're very identifiable in a number of
00:27:36.380
reasons, including your hats. And they just, Oh, David Menzies, let's go beat him up. They don't
00:27:40.940
have the courage to take on a hundred Hamas protesters. They're not brave enough for that.
00:27:46.860
But they'll take on a fellow like you, who, as you mentioned, has two artificial hips and you're
00:27:52.300
a journalist and you don't fight back. So they're very, very courageous beating you up. I should tell
00:27:57.020
our viewers that we're suing those cops for what they did, uh, at the Brickworks restaurant two
00:28:03.260
Christmases ago. And I had a call late last night with one of our best lawyers named Sarah Miller.
00:28:10.780
She's great. And I know her work because she has defended a number of cases for the democracy fund,
00:28:17.900
including a very difficult case involving pastor Arthur Pavlovsky. And Pavlovsky was convicted
00:28:26.860
of keeping his church open during the lockdowns.
00:28:29.100
He lost at trial. That's a tough, when you, when you lose a trial and you appeal,
00:28:34.060
the odds are against you. But, uh, Sarah Miller got that overturned three to zero in a precedent
00:28:40.540
setting case. It was a huge victory. I've, I've watched her work. I've read her work and she,
00:28:47.180
I talked to her at length yesterday and I want to tell our viewers
00:28:51.260
that just because the cops say they're done with you doesn't mean we're done with the cops,
00:28:58.380
especially that dirty Kojak. Yeah. And so we'll wait until the legal documents are finalized.
00:29:05.180
Sarah, you know, we only gave her the file last night. Obviously it only happened yesterday afternoon.
00:29:09.260
Yep. But in my mind, I see a false arrest charge, obviously. Yes.
00:29:15.740
Malicious prosecution, even though you're only, they were only proceeding against you for probably an hour,
00:29:20.780
it was still false, false imprisonment when you were arrested, handcuffed and put in the back of a
00:29:27.340
car and then dumped off at a school. And of course you yourself were the one who was assaulted.
00:29:32.700
And that last one really bugs me because like I say, they didn't need to handcuff you. They didn't
00:29:39.020
need to smash your face against a wall. Like literally what was that other than their abusiveness?
00:29:45.020
I think they violated your physical, the rights to physical integrity. And remember that all this was
00:29:50.300
done in the context of your doing legitimate public interest journalism in a public place,
00:29:56.620
on a public person, the deputy prime minister, on a very important cause. So I think your charter rights
00:30:02.860
were violated as well, including your freedom of the press. You are a journalist.
00:30:06.780
So those dirty cops may be done with you, but as God is my witness, we are not done with them.
00:30:14.620
And I'm going to leave the details to the expert, Sarah Miller, but it is my plan
00:30:21.580
to sue these dirty cops to infinity, to sue them until Jesus returns and brings with him,
00:30:29.260
you know, the second coming. Am I going to live that long?
00:30:31.740
Yes. Well, whatever it is, we will pursue these dirty
00:30:35.500
bastards until the end, especially those two wicked liars, the Kojak guy who was the thug,
00:30:42.860
the bully, the bouncer as his nickname is, and the bearded manipulator, the gaslighter who said,
00:30:49.100
oh, you were pushing everyone around. You were aggressive. You wicked liar. You grotesque liar.
00:30:56.540
You imposter. That is, he was acting as a criminal, not as a cop. And if I may, could you imagine
00:31:10.460
if that was just me with like, say a tape recorder, no video? We're toast.
00:31:15.900
We're toast. It's, it's, we, you know, when I hear viewers, uh, pitch stories to us and you know,
00:31:21.580
something going sideways, uh, with, uh, law enforcement or security, the very first thing
00:31:25.900
I say is, do you have video? And when they say no, I said, this is going to be a Herculean effort.
00:31:30.700
Yeah. He said, she said, yeah. And that is the society we live in right now. It's almost as
00:31:37.420
Well, as the kids say, Pixar didn't happen. And that's why we should take a minute to give
00:31:41.420
kudos to Lincoln J. Yes. Uh, your videographer who has been with you in so many of these dramatic
00:31:46.460
moments and, and keeps his cool and keeps that camera rolling. And, uh, I mean, I'm chuckling
00:31:52.540
again that you kept doing journalism even after you were arrested.
00:31:55.740
You know, I was surprised, Ezra, because usually when you are under arrest, they right away take away,
00:32:00.300
uh, like everything, your, your, your cell phone, your wallet, your wristwatch, everything.
00:32:04.300
And, uh, here I am still doing journalism. And I think, you know, in the back of my head is,
00:32:09.980
how long can I rag the puck? I mean, like, no, you're, you, you, you did such a great job there.
00:32:15.580
I want to say that, um, there were a couple of cops next to you. One cop, I'm going to describe
00:32:20.700
him as a black man, um, who was with the York regional police. He seemed actually not thrilled
00:32:26.780
with what was going on. He seemed to be reluctant. He helped get your stuff back together.
00:32:33.660
Yes. Uh, he was like, do you have any words about the York regional police? Because it
00:32:39.180
seems to me that the two thugs basically wanted to arrest you, but the York regional police said,
00:32:45.180
there's no arrestable matter here. Yeah. Um, that officer you speak of, um,
00:32:50.220
I got that impression too, that he was downright embarrassed. This was happening. And I found him
00:32:54.860
to be a nice guy. I talked to him briefly when I was released. Um, these guys have been dispatched,
00:33:00.620
you know, to bring me to the police cruiser. The York regional police officer I have content
00:33:05.660
for is the guy in the back, the plane clothes. Uh, uh, I guess he's York. Is he York regional?
00:33:10.140
I thought he was an RCMP. No, he is York regional because he was, as you said, Ezra,
00:33:14.780
he was lying through his team. He was the liar. Okay. I didn't know he was York regional.
00:33:17.820
He is York regional. Okay. So the, he, yeah, you know what? Isn't that funny? I thought he was RCMP based on,
00:33:23.580
um, his attire. And, and we should point out that, you know, and like you, I, I like to back the blue
00:33:31.580
and I think most cops, I really do are hardworking men and women and they've got a tough job. I mean,
00:33:38.460
when you're dealing with hooligans, gang bangers, I mean, you know, you put your life on the line
00:33:42.860
sometimes, but with York regional police and I've had good experiences with them, but I had a really
00:33:47.660
bad one. If you recall back, Ron McClain, Ron, can you imagine Ron? Like forget about blackface,
00:33:54.220
the prime minister, Ron McClain is royalty. And that was when I was manhandled, physically assaulted.
00:34:01.340
That's also a case because they didn't want, uh, this Judas being asked questions, uh, police,
00:34:08.940
police are really becoming woke. They're being colonized by politics. And I think it's a disgrace
00:34:14.380
to the profession. Now, um, um, I'm, I'm mindful of the time is 1241 Eastern time.
00:34:19.740
And I know that you have a series of other interviews lined up, including in the United
00:34:23.580
States. Um, now you're starting to get some Canadian invitations, I think.
00:34:27.900
Yes. Uh, typically from the independent media. So, um, you know, Mark Petroni at, uh,
00:34:33.980
Saga 960 and him and Richard Serrett are kicking out of the ballpark. Andrew Lawton at True North,
00:34:39.980
of course. And, um, I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two, but yeah. Um, and I'm happy to
00:34:46.220
give my time and tell the story and really Ezra, doesn't the video tell the story? And I'll tell
00:34:50.380
you why we have millions of fans and supporters that's undeniable, but we also have our haters.
00:34:57.820
And I can't tell you the number of comments I've read. And this speaks to how egregious what happened
00:35:03.740
to me was yesterday that say, I'm not a fan of rebel news. I'm not a fan of, um, Ezra Levant.
00:35:09.900
I'm not a fan of, uh, David Menzies, but yeah, you know, and it's the, but, but holy cow. Yeah.
00:35:16.380
This is so, uh, beyond the pale that, uh, I have to call it out. It's garbage. Yeah.
00:35:22.780
I've noticed that as well. I mean, it really is more than 99% supportive. Uh, I can, there,
00:35:28.300
there, there are a couple of people who, um, like, like it's, it's so overwhelming because
00:35:33.660
again, there's no need for commentary. We're, we're chatting about it because it's an interesting
00:35:37.100
thing to us. Um, but you just watched the raw video and you know exactly what happened.
00:35:42.700
Um, when you do these other shows, let me invite you to tell people that they can help you. And here's
00:35:48.620
why. Um, I have been suing the federal government for years. Uh, I think we have seven lawsuits right
00:35:56.460
now against Justin Trudeau in various capacities. And in every single case, the government lawyers
00:36:03.260
up hugely. Uh, typically a rebel versus Trudeau legal battle is one or two lawyers on our side
00:36:11.180
versus four, five, six, seven lawyers on the other side. Last time I was in court,
00:36:15.580
I think there were seven lawyers on the other side. Um, money's no object to them. Of course.
00:36:20.380
Cause it's our money. And so, and they have the justice department and they sometimes do both.
00:36:25.580
They have a justice department lawyer. Plus they use tax dollars to hire an outside expert firm.
00:36:30.940
Like it's astonishing. And if we sue the dirty cops here, um, both police forces and Christian Freeland,
00:36:40.860
they are probably going to spend a million dollars pushing back. There's no way
00:36:44.300
that they would roll over on this. So how do we fight that David and Goliath battle? Well,
00:36:49.260
we set up the website called standwithdavid.com and, um, Sarah Miller is not expensive, but she's
00:36:58.060
not cheap. And this will be a long battle because they're going to fight us on everything.
00:37:03.260
Yeah. So if you can remember on these, just say, folks, if you want to help me,
00:37:07.740
we do need to crowdfund my legal defense at standwithdavid.com because we really do need that help.
00:37:13.820
Um, and it's very exciting right now, but six months, 12 months, 18 months from now,
00:37:18.300
when we're really in the thick of the lawsuit, that's when the bills will start to rack up.
00:37:23.580
And I'm just so honored that our audience would contribute again, going back to our haters as
00:37:29.180
what I always find perversely ironic. They'll obviously say, oh, there goes rebel news, uh,
00:37:33.980
begging again. Wait a minute. I believe this is the most honest way of fundraising.
00:37:39.020
There is absolutely. We're not taking government money. If you like us, you know, and, uh, you know,
00:37:43.900
and you can, you're in a position to give a few bucks. Great. If you don't, you can still watch
00:37:47.580
most of our content, but the mainstream media takes it out of your bank account, assuming it's
00:37:52.620
not frozen that every two weeks. Oh, absolutely. The average gift to rebel news is $58. And I mentioned
00:37:59.100
that because first of all, you will never know who the donors are. I don't check who's given 58 bucks.
00:38:05.500
Um, so, so you're guided only by your conscience and, and, and serving the viewer. There's no
00:38:12.700
one big oligarch benefactor who you have to please. And, um, we, we take no government money. We're not
00:38:20.700
part of a corporate conglomerate. Um, we don't have a, an angel oligarch investor. It is the most
00:38:28.060
honest way to operate. And when I was growing up, when I went to law school, I guess that's 30 years ago
00:38:34.860
now I would read cases about free speech battles in the courts. And there was always a lawyer,
00:38:41.180
a top civil liberties lawyer that was hired by a consortium of broadcasters. So there would be one
00:38:47.420
excellent lawyer and CTV and global and CBC and the Toronto star and the global mail would each chip
00:38:54.540
in, let's say a couple grand enough to put together a little kitty. And they would send a top gun civil
00:39:00.620
liberties lawyer to court to seek intervener status and say, your honor, I'm here on behalf of the
00:39:05.660
whole industry. I'm here on behalf of a bunch of competitors who disagree on everything except for
00:39:11.820
we've got to defend free freedom of the press. That's how it used to be. You can look back at all
00:39:16.940
these cases and there was a lawyer for what they called the consortium. And it was basically every
00:39:22.140
time there was a free speech battle, everyone in the industry knew they had to pony up a couple of
00:39:25.820
grand because that way, all for one and one for all, everyone believed in free press. And that
00:39:32.220
way it didn't fall to one company. That has not happened in over a decade. And so who will fill
00:39:38.220
the void? Who went to court to bust down their ban on rebel news at the leaders' debate? Well,
00:39:43.820
we have to do that on our own. There was no interveners there. Who went to court to fight for
00:39:48.140
my book, the Libranos? We were there by ourselves. Who's going to take these cops on? This morning,
00:39:53.740
I checked the Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression,
00:39:57.900
Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Amnesty International, Penn Canada, and the Committee
00:40:02.620
for the Protection of Journalists. I checked six different organizations. None of them had
00:40:06.860
anything to say about your case. Unbelievable. None of them. Do you think if Stephen Harper had
00:40:11.500
arrested a CBC journalist, they'd be silent? Oh, there'd be a royal commission. And Ezra,
00:40:16.140
you know, isn't it scary how quickly things have changed? Because as you well know,
00:40:19.900
before Rebel News, before there was Sun News, you were the publisher of the Western Standard.
00:40:24.460
You were one of the brave individuals in North America to actually publish that Muhammad caricature.
00:40:31.820
And that resulted in a Human Rights Commission shakedown, of course. But back then, and I can't
00:40:38.940
remember who went to bat for you, but there were those in the mainstream media, if not financially
00:40:43.340
supporting you, saying, no, he has every right to do it. If you publish that cartoon today,
00:40:48.220
I don't think that support would be there at all. Oh, absolutely not. In fact, they would be the
00:40:53.020
ones calling for the prosecution. We've got to go in about five minutes, because we've got to get
00:40:59.100
you ready for the series of interviews you're doing. It's great to see you.
00:41:02.700
It's great to see you. And I was in the middle of some dental surgery yesterday. I get the phone
00:41:07.900
call from you. And I'm sorry it was not more available yesterday, but thank God you're okay.
00:41:13.340
And we will, they started this fight. We will finish it. I swear on the altar of God that we
00:41:19.580
will take this the distance I am. I will do, I will spend my last dollar on this, but hopefully I
00:41:26.380
won't have to do that. Hopefully our viewers will help. Well, you know, I will never let this go.
00:41:30.380
Thank you, Ezra. Well, you know what? I just won't. I just won't. And it would be great if
00:41:37.100
other people helped, but I have to tell you that there's nothing more important than this. We all
00:41:41.660
saw exactly what happened. We all saw the lying, the gaslighting. We all saw the false arrest,
00:41:46.140
the false imprisonment. We all saw the assault. We all saw that smirking fascist walk by. And if that
00:41:53.100
doesn't prick people to action, well then by God, I don't know what does. I want to show a couple of
00:41:57.420
tweets. Okay. Cause there is a politician I want to give some credit to. Can you call up
00:42:02.060
Pierre Polyev's two tweets on the subject? So last night his tweet is, and he did this late at night,
00:42:09.980
11 PM, but fair enough. I mean, at least he did. It was the first politician to do it. He said,
00:42:14.700
he retweeted the video. This is the state of freedom of the press in Canada in 2024 after eight
00:42:21.740
years of Trudeau. And scroll down. I want to see the view count on this.
00:42:27.340
1.7 million views. So good for him. People are obviously attentive. And then just at 1203,
00:42:33.980
just after we started our broadcast, he had a followup tweet, which I think showed a little
00:42:40.860
bit more courage. He was leaning into it. Well, the first one was, listen, give the guy credit.
00:42:44.780
And then at 1203 Eastern time today, he said this, a journalist was arrested for questioning
00:42:51.420
a liberal minister and the parliamentary press gallery doesn't say a word. Not surprised.
00:42:57.340
Trudeau has divided media into two groups, those he's bought off with bailouts and those he censors
00:43:02.060
and has arrested. Sign here to support a free press. And, and that tweet has over a thousand,
00:43:07.900
a hundred thousand views. Um, and it's not even an hour. Yeah. So this tells me
00:43:13.260
that like on so many other issues, the government is out of step with the zeitgeist of the people.
00:43:20.140
And it's a flicker of hope. And I know that Andrew, uh, Aaron O'Toole or Andrew Scheer would have been
00:43:28.860
much more reticent about, Oh my God, it's rebel news. And, and hopefully the conservative party will
00:43:34.780
get over that a bit. I saw another conservative MP, whose name I can't recall, tweeted. I was taught,
00:43:39.340
I spoke to the same journalist and I didn't need to call the cops. Did you see that one today?
00:43:43.740
There was, I, I just, you know what? I'll, I'll dig that. Oh, we've got that one here.
00:43:49.100
Anna Roberts. I forget where she's the MP from. She said the same reporter questioned me
00:43:53.340
at the same event and I didn't need him to be arrested. How many views on that one? That's
00:43:57.580
a great one. That's 42,000. Good for her for saying that a bit of a sense of humor there too.
00:44:02.220
Yeah. So, um, listen, we are, we have only just begun to fight and, um, I'm going to keep our
00:44:09.260
viewers posted. I, I know Sarah Miller's work. I mean, I'm just really excited that she's taken
00:44:14.380
this file. Um, it's Tuesday. We have to get a few more facts together. We've got to make sure we,
00:44:20.220
we cover the bases on the law, but I expect that we will be filing this lawsuit this week.
00:44:25.580
And when that happens, I can assure you, I will publish the full, I mean, you'll obviously have
00:44:30.940
to approve this because you will be a plaintiff as will Rebel News. Um, I think we've got to sue
00:44:35.500
all the cops and Christia Freeland. Um, I think there's at least, I think I can think of five
00:44:41.180
causes of action as the lawyers would say, and we'll publish the lawsuit because we will need
00:44:46.300
help for it. Because I know that already when you've got 10 million views, they know they're
00:44:54.620
in trouble and I want to get these bad guys. I want to stand up for freedom of the press
00:45:00.300
and against dirty cops. You know what? You need to throw out the bad apples before they
00:45:04.860
rot the whole barrel. And what I saw, there was a couple of dirty cops who were going to
00:45:08.540
rot the whole barrel. So we do need help and stand with david.com. We've got about three
00:45:13.020
minutes left before we have to go. Um, you're doing a bunch of shows today. I think you're
00:45:18.220
doing the Ingram angle on Fox. You're doing Breitbart radio. Maybe I hope so. Yep.
00:45:23.340
I think Newsmax reached out to you. Correct. Yes. You're doing Saga 960. You do
00:45:28.220
Mark Petroni, Richard Surrett, probably. Uh, I've had some inquiries from the CBC and the
00:45:32.620
Global Mail. I just had an inquiry from John Oakley show. So the media is, is waking up.
00:45:37.500
Adrian Humphries from the National Post just emailed me while we're on the show here.
00:45:41.260
So I think even our competitors in the regime media realize this is a big story. And frankly,
00:45:47.500
they can get on board or not. 10 million people have gotten their news elsewhere. In fact,
00:45:51.500
I checked, it was 10.1 million last we looked. And, and the reason I'm pointing about this is
00:45:56.780
it's just the raw footage, but people are so infuriated by it. I should tell you,
00:46:01.420
we're at 10.3 million views just in the last hour, another 200,000.
00:46:05.340
And you know something as we're at the end of the day, what a PR disaster for blackface,
00:46:10.540
because he came there to curry favor with the Persian Canadian community, you know, to, uh,
00:46:16.220
first of all, I can't believe he or any other federal ministers showed their face because it's
00:46:21.980
been four years and no action on the IRGC. And even what blackface said yesterday, we'll look at
00:46:29.740
methods. We'll consider putting the IRGC. Well, what's the look at? You're, you're, you're,
00:46:35.500
you're a prime minister with a de facto majority government.
00:46:38.300
There's been years to consider things. He's just a wicked liar. And, and you can see a fish
00:46:42.860
rots from the head down the dirty cops who protect him and obviously are mimicking him.
00:46:50.380
Well, what do you think of that? That's our show for today until tomorrow,
00:46:54.700
on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home. Good night.