Ezra Levant Show (April 7 2021) The head of YouTube brags about how brutal they’ve made their censorship
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The head of YouTube brags about how brutal they've made their censorship, plus we hear from Sheila Gunn-Reed, who was on the scene as police raided the Grace Life Church outside of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Hello, my friends. Big show today. Two parts. First of all, I go through the president of YouTube,
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how she brags about how she's censoring the internet. It's a little creepy, but not as
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creepy as Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin, the retired judge in Canada who now works for China,
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what she has to say about censorship. But then I think the highlight of today's show is talking
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to Sheila Gunn-Reed, who went to the Grace Life Church in Edmonton as it was raided by police.
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So we'll have excerpts of that. I really wish you had the video version of this podcast.
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Tonight, the head of YouTube brags about how brutal they've made their censorship.
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Plus, Sheila Gunn-Reed live from the church invasion in Edmonton.
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It's April 7th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Stay with us. After my monologue, we'll go to Sheila Gunn-Reed, who was on the scene as police raided the Grace Life Church outside Edmonton, Alberta.
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But first, you know the World Economic Forum, right?
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It's those really creepy, creepy people who believe in the Great Reset, who tell us we should own nothing, have no privacy, eat bugs, stuff like that, while they feast on seven-course meals.
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By the way, their keynote speaker at this year's get-together was Xi Jinping, the dictator of China.
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Well, they had an online conference yesterday, and by random chance I stumbled upon it, and I recognized the president of YouTube.
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I know what she looks like, but I actually never heard her speak before.
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I realized it was really weird to hear a billionaire tech oligarch who sounded like a stereotypical valley girl.
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My American accent that you heard on Terminator kind of changed a little bit into Callie from the Valley.
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I don't know, I just think it's weird to hear that coming from the mouth of an oligarch billionaire,
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but I guess when you're that rich and powerful, all you ever hear is how wonderful you are,
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and no one points out that you sound a bit like Paris Hilton.
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I watched her whole presentation, and it was basically her boasting to the World Economic Forum
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about how harshly YouTube has ratcheted up the censorship of the Internet.
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She's being interviewed by a super up-talker here.
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The last time we spoke, which was at, or the last time we spoke in public, which was at South by Southwest,
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you introduced a new concept very much related to this, which is that when conspiracy information is shown,
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you would show a panel with authoritative information, and you would lead people to Wikipedia.
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Tell me how this has evolved over the last two years.
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So, yes, we met almost, what, two and a half years ago, 2018, and I told you.
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Yeah, three years ago, and I told you that we were going to do label content,
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No one, I don't think we had actually rolled it out, or we were just in the process of rolling it out,
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and that became something that we now refer to as information panels,
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and those information panels have become incredibly important.
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I'd say they're a serious workforce in making sure that people have the right information
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We certainly have used that on all the coronavirus information.
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So if you look at something COVID-related, we'll link to all different kind of health information,
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health authorities, depending upon what country you're in.
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All kinds of common conspiracies will link that.
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In COVID, we serve hundreds of billions of impressions that were different information panels.
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So we've come a long way, Nick, since we first met,
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and I'm hopeful that our VBR is also the start to something really important,
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which is more transparency and just an enhancement of our transparency report
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to understand how we think about violent abuse.
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Hundreds of billions of times, they correct people who think improper thoughts about the pandemic.
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By the way, what does it mean to think improperly about the pandemic?
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Aren't we all learning new things about it every day?
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I mean, take, for example, the science about masks.
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Which of these versions is true, and which is that conspiracy theory?
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Irritating, and people are more likely to touch their face when they have a mask on,
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It's not something that when I'm out in public, it's going to protect me in any way.
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We don't want people wearing it all day long, for example.
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We cannot rely on a mask, because the mask is not what keeps us safe.
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And masks for long periods of time are not recommended by anybody in any situation.
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Would we be safer right now if we had masks on?
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You see, these are the things that we have learned.
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I've always said wear them where it's appropriate.
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And that's just a gentle question about masks, and if they make sense.
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Well, here's the former head of the Centers for Disease Control, the top American public health agency.
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He thinks the virus escaped from the Wuhan Virology Institute.
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If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan.
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You know, I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.
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It's not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker.
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It is also not unusual for that type of research to be occurring in Wuhan.
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The city is a widely known center for viral studies in China, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has experimented extensively with bat coronaviruses.
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But if you say those things on YouTube, you could lose your channel.
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Channel, let me quote an exact excerpt from YouTube's Rules.
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False or unsubstantiated claims about the cause, promotion of dangerous remedies or cures, includes false or misleading claims about the effects or distribution of vaccines, or origin or spread of COVID-19 that contradict scientific consensus.
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Examples of this include government or governments created the virus as a bioweapon.
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Galileo was convicted for defying the consensus.
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He said that the earth revolved around the sun, not the other way around.
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And that was just out of step of the consensus.
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But how do you ever advance and progress your understanding of the world if you can't challenge the establishment view?
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I can't think of anything less progressive than banning new and controversial ideas.
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But we don't really know until we test them out, do we?
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But if you do that on YouTube's favorite issues, and you heard them, the pandemic, or did Joe Biden win through voter fraud, you'll be banned.
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Susan Wojcicki, that's the YouTube CEO, even explains how they're doing it.
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She says they're making many more censorship rules, and they're enforcing those many more rules harder than ever.
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Those are two ways, she boasts, that she's correcting how people think.
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Well, first of all, I just want to say I think it was a really important milestone in terms of what we announced today.
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Because we have been asked many, many times by governments, by press, by advertising, creator community, about this violative rape.
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And we were able to show exactly how good we are at enforcement of our policies, right?
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So we were able to show that we have a very high ability to find this content and show exactly what that number was.
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We were also able to show that we were able to reduce it significantly over time.
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So if you look at where we were in 2017 at the same time of the year, we've reduced this more than 70%.
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And that is due to an incredible amount of hard work with machines and also improving our policies.
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So not only did we significantly remove content that violates our policies at that significant rate,
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but we also created a lot more policies that we had to remove.
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But, you know, something like hate speech or something that has a lot of context would be something that would be harder from a machine standpoint to be able to detect.
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But in the end, we've been able to really fine-tune our machines so that we can find a lot of this content.
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And it is flagged, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it's removed.
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So what happens is the machines will flag it, and then it will be sent to human reviewers who will determine whether or not this is in fact violative or not.
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Well, look who's ready to give that sendership a real boost.
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Kill websites, says McLaughlin, referring to former Chief Justice Beverly McLaughlin.
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Federal regulators should take down websites with hurtful words, says a former Supreme Court justice.
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Beverly McLaughlin yesterday said enforcement measures must be taken against Internet publishers hurting our democracy.
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We need to have, in some circumstances, a takedown mechanism when it's going to be a threat to life, said McLaughlin.
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I don't know what she means by a threat to life.
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I'm guessing she means like a death threat, a credible, imminent death threat.
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I mean, that's already covered by the criminal code.
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I can't actually think of a single social media company in the world that wouldn't take that down.
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It's a violation of the terms of service of Twitter, of Facebook, of YouTube, whatever.
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I don't think you need the courts to get involved.
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I can assure you that companies do that automatically, very quickly.
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But that's not what they're really after, is it?
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That's not what the pandemic thing or the voter fraud thing are about, is it?
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They're trying to get political mind control, not life-saving measures.
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We need a place where people can raise complaints.
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McLaughlin, 77, retired as Chief Justice four years ago.
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She co-authored a federally funded report that said Parliament must, quote,
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Speaking in a podcast for World Press Freedom Canada,
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McLaughlin said current limits on free speech are inadequate,
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including libel law and 1970 hate speech provisions of the criminal code.
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The problem is they're not always swift and fast, said McLaughlin.
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Criminal proceedings take a terribly long time.
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We are proposing an e-court where you go online, you say,
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I am being bullied or harassed or whatever it is.
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And there would be experts who know how to deal with those things.
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I love the fact that censors call themselves, what do they say?
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What, did you think they'd call themselves Globalist Press Censorship Canada branch?
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But they knew they had an ally in Beverly McLaughlin, and it's quite sad.
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Beverly McLaughlin, I mean, she's the one who denounced Canada as a racist, genocidal country.
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But it just happens to have fit perfectly with the anti-Canada agenda promoted
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by not just Justin Trudeau, but by the Communist Party of China.
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Whenever we mention human rights abuses in China,
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they talk about our genocide, and really, fair play,
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if our own prime minister and our own chief justice
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say we're human rights criminals, say we committed a genocide,
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why shouldn't China be able to quote them back to us?
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Now, back in the olden days, like just a few years ago,
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Help oversee the independent laws of Hong Kong.
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They're arresting lawyers, democracy activists.
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and they broke their promise to the UK and to the world
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They're a tyranny now, just like the rest of China.
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She gives the communist regime cover in Hong Kong.
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And not enough to do anything about slow justice
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But she doesn't want any of this rule of law stuff
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where each side gets a chance to make their case
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I mean, that's how it was when she was more Canadian
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But now that she's more Chinese Communist Party,
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she really thinks things can be done in a flash, doesn't she?
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We all understand that speech is a wonderful thing.
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which happens in non-democratic countries all the time.
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I'm embarrassed that she's our former chief judge.
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Instead of spreading liberal democracy to China,
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Well, I was going to interview Sheila Gunn-Reid,
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when the police rolled in to shut the place down.
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But instead of interviewing Sheila after the fact,
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some outtakes of my live interview with Sheila,
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who was there as they were putting up the fence.
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As you may know, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
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with her on the line, live streaming from the ground.
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and talked to the neighbor and talked to the cops.
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Well, you know, I try to follow the rules of engagement
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And then they suddenly miraculously produced it.
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And the police and Paladin are keeping them out.
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their own perimeter to keep the journalists out.
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But today now the police have set up a perimeter
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I wouldn't want my name signed up to that either, I guess.
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Yeah, well, you guys just saw how that's going.
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Social distancing, but they get right in my face.
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This is the gentleman who is usually on the other side of the blockade.
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And this gentleman right here, right in front of me,
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he is the elder who put on that real clinic about how to deal with police.
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Who showed everybody exactly how to deal with the police
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when they are violating Section 176-2 of the criminal code.
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Well, Sheila, I appreciate you asking them for their name and badge number.
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They know what they're doing is deeply embarrassing.
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If I was that cowardly, I would not want the world to know my name either.
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If I was part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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I was storming a church at dawn, setting up a perimeter, bringing in porta-potties.
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Well, and can I tell you just how poorly thought out this all is?
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So, you can see they've completely blocked off the road.
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And over here, you can see there's a shared driveway with the church
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where the man has his trailer stored and he has a garage.
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because they're so hell-bent on locking down and raiding a church here.
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That guy right there just stopped and yelled at these nice families
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who are here watching their church be locked down.
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Oh, he just screamed, ha-ha, like, it's about time.
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You guys are lucky I'm on that treadmill every night.
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I didn't know that the Satanists were all in the mask.
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Sorry about the swearing there, but that's the level of purgatory.
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I think he literally praised the Church of Satan.
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I think he literally gave a shout-out to the Church of Satan.
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He said that even the Church of Satan follows masking.
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And so he said, you creationists, which I don't think they are here,
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But he said, you creationists are worse than the Church of Satan.
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Well, he was using them as a moral authority, wasn't he?
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This really is a battle of good and evil, isn't it?
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Like, when I said satanic, I was saying that in the, not a particularly religious,
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But that guy, no baloney, really referred to the satanic church or whatever.
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I was saying it as a, you know, as a metaphor or a literal style.
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He referred to the Church of Satan as his moral guideline on masks.
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Yeah, I mean, and you're exactly right when you say it is a battle of good and evil.
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It is, you know, for these Christians behind me, it's the battle that they were promised, right?
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But, I mean, he drove by, cackled at families of children standing in the cold in despair watching their church being locked down,
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shouted his pleasure at seeing a church locked down, which indeed is satanic,
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and then used the Church of Satan as his moral authority when it comes to mask laws.
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This here, this is the guy who owns the garage, and he's trying to get in to his own property.
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These bullies, these cowards who won't even show you their name and face.
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Are they so dumb as to keep this man out from his own property?
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Like, this guy just wants to use his own garage.
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But they are so hell-bent on locking up this church that they're willing to violate this guy's property rights, too.
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See, this man attends the church, and he's saying right now to this, I don't know if he's a security guard or a plainclothes cop,
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but he's saying to them, after this is all over, you're welcome to come to the church.
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So that's the kind of hearts and minds of the people at the church here,
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that they are truly hearts full of forgiveness.
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They just know that they're staring down evil, and they are willing to forgive even those who trespass against them.
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Well, this will be interesting, because will they literally keep this man away from his home?
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I wouldn't want to take this truck into the ditch.
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I just would worry it would be too mushy from...
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I mean, like, I wouldn't want him to get stuck.
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I wonder if they'll let him go to his own property.
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Imagine having a check stop at your own property.
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So that man, as he drove past, I don't know if you heard that,
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He's got a Legion plate and then a support our troops plate.
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Well, if he just said you're welcome to go onto his property,
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And how much battery juice do you have on your phone?
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Because we've been yapping at you for almost an hour.
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So, you're live right now with Ezra, by the way.
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You know, I was telling the plainclothes believing officer, staff sergeant, who said that we talked
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And I told him, I think the last time I saw that kind of screening was on the Carla Homolka
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house in Ontario, where they murdered those two young girls.
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I think that's the last time, and then they bulldozed the house.
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So, I don't know if that's what's happening here, or they're planning to bulldoze the church.
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Say hello to the gentleman from me and give him my best regards.
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It's just a dark time when churches are being fenced off.
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And they didn't even think this through, that they blocked access to your property because
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they're just so eager to prevent the church from gathering.
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It's just, it's just, I woke up with a headache when I got my messages this morning.
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I'm supposed to send my best regards from Ezra, and thank you for letting me on the
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We should invite everybody over to the property here, and we can have prayers this morning.
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Opening the doors there, because I looked at the order that is affixed to the,
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Thank you for doing that, and you're cool as a cucumber the whole time.
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And I read the order affixed to the door of the church, and it very clearly only refers
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First of all, he was very thoughtful, very perceptive.
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And his comments about the last time he saw this kind of a police deployment was for the
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And are they going to bulldoze this church, too?
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You know, I know he said that ironically or sarcastically or sardonically, but really that's
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only one degree further than what we are right now.
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I don't know if he means right now, but the order that those cowardly thugs are enforcing,
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and I call them cowardly because they won't say their name or give their badge number.
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Those cowardly thugs claim to have authority to lock down the church, and they claim their
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authority is that order affixed to the door of the church.
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Justin, I don't know if you can manifest that order.
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That order does not apply to this man's house now, does it?
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It looks like they are now erecting fence just to the other side of his driveway so that
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he can continue to access his garage, but they really want to make sure that nobody gets
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Because we saw the truck, the trucks leave the fencing truck.
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Yeah, well, there's another fencing truck right there.
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Just for one second, we're going to put on screen for one second the order.
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Alberta Health Services had ordered this premises closed to the Public Grace Life Church of
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So the church is closed, not the neighbor's house, not the road to the neighbor's house.
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These police have no authority there, although it hasn't stopped them before now, has it?
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I saw another journalist follow your courage and go down the road.
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He's probably going to give a tongue lashing to these dirty cops.
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And I call them dirty because I don't think they're following the law about disclosing
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Block it off here if you don't want anybody going to the church for whatever reason.
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So why can't you go across the driveway and along the grass?
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We don't want to get called by and get pretty quick when this is right now.
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We did go across the driveway and down the grass.
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Right now, that's where the fence is going to go.
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You'll have to talk to Kevin McGillery at the park on the back.
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So this is going to obstruct your use of your property.
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Yeah, like, Ian, that's too close to your road.
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And this man just told the RCMP corporal here, you're putting this on my land and you're,
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So, like, I don't know if you can see this and if you're familiar with the turning radius
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They're obstructing his ability to lose, to use his own property.
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I don't know if you want to talk to the truth possibly, but not on my property.
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Yeah, but put your blockade across the road so I can get my equipment.
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I just thought that you're concerned that you didn't want to travel on the outside.
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All right, so what would you come with me here?
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The cowardly RCMP officer, the fence builder, Jason Kenney, Tyler Shandro, Casey Madu, Alberta
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Imagine coming and just throwing up a fence on a private property owner's land who incidentally
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attends the church, but he doesn't own the property.
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Like he owns his own property here and they don't even have the land survey.
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But when you hate a church, what is that but satanic?
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Is that not the technical, physical, mathematical definition of satanic?
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If you hate a church, if you're trying to blockade a church, is that not actually a secular definition
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I think someone should call the cops to get the trespassers off.
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Well, how do they do this without even knowing where the property line is?
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I don't think they can arrest you for asking a question, Sheila.
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So did nobody pull a property survey before they started putting up fences?
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I've known Jason Kenney for more than 20 years.
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And I always knew him as one of the most Christian and pro-religious freedom politicians in Canada.
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When he was in the federal cabinet, he created the Office for Religious Liberty.
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It had a different name than that, but that's what its purpose was.
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That's the same church, of course, where they arrested the pastor and threw him in prison for 35 days.
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Something is deeply wrong in Alberta, and I found it incredible.
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Feel free to send me an email at Ezra at rebelnews.com
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,