EZRA LEVANT | The Best of Rebel News in 2024 (So Far)
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Summary
Rebel News Plus is a new podcast from Rebel Media covering the happenings in the news and politics of Canada and around the world. In this episode, host Steven Benzies is joined by Sheila Gunn-Reed, Alexa Lavoie, and David Menzies to discuss some of the biggest stories of the year so far.
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Hello, my friends. I can't believe how much has happened in 2024. So many things that
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we've covered as journalists and so many things that have actually happened to us, including
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to our star journalist, David Menzi. So today, we're going to have the best of 2024 so far.
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To see the video version of it, which I think is essential because so many of these stories
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happen out in the field, go to rebelnewsplus.com and click subscribe to get the video version.
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It's just eight bucks a month, which might not seem like a lot to you, but it really
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adds up for us. That's rebelnewsplus.com. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, it's already springtime. Let me show you the best rebel journalism so far in 2024.
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You're ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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I can't believe 2024 is already, what, about a quarter done. It's springtime already, and
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we've had such a busy year. I have. Sheila Gunn-Reed has. Alexa Lavoie, all our journalists.
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I think David Menzies has had the busiest of years, and we're just getting started. So
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for the next half hour or so, enjoy the best of 2024 so far.
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I'm enjoying it, and I'm doing my best to be fair and friendly.
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If this was Canada, you could have him arrested.
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Did you see that? Your rival, Chrystia Freeland, had one of our reporters arrested.
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I don't think she did. I think she didn't say a word against it.
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and that's why I don't have any further comment.
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in the UK. I know you got to answer tough questions,
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and you guys, you know, you ask tough questions,
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Well, I want to thank you for saying that, because I have to say,
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But look, the questions you were asking earlier
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Well, thanks for your time. I really appreciate...
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You don't have anything to say about that, for example.
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It's quite clear to see where you're going to be.
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Of course, Mr. Trudeau is not answering any questions
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Can you believe that the federal court has ruled
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And Mr. Trudeau is not answering a question regarding that.
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How many truckers, how many Canadians were beat up
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So you can see Mr. Trudeau is just in this suburban right there
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and is not deemed to answer a question regarding that.
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Why is your government supporting Islamo Nazis?
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because I'm a police officer, I can do everything I want.
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Aren't you insulted with Justin and them being in there
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Transparency builds citizens' faith and confidence
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and advance the truth without fear of retaliation, reprisal,
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I mean, I know your government paid a terrorist,
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I have no tolerance for people sympathize with terrorists.
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Death to an entire group as a blanket statement
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Civil society, pluralistic society is falling apart.
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I know, but I was just explaining to them earlier.
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But we're not the pro-Hamas people chanting for genocide.
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You know, I'm sorry, I understand your position,
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but we're not hanging banners and flags over the...
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But at this time, we've been directed that no one,
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regardless of who you are, whether you're a journalist or not,
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more than welcome to go file a complaint, more than welcome.
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So if he stands on the bridge, are you going to arrest him?
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So we have authority for obstruct public and obstruct police.
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If you stand on the bridge, you will be arrested, right?
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Que con gente que él habÃa venido, se cruzaron, lo dejaron,
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But it seems that he says he has a note, I don't know, he has a number.
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Do you have someone who is going to respond to him?
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We are not from the same community or from the same place.
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I'm from a village and he lives in the village.
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There were thieves there, dogs, and there were a lot of problems?
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Yes, yes, we had to go out running, with our lives.
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Do you have a family here in the United States?
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Guys, guys, guys, excuse me, we're trying to put him behind us.
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He's the guy who shouts hateful things at synagogues, at Jewish schools.
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He's the one who has been leading the Hamas rallies around Toronto.
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David was trying to interview him, and he said,
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I'm going to pray in the middle of the street right now.
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Okay, well, you go ahead. It's a public street.
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But no, the police came and pulled David off the street
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as if it became suddenly a Sharia street, a mosque or something.
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I think if you recorded, we've already warned you about it.
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I'm not shoving you, sir. I'm standing here. You're impeding me.
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You're going to be under arrest for instructing police.
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I've asked you for identification numerous times.
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I think you guys are going to be hearing from our lawyers.
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i promise you on behalf of our viewers that we will not only defend you against their
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bullshit charges but we will take the fight for them and see them for not only towards
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the community against you and also the charge of our nation i'm so sorry you went through this
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and i thank you on behalf of our company and our viewers ezra it was a surreal experience i'm so
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sorry you and deferent have wasted hours of your night here and um it was the least thing i expected
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you know it was verified um the pro homos people they can be violent and we were talking in the
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morning meeting um we're not sure we have enough time to get security and i said oh well the prime
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minister there there'll be security glory there'll be rcmp there'll be police uh we don't need security
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and i was thinking in terms of being protected from hamas i didn't think the police would do a
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stitch up to him again it's deja vu from january well we got it on tape efron was there and he
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we have to get on tape where the police grabbed you and pulled you out
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excuse me we're trying to put him behind it hey hey that's my guy that's my guy
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we have the false arrest itself we'll be under arrest for instructing police here we go
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you're under arrest for instructing police there we go what is this i've asked you for identification
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numerous times you failed to identify yourself that's instructing police can you grab my
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i still get it sir don't worry nobody will touch it we'll get your identification for you
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okay i think you guys are going to be hearing from our lawyers
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i'm looking at my watch it's 12 18 a.m you've been arrested for i think you've been in custody for
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four hours or so that sounds right now were you physically hurt during the arrest you know i'm not
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i don't think so i mean i've got this screwed up shoulder but you know that's been an ongoing
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issue but uh no i can't say that but again ezra it it's not the assault oh i know it's your freedom
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of the press but also your freedom of religion why should you have to move because some guy says
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this is holy sidewalk what your freedom of mobility to move around it's all violated not by the hamas guys
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but by the police yeah and you know it's amazing the reason why we're there is is that we were asking
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the pro hamas people on the other side of the hordandoff area by the police uh you know to get
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comments and then we knew the anti-trudeau people were on the other side led up by derek constant fixture
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so we went there to interview him um that happened to be where this impromptu prayer session
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uh was going to take place and i say it was going to take place because they weren't
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in any kind of prayer when i got there that they don't these stuff it was it was a ruse yeah and and
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i was looking for derek and then i recognized the individual who had stolen uh lincoln jay's camera
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rather than one yeah he's the thud he's the leader of these hamas thugs he seems to be giving the orders
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these days the law enforcement well i mean if he doesn't have them delivering coffee to him
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yeah he's giving the mortars yeah i got one more question before i forget what was the what was
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the cell you were in like and i know you've been arrested before for example in montreal just tell
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me what it was like in the holding cell you know it was cleaner than montreal i will say this is right you
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know um they say time flies when having fun when you are sitting in a concrete cell and you don't
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have a book or a magazine or a cell phone um time crawls at a snail's pace that's the first thing the
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second thing is it's just a sanitary issue there is a toilet right beside that little you know concrete
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bed but there's no worm water there's no soap there's no toilet you know and uh toilet i know i i
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don't understand and um it there was it looked like somebody had taken paper towels and put some
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sticky stuff on it and had thrown it up to the ceiling because well you're lying there and you
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have nothing to do you're looking at the ceiling and there's all this all these like paper towels
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that have hit it's so gross and you know it's it's it's that way on purpose as a kind of humiliation
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how are the police themselves i mean we saw uh some of the folks who arrested you
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how were you treated when you were brought here and when you were put in the cell they were friendly
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i will say they were doing their job and you got a phone call from the lawyer leora shemesh i did
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indeed okay and did she uh how much how long did you speak with her for probably a good five or six
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minutes okay and she basically said she'll be representing me and um you know take the paperwork
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in which i have and um she'll go to the court so we crowdfunded leora shemesh we did a quick video
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oh okay and i want to say thanks to viewers who have shipped in at stanwithdavid.com we're not just
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going to play defense on this i'm sick of this yeah i'm and i can only imagine you're sick of it we're
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going to sue the toronto police because they have become politicized and biased there's two-tier policing
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they are violating the charter rights of journalists and no one has said no to them yet not the mayor
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not the police chief um not the toronto star so we're going to say no to them we're going to ask
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a judge to say no and we've done this before for other journalists our friend avi immediate australia
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he was falsely arrested again and again and again until we see the police and they actually wrote
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him a lengthy apology we're suing the rcmp we're going to sue the toronto police and and we will
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not abide the abuse from the hamas thugs nor will we abide it from the toronto police and i want to
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tell you that i don't want to keep you longer let's have you had a chance to call your wife since you
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got out you know i'm sure she wants to get a call from you we'll let you go because it's it's really
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late yeah um i would just say to our viewers at home and around the world uh 200 000 people have
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watched the video of your arrest in the last hour so people are outraged as they should be
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on behalf of rebel news and myself i want to thank people for standing with david and i pledge to you
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that we will not stop simply with his um acquittal we will continue thereafter to go after the police
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until a judge puts them in the right place last question what were you charged with it was you
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know what um i think it was causing a disturbance and you're at a hamas intifada near riot and they
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charged you with cause yeah and um let's see um this is the detective that we have to deal with ezra
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and also the second charge was um violating my peace bond uh based on the fake arrest of um
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the lcbo manager ashley metella who falsely accused me of assault so i had to sign a peace bond which
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struck peace officer breach of peace bond yeah absolutely outrageous and i and i we're not
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going to let this stand we're going we're not going to let toronto turn into jazz david let's get you
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calling your wife okay and we'll say good night and thanks to our viewers thank you efren thank you everybody
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well that's our show for the day until next time on behalf of all of us here at rebel world
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headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom