EZRA LEVANT | The Emperor's New Clothes: A tale for modern transgender times
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Would the classic fable The Emperor's New Clothes be considered hate speech if written today? If it were written today, would it be banned as hate speech? by the censorious thugs running social media?
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tonight would the classic fable the emperor's new clothes be considered hate speech if it were
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written today it's monday april 18th 2022 i'm david menzies and this is the ezra levent 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 the only thing i have to say to
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the government about why i'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so
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you know folks the other day i was thinking about the hans christian anderson fable the emperor's new
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clothes and it made me ponder how much the world has changed since that fable was penned back in
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1837 in fact it also made me ponder if this fable could even be published today and if it was
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published would it be condemned as hate speech by the usual suspects now if you've forgotten this
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tale it goes like this a couple of con men arrive at a capital city lorded over by a vain emperor
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who is known to spend lavishly on his clothing the swindlers posing as weavers offered to supply the
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emperor with stupendous clothes in fact there's a magical element to these clothes in that the
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garments appear invisible to those persons who are either stupid or incompetent the emperor must
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have these incredible clothes of course so he hires the flim flam men who immediately set up looms
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and as the so-called work progresses various officials and the emperor himself visit the workshop
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to check out their progress naturally they see that the looms are empty but everyone pretends there is
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clothing upon those looms as they don't want to be labeled as fools and when the non-existent
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haberdashery is completed the swindlers pretend to dress the emperor so that he can march in a
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procession through town to show off his new togs of course the emperor isn't wearing anything except
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his birthday suit and that makes for a cringe-worthy sight to be sure and while his beleaguered subjects
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are completely uncomfortable looking at the emperor marching buck naked they remain silent as nobody
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wants to come across as being you know stupid or incompetent however a little boy finally blurts out
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that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes the people then realize that everyone the emperor included
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have been hoodwinked even though the emperor keeps marching along presumably to save face now over
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the years scholars have noted that the phrase emperor's new clothes has become a standard metaphor
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for anything that smacks of everything ranging from pomposity and hypocrisy to collective denial and
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hollow ostentatiousness of course the whistleblower boy being a child he has yet to be corrupted
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and is therefore the only straight shooter in the crowd as such the boy is a paragon of truth and
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virtue he's a hero actually because he does not succumb to the vortex of bullshite perpetrated by the
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fraudsters like the umpire behind home plate he calls him as he sees him and he should be celebrated
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but in our woke politically correct climate of today such a story would be unpublishable i think
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alas when it comes to so many issues telling the truth is now often deemed as offensive or insensitive
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and in some cases speech that is actually punishable exhibit a the radical transgendered community and their
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useful idiots always on the war path these days you know the crackpots that would have us believe that biological men
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can be women just because they believe this rubbish or at least they pretend to believe this rubbish once upon a time
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such people were put in an asylum now they are hailed as trailblazing social justice warriors so it is that ncaa swimmer leah
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thomas is not condemned as a grifter by the progressives rather thomas is a modern day jackie robinson
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the first black athlete to break the color barrier in major league baseball that comparison of course is
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vomit inducing in terms of offensiveness thomas is clearly a man slaughtering woman in the pool
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but if you embrace the mantra of the little boy from the emperor's new clothes and essentially say
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as much you know that the really big girl in the pool well she has no breasts but does have testicles
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well you will be lambasted by the left you will be suspended or even delisted by the censorious
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thugs running social media you might even be up in front of a human rights tribunal
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even though such a statement is true and can be proven true now the ncaa allowing this to happen
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in the first place is a disgrace they are too terrified to be labeled transphobic even though
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allowing this freak show to occur is misogynistic as for the media well look at how nbc news digitally
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photoshop leah thomas to make her look you know more feminine nbc aka nothing but crap is not exposing
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the transgender con job rather it is aiding and abetting it now while leah thomas is the most recent
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trans cheat he's certainly not the first indeed consider the curious case of michelle
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demoresc talk about a trailblazer back in 2001 demoresc began competing in competitive female
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bike races in british columbia she won races galore and even set speed records um little wonder folks
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given that she is actually a he yeah you guessed it but get this par for the course michelle won the 2006
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canadian nationals and that prompted the boyfriend of second place finisher danika schroeder to jump up
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onto the podium and help danika put on a t-shirt reading quote 100 pure woman champ end quote well
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finally we had an emperor has no clothes moment in that a fraudster was called out publicly and what
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happened well the 100 pure woman danika was suspended by the gutless weasels running the canadian cycling
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association for her temerity to wear a shirt bearing a 100 truthful statement indeed if the canadian cycling
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association head honchos had written the emperor's new clothes me thinks the fable would have ended with
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the little boy receiving a severe beating when will this madness end who will call out the madness why
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are so many afraid of the zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one percent fringe by the way last
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time i checked folks new york city officially recognizes 31 genders another source says the real number should be
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58 genders yet another source claims the correct number is 63 do i hear a nice round 100 you know
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maybe i'm just an old-fashioned square because i thought there were only two genders i thought if you
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had a penis you're a man and if you have a vagina you're a woman now we have guys sporting a mangina and
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gals packing a venus and no one dare say anything lest we hurt someone's precious feelings forgive my
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outdated thought process for i was basing my reasoning on that silly little thing called oh you know science
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biology specifically but these days you come across a six foot three 275 pound dude wearing a violet
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bustier and a pink miniskirt and white go-go boots and hey it's not halloween rather it's a man man
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with all the bits and pieces that biologically makes him a man yet he's self-identifying as a gender
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fluid non-binary transsexual gender blender spirit unicorn well of course he is or then again maybe
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just maybe that ex-linebacker decked out in a sailor moon costume is um mentally ill you think
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writing in crisis magazine back in 2016 when the world was far less woke and far more sane
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elise earnhardt makes a connection between transgenderism and autism now earnhardt is not
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transgender rather she has asperger's syndrome and typical among asperger's girls in their adolescence
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earnhardt preferred the company of boys due to the bullying she experienced from other girls citing a
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social media campaign featuring the hashtag autistic trans pride she understands why autistic adolescents
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believe they're transgender when in fact they're not these adolescents are told they are a girl trapped
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in a boy's body or a boy trapped in a girl's body and many parents buy into this completely unscientific
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hypothesis indeed in a 2017 national post column entitled how trans activists are unethically
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influencing autistic children to change genders author susan bradley notes the following quote as a child
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psychiatrist with experience in both asd and gender discomfort i share earnhardt's concern and can
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substantiate her claim in her account i see a family story of a youth with asd who feels socially
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isolated and confused about sexual feelings as she moves into adolescence end quote bradley believes
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irreversible medical interventions such as hormones and surgery should be postponed until there's
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certainty that the individuals are fully able to understand that there's no going back after all with
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the passage of time such individuals might change their minds but bradley notes trans activists would
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have the public believe anyone who expresses a wish to be the other gender should be allowed and even
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encouraged to do so politicians have actually translated such demands into law yet she stresses that there's
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no evidence that there's such a thing as a true trans just as there's no marker that would identify a false
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trans and to accept the wishes of those with autism at face value really isn't an act of kindness of course
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the likes of earnhardt and bradley are being condemned as transphobic by the trans community and their allies
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due to their politically incorrect albeit scientifically correct observations but then again
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earnhardt and bradley are basing their comments on proven proofs as opposed to feelings bottom line
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we need more people to stand up to the trans mob people who will speak the truth rather than stay silent
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and they need to be applauded not condemned for simply making the point that we now live in a world
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wherein the inmates are truly running the asylum
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the brutal conflict in ukraine continues to receive the lion's share of international news coverage
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these days and rightfully so but there is another very important international story unfolding these days
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and it might just be the most overlooked and underreported story of the year thus far
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namely there are negotiations underway that are paving the way for iran to get nuclear weapons that's right
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the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world might have an arsenal of nukes in the near future
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what could possibly go wrong and joining me now for more on this disturbing story is brian live the
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executive director of iranian americans for liberty thank you so much for joining me today brian
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oh it's an honor it's great to be with you and let me just say very quickly when you said what could go
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wrong everything could go wrong well you know um i was saying it facetiously of course and we will take
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a deep dive into uh what could go wrong but first off the bat brian what exactly is iranian americans
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for liberty so the iranian americans for liberty or as we're also known as as ial is a bipartisan group
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of iranian americans that are working together here in the united states of america uh to uh support
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and strengthen u.s foreign policy as it relates to the islamic republic of iran last year in 2021 we
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had the the great fortune and pleasure to host 16 members of congress for virtual congressional meeting
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greets we were involved behind the scenes with seven congressional oversight letters and also a
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very large house resolution that hit the floor in november of last year so our main focus is making
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sure that we do everything that we can to engage and advocate with not just members of congress but
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with the american people as a whole and we do that through the media um and and and through a lot of
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other ways as well um but you know we take a very strong stance against the islamic republic of iran and
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a very strong stance in support of the freedom and liberty seeking iranian people gotcha and of course
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it goes without saying there is a profound difference between the iranian regime and the
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people of iran who are probably the biggest victims of that regime especially when it comes to their
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rights and liberties but brian tell me have i got this right it seems to me that if we just go back
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in time a year and a half to when the trump administration was still in power um iran seemed to
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be on its knees uh the previous obama iranian nuclear uh agreement that was torn up there were
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all kinds of sanctions uh soleimani was uh executed uh and now suddenly with the biden administration
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in charge we're on the cusp potentially of the regime of iran getting nuclear weapons how is this
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possible well you know when the leader of the free world if if we can still call uh joe biden that
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when he's projecting weakness onto the world our adversaries such as china russia and of course the
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islamic republic they're going to take notice of that they're going to take advantage of it and then
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they're going to exploit that and that's exactly what's happening right now and you you made a good
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point during president trump's uh tenure in the white house the islamic republic was uh really on life
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support in a lot of different ways in fact the last couple months of his administration the islamic
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republic was down to i think you're either three or four billion dollars in international reserves
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that's what the imf had been reporting um now three to four billion dollars to you and me is a lot of
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money uh but three to four billion dollars to a sovereign nation like the islamic republic is
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keeping the lights on maybe for a month or two um and that's you know president trump's maximum
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pressure campaign was really working and it really isolated uh the regime uh and it really got them
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down to as i mentioned three to four billion dollars now the the unfortunate news to to report to you
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and to your audience and to the canadian people is that as of last year uh after one full year of joe
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biden in the white house the islamic republic's international reserves grew from three to four billion
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to over 40 billion dollars and in addition to that uh they're also selling around a billion dollars
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a month in crude oil uh to china um so yeah the islamic republic has very much benefited from a
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biden administration um and it looks like it's all signs pointing uh to biden and his team trying
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to do everything that they can to strike a new deal uh with the islamic republic but but quite honestly
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i don't think there's going to be a deal i think if there was going to be a deal it would have
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happened already uh biden and robert malley and the entire team they've already said that they're
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going to lift every single economic sanction uh that possibly is out there so what more would the
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islamic republic of iran want from us uh to do a deal and i think that kind of gets to the the point
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that i'm making here is that i don't think they want to do a deal i think they want to do as much as
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they can to buy time so they can enrich uranium so they can build their their their relationships and
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influence with russia and china uh then at the end of the day they're just going to say oh you know
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what we're not ready for a deal with you guys and you know what it's going to be the american people
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uh that that look like fools but brian please help me connect the dots here i don't understand
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what america gets in terms of making iran more powerful uh richer um getting nuclear weapons etc
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why would the biden administration whether there is a deal or not why would they think this is good
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for the domestic interests of the united states and for that matter the free world
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it's it's one of those head scratching moments right it doesn't make much sense to anyone like me who
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is in the foreign policy world every single day and it let alone does not make any sense to the average
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american that maybe thinks about foreign policy once or twice a year um you know this new deal that
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biden is trying to to strike with the moas in tehran it's a bad deal for america it's a bad deal for
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our allies in the region like israel like saudi arabia bakhrain and other uh arab countries and also
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and most importantly it's a bad deal for the iranian people if we unfreeze billions of dollars of
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economic sanctions uh the islamic republic has a track record of what they're going to do once we
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unfreeze those assets they're going to push more money out the door to their terrorist proxies like
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hamas like hezba like the houthis and the 50 other terrorist organizations that they support all
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throughout the world so um it's pretty clear what's going to happen if they are able to get their hands
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on billions of dollars of uh through you know us lifting economic sanctions but the final point here is
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yes the american people do not stand to benefit in any fashion whatsoever from a deal with iran from
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diplomacy with iran we need to further isolate this terrorist regime uh and stand with the iranian
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people it sure would be nice if president joe biden would say that once say the words once i don't
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stand with the islamic republic but i do stand with the iranian people and he will never say that and
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that and that really is concerning and it's really a head scratching moment because it doesn't make any
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sense to me and it doesn't make any sense to the average american in terms of why we're engaged in
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diplomacy with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism it is absolutely baffling brian and
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please tell me if i have this right the negotiations between iran and the united states they're not direct
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there's an intermediary here which is russia russia is uh is driving the negotiations uh robert malley
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and the rest of the u.s team is at the kiddie table right now uh as russia and china uh do everything
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that they can to put pressure on us to do a deal uh with iran it's it's just absolutely insanity
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um that we're even having these negotiations in the first place let alone uh now uh russia is the
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one are the ones that are in the driver's seat here it's it's insanity and and again that adds an
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added level of bizarreness to this brian i think because on one hand you have uh biden condemning
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russia for the brutal war in ukraine although i'd like to see him do some more tangible things like give
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the ukrainians migs and helicopters and whatnot for some reason uh that's a no-go and then on the
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other hand uh our um my man russia they're going to negotiate a great deal for the united states of
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america i'm sorry this does not compute again what is the unspoken strategy going on here brian
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there there is no real strategy from from our perspective when it comes to this diplomacy with
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with the islamic republic and you know it's interesting russia's uh foreign minister or
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maybe not their foreign minister but their lead negotiator here uh was on tape a couple weeks ago
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saying that you know the islamic republic got a really good deal here um so that's kind of the state
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of affairs is that you have uh russia acknowledging that the united states of america has done everything
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that we can uh to to do a deal uh with the islamic republic uh and it still hasn't happened yet and
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that's why i said earlier that i don't think the deal is going to happen i don't think they're
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interested in engaging in any kind of real diplomacy with us and i think there's a couple reasons for
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that the first and most important reason for that is that over the summer in june or july of last year
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china did a deal with the islamic republic where they agreed to invest 400 billion dollars over the
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next 25 years into the islamic republic now the islamic republic hasn't even seen 10 million dollars
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in outside investment over the last 10 years and here you have china coming in with 400 billion
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dollars uh there have been rumors that russia is going to do a similar deal as well so let's be frank
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here okay if you're the irani regime and you're you're weighing the scale here right and on one side
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of the scale you have a definite deal for 400 billion dollars with china and potentially even more
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with russia that's definite it's happening nothing's going to change that and then on the flip side you
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have a temporary deal that would see 50 to 75 billion dollars in economic sanctions being lifted
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but the irani regime knows that any republican uh that comes into the white house if we're successful
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in winning the the white house in 2024 is going to rip up that deal and furthermore they know that if
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and when republicans take back the majority in the house and also hopefully the senate um that that's also
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going to be another opposition to to actually getting a deal done so if you're the irani regime
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in summer you have two you have two choices right now you can do a temporary deal with america or you
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can do a rock solid deal with china and russia they're going to they're going to pick china and russia
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every single day of the week and it's not just because the money is there it's because they're also
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very aligned what are russia china and iran you know having common outside of you know that they all support
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you know terrorist proxies they're also you know leading the world in in human rights abuse you
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have the wigger muslims in in china that are in you know quote unquote concentration camps you have
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russia arresting thousands of their citizens who took to the streets to protest the war in ukraine
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and finally you have the iranian people who are murdered censored and oppressed for speaking out
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uh against their regime and even more than that if you are gay or lesbian in the islamic republic
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you're probably going to get pushed off of a rooftop for your sexual preference so um these three
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countries they have a lot in common and you know who they don't have a lot in common with the united
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states of america and that's the really that's kind of the the big thing that i keep trying to talk
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about is that the american people yes we don't stand to benefit in any way shape or form from diplomacy
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with the islamic republic but more importantly our president who in theory you know is carrying out
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the will of the american people you know his constituents we don't want diplomacy with another
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country that doesn't share any of our values so that's why i've been very very strong and our
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organization has been very strong on calling for joe biden and his administration to pivot away
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from this appeasement strategy that he's had from day one with with iran and back to that maximum
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pressure campaign uh it was working and it was getting really close to potentially pushing the
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islamic republic the regime in the islamic republic out of power once and for all you know it's just
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incredible brian i mean you would think those who are left of center they'd be very concerned about
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things like women's rights gay rights freedom of expression of assembly of the press um all of these
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things are under attack but apparently uh nothing to see here move along move along but from what you
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said i i guess the really dire news is that iran doesn't need a deal with the us it can uh go nuclear
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thanks to its other allies namely russia and china who don't really have human rights records to brag
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about either here's a hypothetical question for you brian in the years ahead
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if iran does get nuclear weapons do you think this nation would actually use them
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i a hundred percent i think yes of course they would use it the the the ayatollah khamenei and
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his entire leadership and the irgc has been talking for decades now about raising taifa and raising
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tel aviv in israel i don't know if they're going to be able to to reach american shores but of course
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they're going to go after israel uh if they have uh the combination of uh of a nudge enough uranium
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for a nuclear warhead combined with ballistic missiles i think a hundred percent they're going
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to hit israel uh and and i also would further add to to all of that in in that i think in a lot of ways
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the islamic republic is kind of in a de facto state of war with a lot of countries throughout the world
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uh the united states uh directly and indirectly through the americans that they have killed over
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the years of course israel indirectly through all the terrorist proxies that they fund inside of israel
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on in israel's borders and also to to take it home or make it more personal for you and for your
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audience what about the the hundreds of canadians that were killed uh recently uh in that um you know
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unexplained passenger jet uh that was downed by the irgc remember they shot two rockets into a
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passenger jet coming out of ukraine because they thought it was the americans coming in to bomb them
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well now we you know have learned unfortunately that was a passenger jet hundreds of people died
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and i do believe that it was around maybe 80 90 or 100 canadians that died on that as well so um yeah the
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the malign influence of the islamic republic kind of doesn't see any boundaries and and that's why you
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know it takes strong leadership not just from from the leader of the free world in america but there
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needs to be strong leadership from around the world you know the head of states of the united states
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canada mexico europe israel and a lot of other countries need to come together uh and say no to
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the islamic republic and yes to the iranian people that's the only way uh you know we're going to get
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out of this horrible mess that we're in right now it is a mess and it's a terrifying prospect that this
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country could not only acquire but even use uh nuclear weapons brian we before we wrap we should
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say that you and i were originally going to do this um interview in person you're down in the freedom
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state of florida i wish i was there with you my friend thank god absolutely but here's the thing you
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were going to be in toronto tomorrow um at the albany club there was going to be a roundtable discussion
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of uh iran and its place in the world you were going to be the moderator and suddenly it got
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cancelled what's the story there yeah so i'm not at liberty to go into to all the details unfortunately
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but what i can what i can say is you know after we started to publicly promote this event on social media
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um suddenly security threats started to to arise um and you know several of uh the panelists uh are
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actually on uh the uh uh the foreign sanctions list uh on iran's foreign sanctions list so they're
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already kind of in the crosshairs in a lot of ways um but yeah once we started publicly promoting the
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event um suddenly uh security concerns and threats started to appear or started to arise i should say
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and that's why the event was ultimately canceled uh now we are going to reschedule the event and we're
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going to you know beef up security and we're going to be coming back to toronto soon uh but let me just
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say this much you know i'm sure the islamic republic and and all their operatives are watching this and
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and they're they're they're wondering you know did it work you know did did uh did their scare tactics
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scare us they certainly did not we're going to continue forward on our mission uh of exploiting the
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islamic republic regime for the terrorists that they are uh we're going to continue building great
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relationships with uh our our friends in congress we're going to continue lifting up the voices of
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of iranian americans and also iranian dissidents from all around the world who wish to speak out
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against this regime we are not going to take our foot off of the gas pedal and we're going to keep
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doing everything that we're doing so if they think uh that a couple security threats is going to be
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enough to to push us back they have another thing coming to them well i really hope you do reschedule
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that and the final question especially from a canadian perspective brian um we have a liberal mp his
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name is majid johari he represents the riding of richmond hill i've lived in uh the city of richmond hill
00:31:33.060
for almost 25 years brian it has a very large um iranian expat popular population i would say it's
00:31:40.500
almost 14 percent which is pretty big every iranian i've met has just been fantastic uh they have been
00:31:48.100
the kind of people that have fled the regime because they hate what's happening there and yet
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this member of parliament mr johari he is a friend to the regime he supports the regime he's had members
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of the iranian parliament in canada for meetings how is this possible uh that such an individual
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in our great dominion in our great democracy with that kind of track record can get elected
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and re-elected and especially running for the liberal uh party i mean i always thought liberalism
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or at least classical liberalism was all about freedom uh not so much anymore your take on this
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individual being the representative of uh the richmond hill riding well i i certainly don't think this
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individual is uh really the representative of of of the iranian ronnie canadian people for sure uh but
00:32:42.100
certainly it does sound like he he he has some influence and what i'll also you know tell you
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while i can't you know speak as a subject matter expert on canadian politics i can tell you that you
00:32:53.540
know we have some uh politicians here in america that quite routinely echo talking points from the islamic
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republic uh quite routinely make excuses for the islamic republic quite routinely will uh target the
00:33:07.380
world's only jewish country in the world israel for their quote unquote human rights abuses but yet
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they are silent when it comes to china they are silent when it comes to iran and to a lot of other arab
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countries so i'm not surprised uh at all uh but uh i don't know maybe uh maybe i'm talking out of line
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here but hey this is your neighborhood maybe it's time for you to mount a primary challenge against
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that individual what do you think well i'll tell you this every time i try to interview him he calls
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the police i think he lives back in teyran where there's no such thing as a free press so uh but we're
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we're watching him we're watching him closely brian brian uh so many other subjects uh to to discuss
00:33:51.380
regarding iran but this is of course the biggest one i hope you reschedule that and if and when you
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do get back into toronto i want you to come into the studio so we can have an in-person discussion
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good luck with all the great work you are doing there my friend no thank you so much and i do look
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forward to seeing you in toronto we'll go to a a blue jay a blue jays uh game together and to you as
00:34:14.180
well thank you for all the great work that you do and all the great work that rebel does and and
00:34:18.820
just you know keep keep moving forward exposing the truth and talking about the truth and truth is
00:34:24.260
always going to prevail thank you so much brian my pleasure thank you plenty of feedback on some of
00:34:41.780
ezra's most recent monologues including that one about the rcmp having a six-figure bill for their
00:34:49.860
banquets when the freedom convoy was in town canadian breeze writes 100 000 a year and they can't buy
00:34:58.740
their own lunches the officers should be should all be publicly named well 100 000 a year maybe that's
00:35:06.260
the base salary i can tell you they were probably making double time doing the security beat in
00:35:12.980
ottawa on parliament hill and yeah i think they can buy their own ham sandwich as opposed to
00:35:19.540
billing it to the beleaguered taxpayer raker staker writes if twitter accepted and endorsed free speech
00:35:28.660
the value would explode and possibly crush facebook you know i think you're right but this proves one
00:35:36.740
thing my friend this is not about free speech this is not about money rather this is about containing
00:35:43.540
free speech remember the censorious thugs of silicon valley look upon free speech as hateful as offensive
00:35:53.300
not something to champion they are not about the first amendment quite the opposite go elon go
00:36:03.220
beach tab 58 writes we need more men like gavin in this world of course that's gavin mckinnis you know
00:36:11.300
i love gavin um he is hilarious he is brilliant and uh i wish him all the best in the future we do need
00:36:20.260
people like gavin uh much like my monologue the emperor's new clothes he's the little boy calling
00:36:28.580
out the bullshite in the public square well folks that wraps it up for our show tonight ezra will be back
00:36:36.020
tomorrow tuesday in the meantime stay sane speaking of this government have you heard of the passing of
00:36:43.620
uh bill 100 which would essentially stomp out anyone protesting uh any along any major infrastructure
00:36:52.340
what do you make of that legislation um i think it's uh just another scare tactic like they've been
00:36:57.620
doing they've been trying to do this and stop these protests for the last two years with uh no avail you
00:37:02.740
know they have they haven't been able to stop it i think this bill is uh just smoke and mirrors like
00:37:07.300
everything else and we have inalienable rights as canadians we uh we have the bill of rights and that's
00:37:12.180
what we'll stand under no matter what but when all of us come together and all of us unify they can't
00:37:17.540
stop us so i think it's finding your voice helping others raise their voice and uh just saying no let's
00:37:35.460
to mary ugolini here with rebel news the wind keeps blowing over my tripod so uh well today is good friday
00:37:41.460
and technically i'm supposed to be taking the day off this doesn't stop freedom loving ontarians
00:37:46.580
from exercising their civil liberties and i'm here to cover it in the background there is a freedom
00:37:53.060
train they're heading to niagara falls from ottawa they left early this morning and have a few pit stops
00:37:59.460
to make along the way the second of those pit stops the scheduled stop is here in oshawa ontario
00:38:07.460
and while we have seen the continuation of orwellian worded legislation continue in ontario under the
00:38:14.580
supposed progressive conservative party led by premier doug ford and while other legislation such
00:38:20.500
as the reopening ontario act remains in place with the ability for the government to reimpose
00:38:26.340
all covid restrictions on the snap of a finger in a sneaky late night voice vote and without informing
00:38:32.740
all mpps the ontario government's bill 100 keeping ontario open for business act passed its third
00:38:38.420
reading it seems it takes aim at any protests that could be seen as impeding necessary transportation
00:38:45.220
infrastructure if we recap some of the major truck protests that rippled across canada late january to
00:38:51.060
mid-february of this year where truckers protested federal vaccine mandates and covid related restrictions the
00:38:57.540
most potentially disruptive of which was the ambassador bridge protest yet it was swiftly
00:39:02.900
dealt with by the ford government using existing legal tools weeks before the federal government
00:39:08.100
enacted the emergency measures act under highly controversial circumstances fast track to today
00:39:13.700
and bill 100 which had its first reading on march 21st is being stamped through the legislature
00:39:19.220
in a sneaky overnight vote that happens sometime between april 13th and 14th but the protesters aren't
00:39:24.820
finished and the canadian government still refuses to end all covid related mandates the hypocrisy
00:39:29.540
couldn't be more evident as unvaccinated refugees are welcomed into canada with open arms while everyday
00:39:35.700
unvaccinated canadians are still banned from boarding a plane train or bus so i'm going to head
00:39:40.980
on into the crowd back there and see what the people have to say about the current state of affairs in
00:39:47.380
ontario and what brings them out to the freedom train today let's check it out okay so what brought you
00:39:52.900
out to support the freedom train today well i was uh one of the organizers for east toronto for the
00:39:59.140
ottawa freedom convoy and uh being a part of durham region i found out that the train from ottawa to
00:40:06.100
niagara was stopping here i decided to come out and show support just because uh you know at rise up durham
00:40:12.340
we've been doing it for the last two years so it's good to see a lot of people coming out and finally
00:40:17.860
speak in their mind and and letting this government know how they feel about it so anytime i see
00:40:22.900
something like this i'll put my full support involved no matter what absolutely so standing
00:40:26.740
for freedom um the way the government has been taking away our rights passing bills through
00:40:31.300
government that we disagree with um we just want to show people that we are not a fringe minority we
00:40:36.340
are out here um and anybody who wants to join you know we are true canadian patriots we just want the
00:40:43.060
freedom to choose what goes in our body um not be told what goes in and out of our body um do we draw
00:40:49.700
the line with vaccines or where is the government going to draw the line with that so it's really
00:40:54.580
important to me about what goes in my body apparently this is for the freedom so i i came from a communist
00:41:03.940
country so you're well known yeah the china communist country china so what brought you out to the freedom
00:41:11.620
train today uh for freedom of choice and for my kids that they have a choice further down the road
00:41:20.980
when they grow up that they can make their own choices and whatnot well we're fighting for freedom
00:41:26.420
here in canada against the wef about the digital id vaccine mandates all of it all of it i'm in this
00:41:38.820
freedom van freedom loving van what brings you uh to be part of the freedom train today all right well i
00:41:45.300
live live out in whitby so i just came out to hop on in oshawa to go down to niagara and keep fighting
00:41:52.660
for freedom i was out there since the first day in ottawa and you know haven't really stopped since
00:41:58.180
came back last week pretty much for the first time and now i'm back fighting for freedom out this way
00:42:05.780
speaking of this government have you heard of the passing of uh bill 100 which would essentially stomp
00:42:11.460
out anyone protesting uh any along any major infrastructure uh what do you make of that
00:42:18.260
legislation um i think it's uh just another scare tactic like they've been doing they've been trying
00:42:23.940
to do this and stop these protests for the last two years with uh no avail you know they have they
00:42:28.580
haven't been able to stop it i think this bill is uh just smoke and mirrors like everything else and we
00:42:33.620
have inalienable rights as canadians we uh we have the bill of rights and that's what we'll stand under
00:42:38.020
no matter what again they're taking away our freedoms um we should have the right to protest when
00:42:42.740
somebody disagrees with the government in a peaceful way um we're all very peaceful here so
00:42:48.100
i think we're just trying to show the love unity and support that we disagree currently with our
00:42:53.060
rights and freedoms being taken away the veterans have fought and died excuse me for our rights and
00:42:58.580
freedoms and that's what we're here to do is to stand up for that and stand in line with them and
00:43:03.540
take our freedoms back because we're not backing down from this i mean they'll always try but just
00:43:08.900
matter of charter challenges when the time comes and you know we'll see how it goes from there as
00:43:14.340
far as i've heard it's already passed and i think it's an illegal bill and it's against the charter of
00:43:18.740
rights for canadians how do you think we get through this with the with the government you know
00:43:22.580
continuing the power grabs and the easing but simultaneous you know ability to impose the
00:43:27.940
restrictions uh at the snap of a fingers how do we move forward as canadians to get out of this
00:43:33.700
emergency once and for all non-compliance that's pretty much all i got to say get out
00:43:38.740
with your with your peers speak with your family members let them know what's going on a lot of
00:43:43.060
people are uh ignorant and i don't mean that isn't stupid i just mean uneducated uh the the ignorance
00:43:48.820
is bliss like it always has been and stop watching your tv yeah just stop complying don't
00:43:54.100
listen to what they tell you you know reach out to people like us that rise up durham and all the
00:43:58.740
other groups around and we'll get you uh up to date with with what's really going on and the news
00:44:03.700
that you guys really need to see just like you guys are rebel find the people who are going to
00:44:08.260
stand up with you when one person stands up it's hard for them to stand up alone but when all of
00:44:13.860
us come together and all of us unify they can't stop us so i think it's finding your voice helping
00:44:20.020
others raise their voice and uh just saying no let's go canada freedom
00:44:25.540
all right we just gotta just gotta keep up the noise that you know we're not we're not gonna deal
00:44:38.020
with it anymore it's not uh it's not that big of a deal we need to get back to living our lives and
00:44:44.820
oh i don't know it's stand up and fight the government stand up against them and fight for what you believe
00:44:51.540
now that's what i'm trying to find out i would love to know the answer to that question
00:44:59.060
vote vote vote do your research and vote correctly and hopefully we can stop it
00:45:08.180
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00:45:13.300
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00:45:20.340
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00:45:26.740
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