EZRA LEVANT ｜ What on earth is happening to Australia？
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Viruses have always been on the earth, and always will be. If there were a nuclear holocaust, viruses would survive. And yet, China has discovered more viruses than the rest of the world combined, and yet, they re still not good enough.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I give you a bit of an Australian update. There's a lot of crazy things
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going on down there. The lockdown is, I think, the most extreme in the world. I used to say that
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about Montreal with its curfew at night, and I used to say that about some aspects of Alberta
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where they were jailing pastors. And I think those are two astonishing things, Toronto's year-long
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restaurant ban. But Australia has gone so far, you know, road check stops, soldiers in the streets,
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300 soldiers patrolling the city. What are they going to do? Shoot something, you know, use a
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missile? I don't get it. It's amazing and terrible and terrifying and atrocious, but there are little
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green shoots of hope, too. I'll give you two reasons to feel hopeful. That's ahead.
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Tonight, what on earth is happening in Australia? It's July 30th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Australia thinks it can contain the virus because they're an island. They think if they're just strict
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enough, they can be saved from it. I'll show you some crazy footage in a moment, but let's go over
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some basics first. A virus cannot be contained. It just can't be. Not when humans are around because
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humans are social animals. We talk and gather and travel. Viruses have always been on the earth,
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always will be. If there were a nuclear holocaust, viruses would survive. It's super gross that China
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put an enormous effort into discovering new viruses, going into caves, specifically looking
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for viruses that were hidden away, trapping bats and the ticks that live on them. This is a Chinese
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version of sort of National Geographic or something, a propaganda video, boasting about how China has
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discovered more viruses than the rest of the world combined. Yeah, thanks, guys. But it's even
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grosser that China's virus research work is funded by the United States, including by Anthony Fauci
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as the decider. Not just any virus work. The work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Fauci paid
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China to research spreading viruses from animals to humans. How is he not in jail yet? That's biological
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warfare. You know what? Life goes on. Since time immemorial, plagues come.
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Read about in the book of Exodus, the 10 plagues that God put on Egypt. Now, most of them were not
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literally plagues. Turning the Nile River red as blood, for example. But one of the plagues was
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boils. Another was lice. Another was cattle disease. I'm going to guess that viruses were involved.
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Black Death, the bubonic plague. We're learning a bit over the centuries about dealing with viruses,
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but they come and go over the millennia. Washing your hands was a pretty big breakthrough.
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Keeping a sense of hygiene, making it so that rats don't fester, for example. But really,
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I think we're going to be okay. Science has come up with some vaccines over the years that seem to
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work. We've had decades to observe how some of those vaccines work and to weigh the inevitable side
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effects against the risk of the diseases themselves. Some inoculations have such a poisonous
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effect on your body, though. The doctors say you can't take them if you're pregnant or trying to
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get pregnant. It's just too dangerous for the baby. This is the CDC, Centers for Disease Control's own
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website. Which vaccine should I not get if I'm pregnant? Some vaccines are not recommended during
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pregnancy, such as HPV vaccine, measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, live influenza vaccine,
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varicella, that's chickenpox. Certain travel vaccines, yellow fever, typhoid fever, Japanese
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encephalitis. Note, these travel vaccines should generally not be given during pregnancy unless your
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health care provider determines the benefits upweigh the risks. Now, I know some malaria meds are the
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same way. They're not vaccine, but they're meds. They save you from a disastrous disease of malaria,
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but they'll wreak havoc on you, including on your mental state. Now, we won't know for months,
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for years, really, the full side effects of the various COVID-19 vaccines. And they're each
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different. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the first ever mRNA vaccines, what are sometimes called
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gene therapy vaccines. There are about a half a dozen different COVID vaccines out there, including
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ones from China and Russia. It's too early to know how effective each vaccine is, and much too early to know
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what all the long-term side effects are. As we showed you the other day, so many things simply
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haven't even been tested yet, according to the vaccine makers themselves. The idea that I think
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maybe Justin Trudeau came up with of mixing and matching vaccines, that just hasn't been tested,
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according to Pfizer, at least. Pregnancy, effect on women's fertility. Sorry, we just don't know yet.
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Not enough time has passed yet. But every day there are headlines about people who have been
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vaccinated, who follow the rules. And they're getting COVID-19 again, even seriously enough
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to be in the hospital again. So that affects the balance, right? If the vaccine doesn't really work
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well, it's less compelling to accept its side effects, especially now that we know much more
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about the disease of COVID-19 itself, that it really only goes after people in their 70s and 80s.
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If you're under 60, I saw these stats from Colby Kosh the other day, you have more than a 99.5%
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chance of survival. I remember when I was a kid and Dove Soap advertised that it was
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99.44% pure. That's pretty pure soap. It's not exactly yellow fever, the black plague, is it?
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So back to Australia. They've had extremely strict lockdowns. They've been trying to get the zero
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COVID thing. They won't even let tens of thousands of their own citizens come home to Australia.
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Forget about quarantining. They just won't let them back. Which is odd, because politicians seem
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to be able to travel as they want to, because you know they're very important. Well, we've told you
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about lockdowns in Australia, particularly in the state of Victoria, which is in the southeast of the
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country, covering the city of Melbourne. Their premier there is literally a communist sympathizer.
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I don't say that as an insult, but rather as a description. He went to communist China to sign a
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secret treaty with them. Again, I'm not calling it secret as some sort of slur. He refused to reveal
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the details of his treaty that he signed on behalf of his state. How does that even work? He's not even
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the prime minister or the foreign minister of Australia. He's just a really huge fan of communist China.
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That's Dan Andrews. So he presided over the worst of the lockdowns. Road checkpoints to stop you from
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traveling more than a few kilometers away from your house. Riot police charging at any protesters.
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Mask insanity, just absolutely nutty, like these cops who wouldn't respect a woman's mask exemption.
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So they stole her bag and took it off the train. So she had to get off the train, too. I'm not sure if
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that was in the state of Victoria, but I assume it was. They've been the worst. But now other states in
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Australia are in lockdown, too, just for a handful of cases, like three cases, including New South
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Wales, which is the state where the major city of Sydney is located. And it's actually under a kind
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of martial law now. 300 soldiers have joined police to patrol the streets. They're enforcing emergency
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laws that essentially put the public under house arrest. I actually think that meets a definition of
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martial law. And listen to this guy and look at his face. I tell you, if this video I'm about to show
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you were in grainy black and white footage, and if he had a German accent, would he not be
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indistinguishable from a Nazi Gestapo officer? Again, I'm not name calling. I'm asking you to assess the
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similarities and differences, besides the color footage and the accent, here.
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Strike force season has continued to investigate offenses committed last Saturday through an
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unauthorized protest. So far, police have arrested over 60 people and charged them, as well as issuing
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148 infringement notices. We made it very clear on that day that type of protest would not be tolerated.
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We made it very clear, and I think the community has made it very clear, that that type of action
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might be tolerated. We're certainly in possession of information that people are considering a
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follow-up protest to that conducted last Saturday. Can I say to you that we have deployed significant
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intelligence assets, and other police methodology has been deployed, to gather as much information
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about those activities as possible. Nothing has changed. Now is not the time to conduct unauthorized
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protests. Police are well prepared, well resourced, and we will not tolerate those types of
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actions. What we've demonstrated over the last week is even where action is not taken on
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the day, we will follow it up, and you will receive the appropriate patient.
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Can I say to those people out there who are doing the right thing, thank you, but we certainly
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know that there continues to be people who flout the health orders. Now is the time to ensure
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that you comply with it. Police are present right across the greater metropolitan area, in significant
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numbers, and will continue to be so. It's important that we work together, it's important that people
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comply and stay home unless absolutely necessary. That is atrocious, but however bad it is, the media
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party wants it worse. Look at this, look at these hounds demanding house arrest, random searches,
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house to house, no search warrants. I'm serious, put that in German. House to house, warrantless searches.
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I'm sorry, that's what the Nazis did. Getting told households, the big problem, are you going to be
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going suburb to suburb, street to street, door to door, knocking on these, and actively looking for
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people who are in the wrong house and finding them on the spot? Yeah, look absolutely, overnight we
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conducted hundreds of checks. What about, yeah, to Liz's question, random door to door checks,
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not just close contacts. People in these LGAs, people where you think, people in areas where you think the
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virus is spreading in households, you have to come down hard. Curfews, bring in the army, or the ring
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of steel, are any of those off the table at this point? Nothing is off the table between. Will you
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change the rule to prevent, to limit the table for compassionate reasons to just five kilometers? There are
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one or two guys in the mainstream media on TV down there who are lockdown skeptics. I think it's just two,
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which is two more than in Canada. Is there anyone on TV in Canada who's a lockdown skeptic? Let me know
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if you can think of one. Alan Jones is the name of this guy. And the fact that he dares to have a
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different point of view, well, watch this. You literally have the rest of the mainstream media,
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all the reporters taffling on him to politicians. It's so weird. These so-called reporters aren't
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speaking truth to power. They're not holding power to account. They're not acting as watchdogs or even
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as an informal opposition. They're not watchdogs. They're lapdogs for the powerful. They're happy to be
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attack dogs against any journalists who leave the narrative.
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Will you change the rule, Minister? Sorry, James. There's been a number of commentators,
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one in particular, who's called into question the need for a lockdown, called into question the
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expertise of the chief health officer. What do you say to people like Alan Jones who've made those
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comments publicly and keep repeating them? That's insane. Nearby New Zealand is even crazier,
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of course. Their prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, is actually a communist sympathizer too. She used to
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run the Socialist International Youth. Again, close friends with China, donations from China.
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And since New Zealand's even a smaller island, even more isolated, they've really been trying to do this
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zero COVID thing, which means they throw the whole place into a lockdown if there's a single outbreak,
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which means you'll never get herd immunity. You'll never be free. You'll never move on.
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You'll never be able to open up and travel and live normally again. It just won't
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work. But she won't actually let anyone say that or talk about that. She won't let anyone hear that.
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Remember this. She says the only people you should even listen to in New Zealand are the government.
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Who says that? We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us
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as a source of that information. You can also trust the Director General of Health
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and the Ministry of Health. For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any
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rumour you may hear, covid19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your
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single source of truth. We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can,
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everything you are, else you see, a grain of salt. And so I really ask people to focus on that.
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Well, there's a great example of that appears to be this text which originated in Malaysia and has
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kind of has become a viral hoax in Australia and in New Zealand. How irresponsible is it the people
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that are sharing that news of a lockdown imminent in New Zealand? Yeah. And look, that's the kind of
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thing that adds to the anxiety that people feel. So I continue to share the message. New Zealanders must
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prepare. But do not panic. Prepare. And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it
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from us, it is not the truth. And I really ask people, just visit covid19.govt.nz. It has all of
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the up-to-date information. And we will continue to provide everything you need to know.
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Huh. Well, back to Australia for a bit. Victoria State, where communist Dan Andrews is running the
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show. A lovely woman named Carrie Cotterill put on her face mask and went outside for a walk,
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which is permitted under the lockdown for exercise. But she made a cute little sign that said,
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toot to boot. And then a picture of Dan Andrews. So toot as in honk your horn. That's it.
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And she was by herself. And then a squad of police swarmed her and specifically said,
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you can't protest Dan Andrews. You don't have to say or do anything.
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But anything you say or do is being recorded and confused as evidence. Do you understand that?
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That's fine. Because I believe the reason you're anti-alpha
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...the directions of the chief help officer during stage four lockdowns.
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Do you understand what the core things... Well, you're not 1.5 meters from me,
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so you're actually breaking it. No, but due to the, uh, due to the heavy traffic,
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I'm going to be closer right now whilst we're wearing our masks so that we can effectively
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communicate. Okay, but you're still not 1.5 meters, which is...
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Well, 1.5 meters, we probably wouldn't be able to communicate very well,
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and I'd like you to be able to hear me, and I'd like to be able to hear what you say as well.
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You're clearly currently conducting a protest. That's the first time to boot
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with a picture of Daniel Andrews, and you are saying, Dan, Dan.
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That's okay. I'm allowed to wear this, aren't I?
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They really just said that. The guy really is a communist, isn't he? I mean, he was in words like
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Nazi and communist a lot. I don't often say that, literally, but I think
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the Nazis and communists are similar creatures. They're authoritarian bullies who do not believe
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in civil liberties or dissent. I think that's what we're seeing here. I mean, get this.
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And frankly, I don't even, I don't, seriously, I'm making a serious point. I don't know what
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Did you see that? He said you can't protest him. You can't. He just says that.
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Well, you know what? We helped Carrie Cotterill. Our Australian viewers crowdfunded a lawyer for her,
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but not just to fight her fine, but to challenge the whole thing in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
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And wouldn't you know it, the past two days, that's what's been happening down in Melbourne
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with an amazing lawyer, Kathleen Foley, Harvard trained, top notch. I think we've got a real
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chance down there. There's one more day of hearings on Monday in Melbourne, which is Sunday night
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in Canada. You can actually watch it on the internet if you're curious. It's pretty exciting,
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I got to say. Watching a top lawyer grill World Health Organization public health officers.
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You can find that at savevictoria.com. I'm so proud that Avi Yamini led the fight on that
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and that our Australian viewers crowdfunded the lawsuit.
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Now, that's our Canadian tactics being replicated down under. I love it.
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I think we have a chance of winning that case, though I know judges are loath to oppose governments,
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even though this emergency seems to be a permanent emergency now.
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But let me leave you with some hope. Instead of an interview today, I'm going to play this whole
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video now. It's from Australia. There's no reporter in it. This is from Sydney, not Melbourne.
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There's no reporter, just a camera and a soundtrack and the backdrop, the setting of Sydney,
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and tens of thousands of ordinary Sydney-siders, as they're called, doing what Dan Andrews and
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Victoria and the Media Party and the World Health Organization told them they can't do.
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They're going out to speak for their freedom. I've watched this video now four times. It's so
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beautiful to me. I think the absence of a reporter actually makes it purer in a way. It's just the
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people just speaking from the heart about why they love Australia, why they are despairing at what's
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happening, but why they will protest anyways. I really love this, and it gave me a little bit of
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hope too. So let me play for you this video in full.
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To be honest with you, I didn't know that today was going to be running at all. I was going for a
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drive and I heard on the radio that there was a few roads blocked and some protesting going on. I have
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no idea who organised this today, because there's way too many people here for it to be sudden. We
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heard about this not from the TV, but through word of mouth. Word of mouth spreads faster than the news.
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When I saw that in the street, I was almost crying.
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It was extraordinary when we saw people just coming out of every side street out onto the park.
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We're here today to represent the people that don't have the courage to come out and stand up for their
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rights. We're the voice favourites. It's very simple. Welcome to the socialist nation of Australia.
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We won't let that happen. There's only one right here, and it's called freedom.
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Freedom of choice, freedom of speech, and some people have been arguing for years about
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I believe in freedom. We are meant to mix, we are meant to move around, and we are stopped by all this
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Now there's going to be a segregation, a divide. This is not okay. We deserve a choice,
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why is this much force on something? Anything that is good for us should be out of our own free will.
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We're living in a time where we're being bullied by the media bureaucrats, and we shouldn't be. I mean,
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who gets to dictate that? Any dissenting type narrative has been blocked from the media,
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and anyone who talks negatively about lockdowns and all that appears to be blocked. Facebook will
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tell you it's potentially misleading information. It's not even up for discussion. They feel entitled
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to put all these things in place without public debate going on. It's all, you know, under the guise
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of public health, anti-terrorism. Anyone who has a critique of the government is labelled a terrorist
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in this kind of climate. It's really concerning. Because I'm a disability nurse and I'm going to
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lose the job that I love of nine years because they're mandating this within the health industry.
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So many people in my industry are on board with me. I'm in health care, so that for me is a no-no.
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Don't force it on people. You want to take it, take it. What's the point? Who cares about it, man?
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Australia's a free country, man. It's a beautiful country. We're all in our country. Who's going to
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pay the bills? Who's going to pay the mortgage? The bank still wants their money. There's no hope
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for the younger generation locking us down. There's no hope for anyone. People are dying from
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suicide and depression. You don't hear about that, do you?
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Australia. What's going to happen to the suicide rates as the time goes by? What's going to happen
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to the people who can't afford to pay their rent? What's going to happen to the people who don't
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have the freedom of medical choice? We're all just out here trying to get our jobs back,
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trying to get our lives back. You know, two weeks to slow the spread or 18 months and we'll just keep
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ticking over as long as we feel like. It felt like about 10 million people, but realistically it was
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probably about 10,000. The whole of Broadway was shut down. Yeah, we're all moving in one direction.
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Men with drums, megaphones, you know, lots of signage. I've come here today to join with these tens of
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thousands of people for our freedom, for our right to choose.
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And so I'm hoping that this is enough to at least spark a discussion, an open discussion,
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even if it's one person's reality and another person's reality that we can come together and
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dialogue about it. I'm just another member of society that would like to protest against this
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infringement of our freedoms. Both of us are holistic health practitioners and we've just had enough of
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this business of knowing what's wrong for our clients and for people's well-being in relation to
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mask mandates. Most of us have to follow along with this narrative just to keep practicing.
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And the other thing is, um, you know, we're standing in freedom, um, not just for ourselves,
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but for everyone. We stand in peace. And in love. Yeah. Yeah.
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Basically here only because we had enough for the government lying to us. We have enough that
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people are believing the government and watching the zombie TV every single day.
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And we have to be free. We have to have a choice of freedom. So let's just everyone open their eyes
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and actually find the right information. The information is open for you.
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We think we have the right to protest in this country, especially we came to this country. I came here,
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she was born here, she was born here, to have a freedom. We didn't have any freedom in our country.
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How come Black Lives Matter protest happened and it was allowed? That's my concern. Why is that allowed?
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And why is this not allowed? This is freedom of speech. This is freedom for our rights.
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Whatever religion you are, we should come together and stand together. Enough is enough.
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Exactly. This is not democracy country anymore. Listen people, wake up. Just don't fear. Don't be scared.
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Whatever they say, do not be afraid. That's the main part. That's what they want to kill us with,
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with fear. We don't even need seven news, nine news. It's all fake. Fake media, fake news.
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Fake media, fake media, fake media, fake media, fake media, fake media.
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With the things that are being put in place, it seems quite clear that we're not a free country anymore.
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And that's really disturbing. Anyone who's, you know, survived communist regimes and things like that,
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there are very telling signs with what's going on now that are concerning for the future.
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Once they put these things in place, you know, how can they bring things back from this?
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Look, a generation ago, our mothers and fathers fought and died to preserve our freedoms. You know,
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a generation ago, we thought it was worth sacrificing millions of lives for the sake of preserving those
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freedoms. Now we throw away those freedoms for the sake of preserving lives. Presumably, we don't want to
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live in a country where they have electronic surveillance on you, where they can tell you
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when you come in and when you go out, whether you can go to work, who you can associate with,
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you know, whether you're able to embrace people. I've lost a good friend to the virus, not in Syria,
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not in Australia. I've known seven people who've suicided over this period. The real cost of the
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lockdowns, I don't believe, I've never believed that what is driving government policy is primarily a
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concern for our health. If it was, there would be more account taken at the other side of that
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equation of the cost of lockdowns, the cost on mental health, the cost on jobs, the rise of domestic
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violence, all the associated ills, which the government will never be held responsible for,
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but which are real and which are damaging and which are destroying us and destroying our community.
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And I think this is what these lockdowns do. They strip us of our humanity. They break down community
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and they destroy the country we fought for, the country we love, the values we cherish.
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We need to stand up and fight, not violently, but we need to be ready to have violence done to us,
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I suspect, by police and others. We've got to be ready to count the cost as our mothers and our fathers
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did when they fought to give us these freedoms. It's time for us now to stand up and fight to preserve them.
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You know, I mean, here in our office, in our studio, watching the lockdowns unfold,
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and it was so harsh in Australia and the UK first, while it was sort of normal in Canada for about six months,
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nine months. It took us almost a year to get as bad as them. Then they loosened up, and now they've gone
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absolutely mad. 300 soldiers in the streets in Sydney. I don't know how that's going to end.
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What happens if you have 10,000, 20,000 people in the street? Are they going to just
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do a Tiananmen Square on them? I know that sounds insane to say, but you do have the communists in
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charge. You do have the police in the streets. You do have stay at home orders. What's going to happen?
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I don't know. It's madness. That's our show for today.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Highquarters, to you at home,