Rebel News Podcast - March 30, 2023


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why is Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster pushing children as young as 9 to be transgender？


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

161.81963

Word Count

8,465

Sentence Count

721

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

The CBC is pushing a kids drag show, and it's quite something. And then I talk about C11, the censorship law for the internet that the Liberals are trying to get us to shut down. Rebel News Plus is a new show on the Rebel Network, where you get access to all the latest Rebel News, including the latest in our favourite conspiracy theories, conspiracies, and fake news.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, two monologues in one, actually. The first is about CBC Kids,
00:00:07.900 which is the children's news propaganda element of the state broadcaster. They have a kids
00:00:15.820 drag show that they're pushing. It's quite something. I'll show you the video. It's just
00:00:21.080 amazing to see the CBC trying to indoctrinate children into drag. Amazing, but not surprising.
00:00:28.000 And then I'll talk a bit about C11. That's the censorship law for the internet that
00:00:32.880 the liberals invoke closure on today. I think you'll enjoy the show today and some great letters
00:00:38.280 afterwards, too. You can get the video version by going to Rebel News Plus. That's what we call the
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00:01:04.380 Tonight, why is Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster pushing children as young as nine to be transgender?
00:01:25.700 It's March 30th. And this is the Ezra LeVant show. I saw this story on the CBC website. The reign of
00:01:48.660 big butts may be ending, but experts say our obsession is worrying. It's a story about butt
00:01:55.880 culture, they say. I'm serious. That's from the CBC, the Trudeau state broadcaster. You pay
00:02:01.280 $1.5 billion in taxes a year to that because if the government didn't talk about big butts,
00:02:07.540 who would? I like big butts and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny that when a girl walks in
00:02:14.360 with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face, you get. Oh, right. Literally everyone from
00:02:19.260 giggling schoolboys to rappers to the porn industry. Thankfully, Trudeau is there to take your tax
00:02:25.060 dollars to talk about big butts. But it's one thing to talk about big butts in the most boring
00:02:30.820 political way humanly possible that only a government could do. I suppose that's the CBC's
00:02:35.920 unique selling point. They can talk about sex in a way that makes it unsexy. What else do you expect
00:02:41.580 from government journalists? But it's one thing for them to talk about big butts on CBC radio. I'm
00:02:46.940 pretty sure no one is actually listening. Certainly no kids. But what about when they talk to children
00:02:53.380 directly about sex? As in when they pull children into a studio and talk about sex with young kids
00:03:00.540 and then make a documentary about it and produce that documentary about children being
00:03:05.260 sexualized and then promote that documentary to other kids? It's so gross. And again, your
00:03:11.140 taxpayers' dollars are paying for this. Unlike the big butt story, this isn't a conversation about
00:03:16.940 adult sexuality. This is a kind of child pornography. And not surprisingly, we learn about this not from
00:03:24.640 any Canadian news media, but from foreigners. I learn more about controversial Canadian news from
00:03:29.120 the Daily Mail newspaper in the UK or the New York Post and Fox News in the States than I do from
00:03:35.400 Canadian media. I suppose I should say that the CBC does talk about it because they're the ones who
00:03:40.760 actually made this child porn. Take a look at how I first found out about this. This is a Twitter
00:03:46.280 account called Libs of TikTok, which is famous for finding and sharing the most insane and woke TikTok
00:03:52.380 videos, usually posted by teachers bragging about what they're doing in classrooms. They're usually full of
00:03:58.540 nuts from the U.S., but Canada caught their eye this time. By the way, that's something that teachers
00:04:04.080 do a lot these days. They brag about how they're imposing their politics, including their sexual
00:04:09.580 politics, on children. And I don't just mean high school kids. I'm talking about children as young
00:04:14.580 as grade school, as young as kindergarten. I mean, look at this man in Ottawa who says he's a principal
00:04:19.360 in Ottawa and will spend the next 25 years indoctrinating young kids in his sexual theories.
00:04:24.900 Sounds like killing animals, killing people's spirits.
00:04:28.440 I teach my family. I teach my family. And you know what my greatest hobby is? Working for a living.
00:04:34.740 Yeah, yeah, me too. Amazing. And I work with my hands.
00:04:38.520 Oh, so good. That's great. Yeah, yeah. Good. I'm a principal in this court and I'm making sure there's
00:04:46.360 rainbow pubs in every single K-6 school. So kids who are three and four have the space that they need and deserve.
00:04:53.560 You are ill, but I'm going to pray for you. Please don't pray for me. Don't waste your time.
00:04:59.800 We're not changing. These are human rights. No one was talking to you.
00:05:04.400 Do you understand human rights? I won't stop. I won't stop. I'm 36 years old. I'm going to be a
00:05:11.220 principal in this court for the next 25 years. And every single school will have a rainbow club
00:05:17.400 for all 25 of those years. You're wasting your time. Call me sick. I hear you. I hear you.
00:05:24.100 Go get an education. Go get an education. Yes, please. You'll do us all a favor, including yourself.
00:05:29.340 Most importantly, yourself. Most importantly, yourself. I'm sad that this is how you want to spend your time.
00:05:35.760 Me and all these people. Me and all these people. They're not giving you. No, the people with the
00:05:43.860 signs from the 1930s are with you. These are so archaic. Are you guys going to make new signs that
00:05:49.400 are updated? Are you going to change the rainbow? No, this is actually from the 2020 Pride Parade.
00:05:54.900 We just got these like seven months ago. Seven months ago. Yeah, get your kids out of public school.
00:06:00.780 homeschool them. Schools are no longer there to teach your kids for you. They're there to take
00:06:06.880 your kids away from you, to indoctrinate them and alienate them from you. And so often they do so
00:06:12.400 in secret. They so often have these sexual clubs at school that explicitly will not tell parents what
00:06:17.920 they're doing. How creepy is that? Whenever an adult tells a young child not to tell their parents
00:06:23.120 what we're going to talk about, that is a red flag. It's just so unusual to see a principal boasting
00:06:28.720 about it like that creep from Ottawa. But back to the news from the CBC. Here's a tweet
00:06:32.800 from Libs of TikTok. They say taxpayer funded Canadian TV put out this segment normalizing
00:06:39.300 drag for kids. Take a look. Why are you nervous?
00:06:41.780 But I'm like I've never met anyone that's not. I can't really explain.
00:06:49.720 Is this your first time? Is this your first time seeing a drag queen? Yeah. How does that
00:06:56.880 make you feel? A fight it, but a little bit nervous. I'm a little bit nervous. I've never
00:07:07.180 seen a drag queen before. And what do you think? I think it's cool. It's great? Yeah. Why are you
00:07:15.020 nervous? I don't know. It's just different? Different and new. Yeah. Do you think that boy
00:07:23.360 can wear makeup? Yes. And would you agree that makeup is for everyone? Yeah. Yeah? Where do you
00:07:32.760 buy your drag clothes? This is a, I bought this at Value Village secondhand. I make a lot of it and
00:07:41.020 sometimes I'll buy things secondhand and I'll alter them to make them more drag. That's a clip
00:07:46.040 from a CBC documentary. Look at those kids. Kids. How do you feel? They're asked. Well, they're
00:07:52.040 nervous and they're confused because they're doing things and seeing things that they know are not
00:07:55.640 normal. That's not how adults are supposed to be around kids. That's not how a thousand generations
00:08:00.720 of civilization have worked. I'm not just talking about gay or straight. I'm talking about sexuality at
00:08:05.400 all. You don't have an explicitly sexual fetishist conversing one-on-one in private. I don't know
00:08:11.940 where the parents were with young children. The kids know it's wrong instinctively, but the grownups
00:08:16.480 aren't protecting them. They're trafficking them in a way. They're setting them up. They're pushing
00:08:20.680 them into this unusual, abnormal sexual situation. Of course, they're nervous. Children of those ages
00:08:26.920 are supposed to be playing with toys, riding bikes, doing sports, watching movies, Disney movies,
00:08:32.500 whatever, not answering questions from hyper-sexualized adults who obviously get some
00:08:37.940 sort of thrill pushing their private sexuality into the world and onto children. That's what's
00:08:43.200 clearly going on in that Ontario classroom where that pervy teacher has those enormous fake breasts.
00:08:49.200 That's not normal and that's not even normal transgenderism, is it? The whole point of that is
00:08:53.780 for him to wear those to class and force everyone to look at him and pretend that they're normal and
00:08:59.240 he's normal. He's using the class, he's using the kids to fulfill his bizarre sexual fantasy.
00:09:05.780 Their presence is obviously essential to him. It's essential for him to have girls and boys
00:09:10.420 with him, to interact with them, and to pretend it's normal. And really, what's the difference
00:09:16.560 between the shop teacher perv and that drag kid show, except that parents were complicit in the drag
00:09:22.700 show movie, I presume, but parents are forced to accept that freak in their kid's shop class.
00:09:28.580 What happens, though, is that children are fast learners and they want to grow up quickly,
00:09:34.000 don't they? They look and they learn and they copy. If you tell your kids not to smoke,
00:09:38.520 but you're smoking, they will smoke. They learn by copying and figuring out what people actually
00:09:43.560 mean, not just what they say. Kids learn and they want to please the adults around them.
00:09:48.780 I saw this chilling tweet by a Chinese-born freedom activist in America. He said,
00:09:54.960 indoctrination of children, the woke has definitely outdone Mao. And he's right, isn't he? You see those
00:10:01.420 kids in the Cultural Revolution. So what I showed you before that libs of TikTok found, that was an
00:10:08.440 excerpt from a CBC documentary. And when they made that documentary, they then had their children's
00:10:13.740 news network at CBC interviewed the stars of that. I've done stories before that the CBC has a special
00:10:20.040 bureau designed to indoctrinate children. It is child actors reading scripts that are written by
00:10:25.620 adults and they try to convince children of ideological things. Here's their homepage. Some of
00:10:30.680 it is innocuous, talking about sports and music, but there's plenty of ideology in it, as you can see.
00:10:35.660 Just to pick a story example, what is Roxham Road? Why people are being turned away at the border.
00:10:41.720 Story by CBC Kids News. Critics will renew rules will make crossing more dangerous. Oh, really?
00:10:48.960 Five teens, five words. Young activists on why we're slow to act on climate change by
00:10:54.280 CBC Kids News. UN shared possible last words before we hit 1.5 degrees limit. The UN has given what may be
00:11:01.740 its last warning before climate change reaches a tipping point. You get the picture. It's liberal
00:11:06.780 party propaganda directed at children through the unethical use of child actors. You know that many
00:11:12.920 ads are banned on children's TV shows altogether, right? That's the advertising standards that are
00:11:20.320 found predatory, right? Because children are susceptible to lies and persuasion in a way that a
00:11:24.560 grown-up is, right? I mean, children are trusting. Have you ever heard the phrase taking candy from a baby?
00:11:28.760 That's why you don't allow children to sign contracts or, you know, you have a guardian
00:11:33.800 with them. Well, the CBC doesn't care. They propagandize directly to children precisely
00:11:40.780 for that reason. They know what they're doing. Here's their special excerpt on CBC Kids News
00:11:46.300 from that drag kids documentary. This is specifically targeting children when their parents aren't there.
00:11:53.860 In regular times, her name is Bunny. But when she's in drag, whoopee! My dear Bunny.
00:12:23.860 I'm Bracken. I'm a 12-year-old hyper-queen, meaning a 12-year-old female drag queen. My
00:12:37.000 drag name is also my real name. Simple. I'm Jason Kerr, and my drag name is Susan B. Anthony.
00:12:44.860 My name is Nemes. My drag name is Lactatia. I'm Stefan, and my drag name is Lady Gaga.
00:12:51.860 Drag is a lot of things. Drag is a performing art, because you are the canvas. Showing who
00:13:03.860 you are, but, like, we're singing and dancing. Drag is just a self-expression and an art. You
00:13:09.860 are the canvas. You do your own thing, and you perform. A man transforms into a woman
00:13:16.860 for entertainment, and a woman transforms into a man for entertainment.
00:13:24.860 I'm of the deep end. Watch as I dive in. I'll never meet the ground.
00:13:34.860 I'm really liking No Excuses by Meghan Trainor. Paparazzi. Circus by Britney Spears.
00:13:51.860 Ginger Minj. Alaska from season five and All Stars 2.
00:13:56.860 Ruby Island. I like Baby Belle Belle.
00:14:03.860 Work spelled with an E or a U. Fierce. I like, um, sashay.
00:14:10.860 Okay. I always have to end it with a tongue pop. I mean, it's like the period to the sentence.
00:14:16.860 That they can do drag too. If anyone wants to bring you down, you fight back.
00:14:32.860 Not only that that's okay, but that there are other people like that.
00:14:37.860 When you figure out you're gay or trans or something like that, it's not something that happens once you become an adult.
00:14:42.860 It actually is around, like, all the kids of the documentary's age that we start kind of thinking about these things.
00:14:48.860 And to just know that there are other kids that are here doing this, it shows that it's okay to do this,
00:14:56.860 and that you're not the only one. It's not weird.
00:15:05.860 I perform in front of crowds now, and they cheer, so I know that I'm doing all right.
00:15:10.860 Drag has helped me express myself in a way that I'm not able to in everyday life.
00:15:16.860 Walk my way down the road of self-discovery and figure out who I am as a person.
00:15:22.860 And it's helped me connect with people in the community.
00:15:26.860 It's helped me to be myself.
00:15:28.860 By the way, in that YouTube video, I noticed the comments were turned off.
00:15:36.860 It's not interactive. You can't speak back. You can't criticize.
00:15:40.860 You have to listen and obey the CBC.
00:15:42.860 This is how children should be. Children as young as nine.
00:15:46.860 You don't have a sexuality yet when you're nine.
00:15:49.860 You're just doing what adults have planted in your mind.
00:15:53.860 It's like those people who claim their dogs are vegetarian.
00:15:56.860 No, they're not. Dogs are carnivorous.
00:15:58.860 It's the dog owners imposing their fashion on their dogs.
00:16:01.860 No nine-year-old is a drag queen, other than they are being manipulated by their parents or other adults.
00:16:06.860 Did you hear that one kid?
00:16:08.860 I perform in front of crowds and they cheer, so I must be doing something right.
00:16:12.860 Yeah, no, no.
00:16:15.860 The CBC is on a mission, obviously.
00:16:17.860 Is it okay for your kids to watch or take part in drag performances?
00:16:21.860 What do you think the answer in their story is?
00:16:24.860 By the way, it's the only answer that's given.
00:16:26.860 There's no debate. They don't have different points of view.
00:16:28.860 Just one idea is allowed. Let me quote.
00:16:30.860 Ashley Ewell, a Calgary-based registered psychologist who specializes in child and adolescent mental health,
00:16:36.860 says, quote, the idea that drag is somehow bad is actually incorrect.
00:16:40.860 Oh, is that a fact?
00:16:42.860 From a developmental standpoint, kids have a very fluid understanding of gender, she says.
00:16:47.860 It's really important to have healthy conversations that are developmentally appropriate about gender roles
00:16:52.860 and gender expression being part of art for kids as young as nine.
00:16:57.860 Parents should watch their children for signs of anxiety and depression, which can affect children of all ages,
00:17:03.860 as Ewell says, whether they like to participate in spelling bees, swimming competitions, or drag shows.
00:17:09.860 Yeah, it's just like a spelling bee, people.
00:17:12.860 It's nothing more stressful and natural than a spelling bee.
00:17:16.860 Hey, you know what comes next? I've seen the future.
00:17:19.860 I saw this online. It's a TV show from the Netherlands focused on kids called Simply Naked.
00:17:26.860 Welcome to Gewoon Bloot. In Gewoon Bloot gaan volwassen mensen geheel uit de kleren,
00:17:31.860 zodat wij er wat van kunnen leren. Deze kinderen uit groep 7 en 8 mogen aan hen alles vragen over hun blote lichaam.
00:17:38.860 En vandaag hebben we als gasten transgenders.
00:17:42.860 Het gaat echt om het gevoel wat je van binnen hebt.
00:17:44.860 Ja, en dat gevoel, dat kan je gewoon hebben, maar daar kan je ook iets mee doen, zoals ik ook een operatie heb gedaan.
00:17:49.860 Maar je kan ook transgender zijn en geen operaties ondergaan.
00:17:54.860 Die heb ik wel wat in mijn broek, maar ik heb nog steeds een vulva en daar voel ik me niet prettig bij.
00:18:00.860 En vandaar dat ik dan passeer in mijn bokser met mijn pekker erin.
00:18:05.860 Dat is vaginaplastiek.
00:18:06.860 En wat betekent dat?
00:18:07.860 Dat je dus, zeg maar, van het mannelijke slag, ja, je laat het dus ombouwen naar het vrouwelijk geslag.
00:18:12.860 Op het eerste moment denk je, huh? En op het tweede moment denk je, oh, het is eigenlijk best normaal.
00:18:18.860 Eigenlijk gewoon heel normaal.
00:18:19.860 Dus het is niet alleen per se, alleen man, man en vrouw, vrouw. Daartussen zit gewoon ontzettend veel.
00:18:26.860 Nadat je een operatie hebt gehad, Anne-Chris, hoe voel je dat?
00:18:30.860 Ken je het woord euforisch?
00:18:32.860 Nee.
00:18:33.860 Nee, dat is echt heel blij. Echt heel blij. Ik werd wakker en ik wist dat ik geen borst meer had.
00:18:39.860 Dat het plat was, dat het was zoals ik altijd heb gewild, zoals ik me van binnen voel.
00:18:43.860 Ik was echt tot plafond, zeg maar door plafond vrolijk gewoon.
00:18:46.860 Het is een soort van dat je vliegt.
00:18:48.860 Ja.
00:18:49.860 En je bent dan gewoon superblij.
00:18:50.860 Wat gaat daar?
00:18:51.860 Het is niet over gay versus straight.
00:18:53.860 Het is over kinderen, die pre-sexual zijn, die zijn pre-sexual zijn.
00:18:56.860 Het is niet overal.
00:18:57.860 Het is overal.
00:18:58.860 Het is overal.
00:18:59.860 Het is overal.
00:19:00.860 Het is overal.
00:19:01.860 Het is overal.
00:19:02.860 Rapondigbaar is overal.
00:19:03.520 Het is overal.
00:19:03.860 Het is overal.
00:19:04.860 Het is overal.
00:19:05.860 Het is overal.
00:19:06.860 and learned aversion to sexuality.
00:19:10.620 And worse, it's about carving up the children.
00:19:13.860 That's the gay case against transgenderism.
00:19:16.240 Sometimes a child is confused,
00:19:18.200 especially if they're bombarded by teachers and principals
00:19:20.280 and propagandists in the CBC.
00:19:21.980 Sometimes girls are tomboys.
00:19:23.680 Sometimes boys are confused.
00:19:25.520 I think most people are confused for a moment when they're teens.
00:19:30.520 But what does cutting off breasts or genitalia have to do with that?
00:19:33.920 If someone is gay, you don't cut them up.
00:19:35.940 If someone's lesbian, you don't carve them up.
00:19:38.880 That's the insane conclusion of this child-devouring cult.
00:19:41.960 The other day, we talked with Barbara Kay about the end of the taboo
00:19:45.000 called Thou Shalt Not Kill,
00:19:47.120 where now one in 30 deaths in Canada is a doctor-assisted suicide.
00:19:50.880 But this is another taboo that's been broken.
00:19:53.120 We are devouring our children.
00:19:55.100 We are sexualizing them and destroying them.
00:19:57.920 And, of course, the CBC is in the lead.
00:20:02.860 Stay with us for more about Bill C-11.
00:20:05.940 Today, Bill C-11 was rushed through Parliament.
00:20:22.220 The government invoked closure, which is exactly what it sounds like.
00:20:26.240 They shut down any further debate on him.
00:20:29.220 I learned about this from Pierre Polyev, the leader of the opposition,
00:20:32.140 who put out a great video showing him running down to the chamber to vote on it.
00:20:36.240 I just want to show you that video for a second.
00:20:37.980 Take a look.
00:20:38.600 Hi, everyone.
00:20:39.260 Pierre Polyev here.
00:20:40.640 There's just an emergency here on Parliament Hill.
00:20:42.840 The liberals have just announced that they're shutting down debate.
00:20:46.100 They're censoring debate on their censorship bill.
00:20:50.220 We just got the notice right now.
00:20:52.200 As you know, they've been trying to censor the Internet in what Canadian artist Margaret Atwood has called creeping totalitarianism.
00:21:00.020 So give Trudeau's woke bureaucrats over at the CRTC the power to control what you see and say on the Internet.
00:21:06.440 I'm just rushing into the House of Commons lobby right now.
00:21:10.220 Conservatives are the only party fighting back.
00:21:13.000 But as you can see, this closure is now being brought right before us right now.
00:21:19.480 You can see right here, online streaming act.
00:21:24.660 They're bringing in what's called closure, which shuts down debate and rams the bill through in record time.
00:21:30.260 Only conservatives are fighting back against this censorship bill.
00:21:34.260 We believe you should have the freedom to decide what you see and say online.
00:21:37.520 But I need you to immediately sign my freedom of speech petition.
00:21:41.500 The link is right before you.
00:21:43.320 Click sign immediately.
00:21:46.280 Let's bring home freedom.
00:21:48.220 I want to give you back control of your life and make this the freest country on Earth.
00:21:52.220 It's common sense.
00:21:53.660 Let's bring it home now.
00:21:56.040 Well, I'm glad to hear that Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives are against C-11.
00:22:00.720 I did know that Rachel Thomas, one of their MPs from Lethbridge, in fact,
00:22:04.540 has been talking about this for a while and she calls it like it is, a censorship bill.
00:22:09.600 You would think other parties would be against censorship, including the NDP and the Bloc.
00:22:15.440 You would think anyone would be against censorship.
00:22:18.000 But in fact, they have been very much for it.
00:22:20.680 Here's an NDP member of parliament from the far north saying she loves the idea of the government being able to regulate what you say.
00:22:30.400 Here, take a look at her.
00:22:31.160 And I thank the member for his question.
00:22:33.960 I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected back,
00:22:43.600 what they regulate regarding online streaming as opposed to studio executives that are outside of this country.
00:22:53.680 And that is what we're talking about in this bill.
00:22:58.460 There's already been content regulation for TV.
00:23:02.280 There's been content regulation for radio.
00:23:04.680 And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians are online every day.
00:23:12.320 And here's a Bloc Québécois MP who couldn't be happier, explicitly happy, about censorship to protect the French language.
00:23:21.840 I don't really think there's a connection.
00:23:24.020 I don't think censorship protects anything.
00:23:25.740 But she's thrilled about it.
00:23:27.380 Take a look at that.
00:23:28.600 If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well represented online, well, then that's worth it.
00:23:42.120 And I don't even need to tell you this is going to pass, of course.
00:23:47.620 Earlier today, we had an emergency live stream broadcast.
00:23:51.460 I sat right here with my friend David Menzies and we went through this.
00:23:55.160 I wanted to do that in real time.
00:23:56.540 And I went through Bill C-11 and I went through the particular section that worries me.
00:24:02.620 There's many things about C-11 that worry me.
00:24:04.740 The biggest one, obviously, is that it puts the Internet under the power of the CRTC, the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission.
00:24:16.620 Even the language is archaic.
00:24:18.160 I don't know what a radio hyphen television even is.
00:24:20.880 It's like the talkies, I joked.
00:24:23.720 You know, it's so old fashioned.
00:24:26.140 The whole wonder of the Internet was it was free, free from the CRTC.
00:24:30.100 That's why Rebel News started Internet only, whereas Sun News Network was killed by the CRTC.
00:24:37.020 One of the things that the word rebel in Rebel News referred to is rebelling against the regulatory structure that let some political hacks in Ottawa kill Sun News Network.
00:24:46.220 We were free.
00:24:46.860 We were beyond their reach.
00:24:48.740 Well, that's changed today.
00:24:51.400 And so now this Canadian Radio, Television, Telecommunications Commission now has power over the Internet.
00:24:58.160 And specifically in this bill, they declare that platforms like Twitter and YouTube and Google are now broadcasters, just like CTV or Global News.
00:25:10.240 And so they intend to regulate the Internet, just like they regulated radio and TV for so many years.
00:25:15.920 There's many things wrong with this bill.
00:25:17.880 But the thing I think they're going to use to kill us is under Section 9 of the bill, which is becoming law now, where the government has the power to command any of these broadcasters to hide, to de-rank, to hide the discoverability, that's the word they use, of any media outlets they don't like.
00:25:41.300 It's they literally give themselves that power.
00:25:44.640 So instead of having a guest segment today, what I wanted to do is I wanted to play to you an excerpt from the live stream with me and David Menzies today.
00:25:54.920 And I hope you'll accept that instead of a discussion with a guest, which we normally have as the second part of the show.
00:26:01.000 But I feel like I went through this methodically, and for many people, it was the first time they heard it.
00:26:06.160 So I hope you'll accept me replaying for you the conversation that David and I had earlier today.
00:26:12.420 You know, we do the live stream every day.
00:26:14.500 We do it from 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern time, and we're debating changing it up again.
00:26:20.020 And I'm thinking of doing more live streaming myself.
00:26:22.860 I enjoy it.
00:26:23.700 I just have to find the time for it.
00:26:25.060 So without further ado, here is an excerpt from today's live stream on the passage of C-11.
00:26:41.140 There's no other way to describe it.
00:26:42.900 This is the law that begins the end of Internet freedom in Canada.
00:26:50.120 This is one of four proposed bills in a row that, bam, bam, bam, four of them in a row, will end Internet freedom in Canada.
00:27:01.020 Internet freedom has been under attack for a long time.
00:27:03.220 C-11 puts the Internet under the control of the TV Commission, the CRTC, which is a fossil.
00:27:10.720 It's obsolete.
00:27:11.480 It was decades ago when there was limited bandwidth on the radio, and you had to apply to the government.
00:27:18.240 Can I have this, you know, if I'm on 990, does that interfere with that other radio station?
00:27:24.000 There used to be a limited bandwidth issue.
00:27:25.400 That's what the CRTC was about, apportioning who's on the radio, limited number of channels on TV cable companies.
00:27:32.260 Who's on what cable?
00:27:33.640 That is not relevant in 2023.
00:27:36.040 2023, you don't need to be on radio or TV.
00:27:38.160 Those are sort of old.
00:27:39.480 It's like a rotary phone as opposed to a cell phone.
00:27:41.860 No one uses it.
00:27:42.800 But Trudeau wants to take that old regulator called the CRTC, the Canadian, even if, let me, you're not even going to believe what CRTC stands for.
00:27:50.960 Do you know what it stands for?
00:27:52.040 It's the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission.
00:27:55.600 Yeah, radio, Canadian radio television.
00:27:59.440 Could you put CRTC.gc.ca, put the homepage up?
00:28:03.760 People won't even believe what the full name of this regulator is.
00:28:06.440 It's so archaic.
00:28:08.980 The words don't even make sense.
00:28:11.700 It's from, you know, it's like moving pictures, like the silver screen.
00:28:16.420 Look at that.
00:28:17.120 Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission.
00:28:21.920 What even is a radio television?
00:28:24.260 So there's a lot of legalese here, but I promise I'll make it easy to understand.
00:28:27.600 So you got to read.
00:28:28.220 You see at the top it says conditions.
00:28:30.240 And then there's all these conditions.
00:28:31.980 Well, A, B, C, D, E, F.
00:28:33.320 So I'm going to read the top there, and then I'm going to read Part E, and you're going to see what I'm worried about.
00:28:39.880 So the commission, that's the CRTC.
00:28:43.240 That's the government bureaucracy.
00:28:46.040 When they say the commission, that's who they're talking about, the CRTC.
00:28:48.720 So let me just read this, and I'll walk through.
00:28:51.100 The commission may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings.
00:29:03.000 That's what they call Twitter, YouTube, Google.
00:29:05.940 They call those broadcasters now.
00:29:07.800 See, this is what's so weird.
00:29:09.420 This is the Frankenstein nature of it.
00:29:12.000 Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook are not broadcasters.
00:29:15.380 No.
00:29:15.960 That's why they've never been regulated along with the talkies.
00:29:20.120 But C11 now says, oh, no, you are now a broadcaster.
00:29:24.820 Yeah.
00:29:24.960 OK, so let me read that again.
00:29:27.320 The commission, that's the bureaucracy, may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings that the commission considers appropriate for the implementation of the broadcasting policy set out in subsection 3.1, including conditions respecting.
00:29:46.400 And then there's a list.
00:29:47.760 So I haven't even got, I'm just saying, just explain the preamble there.
00:29:52.220 These are things that the government can do to YouTube, to Twitter, to Google.
00:29:59.100 And then there's a big list of them.
00:30:00.700 And I want to jump to number E.
00:30:02.760 So I'm 9.11E.
00:30:05.580 Very legalistic, but that's what laws are like.
00:30:08.260 Let's read it, OK?
00:30:09.180 So the government can regulate, they can make orders against Twitter, YouTube, Google, Facebook to do what?
00:30:17.380 To do E.
00:30:18.020 Respecting the presentation of programs and programming services, that means our videos, your tweets, your Facebook posts, for selection by the public, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services, such as original French language programs.
00:30:46.600 They throw the word French language programs in there, but that's just an example.
00:30:49.860 So let me read this again.
00:30:51.280 The government can make any order respecting the presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
00:31:00.340 That means the algorithm.
00:31:02.540 That means search results.
00:31:04.240 That means the watch next, the for you.
00:31:07.680 You know, on every social media app, it sort of gets to know what you like and it tries to think, well, what would this guy like?
00:31:14.860 He's watching lots of, you know, car wash videos.
00:31:17.580 Let's give him more car wash videos.
00:31:20.020 That's that's the algorithm does that.
00:31:22.820 In this law, they call that discoverability, the presentation of programs and programming services for selection by the public.
00:31:31.200 Right.
00:31:31.880 That's the for you page.
00:31:33.080 That's the algorithm.
00:31:34.060 That's the selection.
00:31:35.120 That's what's boosted.
00:31:36.100 That will be regulated, including the showcasing and discoverability of Canadian programs and programming services.
00:31:46.560 Let me translate what this means in real life.
00:31:50.820 This means that Justin Trudeau and his handpicked censors.
00:31:55.380 Can order YouTube, Google, Facebook to alter what is shown to the public.
00:32:03.920 YouTube, Google, Facebook already do that.
00:32:05.700 They already have political biases, by the way.
00:32:08.400 They downrank us already, by the way.
00:32:10.960 True.
00:32:12.040 But what I just read to you, incontrovertibly, in fact, they don't deny it.
00:32:16.420 They don't deny it.
00:32:17.380 But this gives them the power to say, well, Rebel News is not a qualified Canadian journalism organization.
00:32:25.020 We don't think we we say they're disinformation and they're not a part of a healthy news diet from the CBC.
00:32:32.580 And if you want diversity, well, you can have your CTV and global.
00:32:35.340 If you want even more diversity, well, you got your Toronto Star.
00:32:38.080 There's a lot of choice.
00:32:39.200 There's five choices right there.
00:32:40.700 All of them are on the government dime.
00:32:42.280 All of them receive the Trudeau bailout.
00:32:43.640 Well, what this does is it gives the CRTC the power to regulate Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, et cetera, to alter their algorithms.
00:32:52.340 So when people try to discover, that's the word discoverability, when YouTube, Google, Facebook, et cetera, want to showcase or present those are the words that the government can get involved in that and boost their friends and de-boost their enemies.
00:33:11.160 And who the hell do you think their friends and enemies are?
00:33:13.500 They will boost the CBC and all the other compliant media, the government media, the regime media, the media, political, industrial complex, they will boost them and they will de-boost us.
00:33:23.080 And that is why, my friends, if you care about knowing what the world is like, as opposed to knowing only what Trudeau says you can know what the world is like, I need you to go to our petition now.
00:33:34.020 Stop the censorship dot C.A.
00:33:37.240 And yes, I want you to sign the petition.
00:33:40.600 Now, you might say, what's the point?
00:33:43.020 What's the point?
00:33:44.380 I mean, this thing's passing.
00:33:47.380 We're going to take it to court.
00:33:49.260 And you know we will.
00:33:50.360 We are currently suing Justin Trudeau in seven different legal actions, including one when his bodyguards beat you up.
00:33:57.920 That was a dark day at Rebel News.
00:33:59.860 And we're going to fight back and we're going to get you justice.
00:34:01.800 So help me God.
00:34:02.920 Thank you, Ezra.
00:34:03.860 And we are going to challenge C-11 because you know what it means.
00:34:08.960 Do you think they're going to de-boost the CBC?
00:34:11.020 Do you think they're going to say to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, you can't show the CBC?
00:34:14.340 Of course, that's government propaganda.
00:34:15.820 They're going to boost it.
00:34:18.200 You're going to type in Rebel News.
00:34:20.640 And soon the only thing you'll be allowed to see is, if anything about Rebel News, it'll be all the criticisms of Rebel News.
00:34:26.920 You'll be able to see all the criticisms, sort of like a highlight reel of maybe our worst moments or whatever.
00:34:33.380 You won't be able to find things.
00:34:35.120 You'll see attacks on us.
00:34:37.320 Or if you find us at all.
00:34:39.420 And I just literally showed you in the law where that is.
00:34:45.820 So on the one hand, Trudeau is regulating the internet through the CRTC.
00:34:53.820 On the other hand, he is paying a whole new cottage industry to denounce criticisms of him and his favorite ideas as disinformation.
00:35:06.160 And disinformation, I mean, I've heard that word before this latest fad.
00:35:11.840 When I was a kid growing up, I used to read, I know it sounds funny, but a magazine called Aviation Week and Space Technology.
00:35:17.640 Because it was really cool when you were a kid to see a magazine about cool fighter jets.
00:35:22.140 And that's what it was.
00:35:23.140 It was just like a magazine about fighter jets.
00:35:26.580 I mean, that sounds sort of nerdy, but I think a lot of boys are into that.
00:35:29.900 And that's why I first discovered the word disinformation.
00:35:33.440 And there was a debate in this magazine because the U.S. military would deliberately put false information out about the capabilities of their fighter jets to confuse and confound Soviet spies.
00:35:46.080 What's the speed of a jet?
00:35:47.520 What's the range of it?
00:35:48.400 How much, how many missiles can it hold?
00:35:50.160 How many bullets?
00:35:50.620 And the U.S. government would put out sort of harmless lies, harmless domestically, but it would be to hopefully trick the commies.
00:35:59.840 And that was called disinformation.
00:36:01.400 That's when I first heard the word.
00:36:03.800 Deliberately putting false information out to confuse someone.
00:36:07.680 And it was obviously a legitimate part of spy versus spy.
00:36:12.140 Trudeau has taken that word and now uses it for anyone who disagrees with him.
00:36:17.060 But that's not disinformation.
00:36:19.380 It's not disinformation to disagree with him.
00:36:21.680 It's an opinion.
00:36:23.280 Yes.
00:36:23.680 It's the other side of the story.
00:36:25.700 And by the way, saying that your critics are disinformationists implies that you always have your facts straight.
00:36:31.040 When in fact, Trudeau gets them wrong a lot of times.
00:36:35.280 A lot of his statements about the vaccine being 100% safe and effective and stops transmission.
00:36:40.500 All of that was wrong.
00:36:42.000 I'm not even going to call it disinformation because I think Trudeau believed it at the time.
00:36:45.320 And disinformation, like I say from my childhood reading these magazines, was a deliberate attempt to trick someone.
00:36:51.960 Trudeau's critics are not trying to trick anyone.
00:36:54.280 They're trying to push back.
00:36:55.500 So here he is.
00:36:56.820 I'd like to show you an announcement where not only is he passing a law that will allow him to regulate the Internet,
00:37:03.500 but he is also spending millions of tax dollars on the disinformation industry, by which I mean people who will go around and accuse his critics of being disinformationists.
00:37:14.240 Unbelievable.
00:37:14.680 Take a look at this.
00:37:15.780 Do we have it teed up sort of?
00:37:16.920 We're investing to support the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and other groups that are promoting free, fair and inclusive elections globally.
00:37:27.640 We're fighting harmful content online and promoting inclusivity in the digital world.
00:37:33.640 In 2022, we chaired the Freedom Online Coalition, which helped defend Internet freedom and addressed Internet shutdowns perpetrated by Iran.
00:37:44.520 We've also bolstered the G7 rapid response mechanism aimed at countering foreign threats to democracy, including disinformation.
00:37:53.280 And today we can announce that we're investing over 50 million dollars more in projects and initiatives to strengthen democracy around the world.
00:38:04.040 Do you really think that Justin Trudeau, who invoked martial law, deployed riot horses, shot our reporter, Electo Lavoie, because there was some horn honking going on that embarrassed him?
00:38:15.600 Do you really think that Justin Trudeau has any role at a strengthening democracy conference?
00:38:21.800 And when he says he wants to stop harmful content online and defend Internet freedom, well, you can't do those two things at the same time, because defending Internet freedom means you've got to listen to things you don't like to hear.
00:38:34.600 And he calls anything he doesn't like to hear harmful.
00:38:37.420 Yeah, harmful to his political ambition.
00:38:39.080 You know, that is exactly the note I made, Ezra, harmful content online.
00:38:43.140 As always, the devil is in the details.
00:38:45.200 So what is the definition of harmful?
00:38:47.840 Does he consider fair criticism of his government and his government policies as being harmful?
00:38:55.300 I mean, that's a hell of a word to pin down, isn't it?
00:38:58.640 Yeah.
00:38:59.480 I think that today is a dark day for Internet freedom.
00:39:04.860 I would like to promise you, our viewers, that we are going to fight this, not just editorially and journalistically and politically, but also legally.
00:39:14.420 We've had a team of lawyers with one of our favorite law firms being studying this for actually a year now as it's worked its way through the parliament, including the Senate.
00:39:25.620 And we will challenge this because who else will?
00:39:29.160 Yeah.
00:39:29.760 Do you think the Toronto Star is going to challenge this?
00:39:32.200 Do you think the CBC is going to challenge this?
00:39:34.960 C-18 is another one of these four censorship bills that Trudeau is pushing through.
00:39:40.020 It would require Google, YouTube, Facebook to pay money to Trudeau's favorite journalists.
00:39:45.360 I think you might see some Internet companies pushing back on that, but I do not see the same pushback on C-11.
00:39:50.820 Actually, that's not true.
00:39:52.140 Twitter filed a brief with the government, and this was before the Elon Musk took over.
00:39:56.440 So this is even the old Twitter said what Trudeau is planning to do is they've only seen it in North Korea.
00:40:03.360 Well, that was an excerpt from our live stream.
00:40:05.820 We do a live stream every day.
00:40:06.980 I myself participate a couple times a week.
00:40:09.040 I'm going to try and increase that.
00:40:10.900 Stick around when we return your letters to me.
00:40:13.340 Hey, welcome back.
00:40:18.720 Your letters to me.
00:40:19.560 Joe Boudreau says, Ezra, I believe you nailed it in regards to religious hate crimes.
00:40:25.120 You're in support of the Christian community, which is persecuted just as much as the Jewish community is noteworthy.
00:40:29.900 Thank you so much.
00:40:30.800 And Ailee Nantel was a refreshing voice.
00:40:34.260 I like Ailee.
00:40:35.400 He's such a good egg.
00:40:36.420 I really like, you know, it's a pleasure to have some friends and allies out there.
00:40:41.020 When Rebel News started eight years ago, it felt pretty lonely.
00:40:44.960 Epoch Times has grown during that period.
00:40:47.380 So I've gotten to know some of the guys over there and gals over there.
00:40:50.980 Really good, principled, hardworking.
00:40:53.920 Of course, True North, which is where Ailee is from, one of my favorite folks, there's Western Standard.
00:40:58.560 It's nice to know there are some other alternative voices out there, but I should say they are all in jeopardy from the C-11.
00:41:07.320 They really are.
00:41:09.460 George Huxley says, Ezra, media has always been an arm of government.
00:41:13.460 That is why they would never mention the aerial spraying that has been going on for 25 years.
00:41:17.280 My question to you is, if you are truly for truth, why have you not mentioned it?
00:41:21.500 This is a bigger threat to our health than the bioweapon shots.
00:41:24.220 Best, George Huxley.
00:41:26.180 George, thank you for that letter.
00:41:27.320 I think you're referring to what is often referred to as chemtrails.
00:41:31.580 I remember as a child, more than 25 years ago, looking up at the sky and asking my dad, what's that?
00:41:36.980 And he said, those are contrails, is the phrase he used.
00:41:39.840 Or vapor trails, as they were sometimes called.
00:41:44.480 And it was explained to me that the airplane itself, or more to the point, the jets caused the condensation of the moisture in the sky.
00:41:55.440 That's my memory, my recollection of what I was told when I was a child.
00:41:59.380 I have seen theories that that is some sort of chemical being sprayed.
00:42:04.900 And of course, there is such a thing as cloud seeding.
00:42:08.300 When I grew up west of Calgary, I knew that some farmers had the ability to fly their little planes and seed the clouds to try and get some rain, coax some rain out of it.
00:42:19.000 So we know that cloud seeding for rain is a fact.
00:42:23.640 But I am a deep skeptic of the chemtrails theory.
00:42:28.380 But more to the point, I don't see it as a top priority for me to investigate.
00:42:32.160 I am not convinced of it.
00:42:33.780 I find it speculative and more to the point, when I look at the world today, I see 10 crises that are more important for me to address my mind to than the chemtrails theory, which I do not.
00:42:52.980 And the amount of effort to go into that is not proportionate to its importance.
00:42:59.380 I think of some of the important work that we've done that is considered skeptical or contrarian.
00:43:05.780 And I think it's much more important, whether it's defending Christian pastors in this country, whether it's in the fighting against the lockdowns and the vaccine mandates or now the jailing of pastors for opposing drag queen story hour, whether it was our work at the World Economic Forum where we tracked down VIPs and grilled them.
00:43:26.680 I think that's all a better use of our time and resources than to chase down the chemtrails theory.
00:43:35.620 In the end, you might be right.
00:43:38.680 But to me, it's not a critically important project to put our resources to.
00:43:44.280 And I hope I haven't hurt your feelings by saying that.
00:43:46.580 I like people who are contrarians and I like people who are omniskeptics, skeptical of every anything.
00:43:53.740 But if we have 10 stories we can cover, Rebel News, that's not going to be in our top 10.
00:44:00.120 Peter Adams says, Hi, Ezra, just heard on your show yesterday that you yourself got a vax exemption to the U.S. and actually traveled there.
00:44:06.520 You didn't say how you did it, though.
00:44:07.760 I'm not sure why you didn't explain, but if you can let me know how you did it, that would be great.
00:44:11.700 I don't know if May 11th will actually be the end of this ridiculous ban, but if it isn't, I'd sure like to know how I could get an exemption.
00:44:17.600 I've looked at what is considered an exemption and I don't come even close to matching any of them.
00:44:21.800 I don't see that you would either.
00:44:22.980 So I'm wondering if you found some loopholes somewhere that I would exploit as well.
00:44:26.340 Best regards.
00:44:27.940 I don't want to get too much into my own personal situation, but I have complied with the law.
00:44:33.560 I think it's very important that I comply with the law.
00:44:36.040 First of all, I want to be honest.
00:44:37.140 Even though I despise the law and and second of all, if I were to cheat, which which I wouldn't.
00:44:45.180 But even if I were, I think the chance of being being targeted for enforcement and being caught is is an unacceptable risk.
00:44:55.280 I think that we at Rebel News were very compliance oriented with regards to the law, because I feel like we're being hunted by authorities, whether it's Canadian authorities or if it would be a border authority.
00:45:06.420 So we actually are very careful to follow the rules.
00:45:10.100 There's certain rules that we despise and that we work against.
00:45:13.100 But I certainly wouldn't want to break a rule about going into the United States because I would hate to be banned from entering that country.
00:45:20.020 But you can find if you go to the U.S. Border Customs and Border Police.
00:45:27.480 I forget the name of the organization and look through their exemptions.
00:45:31.800 There are I don't know.
00:45:33.340 There might be 10 of them.
00:45:34.960 And my guess is one of them could fit you.
00:45:37.460 And I this is just my way of saying I'm not going to get into my personal circumstance.
00:45:40.960 But I was a little nervous.
00:45:43.540 I have all my paperwork and I did get into the United States and I got in lawfully.
00:45:48.600 I understand, though, that if you drive across the border, they really don't even enforce it anymore.
00:45:54.540 In fact, I know a number of people who drive across regularly and are simply never asked.
00:45:59.120 It never comes up.
00:46:00.200 And whether you in your own life feel comfortable lying and saying, yeah, I'm vaccinated is up to you.
00:46:07.260 Like I said, I would not do that because I believe I have to be compliance oriented.
00:46:11.760 I believe that if I were to lie, especially lying in a situation where telling the truth is a lawful requirement, I think that that would be a disaster for me.
00:46:20.620 So I've made the choice not to lie.
00:46:22.440 You may regard the law as so odious and so immoral that if you were asked by the border police, are you vaccinated?
00:46:31.200 You might just lie.
00:46:31.940 And I very much doubt they would try and hold you to any proof.
00:46:35.700 That's a long way of saying I do not want to disclose the private reason I'm exempt, but I it has been accepted by the border.
00:46:44.560 The good news is even if you don't have an exemption and you don't want to lie,
00:46:49.160 I think you will be allowed into that country in about a month and a half.
00:46:52.960 I hope you don't find my answer too evasive.
00:46:55.340 I just don't want to get into the personal fact that allows me to be legally exempt.
00:47:00.040 I should tell you that I did not fly in Canada during the no fly period for unvaxed people.
00:47:07.900 I never once flew.
00:47:09.400 I never once used an exemption for a Canadian vaxed passport.
00:47:14.780 I didn't even try.
00:47:16.120 And there's various reasons for that, too.
00:47:20.160 But we can talk about that another day.
00:47:22.180 Part of it was I wanted to walk the walk.
00:47:27.300 If I was fighting for the unvaxed, which I was, I myself being unvaxed, I did not want to take a shortcut or an exemption.
00:47:37.180 I think I probably could have had an exemption.
00:47:38.920 But I actually never tried to use an exemption in Canada.
00:47:46.640 And I did not fly for that period of time.
00:47:49.680 And it was very frustrating for me.
00:47:51.940 And it was extremely frustrating and humiliating, frankly, to be turned away from restaurants, including restaurants where I was a regular patron, where I even knew the staff there.
00:48:00.900 I found that, I'll be honest, I found that humiliating and enraging.
00:48:05.860 And at least in one case, I have not returned to the restaurant that treated me that way.
00:48:11.420 Why would I?
00:48:12.480 Whereas another restaurant, and I won't name them because I don't want them in trouble, welcomed me, never asked me for any papers.
00:48:22.040 And I'll always remember that.
00:48:24.000 And maybe it was laziness.
00:48:25.420 Maybe it was they just didn't care.
00:48:27.520 Maybe they just, you know, didn't feel like being cops.
00:48:31.600 But whatever it was, I remember the kindness with which they treated me versus the cold, bureaucratic stone face that my regular haunts treated me.
00:48:43.700 And I think it was good for my character to suffer along with everyone else.
00:48:51.360 I think it made my complaints more authentic and it made me more sympathetic.
00:48:59.660 I had a lot of friends who got jabbed for a variety of reasons.
00:49:03.400 Some were good reasons.
00:49:04.220 Some were very pitiful reasons of convenience.
00:49:07.040 And I wonder if getting jabbed and being able to travel and go places made them less sympathetic for those who didn't.
00:49:16.440 We're talking too much about this, I think.
00:49:18.480 You just asked a simple question and I gave you a partial answer.
00:49:23.160 But that was absolutely the worst thing that happened to civil liberties in our generation.
00:49:28.540 And I will not forget it.
00:49:29.720 And I am afraid with how quickly our society accepted that kind of intolerance and apartness.
00:49:39.020 That's what apartheid means in Afrikaans.
00:49:41.360 It means apartness.
00:49:42.300 And I'm not comparing the decades of violence against visible minorities in South Africa to the way unvaccinated people were treated.
00:49:53.040 Although there are some comparisons.
00:49:55.060 People were fired.
00:49:56.280 People were not allowed outside certain areas.
00:49:59.280 There were some comparisons.
00:50:00.520 There was an apartness in Canada.
00:50:07.160 And by the way, there was a racial and class element to it as well.
00:50:10.080 Many black people did not get vaxxed or jabbed because there's a history.
00:50:14.300 If you Google the Tuskegee experiment, you'll know why.
00:50:18.920 Many black people were averse to governments promising them, oh, this injection is harmless.
00:50:24.720 Just take it.
00:50:25.520 You should Google the Tuskegee experiments where the government deliberately infected black men with a disease to study them.
00:50:31.840 That would be a very hard legacy to get over.
00:50:36.440 And there were other other groups that just didn't trust.
00:50:40.180 And there was a race and class element, too, by the way.
00:50:45.140 And, of course, don't think for a second that wealthy and connected politicians and celebrities and Hollywood loveys and sports heroes don't think for a second that they didn't get fake vaccine passports or fake doctor's notes or things like that.
00:51:00.180 But that's another reason I have a deep admiration for Novak Djokovic, the tennis star.
00:51:06.020 You don't think a millionaire celebrity tennis star who surely has a private doctor that he deals with.
00:51:11.820 You don't think he could have had a fake vaccine passport done up for him immediately, a fake, oh, I got my jab.
00:51:19.560 Of course he could have.
00:51:20.460 Don't be naive.
00:51:21.520 Of course he could have.
00:51:22.400 But the fact that he didn't lie and the fact that he didn't seek an exemption or a sneaky way out and the fact that he paid a personal price for it shows his deep, deep character, I believe.
00:51:33.920 And there were some NBA players in the same in the same boat.
00:51:37.700 Thanks for letting me go on at some length.
00:51:39.320 I haven't thought about these issues for a while, but there was a very important time for me.
00:51:44.380 That's our show for today.
00:51:47.080 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home, good night.
00:51:51.720 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:51:52.740 Keep fighting for freedom.