Free churches and free press with Drea Humphrey
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Summary
Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey joins me on The Gunn Show to talk about all the important civil liberties work she's doing out there on the ground. She's advocating for churches, advocating for small businesses, trying to have publication bans repealed, and she's currently launching a brand new campaign to advocate for the free speech of medical professionals who are being censored because they have opinions that don't necessarily conform with the accepted narrative.
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Hello, Rebels. You're listening to a free audio-only recording of my weekly Wednesday night show, The Gun Show.
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Now, tonight my guest is my fellow Rebel, Vancouver-based journalist, Drea Humphrey.
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And she's talking about all the very important civil liberties work that she's doing out there on the ground.
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She's advocating for churches. She's advocating for small businesses.
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She's trying to have publication bans repealed.
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And she is currently, right now, launching a brand new campaign to advocate for the free speech of medical professionals who are being censored because they have opinions on COVID-19 that don't necessarily conform with the accepted narrative.
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Persecution of Christians, silencing of doctors, and publication bans that seem to have no...
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And my guest tonight is Vancouver-based Rebel reporter, Drea Humphrey.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Frankly, because I've been cooped up in my office watching a federal court hearing all week.
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Rebel News is currently suing Justin Trudeau over his airport incarceration policy, the COVID jails.
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You can see all of my coverage and help support our legal fight at nocovidjails.com.
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Now, that, as you well know, is not the only fight that Rebel News is currently engaged in for freedom.
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And one of the point people that we have in the fight for freedom, she's working on so many things right now, is Rebel News reporter, Drea Humphrey.
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She has been doing her best to untangle this ball of yarn of publication bans in British Columbia regarding a child that has been medically transitioned against the wishes of the child's parents.
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Drea just wants to be able to report on it legally, and because she's in Canada, she can't, and other journalists who are out of the country, international journalists, they are not bound by that same publication ban.
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So, Drea is doing her best to unravel all of that so that she can do her journalistic mission of bringing you the other side of the story.
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She's also been working so hard on the plight of the churches in British Columbia.
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BC is reopening, and once again, churches were left out of the equation.
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In fact, in British Columbia, for a time, you could film a movie about a church service, as in you could pretend to be in church, but you couldn't actually go to church in BC.
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And she's got a brand new campaign that just launched, and she is helping to fight for the free speech of medical professionals
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who are being silenced by their professional organizations and by the places that they work because they have a viewpoint on COVID-19
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that doesn't necessarily completely align with the Public Health Agency of Canada,
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which conveniently aligns perfectly with the China-compliant World Health Organization.
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So, joining me right now in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon when I wasn't completely sick of being inside in my studio
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So, joining me now from her car somewhere in the streets of Vancouver is Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey.
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Drea, I haven't had you on the show in a while, but I wanted to have you on
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because there's so many things happening in British Columbia, and the one thing I think on the top of my mind,
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and it's happening everywhere, all across the country during this pandemic, is the persecution of the churches.
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You're starting to reopen again, but as always, churches are being left out of the reopening plan.
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Yeah, you know, I saw a tweet from a priest who said it just right.
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You know, I've been such an advocate for following the rules, and then, you know, they couldn't even give us a thought.
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And that's how our four-step plan was basically communicated.
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It outlines, you know, what businesses could do, what events could do.
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And they literally gave no thought to places of worship, despite having a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court,
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And it basically, you know, was very confusing.
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They had clear patterns for, you know, indoor dining is allowed to be open,
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and, you know, mass becomes sort of optional July 1st.
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Like, there were concrete things, but when it came to the church, it was like, you have to fill out an application to public health,
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However, a couple of days after that, I think because of so much backlash,
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and yet another example of, you know, clear persecution of people of faith,
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And now in BC, you can have indoor or outdoor worship services with 50 people, up to 50 people.
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And so is that a hard cap of 50 people, no matter the size of the facility?
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Because I go to one of those Catholic megachurches, and, I mean, it's 1,000 people plus,
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and yet for funerals, we could only have 10 people.
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We were brought down to a hard cap of 15 people.
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So regardless of square footage, it's 5-0 people allowed in?
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It has no, and, you know, some churches have, you know, different sanctuaries as well.
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Like, they have, you know, space in one area and an overflow.
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So it's 50, and that's including, you know, your worship team, your pastor,
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the person doing the online service, because, of course, they're still offering that as well.
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And let's discuss the nonsense of capping anything outdoors.
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They can't pretend they don't know the studies that have gone out
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that show there is next to no risk of this virus transmitting outdoors.
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So why on earth is there a cap at all outdoors?
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And if so, why is it the same amount for indoors?
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Well, and, you know, there's no hard cap for protests, right?
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Like, it's funny how the B.C. government is protecting this one charter right,
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that you have this charter right to go and protest the bad decisions of the government
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with your friends and neighbors and like-minded people,
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but you can't exercise your right to assembly that flows down from your freedom of religion,
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because assembly is one of those rights that flows from freedom of religion and free thought,
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You're allowed to have those things, but also gather together with like-minded people.
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So the B.C. government is just picking and choosing which rights it wants to protect.
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Well, and that was my big question about the case that went to Supreme Court,
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Three of the plaintiffs were churches in the Fraser Valley area that wanted the right to be open,
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and one was a protester who had received fines,
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and he wanted the right to, you know, peacefully protest.
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And the judge basically said, okay, yeah, we recognize the right to peacefully protest,
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but then ruled the same way as the public health office when it came to the churches.
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It reminds me of Pilate, because if you read his statement or you followed it,
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he didn't really deny that there wasn't an infringement,
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but he kind of washed his hands of the situation.
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And what that says to me is he basically just ruled in the fashion that our public health office
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was already saying, because Dr. Bonnie Henry had already said about a week or so earlier
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that she recognizes the right for people to peacefully protest,
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but of course she did not recognize, you know, the same for the churches.
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And Vancouver, there are so many protests here.
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Like, I don't know if it's the same everywhere else,
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but there are protests for every single cause you can think of
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that happen at the exact same time every single weekend.
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So I don't know if that's part of it, because it would,
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I mean, we saw the hypocrisy in Ontario and things like that,
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but I think they'd have a really tough time picking and choosing here.
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Yeah, I think that, you know, it's my experience looking at BC from the outside
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that you do have a lot of like far left-wing protests there all the time.
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You protest all the good things that make the world go around there.
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And I think the government would probably lose a lot of support
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if they started cracking down on the ability of people to worship at the Church of Gaia
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and Mother Earth as opposed to the Church of God.
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What is interesting, though, is even though we're one of the, like,
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we have that case that set precedent and it did not work in the Church's favor over here,
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we've got to give, you know, some credit to our police out here
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because, you know, the churches are still open.
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And as far as I'm, as far as I know, only two have been fined since that case.
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And it's not like every Sunday they're being fined.
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And the police are not going there every Sunday.
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You know, it's very spaced out and they seem to be using their discretion.
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we would see like an excuse to really hammer down on the Church,
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I never thought that the Calgary City Police would be some of the worst
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They've arrested more pastors down there than anybody else.
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Now, I wanted to move on to something else that you're working on
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And that is untangling all these publication bans in British Columbia
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surrounding, really, I think the issue is less about protecting the child
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but more about protecting the identity of the very sinister,
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in my opinion, doctors involved in all of this.
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You're working on untangling the publication ban surrounding a child
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that was medically transitioned against the wishes of her father.
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Probably going to get kicked off of multiple platforms for misgendering there.
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But regardless, this is a paywall and it's fine.
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Or for breaching accidentally the publication ban.
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It's hard to talk about this report legally, right?
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And you're trying to make it easier for everybody to not just talk about it
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because it's almost impossible to talk about it,
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but to actually get some information about what has really happened here.
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Because a lot of this, like the horse is already out of the barn on this issue.
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We can't undo a lot of the things that have happened here.
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But at least if we could peel away these layers upon layers of publication bans,
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maybe, you know, sunlight is the best disinfectant
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and maybe we can prevent what has transpired here
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from happening to another child and another family.
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and then he was sort of gagged by all of these bans
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and got six months in prison or sentenced to six months,
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But also another situation where these publication bans came up
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her child was scheduled to have a double mastectomy.
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as we try to bring the other side of the story,
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they do a little piece and don't really follow it much,
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is that, you know, we're subject to these same bans.
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putting the green light for kids to be able to do this
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And, you know, just the ability to kind of explain,
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you know, maybe why the father took the stand that he did,
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why he believes it was rapid onset gender dysphoria.
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Here I am trying to follow the rules and doing my best,
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And there were so many issued at different times
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It's been a mess the way that these bans have been passed,
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in the sense that because there were so many breaches
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on these bans, like, we're going in with clean hands.
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But, you know, because the father did a lot of breaching
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and there's some publications that weren't bound by the bans
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but there is some information that could identify the child
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So it's quite a challenge to go at the bans themselves.
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if we can make anything easier for freedom of press
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and for people to be able to get the other side of the story
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these areas where, you know, doctors are hiding or whatever,
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And the attorney general is acknowledging that, you know,
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some of this is a mess the way that it's been done.
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Because, I mean, I watch all of your videos as they go up
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and reporting that you've already done on this?
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And more importantly, help us cover the legal costs
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no, we're not curious at all about any of this stuff.
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that we didn't even know what we were getting into.
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So, and there's been constant negotiations back and forth
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So it's quite a costly thing that we're trying to do here
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And if you want to search and find the stories,
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I think if you do that, you should find all of them.
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You've done your very best to abide by these publication bans,
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because we don't think that doctors should be allowed
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But you've done your very best to abide by them,
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because I think, and I think you think the same way,
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not only is the family a victim here, like the dad,
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but the child is the first biggest victim in all of this.
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And the international media aren't bound by these things.
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because you're doing your best to follow the law
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Or even the stress of having to defend ourselves.
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But thankfully, we have such amazing supporters
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I wanted to ask you about your latest campaign.
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And I think this is one that is really pernicious
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I think every government just about is guilty of it,
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And that is the silencing of medical professionals,
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and you're trying to do your best to help them.