Media Party's “high tech lynching” of a Catholic teenager backfires — but you could be their next target
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Summary
A Canadian teenager was heckled by a crowd of white people wearing "Make America Great Again" hats after the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C. on Friday. The heckling was directed at a Native American elder who was wearing one of Donald Trump's iconic red hats.
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Tonight, let me show you the high-tech lynching of a teenager at the hands of the media party.
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It's January 21, and this is The Answer LeVance Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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So, I was looking at Twitter on the weekend, which I do too much, and I saw this tweet on the CBC.
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It has since been deleted, but someone took a screenshot of it.
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Video shows youth standing extremely close to elderly man while others laugh.
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And as you can see at the bottom there, you can see the actual headline of the story.
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Is U.S. Diocese Investigating After Students Mock Indigenous Demonstrator CBC News?
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Why is Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster that we're all forced to spend $1.5 billion a year on in-tax money in Canada,
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Why is it covering a weird U.S. story like this?
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My second reaction, probably even before I read the words itself, was,
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Ha! Obviously, this is an attack on Donald Trump, since you'll notice that kid was wearing one of Donald Trump's iconic red hats,
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So, I guess that answered my first question, why are Trudeau's government journalists reporting on this?
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Just because they hate Donald Trump and his supporters, and they thought they caught one doing something bad.
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Is the problem that he was standing extremely close to someone?
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That's when men sit with their knees a bit apart on the subway.
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But this kid in the news was a close stander, which is obviously so much worse.
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But apparently other people around him laughed.
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Now, the CBC put this on their national news all weekend, I should tell you.
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They said that teenager was mocking this elder in a racist way.
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Our Canadian media party so desperately wants to be accepted by the cool kids in the U.S.
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So, it's always trying to keep up with their latest anti-Trump fashion down there, which
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is why the CBC is covering some teenager from Kentucky smiling so mockingly in Washington,
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But they were just trying to keep up with the Trump derangement syndrome patient zero,
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They said, video shows a crowd of teenagers wearing Make America Great Again hats taunting
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a Native American elder after Friday's Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial.
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So, the man that boy is harassing in the video is Nathan, and he's a veteran.
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So, that kid, the evil smiler and close stander, his name is Nick Sandman, by the way, and he
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Now, maybe we just didn't see the video of the harassment.
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We all saw that still photo, but Alyssa Milano said there was harassment.
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Now, I think she lives in Hollywood, but she just sort of knew in her bones.
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You know, when I was there, I was singing, and I heard them saying,
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You know, we're not supposed to have walls here.
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So that was the taunt, according to Alyssa Milano.
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Now, that is a weird taunt to say to a native Indian, of all people.
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He was taunted, and he just told you what he was taunted by.
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And the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, so you can trust him.
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But we can trust him, because he doesn't have an agenda.
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Anyway, so what does Jeff Bezos' Washington Post have to say about this?
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Unlike Alyssa Milano, they actually are based in Washington, so maybe they know.
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Surrounding him are a throng of young, mostly white, gross, teenage boys,
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Okay, we all know that, but here's the good stuff.
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One stood about a foot from the drummer's face, wearing a relentless smirk.
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But when they are relentless, that is the worst.
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Okay, let me quote some more from the Bezos Washington Post.
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First, in an interview Saturday, Phillips, that's the elder, 64, said he felt threatened
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by the teens, and that they swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping
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Being swarmed by young men, that is awful, and he felt threatened.
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Remember, it was getting ugly, and I was thinking, I've got to find myself an exit out of this
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situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial, Phillips recalled.
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I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way, and we were at an impasse.
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He just blocked my way and wouldn't allow me to retreat.
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He tried to leave, tried to retreat, but that smirker, that relentless smirker blocked
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Nathan Phillips is the elder who was smirked at, so Nick was blocking him.
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I mean, and what's worse, as you heard, these kids were white, gross, and the Washington Post
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And worse yet, triple gross, they were in town for the giant March for Life.
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There's more than 100,000 people at the March for Life this year.
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By contrast, there were fewer than 10,000 people at this year's Feminist Women's March.
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Funny, you'd think it was the other way around, given how much coverage each of the protests
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But what a great way for the media to end that weekend.
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It let them avoid talking about the March for Life.
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Instead, they were talking about the Indigenous March or something.
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It let them repudiate the morality of the March for Life.
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And it let the media switch the subject from their own conduct.
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They had been salivating all week over a story on BuzzFeed that claimed they had seen documentary
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proof leaked to them by Robert Mueller's special counsel team that Donald Trump asked
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So the media ran so hard with that scoop, but it was all made up.
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And Mueller's own office made a rare public statement saying it was all made up after they
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So this relentless smirker, extreme close-stander story was the perfect end for a bad week for
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Now, here's a New York Times contributor calling the kids Nazi youth.
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She deleted this tweet, but not before it was photographed, as you can see.
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Here's Reza Aslan, a regular CNN contributor, Muslim activist, saying the kid really has
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Here's Kathy Griffin, the ex-comedian, calling for people to dox.
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That means to research all their personal details and publish them online, their address,
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phone number, parents' information, siblings, what their parents, where they work.
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But hey, that kid was obviously a Trump supporter, so an exception can be made.
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I mean, look at that weird language again at the CBC.
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But the kid in question, Nick Sandman, that's his name, he's a teenager, he just stood still.
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I think he tried to smile or smirked relentlessly, if you believe the Washington Post.
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The guy who was standing extremely close was actually that elder, Nathan Phillips, with the drum.
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Now, I'm going to speed it up in the middle so you don't have to watch all four minutes.
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But I'm going to play the first part and the last part in real time.
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So close that the boy could surely feel Nathan Phillips' breath on his face.
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Phillips, the Indian activist, actually touches the boy several times.
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Now, you can see the other boys were jumping around a little bit, hooting a bit, hey, oh!
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I don't know, because they're teenage boys, and there's this drummer guy,
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and they're just standing around, and they don't really know what to do or say.
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Here, I'm going to play the next part, uh, speed it up.
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Just so you can see that it was that same thing for minutes and minutes and minutes straight.
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Just an old man banging a drum right in a teenager's face.
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Touching him, invading his personal space, and the kid was just smiling.
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Okay, now, um, it just went on like that, and you can see it was the same as what I showed you before, and then someone chimed in.
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It was someone who came with the elder drum banger, um, and she swears at the kids, because they're just standing there, and that one kid, Nick Sandman, is just standing there smiling.
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Uh, and then this woman who came with the elder, drum banger, um, and she swears at the kids, because they're just standing there, and that one kid, Nick Sandman, is just standing there smiling.
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Uh, and then this woman who came with the elder, swears at them, you'll hear the swear.
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Uh, they don't swear back, they don't take the bait.
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Just, just watch a bit, I just want to show you this.
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You guys are acting like a mob, that's what's going on.
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Um, so, all that's happening is that he's drumming, he's sort of chanting a bit, and that one kid was dancing a bit,
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um, and I, and I say the woman with the nose ring, she's so obviously stylistically, aesthetically different from these teenage boys.
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Yeah, I, I don't know if there's a mob, and, uh, as is evident to you right now, that drummer could have left any time.
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Um, I don't know if you saw when I ended the screen, there was a, a white leftist photographer who came with Nathan Phillips, the elder, and the photographer was about to take a shot, and there was sort of that team, right, the, the nose ring woman.
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Um, and I just remember what Nathan Phillips, the elder, said.
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He, he said that, uh, remember that first video that Alyssa Milano put up?
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He said he was scared, he said that to the Washington Post.
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He said, he said they trapped him, his way was blocked.
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Okay, now watch this tape to the end, from where the white photographer who came with Nathan Phillips took the photo, to the end, and then we'll freeze it there.
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do you see that look at that you see that big bright light there that's a professional camera
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light there's other professional cameras there's little cell phones but there was a team of
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cameramen there so this whole video this whole news story was not some organic moment it was a
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setup this was a made for tv moment oh and nathan phillips he seems to do this a lot he seems to
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have a lot of planned meetups with kids and then accuses them of racism here's a story about him
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last year in michigan it gets around a bit now the media narrative over the weekend was that
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nathan phillips is a vietnam veteran oh my god that's just the icing on the cake now i don't know
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maybe he is but i'm not sure you i read to you that he's 64 years old i'm not an expert in the
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vietnam war but i know when it ended and i i think he's too young to be a vietnam i think he was born
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one year too young one year too late to be conscripted to conscripted in a vietnam by that
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point they were wrapping it up they stopped conscription i guess he could have volunteered
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in the war's final year maybe when he was a 17 year old i'm not sure though if he ever actually
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says he's a vietnam war veteran as in someone who used to serve here's how he phrased it when he spoke
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to vogue magazine when he was up in north dakota doing his same shtick protesting an oil pipeline
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last year he said you know i'm from vietnam times i'm what they call a recon ranger
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i'm from vietnam times what does that mean he says that phrase from time to time he doesn't say
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vietnam veteran that says a special meaning he says i'm a vietnam era veteran so you're a veteran of the
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war or veteran of the era i don't know i don't know if it's a lie and i'm not really being a truther
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here i'm just saying i think this guy's a bs-er um because you know that part about him saying they
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were calling for a wall well you said that you saw that's not true they were cheering and hooting
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and being very polite and you you saw him tell the washington post that he was abused and you saw
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him say on his video circulated by alissa milano that he was he was worried and he and all these
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things they were saying he couldn't get away well those were all lies okay now watch this two minute
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video it's a little grainier and it's a little rougher and they're swearing it there's racial
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swearing there's racist swearing here it's not from these kids it's from another group allied with
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nathan phillips the elder it's a group of black extremists who call them call themselves black
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israelites they're not jews though they're something i don't know listen to their shocking racism
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against whites against that one black student we saw dancing i think they say something at about a
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wall okay now i'm going to roll two minutes here because i want to show you what happened this
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happened right before nathan phillips went up to the white kids that he called racist this is two
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minutes lots of swearing and you'll notice this was before the drumming take a look thank god i'm warning
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you nigga i'm warning you nigga that's right i'm not i'm not shut your big ass talk speak like that
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to your parents well then speak like that to them let me ask you something let me hold on let me ask
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them something let me ask them something why you ain't you got all these dirty ass crackers behind you
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with a red with a red make america great hat again on and your coon ass you want to fight your
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brothers you got all these racist bastards with red you nigga you nigga with all these crackers with
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with racist ass make america great hats on and you're going to talk about you're going to get violent
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with us get your get your old uncle tom ass out of here get your uncle tom ass out of here get your
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leave him alone brother he he he trying to make a show now
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you got your five minutes of fame look at all these damn peckerwoods this is what the lord is
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coming for all these peckerwoods with murka make america great this nigga want to talk that garbage
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about nigga what you want to do look all these dusty ass crackers with that racist garbage on look
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at these dirty ass crackers can't stand in the damn sun for five minutes
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why you don't build that wall why you don't build that wall you can't stand in the damn sun
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let me ask you something let me ask y'all something y'all want to build a wall for mexico
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when's the last time you ever seen a mexican a hispanic a native american or a negro shoot up a school
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look at the ass they have scattered off of that they have scattered off of that
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yeah they look like they're about to shoot up look at the ass israel they have gone off of that
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look at the mob of these dirty animals they're gone that's how you dismiss that that's right
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the truth's gonna be told whether y'all want to hear it or not
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so you've got a group of mainly white teenagers just standing there and they're kids
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i'll get back to what they were doing there in a moment but they were being sworn at abusively by
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black activists calling themselves black israel black israelites all that swearing the use of the
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n-word and other racial swears against whites was by a black activist so he was directing that vitriol
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at the one black kid who you saw later on dancing so that horrendous vomit of verbal assault is what was right before
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nathan phillips the vietnam era hero the veteran saint and truth teller
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and he walks up to them in the middle of this rant and i'm going to play this clip so
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then nathan phillips walks up and we ended with the drumming so we actually showed you things
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out of order here is nathan phillips walking up to the white kids after the white kids had been abused
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see how much they respect you israel look all of all these americans go ahead what you say
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that's right here come gad here come gad here come gad look look at our make america greater get hats
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look at the hats look at the hats we ain't taking look we not taking look at gad that's right gad look at gad
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yeah y'all better not touch him y'all better not touch him
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gad gad gad put his put that thing down don't it gad gad did he calm all these spirits right down
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gad gad serious with it ain't gad serious with it he calm all these spirits right there he calm all these spirits down
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gad gad all these spirits is getting demonic he calm all that down
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gad gad gad getting demonic gad can calm all these spirits down
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would they let make america great again hat serious mockery look at that
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that's what he said that's what the washington post said that's what new york times said that's what
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cnn said i i thought they taunted him i thought they goaded him i thought they attacked him i thought they wouldn't let him go
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i thought they were racist i thought they shouted about the wall
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um the weird comments in fact came from the black activists who by the end there noted that they were singing along with him but what if all you knew was what the cbc and cnn and jeff bezos's washington post said even the school denounced its own kids i went to their website the coming in catholic high school and the first thing you see is a message from the diocese of
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you from it, because it explains everything, all the different things we've seen. Ready?
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He said, I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln
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Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me.
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I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protester. I arrived at
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the Lincoln Memorial at 4.30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5.30 p.m. when our buses were due to
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leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally
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and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing. When we arrived, we noticed four
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African-American protesters who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what
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they were protesting and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults
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at our school group. The protesters said hateful things. They called us racists, bigots, white
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crackers, faggots, and incest kids. They also taunted an African-American student from my school
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by telling him that we would harvest his organs. I have no idea what that insult means but it was
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startling to hear. Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in
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our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants
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to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used
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as sporting events. They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high
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school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have done that
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without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group. At no time did I hear
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any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any
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students chant build the wall or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary
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are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to drown out the hateful comments that
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were being shouted at us by the protesters. After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American
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protesters, who I hadn't previously noticed, approached our group. The Native American
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protesters had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with a camera. The protester
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everyone had seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for
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him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming
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within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face. I never interacted
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with these protesters. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive
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moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been
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yelled at by another group of protesters, and when the second group approached, I was worried that
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the situation was getting out of control, where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers.
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I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation.
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I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of
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teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of
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hand. It goes on and on, so many details, and you saw the corroborating video for all of it, didn't you?
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What do you think happened here? Do you think that silent kid was racist? Do you think he was smirking
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racistly? Do you think he was taunting the man with the drum, threatening him? Do you think these kids
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did anything more than be a bit boisterous? Would you have been so calm in the face of racial slurs
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being thrown at you by the black extremists, even against a fellow African American? Would you have been
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so calm if someone walked up to you within an inch of your face and banged a drum in your face for five
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minutes? I would not have been so calm, smiling and praying. You know, this is a version of what
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they did to Brett Kavanaugh. This is what they did to an anonymous kid from Kentucky. This is what
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they'll do to you. And by they, I don't just mean the lying thugs at the Lincoln Memorial. I mean the
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lying thugs in the mainstream media, including the lying thugs in our own Canadian media, including and
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Welcome back. Well, I had my first taste of censorship a dozen years ago when I republished
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the Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a magazine I published called the Western
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Standard. The censorship came from the government, one of their human rights commissions. I was
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subjected to a 900-day investigation, interrogation, and prosecution that was only abandoned when public
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reaction turned hostile to the commissions. Well, today, censorship is done much more skillfully
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than through ham-fisted government bureaucrats. It's done by the mean girls in Silicon Valley. And by
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that, I mean unknown, unaccountable, opaque corporate bureaucrats responding to stimulus
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from activist journalists. So while I despised every moment of my own prosecution, at least there were
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some rules, some transparency, some form of justice. Not so in censorship today. And I say all that as a
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preamble to our next guest. You've met him before. He goes by the online nickname, Count Dankula. As you
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can tell even by that name, he's got a great sense of humor. His real name is Mark Meakin. And he is a YouTube
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broadcaster from Scotland. He joins us now via Skype. Mark, great to see you again. Thanks very much for
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being here. Thanks very much, man. It's good to be back. I love that Scottish accent. And I know most
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Canadians will find it like listening to their grandparents. So many Canadians trace their roots
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back to Scotland. We think of the United Kingdom, of which Scotland is a part, as the crucible from which
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free speech emerged. Aereo Pagetica, John Milton, even more fundamental notions of rule of law, like
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the Magna Carta. Would you say that the United Kingdom is still a land of freedom of speech?
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No, it's definitely not. We're definitely having a sort of a case of reverse McCarthyism,
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as it's being called, where people who are seen to have, you know, libertarian or classical liberal or
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conservative views often have the media and the general population coming after them. And the
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general population are that way because they've just been completely indoctrinated by the media.
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It's just that everyone sort of has the ethos of right wing bad, right wing bad. And so they just
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completely come after you any chance that they get, even though we're the ones that mostly advocate for
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freedom. So it's quite surprising, you know, how effective that the media have been trying to stifle such
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opinions. Yeah, you know, it's funny, I mentioned my own example a dozen years ago, I should tell
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you, Mark, that back then, the vast majority of journalists, even self-described liberal journalists
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in Canada, were on my side. Today, I know that wouldn't be the case. And let me get to your news.
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And it was this story in BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is an online clickbait channel. And it's written by a
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journalist named Mark DiStefano. It was actually about our mutual friend, Tommy Robinson. I'll read
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the headline. YouTube says Tommy Robinson will no longer be able to make money from his videos.
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And then the sub headline is we have suspended ads on Tommy Robinson YouTube channel as it breaches our
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advertising policies, a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. It seems to me, Mark, that what happens is you
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have an activist journalist from some left wing clickbait site like BuzzFeed, who works with YouTube or
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Twitter or PayPal or Facebook, and calls them up in a really friendly way, but also a slightly threatening
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way and says, oh, I see Tommy's still there. Well, what about Mark Meek? And are you okay with this
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stuff? I'm writing a report. You better give me a good answer. I'm going to press in an hour. You got
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to tell me in an hour is Count Dankula, Mark Meek, and still going to get ads on your channel? Because
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boy, I sure wouldn't want to write that story. And so YouTube reacts. And it's, it's a mob forming.
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It's not journalism. It's stimulating a particular story. That's my thesis. What do you think?
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Oh, no, I definitely believe that. As far as, because obviously, in order for them to get the
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comments from YouTube, he had to liaise directly with them. And obviously, during the conversation,
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I'm pretty certain that my name must have come up because the guy obviously intended to insert me
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in the article, which is why he wrote about me in the article. And he just directly called me far
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right. Because that's just what they do. Lies is all they have. And so obviously, a YouTuber a bit,
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you know, they're very, very skittish, especially since the whole adpocalypse,
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especially when it comes to the media sniffing around about what certain channels have ads
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running on it. So I've obviously been mentioned at some point during Mark DeStefano's conversation
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with YouTube. And then in his article, he calls me far right. So obviously, YouTube have just decided
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to err on the side of caution and just demonetise every single video on my channel. And the only way
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that I found out about it was when Mark DeStefano himself DM'd me asking about the monetisation
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on my channel. I just thought, that's a little bit strange. Why is he asking me about that?
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So I went in to check. And sure enough, every single video was demonetised. So basically,
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this BuzzFeed journalist knew about my channel's demonetisation before I even did. And apparently,
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I'm supposed to sit there and not think there's some kind of connection here.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, and simply from a privacy point of view, that would be like someone calling
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you up and saying, Oh, hi, I've heard you've been evicted from your apartment. Well, how would you
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possibly know that? Unless my landlord told you about like before you like, I mean, that's an extreme
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example. But really, if they can shut off your livelihood, making money from YouTube videos,
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and if they can shut off your banking, for example, our friend Tommy Robinson had his PayPal account
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severed for similar reasons. Why couldn't they kick someone out of an apartment? Why couldn't they call
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up your landlord and say, Oh, you know who Mark Meekin is, he goes by the online name Count Dankula.
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Is that really the kind of tenant you want? And if it was a local mom and pop kind of tenant,
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they might not care. But if it was a corporate tenant, they say, Oh, well, you're obviously a
00:38:06.500
racist company. Should we tell other prospective tenants that you're a racist? Like, I could
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absolutely see they go for social media, they go for demonetization, they try and get, why wouldn't
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they be able to kick you out of your apartment?
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Well, that's the path we're going down. Like, you've seen it as well. Like, see, for example,
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if you have the wrong opinions, you know, apparently, being a straightforward libertarian that just
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wants everyone to be free and live and let live, makes you a Nazi, apparently, even having,
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even having, you know, a basic political stance like that, I feel a pretty good one. People will
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try and get you to lose your job, lose your income, not be able to get another job. I mean,
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there was even, I can't remember her name. I feel I'm sorry that I'm not able to remember her name.
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But I believe that there was a woman who was trying to find an apartment in Washington. And as soon as
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everybody found that she was Republican, Trump supporter, places were denying her, basically,
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a place to stay. So that's just a sign of that's the path that we are starting to go down. If you
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have the wrong opinion, people will seek to deny basic amenities and services to you until you change
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your mind. And, but apparently people like us are the fascists.
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Yeah, it's so odd, because of course, in the past, there were some restrictive covenants in some housing
00:39:22.180
developments, no Jews, no blacks. And that actually, that's not just apocryphal, that actually would be
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written on the deeds, the title deeds of the property. Even some country clubs, it was Donald
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Trump, if I recall, who integrated the Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida. They had a no Jews policy.
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So those things really did exist. Historically, they were blamed on the right wing. I don't know
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if that's true. I know that the Democrats were the party of slavery and Republicans were the party of
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Lincoln. But it's so weird that the people trying to get you blacklisted, blackballed, fired,
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demonetized. And yeah, in the case of that woman, Pardes Saleh, I know what you're talking about,
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literally barring her from an apartment. Let me ask you, have you had any contact with YouTube
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I got an automated response. They told me that they decided to demonetize my channel because videos
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that I uploaded were not advertiser friendly. Now, the way, because I'm already a controversial figure,
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as I'm often called, whenever I upload any type of video, no matter what it is, it always comes up
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that I need to submit it for a manual review if I want ads on it. And so that's what I did each and
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every time. And I got a lot of videos monetized. So what that means is I submitted it for manual review.
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A human being at YouTube watched the video and decided that this video was suitable for advertisers.
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So basically, there are videos on my channel that do meet the criteria. There was a lot of them,
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a lot of them that I was earning money from. But YouTube have decided to just basically reverse
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those decisions, even though, you know, several members of staff at YouTube and YouTube themselves
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acknowledged that my videos did meet the criteria for ads. They're now trying to dial back on that and
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suddenly say, Oh, no, they don't. And demonetize my entire channel, even though they already said
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they were. And it's all linked to this article, I believe. Yeah. So basically, it's a case of I
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haven't broken the rules. YouTube are just trying to say that I have to save its own skin.
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Yeah. And I don't think it's a coincidence that you and Tommy were demonetized on exactly
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the same day. Now you have 400,000 followers on YouTube. And I don't know how many Tommy has.
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I think it's a little bit less. That's a lot like in the I mean, there are some people,
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some huge world famous YouTubers, ones named PewDiePie, who has, you know, coming up on 100 million,
00:41:56.320
frankly, I think he's at 80 million. You're not in that league, but you would be with 400,000 followers,
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you would be in the top point zero zero one percent. No, absolutely. But I don't think YouTube would
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blink or hesitate for a second at shutting you off and shutting Tommy Robinson off. And frankly,
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shutting us off. I think they just are so risk averse, and their own instincts are so left wing,
00:42:27.240
that they regard you and Tommy and us and frankly, even PewDiePie with his 80 million followers. I think
00:42:33.140
they regard them as a pain in the neck. And even if they lost a few percent of their revenue, I think
00:42:39.780
just for social aesthetic reasons, they would be happy to get rid of every single conservative,
00:42:44.800
libertarian, right wing or whatever. Oh, they would in a second. You know, I fully believe that
00:42:50.820
if someone if the people at YouTube had the whole Thanos glove, they would they would click their
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fingers and get rid of us. They absolutely would. And it's not even just YouTube themselves. YouTube
00:43:00.400
are also getting pressure from government bodies to de-platform certain elements of the website.
00:43:05.840
And especially in the UK, there's actually televised interviews with YouTube representatives where
00:43:10.880
certain YouTubers get named outright, or they just use the term right wing and extremist channels,
00:43:17.100
and they pressure YouTube in order to either completely ban them in the UK or remove them
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from the website entirely. So it's not even just YouTube themselves. There is also government
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pressure. And, you know, governments that try to stifle certain types of political ideologies and
00:43:32.320
certain opinions, you know, that that certainly makes a man worried when a government is trying to do
00:43:38.040
that. Yeah. Well, what's how's this going to end? Because I mean, let me take another example of a
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troublemaking Brit. And you surely know who I mean. His name is Milo Yiannopoulos. I think you both spoke
00:43:53.460
at the same day for Freedom Rally last year in in London. Milo's a handful. He's over the top.
00:44:01.200
He's even more dramatic and colorful than you are. I think you might even acknowledge that and
00:44:07.700
you're both characters. Milo used to be huge on Twitter, huge on Facebook, huge on YouTube. And
00:44:14.880
he was deleted from several of those forums. I think he still has some outlet somewhere. I think
00:44:22.320
he's still on YouTube, actually. But he's but, you know, one day, someone's gone. And you don't know
00:44:28.840
where to find Gavin McInnes has been unpersoned. You can't find him anymore. And he's still alive. I mean,
00:44:35.280
I talk to him sometimes on the phone. But it would be like taking away someone's address and phone
00:44:42.700
number in the 20th century. How do you even know where they are unless you can bump into them on
00:44:47.900
the street? I think that really is unpersoning someone. And it's a terrible amount of power to
00:44:54.000
give to the to this government bureaucracy that, as you point out, is merging. Sorry, the corporate
00:44:59.920
bureaucracy that, as you point out, is merging with the government bureaucracy. How is this going to
00:45:04.880
end? It's either going to be a case of everyone just rolls over and accepts it and we just fall
00:45:11.260
into complete tyranny where only one political ideology is accepted. We're essentially going
00:45:17.440
to become China, except our government's doing it with a nice, friendly smile on their face instead.
00:45:22.320
Or people are going to get really, really angry and start to push back. The only way to really,
00:45:28.400
you know, the government, the only way to really get to the government is to speak with your vote.
00:45:32.560
That's the best way to get to the government. The best way to get to corporations is to speak with
00:45:36.420
your wallet. Unfortunately, YouTube and, you know, Google have a huge monopoly on the online discourse.
00:45:43.080
The vast majority of online discourse nowadays takes place online as well as commerce. And so they,
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and they control a massive amount of it. Personally, I feel we should have an internet bill of rights.
00:45:53.420
You know, I'm against the government interfering with, you know, what a private company can and cannot
00:45:59.740
do. But when this company controls so much of the worldwide discourse and therefore, you know,
00:46:05.340
can influence public opinion, I mean, this is something that can influence the outcome of an election.
00:46:10.300
I don't believe a private company should have that kind of power. And so I believe that if we had
00:46:15.020
something along the lines of an internet bill of rights, where, you know, certain ideologies and
00:46:19.340
opinions cannot be stifled or infringed upon, you know, it would be, it would be nice if, you know,
00:46:24.060
the constitutional freedoms could also carry into the online world because the online world is where
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a lot of people spend most of their time and do most of our talking. So that's a factor that needs
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to be taken into consideration whenever you think about what a private company should and should not
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be able to do. You know, you just made me think of some of those company towns, these coal mining
00:46:45.420
towns or whatnot, where the entire town was owned by the company and all the rules and the laws and
00:46:52.060
company police and the company store. And when you have a corporation that owns everything, including
00:46:59.660
the law, including the sidewalks, there's room for corruption just as much as if it's owned by,
00:47:05.580
run by politicians. Mark Meekin, what a pleasure to catch up with you. Give us 30 seconds on what
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you're doing tomorrow. I understand that you have an appeal or an appeal seeking an appeal,
00:47:19.420
if I've got it right. I don't know my Scottish law regarding your conviction for making a bad joke
00:47:25.340
on YouTube a couple of years ago. What's going on in Edinburgh tomorrow? Basically, we're going to be
00:47:32.220
going to the court and it is an appeal for an appeal. And it's this old law called nobile afficuum,
00:47:37.980
where basically we've had an appeal denied. So we now go to some senior judges and we basically say
00:47:43.180
to them, look, we are getting screwed over. Here is all the evidence why. And then they would review
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all of the information and then decide whether or not I would get my appeal. So yeah, you were right.
00:47:53.500
It's an appeal to get an appeal. That's the stage we're at right now.
00:47:58.060
So that's, is that an ancient Scottish legal tradition? Some, some, so it's, it's not a
00:48:03.900
formal appeal itself. It's sort of asking some judges for a second look or a third look. It feels
00:48:08.780
like an ancient Scottish thing. Or am I just hoping that your answer is yes, because I love
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ancient Scottish things. It comes from Roman law. Yeah. Oh, really? Hence the Latin name.
00:48:19.820
Yeah. Well, listen, we wish you good luck on that. And, and, you know, I know it's an uphill battle,
00:48:25.260
but I know that you have an enormous number of supporters around the world, even if they don't
00:48:29.660
particularly support your content, they support your right to have your content. And you are
00:48:37.100
an important test case in the battle for freedom. I appreciate you joining us today on the eve of your,
00:48:41.500
of your appeal for an appeal. Thanks very much, Brian. Cheers.
00:48:45.580
Thanks and good luck. Well, there you have it. That's Mark Meekin, also known as Count Dankula. He's
00:48:51.820
a YouTube personality who is battling for free speech against the government, but also against
00:48:57.500
YouTube. And I think importantly, against left-wing advocacy journalists. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:49:04.780
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about a Muslim gang attacking gay men with acid in London.
00:49:23.660
Ezra Levant tears it up again. Media fake news fails to report a hate crime because it was committed by
00:49:29.100
members of the protected religion of peace. Yeah, listen, I am sure there is gay bashing. Like,
00:49:34.280
that's, you know, you hear gay bashing and it, it, it often refers to just verbal rhetorical insults.
00:49:39.640
This was actually bashing gays and then throwing acid in their face. Um, where's the news coverage?
00:49:44.920
Well, because it was a Turkish gang. You can't talk about Muslims like that.
00:49:51.640
Uh, now, shortly after the show was recorded on Friday, the Hackney Gazette published an editorial
00:49:57.080
with the headline, Editor's Comment, Islamophobic Reaction to Homophobic Acid Attack is Ignorant and Depressing.
00:50:04.040
So, um, the Hackney Gazette did not like the reaction to their story. Uh, here's some quotes
00:50:09.400
I'd have thought beating up innocent strangers and chucking corrosive fluid in their faces while
00:50:15.160
shouting homophobic abuse would be reason enough to condemn the men jailed yesterday for the attack
00:50:19.700
in Dalston. But to read the comments we've received on social media this week, you'd think the real crime
00:50:23.640
they committed was, er, having Islamic names. It's been a lot of speculative Islamophobia.
00:50:28.520
No, no, I don't, I don't think that's why. I think it's because, um, Islam is anti-gay. It's homophobic.
00:50:41.640
I don't even think that's controversial to say. And these Turkish gang members camped out and were
00:50:50.040
prepared with acid. And just like the media went crazy over some teenagers wearing Make America Great
00:50:58.680
Again hats who happened to be from a Catholic school. And that turned into a national, international news
00:51:04.840
story. The fact that the gay bashers in Hackney were Muslim is precisely why no one talked about it.
00:51:12.440
The Hackney Gazette should never have even talked about it. They should have been like the BBC.
00:51:17.000
Just don't even mention it. Because we, once we knew the names, we knew what was going on there. Just
00:51:22.520
like we know, as Majid Nawaz of the Quilliam Foundation knows and says that the vast majority of
00:51:29.080
rape gangs in the United Kingdom of Pakistani Muslim. And these Turkish Muslims beat up gays
00:51:35.640
because they're Muslim and they don't like gays. I'm sorry. I'm sorry if you don't like the facts.
00:51:40.760
That's what our friend Gavin McInnes called hate, calls hate facts. You can hate them,
00:51:48.040
On Rachel Notley trying to kill the rebel, Carol writes,
00:51:50.920
contribution made because it is again a direct attack on our rights and freedoms.
00:51:54.280
Better to die standing than to live on your knees. Thank you, Carol. Thank you for your support.
00:51:59.960
I'm pleased with the support we've received. And I was actually pleasantly surprised to see news
00:52:05.240
coverage in Post Media and even on the CBC and even the Toronto Star that I would call fair,
00:52:12.200
which is a shock for us. Who knows? Maybe there's a drop of vestigial love for freedom of speech left
00:52:17.640
in Canada. We'll find out soon enough. Deborah writes, choosing to fight is the only choice you
00:52:23.800
could have made. I still remember when the lights went out at the Sun News Network and I don't want
00:52:27.240
to see that happen with the rebel. Well, thank you so much and neither do I. And this was a risk
00:52:32.200
because, of course, if we paid the $5,500 and signed a compliance agreement and agreed not to do
00:52:36.760
anything like that again, we'd be fine. We'd be out $5,500, but we'd be safe by continuing to do what
00:52:43.000
we do. Not only do we have the certainty of paying our legal bills, which will be large,
00:52:46.840
but we risk larger fines. As I showed you, the fines for, I think I showed it to you,
00:52:54.360
the fines for a company like ours can be as high as $100,000 a pop. Obviously, one or two of those,
00:52:59.400
and we're just dead. So yeah, we're fighting. So far, I'm optimistic. I think the law is on our side,
00:53:06.600
the facts are on our side, and most importantly, our viewers are on our side.
00:53:11.400
Well, that's our story for today, folks. I appreciate you joining in. I'm quite upset and
00:53:16.200
disturbed by what I saw of that high schooler, that teenager, Nick Sandman, being just cut to
00:53:23.720
ribbons by the media on both sides of the border. What do you think? Let me know. Send me a letter.
00:53:27.320
Until tomorrow. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night,