Rebel News reporters assaulted, not protected by police — Why we need security more than ever
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Rebel News Plus is a new subscription service from Rebel Media. It's $8 a month, or $80 a year for the whole year, and includes access to all the latest news and notes from Rebel News plus. Today, Rebel News Plus subscribers get access to the newest episode of The Ezra Levant Show, where Ezra tells the story of the day Rebel News was kicked off of Toronto City Hall by Antifa protesters.
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Hello Rebels. Today I tell you the first part of a story. The second part is tomorrow. The first part today is
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we were kicked off of Toronto City Hall by a bunch of Antifa ruffians yesterday. So we went back again
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today with not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven professional
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security guards. How do you think that went? Well, I'll tell you a little bit.
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Uh, there's a lot of interesting footage. So I would invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel
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News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast. I want you to see what we saw with our
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eyes. If all you do is hear it, you'll just hear some shouting. We went down to this Antifa encampment
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in Toronto with a bit of muscle. I'll show you how that goes. And the rest of the story will be out
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tomorrow. Uh, to get the video form, go to rebelnews.com and click subscribe. It's just eight
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bucks a month or 80 bucks for the whole year. I hope you do. Thanks. Here's the podcast.
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Tonight, first Antifa protesters told our reporters to move. Then Toronto police did. What do you think
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we should do? It's June 24th and this is the Ezra Levant 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, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right
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I just got back to the studio. I was downtown all day. I haven't prepared a monologue as I
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normally do, but I have a different experience to share with you what happened today and what's
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been happening to us over the past few days. As you know, rebel reporters have sometimes been pushed
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and shoved by left-wing activists who don't like the fact that we tell the other side of the story.
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This goes back years, actually. Many of our staff have been punched or pushed. We make it a rule that
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we always go to the police to press charges and where we can, we file a civil suit. One of the worst
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moments in our company's history was when our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed was hit in the face by this thug
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named Dionne Buse outside the Alberta legislature at, believe it or not, a women's march. Remember this?
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I'm having a, I'm trying to have a conversation with you.
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Go away. Get out of my fucking face. I will break your camera. You don't have the right to.
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You don't have the right to film me everywhere you go.
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I find that, I found that absolutely atrocious. I found it even more atrocious that the NDP
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feminist activists sided with him and helped him to escape. Alas, he could not escape. Dionne Buse
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was convicted of a crime and we additionally sued him in civil court. That's what we do to people who
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touch our reporters. Sometimes we don't always catch them. We've had people attack many of our
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reporters over the years. Sometimes they just come right up and punch the camera like this one when
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our cameraman Efron and David Menzies were outside a hotel in Toronto.
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Oh, okay then. Would you like to come on camera and...
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No, I would not. I would like to go off our property right now. I'd like you to stop taking my picture.
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Hey, hey, excuse me. Take the picture. Take your picture.
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Hey, get your rebel crap news out of here right now.
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Sometimes the people attacking us are just plain old deranged, like Jonathan Yaniv and his kooky mum.
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Look at them attack David Menzies, including with a cane.
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Okay, that's the second shot. Did you see that, sir?
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You're lucky I don't beat up girls or fake girls.
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Please, I'm really hoping for the cops to come.
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In each of those cases, we have applied to the police department to take steps.
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But something deeply troubling has happened to our society in general the last month.
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All these things I've just listed for you, all these attacks on our people are individual,
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They're an agitated New Democrat activist like Dion Buse.
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Oh, yes, there's a pattern that the left feels comfortable punching the right in a way
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that a conservative would never do to a liberal journalist.
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I haven't heard of any other journalist in Canada ever being attacked on the job, except
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Antifa, the street thugs of the left, the paramilitary wing of the left-wing parties,
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In the United States, it's been positively deadly.
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But here in Canada, there's just lots of pushing and shoving.
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Our Antifa are a little bit cowardly, I suppose.
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Those are not quite as insane as they are in America, but they still punch, and they
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still hurt, and they would do much more if they could.
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We started seeing this, so we started to deploy private security guards.
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Now, whenever I mention this, people volunteer.
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I get emails every day because a lot of our rebel viewers are former police or people with
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I thank them for their offer, but I explain we absolutely need professional, licensed,
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insured security who are compliant with the laws and, frankly, who know what they're doing.
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Sometimes we just have big, burly guys who say, I'll protect you.
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I want someone who, if things go sideways, there's insurance over them.
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And the training includes when to leave, because sometimes people who want to be a volunteer
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bodyguard, well, sometimes they're actually looking for a fight.
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So we have taken to hiring professional bodyguards for our staff.
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When we sent Sheila Gunn-Reed out to cover Yaniv, the madman, we sent two bodyguards with
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And I'm glad we did, because look at this moment.
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Sheila's at the courthouse in Vancouver, Yaniv and his mom come barreling towards her,
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and the two bodyguards who are out of frame in the camera suddenly go, whoop, and form
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Nathan, are you going to plead guilty to assaulting my colleague, Kian Bexty?
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Are you going to plead guilty for assaulting my colleague, Kian Bexty?
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They were not in the story until, whoop, they just closed like a pair of doors and protected
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I'm sure if they didn't do that, Yaniv would have smashed her the same way he smashed David
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We have taken to hiring security guards all the time.
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We sent David, as you know, to Kingston, Ontario to watch as Canada's ragtag Antifa wanted to tear
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We had a professional security guard with him, but it still got pretty bad.
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What, you're going to threaten me by throwing an egg at me, sir?
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Oh, you're a tough guy behind that mask, aren't you?
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I think the tension between the two of them, it worked out just fine.
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David got the story he wanted, and he showed that he wasn't going to back down.
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But our security guard, I think, held David back a bit.
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And so I said to David, when he called me that day, I said, David, your next event, we're
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going to have two security guards, including one for your cameraman.
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You'll notice that the cameraman is often attacked, too.
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So we sent David and a cameraman and two security guards down to City Hall.
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And then we sent another journalist, Andrew, who's just joined our team, and a cameraman
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So we had a grand total of four security guards.
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And I was thinking to myself, we've got them very well covered.
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In fact, there was a moment of time when it was just one journalist and one cameraman.
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But what happened was, well, let me show you a little bit of what happened at Toronto City
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See, Toronto City Hall security ordered our private security guards off the property.
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They literally chased our cameraman, Mocha, around.
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Now, they didn't physically hurt them, but not for lack of trying.
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And all the while, Toronto City Hall was just fine with it.
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In fact, they ordered Mocha, our cameraman, off.
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Mocha had been chased around by these Antifa losers.
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I mean, it wasn't particularly violent, but they were being chased.
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And then City Hall security said to Mocha, what are you doing here?
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Are you going to stop me instead of them trying to block me?
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Just like they don't have to provide anything to you.
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So we actually had four security guards with Mocha and David and Andrew yesterday,
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That's a whole army, but nonetheless, our security was pushed out by Toronto City Hall
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security, and then Toronto police, real cops, I'm not talking about mall cops, said to David
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that if he didn't leave, he would be charged with trespass, and the reason that was so shocking
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is that the story that Mocha and Andrew and David and our whole crew were there to report
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on was an encampment, an urban tent city, a slum set up literally on the plaza outside Toronto City Hall
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These squatters had set up a tent city there, Antifa style.
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David and the rest of our team was there and reported on it.
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But City Hall security sent away our security, told our people they were trespassing, but
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I mean, it's one thing when mall style, mall cops at Toronto security say to leave, but
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when an actual Toronto police officer says it, look at this guy, and look at him implying
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So this isn't probably the best time to be coming here and doing this.
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So, like I said, so for today, City Hall security and their staff, they're trespassing you,
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So we're going to have to escort you off the property.
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They're saying, as a taxpayer, I am trespassing?
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You're getting trespassed, so we're going to ask you to leave politically, okay?
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You mean they're not being charged with trespassing?
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If you want to take it up with City Hall, you can.
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So this is their property, so they're the ones that are trespassing you.
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Sir, just to be clear, I'm not causing the disturbance.
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These people are being belligerent and physically violent to us.
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I thought we had freedom of speech here in Toronto.
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Well, I watched that and I was deeply troubled because I have promised our team here at Rebel
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We will sue people who hurt them as we sued Dion Buse.
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But I would much rather protect someone in the first place than sue after the fact.
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I would rather spend $1,000 or $2,000 on security rather than $30,000 chasing down someone who
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And more to the point, I don't want our people getting punched or kicked or, God forbid, worse.
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So we had sent four professional security at great expense.
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And they were brushed away and we were threatened by the police itself.
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I saw this yesterday and I said, this cannot stand.
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I mean, either we have freedom of the press and the right to assemble in a town square
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in the largest city in the country, peacefully, or we don't.
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And I'm backed up by centuries of tradition, including, if you want to get down to it,
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Section 2B of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Section 1 of Diefenbaker's Bill
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So we arranged for a team of seven security guards, tougher ones.
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We called our lawyer, our free speech lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg.
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And I said, I'm going down to Mocha and Ephron, our cameraman, and Andrew and David and myself
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A lot of them holding cameras from different angles with different instructions.
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Some people to film the action up close, others to stand further back and not even get
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So we went down there today with seven security.
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We'll have the full video for you out, we hope, tomorrow.
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But I want to give you a little bit of a taste of how it went.
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Here, take a look at this when we first arrived.
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I think he's doing some kind of livestream broadcast.
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When they saw we weren't going to leave, things got violent.
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All this time, Toronto City Hall Security was standing and watching, twiddling their thumbs,
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doing nothing, not trying to keep the peace themselves, just watching, and not even calling
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I went to Toronto City Hall Security to ask for their help, and they told me I was breaking
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So right now, what you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.
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And all you're through, you've been trespassing the property.
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If you have a formal notice, we'll take a look at it.
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But right now, you need a verbal notice, trespass notice.
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City Hall security told us we were breaking the law and to leave the property.
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Well, I don't want to tell you the whole story today because I don't have the footage edited yet.
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And how we took a stand today, not just against the violent thugs of Antifa,
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but against City Hall itself and the Toronto police force who wanted us to leave
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I don't know if you've been following the Seattle CHAZ.
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It's a little few square blocks of anarchy in Seattle where the police have abandoned the place.
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And the left-wing mayor says, oh, it's a free love experiment.
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It's a place of actual murder and rape and drugs and lawlessness and a ganglord, a warlord named Raz.
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And it's happening, of course, in a Democrat-run city.
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At least there, though, the police aren't enforcing it.
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In Toronto, in front of the Toronto City Hall, it's a knockoff of that.
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But the police are actually helping to enforce this anarchy zone.
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I don't mean to tease you or leave you high and dry.
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I'll have the whole report for you tomorrow, including my extended conversation with the police.
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Between the last few days, between the lawyer we brought down and the seven security today and the four yesterday, we have over $8,000 worth of expenses just to fight for our freedom of the press.
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And I said to the team today, no other media company would ever pay these prices to report.
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And it wasn't that we were that interested in these urine-soaked protesters.
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It's that if we don't have the freedom of the press to stand outside Toronto City Hall and peacefully report the news, then none of us have that freedom.
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All the other media companies don't care because they're either pro-Antifa, like the CBC, or they're just obedient now.
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They take their bailout from Justin Trudeau and work their solid 35 hours a week and they're done.
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I'll tell you how it's resolved tomorrow, and I hope you're proud of what we did.
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Well, the man who has led the charge in Ontario, especially against Antifa, is our friend David Mentes.
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And I was with him downtown Toronto at City Hall today.
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And like I said a moment ago, we don't have all the footage processed.
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Frankly, we're still a little bit adrenalized by it.
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But I'd like to talk with David about it and how it went today.
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David, great to see you, and congratulations on your work through the pandemic.
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Not only your coverage of Antifa, but your coverage of the airports, the virus, your coverage of fight the fines, civil liberties.
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But in the last few weeks, the physical violence and the threat of violence in Canada against rebel journalists,
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and rebel journalists only, is the worst I've ever seen it.
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First of all, the left, the progressives, they always talk about love, Trump's hate.
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And then the first ones, they'll literally throw a bottle off your head, is what happened to me in Kingston.
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Yeah, the other thing that is notable, Ezra, is that I know our critics, our haters, they'll say,
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well, you go into a group that is diametrically opposed to you politically.
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What do you expect to do by asking triggering questions?
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And yet, when I went to Kingston, we were 60 metres away from the protesters in front of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue.
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And like ants to an open jam jar, they came to us dropping F-bombs, using all kinds of slurs.
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And today at City Hall, or I think I'm going to start calling it Silly Hall, like our friend Sue Ann Levy does at The Sun,
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we went to report on an illegal occupation of a filthy tent city.
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And one of the so-called rules, it's not a real rule, it's a fake rule, is you do not go in the circle
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because they're playing the, this is also a native spiritual circle, a sacred circle that you cannot go in.
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And so they've, they've one-upped Antifa in Seattle with their autonomous zone that way.
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And again, like ants to an open jam jar, they come looking for trouble.
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And by the way, there is no such thing as having a protest and having the right not to be covered by journalists.
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I mean, that's the whole thing about a protest.
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It is not only lawful and proper for journalists to come and ask questions,
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that should sort of be evident that that was your point.
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You can't pick and choose which journalists come to cover it.
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But what was so interesting today is we didn't even have a chance to say anything.
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And they swarmed us and they were, they got violent fairly quickly.
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Now, street urchins, professional protesters, thugs, and there are some genuine homeless people
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and mentally ill people who just sort of find a temporary sense of community.
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Like you're a homeless person on the street with some mental illness.
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And then every once in a while you see these tent cities, you say, oh, good, people I can talk to,
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hang out with, whatever, just some social company.
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So you have some genuine troubled cases, but they're being run by professional protesters,
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they're being financed, and there's that Antifa hidden hand there behind it all.
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What is less expected and completely unacceptable in my mind is that City Hall security,
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I call them mall cops because they're not real police, and then Toronto police are not just
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deferential to these protesters and their illegal slum, but are sort of running interference
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for them, pushing us out, threatening us with arrest.
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That's what's shocking, at least in the United States.
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I mean, some police have abnegated themselves by taking a knee and some have lying flat.
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But you don't have American police actually leading the mob.
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But here in Toronto, City Hall police and Toronto police were enforcing the mob's orders against
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And I want to cut some slack, Ezra, for the man and woman on the beat.
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And I should say that we always believe in fair comments.
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I reached out to Brad Rossi, the official spokesman for the City of Toronto.
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And Brad is usually great at getting back to me within hours.
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And yeah, law enforcement is aiding and abetting basically the thugs that...
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Let's not forget, the ostensible policy reason for this sit-in, it says so on a giant red
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Not, you know, give them a budgetary kick in the shins.
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And again, to address your earlier point, when it comes to articulating their point of view,
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which is what you'd think is the whole rationale behind a protest and behind a demonstration,
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The best comment I got when I asked one of the people in the Nathan Phillips Square protest,
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how does abolishing the police help people who are being victimized, people in danger?
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And her response was, I'm paraphrasing, but it's on the tape,
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it was along the lines of, well, when we abolish the police, we won't have any bad guys.
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Implying that all the bad guys are in the building.
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who do we call when the bad guys harass people?
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It's your people that did this, had this mindset in here.
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Our people were peaceful people before they came here.
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My purpose today was to show that the rebel news will not be pushed off the town square.
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I don't think they particularly regard themselves as an intellectual movement.
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I think it's a fool's errand to try and interview these people,
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One of our other reporters, Andrew, went down and tried to have like a college dorm type.
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They're there for probably getting about $100 a day cash.
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And some of them are getting a feeling of community.
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People talk in newspaper columns and call-in shows.
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And that's what's so appalling about Mayor John Tory abiding them.
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And we're in Toronto, so he's the mayor we see.
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But every big city mayor across North America is a mayor of the left.
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But, you know, it's even more so here, Ezra, I think, when you compare to Seattle.
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Now, granted, Seattle, that autonomous zone encompasses a police precinct.
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Here in Toronto, it would be like the police where they're enforcing the warlord's views.
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But this protest, Nathan Phillips Square, is the actual square, if you've never been to Toronto, folks,
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And not only that, he wants to make it comfortable for them.
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There are porta-potties for this illegal encampment.
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Meanwhile, those practicing journalism, such as myself yesterday and today, as we saw,
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we're told to get off the public square or else face trespassing charges.
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Occasionally I go and travel and do journalism outside the office.
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And, I mean, for example, I would, before the pandemic, I would go to the U.K.
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about once a month to cover some interesting free speech or Tommy Robinson matter.
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But, and I myself, I don't think I would have gone down to interview some ragamuffins.
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But when I saw the footage of the security guards and the cops saying,
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no peaceful journalists, but yes to these violent protesters,
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There was a time so long ago, maybe it was in the last century, the 20th century,
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where every media outlet would have been appalled by police censorship,
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by partisan policing, by any infringements of speech.
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But here we are in an era where Trudeau bans us from asking questions at press conferences.
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Not a single mainstream media journalist cares.
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Where our reporter, Kian Bexte, is frog marched out of a press conference by RCMP,
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We're in court fighting Trudeau in two separate lawsuits.
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No other journalist other than our friends at True North.
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And you and I, and the reason I, my long point here,
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is the reason I got up out of the office, went downtown,
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is because I thought, I don't even care about the protesters.
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But what I really care about is that the right to report safely, freely, peacefully
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If we are to live, I mean, every day I end my show, keep fighting for freedom.
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And today we went down there to prove that we mean it.
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And as I said before you came on, we got so much footage,
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I want to give writers the time to make a good job out of it.
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And I don't want to give away the ending of how the story ended.
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But that's a must-see show that we're going to put on tomorrow.
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Yeah, and Ezra, to your point, I think it's because we now truly do live in a world of cancel culture.
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And I think members of the media agree with the cancellation of an offensive viewpoint.
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Margaret Wenny, they tried to take out Rex Burford.
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They took out Wendy Mesley, to which I say, what a shame.
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And then the person who named Jessica Mulroney, who shamed and named her,
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And Ben Mulroney stepping down for allegedly offensive viewpoints of his wife.
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But, you know, you remember in yesterdecade, in the United States, which has the First Amendment,
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you would have the American Civil Liberties Union.
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They would go to bat for such odious individuals as neo-Nazis marching through a Jewish neighborhood,
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Ku Klux Klan marching through a black neighborhood.
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And it was disgusting, it was filthy rhetoric, but it was an example of free speech.
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And typically you'd have, you know, people screaming on the sides,
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but they were that committed to freedom of speech.
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Now it's, well, you know what, if you're going to offend somebody, zip it.
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Yeah, you know what, I'm a member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
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I don't know if I told you, I got a fundraising call from them the other day.
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And, you know, well, how do you think we're doing?
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I mean, they had a real black rights vibe on the call.
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There's a street that has got, I think, 11 black barbershops in the course of three blocks.
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And I said to the Civil Liberties Association, okay, for black rights and everything, why don't
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you stand up for these black men who are being forced out of business for no genuine health
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And they obviously didn't listen to me, even though I said I would donate more to them if
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My point is the Civil Liberties Association, AWOL.
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, AWOL, absent without leave.
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There's so many of these groups that have journalists or freedom or civil liberties in
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And it's strange that we are filling that gap, because I really, when we started The Rebel
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five and a half years ago, I didn't think, oh, we're going to be a civil liberties
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No, I just thought, well, let's just report the news.
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But you can't even do that, and the people who are supposed to be on guard are not on
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We have something like about 20 cases, I believe, Ezra.
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You'd think this is what the Canadian Civil Liberties Association would be doing.
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Yeah, and instead, we've seen, I have seen two things, two mandates through this whole
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We're keeping notes, and when we examine our notes, we're sending out another press release
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saying we've got really bad notes about you government officials.
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And they're on this jihad of releasing more violent criminals out of correctional institutions
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Well, listen, we'll show people the whole footage tomorrow.
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I want to let people know that we spent four times $600, because we hire these security
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And as I said earlier, everyone says, oh, I'll do it for free.
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There's nothing more expensive than a cheap security guard.
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Because when things go down, you want someone who uses their brains as much as their brawn.
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And you want someone who knows how to avoid a problem rather than just deal with it.
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I think it was a little bit more than that in the end.
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I think we're looking at approximately $8,000 all in just to do a stupid story.
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And I know the CBC, no one else would have to do it.
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But we did it not because we care about this particular story, but we care about our right to talk about this particular story.
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And I want to say to our folks, if you're watching this show, you're obviously a pay while subscribing.
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But if you can help us out at journalistdefensefund.com, please do.
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Well, actually, really, what we're going to release is tomorrow's video.
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Tomorrow's video, which we're going to end the show, we're going to release it widely because I want everyone to see it.
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No other media company in Canada has to hire any security.
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Well, and folks, I know, as Ezra does, that this is probably the worst time, given how many layoffs, the economic damage in the economy.
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But if you do have it within you to give, please do.
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You can call this shameless shilling if you want.
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We're not like the mainstream media that takes it directly out of your paycheck as a form of a government grant.
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And I think what we did today, Ezra, was so important.
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In the aftermath meeting, our great lawyer Aaron was talking about, in terms of journalism, in terms of fighting for the freedom of speech in the public square, he thought it was masterful.
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I think you were masterful in your engagement with the police officer in explaining why you needed at least five minutes in the public square.
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Not behind the dumpster off Bay Street, not where the service entrance is, but in the public square, where all the thugs are occupying the public square.
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And you eventually got them around to your way of thinking.
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So, not 100% freedom, but we scored a victory for freedom light, let's call it.
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And I think it's going to be one of our best videos ever.
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You gave a bit of a tantalizer of what's to come, so you'll want to watch tomorrow.
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And we are going to put it outside the paywall, too.
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And between the seven security, our VP who was there, I think we had five guys on camera, you and me, five guys behind the camera, you and me on camera.
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And by the way, folks, these are the worst kind of thugs.
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And I say that because maybe not in terms of ultraviolence.
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They were kicking, they were punching, they were pushing, they were jamming their umbrows at us.
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They're embracing that great Bruce Springsteen line about the guy going down to the bar wearing trouble on his shirt.
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And yet, if you slightly brush past them to get out of their way, they make a big production of falling down, crying, saying they were assaulted.
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And to think we are tolerating it, law enforcement is turning a blind eye, and Mayor John Tory is talking to the port-a-potty company, make sure they're taken care of.
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We don't want them uncomfortable as they're illegally occupying the public square.
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You know, I say that we do reporting, news, we do commentary, opinion, and we do activism.
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You've had a great run, as I said, at the staff meeting the other day.
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I mean, you got hit in Kingston, and they tried to really get you again today.
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And by the way, there's an unspoken strategy there, Ezra, as I was saying to the other guys.
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That's typically below the camera line, so they can get away with, you know, below the belt blows.
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And, you know, for some reason, I'm always walking away with a lift, but you know what?
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It's a five-coupon ride, and what we're fighting for is so important, and who else is doing it?
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I mean, if we have a squad of 20 security, we'll do what it takes, because I am not going
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to stop doing journalism because of some thugs or because the police don't want to take
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So I was out there today at Toronto City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square.
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It's outrageous that this has been turned into an anarchy camp, a slum by Antifa.
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At least the Seattle CHAZ, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, is not really right outside the mayor's
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office, so obviously this slum is being done with the full approval of Toronto's left-wing
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I just don't accept that, I mean, I'm a citizen of Toronto.
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I pay taxes here, but I'm just a free man, and I will not move because some thug says move,
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and I will certainly not move because some mall cop hired from the mayor says move.
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I don't mean to leave you in suspense, it's just that it takes some time to edit all the
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film, especially we had about five cameras filling in from very many angles today.
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We'll have a full report for you tomorrow, and I hope you'll be as proud of us as I am
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As I said to the team when we came back to the office and had a quick debrief, every one
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of them showed more courage than any other media company in Canada, and that is what we
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Every night I end by saying, keep fighting for freedom.
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My friends, I want to let you know today, every rebel fought for freedom, and even at
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Until tomorrow, from all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, including those 15 or so