Rebel Roundup： Guest Ezra Levant, Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn-Reed and Ezra Levent join host David Menzies to discuss why Alberta s election bureaucracy is going to war with our own Sheila Gunn Reed, investigating her for exercising her right to freedom of expression.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you in which we look back at
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some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host David Menzies.
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Alberta's election bureaucracy is going to war with our own Sheila Gunn-Reed investigating her for
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practicing freedom of expression. Oh yeah. Sheila will explain why wild rose country is suddenly
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looking like a tin pot dictatorship and if you think we're exaggerating just will you hear the
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nitty-gritty details. Ezra Levent is back from the UK where he recently met up with Tommy Robinson
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who is residing in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison until mid-September.
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Ezra will give us the good, the bad and the ugly regarding Tommy's current incarceration
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and you won't want to miss that. And finally letters, we get your letters. We get your letters
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every minute of every day and I'll share some of your responses regarding Kathy Zhu aka the former Miss
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Michigan who was recently stripped of her crown. Her crime? Well she likes to espouse conservative
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viewpoints. Those are your rebels, now let's round them up. Back in April we received a letter from
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Alberta's elections commissioner. That entire bureaucracy is a recent creation of the NDP and
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it was weaponized against not least conservative critics. They have come after us about billboards
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critical of the NDP on two separate occasions in the past and they lost. This new threat letter in
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April came from the elections commissioner, Lauren Gibson, and it was addressed to me but it was sent to
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our Toronto office. So the Alberta election was over, Jason Kenney was the new premier, but Notley's
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hand-picked enforcer was still on the job and he still is today. He said he was opening an investigation
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after complaints about lawn signs promoting my best-selling book. Here's part of his letter.
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We will be seeking your answers to a number of questions including the following. What was the
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basis upon which you determined the selling price of the Stop Notley book? What was the date you began
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to make this book available to the public? Was the availability of the Stop Notley book to the public
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time to occur with the 2019 provincial election campaign or was the book planned to be made
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available to the public regardless of whether there was an election or not? What is the estimated
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cost of the Stop Notley advertising book promotion campaign? What is the contact information for the
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company that published the Stop Notley book and the company that designed, produced, and distributed
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the Stop Notley signs? Gibson said he would be contacting me for an interview or to put it another
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way, I'd be interrogated by the government about a book I wrote about the government. Now his letter
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didn't even tell me who's under investigation or for what? Is it me or the publisher of my book?
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Who's in trouble here? Is it for the book or the lawn signs promoting the book? And really it doesn't
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matter anyway or it shouldn't because we have a free press in Canada and here is the elections law
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that specifically exempts books. Section 44 D2 reads, elections advertising does not include
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the distribution of a book or the promotion of the sale of a book for no less than its commercial value
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if the book was planned to be made available to the public regardless of whether there was to be an
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election. Well I'm sure Sheila Gunn-Reed is feeling somewhat confused these days in terms of where
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she's residing. Oh sure officially she lives in the province of Alberta but given the outrageous and
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egregious actions of Alberta's election commissioner, Wildrose country certainly resembles the Democratic
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People's Republic of Korea. And with more on Alberta's journalistic jihad against one reporter
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is our very own Sheila herself. Welcome to Rebel Roundup Sheila. Hey David thanks for having me on.
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It's such a pleasure and this is such an important story and I urge all our viewers to watch your full
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video because the overreach here by the Alberta bureaucracy is downright chilling. But Sheila the
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key question remains what exactly are you being investigated for in the first place?
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I still don't really know. The initial information and the initial contact we had from
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the elections commissioner is that they were opening an investigation due to complaints about
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the stopnotly.com lawn signs. Those were beautiful lawn signs, a very successful guerrilla marketing campaign,
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5,000 of them blanketed the province. But as it turns out that really, they really weren't asking
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questions about the lawn signs. The lawn signs were a marketing campaign by my publisher. But all their
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questions seemed to be focused about the book. When we started planning the book and they wanted the
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internal emails and all my documents about when we were planning to publish the book and when I started
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writing the book, which like you point out is not something that governments should be doing in free
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countries where there is a free press and free speech. It's a complete government overreach that this
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bureaucracy that was created by Rachel Notley is weaponized against her conservative critics, not just us, but
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also, you know, our friends at Alberta can't wait. They've this bureaucracy has had a sole focus since its
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inception on targeting conservatives who spoke truth to power about Rachel Notley. And even though the
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conservatives are in power now, Rachel Notley's appointees, her swamp is still deeply entrenched
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in government and still doing her bidding. You know, and we got to point out here, Sheila, yes, we do have
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freedom of expression and freedom of the press. But you can publish a book and people can come after
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you legally for things like libel, defamation. But as far as I know, those benchmarks aren't met with this
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case, this is a government, a former government, really, I think this is the unspoken story here,
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coming after you not for legitimate claims of libel or defamation, but because Rachel Notley had her
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feelings hurt. She was embarrassed by you, rightly so, on so many occasions. But I'm sorry, that's no
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reason to have her sick her attack dogs on you. And I think this falls under abuse of process, Sheila.
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Well, it absolutely does. I mean, the actions of the elections commissioner really are unconstitutional.
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Imagine demanding internal emails from a journalist and author about why they published a book that is critical
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of the government of the day, as Ezra would say, because it's my bloody well right to do so.
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It really is an abuse of power. It's an overreach and a wholly inappropriate how this investigation has been
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conducted so far. The investigator, who I don't know if he realized that I was recording our conversations, but
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I'm a journalist. And so I record a lot of conversations. I guess it just goes to prove that I actually am a
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journalist and not some third party advertiser. But he knows I have a lawyer. He knows my lawyer's name, my lawyer's
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contact information. But he insists on contacting me directly. And he insists on doing much of our communication
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informally through phone calls, despite the fact that I first reached out to the investigator in an email with a series
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of questions that I wanted answers. Now, those were never really answered. Everything is very vague.
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But again, it's very inappropriate for the investigator to continue to contact me, despite the fact that he knows full well
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I have a lawyer, except for the fact that, you know, he maybe he thinks I'm stupid and he's trying to trip me up. But I think
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Well, you know, you're absolutely right, Sheila. The fact that he's not putting these questions to you in writing, the fact that he's not
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going through legal channels, because this is a legal matter right now, this smacks of unprofessionalism.
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Now, of course, you recorded the calls. I'm I'm wondering, I'm pretty sure he was probably recording the calls. And that is
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probably the method to his madness. He's coming across as, you know, very casual, like he's having a, you know, a chat at a Tim
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Hortons with you. And he's hoping you are going to say something to trip yourself up. So far, you haven't given him
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such a gift. But this guy, Ken Brander, Sheila, he is an ex cop who literally has blood on his hands, who is now acting
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as the moral authority of Alberta. What can you tell our viewers here about Mr. Brander's career when he was a police
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officer in Edmonton? Well, you know, Ezra has done some pretty deep digging into Ken Brander. It's been a little
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difficult for me to do much of that deep digging, because I'm just so consumed with, you know, the free
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speech issues at hand. But Ken Brander in the early 2000s, he was involved in a high speed crash in his
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police car. It was an unmarked police car. He did not have his sirens and lights on. And he hit a civilian
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vehicle, a family. The instantly killing from what it sounds like one young little boy. And when the
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car burst into flames, because the gas tank exploded, the little boy's brother lost his hands in the fire.
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And his mother was very severely injured. The judge in the criminal negligence hearing for Ken Brander,
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he wasn't found guilty of criminal negligence. But the judge did say that he was negligent
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for the way he was involved in that high speed chase that day. And ultimately, it sounds like
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the city of Edmonton paid $5 million to clean up the catastrophe that Ken Brander made that day.
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And yet, this is the man who's out there deciding what constitutional rights I have as a journalist in
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Canada. It's absolutely despicable. And I think Ezra on his show last night said, you'd think
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somebody would walk away almost to become a monk and to reflect on. And by the way, that's just one
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incident. We don't have time to get into other shooting incidents and killings. But my goodness,
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like you said, for the chutzpah here that this guy who literally has blood on his hands is suddenly
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Alberta's electoral moral authority is absolutely appalling, Sheila. And Sheila, I wanted to say
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something else. Anyone that I've spoken to about this case, they can't believe how egregious it is.
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They can't believe the fishing expedition that this individual and this office is going on. And
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everyone is confident that we're going to win, as am I. But here's the thing, Sheila, we're already up to
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$48,000 in legal fees. And it's one of these situations, Sheila, where the process is indeed
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the penalty. So for these guys, win, lose or draw, they really don't care. It's the fact that they are
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trying to drain us of cash. That's their victory. I think this is appalling. And this is what makes me
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even question the system to begin with. You know, I was talking to a friend this morning
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about this. And she told me that the elections commissioner has nine different investigators
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working constantly to censor Albertans with regard to their political opinions during the elections
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period. But I mean, I don't know what would become of me if I didn't have the rebel standing behind me
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during this. There's no way that I would ever ask my family to foot a $48,000 bill while I fight for
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free speech. And Ezra has said that, you know, if they find me, the rebel will indemnify me. But as
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Ezra also rightly points out, it isn't really the rebel. It's all of our supporters at home. And,
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you know, over the last, I guess it's 24 hours now, just the sheer outpouring of support and
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encouragement that I've received online and, you know, in personal messages, it's been overwhelming.
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It's actually made me a little emotional. And just hearing how the work that we do here at the rebel
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has affected people's lives. I received a message from someone who said, two days before Christmas,
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there was a truck convoy rally up in Bonneville, Alberta, so two hours northeast of where I live.
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And it was minus 20. Nobody came from the mainstream media, but I drove up. And, you know,
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he said that, you know, we fight for these people every single day. For me, I'm doing my job. But
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there is some level of self-interest too. Look, my husband's in the oil patch. He's in oil field
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transportation. I'm a farmer. So I'm, you know, I'm advocating for my family. But you don't really
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realize how the stories you do matter to the people who are at home hearing them when they are alone.
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We're out there fighting for them. And, you know, I've heard from a lot of people say now it's their
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time to help me out. And I'm just so unbelievably grateful for all of that. And I'm happy to hear
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that from the grassroots. But two things you said there, Sheila, the support and the mainstream media.
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Where is the mainstream media support for you, for us in this fight? Now, I granted,
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many are indifferent to us. Some actually hate us. That's not the point. The point here is the
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principle of freedom of speech, of freedom of expression, of having a free press and a
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Western democracy that is being violated by these election commission thugs that are going after
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you. You would think that there would be a scintilla of morality and ethics in terms of the craft of
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journalism, in terms of standing up for this cornerstone of a Western democracy. If you don't
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have free speech, you've got nothing. Has anyone come forward, Sheila, anyone at the Edmonton
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Journal, which back in the 1930s won a Pulitzer Prize, of course, for going after the Eberhardt
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government on a free speech issue? Where are our allies, or at least friendly enemies, if you want
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to call them that, in terms of going to bat for you on this issue?
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You know, I'm not seeing a lot of it. I'm seeing support from conservative activists,
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conservative journalists like Mark Milky. I've had some outlets reach out to me for an interview
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in the mainstream media. But, you know, I'm a little skeptical of those outlets, considering how
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they've covered the issue of our billboards and our signs in the past. But they're, you know, they're
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wanting to cover the story, not from, you know, a free speech battle perspective, not from a journalism
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freedom perspective. They want to do it as, oh, you're the rebels in trouble again. Look at those bad
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guys. I'm not seeing really any support from anybody on the left in the mainstream media. And
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I'm probably repeating myself there because the left and the mainstream media are so intertwined. But
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I'm not really seeing it. And it's pretty evident, at least in the last 24 hours, that a lot of
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journalists out there hate me, hate my boss, hate the work we do here at The Rebel more than they like
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the principles that protect the craft they do. And it's a sad state of affairs.
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Well, Sheila, I think you're absolutely right. And, you know, they're coming for us today.
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What these self-serving journalists, these increasingly Trudeau-paid state stenographers
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should realize, how long will it be before they slip up and the state comes for them? And of course,
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we know across the pond, Tommy Robinson currently doing 66 days for practicing the craft of citizen
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journalism. This is an all out war on freedom. And I hope that there are people out there that based
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on principle, not just because it's a rebel, but just on the principle of the craft, they're going to
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come to your defense and our defense on this. Anyways, we're going to fight this, Sheila. And you are one
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of the bravest ladies I know out there. I know you'll get through this 100%. And thank you so much
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for joining me on Rebel Roundup today. Thanks, David. And if anybody wants to help support me
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in my legal battle, like you pointed out, we've already accrued nearly $50,000 in legal fees. And
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we're just in the beginning of this fight. And I'm sure I've got fines coming my way now that I've
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gone public. They can do that at SaveSheila.com. And there they can see my full 20 minute video where
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I lay out all my evidence. Fantastic. Thank you so much, Sheila. And please, folks, if you have
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anything to spare, go to SaveSheila.com. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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I would like to take this car ride to tell you about my prison visit with Tommy Robinson. He,
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as you know, was sentenced for contempt of court to a nine month prison term. And this is on top
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of the time he's already served. Now, some of that time served will be deducted from this sentence. So
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he'll wind up being freed from prison in mid-September. But he has been put
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in the harshest, most maximum security in London for a non-criminal offense of contempt of court.
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By the way, no British journalist has been in prison for contempt of court in nearly a century.
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So the reason I came to visit Tommy is not just because it's a good thing to do to visit someone
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in prison, but because I was deeply concerned that the prison authorities would abuse Tommy
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in the same manner that they had abused him at the prison he was in last year, HMP only.
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Elements of that abuse include putting him in a small box, solitary confinement,
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with no human contact for 23 and a half hours a day, no television. And then the half hour a day
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he was let out, he was screamed at by some of the Muslim prison gangs that were wishing him death.
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He actually had death threats hand delivered to his cell door, very specific death threats.
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It was not just physical abuse, but the psychological abuse, abuse of 10 weeks in solitary confinement,
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which is illegal, by the way. And finally, there was the starvation element because Tommy's
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food was marked Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and hand delivered to his cell. The Muslim prison
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gangs that prepared it could tamper with his food in a way they couldn't tamper with food in the
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cafeteria style line. So there were various elements of his torture last time. And I use that word
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on purpose because it is psychological and physical torture.
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Well, when it comes to Tommy Robinson's current incarceration, first the good news. Unlike his
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last prison stay, Tommy doesn't believe his food is being tampered with. So he is indeed eating and
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won't be losing those 40 pounds this time around, I should think. And although he's in solitary
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confinement, at least he does have a TV. As well, Tommy has access to a gym and he gets to wear his own
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clothing as opposed to prison stripes. Now the bad news, he's in a maximum security prison. And even worse,
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he's in prison for committing no real crime. And with more on the Tommy Robinson saga is our very
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own rebel commander, Ezra Levent, who recently visited Mr. Robinson in the UK simply to see if
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Tommy was being treated well and also to remind the prison authorities that they too are being watched.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra. So first of all, Ezra, let's get that ridiculous piece of fake news out of
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the way that was reported in the Daily Star, where allegedly a 70-year-old prisoner had slugged
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Tommy Robinson while in the showers. And this was picked up by other media. And it seems to be
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a fantasy. Yeah, I saw that news that Tommy Robinson was pummeled in the shower by a 70-year-old
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guy. They really emphasized that. And they also said he came into prison strutting like a peacock
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and people of all races insulted him. And I thought, this is a really weird story. It's
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too perfect. It's too on the nose. Tommy's not as tough as he thinks. Tommy was taken down by a 70-year-old
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in the shower. How embarrassing. People of all races unite in condemning. I just thought,
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that's too on the nose. But more than that, I thought, I heard, I saw that before I visited Tommy in
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prison. I thought, I'm skeptical because I don't, you know, I heard that Tommy was in some sort of
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special handling or seclusion. And it just didn't ring true. But I held my skepticism until I met the
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lad on Tuesday. And it is a complete fabrication and complete literal definition of fake news.
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Tommy Robinson is in a special prison within a prison. Belmarsh Prison is one of the most serious
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prisons in the UK. It was their Guantanamo Bay where they held non-enemy illegal combatants.
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Unlawful enemy combatants is that's the special phrase for terrorists. That was really the ISIS
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prison in London. So it was ultra high security. And they have a special unit. It's like a prison
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within a prison where there are only three prisoners in the whole place. Tommy Robinson,
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Julian Assange, and then some murderer that I don't know anything about. And these three men
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do not see each other ever. No other prisoner sees them. They see no other prisoner. Tommy is
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completely alone there other than his interactions with the guards. So it is a form of solitary
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confinement in that he sees no, he's not allowed to see any of the prisoners. Now he could holler up
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to a window and Julian Assange hollers back down. He told me that's the only communication he's had.
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When he was brought into prison, he was not brought through the general population.
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He's under enormous observation. The prison warden himself visits him once a day.
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That's incredible. A doctor or nurse visits him once a day. When they move him from his cell where
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he's got a TV and a kettle and things like that, to the exercise bike, to the gym, to the showers,
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to the yard, two guards are there for every move. Like it's so, it's such an unusual place. They're
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used to handling, I don't know, like a Saddam Hussein or something. He has not seen a single
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other person other than the guards since arriving there. So the idea that he would be in a shower
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with other prisoners without guards, it's just lie upon lie upon lie. And that was the front page of a
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newspaper called the Daily Star and the mirror picked it up and everyone picked it up. 100% false.
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It would be as false as saying Queen Elizabeth secretly visited Tommy Robinson in prison. That's
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actually more possible than the Tommy Robinson was beat up by a 70-year-old pensioner in the shower.
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And I have yet to see a correction, clarification, retraction, let alone an apology. And I should
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tell you that if you think the Canadian media is bad, the British media is worse. It's astounding. And I can't
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believe, you know, I'd love to know how that news item got generated in the first place. But that's kind of a
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sidebar issue. This maximum security prison, Ezra, what I don't understand is that even if you despise Tommy
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Robinson, the idea that he is being kept there, he's not a dangerous offender. He's not an enemy of the state.
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He's not some kind of a homicidal maniac. Why in the world? I mean, if anyone would really qualify
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for some, you know, minimal security prison, kind of like the townhouse prisons that we have in
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Canada for, you know, white collar offenders, it would be Tommy Robinson. Why is he even there in
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the first place? Well, that's what's so crazy. No journalist since the 1940s has been sent to prison
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for contempt of court. I've read probably 100 British contempt of court cases. There's actually a great
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government of the UK website just with contempt of court cases. It's quite easy to read them all.
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Typically, in a contempt of court case with a journalist, there's just a warning, don't do it,
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stop doing it. And at most, the media company pays a fine, maybe 20,000 pounds.
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They just don't imprison journalists for contempt of court. It's just not done. But of course,
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there's not a rule of law in the UK anymore. Some people are above the law. Some people are below
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the law. Tommy Robinson is below the law. He doesn't have access to the law. I was in his court
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for his sentencing hearing. And it is a fact that the trial outside of which he was giving his political
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commentary, that trial successfully concluded. All the men were convicted. No appeals were upheld.
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So we know for a fact, it's not a matter of speculation or opinion, Tommy Robinson did not
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disrupt a trial. He didn't. So where's the contempt of court? Why would they prosecute him 14 months
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later? Well, according to the Attorney General, by asking the accused rapists as they walked into
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court on Judgment Day, by asking them, quote, how do you feel about your verdict today? Unquote.
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By saying those words, that prejudiced and impeded the course of justice and is deserving of a nine
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month sentence. Not only did it not, but it's absurd. And one of the things Tommy's lawyers did
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in court was play a video of Tommy walking into that courthouse and journalists asking him those
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precise questions or more. So why are they locked up? Well, and that's my point. Just as no other
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journalist has been imprisoned in the UK for contempt of nearly a century. No other journalist
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today in the UK is being imprisoned for doing the same thing that Tommy did. It's very unfortunate,
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and I've said this a hundred times, and I'll probably keep saying it until it's not true anymore.
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When I go to the United Kingdom, I feel like I'm in a dystopian time machine. I see a dark future
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of what we will become if we don't change our course. And sometimes people in Canada say,
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why are you going over there? Why are you wasting time? Well, I don't think it's a waste in time.
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I think it's very interesting, not just for our British viewers, but for people around the world
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who want to see the way censorship is going. If you had a crystal ball or a time machine,
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if you had the powers of prophecy to see what's coming down the road in five years, would you not
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at least contemplate them? I believe that observing the UK, which is very similar to us in law and
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politics and history, more than any other country, perhaps other than the United States, it's similar
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to us. Would you not want to have the cautionary lessons from there? And that's what I take back
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from my observations of Tommy Robinson. I have a personal friendship with him, but that is not what
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drives me. It's not even the injustice that he suffers that drives me. It's seeing our future and
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trying to stop it. And you know, and it's worth fighting for as I mean, I was at the PPC event
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earlier this week and Dr. Salim Mansour said words to the effect that freedom of speech is the very
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bedrock of a Western free society. Once that is lost, you don't have that society anymore. And that is
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what we're seeing in the UK, what you've personally seen over there. And you've said, I think previously
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that maybe we're what, five to 10 years behind that curve here in Canada, that it's coming here
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and you can see it coming here with things like, you know, M103 with trying to get Section 13 put
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back into the Canadian Human Rights Act. There are attacks on our freedom of speech and expression
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almost on a monthly basis. Oh yeah. And because there is so little coverage of it,
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you have to be really attentive to it to see it happening. An ordinary person who doesn't follow
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politics closely would never know about it. You have to be extremely online to detect it.
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You have to be really looking hard for, I mean, for example, to bring back Section 13 of the Canadian
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Human Rights Act, that's the internet censorship provision, the Liberals are completely for it.
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The Conservative Party of Canada, led by Andrew Scheer, they say they're against it,
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but I had to dig to find that. They filed a piece of paper with the Parliamentary Committee.
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In that piece of paper, they said they're against it, but they have not given a speech about it,
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a press release about it, a tweet about it, a public comment about it.
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So there is no opposition to it, nothing vocal. And I believe that we will slip unwittingly,
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accidentally, inertially towards censorship, and that therefore it's our job to raise the alarm.
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And the mythical character, Cassandra, who was cursed with the double-edged sword, the power of
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prophecy, but the curse that no one would believe her. That is a terrible, I think that's Cassandra,
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I think that's who that was in mythology. What a terrible, terrible place to be to know the future.
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It's like you see a car crash coming in slow motion and you shout to people, put on the brakes,
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put on the brakes, put on the brakes. But no one believes you, no one believes you, no one believes you.
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What a terrible place to be. It is my hope that either my prophecy comes to be disproven,
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that we don't go that way or that someone hears us. But right now I am worried and I see in Canada
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many streams of censorship that are now confluent. And these little streams are turning into a river.
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And I think in the next 90 days, as we head into the Canadian federal election,
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we will see this censorship come and it will be as powerful as the Amazon.
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Chilling times indeed, Ezra. Thank you so much for going over there and giving
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Tommy Robinson some moral support and also sending that message to the prison authorities that they
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are being watched. You know, folks, I know Ezra, he won't be able to resist going back there before
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mid-September when Tommy is released. So keep it tuned here for further updates.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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According to the Detroit Free Press, Zhu, who is a University of Michigan student,
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was dismissed last Thursday as a Miss World America pageant participant when that organization
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described the content of old social media postings as being, quote,
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offensive, insensitive, and inappropriate, end quote.
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Gracious. That sounds serious. What did this 20-year-old do? Champion the manifesto of the Ku Klux Klan?
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Well, hardly. One of her supposedly shocking social media postings, which dates back more than a year
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ago, by the way, pertained to an encounter she had on campus. The Muslim Student Association had a booth
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celebrating World Hijab Day, and when Zhu was asked to don a hijab, she declined. She later tweeted, quote,
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There is a try-a-hijab-on booth at my college campus, so you're telling me that it's now just
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a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed
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under Islam? End quote. Zhu told the Free Press that, quote,
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I said that it, the hijab, was getting women used to being oppressed because there are so many women
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in Middle Eastern countries that are being punished and stoned for refusing to wear a hijab.
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Nobody is talking about that in the West. End quote. And she's right. But apparently refusing to wear
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a hijab on World Hijab Day is downright Islamophobic. Well, the spineless cowards running the Miss World
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America competition recently dethroned Kathy Zhu, aka Miss Michigan, for speaking honestly and openly
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about World Hijab Day. That's apparently not allowed, especially if the thoughts being espoused
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are conservative in nature. In any event, here's what you had to say about Zhu being dethroned for
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a thought crime. Jack Ralph writes, remind me who created World Hijab Day? I think I missed the vote.
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Well, World Hijab Day was created by Nazma Khan in 2013. I don't think there was a vote. Voting isn't
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a big deal when it comes to living under Sharia law, after all. But you gotta wonder, in the department
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of in for a penny, in for a pound, why didn't Miss Khan go all in and proclaim February 1st as World
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Watch my videos, writes. Facts are racist. Welcome to 2019. Hey, wait a minute, what do you mean 2019?
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That time period is such a Christian concept. Please be more inclusive and culturally sensitive when
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you state the date next time, okay? What year is it?
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B. Henry writes, she did absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, she should be applauded for telling the truth.
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No, no, no, no, B. Henry. Didn't you get the memo? Applauding is now considered politically incorrect
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at an increasing number of institutions, given that hand clapping might trigger anxiety amongst
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those who comprise the ranks of Generation Snowflake.
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Students instead are encouraged to use jazz hands.
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I didn't look it up. I've known about jazz hands for a long, long time.
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Jazz hands, it goes back to the time of Al Jolson. That's jazz hands. Your hands above the head,
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You know, isn't this the head of the political correctness snake eating its tail?
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No more clapping, so let's use hand gestures most associated with a guy who made a career
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Me now writes, she's too good looking and smart to be a leftist.
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Hey, and for that matter, me now, she's presumably too smart to be a beauty pageant
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contestant as well. I think the beauty biz likes some gorgeous on the outside but dim-witted on the
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inside, lest someone say something politically incorrect. So it is that Kathy Zhu is beauty
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contestant non grata. But Miss Teen South Carolina 2007? Oh, she's perfect.
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Okay. Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map.
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I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation
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don't have maps and I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq,
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everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should
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help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries. So we
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will be able to build up our future for our children. Thank you very much, South Carolina.
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By the way, why were the U.S. Americans in the audience actually applauding her? Such as?
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See
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you next week. And hey folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.