Rebel Commander Ezra Levent drops by to talk about how the mainstream media in the UK are taking fake news to an all-new level in their slanderous depiction of Tommy Robinson. And finally, we get your letters! We get them every minute of every day. We look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
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00:00:11.120Well, next time you make a booking at a Canadian hotel, you might want to ask if it's housing refugees, because if the answer is yes, chances are you're not going to have a very pleasant stay.
00:00:23.340Today, Sheila Gunn-Reed will unpack the goods on this story, and talk about the inmates running the asylum.
00:00:31.160Katie Hopkins will weigh in on the dangerous mess that is the UK prison system.
00:00:37.480And Rebel Commander Ezra Levent drops by to talk about how the mainstream media in the UK are taking fake news to an all-new level in their slanderous depiction of Tommy Robinson.
00:00:50.760And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.
00:00:56.320I'll share some of your responses to my commentary on how the progressives are demanding that a black actor should be Superman in the next movie, even though Supes has been white for, oh, 80 years now.
00:01:10.200Those are your rebels, now let's round them up.
00:01:12.800Now, the next couple of reviews are honestly pretty frightening.
00:02:13.920There are major security safety violations and no one should be charged a penny to stay there, nor should any children or families be there.
00:02:22.700The public should be made aware that the hotel is housing Syrian refugees, even though they are trying to hide them in the basement.
00:03:12.520Now, Sheila, as you stated in your commentary, you're not trying to hurt anyone's business by outing the hotels that you came across.
00:03:20.920But the thing is, guests paying for these rooms at these hotels with their own hard-earned money are not being informed about what's going on here.
00:03:31.780So, first of all, Sheila, why the secrecy?
00:03:38.420I've been emailing corporate offices of these hotels all week long looking for comment.
00:03:45.280I'm asking them all the very same questions.
00:03:47.380I want to know if there is a policy in place to not divulge this information to guests while they're booking.
00:03:54.900And if there is such a policy, why is there such a policy?
00:03:58.900I'm sort of convinced that this is part of their government contract with the corporate head offices to not let the guests know ahead of time.
00:04:10.340No one will even come close to getting back to me and returning any of my emails.
00:04:14.520And like you said, I'm not interested in ruining anybody's business, especially in a Trudeau economy.
00:04:20.880But I think consumers deserve to have this information.
00:04:23.580And you know, Sheila, we should point out, and I found this to be a very fascinating sidebar of your superb reports on this issue,
00:04:31.400that TripAdvisor, which is all about being a consumer portail, you know, giving praise where it's warranted, raising red flags where that is due,
00:04:42.120they are now taking it upon themselves to censor reviews.
00:04:48.180The one hotel in the Toronto area I speak of that falls into this category was the Toronto Radisson East.
00:04:54.580And they said something in their language that because of the problems being flagged in the media, we are not, you know, posting any reviews of this.
00:05:05.820Well, first of all, isn't that germane to being a consumer website, a warning of problems at hotels?
00:05:14.440And so what if there's chatter in the media?
00:05:18.080I think that's all the more reason to post these reviews.
00:05:21.400What is prompting TripAdvisor to censor these reviews, Sheila?
00:05:26.380Well, according to TripAdvisor, they use that sort of corporate PC culture speak.
00:05:32.980Due to the extraordinary circumstances or something to that effect highlighted in the media,
00:05:38.000they're not taking any new reviews for the Toronto Radisson East.
00:05:42.200Isn't that what TripAdvisor is all about, though?
00:05:45.340Aren't they supposed to be this place where instead of my family going and looking at some slick marketing materials about a hotel produced by the hotel itself,
00:05:55.860TripAdvisor allows me the ability to actually find out the opinions of people who've actually stayed there.
00:06:00.820And now TripAdvisor is telling people, and we got this from a tipster, that if you have a review of that hotel,
00:06:09.040you need to post it at a later date because they're not posting any reviews right now.
00:06:12.960So, and like I said in my video, I understand why TripAdvisor would do something like this, but I completely disagree with it.
00:06:20.520We all know that Yelp and TripAdvisor, sometimes they can be weaponized by disgruntled employees or people with an agenda.
00:06:27.460But that's on TripAdvisor then to make sure the reviews are real as opposed to fake ones like the ones we've caught the government planting.
00:06:45.200This is a very important point that you came across.
00:06:47.540Government bureaucrats trying to gin the good reviews by planting essentially fake positive experience reviews on TripAdvisor.
00:06:57.700What in the world is going on with that one?
00:07:00.740Yeah, we found that one out a couple weeks ago when I did my first refugee investigation into their behaviors in the hotels.
00:07:06.880The hotel management were emailing their contacts in the federal government complaining about the bad TripAdvisor reviews they were getting because of all the mayhem being caused in their hotels by the refugees.
00:07:18.360So, the bureaucrats, their solution to this wasn't send in more monitors into the hotel to get a handle on the refugees, send in increased security, whatever they needed to do.
00:07:29.040Instead, what they were doing is planting fake good reviews on TripAdvisor to offset the bad reviews.
00:07:37.880So, the solution from the federal government was basically to mislead the Canadian public before they spent their hard-earned money in these hotels.
00:07:46.880And you, when you're going through these TripAdvisor reviews, you can see like a million bad reviews.
00:07:52.200And then all of a sudden, in the middle of it all, there's this one glowing review about the service.
00:07:56.440And you know, you just know that's a fake one.
00:08:07.400Sheila, and by the way, in case people haven't seen some of your superb reports, the problems at these hotels, they're not insignificant.
00:08:17.720You came across reports of people urinating in the hallways, vandalizing Bibles for whatever reason, assaulting or harassing female maid staff, instilling Sharia swimming time.
00:08:36.880So, the men are separate from the women.
00:08:41.200This is really disturbing to me, Sheila.
00:08:43.820And I'm not trying to malign everyone from Syria.
00:08:46.760But is there really a cultural divide here?
00:08:50.820Or did we just really have bad luck in terms of importing some really bad apples into this country?
00:08:58.220I think it's six of one, half a dozen of another with a little bit of government ineptitude thrown into the mix.
00:09:04.080I did find some hotels where there were pretty well-behaved refugees, as in there were no bad trip advisor reviews related to the refugees.
00:09:13.700There were bad trip advisor reviews, don't get me wrong.
00:09:15.820But they weren't related to the refugees.
00:09:18.160So, I would hope that those refugees in those hotels had really good government monitors looking out for them, helping them with the cultural divide and the culture shock.
00:09:30.040But a lot of these hotels had some really terrible, poorly behaved people showing up in them and causing absolute mayhem.
00:09:38.780And a lot of the things that I saw in those other reports, those government documents, are being bolstered in these trip advisor reviews.
00:09:47.220For example, I found people complaining about the Sharia swim times and how the pools were closed to non-refugee guests when they had paid extra to use a hotel water park.
00:10:00.040And I found two separate complaints from parents on trip advisor complaining that refugee men were photographing their daughters on their way to the swimming pool in their bathing suits.
00:10:15.540So, some of this is cultural, some of this is just bad behavior, and some of this is the government not doing their job to make sure that these refugees are appropriately acclimated to Canadian culture.
00:10:28.800And, you know, Sheila, here's what I think is a big question on this whole issue, and it's this.
00:10:34.620What is in it for the hotels to sign on to such a program?
00:10:39.240I mean, are they getting overcompensated by the government for the rooms to put up with the aggravation, if you will?
00:10:47.400Or do you think, you know, they were trying to do, I don't know, maybe virtue signaling, they were trying to give back, and they simply didn't realize what they were getting into?
00:10:56.380I think a lot of this is consistent income into the hotels.
00:11:03.480I don't know the rates that they were charging.
00:11:06.080We're going to file access to information requests to try to find out what some of these contract rates were, especially for hotels that normally sit half empty.
00:11:15.580If they can fill half of them up with committed government-contracted refugees, it makes economic sense for some of these hotels that are in decline to do that, to basically turn themselves into a hostel.
00:11:30.060My problem with that is that paying customers, paying Canadians, saving their hard-earned money, their after-tax dollars that the government didn't take from them,
00:11:37.600to spend on these hotels to have themselves be completely blindsided by the fact that they're staying in a refugee camp.
00:11:45.080So I'll try to find out that information.
00:11:47.140The information from the federal government sort of trickles in towards us.
00:11:50.420But we'll try to find out the motivations for all of this.
00:17:39.060And actually what happened was there was a huge riot.
00:17:42.940Two prison officers had their jaws broken and one prison officer had their arm broken.
00:17:48.040So very different to what the authorities were reporting.
00:17:51.300And this is what prison officers face on a daily basis when they go on shift.
00:17:55.000More and more prisoners spending more and more time locked in their cells, frustrations growing.
00:18:00.640And of course, they become the victims and the targets of attack.
00:18:04.040And it seems very different to the American system where I think prison officers are much more in control.
00:18:09.680Oh, indeed. And, you know, when we look at what is going to be done, you mentioned, Katie, the prisons minister in the UK, he pledged 10 million pounds.
00:18:20.600I don't know where that 10 million pounds is going.
00:18:23.960And so what is that money going to solve in this case?
00:18:28.140Well, you know, he just plucked a figure from the sky that might sound like a press release, if you ask me.
00:18:35.980I could have chosen another orifice that he plucked that from.
00:18:39.740Essentially, what he's going to be doing is a kind of pilot scheme in some prisons to try and control the amount of violence.
00:18:45.880And so what he said was, if I don't get prison violence down, I'm going to resign from my job.
00:18:52.040You know, and I can tell you prison officers working inside those prisons couldn't give a stop what some bureaucrat in a suit says about resigning his job.
00:19:01.440You know, these guys face a battering on a daily basis.
00:19:54.600And when our prisoners go inside the prison, they don't just receive, you know, their prison outfit, their cell and their bag, their kit bag.
00:20:02.360They also receive printed instructions on how to take drugs safely whilst inside jail.
00:20:10.340You know, it doesn't sound like much of an incarceration facility, but Katie, when you point out that disgusting anecdote of prisoners throwing fecal matter at people, when they do something like that, are they not thrown in the hole, put into solitary?
00:20:28.600I mean, what is the crime and punishment angle here once they are in jail?
00:20:34.560It's almost as if, David, you know, that idea that we have to kind of empathize with victim.
00:20:39.800You know, we have to feel sorry for those who are criminals.
00:20:44.600You know, we have to empathize that they may have had a tough life.
00:20:47.260It's very much that attitude seems to be pervasive in terms of the leadership of these prisons.
00:20:52.120So there's this idea that we have to be respectful of these criminals and they've had a difficult time.
00:20:56.840That's why they're throwing human feces at prison officers.
00:21:00.720You know, there was an example I was just given of a gentleman in a prison and he was told that he was going to have to share his cell because there were two beds in that cell.
00:21:09.220He said, if you put someone in here with me, I will kill them within 24 hours.
00:21:14.460And of course, rather than make that happen, they changed him across and moved him to a single cell.
00:21:19.900So it's very much the case that in prison, the gangs are in charge, drugs are commonplace, and prison officers are really taking a battering.
00:21:28.620And I think it has to be said that I imagine very soon we will face another catastrophic prison riot.
00:21:35.900And I believe this time police officers will be killed.
00:21:52.780And we've had a child killer move to a native healing lodge, which resembles a Motel 6 more than it does, you know, a prison complete with kitchenette and a lounge.
00:22:06.680But to show our viewers how incredibly off the charts things have gone insane in the U.K. prison system, we were mentioning off-air that story from a couple months ago that there are actually drones flying into prisons to deliver drugs and cell phones to the prisoners.
00:22:25.660And it's like a regular postal delivery almost.
00:22:30.880And the authorities are shrugging, oh, well, we know what you're going to do about it.
00:22:36.480Can't they shoot these things out of the sky?
00:22:38.740No, you have a very kind of American attitude, David.
00:22:44.280Remember, I'm an NRA member as well, so I'm all about guns.
00:22:48.160But in the U.K., of course, we're the opposite of that.
00:22:51.500So we don't believe anyone should be touched with anything more than maybe a fly swat.
00:22:55.660We equip our prison officers and our police with nothing more than a can of Clorex and some antiseptic wipes and tell them to get on with their job.
00:23:05.100You know, these drones are flying into prisons, carrying the drug loads.
00:23:09.140The drugs are ordered by cell phones, mobile phones, which the prisoners have.
00:23:13.780There's a special brand of cell phone that is particularly designed so that it can't be seen passing through prison scanners.
00:23:20.600I mean, prisoners really have got the whole thing sewn up.
00:23:24.640They've got this down to a T, and it's an industry inside of there.
00:23:29.380And really, prison officers are incapable of doing anything about it, but also prison officers are very much under attack.
00:23:37.060And I think that's the really worrying thing is not only are they under attack, but they feel that they can't speak out about it.
00:23:43.800And that's the big silencing that's happening everywhere.
00:23:47.120And it's what we all see, I think, and what your viewers will totally understand,
00:23:51.760and this sense that people can no longer say anything because they will lose their job.
00:25:20.880We are much more in a stage where we are respecting people's rights, you know, respecting the right of the prisoner to be absolutely abhorrent.
00:25:29.500But in my dream world, of course, all of these things would happen overnight.
00:25:32.700But you imagine after the riot, after prison officers are killed, then we will see change happen.
00:25:39.520Ah, so it's the Islamists who are the religious nutters.
00:25:42.660I thought you were talking about radicalized Mormons or something, Katie.
00:26:58.180Now, if you go to Holland, they actually created an educational video to be shown in schools to warn children about these crimes.
00:27:06.500When they tried to show that in Britain in 2007, the British establishment would not allow that video to be shown because, like you, just go, ooh, it would incite racial hatred.
00:31:40.540When I went to the Ryerson School of Journalism for three years in the early 80s, if we, in a lab assignment, tried to pull this on anybody, our professors, they would have taken us to the woodshed.
00:31:56.780Most of them were ex-journalists themselves.
00:31:59.440It's appalling to me to think that there are people in the mainstream media that are actually on this kind of a propaganda witch hunt where they're not.
00:32:35.880And then we all went outside, and Tommy sort of held court in the hallway of the court and talked to them for about 15 minutes, really briefed them carefully on things.
00:32:44.740And then I was so surprised, he gave all of these newspapers his personal cell phone, which, I mean, maybe that's not dramatic, but I was quite surprised he did.
00:32:53.940And he answered their questions, and he was not mean-spirited or rude or any way.
00:32:59.420And I just knew, I thought, look at Tommy trying so hard to tell the truth, and every one of them walked out of there, ignored everything he said, and stuck a knife in and twisted.
00:33:13.020And I thought, they're not even journalists.
00:33:43.840I said, well, it's just me against, it's like eight to one, right?
00:33:46.820So we set up a website called realreporters.uk, and what I said to our viewers is, I can't do this by myself.
00:33:56.740I mean, I'm going to keep going, but let's get reporters from Washington, from California, from anywhere around the world.
00:34:02.840So we have talked to six different reporters who have expressed interest, and four of them have signed up already, to go to London to cover Tommy's trial.
00:34:13.700And I'm not paying them a fee, I'm just paying their flight, their hotel accommodation, cab fare, and $100 in, like, lunch money.
00:34:23.380And those four that we speak of, Ezra, Cassandra Fairbanks, Andrew Lawton, Tarek Fatah, Candace Malcolm, these are all excellent journalists.
00:34:34.540And, you know, how is the campaign coming along?
00:34:37.220Because I think, you know, it is amazing that a Canadian media outlet like ourselves has to, you know, ferry over some reporters, some journalists, commentators,
00:34:48.100that are going to actually deliver the truth.
00:34:50.320Because the UK, which I thought had a very vibrant, competitive journalistic industry,
00:34:57.000they're all simpatico on going after Tommy, inexplicably.
00:35:02.220Yeah. Before I knew about this Tommy case, I would have said the most competitive media in the English language is in London.
00:35:10.660You have the broadsheets, you have the tabloids, you have the Fleet Street gutter press, you've got the wilds, you know, they're very competitive.
00:35:18.220I would have thought. And there's, unlike our Canadian media party where everyone's so very friendly, they hate each other over there.
00:35:26.980Well, not on the case of Tommy Robinson. They're all in it together.
00:35:30.460And even the newspapers that claim to have a working class background, they despise Tommy and his working class supporters.
00:35:39.320So some of the names you mentioned, I mean, Cassandra Fairbanks, a young lady in Washington, D.C. for Gateway Pundit, covers Capitol Hill for them.
00:35:50.180And I said to Cassandra and all the others, I said, you've got to get your editors to prove this, obviously, because we're raising the money and we're giving the money.
00:35:58.740It's an economy class flight and it's a three-star hotel, so nothing too fancy and cab fare.
00:36:05.520And what's exciting is I've had other reporters, including as far away as South Africa and Australia, reach out and say, hey, can you bring me two?
00:36:17.320The guy from Australia, I'm working with him right now.
00:36:19.840I guess I'll just tell you, it's Avi Yamini, who's very active down there.
00:36:25.260And it looks like we found a flight for less than $1,000 from Australia to London.
00:36:32.480So if we can get this $1,000 flight for him, that'll add another guy.
00:36:36.480The guy from South Africa, I want to check him out.
00:36:38.420I mean, I want people who have a good following and a good audience and a real journalist.
00:36:42.500And if we can crowdfund for them, I mean, I think we're going to wind up spending $10,000 or $15,000.
00:36:47.680If we have six or seven people to fly him in, and the guy, if we bring him in from Australia, he's going to want to spend more than two nights.
00:36:55.260Like, you've got to bring him in a day early so he can get over his time zone.
00:37:55.620And I say that as someone who's been on the receiving end of censorship.
00:37:59.300Because the other free speech advocates out there are, by definition, people who are controversial.
00:38:04.340If you're just, you know, sports or cooking or light features, no one's going to try and censor you.
00:38:11.800But if you are being censored, odds are you've said something that hurt someone's feelings or it was prickly or it was offensive to somebody.