Rebel News Podcast - August 29, 2020


Rebel Roundup： Tent city claims another neighborhood, Goodyear's very bad week, and more


Episode Stats

Length

31 minutes

Words per Minute

157.1919

Word Count

4,885

Sentence Count

329

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode of Rebel Roundup, host David Menzies is joined by Andrew Chapados and Jerea Humphrey to discuss the growing problem of homeless encampments near elementary schools across the street from a school in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.


Transcript

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00:01:23.460 You're listening to Rebel News Podcast.
00:01:33.600 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:37.260 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
00:01:42.600 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:44.460 So much for the tagline, beautiful British Columbia.
00:01:48.880 Oh yeah, the gorgeous mountains and the magnificent Pacific Ocean.
00:01:52.500 They're still mainstays on Canada's left coast, but so too these days are filthy tent cities.
00:01:59.520 Drea Humphrey visited one of the latest ones to pop up in Victoria, right near an elementary school.
00:02:06.260 And what a bad month for a good year.
00:02:10.200 No, not due to a tire recall, but rather thanks to the company implementing a discriminatory dress code
00:02:17.400 that was seemingly designed by uber-woke social justice warriors.
00:02:23.160 Andrew Chapados has plenty to say on this PR disaster.
00:02:27.700 And finally, letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day.
00:02:32.700 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my report on Carol Jansen of Thunder Bay,
00:02:38.260 who allegedly got roughed up by security guards and was banned for life
00:02:43.300 when she visited the intercity shopping center.
00:02:47.460 Her crime being breaching Wuhan virus safety protocols?
00:02:52.440 Just while you hear this one, folks.
00:02:54.800 Those are your Rebels. Now let's round them up.
00:02:57.700 Many parents have been tasked with weighing the mental health pros for keeping their children in school this fall
00:03:08.440 against possible cons linked to the repetitive, worse-than-the-first-wave-of-COVID-19 warnings we've been getting.
00:03:15.740 But parents whose children attend South Park Elementary in Victoria, B.C.,
00:03:20.340 have a unique concern to weigh regarding the well-being of their children,
00:03:24.520 and that is the ever-growing tent city that's located directly across the street from their children's school.
00:03:32.380 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News.
00:03:34.260 And this past weekend, I took a walk through Beacon Hill Park.
00:03:37.800 This beautiful park, which is described by Victoria.ca as the crowning jewel in Victoria's park system,
00:03:45.200 has become less popular for families to enjoy.
00:03:48.260 It's approximately 740,000 square metres of parkland is now being utilised as a tent city of over 100 homeless people.
00:03:58.420 According to Victoria.ca, a court order was granted to the city that required tent residents to be reallocated within the park.
00:04:06.500 While that was probably a step in the right direction, many feel it's not enough.
00:04:11.280 Concerns about both the threat of the preservation of the park and the safety of the surrounding citizens are still commonly expressed by many.
00:04:20.840 Stephen Andrew, a candidate running for Victoria City Council, told me that there is an increased police patrols in the park
00:04:28.360 due to reports of increased criminal activity in and around the park.
00:04:32.820 Many people reach out to him to say that they feel unsafe.
00:04:36.480 On August 20th, Czech News.ca reported that according to the police data calls,
00:04:42.580 reports of mischief, weapons, street violence and break-in enters in the downtown core are on the rise.
00:04:50.000 Another common concern when homeless encampments take over any public area
00:04:54.580 is the risk regarding improperly disposed needles,
00:04:58.620 especially given that this encampment is literally across the street from an elementary school like this one.
00:05:05.620 Global News reported that on August 23rd, Victoria Police issued a warning to the public
00:05:12.180 after a man walking through a trail at the park felt a pain in his foot
00:05:16.360 only to discover he had been poked by an uncapped needle.
00:05:21.180 Now, the city's mayor, Lisa Helps, sent a letter out to parents at South Park Elementary.
00:05:27.340 According to CTV News, Helps said that the encampment tents are not in an appropriate place
00:05:33.860 and that the city staff were drafting amendments to bylaws
00:05:37.940 that would prevent sheltering in tents near the school.
00:05:42.600 Now, with that said, many tax-paying residents are not holding their breath for Mayor Helps
00:05:48.100 and are losing faith in her, especially after Mayor Helps and other city council members
00:05:53.620 stood in favour of deferring enforcement of the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. bylaw
00:05:59.380 that was designed to have the campers cleared out during the day.
00:06:03.740 Over 25,000 city residents who still have concerns for the rare and sensitive ecology in the park,
00:06:10.620 the safety for the local citizens, as well as who also wish to find an appropriate housing solution
00:06:17.560 for the homeless have come together to sign a petition to help save Beacon Park.
00:06:23.220 The petition states that the city of Victoria is actually breaking the law
00:06:29.260 regarding the establishing of a tent city at Beacon Hill Park.
00:06:34.260 Well, yet again, another tent city fiasco, and yet again, another failure on the behalf
00:06:40.280 of those in government who refuse to govern, and those in law enforcement who refuse to enforce the law.
00:06:46.720 And the end result? Law-abiding citizens suffer from enduring an eyesore occupied by potentially dangerous people.
00:06:56.580 Lovely.
00:06:57.860 And joining me now to discuss her latest descent into tent city madness, B.C. style, is Drea Humphrey.
00:07:04.920 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Drea.
00:07:07.480 Hey, David. Hey, everyone.
00:07:09.000 So, Drea, why are these tent city people getting away with such lawlessness in the first place?
00:07:17.760 You know, that's a good question.
00:07:19.680 It's almost as if, in my opinion, that the powers that be, whether it be the mayor or the people voting,
00:07:26.800 are just, they're terrified to actually be stiff on the people in the encampments.
00:07:33.200 And I know it's a complicated situation, but in this last example, being right across the street from an elementary school
00:07:41.500 is just completely, completely inappropriate.
00:07:44.900 So, you have to be stiffer.
00:07:47.520 You know, I think you're right.
00:07:48.660 I think they are being driven by political correctness.
00:07:51.340 But at the same time, I think this is somewhat self-defeating in terms of just plain old-fashioned politics.
00:07:58.960 What I'm saying, Drea, is that I don't think the residents in tent cities are voting, right?
00:08:04.880 So, that the constituencies of these mayors, these council people,
00:08:10.840 they're the actual tax-paying citizens that are getting sick and tired of putting up with this.
00:08:16.820 So, you would think that would be impetus for them to do something constructive
00:08:21.360 for the people who are actually paying their salaries.
00:08:25.340 You would think.
00:08:26.620 I mean, a couple of people had mentioned that Mayor Health in Victoria, BC,
00:08:31.600 where this last tent city that I covered was,
00:08:34.280 had said when she first started that Victoria was too perfect.
00:08:38.040 So, they kind of made the joke that maybe this is just adding a little bit of spice.
00:08:42.460 But, yeah, we have a really big problem in BC with homelessness.
00:08:48.720 It's on the rise.
00:08:49.620 Our fatal overdoses continue to be the highest our province has seen.
00:08:54.320 So, there's a real big issue and people are dying and not finding homes
00:09:00.660 and other people are not comfortable walking in their own neighbourhoods,
00:09:04.380 even though they pay taxes.
00:09:06.100 Yeah, and, you know, let's talk about the danger aspect.
00:09:09.620 I mean, let's face it.
00:09:11.360 There are some mentally unstable people.
00:09:14.340 There are some drug addicts that are part of these encampments
00:09:18.000 and they've been known to act out violently.
00:09:21.080 Furthermore, Drea, when it comes to intravenous drug use,
00:09:25.340 aren't there reports in this neighbourhood of spent needles,
00:09:29.500 which, you know, God forbid, a child happens upon that?
00:09:32.760 And that's not a stretch because there's an elementary school nearby, isn't there?
00:09:37.620 There is.
00:09:38.400 It's right nearby.
00:09:39.780 And also, this time of year, there's people visiting that aren't aware
00:09:43.180 there's a tent city.
00:09:44.760 There is quite a large park, so you can enter on one end and not realise it
00:09:49.180 and walk through a trail and, oops, you have your kids with you.
00:09:52.440 And so, yeah, there was that gentleman who just was walking along on the trail
00:09:57.240 and Prick says, what?
00:09:59.320 On a used needle.
00:10:00.860 I mean, how horrifying.
00:10:02.960 That is horrifying.
00:10:03.820 And to me, it goes against what we've always been told by our public officials,
00:10:09.580 especially these days with the pandemic, Adria,
00:10:12.700 that public safety trumps everything.
00:10:16.080 You know, and some elected officials are actually using public safety
00:10:19.680 to trump constitutional rights and freedoms.
00:10:22.720 So why is it that with this kind of a health hazard,
00:10:26.520 and that's what this is, that the health advocates,
00:10:30.620 you know, the Department of Health aren't declaring an emergency
00:10:34.820 because that's what I think this is,
00:10:36.920 and shutting this down in the name of public health?
00:10:41.540 Well, apparently there are some sorts of advocates
00:10:45.120 and they are pro the encampment being there.
00:10:49.920 I know with my last tent city coverage,
00:10:51.920 there was the Indigenous leader advocates, whatever you want to call them.
00:10:56.800 And so I don't know where the other advocates are for the people.
00:11:01.040 The lady that I interviewed, Janice Williams,
00:11:03.300 she basically said, you know, the silent majority is they get in trouble for speaking out.
00:11:08.800 And this is something that we're seeing in Canada in kind of all aspects right now.
00:11:14.220 It's not just about tent cities.
00:11:16.440 It's pretty much if you're saying anything that isn't parroted in mainstream media,
00:11:21.180 then you're going to get some backlash.
00:11:24.240 And that's why it's so important for the silent majority to keep speaking up,
00:11:28.480 to say, no, this is how most of us think,
00:11:31.200 or this is how a lot of us think,
00:11:33.660 so that that cancel mob can't survive.
00:11:38.620 Yeah, no, that's a very good point.
00:11:39.900 And before we wrap up, Drea,
00:11:41.260 when she spoke about getting backlash,
00:11:44.080 is she talking about, I don't know, nasty comments online,
00:11:46.860 and to me, sticks and stones and all that?
00:11:48.880 Or was she actually talking about threats of physical violence,
00:11:52.260 people actually coming to our house to make a statement,
00:11:56.240 which to me is completely offside.
00:11:59.140 Where do you think she was going with that comment?
00:12:01.480 Well, I heard from her and another source
00:12:04.480 that the original lady who is a senior who started the petition,
00:12:10.360 I believe her name is Cynthia Dyadek,
00:12:12.560 she was actually threatened.
00:12:14.940 Somebody threatened to slit her throat as well as her dog's throat.
00:12:18.340 So, yeah, there's actual legitimate threats.
00:12:22.500 The crime has gone up.
00:12:24.360 Also, one of the security guards who didn't want to be on camera,
00:12:29.560 he said that they were there to help staff,
00:12:32.660 city staff, be escorted through the park.
00:12:35.520 So it's quite a scary place to be.
00:12:38.580 And you guys heard Giannis say the comments
00:12:41.980 about what the father and his daughter almost,
00:12:45.820 his daughter almost saw when he went to check out
00:12:48.200 the ladies' bathroom in the park there.
00:12:50.240 So that's terrifying.
00:12:51.280 That's something you can't unsee.
00:12:53.100 And I don't know, I do read the comments.
00:12:55.020 I don't usually comment back, but I do like reading them.
00:12:58.940 And someone hit it on the nail in the comments of that video.
00:13:02.420 They said they bet it was Jonathan Yaniv in there.
00:13:06.940 But, yeah, I mean...
00:13:09.420 Please, I scare easy.
00:13:10.500 Well, Drea, a great report on a terrible situation,
00:13:18.760 a terrible situation that exists, as far as I'm concerned,
00:13:21.740 because of a complete lack of political will
00:13:24.900 to do something constructive.
00:13:26.340 In the meantime, if I was living in this neighborhood,
00:13:28.840 I don't mean to be glib about this,
00:13:31.380 I'm probably buying some steel-toed boots
00:13:33.440 just so that I don't have a spent needle
00:13:36.360 pricking me in the foot.
00:13:38.600 What a horrible story that was.
00:13:40.000 So, once again, Drea, thanks so much for joining me today
00:13:42.800 on this important subject.
00:13:43.920 All right. Thanks, David. Bye, everyone.
00:13:46.180 You got it.
00:13:46.800 And that was Drea Humphrey in Vancouver.
00:13:49.400 Keep it here, folks.
00:13:50.420 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:13:58.140 Goodyear Tires has apparently been caught lying
00:14:00.560 when they said their anti-MEGA policy going around online
00:14:03.660 didn't come from them at all.
00:14:05.920 After an anonymous whistleblower from Goodyear
00:14:07.720 released this image to the media,
00:14:09.620 showing that Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride attire
00:14:12.800 was acceptable,
00:14:13.700 but Blue Lives or All Lives Matter
00:14:15.480 and MAGA attire were unacceptable,
00:14:17.620 Twitter erupted at the double standard.
00:14:20.040 The employee said, quote,
00:14:21.280 The thing that we were given in the presentation
00:14:23.400 was from Akron, Ohio,
00:14:25.000 and we were told is for every Goodyear site,
00:14:27.400 whether it was a plant or store.
00:14:29.200 This even prompted President Trump
00:14:30.820 to chime in online on Twitter saying,
00:14:33.380 Don't buy Goodyear tires.
00:14:34.800 They announced a ban on MAGA hats.
00:14:36.800 Get better tires for far less.
00:14:38.540 This is what the radical left Democrats do.
00:14:40.660 Two can play the same game,
00:14:41.960 and we've got to start playing it now.
00:14:44.100 The president calling for a boycott
00:14:45.580 is a huge deal for a company,
00:14:47.460 so obviously Goodyear responded.
00:14:49.300 In their statement, the tire giant claimed,
00:14:51.880 The visual in question was not created
00:14:53.640 or distributed by Goodyear corporate,
00:14:55.920 nor was it a part of a diversity training class.
00:14:59.160 They continued,
00:15:00.080 We appreciate the diverse viewpoint
00:15:01.420 of all of our more than 60,000 associates.
00:15:04.060 We ask associates to not engage
00:15:05.920 in political campaigning of any kind
00:15:07.840 in the workplace for any candidate,
00:15:09.640 party, or political organization.
00:15:11.540 End quote.
00:15:12.320 Unfortunately for Goodyear,
00:15:13.860 there has been some leaked audio
00:15:15.340 from a meeting in Topeka, Kansas,
00:15:17.060 which pretty much says exactly
00:15:18.740 what the leaked photo said all along.
00:15:20.400 If you pride on their face covering shirts
00:15:22.360 or wristbands,
00:15:23.660 that will be deemed approved
00:15:25.420 because it complies with zero tolerance stamp.
00:15:29.440 However, if any associate wears
00:15:32.180 all blue, white Lives Matter shirts
00:15:36.780 for face covering,
00:15:38.740 that will be not appropriate.
00:15:40.840 And that's why you never show
00:15:42.460 all your cards right away.
00:15:44.400 So supporting BLM is okay.
00:15:46.800 Trump or police support
00:15:48.260 is not okay, according to Goodyear.
00:15:49.900 Even by their own statement,
00:15:51.780 Goodyear seems to think
00:15:52.580 that Black Lives Matter
00:15:53.480 is not a political statement
00:15:54.780 or organization,
00:15:56.300 but saying all lives
00:15:57.680 or blue Lives Matter is.
00:15:59.000 It's weird how that works.
00:16:00.220 It doesn't make any sense to me.
00:16:01.920 So is Goodyear lying
00:16:03.120 and just got caught?
00:16:04.760 Or are they completely clueless?
00:16:06.300 Or maybe is it a little bit of both?
00:16:08.360 Astonishing on so many levels.
00:16:10.840 First, a company picking and choosing
00:16:13.160 the proper politics and ideology
00:16:16.240 for its employees to support,
00:16:18.240 and then getting caught in a bold-faced lie,
00:16:22.000 and then doing some quick backtracking.
00:16:25.120 Well, sort of.
00:16:26.680 Joining me now with more on this sordid story
00:16:28.980 is Andrew Chapados.
00:16:30.740 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
00:16:32.500 Thank you.
00:16:32.940 I believe this is my second appearance
00:16:34.460 on the coveted David Menzies Rebel Roundup.
00:16:37.700 Well, thank you so much.
00:16:39.300 I'm glad you could make an edu in.
00:16:41.640 Andrew, here's the thing.
00:16:43.440 Why in the world did Goodyear
00:16:45.940 wade into this PR fiasco?
00:16:49.760 I thought the idea of a tire company
00:16:53.040 is to make, market, and sell tires,
00:16:56.760 not to get involved in politics
00:16:59.120 in the first place.
00:17:00.040 What I find usually happens
00:17:01.660 is that there's got to be somebody
00:17:03.340 in the public relations department
00:17:05.000 or somewhere up there in Goodyear
00:17:07.120 where they've been on Twitter,
00:17:08.780 so they think that everyone supports
00:17:11.000 Black Lives Matter,
00:17:12.420 and it's a great marketing move
00:17:14.960 for them to say, this is great.
00:17:16.740 Everybody will join in,
00:17:18.120 and we'll all get along,
00:17:19.380 and we'll probably get more money
00:17:20.520 for supporting Black Lives Matter.
00:17:22.420 So somebody probably thought,
00:17:23.840 oh, it's a good idea.
00:17:24.740 It means no harm.
00:17:25.640 Everybody agrees with it.
00:17:26.660 Little do they know,
00:17:27.520 or maybe they do know.
00:17:28.640 I don't know.
00:17:29.160 That it is a political organization.
00:17:32.420 They need to stop pretending.
00:17:33.500 In their statement,
00:17:34.640 they say they don't allow employees
00:17:36.880 to wear stuff that supports
00:17:38.380 political groups or political candidates,
00:17:40.900 but that's exactly what Black Lives Matter is.
00:17:42.760 It's not a grassroots movement.
00:17:45.420 It's a well-funded organization,
00:17:47.620 and as everybody knows now,
00:17:49.340 their donations go to Democrat campaigns.
00:17:53.380 Yeah, and let's be very clear.
00:17:55.140 When you say Black Lives Matter
00:17:57.000 as a generic statement,
00:17:58.280 well, of course.
00:17:59.660 Every reasonable person agrees with that
00:18:01.580 as much as you'd agree
00:18:02.440 that white lives matter,
00:18:04.580 Asian lives matter,
00:18:06.020 Hindu lives matter,
00:18:07.140 however you want to frame it,
00:18:08.200 all lives matter,
00:18:09.200 but the actual organization,
00:18:11.260 this is something beholden
00:18:12.740 to Marxism, to anarchists.
00:18:16.260 It is a very odious,
00:18:18.640 anti-democratic organization.
00:18:20.620 It fuels itself on the violence
00:18:25.220 we see happening in so many American cities right now.
00:18:28.500 So the idea that, you know,
00:18:31.120 Goodyear was ostensibly saying,
00:18:33.680 or their executive team,
00:18:35.000 that this is just a statement of solidarity,
00:18:38.320 speaking out against racial inequity
00:18:41.140 and racial injustice,
00:18:42.620 no, it's not.
00:18:43.820 Well, that's what they do with everything.
00:18:45.280 Black Lives Matter,
00:18:46.020 you can't disagree with that,
00:18:47.460 and anti-fascists,
00:18:48.660 you can't disagree with that.
00:18:49.620 It goes right up to Women's March,
00:18:51.400 which is founded by a terrorist
00:18:53.720 amongst other people,
00:18:55.260 but one of them a terrorist looking up.
00:18:56.960 Speaking of Linda Sarsour?
00:18:58.240 No, there's another woman
00:18:59.620 who was a convicted terrorist.
00:19:01.080 She was a getaway driver in a terrorist act,
00:19:03.240 and she committed immigration fraud.
00:19:06.040 She's been since removed from the placards
00:19:08.740 on the Wikipedia page and everything.
00:19:10.560 Wow.
00:19:10.840 And then there's Children's March.
00:19:12.860 It's all just names to cover
00:19:14.700 for communism, essentially.
00:19:17.560 I mean, I hate to just be like,
00:19:18.740 because I'm so cut and dry like that,
00:19:20.940 because everything's either fascism
00:19:22.300 or communism now,
00:19:23.560 but this is what it is.
00:19:25.040 Black Lives Matter admits
00:19:26.600 that they're Marxist.
00:19:27.840 They have on their website
00:19:29.080 destroy the nuclear family unit.
00:19:31.640 They're obviously anti-police.
00:19:33.080 They want to defund police.
00:19:34.420 None of that gets mentioned.
00:19:36.660 It's just, it's a nice phrase, you guys.
00:19:38.760 You don't believe it?
00:19:39.800 Like the people in the restaurants,
00:19:41.040 raise your fist or we're going to yell at you
00:19:42.680 by some scrawny teenagers
00:19:44.640 who don't know what they're talking about.
00:19:46.400 Now, it should be noted, Andrew,
00:19:48.160 to Goodyear's CEO, Rich Kramer.
00:19:51.320 He said several days ago,
00:19:52.980 the company had clarified its policy
00:19:56.120 to make it clear that employees
00:19:58.020 can wear apparel expressing support
00:20:00.440 for law enforcement.
00:20:02.400 And of course, this is in reaction
00:20:05.040 to the boycott announced by President Trump.
00:20:08.480 That's serious stuff,
00:20:09.380 especially when your shares fall 6% overnight.
00:20:13.260 But missing from this
00:20:15.480 is whether an employee
00:20:17.600 can wear a MAGA hat or not.
00:20:19.840 Now, on the flip side,
00:20:22.240 Goodyear says it has a longstanding policy
00:20:24.140 of asking employees
00:20:25.340 of refraining from working place
00:20:28.160 expressions of support
00:20:29.320 for any political candidates.
00:20:31.300 Well, a MAGA hat
00:20:32.960 isn't a specific political candidate,
00:20:35.340 of course.
00:20:35.720 It's a political movement.
00:20:36.740 So, the retraction,
00:20:39.900 the clarification,
00:20:41.400 it's very hazy to me.
00:20:42.760 I'm not actually sure
00:20:43.960 if I work for Goodyear
00:20:45.120 what I can and cannot wear.
00:20:47.100 What do you make of this?
00:20:48.120 I would assume by the wording,
00:20:50.540 as you would with any lawyer's letter
00:20:52.360 or legal document like that,
00:20:53.640 when they say something like that,
00:20:55.020 when they're suggesting it,
00:20:56.300 it means that they can't force you.
00:20:57.960 We're thinking about suing you.
00:21:00.300 And I think what they would say
00:21:02.260 in the MAGA defense
00:21:03.880 or the point that you just made
00:21:05.660 is that they would argue,
00:21:07.200 well, obviously you support Trump
00:21:08.760 if you're a MAGA person,
00:21:09.980 but they wouldn't allow
00:21:11.100 such nuance on the other way.
00:21:13.020 They wouldn't allow you
00:21:13.920 to wear something else
00:21:15.120 and say, well,
00:21:15.860 this is obviously a DNC
00:21:17.520 or a communist thing.
00:21:18.940 I don't think they would allow
00:21:19.920 room for that argument
00:21:20.860 on the other side
00:21:21.880 because no one ever does.
00:21:23.560 And as an employer,
00:21:24.600 you do have the right
00:21:25.580 to implement dress code standards.
00:21:28.320 There's no question about that.
00:21:29.860 But you can't say,
00:21:31.480 well, this political movement,
00:21:32.720 this ideology, okay,
00:21:34.380 this one, not okay.
00:21:35.680 That is completely offside.
00:21:37.780 And, you know,
00:21:38.440 that's why I think
00:21:39.720 the president called
00:21:40.780 for the boycott.
00:21:41.600 And, you know,
00:21:41.900 the blowback, of course,
00:21:43.040 Andrew was saying,
00:21:44.040 hey, Goodyear's
00:21:44.980 an American company.
00:21:46.000 They're based in Akron, Ohio.
00:21:47.280 There's a plant there.
00:21:48.620 You know, with this kind
00:21:50.380 of a boycott,
00:21:51.480 Americans risk being thrown
00:21:52.800 out of work.
00:21:53.920 How dare, you know,
00:21:54.820 the president do this?
00:21:56.080 I say, no, no, no.
00:21:57.520 What these employees,
00:21:58.440 what these Goodyear tire dealers
00:22:00.160 should be doing
00:22:00.840 who might be hurting from this
00:22:02.800 is going to their executives,
00:22:05.060 you know,
00:22:05.420 at Goodyear Corporate
00:22:06.480 and going,
00:22:07.160 what the hell
00:22:07.760 were you guys thinking?
00:22:09.200 Well, yeah,
00:22:10.240 people could get other tires.
00:22:12.160 And the thing about this
00:22:13.140 is why they're
00:22:14.000 backtracking so much
00:22:15.060 is they have contracts
00:22:16.080 with tons of police departments.
00:22:17.640 And one of the quotes
00:22:19.360 from somebody
00:22:20.020 who represented,
00:22:21.040 I forget where,
00:22:22.060 police department,
00:22:23.100 they said,
00:22:24.520 you'll let our tires
00:22:25.600 wear down
00:22:26.980 by us protecting you,
00:22:28.380 but then you'll stab us
00:22:29.460 in the back
00:22:29.840 with these types of statements.
00:22:30.800 I'm paraphrasing.
00:22:31.520 That's essentially
00:22:32.020 what it was.
00:22:32.580 You could,
00:22:33.020 well, we're allowed
00:22:33.580 to use your tires,
00:22:34.420 but you won't publicly
00:22:35.520 endorse us, essentially.
00:22:37.140 And they're still pretending
00:22:38.360 Black Lives Matter
00:22:39.300 is not a political organization
00:22:40.540 in this statement.
00:22:41.520 You know,
00:22:41.920 and that is ludicrous.
00:22:43.040 And you raise
00:22:43.700 a good point, too.
00:22:44.540 Think of the thousands
00:22:47.260 and thousands
00:22:48.000 of American law enforcement
00:22:50.280 vehicles that are probably
00:22:52.480 a large chunk of them
00:22:53.940 buying Goodyear tires.
00:22:55.080 If you're in charge
00:22:56.000 of procurement
00:22:56.540 with a police force,
00:22:57.980 is Goodyear at the top
00:22:59.980 of your list right now?
00:23:00.820 Or maybe you're looking
00:23:01.500 at competitors
00:23:02.200 like Bridgestone and Toyo
00:23:03.660 and Hankook
00:23:04.300 and what have you.
00:23:05.140 They provide tires
00:23:06.760 for President Trump's
00:23:08.420 motorcade,
00:23:08.900 I'm pretty sure.
00:23:09.780 That's right.
00:23:10.380 They have in the past, yeah.
00:23:11.340 So how hard would it be
00:23:12.460 for them to just
00:23:13.120 switch the contract?
00:23:13.780 There is some executives,
00:23:15.420 some high-up Goodyear people
00:23:16.700 going into many
00:23:18.100 police departments
00:23:18.920 and probably the White House
00:23:20.360 and apologizing until,
00:23:22.160 I don't know,
00:23:22.560 their gums bleed
00:23:23.360 or something.
00:23:24.340 A hundred percent.
00:23:25.160 Well, you know,
00:23:25.520 Andrew, it was a great commentary.
00:23:26.900 And you know, folks,
00:23:27.460 I'll tell you,
00:23:28.520 I think the ostensible reason
00:23:30.840 for a business
00:23:31.520 to be in business,
00:23:32.300 it's to make money.
00:23:34.040 It's to return
00:23:35.240 shareholder value.
00:23:36.740 It is a business after all,
00:23:38.540 not a political institution.
00:23:39.800 Now, in recent years,
00:23:40.860 a lot of big companies
00:23:41.880 have adopted something
00:23:42.860 called CSR,
00:23:44.500 Corporate Social Responsibility.
00:23:46.320 But that's,
00:23:47.160 and traditionally,
00:23:47.920 that's all been about
00:23:48.820 raising money for charities
00:23:50.780 like breast cancer
00:23:52.320 or what have you.
00:23:53.420 This idea of a company
00:23:54.840 going,
00:23:55.560 wading into the weeds
00:23:56.820 of politics,
00:23:58.500 well,
00:23:59.320 look what happened to them.
00:24:00.680 Let's hope this is
00:24:01.520 a cautionary tale
00:24:02.600 for other companies
00:24:04.160 out there
00:24:04.680 that this is a,
00:24:06.240 this is territory
00:24:07.000 that is rife with danger.
00:24:09.160 Keep it here.
00:24:10.280 More of Rebel Roundup
00:24:11.080 to come
00:24:11.440 right after this.
00:24:17.500 David Menzies
00:24:18.460 for Rebel News
00:24:19.500 here in Thunder Bay,
00:24:21.200 Ontario.
00:24:21.940 And folks,
00:24:22.480 I'm with Arrow
00:24:23.420 and Carol Jansen.
00:24:25.120 They live here
00:24:25.940 in Thunder Bay.
00:24:27.460 And on July 15th,
00:24:30.340 they came here
00:24:31.680 to the Intercity
00:24:32.760 Shopping Centre.
00:24:34.160 And you're just to do
00:24:34.940 a little bit of shopping.
00:24:36.180 And then what happened?
00:24:38.240 Then we went
00:24:39.620 to go sit on the steps
00:24:40.780 and within minutes,
00:24:42.720 the security guard
00:24:43.460 had come up to us.
00:24:45.200 The security guard
00:24:45.920 said that we couldn't
00:24:46.900 be sitting on the steps
00:24:48.040 because it was
00:24:48.880 against the law.
00:24:49.980 Now, Arrow,
00:24:50.660 the reason why
00:24:51.820 he was saying that,
00:24:52.860 I suppose,
00:24:53.680 is that the food court
00:24:54.960 was still closed down
00:24:56.380 due to the Wuhan virus.
00:24:57.680 It hadn't reopened yet.
00:24:59.180 And I guess
00:24:59.980 they didn't want people
00:25:00.780 loitering around.
00:25:01.520 But you are dealing
00:25:03.000 right now
00:25:03.620 with prostate cancer.
00:25:04.960 You get tired.
00:25:06.580 So you weren't there
00:25:07.520 to, I don't know,
00:25:08.740 camp out.
00:25:09.580 You were just there
00:25:10.380 to take a little break
00:25:11.400 before you resumed
00:25:12.440 your journey
00:25:12.900 into the parking lot.
00:25:14.180 He had no empathy
00:25:15.520 at all
00:25:16.060 for your predicament?
00:25:17.760 Nothing.
00:25:18.340 He just
00:25:18.980 was targeting Carol.
00:25:22.400 And I said
00:25:22.940 about the mask,
00:25:23.860 I said,
00:25:24.240 that's the worst thing
00:25:25.260 you could be doing
00:25:25.960 is wearing these masks.
00:25:27.220 I mean,
00:25:27.440 you're cutting off
00:25:28.160 your oxygen.
00:25:29.360 And I said,
00:25:29.820 and I need all the oxygen
00:25:31.040 I can get,
00:25:32.720 you know,
00:25:33.020 in my condition.
00:25:33.820 So then we got up
00:25:34.920 and we started
00:25:35.420 walking out.
00:25:36.660 And as we were
00:25:37.740 coming towards
00:25:39.280 the exit,
00:25:40.580 I was walking
00:25:42.280 ahead of them.
00:25:43.800 Apparently,
00:25:44.280 he had hollered out
00:25:45.620 to Carol that,
00:25:47.340 well,
00:25:47.480 Merry Christmas.
00:25:48.680 And he said
00:25:49.580 that we were banned
00:25:50.760 for life,
00:25:51.720 the two of us.
00:25:52.960 And he said
00:25:53.780 that we have to
00:25:54.960 vacate the premises.
00:25:56.660 And we just said,
00:25:57.580 that's fine.
00:25:58.320 We're leaving now.
00:25:59.800 And we proceeded
00:26:01.040 to cross into
00:26:03.040 the parking lot
00:26:03.700 to head for our vehicle.
00:26:04.960 Now,
00:26:05.280 surely this must be
00:26:06.640 the end of the story.
00:26:07.940 Oh,
00:26:08.220 but there's another epilogue
00:26:09.480 because you went
00:26:10.680 to your new
00:26:11.960 Buick SUV
00:26:13.640 and you were,
00:26:15.640 and it should be noted,
00:26:16.480 folks,
00:26:16.860 you have a
00:26:18.000 handicapped parking sticker.
00:26:19.720 You are parked
00:26:20.360 in a handicapped space.
00:26:22.400 And lo and behold,
00:26:24.060 that security guard
00:26:25.320 was not done
00:26:26.440 with you yet,
00:26:27.160 correct?
00:26:27.660 That's correct.
00:26:28.260 He wasn't done
00:26:28.760 with us yet.
00:26:29.600 I had the door
00:26:30.240 open about this much
00:26:31.180 and they came
00:26:32.420 from behind me
00:26:33.320 and slammed the door
00:26:34.980 closed and threw me
00:26:36.300 against the vehicle
00:26:37.020 and then put handcuffs
00:26:38.300 on me and told me
00:26:39.060 I was under arrest.
00:26:40.520 And then I had
00:26:41.500 been saying to him,
00:26:42.340 call the police,
00:26:43.280 call the police,
00:26:44.000 because I was,
00:26:44.700 you know,
00:26:45.180 trying to,
00:26:45.740 you know,
00:26:47.020 get away from it.
00:26:49.240 And I got thrown
00:26:50.300 against the vehicle.
00:26:51.060 I don't know
00:26:51.540 how many times
00:26:52.360 because I got thrown
00:26:54.720 this way
00:26:55.560 and I got thrown
00:26:56.440 this way.
00:26:57.160 Certainly,
00:26:57.500 these must have been
00:26:58.260 very powerful throws.
00:26:59.840 There was $2,500
00:27:00.700 worth of damage
00:27:01.960 done on your vehicle,
00:27:03.520 wasn't there?
00:27:04.000 Yes, there was.
00:27:04.620 Oh, and there is
00:27:05.740 an epilogue
00:27:06.740 to what is already
00:27:08.020 an awful story
00:27:09.100 regarding what was
00:27:10.080 meant to be
00:27:10.720 simply a routine
00:27:11.880 trip to the mall.
00:27:13.300 Namely,
00:27:13.820 when police arrived
00:27:15.000 on the scene,
00:27:16.260 they charged
00:27:17.720 Carol Jansen
00:27:18.680 with assault.
00:27:19.620 A security guard
00:27:21.280 claims she spat
00:27:22.960 on him,
00:27:23.800 an allegation
00:27:24.520 Carol vehemently
00:27:25.640 denies.
00:27:26.720 So, let's see
00:27:27.560 what the surveillance
00:27:28.560 cameras have to say,
00:27:29.680 right?
00:27:30.320 Well, folks,
00:27:31.060 apparently that footage
00:27:32.280 does not exist,
00:27:33.900 even though there
00:27:34.660 was a camera
00:27:35.320 situated just a few
00:27:36.780 meters away
00:27:37.540 from the altercation.
00:27:39.700 Interesting.
00:27:40.960 In any event,
00:27:41.660 here's what you
00:27:42.220 had to say
00:27:42.900 about a shopping
00:27:44.220 trip that was
00:27:45.020 memorable
00:27:45.460 for all the
00:27:46.620 wrong reasons.
00:27:48.020 Haikaru
00:27:48.540 Midomya
00:27:49.320 writes,
00:27:50.380 Mall security
00:27:51.160 is not allowed
00:27:51.920 to have physical
00:27:52.660 contact with anyone.
00:27:54.040 It's not
00:27:54.820 in their jurisdiction.
00:27:56.880 This is 100%
00:27:58.160 illegal,
00:27:58.980 and I hope
00:27:59.600 they get sued
00:28:00.300 and arrested.
00:28:01.540 Well, Haikura,
00:28:02.620 first of all,
00:28:03.660 all of the allegations
00:28:04.600 have to be proven
00:28:05.840 in a court of law.
00:28:06.980 That hasn't happened yet.
00:28:08.100 But it does not
00:28:09.500 look good
00:28:10.280 that the mall
00:28:10.960 administration
00:28:11.700 won't even return
00:28:12.740 our phone calls.
00:28:13.620 And we do want
00:28:15.000 to hear their
00:28:15.580 side of the story.
00:28:16.940 As for no video
00:28:18.500 footage,
00:28:19.360 hmm,
00:28:19.940 my spidey senses
00:28:21.640 are tingling
00:28:22.320 on that one.
00:28:23.980 Beck Durham
00:28:24.520 writes,
00:28:25.240 Malls are a
00:28:26.240 dying thing.
00:28:27.220 Don't go to the
00:28:27.800 malls.
00:28:28.240 No need for them
00:28:29.000 anymore.
00:28:29.800 Well,
00:28:30.180 you are right,
00:28:30.900 Beck Durham.
00:28:31.480 Traditional retail
00:28:32.280 outlets are
00:28:33.020 struggling these
00:28:34.000 days,
00:28:34.480 including the
00:28:35.640 Intercity Shopping
00:28:36.620 Center,
00:28:37.080 which has lost
00:28:37.760 a few key
00:28:38.860 anchor tenants
00:28:39.760 in recent months.
00:28:40.960 Now,
00:28:41.180 I don't want to
00:28:42.100 see anyone go
00:28:42.840 out of business,
00:28:43.380 and I don't
00:28:44.140 want to see
00:28:44.760 people lose
00:28:45.400 their jobs.
00:28:46.720 But for security
00:28:47.540 to allegedly
00:28:48.340 take such a
00:28:49.320 heavy-handed
00:28:49.960 approach on
00:28:51.380 paying customers?
00:28:53.000 Wow,
00:28:53.500 that makes no
00:28:54.780 sense to me.
00:28:57.420 CDXX writes,
00:28:58.660 My cousin is a
00:28:59.500 nurse in Thunder
00:29:00.120 Bay.
00:29:00.480 They haven't had
00:29:01.100 a case in weeks.
00:29:02.220 Well,
00:29:02.480 I'm not sure
00:29:03.000 what the most
00:29:03.780 recent stats are,
00:29:05.000 but I do know
00:29:05.900 that Thunder
00:29:06.440 Bay is certainly
00:29:07.380 no hotbed for
00:29:08.540 the Wuhan virus,
00:29:09.660 perhaps because
00:29:10.320 the city is so
00:29:11.240 remote,
00:29:11.640 which makes
00:29:12.900 the alleged
00:29:13.420 behavior of
00:29:14.320 those security
00:29:14.940 guards all the
00:29:15.840 more bizarre,
00:29:16.640 really,
00:29:17.340 as they were
00:29:18.060 allegedly lashing
00:29:19.280 out in the name
00:29:19.980 of pandemic
00:29:20.860 safety.
00:29:21.820 Weird.
00:29:22.700 And who knew
00:29:23.760 that sitting on
00:29:24.740 a staircase
00:29:25.360 was a pandemic
00:29:26.940 faux pas?
00:29:28.800 Ross Allen
00:29:29.680 writes,
00:29:30.340 LOL,
00:29:31.080 security believes
00:29:32.140 they can
00:29:32.640 confiscate cameras.
00:29:34.420 Police need a
00:29:35.080 warrant or a
00:29:35.700 subpoena.
00:29:35.980 Yes,
00:29:36.620 folks,
00:29:36.900 Ross is
00:29:37.280 referring to
00:29:37.880 what happens
00:29:38.420 later in the
00:29:38.940 video when a
00:29:39.460 security guard
00:29:40.220 takes umbrage
00:29:41.180 to us filming
00:29:42.600 in the mall
00:29:43.160 and actually
00:29:44.380 threatens to
00:29:45.280 confiscate our
00:29:46.260 equipment.
00:29:47.260 Good luck on
00:29:48.240 that.
00:29:48.900 And what a
00:29:49.900 happy vibe at
00:29:51.300 the Intercity
00:29:52.120 Shopping Centre
00:29:53.240 these days,
00:29:53.920 eh?
00:29:54.860 And A.
00:29:55.800 Cost writes,
00:29:57.220 If they had a
00:29:57.980 BLM shirt,
00:29:59.220 security would
00:30:00.520 have given them
00:30:01.140 a trophy.
00:30:02.240 Well,
00:30:02.880 maybe we
00:30:03.560 certainly do have
00:30:04.620 a two-tiered
00:30:05.400 justice system
00:30:06.160 these days,
00:30:07.120 so maybe it's
00:30:08.100 a pruned idea
00:30:08.880 to wear a
00:30:09.940 BLM t-shirt
00:30:11.180 even if you
00:30:12.580 don't subscribe
00:30:13.480 to the ideology
00:30:14.760 of such a
00:30:15.680 radical Marxist
00:30:16.680 organization.
00:30:17.920 After all,
00:30:18.800 maybe this apparel
00:30:19.880 can serve as a
00:30:21.100 get-out-of-jail-free
00:30:22.460 card.
00:30:23.360 Well,
00:30:23.900 that wraps up
00:30:24.700 another edition
00:30:25.380 of Rebel Roundup.
00:30:26.340 Thanks so much
00:30:26.880 for joining us.
00:30:27.900 See you next week.
00:30:28.760 And hey, folks,
00:30:29.300 never forget,
00:30:30.320 without risk,
00:30:31.580 there can be
00:30:32.240 no glory.
00:30:33.140 Good night.
00:30:34.620 We'll see you next week.