Scotland may introduce the worst censorship law in the world
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In this special episode, Ezra goes deep on the world's worst censorship law being proposed in Scotland, and why you shouldn't go there if you don't like Scots. Plus, a rant from Hamza Yusuf about racism in Scotland.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today is a very special podcast. I go deep on the world's worst censorship law
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being proposed for Scotland. And if it can happen there, don't think it can't happen here. I'll
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take you through it line by line. Before I do, let me invite you to become a subscriber to
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Tonight, Scotland proposes to introduce the worst censorship law in the world. It's August 10th
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and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
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consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have
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to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Have you ever been to Scotland? It's part of the United Kingdom. That's the United Kingdom part.
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It used to be its own kingdom. Now it's united with England and there's Wales and there's Northern
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Ireland in there. The thing about Scotland is that it is full of Scots. I don't mean to shock you or
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alarm you, but if you're worried about Scottish people and there is some cause to worry, just don't
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go to Scotland. It's full of them. I myself am very pro-Scotland in no small part because I just can't get
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enough of that accent. And I also know that Canada is pretty much the creation of Scotland.
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Everything from Sir John A. Macdonald to the city I was born in named Calgary. I wonder if you knew
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that. Here's a shot of Calgary Bay in Scotland. Doesn't look much like Calgary, Alberta. Scotland
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really built the Industrial Revolution, by the way. James Watt, after whom we named the unit of power,
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the Watt, pretty much started the Industrial Revolution, improving the English-made steam
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engine. Another Scot named Adam Smith pretty much codified capitalism. Of course, he didn't invent
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it. He explained it and defended it. The Scots really did build the modern world. In fact, about
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10 years ago, there was a book called that, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, the true story
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of how Western Europe's poorest nation created our world and everything in it. So thank you, Scotland.
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But look, don't go there if you don't like Scots. Rule number one, okay? Here's an interactive map of
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Scotland published by the Scottish government showing just how Scottish the place is. And the answer is
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extremely Scottish. This map shows the parts that are 98% or more Scottish, the parts that are 95% to 98%
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Scottish, and a handful of places that are less than 95% Scottish. And those are their descriptions. I
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won't go into all the demographics. But look, apparently not everyone likes the fact that there
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are so bloody many Scots in Scotland. And one person who doesn't like it one bit, he's a bit of a racist
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about it, a bit of a radical. His name is Hamza Yusuf. You see, he's a Scottish Muslim, and he has been
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so hard done by, so painfully discriminated against, so reviled, that he's actually now the minister of
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justice in Scotland. He's rich, he's powerful, he's a media darling. But other than that,
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life in Scotland has been absolutely miserable for him. I mean, if you were a young white Christian
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Scot growing up in Pakistan, I'm sure you'd be able to become a white Christian Scottish Pakistani
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justice minister just as easily as Hamza Yusuf did. Absolutely. Anyways, here's Hamza Yusuf telling
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I was, I've been called various racial slurs over the time. And I'm, to say, to my own
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disappointment, when I was younger, a teenager, I never reported it. Now I know much better,
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and I get, I'm afraid to say, still often Islamophobic abuse, or racial abuse, most of it online.
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But now I report it. And now I see that actually from the reporting, people have been charged,
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have been sentenced for that. So that is one of our messages here, that don't assume that
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nothing will happen if you report it. Report it, people will be prosecuted, because we have
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an absolute zero tolerance for hatred on our public transport.
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I don't like people making racist insults. I don't like that. I just didn't know it was
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a crime the police prosecuted. Maybe Pakistan and Scotland have more in common than I thought.
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But it's a bit weird, because for a fellow who hates racism so much, Hamza Yusuf is pretty
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When the most senior positions in Scotland are filled almost exclusively by those who are white.
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Take my portfolio alone. The Lord President, white. The Lord Justice Clark, white. Every High Court
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Judge, white. The Lord Advocate, white. The Solicitor General, white. The Chief Constable,
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white. Every Deputy Chief Constable, white. Every Assistant Chief Constable, white. The Head
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of the Law Society, white. The Head of the Faculty of Advocates, white. Every Prison Governor,
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white. And not just Justice. The Chief Medical Officer, white. The Chief Nursing Officer, white.
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The Chief Veterinary Officer, white. The Chief Social Work Advisor, white. Almost every trade
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union in this country headed by people who are white. In the Scottish Government, every director
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general is white. Every chair of every public body is white. All right. Okay. Thanks. We get it.
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You judge people based on their skin colour. That's called racism. And you really, really,
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really don't like white people. All right. Message received. You just don't usually hear it said
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that plainly. Now, it's true. Scotland is chock full of Scots. It's just like Pakistan is full
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of Pakistanis. Not sure how it would go over, shoe on the other foot, if you stood up in the
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Pakistani parliament, if there is such a place, and denounced Pakistan for having just so many
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Pakistanis. Anyway, so we have a son of privilege, a powerful, successful man who just hates the
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chief characteristic of Scotland. It's so bloody Scottish. Okay. Got it. Good to know. A bigot
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as a justice minister. How's that going to work? Well, it will go very poorly. Let me show you what
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I think is the worst censorship law I have ever read. Although, because I only speak English, I haven't
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read Pakistan's censorship law, so they might be worse. Maybe Hamza Yosef can tell us. But look at this.
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It's his bill. He proudly introduced it this spring. His name is on it. He took advantage of
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the pandemic to grab even more power for himself. The law is called Hate Crime and Public Order
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Scotland Bill. The long title of the bill is even more dramatic. An act of the Scottish Parliament to
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make provision about the aggravation of offenses by prejudice. To make provision about offenses relating
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to stirring up hatred against a group of persons. To abolish the common law offense of blasphemy and
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for connected purposes. Oh, all right. Sure is a long bill. There are a lot of rules in it.
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The first part of the law makes it an extra crime to commit an existing crime if you have ill will in
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your heart. So it's a thought crime piggybacking on a real crime. If you punch someone in the face,
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if you stab someone, that's obviously a real crime. Hamza Yosef's new crime is whatever you're feeling
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or thinking or saying while you do it. So if Hamza Yosef were to, I don't know, say punch you in the
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face, that would obviously be assault. But if he were to give that anti-white speech and then punch you
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in the face, that would be an additional crime. That would be an aggravating factor. Let me read the
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law. An offense is aggravated by prejudice. If whether or not there is a specific victim in
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the offense, the offense is motivated wholly or partly by malice and ill will towards a group of
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persons based on the group being defined by reference to a characteristic mentioned in subsection two.
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And here's the list of characteristics they have. They are age, disability, race, color, nationality,
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including citizenship or ethnic or national origins. So his racist anti-white speech would be covered.
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D, religion, or in the case of a social or cultural group, perceived religious affiliation.
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E, sexual orientation. F, transgender identity. G, variations in sex characteristics. Who knows what
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that means? Just to be clear, if you hate someone for other reasons, though, it doesn't count as a hate
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hypocrite. I'll read the section that says so. It is immaterial whether or not the offender's malice
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and ill will is also based to any extent on any other factor. Oh, and just one more thing. Take a look at
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this. Evidence from a single source is sufficient to prove that an offense is aggravated by prejudice.
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So if you made a tweet about how racist and hateful Scots are, like Hamza Yusuf did, and then a month
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later you punch a Scot in the face, that's a hate crime. Even if you didn't say or do anything racist
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when you punched them, let's say you were drunk at a bar. But if you had a tweet from like a month before,
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tough luck, mate. You're a hate criminal now. I'm using Hamza Yusuf as the example here,
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because he's such a weird and brazen and unrepentant bigot. But of course, in real life
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he would never be charged with these hate crimes. Of course not. Just like here in Canada, we have
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human rights commissions, but there has never been a single case of a Muslim extremist, not even a
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full-fledged terrorist, who has ever been charged under Canada's hate speech provisions. Never even a
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hate preacher at a hate mosque. Not even the murderer, Omar Khadr, who specifically killed his
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victim, Sergeant Christopher Speer, for political and religious reasons. So these hate speech,
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hate crime laws, they're only for use against, you know, Scots and people who look like them.
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So if you have a tweet out there that's mean to someone based on that long list of reasons that I
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read earlier, you're already guilty. Because as the law says, it doesn't have to be contemporaneous
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with your real crime, and you just have to do it once. So you're guilty in advance, and so you get
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a greater sentence because it aggravates your real crime. So let's call it the Instagram law or the
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Facebook law. If you have ever said anything, anywhere, even in jest, in an old Facebook or
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Instagram post, you're done, mate. It's already over. You're on the hook for a hate crime in the future.
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You just have to be nicked. But look at this next part. It has nothing to do with real crimes like
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punching or stabbing people. Those are real crimes. This next part invents a new crime, the crime of
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hurt feelings, or as they call it, offenses of stirring up hatred. Now, hatred is a human emotion.
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Love and hate, contempt or respect, these are natural feelings. If you don't feel some of them
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at any particular time in your life, you don't have a normal personality. They're not actions.
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By the way, we can't really control what feelings we feel. If we could, we would just pass the love
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each other act and everything would be fine. We can't control what feelings we feel, but we can
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control what we do about our feelings. So it's okay to hate something or love something. It's what you
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do about it that counts. You can be a minister of justice of Scotland who hates white people. You can't
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really turn that into a crime because it's not a crime, but this law makes hateful feelings a crime.
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Feelings. Here, look. Offenses of stirring up hatred. A person commits an offense if the person behaves in a
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threatening, abusive, or insulting manner or communicates threatening, abusive, and insulting material to
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another person. And either in doing so, the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of
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persons based on the group being defined by reference to race, color, nationality, including
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citizenship or ethnic or national origins, or as a result, it is likely that hatred will be stirred up
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against such a group. Now, threats are already covered in the law, right? If they're threats of crimes,
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like uttering a death threat, that's already a crime. That's already covered. But how about that extra part
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there, insults? That was specially added. Insults are now a crime. As if, you know, example, if you
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denounce Scots for being too white, that's insulting. But I guess that's illegal now? If it stirs up hatred,
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what does that mean? Have you ever watched that movie Schindler's List about the Holocaust? You can't
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really watch that movie without hating Germans just a little bit. I'm sorry, it's a feeling. I just watched
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Tom Hanks' new drama, Greyhound. Same thing, just a tiny bit, just for a moment. I know it was a brutal war, and it
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was just the Nazis, not all Germans. But I know that. That's my brain talking. But this blog covers feelings. And
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there's this moment in that movie, Greyhound, where the U-boat commander mocks the Americans and says he's going to
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kill them. And you get a flicker of anger. That's an emotion. You'd have to have a heart of
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stone not to feel that way just for a second. It's an emotional response. It's stirred up hatred.
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Those movies are crimes now. You didn't act on it. It's a work of fiction about a war 80 years ago.
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I obviously have no hatred for Germans. But for that flicker of a moment, that movie stirred up
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hatred just for a moment. And look at the wording of the law. It only has to cover things that are,
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it only has to be likely that hatred will be stirred up against such a group. So it doesn't
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even have to be certain that feelings would be stirred up. It just might happen. Maybe, maybe not.
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You can't even defend against that. And by the way, justifiable hatred, like in a war against an enemy,
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that's not defensible in this law. You can't even say, Your Honor, this is a really weird law,
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a law against creating feelings. But the good news is nobody had illegal feelings here because
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the law doesn't require that. The law just says that hate criminals only have to maybe cause the
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feeling, likely to cause the feeling. So just because you didn't actually stir up any hard feelings,
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as if creating emotions is a crime in itself, just because you didn't actually do it doesn't mean
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you're not guilty because it could have happened. Look at how broad this hate speech is, hate feelings
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law is. The ways in which a person may communicate material to another person are by, A, displaying,
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publishing, or distributing the material. B, giving, sending, showing, or playing the material to
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another person. C, making the material available to another person in any other way. So I think that
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covers everything. Hey, take a look at this crazy video I found on YouTube. Guilty. You're guilty.
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You showed something. You made it available to someone. You're guilty of a hate crime. And what's the
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sentence for this feelings crime? So you commit a feelings crime, this likely to make someone have
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feelings crime. Look at this. A person who commits an offense under this section is liable on summary
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conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or a fine not exceeding the statutory
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maximum or both, or on conviction on indictment to prison for a term not exceeding seven years,
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or a fine or both. Now I've been following rape gang trials in the UK for years.
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And most of the mass rapists there, they get just a few years in jail. Because raping girls,
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especially Muslim rape gangs who explicitly say they have a religious motivation for targeting white
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girls. In the UK, that's obviously not as serious as sharing a mean post on Facebook. So bizarrely,
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this law treats feelings crimes worse than actual rape. I want to show you one other weird thing about
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this law. It specifically targets plays, as in theatrical productions. I don't know why. I don't
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get it. What kind of weirdo passes special laws censoring plays? The Lord President, white. The Lord
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Justice Clark, white. Every high court judge, white. The Lord Advocate, white. The Solicitor General,
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white. The Chief Constable, white. Oh, right. That's the kind of weirdo that passes laws censoring
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plays. Are plays a problem in Scotland? You know, you write a play, you hire actors, you get some
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financing, you find a stage, you get your costumes, you build your set. Is that really the nexus of hate
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crimes in Scotland? There's a plague of hate crimes sweeping through Scotland, and its center is
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the thespians of Edinburgh. Let me read the law. This section applies where, A, an offense under
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section 3 is committed during a public performance of a play by a person who is a performer in the
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play. So it's targeting actors, and it goes on at great lengths about censoring plays? What? But it
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goes further. You're not going to believe this. You know that it's against the law to be in possession
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of child pornography, right? And that makes sense, because a crime was actually committed in the creation
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of that pornography. A child was raped. So it's not only the perpetuation of the crime, it's evidence of a
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crime that was already committed. I agree, obviously, with the criminalization of possession of child
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porn, which is the rape of children. But Hamza Yusuf's law copies the language of possession of child
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pornography and applies it to anything politically controversial, anything politically insulting. I
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kid you not. Take a look. Go through this with me. A person commits an offense if the person has
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possession of threatening or abusive material with a view to communicating the material to another
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person, and either the person intends in doing so to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on
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the group being defined by reference to a characteristic mentioned in subsection three, or it is likely that
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if the material were communicated, hatred would be stirred up against such a group. So anything mean
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or insulting or causing hurt feelings or likely to cause hurt feelings, that's a crime to merely possess
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it on your laptop. You don't have to publish it. You saw that subsection two. If it is likely that
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if the material were communicated, hatred would be stirred up. So you didn't even have to share
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it. You just possessed it. It didn't cause hard feelings. It couldn't cause hard feelings. You didn't
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show it to anyone. And even if you did show it to someone and it didn't cause hard feelings, well,
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maybe it could likely to. You'd still be guilty. Guilty of a crime. Same penalty up to seven years just for
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possession. Drugs legalize those. Porn, but bad feelings, you'll go to prison. I'm only halfway
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through this law. I can't even believe it. Can you tell that Hamza Yusuf, can you tell that he sort of
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hates Scotland? Why would you destroy one of the freest, most, you know, free places in the world
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with a law like this, a totalitarian law that makes every citizen guilty in advance? If you've
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ever said anything anywhere, mean or even in jest, you're already a hate criminal. You just have to
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be charged now. You would only write such a law if you hated Scotland. In the Scottish government,
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every director general is white. Every chair of every public body is white.
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I think we've found the source of the hateful feelings. Look, I'm not going to quote the whole
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law. It keeps going. Here's a quick definition of protected things. You can't criticize pretty much
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everything. A disability is a physical or mental impairment of any kind. So if you were to call
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Hamza Yusuf an idiot, a fool, don't do that, mate. That's making fun of his mental state. That's a hate
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crime. And don't even think of criticizing Islamic extremism. Not if Hamza Yusuf gets his way.
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A group defined by reference to religion is a group of persons defined by reference to
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religious belief or lack of religious belief, membership of or adherence to a church or religious
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organization, support for the culture or traditions of a church or religious organization,
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participation in activities associated with such a culture or such traditions. So you can't criticize,
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oh, for example, misogyny, female genital mutilation, forcing women to wear a burqa,
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beating women who are disobedient. If those things are associated with a certain culture,
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you can't criticize them or you're a hate criminal. Gee, I wonder if that's really what Hamza Yusuf
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was up to here. It goes on, including a provision that this Scottish law could be used against companies
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operating in other countries outside of Hamza Yusuf's jurisdiction. It gives him the right to
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prosecute non-Scottish internet providers. He really does think he's king of the world.
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So Hamza Yusuf, who hates Scotland because it's so Scottish, wants to censor every possible thought,
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expression, tweet, Instagram post, anything. Imagine in the year 2020, specifically writing
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that you want to censor plays and actors. In the UK, I mean, I mean, in Pakistan, of course,
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they do that there. But I'm talking about in the United Kingdom. I'm talking about in Scotland.
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I mean, this law will destroy all intellectual freedom, all jokes. It'll destroy the most Scottish
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parts of Scotland. But it'll do something else that I'm pretty sure Hamza Yusuf is pretty psyched about.
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It'll destroy the Scottish police who are being tasked with implementing this un-Scottish,
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un-British law. Don't take it from me. Here's the Scottish Police Federation. New hate crime bill
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could devastate police relationship with the Scottish public. Proposed hate crime legislation
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could lead to police officers determining free speech and thereby devastate the legitimacy of
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the police service. Now, I could stop there because that really says it all, doesn't it? The reason police
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work is because the citizens support the police, because the citizens believe in the police and believe
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they are just because the police protect everybody and they protect our rights and freedoms.
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Policing plays and Facebook pages, that's Pakistan style stuff, not Scottish style. That's why the
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people in Pakistan hate their police, hate their government. Is that the plan for Scotland? I'll read
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a little bit more. It's in point form from the Police Federation. Elements of the legislation will
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see a significant increase in police workload and demand with the corresponding demand placed on the
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COPFS and courts. The Scottish Police Federation does not support the intended provision to grant
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powers of search by force if necessary to members of police staff. Concern the bill seeks to criminalize
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the mere likelihood of stirring up hatred by creating an offense of threatening abusive or insulting behavior,
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such offense to include both speech and conduct. This complicates the law and is, in our opinion,
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too vague to be implemented. The bill in the Police Federation's view also sits uncomfortably with
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articles 6 and 7 of the convention concerning the right to a fair trial. The Scottish Police Federation
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considers that the timing of the publication of the bill and associated consultation period in the
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midst of a global pandemic is unfortunate at best and then it goes on with concerns about the costs and
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the workloads. This bill will destroy Scotland's fundamental freedoms and along the way it will destroy the police.
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Gotta hand it to him. It's pretty clever. It's pretty clever. It's almost as if the man who wrote it,
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Well, you just know that in places with strict lockdown rules, the locker downers don't follow it
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themselves. This is not speculation or a conspiracy theory. Country by country we see those rules being
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broken. In New Zealand, in Scotland, ministers and directors of health have had to resign in scandals.
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In the United Kingdom, the chief epidemiological fear monger was scooting around town having an affair.
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And of course in Canada, Justin Trudeau, moments after announcing a ban on holiday travel for Easter,
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went on a holiday for Easter with his own family crossing provincial lines, no less.
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I can only imagine what they're doing in Melbourne, Australia that has literally brought in martial law
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soldiers in the streets. Well, one of the worst enforcers of this new prohibition and lockdown in Canada
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is the mayor of a town called Brampton. It's a city actually. You might know him even if you're not
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from Brampton. He's the former leader of the Progressive Conservatives of Ontario. His name is
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Patrick Brown. He was a conservative MP before that. And thank God he was defenestrated from his
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position as party leader before the election because a sex scandal broke. Well, he's reinvented himself
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as the crackdown mayor of Brampton. But wouldn't you know it? He has one law for you and another law for
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him and his buddies. Take a look at this outstanding video made by our friend David Menzies.
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Hi, sir. Do you know where Patrick Brown might be? Yeah, he hasn't showed up yet. Oh, okay. He
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does play here though, right? He does. Oh, okay. Then that confirms it. The operator of the building?
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. We can't have people just randomly coming in here. Oh, why's that? I see a whole bunch
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of hockey players playing a game, sir. He's rented the ice. Well, folks, um, we're getting the bums rush,
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but holy mackerel. I think I see Patrick Brown himself. Oh, hey, how you doing? Mr. Brown,
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right? Yeah. David Menzies with Rebel News. You're in a city facility? What's that? You're in a city
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facility? Yeah. So are you. Yeah. So are you playing hockey here? No, I'm just coming to check in our
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facility. So I'm going to, we're going to check. You're not supposed to be here, actually. We were
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told that, uh, you play pickup here. Mr. Brown, how come, uh, the kids in Brampton can only practice
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sports, but your buddies can play hockey? Yeah. So, um, I don't know why, um, you are harassing
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people in the city of Brampton, but you shouldn't be. Oh, who's harassing who? Your, you, your, your
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guys handed out 122 bylaw violations in one week. Mr. Brown, why is there a hockey game going on
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in this arena? I thought you're only allowed to, uh, practice sports, not play them.
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And who is paying the thousand dollars a day, Mr. Brown, for this rink?
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Mr. Brown, are these taxpayer dollars being used for your buddies to play hockey on this rink?
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Or are you paying it? Or perhaps we'll lead Solomon?
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So Mr. Brown, why is that one law for me and one law for thee in this city?
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So, you don't even have a mask. Uh, you know what? Patrick Brown just left,
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and he didn't have a mask either, sir. I don't know, I don't, I'm just the operator. I don't
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know who's coming on the ice. Well, he, guys, come on. He's the chief. He's,
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I'm, I'm not leaving, sir. This is a taxpayer-funded facility. I, I have every right as a taxpayer to be
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here, sir. I'm not trying to give you a hard time. Well, you're giving me a hard time. Well, I am,
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I'm trying to find out why kids can't play soccer or baseball or cricket. They can only practice.
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And Mayor Patrick Brown's friends are playing a full hockey game here.
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I don't, I don't know. I don't, I don't. Okay, then. So if you eject us, you have to eject them.
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Fair enough. Phone the police. You just saw we did encounter Patrick Brown.
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Patrick Brown not wearing a, um, a mask, by the way, as we were told to do by the rink attendant.
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And I ask you, does this look like a practice or a hockey game? Well, I played hockey most of my life,
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folks. That's a game. Hey, nice save, by the way. That is no practice. I don't see little orange pine
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cones, uh, on the ice and players aren't doing figure eight drills and, uh, passing the puck around.
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But, um, this is an absolute outrage that Patrick Brown has got the ice sheet on here, uh, on the sly.
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And he's breaking the rules of playing as opposed to practicing. Of course, he never got a chance to
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get his equipment on. He scurried away with this assistant. And I'm wondering what bag is his,
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cause like I said, we did see two bags being, Oh, won't look at that.
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Wearing double zero Patrick Brown. You know what? Um, technically it's circumstantial evidence.
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There might be another Patrick Brown, um, with, uh, playing in this sheet, uh, ice sheet that is not
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the mayor of Brampton, but I don't know. I think that's the smoking gun. This is Patrick's gear.
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And he had every intention to play hockey here at this rink. Well, you know what? It's been a long
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lockout. Uh, you can't get into Scotiabank arena or the Edmonton rink to watch the NHL game. So I'm just
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going to watch a little good old old time hockey. And, uh, well, at least until the police show up
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and then they're going to charge us with what doing what they're doing, congregating illegally,
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fat chance. Let's see what happens. Well, I encourage you to watch the entire video. It's
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on our YouTube channel or elsewhere on the page, David, just incredible that look on his face when,
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when, when he's there in violation of the law is like a secret speakeasy in the prohibition,
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one law for the little people, but he and his buddies can play in the city facility.
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Um, no masks, of course, other than hockey masks. He saw you, he panicked, he lied. Oh,
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I'm just here to inspect. And then he walked out. What a, what a little liar. Yeah. Because of course,
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the mayor of a major city, uh, uh, Ezra would, would normally on his, uh, course of duty go
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around inspecting ice rinks in the month of August. I mean, it's preposterous. We got this
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information from a tipster from Brampton. He was tipped off by city staff who saw what was going on.
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And everything he said was spot on the rink, the time, the fact that somebody comes to the rink
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before Patrick Brown does carrying his bag and his hockey sticks. And that's the thing that,
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that was what, you know, hoisted him on his own petard. If you're here just to inspect the
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Ernst Cliff Recreation Center, why are your hockey sticks and your hockey bag with the name Patrick
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Brown and the number double zero, you couldn't write this stuff up right there while you're
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inspecting the place. Did you forget that from last season, Patrick? Yeah. And if he was there to
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inspect it, why didn't he stick around and inspect it? None of it made sense. It was a laughable lie.
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He panicked and he thought, I'm just going to get out of there. He sped away in his fancy Mercedes.
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I wonder if his little hockey helper was on the public dime knowing Patrick Brown and what a little
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scammer he is. And I say that, I mean, my God, for people outside Ontario, you've got to Google this
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guy. Every possible thing you can imagine about him is true. It's just incredible. Imagine using your
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parliamentary staff, your government staff to schlep your hockey stuff around in the best of times,
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let alone during the pandemic. Unbelievable. Have you had any contact since that incident from
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either the government or the parks and rec department or anyone else? Because he's clearly breaking
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a number of laws while enforcing those same laws on others. Well, indeed, I have not. As you know,
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last week I left a message at the Ernst Cliff Recreation Center, just as a customer, a potential
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customer asking what the ice time availability was and how much it is to rent an hour on ice.
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Hasn't gotten back to me. And that makes it worse because you talked about the public dime, some
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junior staffer schlepping his equipment and hockey sticks around. My source says, and I believe this,
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that the operating costs for that rink in the month of August to keep that ice going is a thousand
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dollars a day. So if they are not booking this out to anybody, if this is just for
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the period they were on the ice was from about five till six thirty, so an hour and a half.
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Are you telling me that they have 24 seven ice being kept at a thousand dollars a day just so Patrick
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Brown and his rich buddies can play 90 minutes of hockey once a week and in prime time, by the way.
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So I never heard back from that. And you're right about breaking the law, too. I mean,
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whether you're pro-mask or anti-mask, that's not the issue. Since July 10th, it has been mandatory to
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wear masks in Brampton at any of their city facilities. As you saw, he walked in without a
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mask. I had a mask on. And so again, like you said earlier, Ezra, one rule for the one rule for me.
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You and I looked through the bylaws just this morning. In fact, it's still unlawful to have
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full out hockey games. You have to have some sort of training and not just anyone. You can't just book
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up an arena. You have to be part of a league. And this is sort of restricted training, all sorts of
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rules. He just calls up as the premier or sorry, the premier. I keep calling him the premier. God forbid.
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God forbid. He just calls up as the disgraced mayor and, you know, oh, sure, Mr. Mayor. Sure,
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Mr. Mayor. Yeah, we'll let you right in and all your your little buddies and friends that if and this
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is the same mayor who said he was going to prosecute and wanted a hundred thousand dollar fine
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for someone who had a house party. So he can have his own hockey party that's explicitly against the
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rules. He can attend without the mask that is explicitly against the rules. And like I say,
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he's the one who has these rules. And then when you catch him dead to rights,
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he lies like the coward that he is. Because what could he possibly say?
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Well, you know, and this is why he's not premier. He was a heartbeat away, Ezra. He threw the social
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conservatives under the bus. Then he threw the fiscal conservatives under the bus.
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Yeah, he embraced the carbon tax. Carbon tax. And so when there was no conservatives left to throw
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under the bus, he got thrown under the bus. But you are right. And that speaks to the entitlement.
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I mean, not only does he have a staffer bring his hockey bag and sticks there as though Patrick
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Brown's an NHL player, not only does he order the city to open one ice pad just for him and his
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skaters, but he is breaking the law. Our lawyer, Aaron Rosenberg, went through line by line. And I
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believe that since August 1st, and by the way, important distinction, Patrick Brown was using this
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ice in the month of July. We know that from a fact. Since August 1st, it has the rules under
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stage three reopening. You can have league and I think they call it sub league play.
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This was not organized league play at all. This is what's known as pickup hockey.
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For those who don't play hockey, it's just you and a bunch of guys get together like Patrick
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Brown and his buddies. And you pick half the side wears white sweaters, the other half wears dark
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sweaters. And it's just like a friendly game of shinny hockey. There are no linesmen, no referees,
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nothing like that. You keep the score in your head, etc. So he doesn't even live up to that benchmark.
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And I've got to tell you, when he went running to his Mercedes SUV to get out of Dodge,
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Ezra, I just couldn't help but notice that even there, the SUV was taking up two parking spaces,
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which is the ultimate D-bag thing to do when you drive a car. But even there, right?
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Such a little crook. I tell you, it wouldn't surprise me if he winds up in jail one day,
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obviously breaking his own laws here. There's no jail term. And I wouldn't want anyone to go to jail
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for illegally breaking the mask law, illegally breaking the hockey law. I don't think he deserves
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jail. He deserves public rebuke and laughter at what a little con man he is.
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Can I suggest a penalty for him, Ezra? And this would really upset him because he loves to play
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his ice hockey. And that would be the penalty that I and you and all our Rebel News staff received from
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the security guards that day. We have been banned for one year from showing up at any city of Brampton
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Recreation Facility. Now, the joke is, folks, the ticket isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Yeah. But our lawyer has written to Brampton to investigate Patrick Brown. And I'd like to see
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him banned. Yeah. Wouldn't that be the most perversely ironic thing to come out of this story?
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Yeah. Let me just throw one more thing at you before we go.
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Okay. The fact that he has his assistant deliver his hockey gear to the rink shows an elitist
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entitlement, a corruption of the public purse, and like we said, breaking in the law. But there's
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another reason for it, too. Because if he had his hockey bag with him in his car, at the office,
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people might say, oh, you're going to play hockey, are you? So it wasn't just that he's living a luxury
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life on the taxpayer's dime, living a luxury life, ignoring his own laws. It said he actively took
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steps to hide it from any prying eyes. He was genuinely shocked that you made it inside his
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little club there. He is a disgrace. And you did the active journalism of the week. Congratulations.
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Well, thank you so much, Ezra. And you know what? I think what you said earlier, this,
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I liken it to a speakeasy during prohibition days, when you went to this little shack to have alcohol
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that was against the law back then. He got caught red-handed. He got caught with his hand in the
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cookie jar. And the final thing I want to say is, if that's true, and I have no reason not to believe
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it isn't, that it's $1,000 a day to maintain that ice, who is paying for it? Is it Patrick Brown and
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his buddies, or is it the taxpayers of Brampton? Because I can tell you this much, whatever an hour of
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ice costs in primetime in Brampton, say it's $200, $240, that ain't covering a $7,000 a bill to keep
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that ice, per week, to keep that ice maintained. Yeah, he was always ethically dubious. You know,
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it reminds me of that scene from Casablanca. I'm shocked, shocked that there's gambling going on in
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these premises. Sir, your winnings. Thank you. That is Patrick Brown. I'm shocked that there's
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hockey playing in this town. I'm shocked, sir, your hockey bag. Oh, thank you. And of all things, Ezra,
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a hockey bag with Wayne Gretzky's logo on it. Yeah, because Patrick Brown is surely equivalent to the
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greatest NHL player that's ever played the game. I tell you, what a loser. Brampton's pain is Ontario's
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gain, and I say to everyone in Brampton, I am so sorry, my heart goes out to you, that you have such a
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con man as a mayor, but please feel the gratitude of 13, 14 million other Ontarians and 37 million
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Canadians who say thank you for letting us dump Patrick Brown on you. And I know it's not easy or fun,
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but from the rest of us, thanks for taking one for the team. David, great work out there.
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Thank you so much, Ezra. All right, stay with us.
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What do you think of that Scottish hate crime law? I think it is the worst piece of legislation
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I have ever read in the English language in terms of censorship. It's worse than Canada's
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old Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, the censorship provision. That wasn't,
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at least that wasn't criminal law, and at least there were no seven-year prison terms. This is so
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insane, and it makes no sense until you see the racist who wrote the law. That's my thought on it.
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What do you think? Hey, do you think that law will pass? I don't know. I don't know. Well, until tomorrow,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.