SHEILA GUNN REID | Rules for Radicals are also for normals
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What happens when climate change skeptics show up to a municipal debate on climate change? Well, hilarity ensues and politicians embarrass themselves... and I could not be happier. I'm Sheila Gunn Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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What happens when a bunch of climate change skeptics show up to a municipal debate
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on climate change? Well, hilarity ensues and politicians embarrass themselves and I could
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not be happier. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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One of the most effective ways to change the way people in charge behave is by making fun
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of them. That quote is from Tucker Carlson. It's smart and I wish I said it, but I did
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not. Now, another way to change people's behavior is to hold them to the same standard by which
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they hold the other side. It's one of the rules for radicals written by Saul Alinsky.
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But conservatives haven't really been doing that. And conservatives have sort of walked
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away from municipal politics. For example, the city of Ottawa, a lot of the crackdown before
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Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on the peaceful truckers convoy protesting the
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mandates there. Well, a lot of those civil liberties violations prior to that had come
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at the hands of the Ottawa municipal government. Now, Ottawa right now is in the middle of
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a municipal election and climate change skeptics are turning up to hold politicians to account
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for their multi-billion dollar decision to invoke a climate emergency in Ottawa. It's a decision
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that could cost every man, woman, child and infant living in the city of Ottawa $60,000. It's
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insane. But as I said, the people are turning up and asking the politicians to account for their
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decisions. And the politicians cannot because they have a very shallow misunderstanding of this issue,
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which is odd because they write off the skeptics as the idiots in this debate. Anyway, I should be
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quiet because my interview that I'm going to show you is quite long. It's with Tom Harris from the
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International Climate Science Coalition. He's been going to these municipal debates and he's been
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filming them. And what you're going to see is quite revealing. Here's my interview with Tom.
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So joining me now is my friend and good friend of Rebel News and my show, Tom Harris from the
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International Climate Science Coalition, Canada. And Tom is doing something that I wish more
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conservatives would do, and that is engaging in local politics because conservatives so often just
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sort of wash our hands of local politics and we look at the macro issues. We focus on Justin Trudeau
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without realizing that it might be our local mayor who's costing us even more money before Justin Trudeau
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even takes his cut. So Tom, tell us, what have you been up to at the local level there in Ottawa?
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Because boy, you might have one of the crazier city councils in all of Canada, and you've been
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doing your best to sort of fight back and hold them accountable. Yeah, exactly. Well, we at the
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International Climate Science Coalition Canada noticed that the city very quietly during the pandemic
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passed various climate change acts. Okay, this is a city, and the price tag is astonishing. It's 57.4
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billion dollars for a city of 1 million people. So that works out to almost 60,000 dollars per person.
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So in the latter half of last year, we put together a report, and we didn't, we're not at first
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challenging the science because what we're trying to show people is the detrimental impacts of the plan
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and the fact that it's infeasible. And the hope is, of course, people will look at it and say,
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man, do we really have to do this? And then, of course, we have another report in the wings ready
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to come out, which shows, no, you don't have to do it because humans are not causing dangerous
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climate change. I mean, you know, 1.2 degree rise in the so-called average temperature in the last
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142 years since 1880 is so small that if we didn't have climatologists and meteorologists,
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we'd never even notice it. So what happened, though, in Ottawa, you see, is back in 2019,
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before the lockdowns, there was a declaration of climate emergency.
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Every time, every time. And once they say that, and they say it's non-binding,
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and then the big multi-billion dollar program just follows right behind it.
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Well, that's right. And the reason they did this, of course, was because during the council
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negotiations about this so-called declaration, they had massive protests of environmental
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activists outside, and no one on our side was protesting or even, you know, objecting in any
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way. And so this was passed, and the city instructed city staff to actually go ahead and
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make a plan. So they made two plans. One is called Energy Evolution. The other is called the
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Climate Change Master Plan. And in that, believe it or not, the city of Ottawa is going to put up
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710 industrial wind turbines taller than the Peace Tower. They're going to have 36 square kilometers
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Yeah. Well, don't put the cells on rooftops. But, you know, if you think about it, that's the
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equivalent of a square six kilometers on a side. I mean, that's bigger than the experimental farm
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here in Ottawa. They want to have massive batteries. They want to have huge increases in all kinds of
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costs. Okay. Typically, we're talking about a 40% rise in property tax just to pay for their climate
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plan. They want to charge $20 to people every single time they drive into the city. Okay. Every
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single time. And, you know, the price tag just goes on and on and on. I mean, it is really crazy.
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So we wrote this report. You know, we sent it to the city. We put out press releases and everything
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else. And we got zero response. I mean, they did not even answer and say thank you for, you know,
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except for auto mail, auto responses. They didn't even say thanks. You know, we'll read the report,
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et cetera. And we were quoting some of the world's leading economists and policy experts. You know,
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well, some science. There wasn't a lot of science in this particular report. And then most recently,
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I sent an open letter to the city of Ottawa about three months ago, making sure, look, you know,
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now that the lockdowns are over, you know, take a look at this. I mean, this is really important.
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Well, really great thing happened. And that is, there was a group of environmental environmentalists
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who decided to host climate change meetings and they called it climate justice. Okay. Which is
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ironic because if you actually increase the cost of electricity by four times, you're hurting the
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poor more than anyone. Right. Climate justice, where we all pay for the crimes of the rich elites,
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like Al Gore, who get to fly around and have an enormous household, but it's us, the little guy,
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we have to pay for those crimes. Yeah, justice. So, so this group is put on four debates. Three
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have happened so far. I've gone to them all. And, you know, the thing I'm happy to report, Sheila,
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is that Ottawa ones who are normally, you know, very passive and, you know, a lot of us work for the,
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for the government, Ottawa ones are actually speaking out. And I wanted to show you some examples of this.
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And it's really kind of a, a test case to show what citizens can do. And, and in particular,
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following Alinsky's rules. Okay. So there's one debate coming up. It's September 28th, a week from
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today, actually, as the day is broadcast. And, um, it's from seven to 9 PM at the Centretown United
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Church. So we want as many people as possible to come and to support those brave Ottawa ones who are
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prepared to actually speak out and say something. I mean, I'm one of them, but I've been quite
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impressed to see at the first three debates, and I have some samples of video from these debates
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showing how brave citizens can make a difference. And they can, in one case, drop an atom bomb
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on the whole debate if they ask the right question. And I'll show you that atom bomb question. It's,
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it's pretty awesome. So we, we actually have to look at who's sponsoring, who's running this.
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Okay. It's, it's a list of generally left-wing groups. It includes groups like Ecology Ottawa
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and, uh, you know, other pro climate change groups. It's a little bit like having the referees in a
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hockey game actually on one of the teams, you know, whether, and, and there's already censorship going
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on and we'll get onto that, but here's what's going on. Um, this is the first question of a very brave
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Ottawa. And I'd like you to hear it because it shows, you know, average people can get up and
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make us make a noise and make a sound. And so far, you know, typically they'll have eight or nine
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questions from the audience. In each case, you're only allowed 45 seconds and you're not allowed to
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ever come back with anything, even if they change the topic, which is a bit of a problem, but here's a
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brave Ottawa and I'll just play it for you for fun.
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I'm, I'm very concerned having just come out of the, the, uh, COVID emergency about the new
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emergency, the environmental emergency. And I just like to know how we came to this conclusion that
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we're in a state of emergency when, as far as I understand, the, uh, global warming has only gone up by
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less than two degrees in the last many, many years. I also am wondering how council thinks that
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Ottowans are going to pay for this new initiative, given that the cost of living has gone up eight
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percent in the last year. Yeah. Now that's, that's a very good question. And it really put them on the
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hot seat because right away, somebody is asking questions. They don't want asked, of course,
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they don't want people talking about the cost. We have to save the world, you know, to hell with
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the cost. But what we're finding is that, um, Ottowans are speaking out. Okay. So this is really
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good. And you know what they're doing either indirectly or directly, I don't know, is they're
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actually using something called Alinsky's rules. So what's important to understand is that how did the
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left take over our institutions? Okay. The, the, the, what's it called? The long march through the
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institutions where progressives, as they call themselves really regressives, uh, the left have
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actually taken over our academia, you know, our corporations, our government, our media and churches,
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it just goes on and on and on. Well, to a certain extent, their Bible has been Saul Alinsky's rules
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for radicals. And what we're seeing in the Ottawa events actually is the various questioners are using
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various Saul Alinsky rules. And I don't think they know it, but they are, and it's very effective.
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And I want to go through some of his rules with you and then give you samples of where they're
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actually following them, because this is something conservatives must do. Okay. I'm astounded. I've
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asked various conservatives, have you read Saul, Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals? Cause this is,
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this is how they took over. And to tell you the truth until about a month ago, I hadn't read it either.
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I mean, I'd read about it, but I'd never read it. And in the last month I've read it and understood,
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wow, this is a very powerful document. No wonder they took over our institutions because it's
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brilliant. It really is brilliant. Now at the time Saul Alinsky wrote this book, the left were on the
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outside looking in. Okay. Conservatives were in charge and he was talking about people who are
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disenfranchised, like what you can do to actually start to get inside. Well, now the circumstances
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reversed, the conservatives are on the outside and the left are on the inside. So his rules,
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while he probably roll over in his grave, knowing that we're using them against him.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.
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Yeah, exactly. So I'm going to go through some of his rules just for fun. You know, one of them
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is specifically about ridicule. Okay. Saying that man's most potent weapon is ridicule. It actually
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irritates your opponents so much that in fact they become irrational. And of course, Alinsky said,
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the enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your greatest strength. Okay.
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That's what he says. I'm just reading it off the screen. So I'd like to show you a sample of that.
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But before I do, this next sample actually uses two of Alinsky's rules. That rule, okay,
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ridiculing them. You'll laugh when you hear the question. And the next one is to personalize your
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target. You know, what Alinsky said is people hurt faster than institutions. Okay. If you attack the
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government, the city of Ottawa, I mean, that doesn't really, you know, who's responsible for that? It's
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like a conglomerate of people. So this next question actually is beautiful because it attacks
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an individual. That is Catherine McKinney, who's the leading candidate for mayor, unfortunately.
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Yeah, I'm sad to say. According to Lowell Green, he's been looking at the polls. He says that,
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yes, she is the leading candidate. And she's by far the most extreme. She actually-
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How could it get worse than Jim Watson? But it is. It is.
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Yes. She was the one who pushed the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, you know,
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treating fossil fuels as if it's like nuclear weapons. Now, the next question I'm going to show
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you, it's doubly interesting because I think the organizers knew it was very effective. It targeted
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a person and it was on ridicule because guess what, Sheila? When Rogers TV put up the video on the
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internet, unlike the first two debates where they showed it all, they took out the two most powerful
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questions. You can see this lady coming to the microphone all ready to ask her question, then
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You know, so they took this question out. So we had somebody in the audience, actually,
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a friend of mine who was videotaping the whole thing, and he sent it to me later. He said,
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Oh, look, they took her question out. Well, I'm going to show you what the powers that be,
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whether it's just Rogers or the city or working together, I expect, they did not want people to
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see this question. And for good reason, not only was it a great question, but also because the answer
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My question is for Catherine Mark, if you'd like to get out at A. When it was brought up
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in debate number one, that Texas's reliance on wind power led to 700 deaths when wind failed
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before the pool hit on here. Catherine said, referring to energy evolution, the change is
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Yes, I do support energy evolution. I did. I did vote for it. It is a plan that gives us
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39 actions that will reduce greenhouse gases and give us 20 for future. So I did. Do I think
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that every, every one of those 39 actions will be, you know, what we know today compared to
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what we know, you know, by 2040 and 2050, that this will change.
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Ah, now, isn't that interesting? She really pinned her down. She said, you said that wind did not play
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a major role. But, and she said, you know, instead solar was more, well, no, she pointed out that is
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deceptive and wrong. It's deceptive because Catherine said in the previous debate that, and no, they're going to
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have district energy. Well, of course, that's just the way we're distributing it. That doesn't narrow
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down the source at all. And she nailed her point blank showing that what she said was wrong. So
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once again, Catherine is trying to divert. She's avoiding the question. She's, and it's, it's
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beautiful because I think people in the audience start to scratch their head and say, what's going
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on here? You know, like she approved the plan that has as its major component, one of the top major
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components, wind power, which she now says, oh, well, it's not really that important.
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So what we saw there was actually two of Alinsky's rules being used very effectively. One was ridicule.
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Did you vote for the plan without reading it first? I mean, that is a beautiful question.
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And the second part was personalizing it, attacking an individual. Catherine McKinney,
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you know, what are you doing? It contradicts totally what you're saying. But, you know, the next one is,
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is by a fellow who's obviously a very good speaker and I'll just let it speak for itself.
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Okay. So here we go. And we're getting, and also I should point out the reason the video quality is
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so low with this one as well is because this was censored out by Rogers. That first one that I showed
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you, which was pretty fuzzy, it was censored out. And so was this one. So out of eight questions that
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were allowed, Rogers took the two questions, which specifically showed the city didn't know what
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Hi. $57.4 billion. In the first debate, I pointed out that Ottawa, if it reduced its emissions to net zero,
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would only affect the global temperature by one ten thousandth of a degree Celsius.
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And the response I was given was that it's important because Ottawa would be in the world.
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And we're expected to believe that the world is going to follow up on the road.
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China, the world's largest equator, twice that of the USA, has made it crystal clear that they're
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not slowing down. They're not following the bottom road. They're actually massively increasing,
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for example, consumption. So essentially, no one of magnitude is following this.
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Why is Ottawa expected to pay billions and billions and billions of dollars in expenditures
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Thank you. I guess I'll give the same response. I do believe that we have to take action on climate.
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I do believe that we have to mitigate against the change in our climate. We have to find ways of
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adapting. And I support the plan that has been developed by expertise. We've got to protect
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our environment, nature, for us, for our children moving forward. So thank you for your question.
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You know, it shows how clueless they are. The answer is, we have to do something,
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even if it amounts to nothing, no matter the cost.
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Yeah, exactly. And she totally ignores the point that nobody of magnitude is following Ottawa. I mean,
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China, which is double the US is not following Ottawa. Now, it's interesting. One advantage of this
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when you're asking questions, you know, and in this
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to answer. You don't choose someone who's one of