Shocking scenes of leftist street violence you WON'T see on the CBC
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Leftist violence at the Supreme Court, in Canada, and in the streets of Washington, D.C. is nothing new, but what's new is the fact that it's coming from people who don't even care about the Constitution and the rule of law.
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Tonight, videos of leftist violence they won't show you on the CBC.
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It's October 9th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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Did you see this video the other day of absolutely mad
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They were literally clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court of the United States
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like, I don't know, like wild animals, like zombies.
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I don't know, like maybe just like babies having a tantrum.
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Save you some time, guys. Those doors are made of bronze.
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They were meticulously sculpted by master craftsmen. They contain images
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showing justice going back all the way to the Magna Carta and before that
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to Roman times and even before that to Greek mythology. If you are bored and have time
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on the internet, the Supreme Court of the United States has a beautiful website explaining
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the significance of those doors. The two sculptors who made
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it said it was the most important thing they had ever worked on
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in their entire lives. It was the only thing they asked to sign.
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I don't think they were looking what was on the
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But it was fitting that they would attack the Supreme
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Because they don't really believe in the rule of law
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And they can hate the Republican Party, that's fine.
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the new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, that's fine.
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But you cannot dispute that he is lawfully the Premier,
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they have broken away from that social contract
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then they refuse to abide by those same institutions
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if they are wielded by their ideological opponents.
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because these are not Democrats, they are not liberals,
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It's a form of psychological manipulation, too.
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and that they were paid to target weak Republicans
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they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court
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who has been accused of violating a young girl.
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And I'm not sure I'd even call it false imprisonment.
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I think he probably could have pushed his way up,
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I mean, imagine if these weren't Democrats shouting at Trump.
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They'd be called far-right, alt-right, fascist.
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They would be talking about a coup, about violence.
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I haven't seen a single mainstream media outlet
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they usually wear a handkerchief over their faces
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They actually have people filming you the whole time.
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and she decided to kill her three year old child.
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Yeah, that has not yet aired on CBC television,
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he's assaulted a conservative woman on the street.
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And I'm going to get to why I mentioned that in a moment.
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but here's the official U.S. census demographics
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and African Americans are just 5.7% in the population.
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For comparison, Calgary, Alberta is 36% visible minority.
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So white bread, but so desperate to be edgy and liberal.
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It's got great little sketches about lesbian bookstores
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And there's this great scene about these two annoying liberals
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who go to a restaurant and ask if the chicken is organic.
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It's rare in Hollywood to see the left mocked here.
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If you have any questions about the menu, please let me know.
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I guess I do have a question about the chicken.
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If you could just tell us a little bit more about it.
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The chicken is a heritage breed, woodland-raised chicken
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that's been fed a diet of sheep's milk, soy, and hazelnuts.
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Is that USDA organic or Oregon organic or Portland organic?
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How big is the area where the chickens are able to roam free?
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They actually get up before they order it and go to visit the farm
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Because, of course, the flip side of virtue signaling about the chicken you're ordering,
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the flip side to all that is that you're doing it because you're trying to hold yourself out as superior
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to those who don't check on the background of the chicken.
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I mean, that's the whole point of being vegan, right?
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It's to show other people that you're doing something that makes you better than them.
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So look at this great little sketch with a recurring character from Portlandia.
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I'll get to the real videos in a second, but you've got to watch the show.
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This is a recurring character, the aggressive cyclist.
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See, that's virtue cycling, but it's also about being obnoxious and morally superior to people who drive cars.
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Check this out, and I'm getting closer to my real story of the day, I promise.
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Look, there are some people who are vegetarian for health reasons or religious reasons, and that's
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And there are some people who like to ride a bike.
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But politically, I think a lot of vegan bike riders, it's just about sneering at other people,
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Which brings me back to Portland, the real city.
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Not the TV show, because it's not all about organic, free-range chickens in the whitest
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I've got nothing against white people, by the way.
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It's about showing that you love some things, by showing that you hate other things.
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The screamers at the Supreme Court though, the screamers at our Ontario legislature.
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Let me show you some footage taken by Brandon Farley.
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His online biography on Twitter says, I shoot an edit video of disruptive events in downtown
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I mean, what, is the Whole Foods store out of kale or something, and people are upset?
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That town's run by Antifa, and there was a Black Lives Matter group, which is actually
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I think the white kids are allowed to join Black Lives Matter, because there's just not
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These white Black Lives Matter types, they go out and they stop traffic right downtown,
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and then they threaten people with violence, and they either physically assault or threaten
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to assault people, while the police just stand down and watch approvingly.
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The Democrat town really is run by that angry cyclist type.
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Not the chicken rights activist type, the angry type.
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This is from last week, when the white colony of Black Lives Matter decided to block roads,
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Oh, we're blocking traffic, and they're getting pissed at you.
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You're blocking traffic, and they're getting pissed at you.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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There's so much going on in there, isn't there?
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Besides the lawlessness, besides the disorder, the threats of violence,
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there's a big white guy who uses white as a swear.
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And of course, he's eating a taco because he's totally woke that way.
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He shows that by eating a taco at a protest, he, I don't know,
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he sees someone from North Carolina and therefore says he must be a racist,
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which is weird, again, because North Carolina has four times the proportion of African Americans as Portland does.
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It takes audacity to be an alabaster white guy in an all-white city calling a North Carolinian a racist.
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But not more audacity than blocking a public road, I guess.
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And did you see about halfway through, there was a policeman.
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You saw one of the drivers calling 911, presumably.
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Near the end there, an SUV didn't stop enough for these thugs, so they hit the vehicle.
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Well, an elderly lady in a wheelchair came down from the neighboring apartment to ask them,
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and, you know, to show a little bit of respect, oh, did she make a mistake?
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They're out here because three children lost their father.
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Three children lost their father because they were downtown and doing things they should have been doing.
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That's who the other people are pushing your ass up.
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You're not going to do anything to a wrong law.
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Loudest voice is not always the rightest voice.
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But it's also not okay for you to be yelling at her.
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I know, but you're standing here yelling at her.
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I'll put the shots on the ground and get your twin brother.
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Oh, excuse me, girl, excuse me, girl, excuse me, girl, don't do that with me.
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You're just trying to save on her because she's all the out of you.
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There's only I can outshout you, and his version is I'll get a bullhorn to make sure I can outshout you.
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Everyone in this apartment complex has been listening to this yelling and screaming all day long.
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And all I did was ask him to stop using the bullhorn.
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My least favorite, most favorite part was when the old lady rolled up with her cane, which she probably shouldn't have done, but was about as terrifying as a little lamb, I'd say.
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And these extremists started calling for the cops to come help them.
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There was that one black citizen in the green white striped shirt who was telling the rest of them to stop shouting at the old lady.
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It's just pretty weird to me to see young white liberals in the most privileged liberal city in America desperately seeking some sort of racial credentials by bullying an elderly white lady in a wheelchair and saying they're with Black Lives Matter when they're white.
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You probably saw that this protest blocked a bike path, that green thing.
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But, of course, in the Wokeness Olympics, Antifa-style protests trump cyclists any day.
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And it's so weird that this is being sung in the main by rich white liberal trust fund kids who just love to pretend to sing rap or something.
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You swear to turn the truth, the whole truth, the motherfuckin' truth.
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Why don't you tell anybody what the fuck you gotta say?
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And again, these are all filmed by Brandon Farley, who published them to Twitter.
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They smashed it with what looked like a metal rod.
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That's a weapon you would bring specifically to do violence.
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It's not something that that guy just had on hand.
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I'm surprised that he wasn't mobbed and beaten at the end there, but the car was attacked.
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You can see that a masked Antifa thug was pushing back against the front of the car, trying to
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get to the driver to stop while the car was being swarmed.
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20 thugs, many wearing masks, weapons, shouting, police don't care.
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I don't know why this guy stopped once he got away from them.
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I guess you could call the police, but they were already there and just standing around,
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The irony, of course, is the people who were chanting F-U-C-K, the police who were breaking
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the laws in defiance of the police who were smashing cars, were shouting, get his license.
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As if they then would plan to go to the police station and lay a complaint with the same
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police to enforce the law against the man who had the temerity to drive through their
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That's what liberal America is like these days.
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This was taken just last week in Portland, Oregon, of all places, a democratic city in
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a democratic state, the least racist state by many measures.
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I mean, it has no history of slavery, no history of John Jim Crow laws, excuse me.
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In fact, the police chief of Portland is an African-American woman with the ironic name
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She's so woke, she won't even have her police help Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs
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Enforcement officers comply with deportations, even if the cops are in danger.
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If ICE agents, that's the immigration police in the States, if ICE agents call 911 in Portland,
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chief outlaw, that's really her name, says her officers won't respond unless it's truly
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a life or death situation for the ICE officers.
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So really, not too many degrees removed from those thugs on the street themselves.
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You can see why all the beat cops just sit in their cars and motorcycles and gawk at the
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That's what the chief's pretty much telling them to do.
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I tell you all this because this isn't some gangland in East L.A.
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This is rich, liberal Portland, woke, progressive, bicycling, vegetarian, Portland.
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The fat white guy screaming in the first clip that someone else is white?
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The professional activist shouting F the police and then saying they're going to call
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the police because a car is sped away from their illegal blockade.
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This is America, or at least half of America, or at least part of that half.
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Now, this did not happen in, oh, say, Dallas, Texas, because you try to stop a car on the
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street and make a threat in Texas or other states with a strong firearms culture, you're
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But the disarmed, compliant liberals of Portland comply with any bully and chief outlaw.
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I think whether it's screaming and clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court or screaming
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at a senator in an elevator or screaming at a driver on the street for the crime of his
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race, I think the other half, the normal half of America, is disturbed by this.
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I think it's even disturbing for many Democrats, certainly for many independents, and surely
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We forget how hard it is to build up the rule of law.
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It's a custom of self-control, a police department with a light touch, because we all behave ourselves
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And it was based on building blocks of civil rights and democracy and non-partisan policing
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Look at the failed nation-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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You can't just say, presto, a liberal democracy.
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It's the most valuable thing about America and Canada and the United Kingdom and Australia and New Zealand
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and a handful of other Western European countries.
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We take it for granted because we were born into it.
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They have tried for decades, maybe even a couple of centuries.
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And they brought in speakers that were equally far out, including Linda Sarsour,
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the hijabi Democrat activist from the Women's March,
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who once said that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the progressive Muslim, should have her vagina removed.
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That's not a thing to say in a culture that has female genital mutilation.
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And along with her was Siraj Wahaj, a non-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
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whose son was the ruler of the compound in New Mexico that allegedly was having a school for schooling shooters,
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teaching their own kids, allegedly, how to shoot up schools.
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That was the crowd that was gathering in Toronto.
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And that's all fine by Canadian immigration and the Canadian media that ignored it.
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But, of course, not our own David Menzies, who went down there.
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Did I properly describe who was in town for the Islamic Circle conference?
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And I love how you alluded to Linda Sarsour making that odious remark about Hirsi Ali's vagina being removed.
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Hirsi Ali, in case our audience doesn't know this, Ezra, was a victim of female genital mutilation.
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How do we connect those dots that Linda Sarsour, who promotes herself as a feminist, is okay with female genital mutilation?
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She's the biggest proponent of Sharia law in the U.S.
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And Sharia law looks upon a female as, what, two-thirds of a male.
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So what kind of mixed messages are these, Ezra,
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that some of the things feminists should be speaking out against diligently,
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Yeah, and our male feminist prime minister, Justin Trudeau,
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who is very, very woke and telling the world just how feminist he is,
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but he shuts up when it comes to Islamic misogyny.
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Now, you knew that Linda Sarsour was coming, and you had a petition,
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and we've signed up thousands of petition signers.
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You also rented a Jumbotron truck to go down to the convention.
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We've got a couple of clips of that I want to show our people.
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But tell me first, what, well, there it is on the screen right now,
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Share the facts and sign the petition, lindasarsour.ca.
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So you went out there to the convention with the truck.
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There's a couple of clips I want to show, but tell me first, how were you received?
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The name of this convention was Carry the Light.
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However, it seemed that the people running Carry the Light didn't want any light being shed on Carry the Light.
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So we were doing streeters, and it was very cordial.
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And, you know, sadly, I have to admit, like, one of my first questions was, you know,
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after what brings you out here, what are your thoughts on Sharia law,
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I'm sad to report that not a single person said, oh, no, no, no, that's not for us here in Canada.
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We subscribe to one law, one constitution, that is the Canadian one.
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Everyone had this, like, wiggle room or, well, you know, I have to read into it,
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I would have liked to have seen someone patriotically denounce that kind of law.
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And then the organizers came out, and they started interfering with our interviews,
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Anyone that didn't want to speak, I said, okay, thanks for your time.
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And we were basically booted out to the parking lot instead of the conference entrance.
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And someone from the international center, she said, you can't come near the conference entrance,
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Well, I can tell you, as soon as we started interviewing people in the parking lot,
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We were booted right off the parking lot as well, which is the right of the international center.
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It is private property, and ICNA is the client, and we complied.
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But I just thought, Ezra, the profound, perverse irony here of a conference called Carry the Light,
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So I have to ask myself, what was going on in there, especially if any of these speeches
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Even in English, I don't think the mainstream media in Canada would report it.
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I have never seen a Canadian media outlet denounce her.
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I'd have to check before saying so with certainty.
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But I would bet the CBC has interviewed her positively and fawningly.
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And when I did the Google News as early as this morning, I didn't see any Canadian coverage.
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So if it was an alt-right white racist from the states coming up, it would have been wall-to-wall
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But when it's an alt-left Islamic supremacist who wants to read a law, crickets from the Canadian
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And we saw that in Toronto where we had these, you know, five jokers from Calgary last month.
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They were going to come into Nathan Phillips Square.
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I should tell you, I reached out before the conference to the mayor of Toronto, John Tory,
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Mayor Bonnie Crombie of Mississauga, because technically that's where the international
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centre is located, Mississauga, to the MP and the MPP for that region.
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You know, the mayor condemns all form of hate speech.
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I mean, it was nothing specific like what he was saying about, you know, what was supposedly
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going to happen on Nathan Phillips Square last month.
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This is when you were down there with the jumbotron truck.
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Let's take a look at them and then you can give me your explanation after this.
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Maybe many people don't know what Sharia law is.
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Sir, your star speaker, Linda Sarsour, is the biggest proponent of Sharia law in the United
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We are here to live as a Canadian citizen with law abiding citizen.
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We want to live in a pluralistic society where we can coexist with each other.
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But you are just unnecessarily asking an irrelevant question, which is we have nothing to do with
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But this is what your star speaker is proposing.
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And I'm just curious if you think, is Sharia law compatible with Canadian law?
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Now, was that just a conference goer or was that one of the organizers?
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He wouldn't give me his name, Ezra, but I'm absolutely sure that he was part of ICNA,
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the Islamic Circle of North America, and he wanted us out of there.
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Well, we know for a fact that they do believe in the precepts of Sharia law.
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So I think he was engaging in what's called taqiyah, which is a kind of deception.
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Example is you guys, the way you are asking question.
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Sharia law has nothing to do with our convention.
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Sharia law has nothing to do with the Muslim community over here.
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But you are asking a relevant question, which people are surprised to answer.
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What kind of question am I going to answer going to give?
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But sir, you have proponents of Sharia law as your speakers.
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So he called you an Islamophobe and you very perceptibly said, well, what exactly is Islamophobe?
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These days, anyone who dares ask questions about Sharia, anyone who dares ask any questions
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about Islam, who even wants to discuss it, is called an Islamophobe.
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I urge our viewers to go out and look at her past tweets.
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Why is it that me asking a question of him, do you support Sharia law, given that your
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star speaker is a big advocate of Sharia law, how is that Islamophobic by any benchmark?
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Do you get lots of reaction just driving that thing around?
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Well, you know, as I said off camera earlier, there was a big egg smear on it.
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And I said to the truck driver, I said, oh my goodness, well, what happened?
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I was running a Lotto Max ad, you know, so someone didn't win the lottery.
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But yeah, the driver did say that he was getting all kinds of people, you know, coming up to
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And of course, here it is, as you can see, it's on Airport Road right now because the truck
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was kicked off the parking lot, too, which is the right of the International Center.
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And what we're doing, these are, you know, the quotations you see when we're running them,
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Ezra, those are right out of Linda Sarsour's mouth.
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I mean, the jumbotron truck goes through different images.
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I think that truck was about $1,500 or something like that.
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We'd be grateful if our viewers could help chip in at lindasarstour.ca.
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And you also have a petition that you're going to deliver.
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I will deliver that petition right to their door.
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But I think that you should give it to them anyways.
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But I think you should deliver it to them anyways to let them know that they are out
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Because Justin Trudeau won't let them know that.
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I think it falls to us and our petition signers to let them know that what they're doing is
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Well, you know, sometimes doing these gigs, Ezra, I got to admit, I feel like the skunk
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But the stench is coming from that organization.
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When they're putting up Linda Sersour and, of course, her mentor, as you said, Mr.
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Wahaj, who was the unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which
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And also, Ezra, I just want to say one thing to our audience.
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We have been told, right, that even a Canadian who doesn't use cannabis, but has cannabis
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in a stock portfolio, you might be blocked from entering, from crossing the border, right?
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And yet, here are these people, and I'm not asking for somebody to be banned or not allowed
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Here are these people with these kind of so-called hate speech ideas that I think if being uttered
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by somebody on the alt-right, a white supremacist, there's no way they're getting into Canada.
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It's very clear that there are some sorts of hatred that's allowed in Canada.
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And the hatred of Linda Sersour is just fine by the establishment.
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I'm glad you're there to speak truth to power, David.
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Folks, you can see David's full report from his attendance at the ICNA, the Islamic Circle
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Obviously, lots of what you'll see is them kicking him out, but it's instructive nonetheless.
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If you haven't signed our petition yet, go to lindasarsour.ca.
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And if you like that jumbotron truck, I signed the invoice for it the other day.
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I don't remember exactly how much it costs, but David reminds me, with gas, it's almost
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If you think that jumbotron truck was a good idea, feel free to chip in at lindasarsour.ca.
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Hey, welcome back on my interview yesterday with Frank Buckley.
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Ron writes, interesting what Buckley says aligns with what Stephen Harper says in his new
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book, Right Here, Right Now, Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption.
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Well, I'm glad to hear that, Ron, and I look forward to reading Stephen Harper's book.
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I've seen some little video clips of him being interviewed in the States.
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Funny enough, I haven't seen interviews of him being interviewed in Canada yet.
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I wonder if the Canadian media would even give him a straight interview, even out of office
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For me, the light started to go on as I observed the NDP in Canada replace the politics of hard
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hat guys with the politics of campus activists.
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And I saw this as a young man, or maybe even a teenager in Alberta, where it's full of hard
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hat guys, truckers, pipe fitters, pipeline builders, oil rig hands.
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And I don't know, I suppose a generation or two ago, they would be New Democrats.
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It was a combination of farmers and factory workers.
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I don't think the left likes factory workers anymore.
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Certainly not any work outside or work in heavy industries or extraction industries.
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They like, you know, Facebook data farms, maybe.
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But, yeah, I think that the NDP is no longer the workers' party.
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I've got to say, I love the rebel, as well as an alternative news source of truth.
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The comment section has always held a wealth of information.
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It'd be like the power going off and living in the dark.
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And you make me slightly nervous that you put such a reliance on our comments.
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I, you know, I suppose I look at some of the comments.
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And then on YouTube, we have tens of thousands of comments.
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Here's the thing about comments in the age of the Internet.
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There's a lot of comedy, which is why I like the comments.
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But what the miracle of the comments in the age of the Internet is if you are being seen
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by 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, sometimes a million people.
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Sheila Gunn reads video on a Russian feminist pouring bleach on men's crotches in the subway.
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That's over 1.2 million views in just the last 10 days.
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If you've got 1.2 million people watching a video, you're going to have someone who either
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knows the story firsthand or is a subject matter expert greater than you are.
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But when George W. Bush was up for, was it 2000 or 2004?
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And Dan Rather in 60 Minutes did a hit on him, claiming they had written evidence that
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But someone in the millions of viewers said, hey, I'm an expert in typography.
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And the font used in this alleged letter did not exist at that time.
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That's a font, as in a typeface, an alphabet, a computer alphabet, that does not predate the
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You know when you type something in a word processor and it automatically has the right
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Like you don't have to do a double space after a period like you had to do on an old typewriter.
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My point is, millions of viewers and one of them, or maybe many, knew more about typefaces
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And so some anonymous stranger, citizen, fact checker blew the whistle on Dan Rather in 60
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For every savvy, mind-blowing commenter like that, there's a hundred, for every piece of
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But the great thing about having a lively online community is that someone who has a point or
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an argument or a fact, it sort of gets wafted to the top, doesn't it?
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It's a comment that gets a lot of likes or a lot of repeats.
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I do look at the comments, and I even look at the critical comments, because you know
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Every once in a while, they make a good point, and you can't simply turn off the comments
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like CBC does or so many other mainstream media.
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That's a very long-winded reply to say, I like the comments, too.
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Mainly, I like them because I chuckle, because the humor is really rough.
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But it's true, every now and then, you learn more from the comments than from the actual
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, thanks for watching.