Rebel News Podcast - October 26, 2018


The Left pretends to care about “The Handmaid’s Tale” coming true — but it’s already here, and they’re silent


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

165.29079

Word Count

6,514

Sentence Count

402

Misogynist Sentences

20

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

Why does the Left pretend to care about The Handmaid's tale coming true when it's already here and they're silent? Ezra Levenson explains why the Handmaid s Tale demonizes Christians, and weaponizes it to imply we re just moments away from a misogynistic dystopian future here in North America.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, why does the left pretend to care about the handmaid's tale coming true
00:00:04.180 when it's already here and they're silent?
00:00:06.940 It's October 25th, and this is The Ezra LeVance Show.
00:00:15.740 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:19.540 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:23.260 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
00:00:26.240 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:00:30.200 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:37.000 Why does the left, especially in the United States,
00:00:40.740 but I think it's percolating up here in Canada and over in the UK too,
00:00:43.960 why does the left keep dressing up like characters from that dystopian feminist novel
00:00:49.500 by Margaret Atwood called The Handmaid's Tale?
00:00:53.320 Again and again and again.
00:00:54.880 I'm sure those costumes have been bought en masse
00:00:58.380 by some George Soros leftist activist group
00:01:01.400 and kept in a closet at some political action center,
00:01:05.280 and they're literally used every week,
00:01:07.280 handed out to someone to protest something against President Donald Trump,
00:01:11.260 Vice President Mike Pence, against anyone.
00:01:14.040 It's just become a symbolic way of saying,
00:01:15.660 you're a sexist who, you're someone who would want to make all women live as sexual slaves
00:01:23.040 in a Christian theocracy.
00:01:25.520 That's what the story of The Handmaid's Tale is about.
00:01:28.440 By the way, there is no such thing.
00:01:30.900 Sexual slavery is not a Christian concept.
00:01:33.600 Actually, the opposite.
00:01:35.060 Protecting women and children, protecting the weak,
00:01:37.580 is very much a Christian concept.
00:01:39.440 I'm not a Christian myself, and I don't pretend to be a scholar about the New Testament
00:01:44.040 as I have an amateur's knowledge of it,
00:01:48.020 but my recollection is that Jesus actually had mercy for women,
00:01:52.760 even women who had sinned sexually.
00:01:54.940 In the Bible, look it up.
00:01:57.460 Chapter 8 of the book of John says,
00:01:59.380 Jesus met a group of people who were about to stone an adulteress to death.
00:02:04.780 Maybe that means a prostitute.
00:02:07.060 And he told them, quote,
00:02:09.080 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
00:02:13.460 That's the King James Version.
00:02:15.760 So pretty much the moral opposite of the Koran's direction
00:02:20.740 to take rape slaves from a conquered people.
00:02:24.820 My point is, Christianity's moral arc has been towards the protection of women.
00:02:29.920 There is no Islamic equivalent to Mary in the Koran.
00:02:34.100 There are no dominant or important female figures in the Koran.
00:02:36.860 The closest might be Mohammed's favorite wife, Aisha,
00:02:41.320 whom he married when she was six,
00:02:43.420 and consummated that marriage when she was nine years old.
00:02:47.360 Not really comparable in terms of treatment of women,
00:02:50.540 the place of women in society, is it?
00:02:52.700 And in fact, Margaret Atwood, the Canadian socialist feminist
00:02:55.840 who wrote The Handmaid's Tale,
00:02:57.220 she wrote it in the wake of the Iranian Revolution,
00:03:00.980 when women were forced to wear much worse face-obscuring veils than in that novel.
00:03:09.800 Thousands of women in Iran protested against their freedoms being taken away.
00:03:14.680 Here is a picture of them.
00:03:16.920 They did not want the veil to be brought in.
00:03:19.120 They were protesting against being unpersoned.
00:03:22.480 Iran, as you can see, was quite secular under the Shah.
00:03:25.540 Oh, look at those women.
00:03:27.880 It was now moving back in time by a thousand years.
00:03:34.080 That was the political news that was in the background,
00:03:37.740 as Atwood wrote her feminist book.
00:03:40.100 But she lacked the courage to take on Islam,
00:03:43.500 or maybe she, like many other leftists who hate the West,
00:03:46.600 always side with the West's enemies,
00:03:48.740 whether during the Cold War it was siding with the Soviets,
00:03:51.220 or now the Islamists.
00:03:54.640 But that's my point.
00:03:55.580 The submission and subjugation of women is not a Christian specialty.
00:03:58.860 There are occasional aberrations,
00:04:00.780 but nothing as central, as doctrinal as the Koran and Sharia,
00:04:05.480 with its rules on everything from, for example,
00:04:07.260 that women need four witnesses to accuse a man of rape,
00:04:10.280 or even that a woman's testimony is worth half of a man's,
00:04:13.600 or a woman should get a half of an inheritance as a man.
00:04:16.940 But the Handmaid's Tale demonizes only Christians,
00:04:20.100 and it has been weaponized against Donald Trump,
00:04:24.560 to imply we're just moments away from that dystopian, sexist future,
00:04:28.460 this misogynistic, rape-slave future here in North America.
00:04:31.500 Watch out.
00:04:32.120 If Trump gets his way, we're going to be right there.
00:04:34.060 And I'm not sure why.
00:04:35.360 I mean, Trump himself has been married three times
00:04:39.080 to models every time.
00:04:41.620 And he sure doesn't seem to insist on hijabs or niqabs in his real life.
00:04:50.060 Unlike, for comparison, say, the leaders of Turkey and Pakistan,
00:04:54.000 that's Imran Khan.
00:04:55.360 He's the new leader of Pakistan.
00:04:56.940 And that's his beautiful bride.
00:05:00.120 At least I think that's who that is.
00:05:03.180 I don't know.
00:05:05.160 And here's a picture of the NATO wives.
00:05:07.360 You see, second from the left there,
00:05:08.540 that's Turkey's president's wife, Erdogan,
00:05:13.460 on the second from the left there,
00:05:15.640 wearing a hijab, another Handmaid's Tale-type gear.
00:05:20.760 Frankly, she looks a little bit like Hillary Clinton in that spacesuit there.
00:05:24.480 And next to her is the lovely Melania Trump.
00:05:28.080 We just don't treat women like that in the Christian West.
00:05:32.500 It's just not a thing.
00:05:34.740 Now, sometimes the Handmaid's Tale protests get it a bit wrong.
00:05:37.580 Here's a picture of Alyssa Milano, who's an aging Hollywood actress.
00:05:42.800 She was against Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court nomination.
00:05:48.140 She's posing like a character from The Handmaid's Tale,
00:05:52.080 but she gets it wrong.
00:05:54.180 She's got at least an hour's worth of makeup going on there.
00:05:59.360 She looks beautiful.
00:06:01.160 I mean, you can't deny it.
00:06:02.380 She's a beautiful woman by nature,
00:06:04.720 but she's on the wrong side of 45,
00:06:07.540 and there's no way in hell she's going to post a picture of herself for the world
00:06:11.700 without a lot of makeup and maybe some airbrushing.
00:06:15.340 It would damage her career prospects to be au naturel,
00:06:18.980 like all the women are on Handmaid's Tale.
00:06:21.200 So she's not quite doing the ultra-feminist thing right, is she?
00:06:26.900 Take a look at these.
00:06:27.660 Any Halloween store these days, you find a lot of sexy Handmaid's Tale costumes.
00:06:32.720 Now, these ones here don't look particularly sexy,
00:06:35.180 but there's other ones that are sexy because it's a joke, right?
00:06:41.660 No one thinks that having to dress like a Handmaid's Tale woman is really a threat here,
00:06:49.920 so we can laugh about it, we can joke about it.
00:06:51.700 You don't see a lot of Halloween costumes with Muslim burqas or with hijabs,
00:06:57.260 mainly because it's not funny, and it's not escapist.
00:07:02.460 It's not a fantasy.
00:07:03.560 On Halloween, we dress up as a cowboy or an astronaut or a witch or a, you know, Frankenstein
00:07:12.000 because those are fantasies that will, never, can never happen in real life, right?
00:07:16.940 It's escapist.
00:07:18.500 Same with a Handmaid's Tale sexy Halloween outfit.
00:07:21.080 It's a fantasy where you make believe for a night, and it's fun.
00:07:26.000 No one thinks that wearing a hijab or a niqab or a burqa is a fantasy
00:07:30.960 because we see them every day on the streets,
00:07:32.660 and it's very real, and it's not fun or friendly at all
00:07:36.160 precisely because it's not a fantasy.
00:07:38.620 It is here.
00:07:40.660 It's not escapist.
00:07:41.980 They're the ones who want to escape.
00:07:43.620 Isn't that odd?
00:07:45.420 Do you remember this picture taken in Quebec five years ago?
00:07:49.180 Remember this?
00:07:50.160 Look at that.
00:07:51.140 It's hard to tell who the kids are.
00:07:54.040 Are they Muslim themselves?
00:07:55.420 I don't think so, but it's hard to tell.
00:07:57.120 Are they old stock Quebecois?
00:07:59.120 Quebecois de souche?
00:08:00.740 Who knows?
00:08:02.120 But in Quebec, daycares are subsidized by the government,
00:08:04.560 but here they seem to be following the customs of Islam,
00:08:07.660 not the customs of Quebec,
00:08:08.780 a place with an emphasis on the separation of church and state and mosque and state.
00:08:13.520 And so it has come to pass some five years after that photo
00:08:15.720 that Quebec has elected a government in no small part
00:08:18.260 on the strength of their call to ban ostentatious Islamic symbols
00:08:22.120 like the hijab and the niqab and the chador from government employees,
00:08:27.980 not banning them on the streets.
00:08:29.780 I don't know if they'd even be banning daycares, frankly,
00:08:33.540 but at least from the civil service.
00:08:34.940 I honestly don't know how many government staff in Quebec
00:08:37.620 go with the full ninja look like that anyways.
00:08:40.220 I'd be surprised if it were more than a dozen.
00:08:42.860 I mean, women who dress like that generally are not let out of the house
00:08:46.080 by their husband slash guardian slash owner.
00:08:49.180 They're not career gals working nine to five.
00:08:52.920 No, they're sort of at home.
00:08:55.000 There might be a few of them.
00:08:57.180 So now the new Quebec government,
00:08:58.460 the Coalition Avonir Quebec, or CAC, as it's known,
00:09:01.580 they say they will ban those niqabs and hijabs,
00:09:06.120 not hijabs, the niqabs and the burkas,
00:09:08.480 or excuse me, they're not going to just ban the little veil.
00:09:11.980 They're going to ban them from the public sector.
00:09:14.740 So now Quebecers will have the right to deal with the state in a neutral way.
00:09:18.560 I mean, that makes obvious sense to me.
00:09:19.980 It's the same reason why we have a uniform for police.
00:09:22.580 They're not allowed to wear this team or that team or this religion or that religion.
00:09:26.720 Here's today's Globe and Mail headline about it.
00:09:29.740 Quebec to prohibit government employees from wearing chador, niqab, and burka.
00:09:34.380 To be clear, I misspoke earlier when I said they're banning hijab.
00:09:36.860 They're not banning the hijab, which is just a light scarf.
00:09:40.080 Seriously, how many people will this law actually affect?
00:09:42.820 I doubt it's 12.
00:09:45.080 Let me read the first three paragraphs from the Globe and Mail story.
00:09:47.640 Quebec's new Coalition Avonir Quebec government
00:09:50.320 says it will go a step further in restricting religious symbols,
00:09:53.580 prohibiting all public servants from wearing the chador, niqab, or burka.
00:09:58.240 The ban on the garments is expected to be part of legislation
00:10:00.620 that will also forbid state employees in positions of authority,
00:10:04.080 including teachers, from wearing visible religious symbols.
00:10:07.900 The chador, there's a picture of it there, that lady on the story.
00:10:12.080 The chador, which is worn primarily by Muslim women from Iran,
00:10:15.520 that's not true, by the way,
00:10:16.500 is a cloak that covers the head and upper body,
00:10:19.280 but leaves the face visible.
00:10:20.800 The burka covers the entire face with mesh over the eyes,
00:10:23.640 while the niqab leaves a slit for the eyes.
00:10:25.640 This is important to learn for girls in the 21st century.
00:10:29.240 This is important stuff you'll have to get to learn,
00:10:31.220 because it ain't a fantasy, ladies.
00:10:34.260 The Handmaid's Tale is a fantasy,
00:10:35.940 but you need to know your burkas, hijabs, chadors, niqabs,
00:10:39.260 if you want to live in Canada or Europe.
00:10:45.040 By the way, a lot of Muslim countries ban these places,
00:10:47.340 but we don't have that cultural courage.
00:10:50.540 But the thing is, look, we don't wear masks in our culture,
00:10:53.600 because masks dehumanize a person,
00:10:55.800 because the face is really the essential part of a person.
00:11:01.240 Wearing a mask impedes honest, open, clear communication.
00:11:04.540 For one thing, when you talk to someone,
00:11:06.400 you look at each other's eyes and look at their face
00:11:08.860 to understand what people mean.
00:11:10.180 Are they smiling? Are they scowling?
00:11:12.700 To understand tone and context and honesty,
00:11:16.440 body language, eye contact.
00:11:17.880 In poker, we call it a poker tell.
00:11:20.320 If someone has a tic or mannerism,
00:11:22.000 if they look away when they're saying,
00:11:23.560 I raise you or I call you,
00:11:25.000 if they give something away.
00:11:26.080 Now, in real life, we don't even notice what we notice,
00:11:28.660 but we're noticing it.
00:11:29.680 It's why we look at someone's eyes.
00:11:31.700 It's hard to look someone in the eye
00:11:33.340 when you're lying, isn't it?
00:11:35.100 These are little cultural traditions,
00:11:37.440 but they're rooted in our biology.
00:11:40.340 We don't believe in masks or hoods in civil society.
00:11:44.640 We properly associate masks with trickery
00:11:47.900 or even criminality, at least with deception.
00:11:50.960 A mask hides.
00:11:52.360 We don't hide from each other
00:11:53.420 in a high-trust society like Canada.
00:11:56.520 So yeah, no masks, please.
00:11:58.600 At least not at work by teachers
00:12:02.060 and daycare workers
00:12:03.500 and government officials,
00:12:05.020 but what a tiny law.
00:12:06.400 I say again, it only applies
00:12:07.460 to a handful of people at most.
00:12:09.220 Oh, by the way, the Globe and Mail hates this law.
00:12:11.120 I didn't need to tell you that.
00:12:12.180 Of course, they hate the law.
00:12:13.640 They also hate Christianity in the public square,
00:12:16.240 but they love to get Islam in the public square.
00:12:18.540 They hate Christianity in the public square,
00:12:20.400 whether it's on a flag or a coat of arms
00:12:22.640 or in our Constitution
00:12:23.860 or the Lord's Prayer,
00:12:25.120 which has been drummed out of many legislatures.
00:12:26.900 Look at this.
00:12:27.600 This is an article here in the Globe
00:12:28.840 just a few days ago.
00:12:30.180 It's a Globe editorial.
00:12:31.540 By defending a crucifix,
00:12:32.880 Quebec crosses the line into hypocrisy.
00:12:35.740 Let me quote a sentence from the editorial.
00:12:39.060 The crucifix, a spokesman argued,
00:12:41.460 is nothing but a heritage object
00:12:42.960 that is part of our history,
00:12:44.320 and as such, it should not be included
00:12:46.080 in the larger argument about religious symbols
00:12:47.720 in the public sphere.
00:12:51.020 So the Globe is very angry
00:12:52.840 about the hypocrisy here.
00:12:54.460 Well, I'd agree with you, mate,
00:12:55.800 if we were living in Saudi Arabia or Iran,
00:12:57.780 but this is Canada,
00:12:59.000 and indeed, the history of our country,
00:13:01.860 especially the history of Quebec,
00:13:05.480 is a Christian story.
00:13:07.180 Now, you can say a Judeo-Christian story
00:13:08.980 if it makes you more comfy,
00:13:10.800 but Quebec is pretty Catholic.
00:13:12.960 It's hardwired into our Constitution, by the way.
00:13:15.460 I checked today.
00:13:16.340 I opened up our Constitution Act 1867,
00:13:18.680 and I did a word search.
00:13:20.160 The word Catholic is in there four times.
00:13:23.100 I'm sorry, it's part of who we are.
00:13:24.180 If you don't like it,
00:13:25.040 go to Saudi Arabia.
00:13:26.060 Now, others are welcome
00:13:28.140 to join us here in Canada,
00:13:29.380 but that does not undo who we are
00:13:31.540 or what our history was,
00:13:33.760 what our culture is,
00:13:35.240 what our past was.
00:13:36.560 The Globe and Mail
00:13:37.320 and the Trudeau liberals
00:13:38.640 want that past undone.
00:13:40.780 That's why they think
00:13:41.640 that crucifix is an outrage
00:13:43.100 and a hypocrisy,
00:13:44.380 that we keep it,
00:13:45.320 but the burqa must be allowed.
00:13:47.620 But thankfully,
00:13:48.560 the people seem to disagree.
00:13:49.680 Let me close with a poll
00:13:50.540 to show you that the crazy people here
00:13:52.600 aren't you and me
00:13:54.360 and the CAC government,
00:13:55.420 but rather Trudeau
00:13:56.120 and the Globe and Mail
00:13:56.700 and the rest of the media party.
00:13:58.660 Here's the poll I'm referring to.
00:14:00.960 It asks if the niqab
00:14:02.800 should be prohibited.
00:14:05.160 The niqab is the ninja one.
00:14:07.100 It should,
00:14:07.460 should it be,
00:14:08.440 there's three choices.
00:14:09.900 Prohibited,
00:14:10.400 that's the red line.
00:14:12.800 Discouraged but tolerated,
00:14:13.980 that's the gray line.
00:14:14.840 Or welcome,
00:14:16.020 that's the blue line.
00:14:16.880 I like those three choices,
00:14:18.260 by the way.
00:14:18.980 Now look at the answers.
00:14:20.760 Nationwide,
00:14:21.260 48% say ban it.
00:14:23.020 Just ban it.
00:14:23.860 Get rid of it.
00:14:24.360 Ban it.
00:14:25.860 Another 29% nationwide say
00:14:27.680 discourage it.
00:14:30.240 Only 23% say welcome.
00:14:32.000 And look at Quebec.
00:14:33.160 That's the second from the right there.
00:14:34.240 Look at that super tall bar there.
00:14:36.080 70% of Quebecers want it banned.
00:14:38.520 And another 23% want it discouraged.
00:14:41.440 That is 93% of Quebecers,
00:14:44.760 by the way,
00:14:45.240 which surely means that a goodly number of Muslims
00:14:48.240 want it banned too.
00:14:49.800 Probably Muslim women
00:14:50.980 who would really like to be able to say
00:14:53.460 to their husbands or imams,
00:14:55.460 sorry,
00:14:56.260 I'd really like to wear a hot body bag
00:14:58.440 all the time in public.
00:15:00.400 I'd really like to wear an irritating mask
00:15:04.320 on my face all the time.
00:15:05.340 Really would, dear.
00:15:06.560 But it's against the law in our new country,
00:15:08.460 so sorry,
00:15:09.280 I can't abide by your law.
00:15:11.520 I think Muslim women desperately want this law.
00:15:16.240 I say again,
00:15:17.040 the new Quebec law would only apply
00:15:18.260 to government workers,
00:15:18.940 so even it doesn't
00:15:20.200 comply with the wishes of the people
00:15:22.660 as shown in this poll.
00:15:23.700 But that's the news.
00:15:24.700 A Quebec politician did what the media party
00:15:26.420 told him not to do.
00:15:28.840 The CAC stood up,
00:15:29.700 however timidly,
00:15:30.440 for Canada's cultural and historical identity,
00:15:32.980 at least in a tiny way,
00:15:33.900 a symbolic way.
00:15:34.640 And that party won a majority.
00:15:37.920 And polls say,
00:15:39.660 I just showed them to you,
00:15:40.680 he would do even better
00:15:41.540 by showing even more backbone,
00:15:42.680 72% of Ontarians
00:15:44.860 think it should be prohibited
00:15:47.140 or discouraged too,
00:15:48.340 by the way.
00:15:49.760 78% of Albertans.
00:15:53.180 I wonder who will be
00:15:54.320 the next politician in Canada
00:15:55.500 who realizes the obvious fact
00:15:57.420 simply respecting Canada's traditions
00:16:00.500 of the separation of mosque and state
00:16:02.340 and the equality of men and women,
00:16:04.900 while that is hateful to the media party,
00:16:07.180 will give you huge support
00:16:09.080 on election today.
00:16:09.920 I mean, on that day,
00:16:13.400 on election day,
00:16:15.520 the editorial writers
00:16:16.820 at the Globe and Mail
00:16:17.620 have just one vote,
00:16:19.280 don't they?
00:16:20.760 No way.
00:16:21.500 You can bet it's a he.
00:16:23.520 You can bet it's a he writing that.
00:16:25.280 It's always male feminists
00:16:26.460 who are happy to see Muslim women
00:16:28.160 kept in bags.
00:16:30.360 Stay with us, Moorhead.
00:16:31.320 There is a lot of false equivalence
00:16:50.020 that goes on in these discussions
00:16:51.540 when we say,
00:16:52.640 well, you know,
00:16:53.040 both sides need to tone down
00:16:54.560 their rhetoric.
00:16:55.180 This is not a both sides issue.
00:16:57.200 This is a Donald Trump issue.
00:16:58.960 Donald Trump has weaponized politics
00:17:02.500 with names attached.
00:17:05.260 And every one of those people,
00:17:07.740 individuals,
00:17:09.060 who this person tried,
00:17:12.340 or people tried to attack,
00:17:14.580 those people have been named
00:17:16.280 by Donald Trump over and over.
00:17:18.560 To ignore his rhetoric,
00:17:20.840 I mean, you can match up line for line
00:17:23.640 his rally speeches
00:17:24.880 with every single one of those names
00:17:27.280 that you just listed.
00:17:28.500 This is his rhetoric
00:17:29.580 that has created this moment in time.
00:17:31.820 And to ignore that
00:17:32.920 is to ignore a huge component
00:17:34.840 of what's going on here.
00:17:36.120 He calls reporters
00:17:37.660 the enemy of the American people.
00:17:40.260 And yet he said
00:17:41.220 it's the media's fault
00:17:42.700 for their kind of reporting
00:17:44.720 that media organizations
00:17:47.000 have been doing.
00:17:48.200 Well, there you have it.
00:17:49.820 Before any evidence is in,
00:17:52.280 the media party has decided
00:17:53.920 that some alleged bomb threats
00:17:56.240 made to CNN,
00:17:57.580 the Obamas,
00:17:58.300 and the Clintons,
00:17:59.080 and also George Soros,
00:18:00.040 I might add,
00:18:00.760 are the fault of Donald Trump.
00:18:02.520 It's amazing
00:18:03.240 when there's an attacker
00:18:05.340 who shouts,
00:18:06.200 Allah Akbar,
00:18:07.120 the media says,
00:18:07.880 do not rush to judgment.
00:18:09.380 But there,
00:18:10.220 the judgment was clear.
00:18:12.420 Donald Trump
00:18:13.120 had this to say
00:18:15.260 about these purported threats.
00:18:17.380 In these times,
00:18:19.120 we have to unify.
00:18:21.100 We have to come together
00:18:22.040 and send one very clear,
00:18:25.400 strong, unmistakable message
00:18:27.120 that acts or threats
00:18:29.740 of political violence
00:18:30.920 of any kind
00:18:32.100 have no place
00:18:32.860 in the United States of America.
00:18:35.440 Pretty clear
00:18:36.260 and categorical statement there.
00:18:37.760 Well, joining us now via Skype
00:18:39.080 is our friend Joel Pollack,
00:18:41.200 the senior editor-at-large
00:18:42.920 at Breitbart.com.
00:18:44.660 Joel, great to see you again.
00:18:45.600 And what's the latest?
00:18:46.480 I see now
00:18:47.560 that the New York Times
00:18:48.400 is reporting
00:18:48.980 that these are not actual bombs,
00:18:52.360 but they're fake bombs
00:18:54.380 designed to look like bombs
00:18:55.980 to get, I don't know,
00:18:57.640 people scared,
00:18:58.280 get media attention,
00:18:59.300 but they're not actually bombs.
00:19:00.940 Is that the latest?
00:19:03.240 We don't know.
00:19:04.220 That's speculation
00:19:04.860 from the New York Times.
00:19:06.500 It's possible
00:19:07.200 that some of the devices are fake.
00:19:09.780 It's possible
00:19:10.360 that others are real.
00:19:11.760 We had Bernie Carrick,
00:19:13.340 the former New York City
00:19:14.540 police commissioner,
00:19:15.200 on our radio show last night
00:19:16.680 who said he thought
00:19:17.380 the first device
00:19:18.960 that was sent
00:19:19.960 to the home of George Soros
00:19:21.640 may have been real
00:19:23.000 because they blew it up.
00:19:25.280 But we don't know.
00:19:26.860 Some of them appear
00:19:27.840 not to have been designed
00:19:28.600 to go off at all,
00:19:29.480 so it just remains to be seen.
00:19:30.960 We don't have all the facts yet.
00:19:33.200 Now, look,
00:19:33.980 I think it's quite telling
00:19:37.060 that all of these
00:19:38.960 happened at the same time.
00:19:40.460 Perhaps it's the same person.
00:19:41.980 I mean,
00:19:42.640 we know that Unabomber,
00:19:43.900 who was a leftist as well,
00:19:45.280 environmental extremist,
00:19:46.600 sent out his
00:19:47.460 at the same time.
00:19:49.300 I don't want to be
00:19:50.380 a conspiracy theorist
00:19:51.560 and I don't want
00:19:52.400 to downplay this
00:19:53.780 just because
00:19:54.840 the media coverage
00:19:57.700 of it
00:19:58.020 is embarrassing
00:19:59.340 or could be embarrassing
00:20:00.400 to Republicans,
00:20:01.060 so I don't want to
00:20:02.080 indulge in paranoia
00:20:03.600 or conspiracies.
00:20:05.060 But is it a possibility
00:20:06.960 or should we at least
00:20:07.940 be skeptical
00:20:08.740 as to whether or not
00:20:10.860 this is a,
00:20:12.000 as they say,
00:20:12.560 a false flag operation
00:20:13.820 designed to
00:20:14.600 take the wind
00:20:15.680 out of the sails
00:20:16.320 of the Republicans
00:20:17.080 who have recently
00:20:17.860 been campaigning
00:20:18.700 against the mob
00:20:19.840 and violence of the left
00:20:21.180 by saying,
00:20:21.680 look,
00:20:22.400 there's violence
00:20:23.040 by the right
00:20:24.700 against the left.
00:20:25.760 What do you think
00:20:26.180 of that scenario?
00:20:29.780 I think it's unlikely.
00:20:30.900 I think it's probably
00:20:32.080 somebody who
00:20:33.840 is unhinged,
00:20:36.000 but it's more likely
00:20:37.220 than not somebody
00:20:38.200 who empathizes
00:20:39.600 with the right.
00:20:40.260 Although,
00:20:41.040 when you look at people
00:20:42.780 who have these
00:20:43.560 extreme views,
00:20:44.900 it doesn't really matter
00:20:45.920 whether they're on the right
00:20:46.580 or the left.
00:20:47.020 They often go back and forth
00:20:48.600 between the right
00:20:49.160 and the left.
00:20:49.800 They often share views
00:20:52.420 or flip views
00:20:53.380 depending on who's in power.
00:20:54.940 People are attracted
00:20:55.680 to extreme rhetoric
00:20:57.780 for psychological reasons
00:20:59.400 and not necessarily
00:21:01.160 for political reasons.
00:21:02.100 I don't think that
00:21:02.700 Republicans have anything
00:21:03.660 in common
00:21:04.260 with somebody
00:21:05.280 who behaves this way,
00:21:06.760 nor do I think
00:21:07.640 Democrats have anything
00:21:08.940 in common
00:21:09.360 with someone
00:21:09.840 who shows up
00:21:10.340 at a baseball field
00:21:11.200 and shoots a bunch
00:21:12.380 of Republican legislators.
00:21:14.040 The vast majority,
00:21:15.160 in fact,
00:21:15.780 I could say almost
00:21:16.260 the entire population
00:21:18.260 of the United States
00:21:19.200 is prepared to have
00:21:21.160 vociferous political debates
00:21:22.940 without resorting
00:21:23.780 to violence.
00:21:24.860 And the vast majority
00:21:26.200 are prepared
00:21:27.220 to have vociferous
00:21:28.420 political debates
00:21:29.180 without even being nasty
00:21:30.420 to each other.
00:21:31.040 I mean,
00:21:31.540 the phenomenon
00:21:32.140 of people being divisive
00:21:33.860 is really a minority phenomenon
00:21:35.480 and the tiny,
00:21:37.580 tiny proportion of people
00:21:38.820 who engage in violence
00:21:40.040 is just really,
00:21:41.940 really small.
00:21:42.820 They get disproportionate
00:21:43.960 media coverage.
00:21:45.000 That's partly because
00:21:46.080 violence is sensational
00:21:47.360 and graphic,
00:21:48.540 but it's also because
00:21:49.480 the media tend to justify
00:21:53.040 one kind of violence
00:21:54.000 and attack another.
00:21:55.620 The media are on the left
00:21:56.900 and we have seen
00:21:58.080 in recent weeks
00:21:58.720 they've tried to defend
00:22:00.020 left-wing mobs
00:22:01.280 that have attacked
00:22:02.020 the Supreme Court,
00:22:03.140 that have attacked
00:22:03.540 Republican legislators.
00:22:05.000 They're inclined
00:22:05.540 to defend those people
00:22:06.360 because they think
00:22:06.960 their cause is just.
00:22:08.300 But the media do not
00:22:09.340 represent everybody
00:22:10.580 in the United States.
00:22:11.540 The media are also
00:22:12.860 a small minority view,
00:22:15.140 largely on the left,
00:22:16.180 almost entirely on the left.
00:22:17.720 And I don't think
00:22:19.300 that you can draw
00:22:20.680 a direct line
00:22:21.540 between any politician,
00:22:23.080 any political rhetoric even,
00:22:26.140 and what this person did.
00:22:27.460 They may have been
00:22:27.940 inspired by politics,
00:22:29.180 but that doesn't make
00:22:29.740 anybody in the political
00:22:30.680 world responsible
00:22:31.500 for what this person did.
00:22:33.100 Yeah.
00:22:33.500 I'm going to show you
00:22:34.160 two columns published
00:22:36.240 by the same New York Times
00:22:38.180 columnist,
00:22:39.260 three days apart.
00:22:40.380 It's by Charles Blow,
00:22:41.320 who is a down-the-line Democrat.
00:22:43.120 So here's a column
00:22:44.060 he wrote on October 21st.
00:22:45.840 Count me among the mob
00:22:48.160 if it means people
00:22:49.220 who stand in opposition
00:22:50.040 to Trump's degradation
00:22:50.960 of the country.
00:22:52.240 So this is a reaction
00:22:53.340 to the Republicans
00:22:54.520 really emphasizing
00:22:55.700 the increasing radicalism,
00:22:58.800 extremism,
00:22:59.400 and even stepping
00:23:01.600 into violence.
00:23:02.360 So that's on October 21st.
00:23:04.780 Charles Blow,
00:23:05.460 the New York Times,
00:23:06.060 count me among the mob.
00:23:06.900 And then look at Charles Blow
00:23:08.300 three days later.
00:23:10.280 Rhetoric, mobs, and terror.
00:23:12.760 The explosive devices
00:23:14.000 were released
00:23:14.620 into a toxic atmosphere
00:23:16.240 created by Trump.
00:23:18.140 So I guess the official
00:23:19.580 Democratic talking points
00:23:20.860 changed in the course
00:23:21.960 of those 72 hours.
00:23:22.780 But Joel,
00:23:23.380 would you agree with me
00:23:24.300 that Donald Trump
00:23:25.340 did not create
00:23:26.420 the climate of division
00:23:28.840 and partisanship,
00:23:30.120 but probably more likely
00:23:31.560 he was a reaction
00:23:32.600 to it.
00:23:33.880 If John McCain
00:23:34.660 and Mitt Romney
00:23:35.480 couldn't win
00:23:36.800 in the battlefield
00:23:38.140 of modern American politics,
00:23:39.940 it took a Trump
00:23:40.880 to play the game
00:23:42.200 and win it.
00:23:42.640 That's my thesis.
00:23:43.460 What would you say to that?
00:23:46.260 Right.
00:23:46.780 The idea that you could
00:23:48.360 be civil
00:23:49.200 and still push back
00:23:51.740 against the media's onslaught
00:23:55.240 without being nasty,
00:23:58.040 without throwing some elbows,
00:24:01.020 is a nice idea.
00:24:02.480 It just lacks
00:24:03.240 any actual examples.
00:24:05.660 And the problem we have
00:24:07.380 is that only Trump
00:24:08.480 has succeeded
00:24:09.200 in defeating the media,
00:24:10.760 and he has done it
00:24:11.740 by giving them
00:24:12.480 their own medicine.
00:24:13.520 The idea that Republicans
00:24:15.340 can triumph
00:24:16.540 by taking the moral high ground
00:24:18.000 has so much evidence
00:24:19.820 against it.
00:24:20.540 I'm not saying
00:24:20.940 it's impossible.
00:24:21.740 I would like it to be true.
00:24:23.240 But we saw what happened
00:24:24.940 when Mitt Romney
00:24:25.720 decided to play it cool
00:24:27.900 with Barack Obama
00:24:28.880 when Obama went after him
00:24:30.100 in that second
00:24:30.960 presidential debate
00:24:31.800 and claimed he had called
00:24:33.500 the Benghazi terror attack
00:24:34.660 a terror attack,
00:24:35.440 and he hadn't.
00:24:36.540 And the moderator
00:24:37.320 intervened on Obama's behalf,
00:24:38.780 and the crowd cheered
00:24:39.740 for Obama,
00:24:40.320 even though they weren't
00:24:40.860 supposed to cheer
00:24:41.480 at a presidential debate
00:24:42.420 because they were stacked
00:24:43.820 with his supporters,
00:24:45.360 everything is stacked
00:24:46.220 against Republicans
00:24:46.940 having a fair share.
00:24:47.760 In fact,
00:24:48.380 as long as I've been voting,
00:24:50.120 every time Republicans
00:24:51.160 have won a major election,
00:24:52.920 they've gone into the election
00:24:54.420 being declared underdogs
00:24:57.040 by the media,
00:24:57.780 being declared unlikely
00:24:59.140 to win by the media.
00:25:01.080 So when you're a Republican,
00:25:02.800 you have no confidence
00:25:04.400 that you're ever going to win
00:25:05.740 when you're about to win.
00:25:06.800 You have no confidence
00:25:07.480 you're going to be treated
00:25:08.140 fairly at all.
00:25:09.160 There's no one
00:25:12.200 who has shown Republicans
00:25:13.520 how to win
00:25:14.220 in any other way.
00:25:16.080 So I'm prepared to say
00:25:17.720 that Donald Trump's method
00:25:18.840 is not the best.
00:25:19.960 However,
00:25:20.220 it's the only one
00:25:21.220 that seems to have worked.
00:25:22.260 It puts America
00:25:24.120 in a difficult position,
00:25:25.540 puts Trump supporters
00:25:26.280 in a difficult position
00:25:27.040 because some of us
00:25:27.920 would like him
00:25:28.400 to use more measured tones,
00:25:30.480 but it's impossible
00:25:32.900 to say whether
00:25:33.420 that would work or not
00:25:34.160 because it never has
00:25:34.860 in the past.
00:25:35.360 I want to ask you
00:25:37.120 one last thing
00:25:37.680 and I don't want to engage
00:25:39.580 in conspiracy theories
00:25:40.880 and calling things
00:25:42.120 a false flag operation.
00:25:43.820 It's a rather intricate theory.
00:25:47.540 I mean,
00:25:47.740 Occam's razor says
00:25:48.800 the simplest answer
00:25:49.900 is often the best.
00:25:51.700 This was some kook
00:25:53.740 trying to scare
00:25:54.460 the Clintons or whatever.
00:25:55.980 But the reason I say that,
00:25:57.440 I'm sorry to go back on this,
00:25:58.640 but let me just tell you
00:25:59.480 something that's on my mind,
00:26:01.260 Joel,
00:26:01.460 and we'll end on this
00:26:02.720 because I know
00:26:03.080 your time today
00:26:03.600 is very pressed.
00:26:04.180 There have been dozens
00:26:06.820 of allegations of violence
00:26:10.020 and physical attacks
00:26:11.220 and threats made
00:26:12.160 against Trump supporters
00:26:14.280 regarding, you know,
00:26:17.040 someone who says
00:26:18.100 I was attacked
00:26:19.120 in a hate crime
00:26:20.440 by a Trump supporter.
00:26:21.800 I had this swastika
00:26:23.460 drawn on my car.
00:26:24.900 I had this noose.
00:26:26.640 I'm a black person.
00:26:27.680 I had this noose
00:26:28.620 left on my dorm
00:26:30.020 by some Trump supporter.
00:26:31.660 If you Google hoaxes
00:26:33.860 for hate crimes,
00:26:35.020 you will find dozens
00:26:36.500 of examples in America
00:26:37.660 and many up here
00:26:38.840 in Canada too,
00:26:39.700 including the notorious
00:26:40.940 hijab hoax
00:26:42.220 where an 11-year-old girl
00:26:43.660 claimed she was attacked
00:26:45.080 by an Asian man
00:26:46.240 cutting her hijab
00:26:47.340 with scissors.
00:26:48.460 And my point is,
00:26:49.580 those hoaxes
00:26:50.560 have grown tiresome,
00:26:52.360 but the same people,
00:26:53.360 the same motivation
00:26:54.300 for those hoaxes,
00:26:55.760 it's just even more hyperbole
00:26:58.000 if they're a bomb threat.
00:26:59.720 That's the reason
00:27:00.840 I would give any credence
00:27:02.480 to the notion
00:27:03.380 that this is
00:27:04.020 a political gambit.
00:27:05.960 Now, I don't want
00:27:06.580 to go down the road
00:27:07.220 of speculation
00:27:08.000 or conspiracy theory,
00:27:10.780 but I guess
00:27:11.100 I wanted to tell you
00:27:12.360 my rationale
00:27:13.000 for being at least skeptical
00:27:14.920 and wanting to wait
00:27:16.040 for the facts to come in
00:27:17.380 before laying this
00:27:19.200 at the feet
00:27:19.820 of any Republican
00:27:21.180 because we've seen
00:27:21.960 so many other
00:27:22.740 false accusations
00:27:24.220 against other Republicans,
00:27:25.560 false accusations
00:27:26.240 against Brett Kavanaugh,
00:27:27.680 that he was a gang rapist,
00:27:29.200 which would be
00:27:29.680 a capital offense.
00:27:31.600 So I think that is
00:27:33.060 one of the weapons
00:27:34.200 of the Democrats
00:27:34.840 these days.
00:27:35.540 Last word to you, Joel.
00:27:40.180 There are hoaxes.
00:27:41.820 This may or may not
00:27:43.400 fall into that category.
00:27:44.440 We don't know.
00:27:45.000 I will say this.
00:27:46.220 Early last year,
00:27:47.580 there were dozens,
00:27:49.240 maybe even hundreds,
00:27:50.140 of hoax bomb threats
00:27:51.860 phoned into Jewish
00:27:53.180 community centers
00:27:53.960 around the country,
00:27:54.640 and the left
00:27:55.340 made a meal of it
00:27:56.600 and blamed Trump's election
00:27:58.060 for prompting
00:27:59.000 this wave
00:28:00.020 of anti-Semitism,
00:28:01.140 this violence,
00:28:01.860 this terrorism.
00:28:02.900 It turned out to be
00:28:03.740 a Jewish American
00:28:04.640 Israeli teenager
00:28:06.740 hoaxing Jewish
00:28:08.880 community centers
00:28:09.640 from Israel.
00:28:11.420 And that doesn't mean
00:28:12.520 there aren't
00:28:13.100 anti-Semitic threats,
00:28:14.340 but this was a hoax
00:28:15.460 done by a disturbed
00:28:16.840 teenager in his basement
00:28:18.320 or his parents' basement.
00:28:20.640 And,
00:28:21.080 or I don't know
00:28:22.160 if he was in a
00:28:22.660 physical basement,
00:28:23.400 but whatever.
00:28:23.840 He was in his parents' home.
00:28:25.520 And the organizations
00:28:28.020 that had ginned up
00:28:29.140 all of this fear
00:28:30.240 and loathing
00:28:30.880 for the Republicans
00:28:31.660 and for Trump
00:28:32.380 did not back away.
00:28:34.380 They still
00:28:35.200 continued to press
00:28:37.320 the case that there
00:28:38.100 was this wave
00:28:38.820 of anti-Semitic violence
00:28:39.900 and it was all
00:28:40.380 Trump's fault,
00:28:41.740 which basically
00:28:42.360 gives people permission
00:28:44.180 to hate Trump supporters,
00:28:45.300 to demonize Trump supporters,
00:28:46.480 maybe even to attack
00:28:47.280 Trump supporters.
00:28:48.140 Yeah.
00:28:49.300 There's never been
00:28:50.120 an apology for that.
00:28:51.960 Right.
00:28:52.220 And I think that
00:28:53.760 what the media
00:28:54.800 and the activists
00:28:55.600 and the Democrats
00:28:56.240 have done together
00:28:57.300 is create a scenario
00:28:59.460 where if you're
00:29:01.720 a Trump supporter,
00:29:02.360 you're presumed guilty.
00:29:03.620 And that has led
00:29:04.580 some people
00:29:04.980 to do crazy things.
00:29:06.340 So I think everybody
00:29:07.400 needs to take a step back,
00:29:08.460 but the media
00:29:08.860 definitely need to own this
00:29:10.380 and need to own their role
00:29:11.620 in creating this environment
00:29:13.320 as much as anybody else.
00:29:15.260 Yeah.
00:29:15.880 Well, that's a very wise reminder
00:29:17.640 and thank you for that.
00:29:18.620 I was embarrassed, frankly.
00:29:20.680 I mean, I shouldn't be embarrassed
00:29:22.560 by reason of ethnicity
00:29:23.640 that it was a fellow Jew
00:29:25.380 calling in false flag threats
00:29:27.840 to Jewish community centers,
00:29:29.020 but I did find it
00:29:29.860 somewhat embarrassing
00:29:30.820 because anti-Semitism
00:29:32.320 is real in the world
00:29:33.580 and to have it cheapened
00:29:34.440 by a hoax irritated me.
00:29:37.040 And that's something
00:29:38.200 to keep in mind
00:29:38.880 when we see these bomb threats today
00:29:40.520 because we know
00:29:42.100 that false flag operations,
00:29:43.500 however insane they sound,
00:29:46.680 they do exist
00:29:47.500 and they have been used
00:29:48.340 against Trump.
00:29:48.940 Joel, it's great to see you again.
00:29:49.760 Thanks for your wise
00:29:50.940 and sober words as always.
00:29:53.100 Thank you.
00:29:53.620 All right, there you have it.
00:29:54.300 Joel Pollack,
00:29:54.960 the senior editor-at-large
00:29:56.140 at Breitbart.com.
00:29:57.480 Stay with us.
00:29:57.960 More ahead on the road.
00:30:09.840 Hey, welcome back.
00:30:10.720 I was in the United Kingdom,
00:30:12.340 as you know.
00:30:12.920 I did my show on Monday
00:30:13.860 explaining why I was going
00:30:14.860 and I'm grateful to my friends
00:30:16.140 for covering for me
00:30:16.900 when I was away.
00:30:17.400 I'm back now.
00:30:19.040 And just to give you
00:30:20.060 a minute on that
00:30:20.600 because I know a lot
00:30:21.180 of Canadians care about
00:30:22.240 the Tommy Robinson case,
00:30:24.420 not because they have
00:30:25.380 a particular connection
00:30:26.540 to Tommy,
00:30:27.160 although he worked for us
00:30:28.040 for a year,
00:30:28.980 but because they see it
00:30:30.100 as a canary in the coal mine
00:30:31.300 on so many issues,
00:30:32.740 freedom of speech,
00:30:33.420 Islamification,
00:30:34.300 things of that sort,
00:30:35.540 the politicization
00:30:36.480 of the police
00:30:37.460 and the courts.
00:30:39.140 So Tommy Robinson
00:30:39.880 was set to have his hearing
00:30:42.320 for contempt of court.
00:30:43.200 The judge punted it
00:30:45.000 over to the attorney general.
00:30:46.020 I won't get into
00:30:46.440 the technicalities of it.
00:30:48.040 The court hearing
00:30:48.980 was very brief,
00:30:50.180 but on the street outside
00:30:51.020 were at least 2,000 people
00:30:54.340 rallying in Tommy's support.
00:30:55.900 It was unbelievable.
00:30:58.060 As you may know,
00:30:59.120 I brought along with me
00:31:00.300 four or five journalists
00:31:03.060 that, I say four or five
00:31:05.500 because there were four
00:31:06.240 we brought,
00:31:06.980 and I encouraged another one
00:31:08.200 to come on his own
00:31:09.280 because I'm sick
00:31:12.540 of the media party
00:31:13.260 in the UK.
00:31:13.800 They're actually far worse
00:31:14.660 than our media party
00:31:15.660 here in Canada,
00:31:16.240 if you can believe it.
00:31:17.660 And I want to show you,
00:31:20.120 can I leave today
00:31:21.380 by showing you
00:31:22.780 two excerpts
00:31:27.960 from the little rally
00:31:29.700 that was outside
00:31:30.920 the courthouse.
00:31:31.560 There was a little stage
00:31:32.580 and there were some speeches
00:31:33.720 and Tommy came out
00:31:34.600 and he read his witness statement.
00:31:37.400 And you can find that
00:31:38.020 on a YouTube page.
00:31:39.040 But I want to start
00:31:40.180 by showing you
00:31:41.300 my short speech.
00:31:43.260 It's only about four minutes.
00:31:44.140 Can you watch it?
00:31:44.960 Because I want to show you
00:31:45.860 something afterwards
00:31:46.540 by Andrew Lawton
00:31:47.200 that's even better.
00:31:48.100 Here's my four and a half minutes
00:31:49.960 or so of comments
00:31:50.900 from the stage
00:31:52.520 in front of 2,000
00:31:54.400 Tommy supporters
00:31:55.760 outside the court.
00:31:56.480 Take a look.
00:31:57.080 You know,
00:31:57.500 I've been calling Tommy
00:31:58.840 the last lion of Britain.
00:32:04.260 As I look around
00:32:05.540 your beautiful city of London,
00:32:07.200 I see many lions.
00:32:10.980 At first,
00:32:12.040 I thought it was just
00:32:12.980 the statues
00:32:13.700 at Trafalgar Square
00:32:15.460 or outside Buckingham Palace
00:32:17.540 at Queen Victoria's Memorial.
00:32:19.800 And I thought
00:32:20.360 maybe Tommy is the last.
00:32:22.500 But as I look across
00:32:24.120 the thousands of faces here,
00:32:26.900 that the media party
00:32:28.080 will count only
00:32:28.980 in the hundreds.
00:32:29.680 As I look at the thousands
00:32:33.040 of faces here,
00:32:34.360 I know that there are
00:32:36.720 lion cubs being born.
00:32:40.220 And I would encourage you
00:32:42.000 to speak up
00:32:42.940 with courage and strength.
00:32:45.460 As my old British friend
00:32:46.820 John O'Sullivan said,
00:32:48.320 it's easier to fight
00:32:49.980 in the first ditch
00:32:51.200 than in the last ditch.
00:32:53.240 And what I would say to you
00:32:56.800 is if you don't stand
00:32:58.860 with Tommy Robinson today,
00:33:01.360 however hard it is,
00:33:03.820 however much slander
00:33:06.080 and calumny
00:33:06.960 is directed at you
00:33:07.940 by your own media
00:33:08.940 and even your government
00:33:10.260 and even some police brass,
00:33:12.580 if you don't stand up now
00:33:14.580 when it's hard,
00:33:15.680 I guarantee
00:33:16.660 it will be harder later.
00:33:18.200 I must say
00:33:20.900 that back in Canada
00:33:22.500 where I'm from
00:33:23.440 and in America
00:33:24.680 where some of my fellow
00:33:26.100 real reporters
00:33:27.220 have come from today,
00:33:28.420 if we were to hear
00:33:30.720 of a man
00:33:31.360 who would have
00:33:32.500 his fifth hearing,
00:33:34.000 your first one in Leeds
00:33:34.980 on May 25th,
00:33:36.140 then the Court of Appeal hearing,
00:33:37.280 then the Court of Appeal ruling,
00:33:39.060 and then your hearing
00:33:39.720 here last month and today,
00:33:40.880 that's five.
00:33:42.200 And we know
00:33:42.820 there will be a sixth
00:33:43.740 and likely a seventh.
00:33:45.940 If anyone back
00:33:47.440 where I come from
00:33:48.360 in the daughters
00:33:49.280 of the empire,
00:33:50.560 in the commonwealth,
00:33:51.840 would hear
00:33:52.300 that in the mother country
00:33:54.360 where the Magna Carta
00:33:56.040 came from,
00:33:56.900 where the rule of law
00:33:57.900 was hammered out,
00:33:59.080 if we in America
00:34:00.820 and Canada
00:34:01.520 and Australia,
00:34:02.620 Avi,
00:34:02.800 thank you for making the journey,
00:34:04.220 if we were to know
00:34:05.520 that a man would be
00:34:07.280 on five court hearings
00:34:10.200 and had served
00:34:11.460 ten weeks
00:34:13.160 in solitary confinement
00:34:14.520 when it's against the law
00:34:15.720 in Britain
00:34:16.320 to serve 14 days or more
00:34:18.020 because of the psychological damage.
00:34:20.460 And if we would learn
00:34:21.360 that this was all
00:34:22.060 because of a Facebook video
00:34:24.400 that didn't disrupt a case,
00:34:26.620 if this were in any country
00:34:28.900 other than the United Kingdom
00:34:30.520 that we heard this,
00:34:31.820 if we heard
00:34:32.520 that a citizen journalist
00:34:34.000 was swept off the street
00:34:36.080 into a police station,
00:34:37.580 into a court,
00:34:38.180 into a prison
00:34:38.740 in five hours
00:34:39.680 and that he wasn't even invited
00:34:41.420 to say one word,
00:34:43.340 he wasn't even asked,
00:34:44.580 guilty or not,
00:34:45.380 he didn't say one word,
00:34:47.040 if we were to hear that
00:34:48.080 coming from Iran
00:34:49.280 or North Korea
00:34:50.420 or Venezuela,
00:34:51.860 would we not say
00:34:52.960 that is a political prisoner
00:34:54.600 in an authoritarian state?
00:34:58.720 And so,
00:34:59.300 how is it
00:35:00.140 that the United Kingdom
00:35:01.940 with such a history
00:35:03.400 of liberty and law
00:35:04.840 can treat its own son
00:35:06.880 this way
00:35:07.520 and maybe sometimes
00:35:09.620 you need voices
00:35:11.120 from outside the country
00:35:12.380 to say,
00:35:12.800 what are you doing?
00:35:14.000 What are you doing?
00:35:16.640 And so,
00:35:17.500 let me close by inviting
00:35:18.740 each one of you
00:35:20.140 to try to be
00:35:21.840 a lion in your own way,
00:35:24.000 not to bend the knee
00:35:25.540 when the media party
00:35:27.160 calls you names.
00:35:28.560 They will call you names
00:35:29.820 no matter what.
00:35:30.760 Try to show
00:35:33.160 some courage
00:35:34.740 as inspired by Tommy.
00:35:36.420 If he can do
00:35:37.380 10 months
00:35:38.520 in a dungeon
00:35:39.680 for his free speech,
00:35:42.180 surely you can do something,
00:35:44.340 a fraction of that
00:35:45.460 for your own.
00:35:46.700 Well,
00:35:47.240 you've heard me say that
00:35:47.920 before,
00:35:48.300 I regard Tommy
00:35:48.940 as the last lion,
00:35:50.300 but there were
00:35:51.080 2,000 people there
00:35:52.160 ready to be lion cubs.
00:35:53.540 Give them credit.
00:35:54.620 Now,
00:35:54.940 I mentioned
00:35:55.520 the real reporters
00:35:56.360 we crowdfunded.
00:35:57.660 We just crowdfunded
00:35:58.840 their flight
00:35:59.420 and hotels.
00:36:00.200 We didn't pay them a fee.
00:36:01.700 They're under no editorial
00:36:02.880 governance or guidance
00:36:04.140 whatsoever.
00:36:04.940 I just knew
00:36:05.780 that if they were
00:36:06.340 honest reporters,
00:36:07.220 they'd see what was going on
00:36:08.420 unlike the vendetta
00:36:09.840 reporters of the UK
00:36:10.820 media party.
00:36:11.700 And one of those
00:36:12.520 is, you know,
00:36:12.940 we had Candace Malcolm,
00:36:14.260 we had Avi Amini
00:36:15.420 from Australia,
00:36:16.400 we had Cassandra Fairbanks
00:36:18.040 from Washington, D.C.
00:36:19.540 One of them
00:36:20.060 was our friend
00:36:20.440 Andrew Lawton.
00:36:21.280 And he came into the court
00:36:22.500 and he sat
00:36:25.140 with the rest of the media,
00:36:26.200 but they didn't know
00:36:26.700 who he was, right?
00:36:27.580 I mean, I'm me
00:36:28.420 and they don't like me
00:36:29.360 the British media.
00:36:30.820 He had no clue
00:36:31.340 who Andrew was,
00:36:32.180 so he was sitting
00:36:32.840 right with them.
00:36:33.620 And he wasn't
00:36:34.200 eavesdropping on them
00:36:35.080 or anything.
00:36:35.640 They were just talking
00:36:36.360 out loud
00:36:36.840 inches behind him.
00:36:38.800 Take a listen
00:36:39.700 to what Andrew
00:36:40.720 personally witnessed
00:36:42.180 them saying.
00:36:43.280 This is just a couple
00:36:43.860 minutes,
00:36:44.180 but take a look.
00:36:46.140 My name is Andrew Lawton.
00:36:48.100 I am from London,
00:36:49.100 Ontario.
00:36:50.140 He's in Canada.
00:36:53.880 So I was in the courtroom
00:36:55.500 in the front row
00:36:56.560 waiting to cover
00:36:57.420 for Tommy Robinson.
00:36:58.940 The mainstream media
00:37:00.520 did not know
00:37:01.420 who I was
00:37:02.200 being the undocumented
00:37:03.300 foreigner in this land.
00:37:06.020 And they were speaking
00:37:07.300 a little candidly.
00:37:08.480 Would you like to hear
00:37:09.320 what they said?
00:37:13.520 So where's Ezra?
00:37:14.800 My personal favorite,
00:37:15.940 and by the way,
00:37:16.640 this will be quoted
00:37:17.600 on my website later today
00:37:19.560 with their publication name.
00:37:21.880 My personal favorite was
00:37:28.100 about our friend
00:37:29.860 Ezra Levant.
00:37:30.920 Quote,
00:37:31.520 he needs to be arrested.
00:37:33.100 He needs to be arrested.
00:37:36.400 Shame on him!
00:37:37.980 Shame on him!
00:37:39.480 Shame on him!
00:37:40.820 Shame on him!
00:37:42.160 Shame on him!
00:37:43.400 Shame on him!
00:37:44.720 Shame on him!
00:37:45.400 He's whipped off hate
00:37:47.200 was what they said
00:37:48.440 before the proceeding
00:37:50.200 even started.
00:37:51.220 This is what they said
00:37:52.120 about Tommy.
00:37:53.020 Quote,
00:37:53.660 he is in contempt of court.
00:37:56.100 There's not really any doubt.
00:37:58.420 And there was one more.
00:38:04.360 You see,
00:38:04.720 one of the great members
00:38:06.380 of the law enforcement
00:38:07.580 who have done a lot
00:38:08.280 of great work today
00:38:09.080 said to them
00:38:09.840 at the time
00:38:10.920 there were about
00:38:11.660 1,500 people.
00:38:13.660 They said,
00:38:14.760 let's just say
00:38:15.720 a few hundred
00:38:16.880 quote,
00:38:18.060 because we don't
00:38:19.240 want to give it credit.
00:38:28.340 This is why
00:38:29.580 I got on a plane
00:38:30.840 to come here
00:38:31.740 to cover the facts.
00:38:33.760 That's why I'm here.
00:38:34.820 Thank you.
00:38:35.480 Look,
00:38:35.980 that does not surprise me.
00:38:37.500 The only thing
00:38:37.960 that surprises me
00:38:38.860 is how brazen they were
00:38:40.700 that they would talk
00:38:41.320 about it openly,
00:38:42.320 all the other journalists
00:38:43.340 in on it,
00:38:44.440 except for this time
00:38:45.260 we had a real reporter
00:38:46.160 from Canada
00:38:46.880 to witness it.
00:38:48.060 Do you doubt
00:38:48.540 that our Canadian media party
00:38:50.080 is the same way,
00:38:51.240 colluding together
00:38:52.080 to marginalize conservatives
00:38:53.620 they don't like?
00:38:54.480 I'm certain
00:38:55.160 it's the same way.
00:38:56.240 Anyways,
00:38:56.580 I showed you two clips.
00:38:57.840 There's a ton of clips.
00:38:59.040 If you want to watch more,
00:39:00.100 go to TommyTrial.com.
00:39:01.960 That's where we've got
00:39:02.660 all our clips
00:39:03.260 on this subject.
00:39:03.860 That's it for today.
00:39:05.020 On behalf of all of us
00:39:05.820 here at Rebel World Headquarters
00:39:06.800 to you at home,
00:39:07.320 good night.
00:39:08.080 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:39:15.260 All right.
00:39:24.180 I'm out.