Trudeau promised 340,000 immigrants per year, but new StatsCan numbers show it may be a lot higher
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Justin Trudeau said he would raise immigration to 340,000 people a year. But StatsCan says Trudeau increased our population by 200,000 in a three-month period. Why should others go to jail when you re the biggest carbon consumer in Canada?
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Hello, my friends. Justin Trudeau said immigration would be 340,000 people per year, a new record.
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But Statistics Canada said we had more than 200,000 new people in Canada in the last 90 days.
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau said he would raise immigration to 340,000 people a year.
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But StatsCan says Trudeau increased our population by 200,000 in a three-month period.
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It's January 21st, and this is 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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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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You know what I know, what everyone knows, especially the government that constantly polls, what they know.
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Canadians want less immigration. Every single poll shows that.
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Every province believes that. Both genders, all age groups, every party stripe.
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Here's the Angus Reid chart that I show you from time to time.
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The number of people who want more immigration bounces around in the single digits.
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I've seen it between 4 and 8 percent. Let's call it 6 percent.
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It's really the same number since support is so low for increased immigration.
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The number of people who don't really know, so they do the moderate Canadian thing and just avoid the question, say,
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Ask the average person on the street, and they don't know what the number is,
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and they don't want to weigh in on a contentious issue, let alone one that could get them branded as racist.
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So they just say, oh yeah, whatever it is now is fine.
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But the number of Canadians who are willing to tell pollsters that they positively want less immigration
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is now at the highest point ever recorded by pollsters.
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For everyone who says they want more immigration, about 10 people say they want less.
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People are shy about saying controversial things to pollsters.
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If you doubt that this is accurate, may I point to you, um, the greatest political shakeup in Canada in the past decade?
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That was cataclysmic and catastrophic, to be sure.
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The NDP won in a unique voter breakdown of the other parties and a collapse of the status quo that I won't get into now.
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But the NDP immediately plunged in the polls when they revealed their agenda.
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And they were turfed out decisively in the very next election.
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Now, the most remarkable political realignment in the past decade in Canada happened in Quebec.
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A new party, the Coalition Avenir de Quebec, or CAC, as its acronym goes,
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they swept out the Liberals and the Parti Québécois.
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They dispatched the two parties who had alternated in power for half a century.
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On their first, not their first go-round, but they weren't even 10 years old.
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And related, absolutely related, promising to ban Muslim hijabs and burqas from the civil service.
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Now, the wording of that ban also captures Sikh turbans and Jewish yarmulkes, I think.
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I'm not sure of the final wording of it, but the number of Jews dressed conspicuously as Jews in Quebec
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has pretty much stayed the same or fallen in the last generation.
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It's about mass immigration, particularly from places with illiberal cultural traditions,
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Especially conspicuous Islam, where hijabs and niqabs, you know, the face obscuring veil,
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And Quebec just announced that it's also, I don't know if you saw this,
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it's dumping its school curriculum that teaches about all religions, teaches multiculturalism.
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Here, let me quote a squawking liberal teacher from the Anglo enclave of Westbound Quebec
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Robert Greene, a Westmount high school teacher who teaches the ECR, the multicultural course,
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said he was outraged and saddened to hear that the CAC government plans to abolish the course.
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This course does not teach children to be religious, Greene told CBC Daybreak.
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It teaches them about the diversity of the society in which they live.
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Greene said that he welcomes the other themes the government wants to include,
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but said it should not come at the expense of religion-focused aspects of the course.
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We are in a context right now, both in Quebec and globally,
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of rising xenophobia around the world and rising far-right movements, he said.
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I think you can see exactly why Quebec is getting rid of it.
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It's an anti-Western, anti-Quebec, anti-historical, anti-Christian, anti-French curriculum,
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and Quebecers are sick of it, no matter what an elite Anglo in Westbound has to say.
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And Quebecers have a premier who's unafraid because he was elected because he was unafraid
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to talk about the most important issue, and he knows that being unafraid works when you're on the side of the people.
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I wish Andrew Scheer had studied under Francois Legault just a little bit.
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So the biggest political realignment in Canada since Stephen Harper merged the fractured right-wing parties
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was the realignment in Quebec where anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism won the election.
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But what about the rest of us and the rest of the country?
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It's a chart of what Justin Trudeau and Ahmed Hassan, who was then his immigration minister,
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it was the chart of what they promised immigration would be.
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It was a huge expansion of immigration, 340,000 people per year.
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Actually, you can see it's bouncing around 350, 360, 370.
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But the top numbers there, more than 1 million in three years.
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And as you can see, the majority of these migrants would be uneconomic.
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They would be economic burdens, either refugees or grandparents and great-grandparents who would
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be brought here in chain migration, so people who would never speak English or French, never
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have a job, but who would pretty quickly go on a government pension and welfare and would
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be able to access our world-class health care system in their dying years, pushing long-standing
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And I'm sorry, that's what it means when you bring in uneconomic family migrants, not
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immediate family, but like grandpa and uncle and stuff.
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You bring in people in their 60s and 70s from the third world countries, they're just going
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It's why so few countries have that kind of immigration policy, that chain migration.
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Germany has done it, and it has been a disaster there, both socially and economically.
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It's a myth that most migrants under Trudeau's system are economic engines.
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And of course, many of the rest have been low-skilled immigrants.
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But here's my news, and it comes from Statistics Canada itself.
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Look at this, record population growth during the third quarter of 2019.
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Canada's population increased by 208,234 from July 1st to October 1st, 2019, driven mainly
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by an influx of immigrants and non-permanent residents.
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This was the first time that Canada's population increased by more than 200,000 in a single
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208,234 people in a quarter, like a quarter of a year in 90 days?
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Trudeau promised that we would have only 340,000 new immigrants, give or take, in a whole year.
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This gain represents a quarterly population increase of 0.6%, the largest growth observed
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since the beginning of the period covered by the current demographic accounting system,
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On October 1st, 2019, Canada's population was estimated at 37,797,496.
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International migration, both permanent and temporary, accounted for 83.4% of the total
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Canadian population growth in the third quarter, a share that continues to increase.
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The rest, again, 16.6% was a result of natural increase, or the difference between the number
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So out of 208,234 population growth, you heard them, 83.4% was from immigration.
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Let's get rid of the natural population growth from childbirth.
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Extrapolate that to 694,000 on an annual basis.
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694,000, that's almost exactly double what Trudeau promised.
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When Trudeau said 340,000 people, he meant immigrants as a particular legal definition,
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not the plain meaning, someone who has moved here from somewhere else.
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That's what you and I might think immigration means.
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But there's another category, non-permanent residents.
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I don't even like to say those words because, of course, in Canada, almost no one is ever deported.
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We've had 50,000 people simply waltz across the border at Roxham Road.
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Look, the RCMP are carrying their bags for them, helping them out.
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So calling these people non-permanent residents is, I think it's a lie.
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The strong international migratory increase observed during the third quarter was led by both the arrival of many new immigrants,
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and an increase in the number of non-permanent residents, 82,438 persons.
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Growths of this magnitude had never before been seen in a single quarter.
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Well, does it matter what the classification of these migrants is?
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Immigrant, permanent resident, non-permanent resident,
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criminal fake refugee just waltzing across the border and laughing at our cops?
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They will all go to the same hospital emergency room as you and wait in line.
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Those that do work, if they do work, will drive down labor prices, you know, supply and demand,
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Hey, why is traffic so bad in so many of our cities?
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Why is it a six, seven, eight-hour wait in the emergency room?
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Why are food banks and homeless shelters so full?
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Hey, why is it hard to get an entry-level job in Canada that pays well?
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It's the number of houses in the country that are under construction.
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And here's the number, it's the number under construction, houses of all kinds, single
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So in that same third quarter of 2019, the number of houses under construction, when there's
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208,000 more people coming in, there were 51,865 new homes being built.
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Now, look, if you're in the construction business, this is great, having 200,000 people a quarter
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Housing construction doesn't seem to be keeping up, in fact.
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Maybe that's one of the reasons supply and demand while housing is so expensive.
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You're building 50,000 new houses, you're bringing in 200,000 new people.
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Look, if you're in the construction business, this is great.
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If you're in the real estate business, if you're a landlord, it's great.
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If you're in the low-skill retail business, as in if you're an owner, like let's say you
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I mean, cheap labor, just happy to be here, happy to be earning $14 an hour instead of
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what, $4 an hour back home where they came from.
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But if you're not a landlord or a cheap employer, if you're just a regular Canadian, we're born
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and raised here, your family paid taxes to build this country schools and hospitals over
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the decades, and now you can't find a job that pays enough to let you leave home, leave
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your parents home, let you buy your own home, start a family.
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If you can't afford to buy a house in Toronto or Vancouver, if you can't find a job in Calgary,
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Edmonton, if you can't get your kids into a university, if you can't see a doctor when
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you need one, well, maybe 208,000 new people in 90 days isn't that great.
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But hey, they all vote liberal, so there's that.
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Maybe that's one reason why Francois Legault wasn't afraid to push back.
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And why Quebecers weren't afraid to back them, and remember this.
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But you still didn't give a number, and you would have to set a target as government.
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That's part of your job, is to set a government level.
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So if the target right now is 350,000 immigrants by 2021, is that about what you're looking at?
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And again, as long as that's coming from facts, from evidence, from a look at the situation
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and an understanding of where our society has needs, then absolutely.
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Maybe that's one reason why Andrew Scheer lost and deserved to lose.
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Well, as we've shown you in the past weeks, any 3, 4, 5 leftists get together, and it's
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But there's certain protests on the right that have thousands or tens of thousands of
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people show up, and they're either ignored completely by the mainstream media or greatly
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Well, there was one such rally in Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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It was a pro-firearms rights, pro-Second Amendment rally.
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And I guess it was simply too big to be ignored.
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I've seen reports saying 22,000 or more lawful firearms owners meeting in resistance to their
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Democrat governor's plans to, well, crack down on lawful firearms ownership.
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Let me show you how Justin Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster reported on this.
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Gun rights activists, along with members of militia groups and white supremacists, began
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to descend on Virginia's capital city this morning to protest Democrats' plans to pass
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Well, here's an interview with one such white supremacist.
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The real reason I'm out here is I do not support in any way, shape, or form Governor Northam's
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What I also don't support is the fact that every news piece you've seen on this this weekend,
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they've always brought up the issue of race, as though it's nothing but white rednecks and
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hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment, when actually black Americans, Asian
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Americans, Hispanic Americans, Americans in general, care about the Second Amendment.
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I work at a gun store part-time, and I can't tell you the number of customers I see of all
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races, all colors, all creeds, who care about the Second Amendment and who just want to peaceably
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live their lives, enjoy their rights, and the Second Amendment.
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Well, it wasn't just the CBC that slandered 22,000 people as white supremacists. NBC in
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America did so. This is a deleted tweet from their reporter, Ben Collins. Look at the first
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sentence. Reporters covering tomorrow's white nationalist rally in Virginia. I'm absolutely
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begging you. And it goes on. Now, of course, it was not a white nationalist rally, and he
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had the, I don't know, the shame to delete his slanderous tweet, whereas the one I showed
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you from the CBC remains published to this day.
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Well, joining us now via Skype from Las Vegas is a new correspondent, AWR Hawkins, PhD. He's
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with Breitbart.com, where our friend Joel Pollack and Alan Bocari come from. He's their Second
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Amendment correspondent, and he joins us now. AWR, thanks very much for taking the time to
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join us here today. You're sort of the firearms or Second Amendment expert at Breitbart.
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Was this a white supremacist rally, and on what basis could the CBC or NBC say so?
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No, it wasn't white supremacists. And the only basis, well, they don't have a basis. What
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they have is the leftist tendency to try to frame reality for us. You know that leftist policies
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won't work in reality, in the metaphysical, leftist policies won't work. So they have to
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get us to buy into an inferior reality. And the same situation here, this is a nightmare for leftists,
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that 10, 20, 25, however many thousand people show up peaceably to demonstrate for the Second
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Amendment. That's a nightmare. So what you have to do if you're a leftist, you get out in front of
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that, you tell people, hey, you're not going to see what you think you're going to see. When you see
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it, you're not seeing what you think you're seeing. What you're really seeing are a bunch of white
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supremacists, and blah, blah, blah. That's just how it goes. If they're trying to justify raising taxes,
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they work the same way. If they're trying to justify a high cap magazine ban, some other type of liberal
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policy. And that's what they did with this rally, and it backfired off. Yeah. Well, I saw clips of
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many black Americans. I saw Asian Americans. I mean, people were sort of tooting their horn of
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which group they're with to sort of disprove this slander. I saw LGBTQ people with those signs.
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The CBC, I don't know why they still have that slander up. I guess they don't really care. I mean,
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they're a Canadian broadcaster. What do they care about slandering Virginians? But there was one thing
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that I think would surprise a Canadian, because nowhere in our country do we have open carry of
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lawful firearms. And I think it's startling to Canadians to see 22,000 people, I'm going to say
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at least a quarter of them packing heat. To the liberal mindset, that ought to be like they would,
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oh, someone's going to shoot, and then everyone's going to shoot the shooter, and it's going to be a
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massive crossfire, and you're going to have a massacre. Not one shot was shot. The liberal mind
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would say, oh my god, that's the most dangerous place on earth. Conservatives probably know that's
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likely the safest place in America for that day. Right. You're exactly right. You know, humans,
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regardless of our political philosophy or political bent, we are wired by nature that self-preservation
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is our chief goal. It just is. It's a subconscious drive. It's an involuntary drive.
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And you don't do stupid things when you know the people around you are armed. And likewise,
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people around you don't do stupid things when they know you're armed. Thus comes the old
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mantra from the Wild West, right? An armed society is a polite society. I live in a state in the United
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States where I carry a gun openly usually three days a week, maybe four or five days a week. I carry
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either a classic 1911, which is a .45 caliber handgun, in plain sight on my hip, or I carry a nine
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millimeter handgun in plain sight on my hip. And I'm by no means alone. It's not uncommon to be in line at
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the at the at the fast food restaurant. The guy in front of you and the guy behind you are both
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carrying openly. There's nothing alarming about it because, you know, these are good guys with guns
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and they're carrying for the benefit of the protection of their own lives, their family's life.
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And God forbid, the life of somebody in that store should some lunatic come in there. And that's just how the
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real world works here in America. And I treasure that. It's an aspect of American life that I treasure.
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Well, that's not just a theoretical philosophy. Not too long ago, a madman went into a Texas church.
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And here, let me show you the video of this. This circles all the people in that church who
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apparently were armed because they were all reaching for their firearms. Only one fella who
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actually ran a, you can tell me more about him. I'm sure you know more about him. It was actually
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a firearms instructor, acted very quickly here. Let me just show you. Someone later slowed it down and
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put circles around everyone who seemed to be reacting in the same way. It did not result in a
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crossfire that killed many. In fact, it was a very accurate and in mere seconds, they saved many.
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That's how it works in reality. But the only reason we know about that is it was televised and it was
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dramatic. I'm guessing that every week, maybe even every day in America, someone with a lawful firearm
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stops what could be a newsworthy tragedy. But we don't hear about it because instead of 30 people killed,
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one person is injured or killed and it was the bad guy.
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Right. But I'm going to say something that's very important. At Breitbart, we make an effort to cover
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those stories every day. And usually, and this is probably news to people in other countries,
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it may be news to people in America, to some people if they watch CNN every day. But I usually have to
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pick amongst two, three, four stories where a law abiding citizen has used a gun to save his or her
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life. And I try to pick the one that's going to resonate best with the readers, the one that I feel
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will hit our readers where they are. But some days I have to end up writing all of them. I might write
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three or four such stories in a given day. And there's been academic work on this at Florida State
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University. It's very important. This is not hearsay. This is not opinion. Florida State
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University criminologist Gary Kleck, K-L-E-C-K, he has done work on this since about 1993.
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And he has demonstrated, again, through strenuous or rigorous academic work, there are roughly 760,000
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defensive gun uses a year in the United States. Now, the trigger is not pulled in each of them.
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Sometimes, simply pulling the firearm is enough. And I have anecdotal stories I want to get into.
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The people send me their stories. The women will tell me stories where people walk up to the car
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and when she just showed them that she had a gun, they take off running. Yeah. So there's no telling
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how many times this happens, but the firearm is used for a lawful, justifiable reason
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so far and away at a greater rate than it's used criminally. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Well,
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that's very interesting. I'm unaware of Professor Kleck. Of course, I'm familiar with the work of Dr.
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John Lott, who has specifically studied mass shootings. And one of the things I remember from
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his lectures and his conversations with us on the show is how so many of these mass shootings happen
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in so-called gun-free zones that the mass shooter scoped out and reconned in advance, knowing that there
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wouldn't be that lawful guardian like you or like that churchgoer the other day. Let me ask you one
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last question. It's nice to talk with you. It's nice to meet you. Thank you. You obviously have your
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facts and you're well briefed in this. I want to bring it back to a different story we've been covering
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here at Rebel News for a few months now. Twice we've sent reporters to Hong Kong to cover the democracy
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protests there. And they're very brave. In fact, they're waving American flags and they're
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calling America the role model for their freedoms and their desire for democracy. But at the end of
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the day, they do not have firearms. In fact, there was a skirmish at one of their universities called
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Polly Yu. And the students who were standing up to the Chinese police were actually using bows and
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arrows. It sounds almost fantastical. I am deeply worried for the people of Hong Kong, because if
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they go full Tiananmen Square and roll in the tanks, those bows and arrows won't work. And I mean,
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sure, they could do Molotov cocktails or whatever, but they are disarmed and they are vulnerable. And
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maybe you could give us a word or two about authoritarian regimes like China, like the former Soviet
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Union and their relationship with citizen firearms. Well, the thing I would tell you, a lot of the
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gun controls that they use, that Mao used in China, a lot of the gun controls that Hitler used in the
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roll-up to World War II, they're very similar in many ways to the gun controls we see being pushed in
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Virginia, which already exist in California, that are in place in Great Britain. The means of a background
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check and registration. And so those, once you get to the registration level, those things
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give a tyrant an address and a door to knock on. Very dangerous. Okay. And what you're talking about
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in Hong Kong, where these people can only fight back with sticks and stones, with words,
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with slingshots and bows and arrows. If Thomas Jefferson were here and I would get up and he
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would take this seat. If you read Thomas Jefferson's writings, and if you soak them up,
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this is a paraphrase. But if you soak him up, what he would tell you is, those people in Hong Kong,
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they're being denied the very humanity. Because the ability to defend our lives is a gift. It is one of
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our natural rights. Apart from guns, apart from anything else, simply self-defense itself, as
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Associate Justice Samuel Alito said, that is the central component of the Second Amendment. Now,
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the gun is important because the gun is the best way to defend yourself. When these things are denied to
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us, Jefferson would argue that our humanity is denied to us because they are intertwined in us to that
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depth. They are integral to the human experience. So when a tyrant disarms people, whether it's in
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Hong Kong, whether it's in California, wherever it is, when a tyrant does that, he is ripping humanity
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away from people. He leaves them vulnerable. And they can't defend what I said when we began these
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segments. They can't defend their most important possession, which is their life, which is why nature
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wires us itself. Yeah. So this goes to so many things. People say, well, why do you need this
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particular type of firearm? Why can't you just have a revolver? Why do you need an AR-15? Why can't
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you just have a pistol? And I'm not making fun of them. I'm just saying these are the questions.
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Well, this is why. See, when the Second Amendment was written, people say, all we had were muskets.
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Well, guess what? What did the military have? The very same muskets. So the muskets that were
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protected by the Second Amendment were the very muskets the military was using to fight other
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nations at that time. So it was in our founder's mind that the people would always have a weapon
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sufficient to defend themselves against their own government. And that all comes together when we
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look at what's going on in Hong Kong and how these poor, freedom-starved people have no means of self-defense.
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I tell you, it's not just Hong Kong. It's Venezuela. It's Cuba. It's North Korea. It's all the places
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where people... It's Iran. All the places where people are violated, it's because they don't have
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that right of self-defense. Well, listen, AWR, it's a pleasure to meet you. As our viewers can probably
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detect, you have a PhD in military history, Civil War, Vietnam War. So the fact that you were such
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a good teacher and have such a depth of information, that helps explain it. And I'm grateful to make
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your acquaintance and appreciate your information. And hopefully we can talk again on these matters
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in the future. I hope we can. It's great to be with you. Thank you very much. All right. Likewise.
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Nice. Well, there you have it. A.W.R. Hawkins. He's the Breitbart Second Amendment correspondent,
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and he joined us via Skype from Las Vegas, Nevada. Stay with us. More ahead on the road.
00:32:06.520
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Tommy Robinson winning a free speech award in
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Copenhagen. Preston writes, nice job on your coverage of this prestigious event.
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Well, thanks very much. I was a little bit jet lagged. Boy, that is such a long trip.
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Oh my gosh. But I really liked it. I hadn't been to Copenhagen in almost a decade since I won the
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award way back when. I had dinner with Tommy and with the Free Press Society, and they told me about
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their trials and tribulations. And I think this is a common battle across the West. And what I learned
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very clearly, or it was reiterated, I knew it before, is that it's a coalition. Who wants to
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censor people? Who wants to get rid of free press? I think it's a coalition. I've seen this in Canada,
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the UK, Denmark. It's leftist Marxists and Islamists. They have an unholy coalition, I think.
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Facebook threatened to have my page unpublished and I cannot post for seven days because I posted
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your videos of Tommy receiving his award. Yeah, we don't even try posting Tommy Robinson videos to
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Facebook anymore because they have warned us they'll shut our whole site down. That's how insane
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they are. If it was the government doing that, we would call it unconstitutional and illegal and
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meddling. Facebook basically is the internet for two billion people. And they're operating it like
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a company town. You know what I mean? Well, I don't like, you don't like how this company town
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operates. Why don't you move cities? Well, there is no other internet. That's where the public square
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is these days. Michael writes, good to see Tommy's doing all right. I haven't heard anything about him
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in two months. Well, you know, I hadn't heard about, heard from him in a while too. I just called
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him up out of the blue and by chance it was two days before he won this award, not two days after.
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So I really just hopped on a plane. Like I rushed to the airport at 2.30 that day, got right on the
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plane and flew overnight. I don't mind the flights. I mean, I don't, don't let me complain. It's,
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it's interesting. And I, I was impressed that it was at the Danish parliament, although as an MP
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said, that was as much for high security as anything else. I tell you, the battles were in
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friends, the battles were in. Don't think they're not coming to us too. Well, that's our show for
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today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night