US contractor spying on Rebel News, COVID cops in Australia
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Summary
The U.S. Navy paid a defense contractor based at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock to use a program called Spy on Web and other programs to do a workup on Rebel News. They produced a report called the Canada Elections Cyber Forensics Analysis, dated October 10, 2019, which is odd given that the Canadian election wasn t until 11 days later. But as you ll soon see, they seemed to know what they were going to write about us before they even did their research.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.
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Well, there is a clear and present danger in Canada right now, folks.
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Oh yes, if you can believe it, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces,
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they've both funded a joint cyber intelligence operation against Rebel News.
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Well, Rebel Commander Ezra Levent will drop by with all the unbelievable details.
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And how low are things going to go down under when it comes to Wuhan virus protocol enforcement?
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A COVID cop who ticketed and harassed a grandmother for not wearing a mask due to a medical exemption.
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And if that sounds bad enough, just will you see the cop's shocking body cam footage?
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And you had plenty to say about our report from Toronto's Pearson International Airport,
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in which anti-lockdown advocate Chris Guy showed up to help a woman in distress.
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Just one hitch, the Peel police frog march Chris out of the airport.
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And a question arises, whatever happened to concepts such as empathy and compassion and reasonable accommodation
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during these never-ending dark days of Wuhan virus protocol?
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So here's how the spy operation against us weren't.
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The U.S. Navy paid a defense contractor based at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock
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to use a program called Spy on Web and other programs to do a workup on Rebel News.
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They produced this report called the Canada Elections Cyber Forensics Analysis, dated October 10th, 2019,
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which is odd, given that the Canadian election wasn't until 11 days later.
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But as you'll soon see, they seemed to know what they were going to write about us before they even did their research.
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Again, you can read the whole thing at stopspyingonus.com.
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This report summarizes the significant findings on the hidden digital footprints of the Canadian website,
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The website provides far-right political and social commentary
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and was founded in February 2015 by Ezra Levant and Brian Lilly.
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Pay military contractors at universities to use spying software to look into Canadian journalists?
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What else have they done in our elections up here in Canada?
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What the hell is the U.S. Navy doing spying on civilian journalists?
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But another question, and I just can't help asking it.
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I know it's not as important, but I can't stop thinking about it.
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I mean, we all know the joke military intelligence, it's like an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp.
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But seriously, this is the stupidest report I've ever seen, the spy report by these contractors.
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I kid you not, a teenager could have done a better job of it, and probably for about a million dollars less.
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There's a lot of military jargon in the report, which I think, like academic jargon,
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it's actually designed to make it harder to understand someone rather than easier to understand.
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It's designed to make someone seem like a smart expert when really they're clueless.
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Again, you can see this at our website, stopsbuyingonus.com.
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Identifying hidden or external links, a well-known political Canadian news and commentary site
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that frequently contributes stories about the Canadian elections, was analyzed.
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Using a variety of cyber forensic analytical capabilities provided by Maltigo and SpyOnWeb,
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the following open source information was obtained.
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Perfectly normal, just the U.S. Navy spying on Canadian journalists.
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This just in, folks. There is a clear and present danger in Canada right now.
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Oh yeah, if you can believe it, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces
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teamed up to fund a joint cyber intelligence operation against Rebel News.
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Well, apparently when it comes to the Justin Trudeau liberals,
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espousing a right-of-center opinion in Canada is a matter of national security?
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Joining me now with more on this shocking discovery is none other than Rebel Commander Ezra Levent.
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I got a tip last fall from someone in Arkansas saying,
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I mean, I don't read every single email that comes in, so I'm lucky I did.
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I went to what he showed me, and it was a report published by the Canadian military
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about some, by the University of Arkansas, about Rebel News
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and how we're some influence operation that needs to be tracked and combated
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And I was confused, so we filed some access to information requests
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with the University of Arkansas, and we discovered that actually
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the University of Arkansas has a little unit that's a defense contractor,
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This is what they call the military-industrial complex, right?
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I mean, the U.S. Navy has an annual budget of $161 billion.
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So the U.S. Navy contracted with this military contractor
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Now, as far as we know, I mean, we don't know if they sent in human spies
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What we do know is that they assessed what they could see
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about our website online, and they were ridiculous in their conclusions.
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The funniest thing is they said, and you're going to laugh
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that I'm even saying these words, but I promise you it's in there.
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You can see we put all these documents up on the website
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They said, and anyone who knows me knows my entire life
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I've fought against socialism, communism, left-wingism.
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This defense contractor in Arkansas, who knows how much they were paid
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They said that one of our secret projects here at Rebel News
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was to publish 291 fake websites promoting Jagmeet Singh,
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And they have this complex theory that we created what they call
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deep, fake websites designed to get voters to move from Trudeau
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It's, it's, I don't even, I can't even try to understand that
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other than I did one time make a fun video mocking Trudeau's
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So this defense contractor was so weird and got so many things wrong.
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It, you know, they say jumbo shrimp is an oxymoron.
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Well, it made me think of that joke that military intelligence is an oxymoron.
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So they, so the U.S. Navy contracted this University of Arkansas spy company
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that spied on us and gave the report to the Navy.
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I didn't hear about that, but this same defense contractor obviously thought,
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well, I can sell this same work to someone else who's the biggest sucker around.
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So he took the same work, the same spying on us and sold it to the Canadian Armed Forces,
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including the Special Operations Force Command.
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I mean, those are people, and I'm speaking now as a Canadian taxpayer,
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if we're paying taxes to fund the Canadian forces,
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that's actually one of the few things in my taxes I feel good about.
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not to hire Arkansas spies to write conspiracy theories about me.
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So the Canadian Armed Forces paid this American defense contractor
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for some other wild-eyed fantasy about rebel news.
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And again, we put it on the website, see for yourself.
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I wouldn't have known about the U.S. Navy involvement
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until I started pulling up the thread at the University of Arkansas.
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So I phoned the spymaster in the greater D.C. area.
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I phoned the Inspector Clouseau down at the University of Arkansas,
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Number one, I just can't get over how dumb the report is.
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Like, I just can't believe that it wasn't on purpose that they were so dumb.
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Please tell me someone smarter than them is protecting the world against communist China.
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But putting that aside, I'm thinking, is it legal for the U.S. Navy to spy on a civilian media company?
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Is it legal for the Canadian armed forces to hire foreign spies to check out Justin Trudeau's biggest online critic?
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I mean, I don't care about the poking fun, but he bans us.
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And I really care about him having military contractors dig into us.
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Imagine if it was Stephen Harper who had the Canadian Armed Forces hire an American defense contractor to look into left-wing reporters.
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And they never really believed in civil liberties.
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One is, as you said, this researcher probably got paid five, six, even seven figures for this report.
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I'm curious if the people that paid this professor are suffering from buyer's remorse because of all the errors and omissions.
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And secondly, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the second time in less than a year we have been spied on by government.
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When we went down to Nathan Phillips Square to reclaim the public square in Toronto, we later found out that huge report where the city had their spies with telephoto lenses, taking pictures of us, getting our personal detail, right down to physical descriptions.
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I think they had weight in there, which really, that goes too far.
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But, I mean, Ezra, kidding aside, I think this is disturbing in a democracy that government is spying on and writing up secret reports about those practicing journalism.
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Yeah, and I really am trying to figure out what's going on.
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I mean, obviously, these spies are not answering my phone calls.
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I don't think spies are really into customer service with the people they're spying on.
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Anyways, I think that one of their goals was to purposefully smear us and use that as a pretext to ban us from the Internet by saying, look, they're foreign manipulators.
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We have to just delete them from the entire Internet.
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I think it was actually part of a scam, a scheme, a scam by the U.S. Navy and the Canadian government to smear us so then they could then show this report to Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and say, look, you better delete these guys.
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That's my theory because the spies won't return my call.
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And there you go, folks, I guess to quote Agent 86 from Get Smart when it came to the accuracy of that report, missed it by that much.
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Actually, missed it by that much is the real deal.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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August the 4th, I arrived to work as my normal shift.
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I walked through the car park and the entrance of the mall with a scarf wrapped around my face as per all the DHHS OK guidelines.
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When I went into the actual supermarket to start my shift, at the service desk at the front is where the police saw me and then came over to the service desk to grab my attention to question me.
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I'm actually getting severe anxiety and asthma.
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All right, so, who's your, who's your supervisor?
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You are going to be receiving a penalty notice, all right, for not wearing a mask?
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No, I'm sorry, and I'm not answering any more questions.
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Can I please actually go out the back of your name with my husband?
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I became flustered, started having an anxiety attack.
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That's when it seemed to escalate things for the police.
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Ma'am, I'm going to arrest you if you don't calm down and cooperate with me.
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The police officer in charge got quite upset, annoyed, frustrated with me.
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Wasn't happy that I was having an anxiety attack in front of him and said that if I didn't
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calm down, I would be arrested right there on the spot in front of all my colleagues and
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I'm not going to deal with this and I'm leaving.
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I'm thinking I'm a grandma, sorry, thinking of the grandkids.
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Not only do I not want them to have a grandma that was arrested or in trouble with police,
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even though I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't want to have any repercussions.
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Well, as you just saw, folks, another grotesque story in which a law-abiding citizen has her
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rights brutally stomped on by a cop who is nothing other than a brutalizing bully.
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And joining me now is our wonder from down under, Avi Yamini.
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Oh, no, that's the thing, you know, Avi, it is intense.
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I mean, when we see that body cam footage, it had me shaking with rage, and I don't have
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Whatever happened, my friend, to officer's discretion?
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Or, Avi, is it all about Aussie cops have some sort of a secret quota they must fill when
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it comes to charging law-abiding citizens with these crazy Wuhan virus protocol crimes?
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You know, I've got some mates that are cops, and they tell me that it's really down to
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discretion, so the only excuse for that kind of behavior that I can understand is that
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And when I first watched that, and we were sent at 35thefinals.com.au, I was, like you,
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I was shaking in anger, because you can see she's obviously terrified of being arrested.
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She was willing to even comply to the rules, even though she had a medical exemption.
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She didn't, you know, this was a period of time during the lockdown where the mask mandate
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had come in, and everybody was a bit crazy about everything, so she didn't, you know,
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she just wanted to do her job, working at a supermarket during a period where so many
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had lost their jobs in what was, at the time, one of the most essential jobs, because as
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we know, during these lockdowns, the one place people went to, to obviously shop for essentials,
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but also I think anyone who's been through a proper lockdown, the supermarket was kind of
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It's where you'd go to see the, you know, the other life around you, and some of the
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supermarket stuff became kind of the punching bag to a lot of disgruntled citizens to the
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So I think those were the people we really needed to protect at the time, and the police should
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have been there protecting them from outraged civilians who had no one else to kind of vent
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They've noticed her not wearing a face mask or face shield that she walked in with a scarf
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She says to me, the reason why she wore that is because, you know, she could still at least
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But as they spotted her and went towards her, in the hands of her supervisor, who knew about
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And they came to this agreement like, I'll try to do it, even though, you know, I've got
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my little pump here, I've got bad asthma, and I get anxiety from covering the face like
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And no, that wasn't a good enough excuse for these cops that just seemed like they were
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You know what, Avi, I'm glad you mentioned that, because that's the vibe I picked up on.
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They were almost relishing or secretly enjoying the fact that she was being moved to tears.
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Condescending, if you listen to the way he was talking to her, you know, he was acting
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like he's so calm and she's, you know, it's all about, she's the one acting bizarrely.
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And, you know, when, in fact, he was just condescending.
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He was being really rude in a gentle tone, big man, you know, you're the one there with
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the, in the official capacity, he's holding a gun, who's controlling this, this older woman,
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this grandmother, who's, who is clearly in fear of you.
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What a big man you're able to, you know, his language was just so, it was disgusting.
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It was vile and I hope that now he's being shamed because, you know, Wodonga, Wodonga is,
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for people who don't know, it's Aubrey, Aubrey, Wodonga are like this big two-town city
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Now, we know New South Wales is led by the Conservatives, or like our Conservatives,
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that they're a little bit more conservative, I think, to your Conservatives, but not far.
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Now, the Labour government here have had the strongest lockdowns and at any, you know,
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we've had one case, they've locked down the whole state, you know, killing industry over
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Like that, one case, they shut everything down and you've got to think about restaurants
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that prepared for this, one of the biggest days in there, on the, because it was, it was
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Victoria shut down without even blinking an eye.
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Costing, I was at a restaurant last night who told me it cost him, he has three restaurants,
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it's where we're holding our engagement party, and he's, he said to us, you know, over that
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weekend, it was $100,000 that we just had to throw into the bin because we'd ordered
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the food, we'd prepared, we'd paid all our staff, we did everything, and the only thing
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Now, in Aubrey, it's New South Wales, there they never had really any lockdowns, you know,
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they had the initial lockdowns that everybody around the world had.
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And then they, they just dealt with the clusters as they came up.
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I don't necessarily even agree with some of the reactions there, the responses there, but
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So, you have this grandmother on one side of this, you know, imaginary line in the same
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It's like I said, Aubrey Wodonga is, is one big country town of two country towns on each
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So, you have her coming into work with an exemption, wrapping her mouth just not to attract any
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unwanted attention and willing to even take on the mask, being given the mask at the time
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and hunted by police and treated like that and fined for that crime.
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Only meters away from a place that none of that exists.
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In fact, she moved to work on the other side of the border.
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Boundaries aside, that's the other thing that's so fascinating about this story.
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The company she works for obviously has no problem with the mask exemption.
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The customers don't seem to have a problem with the mask exemption.
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You know, Avi, I met the wife of a Toronto police officer at a division.
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And she and her husband are huge fans of Rebel News.
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At her division, there's a lot of, at her husband's division, rather, there's a bit of
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tension because 50% of the cops think this is absolute nonsense ticketing people.
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But the other 50%, Avi, they say, oh, no, they're totally vested in this.
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They think they are champions of public safety.
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I'm wondering, with your encounters with law enforcement down under, what vibe do you get?
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I'll tell you a story that demonstrates exactly what it's like here.
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Well, I was inside my house, this is probably a month and a half ago, maybe a bit longer,
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My partner runs, my fiance runs inside, goes, oh, police are swarming.
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And I'm thinking, well, who knows what this is?
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Three, now when I get out there, I see that there's a couple of Sudanese 20-year-olds in
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Now, we've had a Sudanese youth crime gang problem for a few years here.
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The front lead detective, who you could see is the commanding officer, says, Avi, what are
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I said to him, mate, I'll just live a couple of doors down and my missus walked, ran inside
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So I thought I better come and film to see who's not wearing a mask.
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And he cracked up laughing and he said, no, no, Avi, we hate that stuff.
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He was the lead detective for the armed robbery squad.
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He goes, you want to know the funny thing, Avi?
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Back at the station, we all sit around and watch your videos because we bloody love you.
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I think that is exactly to the point of what you're saying.
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It demonstrates, yes, there is a split in the police.
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I know some really good coppers that hate and they tell me it's all discretion.
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I've never enforced any COVID rule because it's in our discretion.
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I thought that story was going to end with the cop saying, your journalism papers, please.
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But thankfully, we don't have to deal with that in Canada.
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So great to touch base with you again, my friend.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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I was frightened by the rules of everybody else.
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But I already told you, like, the fourth time now that I have a medical exemption.
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You would ask me to leave because I have a medical exemption?
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You're waiting on the arrival of a passenger that's who contacted me personally and asked me to be here.
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This poor woman went to Portugal for medical treatment.
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She had 23 tumors surgically removed from her body.
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She was supposed to go to California for the remainder of her treatment and her recovery.
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But because of these wonderful COVID rules, they would not allow her to.
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There used to be a time, and I still love being Canadian, don't get me wrong.
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But there used to be a time that I had so much admiration for Canada and what it stood for.
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And I'm not willing to put myself in an unsafe situation when other people are telling me what I can and cannot do with my own person and with my own body.
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Well, that was a montage of scenes we captured at Toronto's Pearson International Airport recently.
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A woman who we shall refer to as Mary was returning to Canada from Portugal.
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She recently had more than 20 tumors removed from her body.
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And she was supposed to be flying to San Francisco to continue her medical treatment.
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But for some reason, she was prevented from doing so.
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Anti-lockdown crusader Chris Guy, well, he went to the airport to help.
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But as you saw, he was harassed by police for attempting to be, oh, I don't know, a good Samaritan.
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Well, you had plenty to say about this latest slice of Wuhan virus insanity.
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Well, you know, John, these are interesting times to be a police officer.
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As I mentioned with Avi Amini, I recently spoke to the wife of a Toronto cop.
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She told me at her husband's division, it's a 50-50 split.
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Half the officers think that breaking up protests and arresting people is despicable.
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They actually think they are preventing a health crisis.
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I've extended an invitation to this particular police officer to come on the show for an interview.
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I don't think it will happen, given that we live in a day and age of cancel culture.
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Say, Mr. Bernier, are you looking for any candidates in the GTA?
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If people would all stop taking the PCR test, this nightmare would be over.
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Oh, I think the nightmare would continue, thanks to power-hungry bureaucrats and politicians.
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As for the PCR test, increasing evidence indicates that this is a horribly flawed test.
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Please check out my recent interview with Dr. Mark Trawsey for more details on this very important issue.
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How can you ask someone to leave because of a medical exemption?
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And I think what happened to Chris that evening was even illegal.
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I thought the police were supposed to uphold the law, not break it.
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This officer is just insecure about himself and intimidated by you, Chris.
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As Chris continued to debate this officer, it was a slaughter.
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At certain points, the cop just stood frozen, staring at Chris Guy, not knowing what to say.
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Well, you know something, that's such a sad statement, Carlos, but I do get where you're coming from.
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Many people I encounter convey the same sentiments to me.
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I think this clampdown on our freedoms and rights boils down to
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so many politicians at every level of every political stripe
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Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
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And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.