Rebel News Podcast - May 14, 2021


Who is allowed to ask tough questions about the vaccines？ Anyone？


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

163.18689

Word Count

5,479

Sentence Count

395

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Who is allowed to ask tough questions about the vaccines? Is it you, the viewer? Or is it the government? Ezra Levenrant takes you through some of the contradictions in the matter, and explains why you should be able to ask the tough questions.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I don't even know if I'm allowed to ask these questions, but
00:00:04.780 can you question the vaccine itself, or is that banned? It's banned on YouTube. Is it banned
00:00:14.200 other places? And what if you're just reading the warning label on the vaccines? Does that
00:00:19.640 constitute illegal questioning of vaccines? What if you're a new Democrat member of Parliament
00:00:25.880 who got a vaccine and is now worried? I don't know. I'll take you through some of the
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00:01:23.120 Tonight, who is allowed to ask tough questions about the vaccines? Anyone? It's May 13th,
00:01:33.740 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:37.540 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:41.300 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:45.360 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
00:01:50.240 right to do so. I don't know if you noticed this. I mean, it's been going on for years.
00:01:59.720 You know you're not allowed to talk about certain things, right? You're not even allowed to ask
00:02:03.720 certain questions. That's never a good sign. But it's terrifying when it's about the central crisis
00:02:10.000 of our time, the pandemic we're in, and much more gravely, the political authoritarian response
00:02:16.340 to the pandemic. That's the real virus, I think. Did you know there are rules about what you can or
00:02:22.700 can't say about the virus? Well, maybe not rules that bind you, but certainly rules that bind me.
00:02:29.460 Here at Rebel News, we have more than 1.45 million YouTube subscribers. It's the heart of our business.
00:02:36.120 And look at the rules they have for talking about vaccines and the pandemic.
00:02:41.540 COVID-19 medical misinformation policy. YouTube doesn't allow content about COVID-19 that poses
00:02:52.160 a serious risk of egregious harm. Now, in the past, they would take that to mean you can't put videos
00:03:02.620 up of extremely dangerous stunts or violence. But look what they take that to mean now.
00:03:11.540 YouTube doesn't allow content about COVID-19 that poses a serious risk of egregious harm.
00:03:17.180 YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts
00:03:23.000 local health authorities or the World Health Organization's medical information about COVID-19.
00:03:31.640 This is limited to content that contradicts World Health Organization or local health
00:03:36.700 authorities' guidance on treatment, prevention, diagnosis, transmission, social distancing and
00:03:43.580 self-isolation guidelines. The existence of COVID-19. Okay, but aren't some of those things subject to
00:03:52.920 debate? Is there only one opinion that's allowed on these things? And the answer is yes. Here, I'll read you
00:04:01.300 some more of the rules. What this policy means for you. If you're posting content, don't post content
00:04:07.500 on YouTube. If it includes any of the following treatment misinformation, content that encourages
00:04:13.220 the use of home remedies, prayer or rituals in place of medical treatments such as consulting a doctor
00:04:18.840 or going to the hospital, content that claims there's a guaranteed cure for COVID-19, content that
00:04:23.520 recommends use of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, claims that ivermectin
00:04:29.300 or hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for COVID-19, other content that discourages people
00:04:34.880 from consulting a medical professional or seeking medical advice, prevention misinformation, contact
00:04:40.540 that promotes prevention methods that contradict local health authorities or World Health Organization.
00:04:47.160 There's a lot in there, but let me just pick one thing. You know, a lot of doctors recommend
00:04:53.500 hydroxychloroquine. It's a drug that's been around for decades. It's well known.
00:04:58.660 Doctors know, well, it's not an experimental drug at all. Now, I don't know if they're right. It might
00:05:04.280 be experimental to apply to COVID-19, but there are real doctors with real patients who say it really
00:05:10.620 works. In fact, I remember in the very early days of the pandemic, we showed a survey of hundreds of
00:05:18.960 working frontline doctors fighting COVID around the world, including even in China,
00:05:22.640 and hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin were those working doctors' top recommendations.
00:05:32.600 Now, maybe they're wrong, or maybe it's a minority opinion, but you're not even allowed to say it
00:05:39.480 online. And the authority that must be obeyed is the United Nations Agency called the World Health
00:05:45.020 Organization that's controlled by China. You've got so many things wrong about China,
00:05:50.060 like this notorious tweet from the early days. This is from the World Health Organization.
00:05:55.680 Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence
00:05:59.840 of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus 219 identified in Wuhan, China.
00:06:05.660 That wasn't just wrong. That was a lie that was covering up for the Chinese dictatorship. That
00:06:11.280 was propaganda from the World Health Organization. You're not allowed to contradict them.
00:06:14.680 Here's a few more things that you just aren't allowed to say. You can't say the
00:06:20.800 earth is flat. So you can say, pardon me, you can say the earth is flat. That's not bad on YouTube.
00:06:29.100 You can say, I don't know, that there are aliens or UFOs. Elvis is still alive. You can believe in the
00:06:33.860 theory of man-made global warming. You can claim that we only have 10 years left to live because we're
00:06:38.240 all going to burn up or global warming or whatever it is now. You can have an opinion right or wrong about
00:06:43.520 anything. You can deny facts, but not about the precious pandemic and its quasi-religious
00:06:49.560 tenets like these. I'm going to read a little bit more. I'm almost like these.
00:06:53.040 Claims that wearing a mask is dangerous. It causes negative physical health effects.
00:06:58.100 Claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission
00:07:01.460 of COVID-19. You just can't claim these things, even if that's what actual scientific studies show.
00:07:08.900 You just can't say those things. Claim that an approved COVID-19 vaccine will alter a person's
00:07:18.240 genetic makeup. Well, listen, various scientific and medical journals call the Pfizer and Moderna
00:07:25.320 vaccines gene therapy. Are you allowed to say that? I mean, these medical journals do.
00:07:30.040 Claims that any vaccine causes contraction of COVID-19. Now, I don't know if that's the case,
00:07:39.560 but are you saying that if it were found to be the case, you're not allowed to report it as news?
00:07:44.900 This next rule is quite something. Social distancing and self-isolation misinformation.
00:07:50.900 Content that disputes the efficacy of local health authorities or the World Health Organization's
00:07:55.040 guidance on physical distancing or self-isolation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19.
00:08:00.820 So every single local authority is right, even when they disagree with each other. So in the UK,
00:08:07.920 there's a five-day quarantine when arriving at the airport. In Canada, there's a 14-day quarantine,
00:08:13.740 three of which you have to be in some COVID hotel. So they're both right, and you can't criticize
00:08:17.620 either of them? Because you know you've got different rules in different countries and provinces
00:08:21.900 and states and even city by city, and they're all correct. And if you disagree with any of them,
00:08:27.160 you're always wrong, because that's very dangerous. That's egregious harm, according to YouTube.
00:08:33.140 It's a very, very long list of things that you just can't say. Just about this subject, they also
00:08:38.560 say you can't repeat in any way Donald Trump's claims that the election was stolen from him.
00:08:44.340 I'm not kidding about that either. You might recall that's why we were censored by YouTube.
00:08:48.520 You can be a Democrat and claim that the 2016 election was stolen. That's what the Democrats
00:08:54.500 said for four years. You can say Trump stole it or Russia stole it or whatever. You can say that
00:08:59.400 without any proof. But no one is allowed to claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. In
00:09:05.040 fact, if you remember, I did a video on that in January. And then three months later, YouTube decided
00:09:11.420 that that was the reason they were taking me down, because I showed a clip that had a brief Trump
00:09:17.100 moment where he claimed that. And so YouTube suspended us for a week. So that's the world
00:09:21.700 of tech censorship now. Now it gets worse if you still speak out, despite the warnings from the
00:09:29.420 United Nations and China and the World Health Organization and YouTube. And I mean, who wouldn't
00:09:34.360 set their moral compass by them? They'll just, I don't know, go to their safe place, which is to
00:09:40.480 call you a racist. Here's a globalist from Calgary, my old debating partner, actually,
00:09:45.960 named Naheed Nenshi. He's the mayor of Calgary. And here's what he has to say.
00:09:50.060 Those people at those anti-mask protests, let's not kid ourselves. They're not people who need to eat.
00:09:55.760 They are people who are marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government
00:10:01.500 protests. And they don't deserve that kind of sympathy.
00:10:04.080 Okay, got it. So if you don't like his lockdowns, you're a white supremacist. Here's Jagmeet Singh,
00:10:10.280 the MVP leader.
00:10:11.820 Yes, I do think that there is an connection with people who aren't wearing a mask or who
00:10:17.200 aren't following public health guidance and the extreme right. And the idea that folks in the
00:10:22.160 extreme right don't care about people around them, aren't concerned about the safety and well-being
00:10:27.220 of people generally, their neighbors and the people in the community, and to brazenly not
00:10:34.340 follow public health guidelines puts people at risk. And that is something that we've seen with
00:10:39.440 extreme right-wing ideology, putting people at risk, not being concerned about the safety of others,
00:10:44.760 not being concerned about the welfare of others. There is a connection, certainly.
00:10:47.600 Got it. Now, if I were Jagmeet Singh, who is so closely associated with extremist terrorists
00:10:54.840 that he is literally banned from traveling to India, I don't think I'd be accusing my fellow
00:10:59.440 Canadians of being extremists just because they don't like lockdown. In fact, people who oppose
00:11:04.500 the lockdowns, they come from all walks of life. They're from all races and religions. And there's
00:11:09.040 a lot of lefties there too. I was sort of startled to see that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was taking the real
00:11:14.580 lead on this issue in Europe, Naomi Wolf. Lots of organic, sort of hippie, natural living types.
00:11:19.920 It's as much a lefty thing as a right-wing thing. It's a working class thing, really, to be opposed
00:11:24.520 to the lockdowns. But there you have it. If you disagree with your local politicians, YouTube will
00:11:28.940 ban you. If you question the science, which changes all the time, YouTube will ban you. Other social
00:11:34.000 media too, Facebook, Instagram. See, what's the science on the vaccines though? You know they're all
00:11:40.420 experimental, right? You know none of them would normally be on the market. None of them would be
00:11:44.440 injected into people at this stage without more tests, right? I mean, you know that, right? They're
00:11:51.600 just because we're in emergency and they're for emergency use only because of the pandemic that we now
00:11:58.400 know predominantly attacks people in their 80s who have severe pre-existing health conditions like
00:12:04.220 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, dementia, et cetera. So usually three or four of these underlying
00:12:10.540 conditions. So you know that the COVID-19 virus is not really a young, healthy person's thing, right?
00:12:18.140 And you still want to take experimental medicine that has not been fully tested yet.
00:12:24.360 This is Pfizer's website. You can find the same thing on all of them.
00:12:28.040 Pfizer is a leading vaccine maker. This is from their website. Let me read a little bit of it.
00:12:35.640 The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug
00:12:42.740 Administration, FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an emergency use
00:12:49.960 authorization to prevent COVID-19 for use in individuals 12 years of age and older.
00:12:58.040 The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration
00:13:03.720 that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of the medical product
00:13:08.960 under Section 564B1 of the FD&C Act, unless the declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner.
00:13:18.080 So these vaccines are not approved. They have not proven themselves. They have not gone through all
00:13:28.060 their experience yet. It's not approved, but it's authorized, which is different. That means
00:13:33.740 we don't know if it's safe yet. They haven't been approved yet, but you're allowed to use them anyways
00:13:39.520 because we're in an emergency, emergency. So do you feel like you're in an emergency, willing to take
00:13:45.900 a medicine that has not yet been approved? Let me read just a little bit more from the Pfizer. This is
00:13:51.900 from their website. Am I allowed to say this? I don't know. It raises a lot of questions, but it's from the
00:13:56.540 vaccine company. What are the side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine? There is a remote chance that
00:14:02.900 the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine could cause a severe allergic reaction. A severe allergic reaction
00:14:09.540 would usually occur within a few minutes to one hour after getting a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech
00:14:14.180 COVID-19 vaccine. For this reason, your vaccination provider may ask you to stay at the place where you
00:14:19.620 receive your vaccine for monitoring after vaccination. Signs of a severe allergic reaction can include
00:14:25.240 difficulty breathing, swelling of your face and throat, a fast heartbeat, a bad rash all over your body,
00:14:31.040 dizziness and weakness. Side effects that have been reported with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
00:14:36.540 include severe allergy allergic reactions, non-severe allergic reactions such as rash, itching, hives
00:14:44.100 or swelling of the face, injection site pains, tiredness, headache, muscle pains, chills, joint pain,
00:14:50.100 fever, injection site swelling, injection site redness, nausea, feeling unwell, swollen lymph nodes,
00:14:56.900 diarrhea, vomiting, arm pain. These are not all the possible side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech
00:15:02.500 vaccine. Serious and unexpected side effects may occur. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is still
00:15:08.680 being studied in clinical trials. Am I allowed to say any of this? I mean, I'm just reading from Pfizer.
00:15:16.680 Is that okay that I say these things? But what about that AstraZeneca vaccine business? Is this safe?
00:15:24.700 Is it authorized? It's not approved yet, but is it authorized? Who's it authorized for? That seems to
00:15:31.460 change all the time. And when? And for one dose or two? And how long should you wait between doses?
00:15:38.020 And do the rules change because of science or because of politics? Here, get a load of the boss.
00:15:43.020 The prime minister and the government don't make health recommendations. That's not my job.
00:15:47.340 My job is to – I shared, for example, what the member asked what advice I personally got from my doctor.
00:15:54.980 I certainly encourage all Canadians to talk to their doctors. Who will then be informed by experts and doctors
00:16:01.460 both in their jurisdictions, in their provinces and territories, and by the national guidance from NACI and from Health Canada?
00:16:09.620 That is the best way to move forward. Don't take recommendations from politicians, particularly not conservatives.
00:16:15.340 Take recommendations from your doctors and the experts.
00:16:18.260 Yeah. Does anyone trust these people? Well, if you're confused, you're not the only one.
00:16:24.580 Banning AstraZeneca, then unbanning it, then telling people it's really, really good.
00:16:29.220 Unless you can avoid it, please take another one. Or Johnson & Johnson, that that was paused.
00:16:33.460 And then politicians wonder why people don't want to sign up for these vaccines.
00:16:37.420 They can't even give them away. One U.S. state is actually offering weekly lotteries for a million dollars for people who take the vaccine.
00:16:46.060 Wow, that must be some terrifying pandemic if you have to bribe people with a million-dollar payout to take the vaccine.
00:16:52.820 But look at poor Charlie Angus. You know who he is? He's the NDP member of Parliament from Northern Ontario.
00:16:58.140 You know, I really like him about half the time, and I really don't like him the other half of the time.
00:17:03.260 But he's actually one of the few independent-minded MPs, so let's give him that.
00:17:07.840 Look what he wrote on Twitter.
00:17:10.660 I took the first dose of AstraZeneca. The question is, what is the plan for the second dose?
00:17:16.100 Ontario says it's an issue of blood clots. Alberta says it's a lack of supply.
00:17:21.620 Justin is spinning the benefits of a one-dose summer.
00:17:24.920 People deserve clear answers from health officials.
00:17:29.080 That's Charlie Angus. He's an NDP MP. He works for Jagmeet Singh.
00:17:34.640 Is Charlie Angus, as Jagmeet Singh would say, is he a white supremacist, racist, extremist?
00:17:43.040 Or as YouTube would say about him, silence.
00:17:48.900 Stay with us for more.
00:17:49.920 Thank you.
00:17:58.140 Well, I've had the theory for a while now that one of the reasons why Canada is making travel so very difficult
00:18:08.000 is that the government doesn't want you to see other places where life is normalizing.
00:18:13.000 And by so difficult, I don't just mean the 14-day quarantine to come back home, which bans so many forms of travel.
00:18:22.040 Because who can take 14 days after a short business trip?
00:18:26.600 Or if you were to take a longer vacation, who can add on two weeks and time off?
00:18:32.180 I think that's designed to dampen the number of people who go abroad at all.
00:18:36.800 And then the actual COVID hotels at the airports, where you have to stay in a crappy hotel at an extremely high price,
00:18:47.160 really like a prisoner.
00:18:48.500 I think that was deliberately designed to be an awful experience and deliberately designed to be a media scandal,
00:18:56.780 again, to scare people away from traveling.
00:19:00.820 So if you can't go to Florida or Texas to see that places are normalizing,
00:19:07.360 and the only way you can learn about the world is what you see in your own town and everyone's wearing a mask,
00:19:12.960 or see on the media, which is propaganda,
00:19:16.920 well, then you're going to stay obedient and conditioned to be a prisoner.
00:19:21.360 And this is a theory of mine, having not left the country for 14 months myself.
00:19:26.860 As you may know, in the before times, I traveled to the United States from time to time,
00:19:32.120 and I had a bit of a habit of traveling to the United Kingdom for various reasons,
00:19:36.120 including our interest in the case of Tommy Robinson,
00:19:38.280 who fought a series of free speech battles, which were of great interest to us and to me.
00:19:44.080 I haven't been over there since March of 2020.
00:19:48.480 So I can only figure out the world through the eyes of the media, too, and it's a difficult thing.
00:19:55.940 But a couple of weeks ago, we sent one of our youngest reporters, Lincoln Jay,
00:20:01.120 and we sent him to the UK to do some stories on some fight-the-fines cases we've had over there.
00:20:07.480 And to look around.
00:20:10.140 And the very first thing we realized is that they only have a five-day quarantine going into the UK,
00:20:16.760 and you don't have to serve it at a quarantine jail in the airport.
00:20:21.260 And once Lincoln got through his five-day mini-quarantine,
00:20:26.060 even before that, frankly, he could see out of his hotel window,
00:20:29.600 the people were getting back to normal.
00:20:31.440 The pubs, while not open inside, all had their patios open.
00:20:36.440 And Lincoln is there right now.
00:20:38.760 He joins us via Skype.
00:20:40.740 Lincoln, great to see you.
00:20:43.360 You've been over there in the UK for more than a week now.
00:20:46.500 If you had to sum it up, how would you describe it and compare it to Canada?
00:20:52.260 Well, first of all, like you said, having the patios open is huge, right?
00:20:59.300 It gives people something to do.
00:21:01.940 But besides that, you can go to the gym right now, work out.
00:21:05.480 You don't wear a mask inside the gym.
00:21:07.320 I think that would be a huge shocker to most Canadians,
00:21:10.260 the fact that you don't have to wear a mask inside of a gym,
00:21:14.260 which is a closed indoor facility.
00:21:16.120 So that is like the first culture shock.
00:21:18.800 But nonetheless, just the whole vibe here is different.
00:21:23.660 You know, I would say like my estimate is that two to three out of ten people
00:21:28.380 aren't wearing masks, and that's on the tube,
00:21:30.500 like the tube being the subway in Toronto.
00:21:33.340 And when you don't wear a mask, no one tells you to put one on.
00:21:39.520 In Canada, if you go into a grocery store without a mask,
00:21:44.040 you'll have a number of people telling you to put the mask on.
00:21:48.860 So that is the, it's honestly been a bit of a culture shock.
00:21:52.700 And I don't think you mentioned, but they are planning to open indoor dining on Monday.
00:21:57.600 They're going to be opening amenities in gyms, such as steam rooms and saunas.
00:22:01.860 So unless they do something crazy,
00:22:05.720 it seems that life might be largely returning back to the UK.
00:22:10.680 Yeah.
00:22:11.840 Now, you came from Toronto,
00:22:14.140 which is one of the most viciously locked down cities in Canada.
00:22:18.480 So there are other places in Canada that weren't quite as brutal,
00:22:22.580 although you can't even say that anymore.
00:22:25.100 I mean, Alberta has literally been jailing pastors.
00:22:28.420 And, and, and of course, there's a curfew on in most parts of Quebec.
00:22:35.200 I think you're right to say that the scolding, that's a particularly Canadian thing to,
00:22:41.740 you know, the goody two shoes, flip it around, a form of virtue signaling.
00:22:46.460 I'm better than you.
00:22:47.700 I'm going to be the mask police.
00:22:49.600 And that, that's a really ugly part of, I think, a Canadian mindset.
00:22:56.720 I'm not saying all Canadians.
00:22:57.820 I don't, you know, I don't do that.
00:23:00.260 But I, but I think that is something people across Canada, at least in cities,
00:23:04.460 I don't think country people are crazy like that.
00:23:07.200 So you're saying that scolding, snitching, where's your mask?
00:23:11.180 Pull it up over your nose.
00:23:12.340 You haven't encountered that in the UK.
00:23:14.240 Is that what you're saying?
00:23:14.860 I, I'm not lying to you, not once.
00:23:19.300 It's, it's weird for me to even look at someone across, say, I like using the reference being
00:23:24.840 on the two, right, on the subway and seeing people, you can just look across and people
00:23:29.580 aren't wearing masks.
00:23:30.520 It feels like it's like how it was back in 2019 and prior, you know?
00:23:34.960 So it's, it honestly took me a bit of getting used to, you know?
00:23:39.160 And another thing is that on, on the London transport, so whether that's, you're taking
00:23:44.840 the bus, the tube, whatever it may be.
00:23:48.000 So they do have a, they do have announcements at every stop saying, please remember to wear
00:23:54.060 your face covering.
00:23:54.900 But the thing that I noticed is that at the end of the announcement, they say, please be
00:24:00.480 mindful to people that have exemptions.
00:24:03.220 Not all exemptions are, are visible, you know?
00:24:06.420 Oh, they say that, eh?
00:24:07.980 Wow.
00:24:09.540 Yeah.
00:24:10.240 I noticed that right away.
00:24:11.720 So, but yeah, that really stood out to me.
00:24:14.280 That's very opposite, as you may know, because we have that website, maskexemption.ca.
00:24:20.200 There are exemptions in every single mask law in Canada.
00:24:24.640 I've read them all.
00:24:25.680 They all have exemptions.
00:24:26.660 You can think of some obvious ones.
00:24:28.080 But, um, exemption, exemptions are treated as abuses.
00:24:35.660 And, you know, I have a friend who's asthmatic.
00:24:38.460 He can't wear a mask at all.
00:24:40.120 The abuse he tells me he gets, he's not a faker.
00:24:43.500 He's, he, he cannot wear that thing on his face.
00:24:46.880 And the torrent of abuse, it's like people say, uh-huh, I'm so frustrated.
00:24:52.260 I'm going to expiate all my frustration from the, on him.
00:24:57.120 I'm going to get it out on him.
00:24:58.860 And I'm going to, uh, falsely say he's why we're in this situation.
00:25:03.720 I've got a scapegoat.
00:25:04.980 I'm going to take out all the sins of society on him because he's not wearing a mask.
00:25:08.560 The mask, the mask is such a, such a symbol.
00:25:11.800 It is the flag of lockdownism.
00:25:14.680 And you're telling me that in the United Kingdom, that flag is optional.
00:25:18.560 Yes, it is, it is optional.
00:25:22.280 Now, to be honest with you, the people have told me that they, you will run into, let's
00:25:28.380 say you see a police officer at a, at a station.
00:25:31.220 They may ask you to, to show your exemption if you're not wearing a mask.
00:25:35.580 But personally, I haven't run into anything like that.
00:25:39.440 I haven't encountered any issues.
00:25:41.400 I haven't been wearing the mask at all.
00:25:43.840 It's, it's, it's honestly insane.
00:25:46.240 Like I, I've been telling everyone at the office, everything, and it's hard for them
00:25:50.120 to grasp too, but it's the truth.
00:25:52.860 Yeah.
00:25:53.060 No, well, listen, that's, that shows how rewired your brain is in our whole society.
00:25:58.400 We have to get back to that before time.
00:26:00.680 So I should tell you, I think you may be legally incorrect if you're implying that you have
00:26:05.660 to show your police an exemption there.
00:26:07.940 I don't believe that that is the case either in Canada or the UK.
00:26:11.340 That would be tantamount to police asking for your medical, private medical information,
00:26:17.260 which I don't believe is the law.
00:26:19.660 Speaking of the law, one of the reasons you're over there, besides to tell the story of what
00:26:23.660 the UK is like, is to do a little bit of work on our fight the fines cases in the UK.
00:26:29.640 We have over 1200 fight the fines cases, but the vast majority of them are in Canada.
00:26:36.140 Um, I just was talking to our UK team today.
00:26:40.360 We're sort of winding down our fight the fines UK because, you know, the lockdown is being
00:26:44.560 lifted.
00:26:45.040 Police are not being as abusive.
00:26:46.760 People really want to get back to normal.
00:26:48.640 I'm not saying there aren't civil liberties infringements.
00:26:51.480 I'm just saying, you know, we're based in Canada.
00:26:54.460 This is where the harshest lockdowns are.
00:26:56.980 This is where the crisis is.
00:26:59.080 Tell me a minute about some of the fight the fines cases that you are working on over there
00:27:03.600 in the UK.
00:27:04.020 Well, the first one, we actually got one out yesterday, which was, I think is a, it's a
00:27:11.360 very relatable story to, to anyone who's, uh, to any, to any family.
00:27:17.120 So it was a mother who took her family to the beach, you know, for, for simply for exercise.
00:27:22.100 Right.
00:27:22.560 And that's, you're allowed open air recreation.
00:27:25.180 That rule never changed during, during the lockdown here in the UK.
00:27:28.460 And, uh, she was, uh, approached by police and, uh, long story short, they, uh, they ended
00:27:34.780 up handcuffing her and putting her in the back of a police car for simply, they call it playing
00:27:40.980 ball with their kids.
00:27:42.160 So I assume that's, uh, playing football, soccer, right.
00:27:45.480 And, uh, you know, it's, it's hard to grasp a, another one is a, a, uh, older gentleman
00:27:52.440 with his wife.
00:27:53.560 They, they took a trip down for groceries and they decided to stop at the beach for, uh,
00:27:59.220 have a cup of tea and just, just relax.
00:28:01.340 And I think the most interesting part about that is that they were inside their car the
00:28:06.920 whole time.
00:28:07.700 They didn't, they didn't exit their car and the police did the same thing.
00:28:11.840 They came and basically accused them of, of violating the restrictions at the time.
00:28:17.120 So, uh, you know, I guess that's the reason why we are doing this, this campaign fight the
00:28:23.900 fines to, to bring light to these kinds of situations and, uh, and hopefully to help stop
00:28:30.120 them in the future, which I think they've already had an impact for sure.
00:28:33.220 Yeah.
00:28:33.620 Well, I'm very proud of the work.
00:28:35.200 Our UK lawyers are fantastic.
00:28:37.540 Uh, the clients, I mean, I, I worked on our very first UK case, Amy Stewart being the client,
00:28:43.160 a wonderful lady who was clearly abused by police, thrown in the black back of a police
00:28:48.140 vehicle, just outrageous.
00:28:49.840 Um, and it was funny because in the early months I was far more worried about Australia and the
00:28:56.440 UK than in Canada.
00:28:57.600 Um, it's like we saw a premonition of how bad things can be in those jurisdictions.
00:29:03.400 And then we didn't really start to see the craziness in Canada until the fall.
00:29:09.380 And then it's just been outrageous this spring.
00:29:12.000 Of course, as you know, we are suing various police forces in Canada on behalf of our own
00:29:18.120 reporters.
00:29:18.640 I think, uh, you yourself were arrested or manhandled by police for doing journalism.
00:29:24.920 So it's just the civil liberties descent, it's slowly at first, and then it goes quite
00:29:29.680 quickly.
00:29:30.300 Well, listen, I'm glad you're over there.
00:29:31.880 I'm glad you're tidying up those fight the fines cases.
00:29:34.880 And given the journey you've made over there, I hope that you take the time.
00:29:38.340 I know you're working on a story from Dover on human smuggling into the UK from the mainland.
00:29:44.140 I look forward to seeing your reports on the other stories in that kingdom, which I miss
00:29:49.180 going to very much.
00:29:50.840 And I hope that we will be normalized soon too.
00:29:55.240 But I very much doubt it.
00:29:56.560 I have to say, looking at the total bungling of the situation in Canada, I, and I, I hate
00:30:04.540 to say it, I think we're going to be in a form of lockdown well into 2022.
00:30:10.620 I mean, can you believe it?
00:30:11.800 It's almost June and we are still in the harshest lockdowns of the whole pandemic.
00:30:18.200 This whole, this whole pandemic since last March, it honestly just feels like a bad dream.
00:30:24.780 Yeah.
00:30:25.040 There's no, there's no other way to put it.
00:30:26.980 It just feels like a bad dream.
00:30:28.540 Well, uh, you're lucky to be over there in the UK and I'm sure you're enjoying it as
00:30:33.300 a young man.
00:30:33.900 London is one of the world's most fascinating cities.
00:30:37.060 Uh, I forget who it was who said to be bored with London is to be bored with life because
00:30:42.100 everything is in London and for all its flaws, it's a great city and there's a lot of stories
00:30:48.000 there.
00:30:48.400 So I look forward to seeing more stories from you, Lincoln.
00:30:50.620 Thanks for flying the rebel flag over in the UK.
00:30:53.920 You take care out there.
00:30:55.300 My pleasure.
00:30:56.080 Thank you, Ezra, for having me.
00:30:57.140 All right.
00:30:57.740 There you go.
00:30:58.180 If you're interested in seeing our UK cases, they're at fightthefines.co.uk.
00:31:06.720 Those are the special cases we're taking in the United Kingdom.
00:31:10.020 I think there's about a dozen of them compared to the approximately 1200 in Canada, but we
00:31:16.680 do have a base in the UK and we love them.
00:31:19.280 And it was very heartbreaking to me to see how abusive police in the UK became, which, uh,
00:31:25.900 really British police, the Bobbies taught the world about modern policing and they were
00:31:31.640 the first to forget it too.
00:31:32.820 Uh, as you know, Lincoln has been doing other work with us.
00:31:37.620 You can see his other videos on lockdownreports.com.
00:31:40.920 All right.
00:31:41.380 Stay with us.
00:31:41.980 Your letter should be.
00:31:42.600 On my show last night, SS writes, it didn't take long after January 21st for the world
00:31:58.840 to start falling apart.
00:32:00.700 Yeah.
00:32:01.000 You know what?
00:32:01.800 Um, nature abhors a vacuum.
00:32:03.760 And with Donald Trump no longer the boss of the free world, well, other people fill that
00:32:09.440 void.
00:32:10.880 FD writes, those rockets were peacefully protesting just like the Black Lives Matter.
00:32:16.020 Yeah.
00:32:16.600 Oh, and those mean Israelis sending up their Iron Dome anti-missiles.
00:32:21.060 Dave writes, how did they get the rockets in the first place?
00:32:24.100 Who supplied them?
00:32:25.220 Well, um, sometimes they're made.
00:32:29.220 Uh, sometimes Iran smuggles them in.
00:32:32.040 Uh, Gaza, of course, has access to the Mediterranean Sea, but they're fairly simple things that
00:32:37.440 can be made with relatively, like they're not high precision, um, you know, the kind
00:32:46.620 of rockets that the U.S. military would use.
00:32:48.840 They're, they're one step above homemade.
00:32:51.320 They don't have to be particularly accurate because if you're shooting in a city, anywhere
00:32:55.920 that lands, you're probably going to kill a civilian.
00:32:58.800 That's our show for today.
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