You know what? I think we’re going to be OK.
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Summary
In addition to the story of the week that was, and an interview with Spencer Fernando about Erin O'Toole's new carbon tax, we also have a half-hour masterpiece of our visit to Montreal on the police radar on our Airbnb.
Transcript
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Hello, my Rebels. It's been the end of a rollercoaster week.
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On Sunday, I guess the week starts Sunday, we were in Montreal where the police tried to raid our Airbnb.
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On Monday, YouTube suspended us for a week on false pretenses.
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And here we are on Friday, but you know what? I think we're going to be okay.
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And I'll explain to you why and what we've learned this week. Very interesting week.
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So, anyways, before I get to that, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
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And I've got to tell you, today, in addition to the story of the week that was,
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and an interview with Spencer Fernando about Erin O'Toole's new carbon tax,
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we actually have a special last half of the show.
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We have the half-hour masterpiece of our visit to Montreal on the police radar on our Airbnb.
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I think you'll be able to get most of it on the podcast, but I tell you,
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it really is a visual experience to show the 50 cops,
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to show them trying to bust into our Airbnb, to show them manhandling David Menzies.
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So, please consider becoming a Rebel News Plus subscriber where you get the video version of the podcast.
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plus a show from David Menzies, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and Andrew Chapados.
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It's April 16th, 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
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I guess weeks technically start on Sundays, right?
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So we were in Montreal, and we had just been through one of the most stressful events you can imagine.
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We were there with 17 of our rebel staff to join up with our local Montrealler, Yankee Pollock,
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who had been harassed by police for weeks just for reporting on their heavy-handed lockdowns.
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Well, when police detected where we were staying on an Airbnb that was actually a houseboat moored in the old port,
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they raided the place, demanding to rifle through all our reporters' rooms, suitcases, yeah, no, get a warrant.
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I need somebody to be responsible for the vote.
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They have already arrested one of our reporters after physically assaulting him.
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What the police did to us today must see its day in court.
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If you can give us the tools, we'll do the job.
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And more than any of that, I was very sad to see the rule of law destroyed so casually
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by Canada's second largest municipal police force.
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The most shocking moment was when they arrested our friend David Menzies, took him to jail,
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but then told our lawyer that they'd let David free if we just agreed to let the police
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But after 10 hours of trying, they couldn't find a judge to give him a search warrant.
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So they just released David and left the scene.
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At the end of today's show, I'm going to tack on a 30-minute video of that whole weekend.
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I don't know if I've ever been angry in my life.
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And you will hear some swearing, including a swear from me.
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But I want you to see what it was like that day.
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So that's going to be the end of the show today instead of letters.
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And after work on Monday, we get a note from YouTube that they're suspending us just because.
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And for a week, they were banning us from uploading any videos to the platform or
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having any live stream, just cutting us off from 1.45 million YouTube subscribers.
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It was because of a video from me, an excerpt of my monologue back in early January when
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all the social media companies had banned Donald Trump on the same day.
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Here's the first couple of minutes of that just to show you what they claimed was a reason
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Look at this post by Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook.
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The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends
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to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power
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And it could even be an honest or a reasonable opinion.
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But it's not what Donald Trump or his spokesman have actually said.
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They've specifically said that Trump will, in fact, accept the final result and assist
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I mean, you don't have to believe him, but that's what Trump says.
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So Zuckerberg is entitled to his opinions about the future or entitled to his speculation about
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His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters
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at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the U.S. and around the world.
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We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect
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and likely their intent would be to provoke further violence.
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I mean, that's what he said as a matter of record.
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And everyone knows it, especially the other side.
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We have to respect our great people in law and order.
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There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened,
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But we can't play into the hands of these people.
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You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.
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The thing is, you can't see that video anymore.
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because he doesn't actually quote Trump, does he?
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banning searches for the White House website itself.
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If they can rule Trump, they can rule you, too.
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You know, you can still see what Nicolas Maduro,
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the tyrant of Venezuela, has to say on Twitter.
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or China's countless government propagandists on Twitter.
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By the way, you can't even access Twitter in those countries,
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If mighty Donald Trump, who is still president,
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who is a billionaire who received close to 70, 80 million votes,
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if he can be silenced by some nerdy twerp in Silicon Valley,
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They said that violated the rule against claiming
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there had been massive fraud in the U.S. presidential election.
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I was talking about tech companies banning Trump.
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My argument was that if big tech companies could censor Trump,
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a sitting president, a billionaire, the most powerful man in the world,
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So that was a shock, obviously a stitch-up, as they say.
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I didn't say anything or show anything on that video
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that wasn't shown by nearly every news station in the world,
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including all those news stations' YouTube channels.
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Who knows why they're opaque, they're secretive.
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YouTube doesn't have to give you a warning or notice or an appeal.
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even if you have spent six years building up your company
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on their platform, translation, building up their platform,
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adding 1.45 million people to YouTube's customer base
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I don't know if it's related to that U.S. Navy intelligence
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and his rush to do so before Trudeau's election this summer.
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Or it could just be radicals at YouTube headquarters
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the most extreme left-wing city in North America,
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So I was a bit depressed when I was heading home on Monday night,
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but even if they do flatten us, completely nuke us,
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The 30-minute Montreal story we're going to show you later
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that was published by us on a competing company
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It has major channels from other conservatives on it,
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has received more than 20,000 views on that Rumble channel.
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I think it'll probably have doubled that over time.
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It probably would have closer to 50,000 views on YouTube right now
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but seriously, that's not bad for a first effort on Rumble.
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And incredibly, now that we've switched our daily live stream
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Like I say, we have 1.45 million YouTube subscribers,
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but it always puzzled me why our typical daily live stream
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Is it really true that people sign up for Rebel News on YouTube,
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Because we've only been live streaming with Rumble for a few days,
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and we only have 14,000 subscribers on Rumble now.
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I think YouTube has probably been suppressing us all along.
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So what a pleasure to be on an honest platform like Rumble,
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There's another YouTube competitor out there called Odyssey,
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And we haven't properly checked out all its features yet,
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but it's interesting in that it's based on blockchain technology,
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That means it's pretty much impossible to detonate.
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and the site uses a cryptocurrency token called Library.
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people can give us a tip in Canadian dollars or American dollars,
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they can give us a tip in this cryptocurrency called Library.
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I think it's worth 23 cents for a library token.
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Instead of being beaten up and harassed by YouTube,
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And I should say there's another new video company
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with an explicitly anti-censorship architecture.
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They're going to announce it soon enough themselves.
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And close the door for God's sakes show some manners
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But you will know me as plaintiff for suing you for assaults and false arrest
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All right, Moko, want to give a quick update to the viewers?
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Saying, oh, if there's nobody responsible in the boat
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We have seen them before many times brutalizing citizens
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They basically slammed him towards the police car
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But the only violence is being inflicted by the police officers here today
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And you can see the little convoy coming up on the second floor over there
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And some investigators are in the case right now for the next thing that will happen
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You think I'm going to goddamn tell you my medicine?
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You're going to go with the police officer if you want to go
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If you want to get inside, you go with the police officer
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You're pushing me with your hand, you're assaulting me
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I just wonder if you guys are proud of yourselves
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And you can see here just standing by waiting to get inside entry for some reason
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Presumably to detain and arrest all of us, but we'll keep going live
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So there's our videographer being harassed by the local law enforcement
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That the Montreal police really hate it when you record their unjust conducts
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They're escalating the situation to have something to do.
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So you guys literally just saw that shoving our camera guy.
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Hey, tell your officer to get their hands off our guy!
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Lock is off to keep us in a little makeshift jail because we're such dangerous people.
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So currently our people are in a makeshift jail.
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But let me tell you what I told these thugs earlier today.
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And I asked them their names and they told me their names.
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And I said we are going to get to know you intimately.
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Because again and again when Montreal police accost our reporters, you know what they call us?
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These thugs when they see us on the street say, are you Jew media?
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Well most of our reporters are not, but I am sir.
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Because we are going to spend years together and I will see your wicked faces.
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My name is Ezra Levan and I work with dozens of independent journalists
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who don't take a dime of money from any government.
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And that is the reason why we can show you the police brutality.
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These cowards are pretty frickin' brave when the cameras aren't on.
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But when the cameras are rolling, they run and hide!
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If you want to help us fight back journalistically,
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My name is Ezra Levan and if you think I'm mad,
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Make sure you guys get the plates of these carvers.
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Did you touch him? Did you touch him? Why did you touch him?
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Here are the thugs! Here are the thugs! Here come the thugs!
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Hey, how many guys does it take to fucking hold the guy, huh?
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You think you're gonna get a fucking raise when you wear your clown outfit?
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You will put me in the hospital if you touch me like that.
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The police are going to be deploying tear gas and other non-lethal weapons.
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They have already arrested one of our reporters after physically assaulting him.
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Speak English, I don't know what you're saying.
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You're pushing me with the bicycle! Are you kidding me?!
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You're very tough. Good job. You can push a girl. Good job.
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Don't touch my phone! Excuse me. No, I want to see your name. Thank you.
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Crooked cop. Crooked cop. I know you. You crooked cop.
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You're a disgrace. That's why you hide your face.
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They called us Jew media. These crooked bigots, when they came to our reporters, they called us Jew media.
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They asked if we were Jews. They're anti-semitic, crooked, and corrupt. Shame on them.
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Are you guys are satisfied now that we're standing here?
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And you can see down there is a houseboat that's actually an Airbnb.
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And we rented that out for 17 of our rebel reporters who are coming to Montreal to cover the anti-lockdown protests and the police brutality in response to them.
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They searched everyone as they got off the boat, which I'm sure is illegal, but they still haven't got that warrant.
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I asked them and we got our lawyer down here pretty quick.
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But this is vengeance for us criticizing police brutality.
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By the way, they've also arrested David Mendez.
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Right now he's in one of those police vehicles.
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And it stopped us from giving as much coverage to the big protest as we wanted.
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But by the same token, I think we proved our point in spades, didn't we?
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But you just can't trust the Montreal police are too corrupt.
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Now we're going to have a lot of legal bills to defend ourselves against this bizarre attack.
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To get David out of whatever they're going to charge him with.
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But also to go on the offensive against Montreal for their abusive policing.
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If you can help with any of that, please go to lockdownreports.com.
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What the police did to us today must see its day in court.
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If you can give us the tools, we'll do the job.
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But I've spent the last 10 or 11 hours kicked off this Airbnb houseboat that we paid for.
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Because a group of Montreal police demanded access to the boat for no probable cause with no search warrant.
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I told them to get lost without a search warrant.
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So they turned the whole place into a crime scene.
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Literally putting up criminal do not pass police tape.
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They arrested my friend David Menzies and held them in a police station for hours.
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Trouble is, they couldn't find a judge to sign their cockamamie search warrant.
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But, you know, they're just enjoying the overtime they're making.
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I mean, my nickname at Rebel News is the Rebel Commander.
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I'm glad that we didn't knuckle under to their bullying.
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And I'm sorry that David Menzies was put into custody so illegally.
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In fact, I love it even more because now I know how badly it's been victimized by police.
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It does not deserve this awful police force that it has.
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And if they think they're going to stop us from reporting on their brutal policing of the lockdown, they're dead wrong.
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And they're going to have to do a bit better than they did today.
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We're told that massive fines will be coming to us in the mail.
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And I think we have to go on the offensive too.
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So if you can, please go to lockdownreports.com.
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David, I'm sorry you went through what you went through.
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You're a hero for journalism, a hero for free speech, a hero for the rule of law.
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You know, I'm so sorry you went through what you did.
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I hate the fact that you too often have been the target of police violence.
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And I pledge to you as the boss of Rebel News and as your friend,
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that we will seek justice for you through taking legal proceedings against the police.
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We've incurred many thousands of dollars in legal fees.
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It proved our thesis that the Montreal police is corrupt, that they're brutal, and that other journalists in this city and indeed this country don't care about freedom of the press.
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So your sacrifices, and thank God you look like, although it was rough, you look like you're not deeply injured.
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Listen, you've got such a good sense of humor about everything.
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But my point is, what you personally experienced proves our thesis more than anything about the rotten state of affairs.
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I have to come back to this city that is normally beautiful in May.
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I have to get mug shots and fingerprints and the whole rigmarole.
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But you know, Ezra, we've seen bad behavior by policing the world over.
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You know, Toronto acting up pretty badly since January.
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This is, you know, I'm saying this with a degree of naivety.
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The only experience I've ever had with the Montreal Police Service is via Just for Laughs Gags, one of my favorite shows.
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And I thought, what an incredible police service.
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Giving their cruisers, their uniforms to the comedians to do these elaborate pranks.
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And so I always thought they had this kind of like jocularity about them.