Stand Your Ground!
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Summary
In this episode, I speak with a man who was denied access to his plane ticket because he refused to wear a mask. He shares his story and how he fought the authorities in Mexico, Mexico to stand up for his rights.
Transcript
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will you please share as well your story in mexico of uh right of now you're in a foreign
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country people would say oh my goodness you know coming into canada is one thing but uh you know
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messing with the authorities and challenging them in mexico is quite i can't even imagine a mexican
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prison so why don't you bring uh your story to the forefront here and ease you know the minds of
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some of those who may be traveling in other countries and also want to uh stand on their
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rights there as well absolutely again i come with the foundation that i'm a free man i will never do
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anything to harm anyone or cheat anyone or take advantage uh therefore i am free to to be mobile
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to live and and to go as i please um and that's just what what my belief is now i got into i flew
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to mexico city when i from vancouver and then i went to another city uh called queretaro and when
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i got there i scanned the fmm card that you get when you first arrive at customs in mexico city
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before i did the connecting flight to queretaro and i sent that to my consultants and uh who's helping
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me uh with some documentation and so she said oh your fmm card is incorrect so i i decided to fly
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back to mexico city to get that corrected while i was there i decided what you know i'm just going
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to go spend a couple days at the beach because i'm going to be inland most most of the time that
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i'm there so i purchased the connect a flight to uh extapa and um and again i'm not wearing a mask
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mask wearing is the only thing they're doing in mexico it has a low low vaccination rate very low and
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the government also informed the citizens on tv that they're not required to wear a mask if they
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don't want to um that government is nothing like ours um and uh they're not pushing any mask mandates
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nor nor uh the vaccines in fact it's the corporations that are pushing it not the government
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government and so knowing all this um and my rights as a human being as a man um i when i got on to
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the gate i first of all informed the the the when i checked in to get my ticket i informed them that i
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have uh you know that i'm not wearing a mask and um and then i got through security then i got to my
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gate then now you're walking down to the tarmac to take a bus to get to the plane so it's a smaller
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plane so as soon as i get off the bus right away i'm challenged because i'm not wearing a mask
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they held me back everyone else is on the plane except for me and so um what he's asking me
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questions and he's really being aggressive and i said to him are you you're not adhering to the
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announcements that are every five minutes on the plane as well as every five minutes at the airport
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it comes on in spanish and then in english it basically says in english it's mandatory to wear a
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mask unless you're an infant or have a or have a medical exemption that's that's what they're using
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and again i know the term mandate is not law there's nothing they can do to you if you don't wear it
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except for denying you service which then you have to you have other remedies to to rectify that
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um it's not easy but it's well worth doing and so anyway i said you're not adhering to the
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announcements and then i said if i was a paraplegic would you force me to walk and so anyway he he didn't
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like that he and then he said okay i'm gonna go uh speak with the stewardess and and the airline
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pilot to see if they'll allow you on i said well they have no choice they have to follow policy
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it's not about their feelings and how they feel about it so but then a few minutes waved me on
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i finally got on the plane got to my seat excuse me and um sat down and think okay this is great
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we can get going admit that the door still didn't close and a minute later uh another gentleman came
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with aerial mexico wearing the the fluorescent vest the tarmac worker and he has a clipboard he came
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right to my seat very aggressively and demanded that i wear a mask and demanded to to know why
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and um and i basically said i'm not wearing a mask and uh and then he demanded me to get off the
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plane to have a conversation off the plane i refused and then he escalated and saying i'm
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going to call the army i said great call the army that would be wonderful i'd love to speak with him
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and and tell him how how aggressive you're being with me and uh and then he stormed off comes back
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a few minutes later again demanding of me to wear a mask and i refuse and then and i even told him i
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out loud so everyone else can hear and the good thing was there's an interpreter about three or four
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rows up and another interpreter three four three or four rows back two male they were interpreting
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what i was saying to all the spanish on board it's about 95 spanish on board uh mexicans and so uh and
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i thought okay the people on the plane are going to start booing me and you know calling me out and
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so forth none of that happened uh they're hearing everything i'm saying and um then the gentleman that
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was working who more than likely a supervisor who was getting aggressive with me and i called them out
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it says where is the army now you said you're going to bring them where are they and uh and then he
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ended up getting upset he left two minutes later the doors closed and we're off flying that was it
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i stood my ground i wouldn't move i knew that it was all smoke and mirrors it's all fear-based