Greg Wycliffe - December 22, 2022


it's time


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

195.92625

Word Count

2,533

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 so i've been meaning to make this video for a while um but i kind of got caught up in and making
00:00:05.320 new content for you guys so i never made it but i'm just going to tell you a quick story
00:00:09.240 what happened to me right after the trucker convoy a lot of people found my channel during
00:00:14.620 the trucker convoy i was doing interviews and live streams and thank you for subscribing and
00:00:19.560 sticking around um i kind of fell off the map a little bit after the trucker convoy and i've
00:00:26.600 never really given you guys an explanation as to why i've kind of spoken to it on podcasts here and
00:00:31.660 there but i'm not sure if i've ever actually explained it here on the channel so here goes
00:00:35.340 despite how the trucker convoy ended i was still feeling very energized uh i felt like we had caught
00:00:41.540 the federal government looking very authoritarian kind of proving a lot of people's suspicions
00:00:46.380 about the true character of this federal government and i continued to do some live
00:00:51.020 stream interviews at uh the protests here in toronto but then the arrests started of course
00:00:57.980 we saw tamara litch chris barber danny bulford who were positioned as you know somewhat official
00:01:04.480 former uh leaders of the convoy in ottawa but then we started to see arrests toward pat king
00:01:10.640 freedom george randy hillier which didn't make sense because although these people are seen as leaders
00:01:17.160 in the movement they're they're in no formal capacity uh like an official leader of the convoy
00:01:23.840 so so why are they getting arrested why are they getting picked up and then soon after that
00:01:27.620 morgan may and jeremy mckenzie got arrested for attending a protest in nova scotia and they were
00:01:35.260 thrown in solitary confinement for three days so this was separate from the convoy this was these two
00:01:40.340 individuals two prominent popular dissidents getting thrown in jail for of course mischief
00:01:47.000 there were lots of other people at this protest that they attended the rcmp knew about the protest
00:01:52.560 that was happening it was everything was safe everything was fine but after the fact the two
00:01:57.040 most popular people at that protest got nabbed and thrown into solitary confinement for three days
00:02:02.560 and for anyone watching who doesn't understand this you might say oh well they got out and it was
00:02:06.900 fine and they got out and it was fine you have to go through a lot when you get arrested and have to
00:02:12.900 hire a lawyer and have to do all the paperwork it's it's emotionally financially spiritually draining it is
00:02:20.100 very much an attack on that individual on that person it is a major ink major major inconvenience to
00:02:26.680 that person sorry i'm just editing here and i missed a major major point which is although these people are
00:02:31.440 free they're on bail conditions they have certain bail conditions where they can't talk about certain
00:02:35.960 things they can't go certain places or they can't speak to certain people their rights in this
00:02:40.240 country are now limited in various capacities through court order so this is another thing
00:02:44.800 that terrified me i don't want my rights especially to speak to be restricted for getting nabbed at a
00:02:51.440 protest for mischief but then what really messed with me is when randy hillier got arrested a sitting
00:02:58.020 politician by the way and then on his bail conditions i was listed as one of the names as one of the
00:03:05.820 individuals that he's not allowed to talk to don't talk to this person i better message chelsea hillier
00:03:11.540 to see if i'm allowed to say that am i allowed to talk about your dad's bail conditions publicly yeah
00:03:19.900 i'm just editing this and i'm watching myself paranoid can i even talk about this hey chelsea can i even
00:03:25.040 talk about this am i allowed to talk about what's happening in this country i'm going to talk about
00:03:29.980 paranoia later but you can see it right here as i'm paranoid if i'm even allowed to talk about things
00:03:35.120 that have happened and on that note chelsea hillier is not even allowed to talk about what she's gone
00:03:40.080 through about what's what's happening with her she's on house arrest right now so being on this list
00:03:44.300 of a person that hillier is not allowed to talk to that confirmed for me that i'm obviously on some
00:03:49.800 list and being put on this list coincided at the exact same time that jeremy mckenzie and his
00:03:55.880 girlfriend morgan may were quite frankly arbitrarily thrown in jail for attending a protest this
00:04:01.140 unfortunately gave so much oxygen to the paranoia voice in my head it made the paranoia voice in my
00:04:09.540 head say they're coming after you greg you know who's to say you won't get nabbed when you're at the
00:04:15.120 next protest in toronto for example and i was trying to reach out to people at the time to be
00:04:19.320 reassured that that i was crazy but a lot of the people i was talking to did not get it they said
00:04:24.940 oh well you know they can't do that they can't arrest morgan may and jeremy mckenzie for doing that
00:04:30.520 well they did oh no there's got to be some laws against that well well they did it's almost like
00:04:35.860 the laws didn't apply to these people and it's almost like they were persecuted because of their
00:04:39.420 political beliefs and because of their popularity it's almost like in this country the laws don't
00:04:44.540 matter depending on who you are and i'm looking at what randy hillier got charged for mischief
00:04:50.160 counseling to commit mischief and some other things to do with mischief which is if you attended the
00:04:54.200 protests in ottawa if you encourage people to come down to the to the protests in ottawa and if you
00:04:59.380 hung around until the very end the last few days in ottawa apparently apparently you're supposed to be
00:05:04.680 guilty of all those three things that was me and trust me as much as i want to continue fighting
00:05:09.640 for freedom i don't have the money to get into a legal battle right now i don't have the funds or
00:05:16.540 quite frankly the patience or the willingness to get into some long drawn out legal nonsense
00:05:23.060 for simply interviewing people at a protest and and documenting what the hell was happening in ottawa
00:05:31.680 for those three weeks so to put it another way i was intimidated being put on this list
00:05:37.120 seeing my friends being thrown in jail for completely ridiculous reasons the state successfully
00:05:42.040 intimidated me and scared me i hate to admit it but it worked their tactic totally worked on me
00:05:47.080 it it totally got me paranoid i stopped showing up to uh protests in toronto on the weekends because
00:05:54.640 i didn't want the possibility of i've been you know nabbed and taken away and it's not that i was so
00:06:01.020 egotistical like oh they're definitely going to come after me it's more that if it would have
00:06:05.260 happened i wouldn't have been surprised you know i wouldn't have been like oh like how could have
00:06:10.660 this happened if i'm an authoritarian psycho i'm probably going to want to try to get this other
00:06:14.960 person who has a youtube channel that's sharing heartwarming videos of what actually happened at the
00:06:19.600 protest right so yeah for the next little while i was a little bit uh cautious to you know go to
00:06:28.300 protests uh i was to borrow a phrase from rachel gilmore i was i was afraid to leave my home uh not
00:06:35.080 because of hateful comments on the internet which i get on a regular basis but because i was afraid my
00:06:40.980 own government might have decided that i i'm someone who's worth arresting and uh persecuting
00:06:46.660 attacking litigiously this is someone we're going to drag into the courts to drain their bank account
00:06:51.840 and drain their spirits i was afraid of that happening and keep in mind this was right after the convoy
00:06:56.900 so there was a lot of weird things still going on with frozen bank accounts and like i said jeremy
00:07:01.540 mckenzie and morgan may being arrested to me that was the kind of most egregious arrest of them all
00:07:06.800 in terms of just being completely unjustified and also a clear targeting of two individuals who have
00:07:12.060 like a popular platform on our popular dissidents but during that time i was kind of looking at my
00:07:17.360 options and wondering what to do next what could i do and at the same time it was a new low it was a
00:07:24.920 very low and new low for what i thought about this country what i thought about the country that
00:07:31.240 that i grew up in the country that i love the country that i call home and it's uh
00:07:38.600 i thought about leaving i thought about leaving canada um i don't want to leave i never wanted to leave
00:07:53.680 but i thought to myself am i able to still tell the truth am i able to still talk about what i want
00:08:03.140 to talk about here am i able to speak freely here in canada anymore without being persecuted
00:08:08.920 because i'm noticing a pattern with uh who's getting arrested uh arbitrarily and it's people
00:08:16.020 who are successfully speaking out against the government and they're doing it in a compelling
00:08:20.180 persuasive way to the point where they're gaining an audience and i do want to shout out to raging
00:08:24.660 dissident jeremy mckenzie because during this time despite you know being thrown in jail initially and
00:08:30.340 getting back out with morgan may being in solitary confinement for three days this guy kept streaming
00:08:35.620 you know jeremy kept streaming he kept showing up and he was the only person there to this day still
00:08:43.380 he's the only person that i think really makes sense in this country when it comes to talking about
00:08:47.520 what actually what's actually going on he's the only person that has the appropriate amount of
00:08:53.140 urgency uh in his message and in what he's talking about i still feel like we're already past the pale
00:08:58.280 in this country you know we saw the authoritarian face of our government at the trucker convoy and then
00:09:03.120 we saw during the emergencies act inquiry okay we're just going to make a complete mockery of the
00:09:08.160 justice system and this whole swearing an oath to tell the truth like that's just a joke now in this
00:09:13.460 country they made a mockery out of that and really where is the opposition to this you know i i'm
00:09:18.500 really really disappointed in pierre polyev does he talk about at all about these bank accounts being
00:09:24.100 frozen does he talk at all about these political prisoners he wants canada to be the most free ever
00:09:29.720 but he's not talking about the authoritarian problem he's not talking about this targeted harassment
00:09:34.520 targeted litigation against people who are actually standing up for our rights and freedoms because
00:09:39.480 that's a good thing to remember right who was standing up for our rights and freedoms for two
00:09:43.720 years it wasn't pierre polyev he wasn't saying much if anything at all about mandates and then the
00:09:50.120 people that did the people that stuck their neck their neck out max bernier randy hillier they've been
00:09:55.320 thrown in jail and and pierre doesn't want to talk about that that obviously didn't help the way i felt
00:09:59.800 uh for the for the few months that i kind of fell silent for a while because like i said i it was it was a new
00:10:05.400 low for me i've just i've just not it was just a feeling of like this country really fucking sucks
00:10:11.020 so anyways guys that's kind of the story of why i kind of completely fell off the face of the earth
00:10:18.260 for a few months after the trucker convoy i do apologize but i'm also i think i think i needed to
00:10:26.580 do that because i was really kind of coming to turn terms with uh what this country has become
00:10:32.500 and uh i kind of had to build up the strength to uh turn the camera on again because well quite
00:10:39.300 frankly i didn't want to believe it i didn't want to believe what was going on in this country not
00:10:43.560 only what had happened but also just the lack of attention on it the lack of people talking or caring
00:10:48.500 about it and like i said the intimidation got to me because because i wanted to talk about what was
00:10:53.420 going on and just like shout from the rooftops of how ridiculous and wrong everything that was
00:11:00.480 happening but i thought well well what if they arrest me for saying this like it was at the
00:11:04.440 point where i was believing in their authoritarian rule set you know i was kind of like living by their
00:11:12.720 fucked up authoritarian rules so i got psyoped i got psyoped by the canadian government it worked
00:11:20.280 they intimidated me and um yeah it worked for a few months and then i kind of built up the strength
00:11:25.860 again and then here we are i do want to say a big thank you to everyone who has sent me donations i
00:11:31.900 received a lot during the trucker convoy which helped pay for a lot of the costs being there so i
00:11:36.140 really appreciate that and i have received some since then as well um i am trying to stay as
00:11:42.720 consistent as possible uh with uploads with stuff that's going to drive the conversation forward get
00:11:48.100 people engaged get people educated on what's going on and also entertain people at the same time
00:11:53.920 that's what i'm seeking to do so if you do enjoy what i do then please send a donation i really
00:12:00.200 really appreciate it it goes to a good place it comes to me and it allows me to focus more of my
00:12:05.220 time and attention on trying to turn this country around there are a lot of ways you can support me
00:12:09.240 there's memberships on facebook there's memberships on youtube there's a patreon and there's also a
00:12:14.180 simple donation link below all of those options do take a little percentage of the money that you send
00:12:19.300 in so if you want to support me directly as well you can always send an e-transfer to one of these
00:12:23.720 emails it's direct deposit and that way you can support me without any sort of percentages being
00:12:28.640 taken away come straight to me but thank you for watching hopefully that wasn't uh too sappy for you
00:12:33.600 i thought that you guys deserve to know kind of what happened why i was silent for that time and yeah
00:12:39.520 just kind of wanted to give you some context to where i'm at now there are a lot of plans and things
00:12:44.560 that i want to do in the future and that's another reason why your donations really will really help
00:12:49.300 me uh see that through anyway thanks for watching love you merry christmas and we'll talk to you soon