Greg Wycliffe - June 26, 2024


Jeremy MacKenzie： the Podcaster Canada tried to destroy

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Greg Wycliffe
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Jeremy McKenzie Ezra Levant Morgan Marco Mendicino Jordan Peterson Tommy Robinson Tamara Leach Diagalon
Calling the RCMP Here's the plan

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In the wake of the Nova Scotia shooting, the Canadian government looked for a scapegoat to blame for the problem, and they found one in a man named Jeremy McKenzie. McKenzie is a podcaster, a comedian, and a far-right extremist ideologue who happens to be a member of a group called Diagalon, which the government tried to smear as a "far-right" extremist group.

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00:00:00.000 What is Diagalon? Is it a real group? Is it dangerous? You see, the RCMP had a problem,
00:00:06.060 and the name of that problem was Jeremy McKenzie. See, the RCMP kind of has a history of doing
00:00:11.960 corrupt things and then getting called out on. Remember the Nova Scotia shooting? It was the
00:00:16.380 largest mass shooting in Canadian history, and the RCMP's response was subpo. Instead of sending
00:00:21.980 out an emergency response to everyone's cell phone, the RCMP sent out a tweet. It took them
00:00:27.000 over 12 hours to catch the shooter, and the shooter had an exact replica of an RCMP cruiser,
00:00:33.640 apparently, that he apparently made himself. There's also another side story where the RCMP
00:00:37.360 were shooting at the wrong person miles away. Enter Jeremy McKenzie. He's from Nova Scotia.
00:00:42.540 A couple days after the shooting, he made a video humiliating the RCMP for these exact reads.
00:00:49.000 Jeremy's video went viral and quickly got taken down off the internet, and what we have now found
00:00:54.200 since a Freedom of Information request, after making this video, Jeremy was put on a person
00:00:59.740 of interest list. And this is when things started to get very weird for Jeremy McKenzie. Jeremy here
00:01:05.860 has a very respectable record in the Canadian Armed Forces, leaving as a master corporal and also being
00:01:11.540 a combat veteran in Afghanistan. And since leaving the military, he's been getting very good at this
00:01:17.140 thing called podcasting. And as Jeremy's audience grew, well, it was during lockdowns when a lot of
00:01:23.620 people were quite angry or upset or very critical of the Canadian government, having to put this on
00:01:29.680 your face, having to put this in your arm. And of course, this all culminated with the trucker
00:01:34.500 freedom convoy in Ottawa. And the people in Ottawa said, you know what? We need a scapegoat. We need
00:01:41.020 to vilify. We need a boogeyman to say is the source of all these problems to try and discredit this
00:01:46.280 entire organic movement of people who don't want to have to take something in their arm to go to a
00:01:51.900 Tim Hortons. So what did the Canadian government do? They blamed it on Jeremy McKenzie's community
00:01:57.800 called Diagalon. You see, Diagalon is a joke that Jeremy made up on a live stream one time
00:02:03.420 during lockdowns where he said, I think all of the conservative provinces like Alberta and
00:02:09.080 Saskatchewan should create its own country with the Republican states and make a diagonal country
00:02:14.600 from Alaska to Florida. And we'll call it Diagalon. This became a running joke on his podcast,
00:02:20.500 but the Canadian government said based on a bunch of lies told by anti-hate.ca that,
00:02:26.080 you know what? This is actually a far right extremist militia with very, very bad intention.
00:02:31.280 Thanks to independent journalists and citizens submitting freedom of information requests.
00:02:35.460 This has all been confirmed lies circulated by the anti-hate network and then parroted by the RCMP,
00:02:42.460 police and government officials, including our public safety minister, Marco Mendocino. All of these
00:02:48.920 lies that were just not questioned, not researched, were used to justify the state of emergency during
00:02:55.460 the trucker convoy. So yes, the Canadian government used a meme country to justify a state of emergency
00:03:00.420 during the trucker convoy, but that's not all. We're just getting started. See, Jeremy McKenzie,
00:03:05.040 while all of this was happening, knows very well that it was lies and did a very good job at once
00:03:10.260 again humiliating the Canadian government saying, you're blaming the emergency on a meme country.
00:03:15.180 Oh, and by the way, here are some leaked text messages from the RCMP glorifying the violence
00:03:21.620 against protesters. Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground. Just watch the
00:03:26.280 horse video, the video of RCMP horses trampling protesters. That was awesome. We should practice
00:03:31.660 that maneuver. It was such a spicy scoop that even Ezra Levant at Rebel News couldn't help but slap his
00:03:36.920 watermark on it and say it was his own story. When in reality, it was Jeremy McKenzie who leaked these
00:03:43.380 text messages humiliating the RCMP once again. At this point for the Canadian government, it is
00:03:49.640 full-out war. An information war, that is. They're not going to get humiliated and exposed again by
00:03:55.980 Jeremy McKenzie. The Canadian public doesn't know that these things said about Diagalon are all complete
00:04:01.820 fabrications and lies. They don't know that Jeremy McKenzie is just this podcaster jokester. No, so
00:04:07.520 they're going to do everything they can to destroy this man and his reputation. Following weeks and months,
00:04:13.080 after the trucker convoy, Jeremy McKenzie gets criminal charge after criminal charge,
00:04:18.160 ending in a nationwide warrant for his arrest and him being thrown in jail. We're going to go over
00:04:23.640 the play-by-play how all of this happened because not many people have heard this story properly and
00:04:28.620 it kind of shows Canada that we don't really live in a free country and if the government doesn't like
00:04:34.360 what you're saying, they'll try to do everything in their power to throw you in jail as a criminal.
00:04:39.420 Not even because you said something wrong, but they'll try to spin it to get you in trouble.
00:04:44.180 First charge came from a video from 2021 where Jeremy was drunk and like making a joke while
00:04:50.420 having a gun in his hand and this was enough, I guess, to charge him with reckless use of a firearm.
00:04:56.580 That charge and all these charges were stayed, by the way, or dropped by the court. You know,
00:05:01.400 if they really wanted to prove this guy was some mastermind, some of these charges you think would...
00:05:05.880 Anyway, that first charge then justified a search warrant at Jeremy's residence. The RCMP came by
00:05:12.800 and then they justified 13 different firearms related charges from that search. And you might
00:05:18.420 think, wow, 13 firearms? This guy sounds like a warlord. Well, what a lot of Canadians don't realize
00:05:23.780 is that Canada is actually much more of a communist state than you think. You see, there are so many
00:05:28.960 rules for gun owners in Canada that if a search warrant is given to the RCMP, they can show up,
00:05:35.180 sort through all your stuff, and make all of these excuses saying, oh, you didn't... Look,
00:05:39.320 this isn't locked properly. Oh, this is actually a little loose. They can essentially, if they wanted
00:05:44.020 to, invent whatever they wanted to make you look like a criminal. And as all of these charges come
00:05:50.640 up against Jeremy, of course, the Canadian media is right there to vilify him as much as possible at
00:05:55.600 every turn to make him look like the boogie. Another charge against Jeremy during this time
00:05:59.740 was for criminal harassment, mischief, making harassing phone calls, and intimidations of a
00:06:03.920 health professional. You see, Jeremy and Morgan met at the trucker convoy. Kind of, kind of a romantic
00:06:09.040 dissident moment. But after the trucker convoy, they were protesting in Nova Scotia because the chief
00:06:13.540 medical officer decided to not get rid of the mask mandate for children at school. They were protesting.
00:06:20.900 They're both more high-profile activists. And only them, only those two, were thrown in jail later
00:06:28.600 that night and put in solitary confinement for multiple days and given these criminal charges.
00:06:33.360 As you can see, this month, those charges were now finally thrown out as well.
00:06:37.200 Side note, also around this time, Morgan got thrown in jail for gas theft. And as far as I understand,
00:06:44.200 there was no actual evidence of her stealing gas. The cops just showed up and said, no, you stole gas. 0.99
00:06:49.220 We're going to throw you in jail. So just another kind of crazy thing that's happening here in Canada
00:06:53.180 that not enough people are talking. Jeremy also got charged for uttering threats. And the person
00:06:58.760 who accused him of this is actually a similar witness to the next charge. Both of these got
00:07:04.500 stayed, by the way. The next charge was for common assault. And as you know, Jeremy McKenzie is a high
00:07:09.980 test, high testosterone male. And he actually had a fling with a woman out in Saskatchewan while he was
00:07:16.040 living there for some of the time during lockdown. While all of these criminal charges are stacking
00:07:21.140 up against Jeremy after the trucker convoy, all of a sudden, this woman, this jilted ex-lover
00:07:26.100 says, he assaulted me, actually, like almost a year ago or over a year ago. I want to say that he
00:07:33.240 assaulted me today. I'm going to file that charge today now when he seems to be conveniently being
00:07:38.740 vilified in the meeting. Oh, and the guy that was accusing Jeremy of uttering threats,
00:07:42.180 he was one of the witnesses of this so-called assault that happened that were deciding to file
00:07:48.500 almost a year later. This common assault charge was also thrown out, by the way. But here's the
00:07:53.820 crazy part. At the time when this charge happened, there was a warrant out for Jeremy's arrest in
00:08:00.620 Saskatchewan. Then, for the first time in Canadian history, I believe, there was a nationwide warrant
00:08:06.760 to arrest Jeremy for common assault. So the police in Nova Scotia picked up Jeremy, wrapped him up
00:08:13.240 Hannibal Lecter style, threw him on a plane, took him all the way out to Saskatchewan to put him in a
00:08:18.620 detention center. And wouldn't you know it, while in jail, the TV is playing the CBC. And at that time,
00:08:24.320 the CBC is saying, Jeremy McKenzie, he is the worst white supremacist. So there were actually native 0.99
00:08:29.340 inmates in Saskatchewan trying to Jeremy while he was in there. Thanks to misinformation from the
00:08:36.320 Canadian media, politicians, which leads all the way back to anti-hate.ca. Thankfully, Jeremy is an
00:08:42.100 entertaining and charismatic guy. And he was able to rally his community to raise enough funds to get
00:08:48.500 a really good lawyer and beat all of these charges. So he now has no criminal record. Since being out of
00:08:55.160 jail, by the way, he's been debanked by Scotiabank, can no longer bank with any major banks in Canada.
00:09:00.720 And for some reason, Rebel News hasn't covered this crazy story. And when they have reluctantly
00:09:06.380 mentioned him, they've tried to call him like a mentally ill veteran, or even Ezra Levant has 0.94
00:09:12.840 called him a fed. The conservative media in Canada loves to champion Tamara Lich, Tommy Robinson, Jordan
00:09:18.680 Peterson, but they don't talk about the unbelievable story of Jeremy McKenzie, who's now been vindicated
00:09:23.960 on all criminal charges. And I think the reason people don't want to talk about Jeremy's story
00:09:27.960 is because his story proves how much of an abysmal failure every institution is in this country. The
00:09:33.380 only reason he was able to defend himself is because he had a loyal community who paid for his
00:09:37.920 very good lawyer. And you're not innocent until proven guilty in Canada. You are guilty until you
00:09:42.320 have enough money to prove that you're innocent. But Jeremy is not at all afraid. In fact, he's actually
00:09:46.880 going on tour this summer, the Road Rage Terror Tour. He'll be doing speaking events and meet and
00:09:52.460 greets. If you want to check that out, I will leave the website right here.