John Bolton - It's Happening - And Many Canadians Are Fine With It

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Tuesday, August the 4th, 6.46 a.m. I hope

00:00:07.980 you're having a great day today. Thank you so much for being here. And I know it's late.

00:00:12.580 I understand that. I've been up for hours, though. I got up around three o'clock this

00:00:16.500 morning, and some days are harder than others. Yesterday, I felt inspired. I got up, I wrote

00:00:21.820 a letter to CSIS about interference in the upcoming referendum, focusing directly on

00:00:27.420 the Forever Canadian campaign. We don't know where their money has come from. Card at the end of this

00:00:32.260 one. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth it. You can hear the letter that I wrote to CSIS

00:00:37.800 yesterday. I would encourage you to do a similar thing. But today I want to talk about something

00:00:41.760 that's been percolating for a number of days that I haven't commented on. But I'll tell you,

00:00:45.780 this is an issue I have talked about many times in the past on this channel. As a matter of fact,

00:00:51.640 if you go back over some of my videos, there have been thumbnails I've created for those videos

00:00:55.760 where I put a stamp on it that says future hate speech on it because of what's been happening here

00:01:01.760 in Canada. And I'm going to start off really this video and the real meat and potatoes of this video

00:01:07.140 with the founding fathers. And I'm going to start off with Benjamin Franklin.

00:01:11.260 Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

00:01:17.380 And I'm going to end with one of the founding fathers as well and a quote. But this is the

00:01:23.260 thing that really got people's tongues a wagon the other day. And I understand why. People are

00:01:28.260 incredibly upset about this. This is from the Edmonton police. We knew this was coming, folks.

00:01:35.200 You knew this was eventually going to happen in Canada. And it's only in Edmonton right now,

00:01:40.400 if not in other places. I'd have to check other police forces across the country. I did check

00:01:45.400 Calgary this morning. They haven't done anything like this yet. It's still important for our

00:01:50.720 investigators to track hate incidents even if we can't lay charges. These are known as non-crime

00:01:56.840 hate incidents. I've got a montage coming up for you in just a moment that runs seven minutes. I

00:02:02.340 could have made it longer that you need to watch of what's happening in England. And it's infuriating

00:02:08.820 and it's coming here. I mean, here is actually the bus in that first picture I just showed you

00:02:16.340 just a second ago, see hate, report hate. But this is hearing hate. These are words we're talking

00:02:22.160 about here. Right? I mean, we've seen this coming. Here are all the bills that are getting passed in

00:02:32.760 Canada, the removal of speech rights, all of these bills over the last year or so. And there's more

00:02:39.200 coming down the line. I think there's another one called Bill C-34. It's designed to get people

00:02:46.100 to get kids off of social media like they've done in Australia, but it will require you

00:02:51.480 to provide identification to go to websites where you will be tracked by the government

00:02:58.020 for the most part. I mean, I did this thumbnail not long ago. Speech crime unit being arrested.

00:03:06.340 You know, I expect somebody to find eventually a video on my channel where I said something

00:03:11.560 they didn't like and i get reported to the police this is happening all the time in england don't

00:03:17.720 be surprised this is coming here and this is just the beginning of it folks i mean you don't have

00:03:24.440 free speech rights in the country it's written into the charter of rights and freedom section

00:03:29.480 two you should know your rights here section two covers things like religion and speech and

00:03:35.000 and freedom of the press, and your chance to go and congregate and protest your government

00:03:42.800 and things like that. It's got a lot to do with speech. But section one takes your rights away.

00:03:48.320 And that's what these police forces are going to use as their reason for coming and visiting your

00:03:53.580 house and knocking on your door. You don't think that's going to happen? Because people feel

00:03:59.500 offended? Because somebody feels some anxiety because somebody posted online. Mark Carney has

00:04:06.040 talked about this. He talked about all of this stuff coming across the border, and he always

00:04:11.460 wraps it up in protecting children, wanting to do harm to children. He talked about this during the

00:04:17.540 election campaign last year. Large American online platforms have become seas of racism,

00:04:23.800 misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and hate in all its forms. And they're being used by

00:04:30.800 criminals to harm our children. My government will act. His government will act and they are

00:04:37.200 acting. I showed this before. A little bit at a time they're acting and then eventually

00:04:41.140 the cops show up at your door because you said something that somebody didn't like.

00:04:46.160 And I don't like when people say things I don't like, but there's a saying. I may not agree with

00:04:52.020 what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it. It's attributed to Voltaire.

00:04:57.540 Oscar Wilde had one better that maybe Mark Carney should listen to. I may not agree with what you

00:05:02.960 say, but I'll fight to the death for you to make a total ass of yourself. You know, there's a saying, 0.99

00:05:08.700 and it's kind of a philosophy here. The only cure or remedy for bad, offensive, disliked speech

00:05:15.760 is more speech. So listen, ladies and gentlemen, it's said that 70 to 80% of Canadians think we

00:05:21.960 should be policing people's speech that's frightening here's what happens when you do that

00:05:30.280 enjoy you know there was an article in the times a few months ago saying that the police are

00:05:35.400 arresting over 12 000 people a year for supposedly saying offensive things online that's over 30 a

00:05:42.200 day i was arrested in front of my five children in 2022 on suspicion of posting a meme uh literally

00:06:01.000 somebody had posted something offensive and the the the person the complainant the transgender

00:06:07.320 activist uh said that it must be me and he knew it was me because i had posted similar things on

00:06:13.480 my twitter feed i hadn't so the police actually came and arrested me in front of my children

00:06:18.120 seized all my devices tried to feed my children's devices because they have actually admitted this

00:06:23.400 they were looking for material that might link me to the meme it's not easy being a dissident

00:06:29.720 these days though police will find a way to arrest you even just for a post on social media 30 people

00:06:37.080 a day across the UK are arrested for mean tweets some of them like the mother Lucy Connolly are

00:06:43.720 sent to prison for their words. Thank you Mr Speaker like many I was deeply concerned that a

00:06:50.060 police force deemed it necessary to take five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer from a flight

00:06:55.980 some may have found Mr Linehan's comments offensive but that isn't the point if you don't support

00:07:02.320 speech you don't like you don't support free speech but i genuinely think the reason i was i

00:07:07.840 was kept was was you know processes the punishment they just wanted to make me frightened of tweeting

00:07:16.240 of speaking my mind i don't understand i posted something that he posted you come to arrest me

00:07:22.020 you don't arrest him why has it come to this why am i in cuffs because it's something he shared

00:07:26.780 they're nice because someone has been caused obviously anxiety based upon your social media

00:07:36.140 we've kind of forgotten the voltarian principles that will fight and defend to the death your

00:07:41.820 right to say something that we fundamentally disagree with that is the absolute foundation

00:07:47.100 if you think about it of free speech of democracy of living in freedom it's kind of why we fought

00:07:51.980 two world wars at massive massive cost you know i come from the land of magna carta i come from a

00:07:58.540 land that gave us the mother of parliament said it doesn't give me any great joy to be sitting

00:08:03.740 in america and describing the really awful authoritarian situation that we have now sunk

00:08:11.180 into this last october just a few months ago the scottish government began distributing letters to

00:08:16.540 citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones warning them that even private prayer

00:08:23.900 within their own homes may amount to breaking the law naturally the government urged readers

00:08:30.780 to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in britain and across europe

00:08:38.220 free speech i fear is in retreat it's on the 70th the 10th of 2023

00:08:46.940 you see witnesses saying obviously people while they're over here et cetera we let them into our

00:08:52.060 country et cetera so thank you yeah okay so thank you how did she's only tell the questions

00:08:58.860 take them disgusting you're not disgusting that's fine i would like you to leave now i'd like you

00:09:05.260 to leave okay i have nothing more to say to you a social media post i've got nothing more to say

00:09:12.540 i'd like you to leave you've harassed this child enough i'd like you to leave that's no worries

00:09:20.860 in 2023 the police made 33 arrests a day for speech crimes now all the while

00:09:28.780 Keir Starmer just keeps repeating his robotic nasal mantra.

00:09:34.060 We've had free speech for a very, very long time here.

00:09:37.180 He is, of course, lying. We are being humiliated on the world stage. Our allies cannot quite

00:09:43.900 believe the stories they are hearing. Arrests for tweets, arrests for silent prayers,

00:09:49.500 mothers in prison for Facebook posts. These are not the behaviour of a free country.

00:09:55.180 well you can't say anything especially in britain now if you say um a boy can't be a girl or a girl

00:10:01.020 can't be a boy um you get the piece at your door you know if you get burgled if you get your house

00:10:05.980 burgled the police will never show up but if you see a boy cannot be a girl you'll get 15 police

00:10:10.620 officers at your door the times uh 20 to 3 14 40 are arresting you on suspicion of improper use of

00:10:19.900 the electronic uh communications network and just watch one two seven communications act okay so you

00:10:26.780 do not have to say that it may harm your defense if you don't mention one question something which

00:10:30.700 you later are in court anything you do say may be given evidence do you understand that so i'm

00:10:35.420 actually being arrested you're going to be arrested okay right and that's a peace station

00:10:40.060 right okay this is in relation to some comments that you've made on the facebook page oh really

00:10:46.540 reality of facebook crime is it something that we believe you've written on facebook has upset

00:10:51.980 someone you're here because somebody got upset is it against the law am i being arrested you're not

00:10:57.980 being arrested then what are you doing here my plan was if you were admitting that it was you

00:11:02.780 who wrote the comment you could just make an apology to the person i'm not apologizing to

00:11:07.260 anybody i can tell you that alternative would be that i have to call you up for an interview

00:11:11.180 i'm here to talk to you about the allegation they've reported it to the fleet so what obviously

00:11:15.420 we get a lot of reports like that are there no houses that have been burgled recently no

00:11:19.260 rapes no murders yeah that's all going on as well well then why aren't you out there doing

00:11:23.420 you know investigating those because i've got to investigate everything that gets reported

00:11:27.420 well you're not investigating houses being burgled are we are we going to find ourselves arrested

00:11:34.700 and thrown into jail by this new elite police force that this government has set up to monitor

00:11:41.740 our speech, our debate, our views,

00:11:45.740 well, I will see you in jail

00:11:47.860 because I will never be silenced

00:11:50.980 as I speak up for you and this country.

00:11:55.800 Have you had a lady called Lucy Connolly since you've been here?

00:11:58.360 Of course. I talked about her yesterday

00:11:59.940 and no one knew what I was talking about in Cambridge.

00:12:01.960 Who were you talking about? Who the students didn't know?

00:12:03.900 I mentioned her because I did the research.

00:12:05.740 My team did an amazing job.

00:12:07.000 And I think she just had her petition denied today.

00:12:09.420 In the last hour or so today, it's Tuesday today,

00:12:11.740 she's had her appeal denied. So she's going to be carrying out her two and a half year sentence for

00:12:16.000 solitary tweets. So she deleted for four hours later. What's your take on the whole situation?

00:12:20.820 I'm going to try to get the U.S. State Department involved. I don't know if you know what their

00:12:23.800 bandwidth is here, but I'm sorry. Like, again, I'm speaking as a citizen, not as a U.S. government.

00:12:28.020 I just want to be very clear. Like, is this a way that a liberal democracy and an ally of the United

00:12:31.860 States acts? Are the 70 to 80 percent of you Canadians fine with what you just saw on the

00:12:38.200 screen? Doesn't that frighten you? Here's the thing you need to understand that if you're fine

00:12:43.260 with somebody coming after me for my speech, eventually they come looking for you because

00:12:48.080 you'll say something that the government or somebody doesn't like. Like, here's an instance.

00:12:53.620 A man cannot be a woman. That is obvious until somebody doesn't like that I said it, 1.00

00:13:00.720 and then the police come knocking on my door. We're going to end with George Washington.

00:13:05.940 if freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter. 0.94

00:13:14.520 Thank you very much for watching. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up,

00:13:17.700 subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - August 04, 2026

It's Happening - And Many Canadians Are Fine With It

Episode Stats

People

Transcript