To My Friends In Alberta Independence - Watch Your Back
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Summary
Is it treason for Alberta Separatists to maneuver with foreign officials? Is it sedition to seek support from the White House for a referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada? Is it treason to ask for help from the U.S. government?
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 354 a.m. Wednesday, December the 31st, the last day
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of 2025. Happy New Year to you. I'm doing this video just before 4 a.m. in the morning. I plan
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on putting it up a little bit later in the day today, and I'm reaching out to you if you are
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a friend in independence here in Alberta. And I don't think I'm being overly alarmist here. Some
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people might say that. And the thumbnail that you looked at is not clickbait. I'm being very serious
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when I talk about this subject, and it's something I've been thinking about, and I've been talking to
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some people about it over the last 24 hours, and I'm quite concerned right now. I'm concerned as we
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get closer to having a signature campaign going on, probably within the next week in Alberta,
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signatures to get a referendum on independence. It's here. I was talking with some people
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yesterday. Folks, there are hundreds of people ready to go out and get signatures across this
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province, and I think that's great. As a matter of fact, I'm hoping to set something up myself that
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I'm going to do regularly between now and the end of the signature signing campaign. I'll let you know
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about that. Something I was thinking about yesterday. But what concerns me is that I think
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you need to watch your back if you're part of this movement, and you're actively campaigning
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in favor of it. I was looking online the other day, and it's probably best not to do that.
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You know, I don't go on X a lot. I don't. I go there for news. I think it's toxic. I think
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our world would be a better place without social media. I think you'd probably agree with me.
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But I saw this tweet. I'm going to move myself over here a little bit.
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I saw this tweet, and this is Rachel Parker talking with Jeff Rath about Jeff going to talk
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to people in Washington regarding the independence movement here, which I think is necessary. And
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this is us dotting our I's, crossing our T's. We're going into a vote on independence this year,
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knowing where other countries are when it comes to our independence here in Alberta. And that's a good
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thing. We need to do these things. But you get this guy, Clinton DeVoe, and I'm not afraid to put
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his name up there. He put this on X. He obviously wants this to be public. A little tyrant that he
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is. If this is true, it means the United States is now a strategic enemy of Canada. The two people
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in the video should have all of their physical movements tracked by CSIS and all electronic
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communications data tracked by the CSE. He's talking about Rachel and Jeff. How many times have I
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spoken to Jeff about the same thing and other things and other people in the independence
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movement? This guy obviously thinks I need to be tracked by CSIS. Now, I just, I'm going to be
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blunt here. It's quite possible this is already happening. We don't know, but you've got to know
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damn well that the federal government is watching the people in the independence movement out here and
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the big voices in the independence movement. But this is tyranny. And then I see this article
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this morning. Is it treason for Alberta separatists to maneuver with foreign officials? Ottawa says no.
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But you're hearing words like treason and sedition being thrown around by people who don't want
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Alberta independence or don't understand what the hell is going on here. And to be honest with you,
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them not understanding is actually one of our strengths, which I'll get to in just a moment.
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But if you read in this article a little bit, it goes on and on talking about treason and that there
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are no laws against it here, or somebody like Jeff going to talk to the United States about what he's
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talking about. But there was this paragraph here when separatist organizer Jeffrey Rath claimed last
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week he was meeting with officials connected to the White House to garner support for Alberta's
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independence. Edmonton talk show host, Crank, Ryan Jesperson responded by saying,
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quote, in a lot of countries, this tomfoolery would get you strung up for treason, unquote.
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And in that quote is another reason, or is another one of our strengths, which I'll get to in just a
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moment. But I'm just trying to tell you, and again, I don't think I'm being alarmist here. Watch your back.
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Be very careful if you're out collecting signatures. If you go to a house and people start getting mad at
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you or yelling at you or seem threatening, walk away. We do not need altercations at people's front
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doors. This will not be good for the movement, but you certainly do not need to be attacked by some nut
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who feels patriotic and wants to remain in Canada. You're wasting your time with these people. Just
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walk away. I get concerned myself, and I know that I worry about some of the big names in the
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independence movement out here, and they're watching their backs as well. So if you're going out on the
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roads, watch your back and be very, very careful. Just walk away. That person is not going to change
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their minds. So you're wasting your time talking to them. Now, the other thing in this article,
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and I mentioned what Jesperson says here, tomfoolery, he calls it. And down in the article
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here, a little bit further, they talk to somebody about the legal framework when it comes to laws and
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treason, as you can see here, sedition and espionage. Canada's existing legal framework of criminal laws
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prohibiting treason, sedition, and espionage set the bar for prosecution so high as to make
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prosecution almost inconceivable with regard to the Albertans' meetings, said Yuan Yi Zhu, a Canadian
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professor of international relations and law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Zhu said
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that the lack of a popular mandate for Alberta separation with no open separatists currently
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holding elected office and polls showing most Albertans opposed to the idea is legally irrelevant.
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There is no law against being a crank, said Zhu. Mr. Zhu and other people are underestimating the
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power of the independence movement here in Alberta, and it's one of our strengths.
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They don't get it. Mr. Zhu, does he live in the Netherlands? He doesn't know what's going on in
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Alberta. People in the East don't understand what's going on in Alberta. Read some of the comments on
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stories regarding Alberta independence. They have no idea what's going on out here. This is a growing
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movement. It's going to take us some time to get over the top, but I think we're going to win this
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thing, and them underestimating us is one of our strengths. You'll remember the Brexit vote.
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There was no way that that was going to ever pass. In England, it did. They won. Came out of left field.
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They were underestimated. There was something else that we'll never ever, and I'll never forget,
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was how they underestimated Donald Trump. And this is prior to him first being elected,
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but here's Ann Coulter on with Bill Maher. You might remember this.
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Ann, which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?
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They laughed. Keep laughing, folks. Keep underestimating us. But folks, if you're going
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out in the road and you're collecting signatures, please watch your back and be safe. Have a happy
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new year. I'll be talking to you again before the end of the day. I appreciate you being here. I really
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