Juno News - The True North Report： The UN's deep moral failures

00:00:00.320 Hey guys, Candice Malcolm here. We are live. It's Friday evening, Friday afternoon, depending

00:00:05.280 on where you are watching from. So thank you so much for tuning in. There's a lot to talk

00:00:11.620 about. I typically on these broadcasts, I'll only talk about one topic, but there's just

00:00:16.460 way too much going on. I couldn't choose. So I'm going to try to go through a whole bunch

00:00:20.680 of different topics here in the next half hour or so. So I'm going to wait for a few

00:00:25.520 more people to jump on. Why don't you let me know where you're watching from, where

00:00:30.400 in the world you are this Friday afternoon, Friday evening. And if there's anything specific

00:00:35.240 that you want me to talk about, just go ahead and let me know. We tried something new yesterday.

00:00:44.080 My colleague and I, Andrew Lawton, we did a double live broadcast, which I think went pretty

00:00:49.760 well. I think there was some audio issues going on, but otherwise it was good to go through

00:00:56.400 basically all of the, we touched upon all the different terrorist attacks that have been

00:01:02.940 happening over the last couple of weeks. So if you haven't already, check that out. I'm

00:01:07.580 going to wait just another minute or so longer to wait for some people to jump on and watch

00:01:12.800 this broadcast and then we'll get going. People have been letting me know where they're watching

00:01:18.420 from. Let me know where you're watching from. Wow. Someone's watching from Whitehorse, Yukon

00:01:22.720 here on Facebook. I'm from Midland, Ontario. We have a couple of Americans watching on Periscope

00:01:29.880 and Twitter. So right on, I'm broadcasting simultaneously on Facebook and on Twitter.

00:01:38.020 So Twitter links to Periscope. So, all right, let's get going here because I do have a lot that

00:01:44.640 I want to cover. It was a busy news week up here in Canada. And yeah, so I think probably

00:01:51.780 the top story of the week was the fact that Omar Khadr was back in the news. Omar Khadr,

00:01:56.740 as everyone knows, is a confessed convicted murderer. He confessed to the murder of Sergeant

00:02:04.640 Christopher Speer in an Al-Qaeda or in a Taliban sort of shootout that happened in Afghanistan

00:02:11.640 in the early 2000s. He spent quite a bit of time in Guantanamo Bay. And while he was there,

00:02:17.960 he kind of became the poster child of sort of the, I mean, he was created this poster child of

00:02:28.820 mistreatment of American power and the sympathetic Canadian that was being held there to make it seem

00:02:36.560 like it was really the U.S. was at fault. Of course, Omar Khadr is the son of a high-ranking,

00:02:44.240 high-level Al-Qaeda operative who was a financier, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden.

00:02:49.960 He was considered at one point to be the top Al-Qaeda operative in North America. And he really

00:02:54.320 raised his family to be horrible ideological jihadists. The family spent most of their time

00:03:01.380 in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the 80s and 90s. They would fly back to Canada to have their

00:03:06.960 children. So their children were born in Canadian soil. And then they would like fly back with their

00:03:11.940 family getting bigger and bigger to doing all these crazy operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

00:03:18.360 They always claimed that they were doing sort of peacekeeping stuff and charity stuff, but they

00:03:23.800 weren't. They were terrorists. And basically, Omar Khadr was 15 years old and got caught in this gunfight.

00:03:31.620 He threw a grenade that he confessed to, killing the sergeant, killing the army medic, Christopher

00:03:37.880 Spear, and blinding another medic or another soldier that was there. Anyways, the story has sort of been

00:03:45.640 well-hashed. I've written extensively on it. I have a long essay in the weekly standard that I wrote a

00:03:50.320 couple years ago on exactly what went down. So check that out if you want all the details. I'll just say he's

00:03:56.200 back in the news this week because he wanted to get some of the conditions of his bail release. He's

00:04:02.260 now free. He's in Edmonton. He was released. And then, of course, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:04:07.020 gave him $10.5 million in the summer of 2017 as a sort of compensation for the fact that the

00:04:15.340 Canadian Supreme Court found that his rights had been violated while he was in U.S. custody. Somehow that

00:04:20.300 was the fault of the Canadian government. And so Trudeau decided to pay the guy. Now he wants some

00:04:25.860 of the conditions of his bail extended. He wants to be able to travel freely to go to Saudi Arabia.

00:04:31.600 And he wants to be able to talk to his sister, who is also a very extreme individual who's had

00:04:38.080 lots of run-ins as well. Not to mention the fact that, you know, in interviews, she's talked about

00:04:44.360 how 9-11 was justified, how she defended terrorists. She defends terrorists time and time again.

00:04:52.520 Pretty horrible person. And, you know, the whole interesting thing is that

00:04:55.980 Qatar always said that he's not like his family. He's nothing like his family. So we shouldn't judge him

00:05:01.080 based on his crazy terrorist family. Fair enough. But then why is it that he wants to

00:05:06.360 be able to visit them and talk to them unsupervised by Canadian security agents? I think that's

00:05:13.260 fair game. So as per usual, Canadians know this routine. We've seen it time and time again. This

00:05:18.980 is like a super divisive issue where some people just feel very strongly that this guy was an innocent

00:05:25.360 victim in this whole thing. He was a child soldier is what they call him, which is pretty insulting to

00:05:30.100 the actual concept of child soldiers. But anyways, I won't get into that argument. People in Canada

00:05:35.780 have a very strong opinion about this issue. You either think that he is a horrible person,

00:05:39.860 a terrorist who deserves to be like thrown away and, you know, throw away a key, or you think he's

00:05:45.900 an innocent victim and sort of the poster child of American brutality. The state broadcasting in

00:05:52.260 Canada, the CBC takes one side pretty blatantly, and they think that Qatar is a victim. So here's a

00:05:58.940 perfect example of this. This is a CBC journalist, a reporter, I should say, who's supposed to be

00:06:04.360 non-biased, who's supposed to be presenting and covering the news, not having a biased opinion.

00:06:08.660 And this is what he has to say yesterday about Omar Khadr.

00:06:17.200 If I can get this to play. I'm sure it's just playing a second ago. Hold on one second.

00:06:22.160 So this is the CBC typical sort of deference to some of the worst people in the world. Let me just

00:06:33.060 change my internet now. Here we go.

00:06:36.100 Quite aggressively.

00:06:36.820 Here we go.

00:06:40.440 Yeah, I'm sure it's something the liberals don't really want to be answering questions about. I'm

00:06:44.420 sure it's something Andrew Scheer is happy to keep raising because this has been something that

00:06:47.480 the conservatives have used quite aggressively since it happened. But, you know, I want to pull

00:06:51.620 back from the Qatar thing. And before I moved to Ottawa and became a parliamentary reporter, the local

00:06:55.180 reporter for the CBC in Newfoundland has spent a lot of time in court. And when you're covering

00:06:59.140 provincial court, you see a lot of 15-year-olds, 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds coming through in

00:07:04.060 shackles and handcuffs. And then, you know, it's routine stuff. It could be vandals. It could be

00:07:07.900 drugs. It could be violence. And when you pull back and listen to the story, these are kids that

00:07:11.260 didn't have a chance, often because of terrible parents who put them in terrible situations when

00:07:15.620 they were young. And Omar Khadr kind of falls into a situation like this. He was 15, taken away,

00:07:20.820 rules about child soldiers. I know we're just going to have a very different thing about this.

00:07:23.440 But we're in a judicial process now, just like we were before. And I think

00:07:28.460 don't politicize judicial processes. We just talked about China and people being seized for

00:07:33.860 political reasons and not having their rights and not respecting the rule of law and all the issues

00:07:37.280 that creates. He was asked, to be fair. Mr. Scheer was asked. That was basically the crux of what I

00:07:42.960 wanted to point out. You know, he basically just says, Omar Khadr is just like these 15, 16,

00:07:47.800 17-year-old kids who he encountered in the court system in St. John's, Newfoundland,

00:07:53.860 who, you know, got arrested for vandalism or maybe, you know, drug crimes or whatever. There's no

00:08:00.240 distinction between, in this guy's mind, between kids that get into like petty crime in their teenage

00:08:06.460 years and a person who went and fought alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. You know, it wasn't just

00:08:14.240 that one gunfight that Omar Khadr was involved in. He was also, you know, there's extensive video

00:08:19.700 that surfaced of him building IEDs, building bombs, planting these roadside bombs, laughing away,

00:08:26.460 you know, having a great old time with his buddies in the Taliban. And yeah, sure, he was 15. He was a

00:08:32.200 couple of weeks shy of his 16th birthday. And we all know that the court systems often treat people

00:08:38.000 in that age group. They treat them like adults. They get adult sentencing. Anyways, you know,

00:08:45.100 the whole idea here is that, you know, these kids just all have bad parents. So just like some kids

00:08:50.360 in St. John, Newfoundland that had bad parents, Omar Khadr just had some bad parents and bad family

00:08:55.520 members. And so how can we really blame him? And we shouldn't politicize the court decision. I mean,

00:09:00.900 that's a pretty, I think that's kind of like the typical moral relativism at the CBC, like convicted

00:09:07.560 terrorists who killed at least one U.S. Army medic that we know of. His bombs that he planted could

00:09:13.960 have killed many, many more, not just soldiers, but also civilians and families in Afghanistan.

00:09:20.820 We know that the kind of IEDs that he was planning killed 97 Canadian servicemen during that war.

00:09:28.560 Charlotte equivalency is kind of sickening. And it kind of hurts their own argument, like we should

00:09:33.560 just let the courts decide we shouldn't politicize this argument. Well, if you are saying that the

00:09:39.200 whole point of Omar Khadr being painted as a victim and painted as some kind of a child who was

00:09:45.400 brainwashed and indoctrinated, then you have to admit that it was his family that put him in that

00:09:49.840 situation. It was his crazy parents. It was his terrorist loving family, particularly even his

00:09:54.600 older sister who had a great influence on him. And so the very thing that Omar Khadr is asking for

00:10:00.740 is to be able to spend more time with his family, spend more unsupervised time with his family.

00:10:05.540 I mean, you can't have it both ways. You can't both say he was a victim of an evil family and then

00:10:10.640 also say, so we should let him spend more time with that evil family. But that's the thing about

00:10:16.320 Omar Khadr. Every time he, you know, every few years he reappears in the news, making a whole new

00:10:24.280 list of complaints and demands. This time is no different. He's talking about his life in Edmonton,

00:10:29.160 you know, with $10.5 million from the taxpayer, freedom, the ability to just live his life in

00:10:35.440 Edmonton. That's not enough. He said that not being able to travel to Saudi Arabia and not being

00:10:40.400 able to talk to his sister makes him feel like he's still in Guantanamo, makes him feel like he's

00:10:45.580 still in Guantanamo, which makes me think that Guantanamo Bay wasn't really that bad. Because if

00:10:51.560 you're free and you have this cash payout and you can pretty much live a normal life and you still feel

00:10:57.760 like you're in Guantanamo because you don't have these little things that you want. Well,

00:11:04.160 again, Guantanamo couldn't have been that bad. And, you know, you give this guy an inch,

00:11:08.420 he takes a mile. It's pretty, pretty despicable. Another story that was in the news, it's just

00:11:14.140 horrifying and sad. A Canadian baby was killed this week. His pregnant mother was shot in the stomach

00:11:22.140 by a Hamas terrorist on Sunday night. Basically, you know, a group of Palestinian gunmen approached

00:11:29.780 a bus stop in Ofra, which is outside of Jerusalem, and started gunning down a group of Jews. It killed,

00:11:36.340 shot seven people, including a 19 year old woman who was eight months pregnant at the time.

00:11:42.740 Her husband is a Canadian citizen. He's Canadian. He was also shot. They rushed this woman to the

00:11:48.840 hospital, basically did an emergency C-section, delivered the baby prematurely. Doctors worked

00:11:55.840 on keeping this baby alive for 72 hours straight before the baby finally died, tragically on Wednesday.

00:12:03.800 And basically, the baby was buried. There was a huge funeral service in Israel. Thousands of people

00:12:10.640 have attended. And the Israeli police force, basically, through investigation, found five men that

00:12:18.200 they thought were responsible for this shooting. They went in to arrest them. Some of the men tried

00:12:24.720 to flee. There was a gun shoot, a shootout between Israeli forces and these, these Hamas operatives or

00:12:31.960 these Palestinian gunmen. One of them died, the other four were arrested. And as soon as that one gunman

00:12:37.440 died, the propaganda machine in Palestinian circles just started, you know, ramping up. And so they were

00:12:47.280 disseminating their posters, calling him a martyr, calling him a hero. This is the same kind of stuff.

00:12:52.440 It's, it's completely typical over there, that if you, if you're a Palestinian who kills a Jew, you're

00:12:58.960 treated as a martyr. If you, if you die trying to fight against, you know, the Israeli forces in any way, they

00:13:05.480 consider you a martyr. So there were Palestinian posters circulating. An official Palestinian Twitter

00:13:12.960 account posted a picture of the terrorist with his own young daughter, you know, evoking that image of

00:13:19.600 him with children as if to say, like, you know, that these people care about children, when he literally just

00:13:26.360 killed an unborn baby. This was, I shared this already on Facebook and Twitter, but this is the official

00:13:34.000 account. This, this tweet is still up, you know, for all the people that Twitter deletes and censors and tries to shut

00:13:41.600 down. If you are a Palestinian account, the account claims to be Palestine's voice to the world, then

00:13:50.400 you get to post a picture of a terrorist with a child calling him a martyr and saying that he, the rough

00:13:58.720 translation here is that he used bullets against the occupation this evening. So, you know, if you celebrate

00:14:06.880 the killing of a preborn baby as fighting against oppression, against occupation, if somehow you

00:14:15.360 think an unborn baby represents occupation, somehow represents a government or a military, I mean, this

00:14:22.160 is just the most despicable kind of thinking imaginable. You know, they get to post their stuff on Twitter,

00:14:27.840 no problem. That's just one of the examples of stuff's all over the place of these Hamas operatives

00:14:34.560 celebrating the death of a baby that hadn't even been born yet. And, you know, again, this is just

00:14:42.160 one case, one example. It's particularly sad, you know, not just because the baby was Canadian

00:14:49.120 or the fact that they go after a baby, but, you know, the fact that Hamas kind of just does this

00:14:54.720 stuff routinely, regularly, and doesn't get international scorn and condemnation. The example is that just

00:15:01.840 last week, the U.S. had a motion of the United Nations to condemn Hamas for their terrorism,

00:15:08.880 for their violence against Israeli civilians, and the United Nations Assembly of member states

00:15:16.400 voted against this motion. So the motion did not pass. So the world community had an opportunity to

00:15:23.440 condemn despicable acts of violence and terrorism against civilians, and they didn't bother. I mean,

00:15:29.920 this is the same group that routinely condemns Israel for much more trivial things. And you kind

00:15:34.960 of wonder, you know, the people in Canada, people in, you know, probably elite circles all over the

00:15:40.320 world that talk about the UN being a force for good and this aspirational force. You know, we get

00:15:46.240 strong armed into signing the UN Compact on Global Migration, saying that, you know, the UN is this great

00:15:52.400 aspirational body that encourages the global community to all work together.

00:15:55.760 And, you know, somehow they have some kind of a moral authority. It's like, what kind of moral

00:16:00.960 authority do you have when you fail to condemn just the most despicable, deadly acts of human cruelty

00:16:07.760 and depravity? It's, it's just, it's, it's unfathomable. How can you consider this any kind of global

00:16:15.200 leadership whatsoever? I pointed this out, a couple other people pointed this out as well.

00:16:19.760 You know, it all goes to speak to, you know, the fact that they glorify, the fact that Hamas,

00:16:26.400 these Palestinian groups glorify a man for killing a baby, and they celebrate him for killing a baby.

00:16:32.560 It goes to the deep indoctrination in that society, and they're just deep found hatred for

00:16:38.240 Israelis and the Jewish people more broadly. They get raised to literally just think that

00:16:44.640 Jews are evil, and that they're not human. And part of the reason for that is these UN agencies

00:16:51.520 and organizations that operate in Palestine has been deeply corrupted, operate in the Palestinian areas,

00:16:56.400 that have been deeply corrupted, including one of the organizations that the Canadian government

00:17:01.200 funds. Just in October, I wrote extensively about this. In October, the Trudeau government

00:17:07.200 recommitted to giving $75 million to an organization called UNRWA. There's well documented for decades,

00:17:15.120 there's been documentation that this group has been completely infiltrated with Hamas operatives.

00:17:21.280 Basically, Hamas runs a show. They run slates of candidates in these local elections that allow

00:17:30.720 these, you know, UN operatives are part of Hamas. And, you know, they're the same people that are

00:17:37.920 teaching at the schools, they're building the hospitals, and they're using those funds and those

00:17:42.240 resources to prop up Hamas, to support Hamas. It was well documented that they were using UN

00:17:48.080 ambulances, to smuggle guns, to move guns into restricted areas, to move terrorists around.

00:17:54.800 They were launching their rockets from UN buildings and UN hospitals, UN schools.

00:18:02.560 You know, the connections with the actual terrorist operatives are very well documented.

00:18:07.120 Not only that, but they use their schools to brainwash and indoctrinate children to hate Jews.

00:18:13.280 There's been a lot of studies on the textbooks that they use, um, pictures emerging of the, like,

00:18:20.160 play that they do, the summer camps where they, um, reenact deadly scenes, and they

00:18:26.080 basically encourage these kids to glorify terrorism. It's just horrible. Um, Stephen Harper,

00:18:31.600 the former conservative prime minister of Canada, pulled funding from this group.

00:18:34.960 Uh, Donald Trump followed suit and also pulled funding this year, and that's when Trudeau

00:18:40.640 doubled down on his funding. And so thanks to Trudeau, Canada's giving $75 million to this

00:18:47.200 organization that contributes to this just awful mindset that happens down in Israel. So I think

00:18:54.560 hopefully, maybe, you know, this wicked act of terrorism will let the Canadian government,

00:19:02.400 will leave them thinking, maybe they'll double think, or they'll think twice about continuing this

00:19:06.880 commitment, or they'll bring in some kind of measure to, you know, allow greater

00:19:13.520 discrepancy over where these funds go. I mean, something should happen of this. I have a column

00:19:19.680 on this today in the Toronto Sun, and I think that it is a good time for Canada to reconsider funding

00:19:25.200 this organization. And especially, you know, after the horrible events, I think Justin Trudeau should

00:19:32.080 really think twice about that. Uh, there was two just absolutely appalling stories in the news this

00:19:39.360 week about border security, about the ongoing, uh, crisis of illegal immigration into Canada,

00:19:45.200 illegal border crossings that happened mostly along Roxham Road. But then there's also, uh,

00:19:50.640 there's also some of the, uh, crossings happening over in Emerson, Manitoba. Those are kind of the two

00:19:56.400 main spots. So on the Roxham Road front, first of all, there was a report, this is just, this is one of

00:20:02.880 those reports you have to read twice because you just can't believe that it's true. So, no, this was

00:20:11.040 not, uh, this was not the story I wanted. Uh, the first one was the fact that the Trudeau government

00:20:16.960 is now looking to pay to compensate people who live along the Roxham Road area. They want to pay

00:20:25.280 up to $25,000 from the federal government, uh, to residents who live near Roxham Road. So apparently

00:20:34.000 this is like, you know, we know that the chaos of illegal immigration is affecting you in your own

00:20:40.720 backyard. So here you're eligible for up to 25 grand a year just to basically look the other way

00:20:46.400 and ignore that there is a mass flow of illegal immigration happening in your own backyard.

00:20:52.320 Um, it's one of those things that the Trudeau government just thinks that they can throw money

00:20:56.400 at a problem and make it go away. So there might be some angry residents saying like, hey,

00:21:00.960 why is our backyard been turned into this like makeshift migrant center where

00:21:06.240 the government is facilitating and processing all these refugee applications and people are just

00:21:12.160 steady flow crossing through. I visited Roxham Road myself back in April and

00:21:17.520 I mean, it's it's you can't really call it an unofficial crossing. It's an official crossing.

00:21:21.360 They have CBSA officials, they have border agents, they have this whole apparatus set up, you know,

00:21:27.360 vans, shuttles driving people to both Montreal and Toronto. It's a whole operation. It isn't really

00:21:33.760 an illegal border crossing anymore. It's been turned into a de facto border crossing where they just don't

00:21:38.960 apply the immigration laws. You know, like a mile down the road, there's an official border crossing.

00:21:44.480 If you're coming from the US into Canada, you can't make an asylum claim, they'll just literally turn

00:21:49.600 you back. But if you walk down the street and cross that Roxham Road, you know, not only do you get in

00:21:56.800 and you can, you know, submit your refugee application, but they give you a ride, you get

00:22:01.920 on a shuttle, they give you a ride to Montreal or Toronto, and then they put you up in government

00:22:06.080 housing. So, you know, it's all just so outrageous that, yeah, of course, they're paying $25,000 to

00:22:15.680 people who were there. The next story is this one, which is just even more maddening. This is on the CBC.

00:22:23.200 So, you know, bravo to the CBC for covering this, because I wouldn't think they would. But this is

00:22:28.080 an investigative report, botched handling of gangster refugee claimants exposes Canada's screening

00:22:35.040 weaknesses. No kidding. So this guy crossed the border illegally at Emerson, Manitoba. He's from

00:22:42.160 Somalia. He'd been living in the US for like a decade, though. So again, how are you a refugee if

00:22:47.520 you're coming from the United States? You're in a safe country already. Well, this guy just has an

00:22:52.880 absolute story past, just full on criminal. But during his, so the way it works is you submit

00:23:01.520 your application, then you go in front of a refugee judge, an immigration refugee board judge. And

00:23:07.200 basically, he, this guy admitted to being like a hardened gangster, a felon, a serious criminal with

00:23:13.360 just a crazy rap sheet of, you know, guns, gun running and gun possession, drug possession,

00:23:19.440 even, you know, even things much worse, like cooperating witness and sex trafficking cases,

00:23:27.680 guy was involved in sex trafficking in Nashville, Tennessee. So, you know, just every kind of,

00:23:34.800 every kind of, you know, crime imaginable that petty crime and worse that a gangster could get involved

00:23:40.400 in. This guy's been involved in it. And he basically, because he's so honest,

00:23:46.960 that he's so honest with his background, the judge decides to let him stay in Canada.

00:23:55.360 This is a quote from the judge. One of the biggest factors that plays in your particular situation is

00:24:02.400 your character. So usually when people are criminals, and they sneak into Canada, they enter the country

00:24:08.640 legally, they try to lie about it. This guy was honest, so he got rewarded by allowing to stay. He made

00:24:15.360 up a claim that he was gay, which his pictures from his cell phone proved otherwise. And basically now

00:24:23.680 he's in Canada, and he's committed a bunch more crimes. He committed a bunch of crimes in Winnipeg.

00:24:31.600 He was sent to jail for serious criminality. And then he got released on a cash bond. And he went to

00:24:40.560 Calgary and committed a bunch more crimes. So, you know, what do you expect when you let someone

00:24:47.440 into your country who has no business being a refugee, and who openly admits that they are

00:24:55.920 a criminal? I mean, it's just absolutely dumbfounding. You know,

00:25:02.160 Ezra Levan had a really good segment on this yesterday. Ezra,

00:25:05.920 you know, takes a pretty cynical look at this whole thing. And it's a pretty hilarious take.

00:25:11.440 So I encourage you to go over to The Rebel and watch Ezra's report on this, because it's pretty

00:25:16.960 funny. Making light of a situation that really isn't that light. But, you know, it just shows how

00:25:22.560 naive Canada is, how our system is just completely manipulated. The fears that people have about

00:25:28.320 terrorists and serious criminals just being able to walk right in, you know, manipulate these

00:25:33.680 left wing judges that are appointed by the liberal government, just take advantage of everything

00:25:38.480 that we offer, you know, use every appeal available to them. You know, they lawyer up,

00:25:45.040 they manipulate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They just, you know, these are the kind of cases

00:25:50.720 that really just open your eyes to the real, you know, being a realist about our border. That,

00:25:57.520 yeah, we can take the, we can take the sort of naive liberal position that, you know, Canada should

00:26:04.560 be this land of, you know, hope and opportunity. We should just let everyone in and give everyone

00:26:08.880 a chance. People who've worked in this system, people who pay attention, the more you read about

00:26:13.200 this stuff, the more you read these cases, you realize just how many people are just completely

00:26:17.840 bad people that have no intention of contributing anything to Canadian society. And we're just so naive

00:26:23.920 to let a single one of these people into our country when this is how they treat us. So,

00:26:31.040 you know, this is just kind of frustrating. I tweeted about this earlier, someone was kind of giving me

00:26:39.840 flack for this, they said that I shouldn't give people like this attention. There's a young communist

00:26:46.480 activist, I guess, out of London, Ontario, you know, sometimes you see a tweet where someone's saying

00:26:52.400 something that's so stupid, you just assume it must be like a parody. So that, that's what happened

00:26:57.040 this morning when I read this tweet by a woman named Clara Sorrenti. She says, whether you like it

00:27:05.040 or not, Joseph Stalin was one of the greatest anti-fascists in the history of the anti-fascist

00:27:10.800 movement. Under Stalin's command, the Red Army defeated the Nazis and saved several ethnic groups

00:27:17.920 from Nazi extermination. This is a legacy we cannot forget. You know, you read that and you just,

00:27:24.240 you kind of assume it's parody, right? Like, no one can actually be that stupid and that naive and that

00:27:29.920 kind of ideologically one-sided. And then, yeah, you kind of look at her page and she's an actual

00:27:37.280 communist. She's host of a communist YouTube channel, a podcast. She's part of the Communist Party

00:27:44.880 in London, Ontario. And I mean, yeah, in some ways, she just kind of ignore people like this

00:27:50.720 because they're so deranged. But at the same time, it's just kind of sad. Like, I can't imagine growing

00:27:56.800 up going through school, going through high school, going through university or college. I don't know

00:28:01.920 if she went to university or college, but I presume that she would have to come out of Marxist. I don't

00:28:06.800 think that just your average, everyday person growing up in London, Ontario just becomes a

00:28:13.280 communist. You know, I think that's something that probably, you know, she had someone who was

00:28:17.520 like a mentor or professor or someone influential in her life who indoctrinated her. Or maybe,

00:28:22.240 maybe her family's communist. I don't know. But anyway, I can't imagine getting through school,

00:28:27.120 holding those views and never being challenged, never being told, you know, never being handed books

00:28:33.760 to read, never being told about the Pomodoro or, you know, any of the other sort of horrible

00:28:41.360 forced famines and tragedies and just the horrific reality of the Soviet Union.

00:28:47.520 I kind of wish that we as a society treated people who are self-confessed communists in the same way,

00:28:55.120 with the same scorn as we treat Nazis. Like, I wish that there was that same kind of like social,

00:29:00.800 just, you know, attitude towards that ideology because I see them on par. Like, you know, if I

00:29:10.160 met someone who claimed that they were a Nazi or was a self-proclaimed Nazi, it would just be like,

00:29:15.680 okay, I have no time for you. There's no space for you in polite society. I don't even want to

00:29:19.920 entertain your ideas. Just like, go away. That's gross. And yet somehow with communism,

00:29:26.160 there's this creepy like niche for it. And there's just so many Marxist professors on university

00:29:30.800 campuses that don't really explain what happened in the Soviet Union, don't really talk about like

00:29:36.880 Maoist China or don't really talk about how communism has been tried over and over again in different

00:29:43.200 cultures and different times, different parts of the world. And it's always had the same horrific,

00:29:48.800 devastating conclusion. It's like when I, when I see someone who's unironically a communist,

00:29:55.280 I want to treat them with the same disdain as I would treat someone who is unironically a Nazi.

00:29:59.760 And I think, I think we should, I think we should start treating them in the same way, in the same

00:30:03.680 light. Instead in Canada, you know, they literally like run for election. They have a slate, they have a

00:30:09.200 political party, they're given, you know, seats sometimes at these all candidates forums. It's

00:30:16.160 just hard to imagine that we take people like that seriously. I just think it's so gross.

00:30:22.160 So the only reason I tweeted at this person today and sort of just told her a different perspective

00:30:29.200 on her ideology was kind of raise awareness that, you know, there are actual communists among us,

00:30:34.720 young people are embracing it. I remember in the UK, a couple months ago, there was an interview

00:30:40.240 with Pierce Morgan, who was debating a girl. And she, you know, she was a student, probably like 20

00:30:46.960 years old or something. And in the debate, she just kind of lost her temper. And she said,

00:30:52.320 I'm literally a communist, you idiot. And that became like a catch slogan. And you can buy shirts

00:30:59.680 in the UK and university students wear them to say, I'm literally a communist, you idiot. Like,

00:31:03.920 it's something to be proud of. And again, there's just such a lack of,

00:31:10.160 I don't know, like, there's just such a weird parallel that there's people who, again, unironically

00:31:17.600 think these ideas are legitimate, and interesting and cool. And they don't hear the other side,

00:31:22.080 they don't get challenged, they don't get presented with the counter side. And I think that's one of the

00:31:27.040 truly evil and dangers that happen in our university system. So let's do one more story.

00:31:35.280 And then I've got some exciting news about True North Initiative at the end. So this is kind of

00:31:40.160 more of a lighthearted story here. So you probably saw this, that the CBC will resume playing baby,

00:31:47.280 it's cold outside. So I think this is probably cause for celebration, that we should all be happy

00:31:57.360 that political correctness lost and that sanity prevailed here. So you probably saw,

00:32:03.920 I talked about it a bit, and we wrote about it. But the CBC, as well as a couple of other radio

00:32:09.680 stations in Canada announced earlier this month, that they weren't going to play the holiday classic,

00:32:14.720 baby, it's cold outside, because of the Me Too movement, and supposedly because it perpetuated rape

00:32:20.560 culture. Well, after overwhelming response from their listeners, the CBC has reversed that decision.

00:32:30.480 Rogers, which is another big media outlet in Canada, is sticking by its decision. But the CBC,

00:32:37.840 it has folded. So I kind of just find this amusing, because it's like, I mean, the argument is so

00:32:44.480 stupid. The fact that we should censor a song because it doesn't fit today's sensibilities.

00:32:49.120 The song, of course, you know, it's a holiday classic. It's not really a Christmas song. It's

00:32:54.160 more just like a romantic love song from the 1940s in the style, in like the, you know, the great sort

00:33:01.440 of jazz style of that era that we don't really have anymore. And it has a sort of innuendo and the back

00:33:06.960 and forth in the play. And you can tell that both the man and the woman are enjoying themselves,

00:33:11.360 and they're flirting, and he's courting her. And this is all very typical back and forth stuff at

00:33:16.880 the time, you know, before when music used to, again, use innuendo, instead of coming out and

00:33:23.280 flat out saying the things that you feel and believe, which is what modern music does. And so,

00:33:28.720 you know, somehow that because of this innuendo, you could draw conclusions that might make you think

00:33:34.080 that the guy's trying to rape the girl, which he's clearly not, that we would ban it. Anyway, this is

00:33:40.480 sort of like the today's not just political correctness, but this sort of weird, like,

00:33:46.160 social justice obsession that we have with trying to ruin things from the past and hold them up to

00:33:51.840 today's high standard, while at the same time, having a complete double standard today, because

00:33:56.480 they would never say this kind of stuff about some of the really truly misogynistic lyrics that we see

00:34:03.120 in today's songs, particularly in rap songs. And so it's just amusing, because you can kind of imagine all

00:34:10.160 these like, politically correct left wing elites at CBC, coming together and patting themselves on

00:34:15.440 the back, like, you know, we're going to ban this song, because it's just, it's so wrong. And it

00:34:20.640 talks about, you know, the girl wondering what's in this drink. And, you know, these kind of CBC

00:34:26.560 executives patting themselves on the back and congratulating themselves for being so woke.

00:34:30.720 And then their own listeners, which the CBC, if you don't know, you know, the listeners are

00:34:37.920 overwhelmingly like left wing, or like, liberal elites living in cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan centers,

00:34:44.880 it's not like they represent the sort of mainstream of Canada, they already, the listeners themselves

00:34:50.080 represent the same kind of elite circles. And even among those people, there was still overwhelming

00:34:57.040 listening listener response saying, what is wrong with you? You're crazy. Just play the song. We all

00:35:02.160 like the song. So sanity prevailed. And even the woke CBC has to resume playing the beloved holiday

00:35:12.160 classic, baby, it's cold outside. So that's, that's the week in news. It's been a good one. It's been

00:35:19.040 interesting. I want to announce something. I already tweeted this out. But for people on Facebook,

00:35:25.040 we have exciting news out there, exciting news coming up in 2019 with the true north initiative,

00:35:31.280 we're making some changes, we're growing, we have some new programs that are coming. And as such,

00:35:38.000 I'm hiring two new journalists, two reporters, I want them to do investigative reporting, focusing on

00:35:45.680 immigration, national security, to become staff writers for the true north initiative. So if you're

00:35:51.760 interested, or if you know anyone who's interested, if you want to get more involved in the writing

00:35:56.080 journalism side of true north, please, I encourage you to email me, send me your resume, send me a

00:36:04.000 couple writing samples or things that you've written, and some story ideas of things that you would want

00:36:09.120 to contribute. So a resume, writing samples, and a couple of story ideas, email those to me, I'm going to be

00:36:17.120 looking through them, reading through them over the holidays, and then we're going to be hiring

00:36:21.040 two new people in the new year. So I'm really excited about that. We're kind of moving more

00:36:26.160 towards doing more and more news, original news, report of news, investigative news, and trying to

00:36:32.400 get more content out there to tell more of these stories about sort of immigration, national security

00:36:38.800 situation in Canada. So hopefully, you know, there's good people out there. And I would rather hire

00:36:47.520 someone who, you know, is already watching this year north already is sort of familiar with our work

00:36:54.400 and knows what kind of organization we are. I said on Twitter, that a journalism degree would be frowned

00:37:00.000 upon. I'm not looking for a, you know, professional journalist who went through journalism school,

00:37:07.360 I want someone who thinks for themselves, someone who knows how to write, someone who's a good writer,

00:37:11.760 someone who has, you know, a good understanding of world events. I don't want to hire some university

00:37:18.480 student that is some kind of a brainwashed Marxist. So, you know, you definitely don't need a journalism

00:37:25.040 degree in order to be a journalist these days or to work for the True North Initiative. So

00:37:32.000 I will leave it at that. Thank you guys so much for watching. Everybody out there,

00:37:36.400 have a great weekend. And we will be back with more next week. All right, thanks. Take care.

Juno News - December 15, 2018

The True North Report： The UN's deep moral failures

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