Rebel News Podcast - Cancel culture comes for Dr. Seuss (I wish I were kidding)

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, I talk about Dr. Seuss, and I don't even engage in any rhymes.

00:00:05.040 I'm not going to rhyme about it. I'm going to talk about the fact that his descendants

00:00:08.620 have decided to ban six of his books from publication. And I want to tell you about

00:00:14.020 a Canadian MP who bravely stood in support of Dr. Seuss for two minutes. I'll show you the clock.

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00:00:32.860 a Dr. Seuss old video about the Sneetches. Remember them? And I'd love to show that to you. Yeah, 0.98

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00:01:27.200 Tonight, cancel culture comes for Dr. Seuss. I wish I were kidding. It's March 3rd and this is

00:01:42.220 The Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:49.140 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:54.760 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:04.040 If you've ever had kids, you know Dr. Seuss because he makes the best kids books. Before him,

00:02:10.500 books about learning to read were pretty boring. But then he decided to make them funny and

00:02:15.400 ridiculous and hilarious and rhyme. The cat in the hat was the big breakthrough for him.

00:02:21.100 Others followed green eggs and ham, fox in socks. One of the things you'll know about Dr. Seuss

00:02:27.200 is that most of the people in his stories aren't actually people. They're critters or creatures of

00:02:33.060 his bizarre and goofy imagination. I think it was about imagination and silliness and learning to

00:02:41.000 read without thinking about learning to read because you're thinking about all the silly rhymes

00:02:46.340 and silly pictures. That's what makes it work. The kids learn how to read because they're not

00:02:51.020 thinking about the boring parts. They're having fun. They don't realize they're learning. Sometimes

00:02:55.420 there was some subtle politics, I suppose. In Horton Hears a Who, which was turned into a movie,

00:03:02.560 a huge elephant hears tiny voices and it's a whole tiny world he saves. No one else believes it even

00:03:08.720 exists. The catchphrase, a person's a person no matter how small, has been interpreted as being

00:03:15.020 pro-life. All right, it is. So what? In 1974, Dr. Seuss gave permission to his friend Art Buchwald

00:03:22.980 to rewrite one of his poems into an anti-Nixon poem. This was the Watergate era. I don't think

00:03:32.520 that was a particularly radical point of view, but, you know, so the man wasn't a political

00:03:37.240 blank slate, so what? And I'm sure that by today's exquisite standards, he did draw things sometimes or

00:03:44.140 say things sometimes that wouldn't be up to our woke standards. Pretty much anything written for

00:03:49.340 five minutes ago fails that test. But the shocking news, real news, is that Dr. Seuss's own estate

00:03:57.260 has announced that they simply will stop printing six of his books. I thought this was just like a

00:04:04.200 satirical rumor, but it is true. Take a look at this. Statement from Dr. Seuss Enterprises, March 2nd,

00:04:12.040 2021. Today on Dr. Seuss's birthday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises celebrates reading and also

00:04:17.660 our mission of supporting all children and families with messages of hope, inspiration,

00:04:22.340 inclusion, and friendship. We are committed to action. To that end, Dr. Seuss Enterprises,

00:04:27.520 working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and

00:04:32.300 made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles. And to think

00:04:38.020 that I saw it on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot's Pool, on Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Eggs

00:04:45.920 Super, and The Cat's Quizzer, these books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.

00:04:53.200 Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr.

00:04:57.940 Seuss Enterprises' catalog represents and supports all communities and families. That is so gross. 0.62

00:05:03.900 They are erasing, unpersoning, destroying their own guy. They're canceling themselves or their grandpa.

00:05:15.100 I know that book Mulberry Street, by the way. It's such a fun book. You have to find strange things like

00:05:21.460 an upside-down tree or a car without a wheel or whatever. No real person would find that book

00:05:29.180 offensive. Imagine just declaring you're going to stop people from reading a book your grandpa wrote

00:05:35.740 that has been loved by a hundred million people because you, the ingrate, woke heir to his fortune,

00:05:45.680 found something to grouse about so you could be important for a minute too. No one believes that

00:05:51.720 Dr. Seuss is bad. No one. Not even his royal wokeness, Barack Obama. Listen to this.

00:05:59.180 Pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. Seuss. It's like, you know, the star-bellied

00:06:08.860 sneeches, you know. We're all the same. So why would we treat somebody differently just because

00:06:20.140 they don't have a star on their belly? You know, if I think about responsibility, I think about, you know,

00:06:27.820 Horton's sitting on the egg up in the tree while Lazy Macy's flying up and doing whatever she wants. 1.00

00:06:35.820 You know what I mean? I mean, all I'm saying is that as you get older, what you will find is that the

00:06:45.500 homespun basic virtues that your mom or your dad, you know, folks you care about or admire,

00:06:53.740 taught you about hard work, being responsible, being time, giving something back, being useful,

00:07:02.140 working as a team. It turns out, it's all true.

00:07:07.340 He's right, actually. That was just a few years ago. And yet Dr. Seuss is canceled. Do you know

00:07:20.220 that story about the sneeches that Obama was referring to? I think it's probably the most

00:07:25.900 successful anti-racism story for kids in history ever written. It's an allegory. It's not white people 0.85

00:07:34.060 and black people. It's not people at all. It's sneeches. They don't exist. There's only one human 1.00

00:07:39.500 in the whole story, a race huckster, a hustler. Here, let me show you a few minutes of a cartoon

00:07:45.260 movie made out of it probably 40 years ago. Take a look at this. Now, the star-bellied

00:07:50.540 sneeches had bellies with stars. But the plain-bellied sneeches had none upon ours. No stars on their

00:08:00.460 bellies. No stars upon ours. Now, those stars weren't so big. They were really quite small. You would

00:08:07.740 think such a thing wouldn't matter at all. But because they had stars, all the star-bellied

00:08:13.180 sneeches would brag. We're the best kind of sneech on the beaches. 0.72

00:08:23.660 With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort. They'd have nothing to do with their

00:08:28.620 plain-bellied sword. Ronald, remember, when you are out walking, you walk past a sneech of that type

00:08:36.780 without talking. So those are sneeches and the ones who didn't have the star wanted a star because the

00:08:44.300 star was assigned a status. So enter the huckster. My prices are low and I work with great speed and my

00:08:52.220 work is 100% guaranteed. By my new patent process of polar potoxys of the inner subnuclear noose bomb

00:09:00.140 no-goxys, you'll get a star like the star-bellied sneech for the mere paltry payment of, uh, three 0.78

00:09:06.380 dollars each. Naturally, the hustler saw another market, a star-off machine. Belly stars, my dear

00:09:13.660 friends, are no longer in style. And I'll have yours off in a very short while in my wondrous machine which

00:09:19.820 eradicates stars. Then you won't look like sneeches who have them on bars. Eradicates these? Eradicates

00:09:28.220 these with the greatest of ease, uh, provided you pay your 10 bucks, if you please. And on it went,

00:09:34.940 star on, star off, until no one could remember who was who, uh, once all their money was gone,

00:09:39.980 the huckster left. But McBean was quite wrong. I am happy to say that the sneeches got really quite

00:09:46.300 smart on that day. That day they decided that sneeches are sneeches and no kind of sneetch is

00:09:52.940 the best on the beaches. That day all the sneeches forgot about stars and whether they had one or not

00:10:02.380 upon thars. It's a great story. I bet that story did more to stop racism in America than any other book

00:10:08.780 ever written except the Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin. But sure, go ahead and call Dr. Seuss a bigot

00:10:15.420 and ban his books. You can buy Hitler's Mein Kampf, by the way, on Amazon. That, that's not banned.

00:10:22.940 So you might say, well, that, that's just some wacky woke Dr. Seuss heirs. Just like John D.

00:10:28.620 Rockefeller's great grandchildren are communists that the old man would probably despise and probably have

00:10:34.460 had shot if he knew about them. Uh, he'd probably have not left them a dime. Same with Dr. Seuss and his

00:10:42.380 ungrateful descendants, but it's not just the wacky grandkids. It's the president of the United

00:10:49.420 States, Barack Obama's VP. Look at this. Uh, Biden erases Dr. Seuss from read across America

00:10:57.020 proclamation as progressives seek to cancel beloved author because of course there, there aren't enough,

00:11:02.860 I don't know, trans people in his books or trans sneeches or whatever. So it's not just the family.

00:11:09.420 This is spreading. Now there was a glimmer of hope out there for a moment on this ridiculous issue.

00:11:17.740 A new Democrat MP named Charlie Angus, who once in a while shows flashes of common sense. He's the guy

00:11:25.980 who, uh, along with Pierre Polyev went after Trudeau on the WE charity stuff. Charlie Angus,

00:11:31.820 see, I got my beefs with him, but once in a while he, he shows some value. He tweeted this.

00:11:38.620 Dr. Seuss created a wonderful, messy, and subversive world of images and possibilities.

00:11:44.860 My childhood imagination was enthralled by and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

00:11:50.940 Such a tragedy to watch them take a political eraser to his legacy.

00:11:54.860 Wow. I agree with every word of that. And me too. But as you can see, that is not a Twitter page

00:12:03.740 we're showing you. That's an automatic archive of Twitter called Politoops. I don't know how to

00:12:10.620 pronounce it. It's basically a robot that automatically takes a screenshot of any tweet

00:12:16.140 that a politician deletes. So you can see that Charlie Angus bravely stood against cancel culture

00:12:22.620 and against taking an eraser to history for two full minutes. You can see that at the bottom there.

00:12:29.500 That tweet was deleted in two minutes when he himself took an eraser to his own history.

00:12:37.980 Who made you do that, Charlie? Was it your boss, Jagmeet Singh? Who did that to you?

00:12:44.540 I know that Charlie Angus has deleted 1,294 other tweets. I'm all for politicians deleting their tweets.

00:12:53.580 They should delete a lot of what they say and do. They should just say and do less, I think.

00:12:58.620 But I wonder how much of that was Charlie Angus being censored again and again and again.

00:13:06.380 Or in this case, being censored about being censored. Needless to say, that two minutes of courage

00:13:13.820 that Charlie Angus did show, that was two minutes longer than the conservative party leader showed.

00:13:21.580 I know that Dr. Seuss isn't exactly top of the agenda for Canadian conservatives, but that canceling

00:13:28.460 of him is a symbol. It's a symbol of cancel culture, of wokeness, of political correctness. O'Toole claimed he

00:13:34.700 was against that, but he wasn't really. He isn't. He's scared too, isn't he? He's a canceler too.

00:13:45.980 Stay with us for more.

00:13:46.940 Welcome back. Well, we have covered what we call the diner rebellion. Small town diners in the

00:14:05.820 prairies simply saying we're not going to shut down. The big cities might be paranoid about this

00:14:11.020 pandemic, but our town is virus-free. We know everyone. We trust everyone. We're just not

00:14:15.900 going to live like we're under house arrest. Sheila Gunn-Reed told you the story about the 0.99

00:14:21.260 Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta, and other cafes like the Noble Fox in Bashaw. I think those are

00:14:29.500 important because small businesses, those are a livelihood for so many Canadians, and why should

00:14:35.820 they be closed, whereas the big box stores like Costco and Walmart remain open? I just don't get

00:14:43.660 it. Well, we've also focused on churches, and churches have been particularly punished by these

00:14:51.900 lockdowns. I have my suspicions of why. In my view, anyone who believes in something other than

00:14:58.620 lockdownism, anyone who believes that there's a higher authority than just some politician or a

00:15:03.820 bureaucrat, well, they're going to be a real pain in the neck to the lockdowns because they simply 0.99

00:15:08.940 won't live in fear and won't follow ridiculous and capricious rules. And some of those rules,

00:15:14.540 such as in Montreal, for example, allow the reopening of movie theaters for well over 100 people,

00:15:22.540 but massive cathedrals can only have 10 people. Well, what's the difference? We're taking some cases of

00:15:30.540 some churches, but I am delighted to say that our friends at the Justice Center for Constitutional

00:15:36.460 Freedom are doing the really heavy lifting on church freedom, obviously would apply to synagogues

00:15:42.860 and temples and mosques too. And what a pleasure it is now to connect with the boss of the Justice Center

00:15:48.940 for Constitutional Freedom, my own friend and a friend to our viewers, John Carpe, who joins us now via

00:15:54.780 Skype. Well, John, I got to tell you, you are lifting a heavy load out there. You're in a three-day

00:16:00.220 hearing in Vancouver for church rights. You've got the very next day a hearing in Edmonton for Pastor

00:16:07.580 James Coates, who's been in prison for, I think, more than two weeks now. I think you're doing more

00:16:13.820 religious liberty litigation in Canada than any of the so-called civil liberties groups who've gone

00:16:19.660 silent. And I want to thank you for that on behalf of our rebel viewers.

00:16:25.500 It's important work and it's got to get done. We've got currently nine full-time lawyers working

00:16:31.740 on cases across Canada, and we're looking to hire another three or four lawyers as soon as possible.

00:16:37.580 So if any of your viewers, if you're a lawyer or if you know a lawyer that loves liberty, that has some

00:16:42.460 litigation experience, we want to hire another three or four full-time staff lawyers as soon as

00:16:47.820 possible because the amount of work is astronomical. The charter rights and freedoms are being

00:16:54.860 heavily, severely, unjustifiably violated all across Canada.

00:16:59.100 Yeah. Oh, I agree with you. On the screen right now, you can see police with guns in their holsters

00:17:09.180 walking right into a church in Calgary. I think you guys are actually representing this church.

00:17:14.220 I was so infuriated by that act of intimidation, John. These churches are the most peaceful

00:17:20.940 places imaginable. These aren't Hell's Angels biker clubs where cops need to go in SWAT team style.

00:17:28.620 The only possible reason for those armed police to walk into a church is for an intimidation factor. And

00:17:36.860 I'm not asking you to speak about that particular church in Calgary because I understand you have a

00:17:41.740 legal process afoot there. But I think that goes to the mindset of these public health tyrants. I don't

00:17:50.060 think it's appropriate that police run their errands for them. I think that's probably constitutionally

00:17:55.500 suspect. But it gives us an insight into the mind of all these public health bosses who are unaccountable,

00:18:04.540 who have dictator-like power and are taking on the trappings of a police state. Like, it's bizarre to

00:18:11.100 me that in the name of public health, you send in someone with a gun in a holster to a church.

00:18:16.620 That gives away the whole game to me, John.

00:18:19.900 Well, it's terribly sad because there are lots of Canadians that they are pro-police. They want to be

00:18:26.060 pro-police. They don't want to see the police defunded. They want to see the police enforcing,

00:18:31.580 you know, the criminal code prohibitions against things like murder and rape and assault and all

00:18:37.500 kinds of other fraud, all kinds of crime. And unfortunately, our politicians have turned the

00:18:45.420 police against the people by passing unjust laws in the name of health orders. And you mentioned

00:18:52.300 the lack of accountability. One of the legal arguments that we are bringing forward in our

00:18:56.940 court actions in Alberta and Manitoba and other provinces where we are now challenging the

00:19:02.300 lockdowns in court is that this is a blatant violation of the constitution, not just the

00:19:08.300 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but also the non-charter parts of our constitution that require

00:19:14.940 that laws be passed by the elected members of a democratically elected legislative assembly.

00:19:22.540 And this is a core component of Canada's constitution, that you don't have unelected,

00:19:29.580 unaccountable, politically appointed people that are passing general laws that apply to all citizens

00:19:37.660 and just passing new laws every week, every month, on a whim, with no democratic accountability.

00:19:44.780 None of these health orders which violate our rights and freedoms have been considered,

00:19:50.780 debated, voted on or approved by the elected members of the legislative assembly or the elected

00:19:57.980 or federally, you know, by the federal parliament. So this is another issue that we're putting before

00:20:04.060 the courts in addition to the charter violations. You know, I'm so glad to hear that. One of the

00:20:09.420 things I find infuriating is when our reporters interact with police, which regrettably we do

00:20:14.940 almost every day, is the police have no clue. You know, in the past, in the before times,

00:20:23.340 police would study the criminal code or they might know a couple of bylaws here and there.

00:20:28.380 And the laws would basically be the same every week, every month, every year. If there was a big

00:20:32.540 innovation, they would hear about it. They would be briefed about it by their police departments. But

00:20:37.660 these lockdown rules or guidances or suggestions, some of them are just press conferences,

00:20:45.180 nobody knows what the rules are. The politicians don't know what the rules are. And these cops

00:20:50.700 clearly don't know either. And so they're either guessing or going with their own personal opinion,

00:20:57.660 or just they don't like the cut of someone's jib. So, I mean, it couldn't be clear when it comes to

00:21:02.940 protests, for example. Black Lives Matter protests during the pandemic,

00:21:06.700 you literally see cops taking a knee. But anti-lockdown protests, you see cops throwing

00:21:12.540 people in the back of paddy wagons. And there's no consistency in the application of the laws.

00:21:19.340 I don't think the police understand the laws. And I have some sympathy for them because the laws change.

00:21:24.860 Like, do you think the cops really know the difference between a code red and a code gray and

00:21:29.420 a code orange? I don't think that even the bureaucrats who wrote those understand it.

00:21:36.300 And yet, I don't see any judges saying, whoa, it's been a year, no more excuses.

00:21:42.380 When this was all ramshackle, hustle bustle, we could let you have some leeway. But it's been

00:21:47.900 a year now, and it's just getting worse. Where are the judges?

00:21:52.620 We're gonna find out where they are. But, you know, I really hope that they're going to fulfill

00:21:59.100 their role of upholding rights and freedoms. That's what the courts are there for. You know,

00:22:04.860 since 1982, since we've had the charter, the way it's supposed to work is that when politicians,

00:22:11.740 you know, perhaps with good intentions, but also perhaps acting out of fear and panic and without

00:22:17.100 facts, when politicians violate our rights and freedoms, and perhaps have strong public support

00:22:23.580 for doing so, the courts are supposed to be there to say, wait a minute, no, there's no justification

00:22:30.460 or there isn't adequate justification for these health orders that violate our freedoms to, you know,

00:22:36.540 move, travel, worship, assemble peacefully, associate, and so on. The opening line of the charter,

00:22:44.220 the preamble of the charter says that Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of

00:22:49.820 God and the rule of law. And part of the rule of law, and as you know, as we're your lawyer as well,

00:22:57.660 several dimensions to the rule of law, one of them is clarity in the law. And yet we get these health

00:23:03.020 orders that say, you know, we should, you know, or it would be best if, as opposed to clear legal language

00:23:10.860 that says must or shall. Yeah. And you've got you've got laws promulgated by way of press conferences.

00:23:16.540 I mean, it's a complete disregard for Canada's constitution. And so I'm hoping that judges will

00:23:23.340 not shy away from what might prove to be an unpopular task of upholding rights and freedoms.

00:23:30.060 I mean, I know a few judges, they are at the highest heights of society, all their friends are in the

00:23:35.340 elites, whether it's law professors, lawyers, bankers, they live in fancy neighborhoods, they are in the highest

00:23:44.140 circles. And I can only imagine the peer pressure at that high heights to conform to the lockdownism.

00:23:51.660 It's the working classes who have lost their jobs. You know, we see the news that there's

00:23:57.020 a judge in Ontario who's hearing cases from Barbados. You know what, no one in the judiciary

00:24:03.660 has lost a day's pay. In fact, they're having a great staycation. So you've got the lockdown class

00:24:09.020 that's loving it, time of their lives. And they don't want this gravy train to end. And it's just the

00:24:14.140 little people. And I don't know, I hope that there's a judge who understands that no matter what the

00:24:20.940 peer pressure is, no matter what his friends at the country clubs say down in Barbados,

00:24:27.580 did the little people have the rule of law too, including those in church? I want to talk just for a

00:24:31.260 minute about Pastor James Coates. And we've had a petition called Free Pastor James. And I know

00:24:38.300 you've done a lot of interviews. I think you were, you were doing some interviews in the U.S.

00:24:42.300 And we did, I mean, ironically and predictably, the imprisonment of Pastor James Coates has had more

00:24:50.940 news coverage in America than it has in Canada. Would you agree with me on that?

00:24:54.940 That's definitely the way it appears. Yes.

00:24:57.020 And that's a shame right there. That shows you this lockdownism is the state religion in Canada.

00:25:04.380 He's in what? He's been in prison for two weeks now. Is that right?

00:25:09.180 He went into jail on February the 20th, sorry, February the 16th. So it's already been, I think,

00:25:17.420 more than two weeks now that he's behind bars for basically refusing to comply with

00:25:23.180 unscientific and unconstitutional health orders that have been, you know, promulgated by way of

00:25:32.780 chief medical officer news conferences rather than the legislative assembly of Alberta.

00:25:39.340 So if my math is right, he's now in his 16th day. He's now starting his 16th day in,

00:25:46.300 is he still in the maximum security Edmonton Remand Center?

00:25:48.940 He's in the Edmonton Remand Center and he was supposed to have one cellmate for the first 14 days.

00:25:58.700 I don't know if he's been transferred into a different cell in the past day or two with the

00:26:05.500 14 days being up. And there's another example of how inconsistently these rules are applied.

00:26:11.980 You know, he's supposed to be quarantined for 14 days, you know, because of COVID,

00:26:17.900 and yet he's put in with a cellmate. I don't think he minded being put in with a cellmate.

00:26:22.540 Yeah.

00:26:23.020 But, you know, it's just...

00:26:24.700 It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make sense. And that very same prison, I'm somewhat familiar

00:26:30.700 with that prison. They let out 400 convicts or people being held on bail for violent offenses in the

00:26:37.420 name of the virus. So they let out 400 real or suspected criminals, but they put the pastor in

00:26:44.140 for 15 days. And yeah, I didn't understand that, how it could be quarantined, but he's in there with

00:26:51.980 the criminal in the same cell. None of it makes sense other than, same thing as those cops going

00:26:57.900 into that church in Calgary. It's about, you know, as they say,

00:27:01.340 pour encourager les autres, to threaten the others, to make an example out of them. If you want cops with

00:27:08.700 guns in your church, if you don't want your pastor thrown in prison with an accused violent criminal

00:27:14.460 or whatever, then you better comply. It's a unique guy who doesn't bend the knee 16 days running in

00:27:23.340 prison. That's a rare person to have that kind of strength. Like, that's a diamond of strength.

00:27:31.900 And something tells me, now his hearing's tomorrow, right? He ain't gonna... If he's in prison 16 days,

00:27:38.060 he's suddenly not gonna lose his faith. He's not suddenly gonna bend the knee to Caesar. What's

00:27:43.740 gonna happen? Well, we're hopeful that on Thursday, March the 4th, we're hopeful to get

00:27:51.100 a ruling same day to release him from prison. If that fails, then he could be behind bars for

00:27:59.500 another eight weeks. And this is in a context where, you know, the norm in Canada is that

00:28:07.020 unless you've been charged with murder or rape or serious assault, the normal course of action is that

00:28:14.380 you are released until your time of trial. And Pastor Coates certainly has no intention of avoiding

00:28:22.460 the trial dates now scheduled for May 3rd, 4th, and 5th. He has no intention of leaving the country or

00:28:29.340 not showing up for trial. So there's no valid reason for him to be in prison. And, you know,

00:28:35.900 hopefully we get them released on Thursday, March, March the 4th.

00:28:40.140 You know, I know you got to run, but I'm just doing the math here. When I was a law student

00:28:43.660 in Edmonton, and the very first time I went to docket court as a student, I sat and watched and I saw

00:28:52.140 a man convicted of sexual assault. And he was sentenced to 30 days in jail, sexual assault 30 days, which

00:29:00.300 means he would have been out in 10 days, possibly five. This pastor, if you say, if what you say

00:29:09.500 happens, if he's been in there for 16 days and has another eight weeks, that's like 10 weeks. And in

00:29:17.260 that hard time, in that maximum security, it's like 20 weeks. That is an actual sentence that someone who

00:29:25.100 commits second degree murder would serve, or at least a violent assault. He is being, the amount

00:29:33.340 of hard time he's serving, I'm saying, John, maybe my numbers are off by a little bit. But when you

00:29:38.620 have parole in this country, full parole, day parole, statutory release, no one ever serves their full

00:29:43.420 time. For a pastor to actually sit in prison 10 weeks in a hard facility like that, that is tantamount

00:29:51.420 to what a violent gun shooting robber would get. Am I wrong on that? Are my numbers off

00:29:57.500 by a lot there? Or is that more or less right?

00:30:01.580 You know, obviously, the sentence imposed on violent criminals will vary on, you know,

00:30:08.620 based on the circumstances. And the criminals, you know, got a long track record of committing

00:30:16.380 crimes and a bunch of other factors. But the central point that Pastor, I agree entirely with

00:30:23.340 the central point that Pastor, Pastor Coates is serving more hard time than a lot of criminals are.

00:30:32.060 And I think as well that the fact that these health orders have been challenged in court by the Justice

00:30:39.180 Centre in another court action should also be taken into account by the judge. This is not some law

00:30:49.260 that people accept as constitutional or as being properly enacted by the legislature. This is a law that

00:30:58.540 is before the courts under challenge as well. And I think that should be taken into account.

00:31:07.420 So it's pretty bad. I mean, we've really regressed in the past 11, 12 months. We're very rapidly moving

00:31:16.380 in the direction of being something like, you know, a country like China or Russia or Cuba or North Korea.

00:31:23.980 We're not quite there. But that's a direction that we're moving in very, very quickly when you've got

00:31:29.420 pastors in jail simply for exercising their constitutional freedoms in the face of very

00:31:35.980 very evidence-free, science-free public health orders.

00:31:40.220 Yeah. It meets the definition of a political prisoner. Absolutely it does.

00:31:46.620 John, I'd like to encourage our viewers, and we do this all the time, I'd like to encourage our viewers

00:31:52.220 to visit your website at jccf.ca. Is that right?

00:31:56.300 That's correct. Yep.

00:31:57.980 You're a registered charity. So if folks want to chip in to help your good work, not only will they

00:32:03.420 have the moral satisfaction, but they'll also get a receipt for the CRA purposes. So that's at jccf.ca.

00:32:12.140 Keep it up. We'll keep reporting on it. Someone's got to, because the CBC ain't.

00:32:18.140 So we'll keep at it. You keep at it, okay?

00:32:21.180 Thanks, Ezra. Have a great day.

00:32:23.100 You too. There you have it. John Carpe, he's the boss of the Justice Center for Constitutional

00:32:26.380 Freedoms. I'm going to save their website one more time, jccf.ca. Boy, is he busy. Three days

00:32:32.380 in court in Vancouver, fighting for religious freedom there. Then up to Edmonton, fighting for

00:32:37.740 religious freedom for Pastor James Coates. I predict that James Coates, the pastor, will remain

00:32:44.620 in prison for the eight shocking weeks that John has predicted. And in doing so,

00:32:52.060 he will serve more time than many violent criminals. Stay with us more ahead.

00:33:07.420 Hey, welcome back on my show last night. MJ writes, 99.5% survival rate. And for this,

00:33:12.700 children are being tortured. Yeah, you know, I saw a clip out of the United Kingdom today.

00:33:17.420 Their schools department made an official announcement that no kids should wear masks.

00:33:22.300 It's just too damaging to their psychology. Here, let me play a quick clip for me. This

00:33:25.980 is from the UK. How come their science says take the masks off kids and ours says force it on them?

00:33:30.940 Take a look. School children have the lower amount of infection,

00:33:33.980 especially primary school children. And in looking at it, we've talked to educationalists,

00:33:38.620 public health and clinical specialists. And the consensus view is very strongly to not

00:33:44.300 advise school children at primary school age to wear face coverings. This for two reasons. One is

00:33:49.980 that they can have difficulties wearing them and keeping them on all day. And the second part of

00:33:54.300 that is that it's really important that they can see facial expressions in order to develop their

00:33:58.940 communications and language skills. Schools have delivered a lot of measures to reduce the risk in

00:34:05.340 schools. And additional plans to test families of primary school children will also be in place as

00:34:11.180 schools go back. And therefore, the strong recommendation is for primary school children

00:34:15.500 not to wear masks. Yeah, it's it. Look, it's all politics, people. Laurel writes, leaving a young

00:34:21.740 child alone in a closed room to fend for themselves, stating the obvious is beyond negligent.

00:34:26.620 $5,000 fine. Wouldn't family services normally be involved for child abuse and neglect?

00:34:31.500 If this were reported to the police, oh, you're exactly right. Every bloody one of these health

00:34:36.060 officers is a child abuser in the way that we're describing here, forcing children to go under

00:34:42.060 psychological and physical treatment that is unacceptable, unscientific and unhealthy.

00:34:49.260 Jer writes, the picture of the breakfast served at the COVID jail spoke a thousand words about this

00:34:54.060 government. Yeah, Keen kept showing me that picture of his breakfast, one Eggo and a little crepe or

00:34:59.660 something. And it did look meager. And looking at me, you know that I wouldn't have lasted an hour

00:35:05.820 in that jail from a food point of view. But the bigger problem is, I mean, let's say they had a

00:35:10.540 lovely breakfast. Let's say they had a wonderful breakfast with steak and eggs and fresh fruit and

00:35:16.700 orange juice and coffee and just, or even the full English, as they say. It still wouldn't be

00:35:23.020 acceptable because it's the violation of our basic liberties. It's incarcerating us,

00:35:29.020 even though we committed no crime. It's treating us as if we're sick, even though we're healthy,

00:35:34.300 treating us like criminals, even though we're innocent and stopping us from coming home to our

00:35:38.220 own country. That's why it's wrong. The food is insult to injury, but the injury is the incarceration.

00:35:45.580 Well, we'll fight for these things. I promise you that.

00:35:47.900 That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:35:52.140 to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 04, 2021

Cancel culture comes for Dr. Seuss (I wish I were kidding)

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