Rebel News Podcast - DAILY ｜ Protests, pastor arrests, thin blue lines and carbon virtue signalling

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, you have tuned into the Rebel News live stream

00:00:20.080 on this, a Monday, April 4th, 2022.

00:00:24.640 I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host.

00:00:29.620 Do you know that today is National Hug a Newsperson Day?

00:00:34.400 And I would hug this big lug, except he might go to HR and complain.

00:00:38.840 He is the he-man with a hammer. 0.97

00:00:41.020 He is the Khaleesi of Calgary. 0.98

00:00:44.580 He is Adam Seuss.

00:00:46.580 How you doing there, Adam?

00:00:49.460 Oh, I'm worried right off the bat that Sheila is not here to rein us in.

00:00:55.040 Well, you know, Sheila... 1.00

00:00:56.760 He's a day ahead of us.

00:00:57.580 Well, you know, Sheila is usually your co-host on a Monday, Adam, but maybe we should just

00:01:02.460 let the folks know the very important assignment that Sheila is on. 1.00

00:01:07.500 Namely, she is covering an Alberta court procedure where Dina Henshaw, or as Sheila likes to call

00:01:15.040 her, the necromancer of Wildrose Country, is taking the stand regarding something.

00:01:22.120 What's all that about, Adam?

00:01:23.140 Yeah, so for the longest time, they've been trying to get health officials to actually

00:01:30.520 answer in a court of law for undermining our fundamental rights, taking away our charter

00:01:35.380 freedoms, all that stuff that's enshrined in the law and is supposed to be protected.

00:01:38.940 Well, a couple of weeks to bend the curb was the story, and that was understandable even among

00:01:44.120 some constitutional lawyers, but we're now coming up on two years with limited capacity

00:01:49.360 to fly, certain pastors not able to speak at certain locations, attend protests.

00:01:54.680 So Dina Henshaw, the chief medical health officer here in Alberta, she's actually, she's been

00:02:00.200 dodging this forever.

00:02:01.120 Last time they scheduled this and asked her to appear to actually justify the measures in 0.98

00:02:05.980 light of the Constitution.

00:02:06.880 She said she was too busy to attend with what was going on.

00:02:10.500 She then proceeded to take a vacation. 0.90

00:02:12.520 So she's been dodging this for some time.

00:02:14.900 So it looks like the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms actually finally has her showing up

00:02:20.200 in court today.

00:02:21.600 So Sheila's going to be covering that, and hopefully there's some answers and some accountability 0.88

00:02:25.220 from these overstepping health bureaucrats.

00:02:28.440 Oh, 100%, Adam.

00:02:30.160 And you know, I'm really looking forward to Sheila's report.

00:02:32.900 And also, Adam, contrasting what she reports to how the mainstream media reports things,

00:02:40.140 because you know they like to cover for these health services necromancers. 1.00

00:02:46.980 And I can hardly wait to see what comes of this.

00:02:51.800 So Sheila's doing great work on that front. 1.00

00:02:55.140 And Adam, usually Sheila tells us what we are doing right now, and I guess that falls to

00:03:01.500 you, or is it to me?

00:03:02.900 Either way, I can do it, and you can do it.

00:03:06.240 Fire away, my friend.

00:03:07.720 I'll go.

00:03:08.260 Okay, so we used to do this just about once a week with the onset of COVID-19, though.

00:03:13.500 People were at home.

00:03:14.740 There was ample news to talk about lockdowns, overreach, all that sort of good stuff.

00:03:19.580 So we started doing it every single day.

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00:04:09.040 Are there any other platforms that I'm missing today that we're on?

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00:04:13.300 I think you've covered it.

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00:04:44.420 Exactly.

00:04:45.380 Okay.

00:04:45.980 Well, you know, since a lot of news happening in your neck of the woods, Adam,

00:04:50.780 and I see more weekend protests and more clamping down on, well,

00:04:57.020 basically, it seems that peaceful protests are not really a thing anymore in Alberta.

00:05:02.940 Well, unless, of course, you're, you know, a Black Lives Matter protester. 0.77

00:05:07.040 Therefore, you don't get a ticket, but you join law enforcement in bending the knee

00:05:11.840 to make a statement.

00:05:13.300 But now we see not only in Calgary, but in Edmonton,

00:05:18.160 tickets being handed out for horn honking.

00:05:22.360 What the heck is going on in a region of Canada, Adam,

00:05:27.820 that I facetiously call the People's Democratic Republic of Alberta?

00:05:33.200 You know, it was something else to see.

00:05:35.120 For the third week in a row, these injunctions are in place,

00:05:38.500 limiting use of amplification technology in parks,

00:05:42.040 preventing peaceful marches that have been occurring.

00:05:44.840 Here's the footage.

00:05:45.620 In fact, peaceful marches that have been occurring for two years in Calgary without incident.

00:05:50.360 These people are now relegated to City Hall or whatever park or area they'll happen to let them to.

00:05:56.440 Once again, this weekend, they were actually out of amplification technology, so that was nice.

00:05:59.820 But they had this lineup of police cars on a pedestrian street

00:06:04.320 and just enforcement, peace officers and cops, lined up along the side of the road.

00:06:08.780 And if a car honked when they were driving by,

00:06:11.120 the police vehicle would roll out and the next one would roll into its stop, ready to go.

00:06:15.740 So we were actually running around, chasing as these police were pulling people over

00:06:21.200 to make sure we captured what was going on there.

00:06:24.040 But yeah, they're giving out $81 tickets.

00:06:25.780 When they hand out these $81 tickets, they're saying, you know,

00:06:28.820 I could actually get you basically on contempt of this injunction.

00:06:32.360 That would be a serious charge.

00:06:33.860 But I'm very graciously going to let you off with this $81 ticket for daring to honk your horn.

00:06:39.260 And one of the really interesting things that we saw there was one of the people, a bystander,

00:06:44.740 when we were right there, we spoke to her as she was getting her ticket.

00:06:47.420 That video will be out later today.

00:06:48.680 But one of the bystanders says, there's a pro-Ukrainian rally here the other day.

00:06:52.920 Everyone was honking in support.

00:06:54.560 There was no tickets.

00:06:56.000 And the cop actually said, well, that protest isn't subject to the injunction.

00:07:00.620 Well, the way the injunction's worded, to the best of my understanding,

00:07:03.300 is it's blanket and it's not targeted.

00:07:05.500 But then the cops are saying, well, that's not subject to the injunction.

00:07:10.020 So wild.

00:07:10.900 And later we'll talk about, obviously, the dramatic arrest of Pastor Derek Reimer.

00:07:14.940 That too, suddenly, again, he was in no way involved with the protests.

00:07:18.420 But apparently the injunction applies to pastors and protesters,

00:07:22.220 but not pro-Ukrainian rallies or BLM rallies or Palestinian, whatever it may be.

00:07:26.720 Just the selective groups that seem to always get targeted.

00:07:29.200 Well, Adam, I think that officer did a huge favour for all those people

00:07:35.260 receiving those $81 tickets for honking their horn,

00:07:38.560 because that's what I bring to court when I fight this.

00:07:41.880 I go, why, you know, the old one law for thee, one law for me.

00:07:45.880 Why is it this particular protest, no horn honking, but another protest?

00:07:51.140 There is horn honking.

00:07:52.520 It's still in the municipality of Calgary.

00:07:54.720 Who gets to pick and choose?

00:07:56.440 Why are they picking and choosing?

00:07:59.320 I think that's a great testament.

00:08:02.300 And, you know, I mean, in a way it's kind of funny, isn't it?

00:08:04.960 Because we have a Liberal MP.

00:08:06.280 I can't remember her name.

00:08:07.560 She's so insignificant and so dumb. 0.93

00:08:10.360 I mean, dumb on the scale of Seamus O'Regan stupidity.

00:08:15.420 But remember, several weeks ago, she said that when you honk your horn,

00:08:20.840 honk honk is code for Heil Hitler. 0.87

00:08:24.660 So are these, and maybe Super Producer Olivia can dredge that up, 1.00

00:08:30.960 because I know a lot of people are saying,

00:08:33.180 hey, Manzoid, April Fool's Day was three days ago, okay? 0.99

00:08:36.900 Oh, no, no, no.

00:08:37.700 This is completely true.

00:08:41.640 So are the Calgary police and the peace officers, Adam,

00:08:46.120 claiming this is, I don't know, hate speech?

00:08:49.360 Because honk honk, according to the Trudeau Liberals, is Heil Hitler.

00:08:53.960 Oh, and before you weigh in, Adam, I just want to put the proof in the pudding here.

00:08:59.040 Olivia's dredged up.

00:09:00.140 You got it.

00:09:00.960 So fast.

00:09:02.220 Yeah.

00:09:02.640 Just check this out, folks.

00:09:04.320 How many guns need to be seized?

00:09:10.120 How much vitriol do we have to see of honk honk, which is an acronym for Heil Hitler,

00:09:16.660 do we need to see by these protesters on social media?

00:09:22.360 Well, let's answer the first one.

00:09:24.620 How many guns need to be seized?

00:09:26.180 Would you believe the number rhymed with hero?

00:09:28.720 You dummy.

00:09:29.540 And Heil Hitler, I mean, well, if that's the case, Adam, why doesn't the Ministry of Transportation

00:09:36.140 ban horns? 0.92

00:09:38.200 Obviously, I don't want to live in a country where every day on my commute,

00:09:43.380 I'm hearing maybe a hundred Heil Hitlers being directed on the 401 to various voters.

00:09:50.260 So can you imagine this is a sitting member of parliament?

00:09:55.340 And I believe this woman is Jewish, too.

00:09:58.400 So, you know, how, you know, to, I guess to, you know, diminish what Heil Hitler and Nazism 0.94

00:10:08.920 and what happened some 80 years ago by comparing that to somebody honking the horn of their Toyota

00:10:18.200 or Honda, it, I think it's just absolutely staggering, Adam.

00:10:22.740 You know, it's so vexing.

00:10:25.320 And this is something that's been bothering me for a long time.

00:10:27.580 And this is a perfect time to bring it up.

00:10:28.900 You know, how long did we hear Harper is literally Hitler?

00:10:33.340 Like that nonsense.

00:10:35.160 How long did we hear that?

00:10:36.780 Like every like Trump is Hitler.

00:10:38.900 Harper is Hitler. 0.75

00:10:40.320 These horn honkers are Hitler. 0.97

00:10:42.040 And then when conservatives say, you know, Justin Trudeau is exhibiting some kind of dictatorial

00:10:47.700 tendencies.

00:10:48.880 Everyone's like, you're disjointed and you're out of sync.

00:10:51.680 You've literally been calling people Hitler for years.

00:10:54.940 You're saying HH is an acronym for horn honking.

00:10:57.340 And then someone suggests their supreme leader is anything less than an advocate for democracy,

00:11:04.060 which is what the whole world thinks.

00:11:05.880 And we're the disjointed ones who aren't being respectful to people who have really suffered

00:11:10.020 under it.

00:11:10.400 And it's madness.

00:11:12.120 It's maddening.

00:11:13.080 And unfortunately, I think what we're seeing is that it has fed into the rhetoric and people

00:11:19.080 have bought this.

00:11:20.520 They actually believe that these people are malicious and vicious.

00:11:24.540 We'll get accused.

00:11:26.100 I'll be with Mocha, who, by the way, if you haven't noticed, is of Muslim background.

00:11:30.700 And people will yell, hey, you're a white nationalist.

00:11:33.300 I'm like, what are you talking about?

00:11:38.040 So it's unbelievable what this rhetoric that's been fueled by politicians like Justin Trudeau

00:11:43.400 and Mayor Jyoti Gondek here in Calgary, and then it's being enforced by police.

00:11:48.920 People, unfortunately, they believe it and they swallow it whole when it's categorically

00:11:52.680 not what we're seeing.

00:11:54.200 We're seeing people of all backgrounds.

00:11:55.720 In fact, even this weekend at the rally, James Topp, who I have an exclusive interview

00:11:59.900 coming up shortly with, he was at the rally and he was speaking to a large crowd and a lady,

00:12:06.880 she may have been homeless. 1.00

00:12:08.520 I don't know.

00:12:09.020 She kind of went up.

00:12:09.860 It was kind of a bit of an awkward experience, but she was actually an indigenous lady.

00:12:13.460 And she kind of started talking to him and he let her take the mic and she just said

00:12:17.020 she loved him and she's so proud of what he's doing.

00:12:19.380 And she's like, it's good to be a strong indigenous woman.

00:12:22.400 And the whole crowd was roaring, like cheering for this random lady who walked up and took

00:12:27.140 the mic.

00:12:27.740 So hardly the Hong Kong, Kale, Hitler, white supremacists that they would lead you to believe

00:12:33.120 are attending these rallies.

00:12:34.100 And here's the thing, Adam, I think if you're in a debate with somebody or you have a hater

00:12:40.640 passing by and they play the Hitler card or the Nazi card, they've automatically lost the

00:12:46.780 argument.

00:12:47.760 I'm not saying you cannot make a comparison to someone as being a Nazi or Adolf Hitler,

00:12:54.540 but the benchmark is very high.

00:12:56.440 And here's the benchmark.

00:12:57.220 If you're part of a government hell-bent on world conquest and you're carrying out a

00:13:02.760 genocide, yeah, that's kind of Nazi-ish. 0.77

00:13:06.240 That's kind of Hitler-ish. 0.93

00:13:07.980 But if you have a divergent opinion, that is not equitable to being called a Nazi, being

00:13:15.640 compared to Adolf Hitler.

00:13:16.660 But this is the thing with the left, Adam, it came into vogue around Donald Trump becoming

00:13:23.440 president.

00:13:25.260 And it's simply this, that phrase, punch a Nazi. 0.68

00:13:29.920 Now, again, this is not punching someone who is advocating world conquest or a genocide.

00:13:36.500 This is punching somebody who has a differing opinion.

00:13:40.600 Okay, so this is legitimizing violence, not against anyone who has committed a crime, not

00:13:49.220 against, not for the purposes of self-defense, which is legitimate, but simply because that

00:13:55.220 person doesn't think like you do.

00:13:58.140 How far has liberalism come, Adam?

00:14:00.980 I mean, when I think of classical liberalism, I'm thinking of all the things we hold dear,

00:14:05.860 freedom of speech, of assembly, of expression, of the press.

00:14:10.980 But that's gone by the wayside.

00:14:12.900 It is now groupthink, or you are, therefore, a Nazi, and therefore, I have the right to violence. 0.69

00:14:21.020 And maybe the most recent example of that was last Sunday, my friend, when Will Smith decided

00:14:27.340 to smack Chris Rock.

00:14:30.340 Probably would have done it if Chris Rock was the Rock, I think.

00:14:34.600 But in any event, this is a very disturbing trend, I see, with the left being so cavalier

00:14:43.100 with these despicable descriptors.

00:14:46.320 Well, and you see it in place with the police force themselves.

00:14:49.920 There's this underlying irony.

00:14:51.640 The message with everyone from Justin Trudeau to Antifa is like, oh, socialism and love and

00:14:57.260 rainbows and puppies.

00:14:58.600 But then they're the first people to have horses run over ladies on mobility scooters. 1.00

00:15:03.140 Antifa, they profess to be anti-fascist, and they come after us, and they call me a fascist,

00:15:09.040 and they yell at me, and then they threaten violence, and they get violent to enforce their

00:15:13.740 ideas on other people.

00:15:16.240 There was a group of people within history who used violence to enforce their reign over

00:15:21.060 other people.

00:15:21.560 They were called fascists.

00:15:23.140 So it's extremely interesting to see liberal progressivism so inclined towards violence and

00:15:29.360 destruction.

00:15:29.760 And you saw a bunch of liberals when Will Smith attacked somebody over a joke.

00:15:34.340 And someone already said they don't want to hear about Will Smith today, so we're not

00:15:36.920 going to talk about it anymore.

00:15:38.280 But we saw sort of a bloodlust.

00:15:41.760 It's like this gladiator arena where we see these people wanting to be targeted.

00:15:46.460 And the other example of it is pastors here in Alberta and pastors across Canada, indeed.

00:15:50.940 But when we see these pastors being hauled in, Pastor Arthur Pawlowski was in jail for

00:15:55.860 51 days for, ultimately, preaching at the Coots blockade, opening up his church, and feeding

00:16:02.080 homeless people.

00:16:03.020 Predominantly, the crux of his ire from the government is for feeding homeless people.

00:16:07.440 And this isn't a stunt, or they say they feed homeless people.

00:16:10.740 This is where the homeless people go to food on these set days.

00:16:13.840 So they're genuinely feeding homeless people.

00:16:15.880 People are saying, lock him back up, throw him back up after everything he's been through

00:16:20.540 for doing this.

00:16:21.700 They want people to suffer who don't align with their values, even if the values they

00:16:26.160 don't agree with is feeding homeless people.

00:16:28.040 It's absolutely unbelievable to see.

00:16:29.800 And we saw it again this weekend with Pastor Derek Reimer being targeted, being arrested

00:16:35.040 for, effectively, he runs a church like Archer that feeds people on the street.

00:16:39.540 The injunction was selectively enforced against him by these officers doing the bidding.

00:16:44.120 And clearly, politically targeting individuals, not evenly applying the law.

00:16:50.040 They're going after pastors now.

00:16:51.480 And then the left, the progressive left, the same people espousing for this type of violence,

00:16:55.660 they just love it.

00:16:56.980 No, well, Adam, you said a lot there.

00:16:58.700 A couple of things when it comes to Antifa using intimidation and violence.

00:17:04.760 Antifa is a contraction of anti-fascists, but they use the methodology of fascists to get

00:17:12.640 their way, they're not anti-fascists, they're simply fa.

00:17:17.340 Secondly, with these pastors feeding the homeless, and I've never understood the explanation,

00:17:24.620 the ostensible policy reason here, Adam, why they're being ticketed and arrested and doing

00:17:29.980 jail time.

00:17:30.660 Even at the very height of the pandemic, we have pastors going outside feeding the homeless

00:17:38.360 because COVID might kill you.

00:17:41.440 It's a very slight chance, but I can tell you this much, folks, starvation 100% will definitely

00:17:47.820 kill you. 0.99

00:17:48.800 In any event, they're in an outdoor environment serving the homeless food.

00:17:54.220 And yet, just down the road, Costco, Walmart, packed to the gills with people, business as

00:18:01.680 usual.

00:18:02.780 Adam, how can you square this logically?

00:18:07.300 Well, the thing is, is you can't.

00:18:08.660 And the fact that you don't understand it indicates only that there's some sanity remaining with

00:18:12.220 you, David, which is good news.

00:18:14.700 But that's the problem, is all of these policies from the get-go, and because we're on YouTube,

00:18:20.420 we don't need to get too much into health orders, but just generally speaking, honking

00:18:24.400 here is okay, honking here is not okay, protesting here is okay.

00:18:28.160 In fact, Dina Hinshaw, when there's pro-Palestinian protests, changed the law, so protests were allowed

00:18:33.160 under certain conditions as soon as that started happening.

00:18:37.120 So there's a rule for me, not for thee, it's political and ideological enforcement.

00:18:41.800 It is clearly not rational or evidence-based.

00:18:45.520 They're just kind of reacting based on what politicians are saying, rather than looking at the

00:18:50.000 evidence, rather than looking at the facts.

00:18:52.060 And this is a criticism that has come from the left and the right alike, or the freedom-inclined,

00:18:57.380 or the lockdown-inclined.

00:18:59.060 Like, regardless of which province you're in, the ultra-progressive liberal types are saying,

00:19:05.800 well, your response isn't evidence-based, and we're not looking at the right facts.

00:19:09.800 They're saying we should lock down more.

00:19:11.320 But regardless, there's the unanimous agreement that, well, your policies aren't really evidence-based.

00:19:17.400 You're just kind of doing things, political signaling, doing what other provinces are doing

00:19:21.540 to sort of measure up and keep up with the neighbours.

00:19:25.040 But there's not a lot of rationality behind any of this, particularly when we think about

00:19:30.520 in the case of these pastors, unless he spent more time in jail, especially when you consider

00:19:35.000 extra credit for pretrial custody, than he will spend if he's charged on almost all.

00:19:40.140 Oh, we are losing Adam, it seems.

00:19:47.780 So while we deal with those technical difficulties, why don't we throw to an excerpt of Adam's

00:19:55.000 wonderful interview with Pastor Art Pawlowski, something you would never see in the mainstream

00:20:00.220 media folks, because they're the cheerleaders for lockdowns and for arresting people. 0.59

00:20:05.100 It's almost hard to believe they're even able to type copy, given that their pom-poms are

00:20:10.500 so firmly affixed to their wrists.

00:20:12.680 So here's a brief excerpt of Adam with Pastor Art.

00:20:17.980 The testimony very much to your character.

00:20:20.560 You just spent 51 days incarcerated, very much as a political prisoner.

00:20:24.420 I want to talk about that.

00:20:25.620 I want to talk about the transfer to Edmonton, some of those other things.

00:20:28.100 It's also very interesting to hear the sort of dehumanization, them trying to turn you

00:20:32.580 into a number, very clockwork orange-esque, trying to reduce you to just a number and

00:20:38.040 to just a prisoner, trying to revoke your identity.

00:20:40.420 But it's so striking to me that your principal concern here is the treatment of those other

00:20:44.840 people and how the system will not lead to their remediation, lead to their salvation,

00:20:51.140 surely, in your perspective.

00:20:53.000 I just wanted to ask, obviously, you don't want to be incarcerated.

00:20:56.280 Obviously, you don't want to be behind bars.

00:20:58.740 But do you feel as a pastor that, to some extent, you were needed there, that these people

00:21:04.220 needed you, that there was a higher purpose to your incarceration beyond the government

00:21:09.540 persecution and prosecution?

00:21:13.020 Let me answer this with the words of the inmates.

00:21:16.080 And they said, just don't go.

00:21:23.720 Yeah.

00:21:26.280 Take your time.

00:21:41.180 Yeah.

00:21:43.020 Those boys have no one.

00:21:44.220 They're left alone in the hands of the beast.

00:22:02.760 A friend of mine was just beaten by a guard just a few days ago for nothing.

00:22:08.040 Punched in the head.

00:22:08.980 You know why?

00:22:14.560 Because he says he likes me.

00:22:17.200 And he likes the prayers.

00:22:20.060 And I'm not a bad guy.

00:22:22.620 So in the middle of the night, two came and showed him that that's unacceptable.

00:22:30.920 He was placed in solitary for 14 days.

00:22:34.700 That's good.

00:22:37.420 That, you know, it was something to see.

00:22:39.800 Sorry about that.

00:22:40.520 Skype randomly shut down on me.

00:22:42.080 But it was incredible to see, you know, like for anyone who has sort of misgivings or apprehensions

00:22:48.320 about Arthur Pawlowski, he's more aware of the fact, more than aware of the fact that he

00:22:52.600 sort of preaches strongly and he brings about a persona.

00:22:56.100 But after 51 days as a political prisoner, after facing five arrests, three incarcerations,

00:23:04.220 all for feeding the homeless, and this stemming from the fact his son, Nathaniel, who's been

00:23:09.700 in some of our videos, people likely know this, but when he was born, he was not very likely

00:23:13.960 to survive.

00:23:14.760 And at that point, Pastor Arthur, who was living a very different life, basically got

00:23:18.760 down on his knees and said, God, you know what?

00:23:20.560 If you can help my son, my whole life is for you.

00:23:23.380 That set him on this path, this completely principled and unflinching path where it doesn't

00:23:30.380 matter what they're going to do.

00:23:31.260 He's serving God.

00:23:32.540 God has told him that these people who attend his church, some of them dealing with addictions

00:23:36.860 and challenges, his commitment was he's going to be there for them.

00:23:40.500 Homeless people, as you said, who don't cease being hungry simply because the government 0.69

00:23:45.340 implements mandates, he's not going to abandon those people.

00:23:48.600 He will be there for him.

00:23:50.580 So that's the type of man that says for people out there who are apprehensive.

00:23:55.100 And after 51 days of political imprisonment, I'm speaking to him.

00:23:59.940 We asked him about his conditions.

00:24:02.000 We asked him about how it was.

00:24:04.260 He almost exclusively wanted to talk about the other people and how hard it is and how

00:24:09.440 much he wishes he could be there for them to the point where he was weeping for these

00:24:13.180 boys, he calls them, his boys in jail.

00:24:14.940 Well, this man loves so much and there's people out there who call him hateful, call

00:24:20.500 him bigoted, call him whatever else.

00:24:21.980 It's categorically not true.

00:24:23.680 That interview right there, it's touched so many hearts and it's because people can really

00:24:28.280 see what Pastor Arthur Pawlowski is about.

00:24:29.980 This weekend at the protests, at least 100 people came up to me.

00:24:33.740 A number of them said they cried watching the interview.

00:24:36.080 This is a story that is going to live on.

00:24:40.820 And long after these politicians who have implemented this, these authorities who have

00:24:44.480 imprisoned this man, this is the history books.

00:24:47.300 This is the stuff of history books that we're going to be looking back on and saying, how

00:24:51.220 did we get to that point?

00:24:52.600 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski is very much, there's been lots of pastors, there's been lots of

00:24:56.740 ticketing, there's been lots of persecution.

00:24:58.500 But his story is, I think, the one that has captured the minds and imaginations of so many

00:25:03.540 people international attention to what is happening here in Alberta.

00:25:08.700 Adam, that was a very profound interview you had with Pastor Arthur.

00:25:13.300 That anecdote that he referred to, that's the second time I've heard that anecdote.

00:25:19.540 I still can't believe my ears, assuming it's true.

00:25:23.440 And I have absolutely nothing to doubt Pastor Arthur that it's nothing but the truth.

00:25:30.560 The fact that an inmate said that he liked Pastor Arthur, what he was preaching, and he

00:25:37.920 got physically slugged by a guard and put into solitary, on what basis?

00:25:45.080 This is grotesque.

00:25:48.140 Yeah, it's and it's, you know what, I've had some of this may seem so surreal, even talks

00:25:53.760 about access to drugs and some of the other unbelievable stuff that was going on being stuck in solitary.

00:25:58.700 Lots of this is confirmed in courts and was discussed, and evidently some of this is under

00:26:04.520 a publication ban.

00:26:05.920 Some of the details, so we won't get into it so much, but it seems like a great deal of

00:26:09.280 this is sort of verifiable.

00:26:11.740 But the other sort of extremely troubling thing is I've probably had 20 people either email

00:26:16.060 me or call me or come up to me at rallies who've done time, confirming that this is what

00:26:20.960 it's like 100%, that this is the case.

00:26:23.680 And the thing that really solidified it for me, we've we covered the release of Pastor

00:26:28.100 Tim Stevens, I was there, I think Sheila was on location when Pastor James Coates was there.

00:26:33.180 You go up, you're very professional, you just say, okay, where can we go?

00:26:36.940 So people were gathered to greet Pastor Arthur Pawlowski when he was released.

00:26:40.860 And the prison guards basically came out, the correctional officers, and said, if he talks

00:26:46.280 to anybody, we're going to arrest him again immediately.

00:26:48.100 He has to leave immediately.

00:26:50.840 And so the people started clearing out.

00:26:52.880 And then I just very kindly, and the guard said, stay back behind this barricade.

00:26:57.220 And I said, no problem.

00:26:58.460 I was complying.

00:26:59.460 I wasn't being difficult in any way, shape or form beyond saying, well, we're going to

00:27:02.860 film this because we want to make sure he gets out.

00:27:05.300 So I said, okay, so where can we as media go without compromising his release?

00:27:10.940 Like, where's a reasonable place that we can cover this?

00:27:13.460 So the one guard was kind of saying, well, there is a barricade for security reasons.

00:27:16.640 He was being reasonable.

00:27:17.260 The other correctional officer basically literally like, like kind of did like one of these like

00:27:22.180 get out of here, kind of fist shake, hand waves and scoffed.

00:27:27.000 And a bunch of people with us reacted.

00:27:29.020 Then he walks around and I said, what are you doing?

00:27:31.580 Why are you talking to me like that?

00:27:32.760 I very respectfully asked what's going on.

00:27:35.100 And he says, I don't talk to Rebel News and walks away.

00:27:38.860 And I said, hey, buddy, we hold you accountable.

00:27:41.700 It's not the other way around.

00:27:42.840 We've covered dozens of releases here.

00:27:44.400 But Marjana, Pastor Archer's wife, said that.

00:27:47.820 And it's funny because a bunch of sheriffs and corrections officers after came over and

00:27:51.100 said, that wasn't right.

00:27:51.940 We watch you.

00:27:52.620 We like you.

00:27:53.900 But Marjana said that corrections officer and a few other ones were actually right in

00:27:58.480 front of Archer and Marjana talking about Rebel News, like condescendingly.

00:28:03.360 I want to keep in mind for folks out there that a pastor is a political prisoner who was in

00:28:07.160 jail for 51 days.

00:28:08.220 We're the only real news outlet because we're the only media outlet that showed up to cover

00:28:12.480 it.

00:28:13.040 No one else was there other than maybe the independent journalist.

00:28:15.440 But there was no media outlets to cover the release of this pastor.

00:28:19.080 And this guy has the audacity to talk to me.

00:28:21.160 If you're willing to scoff and sort of wave your hand off like this and condescend towards

00:28:26.720 media with cameras rolling, I have no doubt that you're willing to engage in some questionable

00:28:31.860 conduct with prisoners when there's no cameras on you.

00:28:34.660 Well, you know, Adam, that's an excellent point.

00:28:38.440 Yes, because of that brazen outdoors and on camera.

00:28:41.920 My goodness, what are they doing in the darkness of those prison cells?

00:28:46.300 And if misery loves company and maybe super producer Olivia can dredge this up. 1.00

00:28:51.540 Last year, I went to a female penitentiary in Kitchener, Ontario, and there was a protest

00:28:58.700 there of women who are complaining about, and here's another reason to question the justice 1.00

00:29:05.500 system, that because of the Justin Trudeau liberals, men can now serve time as women. 0.75

00:29:11.620 You just merely have to say you identify as women.

00:29:14.780 You don't have to slice and dice your genitalia. 0.96

00:29:16.960 You don't have to take hormone shots.

00:29:18.660 And we were doing a setup sort of on the grassy berm where, you know, the prison is, and two

00:29:27.620 prison guards, female prison guards, came out and said we had to leave. 0.95

00:29:32.800 They were more concerned about us doing a stand-up on—and by the way, we weren't even

00:29:37.880 going to the door.

00:29:38.720 We weren't asking for any kind of interview from them.

00:29:41.280 They came to us.

00:29:42.100 They were more concerned about that than what the protesters had to say, that female penitentiaries 1.00

00:29:49.480 are turning into unsafe places, and they even called the police on us.

00:29:56.060 I don't know if Olivia finds that.

00:29:58.160 I'll throw to that, and you'll just show—we can just show you how we were treated by the

00:30:04.220 prison guards and what Sergeant Hand of the Waterloo Regional Police had to say, because

00:30:10.300 I think he said it all in his quotation.

00:30:12.640 Do we have that, Olivia?

00:30:14.540 That is it.

00:30:15.360 Yes, if you go back to right from the beginning of the opening, the cold open.

00:30:21.580 Okay, then.

00:30:22.220 We'll have that in a second.

00:30:23.400 But while Olivia's queuing that up, Adam, you've said a couple of things.

00:30:26.840 You referred to two of my favorite pop culture movies and TV shows, A Clockwork Orange and

00:30:32.880 The Prisoner.

00:30:34.020 And, you know, I wouldn't put it past this government to embrace the kind of techniques

00:30:38.900 you saw in those movies, A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess, a film by Stanley

00:30:46.160 Kubrick, a masterpiece, the drugish thug, Alex, being reconditioned. 0.96

00:30:54.540 Six, double, five, three, two, one.

00:30:55.800 There you go.

00:30:58.020 By various means so that he, for having wrong thoughts, he actually gets physically ill.

00:31:06.560 And of course, The Prisoner, the titular character, put on an island, stripped of his name, given

00:31:13.300 a number, number six, if memory serves me well.

00:31:17.080 And, again, dehumanized.

00:31:21.360 And the way we're going, and when I say we, I'm not talking about places like North Korea

00:31:26.420 or Iran.

00:31:27.340 I'm talking about Western democracies like Canada, especially when you see in the works, and it's

00:31:32.920 on the front burner, Bill C-11, the internet censorship bill.

00:31:36.720 Um, it's like we're heading towards a Clockwork Orange, prisoner, uh, dystopian future in many

00:31:45.860 respects.

00:31:46.560 Uh, I'll let you think about that as we roll, uh, what I encountered, similar to what Adam

00:31:52.900 encountered, uh, just hostility from prison guards for no justifiable reason, folks.

00:31:59.960 I was just, uh, called by the, uh, person that's manager here, uh, and they were, they

00:32:08.180 know you were coming, they had, you had a conversation with them, uh, there was, uh, a small complaint

00:32:15.900 that, um, someone with a camera and a microphone might have gone onto the property.

00:32:22.160 So, their concern is, uh, the privacy of the people inside the institution.

00:32:26.380 No problem with everybody being here, uh, you have the right to, uh, to do what you're

00:32:31.560 doing here, but they just ask that nobody actually go onto the property, if that's fair.

00:32:35.560 Yeah, that's fair.

00:32:36.260 I'll tell you, officer, if I can, I, I'm David Menzies with Rebel News.

00:32:39.480 What do you think about biological males being put in the same penile institution as biological

00:32:45.860 females? 0.99

00:32:47.680 Unfortunately, you're going to have to phone, uh, headquarters and talk to the media relations

00:32:51.600 department, so.

00:32:52.580 You don't have an opinion on that yourself, sir?

00:32:54.240 Uh, I can't give you an opinion, but, uh, the media relations department can certainly

00:32:57.940 help you with that.

00:32:58.780 All right, sir, one last thing.

00:32:59.960 If I do get arrested for trespassing, I want to declare to you, officer Hand, that I, right

00:33:05.420 now, identify as a female, and if I'm found guilty, I want to be incarcerated in that building. 0.99

00:33:10.700 Is that okay?

00:33:12.440 Uh, well, this is a federal prison, sir, and I, nobody said anything about getting arrested

00:33:16.960 today.

00:33:17.580 Okay, but if I do, I want to be known as a female as of this moment.

00:33:21.200 Uh, sir, you have the right to do whatever you want.

00:33:23.620 Uh, apparently so.

00:33:25.200 Sir, sir, did he assume?

00:33:27.760 I know, how dare he misgender me?

00:33:30.420 It's ma'am, it's ma'am, damn it. 0.68

00:33:34.200 You just said that.

00:33:35.460 Adam, does that not speak volumes?

00:33:38.840 You have the right to be whatever you want to be.

00:33:41.160 Yeah, so right now I'm a female.

00:33:42.740 In 20 minutes, I'll be a, I don't know, a Westinghouse toaster, I suppose.

00:33:46.600 But, you know, if you think we were trying to orchestrate a prison break, folks, the trespass

00:33:52.940 he's talking about is we were maybe one or two metres off the public sidewalk on a grassy

00:33:58.960 berm in front of the prison just to do a stand-up to show the signage indicating the prison, and

00:34:05.660 that evidently set off the alarm bells.

00:34:08.400 I mean, you might get the idea from, you know, a sergeant being dispatched, we were bringing

00:34:13.620 ladders and saws to that correctional facility.

00:34:18.860 To the penile correctional facility?

00:34:21.700 Yes, yeah.

00:34:22.420 Oh, a lot of penile going on and behind those doors, even though it's a woman's facility. 1.00

00:34:28.560 But again, you see this, you see the likes of a first-degree murderer, Omar Cotter, getting

00:34:35.340 10.5 million bucks for hurt feelings.

00:34:38.280 You see that poor guy saying that he likes Pastor Art Sermon getting physically hit and

00:34:47.360 being put allegedly into isolation for two weeks.

00:34:51.600 And you wonder why, Adam, it is that so many Canadians have a questionable opinion about

00:34:59.480 the justice system in this land.

00:35:02.440 Yeah, oh, for sure.

00:35:03.280 And I mean, you see this time and time again.

00:35:06.600 I could be wrong, but I believe the person who rammed one of the freedom protests with

00:35:11.660 their vehicle got bail, and then Pastor Art Kowalski doesn't get bail.

00:35:16.060 There's a clear double standard here in place.

00:35:18.360 And I don't know if these people realize, whether it's the police officers, whether it's

00:35:24.560 the courts, but I don't know if they realize the fundamental damage that they're doing.

00:35:28.620 And I want to jump back a little bit.

00:35:29.820 We talked about sort of the hyperbolic language that you can sometimes see with comparisons

00:35:34.720 to Hitler. 0.68

00:35:35.640 Very often what we see with these people, and even Pastor Art Kowalski, when he says this,

00:35:40.740 he clarifies this.

00:35:41.760 We saw Brian Dennison say this as well.

00:35:44.560 The media will say that they're comparing the treatment of people to what Hitler did

00:35:48.840 to many people, millions of people, Jews and Christians and Catholics and disabled people

00:35:55.180 and whatever it may be, millions of people, the horrible things he did.

00:35:58.380 That's not what's happening.

00:35:59.780 All these people, whether it be Brian Dennison or Pastor Art Kowalski, in the case of the

00:36:04.300 Kowalskis, many Eastern Europeans who their families saw this firsthand.

00:36:07.680 They're saying, even people from South America, Venezuela, Cuba, they're saying what we're

00:36:12.680 seeing now is the early steps of dictatorial decline.

00:36:17.540 So they're saying as a cautionary tale, and most of them are very clear, Pastor Art Kowalski

00:36:22.160 made clear that he's saying we're not in the height of one of the worst sort of genocides

00:36:27.720 in history.

00:36:28.500 He's saying that we're seeing some of the starting steps unfold.

00:36:31.880 And when you see selective enforcements of law, when you see the courts that are supposed

00:36:36.460 to uphold the law seemingly being wielded to target certain people who don't have the

00:36:41.720 right ideas while murderers and terrorists get breaks and are granted bail, it's right.

00:36:47.620 And it's saying to be concerned that there is a decline to some of the fundamental building

00:36:51.780 blocks that make Canada a free country.

00:36:54.920 Oh, 100 percent, Adam.

00:36:55.920 And, you know, it's funny.

00:36:56.840 We're also seeing, I think, whether you're campaigning against whatever the issue might

00:37:06.120 be, more relevant it's been in the last two years, the restrictions and the lockdowns thanks

00:37:11.880 to the coronavirus, people who are on side with the restrictions, oh, well, it doesn't

00:37:18.400 affect me yet.

00:37:19.360 So I'm gung-ho in them getting rounded up.

00:37:23.060 It doesn't affect my particular brand of freedom of speech.

00:37:27.080 And then we have the police.

00:37:28.500 I don't know how many times I've heard the phrase, just following orders when you try

00:37:33.340 to question them.

00:37:34.900 And then when it starts to affect you, and here's the real perverse irony, I think, Adam,

00:37:41.220 because it's now starting to affect, lo and behold, the Calgary police officers.

00:37:46.400 The thin blue line patch is now being deemed verboten.

00:37:54.580 They are not, they're being told you're not allowed to wear it.

00:37:58.200 So suddenly, I wonder what these officers, if they would speak frankly, what they would

00:38:04.920 say in terms of, we didn't care about their free speech, and I'm just following orders.

00:38:09.640 And now the mayor is saying, get those offensive patches off your uniform.

00:38:14.400 Do we have any video of that, by the way, Adam?

00:38:18.940 Yeah, I did.

00:38:19.800 I did have an interview with retired, or resigned rather, Constable Brian Dennison, who originally

00:38:24.460 resigned over COVID-19 mandates.

00:38:27.100 But the police, they actually are, for once, taking a stand.

00:38:30.920 So this weekend, we did see all those thin blue lines.

00:38:34.020 Oh, yeah, here's the Brian Dennison interview.

00:38:35.980 We can jump to that audio if you want.

00:38:39.060 I don't agree with you.

00:38:39.960 And what they do is they'll cancel you.

00:38:42.840 And that's happening a lot now.

00:38:44.640 So I think what it has turned into is the police who have been arm's length from any government

00:38:49.800 are now embraced by the government.

00:38:51.700 And they're actually doing the government's bidding.

00:38:56.800 Yeah.

00:38:57.360 So it's here for Rebel.

00:38:58.680 That's good.

00:38:58.860 We can get there.

00:38:59.400 I can kind of wrap up what we went through.

00:39:01.540 But basically, what we're seeing, even John Orr from the Calgary Police Association, he's

00:39:08.000 the president.

00:39:08.660 They basically advocate on behalf of the officers.

00:39:10.880 They said no.

00:39:12.060 Like, they said, we're not doing this, overtly.

00:39:15.040 So basically, you have the Calgary Police Commission, the chief and the mayor, who are sort of progressive

00:39:19.800 activists and ideologues, saying, you can't do this anymore.

00:39:23.400 And they just said no.

00:39:25.320 I think we're seeing, we have seen sort of unofficial breakdowns from the cohesion between

00:39:34.520 the chief and the officers.

00:39:36.140 The first couple months of these protests, some of the officers with their masks on might

00:39:41.200 sort of give us a nod or lean in and say, we're really support what you're doing.

00:39:45.920 Now we can walk by the protests.

00:39:47.860 And there's clear division.

00:39:48.860 Some people are militant and give you the stink eye.

00:39:50.700 But there's large groups of police officers who will say, hey, Adam, thanks for doing

00:39:55.180 that interview with Brian.

00:39:56.280 We really appreciate it.

00:39:57.720 They will have that conversation overtly and without hiding it.

00:40:01.020 They'll wave from across the street when their bosses are around.

00:40:04.780 They're public in this.

00:40:07.160 But this thin blue line, I think, crossed the line for them because there was very much,

00:40:11.420 well, we don't quite necessarily agree with what we're doing, but at least we're unified

00:40:14.900 and we can stand together.

00:40:16.320 Now the chief is saying, oh, well, you're a symbol of unity.

00:40:18.180 We're going to take that away, too.

00:40:20.060 And the most vexing thing about all this is the police chief isn't concerned with the

00:40:24.120 increasing crime and all this other stuff that's going on, serious criminality.

00:40:28.220 He isn't concerned about pastors being arrested left, right and center, international attention

00:40:33.740 being brought to his abusive police force.

00:40:35.940 He's like, oh, we really have to focus on getting rid of this meaning of this symbol that the meaning

00:40:41.080 they're attributing to it, no one thinks it.

00:40:43.240 People see the thin blue line and they think, oh, good, like for fallen officers and unity among

00:40:48.380 police officers. That's the extent of it for anybody.

00:40:51.220 They're bringing in all this like critical race theory and talks about it's an oppression.

00:40:55.900 It's not there.

00:40:57.020 Nobody sees that.

00:40:57.980 Nobody thinks that when they see that symbol.

00:41:00.600 And so the police are saying enough is enough.

00:41:02.500 We're not going to go along with this.

00:41:03.520 Now, I'd hoped this might be the start of police saying, no, we didn't see that on the

00:41:07.660 weekend.

00:41:08.100 They were handing out the tickets.

00:41:09.480 They were arresting pastors.

00:41:10.820 But at least there's the start of something where they're starting to push back a little

00:41:14.580 bit.

00:41:15.000 Yeah.

00:41:15.140 But wait a minute, Adam.

00:41:16.140 Here's the thing.

00:41:16.880 And by the way, that's wonderful to hear that there are members of the Calgary Police

00:41:21.840 Service that are giving you the thumbs up when their superiors are not around.

00:41:27.100 Because as far as I can tell, the Calgary Police Service is right up there with the Montreal

00:41:31.720 Police Service and the RCMP as the absolute worst police force in Canada these days.

00:41:37.500 But that aside, don't you find it downright perverse that here is a mandate where they're

00:41:44.980 told not to wear the thin blue line patch on their uniforms?

00:41:50.920 And many officers are saying, no, I'm going to do that.

00:41:53.800 And yet they're still going out there and enforcing the injunction against, oh, gathering

00:41:59.380 at a public park, honking one's horn.

00:42:02.600 I mean, I think that's outrageous.

00:42:05.260 Like, I'm glad they're taking a show of defiance.

00:42:08.160 But if they're doing that kind of defiance, they should turn the other cheek to honking

00:42:13.680 horns, protesting the lockdown mandates and gathering in a park, shouldn't they?

00:42:20.600 Yeah.

00:42:20.980 You know what I honestly wonder, though, is I think that there is a categorical ineptitude

00:42:27.060 within the police force, particularly with police chief Mark Neufeld, because if that's

00:42:32.600 not the case, they're completely lying about absolutely everything.

00:42:36.300 But the amount of times that we have seen, like, factual errors in statement, like the

00:42:42.820 arrest of Devlin Gannon, extremely dramatic.

00:42:45.140 He was simply asking them, what rule is being broken?

00:42:48.360 The protest is over.

00:42:49.660 We're not using amplification.

00:42:51.220 What exactly are we doing wrong here?

00:42:53.340 Unless there's some footnotes or tiny script, the core tenets of the injunction, you're

00:42:59.100 allowed to sit in a park.

00:43:00.020 You just can't use amplification.

00:43:01.340 You can't be doing this stuff.

00:43:02.260 So he's asking them what's going on.

00:43:03.900 And one of the cops says, well, you're not allowed to have more than 50 people together,

00:43:07.220 which is not the best of my understanding in the injunction.

00:43:09.820 That's false.

00:43:10.920 Then you have this arrest where we saw the footage or sorry, the ticketing for the honking.

00:43:14.860 And that guy saying, oh, this injunction doesn't apply to those people.

00:43:18.000 A couple of weeks ago, the police chief was asked by either a global or CTV reporter, I

00:43:22.500 believe.

00:43:23.540 Well, David Pawlowski, he's got this compelled speech mandate against him.

00:43:26.860 Why wasn't he arrested after speaking?

00:43:28.580 Well, the facts are that compelled speech mandate was stayed and it's pending appeal, so it doesn't

00:43:33.020 apply.

00:43:33.660 But the police chief, the Pawlowskis are one of the highest profile stories in the city. 1.00

00:43:37.640 The police chief said he's not familiar with those facts.

00:43:41.780 I mean, if he's not familiar with those facts, I don't believe that one.

00:43:45.000 But the ineptitude and the lack of communication.

00:43:48.500 After this arrest took place on the weekend of Pastor Derek Reimer, a group of police biked

00:43:53.660 around the corner and they were basically verbally accosted by everybody.

00:43:57.780 And then they biked away.

00:43:58.760 So I went over to talk to them quickly.

00:44:00.360 It was raining heavily.

00:44:01.520 Camera equipment was starting to go down.

00:44:02.820 So just as I'm walking by, I happen to see them and I asked them and they were like that

00:44:07.540 we got a call around the corner to an alley about a passed out guy.

00:44:11.440 And we come around the corner and people are screaming at us, they didn't even know an

00:44:14.520 arrest had taken place.

00:44:16.220 So people are screaming at them asking why they didn't, they didn't even know what was

00:44:19.340 happening.

00:44:19.980 So there seems to be some organizational disjunction.

00:44:23.840 And I wonder if it's intentional, where they don't inform the people necessarily.

00:44:28.120 And they're just saying, you go do this, you go do that.

00:44:30.360 But on these higher profile cases, a known entity like Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, a known entity

00:44:35.700 like Pastor Derek Reimer, it's always the same few cops.

00:44:38.980 Kian wisely, K2 wisely pointed out, it's the same cops very often being used who are

00:44:44.140 clearly willing to do this.

00:44:45.720 Oddly, some of those cops are happy to speak to us when there's no cameras rolling and they're

00:44:49.920 rather friendly and they want some more content.

00:44:51.660 But there seems to be these few officers who have no problem simply just doing what they're

00:44:55.580 told, even if it doesn't necessarily make sense.

00:44:57.880 But there is clearly some either flat out lying or categorical ineptitude taking place.

00:45:04.040 Yeah, there's the shot with Pastor Archer giving one of his first tickets and then Pastor

00:45:09.900 Reimer being arrested the other day when I was there.

00:45:12.220 So same guy.

00:45:13.820 Yeah, it's pretty interesting.

00:45:16.160 You know what?

00:45:17.900 That is interesting because he's really all down with the revolution in terms of clamping

00:45:23.540 down with the protests.

00:45:24.620 And that's the thing with every police service you get.

00:45:27.600 There are some awful police officers and there's some great ones.

00:45:32.060 It's the same with every profession, doctors, lawyers, journalists, for sure.

00:45:36.860 Right, Adam?

00:45:37.520 But I want to go back to what you said earlier.

00:45:39.520 And that is, how is, you know, no amplification a thing?

00:45:45.580 Because I'm assuming in the weeks ahead, things are going to get warmer in Calgary, much like

00:45:50.840 they're going to get warmer all across the country.

00:45:52.800 So are the cops going after the ice cream trucks?

00:45:57.160 Are they going after those jabronis in their tricked up Honda Civics playing their stereo 1.00

00:46:02.580 at full blast?

00:46:04.320 Or that kind of amplification, is that okay?

00:46:08.400 What do you think?

00:46:09.760 You know, I can tell you directly, the wild thing that we saw here is just prior to Pastor

00:46:15.440 Derek Reimer being arrested, as I mentioned, they said, well, this cop, I think they were

00:46:20.840 wrong, but they said, oh, the injunction only applies to this protest.

00:46:24.080 Well, Pastor Derek was in no way, shape or form involved in the protest.

00:46:27.600 He was doing his normal street church on the street corner where they are every Saturday,

00:46:31.760 nothing to do with the protest.

00:46:33.140 And they arrested him under this injunction of amplification.

00:46:38.060 The unbelievable thing, though, is they were playing music over the amplifier all day and

00:46:42.660 there was no incident whatsoever.

00:46:44.600 No enforcement.

00:46:45.960 After he was arrested, they went back to playing music and there was no incident whatsoever.

00:46:49.880 But while he started preaching as a pastor over amplification, suddenly we saw enforcement

00:46:56.320 of the amplification injunction against this one individual.

00:47:01.000 Absolutely egregious.

00:47:02.900 And again, these visuals is really all you need to bring into court, I think, Adam, to

00:47:10.000 show a justice that, listen, look at the double standard.

00:47:14.320 Look how it's a very selective law.

00:47:16.400 Therefore, I don't think these tickets are going to, you know, come to fruition in terms

00:47:23.400 of these people being held guilty.

00:47:26.120 It is absolutely despicable.

00:47:27.400 And I guess to close the circle on what's going on in certain regions of Alberta, the

00:47:33.280 UCP leadership convention is coming up.

00:47:36.920 And there is a tie to this, Adam, I think, because I think the buck stops with Premier

00:47:43.180 Kenney.

00:47:43.920 And I think he has really demoralized a big part of his base by allowing these health services

00:47:53.940 necromancers, as our friend Sheila likes to call them, and the police to clamp down on

00:47:59.920 our basic freedoms.

00:48:00.860 I think it might hurt them.

00:48:03.100 Now, I asked Sheila a few weeks ago, is there any possibility of Jason Kenney having to step

00:48:10.960 down as a result of this convention?

00:48:13.140 She said she wouldn't bet yay or nay.

00:48:16.320 It's literally too close to call.

00:48:18.640 What is your what are your thoughts on this, Adam?

00:48:21.760 Yeah, you know, I think that it could be close.

00:48:24.760 I think people are demoralized, but I think that there is probably I get he needs 50% plus

00:48:30.280 one to say no for a leadership to be triggered.

00:48:33.640 And I I'm not sure when we attended the last UCP AGM, Ken and I were on hand.

00:48:40.320 The general sentiment, and I mean, it's maybe not entirely inaccurate, aside from some of

00:48:45.280 the pipeline stuff, which largely was at the behest of Joe Biden and other things.

00:48:49.420 But there has been some good economic recovery compared to other provinces.

00:48:54.760 Even we did a campaign and I'm going to be speaking with RJ Sigurdsson soon about some

00:48:59.120 of the serious issues with AHS.

00:49:00.880 I sent this long, detailed email.

00:49:02.760 And within a week, they actually had a committee and were addressing a whole bunch of the issues.

00:49:07.620 And a couple of weeks later, they announced further sort of corrections of some of the

00:49:11.100 criticisms.

00:49:11.840 I think there is a sentiment out there among people who don't care about freedom issues

00:49:17.200 that, well, he's been good at the other stuff.

00:49:19.400 But when I was at the UCP AGM, I spoke to somebody and he was talking about Jason Kenney.

00:49:24.220 I think he wrapped it up perfectly.

00:49:25.660 It's like you can be good on all your fundamentals, nine out of 10.

00:49:29.100 But if you miss that basket in the championship game, you're not Michael Jordan.

00:49:34.240 And he says freedom, the fundamental issue of freedom, COVID-19 restrictions, all these

00:49:39.540 past arrests, all of this, Jason Kenney has fundamentally missed when it mattered most on

00:49:45.300 those issues.

00:49:45.900 But I think the issue here and the reason Jason Kenney may maintain it, and if he does

00:49:50.620 maintain it, we may have an NDP government again.

00:49:53.400 That is one of the concerns.

00:49:55.040 So if it was to shift, it would likely be people saying, Jason Kenney can't win again.

00:50:00.000 People hate him.

00:50:01.080 We need to get somebody who can beat the NDP in the next election.

00:50:03.840 That would be the source of the shift, I think.

00:50:06.000 The issue is, though, is the people, many of them very good people, but they're people

00:50:11.800 just from Alberta's political past who've always wanted to be leader.

00:50:16.020 It isn't some new voice saying, enough is enough, we need a change, or someone who's

00:50:19.640 been toiling behind the scenes.

00:50:21.960 We basically have Brian Jean, who lost out in the leadership race, very beloved, was successful

00:50:27.180 in acquiring a nomination within the UCP, has declared his intention to run.

00:50:31.480 He might be the person most likely to come back, but for many people, he's the person

00:50:36.420 they already didn't vote for, and they voted for Jason Kenney instead, because he maybe

00:50:40.160 wasn't conservative enough, or didn't have these sort of set values.

00:50:43.460 So Brian Jean very much liked, but I'm not sure if he's the guy to take it away.

00:50:48.140 He's hoping to be.

00:50:49.400 Danielle Smith, as well, recently entered.

00:50:51.320 She's actually had a pretty post-political, prolific career as a solid journalist, doing some

00:50:56.980 very good work.

00:50:57.740 I've worked with her on a number of things.

00:50:59.540 So I think she's very well sort of liked now, compared to then.

00:51:02.980 But I think the second her name re-enters into the political conversation, when I've

00:51:08.140 mentioned it to anybody, and this is no shot against Danielle for me, but immediately they

00:51:13.000 say, oh, the floor crosser.

00:51:14.620 That is sort of the political legacy associated with her name.

00:51:18.000 So I don't know, despite the fact she's probably the most freedom-oriented, she's definitely

00:51:21.860 libertarian, likely to back away from some of these measures more than anybody else.

00:51:27.360 Brian Jean hasn't really committed to do that quite so much.

00:51:30.340 But I don't know, because of that political baggage, if people are willing to look beyond

00:51:34.900 it.

00:51:35.180 So I think if someone really strong came up, again, now Brian Jean, likely the strongest

00:51:39.160 candidate, they could take this.

00:51:41.000 But what we have is the politicians from 5, 10 years ago coming back again, trying to make

00:51:45.800 a name for themselves.

00:51:46.600 It's not new.

00:51:47.180 It's not exciting.

00:51:48.120 Feels like the same old, same old.

00:51:49.860 So it remains to be seen.

00:51:52.120 But we will have that information.

00:51:53.540 We'll be sure to be covering it.

00:51:55.200 We might do a live stream during that.

00:51:57.200 We might sort of be on location.

00:51:58.940 Most of it's being done through mail-in.

00:52:00.640 So it's not going to be quite the live, exciting coverage that we had hoped for.

00:52:05.060 But we will be bringing you the latest on that.

00:52:07.700 And it's close.

00:52:09.120 It's very close.

00:52:11.140 The other thing that's really interesting here, too, is Jason Kinney has actually, I

00:52:15.460 believe, admitted that he's had conversations regarding some of the questionable stuff that

00:52:19.920 took place in the original leadership bid, many people asking similar questions with

00:52:24.680 this mail-in mechanism if there's going to be funny business.

00:52:27.720 So there's some doubt and hesitancy and a story there as well, for sure.

00:52:31.800 Well, it sounds like there's going to be a lot of drama this year compared to other years.

00:52:35.840 That's for sure, Adam.

00:52:36.880 And I just want to go back to one thing you said.

00:52:39.460 What's on the plus side of the ledger for Premier Kinney is the economy showing signs of recovery.

00:52:45.380 But, Adam, wouldn't you say that a lot of that recovery is directly tied to the surging

00:52:51.200 price of a barrel of oil right now?

00:52:54.040 And that's really due to so many factors around the world right now, as opposed to any kind

00:53:00.180 of Kinney economic policies.

00:53:03.160 Or have I got that wrong?

00:53:06.060 Mostly.

00:53:06.800 I mean, that is sort of the facts of the matter when you're talking about any sort of energy

00:53:11.640 industry rich resource place.

00:53:14.400 Clearly, he hasn't really been successful in getting a bunch of new pipelines done or

00:53:18.360 done, any of that sort of stuff.

00:53:19.820 But he has been somewhat successful in bringing in new businesses.

00:53:24.540 There's a couple of Amazon sort of outlets and distribution cells.

00:53:28.860 I mean, Amazon's growing so fast, that's probably going to happen anyways.

00:53:31.940 An aircraft manufacturer is setting up base here.

00:53:35.320 So some new business is being brought in by the government.

00:53:37.960 Of course, they're going to try and cash in credit any time a business decides to come here.

00:53:42.240 So I don't know how much credit can be afforded.

00:53:44.140 But as with all things in politics, if things are going well, the politicians take credit.

00:53:48.360 If they're going poorly, they take blame, whether or not they have much weight in it.

00:53:53.200 I think very much.

00:53:55.380 I don't think he's made any sort of heroic efforts or done anything beyond cutting the

00:53:59.860 taxes on gas to help people out.

00:54:02.540 But I don't think he's necessarily done anything particularly heroic.

00:54:06.180 But he hasn't been entirely, aside from some of the XL pipeline sort of investment plunders,

00:54:12.140 he hasn't been entirely inept on fiscal issues, which sadly is good enough for conservatives.

00:54:17.780 Compared to the NDP, though, this is it, though, is anyone who's concerned about the economy.

00:54:23.600 Rachel Notley constantly talks about helping the poor people.

00:54:26.800 And then she's voting in favor of all these massive carbon tax increases.

00:54:30.000 A hundred percent.

00:54:30.480 So I think people are strategically, rather, saying, how do we keep her out?

00:54:36.740 Can Kenny do it?

00:54:37.700 I don't think it's a matter of who do we like and who do we want and who do we really believe

00:54:41.760 in anymore.

00:54:42.520 It's who can keep the Wicked Witch of the NDP at bay, because they're seriously concerned

00:54:47.940 about the massive economic damage that could happen.

00:54:50.500 And I mean, if she had the power, we would be under lockdowns forever.

00:54:55.420 I don't doubt that there'd be forced vaccinations.

00:54:59.160 She's advocated for some pretty scary restrictions.

00:55:02.820 So I think that the UCP, even under Jason, Kenny, unbelievably, even with all these pastor

00:55:08.380 arrests, all of this stuff, it would be far worse under Rachel Notley.

00:55:11.780 So I think people are strategizing around that a great deal.

00:55:15.920 Still, Adam, it is scary because, you know, when I look back at Rachel Notley and the NDP

00:55:21.580 forming government in Alberta, I wrote that off as a once in a generation, multi-generation 1.00

00:55:29.480 anomaly.

00:55:30.980 There was a perfect storm that had been created.

00:55:34.480 Some would say that perfect storm might be recreated and she's back in, which is absolutely

00:55:40.140 staggering.

00:55:40.960 But we'll see what happens at the UCP convention.

00:55:43.800 We've only got five minutes left before it's one o'clock Eastern time.

00:55:47.440 So we should get to some of those chats, I do believe, assuming we have chats.

00:55:52.820 And we do, I've been told.

00:55:54.680 And from Annalisa1964, $10.

00:55:58.400 Good morning, sweet Menzi and Adam.

00:56:01.720 Well, good morning to you, Annalisa.

00:56:03.780 It's already afternoon here.

00:56:05.940 But thank you for being so generous, as usual, with that $10 donation.

00:56:10.140 And we have Harper will always be my PM.

00:56:15.640 Is that right?

00:56:17.300 Yeah.

00:56:17.920 One dollar.

00:56:19.060 If Calgary cops are so bored that they can sit all day looking for horn being used, does

00:56:27.740 Calgary seriously need so many clowns milking taxpayers for over $400 million a year? 0.78

00:56:35.880 Well, Adam, it's a good point.

00:56:37.560 I think if you're going to have some kind of phony baloney, no amplification law, then

00:56:45.400 why is it being selectively targeted to the Freedom Rally people?

00:56:52.240 And I mean, talking about the allocation of resources, we've seen like SWAT teams and

00:56:57.720 dozens of officers taking Pastor Arthur out.

00:57:00.940 He's never been violent.

00:57:02.200 If they ask him to show up at a court, he does.

00:57:04.100 It's this massive spectacle this weekend.

00:57:06.620 Like I said, we've got these cars lined up and police lined up.

00:57:10.340 They aren't watching the protests or keeping an eye on that to ensure it's peaceful.

00:57:14.580 They're literally just staring at the road.

00:57:16.840 And I saw one of the officers.

00:57:18.820 It might have been that guy who did the arrest, actually, the other day.

00:57:22.200 And I was walking back to my car, parked after the rally.

00:57:25.520 And I just look at him and I just kind of gave him this.

00:57:29.940 He's running out to the street and writing down plates and radioing ahead.

00:57:34.140 And they've got 10, 20 cops, all these cop cars allocated towards.

00:57:38.640 Well, it's very serious, though.

00:57:39.900 They're saying hail Hitler with their horns.

00:57:41.520 So they must must must be stopped.

00:57:43.720 So I would love to have gone one of those tickets.

00:57:46.340 I'd love to look forward to my day in court to make a mockery of this.

00:57:50.380 But unbelievable, really quickly on those tickets.

00:57:53.980 I do want to mention I did an interview with Farouk of Paul's Pizza in Airdrie.

00:57:59.280 Do confirm this on social media.

00:58:01.140 But I think he's giving free pizza to anyone who gets an $81 ticket.

00:58:05.300 You just show up with your ticket and you get a free pizza.

00:58:07.940 Paul's Pizza, Airdrie.

00:58:09.020 Check out their social media.

00:58:09.960 My wife and someone messaged it to me as well.

00:58:12.660 So I think you get a pizza if you get an $81 ticket.

00:58:16.120 That's hilarious.

00:58:17.120 I mean, it reminds me.

00:58:18.220 I don't know if the Toronto Raptors still do this.

00:58:20.380 But they certainly used to have a promotion that if the combined score of the two teams exceeds 200 points, bring your ticket stub to Pizza Pizza, I think it was.

00:58:31.380 You need to get a free slice.

00:58:33.140 So we got the same sort of thing going on here, except for a Heil Hitler ticket. 0.82

00:58:39.620 Unbelievable.

00:58:41.160 Let's see what else we have.

00:58:42.960 Harper will always be my PM. 0.55

00:58:45.300 Another dollar.

00:58:45.820 I read Elon Musk now owns biggest part of Twitter.

00:58:51.100 I wonder if he plans to clean up the mess there.

00:58:55.380 I think, what is it, 7%?

00:58:56.980 I think it is.

00:58:58.240 I think nine.

00:58:59.320 Nine?

00:59:00.400 Yeah.

00:59:01.280 It could be seven.

00:59:02.080 It could be seven.

00:59:02.700 To be the largest shareholder, what does he need?

00:59:05.300 I don't know if this is true or not.

00:59:06.920 I heard it was in the realm of – it's not a lot, like 15 or something like that, Adam.

00:59:13.140 Is that correct?

00:59:14.060 I think in the 15 to 22 range.

00:59:16.280 Yeah.

00:59:16.560 And then you also need a position on the board in order to basically be in charge.

00:59:20.920 But it's interesting because he started tweeting about this recently.

00:59:23.960 He's sort of like the Donald Trump of corporate America where he just like – he doesn't like something, so he just does something.

00:59:31.460 He doesn't really consult anybody.

00:59:33.020 He just kind of does it.

00:59:34.240 But he's – I think he's on that route.

00:59:36.540 I don't think he bought – I don't think he bought nine – seven to 9% of Twitter just to own seven to 9% of Twitter.

00:59:42.280 I think this is a play to restore some freedom, get some balance back out there, and allow opinions to be heard.

00:59:48.960 So I'm sure there will be more coming on that soon.

00:59:51.040 Well, I'd love to see regime change there.

00:59:53.140 I mean, that new jabroni in charge, he makes Jack Dorsey look like a First Amendment fanatic, for goodness sakes, the way that platform is going.

01:00:03.520 And I want to say this too, Adam, that what really bothers me about the Twitters, the Facebooks, the YouTubes of the world,

01:00:11.440 when we go back some 15 years ago to their genesis, the bait-and-switch way they advertise these platforms,

01:00:21.680 come one, come all, this is the Wild West of free speech.

01:00:25.660 And then once they attained critical mass, Adam, they went, okay, you, you, you, and you, out.

01:00:32.520 You're banished.

01:00:33.300 And it was really quite incredible, the business model too, and the chutzpah behind being selective,

01:00:40.100 because when they reached out to people, and these were celebrities, these were, you know, very known commentators, you name it,

01:00:48.780 they're getting the content for free, and it's good content.

01:00:54.420 And then once, again, like I said, when they got critical mass, they could be choosy regarding what kind of free speech they like.

01:01:02.900 I think it is so despicable.

01:01:05.840 I despise how Silicon Valley is now not all about free speech, but rather about censorious thugs.

01:01:14.440 Well, and you know what?

01:01:15.740 The market self-corrects.

01:01:17.800 Like, YouTube had such a massive monopoly.

01:01:20.660 Any other sort of video outlet that popped up was sort of a fringe who needs it sort of thing.

01:01:26.820 YouTube had the entire market.

01:01:28.920 They had it cornered.

01:01:30.360 They shot themselves in the foot.

01:01:31.780 But now we're seeing Odyssey, SuperU, Rumble, all these other platforms blowing up in this niche market.

01:01:38.620 You're also seeing people, whether it be Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, who are saying,

01:01:43.740 well, I'm going to give my energy and resources, Elon Musk even, to outlets that allow free speech, allow free exchange of ideas.

01:01:51.420 And then so those industries are growing.

01:01:53.260 So they may have thought in the short term, well, we're going to tip our hat to our progressive donors or tip our hat to these ideologies.

01:02:00.960 But long term, the market will self-correct, rectify that.

01:02:03.780 And you're going to see outlets willing to engage in free ideas and free exchange of ideas, just doing better.

01:02:09.060 You know, that's a great point, Adam.

01:02:11.140 And I'd love to be able to glimpse into the future five, 10 years down the road.

01:02:15.320 See where Rumble, Odyssey, SuperU are.

01:02:18.060 If they, too, gain that critical mass, I wish them all the best.

01:02:22.580 Believe me, we need competition in that sphere for sure.

01:02:26.580 And what else do we have here?

01:02:28.280 Harper will always be my PM again, another dollar.

01:02:31.780 I am surprised Princess Henshaw did not like the JT claim she got COVID suddenly and go hide to some cottage. 1.00

01:02:42.000 What's that about, Adam?

01:02:43.640 So that's just when Justin, when the convoy is coming, suddenly Justin Trudeau got COVID.

01:02:48.920 There's a little apprehension from the general public as to whether that's true.

01:02:52.880 Many suggesting that he simply ran away and hid.

01:02:55.900 So I think Harper will be our PM is implying that suddenly Dina Henshaw may come down with a case and won't be able to attend court, 1.00

01:03:02.560 even though court is all being managed remotely generally.

01:03:05.440 But I think that's the gag there.

01:03:08.000 Wow.

01:03:08.300 Running away and hiding when it comes to Justin Trudeau.

01:03:10.980 It reminds me of the old George Carlin joke, Adam.

01:03:14.600 What does a dog do on its day off?

01:03:17.040 It can't just lie around doing nothing all day.

01:03:19.320 That's its job, right?

01:03:21.020 In any event, I missed.

01:03:24.620 Harper will always be my PM again.

01:03:27.380 Well, thank you so much.

01:03:28.640 One dollar.

01:03:29.740 Social liberal Ford claims he will cut petrol by five point cents a liter.

01:03:34.900 But after June the 2nd, June the 2nd, that's significance, Adam, because that is election day.

01:03:41.460 Oh, and by the way, read the fine print of that five point seven a liter cut.

01:03:46.660 It's only temporary for six months.

01:03:53.320 I know.

01:03:55.780 But, you know, again, the problem, much like in Alberta, as much as I've been horribly disappointed by the Doug Ford PCs,

01:04:05.060 and I'm not making an excuse for them, what's lurking behind door number two and door number three, i.e. the NDP and the Liberals, might be even more horrific.

01:04:18.260 Once again, I'm just going to have to—how did I vote last election?

01:04:22.840 I think it was Libertarian in my writing.

01:04:25.040 The guy got about 283 votes, so it really is a protest vote.

01:04:29.460 But the thing is, when I hear people say that the Liberals and NDP would be just as bad, if not worse, here's the thing, Adam.

01:04:38.440 I agree with that, but that doesn't mean Ford and his cabal should be just as bad.

01:04:47.160 As a conservative, we wanted something different.

01:04:50.940 We have found out clearly in the last four years that Doug Ford is not Rob Ford.

01:04:55.660 I quite frankly think Rob Ford is rolling in his grave, seeing what's happening.

01:05:01.000 So that is my rebuttal, is that, yes, they're worse, but we should expect better, and we deserve better.

01:05:10.800 Yeah, and I've said that from the get-go.

01:05:13.200 Alberta, as an Alberta boy, we deserve better than this sort of milk water.

01:05:18.700 Well, I want a new base, careless, reckless, unfree.

01:05:22.720 Like, Alberta's the home of the strong and free, and this leadership has been anything.

01:05:26.380 But we don't need last week's politicians. 0.56

01:05:29.160 We don't need politicians who compromise on fundamental values.

01:05:32.540 We want real conservatives.

01:05:34.560 I think it's so sad to see radical progressives, Mayor Gioti Gondek, Rachel Nodley, potentially making a comeback in Alberta.

01:05:42.240 It is not what we're meant to do.

01:05:43.920 And the sad thing is, it's just as sad as Aaron O'Toole losing to Justin Trudeau.

01:05:48.740 So if these people had strong ideas out on the forefront, and they were campaigning to win instead of campaigning to not lose, we would have strong conservative leadership, period.

01:06:00.000 Unfortunately, what we have is cowards campaigning not to lose, and that's why we get cowardly leadership.

01:06:04.920 And, you know, Adam, I've got to tell you that 5.7 cents a litre cut, temporary, of course, it reminds me of a few months ago when what was in the news cycle was there was supposed to be, and I hope I have my numbers right.

01:06:19.160 Forgive me if I misspeak, folks.

01:06:22.220 But I believe it was supposed to be a 12.5% cut on the electricity bills of Ontarians.

01:06:30.180 I believe that was a promise.

01:06:31.960 And if you can imagine, Adam, not only did the cut not happen, but the explanation absolutely defied belief.

01:06:39.000 Essentially, the Ford PCs were saying, well, we didn't cut it 12.5%.

01:06:45.000 But you see, if the liberals were still in power, they would have raised it.

01:06:51.160 Oh, there you go, 12%.

01:06:53.220 So it kind of like is a cut because it just stayed the same.

01:06:58.840 Can you imagine the chutzpah, the audacity?

01:07:03.140 Oh, yeah, it is.

01:07:04.480 It's like that's if there was a ministry of the economy in the dystopian world of 1984, that's the kind of press release they'd be sending out.

01:07:15.040 The other thing that's so maddening about this, and we're going to touch on this, obviously, we ran out of time, but we see these insane carbon taxes being passed.

01:07:23.000 So like Ford, Kenny, whatever, these governments, at least Kenny stands up to carbon taxes a little bit.

01:07:28.100 But we're seeing like it's like, oh, prices are going up 6% because of a carbon tax.

01:07:32.760 But, hey, we'll give you a 6% discount.

01:07:35.960 It's like adding a tax and then giving a discount to claim credit for giving a discount.

01:07:41.280 You just added the tax.

01:07:43.000 You're the reason, a major part of the reason that the fuel costs are so high, and then you're giving us this credit.

01:07:48.440 Like, thanks a bunch.

01:07:49.300 Really appreciate it.

01:07:50.140 Oh, it feels like I'm on the streets of New York City playing three-card Monty sometimes.

01:07:58.260 Yeah, yeah, 100%.

01:07:59.680 Do we have any more, Olivia?

01:08:01.340 We do.

01:08:02.060 Oh, Harper will always be my PM. 0.78

01:08:03.800 Another buck.

01:08:05.320 Thank you, sir.

01:08:05.900 Men and women with real courage become cops in USA.

01:08:10.540 Cowards who are scared to face crime and real danger become cops in Canada

01:08:18.440 and get paid for not doing much.

01:08:21.820 You know what?

01:08:22.200 I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, Adam.

01:08:24.720 I think all over the world there are bad police and good police in every force.

01:08:29.940 And I would say the ones in any kind of police service, the people who hate the bad police the most are indeed the good and the great cops because it soils their reputation.

01:08:42.620 I don't think a lack of competence or being hot to physically abuse citizens when you're handing out a ticket.

01:08:53.580 I don't think that, you know, is something that's defined by borders.

01:08:59.760 And we don't want to paint with too broad a brush because there are people among these police forces who maybe look the other way when they could give a honking ticket,

01:09:10.080 who want to fight crime, who got in it for the right reasons, who are feeling morally torn, who behind the scenes are working with other cops.

01:09:18.100 I can confirm some of this is happening to try and get some justice, to try and fix these situations.

01:09:23.720 And they very likely watching right now, they feel so maligned by the people that they would associate with because they feel like they're being told all cops are bad.

01:09:33.900 And when the people you're trying to reach out to, the freedom side, the justice side maligns you and alienates you and makes you feel terrible.

01:09:41.940 Well, then sometimes they do just revert to, well, I guess I'm sticking with the other cops.

01:09:45.720 So we want those people to feel included.

01:09:49.000 There's plenty of room at the table for those inclined towards freedom and justice.

01:09:52.560 So I'd never want them to feel excluded or excommunicated de facto.

01:09:57.280 Again, as Matt Brevner says, there's plenty of room at the table.

01:10:00.960 Absolutely.

01:10:02.200 And Harper will always be my PM.

01:10:05.260 Another buck.

01:10:06.300 Thank you, sir.

01:10:06.840 I am surprised Paul Bernardo is not playing this new nonsense, having a lawyer saying,

01:10:14.740 yes, Paul is now a girl.

01:10:17.520 You know what, Adam?

01:10:18.580 That's a great point.

01:10:19.480 That's the first thing that came to mind when it came to this nonsense.

01:10:24.420 The only thing I can think of as to why Bernardo hasn't played this card, and if people are unaware of Paul Bernardo,

01:10:33.760 he was the one, along with his wife, who were the schoolgirl killers back in the 90s,

01:10:42.500 it might be because, as I understand it, he's in solitary.

01:10:47.680 And so if he was switched to a female penitentiary, but the conditions are you're still in solitary, what's the point?

01:10:56.000 Yeah.

01:10:56.140 That's my guess.

01:10:58.760 Yeah, that sounds about right.

01:11:00.660 Okay.

01:11:01.360 Another buck from Harper will always be my PM.

01:11:04.900 Is that WRPS Sarge seriously wearing safety glasses?

01:11:12.380 You know what?

01:11:13.100 He might be.

01:11:15.780 Maybe a guy like me not wearing a mask.

01:11:18.720 I'm a next-generation typhoid Mary, Adam.

01:11:24.260 But that is amazing, isn't it?

01:11:27.140 These are law enforcement officers that quite literally, given the case, could be putting their life on the line if the bad guys have handguns.

01:11:40.600 And yet, this guy's got the mask on, he's got the safety goggles on, just having a conversation with yours truly.

01:11:49.840 What do you make of that?

01:11:51.780 Yeah, you know, it doesn't make sense.

01:11:54.860 I think most cops, once given the opportunity to not be masked, were.

01:12:00.880 We saw that very quickly at the rally, but you will see the odd person.

01:12:04.720 I'm not going to lie.

01:12:05.800 I imagine in some of these cases, they figure a camera is rolling.

01:12:09.540 Some of the people who are very friendly and don't wear a mask normally, if they know we're there and a camera's rolling, suddenly the masks and glasses come out and they put on a bit of a show.

01:12:19.220 But it's sad that they're putting on a show and they're not doing that for real.

01:12:22.840 They're not doing it for their own protection.

01:12:24.380 It's sort of a new modern virtue thing.

01:12:26.560 One of the funny things that I noticed, though, and I mean, it's really kind of sad, but Calgary Police Service is right at the start of this heavy clampdown.

01:12:33.060 They got these new hats and they're bright yellow at the top.

01:12:36.500 And they're like these mind control devices because as soon as they all put on these new hats, they started beating up protesters and arresting people.

01:12:45.380 So, wow.

01:12:46.280 I don't know who buys those.

01:12:47.880 Someone gets the masks and gets the yellow hats.

01:12:51.280 And yeah.

01:12:52.680 Well, I guess they're being reimagined.

01:12:56.020 And, you know, and by the way, you go back to that ban on the thin blue line patch, Adam, it's what it's what I'm wondering is that I guess there'll be a gay pride parade in Calgary this summer.

01:13:12.140 And I'm just wondering if how many officers will be wearing, you know, the rainbow flag on their uniform.

01:13:19.400 What I'm getting at here is that if you're saying that these uniforms have some sort of strict standard, and that is the definition of a uniform, there's a uniformity to a uniform.

01:13:31.040 Then again, it's selective banning of patches.

01:13:35.540 So, a thin blue line, bad, rainbow flag, good.

01:13:40.640 Yeah.

01:13:41.280 Yeah.

01:13:41.580 And it is just 100% ideological.

01:13:44.920 We're going to see this sort of laxed approach around some sort of things that they're in line with and then other protests.

01:13:51.920 Like we're seeing right now, there's allegedly an injunction to keep downtown quiet and peaceful.

01:13:56.140 Well, when there's other protests, I'm sure when there's loud music, if there are pride parades, that wouldn't be being enforced.

01:14:01.780 With the Ukraine protests, we're seeing it not enforced.

01:14:04.640 It's just very selective.

01:14:06.740 And 100%, there's been no issue with this thin blue line.

01:14:12.860 Nobody sees that and thinks like, hmm, like right-wing conspiracy theorists in the United States or QAnon.

01:14:19.220 Nobody thinks that other than these like academic activists in Mayor Jyoti Gondek's office and Mark Neufeld.

01:14:25.520 Mark Neufeld should stick up for himself and for his cops.

01:14:28.980 I don't know if he believes this stuff or if he's just going along.

01:14:32.180 I, for one, think he just saw what happened to the Ottawa police chief who managed to see crime decline and managed to keep everything peaceful while the truckers were there protesting.

01:14:42.160 Well, he was shown the road and someone else came in and they did all this absurd abuse and pointing guns at people and running over ladies on mobility scooters.

01:14:51.300 Well, the message from Jyoti Gondek to Calgary police chief Mark Neufeld was very much, I want something done right away.

01:14:56.680 I think the implication was you're going to go the way of the former police chief and we're going to bring in a militant who's willing to hammer down on these people.

01:15:04.120 So I think he's very much guarding his job.

01:15:06.480 But at a certain point, you're trampling fundamental rights, violating charter freedoms, all of that stuff.

01:15:11.840 At a certain point, you have to say, no, enough is enough.

01:15:14.000 Jyoti Gondek's popularity is plummeting in this city.

01:15:17.680 She would be out if there was an election today. 1.00

01:15:19.840 No question.

01:15:20.240 She's done nothing but screw up.

01:15:22.840 So I don't know why he's attaching his cart to her horse, so to speak, because her horse seems cliff bound.

01:15:30.580 Yeah.

01:15:30.880 And if that amplification law is still around, come the gay pride parade in Calgary, Adam, I can't imagine a gay pride parade without amplification. 0.50

01:15:40.280 You know, that kind of a parade resembling a, I don't know, a Remembrance Day service.

01:15:45.080 No, no, no.

01:15:45.480 That's not going to happen.

01:15:47.180 So you keep your eye out come June, Adam, and see what happens.

01:15:53.120 And do we have any more?

01:15:55.420 We have one more.

01:15:57.300 Fraser, $5.

01:15:58.680 Thank you very much, Fraser.

01:16:00.560 What date do you guys think the emergency mandates will end?

01:16:05.360 My opinion is never.

01:16:07.520 Fraser, I think you're bang on.

01:16:10.220 Adam, I want to get your opinion on this, too.

01:16:12.280 I don't think these lockdown mandates are extinct.

01:16:17.900 I think they're in a period of hibernation, especially when there are elections going on.

01:16:23.380 I think all levels of government, federal, state, provincial, municipal, school boards even, they got a taste of totalitarian power, Adam.

01:16:35.000 And, man, they really dig that taste.

01:16:37.960 And I really think, across the board, they were actually pleasantly shocked at how willing the population was ready to capitulate.

01:16:48.780 How people would mask up.

01:16:50.760 How they would shut down their own businesses, or their own independent businesses, while the likes of the Costco's and Wal-Mart's and provincially run liquor control board stores remained open.

01:17:01.720 And I think they will come back, even if there is no legitimate pandemic reason for them to come back.

01:17:10.520 Yeah, we saw, I believe it was from Ontario, Efron put it up.

01:17:14.500 It was a clip of a health official saying, we won't hesitate to bring these back.

01:17:18.500 Well, and I tweeted this the other day, but that's the fundamental issue.

01:17:21.880 When you're talking about bringing back mandates that violate our freedoms, that devastate the economy, that take a massive toll on mental health, if, as a government official, you aren't hesitating, please, for the love of God, for the sake of the Constitution, our charter rights, all that good stuff, just step aside and bring in someone inept, bring in someone who's not inept, bring in someone sane.

01:17:43.860 Because you should be pausing to think.

01:17:47.620 You should be considering the broader consequences of your actions.

01:17:52.620 Hesitating is what you're supposed to do when making reasonable decisions.

01:17:57.140 But that's not what they do.

01:17:58.200 They're so inclined.

01:17:59.420 Everyone from Jason Kenney to Ontario, BC still has a bunch in place.

01:18:04.020 They're saying, well, we could bring these back at any moment.

01:18:06.140 We were already seeing the media rhetoric, the preparation for this is going to come back.

01:18:12.120 It's going to be back.

01:18:12.920 You guys have to be used to it.

01:18:16.560 It's going to happen very likely.

01:18:19.420 Maybe not to the same extent, but I want to make clear to people out there, the mandates aren't over.

01:18:23.740 Unvaccinated people can't travel freely within or without the country. 0.98

01:18:28.400 Thousands of people have lost their jobs, never received severance, and haven't received their jobs back.

01:18:33.180 So when people out there say, well, the mandates are over, they might come back, they are far, and I'm not saying Fraser is saying that by any stretch, but they are far from over.

01:18:40.360 And the mentality that this has done among those people who maybe weren't affected or have returned to their jobs, these people aren't protesting every week across Canada for fun.

01:18:50.360 They're protesting because people are still suffering and justice has not yet been done.

01:18:54.340 But yeah, I think the mandates will likely return.

01:18:56.480 And Adam, I don't know what the lay of the land is in Alberta, but I can tell you in the greater Toronto area, such is the will of the sheeple, I call them, that there are individual businesses that are still mandating the mask law.

01:19:13.460 Even though the law was eradicated on March 21st, I went to a store the last week, Harry Tarantula, it's a comic book and gaming store.

01:19:23.080 And the moment I walked in the door, the two fellows behind the counter who worked there, it reminded me that the last scene of the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where Donald Sutherland is doing that, that scream.

01:19:38.600 He's already being co-opted by the plant people and he's ratting out one of the remaining human beings in San Francisco. 0.60

01:19:45.320 They were beside themselves.

01:19:47.620 They said, where's your mask?

01:19:48.560 And I was saying, well, that's, oh, haven't you heard?

01:19:51.340 That's yesterday's news.

01:19:53.020 But no, according to them, they're the owner for the health and safety of the staff and customers is still mandating the mask.

01:20:02.860 And this wasn't a caper, I was just on my own time and I was just, but what I couldn't help but think, Adam, is that all during this pandemic, we were told, follow the science, follow the science.

01:20:13.700 Now you have the chief medical health officer of the province, Kieran Moore, saying, yep, as of March 21 at midnight, you are free to go maskless.

01:20:25.420 And yet here we see people who are so indoctrinated.

01:20:30.700 Yeah, there's Donald Sutherland.

01:20:33.120 Can we play that clip?

01:20:34.760 It's one of the most horrific endings to a movie.

01:20:38.720 And I'm sorry if I spoiled it to anyone that hasn't seen that version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the best version ever filmed, by the way.

01:20:46.900 But and again, speaking of movies, I did a rant on this, Adam.

01:20:50.760 I mean, it's I liken it to there's a long forgotten 1971 film called Bless the Beast and Children.

01:20:59.100 And it's about these misfits.

01:21:01.000 There are these preteens at a summer camp.

01:21:03.440 They band together.

01:21:04.700 They're getting bullied and they find out it takes place in Arizona.

01:21:07.740 They find out that there is a buffalo ranch near the camp.

01:21:13.700 And to their horror, they discover that hunters for paying a fee, they can go and kill the buffalo, quite literally shooting fish in a barrel.

01:21:24.500 And they make it their mission that summer to somehow get into that buffalo preserve, break open the gates and let the buffalo run into the wild for freedom.

01:21:34.140 And they are successful in doing so in opening the gates.

01:21:38.220 And what I said is, to their horror, they discover that the buffalo don't run away.

01:21:43.460 They just stand there.

01:21:44.840 Their spirits have been broken, Adam.

01:21:47.420 They are so used to being captive animals ready to be shot that they do not flee.

01:21:53.460 I see the same thing happening with those holdouts mandating a mass mandout.

01:21:58.220 Now, hairy tarantula, they might be a great, you know, business in terms of comic books and games.

01:22:04.380 But I don't think they're experts on virology.

01:22:08.000 Last word goes to you, Adam.

01:22:10.220 You know, I want to tell people out there, and this is like a personal story.

01:22:13.900 I'm just whining, taking my shot at Ticketmaster.

01:22:16.440 But I purchased tickets to go see this physicist, Brian Cox, big BBC physicist, very soft-spoken.

01:22:22.940 You might have seen him.

01:22:23.880 Does a lot of stuff.

01:22:24.720 So I got tickets for an event in Calgary.

01:22:26.940 I'm all excited.

01:22:28.260 They weren't cheap.

01:22:29.060 I got nice floor seats for this presentation.

01:22:31.740 I get my tickets to my Ticketmaster inbox.

01:22:34.520 And after the fact, despite no vaccine mandates being in place and the government even deleting the vaccine mandate app,

01:22:40.160 this health check box pops up over top of my tickets after I've purchased them.

01:22:45.680 And it stipulates that there will be vaccine passports checked because that's what the facility, the organizer, wants to do.

01:22:52.480 So I'm like, oh, well, I'll take a refund then.

01:22:53.880 I can't attend.

01:22:54.580 Unfortunately, I was very excited.

01:22:55.640 No, no refund whatsoever.

01:22:58.260 They're selectively disregarding even those people who said follow the health officials, follow the directives.

01:23:04.560 Well, those directives are no longer in place.

01:23:06.800 There's no vaccine mandate.

01:23:08.200 Private institutions are now upholding this ideological narrative.

01:23:11.900 So even beyond the official mandates, there has been a social shift in people who are clean and unclean, included and excluded, and that is not going anywhere.

01:23:22.160 So Ticketmaster, give me a refund.

01:23:23.860 Stop excluding people. 0.95

01:23:25.700 Stop acting in this categorically un-Canadian, undemocratic way.

01:23:30.320 It's time we get back to normal and treat each other like fellow Canadians, not like a divided class.

01:23:35.140 Well, what a way to end the show.

01:23:36.760 I believe that is reason number 8,472 to hate Ticketmaster.

01:23:44.560 What an egregious mob those people are.

01:23:47.980 Oh, yeah.

01:23:48.140 In any event, folks, thank you so much for tuning in.

01:23:51.660 Thank you for those who gave us those financial chats.

01:23:56.220 That's how we keep the lights on.

01:23:58.040 Thank you to super producers Olivia and Efron.

01:24:02.280 In the meantime, I'll be back in this space at this time with the she-devil herself, Sheila Gunn-Reed. 0.99

01:24:10.260 And Adam will be back next Monday with Sheila again, assuming there's not another necromancer in court in Alberta.

01:24:18.920 In the meantime, as always, stay sane.

01:24:23.420 Is it like we want to go back to these, like, mask fund days, for example.

01:24:28.100 Let's take that, for example.

01:24:29.420 There's no benchmark.

01:24:30.700 There's no point depth.

01:24:31.660 Can you tell people that you're not going to wear masks, that these masks are not going to be mandated again?

01:24:37.780 Well, we're going to have to watch this.

01:24:39.740 We've always taken a very cautious and gradual approach.

01:24:42.420 And the health and well-being of the people of Ontario has always been our number one priority.

01:24:47.320 So we are following it.

01:24:48.760 Dr. Moore and his team are following it.

01:24:50.560 And we're going to make sure that if any changes need to be made, we won't hesitate to do that.

01:24:55.480 But as things stand now, we are in a very good position.

01:24:59.020 No.

01:25:01.300 We're going to do that.

01:25:02.260 We're going to have one.

01:25:06.040 We'll be right back.

01:25:07.000 We'll be right back.

01:25:07.160 We'll have a whole other thing.

01:25:07.980 We'll be right back.

01:25:08.560 We'll be right back.

01:25:09.100 We'll be right back.

01:25:09.180 We'll be right back.

01:25:09.440 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - April 04, 2022

DAILY ｜ Protests, pastor arrests, thin blue lines and carbon virtue signalling

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