Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ CBC's Comment Mods, Protesting Puberty Blockers for Kids

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00:01:14.320 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.600 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:01:37.280 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.020 Well, knock me down with a feather.

00:01:42.000 The CBC heavily censors its website comment section to maintain its leftist narrative.

00:01:49.760 And we have the proverbial proof in the pudding.

00:01:53.220 Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the nitty-gritty.

00:01:56.020 And activist Chris Elston was back in Montreal recently to protest the use of puberty blockers in children.

00:02:02.160 The good news, this time around, he wasn't pummeled by members of the ever-tolerant, loving left

00:02:08.840 who think it's a jolly good idea indeed for children to transition prior to puberty.

00:02:15.520 Yankee Pollock has all the disturbing details.

00:02:19.140 And letters, we get your letters.

00:02:20.920 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:22.700 And you had plenty to say about one of my most recent tickets via law enforcement.

00:02:28.060 You see, the Peterborough police charged yours truly for covering a protest back in that city in April.

00:02:35.400 My crimes?

00:02:36.940 Shaking hands and laughing.

00:02:40.820 And no, folks, I'm not pulling your leg.

00:02:43.700 Those are your rebels now.

00:02:44.860 Let's round them up.

00:02:45.740 Rebel News has obtained exclusive access to information documents about CBC's comment section

00:02:57.540 and how the comments are managed to amplify the opinions of some Canadians

00:03:03.720 and censor and silence the facts provided by others.

00:03:08.600 And they do this along political lines.

00:03:10.860 Here's the document itself.

00:03:12.520 We will attach it in the body of this rebelnews.com article

00:03:17.000 for you to be able to read it in full for yourself.

00:03:21.400 Because you should not have to take my word for anything

00:03:24.520 when you can read the documents with your own eyes.

00:03:27.820 It's only 42 pages long.

00:03:29.700 However, it's internal CBC emails and notes about how the comment section is handled

00:03:35.140 based on the content of the story and who's in the story.

00:03:39.960 We know that CBC didn't like President Trump.

00:03:42.300 That's obvious.

00:03:43.180 But the website managers blocked any comment that linked to a Trump video

00:03:48.860 that would prove the CBC's lies to be false.

00:03:53.420 We'll get to that story in a second.

00:03:55.180 We also first learned that CBC was very worried about controlling commenting

00:04:00.800 on a Wendy Mesley story after she was suspended

00:04:05.700 for repeatedly using the N-word in CBC work meetings.

00:04:10.520 Look at this on page one.

00:04:12.880 It's pretty clear the CBC thinks that they can't have viewers asking about what

00:04:16.940 horrible word Wendy Mesley used. 1.00

00:04:19.560 Hi, Spencer, Press, and Irene.

00:04:22.760 The moderation team is asking for guidance on audience attempts to speculate on what word was used.

00:04:30.900 Now, further down, we can see that CBC didn't even cover the story of Wendy Mesley's suspension from the network

00:04:39.880 on some of their own websites, particularly Radio Canada.

00:04:43.640 Can you imagine the five-alarm supernova fire that CBC would be consumed by for days if a Conservative had said what Wendy Mesley did? 0.75

00:05:03.240 But since she's one of them, they admit to not even reporting the story on Radio Canada.

00:05:09.600 On page six, staff are seeking direction on controlling comments about the Capitol Hill riot.

00:05:16.440 So let's not allow links to Trump videos, they said.

00:05:19.900 Well, your tax dollars hard at work yet again, folks.

00:05:38.260 And if you ever suspected the fix was in when it came to the CBC's comment section, well, speculate no longer.

00:05:48.020 Our FOI clearly reveals that the CBC comment section is either a one-sided cesspool of radical leftism

00:05:55.860 or it doesn't exist at all, depending on the story and the topic, of course.

00:06:01.320 That's because CBC carefully moderates their comment section to spin their own progressive narrative.

00:06:09.160 Gee, what a surprise.

00:06:12.220 And joining me now regarding the latest egregious example of a state-funded broadcaster behaving badly is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:06:20.460 How you doing, Sheila?

00:06:22.220 I'm great, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:06:24.020 It is always a pleasure.

00:06:25.140 So, Sheila, before we get into the nitty-gritty here, I can already hear the apologists out there arguing,

00:06:31.720 hey, it's the CBC's own website.

00:06:34.440 They can do what they want with their content.

00:06:37.280 But that's not really true at all, is it?

00:06:39.780 When they are receiving something like $1.5 billion, an involuntary $1.5 billion handout from Canadian taxpayers,

00:06:49.960 we the people surely have some skin in the game, do we not?

00:06:55.140 Well, you would think.

00:06:56.280 Since, you know, like we're paying for it, all of us pay for the CBC.

00:07:01.000 But CBC is purposefully cutting, I would suggest, one-third to one-half of Canadians right out of the comment section

00:07:09.100 because they don't conform to their liberal-loving ideas over at the CBC.

00:07:16.020 And it's not even just if you're conservative.

00:07:18.540 If you are critical of the CBC, now normally those things go hand-in-hand, but not always.

00:07:25.780 Or if you are fact-checking the CBC on something you know to be wrong, they censored that too.

00:07:32.880 And, you know, Sheila, there's two ways of looking at this.

00:07:36.660 Either that they are so super thin-skinned to criticism that they can't take any heat,

00:07:44.640 or they have a belief that, well, we control our narrative in our broadcasts and in our web content,

00:07:52.320 let us also control the narrative in the comments section so that the indoctrination process is complete.

00:07:59.780 Well, and I think it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, but also it has another purpose. 0.98

00:08:07.940 And I think it serves to make you feel like maybe you're the crazy one. 0.92

00:08:11.960 It's a little bit of gaslighting. 0.79

00:08:13.700 You know, if you are the only person posting in the CBC comment section,

00:08:17.940 no, pretty sure Trump didn't say that.

00:08:20.160 Here's the link to what he actually said. 0.72

00:08:22.800 And nobody else says, you're thinking, well, am I the crazy one?

00:08:26.220 But it isolates you so that you think that, well, I'm the fringe minority, when that's not the case.

00:08:35.320 They've just gone through and deleted everybody ahead of you who tried to fact-check the CBC.

00:08:39.420 So not only is it controlling the narrative and this sort of elitist idea that the mother corp knows best

00:08:48.760 and you best not think for yourself or criticize them,

00:08:51.780 but it also, you know, it socially isolates some of the people who have opinions about the CBC,

00:08:58.780 about how terrible they are.

00:08:59.980 And now we have it in black and white.

00:09:01.420 We know that they do that.

00:09:02.360 You know, and it's kind of, you know, the big picture here, Sheila, when it comes to the left,

00:09:08.280 when it comes to the progressives, there's no more room for debate or discussion anymore, is there?

00:09:13.700 Here is the agenda.

00:09:16.580 We all now march in lockstep.

00:09:19.360 And if you don't, well, you'll be canceled and you'll never be allowed back.

00:09:24.460 Is this what we're seeing here in a micro situation with the way in which CBC runs its own website?

00:09:30.840 Yeah, I think we're seeing some of that, especially towards the end of my story there.

00:09:36.260 I pointed out the organizations that CBC treats as though they are credible sources of COVID-19 information.

00:09:46.980 The World Health Organization, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop.

00:09:50.400 Vox, BuzzFeed.

00:09:52.860 CBC thinks that they are credible sources of COVID-19 information.

00:09:57.320 And yet the news organizations they listed, including Snopes, by the way,

00:10:03.600 they had all earlier on in the pandemic completely debunked the Wuhan lab leak theory

00:10:11.380 as just an unfounded conspiracy theory.

00:10:14.420 And yet now, 16 months later, people like me who thought, well, that's a kind of a possibility

00:10:21.340 that they have this like bioweapons lab in Wuhan at the epicenter of the virus. 0.85

00:10:28.720 I mean, like when you say it that way, it makes perfect sense, right?

00:10:31.720 But all these organizations debunked that theory early on and basically said anybody even remotely

00:10:36.920 suggesting that is a conspiracy theorist, well, now everybody is considering that a reasonable

00:10:43.600 theory, not a conspiracy theory of how the coronavirus came to be.

00:10:48.280 And I think a lot of people at the time when the lab leak theory was first speculated on a year ago,

00:10:57.300 a lot of people were censored.

00:10:59.260 Their Facebook pages were taken down.

00:11:01.180 Their comments on the CBC were definitely deleted.

00:11:04.260 YouTube videos were nuked.

00:11:07.100 But now, as it turns out, all those people were probably right.

00:11:10.460 And so I think, you know, like that last little bit where you could see these are the people

00:11:15.260 CBC relies on to get their information when they should have been listening to the people early on.

00:11:23.180 Yeah, you know, Sheila, I never understood from day one why it was that this was such an outrageous theory.

00:11:29.500 Here's an outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan,

00:11:32.120 the same place where there is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which tinkers with biological and chemical.

00:11:39.960 But I mean, like, OK, what are the odds?

00:11:42.080 Right. But tell me before we wrap, Sheila, you went through so many pages of these documents that we got.

00:11:49.420 A lot of it didn't even make it to your commentary in the just because of time.

00:11:55.060 Is there anything else that you didn't report in your commentary that stood out as just really outrageous or ridiculous or thin skin censorship when it comes to the CBC's comment section?

00:12:07.680 Well, the things that I thought were outrageous, naturally, I put them in the story, like how CBC was censoring criticism of the CBC.

00:12:18.400 And one of this one of the they wrote this whole entire story about how, you know, like trust in journalism is failing.

00:12:24.780 And please tell us how we can do better.

00:12:26.920 They literally asked for comments and then they censored the comments and closed the comment section and they didn't do anything about fixing it.

00:12:36.080 Like they didn't even think this is a kind of a crazy idea.

00:12:38.580 They didn't do anything to fix it until a former CBC journalist whose name they redacted in the interest of, I don't know, trust in journalism.

00:12:46.900 He complained and then they're like, oh, yeah, maybe maybe we're right.

00:12:49.740 I also thought it was interesting that even if like if a black activist speculated on what word Wendy Mesley used in a staff meeting, it was the N word, by the way.

00:13:03.820 But if people were speculating their comments were being deleted and it didn't even it didn't matter.

00:13:09.260 You could have been a prominent, high profile black activist. 0.88

00:13:13.080 CBC was nuking you. 0.98

00:13:15.180 Unbelievable.

00:13:16.240 Well, Sheila, we got to wrap it there.

00:13:17.520 Maybe you and I should send in a suggestion to the CBC commentary page.

00:13:22.540 What do you want to bet they'll delete it just based on name recognition alone of the comments writer?

00:13:29.360 I wouldn't put it past them.

00:13:31.060 Sheila, that was a great piece.

00:13:32.540 Thank you so much.

00:13:33.960 Thanks, David.

00:13:34.520 Have a great weekend.

00:13:35.260 You too, my friend.

00:13:36.220 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the northern hinterland of Alberta.

00:13:40.920 Keep it here, folks.

00:13:41.940 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:13:47.520 Young Kipala here reporting for Rebel News at the anti-Bill C6 rally in Montreal with billboard Chris is in town.

00:13:59.940 He's speaking to people and telling them why he's opposed to Bill C6.

00:14:05.860 And about 20, 30 other people showed up and a few other groups that opposed Bill C6.

00:14:12.720 Bill C6 is the liberals' new criminalization of conversion therapy.

00:14:17.200 Parents' groups and religious groups across the spectrum, from Catholics to evangelicals,

00:14:22.760 say the law is so vague that it could criminalize mainstream Christian religious teachings,

00:14:28.560 as well as result in criminal charges to parents who seek out gender-affirming therapies for their children

00:14:35.540 who experience gender dysphoria or confusion.

00:14:39.060 Campaign life calls it an assault on freedom, civil liberties, and Christianity itself.

00:14:45.420 Let's speak with some of the people and see if some people with opposing views or pro-views

00:14:50.600 want to speak to us and see what they have to say.

00:14:55.660 But we can't switch our sex.

00:14:57.600 That's just the nature of life.

00:15:00.260 So you're back in Montreal.

00:15:01.880 I'm back.

00:15:02.260 Where you've been assaulted just a couple of months ago.

00:15:05.220 How do you feel being back here in the city?

00:15:08.640 I feel great.

00:15:09.420 I've got a lot of support this time.

00:15:10.880 I wasn't going to let these gender terrorists intimidate me and stop me from coming back. 1.00

00:15:17.780 So I'm super happy to be back here.

00:15:19.260 I'm going to keep coming every three months or so.

00:15:21.500 Because we have a giant issue affecting children all across this country

00:15:25.240 where thousands of kids are being given what's called gender-affirming care,

00:15:30.820 which is a really nice-sounding term for pharmaceutical intervention

00:15:35.400 when they don't feel right in their bodies.

00:15:38.860 We have children with a condition known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria,

00:15:42.460 primarily affecting girls these days where they want to transition to boys.

00:15:47.720 And instead of doing any talk therapy to get at the source of this dysphoria, 0.80

00:15:51.800 they are fast-tracked and given a drug called Lupron,

00:15:56.840 which completely stops their body from going through puberty.

00:16:00.400 So all of these very important biological processes won't occur.

00:16:03.360 And then they're put on the opposite sexist hormones.

00:16:05.300 So for girls, this is testosterone. 0.93

00:16:06.740 For boys, it's estrogen.

00:16:08.860 And oftentimes these girls, when they're 14, 15, 16 years of age,

00:16:12.060 are also getting double mastectomies even without parental approval

00:16:14.360 because unethical doctors will do this as a mature minor for these kids. 1.00

00:16:19.600 And we're sterilizing a generation of gender-confused kids. 1.00

00:16:23.100 And we need to put a stop to it because all of our studies show that about 90% of these kids,

00:16:26.520 if they were allowed to go through puberty, their gender dysphoria would simply go away

00:16:29.840 and they live healthy lives, but instead we're turning them into lifelong medical patients

00:16:34.180 and destroying their future sexual function, ability to have children, ability to breastfeed, 0.98

00:16:38.540 all sorts of medical consequences.

00:16:40.280 So I'm just here to tell the truth and to raise awareness because the media won't report on it,

00:16:44.640 the government's pushing it, and the schools are now teaching our children

00:16:47.900 that their gender is entirely dependent upon what stereotypes they like.

00:16:54.140 If a girl is more stereotypically masculine, if she's a tomboy, 0.54

00:16:58.300 if she wants to be a mechanic or have short hair or wear jeans

00:17:01.820 or is just simply unhappy with her body,

00:17:05.860 there's a whole bunch of girls that are now trying to transition to boys.

00:17:08.820 And there's a social contagion going on.

00:17:10.240 We have entire peer groups of girls transitioning. 0.93

00:17:12.760 And we need to put a stop to this madness.

00:17:14.620 Activist Chris Elston was in Montreal recently to protest the use of puberty blockers in children.

00:17:21.020 This in itself was an act of bravery by Chris,

00:17:23.640 given that just a couple of months ago, when Chris was previously in Montreal,

00:17:28.060 he was brutally attacked by members of the ever-tolerant, loving left,

00:17:33.340 ending up with a broken arm, no less.

00:17:35.840 I guess if these ideologues can't adequately debate him,

00:17:40.440 they simply resort to violence. 0.99

00:17:42.940 And how pathetic is that? 0.97

00:17:45.120 And joining me now from Montreal is Yankee Pollock, 0.95

00:17:47.920 who covered the Elston demonstration.

00:17:50.860 How are you doing there, Yankee?

00:17:52.860 I'm doing good.

00:17:54.480 Excellent.

00:17:55.420 Very good, my friend.

00:17:56.440 So, Yankee, I think what we are seeing right now in terms of so-called trans activism

00:18:02.680 is downright disturbing.

00:18:04.960 This idea that minors can go through a process of changing their sex.

00:18:10.900 Why is this being allowed?

00:18:12.520 We have age restrictions on everything from buying lottery tickets and cigarettes to alcohol.

00:18:18.600 How does anyone think this is a jolly good idea,

00:18:21.960 this idea of children in their formative gears going through a sex change procedure?

00:18:27.400 I'm not sure, to be honest, but the government thinks it's a good idea and the government keeps pushing these ideologies.

00:18:37.840 I'm not sure why, though.

00:18:39.540 But, yeah, Chris was out there protesting it.

00:18:44.100 And, you know, some people passed by and agreed and others passed by and they were just pointing fingers and just saying things.

00:18:53.540 Nothing major happened, unlike last time where he was beaten up and got his arm broken.

00:18:59.880 And nothing happened, thankfully, this time around.

00:19:04.420 But, yeah, it's the government wants to allow kids to go through treatments that they don't need.

00:19:14.000 And I'm not sure why.

00:19:16.700 It's mind-boggling that the government is okay with giving experimental drugs that are off-label to kids

00:19:25.740 so they could stay on meds all their life.

00:19:31.020 And, you know, Yankee, I don't think it's just the government, too,

00:19:33.820 because you see in academia, you see with many members of the medical community and the law community,

00:19:41.400 there's this narrative that this is completely fine.

00:19:45.860 And if you have a dissenting opinion, you are, therefore, a transphobe.

00:19:52.200 But, as Chris pointed out, look at the number, the disturbing number of children, basically,

00:19:59.680 in their formative years that have gone through this process and then basically suffer buyer's remorse.

00:20:05.120 They want to switch back.

00:20:06.420 And they've had all kinds of debilitating medicines and chemicals going into them.

00:20:13.340 Why can't we have an open discussion?

00:20:15.480 Why can't we say that perhaps this child, it's not a girl trapped in a boy's body or a boy trapped in a girl's body,

00:20:23.100 but someone going through a phase.

00:20:25.440 And maybe we should at least wait until they are adults for them to make such a life-changing decision.

00:20:31.860 Yeah, I agree.

00:20:34.560 I have no issue with adults doing whatever they want.

00:20:37.780 It's just, why are you pushing little kids to change their life and do things when they don't even know what they want?

00:20:46.100 They're just being told by adults what they want.

00:20:48.520 And, you know, these puberty blockers could leave lifelong, could, they usually do leave lifelong, what's it called, issues, lifelong medical issues for these kids.

00:21:04.560 You know, if you want to change your sex or believe you're in the wrong body, that's fine.

00:21:10.000 You could do it when you're 18, go through all these things.

00:21:13.980 You don't need to push little kids to go through these procedures that will harm them all their life if they grow up a bit older and realize that, oops, I made a mistake.

00:21:24.980 Oh, 100% for something so important.

00:21:28.840 And, you know, Yankee, I mean, my position, you know, when it comes to the trans issue is that, listen, if you want to get the surgery and take the chemicals and wear the other sex's clothing, 0.99

00:21:40.920 I mean, we're a free country, you can do what you want, that's fine.

00:21:43.900 But this idea of, I guess, indoctrination, that, you know, it's not only just a matter of acceptance and tolerance, but we must stand and give a standing ovation that this is so good.

00:21:58.780 And, I mean, we're looking at, globally speaking, the number of trans people, it's a percent of a percent of a percent.

00:22:07.760 And yet, this seems to be a burning issue that not only is this to be tolerated, this is to be encouraged.

00:22:16.500 And if you don't encourage it, you are, therefore, a transphobe.

00:22:21.740 I think that's a terrible situation that we're in right now.

00:22:26.700 Yeah, I tolerate everyone.

00:22:31.260 But kids shouldn't be pushed to do life-altering decisions when they're so young.

00:22:37.080 And we should wait until kids are older, until you're an adult, to make these decisions.

00:22:45.140 And if you're an adult and you want to do these decisions, go ahead, do it.

00:22:49.160 Yeah, I mean, if we can't have a child buy a lottery ticket, for goodness sakes, until they're 18 or 19, whatever the age is,

00:22:57.880 how can we expect that child to make such a life-changing decision?

00:23:01.580 And, you know, this idea of trans acceptance, it does have a detrimental effect.

00:23:08.360 Let's look at the world of sports.

00:23:10.460 When you have men transitioning into women and going into elite sports,

00:23:16.260 they're wiping the fields with the natural-born women, whether it's wrestling, cycling, mixed martial arts. 1.00

00:23:24.100 I mean, forever, the genders were divided by sex in terms of sports, with the exception of equestrian and auto racing.

00:23:34.200 And again, here we have a society where if you point to the obvious man in the crowd winning a medal in a woman's doctrine,

00:23:44.280 this isn't something for debate.

00:23:46.380 This isn't something to reconsider.

00:23:47.920 But you are automatically a transphobe.

00:23:49.640 So I'm just so curious, Yankee, let's wrap it at this, how such a tiny percentage of trans people 0.99

00:23:57.440 and an even smaller percentage of trans activists got society to where we are today.

00:24:04.120 It's fascinating to me.

00:24:06.640 Yeah, it is fascinating how such a minor minority is controlling the narrative.

00:24:12.920 I'm not sure.

00:24:13.420 I think it's most people just want to live their life and don't care about these things.

00:24:18.360 They just want to live their life.

00:24:20.880 And there's a very small, minor, I guess, community that is pushing these things.

00:24:25.820 And most people are scared to speak out or scared to say what they believe.

00:24:30.440 And most of the people just want to live life and don't care what others do.

00:24:34.620 And they don't realize that it's harming the next generations.

00:24:38.900 A hundred percent.

00:24:39.720 Once again, we are seeing another example of the tail wagging the dog.

00:24:44.000 Yankee, thank you so much for that report.

00:24:45.780 Much appreciated.

00:24:47.000 Thank you.

00:24:47.600 And that was Yankee Pollack in Montreal.

00:24:50.980 Keep it here.

00:24:51.820 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:58.900 Folks, you might recall that last week I told you how I had been served with a summons

00:25:03.880 by Peterborough Police for covering an anti-lockdown protest in that city.

00:25:10.260 The summons simply stated that I was being charged under Section 7.0.2 of the laughably named Reopening Ontario Act.

00:25:20.320 Yeah, I'm going to give him his court documents.

00:25:22.100 His court documents?

00:25:23.140 Yeah.

00:25:23.560 Being charged with.

00:25:24.760 After all, I was not the event's organizer, nor a speaker, nor even an attendee.

00:25:31.320 I was just covering this peaceful protest as a journalist.

00:25:35.400 That's not illegal.

00:25:37.620 Well, not yet.

00:25:38.780 Well, I just took delivery of the disclosure that the Peterborough Police Service is going

00:25:45.020 to present in court against me later this month.

00:25:48.480 Pages and pages of it all about me and my actions that day.

00:25:54.040 It read like a John Grisham thriller.

00:25:57.560 So, let's jump to the chase.

00:25:59.460 The crime I committed on April 24th is that I shook hands with people?

00:26:07.180 And they even have the photos to prove it.

00:26:12.180 No, I swear, folks.

00:26:13.740 Check out this excerpt.

00:26:15.200 Quote,

00:26:15.640 At 12.47 hours, Staff Sergeant McLean made note and observed Menzies approach and greet

00:26:22.920 Mr. Maxime Bernier and shaking Mr. Bernier's hand, the two stood next to each other and engaged

00:26:30.160 in a conversation.

00:26:33.120 Neither person was wearing a mask or maintaining the required two meters physical distancing.

00:26:39.680 After a short conversation, Menzies could be seen interviewing Mr. Bernier on the grass

00:26:45.480 just off the stage area.

00:26:47.720 End quote.

00:26:48.420 Oh, merciful God in heaven.

00:26:51.120 Why was I not tasered for this crime against humanity?

00:26:55.760 Oh, but wait a second, folks.

00:26:58.200 In the here and now, I apparently committed another crime on April 24th in addition to

00:27:04.900 all that illicit handshaking.

00:27:07.220 Here's the allegation.

00:27:08.660 Quote,

00:27:08.960 One photo shows Menzies and Mr. Hillier standing next to each other.

00:27:14.760 Both are laughing while Mr. Hillier has his left hand on Menzies' right shoulder.

00:27:22.400 End quote.

00:27:23.480 Oh, my God.

00:27:25.120 I laughed on that day?

00:27:27.280 Oh, yeah.

00:27:27.880 I laughed and I giggled and I guffawed.

00:27:30.200 And naturally, the super serious Peterborough Police Service.

00:27:33.820 Well, they deem laughter to be sinister.

00:27:38.660 Then again, folks, maybe the Peterborough cops are right about this laughter thingy.

00:27:44.400 I did some research online and lo and behold, I came across criminals who laugh aloud all

00:27:50.680 the time.

00:27:51.920 And these aren't just run-of-the-mill criminals.

00:27:54.560 These are super villains.

00:27:56.600 Check out the video evidence.

00:27:57.780 After you've chewed over this one for a while, look for two more.

00:28:03.780 Adios, amigos.

00:28:05.540 See you in court.

00:28:13.740 Oh, my. 0.76

00:28:14.960 Peterborough, Ontario is certainly no place for the likes of such laugh-happy criminals 0.85

00:28:19.760 as the Riddler or the Joker.

00:28:22.520 Oh, no.

00:28:23.200 Not with super serious Staff Sergeant Dan McLean on the prowl.

00:28:26.880 This law enforcement humorless halfwit has a keen eye for any sort of merriment breaking

00:28:33.220 out in Little Peterborough. 0.94

00:28:34.880 And if McLean catches you having a good time, oh, yes, there shall indeed be hell to pay.

00:28:42.200 In any event, you had plenty to say about the Peterborough Police Service ticketing people

00:28:46.720 for the heinous crimes of handshaking and, ooh, laughing.

00:28:52.100 You know, I almost can't believe I just said that.

00:28:55.420 Frank Gee writes, thank God you weren't a Christian pastor.

00:29:00.020 Then they would throw you in jail.

00:29:01.920 You know what, Frank?

00:29:03.140 I think you're right on the money.

00:29:04.560 And sadly, there's nothing funny about that.

00:29:08.160 Everseek writes, the government is going after their political rivals.

00:29:12.480 That is more than obvious at this point.

00:29:14.760 This is the kind of behavior you'd expect to see in a dictatorship.

00:29:18.460 You are so correct, Everseek. 0.83

00:29:21.440 The attendance at this anti-lockdown protest was estimated to be anywhere between 600 and 1,200 people.

00:29:29.020 Virtually nobody was wearing masks.

00:29:30.920 Virtually nobody was socially distancing.

00:29:33.560 Tons of folk shaking hands, hugging, and, oh, my God, even laughing.

00:29:38.040 And yet, with all of those hundreds and hundreds of people there, who got targeted for tickets?

00:29:44.720 Well, in addition to yours truly, there was PPC leader Maxine Bernier and MPP Randy Hillier.

00:29:51.540 They were also ticketed.

00:29:53.500 Anyone detect a pattern here?

00:29:55.280 John Doe writes, LMFAO, if you ever decide to retire from journalism, you could have a career in stand-up comedy, Dave.

00:30:04.420 Well, on one condition, John Doe, the rank and file of the Peterborough Police Service must be retained as my gag writers

00:30:12.520 because, really, they are truly comedic geniuses.

00:30:17.100 Roo Zimba writes, thanks, David, for seven minutes of laughter.

00:30:20.980 Brilliant.

00:30:21.280 Oh, Roo Zimba, if you want to really get a laugh, just wait till the court case takes place 0.99

00:30:27.200 and these jabronis are laughed right out of the courtroom, by the judge, that is.

00:30:33.040 And Bill Demich writes, the pettiness by the cops is sickening. 0.99

00:30:37.580 Agreed, Bill, and pathetic. 0.99

00:30:39.380 Little wonder my boss Ezra proclaimed Staff Sergeant Dan McLean as the worst cop in Canada. 0.97

00:30:45.540 And, really, how can you dispute this when someone in law enforcement is handing out a ticket for laughter? 1.00

00:30:53.700 What a dumb, spiteful idiot. 1.00

00:30:57.400 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. 1.00

00:31:00.000 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:31:01.300 See you next week.

00:31:02.360 And, hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:31:06.320 Good night.

00:31:06.720 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - June 19, 2021

DAVID MENZIES ｜ CBC's Comment Mods, Protesting Puberty Blockers for Kids

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