Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Debriefing abuse of Ottawa protesters, from trampling to vandalism

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00:01:14.460 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.660 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.

00:01:37.460 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.240 Surely, one of the most disgraceful events that occurred last weekend in Ottawa

00:01:45.500 is what happened to my colleague, Alexa Lavoie.

00:01:48.900 Alexa was shot point-blank by some trigger-happy thug wearing a law enforcement uniform.

00:01:55.800 Thankfully, the projectile was a tear gas canister of some sort as opposed to a bullet.

00:02:01.980 Otherwise, I fear we'd be having a different conversation today.

00:02:05.280 Alexa will join me to discuss what happened to her last Saturday. 0.66

00:02:11.560 Also joining me will be ace videographer Lincoln Jay,

00:02:15.060 who was stationed in Ottawa for almost an entire month.

00:02:18.580 I'll get Lincoln's take on the awful takedown of peaceful protesters last weekend,

00:02:24.040 including the completely unnecessary use of the Toronto Police Mounted Unit,

00:02:29.920 which only ended up trampling people.

00:02:32.700 And letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.

00:02:37.300 And you had plenty to say about Jim Zinger, a trucker from Medicine Hat, Alberta,

00:02:43.500 who had his rig legally parked on private property, mind you,

00:02:49.160 vandalized by the Antifa types, and then basically stolen by the police.

00:02:54.880 Unbelievable.

00:02:56.000 Those are your rebels.

00:02:57.200 Now let's round them up.

00:02:58.400 Guys, turn around.

00:03:06.580 Hold them in a play.

00:03:07.700 Hey, guys, for real.

00:03:11.060 Hey, everyone on the front line, turn your back to the front row.

00:03:15.180 All guards, turn your back.

00:03:17.440 They look like they're going to move.

00:03:19.580 You're not going to deny me the right to look at them in.

00:03:22.040 Watch out.

00:03:23.480 Watch out.

00:03:25.040 Watch out.

00:03:26.780 What are you doing?

00:03:27.800 What are you doing?

00:03:28.400 What are you doing?

00:03:30.200 What are you doing?

00:03:31.100 Hold him.

00:03:31.860 Stop him.

00:03:32.840 Stop him.

00:03:33.560 Stop him.

00:03:34.560 Stop him.

00:03:35.420 Stop him.

00:03:39.700 You just fight unprophous.

00:03:44.340 You just fight unprophous.

00:03:45.340 You just fight unprophous.

00:03:45.980 Oh! 0.60

00:03:47.180 Ow! 1.00

00:03:48.440 Ow! 1.00

00:03:49.880 Ow! 1.00

00:03:50.880 Ow! 1.00

00:03:52.880 Oh! 0.60

00:03:53.880 There you go.

00:03:54.880 You all right?

00:03:55.880 Got shot.

00:03:56.880 Good.

00:03:58.380 Take care.

00:03:59.380 Bring her out. 1.00

00:04:00.180 Come on.

00:04:01.080 Oh, my God.

00:04:02.480 Oh, my God.

00:04:03.980 No!

00:04:05.980 Oh! 0.60

00:04:07.580 And the leg.

00:04:09.280 I can't hear it almost.

00:04:10.580 Bring her down, baby. 1.00

00:04:12.080 Bring her to the left. 1.00

00:04:13.280 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:04:14.580 Take her out of the crowd, bring her to the head. 1.00

00:04:17.580 Hey, someone got shot in the head. 0.97

00:04:20.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:23.580 Oh.

00:04:24.580 Bring her to the left here. 1.00

00:04:26.580 Come on, man.

00:04:27.580 Get her out of the crowd.

00:04:28.580 I think it's right.

00:04:29.580 Bring her down further. 1.00

00:04:30.580 Get her down. 1.00

00:04:31.580 Get her out of the crowd.

00:04:32.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:33.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:34.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:35.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:36.580 Oh, jeez.

00:04:37.580 Oh.

00:04:38.580 Is it just burning?

00:04:39.580 What is it?

00:04:40.580 What is it?

00:04:41.580 What is it?

00:04:42.580 Just burning?

00:04:43.580 Oh, my God.

00:04:44.580 What is it?

00:04:45.580 It burns?

00:04:46.580 It hurts.

00:04:47.580 OK.

00:04:48.580 Where?

00:04:49.580 Where?

00:04:50.580 Good afternoon, Chief.

00:04:51.580 David Menzies with Rebel News.

00:04:53.580 Chief, can you kindly explain how it was that my colleague to my right here, Alexa Lavois,

00:04:59.580 was shot point blank with a tear gas canister doing some very painful damage to her?

00:05:07.580 What was the reason for that, given that she was simply practicing journalism in the public

00:05:13.580 square?

00:05:14.580 So I'm unfamiliar with the incident you're speaking of.

00:05:17.580 Well, you know, I think we saw two acts of egregious behavior in those clips, folks.

00:05:22.580 The first, of course, was a trigger happy thug wearing a police uniform who decided to shoot

00:05:28.580 a member of the independent press for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.

00:05:34.580 Then the interim chief goes into Sergeant Schultz mode, essentially stating, I saw nothing.

00:05:41.580 I know nothing.

00:05:43.580 What a disgrace.

00:05:44.580 Well, joining me now to discuss this shocking incident that happened last Saturday is indeed

00:05:52.580 Alexa Lavois.

00:05:53.580 Bonjour, Alexa.

00:05:55.580 Hello.

00:05:56.580 Well, Alexa, so good to see you.

00:06:00.580 Tell me, what we saw in that first clip was that I presume it was some sort of a tear gas

00:06:07.580 canister of some sort hitting you right in the thigh from point blank range.

00:06:12.580 And thank God the target wasn't your head because maybe that would have been fatal.

00:06:19.580 And I'm not exaggerating.

00:06:20.580 In any event, how are you doing right now, Alexa?

00:06:24.580 I'm doing fine right now.

00:06:28.580 It was pretty hard the first two days.

00:06:32.580 But yes, like when we think about it, if the gun was shooting my head, I would be not

00:06:39.580 there to talk to you today.

00:06:41.580 So I'm actually lucky in my bad luck to being shot in my legs and not in an important part

00:06:49.580 of my body.

00:06:51.580 Alexa, do you think that this shot at you, was it deliberate or was it accidental?

00:06:57.580 I mean, certainly it was from point blank range.

00:07:02.580 But what is your take on what happened?

00:07:04.580 My personal opinion is on the video, the person looked too much concentrated to did it like

00:07:16.580 by accident, I would say.

00:07:18.580 So it looked like the person wanted to hurt me for make me stop filming.

00:07:25.580 That is what I think.

00:07:27.580 Well, that is shocking on many levels.

00:07:29.580 First of all, you weren't a demonstrator.

00:07:31.580 You were there as a member of the media.

00:07:33.580 He knew you were a member of the media.

00:07:34.580 You were wearing your press credentials.

00:07:36.580 He saw the cameraman next to you.

00:07:40.580 So, you know, it kind of spooks me in a way that this guy might have been given orders.

00:07:47.580 Oh, there's a rebel news reporter.

00:07:49.580 Give her the works. 0.98

00:07:51.580 Kind of like what happened to me in December with Trudeau's RCMP security guards that gave

00:07:57.580 me the works for being on a public sidewalk hoping to ask the Prime Minister a question.

00:08:02.580 So I guess that's the question, Alexa.

00:08:04.580 Do you think you were deliberately targeted for who you are?

00:08:08.580 I think I think I was targeted.

00:08:13.580 It's really what I think.

00:08:15.580 And especially I cannot confirm it.

00:08:18.580 But on my video is it look.

00:08:21.580 The appearance that is RCMP as well.

00:08:26.580 So we know that RCMP are pretty close from Mr. Justin Trudeau.

00:08:32.580 And we know that he don't like rebel news as we were able to see at the leader debate.

00:08:38.580 So, yeah, I'm pretty sure that they wanted me to film what is going on on the first line.

00:08:46.580 They didn't want anybody to have the proof of what they were doing.

00:08:53.580 And the violence that I saw was not coming from the protesters.

00:08:56.580 That was coming from the line of the police officer and what they did.

00:09:02.580 They need to be accountable of all the violence and the mystery that they did to not only me,

00:09:09.580 but all the people that were there.

00:09:12.580 We talk about children.

00:09:13.580 The children were not there for the second day.

00:09:17.580 But on the first day, I was able to see some children and women and elderly people.

00:09:24.580 So they need to be accountable of all the violence that they did.

00:09:30.580 I totally agree, Alexa.

00:09:31.580 And, you know, I noticed from the lunatic fringe online, they're going,

00:09:36.580 oh, there's another rebel news reporter instigating things with the police to cause an incident.

00:09:42.580 From what I can tell, that's completely false.

00:09:45.580 You were simply there observing.

00:09:47.580 You weren't crossing police lines.

00:09:49.580 You weren't taunting the police officer.

00:09:52.580 You were just practicing journalism, weren't you, Alexa?

00:09:55.580 Yes.

00:09:56.580 And I don't know why, but people think that we are provoking it.

00:10:02.580 No, we are not doing it.

00:10:05.580 Like you, when you were just waiting outside in the public space to ask a simple question to Prime Minister Trudeau and you got assault.

00:10:16.580 Yeah.

00:10:17.580 That was actually a free against you.

00:10:22.580 That was not provocated from you.

00:10:25.580 Well, it's a disturbing trend to say the least.

00:10:28.580 Now, what was equally disturbing, Alexa, you were there at the press conference given by interim police chief for the Ottawa Police Service, Steve Bell.

00:10:37.580 And I have to tell you, I thought my jaw dropped to the linoleum when he said he wasn't aware of your incident.

00:10:48.580 This is getting international media attention.

00:10:51.580 In fact, a half an hour before that police conference, because I was there with you, RT, Russian television, they were there interviewing you.

00:11:00.580 Do you believe that that chief was not aware of your incident?

00:11:07.580 And if he's being less than truthful, why is he being that way, Alexa?

00:11:12.580 Oh, so you know that people have been injured.

00:11:17.580 No people have died.

00:11:19.580 And, oh, that the protesters, they used gas against the police.

00:11:26.580 But you didn't aware that a journalist was shot in the legs?

00:11:33.580 No, seriously.

00:11:34.580 No, seriously.

00:11:36.580 You spend your time to tweet everything that is going on on the field.

00:11:42.580 Yeah.

00:11:43.580 You're not even there.

00:11:45.580 So someone tells you everything that is going on.

00:11:48.580 And suddenly you were not aware that someone had been shot by a tear gas gun.

00:11:55.580 I'm not going to believe that.

00:11:58.580 Not a word.

00:11:59.580 Yeah, I'm not buying it either, Alexa.

00:12:01.580 And it should be noted that after the press conference was concluded, the Q&A part, the chief goes on to applaud how well the media, i.e. the mainstream media, were in terms of the coverage.

00:12:15.580 And then says investigations have been launched regarding verbal abuse of some of the journalists.

00:12:23.580 So if you hurt Evan Solomon's feelings over at CTV with some slurs or whatnot, oh, that's a crime against the state.

00:12:34.580 But if you're Alexa Lavoie of Rebel News and you get a canister shot right in your thigh, nothing to see here, folks.

00:12:43.580 Move along.

00:12:44.580 Can you explain this double standard of policing when it comes to, I guess, a thought crime versus a real crime?

00:12:52.580 Have you seen all it was funny is like you mentioned me.

00:12:57.580 I was next to you.

00:12:58.580 It didn't take the time.

00:13:00.580 Oh, sorry.

00:13:01.580 Sorry.

00:13:02.580 I wasn't aware.

00:13:03.580 I'm so sorry of what happened to you.

00:13:05.580 They didn't apologize.

00:13:06.580 They didn't.

00:13:07.580 They didn't even look at me.

00:13:09.580 But at the end, it took the time to say, oh, thanks for the mainstream media to do their own job.

00:13:15.580 And sorry for like the need to live by having some yelling names against them.

00:13:24.580 And I was like, hey, yo, I'm here.

00:13:26.580 I got shot.

00:13:28.580 I get injured.

00:13:30.580 And you have nothing to say to me.

00:13:32.580 So here's the big question then, Alexa, now that the chief knows about this incident because he was told that.

00:13:40.580 And I really do believe he was aware of what happened, given the incredible publicity.

00:13:46.580 Have you received a call from anyone at the Ottawa Police Service about opening an investigation about this shot at you?

00:13:57.580 Zero.

00:13:58.580 No, nobody called me.

00:14:01.580 Not even a call, not even an email.

00:14:03.580 And my email is public on the website of Ruben News.

00:14:08.580 And I and as well, if they were listening my live as well, some people found my number, my phone number as well on it.

00:14:17.580 So thankful for everybody who write to me.

00:14:19.580 Sorry, I didn't have the time to answer to everybody.

00:14:23.580 Well, but yeah.

00:14:25.580 Well, don't you worry, my friend.

00:14:26.580 And they will be obligated to come up with some response when they're served with a lawsuit for what happened, because evidently that's the way we got to go in Justin Trudeau's Canada of 2022.

00:14:38.580 I got to tell you, Alexa, you know, have you had any outreach from fellow journalists, you know, from journalist associations, the free expression associations, et cetera, et cetera?

00:14:48.580 Because I can tell you if what happened to say Rosemary Barton of the CBC, if your incident, if that had happened to her, I think we're looking at a Royal Commission being struck right now.

00:15:00.580 You know, the assault against journalists in Canada.

00:15:03.580 But I'm going to make a guess.

00:15:05.580 I'm going to go out on a limb here and say nobody has come to your defense in terms of fellow journalists or any of these free speech organizations.

00:15:14.580 And a fun fact, you know, a member of Radio Canada, CBC, they came to me and say, oh, you've been injured.

00:15:24.580 I've just after that, I had my interview with the RT International.

00:15:28.580 She took my name, my number.

00:15:30.580 She said, I will pass along my colleague that is on the ground for maybe an interview.

00:15:35.580 I never had a call back.

00:15:37.580 And what did I tell you, Alex?

00:15:40.580 I'm going to pat my my shoulder on that.

00:15:42.580 Give myself a pat on the back.

00:15:44.580 I told you when I when you got inquired about giving your contact information, I said, I will be shocked if anyone ever calls you back from the CBC.

00:15:55.580 Because soon as I see link your name with Rebel News, that's it.

00:15:59.580 The gig is up.

00:16:01.580 Alexa, listen, you know, you are a tough cookie.

00:16:06.580 You're a real professional.

00:16:08.580 We wanted you to remain either in hospital or in your room.

00:16:13.580 You are right back out on the field like a super trooper.

00:16:18.580 You are one tough woman.

00:16:20.580 And but we are going to get justice.

00:16:22.580 And if it comes to a court of law, if it comes to suing the police officer that did that in the police service, so be it.

00:16:31.580 Because that is beyond the pale what happened to you.

00:16:35.580 So don't lose faith.

00:16:37.580 We've got your back, Alexa.

00:16:38.580 And by the way, Alexa, if anyone wants to contribute to your legal fees, what's that domain name?

00:16:45.580 Standwithalexa.com.

00:16:47.580 So everybody wants to help me out with my lawyer fee.

00:16:52.580 You can donate at standwithalexa.com.

00:16:56.580 I can't think of any more worthy cause than that, folks.

00:17:00.580 Alexa, thank you so much.

00:17:01.580 You have a good weekend and rest up.

00:17:03.580 Thank you very much.

00:17:05.580 Have a great day.

00:17:06.580 Good.

00:17:07.580 And that was Alexa Lavois still in the nation's capital covering all the shenanigans. 0.97

00:17:14.580 Keep it right here.

00:17:15.580 More of Rebel news to come.

00:17:17.580 Rather, more of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:17:21.580 Here comes the horses. 0.87

00:17:34.580 Hold it! 0.98

00:17:36.580 Back! 0.88

00:17:37.580 Horses!

00:17:38.580 Horses!

00:17:39.580 Go on, Ruffles! 0.96

00:17:41.580 Easy! 0.99

00:17:42.580 Come on, spit! 1.00

00:17:43.580 Stop me! 0.91

00:17:44.580 Stand down!

00:17:45.580 Hey! 0.99

00:17:46.580 Stand down!

00:17:47.580 I got a fractured collarbone.

00:17:50.580 Oh, my goodness!

00:17:51.580 Look what you did!

00:17:54.580 I've got bruising on my...

00:17:59.580 I got sore ribs.

00:18:00.580 Doesn't look like I'll be driving any time soon.

00:18:02.580 I'm still alive.

00:18:03.580 I'm still here.

00:18:05.580 Thank you to everyone out there. I'm okay. Bumped and bruised and sore, but I live to stand another day.

00:18:15.160 Well, folks, last weekend there was plenty of bad behaviour occurring near Parliament Hill.

00:18:20.620 And no, I speak not of the Freedom Convoy demonstrators, but rather about certain members of law enforcement,

00:18:28.140 such as, well, you know, the Toronto Police Mounted Unit, who thought it would be a jolly good idea to have their steeds gallop into a throng of peaceful protesters,

00:18:38.100 trampling a few of them in the process, including Candice Serro. Great policing, guys. Amazing.

00:18:46.080 And joining me now is the rebel videographer who was stationed at Point Zero when the Freedom Convoy first rolled into our nation's capital more than three weeks ago.

00:18:56.060 And that would be Lincoln Jay. How are you doing there, Lincoln?

00:19:00.380 Good, David. Thanks for having me on. How are you?

00:19:02.480 Fantastic. I'm so glad you're back from Ottawa and ready to have some home cooking and hospitality.

00:19:09.760 But Lincoln, I don't know about you, but when I saw the Toronto Police Mounted Unit galloping into the protesters,

00:19:18.280 my first thoughts were, uh-oh, this demonstration is really getting out of hand because with the horsemen here,

00:19:25.320 this surely means someone has opened an illicit barbecue restaurant a la Adam Skelly.

00:19:31.820 What were your thoughts?

00:19:34.460 Yeah, well, it's funny you bring that up because it was the same sort of tactics that we saw at Adamson Barbecue that day.

00:19:42.240 So, like with Adamson Barbecue, we saw the horses come in and then they swiftly or coincidentally at the same time brought out Adam Skelly.

00:19:50.260 But what they were doing with the Chakras Convoy is they were rallying those horses into that huge crowd, extremely dangerous.

00:19:57.920 We saw people hurt because of that.

00:19:59.700 But the tactic was so that they could clear out the crowd and make space for the police to move the police line up.

00:20:05.800 So, really just irresponsible and extremely dangerous, in my opinion, for them to bring out the horses in such a large crowd.

00:20:13.840 Oh, I totally agree.

00:20:15.900 And, you know, Lincoln, the kind of force we saw on display, the kind of weaponry, and my goodness gracious, look what happened to our colleague, Alexa Lavoie. 0.92

00:20:27.540 It was overkill to me.

00:20:29.780 These weren't weaponized demonstrators.

00:20:32.640 They were peaceful protesters.

00:20:34.880 What was the goal in taking down this demonstration the way they did?

00:20:40.420 I don't know.

00:20:43.180 It's just tough to wrap your head around the fact that they were, they brought in full force of the police.

00:20:48.700 Like, I don't know how they could use any more force.

00:20:51.360 You know, they had armored vehicles.

00:20:53.480 You know, they had, like, military rifles.

00:20:56.700 You know, you name it, it was there.

00:20:58.540 And the fact that they, after, you know, being on the ground since the 20th of January, seeing three weeks of peaceful protests, you know, people that wouldn't hurt a fly.

00:21:06.840 Like, just completely peaceful.

00:21:09.800 And to see that sort of reaction from the police, like I was saying to you yesterday, you know, they could have just came in there just as normal patrol officers and, you know, one by one arrested them and detained them.

00:21:22.060 And the truckers would have went with them.

00:21:23.820 The protesters would have went.

00:21:25.340 You know, they just wanted this quick and easy, done, let's clear out Ottawa as quick as possible.

00:21:30.080 Justin Trudeau wants them gone.

00:21:31.420 And we got to do this and just following orders.

00:21:33.880 But just to see that kind of, that kind of use of force is just, it's crazy.

00:21:39.580 Well, I think two things were going on as far as I could observe, Lincoln.

00:21:43.900 And first of all, this was all about Justin Trudeau's fragile ego being so damaged.

00:21:48.760 He had to show that he was the tough guy.

00:21:51.100 He was the sheriff in town, even though nobody was doing anything violent.

00:21:55.900 There was no vandalism, nothing.

00:21:57.620 And secondly, I think Justin Trudeau wanted to ramp up the narrative that these were very vile individuals that were part of the demonstration.

00:22:10.680 As you know, they were demonized.

00:22:12.400 They were vilified. 0.96

00:22:13.680 They're supposed to be racist and anti-Semites and Islamophobes and haters and racists, you name it.

00:22:19.420 And he wanted to, you know, contribute to that demonization by basically saying, look what we need to shut down this hate fest, a hate fest that never existed. 0.87

00:22:31.640 Was there violence on the weekend?

00:22:33.060 Yeah.

00:22:33.540 Who committed the violence?

00:22:35.020 Law enforcement, not the demonstrators.

00:22:38.720 Yeah.

00:22:39.120 And I don't know.

00:22:40.380 It's a tough situation overall for police.

00:22:42.260 You could tell that a lot of police didn't want to be there.

00:22:44.780 But then at the same time, there were so many police that were just, you know, acting so inhumane.

00:22:50.820 It's just the whole situation was just crazy to see.

00:22:53.800 Like I said, after three weeks of completely peaceful protests, you know, protesters.

00:22:58.200 I've never, the streets of Ottawa were completely clean the whole time.

00:23:01.560 You know, we've all heard of kids bouncing around in bouncy castles.

00:23:04.260 And just to see them just, you know, breaking through truckers' windows, you know, we've seen the videos of them, truckers getting taken out of their cars at gunpoint.

00:23:15.480 At the end of the day, there's just simply no excuse for these actions.

00:23:19.160 There's just no excuse.

00:23:20.240 And I think it was a way to justify the Emergencies Act by bringing in the full heavy-handed police force like we saw.

00:23:28.580 You know, that's a very good point, Lincoln, Justin Trudeau bringing in the Emergencies Act and then at the 11th hour doing a shocking about-face, presumably because he knew or he reckoned it was not going to get royal assent by the Senate.

00:23:47.580 As far as I can tell, Lincoln, the laws being broken in Ottawa were very minor.

00:23:53.380 Most of them were bylaw infractions, illegal parking, for example.

00:23:58.560 Was there any justification in your mind to bring in the Emergencies Act in the first place?

00:24:05.760 Absolutely not.

00:24:06.980 If Justin would have came down and saw for himself, he would see that there's no reason to bring it in.

00:24:12.820 Obviously, we know that's not the case.

00:24:14.620 But I think a lot of the problem lies with the, well, it comes from the top down.

00:24:19.000 So the politicians feeding the media, then the media are feeding this narrative that, you know, the people, a part of the Chuckers convoy are dangerous.

00:24:26.000 You know, they're going around harassing people, yelling at people, put on your mask.

00:24:29.840 None of that.

00:24:30.420 These people, obviously, there's always some bad apples, obviously.

00:24:33.960 But for the most part, 99%, I would say.

00:24:37.320 And I didn't even witness any of that harassment.

00:24:39.520 People telling people to put their masks on, this and that.

00:24:42.120 You know, these people are all just about pro-choice.

00:24:44.020 There was vaccinated, double vaccinated.

00:24:46.220 All walks of life were there.

00:24:48.200 So the problem lies with the legacy media in Canada.

00:24:52.140 They feed this narrative.

00:24:53.380 So many people eat it up.

00:24:54.780 So many locals in Ottawa eat it up.

00:24:57.060 And they just thought, I'm going nowhere near Parliament Hill until this is cleared out.

00:25:02.180 And they just buy into it.

00:25:03.500 And it's just, it's kind of just like a spinning cycle.

00:25:06.720 And you know what I found perversely ironic, Lincoln, was that when you looked at the people in Ottawa that were so against the convoy and so willing to demonize them.

00:25:18.260 And in fact, many of them vandalized those rigs and slashed their tires and what have you.

00:25:24.180 They tend to be the members of the hard left, the Antifa types, who, Lincoln, just months ago were all part of the defund the police movement. 0.91

00:25:33.940 But suddenly, when the police can be useful idiots in terms of getting the truckers out of town, oh, they're down with the revolution in terms of supporting the blue. 0.94

00:25:45.960 What did you make of that? 0.98

00:25:47.120 Yeah, you hit the nail on the head with that because, like, it's just like I'm just down there and I'm just confused because the amount of, like, harassment that I received alone from people, you know, which I'm assuming are on the left.

00:26:01.660 They just look at my hat.

00:26:03.020 They give me the finger, you know, flip me the bird. 0.98

00:26:05.640 They, you know, I was called, I said I should be publicly shamed for not wearing a mask, that I was a selfish prick.

00:26:12.400 I don't know if I could say that on here, but, you know, all I got was abuse and not by everybody.

00:26:18.560 But there was, like, multiple instances, I think five different instances where I was sworn at, you know, for for not for having for having my mask on my chin, for not wearing my mask, for wearing this hat, you know.

00:26:29.980 And I didn't see anybody from the truckers convoy, you know, giving that kind of that kind of attitude to anybody.

00:26:37.840 But if I'm being honest, they were a little they we've all seen the videos of them with the legacy media.

00:26:43.220 But I think that's just because they're fed up.

00:26:45.540 And at the end of the day, they're just talking to them.

00:26:47.700 They're just giving them their peace of mind.

00:26:49.220 They're not swearing at them or anything like that, as far as I saw.

00:26:52.500 So there's just a huge difference, you know, on both sides.

00:26:55.120 It's crazy.

00:26:56.180 Yeah, it's incredible to me, Lincoln, all these nattering nabobs of negativity yelling at you to put a mask on.

00:27:01.700 A week ago Sunday, did any of them tune into the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles?

00:27:08.380 More than 70,000 fans watching the Rams and Bengals.

00:27:13.500 No masks, no social distancing.

00:27:15.660 Last I heard, I didn't see Los Angeles emerging as a super spreader event.

00:27:21.640 It is just absolutely incredible.

00:27:23.260 One last question.

00:27:24.140 Now that the convoy is gone, the demonstrators are gone, we must look at this whole three week demonstration and determine, was it a success or failure?

00:27:35.180 Personally speaking, Lincoln, I think it was a success.

00:27:38.000 You saw many provinces during that time span roll back the mandates, not ending them completely, but certainly rolling back the various lockdown mandates.

00:27:48.100 You saw the departure of Aaron O'Toole.

00:27:51.260 This was the last straw.

00:27:53.820 Did he support the truckers or not support the trucks?

00:27:55.980 I still don't know to this day.

00:27:57.920 And thank goodness that weakling is no longer the leader of the Conservative Party.

00:28:02.960 What's your take, my friend, if you have to weigh in?

00:28:05.260 Success or failure?

00:28:08.320 Ultimately, I would say it was a success.

00:28:10.500 Obviously, it didn't go exactly the way they wanted it to go.

00:28:13.780 Obviously, they wanted the mandates lifted.

00:28:15.820 That didn't happen completely.

00:28:17.140 But I think it did put a lot of pressure on politicians to, at least at a provincial level.

00:28:23.940 But as far as it being a success, I think it is a success because they've exposed the federal government.

00:28:30.840 They've exposed how low they're willing to go.

00:28:34.140 You know, like I said, it's just crazy to see them.

00:28:37.580 Literally, it felt like they were bringing in the army.

00:28:39.580 Obviously, it wasn't the army, but it was the police force.

00:28:42.040 But it had that total feeling and, you know, and to see what they did to Alexa, to see how the horses trampled over those people, to see the countless beatings on peaceful protesters.

00:28:52.000 I think at the end of the day, it's a win-win no matter what, because we're now able to see the government, you know, for what they really are.

00:29:00.480 And I think a lot of us already had those ideas, but to see it, you know, with our own eyes and to show the world it, it's something else.

00:29:07.540 And it just shows you how low of a level Justin Trudeau and his federal government are willing to go just to clear out some people who don't share the same opinion as them.

00:29:16.900 It's so true. 0.84

00:29:17.700 I agree with you 100%, Lincoln.

00:29:19.240 Well, Lincoln, you did incredible work.

00:29:21.140 I know you were working tirelessly.

00:29:23.080 I hope you have a nice weekend off.

00:29:24.920 You certainly deserve it.

00:29:26.740 And thank you for all your brilliant coverage these last few weeks.

00:29:31.260 Thanks, David.

00:29:31.840 It was great to have you down there, too.

00:29:33.180 You did some awesome work.

00:29:34.180 I think overall we did great and we got to show the world what was really happening in Ottawa.

00:29:38.660 So kudos to you as well.

00:29:40.100 Well, thank you so much, my friend.

00:29:41.640 You get some rest.

00:29:43.560 Thanks, David.

00:29:44.100 And that was Lincoln Jay back home in Mississauga, Ontario.

00:29:48.220 Keep it here, folks.

00:29:49.300 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:29:54.920 Okay, so, Jim, as I said, you've come all the way from Madison, Alberta to be part of the Freedom Convoy.

00:30:03.800 And, you know, of course, this weekend, a big crackdown.

00:30:07.740 Demonstrators dispersed.

00:30:09.220 Trucks either had to move on or get towed away.

00:30:12.100 And when it came to your truck, as I understand it, you weren't blocking traffic.

00:30:18.280 You weren't in the middle of an intersection.

00:30:19.700 You were in a private parking lot and the police said, that is vehicle non grata.

00:30:26.980 You got to get out of town.

00:30:28.500 What happened?

00:30:30.060 Basically, last Friday, the tire was slashed.

00:30:32.700 It was slashed earlier than that, but we were going to get it fixed.

00:30:35.460 Officers said, don't do nothing because there's going to be a lot of commotion this weekend.

00:30:38.480 Leave it until next week.

00:30:39.460 So, have a hotel here.

00:30:40.980 I was going to stay here until Monday, Tuesday.

00:30:42.760 Get it sorted out.

00:30:43.680 And then today, change of plans.

00:30:45.300 The emergency guys came in here, started towing everything, smashed the windows on other trucks.

00:30:49.440 And I'm like, well, what's going to happen to my truck?

00:30:51.440 Please don't smash the window.

00:30:52.720 And can I have time to get out of here?

00:30:54.340 And they're like, nope.

00:30:55.260 You're getting out of here and we're towing you.

00:30:56.800 And that was the result in the end.

00:30:58.260 But wait a minute.

00:30:59.820 Your truck was in a parking lot.

00:31:03.180 It wasn't any kind of impediment to traffic.

00:31:06.200 You weren't honking your horn.

00:31:08.960 Unless the owner of the parking lot said, I want this rig out of here.

00:31:13.660 Then why were police adamant to get that out?

00:31:17.740 Especially, you couldn't drive it away on its own accord because the tires had been slashed.

00:31:22.780 The only thing he told me was because any truck that looks like that has to go.

00:31:26.840 That's what he told me.

00:31:27.760 Wow.

00:31:28.540 So, you know, it's funny.

00:31:29.960 Law enforcement isn't supposed to profile people.

00:31:33.720 But I guess, folks, in Canada, in 2022, if you're driving a pickup or a rig and it has a Canadian flag on it, my goodness, that must be an expression being put forward by a deplorable, if you will.

00:31:47.600 Well, Jim, why, I guess you pled your case to the cops that you're out of here as soon as possible.

00:31:54.620 Why wouldn't they give you time to get your tires fixed? 0.78

00:31:58.300 You didn't do that to your truck.

00:31:59.600 Some vandal did.

00:32:00.420 Yeah.

00:32:00.780 So, like I say, last Friday, they said that I could have time and get it done this next week coming up.

00:32:05.280 And then this guy today said that you had lots of time.

00:32:08.640 You knew that last week already that you'd be in the red zone and you should have had it out of here before now.

00:32:13.220 And that was the last straw.

00:32:16.500 What does this mean financially to you?

00:32:18.980 Are you on the hook for the heavy tow that took it away?

00:32:21.860 I would imagine, yeah.

00:32:23.340 And then they supposedly, I've heard a rumor, I don't know for sure, but it'll be there for seven days.

00:32:27.860 So that'll be seven more days of me staying here before I can take it home.

00:32:31.220 So they want you out of here, they want you out of Dodge as soon as possible, but we're going to hold, you know, confiscate your vehicle for seven days.

00:32:39.340 And I assume there'll be a storage charge per day.

00:32:43.500 Can you even afford that, Jim?

00:32:45.940 Not right now.

00:32:46.660 I'm unemployed, you know.

00:32:48.420 So this is another guy's truck that offered to send it down here.

00:32:51.700 I jumped on it because I needed a volunteer and I was doing nothing.

00:32:55.120 So I came for the cause kind of thing.

00:32:56.600 And at the end of the day, this truck, since I've been here, got trapped in McDonald's, got in here the next night and the tire was slashed while it slipped in the truck.

00:33:05.300 So we don't know if it was shot out or there's two holes in the tire.

00:33:09.200 And then every night it's been graffitied and vandalized with spray paint and it's been nonstop.

00:33:14.860 I saw those pictures you showed me in addition to the tire slashed, the spray paint.

00:33:20.180 It may be something that could have been bullet holes.

00:33:23.120 Those eggs that were thrown at your rig, kind of perverse, isn't that, folks?

00:33:28.860 Those protesters against the truckers, how do they think the eggs got on the store shelves?

00:33:33.840 It was because of people like this gentleman that drove them there.

00:33:39.520 Jim, I'm so sorry this has happened to you.

00:33:43.580 I wish you well.

00:33:45.100 What are your final thoughts on how the clampdown went down this weekend?

00:33:49.220 It's a little bit more intense than I thought it would be, right?

00:33:53.680 It's at a point where they want us to leave, but it's making it impossible to leave.

00:33:59.420 I was a little worried when I had that shotgun blast in the back of my sleeper there.

00:34:03.680 I wasn't in there that night, but had I was, and if it went through, that's pretty detrimental, right?

00:34:08.860 I truly think this is the work of Trudeau's true fringe minority.

00:34:12.940 Yeah, that's the real fringe.

00:34:14.700 And it's a violent, vandal-prone fringe.

00:34:18.040 And you know what, folks?

00:34:18.740 I just want to say, for any of those people that are vilifying the truckers that were part of the Freedom Convoy,

00:34:26.300 I think Tucker Carlson said it best on Fox News a couple of weeks ago.

00:34:30.320 If you are alive, you owe your life, literally, to the truckers.

00:34:36.320 They're the reason why groceries got to supermarket shelves.

00:34:40.260 They're the reason why medicine has gotten to the pharmacy shelves and so much, much more.

00:34:47.280 So instead of vandalizing a truck, throwing eggs at a truck, shooting potentially at a truck, slashing its tires,

00:34:53.620 how about you thank the people like Jim Zinger for keeping you alive?

00:34:58.140 So I ask you, folks, does Jim Zinger look like a thug to you?

00:35:03.320 Does his behavior justify invoking the Emergencies Act?

00:35:08.540 Absolutely incredible.

00:35:09.440 In any event, you had plenty to say about truckers like Jim Zinger who were being harassed by both Antifa types and law enforcement

00:35:17.440 simply for having a truck festooned with a Canadian flag.

00:35:24.380 Il Jobert writes,

00:35:26.100 I am disgusted and horrified.

00:35:28.500 I am so sorry for this brave man.

00:35:31.520 Well, Il, welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada in 2022, a dominion in which hardworking and law-abiding truckers are targeted, harassed, fined, and have their rigs towed away.

00:35:45.540 Disgust and horror are perfect descriptors.

00:35:48.520 Peter Montagon writes,

00:35:52.520 Well, Peter, first of all, thank you very much for your service.

00:36:04.520 Secondly, I just got back from our nation's capital and that city is a surreal sight right now.

00:36:13.320 Gone are the truckers and their supporters.

00:36:15.000 But now the city is blockaded by approximately 100 Checkpoint Charlies, cops who are literally asking citizens for their papers. 0.94

00:36:24.000 And then there are the concrete blocks, and then there are the steel fences, barricading major intersections.

00:36:33.380 And, of course, Parliament Hill right now is a no-go zone, except for the chosen few, of course.

00:36:39.480 At times I had to pinch myself, was I visiting Ottawa in 2022 or perhaps East Berlin circa 1946?

00:36:47.120 Tame Thing writes,

00:36:50.480 Thank you, Jim, and all the other heroic truckers.

00:36:55.040 Indeed, Tame Thing, heroic is the proper descriptor for truckers, even though it is fashionable in certain circles to vilify truckers these days.

00:37:04.140 Yeah, I'm looking at you, Liberal Party of Canada, and at you, members of the Canadian mainstream media.

00:37:11.120 Put another way, if you bought it, a trucker brought it.

00:37:14.680 From food to medicine and so much more, truckers are the reason we are alive.

00:37:20.660 That makes them heroes, not zeros, in my book.

00:37:25.260 Pat Moroso writes,

00:37:27.360 No trucker should deliver anything to Ottawa.

00:37:30.640 Well, wouldn't that be a come-to-Jesus moment for all those in Ottawa who have a hate on for truckers, eh?

00:37:37.680 When there's no more soy on Ottawa store shelves for the soy boy community, well, as the saying goes, 1.00

00:37:43.760 be careful what you wish for.

00:37:46.760 Tame Roberts writes,

00:37:48.360 Bad part is that it was the police who did that to your truck.

00:37:52.380 Bingo, Tame.

00:37:53.420 The Antifa types vandalized Jim's truck,

00:37:56.260 but it was the police who essentially stole Jim's truck.

00:38:00.380 As previously stated, the truck was parked in a private parking lot.

00:38:06.000 There was no crime being committed here.

00:38:08.780 You know, we tend to back the blue,

00:38:10.940 but that's getting increasingly difficult with every passing day, folks.

00:38:15.600 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:38:19.380 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:38:21.040 See you next week.

00:38:22.420 And say, folks, never forget,

00:38:24.620 without risk, there can be no glory.

00:38:26.900 Good night.

00:38:27.340 Good night.

00:38:50.580 Good night.

00:38:52.080 Good night.

00:38:52.380 Good night.

00:38:54.220 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - February 26, 2022

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Debriefing abuse of Ottawa protesters, from trampling to vandalism

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