Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Why Salman Rushdie was targeted; New Rebel reporter Katie Daviscourt

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.680 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.540 Well, for those who embrace freedom, last Friday was a shocking day indeed. A 24-year-old hooligan

00:00:18.260 attempted to murder author Salman Rushdie at a public event in New York. But why? Raheel Raza

00:00:26.120 will try to make sense of it all. And say hello to our newest Rebel News reporter. That would be

00:00:32.380 Katie Davis-Court, based in Seattle, Washington. And what a story she has to tell. You see,

00:00:38.960 Katie first got involved in journalism when City Council and the mainstream media in Seattle 0.71

00:00:44.920 decided to basically completely ignore the violent antics of Antifa and Black Lives Matter

00:00:52.940 as they laid siege to our city. Katie shall explain all. And letters, we get your letters.

00:00:59.640 We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share some of your letters about my monologue

00:01:04.900 last week regarding how the World Economic Forum wants us to surrender our cars in the name of

00:01:12.260 climate change or something. Sorry, Claude Schwab, it just ain't gonna happen. But hey,

00:01:19.180 Mr. Schwab, nothing's stopping you from giving up your chauffeur-driven limo or trading in your

00:01:25.760 filet mignon for a cricket sandwich. I think that's called leading by example, which ain't gonna happen

00:01:32.700 either. Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:36.180 Those who hadn't heard the name Salman Rushdie before have heard it now, as it's all over the

00:01:53.140 news. Millions of people across the globe know that British Indian author Salman Rushdie was brutally

00:02:00.480 attacked in New York on Friday the 12th of August. Rushdie was scheduled to give a lecture at Education

00:02:07.680 Center Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York, when a man ran up to the stage and attacked him

00:02:14.960 with a knife in the neck and abdomen. Police detained the assailant named Hadi Matar 24 from Fairview, New Jersey.

00:02:24.000 So who is Salman Rushdie? He is a literary giant. His famous words resonate with us today. He said,

00:02:34.160 what is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. We are grateful that

00:02:43.440 Rushdie is recovering. But how long before some other mad jihadi attacks him? We at Rebel News condemn the 0.98

00:02:52.560 attack on Salman Rushdie and wish him a speedy recovery while showing our solidarity by starting

00:02:59.440 a petition to support freedom of expression. Please do sign the petition.

00:03:08.720 In 2007, Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to literature, making him Sir

00:03:16.800 Ahmed Salman Rushdie. He has won five Booker prizes. Rushdie pushed the margins of culture

00:03:25.200 by addressing issues in his writings which were considered taboo. He uses a wry sense of humor,

00:03:33.280 magical realism, and his own Indian culture to explore ideas from identity, history, and politics

00:03:42.160 to religious themes. He is a former president of the literary and human rights organization,

00:03:49.520 PEN America. He is a vocal and active defender of freedoms. In an interview with Deutsche Welle,

00:03:58.000 he said, we must defend our valuable and hard-won freedom. We have to fight for it if need be.

00:04:06.400 In 1988, Rushdie published his now infamous novel, The Satanic Verses. All hell broke loose in the

00:04:16.640 Muslim world when the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini accused the author of blasphemy,

00:04:23.600 and in 1989 issued a fatwa, a religious edict, against him, putting a bounty on his head which,

00:04:31.440 according to some reports, amounts to 3.3 million dollars today. All over the Muslim world, especially

00:04:40.320 in places like Pakistan, there were explosive rallies and calls to kill Rushdie. Ironically,

00:04:47.840 if you asked the protesters whether they had read satanic verses, you would find that most had not.

00:04:55.280 It was a mob action, but violent and angry. In 1991, two translators of the book were stabbed,

00:05:04.480 one fatally. You may ask, why did this happen? Khomeini wanted to attract political attention,

00:05:13.120 and Rushdie became a convenient skateboard. This was a time when we Muslim reformers saw the clear

00:05:20.400 distinction between Islam and Islamism, which is political Islam, because Khomeini was using this

00:05:27.840 as a purely political move. However, it picked up traction, and soon Rushdie had to go into hiding

00:05:35.440 while Scotland Yard provided security for him. In 2008, he moved to the United States.

00:05:42.160 In 1998, Iranian President Muhammad Khatami rescinded the fatwa, but the harm had been done. 0.99

00:06:02.640 We will kill you. We obey the Imam Khomeini the Great. 1.00

00:06:09.440 He could not put the genie back in the bottle.

00:06:12.160 For those who care about freedom, August 12 was a dark day. That's when British Indian author

00:06:18.640 Salman Rushdie was brutally knifed in New York. Rushdie was scheduled to give a lecture at the

00:06:25.280 education center at the Chautauqua institution when a crazed man ran up to the stage and attacked Rushdie

00:06:34.000 with a knife, stabbing him in the neck and abdomen. Hadi Mattar of Fairview, New Jersey,

00:06:40.880 was arrested and charged with attempted murder. It was a shocking display of violence, and in truth,

00:06:47.840 one of the most disturbing elements of this attack is Mattar's age. He's only 24,

00:06:54.000 meaning that he wasn't even alive when the controversy erupted over the publication

00:07:00.000 of the satanic verses in the first place. And yet somehow this would-be assassin was motivated to

00:07:07.520 take someone's life for the alleged crime of writing a book that some in the Muslim world

00:07:13.600 considered to be offensive to Islam? How sad, how infuriating, how disturbing is that?

00:07:21.120 And joining me now for more on this shocking incident is Raheel Raza. Raheel, thank you so

00:07:27.920 much for coming on Rebel Roundup. And I gotta tell you, do you share my surprise that the fact that

00:07:36.080 the age of this would-be assassin, only 24, not even alive when Khomeini issued that fatwa back in 1989,

00:07:45.120 and yet somehow this person has been, I guess, indoctrinated to go out and try to carry out

00:07:53.680 first-degree murder? You know, David, it is shocking, of course, but not entirely surprising.

00:08:00.080 I mean, since 9-11, we have been talking and warning about the dangers of brainwashing young people.

00:08:06.800 Yes. And, you know, here is a pure example. When you look at it, as you say, he wasn't even born when

00:08:13.120 the fatwa was given. So it tells you of the level of the brainwashing. It tells you of the level of

00:08:20.240 the radicalization that a young man born in USA went for a visit to Lebanon and, according to his own

00:08:27.600 mother, came back radicalized. Yes. So people from, you know, thousands of miles away are able to push

00:08:35.600 his buttons. The question that we have to ask and our security agencies and our law enforcement and

00:08:41.840 our leaders is how many Mohadi Matars are there that we don't know about? You know, and that's a good 1.00

00:08:48.000 point too, Raheel. The fact that he was born in the United States of America, I mean, I think if you're

00:08:54.160 in a developed world democracy, life is probably pretty good. I don't know anything about this

00:08:59.440 character, but he's probably not languishing in poverty. And yet somehow he was motivated to go

00:09:06.720 out and carry out this atrocious act. I don't even know if he has read the satanic verses. You said in

00:09:12.800 your commentary, so many of the people that we saw from yesterday's decade writing in the streets,

00:09:18.160 they never read it. It's even been reported that Ayatollah Khomeini himself hadn't read it.

00:09:23.760 This is baffling to me, Raheel. Well, you know, you have to understand the mindset and the ideology

00:09:31.040 of the Islamists. And let me clarify that Islamists are those who are using Islam for a purely political 0.72

00:09:38.720 motive. Yes. You know, there's no spirituality in it. It is purely political and they're using it

00:09:44.880 for subversive agendas. Yeah. So you have to understand their thinking and their ideology to

00:09:50.480 appreciate what is unfolding. Now, I hope that what is unfolding is a lesson for people who are

00:09:58.160 looking at this. You know, every time I've spoken out in the last 20 years, I've been called a fear

00:10:05.120 monger. But invariably, some of the things that we Muslim reformers have talked about have come true 0.98

00:10:12.160 because we have been warning of the signs and connecting the dots. So I would be called a fear

00:10:17.200 monger again. But if I tell you that I believe that at least 40 percent of the Muslim communities

00:10:24.560 are Islamized, you know, they have leanings towards Islamist ideology. Now, this doesn't mean that

00:10:31.200 they're going out, they're going to go out and be violent because it's a mindset. It's a way of thinking.

00:10:37.760 And when young people are brainwashed into believing that they're doing this for God and that they're

00:10:43.200 doing this, they're going to find a place in heaven and that they can give their own lives and they

00:10:49.600 will, you know, become angels and have perhaps wishful thinking 72 virgins at their beck and call. 0.99

00:10:56.800 It's all a bunch of garbage, but they believe it. It's staggering. And, you know, one of the aspects we 0.99

00:11:02.240 have to look at, Raheel, is the reaction around the world. And I thought one of the most disturbing

00:11:10.960 reactions was in Pakistan. There is a journalist, Ali Waqar. He broadcast for Pakistan's English

00:11:19.440 language Dawn News Network. And he stated that Batar is, quote, a young freedom fighter for Uma's

00:11:27.280 dignity, end quote. I mean, this to me is almost as shocking as the knife attack. I saw that. As you

00:11:35.360 know, I am from Pakistan. I follow the news there. It was very disturbing, very concerning. I saw the

00:11:42.400 celebration, the jubilation. And I waited for at least one organization, even in North America,

00:11:49.520 one Muslim organization to show compassion, regardless of the religious affiliation, just to 0.91

00:11:55.920 show compassion for a 75-year-old man who nearly died. That's all I'm asking for.

00:12:01.840 And a week later, have we seen any? No. What is behind that, Raheel? Oh, they won't. Because

00:12:10.080 look at the date. 1988 was when Satanic Verses was published. 1989, the fatwa against Salman Rushdie

00:12:20.560 was given by Khomeini. Maybe it will help you to understand that in traditional Islam, there is no

00:12:30.240 formalized clergy. The concept of formalized clergy does not exist either in our holy book, the Quran,

00:12:36.560 or through the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. But if you look around you, especially in the Shia 1.00

00:12:42.480 faith. Now, Hadi Matar was following the Shia faith. And in the Shia faith, of which Khomeini is also a

00:12:50.560 part, they have the ayatollahs who behave like they are divinely appointed. And these people, the masses,

00:13:02.000 have been brainwashed to believe that whatever the mullah, whatever the ayatollah, whatever the clergy

00:13:07.440 says, is a divine message and set in stone. And if they don't do it, they'll burn in hell. 0.99

00:13:13.760 You know, it's staggering, Raheel. And I mean, I'm wondering if the lack of condemnation 0.85

00:13:20.240 is due to the fear factor. They don't want repercussions. I mean, back when the Danish 1.00

00:13:25.120 cartoons were published, I think around 2006, if memory serves me, you remember that, you know,

00:13:32.160 the world's media, with the exception of a few media outlets, as was at Western Standard,

00:13:37.840 didn't dare publish that offensive cartoon. Even on CNN, they would blue dot it like it was

00:13:44.960 pornography or something like that. And I think it was Mark Stein. He said something very profound.

00:13:49.600 We blew it. It should have been every single media outlet from the local town grocery flyer

00:13:56.720 to the New York Times should have reprinted those cartoons because for the amount of dynamite the

00:14:02.240 jihadis would have to buy it would bankrupt them. Right. But I, you know, but the point is,

00:14:08.240 we should have taken a principled and strong stance. And I think basically out of fear itself,

00:14:16.880 you had the biggest media organizations on the planet sitting this one out. And I think it was

00:14:22.160 shameful. It's more than that. It's political correctness. This is not the first time that they

00:14:27.680 watched the hands of anything where they might be targeting the Muslim communities. The Muslims,

00:14:32.400 of course, will never condemn this attack because for them, he is the enemy and they want him dead. 0.99

00:14:39.360 You know, so that's simple and straightforward. And you can, whether or not they're jihadis,

00:14:43.600 whether they're moderate Muslims, you know, except for the Muslim reform movement of which I am a part,

00:14:49.680 right. No one has made a peep. So, but for the rest of the non-Muslim, our governments, our leaders, 1.00

00:14:59.440 they are terrified to touch anything that has to do with Islam or Muslims with a 10-foot pole

00:15:05.600 for fear of our biggest issue, Islamophobia. And you know, and Raheel, it's not a two-way street. You can

00:15:13.360 do a mockery of Christianity, such as put a cross, you know, in a jar of urine, and you'll probably get 0.97

00:15:22.160 a government grant to assist in that artistry. So, it's very odd. It's not a two-way street. And yet, 0.90

00:15:30.400 the problem is, this is not a one-off. You know, when we look at Salman Rushdie, it was recently reported,

00:15:35.840 it was a woman in India, Nipur Sharma. I don't know if you know this case. Yes, yes. But she's now...

00:15:41.520 In hiding. She's now in a life of hiding because she dared to read from an Islamic text 0.96

00:15:48.400 about the Prophet Muhammad's marriage. And now, there's a fatwa on her. Yes. I mean,

00:15:54.640 I guess, Raheel, is there any hope things are going to get reformed and that this religion, 1.00

00:16:02.000 like any religion, like anything, is fair grounds for criticism? Well, the hope lies with us. We are

00:16:10.400 the reformist Muslims. The hope lies with that. One thing I will say that, you know, within the

00:16:18.640 liberal Muslim community, if you want to call it that, and the intellectuals, there has been

00:16:23.200 a lot of outreach from UK to Europe to North America, much more than I thought. You know,

00:16:30.560 so almost everybody came together and said, we have to say something. This is why I started that

00:16:35.680 petition on Rebel News, because I want people to sign it, that we are protecting our basic freedom

00:16:42.560 of expression. That, you know, we are protecting freedom of speech, without which we don't exist.

00:16:50.720 A hundred percent, Raheel. And by the way, where can our viewers go to sign that petition that they

00:16:55.840 haven't already? I believe it's W, the URL is www.istandwithhrushti.com. Fantastic. Well,

00:17:03.600 you know what, folks, it is well worth putting your signature on there if you care about freedom.

00:17:09.200 And Raheel, let's hope Salman Rushdie does make a full recovery. You know, at the end of the day,

00:17:18.480 I think the ultimate dark perversity of this is that so many in the Islamic community say Islam is

00:17:26.080 the religion of peace. But if you don't agree with that, or if you offend our sensibilities,

00:17:32.720 we're going to issue a fatwa, meaning we're going to kill you. And, you know, I'm not saying that, 0.99

00:17:39.360 you know, is right across the board with all Muslims. I'm just talking about those who

00:17:43.200 subscribe to political Islamist beliefs. And again, I guess last word goes to you, Raheel.

00:17:51.360 Do you see this getting worse in the years ahead or better, especially since I think there's been a

00:17:57.840 false belief that in the last two and a bit years with COVID, it's almost as though many people think

00:18:03.440 that radical Islam has taken a holiday? I don't think it has. I don't think it has either. However, 0.99

00:18:11.040 I'm an optimist, and there's always hope. When people say, I was going to tell you when people

00:18:16.320 say Islam is the religion of peace, I always respond by saying it is a religion of peace as long as that

00:18:22.560 peace is being practiced on a daily basis, as much as Muslims can practice peace. It's only then that 0.83

00:18:29.600 it becomes a religion of peace. Other than that, there are many more voices. There are many more

00:18:35.360 people speaking out. There is, you know, Islam is a young religion, not that it is a justification,

00:18:42.000 but it is younger than the other two. It's still going through its regurgitations. If this issue of not

00:18:50.080 having debate and discussion can be brought back, one of the most important things in the development

00:18:56.080 of early Islam was the concept of Ishtihad, which is debate and discussion. But that has been shut down.

00:19:02.080 These days, there is no debate and discussion. They'd rather kill than debate or discuss.

00:19:07.280 If we can bring back the whole idea of debate and discussion, because what Salman Rushdie had

00:19:14.080 mentioned in satanic verses, the so-called blasphemous part, is an idea that has floated around in the

00:19:22.000 Muslim world. And there have been great thinkers and intellectuals and activists and, you know,

00:19:28.720 but they're scared. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, Raheel, I want to thank you for being, for you being so

00:19:35.680 outspoken over the years and for your bravery, because it does take a degree of bravery. Thank you for

00:19:42.560 coming on the show. My pleasure. You have a great weekend. And folks, if you can, please go to Raheel's

00:19:48.000 petition. Put your name to it if you care about freedom. It's a very worthy cause worth protecting,

00:19:55.200 that is for sure. More of Rebel Roundup coming up right after this. Thank you.

00:19:59.360 When Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the riots of 2020, they overthrew a six block radius of Seattle. 0.64

00:20:13.280 It was hardly reported on by our local news in Seattle. And so that's when I kind of started

00:20:18.880 getting my start. I started out as an independent reporter a little bit before the riots started,

00:20:24.080 because there wasn't a focus on the desecration of the city of Seattle by the hands of the progressive

00:20:30.960 policies that have been enacted. And I said, why is there only one side being shared? So I went out and

00:20:35.520 I started reporting the other side of the story, like what Rebel News does, and it is not being shared.

00:20:42.640 So I'm excited to continue my work there. Well, the fact that you had that contrarianism,

00:20:50.320 that you were not afraid to tell the story that the mainstream weren't is impressive. That's the

00:20:55.520 essential character element to be a rebel. Are you willing to stand apart from the from the crowd?

00:21:01.920 But physically to film Antifa, I mean, they are by definition violent. They by definition in believe in

00:21:13.360 shock tactics. They hide their identities. They have the style, the black walk where they're 0.95

00:21:18.960 indistinguishable. They all dress in black from head to toe. They are violent. They burnt cities and 0.99

00:21:24.160 they would hurt you if they could. Now, you were very wise about how you went about it. But in my

00:21:30.000 mind, it takes a little bit of courage to stand down what is really the brown shirts of our age. 0.80

00:21:36.480 Oh, I absolutely agree. And so when I started going out there in the beginning,

00:21:40.640 they would that they like to attack reporters because they consider people out there with

00:21:46.320 phones as cops. They think that cameras are cops. So they hate the police and reporters go and they

00:21:54.240 don't want their crimes to be filmed. So they I've actually been attacked by them a few times,

00:21:59.360 not any violent assaults, but they use intimidate intimidation tactics to silence who they believe

00:22:06.560 is their opposition. So not only have they physically assaulted me, but they have come to my apartment

00:22:13.360 and they know where I live. They have slashed my tires multiple times and they have put flyers of me

00:22:20.320 around my city. They put flyers of my own family members around my city all to try to intimidate me

00:22:26.400 to not report on their actions. And I just think that it is insane that our city council,

00:22:34.240 the Seattle city council actually kind of supports them. They are pro Antifa. They

00:22:39.600 are still using the phrase that, you know, Antifa is that is an anti-fascist group. You know,

00:22:45.280 there's no, they're really fascist. And you just look at the definition of that word. They act like

00:22:49.840 fascists. Can you imagine folks, the city of Seattle essentially gets taken over by violent radicals,

00:22:56.960 be they Antifa or BLM supporters and the politicians support the thugs as opposed to the law abiding

00:23:05.600 constituents that they are supposed to be serving. As for those useful leftist idiots in the mainstream 1.00

00:23:12.960 media. Well, it's all a matter of nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along. What a disgrace. 1.00

00:23:19.440 It's unbelievable. And joining me now is the newest member of the rebel news team. And that would be

00:23:26.080 Katie Davis court. Hey, Katie, welcome to rebel roundup. How are you doing there?

00:23:31.200 I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be a part of the team.

00:23:34.480 Well, thank you for joining us today. And I got to tell you, Katie, my blood was boiling

00:23:40.080 when I saw the intimidation tactics you had to endure by those Antifa and BLM punks. But I guess 0.92

00:23:49.120 I always look for the silver lining and things, Katie. And the good news is once you saw what

00:23:54.400 happened to your city, once you saw city councilors supporting these thugs, once you saw the mainstream

00:24:01.360 media downplaying what was happening, you decided basically to become a citizen journalist. And

00:24:08.240 here you are now on the rebel news team. Is that correct, my friend?

00:24:12.400 Yeah, that's exactly correct. So Antifa, I actually got my start a little bit before

00:24:19.520 the George Floyd riots of 2020 and Antifa started seizing cities and really partnered with Black 0.95

00:24:25.680 Lives Matter and burned down Seattle for nearly nine months. And the reason why I got started was

00:24:32.960 because the Seattle was really the center of the defund the police movement. And I noticed that we

00:24:41.600 started electing Marxists and socialists to our city council. And the first thing that they started

00:24:47.120 to do was introduce defunding of the police. And because I'm educated, I know that that's a Marxist

00:24:53.360 tactic. And I went, why is no one speaking out on this? This is the United States of America. We don't

00:24:57.920 welcome these type of policies in our country. And so Seattle was really ground zero for that. And

00:25:04.800 that's when I noticed no local media was really reporting on it. And so I went out, I started reporting

00:25:10.560 on it. And then that's when really Antifa started building up their own presence here in the Pacific

00:25:18.000 Northwest, Seattle and Portland, really the epicenter of Antifa. And I was so shocked that our local news

00:25:25.600 wasn't reporting on these issues. And our own city council members, they make Antifa emboldened with

00:25:34.000 their support. I mean, they, one of our council members dresses up their own baby in an Antifa

00:25:41.840 onesie. And you have to think, yeah, it is just shocking. And so during George Floyd, like what

00:25:48.400 you mentioned was they, the real insurrection happened in Seattle. It wasn't the January 6th

00:25:55.360 Capitol riot in Washington, DC. It was when Antifa with Black Lives Matter overthrew a huge

00:26:03.840 six block radius of Seattle in the heart of downtown and created the Capitol Hill Autonomous

00:26:09.840 Zone, which our own city leaders helped them create and actually encourage. And they overthrew a police

00:26:16.640 precinct. And that is really where Seattle is. It hasn't recovered since. We have a new mayor,

00:26:23.680 he's trying, but we're still really a city in despair.

00:26:26.720 You know, and you're so right, Katie. When it comes to Antifa, when it comes to Black Lives Matter,

00:26:34.240 these are Marxist organizations, make no mistake. And they're following classical Marxism, i.e. tear

00:26:42.560 down the status quo and then build it back up in a Marxist utopia, which of course never comes to

00:26:50.480 fruition when you look at the communist countries around the world. They're hell holes, let's be honest.

00:26:56.400 But you know, when we focus on, you know, their impetus for this riot and that zone they created

00:27:05.520 was all about defunding the police regarding an incident that happened all the way over in

00:27:10.960 Minneapolis. But what I don't understand, Katie, take me through this. Say we defund the police,

00:27:17.040 we get rid of the police forces in America. When a bad guy does something really egregious to a victim,

00:27:26.560 who do you call? I mean, have they even thought this through?

00:27:30.400 Yeah, they want to move to community-led policing and it doesn't work. They tried it in CHAZ. 0.91

00:27:37.040 They had their own armed guards and it ended in death. It ended in rapes. It ended in

00:27:42.880 property destruction and stolen property. It doesn't work. They want to send social workers out

00:27:49.680 in place of police. But why this also would never work is we are, the Seattle is so corrupt that we have

00:28:00.080 prosecutors that don't prosecute, which has led into, which has created, or essentially Seattle has

00:28:06.800 become a lawless den of criminal lawlessness. Because our justice system is a revolving door

00:28:15.040 for criminals. They get away with committing as many crimes as they want. They go through the

00:28:22.240 courts and they immediately get released because we don't hold our own criminals accountable,

00:28:28.000 which is actually by design with these progressive policies.

00:28:32.400 Katie, tell our audience a bit about Seattle. I mean, I have to be honest. I was only in Seattle

00:28:37.120 once. It was 1986. That was a different world back then. It seemed way more normal. The whole

00:28:45.040 world was more normal back then. I found it to be a charming, very picturesque city. But what I'm

00:28:52.400 trying to get at, as you've mentioned, you've got these ultra leftists, even Marxists on city council.

00:28:58.720 When it comes to Seattle citizens, I mean, can you paint them with that kind of brush? Is there's this

00:29:06.240 support for this kind of anarchy? And also, how did these anarchists get elected in the first place?

00:29:15.360 Right. You have to wonder. So you said you were here in the 1980s. Now,

00:29:20.880 Seattle, Washington State implemented mail-in voting in the 1980s, late 1980s. And we used to

00:29:29.760 actually be run by Republicans, conservatives. Once we implemented this mail-in voting policies,

00:29:36.240 we haven't elected a conservative to city council since mail-in voting happened. So you have to wonder

00:29:42.880 what exactly is behind that. Obviously, that is a very deep investigation to get into.

00:29:50.640 And I'm still working on it. But once you speak out on it, everyone gets removed from their social

00:29:55.760 media platforms. So they try to limit your speech. But I would say that the majority of Seattle are

00:30:02.720 these far left progressives. And it's so interesting because we had the riots that lasted for nine

00:30:08.880 months. Their own buildings were burned down. Yet they are still electing these leaders into office

00:30:15.680 because this is the capital of virtue signaling. They are ran by their crazy, wacky thoughts that 0.83

00:30:27.200 everyone. If they vote differently for change, then they are racist or they are really playing into the

00:30:36.400 narrative that all Republicans are bad and they will continue voting alongside these corrupt politicians,

00:30:46.400 all because Trump was elected as the president of the United States in 2016. So we will see what

00:30:54.240 happens. But if they don't continue to wake up, then our city will not improve.

00:31:00.080 Wow. So Trump derangement syndrome is still lingering on in the Pacific Northwest, I suppose. But you know

00:31:08.160 what, Katie, one of the other angles, too, is the perverse hypocrisy of these groups 0.85

00:31:15.040 that have laid waste to your city. Black Lives Matter. I don't understand how they go by that 1.00

00:31:21.920 moniker when they go into neighborhoods where there are black owned businesses, small

00:31:27.680 ma and pa businesses, and they incinerate those businesses. They create carnage for black people. 1.00

00:31:35.840 Antifa, as you know, that's a contraction of anti and fascists. But they use the tools of 0.99

00:31:43.840 fascism, intimidation, violence, arson, you name it. They're not anti-fa. They're simply fa for fascists. 0.55

00:31:52.480 And yet they're tolerated by people on the left. I mean, I thought we're supposed to argue our points

00:32:00.560 with words. I thought we're supposed to debate. How is it that these groups are so entitled

00:32:07.520 to use violence even against a lady like yourself, vandalizing your car, following you back to your 0.99

00:32:14.000 apartment? I'm trying to make sense of it all, Katie. Why is there, I guess, this tolerance for these

00:32:21.280 ultra violent and fascist groups?

00:32:24.080 Right. I wish I knew the answer to that. You know, you're right. They are absolutely the fascists.

00:32:29.520 And so I will say that Black Lives Matter during, whenever there is a rally, because Antifa, you know, 0.97

00:32:37.040 they are all essentially white people. Like 99% are white punks and Black Lives Matter. So they're 0.98

00:32:45.520 actually becoming less, Antifa is becoming less popular in the United States because they tried to

00:32:51.520 hijack the Black Lives Matter movement. And once they do that, they use violence, they destroy 1.00

00:32:55.840 property, they attack people. And then that's, their actions are tied to any other left-wing cause.

00:33:02.160 So whenever they show up, these left-wing groups actually will try to, to, to denounce Antifa, but

00:33:09.600 that, that doesn't care. And, you know, I think that there is a two-tiered system of justice here in

00:33:15.040 the United States right now. And I think what one of the tactics is for the Democrat politicians is to

00:33:23.760 kind of support Antifa and the, and the violence because they need chaos to further their progressive

00:33:30.400 policies to really create a police state, which is what their goal is right now.

00:33:37.040 No, I would agree with that, Katie. I would argue even that Antifa is the unofficial militia

00:33:42.480 of the Democrat Party in terms of carrying out their shenanigans. We're almost out of racetrack

00:33:49.280 here. One last question. Like I, like I said, it's our gain that you got into citizen journalism

00:33:57.440 and we discovered you, and I know you're going to do some fantastic work for us, Katie. But

00:34:01.360 in terms of being a Seattle resident, in terms of somebody who is not an ultra leftist, have you

00:34:07.040 considered moving? Is it that bad there? Or is there maybe does hope abound in Seattle that maybe

00:34:14.720 there'll be a turnaround at some date? Right. You know, I'm a very positive person and I love Seattle.

00:34:21.360 I've been here my whole life. My family's been here, but yes, I absolutely have considered moving.

00:34:26.960 I have my apartment, but I also stay elsewhere a lot of the time because I don't like people knowing

00:34:33.360 where I live, but I also don't want them to win and make them push me out of the city that I love

00:34:39.360 and grew up in. And it is so awful. You mentioned coming here in the past and how we have mountains

00:34:46.320 and oceans and it is really the most beautiful place in the country, in my opinion. And I would like

00:34:52.480 to say there's hope. But unfortunately, things are going to get much, much worse before they get

00:34:57.520 any better. So we'll see. Wow. Well, Katie, you are a strong woman indeed. You keep standing your

00:35:04.720 ground. We'll see how this plays out. And once again, welcome to Rebel News. You have a great

00:35:09.200 weekend, my friend. Thanks for having me on. You got it. It was a pleasure. And that was Katie

00:35:14.320 Davis-Gord from Seattle, Washington. Keep it here, folks. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:35:22.480 And here's the thing when it comes to the war on the car, now being headed up by the WEF and their 0.98

00:35:30.800 various useful idiots in government and the mainstream media. This is a battle they will 1.00

00:35:37.680 not win. This is a battle they cannot win. For millions of people, including yours truly,

00:35:44.480 a car is not a mere conveyance akin to, say, a refrigerator or a dishwasher. No, a car

00:35:50.960 is a freedom machine. Depending on the season, you enter the heated or air-conditioned cabin,

00:35:58.080 you hit the accelerator, and you go straight to your destination while listening to your favorite

00:36:03.040 tunes or talk radio. What's not to love? As for public transit, well, you know, Elon Musk said it

00:36:10.320 best five years ago, I think. Quote, there is this premise that good things must be somehow painful.

00:36:17.440 I think public transportation is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something 0.99

00:36:24.960 with a lot of other people that doesn't leave where you want it to leave, doesn't start where

00:36:31.440 you want it to start, doesn't end where you want it to end, and it doesn't go all the time? It's a pain

00:36:38.560 pain in the ass, end quote. And here's another thing that the WEFers and their useful idiots 1.00

00:36:45.520 fail to recognize. We live in a car culture. Be it art, movies, magazines, books, music, our love 1.00

00:36:53.840 for the internal combustion engine abounds. Put another way, nobody, not even the globalists,

00:37:00.240 write songs about solar panels and wind turbines. But when it comes to cars, well, let's sample

00:37:07.680 a smattering of audio content from Yesterdecade.

00:37:19.680 We always take my car, cause it's never been beat, and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet.

00:37:37.200 None of the guys go steady, cause it wouldn't be right to leave the best girl home now on Saturday night.

00:37:47.680 Wow, what gold. Indeed, is there a greater pop culture manifestation of the American dream,

00:38:18.080 than the combination of cars plus rock and roll music? And yet, across the pond, we have Dr. Evil,

00:38:25.200 or I'm sorry, I mean, Klaus Schwab, wanting you to, wanting to remove you from the driver's seat

00:38:31.600 and put you where? In the back of some smelly bus? No thanks. Similarly, cars are a staple when it comes

00:38:39.280 to TV shows and movies. From futuristic rides to car chases, Hollywood has long had a love affair

00:38:46.880 with the automobile. Check it out.

00:38:52.400 A piece of speed. Here, ready to move us.

00:38:57.920 A piece of speed.

00:38:59.440 This machine only has to be ready for everyone heleara.

00:39:03.600 14.

00:39:07.020 Woah! 0.99

00:39:07.920 24.

00:39:21.920 Stevens!

00:39:22.420 You know, I don't think there's any drama to be had if the Caped Crusader had to get around

00:39:43.840 Gotham City by taking public transit. In any event, coming after my beloved little

00:39:49.800 men's way mobile is the final straw. And I'm so sorry, but it's simply not going to happen,

00:39:55.960 Mr. Schwab and Mr. Torrey and Mr. Trudeau. Indeed, to paraphrase that famous quote from the late,

00:40:03.960 great Charlton Heston, you can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

00:40:13.420 Well, lots of response regarding my monologue from last week pertaining to the latest way

00:40:19.160 the World Economic Forum plans to make our lives miserable. Yes, they want to take away our cars

00:40:25.980 in the name of appeasing Mother Nature. Or is it Greta Thunberg? Jeez, give me a break already. 0.98

00:40:34.140 Roboprops writes, personal cars are the ultimate sign of freedom. They hate individual freedoms.

00:40:41.240 Call me bastards that they are. Oh, so true, Rob Props. This is not about environmentalism, 1.00

00:40:48.600 but rather pursuing a Marxist agenda. And by the way, what is the greatest threat to the planet

00:40:56.260 these days? Is it climate change or is it COVID-19? And if it is indeed the latter, isn't the car the

00:41:05.340 most hygienic way to get around when it comes to, you know, social distancing, as opposed to,

00:41:11.620 say, squeezing oneself into a jam-packed bus? Gee, whatever happened to follow the science?

00:41:20.700 Friend of the King writes, W-E-F, yeah, okay, sure. I will share my car when you start to share your

00:41:28.240 limos and jets, you hypocrites. Indeed, heck, all simply settled just for the chauffeur-driven limo in 0.99

00:41:35.360 trade. Alas, as much as I would love to globetrot around the world like a typical W-E-F-er, my beloved 1.00

00:41:44.420 prime minister won't let me leave my own country. Northern Paladin writes, how about getting on China

00:41:53.520 for creating 40% of the world's emissions? Oh, that's right. The W-E-F is on China's payroll. 1.00

00:42:00.580 Well, it sure seems that way. And one thing is for sure. We all know how committed China is to the so-called

00:42:07.820 green agenda these days, given the number of new coal plants this country continues to build on an annual

00:42:15.040 basis. Meanwhile, China is increasingly controlling the world's supply of those precious metals so needed

00:42:23.540 for EV batteries. Does anyone else find this disturbing? Boxlore writes, I will resist the W-E-F

00:42:33.560 at all costs until my death. I'm with you, Boxlore, as the saying goes, death before dishonor.

00:42:42.780 Truthfinder55Main writes, the W-E-F backwards is few. Is that not what they want? Fewer people, 1.00

00:42:51.820 fewer cars, fewer energy, which leaves it for the few. These people must be stopped. Well,

00:42:59.380 holy Riddler, great observation, Truthfinder, but they only want the great unwashed masses to downsize, 0.94

00:43:07.420 judging by their rides and their planes and their hotel suites. The W-E-F-ers are all about conspicuous 1.00

00:43:15.700 consumption, but that's okay. They're special people after all. And Brakey Joe writes,

00:43:23.620 well, as someone that doesn't even have a license, it's time I got me three vehicles.

00:43:29.520 Eat it close. Wow. Talk about the Barbra Streisand effect. Welcome to club car, Brakey Joe. 1.00

00:43:36.840 So you're going to love it and try to get a car with a manual transmission while you still can.

00:43:44.640 Happy trails to you, my friend. Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much

00:43:51.240 for joining us. See you next week. And hey folks, never forget without risk, there can be no glory.

00:43:57.020 Good night.

00:44:27.020 Good night.

00:44:28.020 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - August 20, 2022

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Why Salman Rushdie was targeted; New Rebel reporter Katie Daviscourt

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