Rebel News Podcast - Don’t you hate celebrities who say they are tired of publicity？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Have I got a video clip for you? Now, you'll hear it. You'll hear it on the

00:00:04.600 podcast, but boy, I wish you could see it. It's a clip from Bonnie Henry, the $360,000 a year

00:00:11.340 bureaucrat in British Columbia, who's their public health officer. She said something just incredible

00:00:17.220 today, and I want to play it for you twice. You'll hear it, but I want you to see it too,

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00:00:40.780 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:42.000 Tonight, don't you hate celebrities who say they're tired of publicity? It's February 26th,

00:01:03.560 and this is the Ezra Beland Show.

00:01:07.100 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:10.840 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:14.920 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:19.800 right to do so.

00:01:20.780 Harry used to be my favorite royal other than the queen. He was the one who served several

00:01:32.200 tours of duty in Afghanistan at real risk. He seemed the most real, the most connected to

00:01:38.220 real people. His grasping wife, Meghan Markle, has pulled him out of the royal family, disparaged

00:01:44.760 the queen, and rented out her husband's royalty to the highest bidder. It's really gross what

00:01:50.820 she's done to him, turned him into. Look at this.

00:01:54.040 Yeah, you're a prince, mate, and you're now looking to sell that, to rent that, so your

00:02:22.620 wife can do Disney voiceovers. They want their privacy, but they'll do a tell-all on a double-decker 1.00

00:02:30.840 bus going through Los Angeles where they dish on themselves everything from their son's first word

00:02:37.140 to their loving nicknames for each other, but damn it, they want their privacy. They sue newspapers for

00:02:44.160 violating that privacy, but then they sign $100 million deals with Netflix and agree to do a tell-all

00:02:51.360 on the Oprah Winfrey show. They're really the worst. I don't think I've ever seen such a sense

00:02:56.760 of entitlement without a shred of responsibility or duty to go with it. So, so gross. Good for the

00:03:04.180 queen for just cutting them off finally. But of course, there is something even worse than Harry and 0.95

00:03:10.980 Meghan, and it's our own Canadian royalty, our own untouchable princes and princesses.

00:03:18.500 I'm talking about our new class of overlords, Canada's public health officers. Oh yes, they love

00:03:26.940 publicity. They love the limelight. They love the power. They love the respect they demand. But the

00:03:34.200 moment someone disagrees with them, they're quick to pounce on that as unacceptable, not acceptable. That's

00:03:41.300 the exact phrase used by British Columbia's public health officer, Bonnie Henry, to describe people

00:03:47.660 engaging in a peaceful protest outside of her office. I'm going to play a clip for you now from

00:03:53.900 Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster, and I'm not going to edit or shorten the clip at all. I want you to see

00:03:59.100 the whole entire statement. Here is Bonnie Henry, who has destroyed thousands of businesses forever, 1.00

00:04:06.840 caused tens of thousands of job losses, done untold health damage to people by destroying normal social

00:04:15.180 interactions, especially for kids, cancelling thousands of regular medical appointments and

00:04:21.740 surgeries. The destroyer of BC says it is, quote, not acceptable to peacefully protest at her office,

00:04:31.840 and she's particularly mad that some media dare to disagree with her too. And she mumbles something

00:04:39.000 about it being a psychological syndrome or something, like you'd have to be mentally ill to disagree with 0.52

00:04:45.080 her. Get a load of this. You know, this is one of the things that has been incredibly challenging.

00:04:54.160 We have people who have been protesting outside our office, and, you know, it affects me, but it also

00:05:04.000 affects my family, it affects the people we work with, and that's the part that I find hardest to deal

00:05:10.840 with. We have a very strong support system, and I know my colleagues across the country have all been

00:05:17.160 facing some similar challenges. We meet regularly, and we do support each other in that, and I think

00:05:24.160 that's important. I recognize that when people are in crises, part of the way they respond or react

00:05:32.160 is to lash out, to become angry. That is a reaction that is sometimes fed by certain groups, by certain

00:05:40.160 certain media, social media posts, etc. And it's not to condone it, but it's to recognize that

00:05:47.160 the psychology of some people leads the psychology of what we're dealing with leads some people to react

00:05:55.160 that way. And I do believe that it is our collective support for each other that helps mitigate the impacts

00:06:05.160 the impacts of these things. Having said that, I do have security. I have a security system at my

00:06:12.160 house. I have ways that I make sure that I check in with people. We support each other. And it really

00:06:20.160 is not acceptable, and what I find most disturbing is how it impacts the people I work with, and my

00:06:28.160 family, and my close contacts, and their concerns. So that's the most challenging piece right now.

00:06:37.160 Got it. So someone protested outside your office peacefully, but that's not acceptable. Some media

00:06:44.160 disagreed with you, and that's not acceptable. And you have a security system at your house, which you

00:06:50.160 mention to imply that those peaceful protests at your office, that somehow that's a violent threat

00:06:58.160 to you at your home, though you don't actually come right out and say it because people would

00:07:03.160 immediately ask you, did anyone actually show up at your house? Was there actually a threat? Did you

00:07:09.160 call the police about it? As if a millionaire public bureaucrat living in Vancouver doesn't already have a

00:07:14.160 security alarm at her house before the pandemic? What a smearer. What an exaggerator.

00:07:22.160 I should say that according to public filings, Bonnie Henry made more than $360,000 at the

00:07:30.160 taxpayer's trough last year. She's not a practicing physician, by the way. I think that there are

00:07:35.160 doctors who absolutely would earn that, but she's a politician. She's a bureaucrat with an M.D. 1.00

00:07:41.160 degree. By comparison, the Premier of British Columbia himself only makes $211,000, so she

00:07:48.160 makes nearly double. I disagree with many things that John Horgan has done as Premier of British

00:07:54.160 Columbia, but I can say this in his defense. He campaigned in an election and he won. He

00:08:00.160 actually increased his vote and his seat count. When did Bonnie Henry ever put herself to the 1.00

00:08:06.160 Democratic test? How could voters fire her? Well, voters can't. But what citizens can do 1.00

00:08:13.160 is protest peacefully outside her office, in the media and social media. But she just said

00:08:18.160 she won't have any of that. She just said all that is not acceptable.

00:08:23.160 It really is not acceptable. Sorry, sister. You can't rule over us and tell us that we can't even talk back to you.

00:08:32.160 That's not how it works. Look at this super gross story from near the beginning of the pandemic.

00:08:38.160 A new breed of celebrity in the age of COVID-19, the Chief Medical Officer. Day after day,

00:08:44.160 Premiers have announced new restrictions on Canadians' civil liberties that they say are

00:08:49.160 critical to limiting the spread of COVID-19. But it is the Chief Medical Officers at their side who provide

00:08:55.160 the science, buttressing the calls for sacrifice. Some have become stars in their own right, displaying a

00:09:01.160 kind of televisual bedside manner that combines a reassuring fact-based approach with occasional levity.

00:09:09.160 They're funny, too. Quebec's Chief Doctor Horacio Arruda recently shared his weekend self-isolation plan to

00:09:17.160 bake Portuguese tart. He's the best. While Alberta's Dina Hinshaw recently wore a periodic table-themed dress that lit up social media.

00:09:29.160 Oh, they're great. The scientists are pushing aside athletes and other entertainers for the public's attention

00:09:36.160 as citizens try to navigate through unprecedented times. Yeah, like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

00:09:42.160 They want their names in lights. They love the adoring press. They love their high six-figure salaries.

00:09:49.160 But don't you dare protest peacefully against what they're doing to you.

00:09:54.160 At least Harry and Meghan are nothings. They're wannabe entertainers, they're grifters, but they have no power over you.

00:10:01.160 They can't shut down your church or business. They're just mooches. 1.00

00:10:06.160 Look at this part of the CTV story. It's written by Giuseppe Valiante.

00:10:10.160 But look at the bottom with files from, are you counting with me?

00:10:14.160 We've got Giuseppe, plus Laura Osmond, Dean Bennett, Dirk Meissner,

00:10:20.160 Siddhartha Banerjee, Keith Doucette, Julian McKenzie, Kelly Geraldine Malone,

00:10:25.160 Nicole Thompson, Holly McKenzie Sutter, and Bob Webber.

00:10:30.160 That is eleven reporters. Eleven reporters worked on that celebrity story about these new rock stars. Eleven.

00:10:42.160 Can we have, I don't know, eleven reporters working on, say, the unreliable nature of the PCR test?

00:10:50.160 The claims cases are skyrocketing. I mean, it's not a conspiracy theory. One of these public health rock stars said so herself.

00:10:57.160 If you test somebody today, you only know if they're infected today.

00:11:03.160 And in fact, if you're testing in a population that doesn't have very much COVID, you'll get false positives almost half the time.

00:11:12.160 Can we have maybe eleven reporters looking into that? Or maybe eleven reporters looking into these clearly unconstitutional,

00:11:18.160 mandatory COVID quarantine camps set up at airports in Canada?

00:11:23.160 You know, the ones where they have taken the locks off the doors, and in the very first week there was an alleged rape?

00:11:30.160 No? Too unhappy a story? Okay, let me remind you. Here's a story from the lying CBC state broadcaster just a few months ago.

00:11:37.160 PM. Health officials warn Canadians against believing COVID-19 internment camps disinformation.

00:11:45.160 Oh, really? Here's another from the lying CBC state broadcaster.

00:11:49.160 It plays to our worst fears. Coronavirus misinformation fueled by social media.

00:11:56.160 And here's another from the same lying CBC state broadcaster.

00:12:00.160 Trudeau warns Canadians not to believe COVID-19 internment camps rumors.

00:12:04.160 I think I'm seeing a pattern here. When the CBC is lying to you, they aren't doing journalism.

00:12:11.160 They're doing anti-journalism. They're trying to discredit other journalists who are actually reporting the stories.

00:12:16.160 It's not just the CBC. Here's CTV. Look at this headline here.

00:12:21.160 Lexi's legacy. Family fights for better mental health access after losing daughter to suicide.

00:12:28.160 Now, that's a horrific story, but look at how the headline is phrased.

00:12:32.160 The family wants better access people. Come on, guys. Can we just give some more money to mental health?

00:12:36.160 You know it's important.

00:12:38.160 Yeah, let me read what little actual news is in this piece that for some reason isn't in the headline.

00:12:45.160 It's about a teen suicide.

00:12:48.160 They say she was given a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and depression

00:12:54.160 after a trip to the emergency room in the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton.

00:12:59.160 But after that, her parents say trying to get any more help through New Brunswick's health system was extremely challenging.

00:13:05.160 Then last Thursday, Lexi's guidance counselor felt she should go back to the ER. 0.97

00:13:10.160 According to text messages sent between Lexi and her father, she got to the hospital around 1 p.m. accompanied by the counselor.

00:13:16.160 I said, OK, I'm in St. John right now. I will head out and I'll be there shortly, Dakin said. That's the dad.

00:13:22.160 But because of COVID-19 protocols, Dakin and the school employee weren't allowed to trade places.

00:13:31.160 So he said the counselor remained with Lexi and the two waited to see a psychiatrist because of COVID-19 protocols.

00:13:40.160 Got it. So that's what led to her death.

00:13:44.160 The COVID-19 protocols, not COVID itself.

00:13:47.160 What are these protocols?

00:13:50.160 That's a fancy way of saying the rules brought in by the political health officers like Bonnie Henry, who don't want anyone to talk back, to protest peacefully, to even criticize them on social media. 0.77

00:14:04.160 Now, these public health rock stars, I mean, just ask CTV, right?

00:14:09.160 They put 11 reporters on their celebrity beat.

00:14:13.160 They killed this girl, the public health officers.

00:14:17.160 They just did.

00:14:19.160 Which will probably be racked up as a COVID death and used to justify more lockdowns.

00:14:24.160 New Brunswick has nearly 800,000 citizens, very large geography.

00:14:31.160 They've had a grand total of 26 deaths from or with COVID in the past year.

00:14:36.160 26 in a year.

00:14:38.160 There is a grand total of one person in the hospital in the entire province.

00:14:43.160 But you see, teenagers aren't allowed to go with their dad to a mental health expert because COVID.

00:14:49.160 I'm sorry, but you can call that statistical murder.

00:14:54.160 How many kids have killed themselves because their social lives have been destroyed and they can't get to a therapist?

00:15:00.160 How many cancer treatments, other operations have been postponed or canceled?

00:15:04.160 How many cancers have not been diagnosed?

00:15:06.160 Yeah, sorry, Bonnie Henry.

00:15:08.160 You're not a princess, even though you're paid like one.

00:15:11.160 You're just a politician.

00:15:13.160 And we can't vote you out, which is why you're damn right.

00:15:18.160 We're going to criticize you in the media and social media.

00:15:22.160 And before you whine about peaceful protests outside your office,

00:15:25.160 why don't you check to see how many of those peaceful protesters' daughters were killed by your COVID protocols

00:15:35.160 before you complain about them.

00:15:38.160 Stay with us for more.

00:15:40.160 Welcome back.

00:15:52.160 Well, we don't have a full-time reporter in the city of Montreal yet.

00:15:57.160 But if you've been to rebelnews.com slash careers, you'll know that's one place we want to hire.

00:16:02.160 There's simply so much news going on in La Belle Provence, both in English and French.

00:16:07.160 We're looking for a bilingual reporter to cover the news, to speak and read in French,

00:16:12.160 and then to report back to us in English.

00:16:16.160 A lot of interesting things about Quebec.

00:16:18.160 They have the most brutal lockdown in all of Canada.

00:16:22.160 Now, for people in Toronto, they say that's impossible.

00:16:25.160 What could be more brutal than here?

00:16:26.160 Well, they actually have a curfew every night,

00:16:29.160 treating innocent people like guilty people, treating adults like children.

00:16:34.160 Now, in this curfew, there are certain exempt people.

00:16:38.160 And amongst them, if you can believe it, are journalists.

00:16:42.160 Well, like I say, we don't have a full-time reporter in Montreal,

00:16:45.160 but we do have a full-time staffer in Montreal.

00:16:48.160 His name is Yankee Pollack, and he does our social media.

00:16:51.160 But because he's out there with his cell phone,

00:16:53.160 we ask him to go out and about at night to document what it's like in the curfew.

00:16:59.160 He did so last night, and he got a $1,550 ticket.

00:17:05.160 Yankee joins us now via Skype from Montreal, the most locked-down city in North America.

00:17:10.160 Yankee, how are you doing today?

00:17:12.160 I'm doing pretty good.

00:17:14.160 Now, I like your style.

00:17:15.160 You go out on the street just to document with a camera what's going on,

00:17:19.160 and it really feels like a scene out of wartime or something,

00:17:24.160 police prowling through neighborhoods with their flashers on,

00:17:28.160 sometimes their sirens, sometimes not.

00:17:31.160 If someone's out walking their dog,

00:17:33.160 they're called over and shown to prove how far they are from their house.

00:17:37.160 Like, it really is a police state approach.

00:17:39.160 You've gone out quite a lot, and you have a signed letter from us confirming your media.

00:17:45.160 That has worked on, I think, five occasions.

00:17:48.160 But it didn't work last night, did it?

00:17:51.160 Well, no.

00:17:52.160 Last night, I got pulled over three times, actually.

00:17:56.160 In total, I've been pulled over five times.

00:18:00.160 And the third time is a charm.

00:18:02.160 And the officer said, asked me if I think me being out is essential.

00:18:08.160 And I was like, yeah, media.

00:18:09.160 And media is essential.

00:18:11.160 He didn't buy it.

00:18:13.160 And he just called his buddy over from a different car.

00:18:18.160 And the guy came and gave me a ticket.

00:18:21.160 Yeah, in fact, I watched the tape.

00:18:23.160 You had the presence of mind to film the interaction, and I'm always glad you did.

00:18:27.160 I would encourage every viewer, if you're having an interaction related to the lockdown, film it.

00:18:31.160 Because people often won't believe you.

00:18:34.160 One of the things in the tape is that they grill you a bit on who Rebel News is.

00:18:40.160 Oh, they're just online.

00:18:41.160 Well, so is La Press, by the way.

00:18:43.160 I don't even think they have a print edition.

00:18:45.160 It's like the officers themselves thought they would sit in judgment of what media is or isn't essential.

00:18:50.160 So we've got a clip from you that's a few minutes long.

00:18:52.160 I'd like to play it.

00:18:54.160 It goes for a couple minutes, but it shows the interaction and how whimsical it is.

00:19:00.160 And that really, freedom of the press, any freedom, that's long gone now.

00:19:05.160 Let's play a bit, and we'll come back to you, Yankee, after we show what happened to you last night.

00:19:11.160 Thank you, guys.

00:19:12.160 Okay.

00:19:13.160 Why are you discreet at this?

00:19:14.160 Because I'm media.

00:19:15.160 Okay.

00:19:16.160 You want to see my media press credentials again?

00:19:19.160 I'll give it to you.

00:19:24.160 Here are my press credentials, my notes.

00:19:28.160 Okay.

00:19:29.160 And what's the?

00:19:30.160 Rebel News.

00:19:31.160 I've been pulled over three times tonight.

00:19:33.160 Rebel News?

00:19:34.160 Yeah.

00:19:35.160 What's that?

00:19:36.160 It's a news agency based out of Toronto.

00:19:38.160 Okay.

00:19:39.160 And we're filming.

00:19:40.160 You're filming what?

00:19:41.160 The curfew.

00:19:42.160 And you pulling people over, people out, just whatever is happening.

00:19:46.160 It's like the third time you guys pull me tonight, so.

00:19:48.160 Okay.

00:19:49.160 You have a piece of ID?

00:19:50.160 Yeah.

00:19:51.160 Yeah.

00:19:52.160 A lot of times they're filming.

00:19:53.160 I'm filming.

00:19:54.160 I'm filming.

00:19:55.160 I'm filming.

00:19:56.160 I'm filming.

00:19:57.160 I'm filming.

00:19:58.160 And what's Rebel News?

00:19:59.160 Rebel News is an online media organization.

00:20:00.160 It's on YouTube and a website.

00:20:01.160 It has 1.4 million subscribers.

00:20:05.160 It has a new site.

00:20:07.160 It's an online media organization.

00:20:09.160 It has a new site.

00:20:10.160 It's online new media.

00:20:11.160 Okay.

00:20:12.160 So what's Rebel News?

00:20:14.160 Rebel News is an online media organization, so it's on the YouTube and website.

00:20:20.160 It has 1.4 million subscribers, it has a new site.

00:20:26.160 It's an online new media.

00:20:29.160 It has 30 employees, give or take.

00:20:35.160 And who's the 11th Ezra?

00:20:38.160 Ezra, that's the big boss.

00:20:41.160 He's the CEO.

00:20:44.160 But that says you're allowed to go, let's say, from your place.

00:20:47.160 I live here.

00:20:49.160 No, it's, well, first two things.

00:20:52.160 One, I spoke to the media, a relations officer from the SPVM.

00:20:56.160 I have an email, he said I could have, or he or she, I don't remember,

00:21:00.160 the email said that I could have or the paper or my media cards.

00:21:05.160 That's enough, if you want to find out.

00:21:08.160 But I've been pulled five times in total.

00:21:12.160 You're the third tonight, I've been let go every time.

00:21:16.160 If you want, maybe you could see the computer my name, I don't know if that's the case.

00:21:21.160 So this is essential tonight to be outside?

00:21:24.160 Yes.

00:21:25.160 Yes.

00:21:26.160 It's essential to record.

00:21:27.160 Essential.

00:21:28.160 Yes.

00:21:29.160 Why?

00:21:30.160 Because I'm media.

00:21:31.160 Media is essential.

00:21:32.160 Okay, wait there.

00:21:33.160 Yeah, I will.

00:21:39.160 Oh, he's coming.

00:21:40.160 Mr. Polak.

00:21:41.160 Yes, sir.

00:21:43.160 You got a phone.

00:21:44.160 I got a phone?

00:21:45.160 No.

00:21:46.160 Okay, no problem.

00:21:47.160 There you go.

00:21:48.160 You got two days to contest it.

00:21:50.160 I will contest it.

00:21:51.160 Thank you very much.

00:21:52.160 I'm on a good day, sir.

00:21:53.160 You too.

00:21:54.160 I'm on a good way.

00:21:55.160 You gave a ticket to a person of the media, is that right?

00:21:59.160 Good luck with your YouTube channel.

00:22:01.160 Oh, I will fight this and I will win this.

00:22:04.160 This is shameful.

00:22:05.160 Okay.

00:22:06.160 Thank you.

00:22:12.160 Good luck with your YouTube channel, Yankee.

00:22:14.160 Well, I appreciate the good wishes.

00:22:16.160 And we have had some good luck, 1.45 million subscribers, but I wouldn't ascribe it all to luck.

00:22:22.160 I'd ascribe a lot of it to hard work from journalists like yourself.

00:22:26.160 I want to praise you, Yankee, for not losing your cool, for not shouting or raising your voice,

00:22:33.160 not swearing, not threatening.

00:22:34.160 These are all natural human instincts that I feel arising within me.

00:22:38.160 The scoffing of those reporters at Freedom of the Press is no laughing matter.

00:22:44.160 They had a bit of a chuckle.

00:22:46.160 Good luck with your YouTube channel.

00:22:47.160 Thank you.

00:22:48.160 I noticed here, and we'll put it on the screen, that over a month ago you wrote to the media liaison officer of the Montreal police,

00:22:59.160 Annabelle Prato, who wrote back to you confirming that media were essential and just to simply have a letter from your employer on hand,

00:23:09.160 which you did and which you showed them.

00:23:11.160 So these police are either, A, uninformed about the lockdown rules, which is quite likely, or B, they just don't care,

00:23:20.160 and they enjoy punishing people who defy them, that they're really getting off on a power trip.

00:23:26.160 I don't know which is the case, but I would agree with your final statement there.

00:23:30.160 You will win this.

00:23:32.160 Obviously, we will defend you, and we'll defend anyone in Montreal who gets a similar ticket, Yankee. 0.64

00:23:41.160 It was a long night.

00:23:43.160 I was not planning on being out that long.

00:23:46.160 But the cops were busy.

00:23:49.160 They detained people.

00:23:50.160 They gave tickets to people.

00:23:52.160 And I had a busy night, so I stayed out.

00:23:55.160 And I have interactions with, I was pulled over three times last night.

00:24:01.160 The first two times I did not get a ticket.

00:24:04.160 I was let go one time.

00:24:05.160 The cops were a bit rowdy, harassing me, but in the end they let me go.

00:24:09.160 They were pushed, not physically pushing, but like telling me to move and be out of their way

00:24:15.160 and stay back six feet while they were walking towards me. 0.93

00:24:19.160 But, you know, I had a bit of that.

00:24:23.160 But the third set of cops, I guess, they decided that media is not essential and they just find me, which is fine.

00:24:32.160 I'll fight it.

00:24:34.160 Yeah, we will.

00:24:35.160 And I just want to remind our viewers that we have the main site called fightthefines.com,

00:24:41.160 which that site has been quite popular over the last year.

00:24:45.160 We've now made 100 videos about different clients.

00:24:49.160 We've had over 500 people reach out to ask for help.

00:24:52.160 But, and I haven't talked about this a lot, but we have a French language version

00:24:57.160 really focused on the lockdown in Quebec and the curfew.

00:25:01.160 And that's at a website, and my accent's terrible, I apologize, contesterlescontraventions.com,

00:25:08.160 which is a fancy way of saying, you know, contester, contestthecontraventions.com,

00:25:13.160 fightthefines, fightthetickets.com.

00:25:16.160 And we have retained a law firm in Quebec that you will be helped by.

00:25:20.160 Yankee, obviously, will help you.

00:25:22.160 We'll help even people who don't work for Rebel News.

00:25:26.160 They will take the first 1,000 cases that present to them.

00:25:29.160 And I know that those cops are issuing tickets.

00:25:32.160 I think they're doing it for the money.

00:25:34.160 Like, they find you $1,550.

00:25:36.160 And I think most people would just pay it rather than fight.

00:25:39.160 And I think they do it for the power trip.

00:25:41.160 They enjoy being kings of all they survey.

00:25:44.160 They wouldn't have gotten away with this a year ago, but they're really loving the power.

00:25:48.160 Yeah, I believe they love the power.

00:25:51.160 And maybe their bosses want them to give more tickets to pay back a lot of the lost revenues and taxes and served.

00:25:58.160 And I'm not sure what exactly.

00:26:00.160 But they're having a lot of fun being on a power trip.

00:26:04.160 That's for sure.

00:26:05.160 And it can't continue.

00:26:08.160 I'm planning on still going out.

00:26:10.160 Saturday night, I'll be out.

00:26:12.160 And if they want to find me, they can find me.

00:26:15.160 I will continue going out.

00:26:18.160 The media is essential.

00:26:20.160 Yeah.

00:26:21.160 And even your own experience is essential to see it.

00:26:24.160 Now, you said one thing earlier.

00:26:25.160 And I want to check to make sure you didn't misspeak.

00:26:28.160 You said that when you were out last night, you saw a lot of tickets.

00:26:32.160 But you also used the word detained.

00:26:34.160 You said that the police detained people.

00:26:37.160 That means they physically stopped them from moving on.

00:26:41.160 Detained isn't quite an arrest.

00:26:43.160 It's sort of temporarily stopping you from going.

00:26:46.160 You can insist on being released or demanding to know if you will be arrested.

00:26:50.160 It's sort of a murky area, but it has a meaning.

00:26:55.160 Can you tell me what you mean when you say people were detained?

00:26:59.160 Well, at least one person yesterday, he decided to run and try to avoid getting a ticket, which I think is not the smart thing to do.

00:27:11.160 The cops ran after him, caught him.

00:27:14.160 I spoke with him once they released him.

00:27:16.160 I think it took about an hour and a half until they released him.

00:27:19.160 They gave him a 1550 fine and a notice to appear for evading the police or something like that.

00:27:26.160 So they let him go after a while.

00:27:29.160 If the cops stop me, I give them my ID, give them my information.

00:27:35.160 If you want to give me a ticket, give me a ticket.

00:27:37.160 I don't try to evade them or anything.

00:27:40.160 I want just anyone to do that.

00:27:42.160 $1,550 is such a shockingly large number.

00:27:46.160 I'm familiar with some of the fines across Canada.

00:27:50.160 In some places, it's typically $880.

00:27:53.160 In the Toronto area, I know in Calgary, it's often $1,000 or $1,200.

00:27:58.160 $1,550 sounds extremely high.

00:28:01.160 And for an ordinary person, that in Montreal where rents are cheaper than in Toronto or Vancouver,

00:28:07.160 $1,550 is likely more than an ordinary person pays in rent.

00:28:13.160 Or it's certainly what an entire family might pay in rent.

00:28:17.160 That is groceries and gas money for a whole month for a family.

00:28:24.160 That is a huge amount of money for simply being out.

00:28:28.160 I understand what you're saying.

00:28:30.160 It's not wise.

00:28:31.160 It's never wise to run from police or to resist arrest.

00:28:35.160 That only ends one way.

00:28:37.160 And frankly, if they didn't physically beat the guy, frankly, he's a little bit lucky.

00:28:44.160 Because they would have chased him for sport.

00:28:48.160 But a $1,550 fine, I can understand why someone would run.

00:28:54.160 Because that's going to devastate a family. 0.96

00:28:56.160 No, I definitely understand why people run.

00:28:59.160 Because nobody wants to get a $1,500 fine.

00:29:02.160 But I think it's cheaper to just pay a fine than running, getting a court date after that.

00:29:09.160 Right.

00:29:10.160 But of course, we're not going to run and we're not going to pay.

00:29:13.160 We are going to have one of the great lawyers that we've retained in Montreal fight for you.

00:29:20.160 And we would do that for you because you're a rebel who is out there in the course of your journalism.

00:29:26.160 I think it's going to be a slam dunk.

00:29:28.160 I don't even think they're going to prosecute.

00:29:30.160 I think any prosecutor is going to look at that.

00:29:32.160 And frankly, they should write you an apology letter.

00:29:35.160 But even if you weren't a Rebel News employee, we would offer you the legal defense of that firm Yankee.

00:29:43.160 Don't stop doing what you're doing.

00:29:45.160 Keep your sense of calm and politeness.

00:29:48.160 That's a very important asset when dealing with antagonists with guns.

00:29:53.160 You want to stay calm and polite.

00:29:55.160 And I think you did the right thing there.

00:29:57.160 Don't run.

00:29:58.160 And film everything which you did.

00:30:02.160 So I'm sorry you went through that last night.

00:30:04.160 On the other hand, it's actually why you went out last night to document what's going on.

00:30:09.160 So from that measure, it was a success.

00:30:12.160 Yeah, it was a successful night, I think.

00:30:15.160 I filmed a lot of police interaction.

00:30:18.160 The police was out and about.

00:30:20.160 And so was I.

00:30:21.160 As I told the cops, as long as you're out, I'll be out and documented.

00:30:25.160 And they didn't like that.

00:30:27.160 Well, we do like that because there is no pandemic exception in the Charter of Rights.

00:30:34.160 There is no public health.

00:30:37.160 Push this in case of pandemic.

00:30:39.160 Push this button and you don't have to follow the law.

00:30:41.160 You do.

00:30:42.160 And, in fact, as we showed on screen, Annamal Prato of the SPVM police force confirmed that to you.

00:30:50.160 I think she, I think it's those cops that need a course correction, not you. 0.96

00:30:54.160 Yankee Pollock, great to see you.

00:30:56.160 Thanks for your work.

00:30:57.160 Good luck in continuing it.

00:30:59.160 And we'll talk to you soon.

00:31:01.160 Thank you.

00:31:02.160 Have a great week.

00:31:03.160 All right.

00:31:04.160 There you have it.

00:31:05.160 Yankee Pollock, representing Rebel News on the streets of Montreal.

00:31:08.160 Stay with us more.

00:31:20.160 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:31:22.160 Gilly writes, in the wake of COVID, the greatest threat to freedom is the institutionalized man.

00:31:27.160 Well, by that you mean someone who just becomes a corporate appendage.

00:31:33.160 I think you're right.

00:31:34.160 I think we have to maintain the idea that we are individuals and the state's infringements on us are the aberration, not the defaults.

00:31:43.160 I've been rereading 1984 and it doesn't even feel like fiction anymore.

00:31:48.160 It's not even shocking anymore.

00:31:50.160 It's just almost all of it has come true, but much worse than Orwell could have foreseen.

00:31:55.160 Orwell passed away in 1950.

00:31:57.160 Computers weren't even really known back then.

00:32:00.160 If he would know the way in which we are tracked and monitored and scolded by social media and tech companies today,

00:32:09.160 he would have to rewrite that book times ten.

00:32:12.160 Paul writes, COVID passports, one more step towards the Chinese-style social score. 0.79

00:32:18.160 Cooperate and you survive.

00:32:19.160 Fail to cooperate and you will be punished.

00:32:21.160 Oh, absolutely.

00:32:22.160 We're already there.

00:32:23.160 Jay writes, the passports are necessary to keep the hoax going.

00:32:27.160 It's obvious that this isn't about a virus anymore.

00:32:29.160 It's about complete government control over your life.

00:32:31.160 How long will it take before people forget what it was like to be free?

00:32:35.160 Will children grow up never knowing?

00:32:37.160 Well, that's the thing.

00:32:39.160 And, I mean, I was trying to think, what was the last time I went to a restaurant?

00:32:44.160 And I know you look at me and you say, oh, that's a big part of your life.

00:32:46.160 Well, no, I mean, going out to a restaurant is part of fun.

00:32:48.160 It's part of fun for your family.

00:32:50.160 Okay, let's take a break from cooking.

00:32:52.160 Let's go out to a restaurant.

00:32:53.160 It's part of being in the neighborhood.

00:32:54.160 And it's just part of life.

00:32:56.160 It's part of community.

00:32:57.160 You see other people at other tables.

00:32:58.160 Maybe you see someone you know.

00:33:00.160 You interact with the restaurant.

00:33:02.160 There's some fun.

00:33:03.160 There's a festive feeling to it.

00:33:05.160 It's deeply rooted in our Western society.

00:33:08.160 Inns and taverns and pubs.

00:33:11.160 These things go back centuries.

00:33:12.160 They go back millennia.

00:33:14.160 And you're saying we can't do that?

00:33:15.160 I cannot remember in my mind the last time I went to a restaurant.

00:33:21.160 I mean, I know I can think of times historically, but I can't.

00:33:24.160 Like, I'm forgetting.

00:33:25.160 It's been so long.

00:33:26.160 And children are forgetting what it's like to play with other children in normal ways.

00:33:31.160 This is the worst of times, my friend.

00:33:32.160 This is the worst time in my lifetime.

00:33:36.160 I acknowledge that during the Cold War there was the threat of mutually assured destruction

00:33:41.160 from nuclear weapons.

00:33:42.160 I acknowledge that.

00:33:43.160 But even then we were free.

00:33:45.160 This is the worst authoritarianism of my life.

00:33:50.160 That's our show for today.

00:33:52.160 Until tomorrow.

00:33:53.160 Well, I guess tomorrow's the weekend.

00:33:54.160 So watch our weekend videos on YouTube.

00:33:56.160 But until Monday, keep fighting for freedom.

00:34:01.160 Time is on YouTube.

00:34:03.160 When it turns out on YouTube.

00:34:04.160 You'll be free.

00:34:05.160 You're ready?

00:34:06.160 You can do it.

00:34:07.160 No what happens.

00:34:08.160 Fine is so fast.

00:34:09.160 You'll be free to go as a demonstration.

00:34:10.160 From now or to the추änелей,

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Rebel News Podcast - February 27, 2021

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