Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ A pharmaceutical executive says something shocking — but Twitter won’t let you post the video clip. That’s odd, right？

00:00:00.520 Hello, my rebels. Today, I'm going to try and take a break from talking about the Ukraine-Russia war and talk about an interesting short clip of a speech by a pharmaceutical exec at a big conference. And weirdly, if you quote this pharmaceutical executive, if you post his video, it'll be censored by Twitter, even though he said it, it's his video.

00:00:24.980 So I'll get into it and I'll show you what I mean. First, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus so you can see the video. That's really what Rebel News Plus is. It's the podcast with the video side to it. And it's eight bucks a month for that. You get my daily show. We get four other weekly shows. So that's a lot of stuff. Eight bucks a month is about half of Netflix. And we need that because we don't take any money from Justin Trudeau. We're independent.

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00:01:13.000 Tonight, a pharmaceutical executive says something shocking, but Twitter won't let you post the video clip. That's odd, right?

00:01:20.340 It's March 4th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:24.920 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:28.720 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:32.800 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:38.660 I feel like taking a break from talking about the Russia-Ukraine war, but it is causing so many shocking things to happen over here.

00:01:53.040 Put aside the war itself.

00:01:55.580 Here's Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.

00:01:59.080 I guess he's not here.

00:02:00.120 He's in the United States.

00:02:01.220 But he's basically calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin.

00:02:06.640 Is there a Brutus in Russia?

00:02:08.860 Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?

00:02:14.180 The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. 0.58

00:02:18.740 You would be doing your country and the world a great service.

00:02:21.780 And then he followed up with another tweet.

00:02:23.880 He said, the only people who can fix this are the Russian people. 0.71

00:02:29.560 Easy to say, hard to do, unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness.

00:02:39.120 You need to step up to the plate.

00:02:40.920 Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems a little reckless, undiplomatic, for a member of the United States government, member of a NATO country, to publicly call for the assassination of a world leader who happens to have a nuclear arsenal.

00:02:57.260 What's odd is that Twitter deleted Donald Trump's Twitter account permanently when he was a sitting president for much less.

00:03:06.640 I don't get it.

00:03:08.020 Here's a tweet from Omar al-Jabra, Trudeau's transportation minister, that seemed stunning to me also.

00:03:15.320 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:03:16.880 What do you think?

00:03:18.440 Last night, al-Jabra said, a charter aircraft that carried Russian foreign nationals has been held at the Yellowknife airport.

00:03:27.740 We will continue to hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine. 0.65

00:03:31.920 So their sin was that they're Russian, not that they're criminals or that they're actively doing anything wrong.

00:03:41.560 It was their Russian-ness. 1.00

00:03:43.960 And so they're being held at the Yellowknife airport?

00:03:46.260 Did I get that right?

00:03:48.120 Are they being detained, like under arrest or something?

00:03:50.840 Does anyone remember the two Michaels, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, that China just seized and held as part of their diplomatic feud with us?

00:03:59.840 What did we call that?

00:04:00.960 Well, I know what I called it.

00:04:02.380 I called it a kidnapping.

00:04:03.520 I called it a hostage taking, a violation of diplomatic and legal norms, the act of a barbaric, brutal dictatorship, extortion.

00:04:12.700 That's what I called it.

00:04:14.440 Trudeau was rather more meek.

00:04:16.760 Is that what we're doing to Russia now? 0.94

00:04:18.680 Should we, I don't know, put them in internment camps or something?

00:04:22.060 Maybe dust off those Japanese internment camps?

00:04:25.000 You know, there's a lot of Russians in Canada.

00:04:28.220 Should Vladimir Putin start doing the same thing to Canadian citizens?

00:04:31.420 I sure hope not.

00:04:32.260 If I were a Canadian in Russia, I would get out right now.

00:04:37.960 You know, it's crazy.

00:04:39.020 Before Al Jhabra became Trudeau's MP and then cabinet minister, he ran the extremist Canadian Arab Federation.

00:04:47.640 I call him extremist because one of the things he called for was the legalization of terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:04:56.220 So they're cool by him, actual terrorists, but not these Russians because they're Russian. 1.00

00:05:03.740 You know, Omar Al Jhabra was on a no-fly list himself once, probably due to his pro-terrorist stance.

00:05:09.660 It's pretty nuts to see him operating a no-fly list now himself.

00:05:14.640 You can support Ukraine.

00:05:16.680 I think most of the world does, although numerically, I think about half the world's population might not if you take China and India and Russia and Vietnam and the rest of the abstainers in the recent UN vote on the subject.

00:05:32.060 You can support the little guy, Ukraine, without wanting Canada itself to be dragged into a war.

00:05:38.500 Since when do we detain Russians without a hearing in Yellowknife or shut down Russian TV stations simply on the orders of our Banana Republic prime minister? 0.90

00:05:48.100 He's still governing as if he had emergency powers.

00:05:50.920 Are you not nervous about all this?

00:05:53.420 But let me stop there because there are other things in the world to talk about besides Russia and Ukraine.

00:05:59.320 Look at this video.

00:06:00.340 This is from a pharmaceutical executive with Bayer.

00:06:04.420 It's tweeted by Aaron Gin, and here's how he describes it.

00:06:09.300 He writes, the head of pharma at Bayer proudly proclaims the COVID mRNA vaccine is gene therapy and that misleading the public was useful to create widespread adoption.

00:06:21.880 Here, watch the video.

00:06:22.700 We're really taking that leap, us as a company buyer, in cell and gene therapy, which to me is one of these examples where really we're going to make a difference, hopefully, moving forward.

00:06:35.380 There are some, ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy.

00:06:41.400 I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body, we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate.

00:06:54.640 I think this pandemic has also opened many people's eyes to innovation in a way that was maybe not possible before.

00:07:03.320 Okay, so you read how he described it and you saw the video.

00:07:06.360 Did Aaron Gin more or less describe it accurately?

00:07:09.940 I think he did.

00:07:10.780 But look underneath the video on that tweet, misleading, learn about the science behind COVID-19 vaccines and how health officials say they work.

00:07:21.640 And then there's a link to their pro-vaccine messaging.

00:07:25.140 And at the bottom, you see it says, this tweet can't be replied to, shared or liked.

00:07:30.160 But Aaron Gin didn't say anything about whether the vaccine worked or not.

00:07:34.260 He didn't really talk about the vaccines at all, other than to quote a pharmaceutical executive at the World Health Center.

00:07:40.780 This is the website of the World Health Summit, if you're curious.

00:07:44.780 It's a huge conference in Berlin, produced in coordination with the United Nations World Health Organization.

00:07:51.640 If you just scroll down the speakers list, just look at it, tons of UN types, tons of pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, Roche, Gavi, the Rockefeller Foundation, Janssen, they make a vaccine.

00:08:09.180 The Bill Gates Foundation is there, World Bank, the CDC.

00:08:12.720 These are the masters of the universe.

00:08:14.960 It's like the World Economic Forum, but for vaccines.

00:08:19.340 And the guy we just showed you is a health official.

00:08:22.340 But Twitter says it's misleading to quote him.

00:08:27.560 I don't know.

00:08:28.020 I guess you weren't supposed to hear that part, maybe.

00:08:31.620 Twitter is throttling it.

00:08:33.820 I'm sure if you put that same video up on YouTube, you'll actually have your account suspended altogether.

00:08:39.960 Same on Facebook.

00:08:40.640 I find that all exhausting and frustrating.

00:08:45.460 Just all of a sudden, you can't even have a different opinion.

00:08:48.780 You can't even point to certain facts neutrally.

00:08:51.720 Until the moment where you can, until the moment that politicians decide, uh-oh, they're going to be voted out if they keep their insane mask laws or insane COVID laws and lockdown laws.

00:09:02.400 And then, suddenly, the science changes.

00:09:06.560 Here's a story in Black Lock's Fed's Shelf proposed vax mandate for inter-province truckers.

00:09:15.300 Stress this has nothing, repeat, nothing to do with the 24-day Freedom Convoy blockade.

00:09:21.940 Things change.

00:09:23.020 Science changes, says Seamus O'Regan.

00:09:26.440 So, the government was going to say you can't even drive a truck between provinces if you're not vaxed.

00:09:32.160 That's insane.

00:09:33.120 But now they say they won't do that, and they say the science has changed.

00:09:38.320 Did it really?

00:09:40.660 I wonder what new scientific study emerged about inter-provincial trucking between the time of the trucker's convoy and today to cause the very science-y government to change their scientific science.

00:09:56.420 I'm sure they could cite the peer-reviewed medical scholarship, right?

00:09:59.700 You know, the Soviet dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, said the simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

00:10:12.360 That was all he could ask for, not for people to actively fight, not for people to risk themselves or even to push back.

00:10:20.680 Just don't join in, is what he said.

00:10:23.820 Just don't join in the madness.

00:10:25.800 Don't join in.

00:10:26.600 Don't lie also.

00:10:28.380 There's so many lies, there's so much madness, and I see the madness spilling over from the lockdown into other things.

00:10:36.720 It's never been this dangerous in Canada, I don't think.

00:10:41.880 Stay with us for more.

00:10:43.000 Well, I see the trucker rebellion is still reverberating in Canada, as I mentioned in the monologue.

00:10:59.100 They have abandoned, the federal liberals have abandoned a plan to require vaccine mandates for truckers to travel from province to province.

00:11:09.620 It was an absurd, unconstitutional plan to begin with, deeply punitive.

00:11:14.840 That said, it would surely have been upheld by the courts.

00:11:18.160 The reason it was thrown out could only be attributed to the political and popular success of the truckers.

00:11:24.540 Well, that success is spreading.

00:11:25.820 We've shown you how the truckers have inspired rebellions around the world, from Israel to the Netherlands.

00:11:31.900 And for the past week or so, we have had a freelance reporter reporting on the U.S. trucking convoy that left California and is now closing in on Washington, D.C.

00:11:44.020 We're joined live via Skype with Jeremy Lafredo, who is with the convoy in Hagerstown, Maryland, just a couple hours outside Washington, D.C.

00:11:53.560 Hey, Jeremy. Great to see you. It looks like good country.

00:11:57.640 It looks a little warmer than the truckers in Canada.

00:12:01.160 I was there myself. It was minus 20. It was very bitter.

00:12:04.500 It looks like a nice spring morning where you are in Maryland.

00:12:09.100 It's beautiful here. Nice to be here, Ezra.

00:12:11.340 Well, tell me a little bit about your journey, because you've been embedded with these truckers for more than a week, I think.

00:12:17.540 I mean, you start out in California. Give us some numbers.

00:12:22.000 How many trucks are there and the big rigs, but also, you know, people coming along for the ride for a day or something, maybe in their pickup truck or even a regular sedan?

00:12:32.220 How many folks are there with you?

00:12:34.660 Sure. So we started off in California with around not that many, 50 big rigs, maybe 50 RVs and a couple hundred SUVs or regular cars.

00:12:43.460 And it grew and grew and grew every stop as we moved east.

00:12:47.060 And now here we are very close to the east coast with over 400 big rigs, over 200 RVs and thousands of civilian vehicles.

00:12:55.980 Wow. Those are impressive numbers.

00:12:59.160 I mean, especially when you see a nice long convoy, it's really gorgeous to see.

00:13:02.740 It's very inspirational.

00:13:04.160 I don't know the actual number of big rigs that entered the city of Ottawa last month, but it doesn't actually take that many to create quite a spectacle and to create a focal point, because they're so glorious to behold some of these rigs.

00:13:20.900 And in Ottawa, they blocked that main street for a week or so.

00:13:24.900 Of course, the horn honking.

00:13:25.980 So if you say there's 400 big trucks now, that is quite a number.

00:13:31.600 Do you know the plans yet?

00:13:33.740 Because I think that in Canada, honestly, I don't think they really even had a plan.

00:13:38.380 The plan was to go to Ottawa.

00:13:40.140 Some people were trying to figure out like a manifesto.

00:13:43.640 Some people were trying to figure out some sort of negotiation.

00:13:47.100 But I think the trucking convoy was sort of the point in itself just to join a movement.

00:13:52.840 That's my summary of Canada.

00:13:54.260 What's it like?

00:13:55.440 What are they going to do when they get to Washington?

00:13:59.160 Sure.

00:13:59.680 So there's been a lot of debate about that.

00:14:02.300 You know, at their truck stops at night, they talk about that.

00:14:05.720 There's a giant divide between the organizers and those that they have organized, the truckers.

00:14:12.680 You have the organizers who are saying, you know, we're going to go around D.C.

00:14:16.660 You know, we're not going to go into D.C.

00:14:18.480 And then you have you have these truckers who hear that and are, you know, not happy with that plan.

00:14:25.320 You know, they are here for a reason and they're here to, you know, get the trucking, the cross-border mandate dropped as long as well as with other freedoms that have been taken away during this COVID regime.

00:14:37.420 And they're here for their families and their kids and their grandkids.

00:14:40.240 And I talk to them every day and, you know, they have brought their wives with them and they've left their kids at home and they are here for the long haul.

00:14:46.800 They tell me and their their truck gets towed.

00:14:48.940 They have the money to take it out.

00:14:50.100 And if they get tickets, they have the money to pay them.

00:14:51.920 And then they plan on staying in D.C. until until something changes, until their voices are heard.

00:14:57.560 And then you have the organizers who, you know, are a little more light footed than that.

00:15:02.700 You know, one of the things I saw in Canada is at first, I think the official political establishment didn't really take the truckers seriously.

00:15:11.600 So I don't think they had a response.

00:15:13.380 But I think the whole world has observed, including the very heavy handed policing tactics in Canada.

00:15:18.520 One of the things they're still actually doing, believe it or not, in Canada, even though the truckers have sort of dispersed, is that the police are still blocking off key roads.

00:15:28.820 Now, they've stopped that, believe it or not, to allow protests for the Ukraine-Russia war.

00:15:34.560 But anytime there's a suspected trucker convoy, it's the police that literally seal off the roads.

00:15:42.700 I'm in the city of Toronto, and they block off the entire downtown area preemptively.

00:15:49.340 They just shut down the roads.

00:15:50.880 I was trapped downtown Toronto a few weeks ago.

00:15:53.720 It took me an hour to get home.

00:15:55.200 And I wonder if Washington, D.C., which has a heavy handed, has many levels of police.

00:16:02.120 They've already had fences and National Guard and things like that for over a year.

00:16:08.420 I'm wondering if the grassroots truckers who have big plans to go to D.C., I'm wondering if they'll actually even be allowed to get into the city.

00:16:16.320 What do you think of that?

00:16:18.120 Yeah, I mean, that's a great point.

00:16:19.400 I have journalist friends in Washington who send me photos.

00:16:22.400 And, you know, they're already Humvees parked on corners and parked at places where you pay tolls to get into Washington.

00:16:30.640 You know, the presence of the paramilitary police presence in Washington is overwhelming right now.

00:16:36.440 Just because these truckers are planning to maybe park their cars somewhere around there.

00:16:40.680 And even in New York City, a city that's, you know, over 200 miles away from Washington, not even a place that the truckers plan on going.

00:16:47.680 Just just in case the truckers do some and end up getting to New York City somehow.

00:16:52.360 They have a escalated police presence in New York as well.

00:16:56.320 Now, you mentioned Humvees.

00:16:57.820 That's that American successor, the Jeep.

00:17:01.120 It's like an armored.

00:17:02.240 It's like a heavy duty Jeep.

00:17:04.220 Exactly.

00:17:04.880 It's a military.

00:17:06.020 Now, would that be National Guard?

00:17:07.760 Is that is that or do police forces have those?

00:17:10.840 Because my question is, you know, there's some pretty use the word paramilitary.

00:17:15.420 And we saw some of that in Canada.

00:17:16.740 We saw riot gear.

00:17:18.320 We saw armored vehicles.

00:17:19.780 But they were all, at least in name, directed by different police forces.

00:17:24.880 When you say Humvees, I think military.

00:17:29.180 I don't know enough about U.S. policing.

00:17:32.200 Maybe that's the National Guard.

00:17:34.740 How could a Humvee engage in policing?

00:17:38.460 Like they don't know anything about issuing tickets or reading people their rights or how to arrest someone.

00:17:44.280 They're not built for that.

00:17:45.140 They're just built from for battles, I guess.

00:17:48.360 Exactly.

00:17:49.220 Those Humvees are were built and are meant to go into conflict zones.

00:17:53.880 And here they are driving around, you know, our neighborhoods in preparation for these truckers to come in.

00:18:00.220 And the National Guard has been deployed in Washington and the Capitol Police, which is Washington's police force.

00:18:09.120 They also have, you know, a few military equipment.

00:18:14.000 They're they're using long guns right now.

00:18:16.200 They're staying around with long guns instead of their normal pistols.

00:18:18.280 So it's it's quite a scene there from what I can tell.

00:18:22.760 You know what?

00:18:23.640 It makes me nervous because, of course, in America, there's more of a gun culture than in Canada. 0.52

00:18:29.960 And it wouldn't surprise me if a number of these truckers have a firearm in their vehicle, not in any aggressive way.

00:18:36.220 It's just I think it's it's it's probably legal in many states, if not everywhere.

00:18:42.040 And it's and I think it's culturally more normal there.

00:18:45.780 It makes me nervous if you have peaceful protesters who have a firearm, but then you have an ultra militarized police response.

00:18:54.520 And I don't know, I just I'm worried that the kind of heavy handed police like there was no violence in Canada from the truckers, even when the police came in brutally.

00:19:06.040 Like they literally shot one of our reporters, Alexa Lavoie, in the leg with a gun, with a with a with a tear gas canister.

00:19:14.020 It's shocking.

00:19:15.000 But there was no pushback like like the police went and they smashed in truck by truck, van by van.

00:19:22.700 They smashed the windows, guns loaded and pointed and extracted the truckers and not a single trucker punched back, hit back, shot back.

00:19:32.560 So the violence was all one sided.

00:19:34.800 But I think I know America enough that there's a little bit more of a don't tread on me vibe there.

00:19:41.480 And if you have that kind of provocative policing in America, I'm worried that that someone's going to defend himself.

00:19:48.360 I don't know. I'm not I'm not saying I hope anything.

00:19:50.800 I'm just it makes me nervous to hear that they're literally deploying military vehicles on the street.

00:19:56.960 Yeah. Well, I mean, there's definitely a lot of don't tread on me flags, which is essentially a flag that is supposed to tell the government not to tread on my rights, essentially.

00:20:07.400 And there is every truck is flying these flags.

00:20:09.880 And these are people that generally support the police force.

00:20:12.840 You know, these are Republicans or conservatives and, you know, they they are totally against the idea of defunding the police and they think the police are very important.

00:20:20.660 But when I speak to them about how far are they willing to go and, you know, you might have confrontations with the police, they are 100 percent.

00:20:29.940 They're willing to confront the police if they think the police are acting illegally and not in line with the Constitution and are infringing upon their rights.

00:20:37.740 Yeah. I mean, it's very, very interesting. There's a different culture in America.

00:20:42.280 I mean, your country was born through revolution, our country through evolution.

00:20:46.340 In fact, the losing side of the U.S. revolution sort of all came north.

00:20:51.240 We call them United Empire Loyalists and they formed the political culture in the province of Ontario, which dominates Canada.

00:20:57.340 By nature, we are more passive. And sometimes that's great and sometimes it's terrible.

00:21:03.580 I mean, during the last two years, that passivity has been absolutely terrible and and it's allowed government tyranny to dominate.

00:21:12.860 It'll be very interesting to see a replay of the trucker convoy phenomenon in a country with a little bit more freedom backbone.

00:21:20.780 I think it's going to be fascinating.

00:21:22.840 I thank you for traveling along with the truckers.

00:21:26.200 I know it's been a long journey and thanks for these updates that you're giving us and stay safe and keep up the good work.

00:21:32.640 Thank you. All right.

00:21:33.700 There you have it. Jeremy Lafredo in Maryland, a couple hours outside of Washington, D.C.

00:21:38.820 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:21:52.840 Hey, welcome back. I got some letters.

00:21:54.980 Cora of Venice, a wolf, says inching closer and closer to the Zelensky principle, shut down all TV stations that don't parrot your views, jail all your political opponents already in place to Merrill Lynch. 0.99

00:22:09.380 It's a political prisoner and be the wolf in sheep's clothing.

00:22:14.580 Well, I don't I don't quite know what you mean by the Zelensky principle and those things.

00:22:18.900 I'm worried about Ukraine. I've never been there, you know, 118 years ago.

00:22:24.540 My family was from there, but it's terrible.

00:22:29.160 It's a war and I'm glad I was born in Canada where it's safe and we've never actually had a war here.

00:22:33.840 But I'm worried about the war being used as an excuse to crush civil liberties.

00:22:38.940 And I I really find it terrifying how everyone's willing to go along.

00:22:42.180 Of course, they're willing to go along.

00:22:44.520 They were willing to go along with deep violations of our civil liberties for two years because of the sniffles, because of a cold, really.

00:22:51.520 And we actually had curfews in Quebec.

00:22:54.100 So, of course, they'll go along with it for a war. 0.60

00:22:58.360 Next letter from Javali, if I'm saying that right.

00:23:01.820 We have one of those doublespeak online groups in the U.S. too.

00:23:05.320 They call themselves the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

00:23:08.980 They counter what they deem hate and misinformation with hate and misinformation.

00:23:14.540 You're exactly right.

00:23:16.080 And it's it's part of the same fact checking industry.

00:23:20.320 It's not fact checking.

00:23:21.420 It's just criticizing other journalism.

00:23:24.020 It used to be the journalist held governments to account.

00:23:26.720 Now, journalists hold critical journalists to account.

00:23:29.540 They defend the government and they attack critics and misinformation and disinformation and fake news.

00:23:36.640 That's just what they call reporting they don't like.

00:23:40.780 I saw an absurd fact check on PolitiFact the other day.

00:23:45.720 The headline was it's false to say America has doubled its oil imports from Russia.

00:23:51.640 And then if you get to the bottom of it, they say it's actually true.

00:23:55.300 I mean, just absolute pretzel logic backflip twisting.

00:24:02.840 It's not so much that people believe these fact checks is that certain things flow from the fact check.

00:24:08.340 If you're fact checked by one of these bias groups, you might get knocked off Facebook or Twitter.

00:24:13.360 So it's not that anyone actually says, what are the fact checkers say?

00:24:16.340 It's that the fact checkers have the power of the censor.

00:24:22.160 Benny Yastrzemski says, our government supports protests in Russia, but it doesn't support it here.

00:24:29.640 You're so right.

00:24:30.760 I mean, I think of all the things Trudeau has done in the last month.

00:24:35.280 Arresting people for peaceful protests.

00:24:37.820 Seizing bank accounts.

00:24:39.400 Shutting down media companies.

00:24:40.840 How is that different from what the bad guys do around the world?

00:24:46.700 I think that Canada has fallen tremendously in Canada's reputation.

00:24:51.540 We are now, you know, I did a live stream earlier today.

00:24:54.480 I noted that the Ohio legislature has introduced a motion to put Canada on a religious liberty watch list.

00:25:03.460 How come no one in Canada is watching our religious liberty?

00:25:07.360 There's not a single politician in this entire country.

00:25:09.320 Why does it fall to Ohio legislators to do that?

00:25:13.980 Very bad news.

00:25:15.820 Well, I'm going to wrap it up there until Monday.

00:25:22.980 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:25:28.180 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:25:29.240 And let me leave you with this video about truckers gathering in a remote desert town to support the U.S.

00:25:36.000 trucker convoys from Jeremy Lafredo, who we spoke with earlier.

00:25:39.320 Bye-bye.

00:25:39.920 I'm Jeremy Lafredo on assignment for Rebel News in Lupton, Arizona, where people are braving freezing temperatures in order to stand and welcome the U.S. trucker convoy.

00:25:53.520 The convoy is traveling from the westernmost part of the country, roughly 3,000 miles, to Washington, D.C.

00:25:59.360 to demand an end to vaccine mandates and the restoration of other freedoms that were taken away under the guise of COVID-19.

00:26:05.140 Today, their nightly stopping location is Lupton, Arizona.

00:26:08.060 Lupton, Arizona is an unincorporated community located 7,000 feet above the desert in the easternmost part of Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

00:26:14.960 The official population of Lupton, as of 2019, is only 12 people.

00:26:19.480 Upon our arrival, several hours ahead of the convoy, we were surprised to see some local supporters had already staked out a space,

00:26:25.000 keeping warm around a fire and preparing some food for the incoming truckers.

00:26:28.320 Among the support in Arizona were members of the Navajo Nation tribe.

00:26:30.940 One elder explained that he came out to support the truckers because he's had enough of COVID-related mandates.

00:26:35.220 The reservation that I live on, we are told to do this, to do that by the government.

00:26:44.740 And so our people are just going along.

00:26:47.980 These mandates, you know, these people that are calling for this and that, that we have to abide by,

00:26:56.400 it's just really going out of hand.

00:27:00.260 You know, I got chased out of two supermarkets, you know, in Gallup.

00:27:04.780 And back here, you know, where I live, they come up to me, they run up to me and they say,

00:27:09.520 where's your mask? Where's your mask?

00:27:11.080 You know, that's one of the mandates that New Mexico is very starched on. 0.98

00:27:16.100 That's one of the reasons why, you know, this Freedom Convoy is, to me, it's very important.

00:27:23.280 And it's not, it's not the Republicans, it's not the Democrats, you know, that it's for this.

00:27:30.260 It's for people that want freedom.

00:27:33.180 They want their lives back.

00:27:35.840 And that's why, you know, that I, I'm here, you know, supporting it.

00:27:40.160 And hopefully, you know, that we can get out from underneath this and get back to our lives.

00:27:46.800 He told Rebel News that his wife came with him to the trucker rendezvous point

00:27:49.940 with other women from the Navajo community to make traditional fried bread for the truckers. 0.99

00:27:53.780 We're going to make some Indian bread, you know, we call it the fried bread,

00:27:58.120 you know, which is dipped, you know, like a big donut, you know, dipped in grease and

00:28:02.380 tastes pretty good.

00:28:03.900 We are making fried bread for the truckers because we, they deserve something good to eat tonight

00:28:09.280 because of what they're doing.

00:28:11.800 And I believe in them.

00:28:13.560 And I believe in America and what it's, what it stands for and what it should stand for.

00:28:18.980 Others made their way up to Lupton to support the convoy because they disagreed with COVID

00:28:22.500 vaccine mandates.

00:28:23.480 I'm here to support the truckers.

00:28:24.940 I'm going to go as far as I can, probably all the way to D.C.

00:28:29.520 I'm not, I'm not against the vaccines or getting vaccinated.

00:28:34.320 I'm just really against being mandated to do so.

00:28:37.940 So I want the mandates dropped.

00:28:41.120 I want the government out of our business because this country was founded on liberty through God.

00:28:47.240 And the truckers are all about that.

00:28:50.100 And I support them.

00:28:51.000 I'm up 400 miles to, to sit here in single digit weather to support them as they come by.

00:28:58.540 And that's what it is.

00:29:00.540 Another resident explained that she came out to support the truckers because they're the

00:29:03.320 voice of America.

00:29:03.980 And that it's time to put a stop to the new COVID regime.

00:29:06.460 Our freedom is in jeopardy right now.

00:29:08.060 We have so many mandates and tyranny is now creeping in upon us.

00:29:10.920 And as the constitution says, it's our duty to make sure that we push this government

00:29:15.000 back.

00:29:15.840 And right now our convoy and our truckers and brothers and sisters that run these 18 wheelers

00:29:20.800 are going to be the impact and also the voice of America that we need to say, this is enough

00:29:24.680 is enough.

00:29:25.160 And that we're ready to actually begin to get back to work and get back to our lives and

00:29:29.320 quit with the mandates.

00:29:30.360 On the 250 mile trek from Kimmon, Arizona to Lupton, Arizona, every single highway overpass

00:29:34.660 had supporters, some groups larger than others.

00:29:36.800 These Americans gathered in support to show the convoy how appreciated they are and because

00:29:40.920 they believe COVID mandates are a slippery slope.

00:29:43.020 I'm here because I support the truckers because they're standing for something that they should

00:29:47.220 be standing for where most Americans are kind of being laxadaisy, which really hurts my feelings

00:29:52.980 because so many more people could be standing up against this mandate, maybe making a difference.

00:29:58.800 And I'm actually a Canadian, so I watched my country go down the toilet.

00:30:02.560 And now I'm standing here in America with the Americans, standing strong.

00:30:08.000 We totally support the truckers.

00:30:09.720 They're the backbone of America.

00:30:11.100 We have family.

00:30:11.900 We have friends who are truckers.

00:30:13.340 We want to make sure that they know that they have our support with what they're doing,

00:30:17.280 that it's a huge sacrifice for them.

00:30:18.800 And we're just so proud of them and everything that they're doing because this country would

00:30:22.720 not run without them.

00:30:23.800 And we want them to know that we know that.

00:30:26.520 I support the truckers because they're helping our country, fighting for what's right.

00:30:33.360 We live in the land of the free, the home of the brave, and that's the way we're going to remain.

00:30:38.820 If you want to take my life, do it now.

00:30:40.820 I'll stand here. 0.93

00:30:42.460 I support the truckers because I was appalled at what happened in Canada.

00:30:46.840 And if it happens here, we're lost.

00:30:49.340 As the truckers arrived in Lupton, they parked alongside an abandoned service road which stretched

00:30:53.740 several miles east.

00:30:55.320 By now, the numbers of supporters at the meeting point had grown exponentially.

00:30:58.760 Barbecued pork, barbecued beef, pasta, beans, and that traditional Navajo fried bread were

00:31:03.460 among some of the foods available for free to the truckers.

00:31:06.480 A sense of community, camaraderie, and patriotism quickly bonded these people together.

00:31:10.000 And for the rest of the evening, they kept the truckers company.

00:31:12.900 For Rebel News, I'm Jeremy Lafredo.

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