Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Amish community under attack over digital mandates they didn't know existed

00:00:00.000 Tonight, a tiny Amish community in Ontario is hit with $400,000 in COVID fines.

00:00:24.020 Trouble is, no one told them about it because they don't use phones or email.

00:00:28.800 It's August 14th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:34.900 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:47.040 I'm here at an Amish farmhouse in the township of Chatsworth, Ontario, about a two and a half hour drive west of Toronto.

00:00:55.840 It's so nice here, it's so gorgeous, and with some horses and some cows, they're all washing to see what the hubbub is about.

00:01:02.900 What's interesting about this place is that it is run as if it was the 18th century.

00:01:09.220 In fact, the Amish were a order that was persecuted in Europe.

00:01:14.340 They went from the Netherlands and Germany and Switzerland, and they came over to North America, including to Canada.

00:01:21.240 You might be more familiar with the Amish in Pennsylvania.

00:01:25.200 They're the subject of many Hollywood movies, including an exciting one with Harrison Ford when he took refuge by hiding in an Amish community precisely because it was unplugged.

00:01:37.020 It was a great movie, and many of the things in there are just the same here.

00:01:41.520 There are no telephones.

00:01:43.020 There is no internet.

00:01:44.340 People here don't spend their days surfing or Facebooking or Instagramming.

00:01:49.020 They do something that I think would terrify many people today.

00:01:52.080 They actually meet each other and talk to each other face to face.

00:01:55.180 They go to church every Sunday in a horse-drawn carriage.

00:01:59.300 There's no cars here, and even the houses do not have electricity.

00:02:04.720 There is a small diesel engine in the workshop, which I'll show you in a minute, because they make all their own stuff, and they have some need for power tools.

00:02:14.640 But basically, they use tools as they did hundreds of years ago.

00:02:19.400 Even the farm itself is horse-drawn vehicles.

00:02:23.300 I was just shown a brand-new manure spreader, and I made a joke that that was one of my nicknames.

00:02:29.820 That's not actually true, but I was trying to find some humor that would work on someone who was a farmer who didn't know pop culture references.

00:02:40.560 It's fascinating stepping onto an Amish farm.

00:02:44.340 These people are law-abiding.

00:02:46.500 They're peaceful.

00:02:48.260 They're pacifists, which is one of the reasons they've been picked on.

00:02:51.440 They don't get into fights.

00:02:52.600 They don't get into wars.

00:02:55.080 And I was talking to one of the community elders who said, if they ever break the law, they pay the price submissively.

00:03:03.460 They do not fight in court.

00:03:04.460 He gave me the example.

00:03:05.700 He said, what if a young Amish man went shooting rabbits on someone else's property who had signs, do not enter?

00:03:12.800 He said, in a case such as that, and it sounds like that might have happened, they plead guilty.

00:03:18.220 They pay the fine and pay the price as a community.

00:03:21.040 They are not belligerent people.

00:03:24.320 But what's so interesting is in this one case, they know in their gut something's wrong. 0.98

00:03:31.400 Close to $400,000 in fines, mainly for not using Justin Trudeau's stupid Arrive Can app. 0.99

00:03:42.160 And just think about that. 0.94

00:03:43.640 You know the Arrive Can app when you would travel back to Canada from a foreign land during COVID, you had to fill out this buggy spyware malware app that we now know was money laundering tens of millions of dollars.

00:03:57.540 Anyways, how do the Amish use an app when they don't have a phone, they don't have electricity?

00:04:05.080 And why should they use it at all, given their religious exemption from taking the COVID jab?

00:04:12.140 None of it made sense, but don't tell that to the bureaucrats enforcing the Arrive Can app on behalf of Justin Trudeau and the bureaucrats prosecuting the Arrive Can app fines, who answered to Doug Ford himself.

00:04:27.800 What's so incredible is I sat down for a meeting for about 90 minutes with the head of the community.

00:04:33.440 He showed me that in the 74 families in this community, they have $400,000 in fines.

00:04:41.860 And here's what's new.

00:04:43.380 Here's what I have never seen before in all of our stories involving the Arrive Can app.

00:04:48.300 Because these folks here are not getting emails, they're not getting phone calls, collections agents, they have nowhere to phone.

00:04:56.720 So what they've done is they have attached a lien on the title deeds of these homes, a kind of legal encumbrance, without telling the folks here.

00:05:09.940 That's the crazy thing.

00:05:10.920 I was told about a young Amish farmer who went to the bank to get a bank loan to buy some cattle.

00:05:19.160 He was told by the bank officer, I can't do that.

00:05:22.600 Did you know that there is a lien on your property for thousands of dollars for the Arrive Can app?

00:05:28.280 And the Amish man said, what?

00:05:30.440 So not only were they harassed into using this app that they couldn't use, not only were they persecuted because they have a religious exemption because of their religion,

00:05:40.940 but I've never seen this before.

00:05:42.860 The province of Ontario went ahead and tagged homes, not this particular home, but homes in this community, stopping families from changing the title from father to son on a farm.

00:05:55.360 Stopping families from using the farm to get a loan to operate their farm.

00:06:00.720 I've never seen such a punitive, bureaucratic, bullying example in my life.

00:06:06.820 And as you know, the Democracy Fund has fought 3,000 cases.

00:06:10.500 Many of them on the Arrive Can issue.

00:06:13.400 It was challenging to set up today's meeting.

00:06:16.040 Like I say, we just physically showed up, but we found a friend of the community who lives, who's not Amish himself, but he does some business with the Amish.

00:06:26.120 He heard about the Democracy Fund.

00:06:28.400 He knew the Democracy Fund would take cases of people from any background, any religion, any station in life.

00:06:34.260 And he contacted us, and through this friendly neighbor, we were able to arrange a meeting today.

00:06:40.020 Like I say, normally we interview the expert.

00:06:43.440 We interview the newsmaker.

00:06:45.080 But that was a rule we had to follow here.

00:06:47.660 We couldn't show the face or the voice of the community elder.

00:06:52.060 In fact, he asked us not even to use his name, and we're going to respect that.

00:06:55.880 We're going to do more than respect that.

00:06:57.800 We're going to help them.

00:06:59.400 We are going to take the cases of these people.

00:07:02.860 We're starting with three cases, but I hope we can take many more.

00:07:06.980 Trouble is, these things were done, like I say, without notice to the community.

00:07:11.320 Some of these liens are two years old.

00:07:14.300 So we've got to get in there and convince a judge to crack open this case because it wasn't done fairly.

00:07:20.260 There's a concept in law.

00:07:21.600 Do you have the legal capacity to make certain decisions?

00:07:24.900 Judges always want to make sure that no one is being taken advantage of.

00:07:28.500 No one is being railroaded into anything.

00:07:31.240 It's a reason why we protect, for example, children, why we protect people who don't have mental capacity. 0.99

00:07:37.360 And I'm not comparing the Amish with children or people with a mental incapacity.

00:07:41.700 But what I am saying is if you were a community that does not use email, does not use phones, does not use apps, that has a religious exemption, and you have this bureaucratic war against them where you're sending notices in ways that the community doesn't even know, that is not a level playing field.

00:07:58.100 That is the government being a bully.

00:08:00.580 And here the Democracy Fund is going to level the playing field.

00:08:03.660 We have set up a website called helptheamish.com.

00:08:09.340 And you can do three things at this website.

00:08:11.380 Number one, you can share this story with other people, not just in Ontario, but across Canada and North America, who are outraged at the bullying by the government against these peaceful people.

00:08:23.000 Number two, you can sign the petition.

00:08:25.360 I think that if Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, were to see what was being done in his name, he would say, that just ain't right.

00:08:34.400 Stop bullying them.

00:08:35.980 But number three, just in case the first two steps don't work, we're going to court.

00:08:40.560 And Adam Blake Gallupo, one of the lawyers of the Democracy Fund, has spoken with these three families, and he's agreed to take their case, and hopefully he'll be able to take more.

00:08:51.900 There's other Amish communities.

00:08:53.380 You can imagine it's sort of difficult to bridge the gap.

00:08:56.620 How do you even meet with them?

00:08:58.380 How do you talk with them?

00:08:59.440 They made it clear to me that they are not fighters.

00:09:01.320 But they said, if others in the broader community want to help us, we will accept the help.

00:09:07.960 I want to introduce now the friend of the Amish who agreed to sort of broker today's meeting.

00:09:13.320 Come on in.

00:09:14.360 Grant is your name.

00:09:15.240 Grant, thanks very much for setting up today's meeting.

00:09:17.180 It's sort of difficult because we couldn't phone, we couldn't email.

00:09:20.800 Even when we were running late, we really had no way to tell the Amish that we were just 10 minutes away. 0.82

00:09:26.380 They really do live that old lifestyle, don't they?

00:09:29.040 They do.

00:09:29.380 They walk the walk, and that's what I respect about it.

00:09:33.340 No matter what it is, they follow their beliefs and their faith, and they don't stray from that at all.

00:09:41.020 So you yourself are not Amish, of course, and you have no problem using phones and cell phones. 0.97

00:09:46.180 In fact, you're somewhat familiar with the democracy plan.

00:09:48.700 Well, I am.

00:09:49.360 I am.

00:09:49.740 I found them on Telegram, and I read up on it.

00:09:53.820 I became familiar with what they've done so far, helping those people in B.C.

00:09:57.800 That's what really piqued my interest, and I didn't know that the Amish had a problem.

00:10:03.020 I've had various conversations, but they found out that I dealt with customs issues commercially, and that's how that topic came up.

00:10:10.660 It's a matter of trust with the Amish as well, because I've known them so well for so long that they felt comfortable asking me about that.

00:10:19.860 So you reassured them, because you've been dealing with them on a business level, you've gone to know them personally.

00:10:28.400 So it was your telephone that was used to connect Adam Blake Gallup of the Democracy Fund with the head of what they call their steering committee.

00:10:37.420 So you were sort of the bridge between the old world and the new.

00:10:40.000 That's right.

00:10:40.520 That's right.

00:10:40.900 Well, you sat in the meeting, and it's sort of funny what I'm doing here now, because normally I would show the leader of the community, and I would have him done.

00:10:49.280 By the way, he looks wonderful.

00:10:50.600 He sounds wonderful.

00:10:51.980 It was such a heartwarming meeting, but he can't be seen on camera.

00:10:55.720 That's just not their way.

00:10:57.520 You heard my introduction here.

00:10:59.400 Is that an accurate representation of what's been happening to the families here?

00:11:03.480 Very accurate.

00:11:04.280 And, of course, Adam Blake Gallup is dealing with the families directly, and again, I'm not exactly sure how that's being done, because, you know, fax machines, phone calls, emails.

00:11:14.680 I guess you're the interlocutor.

00:11:16.780 You're like the ambassador, the diplomat.

00:11:18.820 That's right.

00:11:19.260 I show up.

00:11:20.040 We set a date and a time, and I go to a certain place, and then we have a meeting on the phone with Adam.

00:11:27.960 Wow.

00:11:28.440 Well, thank you very much for doing that.

00:11:30.020 It's sort of incredible that you're willing to help these people, even though you don't have your own skin in the game.

00:11:37.120 These Amish, I just feel like it was bullying. 1.00

00:11:41.920 The leader told us about one case of young Amish people crossing over to the U.S. side where there's Amish communities to give help to an ailing father.

00:11:50.900 Another case where sort of young men were going to meet young women on, like, a date, it sounded like.

00:11:56.040 Like, just they crossed the border all the time.

00:11:58.420 And then suddenly, every time they did that, because they didn't have an app, they were being hit $6,000 or so a time.

00:12:05.000 It really felt like bullying to me.

00:12:07.100 I was furious.

00:12:08.240 I told the head of the Amish that I would not be a good Amish person because I would be cursing, and I know they don't do that.

00:12:14.800 No, no, not at all.

00:12:16.620 I'm glad I was on my best behavior.

00:12:19.020 You did very well.

00:12:19.880 I mean, I also, I mean, I was sort of confessing to the head of the Amish. 0.94

00:12:23.580 I said, you know, I mean, there's a Christian phrase that the Amish really live, which is, turn the other cheek. 1.00

00:12:30.800 Someone does you wrong, turn the other cheek. 0.82

00:12:32.800 They're not fighters.

00:12:33.660 I would not be a good Amish because I have an instinct in me to fight back. 1.00

00:12:39.760 And he made it very, very clear to me that they do not fight.

00:12:44.640 They sit, and they, he used the phrase, the government sort of puts their hand on them, and they take it.

00:12:50.720 But he said, if there are others who are not Amish, who want to come, he said it was almost like they were praying for help in this.

00:13:00.940 He didn't know if this was an answer, but he sort of said, God works in mysterious ways.

00:13:06.040 I think that's sort of what he meant.

00:13:07.160 Am I right?

00:13:07.540 Oh, yes, that's exactly it.

00:13:09.680 They, one of the things he told me, and he's quoted a few times, that scripture of the Bible, I hope I'm saying it right.

00:13:17.620 They believe they are in this world, but not of this world.

00:13:21.200 I hope I said that right.

00:13:22.160 And that's the, I think, the chief tenet.

00:13:25.080 So, so we went back and forth with this, and he gave the example of, you know, a young man shooting rabbits where he shouldn't.

00:13:32.180 And he said, they don't fight it, they accept it.

00:13:33.840 But in this case, not only did they do nothing wrong, but it was a violation of their religious freedom to be forced to take the jab.

00:13:41.960 And they all had that, they attested to their religious exemption.

00:13:46.560 So I think that this, this isn't just an attack on their economy.

00:13:51.180 Look, imagine being a farmer told you can't get a loan because some bureaucrat put a Rifecan app, lean.

00:13:55.620 I've never heard of that.

00:13:56.440 3,000 cases at the Democracy Fund.

00:13:58.840 I've never heard of that before.

00:14:00.040 That's just wild.

00:14:01.020 But it stops everything that they want to do.

00:14:03.740 And they don't, they have no advancements.

00:14:06.440 Well, that's the thing.

00:14:07.520 I mean, you and I live in the world of phones and emails.

00:14:10.320 And, you know, the folks here are living like it's 1800.

00:14:15.360 And you have to admire them.

00:14:17.460 They're self-sufficient.

00:14:18.180 I've never heard of an Amish person on welfare.

00:14:19.980 I've never heard of an Amish person committing, you know, getting drunk and go getting into a bar fight.

00:14:25.640 These are special people.

00:14:28.420 And I think it behooves us to help them because they won't help themselves.

00:14:34.300 And we can disagree with the pacifism, but the constructive thing is to do something about it and to help.

00:14:39.460 Couldn't agree more.

00:14:41.160 You, I mean, tell me a little bit more about how you know these folks.

00:14:43.180 You buy and sell things with them?

00:14:44.480 Well, what I, primarily what I was doing was buying lumber and beams because I do, I have a farm myself.

00:14:51.640 So I have a bit of an affinity for them.

00:14:55.120 But I was, I think I started buying lumber about 20 years ago.

00:15:00.000 So I got to know the different individuals in the community.

00:15:03.020 And even when this was going on, this COVID lockdown, the CAN pass existed.

00:15:08.020 I talked to one of them and they didn't seem to have a problem at the border.

00:15:11.740 So I thought no more of it.

00:15:13.080 They got a stiff, like a good talking to at the border, but they were let go.

00:15:17.620 If it weren't for you sort of breaking the ice with them and letting them know that we're okay, I don't think they would have met with us.

00:15:23.880 And, you know, we had that long meeting, no phones out, no recording.

00:15:28.080 It was just a heart to heart.

00:15:29.340 And even now the elder is standing about a hundred feet away because he just doesn't want to be on camera.

00:15:35.520 That's their way. 0.69

00:15:36.340 And, but our way, my way is to, to try to help people who need help.

00:15:44.140 And these folks, I'm not going to say they slipped through the cracks because they were hunted.

00:15:48.040 Like you don't just whoopsies, put a $6,000 lien on a farm.

00:15:52.920 That is a, that is a policy decision to punish these people.

00:15:57.640 And I challenged the premier and the MPPs and the justice minister to come and meet these folks and look them in the eye and say, yeah, $6,000 lien, pay it.

00:16:08.500 Like I, I just challenged them to own or disown this outrageous decision.

00:16:14.420 I'm so mad about it.

00:16:16.040 Well, I understand that.

00:16:17.860 Here's what we're going to do.

00:16:18.940 We're going to have a, we're going to do this report.

00:16:21.300 And because I think no one, I've never heard of this before.

00:16:24.000 Frankly, I didn't even know that there was Amish in camp.

00:16:26.300 I knew there were old order men.

00:16:27.580 I knew the Amish were in Pennsylvania.

00:16:29.680 I didn't know.

00:16:30.520 So I've learned a lot today.

00:16:31.780 And, and it's sort of wonderful.

00:16:33.800 We need a petition.

00:16:34.780 We had a petition for a Amish fella in the States named Amos Miller, who was raided by police because he was selling raw milk.

00:16:44.040 And I think we got 40,000 names on that.

00:16:46.420 And I want to get 40,000 names for these Canadian Amish.

00:16:50.260 And I want to crowdfund the lawyer.

00:16:52.820 I know Adam Blake Gallup.

00:16:53.940 Oh, he's got a big heart.

00:16:55.360 He's probably fought more arrive can tickets than any other lawyer in Canada.

00:17:00.040 That's really all he did for a year at the democracy fund.

00:17:03.380 And so that's my battle plan.

00:17:04.980 And I told that to the community leader here and he just sort of took it all in.

00:17:08.640 I don't think he knew exactly what I meant on some of these things, but I think he was a supporter.

00:17:14.600 Well, I, um, we're going to walk around a little bit more.

00:17:17.700 We're going to take a look in the shop just because it's sort of wonderful.

00:17:21.560 It's like, uh, uh, you know, people talk about the trad life, the traditional life, getting back to nature.

00:17:26.720 These folks here are living a clean living, healthy living.

00:17:29.760 Yes.

00:17:29.940 It's all organic.

00:17:31.040 It's all natural.

00:17:31.720 Well, yeah, it was sort of interesting to see sort of hand drills and stuff like that.

00:17:36.060 I asked the leader, uh, did anyone here get sick during COVID?

00:17:40.480 And he said, of course not.

00:17:41.800 I'm guessing if, if you're in the country eating like farm to fork, if you're doing manual labor all day, you are probably in the top 5% healthy, maybe top 1%, clean living, go to church, no messing around.

00:17:58.080 The fact that Teresa Tam or whoever from the big city was telling these folks to download the app and punishing them if they didn't is so insane.

00:18:08.100 They're saying, we should all be so healthy as these Amish. 1.00

00:18:11.440 And, uh, it's, uh, it's amazing what they can do.

00:18:13.840 I was, I was looking at one of the, um, sleighs they were doing for horses and that's the thing.

00:18:18.220 They go on horse and buggy to do around town.

00:18:22.160 And we saw that driving in.

00:18:23.300 And I can't thank you enough for being the bridge.

00:18:25.860 I would have never, how would I have heard about this?

00:18:27.580 I would never have heard about this.

00:18:29.740 Um, were it not for you?

00:18:31.660 And we could never have made contact were it not for you?

00:18:34.120 So thank you.

00:18:34.840 Boy, you're very welcome.

00:18:36.180 I think it's a good thing for them to have this exposure.

00:18:39.160 They wouldn't have had it otherwise if it wasn't for you.

00:18:41.660 Well, and the funny thing is in a way, I don't think they'll ever know what we're doing because I get the feeling they don't watch videos.

00:18:48.260 So you'll just have to tell them that it happened.

00:18:51.080 It's sort of funny because we're going to be doing all this stuff in their name and to help them, but they won't see any of it.

00:18:56.980 But that, in a way, that, that's, that's a wonderful way to help someone as you're doing it.

00:19:02.280 Even, even though they won't know what you've done for them, maybe, maybe we'll have some success here.

00:19:06.260 I am hopeful because this is such an egregious case.

00:19:09.480 Oh, it totally is.

00:19:10.400 But what I'll do is I'll print off a newsletter.

00:19:12.820 At least they can read that.

00:19:14.520 Right, right.

00:19:15.040 That, that's, that's a great idea.

00:19:17.120 I, in fact, the leader of the community asked me, well, will this be in the newspaper?

00:19:20.960 And I sort of explained that, well, we're not really on, on paper, but that's a good idea to print it off.

00:19:26.620 They, they do read things and, and it's very interesting.

00:19:30.320 Well, listen, I, thank you for being the connection.

00:19:33.240 We're going to go into the shop and look around there and, and, and hopefully I can return here and hopefully we have some good news.

00:19:41.660 I know that Adam Blake Gallupo of the Democracy Fund is eager to fight this case.

00:19:46.380 And it just feels like if enough members of the public, and frankly, if Premier Doug Ford himself saw this, I've got to think that someone would, would say, this is wrong.

00:20:03.140 We have to have a reset here.

00:20:04.740 However, this happened under the radar because these folks couldn't complain.

00:20:08.820 Any other community would have been squawking.

00:20:11.100 These folks lowered their heads and took the abuse. 0.96

00:20:15.000 All right, let's go take a look inside that shop.

00:20:17.300 Well, I'm inside the shop of one of the community leaders of the Amish group in Chatsworth in Southwest Ontario.

00:20:39.640 This is the room where I had about an hour and a half meeting with the head of the Amish community.

00:20:46.380 But I couldn't put any of it on tape.

00:20:50.000 The Amish tradition is not to show their face or even use their voice on camera.

00:20:56.460 So I had the entire conversation just man to man with our friend Lincoln, our videographer, and a community friend named Grant who arranged the meetings because there's no electricity here.

00:21:10.560 There's no telephones.

00:21:12.180 There's no internet.

00:21:13.500 There's no TV.

00:21:14.280 How do you interact with a community that, for all intents and purposes, is living as they lived 200 years ago?

00:21:23.120 I'm in the shop, and it's such an interesting place.

00:21:25.720 I want to show you around.

00:21:27.460 The community leader explained things to me, but, of course, I couldn't film him doing that.

00:21:31.440 So I'm going to do my best to repeat it, and I'll have some observations on my own.

00:21:34.640 And the first is, what I see right above the door here, share the road, because they have no cars.

00:21:41.180 They literally have horses and buggies, as other Amish communities do. 1.00

00:21:45.520 They don't have buttons in their clothing.

00:21:48.540 They have eyes and hooks.

00:21:51.100 Here are drills in the shop.

00:21:53.360 Those are hand-powered drills.

00:21:55.100 You might see those in some sort of pioneer village somewhere, but here, they actually use them.

00:22:01.720 Here are actual lamps they used, oil lamps, to work when it's dark.

00:22:07.540 There are no light bulbs in this whole shop.

00:22:10.440 There's no electricity, other than, I should say, one small diesel generator that's used to operate some of the serious equipment here.

00:22:21.120 There is some equipment, and the head of the community showed us how this one diesel generator in that room is connected to so many different things, like this looks like a jigsaw or some sort of saw here.

00:22:37.420 So there is some powerful equipment, and this is a shop where they make incredible things.

00:22:42.460 They make furniture, they even make some heavier equipment, like that horse sleigh outside.

00:22:51.480 They said they made 12 of those in one year.

00:22:55.160 For heat, they have this wood-burning stove.

00:23:02.040 And he said when they run out of wood here, they'd chop some more from the back.

00:23:05.220 These are heavier equipment items that are also run off that one generator, a metal bender, some very serious equipment.

00:23:17.960 It looks old-fashioned, doesn't it?

00:23:20.220 It has that old look to it.

00:23:22.380 This whole place, no electricity at all.

00:23:25.340 We arrange this meeting by the friend of the community who has a telephone.

00:23:29.480 They say that if there is some sort of emergency, they go to a neighbor, and they do make phone calls, but they don't drive.

00:23:36.060 They're not on TV.

00:23:37.580 They're not on the Internet.

00:23:38.560 They don't have cell phones.

00:23:40.200 There's no electricity.

00:23:41.960 The heating is by chopping wood and burning it.

00:23:46.020 There are children playing out back.

00:23:47.800 I'm not going to show them because we promised not to show any of the people here, especially the kids.

00:23:53.520 But I can imagine it's a wonderful but unusual life growing up in 21st century Ontario, living like it's the 18th century.

00:24:02.920 But that is the problem.

00:24:04.740 Because what happens when you have a public crisis, a kind of madness, as we had in Canada during the COVID pandemic?

00:24:17.020 When so much of it was a moral panic pumped into us from our cell phones.

00:24:23.480 Let me ask you a question.

00:24:25.260 If you didn't check the news at all during the COVID crisis, if you didn't have a phone, if you didn't have Anthony Fauci or Teresa Tam chirping in your ear that you're going to die,

00:24:37.580 if all you had to go by were your own eyes and ears living life, not the propaganda, but just what you observed,

00:24:44.040 would you have believed we were in a pandemic?

00:24:47.040 I asked the leader of this community if anyone here got seriously sick or died, God forbid, from COVID.

00:24:54.300 And he said not one of them.

00:24:56.460 They didn't get jabbed either.

00:24:58.120 It's against their religious beliefs.

00:24:59.800 They weren't wearing masks.

00:25:01.400 They lived normally.

00:25:03.180 And I put it to you that everyone on this farm eating naturally, food they grow, food they make, not, you know, refined seed oils or preservatives.

00:25:14.360 The people here are much healthier than the city folks who shut themselves off from exercise and from the world and panic during the pandemic.

00:25:23.260 People here are fit.

00:25:24.780 They're working all the time.

00:25:26.120 They're in nature.

00:25:26.980 They're in the outdoors.

00:25:28.460 They talk about farm to fork.

00:25:30.440 It's the same place.

00:25:31.680 And yet this is the community that has been slapped with $394,000 in fines.

00:25:42.000 For what?

00:25:43.400 For not using the Arrive Can app when they cross the border.

00:25:49.920 The Arrive Can app, which you put on your smartphone.

00:25:52.940 But they don't have smartphones.

00:25:55.060 They don't have cell phones.

00:25:56.220 They don't have cars.

00:25:57.280 They don't have electricity.

00:25:58.240 They don't have telephones.

00:25:58.880 They have nothing to download an app to.

00:26:01.700 They don't know what apps are.

00:26:03.860 Imagine crossing the border again and again because there's an Amish community on the other side of the border, going back and forth, and every time getting a $5,000 or $6,000 fine from the government because the Amish didn't download an app. 1.00

00:26:19.980 Only the government could be so stupid. 1.00

00:26:24.080 Here, let's go outside. 1.00

00:26:31.700 I feel like the Amish have never heard of Flea.

00:26:34.380 In fact, that's one of the reasons why they've been persecuted over the centuries is because they're pacifists.

00:26:39.840 They're the kind of people who, if you punch them, they will not punch you back. 0.89

00:26:44.260 But what happens when the government punches them, when the government treats them unfairly, when the government takes advantage of them, when the government is so stupid that the government says you must download the Arrive Can app on your cell phone, when these folks don't use cell phones, they don't use email or the internet. 0.97

00:27:00.980 In fact, they don't even use telephones. 0.91

00:27:02.240 There is no electricity on this property other than that one generator to operate the machine in the mill.

00:27:10.140 Well, what happens is the community that turns the other cheek does so for years.

00:27:14.500 And before you know it, there's almost $400,000 in fines just because they're going back and forth across to the states to visit the Amish communities there for family reasons, for health reasons, to go on dates with other Amish we heard.

00:27:28.120 Now, try collecting on these folks.

00:27:31.260 The collections agencies usually make telephone calls.

00:27:34.160 It doesn't work here.

00:27:35.640 But what they've done is they put liens on the property.

00:27:39.880 None of the farmhouses or farms that are associated with people who didn't download the app can be bought or sold.

00:27:48.600 None of them can be transferred from father to son.

00:27:51.660 The government of Ontario, using the excuse of the government of Canada's Arrive Can app, has frozen this community.

00:27:59.120 And we've heard that there are other Amish communities around Ontario who have had the same thing done to them. 0.75

00:28:05.700 For all we know, there are hundreds of Amish farmers who cannot buy or sell their property, cannot get a mortgage or a loan against it because of this stupid Arrive Can app that we now know was full of malware and spyware and was really just a way of shoveling tens of millions of dollars to Trudeau's friends. 0.58

00:28:25.520 I need your help to fix this.

00:28:28.100 And what's so strange is I cannot stand beside any of the Amish on whose behalf I'm asking because they will not appear on camera. 1.00

00:28:37.420 So on their behalf, I would ask you to do three things.

00:28:40.480 Go to the website, helptheamish.com.

00:28:44.040 A-M-I-S-H. 1.00

00:28:46.160 That's how you spell Amish.

00:28:48.000 Sign our petition to stop this madness.

00:28:50.880 We'll deliver it to Doug Ford and help us fight legally.

00:28:53.840 I don't know what Doug Ford is going to say when he sees this.

00:28:57.000 Maybe he's so committed to bullying anyone who made a COVID action he didn't like that he says, we're going to go after the Amish and teach them a lesson. 0.97

00:29:08.820 Yeah, what lesson is that other than how angry and punitive and foolish the government can be? 0.96

00:29:14.560 Believe me, the Amish are already known. 0.91

00:29:16.600 Sign our petition at helptheamish.com and chip in to Adam Blake Gallupo.

00:29:20.960 By the way, all donations go to the Democracy Fund, a registered Canadian charity, so you'll actually get a charitable tax receipt for it.

00:29:30.200 Go to helptheamish.com.

00:29:32.360 We're going to start fighting back for these folks.

00:29:34.840 Now, it's going to be difficult because this omelet is already scrambled.

00:29:39.200 They have been convicted because they didn't go to court.

00:29:42.600 They have had the liens put on their farms because no one told them.

00:29:46.260 So we have to get a judge to undo a lot of terrible wrongs.

00:29:50.180 It's going to be a difficult battle, but if we don't do it, who will?

00:29:54.500 Join me at helptheamish.com.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 14, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Amish community under attack over digital mandates they didn't know existed

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