Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can you trust the police？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I ask a question. Can we trust the police? And it's not even a question

00:00:05.920 about lockdown police. It's about politicized police. We see it in the States. I'll tell you

00:00:12.180 about an FBI plot to kidnap a Democratic governor and blame right-wingers for it. Sounds crazy.

00:00:21.000 Do we have that in Canada, too? I'll take you through some of the facts I know.

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00:00:55.340 Tonight, can you trust the police? It's July 21st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:15.000 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:18.460 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:22.780 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:27.660 right to do so.

00:01:33.320 I said it the other day. I always want to think of police as the heroes that I always thought

00:01:39.780 they were. The dozens of police, along with hundreds of firefighters who ran towards danger

00:01:45.480 on 9-11, for example, running into a burning building that later collapsed on them, killing

00:01:50.240 them and thousands of others. I want to think of police as selfless heroes who put themselves

00:01:55.760 in danger every day to keep the rest of us safe, the ones who have to deal with the bad

00:02:00.200 people. They're the sheepdogs who protect the innocent and guard the sheep against the

00:02:05.420 wolves. That's how I thought of police for the longest time, most of my life. And I always

00:02:10.960 felt a sense of solidarity, frankly, whenever I would even just see a cop. I'd always just

00:02:16.700 sort of say hi or nod my head or give them a thumbs up just to let them know that I know

00:02:20.780 that they're serving us even if they face ingratitude elsewhere. And even as a journalist,

00:02:26.040 how many times have I done stories of police who were wrongly smeared by guilty people who

00:02:32.100 made up lies about how the police acted, who lied about police being, for example, violent

00:02:37.180 or racist. And those accusations would go around the world. And only later would the body cam or

00:02:42.740 dash cam footage come out showing the truth that the cops were actually exemplary. It was a big lie

00:02:48.660 by the suspects. Done a lot of videos of those. In a way, that's been a subtext of the whole Black 0.96

00:02:54.880 Lives Matter narrative that all cops are evil, all cops are racist, all cops are violent, even the black

00:03:01.700 cops. And that one cop who gets it wrong is an indictment of every cop. Antifa makes that one

00:03:09.500 of their slogans. You know, you might see the graffiti ACAB that stands for the smear, all cops are

00:03:16.800 bastards. That's not true. But that's the denormalization of police by the left, followed by

00:03:23.700 the submissiveness. That's a denormal of the police from within. I hate seeing police in uniform bow to

00:03:30.200 anyone because it's not them as individuals who's bowing, but them as representatives of the entire

00:03:35.920 police force, of all authority, bending down towards those who actually use or threaten violence.

00:03:42.120 You know, Canadians only bow to the Queen, really. And Americans ought to bow to no one. They're not

00:03:47.400 a kingdom. But how many cops bow to Antifa? Too many. They're under attack from within and from

00:03:53.860 without. That was me for decades, for decades. But I have difficulty now because police have allowed

00:04:00.880 themselves to become errand boys for lockdownism, mask rules, social distancing rules, all of them

00:04:08.400 stupid, all of them unscientific, all of them subjective, none of them followed by the people 0.95

00:04:14.560 in power who issue those rules. Here are cops in Alberta taking down a Christian pastor in the middle

00:04:20.700 of a street, in the middle of a highway like he's a terrorist. Get on your knees, hands above your

00:04:25.620 head, in the middle of a busy road. Here's the same politicians who ordered that hit on him,

00:04:31.320 breaking their own rules at the Sky Palace, Secret Lounge in Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, everywhere,

00:04:36.260 anywhere. It's all stupider than the next. Here's some violence against our reporters merely for covering

00:04:42.740 lockdown protests.

00:04:44.060 Oh no.

00:05:01.660 So yeah, I wish our police did more policing and less abusing of civil liberties. When Los Angeles

00:05:09.160 made a bizarre announcement that they're going to start re-implementing mask rules, even for

00:05:14.920 vaccinated people, just weird rules all around, made up, pure political muscle flexing, no science, 1.00

00:05:22.300 the LA sheriff put out a statement saying, yeah, no, not going to enforce that. I've seen that from

00:05:28.240 some different US police chiefs. They don't jump up and take orders just from any old politician who

00:05:33.780 has a fever dream or issue some tweet. They don't just do that. That's not why they went to the

00:05:39.600 police academy in Canada. Most police just say, sure. In fact, I've never seen one not. Now, I'm not

00:05:46.500 here to talk about more lockdown bullying by police. We've already covered that. I'm worried it's making

00:05:51.580 a comeback in both the UK and Australia. Did you see this?

00:05:54.120 Good evening. Within hours, Sydney will be in the grip of much tougher restrictions. The Premier

00:05:59.540 clamping down on the stubborn Delta outbreak with what she's calling a no regrets policy. And this is

00:06:06.300 why. From a record 82,000 tests, the state today recorded 111 cases and tragically the third COVID

00:06:14.020 death in this outbreak, a man aged in his 80s from the city's southeast. Across Greater Sydney, retail

00:06:20.760 shops will now close. A small list of essential stores can remain open. Construction sites across

00:06:27.240 the city shut down. And from midnight tonight, 110 suburbs across Liverpool, Fairfield and Canterbury

00:06:34.980 Bankstown will be sealed shut. That's 900,000 residents who can't leave their area, even for work.

00:06:43.880 Yeah, get ready for extreme police enforcement of that insanity. Three people have died on the entire

00:06:49.640 Australian continent this year, and they're locking it down. That's not going to go well. Here's Boris

00:06:54.240 Johnson announcing mandatory vaccinations just for living life.

00:06:57.980 I should serve notice now that by the end of September, when all over 18s will have had their 0.88

00:07:03.980 chance to be double jabbed, we're planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs

00:07:11.600 and other venues where large crowds gather. Proof of a negative test will no longer be an hour.

00:07:19.280 Yeah, how are you going to enforce that, mate? How many police are you willing to deploy for that?

00:07:24.120 How many skulls are you going to crack for that? We'll talk with Calvin Robinson today about that.

00:07:29.000 France said they're vaccine passporting the whole place. Look at the protests. Greece, too.

00:07:34.520 The police on the continent are used to being bullies. There's a bit of a fascist and communist

00:07:40.760 history to both of those countries. You're going to see some violence. Who went to the police academy

00:07:46.720 to do that violence over politics? Don't answer. Maybe some did. But I don't want to talk about

00:07:52.920 lockdown policing right now. Talked about that 50 times this past year. I want to talk about something

00:07:59.260 scarier. Police getting into the political business, the censorship business, the political

00:08:05.500 errands business, the shutting up the opposition business. I've told you about Bill C-36, Trudeau's

00:08:10.900 extreme censorship bill introduced in the dying hours of Parliament. The one that revised the hate

00:08:17.820 speech provision of the Human Rights Act, but also adds darker elements that weren't there before, like the

00:08:22.660 right to make secret complaints to the Human Rights Commission, to have a chance to be a secret

00:08:28.500 witness against someone for a hate speech complaint. Secret trials. That's not a Canadian thing. It will

00:08:34.020 be under C-36. $50,000 fines for a mean tweet. $20,000 bounties paid to the hate crime complainants,

00:08:41.180 even if they're secret. And the ability to go to court to get an anti-hate bond against someone who

00:08:46.940 hasn't committed any crime yet, hasn't been charged yet, hasn't done anything yet, haven't been arrested

00:08:51.580 yet. But you can now, under C-36, convince a court to give you a sort of peace bond against them,

00:08:56.860 getting them under house arrest, limiting their freedoms, forcing them to wear an electronic

00:09:00.980 tracker, forcing them to give bodily fluid samples, just because you're afraid of them. I'm serious.

00:09:07.240 Read the law at stopc36.com if you want to see the bill for yourself. So I'm worried about that.

00:09:14.220 Lockdowns are one thing, but imagine police hunting you down for hurt feelings crimes.

00:09:18.960 Well, some police are imagining that themselves, and they're getting pretty excited about him.

00:09:24.260 Here's a story in Black Locks. Censorship Bill Useful, RCMP. A federal censorship bill will be

00:09:32.200 useful in prosecuting bloggers and Facebook subscribers. An RCMP specialist said last night,

00:09:39.200 Bill C-36 will see more things through the charges, a webinar was told. It's a story from Black Locks.

00:09:46.060 It's about a webinar put on by a liberal-funded attack group called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,

00:09:52.340 very ironically named. They themselves are quite hateful. They put on a conference about how to

00:09:57.200 use laws like this to attack conservatives online. And then Mountie actually participated.

00:10:02.960 I didn't know cops were allowed to be political. That's really weird. Actually, I have come to know

00:10:09.140 that, haven't we all? Here's what that cop said. Law enforcement has to have the ability to use the

00:10:14.520 law effectively. Really? So you're a politician now. You want to write the laws. In Canada,

00:10:18.600 we don't have anything regulating speech. Really? You don't? Under Section 2 of our

00:10:23.580 Charter of Rights and Freedoms, our freedom of expression is protected. So there is no such

00:10:29.060 thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression? What? You have an RCMP cop who says

00:10:35.220 we don't have freedom of speech in Canada? Are you nuts? Has this cop ever even looked at the

00:10:41.480 charter? Section 2b? Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of

00:10:47.980 the press and other media of communication that obviously includes speech and every other way of

00:10:53.440 expressing ideas. What a weird liar that cop is. A liar or stupid or evil or just ill-informed. I don't

00:11:00.520 know. But he's the boss. He's the hate cop who's excited about using this law to get bloggers because

00:11:06.500 he thinks we don't have freedom of speech in Canada. Because that's the crime wave we have.

00:11:11.540 Really? Is that the big problem in Canada right now? We have 48 churches burnt or vandalized.

00:11:16.020 But this Mountie's excited about locking up people for Facebook posts. By the way, if you go to the

00:11:20.980 Supreme Court of Canada website, which I encourage this cop to do, and search their rulings, which you

00:11:26.380 can do online, the phrase free speech is there in 60 different Supreme Court rulings. 60 times the

00:11:35.280 Supreme Court used the phrase free speech, and another 67 times the phrase freedom of speech. So

00:11:42.760 127 times the Supreme Court itself. What a bizarre cop that Trudeau Mountie is, isn't he? Saying there's

00:11:50.220 no free speech in Canada. Yeah, tell that to the Supreme Court, you wicked liar. Are you ready for a

00:11:56.760 politically weaponized RCMP? That's where we're going. Trudeau's hand-picked commissioner, Brenda

00:12:03.140 Lucky, refuses to say a word about the burnt churches. Just Trudeau doesn't want her to. Then

00:12:08.340 again, she refused to look into the facts of Trudeau himself, interfering in the SNC-Lavalin

00:12:13.420 corruption case, and the firing of Jody Wilson-Raybould by Trudeau, because she was getting in his way.

00:12:18.540 Because again, Brenda Lucky is Trudeau's girl, and she's loyal to her man. But look at this news out

00:12:24.780 of Michigan. Here's a story from October. Remember that story a few months back about how right-wingers

00:12:31.800 were planning to capture and kidnap the governor of Michigan who just happened to be Democrat.

00:12:37.820 Huge story. Dropped right before the election. Boy, did the media love that story. Right-wingers,

00:12:44.260 Trump guys, planning to kidnap an outspoken critic of Trump. Oh, and the timing. Less than a month

00:12:50.400 before the election message received. But look now. It's almost a year later. So the truth comes

00:12:56.820 out now, and that bell can't be unrung. The election happened. That plot to kidnap the Democratic

00:13:02.720 governor, it was almost completely FBI undercover agents and informants. Don't take that from me.

00:13:09.580 I'm a conservative in Canada. What do I know? Take it from a liberal American news site called

00:13:14.360 BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed hates Trump, but they actually told the truth here. It's a long story.

00:13:20.000 But let me read to you the part about the role of the 12 undercover cops who were in on the project.

00:13:27.280 Let me read the money quote. An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some

00:13:33.520 of those informants acting under the direction of the FBI played a far larger role than has previously

00:13:39.600 been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions

00:13:45.360 of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its

00:13:51.980 inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been

00:13:57.620 a conspiracy without them. A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped

00:14:02.900 organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one

00:14:08.260 another. And the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant

00:14:14.860 even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come. The Iraq war vet, for his part,

00:14:22.800 became so deeply enmeshed in a Michigan militant group that he rose to become its second in command,

00:14:27.880 encouraging members to collaborate with other potential suspects and paying for their transportation to meetings.

00:14:33.680 He prodded the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to advance his plan, then baited the trap that led

00:14:41.260 to his arrest. Oh, so so they came up with the idea. They funded it. They arranged it. They organized it.

00:14:46.920 They pushed forward. They went around the country. They were the number two guy in the spot. The FBI did that.

00:14:54.300 Why is there is there not enough real crime in America that needs to be fought? Imagine the effort here,

00:14:59.080 the millions of dollars, the thousands of hours, the number of staff. Why? I put it to you, it was a

00:15:06.140 political stunt to prove the threat of right wingers, domestic violence extremists on the right.

00:15:11.700 That's America these days. That's the disgraced FBI. The same people who set up General Michael Flynn

00:15:16.720 filed false affidavits against Donald Trump to spy on him. James Comey, the liar. The FBI setting up

00:15:24.680 crimes for a political payoff for their left wing masters. Hey, do you doubt that's coming to Canada

00:15:31.640 or that it's already here? By the way, who's torching and vandalizing churches across Canada?

00:15:38.220 48 of them now. You'd think we would have caught someone by now. Weird how quiet the RCMP is now.

00:15:45.740 I'm sure Brenda Luckey, Trudeau's commissioner, is upholding the law. I'm sure we're fine. I'm sure

00:15:51.780 we're in the best of hands. Stay with us for more.

00:16:06.540 Welcome back. Well, of course, the lockdown in Canada is still in effect. For example,

00:16:12.620 at the border, you can't come into Canada from the United States without hiding in your home for

00:16:17.460 two full weeks. Of course, Toronto finally, after more than a year, released its restaurants for

00:16:23.900 the first time. Toronto, the most locked down city in the world, according to the BBC. And they love

00:16:29.640 that. But let me tell you, as someone who lives it, it's not a nice thing. I see Australia is lurching

00:16:34.980 back into lockdowns over the most trivial caseload. I think a grand total of three people have passed

00:16:42.100 away on that entire continent in 2021. And yet millions are having their lives restricted. But

00:16:47.880 how about the United Kingdom? They're one of the most vaxxed countries in the world, at least most

00:16:53.580 vaxxed large countries. They were under a lockdown led by Boris Johnson, nominally a conservative.

00:17:01.420 They talked about Freedom Day, where they would be released from it. Did it actually happen? Well,

00:17:06.380 one of our favorite people in the UK is Calvin Robinson. He's a commentator in many places,

00:17:11.800 but my new favorite place to catch him is on the new channel, GB News. And Calvin joins us now via

00:17:18.500 Skype. Calvin, great to see you again. Welcome back to the show. Ezra, I love coming on this show. So

00:17:22.800 thank you for the invitation. Well, the feeling's mutual. And I love seeing you on GB News. What a great

00:17:27.820 new project. I wish you good luck with that. I see that Nigel Farage has a new four times a week show

00:17:33.800 there. He's a controversial and thoughtful character. I think you guys are doing great

00:17:38.740 things. I sort of wish we had that here. But let me ask you about Freedom Day. That was the name

00:17:44.360 given to the day where most of the lockdown was going to be lifted. Freedom Day was actually delayed

00:17:49.240 a month, wasn't it? It was. First of all, it was delayed a month after saying that it would not be

00:17:55.320 changed. And then when they delayed it, they said, you know what, we're sticking to data, not dates. So

00:17:59.900 it's important for us to check the data. And when they talk about data, they obviously talk about

00:18:03.320 case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths. But the hospitalizations and the deaths were going down.

00:18:09.160 In fact, we've got record low deaths in this country at the moment. But that continued to

00:18:13.580 be a downward curve. And the date was not changed. It wasn't brought forward. So they pushed it back

00:18:17.900 a month. And we came to Freedom Day, which was last week, the 19th of July. And on Freedom Day,

00:18:25.720 we think, OK, fantastic. We get our civil liberties back. We can live our normal lives again. We can start

00:18:29.960 live with this virus instead of it dictating our lives, instead of government micromanaging every

00:18:35.080 aspect of our lives. And what happens that very evening on Freedom Day, the Prime Minister of the

00:18:41.080 United Kingdom gets onto his platform and says that from September, we're going to introduce vaccine

00:18:47.020 passports. So he essentially said that anyone over the age of 18 has now had the opportunity to be

00:18:52.460 vaccinated. And if you haven't chosen to take that vaccination, you will have certain aspects of

00:18:57.820 your life limited. It's going to start with large venues and nightclubs. But I suspect it won't end

00:19:03.540 there, will it? This has been the plan all along to introduce these vaccine passports, which they've 0.96

00:19:07.620 denied at every step of the way. The health minister's denied it. A number of ministers have

00:19:12.140 denied it, as well as the prime minister. They've all said there is no plan for vaccine passports. And

00:19:16.480 here we see they are introducing it. But no less than that, they introduced it on Freedom Day,

00:19:21.060 which I think is wicked. It's showing people that carriage and snatching it away and giving them

00:19:26.060 a stick instead. It's like torture. Every chance of hope you get is taken away from you at the very

00:19:31.580 last minute. You know, every time we think we're free again, the government's there to remind us,

00:19:35.280 no, you're not free. We have your liberties and we're not giving them back to you. There's going

00:19:39.080 to come a point where the British people have to stand up and take our liberties back because the

00:19:43.120 government aren't giving them back by choice. I ask the same about Canada and frankly, Australia all

00:19:49.220 the time. I want to show you a quick video montage of the prime minister and other British

00:19:54.420 cabinet ministers swearing on a stack of Bibles that they would never bring in a vaccine passport.

00:19:59.980 And the reason I show you this, I mean, it won't surprise you that politicians break their promises.

00:20:04.440 But when it comes to things about the lockdown, the pandemic, vaccines, the virus, trust is such a

00:20:10.920 precious commodity. And to break promises and to be a brazen liar isn't just a normal political

00:20:17.380 collateral damage. How can you trust someone who lies about Freedom Day and lies about data?

00:20:24.520 How can you trust them to tell the truth about things that people are really worried about?

00:20:28.900 Like, are there side effects to the vaccine? Should we vaccine people under 18? 0.80

00:20:33.880 And those are real questions that people honestly want to know the answer to.

00:20:38.640 But if the political class so brazenly fibs, how can you trust them? Here's a montage of British 0.99

00:20:45.720 politicians saying there will never be vaccine passports.

00:20:49.200 So there won't be a vaccine passport?

00:20:51.120 No, that's not being planned.

00:20:52.340 The prime minister of Greece has said that he would welcome people to come on holiday in Greece,

00:20:56.380 but they will have to have some kind of vaccine passport to show they've been vaccinated first.

00:21:00.720 Is that something that the British government is looking at? The idea of a vaccine passport specifically

00:21:05.340 to allow people to come and go in the months ahead?

00:21:09.700 No, we're not.

00:21:10.400 What I don't think we will have in this country is, as it were, vaccination passports.

00:21:16.820 So there you go. I mean, it's no surprise that politicians are liars.

00:21:22.560 One of the things that puzzles me, Calvin, in Canada, and I think it applies to the UK also,

00:21:28.260 is why the opposition party doesn't really oppose. In Canada, federally and in all

00:21:35.300 10 provinces, both the governments and the opposition support the lockdown. It's not

00:21:40.560 that way in America. You have a real political split. It seems to me like in the UK, the Labour

00:21:46.980 Party, led by Keir Starmer, who used to be a civil rights lawyer, he really doesn't have

00:21:52.260 a fundamental disagreement with the lockdown, does he?

00:21:55.200 No, it really troubles me. I don't understand his stance. So all throughout the lockdown,

00:22:00.300 he's been pushing for harder and longer lockdowns, tougher restrictions. So he's not been in opposition

00:22:05.760 to the government. And that's what we need in a time like this. We need questions to be asked

00:22:09.400 about whether this is a suitable restriction, whether it actually has an impact or whether

00:22:13.480 it's just authoritarian measures. We need an opposition that holds the government to account.

00:22:18.320 He hasn't been that. I was quite optimistic today when I saw that the Labour Party were going to oppose

00:22:25.200 the government on this. And it seems they're already making a U-turn. But even when they were

00:22:29.300 going to oppose these vaccine passports, their stance was, a Labour spokesman said,

00:22:34.920 making people show proof of COVID jabs for everyday access to venues was costly, open to fraud,

00:22:40.460 and impractical. So even when they oppose it, they can't oppose it for the sake of freedom or

00:22:45.300 civil liberties. It's got to be, oh, it's not cost effective, or it's not practical. Come on,

00:22:50.660 where is their sense of principle? It's disgusting. And I think they flip-flopped back and forth so

00:22:57.040 many times at this point. No one's going to trust the opposition. No one trusts the government. We

00:23:01.140 need a party, or we need to refresh our system. We need someone to stand up for the British people,

00:23:06.460 not just the British people, you're right, America and Canada too, to stand up for people's civil

00:23:10.060 liberties. But what is going on when all of these parties, all of these governments are all singing

00:23:14.940 from the same hymn sheet? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there's something deeper at play here.

00:23:18.620 If they're all pushing the same party line, what is the agenda? Has it been COVID passports all

00:23:24.700 along? Has it been digital IDs all along? Is it a form of control? Is it this new world order,

00:23:30.340 so to speak, of the great reset to hashtag build back better? Is it the Davos World Economic Forum?

00:23:36.960 Is it that you will own nothing, but you will be happy? I don't know, but it's raising a lot of

00:23:41.180 questions. And all this comes from mistrust. If the government could be transparent and open with us,

00:23:45.700 and it could share the data and act on the data, and it could be actual, you know, human beings with

00:23:51.120 passion and compassion and protecting our freedoms, which is the government's first and most fundamental

00:23:56.820 job. If they did all of those things, they'd have more people on board, but they don't. And I'm at a

00:24:02.540 loss. I'm really, I'm at a loss at what to do, what to believe and who to trust.

00:24:06.040 Yeah. You know, in the United States, I often refer to the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis,

00:24:09.920 because he was most clearly a skeptic fairly early about lockdownism. And he got a lot of flack

00:24:18.220 from the opposition, of course, but also the media and the public health establishment.

00:24:23.260 And for a while there, it looked like he might be wobbled, but it's really paid off and he's got

00:24:27.780 bolder and bolder. And my point is he actually showed leadership. He stepped in when it wasn't

00:24:32.120 a sure thing it would be successful. Now he's one of the most popular governors in America,

00:24:36.840 one of the most successful economically, the health stats. And so I often say that if you just

00:24:42.960 tried, if you just had someone try, build it and they will come. I know Lawrence Fox has started the

00:24:50.120 reclaim party, reclaim your freedoms, reclaim how things were in the UK. He ran for mayor and he

00:24:56.420 didn't break into the double digits, but at least he sort of held up a lightning rod.

00:25:01.340 Nigel Farage is with you at GB News. Do you think there is a political alternative in the UK

00:25:08.060 that would be freedom oriented? I know that, you know, Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Pierce Corbyn,

00:25:15.400 is a lockdown skeptic. So there are people across the political spectrum who don't like this civil

00:25:21.720 liberties violation. Your friend Lawrence Fox is trying it. Nigel's tied up. Is there any hope that

00:25:28.580 the freedom movement will coalesce around someone who's got a real chance like Ron DeSantis did in

00:25:33.960 Florida? Perhaps. I mean, Lawrence Fox's reclaim party are doing great things, fighting for freedom.

00:25:39.480 They just launched a report, actually. People should look into this report. It's fantastic.

00:25:42.800 Saying that we need a bill of law in this country to protect our freedom of speech like America has

00:25:48.040 with their amendments. We don't have anything like that over here. But there's also the reform party,

00:25:52.580 which Richard Tice is running now, which was Nigel Farage's Brexit party prior to that.

00:25:57.640 And the two are working very closely together, which is great to see. So there is some cooperation

00:26:02.600 there, but they're not mainstream parties. So they can have an impact. They can, you know,

00:26:06.140 nudge the government in the right direction, but they can't really take government. And that's the

00:26:10.700 problem with our two-party system. Either vote for the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. You can

00:26:15.160 vote for the fringe parties, but they're never going to be in power. There's more a protest

00:26:18.500 or a challenge. And that's the issue. We need to break down this two-party system somehow

00:26:22.860 if it's not working. It's like the issue with China. When this pandemic first launched, 0.99

00:26:29.280 people were saying, is this, you know, a lab experiment or was it a lab accident? And those

00:26:34.140 questions were not allowed for so long. And now it's come to pass that actually it probably was

00:26:39.120 a lab leak from Wuhan. And now we're able to, you know, Donald Trump was one of the first to raise

00:26:43.640 this when he said, you know, this is the China virus. And people were like, oh, that's racist.

00:26:46.660 You can't. But now we're getting to the point over a year later, nearly 18 months later,

00:26:50.600 that we can actually have the conversation. So we need our politicians to be more open about

00:26:55.380 this. And if the mainstream ones won't do it, the fringe ones will have to, and they'll have

00:26:58.640 to get a platform. And you're quite right that, you know, Nigel Farage is on GB News now. So he has a

00:27:03.040 much better platform for this kind of thing. So hopefully he'll challenge it some more.

00:27:06.780 I will continue to raise it whenever I get the chance, but it would be great to see someone in the

00:27:10.780 mainstream do so too. Yeah. Well, listen, we sure are watching with great interest because

00:27:14.980 although we're across an ocean from you, I think a lot of things that happen in the UK today

00:27:20.160 come to Canada tomorrow, especially with lockdownism. I'm terrified that vaccine passports 1.00

00:27:25.300 will make their way here too. Calvin, it's great to see you. Congratulations again. I love watching

00:27:30.120 you on GB News and I encourage all my Canadian friends to download the app. It's a free app,

00:27:34.620 so why not do it? And listen, keep up the great work. Thanks for visiting us. And I wish all the

00:27:39.360 best for the UK. Hopefully Freedom Day will actually be the beginning of a liberation and

00:27:44.860 not the, not yet another false hope dangled in front of the people. Take care of my friend

00:27:49.620 and thanks for being here. Thank you, Ezra. God bless.

00:27:51.820 Right on you too. There you have a Calvin Robinson, a commentator and, and I see him quite often

00:27:57.020 on GB News. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:27:59.000 Hey, welcome back. Alexandra, right? So when are the anti-Christian hate laws coming and the anti-Semitic

00:28:17.900 hate laws and the anti-Buddhist hate laws, et cetera? Well, look, there are lots of anti-hate laws on the

00:28:24.060 books already. The question is who's going to action them against whom? As far as I know,

00:28:30.320 in the 40 year, 50 year history of these hate crimes laws in one version or another, not a single radical

00:28:37.980 Islamic extremist or terrorist has ever been charged. No extremists from some of the Tamil Tigers groups or

00:28:47.000 some of the more militant Sikh groups. Just never. I think anyone could be guilty of a hate crime it's

00:28:54.100 defined so vaguely. So it's just whoever the politicians want to charge. Jeff writes,

00:29:00.800 Islam isn't a race. It's an ideology and completely open to criticism. This is the problem with hate

00:29:06.400 laws, period, as who gets to define what hate speech is? Well, I think any ism, any ideology,

00:29:12.300 theology, religion, philosophy, creed ought to be criticizable. And in fact, I think people who

00:29:19.740 want to do that more than most would be Muslims themselves. I mean, think about criticism of

00:29:29.080 Christianity. I think it most commonly comes from Christians who have questions about their own 0.98

00:29:34.880 faith or criticisms. I think it's the Reformation, so many internal debates within Christianity.

00:29:42.300 Are you banning that? That's what I'm worried about, that anti-Islamophobia won't just be about

00:29:48.180 protecting ordinary Muslim people from discrimination. It'll be about stopping political discussion. 0.78

00:29:55.020 Janine writes, we need more politicians like Derek Sloan. Yeah, I really like Derek Sloan. I have to be

00:30:01.900 candid. I don't think he's going to win in the upcoming election. He only won his riding by, I think,

00:30:06.780 four or five percent. And now it's going to be split even more ways. I like the fact that he's talking

00:30:11.880 to people and other political entities about a slate, but that's not really a thing. It's not

00:30:17.920 going to be on a ballot. That's not a group that can issue tax receipts for political donations.

00:30:24.760 I'm not quite sure what it means, but I look forward to seeing more from him. I like the guy,

00:30:28.400 and I hope he's a success. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us

00:30:33.880 here at Rebel World Headquarters, do you at home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - July 22, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can you trust the police？

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