Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Does this tiny Toronto protest look “terrifying” to you？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, you will not believe the mainstream media spin on yesterday's hospital protests,

00:00:21.400 and yes, I was there to observe it.

00:00:24.500 It's Tuesday, September 14th, 2021, and this is the Ezra LeVent Show.

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00:00:41.020 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:46.880 You know, folks, there were a couple of reasons why I wanted to cover the protests outside Toronto General Hospital yesterday.

00:00:58.620 First, I wanted to hear what health care workers and their allies had to say about mandatory vaccine passports,

00:01:06.240 which was the ostensible policy reason for the protests in the first place.

00:01:11.160 The second reason, I wanted to be there to witness firsthand how the mainstream media would demonize these people.

00:01:20.820 And wow, folks, the state-funded stenographers at the media party truly outdid themselves on this day.

00:01:28.340 Actually, come to think of it, there was another reason I wanted to cover this event.

00:01:32.760 You see, there were whispers in the air that Premier Doug Flipflop Ford and Mayor John Testicular Challenge Tory were going to go all-out Adamson barbecue on the demonstrators.

00:01:44.600 These esteemed leaders are sick and tired of those peddling the idea of shockers vaccine choice.

00:01:53.220 So was this going to be an Australia moment for Toronto?

00:01:56.980 So was the mounted unit, which was on standby nearby, by the way, going to come charging in?

00:02:04.100 Well, that seemed like a good bet, especially since virtually every mainstream media outlet had come out to cover this protest.

00:02:12.780 That was very telling, you see, because they rarely cover anti-lockdown and vax choice demonstrations.

00:02:19.800 These people are the covidiots, after all, the deplorables, the nutjobs, and a bunch of yahoos. 1.00

00:02:27.900 And it's best not to give them any attention whatsoever.

00:02:32.040 But yesterday was different.

00:02:33.960 The mainstream media types were out in full force, and like a bunch of sharks smelling blood in the water,

00:02:38.920 where the media sluggos were champing at the bit to engage in a feeding frenzy in which they would cheer on the cops, cracking the heads of the non-compliant. 0.84

00:02:50.920 Well, spoiler alert, the police, to their credit, did not whack them and stack them, as the saying goes.

00:02:57.220 And undoubtedly, members of the media returned to their various propaganda headquarters depressed and downright angry

00:03:04.480 that they were denied the visuals of a violent takedown of those protesters who they so vehemently despise.

00:03:13.700 Hey, folks, as the saying goes, if it bleeds, it leads.

00:03:17.760 But there would be no blood spilled on this day, thankfully.

00:03:21.060 But there was plenty of ink sacrificed in vilifying the demonstrators.

00:03:27.020 Consider this headline in none other than the Toronto Sun before the protest even took place.

00:03:33.400 Quote, covidiots discredited group to target five GTA hospitals with medical freedom protests.

00:03:42.660 End quote.

00:03:43.720 Here is the lead paragraph of the story penned by Looney Liz Brown.

00:03:48.160 Quote, a discredited fringe nursing group will start the week with organized medical freedom protests outside hospitals across Canada.

00:03:58.420 End quote.

00:03:59.600 Uh, discredited?

00:04:00.940 By whom exactly?

00:04:02.460 The likes of Tory and Ford and other members of the political and healthcare elites?

00:04:06.960 By the political left who used to subscribe to the mantra of my body, my choice when it came to terminating a baby's life,

00:04:16.420 but now seem to subscribe to a new saying, namely my body, my government's choice when it comes to the Wuhan flu vaccine.

00:04:26.200 By the way, check out this excerpt of an interview I had with Sarah Chachonian of Canadian Frontline Nurses.

00:04:33.740 Sarah, by the way, says she has been labeled by the RCMP as a domestic terrorist because she was in Washington, D.C.

00:04:43.000 when the so-called insurrection took place, even though she was miles away from the Capitol building.

00:04:49.520 You tell me if she seems unhinged to you.

00:04:52.940 No, actually, I was fired in November for my first job.

00:04:56.300 I spoke out October 31st for the first time because I was seeing the detrimental effects of the lockdowns on my residents.

00:05:05.820 But also, I was a facilitator for mental health in the community, and I saw my mental health decrease because I go to the gym and do group therapy, you know, to keep myself healthy.

00:05:17.860 And so I saw what it did to the people that weren't mentally tough and that it was detrimental to them.

00:05:23.900 Like, we have such an increase in overdose and suicides and all that.

00:05:27.480 So they're saying that people like you are a fascist.

00:05:31.560 You don't look like a fascist to me.

00:05:33.180 Why are they here?

00:05:35.080 I don't know.

00:05:35.540 They're here to cause trouble.

00:05:36.520 You know, but isn't, you know, mandatory vaccinations, the government telling you to get an experimental injection or you're going to lose privileges, going to sports games, flying, even your place of employment.

00:05:50.700 To me, that's fascism.

00:05:53.100 I thought they're anti that.

00:05:54.440 They seem pro that.

00:05:55.520 Maybe instead of anti-fa, they should just be fa for fascists. 0.65

00:05:59.120 I totally agree.

00:06:00.520 But back to Liz Braun of The Sun, she writes this quote, 10 days ago, a joint statement from the Canadian Medical Association and the Ontario Medical Association decried this further burden to health care workers, saying the health care workers who have worked tirelessly for months on and are being bullied and harassed for doing their jobs.

00:06:25.800 This is wrong and unacceptable, full stop.

00:06:30.140 We are in a health crisis of unprecedented proportion, end quote.

00:06:36.300 There are two things about this statement that stink worse than a polecat stuck in an outhouse.

00:06:42.560 First, despite what you may have read or heard, folks, there was no bullying at this protest or a similar one a couple of weeks ago, also outside Toronto General Hospital.

00:06:54.420 These were entirely peaceful protesters, not mostly peaceful protesters, you know, the catchphrase for those thugs who comprise Antifa and Black Lives Matter, who attend protests with weapons. 0.51

00:07:10.380 No, the narrative being peddled by the main screen media was that health care workers and even patients were being prevented from entering hospitals.

00:07:21.120 This was an absolute lie and evidence of this falsehood simply does not exist because it does not exist.

00:07:29.700 As well, you want to know what bullying is?

00:07:33.620 How about this?

00:07:34.720 How about you get the jabs or you lose your jobs, full stop?

00:07:39.460 Health care workers and others who do not want to put an experimental vaccine into their bodies are being threatened with termination.

00:07:47.520 And in fact, some have already been terminated.

00:07:51.260 That's bullying on steroids.

00:07:53.160 And by the way, is this not lose-lose, i.e. some nurses are now without their livelihoods and now hospitals, which are supposedly strained to the limit, are going to be further adversely affected due to staff shortages, i.e.

00:08:09.940 those health care workers who were fired for not getting vaccinated.

00:08:14.500 Incidentally, is it not somewhat laughable that the Ontario Medical Association is being hailed as the voice of reason here?

00:08:22.680 Remember my report from a few months back about the OMA, namely how Dr. Samantha Hill, the president of the OMA, went on CP24 to admonish skeptics out there who aren't so certain that the Wuhan virus is the second coming of the bubonic plague?

00:08:40.480 Check out the question she has asked and the answer that she gives.

00:08:45.920 So what do you say to those people, Dr. Hill, the ones who don't believe it or they just say, I'm fed up with this?

00:08:53.160 So to everyone who's fed up with this, I say, I get it.

00:08:56.160 Me too.

00:08:57.340 But that doesn't change that that's what we're living in.

00:08:59.460 For the people who are saying they don't believe it, I invite you to take a tour of any of the COVID wards in the hospitals we are building and have built massive sites outside of hospitals like Sunnybrook to tolerate and to be able to manage some of this overflow.

00:09:13.520 This is not a figment of anyone's imagination.

00:09:16.280 To say that it is, is intensely disrespectful.

00:09:19.600 Did you catch that?

00:09:21.040 Dr. Hill invites people to visit any of the COVID wards in the province to discover the truth.

00:09:27.960 And again, let me quote the good doctor verbatim.

00:09:30.640 Quote, so the people who are saying they don't believe it, I invite you to take a tour of any of the COVID wards in the hospitals.

00:09:39.320 End quote.

00:09:40.100 Ha, smashing.

00:09:41.460 So I decided to take up Dr. Hill on her offer and book a tour of a COVID ward.

00:09:46.720 I reached out to the OMA and here's what their spokesman, Alex Delto, had to say.

00:09:53.300 Quote, Dr. Hill was speaking personally, saying she wished people could see how very sick patients are on COVID wards and how hard doctors, nurses and other health care professionals are working to care for them.

00:10:07.960 Every hospital has infection control and other policies around public and media access to their premises and you would need to contact them directly for permission.

00:10:21.360 End quote.

00:10:21.880 Yeah, she was speaking personally on live TV being viewed by tens of thousands of viewers.

00:10:28.800 Oh, and I did reach out to Sunnybrook Hospital for a tour as per the spokesman's suggestion.

00:10:36.520 Sunnybrook said absolutely no way was that going to happen.

00:10:40.300 So I'm sorry, Dr. Hill, but in terms of credibility, you are barking or should I say quacking up the wrong tree.

00:10:48.080 Incidentally, the post-protest coverage in the Toronto Sun was equally appalling.

00:10:54.300 In a story by Scott Laurie, he writes, quote,

00:10:57.180 GTHC mayors and chairs also denounced the demonstrations, saying people go to hospitals because they need medical help.

00:11:06.320 They also don't deserve to be harassed or intimidated by protests.

00:11:11.760 End quote.

00:11:12.120 But here's the thing, folks, those GTHC mayors and chairs were not at the protests, but Scott Laurie was, and so was I, plus two cameramen.

00:11:23.920 And please note, no one going in or out of this hospital was harassed or intimidated unless harassment and intimidation is defined by a lady holding up a sign stating,

00:11:36.960 I will not be a lab rat if gazing upon such signage is deemed to be harassment and intimidation,

00:11:45.240 then I would suggest psychiatric as opposed to medical treatment is in order for those members of Snowflake Nation who are traumatized by opinions they do not subscribe to. 0.92

00:11:57.040 But the question arises, why didn't the Sun report this?

00:12:01.000 Now, I chose to look at the Toronto Sun's coverage, given that the Sun, if you can believe it, leans right of centre.

00:12:10.280 So you can just imagine what sort of tripe the unapologetic leftist media outlets were running.

00:12:17.100 Actually, we don't have to imagine, do we?

00:12:19.940 Remember that appalling headline in the Toronto Star a few weeks ago?

00:12:23.720 Quote, unvaccinated COVID patients do not deserve ICU beds.

00:12:30.220 End quote.

00:12:31.000 Well, that's harsh.

00:12:33.560 You know, folks, once upon a time, the Star had a motto regarding its role in society.

00:12:38.180 Namely, its bailiwick was, quote, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

00:12:43.600 End quote.

00:12:44.620 Alas, that was before the Torstar Corp had to suck from the Trudopian teat for financial sustenance. 0.93

00:12:52.660 And as a result of devolving into state-funded stenographers, it would appear that the train seals at the Toronto Star subscribe to a new motto, namely, comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

00:13:06.900 But the most unintentionally funny coverage of yesterday's protests comes courtesy of a CTV tweet.

00:13:13.380 There's a photo of an aerial view of the front of Toronto General Hospital, presumably before the start of the protest, when most demonstrators had yet to arrive.

00:13:23.780 The photo depicts about 100 or so demonstrators.

00:13:27.120 And the tweet, obviously, written by a twit, reads, quote, it's terrifying police on hand as pandemic protesters pick at hospitals.

00:13:39.020 End quote.

00:13:40.640 Terrifying.

00:13:41.440 Does that look terrifying to you?

00:13:44.620 By the way, please look closely at the photo.

00:13:48.160 Do you notice that white truck?

00:13:50.680 What do you think that vehicle is?

00:13:53.200 Do you think maybe it's the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force, perhaps?

00:13:57.880 Well, no, folks.

00:13:59.040 Since I was there, I can tell you exactly what that set of wheels was.

00:14:03.500 It's an ice cream truck.

00:14:05.000 That's right.

00:14:05.620 While CTV would have you believe that the front lawns of the Toronto General Hospital were terrifying, the good humor man was nevertheless on site selling his wares.

00:14:16.700 Oh, sure.

00:14:17.520 War is hell, folks.

00:14:19.100 All the more reason one needs refreshment in a war zone via a butterscotch sundae or a banana split.

00:14:25.960 By the way, there was a tiny counter protest by various loony leftists.

00:14:32.320 And that's where the media spin was most apparent.

00:14:35.620 The journalists flocked to the dozen or so counter protesters as if they were rock stars while mostly turning their backs on the main event, i.e. the hundreds and hundreds of demonstrators.

00:14:47.580 After all, the lamestream media doesn't want to further the narrative that there should be reasonable accommodation in society for those who do not or cannot get the jabs.

00:15:00.460 Hey, remember that old chestnut?

00:15:02.880 Reasonable accommodation?

00:15:04.880 Looks like that phrase has been consigned to the scrap heap of obsolescence along with my body, my choice.

00:15:12.840 Funny that.

00:15:14.220 But then again, the counter demonstrators and the media people are on the same side.

00:15:20.480 Check out this lovely lady. 1.00

00:15:22.120 She gave an in-depth interview to one mainstream media outlet.

00:15:25.120 I patiently waited until it was over.

00:15:27.740 And then I approached her with my questions because I figured that, you know, if you attend a protest or a counter protest and bring along a sign,

00:15:37.000 chances are you're looking for attention, that you want to, you know, get your message out.

00:15:42.620 But from the get-go, as soon as she noticed my mic flash, as soon as she saw we were not state-sponsored media, well, suddenly she took a vow of silence.

00:15:54.300 Just curious, what happened to my body, my choice when it came to the feminist movement? 0.92

00:15:58.900 I'm interviewing a sign right now, ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, it says,

00:16:05.580 Vax and grateful, thank health care workers. 0.78

00:16:08.540 It's funny, I know she can speak English because I just saw her give an interview to the mainstream media,

00:16:13.880 but I guess when it comes to a media outlet getting another side of the story out.

00:16:18.260 But, you know, I can't help but think of the perverse irony here.

00:16:22.380 People like this are telling these people to stay away from the hospital because they're causing interference.

00:16:28.980 But by her being here at the hospital, she is part of that alleged interference.

00:16:35.320 What do you think about that, ma'am?

00:16:40.340 Oh, one other important point to be made here, folks, is that the likes of Tory and Ford, or the two-headed thing, as I like to call them,

00:16:48.040 Well, they stated they were not against protests per se, which was very nice of them,

00:16:54.960 given that freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are indeed, you know, charter rights.

00:17:00.180 No, it was the venue they took issue with that there were more appropriate places to stage such a demonstration.

00:17:09.700 Oh, really, Mayor Tory, like, oh, young Dundas Square, perhaps?

00:17:14.780 Literally the town square of Toronto?

00:17:16.580 Well, check out what happened starting in January, folks,

00:17:19.920 when police violently clamped down on peaceful anti-lockdown demonstrators.

00:17:25.940 It's not an essential reason.

00:17:28.880 I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't!

00:17:30.960 Why don't I have the right to speak what's on my heart?

00:17:38.080 Mainstream media has decided to sit this one out.

00:17:41.420 Nothing to see here, folks.

00:17:42.580 Go for Moscow! 0.96

00:17:45.080 Go for Moscow! 0.96

00:17:46.580 The people who own everything in this world, they tell us we will own nothing and be happy!

00:17:52.800 You must be questioning this!

00:17:54.920 This is Toronto.

00:17:56.540 This is not North Korea.

00:18:00.460 You're infringing on my rights!

00:18:02.680 You are infringing on my rights!

00:18:04.800 Officer, why are these protesters not allowed to protest,

00:18:07.740 and people like you took the knee for Black Lives Matter in the summer?

00:18:11.620 I'm not going to leave a communist country to my kids or anyone else's kids.

00:18:17.220 Yeah, so since January, young Dundas Square has been a no-man's land,

00:18:22.180 unless, of course, demonstrators are supporting terrorist groups like the Tamil Tigers or Hamas.

00:18:28.180 They're welcome any time because, well, just because, okay?

00:18:33.640 And then there is Nathan Phillips Square, the home to Toronto City Hall.

00:18:37.640 Well, can you assemble there?

00:18:39.600 Well, that depends.

00:18:41.360 If you are a member of the Afro-Indigenous Rising Group,

00:18:46.320 then Mayor Tory will roll out the red carpet and even provide free porta-potties, 0.87

00:18:52.240 even though these people still prefer to urinate on the square.

00:18:55.720 But, if you are seeking to practice journalism at Nathan Phillips Square,

00:19:00.720 as we tried to do last summer,

00:19:03.000 well, Tory will sick his security staff and the police on you 0.62

00:19:06.800 while turning a blind eye to violent thugs throwing haymakers.

00:19:11.880 Here, check it out.

00:19:13.260 We're going to go there.

00:19:14.760 David's going to try and do journalism.

00:19:17.660 Ideally, we're done in half an hour because nothing happened.

00:19:22.180 Hey, people here now!

00:19:23.360 What would you like us to do?

00:19:26.520 F*** off my land! That's what I would like. 0.51

00:19:28.480 We've got another gender. 1.00

00:19:29.800 Touch my f***ing elder.

00:19:31.480 Your elder?

00:19:32.380 What you're doing is causing a disturbance with everybody here.

00:19:36.140 I need to ask you to leave, okay?

00:19:38.020 What have I done to cause a disturbance?

00:19:39.820 You're causing disturbance.

00:19:40.460 You're causing disturbance.

00:19:45.520 Come on, man!

00:19:49.980 Come on! 0.61

00:19:50.860 That in Toronto, the town square is a place where a journalist can go peacefully.

00:19:57.180 So, if that is not true, we need to know it.

00:20:00.480 So, I'm sorry, John Boy.

00:20:02.460 It looks like demonstrators, or at least the demonstrators you don't like,

00:20:08.160 are running out of hog town real estate in which to stage protests these days.

00:20:13.620 So, yeah, I guess hospital role on University Avenue will have to do.

00:20:19.060 Finally, leave it to the darling of the mainstream media to take advantage of the false narrative being portrayed

00:20:26.460 that terrifying, destructive violence occurred outside hospitals yesterday by those advocating for vax choice.

00:20:35.480 Yes, none other than Justin Trudeau stated that if re-elected, his government would make it a crime to block access to healthcare facilities.

00:20:46.060 It would also be a crime to intimidate a healthcare worker or medical patients.

00:20:51.760 Quote, we're going to make it a criminal offense for anyone to threaten or intimidate a healthcare practitioner on their way to work

00:21:02.280 in the practice and exercise of their duty or a patient on their way to get medical services.

00:21:09.580 End quote.

00:21:10.860 And so, the circle of deceit completes itself thanks to Prime Minister Trudeau not letting a crisis go to waste,

00:21:20.860 even, alas, if there never was a crisis to begin with.

00:21:26.680 Stay with us for more.

00:21:39.580 In the aftermath of 9-11, first responders the world over achieved a new level of respect from citizens.

00:21:45.900 So, it is perversely ironic that with the 20th anniversary of 9-11 recently marked,

00:21:52.960 that Calgary firefighters are being disrespected not by some random twit,

00:21:59.320 but by their own fire chief, Steve Dongworth.

00:22:02.500 Chief Dongworth actually ordered the city's Firefighters Memorial barricaded from his own firefighters.

00:22:10.860 The reason?

00:22:11.800 Well, he didn't want unvaccinated firefighters touching the memorial.

00:22:17.180 Apparently, not getting the COVID-19 jabs makes these men and women unworthy.

00:22:24.000 Unbelievable.

00:22:25.480 And joining me now with more on this story is our man in Calgary, Adam Seuss.

00:22:29.820 How are you doing there, Adam?

00:22:30.780 Great. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

00:22:33.300 Well, thank you for your time, as always.

00:22:34.860 So, Adam, you were there to witness this bizarre barricading situation from the get-go.

00:22:41.080 What was the mood there?

00:22:42.760 Was it anger, incredulity, or perhaps a blend of both?

00:22:47.240 Yeah, well, we spoke to one gentleman who was a 37-year veteran,

00:22:51.680 and he found the entire thing absolutely repugnant to suggest that these people

00:22:56.440 who didn't want to speak out, didn't want to make a big show,

00:23:00.040 but they stood in solidarity, respectfully and quietly,

00:23:02.880 and at the end, in an effort to pay respects to their fallen comrades, fellow firefighters,

00:23:08.700 walked up and touched this memorial.

00:23:10.940 It was borderline religious, the degree to which they respected and venerated that memorial.

00:23:16.880 The point was to be honourable and respectful.

00:23:20.040 To call this a desecration is ridiculous,

00:23:22.380 and the firefighters that we spoke to certainly would agree to that.

00:23:27.300 The folks that did come out there, they weren't shouting, they weren't yelling,

00:23:31.440 they weren't even necessarily anti-vaccine.

00:23:34.200 What they were against is forced vaccines and mandated vaccines.

00:23:39.220 What's additionally troubling is the fact that this Captain Steve Dongworth,

00:23:43.120 his rhetoric is actually not accurate when it comes to the vaccines and some of the narratives

00:23:49.900 that he's pitching.

00:23:50.760 So not only is he decrying and criticizing these people,

00:23:54.540 his own facts don't even line up with what our government is currently saying.

00:23:58.040 You know, Adam, let's speak about the motivation here, the unspoken strategy of Chief Dongworth.

00:24:05.600 As you said, firefighters touching their own firefighters' memorial, that's not desecration.

00:24:12.720 Desecration would be, you know, bringing out spray paint or taking a hammer to it

00:24:18.400 and vandalizing the memorial.

00:24:21.540 Touching it as an expression of honour and respect is not desecration.

00:24:26.840 So really, what's going on here with the Chief in terms of why he put up that ridiculous

00:24:31.680 barricade in the first place?

00:24:33.660 Well, for all the left and the progressive, and even not that, even just the pro-vaccine

00:24:38.440 side of the argument about how they're the compassionate ones and they're just trying

00:24:41.960 to save lives and that's the extent of it, they accuse us of vilifying and splitting society

00:24:50.040 and polarizing things.

00:24:51.680 The reality of the fact is when you look at the rhetoric, almost everyone attending this

00:24:55.400 protest, there's probably about 2,000 people at the second protest in support of these

00:25:00.800 firefighters and other frontline workers.

00:25:03.160 One of the speakers actually said that the mainstream media is going to attempt to make

00:25:07.320 it that we're villains and we're anti-vax.

00:25:09.640 Is this an anti-vaccine protest?

00:25:11.740 The entire crowd in unison said no.

00:25:14.600 And he said, are you here to oppose vaccine mandates?

00:25:17.220 And they said yes.

00:25:19.140 There's a clear distinction to be made there.

00:25:21.240 And a majority of people, I think, despite these polls suggesting that so many people

00:25:25.960 are in favour of this, a large number of people are against people being forced to

00:25:30.880 become vaccinated.

00:25:32.340 So these individuals, they're thinking politically.

00:25:35.320 They're not thinking pragmatically.

00:25:36.620 They're not thinking about human rights.

00:25:38.400 They're thinking politically about, let's say down the line, we are forced by governments

00:25:43.060 to do this.

00:25:43.720 We don't have the backbone to stand up against it.

00:25:45.780 So we need to start vilifying these people now.

00:25:48.180 We need to start dehumanising them. 1.00

00:25:50.060 So when we force this on them or fire them, they're the radicals, not us.

00:25:55.420 Unbelievable, Adam.

00:25:56.520 And here's the thing.

00:25:58.600 What happened to the slogans that the left has uttered for decades now?

00:26:04.100 I'm thinking my body, my choice, at least when it comes to terminating a baby's life.

00:26:09.340 I'm thinking of reasonable accommodation.

00:26:13.080 What's happened to those tropes?

00:26:15.980 Well, and it's funny.

00:26:16.600 We've seen this over and over.

00:26:19.060 It used to be that the left were the anti-big pharma critical voice saying, hold on, that

00:26:24.240 was one of probably the good roles that they served in society.

00:26:27.880 There was weak sides and strong sides, but suddenly they've abandoned all those principles.

00:26:32.360 They're the big government organisation.

00:26:34.420 Furthermore, I've seen numerous people point out that an authoritarian collaboration between

00:26:40.040 private business or capital business and the state is a pretty categorical definition

00:26:45.520 of fascism.

00:26:46.780 So they are implementing a medical tyranny.

00:26:50.140 And I mean, this term is becoming, I'm not saying that it's there now, but I'm saying

00:26:53.480 we're getting pretty close.

00:26:54.360 If they literally say that you're going to lose your job and you aren't allowed to travel

00:26:58.660 if you don't put this experimental drug in your body, people are saying, well, they're

00:27:01.940 not technically forcing the vaccine.

00:27:03.800 Well, that's an extreme degree of coercion that I would say constitutes forcing an opinion

00:27:11.040 or an action on a minority.

00:27:13.700 And, you know, Adam, while you were in Calgary yesterday covering the firefighters memorial

00:27:18.720 issue, I was in Toronto covering the protest outside of Toronto General Hospital.

00:27:24.620 And thank God I did, my friend, because if you believe the mainstream narrative, you would

00:27:30.080 think that doctors and nurses and even patients were being prevented from accessing the hospital,

00:27:36.640 that there was all this fear and intimidation and bullying.

00:27:39.880 And there was absolutely nothing of the sort.

00:27:43.660 And yet there was a small counter protest, perhaps a dozen of the progressives and believe

00:27:49.720 it or not, members of Antifa.

00:27:52.580 And I thought the irony was just staggering to me, Adam.

00:27:56.680 I mean, as you said, they were the ones that used to be against big government.

00:28:02.820 They were against big pharma.

00:28:05.040 You use the word fascism.

00:28:06.520 They were against fascism.

00:28:08.380 And here they are coming out as the apologists or in the likes of Antifa, the wannabe enforcers

00:28:14.940 of big government.

00:28:16.480 Adam, the world's upside down.

00:28:17.600 In fact, I think you had a run in with Antifa in Calgary yourself, didn't you?

00:28:21.440 We did.

00:28:22.220 And it was one of the most surreal things there we saw in the lead up to these protests, as

00:28:26.760 you said, government officials, Calgary police, all these people pitching this narrative that

00:28:32.480 these people are dangerous, they're blocking it.

00:28:34.200 They aren't on the hospital property.

00:28:36.640 They're along the side of the road.

00:28:37.860 In fact, I'd argue the largest disturbance at the previous one that was quite a bit larger

00:28:42.600 was actually just cars driving by honking and support.

00:28:45.500 That was probably the most disruptive element.

00:28:47.920 Some people honking while driving by, not even people participating in the protests.

00:28:52.980 These are peaceful.

00:28:54.080 There's always been a walkthrough.

00:28:55.480 In fact, if you want proof, I did a hyperlapse where I walked straight through the entire crowd

00:28:59.720 and no one disrupted my access for freely moving, no one is going on the road.

00:29:04.160 That's clearly not the case.

00:29:05.880 The only time that we have seen disruption that I would consider problematic was when Antifa arrived.

00:29:13.440 So there was a massive police force on hand as though to keep the protesters out.

00:29:18.280 But when Antifa arrived, the police didn't seem to have a problem with them.

00:29:22.360 In fact, there was lots of talk about the noise being an issue.

00:29:25.540 Well, Antifa came with a cart that they rolled up with and they had these massive speakers

00:29:29.880 and they were blaring like loud electronic dance music and like heavy metal type music,

00:29:35.380 the loudest possible volume.

00:29:37.500 And it was extremely disruptive.

00:29:39.260 You likely, if you were close to it, would not have heard an emergency vehicle nearby.

00:29:42.900 We mentioned this to police and they said, well, we're filming and we've got decibel meters.

00:29:47.040 Pretty quickly, though, the Antifa folks, the last event, no physical confrontations.

00:29:51.460 This event, completely peaceful.

00:29:52.800 But as soon as Antifa arrived, they started shoving people, getting in people's faces.

00:29:57.680 A number of fights broke out.

00:29:59.040 Two members of Antifa were taken into police custody, at least briefly.

00:30:03.020 I went up to one of them and said, listen, do you want to tell us kind of what you're here for?

00:30:07.320 And he basically lunged towards me and accosted me.

00:30:10.320 A cop intervened really quickly and pushed him away.

00:30:13.040 But the degree of malice is simply unbelievable.

00:30:17.360 Admittedly, not to colour the picture inaccurately,

00:30:20.240 It was probably, there was about 12 Antifa people.

00:30:23.460 I think only three or four of them were becoming involved in physical altercations.

00:30:27.800 The rest were simply standing there holding a sign.

00:30:30.060 Regardless, they're operating as a block. 0.63

00:30:32.460 And that sort of conduct is unacceptable.

00:30:34.520 Furthermore, the conduct of police.

00:30:36.520 Many times, females were being pushed around by Antifa people. 1.00

00:30:40.160 And I had to go get police officers and urge them to intervene so the situation wouldn't escalate.

00:30:44.420 Well, that is shocking to hear.

00:30:46.680 The ones I encountered were far more docile, but just as stupid in terms of trying to convey what they were there for.

00:30:54.600 One last thing, Adam.

00:30:56.300 I see this as just the tip of the iceberg as we move forward in terms of vaccine passports.

00:31:02.220 I see the creation of a two-tier society.

00:31:06.460 You know, my wife is originally from South Africa.

00:31:09.860 Her family came over to Canada in 1977.

00:31:12.400 They lived very comfortably in Johannesburg, but they were repulsed by the system of apartheid.

00:31:21.020 And she made the observation of, I've seen this movie play out before, but this time it's not apartheid based on race,

00:31:28.920 which rightfully made South Africa a pariah until it was abolished on the world stage.

00:31:34.140 It's apartheid based on vaccination status. 0.55

00:31:38.720 Last word goes to you, my friend.

00:31:40.580 Listen, the people who are coming out to these protests are new faces, often people who have never been out to a protest before.

00:31:49.500 The amount of people who I've spoken to who said that they're double vaccinated and that they might even get vaccinated if they decide to bring in a booster program, it's overwhelming.

00:31:59.340 The crowds are growing and growing.

00:32:00.640 This is no longer even an issue about vaxxed or unvaxxed on a principal level.

00:32:07.280 This is an issue about whether our society caves in and abandons fundamental values.

00:32:12.720 The thing that absolutely perplexes me is I am certainly no fan of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

00:32:18.800 But among the okay things he did amidst the myriad of problematic things was bringing in the Charter of Rights so that minorities who felt oppressed could have their day in court, could have their fundamental freedoms, and could stand up for themselves.

00:32:32.760 It seems Justin Trudeau is hellbent on destroying the one positive legacy that his father left for Canada.

00:32:38.300 You are so right on that point, Adam.

00:32:42.380 And, you know, it's just, it's funny too, the apologists out there will say, oh, no one's getting forced to have the jab.

00:32:50.500 Nobody from the state is strapping you into a chair and putting a jab into your bicep.

00:32:56.500 But the thing is, if you want to get on a plane, if you want to go indoors for a meal, if you want to go to a sports event,

00:33:03.980 if you want to go to a movie, that is off the ledger unless you get jabbed.

00:33:08.940 And even more ominously, if you want your job, you better get the jab.

00:33:14.400 To me, that is coercion.

00:33:16.740 That is indeed force if they're putting that kind of economic penalty on you.

00:33:21.340 In any event, Adam, great job in Calgary.

00:33:23.780 Glad you didn't get hurt by those goonish, mostly peaceful protester thugs known as Antifa. 0.60

00:33:30.420 And I look forward to more of your reports in the future, my friend.

00:33:35.020 Thanks very much.

00:33:35.520 Really appreciate that.

00:33:36.960 You got it.

00:33:37.820 And that was Adam Seuss in Calgary.

00:33:40.760 Keep it here, folks.

00:33:41.920 More of the Ezra Levant show to come right after this.

00:33:56.120 Well, hey, folks, that wraps up the show.

00:33:58.000 Thanks so much for watching.

00:33:59.120 And in the meantime, stay sane.

Rebel News Podcast - September 15, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Does this tiny Toronto protest look “terrifying” to you？

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