Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I think we’ve all been lonely during the lockdowns, and the truckers have made us feel together again

00:00:00.000 tonight i think we've all been lonely during the lockdowns and the truckers have made us feel

00:00:19.680 together again it's february 10th and this is the ezra levant show

00:00:23.320 why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know

00:00:29.220 there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to

00:00:34.880 the government about why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:39.400 there is no scientific basis for the lockdowns there never was i don't even think they pretended

00:00:54.220 it had never been done before prior to 2020 lockdowns is a word usually used to describe

00:01:00.300 collective punishment in prisons there was a rowdiness or a riot or a fight everyone would

00:01:06.460 be punished by being locked down in their cells how do you lock down the whole world healthy people

00:01:12.660 and sick people how do you just do that how do you lock anyone down who's not a criminal

00:01:17.500 and how do people who who are not prisoners just go along with it it had never been done before

00:01:25.080 en masse it had never been studied before the consequences of it the side effects of it i mean

00:01:30.680 physical mental commercial social any of it it was just ordered not after a parliamentary debate but

00:01:37.580 by people in lab coats and we all obeyed people in lab coats they always did their skype in their lab

00:01:46.640 coats or their doctor's scrubs maybe with a stethoscope even if they were at home they would

00:01:53.060 put on their scrubs because they were really being actors they had their stethoscope while visible on tv

00:01:59.300 were they going to listen to someone's heart live on tv no it was a prop you see they're actors

00:02:05.300 there's power in a white lab coat i should wear one when i do my show it says expert it says official

00:02:12.760 we learned in the milgram experiments in the 1960s that people will do terrible things if

00:02:18.900 someone in a lab coat tells them to they say it's okay say they'll take responsibility for just do it

00:02:25.220 in the milgram experiments people would literally electrocute innocent people while they screamed

00:02:33.560 if a lab coat man told them to

00:02:36.820 i want the 180 volts please continue

00:02:42.120 neely you're gonna get a shot 180 volts

00:02:47.060 i can't stand it i'm not gonna kill that man

00:02:56.120 do you hear them hollering they said before the shocks may be painful but they're not dangerous

00:03:00.620 they're hollering he can't stand it what if something happens to him

00:03:03.380 the experiment requires that you continue teaching

00:03:06.660 yeah but uh... i'm not going to get that man sick of that

00:03:11.420 he's hollering that

00:03:13.960 you know what i mean i mean

00:03:15.720 whether learner likes it or not we must go on until he's learned all the words

00:03:19.060 i'd refuse to take the responsibility of getting heard in there

00:03:23.400 i'm not i mean he's under hollering

00:03:26.420 it's absolutely essential that you continue teacher

00:03:29.420 there's too many left here and i mean jeez he gets wrong here there's too many of them left

00:03:35.360 i mean who's going to take the responsibility if anything happens to that gentleman

00:03:38.120 i'm responsible for anything that happens here

00:03:40.520 continue please

00:03:42.260 all right next one slow

00:03:44.120 wrong

00:03:45.720 answer his neck

00:03:47.520 300 volts

00:03:52.200 of course the screamer was an actor

00:03:54.520 but the subject of the experiment didn't know that

00:03:57.560 so yeah

00:03:58.460 we just all went along

00:04:00.400 with the milgram experiment and we all failed it didn't we

00:04:05.320 uh...

00:04:06.880 here's a major study published by johns hopkins university very prestigious university

00:04:12.560 lockdowns in europe and the united states only reduced mortality by

00:04:17.160 0.2 percent on average

00:04:20.360 so you destroyed the world you destroyed everyone's own personal world you ruin 0.84

00:04:24.080 families you ruin businesses you ruin schools you ruin churches you treated us all like prisoners you destroyed two years of our lives for a 0.2 point 0.2 percent difference but i dispute even that because of course

00:04:34.320 how many people did your lockdowns kill how many lives were ruined by the lockdown just in

00:04:40.560 in canceled surgeries and medical exams just in depression and drug use and in despair

00:04:46.160 in high schoolers never having a prom and in people having a year of their life deleted

00:04:52.400 they didn't ask us by the way they told us they they threatened us actually they jailed those of us who dared to defy the milgram experiment they didn't even vote on it there were no parliamentary debates on it a friend of mine objected to my support for the truckers demands saying that's not how governments are supposed to work and you know what he is so right but governments aren't really working are they who died and made anthony 0.65

00:05:14.400 anthony fauci or theresa tam the pope why a lockdown it had never been done before

00:05:21.200 why it devastated our economy so who does that help qui bono in latin who benefits well

00:05:28.480 online companies like bell they've made billions as all online companies have oh i forgot to say bell

00:05:36.480 that's all owned ctv news i wonder if that influences ctv's coverage of the lockdown

00:05:41.600 amazon loved the destruction of its bricks and mortar competitors the mom and pop shops i wonder if that's why the washington post which is owned by amazon's jeff bezos i wonder if that's why they love the lockdown so much

00:05:55.280 i know why china loves them they have surpassed the west now economically militarily now haven't they

00:06:03.440 but let me talk about the truckers again because they have done something emotional spiritual even

00:06:09.360 i don't mean any of the official organizers i think the truckers are actually

00:06:13.040 very disorganized leaderless even there's a nice lady who set up a gofundme account that did great until 1.00

00:06:19.120 big tech stole the money from her she's nice 0.90

00:06:21.280 but i doubt that one in a hundred truckers even know her name when i was in ottawa i found the whole

00:06:27.680 thing rather leaderless and unscripted a trucker asked me to give a quick speech so i did but there

00:06:33.600 was no actual mc no official anything there was no program no problem i as i said in my speech the convoy

00:06:41.520 itself was the point and here's what i mean i was thinking about this bit lockdowns that's what they

00:06:50.160 do to prisoners but many prisoners have have a cellmate you know because without that a man could go crazy

00:06:56.800 locked in a cage without someone to talk to to see to interact with someone else's presence you'd go mad

00:07:04.400 from loneliness from isolation from a lack of mental stimulation it would be like being in a white 0.98

00:07:09.840 out snowstorm like hearing white noise all the time you would go mad that's why so many people call

00:07:18.560 solitary confinement a kind of torture i saw it with my own eyes in the case of tommy robinson who

00:07:23.600 was put in a hole for 42 days he came out you could tell immediately just by looking at him

00:07:30.720 that he was damaged that he had shell shock well they did that to all of us to all of us literally we

00:07:37.760 were locked down and if we were with our families that was one thing but many people especially

00:07:44.480 in the big city young people live on their own seniors live on the road young people starting

00:07:48.880 their careers locked into their home now with only bell and amazon and netflix as their friends but

00:07:55.280 just as long as you keep paying them but a tv screaming is not a friend no matter what mark

00:08:00.480 zuckerberg and his anti-human metaverse promise you know i i think of toronto it's the same in vancouver

00:08:08.800 in all big cities imagine being in solitary confinement for the better part of two years

00:08:13.680 and and if you lived in a small apartment there's a lot of those in places like toronto new york if

00:08:18.800 you live by yourself well where could you even go maybe you had a balcony but frankly most most don't

00:08:24.800 same montreal vancouver wherever we'll go to the park right well yeah no remember they they closed those

00:08:32.720 and then the psychopaths made little circles on the park trinity bellwards big park in downtown

00:08:38.400 toronto where you had to sit if you're outside those lines you get a ticket like a prisoner

00:08:43.520 gyms were closed at least the prisoners of gyms so you got fatter no problem order in food 1.00

00:08:49.840 the zoom class had a backyard maybe a swimming pool maybe they had a country cottage maybe they could go 0.99

00:08:55.840 just go down to florida to work from their laptops oh don't worry the fancy people do just fine

00:09:00.080 but what do they do to the regular people the working people

00:09:06.160 but it's the aloneness i want to talk about just for a moment like a prisoner but a prisoner in

00:09:10.560 solitary there were rules never followed by the politicians themselves against gathering even with

00:09:18.160 your families they told you not to gather over christmas or easter or thanksgiving they didn't follow

00:09:22.720 the rules here's alberta premier jason kenney having a party when it was illegal for you to go to a church

00:09:28.560 for illegal for you to have a family over he made you lonely he made you alone and you probably

00:09:37.280 followed his rules because you're a citizen and you're trusting or maybe you were really scared

00:09:42.240 maybe you were scared of the virus just as likely maybe you were scared of the government punishing you

00:09:48.560 or scared of being demonized by the mob who were also scared of something and if you did go out you put

00:09:55.520 on a mask a symbol of fear and apartness and obedience and isolation prisoners wear a uniform

00:10:01.840 too a sign of identification a sign that you're the property of something you know when you join a cult

00:10:09.440 so untold they isolate you from your friends and your family cut you off you can't gather for easter

00:10:15.840 or christmas or anytime you can't socialize with anyone other than the cult and its leader the leader who

00:10:21.360 keeps you in a state of fear and obedience rewards and punishment but mainly isolation from your normal

00:10:27.600 social course of life to break your spirit to make you scared and tired to make you susceptible to

00:10:34.000 persuasion and compliance to make you anxious we are social animals we need to see friends and family

00:10:41.680 but we also need to see strangers people on the street we need to say hello we need to say good morning

00:10:46.880 and how are you and see you later and nice to see you we need that not just for other sakes but for our

00:10:52.560 own they turned us into prisoners but i say again prisoners are only in lockdowns if they do something

00:10:59.600 wrong but what did we do wrong and why did every politician ever get to avoid lockdowns look at trudeau

00:11:07.360 partying like a rock star with other world leaders no masks while locking you down

00:11:12.720 and that is what the convoy and the truckers were proof that you were not alone proof that you were

00:11:20.960 not mad to question all this this new world that none of us were asked if we wanted to join a world

00:11:27.680 that was imposed upon us simultaneously in every country and city how did that happen how did these

00:11:32.480 untried methods get enacted everywhere at the same time and all with the same viciousness how did it happen

00:11:39.360 to make us lonely and alone and the cowards who were supposed to defend us did not and so came

00:11:48.240 the truckers unorganized disorganized but a visual symbol of togetherness driving together like a

00:11:55.040 mother duck and her ducklings down the road chattering to each other on their cb radios and on apps now too

00:12:01.680 a feeling of community honking horns waving smiling no masks everyone was together they would stop and have

00:12:08.720 meals together they would fill up for gas together and soon other people would come out to meet them

00:12:14.240 just for the togetherness on overpasses get outside meet your strangers meet your neighbors say hello

00:12:20.320 find some common ground talk a bit smile maybe a common purpose confirm i'm okay you're okay we're okay

00:12:28.320 it's the system that's crazy not us a million people did this a million people stopped being afraid

00:12:34.640 stopped being lonely went out to join the convoy look at this party genuine love and brotherly friendship

00:12:42.640 happiness they wanted us scared not happy but we're gonna be happy the truckers ended our loneliness by

00:12:50.640 telling us that it was okay to go out and gather they're having fun they're they're gathering they're

00:12:57.680 making a community of sorts and trudeau just snarls and growls and calls them nazis it's the images

00:13:06.080 that gave me hope it reminds me of when i met anatoly sharansky the soviet dissident he's now in israel

00:13:13.280 when he was in prison in the gulag in siberia when ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire

00:13:22.240 shiransky told me that the kgb guard threw into his prison cell a copy of pravda

00:13:30.480 the soviet propaganda newspaper page after page denouncing reagan for being wild and dangerous and

00:13:37.600 evil and yet buried under 10 000 words of insults reagan's words were still reported

00:13:45.680 he had called out evil by its name he had called the soviet union the evil empire those two words

00:13:52.880 he had seen the truth and whereas the kgb had expected sharansky to be sad and dejected by reading

00:13:59.600 pravda it was the opposite he told me he was elated and the prisoners who were all isolated but they

00:14:06.640 tapped the message to each other by tapping on their plumbing pipes in morse code he told me

00:14:13.600 they tapped to each other that the president of the united states had spoken the truth

00:14:21.280 and that help would come and indeed it did come despite ten thousand words of denunciation

00:14:29.200 the truth was still seen i don't care who hates the truckers justin trudeau jason kenney the media

00:14:37.840 whatever my point is we all can see the truth of the truckers under ten thousand lies the same way

00:14:45.760 anatoly sharansky could read the hate propaganda in pravda and still know the truth that ronald reagan

00:14:52.080 said those two words evil empire the truckers have set us free free from the prison of our houses

00:15:00.480 but also from the prison of our minds you don't have to be lonely anymore you can you can live

00:15:10.480 stay with us for more

00:15:11.280 well unless something breaks between the time we're recording this and the time it airs

00:15:28.960 the trucker blockades have grown in this one way although ottawa is sort of in a stalemate and jason

00:15:37.680 kenny's thumping his chest about the one at the montana alberta border i think the one to watch

00:15:43.120 is the ambassador bridge that links detroit and windsor because it's hard to believe it but a

00:15:48.560 quarter of all canada u.s trade goes on that bridge it's really an essential part of the auto industry

00:15:55.920 and other manufacturing and for trucks to block them well all of a sudden this is more than a spectacle

00:16:02.080 to our american friends it's an economic factor and i don't know if joe biden needs any more of

00:16:08.320 those joining us now via skype is our friend joel pollack senior editor at large brightbar.com

00:16:14.000 who covers the democrats as his beach well great to see you again um before we talk about the

00:16:18.800 ambassador bridge tell me how the trucker rebellion the trucker spring has been covered in america because

00:16:26.000 normally canada is that boring place that american media ignore except for where the cold fronts come

00:16:32.400 from and the weather maps you guys have been talking about canada haven't you yes canada has become a

00:16:40.160 big part of the political discourse here and i actually think that the canadian truckers had a

00:16:46.800 profound effect on american policy here and let me explain how that happened so thanks to your

00:16:53.680 coverage at rebel news and to independent citizen journalists in canada we picked up the story and

00:17:00.080 we have quite a significant number of canadian staff actually at breitbart so our own robert kraychik

00:17:06.240 went down to the protest site in ottawa and interviewed many of the participants and those videos did very

00:17:13.280 well on our website we got a lot of traffic from those interviews so conservative media started picking

00:17:19.360 up the story from us and by the early part of this week fox news was talking about the canadian truckers

00:17:26.480 you had panel discussions about the canadian truckers debates about the canadian truckers

00:17:31.200 so the story was suddenly live and fox has a very very loud megaphone and once fox news is reaching

00:17:39.840 half the country with a leading story about canadian truckers in ottawa and justin trudeau running away

00:17:47.600 and blockades at the border suddenly americans were paying attention and what was very interesting to

00:17:53.600 me was in the following day's press coverage or press conference excuse me at the white house on tuesday

00:18:00.160 press secretary jen pisaki led the briefing with a statement about how much joe biden had done for

00:18:05.920 truckers and i don't think it was a coincidence she had some other groups of people in there like

00:18:10.400 veterans and so forth but i think the biden administration is deeply deeply worried not just

00:18:17.040 about cross-border trade as you mentioned but also about further disruptions to the supply chain

00:18:23.120 in the united states one of the reasons that we have so many supply chain problems is that there are

00:18:28.800 not enough truckers there weren't enough truckers before the pandemic truckers started getting six 0.56

00:18:33.520 figure salaries big signing bonuses the trucking companies were desperate to hire people because

00:18:38.160 there was a labor shortage the pandemic made everything worse because truckers were in higher demand

00:18:42.880 but laborers workers were in short supply so there is a lingering labor shortage in the trucking industry

00:18:49.760 and that has slowed down the traffic at our ports that has slowed down the delivery of goods to market

00:18:55.840 it's responsible for empty shelves it's responsible for higher prices and the truckers who've been a

00:19:01.040 lifeline throughout the pandemic are doing their very best but now that there's some hint that truckers might

00:19:05.920 organize as we've seen in canada the biden administration does not want to go there they do not want

00:19:11.680 any trucking convoys snarling traffic blocking trade stopping supply routes they are terrified

00:19:19.520 of more supply chain disruptions they're very worried about prices continuing to go higher the consumer

00:19:25.680 price index data is very poor right now and it's weighing heavily on the opinion polls of the biden

00:19:31.520 administration so they defended the truckers freedom of speech in canada and they have avoided saying

00:19:37.280 anything more definitive about it they have not backed up justin trudeau in his claims that they

00:19:41.920 are racists and xenophobes and islamophobes and waving swastikas and you know i saw a complaint in one 0.58

00:19:49.520 of the canadian news sources that there are inuit students in ottawa who are afraid to walk down the street

00:19:55.360 because of the truckers i guess the truckers from saskatchewan are now inuit phobes or indigifobes or whatever

00:20:02.880 you whatever you call it but you know whatever phobia you want to make up they're not going there

00:20:07.440 in the biden administration unusually so because they are very quick to impute racism and racial

00:20:12.480 motives to their own opponents so they're actually defending the truckers although they're trying to

00:20:16.800 say it's not really about vaccine mandates and so forth but i don't think it's a coincidence that

00:20:21.200 many blue states just this week many democratic run states in this country dropped their mask mandates

00:20:27.760 like california new york illinois and many other democrats have suddenly done a complete 180 degree

00:20:34.560 in about face turn on questions like natural immunity and so forth so we are seeing i think

00:20:41.760 a profound effect in the united states of the canadian truckers and what they've done to shift the debate

00:20:48.400 and really to demonstrate in a very visual way the strength of public opposition to these mandates

00:20:54.240 well i think the visuals are part of it i mean we're all used to seeing sort of the greta tunberg

00:20:59.520 obvious you know child actors types professional protesters block a road for a bit and people just

00:21:05.520 sort of irritated by it because they're so used to it and it's so obviously confected but aesthetically

00:21:12.000 demographically psychologically you have these big beautiful trucks everyone sort of likes to look at

00:21:17.360 big trucks and and there's a sort of a respect for people who drive them and and we all think that's

00:21:22.720 it's like there's sort of an endemic respect for farmers that's a good man that's an honest living

00:21:28.320 you know so i think people are predisposed and they don't think of them as whiners they don't think

00:21:32.880 of them as spoiled brats which is what you might think of a greta tunberg or a greenpeace nick so you 0.99

00:21:38.320 have these people who maybe never in history have protest they protest in france but never in north

00:21:43.280 america they have these gorgeous vehicles that are huge and maybe it doesn't even take that many of

00:21:48.560 them to look like a huge group and they're independent and i don't know it's just so

00:21:54.560 different it feels so real and so it's a very powerful thing but you're so right trudeau took

00:22:01.360 it personally because all those things i just said you know middle-aged guys hard-working blue collar

00:22:07.040 burning fossil fuels that's not trudeau's people so he responded personally thin skin name calling

00:22:13.760 so now he's painting himself in the corner because this is personal for him joe biden if you think

00:22:18.640 about it he sort of pretends to be a macho blue collar guy he likes cars he's got his own mustang

00:22:24.960 like he's sort of it i think it's just a shtick but he pretends to be a a working collar guy a blue

00:22:30.720 collar guy so i think the fact that he didn't go for the personal insult he can i think he can save face

00:22:37.440 and achieve something good for america by dropping the vaccine mandate trudeau would immediately have

00:22:43.360 to do the same thing because it doesn't make sense to have truckers to be able to go one way but not

00:22:47.760 the other joe biden can save america and canada and it's all because these truckers joel

00:22:54.640 you're right that joe biden's working class persona is an act he once actually claimed to have been a

00:23:00.080 trucker he claimed that he drove an 18 wheeler and it was one of the more outrageous things he has claimed

00:23:05.520 about his past but i think it's more than that i really think that the biden administration knows

00:23:11.440 that the root of opposition to their economic policy and skepticism about biden's leadership

00:23:17.200 is inflation and biden has exacerbated that problem by pushing for these massive spending bills

00:23:23.360 americans are seeing gas prices go up at the pump they're seeing prices for basic commodities go up

00:23:29.280 everything costs more people have suffered a decline in real wages even though nominal wages have been

00:23:34.960 been going up so people are very distressed about this and they know that biden has just been

00:23:40.000 pressing congress to spend more and more money the white house put itself in a bind by backing all these

00:23:45.600 spending programs the last thing they want is more inflationary pressure and so they're trying

00:23:50.960 everything they can pulling every other lever other than the obvious which is to reopen the keystone

00:23:56.080 pipeline for example which is an ideological commitment they made to the environmentalists

00:24:00.800 or to drop the spending proposals so they're trying to do everything else they can to keep the prices

00:24:06.240 down and to keep the supply chain going pete buttigieg our secretary of transportation is nowhere to be

00:24:11.840 found on this by the way he is absent he is mr silent when it comes to any kind of problem whether it's the

00:24:17.440 cargo crisis at the ports whether it's people stealing boxes of goods from freight trains in los angeles we've

00:24:25.040 seen massive looting here in la whether it's this crisis at the border he is a wall which is

00:24:30.640 interesting he wants to be president one day it's very clear he intends to try to succeed joe biden or

00:24:36.080 to run again at some point in the future he is completely missing in action but i think the biden

00:24:41.920 administration is just worried about the backlash and you're right truckers are compelling because they

00:24:46.480 work hard but also in this country i'm sure in canada as well trucking is an entry-level occupation they're

00:24:52.720 always looking for truckers you can get into the trucking profession as long as you complete your

00:24:56.960 commercial driver's license and it's a very very hard job you are away from home for long hours and

00:25:03.680 driving is very difficult the regulations are very difficult you may get yourself into some difficult

00:25:07.920 financial situations there are all kinds of debts and fees and all kinds of things like that that

00:25:12.000 truckers have to risk so it is a very tough way to make a living but it is an entry-level occupation

00:25:17.840 it's one that americans can do when they don't have other options and if they have good habits

00:25:23.200 and they are responsible people who show up to work on time so it rewards the basic values and virtues

00:25:28.400 of good old hard work and that's what makes truckers compelling also this is the working class

00:25:36.960 uniting across boundaries to oppose the socialist dictates and the socialists are rather shocked by the

00:25:43.600 fact that when workers of the world unite they unite against them but that's what's happened

00:25:47.280 yeah well i mean in canada we have explicitly socialist parties one of them is called the ndp just

00:25:52.720 denouncing these just i've never seen such rage the rate and and the the leader of canada's socialist

00:25:59.680 party he happens to be a sikh man who wears a turban well it just so happens that an enormous 0.99

00:26:04.240 proportion of truckers in canada are sikh indo-canadians and so it's so bizarre to see a sikh 1.00

00:26:11.280 socialist denouncing blue-collar sikh men who are truck drivers and obviously they're not going

00:26:17.760 to take it to heart that they're racist they're sikhs they have the turbans and glorious beards 0.63

00:26:21.840 yeah it's just been it's it's and that's enough you know socialism go ahead socialism is great until

00:26:27.280 you can't get the california tomatoes anymore in an ottawa organic food market you know that's when

00:26:34.240 justin trudeau is really going to be upset socialism is basically a luxury good you have to be rich enough to

00:26:39.280 be a socialist well i mean our friend sheila gun reed who's a farmer uh part-time farmer uh you

00:26:45.360 know she's got a little bit country a little bit rock and roll like to say about sheila um she says

00:26:50.640 once the avocados are shut off so there's no more avocado toast in ottawa that will bring the

00:26:57.920 government to its knees and she's only half joking well joe very interesting and it's not often that

00:27:03.520 canada is talked about in america and i and i think the canadians don't mind it that way it's been a

00:27:08.720 great source of pride for me that our little rebel army of reporters we were in nine different cities

00:27:14.400 uh last weekend covering the the convoys i i'm delighted that we're part of that media wave you

00:27:20.880 talk about i was on tucker we had a young guy on hannity i've done megan kelly's show twice like it's

00:27:27.120 just people are thirsty for the news and i think they're coming to rebel news not that many of them

00:27:33.120 even know us it's just that we're the only people actually showing the images we're not just sitting

00:27:38.080 in our offices punditing on it we're showing here's what we're seeing with our cameras you can't really

00:27:43.360 lie about what we show it's been a very exciting moment for us and i i'm glad you told me how that

00:27:48.480 sort of worked i believe it breitbart.com the rest of the conservative movement fox megaphone and now

00:27:54.480 it's everywhere that's a very interesting history of how this thing went last word to you joel

00:27:58.880 well i would just say you're not just part of this media wave you really have led it

00:28:03.760 and i think your speech at the protest in ottawa is one you'll remember i think your kids your

00:28:10.200 grandkids will remember and they'll say grandpa was there look what he did because it really is a

00:28:16.020 very unique moment in canadian history as you mentioned on social media earlier this week it's

00:28:21.460 a rare moment when canadians are teaching americans how to be free so i think it's really a watershed

00:28:27.640 and to have been part of it to have covered it i think is really not just a valuable service to

00:28:33.480 the rest of us but it's to be part of an important moment in history well i feel that way too i mean

00:28:38.340 and thanks for having me on your uh serious exam show the other day i said i really think it's the

00:28:42.960 most dramatic and important most momentous political event in i was thinking about it and maybe since the

00:28:51.420 1995 quebec separation referendum that came within half a percent of voting to for quebec to leave

00:28:58.320 that perhaps that was a greater crisis but but certainly since then this is the biggest thing

00:29:04.360 and it's certainly realigning the country and i'm i really think that rebel news was built for this

00:29:10.120 moment and thanks to you for you i know you've reported on our work including my speech there that

00:29:16.700 was nice of you and some of our other stuff so thanks for for giving us some support and and isn't

00:29:21.260 it funny that canada is helping to make america more free i never would have thought that would

00:29:25.140 happen in my whole life i gotta tell you well joe great to see you thanks for all your time and

00:29:30.120 we'll look forward to talking again thank you and keep it up right on we'll do well there you have

00:29:34.940 joe pollack senior editor at large at breitbart.com stay with us more ahead

00:29:38.640 hey welcome back your feedback someone with the nickname cypress loser

00:29:50.640 says kenny is keeping the qr code so he can reactivate it after things have calmed down

00:29:55.620 don't fall for his lies oh you're exactly right i mean it's it's the database it's the surveillance

00:30:00.420 system it's the infrastructure for the biomedical security state i wonder how many people he

00:30:06.600 convinced i think i can't believe that he was once considered a leading force for freedom in canada

00:30:12.520 here's one from someone named 1984 today referring to christine uh the member of the european parliament

00:30:19.680 who talked to us from brussels she said she's trying to talk to the convoy from across the ocean but

00:30:25.840 canadian politicians can't talk to the truckers from across the street what a shame yeah isn't

00:30:30.400 that true i gotta tell you even in the last few hours i've seen movement jab meet singh who was

00:30:36.140 just brutal and vicious and smearing of the convoys now saying we need an exit plan we need to

00:30:41.920 these truckers are moving mountains someone with a nickname twin monk says nope qr is the linchpin qr

00:30:52.280 codes have to go that's the path of slavery the social credit score like communist china 1.00

00:30:56.260 oh exactly right it's and and to for kenny to so happily say yes i will furnish that data that

00:31:03.940 surveillance system to any private business it's up to them it's a private business really so it's okay

00:31:09.500 if a private business says no blacks allowed no no gays allowed is that is that okay by jason kenny 1.00

00:31:15.560 that's not what the law says and it's not what jason kenny believed two years ago uh let me leave you

00:31:21.200 with our video of the day as we like to do these days our friend sheila gun reid interviewed a cop

00:31:26.300 who just couldn't couldn't abide it anymore i'll let you watch that but before i do i'll say goodbye

00:31:31.140 and on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep

00:31:35.900 fighting for freedom are you going to be in trouble for this

00:31:38.980 i i believe i will be for sure um and so just for some context i the reason why i even made that

00:31:52.240 video last night was to to that message was directed to other police officers who um feel the same way

00:32:00.100 that i do or questioning what's going on and so i posted it in a in in a chat um and it got shared

00:32:08.700 outside of that so i um i don't know what the repercussions are going to be or what my future

00:32:15.700 looks like but honestly this there's no other issue that's as important as this

00:32:22.520 over the past two years of the pandemic we've seen some really horrible examples

00:32:29.700 of policing arrests of peaceful protesters police breaking up outdoor birthday parties

00:32:35.040 parents arrested in front of their children for the crime of being in the public park

00:32:38.980 but in amongst the stories of all the atrocious examples of bad policing there are some really

00:32:44.500 good police officers making strong moral stands standing up for their own profession but in those

00:32:51.160 acts of integrity those are often the things that might ultimately end a good cop's career either

00:32:57.880 through disciplinary action or just plain old demoralization so joining me right now is the

00:33:04.560 calgary police officer who made that video nick matichka nick first i want to thank you for being

00:33:10.740 one of those cops who got into policing for exactly the right reason and for being guided by your moral

00:33:16.140 compass and i can tell that you are not a very public person you can see it in your demeanor in your

00:33:21.440 video so i want to ask you why was this so important to you what you saw happening in ottawa that you just

00:33:29.740 had to go public yeah so i mean like everyone else i've i've been watching what's been happening over

00:33:38.680 over the entire basically the last two years and for me yesterday was a was the straw that broke the

00:33:47.820 camel's back um i just i saw um the ottawa police service members and i'm sure other members of

00:33:55.200 the rcmp and other police services out there um going out and exerting what is a hundred percent

00:34:05.600 political politically influenced they are going out and exerting that that political will on

00:34:13.420 peaceful protesters um that are doing what we're allowed to do under the charter uh that is guaranteed

00:34:21.720 to every citizen in this country um in our in the canadian charter of rights and freedoms and for me

00:34:28.280 that that scene yesterday it it was like i said it was just the the straw that broke the camel's back

00:34:36.280 for me and i just i've been following along and watching um various um news feeds um you guys mostly

00:34:46.520 um and it just i couldn't stay on the sidelines any longer um and honestly it took me i don't know i

00:34:56.860 probably wrote that in about 15 minutes last night after my kids went to bed um and then i just had this

00:35:02.380 calling just to put it on video and then i posted it in um a private uh police member group um that uh

00:35:13.900 basically then it got shared from there and it became what it is and i'm i knew when i made it that

00:35:22.020 it was not going to stay within that group and and i've come to basically accept that um because i feel

00:35:31.040 like this message is so important to get out there to not only other police officers but to members of

00:35:37.340 the public just so they know that there are there are guys and girls like myself who are um are appalled

00:35:45.240 by what we're seeing from our governments and are just just not not going to sit on the sidelines any

00:35:53.580 longer um and and we're going to speak up and we're going to do what we need to do to to get that

00:36:00.180 message out now uh without you know i don't need names or anything but what are you hearing from

00:36:06.400 your i guess colleagues in policing are they supportive of the stand that you're taking

00:36:12.620 um and so sheila just to i guess put it all in context so i i am a member of the calgary police

00:36:21.700 service um i am on leave right now um i have been diagnosed with ptsd um so i'm currently off work

00:36:31.620 um but am still i guess employed by the calgary police service so i in no way speak for the calgary

00:36:38.620 police service or on behalf of the calgary police service this is my own personal how i feel about

00:36:46.080 what's going on in the world and has nothing to do with with the police service um from and so i

00:36:53.500 being that i'm off work i'm pretty disconnected from my fellow police officers in calgary um but

00:36:59.820 this morning it's been pretty overwhelming uh the number of messages of support that i've received from

00:37:08.140 um from people all over the world it feels like now oh i want to ask you what do you think the

00:37:17.280 pandemic has done to the community's relationship with police i feel like for me that's one of the

00:37:25.340 things that will be the hardest to repair we used to trust our police officers to defend our rights

00:37:32.460 and we're not seeing that we're seeing police officers violate the rights of citizens when

00:37:37.820 citizens are peacefully resisting their own government so i guess what's the state of that

00:37:43.540 relationship and is there any way that we can repair it yeah that's that's a great question um there's

00:37:53.360 there's no doubt in my mind that the the vast majority of police officers out there are

00:37:58.440 so they signed up to do this job for the right reasons um and for for myself personally it was

00:38:09.000 it was a struggle to try and to try and remember that those good intentions because you do you get

00:38:15.780 jaded over the years um and for me in my own journey uh when when george floyd was murdered last year

00:38:25.660 um that was a real turning point for me where the public did really turn on my profession um through

00:38:36.440 something that happened a country away and it was don't get me wrong i'm i'm it was a terrible

00:38:43.040 terrible thing and um i 100 agree with everything that's happened in court since then to to convict

00:38:51.660 that police officer um but what i saw was the the public was so quick to turn on policing in general

00:38:59.460 um after that and that was it was really disheartening for for me personally because i i mean i signed up

00:39:08.220 to do this job to to help people and that just seemed to really get get lost in that um and then

00:39:16.400 just the the darkness of how people treated police members after that incident and then through the

00:39:24.560 whole defund the police movement and and all of that it was it was really difficult um and so but i

00:39:31.580 understand where the public is coming from and with some of their views here um and specifically against

00:39:38.520 what the police have been involved in with enforcing these mandates i i do believe that the majority of

00:39:45.820 police officers are doing it doing the job for the right reasons um but that can be taken too far

00:39:54.220 um in terms of just following orders and that's that's kind of where i see where things are at right now

00:40:00.740 is up until now i can see how you would just move through certain things you're being asked to do

00:40:08.620 things and you can you can kind of you can justify it uh but now with all of the information coming out

00:40:16.280 about the the science of um what's happening with with the virus it's it's at a point for me where i

00:40:24.460 just i can't i just can't see how you can justify what the enforcement measures that are being taking

00:40:31.080 taken sorry and now taking that those enforcement measures against peaceful protesters who are

00:40:37.440 in our nation's capital doing nothing more than making their voices heard and they're just being

00:40:44.060 ignored by the federal government um so sorry to answer your question i i don't know i don't know how

00:40:53.220 that relationship can be repaired other than just the guys and girls that are doing the job for the

00:41:00.380 right reasons just to to stand up and um and just move forward and and hope that the the public

00:41:08.340 will see that and understand and um just move forward now i guess that's your message for police

00:41:19.320 officers still in uniform um do you have like a further message for them what if there are police

00:41:28.060 officers out there who are feeling the same way that you do what's your message for them

00:41:33.560 i mean i'm not going to encourage anyone to um do anything that's against uh what they feel in

00:41:42.980 their heart i just i feel like if if you're questioning the order that that you're being given

00:41:50.520 and it doesn't it doesn't resonate with you and your own morals and your own integrity then you need

00:41:58.660 to question that and you need to take action to not be part of that um and i just i think the excuse

00:42:08.460 that i was just following orders at this point is just it's not good enough now nick what's next for

00:42:16.600 you are you going to be in trouble for this i i believe i will be for sure um and so just for some

00:42:27.940 context i the reason why i even made that video last night was to to that message was directed to other

00:42:35.740 police officers who um feel the same way that i do or questioning uh what's going on and so i posted

00:42:44.420 it in a in in a chat um and it got shared outside of that so i um i don't know what the repercussions

00:42:52.460 are going to be or what my future looks like but honestly this there's no other issue that's as

00:43:00.700 important as this um this is it so whatever happens to me because of this i'm completely at peace

00:43:08.920 with um and i i just want to to be a voice that stood up and said enough is enough and whatever

00:43:18.580 happens to me is is kind of inconsequential at this point uh this is way more important than

00:43:25.120 than the kind of trivial things that may or may not happen to me because of it and um and at the end

00:43:33.280 of the day all i'm doing is just speaking my truth my my own personal views on this situation

00:43:40.460 and whatever happens to me is what happens to me well nick i want to thank you for taking that stand

00:43:48.400 um and reminding those officers that are still in uniform that they aren't alone if they feel as

00:43:55.100 though they are doing the wrong thing by enforcing some of these more draconian and political measures

00:44:00.440 um nick can you let us know um if you need some help because we'd love to help a good cop

00:44:08.100 um who stood up and did the right thing thank you

Rebel News Podcast - February 11, 2022

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