Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Journalist attacked by Antifa thugs bravely fights back in court

00:00:00.040 Tonight a journalist who was attacked by Antifa fights back in court. He's suing

00:00:05.680 them. I'll give you the latest. It's August 3rd and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:24.520 Oh hi there I'm on the road again. I don't know why I just can't stay still

00:00:28.880 in one place but I'm not in Hungary or Marseille or some exotic place like that. I am in lovely

00:00:33.760 Portland, Oregon. Let me turn around slowly. The beautiful Willamette River parks all around.

00:00:40.460 Families out. It's a glorious summer day. It really looks like an incredible place to grow up

00:00:46.940 and raise a family. So much of the Pacific Northwest is this way. It's a little bit like Vancouver

00:00:52.340 but like Vancouver it suffers politically. It has one of the most woke city and state governments

00:01:01.100 in America. It has defunded its police. It has allowed riots in the streets and in fact the

00:01:09.220 Democrat political authorities have winked and turned a blind eye to a violent street gang called

00:01:17.340 Antifa. Now Antifa was the name given to an actual anti-fascist movement in Europe two generations

00:01:25.640 ago. They were generally communist in fact but they claimed to be against fascism. I don't know if they

00:01:32.140 were. I don't know enough about them historically but I do know this. The people who call themselves

00:01:36.740 Antifa today actually are the fascists in so many ways. First of all they embrace violence on the streets

00:01:44.660 like fascists do. Second of all they're a kind of paramilitary associated with political parties.

00:01:51.780 They sort of carry out the will of political parties to enforce them through terror and sometimes direct

00:01:57.640 action. That's a little bit like the brown shirts in the Nazi party some 90 years ago. And interestingly

00:02:05.380 these Antifa thugs operate with police generally not interfering. The police are being defunded.

00:02:14.320 They're on the back foot in cities like this. They have enough of their hands full to deal with

00:02:18.640 quote regular crime. And it seems like they've been instructed not to touch Antifa. As I arrived in

00:02:25.560 Portland today this is the first time I've ever been in this beautiful city. I was stunned by how on so

00:02:31.200 many street corners and underpasses and even in parks not this glorious park but ones right nearby

00:02:37.520 there are hundreds probably thousands maybe tens of thousands of homeless people in tents in shanty

00:02:46.720 towns semi-permanent shanties built literally under underpasses. It's heartbreaking and sad such a

00:02:54.160 beautiful city such a wealthy city and yet that drug use and and small low-level crime is just accepted

00:03:03.440 as normal here. It's the same in San Francisco, Los Angeles. We see that happening in Vancouver and

00:03:08.880 Toronto now too. It really is heartbreaking for such a beautiful place. But while police have their hands

00:03:15.360 full with that it's Antifa that engages in violent crimes. I want to show you some images of what Antifa did

00:03:23.440 to an independent reporter called Andy Ngo spelled N-G-O. Andy Ngo who tried to document what they were

00:03:31.440 doing. Andy and his family hail from Vietnam. They're immigrants you could say they're refugees. They came

00:03:38.960 here for the American way. Andy himself is progressive by many measures but he didn't like the violence done

00:03:46.240 in the name of the left by Antifa and so he would document it in an undercover type way. He would go out to

00:03:52.640 their riots and film them but of course he had to be very careful because they would turn against him

00:03:58.240 so sometimes he himself dressed like the black block. That's a phrase that doesn't refer to a team so

00:04:05.920 much as a way of dressing where you completely cover your entire body in unremarkable black garments so

00:04:13.040 that no one can describe you. No one can differentiate you. You're not showing your face. You're not

00:04:19.280 showing a logo on your clothing. You have nothing that can be identifiable. Of course they wear face

00:04:26.960 coverings. They love the COVID-19 masks. Sometimes they even wear goggles to make themselves not only

00:04:32.800 completely non-identifiable but also to give themselves the the fake courage that bullies get

00:04:39.920 when they don't have to take any responsibility for their actions and they would hunt in packs and of

00:04:45.760 course often when there's a mob like that they get courage from each other. You see it in mobs that

00:04:53.040 engage in looting. What happens with Antifa mobs when they engage in beatings also and that's what

00:04:59.440 happened to our friend Andy Ngo. He went to cover an Antifa riot and they had already fought with him

00:05:06.240 once before. They had already attacked him once before and they detected him somehow even though he was in

00:05:12.480 black lock maybe it's because he was hanging around and taking pictures of them instead of just of

00:05:17.920 the cops and they identified him and a group of four of them walked up to him and said who are you

00:05:25.520 what are you doing and they started to follow him and then as Andy Ngo testified in court today

00:05:32.240 they ripped off his face covering and his goggles and identified him and then chased him through the

00:05:38.080 streets of Portland but not in some back alley not in some far off industrial area right in a

00:05:45.680 beautiful part of downtown Portland with luxury hotels nearby they chased him through the streets

00:05:51.360 Andy testified how he ran into the streets and tried to bang on cars saying help me call the police

00:05:56.400 and no one would he ran into up to hotels and their doors were locked and they wouldn't let him in he

00:06:01.600 finally went to one hotel got in begged them to call 9-1-1 for him they wouldn't they wanted to kick him

00:06:07.920 out and that's interesting because on the one hand i can sympathize with the hotels keeping him out here

00:06:13.360 here's a guy other than his face he's dressed all in black like Antifa and he's saying wildly call 9-1-1

00:06:20.080 call the police and i think people in Portland have been numbed to crime and they've been taught don't

00:06:26.160 get involved only bad things can happen if you get involved just walk away don't try and stop the

00:06:31.120 crime just don't let it get involved with you so one hotel locked him out another hotel tried to

00:06:37.360 kick him out and wouldn't call 9-1-1 what's terrifying is that the Antifa came into the hotel shouting at

00:06:45.200 Andy demonizing him well they they were the demons threatening to to do such atrocious harm to him

00:06:53.200 they had actually pummeled him on the streets he basically crawled into the hotel get off my property

00:06:59.520 right holocaust tonight i can't wait for you to come out andy you thought the milkshakes were bad 1.00

00:07:06.720 last time we're gonna beat the fuck out of you bitch y'all andy knows here at the nines hotel 1.00

00:07:13.040 andy knows inside the hotel called the cops on everyone saying he's gonna get killed out here 1.00

00:07:17.760 andy you see my face andy andy you see my face you see my face

00:07:31.280 the 13-person jury was enraptured

00:08:01.280 as he was listening to this and and i found some hope there i looked at this jury carefully

00:08:05.920 because portland is a very lefty hippie kind of place but i i thought in this jury were probably

00:08:12.880 the most reasonable looking people you could hope to assemble in this kind of a city i i suppose that

00:08:19.680 means there weren't any they them folks with pink and green hair although you should never judge a book

00:08:25.920 by its cover portland has an asian minority and there were at least three asian minorities on

00:08:33.920 the jury which i thought was hopeful because there was a there was a there's an aura of anti-asian

00:08:41.120 bigotry to the way they went after andy and i'm hopeful that that jury will at least be sensitive to it

00:08:46.480 uh i listened to this testimony by andy know all day and i found it absolutely persuasive and he's a

00:08:53.680 very um authentic person and this testimony was heartbreaking but what was so incredible and so

00:09:00.320 effective i thought is that after andy would testify what happened to him uh when he was beaten

00:09:06.480 and testify what happened to him when he was chased testified what would happen to him when he went into

00:09:11.680 uh the hotel after every time he said that and we had to take him at his word there was closed circuit

00:09:19.280 tv footage of that very incident and in some cases obviously there's no audio when the closed circuit tv

00:09:27.680 is showing uh what happened it's just showing four men ten men beating up one person and that's the

00:09:34.880 thing about antifa they really are marginal terrible people i i don't want to use the word the dregs of 0.66

00:09:42.960 society because i think we have to believe that there's a spark of god in every person no matter

00:09:47.600 how low no matter how evil everyone has some chance of vindication and coming back to the path a chance of

00:09:54.160 redemption rather these are the worst people in the city these frankly many of them are damaged goods

00:10:00.640 themselves but they have been weaponized by antifa they have been given a militant purpose they've been

00:10:06.640 given an outfit they've been given given cash they've been given direction they've been given a team

00:10:11.520 and leadership the worst people in the world and imagine 10 of them swarming a physically small

00:10:20.240 independent journalist just because he dared to criticize them and they beat him within an inch

00:10:24.880 of his life and to hear him testify to that you think is that really how it went and then you see it

00:10:30.320 on closed circuit tv you see 10 thugs dressed in black beating the daylights out of a journalist

00:10:38.960 just because he dared to criticize them and many of those black block attired antifa to this day have 0.99

00:10:46.240 never been identified but a few of the stupider ones or the more arrogant ones the cockier ones actually 0.98

00:10:53.040 took off their helmets and they were visible on the closed circuit tv and they have been named 0.97

00:10:59.280 in andy no's lawsuit as well antifa itself is named but a handful of individuals who made the foolish 0.99

00:11:07.040 mistake of revealing themselves they really are cowards all of them the black lock is a coward's 0.95

00:11:13.360 attire but it does work doesn't it which leads us to the old point of objection to face coverings is 0.97

00:11:20.160 face coverings are contrary to our norms in western civilization we want to look people in the eye we want to

00:11:26.000 see the other person and having people maraud through the city with their faces covered in black

00:11:31.520 dress in black head to toe that's not just anti-social that allows horrific crimes to happen as happened to

00:11:38.640 andy no there was another act of hubris on the part of antifa is that they love to boast they boasted

00:11:48.560 on twitter in real time about chasing andy no down they boasted about pummeling him about chasing him

00:11:55.520 into a hotel and they also live streamed themselves these people for them this was the greatest achievement

00:12:01.840 of their life to have a 10-on-one bullying of a young journalist but they caught themselves

00:12:09.600 in their own footage they couldn't help but boast here take a look at some of the incredible imagery

00:12:15.840 shot by these antifa thugs themselves utterly corroborating what andy no said they did

00:12:29.840 andy was sent to the hospital but the antifa thugs didn't stop them they continued to hound him not

00:12:58.480 just at the hospital but his family going to his family his elderly parents house they drove him

00:13:04.160 out of the city he had to seek refuge in safe houses across america and he actually moved to the

00:13:09.440 yana kingdom for uh about a year just to escape the threat from antifa thugs on the ground and that's

00:13:16.080 what's so frustrating the prosecution of antifa and the named antifa thugs is not being done

00:13:22.800 by the prosecutor by the district attorney or by the government in any way there were no police witnesses

00:13:29.440 in court today this was a private civil action launched by andy no because no one else would

00:13:35.840 come to his aid like i say antifa is sort of a protected gang like hitler's brown shirts were in nazi

00:13:42.640 germany in the 30s and so the politicians and the police and the prosecutors and the media

00:13:49.040 are all at the very least at ease with antifa in some cases actually encourage them actually

00:13:57.760 encourage them and certainly protect them if you compare how the january 6 i suppose some of them

00:14:03.680 are rioters but many of them were just meanderers they've been jailed for literally years the proud

00:14:10.080 boys had one scuffle in the streets and they're deemed a terrorist group but antifa really is a terrorist

00:14:16.720 group really has killed people really is uh an unrepentant force for violence and they

00:14:23.840 parade around as if they have the key to the city and it falls to andy no an independent journalist

00:14:29.200 to sue them on his own now he has the help of harmy dylan's uh public interest law firm but still

00:14:36.160 where are the police where are the prosecutors well they're defending antifa that's where where are

00:14:42.480 the american journalist lobby groups the industry associations those that talk about freedom of

00:14:49.040 speech and protecting journalists from being picked on where are those who defend the first amendment i

00:14:53.520 remember um whenever trump would say a mean word about the press calling jim acosta and cnn fake news

00:15:01.120 they would all be up in arms about how this is a devastating threat to the independent press

00:15:04.800 i didn't see a single one of them in court today certainly not intervening for andy no and let alone

00:15:11.920 making a public statement about it where were they i don't think they mean it when they say they're for

00:15:18.000 a free press they only are for a free press that criticizes conservatives when it's a conservative

00:15:23.520 journalist like andy no they at best will turn a blind eye when the antifa is on the prowl it was very

00:15:31.760 interesting to me the security in the court and how the judge had to constantly break because there

00:15:36.720 was a new security threat one of the things that antifa specializes in is what's called doxing

00:15:45.200 doxing is sort of a neologism that means revealing private information about someone as a political

00:15:52.560 punishment like i say they doxed andy no's parents house they doxed many of his friends they drove him out

00:16:00.000 of the city through fear and it was clear to me that listening to the judge today that was one of

00:16:05.600 the fears on her mind the courtroom was full of antifa they weren't wearing masks although a couple

00:16:11.600 of them had covid masks on but they didn't have their courageous black block on today and they were

00:16:18.000 a hideous mess they're exactly how you think they would look i tell you if you want to see some scary

00:16:23.120 pictures look at the pictures of antifa when they are occasionally arrested in their police mugshots

00:16:29.840 they they really are terrifying misfits of society but you put them in in in a uniform that hides 0.97

00:16:37.120 their identity and makes them part of a street gang and they suddenly turn strong and courageous anyway

00:16:42.480 there was a lot of them in the court today and the judge repeatedly stopped and sheriffs came in and

00:16:48.240 there were rules and you had to have your phone turned off i suspect that what was happening is that antifa

00:16:54.480 was doxing the jurors was trying to find out the names and identity of the jurors

00:17:03.040 just like the mafia would do how terrifying it would be to be a juror to have your name address

00:17:10.320 family details published online by some anonymous antifa account i think that's what was going on i think

00:17:18.080 that's why the judge announced at the end of court today that there would be no cell phones whatsoever

00:17:22.720 allowed even if they were turned off they all would have to be handed over to sheriffs before going

00:17:27.760 into the courtroom what else could it be other than worries of the jurors being doxed they would that

00:17:34.080 would terrify an ordinary person because this town has lived under that terror for more than a decade

00:17:42.400 this city is used to being terrified and these jurors are quite brave to sit on a panel hearing

00:17:50.240 the case against the terrorists and yeah i'll call antifa terrorists it's exactly what they are

00:17:56.000 i was glad to be here i saw a couple of other independent journalists in the room our alumna

00:18:02.160 katie davis court was there she of course is a colleague of andy knows of post-millennial so she was

00:18:06.960 covering it i saw another writer for the spectator melissa chen there and a few other friends of

00:18:11.840 andy know but like i say i didn't see anyone from any mainstream outlet whatsoever i understand there

00:18:17.120 might have been a photographer there from uh a mainstream publication in oregon but i'm not sure

00:18:22.320 how long that lasted it's a very interesting case and i came down here because i wanted to show my

00:18:27.520 support for andy know but what i found out was the fascinating story that andy know not only

00:18:33.920 he survived basic basically an assassination attempt by antifa but he's shown the courage and

00:18:39.920 the intelligence to take the battle to antifa using you know the laws of civil assault and intentional

00:18:48.160 infliction of mental distress but also that rico statute that racketeer influence uh corrupt organization

00:18:55.520 statute used to get at gangs like the mafia and i think that if that works it'll be brilliant now the judge

00:19:03.920 is a democrat appointee and the judge in so many cases today upheld objections by the antifa lawyers

00:19:11.520 to keep out key evidence from andy know look i'm not a judge i don't know american law that well at all

00:19:18.320 so i'm not going to say the judge was wrong but i couldn't help notice how often she upheld major

00:19:24.560 objections to or objections by the defense to major points in the plaintiff's case and i feel like it's

00:19:31.600 tilting the playing field a bit but that said watching the jurors as they saw the closed circuit tv

00:19:40.000 of 10 men attacking and you know watching the jurors as they watch the shrieking demonic sounds of these

00:19:48.880 antifa smash themselves outside the window of the hotel in which andy finally took refuge i've got to

00:19:56.480 say that that would make an impression on anyone even a democrat and no matter what the judge manages

00:20:02.000 to exclude now i've just heard the case for the plaintiffs today tomorrow the prosecutor sorry the

00:20:08.320 the defense will cross-examine andy know and try and poke holes in his argument we'll see how it ends

00:20:15.520 that jury holds in its hands a lot of things not just validation and compensation for andy know but they

00:20:24.880 would be the first jury i'm aware of to condemn and and punish antifa i've never heard of a case like

00:20:32.720 this before a lot is turning on this battle in this beautiful city and even though i won't be here

00:20:39.520 tomorrow i must return back to canada my obligations there we'll be following it as best we can

00:20:46.320 for all of us at rebel news to you at home good night keep fighting for freedom

00:20:52.640 and don't ever let your city fall to a street gang like antifa

Rebel News Podcast - August 03, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Journalist attacked by Antifa thugs bravely fights back in court

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