EZRA LEVANT ｜ Pro-Hamas thug assaults Rebel journalist, prompting calls for his identity
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1 hour and 28 minutes
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168.4296
Summary
On the heels of the anti-pro-Israel protests in Toronto, Ezra Levenant and his team of rebels took to the streets in support of pro-Israel counterprotestor David Menzies, who was arrested by pro-Hamas counterprotesters.
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Tonight, boy, we've been busy at Rebel News. I'll give you an update. It's November 19th,
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I'm still reeling from the weekend, in specific, when about a dozen of us went in solidarity with
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David Menzies to this intersection in North Toronto. It's in a Jewish neighborhood. In fact,
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I live just about a mile away. It's in a Jewish shopping mall. You might even recognize that
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shopping mall because you've done streeters there before about the local member of parliament,
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Yara Sachs, a Jewish MP who went to visit a terrorist leader at Justin Trudeau's instructions.
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It's just really bizarre. Anyways, every week there's been this pro-Israel, pro-Canada rally at that
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Jewish corner. But in the last month, the pro-Hamas side has come into the Jewish community
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to antagonize, to shout, to call for genocide and intifada. And I don't like it one bit. I think
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that foreign nationals who participate in hate marches should be deported. If they're Canadian
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citizens, I grudgingly acknowledge that they have freedom of speech just like I do. But that doesn't
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go so far as uttering death threats, committing mischief, vandalism, and of course, assault.
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What bothered me the most, though, was when our reporter, David Menzies, went to ask these
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pro-Hamas counter-protesters some questions and police arrested him, slammed him on the hood of
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the car, handcuffed him, and took him away. They charged him but later dropped the charges.
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Yeah, I don't stand for that. So a dozen of us went in solidarity. While we all wore Panama hats,
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mine was way too small. I just ordered them on Amazon. They were tiny. I guess they were like
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kids' costumes or something. So I looked sort of goofy wearing the hat. But the point was,
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we were all in solidarity with David. So we had about, I think it was 12 or maybe even more rebels
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there. A lot of rebel viewers from the Toronto area came. And we went there to make the point that
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if you're going to arrest journalists for doing journalism, you're going to have to arrest us all.
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Here's that key moment where the cops basically said, if you go over there, we'll arrest you.
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And I said, well, then you'll have to arrest us. And they blinked. Here's just a moment of that
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Now, I understand. I've just been told that you plan to arrest me and everyone on my team if we
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I can tell you what's happening. We have a media area set up for all of you. You can set up over
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I understand that, sir. But last time when you were here, you were inciting this crowd.
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It's not true. And I've never been here before. I have not incited anybody.
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This is what happened with Rebel News last time, okay?
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No, I'm not blackballing Rebel News. What I'm saying is we have an area we have to facilitate
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it for you. If you can accept that, you can accept it.
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The police say I'm not allowed to do journalism over here.
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The police say that I have to go to the free speech zone.
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The police say that I'm not allowed to ask questions after I've asked my first question.
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And, fellas, I'm going to tell you what I told your boss on the other side.
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I'm not going to put the microphone any closer than this to them.
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And I would ask that if you arrest me, that you not commit violence on me.
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No need for handcuffs or to throw me on the trunk of a car like you did to David last time.
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I can give you a hat later on as a souvenir of this momentous day.
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Down, down, down, the terrorist state of Israel.
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Zionism is no way it's supporting representing Judaism.
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We have a lot of equipment here, so please, can you just move back?
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Because we want everybody to stay on that side.
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I know what you want, and I actually think that's probably wise from your point of view.
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It's the path of least resistance, but I do have certain rights as a citizen and as a journalist.
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Just letting you know I'm recording now, too, okay?
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So, it was mission accomplished in terms of David Menzies.
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We supplemented that, and I think it was our strength in numbers that caused the police to back down.
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There were—they've got to be at least 50 cops who were right there, and one of the pro-Hamas protesters sort of meandered through the police barrier and hit Alexa Lavoie, who had come in from Montreal.
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Hit her with a flagpole, and we got it from two different angles.
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We got it from the angle of Alexa's own camera and another camera, and you can see this guy hitting her.
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Officers, you witnessed my colleague getting physically assaulted.
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So in the streets of our dominion, if you're chanting genocide,
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a female citizen can be assaulted and you won't charge them?
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I think what we saw is that your camera lady had the camera right in his face.
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I think he needs like a serious therapy of violence.
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Officer, we backed the blue, but we're just asking you to uphold your oath.
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So if a camera gets too close, it is acceptable for a man to hit a woman in Toronto?
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We immediately brought it to the attention of a cop who didn't care.
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And I was furious when he said he had better things to do than look at the 30-second clip.
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I don't regret calling this cop a coward either.
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I mean, what do you call a cop who literally doesn't lift a finger
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when a woman has been hit with a weapon, by the way.
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You don't hit someone with a flagpole, especially a woman.
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Take a clip of me telling the cop how angry I was.
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I know arresting David may sound more pressing, but it's not actually.
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You've got 50 cops here stopping our journalism.
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Like I said, I've got other priorities to attend to.
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Well, can we, who do we talk to if we don't want like assaults on the city street?
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You're not going to arrest the guy who assaulted her, but you're going to arrest me for asking
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I think it could, it could be interpreted both ways.
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You just saw an assault and you're saying you're going to arrest me instead of the man
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It could be interpreted that she assaulted him by getting in his personal space.
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So if she wants to deal with this, it's not the time and place right now.
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If you want to show a report, I'll be happy to take one from you.
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And if she was assaulted, listen, we're going to look at that videotape.
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If you want to take a report, we'll take a report for it.
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We have video on it, and we'll investigate it, and we'll make him arrest if the arrest needs
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Like I said, if she was assaulted, then all the cameras are on.
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An investigation will be commenced on it, and an arrest will be made.
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Well, it turns out this guy is a serial abuser, serial criminal.
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We've offered a $180 bounty to anyone who can tell us his name.
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But I want to play for you a couple minutes of this guy who we've encountered in different
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You'll see him with our chief of video, Efron Monsanto.
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Let me just play for you a montage of this same unhinged guy.
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Okay, I'm recording you to you rebels media you can't talk about
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Rebels media, right wing media, Israel and Rebels
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F**k you, bitch, go, go from here, go from here
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I'm not here to do anything, I'm just here to record
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But you can't put your hands on me, you have to understand that
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Yeah, so I think it's only a matter of time until we find out his name
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Someone has sent me what they think is his name
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We're not going to publish it until we're more sure
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We are demanding that police charge him with the crime of
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I would call that an aggravated assault or assault with a weapon
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I was so angry at that one cop who said he didn't care
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But the more senior cops said he would look into it
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Contacted police who told him there is an investigation
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We will ask for a senior officer to review the case
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We will likely apply for a peace bond against him
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And there's some other legal ideas I want to examine a little bit further
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I mean if you have anything close to a nice car
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There's also updated advice for all vehicle owners
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Speaking at an Etobicoke safety meeting last month
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Constable Marco Ricciardi had a new message for vehicle owners
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To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home
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Because they're breaking into your home to steal your car
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A lot of them that they're arresting have guns on them
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That's why Galinsky says they will be installing the doorstops
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So if that's how the police deal with criminal criminals
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You can better believe they're just as laissez-faire with political criminals
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I'm not saying individual beat cops are useless
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But they've been ordered to stand down by the mayor
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But I'm not going to accept that when it comes to one of our reporters being hurt
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We played for you the first chunk of this weekend
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We're going to play some more at the end of today's show
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That migrants are already making their way to the Canadian border
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In anticipation of Donald Trump becoming the president
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He says he's basically going to declare war on the cartels
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What price do you put on our national security?
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Yeah so let's say you are in the U.S. illegally
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Or you're there on some status that has not been approved
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He says he's going to deport you by the millions
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Or you could just walk across the world's largest undefended border in the Canada
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And I think Trudeau would rather like being the dumping ground
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To criminals or terrorists coming in the country
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His nominees for different agencies and departments is fascinating
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The congressman who appointed as attorney general
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I don't know if these appointees will be approved
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proper decision for a president to make but during the lame duck period when there's just 50 days
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and who made the decision did joe biden himself make that decision did did the blob make that
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decision and why in the last few this war has been going on for two and a half years
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i think that the blob the deep state is trying to get just the last few i mean they want to use up
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the weapons the the military industrial complex you know the gravy train is perhaps running out
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i i just find it an astonishing and dangerous decision to be made and we don't even know who
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made it i think that that is actually really proving that the deep state is real and i think
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that's actually making the case for trump's rough appointees one of his appointees uh proposed
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appointees for defense secretary like tulsi gabbard has spent two decades in the military
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was a decorated veteran in both who served in both afghanistan and iraq but he is being called
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a loose cannon doesn't have the proper experience pete haggiseth is his name but i think it proves
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the need for an outsider like him because obviously the pentagon is its own blob i see that it failed
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its audit again doesn't know where hundreds of billions of dollars went whoops just misplaced it
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i think that trump really needs to go to war against the permanent bureaucracy because they're at
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war with him there's one more thing that goes to the permanent bureaucracy and the state of
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american democracy um donald trump won with a handsome margin uh donald trump won the key state
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of pennsylvania partly because of the amish going to vote against the heavy hand of the of the u.s
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government but there's one particular count county where there's a battle over over a senate seat very
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important battle in pennsylvania and the democrats who are counting the votes there are still counting
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and explicitly counting votes that are illegal votes that they acknowledge are illegal but they're counting
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them anyways now the race is over kamala harris has conceded but the democratic party in pennsylvania is
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still counting votes still trying to challenge the winner and is expressly and admittedly counting votes
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that are fake or not fake they're illegal doesn't that sort of give the game away doesn't that sort of
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prove everything that donald trump said not just about 2024 but about 2020 i think it's absolutely
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astonishing anyways i mean there's a few other things it's just amazing to watch the return of
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common sense to washington uh the democrats by the way are so proud they elected their first
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transgender congressman it's a thing but a bunch of republican women congressmen are refusing to let him
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use the girls bathrooms here take a look at this so that being a feminist makes me an extremist
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i'm totally here for it is this effort in response to congresswoman mcbrides coming to congress yes and
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absolutely and then some i'm not going to stand for a man uh you know if someone with a penis is in the
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woman's locker room that's not okay and i'm a victim of abuse myself i'm a rape survivor i have ptsd from
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the abuse i've suffered at the hands of a man and i know how vulnerable women and girls are in private
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spaces so i'm absolutely a hundred percent going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a
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women's restroom in our locker rooms in our changing rooms i will be there fighting you every step of the
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way yeah they're having a battle and again i think this is to trump's benefit i mean having a debate about
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whether or not a bloke can use a women's change room a women's private place a safe space to use a word of the
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left i think that that is actually one of the reasons why harris lost and trump won very interesting and i think
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these ideas will wash over canada too even if trudeau is trying to close his eyes and ears to him
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um that's america we're covering some of those stories in the field as you know we had abhi amini crossing
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america for a full month and we've got alexa lavoix covering the from new york and montreal
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the mass exodus to canada which i think will come of migrants but we are interested in the uk as well
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it was a big day out there after the break we'll talk to my friend lewis brackpool about a huge farmers
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protest in london today and after that stick around because we have part two about our big showdown in
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the streets of north toronto against the pro hamas gangs and their friends and the police so lots
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well rebel news loves farmers for obvious reasons i mean that's where the food comes from i mean
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look at me but uh more seriously though if you want to have a happy society a prosperous society you have
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to have plentiful affordable energy and plentiful affordable food it's very interesting to me that
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donald trump has teamed up with robert f kennedy jr and one of his focuses is making america healthy
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again he has a pharmaceutical industry part of that policy but he also talks about healthy food we don't
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really think or talk about that that much but it's bizarre to me that countries would declare war
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against their own farmers we saw it over the last couple of years in the netherlands one of the
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largest agricultural exporters in the world even though it's geographically a small country there
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they were doing so in the name of environmentalism just the same way as we demonize energy by demonizing
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carbon that element of the periodic table they were going after nitrogen which is part of the
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fertilizers that farms use in the uk the war has been declared against farmers by the new labor prime
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minister keir starmer but i don't even think he's pretending that it's a global warming threat i think
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he just doesn't like the fact that farmers are you know generally conservative they are property owners
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and he just i think there's a class issue there and so he's brought in a policy that farmers will have to
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pay a 20 percent inheritance tax before bequeathing the land to their family but of course as you know
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farms may be valuable on paper but farmers are not cash rich if you have land that presumably is worth
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let's say a million dollars or a million pounds you don't have that cash sitting around so if you're going
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to bequeath it to your kids and have to pay 200 000 pounds for the pleasure of doing so that's basically a way
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of expropriating your property and making way for developers or other non-far uses so today
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in the heart of london and westminster in the parliamentary precincts tens of thousands of
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farmers did something that i don't think they've done in years perhaps decades they converged in the
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city to say no to keir starmer and his war on farms you know i love going over to the uk myself but
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i wasn't there but one of our alumni who is a commentator and a journalist in his own right
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our friend lewis brackpool was there in the heart of london we asked him if he could join us today to
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give us a bit of an update and he said yes what a delight to be joined again on screen by our friend
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lewis brackpool it was great to see you again yeah you too ezra thank you so much for having me on
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oh boy it looked great i mean even british farmers have have that classy fashion like it's just there's
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something wonderful about british farmers i mean of course i love canadian farmers too but i mean
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they've been farming for centuries there and this really is a war against farmers tell me a little bit
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about it what's what do the farmers say is really going on so um firstly farmers are being squeezed
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in terms of income so i actually have some number crunch for you here uh they've already taken a huge
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drop of income as it is by nearly 70 percent currently so the average income from livestock
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farming is generating around 17.3k annually per year to top this off with this inheritance tax
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now rachel reeves has said the person who's in charge of this budget and uh introducing as well
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this inheritance tax say they will only affect that 76 roughly percent of farmers uh won't be affected
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by this uh this is actually false it'll actually affect over 60 percent of working farms
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despite the government believing uh they will only affect just quote unquote the wealthy um we had
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recently uh jeremy clarkson as well being there uh and of course up taking questions from the media
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as soon as i arrived i saw clarkson there uh in in great spirits despite of course the uh the reason
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why everyone was there um i even saw a real diverse amount of people there politically you saw
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the leader of the conservative party kemi kemi badenoch was there uh ed davy of the liberal democrats
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and nigel farage being there i must say to put criticism towards this you had the leader of the
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liberal democrats the leader of the conservative party all being able to speak and give speeches
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but when nigel farage arrived and was in the press box and was talking to the press
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uh he was ready to go on to make a speech and he wasn't allowed which i thought was very very odd
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um i have a big problem with the establishment because my trust my cynicism is at all time low
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joining rebel news as well years ago when covid was uh the main topic and i remember going to all the
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protests for you guys so my trust in the government is already low as it is so seeing these establishment
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talking heads um getting on stage and using it as political opportunism wasn't great and obviously
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the reception from farmers and supporters of the farmers showed that um but you saw as well a clip
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that had been going around of jeremy clarkson being interviewed by the bbc victoria derbyshire her name is
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where she was probing uh mr clarkson on well where are we going to get the money from to pay for things
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such as public health services and just to put it in perspective this inheritance tax will
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will only raise around 560 million pounds now someone worked this out online that's roughly
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around 25 hours of funding for the nhs 25 hours so to put that into perspective billions are being
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being sent to firstly ukraine and in foreign aid to places like india where um the gdp of india is of
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course higher than the uk not to mention billions being spent eight million pounds a day being spent
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on housing illegal migrants across the uk and the population increase so it's convenient that victoria
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derbyshire doesn't mention any of these things um you said so many things there lewis and i just want
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to jump in to catch some more folks up by the way nhs is the national health service that's the british
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version of our medicare system um i just want to show a quick clip you mentioned jeremy clarkson he's
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famous he's a bit of a tv celebrity in the uk famous for his automobile um reviews he's lately set up a
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farm and sort of done a reality show of farming and it's sort of wonderful to watch this guy
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get a deep respect for farmers and he set up a country pub i just want to play quickly him he's
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and he's an old hand media sparring with the bbc was sort of beautiful i just want to show that to
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folks before before we get too far away from him here's jeremy clarkson you may recognize him uh from
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various british tv shows most recently he's really and he's brought a city man's respect
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to country farming and i and i appreciate him for that it's sort of the opposite of classism and i
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think there's a classism afoot here anti-farmer bigotry from the establishment of westminster
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here's clarkson debating the bbc take a look so why are you why are you here mr clarkson well because
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i'm here to support farmers right are you angry it's difficult to be angry on somebody else's behalf
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that's like being yes no i'm not angry on someone else's behalf right so so it's not about you it's not
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about your farm and the fact that you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax
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classic bbc there classic oh yeah it's not the fact that the fact that i bought a farm to avoid
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inheritance tax the fact you told the sunday times in 2021 that's why you bought it
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sorry bbc okay let's start from the beginning i wanted to shoot okay that's even worse to the bbc i
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wanted to shoot which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax now i do but
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people like me will simply put it in a trust and so long as i live for seven years that's fine and
00:53:28.940
as my daughter said you will live for seven years you might be in a deep freeze at the end of it
00:53:32.580
but you will live for seven years but it's incredibly time consuming to have to do that
00:53:37.540
and why should all these people have to do that why should they so one of the reasons rachel
00:53:43.460
reeves says she brought this in is to stop wealthy people using it as no that was the only reason
00:53:48.860
she did well no the other reason was to to raise money for public services
00:53:53.680
well have you seen are you listening to this have you tried to get a gp appointment lately yes
00:54:00.600
i just recently had a heart attack okay so you know it's tough
00:54:03.740
yes so where should they get the money from if it's not from from farmers we hear that everyone
00:54:11.720
with with assets you should be paying for everything which okay do you know how many
00:54:16.580
people pay inheritance tax in this country it's four percent of estates what four percent of estates
00:54:21.900
four percent pay inheritance tax 96 of the population of the uk does not pay inheritance
00:54:27.920
states after this becomes law 96 of farmers will where have you got that figure from who here
00:54:35.900
could i just ask who here is going to be unaffected by these changes no one right where have you got
00:54:44.660
96 well you've got 96 well the same place that rachel reeves does from the middle of her head
00:54:52.120
right from the sixth form debating society that she was no doubt a member of okay which formed her
00:54:56.900
opinions and yours i am not expressing opinions literally asking you questions you know that
00:55:03.140
mr clarkson so what is your message to this government please back down please and get the money from where
00:55:10.640
well they've got 40 billion i'll get i'll tell you where you go walk into any of the offices around here
00:55:18.860
if you don't understand what somebody's job is fire them the civil service
00:55:24.340
civil service is too top you know that i must get on hey i want to get back to one more thing you
00:55:32.100
said louis when you said that nigel farage was not allowed on stage and and that seems odd i i have
00:55:38.260
some disagreements with nigel farage but the man is a fixture in uk politics he's a leader of a party
00:55:44.240
with seats in westminster he led the brexit revolution which is an enormous achievement
00:55:50.040
to keep him out i find quite odd and there's there's some funny things about these farmer protests
00:55:57.840
i remember last week one of the spokesmen was saying this is not a protest we're not protesting we're just
00:56:04.880
going to have a lobby day in westminster like it was like he was trying to de-fang the protests
00:56:11.080
obviously the protesters were fairly rambunctious i'm you know in canada we have something called a
00:56:15.980
national farmers union it's really just a left-wing group that that really is out of touch with
00:56:21.280
ordinary farmers tell me a little bit about the organizers here i give them credit for having a
00:56:26.180
ton of people show up and the fact that clarkson spoke so well was wonderful but is that why farage
00:56:33.800
was barred are they actually sort of namby-pamby centrists it's actually so spooky you mentioned that
00:56:41.600
farmers union and speaking about the political infighting within that because it seems to me
00:56:46.440
that it's the same story over here we have a national farmers union and they were very much
00:56:52.660
anti-brexit um and that was their main shtick as well so i think that that might be to do with it
00:57:01.560
considering that nigel farage of course headed the brexit movement but when he arrived you know i have
00:57:08.080
my disagreements the same with you ezra as well with nigel farage but when he arrived he he was
00:57:13.400
greeted very well by farmers and by supporters and the press of course swarmed him i have a clip as well
00:57:21.300
of me capturing the moment that he arrived just at the press box and everyone was swarming to try and
00:57:27.300
get either a picture or to speak with him and to ask him questions and his of course his entourage
00:57:32.960
with other reform mps turned up with richard tice and uh mcmurdoch and even you had ben habib there
00:57:40.020
um who's a big favorite among reform voters and others too so i think there's a lot of internal
00:57:48.340
politics i don't know the ins and outs but the nfu uh is very much uh well considered quite anti-brexit
00:57:57.080
so that could have something to do with that now here's the theory that i've heard put forward i mean
00:58:03.380
canada is a vast country like geographically we're just enormous second largest in the world
00:58:08.720
now much of that is not farmable land like the arctic there's permafrost you could never grow
00:58:14.480
anything up there but we still have vast fields in saskatchewan alberta bc even ontario the uk
00:58:21.560
is geographically a much smaller country and you have very high immigration i i saw recently that
00:58:28.940
actually proportionately i think you have the largest immigration in the world it depends how
00:58:33.160
you measure canada's pretty high too and london the property prices are so high and it's really
00:58:38.320
spreading out so the theory i heard was that this would be a way to clear out those old-fashioned
00:58:45.840
right-wing farmers who think that the land should be to grow food instead of the progressives who
00:58:52.840
would build cities and towns and maybe one day towers there and at the very least this inheritance
00:58:59.300
tax would sort of end the farm when the current owner passes passes on because there's no way
00:59:05.040
the tax could be paid and and i saw this crazy article in the guardian that said farmers are hoarding
00:59:13.480
land as if they're keeping it together for some nefarious purpose instead of farming it and even
00:59:20.300
elon musk from america tweeted that he thought that was stalinist which it is that's sort of the
00:59:25.560
language used by stalin when he had the forced collectivization of farms in russia and ukraine
00:59:31.720
so there is a theory and i'm not even going to call it a conspiracy theory because there's they're
00:59:37.260
owning it the left is owning it saying we got to get the land away from the farmers this is how we do it
00:59:41.960
i don't even think it's about raising money if you as you point out if they cared about money they
00:59:45.960
would stop throwing it around on all these other ridiculous things to make farmers pay for health
00:59:50.260
care it just doesn't make sense this is a war on farmers on farming on old-fashioned anything and i
00:59:57.500
think it's a land grab is that is that too extreme a theory no not at all i think a lot of the farmers
01:00:03.900
that were talking today said the same thing uh when you have a government that says firstly oh
01:00:10.300
we just want farmers to pay their fair share and you hear that a lot pay your fair share oh pay your
01:00:17.780
fair share and then they say okay what's that going to pay for uh the national health service and then
01:00:23.780
like people have pointed out very quickly that 25 hours is is the funding from this inheritance tax that
01:00:32.480
would pay for the national health service so clearly clearly and you have mouthpieces from the
01:00:39.180
guardian who are part of the government who have been paid off by uh various entities as well
01:00:45.000
and intertwined with with the government in that respect um say things like hoarding hoarding land
01:00:53.420
i mean they've given the game away completely the mask the iron curtain is clearly being dropped
01:00:59.340
from what exactly their agenda is so no i think you're totally right i think i believe it's a
01:01:05.880
land grab uh personally because of the language that they use and the pivoting and the one minute it's
01:01:12.080
to do with paying their fair share and next minute it's to do with something completely unrelated
01:01:17.560
so and you you said something um perfect about how the government is wastefully spending and just
01:01:24.740
throwing that around on things that that could easily pay for the things that they are they're
01:01:31.980
they're worried about they're worried about hasn't had enough funding excuse me so no it's not a crazy
01:01:39.080
theory at all we keep hearing these terms conspiracy theories over the years but we even saw bill gates
01:01:46.140
coincidentally have a vacation in the uk just a day before the budget and you know people were going wild
01:01:52.380
and he met with the pm didn't he met with keir starman the pm i wonder what because he's now
01:01:56.800
the largest landowner in america on a farmland owner and that gives me the willies because he's against
01:02:02.740
traditional farms he's invested in this gross artificial meat like lab grown meat that stuff
01:02:09.460
makes me gag just to think about it and he's an anti-population activist here's a clip we we show
01:02:16.200
from time to time it startles people of bill gates saying he thinks that maybe we should reduce
01:02:21.080
population on the earth by oh 15 percent so it's more than a billion the guy couldn't be plainer
01:02:26.880
he's just i talked earlier about prosperity being food and fuel this guy wants to get rid of people
01:02:33.800
instead take a quick look somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero
01:02:39.580
it's been constantly going up it's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all
01:02:47.240
so we have to go from rapidly rising to falling and falling all the way to zero
01:02:52.200
this equation has four factors a little bit of multiplication so you've got a thing on the left
01:02:58.420
co2 that you want to get to zero and that's going to be based on the number of people
01:03:06.980
the energy on average for each service and the co2 being put out per unit of energy
01:03:14.220
so let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero
01:03:19.360
probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero
01:03:23.220
now that's back from high school algebra but let's let's take a look
01:03:28.000
first we've got population now the world today has 6.8 billion people that's headed up to about 9 billion
01:03:35.540
now if we do a really great job on new vaccines health care reproductive health services we could lower
01:03:43.220
that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent but there we see an increase of about 1.3
01:03:49.360
yeah so what i mean maybe that's in their mind maybe it's this weird anti-food agenda
01:03:55.380
eat the bugs or something maybe it's forced collectivization like in in stalin's time
01:04:01.400
um i don't know what's going to work though because i think that farmers people love farmers the same way
01:04:06.220
people love truckers and here in canada lewis you might remember a couple years ago it was the truckers
01:04:11.420
that saved us it was the truckers that had the convoy and just like you had the tractor convoy
01:04:16.440
today at your parliament we had a trucker convoy at our parliament honked their horns they stuck
01:04:22.080
around a little bit longer i think the reason you had all these different disparate groups coming out
01:04:27.400
is because how are you going to be against farmers to call farmers greedy no one believes it
01:04:31.500
like no one believes it no one believes that farmers are getting rich
01:04:34.980
no one believes that farmers are wasting the land i i just think that it looks so bad on keir starmer
01:04:41.860
but i don't know if he cares like he's doing a hundred things foolishly but he just won the
01:04:46.020
election so i don't know do you think he'll be deterred by any of this
01:04:49.460
well rachel reese has come out and said that despite the protest going ahead that
01:04:55.300
they're still going ahead with this inheritance attack so it's heritage tax so they're not listening
01:05:00.700
to the people's demands and that's dangerous i thought that the labour party was for the working
01:05:05.940
people i mean the last time that farmers descended uh i believe into westminster because of um
01:05:13.520
issues with with government policy was during the tony blair era so it's there seems to be a strong
01:05:21.320
pattern between labour harping on about how they care for the working people the working man and woman
01:05:27.640
but now they seem to be the party of corporations the party of mass immigrations and and various other
01:05:34.860
issues as well um if the farmers have uh the their income slashed completely by 70 percent
01:05:45.600
and you have suicide rates going up drastically for for this particular industry and yet the government
01:05:53.980
decide to beat and double down on attacks that will kick farmers out of their land and give it up to
01:06:01.700
maybe corporate entities or the like you bet they're going to be pissed off excuse my language so
01:06:08.460
if i do say so i think i think now is not the time to be relaxed i think the pressure needs to mount
01:06:18.840
from the farmers end and the organizers the pressure needs to continue if they want serious change from
01:06:24.700
this government because it seems like they're not listening they're not listening to the demands of
01:06:29.040
the farmers and they're kind of just going on a whim they're kind of like the the old trotskyites that
01:06:35.440
are still in debating school you know and they're so tunnel vision with their with their ideologies that
01:06:41.640
they they can't seem to open up to the ordinary people so it's a scary time and i hope it doesn't
01:06:48.840
come to any uh any more mounting pressures from the farmers doing anything drastic um i really hope not
01:06:55.900
you know the british election was on the 4th of july just four months ago a little bit and starmer won a
01:07:02.100
majority and now his numbers have been cut in half i mean he's uh trudeau levels in the poll i think
01:07:08.580
just 22 23 percent i saw a picture of trudeau and keir starmer at the g20 summit and i thought look
01:07:14.940
at these two they they actually have a lot in common they believe in censorship they jail political
01:07:20.820
opponents they um you know think that that the answer to changing the weather is raising taxes um
01:07:30.080
i i think there's a there's too many similarities they uh i don't know they're woke i i i can think of a
01:07:37.380
few others but i i suppose the most common right one right now is they are despised by the people
01:07:43.880
they're they're ideologues who put their own theories and their own interests ahead of ordinary
01:07:49.180
people i uh it's amazing how quickly it's happened in the q in the uk last word to you
01:07:54.760
lewis um what's next i mean i i i've seen you in the uk at some of the tommy robinson uh political
01:08:02.400
rallies which are very high energy and very peaceful um and he's had several of them they've
01:08:07.560
got thousands of people out are the farmers going to have another like are they going to
01:08:11.740
make this a regular thing or at least a repeated thing or was this their sort of one and done
01:08:17.340
it's a good question because a lot of us are scratching our heads thinking what is next like i
01:08:23.740
mentioned rachel reeves says that she's still going ahead with this uh budget and inheritance tax
01:08:29.060
scheme so we're actually we we don't know um i hope that the farmers continue their their pressure
01:08:36.740
um but at the minute it's a case of just keep an eye on what they're saying and what their next move
01:08:42.600
is it seems to me that clarkson of course is is really taking the leadership role uh in this which
01:08:49.280
is great because clarkson is uh is a very well orator he's very good at speaking and of course he's
01:08:56.500
a veteran when it comes to being uh speaking to the media and obviously tv so you know he fits
01:09:02.600
that role even strangely he would fit a good role for a politician a good politician so let's hope
01:09:09.300
something comes on that um but at the minute we are kind of scratching our heads and thinking what
01:09:14.600
is next but we hope that infighting stops uh considering what's happened with farage and not
01:09:20.760
being able to speak so let's just wait and see uh and hopefully hopefully we see some action and see
01:09:30.120
some positive change i saw many people from all ages farmers supporters of the farmers they're still
01:09:38.080
smiling still jolly despite the grim and horrific conditions that the farmers are in and i'm hoping to
01:09:46.400
see positive change i'm trying to be as optimistic as i can um we yeah let's just hope that that
01:09:54.760
something will come of this and more people will start turning up turning up to the next protest if it
01:10:00.300
goes ahead and let's hope that the government rethink and u-turn on this despicable attack on the
01:10:08.320
community that has built and is the backbone of this nation yeah well i tell you i really wish i had
01:10:15.460
been there i mean i love the uk i love the fighting spirit of working class people i've come to
01:10:21.220
understand it a little bit i'm a bit of an anglophile to begin with i suppose i'm really glad you were
01:10:26.200
there lewis thanks for taking the time to give us a briefing and after action report and um who knows
01:10:32.360
maybe if they have another uh farmers protest if if it was uh to your satisfaction maybe you would
01:10:38.660
um take a camera in there for rebel news and give us a freelance report like you used to do back in the
01:10:43.800
day for some of the other covid reports it would be great to have you on the streets even if it was
01:10:48.220
just on a one-off freelance gig for rebel news again i'd love to do that that would be good fun
01:10:53.540
all right well there you go that's a deal well there you have it lewis brackpool one of our favorite
01:10:57.680
guys and alumnus of rebel news you can follow him on twitter or x as it's now called at lewis
01:11:03.480
l-e-w-i-s underscore brackpool with our brackpool uh and uh i really get a kick out of him and he's
01:11:13.140
fighting for freedom every day in a country that needs more freedom fighters stay safe stay strong
01:11:17.500
my friend thank you so much ezra and you take it easy right on okay there you have it stay with us
01:11:24.020
more ahead well that's our show for today but i want to leave you with the sort of part deux
01:11:33.520
of um of our big showdown on the streets of north toronto and later this week we will put the whole
01:11:39.140
thing it's just so large like 12 different camera angles uh so we're really working hard to edit that
01:11:44.440
we'll get the whole thing up and we'll post it to the website to the internet to the various channels
01:11:49.400
um later on this week but let me leave you with the second part of our big showdown until next time
01:11:55.260
on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep
01:11:59.420
fighting for freedom how you doing i don't want to stay on the street too long give me one quick word
01:12:03.700
we will win and they will lose right on take care of my friend drive safe what do you make of oh
01:12:10.080
there's our truck have you seen our truck before five times now yeah yeah it's good to see it
01:12:14.460
you're still looking good man well thanks you know i'm glad
01:12:17.640
i was worried that we would be arrested again because last sunday they arrested david menzies
01:12:23.740
for simply trying to report what the hamas side was doing that's why i'm wearing this hat
01:12:28.440
excellent excellent no i sleep i live out the east end there east of whitby there
01:12:33.380
and just uh glad i'd come in and join it just participate where i could just happy to be here
01:12:38.440
as a christian uh scripture is very clear about people who support israel and do not support israel
01:12:45.300
i will always support israel thank you for saying that nice to meet you the first thing i want to
01:12:49.680
tell you is that i normally don't wear this hat i'm wearing it in solidarity with david menzies
01:12:55.100
so don't judge me i'm i'm half joking the reason we're here and a number of us are wearing these hats
01:13:02.340
is because last week police arrested our reporter for asking tough questions of hamas
01:13:09.620
i feel like policing has been two-tier in this city for the last year what's your view
01:13:15.340
they've been two what two-tier policing one system for the hamas protests and one system for everyone
01:13:21.820
else yeah i guess i guess it's hard because i think you have two sides that you have to look at
01:13:26.580
i think from my perspective my experience with the police is that they have been supportive
01:13:31.700
uh to the jewish community i mean what i'd like to see i mean like i guess i'm biased i'd like to
01:13:38.440
see this being shut down because this was actually a very peaceful quiet rally until this group came
01:13:44.340
down i don't see mobs of jews going down to the protests downtown so i think that in terms of the
01:13:51.660
two-tier policing i think that they could shut this down and say that this is a peaceful rally
01:13:55.840
stay out of this neighborhood where it's predominantly jewish but this is a residential neighborhood
01:14:01.500
there's no there's nothing to protest here other than jews themselves and we're actually not
01:14:06.040
protesting here for a year we've just been set up in support of the hostages and it's become a
01:14:12.420
protest and i think that that's the problem is to say that why why are they allowed to be here
01:14:17.720
protesting something that wasn't even controversial we were just here saying bring back our hostages
01:14:23.760
that's what we were standing here for i don't think the police would be this gentle if a group of
01:14:29.280
right-wing white proud boys or whatever went into a muslim community chanting anti-muslim slogans like
01:14:38.860
they are i think i mean again it's it's unthinkable it's unthinkable it's hard to say i mean i want to i
01:14:46.000
want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt uh i guess that's the perspective i come from i'm here
01:14:51.660
to support israel again i see this is not peaceful i see this is not trying to have a conversation
01:14:58.900
again it's trying to shut us down and trying to keep us quiet that's the problem now you said you
01:15:04.660
don't want to prejudge anybody and you want to have an open mind i spoke to maybe five or ten of them
01:15:11.160
over there every single one of them is a foreign national how do you feel about inviting people to
01:15:18.900
canada who come from endemically anti-semitic countries in some cases are paid to be anti-semitic
01:15:27.760
agitators we know there's 700 agents of iran in canada global news reported that freedom of speech
01:15:34.840
i believe in it very much too but at what point you say if you're a foreign national and you're
01:15:40.280
bringing your vile hatred here to port i don't want to like use words like support but i think you
01:15:48.160
actually have to know who's coming to canada i think that we should be bringing in people to canada
01:15:53.140
who are going to support our economy are going to add value to the country i don't care about the
01:15:59.600
economy if someone's a jew hater not bring hate to the country like i mean if these people are
01:16:04.600
specifically coming here to change our values and to change the way we live in a democratic society
01:16:14.220
i think that i have a problem with that because i do believe in democracy i believe in the way that
01:16:18.580
we live in the west uh i do believe in free speech but again there's a difference between free speech
01:16:24.080
and hate speech and when i'm hearing hate speech that's what i have a problem with you know democracy
01:16:30.620
a high trust society pluralism non-violence solutions to problems that's the canadian way
01:16:37.360
if you bring in two million migrants a year from countries like afghanistan somalia pakistan they
01:16:45.300
don't share those values i don't think they're deliberately coming here to colonize i think that
01:16:51.000
they just don't integrate or assimilate they brought the worst of pakistan and syria and somalia
01:16:58.140
with them like i don't think most of those people said i'm going to i mean the 700 paid iranian agents
01:17:05.260
sure but i think i think most people who are anti-semitic in canada we just let them in because
01:17:11.720
we never checked okay and i i i don't know enough about the system to comment and i don't again
01:17:17.520
i don't want to say anything that i won't put you on the spot it's nice talking to you well you're
01:17:22.920
very colorful today why are you here because i support israel and i want to actually the real
01:17:29.740
reason i came early is to support david menzies wow fan of his what do you think of the fact that
01:17:35.460
he was arrested for asking questions of the hamas supporters it just goes to show that free speech
01:17:40.680
is dead in this country and the police are arresting a reporter where's the rest of the media
01:17:45.420
where's any where's cbc where's anyone else here right so why does he get arrested he's the only
01:17:51.520
person representing free speech well today we showed up with the reason i'm wearing this hat
01:17:56.840
is out of solidarity with david right on a lot of us went over there and i think there were too many
01:18:02.060
for the police to arrest us all but otherwise i think they would have arrested us again for sure
01:18:07.720
for sure keep up the good work guys nice to see you you too thank you for everything you do right on
01:18:13.660
we've got a lot of our team here we've got drea and alexa and david's on the other side oh david is on
01:18:20.380
the other side okay is he being protected by the police or well the police have decided not to arrest
01:18:26.160
him so far look at that sign we stand with david menzies your sign i like your sign
01:18:32.520
i like the fact that you're standing with david menzies thank you very much
01:18:39.540
david's here i'm gonna make sure he says hi to you
01:18:45.340
what do you think about police on the one hand they have a very tough job
01:18:51.100
on the other hand the law is clear i think we've had an anti-semitic crime wave for a year
01:18:57.000
and they're afraid to do anything about it i think the police are taking their orders from the mayor
01:19:02.440
and not from uh probably not even from their own leadership or the or uh myron demke is taking
01:19:10.380
orders from the mayor who is not sympathetic towards us or even trudeau he met with trudeau
01:19:14.880
privately almost a year ago possibly yeah but i i think i mean metro police uh they report to the
01:19:22.800
mayor of the city do they not so that's what they're taking their orders from olivia chow is clearly not
01:19:28.500
uh sympathetic to our cause she's sympathetic to the to the uh anti-israel lobby and she's directing
01:19:36.340
the police to be a lot more harsh with us than with those guys and um it's uh i don't know and i'm very
01:19:46.080
disturbed by the double standard in policing uh is it not a crime when they scream in defada
01:19:54.160
is that not an excitement to violence well it could be i'm not an expert in that area of the law
01:20:02.060
but i know that there are a lot of other laws the police are ignoring trespass mischief assaults
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uttering threats so even without getting into the hate speech laws they have turned a blind eye to
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real crimes too i thought that inciting the violence was against the criminal law well i think it's two-tier
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policing definitely and um and i was told by a friend who's a lawyer that if you're wearing a mask
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and they're half of them over there are wearing masks yes hi how are you i'm good i'm good thank
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you tell me why you're here uh just to uh get the uh hostages back home and uh support my uh love
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for israel and canada what do you make of the protesters on the other side calling for genocide
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calling for intifada i just literally heard them five minutes ago calling for a genocide why are the
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police so gentle with these foreign provocateurs i think it's like just uh two uh two-tier policing
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it's uh terrible it's uh canada it's uh just disgusting so you you came here because you got
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my email where did you come in from oh just north of here not far well thank you for making the journey
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thank you for what you do we'll keep up the fight you take care of yourself why are you here today
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why are we here today this is week number 59 uh we just want the hostages home
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we come here together as a community to unite together
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to feel a sense of uh solidarity together this has been amazing for our community and unfortunately
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three weeks ago the halloween people over there decided to come and show up and
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feel that they're doing themselves something where we're here together we're dancing we're having
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a good time but we want the hostages home and that's it now why do you think the pro hamas side
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has come into the heart of a jewish neighborhood to to shout anti-semitic epithets to call for genocide
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why did they come into the heart of jewish toronto there's no embassy here there's no government
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buildings it's just apartments in the shopping center why are they here they they really shouldn't
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be here it's they i don't think they were getting attention downtown so now they decided maybe we'll
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get some attention here but at the end of the day let them go where they want to go wherever they want
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to go but not here there's no reason i believe in freedom of speech even for people i disagree with
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but what bugs me is that the police have a double standard last week they arrested our reporter
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david menzies for asking them questions it's like they were doing errands for the pro hamas side
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have you detected a double standard two-tier policing i think the police have had a hard time
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you know because they have to break arms with the other side to get them to stop doing something
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so it is unfortunate because of their jobs they're here to serve and protect and they try to do what
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they can't unfortunately um it's not doing much and this should not be allowed hate has no place
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here anywhere in this world well hate's a human emotion i don't know if you can outlaw hate but you
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can outlaw uttering death threats mischief trespass there's a lot of actual crimes that i think the
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police are turning a blind eye to not just hate but i i feel like they're not taking it seriously
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arson uh mischief vandalism i feel like it's all being swept under the carpet because the police are
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worried if they enforce the law they might have a little intifada on their hands here
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you know and and and at what level who takes the responsibility for that no one is it the mayor
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maybe it's the mayor i mean like doesn't she control what happens for the safety and for the
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public of our community and she hasn't been here oh of course not she would be on the other side if at
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all it is a little unfortunate that our city is being run this way because this doesn't belong in
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our city this doesn't belong in toronto it doesn't belong in canada it doesn't belong in the world
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at the end of the day the world needs no terrorism get rid of it please what do you make of
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the fact that the pro hamas side has targeted the jewish community the residential jewish community
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for their hate march well it's outrageous that they're even allowed to be there uh should be uh it's
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in violation of the criminal code we have the solicitor general who attends these rallies he's
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not enforcing the law it doesn't make any sense they should not be allowed to be in the jewish
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community at all i think i'm slightly more tolerant in terms of free speech but what bugs me is that
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they're clearly violating various actual laws from trespass to mischief to uttering threats to assault
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they assaulted our videographer uh alexa today and the police seem to be afraid of enforcing the law
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i think i'm a little more libertarian than you on the speech side but they hit alexa and the first
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cop said i'm too busy i've got more important things to do i'm worried about the two-tier policing
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it's like a two-tier police system i've seen david menzies beat up by the police i've seen it happen
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to other people they protect them they're giving them a clear bill of health but uh they're not
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enforcing the law well we had a lot of rebels show up that's why i'm wearing this hat i normally don't
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wear this hat so don't judge me or my fashion sense but we're doing it because we want to show
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david will never he's not alone and there's a lot of people who came today to show solidarity with
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david absolutely no we have to stand 100 with david no question about it i do thanks for being here
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and thanks for your kind words thank you very much cheers salman what do you think of the fact
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that they arrested david menzies last week so in canada we need to respect the free speech
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unfortunately arrest of david menzies is a violation of his charter of rights and freedom
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it is disgusting it is unacceptable and you can see that don't terrorist sympathize at the other
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side of the street they are free but police go after david menzies it's shameful tell me again
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about your flag what flag is that this is a lion and sun flag and this is a people's flag in iran
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my origin is iran iranian people we stand against those jihadi sympathizer we stand with israel we
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stand with the canadian value and this flag represent freedom this flag represent the people of iran
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not the ayatollah not the hamas supporters thank you my friend
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there you have it salmon simon look at that david menzies is a journalist stop arresting him
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protect our freedom drop back censorship embrace open convo and criticism thank you for bringing that
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sign thanks for having me here i'm so glad you're here some people come here every week
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uh as a matter of habit but some people came today just because david was arrested
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yes that's right his time five times i think we went across on the other side and police i think
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they looked at how many there was of us and they realized it wouldn't be as easy to arrest all of us
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that's right looks like a fair competition today well thank you for coming and thanks for your sign
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i'm wearing this hat because i'm showing my solidarity with david i i think we might have