Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ RCMP smash free speech in brutal arrest of David Menzies

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I have a heart-to-heart with David Menzies, who just yesterday was

00:00:03.940 arrested and assaulted by the RCMP for daring to ask a question of Chrystia Freeland. We've

00:00:10.540 got the videotape to show it, which is why I really want you to have video access to

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00:00:24.340 to see this with your own eyes. All right, here's today's show.

00:00:30.000 Tonight, David Menzies asks an uncomfortable question of Chrystia Freeland, so he's arrested

00:00:47.500 and assaulted. It's January 9th. This is the Extraordinary Show. Shame on you, you sensorious

00:00:54.920 bug. I'm not sure if you saw the news. More than 10 million people have. It's one of the

00:01:09.280 most viral videos we've ever made. Our friend David Menzies was trying to do a report on Chrystia

00:01:16.860 Freeland and why the government of Canada refuses to identify the Islamic Republican Guard Corps

00:01:22.420 as a terrorist group, which it obviously is. David went to a vigil for a commercial airliner

00:01:31.200 shot down by that terrorist group. He bumped into Chrystia Freeland and thought he'd ask

00:01:36.160 her a few questions. Here's how that went down.

00:01:39.040 Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo 1.00

00:01:46.700 nationalism? What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault. You're under arrest for assault.

00:01:57.820 Police. Police. You're under arrest for assault. How am I under arrest? You bumped into me.

00:02:03.600 You bumped into me. I was just scrubbing. I've got my credentials here and you just bumped into me.

00:02:08.700 So excuse me. Police. You're under arrest for pushing. What is your name in your badge?

00:02:12.380 What is your name in your badge? You've been told you're under arrest. Why am I under arrest?

00:02:17.940 He blocked my way. I was just scrubbing Chrystia Freeland. I'm a police officer. You're under arrest.

00:02:28.380 What is your name in your badge? How is that possible? Okay. Because you assaulted me three

00:02:34.160 years ago when Blackface was attacked. I was very aggressive. You mean I was asking questions 0.99

00:02:40.180 aggressively? No, no. Your actions were. You were almost pushing everybody over.

00:02:46.480 Lincoln, you got this on video, right? He's saying I'm pushing people over? That's an absolute

00:02:51.060 falsehood. So now it appeared that way. That's what you're saying, officer? It appeared that

00:02:55.980 was pushing people. I didn't touch a single person. That was a little bit aggressive for

00:02:59.580 what was happening. Get that. You're under arrest. Please take the microphone out of my face.

00:03:03.480 Well, I'd like an ongoing record of this. Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone?

00:03:08.020 Can I have the microphone? Can you give me? I'm not resisting. Take your hand out.

00:03:13.480 Officer, why am I under arrest? Stop resisting. You don't need to resist. You don't have to say anything.

00:03:21.400 You know the drill. I have nothing to hide, officer. Welcome to Blackfaces Canada. 0.90

00:03:29.040 This is what they do to journalists. I was merely scrumming Minister Freeland and a RCMP officer

00:03:36.000 blocked me and evidently this is now a trumped up charge of assault, folks. I didn't come here

00:03:41.460 to cause any trouble. I came here to do my job and now I'm handcuffed. This is your Canada now,

00:03:50.500 folks. You know, this is the Gestapo taking Blackface's orders. Outrageous. And meanwhile,

00:03:58.180 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization. It's not a terrorist

00:04:05.060 organization. And these liberals have the audacity to show up at a vigil for a plane in which almost

00:04:13.420 200 people were killed. 57 Canadians, one unborn child, by the way. And look at this. They don't

00:04:20.460 want, it is against the law in Blackfaces Canada to ask insensitive questions, impolite questions.

00:04:27.980 So, a Canadian government that props up an Islamo-fascist regime, that's okay. But if you ask 0.97

00:04:37.340 questions about that, that's not okay. This is an absolute outrage. I didn't come here to cause

00:04:45.100 trouble, folks. I just came here to ask questions. That's my cameraman, sir. He's not doing anything.

00:04:51.100 No, I just want to provide some space so that everybody's safe here, okay?

00:04:54.380 Absolutely shocking, but you can see why that video has been seen as I speak to you now more than 10

00:04:59.980 million times. Not only the arrest of a journalist is shocking, but to see how he was assaulted and

00:05:05.980 the police immediately lied about it, tried to gaslight him and make it seem like he did the

00:05:11.020 assaulting when we all saw it on tape. Absolutely astounding. So, for today's show, I would like to

00:05:16.700 play for you a 45-minute conversation between David and I that we recorded a few hours ago. But I thought,

00:05:23.820 this is worth making the Ezra Levant show. So, for the next 45 minutes or so,

00:05:28.300 please enjoy my conversation with David Menzies. I'm not sure if enjoy is the right word,

00:05:33.180 because this is a terrible event, but the fact that we managed to capture it fully on video

00:05:38.940 hopefully can turn it, you know, lemons into lemonade. Here, take a look.

00:05:46.380 Ezra Levant's my name. This is a Rebel News live stream. It's sort of an emergency live stream,

00:05:51.340 as in it's based on events. I'm sitting next to our mission specialist, David Menzies. There's a

00:05:56.860 reason for that. Yesterday, David Menzies was at a vigil for Persian Canadians, because it's the

00:06:05.260 anniversary of an Iranian government terrorist group shooting down a passenger debt, killing

00:06:11.180 dozens of Canadians. And when you were there, you spied with your little eyes. The deputy prime

00:06:17.820 minister had the audacity to show up at this vigil, even though she refuses to declare this Republican

00:06:24.140 Guard terrorist group, a terrorist group. Set the scene, and then we'll play the video that has

00:06:29.100 received 10 million views overnight. David, first of all, thanks for taking the time here. Give us

00:06:35.580 the background, then we'll go straight to the video. Yes, indeed, Ezra. Back in January of 2020,

00:06:41.100 the IRGC shot down a Ukrainian civilian aircraft, 179 people killed, innocent civilians. Oh, and I'll add

00:06:51.740 one more, an unborn baby, which of course the left will never list as a mortality. But in that death

00:07:01.900 toll, 55 Canadians, most of them of Persian descent. And I can tell you, I went to the first vigil back

00:07:09.580 in 2020. And it was very interesting, because there were politicians of every political stripe,

00:07:16.220 and every level, municipal, provincial and federal showing up, with the notable exception of one,

00:07:23.180 even though the venue is actually in the riding of Richmond Hill. And the one person that didn't

00:07:30.060 show up was Majid Johari. And I spoke to people there, and they said it's probably for his own

00:07:35.820 well-being. Because Majid Johari, to this day, is a supporter of the Iranian regime. He has had secret

00:07:44.060 meetings with Iranian government officials in Canada. And I'll tell you, Ezra, I actually live within

00:07:50.540 walking distance of the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts. I've lived in Richmond Hill

00:07:55.180 for 25 years now. There's a huge Persian minority there. I believe it's as much as 14% now. All the 1.00

00:08:02.620 Persians I've met in this last quarter century there have been the greatest people. I have Persian

00:08:08.700 friends. I go to Persian restaurants. I shop at Persian stores. All of them have fled the regime for

00:08:15.420 what happened back in 1979 with the revolution and talk about buyer's remorse. All of them I admire,

00:08:22.540 except, inexplicably, the federal member of parliament, Majid Johari. And if you recall,

00:08:28.700 in 2019, that was the closest riding in Canada. Costas Minigakis, the conservative,

00:08:35.180 he actually went to bed as the winner. But when they counted the mail-in ballots, guess what?

00:08:42.140 So that's some background. You were there for the vigil. And who do you spy but the Deputy Prime

00:08:48.780 Minister, Chrystia Freeland. Let's go to the video now. I want to show folks what happened when David

00:08:55.340 spotted Chrystia Freeland and he did or tried to do some journalism. Take a look at this.

00:09:01.660 Mr. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo 1.00

00:09:10.300 nationalism? What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault. You're under arrest for assault.

00:09:21.420 How am I under arrest? You bumped into me. You pushed into me. I was just scrubbing. I got my

00:09:30.460 credentials here and you just bumped into me. So, excuse me. Police, what is your name in your bag?

00:09:37.740 What is your name in your bag? You've been told you're under arrest. Why am I under arrest? He brought my

00:09:45.020 police officer. How is that possible? Because you assaulted me three years ago when Blackface 1.00

00:10:02.300 You mean I was asking questions aggressively? No, no, your actions were. You were almost pushing

00:10:07.500 everybody over. Lincoln, you got this on video, right? He's saying I'm pushing people over? That's an

00:10:14.380 absolute falsehood. So, now it appeared that way. That's what you're saying, officer? It appeared that

00:10:19.500 was pushing people. I didn't touch a single person. That was a little bit aggressive for what was

00:10:23.420 happening. You're under arrest. Please take the microphone out of my face. Well, I'd like an ongoing

00:10:28.940 record of this. Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone? Can I have the microphone?

00:10:49.740 Welcome to Black Faces Canada. This is what they do to journalists. I was merely scrumming Minister 1.00

00:10:56.780 Freeland and a RCMP officer block me and evidently this is now a trumped-up charge of assault, folks.

00:11:04.300 I didn't come here to cause any trouble. I came here to do my job and now I'm handcuffed. This is

00:11:13.020 your Canada now, folks. You know, this is the Gestapo taking Blackface's orders. Outrageous. And meanwhile,

00:11:21.100 the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not a terrorist organization. It's not a terrorist

00:11:28.780 organization. And these liberals have the audacity to show up at a vigil for a plane in which almost

00:11:37.020 200 people were killed. 57 Canadians, one unborn child, by the way. And look at this. They don't want, 0.94

00:11:44.380 but it is against the law in Black Faces Canada to ask insensitive questions, impolite questions. So

00:11:52.700 a Canadian government that props up an Islamo fascist regime, that's okay. But if you ask questions 0.99

00:12:01.420 about that, that's not okay. This is an absolute outrage. I didn't come here to cause trouble, folks.

00:12:09.340 I just came here to ask questions. That's my cameraman, sir. He's not doing anything.

00:12:14.860 No, I just want to provide some space so that everybody's safe here, okay?

00:12:20.220 Incredible video. First of all, congratulations on keeping you cool. But I want to say something

00:12:26.300 and I can't help but chuckle. You were arrested. They were handcuffing you. There was half a dozen

00:12:32.780 cops on you. And you kept working. You kept asking them questions. You kept talking, you know,

00:12:41.500 you did not stop. And I shouldn't be laughing because the whole thing is so atrocious.

00:12:47.500 It's a bonfire of civil liberties. But David, the menzoid menzies, you know, you would not be stopped. 1.00

00:12:55.980 And I got to tell you, not one in a thousand journalists would have had your self-control

00:13:01.660 and your dedication to mission. And we're glad that you're free. They did arrest you.

00:13:08.140 They did. You heard that bully, that thug. I hear his nickname is the bouncer, which I heard that this

00:13:15.180 morning. If I was a cop, I wouldn't be proud of that because the stereotype of a bouncer is just a

00:13:20.780 tough thug who pushes people around and gets kicks out of him. That's not what you want in policing,

00:13:25.260 self-control. Believe it or not, it's actually the first ingredient for policing.

00:13:30.460 You kept your cool. Absolute stitch up, as the British would say. Entrapment. Gaslighting.

00:13:40.940 They're goddamn liars. The reason that has 10 million views is because it's not just because you were

00:13:47.980 arrested for doing journalism. That's shocking. But we all saw in real time how he tried to trip

00:13:54.060 you. He bumped into you and then said, you're under arrest for assault. And then the other cop with the

00:14:01.020 beard made up this whole story about how you were pushing people around and you were aggressive.

00:14:06.460 It's their lies, their facility with lying, their ease of lying, their love for lying, their natural state,

00:14:13.740 their default state is to lie. They really have taken after their boss, Justin Trudeau.

00:14:19.260 Now, I should say the York Regional Police, who took you into custody, they obviously,

00:14:25.660 I mean, you can tell me what they said in the cop car because I wasn't there.

00:14:29.180 They obviously realized this was BS and let you go. Why don't you, so first of all,

00:14:33.180 I just want to say all those things, but why don't you break some news today? What happened when

00:14:38.140 you were in the cop car? Because we didn't have that on film. Well, Ezra, it was surreal,

00:14:43.180 actually, because they read the rights. Oh, they did give you a caution, legal caution in the car.

00:14:50.620 And they said, do you understand what we're saying? And you can make a phone call to your lawyer.

00:14:57.580 And they originally said, we're going to bring you down to the police station to, I guess,

00:15:02.700 process me, which is on Major McKenzie. I know Richmond Hill very well after living there all

00:15:07.660 these years. And then they, another police officer came up to them. I couldn't hear where it was a

00:15:12.540 conversation. They went, okay. And you were in the back of the car at this point. Were you handcuffed?

00:15:16.540 Yeah. To their credit, they allowed me to have my hands handcuffed here as opposed to behind my back,

00:15:22.300 because even though it's an SUV, it's an incredibly cramped space. I have double hip replacement.

00:15:28.060 If I tried to wiggle my way into there, I could get really injured. So they allowed me. And I said,

00:15:33.180 officers, I'm not going to run away. I'm not going to hurt you. And so they allowed me.

00:15:36.300 It's outrageous that they handcuffed you. I want to say it's outrageous that they arrested you. It's

00:15:40.380 outrageous that they assaulted you, that they falsely imprisoned you, falsely, maliciously

00:15:44.060 prosecuted. All these things are outrageous. But to handcuff you, there is no requirement to

00:15:49.100 handcuff someone when arresting them. In fact, legally, they just have to put their hands on you and say

00:15:53.260 you're under arrest. Right. In fact, they don't even have to do that. Yes.

00:15:57.820 And for them to handcuff you is such a, such a flourish, such a, an abuse, such a

00:16:04.300 theatrical, abusive move. And it was the RCMP, was it the RCMP who cuffed you or the York

00:16:09.740 Regional Police? I think it was the York Regional Police. Okay.

00:16:11.820 That's outrageous. But so there was a conversation. You were in the back, you were cuffed. They were

00:16:16.780 going to take you down to headquarters. And then there was a conversation you didn't hear. And then

00:16:20.540 what? Then the police cruiser starts to drive north. And I know Major McKenzie is south.

00:16:29.980 And we went to a school that had been dismissed. And we went to the back of the school.

00:16:34.060 That school? What's going on?

00:16:36.140 I'm thinking, Ezra, if people know the, the legend of the so-called Cherry Beach

00:16:41.740 Express that the Toronto Police used to bring, uh, some people to, uh, Cherry Beach area for a little,

00:16:47.500 uh, uh, physical interrogation. I'm thinking, that's what I'm thinking. Because why, you know,

00:16:51.820 why would they take you to the back of a school?

00:16:52.460 Yeah. And then they said, change of plans. Um, we're, um, we're going to release you here.

00:16:59.420 At the school?

00:17:00.300 At the school. Uh, it was a short walk back, you know, it wasn't that far. And they said, uh,

00:17:05.820 the reason is that the RCMP officer is, uh, has decided to decline to press charges. So, uh,

00:17:13.500 we're going to let you go. Which, which says a lot, I think, Ezra, because there were multiple

00:17:18.460 eyewitnesses there, including members of law enforcement and, uh, Trudeau security detail.

00:17:23.260 Um, even if he declined to press charges, if they thought it was egregious enough what I did,

00:17:28.540 and I did nothing, uh, they could still say, no, no, no, uh, I, I witnessed that, you know,

00:17:33.420 that attack on Freelander, uh, if you consider, I don't know, the asking of impolite or insensitive

00:17:39.100 questions and attack. And then they said, you know, they took my ID and took it, took out down the

00:17:43.900 notes and, uh, I was free to go. I walked back to the Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts.

00:17:49.340 I was told I've been trespassed there, which is inexplicable, Ezra, because if there's no criminal

00:17:54.860 charge now, uh, why am I being trespassed? But Lincoln was trespassed too. And says who?

00:18:00.940 Says a cop? Says a cop. I said, listen, officer, I'll take your word, but give me a name of who's

00:18:06.700 trespassed. And they said, well, we don't have a name. I think they just might be liars though,

00:18:09.740 David. That's the thing. What I mean, the first 45 years of my life, you would never find a more

00:18:14.380 pro police guy than me. I mean, I would find any rationalization to justify what a cop did.

00:18:19.580 I would say, sure. We saw him beat the tar out of a guy, but we probably didn't see what happened

00:18:24.460 beforehand. I side with the cop. Like I was so blindly pro cop and it was a source of pride for

00:18:29.740 me. And I truly love cops. Now I know there are some good cops out there, but after the, what I saw

00:18:35.420 with policing, first of all, during the lockdowns of the pandemic and, and now how they bring coffee

00:18:43.020 to Hamas protesters, but arrest you and they beat you up. This is the, this isn't the first time that

00:18:48.140 you were roughed up by the PMO RCMP security. I think they're wicked liars. We saw how easily they

00:18:54.940 lied. Like it was so natural to watch them lying to you. Oh, you were aggressive. You were pushing

00:19:00.380 people over. You assaulted me. Like they said, these lies, they're great actors. I can imagine

00:19:05.500 how many times in court, they've just perjured themselves to get a conviction. These guys lying

00:19:11.340 is in their nature. Yeah. You know, 2024 hasn't got off on the right foot in terms of policing.

00:19:16.940 You mentioned, uh, the Toronto police on Saturday at the Avenue road bridge, uh, which is in a heavily

00:19:22.700 Jewish area. That's why they go to that bridge. The Pearl Hamas demonstrators, uh, you know, 0.99

00:19:27.500 suddenly the Toronto police transitioned from cop to Uber Eats driver, giving them Timbits and, uh,

00:19:34.380 and, and coffees. And it's funny, one of the common comments I see in the streams, uh, Ezra is, uh,

00:19:40.380 Menzies, this is on you. You should have been chanting genocide. You know, they wouldn't have 1.00

00:19:46.060 touched you then. Now let's talk about Christia Freeland, that smirking, twitchy, uh, granddaughter of 0.99

00:19:52.460 a Nazi, celebrator of Nazis. I think her grandfather who was a legit Nazi, um, expropriated a Jewish 0.73

00:20:01.180 newspaper in the, in, from a Jew in the Holocaust and turned it into a Nazi propaganda rag. And then

00:20:07.100 Christia Freeland, I don't blame her for what her grandfather did before she was even born,

00:20:10.780 but she tried to hide it and cover it up. And then she celebrated that Nazi, um, uh, Yaroslav 0.75

00:20:17.340 Honka in parliament. And so to watch her smirk as you were arrested on her behalf is so gross.

00:20:28.060 And, uh, unless it's happened in the last 15 minutes we've been on air, she has not yet apologized.

00:20:34.540 She has not disavowed. She has not said anything. And, um, I think Christia Freeland is so gross. 1.00

00:20:42.860 I mean, she's gross in a number of ways, but you might not remember this, but four years ago,

00:20:49.740 uh, the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom had something called a media freedom

00:20:54.380 conference. And Sheila Gunn-Reed and I went over there. And if you can believe it, Christia Freeland

00:20:59.980 was the co-chair of this conference. So Sheila and I were over there in London at this freedom,

00:21:04.540 press freedom conference. Christia Freeland gives a speech and then she has a press conference.

00:21:08.700 So Sheila wants to go. Yes. And Christia Freeland says, no, not you. Yeah. At a media freedom

00:21:15.420 conference. Now in the only time I can remember this happening, the other reporters there said,

00:21:19.580 if you don't let her in, we're not going. That was incredible. And let's make no bones.

00:21:24.540 Those were foreign journalists, uh, coming to bat for you, not the Canadian. They were Canadian

00:21:28.940 stationed overseas. So they weren't part of the auto and mine. Gotcha. But how gross a person are you? 0.99

00:21:34.700 You literally give a speech at a media freedom conference, but like these cops,

00:21:39.180 you're a total inveterate liar. You're a total genetic liar. And so the second you're off the

00:21:45.500 stage talking about media freedom, you're banning and censoring journalists. She is a depraved, 1.00

00:21:50.700 morally depraved, amoral zombie fascist, just like her Nazi grandfather. 0.86

00:21:57.580 I couldn't have said it any better. And there's an added level of perversity

00:22:01.180 here when it comes to Fraulein Freeland Ezra. And it's this once upon a time,

00:22:05.980 before she got into politics, she was a journalist. If you call what she did, 0.98

00:22:09.420 journalism. It was basically, so she was the official biographer to George Soros.

00:22:14.140 Oh, I don't know if you know that. So that's not really journalism. It's propaganda.

00:22:18.220 Um, I want to show you, um, two tweets, if I may, because this is like, let me just check right now.

00:22:24.860 Sure. Um, how many views the video has got? I mean, I, a few moments ago, it was 10 million.

00:22:34.940 Wow. And which is just incredible overnight. Even in the time we've been talking 100,000 more views.

00:22:41.820 So 10.1 million views, just a hundred thousand, just since you and I were talking, I sat down here

00:22:47.580 and I showed you, it was 10 million. Now it's 10.1 million. It's really gaining half a million an

00:22:52.860 hour or more. And that's because it shows the truth of your arrest. It shows these wicked lying

00:23:01.180 RCMP deceivers. And so far, not a single mainstream media outlet has published on this.

00:23:08.620 Uh, True North has Western standard has, um, obviously we have, uh, I feel like I'm,

00:23:14.780 I'm leaving what Epoch times has, but other than that, no, now I, I should mention,

00:23:19.260 I've been reached out to by the global mail and the CBC.

00:23:21.660 So I expect, yeah, first time that's happened in years. Uh, so I'm optimistic, but you know,

00:23:27.020 in a way, this is proof of proof of citizen journalism and social media. You're a citizen

00:23:32.940 journalist asking a question about, uh, the liberals refusing to ban this terrorist group,

00:23:38.460 the Islamic Republican Guard Corps. That's IG, uh, IRGC. But in a way, I don't even care if the CBC

00:23:47.100 or the global mail covers something. I'm glad they are. Let me say that.

00:23:50.780 But when 10.1 million people, that is more than the combined audience of all the TV stations,

00:23:55.900 all the radio stations and all the newspapers in this country, there's not 10.1 people,

00:24:00.860 million people watching the CBC. It's more like a quarter million. Yeah. And there's not 10.1 million

00:24:05.740 people reading newspapers. It's, it's maybe a couple million in the whole country combined.

00:24:11.260 So, um, yeah, I'm glad that the racing media is catching up.

00:24:14.540 I think the numbers are important because I think this is the reason why the likes of the global mail

00:24:19.500 on the CBC, I would argue are reluctantly covering this. You can't ignore, you know, that 800-pound

00:24:26.860 gorilla in the room. I mean, it's, it's going around the world. It's being talked about all around the

00:24:31.020 world. Uh, they're almost, you know, shamed into covering this. And, you know, I got to tell you,

00:24:37.180 Ezra, in a way, this was very much deja vu. As you well know, back in December, 2021, Lincoln,

00:24:43.340 Jay, and I, that's the ace videographer we have on staff. We went down to a downtown Toronto

00:24:49.020 restaurant. And the context was this, it was early December and Trudeau had issued a statement

00:24:55.420 saying, you know, because COVID is so dire, please don't get together with friends and family

00:25:02.860 for Christmas. Okay. But again, one rule for the one rule for me, he's holding a $1,700 plate fundraiser

00:25:10.700 at the Brickworks restaurant. And Lincoln and I, unlike the mainstream media who were, uh, uh,

00:25:17.900 welcomed in, uh, via red carpet, we stood outside in the cold because blackface is always 1.00

00:25:23.580 at least an hour late and we're on a public sidewalk. And I see the video rolling right

00:25:29.580 now. I'm chatting, uh, with, uh, his security detail. Here comes the entourage, typically eight

00:25:35.740 big eight cylinder fossil fuel burning vehicles. No, no EVs or plug-in hybrids here, Ezra. And look,

00:25:43.820 uh, without any kind of identification, uh, I am manhandled. They bring me down the sidewalk.

00:25:50.540 This is all a public sidewalk. And they, uh, I, again, they, well, why did they always do this?

00:25:55.980 Uh, they did it yesterday. They smashed my head into a fence or onto an SUV hood. Uh, I don't get it.

00:26:03.020 In any event, the reason why we were there, I knew we'd only get, um, a chance to ask, uh, Trudeau one

00:26:09.980 question. And it was Mr. Prime Minister, why the double standard? Why are you telling Canadians

00:26:14.860 not to get together with friends and family at Christmas, but you're packing them in like

00:26:18.780 sardines? Oh, there was no social distancing that night. Yeah. Now the guy with the, the cap on,

00:26:24.140 yes, I think he's bald. Is that the same guy who assaulted you yesterday? I don't know.

00:26:30.540 I don't know. Um, but I noticed that you asked that, uh, dollar store Kojak, uh, for his name and

00:26:36.940 his badge number repeatedly. And he refused. Yeah. Which first of all shows cowardice. Second

00:26:41.740 of all shows that he's not a rule follower. Third of all, it shows that he's a rogue cop

00:26:46.780 and that I would call him a dirty cop. I agree. And I think going back to that event,

00:26:50.940 I mean, it's something I can't prove unless, uh, Trudeau fessed up himself. I really believe

00:26:55.740 Ezra that Trudeau saw me on that sidewalk. He knows who we are. I have the rebel news,

00:27:01.420 Mike flash for goodness sake. I have my trademark hat on. And I really believe he said to a

00:27:06.620 security detail boys, give them the works because why on earth would, um, Royal Canadian

00:27:13.180 mounted police officers on their own volition, jump out of the SUVs and rough me up like that?

00:27:19.100 Well, I think that, um, the RCMP, uh, VIP security detail, the bodyguards,

00:27:24.860 they have hung out with Trudeau so much and they have drunk the Kool-Aid. And instead of being a

00:27:29.500 professional police force, they are his personal errand boys. And you're very identifiable in a number of

00:27:36.380 reasons, including your hats. And they just, Oh, David Menzies, let's go beat him up. They don't

00:27:40.940 have the courage to take on a hundred Hamas protesters. They're not brave enough for that. 0.67

00:27:46.860 But they'll take on a fellow like you, who, as you mentioned, has two artificial hips and you're 0.60

00:27:52.300 a journalist and you don't fight back. So they're very, very courageous beating you up. I should tell

00:27:57.020 our viewers that we're suing those cops for what they did, uh, at the Brickworks restaurant two

00:28:03.260 Christmases ago. And I had a call late last night with one of our best lawyers named Sarah Miller.

00:28:10.780 She's great. And I know her work because she has defended a number of cases for the democracy fund,

00:28:17.900 including a very difficult case involving pastor Arthur Pavlovsky. And Pavlovsky was convicted

00:28:26.860 of keeping his church open during the lockdowns.

00:28:29.100 He lost at trial. That's a tough, when you, when you lose a trial and you appeal,

00:28:34.060 the odds are against you. But, uh, Sarah Miller got that overturned three to zero in a precedent 0.97

00:28:40.540 setting case. It was a huge victory. I've, I've watched her work. I've read her work and she,

00:28:47.180 I talked to her at length yesterday and I want to tell our viewers

00:28:51.260 that just because the cops say they're done with you doesn't mean we're done with the cops,

00:28:58.380 especially that dirty Kojak. Yeah. And so we'll wait until the legal documents are finalized. 1.00

00:29:05.180 Sarah, you know, we only gave her the file last night. Obviously it only happened yesterday afternoon.

00:29:09.260 Yep. But in my mind, I see a false arrest charge, obviously. Yes.

00:29:15.740 Malicious prosecution, even though you're only, they were only proceeding against you for probably an hour,

00:29:20.780 it was still false, false imprisonment when you were arrested, handcuffed and put in the back of a

00:29:27.340 car and then dumped off at a school. And of course you yourself were the one who was assaulted.

00:29:32.700 And that last one really bugs me because like I say, they didn't need to handcuff you. They didn't

00:29:39.020 need to smash your face against a wall. Like literally what was that other than their abusiveness?

00:29:45.020 I think they violated your physical, the rights to physical integrity. And remember that all this was

00:29:50.300 done in the context of your doing legitimate public interest journalism in a public place,

00:29:56.620 on a public person, the deputy prime minister, on a very important cause. So I think your charter rights

00:30:02.860 were violated as well, including your freedom of the press. You are a journalist.

00:30:06.780 So those dirty cops may be done with you, but as God is my witness, we are not done with them.

00:30:14.620 And I'm going to leave the details to the expert, Sarah Miller, but it is my plan

00:30:21.580 to sue these dirty cops to infinity, to sue them until Jesus returns and brings with him,

00:30:29.260 you know, the second coming. Am I going to live that long?

00:30:31.740 Yes. Well, whatever it is, we will pursue these dirty

00:30:35.500 bastards until the end, especially those two wicked liars, the Kojak guy who was the thug, 1.00

00:30:42.860 the bully, the bouncer as his nickname is, and the bearded manipulator, the gaslighter who said, 0.65

00:30:49.100 oh, you were pushing everyone around. You were aggressive. You wicked liar. You grotesque liar.

00:30:56.540 You imposter. That is, he was acting as a criminal, not as a cop. And if I may, could you imagine

00:31:10.460 if that was just me with like, say a tape recorder, no video? We're toast.

00:31:15.900 We're toast. It's, it's, we, you know, when I hear viewers, uh, pitch stories to us and you know,

00:31:21.580 something going sideways, uh, with, uh, law enforcement or security, the very first thing

00:31:25.900 I say is, do you have video? And when they say no, I said, this is going to be a Herculean effort.

00:31:30.700 Yeah. He said, she said, yeah. And that is the society we live in right now. It's almost as

00:31:35.500 as though if it's not on video, it did not.

00:31:37.420 Well, as the kids say, Pixar didn't happen. And that's why we should take a minute to give

00:31:41.420 kudos to Lincoln J. Yes. Uh, your videographer who has been with you in so many of these dramatic

00:31:46.460 moments and, and keeps his cool and keeps that camera rolling. And, uh, I mean, I'm chuckling

00:31:52.540 again that you kept doing journalism even after you were arrested.

00:31:55.740 You know, I was surprised, Ezra, because usually when you are under arrest, they right away take away,

00:32:00.300 uh, like everything, your, your, your cell phone, your wallet, your wristwatch, everything.

00:32:04.300 And, uh, here I am still doing journalism. And I think, you know, in the back of my head is,

00:32:09.980 how long can I rag the puck? I mean, like, no, you're, you, you, you did such a great job there.

00:32:15.580 I want to say that, um, there were a couple of cops next to you. One cop, I'm going to describe

00:32:20.700 him as a black man, um, who was with the York regional police. He seemed actually not thrilled

00:32:26.780 with what was going on. He seemed to be reluctant. He helped get your stuff back together.

00:32:33.660 Yes. Uh, he was like, do you have any words about the York regional police? Because it

00:32:39.180 seems to me that the two thugs basically wanted to arrest you, but the York regional police said,

00:32:45.180 there's no arrestable matter here. Yeah. Um, that officer you speak of, um,

00:32:50.220 I got that impression too, that he was downright embarrassed. This was happening. And I found him

00:32:54.860 to be a nice guy. I talked to him briefly when I was released. Um, these guys have been dispatched,

00:33:00.620 you know, to bring me to the police cruiser. The York regional police officer I have content

00:33:05.660 for is the guy in the back, the plane clothes. Uh, uh, I guess he's York. Is he York regional?

00:33:10.140 I thought he was an RCMP. No, he is York regional because he was, as you said, Ezra,

00:33:14.780 he was lying through his team. He was the liar. Okay. I didn't know he was York regional.

00:33:17.820 He is York regional. Okay. So the, he, yeah, you know what? Isn't that funny? I thought he was RCMP based on,

00:33:23.580 um, his attire. And, and we should point out that, you know, and like you, I, I like to back the blue

00:33:31.580 and I think most cops, I really do are hardworking men and women and they've got a tough job. I mean,

00:33:38.460 when you're dealing with hooligans, gang bangers, I mean, you know, you put your life on the line

00:33:42.860 sometimes, but with York regional police and I've had good experiences with them, but I had a really

00:33:47.660 bad one. If you recall back, Ron McClain, Ron, can you imagine Ron? Like forget about blackface, 1.00

00:33:54.220 the prime minister, Ron McClain is royalty. And that was when I was manhandled, physically assaulted.

00:34:01.340 That's also a case because they didn't want, uh, this Judas being asked questions, uh, police,

00:34:08.940 police are really becoming woke. They're being colonized by politics. And I think it's a disgrace

00:34:14.380 to the profession. Now, um, um, I'm, I'm mindful of the time is 1241 Eastern time.

00:34:19.740 And I know that you have a series of other interviews lined up, including in the United

00:34:23.580 States. Um, now you're starting to get some Canadian invitations, I think.

00:34:27.900 Yes. Uh, typically from the independent media. So, um, you know, Mark Petroni at, uh,

00:34:33.980 Saga 960 and him and Richard Serrett are kicking out of the ballpark. Andrew Lawton at True North,

00:34:39.980 of course. And, um, I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two, but yeah. Um, and I'm happy to

00:34:46.220 give my time and tell the story and really Ezra, doesn't the video tell the story? And I'll tell

00:34:50.380 you why we have millions of fans and supporters that's undeniable, but we also have our haters.

00:34:57.820 And I can't tell you the number of comments I've read. And this speaks to how egregious what happened

00:35:03.740 to me was yesterday that say, I'm not a fan of rebel news. I'm not a fan of, um, Ezra Levant.

00:35:09.900 I'm not a fan of, uh, David Menzies, but yeah, you know, and it's the, but, but holy cow. Yeah.

00:35:16.380 This is so, uh, beyond the pale that, uh, I have to call it out. It's garbage. Yeah.

00:35:22.780 I've noticed that as well. I mean, it really is more than 99% supportive. Uh, I can, there,

00:35:28.300 there, there are a couple of people who, um, like, like it's, it's so overwhelming because

00:35:33.660 again, there's no need for commentary. We're, we're chatting about it because it's an interesting

00:35:37.100 thing to us. Um, but you just watched the raw video and you know exactly what happened.

00:35:42.700 Um, when you do these other shows, let me invite you to tell people that they can help you. And here's

00:35:48.620 why. Um, I have been suing the federal government for years. Uh, I think we have seven lawsuits right

00:35:56.460 now against Justin Trudeau in various capacities. And in every single case, the government lawyers

00:36:03.260 up hugely. Uh, typically a rebel versus Trudeau legal battle is one or two lawyers on our side

00:36:11.180 versus four, five, six, seven lawyers on the other side. Last time I was in court,

00:36:15.580 I think there were seven lawyers on the other side. Um, money's no object to them. Of course.

00:36:20.380 Cause it's our money. And so, and they have the justice department and they sometimes do both.

00:36:25.580 They have a justice department lawyer. Plus they use tax dollars to hire an outside expert firm.

00:36:30.940 Like it's astonishing. And if we sue the dirty cops here, um, both police forces and Christian Freeland,

00:36:40.860 they are probably going to spend a million dollars pushing back. There's no way

00:36:44.300 that they would roll over on this. So how do we fight that David and Goliath battle? Well,

00:36:49.260 we set up the website called standwithdavid.com and, um, Sarah Miller is not expensive, but she's

00:36:58.060 not cheap. And this will be a long battle because they're going to fight us on everything.

00:37:03.260 Yeah. So if you can remember on these, just say, folks, if you want to help me,

00:37:07.740 we do need to crowdfund my legal defense at standwithdavid.com because we really do need that help.

00:37:13.820 Um, and it's very exciting right now, but six months, 12 months, 18 months from now,

00:37:18.300 when we're really in the thick of the lawsuit, that's when the bills will start to rack up.

00:37:21.980 So we really need folks help now.

00:37:23.580 And I'm just so honored that our audience would contribute again, going back to our haters as

00:37:29.180 what I always find perversely ironic. They'll obviously say, oh, there goes rebel news, uh,

00:37:33.980 begging again. Wait a minute. I believe this is the most honest way of fundraising.

00:37:39.020 There is absolutely. We're not taking government money. If you like us, you know, and, uh, you know,

00:37:43.900 and you can, you're in a position to give a few bucks. Great. If you don't, you can still watch

00:37:47.580 most of our content, but the mainstream media takes it out of your bank account, assuming it's

00:37:52.620 not frozen that every two weeks. Oh, absolutely. The average gift to rebel news is $58. And I mentioned

00:37:59.100 that because first of all, you will never know who the donors are. I don't check who's given 58 bucks.

00:38:05.500 Um, so, so you're guided only by your conscience and, and, and serving the viewer. There's no

00:38:12.700 one big oligarch benefactor who you have to please. And, um, we, we take no government money. We're not

00:38:20.700 part of a corporate conglomerate. Um, we don't have a, an angel oligarch investor. It is the most

00:38:28.060 honest way to operate. And when I was growing up, when I went to law school, I guess that's 30 years ago

00:38:34.860 now I would read cases about free speech battles in the courts. And there was always a lawyer,

00:38:41.180 a top civil liberties lawyer that was hired by a consortium of broadcasters. So there would be one

00:38:47.420 excellent lawyer and CTV and global and CBC and the Toronto star and the global mail would each chip

00:38:54.540 in, let's say a couple grand enough to put together a little kitty. And they would send a top gun civil 0.99

00:39:00.620 liberties lawyer to court to seek intervener status and say, your honor, I'm here on behalf of the

00:39:05.660 whole industry. I'm here on behalf of a bunch of competitors who disagree on everything except for

00:39:11.820 we've got to defend free freedom of the press. That's how it used to be. You can look back at all

00:39:16.940 these cases and there was a lawyer for what they called the consortium. And it was basically every

00:39:22.140 time there was a free speech battle, everyone in the industry knew they had to pony up a couple of

00:39:25.820 grand because that way, all for one and one for all, everyone believed in free press. And that

00:39:32.220 way it didn't fall to one company. That has not happened in over a decade. And so who will fill

00:39:38.220 the void? Who went to court to bust down their ban on rebel news at the leaders' debate? Well,

00:39:43.820 we have to do that on our own. There was no interveners there. Who went to court to fight for

00:39:48.140 my book, the Libranos? We were there by ourselves. Who's going to take these cops on? This morning,

00:39:53.740 I checked the Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression,

00:39:57.900 Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Amnesty International, Penn Canada, and the Committee

00:40:02.620 for the Protection of Journalists. I checked six different organizations. None of them had

00:40:06.860 anything to say about your case. Unbelievable. None of them. Do you think if Stephen Harper had

00:40:11.500 arrested a CBC journalist, they'd be silent? Oh, there'd be a royal commission. And Ezra,

00:40:16.140 you know, isn't it scary how quickly things have changed? Because as you well know,

00:40:19.900 before Rebel News, before there was Sun News, you were the publisher of the Western Standard.

00:40:24.460 You were one of the brave individuals in North America to actually publish that Muhammad caricature. 0.98

00:40:31.820 And that resulted in a Human Rights Commission shakedown, of course. But back then, and I can't

00:40:38.940 remember who went to bat for you, but there were those in the mainstream media, if not financially

00:40:43.340 supporting you, saying, no, he has every right to do it. If you publish that cartoon today,

00:40:48.220 I don't think that support would be there at all. Oh, absolutely not. In fact, they would be the

00:40:53.020 ones calling for the prosecution. We've got to go in about five minutes, because we've got to get

00:40:59.100 you ready for the series of interviews you're doing. It's great to see you.

00:41:02.700 It's great to see you. And I was in the middle of some dental surgery yesterday. I get the phone

00:41:07.900 call from you. And I'm sorry it was not more available yesterday, but thank God you're okay.

00:41:13.340 And we will, they started this fight. We will finish it. I swear on the altar of God that we

00:41:19.580 will take this the distance I am. I will do, I will spend my last dollar on this, but hopefully I

00:41:26.380 won't have to do that. Hopefully our viewers will help. Well, you know, I will never let this go.

00:41:30.380 Thank you, Ezra. Well, you know what? I just won't. I just won't. And it would be great if

00:41:37.100 other people helped, but I have to tell you that there's nothing more important than this. We all

00:41:41.660 saw exactly what happened. We all saw the lying, the gaslighting. We all saw the false arrest,

00:41:46.140 the false imprisonment. We all saw the assault. We all saw that smirking fascist walk by. And if that

00:41:53.100 doesn't prick people to action, well then by God, I don't know what does. I want to show a couple of

00:41:57.420 tweets. Okay. Cause there is a politician I want to give some credit to. Can you call up

00:42:02.060 Pierre Polyev's two tweets on the subject? So last night his tweet is, and he did this late at night,

00:42:09.980 11 PM, but fair enough. I mean, at least he did. It was the first politician to do it. He said,

00:42:14.700 he retweeted the video. This is the state of freedom of the press in Canada in 2024 after eight

00:42:21.740 years of Trudeau. And scroll down. I want to see the view count on this.

00:42:27.340 1.7 million views. So good for him. People are obviously attentive. And then just at 1203,

00:42:33.980 just after we started our broadcast, he had a followup tweet, which I think showed a little

00:42:40.860 bit more courage. He was leaning into it. Well, the first one was, listen, give the guy credit.

00:42:44.780 And then at 1203 Eastern time today, he said this, a journalist was arrested for questioning

00:42:51.420 a liberal minister and the parliamentary press gallery doesn't say a word. Not surprised.

00:42:57.340 Trudeau has divided media into two groups, those he's bought off with bailouts and those he censors

00:43:02.060 and has arrested. Sign here to support a free press. And, and that tweet has over a thousand,

00:43:07.900 a hundred thousand views. Um, and it's not even an hour. Yeah. So this tells me

00:43:13.260 that like on so many other issues, the government is out of step with the zeitgeist of the people.

00:43:20.140 And it's a flicker of hope. And I know that Andrew, uh, Aaron O'Toole or Andrew Scheer would have been

00:43:28.860 much more reticent about, Oh my God, it's rebel news. And, and hopefully the conservative party will

00:43:34.780 get over that a bit. I saw another conservative MP, whose name I can't recall, tweeted. I was taught,

00:43:39.340 I spoke to the same journalist and I didn't need to call the cops. Did you see that one today?

00:43:43.020 No, I did not.

00:43:43.740 There was, I, I just, you know what? I'll, I'll dig that. Oh, we've got that one here.

00:43:49.100 Anna Roberts. I forget where she's the MP from. She said the same reporter questioned me

00:43:53.340 at the same event and I didn't need him to be arrested. How many views on that one? That's

00:43:57.580 a great one. That's 42,000. Good for her for saying that a bit of a sense of humor there too. 0.96

00:44:02.220 Yeah. So, um, listen, we are, we have only just begun to fight and, um, I'm going to keep our

00:44:09.260 viewers posted. I, I know Sarah Miller's work. I mean, I'm just really excited that she's taken

00:44:14.380 this file. Um, it's Tuesday. We have to get a few more facts together. We've got to make sure we,

00:44:20.220 we cover the bases on the law, but I expect that we will be filing this lawsuit this week.

00:44:25.580 And when that happens, I can assure you, I will publish the full, I mean, you'll obviously have

00:44:30.940 to approve this because you will be a plaintiff as will Rebel News. Um, I think we've got to sue

00:44:35.500 all the cops and Christia Freeland. Um, I think there's at least, I think I can think of five

00:44:41.180 causes of action as the lawyers would say, and we'll publish the lawsuit because we will need

00:44:46.300 help for it. Because I know that already when you've got 10 million views, they know they're

00:44:54.620 in trouble and I want to get these bad guys. I want to stand up for freedom of the press

00:45:00.300 and against dirty cops. You know what? You need to throw out the bad apples before they 0.74

00:45:04.860 rot the whole barrel. And what I saw, there was a couple of dirty cops who were going to

00:45:08.540 rot the whole barrel. So we do need help and stand with david.com. We've got about three

00:45:13.020 minutes left before we have to go. Um, you're doing a bunch of shows today. I think you're

00:45:18.220 doing the Ingram angle on Fox. You're doing Breitbart radio. Maybe I hope so. Yep.

00:45:23.340 I think Newsmax reached out to you. Correct. Yes. You're doing Saga 960. You do

00:45:28.220 Mark Petroni, Richard Surrett, probably. Uh, I've had some inquiries from the CBC and the

00:45:32.620 Global Mail. I just had an inquiry from John Oakley show. So the media is, is waking up.

00:45:37.500 Adrian Humphries from the National Post just emailed me while we're on the show here.

00:45:41.260 So I think even our competitors in the regime media realize this is a big story. And frankly,

00:45:47.500 they can get on board or not. 10 million people have gotten their news elsewhere. In fact,

00:45:51.500 I checked, it was 10.1 million last we looked. And, and the reason I'm pointing about this is

00:45:56.780 it's just the raw footage, but people are so infuriated by it. I should tell you,

00:46:01.420 we're at 10.3 million views just in the last hour, another 200,000.

00:46:05.340 And you know something as we're at the end of the day, what a PR disaster for blackface, 1.00

00:46:10.540 because he came there to curry favor with the Persian Canadian community, you know, to, uh,

00:46:16.220 first of all, I can't believe he or any other federal ministers showed their face because it's

00:46:21.980 been four years and no action on the IRGC. And even what blackface said yesterday, we'll look at 0.88

00:46:29.740 methods. We'll consider putting the IRGC. Well, what's the look at? You're, you're, you're,

00:46:35.500 you're a prime minister with a de facto majority government.

00:46:38.300 There's been years to consider things. He's just a wicked liar. And, and you can see a fish

00:46:42.860 rots from the head down the dirty cops who protect him and obviously are mimicking him. 0.55

00:46:50.380 Well, what do you think of that? That's our show for today until tomorrow,

00:46:54.700 on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home. Good night.

00:46:58.780 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:47:08.300 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 10, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ RCMP smash free speech in brutal arrest of David Menzies

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