EZRA LEVANT ο½ Tommy Robinson's fight for free speech lands him in solitary confinement β inside a prison for terrorists
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 6 minutes
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158.71005
Summary
On the eve of Tommy Robinson's hearing on Monday, he was arrested and charged with contempt of court for a film he made about censorship. He is now facing up to 2 years in prison. Ezra explains why this should not have happened.
Transcript
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Tonight, Tommy Robinson's Last Days of Freedom.
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It's October 28th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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for some very interesting events touching on freedom of speech
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As I always say when I come to the United Kingdom,
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it's like getting into a dystopian time machine.
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What happens in the UK today often happens in Canada tomorrow,
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Tommy Robinson was having a huge rally in the centre of the city
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Let me show you the course of my day in central London
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at Tommy Robinson's protest without Tommy Robinson.
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is not the UK I learned about in law school in Canada.
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I just touched down at Heathrow Airport in London.
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I'm going to make my way downtown to Parliament Square,
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is that Tommy Robinson himself will not be there.
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Now, that only applies to terrorists, of course,
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because he wouldn't give them the password to his phone,
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his phone where he has journalistic stories, legal matters.
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I mean, Tommy Robinson is a citizen journalist.
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I think the fact that he has a hearing on Monday
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This was going on under the Tories before them.
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to interfere with his peaceful protest tonight.
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Well, folks, I'm with Esser, and she is wearing this signage, Tal Shoham.
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He's a kidnap victim from October 7th of last year.
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And Esser, you have a personal connection with this kidnap victim, don't you?
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Tal was on vacation in BΓ©ry when the attack occurred.
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All his family from BΓ©ry were kidnapped, and him and his family who were visiting there.
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A number of them were killed, including his father.
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There were about three or four from the family that were killed.
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They've all been returned, including Tal's wife and children.
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Tal is the only family member that's still in Gaza.
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We don't know how he's doing because we just don't know.
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So I'm a Lebanese person, and I stand with Israel.
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I want the world to know that not all Lebanese people are with Palestine, and I want people
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to know that the Palestinians and the Syrians have massacred Lebanese people in Lebanon.
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Cowards that don't show their faces, that aren't Canadian, they want to destroy all of our values.
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Well, folks, I'm with Carol, and Carol told me off camera her father is a Holocaust survivor.
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You know, Carol, what does your father say about this?
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I mean, we're not even a century removed from the Holocaust, and I would imagine people living
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in a country like Canada, they would never have dreamed to see chants for the genocide
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It's totally unbelievable for his kids and grandchild as well, because we've heard all
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He was in four concentration camps, was started out in Birkenau, and actually he was in, he
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was actually chosen to go into the gas chamber by Mengele, and he, by some miracle, he was in
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the gas chamber, undressed, and it was on Yom Kippur, the door opened, and the Germans needed 13 men to
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Yeah, he spoke Yiddish, so he understood the German.
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So he survived four death camps and the death march.
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Well, folks, I'm with Renat, and she is the person who has rented this jumbotron-equipped truck,
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And so, Renat, what, I guess, motivated you to bring this truck to this demonstration today?
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Thank you so much for having us on with you guys, and my girlfriends are here with me.
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We're in the fashion business, and we felt after October the 7th that people were not speaking
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I took it into my professional hands to do a photo shoot.
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So what I'm trying to explain to the public and what I'm trying to explain to our community
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I'm with Aaron Adeda, and Aaron, try to make sense of this for me.
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Once again, we see about, I don't know, a dozen police officers interrogating somebody who was
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That crowd is chanting genocide, but nothing to see here, folks.
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Well, we've been coming here for over 55 weeks peacefully, without incident, without issues.
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They decided that they were going to come and disrupt that to do exactly this, to look
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for any opportunity to have somebody arrested or detained or questioned or whatever.
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And we're not having it because nobody on this side has done anything in over 55 weeks.
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Well, see, I'm not in the way of the police car, officer.
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It's a, it's a, can you tell me why he's being arrested?
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Why are you turning a blind eye to people chanting genocide across the street, officer?
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Well, folks, I'm with the man's wife, Michelle Goldkind.
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Michelle, why is your husband cuffed in the back of this police SUV?
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All we know is that he has been arrested for threatening, I don't know, violence or something.
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The other side has been chanting death to Israel, death to Canada, death to Jews.
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And my husband is being taken away in cuffs by six policemen.
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But they won't tell me exactly why, what the allegations are.
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Well, Michelle, this sounds to me the very definition of two-tier policing.
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It's total double standards, complete double standard.
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But you're telling the police to remove me to the other side.
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Yeah, well, I think we're under Canadian law, not Sharia law.
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Because you're a human being and you have humanity inside you.
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Will you be wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day?
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Ask the police, ask everybody to be on different sides.
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I'm a member of the media, so I can be on a public...
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I thought we were under Canadian law, not Sharia law.
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The police officers are asking everybody to be separated.
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Officer, are we under Canadian law or Sharia law right now?
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Why are you taking orders from these thugs, officer?
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When I was there, I got pushed by the sergeant.
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Again, folks, they are bending the knee to the mob.
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You can see my mic was damaged when he reached out to it.
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So, folks, to prove the point of two-tier policing, we were once again assaulted.
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And to compound things, one of the members of the Hitler Youth Movement stole my mic flash.
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And the response by the police is for me to get across the street.
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Why are you taking orders from these thugs, officer?
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When I was there, I got pushed by the sergeant.
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I'm practicing public journalism in the public interest.
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But clearly, the city of my birth and the Dominion of Canada, we are under Sharia law, not Canadian law anymore.
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We've got the members of the Toronto Police Service acting like the Gestapo in some Islamic republic.
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But the protest behind us on the other side is about hate.
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We need to stop anti-Semitism in the city of Toronto.
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And our people have to stand up for our rights.
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Media and the leftist universities have been hijacked by the leftists.
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And the ability to think clearly and critically and know what is evil and what is good and justice.
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And many other media that are similar to Rebel.
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I really think that the people across the street are made up of all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
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And there are those amongst those demonstrators who know what we're going through.
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But they've been so brainwashed that they don't understand and they don't get it.
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But I thoroughly believe that there are people on, quote, quote, the other side that want peace with us.
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Because they're being led by some, I don't know, people who we call, they're worse than animals, you know.
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But cooler minds can sit down and work this thing out that's been around for so long.
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I hope to God, God help us, Am Yisrael Chai, that everyone sit down and work this out.
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It'll take a couple of generations because hate doesn't disappear overnight.
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The pro-Hamas crowd are chanting genocide from the river to the sea.
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And at the end of the day, we know who they are.
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And unfortunately, you know, the police, I guess, are trying to do the best they can.
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But they should not have allowed them to come at all.
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If you had the ear of Mayor Olivia Chow, of Police Chief Myron Demke, what would you tell them?
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Where were you on October 7th to memorialize the 1,200 Jews, including Canadians, that were killed?
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Why is it you're able to show up for a Halloween costume party for kids,
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but you can't show up to support the Jewish people of Canada?
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We had COVID, and now we have a mental disease called anti-Semitism.
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And the bottom line is it's not fashionable to be anti-Semitic.
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I just want to thank Rebel News and all that you do for us.
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We really need a voice against all of these disgusting monsters
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who have nothing better to do than to make a country better.
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We're only 2% of the world population. It's unbelievable.
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This is not the Canada that we grew up in, nor is it the Canada that we want to stay in.
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And there's no future in a Canada with two-tier policing and unfairness.
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They want death not just to Jews, Jews to Canadians, Jews to Americans.
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Anybody that's not part of their antifada and part of Islam, they want dead.
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They're going to destroy our country and the world if we don't take action together.
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What did you make, a man, of Mayor Chow snubbing the one-year vigil for the...
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How does this play out? How long is this going to go on for?
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And how long are our politicians and our police force going to tolerate this?
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When Justin Trudeau leaves this office, things are going to change.
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And we need to see change today. And change is coming soon.
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They don't support Canada. And as far as I'm concerned, if you don't support Canada,
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you're not proud to be Canadian, get out. Leave. Go back to where you came from.
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They're stepping on Israeli flags. They're burning Canadian flags.
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They're burning American flags. Like, how disrespectful is that?
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If you live in this country, be proud to be Canadian.
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We have lots of flags, Canadian flags, not just Israeli flags,
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and American flags as well, because we are peace-loving people.
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And really, the reality is, they've covered their faces.
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We don't know who they are. And we have our faces exposed.
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We are exposed. We're saying to you, we are living here in Toronto.
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Aside from what's going on in Israel right now,
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we must stand here and fight anti-Semitism in Toronto,
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And folks, I should add, we're not here just to report the news.
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We brought along our beautiful Rebel News truck.
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Behind me, it is showing the message, bring them home.
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That would be the kidnap victims of October 7th, 2023.
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so that we can keep our beautiful truck on the road.
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Well, it's Monday night, and Tommy Robinson is in Belmarsh Prison,
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They're trying to break him and trying to break his movement.
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Nine months in that prison, solitary confinement,
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Tommy's done it before, not quite nine months in solitary.
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and many visitors and friends, we'll get through it.
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keep fighting for freedom while you still have it.
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If that's Schweyn to the right that you're feeling or not,