Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Yesterday in Peterborough： I fought the law, and the law won

00:00:00.000 tonight yesterday in peterborough i fought the law and the law won but did they really

00:00:21.360 it is tuesday august 23rd 2022 i'm david menzies and this is the ezreal event show

00:00:30.000 hey folks we finally had our day in court in the charming city of peterborough ontario

00:00:50.880 otherwise known as the municipality where freedom goes to die under the ever watchful gaze of a potty

00:00:58.960 mouth mayor i'll cut to the chase i was found guilty yesterday of the heinous crime of not social

00:01:06.720 distancing and or masking when we covered a protest at peterborough's confederation park

00:01:13.680 back on april 24th 2021 but what my conviction really indicates i think is that governments

00:01:23.120 police forces and even the courts are politically motivated when it comes to those who dare stand up

00:01:30.160 for their charter rights such as freedom of assembly freedom of speech and yes even freedom of the press

00:01:38.000 freedom to some is the new f word after all by way of background rebel news decided to attend the

00:01:45.440 peterborough anti-lockdown rally that day given that two notable speakers would also be attending

00:01:52.560 namely randy hillier the interior pc mpp who was thrown out of caucus for raising impolite topics at

00:02:00.960 queens park and maxine bernier the leader of the people's party of canada an estimated 600 people

00:02:08.240 attended the rally at confederation park which made for the largest anti-lockdown protest to occur

00:02:14.640 in peterborough almost everyone in attendance chose not to wear masks which we know are about as useful

00:02:22.800 in preventing the spread of covid as the various covid 19 vaccines are which is to say not very useful at

00:02:31.040 all as well since confederation park is less than three acres in size it should be noted that it was

00:02:37.840 impossible for a crowd of some 600 people to socially distance even if they had wanted to

00:02:45.200 now prior to the event peterborough mayor diane therian rolled out the welcome wagon for the demonstrators

00:02:52.480 no that's not true if there is a welcome wagon in peterborough it's in the hands of the

00:02:58.080 repo man these days indeed here's what mayor therian tweeted back then quote as a decent person if i think

00:03:07.040 my actions might harm others i reconsider those actions these clowns don't gaf about your well-being

00:03:16.240 and if you're upset about my unprofessional language but not upset about endangering others well g f y end

00:03:26.000 quote oh such diplomacy from such a decent person now at first it looked like the esteemed members of

00:03:35.600 the peterborough police service would allow the protest to carry on unmolested you know just like

00:03:42.160 black lives matter protesters uh had free reign of the park during the previous summer they were allowed

00:03:49.280 to protest without a permit and when it came to the coppers not only did they put away their ticket books

00:03:56.240 but they bent the knee in solidarity with the demonstrators we're told to follow the science

00:04:01.840 when it comes to covet 19 folks so i believe the science states that the coronavirus respects marxist blm 0.99

00:04:10.880 protesters but it absolutely loathes anti-lockdown pro-freedom demonstrators i don't know if that is based on

00:04:19.760 medical science or weird science now as i mentioned at first blush it looked like the peterborough police

00:04:27.920 were going to do the right thing which would be to simply observe the demonstration ah but that changed

00:04:35.600 when mr bernier and mr hillier left the stage and walked through the park that's because the police

00:04:42.560 decided to cause an unnecessary scene by ticketing them check it out

00:04:52.720 no no no no no that's not going to help go back into your speeches

00:04:55.760 boo you don't be lying to me you don't be lying to me

00:04:58.960 will they make their kids live in the gulag of fear that they're instilling or trying to

00:05:23.680 do will they or will they have a backbone will they have some gumption will they have principles

00:05:32.080 will they have any conviction to their oath of office

00:05:35.920 i don't want a society show me your papers we don't want that

00:05:52.320 trying to intimidate us

00:05:56.640 barricading the roads trying to block people from coming in and showing their opposition to this

00:06:05.680 de facto police state that ontario is in

00:06:17.840 now this was a completely needless act of provocation after all the cops could have later served bernier

00:06:26.640 and hillier with a summons after the fact at their home residences this is not speculation folks this is

00:06:34.720 a fact and exhibit a is yours truly because several days after this demonstration i was served with a

00:06:43.840 summons at my richmond hale residence check it out yeah i'm going to give him his court documents his

00:06:49.680 court documents yeah oh yeah so he missed his other appointment but they're being pretty flexible because

00:06:55.120 of covid19 so how do you spell your first name my first name yes l-o-r-y-n l-o-r-y-n yeah the same last name

00:07:04.640 yep menzies 0.99

00:07:09.360 and what court appearance is this for it's for his uh a failed compliant

00:07:14.000 that's a failed compliance there all right all right have a nice date by the way the summons i

00:07:25.600 received simply stated that i was being charged under section 7.0.2 of the laughably named reopening

00:07:35.680 ontario act but the summons didn't say what specifically i was being charged with after all

00:07:43.760 i was not the event's organizer nor a speaker nor even an attendee i was just covering this peaceful

00:07:52.640 protest as a journalist i don't think the practice of journalism is illegal in our great dominion well

00:08:01.120 at least not yet but get this folks in june 2021 i took delivery of the disclosure that the peterboro

00:08:10.320 police service was planning to present in court against me finally i was informed of the crimes

00:08:17.920 against humanity i had allegedly committed in peterboro back on april 24 2021 which is to say i

00:08:25.840 i shook hands with people yes thanks to a telephoto lens uh that a photographer with the cops had

00:08:33.920 they were able to provide photographic evidence of that crime as for the written disclosure check out

00:08:42.000 these excerpts quote at 12 47 hours staff sergeant dan mcclain made note and observed menzies approach

00:08:50.960 and greet mr maxine bernier by shaking mr bernier's hand the two stood next to each other and engaged in

00:08:59.440 a conversation neither person was wearing a mask or maintaining the required two meters physical

00:09:07.040 distancing after a short conversation menzies could be seen interviewing mr bernier on the grass

00:09:14.560 just off the stage area end quote oh merciful god in heaven you mean i greeted someone in the time

00:09:22.080 honored way of you know shaking hands and then i carried out my job duties by you know interviewing

00:09:29.360 a politician gee i suppose i should be grateful that no peterboro cop decided to taser me that day

00:09:37.440 later it is noted that the eagle-eyed staff sergeant mcclain observed the following quote at one point

00:09:44.400 menzies stood behind mr randy hillier and wrapped his arm around and over mr hillier's left shoulder

00:09:52.000 in an effort to record the conversation that was occurring mr menzies was so close to mr hillier

00:09:59.360 at times he made contact with mr hillier end quote wow i made contact and yet me and mr hillier

00:10:10.160 are still amongst the living fascinating oh i committed several other handshaking offenses all of

00:10:17.680 them catalogued in excruciating detail here goes quote shaking the hand of a man in a blue and white

00:10:26.160 baseball hat and dark hoodie end quote quote shaking hands with a female in dark brown pants turtleneck 0.88

00:10:33.760 sweater purse over her left shoulder end quote quote shaking hands with a male in black baseball cap

00:10:41.760 enough is enough t-shirt end quote guilty as charged folks but wait a second folks you see i committed

00:10:50.880 another crime that day in addition to all that illicit handshaking here's the allegation quote one photo

00:10:59.280 shows menzies and mr hillier standing next to each other both are laughing end quote oh my god i laughed

00:11:10.080 on that day gee what oh what was i laughing about i really can't remember but in the eyes of the

00:11:17.120 peterboro police service laughing presumably makes someone a super spreader of the wuhan flu

00:11:25.600 or maybe they associate laughter with criminal behavior you know i did some research folks

00:11:31.760 and i found there is indeed ample evidence that those who laugh aren't just mere run-of-the-mill criminals

00:11:40.000 but they are actually super villains check out the video evidence make those messages clear

00:11:46.240 in any event i finally had my day in court yesterday also on trial was neil sheard the organizer of

00:12:07.840 last april's rolling thunder event in ottawa that was supposed to honor veterans obviously neil is a

00:12:14.800 deplorable despite being a decorated war veteran himself also on trial was peterboro senior nikolai

00:12:23.920 onak i think he ruffled the feathers of the peterboro elites by brandishing a sign that read quote god

00:12:32.240 wins every time end quote obviously mr onak is one of those crazed religious zealots we were all

00:12:41.040 collectively represented by a legal team dream team comprised of jenna little frank alfano and victoria 0.79

00:12:49.360 solomon now during the proceedings we learned some fascinating things especially via the testimony

00:12:56.720 of staff sergeant stadanko or i mean staff sergeant mclean for starters the peterboro police prior to the

00:13:04.560 april 24 protest had amassed a persons of interest file regarding attendees who planned on visiting

00:13:13.040 peterboro that saturday afternoon it was well publicized of course that bernier and hillier would be there

00:13:20.320 and the police knew that these high profile speakers would indeed draw a big crowd but the police were also

00:13:27.680 tipped off by so-called sources that i would be there too i'm not sure how they got this information

00:13:35.200 as we don't tend to publicize what events were covering in advance also it was noted that they

00:13:42.080 were even provided with a photograph of me so that all the police officers on duty would know exactly who to

00:13:49.040 look for once rebel news showed up by the way when mclean was asked by our lawyer jenna little if there

00:13:57.280 were photographs of other members of the media covering the event passed around to the constables

00:14:03.760 the answer was no gee i wonder why that would be i know for certain global news was there as was the

00:14:11.120 peterboro examiner maybe those media outlets were not part of the police briefing because they are

00:14:19.120 state-funded and state-approved press whereas rebel news is crowdfunded and independent my defense for

00:14:28.320 not socially distancing was that this was next to impossible to achieve in a confined area where

00:14:35.600 there were hundreds and hundreds of demonstrators even if i had stood two meters away from my interview

00:14:42.160 subjects that space would quickly be filled by members of what was a very fluid gathering

00:14:48.720 especially when bernier and hillier were being confronted and ticketed by the police as for my

00:14:55.600 sin of not wearing a mask i testified that this would hinder my job which is to say i didn't want

00:15:02.560 my mouth covered by a face diaper when it came to asking questions in what was a very loud environment

00:15:10.400 but the crown and eventually the judge they just didn't buy my arguments when it came to sentencing

00:15:19.040 the crown suggested fines of two thousand dollars per defendant wow talk about christmas in august

00:15:26.480 after all the crown could have suggested fines of up to 100 000 per person yes that's the maximum

00:15:36.000 penalty well the judge reckoned 750 was a reasonable amount for me as for mr sheard and mr okan their

00:15:45.520 fines were reduced to 500 as they are both pensioners it should be noted that the judge thanked mr sheard for

00:15:55.120 his service to canada during his deployment in afghanistan oh we still find him though after the

00:16:03.120 proceeding i interviewed our lawyers outside the peterborough courthouse here's what they had to say

00:16:11.360 uh likely i think their position is going to be that it was a resources problem but really from

00:16:15.920 the evidence we know that they focused on the three individuals we heard about today uh you know

00:16:21.600 fear of seeing the movie the trial of chicago seven today i felt like we were defending the trial of

00:16:25.360 the peterborough three indeed and jenna what did you make of uh the proceedings you know um one thing that

00:16:33.600 kind of rose uh kind of raised a red flag for me jenna was the fact that uh staff sergeant mclean

00:16:39.680 said that in advance of us covering uh the demonstration they knew we were coming they had a photo of me as

00:16:46.720 i guess a person of interest gee what's that all about i think it's exactly what you think it's

00:16:52.640 about i think they were looking into who was planning on attending the rally i think they were sizing them

00:16:57.760 up and they were thinking of how many resources they needed to allocate to that particular protest

00:17:03.040 so in other words despite what they're saying this was not a personal safety issue or a community

00:17:10.880 safety issue this was all about um i don't know it seems politicized to me it very well may have been

00:17:18.480 it's hard to get that out in court um it's hard to get police officers to answer that question if

00:17:24.800 that's the way we want to lean and i think it might have also been a little bit about public safety

00:17:30.160 because sometimes protests get out of control and as we heard um when one officer gave somebody was it

00:17:37.440 oh maxime when one officer gave maxime a ticket in front of 80 to 100 different protesters that was

00:17:43.680 directly against what the inspector told them to do so he specifically gave out a ticket in front of

00:17:50.160 people to cause a problem you know there's that great moment where maxime bernier was arrested going

00:17:55.280 from ontario into manitoba and as he's been handcuffed and put into an rcmp cruiser the officer says do you

00:18:02.320 have any weapons and maxime bernier says words to the effect no unless you consider my words my

00:18:08.160 thoughts weaponized and i guess that's where we're headed in canada it seems these days jenna

00:18:13.760 i certainly hope not um and i think that using that using the guise of the covid restrictions to

00:18:20.960 implement that is is very scary indeed and now victoria you were hoping it didn't come to fruition but to

00:18:28.240 come up with a constitutional challenge um to these charges uh that i was under and there was

00:18:34.880 also two other individuals uh that i'll get to later uh that were on trial as well um what were you

00:18:41.280 planning on saying if you were going to go down the constitutional route well uh unfortunately we were

00:18:47.280 not able to uh to argue this uh constitutional arguments which we planned in this case but we will

00:18:54.320 definitely bring them forward on other facts and we have a lot of other defendants that may benefit

00:19:01.920 from this defense so i'm going to you know to save the details for for the future when those cases will

00:19:09.440 be argued so folks post-trial here are some of my personal observations first the judge who presided over

00:19:17.840 the trial is a former journalist himself with a career spanning more than 20 years i naively thought

00:19:25.120 that would be to our advantage that he would have some empathy regarding what it takes for a journalist

00:19:33.040 to cover breaking news out in the field and that he would be a true believer when it came to that whole

00:19:40.160 idea of freedom of the press but no secondly curiously no one seemed to have a problem with the double

00:19:50.720 standard that prevails in peterborough i previously mentioned that blm protesters received a pass when

00:19:57.520 it came to getting fines but get this just a few months after the april 24th 2021 demonstration

00:20:04.480 a cbc production being filmed in peterborough was taking place and lo and behold folks the cast

00:20:13.120 and staffers of the murdoch mysteries episode being shot were exempt from the masking and social distancing

00:20:21.520 rules oh and yes we caught cast members shaking hands and even gasped laughing but of course no charges

00:20:31.680 for them check it out i think it's my duty as a citizen to report a potential super spreader event

00:20:39.680 in other words people handshaking and laughing on the set of murdoch mysteries i can't service you

00:20:46.560 with no mask on oh what was that sir sorry service you with no mask on oh okay the royal wave there

00:20:54.800 what you're talking about i have no idea you know when people laugh sir they shake hands uh you know when

00:20:59.760 they're greeting no idea what you're talking you've never heard of that does the virus know

00:21:04.160 the different place oh are you really that afraid yeah because we're in a pandemic right now

00:21:09.280 oh okay that's right because i'm in the mask off area i think i saw two people giggling yes hi is for

00:21:17.440 please please we have spotted people uh laughing and shaking hands i said erase that footage of me

00:21:25.760 oh why is that because i didn't give you permission do you know basic laws uh yeah we don't need

00:21:30.800 permission in a public place all right you'll be hearing from me okay i'm sorry i triggered you

00:21:38.640 don't video me my name is happiness okay i'm the kobe i know so your happiness yeah so i'm the kobe guy

00:21:46.000 we saw people handshaking and laughing okay and we're just wondering i i believe that's against

00:21:53.120 the law in peterborough oh yes hi staff sergeant mclean what does it feel like to be named canada's

00:22:00.000 worst police officer sir also it should be noted that in his testimony staff sergeant mclean said that

00:22:06.720 there were about 600 people in confederation park on that day the vast majority of whom were not obeying the

00:22:14.640 social distancing and masking rules yet only 10 to 12 people received tickets how is it possible

00:22:25.200 that of those 10 to 12 people who were ticketed that a significant percentage just happened to be

00:22:33.840 high profile targets i.e bernier hillier sheard and yes rebel news that was not random chance after

00:22:44.240 all the odds of this organically occurring would make even the most reckless gambler cringe rather

00:22:51.680 this was a political witch hunt the unspoken strategy was this the authorities were sending a clear

00:22:59.520 message to anti-lockdown big mouse and independent media reporters that if you speak negatively of

00:23:09.360 lockdown measures you will be punished shameful another observation the idea of law-abiding citizens

00:23:20.560 standing up for their rights at the april 24 2021 protest attracted a disproportionate amount of police

00:23:29.760 mclean testified that more than 30 police officers were on duty that day even though it was an entirely

00:23:39.200 peaceful gathering oh and if you think there was nothing better for the constables to do on that

00:23:46.240 saturday think again folks check out this peterborough examiner story from june it is headlined quote

00:23:54.240 acting peterborough police chief wants to keep up with surge in calls end quote the lead sentence states

00:24:02.960 quote city police are so short-staffed they can't keep up with surging calls for service said acting chief

00:24:12.560 tim farkinson end quote yeah so as peterborough tries to cope with a surge in offenses ranging from sexual

00:24:21.840 assaults to homicides the police force clearly lacks the resources to tackle real crime but when it comes to

00:24:31.440 thought crimes well it's a matter of all hands on deck oh and if you want more proof of the heaping

00:24:38.800 helping of hypocrisy on display that day then check this out the photographer for the peterborough examiner

00:24:46.720 recently won an award for best spot news photograph yes photographer clifford scarsted won the 2021

00:24:55.760 ontario newspaper award for spot news photography in papers under 25 000 circulation his photo depicts

00:25:05.120 randy hillier in full-out lord tundra and jesus mode as he goes toe-to-toe with peterborough's soy

00:25:11.680 boy police chief that would be scott gilbert who by the way abruptly resigned in february of this year

00:25:18.560 for reasons that remain mysterious now here's what the judges at the ontario newspaper association had

00:25:26.000 to say quote when gilbert waded into the heart of an anti-lockdown protest and gave hillier a ticket

00:25:34.240 under the reopening ontario act scarsted conceptualized the shot perfectly

00:25:41.120 gilbert and hillier at the tense epicenter of the scene surrounded by phone-wielding onlookers

00:25:49.360 the result is canada's covid schism in miniature we see it in gilbert's weary eyes above his mask

00:25:58.720 as well as hillier's pointed finger and open mouth mid-rent scarsted is tight on the action in this

00:26:07.280 quintessential breaking news photograph where the main actors stand in for so many others

00:26:14.400 end quote now full disclosure it is indeed a fantastic photograph no doubt about that folks

00:26:21.920 but i can tell you that during this photo shoot i had a ringside seat if scarsted had been using a

00:26:29.200 fisheye lens you would have seen me and my cameraman mocha filming nearby but here's the thing how is it

00:26:37.040 that a member of a taxpayer funded and government approved mainstream media outlet receives an award

00:26:46.240 and glowing praise and presumably a cash prize whereas i received the summons and a fine of 750

00:26:55.280 even though i was doing the exact same thing in the exact same place at the exact same time namely covering

00:27:03.760 spot news fascinating bottom line perhaps you can score the monday trial as a legal loss for us hey you

00:27:14.480 win some you lose some but i truly think that in the department of unintended consequences this trial made

00:27:23.920 for a journalistic win for us thanks to their prosecution of rebel news and others we have

00:27:32.880 clearly exposed that the people running the city of peterboro and the peterboro police service and even the

00:27:41.280 courts embrace a hypocritical double standard is it any wonder that hundreds of people last april took to the

00:27:51.120 the streets in peterboro after all thanks to that so-called ontario reopening act many of these folks

00:28:00.960 had lost their jobs many had lost their businesses not that the powers that be give a rodent's rectum mind

00:28:09.120 you they have never missed a paycheck as they continually crooned we're all in this together

00:28:17.760 so my advice to the freedom loving people of peterboro and abroad when the lockdowns inevitably return

00:28:26.400 and i'm betting on flu season and you want to go out and protest again about this affront make sure you

00:28:36.160 wear t-shirts emblazoned with the initials b l and m trust me nobody in law enforcement is going to

00:28:46.560 bother you in fact they might even join in on the festivities

00:28:52.480 talk about deja vu all over again bad deja vu that is once again a rebel news journalist has

00:29:12.880 apparently been cross-checked by a government official when it comes to practicing journalism

00:29:21.200 just the other day our wonder down under that would be avi yemeni meant to get on a plane and fly from

00:29:27.120 australia to wellington new zealand avi wanted to cover the protests that are happening in new zealand

00:29:36.720 right now regarding the lockdowns but shockingly even though mr yemeni had a valid passport and all of

00:29:44.160 his paperwork was in order he was prevented from getting on board that plane and in the aftermath

00:29:52.320 the question arises why and joining me now from the land of oz is avi yemeni himself good day avi

00:30:01.520 how you doing there my friend good morning mate how you doing i'm i'm doing great well you know not so

00:30:07.760 great i i it pained me to see what was happening uh with you trying to get over to new zealand and avi

00:30:16.720 just rewind the tape here take us back to the other day when you were hoping to fly into wellington

00:30:24.320 only to be told that you were essentially persona non grata for some reason what happened my friend

00:30:30.640 look i think you even need to rewind you know a couple days earlier where one of the largest

00:30:38.000 news uh outlets in new zealand ran a smear campaign against myself and uh rook sean who is also

00:30:45.280 flying with us um on a later flight as part of the nz reports.com to cover the protests and and to cover

00:30:53.600 um generally what's happening in new zealand you got to remember new zealand's been cut off from the

00:30:58.640 rest of the world for two years now so um this was a very important trip and a couple days before our

00:31:06.720 flight uh the that and the new zealand herald which is one of the largest uh news outlets in the

00:31:13.440 country ran a smear campaign encouraging the government to ban us um at the time i thought oh

00:31:21.200 well you know we we decided to just get legal advice to make sure all of our affairs are in order and

00:31:26.320 that we are fine to travel and the advice was absolutely you are and um so as soon as i arrived

00:31:35.440 at check-in here in australia in melbourne and uh it came to the computer the staff you know looked a bit

00:31:43.520 um confused as my passport i was leaving first my passport was flagged not on the australian side

00:31:50.720 on the new zealand side which um caused them to call the new zealand immigration to ask them what's

00:31:56.800 going on new zealand immigration gave me about a 45 minute i'm guessing interview over the phone i was

00:32:03.040 nice and early um gave me a 45 minute interview over the phone which was all like typical questions

00:32:09.040 that you would expect from any sort of immigration interview until suddenly after you know asking me how

00:32:16.400 much money i have in my account and you know making sure i'm not going to move there even though

00:32:20.880 to be fair i was thinking it is a bit odd because as australians you actually have the right i think to

00:32:26.720 to become a new zealand resident immediately so but i just thought they were ticking some boxes and they

00:32:32.800 certainly were ticking those boxes but they were ticking those boxes to be able to get to their final

00:32:38.560 point and their final point was oh mr ymini i've just read an article online about you i'm assuming it was

00:32:45.360 um that article that had just come out from the new zealand herald a couple days ago encouraging the

00:32:50.400 government to ban me um and they said i deem you of uh not good character and therefore exercising uh

00:33:00.240 my power under the immigration act 97 97 section 97 of the immigration act of 2009 um in banning you

00:33:10.000 refusing you entry today to new zealand um she was citing that i have a conviction now um which is

00:33:19.200 true i'm not hiding that i have a conviction the the thing is that to be able to to be able to exercise

00:33:25.120 that power for a conviction to stop you from entering as an australian to new zealand there's a certain

00:33:31.040 threshold and that threshold was what we received advice on because that was obviously one of the things

00:33:36.160 that the media was trying to use to encourage the government to ban us just an excuse to stop us

00:33:42.160 you know it was it was completely politically motivated and um the threshold is that you've

00:33:48.320 got to have been in jail for at least 12 months um in the last 10 years for that conviction well

00:33:55.440 minor minor conviction it it carried a fine it was the most basic in you know entry-level conviction you

00:34:01.680 can get so there was no real grounds there was no lawful grounds in using that conviction to stop

00:34:09.040 ingid from entering to cover the protests so abby um the most startling thing i think you said there

00:34:19.520 was the fact that this bureaucrat that is vetting you um seems to be taking her cues from the mainstream

00:34:28.400 media in new zealand and and i've looked at some of the uh mainstream media coverage i i would say

00:34:34.720 it's egregious uh bordering on defamatory the new zealand herald they described you as quote

00:34:41.760 an infamous australian far-right misinformation super spreader end quote i don't know whether to

00:34:48.720 laugh or cry but this to me is startling avi why is a government official um taking her cues from

00:34:57.680 what she reads in the media and does she assume that everything in the media is indeed factual

00:35:05.360 yeah look i think it's even worse than that i think if you take their word for it based on the

00:35:09.440 conversation she had with me by the way this immigration official refused to give her name

00:35:13.520 yeah um refused to put in writing in writing refused to put in writing the reason because they

00:35:20.400 know that as soon as they put it in writing i can go to the courts and appeal um and we've had lawyers

00:35:26.000 on the ground they're fighting for my appeal to turn this unlawful decision over since the minute i was

00:35:32.880 refused um but they've only got back to started communicating with us last night australia time

00:35:40.640 um but the the entire time since then they've been giving statements to the press

00:35:47.280 sorry that's my dog completely false statements to the press my dog is angry about this she calls out

00:35:55.280 fake news when when she hears it but seriously that so the they they have a a very you know unhealthy

00:36:04.400 to say the least relationship between the government of new zealand and the press and and and that that

00:36:11.440 explains everything here because obviously they don't want me there i am their biggest threat to

00:36:17.440 both those groups that are in cahoots because the last thing the mainstream media want there is

00:36:24.160 competition somebody who's going to um take away first firstly the eyeballs from their garbage

00:36:32.400 and make people think in new zealand maybe we're not being told the complete story here's somebody

00:36:39.200 telling the other side of the story from the ground so certainly the media have a reason to

00:36:45.680 really be behind the push and the government the adern government certainly have a reason so i i think

00:36:53.120 yes um they're taking cues from each other they're helping each other they're in this together and um the the

00:37:00.320 you know when when sarah the immigration officer refused to give her last name it became really clear

00:37:07.600 somebody was you know nudging her okay we need to stop this guy from coming just exercise whatever

00:37:15.120 power even if it's unlawful because you know the proof will be in the pudding i keep saying this

00:37:20.160 at the end of the day i will get to new zealand i will prove all those headlines to be false i will

00:37:25.840 tell the other side of the story there i will give those people who have for the last two years been stopped

00:37:32.000 from being allowed um to to have their say i'm going to give them that platform that the entire you

00:37:41.120 know the entire establishment have worked so hard in new zealand to suppress we're gonna we're gonna

00:37:48.320 succeed and and and the fact that i'm gonna get there proves that this was all politically motivated

00:37:54.560 and just to stop me from going to that process and i promise you now and i promise the audience that

00:38:00.080 it will backfire and and i'm appreciative to everyone that signed that petition at

00:38:04.800 save rvmini.com and everybody that's donated to the legal fund we're fighting and we're gonna win

00:38:09.920 this fight this is not a question as to if we're absolutely i'm an australian citizen who in comes

00:38:19.360 nowhere near the threshold of being allowed to be banned from new zealand you the only time you have to

00:38:27.680 you have to um apply for a visa in from australia or one of the the reason in my situation would be

00:38:35.120 if you're actually a criminal with a criminal history that you've served more than 12 months

00:38:39.440 ninja nowhere near the threshold yeah so there's as you said abby that benchmark hasn't been uh met

00:38:47.200 and it sounds to me like the relationship between the government and the mainstream media in new zealand

00:38:52.960 it uh it's a mere reflection of what we have in canada it's basically the same in fact i don't

00:38:59.520 know what the funding mechanism is in new zealand but as you know in canada um the cbc and the uh the

00:39:06.880 rest of the mainstream media are uh funded to the tune of billions of dollars per year it is it's a

00:39:13.680 blatant conflict of interest but on the topic of the government i do believe it's similar at least per

00:39:19.680 capital so it might not be the same numbers but it's it's certainly highly funded by by the adern

00:39:27.600 government well then you don't bite the hand that feeds uh that's for sure but speaking of the

00:39:33.040 government in new zealand abby uh the prime minister jacinda ardoran uh she was questioned

00:39:41.200 about this at a scrum uh let's throw to that video and see what the prime minister had to say

00:39:46.560 do there's also been a youtuber from australia that has been says that they've been denied entry

00:39:52.320 into new zealand have you been briefed on the situation i've only what i have seen in the public

00:39:56.960 domain uh and just to be absolutely clear this is not something that as i understand would come to a

00:40:03.760 up to a ministerial level decision i understand that it is solely for immigration and it's not

00:40:08.560 something i had any awareness of until i saw some commentary online yeah um how concerned is the

00:40:15.440 government at the potential for people coming from overseas to be part of these protests how what

00:40:20.720 sorry how concerned is the government that people might come from overseas to join these protests again

00:40:26.160 for us it's not about where people have come from it's simply whether they're willing to engage in

00:40:30.000 peaceful and lawful protest okay so abby um the prime minister is claiming that she only knows about

00:40:40.320 your situation based on what's in the public domain are you buying that look maybe but i ain't taking her 0.96

00:40:49.360 word for it that's for sure um maybe she doesn't know um but look she has an army of um you know 0.85

00:40:58.480 people that that that do her dirty work so she doesn't necessarily you know i think there's 1.00

00:41:03.840 certainly consensus amongst the adern government and bureaucrats that avi yamini is a threat so i

00:41:10.560 don't think it would have had to go to her level to ask her whether we should ban him um but but what

00:41:16.720 what she is saying that is interesting that it's not a ministerial decision it hasn't gone to that level

00:41:22.560 and why that is important for people to understand is because there's two ways

00:41:27.520 to ban to refuse an aussie entry it one is the conviction has to be over 12 12 months in prison

00:41:35.120 the other is if a minister the minister um uses a broad power which you could still appeal but it's

00:41:44.720 much broader than than just the the threshold of the conviction so if the minister can say

00:41:50.880 i believe that avi yamini might commit a jailable offense here then then we're talking about um

00:42:00.800 a case where well then we can argue with whether on what basis but but it is a much broader uh term and

00:42:08.960 and there's a much broader scope from and she's saying in there well no we don't it hasn't gone to that

00:42:14.720 level it it's just immigration distancing herself from from the decision because obviously it is not

00:42:21.520 a good look if the government um had a hand in it so avi um let's then for the sake of argument take

00:42:29.760 the prime minister at her word she had nothing to do with this it's not at the ministerial level

00:42:34.560 the only other conclusion i can draw from that is that this individual immigration officer whose name

00:42:41.200 we only have is sarah we don't have her surname i got a hunch that she recognizes your name

00:42:48.000 maybe she's not politically aligned to your viewpoints and she's carrying out a vendetta 0.97

00:42:53.840 because what else can it be my friend like i said in the beginning david i think that it's

00:43:00.560 potentially even something like i think it's much more sinister i think it's much more deep i think

00:43:05.680 it's a connection and you know there we go the big conspiracy theorist that i am

00:43:11.200 i'm proving the new zealand herald right but um you know when and if this actually ends up going

00:43:17.440 before a judge if they don't if they don't uh revert change the decision appeal the decision on their

00:43:24.800 own if it has to go in front of a judge it'll be interesting one to see all the communications

00:43:30.480 in discovery two it'll be great for people to hear that recording of especially the last few minutes of

00:43:38.000 the recording um of the uh immigration officer who said in on the call i just read an article about

00:43:48.480 you since when are articles in the paper grounds and and and since when is that evidence that you

00:43:55.760 rely on to make any decision they didn't by the way they didn't ask me anything about my criminal

00:44:01.440 history they didn't give me an opportunity to put my in my defense to put my defense forward as in going

00:44:09.760 i did say specifically i i said to her i understand that the threshold is 12 months and my i mean here's

00:44:18.960 the perversely ironic factor of this story i think yes they prevented you from leaving australia and

00:44:26.640 touching down in wellington but they didn't uh prevent rakshan fernando uh he was flagged he went

00:44:33.680 through all the the hoops uh they eventually uh let him there so he is reporting for rebel news uh he is

00:44:42.720 showing what's uh going on and why don't we throw to a brief clip of the demonstration that he covered

00:44:49.280 the other day check it out so guys i'm filming here the uh the counter protest here by antifa

00:45:03.920 so the two protesters are going the main protest is walking past but there is a counter protest

00:45:12.880 separated here by the police in the anti-government protest is a lot more diversity a lot more older

00:45:24.160 people families uh people of different backgrounds uh there's a lot more of that whereas on this side

00:45:32.640 a lot of young uh young and for lack of a better word uh white people mostly

00:45:41.920 looks like young young uni students

00:45:52.320 so uh there you go first of all um avi i'm so sorry to see that the virus that is known as antifa

00:45:59.440 has even infected new zealand you know but um what did you make uh of that uh protest and that bizarre

00:46:08.160 counter protest when um you know the antifa types were denouncing the anti-lockdown people as racist

00:46:15.600 and as uh mr fernando pointed out there was more diversity on the anti-lockdown side than the antifa

00:46:24.240 side what do you make of that avi isn't that typical yeah absolutely and i'm looking forward to seeing um

00:46:30.720 rukshan's full reports on the on the day um which which i imagine are coming to new zealand the nz

00:46:37.360 reports.com in coming day um but absolutely it's it's it's laughable it's laughable you know what i

00:46:44.480 watched it with fomo because i'm thinking god you know me uh david i would love to get up in there and

00:46:50.320 have a chat with these anti-fascists that are standing there protesting you know indigenous

00:46:57.600 new zealanders telling them they're racist because they don't like mandates and they don't like

00:47:04.400 jacinda adern's um socialist policies that is destroying the country they don't like where the 1.00

00:47:11.040 cost of living is going they don't like the fact that they lost their jobs because jacinda adern is a 0.99

00:47:16.240 tyrant yes i would have loved to be there and and and i think it's great and you know i also i think on

00:47:22.880 the point that rukshan got there it's important for people to understand while rukshan doesn't have that

00:47:27.200 technicality of a a conviction that they can kind of try twist to use at least in the short term but

00:47:34.160 they tried really hard he was flagged um and the qantas staff fought hard for him he says um and i i

00:47:42.160 do truly believe that if not for firstly the thousands you know the thousands that have already signed the

00:47:49.920 petition to let me in and then also the fact that they know that there's uh legal action looming

00:47:58.000 again through the save rv mini.com um page so the the petition there and the the fact that we're

00:48:04.240 repealing it through the courts if we have to and and the fact that jacinda adern herself distanced

00:48:11.040 herself so quickly from the decision i think those three compounding um points basically made the the

00:48:21.040 the officer on the other end of of of rukshan's decision yeah think twice and go okay we don't have

00:48:29.280 a conviction that we can puff up and and and and basically use and and and act like uh we think you

00:48:38.480 know on the on the face of it is a character thing that we can kick him out so they had to lead let

00:48:43.200 him in and they let him in and he still reported on the on the event and i promise you now you know

00:48:49.040 to the entire audience my promise to you is i'm grateful new zealand's very close so well when i win

00:48:56.240 that appeal when i can take my passport and getting there i will be in there i will tell the other side

00:49:03.200 of the story nz reports.com will get more views and there will be more interest in it because of

00:49:11.120 this uh media smear campaign and this not just a smear camera the media campaign to have me banned

00:49:18.640 it will only draw more eyeballs to it and this will backfire spectacularly i'm not going to deny it

00:49:26.720 it hurt the last couple days it hurt to get banned off a flight it hurt that that that the immigration

00:49:33.120 uh department is so good at their pr that they managed to manipulate a media not to even ask the

00:49:41.280 question of okay you say he's banned for a conviction instead of asking well how could he be banned for

00:49:48.000 that conviction that wasn't ten he wasn't in he wasn't jailed for he was only fine for how can you

00:49:52.960 ban it for that when the act is pretty clear instead of them doing that they ran with the hurtful

00:49:59.040 uh headline avia miniband for you know an embarrassing conviction but that's what it is it's an

00:50:05.520 embarrassing conviction because um you know in time the time will tell all all truth but um it's

00:50:13.440 embarrassing having a conviction like that it's not something i'm proud of but it's it's certainly

00:50:18.560 a minor conviction i was fine for it because it was uh a a little considered from the legal perspective a

00:50:27.760 you know a minor assault no and to speak to your first point uh avi i think you're right i think

00:50:34.960 the uh the government of new zealand or and certainly the media in new zealand are going to experience their

00:50:41.360 own uh barbara streisand effect you know that of unintended consequences and uh we have to fight this

00:50:49.920 avi because this is becoming too due rigueur for my liking this idea that government officials and

00:50:58.160 bureaucrats they're picking and choosing which journalists are allowed into the press conference 0.60

00:51:03.600 and which are not which get funded which are not it is a dark direction we're going down in terms of

00:51:11.920 a free press and that is why we have to take this stand i'm so happy to see we already have about

00:51:17.600 14 000 signatures on the petition avi our goal is i i believe 20 000 i'm sure we're going to reach it

00:51:24.800 and more avi i want to thank you so much for your time and uh good luck we are indeed we're going to

00:51:31.280 get you uh into wellington um and come hell or high water it is important so thank you again my friend

00:51:40.000 you have a good weekend thanks david okay and that was avi yamini down under in australia keep it here

00:51:48.720 folks more of the ezra levent show to come right after this

00:51:52.720 well folks my colleague sheila gun reid she filled in for ezra on last night's show and lots of 0.91

00:52:10.400 responses regarding her monologue regarding canada's complete ineptitude in handling the so-called

00:52:18.720 covid 19 crisis canuck one writes is tam going to pull a fauci and resign just after polyev defeats

00:52:28.560 trudeau in the next election i guess he she will seek asylum in the motherland you know what uh it's

00:52:36.320 good that you're reaching out canuck one to be politically correct teresa tam after all is one of

00:52:42.080 those woke bureaucrats that uses the term pregnant people when she's actually uh describing pregnant 1.00

00:52:51.440 woman she is a disgrace from top to bottom just like dr fauci ggfd writes time for the nuremberg

00:53:01.680 canada trials millions of folks aren't willing to just let this go time for trials and convictions

00:53:09.920 you know i don't know if we're ever going to see those kind of trials my friend but i can tell you

00:53:14.320 this when history looks back upon this appalling period of time so many people ranging from prime

00:53:23.200 minister justin trudeau to dr theresa tam to yes even you premier doug ford you're going to be looked upon

00:53:31.680 in a downright shameful fashion and you deserve it well folks that takes care of tonight's edition of

00:53:40.320 the ezra levent show i believe ezra is going to be back in this chair tomorrow have yourself a

00:53:46.640 wonderful evening and hey never forget stay sane

00:53:53.200 we started off this convoy calling it taking back our freedoms but our freedoms are nobody's to take away

00:53:59.200 so we're going to restore everybody's freedoms

00:54:18.000 you know lots of people came here wanting to only do a day and uh the word with all the truckers is

00:54:24.400 they're now staying for many days you know like a lot of people now are planning on days and days

00:54:30.160 in ottawa so we are here to hand them out i am not leaving we get what we want we're not going to give

00:54:38.880 up my body my choice especially the choice for my child my body trudeau not yours when your job and your

00:55:03.680 livelihood is held against you for a shot

Rebel News Podcast - August 24, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Yesterday in Peterborough： I fought the law, and the law won

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