Rebel News Podcast - Fight the Fines victory, Vancouver Freedom Rally & more

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00:01:34.120 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:37.860 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:01:42.560 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:44.680 Victory!

00:01:45.120 Remember Walter Matheson, the New Brunswick senior, who was ticketed several months ago

00:01:51.460 simply for sitting alone in his car in a Tim Hortons parking lot, enjoying his muffin and coffee?

00:01:57.940 Well, the charge has been dropped.

00:02:00.580 Hmm, I wonder why.

00:02:02.920 Could it be the arresting officer endured a heaping helping of humiliation in the court of public opinion?

00:02:10.620 Sheila Gunn-Reed shall offer her thoughts.

00:02:14.400 Well, those freedom rallies against governments that would take away our rights in the name of flattening the Wuhan virus,

00:02:21.640 they're spreading.

00:02:22.940 Drea Humphrey covered one such protest in Vancouver,

00:02:26.160 and she'll weigh in with her take as to why a growing number of Canadians are increasingly concerned

00:02:32.200 that we are going the way of Melbourne, Australia.

00:02:36.280 And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day,

00:02:41.800 and I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto,

00:02:46.980 the home of a filthy tent city that houses violent people and vicious animals, 1.00

00:02:53.600 and yes, I have the bite mark to prove it.

00:02:57.060 Those are your Rebels, now let's round them up.

00:02:59.300 We have a victory on our hands here, friends.

00:03:07.980 The prosecutor in Hampton has thrown out Walter's ticket.

00:03:12.340 They say on a technicality, even though that technicality is something that could have easily been amended.

00:03:19.620 I say they turf the ticket because they all know that cop made a huge mistake

00:03:24.640 and embarrassed himself and everyone else now forced to deal with the ticket after the fact.

00:03:29.800 They're dropping that ticket because Walter fought back

00:03:32.720 and because we told the world about what happened to Walter.

00:03:37.860 Now, I caught up with Walter earlier this week to talk about the good news.

00:03:43.360 Take a listen.

00:03:43.920 Well, I went to the court and I waited outside because there was 30 people ahead of me

00:03:52.680 and they were only allowing a few people in at a time, a couple, I think.

00:03:56.620 Anyway, I finally got in after the 30 people were done.

00:03:59.360 This was three hours later.

00:04:01.260 And I went in and sat on the bench and waited until they were waiting for them to call me up.

00:04:07.200 So, when the last person up speaking to the judge finished, it was a woman, and she left. 0.76

00:04:17.220 And as she left, the judge got up and walked out the door.

00:04:20.460 And I said, what on earth is going on here?

00:04:24.520 And the sheriff there was standing next to me and he says, I don't know.

00:04:28.540 Anyway, this lady comes over to me and she says, Walter?

00:04:32.060 I said, yes.

00:04:33.120 She said, I found your ticket this morning and it wasn't made out properly, so we tore it up.

00:04:39.840 Well, I don't know whether I believe that or not, but I kind of wonder why they didn't let me know

00:04:45.820 when I was there and not three hours before that.

00:04:48.780 But anyway, they said it was torn out.

00:04:54.060 What do you think?

00:04:56.820 Because I think that they tossed your ticket because they didn't think that you were going to fight back.

00:05:03.080 I think they thought you were going to roll over.

00:05:05.140 They didn't think you were going to go public.

00:05:07.060 They didn't think that you would ultimately end up embarrassing the police force with your very public story.

00:05:13.000 They didn't think you would end up with a lawyer.

00:05:15.700 And they didn't think you would show up in court to contest the ticket.

00:05:18.520 So, I think that they just didn't want to deal with Walter Matheson anymore.

00:05:23.680 That's what I think.

00:05:24.340 Now, Walter, I'm very happy to hear that your ticket has been dropped.

00:05:29.140 I know a lot of people were cheering for you and supportive of you fighting back.

00:05:35.140 And I know a lot of people donated to help cover the cost of your lawyer, Sam Goldstein.

00:05:39.880 Do you have any message for those people?

00:05:43.100 Oh, yes.

00:05:43.940 I'd like to thank everybody that stood behind me for this, especially Rebel News, of course.

00:05:51.960 And you, Sheila, you're my hero now.

00:05:55.880 There was a lot of people that commented on it, and I read most of them.

00:06:02.760 Yes, I'd like to thank you all that supported me.

00:06:07.280 And hopefully, I think this ever happens again.

00:06:10.740 Victory!

00:06:11.940 As you know, folks, Rebel News launched our Fight the Fines campaign way back in May, I believe,

00:06:17.440 because, heck, nobody else was stepping up to the plate, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:06:23.400 We wanted to stand up for Canadians who were being brutalized by by-law and even law enforcement

00:06:29.560 for the silliest things like sitting alone on a park bench or, such as the case with Walter Matheson

00:06:37.020 simply enjoying a coffee and muffin by himself in a car in a parking lot with the windows rolled up.

00:06:44.980 What utter madness.

00:06:46.160 But fast forward to the present, and the Matheson case has been dropped.

00:06:51.260 Gee, I wonder why.

00:06:54.380 Joining me now with more on this crazy story with a super happy ending is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:07:01.340 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:07:03.700 Hey, David.

00:07:04.180 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:07:05.480 Oh, yeah.

00:07:06.100 And thank you.

00:07:06.780 And what a great story.

00:07:08.160 Sheila, here's my take.

00:07:09.780 I'm thinking that behind the scenes, that RCMP officer was just begging to have this case dropped.

00:07:17.940 Hey, he might have won in a court of law.

00:07:21.140 Who knows?

00:07:21.700 We'll never know now.

00:07:22.660 But in the court of public opinion, wow, this guy was humiliated.

00:07:28.380 What are your thoughts?

00:07:30.280 Yeah, I think that's exactly what happened.

00:07:32.840 I mean, as far as fight the fines cases go, some are really atrocious, egregious.

00:07:40.400 For example, Tamara being cuffed for walking along the beach.

00:07:45.360 I mean, that's insane.

00:07:46.800 The young mom who was searched under her clothes and stuffed in a cop car because she took her daughter to an abandoned park during the time of the Wu flu.

00:07:57.620 I mean, some of them are really egregious.

00:07:59.080 Walter's was probably the most ridiculous, and it had a lot of public interest in it because I think a lot of people saw that it could happen to them, too, because Walter was just doing a normal thing as safely as possible.

00:08:13.120 He was eating his muffin and finishing his coffee in a Tim Hortons parking lot with the windows rolled up alone, and a cop comes over to him and says,

00:08:23.700 you've got to move along, you're going to attract teenagers to this parking lot.

00:08:29.520 I mean, it's hard to even say it out loud because it's so ridiculous.

00:08:33.820 You know, like, the teenagers are like, ooh, let's go down to the Tim Hortons to see if there's any old guys eating a muffin down there, and we'll just mill about because they're there.

00:08:42.140 I mean, it was crazy.

00:08:43.360 And then Walter tried to leave.

00:08:45.100 The cop asked Walter to leave, and Walter said, what am I doing wrong?

00:08:49.560 The cop really didn't tell him.

00:08:52.360 And then Walter said, it's still a free country, and then tried to comply with the officer anyway and leave.

00:08:58.440 The cop stops Walter and then gives him a ticket for failing to comply.

00:09:02.000 And the cop gets really vulgar and abusive with Walter, but Walter, citizen journalist that he is and muffin aficionado, he recorded the phone or the conversation with the cop, and that's really what spurred everything.

00:09:18.900 And from there, it got even worse because the cop tried to pull the same bully tactics with me.

00:09:24.320 But I'm happy to say that Walter's case has been dropped.

00:09:29.560 There was an address error or an informational error on his ticket.

00:09:34.820 I mean, they could have amended it easily.

00:09:37.360 I spoke to Sam Goldstein, our lawyer who's working the case.

00:09:40.820 He said they could have just easily amended the ticket and proceeded with the ticket.

00:09:45.260 But I think they wanted to get rid of Walter and us and this whole embarrassing problem the best way possible.

00:09:52.560 And for them, it was dropping the ticket.

00:09:54.580 And at least that way, they didn't have to lose it in court.

00:09:57.420 You know, and Sheila, here's the thing.

00:09:59.980 We've talked about this before in the past.

00:10:02.160 That police officer, and to me, this is so inexplicable.

00:10:06.000 He approaches Walter very jovial and very friendly and on a dime.

00:10:12.880 He switches from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde in terms of his attitude.

00:10:18.060 He even uses some profanity.

00:10:20.560 And Walter's certainly not giving him lip.

00:10:22.840 He's just asking honest questions in a calm manner.

00:10:26.300 I never quite understood that, you know, why this guy could be so easily triggered.

00:10:32.780 And that's not really who you want in law enforcement.

00:10:35.220 But you mentioned something.

00:10:36.740 You were bullied along the lines, as was our company.

00:10:41.800 And I imagine, Sheila, you're referring to that ridiculous lawyer's letter.

00:10:46.720 And I say ridiculous because it was full of spelling and grammatical errors.

00:10:51.720 And they were basically intensifying the bullying, weren't they, Sheila?

00:10:56.540 They were saying they wanted us to take the video down.

00:11:00.460 Hello, you're talking to the wrong media company.

00:11:03.620 We don't bend the knee to, you know, malicious legal letters, do we, Sheila?

00:11:09.720 No, I mean, the cop clearly never had, or not that he never had, but he doesn't often have people like Walter push back.

00:11:19.900 And Walter pushed back quite politely.

00:11:22.140 He tried to comply, but he just said this is still a free country.

00:11:24.760 And so it made perfect sense after the fact when the cop got what I would suspect is the most inept lawyer in all of Hampton, New Brunswick,

00:11:34.920 to send a legal letter to us telling me to turn over the recording of the interaction that Walter took,

00:11:43.560 accusing me of taking the recording.

00:11:46.480 I'm in Alberta.

00:11:47.540 Walter's in Hampton, New Brunswick.

00:11:48.920 We didn't know each other before, so I don't know why I would be sitting in his car halfway across the country.

00:11:55.000 Surreptitiously recording something, I don't know, crouched behind the backseat of Walter's car.

00:11:58.940 I don't know what these two thought that I was doing.

00:12:02.460 And they wanted me to turn that over to the cops.

00:12:05.720 Like, they're demanding that a journalist turn over their materials, their investigative materials, to the RCMP.

00:12:11.680 Who at the RCMP station would ever touch those, by the way?

00:12:14.220 And it was pretty clear that they didn't even read the website copy that accompanied the video that I published

00:12:21.060 or watched the video before they fired off that legal letter because they said that I repeatedly mentioned the cop's name in there.

00:12:28.240 I never did.

00:12:29.320 Not even once.

00:12:29.920 I didn't write it.

00:12:30.740 I didn't say it.

00:12:31.440 Because at the time, the cop really wasn't the issue for me.

00:12:35.540 It was the stupid rule that enabled this cop to do those things.

00:12:39.500 And that's really what I took issue with until the cop took an issue with me.

00:12:44.900 And he tried to bully me.

00:12:46.120 He tried to shut me up.

00:12:47.540 So, naturally, I did a story about it.

00:12:50.420 And I lit up the lawyer and I lit up the cop.

00:12:53.300 And it ended up being one of our most popular Fight the Fines videos.

00:12:56.680 It wasn't even a Fight the Fines video.

00:12:58.980 It was like an update to a Fight the Fines video.

00:13:01.240 And it got nearly half a million views because it exposed the bullies for who they really are. 0.65

00:13:09.240 And it also showed how these COVID regulations are really empowering the bullies who don't normally have a lot of power.

00:13:15.640 Yeah, I think it's called the Barbra Streisand effect, isn't it, Sheila?

00:13:19.320 And also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this dimwit of a lawyer run for the Liberal Party in the election without any success, surprisingly?

00:13:30.040 But, jeez, I guess that's the kind of cloth Liberal candidates are cut from these days, eh, Sheila? 0.99

00:13:38.480 She's the perfect Liberal candidate. 1.00

00:13:40.240 Just perfect.

00:13:40.920 She's a bully. 0.99

00:13:42.280 She's not good at the job she already has because she can't spell. 1.00

00:13:46.820 I mean, she didn't even get the address of the company right when she sent the legal letter.

00:13:51.540 Like, that's just like a cut and paste.

00:13:53.220 And somehow she screwed that up, too.

00:13:55.480 Yeah, she ran for the Liberals in Hampton, New Brunswick, running on her reputation.

00:14:00.780 And she's, from what I understand, a perennial Liberal candidate.

00:14:05.180 And she got absolutely smoke.

00:14:06.680 Like, she got NDP levels of support.

00:14:12.440 What you'd see in Alberta, that's what she got out there. 1.00

00:14:14.720 Like, it wasn't good.

00:14:16.000 I think she got maybe 1,000 votes.

00:14:19.800 I mean, and she was bragging, I noticed online, about the number of doors she knocked.

00:14:24.920 Like, she said she knocked, like, 10,000 doors or something like that.

00:14:28.860 And she couldn't even, you know, motivate one in ten of those people to show up and vote for her at the ballot box.

00:14:34.200 Geez, maybe she thought that's how an election works. 1.00

00:14:36.680 The number of doors you knock on, whoever knocks on the most, you win the election.

00:14:40.700 But, Sheila, we've got to wrap it up.

00:14:42.320 So, a humiliating defeat at the ballots for the Liberal lawyer.

00:14:47.560 A humiliation for the officer who brought it upon himself by acting so unprofessionally, I would say.

00:14:55.520 A resounding victory for Walter Matheson, no matter how you look at it.

00:15:00.260 There's going to be no fine.

00:15:01.420 And certainly in the court of public opinion, he's a hero.

00:15:03.640 One last question.

00:15:05.440 I'm almost disappointed, Sheila, because we were going to cover that trial all hands on deck.

00:15:11.180 But I guess that just shows, for once, that cop made the right decision in waving the white flag of surrender, eh?

00:15:19.640 Yeah, well, yeah.

00:15:21.020 We had talked about sending the, mostly the entire company out there to cover it as though it were the OJ trial or the Menendez brothers or something like that.

00:15:30.420 I was very excited to be the Nancy Grace of the company every night doing colour commentary.

00:15:37.520 But, yes, as you rightly point out, for once they did the right thing.

00:15:41.600 And it is simply to save face.

00:15:43.960 It's not because they are motivated to do the right thing because they realise they did something wrong.

00:15:49.180 It's that they know that this would never stand up in the court of law and this was just a petty grievance between a cop and a citizen who pushed back just a little bit.

00:16:02.620 That's what it's about.

00:16:03.640 I love it.

00:16:04.180 The OJ trial for Fight the Fines.

00:16:06.020 If you don't have a Timbit, you must acquit.

00:16:09.680 Sheila, great news.

00:16:11.880 Thank you so much for this.

00:16:15.120 Thanks, David.

00:16:16.060 Have a great weekend.

00:16:16.880 You too, my friend.

00:16:18.180 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the hinterland of Northern Alberta.

00:16:22.480 Keep it here, folks.

00:16:23.380 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:25.520 Put your masks on!

00:16:34.240 Are you ready to social distance?

00:16:39.220 Okay, Michelle, now you obviously are a fan of Canada.

00:16:43.420 What's your opinion on what we're seeing in Canada lately?

00:16:47.580 What I'm seeing in Canada is absolute tyranny.

00:16:52.320 Our government is trying to lock us down and control us and take away our democracy.

00:17:00.900 I'm just happy to be here to support everyone who knows that this is all a scam with a pandemic.

00:17:07.880 And I'm just worried about all the kids that are going to school and some of them have to wear masks.

00:17:13.160 And just all the rules and regulations and all the people that lost their jobs and all these small companies.

00:17:20.300 That I'm just glad to be here.

00:17:22.920 And I'm hoping that this will stop.

00:17:26.140 Because I've heard of so many people committing suicide over this lie.

00:17:31.440 And I'm just wanting...

00:17:32.940 I believe that Canada was a free country.

00:17:35.480 But now I believe in that it's a communist country.

00:17:39.600 All right, you guys are here.

00:17:41.620 One of you have a big flag that says, don't tread on me.

00:17:45.400 Why is it important for you guys to be at this event today?

00:17:49.120 I think it's important for our democracy and for all Canadians to realize that sometimes you have to band together

00:17:54.580 and say what you're going to stand for and what you won't stand for.

00:17:57.560 And number one, we can all agree that freedom is number one important.

00:18:00.960 That's what we all fight for.

00:18:02.420 That's what our ancestors fought for.

00:18:04.160 So we just want to make sure that the message is clear that all Canadians want freedom.

00:18:09.960 We had people bringing in speakers.

00:18:12.000 And of course, you can hand out all the flyers and promote all you want.

00:18:14.960 If the people don't come out, you don't got nothing.

00:18:17.280 So I got to thank everybody for coming out and doing their job and supporting this.

00:18:21.280 Why was this important?

00:18:22.320 We saw what was going on in Berlin and Montreal and Dublin and Greece and Poland and Italy.

00:18:27.540 Montreal again, Ottawa.

00:18:28.940 And I felt, you know, Vancouver's got to get put on the map too.

00:18:32.020 This whole mask issue, it's coming here.

00:18:34.800 You know, BC's slowly going downhill with all these restrictions again.

00:18:38.460 We're getting restaurants, pubs locked down.

00:18:40.800 It's time for Vancouver to be put on the map now.

00:18:43.520 It's time because we've just had enough.

00:18:45.860 Vancouver needed a big rally.

00:18:47.460 We've got lots of little protests here and there, which is great.

00:18:50.480 But we needed a big one to say to our government,

00:18:53.520 we are at enough is enough.

00:18:55.340 And the time was now.

00:18:56.740 That's why.

00:18:57.360 I've never really been more proud to be Canadian than literally right now, today.

00:19:04.080 People standing up for their rights, that's what I want more than anything in the world.

00:19:08.260 All right, Dana, you were just saying that you came from a communist country

00:19:12.180 and now you feel like it's happening here in Canada.

00:19:15.000 Why is that?

00:19:15.600 It's not a feeling, it's what I'm seeing is happening.

00:19:19.740 Lockdowns, when I know in Europe right now, many of the countries have been opening up.

00:19:24.820 Doctors are speaking out.

00:19:26.560 What I like to see, where are the doctors from Canada?

00:19:29.860 Where are they?

00:19:31.200 One, two, especially BC.

00:19:33.280 I don't hear anybody talking.

00:19:35.500 This is very concerning to me, too.

00:19:37.960 They're using, basically, my grandparents fought with Nazis.

00:19:43.060 Later on, with communists.

00:19:44.800 I grew up in a regime.

00:19:46.660 What I see right now makes no sense to me.

00:19:49.600 Well, talk about momentum when it comes to citizens fighting back against our rights and freedoms

00:19:55.920 being body-checked in the name of Wuhan virus prevention.

00:20:01.820 Rallies have sprung up in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and now even Canadians in the relatively laid-back left coast

00:20:09.500 are voicing their displeasure.

00:20:12.780 And joining me now to discuss the recent Vancouver rally is Drea Humphrey.

00:20:17.140 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Drea.

00:20:19.160 Hey, everyone.

00:20:20.080 So, Drea, the clip ended with that Eastern European lady speaking out against government 1.00

00:20:26.900 slowly but surely curtailing our rights.

00:20:29.940 And, you know, I've got to tell you, I've covered many similar rallies here, and I have

00:20:34.220 to say, the most passionate people, when it comes to speaking out, tend to be those from

00:20:40.280 the former Soviet Union or the Eastern Bloc nations.

00:20:43.760 I think it's because they have experienced totalitarianism firsthand, and it is anything

00:20:51.260 but a socialist utopia.

00:20:53.540 What are your thoughts on that, Drea?

00:20:55.680 I completely agree.

00:20:57.480 You see a lot of people from Poland, even some Iranian people speak out, and I've seen it

00:21:03.980 before as well, so I wasn't surprised by what she's saying.

00:21:07.400 And I think it would be wise to, you know, take it seriously, right, not just brush it

00:21:13.060 off.

00:21:13.600 And I believe her name was Dana.

00:21:15.180 She was very passionate about getting that message out, and she definitely wasn't alone.

00:21:21.060 Yeah, and you know, the dichotomy here, Drea, is that on the flip side, I see native-born 0.98

00:21:26.880 Canadians who are brought up in the milk and honey of this nation, in wealth, in privilege,

00:21:32.360 and they go to a university campus, and they're wearing a Soviet Union hammer and sickle t-shirt

00:21:39.340 or an illustration of Shea Guevara.

00:21:43.240 And it's incredible, because it seems that the only people that are super pro-communist

00:21:50.260 and super, you know, pro-having-the-government curtail our rights are people that have never

00:21:56.120 lived in such a society in the first place.

00:21:58.500 Exactly, they're still living with their parents, you know, it's super strange.

00:22:06.180 At one Black and Indigenous protest that I went, just before a coming, a rebel, there 0.99

00:22:12.040 was these young, I guess they were probably in university, maybe, living in their parents'

00:22:17.100 basement, and they were saying, capitalism is dead, and you people are old and out of

00:22:22.380 touch, you don't know what you're talking about.

00:22:23.940 And I'm like, where is this coming from?

00:22:26.440 Why do they all think the same?

00:22:28.440 Like, I don't know where they're getting the information from.

00:22:31.300 But you're right, they haven't lived in any of the societies, not the one we have right

00:22:36.820 now, and the one that they're advocating for, so.

00:22:39.860 Yeah, and I think, Drea, too, a lot of people might be saying, well, this is a freedom rally,

00:22:45.040 this is all about the Wuhan virus protocols being put in place.

00:22:49.280 Why are they talking about socialism and communism?

00:22:51.520 This is the thing, Drea, I think, and I get this vibe from so many protesters, it's governments

00:22:57.660 of every political stripe, and every level, municipal, provincial, state, federal.

00:23:04.300 As our boss, Ezra Levent, likes to say, during this pandemic, they got a little taste of totalitarianism,

00:23:12.060 and you know what?

00:23:12.980 They kind of like that taste, and they're kind of reluctant to stop, you know, dishing into

00:23:19.080 that bull.

00:23:19.560 What are your thoughts on that?

00:23:21.520 Yeah, I think it's actually frightening what can happen when people are in power.

00:23:25.800 We hear all this talking about police brutality, but what about politicians, you know, that

00:23:31.180 are abusing their power?

00:23:33.120 So I definitely see, and it's across the globe in many ways, which is also kind of concerning,

00:23:40.260 and I think a perfect example in Canada of this happening is the closing, how long parliament

00:23:46.760 sittings were closed.

00:23:47.880 I mean, that's ridiculous.

00:23:49.280 There's absolutely no reason to defend that.

00:23:52.720 I mean, when you can go to a movie theater where I live, you can go to the movie theater,

00:23:57.540 you can go walk around the mall, you can do all of these things, but yet, democracy, not

00:24:03.160 important.

00:24:04.160 And you know, I love the people that come out to these rallies, Dre, and it seemed to me

00:24:08.780 that you were treated so respectfully there.

00:24:12.200 That's what I get when I cover similar rallies here.

00:24:15.060 People were very articulate in expressing what their problems are with these Wuhan virus protocols.

00:24:23.860 And yet, it's so funny, isn't it, my friend, when you contrast it to, well, in your case,

00:24:28.600 I remember you went to some homeless encampment at a park, and you had the stereotypical white 1.00

00:24:37.300 liberal dude questioning your racial resume, and whether or not you were indigenous, and

00:24:46.260 being very rude in the process.

00:24:49.160 Why is it that when it comes to these kind of leftist protests, A, they're rude, and B,

00:24:56.860 they can't even get their point across, Dreya?

00:24:58.920 I don't think they fully understand why they're so passionate about what they're passionate

00:25:04.580 about.

00:25:04.940 I don't think they've taken the time to really sit and be like, okay, this is why I am saying

00:25:11.760 what I'm saying.

00:25:12.700 This is why I'm standing there.

00:25:14.100 I think it's more just, like, follow the leader kind of mentality.

00:25:20.060 And so they get out there, and they get all passionate, rah, rah, rah.

00:25:23.600 And then when they get faced with, you know, a legitimate question, or somebody wants to

00:25:28.640 understand their point of view, they just can't do it.

00:25:30.880 So they result to insults, or loudspeakers, or in your case, umbrellas.

00:25:36.520 I haven't seen the umbrellas.

00:25:37.860 I've seen people carrying umbrellas that look kind of antipish, but I haven't seen them really

00:25:41.540 sticking them in anyone's face.

00:25:43.740 But they just can't articulate themselves.

00:25:47.660 And it's, yeah, it's a sign of how valid their opinion is when it's like that.

00:25:55.380 Yeah, I guess as Lennon called them, useful idiots.

00:25:59.200 Drea, one last question.

00:26:01.060 We've gone through months of misery, and my personal feeling is that the cure has been

00:26:07.480 worse than the curse.

00:26:08.540 When we look at all the other fallouts of what we've had to endure with in terms of the

00:26:13.120 Wuhan virus, depression, spousal abuse, suicides, people dying, literally dying on elective surgery

00:26:20.660 lists that have been cancelled.

00:26:21.740 The economy has been pretty much opened up, but there's all kinds of rumors there, especially

00:26:27.780 as there's, you know, whispers of the so-called second wave coming, that around Thanksgiving,

00:26:34.160 we might be going back to stage two, stage one even.

00:26:38.280 What is your vibe out there?

00:26:41.300 And I guess the question is, after we've endured so much and we're just now getting our liberty

00:26:47.000 back, are Canadians going to put up with the regulations being regressed to the way they

00:26:52.820 were back in March, April and May?

00:26:55.040 Well, I've been suspecting that in the fall we were going to see another lockdown for a

00:27:01.300 while now, specifically because of how many times we've been told about the second wave

00:27:08.720 and how bad it's going to be.

00:27:10.300 I mean, we have been told that barely before they admitted there was a first wave or whatever.

00:27:15.660 So in my mind, I saw a little conditioning there.

00:27:18.820 I'm not being like a conspiracy theorist.

00:27:21.120 It's just I feel like the government is prepared to lock down, regardless of if it's warranted

00:27:27.440 or not.

00:27:28.260 And then as far as people waking up, I think we are going to see more people sort of resisting

00:27:34.380 this, especially if they do some more research.

00:27:37.240 And an example of that is I'm in or I should say I was in a lot of like COVID awareness groups.

00:27:44.140 And I literally got kicked out of those groups, not even for really giving like my opinion,

00:27:49.860 but I kid you not, just for sharing any kind of credible information that didn't align

00:27:56.880 with fear.

00:27:59.020 And so if I posted something that I can't think of an example, but just something that said,

00:28:05.620 oh, great, the death rate is lower.

00:28:08.120 And look what happened here in Sweden.

00:28:09.620 It doesn't matter if it's doctors or scientists, they would literally tag a min to get me out

00:28:16.040 and the admin would get me out.

00:28:17.400 And it happened so many times.

00:28:19.400 And so I think there's about two groups that kept me in.

00:28:22.620 And now I noticed when I do it, it's completely different.

00:28:25.440 Like you'll get about 50, 50 of who's able to talk about it.

00:28:30.380 You'll get like, you'll get hurt, you'll get some angry faces.

00:28:32.980 And I thought that's a real sign because this used to be just a group all about the fear

00:28:37.920 and just backtracking with what you said, like in my area, specifically during the lockdown,

00:28:44.340 our domestic violence calls went up to 300% during the lockdown at some calls.

00:28:51.540 It's insane.

00:28:52.720 And our child abuse calls drastically plummeted.

00:28:57.780 And so what's concerning about that is that kids weren't going to their safe place.

00:29:01.660 Not that they weren't getting abused.

00:29:03.620 In fact, they were probably getting abused more with all the stress and everything like that.

00:29:09.140 But the fact that they're not around their teachers, they're not around Sunday school,

00:29:13.160 they're not around community centers, they're not playing sports, they're not going to the library.

00:29:18.000 There's no one reporting these things.

00:29:20.320 So, I mean, and then BC is also having our biggest, ever since we've been having our biggest overdoses,

00:29:27.600 fatal overdoses, and it hasn't been stopping.

00:29:29.480 So, yeah, I think the cure has been worse than the virus for sure so far.

00:29:36.960 Yeah, it's so sad.

00:29:37.820 You know, and that is a staggering anecdote about you going on to these groups,

00:29:41.460 getting kicked out, not for voicing an opinion, not for coming up with a conspiracy theory,

00:29:45.780 but for quoting medical and scientific statistics and data.

00:29:50.820 And it doesn't fit with the narrative.

00:29:52.760 So out you go.

00:29:55.220 Unbelievable, Drea.

00:29:56.120 Well, listen, thank you so much for joining me here on Rebel Roundup.

00:30:00.480 And I guess time will tell in the weeks ahead how far we're going to regress,

00:30:05.640 because I've got great worries about this too.

00:30:08.360 So thanks again, Drea.

00:30:09.620 Thanks, David.

00:30:10.920 You got it.

00:30:11.680 And that was Drea Humphrey in Vancouver.

00:30:14.860 Keep it here.

00:30:15.660 More Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:30:18.100 So it was that my cameraman, Lincoln, and I ventured out to Trinity Bellwoods Park the other day

00:30:28.740 to document the growing illegal eyesore that is the tent city encampment,

00:30:35.240 as well as the playground that is apparently being overrun by drug users.

00:30:40.200 We wanted to contrast this scenario with all those goofy social distancing circles

00:30:46.860 that law-abiding citizens dare not disrespect under penalty of heavy fine.

00:30:53.420 Alas, we never got to finish our report.

00:30:57.160 That's because we were violently shut down.

00:31:01.420 Now, I'm going to throw to a clip.

00:31:02.820 It is me standing in front of a particularly gruesome-looking tent at Trinity Bellwoods.

00:31:09.520 I was merely filming the stand-up to my report.

00:31:13.140 Keep in mind, it was never my intention to engage with anyone at the encampment.

00:31:19.100 But an illegal squatter inexplicably took umbrage to my very presence in this public park.

00:31:26.240 And here's what unfolded.

00:31:28.080 This is really rich.

00:31:29.820 There are people here breaking the trespass act.

00:31:34.180 Please, move. Move!

00:31:36.360 I don't like myself being filmed.

00:31:38.000 Do you know I have the right to actually smash that camera?

00:31:40.220 Hey, don't do that.

00:31:41.380 I have the right to smash that.

00:31:42.440 Hey, hey.

00:31:42.900 Don't do that.

00:31:43.920 By law, I have the right to smash that.

00:31:45.760 Do you have the right to smash that camera by law?

00:31:47.800 Yeah, yeah, by law, you know I actually smash that camera.

00:31:50.240 What law are you quoting?

00:31:51.920 Oh, yes, please, sir.

00:32:03.880 Get over here! 1.00

00:32:04.920 Welcome to John Tory's Toronto, folks.

00:32:15.920 My beloved hometown is a pretty sad sight these days, wouldn't you say?

00:32:19.900 Parkland has been surrendered to people who are clearly unhinged, some of whom are violent,

00:32:26.640 some of whom harbor vicious animals.

00:32:29.180 And while Mayor John Tory says this is unacceptable, well, Mayor, I have to say actions speak louder

00:32:37.620 than words.

00:32:38.200 In other words, how about doing something about this odious situation rather than just fretting

00:32:46.860 about it?

00:32:47.800 In any event, here's what you had to say.

00:32:50.800 Hey Now writes, I live in the Bay Area, California.

00:32:53.880 San Francisco is the worst.

00:32:56.100 Tents and parks and sidewalks and under overpasses.

00:32:59.780 And the law is that they can't get arrested for peeing or pooing in the streets.

00:33:05.360 There are places where they're allowing them to use heroin and give them new needles, and

00:33:11.400 there are nurses there to help them, all taxpayer-funded.

00:33:15.840 Well, you know, hey Now, it's tragic what has happened to the once beautiful city of San

00:33:20.680 Francisco.

00:33:21.560 I first visited this city in 1986, and I've got to tell you, back then there was just a

00:33:26.720 smattering of homeless people.

00:33:28.760 Now there are entire homeless communities, much like we see in other Democrat-controlled

00:33:34.880 cities.

00:33:35.840 How soon will it be before Hogtown resembles the city by the bay, thanks to a lack of political

00:33:42.540 leadership?

00:33:44.160 Brandon Fong writes,

00:33:45.460 This is so incredibly sad.

00:33:48.040 I used to live in Toronto for a long time.

00:33:49.980 I loved going to Trinity Bellwoods and shopping on Queen Street West.

00:33:53.600 I find it absolutely disgusting that residents and journalists are being intimidated by people

00:34:00.300 that should not be living at the park.

00:34:03.500 It's also sad that the mayor doesn't give a single F about what's going on.

00:34:09.100 This is just going to get worse.

00:34:11.480 You are correct, Brandon.

00:34:13.240 The situation in Trinity Bellwoods is the end result when governments refuse to govern and

00:34:19.200 law enforcement refuses to uphold the law.

00:34:22.240 And the end result is that law-abiding citizens must now endure the law of the jungle.

00:34:29.640 Barry Cole writes,

00:34:30.640 Yes, Barry, charges were indeed levied against the dog owner and his buddy.

00:34:43.400 He's the guy who later swatted my cell phone out of my hands.

00:34:46.820 For the record, Dean Edsey, 40, is charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily

00:34:52.500 harm, and mischief.

00:34:54.020 Mark, a.k.a. Andre Durant, 61, is charged with assault.

00:34:59.700 Andre has already been released.

00:35:01.820 He is residing at the park again.

00:35:04.020 And get this, the female Mastiff is walking around the park unleashed and unmuzzled. 1.00

00:35:10.240 So welcome to the Toronto version of Whack-A-Mole.

00:35:14.320 Lake Nipissing writes,

00:35:15.680 By law, I have the right to smash that camera.

00:35:19.400 Since you are so worried about the law, by law, you don't have the right to be living

00:35:23.300 in a public park in a tent or have unrestrained, vicious dogs attacking taxpayers in a public

00:35:29.400 park.

00:35:29.860 Well, you know, you are correct, Lake Nipissing.

00:35:32.220 So the question arises, why is the law not being upheld?

00:35:36.080 I can tell you one thing with certainty.

00:35:38.400 If the late, great Rob Ford were still mayor, this violent nonsense would never be tolerated.

00:35:45.020 Sad to see how much things have changed in Toronto in just six years.

00:35:52.600 Alas, not everyone was supportive or sympathetic, however, folks.

00:35:56.700 Obsolete Professor writes,

00:35:58.640 You're in his house.

00:35:59.940 He has the right to privacy.

00:36:02.000 No and no, Professor.

00:36:04.540 That's public land.

00:36:06.240 And he would have enjoyed his privacy.

00:36:08.760 Not that he is entitled to any, as he is a squatter, had he simply ignored us.

00:36:14.220 He engaged us, not the other way around.

00:36:18.440 Mr. Ozzy Gaming writes,

00:36:20.580 He didn't sick his dog.

00:36:22.100 The dog thought you were attacking him and they were protecting him as they see him as

00:36:26.820 the pack leader.

00:36:28.060 No, you're wrong, Mr. Ozzy Gaming.

00:36:30.220 First, there's some footage of the assailant, Dean Edsey, actually calling his dogs out of

00:36:36.100 the tent.

00:36:36.960 Secondly, the dogs are unleashed.

00:36:39.200 Third, the large dog that did most of the damage, Grizzly, was already on, if you can

00:36:45.900 believe this, a dangerous dogs list.

00:36:49.200 Part of the requirements in owning a dangerous dog is that it must be leashed and muzzled at

00:36:54.220 all times.

00:36:55.560 This degenerate knew exactly what he was doing, which was to weaponize his dogs against me.

00:37:01.500 But, thanks for your concern, nevertheless.

00:37:05.260 In any event, folks, if you feel as angry as I do about the lawlessness in Toronto's parks,

00:37:11.780 please visit our petition, TakeTorontoBack.com, and I shall personally deliver this to the

00:37:19.000 Mayor's office in the weeks ahead.

00:37:20.980 Also, a huge shout-out to all of you who sent your get-well-soon sentiments to me.

00:37:26.840 Your kindness and compassion is greatly appreciated.

00:37:31.440 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:37:34.120 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:37:35.460 See you next week.

00:37:36.380 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:37:40.300 Good night.

00:37:40.760 We'll see you next week.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 19, 2020

Fight the Fines victory, Vancouver Freedom Rally & more

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