Rebel News Podcast - Fighting against injustice — and leftist propaganda — in Alberta (GUEST HOST Keean Bexte)

00:00:00.000 Hello, I'm Kian Bextie, and this is the August 12th episode of the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:04.020 I'm subbing in for my boss, Ezra, and today we're talking about a tragic incident in rural Alberta

00:00:09.160 where a teenaged farm boy was beaten senseless by police.

00:00:13.040 And also, a mural in Calgary is about to be defaced by Black Lives Matter. 0.98

00:00:17.680 Mayor Naheed Nenshi is actually paying them over $100,000 to destroy a 25-year-old mural

00:00:24.280 with modernist Black Lives Matter propaganda.

00:00:27.520 It's going to be a great episode, and you can see the full thing if you subscribe at rebelnewsplus.com.

00:00:35.740 Otherwise, feel free to listen to this free version of the episode.

00:00:39.840 It's audio only, but it will be epic.

00:00:57.520 Tonight, I speak with the lawyer of a teenage tractor-driving farm boy who was beaten by Alberta police.

00:01:04.400 And Naheed Nenshi, well, he hired a white artist to paint Black Lives Matter garbage over a 25-year-old masterpiece. 0.99

00:01:12.600 I'm Kian Bextie, it's August 12th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:16.220 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:21.940 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:26.020 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:36.620 What is it with radical leftists hating beautiful things?

00:01:40.260 Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is the worst offender.

00:01:43.760 Years ago, after his first term, Nenshi was once known as the world's greatest mayor.

00:01:48.780 But boy, did he ever milk that one.

00:01:50.500 But time goes on, and the old shine has begun to rust.

00:01:55.080 Instead, Naheed Nenshi is now known by his spendthrift ways,

00:01:59.740 recklessly writing checks to international modernist artists to trash the cityscape with decidedly ugly art.

00:02:07.800 Millions of dollars wasted on two bobbing chickens outside of his extravagant library.

00:02:13.140 Half a million on the Beaufort Towers, which just looked like another unfinished Nenshi construction project.

00:02:19.080 And, of course, how could anyone forget the nearly half million on the iconically ugly Big Blue Ring? 1.00

00:02:27.300 Nenshi isn't just set on paying through the nose for abstract junk.

00:02:31.800 He wants to get rid of the few beautiful things that the city of Calgary has left.

00:02:36.040 Just this week, Nenshi and his fellow radicals on city council passed a motion to pay a Black Lives Matter surrogate

00:02:43.480 to pick four locations in the city and install Black Lives Matter propaganda on them.

00:02:49.520 The most controversial location is one that is right next to the oldest legion in Alberta.

00:02:54.720 It hosts a 25-year-old masterpiece displaying a dove being released by a giant pair of hands.

00:03:01.700 Giving wings to the dream, it's called.

00:03:03.980 I was on location just yesterday. Check it out.

00:03:07.660 Regardless of if they're Black or white or Asian or gay or straight, it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:03:11.920 Everyone can associate and see the beauty in this mural.

00:03:16.720 On top of all Calgarians, it's also something that can be related to by the folks that are living specifically here in downtown on the East End.

00:03:24.700 People who are historically downtrodden, whether they be indigenous or white, folks who are experiencing homelessness or addiction.

00:03:32.020 This mural speaks to them. This whole project, the Cup Society, is for the unemployed, the folks experiencing homelessness and addiction.

00:03:41.180 That is what this beautiful mural was commissioned over 25 years ago to represent.

00:03:47.960 Nenshi has hired Pink Flamingo to raise that piece of art and replace it with modern political messaging.

00:03:54.800 Let's take a peek at what this group, the Pink Flamingo, is all about.

00:03:59.460 Pink Flamingo is all of us, they say.

00:04:02.920 This is a BIPOC-slash-LGBTQQIP2SAA-plus event for inclusive fun and a great environment. 0.58

00:04:14.340 Enjoy a respectful and conscious space with people who get it while getting to know each other.

00:04:20.820 So woke, it's almost painful to read out loud.

00:04:24.620 Safe to say this is Nenshi's type, but it gets worse.

00:04:28.140 They have a document that outlines their approaches to decision-making.

00:04:32.340 This is how they want their fantastic New World Order to be ran.

00:04:36.720 On the left here, we have the evil culture of whiteness. 1.00

00:04:40.260 They hate things that have defined timeframes, exclusive meetings, and laughably,

00:04:45.500 they want to get rid of rational and data-driven decision-making.

00:04:49.500 This low-IQ band of radicals literally wants to stupefy our institutions. 1.00

00:04:55.080 These layabouts prefer non-academic decision-making. 0.53

00:04:59.280 You can't make this stuff up.

00:05:01.340 And it's who Naheed Nenshi gave over $100,000 to deface a massive piece of artwork.

00:05:07.660 That 25-year-old masterpiece can inspire anyone.

00:05:11.340 From the intern taking the train to work to the recovering opioid addict.

00:05:15.300 Everyone can see a message in that nuanced artwork.

00:05:19.500 That is what makes it beautiful.

00:05:21.340 It's also why Nenshi hates it.

00:05:23.340 It doesn't virtue signal enough for his perpetually oppressed minority vote. 0.95

00:05:28.260 You might ask yourself, can this situation get any more stupid?

00:05:32.780 Well, of course, the answer is always yes.

00:05:35.700 This is the artist, and I use that term generously,

00:05:38.880 that they've selected to paint this ode to Black Lives Matter.

00:05:42.360 Bam.

00:05:42.660 The whitest Black Lives Matter activist you ever did see. 1.00

00:05:58.740 Her paintings aren't really anything interesting.

00:06:01.060 It's just a bunch of nude, fat women with inflamed vulvas. 1.00

00:06:04.640 Morbidly disgusting, frankly.

00:06:06.760 Naheed Nenshi wants to replace this with this.

00:06:10.200 It's stunning.

00:06:12.320 It's unbelievable, actually.

00:06:14.360 You can go to savethemural.com to check out this horrendous story

00:06:18.280 and sign the petition demanding that Naheed Nenshi puts an end to this disgrace.

00:06:23.420 Now, on July 31st, Jeremiah, a young farm boy in Alberta,

00:06:28.940 had an altercation with the Alberta sheriffs that he will never forget.

00:06:33.200 While driving a tractor to a hayfield, five sheriffs surrounded his tractor

00:06:37.620 and allegedly punched and body slammed the teenaged farmer onto the pavement

00:06:42.900 of a rural Alberta highway just near Olds, Alberta.

00:06:46.680 According to the police, the young man refused to comply with Trudeau's new draconian law

00:06:53.360 that forces without cause breathalyzer testing on anyone and everyone the police want to test.

00:06:59.960 It's a new law and it's so oppressive and seemingly illegal

00:07:03.400 that many folks don't even believe that the law exists, but it does.

00:07:07.840 After all, the police, don't they need probable cause or a reason to even so much as check your ID?

00:07:13.660 How are they able to forcibly make you take a breathalyzer test?

00:07:18.100 Well, it's Trudeau's rules, even if they do seem unconstitutional.

00:07:22.780 In young Jeremiah's case, his family says that it wasn't even the law that confused him.

00:07:27.700 He didn't even know what a breathalyzer was,

00:07:30.180 much less why the police were trying to shove it down his throat on the roadside.

00:07:35.080 At just 18 years old, Jeremiah has been homeschooled his whole life

00:07:39.480 alongside his dozen other siblings.

00:07:41.580 TVs just aren't a part of their household.

00:07:44.340 And the only time that they ever need to leave the farm is to go pick up parts.

00:07:49.440 These aren't city folks, but the police, well, they treated Jeremiah

00:07:53.400 like he was some sort of hardened criminal.

00:07:56.540 In fact, after beating the kid senseless,

00:07:59.500 they cuffed him and left him in the back of a squad car for hours

00:08:03.780 on a day where the heat almost reached 30 degrees Celsius.

00:08:08.480 It's almost unbelievable that law enforcement in Alberta is acting in this way.

00:08:14.300 The family has retained Toni Rolston.

00:08:16.220 She's the same Calgary lawyer that successfully defended Edward Maurice,

00:08:20.600 the rural Albertan icon of property rights and self-defense.

00:08:24.400 The family has set up a GoFundMe to help with the legal bill,

00:08:28.000 and we're here directing all of the traffic at helpjeremiah.com

00:08:32.500 towards their GoFundMe to help out some Albertans who really need it.

00:08:37.700 Now, here's what Jeremiah's siblings had to say about the violent altercation.

00:08:42.560 So I started the GoFundMe Sunday afternoon.

00:08:47.240 One of my first purposes would be to help Dominic and Jeremiah out with lawyer fees

00:08:53.860 because they're obviously going to have a peer in court,

00:08:57.380 and they don't have a lot of money.

00:08:59.700 They're helping out with the family farm business,

00:09:02.140 and they don't get a wage like lots of other people do.

00:09:06.140 And I also started to bring awareness,

00:09:09.120 bring awareness that we're losing our freedom and rights in our country,

00:09:15.060 and also to bring awareness that what the sheriffs did

00:09:19.580 and how they handled the situation was very disrespectful to a good citizen,

00:09:25.980 a hard-working young farm boy, and very unprofessional.

00:09:32.580 So I wasn't on scene.

00:09:34.280 I was way working at another job, very busy time of year.

00:09:37.680 This is probably the worst year in over 18 years, or it is,

00:09:40.380 in Alberta farming history for farmers.

00:09:43.660 Very difficult time, very stressful.

00:09:45.680 When I heard about it, I came back to home immediately

00:09:49.120 to see what I could do and how I could help out,

00:09:52.180 and I was just shocked, and since then I've been just continually more and more shocked,

00:09:56.360 especially as footage rolls in from bystanders and people that filmed it

00:09:59.620 and are supporting and trying to help out and so on, and also in shock.

00:10:04.000 And that's just been escalating more and more.

00:10:07.780 Why did this happen?

00:10:09.140 And, you know, what can we do to prevent stuff like this happening in the future?

00:10:14.220 And just trying to come to grasp with the situation every time I look at my brother's face

00:10:18.340 and I see how shook up he is,

00:10:20.040 and you look at, you know, the blood and all the filming and footage and pictures and whatnot,

00:10:25.980 the same thing just happens over and over again.

00:10:28.340 Cannot believe that this actually happened here in Alberta.

00:10:30.600 Now, today, I got the chance to speak with Jeremiah's lawyer, Toni Rolston.

00:10:35.500 She's the attorney who represented the Albertan folk hero, Edward Maurice.

00:10:40.320 You probably know him.

00:10:41.480 He's the young family man who pulled out his gun to defend his family and property

00:10:45.860 when criminals broke onto his property.

00:10:47.980 Well, Toni Rolston successfully defended him in the case,

00:10:51.700 closely followed by many rural Albertans,

00:10:53.880 and I caught up with her outside the courthouse in Calgary

00:10:57.120 to talk about this case, which is sure to be the same.

00:11:12.500 Just to get started, could you give us an idea of the legal battle

00:11:16.260 that Dominic and Jeremiah are going to be facing in the next few months?

00:11:21.000 Well, both of them are subject to criminal charges.

00:11:25.220 They both have a court date coming up in Didsbury towards the end of October.

00:11:30.220 With respect to Jeremiah, his charges are refusal

00:11:33.180 and resisting or obstructing a police officer.

00:11:36.640 With respect to Dominic, he has two charges of obstructing a police officer

00:11:41.420 and causing a disturbance.

00:11:43.120 The concern that we have with respect to this, of course,

00:11:46.960 is the fact that if they are found guilty,

00:11:50.000 they will have a criminal record.

00:11:51.900 They will be subject to some sort of punitive aspect

00:11:56.360 in the sense of fines or probation and so forth.

00:11:59.840 And they're both very, very young.

00:12:02.580 And in my opinion, from what I've seen of the video

00:12:05.900 and upon speaking with my client,

00:12:08.060 the concern is that this whole incident

00:12:11.320 could have been handled so much differently.

00:12:15.780 And we wouldn't be here.

00:12:17.160 We wouldn't have two young boys,

00:12:19.280 and I say young or young adults,

00:12:21.200 that are actually subject now to the criminal justice system

00:12:24.440 when they've never, ever had an interaction.

00:12:26.580 What went wrong that day, in your opinion?

00:12:29.400 What did the sheriffs do wrong when they,

00:12:31.600 I mean, obviously punching them is the wrong thing to do,

00:12:34.040 but how did it escalate so quickly?

00:12:36.880 We don't have disclosure yet.

00:12:38.760 Disclosure is the evidence against Jeremiah

00:12:41.600 that we'll expect to get probably within a couple of weeks.

00:12:45.460 So I can't comment fully on that.

00:12:48.480 But from what I've seen from the video

00:12:50.220 and from my client's perspective, Jeremiah's perspective,

00:12:53.620 one of the concerns that we have is

00:12:55.700 you see these sheriffs chasing down this tractor in the video.

00:13:00.220 Someone gets into the other side of the tractor.

00:13:03.920 There's four or five sheriffs there,

00:13:05.700 and you see some movement in the tractor.

00:13:07.780 From what I understand,

00:13:08.560 that's when Jeremiah is being punched and hit

00:13:11.860 and pulled from both sides.

00:13:13.320 Then he's yanked down the tract, out of the tractor.

00:13:16.560 And the concern that we have clearly

00:13:18.740 in every citizen of Canada,

00:13:20.960 and especially in Alberta, as farmers,

00:13:22.920 what is happening where somebody

00:13:26.400 is actually being pulled out and punched?

00:13:29.800 And actually punched.

00:13:31.140 So what people need to really think about

00:13:33.060 is the fact that he's in a tractor.

00:13:36.000 He's going to go,

00:13:37.920 hey, that's what they're doing.

00:13:39.180 They're under a lot of time pressure to get this done.

00:13:41.840 He's not doing anything nefarious.

00:13:44.880 And what ends up happening is it just accelerates to this.

00:13:48.680 Where's the conversation?

00:13:50.520 Where's the explaining?

00:13:51.740 These people are law-abiding.

00:13:53.800 There's no need to think that this individual

00:13:57.320 is evading the police or trying to avoid.

00:14:00.960 Where is the conversation that needed to happen

00:14:03.560 before it resorts to physical violence?

00:14:07.000 So you've actually worked on a pretty high-profile case

00:14:10.040 just recently, and that concluded successfully

00:14:11.960 with Edward Maurice down in Okotoks.

00:14:16.260 What sort of parallels can you draw

00:14:19.740 between these two cases?

00:14:22.340 With respect to both of these cases,

00:14:24.460 my concern is with respect to how the police

00:14:26.400 conduct themselves initially.

00:14:28.520 That's where this all starts.

00:14:30.160 What steps are the police taking initially

00:14:33.580 when they're investigating?

00:14:35.880 Why jump straight to charges?

00:14:38.400 Why not have a discussion,

00:14:40.400 have an interaction with the individual

00:14:43.060 rather than jumping to charges

00:14:45.860 or jumping to physically grabbing somebody

00:14:48.820 and punching them and throwing them out of a vehicle?

00:14:52.080 In both cases, had everyone just slowed down,

00:14:55.840 had a discussion,

00:14:56.760 and maybe that's where some training comes in

00:14:58.920 with respect to this,

00:15:01.300 these both instances,

00:15:03.080 then in either case,

00:15:04.460 we may not have been here today.

00:15:06.400 We might not be clogging up the court system

00:15:08.860 with these types of cases.

00:15:10.980 So I want to talk about the tractor

00:15:13.940 that was actually seized.

00:15:15.560 A day or two later, it was returned.

00:15:19.340 They weren't sure,

00:15:20.340 the family wasn't sure who paid the tow charge

00:15:22.420 or who is going to be paying the cost

00:15:26.680 of repairing the transmission.

00:15:28.500 Do you know who sort of takes the blame on that

00:15:31.620 and who's going to be paying those bills?

00:15:33.220 I think it's going to be a civil matter.

00:15:36.920 Certainly, we're going to try to address it

00:15:38.980 on the criminal side within a charter notice

00:15:41.840 whereby we already foresee,

00:15:44.860 regardless of the disclosure,

00:15:46.040 that Jeremiah's rights have been violated.

00:15:48.700 We're going to try to address it,

00:15:50.560 but the criminal forum is not the proper forum for that.

00:15:55.140 So with respect to a civil lawyer,

00:15:57.480 I've been speaking to a civil lawyer regarding that

00:15:59.700 and hopefully the insurance companies

00:16:02.020 are going to step up

00:16:03.060 because they are insured

00:16:04.800 and that should be battled among the insurance.

00:16:07.980 But what's urgent right now

00:16:09.540 is they ought to have their tractor

00:16:11.840 put in the exact same position that it was

00:16:14.400 because now they have a loaner

00:16:16.380 and the problem with that is

00:16:18.180 it's a smaller tractor,

00:16:19.300 it's not as efficient.

00:16:21.040 This is a $300,000 piece of machinery

00:16:23.720 that some tow truck driver was directed

00:16:27.180 to just throw on some sort of a ramp

00:16:30.900 and take it away.

00:16:32.380 There's no thought process.

00:16:33.760 Again, there's no accountability.

00:16:36.360 Can somebody stop and think for a moment,

00:16:39.140 how are we going to do as little damage as possible

00:16:42.260 so that we're not here?

00:16:44.580 And it's the taxpayer

00:16:45.800 that's going to pay for both of these court cases.

00:16:48.560 Would you say that overall

00:16:51.980 that seizure of the tractor

00:16:53.200 was unlawful in your opinion?

00:16:55.600 I think we're going to have to look

00:16:57.120 at the disclosure with respect to that.

00:16:59.200 Police are permitted to seize a vehicle

00:17:03.120 capable of being put into motion

00:17:04.940 under these types of charges.

00:17:06.820 But at the same time,

00:17:08.860 that's not really where the live issue is.

00:17:11.240 The issue is if they're taking responsibility

00:17:13.960 for that piece of machinery,

00:17:16.280 then take responsibility

00:17:17.640 and have someone,

00:17:19.560 if you're going to tow it,

00:17:20.660 have someone who actually understands the machinery

00:17:22.780 tow it properly.

00:17:24.280 Because there was actually a sticker on it

00:17:25.560 that said don't tow it.

00:17:27.200 Don't tow.

00:17:28.160 It actually wrecks the transmission.

00:17:29.540 So one of my final questions,

00:17:31.340 unless you had other stuff to add here,

00:17:33.400 is are you going to be,

00:17:34.600 over the course of this criminal trial

00:17:36.500 and any civil litigation that happens afterwards,

00:17:40.480 are you going to be pursuing,

00:17:41.820 on behalf of your clients,

00:17:42.620 some sort of professional complaint

00:17:44.320 against the sheriffs

00:17:45.240 who actually ended up arresting them?

00:17:48.500 How is there the accountability

00:17:50.140 that you're talking about?

00:17:51.800 I mean, even if Jeremiah is found not guilty,

00:17:54.520 where's the accountability with the officers?

00:17:56.000 That's looking further down the road.

00:17:59.260 We do have some time to file a complaint regarding that.

00:18:02.100 Once we get the disclosure,

00:18:03.580 and hopefully we have the sheriffs

00:18:06.080 having some sort of body camera

00:18:07.680 or having a camera on the car

00:18:09.480 so we can also get another angle

00:18:11.100 as to what occurred.

00:18:12.220 Because my understanding is

00:18:13.440 Jeremiah sat in the back of a police car

00:18:15.620 that was very hot

00:18:16.840 with his hands behind his backs

00:18:18.540 and we have marks to show

00:18:20.480 on the handcuffs on his wrists.

00:18:22.660 So we want an opportunity to review

00:18:24.440 that disclosure,

00:18:25.860 that ought to be part of disclosure,

00:18:27.700 and then we can make

00:18:29.100 a proper assessment

00:18:30.600 as to what steps to make

00:18:32.020 in that realm,

00:18:33.140 whether or not we're going to

00:18:34.300 proceed with a complaint

00:18:35.500 against the police

00:18:36.380 or the sheriffs in this case.

00:18:38.220 All right.

00:18:38.580 Well, thank you so much for your time.

00:18:39.640 You've been on the forefront

00:18:40.420 of so many interesting cases

00:18:41.600 here in Alberta

00:18:42.220 and we'll be sure to follow along

00:18:43.660 as this case proceeds.

00:18:45.980 If the viewers at home

00:18:47.300 want to help Jeremiah out,

00:18:49.800 they can go to helpjeremiah.com

00:18:52.160 and that will forward you

00:18:53.460 to the GoFundMe page

00:18:54.740 that his sister's actually set up

00:18:56.220 to help with all the legal fees.

00:18:57.960 You just heard the conversation we had.

00:18:59.360 It is going to be a long trial,

00:19:01.040 both civil and criminal.

00:19:02.380 If you can help Jeremiah out,

00:19:03.680 that would go a long ways.

00:19:05.000 Thanks so much for your time.

00:19:05.920 Thank you.

00:19:06.260 The world sure is going to hell

00:19:19.780 in a handbasket,

00:19:20.960 but we're here to slow the pace

00:19:22.480 as much as we can.

00:19:24.220 Go to savethemural.com

00:19:25.580 and sign that petition

00:19:26.520 calling on Nenshi

00:19:27.520 to scrap this tragic destruction

00:19:29.580 of artwork

00:19:30.440 and then go to helpjeremiah.com

00:19:33.400 to help out a young man

00:19:34.740 in need of our support.

00:19:36.760 Thank you so much

00:19:37.580 for tuning in tonight.

00:19:38.880 Tomorrow,

00:19:39.680 the illustrious Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:19:41.740 will take Ezra Spot.

00:19:43.580 Good night and God bless.

Rebel News Podcast - August 13, 2020

Fighting against injustice — and leftist propaganda — in Alberta (GUEST HOST Keean Bexte)

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