Rebel News Podcast - How's life under martial law treating you？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through my observations on day one under Trudeau's

00:00:05.700 form of martial law. Is the country any different now that our civil liberties have been infringed?

00:00:12.480 I'll show you some cases where it is different and some where it's not, some where it's better

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00:00:59.860 Hey, how's life under martial law treating you? It's February 15th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:20.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:26.340 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:30.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:35.280 right to do so.

00:01:36.260 Well, I woke up today and I drove to work and I thought, what does the world look like

00:01:46.040 under a form of martial law? There are not soldiers in our streets, but it is

00:01:51.660 the modern version of the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act. Driving to work, the world looked

00:01:59.060 no different. And I don't think most people even notice that we're in a civil liberties emergency.

00:02:05.600 I think that's because there actually isn't a national emergency. There is no sharp, acute, dramatic

00:02:14.700 problem that needed to be solved. And thus, no solution to it is needed or felt. By the way,

00:02:22.600 I think we're numbed to emergencies these days. We've been told that we're in a perpetual emergency

00:02:29.320 every two weeks, really, for two years. So I think if there actually were a national crisis,

00:02:36.980 a genuine insurrection, mass riots, some foreign army, we would notice that and then the solution

00:02:45.060 to it would be noticed and appreciated. When the FLQ crisis was in Canada 52 years ago,

00:02:50.920 people actually did feel a fear of foreign-funded terrorism, the FLQ. I think one of the reasons

00:02:58.180 the world didn't look much changed today is because there is no emergency and so the solution doesn't

00:03:04.160 seem to have a problem. Ottawa, the city of Ottawa still looks the same other than the police chief quit.

00:03:13.020 But why did he quit and not the mayor or the prime minister? Why is it always the

00:03:20.840 paid staffer and not the political boss who pays the price? Now, I have to say, I'm glad he's gone.

00:03:29.960 His press conference and his tweets about the truckers were completely unacceptable.

00:03:36.920 Here, here's a reminder. Here's a press conference version that was also parceled out in 20-odd tweets.

00:03:43.480 We have increased ability to identify and target protesters and supporters of protesters who are

00:03:52.280 funding and enabling unlawful and harmful activity by the protesters themselves.

00:04:00.200 Investigative evidence-gathering teams are collecting financial, digital, vehicle registration,

00:04:08.520 driver identification, insurance status, and other related evidence that will be used in prosecutions.

00:04:17.800 Every unlawful act, including traffic and insurance violations, will be fully pursued,

00:04:23.240 regardless of the origin, at any time in the future.

00:04:26.120 The primary focus of each of these measures will be on the unlawful behavior connected to the

00:04:33.560 ongoing demonstrations. This includes parallel and counter demonstrations.

00:04:39.480 We strongly urge all demonstrators and those engaging with the demonstrators to act lawfully,

00:04:45.320 peacefully, and respectfully.

00:04:47.400 The hatred, the violence, the illegal acts that Ottawa residents and businesses have endured over

00:04:55.000 the last week is unacceptable in any circumstance.

00:04:59.560 The Ottawa Police Service and the City of Ottawa are bringing significantly greater resources to restore

00:05:04.840 order, hold offenders to account, and protect our neighborhoods.

00:05:09.880 The current demonstration in the Parliamentary Precinct Red Zone remains unresolved,

00:05:14.840 despite significant successes in reducing the number of trucks and demonstrators,

00:05:19.560 while preventing riots, injuries, or deaths.

00:05:23.640 We take no solace in these operational successes to date.

00:05:28.840 Our goal is to end the demonstration.

00:05:32.280 The demonstrators in the Red Zone area remain highly organized, well-funded,

00:05:37.160 extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstration safely.

00:05:46.520 This remains, as it was from the beginning, an increasingly volatile and increasingly dangerous demonstration.

00:05:53.960 There is no way that that cop wrote that speech. I don't know who wrote it for him,

00:06:01.000 if it was the mayor, if it was Justin Trudeau, if it was Gerald Butts.

00:06:05.160 That is not a speech that any real cop should give. He should have resigned then.

00:06:11.160 He resigned today. Another notch in the belt, I guess, of the trucker convoy.

00:06:19.080 In Coots, Alberta, the men wrapped up their blockade.

00:06:24.040 Look at them hugging the cops. That doesn't look like a national emergency.

00:06:30.920 They just went home. There are some charges out there.

00:06:35.000 And as you know, Rebel News is crowdfunding top-notch lawyers.

00:06:38.440 As I like to say, if Omar Khadr, the convicted, confessed al-Qaeda terrorist,

00:06:43.400 gets a lawyer, so should these men too.

00:06:45.720 I see that the RCMP put out this tweet of the violent military cell that they confiscated.

00:06:56.520 Now, I admit this sure looks bad to city folks, especially in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,

00:07:01.240 who have never seen a gun. But if you look at that, that's really what you would expect to find

00:07:05.960 in pretty much any country home in Canada, a rural farm or a ranch.

00:07:12.360 Those guns look pretty scary because some of them are black and some of them have camouflage,

00:07:16.920 but they're really hunting rifles. Almost all of them are just little .22s.

00:07:21.400 Those are not bulletproof vests. They can have armor plating in them, but they don't.

00:07:25.320 The RCMP claimed they're bulletproof vests. Those look like a lot of bullets, but not really.

00:07:31.240 I think that this was designed to scare Toronto-centric media, who don't really understand a lot about

00:07:39.080 how the other half lives. I keep thinking of this tweet from Marika of the Globe and Mail,

00:07:45.400 who saw a little weight on the bottom of a crane and thought it was a wrecking ball.

00:07:52.760 So that's the kind of expertise the RCMP counts on in the media party. But nonetheless, this violent

00:07:59.800 cell, and maybe it is. We'll find out when the facts are out. That's why the truckers went home.

00:08:05.080 They didn't want to be associated with any violence, not because of the emergency act,

00:08:09.320 and certainly not because of the cops. You saw them hugging. The truckers just wanted to distance

00:08:13.800 themselves from that. So that's what the world looked like today. The truckers had their win.

00:08:21.000 The Ottawa chief is gone. And the coward Doug Ford now says, hey guys, I never really believed in a

00:08:29.160 vaccine mandate. No, sir. No, no, not me. Why would you ever say that?

00:08:34.760 You know, you can go to, you can go to Costco, you can go to Walmart, you can go shopping.

00:08:39.560 You know, you don't know if the person has a shot beside you or not, but we also know

00:08:44.040 that it doesn't matter if you have one shot or 10 shots, you can catch COVID. See, the prime

00:08:49.240 ministry has triple shots. And I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught COVID.

00:08:54.120 We just have to be careful. We've got to always make sure we wash our hands and move forward. But

00:09:00.440 Colin, we can't stay in this position forever. We got to learn to live with this and get on with our

00:09:05.080 lives. I bet if I asked every single person in this room, do you want these damn masks or do you want

00:09:10.120 them off? They want them off. They want to get back to normal. They want to be able to go for dinner

00:09:14.600 with their families. And there's every single person, including myself, knows people that are

00:09:18.440 unvaccinated. You know, sure, there's there's a rebel rousers. And then there's just hardworking

00:09:24.200 people that just don't believe in it. And that's their choice. This is about, again, that democracy and

00:09:30.760 freedoms and liberties. And I hate as a government telling anyone what to do. We just got to get moving

00:09:36.920 forward and get out of this and protect the jobs. You know, I think a lot of people call

00:09:43.480 probably yourself, too. Everyone's done with us. Like we are done with it. Let's let's start moving

00:09:49.480 on and cautiously. And, you know, we've followed the rules, all of us, like 90 percent of us

00:09:55.640 for for over two years. The world's done with it. So let's just move forward. Everyone is gaslighting

00:10:02.440 you now. Everyone is pretending they had nothing to do with any of it these past two years. No,

00:10:07.480 no, no. Please forget everything they've said and done for two years, done to you, done to your

00:10:13.320 business, done to your family. Even Jason Kenney, the imprisoner of more Christian pastors than

00:10:19.800 communist China, is talking about his own actions in the third person, as in who did these terrible

00:10:27.560 things. He keeps on saying these damaging rules, these damaging orders. That's a Trudeau way of

00:10:33.720 talking, as if you're a third person, a passive observer, as opposed to the guy who did the damage.

00:10:40.760 I remind you, though, that Pastor Arthur Pavlovsky is still in prison in solitary confinement today.

00:10:49.080 And the Jason Kenney, despite saying the vaccine passport's over, is still providing QR codes and the

00:10:55.160 government database to support vaccine passports in private companies. Jason Kenney has not taken

00:11:02.440 his foot off of the neck of freedom in Alberta. But boy, he wants you to think he has, because he

00:11:07.560 sees the reckoning coming. These truckers have done more for our freedom than anyone else in two years.

00:11:13.240 Which brings us to the real purpose of the Emergencies Act. It wasn't to solve a true national

00:11:21.320 emergency. It was to solve a political emergency. These truckers are the natural heirs to the yellow 1.00

00:11:31.720 vest movements of France. Remember them? They were a grassroots movement of truckers and other

00:11:38.760 motorists who were opposed to the carbon tax and other government rules and regulations. It was

00:11:44.280 grassroots and it was out of control by the fancy people. And of course, the response back then was to

00:11:50.040 deem yellow vests a symbol of hatred. Well, they've done the same thing to the truckers. But boy, have

00:11:56.600 the truckers ever changed the world? The truckers are so visual. A convoy of trucks is impressive.

00:12:05.480 The idea is spreading. Here it is in Israel. There are plans for trucking convoys in America. I'm getting

00:12:13.240 emails from people in California about a huge convoy planned for that state. I wonder if it's any

00:12:18.600 coincidence that that state is removing its mask rules and its other rules as quickly as possible.

00:12:24.520 They don't want to be hit by a truck. It truly is an international movement, but not a globalist one.

00:12:31.640 Do you know the difference between international and globalist? International means it's simply in

00:12:37.560 different countries. Globalist means it's a rootless global governance, undemocratic and unaccountable.

00:12:44.920 These truckers are the ultimate in grassroots, authentic, organic, uncontrollable by the masters

00:12:53.960 of the universe. Truckers. I mean, they can't really be canceled by big tech, can they? When they speak or

00:13:00.520 when they drive, they can't be deleted by YouTube. But I guess they sort of can be. The trucks that have

00:13:08.920 been parked in Ottawa have been doxxed. Do you know what that means? That they're personal details. People

00:13:15.640 have been looking up the names of the companies whose trucks they work for and emailing their employers

00:13:21.880 and complaining and calling insurance companies. They've even had a website revealing personal

00:13:27.400 information, harassing these truckers. That's what the caring left does to peaceful protests. The give,

00:13:36.040 send, go crowdfunding engine that was used by the truckers after GoFundMe canceled the first crowdfunding

00:13:43.560 effort. They were hacked very quickly and very professionally. And the entire list of donors

00:13:51.400 was published online. Stolen private information. And it was made public to everyone. Isn't that funny?

00:13:59.320 Right before Christia Freeland announced that she was going to punish those donors. The harassment of

00:14:06.280 those donors was done in an orchestrated campaign. And now I see the CBC, Trudeau State Broadcasters,

00:14:15.240 getting in on it too. They have taken the stolen hacked data and they're literally emailing everyone who

00:14:23.400 donated, naming and shaming the insurrectionists and serving them up to Christia Freeland. I've

00:14:32.280 probably received a hundred emails today from people being targeted from Trudeau's CBC State Broadcaster.

00:14:39.320 It's not journalism what they're doing. It's acting as a stalking horse for Trudeau. And for Freeland,

00:14:46.440 just a reminder, here's what she says she'll do to anyone who donated money to the truckers. As of today,

00:14:54.200 a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account

00:15:03.080 without a court order. In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in

00:15:12.920 good faith. Federal government institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information

00:15:21.720 with banks and other financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop

00:15:29.000 to the funding of these illegal blockades. This is about following the money. This is about stopping the

00:15:39.800 financing of these illegal blockades. We are today serving notice. If your truck is being used in these

00:15:50.200 illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.

00:16:00.920 Send your semi-trailers home. The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work,

00:16:07.880 not to be illegally making us all poorer. No court process, no appeal, no legal rights, having your

00:16:19.160 property taken because the government gave the banks their enemies list. The New York Times said this was

00:16:26.760 a violation of civil liberties. Rosemary Barton, Trudeau's main gal at the Ottawa office of the CBC,

00:16:32.600 immediately tweeted to the New York Times, there was no civil liberties violated here.

00:16:39.000 Sorry, are you acting as a journalist now? Are you acting as Trudeau's platonic girlfriend now? Or are you

00:16:46.840 acting in some partisan role like you did when you sued the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2019

00:16:53.240 election in the middle of the campaign? I don't know, but I don't think anyone can honestly say

00:16:57.880 that the CBC are journalists. There's a world of difference between a journalist, no adjective,

00:17:04.040 and a government journalist. If there's any adjective on the word journalist, you're not really a

00:17:09.480 journalist, Rosemary. So what's going on here? I don't think there was a national emergency,

00:17:17.160 certainly not one that needed the suspension of civil liberties. It's not about solving any policing

00:17:22.600 problem. Police have the tools they need. It's about the completion of Chinese-style social credit 0.51

00:17:30.280 systems, a national health database, and a national financial database, combined with your political

00:17:40.360 point of view. We already know that the government illegally tracked millions of cell phone users

00:17:47.160 without any lawful authority. The privacy commissioner said so. They're combining these things.

00:17:54.600 In the period of the national emergency, when civil liberties and government oversight are reduced,

00:18:01.720 they will connect the database during the suspension of our rights. And once connected,

00:18:08.920 once the database is there, they're never going to delete it. They'll probably leak it to the internet

00:18:14.840 before they delete it. It will combine everything about you, your health information, your home details

00:18:22.840 that could be doxxed, your email and digital footprint, all the things that Ottawa police chiefs said they

00:18:29.000 were collecting on you. Now they're going to associate it with your political tastes, and now you have

00:18:35.320 a Chinese-style social credit. Will they come for you? Well, if they do, they'll probably come for me 1.00

00:18:44.920 first. And maybe they will come for me. You know, today is the seventh birthday of Rebel News. Seven years

00:18:56.680 we've been doing this. We started off in my living room, and now look at us, 52 employees in four countries,

00:19:04.920 million and a half subscribers on YouTube, hundreds of thousands more on other platforms.

00:19:11.080 I think we are the leading media entity covering the Trucker Rebellion. That's why they hate us so much.

00:19:17.400 You'll notice that Chrystia Freeland's fury was dedicated towards crowdfunding. Well, who do you

00:19:26.120 think crowdfunds their company? We do. I don't know what the future holds for us. Justin Trudeau has

00:19:34.600 always admired tyrants like Fidel Castro and communist China. We actually haven't raised any funds for the

00:19:42.920 truckers. We've raised funds for lawyers to defend the civil liberties of all Canadians, including

00:19:50.760 truckers, and as you know, 2,000 other people who got lockdown tickets over the last two years.

00:19:58.760 Arthur Pawlowski being one of them. I believe that Rebel News complies with the law. We're actually

00:20:05.400 extremely compliant. We assume we're being investigated all the time. We're probably being spied on by the

00:20:12.600 government. We are in many ways the most effective opposition force to the government today. I don't

00:20:21.240 think you can honestly say the Conservative Party of Canada has fulfilled that role ably for the last

00:20:26.360 two years. And although there are a few other small independent media companies in this country that we

00:20:31.880 very much admire, Rebel News is simply the largest. On some days we have people in nine or ten different

00:20:38.360 cities giving you raw footage of what's happening on the convoy. Simply put, if there was one voice

00:20:45.320 that Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau wanted to silence, I think it would be ours. But I can tell you,

00:20:53.080 we will not go quietly. We will not go easily. We got plenty of lawyers and we've conducted ourselves

00:20:59.800 perfectly legally. And if Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau attempt to use their suspension of civil

00:21:08.280 liberties to silence our independent journalism and our pro bono financing of civil liberties lawyers

00:21:18.600 across the country, they will bite off more than they can chew and we will fight to the end.

00:21:26.040 And everything we've done in the past seven years has prepared us for this moment. I give you my

00:21:34.520 promise on that. Stay with us for more.

00:21:37.480 Welcome back. Well, there are not many journalists in Canada who aren't on the payroll of Justin Trudeau.

00:21:58.280 It's just a fact that more than 99 percent of journalists either work for the state broadcaster,

00:22:04.680 the CBC, or work for a media outlet that takes funds from Trudeau in the form of a bailout.

00:22:10.840 I think that's one of the reasons why Trudeau has not been checked. The media often acts as a

00:22:16.920 balance to power. Not in Canada. They act as an augmentation and emphasis of power. Often we rely

00:22:25.400 on foreign media to criticize Trudeau. Our domestic media just won't. And never has this been more

00:22:32.600 clear than with the case of the truckers rebellion, where the state broadcaster, but also the rest of

00:22:38.040 the media party, has been demanding a violent crackdown on the truckers. I'm shocked by some

00:22:46.120 of the things I read. And the media has been cheering on the suspension of civil liberties.

00:22:52.920 I'm delighted today to introduce you to and to interview one of the few independent journalists

00:22:58.120 left in Canada. He's a Montrealer named David Pryheit. Online he goes by Viva Frye. He's a

00:23:04.680 lawyer, a vlogger, and he's our guest right now. David, great to see you and welcome to the show.

00:23:11.080 Thank you for having me. Ezra, I still don't consider myself a journalist. I'm just a guy with a camera

00:23:16.120 who wants to know the truth and understand what's going on.

00:23:18.760 Well, that is the working definition of journalism. It's an activity. It's not a profession. I mean,

00:23:24.680 you need to pass an exam. You need to be under the authority of a college of physicians and surgeons,

00:23:32.680 or a law society to be a doctor or a lawyer. But a journalist is someone who just tells the daily

00:23:39.480 news. And I think you are a journalist. And I think you're an unfettered one because you don't take

00:23:45.000 the dough from the government. So first, let's start off by talking about what you saw, because

00:23:50.120 you were on the streets of Ottawa for days, three, four hour stints of live streaming.

00:23:57.720 You really showed more of what was happening on the ground than the entire daily output of the CBC,

00:24:04.200 for example. You were just showing people the raw facts. I mean, I'll show you what I've got here.

00:24:09.720 These are my battery packs, color coded so I know which ones are expired. And I've been just

00:24:15.960 plugging them into my phone and live streaming in real time just to see what's going on.

00:24:21.080 Over the weekend, the first weekend, I didn't make it down. And people were telling me,

00:24:24.840 you have to go down, see what's going on. I was reading what was going on, coming from the CBC,

00:24:29.560 coming from whomever. And then I hear what's going on from people who are there. And I say,

00:24:34.600 these two realities are mutually incompatible. They cannot be both existing at the same time.

00:24:40.120 So I say, I'm going down Monday. I'm going to live stream, see if I see any Nazi flags,

00:24:44.360 any Confederate flags, any acts of violence. And if I see them, the world will see it in real time,

00:24:49.640 because I'm live streaming and I cannot cut, edit, nor would I want to. So the first day,

00:24:53.960 I think I did like four and a half hours, maybe five hours just streaming, just walking, talking to

00:24:58.680 people. It was the diametric opposite of what the CBC, of what, I don't want to name others who

00:25:05.720 I'm not sure actually are guilty of this, of what the other legacy Canadian media were describing

00:25:10.040 as going on there. We heard reports of monuments being defaced, urine and other waste on the war

00:25:17.400 memorial, the Terry Fox monument being vandalized. And I could, I swear to you, I, not only did I not

00:25:23.720 see any of it. The Terry Fox had flowers at the base of it. The war memorial had veterans watching

00:25:29.560 guard over it, shoveling the snow, salting the sidewalk because apparently the city wasn't doing

00:25:33.880 it. People were dancing. People were loving. It was multicultural. It was women, men, indigenous people,

00:25:40.360 black people. I interviewed someone from Kuwait. Everything that the media had been saying about

00:25:45.240 this protest was an absolute fabrication. And, but for the fact that I went down to see with myself,

00:25:50.200 I might not have known that. Wow. I mean, a lot of establishment icons have tumbled because of this

00:25:57.800 convoy. Aaron O'Toole was one of the first to go because of his refusal to even communicate with

00:26:06.200 them. Incredibly, the resignation of the Ottawa police chief, I think, is directly a result of the

00:26:12.120 convoy. There's a lot of things that have happened. I think the media party's reputation

00:26:19.960 has been devastated by their false coverage of this, but they don't know it yet. Like the,

00:26:26.360 the police chief in Ottawa, he knows what happened. Aaron O'Toole, he knows what happened.

00:26:31.400 The various premiers who've said, all right, we're ending our vaccine passports. They know what

00:26:36.520 happened. But so far the legacy media, the corporate media, the media party, whatever you want to call it,

00:26:42.920 they don't know what happened to them. They're, they're in denial. That's what I think. What do you think?

00:26:48.040 Well, they're still getting paid. They're still getting government subsidies. They're still getting

00:26:52.840 those sweet, sweet COVID ad dollars. So I don't think they felt it yet, but I think they know that

00:26:57.560 their legacy, for lack of a better word, is in decline. I mean, they know it from the reactions

00:27:03.000 they get on the street. I, there is a part of me that thinks like, they're like Principal Skinner

00:27:07.640 out of the Simpsons. Like, is it me that's the problem? No, no, no. Everyone else is out of touch.

00:27:11.480 Yeah. Uh, they, they don't get abused. They don't get accosted. They don't get assaulted.

00:27:16.600 They're allowed to do their jobs by the crowd themselves, but they do get heckled. And they

00:27:21.800 do have people saying, you guys are, we fake news. We don't want to even want to talk to you.

00:27:25.400 Yeah. Uh, but I think they have to know that their influence is flailing and, and failing,

00:27:31.000 and that they're not appreciated by the general public. I had the good fortune of seeing a CBC

00:27:37.760 journalist. And I just asked him a few questions. Like I said, I said, do you think you put out

00:27:42.460 a slanted news? And he says, no, I, we don't, I don't think we do. And it was, I don't know if

00:27:47.900 the, if the individual was being honest, sincere with me or with themselves,

00:27:51.080 but I think they're starting to know it. Uh, certainly from the reaction they get from the

00:27:55.560 crowd, despite the violent extremist nature of this protest, these, what we call fake news

00:28:01.900 media outlets are still allowed to do their interviews on the street, but you see what

00:28:06.000 they're doing in real time. They pick on individuals who they know are going to reflect poorly on the

00:28:10.160 group. They single them out. They do interviews with them. And then they portray that as being

00:28:14.520 the rule of the convoy as opposed to the exception. But I think, I think they know they're failing

00:28:19.360 and I, and I hope they do. And I hope they know that they deserve it.

00:28:21.960 You know, uh, yesterday was the imposition of the emergencies act, uh, and emergency legislation

00:28:28.640 that was not even deployed on nine 11 was not even deployed when the ISIS terrorists stormed

00:28:33.960 parliament in 2014. Um, and yet last night just was the night that the Canadian association of

00:28:40.700 journalists had a panel discussion, not on civil liberties in an age of emergency lockdowns,

00:28:46.440 but versus, you know, the media versus the convoy, like how hard it has been for them to be

00:28:53.600 heckled. Like in their mind last night, it was more important to talk about the fact that the

00:29:01.120 convoy members were heckling the CBC and CTV than to talk about the emergency act and the civil

00:29:08.000 liberties abrogation. Like that, the, the narcissism, the solipsism, the self-regard, and the,

00:29:14.560 the just lack of self-awareness last night, they were talking about themselves instead of the

00:29:20.980 burning chart of rights. Incredible to me. Oh no, as I'll tell you this, I listened to CJD 800

00:29:27.900 only to torture myself to hear what, you know, the people on the other side are saying within their

00:29:32.520 own silo. They had a legal expert on this morning, basically saying, don't worry that the government

00:29:38.060 has invoked the emergencies act. It can only be exercised within the confines, within the

00:29:43.760 limitations of the charter of rights. So even though they've invoked it, they're still going

00:29:48.500 to be bound by the charter of rights as if we haven't just lived through two years of the federal

00:29:52.920 and provincial government desecrating each and every right that is in theory guaranteed under the

00:29:57.940 charter. But you have your government subsidized media with a presumably government subsidized

00:30:03.500 expert telling a populace, which is either willfully blind or, uh, or worse, don't worry. They're going

00:30:10.660 to, uh, restrict your freedoms in a manner that's consistent with the charter of rights on an

00:30:15.900 emergency basis. And that's good enough for the CJD because you don't want to bite the hand that,

00:30:20.620 that finances you. And the journalists themselves, they are not in a position to criticize this because

00:30:25.840 they are dependent on the very same government that is invoking these emergency measures for their

00:30:31.120 financing, for their livelihoods. So obviously you got to, you got to talk about something else.

00:30:35.800 Yeah. Well, you're not just a video journalist and you're not just a commentator on the news.

00:30:42.280 You are a lawyer. And one of the special, uh, values that you bring to your shows is you chew over

00:30:51.040 the legal news and there's always legal news going on in Canada, the United States. I'd like to hear

00:30:56.300 your thoughts on the invocation of the emergencies act. I did sort of a rough run through of some of

00:31:02.620 the problems on yesterday's show, but, uh, I'm guessing you've gone through it more meticulous

00:31:07.720 than me. Uh, what, give me your reaction to the invocation of the modern version of the war

00:31:14.100 measures act. I, it's nothing but a sick joke. There's nothing in there that could possibly meet

00:31:21.060 the criteria necessary for invoking the act. I mean, it's, it's gotta be national security,

00:31:26.680 a national emergency, uh, not a protest in Ottawa, which even if you think it's illegal,

00:31:34.020 even if you think it's paralyzing a portion of the city could not by anyone's wildest dreams,

00:31:39.220 uh, justify invoking this emergency measures act, which is, it's the most, it's the extreme of the

00:31:45.760 extreme laws. I mean, it, many of us probably didn't even know it existed because we didn't know

00:31:50.540 these laws existed until you learn that they exist. And then you read them and you read the

00:31:54.500 powers that it gives the power to basically prevent any, any, any exercise of constitutional

00:32:01.240 rights, even though they say, don't worry, we're not bringing in the military. It was pretextual to

00:32:06.680 have brought it in the pretext, which is itself provided by a fully subsidized media to the

00:32:13.320 government that has depicted this protest as something violent and extremist as a national

00:32:17.440 threat, which it isn't. But the fact that it's invoked now at this point, after three weeks of

00:32:23.100 this protest, if this were such a national crisis, three weeks later, we'd be feeling the outright

00:32:28.660 devastation of it, not seeing protesters literally shoveling the streets and salting the sidewalks.

00:32:34.300 They invoked the blockade at, um, the ambassador bridge, which I can understand is an economic issue.

00:32:39.900 Does it threaten national security, sovereignty, or the body public, the body, uh, political body

00:32:45.140 as required by this law? Absolutely not. Especially since the blockade had ended by the time, uh,

00:32:51.440 Trudeau invoked the emergency measures act. This is, it's a flex. It's a, I think it's a devastatingly

00:32:57.740 dumb flex. Cause I think it's going to bite Trudeau in the butt. I was just watching some live debates

00:33:02.500 in parliament. I think it's biting in the butt already, but it's just, it's an absolute abuse,

00:33:06.760 but it's an absolute abuse that we can expect from Trudeau who more than anything else in his

00:33:12.580 governance wants to continue with this emergency so that we do not talk about his corruption,

00:33:18.220 his ineptitude, his ethics violations, his, his absolute inability to lead a nation.

00:33:23.700 This is what he wants to talk about. And the only way is keep fabricating the idea that there's an

00:33:27.780 emergency and just appreciate Ezra. They didn't even invoke this during the ice storm of 1996 or 98.

00:33:34.460 I forget when it was when in Quebec, we were out of electricity. Some of us for three weeks,

00:33:39.720 if not more people were freezing in their homes, the province itself could, did not have the

00:33:44.220 resources to respond to that. Didn't declare it then they declare it because of a protest block

00:33:50.120 party. That's been lasting a little too long and embarrassing Trudeau a little too much on the

00:33:53.260 international scale. So Trudeau, the hurt man that he is tries to go out and hurt more people

00:33:58.460 because like they say, hurt men, hurt men. Um, he's made it's a, it's a monumental blunder and it's

00:34:04.920 going to come back to bite him in the butt, but it's, it's just abusive law that you would expect

00:34:08.180 from a petty tyrant. You know, some folks have said to me, well, what's going to happen now

00:34:13.160 is Trudeau going to use these emergency powers to go and physically attack or, or root out these

00:34:20.980 truckers. And my, my response, I'd like your thoughts on this is no, they don't need additional

00:34:28.100 powers to move trucks. Like, as you just pointed out, the ambassador bridge was cleared by local top

00:34:34.420 cops with no violence. It ended peacefully. And you know, it, it, it was an inconvenience for a

00:34:40.320 couple of days. It's true, but it ended peacefully with local cops. There are local cops who could

00:34:45.700 take care of any, I mean, and, and the coots blockade ended peacefully too. Um, Trudeau didn't

00:34:52.120 do this so he could add more muscle. The cops have enough muscle to deal with it. They either choose

00:34:58.140 not to, or, or there's no crimes being committed. Here's my theory. The trucker rebellion is the

00:35:04.320 pretext, the purpose, the real essence of it is what Chrystia Freeland detailed, getting the financial

00:35:12.720 information of anyone who supported this peaceful opposition to Trudeau, anyone who chipped into the

00:35:21.080 crowdfunding campaign, getting an enemies list of a hundred thousand people and marking them as

00:35:29.020 potential terror threats, bringing in a Chinese style social credit ranking system for people who 0.51

00:35:36.200 dared to stand up to Trudeau. To me, that's the center of it. There's, it's not the problem on the

00:35:42.300 street that he's going to solve on the street. It's what he can do through the banks. Go ahead.

00:35:48.020 You're a hundred percent correct. In fact, I mean, one of the, one of the criteria or is a

00:35:52.580 criterion for implementing the emergency measures, the emergencies act is that the federal is coming

00:35:58.300 into supplement where the provincial does not have the means to deal with the emergency, which is

00:36:03.400 obviously not the case in Ottawa. It might be that local just don't want to enforce anything or

00:36:08.920 don't want to tow the trucks or cause a conflict with the truckers. But it's not like the provinces

00:36:14.020 don't have the measures such that the emergencies act should be implemented to

00:36:17.880 supplement. And when Trudeau comes in and during his speech dangles that little shiny lure and

00:36:23.100 says, Hey, look over here, we're not calling in the military. Don't worry. And in the minds of most

00:36:27.620 people who, what, what a relief. We're not going to see armed military men in the streets, but also

00:36:34.440 Christopher Freeland comes in and says, yeah, we're going to be able to authorize. And in some cases,

00:36:38.940 instruct banks to seize or freeze bank accounts or stop doing business with people, with personal

00:36:45.480 accounts who we think are participating in this convoy. Uh, by the way, without a court order

00:36:51.740 and while immunizing the banks for doing it, that in my mind, I'm watching this and I was like,

00:36:56.620 holy cow, I don't care about military men in the street. I care about that because you don't need 0.99

00:37:00.640 to execute someone in the street when you can suffocate them to death or starve them quietly behind 0.87

00:37:05.280 closed doors by freezing their bank accounts with no court order and immunity, effectively no

00:37:11.520 oversight. That is what they were testing to do. I think, I hope to goodness that they never actually

00:37:18.000 get to implement that. And I hope to goodness that they suffer the political, uh, consequences that

00:37:22.880 they deserve for this gambit. But that was the test there. And my, my, my true, uh, what I'm depressed

00:37:29.980 about is that a lot of people just don't appreciate it. And they think, yeah, I don't like the

00:37:33.460 truckers. So yeah, go ahead and freeze their assets, seize their trucks, cancel their insurance,

00:37:37.980 crush them financially as though any government in the future could not just do this on anybody,

00:37:43.340 teachers unions, uh, workers unions, any political opponents, call them illegal, qualify them as

00:37:50.120 terrorists, and then invoke the emergency measures act because that's the precedent that Justin Trudeau

00:37:54.000 and his henchman, uh, Christina, Chrystia Freeland just tried to establish. And I just hope they get

00:37:58.720 struck down and politically punished for this. Yeah. I mean, give, send, go, which was the second

00:38:04.360 crowdfunding engine used by the truckers was hacked. Oh, isn't that a convenient that that list

00:38:11.240 of tens of thousands of names, um, has been circulated widely. And now Chrystia Freeland says

00:38:18.120 that her government will quote, share information with the banks and expect them to freeze or seize.

00:38:24.840 It's, it's pretty convenient how that all worked out. But I think in any other instance, if the

00:38:30.900 government collected an enemies list like that, it would violate some privacy laws. I mean, this is

00:38:35.280 hacked, stolen personal data. And in any other instance, if the government said, here's people

00:38:42.000 where we, we don't like and gave it to the bank, the bank would have some sort of duty to its customers,

00:38:48.320 some sort of procedural fairness. But here the government is literally saying, we're going to give you

00:38:53.480 information. If you act on it, thanks. If you don't act on it, we're going to direct you to act on it.

00:38:59.540 And even if it's really bad that you do, we'll protect you from lawsuits for your badness,

00:39:05.980 because this is just how we roll. It's, it really is. I mean, that is a dictionary definition of.

00:39:14.220 It's a dictionary definition of fascism. I mean, that's what it is.

00:39:17.120 It really is.

00:39:18.860 It's Moussili fascism. And it's, it's just like the idea of immunizing institutions for their conduct. 0.98

00:39:27.120 I mean, government doesn't deserve immunity for their conduct. I appreciate that they have it

00:39:31.440 to facilitate governance, but to give it to banking institutions, to give it to big pharma,

00:39:36.320 and then to say, go ahead and do what you want on the civilian population, you're immune. I mean,

00:39:40.980 you got to, someone has to have their head examined to think that that's appropriate

00:39:44.120 and an indication of transparency as opposed to an indication of absolute corruption. But I just

00:39:51.040 hope they never get around to actually, or approving these measures. I hope these measures get shut

00:39:54.900 down because my understanding of the emergencies act is that any directives or measures that they

00:40:00.540 want to implement nonetheless have to get voted on. So even though they said it, I think they do have

00:40:05.640 to try to vote on that and they don't just get to implement it as of yesterday. And I just hope it

00:40:10.360 gets shut down the way it should. And that these politicians get the political retribution that 0.99

00:40:15.140 they deserve. And that politicians going forward, learn that this is not how you govern in a

00:40:20.780 democracy. The world is watching. And I can tell you that the world is absolutely laughing at Canada

00:40:26.080 while Canadians are suffering under this regime.

00:40:28.380 Well, I am less optimistic than you. I think this will take hold. I think Trudeau doesn't care

00:40:34.520 about public reaction. I mean, why would he? He has the power. Jagmeet Singh has confirmed his support

00:40:42.220 for all this. The media are already using kid gloves. He doesn't mind their rage for those who are

00:40:48.400 opposed to it. He's always admired banana republic type dictators like Castro. And, you know, he's, I mean,

00:40:55.400 he's just always has loved authoritarian figures. I think that Trudeau will not want to end this in

00:41:01.620 30 days. And even if he does, I think he'll do so much damage before those 30 days are up. He'll have

00:41:07.620 his enemies lists. He'll have put a black mark on tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands on people's

00:41:13.960 commercial social credit. I think that we're in uncharted territories here, but I hope that you and I can

00:41:20.100 keep in touch on this because I love the fact that you're on the ground reporting and I love the fact

00:41:25.380 that you're following the debates in the House of Commons and doing a legal analysis. So let me toot

00:41:31.360 your horn for a second. The main channel is called Viva Fry. Tell me about your other channels that

00:41:37.680 people should be subscribing to. Well, so now I've had the, when I ran for the PPC, I set up a separate

00:41:43.660 YouTube channel, which now I'm turning into Eclipse so that people, if you can't watch four and a half

00:41:48.820 hours of live streaming from Ottawa, I put up some clips of some highlight interviews, the moments

00:41:54.020 that I think define the protest. That's called Viva Clips. I got a totally separate channel called

00:41:58.980 Viva Family, which is just random stuff. But on Twitter, The Viva Fry, which is just Viva Fry with

00:42:04.620 a V in front of it. And Robert Barnes and I, who do these weekly streams where we discuss legal stuff,

00:42:10.380 not just in Canada, but in the United States as well, on Locals. It's called VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com.

00:42:16.960 And I will be heading back to Ottawa because if this goes on through the weekend, it's going to be

00:42:21.500 another massive weekend of participation. And if the police come down and start enforcing,

00:42:29.120 you know, certain measures, we need to have as many people there just documenting in real time

00:42:34.980 what's going on so that the legacy media that is bought off and paid for by the federal government

00:42:40.060 does not get to lie about it and misinform the rest of Canadians.

00:42:43.580 All right. Well, we'll put the links to those different channels you mentioned

00:42:47.260 underneath this video so people can click on them. I'm glad you're going back to Ottawa. I think

00:42:52.240 as many people with a camera as possible. Again, I don't know if the Ottawa police are going to go

00:42:58.240 and crack skulls. I don't think that's where the battlefront is. I think the front line of the battle

00:43:02.780 is the financial and digital front line. But we'll see. I mean, I've been wrong a few times

00:43:07.540 trying to guess things. Great to see you. Thank you very much, David. Our guest,

00:43:11.120 David Freiheit from Viva Fry. Keep it up and we'll be watching.

00:43:15.620 Thank you very much, Ezra. Well, it's a great pleasure. Thank you. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:43:18.980 I saw it last night. After I recorded my monologue, but before the monologue aired on the Ezra LeVant show,

00:43:39.760 I did a live stream for about an hour, just free flow, spontaneous commentary on what I had seen.

00:43:46.900 And actually thousands of people watched it. Here are a few letters we got based on that.

00:43:52.920 Bill William Jones says, watching closely from Texas, we love the true Canadians fighting for

00:43:57.280 freedom. Your energy is felt worldwide. Thank you for accurately reporting the protest.

00:44:01.820 Well, I appreciate that. And credit goes to our people. You know, I actually went on the Sean

00:44:05.580 Hannity show on Fox last night, which has a huge audience. So I think the world is paying attention.

00:44:10.400 Stretch and Chick says, how does a country get rid of a dictatorship? Well, that's the thing. I've

00:44:18.880 decided to call what Trudeau has done a sort of coup. And normally we don't think of a coup as by the

00:44:26.520 people in power. Normally a coup is ousting the democratic and legitimate leader and installing

00:44:32.820 someone else, often a military leader. In this case, Trudeau was the lawful prime minister of Canada,

00:44:39.240 but he was quickly losing power. He was down to 16% in the polls. He was losing his own MPs.

00:44:45.220 He hated what the truckers are doing. He had to stop them in some way.

00:44:48.300 And so he pushed that panic button that pulled the fire alarm and he suspended all our, well, not all our

00:44:57.340 rights, but he suspended a number of our rights and he told us which ones. I think that is a kind

00:45:03.700 of coup. The people wanted to replace the government, but the government decided to replace the people.

00:45:12.660 Carol M writes and says, my daughter recently moved to Montreal from Scotland, UK. I envied her and thought

00:45:19.220 of falling with other family members. Now I'm praying she will come home. Beautiful Canada. I love this

00:45:24.500 country, but it's been ruined. Please, Canadians, take back your country. 1.00

00:45:30.140 Ruined is a heavy word. It implies that the country lies in ruins and perhaps might not be rebuilt.

00:45:37.700 I don't think the story is over yet. I think that Justin Trudeau has done something so shocking.

00:45:45.320 I say again, most Canadians haven't quite realized it because there was no crisis that's being solved.

00:45:50.640 So they neither were aware of the problem and are not aware of the solution to the problem.

00:45:56.220 But I think that enough people are seeing that Justin Trudeau is cornered and desperate and

00:46:02.160 authoritarian and doesn't care about civil liberties. I think we're seeing his mask drop.

00:46:07.800 And I think a lot of people will never unsee that.

00:46:11.980 Well, that's our show for today. On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:46:17.580 you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with a happier video

00:46:22.920 of the day by our friend Lincoln in Ottawa, showing you the friendly face of the truckers in Ottawa.

00:46:29.640 You tell me, does this look like an insurrection? Bye-bye.

00:46:35.600 We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers

00:46:42.800 and steal food from the homeless.

00:46:46.860 Anyone can come. We've had homeless people come here. We have a lot of homeless people.

00:46:51.260 We just shared a message with the homeless woman, and we're going to try to help her to find a place to live.

00:46:57.320 You can be in the street. You can be in trouble. You can just need help for one day.

00:47:01.920 Come over here. We'll help you.

00:47:08.500 As a church, we assembled and just serving coffee and hot chocolate here to whoever wants.

00:47:13.760 We're a bunch of massage therapists from the province of Quebec, and we came here to donate our time to the truckers. 0.73

00:47:22.560 Lincoln J for Rebel News here in Ottawa.

00:47:27.440 Now, I've been on the ground covering the truckers' convoy since the 28th of January,

00:47:31.880 and I cannot express enough how peaceful an environment it is here.

00:47:35.480 There's literally food being handed out everywhere.

00:47:39.040 It doesn't matter whether you're a trucker, a supporter, a protester.

00:47:42.260 If you come here and you're in need in the city of Ottawa, they will feed you.

00:47:45.980 That's why it's just so hard to wrap your head around the fact that Justin Trudeau is saying that the people here are stealing food from the homeless.

00:47:52.860 We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless.

00:48:03.860 No matter what Justin Trudeau says, I'm about to show you that it is the exact opposite of what he is saying

00:48:10.260 and that they are feeding anyone in need in the city of Ottawa.

00:48:14.760 Let's go check it out. Let's talk to some people.

00:48:19.700 As a church, we assembled and just serving coffee and hot chocolate here to whoever wants.

00:48:25.240 It's just amazing here to see how much love there is.

00:48:28.620 All the people around here, unity and everybody is just amazing.

00:48:32.600 I would encourage everyone to come out and support it.

00:48:35.900 So just to clarify, can anyone come here and receive what you're offering?

00:48:39.220 Does it matter if they're a part of the protest or not?

00:48:41.620 No, it's open for anybody.

00:48:43.480 At the end of the day, we're here to glorify God, so it is for everybody.

00:48:52.420 We're feeding people. We're helping the homeless, the truckers, and just anyone who needs help with absolutely anything come to us.

00:48:59.640 Money and everything.

00:49:00.680 Anyone can come. We've had homeless people come here.

00:49:04.020 We have a lot of homeless people.

00:49:05.400 We just shared a message with the homeless woman, and we're going to try to help her to find a place to live

00:49:11.540 and be able to get going again because she's so discouraged.

00:49:16.080 We had time to pray with her and encourage her.

00:49:19.120 We gave her our number and told her we could help her because the church is supposed to help all those who are marginalized, vulnerable, and so on.

00:49:28.460 So that's our job, and I pray to the whole church that will wake up and come.

00:49:34.620 Every church will come and help here.

00:49:36.460 Okay, guys, do you want to just tell me what exactly you're doing here?

00:49:46.200 So really, we're just trying to help everybody, trying to help the truckers and fighting for freedom.

00:49:52.120 That's all we want is freedom, really.

00:49:54.220 We've made chicken noodle soup.

00:49:55.940 We work at nighttime to make it, to prepare it and bring it here.

00:49:59.300 We have some hot chocolate.

00:50:01.780 We have some coffee.

00:50:03.680 We've had people that are helping us out that are bringing us water, that are really keeping us going so that we can continue making stuff,

00:50:09.660 so that we're keeping everyone nice and warm, so that they're all out here fighting the good fight.

00:50:13.700 Nobody has to pay anything.

00:50:15.500 They can contribute if they want.

00:50:17.480 Whatever they're contributing to us, it gives us extra money to buy more stuff that we're lacking,

00:50:22.360 and whatever is extra, we give it to the truckers to help them for their fuel.

00:50:25.920 Now, just to clarify, guys, you don't even have to be a part of the protest supporter.

00:50:30.380 You can just be a citizen in Ottawa that's in need, and you can come here and get something to eat.

00:50:34.760 Yes.

00:50:35.140 Absolutely.

00:50:35.600 There's socks all the time that come in, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste.

00:50:41.560 There's all kind of stuff that people come and give, and they just want to donate, so they leave it on the table here, table there.

00:50:48.320 They just bring it to put out for people, anyone.

00:50:51.940 You can be in the street, you can be in trouble, you can just need help for one day.

00:50:57.060 Come over here, we'll help you.

00:51:01.260 Tell me, what exactly is going on here?

00:51:04.120 What are you guys doing here?

00:51:04.900 So we're a bunch of massage therapists from the province of Quebec, and we came here to donate our time to the truckers.

00:51:13.280 So we've been here since this morning, and we plan on staying, well, do a rotation of therapists until this is over with.

00:51:22.520 I can't donate money, so I figured the only way I could was maybe releasing a bit of tension, and this is what I do best.

00:51:30.900 So, yeah, I'm having fun today.

00:51:33.620 We'll be right back.

00:51:45.880 We'll be right back.

00:51:47.940 We'll be right back.

00:51:50.940 We'll be right back.

00:51:56.020 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - February 16, 2022

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