Rebel News Podcast - Montreal Raid on Rebel News, GraceLife's Gathering Point

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back

00:00:19.280 at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels.

00:00:23.180 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:25.040 Well, a not-so-funny thing happened to the Rebel News team last weekend en route to a

00:00:31.540 Montreal protest, which is to say our Montreal Airbnb was raided by the Montreal Police Service

00:00:38.840 without a warrant, no less, and some of us were even arrested.

00:00:44.180 Apparently, it's illegal to practice journalism in that city.

00:00:48.020 And just will you hear what Ezra Levent has to say about this latest law enforcement outrage?

00:00:55.280 Meanwhile, near Edmonton, Grace Life Church, which is now fenced off and guarded by Mounties,

00:01:01.820 well, that was the gathering point for hundreds of supporters.

00:01:05.420 Indeed, at one point, a section of the fence was pulled down.

00:01:09.340 Sheila Gunn-Reed was there to witness everything, and she has all the nitty-gritty details.

00:01:14.500 And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day, and you had plenty

00:01:19.600 to say about a protest in Montreal last Sunday night, attended by a few thousand, mostly young

00:01:25.600 people, who were taking a stand against the Quebec curfew law.

00:01:30.500 It was more of an outdoor party than a protest, actually.

00:01:34.240 And although it started out joyously, it ended on a very sour note, thanks to the presence

00:01:40.680 of Antifa creeps, who thought it was a really good idea to smash in the windows of small

00:01:46.360 businesses. 1.00

00:01:47.880 How do you say cowardly morons in French? 1.00

00:01:52.040 Those are your rebels. 1.00

00:01:53.000 Now let's round them up.

00:01:54.140 Come back with a warrant.

00:02:05.180 And close the door, for God's sakes.

00:02:07.760 Show some mammoths.

00:02:14.780 I need somebody to be responsible for the boat.

00:02:17.380 I don't...

00:02:17.860 Yeah, you have them over there.

00:02:19.320 Go get a warrant.

00:02:21.360 Go get a warrant.

00:02:23.120 No, I need my medicine.

00:02:24.140 Go with your friend now.

00:02:25.560 Go.

00:02:25.800 Why are you pushing me?

00:02:26.860 Why are you pushing me?

00:02:27.940 I'm not pushing you.

00:02:29.180 Go, sir.

00:02:31.420 Go, sir, please.

00:02:32.380 Go, sir, please.

00:02:32.400 Go, sir, please.

00:02:34.460 Go, sir, please.

00:02:39.500 Change!

00:02:40.280 Change!

00:02:41.060 Change!

00:02:41.820 Change!

00:02:42.140 Change!

00:02:42.800 They will taser you.

00:02:45.120 They have already arrested one of our reporters after physically assaulting him.

00:02:50.820 This is the police brutality.

00:02:52.620 You're pushing me with a bicycle. 1.00

00:03:01.300 What's your fucking bike there? 1.00

00:03:02.460 Are you kidding me? 1.00

00:03:03.500 What's your fucking bike there? 1.00

00:03:04.180 Hey! 1.00

00:03:04.880 Hey! 1.00

00:03:06.140 Watch your fucking bike, you fucking cop. 1.00

00:03:08.300 Move! 1.00

00:03:09.220 This battle will take us years to fix.

00:03:12.060 What the police did to us today must see its day in court.

00:03:16.300 I'll be there.

00:03:17.500 If you can give us two, we'll do the job.

00:03:19.380 Please go to rockandreports.com.

00:03:21.300 Well, folks, those were some of the highlights, or is it lowlights, during our trip to Montreal last weekend when our completely legal houseboat was raided, without a warrant, mind you, by numerous members of the Montreal Police Service.

00:03:35.900 A couple of us, including yours truly, were even arrested.

00:03:40.860 But the question arises, why?

00:03:43.820 Well, here to answer that query, hopefully, is Rebel News Commander Ezra Levin.

00:03:49.020 Ezra, I've got to say, in all the years I've known you, I have never seen you more angry, justifiably, than you were on last Saturday.

00:03:56.740 I was extremely angry, and I've thought about that, because a lot of bad things happen in the world, and I don't take them all personally.

00:04:04.180 You couldn't.

00:04:04.660 You couldn't survive that way.

00:04:07.180 And even bad things happen to Rebel News.

00:04:09.580 But I think the reason I was so mad is not that Rebel News was being targeted.

00:04:14.700 That happens often.

00:04:18.020 It's the injustice of it.

00:04:19.840 And to see a police force, which is supposed to be a good guy, being a bad guy, I think that was just so disillusioning for me.

00:04:28.800 So my anger, my rage, I'll use that word, was not just what was happening in the moment to our people.

00:04:35.880 It's the realization that your, I don't know, your instincts, your views of the world, your whole worldview for nearly 50 years, it wasn't wrong, but it's changed.

00:04:51.940 All the things you thought you knew about police, about the rule of law, about innocent until proven guilty, about warrantless searches and seizures, about police brutality.

00:05:02.840 When you finally realize that you're wrong on all of that, because those terrible things are happening to you and your team, you're mad about it happening to your team, but you're also just crestfallen.

00:05:15.460 You're thinking, I am terribly sad that what I thought was the way is no longer the way.

00:05:22.320 I do not trust the Montreal police.

00:05:24.500 My great fear was that if they went onto the houseboat where we were staying, which is, it sounds more dramatic than it was, it's just a registered Airbnb that happens to be permanently in the Port of Montreal.

00:05:38.880 So the boat doesn't go out.

00:05:40.340 It's just like a cool place to stay.

00:05:43.840 And we had 17 of us, so it was cheaper than staying in a hotel.

00:05:48.820 But I think that the police maybe had some confidence they could raid it in a way they wouldn't have raided the Holiday Inn.

00:05:55.040 Like the idea of police coming into the Holiday Inn, 50 cops, coming up to a door and saying, let me in.

00:06:01.040 I don't know if police would have the audacity to do that.

00:06:04.280 Maybe the fact that we were in a self-contained unit, they thought, oh, we can do it.

00:06:07.960 I right away told them to leave and get a warrant.

00:06:10.760 Yep.

00:06:11.460 Since they couldn't find a judge to give them a warrant in 10 hours, they tried to abuse us.

00:06:16.560 They cordoned off the whole Airbnb.

00:06:19.140 They wouldn't let us get on.

00:06:20.780 Anyone who got off, they searched in a violation of their civil liberties.

00:06:25.040 They never actually told me what the problem was.

00:06:27.760 I asked them, and they never actually told me.

00:06:30.380 Now, we had our lawyer there pretty quickly, and it was bizarre what they told him.

00:06:34.900 They said they were looking to see if there was anyone else in the houseboat.

00:06:39.620 Well, the answer is none of your business.

00:06:42.520 Who cares?

00:06:43.000 Nothing turns on it.

00:06:44.340 We lawfully rented an Airbnb that is properly registered with the city, with the Port of Montreal, with all the authorities.

00:06:51.900 The owner of the Airbnb came down right away.

00:06:56.140 He was quite upset.

00:06:57.000 He heard there was a swarm of police.

00:06:58.420 I imagine he thought maybe we had a bunch of drugs, or maybe we were at a very noisy party or something.

00:07:06.220 I don't know.

00:07:07.680 Maybe he thought we were doing something really bad.

00:07:10.060 When he came and talked to the police, he came back to me, and I thought he was going to be mad at us for causing this whole ruckus.

00:07:17.980 He wasn't.

00:07:18.800 And he told me he wasn't.

00:07:19.620 What could he be mad about?

00:07:20.760 In fact, he said sort of the opposite.

00:07:23.120 It was the most surprising thing I heard that day, is from the owner of the houseboat, who's a lovely man, who's just in the tourism business.

00:07:31.020 He's an entrepreneur.

00:07:32.220 He's got this little houseboat.

00:07:33.640 He's trying to rent it out, trying to make a go of it.

00:07:36.760 And we paid.

00:07:37.700 We were happy to pay.

00:07:39.640 He said to me, I sure hope they're wrong and you're right, because if simply renting out an Airbnb is illegal now under pandemic laws, then I'm out of business.

00:07:55.260 It's got nothing to do with you.

00:07:57.200 By the way, this Airbnb had a capacity, I think, of 21.

00:08:01.000 Correct.

00:08:01.520 And we had 17 people there, so we were under capacity.

00:08:04.560 If you can shut down a hotel or an Airbnb, then you've got to shut them all down.

00:08:12.640 It's clearly police just trying to come up with some excuse.

00:08:16.580 And they were frustrated that we didn't bend the knee.

00:08:21.500 I've never seen such a police deployment for something so laughable before.

00:08:26.780 There was a group of observers up a little bit higher on the pier, about 100 at the max, at the height of it.

00:08:33.200 And one of them said, are they filming a movie?

00:08:37.880 Because you have 50 cops around a little Airbnb.

00:08:40.880 That's right.

00:08:41.960 Unless it's a terrorist attack.

00:08:43.680 Oh, yeah.

00:08:44.680 What's the cops there for?

00:08:45.800 Someone thought it was a movie.

00:08:47.060 Yeah.

00:08:48.100 And it was the most absurd thing.

00:08:52.020 For 10 hours, they locked down the whole site because we wouldn't give them illegal access.

00:08:56.300 I mean, I would say to our viewers at home, imagine you're at the Holiday Inn or whatever hotel you stay at, and a cop just knocks on your door and says, we want to come in and look around.

00:09:05.460 What would you say?

00:09:06.460 Exactly.

00:09:07.000 Maybe you would be scared.

00:09:08.000 Maybe you wouldn't know what to do.

00:09:09.140 But I wasn't scared, and I did know what to do.

00:09:11.480 I said, get a warrant.

00:09:12.540 And I think they were startled by that.

00:09:13.940 But when I stepped out, they grabbed me, wouldn't let me back in, and they said to our younger staff, let us in. 0.94

00:09:20.460 And we don't have any dummies working here. 1.00

00:09:23.000 Our youngsters said, get a warrant. 0.94

00:09:24.700 They were so frustrated by this.

00:09:26.400 And because everything was being filmed, they knew they couldn't come in just shooting everyone.

00:09:32.160 So for 10 hours, they tried to sort of smoke us out.

00:09:34.940 They threw you in the clink.

00:09:35.940 And I think you know that they said to our lawyer, our lawyer was on the scene all day.

00:09:40.920 They said to our lawyer, we'll let David Menzies out of jail if you let us onto the Airbnb without a search warrant.

00:09:51.660 They were trying to trade your freedom for illegal access.

00:09:55.780 Now, I don't trust them.

00:09:56.720 They were lying throughout the day.

00:09:58.220 But it raises the question, hang on, did you arrest David Menzies just as like a bargaining chip?

00:10:03.040 Either he did something wrong or he didn't.

00:10:05.000 And either he should be in jail or he shouldn't.

00:10:07.880 You grab a guy, take him to the police station, then later say, we'll let him go if?

00:10:12.140 What are you, some kidnapper?

00:10:13.320 So it was quite literally a hostage situation.

00:10:15.900 I was the hostage.

00:10:17.020 Here's the deal for my freedom.

00:10:18.540 I didn't know that was going on.

00:10:19.700 I was in a absolutely filthy prison cell.

00:10:22.760 But I want to go back in the timeline to indicate to folks that we were not looking for trouble.

00:10:29.640 We weren't wearing trouble on our shirt.

00:10:31.480 The raid happened around 11 a.m.-ish.

00:10:33.900 Around 10.20, myself, young Daniel Dale, and you, we went to, this was a complete coincidence.

00:10:40.860 We saw more than two dozen police cruisers assembling about three football fields away from the houseboat.

00:10:46.760 We thought, what's up?

00:10:47.620 It turns out that's their parking place for when they go to the protest, which was scheduled for noon.

00:10:52.760 So we went along, and my opening question to these police officers was, hey, guys, I just want to know, what are the rules for covering the protest?

00:11:02.820 And one of the officers said, go away.

00:11:05.780 And then another came up to me, I swear.

00:11:08.880 And he said, you have to talk to communications.

00:11:11.520 I phoned the number on camera twice.

00:11:13.400 It clicks off each time without ever going to a human person.

00:11:19.260 And then, lo and behold, about 40 minutes later, they're all around the boat looking in.

00:11:24.700 And that's when I got my first ticket, Ezra, for $1,550 for not wearing a mask.

00:11:32.460 And I said, the police officer said, I was looking at you.

00:11:35.520 I could see you in the boat not wearing a mask.

00:11:37.340 And I said, that's true, officer, but you saw that brown McDonald's coffee cup.

00:11:41.420 I was drinking coffee.

00:11:43.020 I have to take the mask off.

00:11:44.500 And his answer to me was, it doesn't matter.

00:11:47.220 And then, of course, there was a shoving thing that got me arrested and charged with assault.

00:11:51.860 So I just want to say, Ezra, it was almost surreal.

00:11:55.820 And it was completely coincidental, all that, all those police officers were there.

00:12:00.920 But once they found out, I think, we were rebel news, they were like a dog with a bone.

00:12:06.440 Oh, yeah.

00:12:06.880 And, I mean, they've been hunting us, tracking us, insulting us, expressing bad faith towards us for over a month.

00:12:13.800 We have a full-time guy in Montreal.

00:12:16.120 He doesn't do a lot of on-TV journalism.

00:12:18.500 He's more a computer-based journalist.

00:12:20.500 But at night, he goes out with a lawful exemption to report on the pandemic.

00:12:25.280 And the cops hate that because he points the camera at them.

00:12:28.300 And he happens to be Jewish.

00:12:30.920 And they start saying, Jew media, are you a Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew?

00:12:33.660 They really work the Jew thing. 1.00

00:12:35.440 And it bugged me.

00:12:36.640 So we sent extra journalists along, including people who were Muslim and Christian or whatever.

00:12:41.980 And they got roughed up.

00:12:43.280 So I have concluded that although the Montreal police may well be bigoted in some ways,

00:12:48.500 their dominant motivating force is no accountability.

00:12:52.220 It wasn't so much that Yankee was Jewish or that Mocha might be born in a Muslim country or Lincoln is, I don't know, I presume he's Christian, whatever. 0.92

00:13:01.540 It's not so much their religion or, you know, we have staff who are black.

00:13:05.060 We have staff from every background. 0.91

00:13:06.280 I'm sure there are bigots in the Montreal police.

00:13:09.240 But I think what they really hate is anyone shining a light of scrutiny on what they were doing.

00:13:14.380 And when our cameramen capture them doing bad things, they have a hatred for us.

00:13:19.220 And there's this one key video that we've shown before of cops saying to Mocha, why are you scrutinizing us?

00:13:28.360 Why are you asking us questions?

00:13:29.500 Why are you filming us?

00:13:30.740 CBC and CTV don't.

00:13:32.820 Wow.

00:13:33.200 So they have a hate on for Rebel News.

00:13:36.200 And this was their chance to rough us up a bit.

00:13:39.240 They roughed you up physically.

00:13:40.560 They pushed me around a little bit like I wasn't in pain or anything.

00:13:43.600 But they pinched me and poked me and stepped on my toe and pushed me around and wouldn't let me get back in.

00:13:47.820 I saw that.

00:13:47.960 And it was very childish in a way of them, like very amateur, extremely unprofessional.

00:13:55.940 And I just felt, I thought, you know, the things I once believed in so firmly, the foundations of our society were not built of stone.

00:14:07.180 They were built of sand.

00:14:08.600 And that's why I was so upset.

00:14:11.060 And when there is a bunch of people with guns and tasers and batons who are illegally detaining you, illegally trying to search and generally breaking the law while wearing a uniform, it's enraging.

00:14:22.360 So I expressed my antipathy towards them with words.

00:14:26.280 And I called them thugs, which I believe they were.

00:14:29.920 I called them oath breakers, which I believe they were. 1.00

00:14:33.800 I called them cowards because they hid their face.

00:14:36.240 And I think all those words are legitimate.

00:14:40.240 I raised my voice, which I think you ought to be able to do in such a calamity, a moral and legal calamity.

00:14:47.520 What's so ridiculous is how it ended.

00:14:52.360 This was a 10-hour standoff.

00:14:54.200 They could not find a judge in all of Quebec who would grant them their illegal search warrant.

00:14:58.200 I can imagine they shot that thing around.

00:15:00.220 Oh, yeah.

00:15:00.340 In fact, I heard that more than one judge turned them down.

00:15:02.760 Yeah.

00:15:02.860 For 10 hours, they were trying to find a judge to let them in our hotel rooms, and no judge would buy it, which, frankly, yeah, I mean, I would have thought they could have found someone.

00:15:13.160 They didn't.

00:15:14.340 And so suddenly, they just left.

00:15:16.020 But, Ezra, I want to go back to something you said earlier.

00:15:18.100 And it was this interchange with two police officers in French so they can't play the lost in translation card, calling us Jew Media.

00:15:27.440 Now, you're Jewish.

00:15:28.280 You're the owner of the company.

00:15:29.280 Fair enough.

00:15:29.740 But, you know, we have, as you said, Christians, Muslims, atheists on board, our staff right now.

00:15:35.700 And if you looked at our content, I would say that not even 1% of our videos are about Jewish issues or Israel issues.

00:15:44.340 What in the world did they mean by that?

00:15:46.440 Or were they just using the word Jew as a slur?

00:15:49.540 Yeah.

00:15:49.800 I mean, I don't know.

00:15:51.180 There are Jewish newspapers the same way there's Christian newspapers.

00:15:55.280 But we can't possibly be called that.

00:15:57.540 In the last year, we've probably done, oh, I don't know, 2,500 videos.

00:16:04.860 And I'd be surprised if five of them had a Jewish flavor. 0.52

00:16:09.940 I don't even think so.

00:16:10.840 I mean, I made one video in Yiddish for the Jewish community of Montreal.

00:16:14.940 But it was just to speak to them in Yiddish.

00:16:16.740 It actually wasn't Jewish in content.

00:16:18.580 It was, hey, guys, you're getting all these pandemic arrests.

00:16:21.560 We'll give you a lawyer through fight the fines.

00:16:23.520 I can't even think of five stories we've done about Israel.

00:16:26.540 I mean, I'm not afraid to talk about Israel.

00:16:28.540 It's just not our priorities these days are the pandemic, civil liberties, the lockdowns, police brutality, cancel culture, spending, you know, the economy, unemployment.

00:16:39.940 Like, Israel is not on the list.

00:16:42.140 And believe me, if it is, I'm not shy about it.

00:16:44.220 For them to call us Jew media, I mean, I don't want to be a trigger finger on calling people racist or anti-Semitic.

00:16:53.840 I say again, I believe their chief malice towards us was rooted in the fact that we're exposing them.

00:17:00.600 Yes.

00:17:00.960 Whether or not we were English, French, Jewish, Christian, whatever is secondary.

00:17:05.260 But I think it shows how unprofessional the force is.

00:17:08.420 I experienced that firsthand.

00:17:10.040 They were lying throughout the day to our lawyer, lying to us.

00:17:14.000 And I think the ultimate proof of their corruption was how they tried to do a bargain with your freedom.

00:17:20.860 Either you could go or you couldn't.

00:17:23.480 Either they were holding you properly or not.

00:17:26.100 Either their charges against you were bona fide or they're not.

00:17:28.580 Now, we take the position that the charges against you are false.

00:17:31.920 Yeah.

00:17:32.420 We'll vigorously defend them.

00:17:34.380 I'm certain you'll be acquitted.

00:17:36.000 I think it's just another form of their harassment.

00:17:37.900 But even taking them on their own terms, either you did something wrong or you didn't.

00:17:43.980 So if you did something wrong, why would they let you go early unless they're using it as a poker chip?

00:17:50.420 That, I can just imagine how that plays out every day by the Montreal police.

00:17:54.900 That little petty corruption.

00:17:56.700 I'll enforce this law unless you give me a favor.

00:18:00.120 I won't enforce that law if you do this or don't do that.

00:18:03.360 But as if, I mean, it just reminds me, I just watched the movie The Godfather again, part two,

00:18:09.120 where they have lots of flashbacks to, you know, Little Italy in New York and how the Godfather was coming back.

00:18:14.440 And everything was a little shakedown.

00:18:16.680 Everything was a little bit of, oh, can I dip my beak a little bit?

00:18:20.400 Can I get free?

00:18:21.600 Like just the Godfather he'd opposed walking through Little Italy, just stealing a little bit from everybody he went by.

00:18:28.560 And because if you resisted, he would hurt you.

00:18:31.760 I get the feeling that is the style of Canada's most corrupt police.

00:18:35.600 The other day on my live stream, we typed in Montreal police corruption into Google.

00:18:41.540 And literally two and a half million hits.

00:18:43.960 Two and a half million.

00:18:45.020 They are by far the most corrupt police force in Canada.

00:18:49.480 They're constantly plagued with corruption accusations, constant resignations, constant investigations.

00:18:56.420 They really are.

00:18:57.880 I mean, I wouldn't want to say they're worse than the Chicago police or the police in Louisiana under Huey Long.

00:19:05.220 I want to give them credit for being the dirtiest police in North America.

00:19:08.760 But I'd say that the Montreal police force is in the top three most corrupt police forces in North America.

00:19:15.340 And it's deeply embarrassing to Quebec.

00:19:17.840 Yeah, I agree.

00:19:18.940 One last question to wrap things up, Ezra.

00:19:20.820 Looking ahead.

00:19:21.640 Now, I have to go back to Montreal on May 12th.

00:19:24.320 I have to get my mugshots done.

00:19:26.140 I have to be fingerprinted because I'm facing a potential criminal record if I get convicted.

00:19:31.220 And they made it clear to me if I don't come back on that day, there will be a Canada-wide warrant for my arrest.

00:19:36.960 So I will be going back, of course.

00:19:39.040 But in terms of us as a company, Ezra, what are we going to do in terms of perhaps civil litigation?

00:19:45.820 Right.

00:19:46.560 Well, I had a great conversation with our lawyers today about it.

00:19:50.020 Obviously, I don't want to give away our confidential strategy.

00:19:52.840 But I don't think it's a secret to say three things.

00:19:55.900 First of all, we're going to defend you with a legal dream team.

00:20:00.560 I mean, we're going to absolutely fight tooth and nail all the way.

00:20:05.420 And I think we'll win.

00:20:06.640 The second thing is I read in La Presse that the Montreal police, they didn't give anyone else any tickets that day.

00:20:12.660 I hear they're going to be sending a bunch of tickets over my mail.

00:20:15.500 Okay.

00:20:17.760 Well, when they'll come, we'll put them on the stack with the rest of them and we'll fight them.

00:20:21.640 I'm not afraid of that.

00:20:22.620 I mean, if you got a ticket for drinking coffee without a mask, I'd like to.

00:20:28.400 Well, I mean, I guess masks do sort of look like coffee shelters sometimes.

00:20:31.800 But, you know, tell it to the judge.

00:20:33.540 But I think that besides defending their false prosecutions, I think we have to put them on the back foot.

00:20:42.380 I think we have to, you know, I think sometimes different institutions, like we're suing the Toronto Police Service for violence against you and others.

00:20:51.280 We're suing the York Regional Police.

00:20:53.440 Our friend Avi Amini in Melbourne, Australia, was brutally attacked by police.

00:20:57.580 It was crazy.

00:20:59.020 We're suing the Victoria Police.

00:21:01.120 That's the name of the state in Australia.

00:21:02.420 So we're no strangers to suing police.

00:21:04.960 We're not afraid of suing anybody.

00:21:06.700 We sue the prime minister from time to time.

00:21:09.820 So I believe that it is probably necessary for us to sue not only individual police officers, but the SPVMs itself.

00:21:18.880 That stands for the Montreal Police, for the Ville, Ville Montreal, that's a VM.

00:21:23.100 So I think we have to sue them.

00:21:24.320 I think we have to sue them for assault, for false imprisonment, for harassment, for breach of duty, for abuse of process, abuse of office.

00:21:36.680 I'll take advice from our Quebec lawyers on what the right way is, but I get the feeling that Montreal's press are very docile and submissive.

00:21:48.960 Let me give you an example.

00:21:50.120 La Presse, that's the dominant French-language newspaper in town.

00:21:54.760 They were absolutely pro-police.

00:21:58.820 They covered this whole thing.

00:22:00.000 Lots of factual errors.

00:22:02.040 I submitted a letter to the editor to them in French.

00:22:04.880 They rejected it.

00:22:06.120 Unbelievable.

00:22:06.420 Not even one word they'll let us run.

00:22:08.900 And you've got to think, okay, well, you're submissive because if you're not, the police will be violent to you and hurt you.

00:22:15.520 But it's actually worse than that.

00:22:17.340 They have a star columnist, Patrick Legasse.

00:22:20.540 He's a left-wing guy, of course.

00:22:23.460 Police illegally tapped his phone like two dozen times.

00:22:27.680 So the police, and this was a scandal.

00:22:30.000 It's one of the many scandals I learned about by Googling Montreal police corruption.

00:22:34.080 So Montreal police are abusive to everyone, including their friends at La Presse.

00:22:41.240 Imagine La Presse, they are one of the leaders in taking government bailouts, it won't surprise you at all.

00:22:49.640 They love the Montreal police.

00:22:53.600 They kiss their boots, even though the Montreal police routinely, illegally spies and listens into their phone calls.

00:23:05.380 And still they can't get enough of that Montreal police.

00:23:09.400 We're a little bit different than that, David.

00:23:12.020 I'm sure the Montreal police are listening to your phone and my phone.

00:23:15.940 So keep that in mind.

00:23:17.020 Well, I better watch what I say.

00:23:18.620 And I think there's a word for that relationship.

00:23:20.620 I think it's called Stockholm Syndrome, right?

00:23:22.840 You know, and, you know, there you go, folks.

00:23:24.300 I've got to tell you, I had no dealing with the Montreal police until this weekend.

00:23:29.580 And let me tell you a quick anecdote.

00:23:31.380 My impression of the Montreal police was positive.

00:23:34.200 There was a great show.

00:23:35.760 I'm a huge fan of it.

00:23:36.720 Just for Laughs Gags.

00:23:37.840 It's produced in Montreal.

00:23:39.900 And the Montreal police service lends the comedians that do these elaborate pranks, their cruisers, their uniforms, the whole shebang.

00:23:46.660 I can't think of another police force in the world that would do that.

00:23:50.620 And I thought, wow, good on them.

00:23:52.420 They've got a joyous spirit.

00:23:54.700 You know what I've learned?

00:23:55.660 I've learned that's the PR side of the Montreal police.

00:23:59.600 That's not the real Montreal police.

00:24:02.080 The real Montreal police, less gags, more gestapo.

00:24:05.760 So keep it here.

00:24:07.020 More Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:14.420 They didn't want this spectacle.

00:24:16.600 And they don't want to stand off.

00:24:19.120 They just want to be left alone to worship as they see fit, as is their charter protected right to do so.

00:24:26.140 The police have me parked almost a kilometer, it looks like, from the church.

00:24:30.800 I have no idea what today is going to bring.

00:24:34.140 But let's get out of the jeep and go check it out.

00:24:36.980 Leave the fence alone! 1.00

00:24:39.580 Leave the fence alone! 1.00

00:24:41.320 If you're here, you're here for freedom.

00:24:43.780 You're not here to rip down a fence.

00:24:45.900 That's not going to accomplish anything.

00:24:48.160 And right now we're at a crux where more people are coming together.

00:24:51.540 For the last nine months there's been different organizations that have been on different pages.

00:24:56.200 And it seems now they're finally banding together. 0.99

00:24:58.780 So all we need to break it all down is do something stupid like rip a fence down. 0.98

00:25:02.680 Because what we have coming in the next three, four, five months is going to be huge. 0.99

00:25:07.720 Because people are finally waking up and unifying.

00:25:10.220 And right when we start to wake up we do something like this.

00:25:12.560 This will be looked at as if the U.S. Capitol building.

00:25:15.280 If we rip this thing down we'll be no better than them.

00:25:17.840 And you know how far back that will push our cause?

00:25:20.540 All we've done for nine months will be gone.

00:25:23.340 Because some yahoos decide to rip down a fence. 1.00

00:25:26.140 Makes no sense.

00:25:27.520 So the fence came down and you called for peace.

00:25:32.680 And for commons, for civility.

00:25:35.460 Yeah, because we're here for a church and we're here to represent freedom.

00:25:39.000 And we'll destroy every bit of it if we take down this fence.

00:25:42.300 And that's not what we're here for.

00:25:43.840 Sure, are we supposed to be resisting?

00:25:45.640 Yeah, but this is not the time and place.

00:25:47.540 This is here for peace and for the church and for freedom.

00:25:51.300 Simple.

00:25:52.120 And there are some people here who are clearly not respecting the way the church has handled this from the very beginning.

00:25:59.200 Yeah, they don't belong here.

00:26:00.400 These people are here to self-promote themselves, try to make something of themselves.

00:26:05.920 And it's just a bunch of hate speech.

00:26:07.680 And by them spreading hate, they're just guilty of what they're talking about. 1.00

00:26:11.960 They're the hypocrites. 0.99

00:26:14.440 There's no point in spreading hate. 0.99

00:26:15.920 Especially when this has been sort of a unifying movement.

00:26:20.620 So many people are here to stand and support Grace Life.

00:26:24.700 And there are a lot of interlopers.

00:26:27.440 And that's the thing, is that for nine months, people have been not unified.

00:26:32.480 Different organizations, and they've been kind of separated.

00:26:35.700 Now the organizations are unifying, and they're coming together.

00:26:39.400 And if we stay that way in 60, 90, 120 days, we could start making impact.

00:26:44.300 But they'll simply undo it all by just ripping this down, because they just aren't patient enough.

00:26:50.660 And they want to, you know, represent fate, or hate, and fear, and everything else.

00:26:55.720 And that's not going to solve anything.

00:26:57.260 People are finally starting to unify.

00:26:59.200 And I think we can see a change, but that's never going to be the answer.

00:27:03.080 There are enough people who attend this church every single week who could have taken the fences down, and they didn't.

00:27:09.540 That's right, that's right.

00:27:10.680 They could have, and they didn't.

00:27:12.060 And that's not, because that's not the solution.

00:27:14.560 Because, you know, you sit here, and you look at this, and it doesn't matter what side you're on.

00:27:17.800 It doesn't matter if people think we're all crazy, or, you know, you look at the policemen and the other media that are here.

00:27:22.200 They could disagree with us.

00:27:23.160 Some of them probably do.

00:27:24.180 Some of them probably agree.

00:27:25.340 But what they do all do, I guarantee you, is they respect the show of camaraderie.

00:27:30.740 They respect the show of community and unification, and they can embrace that.

00:27:36.540 But the minute it goes bad, all that respect goes out the window.

00:27:40.180 And that's how we're going to turn people's minds and hearts, is by showing them peaceful unification.

00:27:45.940 And they'll respect.

00:27:47.120 It's to the point that it's almost emotionally moving to see this.

00:27:50.260 Well, folks, that was the scene last Sunday at Grace Life Church near Edmonton.

00:27:54.940 As the church's congregants assembled at an undisclosed venue to pray, hundreds of supporters ventured out to the church,

00:28:03.980 which now looks more like a prison, thanks to that ominous fence that surrounds the building,

00:28:10.460 and, of course, the huge presence of law enforcement.

00:28:14.240 The most dramatic flashpoint last Sunday was when some in the crowd tore down a section of the fence,

00:28:19.880 while several others chanted, leave the fence alone. 0.98

00:28:24.080 And with more on the ongoing saga of the Grace Life Church is our very own Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:28:30.380 who was thankfully in the thick of things last Sunday, because, you know, folks,

00:28:35.000 you can't trust what the mainstream media is reporting on this story.

00:28:39.760 How are you doing there, Sheila?

00:28:41.720 I'm great, David.

00:28:42.860 Yeah, the mainstream media reporting versus what me and, you know, a thousand other people who were there that day witnessed,

00:28:50.740 there is a big, wide gap in the middle of it.

00:28:54.760 You could march Moses and the Israelites right up the middle of the big gap in reporting that's happening in this story.

00:29:01.960 Unbelievable.

00:29:02.940 But, Sheila, my first question to you is simply this.

00:29:05.760 I personally think what the province is doing to Grace Life Church is immoral, it's unethical,

00:29:12.140 and it's perhaps even illegal.

00:29:14.940 We'll see what a court says in the future.

00:29:17.060 So, was tearing down this fence the right strategy to embrace,

00:29:21.760 or does this simply lead to a whole new raft of problems for Grace Life?

00:29:28.120 Well, I know for the folks at Grace Life, it's not about the fence, it's not about the building either,

00:29:36.840 and for them it's not even about their pastor, because from the very beginning,

00:29:41.420 all they ever wanted to do was join together completely unrestricted by the state,

00:29:46.100 without a mask, without social distancing, without caps on their numbers.

00:29:50.480 For them, their act of worship requires that they be in person together.

00:29:56.680 That's what they need to do.

00:29:57.600 And so, that's why they continued, even when the province arrested and then kept their pastor

00:30:07.300 in a maximum security facility for 35 days.

00:30:10.720 They just kept joining together, because it's not about the guy on the pulpit either.

00:30:15.980 For them, it's about their personal relationship with God and how they're supposed to worship.

00:30:20.880 And so, when the province moved in to seize their building,

00:30:23.460 and then put the first fence around it, and then the second fence, and then the tarp,

00:30:27.640 and then now the third perimeter fence all around it,

00:30:30.640 and stage an RCMP garrison on the site,

00:30:33.940 for them, that doesn't matter, because they still did what they needed to do on Sunday.

00:30:40.960 And that was gather in an underground church now,

00:30:44.840 somewhere at an undisclosed location, so that they could all be together.

00:30:49.800 So, while, for me, I see that fence and I want to rip it down,

00:30:53.460 and I know other people feel that way too.

00:30:55.480 You see that fence, you see it as the state locking Christians out of their church,

00:31:02.400 the same way they do in China.

00:31:04.260 And you don't know what else to do, but you just want to rip it down.

00:31:08.020 At the same time, this is Grace Life's battle.

00:31:10.580 We all support them in their battle, or at least I think most normal people do.

00:31:14.320 We want them to be left alone to do what they've always done, completely safely.

00:31:18.600 But they could have ripped that fence down at any time.

00:31:23.080 The farmer next door is sympathetic to them.

00:31:25.500 He attends the church.

00:31:26.960 He could come and use his tractor and pull the fence down.

00:31:29.900 They could have done it a hundred times.

00:31:31.260 That's not their approach.

00:31:33.020 And so, when the fence did come down,

00:31:35.600 and again, I understand why people get agitated and want to pull that fence down.

00:31:38.460 You feel like you've got to do something.

00:31:40.100 But that's not what the church wanted,

00:31:41.280 and that's why there were some people who were actually involved in the church,

00:31:45.920 a couple of them that were there,

00:31:47.500 and they started to chant, leave the fence alone,

00:31:50.300 and the fence went back up as quickly as it came down.

00:31:53.160 Yeah, you know, Sheila, you've kind of convinced me with your arguments

00:31:56.580 because I'll put you in my position on Sunday.

00:32:00.380 I was in Montreal with our ace videographer, Mocha.

00:32:03.900 I had just been released from prison myself.

00:32:07.060 And we were driving to do a story, and we saw that on Twitter.

00:32:14.000 Mocha was reading it to me.

00:32:15.960 And we were both doing fist pumps.

00:32:17.980 Yeah, the fence has come down.

00:32:20.260 And then only minutes later,

00:32:22.500 we were deflated to learn that protesters were joining

00:32:25.820 to help the police erect the fence, and we're going, what is this?

00:32:29.400 And I kind of compared it to Adam Skelly.

00:32:32.200 Adam Skelly was breaking the law when he reopened Adamson Barbecue

00:32:37.580 in Etobicoke in late November.

00:32:39.900 But there is a difference, and it came clear to me after we chatted.

00:32:45.000 Adam Skelly was the owner, is the owner, of Adamson Barbecue.

00:32:48.380 It was his decision to go that route.

00:32:51.480 The church, the people that own the Grace Life Church,

00:32:55.860 they're the owners of the facility,

00:32:57.580 and they didn't want this to happen.

00:33:00.320 And I guess ultimately, because they literally have skin in the game,

00:33:04.420 we have to respect their wishes to not tear down the fence,

00:33:09.340 even though visually it was such a beautiful act of civil disobedience.

00:33:14.340 Yeah, for the congregation at Grace Life,

00:33:18.000 the bricks and mortar of the church building doesn't really matter.

00:33:21.420 For them, the church lives within them.

00:33:23.560 So wherever they gather together, that's the church.

00:33:27.240 And while it may have felt like a short-term victory to see that fence come down,

00:33:33.380 the true victory was that the Grace Life congregation

00:33:37.020 were able to gather together at the exact same time somewhere else

00:33:42.080 the way they've always wanted to do,

00:33:43.620 with no masks, with no social distancing,

00:33:46.340 and no capacity on who could attend.

00:33:49.280 Of course, they did have to keep it secret,

00:33:51.160 which is a catastrophe in the Western world.

00:33:53.860 But they got to do what they wanted to do.

00:33:56.620 They're still winning.

00:33:58.560 Every week that they gather together,

00:34:00.880 as a congregation,

00:34:03.140 they win against the state.

00:34:05.100 And Sheila, you raise a very interesting point here.

00:34:07.260 Since they are getting together

00:34:08.980 en masse,

00:34:10.940 and they are doing what they were doing

00:34:12.760 in their original Grace Life church,

00:34:15.500 given that the Jason Kenney of today

00:34:17.920 ain't the Jason Kenney

00:34:19.580 we grew to know and love

00:34:21.440 in yesteryear,

00:34:22.740 do you think there's any kind of investigation

00:34:25.420 going on by law enforcement

00:34:27.240 of where are these congregants assembling?

00:34:31.720 Well, you know,

00:34:32.560 when you get

00:34:33.360 400, 500, 600 people

00:34:37.720 gathering in one spot,

00:34:40.360 I mean,

00:34:40.940 if the RCMP wanted to find them,

00:34:43.540 I mean,

00:34:44.020 it wouldn't take much

00:34:45.300 to find them.

00:34:48.020 And they know that.

00:34:49.280 They know that.

00:34:51.060 And there are,

00:34:52.000 I suppose,

00:34:52.440 contingency plans in place

00:34:53.840 in that effect

00:34:56.140 if the police crack down

00:34:57.360 on their new location.

00:34:58.660 But imagine

00:34:59.660 the optics

00:35:01.240 of the police

00:35:03.380 hunting down a church

00:35:05.280 that has already

00:35:06.520 had to go underground

00:35:07.900 because you arrested

00:35:08.980 their pastor

00:35:09.560 for 35 days

00:35:10.720 and then seized

00:35:12.380 their church property

00:35:13.740 behind three fences

00:35:15.700 and then militarized

00:35:17.400 the area

00:35:18.000 and closed off

00:35:18.900 all the roads

00:35:19.840 into the,

00:35:21.140 so that you can't even

00:35:21.840 get near the church.

00:35:22.660 You have to basically

00:35:23.220 walk in.

00:35:24.980 Imagine the optics

00:35:26.460 now

00:35:26.940 of sending

00:35:28.060 the RCMP

00:35:29.020 to hunt 0.96

00:35:30.400 down these Christians. 1.00

00:35:31.680 you've already,

00:35:33.040 for lack of a better term,

00:35:34.760 scattered into the catacombs.

00:35:37.260 No,

00:35:37.480 the optics

00:35:38.180 would be brutal,

00:35:39.880 Sheila.

00:35:40.420 They're already terrible

00:35:41.580 though,

00:35:41.900 I guess.

00:35:42.740 I know,

00:35:43.280 but this would further

00:35:44.280 inflame things.

00:35:45.040 It reminds me of the

00:35:45.760 Midway game,

00:35:46.540 Whack-A-Mole.

00:35:47.240 You know,

00:35:47.680 here they pop up here,

00:35:49.060 here comes the government

00:35:49.940 with the mallet

00:35:50.640 to knock them down,

00:35:51.420 then they pop up there

00:35:52.240 the next Sunday,

00:35:53.260 here comes the government

00:35:54.060 again to knock them down.

00:35:55.840 It would just be

00:35:57.180 absolutely brutal.

00:35:58.560 We have to wrap.

00:35:59.440 So,

00:35:59.720 last question,

00:36:00.860 Sheila.

00:36:01.680 There will likely,

00:36:03.260 I assume,

00:36:04.180 be a gathering

00:36:05.620 of hundreds,

00:36:06.540 if not thousands,

00:36:07.240 of protesters

00:36:07.820 again at Grace Life.

00:36:09.420 The congregants

00:36:10.400 will be worshipping

00:36:11.640 somewhere else.

00:36:13.260 What do you see

00:36:14.700 happening

00:36:15.300 come this Sunday morning?

00:36:17.940 I think

00:36:18.900 that come

00:36:19.800 this Sunday morning,

00:36:21.260 I'm hopeful

00:36:21.960 that the police

00:36:25.000 will continue

00:36:26.780 to be

00:36:27.380 as hands-off

00:36:28.880 as they are

00:36:29.500 with the protesters.

00:36:30.460 They're not exactly

00:36:31.060 hands-off

00:36:31.500 with the church

00:36:32.060 building

00:36:32.520 and the property,

00:36:33.840 but they really

00:36:35.120 didn't arrest

00:36:36.540 any protesters

00:36:38.800 for being there

00:36:40.980 and peacefully protesting.

00:36:42.640 In fact,

00:36:42.960 they didn't even

00:36:43.720 arrest people

00:36:44.480 after they pulled

00:36:45.660 down the fence,

00:36:46.320 and they could have

00:36:46.920 arrested them,

00:36:47.620 I guess,

00:36:48.160 for mischief.

00:36:49.060 They didn't do that.

00:36:50.280 I'm hoping

00:36:51.360 that if people

00:36:52.620 do come,

00:36:53.780 that they will

00:36:54.640 respect the church's

00:36:56.260 wishes,

00:36:57.060 support the church

00:36:58.020 peacefully,

00:36:59.600 and that the police

00:37:01.560 continue to,

00:37:03.440 you know,

00:37:03.820 as much as they can,

00:37:05.060 take a hands-off

00:37:05.780 approach with the people

00:37:06.820 who come to express

00:37:07.740 their dismay

00:37:08.560 at what's happening here.

00:37:09.880 There are a lot of people

00:37:10.680 who are coming

00:37:11.200 to see this

00:37:11.860 who are just coming

00:37:13.280 because they're

00:37:14.440 kind of looky-loos.

00:37:15.820 They can't even believe

00:37:17.020 that they're seeing

00:37:17.840 what they're seeing.

00:37:19.040 They're reading the stories,

00:37:20.180 they're seeing it online,

00:37:21.280 but they think

00:37:23.420 that it's got to be fake.

00:37:25.380 They just want to come

00:37:26.420 and see it

00:37:26.780 with their own eyes,

00:37:27.520 this car crash

00:37:29.280 happening in real time.

00:37:30.420 There's a lot

00:37:30.900 of those people.

00:37:31.720 If they do come,

00:37:34.260 just hopefully

00:37:34.880 that they behave themselves.

00:37:36.360 Just behave yourself,

00:37:37.460 everybody.

00:37:38.600 Well, Sheila,

00:37:39.100 I know you'll be there,

00:37:40.520 and I know

00:37:41.620 we can count on you

00:37:43.400 to give us the real deal.

00:37:44.740 You've been

00:37:45.200 doing excellent journalism

00:37:47.920 in the field

00:37:48.920 when it comes to this story.

00:37:50.200 You've been telling the truth,

00:37:51.460 something that we

00:37:52.580 quite really aren't seeing

00:37:54.420 from the mainstream media.

00:37:56.240 So, good on you,

00:37:57.320 and I look forward

00:37:57.980 to your future report, Sheila.

00:38:00.120 Thanks, David.

00:38:00.880 Have a great weekend.

00:38:01.820 You too, my friend.

00:38:02.980 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:38:04.560 somewhere in the

00:38:05.620 northern hinterland

00:38:06.700 of Alberta.

00:38:07.600 Keep it here, folks.

00:38:08.580 More of Rebel Roundup

00:38:09.460 to come right after this.

00:38:16.040 David Menzies

00:38:16.920 for Rebel News

00:38:17.720 here in Montreal.

00:38:19.080 And folks,

00:38:19.560 guess what?

00:38:20.280 About 10 minutes ago,

00:38:21.920 the new

00:38:22.600 and not so improved

00:38:23.820 curfew

00:38:24.400 kicked in.

00:38:25.300 It's not 9.30 anymore.

00:38:27.020 It's 8 o'clock now.

00:38:28.920 But like I said,

00:38:30.340 it's supposed to be curfew,

00:38:31.860 yet

00:38:32.080 I guess somebody

00:38:33.500 forgot to tell

00:38:34.280 these guys here.

00:38:35.540 They are rallying

00:38:36.920 in the street.

00:38:38.200 They're setting off

00:38:39.400 fireworks.

00:38:40.480 I love it.

00:38:41.160 The smell of gunpowder

00:38:42.660 and freedom

00:38:43.640 in the air in Montreal

00:38:44.920 and talk about

00:38:46.200 herd immunity.

00:38:47.860 I don't see any police

00:38:49.280 choking out anyone to say.

00:38:51.880 I don't see any police

00:38:53.100 tackling people,

00:38:54.500 putting them in handcuffs,

00:38:55.900 throwing them in panty wagons 0.64

00:38:57.320 and taking them to jail.

00:38:59.420 You know why?

00:39:00.200 Because the freedom fighters

00:39:02.040 outnumber the cops

00:39:03.320 for a change.

00:39:04.420 This is going to be

00:39:05.080 one hell of a night

00:39:06.040 and it's just getting started.

00:39:11.160 It's not right

00:39:13.000 that the Premier Legault

00:39:14.340 is treating us

00:39:15.080 like we're playing ping pong.

00:39:17.220 8, 9.30, 8, 9.30.

00:39:19.120 We can't go outside at night.

00:39:21.360 We're not allowed

00:39:22.000 to go for a walk.

00:39:23.020 We're human beings.

00:39:24.220 We have rights.

00:39:25.280 It's okay to go outside

00:39:26.480 after a certain time.

00:39:27.680 The government can't

00:39:28.280 put us on house arrest.

00:39:29.620 They can't do this to us.

00:39:31.000 It's not right.

00:39:31.900 Bogdan, governments

00:39:32.780 of every level,

00:39:33.740 every political stripe

00:39:34.740 say all their decisions

00:39:36.080 are being based on science.

00:39:38.200 So please inform me,

00:39:39.800 what was the science

00:39:40.780 that up until tonight

00:39:42.240 we had a 9.30 curfew

00:39:44.280 in Quebec

00:39:44.680 and from this night forward

00:39:46.660 it has to be 8 o'clock again.

00:39:48.200 I don't get it.

00:39:49.420 Well, I don't think

00:39:50.740 there is any science

00:39:52.120 that backs up

00:39:52.820 any kind of curfew order.

00:39:55.320 It's not right

00:39:56.300 that apparently

00:39:58.360 after a certain time

00:39:59.640 we're at a danger

00:40:01.340 for the community

00:40:02.280 just because we're outside

00:40:04.400 and after a certain time

00:40:06.320 all of a sudden

00:40:06.940 it's okay.

00:40:08.620 Some people are night owls.

00:40:09.960 Some people stay out

00:40:10.840 during the day.

00:40:11.760 It's okay.

00:40:12.400 It's not right for me

00:40:13.320 who likes to be a night owl.

00:40:15.180 I like to come to the old port

00:40:16.380 at night

00:40:16.820 and just walk around

00:40:17.800 by myself

00:40:18.540 when there's not many people

00:40:19.840 but now I can't do this anymore.

00:40:22.600 So, Seheil,

00:40:23.260 what brings you out

00:40:23.940 to this freedom rally?

00:40:25.480 Well, I got to see

00:40:26.340 what Montreal has to offer

00:40:27.700 compared to other states

00:40:29.220 or the United States,

00:40:30.300 Canada, etc.

00:40:31.120 So, it's the first time

00:40:32.380 I'm seeing a revolution.

00:40:34.600 I'm really impressed.

00:40:35.760 I've never seen this before.

00:40:37.480 It's in you from Montreal.

00:40:38.680 I'm really impressed.

00:40:39.300 It's like American 0.99

00:40:39.820 so let's do it.

00:40:40.740 Fantastic.

00:40:41.240 Well, you know,

00:40:41.740 it's after 8 o'clock. 0.98

00:40:43.600 You are a criminal right now, sir. 0.96

00:40:45.360 Are you worried 0.99

00:40:45.940 about the Montreal police?

00:40:47.640 I'm not technically criminal.

00:40:49.460 If you look at

00:40:50.220 the Charter's Rights of Canada,

00:40:51.680 I'm not technically criminal.

00:40:53.580 It's our rights

00:40:54.360 to be out right now

00:40:55.980 and we're not criminals right now.

00:40:57.420 It's just an emergency state

00:40:58.620 and we are not criminals

00:40:59.680 to be out right now.

00:41:00.280 Do you think

00:41:00.920 the Montreal Police Service

00:41:02.300 is familiar with

00:41:03.120 the Charter of Rights

00:41:03.920 in the Canadian Constitution?

00:41:05.020 They are very conscious of it

00:41:07.720 but they will act

00:41:09.140 in their own rules

00:41:10.240 and they will come out tonight.

00:41:12.800 There is a team right there.

00:41:13.920 There is a team right there

00:41:14.720 and you can see

00:41:15.220 a team right there.

00:41:16.500 Okay.

00:41:16.980 They're ready to go

00:41:17.820 and they think

00:41:19.080 everyone's going to react

00:41:19.980 in private tickets

00:41:20.660 but as people that are here

00:41:22.720 we know our rights

00:41:23.540 and that's it.

00:41:24.620 Any prediction?

00:41:25.400 Are they going to allow you

00:41:26.380 to have fun,

00:41:27.160 blow up some steam

00:41:28.040 and then go home

00:41:28.820 or are they going to come in

00:41:30.340 with the heavy artillery,

00:41:31.620 the tear gas

00:41:32.300 and the water cannons

00:41:33.140 and whatnot?

00:41:33.840 For tonight?

00:41:34.320 Yes.

00:41:35.280 They're coming in full.

00:41:36.680 They're coming in

00:41:37.200 one team right there

00:41:38.040 one team right there

00:41:38.940 we saw a team of 28

00:41:40.080 you can see the batter.

00:41:46.240 Well I'm with Rebel News

00:41:48.280 superfan Leiby.

00:41:49.480 Leiby what brings you out

00:41:50.660 to this Freedom Rally?

00:41:52.320 So definitely

00:41:52.900 what brings me out

00:41:53.700 to the Freedom Rally

00:41:54.460 is that we don't have

00:41:56.020 enough people here.

00:41:56.900 We should have

00:41:57.320 the whole town,

00:41:58.080 the whole city,

00:41:58.700 our whole country.

00:41:59.840 We should get back

00:42:00.480 all our rights,

00:42:01.280 our freedom of religion,

00:42:02.140 our freedom of expression,

00:42:04.960 all our freedoms.

00:42:06.300 What the government

00:42:06.900 is doing

00:42:07.560 is like 1939

00:42:09.080 in Germany.

00:42:10.440 We had enough,

00:42:11.480 I have enough,

00:42:12.740 the whole community

00:42:13.560 had enough,

00:42:14.580 the whole entire,

00:42:15.520 the whole entire world

00:42:16.820 had enough.

00:42:18.000 For our politicians,

00:42:19.400 our corrupted politicians,

00:42:21.060 we should tell them 1.00

00:42:22.320 they should go to hell. 1.00

00:42:24.200 Enough is enough. 1.00

00:42:26.180 Enough is enough.

00:42:27.640 All right.

00:42:30.700 You know what folks,

00:42:31.580 this is just despicable.

00:42:34.180 I understand the outrage

00:42:35.860 by these young people

00:42:36.940 in terms of their freedoms

00:42:38.740 being eclipsed,

00:42:39.600 but you don't take it out

00:42:40.800 on little retailers like this.

00:42:43.020 This is Sandrini.

00:42:44.460 It's a shoe store.

00:42:46.120 I'm sure the last thing

00:42:47.800 this retailer needs to do

00:42:51.580 during this outrageous pandemic

00:42:53.080 is to make an insurance claim.

00:42:55.220 And look again,

00:42:57.980 legend.

00:43:00.160 I mean,

00:43:00.560 this is,

00:43:01.080 this is horrible.

00:43:03.000 You know,

00:43:03.300 here's somebody trying to sell

00:43:04.740 hockey jerseys and whatnot,

00:43:06.740 and he's got a,

00:43:08.520 a street sign

00:43:10.120 smashed through the window.

00:43:12.080 This,

00:43:12.840 this is not cool.

00:43:14.500 This is not good.

00:43:15.760 Well,

00:43:16.100 to borrow a line

00:43:17.180 from Charles Dickens,

00:43:18.840 last Sunday night

00:43:19.820 in Montreal

00:43:20.380 was the best of times.

00:43:22.540 It was the worst of times.

00:43:23.840 You see,

00:43:24.800 a few thousand

00:43:25.400 mostly young freedom fighters

00:43:26.920 kicked off the evening

00:43:28.020 by literally dancing

00:43:29.420 in the streets,

00:43:30.760 setting off fireworks

00:43:31.760 and blasting their boom boxes.

00:43:34.160 Sure,

00:43:34.460 they may have run afoul

00:43:35.820 of some noise bylaws,

00:43:37.680 but it was a delightfully

00:43:39.160 festive occasion.

00:43:41.060 Alas,

00:43:41.620 later on,

00:43:42.280 as they often do,

00:43:43.700 those anarchists

00:43:44.660 who comprise

00:43:45.380 the rank and file

00:43:46.260 of the Black Bloc 0.90

00:43:47.300 and Antifa

00:43:48.060 just had to show up 0.94

00:43:50.100 to commit disgusting

00:43:51.840 acts of vandalism

00:43:53.120 against small business owners.

00:43:55.640 Even though

00:43:56.280 these hooligans

00:43:57.120 were less than

00:43:58.260 a percent of a percent

00:43:59.740 of the group,

00:44:01.300 their actions

00:44:02.080 would be pounced upon

00:44:03.440 by the mainstream media

00:44:04.700 to depict

00:44:05.740 all the protesters

00:44:06.880 as being violent.

00:44:09.200 How sad is that?

00:44:11.020 In any event,

00:44:11.720 you had plenty to say

00:44:13.060 about our night

00:44:14.280 when so many

00:44:15.000 took a stance

00:44:15.780 against Premier Legault's

00:44:17.220 ludicrous Wuhan virus restrictions.

00:44:21.020 Alex Immersiv writes,

00:44:23.100 My first thought

00:44:23.880 when I saw them

00:44:24.760 smashing small businesses

00:44:26.100 was Antifa.

00:44:27.720 Well,

00:44:28.240 your first thought

00:44:29.040 was correct, Alex.

00:44:30.660 You know,

00:44:31.000 Antifa is actually

00:44:32.000 a contraction,

00:44:32.960 meaning anti-fascist.

00:44:35.180 But given their odious

00:44:36.680 and violent behavior,

00:44:38.280 they actually resemble

00:44:39.600 pure fascists.

00:44:42.060 They shouldn't be called

00:44:42.980 Antifa,

00:44:43.620 they should just be called

00:44:44.680 fa for fascists

00:44:45.800 because that's 0.98

00:44:46.940 exactly what they are.

00:44:49.400 First Black PM writes,

00:44:51.580 Better journalism

00:44:52.320 will be found

00:44:53.100 nowhere on the planet.

00:44:54.740 Well,

00:44:55.540 First Black PM,

00:44:56.460 thank you so much

00:44:57.620 for such a great compliment.

00:44:59.160 We're just trying

00:44:59.820 to tell the other side

00:45:00.660 of the story.

00:45:01.800 You know,

00:45:02.080 we did see the CBC there.

00:45:03.720 We tried to interview

00:45:04.560 the reporter.

00:45:06.000 She actually ran away 1.00

00:45:07.240 claiming not to speak English.

00:45:09.640 Do you believe that, folks,

00:45:10.940 that a reporter

00:45:11.700 in a large bilingual city

00:45:13.780 like Montreal

00:45:14.520 cannot speak English?

00:45:16.240 Or is this yet more lies

00:45:18.480 emanating from the

00:45:19.480 taxpayer-funded

00:45:20.400 state broadcaster?

00:45:21.760 Oh, man,

00:45:22.560 I want my money back.

00:45:24.900 BFG 10,000 writes,

00:45:26.560 The lockdown will end

00:45:27.640 when the people

00:45:28.280 say it should end.

00:45:29.680 Rise up, Canucks.

00:45:30.800 We are with you

00:45:31.820 from down south.

00:45:33.360 Hey, BFG 10,000,

00:45:35.080 if by down south

00:45:36.160 you mean such states

00:45:37.420 as Florida or Texas,

00:45:38.860 wow,

00:45:39.520 how I wish

00:45:40.380 I was there.

00:45:41.860 How splendid

00:45:42.560 to have governors

00:45:43.360 who actually lead

00:45:44.800 and follow the Constitution

00:45:46.380 rather than cowering

00:45:48.140 behind medical

00:45:49.380 health officials.

00:45:51.080 Thanks to that

00:45:51.620 kind of stewardship,

00:45:52.720 you have actually

00:45:53.700 something that resembles

00:45:55.020 freedom happening

00:45:56.240 down there.

00:45:57.440 We in the great

00:45:58.280 white north

00:45:58.960 can only look on

00:46:00.240 with envy.

00:46:02.100 Valerie J.

00:46:03.000 writes,

00:46:03.300 That is Antifa

00:46:04.700 turning a peaceful

00:46:05.660 protest into a firestorm.

00:46:07.960 They are only there

00:46:08.840 to cause problems

00:46:09.780 for people

00:46:10.300 who want

00:46:11.000 their human rights

00:46:11.920 respected.

00:46:12.980 Indeed, Valerie,

00:46:14.100 and could someone

00:46:15.160 kindly explain

00:46:16.320 why Antifa thinks

00:46:18.040 they are sticking it

00:46:19.480 to the man

00:46:20.840 by vandalizing

00:46:22.240 small businesses

00:46:23.220 that are barely

00:46:24.600 hanging on right now?

00:46:26.320 What creeps?

00:46:28.300 Tame Thing writes,

00:46:29.240 News flash to the

00:46:30.220 COVID-19 dictators,

00:46:32.300 Viruses can't tell time.

00:46:34.660 Ah, but apparently

00:46:35.580 when it comes

00:46:36.200 to Premier Legault,

00:46:37.660 viruses are equipped

00:46:38.680 with teeny tiny

00:46:39.800 Timex watches

00:46:40.800 and they can indeed

00:46:42.220 tell the time

00:46:42.980 and while staying

00:46:44.140 up until 9.30

00:46:45.280 used to be okay

00:46:46.660 in La Belle Provence,

00:46:48.320 now everyone

00:46:49.040 must be in bed

00:46:49.900 by 8 p.m.

00:46:51.640 Unless you have

00:46:52.420 a dog, of course,

00:46:53.360 in which case

00:46:53.900 you can venture

00:46:54.520 outdoors anytime

00:46:55.480 you want.

00:46:56.400 Folks, does any

00:46:57.500 of this make sense

00:46:58.680 to anyone?

00:47:00.160 And Phoenix Tomatoes

00:47:01.380 writes,

00:47:02.420 Thank you for your

00:47:03.320 coverage and fast

00:47:04.460 upload of this video.

00:47:05.800 As predicted,

00:47:06.560 the mainstream media

00:47:07.460 puts all the

00:47:08.760 vandalism on the

00:47:09.680 people that were

00:47:10.340 there for the

00:47:10.860 actual protest.

00:47:12.420 You showed clearly

00:47:13.420 who were the ones

00:47:14.660 causing trouble.

00:47:16.200 Thanks, Phoenix Tomatoes.

00:47:17.420 We truly have

00:47:18.440 great videographers

00:47:19.500 and video editors

00:47:20.880 here at Rebel News.

00:47:22.600 And allow me again

00:47:23.600 to say to one and all,

00:47:24.700 when it comes to

00:47:25.500 the pandemic reporting

00:47:26.700 by the mainstream media,

00:47:29.220 folks always,

00:47:30.920 always take their

00:47:32.020 reportage with a

00:47:33.640 shovelful of salt.

00:47:35.500 Well, that wraps up

00:47:36.400 another edition of

00:47:37.180 Rebel Roundup.

00:47:37.940 Thanks so much for

00:47:38.700 joining us.

00:47:39.400 See you next week.

00:47:40.160 And hey, folks,

00:47:40.920 never forget,

00:47:42.120 without risk,

00:47:42.920 there can be no glory.

00:47:44.320 Good night.

00:48:06.400 We'll be right there.

00:48:06.980 Good night.

00:48:28.860 Good night.

00:48:29.680 Liebe game.

Rebel News Podcast - April 17, 2021

Montreal Raid on Rebel News, GraceLife's Gathering Point

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