Rebel News Podcast - December 07, 2019


Protected under publication bans： From sex abusers to social justice warriors, the public is kept in the dark


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A judge grants a publication ban on a Canadian man accused of throwing human feces on five people in three separate incidents. Is he a Canadian citizen, or is he just passing through? And why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, does the public have the right to know what's going on in Canadian courts?
00:00:20.720 Well, thanks to publication bans being handed out like candy at Halloween,
00:00:25.560 a growing number of judges don't think so.
00:00:28.420 It's December 6th, 2019.
00:00:31.340 I'm David Menzies filling in for Ezra Levent, and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
00:00:38.200 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:42.020 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:46.100 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:00:49.600 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:51.960 Iqqar Mao of Guelph, Ontario was due to make an appearance in a Brampton courtroom this morning.
00:01:03.760 Now, if that name doesn't ring a bell, he's the genius who flew over to Turkey last July.
00:01:09.180 His ultimate destination was Syria.
00:01:12.020 Why would anyone in their right mind visit Syria these days?
00:01:15.220 Oh, well, Iqqar Mao is allegedly one of those terrorism tourists you read about these days.
00:01:21.700 You know, the type who leaves a decadent Western nation in order to join ISIS 0.98
00:01:26.320 so that he could have a gay old time in the Middle East. 0.93
00:01:30.520 But Iqqar never got to fulfill his dream.
00:01:35.200 He was detained near the Syrian border and deported back to Canada in mid-October.
00:01:40.740 Oh, lucky us.
00:01:42.980 However, I didn't go to his court appearance this morning,
00:01:45.600 not because this isn't an important case.
00:01:48.680 It's actually very important.
00:01:51.120 It's just that, yet again, a judge in his infinite wisdom
00:01:55.200 has granted a publication ban regarding details pertaining to this case.
00:02:00.520 And that would severely hamper what I could report to you.
00:02:04.900 And I have to say, folks, I'm getting really tired of those accused of committing
00:02:10.340 or trying to commit the most heinous offenses
00:02:13.220 being consistently granted a media cloaking device.
00:02:17.740 Once upon a time, publication bans were relatively rare.
00:02:22.440 Today, judges are handing them out as freely as one does with candy on Halloween.
00:02:27.840 I'm not exaggerating.
00:02:29.220 Indeed, the last four court cases I've covered,
00:02:33.420 there was a publication ban issued every single time.
00:02:37.980 That includes the case of Samuel Opoku,
00:02:40.960 who made a brief appearance on Tuesday in a Toronto court.
00:02:44.560 He's the individual who allegedly threw
00:02:46.800 bucketfuls of liquefied human feces
00:02:50.920 on five people in three separate incidents.
00:02:56.580 Disgusting beyond words.
00:02:58.460 But for whatever reason, there is a publication ban on this case.
00:03:03.140 Luckily, Mr. Opoku's lawyer, Jordan Weiss,
00:03:05.700 was gracious enough to conduct a media scrum outside the court.
00:03:08.880 But I think the only thing that was accomplished by that
00:03:11.620 was raising more questions than answers.
00:03:14.280 Here's a snippet.
00:03:15.020 Can you tell us anything about his background, perhaps?
00:03:17.640 Is he a Canadian citizen or on a student visa?
00:03:20.280 I can't speak about his background,
00:03:22.320 but I can assure you that the case has nothing to do with immigration.
00:03:28.420 You know, I think that was a harmless query that I asked.
00:03:30.900 Is Mr. Opoku a Canadian or is he just someone passing through?
00:03:35.000 But the lawyer declined to answer that question.
00:03:38.120 Yet why?
00:03:39.400 How would his citizenship status affect Opoku in any way
00:03:43.680 in terms of getting a fair trial?
00:03:46.060 Weird.
00:03:47.100 But from disgusting to deplorable,
00:03:50.000 just consider the case of Mohamed Mohamed of Toronto.
00:03:54.440 He was in court recently too,
00:03:56.240 and he faces 62 charges of sexually abusing
00:04:02.660 at least five minors, both girls and boys.
00:04:06.900 Some of the charges include 14 counts of sexual exploitation of a youth,
00:04:11.400 12 counts of sexual interference,
00:04:13.780 and 14 counts of sexual assault.
00:04:16.960 Now, the details are absolutely grotesque
00:04:20.020 in terms of what Mr. Mohamed is alleged to have done.
00:04:24.060 But yet again,
00:04:25.000 some of the information in his trial is under,
00:04:27.680 you guessed it,
00:04:29.040 a publication ban.
00:04:30.720 And then there's the bizarre case of Talia Davidson.
00:04:33.840 She's the hoaxer 1.00
00:04:35.060 who back in August brandished a homemade sign
00:04:38.280 encouraging people to vote for Andrew Scheer
00:04:41.060 during her visit to Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.
00:04:44.800 But she then went on to her racial insults 1.00
00:04:48.040 at visible minorities
00:04:48.980 and even spat upon an individual.
00:04:52.360 Check it out.
00:04:52.920 This is a place on bed.
00:04:55.000 This is a place of men. 0.90
00:04:56.340 This is a beautiful country.
00:04:57.920 And you can't f***ing not be savagin'. 1.00
00:04:59.680 I can't believe you're real.
00:05:00.860 You can't f***ing not be savagin'. 1.00
00:05:02.220 You're actually real.
00:05:03.220 You want to f***ing fight me? 1.00
00:05:04.000 You're real.
00:05:05.960 Get the f***ing home! 0.99
00:05:08.220 Go home!
00:05:09.100 This is a place of men, 1.00
00:05:10.800 this is a place of men, 0.98
00:05:10.880 not for f***ing f***s!
00:05:12.580 You don't belong here to get the f*** home! 1.00
00:05:15.140 You can't spit on my country!
00:05:17.260 Wow!
00:05:18.020 Obviously one of those hateful right-wing white supremacists, right?
00:05:23.000 Um, wrong.
00:05:24.440 Davidson has a long documented history of being a leftist.
00:05:28.040 She was obviously pretending to be a sheer supporter to smear conservatives. 0.91
00:05:34.260 And yet, when she had her case heard in September,
00:05:37.320 once again, a publication ban was issued.
00:05:41.300 That meant I had to seek answers outside the courtroom,
00:05:44.300 which is where I confronted Davidson and her lawyer. 0.95
00:05:47.260 Ms. Davidson, what was the agenda you had in doing that stunt last month?
00:05:51.060 Okay, it was the bursting of the liberal bubble.
00:05:53.520 It was what?
00:05:54.280 The bursting of the liberal bubble.
00:05:56.120 It was a version of the liberal bubble?
00:05:57.560 What does that mean?
00:05:58.700 Taya, Taya. 0.96
00:05:59.960 Huh?
00:06:00.320 What do you mean?
00:06:01.720 Why won't you speak about your misneeds, Ms. Davidson?
00:06:06.060 Sir?
00:06:07.020 Yeah?
00:06:07.440 Who are you, sir?
00:06:09.480 There's a proper person ban on this side.
00:06:11.340 Oh, I know, but we're not in court right now.
00:06:13.340 They're in public.
00:06:14.380 No, there's a publication ban that was clearly made out of court.
00:06:17.260 Yeah, that's right.
00:06:18.000 And you're violating it.
00:06:18.860 I'm not.
00:06:19.640 Gee, that's some lawyer.
00:06:20.840 Isn't it?
00:06:21.960 Did you see what he said at the end?
00:06:23.640 That I was violating the publication ban simply by asking questions in a public space?
00:06:29.580 Sorry, solicitor.
00:06:31.200 That's not how it works.
00:06:32.940 And let us not forget that esteemed gentleman, Jordan Hunt,
00:06:37.720 who had this curious little habit of physically assaulting women who are pro-life supporters.
00:06:44.200 Remember this debate Hunt had with Marie Claire Bissonette,
00:06:47.620 which ended with a despicable roundhouse kick to her torso. 1.00
00:06:52.620 If somebody gets raped by somebody and they're like,
00:06:59.660 I'm a 16-year-old and I can't have this baby.
00:07:02.620 I think you should keep it?
00:07:05.320 It's a baby.
00:07:06.820 If someone was raped and she gave birth and she decided to kill her three-year-old child.
00:07:11.120 Oh, way to go, Jordan.
00:07:17.280 What a big man you are.
00:07:18.500 But even this coward was granted a publication ban,
00:07:23.040 meaning that during the trial we had to resort to Plan B,
00:07:26.600 which was interviewing him outside the courthouse.
00:07:29.860 Jordan Hunt, do you have any words to say to Marie Claire Bissonette?
00:07:33.100 Hold still.
00:07:35.640 Well, not quite a roundhouse kick, but what kind of an assault was that?
00:07:40.500 It looked like circus clown confetti.
00:07:43.580 Jordan, who's paying your legal bills?
00:07:48.120 Jordan, it doesn't seem that you're very tough when a man is asking you questions.
00:07:52.740 You like to ambush women. 1.00
00:07:54.620 Man, this is what those look like?
00:07:58.140 By the way, how come your hair isn't purple and you don't have a flower anymore there?
00:08:02.240 How come you have to use cameras like these to record?
00:08:05.480 How come you, did the budget end at like the cheap suit?
00:08:08.920 Is it?
00:08:09.620 Yeah, it's cheap.
00:08:11.800 Well, you know, I mean, you're very touchy-feely,
00:08:14.300 but why is it that you like to assault women so much?
00:08:18.260 You have no, you know, contrition.
00:08:20.820 You have no empathy, it seems.
00:08:25.100 I really want to take your glasses.
00:08:27.520 I miss...
00:08:27.940 Yep, that's the sort of cat that the judges are protecting from the glare of publicity these days, folks.
00:08:34.180 My final example is perhaps the most outrageous and egregious one of all.
00:08:39.760 You see, initially, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal granted Jonathan Yaniv
00:08:45.000 a publication ban regarding his numerous complaints against female estitians who rightfully refused to do a bikini wax on him
00:08:54.800 because...
00:08:55.400 because Jonathan is a male who is pretending to be a female.
00:09:00.400 He even still sports a penis and testicles.
00:09:04.680 Oh, here's a clip of the poor victim Yaniv in action back in August when I attempted to interview him.
00:09:10.760 Jonathan, why do you take...
00:09:12.360 Why do you send sexually expressive messages to young girls?
00:09:15.240 Go away! 1.00
00:09:15.960 You're going to take...
00:09:16.840 Go away! 1.00
00:09:17.340 Huh?
00:09:17.600 My iPad...
00:09:18.320 Why do you...
00:09:18.940 Go away now! 1.00
00:09:19.440 Huh?
00:09:19.900 Go away! 1.00
00:09:20.240 Go away! 1.00
00:09:20.440 Go away! 1.00
00:09:20.940 Go away! 1.00
00:09:21.480 Go away! 1.00
00:09:21.540 Go away! 1.00
00:09:21.640 Go away! 1.00
00:09:21.740 Go away! 1.00
00:09:21.940 Go away! 1.00
00:09:22.140 Charming.
00:09:22.740 As you can see, folks, in addition to pretending to be a woman, Jonathan also appears to be pretending to be disabled.
00:09:30.820 But here's the thing, as I mentioned previously, the BC Human Rights Tribunal actually initially granted a publication ban regarding the Yaniv case.
00:09:40.800 Can they even do this?
00:09:43.260 A human rights tribunal is not even a real court.
00:09:47.200 In fact, I'd call the BC Human Rights Tribunal a kangaroo court, except that I don't want to insult the marsupial community.
00:09:54.320 But I must add that in a perversely ironic twist, the BC Human Rights Tribunal itself actually revoked the publication ban.
00:10:04.740 Why is that, you ask?
00:10:05.940 Well, one individual out there continued to violate the ban.
00:10:10.480 That individual's name?
00:10:12.280 Yep, the one and only, thank God, Jonathan Yaniv, the very person the publication ban was originally meant to protect.
00:10:21.320 Welcome to clown world, folks.
00:10:22.820 In the final analysis, the issuance of publication bans is out of control in Canada.
00:10:29.920 Once there had to be exceptional circumstances for a publication ban to be granted.
00:10:35.360 Now it seems that a defence lawyer merely has to ask for a publication ban.
00:10:40.440 And a publication ban shall be granted, no questions asked.
00:10:45.180 This trend has to stop because the public really does have the right to know.
00:10:50.180 To bar the media from reporting the facts of a case, any case, makes a trial a secretive process.
00:10:58.220 To be effective, the justice system has to be open and transparent.
00:11:02.260 No reasonable person surely wants justice to be done via star chambers.
00:11:08.400 Especially given that, in my experience, so many of the people who are receiving protection via publication bans
00:11:17.160 just happen to be the very worst of the worst.
00:11:23.000 Now folks, while our rebel commander Ezra Levent is away on assignment today,
00:11:27.400 he did pre-record an interview with Mark Moreno of Climate Depot.
00:11:31.260 Stay tuned, that's coming up next.
00:11:45.980 Well, Greta Thunberg, or as she's more popularly known in the media, 0.98
00:11:51.700 Saint Greta has finally landed in Portugal after a bizarre journey by boat across the Atlantic during winter.
00:12:01.220 Never a wise idea, but the whole point was that Greta could say,
00:12:07.040 I didn't fly on a plane.
00:12:09.220 Now, fact is, the skipper and all the folks with the boat jetted to America
00:12:15.420 to let her sail across so she could remain pristine.
00:12:19.240 She came to America by boat on the first place,
00:12:22.020 thinking that the global warming conference by the United Nations would be held in Chile.
00:12:27.460 However, anti-carbon tax protests, yeah, that's right,
00:12:31.360 the protests were sparked by rises in the price of fuel and transit.
00:12:36.720 They caused Chile to abandon the global warming conference,
00:12:39.900 which was picked up by Madrid, Spain.
00:12:42.240 As you know, we will be sending two of our best to cover that UN conference,
00:12:46.260 it's Kian Bexty and Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:12:48.820 And one person that we love talking to when we go to these global warming conferences,
00:12:53.340 he's our expert to deprogram us in case our people start to, you know,
00:12:58.440 fall victim to the global warming cult, is our friend Mark Moreno.
00:13:02.040 He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com, and he joins us now from the United States.
00:13:05.560 Mark, great to see you.
00:13:06.900 When are you heading over to Madrid?
00:13:08.800 I'm heading over in two days, and I'll be there for the whole week next week,
00:13:14.060 dealing with the new, and it's new terminology, the Climate Emergency Conference in Madrid.
00:13:19.320 Oh, the Climate Emergency.
00:13:21.380 And if the government says it's an emergency, well, we'd better listen to them.
00:13:25.840 We're sending Kian and Sheila, I think they're heading out on Sunday,
00:13:29.500 so they'll be there Sunday and for the week.
00:13:32.920 I think it's going to be great.
00:13:33.940 We, as usual, are being kept out, but I find that we can do even better journalism
00:13:39.580 from outside the conference, paradoxically,
00:13:42.340 because we're not just being managed and spoon-fed press releases.
00:13:46.840 Absolutely.
00:13:47.560 Sheila, especially being locked out, does great work outside of those conferences 1.00
00:13:52.060 because so much of the activity, first of all, there's a green zone, a blue zone,
00:13:56.540 all kinds of areas, and outside is where a lot of the NGOs are,
00:13:59.920 and you get a lot of the wacky stuff.
00:14:01.260 And you can also get world leaders coming and going.
00:14:05.140 These conferences, this one in particular, I expect it to be a heavy dose of anti-Trump activism,
00:14:14.100 and it's going to be looking forward to the 2020, because in the United States,
00:14:18.040 it's a 2020 referendum on the Green New Deal, the U.N.-Paris Agreement.
00:14:23.000 If Donald Trump loses, the U.S. is back in in a way that the Washington Post said
00:14:28.840 President Obama is now a conservative.
00:14:31.360 He's considered a conservative by the Washington Post because they are going to go so far beyond
00:14:36.700 what Obama did, particularly in climate and energy, any Democrat that wins,
00:14:40.800 that this is going to be a phenomenal thing.
00:14:42.880 And the U.N. knows that.
00:14:44.440 So I expect the U.N. to be really ramping up the anti-Trump rhetoric.
00:14:48.780 Yeah. Well, I'm going to ask you about Greta Thunberg in a moment,
00:14:52.580 because you've got a fun story on Climate Depot about her I'd like to ask you about.
00:14:56.400 But I remember in 2016, the Global Warming Conference, that was right after Trump won.
00:15:06.100 Now, he had not yet been inaugurated, but it was like a funeral march there,
00:15:11.120 because everyone knew Trump had called it a scam, a hoax, a cash grab.
00:15:17.880 And Trump has actually served notice under the terms of the treaty that the United States
00:15:23.700 is formally getting out.
00:15:25.100 So it's now or never for the global warming set, if America absolutely leaves,
00:15:30.780 I mean, that thing was a sham to begin with.
00:15:33.420 But with America not even participating, it becomes really pointless.
00:15:37.220 Yeah.
00:15:37.340 Trump's whole first term when it comes to the U.N., he's only announced the intention to withdraw.
00:15:42.520 It does not become official until after Election Day next November 2020.
00:15:47.760 So right now, this is the referendum coming up.
00:15:50.640 And I think a lot of these European leaders don't want to actually believe that the U.S.
00:15:55.040 is going to officially pull out.
00:15:56.540 They don't even believe Trump will.
00:15:57.720 They keep hoping at the last minute he'll look for some concession and come in.
00:16:01.980 I don't see that.
00:16:02.720 I think Trump, if he's reelected, we're out.
00:16:04.880 And that's another four glorious years where we're not going to be part of this.
00:16:09.620 However, you know, the United Nations is still going to continue.
00:16:14.580 But I think it's going to be a lot harder without the United States in this.
00:16:18.640 And you could have a lot more defections, you know, leading the way with Brazil's Bolsonaro
00:16:23.260 and possibly other developing world countries if they're not getting their money.
00:16:29.000 By the way, Ezra, an interesting side note here.
00:16:32.380 They had a chart on all of the countries sending delegations to the U.N. summit.
00:16:37.140 Who do you think had the largest number of delegates per area?
00:16:41.560 And what countries do you think they were?
00:16:43.500 Well, I know.
00:16:44.080 It turned out it was African nations.
00:16:46.600 The Democratic Republic of Congo leads the way.
00:16:49.840 And it's one simple reason.
00:16:51.020 Congo leads the way?
00:16:51.980 The Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:16:55.060 These countries in Africa are the ones poised to get the $100 billion U.N. slush fund,
00:17:00.420 the redistribution of wealth.
00:17:01.860 They're the ones that are going to get the money to keep their people poor,
00:17:04.860 to ensure their reelection, build monuments.
00:17:07.300 So, of course, they're sending the most number of lobbyists, delegates, representatives to these conferences.
00:17:12.960 I was going to guess Canada because, of course, in 2015, Trudeau had just won.
00:17:18.760 He brought the largest delegation.
00:17:20.480 And it was in Paris.
00:17:21.600 So, literally, everyone in cold, chilly Canada wanted a wonderful week in the City of Lights.
00:17:27.120 Who wouldn't want to go?
00:17:28.560 Well, listen, my friend, I've got one last question for you.
00:17:30.480 And we're going to see you there.
00:17:31.340 And you're our expert.
00:17:32.300 We love hanging out with you.
00:17:33.480 And you show us all the interesting things because you've been doing this for a while.
00:17:37.260 Give me one word on Greta Thunberg.
00:17:39.280 There's a great article in the Daily Wire written by Ryan Saavedra.
00:17:43.380 The headline is Greta Snaps.
00:17:46.640 Change everything.
00:17:47.600 Climate crisis.
00:17:48.680 About colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.
00:17:52.880 Fossil fuel literally killing us.
00:17:55.420 Now, she was on this boat for weeks.
00:17:58.400 And I think she went a little mad.
00:18:00.620 Or, again, maybe she didn't say a word of this.
00:18:02.820 Maybe this was all drafted by her managers and her beauty pageant mom back in Sweden.
00:18:08.520 But she's just gone full Marxist here, hasn't she?
00:18:12.800 Yes.
00:18:13.220 And you're right.
00:18:13.820 I mean, the boat, absolutely.
00:18:15.040 A trip like that could just sort of let down your inhibitions.
00:18:18.160 I mean, she's never said anything to this extent that I'm aware of.
00:18:21.480 But what this is, actually, it's an evolution of the climate movement.
00:18:24.640 I did an article about two months ago about how identity politics has overtaken the climate debate.
00:18:30.420 First of all, Greta's senior advisor is George Monbihan, the U.K. environmentalist, who said that we have to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.
00:18:39.000 He's a big supporter of Extinction Rebellion.
00:18:41.500 This is her sort of spiritual climate guru, if you will, aside from her parents.
00:18:48.040 And so it's not surprising she's gone down this route.
00:18:50.660 I was just sort of surprised that it came out of nowhere and now she's on record.
00:18:54.560 But this idea, the woke climate debate, if you will, it's been going on now for years and it's coalesced this year on every issue.
00:19:04.000 You have African scientists now blaming hurricanes and cyclones in Africa on white people, on the white man's science. 0.87
00:19:12.620 You have multiple instances of people basically saying that climate is now a racist thing where blacks and Hispanics are suffering, created by whites, the climate crisis.
00:19:26.540 You have Bill McKibben saying that white climate deniers are to blame for the crisis because we voted for politicians who are climate deniers.
00:19:36.440 So Greta is just following the lead of this movement and it really has become identity politics.
00:19:41.440 Old people are being blamed for global warming.
00:19:44.540 We had young kids on Capitol Hill here the day Greta was in New York in front of the Capitol saying that mom and dad trashed the planet, their generation. 0.75
00:19:54.180 Thanks, mom and dad, for what you did.
00:19:55.780 Kind of sarcastically, it's turning young against old, black against white, Hispanics against white.
00:20:02.260 This is what they're trying to do is divide and conquer.
00:20:04.700 And Greta is now fully willing to embrace that what I call identity politic agenda. 1.00
00:20:11.760 Yeah, it's very weird for a daughter of privilege, a white millionaire from Sweden to be calling others racist or privileged.
00:20:21.240 Very, very, very strange.
00:20:22.940 Mark, we're glad you're on this file.
00:20:24.380 Well, and I look forward to you connecting with Kian and Sheila in Madrid.
00:20:29.000 I think you guys, you on the information side, on the content side, and of course, Sheila and Kian are going to report the heck out of everything.
00:20:36.640 And you'll be their guide a bit as you have in the past.
00:20:39.220 I thank you for that.
00:20:40.120 Look forward to seeing your reports from over there.
00:20:42.220 Thank you.
00:20:42.640 Looking forward to seeing your team there.
00:20:43.960 Thanks.
00:20:44.200 All right.
00:20:44.460 That's great.
00:20:44.940 There you have it.
00:20:45.420 Mark Morano, he's the boss of ClimateDepot.com, and I regard him as the foremost expert on global warming politics.
00:20:53.960 Stay with us.
00:20:54.540 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:21:04.360 Well, that's the Ezra Levent show for tonight.
00:21:06.840 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:21:08.280 Have an awesome weekend.
00:21:10.300 The boss will be back on Monday.
00:21:12.260 And as Ezra likes to say, keep fighting for freedom.
00:21:16.300 Good night.