Rebel News Podcast - January 16, 2020


Rebel heads north to cover the illegal Coastal GasLink pipeline blockade


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Rebel reporter Kian Bextie goes to Smithers, B.C. to cover a protest by a fake First Nation blocking a proposed pipeline, and is confronted by a man with a Taser and a cane.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Very special show for you today. I was going to do it about a whole bunch of things, but
00:00:04.680 then I had an interview with our reporter Kian Bextie from Smithers, B.C.
00:00:09.980 That's up there at an illegal aboriginal protest, but it's not actually an aboriginal protest.
00:00:15.720 It's a fake First Nation that's trying to stop a gas pipeline that's supported by all the First Nations in the regions.
00:00:23.480 Well, enough from me. Here's Kian, and I'll let him tell you about what he saw and heard.
00:00:28.320 But before I do, let me just invite you to become a premium subscriber.
00:00:32.520 You've got to see the video that accompanies the show.
00:00:35.200 And, of course, this podcast is just the audio of my video show.
00:00:38.960 You can get the video by being a premium member.
00:00:41.540 Go to premium.rebelnews.com, and it's $8 a month.
00:00:46.320 You get my show, Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies' show.
00:00:49.640 And it's a way of supporting us, including getting us up to places like Smithers.
00:00:53.720 Okay, here's the podcast.
00:00:58.320 Tonight, Rebel News sends a reporter up north in B.C. to an illegal aboriginal blockade.
00:01:16.420 We'll show you what no one else will.
00:01:18.760 It's January 15th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:21.940 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:27.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:31.820 The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:37.700 Well, we do a lot of commentary here at The Rebel, but I think our great strength is that we go out into the world to do on-the-spot news reporting.
00:01:52.700 And one of the best is our friend, Kian Bexty.
00:01:56.000 He's all over the country, and indeed, even the world, as you might recall last year, we even sent him to Hong Kong to cover the democracy protests.
00:02:04.460 And we sent him, with Sheila Gunn-Reed, to Madrid, Spain, to cover the UN Global Warming Conference.
00:02:10.260 Well, we sent him on a special mission over Christmastime.
00:02:14.640 While you and I were enjoying some tie-off, Kian was working.
00:02:18.280 I'm not quite ready to give you the details on that yet.
00:02:21.060 It's a surprise, but I think you're going to love it.
00:02:23.100 But over the last two days, we've had Kian go to British Columbia. 1.00
00:02:28.380 He started in Burnaby, B.C., at the criminal trial of Jonathan, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, the transgender extremist,
00:02:38.880 who would go from aesthetician to aesthetician, demanding that women who do intimate waxings for other women wax his male gear.
00:02:49.920 Well, he's on trial in Burnaby for brandishing an illegal weapon, a taser.
00:02:55.340 Our Kian Bexty has been covering the story, and when he went there yesterday, he had a simple question for Yaniv.
00:03:01.160 Are you going to plead guilty?
00:03:02.660 It's not a very hard question.
00:03:04.380 You could say yes, you could say no, you could ignore the lad.
00:03:07.160 But at a trial about his criminality, well, Yaniv committed, in my view at least, what looks like another crime.
00:03:16.400 Take a look at this.
00:03:17.580 Yaniv, will you be pleading guilty?
00:03:19.640 What?
00:03:19.820 Go.
00:03:20.160 No, don't touch me.
00:03:21.040 Don't touch me.
00:03:21.940 Hey! 0.99
00:03:24.500 Stop! 1.00
00:03:26.300 Go away from me.
00:03:27.460 Go away.
00:03:28.080 Fucking hell.
00:03:28.700 Go away from me.
00:03:29.520 Jesus, get away from me.
00:03:30.760 Go away from me.
00:03:31.400 Crazy, fucking thing.
00:03:32.380 Get away from me.
00:03:34.140 Get away. 0.73
00:03:35.700 Get the fuck away from me. 0.98
00:03:37.640 Stay away from me.
00:03:38.620 Get away from me.
00:03:39.740 Now.
00:03:40.820 Right now.
00:03:42.640 You heard me?
00:03:43.420 I'm calling the police on you.
00:03:44.400 I don't give a shit.
00:03:45.340 Get away from me.
00:03:46.120 You stay away from me.
00:03:46.960 I'm back.
00:03:47.400 Isn't that incredible?
00:03:49.400 It brings back terrible memories of when our David Menzies was also out in Burnaby asking similar journalistic questions of Yaniv.
00:03:59.820 And Yaniv attacked him, this time with a weapon.
00:04:03.120 A cane.
00:04:04.500 Jonathan, why do you take, why do you send sexually expressive messages to young girls?
00:04:09.140 Go away.
00:04:09.820 You heard today.
00:04:10.720 Go away.
00:04:11.180 Huh?
00:04:11.440 My iPad.
00:04:12.180 Go away now.
00:04:13.300 Huh?
00:04:13.740 Go away.
00:04:14.460 Are you kidding me?
00:04:16.260 I'm a provoker?
00:04:17.640 Hey, hey.
00:04:18.180 Go away.
00:04:18.720 No, no.
00:04:18.980 Get away from him.
00:04:19.700 That's okay.
00:04:20.400 Please, I'm really hoping for the cops to come.
00:04:22.440 No, no, no.
00:04:23.000 Go away.
00:04:23.820 Go away.
00:04:24.340 It's one thing to attack David Menzies with a cane outside in a condo building,
00:04:29.160 but to attack our Kian Bextie outside a courthouse when you are on trial for having a prohibited weapon,
00:04:36.140 it tells me that Jonathan Yaniv will not stop until the law tells him to stop until he's convicted of these crimes.
00:04:45.620 I would guess that he would demand to be sent to a women's prison, 1.00
00:04:49.140 and I have no doubt that he would be allowed in a women's prison. 0.98
00:04:52.600 But after Kian had that excitement in Burnaby, and I'll talk to you in the days ahead about what will legally come from that.
00:05:00.120 I'm not quite ready to announce what we're doing for Kian yet in terms of the assault against him.
00:05:05.640 We sent Kian up to Smithers, B.C. 0.99
00:05:09.300 That's a bit of a journey.
00:05:10.420 Take a look at it on the map.
00:05:11.700 It's in the north of B.C., where the resources are forestry, oil and gas,
00:05:18.580 and a proposed $40 billion pipeline and LNG project that would take natural gas that's fracked in B.C.,
00:05:27.160 put it in a pipe, a $6 billion pipe,
00:05:30.680 send that to Kitimat where it would be put on liquefied natural gas tankers,
00:05:35.460 and shipped to customers, likely in Asia.
00:05:38.340 It's a great project economically, and for those people who are worried about environmental matters,
00:05:44.320 and I suppose we all are to a degree,
00:05:46.520 you know, natural gas, it doesn't spill, it doesn't dirty up a coastline if there's a tanker accident.
00:05:54.120 In fact, there's never been a significant accident.
00:05:58.060 There's never been a breach of one of those LNG tankers ever,
00:06:00.680 and if there was, well, the gas would just go into the air.
00:06:03.080 There's really nothing to argue against this pipeline for if you're arguing in good faith,
00:06:09.600 and so it is, as you know, that all 20 out of 20 Indian bands along the route of this pipeline have signed on to it.
00:06:19.600 Not just their approval, but they want to be a part of it,
00:06:23.200 mainly the construction project, which will have hundreds of jobs for these Aboriginal communities,
00:06:28.940 as well as other benefit agreements, cultural agreements, other spending on these bands.
00:06:37.180 They all wanted, especially the entrepreneurial Indian members of these bands, 0.51
00:06:43.520 who are welders, who would clear the bush, or survey,
00:06:46.720 or even just provide catering and lodgings for the rest of them.
00:06:50.220 Well, as you know, over Christmas, a B.C. court issued a restraining order
00:06:56.600 telling the few ragamuffins that were blocking this pipeline to get out, 0.97
00:07:01.360 and importantly, ordering the RCMP to remove them.
00:07:05.780 It's one thing to tell the lawbreakers to get out,
00:07:08.200 but to order the police to enforce the order, that's quite something.
00:07:12.200 Well, unfortunately, and not surprisingly, the police just have not been enforcing the court order.
00:07:21.140 Well, that sounds like a case for Keehan.
00:07:22.980 So when he was done his interactions in Burnaby,
00:07:26.660 we put him on a plane up to Smithers,
00:07:29.280 where he met up with a special security guard that we retained just for the purpose.
00:07:34.540 Not some ordinary mall cop, let me tell you.
00:07:37.300 In fact, I can disclose to you that the cost of the security was higher than even sending Keehan up to Smithers itself.
00:07:45.760 But I'm glad we did.
00:07:47.560 Earlier today, I talked to Keehan via Skype from his hotel room in Smithers.
00:07:52.800 It's so cold up there, the airplane that was going to fly out literally could not take off.
00:07:56.900 So he was stranded there a little bit longer than he wanted to be.
00:08:00.500 But I sat down with him and had this conversation that I thought was so interesting,
00:08:04.360 I was going to turn it into my whole show today.
00:08:08.560 Let me encourage you to stick around for the whole 25-minute interview.
00:08:12.700 And if you think that this is important journalism, and I do,
00:08:17.500 if you agree with me that it is, please consider chipping in.
00:08:21.780 Between the cost of the bodyguard, Keehan's Flight Hotel, and other costs,
00:08:25.920 it costs us close to $3,000 to get the lad up to Smithers.
00:08:30.160 Watch this interview.
00:08:31.220 And if you think it was important, go to fakefirstnation.com.
00:08:36.780 That's what we're calling these fake protesters.
00:08:40.120 Anyways, here's my interview with Keehan.
00:08:54.560 Welcome back.
00:08:55.820 Well, we have a world traveler in The Rebel.
00:08:59.380 His name is Keehan Bextie.
00:09:00.540 He's been to places as far afield as Hong Kong and Madrid.
00:09:05.520 Today, he is in a town called Smithers, British Columbia, and it is cold there.
00:09:11.420 He joins us from the warmth of his hotel room.
00:09:13.800 It's too cold outside.
00:09:14.840 Keehan, how are you doing out there?
00:09:17.220 I'm very cold.
00:09:19.440 You know what?
00:09:20.260 The whole country is cold.
00:09:21.560 So you have our commiserations.
00:09:24.000 We like to film you out on the scene when you were in Hong Kong, when you were in Madrid,
00:09:29.780 and you were definitely out on the scene, up to your knees in snow in Smithers.
00:09:35.500 Here, let's play a clip of how some of that went down.
00:09:38.640 You're in a white pickup down by, closer down by the highway.
00:09:42.520 What were that, I don't know whether they're doing a log sort yard there on the side of the road or whatever.
00:09:47.620 Yeah, what I would suggest is you guys just go and then maybe come back later.
00:09:57.000 Okay, it's quarter after 12 now, but you know what?
00:10:12.040 Could I just pop out and grab some footage?
00:10:14.720 No footage.
00:10:16.340 Yeah, just talk to the hereditaries down there before you come up with me.
00:10:21.140 Have a close look.
00:10:22.860 The hereditaries, there was no hereditaries.
00:10:27.360 Would they meet us up there?
00:10:29.080 You'll be able to get a point of it.
00:10:31.100 Part of your attention is where you're going to come and speak to them.
00:10:34.980 Okay, so are they going to be down at 27?
00:10:39.780 Like I said, we just came through there.
00:10:41.180 There's nobody there but three RCMP cars.
00:10:43.600 Do some investigating and I'm sure you'll come across them.
00:10:47.960 Oh, okay.
00:10:48.480 Yeah.
00:10:49.120 Okay.
00:10:49.780 All right.
00:10:50.760 Okay, all right.
00:10:51.580 Could I ask one question before we go?
00:10:54.820 You guys are using tires and gasoline.
00:10:58.180 Is that hypocritical at all given that you want to stop a pipeline?
00:11:01.060 No, we're going, we're directing you to the hereditary chiefs now so you can go.
00:11:07.800 All right.
00:11:08.880 All right, well.
00:11:09.400 All right, thanks for your time.
00:11:14.220 Just wait here.
00:11:15.540 Okay.
00:11:21.580 Well, that wasn't very friendly.
00:11:30.500 Keen, you can be a pretty friendly guy, but they weren't having any of it.
00:11:34.000 I've been to Smithers and Terrace and other good places like that.
00:11:37.340 I think they're pretty welcoming.
00:11:39.120 I have a theory, Keen, that you weren't dealing with real folks from Smithers.
00:11:46.900 I happen to know that the pipeline they're protesting, the Coastal Gas Link, it's a $6 billion
00:11:53.680 natural gas pipeline, part of a $40 billion LNG fracking.
00:11:58.820 I mean, it's the biggest project in Canada.
00:12:01.980 I happen to know that all 20 out of 20 Indian bands along the root of the pipe, not just
00:12:08.840 want it, but have signed contracts to work on it, have filed affidavits in court to kick
00:12:14.120 out those ragamuffins blocking it. 1.00
00:12:16.760 So I know that those protesters don't speak for folks in the region.
00:12:23.460 Tell me what else you saw and what you learned when you were up there, because not a lot of
00:12:26.740 real journalists have gone there.
00:12:28.820 Yeah, so we were the second journalist on the scene.
00:12:32.140 The RCMP just started, just created this process to allow journalists through.
00:12:38.200 They, we approached the RCMP block checkpoint, which was at kilometer 27 of the road.
00:12:46.160 And once we met with them, we showed them our journalism badges that we have at the Rebel,
00:12:50.900 and we showed them our ID, and we showed them what our purpose was going there.
00:12:54.920 Then they called that up to what they call their silver command.
00:12:57.320 And then their silver command decided whether or not we would be allowed through.
00:13:00.140 And they graciously allowed us to go through and speak one-on-one with these protesters.
00:13:06.960 And again, you know, we were the second in the entire country to be allowed past this RCMP
00:13:11.600 checkpoint, which I thought was pretty cool.
00:13:13.280 Once we got to the checkpoint, though, we were a little bit disappointed.
00:13:15.560 And my security detail was very antsy.
00:13:20.560 He didn't want me to get out of the car.
00:13:22.180 And right when things looked like they were heading south, he kind of hightailed it out
00:13:25.780 of there.
00:13:25.960 He was driving the truck.
00:13:26.780 So I was at his beck and call.
00:13:28.700 At his whims, I would have rather to stay.
00:13:32.860 Maybe he wasn't having any of it.
00:13:36.140 What I did find, though, and what was really interesting, is that these protesters are using
00:13:40.740 two deadly tools to dissuade people from coming forward.
00:13:47.480 And it's something called a widow maker and something called a tire bomb.
00:13:51.240 A tire bomb is pretty self-explanatory.
00:13:52.680 It's tire filled with gasoline soaked rags to be lit on fire when they need it.
00:13:58.140 And the widow makers are trees that are sawn halfway through that can be tipped over with
00:14:03.580 just a gust of wind at an unsuspecting police officer who is patrolling the area or even
00:14:08.740 a journalist or a car.
00:14:10.800 Who knows?
00:14:12.000 They're they're hidden.
00:14:13.220 And it's a tactic that they're using to scare and intimidate police.
00:14:17.280 And it is possibly lethal.
00:14:19.200 My security detail, he was ex-RCMP, ex-military, and he knows these widow makers well. 1.00
00:14:24.340 And he was very scared of them driving very slowly through the bush, peering at tree bottoms
00:14:28.560 to make sure that one wasn't going to fall on us as we approached the encampment.
00:14:32.560 What was very interesting on top of all of that was when we reached the encampment and
00:14:37.340 spoke to them, it wasn't really who I thought it would be.
00:14:41.280 There was two white guys.
00:14:42.480 One white guy was taking a picture of the vehicle from 360 degrees with a really, really
00:14:49.700 nice camera.
00:14:51.000 And then he hightailed it back to the hut, where I imagine they uploaded those facial
00:14:55.780 images to wherever their hidden headquarters are.
00:14:59.200 And another white guy was acting sort of as security to the one indigenous spokesperson
00:15:04.660 who was there.
00:15:05.700 And once that indigenous spokesperson sort of whispered in his ear, they determined they
00:15:09.940 weren't going to speak to us.
00:15:10.900 I was pretending to be an independent journalist who was going to sell this story.
00:15:14.780 I was going to auction it off because I knew that they wouldn't talk to me as a rebel
00:15:17.900 news journalist.
00:15:19.720 I knew that since I exposed the Wet Sweat and First Nation society as a fake First Nation, 0.99
00:15:25.820 they would know who I was.
00:15:27.020 And since there was no internet connection out there to verify, I figured it would be more
00:15:31.880 beneficial to act independent.
00:15:34.760 Anyways, they didn't want to talk to me.
00:15:36.020 And it was run by this white guy.
00:15:38.180 It seemed like he was running the show and I didn't understand it.
00:15:40.900 This white guy was actually from Kenora, Ontario, from what we understand.
00:15:45.020 We're going to dig more into him.
00:15:46.740 And your hypothesis, Ezra, was right.
00:15:49.540 The people running the show there aren't actually the Indian tribal bands that are there.
00:15:55.900 It's people from across Canada that are orchestrating this very small blockade that is blockading
00:16:03.420 a lifeline to the rest of the country.
00:16:05.380 A huge project that if it doesn't go through, which it will, the court has ordered it to
00:16:11.600 go through, it's just a matter of time.
00:16:13.800 If it doesn't go through, Alberta would be really left out in the cold, no pun intended. 0.96
00:16:19.060 I think most of that gas is BC gas, because of course, northern BC, there's a lot of fracking,
00:16:23.560 a lot of natural gas.
00:16:25.820 But it would be a symbol that you can't, if you can't even make a gas pipeline, and the
00:16:31.680 thing is natural gas, it doesn't spill.
00:16:34.000 You know, you don't have a natural gas spill.
00:16:36.200 So they can't have any of those objections.
00:16:39.200 Natural gas is a low carbon fuel compared to its competitors, coal or oil.
00:16:44.580 So there's no legitimate objection to natural gas, other than these people just want to
00:16:49.520 stop industry, probably at the behest of Canada's competitors overseas.
00:16:55.520 I mean, if they have operatives based, white operatives based in other provinces that are
00:17:01.260 running these aboriginal actors, who knows who's pulling the strings behind them? 1.00
00:17:05.540 Now, you said something, and I just want to emphasize this for our viewers.
00:17:10.300 We knew, we know this is dangerous.
00:17:12.140 We knew it was dangerous, and so we hired a very senior, not like a mall cop, but as
00:17:18.500 you say, former RCMP, former military, a guy who knows his way around.
00:17:23.580 And when you say he was antsy about things, I mean, my journalistic curiosity says, oh,
00:17:29.600 shoot, I wish he didn't pull you out of there.
00:17:31.920 I wish we went a little deeper to get more footage.
00:17:34.960 That's easy to say when you didn't have the violence against you.
00:17:39.140 His instincts to leave, although you may have objected to them, could possibly have saved,
00:17:46.360 maybe not your life, but your limb, especially if they're boastfully deploying harmful and
00:17:52.460 malicious traps.
00:17:53.860 I think that's illegal in itself, by the way.
00:17:57.320 If they're bragging about widow makers and tire bombs or whatever they're called, I don't
00:18:04.420 know the criminal code inside out, but that's surely got to be a crime on top of their other
00:18:08.960 trespassing offenses and their violations of the court orders against them.
00:18:14.300 I think you were in a very dangerous place there, and I'm glad we had security for you.
00:18:20.480 And by the way, I want to invite our viewers to help chip in to cover the security.
00:18:24.700 I'm not going to, well, I will say, okay, I'll say how much does security cost.
00:18:27.880 For security to come to Smithers and drive you in and take care of your safety for the day
00:18:33.600 was $1,500.
00:18:36.420 And I'm not ashamed to say that we spent that much because, God forbid, we didn't.
00:18:42.100 Something bad would have happened.
00:18:43.000 If people want to chip in, they could go to fakefirstnations.com because that's what we
00:18:47.960 believe these people are, fakefirstnations.com.
00:18:50.740 Let me ask you, Kian, why aren't police moving in to take these bad guys out? 0.54
00:18:57.880 Well, they're trying to juggle a lot, Ezra, and these officers, I have the highest respect
00:19:06.000 for these RCMP officers out here in the minus 40 weather, sitting in a place with very little
00:19:11.220 cell reception, if any at all.
00:19:14.300 And what was interesting, when I left the area, when I left the exclusion zone, they called
00:19:19.460 it, they didn't have any questions outside of, are you able to advise us if anyone needed
00:19:25.780 medical attention?
00:19:27.880 And we told them, not to our knowledge, everyone seems to be in good health.
00:19:31.640 And they said, okay, thank you.
00:19:33.040 And then we signed out and then we drove away.
00:19:35.180 Their number one priority is making sure everyone is safe, not just their own officers, but also
00:19:39.880 the blockaders, the people acting illegally against a court injunction.
00:19:44.500 Even when they are putting dozens of lives at risk out there, the RCMP are still concerned
00:19:53.220 about their safety.
00:19:54.060 So I was surprised that the RCMP were so gracious about it all.
00:20:03.320 And I certainly learned a lot.
00:20:05.260 Well, listen, I'm glad to hear you speak so well of not only our own security guy who
00:20:10.560 was ex-RCMP, but the RCMP you encountered at the checkpoint.
00:20:14.780 That's great.
00:20:15.720 It's better that we get along with police than what's happened to David Menzies lately, where
00:20:21.480 Toronto police and York Region police physically rough them up.
00:20:24.580 So your friendliness is the better of the two alternatives.
00:20:29.340 But I am still curious because a court in British Columbia has ordered those protesters out of the
00:20:39.280 way and also ordered the police to affect the first order.
00:20:44.600 So it's not just that they're ordering private citizens, they're ordering the cops to do it.
00:20:49.820 And I find this a diminution of the rule of law.
00:20:56.200 And if those weren't, and as you point out, they're not even representative of the local
00:21:02.540 Indian bands.
00:21:03.260 In some cases, they're white activists from out of province.
00:21:05.740 If this were some, I'm just going to make something up, some Ku Klux Klan alt-right putting
00:21:11.260 up crosses and burning them thing with tire bombs and widow makers, I can assure you the
00:21:18.060 RCMP tactical division would be going in there and extracting them through force.
00:21:23.900 I find it troubling that despite a court order and the breach of the criminal code and the
00:21:30.720 civil law, the RCMP are still letting them just do what they want against the law, blocking
00:21:36.440 the $6 billion pipeline.
00:21:38.360 Yeah.
00:21:38.520 So I'll answer your question, what I'm trying to get at is the people on the ground, the
00:21:43.600 RCMP officers on the ground, I hold them in high regard because they're risking their own
00:21:49.480 safety to protect these people.
00:21:51.760 What I understand is that it's all being controlled from Silver Command, if not higher.
00:21:58.720 These RCMP officers, maybe they would like to just go in and sort this out right away,
00:22:04.020 get the arrests out of the way.
00:22:06.540 But I think the higher levels of the RCMP are concerned about optics.
00:22:11.740 At the end of the day, these are people who have branded themselves very well.
00:22:15.780 They have the sympathy of the United Nations.
00:22:17.960 They have the sympathy in the ear of Amnesty International.
00:22:20.860 Amnesty International was actually tweeting about this just yesterday.
00:22:23.220 When the world is watching these people and they've created this facade of who they really
00:22:30.680 are and what merits and rights they have to this land, completely fictitiously, of course,
00:22:36.760 that's an international eye that is being put on these low-level RCMP officers who are being
00:22:44.360 controlled by people three levels above their pay grade.
00:22:49.240 So just like you, I'm sure, I think that they should just go in and sort this out.
00:22:55.680 I think it would be relatively easy, no casualties whatsoever.
00:22:59.040 But it's being controlled by people above their pay grade.
00:23:01.740 And I don't know why the RCMP, the upper levels of the RCMP, are so cowardly about this
00:23:07.020 and why they won't just get this sorted out.
00:23:08.940 Because you're right, there is a double standard.
00:23:11.340 If this was anyone other than people who have really branded themselves very well as
00:23:16.400 indigenous, honest-to-God actors, they would be storming the gates and making those arrests.
00:23:23.120 Yeah.
00:23:23.220 Well, there's a lot of questions about the political stripe of the RCMP.
00:23:26.960 Justin Trudeau appointed the new RCMP commissioner.
00:23:29.540 And I don't know if you saw this image at Canada Day.
00:23:32.940 So Trudeau was under investigation, allegedly, for corrupting the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.
00:23:38.780 And Trudeau literally goes up to the head of the RCMP and gives her a big chest-to-chest hug.
00:23:45.200 It's so bizarre, it's Trudeau's creepy hensiness.
00:23:48.440 But, I mean, I think that the RCMP is losing its iconic standard of being fair.
00:23:55.560 I mean, it was the RCMP's conduct in the Yukon and other places that earned it its reputation
00:24:01.860 for fairness.
00:24:03.240 Let me ask you about one more thing.
00:24:04.840 You said that other media, one other media outlet was there.
00:24:08.820 I've been reading a lot of media about this, these fake First Nations, as you so aptly call them. 0.99
00:24:17.360 And most of the stories either omit the fact that the actual local Indian bands love this pipeline,
00:24:23.940 they're going to work on this pipeline, they want this pipeline.
00:24:25.760 They either ignore that, or I read a CBC story just today that buried that in the 22nd paragraph
00:24:34.880 down in the story.
00:24:36.120 Like you had to read this whole massive story before they said, oh, by the way, all the actual
00:24:43.260 Indians here support this pipeline, just these ragamuffins don't. 1.00
00:24:47.120 How did you interact at all with the other media that was there?
00:24:51.220 And by the way, who was it?
00:24:52.140 It was global news, someone who's been on the ground and has the ear of the protesters.
00:25:00.120 She was very nice to myself and my security.
00:25:03.100 We had a chat on the side of the road after we left the exclusion zone.
00:25:07.260 We just sort of talked about what was going on, how the RCMP are inevitably going to have
00:25:12.540 to go in eventually.
00:25:13.300 This is sort of an inevitable thing.
00:25:16.860 But Sarah McDonald, I believe is her name.
00:25:21.060 She's much closer to the...
00:25:25.620 She's in the better graces of the blockaders, I'll put it that way.
00:25:29.520 She was able to talk to them and actually stay there and speak with them long term rather
00:25:33.820 than me just being able to ask a few questions through a truck window.
00:25:38.820 So once everyone sees the video, they'll see I wasn't even allowed to leave my truck.
00:25:44.240 I asked if I could step out and grab some footage.
00:25:46.620 And although I'm sure it was within my rights to do so, it is crown land held and right for 0.81
00:25:52.900 Queen Elizabeth II.
00:25:54.620 It's not their land.
00:25:56.720 It's not even reserve land.
00:25:59.720 They wouldn't let me.
00:26:00.660 They said, no, you must stay in your car.
00:26:02.400 And we had no idea if they had any weaponry on them.
00:26:04.900 So we listened to them.
00:26:07.620 But Sarah McDonald, the global news reporter, you know, she has much, much closer footage,
00:26:12.000 footage of them putting, setting up these nice bonfires to stay warm and toasty.
00:26:16.760 It's very, very nice footage.
00:26:19.560 So it was nice, at least, that us being the second journalist in the entire country to be
00:26:25.420 able to be there, we were able to provide in this coverage the other side of the story
00:26:30.460 already.
00:26:30.900 Sarah is a nice, nice enough, but global news isn't sharing the side of the story that
00:26:37.380 we are, that the 20 out of 21st nation bans, legal bans have actually signed off on that.
00:26:43.500 We have all of their contracts.
00:26:44.940 I've read through them all.
00:26:46.240 And they're all enthusiastically supporting this because the jobs and the money that are
00:26:51.640 coming their way, they know that they need to, they need to, well, they want to accept
00:26:58.480 these jobs and this cash so that they can have sustainable communities when times are tough.
00:27:04.160 And the chiefs of the Wet's Wet and First Nation, the real chiefs, the elected chiefs, and all
00:27:08.980 the other First Nations have been very vocal in their support of this.
00:27:12.080 So I'm honored to be able to share their side of the story.
00:27:14.880 Well, I remark on the fact that Rebel News is the only media outlet that I'm aware of that
00:27:23.800 is banned from attending the United Nations Global Warming Conferences.
00:27:27.160 Now that doesn't stop us.
00:27:28.540 We just have to be a little bit more clever how we get in.
00:27:32.020 It's an irritant to me.
00:27:34.860 We overcome it.
00:27:35.820 It's a challenge we overcome.
00:27:37.460 But it's also a feather in our cap as independent journalists.
00:27:43.120 Someone once said journalism is uncovering something that someone doesn't want you to say.
00:27:48.600 Otherwise, it's PR, right?
00:27:50.280 So the fact that the UN keeps us under their conferences is proof that we're reporting something
00:27:55.480 that they want hidden.
00:27:57.580 I would apply the same thing here.
00:27:59.200 If Sarah McDonald, and I'm sure she's a very nice lady, if she is permitted by these unlawful
00:28:08.460 thugs who are making weapons and threatening you to the point that your senior ex-RCMP security
00:28:14.960 is worried, if Sarah McDonald is allowed to walk about, and I, by the way, I take it she
00:28:21.960 didn't have a big burly security guard with her, or did she? 1.00
00:28:25.460 She had a cameraman.
00:28:26.580 A cameraman.
00:28:27.020 Okay, so she didn't have a security guard.
00:28:29.200 So the fact that Global News can send a woman who would physically be quite vulnerable
00:28:36.480 to a physical attack, Global News knows they can send a woman to a violent area and she'll 0.96
00:28:43.920 be fine.
00:28:45.620 She'll be given a tour by the local thugs precisely for the reason that you were not. 0.85
00:28:53.080 Because, as you outlined, because you're critical of them, they imply or threaten violence.
00:29:00.880 That's why you have to stay in the vehicle.
00:29:02.620 That is extortion.
00:29:04.640 That is a form of assault.
00:29:07.200 Assault is when you feel an imminent risk of force being applied against you.
00:29:10.500 And that in itself shows you can't trust the word Global says, because even if Sarah McDonald
00:29:16.340 is not lying, she's not telling the full truth because she can't.
00:29:21.820 If she were to say some of the things that you said, she wouldn't be allowed out anymore.
00:29:26.160 She'd be beaten up.
00:29:29.780 Yeah.
00:29:30.000 I'm very upset with this story.
00:29:33.000 How do you think it's going to end?
00:29:36.080 I mean, it is inevitable.
00:29:38.000 The rule of law, I don't think yet, is completely broken in Canada.
00:29:42.120 I think that the RCMP will move in when it's, once they've done all of their recon work and
00:29:47.220 they've figured out exactly where these widowmakers are and they've ensured the highest level of 1.00
00:29:51.340 safety can be attained.
00:29:52.320 And I mean, this is, maybe it's too pie in the sky.
00:29:56.580 I think that that's how it will work.
00:29:58.060 And I think there will be no casualties at all when it happens.
00:30:01.700 You know what, Kean, I'm a little bit older than you, so I'm not just talking about Oka, 0.93
00:30:05.540 but I know all the ranches in BC, those huge ranches where they had armed standoffs.
00:30:12.260 And those were by actual Indians with firearms. 0.54
00:30:16.340 These, and if the police wouldn't step in there in many of those cases, I don't know.
00:30:26.780 I think the police, especially in BC, especially when you blend aboriginal issues and eco-issues,
00:30:33.000 I think you're right.
00:30:33.800 I think it's higher than the silver command.
00:30:35.740 I think it goes right up to Ottawa.
00:30:37.580 I think it goes right up to Brenda Luckey.
00:30:39.880 I think it goes right up to Justin Trudeau and right up to the premier of BC.
00:30:43.480 I think they are the ones who are saying, don't evict.
00:30:48.660 In fact, if the courts and the regulators permit the pipelines,
00:30:54.640 and you're Justin Trudeau and you hate pipelines, and you're John Horgan and you hate pipelines,
00:30:58.860 what better way to stop it than let these thugs threaten you?
00:31:02.880 And you say, oh, well, we can't do anything because we'd risk a riot.
00:31:07.100 I think that these are political decisions, and I fear that you will not see this pipeline done.
00:31:15.940 You will not see Trans Mountain done.
00:31:17.820 They're giving in to, I'll call them eco-terrorists.
00:31:20.740 You can't build something called the Widowmaker designed to hurt people and not call yourself a terrorist.
00:31:25.980 Last word to you, Kian. 1.00
00:31:26.860 I think you're right, and I'll add one thing to this.
00:31:30.180 I think that people will see the video when it comes out if it's not out already by the time this airs,
00:31:37.440 but I wouldn't call these people the most prepared people in the bush.
00:31:41.080 We drove right by them.
00:31:42.280 We drove right up to the blockade, and we saw them panic when we appeared.
00:31:46.280 They were completely unprepared for even a journalist to show up.
00:31:49.240 They were freaking out when we showed up running, trying to gather their things to come towards our vehicle as we approached the blockade
00:31:57.160 because we didn't even realize that the encampment that they set up was indeed the blockade.
00:32:03.460 So I don't think these people are the most prepared in the bush.
00:32:06.760 I don't think they're the brightest in the bush.
00:32:08.900 But your assessment of them being eco-terrorists, I didn't call them that in my video yesterday
00:32:13.760 because I know I didn't want to overstep my bounds.
00:32:16.900 But you're right, when people are putting widow-makers up, they're called widow-makers for a reason, 1.00
00:32:22.300 to intimidate and threaten and perhaps even kill a member of the RCMP or even a journalist like myself
00:32:29.600 to further their political cause.
00:32:32.660 If that's not eco-terrorism, I don't know what is.
00:32:36.520 So I appreciate everyone tuning in to this and our video,
00:32:39.380 and I'll urge them to go to fakefirstnation, singular, fakefirstnation.com,
00:32:44.440 and pitch in a few bucks to help my security because, frankly, it's not just the security, the $1,500 security.
00:32:52.500 It's a flight out here. It's the hotel that I'm sitting in right now.
00:32:55.100 A lot of work goes into getting these videos out, and I think they're worthwhile, and hopefully people agree.
00:33:00.400 Yeah, well, I certainly think it's money well spent.
00:33:02.960 And because this is one of the stories that you can't report unless you're there, unless you're there.
00:33:09.260 And the fact that you were only one of two journalists to get there, I'm very proud that Rebel sent you there.
00:33:16.140 We spent $1,500 on your security, and I'm glad we did.
00:33:19.840 And I'm glad he pulled you out when he did because I would not want to, you know, I mean, I would not want the alternative.
00:33:26.800 We flew you out there, the hotels.
00:33:28.920 I think altogether the total cost of your trip to BC is probably going to be close to $3,000 once everything's added up.
00:33:37.320 And we do need the help.
00:33:39.120 That's a lot of money to spend for a couple of videos.
00:33:41.820 As people know, YouTube does not monetize most of our videos.
00:33:44.940 We might make $50 in YouTube ads.
00:33:47.320 So folks can chip in at fakefirstnation.com.
00:33:49.740 I'd be grateful.
00:33:50.880 Kian, I'm glad you're okay.
00:33:51.980 Great reporting.
00:33:53.180 If you can do some streeters, which is talking to regular folks on the street.
00:33:57.300 I know it's cold out there.
00:33:58.360 I'd like to get what they think of these ragamuffins up there. 1.00
00:34:01.380 I bet they don't like it.
00:34:02.740 I bet they don't like these out-of-town troublemakers coming in to mess things up.
00:34:06.900 I bet they don't like all the delays in their work.
00:34:11.360 My guess is you're right, and I'll certainly try to do that.
00:34:14.680 My flight was canceled, actually, Ezra.
00:34:16.120 It was so cold out here, the plane couldn't leave the tarmac.
00:34:19.580 So hopefully it warms up by the evening or the afternoon, and I can get out of here.
00:34:23.900 But in the meantime, that's absolutely what I will do.
00:34:27.320 Maybe I can find a bar where I can speak to people.
00:34:29.080 A bar.
00:34:29.440 That's right.
00:34:29.800 You can stay warm.
00:34:30.620 You can have a shot of brandy or something, and then you can go around and interview people.
00:34:34.520 Isn't that crazy that the plane was there, but it was just too cold to take off?
00:34:38.520 I believe it.
00:34:39.540 Well, and I'm glad those protesters are enjoying a little bit of the northern B.C. winter.
00:34:45.940 Thanks, Kian.
00:34:46.420 I really enjoyed this talk.
00:34:47.420 It went longer than I thought.
00:34:48.860 But I really think this is important journalism, that if we weren't doing it, no one else would.
00:34:57.220 So keep it up out there.
00:34:59.000 Thanks, Ezra.
00:34:59.440 All right, there you have it, Kian Bexty, our roving reporter, joining us from Smithers, B.C.
00:35:06.340 It's a bit of a journey to get to Smithers, and, of course, we had to get his security up there, too, and I'm so glad we did.
00:35:13.120 Wouldn't you agree with me on that?
00:35:15.020 Stay with us.
00:35:15.720 More ahead.
00:35:24.560 Well, that's our show for today.
00:35:26.100 What do you think?
00:35:26.720 I tell you, I only meant to talk to Kian for about five or ten minutes, but it was so interesting.
00:35:31.400 And I tell you, I'm here in our office, and I have to be because there's all sorts of things going on.
00:35:35.000 I've got a lot of obligations other than just doing my show.
00:35:37.420 But, oh, boy, do I wish I was out there in Smithers.
00:35:40.660 Do I wish I was there at that moment to be one of only two journalists up there.
00:35:45.600 And, of course, the global news journalist, I'm sure she's a very nice lady,
00:35:49.340 but the fact that she's going to meet these eco-terrorists without a bodyguard
00:35:52.400 tells me what you also know, which is they regard her as an ally.
00:35:56.820 They would never touch a hair on her head.
00:35:59.180 Whereas we need to hire serious security because, of course, they would rip us to pieces if they could.
00:36:05.440 If you believe in that project, go to fakefirstnation.com.
00:36:08.400 We think that's what's going on up there.
00:36:09.680 We think it's actually controlled by environmental groups and run by, frankly, white folks, not aboriginal folks.
00:36:16.020 All right, that's our show for today.
00:36:18.280 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:36:23.340 We'll see you next time.