Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Virtual citizenship ceremonies & anti-cop teachers

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00:00:55.460 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:07.640 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.

00:01:12.520 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:14.560 Now, get this. The process for Canadian citizenship is going online.

00:01:19.960 Of course, there shall be no abuse of this system, right?

00:01:23.720 But, Kian Bexty has all the disturbing details.

00:01:28.540 And remember when elementary school teachers would tell kids not to talk to strangers?

00:01:34.160 Well, the new narrative is this.

00:01:36.760 The cops are the bad guys.

00:01:39.300 Sheila Gunn-Reed will shed some light regarding an anti-cop policy

00:01:43.200 actually being embraced by the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association

00:01:48.760 at the behest of, you guessed it, Black Lives Matter.

00:01:54.200 And finally, letters.

00:01:55.400 We get your letters.

00:01:56.160 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:01:58.100 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to Kingston, Ontario last Saturday.

00:02:03.460 A mob wanted to tear down the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald.

00:02:08.260 They were totally incapable of doing so.

00:02:11.360 So, instead, they just assaulted me and my cameraman Mocha

00:02:15.120 for the odious crime of practicing journalism.

00:02:19.640 Oh, yeah.

00:02:21.060 Alas and alack, the tolerant left strikes again.

00:02:24.960 Those are your Rebels.

00:02:25.960 Now, let's round them up.

00:02:27.280 The Liberal government is planning to create Zoom Citizen, sponsored by Amazon.

00:02:37.640 Soon, you can become a Canadian in just a few simple steps.

00:02:41.340 First, take a multiple-choice test on Amazon.com from your Beijing studio apartment.

00:02:47.060 After that, your mass citizenship Zoom session will follow.

00:02:50.780 Observe the keynote address from a cycling roster of Liberal MPs.

00:02:54.800 And before you know it, your voter card will be in the mail within two weeks.

00:02:59.000 Dial 1-800-O-CANADA for more information.

00:03:04.660 Rebel News has obtained exclusive documents which outline the plan

00:03:08.740 that the Trudeau government has cooked up to implement virtual citizenship ceremonies.

00:03:14.260 The Justin Trudeau government is changing the way people become citizens.

00:03:17.840 They are streamlining and corrupting the process in a way that will benefit

00:03:21.720 the long list of people looking to abuse and take advantage of Canada and its people.

00:03:26.600 That list, of course, includes the members of the Liberal government.

00:03:31.080 If you've been following along with my coverage of citizenship ceremonies over the past little while,

00:03:36.220 you would have heard that the Department of Immigration handed the story out the back door

00:03:41.540 to the Department of Media, the CBC.

00:03:43.900 The state broadcaster then outlined how amazing this new program was,

00:03:48.640 this virtual citizenship ceremony program.

00:03:51.700 So many families were happy now.

00:03:53.600 Don't you understand?

00:03:54.460 The process was so quick and it was easy.

00:03:56.400 It was just great.

00:03:57.760 It's so much better this way, dear citizen.

00:04:00.440 Well, even though we had the story here at Rebel News leaked to us

00:04:03.920 from a concerned bureaucrat literally a month before the government was ready to leak it to the CBC,

00:04:09.780 Rebel News has obtained physical documents, even more, from the Department of Immigration

00:04:15.000 showing that they plan on making this change permanent.

00:04:18.860 Even after COVID is long gone, after the crisis has subsided,

00:04:23.160 they say that they will make this process, this virtual citizenship ceremony, the, quote, new normal.

00:04:29.860 And, well, there you have it, folks.

00:04:32.120 Fast food drive-thru citizenship brought to you by the Trudeau Liberals and Amazon.com.

00:04:38.680 And even after the Wuhan virus is gone, this process will hang around as part of the so-called new normal. 0.95

00:04:47.960 How sad to see Canadian citizenship so utterly devalued by the Justin Trudeau Brain Trust.

00:04:55.800 And with more on this shocking story is none other than Kian Bextie.

00:05:00.200 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:05:02.800 Thanks for having me, David.

00:05:03.880 Always a pleasure.

00:05:04.620 So, Kian, as you mentioned, there will naturally be abuses of an online citizenship process.

00:05:12.460 But I would argue that the Trudeau Liberals actually want the system to be abused.

00:05:19.360 This is all about getting as many immigrants into Canada as possible. 1.00

00:05:23.020 And the quid pro quo is simply an unspoken agreement here that every four years,

00:05:30.040 these new arrivals dutifully vote Liberal.

00:05:33.220 Your thoughts?

00:05:34.700 To use a popular term, the abuse would be systemic.

00:05:38.600 They have specifically designed this process and other processes to work together to ensure

00:05:48.640 Justin Trudeau will govern for the rest of the, for a generation.

00:05:54.620 For as long as he wants to be Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau will be Prime Minister.

00:05:59.040 And it is a complement of two things.

00:06:01.380 The fact that Canadians can vote from anywhere they want, no matter how long they've been out of the country.

00:06:07.340 And now, with this added citizenship program, where these 42,000 Canadians that are currently

00:06:14.040 backlogged in the process, and however many more millions he will bring in over the course

00:06:19.120 of the next few years, they will be able to become citizens while they're abroad.

00:06:25.140 They'll be able to lie about who they are specifically, because there's no way to confirm who they are

00:06:31.720 without being there in person, no matter what the government says they're doing, the process

00:06:36.980 will be abused.

00:06:37.760 And they've designed it so that it can be abused.

00:06:40.280 And it's almost like they, you would think that they were encouraging it.

00:06:45.080 There's just, it's just unbelievable how far we've come from Canadians being outraged five

00:06:51.460 years ago, that a new Canadian immigrant candidate was wearing a burqa while taking the citizenship test

00:07:01.120 or a niqab, while undergoing a citizenship ceremony. 0.56

00:07:05.760 And now they're just fine, I guess, with them doing it behind a computer screen

00:07:11.500 where you can't even tell where they are in the world.

00:07:14.540 They could be in their Beijing studio apartment, for God's sakes.

00:07:17.440 And I'm sure that's what Justin Trudeau wants.

00:07:19.960 You know, you raise a great point about the woman in Mississauga back when Thomas Mulcair

00:07:25.500 was leading the NDP, taking the citizenship vow with the face covering.

00:07:30.900 And he, as a matter of principle, but not as a matter of political smartness, shall we say,

00:07:37.140 went to bat for her.

00:07:38.900 And the NDP cratered in Quebec about, precisely because of that.

00:07:44.900 In fact, if you look at the number, I think it was like a 14% shift, which is what got

00:07:50.020 Trudeau in as the governing party.

00:07:53.320 So a hell of a hill to die on.

00:07:55.100 And you didn't, and that might have been Justin Trudeau's smartest political strategy ever.

00:08:01.320 He never gave a firm commitment either way on that.

00:08:05.180 But like I said, a story for another day.

00:08:07.400 The thing is, you know, I think a lot of people might accuse us of overstating the importance

00:08:17.240 of this.

00:08:17.840 But, Kian, I really believe, you know, much like the Democrats in the United States who 0.98

00:08:23.520 are against the idea of a wall to protect American sovereignty, this is all about the

00:08:30.260 end goal of actually changing the demographics of our country.

00:08:34.840 Oh, yes.

00:08:35.420 And I know it sounds kind of like a conspiracy or a fanciful master plan.

00:08:42.240 But I really think this is how the left is thinking in terms of trying to get reelected

00:08:49.420 and shutting out the right forever.

00:08:52.900 Yeah.

00:08:54.160 I mean, you're absolutely right.

00:08:56.400 This is modern colonization at work.

00:08:59.420 This is what the leftists hated about the 18th, 19th century is happening right now.

00:09:07.700 And the orchestrator, the one building an empire right now, is not Queen Victoria.

00:09:12.780 It is Xi Jinping.

00:09:14.440 It is the Chinese that are colonizing Canada. 1.00

00:09:17.980 And to be fair, it's not just the Chinese.

00:09:21.180 It is a broad swath of folks coming to Canada to change the demographics. 1.00

00:09:28.240 And while those individuals might not be coming to Canada with malcontent, and frankly, they're

00:09:33.740 not just they're actually not coming to Canada.

00:09:35.960 They're staying overseas and just using Canada for cancer surgeries and education and whatever

00:09:43.200 tax breaks they might be able to find.

00:09:44.700 And this is, while those individuals might not have that sort of plan, it certainly is a plan

00:09:53.680 by Justin Trudeau, who's quite obviously compromised by the Chinese regime.

00:09:57.780 Yeah, it's just absolutely incredible that.

00:10:00.680 And Ken, don't get me wrong.

00:10:01.840 I don't even like this as a temporary measure in light of the Wuhan virus.

00:10:06.920 But, you know, there's a lot of temporary things in our so-called new normal right now that

00:10:14.420 we're tolerating, which we wouldn't tolerate in the past.

00:10:17.000 But as you pointed out in your commentary, it looks like once the virus is gone and hopefully

00:10:24.000 forgotten, this will remain the idea of online citizenship.

00:10:29.000 What could possibly be the rationale for that when there's no pandemic emergency anymore?

00:10:37.060 There's no rationale.

00:10:38.000 We went through the documents.

00:10:39.260 The only rationale was them saying, and this is paraphrasing, but it's almost a quote, the

00:10:45.880 Canadian public is interested in this continuing.

00:10:51.500 And they didn't cite any data. 0.93

00:10:53.720 They didn't even give one damn example of that.

00:10:56.820 They just said the Canadian public is interested in this continuing. 0.97

00:11:01.640 The Canadian public doesn't even know this is happening.

00:11:04.620 They're completely hoodwinked by Justin Trudeau, and they're gaslighting us to tell us that

00:11:09.760 this is something that we want.

00:11:12.320 I'm getting too frustrated right now, but Justin Trudeau knows what he's doing, and the Canadian

00:11:16.660 public is completely in the dark over blatant compromising, blatant abuse of the process that

00:11:25.560 people become Canadians with, and it's just, it's a travesty of epic proportions. 0.75

00:11:30.820 You know, it always pains me, and I think it pains you too, as someone who's engaged in

00:11:35.300 politics, that even in these dark, dire times, there seems to be such a huge chunk of the

00:11:40.780 population key in that they're disengaged.

00:11:44.140 They don't care.

00:11:44.900 They're not paying attention.

00:11:45.920 I am curious, though, assuming this word was to get out and it got the media coverage it

00:11:52.040 deserves, which it will not get, if Canadians had to vote on this in a referendum or a plebiscite

00:11:59.260 or what have you, do you think the population would think this is a good idea?

00:12:04.760 No, no.

00:12:06.900 If people were informed on this issue, if they understood how it could be abused, that

00:12:11.560 it already probably is being abused because these ceremonies have already occurred, they

00:12:18.980 would absolutely not support this.

00:12:21.320 There's no way in hell that they would support a program like this because it doesn't take

00:12:26.260 a genius to understand how Justin Trudeau is corrupting this process and how it will be

00:12:31.640 corrupted by bad actors around the world.

00:12:36.700 And Kian, I don't, we have to wrap this up here, so a quick exit question, and I don't

00:12:41.220 know if you've done any research on this, but is there any other nation in the world using

00:12:46.340 such a process, you know, virtual citizenship?

00:12:50.500 I looked into it, and to my knowledge, no.

00:12:55.200 Most citizenship ceremonies in most countries are a very sacred thing.

00:13:01.640 Most, you know, to be frank, lots of countries don't allow new citizens in the first place.

00:13:08.300 I think it is in the United Arab Emirates, where you actually need, like, regal assent to,

00:13:17.380 like, you need a document from the crown to become a new citizen.

00:13:23.760 And it's like, it happens, like, a couple dozen times a year.

00:13:28.760 Lots of countries that actually are well off don't actually have citizenship ceremonies in

00:13:34.540 the first place.

00:13:35.320 But the ones that do, you know, think Western democracies like the United Kingdom, Canada,

00:13:39.680 and the United States.

00:13:40.500 It is a very sacred ceremony that should be held in high regard and should be very official,

00:13:46.960 rather than just knocking it off like a meeting, a company meeting or a boardroom meeting over

00:13:55.100 Zoom.

00:13:55.980 It's a disgrace that this is happening.

00:13:58.520 Well, Kim, we'll have to wrap it there. 0.98

00:13:59.700 You know, I think Canadian citizenship is something to cherish.

00:14:04.860 I love this country.

00:14:06.140 I'm open to others moving into this country.

00:14:08.720 But I think you have to be vetted.

00:14:10.560 I think there's a process involved here.

00:14:12.800 It should involve more than a few clicks on a mouse pad.

00:14:16.340 And this is just an absolutely egregious thing that the Justin Trudeau Liberals are doing right

00:14:22.800 now to the very fabric of our nation.

00:14:25.120 It was an excellent report, my friend.

00:14:26.920 You have a good weekend and stay safe.

00:14:28.480 Take care, David.

00:14:30.220 You got it.

00:14:31.020 And that was Kian Bextie in Calgary.

00:14:33.560 Keep it here, folks.

00:14:34.700 More of Bravo Roundup to come right after this.

00:14:42.100 They passed an anti-cop motion the other day in something called a BIPOC meeting,

00:14:47.600 a Black Indigenous Person of Colour meeting.

00:14:51.260 Just look at the meeting invited.

00:14:53.740 So social justice-y.

00:14:54.920 It's got so many acronyms and it's even race segregated.

00:14:58.140 It's just odd.

00:14:59.780 Look at this.

00:15:00.780 If you are a teacher who identifies, wait, what identifies?

00:15:04.280 As a Black, Indigenous, or person of colour, there's the BIPOC acronym right there.

00:15:09.560 Please consider attending VESTA's online meeting for up to 25 self-identified BIPOC members

00:15:15.080 on June 16, 2020 from 1 till 3.

00:15:17.380 A suggested discussion topic might be how we increase equity and representation of Aboriginal teachers

00:15:24.180 and teachers of colour within VESTA's structures.

00:15:28.320 This committee met on Tuesday, March 10th at the VESTA office to begin this discussion.

00:15:32.860 New members are encouraged to attend.

00:15:35.440 Then blah-bidi-blah-blah-blah and we've got some contact information there.

00:15:39.160 Now, none of the solutions to this alleged under-representation of people of colour in education

00:15:45.720 involve busybody white teachers resigning in favour of Black or Indigenous ones.

00:15:51.060 And besides, in reality, the real under-representation in education is male teachers.

00:15:57.380 Only 10% of teachers are men.

00:15:59.520 And if that imbalance were actually fixed, it would probably benefit 50% of students.

00:16:04.220 Putting men in the classroom would be helpful because they understand that normal boy behaviour 1.00

00:16:10.140 is not a behavioural disorder to be medicated away.

00:16:13.280 Anyway, the motion passed by that meeting of the VESTA self-ID BIPOC panel

00:16:19.660 will put vulnerable kids in danger, which is a weird stance for these people

00:16:24.880 who so often use their extreme care and concern for other people's kids

00:16:28.640 as the reason they deserve more and more and more money so they don't strike and hurt your kids.

00:16:34.220 Just look at this.

00:16:36.740 From Global BC.

00:16:38.800 The Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association, VESTA,

00:16:42.480 passed a motion Tuesday night that recommends Vancouver police and RCMP officers

00:16:47.100 no longer attend school events.

00:16:49.980 Ah, progressive logic to the nth degree.

00:16:52.420 A cop goes rogue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

00:16:55.100 So, of course, let's ban police from visiting elementary schools in Vancouver, British Columbia. 1.00

00:17:00.620 Why is it, folks, that some of the most stupid people I've ever encountered head up teachers' unions? 0.99

00:17:07.800 And with more on this absolutely crazy tale is Sheila Gunn-Reed. 1.00

00:17:12.740 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:17:15.040 Hey, David. Thanks for having me on the show.

00:17:16.640 Always a pleasure.

00:17:17.440 So, Sheila, I'm just curious here.

00:17:19.080 If there comes a time, God forbid, in the future in which a gunman trespasses onto Vancouver school property

00:17:27.580 with murder on his mind, well, to borrow that paraphrase from the Ghostbusters song,

00:17:34.740 who are the elementary school staff going to call?

00:17:38.600 Surely not the Vancouver police service, Sheila,

00:17:40.760 because they're insensitive or downright evil or something, right?

00:17:45.540 Yeah, call Black Lives Matter and they can come down and, I don't know, 1.00

00:17:50.520 protest in front of the school to keep the gunmen away. 0.99

00:17:53.640 This is one of the stupidest things that I've ever seen a teacher's union do, 0.99

00:17:59.420 and that list is very long. 0.99

00:18:03.040 If you were, as a parent, if you were taking the time to teach my kid

00:18:10.340 that they shouldn't trust police and that police were the problem,

00:18:15.080 I would automatically assume some pretty sinister things about you.

00:18:18.600 That's just how I would be.

00:18:20.600 But yet, that's what this teacher's union is doing.

00:18:22.720 They've banned police from the school, from school events,

00:18:27.320 and from off-location events where the children might be.

00:18:33.040 So, I guess if they take the kids to a parade or whatever,

00:18:38.200 if the cops are there, they don't want the kids there, or vice versa.

00:18:43.140 And really, the evidence shows that having police, like school resource officers,

00:18:48.940 so having kids at school constantly exposed to police officers

00:18:54.760 is an absolute benefit to the kids, the cops, and the teachers themselves.

00:19:01.420 But it's the union bosses that have to jump onto every social justice agenda, 1.00

00:19:07.640 and they don't care about everybody else who seemingly are below them on the totem pole.

00:19:12.020 No, that's well said, Sheila.

00:19:13.540 And I can tell you that in Toronto, until I think it was about a year and a half, two years ago,

00:19:17.920 we had an incredibly successful program of uniformed police officers in schools at risk.

00:19:25.780 And all the data showed it was a successful program.

00:19:30.200 Violence was down.

00:19:31.720 And when I say violence, at the time, this was in reaction to,

00:19:34.780 I believe it was a 15-year-old boy that was actually shot dead at a Toronto school.

00:19:40.520 And everything was going along fine,

00:19:42.960 and then Black Lives Matter Toronto said that this was somehow triggering

00:19:48.400 or insensitive to racialized communities.

00:19:52.420 And city council bent the knee.

00:19:56.360 The cops are out of the schools.

00:19:58.420 And guess who is doing cartwheels about that?

00:20:02.200 It is the bullies in those schools that these cops were meant to be a buffer

00:20:07.380 against victimizing kids that want to actually learn.

00:20:12.100 This is a disgrace.

00:20:13.320 And you're right. 0.84

00:20:13.780 It's these, you know, I guess, white, liberal union heads and their allies

00:20:20.720 that are really carrying out a disgraceful act against those who are indeed in racialized communities.

00:20:29.220 Yeah, Carleton University actually studied that school resource officer program.

00:20:34.900 And they're the ones that came, they interviewed the cops,

00:20:38.180 they interviewed the students, they interviewed the teachers,

00:20:40.780 and they went back and they examined, you know, the rates of criminality, the arrests,

00:20:46.300 all the tangible data as well as the anecdotal data

00:20:50.580 that they were able to garner from the kids about their experiences.

00:20:53.660 Overwhelmingly, a positive benefit in the schools.

00:20:58.800 And it actually was the kids who are the most vulnerable,

00:21:03.380 often, as they say, the racialized kids.

00:21:05.840 Those were the ones that were seeing the most amount of benefit.

00:21:09.180 They were experiencing less bullying.

00:21:11.760 They were experiencing far less anxiety.

00:21:15.340 They were able to work without constant threats, without fear.

00:21:21.420 Likewise with the teachers, they were able to actually teach

00:21:24.780 as opposed to deal with all the other side social issues

00:21:30.020 that come along with teaching in an inner city school.

00:21:33.540 All of that was taken away because these school resource officers were there.

00:21:37.640 And the school resource officers themselves said that they received a benefit

00:21:42.060 because they were able to do, I guess, what's called community policing,

00:21:48.200 where they aren't the enemy.

00:21:49.580 They go into the community and they're there to help.

00:21:52.320 They're there to be somebody that you can trust.

00:21:54.880 When the gangs are moving in, they know that they can go to the cops.

00:21:58.240 The cops are not the enemy.

00:22:00.060 And activists took this all away in the name of helping racialized students

00:22:05.520 when it is, all the studies show that it's racialized and vulnerable kids

00:22:11.860 who benefit the most.

00:22:13.080 Similar studies were replicated by the University of Arizona,

00:22:18.580 looking at both the Toronto school resource officer program

00:22:22.760 as well as another one that took place in Boston.

00:22:26.260 And overwhelmingly across the board, it benefits everybody

00:22:29.940 and the vulnerable kids the most.

00:22:31.400 And yet these activists and the teachers' unions,

00:22:33.920 they take away these school resource officers in the name of the kids,

00:22:41.180 in the name of those racialized kids they claim to be helping.

00:22:45.360 Well, the bullies and thugs are happy,

00:22:47.360 not so much those kids that actually want to get an education and learn.

00:22:51.240 You know, Sheila, in the bigger picture,

00:22:53.500 I can't help but think that this must be in the U.S.

00:22:57.720 and by extension Canada,

00:22:59.180 one of the most awful times in which to be a police officer

00:23:02.600 with just about any major city police service.

00:23:07.900 We, I think what is, and listen, let's cut to the chase here.

00:23:13.580 Yes, there are bad apples in police forces, 100%.

00:23:17.240 But there are bad apples in medicine, in law, in journalism.

00:23:23.940 Yeah, Rosie, Barton, I'm talking about you, by the way.

00:23:28.160 But, you know, we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

00:23:31.540 And in the big picture, Sheila, I can see a police officer,

00:23:36.120 and let's be blunt, if I'm a white male cop and I get a call

00:23:40.500 and it's in a, say, a black area and it's a domestic dispute,

00:23:44.900 you know, what kind of trepidation do I have responding to that call

00:23:50.820 or if I witness something happening on the sidewalk?

00:23:54.100 There are coppers that secretly subscribe to an acronym called FIDO. 0.99

00:23:58.940 It stands for F it, drive on,

00:24:01.660 meaning that to get involved is not worth the potential fallout,

00:24:06.880 which could now result in termination or even imprisonment

00:24:11.360 if this call goes sideways.

00:24:14.220 And, Sheila, that's going to lead to unsafe streets in our very near future. 0.88

00:24:20.860 Well, definitely.

00:24:22.220 I mean, the opposite happened here in Alberta

00:24:25.400 on some of our First Nations reserves.

00:24:27.540 They were plagued by gangs.

00:24:30.340 There's a reserve south of Edmonton.

00:24:32.800 It was called Hobima at the time.

00:24:34.360 It's Mascosys now.

00:24:35.480 I think I'm saying that right.

00:24:36.560 Basically, the gangs are running the show

00:24:40.300 and the people there would not go to the RCMP.

00:24:44.180 The RCMP worked hard on a community policing model

00:24:47.640 and to gain the trust of the young people in the community.

00:24:50.500 They even created, like, a police cadet program,

00:24:53.600 much like Army and Navy cadets,

00:24:55.780 so that young people could have something to do with their time

00:25:00.180 that was lawful and so that they realized that, you know,

00:25:04.460 you're gaining all these valuable life skills

00:25:06.780 and the police aren't bad guys.

00:25:08.400 They're here to make sure your life is better.

00:25:10.980 And these activists are undoing all of this.

00:25:13.340 Activists who don't live in these communities,

00:25:15.500 that's the real thing.

00:25:16.960 They live somewhere else, somewhere else safe.

00:25:20.440 And it is the people in these dangerous communities

00:25:22.500 where peace officers and cops are working very hard

00:25:27.000 to make it safer for those people.

00:25:29.220 And they're being attacked and maligned

00:25:31.240 and run out of those communities.

00:25:32.600 And it's the people in those communities left holding the bag.

00:25:35.720 Well, Sheila, we've got to wrap it here.

00:25:37.360 But again, another example of progressivism 0.56

00:25:40.060 being a sign of mental illness, I would suggest,

00:25:44.280 where we penalize the makers and give to the takers.

00:25:49.680 And the Vancouver Elementary Teachers Union,

00:25:52.720 you've got to be ashamed of yourself.

00:25:54.260 Yeah. 0.97

00:25:54.700 What a disgrace.

00:25:55.920 Sheila, thanks so much for this very important commentary.

00:25:58.220 Much appreciated.

00:25:59.600 Thanks, David.

00:26:00.300 Have a great weekend.

00:26:01.140 You too.

00:26:01.600 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed somewhere in the crime-free hinterland

00:26:06.780 of northern Alberta, I hope.

00:26:09.020 Keep it here, folks.

00:26:09.980 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:26:17.220 Now, I'm in Kingston because, as you can see behind me,

00:26:20.100 there is a anti-colonialism protest.

00:26:23.680 It's kind of funny.

00:26:24.380 The motto of Kingston, Ontario, is where history and innovation thrive.

00:26:29.560 But it seems that the people here are keen on cancelling history,

00:26:35.640 such is our cancelled culture.

00:26:37.720 As a matter of fact, you can see a big red poster.

00:26:40.520 It says, make history, topple colonialism, and it's showing a statue being toppled.

00:26:47.240 Now, I would say that's a major job here, if that's what the plan is today, to actually tear down this statue.

00:26:55.080 But I have noticed that throughout the crowd, they are distributing eggs.

00:26:59.480 And, um, oh, excuse me, ma'am?

00:27:01.980 No, we're not doing right now.

00:27:04.300 Oh, why is that?

00:27:05.440 What makes me a racist, ma'am?

00:27:06.940 Okay.

00:27:07.360 We know.

00:27:07.660 Can you read your own words?

00:27:08.560 Because I just listen to you.

00:27:09.360 Don't touch the camera, please.

00:27:10.080 Don't touch me.

00:27:10.680 Don't touch the camera.

00:27:11.020 Do not touch me.

00:27:11.820 You do not touch the camera.

00:27:12.640 Sorry, ma'am.

00:27:13.100 You said we're racist?

00:27:14.260 Why is that?

00:27:15.200 And you use a lot of bad language.

00:27:16.480 Not very lady-like language, I must say. 0.99

00:27:18.240 I'm not a fucking lady. 0.99

00:27:19.500 Get out of here. 1.00

00:27:20.140 Oh, okay.

00:27:20.680 What about yourself, ma'am?

00:27:21.840 You were saying something as well, I believe.

00:27:23.340 I said that I thought your speech was offensive and inaccurate.

00:27:26.300 Oh, it was, oh, what did I get wrong?

00:27:28.920 Kingston's motto is not where history and innovation is right.

00:27:31.800 Do you believe that removing a statue removes history?

00:27:35.600 What would you call it?

00:27:37.340 I would say that we're no longer celebrating a racist creep.

00:27:41.540 The history doesn't.

00:27:42.560 Time to go.

00:27:43.240 What are you pouring water on?

00:27:44.980 Hey, excuse me.

00:27:45.980 Time to go.

00:27:47.400 Time to go.

00:27:48.800 Time to go.

00:27:51.160 Time to go.

00:27:52.080 As you can see, these people, it's a park.

00:27:55.920 It's a public park.

00:27:56.640 Do not push us.

00:27:57.700 Time to go.

00:27:58.340 Do not push us.

00:27:59.280 We're making our way out.

00:28:00.320 Okay, good.

00:28:00.620 No one wants you here.

00:28:01.160 Get out.

00:28:01.200 Get your boy out.

00:28:02.740 Get your boy out.

00:28:04.440 Get out of here. 0.68

00:28:04.700 You're going to get egged.

00:28:06.340 Get out.

00:28:07.220 What, you're going to threaten me by throwing an egg at me, sir?

00:28:10.600 Don't.

00:28:11.620 Get out of here.

00:28:12.560 It's a public park.

00:28:13.840 It's coming.

00:28:14.960 Whoa.

00:28:16.020 Let's move over.

00:28:16.980 Oh, you're a tough guy behind that mask, aren't you?

00:28:19.080 Get out.

00:28:19.960 Oh, and you too.

00:28:20.600 Well, that was the scene last Saturday, folks, when about 200 anti-colonialism protesters gathered

00:28:27.280 at City Park in Kingston, Ontario to demand the removal of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue. 0.90

00:28:33.880 Apparently, our first prime minister was a racist and a white supremacist and was obsessed 0.97

00:28:39.680 with carrying out genocide. 0.98

00:28:41.340 At least, that's what several of the signs indicated.

00:28:44.620 But when I tried to understand the reasoning and logic behind such claims, I found that,

00:28:51.460 yet again, when it comes to the rank and file of wannabe Antifa thugs, they are unable to

00:28:58.580 articulate their positions, which is to say they responded to queries by screaming slurs

00:29:04.540 and using copious quantities of F-bombs.

00:29:08.560 Indeed, when I visited the park initially, I didn't even engage with any of the protesters.

00:29:14.320 I listened to a few of the speakers who droned on incessantly about colonialism and racism 0.91

00:29:19.460 and white supremacy and genocide and how horrible Canada is.

00:29:25.040 My cameraman, Mocha, and I then walked about 60 metres away from the gathering to record 0.91

00:29:29.280 an introduction to our video right in front of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue.

00:29:34.880 But as I was reporting, various demonstrators, like so many ants to an open jam jar,

00:29:41.060 creeped up to where we were stationed.

00:29:43.420 And what followed next was a demand to leave the park,

00:29:47.160 even though City Park is not private property,

00:29:51.420 and our only sin was practicing journalism.

00:29:55.020 And when we didn't initially leave on our own accord, well, as you just witnessed,

00:29:59.540 we were forced to do so as the inexplicably angry mob engaged in physical violence

00:30:05.820 while trying to vandalize and even steal our equipment.

00:30:09.860 The irony was both profound and perverse.

00:30:12.700 These people were claiming to be anti-colonialism,

00:30:15.960 and yet here they were literally taking ownership of a plot of land that did not belong to them

00:30:22.340 and then engaged in violence to remove any interlopers who did not subscribe to their brand of groupthink.

00:30:29.920 So when you think about it, folks,

00:30:31.760 doesn't that behaviour kind of sound like the very worst sort of colonialism?

00:30:38.000 Amazing.

00:30:38.600 And in any event, here's what some of you had to say about our visit to Kingston.

00:30:44.120 Julie Lefebvre writes,

00:30:45.560 Ladies and gentlemen, the tolerant left, they tolerate almost everything except other opinions,

00:30:51.220 especially those based on facts and data.

00:30:54.520 Indeed, Julie, the left is all about diversity,

00:30:57.560 except when it comes to a diversity of opinions.

00:31:01.180 Brent Scheer writes,

00:31:03.820 Indeed, Brent, more perverse irony here.

00:31:12.140 Antifa is a contraction of anti- and fascism,

00:31:16.320 yet they embrace the tactics of fascists,

00:31:20.400 from intimidation to outright violence.

00:31:23.140 They are not antifa, they are just fa, as in fascist classic.

00:31:28.400 Cheryl Campbell writes,

00:31:30.700 I'm First Nations and I love rebel media.

00:31:33.800 I'm sorry to see you get harassed like that.

00:31:36.860 Cheryl, you, my friend, are my kind of First Nations person.

00:31:41.140 Thank you ever so much for your kind words.

00:31:43.620 TA writes,

00:31:44.780 Shut Canada down?

00:31:46.640 Trudeau already did that.

00:31:48.160 I'm sure he's loving every minute of this.

00:31:50.440 You know, good point, TA.

00:31:51.780 Canada has indeed been mostly shut down for the last several months

00:31:55.720 due to the grotesque overreaction by government in dealing with the Wuhan virus.

00:32:01.080 But even if that weren't the case,

00:32:03.260 how does shutting down Canada, whatever that means, help natives?

00:32:08.920 These people seem to be allergic to logic.

00:32:12.420 Bub the Zombie writes,

00:32:13.460 I really respect how you can suppress the urge 0.80

00:32:16.560 to go upside their heads with an aluminum bat.

00:32:19.360 Well, Bub, it takes some effort to be sure.

00:32:21.880 But I'm not there to fight.

00:32:23.180 I just want to engage in a discussion. 0.98

00:32:25.960 How sad, how pathetic, really, 0.98

00:32:27.940 that these social justice warriors can't articulate their positions 0.99

00:32:31.400 and instead resort to slurs and acts of violence.

00:32:35.760 And these are the same people who chant, 0.63

00:32:38.100 Love Trump's hate.

00:32:40.100 But it is only they who are oblivious to the irony, apparently.

00:32:45.320 Gods Among Men writes,

00:32:46.540 The Kingston police had to know that this event was happening

00:32:49.920 to all those who support cops and don't want them defunded.

00:32:53.580 Can somebody explain to me exactly why we're paying them?

00:32:57.020 You know, you raise a very good point, Gods Among Men.

00:33:00.200 But don't blame the rank-and-file police officers

00:33:03.020 because, get this, a law enforcement source

00:33:05.540 told me that the organizers had gone to either the mayor

00:33:09.240 or the police chief or both

00:33:10.840 and told them in light of what's happening post-George Floyd,

00:33:15.340 they, meaning the mob,

00:33:16.760 did not want to see any police presence at this protest.

00:33:20.940 And incredibly, they apparently got their wish.

00:33:24.300 The mayor's office denies this was the case.

00:33:27.200 I've reached out to the chief of police in Kingston

00:33:29.240 but have not heard back from her yet.

00:33:31.500 But the proof is in the video pudding, no?

00:33:34.460 A mob of more than 200 people with violence on their minds

00:33:37.780 takes over the city park

00:33:40.780 and there's not a single police cruiser

00:33:43.980 even monitoring this situation?

00:33:46.940 Talk about a dereliction of duty.

00:33:49.160 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:33:51.560 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:33:52.820 See you next week.

00:33:53.860 And hey folks, never forget,

00:33:55.480 without risk, there can be no glory.

00:33:57.440 Good night.

00:34:01.500 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - June 27, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Virtual citizenship ceremonies & anti-cop teachers

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