Rebel News Podcast - The Barbecue Rebellion turns violent in Toronto

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. What a day today was. It's a visual day. On this podcast, you'll hear about

00:00:05.240 it, but I wish you could see the riot police on horseback, the mounted police, that Toronto Mayor

00:00:11.500 John Tory dispatches to shut down a restaurant for the crime of serving sandwiches. Probably 100

00:00:17.480 cops, probably 50 police cars, just outrageous, amazing footage. Our cameraman got the key shot.

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00:00:41.900 any money from the government. And I think it shows. I think one of the reasons why the media

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00:00:58.220 Tonight, the barbecue rebellion turns violent in Toronto. It's November 26 and this is the Ezra

00:01:15.840 LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:22.400 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:28.000 government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:32.340 Well, it's been such a busy day. I've been doing live streams practically all day, so I have not

00:01:43.260 properly scripted tonight's show. There just wasn't time, so forgive me. I'm going to be speaking from

00:01:49.200 notes in my hand, but I'm talking about the barbecue rebellion at Adamson's Barbecue Restaurant

00:01:56.580 in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto. It's an outstanding barbecue restaurant. I've been to

00:02:02.380 the outlet in Leeside, another Toronto neighborhood. Lineups for half an hour, they'd always sell out.

00:02:08.860 Outstanding food. The hipsters loved it. And the entrepreneur himself, his name is Adam Skelling,

00:02:16.000 and you've got to give the man credit. Making one restaurant work is hard, but three? Kudos to him,

00:02:21.280 a working class man who found a way to appeal to the snobby classes in Toronto. Well, they've turned

00:02:28.420 against him because this working class man wants to actually work. A lot of Toronto's been loving the 0.99

00:02:35.520 staycation of the lockdown. They've gotten paid no matter what. I think of the government classes,

00:02:42.100 the bureaucratic classes who have not worked at all or worked from home, haven't lost a minute's pay,

00:02:48.200 used the time to catch up on some Netflix series. They're actually loving the lockdown. Whereas the

00:02:54.920 working classes, well, they've been forced out of work. Remember this, it was not the virus that

00:03:01.640 flattened these companies and businesses and mom and pop shops. It's not the virus. It's the politicians

00:03:08.340 ordering these companies locked down. Well, Adam Skelly decided he had nothing to lose. He was going to go

00:03:15.540 bankrupt anyway, so he may as well go out in style. And he announced that he would open his restaurant

00:03:21.460 on Tuesday. And indeed he did. Police stood by, but didn't know quite what to do. And then Wednesday

00:03:27.020 again, police stood by, didn't know quite what to do. This morning, they tipped off the media party who

00:03:36.160 went at 6 a.m. to catch police changing the locks on the restaurant, locking the owner out. Well, that

00:03:45.020 didn't stop him. Adam Skelly went there, entered in another door, busted down the locked door, and in

00:03:53.200 went the hundreds of people getting their smoked meat and brisket. Well, that's when the police showed up

00:04:00.640 with the cavalry. I kid you not. The Toronto police responded with what looks like 100 policemen,

00:04:11.280 dozens of police vehicles, and the riot squad on horseback. Well, when Adam Skelly made a move,

00:04:19.560 so did the police. They grabbed him and frog marched him in handcuffs to the police car. Take a look at

00:04:26.760 this amazing footage caught by our videographer, Lincoln.

00:04:37.400 What is that? What is that? What is that? What is that? He's a hero. He's a hero. He's a hero.

00:04:43.400 You're heating it up. Where's he going? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.

00:04:51.400 Shame on you. Shame on you. Hey, hey, he's a hero. You're a hero. He's a hero. He's a hero.

00:04:55.860 What are you arained bear on him? What are you arolling block?

00:05:00.360 Get out of my heart, come out of my heart. Come out of your heart.

00:05:12.740 Shame on these racists. 0.97

00:05:17.840 Look at the way they started now.

00:05:20.860 I love you guys.

00:05:22.900 Small business, small business, small business, small business.

00:05:32.620 Small business, small business, small business, small business.

00:06:02.620 Small business, small business, small business, small business, small business.

00:06:11.020 Small business, small business, small business, small business, small business, small business.

00:06:27.980 He's a hero. He's a hero.

00:06:30.960 That's incredible.

00:06:32.100 I love how he was shouting small business, small business.

00:06:36.640 Because remember, it's only small businesses that are shut down.

00:06:40.220 Walmart's still operating.

00:06:41.900 Just a few hundred meters down the road from Adamson's Barbecue,

00:06:46.120 Costco is open, selling all manner of goods,

00:06:49.440 including, well, their in-store restaurant.

00:06:52.040 You know Costco, you can get a slice of pizza,

00:06:54.680 you can get a hot dog, french fries, soft drinks.

00:06:57.300 That's totally safe from the virus point of view.

00:07:00.240 But Adamson, he was a public health risk.

00:07:03.300 At least that's what the mayor and the premier said.

00:07:06.120 The police response, though, I haven't seen anything like it in Toronto.

00:07:09.760 I think there were more officers on the scene

00:07:12.580 than there have been in some of the mass shootings

00:07:16.540 or terrorist events in Toronto.

00:07:18.720 I seriously haven't seen this many police and heavily armed riot police.

00:07:24.120 Well, since the G20 riots in Toronto,

00:07:26.820 many years ago, in the minds of the mayor and the premier

00:07:31.120 and the public health deep state,

00:07:34.440 the people who have an interest in perpetuating the lockdown,

00:07:37.880 this man was the greatest risk to them since,

00:07:41.140 well, terrorism, I suppose.

00:07:43.340 It's interesting to contrast how the police arrested,

00:07:47.300 handcuffed, and frog-marched away a man

00:07:49.140 for cooking sandwiches,

00:07:51.480 compared to how they treated Black Lives Matter protests

00:07:55.600 that also violated the social distancing spaces.

00:07:59.380 Take a look at this photo of police literally taking a knee.

00:08:03.440 And that's Black Lives Matter.

00:08:04.900 Antifa, as you know, was far worse, far more violent.

00:08:07.920 Antifa literally had a permanent encampment

00:08:12.640 right outside the mayor's office

00:08:15.180 on the plaza in front of Toronto City Hall.

00:08:17.840 They called it the Afro-Indigenous Rising,

00:08:20.580 but there weren't a lot of Black or Aboriginal people.

00:08:22.740 There was basically white, woke leftists,

00:08:25.220 and they were violent.

00:08:27.020 As you know, we tried to go and report on that.

00:08:30.560 Police didn't shut down the rioters.

00:08:33.020 They shut down us.

00:08:34.320 Remember this?

00:08:35.380 I was told I had to leave under the trespass,

00:08:39.280 and I said, what have I done?

00:08:40.600 And she couldn't say it.

00:08:41.720 So what I'm saying here is,

00:08:43.600 and I'm happy to go alone or send David alone.

00:08:46.440 The reason we brought seven people with us

00:08:48.640 is because our journalists were threatened yesterday,

00:08:52.720 and I thought, I can't have our journalists being beat up.

00:08:55.520 So will you either allow me or hopefully walk with me

00:09:00.860 so I stand in front of my city hall as a journalist

00:09:05.220 and do a five-minute news report in front of my city hall,

00:09:09.720 completely compliant with the law

00:09:11.460 and separated by a band of blue steel from the protesters?

00:09:16.100 Right.

00:09:16.520 So right now, I've got to talk to the city hall security again.

00:09:21.380 They advised me that they had trespassed you guys from the property.

00:09:25.500 Do you guys want to do your journalism?

00:09:27.220 Yeah.

00:09:28.480 We don't take offense to that.

00:09:29.720 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:09:31.120 I think you could fix this by letting us go out.

00:09:34.940 Those guys...

00:09:35.460 How far are they?

00:09:35.880 I don't see...

00:09:36.500 I want to stand...

00:09:38.460 Why don't you guys, like, stand...

00:09:41.040 Because this is my city...

00:09:42.060 No, no, no.

00:09:43.560 I'm going to go on the other side of the ramp.

00:09:46.500 I'll keep 20 feet away from the bad guys,

00:09:49.580 and I'm going to use my Section 2B charter right

00:09:53.120 to report the news in my city.

00:09:56.180 If you're free to report the news, that's not the problem at all.

00:09:58.520 And I'm also free to stand on the town square.

00:10:01.340 I say again, in John Tory's Toronto, and I shouldn't pick on Toronto

00:10:04.860 because it's the same in many cities across this country,

00:10:07.860 and certainly in the United States,

00:10:09.620 if you're a violent leftist, the police will bend the knee.

00:10:13.860 They'll protect you.

00:10:15.100 But if you're a conservative who just wants to peacefully protest

00:10:18.380 or have a smoked meat sandwich, they'll send in the riot squad.

00:10:22.860 You know, we could have used the riot squad very early this year

00:10:26.180 when there were blockades of railways across the country,

00:10:29.500 but no, that was too dangerous and not of public interest enough

00:10:34.280 to send in the cops, but this restaurant was.

00:10:36.920 What's particularly gross is the class divide here.

00:10:41.820 And you know me, I'm not a Marxist.

00:10:43.580 The more and more I see, that's the divide.

00:10:46.700 The haves and the have-nots, not by their own labors,

00:10:49.360 but from the government class, the deep state,

00:10:51.480 the people who love the lockdown, the bureaucracy, the government unions.

00:10:55.960 And I point out this story here, which is,

00:10:58.780 if the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford,

00:11:02.180 if his late brother, Rob Ford, were here to see this,

00:11:04.820 he would be appalled.

00:11:06.300 The gravy train, the lobbying class.

00:11:08.760 Look at this.

00:11:10.400 Walmart, a huge multinational company based in Arkansas.

00:11:14.360 They hired two of Doug Ford's staff, Melissa Lansman and David Tarrant,

00:11:20.340 to arrange a private meeting between the president of Walmart and Doug Ford

00:11:23.880 to convince him that when he locks down the mom-and-pop shops

00:11:28.480 to keep open, not just Walmart, but all the non-essential stuff in Walmart,

00:11:33.860 so not just the groceries, but the greeting cards and the toys

00:11:38.020 and all the other stuff.

00:11:39.820 So all the private stores are shut down,

00:11:42.700 but mighty Walmart, which paid a hefty fee to lobby Doug Ford,

00:11:47.720 well, he gave them what they wanted.

00:11:49.420 Do you see what I mean?

00:11:50.120 If you're not rich enough to hire Doug Ford's staff and lobby him,

00:11:55.040 you'll be flattened.

00:11:56.780 It's not that we're all in this together.

00:12:00.280 This is a two-tier lockdown.

00:12:03.380 The media, bizarrely, put themselves with the government.

00:12:07.200 The media is not a check on government anymore.

00:12:10.060 It's an auxiliary to government.

00:12:12.620 It caresses and massages government.

00:12:15.300 Look at this clip from last night,

00:12:17.040 where you can see in real time the mayor colluding with the media

00:12:20.500 to go get this restaurateur.

00:12:23.400 ...to our behavior at Christmas.

00:12:24.620 Mayor John Tory, we will leave it there today,

00:12:27.820 and we'll all wait and watch to see what plays out

00:12:29.820 at Adamson Barbecue today at 11 when that is supposed to open.

00:12:33.920 Have a productive day.

00:12:34.960 We'll chat with you again Friday.

00:12:36.820 Don't give this guy too much publicity.

00:12:38.440 You know, it's a political...

00:12:39.380 A lot of this is a political stunt, so, you know,

00:12:41.280 let's be careful about that.

00:12:42.780 But, I mean, that's the thing.

00:12:44.060 If the police had shut it down...

00:12:44.960 He's thumbing his nose at the system.

00:12:46.380 If the police had shut it down quickly yesterday,

00:12:48.020 we wouldn't have given them that much publicity.

00:12:49.960 That's part of the whole problem, right?

00:12:51.060 I mean, the longer this is allowed to stay open,

00:12:52.840 the longer we have to cover it.

00:12:54.580 I don't think it'll be open for long today, if at all.

00:12:56.400 It shouldn't be open at all if this man was any kind of a respectful citizen

00:12:59.200 and a person who really wanted to, you know,

00:13:01.540 respect the best interests of his fellow Torontonians.

00:13:04.040 All right, Mayor Tory, appreciate you joining us.

00:13:05.760 We'll chat again soon.

00:13:07.400 And, indeed, that's exactly what happened.

00:13:09.580 You saw it planned and plotted in real time.

00:13:12.720 You know, there's so many fancy pants in Toronto,

00:13:14.500 and they love their fine dining.

00:13:15.940 And I have to tell you, I say, I've been to this guy's restaurant before.

00:13:20.100 It's amazing.

00:13:20.960 All the hipsters love it. 0.88

00:13:24.140 But, my God, they've turned against that blue-collar man.

00:13:27.060 Now, here's Sherry DeNovo, who's a left-wing NDP politician activist.

00:13:31.760 Look at this.

00:13:33.500 Mocking him.

00:13:34.740 Oh, a third...

00:13:35.760 I mean, just the classism here.

00:13:38.040 Third-rate.

00:13:38.720 It's not a third-rate restaurant.

00:13:39.740 It was the toast of the town.

00:13:40.760 But how dare this working man be in a working-class neighborhood 1.00

00:13:46.300 feeding working-class people?

00:13:48.460 That's the NDP for you.

00:13:50.840 You know, it wasn't just Adam Skelly who was arrested and handcuffed

00:13:55.140 with 100 police around him.

00:13:57.000 Perhaps in its own way, even more shocking was this.

00:14:01.140 Here's Randy Hillier, elected as a conservative member of the provincial parliament.

00:14:06.180 He now sits as an independent.

00:14:07.920 He's a thoughtful critic of Doug Ford's lockdown.

00:14:10.840 It's one of the reasons he's in...

00:14:12.820 He sits as an independent now.

00:14:14.380 He is an elected MPP standing on the precincts of the provincial parliament.

00:14:18.960 And the mayor gave him a ticket.

00:14:22.460 Look at this.

00:14:22.960 It's going to be next year, 2021.

00:14:27.500 It's going to be January 7th.

00:14:28.960 It's going to be 10 in the morning.

00:14:30.080 And it's going to be 4-0 C.

00:14:32.060 Okay?

00:14:32.960 And I won't be wearing them out.

00:14:36.500 So I'm going to just serve you your coffee.

00:14:39.060 Oh, they'll have a different one.

00:14:45.300 And think of your kids.

00:14:47.680 Think of your kids, your families, and the lack of freedom that you're imposing on your kids.

00:14:55.900 Think about that.

00:14:56.520 I think that into consideration.

00:14:57.700 And do you want your kids...

00:14:59.680 I couldn't imagine being so cowardly.

00:15:01.280 Go up in a country without freedom.

00:15:04.560 I appreciate it.

00:15:05.160 Thank you for your cooperation, sir.

00:15:06.620 And thank you very much.

00:15:07.900 You're ticketing an opposition politician for opposing.

00:15:12.880 You're giving him a massive fine.

00:15:16.240 Who the hell do you think you are?

00:15:20.400 Someone with no real opposition, I suppose.

00:15:23.480 One of the reasons we launched yesterday's Fight the Fines reboot is we want to give lawyers to literally 1,000 people that get tickets like that because we believe they're unconstitutional.

00:15:33.820 In fact, today I had a phone call with Randy on here.

00:15:36.280 I hope we can give him a hand, though I know he can take care of himself.

00:15:40.160 We've also launched a petition called FreeAdamskelly.com.

00:15:44.700 And last I checked, we had over 11,000 signatures.

00:15:48.400 People are fed up.

00:15:49.700 He's become a bit of a grassroots hero.

00:15:51.360 I guess what I'm wondering is, where are the conservatives?

00:15:57.000 Where are people for limited government, for individual liberty?

00:16:00.240 If you want to stay home and wear a mask, wear five masks.

00:16:04.400 Wear a total hazmat suit.

00:16:06.140 Dress like an astronaut.

00:16:07.400 Knock yourself out.

00:16:08.720 The conservative way is not to let those people, not to give a veto to those people for the rest of us.

00:16:14.840 When we all know that this disease is not an equal opportunity disease, it targets the elderly with underlying conditions.

00:16:22.440 Protect them.

00:16:24.300 Quarantine them.

00:16:25.380 Give them all the medical care.

00:16:27.060 But let the rest of us live our lives.

00:16:29.200 That's the conservative point of view.

00:16:31.620 There's one bright light on the horizon, and it's the conservative premier, Jason Kenney,

00:16:36.900 who addressed this very issue yesterday when he talked about the mistake of locking down small businesses but letting the Walmarts of the world go.

00:16:45.680 Take a look.

00:16:46.740 Let me say something.

00:16:48.080 We need to acknowledge, as we go through COVID, when we have made mistakes.

00:16:52.540 This government made, I think, a grave mistake in the spring when we made, frankly, I think a stupidly arbitrary distinction

00:17:01.160 between essential and non-essential retail businesses that had the unintended consequence of allowing Walmarts and Costcos to sell darn near everything

00:17:10.320 because they have a grocery section or they sell pharmaceuticals while shutting down thousands and thousands of retail small and medium-sized businesses.

00:17:20.940 You know, I talked about the fifth-generation family in my remarks with this running a store in rural Alberta.

00:17:33.640 100% of their business went to the big U.S.-owned box store down the street or, of course, online for 10 weeks

00:17:42.980 because of that, frankly, stupid mistake that we made, for which I apologize.

00:17:50.940 We tried to undo that as quickly as we realized it and saw the impact, but we are not doing that now, unlike other provinces that have done that.

00:18:01.700 You don't hear a lot of talk like that, do you?

00:18:04.200 Apologies and saying it was a dumb idea.

00:18:06.420 That's Ralph Klein's style.

00:18:08.100 It's one of the reasons Ralph was so popular.

00:18:10.520 I hope that more Jason Kenney's emerge.

00:18:13.440 I hope that some conservative opposition parties oppose.

00:18:16.380 I mentioned earlier how that lobbyist in Toronto, Melissa Lantzman, arranged a meeting between Walmart and Doug Ford to give them a special rich man's exemption.

00:18:25.680 I'm not against rich people.

00:18:27.120 I'm against double standards where the rich buy themselves out of the lockdown.

00:18:31.160 I see 1,300 professional athletes bop their way through the quarantine.

00:18:34.980 I'm sorry, either we're all quarantined or none of us are.

00:18:37.960 I don't think that that's fair.

00:18:39.080 This Melissa Lantzman, this lockdown lobbyist, is now running for the Conservative Party federally in the nomination opening up in Thornhill, Toronto.

00:18:49.220 It'll be interesting to me if the federal conservatives are the party of the lockdown like they are in the UK, like they are in the provincial government in Ontario.

00:18:59.000 I sure hope not because it's not a conservative idea.

00:19:01.920 And even if there was some conservative argument to protecting people, it's not to lock everyone down.

00:19:08.260 It's to protect those who are vulnerable, not to protect people from going to a restaurant voluntarily.

00:19:15.920 I'm worried that in this country we don't have an opposition.

00:19:19.020 The media is cheering the lockdowns.

00:19:21.240 When was the last time you saw media cheering?

00:19:24.060 A riot squad of horses dragging people away in handcuffs.

00:19:28.340 The world's upside down.

00:19:29.420 I promise you this, we'll fight like hell here at The Rebel.

00:19:33.260 And I'm sorry I'm saying hell so much.

00:19:34.600 I know I'm going to get some emails about that.

00:19:37.340 Stay with me.

00:19:38.040 Next, David Menzies' special report on yesterday's events at that same barbecue.

00:19:43.840 I thought you did such a good job.

00:19:45.360 I want to show it to you in its entirety.

00:19:47.220 That's it.

00:19:47.520 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Toronto.

00:20:01.580 Well, folks, it is day number two of the Great Barbecue Rebellion.

00:20:06.480 Yes, we are once again back at the so-called scene of the crime, Adamson Barbecue.

00:20:12.300 Just a few minutes ago, Adam Skelly, the owner, went in.

00:20:17.220 He said he's not doing interviews today, but we're welcome to come on his property.

00:20:22.800 Unlike the mainstream media, they are out in full force today.

00:20:27.040 I see basically every outlet.

00:20:28.560 And he doesn't want any part of them.

00:20:31.900 So it's a kind of a reversal of fortune for us here at Rebel News.

00:20:35.860 And I'm digging it.

00:20:37.520 And I can understand his outrage to the mainstream media, the way they have been framing this story.

00:20:46.480 He's the bad guy.

00:20:48.100 He's the second coming of Typhoid Mary.

00:20:50.760 He should be shut down.

00:20:52.000 They're not so much reporting the story, but acting as like snitches to the mayor and the premier and the authorities.

00:20:59.440 Just another mainstream media disgrace.

00:21:02.420 But Adam is here.

00:21:03.680 He is prepping.

00:21:04.780 It is now just a little after 10 a.m.

00:21:07.220 He's going to open in an hour.

00:21:08.760 And there's a lot of prep to do.

00:21:10.660 He expects another big crowd here.

00:21:13.360 In any event, I am almost certain that the moment someone goes in there for some delicious brisket, the bylaw, the police, the health authorities, they are going to descend on this little restaurant like an army.

00:21:30.240 And we're going to be there to see what unfolds in the minutes and hours away.

00:21:34.140 I'm just wondering, Adam, are you fearful of what's going to happen in the minutes and hours ahead if you start to fire up those grills?

00:21:44.180 No, not at all.

00:21:45.020 Why would I be fearful of what's going to happen?

00:21:46.640 This business probably won't make it through the wintertime anyway.

00:21:49.300 So I got nothing to fear.

00:21:50.640 We're going to take a stand.

00:21:51.720 We're going to push this as far as it goes.

00:21:53.320 We'll accept the fines.

00:21:54.380 We'll accept the tickets and any court summons.

00:21:56.940 And we'll see if any of this is going to hold up.

00:21:59.000 Yeah, and I mean, we have to talk about the hypocrisy, as we've been saying all along since day one.

00:22:05.100 400 metres down the road, there is a Costco.

00:22:07.560 It is jammed to the gills of Christmas shoppers.

00:22:10.280 They have a food service facility there.

00:22:12.440 How come they can open and a guy like you can't?

00:22:14.980 Well, I'm not sure if their food service facility is open, but they are considered an essential business.

00:22:19.440 People go there to buy their groceries and stock up at home, and they consider that essential.

00:22:23.380 I, for one, consider my business to be essential.

00:22:25.620 And we're going to see today how many other people do as well.

00:22:27.740 100%.

00:22:28.580 And now, what about the cost to you in terms of all these potential fines that can go up to $100,000, even a year in jail?

00:22:38.280 I think you said off camera to me, you've already got pro bono legal representation.

00:22:43.220 What are they telling you?

00:22:44.920 I have to interview lawyers today.

00:22:46.900 I've had so many reach out to me and offer to take this case.

00:22:51.000 Most of them are very, all of them are confident that we will win this,

00:22:54.580 that the emergency orders are not justified, and that any of these charges won't hold up in court anyway.

00:23:00.800 So, I'll be the first one to stand up, be the test case, and we'll see how it goes.

00:23:04.100 I know you have a ton of prep to take care of, Adam.

00:23:06.560 One last question.

00:23:07.380 We have the media mob here.

00:23:09.800 What has been your take on the kind of coverage you've been receiving?

00:23:15.300 It seems to me, from what I've seen in the last 24 hours of the news cycle,

00:23:20.480 they're almost cheering on the authorities to put you out of business.

00:23:25.720 It's quite shocking.

00:23:27.080 What has it been your take?

00:23:29.040 Well, this is the establishment media over there, so I've asked them to stay across the street,

00:23:32.780 so they're all over there with their telephoto lenses trying to get shots of me.

00:23:35.760 I thought it was really funny because yesterday I had the most incredible day.

00:23:38.960 We had so much love and support from our fans and people I've never met before.

00:23:42.660 I was energized all day, had an incredible day, and I think it was CTV managed to get one picture of me going,

00:23:47.860 with a bit of a sad look on my face or a little bit distressed,

00:23:51.680 and that's the one that they put up on the front.

00:23:53.160 So, you know what, they can keep trying to get those with their telephoto lenses,

00:23:56.980 and they can get one of me in a fighting stance or something like that,

00:23:59.400 and they can try to say that I'm trying to take down the police or something.

00:24:02.180 Who knows?

00:24:02.900 They can say across the street, thank you for being here,

00:24:04.780 thanks for actually getting our side of the story and not twisting our words.

00:24:08.020 Well, Adam, thank you for your hospitality, for allowing me to come on your private property.

00:24:12.000 We really appreciate it.

00:24:13.520 I think there's going to be a showdown.

00:24:15.460 I'm really fearful about how the city is going to react.

00:24:19.260 Fearful? Come on, no fear, no fear, let's go.

00:24:22.040 Here we have Adam as a true rebel, he's taking a stand,

00:24:26.580 and maybe when they see how he is going to be treated with hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines,

00:24:31.840 even potentially a year in jail if you can imagine,

00:24:34.820 maybe that's going to scare them off from doing what Adam's doing.

00:24:38.600 The government is betting on ignorance and intimidation,

00:24:42.420 and they're going to lose.

00:24:43.300 Because when you come to the point where you have nothing to lose,

00:24:47.460 you're going to do whatever it takes.

00:24:49.300 And that's why we're going to win, because we're going to do whatever it takes

00:24:51.740 to make sure that the tyranny of the government goes out of this country.

00:24:54.800 The mayor has said, said last night, that if Mr. Skelly opens again for business,

00:25:00.340 he hopes the authorities throw the book at him.

00:25:03.600 And yet, this is the same mayor that has been seen for, you know, photo ops,

00:25:09.880 not social distancing, not wearing a face mask.

00:25:13.600 Do you think we have sort of a one law for thee, one law for me in the city right now?

00:25:18.060 Oh, there's a true double standard here.

00:25:19.500 So, I'll be straightforward and blunt.

00:25:23.240 John Tory is a a**hole.

00:25:24.860 Well, folks, I'm with Vincent Gerses, and Mr. Gerses is an ex-OPP officer.

00:25:31.440 And Vincent, tell me, first of all, what brings you out here today,

00:25:35.440 and what's your take on what we're seeing going down here?

00:25:39.800 The reason I'm out here is this is a fundamental fracture about to happen

00:25:45.300 in monumental biblical proportions in Canada,

00:25:48.620 and the fracture of the human rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights.

00:25:54.800 I've been an OPP officer for 32 years.

00:25:57.260 I'm now retired and have been for a few years.

00:25:59.380 I started with the OPP in 1982, the same year that the Canadian Charter came out.

00:26:06.680 And what was instilled upon me at the Ontario Police College in Elmer, Ontario,

00:26:13.960 was how important those fundamental rights were.

00:26:16.820 They're the core of our rights in Canada, and everything is based on that.

00:26:21.840 Here today, this restaurant chooses to stay open and defy these lockdowns.

00:26:27.440 These lockdowns are unconstitutional, clearly, and they go against our human rights.

00:26:32.380 It's freedom taken away from all of us.

00:26:34.320 This has nothing to do with church, but the owner is part of the human family,

00:26:40.500 and I stand behind him.

00:26:42.240 I cannot stand thinking all the big stores are open, no problem,

00:26:46.800 and then killing these little people, it's just not right.

00:26:49.460 It's not right before God, and I felt obligated to come here today.

00:26:52.400 Well, sir, what brings you out to this eatery today?

00:26:55.420 What brings me out, the courage of that man for saying no to this lockdown,

00:27:03.840 tyranny to this fascist, and now I hope he's going to give a green light

00:27:07.440 to every other business to do the same.

00:27:10.100 You know, that is the question.

00:27:11.220 Is he going to be a catalyst, or will other businesses look at all this law enforcement

00:27:18.220 here today, and they'll be scared off from opening?

00:27:22.280 No, if they're going to be scared off, then these are not the people that,

00:27:25.380 then no one would let them be scared off.

00:27:26.880 These are probably the people that are six feet apart from their parents wearing a mask,

00:27:31.020 and then abide the lockdown order.

00:27:33.140 Arrested Ily.

00:27:34.320 Please, everybody, could you stop talking?

00:27:36.280 Could we please give the floor to the police?

00:27:38.820 Thank you.

00:27:39.240 Thank you very much.

00:27:39.860 Everyone, I just want to bring your attention to the fact that the restaurant

00:27:44.420 is operating against the public health work order, or order that was issued yesterday.

00:27:50.460 I'm good enough.

00:27:51.760 Guys, everybody, please be quiet, please.

00:27:54.860 The restaurant was ordered closed by public health.

00:27:57.360 It is unable, and it's unlawful to operate.

00:28:00.280 In addition to that, the ROA act has closed down in dining,

00:28:05.220 and everyone in here is in contravention of that also.

00:28:08.400 And keep in mind that this is quite a large gathering over the maximum number inside,

00:28:15.120 and obviously there is a possible consequence of being charged.

00:28:19.400 So I just want to provide that.

00:28:21.000 Hey, hey, hey, hey, please, please, please, please, quiet, please.

00:28:24.280 So I'm hoping to deliver the messaging that you are in contravention of these acts.

00:28:28.840 There is potential for charges, and again, I wanted you to be made aware of it.

00:28:34.000 You are violating the ROA.

00:28:37.040 Thank you for your service, I'll avoid it.

00:28:39.100 And hopefully, it's just to leave.

00:28:43.000 And otherwise, there is a constant possibility of being charged.

00:28:49.720 So, uh...

00:28:50.720 Thank you.

00:28:51.720 Thank you.

00:28:52.720 Everybody, please, just a second.

00:28:53.720 Hey, I'd like to...

00:28:55.720 Everybody, please.

00:28:56.720 Please.

00:28:57.720 Can I have the floor?

00:28:58.720 This is my restaurant.

00:28:59.720 Please.

00:29:00.720 He's asked everybody to leave.

00:29:01.720 Does everybody understand that?

00:29:02.720 Yeah.

00:29:03.720 Okay.

00:29:04.720 I accept what you're saying, and I approve of your message to my customers today.

00:29:08.720 Uh, he has asked everybody to leave.

00:29:10.720 Yeah.

00:29:11.720 Thank you.

00:29:12.720 Thank you.

00:29:13.720 See ya.

00:29:16.720 I'll buy you guys briskets, man.

00:29:18.720 No crimes are being charged.

00:29:20.720 No crimes.

00:29:21.720 No crimes.

00:29:22.720 Please.

00:29:23.720 Please.

00:29:24.720 Please.

00:29:25.720 Please.

00:29:26.720 Please.

00:29:27.720 Please.

00:29:28.720 Please.

00:29:29.720 If you guys would like to grab some food, let's get back into a nice day.

00:29:37.720 Get back into a nice lineup again, and anybody can come in and order some food at the counter.

00:29:42.720 And let's stop yelling at the police.

00:29:44.720 They've done their part.

00:29:45.720 They're being very respectful with us.

00:29:47.720 Let's give the same respect back to them.

00:29:48.720 Thank you.

00:29:49.720 Thank you.

00:29:50.720 Thank you.

00:29:51.720 Thank you.

00:29:52.720 Thank you.

00:29:53.720 Okay.

00:29:54.720 So, look.

00:29:55.720 They came by.

00:29:56.720 They gave me a couple of municipal charges, because we do have some issues with our business

00:29:57.720 license here.

00:29:58.720 That's what they started with.

00:29:59.720 I basically had to beg them to charge me with the provincial orders.

00:30:02.720 That's what my lawyers want to take to court and fight.

00:30:04.720 So, they did give us a summons.

00:30:05.720 They did not give us any fines.

00:30:07.720 As far as I know, nobody here was fined today?

00:30:09.720 No.

00:30:10.720 Okay.

00:30:11.720 So, as far as I'm concerned, the police are not going to be breaking up these type of gatherings.

00:30:15.720 They obviously don't want them to happen.

00:30:16.720 But I think we have a lot of power in numbers here.

00:30:18.720 And I really hope we can go and start supporting all the other restaurants that will follow in

00:30:21.720 suit and open in protest this week.

00:30:23.720 Yeah.

00:30:24.720 And I think we had some boys here with a tattoo shop that I just talked to.

00:30:26.720 Yeah.

00:30:27.720 And they're going to do it too.

00:30:28.720 So, yeah.

00:30:29.720 Let's go.

00:30:30.720 Let's make that wave. 0.57

00:30:31.720 Are you guys all going to support the other businesses that choose to open in protest?

00:30:35.720 Yeah!

00:30:36.720 Let's go.

00:30:37.720 Anybody who opens, we need to get all this support over to them too to really show them

00:30:42.720 that this is the way it's going to go.

00:30:44.720 Adam, are you back opening tomorrow?

00:30:47.720 Adam!

00:30:48.720 Tomorrow's another day.

00:30:49.720 It's two.

00:30:50.720 Then the next day we'll get four until there's so many f***ing businesses.

00:30:53.720 There's not enough cops.

00:30:54.720 There will be a tsunami.

00:30:55.720 We'll outnumber them. 0.55

00:30:56.720 You ran out!

00:30:57.720 It's easy.

00:30:58.720 We'll outnumber them. 0.55

00:30:59.720 You ran out!

00:31:00.720 Yes, sir.

00:31:01.720 Was your landlord involved in any of the negotiations, Adam?

00:31:02.720 No.

00:31:03.720 I have not spoken with my landlord yet regarding this.

00:31:05.720 Hey, guys.

00:31:08.720 Shout out Roto-Rooter. 0.97

00:31:10.720 So what did the cops tell you in terms of future reopenings, Adam?

00:31:15.720 They told me that more fines, they told me that more fines could be issued.

00:31:21.720 They told my staff that fines could also be issued against them.

00:31:24.720 So now some of my staff have also been, you know, maybe intimidated to not come back in again.

00:31:28.720 We'll see how that goes.

00:31:29.720 I might need a couple guys to work the counter if we keep going. 0.96

00:31:32.720 Anybody here looking for a job?

00:31:33.720 Yeah!

00:31:34.720 Okay.

00:31:35.720 All right.

00:31:36.720 Well, I might need some other people to scoop some potato salad for me tomorrow.

00:31:40.720 But I will be back here as long as we can have some more support.

00:31:43.720 I will be back here again tomorrow to open.

00:31:49.720 Adam, what kind of legal advice have you been getting?

00:31:53.720 Freedom!

00:31:54.720 Freedom!

00:31:55.720 Freedom!

00:31:56.720 Freedom!

00:31:57.720 Freedom!

00:31:58.720 Freedom!

00:31:59.720 Freedom!

00:32:00.720 Freedom!

00:32:01.720 Freedom!

00:32:02.720 I love you guys.

00:32:03.720 What kind of legal advice have I been getting?

00:32:05.720 Nothing super specific yet.

00:32:07.720 They feel very confident about the emergency order.

00:32:09.720 That it has to be, the measures have to be enacted on people proportionately.

00:32:14.720 And small business is being affected disproportionately.

00:32:17.720 I think that's very clear.

00:32:18.720 And just to be clear, how many tickets did you receive today?

00:32:22.720 Can we see the deacon?

00:32:23.720 Hey, Bullhorn! 0.99

00:32:24.720 Bullhorn guy! 0.78

00:32:25.720 Give him the mic! 0.67

00:32:26.720 You can hear him!

00:32:27.720 I tried bro, he wants to do it himself.

00:32:28.720 Yep.

00:32:29.720 I understand, yeah.

00:32:30.720 Just click the button.

00:32:31.720 I'm trying to drive you into financial ruin.

00:32:32.720 It's a bunch of court summons.

00:32:33.720 There was no fines.

00:32:34.720 Look, I have...

00:32:35.720 Look at that.

00:32:36.720 I have all of these that were issued.

00:32:37.720 These are all municipal charges based on things that I didn't have properly set up in my business.

00:32:52.720 Unrelated to anybody else.

00:32:54.720 I have these two.

00:32:55.720 This is the failure to comply for today and yesterday.

00:32:59.720 We have been charged under the Provincial Offences Act.

00:33:02.720 Pull them all up.

00:33:03.720 Exactly.

00:33:04.720 It's a grand total.

00:33:05.720 Grand total.

00:33:06.720 None of these are fines.

00:33:07.720 These are all court summonses and they're not until February and March.

00:33:10.720 So you were charged under the Reopen Ontario Act?

00:33:13.720 Yes.

00:33:14.720 This is the Reopen Ontario Act, right?

00:33:15.720 That I was charged under.

00:33:16.720 One section?

00:33:17.720 Yeah.

00:33:18.720 Do you think the courts will be open in February?

00:33:20.720 No!

00:33:21.720 They'll be there to take your money. 0.97

00:33:24.720 Yeah.

00:33:25.720 Adam, do you feel that the state is trying to make an example out of you

00:33:28.720 to dissuade others from opening?

00:33:29.720 Is that what's really going on here?

00:33:31.720 No, I think if they were trying to make an example out of us,

00:33:33.720 they would have given fines to everybody here today.

00:33:35.720 They would have tried to prevent us from opening.

00:33:37.720 I'm not sure they have a leg to stand on.

00:33:39.720 And do you see anyone else opening in the days ahead after all the aggravation you've gone through?

00:33:44.720 I've spoken with like a dozen people today and yesterday and other people on social media

00:33:48.720 and someone just right now who promised me that they would be opening and I could share their message.

00:33:53.720 I'm welcoming all those messages from everybody else who's ready to do this.

00:33:56.720 We'll share the message.

00:33:57.720 We'll get the same thing happening.

00:33:58.720 We'll get all your businesses full of support on the day that you choose to open.

00:34:02.720 We'll coordinate it.

00:34:03.720 We'll do it in a really productive way and get everybody open with tons of business again.

00:34:08.720 Adam, the crowd's about three times the size of yesterday.

00:34:12.720 What do you think?

00:34:13.720 I think this is amazing.

00:34:14.720 I love all you guys.

00:34:15.720 I'm so happy to have your support.

00:34:17.720 Thanks for showing up for small business today.

00:34:19.720 I love you guys.

00:34:20.720 Thank you so much.

00:34:21.720 So every one of these fines is just like the fines they gave me.

00:34:28.720 Smoke and mirrors to try to keep the public compliant.

00:34:31.720 Just like yesterday, the fake news told everybody that he got shut down at 4 o'clock.

00:34:35.720 He got a closure order.

00:34:36.720 No, everybody.

00:34:37.720 He ran out of food at 4 o'clock.

00:34:39.720 He took their little closure order, used it like toilet paper.

00:34:42.720 And as you see, he opened up today.

00:34:44.720 And this time, he sold out at 1 o'clock instead of 4 o'clock.

00:34:47.720 Oh, no.

00:34:48.720 He sold out before noon, Chris.

00:34:49.720 There you go.

00:34:50.720 So that's how much power the state has to even close one little small business. 0.91

00:34:56.720 So what's going to happen when hundreds open, thousands open?

00:34:59.720 They've brought all their resources to one.

00:35:02.720 All their cops, all their by-law.

00:35:03.720 All that intimidation is for one place.

00:35:06.720 And they don't have any more resources to spread around anywhere else.

00:35:09.720 And even with all that, what could they do?

00:35:11.720 All they did was make them sell out faster.

00:35:14.720 Thank you.

00:35:15.720 Thanks.

00:35:16.720 Mr. Grimes, Mr. Grimes, quick question.

00:35:18.720 Why is it that this small mom-and-paw restaurant is being targeted,

00:35:21.720 and just 400 metres down the road, there is a Costco jammed to the gills?

00:35:26.720 Thank you.

00:35:27.720 How do you square that?

00:35:28.720 Well, again, that's a call from the province.

00:35:30.720 That's above my pay grade.

00:35:31.720 So I hear that argument all the time.

00:35:33.720 Walmarts and Costco's being opened.

00:35:35.720 I think they've been deemed essential.

00:35:37.720 But, you know, that's a different issue.

00:35:39.720 That's not what I'm here for.

00:35:40.720 So, you know, listen, I hear that argument.

00:35:42.720 I hear it.

00:35:43.720 And I accept that argument.

00:35:45.720 But, again, that's not my call.

00:35:46.720 It's Medical Officer Health's call.

00:35:47.720 And, you know, we're here to uphold her order.

00:35:49.720 And what is the evidence that the food service industry is some sort of a hot spot,

00:35:54.720 a spreader for the virus?

00:35:56.720 If you talk to Restaurants Canada, they say there's no evidence.

00:36:01.720 Medical Officer Health disagrees with that.

00:36:03.720 They do have the evidence.

00:36:04.720 That's where a lot of this is being spread.

00:36:06.720 And I'm not going to argue that.

00:36:07.720 I'm not an expert.

00:36:08.720 I'm not at those tables.

00:36:09.720 So I'm just here to make sure we get this order and get this guy shut down.

00:36:13.720 Do you want to see the authorities throw the book at him, sir?

00:36:16.720 Well, he's targeting himself.

00:36:17.720 So, you know, like I said, it takes me no great pleasure to find a business owner.

00:36:21.720 But when we give the order for Medical Officer Health to shut down permanently,

00:36:23.720 and he just defiantly disobeys it, then we have to throw the book at him, right?

00:36:27.720 We have to.

00:36:28.720 A lot of people are watching what's happening here.

00:36:30.720 So it's important that we follow the orders.

00:36:32.720 We all follow the orders.

00:36:33.720 And we listen to what Medical Officer Health is telling us.

00:36:36.720 Thank you, sir.

00:36:38.720 Well, folks, it's almost 2 o'clock, and day two of the Great Barbecue Rebellion

00:36:44.720 is slowly winding down.

00:36:46.720 And what did we witness here today?

00:36:48.720 Well, we witness an even bigger outpouring of support by the common folk

00:36:53.720 who came out to patronize the business.

00:36:55.720 In fact, he was completely sold out before noon, if you can believe it,

00:37:00.720 and had to shut his doors.

00:37:02.720 And when he shut those doors, law enforcement and by-law went in,

00:37:07.720 and that's when the paperwork started.

00:37:10.720 He's received two provincial offenses and about a half-dozen municipal offenses.

00:37:17.720 That's regarding his business license.

00:37:20.720 There was no dollar amounts on those.

00:37:22.720 That'll be argued in court in February.

00:37:25.720 And I should note, you see a considerable presence of people.

00:37:30.720 I can tell you for a fact, folks, the number of people would be far greater.

00:37:35.720 It has just come to my attention that the police have blocked off the entrances to Adamson BBQ.

00:37:43.720 So there's no way for more people to come and show their support.

00:37:49.720 I'm not sure what the agenda is there.

00:37:52.720 But the bottom line is, according to Adam, he is indeed opening his barbecue tomorrow at 11 a.m.

00:38:01.720 And he's welcoming everyone who enjoys delicious brisket with a side order of freedom to come on down.

00:38:11.720 For Rebel News, I'm David Demenzoid Menzies.

00:38:14.720 What a big day.

00:38:26.720 What a bad day.

00:38:27.720 In some ways, I found the footage of the arrest and the police overkill, as David said, using a bazooka to go after a mosquito.

00:38:36.720 I found it infuriating and motivating.

00:38:39.720 And I think a lot of conservatives will feel the same way.

00:38:41.720 They'll say, something's broken here.

00:38:43.720 If we're sending 100 police to shut down a restaurant, something's broken.

00:38:47.720 But I also know that that's only how half the world thinks.

00:38:50.720 The other half was cheering the cops, cheering the jailing of this man, cheering the lockdown state.

00:38:56.720 I think we have a great divide in this country as much as in the United States.

00:39:00.720 I just wish our side had some sort of heroes and champions.

00:39:05.720 Until that day comes, I'm afraid you're stuck with us.

00:39:08.720 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - November 27, 2020

The Barbecue Rebellion turns violent in Toronto

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