Rebel News Podcast - The Washington Redskins changes its name — but who was complaining about it？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Well, it happened. The Washington Redskins changed their name.

00:00:04.060 But as my friend Joe Warmington asked, should they just change the Redskins part or should

00:00:07.520 they drop the word Washington too? I'll take you through the whole thing. That's ahead.

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00:00:34.420 Okay, here's today's show.

00:00:40.340 Tonight, the Washington Redskins decide to change their name. It's July 5th.

00:00:55.200 July 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:59.220 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:02.900 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:06.960 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:11.860 right to do so.

00:01:12.840 Four years ago, I told you about this huge story in the Washington Post. New poll finds

00:01:23.800 nine in 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins' name. I called it a huge story

00:01:30.140 back then because the Washington Post put a team of eight reporters on that story. I've

00:01:36.020 never heard of that before, have you? Other than maybe covering a federal election or a

00:01:40.780 war. Eight? And the Washington Post commissioned a large survey of over 500 Indians for that

00:01:47.820 poll. That's hard to do. That's not just taking random names out of the phone book. You have

00:01:52.540 to make sure, you know, you're talking to real Indians. I don't know enough about how

00:01:57.460 the U.S. handles Indian bands, for one thing. I don't think they call them Indian bands like

00:02:03.260 we do up here. But my point is, that's a big survey. That's hard to do. But a poll is a

00:02:08.480 poll. 500 actual Indians were asked. Not liberals in a CNN studio, not virtue-signaling politicians.

00:02:16.680 Actual people who might have standing to say, I'm offended by a sports team called the Redskins.

00:02:22.880 And nine out of ten just weren't. You could tell the Post was sort of shocked.

00:02:26.340 Let me remind you of two more questions from that poll that I showed you four years ago.

00:02:31.780 In general, do you feel the word redskin is disrespectful of Native Americans or not?

00:02:38.000 73% said not. I'm trying to think of what that would be like for me if someone said the word

00:02:43.540 Hebrew instead of Jew. I don't know. I'm trying. Or frankly, these days, some people are even afraid

00:02:49.380 to say the word Jew. They think it sounds too harsh. So they say Jewish person. People are so afraid.

00:02:55.200 If there were a sports team called the Brooklyn Hebrews, I think I'd love it. I'd probably get

00:03:02.240 some of their merchandise. You bet I'd go to games if I were in town. And I'd make sure to order some

00:03:07.100 deli sandwiches, which would surely be for sale at the stadium. And if someone said, aren't you mad

00:03:12.620 that this fun sports team that is obviously proud of your people, aren't you mad that they call you a

00:03:18.140 Hebrew? Instead of a Jewish person, I'd say, oh, shut up. That's what I think this is like. 1.00

00:03:26.200 Here's another way the Post put the question to their 500 Indian poll answerers.

00:03:30.940 If a non-Native American person called you a Redskin, would you be personally offended or not?

00:03:40.020 80% said no. Now, I don't think I'd say that word myself. I never have. But I'm a politically

00:03:47.300 alert person in the year 2020. This sports team was founded in 1932. It was originally called the

00:03:54.960 Braves. And then the next year changed to the Redskins. That's how people talked back then.

00:03:59.280 We had different words for many things back then. It's like the NAACP, which was founded in 1909.

00:04:08.380 Do you know that stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? That was the

00:04:14.340 height of progressive language back then. You'd never hear that phrase. Now, the United Negro College

00:04:21.740 Fund was set up in 1944. Same thing. That was a progressive, neutral name.

00:04:29.280 Today, the website doesn't even write out its name in full. It just goes by initials. It's so shy of its name

00:04:34.980 that its mother gave it. Obviously, both of these organizations were started not only by African

00:04:41.060 Americans, but by African Americans who deeply loved and cared for the success of all American blacks.

00:04:46.560 It's absurd to say those names are hateful or bigoted. Our language has changed. Sure,

00:04:52.540 these organizations have always been what they are. And I think that's how it is with sports teams.

00:04:59.220 My own high school teams were called the Red Men, which I think is at least one degree less prickly

00:05:05.260 than red skins. Yes, it makes color reference to skin color. Yeah. So does, I don't know, 0.91

00:05:11.820 Black Lives Matter. We talk about race far too much, I think, but it's a conversation we're having.

00:05:18.980 Always have, I think. Maybe always will, I think. Naming a sports team after something or someone is

00:05:24.460 always positive. No one names himself something negative. It's always something strong or fast

00:05:30.520 or honorable or epic in sports. You don't name yourself something denigrating. It is a sign of respect

00:05:36.500 to the characteristics of Aboriginal people. And as the poll shows, 9 out of 10 real American Indians

00:05:42.520 agree. Look at this. Here's a senior Indian leader. Every time the team owner would invite a senior

00:05:51.920 Aboriginal leader to watch the game with him in his box seats, he'd fly him in by private jet, put him 1.00

00:05:58.160 up in a nice hotel. Great weekend. If you're an Indian elder and you were sitting with the big boss of 1.00

00:06:03.540 the team, watching a team called the Redskins play, it's got to be pretty exciting. I don't think he

00:06:10.220 would go to that if it were demeaning. And you're treated as a VIP. That's got to be an amazing feeling.

00:06:17.520 As I've mentioned before, every actual Indian I know wears Indian-themed clothing.

00:06:24.980 His practic brazo, the senator, wearing a Redskins hat. My favorite Indian chief, Clarence Louis of the

00:06:31.840 Soyuz Band, he always wears Indian-brand clothes. He loves it. And they're good-looking clothes.

00:06:39.100 If there was a team about my tribe, and I guess Jews have tribes, you bet I'd wear the gear. I'd 0.98

00:06:47.040 probably even care about the sport a little bit. Imagine all this kerfuffle. Here's what the

00:06:53.480 Washington Post said in their massive story four years ago.

00:06:56.440 Those interviewed highlighted again and again other challenges to their communities that they consider

00:07:03.480 much more urgent than an NFL team's name. Substandard schools, substance abuse, unemployment.

00:07:12.460 Let's start taking care of our people and quit worrying about names like Washington Redskins,

00:07:17.680 said Randy Whitworth, 58, who lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.

00:07:22.220 Exactly. It's easy for politicians to dress up in costumes and make little speeches and demand that

00:07:31.020 the Redskins or the Braves or the Chiefs or the Black Hawks or the Red Men or the countless other

00:07:35.720 Indian-themed names change their names. I mean, Justin Trudeau even has a generic Indian tattoo on his

00:07:42.540 shoulder. So you know he cares. That's what he tells white people. But when actual Indians, 0.99

00:07:48.420 sorry, Indigenous persons, ask him for some help, like for example, five years into his term as Prime

00:07:55.540 Minister, maybe they can have some clean drinking water by now. Well, then he shows them the real

00:08:00.560 Justin Trudeau and he speaks with a forked tongue. That we invest in the middle class and in people

00:08:07.720 working hard to join it. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you.

00:08:12.480 Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party

00:08:25.980 of Canada. And as we know, the Liberal Party is filled with different perspectives and different

00:08:34.240 opinions and we respect them all. And our commitment to reconciliation continues to be strong and committed.

00:08:40.180 And we will continue to engage. Thank you, sir, for your donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:08:46.220 I really appreciate you being here tonight. Thank you for being here. That is why we are moving

00:08:51.000 forward on reconciliation in a real and tangible way. Thank you, sir. Thank you for being here tonight.

00:08:57.600 Thank you for highlighting how important reconciliation is. Thank you for being here tonight, sir.

00:09:03.680 Thank you very much for your donation to the Liberal Party.

00:09:06.200 Yeah, it's like Trudeau's male feminism. It's like his blackface. You know, Trudeau doesn't 0.83

00:09:11.240 actually give a damn about Indians precisely because he has an Indian tattoo on his shoulder.

00:09:16.600 Isn't that enough? In his mind, that's all he needed to do. He doesn't actually have to solve

00:09:21.080 any real problems. You know, Aunt Jemima's syrup, Uncle Ben's rice, they're gone. They're both deleted.

00:09:26.940 Why? Because they're black. They're not being mocked in these ads. Why are you canceling black

00:09:33.960 people from things that everyone likes? Why are you canceling that pretty young woman from the 1.00

00:09:38.760 land of lakes butter? Did you just, did you just end racism? Tell me, tell me, come on. Did you just

00:09:46.500 save the world from racism by having a little fit on Twitter about Aunt Jemima's syrup? And you just

00:09:52.700 solved racism. Yeah, no, it doesn't work that way. Well, it's 2020 and the Wokarati haven't been this

00:10:00.020 confident since Mao's Red Guards in the 1970s. If you haven't seen my special 90-minute episode about

00:10:06.120 the Cultural Revolution and the photos taken by a red-color news soldier, you really should. We'll

00:10:11.500 put the link to it under this video. I did it on my Noonday show a week ago. That's what's going on

00:10:16.340 here. So the Redskins caved. Here's the news. Redskins to drop name yielding to pressure from

00:10:23.020 sponsors and activists. The NFL team in Washington announced the move on Monday and will continue

00:10:28.200 its search for a new name and logo. Sponsors and activists, I can guarantee you they were all white. 0.99

00:10:35.300 Maybe the odd official Indian, and by that I mean someone who's really a paid actor, a paid lobbyist 1.00

00:10:40.720 who rents himself out to the media as a spokesman for all Indigenous people. Whatever you want,

00:10:45.800 he'll say it. Just like Black Lives Matter claims to speak for all blacks when polls show. In fact, 0.92

00:10:50.540 most blacks are deeply against the violent protests. But we already had the stats. 90% of real Indians

00:10:57.040 were fine with the name. It's the liberal whites who are terrified. That's why they're making the

00:11:01.820 change. But as my friend Joe Warmington asked on Twitter, is it really enough though? Can they keep

00:11:09.720 the Washington part? Or do both names have to go? That's a great point because you know George

00:11:17.160 Washington, well, he's out of vogue these days too. I mean, for starters, he founded America,

00:11:22.500 the racist, fascist regime. But more to the point, he had slaves. He had black slaves. 0.70

00:11:27.840 I mean, take it from the media party. They got to destroy Mount Rushmore.

00:11:32.720 Donald Trump chose the most grandiose symbol of U.S. imperialism on Earth to usher in a very

00:11:40.400 on-brand star-spangled spectacle. The mother of all photo ops, Mount Rushmore. And we know why this

00:11:47.340 president just can't resist going there. President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore where he'll be

00:11:53.400 standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.

00:11:59.180 We have to acknowledge that Mount Rushmore is sitting on Lakota land. The place Donald Trump 0.84

00:12:04.240 is going to on Friday is stolen land. He will inevitably and predictably talk about our heritage.

00:12:15.320 In other words, he will talk about he is the protector of white America. And to indigenous people, 0.88

00:12:22.840 Mount Rushmore with four white presidents, two of whom were slave owners, is one of those symbols. 0.79

00:12:28.380 Questions have really been raised about Thomas Jefferson in particular, but also George Washington

00:12:33.580 for their holdings of slaves. It's worth reminding folks that the man who carved the monument behind

00:12:39.780 me had deep ties to the KKK. There are other issues. The sculptor,

00:12:44.000 Goodson Borglum, was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. That, of course, is something in all the history books.

00:12:51.020 Yeah, it's a big hassle to change a team name like the Redskins, especially a team that's almost 100 years

00:12:56.160 old. Think of all the merchandise and the branding and the ads. You don't want to change names too

00:13:01.900 often. Better drop the Washington part two while you're at it. I mean, some activists and sponsors

00:13:09.460 won't like it, and that's how we're living our lives now. Stay with us for more.

00:13:15.580 Well, you would think British Columbia would be the province that had the most deaths from the

00:13:32.240 Chinese coronavirus. After all, there are the most flights to Vancouver from China. There's a large 0.95

00:13:38.160 population that goes back and forth, a lot of Chinese foreign students there. But actually,

00:13:43.860 they have one of the lowest death rates in the country. There are almost 9,000 Canadians who

00:13:50.100 have passed away from the coronavirus. But B.C., with a population of 5 million, has had only 187

00:13:57.640 deaths. Now, of course, every death is a tragedy, but this is less than the annual flu season. And as

00:14:05.200 you can see from this beautiful chart that's published by data from the B.C. government,

00:14:13.100 right now there are only 16 people in the entire province who are in the hospital, only five people

00:14:21.680 in intensive care. One in one million British Columbians is in intensive care. Sixteen.

00:14:29.860 There are about 50 major hospitals in British Columbia. So you'd have to hunt maybe one in four

00:14:39.620 has a patient from the virus. It's simply over. Whatever the reasons are or things we can study.

00:14:48.140 But here's the thing. British Columbia is still in some ways under lockdown, even though the pandemic

00:14:55.880 is over. In fact, you could argue it never really actually came to B.C. I was looking at some

00:15:02.580 statistics the other day that I shared with you. The number of British Columbians dying from another

00:15:07.260 Chinese plague, this is fentanyl and other illegal opioid drugs, is more than double the number who have

00:15:15.840 died from the virus. There are pandemics in B.C. The coronavirus ain't one of them. So why is B.C.

00:15:24.440 under still a sort of lockdown, a kind of house arrest? Well, I'm not the only person asking that.

00:15:32.000 Our friend John Carpe, the executive director of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms,

00:15:36.460 is asking that. In fact, he's going beyond asking it. He is challenging the lockdown measures in a new

00:15:44.640 analysis called Benefits Assumed, Harms Ignored. And John Carpe joins us now via Skype. John, great to see you.

00:15:54.440 I'm so glad that you are fighting for civil liberties in the era of the pandemic. Too many people are afraid

00:16:00.020 to even say, hey, what are we doing? This is madness.

00:16:04.320 We asked Prime Minister Trudeau and all the premiers, all of the chief medical officers back in April,

00:16:11.240 so we're talking three months ago, what are the projected, anticipated harms of the lockdown in terms of

00:16:18.460 anxiety, depression, alcoholism, drug overdoses, spousal abuse, child abuse, suicides, people driven

00:16:26.800 to despair, and less money being available to pay for health care once we cripple and quasi-destroy

00:16:33.040 our economy? Because I wonder how many people are going to be marching in the streets six or 12 months

00:16:39.480 from now when governments cut health care spending by 20% because we're broke, because we destroyed our

00:16:44.480 economy. What are the costs? What are the costs of the cancelled surgery? How many people have died?

00:16:51.300 Because hundreds of thousands of surgeries all across Canada, including British Columbia, have been

00:16:56.180 cancelled. And three months later, not a single response to any of these questions. And so the

00:17:02.820 politicians are assuming benefits and they're ignoring harms.

00:17:06.420 You know, I know exactly what you're talking about. I bumped into a doctor the other day

00:17:12.140 who said that Toronto's leading cancer care clinic says that their backlog will take them five to eight

00:17:19.140 years to catch up. I said five to eight months? No, he said five to eight years. It's just incredible.

00:17:25.960 Of course, we all know from other economic studies that unemployment is directly tied to suicide and

00:17:31.500 things of that sort. I think that in places like B.C. that mercifully had a lower death toll on the

00:17:37.820 virus. I think we've probably exceeded that and certainly in other jurisdictions too. So you've

00:17:42.700 produced this charter analysis. Are you doing any litigation in support of it or is this just trying

00:17:48.520 to impact the public discussion? Well, we will be filing court challenges in future if the politicians

00:17:57.140 don't come clean and do what they're supposed to do under the charter, which is to provide evidence

00:18:02.360 for the claim that the lockdowns have saved thousands of lives. You hear it repeated like a

00:18:09.120 mantra over and over and over again, just the same way they talk about evidence-based public policy.

00:18:13.840 They talk about science and they talk about the lockdowns have saved thousands of lives. Well,

00:18:19.240 I'd like to see the evidence for that because making an assertion is not evidence.

00:18:23.460 And on the harm side, the charter allows governments to violate our fundamental freedoms to move and

00:18:32.940 travel, associate, assemble, worship, provided that they demonstrably justify these measures

00:18:39.620 as reasonable in a free and democratic society. Now, there's complicated tests that you're aware of,

00:18:46.720 the Oaks test with rational connection and minimal impairment, and it's a very complicated test.

00:18:53.460 But the gist of it is that the governments need to demonstrate that any law, policy, regulation,

00:18:59.700 health order that violates a fundamental charter freedom, like our freedoms to move, assemble,

00:19:04.600 associate, travel, worship, any law that violates charter freedom needs to be demonstrably justified

00:19:13.540 as bringing about more good than harm. And politicians in every jurisdiction have failed miserably

00:19:21.460 and continue to fail in actually demonstrating that the lockdown has caused more good than harm,

00:19:28.380 which is what they need to demonstrate in order for those measures to be valid.

00:19:33.040 You know, as you may know, I published a book about some of these matters,

00:19:37.540 and I looked at the original modeling that Justin Trudeau relied on,

00:19:42.580 and there were different scenarios in his model. The best case scenario was 50,000 deaths. The worst case scenario was 350,000 deaths.

00:19:55.340 I mean, 350,000 deaths is a stunning large number. That truly would be scary.

00:20:01.660 But it turned out that the actual number was around 9,000. And even that is misleading because 80% of those were seniors in particular seniors' homes.

00:20:15.200 So it's not even just if you were over the age of 80. Even that didn't mean you were doomed.

00:20:20.960 It was particular group settings, close settings where hygiene wasn't in place.

00:20:28.160 So, first of all, I think there was a single person under age 20 in the whole country who passed away,

00:20:35.920 and that person had a terminal case to begin with. I mean, province by province,

00:20:41.820 the number of people under 50 who have passed away from this is single digits.

00:20:47.700 And to know that we've shut down our schools, our jobs, because a handful of people, typically, average age, 83, passed away.

00:21:01.100 And I'm not saying I'm happy that the average age is that high.

00:21:03.840 But now that we know it's that high, we can focus our care on them.

00:21:07.120 We don't need to shut down everything else.

00:21:09.280 We can focus all our protection and care on the people at risk and let the rest of us go back to normal life.

00:21:14.980 I don't know. I find it appalling that no one's willing to talk about this.

00:21:18.660 You're one of the few who are.

00:21:20.960 I wish there were more people just voicing that because, unfortunately, you know, fear is very powerful.

00:21:27.620 And the politicians and the chief medical officers scared Canadians into a state of fear in the months of March and April.

00:21:35.320 You mentioned Trudeau's figures of at least 50,000 deaths, possibly 350,000 deaths, actual number 9,000.

00:21:43.460 And the same thing in Alberta.

00:21:45.340 Jason Kenney said that as many as 32,000 Albertans could die in a province with just over 4 million people.

00:21:54.720 32,000 deaths is the fear-mongering that Jason Kenney engaged in.

00:21:59.480 And now the actual number of deaths is approximately 160, with the average age of death being in the low 80s.

00:22:07.120 And, you know, youngest person to have passed away was 27 years old, and that was someone with other pre-existing serious health conditions.

00:22:16.520 So it's just disgusting how this fear-mongering is still persistent.

00:22:23.040 You know, the lockdown could have been justified for a week or two or maybe even three or four weeks if the goal was truly to flatten the curve.

00:22:29.720 It could have been justifiable in March or April.

00:22:33.020 But to prolong this into July and to throw people into unemployment and poverty and despair and suicide and to destroy the prosperity that we need to actually pay for health care

00:22:45.900 and to delay treatments for cancer patients, cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment being delayed, it is unconscionable for any province to be continuing with this lockdown now that we're into July.

00:22:59.900 It is unconscionable.

00:23:01.140 Well, there are a lot of statistics out there, and they're very easy to find.

00:23:08.560 Toronto, for example, has very detailed statistics.

00:23:11.160 I know Ontario, every province does.

00:23:13.820 And you can see it's similar in every province.

00:23:17.140 The peak, when they said flatten the curve, the idea was, oh, my God, this is going to overwhelm our hospitals.

00:23:22.960 We've got to slow the spread.

00:23:25.000 They never said stop this disease.

00:23:26.660 They said flatten the curve, which means let's not have everyone get sick at the same day because that would overwhelm the hospitals. 0.67

00:23:34.000 That's why they brought those ships down in L.A. and New York, those Navy hospital ships, just to relieve the hospitals. 0.93

00:23:41.860 They thought, oh, my God, they're going to overwhelm all the hospitals in L.A. and New York.

00:23:45.600 Bring these massive.

00:23:47.100 No one ever went on them.

00:23:48.820 No one ever needed them.

00:23:49.900 And in Canada, too, the peak was mid-April, April 13th, plus or minus a few days, depending on what province you're in.

00:23:57.900 So here we are, May 13th, June, July.

00:24:01.960 We're three months after the peak.

00:24:04.540 We didn't just flatten the curve, John.

00:24:06.740 The curve never happened.

00:24:08.880 Our hospitals were never full.

00:24:11.720 And now they're back down to the levels that were before everyone rang the bell.

00:24:16.300 They're literally down to late February numbers.

00:24:20.680 And instead of backing off, things are getting tougher in Toronto.

00:24:25.060 They're bringing in mask laws.

00:24:27.260 Mask laws.

00:24:28.380 I would have been open to mask laws back in March, April when no one knew what was going on.

00:24:35.000 And every day the cases were going up, up, up, up, up.

00:24:38.080 And maybe we would see that $350,000 death toll case.

00:24:42.660 But it's been over for months.

00:24:45.400 And only now they're requiring masks?

00:24:47.460 That is so obviously an attempt to keep us in the psychology of fear.

00:24:52.440 Or maybe something more simple.

00:24:53.960 Justin Trudeau bought $2 billion worth of masks at super-inflicted prices.

00:24:59.260 He's got to have us use them or he'll look like an even bigger dope for buying a bunch of masks that expensively.

00:25:05.340 It's, I just, you know, I just don't know.

00:25:12.040 It's very bad public policy, I can tell you that.

00:25:14.460 And I can tell you that under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even something like mandatory mask wearing,

00:25:19.820 if somebody gets a ticket for that and challenges the ticket in court, the onus would be on the government to show that this obvious restriction on our liberty and autonomy is necessary and is reasonable.

00:25:37.740 And I think the government, you know, would have a hard time coming up with persuasive evidence.

00:25:42.440 Now that we have this data on who is impacted by it, if you're not over 70 and if you don't have a serious pre-existing health condition,

00:25:52.840 which, by the way, if you do, then there's all kinds of things that threaten you, not just COVID.

00:25:57.140 But if you don't have the pre-existing health condition and if you're under 70,

00:26:00.640 you're in greater risk of dying simply by getting into your car and driving to the grocery store or driving to work or driving anywhere.

00:26:09.200 So why we have this restriction on freedom when the stats that are in, when you look at the data,

00:26:15.160 it's very clear that this is not this unusually deadly killer that the fear-mongering politicians made it out to be back in March.

00:26:22.620 Yeah. You know, we've shown on the show before the number of Canadians who die by driving into a moose on the highway.

00:26:30.120 And I know that sounds really funny. It's not funny, especially in Newfoundland where there's so many,

00:26:34.960 there's over 100,000 moose there and they just meander onto the road and you're driving fast at night.

00:26:39.880 It's not funny at all. But if you are under 70, you have a higher likelihood of being killed in Canada.

00:26:47.160 Let's say under 60, you have a higher likelihood of driving into a large animal and dying that way.

00:26:53.940 And I'm not making light of it. I'm sort of doing the opposite.

00:26:56.620 I'm saying it's so unlikely that you'll be harmed.

00:26:59.560 Hey, I got a question for you.

00:27:01.340 As you may know, we started a sort of civil liberties project of our own called fightthefines.com

00:27:07.640 and we got about 10 cases.

00:27:09.100 Are you guys doing some cases like that?

00:27:11.040 I mean, this is a big work you've done here.

00:27:13.080 You've done the civil liberties critique of the state of the law.

00:27:17.860 Are you taking any individual cases?

00:27:20.020 Are you guys representing anyone?

00:27:21.300 We're thinking of doing another round.

00:27:23.320 People who are seriously at this late date being fired or kicked out of somewhere for a mask or something.

00:27:31.000 I don't know. What do you think?

00:27:33.180 Well, we do have several cases where we are representing people that got $1,200 tickets

00:27:38.360 for peacefully exercising their charter freedoms to assemble and associate and express their opinions.

00:27:46.600 So we continue to take on cases.

00:27:50.160 We've also written some demand letters to some nursing homes and telling them that the way these seniors 1.00

00:27:57.360 are in solitary confinement for 80 days and cutting off access so the family members cannot go see their mother,

00:28:06.740 father, grandmother, grandfather, and so on, cutting off of family members.

00:28:12.100 We've been dealing with that issue as well.

00:28:14.320 And we're looking at the masks issue.

00:28:16.720 And, you know, there's haven't quite formulated fully what our approach to that is going to be.

00:28:25.540 But we're looking at that very closely right now from a charter standpoint.

00:28:29.280 You know, I've had some of the same thoughts here.

00:28:32.660 You know, I'd like to read to you.

00:28:33.940 I'm just looking forward here.

00:28:36.120 Peter Hitchens, the half-brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, who's just wonderful.

00:28:42.660 And I really wish Christopher Hitchens were around these days.

00:28:46.680 He had this tweet, and I'm just looking for it right here because he was so spot on with what you told me.

00:28:52.100 Here it is.

00:28:52.520 In the name of COVID, the state has come between spouses at the point of death,

00:29:00.140 practically abolished weddings and funerals,

00:29:04.020 prevented millions from making a living,

00:29:06.860 confined us to our homes.

00:29:08.900 Now it tells us what to wear.

00:29:10.720 Is there no point at which people will say enough?

00:29:15.540 And the way he put it about coming between spouses at death,

00:29:20.020 banned marriages and funerals,

00:29:21.880 those are things that in other eras would have actually sparked a revolt or a revolution.

00:29:29.220 You know, to interfere with the basic building blocks of social life like that.

00:29:34.360 And when you say solitary confinement,

00:29:36.020 that's exactly what it is when some of these bizarre nursing homes won't let them visit their family for 80 days in a row. 1.00

00:29:43.880 It's the nursing homes who have sentenced so many old people to die.

00:29:48.280 Last word to you, John.

00:29:49.120 I'm very upset by all of this.

00:29:51.120 And in the beginning, like you, I'm sure we didn't know what to make of anything.

00:29:54.920 And how do you trust China?

00:29:56.660 Maybe they were hiding millions of deaths.

00:29:59.180 I don't know.

00:30:00.340 Or maybe they were just authoritarian idiots who didn't know how to do anything,

00:30:04.000 and their cover-up was worse than the crime.

00:30:06.120 I don't know.

00:30:07.080 So in March, April, maybe we didn't know, and our numbers were climbing up.

00:30:10.680 But we've had three months now, the pandemic's over now,

00:30:14.920 and the politicians, I think they enjoyed their taste of power a little too much.

00:30:20.360 Last word to you.

00:30:22.100 I think there is a God complex at play where, you know,

00:30:26.780 politicians like Trudeau and Kenny and Ford and others,

00:30:33.000 they want to be saviors, and they want to run around saying that they've saved thousands of lives.

00:30:38.100 We have yet to see any concrete evidence for that.

00:30:42.240 And last word that I would say to viewers and listeners is don't complain to each other.

00:30:48.340 Pick up your phone, phone your MPP, phone your MLA, phone your MP,

00:30:52.680 but particularly your provincial representatives,

00:30:55.880 and tell them that these violations of freedom are, after four months,

00:31:01.060 these violations of freedom are not justified today.

00:31:03.800 So don't complain to each other because that doesn't do much good.

00:31:06.480 But pick up the phone, call your MPP, your MLA.

00:31:09.480 John, I said that was the last word, but I want to ask you one last thing.

00:31:13.440 I see that your group, the JCCF, and we love you,

00:31:16.980 and you know what I think about, I think you've probably been the most frequent guest

00:31:20.580 we've ever had on the Ezra Events Show, with the possible exception of our buddy Joel Pollack,

00:31:26.560 because we think what you're doing is so important.

00:31:29.080 And I see that you have an outstanding event coming up,

00:31:32.260 and I hope it's a fundraiser for you.

00:31:34.880 It's your George Jonas Freedom Award,

00:31:38.940 and it's celebrating the 10th anniversary of the JCCF.

00:31:43.420 And here's my favorite part.

00:31:45.340 Oh, my God, I'm so excited.

00:31:47.800 Rex Murphy is your keynote speaker.

00:31:51.500 I want to buy all the tickets myself.

00:31:54.220 Tell me a little bit about this.

00:31:56.000 There's a limit.

00:31:56.380 And how do we, where do I get tickets?

00:31:58.540 Is it at jccf.ca?

00:32:02.240 That's correct.

00:32:03.160 Okay, so tell me about the event.

00:32:04.440 With Rex Murphy, I got to be there.

00:32:07.160 Well, it's our third dinner.

00:32:10.640 First year, the award recipient was Mark Stein,

00:32:14.460 and last year was Christy Blatchford,

00:32:16.860 who unfortunately passed away not too long after receiving the award.

00:32:21.580 This year, it's not a very well-known recipient,

00:32:26.180 but a group that's done tremendous work for decades.

00:32:29.980 It's the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

00:32:32.640 Oh.

00:32:33.060 It's the third recipient of the George Jonas Freedom Award.

00:32:37.440 Okay.

00:32:37.760 George Jonas was just a heroic Canadian,

00:32:41.100 came to our country in 1956 as a refugee from communist Hungary,

00:32:46.360 and was a poet, an author, a national postcolumnist for many years.

00:32:52.000 And so in honour of George Jonas,

00:32:53.820 this will be our third dinner Thursday, October the 1st, in Toronto,

00:32:59.660 and keynote speaker is Rex Murphy.

00:33:02.720 And then we have dinners after that in Calgary and Vancouver as well.

00:33:07.260 With Rex Murphy as well?

00:33:09.740 Rex Murphy is coming to Calgary and probably Vancouver,

00:33:13.940 still waiting for confirmation on that third city.

00:33:16.360 You know, you might have groupies who go from town to town

00:33:19.420 just to catch all of Rex Murphy's speeches,

00:33:22.500 and I don't know anyone who would do that.

00:33:26.220 Well, listen, he is worth coming for on his own.

00:33:30.100 Obviously, supporting the JCCF is the point of it.

00:33:33.820 Is that what this is?

00:33:34.640 Does this raise funds for the JCCF?

00:33:37.500 It's a fundraising dinner,

00:33:40.360 and we have, I think, maximum seating capacity was 300.

00:33:45.140 I don't know if the authorities are going to force that into a lower number or not,

00:33:49.200 but there's a limited number of tickets available at www.jccf.ca.

00:33:54.760 Well, I've got to tell you, as soon as I'm done this interview with you,

00:33:59.180 I am going to buy my ticket,

00:34:01.080 and I don't want to embarrass myself by saying I'm going to be that groupie

00:34:04.660 going from town to town.

00:34:06.760 But it sounds like a great evening.

00:34:08.400 I'm joking around.

00:34:09.420 Rex Murphy is the hero of our time.

00:34:11.880 He's one of the few who hasn't bent the knee to the Red Guards, 0.91

00:34:15.940 to the struggle session Maoists,

00:34:18.760 Maoists, and I'm delighted.

00:34:21.080 He's a perfect fit.

00:34:22.500 So very exciting.

00:34:23.420 October 1st in Toronto.

00:34:25.480 Tickets at jccf.ca.

00:34:28.060 And it looks like they're $200 a ticket.

00:34:30.460 Is that right?

00:34:31.880 Yes, but you get a tax receipt for a large portion of that.

00:34:36.440 And does that include dinner?

00:34:38.300 That includes dinner and complimentary wine.

00:34:39.760 Wow, you're laughing there.

00:34:40.820 If you get a tax receipt and you get dinner,

00:34:44.580 I don't even know if there's any money left for you to make some money.

00:34:48.440 I hope you make some money.

00:34:49.340 I'm in.

00:34:50.400 I'm in.

00:34:51.640 I'll see you there.

00:34:53.020 See you October 1st.

00:34:54.360 That's a bargain.

00:34:54.980 $200 for a tax receipt.

00:34:57.080 Rex Murphy, nice dinner.

00:34:58.520 Toronto, support the JCCF.

00:35:00.500 I'm going to bring my friends.

00:35:03.020 Right on.

00:35:04.100 John, I'm very excited for you.

00:35:05.740 You're one of the few guys fighting for freedom.

00:35:08.620 You fight smart.

00:35:09.620 You fight principled.

00:35:11.200 And you're tenacious.

00:35:12.700 And you're not afraid to take on anyone.

00:35:14.760 You're one of our favorite guys.

00:35:17.140 Thank you.

00:35:17.900 All right.

00:35:18.260 Good luck, my friend.

00:35:20.100 Talk to you soon.

00:35:20.900 There you have it.

00:35:21.340 John Carpe.

00:35:22.200 I am absolutely serious.

00:35:23.780 My friends, if you want a ticket, you better buy them soon.

00:35:26.220 Because I am going to buy tickets for myself and my friends.

00:35:29.320 And I'm going to be there.

00:35:31.120 JCCF.ca.

00:35:32.160 Keynote speaker, Rex Murphy.

00:35:33.480 I know I sound like I'm gushing.

00:35:35.260 But it's all my favorite things combined.

00:35:37.260 The JCCF.

00:35:38.840 Rex Murphy.

00:35:39.840 And if you get a charity tax receipt and it's only 200 bucks.

00:35:42.660 Seriously.

00:35:43.420 I mean, I thought the price was going to be 500 bucks a ticket.

00:35:46.760 I am absolutely going there.

00:35:48.520 And I'm going to see if we can bring some of our rebel talent along with us.

00:35:52.860 All right.

00:35:53.200 Stay with us.

00:35:53.880 More ahead.

00:35:54.240 Hey, welcome back to my monologue Friday on the We Day scandal.

00:36:08.760 Wes writes,

00:36:09.340 It's pathetic that CBC is supposed to be our non-biased news service that is funded by

00:36:14.420 our tax dollars.

00:36:15.140 But that's what you get when you vote in the corrupt liberal party.

00:36:17.980 The only thing that needs to be defunded right now is the mainstream media.

00:36:21.860 Hey, good points.

00:36:23.120 Wes, can I ask you, though, what about the years 2006 to 2015?

00:36:27.300 Because if memory serves, we had a conservative prime minister who seemed to be just fine with

00:36:32.860 the CBC.

00:36:34.720 Ward writes, most corrupt PM we've ever had.

00:36:37.660 I think that could be right.

00:36:40.700 I think part of him just doesn't even realize he's doing anything wrong.

00:36:44.540 I mean, he's a prince.

00:36:45.880 He's almost an angel.

00:36:47.140 He's an aristocrat.

00:36:48.400 What do you mean I can't do that?

00:36:50.040 My whole life, I've done whatever I wanted, whether it's touching women, taking money, 0.99

00:36:54.600 just being a Trudeau.

00:36:56.160 We're different.

00:36:57.000 We're special.

00:36:57.520 He says as much.

00:36:59.440 On my interview with Spencer Fernando, John writes,

00:37:02.100 It's good to see Spencer making regular appearances on The Rebel.

00:37:05.040 His reporting is top notch.

00:37:06.260 As the commander of Rebel says, he's a little prickly when covering the Trudeau crime family.

00:37:11.500 We, not we, need more independent, like-minded reporters on The Beat.

00:37:15.400 I like Spencer.

00:37:16.640 I like his style.

00:37:17.760 I like his beat.

00:37:18.700 I like that he's based in Winnipeg.

00:37:20.140 I like that he's independent.

00:37:21.420 And I like that he comes on our show.

00:37:23.560 Speaking of which, that's it for the day.

00:37:25.340 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:37:29.100 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:36.260 It's fine.

00:37:36.440 We'll see you.

00:37:40.220 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - July 14, 2020

The Washington Redskins changes its name — but who was complaining about it？

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