Rebel News Podcast - July 27, 2018


Trump gets EU to cut tariffs. Why can't Canada get a trade deal with Trump, too?


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

178.26439

Word Count

9,476

Sentence Count

707

Misogynist Sentences

21

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

Trump and the EU don't get along. Why can't the EU get along with Donald Trump? Is it because the EU is run by a bunch of interchangeable, interchangeable politicians? Or is it because Trump doesn't like the EU?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the European Union does a massive trade deal with Donald Trump, cutting tariffs.
00:00:05.640 Why can't we do that?
00:00:07.360 It's July 26th and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:15.820 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:19.640 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:23.360 You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
00:00:26.340 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:37.100 Donald Trump doesn't like the European Union and by that I mean the political structure,
00:00:42.040 the mini United Nations that has riveted itself to 28 different democracies there.
00:00:47.700 I'm sure Trump loves Europe itself and individual countries, but not the EU.
00:00:52.900 We know this because Trump supported Brexit, the referendum by which the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union,
00:01:00.260 even though two years later the deep state over there hasn't permitted that exit to take effect.
00:01:05.820 And when Trump was visiting the UK earlier this month, he wasn't shy about giving Theresa May some tough talk about how to get out.
00:01:14.300 I did give Theresa, who I like, I did give her my views on what she should do and how she should negotiate.
00:01:26.340 And she didn't follow those views.
00:01:28.180 I would actually say she probably went the opposite way.
00:01:31.520 If you really look, she probably went the opposite way.
00:01:34.380 That's fine.
00:01:34.900 You know, she should negotiate the best way she knows how.
00:01:38.500 Now, so you'd think that Donald Trump and the European Union would get along terribly, right?
00:01:44.680 I mean, he openly mocks them.
00:01:46.900 Can I show you one more clip?
00:01:47.940 Now, this isn't from the EU.
00:01:49.520 This is from NATO.
00:01:50.940 But there's a lot of overlap, right?
00:01:52.800 So here's Trump meeting at NATO headquarters last month.
00:01:56.640 You've seen this clip.
00:01:57.580 And he just blasts the Europeans, same countries, for shirking on their fair share of military spending.
00:02:03.160 And for buying their energy from Russia, which is a paradox, because, of course, that is the mighty enemy against which NATO was created.
00:02:11.620 Remember this?
00:02:12.020 Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,
00:02:20.500 where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
00:02:27.840 So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
00:02:33.580 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia.
00:02:38.340 Remember that?
00:02:39.060 He went on for a long time.
00:02:40.760 It was great.
00:02:41.280 Let me show you one more thing.
00:02:42.340 Do you know who the president of the European Union is?
00:02:46.220 Of course not.
00:02:46.820 Nobody does.
00:02:47.500 Because nobody gets to elect him.
00:02:49.020 And there's another reason.
00:02:50.640 There are actually several presidents of the EU.
00:02:53.480 I know that sounds nuts.
00:02:54.600 You've got the president of the European Parliament.
00:02:58.120 His name is Antonio Tajani, if I'm saying that right.
00:03:01.660 He's from Italy.
00:03:02.800 Never heard of him.
00:03:03.520 No one else has either.
00:03:04.420 Don't feel bad.
00:03:05.100 I bet most Italians have never heard of him.
00:03:07.200 And then there's this guy, the president of the European Council.
00:03:09.780 That's Donald Tusk from Poland.
00:03:13.920 And then there's the president of the Council of the European Union.
00:03:16.960 That's actually rotated amongst the member countries every six months.
00:03:21.420 So right now, it's actually the democratically elected Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz.
00:03:28.520 Now, he'll be gone pretty soon.
00:03:29.560 I mean, can you even actually get to know a job in six months?
00:03:33.500 It's sort of a joke, really, as the whole EU is.
00:03:35.940 But probably the real leader of the EU is this guy with the unfortunate name Jean-Claude Juncker.
00:03:42.700 He's the president of the European Commission.
00:03:45.220 There are a few more presidents, but I'll stop boring you with all their presidents.
00:03:48.220 But can I show you a video that I think sums this all up?
00:03:51.740 These anonymous, interchangeable European bureaucrat politicians.
00:03:55.640 This is actually the very first video I ever saw of Nigel Farage.
00:03:59.360 First time I ever heard of him.
00:04:00.640 Former leader of the UKIP parties, you know, who is in the European Parliament.
00:04:03.840 He was having a go at another European president named Herman Van Rompuy.
00:04:09.280 And this is a bit tough and a bit thrilling to watch.
00:04:12.400 And I'd like to play it for you for 90 seconds.
00:04:15.820 Take a look at this.
00:04:16.460 You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.
00:04:22.120 And the question that I want to ask, the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask, is who are you?
00:04:29.320 I'd never heard of you.
00:04:31.280 Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.
00:04:34.160 I would like to ask you, president, who voted for you?
00:04:38.660 And what mechanism?
00:04:41.340 Oh, I know democracy is not popular with you lot.
00:04:44.340 And what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you?
00:04:49.260 Is this European democracy?
00:04:51.600 Well, I sense, though, that you're competent and capable and dangerous.
00:04:57.580 And I have no doubt that it's your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of the European nation states.
00:05:05.420 You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states.
00:05:11.260 Perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which, of course, is pretty much a non-country.
00:05:16.280 But since you took over, we've seen Greece reduced to nothing more than a protectorate.
00:05:25.280 Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job at all.
00:05:28.860 And I can say with confidence that I can speak on behalf of the majority of the British people in saying,
00:05:34.900 we don't know you, we don't want you.
00:05:37.500 And the sooner you're put out to grass, the better.
00:05:41.160 Isn't that great?
00:05:41.900 Not only is that true and fun and slightly painful to watch,
00:05:46.840 but remember that Nigel Farage and Donald Trump are friends, right?
00:05:51.460 Trump even mused about having some sort of official role for Farage.
00:05:54.800 I have no doubt that Farage is a trusted source of information and views for Trump.
00:05:58.840 So you can imagine Trump's loathing for the EU as an institution if his best pal in the UK is that guy, Farage.
00:06:06.380 Trump engages in rhetorical flourishes and insults, too.
00:06:09.500 But he's much more a New York City brawler than that British debate club champ that you saw in Farage.
00:06:15.800 And look at the current president of the EU, Junker, which rhymes just by coincidence with the word drunker.
00:06:23.420 I'm sorry to be mean, but check this out.
00:06:26.500 Look at that guy.
00:06:27.120 Now, I don't know.
00:06:27.980 You might be thinking, well, maybe he's just having ambulatory problems.
00:06:32.300 I mean, maybe he just has problems walking.
00:06:34.940 No, no, hang on a second.
00:06:38.040 I'll show you another clip of him getting drunk, slapping people in the face.
00:06:44.700 He's famous for having cognacs with breakfast.
00:06:47.780 Like, look at this.
00:06:48.720 Look at this.
00:06:50.140 He's just meeting people and making Thai jokes.
00:06:52.900 He's about to slap a face.
00:06:54.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the president of the European Union.
00:07:06.720 Yeah, he likes to drink.
00:07:09.180 I mean, let's stop being mean to him, I guess.
00:07:11.440 But I just want you to know that that is the leader of the European Union.
00:07:19.400 But back to Trump.
00:07:25.760 Underneath all of Trump's blistering insults or his over-the-top praise, Donald Trump is a negotiator.
00:07:34.280 He's a dealmaker, even with people he doesn't like.
00:07:38.200 Look at how Trump is dealt with Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
00:07:41.360 He goes from insulting him as little rocket man to praising him as a great leader, whatever it takes to get a deal.
00:07:46.280 And in this case, to disarm a rogue nuclear state.
00:07:50.080 Makes sense.
00:07:50.860 Trump hates the New York Times, owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
00:07:56.280 Trump hates the Times.
00:07:57.920 Trump mocks Slim.
00:07:58.760 But then Slim bent the knee and he called up Donald Trump and said, can we meet and figure things out?
00:08:03.940 And look at how Trump handled that.
00:08:05.840 He wrote, yes, it is true.
00:08:08.240 Carlos Slim, the great businessman from Mexico, called me about getting together for a meeting.
00:08:12.500 We met.
00:08:13.020 He is a great guy.
00:08:13.980 Now, I think they still hate each other, but that's the thing about Donald Trump.
00:08:18.320 He will meet with anyone to try to make a deal with anyone if it advances his interests.
00:08:22.700 And for the past 550 days, that means advancing America's interests.
00:08:27.160 And so it was with John Claude Drunker.
00:08:30.740 It doesn't matter that Donald Trump probably hates him as much as Nigel Farage does.
00:08:34.820 It doesn't matter that we know for a fact Trump hates the EU.
00:08:38.120 Trump has a mission, advance America's trade interests.
00:08:41.540 He was threatening the European Union with huge tariffs and other sanctions because they exclude U.S. goods and services.
00:08:47.980 And more to the point, Trump has proven that he's not bluffing when it comes to a trade war.
00:08:52.500 Not only has he been talking about fighting back with tariffs for decades, but he's done it, taking on mighty China.
00:08:57.760 So Junker and the rest of the milquetoast bureaucrats at the EU, probably risk-averse, probably nervous Nellies when they see Trump, who they surely despise too, who they think is a wild cowboy, erratic, dangerous.
00:09:10.440 He comes up and says, open up your countries to American goods or we will block your European goods from America.
00:09:15.420 And they believe his threat.
00:09:17.780 The whole anti-Trump media, the whole anti-Trump commentariat, they were saying to Trump, don't do it, don't threaten a trade war, don't bring in tariffs.
00:09:24.720 That will hurt us all.
00:09:25.520 And of course, they're right.
00:09:27.080 Trump cutting back trade with Europe would hurt everyone, but it would hurt Europe much, much more than it would hurt America that's having a surging economy right now.
00:09:34.700 And so the Europeans blinked.
00:09:36.460 They blinked.
00:09:37.940 And they didn't, you know, they didn't cave into America.
00:09:42.620 It was bilateral.
00:09:43.540 It was symmetrical.
00:09:44.960 Both sides will now have freer trade.
00:09:47.980 It's truly what Trump talks about, a level playing field.
00:09:50.920 Yeah, they reduced more barriers because they had more barriers, but it's equal access for both sides.
00:09:55.600 Amazing.
00:09:56.160 Here, watch this.
00:09:57.400 Already today, the United States and the European Union have a $1 trillion bilateral trade relationship, the largest economic relationship anywhere in the world.
00:10:09.040 We want to further strengthen this trade relationship to the benefit of all American and European citizens.
00:10:17.260 This is why we agreed today, first of all, to work together towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods.
00:10:32.740 Thank you.
00:10:33.120 Well, the stock market surged in the wake of that announcement.
00:10:37.080 They were nervous about a trade war.
00:10:38.600 They're celebrating this trade deal.
00:10:40.660 Record highs for the Dow Jones.
00:10:43.260 And look at this hilarious picture of Junker kissing Trump.
00:10:47.220 I don't know if he was drunk or sober, maybe a bit of both.
00:10:50.280 Maybe just relieved that he's not in a fight with Trump.
00:10:52.480 Junker kissed Trump, and Trump thought it was a funny enough moment that he tweeted it.
00:10:58.240 Look what he wrote.
00:10:59.260 It is funny.
00:11:00.080 He said, obviously, the European Union is represented by Junker, and the United States, as represented by yours truly, love each other.
00:11:07.880 Tell me that's not funny.
00:11:09.540 Tell me that's not funny.
00:11:10.900 That is funny.
00:11:11.980 I wonder what Nigel Farage thinks of that.
00:11:14.060 Trump has the best of all worlds.
00:11:15.300 He gets to insult the European when he wants to.
00:11:18.380 He gets a trade deal from them when he wants to.
00:11:20.520 He gets the photo op to Nigel Farage so far.
00:11:23.540 I like Nigel Farage, but he only has one of those three.
00:11:27.040 America first.
00:11:28.000 Hey, can we get a bit of that?
00:11:29.480 Can we get a bit of the Canada first action?
00:11:32.380 As in, maybe Justin Trudeau could get a deal with Trump, too.
00:11:34.980 We are far more reliant on the U.S. market than the Europeans are.
00:11:38.520 We are far more vulnerable through a trade war with Trump than the Europeans are.
00:11:42.560 Trump specifically has threatened our auto sector with a 20% tariff.
00:11:46.400 That would kill 160,000 jobs in Ontario almost immediately, say the Canadian banks.
00:11:51.280 So why doesn't Trudeau just go down to the White House like Junker did, swallow his pride
00:11:55.740 like Junker did, and get a deal with Trump like Jean-Claude Junker did?
00:12:00.800 You know that Junker hates Trump.
00:12:02.140 We know, of course, he does.
00:12:03.000 He's a European.
00:12:03.740 But he feared Trump more than he hated Trump.
00:12:06.680 So he got a good deal for the EU.
00:12:09.040 In what?
00:12:09.480 One day?
00:12:11.440 Do you think that's possible with Trump?
00:12:12.860 Of course it's possible with Trump.
00:12:13.840 He's a Manhattan property developer.
00:12:15.540 He moves fast.
00:12:17.340 It's Trudeau's fault that we don't have a deal now.
00:12:19.660 Remember these headlines?
00:12:20.920 For six months, Trudeau pushed demands on Trump that NAFTA have all sorts of weird inclusions
00:12:26.180 like feminism and global warming, things that don't belong in a trade treaty, things that
00:12:30.180 he knew, things that he knew Trump wasn't interested in, things that were just for Trudeau's
00:12:35.160 own virtue signaling back home.
00:12:36.660 So we don't have a deal with Trump.
00:12:39.680 Trudeau's being passive aggressive about it.
00:12:41.120 He's picking fights with Trump.
00:12:43.200 Gerald Butts, Trudeau's principal secretary, has more or less admitted in this tweet that
00:12:47.760 they want to fight with Trump to use it as a 2019 re-election tactic.
00:12:51.280 Vote for us.
00:12:51.840 We hate the evil Trump.
00:12:53.500 Imagine sacrificing 160,000 Ontario jobs just for a campaign slogan.
00:12:58.240 That's Trudeau and Butts.
00:12:59.320 But look at what Mexico's doing.
00:13:01.480 So Europe got their deal.
00:13:02.900 Now Mexico has a new president.
00:13:04.540 Did you know that?
00:13:05.040 He's a radical leftist.
00:13:06.360 Let me pronounce his name.
00:13:07.120 Andres Manuel López Obrador.
00:13:09.700 You know Trump's views on Mexico.
00:13:11.380 You know that other than China, it's the country he's most upset with when it comes
00:13:14.740 to trade and immigration.
00:13:17.100 But Trump is an opportunist in the best meaning of that word.
00:13:19.420 He looks for opportunity.
00:13:20.560 He just went from war to peace and a kiss with Junker in what, 24 hours?
00:13:24.620 And now with a new Mexican president, Trump sees a new opportunity, just like he's trying
00:13:28.440 to go from war to peace with North Korea, though that is obviously much more serious.
00:13:33.120 Look at this.
00:13:34.800 Congratulations to Andres Manuel López Obrador on becoming the next president of Mexico.
00:13:40.120 I look very much forward to working with him.
00:13:41.880 There is much to be done that will benefit both the United States and Mexico.
00:13:45.000 Hey, talk about turning over a new leaf.
00:13:46.840 Am I right?
00:13:47.360 That's Trump for you.
00:13:48.920 Now look at this headline.
00:13:50.520 Look at this.
00:13:51.620 So this is a week ago.
00:13:52.820 Trump says U.S. may have separate trade deal with Mexico.
00:13:57.000 And then underneath, can you see it there?
00:13:58.420 It says NAFTA ministers said to meet in Washington later this month.
00:14:02.180 Trump says relationship with a new Mexican president is great.
00:14:05.580 Isn't that amazing?
00:14:06.480 And then this news, just five days later, look how fast things are moving.
00:14:10.140 This headline, Mexico wants August NAFTA deal as Trump vows dramatic action.
00:14:16.380 An agreement would let next president focus on domestic issues.
00:14:19.420 Negotiation's set to pick up this week with Washington meetings.
00:14:22.920 Do you see how fast they're moving?
00:14:25.100 Trump sees an opportunity.
00:14:26.220 New Mexican president, new chance.
00:14:27.960 They're moving so quickly.
00:14:29.780 Trump wants a deal with Mexico in August.
00:14:31.960 August starts next week.
00:14:34.040 And why not?
00:14:35.220 He got a deal with Junker.
00:14:37.500 So that's Mexico.
00:14:39.960 In Canada, our prime minister is still on holidays.
00:14:45.140 Do you see that?
00:14:45.660 It says personal days.
00:14:46.480 He's still on holidays.
00:14:47.840 He's been on holidays for a week.
00:14:49.080 He doesn't care.
00:14:49.880 He doesn't care about a mass murder in Toronto.
00:14:51.740 He doesn't care about a trade deal with the U.S.
00:14:54.420 Everyone in the world is getting their trade deal with Trump.
00:14:56.640 And they're good trade deals.
00:14:58.160 They're good deals.
00:14:59.740 And by the way, Trump offered such a deal to Trudeau.
00:15:01.760 He said it in the form of a laugh.
00:15:04.120 The moment he sat down with Trudeau at the G7 summit.
00:15:06.680 But it's not a joke.
00:15:07.900 It's pretty much the deal that Junker just took.
00:15:10.280 Remember this?
00:15:11.880 Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United States.
00:15:19.840 That got a laugh.
00:15:20.420 But I'm sorry what's so funny about that.
00:15:21.900 Well, isn't that what free trade means?
00:15:23.980 Don't we actually have a free trade deal with the U.S. right now?
00:15:27.080 Isn't Trump in jest offering something to us that's amazing?
00:15:32.180 Free access to their huge market, the most important market in the world.
00:15:35.040 Don't we need that right now just to keep our auto industry, for example?
00:15:39.280 Why wouldn't Trudeau have responded, well, let's have a deal.
00:15:42.920 Let's do a deal.
00:15:45.040 Trudeau could have said, deal.
00:15:46.720 Let's have the lawyers write it up.
00:15:47.920 And Donald, let's just hang out and have fun in Quebec for the next day.
00:15:50.000 He could have said that, and it would have happened.
00:15:53.120 Why didn't we say yes?
00:15:54.640 Why didn't we take the yes there?
00:15:56.920 That's exactly what Trump and the EU are doing.
00:15:59.480 Zero tariffs.
00:16:01.120 So why was that taken as a joke?
00:16:03.620 The European Union has already agreed to buy a lot more U.S. agriculture and U.S. liquefied
00:16:08.620 natural gas, or LNG.
00:16:10.520 It's winning, winning, winning all the way.
00:16:12.060 Well, why can't we get a deal?
00:16:12.980 I know why, because Gerald Butts wants to fight, because Justin Trudeau wants to protect
00:16:18.040 the Quebec dairy cartel.
00:16:20.840 But Junker just took the same deal, and I bet Mexico will take it too.
00:16:26.040 And who knows what will come out of Donald Trump's negotiations with Russia.
00:16:29.540 I don't know.
00:16:30.200 Canada is being run by a man-child in Justin Trudeau, who's being manipulated by an extreme
00:16:34.720 ideologue in Gerald Butts.
00:16:36.360 Trump is getting his deals.
00:16:37.920 He's a dealmaker.
00:16:39.000 He's working on a deal with North Korea.
00:16:40.560 He got a better deal from NATO.
00:16:42.400 They're spending more money on the military now.
00:16:43.960 He just got a huge EU trade deal.
00:16:46.260 He'll get his Mexico deal, I bet, with people who hate him, and people who he surely hates
00:16:51.920 in return, but he's a grown-up.
00:16:53.380 In Manhattan property deals, you deal with people you hate all day long, and you make
00:16:56.600 billions of dollars if you can do it.
00:16:58.680 Donald Trump is making trillion-dollar deals now for Americans and for others, too.
00:17:03.000 I am sorry to make this prediction.
00:17:05.700 We're going to screw it up.
00:17:06.740 Canada's going to screw it up.
00:17:07.660 Justin Trudeau's going to screw it up.
00:17:08.800 The whole world is about to get better because of these deals, these trade deals, the whole
00:17:12.100 world.
00:17:12.800 But our petty little prince is keeping Canada out of those deals.
00:17:16.920 What a shame.
00:17:18.520 Stay with us for more.
00:17:19.440 You shut your lips right now and listen.
00:17:38.820 We are all free humans here.
00:17:40.140 We are going to be told by white trash what to do anymore.
00:17:44.140 Okay.
00:17:44.700 That is for sure.
00:17:46.100 You're talking to us.
00:17:48.020 I did nothing but respectful.
00:17:48.920 And we are working to build relations with our neighbors.
00:17:54.800 Take off.
00:17:55.480 I will be.
00:17:55.960 You have no right here.
00:17:58.860 I have every right to me.
00:17:59.520 You don't have any right.
00:18:01.160 Of course I do.
00:18:01.840 Let me see your Indian status card.
00:18:03.680 I don't need any Indian status card.
00:18:04.080 Let me see your Indian status card.
00:18:05.960 I can show you my card.
00:18:06.460 Then you don't have that right.
00:18:07.780 Now take off.
00:18:09.060 No, sir.
00:18:09.500 That's not how it works.
00:18:10.500 That's how it works.
00:18:11.700 If you're not on your best behavior, you have to leave.
00:18:14.520 We're not here to agitate you.
00:18:15.360 Take off.
00:18:16.340 None of that is true.
00:18:16.960 Take off.
00:18:18.140 Opinions are not the law.
00:18:19.060 Take off.
00:18:19.920 We're not here to agitate you.
00:18:22.280 Don't touch me.
00:18:23.540 We're not here to agitate you.
00:18:24.500 You're touching me with your violent presence.
00:18:28.460 You don't need to do that.
00:18:29.420 Yeah, I do.
00:18:29.920 No, that's not necessary.
00:18:31.120 Yeah, you're filming us without consent.
00:18:32.680 You can leave.
00:18:33.600 This is...
00:18:34.320 Well, I'm going to be back.
00:18:35.600 Hey, you...
00:18:36.240 Don't f***ing touch me.
00:18:37.720 No, don't f***ing touch me.
00:18:39.840 I have you guys to go.
00:18:40.460 It's time to go.
00:18:43.380 You guys...
00:18:44.220 It's time to go.
00:18:45.300 It's time to go.
00:18:46.240 It's time to go.
00:18:47.180 I literally came here to take photos.
00:18:48.580 It's time...
00:18:48.920 That disgraceful scene happened in Burnaby, B.C.
00:18:51.640 at the illegal slum shantytown
00:18:54.900 by professional actors and other paid protesters
00:18:58.080 against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion.
00:19:01.340 Not only are they super gross,
00:19:03.200 and as you can see,
00:19:04.440 the racists calling Andrew Mann white trash,
00:19:07.380 making racial demands that he prove his aboriginal status
00:19:11.060 before standing on the public road.
00:19:13.060 It looks like they assaulted the person holding the camera.
00:19:16.920 We'll talk to Andrew in a minute about this.
00:19:18.920 But they're all in contravention of an order by the public,
00:19:24.300 by the Burnaby municipality,
00:19:26.960 to vacate their illegal shantytown.
00:19:31.100 Well, joining us now is Andrew Mann,
00:19:33.820 the person in that video.
00:19:36.040 He's with Suits and Boots.
00:19:38.040 And he joins us now.
00:19:38.900 Andrew, nice to meet you.
00:19:39.940 Tell me a little bit more about what we saw there.
00:19:44.240 Who was holding the camera?
00:19:45.740 What happened when they were jostled?
00:19:47.780 Give us a few more facts.
00:19:50.380 Yeah.
00:19:50.740 All right.
00:19:51.100 So the main fact I want to start off with, Ezra,
00:19:53.420 is that I didn't go up there as a...
00:19:56.600 Well, they didn't know I was a Suits and Boots supporter
00:19:59.040 when I was up there.
00:19:59.860 What Suits and Boots first?
00:20:00.860 Let me stop you right there.
00:20:01.720 It sounds great.
00:20:02.320 Yeah.
00:20:02.720 Okay.
00:20:03.100 So Suits and Boots is great.
00:20:04.940 Suits and Boots is a non-for-profit,
00:20:08.600 pro-resource lobbying group.
00:20:11.140 We are out and about trying to garner support
00:20:14.640 for our resource sector in Canada
00:20:16.160 and trying to counter the protesters
00:20:19.340 that seem to be getting away with far too much aggression,
00:20:22.720 that seem to be getting away with...
00:20:24.320 It's just they're getting leeway from the media
00:20:27.520 and from the politicians
00:20:29.000 to do essentially what they want, when they want,
00:20:32.940 and Suits and Boots,
00:20:34.620 we just decided it was about time
00:20:36.240 that somebody stood up for the working man,
00:20:38.200 the jobs, and the resource sector,
00:20:39.740 and that's our job.
00:20:40.720 So are you the Suits side or the Boots side?
00:20:43.560 I'm the Boots side.
00:20:44.740 If you're looking behind me here,
00:20:46.380 you can see a blank white wall,
00:20:48.320 and I'm just sitting in a little corner
00:20:49.520 on our job site right now.
00:20:50.960 Well, thanks for having me.
00:20:51.720 So are you an electrician?
00:20:52.920 Is that your background?
00:20:54.780 I'm an electrician, yes, sir.
00:20:56.060 Right on.
00:20:56.380 You're a working man,
00:20:57.340 and there'd be a lot of jobs
00:20:58.900 that would come from any of these construction projects.
00:21:01.300 They're multi-billion dollar
00:21:02.440 shovel-ready construction projects.
00:21:04.620 It's incredible that they're blocked by some hippies.
00:21:07.240 So you went up there,
00:21:08.440 and you were very well behaved,
00:21:10.060 at least in the clip I saw.
00:21:11.220 You did not swear.
00:21:12.340 You were not antagonistic.
00:21:13.500 You were not physical.
00:21:15.020 All the things that happened to you,
00:21:16.620 tell me a little bit more about what they said and did,
00:21:18.660 and who was it holding the camera?
00:21:20.040 Was that your wife?
00:21:22.620 That was my fiancée holding the camera, actually.
00:21:25.340 And it sounds like she looked like she was pushed.
00:21:27.400 Was she pushed?
00:21:29.080 Yes, she was pushed.
00:21:30.620 You can hear at the end of the video,
00:21:32.480 I came down with the most thunderous voice
00:21:35.880 I think I could muster up saying,
00:21:37.680 you stay away from her.
00:21:39.360 You don't touch her.
00:21:40.400 And that's because, well, they touched it.
00:21:42.840 And you know, as the man in that relationship,
00:21:44.640 it's my job to jump in and ensure her safety.
00:21:47.240 And that's exactly what I did.
00:21:48.460 Well, you're exactly right.
00:21:49.400 And it's telling to me
00:21:51.020 that they didn't have the courage to push you around.
00:21:54.120 I mean, they came right in your face.
00:21:55.480 That was pretty gross.
00:21:56.620 And I think he brushed up against you.
00:21:58.500 But classic Antifa move,
00:22:00.980 classic alt-left cowards,
00:22:03.180 they go after the woman.
00:22:04.420 It always happens.
00:22:05.740 They've done it to our reporters, too.
00:22:07.340 Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:22:08.560 when Lauren Southern was with us,
00:22:10.300 Faith Goldie,
00:22:11.400 they always beat up
00:22:13.560 or try to beat up the women.
00:22:15.120 And I think it says a lot about them, doesn't it?
00:22:19.660 I couldn't tell you why they do that,
00:22:21.920 but you're correct.
00:22:22.720 It seems they go for the easy target,
00:22:24.660 the low-hanging fruit.
00:22:26.320 Victoria is five feet tall.
00:22:28.120 I'd be surprised if she weighed over 100 pounds.
00:22:30.420 She is the easiest target you could find.
00:22:32.360 And the protesters after the video cutout
00:22:36.540 told me to go back to my car
00:22:37.800 with my underage girlfriend.
00:22:39.660 Well, she's not underage, first of all.
00:22:42.080 She's exactly my age.
00:22:43.760 And they assaulted her,
00:22:46.280 which leads me to think
00:22:47.300 they, in their mind,
00:22:48.380 just assaulted a minor.
00:22:50.100 How is that logical?
00:22:51.520 So that is, theoretically,
00:22:53.300 the lowest-hanging fruit.
00:22:54.540 An under-100-pound minor female
00:22:56.600 is what, in their head,
00:22:57.860 they assaulted at that time.
00:22:59.100 Now, we sent our own Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:23:01.340 to that same location a few days ago.
00:23:03.680 We knew that they would come
00:23:05.240 and try and rough her up
00:23:06.200 because they've done it before.
00:23:07.140 So we sent a professional security guard.
00:23:10.340 And because of that,
00:23:11.820 she was okay
00:23:12.480 and our cameraman was okay.
00:23:14.500 Were there any private security
00:23:16.700 or police there?
00:23:18.080 Was there a police car?
00:23:19.160 Did any authority observe this altercation?
00:23:23.620 No, sir.
00:23:24.380 There was no private security
00:23:26.000 and there was no RCMP presence up there.
00:23:31.280 When did this all happen, by the way?
00:23:32.800 When did that video,
00:23:33.900 when was it filmed?
00:23:35.400 It was filmed Monday night
00:23:36.520 at around 7 p.m.
00:23:37.600 All right.
00:23:38.060 So I know for a fact,
00:23:39.500 because I've seen a copy of it,
00:23:41.000 the city has issued an injunction,
00:23:43.020 which is basically a way of saying
00:23:44.380 a court, a legal order,
00:23:45.740 a legal order saying,
00:23:46.860 get out,
00:23:47.480 we're going to clear out
00:23:48.440 your shantytown, your slum.
00:23:50.560 Sounds like they're still there.
00:23:51.680 Is that right?
00:23:53.660 Oh, they're clearly still there.
00:23:55.140 I hear the deadline was
00:23:56.380 6 a.m. Saturday morning
00:23:57.960 for them to be a vacated site.
00:24:00.160 And they're clearly still on site.
00:24:02.520 They don't intend to leave.
00:24:06.520 And I think they will do
00:24:08.720 whatever they need to to stay.
00:24:10.200 They don't want to leave their site.
00:24:11.840 You know, you have two people.
00:24:13.800 They may be mentally ill.
00:24:14.920 I don't know.
00:24:15.320 You have an older man
00:24:16.880 and a middle-aged woman there.
00:24:18.320 I don't think it would be tough
00:24:19.380 to very gently pick them up,
00:24:21.240 put them in the back of a police vehicle,
00:24:22.760 take them to court or whatever.
00:24:24.460 I mean, I don't think it,
00:24:25.400 like it doesn't look like
00:24:26.320 these are heavily armed bodybuilders.
00:24:29.140 I think really half a dozen police
00:24:30.780 could come and clear this whole thing up
00:24:32.660 and then you bring in, you know,
00:24:33.940 a 1-800-got-junk truck
00:24:37.060 to pick up their shantytown.
00:24:38.740 Like, it should not be
00:24:39.600 a logistically difficult thing to do
00:24:41.480 other than the lack of political will.
00:24:44.240 There is no one in Burnaby,
00:24:45.840 whether it's a police, prosecutor,
00:24:48.200 politician, or the press,
00:24:50.200 willing to go in and fix this problem.
00:24:52.420 I mean, the fact that
00:24:53.360 they're defying the order...
00:24:54.140 Oh, you know, I would like to just...
00:24:57.140 I wouldn't say there's not a police.
00:24:59.040 And I can't speak for the political side there
00:25:01.020 because I don't get involved
00:25:01.920 in Burnaby politics.
00:25:03.540 But the police officers that came
00:25:05.520 and assisted me in trying
00:25:07.020 to find my license plate
00:25:08.200 and to take the report after the assault,
00:25:11.380 they were interested
00:25:12.980 in the clearing of the camp.
00:25:15.440 They didn't seem to want it there.
00:25:16.920 They understood that they have
00:25:18.300 to follow orders from their superiors.
00:25:20.120 Got it.
00:25:20.400 So I'd say it's unfair to say
00:25:21.640 there's not a single police in Burnaby
00:25:23.020 that wants that gone.
00:25:24.000 Thank you for the correction.
00:25:25.320 I accept your point.
00:25:26.140 The beat cops are probably sick of it,
00:25:28.380 but the brass are political.
00:25:30.180 I appreciate that important distinction.
00:25:32.700 Again, that's sort of
00:25:33.340 a boots and suits distinction.
00:25:34.660 The boots.
00:25:35.240 The boots on the ground,
00:25:36.320 the cops on the beat
00:25:37.180 want these hippies and hobos gone.
00:25:39.580 But the political brass
00:25:40.860 are paying attention
00:25:41.560 to what John Horgan, the premier,
00:25:43.260 or Justin Trudeau,
00:25:44.120 the prime minister,
00:25:44.740 have to say.
00:25:45.120 That's my theory.
00:25:47.520 Well, it's probably
00:25:48.680 not an incorrect theory.
00:25:51.040 So it sounds like
00:25:52.360 you have filed a police report.
00:25:54.660 You've got the video evidence,
00:25:56.480 or at least partial video evidence.
00:25:58.140 Do you think the police
00:25:59.320 will take any action?
00:26:00.980 Because I think,
00:26:01.860 I'm not sure if what happened to you
00:26:03.320 could be called an assault.
00:26:04.460 Maybe.
00:26:05.460 But it looks like
00:26:06.740 what happened to your fiancé
00:26:07.920 definitely was.
00:26:08.720 So in the video,
00:26:11.060 what happened to me was,
00:26:12.740 you can see that I clearly
00:26:14.040 got brushed by that elder.
00:26:16.000 And I would never press charges
00:26:17.480 on him for any reason.
00:26:18.620 I can respect him enough
00:26:19.700 to not instigate any further.
00:26:22.600 The young fellow
00:26:23.340 that pushed my fiancé
00:26:24.640 also shoved me around too.
00:26:27.340 And at the end of the video,
00:26:29.680 you'll have to pay real good attention,
00:26:31.180 Ezra,
00:26:31.420 but I advise that you watch
00:26:33.360 the last 10 seconds of the video.
00:26:35.320 You'll see on the ground,
00:26:36.300 there is an aluminum piece of metal
00:26:38.760 that's used to support road signs
00:26:41.040 on construction sites
00:26:41.980 laying on the ground.
00:26:42.940 And you'll see it in the video,
00:26:44.380 and then you'll see it get picked up,
00:26:45.780 and then you'll see the shadow of it
00:26:47.080 facing directly at my body
00:26:48.760 in the video.
00:26:49.940 And the scrawny guy
00:26:52.380 who shoved Victoria
00:26:54.480 and also shoved me
00:26:55.420 picked up that piece of aluminum
00:26:57.340 in attempts to joust me
00:26:58.880 back to my car.
00:26:59.960 And then followed my fiancé
00:27:01.820 back to the car with it.
00:27:03.040 No, you don't need to do that.
00:27:05.580 No, that's not necessary.
00:27:07.320 Yeah, you're filming us
00:27:08.100 without consent.
00:27:08.880 You can leave.
00:27:09.800 This is...
00:27:10.540 Well, I'm going to be back.
00:27:11.800 Hey, you...
00:27:12.440 Don't f***ing touch me.
00:27:13.920 No, don't f***ing touch me.
00:27:16.040 I have to go.
00:27:16.640 It's time to go.
00:27:17.200 Okay.
00:27:19.660 You guys...
00:27:20.440 It's time to go.
00:27:21.500 It's time to go.
00:27:22.440 It's time to go.
00:27:23.380 I literally came here
00:27:24.300 to take photos.
00:27:25.320 Well, there you go.
00:27:26.020 So did you give this video
00:27:27.540 evidence to the police?
00:27:30.080 Instantly.
00:27:30.700 The police,
00:27:31.320 they arrived,
00:27:32.380 pulled out their laptop.
00:27:33.300 I plugged my phone
00:27:34.040 into their laptop
00:27:34.700 and he transferred the file.
00:27:36.780 All right.
00:27:37.320 Well, listen,
00:27:37.700 I hope they do something.
00:27:38.820 I got to tell you,
00:27:40.040 I accept your observation
00:27:42.100 that the deep cops,
00:27:44.220 the actual police
00:27:45.020 on the street,
00:27:45.660 want to uphold the law.
00:27:47.240 No one goes
00:27:47.800 to the police academy
00:27:48.800 saying,
00:27:49.300 I want to be
00:27:49.680 a political hack.
00:27:50.780 They want to go
00:27:51.500 uphold the law.
00:27:52.620 Or saying they want
00:27:53.780 to be a pushover.
00:27:54.840 Yeah.
00:27:55.100 What police officer
00:27:56.420 do you know
00:27:56.980 on the ground
00:27:57.620 admits to wanting
00:27:58.960 to be a pushover?
00:28:00.200 None of them.
00:28:00.960 They want to uphold the law.
00:28:02.600 Well, this will be up
00:28:03.500 to the prosecutors
00:28:04.220 who are intensely political,
00:28:05.740 I fear.
00:28:06.420 Well, listen, Andrew,
00:28:07.100 I'm glad you're safe.
00:28:07.840 I'm glad your fiancé is safe
00:28:09.060 and I'm glad you videoed it.
00:28:11.260 I'm afraid that,
00:28:13.220 well, we'll have to find out.
00:28:14.480 I do not think
00:28:15.180 that there is a political will
00:28:16.300 to clear these rubby-dubs.
00:28:17.880 They should be gone
00:28:18.660 in an hour
00:28:19.380 and the pipeline
00:28:20.660 should proceed.
00:28:21.780 But I fear
00:28:22.880 that no one in authority
00:28:24.100 has that courage.
00:28:24.900 I'm glad you do
00:28:25.600 and congratulations to you
00:28:26.880 and the Boots and Suits team.
00:28:29.740 Yeah, well, I think
00:28:30.640 we have the momentum.
00:28:32.040 I think that maybe
00:28:33.180 the political will
00:28:34.040 isn't there,
00:28:34.920 but the issue for eviction
00:28:35.960 has been made by the city.
00:28:39.540 And maybe I'm a bit
00:28:42.080 of an optimist,
00:28:42.800 but I think that this event
00:28:43.740 was the catalyst
00:28:44.440 for people getting involved
00:28:46.000 in doing something.
00:28:47.120 I can't see a reason
00:28:48.560 for the city of Burnaby
00:28:49.640 to keep this going
00:28:51.520 much longer
00:28:52.120 where it is an actual
00:28:53.440 hazard to safety
00:28:54.520 of the citizens of Burnaby
00:28:55.680 and the residential area
00:28:57.180 of Burnaby Mountains.
00:28:59.380 So I want to say
00:29:01.980 that something might happen.
00:29:03.200 I'm very optimistic
00:29:04.240 and forward-looking here.
00:29:05.460 And, you know,
00:29:06.060 the sooner something happens,
00:29:07.120 the sooner we get
00:29:07.680 those shovels in the ground
00:29:08.580 and the sooner
00:29:09.020 those jobs are made.
00:29:10.000 We need to get our oil
00:29:11.520 workers back to work.
00:29:12.820 Well, you're a young guy.
00:29:14.000 You're working hard.
00:29:14.760 You're in love.
00:29:15.260 You're engaged.
00:29:15.940 Everything's positive
00:29:16.760 and happy to you.
00:29:18.100 I'm old and cynical.
00:29:18.980 I've seen the mayor of Burnaby
00:29:20.400 positively say
00:29:21.940 that he would be
00:29:22.740 a protester too.
00:29:24.000 So you be the young pup,
00:29:26.060 the optimist,
00:29:26.760 I'll be the old dog
00:29:28.200 who's a pessimist
00:29:29.160 and maybe my expectations
00:29:31.860 will be exceeded.
00:29:32.700 I hope you're right, Andrew.
00:29:33.840 I just...
00:29:34.480 It'll do well for us
00:29:37.560 if they get out of there.
00:29:39.520 And, you know,
00:29:40.140 I'm very happy
00:29:41.360 that we were able
00:29:42.600 to get on top of this
00:29:43.520 and show that
00:29:44.420 this is like it up there
00:29:45.300 because the last thing
00:29:46.460 I want is for some children
00:29:47.640 or anybody going around
00:29:48.720 in that community
00:29:49.420 to be treated unfairly,
00:29:51.480 to be shown racist behavior
00:29:53.800 towards them
00:29:54.560 or get aggressive
00:29:55.600 just for being in the area.
00:29:57.360 And I had to thank
00:29:58.820 the media last night
00:30:00.500 for coming out
00:30:02.080 and asking them
00:30:03.200 what I asked them to say.
00:30:04.220 I just wanted to
00:30:05.200 let the Burnaby RCMP
00:30:06.520 know in the Burnaby city
00:30:08.100 that we need to issue
00:30:09.740 a statement saying
00:30:10.760 that it's unsafe
00:30:11.400 to go up there.
00:30:12.200 And I think they've got the memo.
00:30:14.060 Yeah, great.
00:30:14.740 Well, listen,
00:30:15.660 I'm glad you're doing...
00:30:16.840 Should we go ahead?
00:30:18.120 I just wanted to
00:30:19.540 bring this up,
00:30:20.640 breaking news.
00:30:21.440 I just got an update
00:30:22.680 from my fiance
00:30:23.540 who's been very active
00:30:24.660 in keeping me up to date
00:30:25.640 while I'm at work.
00:30:26.360 She's at home
00:30:26.780 taking care of the house
00:30:27.640 and I'm here,
00:30:28.820 you know, working.
00:30:29.620 And she just sent me a message.
00:30:31.420 Would you mind
00:30:31.820 if I read it to you?
00:30:32.540 Go ahead, yeah.
00:30:34.260 Check out this one guy.
00:30:36.420 I'll tell you his name.
00:30:37.940 His name is Kelvin Gawley.
00:30:39.720 Check out Kelvin Gawley's
00:30:41.040 latest tweet.
00:30:42.120 Burnaby is seeking
00:30:43.120 court order
00:30:43.800 to force Camp Cloud
00:30:44.780 to leave.
00:30:45.720 Great thing,
00:30:46.220 I just received that text
00:30:47.220 at 1117 Pacific Time.
00:30:49.660 Well, I hope
00:30:50.520 something comes from it,
00:30:52.240 but you know what?
00:30:55.020 I hope you're right,
00:30:56.060 Andrew.
00:30:56.340 I hope I'm wrong.
00:30:57.160 I hope you're optimistic
00:30:57.900 and hope are redeemed
00:30:59.260 and vindicated
00:30:59.900 and I'm glad you're fighting
00:31:00.960 because we need this pipeline
00:31:03.480 for moral reasons
00:31:04.780 and rule of law reasons
00:31:05.980 as well as...
00:31:07.080 That's what I...
00:31:08.660 Rule of law.
00:31:09.820 It's very important
00:31:11.060 that we keep that in mind.
00:31:12.500 It's the rule of law
00:31:13.260 and I was very careful
00:31:14.520 I was up there
00:31:15.080 to not step out
00:31:16.860 of the boundaries
00:31:17.420 that the law puts around me
00:31:18.640 and I think that is why
00:31:20.000 we came across the well
00:31:21.020 in that video
00:31:21.620 because we followed
00:31:22.540 the rule of law.
00:31:23.500 Good for you.
00:31:24.400 Well, you know what?
00:31:25.180 Maybe, Andrew,
00:31:25.800 maybe you're giving me
00:31:26.600 a little bit of hope here too.
00:31:28.480 I'm glad you're picking up
00:31:29.580 the torch and fighting it.
00:31:30.700 I mean,
00:31:30.880 it's been a long battle
00:31:32.620 and I'm glad
00:31:33.160 you've got enthusiasm
00:31:34.080 and hopefully
00:31:35.800 you'll have a result
00:31:36.620 and keep it up
00:31:37.140 and stay safe, okay?
00:31:38.900 Yeah, hey,
00:31:39.600 one quick thing for you, Ezra.
00:31:40.680 I just wanted to see
00:31:41.580 if I could say this.
00:31:43.400 Suits and Boots,
00:31:44.160 just on behalf
00:31:44.880 of the organization,
00:31:46.200 we're fairly new.
00:31:47.220 You've probably done
00:31:47.780 your research into us
00:31:48.580 since we opened.
00:31:49.280 We only opened up
00:31:50.080 as our first event
00:31:50.960 was May 26th,
00:31:52.160 the Rally for Resources
00:31:52.960 here in BC.
00:31:53.840 Right.
00:31:54.920 We're going to be doing
00:31:55.920 a tour.
00:31:57.400 We're going to be going around
00:31:58.540 and we're going to start
00:31:59.560 spreading the word
00:32:01.260 about resource development
00:32:02.280 in BC.
00:32:02.700 We're really trying
00:32:03.440 to, as you said,
00:32:04.480 pick up that torch
00:32:05.320 and walk with it
00:32:06.160 and make sure
00:32:06.560 that people know
00:32:07.120 that there are
00:32:07.900 organizations fighting
00:32:09.560 for the jobs
00:32:10.140 of the oil workers
00:32:10.900 and we're going
00:32:11.360 to be going around.
00:32:12.320 What's your website
00:32:12.880 where people can find them?
00:32:13.780 My website is
00:32:14.420 suitsandboots.ca.
00:32:16.940 All of our information
00:32:17.860 is there.
00:32:19.440 Anything that your viewers
00:32:21.240 or listeners
00:32:21.760 are going to want to see
00:32:22.660 on our organization
00:32:23.800 is all on the website.
00:32:25.900 Good.
00:32:26.140 Well, I like your style
00:32:27.100 and the fact
00:32:28.500 that you're getting out
00:32:29.080 and organizing.
00:32:30.160 Keep us posted.
00:32:30.760 We'd love to stay
00:32:32.760 in touch with you
00:32:33.320 and help spread the word.
00:32:34.540 We can maybe even
00:32:35.100 send out an email
00:32:35.840 to our people
00:32:36.440 in the region
00:32:36.880 who might be interested.
00:32:37.780 So let's continue
00:32:38.740 this conversation offline.
00:32:39.960 But for now,
00:32:40.800 thanks for giving us
00:32:41.460 the report
00:32:41.920 and it sounds like
00:32:43.680 you're not done fighting
00:32:44.340 and that you're
00:32:45.200 my kind of guy.
00:32:46.500 Thanks for giving us
00:32:47.760 the news.
00:32:49.180 Thanks, Ezra.
00:32:49.680 You have a great day
00:32:50.500 and stay safe out there.
00:32:52.160 Yeah, you sure will.
00:32:53.500 Well, there you have it.
00:32:54.840 Andrew Mann.
00:32:55.700 What a good egg, eh?
00:32:56.780 I enjoyed meeting him.
00:32:58.560 He's the boots part
00:32:59.620 of the Suits and Boots.
00:33:00.680 He's an electrician.
00:33:01.380 Joined us from the job site.
00:33:03.120 But he and his fiancé
00:33:04.420 went out there
00:33:05.260 to confront the bad guys
00:33:06.680 and I'm glad
00:33:07.540 they weren't hurt
00:33:08.500 in a serious way.
00:33:09.980 But you saw
00:33:10.680 the lawlessness
00:33:11.500 that's there
00:33:12.740 and Andrew's hopeful.
00:33:14.440 Maybe I shouldn't be cynical
00:33:15.500 but I've just been
00:33:16.480 disappointed so many times
00:33:17.640 in the politicians
00:33:18.360 and the prosecutors
00:33:19.960 in this country
00:33:20.620 so we'll see.
00:33:21.560 All right.
00:33:22.340 Stay with us.
00:33:23.000 More ahead on the road.
00:33:35.240 Well, it was about
00:33:36.040 two years ago
00:33:36.640 that I first read
00:33:37.300 something absolutely terrifying
00:33:38.720 written by Eric Schmidt,
00:33:40.560 senior executive at Google.
00:33:42.040 He was writing
00:33:42.480 in the New York Times
00:33:43.540 dreaming about a future,
00:33:46.160 his vision for the future
00:33:47.620 of technology
00:33:48.500 and the internet.
00:33:49.780 And there's one phrase
00:33:50.760 that he used
00:33:51.420 that has stuck with me
00:33:52.480 ever since.
00:33:53.780 He said
00:33:55.460 he wanted to develop
00:33:57.360 a spell check
00:33:59.740 but for hate.
00:34:02.440 As in,
00:34:03.160 if you had an idea
00:34:04.280 that had the wrong emotion,
00:34:06.800 the wrong feeling,
00:34:08.220 something that you
00:34:09.660 thought was hateful
00:34:11.200 or that he thought
00:34:11.980 was hateful,
00:34:13.040 your computer would
00:34:14.320 delete that,
00:34:15.520 auto-correct it,
00:34:16.460 just like if you type
00:34:17.880 in the wrong word
00:34:18.840 it would fix it for you.
00:34:21.160 Today we see
00:34:22.200 Jack Dorsey,
00:34:24.000 the president of Twitter,
00:34:25.700 talking about
00:34:26.500 ensuring that
00:34:27.300 conversations are
00:34:28.560 healthy.
00:34:30.100 But if you say
00:34:30.840 things that are not healthy,
00:34:32.180 they'll be corrected too.
00:34:34.040 That's bad enough
00:34:34.820 when it comes to ideas
00:34:36.120 and censorship.
00:34:37.460 But what about
00:34:38.160 when it goes one level
00:34:39.220 deeper in the internet?
00:34:40.620 If you are no longer
00:34:42.320 allowed to even
00:34:43.240 process credit cards
00:34:44.980 or accept money
00:34:46.640 from your viewers
00:34:47.420 because some
00:34:48.660 far-left-wing
00:34:50.120 alt-left executive
00:34:51.700 like Eric Schmidt
00:34:53.000 or Jack Dorsey
00:34:53.780 says,
00:34:54.740 you have the wrong feelings.
00:34:56.220 Your conversations
00:34:56.920 are not healthy enough.
00:34:59.600 Well, a man
00:35:00.000 who follows this beat
00:35:00.900 more closely
00:35:01.460 than anyone else
00:35:02.320 in the world
00:35:02.840 is our friend
00:35:03.960 Alan Bokhari.
00:35:05.460 He is the
00:35:06.260 Breitbart News
00:35:07.380 senior technology
00:35:08.660 correspondent
00:35:09.300 and he joins us
00:35:10.580 now via Skype.
00:35:11.420 Alan, great to see you again.
00:35:12.500 Welcome back to the show.
00:35:14.460 Thanks, Ezra.
00:35:15.000 Good to be here.
00:35:15.920 You know, I've just read
00:35:16.960 your very comprehensive
00:35:18.100 report called
00:35:18.880 Stripe, PayPal, Patreon.
00:35:22.120 The right is being banned
00:35:23.500 from online fundraising.
00:35:25.480 Not just fundraising,
00:35:26.440 any sort of commerce at all.
00:35:28.300 Tell me,
00:35:28.920 I mean, I think most of our viewers
00:35:30.180 are familiar with PayPal
00:35:31.180 because that's what we use
00:35:32.780 here at The Rebel.
00:35:33.420 We use Stripe as well.
00:35:34.920 Patreon.
00:35:35.620 I think we've heard of it.
00:35:36.460 A lot of our viewers,
00:35:37.240 it's what Dr. Jordan Peterson uses.
00:35:40.100 But between those three companies,
00:35:42.560 they pretty much dominate
00:35:44.700 online commerce
00:35:45.660 the same way Google
00:35:46.560 dominates search.
00:35:47.540 Am I right?
00:35:48.680 More or less,
00:35:49.220 there are two levels
00:35:50.000 of online fundraising.
00:35:51.380 There are these
00:35:51.820 crowdfunding platforms
00:35:53.640 which are essentially
00:35:54.460 fundraising,
00:35:57.300 fundraising online.
00:35:58.340 So in the same way
00:35:58.920 that in the past
00:35:59.800 people would like
00:36:00.340 go around with a tin
00:36:01.380 and collect donations.
00:36:03.420 Patreon is a bit like that.
00:36:04.700 And there are also other sites
00:36:05.820 like GoFundMe
00:36:06.460 and Kickstarter
00:36:06.980 where people are allowed
00:36:07.780 to create campaigns,
00:36:10.180 create causes
00:36:10.880 and allow people
00:36:11.460 to donate to them.
00:36:12.420 You can also develop
00:36:13.580 an income stream
00:36:15.380 through Patreon.
00:36:16.040 This is what Jordan Peterson does.
00:36:17.120 It's what many figures
00:36:19.340 on the right do.
00:36:20.660 Many YouTubers,
00:36:21.380 I got off to CAD,
00:36:22.500 Laura M. Southen,
00:36:23.060 used to have a Patreon
00:36:23.640 before she got banned.
00:36:26.080 Brittany Pettipon
00:36:26.860 also got banned from Patreon.
00:36:28.140 It's a way for people,
00:36:29.340 because so much of content
00:36:30.800 on the internet is free,
00:36:32.100 whether it's making YouTube videos
00:36:33.720 or writing articles,
00:36:36.960 one of the ways
00:36:37.660 independent commentators
00:36:38.980 support themselves
00:36:39.560 is by allowing their fans
00:36:41.480 and their followers
00:36:42.020 to contribute to them
00:36:43.020 on a monthly basis
00:36:44.000 via platforms like Patreon.
00:36:46.500 And that essentially
00:36:48.260 is their income,
00:36:48.920 it's their livelihood.
00:36:50.020 The problem, of course,
00:36:51.040 is that these platforms,
00:36:52.480 especially Patreon,
00:36:53.420 increasingly,
00:36:55.180 are much like Twitter
00:36:56.020 and Facebook
00:36:56.540 run by people
00:36:58.660 who are pretty politically biased
00:37:00.160 and they enforce their rules
00:37:01.120 in an uneven manner.
00:37:02.680 And in my article,
00:37:03.800 I looked at two or three examples
00:37:05.980 where right-wing YouTubers
00:37:08.080 have been banned
00:37:08.840 from Patreon.
00:37:10.360 Brittany Pettipon
00:37:10.940 was the most recent.
00:37:12.400 They banned her
00:37:13.100 for supporting a group
00:37:13.860 called Defend Europe.
00:37:16.500 And Patreon argued
00:37:19.220 that this group
00:37:19.860 was a violent organization,
00:37:22.120 even though the group
00:37:22.520 specifically disannounced violence.
00:37:23.780 They'd never encouraged violence
00:37:25.260 to engage in violence
00:37:26.080 as far as I can tell.
00:37:27.820 But they used that excuse
00:37:29.080 and they banter anyway.
00:37:30.200 See, there's some websites
00:37:31.320 that we use, Indiegogo sometimes.
00:37:33.660 That's a crowdfunding website.
00:37:35.400 But there's a deeper level, too.
00:37:37.540 I mean, just any sort
00:37:39.220 of credit card transaction service.
00:37:41.500 Not even, I mean,
00:37:42.320 Patreon is more than just
00:37:44.600 a credit card facility.
00:37:45.740 It's a system.
00:37:47.960 You can put videos up.
00:37:49.320 You can build lists.
00:37:50.260 So it's a whole one-stop shop.
00:37:52.400 But at an infrastructure level
00:37:54.960 deeper than that,
00:37:55.920 this would really be like
00:37:57.200 Visa or MasterCard saying,
00:37:59.220 we don't like what you're doing,
00:38:02.600 so we're going to ban you
00:38:04.060 from using Visa or MasterCard.
00:38:06.780 Is that the analogy, Alan?
00:38:09.240 Basically, yes.
00:38:10.300 And the problem is
00:38:11.820 it's all interconnected.
00:38:12.720 So platforms like Patreon
00:38:14.260 and Kickstarter
00:38:14.840 rely on technologies
00:38:16.660 like PayPal and Stripe,
00:38:20.560 which process payments
00:38:21.680 through credit cards
00:38:23.300 like Visa and MasterCard.
00:38:26.400 So if Visa and MasterCard
00:38:28.040 decide to cut you off,
00:38:29.720 then you won't be able
00:38:31.300 to use PayPal or Stripe anyway.
00:38:33.020 And equally,
00:38:33.880 if Visa and MasterCard go to,
00:38:35.100 or a bank like Wells Fargo
00:38:36.620 go to companies like PayPal or Stripe
00:38:40.320 or who will then go to companies
00:38:42.860 like Patreon and Kickstarter
00:38:43.860 who rely on their service
00:38:44.640 and say,
00:38:45.100 well, you can't allow this person,
00:38:46.540 it creates kind of chain reactions.
00:38:48.860 So I'd say Patreon,
00:38:50.940 Patreon's like the third level.
00:38:52.160 Then there's processes
00:38:53.660 like PayPal and Stripe.
00:38:55.640 And then there's banks
00:38:56.480 and credit cards.
00:38:58.660 So at the very,
00:39:00.240 and banks and credit cards
00:39:01.300 have been known
00:39:01.780 to cut off people
00:39:02.300 for political reasons.
00:39:03.040 And it's not just people
00:39:03.660 on the right eye
00:39:04.260 that this goes all the way
00:39:05.060 back to 2011 and Wikileaks.
00:39:09.040 In 2011,
00:39:10.520 first PayPal cut off service
00:39:12.340 to Julian Assange and Wikileaks
00:39:14.160 and then MasterCard
00:39:15.000 and Visa followed suit.
00:39:16.420 So this has been happening
00:39:17.600 for a long time.
00:39:18.440 It's been happening
00:39:18.820 to anyone who's considered
00:39:20.140 beyond the pale
00:39:22.780 by the establishment
00:39:23.620 as Julian Assange was in 2011
00:39:25.200 probably still is.
00:39:27.380 So it's not even just the right,
00:39:30.020 although the right are
00:39:30.580 being particularly affected
00:39:31.460 right now.
00:39:33.020 And actually,
00:39:33.440 that's why
00:39:33.840 the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
00:39:36.480 which is a liberal group,
00:39:37.560 they advocate for liberal causes
00:39:38.740 like Obama's
00:39:39.840 net neutrality regulations.
00:39:41.040 They're concerned by this too.
00:39:42.100 They say that
00:39:42.780 banks and payment processes
00:39:44.620 are becoming
00:39:45.640 de facto internet censors.
00:39:47.900 Well, that's the thing.
00:39:48.520 I mean,
00:39:49.240 anyone who's opened up
00:39:51.060 an account with,
00:39:52.780 let's say, a law firm.
00:39:54.600 I mean,
00:39:54.740 we were doing business
00:39:56.080 in the UK.
00:39:56.860 We just worked
00:39:58.020 with a new law firm
00:39:59.360 to help Tommy Robinson.
00:40:00.660 Our viewers know that.
00:40:01.540 When you open a new account
00:40:03.420 with a law firm,
00:40:04.420 they have lots of
00:40:05.500 anti-money laundering rules
00:40:07.400 and know-your-client rules.
00:40:09.940 So we had to send them
00:40:11.680 our incorporation documents.
00:40:14.700 We had to prove
00:40:15.280 we were legit
00:40:15.980 because they wanted
00:40:17.140 to make sure
00:40:17.880 we weren't money laundering
00:40:19.440 drug money
00:40:20.100 or other proceeds of crime.
00:40:21.580 So I get it.
00:40:22.680 That was not
00:40:23.880 an ideological test.
00:40:25.340 It was to make sure
00:40:25.940 we weren't criminals.
00:40:27.280 And I was fine with that
00:40:28.220 and we do that all the time.
00:40:30.460 The names you've named,
00:40:31.820 Brittany Pettibone,
00:40:32.800 I think our former reporter
00:40:34.260 Faith Goldie
00:40:35.040 was just cut off
00:40:36.440 by PayPal too.
00:40:37.500 She was cut off
00:40:38.020 by PayPal, yes.
00:40:39.640 I mean,
00:40:40.100 I know Faith pretty well
00:40:41.220 and putting aside
00:40:42.260 whatever political comments
00:40:43.940 people might have,
00:40:45.360 she's never committed
00:40:46.220 a crime in her life.
00:40:47.240 She wouldn't hurt a mouse.
00:40:48.880 I mean,
00:40:50.080 that's what,
00:40:50.920 I accept banks
00:40:53.700 and other,
00:40:55.080 you know,
00:40:56.280 credit card facility,
00:40:57.760 whatever,
00:40:58.380 checking against crime
00:40:59.540 or terrorism,
00:41:01.000 you know,
00:41:01.340 for example.
00:41:02.840 But Brittany,
00:41:04.780 Pettibone,
00:41:05.660 Faith,
00:41:06.100 Goldie,
00:41:07.260 they're not even,
00:41:09.020 they're not even
00:41:10.460 five degrees
00:41:11.180 of separation
00:41:11.880 from crime.
00:41:13.420 That's what scares me
00:41:15.000 is this is pure politics
00:41:17.480 and if they can do that
00:41:18.500 to Faith,
00:41:18.940 they can do that to me,
00:41:19.940 they can do that to you
00:41:20.900 and pretty soon
00:41:21.800 you won't be able
00:41:22.580 to open a bank account
00:41:23.400 at all.
00:41:23.680 By the way,
00:41:24.120 Rebel UK was not,
00:41:26.160 no bank would open
00:41:27.160 an account for us
00:41:28.020 when Tommy Robinson
00:41:29.120 worked for us.
00:41:29.740 What do you make of that,
00:41:30.560 Alan?
00:41:31.220 Wow.
00:41:32.160 Wow,
00:41:32.680 that's the big news
00:41:34.060 in itself,
00:41:34.540 frankly.
00:41:34.980 I mean,
00:41:35.580 the way the banks
00:41:37.200 operate is pretty
00:41:37.800 insidious now.
00:41:38.640 I mean,
00:41:38.860 if you look at
00:41:41.240 what they're doing
00:41:41.680 in terms of
00:41:42.200 gun control
00:41:43.000 in America,
00:41:44.540 they're refusing
00:41:45.120 to work with businesses
00:41:46.220 that don't need
00:41:47.040 a range of
00:41:47.540 progressive demands
00:41:48.880 on gun control
00:41:49.560 like the sale
00:41:50.380 of bump stocks
00:41:51.120 and high capacity
00:41:52.080 magazines.
00:41:53.280 So now businesses
00:41:54.860 that are operating
00:41:56.780 legally in the US
00:41:57.660 in line with
00:41:58.640 the Second Amendment,
00:41:59.820 they can't work
00:42:00.880 with some of
00:42:01.220 these big banks.
00:42:02.560 So the way
00:42:04.320 that the financial
00:42:06.180 institutions
00:42:07.140 are being operated
00:42:07.720 at the moment
00:42:08.140 is kind of a way
00:42:08.960 to bypass democracy
00:42:10.200 and bypass constitutions
00:42:11.620 because it's essentially
00:42:12.560 a few executives
00:42:13.320 making a decision
00:42:14.120 to cut people
00:42:15.240 out of the
00:42:15.540 economic system
00:42:16.180 altogether.
00:42:17.780 You know,
00:42:18.540 it's done
00:42:21.120 when it's done
00:42:21.820 through the government,
00:42:22.980 like these money laundering
00:42:23.920 rules I've mentioned
00:42:24.840 and obviously
00:42:25.760 we comply with those.
00:42:26.980 We have a,
00:42:27.580 you know,
00:42:27.820 we're a legitimate company.
00:42:29.260 We have no problem
00:42:30.280 with those rules.
00:42:32.100 That's imposed
00:42:33.060 by the government.
00:42:34.380 But the kind of censorship
00:42:35.520 you have described
00:42:36.820 and by the way,
00:42:37.700 let's put it up
00:42:38.320 on the screen
00:42:38.760 so our viewers
00:42:39.340 can take a look
00:42:39.980 at it once more time.
00:42:41.360 The essay is called
00:42:42.440 Stripe, PayPal, Patreon.
00:42:43.760 The right is being banned
00:42:45.360 from online fundraising.
00:42:46.700 It's an article
00:42:47.080 on Breitbart.com.
00:42:50.080 That is not
00:42:51.000 a governmental decision
00:42:52.140 and so you don't have
00:42:53.060 the checks and balances.
00:42:54.600 When the rules are passed,
00:42:56.120 they're scrutinized
00:42:56.800 in a legislature.
00:42:58.240 They may be subject
00:42:58.980 to public comment
00:42:59.840 and committee
00:43:00.380 and amendments
00:43:00.960 and votes
00:43:01.540 so there's a transparency
00:43:02.860 in what the rules are
00:43:03.820 in the first place
00:43:04.760 and then how the rules
00:43:05.860 are applied.
00:43:07.940 There's the checks
00:43:08.660 and balances
00:43:09.180 in whatever legal
00:43:10.200 procedure is there.
00:43:11.320 I mean,
00:43:11.700 even if you're having
00:43:12.700 a fight,
00:43:13.280 let's say,
00:43:13.600 with Revenue Canada
00:43:15.000 or the IRS,
00:43:16.940 there's checks and balances.
00:43:18.320 You have certain rights
00:43:19.160 and appeals
00:43:20.240 but when you're shut down
00:43:21.760 by a credit card company,
00:43:23.060 PayPal, Patreon, Stripe,
00:43:24.500 there's no process.
00:43:25.660 They just announce it to you
00:43:27.180 and you can go pound sand
00:43:28.780 and if you look
00:43:29.300 at your terms of service,
00:43:31.260 they're written in a way
00:43:32.180 that you really have no rights.
00:43:33.400 They say,
00:43:33.800 take your business elsewhere.
00:43:35.400 I'm,
00:43:35.940 my terror,
00:43:37.100 my great fear,
00:43:38.220 Ellum,
00:43:38.460 is that the censorship
00:43:40.500 of the 21st century
00:43:41.640 will not be done
00:43:42.780 by governments.
00:43:44.140 It'll be done
00:43:44.920 by crony capitalists
00:43:46.520 in league with governments
00:43:47.880 to whom censorship
00:43:49.360 is outsourced
00:43:50.520 as,
00:43:51.800 and there's a quid pro quo
00:43:52.900 favor.
00:43:54.080 PayPal, Stripe,
00:43:54.860 Patreon,
00:43:55.540 Facebook,
00:43:56.000 YouTube,
00:43:56.380 Google
00:43:56.680 will do this censorship
00:43:58.080 for politicians
00:43:58.940 and in return
00:44:00.060 they may get favors
00:44:01.100 whether it's tax treatment
00:44:02.480 or immunity
00:44:03.300 from other things.
00:44:04.580 That's terrifying
00:44:05.420 because it is
00:44:06.160 one big black box.
00:44:07.160 What do you think of that?
00:44:09.720 I totally agree.
00:44:10.960 I think the trend now
00:44:11.820 is for the left
00:44:12.780 to use cooperation.
00:44:13.860 I mean,
00:44:14.000 it's interesting
00:44:14.340 because then you have
00:44:14.760 the left used to be
00:44:15.300 so anti-corporation
00:44:16.300 and anti-capitalist
00:44:17.260 but now cooperation
00:44:18.840 are the great ally
00:44:19.580 of the left.
00:44:20.180 They're using them
00:44:20.700 to enact their policies
00:44:21.520 without winning
00:44:23.440 any form of elections.
00:44:25.740 You mentioned
00:44:26.480 that they'll tell you
00:44:28.520 to take that business
00:44:29.180 elsewhere
00:44:30.140 and that's the only thing
00:44:31.780 a lot of free market
00:44:32.580 libertarians would also say
00:44:33.560 well,
00:44:33.760 just build a competitor
00:44:34.620 to Patreon
00:44:35.040 if you don't like
00:44:35.520 what they're doing
00:44:35.980 but that's exactly
00:44:36.900 what people have done.
00:44:38.560 Lauren Southern
00:44:39.040 made her own
00:44:39.760 fundraising system
00:44:41.860 when she was banned
00:44:42.340 from Patreon
00:44:42.800 and Chuck Johnson
00:44:45.100 made his competitor
00:44:45.900 and there was another
00:44:46.460 competing service
00:44:47.520 called Maker Support
00:44:48.280 which was made
00:44:49.020 as a sort of
00:44:50.120 politically neutral
00:44:51.000 alternative to Patreon
00:44:52.520 and what happened
00:44:54.040 was they
00:44:54.460 striped
00:44:55.840 the payments process
00:44:57.280 initially agreed
00:44:58.840 to do business with
00:44:59.480 and then cut up
00:45:00.040 support entirely.
00:45:01.700 So it's not even possible
00:45:03.400 to build a competitor
00:45:04.460 if you can't
00:45:05.960 keep competing services
00:45:06.900 and you know
00:45:07.340 that goes beyond
00:45:08.320 crowdfunding platforms
00:45:10.080 just any platform
00:45:10.940 if you can't raise money
00:45:11.960 on the internet
00:45:12.520 how are you going to build
00:45:14.680 how are you going to build
00:45:15.440 these competing services?
00:45:17.800 Yeah, you know
00:45:18.180 and we learned a little bit
00:45:19.460 about that about a year ago
00:45:20.460 when our DNS server
00:45:23.780 I didn't even know
00:45:25.460 what that was
00:45:26.000 I still don't even really
00:45:26.940 know what that was
00:45:27.620 that's some deep part
00:45:29.240 of internet structure
00:45:30.520 infrastructure
00:45:31.560 just gave us
00:45:32.980 one day's notice
00:45:33.920 no explanation
00:45:34.680 no reason whatsoever
00:45:35.620 they said
00:45:36.060 we're kicking you off
00:45:37.420 in one day
00:45:37.940 find another DNS server
00:45:39.240 and
00:45:40.840 you know
00:45:43.020 if you can't find
00:45:44.860 another DNS service
00:45:45.740 you're effectively
00:45:46.240 banned from the entire internet
00:45:48.060 Yeah, and what's a DNS server
00:45:50.140 and I mean
00:45:50.520 I had never dealt with them
00:45:51.680 there's so many
00:45:53.100 deep levels
00:45:53.840 of the internet
00:45:55.000 that
00:45:55.800 I know what you're talking about
00:45:57.580 Lauren Southern
00:45:58.060 and Chuck Johnson
00:45:58.720 they tried to set up
00:45:59.780 alternatives
00:46:00.200 but there was always
00:46:01.340 some utility style
00:46:03.220 backbone
00:46:03.960 that they had to deal with
00:46:05.660 and there's so few of those
00:46:07.460 in some cases
00:46:08.340 I mean
00:46:10.400 they truly have a monopoly
00:46:11.580 you can't set up your own
00:46:13.360 I got a question for you
00:46:14.320 today
00:46:14.740 even if you set up
00:46:16.140 a competitor
00:46:17.160 to PayPal
00:46:18.020 or Stripe
00:46:19.040 which are the processes
00:46:20.240 the second level
00:46:21.080 you then have to deal
00:46:21.840 with Visa and MasterCard
00:46:22.840 who have already
00:46:23.420 who have kind of
00:46:24.160 political
00:46:24.740 you've kind of
00:46:25.640 supported people
00:46:26.180 like Julian Assange
00:46:26.780 in the past
00:46:27.320 so there's always
00:46:28.500 one more level
00:46:29.300 you have
00:46:29.620 of gatekeeping
00:46:30.260 you have to go through
00:46:31.320 Yeah, yeah
00:46:32.220 I mean
00:46:32.540 I suppose you could
00:46:33.660 set up a bank
00:46:34.660 itself
00:46:35.360 but that too
00:46:36.480 could be subject
00:46:37.120 to boycotts
00:46:37.940 if people would
00:46:38.440 refuse to trade
00:46:39.220 with it
00:46:39.580 I mean
00:46:40.360 it really is
00:46:41.200 like you're facing
00:46:41.980 economic sanctions
00:46:43.080 but they're not
00:46:44.040 passed by a country
00:46:45.120 they're passed by
00:46:45.940 this oligopoly
00:46:47.240 these plutocrats
00:46:49.560 of the left
00:46:50.480 it's as if
00:46:51.940 they're putting
00:46:52.320 economic sanctions
00:46:53.220 on their enemies
00:46:53.760 I want to ask
00:46:54.380 because I saw
00:46:54.980 a tiny flicker
00:46:56.160 of hope today
00:46:56.720 and we'll put up
00:46:57.640 Trump's tweet
00:46:58.300 this morning
00:46:58.760 we were talking
00:46:59.340 about Jack Dorsey
00:47:01.060 the hard left-wing
00:47:02.460 activist
00:47:03.100 of Twitter
00:47:04.220 and I'm not using
00:47:05.260 that as an insult
00:47:05.960 I'm observing
00:47:06.720 he's a big supporter
00:47:09.080 of the violent
00:47:09.820 street group
00:47:10.960 called Black Lives Matter
00:47:12.140 he has
00:47:13.280 you know
00:47:14.960 he's republished
00:47:16.700 approvingly
00:47:17.940 documents calling
00:47:19.740 for the censorship
00:47:20.500 of the right
00:47:21.180 he's a real extremist
00:47:22.640 and just in the
00:47:24.240 past few days
00:47:24.760 he's been talking
00:47:25.380 about healthy
00:47:26.320 public conversations
00:47:27.540 and that he himself
00:47:28.560 will be in charge
00:47:29.240 of that
00:47:29.540 I see today
00:47:31.180 no one less than
00:47:32.880 Twitter user number
00:47:33.900 one
00:47:34.260 Donald J. Trump
00:47:35.700 tweeted
00:47:36.820 that
00:47:38.100 Twitter's
00:47:39.860 censorship
00:47:40.540 of conservatives
00:47:41.320 is outrageous
00:47:42.080 and a must-end
00:47:43.100 and we'll show
00:47:43.460 that tweet
00:47:43.860 on the screen
00:47:44.480 so he says
00:47:46.660 he's going to do
00:47:47.240 something about it
00:47:47.980 or he might do
00:47:48.840 something about it
00:47:49.420 or he must do
00:47:50.060 something about it
00:47:50.800 do you believe
00:47:52.140 that Donald Trump
00:47:53.360 will actually
00:47:54.500 try to
00:47:56.620 make
00:47:57.380 the internet
00:47:58.820 neutral
00:48:00.300 in terms of
00:48:01.860 its partisanship
00:48:03.080 do you think
00:48:03.820 he will actually
00:48:04.740 be a trust buster
00:48:06.280 like Teddy Roosevelt
00:48:07.540 was to the oil companies
00:48:09.460 a century ago
00:48:10.220 do you think
00:48:10.740 Donald Trump
00:48:11.660 might bust up
00:48:12.500 these internet trusts too
00:48:14.180 well I certainly hope so
00:48:17.080 the problem is
00:48:18.420 he doesn't have
00:48:18.820 a lot of time
00:48:19.360 for like two or three months
00:48:20.740 before the midterm elections
00:48:22.480 and I don't think
00:48:24.220 you can bring in
00:48:24.700 regulation
00:48:25.140 and new legislation
00:48:27.180 so quickly
00:48:28.780 and get past
00:48:29.400 all the free market
00:48:30.200 ideologues
00:48:31.360 and the Republican Party
00:48:32.640 before the election
00:48:33.600 so if the tech companies
00:48:35.200 want to tip the scales
00:48:36.560 for the upcoming election
00:48:37.700 I think they're probably
00:48:38.840 going to be able
00:48:39.460 to do it
00:48:40.360 and there's not much
00:48:41.240 that can be done
00:48:43.060 to stop them
00:48:43.620 I think
00:48:44.020 after the election
00:48:44.960 and looking at the results
00:48:46.380 of the election
00:48:46.880 and how social media
00:48:49.700 plays into that
00:48:50.440 I think we'll see
00:48:51.340 probably start to see
00:48:52.360 a lot more pressure
00:48:53.080 but I certainly think
00:48:55.160 but Donald Trump's tweet
00:48:56.100 was you know
00:48:56.420 very positive
00:48:56.900 and I certainly think
00:48:57.760 that Republicans
00:48:58.240 if they want to
00:48:59.900 compete on a level
00:49:01.120 playing field
00:49:01.760 on the internet
00:49:02.340 they're going to have
00:49:04.080 to get past
00:49:05.080 this fear
00:49:05.720 of regulating
00:49:06.460 private businesses
00:49:07.220 because you know
00:49:08.660 these monopolies
00:49:09.260 have grown such a
00:49:10.300 have accumulated
00:49:11.580 such a vast amount
00:49:12.500 of power
00:49:12.980 over the political process
00:49:14.220 and such a vast amount
00:49:16.900 of power
00:49:17.160 to curtail
00:49:17.580 you know
00:49:17.880 First Amendment rights
00:49:18.780 and Second Amendment rights
00:49:19.620 for ordinary Americans
00:49:20.420 it's a going to come down
00:49:23.540 to regulation
00:49:24.140 I think
00:49:24.500 and I think Republicans
00:49:25.220 will have to get over
00:49:26.220 their misgivings
00:49:28.580 about that
00:49:29.100 yeah
00:49:29.560 as I always say
00:49:30.760 if Donald Trump
00:49:31.340 doesn't bust up
00:49:32.480 these tech titans
00:49:33.880 they'll bust him up
00:49:35.060 I think it's a race
00:49:35.980 Alan it's great to see you again
00:49:37.620 thanks very much
00:49:38.180 for spending the time
00:49:38.860 with us
00:49:39.220 alright
00:49:41.580 well we'll keep in touch
00:49:43.360 for sure
00:49:43.720 the most important beat
00:49:44.940 in the world
00:49:45.860 I put it to you
00:49:46.680 is the political activities
00:49:48.680 of the internet giant
00:49:50.480 stay with us
00:49:51.300 more ahead on The Rebel
00:49:52.720 Hey welcome back
00:50:04.760 your viewer feedback
00:50:05.860 on my monologue yesterday
00:50:06.940 about ISIS
00:50:07.720 claiming responsibility
00:50:09.140 for the Toronto shooter
00:50:10.080 Billy writes
00:50:10.760 Peter writes
00:50:32.560 one has to wonder
00:50:33.860 why there is a segment
00:50:34.640 of Western nations
00:50:35.540 that is desperate
00:50:36.160 even frantically desperate
00:50:37.840 to deny any Islamic connection
00:50:39.540 to the many terror attacks
00:50:40.680 what is their motive
00:50:41.780 well not just that
00:50:43.840 but to turn evil into good
00:50:45.680 I see the National Post
00:50:46.680 published an op-ed
00:50:48.020 by Terry Glavin
00:50:48.800 who says
00:50:49.180 we should rally around
00:50:50.580 the parents of
00:50:51.900 Faisal Hussain
00:50:53.840 the National Post
00:50:55.200 published an op-ed
00:50:56.140 saying we all have to
00:50:57.300 get together
00:50:57.780 and support
00:50:58.380 the terrorist parents
00:51:00.820 what
00:51:02.460 what
00:51:03.320 and by the way
00:51:04.680 they're awful parents
00:51:05.420 besides having
00:51:06.860 a terrorist as a son
00:51:07.960 their other son
00:51:09.000 is a drug dealer
00:51:10.060 who's actually in a coma
00:51:11.300 right now
00:51:11.700 for a drug overdose
00:51:12.520 and if the report
00:51:14.260 I read this morning
00:51:14.800 was accurate
00:51:15.220 that's where Faisal
00:51:16.420 got the gun from
00:51:17.120 don't tell me
00:51:17.740 the parents
00:51:18.440 didn't know
00:51:18.880 what was going on
00:51:19.500 in the family
00:51:20.080 yes sorry
00:51:22.440 National Post
00:51:23.500 I used to know you
00:51:24.300 I used to work for you
00:51:25.120 no I don't support
00:51:26.840 this family
00:51:27.220 not one bit
00:51:27.740 they're a terrorist family
00:51:29.200 frankly I think
00:51:30.220 they should be deported
00:51:30.900 if it's possible
00:51:31.640 Paul writes
00:51:33.680 that demented
00:51:35.080 high school teacher
00:51:35.820 is the face
00:51:36.380 of leftist insanity
00:51:37.440 you're talking about
00:51:40.040 when our own
00:51:41.320 David Menzies
00:51:42.120 went to Danforth
00:51:43.340 to interview people
00:51:44.160 and I don't know
00:51:44.640 if you saw the whole video
00:51:46.000 you can watch all
00:51:46.840 eight minutes of it
00:51:47.560 on YouTube
00:51:47.920 it's a viral video
00:51:48.820 almost 100,000 people
00:51:50.200 have watched it already
00:51:50.920 David just goes there
00:51:51.980 very gently
00:51:52.620 to talk to people
00:51:53.840 about how great
00:51:54.420 the Danforth is
00:51:55.300 and what they think
00:51:55.860 of the neighborhood
00:51:56.380 and this crazed
00:51:58.280 high school teacher
00:51:59.220 comes forward
00:51:59.920 and starts shouting
00:52:01.240 at David
00:52:01.800 and calling him
00:52:02.920 a fascist
00:52:03.560 and a racist
00:52:04.040 and David just kept
00:52:04.960 really calm
00:52:05.500 the whole time
00:52:06.060 it was quite
00:52:06.920 it was quite
00:52:08.000 a telling thing
00:52:09.200 unbelievable
00:52:10.420 and you know
00:52:11.340 I was so impressed
00:52:12.080 with David
00:52:12.500 just staying calm
00:52:13.780 despite this crazy woman
00:52:15.100 being shouting
00:52:15.720 shouting at him
00:52:16.560 for 10 minutes
00:52:17.060 when she boasted
00:52:18.520 that she's a high school student
00:52:19.800 and that's how
00:52:20.420 that's how she rolls
00:52:21.440 in high school
00:52:22.160 I thought
00:52:23.000 absolutely she
00:52:25.540 I believe her
00:52:26.360 because in Toronto
00:52:27.740 and in many schools
00:52:29.400 across North America
00:52:30.240 frankly
00:52:30.680 teachers have become
00:52:31.980 weaponized
00:52:32.740 and politicized
00:52:33.580 and they use their classrooms
00:52:34.620 as political petri dishes
00:52:36.220 that's just awful
00:52:36.960 well that's our show
00:52:38.640 for today
00:52:39.240 until tomorrow
00:52:40.120 on behalf of all of us
00:52:41.440 here at Rebel World
00:52:42.080 Headquarters
00:52:42.580 good night
00:52:43.060 and keep fighting
00:52:44.400 for freedom
00:52:44.900 my Rib Woo
00:52:50.280 I think
00:52:50.680 I think
00:52:51.220 it's impossible
00:52:52.320 to all of us
00:52:52.800 in a positive perspective
00:52:54.300 and seeing
00:52:54.740 as a result
00:52:56.080 when the
00:52:57.160 House
00:52:58.460 Relic
00:53:03.000 on this
00:53:03.560 the
00:53:04.520 public
00:53:09.240 harm