Rebel News Podcast - United Nations' new anti-“hate speech” campaign includes speech against UN programs

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. It's great to be back. Thank you for watching the show. And my friends Sheila

00:00:04.720 and David did it during my absence. Today's show, I go through a speech by the United Nations

00:00:11.780 Secretary General. Can you name him? I bet you can't. And I'm not being mean to you. I mean,

00:00:16.540 why would you? Why would you name such an unelected, unaccountable foreign person? 0.99

00:00:22.080 Why would you name him? Well, the answer is because he probably has more power over you

00:00:26.480 than 9 out of 10 elected officials in your own country. So I'm going to go through a speech

00:00:33.420 on censorship. I think it might make your hairs on your arms stand up. Before I get there,

00:00:39.780 let me encourage you to get the video version of this podcast. It's eight bucks a month. You can

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00:00:50.580 Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies' show, and you get the satisfaction of helping the rebels stay

00:00:55.820 financially strong. All right, folks, here's the show. Tonight, the United Nations unveils its

00:01:04.820 massive new project to combat hate speech, which includes speech against UN programs. It's June 26th,

00:01:12.040 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:15.760 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:19.380 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:25.200 government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:34.600 Who is this friendly-looking guy? Can you name him? Do you know who he is? He's got a friendly face,

00:01:41.240 doesn't he? Like a happy grandpa or something. But seriously, do you know who he is? Here's a hint.

00:01:46.800 He has tremendous power over you. But you were never asked to vote for him. You pay for his salary,

00:01:53.860 by the way, almost 300 grand Canadian a year, plus an enormous benefits and expenses package

00:02:00.400 worth more than a million bucks. So who is he? Well, he's from Portugal, so don't feel bad if you

00:02:06.820 don't recognize him. His name is Antonio Guterres. He actually used to be the prime minister of Portugal.

00:02:12.900 It won't shock you to learn that he was the leader of the Socialist Party and actually led a global

00:02:19.600 hard left-wing organization called the Socialist International, which was a major force for promoting

00:02:25.500 communism in the past. And today, he's the Secretary General of the United Nations.

00:02:33.540 Oh, and he's coming to censor you. Now, I'm going to guess that you didn't hear about this

00:02:37.680 in the Canadian Media Party. Once upon a time, you might have heard about censorship back when the

00:02:43.980 media in our country believed in freedom from government. But in the past 10 years, they've

00:02:49.140 traded in their freedom for a promise of security. They've made a bargain. They'll stop complaining

00:02:55.360 about government intervention in what they can say and do if the government pays them. That's what

00:03:02.460 Trudeau's $600 million bailout is from. That's what it's all about. The watchdogs?

00:03:09.120 Well, they were getting hungry and they decided to let the passing stranger feed them in return for

00:03:15.400 them stopping to bark. They're not watchdogs now. They're lapdogs who happily roll over for Trudeau to

00:03:21.800 scratch their tummies. So I'm going to show you a speech that this happy grandpa, Antonia Guterres, 0.95

00:03:28.160 gave just a few days ago in the United Nations in New York, where he announced his global plans

00:03:35.080 for censorship. And he introduced the man who will be in charge of implementing that plan.

00:03:42.180 You know, the whole speech was pretty short. It was only about 10 minutes long. I'm going to show

00:03:46.500 you about a dozen little moments from it with some commentary from me in between. Canada is going

00:03:51.340 full guns on this. But I haven't seen anything about this story in the CBC or CTV or Global.

00:03:57.000 Well, correct me if I'm wrong, if I missed it. I was away for a few days, as you know.

00:04:00.840 But here, watch a bit. Watch this friendly grandpa tell you that the United Nations

00:04:05.360 is going to get involved now in determining what you can or can't say. And it's going to pressure

00:04:12.440 social media companies like Facebook or YouTube or Twitter to censor you. And if that pressure

00:04:17.800 doesn't work, well, they're going to counter your speech directly. I'm serious. The United Nations

00:04:22.600 Secretary General has announced that he will rebut and counter and fight back against political

00:04:29.500 speech around the world with which it disagrees. They will deem you a hater. They will deem

00:04:35.880 your speech hateful. They will deploy their massive resources against you. Do you think

00:04:40.380 I'm exaggerating? Well, take it from the friendly looking grandpa who rules over you, even though

00:04:45.980 you've probably never heard of him, let alone voted for him. Here, let's start with the first

00:04:50.520 clip. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being

00:04:56.640 here today to mark the launch of the United Nations strategy and plan of action on AIDS

00:05:01.140 speech. This strategy and plan of action are brand new, but they are rooted in our oldest

00:05:07.080 commitments. Respect for human rights without discrimination based on race, sex, language

00:05:12.920 or religion in a thread running through the United Nations charter. When the charter was drafted,

00:05:20.040 the world had just witnessed genocide on an industrial scale. AIDS speech had sown the seeds, 0.81

00:05:27.480 building on millennia of scapegoating and discrimination against the Jews and culminating in the Holocaust.

00:05:34.040 Seventy-five years on, we are in danger of forgetting this lesson. Around the world, we see a groundswell of

00:05:40.920 xenophobia, racism and intolerance, violent misogyny, and also anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred.

00:05:48.840 And in some places, Christian communities are attacked.

00:05:54.040 Well, now that starts off a little bit promising or inoffensive, I guess. I mean, I'm against the

00:06:00.440 violence of the Holocaust. I'm Jewish myself. But the thing is, the Holocaust wasn't done by words.

00:06:08.120 There have been mean words said against Jews for thousands of years, as Gutierrez himself pointed

00:06:13.800 out. The problem is, in Nazi Germany, is not the mean words. In fact, as countries went in the world,

00:06:19.880 it certainly wasn't the worst. It was that in Germany, real laws were changed so that violence 0.60

00:06:28.280 against Jews was permitted, that Jews had the laws taken away from them. In fact, violence and

00:06:36.040 anti-Semitism became required by law. That was the problem in Germany. In fact, as you may know,

00:06:41.720 the Weimar Republic itself had hate speech laws, and Hitler and his Nazis were charged under those laws.

00:06:47.800 It didn't stop them. Okay, let's keep watching.

00:06:50.600 Hateful and distracting views are enabled and amplified exponentially through digital technology,

00:06:58.360 often targeting women, minorities, and the most vulnerable. Extremists gather online and radicalize new recruits.

00:07:07.160 In both liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes, some political leaders are bringing the

00:07:12.600 hate-fueled ideas and language of these groups into the mainstream, normalizing them,

00:07:18.440 cursing the public discourse and weakening the social fabric.

00:07:24.040 Okay, just a reminder, the United Nations is not a country. He's not a prime minister or a president.

00:07:30.280 The UN is not a legitimate government with its own mind and its own mandate, because it's just a meeting

00:07:35.320 place for the 200 or so legitimate countries with their own minds. It's a meeting place. It has no natural

00:07:42.200 jurisdiction or mandate, other than what the 200 countries behind it agreed to. But he seems to have views of his

00:07:47.560 his own on individual politicians in individual countries. And in fact, he seems to suggest,

00:07:53.080 even in liberal democracies, he specifically said that, he suggests that even in liberal democracies,

00:07:58.440 elected officials, or maybe even the countries themselves, are illegitimate, and that their politics are

00:08:06.680 hateful and obviously therefore in need of remedy. He's saying that. Now, do you think he's talking

00:08:13.000 about Iran, a country that actually does call for the Holocaust-like annihilation of America,

00:08:19.560 of Israel and America? Both. Do you think he's talking about China, which foments hostility against,

00:08:25.480 let's say, the Tibetans or Uyghur Muslims? Do you think he's talking about Venezuela's brutal dictator,

00:08:29.960 Nicolas Maduro? Of course not. Now, even if he were, I don't think it would be his proper place.

00:08:34.440 Who cares what some unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat diplomat has to say about any of

00:08:39.000 those dictators. I'm more interested in what elected leaders like Trump or even Trudeau have

00:08:43.880 to say about that. I suppose those elected leaders could have a vote at the UN to condemn

00:08:47.800 a foreign country leader, but that's the point. They would be on the record. Who on earth is this guy

00:08:52.280 to simply declare himself king of the world? Now, we started off by talking about Jews in the Holocaust,

00:08:57.720 but that's pretty much over. This isn't about Jews of the Holocaust. In his speech, he's done with

00:09:04.600 that because his speech was so clearly about banning words that criticize Islam. Here, listen to the

00:09:12.600 three examples here. Over the past 75 years, hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes,

00:09:19.480 including genocide from Rwanda to Bosnia to Cambodia. More recently, it has been strongly linked with

00:09:27.000 violence and killings in several regions of the world, including Sri Lanka, New Zealand,

00:09:31.800 and here in the United States. Governments and technology companies alike are struggling to

00:09:37.400 prevent and respond to orchestrated online hate. Again, he says speech is a precursor to violence.

00:09:44.920 The opposite is often true. In fact, people can vent their grievances and frustrations like a safety

00:09:49.880 felt, get their concerns aired, maybe even have their concerns addressed, maybe participate in a public

00:09:55.560 debate, maybe change some minds, change the system, or maybe have their own minds changed,

00:09:59.640 but at least they'll know they were heard. I put it to you that it's the absence of free speech

00:10:04.760 that's the precursor to violence, because people with deep grievances feel they have no other

00:10:09.080 alternative. But he comes back to those three examples again. Here, take a look at that. He really

00:10:13.720 emphasizes this. Take a look. In Christchurch, people ferried the injured to hospital in their own cars

00:10:20.440 before ambulances could reach them. In Sri Lanka, the Muslim Council called on the faithful to help

00:10:26.920 the Christian brothers and sisters affected by the Easter Sunday bombings. In Pittsburgh, members of

00:10:33.400 the Muslim community organized to help the victims and survivors of the United States' worst anti-Semitic

00:10:38.520 attack. We all need to do better at looking out for each other, and this strategy sets out how we, the United

00:10:46.120 Nations, can play our part. But those three examples are New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and the USA. In the first

00:10:53.560 one, an extremely rare terrorist attack by a non-Muslim against Muslims. The second, a Muslim terrorist 0.99

00:11:02.440 attack on Catholics in Sri Lanka, much more common, a daily occurrence actually, so common that we only

00:11:09.000 really hear the news about the spectacular jihad attacks. But did you notice that even in that case,

00:11:14.920 Gutierrez didn't mention that the mass murderers, the terrorists in Sri Lanka were Muslim. He didn't

00:11:20.920 say that. He said some of the heroes were Muslim. Is that really the essence of the Sri Lanka attacks?

00:11:27.320 It was a Muslim terrorist group attacking Christians on Easter, and Gutierrez's big takeaway is that

00:11:33.560 Islam was the hero there. And the same thing in Pittsburgh. Nothing to do with Muslims. A non-Jew 1.00

00:11:40.760 attack Jews in the synagogue. All right, terrible. And the UN's big takeaway is that the Muslims were the 1.00

00:11:49.080 heroes of that story. I'm not saying there weren't righteous Muslims who helped out in these cases, but is 0.98

00:11:55.720 that the chief salient characteristic of all three of those attacks? An attack on Muslim, an attack on Jews, an attack

00:12:01.720 on Christians. But in every case, the victim or the hero is Muslim, never a perpetrator, only the victim and the 0.90

00:12:08.760 hero. Isn't that odd, given that we're living in the era of a global jihad? And isn't that odd, given that

00:12:14.840 we're talking about hate speech, which is not just prevalent in the Muslim world. It's the norm. It's 1.00

00:12:20.760 ubiquitous. It's assumed. Isn't it odd that in a speech about censorship and hate speech, Islam, which is a 0.99

00:12:27.080 doctrine that has within it the idea of the jihad, that contains within the Quran a justification for 0.66

00:12:34.680 violence, at least according to a dozen terrorist groups from ISIS to Al-Qaeda to Hamas to the Taliban

00:12:40.280 who rely on the Quran's verses for the authority. That's the one religion that specifically is excused 0.87

00:12:47.160 from this censorship project. How did that happen? Well, you see, we're dealing with the UN here. The

00:12:53.320 largest voting bloc in the UN, at least since the end of the Cold War, is the Saudi-led 57-country

00:12:59.960 Organization for Islamic Cooperation. 57 countries. It's enormously powerful. When I visited the UN

00:13:06.920 building itself, look at this. This is sponsored by Qatar. The Arab countries splashed their cash 0.98

00:13:14.040 around so crazy at the UN, it makes Trudeau look like an amateur. Qatar sponsored, I mean,

00:13:19.560 they sponsor ISIS. They paid for this luxury lounge right on the main floor of the UN building,

00:13:25.480 right along the Hudson River. It's like a luxury condo on the most prime piece of real estate in

00:13:30.120 New York. And Qatar just paid for it at the UN, which really means they're just buying the UN as

00:13:36.440 they buy so much else, like the soccer world cup to ads everywhere to, you know, ISIS. So yeah, that's,

00:13:42.440 that's why. Let's watch some more. As new channels for hate speech are reaching wider audiences than ever,

00:13:49.400 at lightning speed. We all, the United Nations, governments, technology companies, educational

00:13:55.160 institutions, need to step up our response. The United Nations strategy and plan of action we are

00:14:02.120 launching today is an ambitious program to coordinate efforts across the UN system to identify, prevent,

00:14:08.520 and confront hate speech using all the means in our power. Use all the means in the UN's power to

00:14:15.240 combat hate speech. The UN has 44,000 staff around the world. Can you believe it? They have an annual

00:14:21.320 budget of more than $5 billion US. They have an enormous propaganda machine. Most of the world's

00:14:26.200 media just repeat what the UN says. And all of this will be deployed to their censorship project.

00:14:31.240 But look at this, look at this. Distinguished delegates, the United Nations system-wide strategy

00:14:37.480 and plan of action has two overriding objectives. First, it aims to enhance our efforts to address the root

00:14:44.120 causes of hate speech in line with my prevention vision. These root causes include violence,

00:14:49.800 marginalization, discrimination, poverty, exclusion, inequality, lack of basic education, and weak

00:14:55.880 state institutions. We are addressing many of these issues as we support governments in implementing

00:15:01.240 the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. What on earth does that mean? Look at the root causes of hate

00:15:08.120 speech. Hate, of course, is an emotion that usually comes from some sense of grievance, real or perceives.

00:15:14.680 Someone feels that something is wrong in the world and has some theory of why it's wrong and

00:15:19.720 what should be done and they're upset that the world is unjust. They could be wrong, but that's how they feel.

00:15:26.440 That's what hate is. That's what hate speech is, and it could come from any possible thing. So yeah,

00:15:32.440 fixing the underlying grievances is the way to stop people from hating, but you can't do that. That's

00:15:38.600 utopia. That's only the garden of Eden or heaven. You can't make the world perfect, which is why,

00:15:45.400 unfortunately, hate is a natural human emotion. It's not an illness or disease to be cured. So it's okay to

00:15:50.920 feel hate from time to time. Just do your best to transform that emotion into energy to do something

00:15:55.800 positive. Change the world, change yourself, whatever. Don't get violent. Just saying you're

00:16:01.640 going to fix every underlying grievance in the world. Well, yeah, good luck with that, especially since

00:16:06.600 any two people can have mutually exclusive grievances and hates. I mentioned a lot of

00:16:10.680 terrorist groups. Their grievance is that the world does not live under Sharia law, does not have 0.99

00:16:16.840 the Quran as the only source of legitimacy. They want to end civil nation states and replace it with 1.00

00:16:22.440 a religious caliphate, and ISIS actually did that for a while. So you can't reconcile those grievances

00:16:29.720 with the grievances of the rest of the world that would hate living under Sharia law. You can't solve 0.98

00:16:33.880 it, folks, at least not immediately, top down with a UN program, especially one that's dominated by the

00:16:38.760 57 Muslim countries at the UN, which brings me to the next clip. Take a look.

00:16:42.920 But this new strategy goes further, recommending a coordinated response, including efforts to

00:16:50.040 identify those who engage in hate speech and those who are best placed to challenge it. The

00:16:55.640 strategy promotes education as a preventive tool that can raise awareness and bring about a shared

00:17:00.600 sense of common purpose to address the seeds of hatred. Can you tell me what common purpose the 200

00:17:08.040 countries of the world have? Tell me a common purpose. You can't find a common purpose in all

00:17:15.320 of humanity, other than in the most generic, meaningless statements. We all want to be happy.

00:17:20.360 We all want to succeed. At that Trudeau level of vacuity, but once you start getting into any details,

00:17:26.680 we just disagree. Not just countries disagreeing with each other, but disagreements within countries,

00:17:32.920 within cities, within families. It's life. Democracy and free speech are a way of dealing with things,

00:17:37.480 compromising. Censorship is the opposite, which is why none of this makes sense. Take a look at this.

00:17:44.360 The second overriding objective is to enable the United Nations to respond effectively

00:17:48.680 to the impact of hate speech on societies. The recommendations include convening individuals

00:17:54.680 and groups with opposing views, working with traditional and social media platforms, engaging in advocacy,

00:18:00.760 and developing guidance for communications to counter hate speech trends and campaigns.

00:18:06.040 While digital technology has provided new areas in which hate speech can thrive,

00:18:10.520 it can also help to monitor activity, target our response, and build support for counter narratives.

00:18:18.920 So they're going to convene debates of opposing views? So is China or Iran, where opposition political

00:18:26.360 views are banned, are they suddenly going to let the UN convene a debate there? No, don't be ridiculous. 0.98

00:18:31.880 Because this isn't about targeting real tyrants like that. It's about censorship of the West. 0.99

00:18:37.320 He said liberal democracies in his first minute. He specifically is worried about people who criticize

00:18:43.000 Islam. Working with social media companies, as he said, that means pressuring them to censor on the UN's

00:18:47.960 behalf. Monitoring activity, that's a nice way of saying the UN's going to spy on you, probably with the help of

00:18:53.240 those same tech companies, build counter narratives. What does that mean? That means they will denounce

00:18:59.000 people they disagree with. That's what that means. They'll fight you, smear you, denounce you. You, as

00:19:04.760 if that's what the UN was built for. The UN won't denounce Iran the country, or China the country. China

00:19:10.360 actually has a built-in veto at the UN Security Council, just like Russia does. The UN doesn't have

00:19:15.560 the courage to take on China or Russia, but they'll denounce you, a person, a website, a blogger,

00:19:21.080 a citizen with a Facebook page, but mainly they'll pressure tech companies to do it for them. It's

00:19:25.480 much cleaner that way. New forms of self-policing by social media platforms and the commitments

00:19:32.280 included in the Christchurch call are another welcome development. Yeah, that's already started.

00:19:38.440 The self-censorship by media companies already started. Twitter, for example, obeys the censorship

00:19:42.600 demands of the government of Pakistan. I myself have had tweets deleted by Twitter who send me an email

00:19:50.360 saying that they're acting at the request of the Pakistan government. A Muslim extremist government,

00:19:55.240 a hotbed of terrorism, is censoring now. Look at this. Our action plan goes beyond New York. 1.00

00:20:01.960 It includes ways in which country teams and missions around the world can take action to

00:20:07.080 defend the truth and counterate speech. What does that mean the UN is going to defend the truth?

00:20:13.960 Do you think the UN knows what the truth is, has a monopoly on the truth? Do you think

00:20:19.560 that even a democratically elected legitimate government anywhere could say that, could tell

00:20:24.040 you what the truth is, truthfully, and be counted on to do that? If you wouldn't trust an elected

00:20:29.160 politician to be the arbiter of what's true in your own country to be able to define what is true and

00:20:34.680 what is false, why would you let an unelected group of diplomats dominated by 57 Muslim countries 0.95

00:20:39.800 do that? Is the truth the truth according to the Quran? I want to know because that's the focus

00:20:45.480 here, the truth, but just for a minute to debate it on its own terms. Can the truth be hateful too?

00:20:52.440 Can the truth be hate speech? I mean, the truth can cause us to have feelings of hate or the truth

00:20:57.720 can be spoken with your mouth when hate is in your heart. What does one actually have to do with

00:21:03.720 another? If the UN is now defining what is or isn't true, are they just automatically deciding that

00:21:09.320 everything else they don't think is true is hate? I think they are. Next clip.

00:21:13.800 United Nations agencies and offices have pledged to enhance their cooperation based on the commitment

00:21:18.760 set out in the strategy. And I've also asked them to prepare their own plans aligned with this

00:21:24.600 strategy and in coordination with my special envoy for the prevention of genocide.

00:21:30.280 So this is just the warm-up here. This is just the appetizer. Other plans

00:21:33.880 are coming too. And somehow you tweeting something about Justin Trudeau or Brexit or Donald Trump is

00:21:40.440 linked to genocide? I guess it's easier to take you on than to take on China and Tibet or Turkey

00:21:47.240 for its real genocide of Armenians. What's the genocide guy got to do with censorship? But that

00:21:52.360 special envoy, who is he? He's this guy, Adama Diang. I know you've never heard of him. He's from

00:22:00.520 Senegal. Yeah. Not exactly the crucible of free speech. Here's a quote from Freedom House, an NGO

00:22:07.000 that monitors freedom around the world. Here's what they have to say about Senegal. In June 2017,

00:22:12.760 the National Assembly passed a new press code that had been debated for eight years. The move was met

00:22:18.040 with concern from press freedom advocates. Under the code, criminal defamation laws remain in place.

00:22:22.600 The punishments for violations were increased. The government can ban foreign news sources.

00:22:29.240 And press outlets can be shut down without the approval of a judge. The new press code also allows

00:22:36.920 the government to block access to internet content deemed contrary to morality. So yeah, it's not quite

00:22:42.760 as oppressive as China or Iran, but pretty bad. The country gets two out of four for press freedom. I 0.92

00:22:49.240 think this guy is actually the perfect fit for this UN censorship project. Don't you?

00:22:54.520 Just a little bit more. Take a look at this. Addressing hate speech should never be confused

00:22:58.920 with suppressing freedom of expression. The United Nations supports all human rights,

00:23:04.120 including the freedom to seek, receive, and spread information and ideas of all kinds set out in the

00:23:10.440 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Addressing hate speech does not mean limiting or

00:23:16.760 prohibiting freedom of speech. It means keeping hate speech from escalating into something more

00:23:22.680 dangerous, particularly incitement to discrimination, hostility, and violence, which is prohibited under

00:23:28.920 international law. We should treat it like any other malicious act, by condemning it unconditionally,

00:23:37.080 refusing to amplify it, countering it with the truth, and encouraging the perpetrators to change their behavior.

00:23:43.480 So you've just heard his definition of free speech. Oh my God. So he's going to enforce freedom of

00:23:52.280 expression by leaning on social media companies, by calling people he doesn't like, perpetrators who

00:23:57.720 need to be denounced, by countering private voices, by smothering, attacking, denouncing, denormalizing

00:24:03.480 opposing views. We have already tasted this. The UN has barred us here at The Rebel from attending UN

00:24:08.840 conferences as journalists. That's what they mean. That's just their starting point before they

00:24:13.240 unleashed all this. Again, you won't see hate speech from the left countered. You won't see Islamic 0.99

00:24:19.000 hate speech countered, radical sermons in mosques countered. This is about stopping criticism of the

00:24:25.000 philosophy of the religion called Islam. Take a look. Hate speech may have gained a foothold,

00:24:30.840 but it is now on notice, and we will never stop confronting it. As we see time and again,

00:24:37.720 people everywhere value their common humanity and want to help each other out in a crisis.

00:24:44.040 In Christchurch, people ferried the injured to hospital in their own cars before ambulances could

00:24:50.040 reach them. In Sri Lanka, the Muslim Council called on the faithful to help the Christian brothers and

00:24:56.280 sisters affected by the Easter Sunday bombings. In Pittsburgh, members of the Muslim community

00:25:02.520 organized to help the victims and survivors of the United States' worst anti-Semitic attack.

00:25:08.520 He comes back to that. He's come back to that several times. All Muslim examples. Look, 1.00

00:25:14.200 but I appreciate this honesty from Adam Adiink. He admits, his genocide guy, he was up next in the speech,

00:25:22.120 he admits that the UN has no definition of hate speech. And that's why they're so excited. That's

00:25:30.280 why they love it so much. They can make it anything they want to make it at any given moment. Take a look at him.

00:25:36.680 This has not been an easy task, especially considering that hate speech is a very gray area for which no

00:25:45.000 international legal definition exists. However, the UN entities in their respective mandates and programs

00:25:52.680 in one way or another have been working to address this growing concern.

00:25:59.160 I guess they have some sort of definition though. If you disagree with the UN or its programs,

00:26:05.960 that's hate speech.

00:26:08.600 The United Nations strategy and plan of action on hate speech

00:26:11.720 embodies the United Nations pledge to address hate speech that challenges United Nations values,

00:26:19.800 mandates, and programs. Did you hear that? You challenge the United Nations values, mandates,

00:26:26.200 or programs. My friends, this is all getting faster, isn't it? Censorship from Trudeau,

00:26:31.080 censorship from the tech companies in Silicon Valley, censorship from the United Nations,

00:26:35.320 and no journalists around anywhere to fight back, at least not in Canada. They know what I know.

00:26:39.800 So there are now just two classes of journalists left in this country. Those funded by the government,

00:26:46.760 or those banned by the government. Most Canadian journalists have made their choice, haven't they?

00:26:52.600 Which might explain why they didn't show you the preceding videos, let alone raise the alarm about it.

00:26:59.400 Stay with us for more.

00:27:09.800 Hey, welcome back. Well, I was away for a week, taking a bit of a break. It's great to be back,

00:27:19.720 and we've got a very busy season coming up ahead. Sure, it's the summertime, but before you know it,

00:27:24.200 Labor Day is going to be here, and of course, the federal election. Well, one of the fellows on our team

00:27:28.520 who's been flying around stinging liberal MPs like a bee is our friend Kian Bexty, who happens to be at our

00:27:35.880 world headquarters here in Toronto. Kian, great to see you again. Welcome.

00:27:38.760 Good to see you too.

00:27:39.400 Well, you've been flying all over the place, and you've been doing some great videos

00:27:44.360 scrumming politicians and just asking them questions that the mainstream media doesn't.

00:27:50.760 You called it a game show once. I'm just going to ask questions the mainstream media won't.

00:27:54.840 It's amazing to me that no one does that to candidates on the left.

00:27:58.920 Right-wingers get scrummed all the time, but not left-wingers.

00:28:01.800 Well, and I find that when you do it like this, when you ask some questions, well, first off,

00:28:06.680 I do it mainly because they won't let me into the press conferences. But also, it's a unique

00:28:11.400 opportunity to get really candid responses, just responses that aren't scripted by the Jerry Buttses

00:28:17.400 of the world. So when you see Selena Chavez freaking out at me, you really see the real side of her.

00:28:24.600 Yeah, and I think, and I'll show that clip. In fact, let's just show that clip right now.

00:28:27.400 We'll come right back. There's something I want to say about it here. Take a look at this.

00:28:29.960 This was just what, like last week or about 10 days ago in Ottawa. Take a look.

00:28:34.840 Do you forgive Justin Trudeau for yelling at you?

00:28:37.240 I decide what I decide to do when I decide to do it.

00:28:40.680 And do you forgive him?

00:28:42.360 I decide what I decide to do and when I decide to do it.

00:28:45.640 Why can't you tell me if you-

00:28:46.840 We could go with this all, we could do this all day, but I really-

00:28:49.640 Until he gets your office.

00:28:50.440 No, we could, we could, you could keep going.

00:28:54.200 You could keep going.

00:28:54.680 So do you forgive him?

00:28:55.320 I just, I really have nothing good to say to the rebel.

00:28:58.360 So I'm not sure why you're entertaining this line of questioning, but you could go ahead.

00:29:04.360 Just wondering if you, just wondering if you forgive someone who verbally assaulted you.

00:29:08.200 Anyways, have a good night.

00:29:09.000 Are you done?

00:29:09.080 Thanks for chatting with me.

00:29:09.720 Are you done?

00:29:10.280 Oh, the big guy's here and you're done.

00:29:11.880 I can, I mean, I can keep coming. 1.00

00:29:14.280 Did you just call me a pussy? 1.00

00:29:15.560 You're right, I did. 1.00

00:29:18.360 What I think we saw there was not just that she is a little bit crazy. 0.99

00:29:23.880 And I always thought that Justin Trudeau truly did handle her, mistreat her.

00:29:28.440 It could be true, but now I realize that maybe there's another side of the story.

00:29:32.040 I think she's a little cuckoo.

00:29:34.120 And I certainly can see that she's quick to anger, quick to profanity.

00:29:39.800 It took you like 90 seconds to get under her skin just asking a legit question.

00:29:44.520 I don't think in her four years as an MP, she has ever been asked a probing question at all.

00:29:51.000 Yeah, I don't, well, I don't think so either.

00:29:53.160 If you just go on Twitter or Google and look her up, you can't see any sort of

00:29:57.720 candid or really any reporter asking her significant questions until she came to the spotlight

00:30:04.280 when she started tweeting about Maxime Vernier and saying he was a racist.

00:30:07.880 But even then, I mean, the questions put to her were very gentle.

00:30:12.520 Now, you've been doing a lot of great work scrumming Canadian politicians.

00:30:16.440 But this morning, you were in Washington, D.C.

00:30:21.640 going after a congresswoman that I think a lot of Canadians have heard of.

00:30:26.200 I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of congressmen and women, and I don't think most

00:30:30.200 Canadians know most of them.

00:30:31.160 But an interesting and I think odious congresswoman is Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. 0.99

00:30:38.360 Let's start with a clip of you asking her some questions about a week ago.

00:30:43.000 Let's take a look at that.

00:30:44.920 Could you tell me, do you agree with AOC that ICE is running concentration camps on the border?

00:30:53.480 There are camps and people are being concentrated.

00:30:56.040 This is very simple.

00:30:57.160 I don't even know why this is a controversial thing for her to say.

00:31:00.920 We have to really truthfully speak about what's taking place.

00:31:05.480 And this is why it's really important for us to abolish ICE and make sure that we have an agency

00:31:10.520 that is accountable to the people, that is dealing with the situation in a humane way.

00:31:15.160 There's no way that we can allow for kids to be caged in this country,

00:31:24.600 and children to be separated from their families, and people being terrorized in their communities.

00:31:32.680 We have to make sure that we are calling it out, and I am 100% with Alex.

00:31:36.520 She was pretty chatty there. I mean, you asked her about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:31:41.720 comparing U.S. immigration detention facilities to the concentration camp.

00:31:46.280 This Somali extremist loved that comparison. 1.00

00:31:49.560 Oh, absolutely. She said, and I didn't quite understand her logic.

00:31:53.000 She said, people are being concentrated, and they're in camps, therefore it's a concentration camp.

00:31:57.640 She's illustrating a terrible understanding of what the Holocaust was, and that's at best.

00:32:03.000 And at worst, it shows that she is just blatantly anti-Semitic.

00:32:07.480 I think she loves the idea of making the idea of a concentration camp banal.

00:32:15.320 Not only does she insult America, which she hates, but she devalues what happened in the Holocaust.

00:32:21.720 She's normalizing that and denormalizing America. I think she knows exactly what she's doing. 0.95

00:32:26.200 Now, since then, that was about a week ago, you went to Minnesota, and you talked to some of her constituents.

00:32:33.000 And I got to say, they look the same. They sound the same. I think she is from a very crazy place.

00:32:37.880 Let's show a clip of that. Here's Ilhan Omar. Not her herself, but her voters. Let's take a look at that.

00:32:45.320 Are you a supporter of Ilhan?

00:32:47.080 Yeah, I am. Big time.

00:32:49.080 One of the things that she said is that Israel is hypnotizing the world, or has hypnotized the world.

00:32:55.000 Do you agree with that statement?

00:32:58.120 We have different issues, different beliefs when it comes to Israel.

00:33:06.520 Because the world is hypnotizing about Israel. That's what I believe. 0.90

00:33:10.600 It's not only Israel hypnotizing. It's like the whole wide world don't see what they're doing.

00:33:15.640 So, I agree on that 100%, if not more.

00:33:20.280 Everybody who's wise, who's intelligent, sees what's going on.

00:33:24.440 They are taking over, they are destroying, they are killing, and no one says anything about it.

00:33:29.720 Luckily, I'm not a politician, so nobody can blame me. I'm a normal citizen.

00:33:34.840 You put to them some of her crazy anti-Semitic tweets about Jews controlling the world, Israel 0.93

00:33:43.000 hypnotizing the world, and they said, yeah. 0.67

00:33:45.160 Yeah, I mean, they were completely on board.

00:33:47.720 Well, I didn't think, as a Canadian, I didn't understand how someone like Ilhan Omar could get

00:33:52.040 elected, someone who hates the United States as much as she does. But then I realized that there's

00:33:56.600 this enclave of voters that she has been relying on to get her elected, and they are just as anti-Semitic as 0.80

00:34:02.760 her. Now, I'm not saying that every Somali in that community is anti-Semitic, but there was 1.00

00:34:06.840 a surprising amount of people who were really concerned with whether or not I was a Jew.

00:34:11.960 You know what? They're coming from a place, Somalia is 99% Muslim. They've never met a Jew. There

00:34:19.400 are no Jewish Somalis. All they know about Jews is part of the Islamic propaganda, terrorist propaganda, 0.95

00:34:27.400 maybe what their own dictatorship says, the external enemy, the eternal Jew, who's meddling with 0.95

00:34:32.120 things. And so it's not like, I don't think that Ilhan Omar had any real life dealings with Jews

00:34:40.120 until she got to Washington. I don't think that her constituents have. I think they just think

00:34:46.440 Jews are evil, and no one deprogrammed them before they brought tens of thousands or hundreds of 1.00

00:34:55.080 thousands of Somalis from Somalia to the United States or Canada. I don't think anyone bothered to 1.00

00:35:00.920 check if we're bringing in absolute kooks. Well, I mean, there was the one person I talked to,

00:35:06.440 and we should probably throw to it. It's a video of me interviewing this man on a bench. And I'm asking

00:35:11.960 him what he thinks about Ilhan Omar possibly marrying two people at the same time. Is polygamy and bigamy

00:35:17.560 a common thing for them? You might want to take a look at it. Yeah, let's take a look at it.

00:35:21.320 The Quran tells me you can marry one woman if you are efficient to manage them. I'm busy. Very justice to all of them. 0.98

00:35:31.080 Here we have, you can marry one woman. In America. And you have a lot of women unmarried. Women are more than 1.00

00:35:42.760 the men. So where they can get a man? They marry each other? No. The women? Yes. Women marry each other? Yes. Here. 1.00

00:35:54.920 You think women should marry each other? No. Here. Here. Yeah. Women are more than the men. Yeah. Yeah. Like in population. 1.00

00:36:03.960 In population. Yeah. So if one man is one woman, what about the rest of the women? Where they can find a man? 1.00

00:36:14.280 Do you think, would you rather, uh... It should be open that the man should marry more than 0.93

00:36:21.800 one woman. Yeah. So that they can cover this, this efficiency. Ilhan Omar, are you a fan of her?

00:36:29.720 Do you, do you support, do you support Ilhan Omar? Yeah. He, you know, he, he ended that off by saying

00:36:38.840 he voted for her because he was Somali. Yeah. Or because she was Somali. The, these people, they're,

00:36:43.800 they're voting on identity. They're not voting on policy. Yeah. And it really shows how scary American

00:36:50.680 politics is getting, especially in the fifth district of Minnesota. Yeah. It's, it's really bad there.

00:36:54.760 Well, I mean, you are here in our Toronto office today, but this morning you were scrumming Ilhan Omar 0.71

00:37:00.520 for the second time, asking her about this weirdness of legally marrying her brother.

00:37:06.520 I don't think they consummated the marriage. I think they, I think it was just an immigration fraud, 1.00

00:37:11.880 a tax fraud. It was just trickery. They come from a low trust society, Somalia, 1.00

00:37:17.080 where you lie as a matter of course, because you're in a failed state.

00:37:21.000 If you don't rip off your neighbor, he's going to rip you off. They come from an ultra low trust society

00:37:26.040 into a high trust society. And so they're gaming everything. Marrying your brother is a, is a whole

00:37:33.400 other level. Let's take a look how that went. You, you just accosted her on the lawn. Take a look. 0.92

00:37:39.160 Ilhan, if I could get a moment of your time, if I could get a moment of your time,

00:37:44.040 could you tell me why you filed illegal tax returns in 2014 and 2015?

00:37:48.120 And it's which committee?

00:37:52.120 Can you tell me definitively or not, is Ahmad Elsie your brother?

00:37:56.440 For the markup?

00:37:57.880 Yeah.

00:37:58.200 Is he your brother in the middle of the legislative briefing?

00:38:00.040 We're going to the, we're going, yeah.

00:38:02.040 Is he your brother?

00:38:02.760 We're going to which one?

00:38:05.480 It's foreign affairs. I'll go with you.

00:38:09.480 Can you tell me definitively, yes or no, is he your brother?

00:38:12.680 And why can't you answer that question?

00:38:14.120 The remarks you gave me earlier.

00:38:16.120 Why did you refer to him as your child's uncle on Instagram? And why did you lie

00:38:22.040 on court documents saying that you hadn't seen him since 2011, when in fact you'd been talking

00:38:26.600 to him all the time on Instagram?

00:38:27.720 Sir, we're not doing ambush interviews.

00:38:29.400 This isn't an ambush.

00:38:30.840 You can send me an email.

00:38:32.840 Why are you so afraid to answer these questions?

00:38:40.200 How can anyone take you credibly on the student loan tax file when you were cheating on your taxes

00:38:49.480 in 2014? And how can you call for Donald Trump's tax filings when, you know, nobody can trust you

00:38:59.400 on the file at all? And why are you scared to answer the questions?

00:39:11.720 What are you hiding?

00:39:14.280 Trying to find my phone at the moment.

00:39:17.160 So that you can go on Instagram and talk to your brother?

00:39:18.920 I got to tell you, if someone asked me, did you marry your sister?

00:39:26.680 I'd laugh because it's just a shockingly absurd thing. And if they said, no, seriously,

00:39:31.240 did you marry your sister? I'd say no. Stupid question. No. What are you weird?

00:39:36.600 Like it's, it's just such an absurd thing. And you just answered in one second. There's no 0.55

00:39:41.880 explanation. There's no yes with an explanation. It's just yes or no. And the fact that that she will

00:39:47.880 not answer that is so, I'm cringing watching that. Like, just, just say no. Come on. This can't be

00:39:56.520 true. Well, it's obviously true if she can't say no. Yeah. I'm at a loss for words at what she,

00:40:06.040 she couldn't defend herself in, in any way whatsoever. And you're right. If it was,

00:40:12.200 if it was false, you'd say it's false. Yeah. Well, you'd say that's a ridiculous question.

00:40:16.760 And then if you were pressed, you'd say, no, of course not. And you'd be done with it. 0.97

00:40:21.160 It's obviously true. Well, I think you're doing a great job. It's nice to see you passing through

00:40:25.000 Toronto here because you're flying around everywhere. Tell me, do you have any other

00:40:29.800 stories on your radar screen in the days ahead? Or are they sort of a surprise? I don't want you

00:40:34.440 to give away anything if you, if you need the element of surprise, like you started in Washington

00:40:38.120 today. Well, one story that is totally public is the garbage ship. It's coming in on Saturday,

00:40:44.360 fingers crossed. I'm really excited to greet the SS McKenna in the port of Vancouver. It depends,

00:40:50.360 like, you know, you never know how fast ships are going to go. So it could be a little bit earlier.

00:40:54.120 It could be a little bit later, but we'll have to see. There you go, the garbage ship. And if you

00:40:57.800 don't know what we're talking about, you got to go to garbageship.com. It's a funny story. Well,

00:41:02.360 there you have it, Kian. Thanks for stopping in the World Headquarters today. And I really do mean

00:41:06.280 World Headquarters because you're flying around everywhere and just doing great stuff. Thanks,

00:41:09.480 Ezra. All right. Stay with us. More Head on the Rebel.

00:41:22.840 Hey, welcome back. Well, thanks for letting me get back into it. I don't know what you thought

00:41:26.440 about my video today of the UN Secretary General basically announcing a new censorship war and his

00:41:32.760 deputy, the fellow from Senegal, saying we don't have a definition of hate speech. It's basically

00:41:37.720 speech that we hate. I think that's really what they're going to do. I didn't see any coverage.

00:41:43.480 I was away for a while. I was taking a little break, but I'm back now. We're in for a busy season.

00:41:49.320 I really think censorship is the issue of our age, especially in Canada at this moment.

00:41:55.560 I think Trudeau wants to censor any critics. And I think south of the border, the tech companies want

00:42:01.320 to want to censor Trump. I frankly don't see any of the Democratic presidential nominees

00:42:08.120 looking strong against Trump. Joe Biden, I know he leads the polls. He looks old and wobbly and the

00:42:13.960 opposite of fresh. Bernie Sanders. I mean, if that's the best the Democrats have, I don't think

00:42:19.320 they're going to win. But I don't think they have to win if Silicon Valley will win it for them. I think

00:42:24.280 censorship is the era, the issue of our era. And I just as just before I recorded this video,

00:42:31.000 I saw a new official release by Ralph Goodale's public safety department that specifically names

00:42:38.280 the rebel. I'll probably do a video on that in the days ahead. They name us. They name the rebel

00:42:43.560 and say we have to be tamped down. I'll show you that in days ahead. Well, it's great to be back at our

00:42:48.520 world headquarters. There's so much to talk about in the weeks and months ahead. Thanks for joining us

00:42:52.520 again. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Ripple Home Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:42:56.920 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 27, 2019

United Nations' new anti-“hate speech” campaign includes speech against UN programs

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