Rebel News Podcast - March 20, 2021


US contractor spying on Rebel News, COVID cops in Australia

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Chris Guy Ezra Levant Rebel Roundup Justin Trudeau Avi Yamini Aubrey Wodonga Jagmeet Singh Carlos Kruger John Doe Pandabella Valentine Terri Nathan Phillips Square Rebecca Goolsby Stephen Harper David Menzies Mark Dorsey Brian Lilly Clouseau Victoria and 5 more
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The U.S. Navy paid a defense contractor based at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock to use a program called Spy on Web and other programs to do a workup on Rebel News. They produced a report called the Canada Elections Cyber Forensics Analysis, dated October 10, 2019, which is odd given that the Canadian election wasn t until 11 days later. But as you ll soon see, they seemed to know what they were going to write about us before they even did their research.

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00:01:14.280 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
00:01:32.640 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite rebels.
00:01:38.180 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:39.940 Well, there is a clear and present danger in Canada right now, folks.
00:01:44.940 And that clear and present danger is us?
00:01:48.700 Oh yes, if you can believe it, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces,
00:01:54.000 they've both funded a joint cyber intelligence operation against Rebel News.
00:02:01.120 What's the deal with that?
00:02:02.760 Well, Rebel Commander Ezra Levent will drop by with all the unbelievable details.
00:02:08.880 And how low are things going to go down under when it comes to Wuhan virus protocol enforcement?
00:02:16.880 Well, how about this?
00:02:18.500 A COVID cop who ticketed and harassed a grandmother for not wearing a mask due to a medical exemption.
00:02:26.620 And if that sounds bad enough, just will you see the cop's shocking body cam footage?
00:02:33.520 Avi Amini has all the lurid details.
00:02:35.760 And letters, we get your letters.
00:02:37.700 We get them every minute of every day.
00:02:39.720 And you had plenty to say about our report from Toronto's Pearson International Airport,
00:02:44.600 in which anti-lockdown advocate Chris Guy showed up to help a woman in distress.
00:02:50.800 Just one hitch, the Peel police frog march Chris out of the airport.
00:02:55.440 And a question arises, whatever happened to concepts such as empathy and compassion and reasonable accommodation
00:03:04.820 during these never-ending dark days of Wuhan virus protocol?
00:03:10.380 Those are your rebels.
00:03:11.660 Now let's round them up.
00:03:12.880 So here's how the spy operation against us weren't.
00:03:22.560 The U.S. Navy paid a defense contractor based at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock
00:03:28.680 to use a program called Spy on Web and other programs to do a workup on Rebel News.
00:03:35.840 They produced this report called the Canada Elections Cyber Forensics Analysis, dated October 10th, 2019,
00:03:45.920 which is odd, given that the Canadian election wasn't until 11 days later.
00:03:50.120 But as you'll soon see, they seemed to know what they were going to write about us before they even did their research.
00:03:55.780 I'll quote from it.
00:03:57.040 Again, you can read the whole thing at stopspyingonus.com.
00:04:02.540 Here's the executive summary.
00:04:03.860 This report summarizes the significant findings on the hidden digital footprints of the Canadian website,
00:04:12.020 the rebel.media.
00:04:13.460 The website provides far-right political and social commentary
00:04:16.900 and was founded in February 2015 by Ezra Levant and Brian Lilly.
00:04:22.280 Does the U.S. Navy do this a lot?
00:04:25.720 Pay military contractors at universities to use spying software to look into Canadian journalists?
00:04:34.860 Why?
00:04:36.020 Who ordered it?
00:04:37.520 On what basis?
00:04:39.060 On what criteria?
00:04:39.900 Who else did they spy on?
00:04:41.220 How else did they spy?
00:04:42.860 Are they tapping my phones?
00:04:44.420 Are they hacking my emails?
00:04:46.360 Why are they meddling in a Canadian election?
00:04:49.500 What else have they done in our elections up here in Canada?
00:04:52.940 And do they also meddle in U.S. elections?
00:04:56.000 Those are my main questions.
00:04:57.580 Privacy, legality.
00:04:59.620 What the hell is the U.S. Navy doing spying on civilian journalists?
00:05:03.220 But another question, and I just can't help asking it.
00:05:06.280 I know it's not as important, but I can't stop thinking about it. 1.00
00:05:09.380 It's, are all U.S. spies this stupid? 1.00
00:05:13.440 I mean, we all know the joke military intelligence, it's like an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp. 1.00
00:05:20.600 But seriously, this is the stupidest report I've ever seen, the spy report by these contractors. 0.99
00:05:26.840 I kid you not, a teenager could have done a better job of it, and probably for about a million dollars less. 0.99
00:05:32.540 There's a lot of military jargon in the report, which I think, like academic jargon,
00:05:38.660 it's actually designed to make it harder to understand someone rather than easier to understand.
00:05:43.500 It's designed to make someone seem like a smart expert when really they're clueless.
00:05:48.420 But let me take you through some of it.
00:05:50.220 Again, you can see this at our website, stopsbuyingonus.com.
00:05:53.600 Identifying hidden or external links, a well-known political Canadian news and commentary site
00:05:59.520 that frequently contributes stories about the Canadian elections, was analyzed.
00:06:04.260 Using a variety of cyber forensic analytical capabilities provided by Maltigo and SpyOnWeb,
00:06:11.880 the following open source information was obtained.
00:06:16.180 Perfectly normal, just the U.S. Navy spying on Canadian journalists.
00:06:21.040 This just in, folks. There is a clear and present danger in Canada right now.
00:06:26.520 And that clear and present danger is us?
00:06:29.800 Oh yeah, if you can believe it, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces
00:06:34.460 teamed up to fund a joint cyber intelligence operation against Rebel News.
00:06:41.360 What's the deal with that?
00:06:43.360 Well, apparently when it comes to the Justin Trudeau liberals,
00:06:46.000 espousing a right-of-center opinion in Canada is a matter of national security?
00:06:52.680 Joining me now with more on this shocking discovery is none other than Rebel Commander Ezra Levent.
00:06:59.420 Ezra, what's the deal here?
00:07:01.900 Yeah, you know what?
00:07:02.540 I got a tip last fall from someone in Arkansas saying,
00:07:06.640 hey, did you see this?
00:07:08.280 And I'm surprised.
00:07:10.200 I mean, I don't read every single email that comes in, so I'm lucky I did.
00:07:13.160 I went to what he showed me, and it was a report published by the Canadian military
00:07:18.820 about some, by the University of Arkansas, about Rebel News
00:07:27.300 and how we're some influence operation that needs to be tracked and combated
00:07:31.840 like some Russian troll robot farmer. 0.59
00:07:35.200 And I was confused, so we filed some access to information requests
00:07:40.940 with the University of Arkansas, and we discovered that actually
00:07:44.620 the University of Arkansas has a little unit that's a defense contractor,
00:07:50.060 and they take jobs from the military.
00:07:53.400 This is what they call the military-industrial complex, right?
00:07:56.120 I mean, the U.S. Navy has an annual budget of $161 billion.
00:08:00.460 It's an enormous enterprise.
00:08:03.420 So the U.S. Navy contracted with this military contractor
00:08:08.480 at University of Arkansas to spy on us.
00:08:12.920 Now, as far as we know, I mean, we don't know if they sent in human spies
00:08:17.580 to infiltrate us.
00:08:18.780 We don't know if they hacked us.
00:08:20.940 What we do know is that they assessed what they could see
00:08:24.680 about our website online, and they were ridiculous in their conclusions.
00:08:28.780 They said, we're a U.S. operation.
00:08:31.180 We deceive people who we are.
00:08:33.400 We have deep, fake websites.
00:08:36.140 The funniest thing is they said, and you're going to laugh
00:08:40.380 that I'm even saying these words, but I promise you it's in there.
00:08:42.760 You can see we put all these documents up on the website
00:08:46.220 stopspyingonus.com.
00:08:48.400 So you can read this for yourself.
00:08:49.740 They said, and anyone who knows me knows my entire life
00:08:52.880 I've fought against socialism, communism, left-wingism.
00:08:55.760 The NDP is like my worst nightmare.
00:08:59.340 It's a kryptonite.
00:09:01.660 This defense contractor in Arkansas, who knows how much they were paid
00:09:06.360 by the U.S. Navy.
00:09:07.260 Was it $10,000 or a million?
00:09:08.960 I don't know.
00:09:09.980 They said that one of our secret projects here at Rebel News
00:09:13.660 was to publish 291 fake websites promoting Jagmeet Singh,
00:09:20.460 the leader of the NDP.
00:09:21.440 And they have this complex theory that we created what they call
00:09:26.720 deep, fake websites designed to get voters to move from Trudeau
00:09:31.560 to Jagmeet Singh based on Canada-India policy.
00:09:37.920 It's, it's, I don't even, I can't even try to understand that
00:09:42.160 other than I did one time make a fun video mocking Trudeau's
00:09:45.880 dress-up party in India.
00:09:47.740 I didn't mention Jagmeet Singh.
00:09:49.960 So this defense contractor was so weird and got so many things wrong.
00:09:55.460 It, you know, they say jumbo shrimp is an oxymoron.
00:09:59.160 Well, it made me think of that joke that military intelligence is an oxymoron.
00:10:05.080 So they, so the U.S. Navy contracted this University of Arkansas spy company
00:10:11.040 that spied on us and gave the report to the Navy.
00:10:13.300 I didn't hear about that, but this same defense contractor obviously thought, 0.97
00:10:18.360 well, I can sell this same work to someone else who's the biggest sucker around. 0.97
00:10:22.020 Hey, Justin Trudeau. 0.95
00:10:23.000 So he took the same work, the same spying on us and sold it to the Canadian Armed Forces,
00:10:29.280 including the Special Operations Force Command.
00:10:32.300 I mean, those are people, and I'm speaking now as a Canadian taxpayer,
00:10:35.980 if we're paying taxes to fund the Canadian forces,
00:10:39.200 that's actually one of the few things in my taxes I feel good about.
00:10:43.540 But spend it to fight the bad guys,
00:10:45.660 not to hire Arkansas spies to write conspiracy theories about me.
00:10:50.820 So the Canadian Armed Forces paid this American defense contractor
00:10:55.620 for some other wild-eyed fantasy about rebel news.
00:10:59.640 And again, we put it on the website, see for yourself.
00:11:02.220 It's at stopspyinghonest.com.
00:11:05.000 And they published their report.
00:11:06.880 That's how I found out about it.
00:11:07.920 I wouldn't have known about the U.S. Navy involvement
00:11:10.240 until I started pulling up the thread at the University of Arkansas.
00:11:14.440 So I phoned the spymaster in the greater D.C. area.
00:11:19.000 Her name is Rebecca Goolsby.
00:11:20.680 I left her a message.
00:11:21.560 I sent her an email.
00:11:22.640 I phoned the Inspector Clouseau down at the University of Arkansas,
00:11:28.960 left him, voice message, emailed him.
00:11:30.940 And I haven't heard back, funny enough.
00:11:33.860 And here's my takeaway. 0.99
00:11:35.060 Number one, I just can't get over how dumb the report is. 0.99
00:11:37.800 Like, how factually false it is. 1.00
00:11:40.160 Like, I just can't believe that it wasn't on purpose that they were so dumb. 0.99
00:11:46.420 Please tell me someone smarter than them is protecting the world against communist China. 0.98
00:11:50.220 But putting that aside, I'm thinking, is it legal for the U.S. Navy to spy on a civilian media company?
00:11:57.140 Is it legal for the Canadian armed forces to hire foreign spies to check out Justin Trudeau's biggest online critic?
00:12:05.540 Justin Trudeau hates rebel news.
00:12:06.600 He says so.
00:12:07.200 He bans us from things.
00:12:09.020 He pokes fun at us in Parliament.
00:12:11.620 I mean, I don't care about the poking fun, but he bans us.
00:12:13.880 And I really care about him having military contractors dig into us.
00:12:17.680 What else is he doing?
00:12:18.640 And who else is he doing it to?
00:12:21.120 And putting the shoe on the other foot.
00:12:23.900 Imagine if it was Stephen Harper who had the Canadian Armed Forces hire an American defense contractor to look into left-wing reporters.
00:12:32.240 Oh, my God.
00:12:32.960 The sky would fall.
00:12:33.900 Not a peep.
00:12:34.480 We broke this story two days ago.
00:12:36.180 Not a peep from any other journalist.
00:12:38.860 Of course, because they totally agree.
00:12:40.420 They hate rebel news.
00:12:41.520 And they never really believed in civil liberties.
00:12:43.700 They just hate rebel news.
00:12:45.000 You know, Ezra, two things.
00:12:46.400 One is, as you said, this researcher probably got paid five, six, even seven figures for this report.
00:12:53.180 I'm curious if the people that paid this professor are suffering from buyer's remorse because of all the errors and omissions.
00:13:01.780 I mean, that's amateur hour.
00:13:02.920 That's get smart stuff that he delivered.
00:13:05.300 And secondly, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the second time in less than a year we have been spied on by government.
00:13:12.540 When we went down to Nathan Phillips Square to reclaim the public square in Toronto, we later found out that huge report where the city had their spies with telephoto lenses, taking pictures of us, getting our personal detail, right down to physical descriptions.
00:13:29.620 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:30.620 I think they had weight in there, which really, that goes too far.
00:13:35.900 That crossed the line.
00:13:36.700 But, I mean, Ezra, kidding aside, I think this is disturbing in a democracy that government is spying on and writing up secret reports about those practicing journalism.
00:13:50.280 Yeah, and I really am trying to figure out what's going on.
00:13:53.160 I mean, obviously, these spies are not answering my phone calls.
00:13:56.120 I don't think spies are really into customer service with the people they're spying on.
00:14:01.660 Oh, yeah, sure.
00:14:02.600 Anyways, I think that one of their goals was to purposefully smear us and use that as a pretext to ban us from the Internet by saying, look, they're foreign manipulators.
00:14:18.060 They're not authentic. 0.89
00:14:20.580 There's some Russian troll farm.
00:14:23.360 We have to just delete them from the entire Internet.
00:14:26.260 I think it was actually part of a scam, a scheme, a scam by the U.S. Navy and the Canadian government to smear us so then they could then show this report to Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and say, look, you better delete these guys.
00:14:44.260 They're foreign meddlers. 1.00
00:14:45.340 Unbelievable.
00:14:45.860 That's my theory because the spies won't return my call.
00:14:48.900 The spy who won't call me.
00:14:50.920 Love it.
00:14:51.700 Well, Ezra, it was a fantastic report.
00:14:53.400 And wow, what a story.
00:14:54.420 And there you go, folks, I guess to quote Agent 86 from Get Smart when it came to the accuracy of that report, missed it by that much.
00:15:02.460 Actually, missed it by that much is the real deal.
00:15:06.280 Keep it here.
00:15:06.880 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:15:14.340 August the 4th, I arrived to work as my normal shift.
00:15:18.960 I walked through the car park and the entrance of the mall with a scarf wrapped around my face as per all the DHHS OK guidelines.
00:15:28.420 When I went into the actual supermarket to start my shift, at the service desk at the front is where the police saw me and then came over to the service desk to grab my attention to question me.
00:15:44.040 That's, yeah, that's not the point, though.
00:15:47.120 I've just, I've just started.
00:15:48.580 I know I need to wear a shift.
00:15:49.740 Yep, yep, yep.
00:15:50.180 You should have a mask on, all right.
00:15:52.140 I've just reported to my front desk.
00:15:55.300 Did you have a mask on when you came in there?
00:15:56.820 I had a bathroom.
00:15:58.140 Yeah.
00:15:59.380 I'm actually getting severe anxiety and asthma.
00:16:02.320 Yep.
00:16:02.740 About this.
00:16:03.900 All right, so, who's your, who's your supervisor?
00:16:07.340 Yep.
00:16:07.860 All right.
00:16:08.780 You are going to be receiving a penalty notice, all right, for not wearing a mask?
00:16:12.240 I beg your pardon.
00:16:13.300 All right.
00:16:13.700 Excuse me, no.
00:16:15.060 No, I am not.
00:16:15.620 Yeah, it's, it's not acceptable, all right?
00:16:17.100 No, I'm sorry, and I'm not answering any more questions.
00:16:19.920 You will be.
00:16:20.460 Can I get you to state your name, please?
00:16:21.940 Can I please actually go out the back of your name with my husband? 0.91
00:16:24.860 Excuse me.
00:16:25.760 Excuse me.
00:16:26.580 Excuse me.
00:16:27.220 I'm having an anxiety attack.
00:16:28.640 You've committed an offence.
00:16:29.600 I've got more horrible.
00:16:30.360 I became flustered, started having an anxiety attack.
00:16:34.300 That's when it seemed to escalate things for the police.
00:16:37.520 They come further into the store.
00:16:40.020 Ma'am, you will be arrested.
00:16:50.000 Excuse me.
00:16:51.260 Excuse me.
00:16:52.220 You will be arrested.
00:16:54.280 I'll let me leave right now.
00:16:55.680 Come here.
00:16:56.240 I'm not going near a police officer.
00:16:58.540 Ma'am, I'm going to arrest you if you don't calm down and cooperate with me. 0.88
00:17:02.920 The police officer in charge got quite upset, annoyed, frustrated with me.
00:17:09.160 Wasn't happy that I was having an anxiety attack in front of him and said that if I didn't
00:17:13.980 calm down, I would be arrested right there on the spot in front of all my colleagues and
00:17:19.840 customers at my workplace.
00:17:21.080 I'm not going to deal with this and I'm leaving.
00:17:22.700 Just kidding.
00:17:23.700 Terri.
00:17:24.700 I have to leave.
00:17:25.700 Terri.
00:17:26.700 Come out the back.
00:17:27.700 Come out the back and we'll have a chat.
00:17:28.700 Do not leave me.
00:17:29.700 I'm not going to leave you.
00:17:30.700 Just come out the back and we'll have a chat.
00:17:31.700 Do not touch me, please, sir.
00:17:32.700 Do not touch me, sir.
00:17:33.700 Do not touch me, sir.
00:17:34.700 Excuse me.
00:17:35.700 Excuse me.
00:17:36.700 Let me explain something to you.
00:17:37.700 Please get me out of here now.
00:17:38.700 You are.
00:17:39.700 Can we just touch you at the back, sir?
00:17:40.700 You need to come out the back.
00:17:41.700 I'm thinking I'm a grandma, sorry, thinking of the grandkids.
00:18:11.320 Not only do I not want them to have a grandma that was arrested or in trouble with police,
00:18:17.560 even though I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't want to have any repercussions.
00:18:21.940 Well, as you just saw, folks, another grotesque story in which a law-abiding citizen has her 0.62
00:18:28.440 rights brutally stomped on by a cop who is nothing other than a brutalizing bully. 0.99
00:18:34.780 Just disgusting. 0.98
00:18:35.780 And joining me now is our wonder from down under, Avi Yamini.
00:18:39.880 So, Avi, how are you doing, my friend?
00:18:42.120 I'm all right, mate.
00:18:43.980 Yeah, it's a pretty intense video.
00:18:46.120 Well...
00:18:47.120 Yeah.
00:18:48.120 Oh, no, that's the thing, you know, Avi, it is intense.
00:18:52.120 I mean, when we see that body cam footage, it had me shaking with rage, and I don't have
00:18:57.900 a dog in this hunt.
00:18:59.700 Whatever happened, my friend, to officer's discretion?
00:19:03.500 Whatever happened to empathy and compassion?
00:19:05.740 Or, Avi, is it all about Aussie cops have some sort of a secret quota they must fill when
00:19:13.680 it comes to charging law-abiding citizens with these crazy Wuhan virus protocol crimes?
00:19:19.740 It feels a bit that way, doesn't it?
00:19:22.980 Yeah.
00:19:23.980 You know, I've got some mates that are cops, and they tell me that it's really down to
00:19:28.580 discretion, so the only excuse for that kind of behavior that I can understand is that
00:19:36.060 that's a cop on a power tree.
00:19:39.220 And when I first watched that, and we were sent at 35thefinals.com.au, I was, like you,
00:19:46.920 I was shaking in anger, because you can see she's obviously terrified of being arrested.
00:19:54.320 She was willing to even comply to the rules, even though she had a medical exemption.
00:20:04.080 She didn't, you know, this was a period of time during the lockdown where the mask mandate
00:20:07.980 had come in, and everybody was a bit crazy about everything, so she didn't, you know,
00:20:12.340 she just wanted to do her job, working at a supermarket during a period where so many
00:20:17.920 had lost their jobs in what was, at the time, one of the most essential jobs, because as
00:20:22.980 we know, during these lockdowns, the one place people went to, to obviously shop for essentials,
00:20:30.460 but also I think anyone who's been through a proper lockdown, the supermarket was kind of
00:20:36.900 your saving grace.
00:20:38.020 It's where you'd go to see the, you know, the other life around you, and some of the
00:20:44.600 supermarket stuff became kind of the punching bag to a lot of disgruntled citizens to the
00:20:52.400 lockdown.
00:20:53.080 So I think those were the people we really needed to protect at the time, and the police should
00:20:58.760 have been there protecting them from outraged civilians who had no one else to kind of vent
00:21:07.520 their frustration at the time.
00:21:09.920 But instead, they went there to hunt her down.
00:21:12.540 That's what I could see on the video.
00:21:14.600 You know, they've entered the store.
00:21:16.100 They've noticed her not wearing a face mask or face shield that she walked in with a scarf 0.68
00:21:24.040 on to avoid any, you know, unwanted attention.
00:21:29.960 She says to me, the reason why she wore that is because, you know, she could still at least
00:21:33.720 breathe through it.
00:21:35.240 But as they spotted her and went towards her, in the hands of her supervisor, who knew about
00:21:42.340 her exemption, in her hands was a mask.
00:21:46.120 And they came to this agreement like, I'll try to do it, even though, you know, I've got
00:21:50.300 my little pump here, I've got bad asthma, and I get anxiety from covering the face like
00:21:56.520 that, but I'll give it a go.
00:21:58.800 And no, that wasn't a good enough excuse for these cops that just seemed like they were
00:22:06.760 enjoying the power way too much.
00:22:09.260 You know what, Avi, I'm glad you mentioned that, because that's the vibe I picked up on.
00:22:14.400 They were feeding off her anxiety.
00:22:17.080 They were almost relishing or secretly enjoying the fact that she was being moved to tears.
00:22:23.200 Condescending, if you listen to the way he was talking to her, you know, he was acting
00:22:28.020 like he's so calm and she's, you know, it's all about, she's the one acting bizarrely.
00:22:38.540 And, you know, when, in fact, he was just condescending.
00:22:43.020 He was being really rude in a gentle tone, big man, you know, you're the one there with
00:22:49.300 the, in the official capacity, he's holding a gun, who's controlling this, this older woman,
00:22:57.340 this grandmother, who's, who is clearly in fear of you. 0.97
00:23:03.440 What a big man you're able to, you know, his language was just so, it was disgusting. 1.00
00:23:09.840 It was vile and I hope that now he's being shamed because, you know, Wodonga, Wodonga is,
00:23:18.500 for people who don't know, it's Aubrey, Aubrey, Wodonga are like this big two-town city
00:23:25.440 on the border of New South Wales and Victoria.
00:23:30.120 Now, we know New South Wales is led by the Conservatives, or like our Conservatives,
00:23:35.420 that they're a little bit more conservative, I think, to your Conservatives, but not far.
00:23:40.620 And Victoria is led by the Labour government.
00:23:43.260 Now, the Labour government here have had the strongest lockdowns and at any, you know,
00:23:49.140 we've had one case, they've locked down the whole state, you know, killing industry over
00:23:53.660 the Valentine's Day weekend.
00:23:55.040 Like that, one case, they shut everything down and you've got to think about restaurants
00:23:59.780 that prepared for this, one of the biggest days in there, on the, because it was, it was
00:24:04.720 Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year.
00:24:06.800 So, biggest weekend for restaurants.
00:24:10.040 Victoria shut down without even blinking an eye. 0.99
00:24:13.780 Costing, I was at a restaurant last night who told me it cost him, he has three restaurants,
00:24:17.620 it's where we're holding our engagement party, and he's, he said to us, you know, over that
00:24:22.120 weekend, it was $100,000 that we just had to throw into the bin because we'd ordered
00:24:28.480 the food, we'd prepared, we'd paid all our staff, we did everything, and the only thing
00:24:34.700 missing was any income.
00:24:36.180 That was Victoria.
00:24:37.120 Now, in Aubrey, it's New South Wales, there they never had really any lockdowns, you know,
00:24:42.940 they had the initial lockdowns that everybody around the world had.
00:24:46.120 And then they, they just dealt with the clusters as they came up.
00:24:52.060 I don't necessarily even agree with some of the reactions there, the responses there, but
00:24:58.660 they never had those lockdowns.
00:25:01.840 So, you have this grandmother on one side of this, you know, imaginary line in the same
00:25:09.600 almost city.
00:25:10.420 It's like I said, Aubrey Wodonga is, is one big country town of two country towns on each
00:25:16.180 side of the border.
00:25:16.860 So, you have her coming into work with an exemption, wrapping her mouth just not to attract any 1.00
00:25:25.500 unwanted attention and willing to even take on the mask, being given the mask at the time
00:25:31.140 and hunted by police and treated like that and fined for that crime.
00:25:37.200 Only meters away from a place that none of that exists.
00:25:43.340 You don't need a month.
00:25:45.560 Unbelievable.
00:25:46.160 In fact, she moved to work on the other side of the border. 0.55
00:25:50.240 In the other side of town.
00:25:52.320 Boundaries aside, that's the other thing that's so fascinating about this story.
00:25:56.300 The company she works for obviously has no problem with the mask exemption.
00:26:00.740 The customers don't seem to have a problem with the mask exemption.
00:26:03.040 It's only this bully boy police officer.
00:26:05.980 Now, one last question before we wrap.
00:26:08.620 You know, Avi, I met the wife of a Toronto police officer at a division.
00:26:13.000 I'm not going to name it.
00:26:14.160 And she and her husband are huge fans of Rebel News.
00:26:18.600 And she told me something very revealing.
00:26:20.640 At her division, there's a lot of, at her husband's division, rather, there's a bit of
00:26:27.580 tension because 50% of the cops think this is absolute nonsense ticketing people.
00:26:35.100 They're saying, I didn't sign up for this.
00:26:36.820 It's disgraceful.
00:26:38.060 But the other 50%, Avi, they say, oh, no, they're totally vested in this.
00:26:43.380 They think they are champions of public safety.
00:26:46.700 They think they are doing God's work.
00:26:49.140 And that's the reality.
00:26:51.800 I'm wondering, with your encounters with law enforcement down under, what vibe do you get?
00:26:57.900 Is there that fifth?
00:26:59.040 Okay, go ahead.
00:26:59.820 I'll tell you a story that demonstrates exactly what it's like here.
00:27:08.140 I don't know if I've told it before on Rebel.
00:27:10.040 Well, I was inside my house, this is probably a month and a half ago, maybe a bit longer,
00:27:16.100 maybe two months ago.
00:27:16.780 I was sitting inside my house.
00:27:18.340 My partner runs, my fiance runs inside, goes, oh, police are swarming.
00:27:24.660 There's a park two doors down.
00:27:26.700 Police are swarming the park.
00:27:28.820 There's people in cuffs.
00:27:30.020 I'm in my PJs.
00:27:31.060 And I'm thinking, well, who knows what this is?
00:27:32.740 This is a good tip.
00:27:33.580 So I went out and I started filming.
00:27:35.020 Three, now when I get out there, I see that there's a couple of Sudanese 20-year-olds in
00:27:42.540 cuffs and police are walking towards me.
00:27:45.120 Now, we've had a Sudanese youth crime gang problem for a few years here.
00:27:51.000 Three detectives walk towards me.
00:27:53.400 The front lead detective, who you could see is the commanding officer, says, Avi, what are
00:28:00.380 you doing here?
00:28:01.020 I said to him, mate, I'll just live a couple of doors down and my missus walked, ran inside
00:28:06.180 and told me police are swarming the park.
00:28:08.400 So I thought I better come and film to see who's not wearing a mask.
00:28:14.380 And he cracked up laughing and he said, no, no, Avi, we hate that stuff.
00:28:19.340 He was the lead detective for the armed robbery squad.
00:28:23.240 He goes, we're doing actual police.
00:28:24.840 His words, we're doing actual policing here.
00:28:27.460 He goes, you want to know the funny thing, Avi?
00:28:29.920 Back at the station, we all sit around and watch your videos because we bloody love you.
00:28:36.100 Oh, wow.
00:28:37.380 Avi, what a great story.
00:28:38.900 Hey.
00:28:39.100 I think that is exactly to the point of what you're saying.
00:28:42.860 It demonstrates, yes, there is a split in the police.
00:28:45.920 I know some really good coppers that hate and they tell me it's all discretion. 1.00
00:28:50.980 We get to decide.
00:28:51.860 I've never done anything.
00:28:53.380 I've never enforced any COVID rule because it's in our discretion.
00:28:57.620 And I think it's a crock of, you know what.
00:29:00.100 I am so delighted to hear that.
00:29:01.400 We got to wrap up.
00:29:02.220 I thought that story was going to end with the cop saying, your journalism papers, please.
00:29:07.720 But thankfully, we don't have to deal with that in Canada.
00:29:12.580 Not yet, at least.
00:29:14.040 Avi, great report.
00:29:15.660 You're knocking them out of the ballpark.
00:29:17.520 So great to touch base with you again, my friend.
00:29:20.560 Thanks.
00:29:21.000 Sorry about the dog.
00:29:22.080 Hey, that's OK.
00:29:22.800 You got that dingo problem here. 1.00
00:29:24.840 Up in Canada, it's raccoons.
00:29:26.920 You have a good weekend.
00:29:29.320 And folks, that was Avi Yamini in Australia.
00:29:32.420 Keep it here.
00:29:33.280 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
00:29:35.580 I was frightened by the rules of everybody else.
00:29:43.040 What do you mean?
00:29:43.520 Of course I am.
00:29:44.360 No, you're not.
00:29:45.220 Says who? 0.65
00:29:45.840 Everybody else has a mask on.
00:29:47.060 But I already told you, like, the fourth time now that I have a medical exemption.
00:29:50.200 And that's why I asked you to leave.
00:29:51.320 You already said.
00:29:51.980 Why would you ask me to leave?
00:29:53.020 That's not true, dating.
00:29:53.880 Why would you ask me to leave?
00:29:54.980 You would ask me to leave because I have a medical exemption?
00:29:57.040 That's completely discriminatory.
00:29:59.000 Yes, it is.
00:29:59.440 You're waiting on the arrival of a passenger that's who contacted me personally and asked me to be here.
00:30:06.800 And what is the story with this lady? 0.99
00:30:09.080 This poor woman went to Portugal for medical treatment. 1.00
00:30:12.700 She had 23 tumors surgically removed from her body.
00:30:16.680 She was supposed to go to California for the remainder of her treatment and her recovery.
00:30:21.780 But because of these wonderful COVID rules, they would not allow her to.
00:30:26.460 Strange times we're living in.
00:30:27.740 Hard to believe it's Canada in 2021, isn't it?
00:30:31.900 There used to be a time, and I still love being Canadian, don't get me wrong.
00:30:36.380 But there used to be a time that I had so much admiration for Canada and what it stood for.
00:30:42.040 And now, it's like, it's completely different.
00:30:45.760 And I'm not willing to put myself in an unsafe situation when other people are telling me what I can and cannot do with my own person and with my own body.
00:30:56.300 I actually take personal offense to that.
00:30:58.860 And again, I am not a COVID denier.
00:31:01.720 I am not against safety.
00:31:04.000 I am against people taking away my autonomy.
00:31:08.400 That's what I'm against.
00:31:09.500 Well, that was a montage of scenes we captured at Toronto's Pearson International Airport recently.
00:31:14.680 A woman who we shall refer to as Mary was returning to Canada from Portugal.
00:31:21.460 She recently had more than 20 tumors removed from her body.
00:31:26.120 And she was supposed to be flying to San Francisco to continue her medical treatment.
00:31:30.920 But for some reason, she was prevented from doing so.
00:31:35.300 Anti-lockdown crusader Chris Guy, well, he went to the airport to help.
00:31:39.180 But as you saw, he was harassed by police for attempting to be, oh, I don't know, a good Samaritan.
00:31:45.480 Well, you had plenty to say about this latest slice of Wuhan virus insanity. 0.89
00:31:51.160 John T. writes,
00:31:52.160 Well, you know, John, these are interesting times to be a police officer.
00:32:01.500 As I mentioned with Avi Amini, I recently spoke to the wife of a Toronto cop.
00:32:05.040 She told me at her husband's division, it's a 50-50 split.
00:32:08.680 Half the officers think that breaking up protests and arresting people is despicable.
00:32:13.060 The other half, they're gung-ho to do so.
00:32:15.720 They actually think they are preventing a health crisis.
00:32:18.000 I've extended an invitation to this particular police officer to come on the show for an interview.
00:32:24.440 I don't think it will happen, given that we live in a day and age of cancel culture.
00:32:30.940 Agritraction writes,
00:32:32.100 Chris, please run for public office.
00:32:34.200 We need people for the people.
00:32:37.520 You're awesome.
00:32:38.900 Hey, you know, I'd vote for Chris Guy.
00:32:41.960 Say, Mr. Bernier, are you looking for any candidates in the GTA?
00:32:46.020 Silkhead44 writes,
00:32:48.620 If people would all stop taking the PCR test, this nightmare would be over.
00:32:54.140 Oh, I think the nightmare would continue, thanks to power-hungry bureaucrats and politicians. 0.99
00:32:59.840 As for the PCR test, increasing evidence indicates that this is a horribly flawed test.
00:33:06.120 Please check out my recent interview with Dr. Mark Trawsey for more details on this very important issue.
00:33:12.100 Pandabella writes,
00:33:14.700 How can you ask someone to leave because of a medical exemption? 0.93
00:33:18.200 That's disgusting.
00:33:20.120 It is indeed, Pandabella.
00:33:22.360 And I think what happened to Chris that evening was even illegal.
00:33:27.020 Funny that.
00:33:27.600 I thought the police were supposed to uphold the law, not break it.
00:33:32.540 It's just another ordinary Joe show, right?
00:33:35.560 This officer is just insecure about himself and intimidated by you, Chris.
00:33:42.000 Well, I'll tell you something, Joe.
00:33:43.380 As Chris continued to debate this officer, it was a slaughter.
00:33:47.820 At certain points, the cop just stood frozen, staring at Chris Guy, not knowing what to say.
00:33:54.760 I kind of felt sorry for the guy, actually.
00:33:57.640 And Carlos Kruger writes,
00:34:00.000 Well, you know something, that's such a sad statement, Carlos, but I do get where you're coming from.
00:34:11.180 And you know what?
00:34:11.820 Many people I encounter convey the same sentiments to me.
00:34:16.120 I think this clampdown on our freedoms and rights boils down to
00:34:20.080 so many politicians at every level of every political stripe
00:34:24.040 getting a small sip of totalitarian power.
00:34:27.080 And you know what, folks?
00:34:29.060 They really, really like how it tastes.
00:34:32.160 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
00:34:34.580 Thanks so much for joining us.
00:34:35.860 See you next week.
00:34:36.800 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.
00:34:40.620 Good night.
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