Stand on Guard with David Krayden - BOTTOM FALLS OUT on Govt's Freedom Convoy Persecution： Freedom Convoy Trial Day 44 ｜ Stand on Guard

00:00:00.000 welcome back to another episode of stand on guard i'm your host david creighton i promised you i'd

00:00:06.320 be back today after this morning's broadcast busy busy day lots to tell you about the final

00:00:15.580 day for the defense and the tamara leach and chris barber trial stay tuned

00:00:21.420 so we are in a very precarious position in this country

00:00:26.020 we need political change but we also need to resolve to resist

00:00:31.860 yes thank you for liking the station telling your friends and family that this news option

00:00:50.700 is out there because i try to give you all the news you need to know

00:00:53.720 i just thought of that the other day it seems to work doesn't it along with resolve to resist that's

00:00:59.760 what we're doing we are resolving to resist trudeau's tyranny anybody's tyranny don't think

00:01:04.760 it's all going to be better just that trudeau's gone whether or not he's replaced by mark carney

00:01:09.620 or we have another government we have to keep pushing for the right things pushing for principles

00:01:13.420 and i'll tell you why this is trial i have been going to since september 5th and which won't

00:01:21.040 officially be over until september 9th yeah it's the last day today for the defense to do their

00:01:29.040 summation and lawrence greenspawn did an outstanding job of that today tour de force and you'll see him

00:01:36.240 responding to some questions i wish we could show you some footage of inside the courtroom no we can't do

00:01:41.520 that i can't even take any pictures but we talked to the lawrence outside the courtroom and there were

00:01:46.860 some other reporters there yeah as this being his last chance at bat before the and i don't know why

00:01:55.500 the prosecution is getting up for another time for another summation they've already had their

00:02:01.640 summation and but yet here they are again rebutting it's going to be the same nonsense you know that

00:02:07.520 it's going to be the same nonsense about these people really seem to be peaceful but they weren't

00:02:12.220 really intending to be peaceful they had bad thoughts in their head anticipating the online

00:02:18.000 thoughts crime bill that's coming from trudeau but this was a real exercise in patience for tamara and

00:02:26.140 chris who had to come out here multiple times yes they are getting their legal bills paid for

00:02:33.220 by concerned conservative organizations but they're not paying for everything then they're not paying

00:02:39.380 for the disruption in their work and their life they're not paying for the hotels and the meals

00:02:43.380 they're not paying for the inconvenience they're not paying for everything that comes with having to

00:02:47.200 come to ottawa as many times as they have thank god they don't have to come out in person for the

00:02:52.120 for the prosecution summation which i say i don't know what the hell that's about

00:02:57.280 they can do that online on a zoom call presumably so that was the that was the only blessing because

00:03:06.340 as i reported last week the crown actually did say today your honor can we just provide a written

00:03:13.360 submission we'd like this to wrap up today the judge said well i'd prefer we just came back

00:03:19.900 in september and they started negotiating back and forth back and forth for they discussed friday

00:03:26.140 september 13th and everybody said oh might be dangerous so they ended up monday september 9th

00:03:34.100 i will not be going back to hear two hours of the mutton jeff do their prosecution spiel it really is

00:03:44.180 quite something to listen to these two and half the time they don't know what they're airing and when

00:03:51.060 they do air material it's always positive towards the defense i don't know what it's been a clown

00:03:56.980 show from day one from the from the prosecution from the crown it really has i've said that from

00:04:01.440 day one it's been a clown show and it's all that has done of course is help the defense they've done

00:04:07.380 a lot of work for them they've done a lot of work for the defense there's no question about that

00:04:11.520 so i'm going to show you some clips uh today because unlike a lot of these armchair journalists who

00:04:17.420 can't write a sentence or a paragraph or interview anybody i actually go out and do that and i write

00:04:21.640 a story and i've written a story about this for the post-millennial and it's not up yet but

00:04:27.480 i invite you to have a look at that when it is up and it will be up probably tonight tomorrow at the

00:04:34.540 earliest but you really if you're not out interviewing people don't call yourself a journalist call

00:04:40.280 yourself i don't know a clip player or whatever here we are on what i really wanted to show you

00:04:46.120 so we're just walking across the street because

00:04:52.460 they seem to have cleared people from the courthouse today and i am just want to say

00:04:59.300 this is across the street from the courthouse on elegant street in ottawa

00:05:05.380 some of these folks have been here for over a hundred uh almost a hundred days

00:05:09.160 actually i think they said a thousand days yeah they're coming on a thousand days

00:05:15.640 and you know here they are so you don't just go to these events to talk to the lawyers

00:05:22.380 and to talk to the people who are you know being prosecuted you talk to those ordinary canadians who

00:05:30.040 are out there protesting and this is what the freedom convoy protest was all about it was about

00:05:35.920 our freedom of speech and our freedom of the protest and that's what lawrence greenspawn made

00:05:40.300 it quite clear about today and i'll say more about that this is very rural present and at the

00:05:44.160 emergency threshold that is often largely ignored to sustain the funding base beyond the crisis

00:05:50.180 so hey folks can i get you guys to do a rousing cheer for chris and tamara

00:05:56.080 a rousing cheer for what's that oh a rousing cheer we did yeah i was cheering i was on live just a few

00:06:04.060 minutes ago when he came in i'm just gonna get the real issues investors will respond if they see

00:06:11.200 profit at the end of the process sounds like public health sounds like the best of you when he was

00:06:18.460 coming in what time is he coming out well we're just going in now for two o'clock so so how do you

00:06:25.600 guys feel today is this an historic day for canada it is it is very important it's very important

00:06:32.300 perpetrated on the human you think chris and tamara are going to win this thing they already won

00:06:37.480 financial how do you mean how do you mean investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the

00:06:43.100 process this is not just the war the war really is not about us peanuts it's satan against jesus all

00:06:49.740 over again nature was hijacked yeah you think they're legally though they're going to win this

00:06:55.000 yes yes because eventually the truth is coming out even dina sharif across the street was saying

00:07:02.860 when the only question wow they're going based on nothing these last couple days

00:07:08.020 of the ccd hates tamara and chris hates pat and us but she was uh saying some pretty good things

00:07:17.740 she says the judge was kind of on her side and stuff but there's a lot of petty stuff talking about

00:07:23.620 so i think it's gonna you know they're just liquid they're just using tamara and chris and pat for

00:07:33.560 the money they're making money right follow the money but in the end it's gonna be like we already

00:07:39.100 won folks we just have to stand proud you want me to use your name or you want to be anonymous

00:07:46.380 please use my name francine courcy c-o-u-r-c-y at me dot com fc at me dot com all right email me

00:07:57.920 uh september 16 i'm bringing a affidavit times 338 times to hand out to all the members are coming

00:08:07.220 back from their own self-interest and then i'll be there bring a lunch every injury and every death

00:08:14.860 i'm gonna be there all day thank you

00:08:17.960 well you know dean martin always said the great dean martin a mentor of mine in terms of singing

00:08:26.000 always said i always play it to the common folk and i do too because you listen to average canadians

00:08:32.540 there's a lot of wisdom there and there was a lot of wisdom in what this woman said here and i think

00:08:36.900 that's very very important average canadians aren't fooled by this nonsense they're not fooled 0.98

00:08:42.660 by this bs they're not fooled by the government crap that just completely is satiates this trudeau 0.91

00:08:51.080 government and canadians aren't fooled by this so i want to go to my interview with with lawrence

00:08:57.020 greenspawn this is immediately after the trial ended today and like i say they're coming back for two

00:09:04.240 hours on september 9th so the prosecution could have one more kick at the can and like i say

00:09:11.720 i'm not going into ottawa for that because i know exactly what it's going to be they're going to

00:09:17.200 regurgitate their talking points again but i really think there were some excellent points raised today

00:09:24.520 by lawrence greenspawn who i've really you know i i have developed a tremendous amount of respect

00:09:31.060 for this man because i think he's i think he's one of the best i'm just trying to find my notebook here

00:09:36.360 because i i uh you know obviously i recorded everything but it's very interesting some of the

00:09:45.280 things he said today i've and he is one of the best lawyers in ottawa he not only does criminal

00:09:50.420 cases he does civil cases he's also the guy who's defending dave menzies uh it was actually dave

00:09:58.380 menzies is suing and the rebel news is suing the government the trudeau government because menzies was

00:10:04.760 arrested and bumped quite severely by christia freeland's bodyguards you remember that he was just

00:10:11.160 going up approaching her with a microphone trying to ask some questions in toronto and this bald

00:10:17.040 skinhead guy rcmp security detachment ran right into dave menzies and they hauled him into a paddy

00:10:27.160 wagon took him off the jail and i said at the time you know this is outrageous because i mean are any of

00:10:35.700 us safe and i wrote a column at the time because it means remedia called dave menzies a entertainment

00:10:41.720 guy or an entertainer or person or a news personality couldn't call him a journalist

00:10:48.000 even though he's a better journalist than most people on cbc can ever hope to be

00:10:51.800 but i ran and dave was there today and i and he said please send me to send me that call i didn't

00:10:56.640 see it but it was nice to see dave you know who else was there joe warmington you know another another

00:11:01.820 great great columnist in in this country a staple a part of the toronto sun for so long

00:11:11.600 he's part of the sun chain he is part of that great generation of the sun that wasn't afraid

00:11:17.300 to offend the ruffle feathers that say things and to write columns honestly and completely frankly

00:11:24.620 that's what i try to do of course if you read my columns in the in human events on substack and

00:11:30.080 everything i've written over the years i just tell you how i think how i feel and i don't care if it

00:11:35.760 offends people obviously i'm not going to i don't use language or terminology that is grosser or

00:11:42.420 salacious or racially offensive that's that's not never an area i've had to go to or want to go to

00:11:50.680 i use arguments that are that are succinct and comprehensive but

00:11:56.740 what the real genius of lawrence greenspawn's defense was he went at the very issue of what

00:12:09.980 did tamara leach or chris barber do that was illegal can you name one single thing

00:12:14.000 and the prosecution never did it was all about what they might do what they might be thinking

00:12:20.220 and how other people interpreted what they said and lawrence greenspawn said today you can't blame

00:12:27.400 tamara leach or chris barber for the actions of other people you have to judge them on what they said

00:12:35.080 and what they did and they didn't block roads we heard the other day from

00:12:39.520 from diana magus the other lawyer for the freedom convoy she pointed out how chris

00:12:49.880 barber went out of his way to clear the traffic not block it he was working with the truckers

00:12:55.440 to to ensure everybody was safe and not breaking the law again and again and again this comes up in the

00:13:03.360 testimony so so i you're going to have a chance to listen to greenspawn respond to my questions but i

00:13:11.260 just want to make sure i got everything in here because he he says some extremely fascinating

00:13:18.180 things about what this trial was really about and he quoted benjamin franklin for saying that if you

00:13:25.340 don't if you're prepared to sacrifice your liberty for security you don't deserve either

00:13:32.080 or if that's what this is and he says canada has done that in the past and that's what the freedom

00:13:38.840 convoy is all about there are some canadians i think they're a minority now who think yeah crush

00:13:45.640 the freedom convoy because we didn't feel quite secure we like to feel secure we like the government

00:13:50.480 arm around our necks that's how we feel secure and greenspawn saying that's you're not secure and

00:13:58.100 you're not free and you're never going to be free the longer and if the government is allowed to set

00:14:03.020 a precedent with this case none of us are going to be free so let's listen to this interview i think

00:14:07.200 it's very good your summation that disruption is let's get to the beginning here beginning of your

00:14:14.660 summation that disruption is a fundamental component of protest yes and it seemed it seemed to me like

00:14:21.020 the the crown kept thinking that if anybody was inconvenienced in all this that that somehow was

00:14:26.260 unlawful is that is that how you were taking this well that's the the fundamental problem and it's

00:14:31.100 so what was addressed by our court of appeal in trembley and uh like i said from the beginning

00:14:36.220 in a in a battle or a contest between freedom of expression and peaceful assembly both of which

00:14:45.140 are in our charter of rights and freedoms that are constitutionally protected in a battle between

00:14:49.400 those things and uh the right to enjoyment of property which is nowhere to be found in the

00:14:55.300 constitution there is no contest freedom of expression freedom of peaceful assembly which

00:15:01.380 is what this is all about wins every time do you think the auto police services created this crisis

00:15:07.960 because you mentioned the fact that they told them to go downtown to park their cars they didn't issue

00:15:12.400 any parking violations yeah was that a real issue here oh it's a big uh it's a big issue it's it's one

00:15:18.100 of the two things that distinguishes this case from any other of the cases that are before her honor

00:15:22.740 the two things are number one they were told where to go how to get there and where to park

00:15:29.620 and they did that there's no other case out of the hundred cases that the judge had before her

00:15:35.660 where that's been the situation where the authorities have told them go over there park there and uh that's

00:15:42.980 the one thing the other thing of course is that there's justice mclean's orders in which he

00:15:47.360 specifically preserved their right to continue to peacefully assemble and uh he did that in the

00:15:54.240 middle of this demonstration so those two things are are not anywhere found in any of the previous

00:15:59.520 case law and that's why i suspect uh the judge is indicated right at the end that this is an

00:16:04.640 unprecedented situation and my last question at the very end you suggest that this is like

00:16:09.040 as benjamin franklin said people who sacrifice liberty for security and we might end up apologizing if

00:16:15.920 these two are convicted is that how you feel about you know that's it's a trade-off unfortunately that

00:16:22.720 canadians have been historically we've been prepared to trade freedoms for security we've done it over

00:16:29.360 and over and over again we did it to the italian canadians we did it to the japanese canadians we did

00:16:34.400 it to those who were arrested without any rights in uh in the war measures act in 1970 we've done it over

00:16:40.960 and over again and every time we wait a generation or two and then we apologize to those people so my

00:16:49.440 hope is that we won't be apologizing uh if for for anything uh in this circumstance perhaps we can

00:16:58.800 apologize to the people whose bank accounts were were frozen perhaps we can apologize to the people

00:17:04.160 who were arrested under an emergency measures act that should never have been invoked thank you mr

00:17:10.880 green's fine

00:17:16.240 excellent interview and i hope you you know emergencies actually never been invoked

00:17:21.360 not surprised to hear him say that but what about an apology to those who had their bank accounts

00:17:26.000 frozen i thought that was a novel thing to say yeah where's that apology you think that's ever going

00:17:30.960 to happen in the trudeau government no they want to do it again but i think this is and he squarely places

00:17:38.240 the blame for the gridlock that occurred in downtown ottawa on the ottawa police service they created their

00:17:45.120 own problem by telling the truckers to park downtown around the street block traffic and then the rcmp and

00:17:53.120 the on the ottawa police service then started closing all the roads leading into that why

00:17:59.760 what was the point of that so it made gridlock it made traffic congestion the art the ottawa police

00:18:08.480 got i mean incredibly incompetent but you know i think they're vying for the incompetency award with

00:18:15.280 the secret service in the united states they were incredibly incompetent in this operation and you

00:18:20.080 remember the first chief of police and the and who resigned in the middle of this and then his deputy

00:18:27.520 you know the cue ball who looked a bit like mussolini he took over and then started threatening

00:18:33.280 everybody like we're going to put you all in jail just because we don't like what you're saying

00:18:38.240 absolute insanity but i'm going to read a couple more things from the story i filed today which i say is

00:18:45.040 not up yet but it will be soon sent in a passionate conclusion to a summation of the trial of tamara leach

00:18:50.560 and chris barber defense counsel lawrence greenspawn said it would be wrong to criminalize

00:18:55.680 their behavior meaning chris and tamara in these unique circumstances i want to recite the words

00:19:02.320 from benjamin franklin who said that those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little

00:19:08.400 temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety greenspawn said noting that canada has sacrificed

00:19:15.840 the liberty of other groups in history and ultimately apologized for violating constitutionally

00:19:20.720 entrenched and protected fundamental freedoms that's what he said today

00:19:30.080 he further said the crown seeks to criminalize the words and actions of leaders of a protest a

00:19:35.680 protest in which those leaders consistently urged others to be peaceful and to cooperate with police

00:19:41.760 greenspawn said the final the crown asks that those leaders be held criminally responsible for

00:19:48.800 the actions of unidentified others who were directed into the downtown core of ottawa and they were allowed

00:19:54.960 to stay for a three-week period of time without so much as a single parking ticket being issued to anyone

00:20:00.080 yeah we could have solved this with a few parking tickets but here we are day 44

00:20:05.680 of a mischief trial that should not have ever come gone to court i've said that from day one it should

00:20:11.680 never have gone to court and what what this is is a political show trial i mean yeah it's not original

00:20:18.000 to say that but i said that from day one

00:20:24.160 greenspawn declared that this trial is about potentially denying fundamental rights in canada

00:20:28.800 and the crown's efforts to make it a con a contest between constitutionally protected fundamental

00:20:36.560 freedoms and the right to enjoyment of property there is no contest and i will take your honor

00:20:42.560 to the case law that establishes that principle greenspawn greenspawn did so later in his presentation

00:20:48.000 citing examples of rulings upholding the right to protest over any presumed right to enjoyment of property

00:20:53.200 the lawyer said any protest is designed to induce some level of disruption to make a point but causing

00:20:59.520 inconvenience does not make that protest illegal now that i think was the crux of it

00:21:07.600 so here they are this all occurred as a result of a freedom convoy that i covered at the time

00:21:27.520 and i was proud to be there covering and as i said if you watch my episode if you watch me on redacted

00:21:33.440 last night i was talking about this with clayton morris and i said i'm there fighting for their

00:21:39.440 freedom i'm i am there i'm there every day as that i can be reporting the news objectively

00:21:48.800 this is objective news there is no case against them i view this trial like i view the second world war

00:21:57.840 there's only one side to be on you really can't say well you know i i i think the crown has some

00:22:05.760 good points here and i understand that they could be right too no they're not right this was clearly a

00:22:11.680 seminal historic moment in canada these two along with a lot of other people stood up for my rights

00:22:18.480 stood up against coveted mandates stood up against a dictatorial trudeau government that likes to say

00:22:23.760 whatever it wants to say and do whatever it wants to do and impose its will upon canadians and they

00:22:29.120 said no and so because they said no they stood up for my freedom and i'm going to continue to stand up

00:22:35.360 for their freedom i think that's the least i can do now what else happened today if you're interested

00:22:44.160 bobby kennedy jr who i have a lot of time and admiration for is dropping out of the race and

00:22:49.920 he's going to endorse donald i'm sorry to keep everybody waiting 16 months ago in april of 2023

00:22:59.440 i launched my campaign for president united states i began this journey as a democrat the party of my

00:23:06.960 father my uncle the party which i pledged my own allegiance to long before i was old enough to vote

00:23:14.800 i attended my first democratic convention at the age of six in 1960 and back then the democrats were

00:23:25.200 the champions of the constitution of civil rights the democrats stood against authoritarianism against

00:23:34.160 censorship against colonialism imperialism and unjust wars we were the party of labor of the working class

00:23:45.600 the democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment

00:23:52.800 our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power true to its name it was the party

00:23:59.920 of democracy as you know i left that party in october because it had departed so dramatically

00:24:08.240 from the core values that i grew up with it had become the party of war censorship corruption big pharma big

00:24:18.240 tech big ag and big money

00:24:25.040 says it all doesn't it that's what the democratic party has become unfortunately the republican party can

00:24:29.680 be that way too it's a bit of a unit party but there's still more principle on the side of the

00:24:34.640 republican party and donald trump is still a rebel he's still out there i hope to some degree

00:24:39.920 fighting the deep state in the seven if he doesn't he's you know we're all cooked but i think having

00:24:45.840 kennedy on your team will make trump that much more honest and i think we'll guarantee a victory for

00:24:54.000 sanity in the november 5th presidential elections in the united states a little more from bobby

00:25:01.440 of the united states that persuaded me to enter this race in the first place primarily and these are

00:25:05.680 the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic democratic party and and run as an

00:25:13.040 independent and now to throw my support at president trump the causes were free speech a war in ukraine

00:25:24.080 and the war on our children we were the party of labor of the working class the democrats were the

00:25:33.360 party of government transparency and the champion of the environment our party was the bulwark against

00:25:41.200 big money interests and corporate power true to its name it was the party of democracy as you know i left

00:25:49.760 that party in october because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that i grew up with

00:25:58.000 it had become the party of war censorship corruption big pharma big tech big ag and big money yeah

00:26:11.360 couldn't say it better i'm so happy he's jumped on board trump's campaign

00:26:16.160 campaign because i think this is going to be a very interesting last two months of the presidential

00:26:23.360 election campaign anyway thank you for watching again today please like and share this broadcast

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Stand on Guard with David Krayden - August 24, 2024

BOTTOM FALLS OUT on Govt's Freedom Convoy Persecution： Freedom Convoy Trial Day 44 ｜ Stand on Guard

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